Famous Birthdays on June 24

Q: Who was born on June 24?

Famous people born on June 24 include: Count Floris IV of Holland (died 1234), Henry I, Floris V, Robert de Vere, Philippa of Hainault Queen of England (died 1369).

279 people 1210 – 2005

June 24 has seen 279 notable people enter the world across recorded history — from 1210 – 2005. Below are the most significant names born on this date.

By thisDay.info Editorial Team · June 24 — Wikipedia

1980 — Minka Kelly

American actress

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Kelly is one of few actresses who portrayed First Lady of the U.S., Jackie Kennedy, in Lee Daniels's The Butler alongside Oprah Winfrey (2013)

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She received wide recognition for her role as Lyla Garrity on the NBC drama series Friday Night Lights (2006–2009)

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Kelly appeared as Autumn in the film 500 Days of Summer (2009)

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She starred in the films The Roommate and Searching for Sonny (2011)

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She had a recurring role as Gaby on the NBC family drama series Parenthood (2010–2011)

Count Floris IV of Holland (died 1234)

Floris IV was the count of Holland from 1222 to 1234. He was born in The Hague, a son of William I of Holland and his first wife, Adelaide of Guelders.

1210

Henry I

Landgrave of Hesse (died 1308)

Henry I of Hesse "the Child" was the first Landgrave of Hesse. He was the son of Henry II, Duke of Brabant and Sophie of Thuringia.

1244

Floris V

Count of Holland (died 1296)

Floris V reigned as Count of Holland and Zeeland from 1256 until 1296. His life was documented in detail in the Rijmkroniek by Melis Stoke, his chronicler. He is credited with a mostly peaceful reign, modernizing…

1254

Robert de Vere

6th Earl of Oxford, English nobleman (probable; (died 1331)

Robert de Vere, 6th Earl of Oxford was the son and heir of Robert de Vere, 5th Earl of Oxford, by his wife Alice de Sanford.

1257

Philippa of Hainault Queen of England (died 1369)

Philippa of Hainault was Queen of England as the wife and political adviser of King Edward III. She acted as regent in 1346, when her husband was away for the Hundred Years' War.

1314

Joanna

Duchess of Brabant (died 1406)

Joanna was a ruling duchess of Brabant from 1355 until her death. She was duchess of Brabant until the occupation of the duchy by her brother-in-law Louis II of Flanders. Following her death, the rights to the duchy of…

1322

Joan of Valois

Queen of Navarre (died 1373)

Joan of France, also known as Joan or Joanna of Valois, was Queen of Navarre by marriage to Charles II of Navarre. She was the daughter of John II of France, and Bonne of Luxembourg. She served as regent of Navarre…

1343

Nuno Álvares Pereira

Portuguese general

Dom Nuno Álvares Pereira, OCarm, known as Constable of Portugal, was a Portuguese general who played a decisive role in the 1383–1385 Crisis that assured Portugal's independence from Castile. He later became a mystic…

1360

John of Capistrano

Italian priest and saint (died 1456)

John of Capistrano, OFM was an Italian Franciscan friar and Catholic priest from the town of Capestrano, Abruzzo. Famous as a preacher, theologian, and inquisitor, he earned himself the nickname "the Soldier Saint" when…

1386

Isabella del Balzo

Queen Consort of Naples (died 1533)

Isabella of Balzo was a Queen consort of Naples. She was the second consort and only Queen consort of Frederick of Naples. Isabella was also suo jure Duchess of Andria and Venosa and Princess of Altamura.

1465

Johannes Bugenhagen

Polish-German priest and reformer (died 1558)

Johannes Bugenhagen, also called Doctor Pomeranus by Martin Luther, was a German theologian and Lutheran priest who introduced the Protestant Reformation in the Duchy of Pomerania and Denmark in the 16th century.…

1485

Elizabeth of Denmark

Electress of Brandenburg (died 1555)

Elizabeth of Denmark, Norway, and Sweden was a Danish princess who became Electress of Brandenburg as the wife of Joachim I Nestor, Elector of Brandenburg. She was the daughter of King Hans of Denmark, Norway and…

1485

Johannes Brenz

German theologian and the Protestant Reformer (died 1570)

Johann (Johannes) Brenz was a German Lutheran theologian and the Protestant Reformer of the Duchy of Württemberg.

1499

Theodore Beza

French theologian and scholar (died 1605)

Theodore Beza was a French Calvinist Protestant theologian, reformer and scholar who played an important role in the Protestant Reformation. He was a disciple of John Calvin and lived most of his life in Geneva. Beza…

1519

Robert Dudley

1st Earl of Leicester, English politician (died 1588)

Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester was an English statesman and the favourite of Elizabeth I from her accession until his death. He was a suitor for the queen's hand for many years.

1532

William IV

Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel (died 1573)

William IV of Hesse-Kassel, also called William the Wise, was the first Landgrave of the Landgraviate of Hesse-Kassel. He was the founder of the oldest line, which survives to this day.

1532

Joanna of Austria

Princess of Portugal (died 1573)

Joanna of Austria was an Infanta of Spain by birth and Princess of Portugal by marriage to João Manuel, Prince of Portugal. She served as regent of Spain for her brother Philip II during his trips to England to marry…

1535

Robert Persons

English Jesuit priest, insurrectionist, and author (died 1610)

Robert Persons, later known as Robert Parsons, was an English Jesuit priest. He was a major figure in establishing the 16th-century "English Mission" of the Society of Jesus.

1546

William Arnold

English-American settler (died 1675)

William Arnold was one of the founding settlers of the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, and he and his sons were among the wealthiest people in the colony. He was raised and educated in England where…

1587

John Belasyse

1st Baron Belasyse

John Belasyse, 1st Baron Belasyse was an English nobleman, Royalist officer and Member of Parliament, notable for his role during and after the Civil War. He suffered a long spell of imprisonment during the Popish Plot,…

1614

Ferdinand Bol

Dutch painter, etcher and draftsman, student of Rembrandt (died 1680)

Ferdinand Bol was a Dutch painter, etcher and draftsman. Although his surviving work is rare, it displays Rembrandt's influence; like his master, Bol favored historical subjects, portraits, numerous self-portraits, and…

1616

Hachisuka Tsunanori

Japanese daimyō (died 1730)

Hachisuka Tsunanori was a Japanese daimyō of the Edo period, who ruled the Tokushima Domain. His court title was Awaji no kami.

1661

Jean Baptiste Massillon

French bishop (died 1742)

Jean-Baptiste Massillon, CO, was a French Catholic prelate and famous preacher who served as Bishop of Clermont from 1717 until his death in Beauregard-l'Évêque.

1663

Johann Albrecht Bengel

German-Lutheran clergyman and scholar (died 1757)

Johann Albrecht Bengel, also known as Bengelius, was a Lutheran pietist clergyman and Greek-language scholar known for his edition of the Greek New Testament and his commentaries on it.

1687

Jean-Jacques Burlamaqui

Swiss author and theorist (died 1748)

Jean-Jacques Burlamaqui was a Genevan legal and political theorist who popularised a number of ideas propounded by other thinkers.

1694

Jean-Baptiste de Boyer

Marquis d'Argens, French philosopher and author (died 1771)

Jean-Baptiste de Boyer, Marquis d'Argens was a French rationalist, author and critic of the Catholic Church, who was a close friend of Voltaire and spent much of his life in exile at the court of Frederick the Great.

