Famous Birthdays on April 22

Q: Who was born on April 22?

Famous people born on April 22 include: Reinhard III, Elizabeth of York, Isabella I of Castile (died 1504), Antoine of Navarre (died 1562), Wilhelm Schickard.

Q: What is Marshawn Lynch known for?

Marshawn Lynch, American football player

157 people 1412 – 2011

April 22 has seen 157 notable people enter the world across recorded history — from 1412 – 2011. Below are the most significant names born on this date.

By thisDay.info Editorial Team · April 22 — Wikipedia

1986 — Marshawn Lynch

American football player

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He played college football for the California Golden Bears, earning first-team All-American honors and winning Pac-10 Offensive Player of the Year in 2006

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Lynch was selected in the first round of the 2007 NFL draft by the Buffalo Bills, where he played three full seasons and earned Pro Bowl honors in 2008

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Marshawn Terrell Lynch is an American former professional football running back and actor who played in the National Football League (NFL) for 12 seasons

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He was traded to the Seahawks during the 2010 season.

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Nicknamed "Beast Mode", he spent the majority of his career with the Seattle Seahawks

Reinhard III

Count of Hanau (1451–1452) (died 1452)

Count Reinhard III of Hanau was Count of Hanau from 1451 until his death. He was the son of Count Reinhard II of Hanau and his wife, Catherine of Nassau-Beilstein.

1412

Elizabeth of York

Duchess of Suffolk (died 1503)

Elizabeth of York, Duchess of Suffolk also known as Elizabeth Plantagenet was the fifth child and second daughter of Richard Plantagenet, 3rd Duke of York and Cecily Neville. She was thus a sister of Edward IV and…

1444

Isabella I of Castile (died 1504)

Isabella I, also known as Isabella the Catholic, was Queen of Castile and León from 1474 until her death in 1504. She was also Queen of Aragon from 1479 until her death as the wife of King Ferdinand II. Reigning…

1451

Antoine of Navarre (died 1562)

Antoine, sometimes called Antoine of Bourbon, was King of Navarre from 1555 until his death in 1562 as the husband and co-ruler of Queen Jeanne III. He was the first monarch of the House of Bourbon, of which he became…

1518

Wilhelm Schickard

German astronomer and mathematician (died 1635)

Wilhelm Schickard was a German professor of Hebrew and astronomy who became famous in the second part of the 20th century after Franz Hammer, a biographer of Johannes Kepler, claimed that the drawings of a calculating…

1592

Pope Alexander VIII (died 1691)

Pope Alexander VIII, born Pietro Vito Ottoboni, was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 6 October 1689 to his death in February 1691. He is the most recent pope to take the pontifical name…

1610

Giuseppe Torelli

Italian violinist and composer (died 1709)

Giuseppe Torelli was an Italian violinist, teacher and composer of the middle Baroque era.

1658

John Carteret

2nd Earl Granville, English politician, Lord President of the Council (died 1763)

John Carteret, 2nd Earl Granville, 7th Seigneur of Sark, commonly known by his earlier title Lord Carteret, was a British statesman and Lord President of the Council from 1751 to 1763 and worked closely with the Prime…

1690

Henry Fielding

English novelist and playwright (died 1754)

Henry Fielding was an English writer and judge known for the use of humour and satire in his works. His famous novels include Shamela (1741), Joseph Andrews (1742), The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling (1749) and…

1707

Paul II Anton

Prince Esterházy, Austrian soldier (died 1762)

Prince Paul II Anton Esterházy de Galántha was a Hungarian prince, soldier and patron of music from the Esterházy family.

1711

Immanuel Kant

German anthropologist, philosopher, and academic (died 1804)

Immanuel Kant was a German philosopher. Born in Königsberg in the Kingdom of Prussia, he is considered one of the central thinkers of the Enlightenment. His comprehensive and systematic works in epistemology,…

1724

John Johnson

English architect and surveyor (died 1814)

John Johnson was an English architect and surveyor to the county of Essex. He is best known for designing the Shire Hall, Chelmsford.

1732

James Sullivan

American lawyer and politician, 7th Governor of Massachusetts (died 1808)

James Sullivan was an American lawyer and politician in Massachusetts. He was an early associate justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, served as the state's attorney general for many years, and as…

1744

Germaine de Staël

French author and political philosopher (died 1817)

Anne Louise Germaine de Staël-Holstein, commonly known as Madame de Staël, was a prominent French novelist, woman of letters, philosopher, and political theorist in both Parisian and Genevan intellectual circles. She…

1766

Solomon Caesar Malan

Swiss-English orientalist (died 1894)

Solomon Caesar Malan D.D., Vicar of Broadwindsor, Prebendary of Sarum, was a Geneva-born Anglican divine, a polyglot and orientalist. He published around 50 works related to biblical studies and translations.

