Famous Birthdays on April 18

Q: Who was born on April 18?

Famous people born on April 18 include: Gratian, K'an II, Al-Wathiq, Ippolita Maria Sforza, Lucrezia Borgia.

Q: What is Dhondo Keshav Karve known for?

Dhondo Keshav Karve, Indian educator and activist, Bharat Ratna Awardee (died 1962)

1858 — Dhondo Keshav Karve

Indian educator and activist, Bharat Ratna Awardee (died 1962)

April 18 has seen 136 notable people enter the world across recorded history — from 359 – 1996. Below are the most significant names born on this date.

By thisDay.info Editorial Team · April 18 — Wikipedia

Famous Birthdays 136 people 359 – 1996

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He founded the first women's university in India, the SNDT Women's University in 1916

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Through his efforts, the first women university was set up in 20th century

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The Government of India awarded him with the highest civilian award, the Bharat Ratna, in 1958, the year of his 100th birthday

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Dhondo Keshav Karve, popularly known as Maharshi Karve, was a social reformer in India in the field of women's welfare

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Karve was a pioneer in promoting widows' education

Gratian

Roman emperor (died 383)

Gratian was emperor of the Western Roman Empire from 367 to 383. The eldest son of Valentinian I, Gratian was raised to the rank of Augustus as a child and inherited the West after his father's death in 375. He…

359

K'an II

Mayan ruler (died 658)

Kʼan II was a Maya ruler of Caracol. He reigned AD 618–658.

588

Al-Wathiq

Abbasid caliph (died 847)

Abū Jaʿfar Hārūn ibn Muḥammad al-Wathiq bi'Llah, commonly known by his regnal name al-Wathiq bi'Llah, was an Abbasid caliph who reigned from 842 until his death in 847.

812

Ippolita Maria Sforza

Italian noble (died 1484)

Ippolita Maria Sforza was an Italian noblewoman, a member of the Sforza family which ruled the Duchy of Milan from 1450 until 1535. She was the first wife of the Duke of Calabria, who later reigned as King Alfonso II of…

1446

Lucrezia Borgia

daughter of Pope Alexander VI (died 1519)

Lucrezia Borgia was an Italian noblewoman of the House of Borgia who was the illegitimate daughter of Pope Alexander VI and Vannozza dei Cattanei. She was a former governor of Spoleto.

1480

Henry II of Navarre (died 1555)

Henry II, nicknamed Sangüesino because he was born in Sangüesa, was the King of Navarre from 1517. The kingdom had been reduced to a small territory north of the Pyrenees mountains by the Spanish conquest of 1512. Henry…

1503

William Harrison

English clergyman (died 1593)

William Harrison was an English clergyman, whose Description of England was produced as part of the publishing venture of a group of London stationers who produced Raphael Holinshed's Chronicles. His contribution to…

1534

Thomas Middleton

English Jacobean playwright and poet (died 1627)

Thomas Middleton was an English Jacobean playwright and poet. He, with John Fletcher and Ben Jonson, was among the most successful and prolific of playwrights at work in the Jacobean period, and among the few to gain…

1580

Ahmed I

Ottoman Emperor (died 1617)

Ahmed I was the sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1603 to 1617. Ahmed's reign is noteworthy for marking the first breach in the Ottoman tradition of royal fratricide; henceforth, Ottoman rulers would no longer…

1590

Giacomo Carissimi

Italian priest and composer (died 1674)

(Gian) Giacomo Carissimi was an Italian composer and music teacher. He is one of the most celebrated masters of the early Baroque or, more accurately, the Roman School of music. Carissimi established the characteristic…

1605

Jean-Féry Rebel

French violinist and composer (died 1747)

Jean-Féry Rebel was an innovative French Baroque composer and violinist.

1666

Sir Francis Baring

1st Baronet, English banker and politician (died 1810)

Sir Francis Baring, 1st Baronet was an English merchant banker, a member of the Baring family, later becoming the first of the Baring baronets.

