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(''' MCMXXXVIII ''') was a Common Year Starting On Saturday (link will take you to calendar).
- January 1 - Robert Jankel , British coachbuilder (d. 2005 )
- January 2 - Hans Herbjørnsrud , Norwegian author
- January 2 - Ian Brady , British serial killer
- January 2 - Rodger Bumpass , American Actor
- January 5 - King Juan Carlos I Of Spain
- January 7 - Roland Topor , French illustrator (d. 1997 )
- January 8 - Bob Eubanks , American game show host
- January 10 - Donald Knuth , American mathematician and computer scientist
- January 10 - Willie McCovey , baseball player
- January 14 - Jack Jones , American singer and actor
- January 18 - Curt Flood , baseball player (d. 1997 )
- January 20 - Derek Dougan , Northern Irish footballer
- January 23 - Georg Baselitz , German painter and sculptor
- January 25 - Etta James , American singer
- January 31 - Queen Beatrix Of The Netherlands
- February 1 - Sherman Hemsley , American comedian and actor
- February 8 - Prentice Gautt , American football player
- February 11 - Bevan Congdon , New Zealand cricketer
- February 11 - Simone De Oliveira , portuguese actress and singer
- February 11 - Manuel Noriega , Panamanian general and dictator
- February 12 - Judy Blume , American author
- February 13 - Oliver Reed , English actor (d. 1999 )
- February 18 - Istvan Szabo , Hungarian director
- February 24 - Phil Knight , American sportswear entrepreneur
- February 25 - Herb Elliott , Australian runner
- March 4 - Don Perkins , American football player
- March 4 - Angus MacLise , American percussionist, composer, mystic, shaman, poet, occultist, calligrapher and original drummer for the Velvet Underground (d. 1979 )
- March 7 - David Baltimore , American biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize In Physiology Or Medicine
- March 7 - Janet Guthrie , American race car driver
- March 13 - Erma Franklin , American singer (d. 2002 )
- March 17 - Rudolf Nureyev , Russian-born dancer and choreographer (d. 1993 )
- March 17 - Keith Michael Patrick Cardinal O'Brien , Northern Irish clergyman
- March 18 - Charley Pride , American baseball player and musician
- March 23 - Maynard Jackson , mayor of Atlanta, Georgia (d. 2003 )
- March 25 - Hoyt Axton , American musician and actor (d. 1999 )
- March 26 - Anthony James Leggett , American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
- April 1 - John Quade , American actor
- April 2 - John Larsson , the 17th General of The Salvation Army
- April 3 - Jeff Barry , American record producer and songwriter
- April 4 - A. Bartlett Giamatti , American president of Yale University and baseball commissioner (d. 1989 )
- April 8 - Kofi Annan , Ghanaian Secretary General Of The United Nations , recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
- April 10 - Don Meredith , American football player and broadcaster
- April 11 - Kurt Moll , German bass
- April 12 - Roger Caron , Canadian author
- April 17 - Kerry Thornley , American counterculture figure, writer, co-founder of Discordianism
- April 26 - Duane Eddy , American musician
- April 29 - Larry Niven , American author
- July 4 - Bill Withers , American singer and songwriter
- July 6 - Tony Lewis , English cricketer
- July 12 - Wieger Mensonides , Dutch swimmer
- July 18 - Paul Verhoeven , Dutch Film Director
- July 19 - Jayant Narlikar , Indian Astrophysicist
- July 20 - Natalie Wood , American actress (d. 1981 )
- July 23 - Juliet Anderson , American actress
- July 23 - Bert Newton , Australian actor and televison show host
- July 27 - Gary Gygax , American author
- July 28 - Alberto Fujimori , President Of Peru
- July 29 - Peter Jennings , Canadian-born television news reporter (d. 2005 )
- August 9 - Ezola Broussard Foster , Vice President Of The United States
- August 9 - Rod Laver , Australian tennis player
- August 15 - Janusz A. Zajdel , Polish writer
- August 19 - Diana Muldaur , American actress
- August 22 - Paul Maguire , American football player
