Who was born on October 17?

Famous people born on October 17 include: Lý Nam Đế, Ivo of Kermartin, Bartolommeo Bandinelli, Alonso de Orozco Mena, Irene di Spilimbergo.

What is Sam Concepcion known for?

Sam Concepcion, Filipino musician and dancer

Sam Concepcion & Other Famous Birthdays on October 17

Sophie von Dönhoff

morganatic spouse by bigamy to King Frederick William II of Prussia (died 1838)

Countess Sophie Friederike Juliane von Dönhoff was a German lady-in-waiting and a morganatic spouse by bigamy to King Frederick William II of Prussia.

1768

Louis Charles

French prince of the blood (died 1808)

Louis Charles Alphonse Léodgard d'Orléans, Count of Beaujolais was a French prince of the blood, son of Philippe Égalité and the younger brother of King Louis-Philippe I of the French.

1779

José Andrés Pacheco de Melo

Argentine statesman and priest (died approx. 1820)

José Andrés Pacheco de Melo was an Argentine statesman and priest. He was a representative to the Congress of Tucumán which on 9 July 1816 declared the Independence of Argentina.

1779

Richard Mentor Johnson

American politician, ninth Vice President of the United States (died 1850)

Richard Mentor Johnson was an American lawyer, military officer and politician who served as the ninth vice president of the United States from 1837 to 1841 under President Martin Van Buren. He is the only vice…

1780

Johann Friedrich Meckel

German anatomist (died 1833)

Johann Friedrich Meckel, often referred to as Johann Friedrich Meckel, the Younger, was a German anatomist born in Halle. He worked as a professor of anatomy, pathology and zoology at the University of Halle, Germany.

1781

Fructuoso Rivera

first president of Uruguay (died 1854)

José Fructuoso Rivera y Toscana was a Uruguayan general who fought for the liberation of Banda Oriental from Brazilian rule, thrice served as President of Uruguay and was one of the instigators of the long Uruguayan…

1784

Christen Smith

Norwegian scientist (died 1816)

Christen Smith also known as Christian Smith or Chretien Smith, was an early 19th-century Norwegian physician, economist and naturalist, particularly botanist. He died, only 30 years old during a dramatic expedition to…

1785

John Bowring

English polyglot and governor of Hong Kong (died 1826)

Sir John Bowring, or Phrayā Siam Mānukūlakicca Siammitra Mahāyaśa was a British political economist, traveller, writer, literary translator, polyglot and the fourth Governor of Hong Kong. He was appointed by Queen…

1792

Juan Lavalle

Argentine politician (died 1841)

Juan Galo Lavalle was an Argentine military and political figure from the Unitarian Party.

1797

Ferenc Deák

Hungarian politician (died 1876)

Ferenc Deák de Kehida was a Hungarian statesman and Minister of Justice. He was known as "The Wise Man of the Nation" and one of the greatest figures of Hungary's liberal movement.

1803

Adolphe-Félix Cals

French painter (died 1880)

Adolphe-Félix Cals was a French portrait, genre, and landscape painter.

1810

Albertus van Raalte

Dutch-American pastor and educator (died 1876)

Albertus Christiaan van Raalte was a Dutch Reformed clergyman who moved to the United States with a group of Dutch emigrants and founded the city of Holland, Michigan, in 1846. In 1851, he was involved in founding the…

1811

Georg Büchner

German-Swiss poet and playwright (died 1837)

Karl Georg Büchner was a German dramatist and writer of poetry and prose, considered part of the Young Germany movement. He was also a revolutionary and the brother of physician and philosopher Ludwig Büchner. His…

1813

Yakiv Holovatsky

Ukrainian historian, scholar, and poet (died 1888)

Yakiv Holovatsky or Yakov Golovatsky was a Galician historian, literary scholar, ethnographer, linguist, bibliographer, lexicographer, poet and leader of Galician Russophiles. He was a member of the Ruthenian Triad, one…

1814

Syed Ahmad Khan

Indian philosopher and scholar (died 1898)

Sir Syed Ahmad Khan, also spelled Sayyid Ahmad Khan, was an Indian Muslim reformer, philosopher, and educationist in nineteenth-century British Raj.

1817

Alexander Gardner

Scottish photographer (died 1882)

Alexander Gardner was a Scottish-American photographer who immigrated to the United States in 1856, where he began to work full-time in that profession. He is best known for his photographs of the American Civil War,…

1821

Aureliano Maestre de San Juan

Spanish scientist (died 1890)

Aureliano Maestre de San Juan was a Spanish scientist, histologist, physician and anatomist. He is credited as being one of the first scientists to recognize the disorder known as Kallmann syndrome. He died in 1890,…

1828

José E. Días

Paraguayan general (died 1867)

José Eduvigis Díaz Vera was a Paraguayan general. Díaz was born in the town of Cerro Verá east of Pirayú in the department of Paraguarí. His parents were Juan Andrés Díaz and Dolores Vera.

1833

Louis-Léon Cugnot

French sculptor (died 1894)

Louis-Léon Cugnot was a French sculptor.

1835

Paul Haenlein

German mechanical engineer (died 1905)

Paul Haenlein was a German engineer and flight pioneer. He flew in a semi-rigid-frame dirigible. His family belonged to the Citoyens notables, those notabilities who led the economy, administration and culture of Mainz.

1835

André Gill

French caricaturist (died 1885)

André Gill was a French caricaturist. Born Louis-Alexandre Gosset de Guînes at Paris, the son of the Comte de Guînes and Sylvie-Adeline Gosset, Gill studied at the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture. He adopted the…

1840

Gustave Schlumberger

French historian (died 1929)

Gustave Léon Schlumberger was a French historian and numismatist who specialised in the era of the crusades and the Byzantine Empire. His Numismatique de l'Orient Latin (1878–82) is still considered the principal work…

1844

John J. Gardner

American politician (died 1921)

John James Gardner was an American businessman, Civil War veteran, and Republican Party politician who represented New Jersey's 2nd congressional district in the United States House of Representatives for ten terms from…

1845

Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna of Russia (died 1920)

Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna of Russia was the sixth child and only surviving daughter of Alexander II of Russia and Marie of Hesse and by Rhine; she was Duchess of Edinburgh and later Duchess of Saxe-Coburg and…

1853

Childe Hassam

American painter and illustrator (died 1935)

Frederick Childe Hassam was an American Impressionist painter, noted for his urban and coastal scenes. Along with Mary Cassatt and John Henry Twachtman, Hassam was instrumental in promulgating Impressionism to American…

1859

Henry Campbell Black

founder of Black's Law Dictionary (died 1927)

Henry Campbell Black was the founder of Black's Law Dictionary, the definitive legal dictionary in the USA first published in 1891.

1860

Elinor Glyn

English author, screenwriter, and producer (died 1943)

Elinor Glyn was a British novelist and scriptwriter who specialised in romantic fiction, which was considered scandalous for its time, although her works are relatively tame by modern standards. She popularized the…

1864

James Rudolph Garfield

American lawyer and politician, 23rd United States Secretary of the Interior (died 1950)

James Rudolph Garfield was an American lawyer and politician. Garfield was a son of President James A. Garfield and First Lady Lucretia Garfield. He served as Secretary of the Interior during President Theodore…

1865

Josep Puig i Cadafalch

Catalan architect who designed the Casa Martí (died 1956)

Josep Puig i Cadafalch was a Spanish architect who designed many significant buildings in Barcelona, and a politician who had a significant role in the development of Catalan regional institutions.

1867

Bhaskarbuwa Bakhale

Hindustani classical vocalist

Bhaskar Raghunath Bakhale was a Hindustani classical vocalist, a composer, and a teacher.

1869

Segundo de Chomón

Spanish cinematographer, director, and screenwriter (died 1929)

Segundo Víctor Aurelio Chomón y Ruiz was a pioneering Spanish-French film director, cinematographer and screenwriter. He produced many short films in France while working for Pathé Frères and has been compared to…

1871

Hippolyte Aucouturier

French road cyclist (died 1944)

Hippolyte Aucouturier was a French professional road bicycle racer. Aucouturier, a professional between 1900 and 1908, won two stages at the first Tour de France in 1903 and won three stages and finished second in the…

1876

Jacobo Fitz-James Stuart

Spanish politician and 17th Duke of Alba (died 1953)

Jacobo Fitz-James Stuart y Falcó, 17th Duke of Alba, 10th Duke of Berwick, GE, LH, GCVO was a Spanish peer, diplomat, politician, art collector and Olympic medalist. He was one of the most important aristocrats of his…

1878

Jesús Reyes Ferreira

Mexican artist and art collector (died 1977)

Jesús Reyes Ferreira, (1880-1977) born José de Jesús Benjamín Buenaventura de los Reyes y Ferreira and also known as Chucho Reyes, was a self-taught artist and antiques/art collector and vendor. Reyes Ferreira began…

1880

Maria Dulęba

Polish actress (died 1959)

Maria Zofia Dulęba was a Polish stage and film actress. She made her stage debut in 1902 and performed in a number of films, mostly in the silent era. She later taught drama.