1704

William Hull

American general and politician, 1st Governor of Michigan Territory (died 1825)

William Hull was an American military officer and politician. A veteran of the American Revolutionary War, he later served as governor of the Michigan Territory (1805–1813), where he negotiated land cessions with Native…

1753

Anacharsis Cloots

Prussian-French activist (died 1794)

Jean-Baptiste du Val-de-Grâce, baron de Cloots, better known as Anacharsis Cloots, was a Prussian nobleman who was a significant figure in the French Revolution. Perhaps the first to advocate a world parliament, an idea…

1755

Jean-Baptiste Benoît Eyriès

French geographer and author (died 1846)

Jean-Baptiste Benoît Eyriès was a French geographer, author and translator, best remembered in the English speaking world for his translation of German ghost stories Fantasmagoriana, published anonymously in 1812, which…

1767

Éleuthère Irénée du Pont

French chemist and businessman, founded DuPont (died 1834)

Éleuthère Irénée du Pont de Nemours was a French-American chemist and industrialist who founded the gunpowder manufacturer E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company. His descendants, the du Pont family, have been one of the…

1771

Antonio González de Balcarce

Argentinian commander and politician, 5th Supreme Director of the United Provinces of the Río de la Plata (died 1819)

Antonio González de Balcarce was an Argentine soldier and statesman of the independence era. He briefly served as interim Supreme Director of the United Provinces of the Río de la Plata between April and July 1816, and…

1774

François-Nicolas-Benoît Haxo

French general and engineer (died 1838)

François Nicolas Benoît, Baron Haxo was a French Army general and military engineer during the French Revolution and First Empire. Haxo became famous in the Siege of Antwerp in 1832. He is the nephew of revolution era…

1774

John Ross

Scottish commander and explorer (died 1856)

Rear-Admiral Sir John Ross was a British naval officer and explorer. He was the uncle of Sir James Clark Ross, who explored the Arctic with him, and later led expeditions to Antarctica.

1777

Juan Larrea

Argentinian captain and politician (died 1847)

Juan Larrea was a Spanish businessman and politician in Buenos Aires during the early nineteenth century. He headed a military unit during the second British invasion of the River Plate, and worked at the Buenos Aires…

1782

Johann Heinrich von Thünen

German economist and geographer (died 1850)

Johann Heinrich von Thünen, sometimes spelled Thuenen, was a prominent nineteenth-century economist and a native of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, now in northern Germany.

1783

Juan Antonio Lavalleja

Uruguayan general and politician, President of Uruguay (died 1853)

Juan Antonio Lavalleja y de la Torre was an Uruguayan libertador, revolutionary, military general, and political figure. He was born in Minas, in a region now named after him as the Lavalleja Department of Uruguay.

1784

Thomas Blanchard

American inventor (died 1864)

Thomas Blanchard was an American inventor who lived much of his life in Springfield, Massachusetts, where in 1819, he pioneered the assembly line style of mass production in America, and also invented the first…

1788

Ernst Heinrich Weber

German physician and psychologist (died 1878)

Ernst Heinrich Weber was a German physician who is considered one of the founders of experimental psychology.

1795

John Hughes

Irish-American archbishop (died 1864)

John Joseph Hughes was an Irish-born Catholic prelate who served as bishop of New York from 1842 until his death. In 1841, he founded St. John's College, which would later become Fordham University.

1797

Paweł Edmund Strzelecki

Polish geologist and explorer (died 1873)

Sir Paweł Edmund Strzelecki, also known as Paul Edmund de Strzelecki and Sir Paul Strzelecki, was a Polish explorer, geologist, humanitarian, environmentalist, nobleman, scientist, businessman and philanthropist who in…

1797

Stephan Endlicher

Austrian botanist, numismatist, and sinologist (died 1849)

Stephan Friedrich Ladislaus Endlicher, also known as Endlicher István László, was an Austrian botanist, numismatist and Sinologist. He was a director of the Botanical Garden of Vienna. The standard author abbreviation…

1804

Willard Richards

American religious leader (died 1854)

Willard Richards was an early leader in the Latter Day Saint movement. He served as second counselor to church president Brigham Young in the First Presidency of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from 1847…

1804

John Archibald Campbell

American lawyer and jurist (died 1889)

John Archibald Campbell was an American jurist. He was a successful lawyer in Georgia and Alabama, where he served in the state legislature. Appointed by Franklin Pierce to the United States Supreme Court in 1853, he…

1811

Henry Ward Beecher

American minister and reformer (died 1887)

Henry Ward Beecher was an American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker, known for his support of the abolition of slavery, his emphasis on God's love, and his 1875 adultery trial. His rhetorical…

1813

Francis Boott

American composer (died 1904)

Francis Boott was an American classical music composer of art songs and works for chorus.

1813

Guillermo Rawson

Argentinian physician and politician (died 1890)

Guillermo Rawson was a medical doctor and politician in nineteenth-century Argentina. In 1862, when he was the Interior Minister of Argentina, he met Captain Love Jones-Parry and Lewis Jones, who were on their way to…

1821

George Goyder

English-Australian surveyor (died 1898)

George Woodroffe Goyder was a surveyor in the Colony of South Australia during the latter half of the nineteenth century.

1826

Johannes Wislicenus

German chemist and academic (died 1902)

Johannes Wislicenus was a German chemist, most famous for his work in early stereochemistry.

1835

Jan Matejko

Polish painter (died 1893)

Jan Alojzy Matejko was a Polish painter, a leading 19th-century exponent of history painting, known for depicting nodal events from Polish history. His works include large scale oil paintings such as Stańczyk (1862),…

1838

Gustavus Franklin Swift

American businessman (died 1903)

Gustavus Franklin Swift Sr. was an American business executive. He founded a meat-packing empire in the Midwest during the late 19th century, over which he presided until his death. He is credited with the development…

1839

Ambrose Bierce

American short story writer, essayist, and journalist (died 1914)

Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce was an American author, journalist, and poet. A prolific and versatile writer, Bierce was regarded as one of the most influential journalists in the United States and as a pioneering writer of…

1842

Samuel Johnson

Nigerian priest and historian (died 1901)

The Rev. Samuel Johnson was an Anglican priest, diplomat, and historian, as well as the great-grandson of Alaafin Abiodun, a powerful king of the Oyo Empire. He is most notable for his magnum opus The History of the…

1846

Herbert Kitchener

1st Earl Kitchener, Irish field marshal and politician, Governor-General of Sudan (died 1916)

Field Marshal Horatio Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener was a British Army officer and colonial administrator. Kitchener came to prominence for his imperial campaigns, his involvement in the Second Boer War, and his…

1850

Friedrich Loeffler

German bacteriologist and academic (died 1915)

Friedrich August Johannes Loeffler was a German bacteriologist at the University of Greifswald.

1852

Eleanor Norcross

American painter (died 1923)

Ella Augusta "Eleanor" Norcross was an American painter who studied under William Merritt Chase and Alfred Stevens. She lived the majority of her adult life in Paris, France, as an artist and collector and spent the…

1854

Henry Chapman Mercer

American archaeologist and author (died 1930)

Henry Chapman Mercer was an American archeologist, artifact collector and tile-maker, who was the designer of three distinctive poured concrete structures: Fonthill, his home; the Moravian Pottery and Tile Works; and…

1856

Hastings Rashdall

English historian, philosopher, and theologian (died 1924)

Hastings Rashdall was an English philosopher, theologian, historian, and Anglican priest. He expounded a theory known as ideal utilitarianism, and he was a major historian of the universities of the Middle Ages. He…

1858

Robert Henri

American painter and educator (died 1929)

Robert Henri was an American painter and teacher.

1865

Ruth Randall Edström

American educator and activist (died 1944)

Ruth Miriam Edström was an American peace activist and fighter for women's rights. She worked with the pre-work for the third peace conference in The Hague. She participated in the international women's congress in…

1867

Prince George of Greece and Denmark (died 1957)

Prince George of Greece and Denmark was the second son and child of George I of Greece and Olga Konstantinovna of Russia. He served as high commissioner of the Cretan State during its transition towards independence…

1869

Frank Crowninshield

American journalist and art and theatre critic (died 1947)

Francis Welch Crowninshield was an American journalist and art and theater critic best known for developing and editing the magazine Vanity Fair for 21 years, making it a pre-eminent literary journal.

1872

Forrest Reid

Irish novelist, literary critic and translator (died 1947)

Forrest Reid was an Irish novelist, literary critic and translator. He was a leading pre-war novelist of boyhood and is still acclaimed as a noted Ulster novelist, being awarded the 1944 James Tait Black Memorial Prize…

1875

Oswald Veblen

American mathematician and academic (g. 1960)

Oswald Veblen was an American mathematician, geometer and topologist, whose work found application in atomic physics and the theory of relativity. He proved the Jordan curve theorem in 1905; while this was long…

1880

João Cândido

Brazilian revolutionary and sailor (died 1969)

João Cândido Felisberto was a Brazilian sailor, best known as the leader of the 1910 "Revolt of the Lash". His name was sometimes given as simply "João Cândido", or "Jean Candido" in non-Portuguese sources.

