Famous Birthdays on August 3

Q: Who was born on August 3?

Famous people born on August 3 include: Galeotto I Pico, Imperia Cognati, Maria of Jülich-Berg, Étienne Dolet, Wolfgang Julius.

Q: What is Hamilton Fish known for?

Hamilton Fish, American lawyer and politician, 26th United States Secretary of State (died 1893)

1808 — Hamilton Fish

American lawyer and politician, 26th United States Secretary of State (died 1893)

August 3 has seen 242 notable people enter the world across recorded history — from 1442 – 1999. Below are the most significant names born on this date.

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Famous Birthdays 242 people 1442 – 1999

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Fish was the most trusted advisor to President Ulysses S

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Hamilton Fish was an American statesman who served as the sixteenth governor of New York from 1849 to 1850, a United States senator from New York from 1851 to 1857, and the 26th U.S

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In 1875, Fish negotiated a reciprocal trade treaty for sugar production with the Kingdom of Hawai'i, initiating the process which ended in the 1893 overthrow of the House of Kalākaua and statehood

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Fish worked with James Milton Turner to settle the Liberia-Grebo War in 1876.

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Grant and recognized as the pillar of Grant's presidency

Galeotto I Pico

Duke of Mirandola (died 1499)

Galeotto I Pico della Mirandola was an Italian condottiero and nobleman, Signore of Mirandola and Concordia. He was noted by contemporaries for his tyranny. The son of Gianfrancesco I Pico, Galeotto initially allied…

1442

Imperia Cognati

Italian courtesan (died 1512)

Imperia Cognati, was a Roman courtesan. She has been considered the first celebrity of the class of courtesans, which was created in Rome in the late 15th century.

1486

Maria of Jülich-Berg

German noblewoman (died 1543)

Maria of Jülich-Berg was the Duchess of Jülich-Berg, as the daughter of Wilhelm IV, Duke of Jülich-Berg and Sibylle of Brandenburg. She became heiress to her father's estates of Jülich, Berg and Ravensberg after it had…

1491

Étienne Dolet

French scholar and translator (died 1546)

Étienne Dolet was a French scholar, translator and printer. He was a controversial figure throughout his lifetime, which was buffeted by the opposing forces of the Renaissance and the French Inquisition. His early…

1509

Wolfgang Julius

Count of Hohenlohe-Neuenstein, German field marshal (died 1698)

Wolfgang Julius of Hohenlohe-Neuenstein was a German Field Marshal and the last Count of Hohenlohe-Neuenstein. He was the son of Kraft III of Hohenlohe-Neuenstein and Sophie of Birkenfeld, a daughter of Charles I, Count…

1622

John Henley

English minister and poet (died 1759)

John Henley, English clergyman, commonly known as 'Orator Henley', was a preacher known for showmanship and eccentricity.

1692

Alvise Foscari

Venetian admiral (died 1790)

Alvise Foscari was a Venetian nobleman, naval officer, and administrator.

1724

Aaron Chorin

Hungarian rabbi and author (died 1844)

Aaron Chorin was a Hungarian rabbi and pioneer of early religious reform. He favored the use of the organ and of prayers in the vernacular, and was instrumental in founding schools along modern lines. Chorin became a…

1766

Frederick William III of Prussia (died 1840)

Frederick William III was King of Prussia from 16 November 1797 until his death in 1840. He was concurrently Elector of Brandenburg in the Holy Roman Empire until 6 August 1806, when the empire was dissolved.

1770

Joseph Paxton

English gardener and architect, designed The Crystal Palace (died 1865)

Sir Joseph Paxton was an English gardener, architect, engineer and Liberal Member of Parliament. He is best known for designing the Crystal Palace, which was built in Hyde Park, London to house the Great Exhibition of…

1803

Elisha Otis

American businessman, founded the Otis Elevator Company (died 1861)

Elisha Graves Otis was an American industrialist and founder of the Otis Elevator Company. In 1853, he invented a safety device that prevents elevators from falling if the hoisting cable fails. On March 23, 1857, he…

1811

Archduke Albrecht

Duke of Teschen (died 1895)

Archduke Albrecht Friedrich Rudolf Dominik of Austria, Duke of Teschen, was an Austrian Habsburg general. He was the grandson of Emperor Leopold II and one of the chief military advisors of Emperor Francis Joseph I. As…

1817

Thomas Francis Meagher

Irish-American revolutionary and military leader, territorial governor of Montana (died 1867)

Thomas Francis Meagher was an Irish nationalist and leader of the Young Irelanders in the Rebellion of 1848. After being convicted of sedition, he was first sentenced to death but received transportation for life to Van…

1823

Francisco Asenjo Barbieri

Spanish clarinetist, composer, and musicologist (died 1894)

Francisco Asenjo Barbieri was a Spanish clarinetist, composer, and musicologist. Barbieri was a well-known composer of zarzuelas. He has been referred to as the “most important of all nineteenth-century composers" of…

1823

Ivan Zajc

Croatian composer, conductor, and director (died 1914)

Ivan von Zajc, was a Croatian composer, conductor, director, and teacher who dominated Croatia's musical culture for over forty years. Through his artistic and institutional reform efforts, he is credited with its…

1832

Julien Reverchon

French botanist (died 1905)

Julien Reverchon was a French botanist and naturalist.

1837

John Bigham

1st Viscount Mersey, English jurist and politician (died 1929)

John Charles Bigham, 1st Viscount Mersey was a British jurist and politician. After early success as a lawyer and a less successful spell as a politician, he was appointed a judge and worked in commercial law.

1840

Reginald Heber Roe

English-Australian swimmer, tennis player, and academic (died 1926)

Reginald Heber Roe was a headmaster of Brisbane Grammar School, Queensland, Australia and first vice-chancellor of the University of Queensland.

1850

Alfred Deakin

Australian lawyer and politician, 2nd Prime Minister of Australia (died 1919)

Alfred Deakin was an Australian politician who served as the second prime minister of Australia from 1903 to 1904, 1905 to 1908, and 1909 to 1910. He held office as the leader of the Protectionist Party, and in his…

1856

William Kennedy Dickson

French-Scottish actor, director, and producer (died 1935)

William Kennedy Laurie Dickson was a British-American inventor who devised an early motion picture camera under the employment of Thomas Edison.

1860

Géza Gárdonyi

Hungarian author and journalist (died 1922)

Géza Gárdonyi, born Géza Ziegler was a Hungarian writer and journalist. Although he wrote a range of works, he had his greatest success as a historical novelist, particularly with Eclipse of the Crescent Moon and Slave…

1863

Stanley Baldwin

English businessman and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (died 1947)

Stanley Baldwin, 1st Earl Baldwin of Bewdley, was a British statesman and Conservative politician who was prominent in the political leadership of the United Kingdom between the world wars. He was prime minister on…

1867

Vernon Louis Parrington

American historian and scholar (died 1929)

Vernon Louis Parrington was an American literary historian, scholar, and college football coach. The first two volume's of his is three-volume history of American letters, Main Currents in American Thought, won the…

1871

Haakon VII of Norway (died 1957)

Haakon VII was King of Norway from 1905 until his death in 1957, having reigned for nearly 52 years.

