Famous Birthdays on April 15

Q: Who was born on April 15?

Famous people born on April 15 include: Gaius Maecenas, Frederick IV, John Paston, Leonardo da Vinci, Guru Nanak.

1983 — Alice Braga

Brazilian actress

April 15 has seen 258 notable people enter the world across recorded history — from 68 BC – 2001. Below are the most significant names born on this date.

By thisDay.info Editorial Team · April 15 — Wikipedia

Famous Birthdays 258 people 68 BC – 2001

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She gained international recognition for her role as Anna Montez in the American science fiction film I Am Legend (2007), opposite Will Smith

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Braga has since built a successful career in Hollywood, appearing in films such as Blindness (2008), Predators (2010), Elysium (2013), and The Suicide Squad (2021)

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From 2016 to 2021, she starred as Teresa Mendoza in the American television series Queen of the South

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In 2024, she starred in the Apple TV+ science fiction series Dark Matter

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In 2026, she will reprise the role in the series’ second season and also star in the Man on Fire on Netflix.

Gaius Maecenas

Roman politician (died 8 BC)

Gaius Cilnius Maecenas was a friend and political advisor to Octavian. He was also an important patron for the new generation of Augustan poets, including both Horace and Virgil. In many languages, his name is an eponym…

-68

Frederick IV

Duke of Lorraine (died 1329)

Frederick IV, called the Fighter, was the Duke of Lorraine from 1312 to his death in 1328.

1282

John Paston

English noble (died 1479)

Sir John Paston was the eldest son of John Paston and Margaret Mautby. He succeeded his father in 1466, and spent a considerable part of his life attempting to make good his father's claim to the lands of Margaret…

1442

Leonardo da Vinci

Italian painter, sculptor, and architect (died 1519)

Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci was an Italian polymath of the High Renaissance who was active as a painter, draughtsman, engineer, scientist, theorist, sculptor, and architect. While his fame initially rested on his…

1452

Guru Nanak

the first Sikh guru (died 1539)

Gurū Nānak, also known as Bābā Nānak, was an Indian spiritual teacher, mystic and poet, who is regarded as the founder of Sikhism and is the first of the ten Sikh Gurus.

1469

Pietro Cataldi

Italian mathematician and astronomer (died 1626)

Pietro Antonio Cataldi was an Italian mathematician. A citizen of Bologna, he taught mathematics and astronomy and also worked on military problems. His work included the development of simple continued fractions and a…

1552

Guru Arjan Dev

fifth Sikh leader (died 1606)

Guru Arjan was the fifth of the ten Sikh Gurus. He compiled the first official edition of the Sikh scripture called the Adi Granth, which later expanded into the Guru Granth Sahib. He is regarded as the first of the two…

1563

Claudius Salmasius

French author and scholar (died 1653)

Claude Saumaise, also known by the Latin name Claudius Salmasius, was a French classical scholar.

1588

Francesco Maria Brancaccio

Catholic cardinal (died 1675)

Francesco Maria Brancaccio was an Italian Catholic cardinal.

1592

Robert Sibbald

Scottish physician and geographer (died 1722)

Sir Robert Sibbald was a Scottish physician and antiquary.

1641

Suleiman II

Ottoman sultan (died 1691)

Suleiman II was the sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1687 to 1691. After being brought to the throne by an armed mutiny, Suleiman and his grand vizier Fazıl Mustafa Pasha were successfully able to turn the tide of the…

1642

Christian V of Denmark (died 1699)

Christian V was King of Denmark and Norway from 1670 until his death in 1699.

1646

Catherine I of Russia (died 1727)

Catherine I was Empress of Russia from 8 February 1725 until her death in 1727. She was previously empress consort of Russia from 1721 to 1725 as the second wife of Peter the Great, and tsaritsa consort from 1712 to…

1684

Johann Friedrich Fasch

German violinist and composer (died 1758)

Johann Friedrich Fasch was a German violinist and composer. Much of his music is in the Baroque-Classical transitional style known as galant.

1688

Leonhard Euler

Swiss mathematician and physicist (died 1783)

Leonhard Euler was a Swiss polymath who was active as a mathematician, physicist, astronomer, logician, geographer, music theorist and engineer. He founded the studies of graph theory and topology and made influential…

1707

William Cullen

Scottish physician and chemist (died 1790)

William Cullen was a Scottish physician, chemist and agriculturalist from Hamilton, Scotland, who also served as a professor at the Edinburgh Medical School. Cullen was a central figure in the Scottish Enlightenment: He…

1710

William B. Whiting

New York politician (died 1796)

William Bradford Whiting was an American politician. Born in Hartford, Connecticut, Whiting moved to Canaan, New York, in 1765. During the American Revolutionary War, he served as a colonel commanding the 17th Regiment…

1731

Charles Willson Peale

American painter and soldier (died 1827)

Charles Willson Peale was an American painter, military officer, scientist, and naturalist.

1741

Nicolas Chopin

French-Polish educator (died 1844)

Nicolas Chopin was a teacher of the French language in Partitioned Poland, and father of Polish composer Frédéric Chopin.

1771

Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire

French biologist and zoologist (died 1844)

Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire was a French naturalist who established the principle of "unity of composition". He was a colleague of Jean-Baptiste Lamarck and expanded and defended Lamarck's evolutionary theories.…

1772

Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve

German astronomer and academic (died 1864)

Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve was a Baltic German astronomer and geodesist. He is best known for studying double stars and initiating a triangulation survey later named Struve Geodetic Arc in his honor.

1793

Maria Schicklgruber

mother of Alois Hitler and the paternal grandmother of Adolf Hitler (died 1847)

Maria Anna Schicklgruber was the mother of Alois Hitler, and the paternal grandmother of Adolf Hitler.

1795

James Clark Ross

English captain and explorer (died 1862)

Rear-Admiral of the Red Sir James Clark Ross was a Royal Navy officer and explorer who explored both the North and South Poles. In the Arctic, he participated in two expeditions led by his uncle, John Ross, and in four…

1800

William Champ

English-Australian politician, 1st Premier of Tasmania (died 1892)

William Thomas Napier Champ was a soldier and politician who served as the first Premier of Tasmania from 1856 to 1857. He was born in the United Kingdom.

1808

Hermann Grassmann

German linguist and mathematician (died 1877)

Hermann Günther Grassmann was a German polymath known in his day as a linguist and now also as a mathematician. He was also a physicist, general scholar, and publisher. His mathematical work was little noted until he…

1809

William Crowther

Dutch-Australian politician, 14th Premier of Tasmania (died 1885)

William Lodewyk Crowther FRCS was a Tasmanian politician, who was Premier of Tasmania from 20 December 1878 to 29 October 1879.

1817

Jean Danjou

French captain (died 1863)

Jean Danjou was a decorated captain of the Foreign Legion in the French Army. He commanded the two lieutenants and 62 legionnaires who fought the Battle of Camarón during the French intervention in Mexico, in which he…

1828

Mary Harris Thompson

Mary Harris Thompson, American physician and surgeon (died 1895)

Mary Harris Thompson, MD, was the founder, head physician and surgeon of the Chicago Hospital for Women and Children, renamed Mary Harris Thompson Hospital after her death in 1895. She was one of the first women to…

1829

Wilhelm Busch

German poet, painter, and illustrator (died 1908)

Heinrich Christian Wilhelm Busch was a German humorist, poet, illustrator, and painter. He published wildly innovative illustrated tales that remain influential to this day.

