Who was born on March 4?

Famous people born on March 4 include: Liu Zhiyuan, Al-Musabbihi, Blanche of Castile, Henry the Navigator, George.

What is Edwards Pierrepont known for?

Edwards Pierrepont, American lawyer and politician, 34th United States Attorney General (died 1892)

Edwards Pierrepont & Other Famous Birthdays on March 4

English actor, playwright, and composer (died 1814)

Charles Dibdin was an English composer, musician, dramatist, novelist, singer and actor. With over 600 songs to his name, for many of which he wrote both the lyrics and the music and performed them himself, he was in…

1745

Casimir Pulaski

Polish-American general (died 1779)

Kazimierz Michał Władysław Wiktor Pułaski, anglicised as Casimir Pulaski, was a Polish nobleman, soldier, and military commander who has been called "The Father of American cavalry" or "The Soldier of Liberty". Born in…

1745

Henry Raeburn

Scottish portrait painter (died 1823)

Sir Henry Raeburn was a Scottish portrait painter. He served as Portrait Painter to King George IV in Scotland.

1756

William Payne

English painter (died 1830)

William Payne was an English painter and etcher who invented the tint Payne's grey.

1760

Hugh Ronalds

British nurseryman who cultivated and documented 300 varieties of apples (died 1833)

Hugh Ronalds was a nurseryman and horticulturalist in Brentford, who published Pyrus Malus Brentfordiensis: or, a Concise Description of Selected Apples (1831). His plants were some of the first European species to be…

1760

Muhammad Ali

Ottoman military leader and pasha (died 1849)

Muhammad Ali was the Ottoman viceroy and governor who became the de facto ruler of Egypt from 1805 to 1848, widely considered the founder of modern Egypt. At the height of his rule in 1840, he controlled Egypt, Sudan,…

1769

Joseph Jacotot

French philosopher and academic (died 1840)

Jean Joseph Jacotot was a French teacher and educational philosopher, creator of the method of "intellectual emancipation."

1770

Robert Emmet

Irish republican (died 1803)

Robert Emmet was an Irish Republican, orator and rebel leader. Following the suppression of the United Irish uprising in 1798, he sought to organise a renewed attempt in Ireland to overthrow the British Crown and…

1778

Rebecca Gratz

American educator and philanthropist (died 1869)

Rebecca Gratz was a Jewish American educator and philanthropist in 19th-century America. She was a member of the Gratz family, who settled in the United States before the Revolutionary War.

1781

Johann Rudolf Wyss

Swiss philosopher, author, and academic (died 1830)

Johann Rudolf Wyss was a Swiss author, writer, and folklorist who wrote the words to the former Swiss national anthem Rufst Du, mein Vaterland in 1811, and also edited the novel The Swiss Family Robinson, written by his…

1782

Isaac Lea

American conchologist, geologist, and publisher (died 1886)

Isaac Lea was an American publisher, conchologist and geologist. He was a partner in the publishing businesses Matthew Carey & Sons; Carey, Lea & Carey; Carey, Lea & Blanchard; and Lea & Blanchard.

1792

Karl Lachmann

German philologist and critic (died 1851)

Karl Konrad Friedrich Wilhelm Lachmann was a German philologist and critic. He is particularly noted for his foundational contributions to the field of textual criticism.

1793

William Price

Welsh physician, Chartist, and neo-Druid (died 1893)

William Price was a Welsh physician and political activist best known for his support of Welsh nationalism, Chartism and involvement with the Neo-Druidic religious movement. Historians have characterised Price as one of…

1800

Napoleon Collins

Rear Admiral of the United States Navy during the Mexican–American War and the American Civil War (died 1875)

Rear Admiral Napoleon Collins served in the United States Navy during the Mexican–American War and the American Civil War.

1814

Mykhailo Verbytsky

Ukrainian composer of religious hymns and the national anthem of Ukraine (died 1870)

Mykhailo Mykhailovych Verbytskyi, also anglicized as Michael Werbitzky, was a Ukrainian composer and a priest of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church. He is considered to be one of the first professional composers of…

1815

Francesco Bentivegna

Italian rebel leader (died 1856)

Baron Francesco Bentivegna was an Italian patriot, who led various revolts in Sicily against the Bourbon rulers between 1848 and 1856.

1820

Jules Antoine Lissajous

French mathematician and academic (died 1880)

Jules Antoine Lissajous was a French physicist, after whom Lissajous figures are named. Among other innovations, Lissajous invented the Lissajous apparatus, a device that creates the figures that bear his name. In it, a…

1822

George Caron

Canadian businessman and politician (died 1902)

George Caron was a Quebec businessman and political figure. He represented Maskinongé in the 1st Canadian Parliament as a Conservative member.

1823

August Johann Gottfried Bielenstein

German linguist, ethnographer, and theologian (died 1907)

August Johann Gottfried Bielenstein was a Baltic German linguist, folklorist, ethnographer, and theologian.

1826

John Buford

American general (died 1863)

John Buford Jr. was a United States Army cavalry officer. He fought for the Union during the American Civil War, rising to the rank of major general. Buford is best known for his actions in the first day of the Battle…

1826

Elme Marie Caro

French philosopher and academic (died 1887)

Elme Marie Caro was a French philosopher.

1826

Theodore Judah

American engineer, founded the Central Pacific Railroad (died 1863)

Theodore Dehone Judah was an American civil engineer who was a central figure in the original promotion, establishment, and design of the first transcontinental railroad. He found investors for what became the Central…

1826

Owen Wynne Jones

Welsh clergyman and poet (died 1870)

Owen Wynne Jones, often known by his bardic name of Glasynys, was a Welsh clergyman, folklorist, poet, novelist and short-story writer.

1828

Paul Lacôme

French pianist, cellist, and composer (died 1920)

Paul-Jean-Jacques Lacôme d'Estalenx was a French composer. Between 1870 and the turn of the century he produced a series of operettas and operas-bouffes that were popular both in France and abroad. Interest in his works…

1838

Carl Josef Bayer

Austrian chemist and academic (died 1904)

Carl Josef Bayer was a chemist from Austria-Hungary who invented and named the Bayer process of extracting alumina from bauxite, essential to this day to the economical production of aluminium.

1847

Alexandros Papadiamantis

Greek author and poet (died 1911)

Alexandros Papadiamantis was an influential Greek novelist, short-story writer and poet.

1851

Napier Shaw

English meteorologist and academic (died 1945)

Sir William Napier Shaw was a British meteorologist. He introduced the tephigram, a diagram for evaluating convective instability in the atmosphere. He also served as president of the International Meteorological…

1854

Alfred William Rich

English painter, author, and educator (died 1921)

Alfred William Rich was an English artist, teacher and author.

1856

Arthur Cushman McGiffert

American theologian and author (died 1933)

Arthur Cushman McGiffert, American theologian, was born in Sauquoit, New York, the son of a Presbyterian minister of Scots-Irish descent.

1861

Jacob Robert Emden

Swiss astrophysicist and meteorologist (died 1940)

Jacob Robert Emden was a Swiss astrophysicist and meteorologist. He is best known for his book, Gaskugeln: Anwendungen der mechanischen Wärmetheorie auf kosmologische und meteorologische probleme, published in 1907. It…

1862

R. I. Pocock

English zoologist and archaeologist (died 1947)

Reginald Innes Pocock, was a British zoologist.

1863

John Henry Wigmore

American academic and jurist (died 1943)

John Henry Wigmore (1863–1943) was an American lawyer and legal scholar known for his expertise in the law of evidence and for his influential scholarship. Wigmore taught law at Keio University in Tokyo (1889–1892)…

1863

David W. Taylor

American admiral, architect, and engineer (died 1940)

David Watson Taylor was an American naval architect and an engineer in the United States Navy. He served during World War I as Chief Constructor of the Navy, and Chief of the Bureau of Construction and Repair. Taylor is…

1864

Eugène Cosserat

French mathematician and astronomer (died 1931)

Eugène-Maurice-Pierre Cosserat was a French mathematician and astronomer.

1866

Jacob L. Beilhart

American activist, founded the Spirit Fruit Society (died 1908)

Jacob L. Beilhart was the founder and leader of a communitarian group known as the Spirit Fruit Society. Beilhart believed that jealousy, materialism, and the fear of losing another's love were at the root of much of…

1867

Charles Pelot Summerall

American Army officer (died 1955)

General Charles Pelot Summerall was a senior United States Army officer. He commanded the 1st Infantry Division in World War I, was Chief of Staff of the United States Army from 1926 to 1930, and was President of The…

1867

Thomas Sturge Moore

English author and poet (died 1944)

Thomas Sturge Moore was a British poet, author and artist.

1870

Boris Galerkin

Russian mathematician and engineer (died 1945)

Boris Grigoryevich Galerkin was a Soviet mathematician and an engineer.

1871

Guy Wetmore Carryl

American journalist and poet (died 1904)

Guy Wetmore Carryl was an American humorist and poet.

1873

John H. Trumbull

American colonel and politician, 70th Governor of Connecticut (died 1961)

John Harper Trumbull was an American politician who served as the 70th Governor of Connecticut.

1873

Mihály Károlyi

Hungarian politician, President of Hungary (died 1955)

Count Mihály Ádám György Miklós Károlyi de Nagykároly was a Hungarian politician who served as a leader of the short-lived and unrecognized First Hungarian Republic from 1918 to 1919. He served as prime minister between…

1875

Enrique Larreta

Argentinian historian and author (died 1961)

Enrique Rodríguez Larreta was an Argentine writer, academic, diplomat and art collector. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature ten times.

1875

Léon-Paul Fargue

French poet and author (died 1947)

Léon-Paul Fargue was a French poet and essayist.

1876

Theodore Hardeen

Hungarian-American magician (died 1945)

Ferenc Dezső Weisz, known as Theodore "Dash" Hardeen, was a Hungarian-American magician and escape artist who was the younger brother of Harry Houdini. Hardeen, who usually billed himself as the "brother of Houdini",…

1876

Alexander Goedicke

Russian pianist and composer (died 1957)

Alexander Fyodorovich Goedicke was a Russian and Soviet composer and pianist.

1877

Fritz Graebner

German geographer and ethnologist (died 1934)

Robert Fritz Graebner was a German geographer and ethnologist best known for his development of the theory of Kulturkreis, or culture circle. He was the first theoretician of the Vienna School of Ethnology.

1877

Garrett Morgan

African-American inventor (died 1963)

Garrett Augustus Morgan Sr. was an American inventor, businessman, and community leader. His most notable inventions were a protective 'smoke hood' that he notably used in a 1916 tunnel construction disaster rescue, a…

1877

Takeo Arishima

Japanese author and critic (died 1923)

Takeo Arishima was a Japanese novelist, short-story writer and essayist during the late Meiji and Taishō periods. His two younger brothers, Ikuma Arishima (有島生馬) and Ton Satomi (里美弴), were also authors. His son was the…

1878

Egbert Van Alstyne

American pianist and songwriter (died 1951)

Egbert Anson Van Alstyne was an American songwriter and pianist. Van Alstyne was the composer of a number of popular and ragtime tunes of the early 20th century.

1878

Bernhard Kellermann

German author and poet (died 1951)

Bernhard Kellermann was a German author and poet.

