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(''' MCML ''') was a Common Year Starting On Sunday (link will take you to calendar). It corresponds to 5710/5711 in the Hebrew Calendar.
- November 1 - Pope Pius XII witnesses the " Miracle Of The Sun " at the Vatican"Joseph Pelletier "The Sun Danced at Fatima", Doubleday, New York (1983),pp150,151
- Assumed Mary's body into Heaven after her death.
- November 1 - Puerto Rican nationalists Griselio Torresola and Oscar Collazo attempt to assassinate US President Harry S. Truman , who is staying at the Blair-Lee House in Washington, D.C. during White House repairs.
- November 4 - United Nations ends the diplomatic isolation of Spain
- , United States Air Force Lt. Russell J. Brown intercepts two North Korea n MiG-15 s near the Yalu River and shoots them down in the first Jet -to-jet Dog Fight in history.
- November 11 - The Mattachine Society founded in Los Angeles as the first Gay liberation organization
- November 13 - Colonel Carlos Delgado Chalbaud is kidnapped and murdered in Caracas .
- November 18 - United Nations accepts the formation of Libya n national council
- November 20 - T. S. Eliot speaks against television in the UK
- November 22 - Anti-British riots in Egypt
- November 22 - Shirley Temple announces her retirement from show business
- November 23 - George Robb was born in Aylth, Scotland
- November 25 - Phenomenal Winter Storm ravages the Northeast United States , brings 30 to 50 inches of Snow , temperatures below zero, and kills 323 people.
- move into North Korea and launch a massive counterattack against South Korea n and American forces, ending any thought of a quick end to the conflict.
- November 28 - Greece and Yugoslavia reform diplomatic relations
- n and Chinese troops force a desperate retreat of United Nations forces from North Korea.
- November 29 - National Council Of The Churches Of Christ In The USA founded.
- November 30 - Truman threatens to use nuclear weapons in Korea
- January 5 - John Manley , Canadian politician
- January 5 - Charlie Richmond , Canadian entrepreneur and inventor
- January 12 - Sheila Jackson Lee , American politician
- January 16 - Debbie Allen , American actress, dancer, and choreographer
- January 17 - Luis López Nieves , Puerto Rican writer
- January 18 - Gilles Villeneuve , Canadian race car driver
- January 21 - Billy Ocean , West Indian-born musician
- January 23 - Richard Dean Anderson , American actor
- January 24 - Benjamin Urrutia , Ecuadoran author and scholar
- January 26 - Janet Lupo , the biggest breasted Playmate , Miss November 1975
- January 27 - Amos Grunebaum , Israeli-born obstetrician and gynecologist
- January 29 - Jody Scheckter , South African race car driver
- February 3 - Morgan Fairchild , American actress
- February 4 - Pamela Franklin , British actress
- February 6 - Natalie Cole , American singer
- February 10 - Mark Spitz , American swimmer
- February 12 - Michael Ironside , American actor
- February 13 - Peter Gabriel , British musician
- February 16 - Peter Hain , British politician
- February 18 - John Hughes , American film director, producer, and writer
- February 20 - Ken Shimura , Japanese television performer and actor
- February 22 - Julius Erving , American basketball player
- February 22 - Julie Walters , English actress
- February 22 - Miou-Miou , French actress
- February 22 - Ellen Greene , American actress
- February 25 - Neil Jordan , Irish film director, writer, and producer
- February 25 - Néstor Kirchner , President Of Argentina
- February 26 - Helen Clark , Prime Minister Of New Zealand
- March 2 - Karen Carpenter , American singer and drummer (d. 1983 )
- March 4 - Rick Perry , Governor of Texas
- March 9 - Doug Ault , baseball player (d. 2004 )
- March 9 - Danny Sullivan , American race car driver
- March 11 - Bobby McFerrin , American singer
- March 11 - Jerry Zucker , American film producer, director, and writer
- March 13 - William H. Macy , American actor
- March 18 - Brad Dourif , American actor
- March 20 - William Hurt , American actor
- March 26 - Teddy Pendergrass , American singer
- March 29 - Bud Cort , American actor
- March 30 - Robbie Coltrane , British actor and comedian
- April 3 - Sally Thomsett , British actress
- April 4 - Christine Lahti , American actress
- April 5 - Agnetha Fältskog , Swedish singer and songwriter ( ABBA )
- April 10 - Steven Seagal , American actor
- April 10 - Ken Griffey, Sr. , baseball player
- April 12 - Kari Palaste , Finnish architect
- April 22 - Peter Frampton , English musician
- April 25 - Lenora Branch Fulani , American Presidential candidate
- April 28 - Jay Leno , American comedian and talk show host
- April 29 - Paul Holmes , a Radio and Television broadcaster in New Zealand
- May 1 - Danny McGrain , Scottish footballer
- May 1 - Dann Florek , American actor
- May 3 - Howard Ashman , American lyricist (d. 1991 )
- May 7 - Randall 'Tex' Cobb , American boxer and actor
- May 12 - Bruce Boxleitner , American actor
- May 12 - Gabriel Byrne , Irish actor
- May 13 - Stevie Wonder , American singer and musician
- May 16 - Johannes Georg Bednorz , German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
- May 17 - Janez Drnovšek , Slovene politician
- May 17 - Valeria Novodvorskaya , Russian politician and dissident
- May 18 - Thomas Gottschalk , German television host
- May 18 - Rodney Milburn , American athlete (d. 1997 )
- May 18 - Mark Mothersbaugh , American composer and musician ( Devo )
- May 22 - Bernie Taupin , English songwriter
- May 22 - Mary Tamm , British actress
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