1812

Charles-Denis Bourbaki

French general (died 1897)

Charles Denis Sauter Bourbaki was a French general.

1816

Emily Davies

British suffragist and educator, co-founder and an early Mistress of Girton College, Cambridge University (died 1921)

Sarah Emily Davies was an English feminist who founded Girton College, Cambridge. She campaigned as a suffragist and for women's rights to university education.

1830

Julius Sterling Morton

American journalist and politician, 3rd United States Secretary of Agriculture (died 1902)

Julius Sterling Morton was a Nebraska newspaper editor and politician who served as President Grover Cleveland's secretary of agriculture. He was a prominent Bourbon Democrat, taking a conservative position on…

1832

Lewis Powell

American soldier, attempted assassin of William H. Seward (died 1865)

Lewis Thornton Powell was an American Confederate soldier who attempted to assassinate William Henry Seward as part of the Lincoln assassination plot. Wounded at the Battle of Gettysburg, he later served in Mosby's…

1844

William IV

Grand Duke of Luxembourg (died 1912)

William IV was Grand Duke of Luxembourg from 17 November 1905 until his death in 1912. He succeeded his father, Adolphe. Like his father, William did not participate in politics, despite being vested with considerable…

1852

Henri La Fontaine

Belgian lawyer and author, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1943)

Henri La Fontaine, was a Belgian international lawyer and president of the International Peace Bureau. He received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1913 because "he was the effective leader of the peace movement in Europe."

1854

Ethel Smyth

English composer (died 1944)

Dame Ethel Mary Smyth was an English composer and a member of the women's suffrage movement. Her compositions include songs, works for piano, chamber music, orchestral works, choral works and operas.

1858

Fritz Mayer van den Bergh

Belgian art collector and art historian (died 1901)

Frédéric Henri Godefroid Émile Constantin (Fritz) ridder Mayer van den Bergh was a Belgian art collector and art historian.

1858

Vladimir Lenin

Russian revolutionary and founder of Soviet Russia (died 1924)

Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, better known as Vladimir Lenin, was a Russian revolutionary, politician and political theorist. He was the first head of government of Soviet Russia from 1917 until his death in 1924 and of the…

1870

Princess Margaret of Prussia (died 1954)

Margaret of Prussia was the youngest child of Frederick III, German Emperor, and Victoria, Princess Royal. She was also the younger sister of Emperor Wilhelm II and the granddaughter of Queen Victoria. She married…

1872

Ellen Glasgow

American author (died 1945)

Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow was an American novelist who won the Pulitzer Prize for the Novel in 1942 for her novel In This Our Life. She published 20 novels, as well as short stories, to critical acclaim. A lifelong…

1873

Wu Peifu

Chinese warlord, politician, and marshal of the Beiyang Army (died 1939)

Wu Peifu (traditional Chinese: 吳佩孚; simplified Chinese: 吴佩孚; pinyin: Wú Pèifú; Wade–Giles: Wu2 P'ei4-fu2; 22 April 1874 – 4 December 1939) was a Chinese warlord and major figure in the Warlord Era in China from 1916 to…

1874

Róbert Bárány

Austrian-Swedish otologist and physician, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1936)

Robert Bárány was an Austrian-born otologist. He received the 1914 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work on the physiology and pathology of the vestibular apparatus.

1876

Georg Lurich

Estonian wrestler and strongman (died 1920)

Georg Lurich was an Estonian Greco-Roman wrestler and strongman of the early 20th century. Lurich was also the trainer of Estonian wrestlers and weightlifters Georg Hackenschmidt and Aleksander Aberg.

1876

Bernhard Gregory

Estonian-German chess player (died 1939)

Bernhard Gregory was a Baltic German chess master.

1879

Otto Rank

Austrian-American psychologist and academic (died 1939)

Otto Rank was an Austrian psychoanalyst, writer, and philosopher. Born in Vienna, he became one of Sigmund Freud's closest collaborators, served as secretary of the Vienna Psychoanalytic Society, and edited leading…

1884

Izidor Cankar

Slovenian historian, author, and diplomat (died 1958)

Izidor Cankar was a Slovenian author, art historian, diplomat, journalist, translator, and liberal conservative politician. He was one of the most important Slovenian art historians of the first part of the 20th…

1886

Harald Bohr

Danish mathematician and footballer (died 1951)

Harald August Bohr was a Danish mathematician and footballer. After receiving his doctorate in 1910, Bohr became an eminent mathematician, founding the field of almost periodic functions. His brother was the Nobel…

1887

Richard Glücks

German SS officer and major contributor to the concentration camp system and the Holocaust (died 1945)

Richard Glücks was a high-ranking German SS functionary during the Nazi era. From November 1939 until the end of World War II, he commanded the Concentration Camps Inspectorate, later integrated into the SS Main…

1889

Laura Gilpin

American photographer (died 1979)

Laura Gilpin was an American photographer.