1872

Maithili Sharan Gupt

Indian poet and playwright (died 1964)

Dr Maithilisharan Gupt was one of the most important modern Hindi poets. He is considered one among the pioneers of Khari Boli poetry and wrote in Khari Boli dialect, at a time when most Hindi poets favoured the use of…

1886

Rupert Brooke

English poet (died 1915)

Rupert Chawner Brooke was an English poet known for his idealistic war sonnets written during the First World War, such as "The Dead" and "The Soldier". He was also known for his boyish good looks, which were said to…

1887

August Wesley

Finnish journalist, trade unionist, and revolutionary (died ?)[citation needed]

August Anselm Wesley was a Finnish journalist, trade unionist, and revolutionary who was the chief of the Red Guards general staff in the Finnish Civil War. He later served as a lieutenant in the British organized…

1887

Konstantin Melnikov

Russian architect, designed the Rusakov Workers' Club (died 1974)

Konstantin Stepanovich Melnikov was a Russian architect and painter. His architectural work, compressed into a single decade (1923–1933), placed Melnikov on the front end of 1920s avant-garde architecture. Although…

1890

Harry Heilmann

American baseball player and sportscaster (died 1951)

Harry Edwin Heilmann, nicknamed "Slug", was an American baseball player and radio announcer. He played professional baseball for 19 years between 1913 and 1932, including 17 seasons in Major League Baseball with the…

1894

Allen Bathurst

Lord Apsley, English politician (died 1942)

Allen Algernon Bathurst, Lord Apsley, DSO, MC, TD, DL was a British Army officer and Conservative Party politician.

1895

Ralph Horween

American football player and coach (died 1997)

Ralph Horween was an American football player and coach. He played fullback and halfback and was a punter and drop-kicker for the unbeaten Harvard Crimson football teams of 1919 and 1920, which won the 1920 Rose Bowl.…

1896

Louis Chiron

Monegasque race car driver (died 1979)

Louis Alexandre Chiron was a Monégasque racing driver who competed in rallies, sports car races, and Grands Prix.

1899

Ernie Pyle

American soldier and journalist (died 1945)

Ernest Taylor Pyle was an American journalist and war correspondent who is best known for his stories about ordinary American soldiers during World War II. Pyle is also notable for the columns he wrote as a roving…

1900

John T. Scopes

American educator (died 1970)

John Thomas Scopes was a teacher in Dayton, Tennessee, who was charged on May 5, 1925, with violating Tennessee's Butler Act, which prohibited the teaching of human evolution in Tennessee schools. He was trialed in a…

1900

John C. Stennis

American lawyer and politician (died 1995)

John Cornelius Stennis was an American politician who served as a U.S. senator from the state of Mississippi. He was a Democrat who served in the Senate for over 41 years, becoming its most senior member for his last…

1901

Stefan Wyszyński

Polish cardinal (died 1981)

Stefan Wyszyński was a Polish Roman Catholic prelate who served as Archbishop of Warsaw and Archbishop of Gniezno from 1948 to 1981. He previously served as Bishop of Lublin from 1946 to 1948. He was created a cardinal…

1901

Regina Jonas

German rabbi (died 1944)

Regina Jonas was a Berlin-born Reform rabbi. In 1935, she became the first woman to be ordained as a rabbi. Jonas was murdered in the Holocaust.

1902

David Buttolph

American film composer (died 1983)

James David Buttolph Jr. was an American film composer who scored over 300 movies in his career.

1902

Habib Bourguiba

Tunisian journalist and politician, 1st President of the Republic of Tunisia (died 2000)

Habib Bourguiba was a Tunisian politician and statesman who served as the prime minister of the Kingdom of Tunisia from 1956 to 1957, and then as the first president of Tunisia from 1957 to 1987. Prior to his…

1903

Dolores del Río

Mexican actress (died 1983)

María de los Dolores Asúnsolo y López Negrete, known professionally as Dolores del Río, was a Mexican actress. With a career spanning more than 50 years, she is regarded as the first major female Latin American…

1904

Clifford D. Simak

American journalist and author (died 1988)

Clifford Donald Simak was an American science fiction writer and journalist. He won three Hugo Awards and one Nebula Award. The Science Fiction Writers of America made him its third SFWA Grand Master, and the Horror…

1904

Franz König

Austrian cardinal (died 2004)

Franz König was an Austrian Cardinal of the Catholic Church. He served as archbishop of Vienna from 1956 to 1985, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1958. The last surviving cardinal elevated by Pope John XXIII, he…

1905

Lawrence Brown

American trombonist and composer (died 1988)

Lawrence Brown was an American jazz trombonist from California best remembered for his work with the Duke Ellington orchestra. He was a session musician throughout his career, and also recorded albums under his own name.

1907

Ernesto Geisel

Brazilian general and politician, 29th President of Brazil (died 1996)

Ernesto Beckmann Geisel was a Brazilian Army officer and politician, who served as the 29th president of Brazil from 1974 to 1979, during the Brazilian military dictatorship.

1907

Yang Shangkun

Chinese politician, and President of China (died 1998)

Yang Shangkun was a Chinese Communist military and political leader, president of China from 1988 to 1993, and one of the Eight Elders that dominated the party after the death of Mao Zedong.

1907

Walter Van Tilburg Clark

American author and educator (died 1971)

Walter Van Tilburg Clark was an American novelist, short story writer, poet, and educator. He ranks as one of Nevada's most distinguished literary figures of the 20th century, and was the first inductee into the 'Nevada…

1909

Alex McCrindle

Scottish actor and producer (died 1990)

Alex McCrindle was a Scottish actor. He was best known for his role as General Jan Dodonna in Star Wars.

1911

Fritz Hellwig

German politician (died 2017)

Fritz Hellwig was a German CDU politician and European Commissioner. He was born in Saarbrücken and turned 100 in August 2012. He died on 22 July 2017 at the age of 104, being the last surviving member of the Second…

1912

Mel Tolkin

Ukrainian-American screenwriter and producer (died 2007)

Mel Tolkin was an American television comedy writer best known as head writer of the live sketch comedy series Your Show of Shows during the Golden Age of Television. There he presided over a staff that at times…

1913

Shakeel Badayuni

Indian poet and songwriter (died 1970)

Shakeel Badayuni was an Indian Urdu poet, lyricist and songwriter in Hindi / Urdu language films.

1916

José Manuel Moreno

Argentinian footballer and manager (died 1978)

José Manuel Moreno Fernández, nicknamed "El Charro", was an Argentine footballer who played as an inside forward for several clubs in Argentina, Mexico, Chile, and Colombia; for those who saw him play, he is regarded as…

1916

Les Elgart

American trumpet player and bandleader (died 1995)

Lester Elliott Elgart was an American swing jazz bandleader and trumpeter.

