Famous Birthdays on January 16

Q: Who was born on January 16?

Famous people born on January 16 include: Sheng Zong, Isaac Komnenos, Edmund Crouchback, Robert de Vere, René of Anjou.

Q: What is Wolfgang Schmidt known for?

Wolfgang Schmidt, German discus thrower

226 people 972 – 2000

January 16 has seen 226 notable people enter the world across recorded history — from 972 – 2000. Below are the most significant names born on this date.

By thisDay.info Editorial Team · January 16 — Wikipedia

1954 — Wolfgang Schmidt

German discus thrower

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Wolfgang Schmidt is a German former track and field athlete who competed for East Germany at the 1976 Summer Olympics and won the silver medal in the discus throw

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He later competed for the Federal Republic of Germany and won third place in the 1990 European Athletics Championships

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A former world record holder, he also won several medals at the European Athletics Championships

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Schmidt made headlines in 1982 due to his failed attempt to escape from East Germany

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Born in Berlin, he competed for the SC Dynamo Berlin / Sportvereinigung (SV) Dynamo.

Sheng Zong

emperor of the Liao Dynasty (died 1031)

Emperor Shengzong of Liao, personal name Wenshunu, sinicised name Yelü Longxu, was the sixth emperor of the Khitan-led Chinese Liao dynasty and its longest reigning monarch.

972

Isaac Komnenos

son of Byzantine emperor Alexios I Komnenos (died 1152)

Isaac Komnenos or Comnenus was the third son of Byzantine Emperor Alexios I Komnenos and Empress Irene Doukaina. He was raised to the high rank of sebastokrator by his older brother John II Komnenos in reward for his…

1093

Edmund Crouchback

English politician, Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports (died 1296)

Edmund Crouchback was a member of the royal Plantagenet Dynasty and the founder of the House of Lancaster. He was Earl of Leicester (1265–1296), Lancaster (1267–1296) and Derby (1269–1296) in England and Count Palatine…

1245

Robert de Vere

duke of Ireland (died 1392)

Robert de Vere, 9th Earl of Oxford, KG was a favourite and court companion of King Richard II of England. He was the ninth Earl of Oxford and the first Duke of Ireland and the only Marquess of Dublin. He was also the…

1362

René of Anjou

king of Naples (died 1480)

René I of Anjou was Duke of Anjou and Count of Provence from 1434 to 1480, who also reigned as King of Naples from 1435 to 1442. Having spent his last years in Aix-en-Provence, he is known in France as the Good King…

1409

Johannes Schöner

German astronomer and cartographer (died 1547)

Johannes Schöner was a German polymath. It is best to refer to him using the usual 16th-century Latin term "mathematicus", as the areas of study to which he devoted his life were very different from those now considered…

1477

Anthony Denny

confidant of Henry VIII of England (died 1559)

Sir Anthony Denny was Groom of the Stool to King Henry VIII of England, thus his closest courtier and confidant. In 1539 he was appointed a gentleman of the privy chamber and was its most prominent member in King…

1501

Bayinnaung

king of Burma (died 1581)

Bayinnaung Kyawhtin Nawrahta; 16 January 1516 – 10 October 1581), personal name Maung Yeh Htut (ရှင်ရဲထွတ်), was King of Burma from 30 April 1550 until his death in 1581, during the Toungoo dynasty. His reign is…

1516

Jakobea of Baden

Margravine of Baden by birth, Duchess of Jülich-Cleves-Berg by marriage (died 1597)

Princess Jakobea of Baden was daughter of the Margrave Philibert of Baden-Baden and Mechthild of Bavaria.

1558

François de Vendôme

duke of Beaufort (died 1669)

François de Vendôme, duc de Beaufort was the son of César, Duke of Vendôme, and Françoise de Lorraine. He was a prominent figure in the Fronde, and later went on to fight in the Mediterranean. He is sometimes called…

1616

Lucas Achtschellinck

Belgian painter and educator (died 1699)

Lucas Achtschellinck was a Flemish landscape painter. He is counted among the landscape painters active in Brussels referred to as the School of Painters of the Sonian Forest who all shared an interest in depicting…

1626

Guru Har Rai

Sikh Guru (died 1661)

Guru Har Rai revered as the seventh Nanak, was the seventh of ten Gurus of the Sikh religion. He became the Sikh leader at age 14, on 3 March 1644, after the death of his grandfather and the sixth Sikh leader Guru…

1630

Dorothe Engelbretsdatter

Norwegian author and poet (died 1716)

Dorothe Engelbretsdatter was a Norwegian author. She principally wrote hymns and poems which were strongly religious. She has been described as Norway's first recognized female author as well as Norway's first feminist…

1634

Johann Conrad Brunner

Swiss anatomist (died 1727)

Johann Conrad Brunner was a Swiss anatomist, especially cited for his work on the pancreas and duodenum.

1653

Louis de Rouvroy

duc de Saint-Simon, French soldier and diplomat (died 1755)

Louis de Rouvroy, duc de Saint-Simon, GE, was a French courtier and memoirist, who also spent time as a soldier and diplomat. He was born in Paris at the Hôtel Selvois, 6 rue Taranne. The family's ducal peerage…

1675

Peter Scheemakers

Belgian sculptor and educator (died 1781)

Peter Scheemakers or Pieter Scheemaeckers II or the Younger was a Flemish sculptor who worked for most of his life in London. His public and church sculptures in a classicist style had an important influence on the…

1691

Niccolò Piccinni

Italian composer and educator (died 1800)

Niccolò Piccinni was an Italian composer of symphonies, sacred music, chamber music, and opera. Although he is somewhat obscure today, Piccinni was one of the most popular composers of opera—particularly the Neapolitan…

1728

Vittorio Alfieri

Italian poet and playwright (died 1803)

Count Vittorio Amedeo Alfieri was an Italian dramatist and poet, considered the "founder of Italian tragedy." He wrote nineteen tragedies, sonnets, satires, a notable autobiography, and translated Virgil and other works…

1749

Richard Goodwin Keats

English admiral and politician, third Commodore-Governor of Newfoundland (died 1834)

Admiral of the Blue Sir Richard Goodwin Keats, GCB was a Royal Navy officer and colonial administrator who served in the American War of Independence and French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. He retired in 1812 due…

1757

Charles Henry Davis

American admiral (died 1877)

Charles Henry Davis was a self-educated American astronomer and rear admiral of the United States Navy. While working for the United States Coast Survey, he researched tides and currents, and located an uncharted shoal…

1807

Henry Halleck

American lawyer, general, and scholar (died 1872)