1832

Mary Grant Roberts

Australian zoo owner (died 1921)

Mary Grant Roberts was an Australian zoo owner. Roberts owned Hobart Zoo from when it opened in 1895 until her death in 1921. The zoo was closed in 1937.

1841

Joseph E. Seagram

Canadian businessman and politician, founded the Seagram Company Ltd (died 1919)

Joseph Emm Seagram was a Canadian distillery founder, politician, philanthropist, and major owner of thoroughbred racehorses.

1841

Henry James

American novelist, short story writer, and critic (died 1916)

Henry James was an American-British author. He is regarded as a key transitional figure between literary realism and literary modernism, and is considered by many to be among the greatest novelists in the English…

1843

Jean Moréas

Greek poet and critic (died 1910)

Jean Moréas was a Greek poet, essayist, and art critic, who wrote mostly in the French language but also in Greek during his youth.

1856

Émile Durkheim

French sociologist, psychologist, and philosopher (died 1917)

David Émile Durkheim was a French sociologist. He formally established the academic discipline of sociology, and is commonly cited as one of the principal architects of modern social science, along with Karl Marx and…

1858

Bliss Carman

Canadian-British poet and playwright (died 1929)

William Bliss Carman was a Canadian poet who lived most of his life in the United States, where he achieved international fame. He was acclaimed as Canada's poet laureate during his later years.

1861

Ida Freund

Austrian-born chemist and educator (died 1914)

Ida Freund was the first woman to be a university chemistry lecturer in the United Kingdom. She is known for her influence on science teaching, particularly the teaching of women and girls. She wrote two key chemistry…

1863

George Harrison Shull

American botanist and geneticist (died 1954)

George Harrison Shull was an American plant geneticist who played a central role in the development of hybrid maize and in establishing the genetic basis of heterosis.

1874

Johannes Stark

German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1957)

Johannes Stark was a German physicist who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1919 for his discovery of the Stark effect.

1874

James J. Jeffries

American boxer and promoter (died 1953)

James Jackson Jeffries was an American professional boxer and world heavyweight champion from 1899 until his initial retirement in 1905.

1875

Georg Kolbe

German sculptor (died 1947)

Georg Kolbe was a German sculptor. He was the leading German figure sculptor of his generation, in a vigorous, modern, simplified classical style similar to Aristide Maillol of France.

1877

William David Ross

Scottish philosopher (died 1971)

Sir William David Ross, known as David Ross but usually cited as W. D. Ross, was a Scottish Aristotelian philosopher, translator, WWI veteran, civil servant, and university administrator. His best-known work is The…

1877

Robert Walser

Swiss author and playwright (died 1956)

Robert Walser was a German language Swiss writer. He additionally worked as a copyist, an inventor's assistant, a butler, and in various other low-paying trades. Despite marginal early success in his literary career,…

1878

Melville Henry Cane

American lawyer and poet (died 1980)

Melville Henry Cane was an American poet and lawyer. He studied at Columbia University, and was the author of the influential book, Making a Poem (1953).

1879

Stanley Bruce

Australian captain and politician, 8th Prime Minister of Australia (died 1967)

Stanley Melbourne Bruce, 1st Viscount Bruce of Melbourne was an Australian politician, statesman and businessman who served as the eighth prime minister of Australia from 1923 to 1929. He held office as the leader of…

1883

Tadeusz Kutrzeba

Polish general (died 1947)

Tadeusz Kutrzeba was a general of the army during the Second Polish Republic. He served as a major general in the Polish Army in overall command of Army Poznań during the 1939 German Invasion of Poland.

1885

Nikolay Gumilyov

Russian poet and critic (died 1921)

Nikolai Stepanovich Gumilev was a Russian poet, literary critic, traveler, and military officer. He was a co-founder of the Acmeist movement. He was the husband of Anna Akhmatova and the father of Lev Gumilev. Nikolai…

1886

Felix Pipes

Austrian tennis player (died 1983)

Fritz Felix Pipes was an Austrian tennis player who was born in Prague. He was Jewish, and was a medical doctor. At the 1912 Stockholm Olympics he teamed up with Arthur Zborzil to win a silver medal for Austria in the…

1887

William Forgan Smith

Scottish-Australian politician, 24th Premier of Queensland (died 1953)

William Forgan Smith was an Australian politician. He served as Premier of the state of Queensland from 1932 to 1942. He came to dominate politics in the state during the 1930s, and his populism, firm leadership,…

1887

Maximilian Kronberger

German poet and author (died 1904)

Maximilian Kronberger, known familiarly as Maximin, was a German poet and a significant figure in the literary circle of Stefan George.

1888

Thomas Hart Benton

American painter and educator (died 1975)

Thomas Hart Benton was an American painter, muralist, and printmaker. Along with Grant Wood and John Steuart Curry, he was at the forefront of the Regionalist art movement. The fluid, sculpted figures in his paintings…

1889

A. Philip Randolph

American activist (died 1979)

Asa Philip Randolph was an American railwayman, trade unionist and civil rights activist. In 1925, he organized and led the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, the first successful African-American-led labor union. In…

1889

Percy Shaw

English businessman, invented the cat's eye (died 1976)

Percy Shaw, was an English inventor and businessman. He patented the reflective road stud or "cat's eye" in 1934, and set up a company to manufacture his invention in 1935.

1890

Theo Osterkamp

German general and pilot (died 1975)

Theodor "Theo" Osterkamp was a German fighter pilot during World War I and World War II. A flying ace, he achieved 32 victories in World War I. In World War II, he led Jagdgeschwader 51 up to the Battle of Britain and…

1892

Corrie ten Boom

Dutch-American clocksmith, Nazi resister, and author (died 1983)

Cornelia Arnolda Johanna "Corrie" ten Boom was a Dutch watchmaker and later a Christian writer and public speaker, who worked with her father, Casper ten Boom, her sister Betsie ten Boom and other family members to help…

1892

Nikita Khrushchev

Russian general and politician, 7th Premier of the Soviet Union (died 1971)

Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev was the First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1953 to 1964 and the Chairman of the Council of Ministers from 1958 to 1964. As leader of the Soviet Union, he…

1894

Bessie Smith

African-American singer and actress (died 1937)

Bessie Smith was an African-American blues singer widely renowned during the Jazz Age. Nicknamed the "Empress of the Blues" and formerly Queen of the Blues, she was the most popular female blues singer of the 1930s.…

1894

Clark McConachy

New Zealand snooker player (died 1980)

Clark McConachy, often known simply as Mac, was a New Zealand professional player of English billiards and snooker.

1895

Abigail Mejia

Dominican feminist activist, nationalist, literary critic and educator (died 1941)

Ana Emilia Abigaíl Mejia Soliere was a feminist activist, nationalist, literary critic and educator from the Dominican Republic. She completed her primary education at the Salome Ureña de Henríquez School for Girls and…

1895

Nikolay Semyonov

Russian physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1986)

Nikolay Nikolayevich Semyonov , sometimes Semenov, Semionov or Semenoff was a Soviet physicist and chemist. Semyonov was awarded the 1956 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on the mechanism of chemical transformation.