1917

James MacGregor Burns

American historian, political scientist, and author (died 2014)

James MacGregor Burns was an American historian and political scientist, presidential biographer, and authority on leadership studies. He was the Woodrow Wilson Professor of Government Emeritus at Williams College and…

1918

Sidney Gottlieb

American chemist and theorist (died 1999)

Sidney Gottlieb was an American chemist and spymaster who headed the Central Intelligence Agency's 1950s and 1960s assassination attempts and mind-control program, known as Project MKUltra.

1918

Larry Haines

American actor (died 2008)

Larry Haines was an American actor.

1918

Eddie Jefferson

American singer-songwriter (died 1979)

Eddie Jefferson was an American jazz vocalist and lyricist. He is credited as an innovator of vocalese, a musical style in which lyrics are set to an instrumental composition or solo. Jefferson himself claims that his…

1918

Norman Dewis

English test driver and engineer (died 2019)

Norman Dewis was a British car test driver. He worked for Lea-Francis as a test driver from 1946 to 1951 then for Jaguar Cars from 1952 to 1985.

1920

Max Fatchen

Australian journalist and author (died 2012)

Maxwell Edgar Fatchen, AM was an Australian children's writer and journalist.

1920

P. D. James

English author (died 2014)

Phyllis Dorothy James White, Baroness James of Holland Park, known professionally as P. D. James, was an English novelist and life peer. Her rise to fame came with her series of detective novels featuring the police…

1920

Charlie Shavers

American trumpet player and composer (died 1971)

Charles James Shavers was an American jazz trumpeter who played with Dizzy Gillespie, Nat King Cole, Roy Eldridge, Johnny Dodds, Jimmie Noone, Sidney Bechet, Midge Williams, Tommy Dorsey, and Billie Holiday. He was also…

1920

Elmar Tampõld

Estonian-Canadian architect (died 2013)

Elmar Tampõld was an Estonian-Canadian architect and founder of an academic base for Estonian studies in Toronto.

1920

Richard Adler

American composer and producer (died 2012)

Richard Adler was an American lyricist, writer, composer and producer of several Broadway shows. He is best known for his work with Jerry Ross on the musicals The Pajama Game (1954) and Damn Yankees (1955).

1921

Hayden Carruth

American poet and critic (died 2008)

Hayden Carruth was an American poet, literary critic and anthologist. He taught at Syracuse University.

1921

Marilyn Maxwell

American actress (died 1972)

Marvel Marilyn Maxwell was an American actress and singer.

1921

John Eisenhower

American historian, general, and diplomat, 45th United States Ambassador to Belgium (died 2013)

John Sheldon Doud Eisenhower was a United States Army officer, diplomat, and military historian. He was the second son of President Dwight D. Eisenhower and First Lady Mamie Eisenhower. His military career spanned from…

1922

Jean Hagen

American actress (died 1977)

Jean Hagen was an American actress best known for her role as Doll Conovan in The Asphalt Jungle (1950) and as Lina Lamont in Singin' in the Rain (1952), for which she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best…

1923

Pope Shenouda III of Alexandria (died 2012)

Pope Shenouda III was the 117th Pope of Alexandria and Patriarch of the See of St. Mark. His papacy lasted 40 years, 4 months, and 4 days, from 14 November 1971 until his death in 2012.

1923

Connie Converse

American musician and singer-songwriter (disappeared 1974)

Elizabeth Eaton Converse was an American singer-songwriter, best known under her professional name Connie Converse. She was active in New York City in the 1950s, and her work is among the earliest known recordings in…

1924

Leon Uris

American soldier and author (died 2003)

Leon Marcus Uris was an American author of historical fiction who wrote many bestselling books, including Exodus and Trinity.

1924

Marv Levy

American-Canadian football player, coach, and manager

Marvin Daniel Levy is an American former football coach who served as a head coach in the National Football League (NFL) for 17 seasons. He spent most of his head coaching career with the Buffalo Bills, leading them…

1925

Lewis Rowland

American neurologist (died 2017)

Lewis Phillip "Bud" Rowland was an American neurologist. He served as president of the American Neurological Association (1980–81) and the American Academy of Neurology (1989–91). He was editor of the journal Neurology…

1925

Rona Anderson

Scottish actress (died 2013)

Rona Anderson was a Scottish stage, film, and television actress. She appeared in TV series and on the stage and films throughout the 1950s. She appeared in the films Scrooge and The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie and on TV…

1926

Tony Bennett

American singer and actor (died 2023)

Anthony Dominick Benedetto, known professionally as Tony Bennett, was an American jazz and traditional pop singer. He received many accolades, including 20 Grammy Awards, a Lifetime Achievement Award, and two Primetime…

1926

Anthony Sampson

English journalist and author (died 2004)

Anthony Terrell Seward Sampson was a British writer and journalist. His most notable and successful book was Anatomy of Britain, which was published in 1962 and was followed by five more "Anatomies", updating the…

1926

Gordon Scott

American actor (died 2007)

Gordon Scott was an American film and television actor known for his portrayal of the fictional character Tarzan in five films of the Tarzan film series from 1955 to 1960. Gordon Scott was the 11th Tarzan, starting with…

1926

Rushdy Abaza

Egyptian actor (died 1980)

Rushdy Saeed Baghdadi Abaza was an Egyptian film and television actor. He was considered one of the most charming actors in the Egyptian film industry and is one of the most famous. He died of brain cancer at the age of…

1926

Cécile Aubry

French actress, director, and screenwriter (died 2010)

Cécile Aubry was a French film actress, author, television screenwriter and director.

1928

Henning Moritzen

Danish actor (died 2012)

Henning Moritzen was a Danish film actor. He appeared in more than 70 films between 1950 and 2010. He was born in Taarbæk, Denmark.

1928

James Komack

American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (died 1997)

James Arenson Komack was an American television producer, director, screenwriter, and actor. He is best known for producing several hit television series, including The Courtship of Eddie's Father, Chico and the Man,…

1930

Pat Crawford

Australian cricketer (died 2009)

William Patrick Anthony Crawford was an Australian cricketer who played in four Tests, including one in England at Lord's in 1956 and three in India in 1956–57. He was born in Dubbo, New South Wales.

1933

Haystacks Calhoun

American wrestler and actor (died 1989)

William Dee Calhoun was an American professional wrestler, who used the professional name "Haystack" or "Haystacks" Calhoun.

1934

Michael Chapman

English bassoon player (died 2005)

Michael Chapman was a British classical bassoonist and reed-maker.

1934

Jonas Savimbi

Angolan general, founded UNITA (died 2002)

Jonas Malheiro Sidónio Sakaita Savimbi was an Angolan revolutionary, politician, and rebel military leader who founded and led the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola, also known as UNITA. UNITA was one…

1934

John Erman

American actor, director, and producer (died 2021)

John Erman was an American television director, producer, and actor. He was nominated for ten Primetime Emmy Awards, winning once for the film Who Will Love My Children? (1983). He also won two Directors Guild of…

1935

Georgy Shonin

Ukrainian-Russian general, pilot, and cosmonaut (died 1997)

Georgy Stepanovich Shonin was a Soviet cosmonaut, who flew on the Soyuz 6 space mission.