1740

Jacques Widerkehr

French cellist and composer (died 1823)

Jacques Christian Michel Widerkehr l'aîné was a French composer and cellist from Alsace during the classical era.

1759

Karl Philipp

Prince of Schwarzenberg (died 1820)

Karl Philipp, Fürst zu Schwarzenberg was an Austrian Generalissimo and former Field Marshal. He first entered military service in 1788 and fought against the Turks. During the French Revolutionary War, he fought on the…

1771

David Ricardo

British economist and politician (died 1823)

David Ricardo was a British economist and politician. He is recognized as one of the most influential classical economists, alongside figures such as Thomas Malthus, Adam Smith and James Mill.

1772

William Debenham

English founder of Debenhams (died 1863)

William Debenham was the founder of Debenhams, once one of the largest retailers in the United Kingdom.

1794

James McCune Smith

African-American physician, apothecary, abolitionist, and author (died 1865)

James McCune Smith was an American medical doctor, apothecary, abolitionist and author. He was the first African American to earn a medical degree. His M.D. was awarded by the University of Glasgow in Glasgow, Scotland,…

1813

Carlos Manuel de Céspedes

Cuban lawyer and activist (died 1874)

Carlos Manuel de Céspedes del Castillo was a Cuban revolutionary hero and First President of Cuba in Arms in 1868. Céspedes, who was a plantation owner in Cuba, freed his slaves and made the declaration of Cuban…

1819

Franz von Suppé

Austrian composer and conductor (died 1895)

Franz von Suppé, born Francesco Ezechiele Ermenegildo de Suppé was an Austrian composer of light operas and other theatre music. He came from the Kingdom of Dalmatia, Austro-Hungarian Empire. A composer and conductor of…

1819

Paul-Émile Lecoq de Boisbaudran

French chemist and academic (died 1912)

Paul-Émile Lecoq de Boisbaudran, also called François Lecoq de Boisbaudran, was a self-taught French chemist known for his discoveries of the chemical elements gallium, samarium and dysprosium. He developed methods for…

1838

Ludwig Levy

German architect (died 1907)

Ludwig Levy was a German Jewish architect of the Historicist school. He designed a number of synagogues, amongst which was the huge Neue Synagoge in Strasbourg, as well as official buildings such as the ministries of…

1854

Clarence Darrow

American lawyer (died 1938)

Clarence Seward Darrow was an American lawyer and politician who became famous in the 19th century for high-profile representations of trade union causes, and in the 20th century for several criminal matters, including…

1857

Alexander Shirvanzade

Armenian playwright and author (died 1935)

Alexander Minasi Movsisian, better known by his pen name Alexander Shirvanzade was an Armenian playwright and novelist. He was one of the main representatives of the realist movement in Armenian literature.

1858

Count Leopold Berchtold

Austrian-Hungarian politician and diplomat, Joint Foreign Minister of Austria-Hungary (died 1942)

Leopold Anton Johann Sigismund Josef Korsinus Ferdinand Graf Berchtold von und zu Ungarschitz, Frättling und Püllütz was an Austro-Hungarian politician, diplomat and statesman who served as his nation's Foreign Minister…

1863

Linton Hope

English sailor and architect (died 1920)

Linton Chorley Hope FRAes was a sailor from Great Britain, who represented his country at the 1900 Summer Olympics in Meulan, France. With Lorne Currie as helmsman and fellow crewmembers John Gretton and Algernon…

1863

Siegfried Bettmann

founder of the Triumph Motorcycle Company and Mayor of Coventry (died 1955)

Siegfried Bettmann was a bicycle, motorcycle and car manufacturer and founder of the Triumph Motorcycle Company. In 1914 he established the Annie Bettmann Foundation to help young people start businesses. Triumph became…

1863

Richard Harding Davis

American journalist and author (died 1916)

Richard Harding Davis was an American journalist and writer of fiction and drama, known foremost as the first American war correspondent to cover the Spanish–American War, the Second Boer War, and World War I. His…

1864

Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić

Croatian author and poet (died 1938)

Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić, also spelled Ivana Berlic-Mazuranic in English, was a Croatian writer. She has been praised as the best Croatian writer for children.