1896

Harry Edward

Guyanese-English sprinter (died 1973)

Harry Francis Vincent Edward, known as Harry Edward, was a German-British athlete in track; in 1920 he was Britain's first black Olympian and the first black person to win Olympic medals. He represented the UK and…

1898

Ramón Iribarren

Spanish civil engineer (died 1967)

Ramón Iribarren Cavanilles Ing.D was a Spanish civil engineer and professor of ports at the School of Civil Engineering in Madrid. He was chairman of the Spanish delegation to the Permanent International Association of…

1900

Joe Davis

English snooker player (died 1978)

Joseph Davis was an English professional snooker and billiards player. He was the dominant figure in snooker from the 1920s to the 1950s, and has been credited with inventing aspects of the way the game is now played,…

1901

Ajoy Mukherjee

Indian politician, Chief Minister of West Bengal (died 1986)

Ajoy Kumar Mukherjee was an Indian independence activist and politician who served three short terms as the Chief Minister of West Bengal. He hailed from Tamluk, Purba Medinipur district, West Bengal.

1901

René Pleven

French businessman and politician, Prime Minister of France (died 1993)

René Jean Pleven was a notable political figure of the French Resistance and Fourth Republic. An early associate of Jean Monnet then member of the Free French led by Charles de Gaulle, he took a leading role in colonial…

1901

Fernando Pessa

Portuguese journalist (died 2002)

Fernando Pessa, ComIH, GOM, OBE was a Portuguese journalist and reporter. Early in 2002, Pessa was hailed as the world's oldest journalist.

1902

John Williams

English-American actor (died 1983)

Hugh Ernest Leo Williams, known professionally as John Williams, was an English stage, film and television actor. He is remembered for his role as Chief Inspector Hubbard in Alfred Hitchcock's Dial M for Murder, as the…

1903

Arshile Gorky

Armenian-American painter and illustrator (died 1948)

Arshile Gorky was an Armenian-American painter. At first influenced by Impressionism and Post-Impressionism, Gorky's later work presaged and exerted a seminal influence on abstract expressionism. Along with Mark Rothko,…

1904

Nikolaas Tinbergen

Dutch-English ethologist and ornithologist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1988)

Nikolaas "Niko" Tinbergen was a Dutch biologist and ornithologist who shared the 1973 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Karl von Frisch and Konrad Lorenz for their discoveries concerning the organization and…

1907

eden ahbez

American songwriter and recording artist (died 1995)

George Alexander Aberle, known as eden ahbez, was an American songwriter and recording artist of the 1940s to 1960s, whose lifestyle in California was influential in the hippie movement. He was known to friends simply…

1908

Lita Grey

American actress (died 1995)

Lita Grey, who was known for most of her life as Lita Grey Chaplin, was an American actress. She was the second wife of Charlie Chaplin, and appeared in his films The Kid, The Idle Class, and The Gold Rush.

1908

Robert Edison Fulton Jr.

American inventor and adventurer (died 2004)

Robert Edison Fulton Jr. was an American inventor and adventurer. He is known for having traveled around the world on a motorcycle in 1932–33, authored a book and made a film about his journey, and for several…

1909

Sulo Bärlund

Finnish shot putter (died 1986)

Sulo Richard Bärlund was a Finnish shot putter who won a silver medal at the 1936 Summer Olympics. At the European Championships he finished fourth in 1938 and sixth in 1946.

1910

Miguel Najdorf

Polish-Argentinian chess player and theoretician (died 1997)

Miguel Najdorf was a Polish-Argentine chess grandmaster. Originally from Poland, he was in Argentina when World War II began in 1939, and he stayed and settled there. He was a leading world player in the 1940s and…

1910

William Congdon

American-Italian painter and sculptor (died 1998)

William Grosvenor Congdon was an American painter who became notable as an artist in New York City in the 1940s, but lived most of his life in Europe.

1912

Kim Il Sung

North Korean general and politician, 1st Supreme Leader of North Korea (died 1994)

Kim Il Sung was a North Korean revolutionary, military officer, politician, and dictator who founded the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), also known as North Korea, in 1948, and led the country from its…

1912

Elizabeth Catlett

African-American sculptor and illustrator (died 2012)

Elizabeth Catlett, born as Alice Elizabeth Catlett, also known as Elizabeth Catlett Mora was an American and Mexican sculptor and graphic artist best known for her depictions of the Black-American experience in the 20th…

1915

Alfred S. Bloomingdale

American businessman (died 1982)

Alfred Schiffer Bloomingdale was an American businessman who launched the credit card business Dine and Sign, was chairman of Diners Club, and became known as "father of the credit card." He was an heir to the…

1916

Helene Hanff

American author and screenwriter (died 1997)

Helene Hanff was an American writer born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She is best known as the author of the book 84, Charing Cross Road, which became the basis for a stage play, television play, and film of the same…

1916

Hans Conried

American actor (died 1982)

Hans Georg Conried Jr. was an American actor and comedian. Among his numerous roles, he voiced Captain Hook and George Darling in Walt Disney's Peter Pan (1953), Snidely Whiplash in Jay Ward's Dudley Do-Right cartoons,…

1917

Elmer Gedeon

American baseball player and bomber pilot (died 1944)

Elmer John Gedeon was an American professional baseball player, appearing in several games for the Washington Senators in 1939. Gedeon and Harry O'Neill were the only two Major League Baseball players killed during…

1917

James Kee

American lawyer and politician (died 1989)

James Kee was an American politician. A member of the Democratic Party, he served in the United States House of Representatives for West Virginia's 5th congressional district from 1965 to 1973, succeeding his mother…

1917

Hans Billian

German film director, screenwriter, and actor (died 2007)

Hans Billian was a German film director, screenwriter, and actor noted for the "sex comedies" he directed in the 1970s. He was also credited as Hans Billan, Phillip Halliday, and Christian Kessler.

1918

Alberto Breccia

Uruguayan-Argentinian author and illustrator (died 1993)

Alberto Breccia was a Uruguayan-born Argentine artist and cartoonist. His son Enrique Breccia and daughter Patricia Breccia are also comic book artists.

1919

Godfrey Stafford

English-South African physicist and academic (died 2013)

Godfrey Harry Stafford CBE, FRS, was a British physicist and directed the Rutherford Appleton Laboratories from 1969 to 1981. He went on to be a master at St Cross College, Oxford and president of the Institute of…

1920

Thomas Szasz

Hungarian-American psychiatrist and academic (died 2012)

Thomas Stephen Szasz was a Hungarian-American academic and psychiatrist. He served for most of his career as professor of psychiatry at the State University of New York Upstate Medical University. A distinguished…

1920

Richard von Weizsäcker

German soldier and politician, 6th President of Germany (died 2015)

Richard Karl Freiherr von Weizsäcker was a German politician (CDU), who served as President of Germany from 1984 to 1994. Born into the aristocratic Weizsäcker family, he took his first public offices in the Protestant…

1920

Georgy Beregovoy

Ukrainian-Russian general, pilot, and astronaut (died 1995)

Georgy Timofeyevich Beregovoy was a Soviet cosmonaut who commanded the space mission Soyuz 3 in 1968. From 1972 to 1987, he headed the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center.

1921

Angelo DiGeorge

American physician and endocrinologist (died 2009)

Angelo Mario DiGeorge was an American physician and pediatric endocrinologist from Philadelphia who pioneered the research on the autosomal dominant immunodeficiency now commonly referred to as DiGeorge syndrome.