Henry Wager Halleck was a senior United States Army officer, scholar, and lawyer. A noted expert in military studies, he was known by a nickname that became derogatory: "Old Brains". He was an important participant in…

1815

John C. Breckinridge

American general and politician, 14th Vice President of the United States (died 1875)

John Cabell Breckinridge was an American politician who served as the 14th vice president of the United States, with President James Buchanan, from 1857 to 1861, and as a general in the Confederate Army during the…

1821

Robert R. Hitt

American lawyer and politician, 13th United States Assistant Secretary of State (died 1906)

Robert Roberts Hitt was an American diplomat and Republican politician from Illinois. He served briefly as assistant secretary of state in the short-lived administration of James A. Garfield but resigned alongside…

1834

Francis II of the Two Sicilies (died 1894)

Francis II was the last king of the Two Sicilies before the Italian unification, led by Giuseppe Garibaldi and Victor Emmanuel II of Sardinia. After he was deposed, the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies and the Kingdom of…

1836

Franz Brentano

German philosopher and psychologist (died 1917)

Franz Clemens Honoratus Hermann Josef Brentano was a German philosopher and psychologist. His 1874 Psychology from an Empirical Standpoint, considered his magnum opus, is credited with having reintroduced the medieval…

1838

Ismail Kemal

Albanian politician and statesman, first prime minister of Albania (died 1919)

Ismail Qemali, or Ismail Kemal Bey Vlora, was an Albanian politician and statesman who is regarded as the founder of modern Albania. He served as the first prime minister of Albania from December 1912 until his…

1844

William Hall-Jones

English-New Zealand politician, 16th Prime Minister of New Zealand (died 1936)

Sir William Hall-Jones was the 16th prime minister of New Zealand from June 1906 until August 1906.

1851

Johnston Forbes-Robertson

English actor and manager (died 1937)

Sir Johnston Forbes-Robertson was an English actor and theatre manager and husband of the actress Gertrude Elliott. Considered by some the finest Hamlet of the Victorian era and one of the finest actors of his time, he…

1853

Ian Standish Monteith Hamilton

Greek-English general (died 1947)

General Sir Ian Standish Monteith Hamilton, was a senior British Army officer who had an extensive British Imperial military career in the Victorian and Edwardian eras. Hamilton was twice recommended for the Victoria…

1853

André Michelin

French businessman, co-founded the Michelin Tyre Company (died 1931)

André Jules Michelin was a French industrialist who, with his brother Édouard (1859–1940), founded the Michelin Tyre Company in 1888 in the French city of Clermont-Ferrand.

1853

Jüri Jaakson

Estonian businessman and politician, State Elder of Estonia (died 1942)

Jüri Jaakson was an Estonian lawyer and statesman.

1870

Henri Büsser

French organist, composer, and conductor (died 1973)

Paul Henri Büsser was a French classical composer, organist, conductor and teacher. Among his teachers were César Franck, Charles Gounod and Jules Massenet. In addition to his own compositions Büsser edited and…

1872

Robert W. Service

English-Canadian poet and author (died 1958)

Robert William Service was an English-born Canadian poet and writer, often called “The Bard of the Yukon" and "The Canadian Kipling". Born in Lancashire of Scottish descent, he was a bank clerk by trade, but spent long…

1874

Leonor Michaelis

German biochemist and physician (died 1949)

Leonor Michaelis was a German biochemist, physical chemist, and physician. He is known for his work with Maud Menten on enzyme kinetics in 1913, as well as for work on enzyme inhibition, pH and quinones.

1875

Claude Buckenham

English cricketer and footballer (died 1937)

Claude Percival Buckenham was an English first-class cricketer who played for Essex and England. He also won a gold medal playing football at the Olympic Games in 1900.

1876

Harry Carey

American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (died 1947)

Henry DeWitt Carey II was an American actor and one of silent film's earliest superstars, usually cast as a Western hero. One of his best-known performances is as the president of the United States Senate in the drama…

1878

Samuel Jones

American high jumper (died 1954)

Samuel Symington Jones was an American athlete who competed mainly in the high jump. He competed for the United States in the 1904 Summer Olympics held in St Louis, United States in the high jump where he won the gold…

1880

Margaret Wilson

American author (died 1973)

Margaret Wilhelmina Wilson was an American novelist. She was awarded the 1924 Pulitzer Prize for The Able McLaughlins.

1882

Zhou Zuoren

Chinese author and translator (died 1967)

Zhou Zuoren was a Chinese writer, primarily known as an essayist and a translator. He was a major figure in the genre of prose essays. Zhou was a younger brother of Lu Xun, the second of three brothers.

1885

Osip Brik

Russian avant garde writer and literary critic (died 1945)

Osip Maksimovich Brik was a Russian avant garde writer, literary critic and lawyer, known for being an important member of the Russian formalist school, though he also identified himself as one of the Futurists.

1888

Homer Burton Adkins

American chemist (died 1949)

Homer Burton Adkins was an American chemist who studied the hydrogenation of organic compounds. Adkins was regarded as top in his field and a world authority on the hydrogenation of organic compounds. Adkins is known…

1892

Daisy Kennedy

Australian-English violinist (died 1981)

Daisy Fowler Kennedy was an Australian-born concert violinist.

1893

Irving Mills

American publisher (died 1985)

Irving Harold Mills was a Ukrainian-American music publisher, musician, lyricist, and jazz promoter. He often used the pseudonyms Goody Goodwin and Joe Primrose.

1894

Evripidis Bakirtzis

Greek soldier and politician (died 1947)

Evripidis Bakirtzis, born in Serres, Ottoman Empire, was a Hellenic Army officer and politician. Dismissed from the army twice due to his participation in pro-republican coup attempts and sentenced to death, later…

1895

T. M. Sabaratnam

Sri Lankan lawyer and politician (died 1966)

Thambaiyah Mudaliyar Sabaratnam was a Ceylon Tamil lawyer, politician and member of the Legislative Council of Ceylon.

1895

Nat Schachner

American lawyer, chemist, and author (died 1955)

Nathaniel Schachner, who published under the names Nat Schachner and Nathan Schachner, was an American writer, historian, and attorney, as well as an early advocate of the development of rockets for space travel. A…

1895

Carlos Pellicer

Mexican poet and academic (died 1977)

Carlos Pellicer Cámara belonged to the first wave of modernist Mexican poets and was active in the promotion of Mexican art, pictures, and literature. An enthusiastic traveler, his work is filled with depictions of…

1897

Margaret Booth

American producer and editor (died 2002)

Margaret Booth was an American film editor. In a career lasting seven decades, Booth was most associated with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM).