1935

Vic Vogel

Canadian pianist, composer, and bandleader (died 2019)

Victor Stefan Vogel was a Canadian jazz pianist, composer, arranger, trombonist, and conductor.

1935

Jerry G. Bishop

American radio and television host (died 2013)

Jerry G. Bishop was an American radio and television personality who is known for being Chicago's original "Svengoolie", and for his award-winning twelve-year stint on Sun-Up San Diego.

1936

Edward Petherbridge

English actor

Edward Petherbridge is an English actor, writer and artist. Among his many roles, he portrayed Lord Peter Wimsey in the 1987 BBC television adaptations of Dorothy L. Sayers' novels, and Guildenstern in Tom Stoppard's…

1936

Steven Berkoff

English actor, director, and playwright

Steven Berkoff is an English actor, author, playwright, theatre practitioner and theatre director.

1937

Roland Burris

American lawyer and politician, 39th Illinois Attorney General

Roland Wallace Burris is an American politician and attorney who served as Attorney General of Illinois from 1991 to 1995 and as a United States senator from Illinois from 2009 until 2010. A member of the Democratic…

1937

Duncan Sharpe

Pakistani-Australian cricketer

Duncan Albert Sharpe is a Pakistani former cricketer who played in three Test matches in 1959–60. Sharpe is of Anglo-Indian heritage, and was the third Christian to play Test cricket for Pakistan. He has lived in…

1937

Terry Wogan

Irish radio and television host (died 2016)

Sir Michael Terence Wogan was an Irish radio and television broadcaster who worked for the BBC in Britain for most of his career. Between 1993 and his semi-retirement in 2009, his BBC Radio 2 weekday breakfast programme…

1938

Jimmie Nicol

English drummer

James George Nicol is an English drummer and business entrepreneur. He is best known for sitting in for Ringo Starr in the Beatles for eight concerts of the Beatles' 1964 world tour during the height of Beatlemania.

1939

Apoorva Sengupta

Indian general and cricketer (died 2013)

Lieutenant General Apoorva Kumar Sengupta was an Indian army officer and cricketer who played in one Test in 1959. According to Christopher Martin-Jenkins, he was a "very good allrounder, right hand opening batsman,…

1939

Lance Alworth

American football player

Lance Dwight Alworth, nicknamed "Bambi", is an American former professional football wide receiver who played for the San Diego Chargers of the American Football League (AFL) and National Football League (NFL), and the…

1940

Martin Sheen

American actor and producer

Ramón Gerard Antonio Estévez, known professionally as Martin Sheen, is an American actor. His work spans more than six decades of television and film, and his accolades include three Emmy Awards, a Golden Globe Award,…

1940

James Tyler

American guitarist and songwriter (died 2010)

James Tyler was a 20th-century American lutenist, banjoist, guitarist, composer, musicologist and author, who helped pioneer an early music revival with more than 60 recordings.

1940

Juanita Helms

American politician (died 2009)

Juanita Lou Helms was an American politician who served as a member of the Fairbanks North Star Borough Assembly for five years, and then as the first female borough mayor of Fairbanks from 1985 to 1991. During Helms's…

1941

Beverly Lee

American singer

The Shirelles were an American girl group formed in Passaic, New Jersey, in 1957. They consisted of schoolmates Shirley Owens, Doris Coley, Addie "Micki" Harris, and Beverly Lee.

1941

Martha Stewart

American businesswoman, publisher, and author, founded Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia

Martha Helen Stewart is an American retail businesswoman, writer, and television personality. As the founder of Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, focusing on home and hospitality, she gained success through a variety of…

1941

Béla Bollobás

Hungarian-English mathematician and academic

Béla Bollobás FRS is a Hungarian-born British mathematician who has worked in various areas of mathematics, including functional analysis, combinatorics, graph theory, and percolation theory. He was strongly influenced…

1943

Princess Christina

Mrs. Magnuson of Sweden

Princess Christina, Mrs. Magnuson, is a member of the Swedish royal family. She is the fourth child of Prince Gustaf Adolf, Duke of Västerbotten, and Princess Sibylla of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, and the youngest of the…

1943

Steven Millhauser

American novelist and short story writer

Steven Millhauser is an American novelist and short story writer. He won the 1997 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for his novel Martin Dressler.

1943

Morris Berman

American historian and social critic

Morris Berman is an American historian and social critic. He earned a BA in mathematics at Cornell University in 1966 and a PhD in the history of science at Johns Hopkins University in 1971. Berman is an academic…

1944

Nino Bravo

Spanish singer (died 1973)

Luis Manuel Ferri Llopis, better known by his stage name Nino Bravo, was a Spanish baroque pop and ballad singer.

1944

Eamon Dunphy

Irish footballer and journalist

Eamon Martin Dunphy is an Irish media personality, journalist, broadcaster, author, sports pundit and former professional footballer. He grew up playing football for several youth teams including Stella Maris. Since…

1945

Robert Ayling

English businessman

Robert John Ayling, also known as Bob Ayling, is a British retired lawyer and businessman who has worked with a variety of high-profile companies and organisations. From 1996 to 2000, he was the CEO of British Airways.…

1946

Jack Straw

English lawyer and politician, Shadow Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

John Whitaker Straw is a British politician who served in the Cabinet from 1997 to 2010 under the Labour governments of Tony Blair and Gordon Brown. He held two of the traditional Great Offices of State, as Home…

1946

John York

American bass player, songwriter, and producer

John York Foley is an American bassist and guitarist. He is best known for his work with the Byrds.

1946

Ralph Wright

English footballer (died 2020)

Ralph Wright was an English professional footballer who played as a defender and midfielder. Active in England and the United States, Wright made over 200 appearances in an 8-year career.

1947

Jean-Pierre Raffarin

French lawyer and politician, 166th Prime Minister of France

Jean-Pierre Raffarin is a French politician who served as Prime Minister of France from 6 May 2002 to 31 May 2005 under President Jacques Chirac.

1948

Philip Casnoff

American actor and director

Philip Casnoff is an American actor and director, known for his roles in TV series and on Broadway. He is probably best known for his portrayal of the sadistic, egomaniacal antagonist Elkanah Bent in the miniseries…

1949

B. B. Dickerson

American bass player and songwriter (died 2021)

War is an American funk/soul/rock band from Long Beach, California, formed in 1969.

1949

Sue Slipman

English politician

Susan Slipman was President of the National Union of Students between 1977 and 1978. She later joined the National Union of Public Employees. Since then she has held a wide range of appointments and offices in the…

1949

Linda Howard

American author

Linda S. Howington is an American best-selling romance andsuspense author who publishes under the pseudonym Linda Howard.