1921

Michael Ansara

Syrian-American actor (died 2013)

Michael George Ansara was a Syrian‐American actor. He was often cast in Arab and Native American roles. His work in both film and television spanned several genres, including historical epics, Westerns, and science…

1922

Donn F. Draeger

American martial arts practitioner (died 1982)

Donald Frederick "Donn" Draeger was an American practitioner and teacher of martial arts. He was the author of several important books on Asian martial arts, and was a pioneer of international judo in the United States…

1922

Hasrat Jaipuri

Indian poet and songwriter (died 1999)

Hasrat Jaipuri, born Iqbal Hussain, was an Indian poet, who wrote in the Hindi and Urdu languages. He was also a renowned film lyricist in Hindi films, where he won the Filmfare Awards for Best Lyricist twice – in 1966…

1922

Harold Washington

American lawyer and politician, 51st Mayor of Chicago (died 1987)

Harold Lee Washington was an American politician and lawyer who was the 51st mayor of Chicago from 1983 until his death in 1987. A member of the Democratic Party, he was the first Black person to hold the office.

1922

Graham Whitehead

English racing driver (died 1981)

Alfred Graham Whitehead was a British racing driver from England. He participated in one Formula One World Championship Grand Prix, on 19 July 1952. He finished 12th, scoring no championship points. He also competed in…

1922

Artur Alliksaar

Estonian poet and author (died 1966)

Artur Alliksaar was an Estonian poet.

1923

Robert DePugh

American activist, founded the Minutemen (an anti-Communist organization) (died 2009)

Robert Boliver DePugh was an American anti-communist activist who founded the Minutemen militant anti-Communist organization in 1961.

1923

M. Canagaratnam

Sri Lankan politician (died 1980)

Mylvaganam Canagaratnam was a Sri Lankan Tamil politician and Member of Parliament.

1924

Rikki Fulton

Scottish comedian (died 2004)

Robert Kerr "Rikki" Fulton was a Scottish comedian and actor best remembered for writing and performing in the long-running BBC Scotland sketch show Scotch and Wry. He was also known for his appearances as one half of…

1924

Neville Marriner

English violinist and conductor (died 2016)

Sir Neville Marriner, was an English conductor and violinist. Described as "one of the world's greatest conductors", Gramophone lists Marriner as one of the 50 greatest conductors and another compilation ranks Marriner…

1924

Jurriaan Schrofer

Dutch sculptor, designer, and educator (died 1990)

Jurriaan Willem Schrofer was a Dutch sculptor, graphic designer, type designer, and art school educator.

1926

Robert Mills

American physicist and academic (died 1999)

Robert Laurence Mills was an American physicist, specializing in quantum field theory, the theory of alloys, and many-body theory.

1927

Gérald Beaudoin

Canadian lawyer and politician (died 2008)

Gérald A. Beaudoin was a Canadian lawyer and Senator.

1929

Adrian Cadbury

English rower and businessman (died 2015)

Sir George Adrian Hayhurst Cadbury, was an English businessman who served as the chairman of Cadbury and Cadbury Schweppes for 24 years. He was also a British Olympic rower. Cadbury was a pioneer in raising the…

1929

Georges Descrières

French actor (died 2013)

Georges Descrières was a French actor. He appeared in 52 films and television shows between 1954 and 1996. He starred alongside Anna Karina in the 1962 film Sun in Your Eyes and portrayed the gentleman-burglar title…

1930

Vigdís Finnbogadóttir

Icelandic educator and politician, 4th President of Iceland

Vigdís Finnbogadóttir is an Icelandic politician and theatre director who was the fourth president of Iceland, serving from 1980 to 1996, the first woman to hold the position and the first in the world to be…

1930

Kenneth Bloomfield

Northern Irish civil servant (died 2025)

Sir Kenneth Percy Bloomfield, KCB was a Northern Irish civil servant who was Head of the Northern Ireland Civil Service (NICS) and was later a member of the Independent Commission for the Location of Victims' Remains.…

1931

Tomas Tranströmer

Swedish poet, translator, and psychologist Nobel Prize laureate (died 2015)

Tomas Gösta Tranströmer was a Swedish poet, psychologist and translator. His poems captured the long winters in Sweden, the rhythm of the seasons and the palpable, atmospheric beauty of nature. Tranströmer's work is…

1931

Roy Clark

American musician and television personality (died 2018)

Roy Linwood Clark was an American singer, musician and television presenter. He is best known for having co-hosted Hee Haw, a nationally televised country music variety show, with Buck Owens, from 1969 to 1993. Clark…

1933

David Hamilton

English-French photographer and director (died 2016)

David Hamilton was a British photographer and film director best known for his photography of young women and girls, mostly nude. Hamilton's images became part of an "Art or pornography?" debate.

1933

Elizabeth Montgomery

American actress and producer (died 1995)

Elizabeth Victoria Montgomery was an American actress whose career spanned five decades in film, stage and television. She portrayed the good witch Samantha Stephens on the popular television series Bewitched, which…

1933

Stavros Paravas

Greek actor and producer (died 2008)

Stavros Paravas was a Greek actor.

1935

Raymond Poulidor

French cyclist (died 2019)

Raymond Poulidor, nicknamed "Pou-Pou", was a French professional racing cyclist, who rode for Mercier his entire career.

1936

Bob Luman

American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 1978)

Robert Glynn Luman was an American country and rockabilly singer.

1937

Robert W. Gore

American engineer and businessman, co-inventor of Gore-Tex (died 2020)

Robert W. Gore was an American engineer and scientist, inventor and businessman. Gore led his family's company, W. L. Gore & Associates, which was founded by his father Bill Gore, in developing applications of…

1937

Claudia Cardinale

Italian actress (died 2025)

Claude Joséphine Rose "Claudia" Cardinale was an Italian Tunisian actress. Regarded as one of the leading figures of Italian cinema, alongside Sophia Loren and Gina Lollobrigida, she achieved international recognition…

1938

Hso Khan Pha

Burmese-Canadian geologist and politician (died 2016)

Prince Hso Khan Pha of Yawnghwe was a prince of Yawnghwe. He was a son of Sao Shwe Thaik, the last Saopha of Yawnghwe and Sao Nang Hearn Kham, the Mahadevi (consort). He was a consulting geologist based in Canada.

1938

Marty Wilde

English singer-songwriter and actor

Marty Wilde is an English singer and songwriter. He was among the first generation of British rock and roll stars to emulate American rock and roll, scoring several 1950s and 1960s hit singles including "Endless Sleep",…

1939

Desiré Ecaré

Ivorian filmmaker (died 2009)

Désiré Ecaré was an Ivorian film director. His directorial debut was the film Concerto pour un exil in 1968, followed by A Nous Deux, France (1970). He directed the seminal film Faces of Women in 1985, which went on to…

1939

Jeffrey Archer

English author, playwright, and politician

Jeffrey Howard Archer, Baron Archer of Weston-super-Mare is an English novelist and former politician. He was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Louth (Lincolnshire) from 1969 to 1974, but did not seek re-election after…

1940

Penelope Coelen

South African actress, model, beauty queen and 1958 Miss World

Penelope Anne Coelen is a South African former actress, model and beauty queen who won Miss World 1958. She was the second major international titleholder to come from Africa.