1880

George Shiels

Irish-Canadian author, poet, and playwright (died 1949)

George Shiels was an Irish dramatist whose plays were a success both in his native Ulster and at the Abbey Theatre in Dublin. His most famous plays are The Rugged Path, The Passing Day, and The New Gossoon.

1881

Athanase David

Canadian lawyer and politician (died 1953)

Louis-Athanase David was a Canadian lawyer, politician, and businessman. He was a cabinet minister in the Provincial Parliament of Quebec, representing the riding of Terrebonne and serving as Provincial Secretary. In…

1882

Carl Diem

German businessman (died 1962)

Carl Diem was a German sports administrator, and as a Secretary General of the Organizing Committee of the Berlin Olympic Games, he was also the chief organizer of the 1936 Olympic Summer Games.

1882

Victor Francis Hess

Austrian-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1964)

Victor Franz Hess was an Austrian–American experimental physicist who shared the 1936 Nobel Prize in Physics with Carl David Anderson for his discovery of cosmic rays.

1883

Fritz Löhner-Beda

Austrian librettist, lyricist and writer (died 1942)

Fritz Löhner-Beda, born Bedřich Löwy, was an Austrian librettist, lyricist and writer. Once nearly forgotten, many of his songs and tunes remain popular today. He was murdered in Auschwitz III Monowitz concentration…

1883

Jean Metzinger

French artist (died 1956)

Jean Dominique Antony Metzinger was a major 20th-century French painter, theorist, writer, critic and poet, who along with Albert Gleizes wrote the first theoretical work on Cubism. His earliest works, from 1900 to…

1883

Arthur L. Newton

American runner (died 1956)

Arthur Lee Newton was an American athlete who competed mainly in the distance events. He was born in Woodstock, Vermont, but moved to New Rochelle, New York in 1912, where he was an automobile dealer.

1883

Frank Verner

American runner (died 1966)

William Franklyn "Bill" Verner was an American athlete and middle-distance runner who competed in the early twentieth century.

1883

Frank Waller

American runner (died 1941)

Frank Laird Waller was an American athlete who specialized in the 400 metres. He later became a vocal coach.

1884

Olaf Holtedahl

Norwegian geologist (died 1975)

Olaf Holtedahl was a Norwegian geologist. He became a senior lecturer at the University of Oslo in 1914, and was Professor of Geology there from 1920 to 1956.

1885

Gerrit Rietveld

Dutch architect, designed the Rietveld Schröder House (died 1964)

Gerrit Rietveld was a Dutch furniture designer and architect.

1888

Roy O. Disney

American businessman, co-founded The Walt Disney Company (died 1971)

Roy Oliver Disney was an American entrepreneur. He co-founded with his younger brother Walt what is now the Walt Disney Company in October of 1923. Disney also served as the company's first chief executive officer and…

1893

Jack Dempsey

American boxer and soldier (died 1983)

William Harrison "Jack" Dempsey, nicknamed Kid Blackie and The Manassa Mauler, was an American boxer who competed from 1914 to 1927, and was world heavyweight champion from 1919 to 1926. He is ranked sixth on The Ring…

1895

Armin Öpik

Estonian-Australian paleontologist and geologist (died 1983)

Armin Aleksander Öpik was an Estonian paleontologist who spent the second half of his career at the Bureau of Mineral Resources in Australia.

1898

Karl Selter

Estonian politician, 14th Minister of Foreign Affairs of Estonia (died 1958)

Karl Selter was an Estonian politician and a Minister of Foreign Affairs of Estonia. He served as Minister of Economic Affairs from 1933 to 1938 and as minister of Foreign affairs from 1938 to 1939. His historically…

1898

Wilhelm Cauer

German mathematician and engineer (died 1945)

Wilhelm Cauer was a German mathematician and scientist. He is most noted for his work on the analysis and synthesis of electrical filters and his work marked the beginning of the field of network synthesis. Prior to his…

1900

Marcel Mule

French saxophonist (died 2001)

Marcel Mule was a French classical saxophonist. He was known worldwide as one of the greatest classical saxophonists ever, and many pieces were written for him, premiered by him, and arranged by him. Many of these…

1901

Harry Partch

American composer and theorist (died 1974)

Harry Partch was an American composer, music theorist, and creator of unique musical instruments. He composed using scales of unequal intervals in just intonation, and was one of the first 20th-century composers in the…

1901

Chuck Taylor

American basketball player and salesman (died 1969)

Charles Hollis Taylor was an American basketball player and basketball shoe salesman-marketer who was associated with Chuck Taylor All-Stars, which he helped to improve and promote.

1901

Phil Harris

American singer-songwriter and actor (died 1995)

Wonga Philip "Phil" Harris was an American actor, comedian, bandleader, and musician. He was an orchestra leader and a pioneer in radio situation comedy, first with The Jack Benny Program, then in The Phil Harris-Alice…

1904

Olga Olgina

Polish opera singer and teacher (died 1979)

Olga Józefowicz, known professionally as Olga Olgina, was a Polish coloratura soprano, teacher and pianist. She made her debut in the title role of Verdi's La traviata at the Vilnius Opera in 1922 at age 18 and retired…

1904

Fred Alderman

American sprinter (died 1998)

Frederick Pitt Alderman was an American sprint runner who won a gold medal in 4 × 400 m relay at the 1928 Summer Olympics. He also won the NCAA Championships in 100 yd (91 m) and 220 yd (200 m) and IC4A Championships in…

1905

Pierre Fournier

French cellist and educator (died 1986)

Pierre Léon Marie Fournier was a French cellist who was called the "aristocrat of cellists" on account of his elegant musicianship and majestic sound.

1906

Willard Maas

American poet and educator (died 1971)

Willard Maas was an American experimental filmmaker and poet.

1906

Arseny Tarkovsky

Russian poet and translator (died 1989)

Arseny Aleksandrovich Tarkovsky was a Soviet and Russian poet and translator. He was predeceased by his son, film director and screenwriter Andrei Tarkovsky.

1907

Hugo Distler

German organist, composer, and conductor (died 1942)

August Hugo Distler was a German organist, choral conductor, teacher and composer.

1908

Alfons Rebane

Estonian colonel (died 1976)

Alfons Vilhelm Robert Rebane was an Estonian military commander. He was the most highly decorated Estonian military officer during World War II, serving in various Wehrmacht and Waffen-SS units of Nazi Germany.

1908

Jean Deslauriers

Canadian violinist, composer, and conductor (died 1978)

Jean Deslauriers was a Canadian conductor, violinist, and composer. As a conductor he had a long and fruitful partnership with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation; conducting orchestras for feature films and…

1909

William Penney

Baron Penney, English mathematician and physicist (died 1991)

William George Penney, Baron Penney, was an English mathematician and professor of mathematical physics at the Imperial College London and later the rector of Imperial College London. He had a leading role in the…

1909

Betty Cavanna

American author (died 2001)

Betty Cavanna was the author of popular teen romance novels, mysteries, and children's books for 45 years. She also wrote under the names Elizabeth Headley and Betsy Allen. She was nominated for the Edgar Award for Best…

1909

Juan Manuel Fangio

Argentinian race car driver (died 1995)

Juan Manuel Fangio was an Argentine racing driver, who competed in Formula One from 1950 to 1958. Nicknamed "el Chueco" and "el Maestro", Fangio won five Formula One World Drivers' Championship titles and—at the time of…

1911

Ernesto Sabato

Argentinian physicist and academic (died 2011)

Ernesto Sabato was an Argentine novelist, essayist, painter, and physicist. According to the BBC he "won some of the most prestigious prizes in Hispanic literature" and "became very influential in the literary world…

1911

Portia White

Canadian opera singer (died 1968)

Portia May White was a Canadian contralto, known for becoming the first Black Canadian concert singer to achieve international fame. Growing up as part of her father's church choir in Halifax, Nova Scotia, White…

