Births
- January 3 - Gordon Moore, American computing entrepreneur and scientific benefactor.
- January 29 - John Polanyi, German-born Canadian winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
- January 31 - Rudolf Mössbauer (died 2011), German winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics.
- April 5 - Ivar Giaever, Norwegian winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics.
- April 22 - Michael Atiyah, British mathematician.
- May 6 - Paul Lauterbur (died 2007), American chemist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
- June 3 - Werner Arber, Swiss microbiologist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
- June 10 - E. O. Wilson, American entomologist.
- July 1 - Gerald Edelman, American microbiologist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
- September 5 - Andrian Nikolayev (died 2004), Chuvash cosmonaut.
- September 15 - Murray Gell-Mann, American winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics.
- November 2 - Richard E. Taylor, Canadian American winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics.
- November 7 - Eric R. Kandel, Austrian-born neuropsychiatrist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
- November 24 - Franciszek Kokot, Polish nephrologist.
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“As the births of living creatures, at first, are ill-shapen: so are all Innovations, which are the births of time.”
—Francis Bacon (1561–1626)