1898

Irving Rapper

American film director and producer (died 1999)

Irving Rapper was a British-born American film director.

1898

Kiku Amino

Japanese author and translator (died 1978)

Kiku Amino was a Japanese writer and translator of English and Russian literature. She was a recipient of the Women's Literature Prize, the Yomiuri Prize, and Japan Academy of the Arts prize.

1900

Edith Frank

German-Dutch mother of Anne Frank (died 1945)

Edith Frank was the mother of Holocaust diarist Anne Frank and her older sister Margot. After the family were discovered in hiding in Amsterdam during the German occupation, she was transported to Auschwitz-Birkenau…

1900

Fulgencio Batista

Cuban colonel and politician, ninth President of Cuba (died 1973)

Fulgencio Batista y Zaldívar was a Cuban military officer, political leader, and dictator who played a dominant role in Cuban politics from his initial rise to power in the 1950s until his overthrow in the Cuban…

1901

Frank Zamboni

American businessman and inventor (died 1988)

Frank Joseph Zamboni Jr. was an American businessman and inventor whose most famous invention is the modern ice resurfacer, with his surname being registered as a trademark for these devices.

1901

Eric Liddell

Scottish runner, rugby player, and missionary (died 1945)

Eric Henry Liddell was a Scottish sprinter, rugby player and a Christian missionary. Born in Tianjin, China to Scottish missionary parents, he attended a boarding school near London, spending time when possible with his…

1902

William Grover-Williams

English-French racing driver (died 1945)

William Charles Frederick Grover-Williams, also known as "W Williams", was a British Grand Prix motor racing driver. He is best known for winning the first Monaco Grand Prix.

1903

Ernesto Halffter

Spanish composer and conductor (died 1989)

Ernesto Halffter Escriche was a Spanish composer and conductor. He was the brother of Rodolfo Halffter and part of the Grupo de los Ocho, which formed a sub-set of the Generation of '27.

1905

Johannes Brenner

Estonian footballer and pilot (died 1975)

Johannes Brenner was an Estonia football forward, who played for ESS Kalev Tallinn, Tallinna Jalgpalli Klubi and the Estonia national football team.

1906

Diana Wynyard

English actress (died 1964)

Diana Wynyard was an English stage and film actress.

1906

Alexander Knox

Canadian-English actor and screenwriter (died 1995)

Alexander Knox was a Canadian actor and writer. He appeared in over 100 film, television, and theatrical productions over a career spanning from the 1920s until the late 1980s. He was nominated for the Academy Award for…

1907

Paul Nitze

American banker and politician, tenth United States Secretary of the Navy (died 2004)

Paul Henry Nitze was an American businessman and government official who served as United States Deputy Secretary of Defense, U.S. Secretary of the Navy, and Director of Policy Planning for the U.S. State Department. He…

1907

Sammy Crooks

English footballer (died 1981)

Samuel Dickinson Crooks was an English footballer who played as outside forward or outside right for Derby County in the mid-war era. He was one of the best-known footballers of the 1920s and 1930s and was capped 26…

1908

Ethel Merman

American actress and singer (died 1984)

Ethel Merman was an American singer and actress. Known for her distinctive, powerful voice, and her leading roles in musical theater, she has been called "the undisputed First Lady of the musical comedy stage." Variety…

1908

Günther Prien

German captain (died 1941)

Günther Prien was a German U-boat commander during World War II. He was the first U-boat commander to receive the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross and the first member of the Kriegsmarine to receive the Knight's Cross…

1908

Clement Greenberg

American art critic (died 1994)

Clement Greenberg, occasionally writing under the pseudonym K. Hardesh, was an American essayist known mainly as an art critic closely associated with American modern art of the mid-20th century and a formalist…

1909

Dizzy Dean

American baseball player and sportscaster (died 1974)

Jay Hanna "Dizzy" Dean, also known as Jerome Herman Dean, was an American professional baseball pitcher. During his Major League Baseball (MLB) career, he played for the St. Louis Cardinals, Chicago Cubs, and St. Louis…

1910

Ivan Barrow

Jamaican cricketer (died 1979)

Ivanhoe Mordecai Barrow was a Jamaican cricketer who played 11 Tests for the West Indies in the 1930s.

1911

Eduardo Frei Montalva

Chilean lawyer and politician, 28th President of Chile (died 1982)

Eduardo Nicanor Frei Montalva was a Chilean political leader. In his long political career, he was Minister of Public Works, president of his Christian Democratic Party, senator, President of the Senate, and the 28th…

1911

Roger Lapébie

French cyclist (died 1996)

Roger Lapébie was a French racing cyclist who won the 1937 Tour de France. In addition, Lapébie won the 1934 and 1937 editions of the Critérium National. He was born at Bayonne, Aquitaine, and died in Pessac.

1911

Roger Wagner

French-American conductor and educator (died 1992)

Roger Wagner, was an American choral musician, administrator and educator. In 1946 he founded the Roger Wagner Chorale, which became one of America's premier vocal ensembles. He also founded the Los Angeles Master…

1914

Leslie H. Martinson

American director, producer, and screenwriter (died 2016)

Leslie Herbert Martinson was an American television and film director.

1915

Philip Lucock

English-Australian minister and politician (died 1996)

Philip Ernest Lucock, CBE was an Australian politician and Presbysterian minister. He served in the House of Representatives from 1952 to 1980, representing the Division of Lyne for the Country Party. He was Deputy…

1916

Carl Karcher

American businessman, founded Carl's Jr. (died 2008)

Carl Nicholas Karcher was an American businessman who founded the Carl's Jr. hamburger chain, now owned by parent company Snow Star LP. Karcher served in the U.S. military during WWII.

1917

Nel Benschop

Dutch poet and educator (died 2005)

Nelly Anna Benschop was a Dutch poet. She was a best selling poet in the Netherlands.

1918

Allan Ekelund

Swedish director, producer, and production manager (died 2009)

Allan Ekelund was a Swedish film producer. He produced 50 films between 1947 and 1964.

1918

Clem Jones

Australian surveyor and politician, eighth Lord Mayor of Brisbane (died 2007)

Clem Jones AO was an Australian politician who was the Lord Mayor of Brisbane, Queensland, representing the Labor Party. He was the longest serving mayor from 1961 to 1975. He was chair of the Darwin Reconstruction…

1918

Stirling Silliphant

American screenwriter and producer (died 1996)

Stirling Dale Silliphant was an American screenwriter and producer. He is best remembered for his screenplay for In the Heat of the Night, for which he won an Academy Award in 1967, and for creating the television…

1918

Jerome Horwitz

American chemist and academic (died 2012)

Jerome Phillip Horwitz was an American scientist; his affiliations included the Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute, the Wayne State University School of Medicine and the Michigan Cancer Foundation.

