- 18 January – Alexander Gomelsky, basketball coach
- 10 February – Alma Adamkienė, Lithuanian philologist, philanthropist and First Lady of Lithuania
- 5 March – Yelizaveta Dementyeva, sprint canoeist
- 7 March – Edgar Elbakyan, Armenian actor (d. 1988)
- 10 April – Raïssa Koublitskaïa, Belarusian agricultural worker and politician (d. 2021)
- 25 April – Yury Yakovlev, actor
- 14 May – Algirdas Šocikas, Lithuanian Olympic heavyweight boxer (d. 2012)
- 28 May – Ivan Kizimov, Olympic equestrian
- 2 July – Tatyana Piletskaya, actress
- 13 July – Valentin Pikul, novelist
- 15 July – Aleksandr Zasukhin, Soviet boxer (d. 2012)
- 30 July – Valentin Muratov, Olympic gymnast
- 2 September – Muhammad Dandamayev, Babylonia historian (d. 2017)
- 22 November – Valentin Galochkin, sculptor
- 29 November – Tahir Salahov, Azerbaijani painter and educator
- 31 December – Tatyana Shmyga, actress