1881

Haritina Korotkevich

Russian war heroine (died 1904)

Haritina Evstafievna Korotkevich was a Russian soldier who served in the Imperial Russian Army during the Russo-Japanese War. Volunteering to serve disguised as a man under the pseudonym Khariton Korotkevich, she soon…

1882

Alexander Neill

Scottish educator (died 1973)

Alexander Sutherland Neill was a Scottish educator and author known for his school, Summerhill, and its philosophy of freedom from adult coercion and community self-governance. Raised in Scotland, Neill taught at…

1883

Thaddeus Shideler

American hurdler (died 1966)

Thaddeus Rutter Shideler was an American hurdler who competed in the early twentieth century. He competed in athletics at the 1904 Summer Olympics and won a silver medal in the 110 meters hurdles. Fred Schule won the…

1883

Spring Byington

American actress (died 1971)

Spring Dell Byington was an American actress. Her career included a seven-year run on radio and television as the star of December Bride. She was an MGM contract player who appeared in films from the 1930s to the 1960s.

1886

Mikha'il Na'ima

Lebanese author (died 1988)

Mikha'il Nu'ayma, better known in English by his pen name Mikhail Naimy, was a Lebanese poet, novelist, and philosopher, famous for his spiritual writings, notably The Book of Mirdad. He is widely recognized as one of…

1889

Roy Kilner

English cricketer (died 1928)

Roy Kilner was an English professional cricketer who played nine Test matches for England between 1924 and 1926. An all-rounder, he played for Yorkshire County Cricket Club between 1911 and 1927. In all first-class…

1890

Theodor Eicke

German SS general (died 1943)

Theodor Eicke was a German military officer who served as both a senior SS functionary and a Waffen-SS divisional commander in Nazi Germany. He was a key figure in the development of Nazi concentration camps. Eicke…

1892

Herbert Howells

English organist, composer, and educator (died 1983)

Herbert Norman Howells was an English composer, organist, and teacher, most famous for his large output of Anglican church music.

1892

Raffaele Bendandi

Italian clockmaker and seismologist (died 1979)

Raffaele Bendandi was an Italian clockmaker known for his predictions of earthquakes. Bendandi was self-taught and never published a verifiable scientific exposition of his theory.

1893

Prince René

Italian Prince of Denmark (died 1962)

Prince René of Bourbon-Parma was the seventh surviving son of Robert I, Duke of Parma, and his second wife, Infanta Maria Antonia of Portugal. In 1921, he married Princess Margaret of Denmark. They had four children…

1894

Pablo de Rokha

Chilean poet (died 1968)

Carlos Ignacio Díaz Loyola, known by the pseudonym Pablo de Rokha, was a Chilean vanguard poet. Awarded the Chilean National Prize for Literature in 1965, de Rokha is considered one of the four greats of Chilean poetry.

1894

Miguel Ydígoras Fuentes

President of Guatemala (1958–1963) (died 1982)

José Miguel Ramón Ydígoras Fuentes was a Guatemalan military officer and politician who served as the 32nd president of Guatemala from 1958 to March 1963. He was also the main challenger to Jacobo Árbenz during the 1950…

1895

Doris Humphrey

American dancer and choreographer (died 1958)

Doris Batcheller Humphrey was an American dancer and choreographer of the early twentieth century. Along with her contemporaries Martha Graham and Katherine Dunham, Humphrey was one of the second generation modern dance…

1895

Roman Petrovich

Russian prince (died 1978)

Prince Roman Petrovich of Russia was a member of the House of Romanov.

1896

Shinichi Suzuki

Japanese violinist and educator (died 1998)

Shinichi Suzuki was a Japanese violinist, philosopher, composer, and educator and the founder of the international Suzuki method of music education and developed a philosophy for educating people of all ages and…

1898

Eileen Sedgwick

American actress (died 1991)

Eileen Sedgwick was an American actress of the silent era.

1898

Simon Vestdijk

Dutch author and poet (died 1971)

Simon Vestdijk was a Dutch writer.

1898

C. C. van Asch van Wijck

Dutch artist and sculptor (died 1932)

Jonkvrouwe (Lady) Cornélie Caroline "Cox" van Asch van Wijck was a Dutch artist and sculptor.

1900

Jean Arthur

American actress (died 1991)

Jean Arthur was an American film and theater actress whose career began in silent films in the early 1920s and lasted until the early 1950s.

1900

Yvor Winters

American critic and poet (died 1968)

Arthur Yvor Winters was an American poet and literary critic.

1900

Emma Gamboa Alvarado

Costa Rican educator (died 1973)

Emma Gamboa Alvarado, was a Costa Rican educator, recognized for her contributions to pedagogy and teaching. She was declared Benemérita de la Patria by the Legislative Assembly of Costa Rica in 1980. She was depicted…

1901

Irene Ryan

American actress (died 1973)

Irene Ryan was an American actress and comedienne who found success in vaudeville, radio, film, television, and Broadway. She is most widely known for her portrayal of Daisy May "Granny" Moses, mother-in-law of Buddy…

1902

Andrei Grechko

Soviet general (died 1976)

Andrei Antonovich Grechko was a Soviet military commander and Marshal of the Soviet Union during the Cold War. He served as the Soviet minister of defence from 1967 to 1976.

1903

Nathanael West

American author and screenwriter (died 1940)

Nathanael West was an American writer and screenwriter. He is remembered for two darkly satirical novels: Miss Lonelyhearts (1933) and The Day of the Locust (1939), set respectively in the newspaper and Hollywood film…

1903

Leopoldo Benites

Ecuadorian diplomat 28th president of the United Nations General Assembly (died 1996)

Leopoldo Benites was an Ecuadorian diplomat who served as the 28th President of the United Nations General Assembly in 1973. He had been the permanent representative of Ecuador since October 1960.

1905

Paul Derringer

American baseball player (died 1987)

Samuel Paul Derringer was an American right-handed pitcher in Major League Baseball who played for three National League teams from 1931 to 1945, primarily the Cincinnati Reds.

1906

Andrey Tikhonov

Soviet mathematician (died 1993)

Andrey Nikolayevich Tikhonov was a leading Soviet Russian mathematician and geophysicist known for important contributions to topology, functional analysis, mathematical physics, and ill-posed problems. He was also one…

1906

John Marley

American actor (died 1984)

John Marley was an American actor and theatre director. He won the Volpi Cup for Best Actor at the 29th Venice International Film Festival for his performance in John Cassavetes' Faces (1968), and was nominated for an…

1907

Kenji Miyamoto

Japanese politician (died 2007)

Kenji Miyamoto was a Japanese communist politician. He was the leader of the Japanese Communist Party (JCP) from 1958 to 1977.

1908

Hjördis Petterson

Swedish actress (died 1988)

Hjördis Olga Maria Petterson was a Swedish actress. She appeared in more than 140 films. She was born in Visby, Sweden and died in Stockholm. She had one child with her second husband, Fred Renstroem.

1908

Wally Prigg

Australian rugby league player (died 1980)

Wally Prigg (1908–1980) was an Australian rugby league footballer. He was a lock for the Australian national rugby league team. He played nineteen Tests for the Kangaroos between 1929 and 1938, seven as captain and was…

1908

Red Rolfe

American baseball player, coach, and manager (died 1969)

Robert Abial "Red" Rolfe was an American baseball third baseman, manager and front-office executive in Major League Baseball (MLB). He played in MLB for the New York Yankees from 1931 to 1942 and managed the Detroit…

1908

Cozy Cole

American drummer (died 1981)

William Randolph "Cozy" Cole was an American jazz drummer who worked with Cab Calloway and Louis Armstrong among others and led his own groups.