1950

John Landis

American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter

John Landis is an American filmmaker and actor. He is best known for directing comedy films such as The Kentucky Fried Movie (1977), National Lampoon's Animal House (1978), The Blues Brothers (1980), Trading Places…

1950

Jo Marie Payton

American actress and singer

Jo Marie Payton is an American actress. She portrayed Harriette Baines Winslow on the ABC/CBS sitcom Family Matters (1989–1997), a role she originated on its forerunner series Perfect Strangers. From 2001 to 2005,…

1950

Ernesto Samper

Colombian economist and politician, 29th President of Colombia

Ernesto Samper Pizano is a Colombian politician who served as the President of Colombia from 1994 to 1998. From 2014 to 2017 he served as the Secretary General of the Union of South American Nations (UNASUR). He is also…

1950

Marcel Dionne

Canadian ice hockey player

Marcel Elphège Dionne is a Canadian former professional ice hockey centre. He played 18 seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the Detroit Red Wings, Los Angeles Kings and New York Rangers between 1971 and 1989.

1951

Jay North

American actor (died 2025)

Jay Waverly North Jr. was an American actor and later a corrections officer after retiring from acting. His career as a child actor began in the late 1950s, and he went on to appear in eight TV series, two variety…

1951

Osvaldo Ardiles

Argentinian footballer and manager

Osvaldo César Ardiles, more commonly known as Ossie Ardiles, is an Argentine football manager, pundit and former player.

1952

Ian Bairnson

Scottish guitarist, songwriter and saxophonist (died 2023)

John "Ian" Bairnson was a Scottish musician and member of Pilot and the Alan Parsons Project. He was a multi-instrumentalist, who played saxophone and keyboards, but mainly performed as a guitarist, which he played with…

1953

Marlene Dumas

South African painter

Marlene Dumas is a South African artist and painter based in the Netherlands.

1953

Michael Arthur

English physician and academic

Sir Michael James Paul Arthur is a British academic who was the tenth provost and president of University College London between 2013 and January 2021. Arthur had previously been chairman of the Russell Group of UK…

1954

Gary Peters

English footballer and manager

Gary David Peters is an English former professional footballer and now manager. His last position was with Shrewsbury Town in from 2004 to 2008.

1954

Kirk Brandon

English singer-songwriter and guitarist

Kirk Brandon is an English musician best known as the leader of the bands Theatre of Hate and Spear of Destiny.

1956

Todd Christensen

American football player and sportscaster (died 2013)

Todd Jay Christensen was an American professional football tight end who played in the National Football League (NFL) from 1978 until 1988, primarily with the Oakland / Los Angeles Raiders. He played college football…

1956

Dave Cloud

American singer-songwriter and actor (died 2015)

David Bliss Cloud was an American musician, singer, songwriter, storyteller and occasional actor. Cloud was known foremost for his amusing earthy concert performances and garage rock recordings with his band The Gospel…

1956

Balwinder Sandhu

Indian cricketer and coach

Balwinder Singh Sandhu is a former Indian international cricketer. He represented India in eight Tests and twenty-two One Day Internationals (ODIs) matches as a medium pace bowler who could swing the ball both ways and…

1956

Ian Crichton

Canadian guitarist

Saga is a Canadian rock band from Oakville, Ontario. Bassist and keyboardist Jim Crichton and Welsh-born vocalist and keyboardist Michael Sadler are the principal songwriters.

1956

Bodo Rudwaleit

German footballer and manager

Bodo Rudwaleit is a German former football goalkeeper who played as goalkeeper for the record champion BFC Dynamo from 1976 to 1989.

1957

Kate Wilkinson

New Zealand lawyer and politician, 11th New Zealand Minister of Conservation

Catherine Joan Wilkinson is a New Zealand farmer and politician. She was a member of the New Zealand House of Representatives for the National Party from 2005 until her retirement in 2014. From 2008 until January 2013,…

1957

Lindsey Hilsum

English journalist and author

Lindsey Hilsum is an English television journalist and writer. She is the International Editor for Channel 4 News, and has reported from six continents, including coverage of the major conflicts in Syria, Iraq, Kosovo,…

1958

Ana Kokkinos

Australian director and screenwriter

Ana Kokkinos is an Australian film and television director and screenwriter of Greek descent. She is known for her breakthrough feature film Head On (1998), and has directed television shows such as The Secret Life of…

1958

Martin Atkins

English drummer and producer

Martin Clive Atkins is an English drummer, best known for his work in post-punk and industrial groups including Public Image Ltd, Ministry, Nine Inch Nails, Pigface, and Killing Joke. He also works as a consultant, has…

1959

Mike Gminski

American basketball player and sportscaster

Michael Thomas Gminski is an American former professional basketball player and a college basketball TV analyst for the ACC Network, ACC on The CW and CBS Sports. In 2003, Gminski, of Polish descent, was inducted into…

1959

John C. McGinley

American actor and producer

John Christopher McGinley is an American actor. He plays Perry Cox in Scrubs, Bob Slydell in Office Space, Captain Hendrix in The Rock, Sergeant Red O'Neill in Oliver Stone's Platoon, Marv in Stone's Wall Street, FBI…

1959

Koichi Tanaka

Japanese chemist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate

Koichi Tanaka is a Japanese electrical engineer who shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2002 for developing a novel method for mass spectrometric analyses of biological macromolecules with John Bennett Fenn and Kurt…

1959

Tim Mayotte

American tennis player and coach

Timothy Mayotte is an American former professional tennis player. He was ranked as high as world No. 7 in men's singles by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP). Mayotte won twelve singles titles during his…

1960

Gopal Sharma

Indian cricketer

Gopal Sharma is a former Indian cricketer who played in five Test matches and 11 One Day Internationals from 1985 to 1990. He was an off-spinner but was overshadowed by the spinners of the day for a place in the…

1960

Molly Hagan

American actress

Molly Hagan is an American actress. She co-starred in films Code of Silence (1985), Some Kind of Wonderful (1987), The Dentist (1996), Election (1999), and Sully (2016), and is also known for her roles in television on…

1961

Nick Harvey

English politician, Minister of State for the Armed Forces

Sir Nicholas Barton Harvey is a British Liberal Democrat politician. He was the member of parliament (MP) for North Devon from 1992 to 2015 and the Minister of State for the Armed Forces from 2010 to 2012.

1961

Lee Rocker

American bassist

Leon Drucker, professionally known as Lee Rocker is an American musician. He is a member of the rockabilly band Stray Cats.

1961

Tasmin Archer

English pop singer

Tasmin Angela Archer is a British pop rock singer-songwriter from Bradford, England. Her debut album, Great Expectations (1992), spawned the hit "Sleeping Satellite", which reached No. 1 in the United Kingdom and…

1963

Frano Botica

New Zealand rugby player and coach

Frano Michael Botica is a New Zealand-Croatian rugby union and rugby league coach and former player in both codes, who played in the 1980s and 1990s. He was also the head coach of the Philippines sevens team.