1919

Elliott Reid

American actor and screenwriter (died 2013)

Edgeworth Blair "Elliott" Reid was an American actor.

1920

Francesco Scavullo

American photographer (died 2004)

Francesco Scavullo was an American fashion photographer. He was best known for his work on the covers of Cosmopolitan from 1965 to 1995 and his celebrity portraits.

1921

Gene Feist

American director and playwright, co-founded the Roundabout Theatre Company (died 2014)

Gene Feist was an American playwright, theater director and co-founder of the Roundabout Theater Company. He authored 15 plays or adaptations, of which two were published by Samuel French Inc. – James Joyce's Dublin and…

1923

Anthony Hecht

American poet (died 2004)

Anthony Evan Hecht was an American poet. His work combined a deep interest in form with a passionate desire to confront the horrors of 20th century history, with the Second World War, in which he fought, and the…

1923

Katy Jurado

Mexican actress (died 2002)

María Cristina Estela Marcela Jurado García, known professionally as Katy Jurado, was a Mexican actress. She followed in the footsteps of earlier Mexican actresses in Hollywood, including Dolores Del Rio, Lupe Velez,…

1924

Allen Swift

American actor, writer, playwright, and magician (died 2010)

Ira J. Stadlen, known professionally as Allen Swift, was an American actor, writer and magician, best known as a voiceover artist who voiced cartoon characters Simon Bar Sinister and Riff-Raff on the Underdog cartoon…

1924

Peter Hirsch

German-English metallurgist and academic (died 2025)

Sir Peter Bernhard Hirsch was a British metallurgist who made fundamental contributions to the application of transmission electron microscopy to metals.

1925

James Robinson Risner

American general and pilot (died 2013)

Brigadier General James Robinson "Robbie" Risner was a fighter pilot in the United States Air Force, and a senior leader among U.S. prisoners of war during the Vietnam War.

1925

William Kennedy

American novelist and journalist

William Joseph Kennedy is an American writer and journalist who won the 1984 Pulitzer Prize for his 1983 novel Ironweed.

1928

Pilar Lorengar

Spanish soprano and actress (died 1996)

Lorenza Pilar García Seta, known professionally as Pilar Lorengar, was a Spanish (Aragonese) soprano. She was best known for her interpretations of opera and the Spanish genre Zarzuela, and as a soprano she was known…

1928

Stanley Jeyaraja Tambiah

Sri Lankan anthropologist and academic (died 2014)

Stanley Jeyaraja Tambiah was a social anthropologist and Esther and Sidney Rabb Professor (Emeritus) of Anthropology at Harvard University. He specialised in studies of Thailand, Sri Lanka, and Tamils, as well as the…

1929

Mary Ann McMorrow

American lawyer and judge (died 2013)

Mary Ann McMorrow was an Illinois Supreme Court chief justice.

1930

Norman Podhoretz

American journalist and author (died 2025)

Norman Harold Podhoretz was an American magazine editor, writer, and conservative political commentator. He described his views as "paleo-neoconservative", but only "because [he'd] been one for so long". He was a writer…

1930

Paula Tilbrook

English actress (died 2019)

Paula Tilbrook was an English actress who played Betty Eagleton in the ITV soap opera Emmerdale from 1994 to 2015.

1930

John Enderby

English physicist and academic (died 2021)

Sir John Edwin Enderby was a British physicist, and was Professor of Physics at University of Bristol from 1976 to 1996. He developed innovative ways of using neutrons to study matter at the microscopic level. His…

1931

Robert L. Park

American physicist and academic (died 2020)

Robert Lee Park was an American professor of physics at the University of Maryland, College Park, and a former director of public information at the Washington office of the American Physical Society. Park was most…

1931

Johannes Rau

German journalist and politician, eighth Federal President of Germany (died 2006)

Johannes Rau was a German politician who served as President of Germany from 1999 to 2004. A member of the Social Democratic Party, he previously served as the Minister-President of North Rhine-Westphalia from 1978 to…

1931

Victor Ciocâltea

Romanian chess player (died 1983)

Victor Ciocâltea was a Romanian chess player. He was awarded the International Master title in 1957 and the International Grandmaster title in 1978. Among his notable games is the one at the 15th Chess Olympiad, held in…

1932

Dian Fossey

American zoologist and anthropologist (died 1985)

Dian Fossey was an American primatologist and conservationist known for undertaking an extensive study of mountain gorilla groups from 1966 until her murder in 1985. She studied them daily in the mountain forests of…

1932

Susan Sontag

American novelist, essayist, and critic (died 2004)

Susan Lee Sontag was an American writer and critic. She primarily wrote essays, but also published novels; she published her first major work, the essay "Notes on 'Camp' ", in 1964. Her best-known works include the…

1933

Bob Bogle

American rock guitarist and bass player (died 2009)

Robert Lenard Bogle was an American musician who was a founding member of the instrumental rock band the Ventures. He and Don Wilson founded the group in 1958. Bogle was the lead guitarist and later bassist of the…

1934

Marilyn Horne

American soprano and actress

Marilyn Berneice Horne is an American mezzo-soprano opera singer. She specialized in roles requiring beauty of tone, excellent breath support, and the ability to execute difficult coloratura passages. She is a recipient…

1934

A. J. Foyt

American race car driver

Anthony Joseph Foyt Jr. is a retired American racing driver who competed in numerous disciplines of motorsport, best known for his open wheel racing career, and as the first four-time winner of the Indianapolis 500. He…

1935

Udo Lattek

German footballer, manager, and sportscaster (died 2015)

Udo Lattek was a German professional football player and coach.

1935

Michael White

Scottish actor and producer (died 2016)

Michael Simon White was a British theatrical impresario and film producer. White was responsible for the productions of 101 stage shows and 27 theatrical films over the span of 50 years.

1936

Luiz Bueno

Brazilian racing driver (died 2011)

Luiz Pereira Bueno also known as Luiz Bueno was a race car driver from Brazil. He participated in one World Championship Formula One Grand Prix, on 11 February 1973. He scored no championship points. He also…

1937

Francis George

American cardinal (died 2015)

Francis Eugene George was an American Catholic prelate who served as Archbishop of Chicago from 1997 to 2014. He previously served as Bishop of Yakima and Archbishop of Portland in Oregon. A member of the Missionary…

1937

Marina Vaizey

American journalist and critic

Marina Alandra Vaizey, Baroness Vaizey, is an Anglo-American art critic, broadcaster, exhibition curator, author and journalist based in the UK.