1940

Willie Davis

American baseball player and actor (died 2010)

William Henry Davis was an American professional baseball player. He played in Major League Baseball and the Nippon Professional Baseball league as a center fielder from 1960 through 1979, most prominently as an…

1940

Robert Lacroix

Canadian economist and academic

Robert Lacroix, is a professor of economics at the Université de Montréal in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

1940

Robert Walker

American actor (died 2019)

Robert Hudson Walker Jr. was an American actor who appeared in such films as Ensign Pulver (1964), Easy Rider (1969), Beware! The Blob (1972), and The Passover Plot (1976). He was a familiar presence on television in…

1940

Howard Berman

American lawyer and politician

Howard Lawrence Berman is an American attorney and retired Democratic Party politician who served as a U.S. representative from California from 1983 to 2013. His district, which was modified twice in decennial…

1941

Francis X. DiLorenzo

American bishop (died 2017)

Francis Xavier DiLorenzo was an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as bishop of the Diocese of Richmond in Virginia from 2004 until his death in 2017.

1942

Walt Hazzard

American basketball player and coach (died 2011)

Mahdi Abdul-Rahman was an American professional basketball player and college basketball coach. He played in college for the UCLA Bruins and was a member of their first national championship team in 1964. He also won a…

1942

Kenneth Lay

American businessman and criminal (died 2006)

Kenneth Lee Lay was an American businessman and political donor who was the founder, chief executive officer and chairman of Enron. He was heavily involved in Enron's accounting scandal that unraveled in 2001 into the…

1942

Tim Lankester

English economist and academic

Sir Timothy Patrick Lankester, KCB is a retired British civil servant, a former President of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, and the first economic private secretary to Margaret Thatcher.

1942

Pınar Kür

Turkish author, playwright, and academic (died 2025)

Havva Pınar Kür was a Turkish novelist, dramatist, and translator. She worked as a academician in the media and communication systems department at Istanbul Bilgi University. Pınar Kür was the daughter of İsmet Kür…

1943

Robert Lefkowitz

American physician and biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate

Robert Joseph Lefkowitz is an American physician and biochemist. He is best known for his discoveries that reveal the inner workings of an important family of G protein-coupled receptors, for which he was awarded the…

1943

Veronica Linklater

Baroness Linklater, English politician (died 2022)

Veronica Linklater, Baroness Linklater of Butterstone was a British Liberal Democrat politician and member of the House of Lords. Her career indicated her interests in children's welfare, education and special needs,…

1943

Hugh Thompson

Jr., American soldier and pilot (died 2006)

Hugh Clowers Thompson Jr. was a United States Army officer, serving as a warrant officer in the 123rd Aviation Battalion of the 23rd Infantry Division. He is credited with ending the Mỹ Lai massacre of the South…

1943

Dave Edmunds

Welsh singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer

David William Edmunds is a Welsh retired singer, songwriter, guitarist and record producer. He is mainly associated with pub rock and new wave, having produced many hits in these genres during the 1970s and early 1980s.

1944

John Lloyd

Scottish journalist and author

John Nicol Fortune Lloyd is a British journalist who is currently contributing editor at the Financial Times and an Associate Fellow of Nuffield College, Oxford.

1946

Pete Rouse

American politician, White House Chief of Staff

Peter Mikami Rouse is an American political consultant who served as interim White House Chief of Staff to U.S. President Barack Obama. Rouse previously spent many years on Capitol Hill, becoming known as the "101st…

1946

Linda Bloodworth-Thomason

American screenwriter and producer

Linda Joyce Bloodworth-Thomason is an American writer, director, and television producer. She is best known for creating, writing, and producing several television series, most successfully with the sitcoms Designing…

1947

Martin Broughton

English businessman

Sir Martin Faulkner Broughton is a British businessman and deputy chairman of International Airlines Group. Formed in January 2011, IAG is the parent company of British Airways, Iberia and Vueling. It is a Spanish…

1947

Lois Chiles

American model and actress

Lois Cleveland Chiles is an American actress and former fashion model known for her role as Holly Goodhead in the James Bond film Moonraker (1979). Her other screen credits include The Way We Were (1973), The Great…

1947

David Omand

English civil servant and academic

Sir David Bruce Omand is a British former senior civil servant who served as the Director of the Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) from 1996 to 1997.

1947

Cristina Husmark Pehrsson

Swedish nurse and politician, Swedish Minister for Social Security

Cristina Maria Husmark Pehrsson is a Swedish politician and a member of the Moderate Party. She served as Minister for Social Security and as Minister for Nordic Cooperation from 2006 to 2010. She is a certified nurse…

1947

Christopher Brown

English historian, curator, and academic

Christopher Paul Hadley Brown, CBE is a British art historian and academic. He was director of the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, England from 1998 to 2014. He is recognised as an authority on Sir Anthony van Dyck.

1948

Michael Kamen

American composer and conductor (died 2003)

Michael Arnold Kamen was an American composer, arranger, conductor, songwriter, and musician. He began his work as a pop and rock music arranger, notably for Pink Floyd, and was a member of the New York Rock & Roll…

1948

Phil Mogg

English singer-songwriter and musician

Phillip John Mogg is an English singer. He was the lead singer and frontman of the hard rock band UFO, which he co-founded with longtime friends Pete Way, Andy Parker, and Mick Bolton in 1968.

1948

Alla Pugacheva

Russian singer-songwriter and actress

Alla Borisovna Pugacheva is a Russian singer and songwriter. Her career began in 1965 and continues to this day, although she retired from performing in 2010 after the international concert tour "Dreams of Love". For…

1949

Craig Zadan

American director, producer, and screenwriter (died 2018)

Craig Zadan was an American producer and writer. Working alone and with Neil Meron, his partner in the production company Storyline Entertainment, he produced such films as Footloose, Chicago and Hairspray.

1949

Josiane Balasko

French actress, director, and screenwriter

Josiane Balasko is a French actress, writer, and director. She has been nominated eight times for César Awards, and won three times.

1950

Amy Wright

American actress

Amy Wright is an American actress and former model. She has appeared in such films as The Deer Hunter, Breaking Away, The Accidental Tourist, Hard Promises, Crossing Delancey, and Miss Firecracker. She is the widow of…

1950

Karel Kroupa

Czech football player

Karel Kroupa is a former Czech football player, considered as legendary player of Zbrojovka Brno.

1950

Heloise

American journalist and author

Ponce Kiah Marchelle Heloise Cruse Evans, best known by her pen name Heloise, is an American writer, author, and speaker specializing in lifestyle hints, including consumer issues, pets, travel, food, home improvement,…

1951

John L. Phillips

American captain and astronaut

John Lynch Phillips is a NASA astronaut. Phillips is also a Naval Aviator and retired captain, United States Navy Reserve. Phillips has received numerous awards and special honors. He is a National Merit Scholar,…

1951

Stuart Prebble

English journalist and producer

Stuart Colin Prebble was a British television executive who was Chairman of Storyvault Films, and was CEO of ITV, Granada Sky Broadcasting and of ITV Digital.

1951

Marsha Ivins

American engineer and astronaut

Marsha Sue Ivins is an American retired astronaut and a veteran of five Space Shuttle missions.

1951

Kym Gyngell

Australian actor, comedian, and screenwriter

Kim Gyngell, sometimes also credited as Kym Gyngell, is an Australian comedian and film, television and stage actor. Gyngell won the Australian Film Institute Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role in 1988 for his…

1952

Brian Muir

English sculptor and set designer

Brian Ian Muir is a British sculptor who most famously created Darth Vader's helmet and armour using Ralph McQuarrie's design.