1963

James Hetfield

American singer-songwriter and guitarist

James Alan Hetfield is an American musician. He is the lead vocalist, rhythm guitarist, co-founder, and a primary songwriter of heavy metal band Metallica. He is mainly known for his raspy voice and intricate rhythm…

1963

David Knox

Australian rugby player

David Knox is an Australian former rugby union footballer and coach.

1963

Ed Roland

American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer

Ed Roland is an American singer-songwriter and musician. He is the lead vocalist and primary songwriter of the rock band Collective Soul, along with his brother Dean, who also served as the band's rhythm guitarist. He…

1963

Lisa Ann Walter

American actress, producer, and screenwriter

Lisa Ann Walter is an American actress, comedian, and television producer, best known for her roles as Chessy in the romantic comedy film The Parent Trap (1998) and Melissa Schemmenti on the ABC mockumentary sitcom…

1963

Isaiah Washington

American actor and producer

Isaiah Washington IV is an American actor. Following a series of film appearances, he came to prominence as Dr. Preston Burke in Grey's Anatomy.

1963

Lucky Dube

South African singer and keyboard player (died 2007)

Lucky Philip Dube was a South African reggae musician and Rastafarian. His record sales across the world earned him the Best Selling African Musician prize at the 1996 World Music Awards. In his lyrics, Dube discussed…

1964

Ralph Knibbs

British rugby union player

Ralph Andrew Knibbs is an English former rugby union player who played for Bristol.

1964

Nate McMillan

American basketball player and coach

Nathaniel McMillan is an American basketball coach and former player who serves as an assistant coach for the Los Angeles Lakers of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He coached the Seattle SuperSonics from 2000…

1964

Kevin Sumlin

American football player and coach

Kevin Warren Sumlin is an American football coach who is currently the head coach for the Houston Gamblers of the United Football League (UFL). Sumlin served as the head football coach at the University of Houston from…

1964

Abhisit Vejjajiva

English-Thai economist and politician, 27th Prime Minister of Thailand

Abhisit Vejjajiva is a Thai politician who was the 27th prime minister of Thailand from 2008 to 2011. He was the leader of the Democrat Party from 2005 until he resigned following the party's weak performance in the…

1964

Brent Butt

Canadian actor, producer, and screenwriter

Brent Leroy Butt is a Canadian actor, comedian, and writer. He is best known for his role as Brent Leroy on the CTV sitcom Corner Gas, which he created. He also created the television series Hiccups and wrote the 2013…

1966

Gizz Butt

English singer-songwriter and guitarist

Graham Anthony "Gizz" Butt is a British musician who is the lead vocalist and lead guitarist for the punk band Janus Stark. He is best known for being the live guitarist for The Prodigy in the late 1990s. His own band…

1966

Eric Esch

American wrestler, boxer, and mixed martial artist

Eric David Scott Esch, better known by his nickname "Butterbean", is an American television personality and retired professional boxer, kickboxer, mixed martial artist, and professional wrestler. A competitor in the…

1966

Robert Laimer

Austrian politician

Robert Laimer is an Austrian politician and member of the National Council. A member of the Social Democratic Party, he has represented Lower Austria Centre since November 2017.

1966

Mathieu Kassovitz

French actor, director, producer, and screenwriter

Mathieu Kassovitz is a French actor, film director, film producer and screenwriter. He has won three César Awards: Most Promising Actor for See How They Fall (1994), and Best Film and Best Editing for La Haine (1995).…

1967

Skin

English singer and guitarist

Deborah Anne Dyer, known mononymously by the stage name Skin, is a British singer, musician and songwriter. She is the lead vocalist of Skunk Anansie, who are often grouped as part of the Britrock movement in the UK,…

1967

Rod Beck

American baseball player (died 2007)

Rodney Roy Beck, nicknamed "Shooter", was an American professional baseball relief pitcher in Major League Baseball who played for the San Francisco Giants (1991–1997), Chicago Cubs (1998–1999), Boston Red Sox…

1968

Doug Overton

American basketball player and coach

Douglas M. Overton is an American former professional basketball player and coach. He played eleven seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA) following a college career with the La Salle Explorers.

1969

Stephen Carpenter

American guitarist and songwriter

Stephen Carpenter is an American musician, best known as the co-founder and lead guitarist of the alternative metal band Deftones. He is also a founding member of the instrumental industrial metal side project Sol…

1970

Gina G

Australian singer-songwriter

Gina G is an Australian former singer. She is most notable for her song "Ooh Aah... Just a Little Bit", with which she represented the United Kingdom in the Eurovision Song Contest 1996. The song reached number 1 in the…

1970

Masahiro Sakurai

Japanese video game designer

Masahiro Sakurai is a Japanese video game director and game designer best known as the creator of the Kirby and Super Smash Bros. series. Apart from his work on those series, he also led the design of Meteos in 2005…

1970

Forbes Johnston

Scottish footballer (died 2007)

Forbes Johnston was a Scottish professional footballer playing primarily in defence, but also spending some time in the midfield.

1971

DJ Spinderella

American DJ, rapper, producer, and actress

Deidra Muriel Roper, known professionally as DJ Spinderella or simply Spinderella, is an American DJ, rapper, and producer. She is best known as a member of the hip-hop group Salt-N-Pepa. Roper occasionally appeared on…

1971

Sandis Ozoliņš

Latvian ice hockey player and politician

Sandis Ozoliņš, commonly spelled Sandis Ozolinsh in North America, is a Latvian former professional ice hockey player and coach. During his career in North America, Ozoliņš was a seven-time NHL All-Star, Stanley Cup…

1972

Jay Cutler

American bodybuilder

Jason Isaac Cutler is a former American professional bodybuilder. An IFBB Pro League bodybuilder, Cutler is a four-time Mr. Olympia winner, having won in 2006, 2007, 2009, and 2010; and a six-time runner-up, the most in…

1973

Nikos Dabizas

Greek footballer

Nikos Dabizas is a Greek former professional footballer who played as a defender for Newcastle United, Leicester City, Olympiacos and AEL. He was also in Greece's 2004 European Football Championship winning squad.

1973

Michael Ealy

American actor

Michael David Brown, known professionally as Michael Ealy, is an American actor. He is known for his roles in Barbershop (2002), 2 Fast 2 Furious (2003), Takers (2010), Think Like a Man (2012), About Last Night (2014),…

1973

Chris Murphy

American politician

Christopher Scott Murphy is an American lawyer, author, and politician serving since 2013 as the junior United States senator from Connecticut. A member of the Democratic Party, he served from 2007 to 2013 in the United…

1973

Wael Gomaa

Egyptian footballer

Wael Kamel Gomaa El Hawty is an Egyptian retired professional footballer who played as a centre-back. He is regarded as one of the best African defenders of all time.