1891

Vittorio Jano

Italian engineer (died 1965)

Vittorio Jano was an Italian automobile designer of Hungarian descent, active in European racing car engine design from the 1920s through 1960s.

1891

Harold Jeffreys

English mathematician, geophysicist, and astronomer (died 1989)

Sir Harold Jeffreys, FRS was a British geophysicist who made significant contributions to mathematics and statistics. His book, Theory of Probability, which was first published in 1939, played an important role in the…

1891

Nicola Sacco

Italian-American anarchist (died 1927)

Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were Italian immigrants and anarchists, controversially accused of murdering Alessandro Berardelli and Frederick Parmenter, a guard and a paymaster, during the April 15, 1920, armed…

1891

Vernon Johns

African-American minister and activist (died 1965)

Dr. Vernon Johns was an American minister based in the South and a pioneer in the civil rights movement. He is best known as the pastor (1947–52) of the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama. He was…

1892

Vladimir Nabokov

Russian-born novelist and critic (died 1977)

Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov, also known by the pen name Vladimir Sirin, was a Russian and American novelist, poet, translator, and entomologist.

1899

Nellie Beer

British politician, Lord Mayor of Manchester (died 1988)

Nellie Beer, OBE, JP, was a Conservative member of Manchester City Council from 1937 to 1972. She was Lord Mayor of Manchester from 1966 to 1967.

1900

J. Robert Oppenheimer

American physicist and academic (died 1967)

J. Robert Oppenheimer was an American theoretical physicist who served as the director of the Manhattan Project's Los Alamos Laboratory during World War II. He is often called the "father of the atomic bomb" for his…

1904

Robert Choquette

American-Canadian author, poet, and diplomat (died 1991)

Robert Guy Choquette was a Canadian novelist, poet and diplomat.

1905

Eric Fenby

English composer and educator (died 1997)

Eric William Fenby OBE was an English composer, conductor, pianist, organist and teacher, born in Scarborough, Yorkshire. He is best known for being Frederick Delius's amanuensis from 1928 to 1934. He helped Delius…

1906

Prince Gustaf Adolf

Duke of Västerbotten (died 1947)

Prince Gustaf Adolf, Duke of Västerbotten was a Swedish prince who for most of his life was second in the line of succession to the Swedish throne with the title of Hereditary Prince.

1906

Rita Levi-Montalcini

Italian neurologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2012)

Rita Levi-Montalcini was an Italian neurobiologist. She was awarded the 1986 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine jointly with colleague Stanley Cohen for the discovery of nerve growth factor (NGF).

1909

Indro Montanelli

Italian journalist and historian (died 2001)

Indro Alessandro Raffaello Schizogene Montanelli was an Italian journalist, historian, and writer.

1909

Spyros Markezinis

Greek politician, Prime Minister of Greece (died 2000)

Spyridon "Spyros" Markezinis was a Greek politician, longtime member of the Hellenic Parliament, and briefly the Prime Minister of Greece during the aborted attempt at metapolitefsi (democratization) of the Greek…

1909

Norman Steenrod

American mathematician and academic (died 1971)

Norman Earl Steenrod was an American mathematician most widely known for his contributions to the field of algebraic topology.

1910

Kathleen Ferrier

English operatic singer (died 1953)

Kathleen Mary Ferrier was an English contralto singer who achieved an international reputation as a stage, concert and recording artist, with a repertoire extending from folksong and popular ballads to the classical…

1912

Kaneto Shindo

Japanese director, producer, and screenwriter (died 2012)

Kaneto Shindō was a Japanese film director, screenwriter, film producer, and writer, who directed 48 films and wrote scripts for 238. His best known films as a director include Children of Hiroshima, The Naked Island,…

1912

Baldev Raj Chopra

Indian director and producer (died 2008)

Baldev Raj Chopra was a prolific Indian director and producer noted for pioneering the Hindi film industry and television series. He's known for directing notable films, such as Afsana, Ek Hi Raasta, Naya Daur, Sadhna,…

1914

Jan de Hartog

Dutch-American author and playwright (died 2002)

Jan de Hartog was a Dutch playwright, novelist and occasional social critic who moved to the United States in the early 1960s and became a Quaker.

1914

José Quiñones Gonzales

Peruvian soldier and pilot (died 1941)

José Abelardo Quiñones Gonzáles was a Peruvian military aviator who posthumously became a national hero for his actions at the Battle of Zarumilla during the Ecuadorian–Peruvian War of 1941.