1874

Vicente Sotto

Filipino lawyer and politician (died 1950)

Vicente Yap Sotto, Sr. was a Filipino playwright, journalist, and politician who served as a senator from 1946 to 1950. He also served in the House of Representatives from 1922 to 1925, representing Cebu's 2nd district.…

1877

Korneli Kekelidze

Georgian philologist and scholar (died 1962)

Korneli Kekelidze was a Soviet and Georgian philologist, scholar of Georgian literature, and one of the founding fathers of the Tbilisi State University where he chaired the Department of the History of Old Georgian…

1879

Sam Crawford

American baseball player, coach, and umpire (died 1968)

Samuel Earl Crawford, nicknamed "Wahoo Sam", was an American outfielder in Major League Baseball (MLB). Crawford batted and threw left-handed, stood 6 ft 0 in (1.83 m) tall and weighed 190 pounds (86 kg). Born in Wahoo,…

1880

Isaac Babalola Akinyele

Nigerian ruler (died 1964)

Oba Sir Isaac Babalola Akinyele, KBE was the first educated Olubadan of Ibadan, and the second Christian to ascend the throne.

1882

Leopold Stokowski

English conductor (died 1977)

Leopold Anthony Stokowski was a British conductor. One of the leading conductors of the early and mid-20th century, he is best known for his long association with the Philadelphia Orchestra. He was especially noted for…

1882

Aleksanteri Aava

Finnish poet (died 1956)

Aleksanteri Aava, born Aleksanteri (Santeri) Kuparinen, was a Finnish poet and smallholder.

1883

Jaan Anvelt

Estonian educator and politician (died 1937)

Jaan Anvelt, was an Estonian Bolshevik revolutionary and writer. He served the Russian SFSR, was a leader of the Communist Party of Estonia, the first premier of the Soviet Executive Committee of Estonia, and the…

1884

Jessie Street

Australian activist (died 1970)

Jessie Mary Grey Street was an Australian diplomat, suffragette, and a campaigner for Indigenous Australian rights. She was referred to as "Red Jessie" by the Australian media, due to her support for the Soviet Union…

1889

Eugene Houdry

French-American mechanical engineer and inventor (died 1962)

Eugène Jules Houdry was a mechanical engineer who graduated from École Nationale Supérieure d'Arts et Métiers in 1911.

1892

Ardito Desio

Italian geologist and cartographer (died 2001)

Count Ardito Desio was an Italian explorer, mountain climber, geologist, and cartographer.

1897

Patrick Hennessy

Irish soldier and businessman (died 1981)

Sir Patrick Hennessy was an Irish-born British industrialist, originally from County Cork. During the First World War he served in the British Army, between 1914 and 1918, with the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers.

1898

Bertha Isaacs

Bahamian teacher, tennis player, politician and women's rights activist (died 1997)

Dame Albertha Magdelina Isaacs DBE was a Bahamian teacher, tennis player, women's rights activist and politician. After a career as an elementary school teacher, she played on the international tennis circuit, winning…

1900

Al Lewis

American songwriter (died 1967)

Al Lewis was an American lyricist, songwriter and music publisher. He is thought of mostly as a Tin Pan Alley era lyricist; however, he did write music on occasion as well. Professionally he was most active during the…

1901

László Németh

Hungarian dentist, author, and playwright (died 1975)

László Németh was a Hungarian writer, dramatist and essayist.

1901

Waldemar Hammenhög

Swedish author (died 1972)

Per Waldemar Hammenhög was a Swedish writer and novelist. The trivial, petty bourgeois urban environment forms the basis of many of his early realistic novels, whereas his later works turned towards religious and moral…

1902

Giuseppe Pella

Italian politician, 32nd Prime Minister of Italy (died 1981)

Giuseppe Pella was an Italian Christian Democratic politician and statesman who served as the 31st prime minister of Italy from 1953 to 1954. He was also Minister of Treasury, Budget and of Foreign Affairs during the…

1902

Pigmeat Markham

African-American comedian, singer, and dancer (died 1981)