1879

Channing Pollock

American playwright and critic (died 1946)

Channing Pollock was an American playwright, critic and screenwriter, whose works included The Evil Thereof (1916) and the memoir The Footlights, Fore and Aft (1911). Pollock is perhaps best remembered in connection…

1880

Todor Aleksandrov

Bulgarian educator and activist (died 1924)

Todor Aleksandrov Poporushov, anglicised as Todor Alexandrov, was a Macedonian Bulgarian revolutionary, Bulgarian army officer, and teacher. He initially favoured the annexation of Macedonia to Bulgaria, but later…

1881

Thomas Sigismund Stribling

American lawyer and author (died 1965)

Thomas Sigismund Stribling was an American writer. Although he acquired a law degree and practiced law for a few years, his career was mainly that of an author of fiction. Known first for adventure stories published in…

1881

Richard C. Tolman

American physicist and chemist (died 1948)

Richard Chace Tolman was an American mathematical physicist and physical chemist who made many contributions to statistical mechanics and theoretical cosmology. He was a professor at the California Institute of…

1881

Nicolae Titulescu

Romanian academic and politician, 61st Romanian Minister of Foreign Affairs (died 1941)

Nicolae Titulescu was a Romanian politician and diplomat, at various times ambassador, finance minister, and foreign minister, and for two terms served as president of the General Assembly of the League of Nations…

1882

Maude Fealy

American actress and screenwriter (died 1971)

Maude Fealy was an American stage and silent film actress whose career survived into the sound era.

1883

Robert Emmett Keane

American actor (died 1981)

Robert Emmett Keane was an American actor of both the stage and screen.

1883

Sam Langford

Canadian-American boxer (died 1956)

Samuel Edgar Langford was a Canadian professional boxer who competed from 1902 to 1926. Called the "Greatest Fighter Almost Nobody Knows" by ESPN, Langford is considered by many boxing historians to be one of the…

1883

Red Murray

American baseball player (died 1958)

John Joseph "Red" Murray was an American outfielder in Major League Baseball.

1884

Lee Shumway

American actor (died 1959)

Lee Shumway, born Leonard Charles Shumway, was an American actor. He appeared in more than 400 films between 1909 and 1953. He was born in Salt Lake City, Utah, and died in Los Angeles, California.

1884

Paul Bazelaire

French cellist and composer (died 1958)

Paul Bazelaire was a French cellist and composer.

1886

Rafaela Ottiano

Italian-American actress (died 1942)

Rafaela Ottiano was an Italian-American actress. She was best known for her role as Suzette in Grand Hotel (1932) and as Russian Rita in She Done Him Wrong (1933).

1888

Jeff Pfeffer

American baseball player (died 1972)

Edward Joseph Pfeffer was an American pitcher for the St. Louis Browns (1911), Brooklyn Dodgers/Robins (1913–1921), St. Louis Cardinals (1921–1924) and Pittsburgh Pirates (1924). His older brother Francis was known as…

1888

Emma Richter

German paleontologist (died 1956)

Emma Richter was a German paleontologist. She is best known for her work concerning Trilobites. She was an honorary member of the Paleontological Society of America and received an honorary doctorate from the University…

1888

Knute Rockne

American football player and coach (died 1931)

Knute Kenneth Rockne was a Norwegian-American football player and coach at the University of Notre Dame. Leading Notre Dame for 13 seasons, Rockne accumulated over 100 wins and three national championships.

1888

Oscar Chisini

Italian mathematician and statistician (died 1967)

Oscar Chisini was an Italian mathematician. He introduced the Chisini mean in 1929.

1889

Oren E. Long

American soldier and politician, 10th Territorial Governor of Hawaii (died 1965)

Oren Ethelbirt Long was an American politician who served as the tenth Territorial Governor of Hawaii from 1951 to 1953. A member of the Democratic Party of Hawaii, Long was appointed to the office after the term of…

1889

Pearl White

American actress (died 1938)

Pearl Fay White was an American stage and film actress. She began her career on the stage at age 6, and later moved on to silent films appearing in a number of popular serials.

1889

Robert William Wood

English-American painter (died 1979)

Robert William Wood was a British-American landscape painter. Although he never became an American citizen, most of his career was in the United States, and he is designated as an "American" artist. He rose to…

1889

Norman Bethune

Canadian soldier and physician (died 1939)

Henry Norman Bethune was a Canadian thoracic surgeon, early advocate of universal health care, and member of the Communist Party of Canada. Bethune came to international prominence first for his service as a frontline…

1890

Dazzy Vance

American baseball player (died 1961)

Charles Arthur "Dazzy" Vance was an American professional baseball player. He played as a pitcher for five different franchises in Major League Baseball (MLB) in a career that spanned 16 seasons over 21 years. A late…

1891

Charles Herbert Colvin

American engineer, co-founded the Pioneer Instrument Company (died 1985)

Charles Herbert Colvin was an aeronautical engineer who was the co-founder of the Pioneer Instrument Company in Brooklyn, with Brice Herbert Goldsborough and Morris M. Titterington.

1893

Adolph Lowe

German sociologist and economist (died 1995)

Adolph Lowe was a German sociologist and economist. His best known student was Robert Heilbroner. He was born in Stuttgart and died in Wolfenbüttel.

1893

Charles Corm

Lebanese businessman and philanthropist (died 1963)

Charles Corm (1894–1963) was a Lebanese writer, industrialist, and philanthropist. He is considered to be the leader of the Phoenicianism movement in Lebanon, which ignited a surge of nationalism that led to Lebanon's…

1894

Milt Gross

American animator, director, and screenwriter (died 1953)

Milt Gross was an American cartoonist and animator. His work is noted for its exaggerated cartoon style and Yiddish-inflected English dialogue. He originated the non-sequitur "Banana Oil!" as a phrase deflating…

1895

Kai Holm

Danish actor and director (died 1985)

Kai Holm was a Danish film actor. He appeared in 41 films between 1927 and 1979. He was born in Lemvig, Denmark and died in Denmark.

1896

Lefty O'Doul

American baseball player and manager (died 1969)

Francis Joseph "Lefty" O'Doul was an American professional baseball player and manager. Though he spent eleven seasons in Major League Baseball, most notably for the New York Giants and Philadelphia Phillies, he is best…

1897

Georges Dumézil

French philologist and academic (died 1986)

Georges Edmond Raoul Dumézil was a French philologist, linguist, and religious studies scholar who specialized in comparative linguistics and mythology.

1898

Hans Krebs

German general (died 1945)

Hans Otto Wilhelm Eugen Krebs was a German Army general of infantry who served during World War II. A career soldier, he served in the Imperial German Army, Reichswehr and the Wehrmacht’s Heer. He served as the last…

1898

Peter Illing

Austrian born, British film and television actor (died 1966)

Peter Illing was an Austrian-born British film and television actor.

1899

Emilio Prados

Spanish poet and author (died 1962)

Emilio Prados was a Spanish poet and editor, a member of the Generation of '27.

1899

Herbert Biberman

American director and screenwriter (died 1971)

Herbert J. Biberman was an American screenwriter and film director. He was one of the Hollywood Ten and directed Salt of the Earth (1954), a film barely released in the United States, about a zinc miners' strike in…

1900

Wilbur R. Franks

Canadian scientist, invented the g-suit (died 1986)

Wilbur Rounding Franks, OBE was a Canadian scientist, notable as the inventor of the anti-gravity suit or G-suit, and for his work in cancer research.

1901

Charles Goren

American bridge player and author (died 1991)

Charles Henry Goren was an American bridge player and writer who significantly developed and popularized the game. He was the leading American bridge personality in the 1950s and 1960s and widely known as "Mr. Bridge".

1901

Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo

Malagasy-French author, poet, and playwright (died 1937)

Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo, born Joseph-Casimir Rabearivelo, was a Malagasy poet who is widely considered to be Africa's first modern poet and the greatest literary artist of Madagascar. Part of the first Malagasy…

1901

Rachel Messerer

Lithuanian-Russian actress (died 1993)

Rachel Mikhailovna Messerer-Plisetskaya, also known by her stage name Ra Messerer, was a Russian silent film and theatre actress.

1902

Russell Reeder

American soldier and author (died 1998)

Colonel Russell Potter "Red" Reeder Jr. was a United States Army officer and writer.

1902

William C. Boyd

American immunologist and chemist (died 1983)

William Clouser Boyd was an American immunochemist. In the 1930s, with his wife Lyle, he made a worldwide survey of the distribution of blood types.

1903

Malcolm Dole

American chemist and academic (died 1990)

Malcolm Dole was an American chemist known for the Dole Effect in which he proved that the atomic weight of oxygen in air is greater than that of oxygen in water and for his work on electrospray ionization, polymer…

1903

Dorothy Mackaill

English-American actress and singer (died 1990)

Dorothy Mackaill was a British-American actress, most active during the silent-film era and into the pre-Code era of the early 1930s.

1903

John Scarne

American magician and author (died 1985)

John Scarne was an American magician and author who was particularly adept at playing card manipulation. He became known as an expert on cards and other games, and authored a number of popular books on cards, gambling,…

1903

Luis Carrero Blanco

Spanish admiral and politician, 69th President of the Government of Spain (died 1973)

Admiral-General Luis Carrero Blanco was a Spanish Navy officer and politician. A long-time confidant and right-hand man of dictator Francisco Franco, Carrero served as Prime Minister of Spain. Upon graduating from the…

1904

George Gamow

Ukrainian-American physicist and cosmologist (died 1968)

George Gamow was a Soviet and American polymath, theoretical physicist and cosmologist. He was an early advocate and developer of Georges Lemaître's Big Bang theory. Gamow discovered a theoretical explanation of alpha…

1904

Joseph Schmidt

Austrian-Hungarian tenor and actor (died 1942)

Joseph Schmidt was an Austro-Hungarian and Romanian Jewish tenor.

1904

Meindert DeJong

Dutch-American soldier and author (died 1991)

Meindert De Jong, also spelled de Jong, DeJong, or Dejong, was a Dutch-born American Newbery Medal-winning writer of children's books. During the height of his popularity, he frequently collaborated with Maurice Sendak,…

1906

Avery Fisher

American violinist and engineer, founded Fisher Electronics (died 1994)

Avery Robert Fisher, known as Avery Fisher, was an amateur violinist, a pioneer in the field of high fidelity sound reproduction, founder of the Philharmonic Radio Company and Fisher Electronics, and a philanthropist…

1906

Georges Ronsse

Belgian cyclist and manager (died 1969)

Georges Ronsse was a two-time national cyclo-cross and two-time world champion road bicycle racer from Belgium, who raced between 1926 and 1938.

1906

Edgar Barrier

American actor (died 1964)

Edgar Barrier was an American actor who appeared on radio, stage and screen. In the 1930s he was a member of Orson Welles' Mercury Theatre and appeared in the 1938 Welles-directed short, Too Much Johnson, which was long…

1907

Maria Branyas

American-Spanish supercentenarian (died 2024)

Maria Branyas Morera was an American-born Catalan supercentenarian who, until her death at the age of 117 years, 168 days, was the world's oldest verified living person, following the death of Lucile Randon on 17…

1907

T. R. M. Howard

American surgeon and activist (died 1976)

Theodore Roosevelt Mason Howard was an American civil rights leader, fraternal organization leader, entrepreneur and surgeon. He was a mentor to activists such as Medgar Evers, Charles Evers, Fannie Lou Hamer, Amzie…

1908

Thomas Shaw

American singer and guitarist (died 1977)

Thomas Edgar Shaw was an American blues singer and guitarist.