1914

Michael Wittmann

German SS officer (died 1944)

Michael Wittmann was a German Waffen-SS tank commander during the Second World War. He is known for his ambush of elements of the British 7th Armoured Division during the Battle of Villers-Bocage on 13 June 1944. While…

1914

Hanfried Lenz

German mathematician and academic (died 2013)

Hanfried Lenz was a German mathematician, who is mainly known for his work in geometry and combinatorics.

1916

Yehudi Menuhin

American-Swiss violinist and conductor (died 1999)

Yehudi Menuhin, Baron Menuhin, was an American-born British and Swiss violinist and conductor who spent most of his performing career in Britain. He is widely considered one of the greatest violinists of the 20th…

1916

Yvette Chauviré

French ballerina (died 2016)

Yvette Chauviré was a French prima ballerina assoluta and actress. She is often described as France's greatest ballerina, and was the mentor of another pair of well-known prima ballerinas named, Sylvie Guillem and…

1917

Sidney Nolan

Australian painter (died 1992)

Sir Sidney Robert Nolan was one of the leading Australian artists of the 20th century. Working in a wide variety of media, his oeuvre is among the most diverse and prolific in all of modern art. He is best known for his…

1917

William Jay Smith

American poet and academic (died 2015)

William Jay Smith was an American poet. He was appointed the nineteenth Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 1968 to 1970.

1918

Mickey Vernon

American baseball player and coach (died 2008)

James Barton "Mickey" Vernon was an American Major League Baseball (MLB) first baseman who played for the Washington Senators, Cleveland Indians, Boston Red Sox (1956–1957), Milwaukee Braves (1959) and Pittsburgh…

1918

Donald J. Cram

American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2001)

Donald James Cram was an American chemist who shared the 1987 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Jean-Marie Lehn and Charles J. Pedersen "for their development and use of molecules with structure-specific interactions of…

1919

Carl Lindner

Jr., American businessman and philanthropist (died 2011)

Carl Henry Lindner Jr. was an American businessman from Norwood, Ohio, a member of the Lindner family, and one of the world's richest people. According to the 2010 issue of Forbes Billionaires List, Lindner was worth an…

1919

Richard Diebenkorn

American soldier and painter (died 1993)

Richard Diebenkorn was an American painter and printmaker. His early work is associated with abstract expressionism and the Bay Area Figurative Movement of the 1950s and 1960s. In the late 1960s, he began his extensive…

1922

Charles Mingus

American bassist, composer, and bandleader (died 1979)

Charles Mingus Jr. was an American jazz upright bassist, composer, bandleader, pianist, and author. A major proponent of collective improvisation, he is considered one of the greatest jazz musicians and composers in…

1922

Wolf V. Vishniac

American microbiologist and academic (died 1973)

Wolf Vladimir Vishniac was an American microbiologist. He was the son of photographer Roman Vishniac and the father of astronomer Ethan Vishniac. Educated at Brooklyn College and Stanford University, he was a professor…

1922

Peter Kane Dufault

American soldier, pilot, and poet (died 2013)

Peter Kane Dufault was an American poet. He was born in New Jersey.

1923

Bettie Page

American model and actress (died 2008)

Bettie Mae Page was an American model who gained recognition in the 1950s for her pin-up photos. She was often referred to as the "Queen of Pinups": her long jet-black hair, blue eyes, and trademark bangs have…

1923

Aaron Spelling

American actor, producer, and screenwriter (died 2006)

Aaron Spelling was an American film and television producer and occasional actor. His productions included the television series Family (1976–1980); Charlie's Angels (1976–1981); The Love Boat (1977–1986); Hart to Hart…

1923

Nam Duck-woo

South Korean politician, 12th Prime Minister of South Korea (died 2013)

Nam Duck-woo was the prime minister of South Korea from 1980 to 1982.

1924

Charlotte Rae

American actress and singer (died 2018)

Charlotte Rae Lubotsky was an American comedic actress and singer whose career spanned 66 years.

1926

James Stirling

Scottish architect, designed the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart and Seeley Historical Library (died 1992)

Sir James Frazer Stirling was a British architect.

1926

Laurel Aitken

Cuban-Jamaican singer (died 2005)

Lorenzo "Laurel" Aitken was a Cuban-Jamaican singer and one of the pioneers of ska music. He is often referred to as the "Godfather of Ska".

1927

Estelle Harris

American actress and comedian (died 2022)

Estelle Harris was an American actress and comedian, known for her exaggeratedly shrill voice. She was best known for her role as Estelle Costanza on Seinfeld. Her other roles included the voice of Mrs. Potato Head in…

1928

Michael Atiyah

English-Lebanese mathematician and academic (died 2019)

Sir Michael Francis Atiyah was a British-Lebanese mathematician specialising in geometry. His contributions include the Atiyah–Singer index theorem and co-founding topological K-theory. He was awarded the Fields Medal…

1929

Robert Wade-Gery

English diplomat, British High Commissioner to India (died 2015)

Sir Robert Wade-Gery was a British diplomat who was High Commissioner to India 1982–87.