1952

Avital Ronell

Czech-American philosopher and academic

Avital Ronell is an American academic who writes about continental philosophy, literary studies, psychoanalysis, political philosophy, and ethics. She is a professor in the humanities and in the departments of Germanic…

1952

Glenn Shadix

American actor, (died 2010)

William Glenn Shadix-Scott was an American actor and comedian. He was best known for his roles as Otho Fenlock in Tim Burton's Beetlejuice and the Mayor of Halloween Town in The Nightmare Before Christmas.

1952

Dodi Fayed

Egyptian film producer (died 1997)

Emad El-Din Mohamed Abdel Mena'em "Dodi" Fayed was an Egyptian film producer and the eldest child of the businessman Mohamed Al-Fayed. He was romantically involved with Diana, Princess of Wales, when they both died in a…

1955

Joice Mujuru

Zimbabwean politician

Joice Runaida Mujuru, also known by her nom-de-guerre Teurai Ropa Nhongo, is a Zimbabwean revolutionary and politician who served as Vice-President of Zimbabwe from 2004 to 2014. Previously, she had served as a…

1955

Michael Cooper

American basketball player and coach

Michael Jerome Cooper, nicknamed "Coop", is an American basketball coach and former professional player who is the head coach of the Cal State Los Angeles Golden Eagles men's basketball team. He played for the Los…

1956

Evelyn Ashford

American runner and coach

Evelyn Ashford is an American retired track and field athlete, the 1984 Olympic champion in the 100-meter dash, and the world record-holder in the 60-yard dash. She ran under the 11-second barrier over 30 times and was…

1957

Keith Acton

Canadian ice hockey player and coach

Keith Edward Acton is a Canadian former professional ice hockey centre who played 15 seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL), with the Montreal Canadiens, Minnesota North Stars, Edmonton Oilers, Philadelphia Flyers,…

1958

John Bracewell

New Zealand cricketer

John Garry Bracewell is a former New Zealand cricketer who was most recently the coach of the Irish national team. He played 41 Test matches between 1980 and 1990, as well as 53 One Day Internationals. He was the second…

1958

Memos Ioannou

Greek basketball player and coach

Agamemnon "Memos" Ioannou is a retired Greek professional basketball player and coach. At 6 ft 3 in (1.91 m), he played at the point guard and shooting guard positions.

1958

Benjamin Zephaniah

English actor, author, poet, and playwright (died 2023)

Benjamin Obadiah Iqbal Zephaniah was a British writer, dub poet, actor, musician and professor of poetry and creative writing. Over his lifetime, he was awarded 20 honorary doctorates in recognition of his contributions…

1958

Fruit Chan

Chinese director, producer, and screenwriter

Fruit Chan Gor is a Hong Kong filmmaker who is best known for his style of film reflecting the everyday life of Hong Kong people. He is well known for using amateur actors in his films. He became a household name after…

1959

Kevin Lowe

Canadian ice hockey player, coach, and manager

Kevin Hugh Lowe is a Canadian professional ice hockey executive, former coach and former player. Lowe was the vice-chairman of Oilers Entertainment Group until his retirement on August 2, 2022, having formerly served as…

1959

Emma Thompson

English actress, comedian, author, activist and screenwriter

Dame Emma Thompson is a British actress and screenwriter. Her work spans over four decades of screen and stage, and her accolades include two Academy Awards, three BAFTA Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, and a Primetime…

1959

Pierre Aubry

Canadian ice hockey player

Pierre Aubry is a Canadian former professional ice hockey left winger who played five seasons in the National Hockey League for the Quebec Nordiques and Detroit Red Wings from 1980–81 to 1984–85.

1960

Susanne Bier

Danish director and screenwriter

Susanne Bier is a Danish filmmaker. Bier is the first female director to collectively receive an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award, a European Film Award and a Primetime Emmy Award.

1960

Pedro Delgado

Spanish cyclist and sportscaster

Pedro Delgado Robledo, also known as Perico, is a Spanish former professional road bicycle racer. He won the 1988 Tour de France, as well as the Vuelta a España in 1985 and 1989. He finished in the top 10 of eighteen…

1960

Tony Jones

English snooker player

Tony Jones is an English former professional snooker player from Nottinghamshire.

1960

Neil Carmichael

English academic and politician

William Neil Carmichael is a British politician who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Stroud from 2010 until 2017. In April 2019, he announced he had left the Conservative Party; he subsequently joined Change…

1961

Carol W. Greider

American molecular biologist

Carolyn Widney Greider is an American molecular biologist and Nobel laureate. She is a Distinguished Professor of Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

1961

Dawn Wright

American geographer and oceanographer

Dawn Jeannine Wright is an American geographer and oceanographer. She is a leading authority in the application of geographic information system (GIS) technology to the field of ocean and coastal science and played a…

1961

Nawal El Moutawakel

Moroccan athlete and politician

Nawal El Moutawakel is a Moroccan former hurdler, who won the inaugural women's 400 metres hurdles event at the 1984 Summer Olympics, and is the first Moroccan, Arab, African, and Muslim woman to win an Olympic gold.…

1962

Tom Kane

American voice actor (died 2026)

Thomas Kane Roberts was an American voice actor. He was known for his work in animation and video games, most notably the Star Wars franchise, voicing established characters Yoda, Admiral Ackbar, Boba Fett, Qui-Gon…

1962

Alex Crawford

Nigerian-South African journalist

Alexandra Christine Crawford, is a British journalist who currently works as a Special Correspondent for Sky News based in Turkey.

1963

Manzoor Elahi

Pakistani cricketer

Manzoor Elahi is a Pakistani cricket coach and former cricketer. Considered a hard-hitting batsman and a medium-pacer bowler, Elahi appeared in six Test matches and 54 One Day Internationals for Pakistan national…

1963

Manoj Prabhakar

Indian cricketer and sportscaster

Manoj Prabhakar is a former Indian cricketer and coach, who recently coached Nepal National Cricket Team. He was a right-arm medium-pace bowler and a lower-order batsman, and also opened the innings a few times for the…

1963

Andre Joubert

South African rugby player

André Johan Joubert is a former South African rugby union player, widely known as "The Rolls-Royce of Fullbacks" for his pace, class, and seemingly effortless style. He was capped 34 times at fullback for the Springboks…

1964

Lee Kernaghan

Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist

Lee Kernaghan OAM is an Australian country music singer, songwriter and guitarist. Kernaghan has won four ARIA Awards and three APRA Awards, and has sold over two million albums, and as of 2021, has won 38 Golden…

1964

Soichi Noguchi

Japanese engineer and astronaut

Soichi Noguchi is a Japanese aeronautical engineer and former JAXA astronaut. His first spaceflight was as a mission specialist aboard STS-114 on 26 July 2005 for NASA's first "return to flight" Space Shuttle mission…

1965

Linda Perry

American singer-songwriter, musician and record producer

Linda Perry is an American singer, songwriter, musician, and record producer. She was the lead singer, primary songwriter, and guitarist of 4 Non Blondes, including their 1993 hit "What's Up?". She has since founded two…

1965

Kevin Stevens

American ice hockey player

Kevin Michael Stevens is an American former ice hockey player and current scout in the National Hockey League (NHL). He played left wing on a line with Mario Lemieux during the Pittsburgh Penguins' Stanley Cup…

1965

Samantha Fox

English singer-songwriter and actress

Samantha Karen Fox is an English pop singer and former glamour model from Wood Green in North London. She has appeared on reality television shows and has occasionally worked as a television presenter and actress.