1909

Leopoldo Panero

Spanish poet (died 1962)

Leopoldo Panero was Spanish poet, born in Astorga in 1909 and deceased in 1962. He was the father of the poets Leopoldo María Panero and Juan Luis Panero and the brother of the early-died poet Juan Panero.

1909

Joaquín Satrústegui

Spanish lawyer and politician (died 1992)

Joaquín Satrústegui Fernández was a Spanish lawyer and political monarchist. He fought on the Nationalist side during the Spanish Civil War, and evolved from the ultra-conservatism of his youth into liberal positions,…

1909

Marina Núñez del Prado

Bolivian sculptor (died 1995)

Marina Núñez del Prado was a celebrated Bolivian sculptor.

1910

Ester Wier

American author (died 2000)

Ester Wier was an American writer.

1910

Pope John Paul I (died 1978)

Pope John Paul I was head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of Vatican City from 26 August 1978 until his death 33 days later. His reign is among the shortest in papal history, giving rise to the most recent year of…

1912

Theodore Marier

American composer and educator, founded the Boston Archdiocesan Choir School (died 2001)

Theodore Norbert Marier was a church musician, educator, arranger and scholar of Gregorian Chant. He founded St. Paul's Choir School in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1963, and served as the second president of the Church…

1912

Jack Owens

American singer-songwriter and pianist (died 1982)

John Milton Owens was a singer-songwriter, pianist, and star of the longest running network radio show Don McNeil's Breakfast Club. He was known as "The Cruising Crooner" because of his unique showmanship of cruising…

1912

Robert Lowery

American actor (died 1971)

Robert Lowery was an American motion picture, television, and stage actor who appeared in more than 70 films. He was the second actor to play Batman, appearing as the character in the 1949 film serial Batman and Robin.

1913

Marian Marsh

Trinidadian-American actress and environmentalist (died 2006)

Marian Marsh was an American film actress and later an environmentalist.

1913

Faik Türün

Turkish general (died 2003)

Faik Türün was a Turkish general. He served in the Korean War as the Chief of Operations for the Turkish Brigade and was awarded the Silver Star by General Douglas MacArthur.

1913

Jerry Siegel

American author and illustrator (died 1996)

Jerome "Jerry" Siegel was an American comic book writer. He was the co-creator of Superman, in collaboration with his friend Joe Shuster, published by DC Comics. They also created Doctor Occult, who was later featured…

1914

Arthur Miller

American playwright and screenwriter (died 2005)

Arthur Asher Miller was an American actor and writer of plays in the 20th-century American theater. Among his most popular plays are All My Sons (1947), Death of a Salesman (1949), The Crucible (1953), and A View from…

1915

José López Rega

Argentinean politician (died 1989)

José López Rega was an Argentine politician who served as Minister of Social Welfare from 1973 to 1975, first under Juan Perón and continuing under Isabel Perón, Juan Perón's third wife and presidential successor. Lopez…

1916

Alfred Benlloch Llorach

Spanish inventor (died 2013)

Alfred Benlloch Llorach was a Spanish inventor with over one hundred patents registered in different areas.

1917

Martin Donnelly

New Zealand cricketer (died 1999)

Martin Paterson Donnelly was a New Zealand-born sportsman who played Test cricket for New Zealand and rugby union for England. He worked for Courtaulds in England and Sydney.

1917

Marsha Hunt

American actress and singer (died 2022)

Marsha Hunt was an American actress with a career spanning nearly 80 years. She was blacklisted by Hollywood film studio executives in the 1950s during McCarthyism.

1917

Aimo Koivunen

Finnish soldier and corporal (died 1989)

Aimo Allan Koivunen was a Finnish soldier in the Continuation War and the first documented case of a soldier overdosing on methamphetamine during combat. The case gained more notoriety due to Koivunen's fighting…

1917

Norman Leyden

American composer and conductor (died 2014)

Norman Fowler Leyden was an American conductor, composer, arranger, and clarinetist. He worked in film and television and is perhaps best known as the conductor of the Oregon Symphony Pops orchestra. He co-wrote with…

1917

Sumner Locke Elliott

Australian-American author and playwright (died 1991)

Sumner Locke Elliott was an Australian novelist and playwright.

1917

Adele Stimmel Chase

American painter and sculptor (died 2000)

Adele Stimmel Chase was an American artist who worked in ceramics, metal sculpture and painting.

1917

Rita Hayworth

American actress, singer and dancer (died 1987)

Rita Hayworth was an American actress, dancer, and pin-up girl. She achieved fame in the 1940s as one of the top stars of the Golden Age of Hollywood, and appeared in 61 films over 38 years. The press coined the term…

1918

Luis Alberto Solari

Uruguayan artist (died 1993)

Luis Alberto Solari (1918–1993) was a Uruguayan painter and engraver.

1918

Ralph Wilson

American businessman, founded the Buffalo Bills (died 2014)

Ralph Cookerly Wilson Jr. was an American businessman and sports executive. He was best known as the founder and owner of the Buffalo Bills, a team in the National Football League (NFL). He was one of the founding…

1918

Isaak Khalatnikov

Ukrainian-Russian theoretical physicist and academic (died 2021)

Isaak Markovich Khalatnikov was a leading Soviet theoretical physicist who made significant contributions to many areas of theoretical physics, including general relativity, quantum field theory, as well as the theory…

1919

Violet Milstead

Canadian World War II aviator and bush pilot (died 2014)

Violet Milstead Warren was a Canadian aviator, noted for being the first female Canadian bush pilot and one of only four Canadian women to work in the British Air Transport Auxiliary (ATA) during WWII. With over 600…

1919

Zhao Ziyang

Chinese politician (died 2005)

Zhao Ziyang was a Chinese politician. He served as the premier of China from 1980 to 1987, as vice chairman of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) from 1981 to 1982, and as the general secretary of the Chinese Communist…

1919

Montgomery Clift

American actor (died 1966)

Edward Montgomery Clift was an American actor. A four-time Academy Award nominee, he was known for his portrayal of "moody, sensitive young men", according to The New York Times.

1920

Miguel Delibes

Spanish journalist and author (died 2010)

Miguel Delibes Setién was a Spanish novelist, journalist and newspaper editor associated with the Generation of '36 movement. From 1975 until his death, he was a member of the Royal Spanish Academy, where he occupied…

1920

Zully Moreno

Argentine actress (died 1999)

Zulema Esther González Borbón, better known as Zully Moreno, was an Argentine film actress during the Golden Age of Argentine cinema of the 1940s and 1950s. She appeared in more than 70 movies, earning best actress…

1920

Priscilla Buckley

American journalist and author (died 2012)

Priscilla Langford Buckley was an American journalist and author who was the longtime managing editor of National Review.

1921

Maria Gorokhovskaya

Russian-Israeli gymnast (died 2001)

Maria Kondratyevna Gorokhovskaya was a Soviet gymnast of Jewish descent. At the 1952 Summer Olympics, she was the first woman to win seven medals at one Olympics. That is the highest number of medals won by a woman in a…

1921

George Mackay Brown

Scottish author, poet, and playwright (died 1996)

George Mackay Brown was a Scottish poet, author and dramatist with a distinctly Orcadian character. He is widely regarded as one of the great Scottish poets of the 20th century.

1921

Tom Poston

American actor and comedian (died 2007)

Thomas Gordon Poston was an American actor, appearing in television roles from the 1950s through the early to mid-2000s, reportedly appearing in more sitcoms than any other actor. In the 1980s, he played George Utley on…

1921

Luiz Bonfá

Brazilian guitarist and composer (died 2001)

Luiz Floriano Bonfá was a Brazilian guitarist and composer. He was best known for the music he composed for the film Black Orpheus.

1922

Pierre Juneau

Canadian broadcaster and politician, co-founded the Montreal World Film Festival (died 2012)

Pierre Juneau was a Canadian film and broadcast executive, a one-time member of the Canadian Cabinet, the first chairman of the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) and subsequently…

1922

Barney Kessel

American guitarist and composer (died 2004)

Barney Kessel was an American jazz guitarist. Known in particular for his knowledge of chords and inversions and chord-based melodies, he was a member of many prominent jazz groups as well as a "first call" guitarist…

1923

Charles McClendon

American football player and coach (died 2001)

Charles Youmans McClendon, also known as "Cholly Mac", was an American college football player and coach. He served as the head football coach at Louisiana State University (LSU) from 1962 to 1979, compiling a record of…

1923

Don Coryell

American football player and coach (died 2010)

Donald David Coryell was an American football coach. He coached in high school, college, and the professional ranks; his most notable NCAA post was with the San Diego State Aztecs for 12 seasons from 1961 to 1972 before…

1924

Anton Geiser

Croatian SS officer (died 2012)

Anton Geiser was a Yugoslav-born member of the SS-Totenkopfverbände during World War II, who served as a guard at both the Sachsenhausen and Buchenwald concentration camps. In 1956 he moved to the United States,…

1924

Giacomo Mari

Italian footballer (died 1991)

Giacomo Mari was an Italian footballer who played as a midfielder.