1938

Ralph Gibson

American photographer

Ralph Gibson is an American art photographer best known for his photographic books. His images often incorporate fragments with erotic and mysterious undertones, building narrative meaning through contextualization and…

1939

Claire Gordon

English actress and comedian (died 2015)

Claire Gordon was an English film actress and comedian known for leading and cameo roles in many British films from the late 1950s to the mid-1980s, and for working with most of the television comedy stars of that time.…

1941

Christine Truman

English tennis player and sportscaster

Christine Clara Truman Janes is a former tennis player from the United Kingdom who was active from the mid-1950s to the mid-1970s. She won a singles Grand Slam title at the French Championships in 1959 and was a…

1941

René Angélil

Canadian singer and manager (died 2016)

René Angélil was a Canadian musical producer, talent manager and singer. He was the husband and manager of singer Celine Dion.

1942

Barbara Lynn

American singer-songwriter and guitarist

Barbara Lynn is an American rhythm and blues and electric blues guitarist, singer and songwriter. She is best known for her R&B chart-topping hit, "You'll Lose a Good Thing" (1962). In 2018, Lynn received a National…

1942

Michael Attwell

English actor (died 2006)

Michael John Attwell was an English film and television actor. He is possibly best known for his role as Kenny Beale in the television soap opera EastEnders.

1943

Gavin Bryars

English bassist and composer

Richard Gavin Bryars is an English composer and double bassist. He has worked in jazz, free improvisation, minimalism, historicism, avant-garde, and experimental music.

1943

Brian Ferneyhough

British composer

Brian John Peter Ferneyhough is an English composer. Ferneyhough is typically considered the central figure of the New Complexity movement. Ferneyhough has taught composition at the Hochschule für Musik Freiburg and the…

1943

Ronnie Milsap

American singer and pianist

Ronnie Lee Milsap is an American country music singer and pianist. He was one of country music's most popular and influential performers of the 1970s and 1980s. Nearly completely blind from birth, he became one of the…

1943

Dieter Moebius

Swiss-German keyboard player and producer (died 2015)

Dieter Moebius was a Swiss-born German electronic musician and composer, best known as a member of the influential krautrock bands Cluster and Harmonia.

1944

Jim Stafford

American singer-songwriter and actor

James Wayne Stafford is an American singer, songwriter, musician, and comedian. While prominent in the 1970s for his recordings "Spiders & Snakes", "Swamp Witch", "Under the Scotsman's Kilt", "My Girl Bill", and…

1944

Jill Tarter

American astronomer and biologist

Jill Cornell Tarter is an American astronomer who works on the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI). Tarter is the former director of the Center for SETI Research, holding the Bernard M. Oliver Chair for SETI…

1944

Judy Baar Topinka

American journalist and politician (died 2014)

Judy Baar Topinka was an American politician and member of the Republican Party from the U.S. State of Illinois.

1944

Wim Suurbier

Dutch footballer and manager (died 2020)

Wilhelmus Lourens Johannes Suurbier was a Dutch professional footballer. He played as a right back and was part of the Netherlands national team and AFC Ajax teams of the 1970s.

1945

Kabir Bedi

Indian actor

Kabir Bedi is an Indian actor. His career has spanned three continents covering India, the United States and especially Italy among other Western countries in three media: film, television and theatre. He is noted for…

1946

Katia Ricciarelli

Italian soprano and actress

Katiuscia Maria Stella "Katia" Ricciarelli is an Italian soprano and actress.

1946

Elaine Murphy

Baroness Murphy, English academic and politician

Elaine Murphy, Baroness Murphy is a British psychiatrist, academic, and politician who sits as a crossbench member of the House of Lords.

1947

Harvey Proctor

English politician

Keith Harvey Proctor is a British former Conservative Member of Parliament. A member of the Monday Club, he represented Basildon from 1979 to 1983 and Billericay from 1983 to 1987. Proctor became embroiled in a scandal…

1947

Laura Schlessinger

American physiologist, talk show host, and author

Laura Catherine Schlessinger, commonly known as Dr. Laura, is an American talk radio host and author. The Dr. Laura Program, heard weekdays for three hours on Sirius XM Radio, consists mainly of her responses to…

1947

John Carpenter

American director, producer, screenwriter, and composer

John Howard Carpenter is an American filmmaker, composer, and actor. Most commonly associated with horror, action, and science fiction films of the 1970s and 1980s, he is generally recognized as a master of the horror…

1948

Ants Laaneots

Estonian general

Ants Laaneots is an Estonian politician and former military officer. He was previously the Commander of the Estonian Defence Forces and a veteran officer in the Soviet Army. Laaneots previously served as the Commandant…

1948

Ruth Reichl

American journalist and critic

Ruth Reichl is an American chef, food writer and editor. In addition to two decades as a food critic, mainly spent at the Los Angeles Times and The New York Times, Reichl has also written cookbooks, memoirs and a novel,…

1948

Cliff Thorburn

Canadian snooker player

Clifford Charles Devlin Thorburn is a Canadian retired professional snooker player. Nicknamed "The Grinder" because of his slow, determined style of play, he won the World Snooker Championship in 1980, defeating Alex…

1948

Anne F. Beiler

American businesswoman, founded Auntie Anne's

Anne F. Beiler is an American businesswoman who founded Auntie Anne's pretzels.

1949

R. F. Foster

Irish historian and academic

Robert Fitzroy Foster, publishing as R. F. Foster, is an Irish historian and academic. He was the Carroll Professor of Irish History from 1991 until 2016 at Hertford College, Oxford.

1949

Andrew Refshauge

Australian physician and politician, 13th Deputy Premier of New South Wales

Andrew John Refshauge is a former Australian politician who was Deputy Premier of New South Wales from 1995 to 2005, a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly between 1983 and 2005, and a senior minister in…

1949

Debbie Allen

American actress, dancer, and choreographer

Deborah Kaye Allen is an American actress, dancer, choreographer, singer, director, producer, and a former member of the President's Committee on the Arts and Humanities. She has been nominated for 22 Emmy Awards, and…

1950

Robert Schimmel

American comedian, actor, and producer (died 2010)

Robert George Schimmel was an American stand-up comedian who was known for his blue comedy. While the extremely profane nature of his act limited his commercial appeal, he had a reputation as a "comic's comic" due to…

1950

Fuad II

King of Egypt

Fuad II, or alternatively Ahmed Fuad II, is a member of the Egyptian Muhammad Ali dynasty. As an infant, he formally reigned as the last King of Egypt and the Sudan from July 1952 to June 1953, when he was deposed.