1966

Mott Green

American businessman (died 2013)

Mott Green was an American businessman and chocolatier, who founded the Grenada Chocolate Company in 1999. An edition of The Food Programme was devoted to Mott Green in June 2013.

1966

Frankie Poullain

Scottish bass player and songwriter

Francis Gilles Poullain-Patterson, better known as Frankie Poullain, is a Scottish bass player, best known for playing with The Darkness. He was raised in Milnathort, then Edinburgh, Scotland.

1967

Dara Torres

American swimmer and journalist

Dara Grace Torres is an American former competitive swimmer, coach, and author who is a 12-time Olympic medalist and former world record-holder in three events. Torres is the first swimmer to represent the United States…

1967

Ben Clarke

English rugby player and coach

Ben Clarke, is a former England back-row international rugby union player.

1968

Brahim Lahlafi

Moroccan-French runner

Brahim Lahlafi is a retired long-distance runner who represented Morocco during his active career. He acquired French citizenship on 6 April 2002, but represented Morocco again from 15 March 2007.

1968

Ed O'Brien

English guitarist

Edward John O'Brien is an English guitarist, songwriter, and member of the rock band Radiohead. O'Brien attended Abingdon School in Oxfordshire, England, where he formed Radiohead with schoolmates. He said his role was…

1968

Jeromy Burnitz

American baseball player

Jeromy Neal Burnitz is an American former professional baseball player. Burnitz was a right fielder in Major League Baseball who played with the New York Mets, Cleveland Indians (1995–96), Milwaukee Brewers (1996–2001),…

1969

Kaisa Roose

Estonian pianist and conductor

Kaisa Roose was born in Tallinn, Estonia on 15 April 1969. At the age of six she began studying piano at the Tallinn School of Music. In 1987 she was admitted to the Tallinn Conservatoire, where she studied choir…

1969

Jimmy Waite

Canadian-German ice hockey player and coach

James Dean Waite is a Canadian professional ice hockey coach and former goaltender. He currently serves as the goaltending coach for the Chicago Blackhawks.

1969

Chris Huffins

American decathlete and coach

Chris Huffins is an athlete from the United States who competed in the field of decathlon. He was the director and head coach of the men's and women's track and field and cross country programs at the University of…

1970

Philippe Carbonneau

French rugby player

Philippe Carbonneau is a retired French rugby player.

1971

Finidi George

Nigerian footballer

Finidi George is a Nigerian professional football coach and former player who played as a winger. He is the current head coach of Nigerian Professional Football League club Rivers United.

1971

Jason Sehorn

American football player

Jason Heath Sehorn is an American former professional football player who was a cornerback in the National Football League (NFL) for the New York Giants from 1994 to 2002 and St. Louis Rams in 2003. He played college…

1971

Josia Thugwane

South African runner

Josia Thugwane is a South African retired long-distance runner, best known for winning the gold medal in the marathon at the 1996 Summer Olympics. Thugwane, who is of Ndebele heritage, is the first black athlete to earn…

1971

Karl Turner

English lawyer and politician

Karl William Turner is a British politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Kingston upon Hull East since 2010. He currently sits as an independent MP after he was suspended from the Parliamentary Labour…

1971

Arturo Gatti

Italian-Canadian boxer (died 2009)

Arturo Gatti was a Canadian professional boxer who competed from 1991 to 2007. He was a world champion in two weight classes, having held the International Boxing Federation (IBF) junior lightweight title from 1995 to…

1972

Lou Romano

American animator and voice actor

Lou Romano is an American animator and voice actor. He did design work on Monsters, Inc. and The Incredibles, and provided the voices of Bernie Kropp in The Incredibles, Snot Rod in Cars, and Alfredo Linguini in…

1972

Kim Min-kyo

South Korean actor and director

Kim Min-kyo is a South Korean actor and director. He is well known as a cast member ('crew') on the tvN entertainment show Saturday Night Live Korea.

1974

Danny Pino

American actor and screenwriter

Daniel Gonzalo Pino is an American actor who starred as Detective Scotty Valens on the CBS series Cold Case from 2003 to 2010, and as NYPD Detective Nick Amaro in the long-running NBC crime drama Law & Order: Special…

1974

Mike Quinn

American football player

Michael Patrick Quinn is an American former professional football quarterback in the National Football League (NFL) for the Pittsburgh Steelers, Indianapolis Colts, Dallas Cowboys, Miami Dolphins, Houston Texans, and…

1974

Douglas Spain

American actor, director, and producer

Douglas Spain is an American film and television actor, director and producer. In 1998 Spain was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award in the category of Best Debut Performance for his role in the film Star Maps. In…

1974

Tim Thomas

American ice hockey player

Timothy James Thomas Jr. is an American former professional ice hockey goaltender who mainly played in the National Hockey League (NHL), most notably with the Boston Bruins.

1974

Sarah Teichmann

German-American biophysicist and immunologist

Sarah Amalia Teichmann is a German scientist, the former head of cellular genetics at the Wellcome Sanger Institute and a visiting research group leader at the European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI). She serves as…

1975

Jason Bonsignore

Canadian ice hockey player and coach

Jason M. Bonsignore is an American former professional ice hockey forward and speedway promoter and racer.

1976

Darius Regelskis

Lithuanian footballer

Darius Regelskis is a Lithuanian professional footballer. He was playing the position of defender and is 1.78 m tall and weighs 71 kg. Regelskis spent the prime years of his career playing for FBK Kaunas. He is a former…

1976

Kęstutis Šeštokas

Lithuanian basketball player

Kęstutis Šeštokas is a Lithuanian professional basketball player, who plays at the power forward position. He last played for Molėtai Ežerūnas-Karys basketball team. He is the only player who has won the domestic…

1976

Steve Williams

English rower

Stephen David Williams is an English rower and double Olympic champion. In April and May 2011, Williams walked to the North Pole and achieved the summit of Mount Everest.

1976

Sudarsan Pattnaik

Indian sculptor

Sudarsan Pattnaik is an Indian sand artist from Puri, Odisha. In 2014, the Government of India honoured him with the Padma Shri, India's fourth-highest civilian award, for his seashore sand arts.

1977

Brian Pothier

American ice hockey player

Brian Pothier is an American former professional ice hockey defenseman. Pothier played in the National Hockey League (NHL) from 2000 until 2010.

1977

Milton Bradley

American baseball player

Milton Obelle Bradley Jr. is an American former professional baseball player. Standing 6 feet (1.8 m) and weighing 215 pounds (98 kg), Bradley was an outfielder and a switch hitter who threw right-handed. During an…

1978

Tim Corcoran

American baseball player

Timothy Hugh Corcoran is an American former professional baseball pitcher. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Tampa Bay Devil Rays and in Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) for the Yokohama DeNA BayStars.…

1978

Luis Fonsi

Puerto Rican-American singer-songwriter and dancer

Luis Alfonso Rodríguez López-Cepero, known by his stage name Luis Fonsi, is a Puerto Rican singer. He is known for his soulful and dance oriented songs, most notably 2017's "Despacito".