1924

Rolando Panerai

Italian baritone (died 2019)

Rolando Panerai was an Italian baritone, particularly associated with the Italian repertoire. He performed at La Scala in Milan, often alongside Maria Callas and Giuseppe Di Stefano. He was known for musical…

1924

Harry Carpenter

English sportscaster (died 2010)

Harry Leonard Carpenter, OBE was a British BBC sports commentator broadcasting from the early 1950s until his retirement in 1994. His speciality was boxing. He was presenter of programmes such as Sportsnight (1975–1985)…

1925

Julie Adams

American actress (died 2019)

Julie Adams was an American actress, billed as Julia Adams in her early career, primarily known for her numerous television guest roles. She starred in a number of films in the 1950s, including Bend of the River (1952),…

1926

Beverly Garland

American actress (died 2008)

Beverly Lucy Garland was an American actress. Her work in feature films primarily consisted of small parts in a few major productions or leads in low-budget action and science-fiction movies; however, she had prominent…

1926

Roberto Lippi

Italian race car driver (died 2011)

Roberto Lippi was a racing driver from Italy. He was the inaugural champion of the Campionato Italiano for Formula Junior cars in 1958, and participated in three Formula One World Championship Grands Prix, all at Monza…

1926

Santiago Stevenson

Panamanian singer and minister (died 2007)

1928

Alejandro Végh Villegas

Uruguayan politician (died 2017)

Alejandro Végh Villegas was a Uruguayan politician.

1928

Mário Wilson

Mozambican footballer and manager (died 2016)

Mário Wilson was a Portuguese football player and manager.

1929

Ismail Akbay

Turkish physicist and engineer (died 2003)

İsmail Akbay was a Turkish scientist. He is mostly remembered as the first Turk to work for NASA.

1930

Robert Atkins

American physician and cardiologist, created the Atkins diet (died 2003)

Robert Coleman Atkins was an American physician and cardiologist, best known for the Atkins Diet, which requires close control of carbohydrate consumption and emphasizes protein and fat as the primary sources of dietary…

1930

José Alencar

Brazilian businessman and politician (died 2011)

José Alencar Gomes da Silva was a Brazilian businessman, entrepreneur and politician who served as the 23rd vice president of Brazil from 1 January 2003 to 1 January 2011. In business from a young age, Alencar became a…

1931

Ernst Hinterberger

Austrian author and playwright (died 2012)

Ernst Hinterberger was an Austrian writer of novels, particularly detective novels, plays and successful sitcoms. His first TV scripts were unusual for their use of genuine Vienna dialect.

1931

Anatoly Pristavkin

Russian writer (died 2008)

Anatoly Ignatovich Pristavkin was a Russian writer and public figure.

1931

Paul Anderson

American weightlifter (died 1994)

Paul Edward Anderson was an American weightlifter, professional wrestler, powerlifter and strongman. During the 1950s, he was an Olympic gold medalist, a world champion, and a two-time national Olympic weightlifting…

1932

William Anders

Hong Kong-American general and astronaut (died 2024)

William Alison Anders was a United States Air Force (USAF) major general, electrical engineer, nuclear engineer, NASA astronaut, and businessman. In December 1968, he was a member of the crew of Apollo 8, the first…

1933

The Singing Nun

Belgian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and nun (died 1985)

Jeanne-Paule Marie "Jeannine" Deckers, better known as Sœur Sourire and often called The Singing Nun in English-speaking countries, was a Belgian Catholic singer-songwriter and former member of the Dominican Order as…

1933

Alan Garner

English author and playwright

Alan Garner is an English novelist best known for his children's fantasy novels and his retellings of traditional British folk tales. Much of his work is rooted in the landscape, history and folklore of his native…

1934

Johnny Haynes

English-Scottish footballer (died 2005)

John Norman Haynes was an English association footballer who played as an inside forward. He made 56 appearances for his country including 22 as captain. He was selected for three World Cup finals squads playing in the…

1934

Rico Rodriguez

Jamaican trombonist (died 2015)

Emmanuel "Rico" Rodriguez, also known as Rico, Reco or El Reco, was a Cuban-born Jamaican ska and reggae trombonist. He recorded with producers such as Karl Pitterson, Prince Buster, and Lloyd Daley. He was known as one…

1934

Sydney Chapman

English architect and politician, Vice-Chamberlain of the Household (died 2014)

Sir Sydney Brookes Chapman was a British Conservative Party politician and architect who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Birmingham Handsworth and Chipping Barnet.

1935

Michael Eavis

English farmer, founded the Glastonbury Festival

Sir Athelstan Joseph Michael Eavis is an English dairy farmer and the co-creator of the Glastonbury Festival, which takes place at his farm in Pilton, Somerset.

1935

Carlos Pairetti

Argentine racing driver (died 2022)

Carlos Alberto Pairetti was an Argentine racing driver.

1935

Sathima Bea Benjamin

South African singer-songwriter (died 2013)

Beatrice "Sathima Bea" Benjamin was a South African vocalist and composer based in New York City for nearly 45 years.

1936

Hiroo Kanamori

Japanese-American seismologist and academic

Hiroo Kanamori is a Japanese seismologist who has made fundamental contributions to understanding the physics of earthquakes and the tectonic processes that cause them.

1936

Santiago Navarro

Spanish basketball player (died 1993)

Santiago Navarro was a Spanish basketball player. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1960 Summer Olympics.

1936

Bert Nievera

Filipino-American singer (died 2018)

Roberto Jose Dela Cruz Nievera was a Filipino-American singer and businessman. He rose to prominence in 1959 after winning the "Search for Johnny Mathis of the Philippines", a singing contest on the television variety…

1936

José María Álvarez del Manzano

Spanish politician

José María Álvarez del Manzano y López del Hierro is a Spanish politician for the People's Party. Although born in Seville he has lived in Madrid since he was 3 years old. He studied at the Jesuit Colegio Nuestra Señora…

1937

Aida Navarro

Venezuelan mezzo-soprano

Aida Navarro, is a Venezuelan mezzo-soprano, born in Caracas.

1937

Renato Prada Oropeza

Bolivian-Mexican scientist (died 2011)

Renato Prada Oropeza was a Bolivian and Mexican scientist-literary researcher and writer, author of novels, short stories and poetry books, hermeneutics, semiotics and literary theory. Many of his literary works have…

1937

Paxton Whitehead

English actor (died 2023)

Francis Edward Paxton Whitehead was an English actor and theatre director. He was nominated for a Tony Award and a Drama Desk Award for his performance as Pellinore in the 1980 revival of Camelot. Whitehead had many…

1937

António Calvário

Portuguese singer and artist

António Calvário da Paz is a Portuguese singer, actor, and writer. He is best known for winning the first edition of the Festival da Canção and representing Portugal at the Eurovision Song Contest in 1964 with the song…

1938

Evel Knievel

American motorcycle rider and stuntman (died 2007)

Robert Craig Knievel, known professionally as Evel Knievel, was an American stunt performer and entertainer. Throughout his career, he attempted more than 75 ramp-to-ramp motorcycle jumps. Knievel was inducted into the…

1938

Les Murray

Australian anthologist, poet, and critic (died 2019)

Leslie Allan Murray was an Australian poet, anthologist and critic. His career spanned over 40 years and he published nearly 30 volumes of poetry as well as two verse novels and collections of his prose writings.

1938

Oliver Rackham

English botanist and academic (died 2015)

Oliver Rackham was an academic at the University of Cambridge who studied the ecology, management and development of the British countryside, especially trees, woodlands and wood pasture. His books included Ancient…

1939

Stephen Kovacevich

American pianist and conductor

Stephen Kovacevich is an American classical pianist and conductor. He is particularly celebrated for his recordings of works by Beethoven, Bartók, and Schubert, and is known for technical skill, clarity of playing, and…

1940

Jim Smith

English footballer and manager (died 2019)

James Michael Smith was an English footballer and manager. As a player, he made 249 appearances in the Fourth Division of the Football League, representing Aldershot, Halifax Town, Lincoln City and Colchester United,…

1940

Peter Stringfellow

English businessman (died 2018)

Peter James Stringfellow was an English businessman who owned several nightclubs.