1911

Brian Johnston

English sportscaster and author (died 1994)

Brian Alexander Johnston, nicknamed Johnners, was a British cricket commentator, author, and television presenter. He was most prominently associated with the BBC during a career which lasted from 1946 until his death…

1912

Mary Wesley

English author (died 2002)

Mary Aline Siepmann CBE, known by the pen name Mary Wesley, was an English novelist. During her career, she was one of Britain's most successful novelists, selling three million copies of her books, including ten…

1912

Gustaaf Deloor

Belgian cyclist and soldier (died 2002)

Gustaaf Deloor was a Belgian road racing cyclist and the winner of the first two editions of the Vuelta a España in 1935 and 1936. The 1936 edition remains the slowest winning finish time of the Vuelta in 150:07:54, the…

1913

Kari Diesen

Norwegian singer and revue actress (died 1987)

Kari Diesen was a Norwegian singer and revue actress. She worked for the revue theatre Chat Noir from 1937 to 1953, and for the Edderkoppen Theatre from 1954 to 1959. She participated in 24 films between 1941 and 1985.…

1914

Jan Karski

Polish-American activist and academic (died 2000)

Jan Karski was a Polish soldier, resistance-fighter, and diplomat during World War II. He is known for having acted as a courier in 1940–1943 to the Polish government-in-exile and to Poland's Western Allies about the…

1914

Pearl Witherington

French secret agent (died 2008)

Cecile Pearl Witherington Cornioley,, code names Marie and Pauline, was an agent in France for the United Kingdom's clandestine Special Operations Executive (SOE) during the Second World War. The purpose of SOE was to…

1914

Fred Hoyle

English astronomer and author (died 2001)

Sir Fred Hoyle (24 June 1915 – 20 August 2001) was an English astronomer. With Margaret and Geoffrey Burbidge and William Alfred Fowler, he formulated the theory of stellar nucleosynthesis in the influential B2FH paper.

1915

William B. Saxbe

American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 70th United States Attorney General (died 2010)

William Bart Saxbe was an American lawyer and politician. A member of the Republican Party, he served as a U.S. senator for Ohio from 1969 to 1974 after a career in state politics that included terms as Ohio Attorney…

1916

Saloua Raouda Choucair

Lebanese painter and sculptor (died 2017)

Saloua Raouda Choucair was a Lebanese painter and sculptor.

1916

David Easton

Canadian-American political scientist and academic (died 2014)

David Easton was a Canadian-born American political scientist. From 1947 to 1997, he served as a professor of political science at the University of Chicago.

1917

Lucy Jarvis

American television producer (died 2020)

Lucile Jarvis was an American television producer.

1917

Ramblin' Tommy Scott

American singer and guitarist (died 2013)

Ramblin' Tommy Scott, aka "Doc" Tommy Scott, was an American country and rockabilly musician.

1917

Joan Clarke

English cryptanalyst and numismatist (died 1996)

Joan Elisabeth Lowther Murray, MBE was an English cryptanalyst and numismatist who worked as a code-breaker at Bletchley Park during the Second World War. Although she did not personally seek the spotlight, her role in…

1917

Mildred Ladner Thompson

American journalist and author (died 2013)

Mildred Ladner Thompson was an American journalist, writer, and columnist with The Wall Street Journal, where she became one of its first female reporters. She also worked as a reporter and columnist for the Associated…

1918

Yong Nyuk Lin

Singaporean businessman and politician, Singaporean Minister for Education (died 2012)

Yong Nyuk Lin was a Singaporean politician who served as the Minister for Communications between 1968 and 1975, Minister for Health between 1963 and 1968, and Minister for Education between 1959 and 1963.

1918

Al Molinaro

American actor (died 2015)

Albert Francis Molinaro was an American actor. He played Al Delvecchio on Happy Days and Officer Murray Greshler on The Odd Couple. He also appeared in many television commercials, including On-Cor frozen dinners.

1919

Gerhard Sommer

German soldier (died 2019)

Gerhard Sommer was a German SS-Untersturmführer in the 16th SS Panzergrenadier Division Reichsführer-SS who was involved in the massacre of 560 civilians on 12 August 1944 in the Italian village of Sant'Anna di…

1921

Jack Carter

American actor and comedian (died 2015)

Jack Carter was an American comedian, actor and television presenter. Born in Brooklyn, Carter had a long-running comedy act similar to fellow rapid-paced contemporaries Milton Berle and Morey Amsterdam.

1922

John Postgate

English microbiologist, author, and academic (died 2014)

John Raymond Postgate FRS was an English microbiologist and writer, latterly Professor Emeritus of Microbiology at the University of Sussex. Postgate's research in microbiology investigated nitrogen fixation, microbial…

1922

Richard Timberlake

American economist (died 2020)

Richard Henry Timberlake Jr. was an American economist who was Professor of Economics at the University of Georgia for much of his career. He became a leading advocate of free banking, the belief that money should be…

1922

Margaret Olley

Australian painter and philanthropist (died 2011)

Margaret Hannah Olley was an Australian painter. She held over ninety solo exhibitions during her lifetime.

1923

Kurt Furgler

Swiss politician, 70th President of the Swiss Confederation (died 2008)

Kurt Furgler was a Swiss politician and member of the Swiss Federal Council (1972–1986).

1924

Archie Roy

Scottish astronomer and academic (died 2012)

Archie Edmiston Roy FRSE, FRAS was Professor Emeritus of Astronomy in the University of Glasgow.

1924

Yoshito Takamine

American politician (died 2015)

Yoshito Takamine was an American politician and labor leader in Hawaii. Takamine, who was first elected to the Hawaii House of Representatives in 1958, when the state was still the Territory of Hawaii, served in the…

1924

Ogden Reid

American politician (died 2019)

Ogden Rogers Reid was an American politician and diplomat. He was the U.S. ambassador to Israel and a six-term United States representative from Westchester County, New York, serving from 1963 to 1975.

1925

Fernand Dumont

Canadian sociologist, philosopher, and poet (died 1997)

Fernand Dumont was a Canadian sociologist, philosopher, theologian, and poet from Quebec. A longtime professor at Université Laval, he won the Governor General's Award for French-language non-fiction at the 1968…

1927

James B. Edwards

American dentist, soldier, and politician, 3rd United States Secretary of Energy (died 2014)

James Burrows Edwards was an American politician and administrator from South Carolina. He was the first Republican to be elected governor of South Carolina since the post-Civil War Reconstruction era in the 1870s. He…

1927

Martin Lewis Perl

American physicist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2014)

Martin Lewis Perl was an American chemical engineer and physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1995 for his discovery of the tau lepton.

1927

Carolyn S. Shoemaker

American astronomer (died 2021)

Carolyn Jean Spellmann Shoemaker was an American astronomer and a co-discoverer of Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9. She discovered 32 comets and more than 500 asteroids.

1929

Claude Chabrol

French actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (died 2010)

Claude Henri Jean Chabrol was a French film director and a member of the French New Wave group of filmmakers who first came to prominence at the end of the 1950s. Like his colleagues and contemporaries Jean-Luc Godard,…

1930

Donald Gordon

South African businessman and philanthropist (died 2019)

Sir Donald Gordon was a South African-British businessman and philanthropist. He founded Liberty Life Association of Africa in 1957 and Liberty International.

1930

William Bernard Ziff

Jr., American publisher (died 2006)

William Bernard "Bill" Ziff Jr. was an American publishing executive. His father, William Bernard Ziff Sr., was the co-founder of Ziff Davis Inc. and when the elder Ziff died in 1953, Ziff took over the management of…

1930

Billy Casper

American golfer (died 2015)

William Earl Casper Jr. was an American professional golfer. He was one of the most prolific tournament winners on the PGA Tour from the mid-1950s to the mid-1970s.

1931

David McTaggart

Canadian-Italian environmentalist (died 2001)

David Fraser McTaggart was a Canadian badminton player and an environmentalist who played a central part in the foundation of Greenpeace International.