Dewey "Pigmeat" Markham was an American entertainer. Though best known as a comedian, Markham was also a singer, dancer, and actor. His nickname came from a stage routine, in which he declared himself to be "Sweet Poppa…

1904

Sydney Halter

Canadian lawyer and businessman (died 1990)

Gerald Sydney Halter, was a Canadian sports executive and lawyer. He served as the first commissioner of the Canadian Football League from 1958 to 1966, and was president of the Amateur Athletic Union of Canada from…

1905

George H. Hitchings

American physician and pharmacologist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1998)

George Herbert Hitchings was an American medical doctor who shared the 1988 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Sir James Black and Gertrude Elion "for their discoveries of important principles for drug…

1905

Miklós Rózsa

Hungarian-American composer and conductor (died 1995)

Miklós Rózsa was a Hungarian-American composer trained in Germany (1925–1931) and active in France (1931–1935), the United Kingdom (1935–1940), and the United States (1940–1995), with extensive sojourns in Italy from…

1907

Maurice Goldhaber

Ukrainian-American physicist and academic (died 2011)

Maurice Goldhaber was an American physicist and director of Brookhaven National Laboratory. He is known for the discovery that deuteron is made of a neutron and a proton, for first measuring the mass of the neutron and…

1911

Claire Martin

Canadian author (died 2014)

Claire Martin, was the pseudonym of the Canadian writer Claire Montreuil. She wrote mainly in French. Her novels often have themes of women's liberation and erotic relationships. Martin frequently revealed her devotions…

1914

Joy Davidman

Polish-Ukrainian American poet and author (died 1960)

Helen Joy Davidman was an American poet and writer. Often referred to as a child prodigy, she earned a master's degree from Columbia University in English literature at age twenty in 1935. For her book of poems, Letter…

1915

Carl Burgos

American illustrator (died 1984)

Carl Burgos was an American comic book and advertising artist best known for creating the original Human Torch in Marvel Comics #1, during the period historians and fans call the Golden Age of comic books.

1916

Gabriel Axel

Danish-French actor, director, and producer (died 2014)

Axel Gabriel Erik Mørch better known as Gabriel Axel was a Danish film director, actor, writer and producer, best known for Babette's Feast (1987), which he wrote and directed.

1918

André Bazin

French critic and theorist (died 1958)

André Bazin was a renowned and influential French film critic and film theorist. He started to write about movies in 1943 and was a co-founder of the renowned film magazine Cahiers du cinéma in 1951 alongside Jacques…

1918

Shinobu Hashimoto

Japanese director, producer, and screenwriter (died 2018)

Shinobu Hashimoto was a Japanese screenwriter, director and producer. A frequent collaborator of Akira Kurosawa, he wrote the scripts for critically acclaimed films such as Rashomon and Seven Samurai, as well as the…

1918

Clifton Hillegass

American publisher, founded CliffsNotes (died 2001)

Clifton K. Hillegass was the creator and publisher of CliffsNotes.

1918

Tony Mottola

American guitarist and composer (died 2004)

Anthony C. "Tony" Mottola was an American jazz guitarist who released dozens of solo albums. He was born in Kearny, New Jersey, and died in Denville.

1918

Virginia O'Brien

American actress and singer (died 2001)

Virginia O'Brien was an American actress, singer, and radio personality known for her comedic singing roles in Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer musicals of the 1940s.

1919

Esther Afua Ocloo

Ghanaian entrepreneur and pioneer of microlending (died 2002)

Esther Afua Ocloo was a Ghanaian businesswoman and pioneer of microlending, a programme of making small loans in order to stimulate businesses.