1929

Enno Penno

Estonian politician, Prime Minister of Estonia in exile (died 2016)

Enno Penno was an Estonian politician, who was acting as Acting Prime Minister of Estonia in exile from 1 March 1990 to 20 June 1992.

1930

John Buchanan

Canadian lawyer and politician, 20th Premier of Nova Scotia (died 2019)

John MacLennan Buchanan was a Canadian lawyer and politician who served as the 20th premier of Nova Scotia from 1978 to 1990 and as a member of the Senate of Canada from 1990 to 2006.

1931

Ronald Hynd

English dancer and choreographer

Ronald Hynd is an English choreographer and former ballet dancer.

1931

Anthony Llewellyn

Welsh-American chemist and astronaut (died 2013)

John Anthony Llewellyn was a Welsh chemist and a NOAA aquanaut. In August 1967, Llewellyn was one of only two non-American astronaut candidates selected by NASA as part of NASA Astronaut Group 6.

1933

Christopher Ball

English linguist and academic

Sir Christopher John Elinger Ball is a British academic, who served as Warden of Keble College, Oxford, from 1980 to 1988, and as the first Chancellor of the University of Derby, from 1995 to 2003.

1935

Paul Chambers

African-American bassist and composer (died 1969)

Paul Laurence Dunbar Chambers Jr. was an American jazz double bassist. A fixture of rhythm sections during the 1950s and 1960s, he has become one of the most widely-known jazz bassists of the hard bop era. He was also…

1935

Bhama Srinivasan

Indian-American mathematician and academic (died 2025)

Bhama Srinivasan was a mathematician known for her work in the representation theory of finite groups. Her contributions were honored with the 1990 Noether Lecture. She served as president of the Association for Women…

1935

Glen Campbell

American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor (died 2017)

Glen Travis Campbell was an American country musician and actor. He was best known for a series of hit songs in the 1960s and 1970s, and for hosting The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour on CBS television from 1969 until…

1936

Pierre Hétu

Canadian pianist and conductor (died 1998)

Pierre Hétu was a conductor and pianist. He studied music from 1955–57 at the Conservatoire de musique du Québec à Montréal with Germaine Malépart (piano) and at the University of Montreal with Jean Papineau-Couture…

1936

Jack Nicholson

American actor and producer

John Joseph Nicholson is an American retired actor and filmmaker. Nicholson is widely regarded as one of the greatest actors of the 20th century, often playing charismatic rebels fighting against the social structure.…

1937

Jack Nitzsche

American singer-songwriter, pianist, and conductor (died 2000)

Bernard Alfred "Jack" Nitzsche was an American musician, arranger, songwriter, composer, and record producer. He came to prominence in the early 1960s as the right-hand-man of producer Phil Spector, and went on to work…

1937

Alan Bond

English-Australian businessman (died 2015)

Alan Bond was an English-born Australian businessman noted for his high-profile and often corrupt business dealings. These included his central role in the WA Inc scandals of the 1980s; the biggest corporate collapse in…

1938

Gani Fawehinmi

Nigerian lawyer and activist (died 2009)

Chief Abdul-Ganiyu "Gani" Oyesola Fawehinmi,, SAN, was a Nigerian author, publisher, philanthropist, social critic, human and civil rights lawyer, and politician.

1938

Issey Miyake

Japanese fashion designer (died 2022)

Issey Miyake was a Japanese fashion designer. He was known for his technology-driven clothing designs, notably the Pleats, Please line, exhibitions and fragrances such as L'eau d'Issey.

1938

Adam Raphael

English journalist and author

Adam Eliot Geoffrey Raphael is an English journalist and author. In the British Press Awards of 1973, he was named Journalist of the Year for his work on labour conditions in South Africa, and he has also been a…

1938

Mel Carter

American singer and actor

Mel Carter is an American soul and pop singer and actor. He is best known for his 1965 million-selling recording "Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me".

1939

John Foley

English general and politician, Lieutenant Governor of Guernsey

Lieutenant-General Sir John Paul Foley, is a retired British Army officer with a long career in military intelligence. He is the great-grandson of Henry Hodgetts-Foley, and was educated at Bradfield College.

1939

Ray Guy

Canadian journalist and author (died 2013)

Ray Guy was a Canadian journalist and humourist, best known for his satirical newspaper and magazine columns.

1939

Jason Miller

American actor and playwright (died 2001)

Jason Miller was an American playwright and actor. He won the 1973 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and Tony Award for Best Play for his play That Championship Season, and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting…

1939

Theodor Waigel

German lawyer and politician, German Federal Minister of Finance

Theodor Waigel is a German politician of the Christian Social Union in Bavaria (CSU). He represented Neu-Ulm in the Bundestag from 1976 to 2002.