1932

Bob Cole

Canadian sports announcer (died 2024)

Robert Cecil Cole was a Canadian sports television announcer who worked for CBC and Sportsnet and a competitive curler. He was known primarily for his work on National Hockey League's Hockey Night in Canada and Olympic…

1933

Sam Jones

American basketball player and coach (died 2021)

Samuel Jones was an American professional basketball player who was a shooting guard for the Boston Celtics in the National Basketball Association (NBA). A five-time NBA All-Star, he was nicknamed "Mr. Clutch" and "the…

1933

Ngina Kenyatta

1st First Lady of Kenya

Ngìna Kenyatta, popularly known as "Mama Ngìna", is the former First Lady of Kenya. She is the widow of Kenya's first president, Jomo Kenyatta (~1889–1978), and mother of the fourth president Uhuru Kenyatta who served…

1933

Ferdinand Biwersi

German footballer and referee (died 2013)

Ferdinand Biwersi was a German football referee.

1934

Jean-Pierre Ferland

Canadian singer-songwriter (died 2024)

Jean-Pierre Ferland, was a Québécois singer and songwriter. He was noted for writing over 450 songs and releasing more than 30 albums. He was inducted into the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2007.

1934

Gloria Christian

Italian singer

Gloria Christian is an Italian canzone napoletana singer, mainly successful between the second half of the 1950s and the 1960s.

1934

Terry Riley

American composer and educator

Terrence Mitchell Riley is an American composer and performing musician best known as a pioneer of the minimalist school of composition. Influenced by jazz and Indian classical music, his work became notable for its…

1935

Jean Milesi

French racing cyclist

Jean Milesi is a French former professional racing cyclist. He rode in seven editions of the Tour de France.

1935

Charlie Dees

American baseball player

Charles Henry Dees is an American former professional baseball player whose career extended from 1957 through 1966. The first baseman appeared in 98 games played in Major League Baseball over parts of three seasons…

1935

Robert Downey Sr.

American actor and director (died 2021)

Robert John Downey Sr. was an American film director, screenwriter, and actor. He was known for writing and directing the underground films Putney Swope (1969), a satire on the New York Madison Avenue advertising world,…

1936

Anita Desai

Indian-American author and academic

Anita Desai is an Indian novelist and the emerita John E. Burchard Professor of Humanities at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize three times. She received the…

1937

Lawrence Block

American author

Lawrence Block is an American crime writer best known for two long-running New York-set series about the recovering alcoholic P.I. Matthew Scudder and the gentleman burglar Bernie Rhodenbarr. Block was named a Grand…

1938

Abulfaz Elchibey

Azerbaijani politician, 1st democratically elected Azerbaijani President (died 2000)

Abulfaz Gadirgulu oghlu Aliyev, commonly known as Abulfaz Elchibey, was a Pan-Turkist Azerbaijani nationalist, politician and Soviet dissident who was the first and, as of early 2026, only democratically elected…

1938

Ken Gray

New Zealand rugby player (died 1992)

Kenneth Francis Gray was an international rugby union player from New Zealand. He represented New Zealand in 24 international games, playing lock and later prop forward.

1938

Brigitte Fontaine

French singer

Brigitte Fontaine is a French singer of avant-garde music. She has employed numerous unusual musical styles, melding rock and roll, folk, jazz, electronica, spoken word poetry, and world. She has collaborated with…

1939

Judy Olson Duhamel

American politician and educator

Judy Olson Duhamel is an American politician and educator. She served in the South Dakota State Senate representing Pennington County from 1988 to 1992 and later served as chair of the South Dakota Democratic Party. She…

1939

Ian Ross

Australian newsreader (died 2014)

Ian Charles "Roscoe" Ross was an Australian television news presenter for Seven News in Sydney and for Nine News.

1940

Vittorio Storaro

Italian cinematographer

Vittorio Storaro, A.S.C., A.I.C., is an Italian cinematographer, widely recognized as one of the best and most influential in cinema history.

1940

Erkin Koray

Turkish singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2023)

Mustafa Erkin Koray was a Turkish singer and guitarist who mainly played Anatolian rock.

1941

Julia Kristeva

Bulgarian-French psychoanalyst and author

Julia Kristeva is a Bulgarian-French philosopher, literary critic, semiotician, psychoanalyst, feminist, and novelist who has lived in France since the mid-1960s. She has taught at Columbia University, and is now a…

1941

Graham McKenzie

Australian cricketer

Graham Douglas McKenzie – commonly known as "Garth", after the comic strip hero – is an Australian cricketer who played for Western Australia (1960–74), Leicestershire (1969–75), Transvaal (1979–80) and Australia…

1941

Arthur Brown

English rock singer-songwriter

Arthur Wilton Brown is an English singer and songwriter best known for his flamboyant and theatrical performances, eclectic work and his powerful, wide-ranging operatic voice, in particular his high pitched banshee…

1942

Michele Lee

American actress and singer

Michele Lee is an American actress, singer, dancer, producer and director. She is known for her role as Karen Fairgate MacKenzie on the prime-time soap opera Knots Landing, for which she was nominated for a 1982 Emmy…

1942

Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle

Chilean engineer and politician, 32nd President of Chile

Eduardo Alfredo Juan Bernardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle is a Chilean politician and civil engineer who served as president of Chile from 1994 to 2000. He was also a Senator, fulfilling the role of President of the Senate from…

1942

Colin Groves

Australian academician and educator (died 2017)

Colin Peter Groves was a British-Australian biologist and anthropologist. Groves was professor of biological anthropology at the Australian National University in Canberra, Australia.

1942

Birgit Grodal

Danish economist and academic (died 2004)

Birgit Grodal, was an economics professor at the University of Copenhagen from 1968 until her death in 2004.

1943

Jeff Beck

English guitarist and songwriter (died 2023)

Geoffrey Arnold Beck was an English guitarist. He rose to prominence as a member of the rock band the Yardbirds, and afterwards founded and fronted the Jeff Beck Group and Beck, Bogert & Appice. In 1975, he switched to…

1944

Kathryn Lasky

American author

Kathryn Lasky is an American children's writer who also writes for adults under the names Kathryn Lasky Knight and E. L. Swann. Her children's books include several Dear America books, The Royal Diaries books, Sugaring…

1944

Chris Wood

English saxophonist (died 1983)

Christopher Gordon Blandford Wood was a British rock musician, best known as a founding member of the rock band Traffic, along with Steve Winwood, Jim Capaldi and Dave Mason.

1944

Colin Blunstone

English singer-songwriter

Colin Edward Michael Blunstone is an English singer and songwriter. In a career spanning more than 60 years, Blunstone came to prominence in the mid-1960s as the lead singer of the rock band the Zombies, which released…

1945

Wayne Cashman

Canadian ice hockey player and coach

Wayne Cashman is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player and coach. He played 17 seasons for the Boston Bruins of the National Hockey League (NHL) and helped them win the Stanley Cup twice. He was the last…

1945

George Pataki

American lawyer and politician, 53rd Governor of New York

George Elmer Pataki is an American politician who served as the 53rd governor of New York from 1995 to 2006. He previously served in the State Legislature from 1985 to 1994, and as mayor of Peekskill from 1981 to 1984.…

1945

Betty Stöve

Dutch tennis player

Betty Flippina Stöve is a Dutch former professional tennis player. She is best known for reaching the ladies' singles final, the ladies' doubles final and the mixed doubles final during the same year at Wimbledon in…

1945

David Collenette

Canadian civil servant and politician, 32nd Canadian Minister of National Defence

David Michael Collenette, PC OOnt is a former Canadian politician. From 1974, until his retirement from politics in 2004, he was a member of the Liberal Party of Canada. A graduate from York University's Glendon College…

1946

Ellison Onizuka

American engineer, and astronaut (died 1986)

Ellison Shoji Onizuka was an American astronaut, engineer, and U.S. Air Force flight test engineer from Kealakekua, Hawaii, who successfully flew into space with the Space Shuttle Discovery on STS-51-C. He died in the…

1946

Robert Reich

American economist and politician, 22nd United States Secretary of Labor

Robert Bernard Reich is an American professor, author, lawyer, and political commentator. He worked in the administrations of presidents Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter, and he served as secretary of labor in the cabinet…

1946

Clarissa Dickson Wright

English chef, author, and television personality (died 2014)

Clarissa Theresa Philomena Aileen Mary Josephine Agnes Elsie Trilby Louise Esmerelda Johnston Dickson Wright was an English celebrity cook, television personality, writer, businesswoman, and barrister. She was best…

1947

Mick Fleetwood

English-American drummer

Michael John Kells Fleetwood is an English musician, songwriter and actor. He is the drummer, co-founder, and leader of the rock band Fleetwood Mac. His surname was merged with that of the group's bassist John "Mac"…

1947

Peter Weller

American actor and director

Peter Francis Weller is an American actor and television director. He has appeared in more than 70 films and television series, including RoboCop (1987) and its sequel RoboCop 2 (1990), in which he played the titular…

1947

Patrick Moraz

Swiss keyboard player and songwriter

Patrick Philippe Moraz is a Swiss musician, film composer and songwriter, best known for his tenures as keyboardist in the rock bands Yes and the Moody Blues.

