Births
- January 1 - Daniel Gorenstein (died 1992), mathematician.
- February 13 - Chuck Yeager, pilot.
- March 9 - Walter Kohn, physicist.
- April 2 - G. Spencer-Brown, mathematician.
- April 23 - Walter Pitts (died 1969), logician and cognitive psychologist.
- July 31 - Stephanie Kwolek, polymer chemist.
- September 9 - Daniel Carleton Gajdusek, virologist.
- November 18 - Alan Shepard (died 1998), astronaut.
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