1975

Argyro Strataki

Greek heptathlete

Argyro Strataki is a Greek former heptathlete. She represented her country at the Olympic Games in 2004 and 2008. She was also a four-time participant at the World Championships in Athletics and a three-time competitor…

1975

Troy Glaus

American baseball player

Troy Edward Glaus is an American former professional baseball third baseman and first baseman. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) with the Anaheim Angels (1998–2004), Arizona Diamondbacks (2005), Toronto Blue Jays…

1976

Tom Brady

American football player

Thomas Edward Patrick Brady Jr. is an American former professional football quarterback who played in the National Football League (NFL) for 23 seasons. He spent his first 20 seasons with the New England Patriots and…

1977

Justin Lehr

American baseball player

Charles Larry "Justin" Lehr is an American former professional baseball pitcher. He played for the Oakland Athletics, Milwaukee Brewers, and Cincinnati Reds of Major League Baseball (MLB), as well as the Doosan Bears of…

1977

Óscar Pereiro

Spanish cyclist and footballer

Óscar Pereiro Sío is a Spanish former professional road bicycle racer. Pereiro was declared the winner of the 2006 Tour de France, after the original winner Floyd Landis was disqualified for failing a doping test after…

1977

Joi Chua

Singaporean singer-songwriter and actress

Joi Chua Choon Kah is a Singaporean singer, songwriter, actress and entrepreneur. She is known for the hits "Waiting for a Sunny Day" (等一个晴天), "One Day I Will" (有一天我會), and "Watching the Sunrise With Me" (陪我看日出), a…

1978

Mariusz Jop

Polish footballer

Mariusz Jop is a Polish professional football manager and former player. He is currently the manager of Ekstraklasa club Wisła Kraków.

1978

Jenny Tinmouth

English motorcycle racer

Jennifer Rosanne Tinmouth is an English motorcycle racer. She is the current female Isle of Man TT lap record holder, breaking the record during her first ever TT in 2009 and gaining a Guinness World Record for this…

1978

Dimitrios Zografakis

Greek footballer

Dimitrios Zografakis is a Greek former professional footballer who played as a midfielder.

1978

Evangeline Lilly

Canadian actress

Nicole Evangeline Lilly is a Canadian actress and author. She gained popularity for her first leading role as Kate Austen in the ABC drama series Lost (2004–2010), which garnered her six nominations for the Saturn Award…

1979

Nadia Ali

Libyan-American singer-songwriter

Nadia Ali is an American singer and songwriter. Ali gained prominence in 2001 as the frontwoman and songwriter of the group iiO after their debut single "Rapture" gained significant success in Europe, most notably the…

1980

Dominic Moore

Canadian ice hockey player

Dominic Moore is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player who serves as the game and studio analyst for the Utah Mammoth. He played as a center, playing nearly 900 National Hockey League (NHL) games. Initially…

1980

Tony Pashos

American football player

Anthony George Pashos is an American former professional football player who was an offensive tackle who played in the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Illinois Fighting Illini and was…

1980

Brandan Schieppati

American singer-songwriter and guitarist

Brandan Schieppati is an American musician. He is the singer of metalcore band Bleeding Through and a former guitarist/songwriter of the fellow Orange County metalcore band Eighteen Visions, for which he played from…

1980

Hannah Simone

Canadian television host and actress

Hannah Simone is a British and Canadian actress. She portrayed Cece Parikh on the Fox sitcom New Girl.

1980

Fikirte Addis

Ethiopian fashion designer

Fikirte Addis is an Ethiopian fashion designer and the founder of the Addis Ababa–based label Yefikir Design. Her work is noted for contemporary interpretations of Ethiopian traditional textiles and dress, including…

1981

Travis Bowyer

American baseball player

Travis Charlton Bowyer is an American former professional baseball relief pitcher. He played for the Minnesota Twins of Major League Baseball in 2005.

1981

Pablo Ibáñez

Spanish footballer

Pablo Ibáñez Tébar, sometimes known as just Pablo, is a Spanish former professional footballer who played as a centre back.

1981

Kaspar Kokk

Estonian skier

Kaspar Kokk is an Estonian cross-country skier. He competed at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin. He represents Estonia at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Kokk's best finish was 8th in…

1982

Jesse Lumsden

Canadian bobsledder and football player

Jesse Lumsden is a Canadian Olympic and world champion bobsledder and a former Canadian football player, who played for the Hamilton Tiger-Cats, Edmonton Eskimos and Calgary Stampeders.

1982

Damien Sandow

American wrestler

Aron Steven Haddad is an American professional wrestler working as a manager in the National Wrestling Alliance under the name Aron Stevens.

1982

Ryan Carter

American ice hockey player

Ryan Michael Carter is an American former professional ice hockey forward. He played nearly 500 games in the National Hockey League (NHL).

1983

Mark Reynolds

American baseball player

Mark Andrew Reynolds is an American former professional baseball third baseman and first baseman. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Arizona Diamondbacks, Baltimore Orioles, Cleveland Indians, New York…

1983

Yasin Avcı

Turkish footballer

Yasin Avcı is a Turkish professional football midfielder, who is currently unattached.

1984

Sunil Chhetri

Indian footballer

Sunil Chhetri is an Indian professional footballer who plays as a forward for Indian Super League club Bengaluru. He is the all-time top scorer in ISL history, the fourth-highest international goalscorer, and the…

1984

Matt Joyce

American baseball player

Matthew Ryan Joyce is an American former professional baseball outfielder, who played 14 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB). Between 2008 and 2021, he played for eight MLB teams, most notably the Tampa Bay Rays,…

1984

Ryan Lochte

American swimmer

Ryan Steven Lochte is an American former competitive swimmer and 12-time Olympic medalist. He is the third-most decorated swimmer in Olympic history measured by total number of medals, behind only Michael Phelps and…

1984

Chris Maurer

former bassist of ska band Suburban Legends

Suburban Legends are an American ska punk band that formed in Huntington Beach, California, in 1998 and later based themselves in nearby Santa Ana. After building a fanbase in the Orange County ska scene through their…

1984

Georgina Haig

Australian actress

Georgina Haig is an Australian actress, known for her roles in American television series Once Upon a Time, Fringe, Limitless, Snowpiercer and Archive 81 and Australian films Late Night with the Devil, The Mule, Wasted…

1985

Brent Kutzle

American bass player and producer

Brent Michael Kutzle is an American musician, multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, record producer, and film composer originating from Fountain Valley, California. He is the bassist and cellist for the pop rock band…

1985

Ats Purje

Estonian footballer

Ats Purje is an Estonian professional footballer who plays as a forward for Tallinna Kalev.

1985

Sonny Bill Williams

New Zealand rugby player and boxer

Sonny William Williams is a New Zealand professional boxer, and a former professional rugby league and rugby union footballer. He is only the second person to represent New Zealand in rugby union after first playing for…

1985

Charlotte Casiraghi

Monégasque journalist, co-founded Ever Manifesto

Charlotte Marie Pomeline Casiraghi is a Monégasque writer and philosopher with experiences working in journalism and publishing. She has worked extensively as a brand ambassador and fashion model. While for many years…

1986

Darya Domracheva

Belarusian biathlete

Darya Uladzimirauna Domracheva is a retired Belarusian biathlete and coach who competed in the Biathlon World Cup from 2006 to 2018. She won a gold medal in the 4×6 km relay and a silver medal in the mass start…

1986

Kim Hyung-jun

South Korean singer and dancer

Kim Hyung-jun is a South Korean entertainer, lead rapper and youngest member of boyband SS501 and SS301. In 2010, Kim left DSP Media, who managed him as part of SS501, and joined S-Plus Entertainment as a solo artist.…

1987

Chris McQueen

Australian-English rugby league player

Chris McQueen is a former England international rugby league footballer who plays as a second-row or loose forward for the Brisbane Tigers in the Queensland Cup.