1948

John Illsley

English singer-songwriter, bass player, and producer

John Edward Illsley is an English musician, best known as bassist of the rock band Dire Straits. He has received multiple BRIT and Grammy Awards, and a Heritage Award.

1949

Betty Jackson

English fashion designer

Betty Jackson, RDI is an English fashion designer based in London, England. She was born in Lancashire. In 2007, her success in British fashion was recognised with first an MBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours 1987 and…

1949

Nancy Allen

American actress

Nancy Allen is an American actress. She came to prominence for her performances in several films directed by Brian De Palma in the 1970s and early 1980s. Her accolades include a Golden Globe Award nomination and three…

1950

Bob Carlos Clarke

Irish-born English photographer (died 2006)

Robert Carlos Clarke was a British-Irish photographer who made erotic images of women as well as documentary, portrait, and commercial photography.

1950

Jan Kulczyk

Polish businessman (died 2015)

Jan Jerzy Kulczyk was a Polish billionaire businessman. He was the founder and owner of Kulczyk Holding and an international investment house Kulczyk Investments with headquarters in Luxembourg and offices in London and…

1950

Mercedes Lackey

American author

Mercedes Ritchie Lackey is an American writer of fantasy novels. Many of her novels and trilogies are interlinked and set in the world of Velgarth, mostly in and around the country of Valdemar. Her Valdemar novels…

1950

Raelene Boyle

Australian sprinter

Raelene Ann Boyle is an Australian retired athlete, who represented Australia at three Olympic Games as a sprinter, winning three silver medals, and was named one of 100 National Living Treasures by the National Trust…

1951

Charles Sturridge

English director, producer, and screenwriter

Charles B. G. Sturridge is an English director and screenwriter. He is the recipient of a BAFTA Children's Award and four BAFTA TV Awards. He has also been nominated for three Primetime Emmy Awards.

1951

Dianna Melrose

English diplomat, British High Commissioner to Tanzania

Dianna Melrose is a British diplomat who has served as the British High Commissioner to Tanzania and as the British Ambassador to Cuba.

1952

Bob Neill

English lawyer and politician

Sir Robert James MacGillivray Neill KC (Hon) is a British barrister and Conservative Party politician. He served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Bromley and Chislehurst from 2006 to 2024.

1952

William E. Moerner

American chemist and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate

William Esco Moerner, also known as W. E. Moerner, is an American physical chemist and chemical physicist with current work in the biophysics and imaging of single molecules. He is credited with achieving the first…

1953

Michael Tuck

Australian footballer and coach

Michael Tuck is a seven-time premiership-winning player, Australian rules footballer with the Hawthorn Football Club in the Victorian Football League (VFL) / Australian Football League (AFL).

1953

Chris Higgins

English geneticist and academic

Christopher Francis Higgins is a British molecular biologist, geneticist, academic and scientific advisor. He was the Vice-Chancellor of Durham University from 2007 to 2014. He took early retirement on 30 September…

1955

Edmund Malura

German footballer and manager

Edmund "Eddy" Malura is a former professional German footballer.

1955

Loren Roberts

American golfer

Loren Lloyd Roberts is an American professional golfer, who has played on the PGA Tour and the PGA Tour Champions.

1955

Owen Paterson

English politician, Secretary of State for Northern Ireland

Owen William Paterson is a British former politician who served as Secretary of State for Northern Ireland from 2010 to 2012 and Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs from 2012 to 2014 under Prime…

1956

Mark Parkinson

American lawyer and politician, 45th Governor of Kansas

Mark Vincent Parkinson is an American businessman and former politician serving as head of the American Health Care Association (AHCA) and National Center for Assisted Living (NCAL). He served as the 47th lieutenant…

1957

Jean Charest

Canadian lawyer and politician, 5th Deputy Prime Minister of Canada

John James "Jean" Charest is a Canadian lawyer and former politician who served as the 29th premier of Quebec from 2003 to 2012. Prior to that, he was a member of Parliament (MP) between 1984 and 1998. After holding…

1958

Silvio Mondinelli

Italian mountaineer

Silvio Mondinelli is an Italian climber. In 2007, he became the 13th person to climb the 14 eight-thousanders. He is the 6th person to achieve that feat without using supplemental oxygen and the first mountaineer to…

1958

Reed Oliver

governor of Pohnpei State, Micronesia

Reed B. Oliver is the current governor of Pohnpei State, Micronesia since 13 January 2020.

1958

John Tortorella

American ice hockey player and coach

John Tortorella is an American professional ice hockey coach and former player who is the head coach for the Vegas Golden Knights of the National Hockey League (NHL). Tortorella has also served as head coach of the…

1958

Andy McCluskey

English singer-songwriter, bass player, and producer

George Andrew McCluskey is an English singer, songwriter, musician and record producer. He is best known as the lead vocalist and bassist of the electronic band Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark (OMD), which he founded…

1959

Elish Angiolini

Scottish lawyer, judge, and politician, Solicitor General for Scotland

Lady Elish Frances Margaret Angiolini is a Scottish lawyer currently serving as Lord Clerk Register, the first woman to hold the role since its creation in the 13th century. She was appointed Lord High Commissioner to…

1960

Siedah Garrett

American singer-songwriter and pianist

Siedah Garrett is an American singer, songwriter, and composer who has written songs and performed backing vocals for many recording artists in the music industry, such as Michael Jackson, Wang Chung, the Pointer…

1960

Karin Pilsäter

Swedish accountant and politician

Anna Karin Pilsater is a Swedish politician with the Liberal People's Party. She is a former member of the Riksdag since 1991, representing Stockholm County, and was previously the party's spokesperson on economic…

1960

Erik Poppe

Norwegian director, cinematographer, and screenwriter

Erik Poppe is a Norwegian film director, producer and screenwriter. He is best known for directing critically acclaimed films, including Hawaii, Oslo (2004), A Thousand Times Good Night (2013), The King's Choice (2016)…

1960

Dennis Danell

American singer and guitarist (died 2000)

Dennis Eric Danell was an American guitarist and a founding member of the Southern California punk rock band Social Distortion.

1961

Iain Glen

Scottish actor

Iain Alan Sutherland Glen is a Scottish actor. He has appeared as Dr. Alexander Isaacs/Tyrant in three films of the Resident Evil film series (2004–2016) and as Jorah Mormont in the HBO fantasy television series Game of…

1961

Bernie Nicholls

Canadian ice hockey player and coach

Bernard Irvine Nicholls is a Canadian former professional ice hockey centre. During his 23-year playing career, from 1981 to 1999, he played in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the Los Angeles Kings, New York…

1961

Ralph E. Reed

Jr., American journalist and activist

Ralph Eugene Reed Jr. is an American political consultant and lobbyist, best known as the first executive director of the Christian Coalition during the early 1990s. He sought the Republican nomination for Lieutenant…

1961

Curt Smith

English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer

Curt Smith is an English singer, songwriter, musician, and record producer. He is best known as the co-lead vocalist, bassist, and co-founding member of the pop rock band Tears for Fears along with childhood friend…

1961

Gautam Adani

Indian industrialist and billionaire

Gautam Shantilal Adani is an Indian billionaire businessman who is the founder and chairman of the Adani Group, a multinational conglomerate involved in port development and operations in India. As of April 2026, Adani…

1962

Claudia Sheinbaum

Mexican politician

Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo is a Mexican politician, energy and climate change scientist, and academic who has been serving as the 66th president of Mexico since 2024. She is the first woman and the first Jewish person to…

1962

Yuri Kasparyan

Russian guitarist

Yuri Dmitriyevich Kasparyan is a Russian musician best known for his time as the guitarist of the Soviet rock band Kino and as a member of Vyacheslav Butusov's group U-Piter.