1952

Piercarlo Ghinzani

Italian racing driver and manager

Piercarlo Ghinzani is an Italian former racing driver and motorsport executive, who competed in Formula One from 1981 to 1989.

1952

Robert Jay Mathews

American militant, founded The Order (died 1984)

Robert Jay Mathews was an American neo-Nazi and the leader of The Order, an American white supremacist militant group that committed counterfeiting, several bank robberies, car heists, murders, and assassinations.…

1953

Robin Davies

Welsh actor (died 2010)

Robert Richard "Robin" Davies was a Welsh television and film actor.

1954

Vasili Zhupikov

Russian footballer and coach (died 2015)

Vasili Mikhailovich Zhupikov was a Soviet football player and a Russian coach.

1954

Jerry M. Linenger

American captain, physician, and astronaut

Jerry Michael Linenger is a retired Captain in the United States Navy Medical Corps, and a former NASA astronaut who flew on the Space Shuttle and Space Station Mir.

1955

Wayne Daniel

Barbadian cricketer

Wayne Wendell Daniel is a Barbadian former cricketer, who played as a right arm fast bowler. Daniel featured for the West Indies, Middlesex, Barbados and Western Australia in his cricketing career. He was the first…

1956

Gerald Henderson

American basketball player

Jerome McKinley "Gerald" Henderson Sr. is an American former professional basketball player. He was a combo guard who had a 13-year career in the National Basketball Association (NBA) from 1979 until 1992. He played for…

1956

Martin Jol

Dutch footballer and manager

Maarten Cornelis "Martin" Jol is a Dutch football manager and former midfielder. He played over 400 games during his career which included spells in the Netherlands, Germany and England, as well as earning three caps…

1956

Greedy Smith

Australian singer-songwriter and keyboardist (died 2019)

Andrew McArthur "Greedy" Smith was an Australian vocalist, keyboardist, harmonicist and songwriter with Australian pop/new wave band Mental As Anything. Smith wrote many of their hit songs including "Live It Up" which…

1956

Jurijs Andrejevs

Latvian footballer and manager

Jurijs Andrejevs is a Latvian former football player and manager who is the sporting director of Riga FC academy. Previously he was the manager of the team but was released in 2008 after an unsuccessful season. He was…

1957

Ricardo Darín

Argentinian actor, director, and screenwriter

Ricardo Alberto Darín is an Argentine actor, film director and film producer, considered one of the best and most prolific actors of Argentine cinema.

1957

Anatoli Boukreev

Russian mountaineer and explorer (died 1997)

Anatoli Nikolaevich Boukreev was a Russian-born Kazakh mountaineer who made ascents of 10 of the 14 eight-thousander peaks—those above 8,000 m (26,247 ft)—without supplemental oxygen. From 1989 through 1997, he made 18…

1958

Lena Ek

Swedish lawyer and politician, ninth Swedish Minister for the Environment

Lena Ek is a Swedish politician who served as Minister for the Environment from 2011 to 2014. She is a former Member of the European Parliament and Member of the Riksdag. She is a member of the Centre Party, part of the…

1958

Andris Šķēle

Latvian businessman and politician, fourth Prime Minister of Latvia

Andris Šķēle is a Latvian former politician and business oligarch. He served two terms as Prime Minister of Latvia from 1995 to 1997, and again from 1999 to 2000.

1958

Lisa Milroy

Canadian painter and educator

Lisa Milroy is an Anglo-Canadian artist known for her still life paintings of everyday objects. In the 1980s, Milroy’s paintings featured ordinary objects depicted against an off-white background. Subsequently her…

1959

Sade

Nigerian-English singer-songwriter and producer

Helen Folasade Adu, known professionally as Sade or Sade Adu, is a Nigerian-British singer-songwriter. She is the principal songwriter and lead vocalist of the band Sade. One of the most successful British female…

1959

Kenneth Sivertsen

Norwegian guitarist and composer (died 2006)

Kenneth Sivertsen was a Norwegian musician, composer, poet, and comedian.

1961

Joel Fitzgibbon

Australian electrician and politician, 51st Australian Minister of Defence

Joel Andrew Fitzgibbon is a retired Australian politician. He is a member of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) and represented the New South Wales seat of Hunter in the Australian House of Representatives from 1996 to…

1962

Maxine Jones

American R&B singer–songwriter and actress

Maxine Jones is an American singer, songwriter, actress and businesswoman, best known as a founding member of the R&B-pop group En Vogue, one of the world's best-selling girl groups of all time. She sang lead vocals on…

1962

James May

English journalist and television presenter

James Daniel May is an English television presenter, author and journalist. He is best known as a co-presenter, alongside Jeremy Clarkson and Richard Hammond, of the motoring programme Top Gear from 2003 until 2015 and…

1963

Gail Graham

Canadian golfer

Gail Anderson Graham is a Canadian professional golfer who played on the LPGA Tour.

1964

Jack McDowell

American baseball player

Jack Burns McDowell is an American former baseball player. A right-handed pitcher, McDowell played for the Chicago White Sox, New York Yankees, Cleveland Indians, and Anaheim Angels of the Major League Baseball (MLB).…

1966

David Chokachi

American actor

David Chokachi is an American film and television actor. He is known for his roles in the TV series Witchblade, Baywatch, and Beyond the Break.

1968

Rebecca Stead

American author

Rebecca Stead is an American writer of fiction for children and teens. She won the American Newbery Medal in 2010, the oldest award in children's literature, for her second novel When You Reach Me.

1968

Marinus Bester

German footballer

Marinus Bester is a German former professional footballer who played as a striker.

1969

Stevie Jackson

Scottish guitarist and songwriter

Stephen Thomas Jackson is a Scottish musician and songwriter. He plays lead guitar and sings in the Glasgow-based indie band Belle and Sebastian.

1969

Roy Jones Jr.

American boxer

Roy Levesta Jones Jr. is an American former professional boxer that competed from 1989 to 2018, and again in 2023. He held multiple world championships in four weight classes, including middleweight, super middleweight,…

1969

Don MacLean

American basketball player and sportscaster

Donald James MacLean is an American former professional basketball player who played in the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played college basketball for the UCLA Bruins, and became the all-time scoring leader…

1970

Sergi Bruguera

Spanish tennis player and coach

Sergi Bruguera i Torner is a Spanish former professional tennis player and coach. Bruguera won consecutive men's singles titles at the French Open in 1993 and 1994, a silver medal in men's singles at the 1996 Atlanta…

1971

Josh Evans

American film producer, screenwriter and actor

Joshua Evans is an American filmmaker, screenwriter, author, and actor best known for his role in Born on the Fourth of July (1989).