1978

Chris Stapleton

American country singer-songwriter and guitarist

Christopher Alvin Stapleton is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist. Born in Kentucky, he moved to Nashville in 1996 to study for an engineering degree from Vanderbilt University, but dropped out to pursue a…

1978

Luke Evans

Welsh actor and singer

Luke George Evans is a Welsh actor and singer. He began his career on the stage, and performed in London's West End productions of Taboo, Rent, Miss Saigon, and Piaf before making his film breakthrough in the 2010…

1979

Patrick Carney

American drummer, musician, and producer

Patrick James Carney is an American musician and producer best known as the drummer of the Black Keys, a blues rock band from Akron, Ohio.

1980

James Foster

English cricketer

James Savin Foster is an English cricket coach and former cricketer. A wicket-keeper who played seven Tests and 11 One Day Internationals in 2001–02 and 2002–03.

1980

Raül López

Spanish basketball player

Raül López Molist is a Spanish former professional basketball player. He played for the Utah Jazz of the National Basketball Association (NBA). López is a native of Vic, Barcelona, in Catalonia, Spain. At a height of 6…

1980

Willie Mason

New Zealand-Australian rugby league player

William Marshall Mason, also nicknamed "Big Willie", is a former professional rugby league footballer who played in the 2000s and 2010s. An Australia and Tonga international and New South Wales State of Origin…

1980

Billy Yates

American football player

William LaQuayne Yates is an American football coach and former offensive guard in the National Football League (NFL). He played college football at Texas A&M and was signed by the Miami Dolphins as an undrafted free…

1980

Andrés D'Alessandro

Argentinian footballer

Andrés Nicolás D'Alessandro is an Argentine former professional footballer who played as an attacking midfielder. He has played top-flight football in Argentina, Germany, England, Spain, Brazil and Uruguay.

1981

Michael Aubrey

American baseball player

Robert Michael Aubrey is an American former professional baseball first baseman. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Cleveland Indians and Baltimore Orioles.

1982

Anthony Green

American singer-songwriter

Tony Green is an American singer from Doylestown, Pennsylvania. He is currently the lead singer of Circa Survive, the Sound of Animals Fighting, and L.S. Dunes, while also maintaining a solo career. He was previously in…

1982

Albert Riera

Spanish footballer and manager

Albert Riera Ortega is a Spanish professional football manager and former player. He played as a left winger, and also as a left-back.

1982

Seth Rogen

Canadian-American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter

Seth Aaron Rogen is a Canadian actor, comedian, filmmaker, and cannabis entrepreneur. Known primarily for his comedic leading man roles in films and on television, he has often collaborated with his writing partner,…

1982

Matt Cardle

English singer-songwriter and guitarist

Matthew Sheridan Cardle is an English singer. He was born in Southampton and grew up in Halstead, Essex. Cardle has been involved in music since his early teens and has been a member of two different bands; Darwyn and…

1983

Dudu Cearense

Brazilian footballer

Alexandro Silva de Sousa, known as Dudu Cearense or simply Dudu, is a Brazilian former professional footballer.

1983

Andreas Fransson

Swedish skier (died 2014)

Andreas Fransson was a Swedish extreme skier perhaps best known for having made descents of the hitherto un-skied specific faces of mountains. Among his inaugural descents was that of the south face of Denali in Alaska…

1983

Ilya Kovalchuk

Russian ice hockey player

Ilya Valeryevich Kovalchuk is a Russian former professional ice hockey winger. He played for the Atlanta Thrashers, New Jersey Devils, Los Angeles Kings, Montreal Canadiens, and Washington Capitals in the National…

1983

Martin Pedersen

Danish cyclist

Martin Pedersen is a Danish former professional road bicycle racer. He rode with Team PH in 2004, and after a great 2005 season with many wins for the small, talent producing Team GLS, he signed his first professional…

1983

Antonio Cromartie

American football player

Antonio Cromartie Sr. is an American former professional football player who was a cornerback in the National Football League (NFL) for eleven seasons. He played college football for the Florida State Seminoles and was…

1984

Cam Janssen

American ice hockey player

Cameron Wesley Janssen is an American former professional ice hockey player who played in the National Hockey League (NHL) with the New Jersey Devils and St. Louis Blues. He was selected by the New Jersey Devils 117th…

1984

Daniel Paille

Canadian ice hockey player

Daniel Joseph Paille is a Canadian former professional ice hockey left winger. He was originally drafted 20th overall by the Buffalo Sabres in the 2002 NHL entry draft and also played in the National Hockey League with…

1984

Ryan Hamilton

Canadian ice hockey player

Ryan Hamilton is a Canadian former professional ice hockey forward who played in the National Hockey League (NHL) with the Toronto Maple Leafs and the Edmonton Oilers. He spent his last three professional seasons…

1985

Tom Heaton

English footballer

Thomas David Heaton is an English professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Premier League club Manchester United.

1986

Sylvain Marveaux

French footballer

Sylvain Marveaux is a French former professional footballer. He played a variety of positions in midfield, but was mostly utilized as a right-sided midfielder or an attacking midfielder or as a forward. He is the…

1986

Blake Ayshford

Australian rugby league player

Blake Ayshford is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer who played as a centre in the 2000s and 2010s.

1988

Steven Defour

Belgian footballer

Steven Arnold Defour is a Belgian former professional footballer who played as a midfielder, currently a manager.

1988

Chris Tillman

American baseball pitcher

Christopher Steven Tillman is an American former professional baseball pitcher. He made his Major League Baseball (MLB) debut with the Baltimore Orioles in 2009, and played with them until 2018. He was named an All-Star…

1988

Darren Nicholls

Australian rugby league player

Darren Nicholls is an Australian professional rugby league footballer who played as a halfback for the Brisbane Tigers in the Queensland Cup. He previously played for the St. George Illawarra Dragons in the NRL.

1989

Emma Watson

English actress

Emma Charlotte Duerre Watson is an English actress. In the 2010s, she was ranked among the world's highest-paid actresses by Forbes and Vanity Fair, and was named one of the 100 most influential people in the world by…

1990

Daiki Arioka

Japanese idol, singer, and actor

Daiki Arioka is a Japanese singer, actor, tarento, and model as well as member of Hey! Say! JUMP. He is under the management of Starto Entertainment.

1991

Javier Fernández López

Spanish figure skater

Javier Fernández López is a Spanish former figure skater. He is the 2018 Olympic bronze medalist, a two-time World champion, a two-time World bronze medalist, a seven-time European champion (2013–2019), a two-time Grand…

1991

Remo Freuler

Swiss footballer

Remo Marco Freuler is a Swiss professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Serie A club Bologna and the Switzerland national team.

1992

John Guidetti

Swedish footballer

John Alberto Guidetti is a Swedish professional footballer who plays as a striker for Rinkeby United.

1992

Jeremy McGovern

Australian rules football player

Jeremy Ronald McGovern is a former Australian rules footballer who played for the West Coast Eagles in the Australian Football League (AFL). He was a tall key-position player who spent most of his career as a defender,…

1992

Felipe Anderson

Brazilian footballer

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1993

Brodie Grundy

Australian rules football player

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1994

Shaunae Miller-Uibo

Bahamian sprinter

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1994

Leander Dendoncker

Belgian footballer

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1995

Ashleigh Gardner

Australian cricketer

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1997

Maisie Williams

English actress

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1997

Sexyy Red

American rapper

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1998

Shanti Dope

Filipino rapper

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2001

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Alice Braga — Brazilian actress and producer (born 1983)

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Known forShe gained international recognition for her role as Anna Montez in the American science fiction film I Am Legend (2007), opposite Will Smith

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