1919

John F. Wiley

American football player and coach (died 2013)

John Franklin "Smiling Jack" Wiley was an American football player and coach. He played professionally a tackle for the Pittsburgh Steelers of the National Football League (NFL) from 1946 to 1950. Willey served as the…

1920

Jean Richard

French actor and singer (died 2001)

Jean Richard was a French actor, comedian, and circus entrepreneur. He is best remembered for his role as Georges Simenon's Maigret in the eponymous French television series, which he played for more than twenty years,…

1921

Barbara Hale

American actress (died 2017)

Barbara Hale was an American actress who portrayed legal secretary Della Street in the dramatic television series Perry Mason (1957–1966), earning her a 1959 Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama…

1922

Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown

American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2005)

Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown was an American singer and multi-instrumentalist from Louisiana. He was best-known as a blues performer, but his music was often eclectic and also touched on genres including country, jazz and…

1924

Marcus Schmuck

Austrian mountaineer and author (died 2005)

Marcus Schmuck was an Austrian mountaineer. In 1957, together with Hermann Buhl he organized the expedition, firstly envisaged and initiated by Buhl, to climb the world's 12th highest peak, the Broad Peak (8,047 metres)…

1925

Doug Insole

English cricketer (died 2017)

Douglas John Insole was an English cricketer, who played for Cambridge University, Essex and in nine Test matches for England, five of them on the 1956–57 tour of South Africa, where he was vice-captain to Peter May.…

1926

Samuel P. Huntington

American political scientist, author, and academic (died 2008)

Samuel Phillips Huntington was an American political scientist, adviser, and academic. He was the Albert J. Weatherhead III University Professor at Harvard University, where he directed the Weatherhead Center for…

1927

Tadeusz Mazowiecki

Polish journalist and politician, Prime Minister of Poland (died 2013)

Tadeusz Mazowiecki was a Polish author, journalist, philanthropist and politician, formerly one of the leaders of the Solidarity movement, and the first non-communist Polish prime minister since 1946, having held the…

1927

Karl Josef Becker

German cardinal and theologian (died 2015)

Karl Josef Becker S.J. was a German Catholic theologian, cardinal-deacon, and consultor for the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith since 15 September 1977. He taught at the Pontifical Gregorian University in…

1928

Otto Piene

German sculptor and academic (died 2014)

Otto Piene was a German-American artist specializing in kinetic and technology-based art, often working collaboratively. He lived and worked in Düsseldorf, Germany; Cambridge, Massachusetts; and Groton, Massachusetts.

1928

Peter Hordern

English soldier and politician (died 2024)

Sir Peter Maudslay Hordern, DL, PC was a British Conservative Party politician.

1929

Clive Revill

New Zealand actor and singer (died 2025)

Clive Selsby Revill was a New Zealand actor and singer, best known for his performances in musical theatre and the London stage. A veteran of the Royal Shakespeare Company, he also starred in numerous films and…

1930

Jean Guillou

French organist (died 2019)

Jean Victor Arthur Guillou was a French composer, organist, pianist, and pedagogue. Principal Organist at Saint Eustache in Paris, from 1963 to 2015, he was widely known as a composer of instrumental and vocal music…

1930

Bill Miles

American director and producer (died 2013)

William Miles was an American filmmaker. Born in Harlem, New York, he used his deep knowledge and experience of that iconic neighborhood to produce films that tell unique and often inspiring stories of Harlem's…

1931

James Drury

American actor (died 2020)

James Child Drury Jr. was an American actor. He is best known for having played the title role in the 90-minute weekly Western television series The Virginian, which was broadcast on NBC from 1962 to 1971.

1934

George Shirley

African-American tenor and educator

George Irving Shirley is an American operatic tenor, and was the first African-American tenor to perform a leading role at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City.

1934

Costas Ferris

Egyptian-Greek actor, director, producer, and screenwriter

Costas Ferris is a Greek film director, writer, actor, and producer. He wrote the lyrics of Aphrodite's Child's album 666. His 1983 film Rembetiko won the Silver Bear at the 34th Berlin International Film Festival.

1935

Roger Graef

American-English criminologist, director, and producer (died 2022)

Roger Arthur Graef OBE was an American-born British documentary filmmaker and theatre director. Born in New York City, he moved to Britain in 1962, where he began a career producing documentary films investigating…

1936

Vladimir Hütt

Estonian physicist and philosopher (died 1997)

Vladimir Hütt was an Estonian philosopher.