1908

Harry Helmsley

American businessman (died 1997)

Harry Brakmann Helmsley was an American real estate billionaire whose company, Helmsley-Spear, became one of the country's biggest property holders, owning the Empire State Building, the Helmsley Building, the Graybar…

1909

George Edward Holbrook

American chemist and engineer (died 1987)

George Edward Holbrook was a noted American chemical engineer and a founding member of the National Academy of Engineering.

1909

Tancredo Neves

Brazilian lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of Brazil (died 1985)

Tancredo de Almeida Neves was a Brazilian politician, lawyer, and entrepreneur. He served as Minister of Justice and Internal Affairs from 1953 to 1954, President of the Council of Ministers from 1961 to 1962, Minister…

1910

Charles Greville

7th Earl of Warwick, English actor (died 1984)

Charles Guy Fulke Greville, 7th Earl of Warwick, 7th Earl Brooke, was a British peer and the last Earl of Warwick to live at the family seat Warwick Castle before its sale in 1978. He became the first British aristocrat…

1911

Afro Basaldella

Italian painter and academic (died 1976)

Afro Libio Basaldella was one of the most important Italian painters in the post-World War II period. He began as a member of the Scuola Romana, and then embracing [informal] [abstraction], worked and had great…

1912

Ferdinand Leitner

German conductor and composer (died 1996)

Ferdinand Leitner was a German conductor. Leitner studied under Franz Schreker, Julius Prüwer, Artur Schnabel and Karl Muck.

1912

Carl Marzani

Italian-American activist and publisher (died 1994)

Carl Aldo Marzani was an Italian-born American political activist with a series of careers as a volunteer soldier in the Spanish Civil War, organizer for the Communist Party USA (CPUSA), United States intelligence…

1912

Taos Amrouche

Algerian singer and author (died 1976)

Marie-Louise-Taos Amrouche was an Algerian writer and singer. In 1947, she became the first Algerian woman to publish a novel.

1913

John Garfield

American actor and singer (died 1952)

John Garfield was an American actor who played brooding, rebellious, working-class characters. He grew up in poverty in New York City. In the early 1930s, he became a member of the Group Theatre. In 1937, he moved to…

1913

Barbara Newhall Follett

American author (died 1939)

Barbara Newhall Follett was an American child prodigy novelist. Her first novel, The House Without Windows, was published in January 1927, when she was twelve years old. Her next novel, The Voyage of the Norman D.,…

1914

Ward Kimball

American animator, producer, and screenwriter (died 2002)

Ward Walrath Kimball was an American animator employed by Walt Disney Animation Studios. He was part of Walt Disney's main team of animators, known collectively as Disney's Nine Old Men. His films have been honored with…

1914

Robert R. Wilson

American physicist, sculptor, and architect (died 2000)

Robert Rathbun Wilson was an American physicist known for his work on the Manhattan Project during World War II, as a sculptor, and as an architect of the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab), where he was…

1914

László Csatáry

Hungarian art dealer (died 2013)

László Csizsik Csatáry was a Hungarian citizen and was convicted and sentenced to death in absentia in 1948 by a Czechoslovak court as a Nazi war criminal. In 2012, his name was added to the Simon Wiesenthal Center's…

1915

Frank Sleeman

Australian lieutenant and politician, Lord Mayor of Brisbane (died 2000)

Frank Northey Sleeman was an Australian politician, who served as Lord Mayor of Brisbane from 1976 to 1982.

1915

Carlos Surinach

Spanish-Catalan composer and conductor (died 1997)

Carlos Suriñach i Wrokona was a Spanish-born composer and conductor.

1915

William Alland

American actor, director, and producer (died 1997)

William Alland was an American actor, film producer and writer, mainly of Western and science-fiction/monster films, including This Island Earth, It Came From Outer Space, Tarantula!, The Deadly Mantis, The Mole People,…

1916

Giorgio Bassani

Italian author and poet (died 2000)

Giorgio Bassani was an Italian novelist, poet, essayist, editor, and intellectual.

1916

Hans Eysenck

German-English psychologist and theorist (died 1997)

Hans Jürgen Eysenck was a German-born British psychologist. He is best remembered for his work on intelligence and personality, although he worked on other issues in psychology. At the time of his death, Eysenck was the…

1916

Ernest Titterton

English-Australian nuclear physicist (died 1990)

Sir Ernest William Titterton was a British nuclear physicist.

1916

Clyde McCullough

American baseball player, coach, and manager (died 1982)

Clyde Edward McCullough was an American catcher in Major League Baseball. After his playing career ended, he also managed in the minor leagues and was a major-league coach. Born in Nashville, Tennessee, McCullough…

1917

Kurt Dahlmann

German pilot, lawyer, and journalist (died 2017)

Kurt Dahlmann was a German pilot, attorney, journalist, newspaper editor and political activist. He was also a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves of Nazi Germany.

1918

Margaret Osborne duPont

American tennis player (died 2012)

Margaret Osborne duPont was a world No. 1 American female tennis player.

1918

Buck Baker

American race car driver (died 2002)

Elzie Wylie Baker Sr., better known as Buck Baker, was an American stock car racer. Born in Richburg, South Carolina, Baker began his NASCAR career in 1949 and won his first race three years later at Columbia Speedway.…

1919

Tan Chee Khoon

Malaysian physician and politician (died 1996)

Tan Chee Khoon was a major figure in Malaysian politics from 1959 to 1978, at one point being nicknamed "Mr. Opposition" for the outspoken views he presented in Parliament. He was the official Leader of the Opposition…

1919

Jean Lecanuet

French politician, French Minister of Justice (died 1993)

Jean Adrien François Lecanuet was a French centrist politician.

1920

Alan MacNaughtan

Scottish-English actor (died 2002)

Alan MacNaughtan was a Scottish actor, born in Bearsden, Dunbartonshire, Scotland. He was educated at the Glasgow Academy, trained at RADA, and graduated in 1940 with the Bancroft Gold Medal. An experienced Old Vic,…

1920

Halim El-Dabh

Egyptian-American composer and educator (died 2017)

Halim Abdul Messieh El-Dabh was an Egyptian-American composer, musician, ethnomusicologist, and educator, who had a career spanning six decades. He is particularly known as an early pioneer of electronic music. In 1944…

1921

Joan Greenwood

English actress (died 1987)

Joan Mary Waller Greenwood was an English actress. Her husky voice, coupled with her slow, precise elocution, was her trademark. She played Sibella in the 1949 film Kind Hearts and Coronets, and also appeared in The Man…

1921

Dinny Pails

English-Australian tennis player (died 1986)

Dennis "Dinny" Pails was an Australian tennis champion.

1921

Richard E. Cunha

American director and cinematographer (died 2005)

Richard Earl Cunha was an American cinematographer and film director. Cunha's father was Albert "Sonny" Cunha, an American songwriter.

1922

Dina Pathak

Indian actor and director (died 2002)

Dina Pathak was an Indian actress and director of Gujarati theatre and also a film actor. She was an activist and President of the National Federation of Indian Women (NFIW).

1922

Russell Freeburg

American journalist and author

Russell William Freeburg is an American journalist who was a former managing editor and Washington bureau chief for the Chicago Tribune. He is the co-author of a book on the role of oil in World War II.

1923

Francis King

English author and poet (died 2011)

Francis Henry King was a British novelist and short-story writer. He worked for the British Council for 15 years, with positions in Europe and Japan. For 25 years, he was a chief book reviewer for the Sunday Telegraph,…

1923

Patrick Moore

English astronomer and television host (died 2012)

Sir Patrick Alfred Caldwell-Moore was an English amateur astronomer who attained prominence in that field as a writer, researcher, radio commentator and television presenter.

1923

Kenneth O'Donnell

American soldier and politician (died 1977)

Kenneth Patrick O'Donnell was an American political consultant and the special assistant and appointments secretary to President John F. Kennedy from 1961 until Kennedy's assassination in November 1963. O'Donnell was a…

1924

Alan R. Battersby

English chemist and academic (died 2018)

Sir Alan Rushton Battersby (4 March 1925 – 10 February 2018) was an English organic chemist best known for his work to define the chemical intermediates in the biosynthetic pathway to vitamin B12 and the reaction…

1925

Paul Mauriat

French conductor and composer (died 2006)

Paul Julien André Mauriat was a French orchestra leader, conductor of Le Grand Orchestre de Paul Mauriat, who specialized in the easy listening genre. He is best known in the United States for his million-selling remake…

1925

Henri de Contenson

French archaeologist and academic (died 2019)

Henri de Contenson was a French archaeologist and a researcher at the CNRS, The Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, a research organization funded by France's Ministry of Research.

1926

Prince Michel of Bourbon-Parma

French businessman, soldier and racing driver (died 2018)

Prince Michel of Bourbon-Parma was a French prince, businessman, soldier and racing car driver, who was a member of the deposed sovereign royal and ducal House of Bourbon-Parma.

1926

Richard DeVos

American businessman and philanthropist, co-founded Amway (died 2018)

Richard Marvin DeVos Sr. was an American billionaire businessman, co-founder of Amway with Jay Van Andel, and owner of the Orlando Magic basketball team. In 2012, Forbes magazine listed him as the 60th wealthiest person…

1926

Pascual Pérez

Argentinian boxer (died 1977)

Pascual Nicolás Pérez was an Argentine flyweight boxer. Pérez was born in Tupungato in the Mendoza Province of Argentina, he went on to make history by becoming Argentina's first world boxing champion.

1926

Don Rendell

English saxophonist and flute player (died 2015)

Donald Percy Rendell was an English jazz musician and arranger. Mainly active as a tenor saxophonist, he also played soprano saxophone, flute, and clarinet.

1926

Phil Batt

American soldier and politician, 29th Governor of Idaho (died 2023)

Philip Eugene Batt was an American politician who served as the 29th Governor of Idaho from 1995 to 1999. A member of the Republican Party, Batt had previously served as the 35th Lieutenant Governor of Idaho, Chair of…

1927

Thayer David

American actor (died 1978)

David Thayer Hersey, known professionally as Thayer David, was an American actor. He was best known to television audiences for his roles on the gothic soap opera Dark Shadows (1966–71). His notable film roles included…

1927

Jacques Dupin

French poet and critic (died 2012)

Jacques Dupin was a French poet, art critic, and co-founder of the journal L'éphemère.

1927

Dick Savitt

American tennis player and businessman (died 2023)

Richard Savitt was an American tennis player.