1971

Jonathan Mangum

American actor

Jonathan Joseph Mangum is an American actor and comedian. He was a cast member of the variety show The Wayne Brady Show and is the announcer for the game show Let's Make a Deal.

1971

Ruben Bagger

Danish footballer

Ruben Bagger is a Danish former footballer who spent his entire professional career for Brøndby in the Danish Superliga, and played more than 300 matches for the club. He won five Danish Superliga championships and…

1972

Ang Christou

Australian footballer

Ang Christou is a former Australian rules footballer for Carlton in the Australian Football League.

1972

Yuri Alekseevich Drozdov

Russian footballer and manager

Yuri Alekseyevich Drozdov is a Russian association football coach and a former player who spent most of his playing career at FC Lokomotiv Moscow.

1972

Ezra Hendrickson

Vincentian footballer and manager

Ezra Hendrickson is a Vincentian professional football coach and former player. He was the head coach of Major League Soccer club Chicago Fire FC from November 24, 2021, until his dismissal on May 8, 2023 and is now the…

1972

Joe Horn

American football player and coach

Joseph Horn is an American former professional football player who was a wide receiver in the National Football League (NFL). He was selected by the Kansas City Chiefs in the fifth round of the 1996 NFL draft, and also…

1972

Richard T. Jones

American actor

Richard Timothy Jones is an American actor. He has worked extensively in both film and television productions since the early 1990s. His television roles include Ally McBeal (1997), Judging Amy (1999–2005), CSI: Miami…

1972

Josie Davis

American actress

Josie Davis is an American actress, screenwriter and producer, best known for her role as Sarah Powell in the television sitcom Charles in Charge from 1987 to 1990.

1973

Kate Moss

English model and fashion designer

Katherine Ann Moss is an English model. Arriving towards the end of the "supermodel era", Moss rose to fame in the early 1990s as part of the heroin chic fashion trend. Her collaborations with Calvin Klein brought her…

1974

Marc Jackson

American basketball player and sportscaster

Marc Anthony Jackson is an American former professional basketball player who played seven seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA) from 2000 to 2007. He is a current television analyst of the Philadelphia…

1975

Viktor Maslov

Russian racing driver

Viktor Vladimirovich Maslov is a Russian race car driver. Maslov spent six years in top-level karting, debuting in 1989, before competing in the premiere ice racing event Trophy Andros in 1996. In 1996, Maslov also…

1976

Martina Moravcová

Slovak swimmer

Martina Moravcová is a Slovak medley, butterfly, and freestyle swimmer. She made her international swimming debut in 1991 for Czechoslovakia, and went on to compete in five consecutive Summer Olympics (1992–2008). She…

1976

Jeff Foster

American basketball player

Jeffrey Douglas Foster is an American former professional basketball player who spent the entirety of his 13-year career with the Indiana Pacers of the National Basketball Association (NBA).

1977

Alfredo Amézaga

Mexican baseball player

Alfredo Amézaga Delgado is a Mexican former professional baseball center fielder and infielder. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) from 2004 to 2011 for the Anaheim Angels, Colorado Rockies, Pittsburgh Pirates,…

1978

Aaliyah

American singer and actress (died 2001)

Aaliyah Dana Haughton was an American singer, actress, dancer, and model. Known as the "Princess of R&B" and "Queen of Urban Pop", she is credited with helping to redefine contemporary R&B, pop, and hip hop. Aaliyah's…

1979

Brenden Morrow

Canadian ice hockey player

Brenden Blair Morrow is a Canadian former professional ice hockey left winger. Morrow was drafted in the first round, 25th overall, by the Dallas Stars at the 1997 NHL entry draft, the organization he would play with…

1979

Jason Ward

Canadian ice hockey player

Jason Robert Ward is a Canadian former professional ice hockey right winger. He has played 336 games in the National Hockey League (NHL) with the Montreal Canadiens, New York Rangers, Los Angeles Kings, and Tampa Bay…

1979

Lin-Manuel Miranda

American actor, playwright, and composer

Lin-Manuel Miranda is an American songwriter, actor, filmmaker and librettist. He created the Broadway musicals In the Heights and Hamilton, and the soundtracks for the animated films Moana, Vivo, and Encanto. He has…

1980

Albert Pujols

Dominican-American baseball player

José Alberto Pujols Alcántara is a Dominican-American professional baseball manager and former first baseman and designated hitter who is the manager of the Estrellas Orientales of the Dominican Professional Baseball…

1980

Seydou Keita

Malian footballer

Seydou Keïta is a Malian former professional footballer. A versatile midfielder, he operated as both a central or defensive midfielder. He is both the record appearance holder and scorer of the Mali national football…

1980

Jamie Lundmark

Canadian ice hockey player

Jamie Lundmark is a Canadian former professional ice hockey forward. A first-round draft pick of the New York Rangers, Lundmark played 295 games in the National Hockey League (NHL).

1981

Paul Rofe

Australian cricketer

Paul Cameron Rofe is a former first-class cricketer who played for South Australia and Northamptonshire. A right-arm fast bowler, Rofe took 181 first-class wickets at an average of 29.66, with a best of 7/52. His…

1981

Nick Valensi

American musician and songwriter

Nicholas Valensi is an American musician, best known for his role as lead and rhythm guitarist in the American rock band The Strokes. Since 2001, the band has released six studio albums, some of which Valensi has also…

1981

Bobby Zamora

English footballer

Robert Lester Zamora is an English former professional footballer who played as a forward. Zamora began his career at Barking Abbey School. Then he moved to Football League club Bristol Rovers, but was soon signed by…

1981

Preston

English singer-songwriter

Samuel Dylan Murray Preston, more commonly known simply as Preston, is an English singer-songwriter and reality TV contestant. He is a member of the band the Ordinary Boys, finding fame appearing in the reality…

1982

Birgitte Hjort Sørensen

Danish actress

Birgitte Hjort Sørensen is a Danish actress. She has been nominated for three Robert Awards and one Bodil Award. Born in Hillerød and raised in Birkerød, Sørensen aspired to an acting career after visiting London while…

1982

Tuncay

Turkish footballer

Tuncay Şanlı, often known mononymously as Tuncay, is a Turkish former footballer.

1982

Emanuel Pogatetz

Austrian footballer

Emanuel Pogatetz is an Austrian professional football coach and a former player. He is currently first-team coach at Premier League club Crystal Palace.

1983

Andriy Rusol

Ukrainian footballer

Andriy Anatoliyovych Rusol is a Ukrainian retired footballer who formerly played as a defender for Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk and the Ukraine national team.