1936

Keiko Abe

Japanese marimba player and composer

Keiko Abe is a Japanese composer and marimba player. She has been a primary figure in the development of the marimba, in terms of expanding both technique and repertoire, and through her collaboration with the Yamaha…

1937

Jan Kaplický

Czech architect, designed the Selfridges Building (died 2009)

Jan Kaplický was a Neofuturistic Czech architect who spent a significant part of his life in the United Kingdom. He was the leading architect behind the innovative design office, Future Systems. He was best known for…

1937

Glen Hardin

American pianist and arranger

Glen Dee Hardin is an American piano player and arranger. He has performed and recorded with such artists as Roy Orbison, Elvis Presley, Emmylou Harris, John Denver, and Ricky Nelson.

1939

Thomas J. Moyer

American lawyer and judge (died 2010)

Thomas Joseph Moyer was an American jurist and the chief justice of the Ohio Supreme Court from 1987 to 2010. A member of the Republican Party, he formerly served as a justice of the 10th district of the Ohio District…

1939

Joseph L. Goldstein

American biochemist and geneticist, Nobel Prize laureate

Joseph Leonard Goldstein ForMemRS is an American biochemist. He received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1985, along with fellow University of Texas Southwestern researcher, Michael Brown, for their studies…

1940

Mike Vickers

English guitarist, saxophonist, and songwriter

Michael Graham Vickers is an English musician who came to prominence as the guitarist, flautist, and saxophonist with the 1960s band Manfred Mann.

1940

Michael D. Higgins

Irish sociologist and politician, 9th President of Ireland

Michael Daniel Higgins is an Irish politician, poet and broadcaster who served as the president of Ireland from November 2011 to November 2025. Entering national politics through the Labour Party, he served as a senator…

1941

Michael Beloff

English lawyer and academic

Michael Jacob Beloff, KC is an English barrister, arbitrator and writer. A member of Blackstone Chambers, he practises in a number of areas including human rights, administrative law and sports law.

1942

Robert Christgau

American journalist and critic

Robert Thomas Christgau is an American music journalist and essayist. Among the most influential music critics, he began his career in the late 1960s as one of the earliest professional rock critics and later became an…

1942

Jochen Rindt

German-Austrian racing driver (died 1970)

Karl Jochen Rindt was a racing driver who competed under the Austrian flag in Formula One from 1964 to 1970. Rindt won the Formula One World Drivers' Championship in 1970 with Lotus, and remains the only driver to have…

1942

Kathy Acker

American author and poet (died 1997)

Kathy Acker was an American experimental novelist, poet, playwright, essayist, critic, performance artist, and postmodernist writer, known for her idiosyncratic and transgressive writing that dealt with complex themes…

1944

Philip Jackson

Scottish sculptor and photographer

Philip Henry Christopher Jackson CVO DL is a Scottish sculptor, noted for his modern style and emphasis on form. Acting as Royal Sculptor to Queen Elizabeth II, his sculptures appear in numerous UK cities, as well as…

1944

Bernard Arcand

Canadian anthropologist and author (died 2009)

Bernard Arcand was a French-Canadian anthropologist, author and communicator. He was for several decades a professor of the anthropology department of Laval University.

1945

Hayley Mills

English actress

Hayley Catherine Rose Vivien Mills is an English actress. A daughter of Sir John Mills and Mary Hayley Bell and younger sister of actress Juliet Mills, she began her acting career as a child and was hailed as a…

1946

Moses Blah

Liberian general and politician, 23rd President of Liberia (died 2013)

Moses Zeh Blah was a Liberian politician. He served as the 28th vice president of Liberia under President Charles Taylor and became the 23rd president of Liberia on 11 August 2003, following Taylor's resignation. He…

1947

Jerzy Stuhr

Polish actor, director, and screenwriter (died 2024)

Jerzy Oskar Stuhr was a Polish film and theatre actor. Considered one of the most popular, influential and versatile Polish actors and an icon of Polish cinema, he also worked as a screenwriter, film director, voice…