1927

Samuel Adler

German-American composer and conductor

Samuel Hans Adler is a German-American composer, conductor, author, and professor. During the course of a professional career which ranges over six decades he has served as a faculty member at both the University of…

1928

Alan Sillitoe

English novelist, short story writer, essayist, and poet (died 2010)

Alan Sillitoe FRSL was an English writer and one of the so-called "angry young men" of the 1950s. He disliked the label, as did most of the other writers to whom it was applied. He is best known for his debut novel…

1928

Bernard Haitink

Dutch violinist and conductor (died 2021)

Bernard Johan Herman Haitink was a Dutch conductor and violinist. He was the principal conductor of several international orchestras, beginning with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra in 1961. He moved to London, as…

1929

Peter Swerling

American theoretician and engineer (died 2000)

Peter Swerling was one of the most influential radar theoreticians in the second half of the 20th century. He is best known for the class of statistically "fluctuating target" scattering models he developed at the RAND…

1929

Wally Bruner

American journalist and television host (died 1997)

Wallace Bruner Jr. was an American journalist and television host. He covered Congress and the Lyndon Johnson administration for ABC News in the 1960s. He was the first host of the 1968–1975 syndicated version of What's…

1931

Bob Johnson

American ice hockey player and coach (died 1991)

Robert Norman "Badger Bob" Johnson was an American college, international, and professional ice hockey coach. He coached the Wisconsin Badgers men's ice hockey team from 1966 to 1982, where he led the Badgers to seven…

1931

William Henry Keeler

American cardinal (died 2017)

William Henry Keeler was an American cardinal of the Catholic Church. He served as archbishop of Baltimore in Maryland, from 1989 to 2007 and was elevated to the College of Cardinals in 1994. He previously served as…

1931

Alice Rivlin

American economist and politician (died 2019)

Alice Mitchell Rivlin was an American economist and budget official. She served as the 16th vice chair of the Federal Reserve from 1996 to 1999. Before her appointment to the Federal Reserve, Rivlin was named director…

1931

Sigurd Jansen

Norwegian pianist, composer, and conductor

Sigurd Jansen is a Norwegian composer, pianist and conductor.

1932

Ryszard Kapuściński

Polish journalist, photographer, and poet (died 2007)

Ryszard Kapuściński was a Polish journalist, photographer and author. He received many prestigious awards and was considered a candidate for the Nobel Prize in Literature. Kapuściński's personal journals in book form…

1932

Miriam Makeba

South African singer-songwriter and actress (died 2008)

Zenzile Miriam Makeba, nicknamed Mama Africa, was a South African singer, songwriter, actress, and civil rights activist. Associated with musical genres including Afropop, jazz, and world music, she was an advocate…

1932

Ed Roth

American illustrator (died 2001)

Edward "Big Daddy" Roth was an American artist, cartoonist, illustrator, pinstriper and custom car designer and builder who created the hot rod icon Rat Fink and other characters. Roth was a key figure in Southern…

1932

Frank Wells

American businessman (died 1994)

Franklin G. Wells was an American businessman who served as president and chief operating officer of The Walt Disney Company from 1984 until his death in 1994.

1932

Nino Vaccarella

Italian racing driver (died 2021)

Nino Vaccarella was an Italian sports car racing and Formula One driver.

1933

Mario Davidovsky

Argentinian-American composer and academic (died 2019)

Mario Davidovsky was an Argentine-American composer. Born in Argentina, he emigrated in 1960 to the United States, where he lived for the remainder of his life. He is best known for his series of compositions called…

1934

John Duffey

American singer-songwriter and mandolinist (died 1996)

John Humbird Duffey Jr. was an American bluegrass musician.

1934

Anne Haney

American actress (died 2001)

Anne Ryan Haney was an American character actress. She appeared in small supporting roles in around 50 film and television productions and was best known for her roles as Mrs. Sellner in Mrs. Doubtfire, Mrs. Chapil in…

1934

Barbara McNair

American singer and actress (died 2007)

Barbara Jean McNair (March 4, 1934 – February 4, 2007) was an American singer and theater, television, and film actress. McNair's career spanned over five decades in television, film, and stage. McNair's professional…

1934

Sandra Reynolds

South African tennis player

Sandra Reynolds Price is a South African former tennis player who won four Grand Slam women's doubles championships and one Grand Slam mixed doubles championship. Her best Grand Slam singles result was reaching the 1960…

1934

Janez Strnad

Slovenian physicist and academic (died 2015)

Janez Strnad was a Slovene physicist and popularizer of natural science.

1934

Edward Dębicki

Ukrainian-Polish poet and composer

Edward Dębicki is a Polish Romani poet, musician and composer. His work is connected with the Romani community and its cultural, itinerant and music traditions.

1935

Bent Larsen

Danish chess player and author (died 2010)

Jørgen Bent Larsen was a Danish chess grandmaster and author. Known for his imaginative and unorthodox style of play, he was the second-strongest non-Soviet player, behind only Bobby Fischer, for much of the 1960s and…

1935

Eric Allandale

Dominican trombonist and songwriter (died 2001)

Eric Allandale was a trombonist, songwriter, and bandleader. During the 1960s, he was in number of bands in various genres which included jazz pop and soul.

1936

Jim Clark

Scottish racing driver (died 1968)

James Clark was a British racing driver from Scotland who competed in Formula One from 1960 to 1968. Clark won two Formula One World Drivers' Championship titles, which he won in 1963 and 1965 with Lotus, and—at the…

1936

Aribert Reimann

German pianist and composer (died 2024)

Aribert Reimann was a German composer, pianist, and accompanist, known especially for his literary operas. His version of Shakespeare's King Lear, the opera Lear, was written at the suggestion of Dietrich…

1936

José Araquistáin

Spanish footballer (died 2025)

José Araquistáin Arrieta was a Spanish footballer who played as a goalkeeper.

1937

William Deverell

Canadian lawyer, author, and activist

William Herbert Deverell is a Canadian writer, criminal lawyer, and civil liberties activist. One of Canada's best-known novelists, his debut novel Needles, based on his legal experience, won the $50,000 Seal First…

1937

Graham Dowling

New Zealand cricketer

Graham Thorne Dowling is a former cricketer who played 39 Test matches for New Zealand and captained the national team in 19 of those matches. He led New Zealand to its first victory in a Test series, against Pakistan…

1937

Leslie H. Gelb

American journalist and author (died 2019)

Leslie Howard "Les" Gelb was an American government official, academic and journalist. He was a correspondent and columnist for The New York Times and served as the 4th Director of the Bureau of Political-Military…

1937

Yuri Senkevich

Russian physician and explorer (died 2003)

Yuri Aleksandrovich Senkevich was a Soviet physician, voyager, scientist, and Candidate of Sciences.

1937

Barney Wilen

French saxophonist and composer (died 1996)

Bernard "Barney" Jean Wilen was a French jazz tenor and soprano saxophonist and composer.

1937

Richard B. Wright

Canadian journalist and author (died 2017)

Richard Bruce Wright was a Canadian novelist. He was known for his break-through 2001 novel Clara Callan, which won three major literary awards in Canada: The Giller Prize, the Trillium Book Award, and the Governor…

1937

Anton Balasingham

Sri Lankan-English negotiator (died 2006)

Anton Balasingham Stanislaus was a Sri Lankan journalist, rebel and chief political strategist and chief negotiator for the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, a separatist Tamil militant organisation in Sri Lanka.

1938

Alpha Condé

Guinean politician, President of Guinea

Alpha Condé is a Guinean politician who served as the fourth president of Guinea from 2010 to 2021. He spent decades in opposition to a succession of regimes in Guinea, unsuccessfully running against then-President…

1938

Allan Kornblum

American police officer and judge (died 2010)

Allan Nathaniel Kornblum was a United States federal judge and authored key parts of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. During his career he also served as an adviser to the United States Foreign Intelligence…

1938

Don Perkins

American football player and sportscaster (died 2022)

Donald Anthony Perkins was an American professional football player who was a fullback in the National Football League (NFL) for the Dallas Cowboys. He played college football at the University of New Mexico.

1938

Paula Prentiss

American actress

Paula Prentiss is an American actress. She is best known for her film roles in Where the Boys Are (1960), Man's Favorite Sport? (1964), What's New Pussycat? (1965), Catch-22 (1970), The Parallax View (1974), and The…

1938

Adam Daniel Rotfeld

Polish academic and politician, Polish Minister of Foreign Affairs

Adam Daniel Rotfeld is a Polish academician and diplomat who was Minister of Foreign Affairs of Poland from 5 January to 31 October 2005. He served earlier as deputy foreign minister. While in that position, Rotfeld…

1938

Jack Fisher

American baseball player

John Howard "Fat Jack" Fisher is an American retired professional baseball player. He played in Major League Baseball as a right-handed pitcher from 1959 through 1969 for the Baltimore Orioles, San Francisco Giants, New…

1939

Robert Shaye

American film producer

Robert Kenneth Shaye is an American businessman, actor, and filmmaker. Shaye is the founder of New Line Cinema, a film production studio that was most successful for distributing The Lord of the Rings film trilogy,…

1939

Wolfgang Hoffmann-Riem

German scholar and judge

Wolfgang Hoffmann-Riem is a German legal scholar and a former justice of the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany.

1940

David Plante

American novelist

David Robert Plante is an American novelist, diarist, and memoirist of both French-Canadian and North American Indian descent.

1940

John Hancock

American film and television actor (died 1992)

John Hancock was an American actor.

1941

Adrian Lyne

English director, producer, and screenwriter

Adrian Lyne is an English film director. His films are known for sexually charged narratives that explore conflicting passions, the power of seduction, moral ambiguity, betrayal, and the indelibility of infidelity.

1941

James Zagel

American lawyer and judge (died 2023)

James Block Zagel was an American judge and attorney. After a stint as a prosecutor, he became a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois in 1987, assuming…

1941

Gloria Gaither

American singer-songwriter

Gloria Gaither is a Christian singer-songwriter, author, speaker, editor, and academic. She is married to Bill Gaither and together they have written more than 700 songs. In 2000, ASCAP named them Christian Songwriters…

1942

Charles C. Krulak

American general

Charles Chandler Krulak is a retired United States Marine Corps four-star general who served as the 31st Commandant of the Marine Corps from July 1, 1995, to June 30, 1999. He is the son of Lieutenant General Victor H.…

1942

David Matthews

American keyboard player and composer

David Matthews is an American keyboardist, pianist, and music arranger.

1942

Lynn Sherr

American journalist and author

Lynn Sherr is an American broadcast journalist and author, best known as a correspondent for the ABC news magazine 20/20.

1942

James Gustave Speth

American lawyer and politician

James Gustave (Gus) Speth is an American environmental lawyer and advocate who co-founded the Natural Resources Defense Council.

1942

Zorán Sztevanovity

Serbian-Hungarian singer-songwriter and guitarist

Zorán Sztevanovity is a Serbian-Hungarian guitarist, singer and composer living in Hungary.

1942

Lucio Dalla

Italian singer-songwriter and actor (died 2012)

Lucio Dalla was an Italian singer-songwriter, musician and actor. He also played clarinet and keyboards.

1943

Aldo Rico

Argentinian commander and politician

Aldo Rico is an Argentine retired Lieutenant Colonel and politician, famous for his role in the episodes of 1987 and 1988 where sectors of the Armed Forces, known as carapintadas, revolted to protest the policies of…

1943

Harvey Postlethwaite

English engineer (died 1999)

Harvey Ernest Postlethwaite was a British engineer and Technical Director of several Formula One teams during the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s. He died of a heart attack in Spain while supervising the testing of the aborted…

1944

Anthony Ichiro Sanda

Japanese-American physicist and academic

Anthony Ichiro Sanda is a Japanese-American particle physicist. Along with Ikaros Bigi, he was awarded the 2004 Sakurai Prize for his work on CP violation and B meson decays.