1963

Preki

Serbian-American soccer player and coach

Predrag Radosavljević, better known by the nickname Preki, is a former soccer player and coach. He is currently an assistant coach with Seattle Sounders FC in Major League Soccer (MLS). He previously coached Sacramento…

1963

Mike Wieringo

American author and illustrator (died 2007)

Michael Lance Wieringo, who sometimes signed his work under the name Ringo, was an American comics artist best known for his work on DC Comics' The Flash, Marvel Comics' Spider-Man and Fantastic Four, as well as his own…

1963

Jean-Luc Delarue

French television host and producer (died 2012)

Jean-Luc Delarue was a French television presenter and producer specialising in televised discussion programmes.

1964

Kathryn Parminter

Baroness Parminter, English politician

Kathryn Jane Parminter, Baroness Parminter is a Liberal Democrat life peer, and Deputy Leader of the Liberal Democrats in the House of Lords of the United Kingdom.

1964

Gary Suter

American ice hockey player and scout

Gary Lee Suter is an American former professional ice hockey player. As a defenseman, he played over 1,000 games in the National Hockey League (NHL) between 1985 and 2002. He was a ninth round selection of the Calgary…

1964

Claude Bourbonnais

Canadian race car driver

Claude Bourbonnais, is a former driver in the Toyota Atlantic, Indy Lights, and CART Championship Car series. He raced in the 1994 CART series with five starts. He also raced in the 1997 Indianapolis 500, which by then…

1965

Uwe Krupp

German ice hockey player and coach

Uwe Gerd Krupp is a German former professional hockey defenceman and currently the head coach of EV Landshut in Germany's Deutsche Eishockey Liga 2. Widely considered one of the greatest German players of all time, he…

1965

Richard Lumsden

English actor, writer, composer and musician

Richard James Lumsden is an English actor, writer, composer and musician. He has made regular appearances on TV and film throughout his career. Notable series include Channel 4's Emmy-award winning Sugar Rush, Is It…

1965

Danielle Spencer

American actress (died 2025)

Danielle Louise Spencer was an American actress best known for her role as Dee Thomas on the ABC sitcom What's Happening!!, which ran from 1976 until 1979. She reprised the role on the series' sequel, What's Happening…

1965

Hope Sandoval

American singer-songwriter and musician

Hope Sandoval is an American singer and songwriter, known for being the lead singer of Mazzy Star and Hope Sandoval & the Warm Inventions.

1966

Adrienne Shelly

American actress, director, and screenwriter (died 2006)

Adrienne Shelly was an American actress, film director, and screenwriter. She gained recognition for her roles in independent films, particularly Hal Hartley's The Unbelievable Truth (1989) and Trust (1990). She later…

1966

Janez Lapajne

Slovenian director and producer

Janez Lapajne (Slovene: [yannez la-pie-nay]; born 24 June 1967 in Celje, Slovenia, grew up in Ljubljana, Slovenia is a Slovenian film director, producer, writer, editor and production designer.

1967

John Limniatis

Canadian soccer player and manager

Ioannis "John" Limniatis is a retired professional soccer player who played as a midfielder. He captained and later became the head coach of the Montreal Impact. Born in Greece, he made 44 appearances scoring one goal…

1967

Alaa Abdelnaby

Egyptian-American basketball player and sportscaster

Alaa Abdelnaby is an Egyptian-American former professional basketball player. He played college basketball for the Duke Blue Devils followed by a five-year National Basketball Association (NBA) career, and then stints…

1968

Glenn Medeiros

American singer-songwriter and guitarist

Glenn Alan Medeiros is an American former singer best known for his 1987 George Benson cover, "Nothing's Gonna Change My Love for You", which reached No. 12 on the US Billboard Hot 100 and topped the charts in Canada…

1970

Bernardo Sassetti

Portuguese pianist, composer, and educator (died 2012)

Bernardo da Costa Sassetti Pais was a Portuguese jazz pianist and film composer.

1970

Robbie McEwen

Australian cyclist

Robbie McEwen is an Australian former professional road cyclist. He is a three-time winner of the Tour de France points classification in 2002, 2004 and 2006 and, at the peak of his career, was considered the world's…

1972

Denis Žvegelj

Slovenian rower

Denis Žvegelj is an ex-Slovenian rower and Olympic medallist. He was born in Jesenice, SR Slovenia.

1972

Alexis Gauthier

French chef

Alexis Pascal Gauthier is a French chef. He is the chef patron of the Gauthier Soho restaurant in Soho, London and was awarded a Michelin star in 2011. He previously held a Michelin star as head chef of the restaurant…

1973

Jere Lehtinen

Finnish ice hockey player

Jere Kalervo Lehtinen is a Finnish former professional ice hockey forward. A right winger, he was drafted in the third round, 88th overall, in the 1992 NHL entry draft by the Minnesota North Stars. Lehtinen played his…

1973

Dan Byles

English sailor, rower, and politician

Daniel Alan Byles is a former British politician, who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for North Warwickshire from 2010 to 2015.

1974

Chris Guccione

American baseball player and umpire

Christopher Gene Guccione is an American umpire in Major League Baseball. He wears number 68.

1974

Marek Malík

Czech ice hockey player

Marek Malík is a Czech former professional ice hockey defenceman who played in the National Hockey League (NHL) from 1994 to 2009.

1975

Federico Pucciariello

Argentinian-Italian rugby player

Federico Pucciariello is a former Italian Argentine rugby union footballer. He played at both tighthead and loosehead prop, and played for Munster Rugby up to the end of the 2008–09 season. He previously played for…

1975

Brock Olivo

American football player and coach

James Brockman Olivo is an American football coach and former player who currently serves as an assistant special teams coach for the Miami Dolphins of the National Football League (NFL). Prior to his current job, he…

1976

Dimos Dikoudis

Greek basketball player and manager

Dimosthenis "Dimos" Dikoudis, is a former Greek professional basketball player and basketball executive. He is 2.08 m tall, and he played as a power forward-center. Dikoudis was inducted into the Greek Basket League…

1977

Jeff Farmer

Australian footballer

Jeff Farmer is a former Australian rules footballer of Aboriginal descent. He was the first Indigenous player to kick 400 goals in the Australian Football League (AFL).

1977

Luis García

Spanish footballer

Luis Javier García Sanz is a Spanish former professional footballer who played as a winger.

1978

Pantelis Kafes

Greek footballer

Pantelis Kafes is a Greek former professional footballer who played as a midfielder. Due to his follow to the example of Osvaldo Ardiles, he was known for being one of very few outfield players to have worn the number 1…

1978

Shunsuke Nakamura

Japanese footballer

Shunsuke Nakamura is a Japanese former professional footballer. He is currently working as an assistant coach of the Japan national football team. He is the only person to have been named J.League Most Valuable Player…

1978

Ariel Pink

American singer-songwriter

Ariel Marcus Rosenberg, professionally known as Ariel Pink, is an American musician, singer, and songwriter whose work draws heavily from the popular music of the 1960s–1980s. His lo-fi aesthetic and home-recorded…

1978

Juan Román Riquelme

Argentinian footballer

Juan Román Riquelme is an Argentine former professional footballer and current president of Boca Juniors. Known for his elegant playing style, passing, vision, creativity, free-kick technique, and ball retention, he is…

1978

Emppu Vuorinen

Finnish guitarist and songwriter

Erno Matti Juhani "Emppu" Vuorinen is a Finnish guitarist, most famous for being a founding member and occasional songwriter of the symphonic metal band Nightwish. He is the oldest of five children, having a twin…

1978

Mindy Kaling

American actress and producer

Vera Mindy Chokalingam, known professionally as Mindy Kaling, is an American actress, comedian, screenwriter, and producer. Known for her work on television, she has received a Tony Award and six nominations at the…

1979

Petra Němcová

Czech model and philanthropist

Petra Němcová is a Czech model, television host, and philanthropist who founded the Happy Hearts Fund. In 2017, the Happy Hearts Fund merged with All Hands Volunteers to create All Hands And Hearts - Smart Response,…

1979

Cicinho

Brazilian footballer

Cícero João de Cézare, nicknamed Cicinho, is a Brazilian retired professional footballer who played as a right back.