1940

Earl Thomas Conley

American country singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2019)

Earl Thomas Conley was an American country music singer-songwriter. Between 1980 and 2003, he recorded ten studio albums, including seven for RCA Records. In the 1980s and into the 1990s, Conley also charted more than…

1941

Paul Ellison

American musician

Paul Ellison is an American double bassist and pedagogue. He has been teaching at Rice University in Houston, Texas USA since 1974 and is the Lynette B. Autry Professor of Double Bass at Rice University's Shepherd…

1941

Jim Seals

American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and violinist (died 2022)

Seals & Crofts were an American soft rock duo formed in 1969 by Jim Seals and Dash Crofts in Los Angeles, California. They are best known for their hits "Summer Breeze" (1972), "Diamond Girl" (1973), and "Get Closer"…

1941

Steve Jones

American basketball player and sportscaster (died 2017)

Stephen Howard "Snapper" Jones Sr. was an American basketball player in the American Basketball Association (ABA) and National Basketball Association (NBA), and later a television analyst. He was a three-time ABA…

1942

Gary Puckett

American pop singer-songwriter and guitarist

Gary Dale Puckett is an American singer widely known as the lead vocalist for Gary Puckett & The Union Gap, who had six consecutive gold records in 1968, including "Woman Woman", "Young Girl", "Lady Willpower", "Over…

1942

Ignacio Rupérez

Spanish diplomat and journalist (died 2015)

Ignacio Rupérez Rubio was a Spanish diplomat, journalist, and writer. Rupérez was appointed Ambassador to Iraq on 3 June 2005, becoming the first Ambassador to Iraq since 1991, when the Spanish embassy in Baghdad was…

1943

Ángel Cristo

Spanish circus performer (died 2010)

Ángel Papadopoulos Dordi was a Spanish circus performer as lion tamer.

1944

Ronni Chasen

American publicist (died 2010)

Ronni Sue Chasen was an American publicist, who once represented such actors as Michael Douglas, as well as musicians such as Hans Zimmer and Mark Isham, among others. Chasen directed the Academy Award campaigns for…

1946

Michael Hossack

American drummer (died 2012)

Michael Joseph Hossack was an American drummer for the rock band The Doobie Brothers.

1946

Manuel "Flaco" Ibáñez

Mexican actor and comedian

Manuel "Flaco" Ibáñez Martínez is a Mexican actor and comedian who has appeared in over 140 films and television shows in Mexico.

1946

Akira Kushida

Japanese vocalist

Akira Kushida is a Japanese singer who is well known for his work in the soundtracks for anime and tokusatsu productions, most notably Taiyou Sentai Sun Vulcan, Kinnikuman, and Space Sheriff Gavan. His nickname from…

1946

Cameron Mackintosh

English producer and manager

Sir Cameron Anthony Mackintosh is a British theatrical producer and theatre owner notable for his association with many commercially successful musicals. At the height of his success in 1990, he was described as being…

1946

Adam Michnik

Polish journalist and historian

Adam Michnik is a Polish historian, essayist, former dissident, public intellectual, as well as co-founder and editor-in-chief of the Polish newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza.

1946

Julio Miranda

Argentine politician (died 2021)

Julio Antonio Miranda was an Argentine politician and a member of the Justicialist Party. He was a Senator for Tucumán Province and was part of the majority Front for Victory parliamentary group. Previously he had been…

1946

Drusilla Modjeska

English-Australian author and critic

Drusilla Modjeska is a contemporary Australian writer and editor.

1946

Daniela Payssé

Uruguayan politician (died 2018)

Daniela Payssé was a Uruguayan senator for the Broad Front party.

1946

José Perramón

Spanish handball player

José Perramón Acosta is a former Spanish handball player. He competed in the 1972 Summer Olympics.

1946

Jaime Ravinet

Chilean politician

Jaime Nicolás Ravinet de la Fuente, is a Chilean politician, lawyer, academic and businessman. From 1990 to 2000 he was Mayor of Santiago, before becoming the Minister for Housing, Urban Planning and National Property…

1946

Bob Seagren

American pole vaulter

Robert Seagren is a retired American pole vaulter, the 1968 Olympic champion.

1946

Rüdiger Wittig

German geobotanist and ecologist

Rüdiger Wittig is a professor of geobotany and ecology at the Goethe University Frankfurt in Frankfurt am Main, Germany.

1946

Omar Azziman

adviser to the King of Morocco

Omar Azziman, is an advisor to Mohammed VI, King of Morocco.

1947

Gene Green

American lawyer and politician

Raymond Eugene Green is an American politician who served as the U.S. representative for Texas's 29th congressional district, serving for 13 terms. He is a member of the Democratic Party. His district included most of…

1947

Michael McKean

American singer-songwriter, actor, and director

Michael John McKean is an American actor, comedian, screenwriter, composer, and musician.

1947

Robert Post

American educator and academic

Robert Charles Post is an American legal scholar who is currently a professor of law at Yale Law School. He was the dean of Yale Law School from 2009 to 2017. Post has been quoted in the New York Times on the…

1947

Osvaldo Castro

Chilean footballer

Osvaldo Castro Pelayo is a Chilean former professional footballer who played league football for clubs in Chile and Mexico, as well as playing international football for the Chile national team.

1948

Robert Jordan

American soldier and author (died 2007)

James Oliver Rigney Jr., known by his pen name Robert Jordan, was an American author of epic fantasy. He is best known as the author of The Wheel of Time series, which comprises 14 books and a prequel novel. The series…

1948

Margot Kidder

Canadian-American actress (died 2018)

Margaret Ruth Kidder was a Canadian and American actress and activist. She amassed several film and television credits in her career spanning five decades, including her widely known role as Lois Lane in the original…

1948

George Wendt

American actor and comedian (died 2025)

George Robert Wendt Jr. was an American actor. Wendt played Norm Peterson on the NBC sitcom Cheers from 1982 to 1993, which earned him six consecutive nominations for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting…

1948

Owen Arthur

Barbadian economist and politician, 5th Prime Minister of Barbados (died 2020)

Owen Seymour Arthur was a Barbadian politician who served as the fifth prime minister of Barbados from 6 September 1994 to 15 January 2008. He is the longest-serving Barbadian prime minister to date. He also served as…

1949

Bill Hudson

American musician and actor

William Louis Hudson Jr. is an American musician and actor. He was a vocalist in the Hudson Brothers, a band he formed in 1965 with his two younger brothers, Brett and Mark. He later had a brief acting career, appearing…

1949

Philippe Barbarin

French cardinal

Philippe Xavier Christian Ignace Marie Barbarin is a French Catholic prelate who served as Archbishop of Lyon from 2002 to 2020. He was made a cardinal in 2003. He was convicted in 2019 of failing to report alleged sex…

1950

Sandra Reemer

Indo-Dutch singer (died 2017)

Barbara Alexandra "Sandra" Reemer was an Indo-Dutch singer and television presenter. She represented the Netherlands in the Eurovision Song Contest on three occasions, tying with Corry Brokken for most appearances…

1950

Howard Rollins

American actor (died 1996)

Howard Ellsworth Rollins Jr. was an American stage, film and television actor. He was best known for his role as Andrew Young in 1978's King, George Haley in the 1979 miniseries Roots: The Next Generations, Coalhouse…

1950

Dirk Beheydt

Belgian footballer

Dirk Beheydt is a Belgian former professional footballer who played as a forward.

1951

Annie Borckink

Dutch speed skater

Anna "Annie" Johanna Geertruida Maria Borckink is a former speed skater from the Netherlands, who represented her native country at the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, United States. She won the gold medal in the…

1951

Roger Pontare

Swedish singer

Fred Roger Pontare is a Swedish musician. He lives in Bjuråker in Hudiksvalls kommun.

1951

Shari Ulrich

American-Canadian singer-songwriter and violinist

Sharon "Shari" Ulrich is an American-Canadian musician and songwriter. She has also worked as a television host, actress, film composer, and educator. A multi-instrumentalist, she plays violin, mandolin, guitar, piano,…

1951

Joseph Bowie

American trombonist and bandleader

Joseph Bowie is an American jazz trombonist and vocalist. The brother of trumpeter Lester Bowie, Joseph is known for leading the jazz-punk group Defunkt and for membership in the Ethnic Heritage Ensemble.