1944

Len Walker

English footballer and manager

Leonard Walker is an English former football player and manager. He was the manager of Aldershot from July 1981 until November 1984, and then June 1985 until 11 April 1991.

1944

Bobby Womack

American singer-songwriter (died 2014)

Robert Dwayne Womack was an American singer-songwriter and guitarist. Starting in the early 1950s as the lead singer of his family musical group the Valentinos and as Sam Cooke's backing guitarist, Womack's career…

1944

Dieter Meier

Swiss musician

Dieter Meier is a Swiss musician, conceptual artist and entrepreneur. He is the frontman of the electronic music group Yello, which was co-founded by music producer Boris Blank. He is a vocalist and lyricist, as well as…

1945

Tommy Svensson

Swedish footballer and manager

Leif Tommy Svensson is a Swedish former football manager and player. He is best known for playing for Östers IF and the Sweden men's national football team. He won the Guldbollen in 1969. He managed Sweden between 1991…

1945

Gary Williams

American basketball player and coach

Gary Bruce Williams is an American university administrator and former college basketball coach. He served as the head coach at the University of Maryland, the Ohio State University, Boston College, and American…

1945

Michael Ashcroft

English businessman and politician

Michael Anthony Ashcroft, Baron Ashcroft, is a British-Belizean businessman, pollster and politician. He is a former deputy chairman of the Conservative Party. Ashcroft founded Michael A. Ashcroft Associates in 1972 and…

1946

Danny Frisella

American baseball player (died 1977)

Daniel Vincent Frisella was an American Major League Baseball pitcher whose career was cut short when he was killed in a dune buggy accident on New Year's Day in 1977.

1946

Haile Gerima

Ethiopian born US filmmaker

Haile Gerima is an Ethiopian filmmaker who lives and works in the United States. He is a leading member of the L.A. Rebellion film movement, also known as the Los Angeles School of Black Filmmakers. Since 1975, Haile…

1946

Patricia Kennealy-Morrison

American journalist and author (died 2021)

Patricia Kennealy-Morrison was an American author and journalist. Her published works include rock criticism, a memoir, and two series of science fiction/fantasy and murder mystery novels. Her books are evenly divided…

1946

David Franzoni

American screenwriter and film producer

David Harold Franzoni is an American screenwriter and film producer. He conceived the story for, co-wrote and co-produced the 2000 film Gladiator, for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original…

1947

Jan Garbarek

Norwegian saxophonist and composer

Jan Garbarek is a Norwegian jazz saxophonist, who is also active in classical music and world music.

1947

Bob Lewis

American guitarist

Robert Curtis Lewis is an American composer and musician. He is best known as a co-founder of the new wave band Devo.

1947

Pēteris Plakidis

Latvian pianist and composer (died 2017)

Pēteris Plakidis was a Latvian composer and pianist.

1947

Lindy Chamberlain-Creighton

New Zealand-Australian author

Alice Lynne "Lindy" Chamberlain-Creighton is a New Zealand-born Australian woman who was wrongly convicted in one of Australia's most publicised and notorious trials. Accused of killing her nine-week-old daughter,…

1948

James Ellroy

American writer

Lee Earle "James" Ellroy is an American crime fiction writer and essayist. Ellroy has become known for a telegrammatic prose style in his most recent work, wherein he frequently omits connecting words and uses only…

1948

Tom Grieve

American baseball player, manager, and sportscaster

Thomas Alan Grieve is an American former professional baseball player. He played in Major League Baseball from 1970 to 1979 for the Washington Senators / Texas Rangers, New York Mets and St. Louis Cardinals. He was…

1948

Mike Moran

English musician, songwriter and record producer

Michael Moran is an English musician, songwriter, composer and record producer.

1948

Jean O'Leary

American nun and activist (died 2005)

Jean O'Leary was an American lesbian and gay rights activist. She was the founder of Lesbian Feminist Liberation, one of the first lesbian activist groups in the women's movement, and an early member and co-director of…

1948

Chris Squire

English singer-songwriter and bass guitarist (died 2015)

Christopher Russell Edward Squire was an English musician, singer and songwriter best known as the bassist, backing vocalist, and only constant member of the progressive rock band Yes until his death in 2015. In 2017,…

1948

Shakin' Stevens

British singer-songwriter

Michael Barratt, known professionally as Shakin' Stevens, is a Welsh singer and songwriter. He was the UK's biggest-selling singles artist of the 1980s.

1948

Sergei Bagapsh

Abkhazian politician, 2nd President of Abkhazia (died 2011)

Sergei Uasyl-ipa Bagapsh was an Abkhaz politician who served as the second president of Abkhazia from 12 February 2005 until his death on 29 May 2011. He previously served as Prime Minister of Abkhazia from 1997 to…

1949

Carroll Baker

Canadian singer-songwriter

Carroll Anne Baker CM is a Canadian country music singer and songwriter.

1949

Ofelia Medina

Mexican actress and screenwriter

María Ofelia Medina Torres is a Mexican actress, singer and film screenwriter.

1950

Rick Perry

American captain and politician, 47th Governor of Texas

James Richard Perry is an American politician who served as the 14th United States secretary of energy from 2017 to 2019. He previously served as the 47th governor of Texas from 2000 to 2015 and ran unsuccessfully for…

1950

Safet Plakalo

Bosnian author and playwright (died 2015)

Safet Plakalo was a Bosnian playwright and poet, theatre critic, journalist, and founder of the Sarajevo War Theatre. He was a prominent figure in Bosnian drama, known for his poetic and modernist theatrical works and…

1950

Edelgard Bulmahn

German educator and politician, German Federal Minister of Education and Research

Edelgard Bulmahn is a German politician from the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD). She served as Member of the German Bundestag between 1987 and 2017. She was Federal Minister of Education and Research from 1998…

1951

Theresa Hak Kyung Cha

South Korean-American author, director, and producer (died 1982)

Theresa Hak Kyung Cha was an American novelist, producer, director, and artist of South Korean origin, best known for her 1982 novel, Dictée. Considered an avant-garde artist, Cha was fluent in Korean, English, and…

1951

Kenny Dalglish

Scottish footballer and manager

Sir Kenneth Mathieson Dalglish is a Scottish former football player and manager. He is regarded as one of the greatest players of all time as well as one of Celtic's, Liverpool's and Scotland's greatest ever players.…

1951

Pete Haycock

English singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2013)

Peter John Haycock was an English musician and film score composer. He began his career as lead guitarist, vocalist, and founding member of the Climax Blues Band.

1951

Peter O'Sullivan

Welsh footballer

Peter O'Sullivan is a Welsh former footballer who played at both professional and international levels as a winger, making over 500 career appearances.

1951

Sam Perlozzo

American baseball player and manager

Samuel Benedict Perlozzo is an American former second baseman, manager, and coach in Major League Baseball (MLB). He managed the Baltimore Orioles from 2005 to 2007 and recently served as the first base coach for the…

1951

Chris Rea

English singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2025)

Christopher Anton Rea was an English rock and blues singer-songwriter, guitarist and record producer. He was known for his distinctive gravelly voice, slide guitar playing and music style blending soft rock with blues.

1951

Glenis Willmott

English scientist and politician

Dame Glenis Willmott, is a British retired Labour Party politician who served as leader of the European Parliamentary Labour Party (EPLP) and as a Member of the European Parliament for the East Midlands.

1951

Zoran Žižić

Montenegrin politician, 4th Prime Minister of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (died 2013)

Zoran Žižić was a Yugoslav and Montenegrin politician. He served as Deputy Prime Minister of Montenegro in the first two Đukanović cabinets from 1991 to 1996, and was the first Prime Minister of the Federal Republic of…

1951

Peter Kuhfeld

English painter

Peter Kuhfeld is an English figurative painter. He was born in Cheltenham and is married to the English figurative painter Cathryn Kuhfeld, née Showan. They have two daughters who have often appeared in their paintings.

1952

Ronn Moss

American singer-songwriter and actor

Ronald Montague Moss is an American actor, musician and singer/songwriter, a member of the band Player, and best known for portraying Ridge Forrester, the dynamic fashion magnate on the CBS soap opera The Bold and the…

1952

Svend Robinson

American-Canadian lawyer and politician

Svend Robinson is a Canadian politician. He was a member of Parliament (MP) from 1979 to 2004, representing suburban Vancouver-area constituencies in the city of Burnaby for the New Democratic Party (NDP). He was the…

1952

Umberto Tozzi

Italian singer-songwriter and producer

Umberto Antonio Tozzi is an Italian pop and rock singer and songwriter. Throughout his career, he has sold over 70 million records in different languages internationally. His biggest international hits are: "Stella…

1952

John Edwards

Australian director and producer

Robert John Edwards is an Australian television drama producer.

1953

Emilio Estefan

Cuban-American musician and producer

Emilio Estefan Gómez is a Cuban-American musician and producer. Estefan has won 19 Grammy Awards. He first came to prominence as a member of the Miami Sound Machine. He is the husband of singer Gloria Estefan, father of…

1953

Paweł Janas

Polish footballer and manager

Paweł Janas is a Polish former football manager and player who played as a defender. He was voted the Polish Coach of the Year four times.

1953

Kay Lenz

American actress

Kay Ann Lenz is an American actress. She is the recipient of a Daytime Emmy Award and a Primetime Emmy Award, as well as nominations for a Golden Globe Award and a Saturn Award.

1953

Reinhold Roth

German motorcycle racer (died 2021)

Reinhold Roth was a Grand Prix motorcycle road racer from Germany. His most successful years were in 1987, when he won the French Grand Prix, and finished the season in second place behind Anton Mang, and in 1989, when…

1953

Chris Smith

American lawyer and politician

Christopher Henry Smith is an American politician serving as the U.S. representative for New Jersey's 4th congressional district since 1981. Though it has taken various forms, his district has always been situated in…

1953

Agustí Villaronga

Spanish actor, director, and screenwriter (died 2023)

Agustí Villaronga Riutort was a Spanish film director, screenwriter and actor. He directed several feature films, a documentary, three projects for television and three shorts. His film Moon Child was entered into the…

1953

Daniel Woodrell

American novelist and short story writer (died 2025)

Daniel Stanford Woodrell was an American novelist and short story writer who wrote nine novels, most of them set in the Missouri Ozarks, and one collection of short stories. Woodrell coined the phrase "country noir" to…

1953

Timur Apakidze

Russian general and pilot (died 2001)

Temur Avtandilis Dze Apakidze was a Russian major general of Georgian ethnicity, fighter pilot, flight specialist and founder of the modern Russian Naval Aviation and Hero of the Russian Federation.

1954

François Fillon

French lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of France

François Charles Amand Fillon is a French retired politician who served as Prime Minister of France from 2007 to 2012 under President Nicolas Sarkozy. He was the nominee of The Republicans, the country's largest…

1954

Peter Jacobsen

American golfer and sportscaster

Peter Erling Jacobsen is an American professional golfer and commentator on Golf Channel and NBC. He has played on the PGA Tour and the Champions Tour. He has won seven events on the PGA Tour and two events on the…

1954

Catherine O'Hara

Canadian-American actress and comedian (died 2026)

Catherine Anne O'Hara was a Canadian and American actress and comedian, whose career spanned over 50 years. O'Hara started in sketch and improvisational comedy in film and television before taking dramatic roles to…

1954

Irina Ratushinskaya

Russian poet and author (died 2017)

Irina Borisovna Ratushinskaya was a Russian Soviet dissident, poet and writer.