1980

Nina Dübbers

German tennis player

Nina Dübbers is a former German tennis player.

1980

Andrew Jones

Australian race car driver

Andrew Jones is an Australian former racing driver who previously competed in the Supercars Championship and Dunlop Super2 Series, driving with family-owned team Brad Jones Racing for majority of his career.

1980

Kevin Nolan

English footballer

Kevin Anthony Jance Nolan is an English former footballer and manager who was most recently manager of Northampton Town. He has represented England at under-21 level.

1982

Jarret Stoll

Canadian ice hockey player

Jarret Lee Stoll is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player. He played in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the Edmonton Oilers, Los Angeles Kings, New York Rangers and Minnesota Wild.

1982

Rebecca Cooke

English swimmer

Rebecca Cooke is a retired British swimmer.

1983

John Lloyd Cruz

Filipino actor

John Lloyd Espidol Cruz is a Filipino actor. Regarded as the "King of Contemporary Cinema" by the media, Cruz has top-billed several box-office successes. He has more than ten films with box office grosses of ₱100…

1983

Gianni Munari

Italian footballer

Gianni Munari is an Italian football official and a former player who played as a midfielder. He works as a scout for Parma.

1983

Gard Nilssen

Norwegian drummer

Gard Nilssen is a Norwegian jazz drummer and composer. He is a member of the bands Gard Nilssen' Acoustic Unity, Gard Nilssen's Supersonic Orchestra, Bushman's Revenge, Amgala Temple, and Puma. He also plays in trio…

1983

David Shillington

Australian rugby league player

David Shillington is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer who last played for the Gold Coast Titans in the National Rugby League. A Queensland State of Origin and Australian international…

1983

Andrea Raggi

Italian footballer

Andrea Raggi is an Italian retired professional footballer who played as a defender. He was a versatile player, being capable of playing both as a centre back and as a right back.

1984

JJ Redick

American basketball player and coach

Jonathan Clay "JJ" Redick is an American professional basketball coach and former player who is the head coach of the Los Angeles Lakers of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played college basketball for the…

1984

Johanna Welin

Swedish-born German wheelchair basketball player

Johanna Welin is a Swedish-born German 2.0 point wheelchair basketball player. She played for USC Munich in the German wheelchair basketball league, and for the national team that won the gold medal at the 2012 Summer…

1984

Diego Alves Carreira

Brazilian footballer

Diego Alves Carreira, known as Diego Alves, is a Brazilian former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper.

1985

Tom Kennedy

English footballer

Thomas Gordon Kennedy is an English former professional footballer who played as a left-back. He played semi-professionally for Ramsbottom United where he was club captain, before announcing retirement on 8 April 2022.

1985

Nate Myles

Australian rugby league player

Nate Myles is an Australian former rugby league footballer who played in the 2000s and 2010s, he last played for the Melbourne Storm in the National Rugby League. A Queensland State of Origin and Australia national…

1985

Vernon Philander

South African cricketer

Vernon Darryl Philander is a South African cricket coach, commentator, and former cricketer. He was a right-handed bowling all-rounder; he had previously represented his country at under 19 level. He played for the…

1985

Yukina Shirakawa

Japanese model

Yukina Shirakawa is a Japanese gravure idol. She is from Shizuoka Pref., Japan.

1985

Stuart Broad

English cricketer

Stuart Christopher John Broad is an English cricket commentator and former cricketer who played Test cricket for the England cricket team and captained the team in One Day and Twenty20 Internationals. Broad was a member…

1986

Phil Hughes

American baseball player

Philip Joseph Hughes is an American former professional baseball pitcher. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the New York Yankees, Minnesota Twins, and San Diego Padres during a career that spanned from 2007…

1986

Solange Knowles

American singer-songwriter and actress

Solange Piaget Knowles, also known mononymously as Solange, is an American singer, songwriter, and actress. She expressed an interest in music from an early age and had temporary stints as a backup dancer for Destiny's…

1986

Simona Dobrá

Czech tennis player

Simona Dobrá is a retired Czech tennis player.

1987

Lionel Messi

Argentinian footballer

Lionel Andrés "Leo" Messi is an Argentine professional footballer who plays as a forward for and captains both the Major League Soccer club Inter Miami and the Argentina national team. Widely regarded as one of the…

1987

Pierre Vaultier

French snowboarder

Pierre Benjamin Florent Vaultier is a French two-time Olympic Gold Champion, and one-time World Gold Champion snowboarder, specializing in snowboard cross.

1987

Micah Richards

English footballer

Micah Lincoln Richards is an English football pundit and former professional player who played as a right-back.

1988

Nichkhun

Thai-American singer and actor

Nichkhun Buck Horvejkul, better known mononymously as Nichkhun, is a Thai and American rapper, singer, songwriter, actor, and model. Based in South Korea as a member of the South Korean boy band 2PM, Nichkhun is widely…

1988

Teklemariam Medhin

Eritrean runner

Teklemariam Medhin Weldeslassie is an Eritrean long-distance runner who specializes in the 5000 metres and 10,000 metres. He represented his country at the 2008 and 2012 Summer Olympics.

1989

Michael Del Zotto

Canadian ice hockey player

Michael Del Zotto is a Canadian former professional ice hockey defenceman. He was drafted in the first round, 20th overall, by the New York Rangers at the 2008 NHL entry draft. He played in the NHL for the Rangers,…

1990

Richard Sukuta-Pasu

German footballer

Richard Sukuta-Pasu is a German professional footballer who plays as a forward for Regionalliga club Eintracht Hohkeppel.

1990

Yasmin Paige

English actress

Yasmin Paige is an English actress. She played the film role of Jordana Bevan in Submarine, and has appeared on television as Beth Mitchell in Pramface, and Maria Jackson in The Sarah Jane Adventures.

1991

Aidan Sezer

Australian rugby league player

Aidan Yüçel Sezer is an Australian professional rugby league footballer who plays as a scrum-half and stand-off for Hull FC in the Super League.

1991

David Alaba

Austrian footballer

David Alaba is an Austrian professional footballer who plays as a centre-back for La Liga club Real Madrid and captains the Austria national team. He was previously primarily a left-back, and was considered one of the…

1992

Duki

Argentinian rapper

Mauro Ezequiel Lombardo, known professionally as Duki, is an Argentine rapper, singer and songwriter. He is the lead voice of Latin trap in Argentina, thanks to his multiple hits with his singles and his particular…

1996

Marcus Coco

Guadeloupean footballer

Marcus Regis Coco is a Guadeloupean professional footballer who plays as a right-back or a right winger for Israeli Premier League club Hapoel Tel Aviv and for the Guadeloupe national team.

1996

Darwin Núñez

Uruguayan footballer

Darwin Gabriel Núñez Ribeiro is a Uruguayan professional footballer who plays as a forward for Saudi Pro League club Al-Hilal and the Uruguay national team.

1999

Erika Andreeva

Russian tennis player

Erika Aleksandrovna Andreeva is a Russian tennis player. She has a career-high singles ranking of world No. 65, reached on 21 October 2024. She also has a best doubles ranking of No. 274, achieved on 11 December 2023.…

2004

Luke Chambers

English footballer

Luke Chambers is an English professional footballer who plays as a left-back for Premier League club Liverpool. He was part of the England national under-19 football team that won the 2022 UEFA European Under-19…

2004

Fran González

Spanish footballer

Francisco Javier González Pérez is a Spanish footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Real Madrid B.

2005

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