1947

James Woods

American actor and producer

James Howard Woods is an American actor. Known for fast-talking, intense roles on screen and stage, he has received numerous accolades, including three Emmy Awards and a Golden Globe Award, as well as nominations for…

1947

Régis Wargnier

French director, producer, and screenwriter

Régis Wargnier is a French film director, film producer, screenwriter and film score composer. His 1986 film The Woman of My Life won the César Award for Best First Film at the 12th César Awards. His 1992 film Indochine…

1948

Grigory Sokolov

Russian pianist and composer

Grigory Lipmanovich Sokolov is a Russian and Spanish pianist. He is among the most esteemed of living pianists, with his repertoire spanning composers from the Baroque period such as Bach, Couperin or Rameau up to…

1950

Rick Moranis

Canadian-American actor, comedian, singer and screenwriter

Frederick Allan Moranis is a Canadian comedian and actor, famous for roles in several feature films in the 1980s. He appeared in the sketch comedy series Second City Television (SCTV) in the 1980s. He then starred in…

1953

Sk. Mujibur Rahman

Bengali politician

Sheikh Mujibur Rahman is an Indian politician belonging to the Communist Party of India (Marxist). He was the MLA of Moyna Assembly constituency in the West Bengal Legislative Assembly.

1953

Robert Greenberg

American pianist and composer

Robert M. Greenberg is an American composer, pianist, and musicologist who was born in Brooklyn, New York. He has composed more than 50 works for a variety of instruments and voices, and has recorded a number of lecture…

1954

Gabi Delgado-López

Spanish-German singer, co-founder of D.A.F. (died 2020)

Gabriel Delgado-López, commonly known as Gabi Delgado, was a Spanish-born German composer, lyricist and producer, best known as singer and co-founder, with Robert Görl, of the German electronic band Deutsch…

1958

Malcolm Marshall

Barbadian cricketer and coach (died 1999)

Malcolm Denzil Marshall was a Barbadian international cricketer who is widely regarded as one of the greatest fast bowlers of all time. He is often acknowledged as the greatest West Indian fast bowler of all time, and…

1958

Susan Faludi

American journalist, author and feminist

Susan Charlotte Faludi is an American feminist, journalist, and author. She won a Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Journalism in 1991, for a report on the leveraged buyout of Safeway Stores, Inc., a report that the…

1959

Yelena Zhupiyeva-Vyazova

Ukrainian runner

Olena Zhupiieva-Viazova or Olena Zhupiyeva-Vyazova or Yelena Zhupiyeva-Vyazova, née Yelena Zhupiyeva, is a retired track and field athlete from Ukraine, who competed mainly in the 10,000 metres. Competing for the Soviet…

1960

Jane Leeves

English actress and dancer

Jane Elizabeth Leeves is an English actress, best known for her role as Daphne Moon on the NBC sitcom Frasier (1993–2004), for which she was nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy…

1961

John Podhoretz

American journalist and author

John Mordecai Podhoretz is an American journalist and conservative political commentator. The son of writers Norman Podhoretz and Midge Decter, he has been the editor of the magazine Commentary since 2009, a post his…

1961

Jeff Dunham

American ventriloquist and comedian

Jeffrey Douglas Dunham is an American ventriloquist, stand-up comedian and actor who has also appeared on numerous television shows, including Late Show with David Letterman, Comedy Central Presents, The Tonight Show,…

1962

Conan O'Brien

American television host, comedian, and writer

Conan Christopher O'Brien is an American television host, comedian, writer, actor, and podcaster. He is best known for having hosted late-night talk shows, beginning with Late Night with Conan O'Brien (1993–2009) and…

1963

Niall Ferguson

Scottish historian and academic

Sir Niall Campbell Ferguson is a British and American historian who is the Milbank Family Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution and a senior fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard…

1964

Keith DeCandido

American author

Keith Robert Andreassi DeCandido is an American science fiction and fantasy writer, martial artist, and musician, who works on comic books, novels, role-playing games and video games, including numerous media tie-in…

