Births
- August 3 - Koichi Tanaka, Japanese chemist (Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2002).
- December 25 - Michael P. Anderson (died 2003), American astronaut.
- Saul Perlmutter, American astrophysicist (Nobel Prize in Physics 2011).
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