Births
- January 20 – Chandra Wickramasinghe, British astronomer.
- May 19 – Dick Scobee (died 1986), astronaut.
- August 19 – Alan Baker, British mathematician.
- October 7 – John Hopcroft, American theoretical computer scientist.
- October 10 – Neil Sloane, British mathematician.
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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.”
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