1983

Stephan Lichtsteiner

Swiss footballer

Stephan Lichtsteiner is a Swiss football manager and former professional footballer. He is currently the head coach of Swiss Super League club FC Basel. An attacking right-back or wing-back during his playing career, he…

1984

Miroslav Radović

Serbian footballer

Miroslav Radović is a Serbian former professional footballer who played as a winger.

1984

Joe Flacco

American football player

Joseph Vincent Flacco is an American professional football quarterback for the Cincinnati Bengals of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Pittsburgh Panthers and the Delaware Fightin'…

1985

Jayde Herrick

Australian cricketer

Jayde Matthew Herrick is a former Australian cricketer who played for Victoria. He is a right-arm fast-medium bowler and a right-hand batsman.

1985

Gintaras Januševičius

Russian-Lithuanian pianist

Gintaras Januševičius is a Lithuanian pianist, music educator, event producer and radio presenter. He performs narrative recitals and original interpretations; particularly that of Rachmaninoff, Chopin, Beethoven, and…

1985

Sidharth Malhotra

Indian actor

Sidharth Malhotra is an Indian actor who works in Hindi films. He is the recipient of several accolades, has received nominations for two Filmfare Awards, and appeared in Forbes India's Celebrity 100 list from 2016 to…

1985

Jonathan Richter

Danish-Gambian footballer

Jonathan Richter is a Danish disabled professional football midfielder, who played for the Danish Superliga side FC Nordsjælland. He is the son of a Gambian father and a Danish mother and the twin brother of Simon…

1985

Simon Richter

Danish-Gambian footballer

Simon Richter is a Danish-born Gambian former professional football defender. He also represented the Gambia national team.

1985

Renée Felice Smith

American actress

Renée Felice Smith is an American actress, director, and producer best known for her lead role as Nell Jones on the CBS military action drama series NCIS: Los Angeles (2010–19). Smith made her first appearance during…

1985

Johannes Rahn

German footballer

Johannes Rahn is a German footballer who plays for SV Eintracht Windhagen.

1986

Mark Trumbo

American baseball player

Mark Daniel Trumbo is an American former professional baseball outfielder and first baseman. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim, Arizona Diamondbacks, Seattle Mariners, and…

1986

Reto Ziegler

Swiss footballer

Reto Pirmin Ziegler is a Swiss former professional footballer who played as a left-back. He played top-flight football in seven countries. He earned 35 international caps for Switzerland and played at both the 2010 and…

1986

Jake Epstein

Canadian actor

Jacob Lee Epstein is a Canadian actor and singer. He is known for playing Craig Manning, a musician with bipolar disorder, on Degrassi: The Next Generation. He has also had recurring roles in the television series …

1987

Charlotte Henshaw

English swimmer

Charlotte Sarah Henshaw is a British Paralympic full-time athlete across multiple disciplines. Originally a swimmer, she changed to canoeing from 2017, becoming the reigning World champion in the KL2 (seven-time) and…

1987

Greivis Vásquez

Venezuelan basketball player

Greivis Josué Vásquez Rodríguez is a Venezuelan former professional basketball player, who spent eight seasons in the NBA. He is currently a coach, most recently working as the associate head coach for the Erie BayHawks…

1987

Nicklas Bendtner

Danish footballer

Nicklas Bendtner is a Danish former professional footballer who played as a striker. A large, tall, and physically strong player, he was known for his ability in the air and possessed a powerful header.

1988

Jorge Torres Nilo

Mexican footballer

Jorge Emmanuel Torres Nilo, also known as Pechu, is a Mexican former professional footballer who played as a left-back.

1988

FKA Twigs

English singer-songwriter and actress

Tahliah Debrett Barnett, known professionally as FKA Twigs, is an English singer, songwriter, record producer, actor, and dancer. She was a backup dancer for numerous musicians, and made her musical debut with EP1…

1988

Dennis Kelly

American football player

Dennis Andrew Kelly is an American former professional football player who was an offensive tackle in the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Purdue Boilermakers and was selected by the…

1990

Matt Duchene

Canadian ice hockey player

Matthew David Duchene is a Canadian professional ice hockey player who is a forward for the Dallas Stars of the National Hockey League (NHL). He has previously played in the NHL for the Colorado Avalanche, Ottawa…

1991

Jason Zucker

American ice hockey player

Jason Alan Zucker is an American professional ice hockey player who is a left winger for the Buffalo Sabres of the National Hockey League (NHL).

1992

Hannes Anier

Estonian footballer

Hannes Anier is an Estonian professional footballer who plays as a forward.

1993

Amandine Hesse

French tennis player

Amandine Hesse is a French professional tennis player.

1993

Sungjin

South Korean musician

Park Sung-jin, known mononymously as Sungjin, is a South Korean musician, singer, songwriter, and guitarist. He is best known as the leader, guitarist and vocalist of South Korean pop rock band Day6.

1993

Mikko Lehtonen

Finnish ice hockey player

Mikko Lehtonen is a Finnish professional ice hockey player who is a defenceman for the ZSC Lions of the National League (NL). He has previously played for the Toronto Maple Leafs and Columbus Blue Jackets of the…

1994

Jonathan Allen

American football player

Jonathan Allen is an American professional football defensive tackle for the Cincinnati Bengals of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Alabama Crimson Tide, winning a national…

1995

Mikaela Turik

Australian-Canadian cricketer

Mikaela Jade Turik,, is a former international cricket player. She played for the Canada women's national cricket team as an all-rounder from 2009 to 2013, including for a period as captain.

1995

Tre'Davious White

American football player

Tre'Davious White Sr. is an American professional football cornerback. He played college football for the LSU Tigers, earning consensus All-American as a senior in 2016. He was selected by the Buffalo Bills in the first…

1995

Jennie

South Korean singer

Jennie Kim, known mononymously as Jennie, is a South Korean singer, rapper, songwriter, and actress. Born in South Korea, she moved to New Zealand in 2004 and returned to South Korea to successfully audition for YG…

1996

Zhou Qi

Chinese basketball player

Zhou Qi is a Chinese professional basketball player for the Beijing Ducks of the Chinese Basketball Association (CBA). He has been a regular member of the China men's national basketball team since 2014, winning a gold…

1996

Boo Seung-kwan

South Korean singer

Boo Seung-kwan, known mononymously as Seungkwan, is a South Korean singer. Managed by Pledis Entertainment, he is a member of the South Korean boy band Seventeen, its vocal team, and the subunit BSS alongside Hoshi and…

1998

Andrew Nembhard

Canadian basketball player

Andrew William Nembhard is a Canadian professional basketball player for the Indiana Pacers of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played college basketball for the Florida Gators and Gonzaga Bulldogs. He was…

2000

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