1987

Denny Cardin

Italian footballer

Denny Cardin is an Italian footballer who plays for ACD Portomansuè.

1988

Leigh Tiffin

American football player

Van Leigh Tiffin Jr. is an American former college football player who was a kicker for the Alabama Crimson Tide. He was signed by the Cleveland Browns of the National Football League (NFL) as an undrafted free agent in…

1988

Sven Ulreich

German footballer

Sven Ulreich is a German professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Bundesliga club Bayern Munich.

1988

Jules Bianchi

French race car driver (died 2015)

Jules Lucien André Bianchi was a French racing driver who competed in Formula One from 2013 to 2014.

1989

Sam Hutchinson

English footballer

Samuel Edward Hutchinson is an English professional footballer who plays as a centre-back or defensive midfielder for AFC Wimbledon. He will become a free agent on 30 June 2026.

1989

Tyrod Taylor

American football player

Tyrod Di'allo Taylor is an American professional football quarterback for the Green Bay Packers of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Virginia Tech Hokies and was selected by the…

1989

Nick Viergever

Dutch footballer

Nick Viergever is a Dutch professional footballer who plays as a defender for Utrecht. He also made three appearances for the Netherlands national team.

1989

Jourdan Dunn

English model

Jourdan Sherise Dunn is a British model. She was discovered in Hammersmith Primark in 2006 and signed to The Squad Management in London. She began appearing on international runways in early 2007. In February 2008, she…

1990

Kang Min-kyung

South Korean singer

Kang Min-kyung is a South Korean singer and actress. She is one half of the duo Davichi, who rose to fame upon the release of their debut album Amaranth in 2008. Davichi has since released 3 studio albums, 6 extended…

1990

Gamze Bulut

Turkish runner

Gamze Bulut is a Turkish middle-distance runner.

1992

Gesa Felicitas Krause

German runner

Gesa Felicitas Krause is a German athlete who specialises in the 3000 m steeplechase. She won bronze medals in steeplechase at both the 2015 and 2019 World Championships, and represented Germany at the 2012, 2016, and…

1992

Diāna Marcinkēviča

Latvian tennis player

Diāna Marcinkēviča is a tennis player from Latvia.

1992

Aljon Mariano

Filipino basketball player

Aljon Escalona Mariano is a Filipino professional basketball player for the Terrafirma Dyip of the Philippine Basketball Association (PBA). He was drafted with the 16th overall pick in the 2015 PBA draft by the Barangay…

1992

Lum Rexhepi

Finnish footballer

Lum Afrim Rexhepi is a professional footballer who most recently played as a centre-back for Finnish club JäPS and the Kosovo national team.

1992

Karlie Kloss

American fashion model

Karlie Elizabeth Kloss is an American supermodel and entrepreneur. She was a Victoria's Secret Angel from 2013 until 2015, when she enrolled as a student at New York University. By 2019, Kloss had appeared on 40…

1992

Ola Abidogun

English sprinter

Ola Abidogun is a British athlete who competes in T46 sprinting events. He competed for England at the 2010 Commonwealth Games, and was part of the British team at the 2012 Summer Paralympics where he took bronze in the…

1993

Yurina Kumai

Japanese singer

Yurina Kumai is a Japanese model and former singer. Kumai began her career as a member of Hello! Project Kids in 2002. In 2004, she debuted as a member of Berryz Kobo, a girl group associated with the musical…

1993

Kwon Alexander

American football player

Kwon Alexander is an American former professional football linebacker. He played college football for the LSU Tigers. He was selected by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in the fourth round of the 2015 NFL draft. Alexander has…

1994

Manaia Cherrington

New Zealand rugby league player

Manaia Cherrington is a New Zealand professional rugby league footballer who plays for the Wests Magpies in the New South Wales Cup. He plays at hooker and previously played for the New Zealand Warriors, Wests Tigers…

1994

Esther Earl

American author, vlogger, and online personality (died 2010)

Esther Grace Earl was an American author, internet vlogger, online personality, and Nerdfighter, as well as an activist in the Harry Potter Alliance. Prior to her death from cancer in 2010, Earl befriended author John…

1994

Todd Gurley

American football player

Todd Jerome Gurley II is an American former professional football running back who played in the National Football League (NFL) for six seasons, primarily with the Los Angeles Rams. He played college football for the…

1994

Younghoe Koo

South Korean-born American football player

Younghoe Koo is a South Korean–American professional football placekicker. Known for his ability to successfully execute onside kicks, Koo played college football at Georgia Southern before signing with the Los Angeles…

1994

Zac Gallen

American baseball player

Zachary Peter Gallen is an American professional baseball pitcher for the Arizona Diamondbacks of Major League Baseball (MLB). He has previously played in MLB for the Miami Marlins. He played college baseball for the…

1995

Victoria Kan

Russian tennis player

Victoria Rodionovna Kan is a Russian tennis player.

1995

Alec Bohm

American baseball player

Alec Daniel Bohm (born August 3, 1996 is an American professional baseball third baseman for the Philadelphia Phillies of Major League Baseball. He has also represented USA Baseball in international competition.

1996

Bokondji Imama

Canadian ice hockey player

Bokondji "Boko" Imama is a Canadian professional ice hockey left winger for the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins of the American Hockey League (AHL) while under contract to the Pittsburgh Penguins of the National Hockey…

1996

Derwin James

American football player

Derwin Alonzo James Jr. is an American professional football safety for the Los Angeles Chargers of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Florida State Seminoles. He was selected by the…

1996

Luis Robert Jr.

Cuban baseball player

Luis Robert Moirán Jr. is a Cuban-born professional baseball center fielder for the New York Mets of Major League Baseball (MLB). He has previously played in MLB for the Chicago White Sox. After defecting from Cuba in…

1997

Zach Wilson

American football player

Zachary Kapono Wilson is an American professional football quarterback for the New Orleans Saints of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the BYU Cougars and was selected second overall by…

1999

Brahim Díaz

Spanish-Moroccan footballer

Brahim Abdelkader Díaz, also known mononymously as Brahim, is a professional footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder or winger for La Liga club Real Madrid. Born in Spain, he plays for the Morocco national team.

1999

Yoo Yeon-jung

South Korean singer

Yoo Yeon-jung, known mononymously as Yeonjung, is a South Korean singer signed under Starship Entertainment and Yuehua Entertainment. She is best known for being a member of the South Korean girl group WJSN, and for…

1999

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