- August 24 - Halldór Blöndal , Icelandic politician
- August 24 - David Freiberg , American musician ( Quicksilver Messenger Service and Jefferson Starship )
- August 28 - Maurizio Costanzo , Italian television news reporter
- August 28 - Paul Martin , Prime Minister Of Canada
- August 31 - Martin Bell , British journalist and politician
- October 3 - Eddie Cochran , American singer (d. 1960 )
- October 4 - Kurt Wüthrich , Swiss chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
- October 9 - Heinz Fischer , Austrian politician
- October 14 - Farah Diba , Empress of Iran
- October 14 - Ron Lancaster , Canadian Football League quarterback and coach
- October 15 - Fela Kuti , Nigerian musician and activist (d. 1997 )
- October 16 - Carl Gunter Jr , Louisiana State Representative (d. 1999 )
- October 23 - H. John Heinz III , U.S. Senator (d. 1991 )
- October 29 - Ralph Bakshi , Israeli cartoonist, film director, and video producer
- October 29 - Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf , President Of Liberia
- December 4 - Andre V. Marrou , U.S. Presidential candidate
- December 4 - Yvonne Minton , Australian soprano
- December 8 - Ken Delo , American singer, '' The Lawrence Welk Show ''
- December 12 - Connie Francis , American singer and actress
- December 15 - Billy Shaw , American football player
- December 16 - Liv Ullmann , Norwegian actress
- December 17 - Peter Snell , New Zealand athlete
- December 17 - Carlo Little , British drummer (d. 2005 )
- December 20 - John Harbison , American composer
- December 23 - Bob Kahn , American Internet pioneer
- January 20 - Émile Cohl , French caricaturist and animator (b. 1857 )
- January 21 - Georges Méliès , French film director (b. 1861 )
- January 28 - Bernd Rosemeyer , German racing driver (b. 1909 )
- February 2 - Frederick William Vanderbilt , American railway magnate (b. 1856 )
- February 7 - Harvey Firestone , American manufacturer (b. 1868 )
- February 18 - David King Udall , American politician (b. 1851 )
- February 19 - Edmund Landau , German mathematician (b. 1877 )
- March 1 - Gabriele D'Annunzio , Italian writer, war hero, and politician (b. 1863 )
- March 2 - Ben Harney , American composer and pianist (b. 1871 )
- March 13 - Nikolai Ivanovich Bukharin , Soviet politician (b. 1888 )
- March 13 - Clarence Darrow , American attorney (b. 1857 )
- April 8 - Joe "King" Oliver , American musician (b. 1885 )
- April 12 - Feodor Chaliapin , Russian bass (b. 1873 )
- April 16 - Steve Bloomer , English footballer (b. 1874 )
- April 21 - Allama Iqbal , Indian philosopher and poet (b. 1877 )
- April 26 - Edmund Husserl , Austrian philosopher (b. 1859 )
- May 4 - Carl Von Ossietzky , German pacifist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1889 )
- May 9 - Thomas B. Thrige , Danish industrialist (b. 1866 )
- May 13 - Charles Edouard Guillaume , French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1861 )
- May 26 - John Jacob Abel , American pharmacologist (b. 1857 )
- August 1 - Edmund Charles Tarbell , American artist (b. 1862 )
- August 7 - Konstantin Stanislavski , Russian actor (b. 1863 )
- August 14 - Hugh Trumble , Australian Test Cricketer (b. 1876 )
- August 16 - Robert Johnson , American musician (b. 1911 )
- September 17 - Bruno Jasieński , Polish poet (b. 1901 )
- October 22 - May Irwin , Canadian actress and singer (b. 1862 )
- October 24 - Ernst Barlach , German sculptor and poet (b. 1870 )
- October 27 - Lascelles Abercrombie , English poet and critic (b. 1881 )
- November 9 - Vasily Blyukher , Soviet military commander (b. 1889 )
- November 10 - Kemal Atatürk , President Of Turkey (b. 1881 )
- November 30 - Corneliu Zelea Codreanu , Romanian fascist, leader of the Iron Guard (executed along other Guard activists) (b. 1899 )
- December 11 - Christian Lous Lange , Norwegian pacifist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1869 )
- December 25 - Karel Čapek , Czech author (b. 1890 )
- December 28 - Florence Lawrence , Canadian actress (b. 1886 )
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