1939

Greville Howard

Baron Howard of Rising, English politician

Greville Patrick Charles Howard, Baron Howard of Rising is a British Conservative politician and, before the 2010 general election, was variously an Opposition Whip and Shadow Minister for Cabinet Office, for Treasury…

1941

Giorgio Agamben

Italian philosopher and academic

Giorgio Agamben is an Italian philosopher whose work spans political theory, ontology, aesthetics, and literature. He is best known for developing the concepts of the state of exception and homo sacer, which explore the…

1942

Mary Prior

English politician, Lord Lieutenant of Bristol

Alice Mary Prior served as Lord Lieutenant of Bristol from 2007 to 2017. She is currently the Pro-chancellor of University of Bristol and a trustee of the environmental fund Viridor Credits.

1942

Keith Crisco

American businessman and politician (died 2014)

John Keith Crisco Sr. was an American businessman and public official from the State of North Carolina.

1943

Janet Evanovich

American author

Janet Evanovich is an American writer. She began her career writing short contemporary romance novels under the pen name Steffie Hall, but gained fame authoring a series of contemporary mysteries featuring Stephanie…

1943

Louise Glück

American poet (died 2023)

Louise Elisabeth Glück was an American poet and essayist. She won the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature, whose judges praised "her unmistakable poetic voice that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal".…

1943

John Maples

Baron Maples, English lawyer and politician, Shadow Secretary of State for Defence (died 2012)

John Cradock Maples, Baron Maples was a British politician and life peer who served as Economic Secretary to the Treasury from 1989 to 1992 and Shadow Foreign Secretary from 1999 to 2000. He is a former Deputy Chairman…

1943

Scott W. Williams

American mathematician and professor

Scott Williams is a professor of mathematics at the University at Buffalo, SUNY. He was recognized by Mathematically Gifted & Black as a Black History Month 2017 Honoree.

1943

Steve Fossett

American businessman, pilot, and sailor (died 2007)

James Stephen Fossett was an American businessman and a record-setting aviator, sailor, and adventurer. He was the first person to fly solo nonstop around the world in a balloon and in a fixed-wing aircraft. He made his…

1944

Doug Jarrett

Canadian ice hockey player (died 2014)

Douglas William Jarrett was a Canadian ice hockey defenceman, who played in the National Hockey League (NHL) with the Chicago Black Hawks and New York Rangers.

1944

Joshua Rifkin

American conductor and musicologist

Joshua Rifkin is an American conductor, pianist, and musicologist. He is currently a professor of music at Boston University. As a performer, he has recorded music by composers from Antoine Busnois to Silvestre…

1944

Eddy Baldewijns

Belgian politician

Edouard S. L. L. J. Baldewijns is a Belgian politician, member of the Chamber of Representatives and Flemish Government minister. A member of the Belgian Socialist Party and its successor the Flemish Socialist Party, he…

1945

Gopalkrishna Gandhi

Indian civil servant and politician, 22nd Governor of West Bengal

Gopalkrishna Devadas Gandhi is a former administrator and diplomat who served as the 22nd Governor of West Bengal from 2004 to 2009. He is the grandson of Mahatma Gandhi and C. Rajagopalachari (Rajaji). As a former IAS…

1945

Demetrio Stratos

Greek-Egyptian singer-songwriter (died 1979)

Efstratios Dimitriou, known professionally as Demetrio Stratos, was a Greek-Italian vocalist, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and music researcher, best known as the co-founder, frontman and lead singer of the Italian…

1945

Steven L. Bennett

American captain and pilot, Medal of Honor recipient (died 1972)

Steven Logan Bennett was a United States Air Force pilot who posthumously received the Medal of Honor for heroism during the Vietnam War.

1946

Paul Davies

English physicist and author

Paul Charles William Davies is an English physicist, writer and broadcaster, a professor in Arizona State University and director of BEYOND: Center for Fundamental Concepts in Science. He is affiliated with the…

1946

Louise Harel

Canadian lawyer and politician

Louise Harel is a Quebec politician. In 2005 she served as interim leader of the Parti Québécois following the resignation of Bernard Landry. She was also interim leader of the opposition in the National Assembly of…

1946

Archy Kirkwood

Baron Kirkwood of Kirkhope, Scottish lawyer and politician

Archibald Johnstone Kirkwood, Baron Kirkwood of Kirkhope,, is a British Liberal Democrat politician.