1954

Tim Costello

Australian minister and politician

Timothy Ewen Costello AO is an Australian Baptist minister who was the Chief Executive Officer and Chief Advocate of World Vision Australia. Costello worked as a lawyer and served as mayor of St Kilda. He has authored a…

1955

Joey Jones

Welsh footballer and manager

Joseph Patrick Jones was a Welsh footballer who played as a full-back.

1955

Nicholas Coleridge

English journalist and businessman

Sir Nicholas David Coleridge,, DL is a British former media executive, author, and cultural chair. He is chairman of Historic Royal Palaces (2023–) and Provost of Eton (2024–). He was appointed a Knight Bachelor in the…

1957

Mykelti Williamson

American actor and director

Mykelti Williamson is an American actor and director best known for his roles in the films Forrest Gump, 12 Angry Men (1997), Con Air, and Ali, and the television shows Boomtown, 24, and Justified. In 2016, he portrayed…

1957

Patricia Heaton

American actress

Patricia Helen Heaton is an American actress. Heaton achieved her career breakthrough and global fame with her portrayal of Debra Barone in the CBS sitcom Everybody Loves Raymond (1996–2005). She began her career…

1958

Tina Smith

American politician

Christine Elizabeth Smith is an American politician, retired Democratic political consultant, and former businesswoman serving as the junior United States senator from Minnesota since 2018. She is a member of the…

1958

Rick Ardon

Australian journalist

Rick Ardon is an Australian television news presenter. Since 1985, Ardon has co-presented Seven News in Perth with Susannah Carr. The pair are recognised by Guinness World Records as the world's longest-serving TV news…

1959

Plamen Getov

Bulgarian footballer

Plamen Tsvetanov Getov is a Bulgarian retired footballer who played as either an attacking midfielder or a striker.

1959

Chonda Pierce

American comedian

Chonda Pierce is an American stand-up comedian, television hostess, author and actor.

1960

Ray Mancini

American boxer

Ray Mancini, better known as "Boom Boom" Mancini, is an American former professional boxer who competed professionally from 1979 to 1992 and who has since worked as an actor and sports commentator. He held the WBA…

1961

Steven Weber

American actor and comedian

Steven Robert Weber is an American actor and comedian. He is best known for his role as Brian Hackett on the television series Wings, and as Dr. Dean Archer on NBC’s Chicago Med. He also voiced Charlie B. Barkin in All…

1961

Roger Wessels

South African golfer and educator

Roger Mark Wessels is a South African professional golfer.

1961

Jason Newsted

American musician and songwriter

Jason Curtis Newsted is an American musician, best known as the bassist of heavy metal band Metallica from 1986 to 2001. He performed with thrash metal band Flotsam and Jetsam for the first five years of his career…

1963

Brian Crowley

Irish lawyer and politician

Brian Crowley was an Irish Fianna Fáil politician who served as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the Munster and South constituencies from 1994 to 2019. He served as a Senator from 1993 to 1994, after being…

1964

Paolo Virzì

Italian director and screenwriter

Paolo Virzì is an Italian film director, writer and producer.

1964

Paul W. S. Anderson

English director, producer, and screenwriter

Paul William Scott Anderson is an English filmmaker who is best known for his science fiction films and video game adaptations. Anderson made his feature-length directorial debut with the independent film Shopping…

1965

Stacy Edwards

American actress

Stacy Edwards is an American actress. She appeared in a number of B movies before her breakthrough role in the 1997 black comedy film In the Company of Men, for which she received Independent Spirit Award for Best…

1965

Khaled Hosseini

Afghan-American novelist

Khaled Hosseini or Khalid Husseini is an Afghan and American novelist, UNHCR goodwill ambassador, and former physician. His debut novel The Kite Runner (2003) was a critical and commercial success; the book and his…

1965

Yury Lonchakov

Russian pilot, and cosmonaut

Yury Valentinovich Lonchakov is a Russian former cosmonaut and a veteran of three space missions. He has spent 200 days in space and has conducted two spacewalks. From 2014 to 2017, Lonchakov served as head of the Yuri…

1965

Emese Hunyady

Hungarian speed skater

Emese Hunyady is a former Hungarian-Austrian speed skater.

1966

Kevin Johnson

American basketball player and politician, 55th Mayor of Sacramento

Kevin Maurice Johnson, also known by his initials KJ, is an American former professional basketball player and politician who served as the 55th mayor of Sacramento, California, from 2008 to 2016. Before entering…

1966

Fiona Ma

American accountant and politician

Fiona Ma is an American politician and accountant. She has been serving as the California state treasurer since January 7, 2019. She previously was a member of the California Board of Equalization (2015–2019), the…

1966

Helmut Mayer

Austrian skier

Helmut Mayer is a former World Cup alpine ski racer from Austria. At the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary he won a silver medal in the Super-G competition at Nakiska. He also won a silver medal in the giant slalom at the…

1966

Dav Pilkey

American author and illustrator

David Murray "Dav" Pilkey Jr. is an American comic book writer, author, and illustrator of children's fiction. He is best known as the author and illustrator of the children's book series Captain Underpants and its…

1966

Grand Puba

American rapper

Maxwell Dixon, known professionally as Grand Puba, is an American rapper and record producer, best known as a member of Brand Nubian from New Rochelle, New York. He was formerly a member of Masters of Ceremony.

1966

Mike Small

American golfer and coach

Mike Small is an American professional golfer and college golf coach.

1966

Daryll Cullinan

South African cricketer and coach

Daryll John Cullinan is a former South African first-class cricketer who played Test cricket and One Day Internationals for South Africa as a specialist batsman. He was regarded as a gifted batsman, as he was equally…

1967

Evan Dando

American singer-songwriter and guitarist

Evan Griffith Dando is an American musician and the frontman of the rock band the Lemonheads. He has also embarked on a solo career and collaborated on songs with various artists. In December 2015, Dando was inducted…

1967

Ivan Lewis

English lawyer and politician, Shadow Secretary of State for Northern Ireland

Ivan Lewis is a British politician who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Bury South from 1997 to 2019, initially as a member of the Labour Party then as an independent from 2017.

1967

Dave Rayner

English cyclist (died 1994)

David John Rayner was an English professional racing cyclist who died aged 27 after an incident outside the Maestro nightclub, in Manningham Lane, Bradford. He was put on a life support machine at Bradford Royal…

1967

Sam Taylor-Johnson

English filmmaker and photographer

Samantha Louise Taylor-Johnson is a British filmmaker. Her directorial feature film debut was 2009's Nowhere Boy, a film based on the childhood experiences of the Beatles' singer and songwriter John Lennon. She is one…

1967

Kubilay Türkyilmaz

Swiss footballer

Kubilay Türkyilmaz is a Swiss former professional footballer who played as a forward. He ended his international career as the all-time joint leading goal scorer for the Switzerland national team, with 34 goals in 64…

1967

Tim Vine

English comedian, actor, and author

Timothy Mark Vine is an English comedian, actor, writer and presenter best known for his puns and other one-liners and his role on the TV sitcom Not Going Out. He has also released a number of stand-up comedy specials…

1967

Giovanni Carrara

Venezuelan baseball player

Giovanni Carrara Jiménez is a Venezuelan-Italian former professional baseball pitcher who most recently served as the pitching coach for the Saraperos de Saltillo of the Mexican League. He played in Major League…

1968

Jorge Celedón

Colombian singer

Jorge Celedón also known as Jorgito Celedón is a Colombian musician and singer of vallenato music. Celedón was one of the backup singers for the vallenato group Binomio de Oro de America who joined after the death of…

1968

Patsy Kensit

English model and actress

Patricia Jude Francis Kensit is an English actress, singer, and model. Beginning her career as a child actor, Kensit first gained attention when she acted in a string of commercials for Birds Eye frozen peas. She went…

1968

Kyriakos Mitsotakis

Greek banker and politician, Prime Minister of Greece

Kyriakos Mitsotakis is a Greek politician, currently serving as the prime minister of Greece since July 2019, except for a month between May and June 2023. Mitsotakis has been president of the New Democracy party since…

1968

Graham Westley

English footballer and manager

Graham Neil Westley is an English professional football manager and former player who played as a striker.

1968

Chaz Bono

American writer, musician, and actor

Chaz Salvatore Bono is an American writer, musician and actor. His parents are entertainers Sonny Bono and Cher, and he became widely known in appearances as a child on their television show, The Sonny & Cher Comedy…

1969

Pierluigi Casiraghi

Italian footballer and manager

Pierluigi Casiraghi is an Italian professional football coach and former player who played as a striker.

1969

Wayne Collins

English footballer

Wayne Collins is an English football midfielder.

1969

Annie Yi

Taiwanese singer, actress, and writer

Wu Chin-yi, professionally known as Annie Yi or Annie Shizuka Inoh, is a Taiwanese singer, actress, and writer.

1969

Andrea Bendewald

American actress

Andrea R. Bendewald is an American actress. She is best known for her role as Maddy Piper on Suddenly Susan.

1970

Àlex Crivillé

Spanish motorcycle racer

Àlex Crivillé Tapias is a Spanish former professional motorcycle racer. He competed in the FIM Grand Prix motorcycle racing world championships from 1987 to 2001, most prominently as a member of the Honda factory racing…

1970

Will Keen

English actor

William Walter Maurice Keen is an English actor. Recognised for his work on stage and screen, he is a prolific figure of modern British theatre and a trustee of the James Menzies Kitchin Award, an award set up for young…

1970

Caroline Vis

Dutch tennis player

Caroline Vis is a former tennis player from the Netherlands.

1970

Iain Baird

Canadian soccer player and manager

Iain Baird is a Canadian former soccer defender who earned nine caps with the Canadian national soccer team between 1984 and 1986.

1971

Claire Baker

Scottish politician

Claire Josephine Baker is a Scottish Labour politician who has served as a Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for the Mid Scotland and Fife region since 2007.

1971

Anders Kjølholm

Danish bass player

Anders Nielsen, known professionally as Anders Kjølholm, is a Danish musician, best known as the former bassist of the rock band Volbeat. Before Volbeat, he was the bassist in Dominus, which also featured Volbeat…

1971

Satoshi Motoyama

Japanese racing driver

Satoshi Motoyama is a Japanese professional racing driver and team manager. He is best known for racing in the Super GT Series, formerly known as the All-Japan Grand Touring Car Championship (JGTC) as a factory driver…

1971

Katherine Center

American journalist and author

Katherine Sherar Pannill Center is an American author of contemporary fiction.