1969

Saad Hariri

Saudi Arabian-Lebanese businessman and politician, 33rd Prime Minister of Lebanon

Saad El-Din Rafik Al-Hariri is a Lebanese businessman and politician who served as the prime minister of Lebanon from 2009 to 2011 and 2016 to 2020. The son of Rafic Hariri, he founded and has been leading the Future…

1970

Willie Roaf

American football player

William Layton Roaf, nicknamed "Nasty", is an American former professional football player who was an offensive tackle in the National Football League (NFL) for 13 seasons. He played college football for Louisiana Tech…

1970

David Tennant

Scottish actor

David John Tennant is a Scottish actor. He is best known for portraying the lead character in Doctor Who, headlining the show as the Tenth Doctor from 2005–2010, and returning as the Fourteenth Doctor in 2023. His other…

1971

Rosa Clemente

American journalist and activist

Rosa Alicia Clemente is an American community organizer, independent journalist, and hip-hop activist. She was the vice presidential running mate of Green Party presidential candidate Cynthia McKinney in the 2008 U.S.…

1972

Eli Roth

American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter

Eli Raphael Roth is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, and actor. As a director and producer, he is most closely associated with the horror genre, namely splatter films, having directed the films Cabin…

1972

Derrick Brooks

American football player

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1973

Haile Gebrselassie

Ethiopian runner

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1973

Edgar Wright

English filmmaker

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1974

Melissa Joan Hart

American actress

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1976

Andrew Ng

British-born American artificial intelligence researcher

Andrew Yan-Tak Ng is a British-American computer scientist and technology entrepreneur focusing on machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI). Ng was a cofounder and head of Google Brain and was the former Chief…

1976

Matt Cooper

Australian rugby league player

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1979

Kourtney Kardashian

American television personality

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1979

Audrey Tang

Taiwanese Minister of Digital Affairs and programmer

Tang Feng, also known by her English name Audrey, is a Taiwanese politician and free software programmer who served as the first Minister of Digital Affairs of Taiwan from August 2022 to May 2024. She has been described…

1981

Miguel Cabrera

Venezuelan baseball player

José Miguel Cabrera Torres, nicknamed Miggy, is a Venezuelan former professional baseball first baseman, third baseman, and designated hitter who played 21 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Florida Marlins…

1983

America Ferrera

American actress

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1984

Łukasz Fabiański

Polish footballer

Łukasz Marek Fabiański is a Polish professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for EFL Championship club West Ham United.

1985

Tina Bru

Norwegian politician

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1986

Vanessa Kirby

English actress

Vanessa Nuala Kirby is an English actress. She rose to international prominence with her portrayal of Princess Margaret in the Netflix drama series The Crown (2016–2017), for which she won the BAFTA for Best Supporting…

1988

Alia Shawkat

American actress

Alia Martine Shawkat is an American actress. She is known for her performances as Maeby Fünke in the Fox/Netflix television sitcom Arrested Development, Dory Sief in the TBS and HBO Max dark comedy series Search Party…

1989

Wojciech Szczęsny

Polish footballer

Wojciech Tomasz Szczęsny is a Polish professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for La Liga club Barcelona.

1990

Chloe Bennet

American actress

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1992

Mika Zibanejad

Swedish ice hockey player

Mika Zibanejad is a Swedish professional ice hockey player who is a centre and alternate captain for the New York Rangers of the National Hockey League (NHL) and the Swedish national team. Zibanejad was selected sixth…

1993

Aminé

American singer-songwriter

Adam Aminé Daniel is an American rapper, singer, and songwriter, from Portland, Oregon. He first gained notability for his commercial debut single, "Caroline", which peaked at number 11 on the US Billboard Hot 100…

1994

Divock Origi

Belgian footballer

Divock Okoth Origi is a Belgian former professional footballer who played as a striker.

1995

Ski Mask the Slump God

American rapper

Stokeley Clevon Goulbourne, known professionally as Ski Mask the Slump God, is an American rapper. He is best known for his association with XXXTentacion, with whom he formed the hip hop collective Members Only in 2014.…

1996

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