1946

Nicholas Stern

Baron Stern of Brentford, English economist and academic

Nicholas Herbert Stern, Baron Stern of Brentford,, is a British economist, banker, and academic. He is the IG Patel Professor of Economics and Government and Chair of the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change…

1946

John Waters

American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter

John Samuel Waters Jr. is an American filmmaker, actor, writer, and artist. He rose to fame in the early 1970s for his transgressive cult films, including Multiple Maniacs (1970), Pink Flamingos (1972), and Female…

1946

John Pritchard

English bishop

John Lawrence Pritchard is a Church of England bishop. He was the Bishop of Oxford from 2007 to 2014. He is in the Open Evangelical tradition.

1948

Spencer Haywood

American basketball player

Spencer Haywood is an American former professional basketball player and Olympic gold medalist. Haywood is a member of the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, being inducted in 2015.

1949

Peter Frampton

English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer

Peter Kenneth Frampton is an English musician who rose to prominence as a member of the rock bands The Herd and Humble Pie. Later in his career, Frampton found significant success as a solo artist. He has released…

1950

Jancis Robinson

English journalist and critic

Jancis Mary Robinson OBE, ComMA, MW is a British wine critic, journalist and wine writer. She currently writes a weekly column for the Financial Times, and writes for her website JancisRobinson.com, updated daily. She…

1950

Lee Tamahori

New Zealand film director (died 2025)

Warren Lee Tamahori was a New Zealand film director.

1950

Aivars Kalējs

Latvian organist, composer, and pianist

Aivars Kalējs is a Latvian composer, organist and pianist.

1951

Ana María Shua

Argentinian author and poet

Ana María Shua is an Argentine writer. She is particularly well known for her work in microfiction.

1951

Marilyn Chambers

American actress

Marilyn Ann Taylor, known professionally as Marilyn Chambers, was an American pornographic actress, exotic dancer, model, actress, singer, and vice-presidential candidate. She was known for her 1972 hardcore film debut,…

1952

Donald Tusk

Polish journalist and politician, 14th Prime Minister of Poland

Donald Franciszek Tusk is a Polish politician and historian who has served as the prime minister of Poland since 2023, previously holding the office from 2007 to 2014. Tusk was President of the European Council from…

1957

Terry Francona

American baseball player and manager

Terry Jon Francona, nicknamed "Tito", is an American professional baseball manager and former player who is the manager of the Cincinnati Reds of Major League Baseball (MLB). He previously managed the Cleveland…

1959

Ryan Stiles

American-Canadian actor and comedian

Ryan Lee Stiles is an American-Canadian comedian and actor. His work is often associated with improvisational comedy. He is best known for his work on Whose Line Is It Anyway and for his role as Lewis Kiniski on The…

1959

Mart Laar

Estonian historian and politician, 9th Prime Minister of Estonia

Mart Laar is an Estonian politician and historian. He served as the Prime Minister of Estonia from 1992 to 1994 and from 1999 to 2002. Laar is credited with having helped bring about Estonia's rapid economic development…

1960

Jeff Hostetler

American football player

William Jeffrey Hostetler is an American former professional football player who was a quarterback in the National Football League (NFL) for the New York Giants, Los Angeles/Oakland Raiders, and Washington Redskins. He…

1961

Alo Mattiisen

Estonian composer (died 1996)

Alo Mattiisen was an Estonian musician and composer.

1961

Jeff Minter

British video game designer and programmer

Jeff Minter is an English video game designer and programmer who often goes by the nickname Yak. He co-founded independent video game developer Llamasoft in 1982 and was the sole game designer and programmer until Ivan…

1962

Danièle Sauvageau

Canadian ice hockey player and coach

Danièle Sauvageau is a Canadian ice hockey executive and former coach. Sauvageau was the head coach of the Canadian national women's hockey team that won the gold medal in ice hockey at the 2002 Winter Olympics.…

1962

Rosalind Gill

English sociologist and academic

Rosalind Clair Gill is a British sociologist and feminist cultural theorist. She is currently Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis at City, University of London. Gill is author or editor of ten books, and numerous…

1963

Sean Lock

English comedian and actor (died 2021)

Sean Lock was an English comedian and actor. He began his comedy career as a stand-up comedian. In 2000, Lock won the British Comedy Award, in the category of Best Live Comic, and was nominated for the Perrier Comedy…

1963

Mickey Morandini

American baseball player and manager

Michael Robert "Mickey" Morandini, is an American former professional baseball second baseman and coach, who played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Philadelphia Phillies, Chicago Cubs, and Toronto Blue Jays. His…

1966

Jeffrey Dean Morgan

American actor

Jeffrey Dean Morgan is an American actor. He is best known for playing the character Negan in the AMC horror drama series The Walking Dead (2016–2022) and its spin-off The Walking Dead: Dead City (2023–present), for…

1966

David J. C. MacKay

English physicist, engineer, and academic (died 2016)

Sir David John Cameron MacKay was a British physicist, mathematician, and academic. He was the Regius Professor of Engineering in the Department of Engineering at the University of Cambridge and from 2009 to 2014 was…

1967

Sherri Shepherd

American actress, comedian, and television personality

Sherri Evonne Shepherd is an American actress, comedian, author, podcaster, television presenter and talk show host. She currently hosts the daily syndicated daytime talk show Sherri. From 2007 to 2014, Shepherd was a…

1967

Regine Velasquez

Filipino singer and actress

Regina Encarnacion Ansong Velasquez is a Filipino singer and actress. She is considered one of the most influential figures in Philippine popular culture and is known for her vocal range and belting technique.