1972

Nocturno Culto

Norwegian singer-songwriter and guitarist

Ted Arvid Skjellum, also known by the stage name Nocturno Culto, is a Norwegian musician best known as the vocalist, lead guitarist, and partial bassist of the influential black metal band Darkthrone. He has been with…

1972

Robert Smith

American football player and sportscaster

Robert Scott Smith is an American college football analyst for Fox Sports and the Big Ten Network. He played professionally as a running back in the National Football League (NFL) for eight seasons with the Minnesota…

1972

Ivy Queen

Puerto Rican singer, songwriter, rapper, actress and record producer

Martha Ivelisse Pesante Rodríguez, known professionally as Ivy Queen, is a Puerto Rican rapper and singer. She is considered one of the pioneers of the reggaeton genre. Dubbed the Queen of Reggaeton, she is one of the…

1972

Jos Verstappen

Dutch racing driver

Johannes Franciscus "Jos" Verstappen is a Dutch racing and rally driver who competes in the European Rally Championship as a privateer. Verstappen competed in Formula One between 1994 and 2003.

1972

Alison Wheeler

English singer-songwriter

Alison Wheeler is a British singer, best known as the female vocalist for The Beautiful South from 2003 until they disbanded in 2007.

1972

Massimo Brambilla

Italian footballer and coach

Massimo Brambilla is an Italian professional football coach and former player who played as an attacking midfielder. He is currently head coach of Serie C Group B club Juventus Next Gen.

1973

Phillip Daniels

American football player and coach

Phillip Bernard Daniels is an American football coach who is the defensive line coach for the Ottawa Redblacks of the Canadian Football League (CFL). Hs is also a former American football defensive end who played for 15…

1973

Valery Kobelev

Russian ski jumper

Valery Vladimirovich Kobelev is a Russian ski jumper.

1973

Linus of Hollywood

American singer-songwriter and producer

Kevin Dotson, better known by stage names Linus of Hollywood and Linus Dotson, is an American singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and record producer. The stage name comes from his early days in Los Angeles,…

1973

Penny Mordaunt

English lieutenant and politician, Leader of the House of Commons and Lord President of the Council

Dame Penelope Mary Mordaunt is a British former politician who served as Lord President of the Council and Leader of the House of Commons from 2022 until 2024. She was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Portsmouth North…

1973

Len Wiseman

American director, producer, and screenwriter

Len Ryan Wiseman is an American film director, screenwriter, and producer. He is best known for his work on the Underworld series (2003–2016), Live Free or Die Hard (2007), the 2012 remake of Total Recall, and Ballerina…

1973

Chandra Sekhar Yeleti

Indian director and screenwriter

Chandra Sekhar Yeleti is an Indian film director known for his works in Telugu cinema. He made his directorial debut with the Neo-noir crime film, Aithe, which received the National Film Award for Best Feature Film in…

1973

Casimiro Ynares III

Filipino politician

Casimiro "Jun" Alcantara Ynares III is a Filipino physician and politician who is currently serving as the mayor of Antipolo since 2022, previously holding the position from 2013 to 2019. He previously served as the…

1973

Crowbar

American wrestler

Christopher Ford is an American professional wrestler, best known for his tenure in World Championship Wrestling under the ring name Crowbar, where he was a one time Hardcore Champion, a one time World Tag Team Champion…

1974

Mladen Krstajić

Serbian footballer and manager

Mladen Krstajić is a Serbian professional football manager and former player who played as a centre-back.

1974

Karol Kučera

Slovak tennis player

Karol Kučera is a Slovak tennis coach and former professional player. He achieved a career-high singles ranking of world No. 6 in September 1998, reaching the semifinals of the Australian Open the same year.

1974

Ariel Ortega

Argentinian footballer

Arnaldo Ariel Ortega is an Argentine former professional footballer who played as an attacking midfielder. His nickname is "El Burrito", thus he is called Burrito Ortega.

1974

Tommy Phelps

South Korean-American baseball player and coach

Thomas Allen Phelps is an American former professional baseball pitcher in Major League Baseball. He is currently a coach in the Miami Marlins organization.

1974

ICS Vortex

Norwegian singer-songwriter and guitarist

Simen Hestnæs, better known by his stage name ICS Vortex or simply Vortex, is a Norwegian musician. He is the vocalist of the similarly named band ICS Vortex, the avant-garde metal band Arcturus and the doom metal band…

1974

David Wagner

American tennis player and educator

David Wagner is an American wheelchair tennis player. Paralyzed from the mid-chest down and with thirty percent function in his hands, he competes in the quad division. He plays by taping the tennis racket to his hand.…

1974

Bill Young

Australian rugby player

Bill Young is an Australian former professional rugby union footballer. He played rugby for the Brumbies in the international Super Rugby competition and played for Australia over 40 times.

1974

Antti Aalto

Finnish ice hockey player

Antti Sami Aalto is a Finnish retired professional ice hockey player who played for the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim in the National Hockey League.

1975

Mats Eilertsen

Norwegian bassist and composer

Mats Eilertsen is a Norwegian jazz musician and composer. He is known for recording with numerous bands, including the Maria Kannegaard Trio, Ola Kvernberg, Nils Økland, Eldbjørg Raknes, Anders Aarum Trio, Eirik Hegdal,…

1975

Patrick Femerling

German basketball player

Patrick Oliver Femerling is a German former professional basketball player who played as a center.

1975

Kristi Harrower

Australian basketball player

Kristi Harrower is an Australian professional basketball coach and former player. She was a decorated player with the Australian Opals, winning three silver medals and one bronze medal at four Summer Olympics. She…

1975

Hawksley Workman

Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist

Hawksley Workman is a Canadian rock singer-songwriter who has garnered critical acclaim for his blend of cabaret pop and glam rock. Workman has released eleven full-length albums throughout his career. A…

1975

Robbie Blake

English footballer

Robert James Blake is an English former professional footballer who is a first-team coach at National League South club Eastbourne Borough. He began his career as a striker but was increasingly used as midfielder in the…

1976

Tommy Jönsson

Swedish footballer

Ulf Tommy Jönsson is a Swedish former footballer who played as defender. He represented Malmö FF and Halmstads BK during a career that spanned between 1992 and 2010. A full international in 2003, he won three caps for…

1976

Nacho Figueras

Argentinian polo player and model

Ignacio "Nacho" Figueras Bermejo is an Argentine polo player and model with a 6-goal handicap. Dubbed the "David Beckham of polo", Figueras is considered to be the most famous polo player in the world. He currently…

1977

Traver Rains

American fashion designer and photographer

Traver Rains is an American TV personality, celebrity fashion designer, and photographer.

1977

Pierre Dagenais

Canadian ice hockey player

Pierre Brüno Dagenais is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player who most notably played in the National Hockey League (NHL). He last played for the Akwesasne Warriors of the Federal Hockey League.

1978

Jean-Marc Pelletier

American ice hockey player

Jean-Marc Pelletier is a Canadian-American former professional ice hockey goaltender who played seven National Hockey League (NHL) games over parts of three seasons for the Philadelphia Flyers and Phoenix Coyotes…

1978

Trenton Hassell

American basketball player

Trenton Lavar Hassell is an American former professional basketball forward. A 6 ft 5 in (1.96 m), 227 lb (103 kg) guard-forward, Hassell was selected by the Chicago Bulls with the 30th overall pick of the 2001 NBA…

1979

Sarah Stock

Canadian wrestler and trainer

Sarah Stock is a Canadian professional wrestler. She is known for her role in All Elite Wrestling (AEW) and as a trainer and producer for WWE. Previously began her career in Canada and moved back and forth across the…

1979

Rohan Bopanna

Indian tennis player

Rohan Machanda Bopanna is an Indian former tennis player who specialized in doubles. He attained the world No. 1 ranking after winning his first major men's doubles title at the 2024 Australian Open with Matthew Ebden,…

1980

Omar Bravo

Mexican footballer

Omar Bravo Tordecillas is a Mexican football manager and former footballer who played as a striker.

1980

Suzanna Choffel

American singer-songwriter

Suzanna Choffel is an American singer-songwriter and musician who has appeared on national television and in film. Known for her distinct voice and reggae-inspired guitar technique, her music has been described as "a…

1980

Alex Garcia

Brazilian basketball player

Alex Ribeiro Garcia, commonly known as either Alex Garcia, or simply as Alex is a Brazilian professional basketball player. He also represented the senior Brazilian national team. He is a 6-foot-3-inch (1.91 m) 225…

1980

Giedrius Gustas

Lithuanian basketball player

Giedrius Gustas is a former Lithuanian professional basketball player. At the height of 1.90 m tall and a weight of 86 kg, he mainly played at the point guard position. During his club playing career, as a member of…

1980

Scott Hamilton

New Zealand rugby player and coach

Scott Elliot Hamilton is a New Zealand international rugby union player, who plays both on the wing or at fullback; he played two times for the All Blacks in 2006 and has played for the Crusaders in Super Rugby and…

1980

Jack Hannahan

American baseball player

John Joseph Hannahan IV is an American former professional baseball utility player. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Detroit Tigers, Oakland Athletics, Seattle Mariners, Cleveland Indians, and Cincinnati…

1980

Michael Henrich

American ice hockey player

Michael Henrich is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player. An NHL first-round draft pick of the Edmonton Oilers in 1998, Henrich played several years of professional hockey in North America before moving to…

1980

Phil McGuire

Scottish footballer and manager

Philip McGuire is a Scottish former professional footballer. He is currently the manager of Carnoustie Panmure in the SJFA East Superleague.

1980

Aja Volkman

American singer-songwriter

Aja Volkman is an American singer and songwriter, best known as the frontwoman of the indie rock band Nico Vega. She has also released an EP titled Egyptian as a duo with her then-husband Dan Reynolds under the…

1980

Ariza Makukula

Portuguese footballer

Ariza Makukula is a former professional footballer who played as a centre-forward.

1981

Helen Wyman

English cyclist

Helen Wyman is a British cyclist for the Experza-Footlogix team. She participates in both road cycling and cyclo-cross, and, since she began competing at the age of 14, Wyman has represented her country at many…

1981

Landon Donovan

American soccer player and coach

Landon Timothy Donovan is an American former professional soccer player and coach who was most recently the interim head coach of San Diego Wave FC of the National Women's Soccer League (NWSL). Widely regarded as one of…

1982

Cate Edwards

American lawyer and author

Catharine Elizabeth Edwards is an American attorney. Edwards is the daughter of former United States Senator John Edwards and Elizabeth Edwards.

1982

Ludmila Ezhova

Russian gymnast

Ludmila Ezhova Grebenkova is a Russian former competitive gymnast. She won bronze in the team event at the 2004 Summer Olympics and four medals at the World Championships.

1982

K. Michelle

American singer

Kimberly Michelle Pate, known professionally as K. Michelle, is an American singer, songwriter and television personality. She was a regular cast member on the VH1 reality television series Love & Hip Hop: Atlanta…

1982

Yasemin Mori

Turkish singer

Yasemin Aygün Savgı, better known as Yasemin Mori, is a Turkish alternative rock singer.

1982

Samuel Contesti

French-Italian figure skater

Samuel Contesti is a French-Italian former competitive figure skater. He originally competed for France, then switched to Italy after the 2006–07 season. He is the 2009 European silver medalist and a five-time Italian…

1983

Adam Deacon

English film actor, rapper, writer and director

Adam Steven Deacon is an English actor. He is known for his lead role in the films Kidulthood, sequel Adulthood, and for his directorial debut, Anuvahood.