1953

Domenico Penzo

Italian footballer

Domenico Penzo is an Italian retired professional footballer, who played as a forward.

1953

Carlos Buhler

American mountaineer

Carlos Buhler is one of America's leading high altitude mountaineers. Buhler's specialty is high-standard mountaineering characterized by small teams, no oxygen, minimal gear and equipment, and relatively low amounts of…

1954

Georgios Alogoskoufis

Greek economist, academic, and politician, Greek Minister of Finance

Georgios Alogoskoufis is a professor of economics at the Athens University of Economics and Business since 1990. He was a member of the Hellenic Parliament from September 1996 till October 2009 and served as Greece's…

1955

Mike Bratz

American basketball player

Michael Louis Bratz is a retired American basketball player and former the assistant general manager for the Sacramento Kings. He played professionally in the NBA for the Phoenix Suns, Cleveland Cavaliers, San Antonio…

1955

Fran Cosmo

American singer-songwriter and guitarist

Fran Cosmo is an American rock vocalist and guitarist. He was a member of the Boston offshoot band Orion the Hunter from 1983–1985. He later became the official lead vocalist for Boston in the 1990s, singing on the Walk…

1956

Mae Jemison

American physician, academic, and astronaut

Mae Carol Jemison is an American engineer, physician, and former NASA astronaut. She became the first African-American woman to travel into space when she served as a mission specialist aboard the Space Shuttle…

1956

Pat McCrory

American businessman and politician, 74th Governor of North Carolina

Patrick Lloyd McCrory is an American politician and businessman who served as the 74th governor of North Carolina from 2013 to 2017. A member of the Republican Party, he previously served as the 53rd mayor of Charlotte…

1956

Ken Morrow

American ice hockey player and executive

Kenneth Arlington Morrow is an American former professional ice hockey defenseman and a member of the 1980 USA Olympic Miracle on Ice hockey team. He is currently serving as the New York Islanders' director of pro…

1956

Stephen Palumbi

American academic and author

Stephen R. Palumbi is an American zoologist who is the Jane and Marshall Steel Jr. Professor in Marine Sciences at Stanford University at Hopkins Marine Station. He also holds a Senior Fellowship at the Stanford Woods…

1956

Eleftheria Arvanitaki

Greek folk singer

Eleftheria Arvanitaki is a Greek folk singer. She originates from the island of Icaria. Arvanitaki has worked with musicians such as Cesária Évora, Arto Tunçboyacıyan and Ara Dinkjian. On 14 March 2010 Alpha TV ranked…

1957

Nelson Barrera

Mexican baseball player (died 2002)

Nelson Barrera Romellón was a Mexican professional baseball player, who at the time of his death led the Mexican League in career home runs (455) and RBIs (1,927). He was nicknamed El Almirante.

1957

Lawrence Bender

American actor and producer

Lawrence Bender is an American film producer. Throughout his career, Bender-produced films have received 36 Academy Award nominations, resulting in eight wins.

1957

Antonio Galdo

Italian journalist

Antonio Galdo is an Italian writer and journalist.

1957

Steve McMichael

American football player, wrestler, and sportscaster (died 2025)

Stephen Douglas McMichael, nicknamed "Mongo", "Ming", and "Ming the Merciless", was an American professional football player and professional wrestler. He was a defensive tackle for 15 seasons in the National Football…

1957

Pino Palladino

Welsh bassist

Giuseppe Henry "Pino" Palladino is a Welsh musician, songwriter, and record producer. A session bassist, he has played bass for a number of acts such as the Who, the John Mayer Trio, Gary Numan, Paul Young, Don Henley,…

1957

Vincent Van Patten

American tennis player and actor

Vincent Van Patten is an American actor, former professional tennis player, and the commentator for the World Poker Tour.

1957

Howard Alden

American guitarist

Howard Vincent Alden is an American jazz guitarist born in Newport Beach, California. Alden has recorded many albums for Concord Records, including four with seven-string guitar innovator George Van Eps.

1958

Alan Jackson

American singer-songwriter

Alan Eugene Jackson is an American singer-songwriter. He is known for performing a style widely regarded as "neotraditional country", as well as writing many of his own songs. Jackson has recorded 21 studio albums,…

1958

Sandra Mozarowsky

Spanish actress (died 1977)

Alexandra Elena Mozarowski Ruiz de Frías, also known by the stage name Sandra Mozarowsky, was a Spanish actress from 1969 until her death in 1977. She starred in films such as Night of the Seagulls and Beatriz.

1958

Craig Murray

British diplomat

Craig John Murray is a Scottish author, human rights campaigner, journalist, and former diplomat.

1958

Mustafa Aberchán

Spanish politician

Mustafa Hamed Mohamed is a Spanish politician who served as the Mayor-President of Melilla from 5 July 1999 to 19 July 2000, and is the leader of Coalition for Melilla. Aberchán was convicted of vote buying by the…

1959

Ron Drummond

American author and scholar

Ronald N. Drummond is a writer, editor, and independent scholar.

1959

Francisco Flores Pérez

Salvadorian politician, President of El Salvador (died 2016)

Francisco Guillermo Flores Pérez was a Salvadoran politician who served as the 39th President of El Salvador from 1 June 1999 to 1 June 2004 as a member of the conservative Nationalist Republican Alliance (ARENA). He…

1959

Russell Gilbert

Australian comedian, actor, and screenwriter

Russell Gilbert is an Australian comedian from Footscray, Victoria, best known for his television appearances on programs such as The Comedy Company, Hey Hey It's Saturday and The Russell Gilbert Show; he was also a…

1959

Eugenio Hernández Flores

Mexican politician

Eugenio Javier Hernández Flores is a Mexican politician affiliated with the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI). He was the mayor of Ciudad Victoria from 2001 to 2004 and governor of Tamaulipas from 2004 to 2010,…

1959

Norm Macdonald

Canadian actor, comedian, producer, and screenwriter (died 2021)

Norman Gene Macdonald was a Canadian stand-up comedian, actor, and writer whose style was characterized by deadpan delivery, eccentric understatement, and the use of folksy, old-fashioned turns of phrase. He appeared in…

1959

Mark Peel

Australian historian and academic

Mark Andrew Peel, historian and academic, was the Director of Educational Innovation at the University of Leicester until retiring in 2019. He also served the university as Provost, Pro Vice Chancellor and Head of the…

1959

Richard Roeper

American journalist and critic

Richard E. Roeper is an American writer. He is a former columnist and film critic for the Chicago Sun-Times, where he wrote for 39 years dating back to 1986 until his departure in 2025. He co-hosted the television…

1959

Guy Henry

English actor

Guy Henry is an English actor whose roles include Henrik Hanssen in Holby City, Pius Thicknesse in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1 and Part 2, Cassius in Rome and Grand Moff Tarkin in Rogue One.

1960

Rob Marshall

American director, producer, and choreographer

Robert Doyle Marshall Jr. is an American film and theater director, producer, and choreographer. He is best known for directing the film version of the Broadway musical Chicago, which was based on the play of the same…

1960

Bernie Nolan

Irish singer (died 2013)

Bernadette Therese Doneathy was an Irish actress, singer and television personality. She was a member of the girl group the Nolans, which she formed with her sisters. From the age of two, Bernie was brought up in…

1960

Philippe Sands

American lawyer and academic

Philippe Joseph Sands is a British, French, and Mauritian writer and lawyer at 11 King's Bench Walk and Professor of Laws and Director of the Centre on International Courts and Tribunals at the Faculty of Laws,…

1960

David Means

American short story writer

David Means is an American short story writer and novelist based in Nyack, New York. His stories have appeared in many publications, including Esquire, The New Yorker, and Harper's. They are frequently set in the…

1961

Glenn Braggs

American baseball player

Glenn Erick Braggs is an American former Major League Baseball and Nippon Professional Baseball outfielder and designated hitter. Braggs was a member of the Cincinnati Reds team that defeated the Oakland Athletics in…

1962

Jay Humphries

American basketball player

John Jay Humphries is an American former professional basketball player who played in the National Basketball Association (NBA). He later served as the first head coach of the NBA D-League's Reno Bighorns. He last…

1962

Mike Judge

American animator, director, screenwriter, producer and actor

Michael Craig Judge is an American actor, animator, writer, producer, and director. He is the creator of the animated television series Beavis and Butt-Head, and co-created the television series King of the Hill, The…

1962

Sergio Goycochea

Argentinian footballer and journalist

Sergio Javier Goycochea is an Argentine former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper. He is best known for helping his country reach the 1990 FIFA World Cup Final with his penalty kick saves.

