July 3, 1939

1939Brigitte Fassbaender, German soprano and director^[†]

Brigitte Fassbaender, is a German mezzo-soprano opera singer and a stage director. From 1999 to 2012 she was intendant of the Tyrolean State Theatre in Innsbruck, Austria. She holds the title Kammersängerin from the Bavarian State Opera in Munich and the Vienna Staatsoper.

1939László Kovács, Hungarian politician and diplomat, Hungarian Minister of Foreign Affairs^[†]

László Kovács is a Hungarian politician and diplomat, former European Commissioner for Taxation and Customs Union. He was the foreign minister of Hungary twice, from 1994 to 1998 and from 2002 to 2004. He also served as chairman of the Hungarian Socialist Party (MSZP) from 1998 to 2004.

1939Coco Laboy, Puerto Rican baseball player^[†]

José Alberto "Coco" Laboy is a Puerto Rican former professional baseball third baseman who played five seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB). He was signed by the San Francisco Giants as an amateur free agent in 1959 but remained mired in the minor leagues, playing for a while in North Carolina with the Raleigh Cardinals, until the 1969 expansion of major league baseball, which added two teams to both leagues. The expansion Montreal Expos drafted Laboy from the St. Louis Cardinals organization.