1983

Jaque Fourie

South African rugby player

Jaque Fourie is a South African former professional rugby union player. He was a versatile backline player whose usual position was in the centres. He was a member of the 2007 Rugby World Cup winning team, playing at…

1983

Drew Houston

American entrepreneur

Andrew W. Houston is an American Internet entrepreneur best known as the co-founder and CEO of Dropbox, an online backup and storage service. According to Forbes, his net worth is about $2 billion. Houston held 24.4% of…

1983

Sergio Romo

American baseball player

Sergio Francisco Romo is an American former professional baseball pitcher. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the San Francisco Giants, Los Angeles Dodgers, Tampa Bay Rays, Miami Marlins, Minnesota Twins,…

1983

Tamir Cohen

Israeli footballer

Tamir Cohen is an Israeli former professional footballer who played as a midfielder. He is the son of the late Maccabi Tel Aviv and Liverpool player Avi Cohen.

1984

Anders Grøndal

Norwegian racing driver

Anders Grøndal is a Norwegian rally and hill climb driver. He has won at least 5 gold medals, 3 silver, and 2 bronze at the Norwegian championships. In 2019, he and co-driver Marius Fuglerud won the Rally Tron in the…

1984

Spencer Larsen

American football player

Spencer Larsen is an American former professional football player who was a fullback in the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Arizona Wildcats, primarily as a linebacker. Larsen was…

1984

Jeremy Loops

South African singer-songwriter and record producer

Jeremy Thomas Hewitt known by his stage name Jeremy Loops, is a South African singer, songwriter, and record producer.

1984

Raven Quinn

American singer-songwriter

Raven Quinn is an American musician, singer and songwriter. Her first self-titled album was released March 4, 2010. Quinn released the title track "Not In Vain" from her sophomore album on October 31, 2013, with the…

1984

Zak Whitbread

American-English footballer

Zak Benjamin Whitbread is an American retired professional soccer player who played as a defender.

1984

Jake Buxton

English footballer

Jake Fred Buxton is an English former professional footballer and manager who played as a defender. He is currently manager of Alfreton Town.

1985

Scott Michael Foster

American actor

Scott Michael Foster is an American actor who was born around 1985. He is best known for his roles as Captain John Paul "Cappie" Jones in the ABC Family comedy-drama series Greek (2007–11), Leo Hendrie in the ABC Family…

1985

Whitney Port

American fashion designer and author

Whitney Eve Port-Rosenman is an American television personality, fashion designer, and author. In 2006, Port came to prominence after being cast in the reality television series The Hills, which chronicled the personal…

1985

Steven Burke

English road and track cyclist

Steven James Burke is a former English track and road cyclist, who rode for the now disbanded Team Wiggins Le Col cycling team. He represented Britain at the 2008 Summer Olympics, beating his pre Olympics personal best…

1986

Tom De Mul

Belgian footballer

Tom De Mul is a Belgian former professional footballer who played as a right winger.

1986

Margo Harshman

American actress

Margo Harshman is an American actress. She is known for playing Tawny Dean on Even Stevens, Alex Jensen on The Big Bang Theory, and Delilah Fielding-McGee on NCIS.

1986

Mike Krieger

Brazilian-American computer programmer and businessman, co-founded Instagram

Michel Krieger is a Brazilian entrepreneur and software engineer who co-founded Instagram in 2010 with Kevin Systrom, and served as its chief technology officer (CTO) until 2018. During Krieger's tenure as CTO,…

1986

Park Min-young

South Korean actress

Park Min-young, also known as Rachel Park, is a South Korean actress. She rose to fame in the historical coming-of-age drama Sungkyunkwan Scandal (2010) and has since starred in television series City Hunter (2011),…

1986

Siim Roops

Estonian footballer

Siim Roops is an Estonian footballer.

1986

Bohdan Shust

Ukrainian footballer

Bohdan Romanovych Shust is a professional Ukrainian retired footballer.

1986

Ben McKinley

Australian footballer

Benjamin "Ben" McKinley is an Australian rules footballer who previously played for the North Melbourne Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). He previously played for the West Coast Eagles.

1987

Tamzin Merchant

English actress

Tamzin Claire Merchant is an English actress and author. She is most notable for her roles as Georgiana Darcy in the film Pride & Prejudice (2005), as Catherine Howard in The Tudors (2009–2010) and as Anne Hale in Salem…

1987

Cameron Wood

Australian footballer

Cameron Wood is a former professional Australian rules footballer who played for the Brisbane Lions, Collingwood Football Club and Carlton Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL).

1987

Josh Bowman

English actor

Joshua Tobias Bowman is an English actor. He is best known for his role as Daniel Grayson in the TV series Revenge.

1988

Gal Mekel

Israeli basketball player

Gal Mekel is an Israeli former professional basketball player. He played for the Dallas Mavericks and spent time in Europe and Israel.

1988

Laura Siegemund

German tennis player

Laura Natalie Siegemund is a German professional tennis player.

1988

Adam Watts

English footballer

Adam James Watts is an English former professional footballer who played as a defender.

1988

Benjamin Kiplagat

Ugandan long-distance runner (died 2023)

Benjamin Kiplagat was a Ugandan long-distance runner specialising in the 3000 metres steeplechase.

1989

Andrea Bowen

American actress

Andrea Bowen is an American actress. She began her career appearing on Broadway musicals such as Les Misérables and The Sound of Music. In 2004, she began playing the role of Julie Mayer on the ABC comedy-drama series…

1990

Draymond Green

American basketball player

Draymond Jamal Green is an American professional basketball player for the Golden State Warriors of the National Basketball Association (NBA). Green, who plays primarily at the power forward position, is a four-time NBA…

1990

Paddy Madden

Irish footballer

Patrick Stephen Madden is an Irish professional footballer who plays as a striker or second striker for EFL League Two club Accrington Stanley on loan from EFL League Two club Chesterfield. He represented the Republic…

1990

Fran Mérida

Spanish footballer

Francisco Mérida Pérez is a Spanish former professional footballer who played as a central midfielder.

1990

Nick Castellanos

American baseball player

Nicholas Alexander Castellanos is an American professional baseball right fielder and third baseman for the San Diego Padres of Major League Baseball (MLB). He has previously played in MLB for the Detroit Tigers,…

1992

Erik Lamela

Argentine footballer

Erik Manuel Lamela is an Argentine former professional footballer who played as an attacking midfielder or right winger. He was most recently an assistant coach at La Liga club Sevilla.

1992

Bernd Leno

German footballer

Bernd Leno is a German professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Premier League club Fulham.

1992

Karl Mööl

Estonian footballer

Karl Mööl is an Estonian professional footballer who plays as a right back for Estonian club Paide Linnameeskond and the Estonia national team.

1992

Jared Sullinger

American basketball player

Jared Malcolm Xavier Sullinger is an American professional basketball player for the Guangdong Southern Tigers of the Chinese Basketball Association (CBA). He played college basketball for the Ohio State Buckeyes before…

1992

Jenna Boyd

American actress

Jenna Boyd is an American actress. She began her career as a child actress with roles in the 2003 films The Hunted, Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star and The Missing, and the 2005 film The Sisterhood of the Traveling…

1993

Bobbi Kristina Brown

American singer and actress (died 2015)

Bobbi Kristina Brown was an American reality television personality and singer. She was the only child of singers Whitney Houston and Bobby Brown. Her parents' fame kept Brown in the public eye, as did her appearances…

1993

Richard Peniket

English footballer

Richard James Peniket is an association football manager and former player who played as a forward. He is currently manager of Emirati club Gulf United.

1993

Callum Harriott

English footballer

Callum Kyle Harriott is a professional footballer who plays as a winger for Braintree Town. Born in England, he represents the Guyana national team.

1994

Luisito Pié

Dominican taekwondo athlete

Luisito Pié, also known as Luis Pie, is a Haitian-Dominican taekwondo athlete who won the bronze medal in the 2016 Summer Olympics in the 58 kg category.

1994

AJ Tracey

British rapper and record producer

Ché Wolton Grant, known professionally as AJ Tracey, is a British rapper and record producer from Ladbroke Grove, London. Tracey rose to popularity in 2016 and was listed by The Guardian in a list of "best new acts to…

1994

Chlöe Howl

English singer-songwriter

Chlöe Howl, is a British singer-songwriter. She was shortlisted for the BBC Sound of 2014 and the 2014 BRIT Awards: Critics Choice Award.

1995

Bill Milner

English actor

William Henry Milner is an English actor. He starred as Will Proudfoot in Son of Rambow (2007), Edward in Is Anybody There? (2008), and the young Erik Lensherr in X-Men: First Class (2011).

1995

Valeri Nichushkin

Russian ice hockey player

Valeri Ivanovich Nichushkin is a Russian professional ice hockey player who is a right winger for the Colorado Avalanche of the National Hockey League (NHL). He was selected by the Dallas Stars in the first round, 10th…

1995

Michael Gallup

American football player

Michael Gallup is an American professional football wide receiver. He played college football for the Butler Grizzlies and Colorado State Rams, where he was a consensus All-American in 2017. Gallup was drafted by the…

1996

Antonio Sanabria

Paraguayan footballer

Arnaldo Antonio Sanabria Ayala, also known as Tony Sanabria, is a Paraguayan professional footballer who plays as a forward for Serie A club Cremonese and the Paraguay national team.

1996

Lukas Webb

Australian rules footballer

Lukas Webb is a professional Australian rules footballer who played for the Western Bulldogs in the Australian Football League (AFL).

1996

Matisse Thybulle

Australian-American basketball player

Matisse Vincent Thybulle is an Australian-American professional basketball player for the Portland Trail Blazers of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He was selected in the first round of the 2019 NBA draft by…

1997

Kwon Hyun-bin

South Korean actor and singer

Kwon Hyun-bin, also known by his stage name Viini, is a South Korean actor, rapper and model. He is known for his appearance in the second installation of Produce 101 and debuting in the former boy band, JBJ.

1997

Obi Toppin

American basketball player

Obadiah Richard "Obi" Toppin Jr. is an American professional basketball player for the Indiana Pacers of the National Basketball Association (NBA). A power forward, he played college basketball for the Dayton Flyers.

1998

Brooklyn Beckham

English model and socialite

Brooklyn Joseph Peltz Beckham is a British media personality. He has worked as a model, photographer, and created a cooking show which aired in 2022. He is the eldest child of former professional footballer David…

1999

Freya Anderson

English freestyle swimmer

Freya Ann Alexandra Anderson is a British swimmer, known primarily for her achievements as a freestyle sprinter, especially as a relay swimmer for Great Britain. Anderson achieved nine relay gold medals at three…

2001

George Pickens

American football player

George Malik Pickens Jr. is an American professional football wide receiver for the Dallas Cowboys of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Georgia Bulldogs, winning the 2022 College…

2001

Jacob Hopkins

American actor

Jacob Turner Hopkins is an American actor who voiced Gumball Watterson in the animated series The Amazing World of Gumball from 2014 to 2017.

2002

Alexandra Kiroi-Bogatyreva

Australian rhythmic gymnast

Alexandra Kiroi-Bogatyreva is an Australian former rhythmic gymnast. She is the 2022 Commonwealth Games clubs champion, team silver medallist, and all-around bronze medallist. She also won two bronze medals at the 2018…

2002

Miya Cech

American actress

Miyako Cech, known professionally as Miya Cech, is an American actress. She made her film debut in The Darkest Minds (2018). She then starred in Rim of the World (2019), the second revival of Are You Afraid of the Dark?…

2007

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