1963

Toby Young

English journalist and academic

Toby Daniel Moorsom Young, Baron Young of Acton, is a British social commentator and Conservative life peer. He is the founder and director of the Free Speech Union, an associate editor of The Spectator, creator of The…

1963

Margarita Liborio Arrazola

Mexican politician

Margarita Liborio Arrazola is a Mexican politician from the Institutional Revolutionary Party. From 2009 to 2012 she served as Deputy of the LXI Legislature of the Mexican Congress representing Oaxaca.

1964

Gregg Wallace

English television presenter

Gregg Allan Wallace is an English broadcaster, entrepreneur and writer. He is known for co-presenting MasterChef, Celebrity MasterChef and MasterChef: The Professionals on BBC One and BBC Two. He has written for Good…

1964

Aravinda de Silva

Sri Lankan cricketer

Deshabandu Pinnaduwage Aravinda de Silva is a former Sri Lankan cricketer. Regarded as one of Sri Lanka’s greatest ever cricketers, De Silva was a key member of the Sri Lankan team that won the 1996 Cricket World Cup,…

1965

Rhys Muldoon

Australian actor

Rhys Muldoon is an Australian actor, writer and director who has worked extensively in film, television, music, theatre and radio. He has had leading and recurring roles in series such as Chances, The Genie from Down…

1965

Shaun Edwards

English rugby player and coach

Shaun Edwards, OBE is an English rugby union coach and former rugby league footballer, who is the defence coach for the France national team. A scrum-half or stand-off, Edwards is the most decorated player in rugby…

1966

Danny Ferry

American basketball player and manager

Daniel John Willard Ferry is an American executive and former professional basketball player who played the forward position.

1966

Mark Gatiss

English actor, screenwriter and novelist

Mark Gatiss is an English actor, comedian, screenwriter, director, producer and novelist. Best known for his acting work on stage and screen as well as for co-creating television shows with Steven Moffat, he has…

1966

Tommy Kendall

American race car driver and sportscaster

Tommy Kendall is an American race car driver and television broadcaster. He is best known for his IMSA GT Championship and SCCA Trans-Am Series career.

1966

René Dif

Danish musician

René Dif is a Danish musician, singer-songwriter, DJ and actor, best known as the male vocalist of the Danish-Norwegian Eurodance group Aqua.

1967

Pedro González Vera

Chilean footballer

Pedro Alejandro González Vera is a Chilean football manager and former football player nicknamed "Heidi". A forward, with 212 goals, he is the second highest scorer in the history of Chilean football after Francisco…

1967

Simon Segars

English businessman

Simon Anthony Segars is a British business executive who was chief executive officer (CEO) of ARM Holdings plc from 2013 to 2022. ARM is the UK's largest semiconductor IP company headquartered in Cambridge, England, and…

1967

Nathalie Tauziat

French tennis player

Nathalie Tauziat is a French tennis coach and a former professional player. She was the runner-up in women's singles at the 1998 Wimbledon Championships and runner-up in the women's doubles at the 2001 US Open…

1967

Alejandra Ávalos

Mexican artist

Alejandra Margarita Ávalos Rodríguez is a Mexican singer, musician and actress. She began her career in 1980, when she took part in the musical contest La Voz del Heraldo. After receiving a scholarship to study in a…

1968

Graeme Le Saux

English footballer and sportscaster

Graeme Pierre Le Saux is a former professional footballer and television pundit. As a versatile left sided player he played most of his career at left back with two spells at Chelsea, Blackburn Rovers, Southampton, and…

1968

Ziggy Marley

Jamaican singer-songwriter, guitarist, and voice actor

David Nesta "Ziggy" Marley is a Jamaican reggae musician, songwriter, producer, author and philanthropist. The eldest son of Bob Marley and Rita Marley, he led the family band Ziggy Marley and the Melody Makers until…

1968

David Robertson

Scottish footballer and manager

David Alexander Robertson BEM is a Scottish former football player and coach, who was most recently the manager of Scottish League One club Peterhead.

1968

Ernie Els

South African golfer and sportscaster

Theodore Ernest Els is a South African professional golfer. A former World No. 1, he is nicknamed "The Big Easy" due to his physical stature along with his fluid golf swing. Among his more than 70 career victories are…

1969

Jesús Ángel García

Spanish racewalker

Jesús Ángel García Bragado is a Spanish race walker. He has competed at eight Olympic Games, the most Olympic appearances ever in athletics. He was married to gymnast Carmen Acedo. He retired in 2021 after the Tokyo…

1969

Wood Harris

American actor

Sherwin David "Wood" Harris is an American actor. He first garnered attention for his role as Motaw in the Jeff Pollack film Above the Rim (1994), before portraying high school football player Julius Campbell in the…

1969

Wyclef Jean

Haitian-American rapper, producer, and actor

Nelust Wyclef Jean is a Haitian rapper, singer, songwriter, and record producer. Born in Haiti, Jean emigrated to the United States as a child. He gained fame as a member of the Fugees, a hip-hop trio he formed with…

1969

Rick Mercer

Canadian comedian, actor, producer, and screenwriter

Richard Vincent "Rick" Mercer is a Canadian comedian, television personality, political satirist, and author. He is best known for his work on the CBC Television comedy shows This Hour Has 22 Minutes and Rick Mercer…

1969

Anil Kumble

Indian cricketer

Anil Kumble is a former Indian cricketer, captain, coach and commentator who played Test and One Day International cricket for his national team over an international career of 18 years. A right-arm leg spin bowler,…

1970

John Mabry

American baseball player, coach, and sportscaster

John Steven Mabry is an American former professional baseball outfielder and broadcaster, who currently serves as an assistant hitting coach for the Los Angeles Angels of Major League Baseball (MLB).

1970

J. C. MacKenzie

Canadian actor

John Charles MacKenzie is a Canadian actor. He is best known for portraying Skip Fontaine on the HBO series Vinyl (2016) and Reagan "Normal" Ronald on the Fox series Dark Angel (2000–2002). He has also appeared in…

1970

Chris Kirkpatrick

American singer-songwriter and dancer

Christopher Alan Kirkpatrick is an American singer, songwriter, dancer, music producer, podcaster, and actor. He founded the pop group NSYNC, in which he sang countertenor. The band has sold over 70 million records,…

1971

Kim Ljung

Norwegian singer-songwriter and bass player

Kim Ljung is a musician from Tønsberg, Norway. He is best known as the bassist in Norwegian rock bands Seigmen and Zeromancer.

1971

Martin Heinrich

American politician

Martin Trevor Heinrich is an American politician serving as the senior United States senator from New Mexico, a seat he has held since 2013. A member of the Democratic Party, Heinrich served as the U.S. representative…

1971

Derrick Plourde

American drummer (died 2005)

Derrick William Plourde was an American drummer, musician and artist. Born in Goleta, California, he was active from 1989 until his death in 2005. Although best known as a former member of Lagwagon, Plourde also played…

1971

Blues Saraceno

American guitarist, songwriter, and producer

Blues Saraceno is an American rock guitarist, composer and music producer, currently residing in Los Angeles, California. He was discovered by Guitar for the Practicing Musician magazine at the age of 16, which assisted…

1971

Eminem

American rapper, producer, and actor

Marshall Bruce Mathers III, known professionally as Eminem, is an American rapper, songwriter, record producer, and record executive. Widely regarded as one of the greatest and most influential rappers of all time, he…

1972

Sharon Leal

American actress

Sharon Ann Leal is an American actress and singer. She is known for her roles in movies such as Dreamgirls (2006), This Christmas (2007), Why Did I Get Married? (2007), Why Did I Get Married Too? (2010) and her roles on…

1972

Musashi

Japanese karateka and kickboxer

Akio Mori , better known by the ring name Musashi (武蔵), is a Japanese former professional karateka and kickboxer. He is a four-time K-1 Japan tournament champion, a former WAKO Heavyweight Muay Thai champion and…

1972

Tarkan

German-Turkish singer

Tarkan Tevetoğlu is a German-born Turkish singer-songwriter.