1970

Dan Cloutier

Canadian ice hockey player and coach

Daniel Cloutier is a Canadian ice hockey executive and former player. Previously a goaltender, he holds an executive position with the Ontario Hockey League (OHL) Guelph Storm, the team with which he completed his…

1976

Paul Malakwen Kosgei

Kenyan runner and coach

Paul Malakwen Kosgei is a Kenyan long-distance and marathon runner. He first came to prominence in athletics by taking the World Junior Record of 3000m steeple in 1997, and later with consecutive medals at the IAAF…

1978

Zoltán Gera

Hungarian international footballer and manager

Zoltán Gera is a Hungarian former professional footballer who played as a midfielder for Fulham, Pécsi Mecsek and Harkány SE, as well as enjoying two spells at Ferencváros and West Bromwich Albion.

1979

Daniel Johns

Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist

Daniel Paul Johns is an Australian musician, best known as the frontman, guitarist, and main songwriter of the rock band Silverchair. Johns is also one half of The Dissociatives with Paul Mac and one half of Dreams with…

1979

Quincy Timberlake

Kenyan-Australian activist, engineer, and politician

Quincy Zuma Wambitta Timberlake is a Kenyan political activist, occultist, and former presidential candidate, now resident in Australia. Along with Esther Arunga and Joseph Hellon, he is the co-founder of the PlaCenta…

1980

Kaká

Brazilian footballer

Ricardo Izecson dos Santos Leite, commonly known as Kaká or Ricardo Kaká, is a Brazilian former professional footballer who played as an attacking midfielder. Kaká was known for his explosive pace, dribbling, passing,…

1982

Sam W. Heads

English-American entomologist and palaeontologist

Sam W. Heads is a British palaeontologist, a Fellow of the Linnean Society of London, a Fellow of the Royal Entomological Society, as well as a former Officer and Editor-in-Chief at the Orthopterists' Society.

1983

Shkëlzen Shala

Albanian entrepreneur and veganism activist

Shkëlzen Shala is a Kosovo Albanian entrepreneur, gastronome and veganism activist based in Pristina, Kosovo.

1983

Amber Heard

American actress

Amber Laura Heard is an American actress. She had her first leading role in the horror film All the Boys Love Mandy Lane (2006), and went on to star in films such as The Ward (2010), Drive Angry (2011), and London…

1986

David Luiz

Brazilian footballer

David Luiz Moreira Marinho is a Brazilian professional footballer who plays as a defender for Cypriot First Division club Pafos. He is primarily a centre-back, but has also been deployed as a defensive midfielder. Noted…

1987

Dee Strange-Gordon

American baseball player

Devaris "Dee" Strange-Gordon, formerly known as Dee Gordon, is an American former professional baseball second baseman, shortstop, and center fielder. He played Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Los Angeles Dodgers,…

1988

Machine Gun Kelly

American rapper, singer, songwriter, actor

Colson Baker, known professionally as MGK and formerly Machine Gun Kelly, is an American rapper, singer, songwriter, producer and actor. His original stage name "Machine Gun Kelly" was derived from the nickname of…

1990

Kevin Kiermaier

American baseball player

Kevin James Kiermaier is an American former professional baseball outfielder. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) from 2013 to 2024 for the Tampa Bay Rays, Toronto Blue Jays, and Los Angeles Dodgers. Known for his…

1990

Eve Muirhead

Scottish curler

Eve Muirhead is a Scottish former curler from Perth and a former skip of the British Olympic curling team. Muirhead and the GB team became Olympic champions at the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, having previously won…

1990

Danni Wyatt

English cricketer

Danielle Nicole Wyatt-Hodge is an English cricketer who plays for Surrey, Southern Brave, England and Gujarat Giants. She plays as an all-rounder, batting right-handed and bowling right-arm off break. She made her…

1991

Adam Lanza

American mass murderer (died 2012)

Adam Peter Lanza was an American mass murderer who perpetrated the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, one of the deadliest school shootings in the US. On December 14, 2012, he fatally shot his mother, Nancy Lanza,…

1992

Violet McGraw

American actress

Violet Elizabeth McGraw is an American actress. Her acting debut was a recurring role in the 2016 television series Love as Nina, and her first feature film was 2018's Ready Player One. In 2019 she was nominated for an…

2011

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