1972

Rubén Garcés

Panamanian basketball player

Rubén Santiago Garcés Riquelme is a Panamanian professional basketball player. He last played for the Mets de Guaynabo of Puerto Rico. A 6'9" power forward/center, he played US college basketball with Navarro Junior…

1973

Andrea Tarozzi

Italian footballer and coach

Andrea Tarozzi is an Italian former footballer, who played as a defender, and currently the assistant manager of Parma.

1973

Bhagwant Mann

Indian Politician

Bhagwant Singh Mann is an Indian politician,social worker, former comedian, actor and singer who is currently serving as the 17th Chief Minister of Punjab He represents the Dhuri Assembly constituency in the Punjab…

1973

Ariel Levy

American journalist and author

Ariel Levy is an American journalist and staff writer at The New Yorker magazine. She's the author of the books The Rules Do Not Apply and Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture. Her work has…

1974

Matthew Macfadyen

English actor

David Matthew Macfadyen is an English actor. Known for his performances on stage and screen, he gained prominence for his role as Mr. Darcy in Joe Wright's Pride & Prejudice (2005). He gained wider recognition for…

1974

Obdulio Ávila Mayo

Mexican politician

Obdulio Ávila Mayo is a Mexican politician from the National Action Party. From 2006 to 2009 he served as Deputy of the LX Legislature of the Mexican Congress representing the Federal District.

1974

Bárbara Paz

Brazilian actress

Bárbara Raquel Paz is a Brazilian actress, producer, and director.

1974

Janne Puurtinen

Finnish keyboard player

Janne Johannes Puurtinen, better known as Burton or Emerson Burton, is a Finnish musician. He is best known as the keyboardist of the Finnish gothic rock band HIM, with whom he has released six studio albums, and has…

1974

John Rocker

American baseball player

John Loy Rocker is an American former professional baseball relief pitcher who played six seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB), primarily with the Atlanta Braves. Rocker made his major league debut in 1998 with the…

1974

Darío Sala

Argentine footballer

Darío Sala is an Argentine association football administrator and former player. A goalkeeper, he played with teams including Belgrano, Los Andes, and River Plate in Argentina; Deportivo Cali in Colombia; and FC Dallas…

1974

Gabriel Silberstein

Chilean tennis player

Gabriel Silberstein is a former professional tennis player from Chile.

1974

Dhondup Wangchen

Chinese director and producer

Dhondup Wangchen is a Tibetan filmmaker who had been imprisoned by the Chinese government in 2008 on charges related to his documentary Leaving Fear Behind. Made with senior Tibetan monk Jigme Gyatso, the documentary…

1974

Jericó Abramo Masso

Mexican politician

Jericó Abramo Masso is a Mexican politician affiliated with the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI). In the 2024 general election he was elected to his fourth term in the Chamber of Deputies.

1975

Francis Bouillon

American-Canadian ice hockey player

Francis Joseph Bouillon is an American former professional ice hockey defenseman who played 14 seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the Montreal Canadiens and Nashville Predators. He also played a season for…

1975

Vina Morales

Filipino actress and singer

Sharon Garcia Magdayao, known professionally as Vina Morales, is a Filipina singer and actress. She began performing at her local church as a child and first gained recognition after winning the Cebu Pop Music Festival…

1975

Sebastián Abreu

Uruguayan footballer

Washington Sebastián Abreu Gallo, nicknamed El Loco, is a Uruguayan football manager and former footballer who played as a striker. He is the head coach of Mexican club Tijuana.

1976

Seth Etherton

American baseball player

Seth Michael Etherton is an American baseball coach and former pitcher. He was a former pitching coach for the USC Trojans. He played college baseball at USC from 1995 to 1998. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB)…

1976

Carlos Loret de Mola

Mexican journalist

Carlos Loret de Mola Álvarez is a Mexican journalist. He currently hosts the radio program Así las cosas con Carlos Loret de Mola on W Radio and is a contributor to El Universal.

1976

Kevin Maher

English-Irish footballer and coach

Kevin Andrew Maher is a former professional footballer and coach who played as a midfielder. He is head coach of National League club Southend United. Born in England, he represented the Republic of Ireland…

1976

Dudu Aouate

Israeli footballer

David "Dudu" Aouate is an Israeli retired professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper.

1977

Alimi Ballard

American actor and producer

Alimi Ballard is an American television actor. He is best known for his role as FBI agent David Sinclair on the CBS police procedural thriller Numb3rs (2005–2010), as well as the Quizmaster from Sabrina the Teenage…

1977

Bryan Bertino

American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter

Bryan Michael Bertino is an American filmmaker. He is best known as the writer/director of The Strangers (2008), as well as writing its sequel, The Strangers: Prey at Night (2018), with Ben Ketai.

1977

Walter Calderón

Ecuadorian footballer

Walter Richard Calderón Carcelén, nicknamed Mamita is a retired Ecuadorian football player.

1977

Marko Antonio Cortés Mendoza

Mexican politician

Marko Antonio Cortés Mendoza is a Mexican politician affiliated with the National Action Party (PAN). He currently serves in the Chamber of Deputies for the LXIII Legislature of the Mexican Congress, representing the…

1977

Ryan McGinley

American photographer

Ryan McGinley is an American photographer and lives in New York City. He began taking photographs in 1998. In 2003, at the age of 25, he was one of the youngest artists to have a solo show at the Whitney Museum of…

1977

André Villas-Boas

Portuguese footballer and manager

Luís André de Pina Cabral e Villas-Boas is a Portuguese sports executive and former football manager, who is the president of Portuguese sports club Porto. He was among the growing number of top-level managers who never…

1977

Jerry Flannery

Irish rugby player and coach

Jeremiah Paul Flannery is an Irish rugby union former player and current defence coach for South Africa. During his playing career, Flannery, a hooker, played for Munster and Ireland, before being forced to retire in…

1978

Pablo Iglesias Turrión

Spanish politician

Pablo Iglesias Turrión is a Spanish political scientist and former politician. During his political career, he served as Second Deputy Prime Minister and as Minister of Social Rights and 2030 Agenda of the Government of…

1978

Erin Karpluk

Canadian actress

Erin Karpluk is a Canadian actress. She is known for her portrayal of Erica Strange on the CBC Television series Being Erica from 2009 to 2011.

1978

Chuka Umunna

English lawyer and politician

Chuka Harrison Umunna is a British businessman and former politician who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Streatham from 2010 until 2019. A former member of the Labour Party, he was part of the Shadow Cabinet…

1978

Marcela Bovio

Mexican singer-songwriter and violinist

Marcela Alejandra Bovio García is a Mexican singer, violinist and songwriter who is currently a member of the Dutch symphonic metal bands Stream of Passion and MaYaN.

1979

Alexandros Nikolaidis

Greek martial artist (died 2022)

Alexandros Nikolaidis was a Greek taekwondo athlete. He was named the 2008 Greek Male Athlete of the Year. Initially the home favorite, he won the silver medal at the 2004 Olympics held in Athens after losing to Moon…

1979

Kimi Räikkönen

Finnish race car driver

Kimi-Matias Räikkönen is a Finnish racing and rally driver who competed in Formula One between 2001 and 2021, and the World Rally Championship from 2009 to 2011. Nicknamed "the Iceman", Räikkönen won the Formula One…

1979

Kostas Tsartsaris

Greek basketball player

Konstantinos "Kostas" Tsartsaris, is a Greek former professional basketball player and coach, who spent most of his playing career with the Greek League team Panathinaikos. At 6 ft 10 3⁄4 in tall and 115.4 kg (255 lb.)…

1979

Yekaterina Gamova

Russian volleyball player

Yekaterina Aleksandrovna Gamova is a Russian retired volleyball player. She was a member of the Russian national team that won the gold medals at the 2006 and 2010 FIVB Volleyball Women's World Championships, and the…

1980

Mohammad Hafeez

Pakistani cricketer

Mohammad Hafeez is a Pakistani cricket coach and former cricketer. He was a member of the Pakistan team that won the 2017 ICC Champions Trophy, and had a major role in the final, where he scored an unbeaten half…

1980

Isaac Mina

Ecuadorian footballer

Isaac Bryan Mina Arboleda is an Ecuadorian footballer who plays club football for Clan Juvenil of Ecuador.

1980

Angel Parker

American actress

Angel Parker is an American actress. Since 2000 she has appeared in numerous films and TV series and has done voice acting on video games. Her most notable credits include Criminal Minds (2008), ER (2008–2009), Lab Rats…

1980

Alessandro Piccolo

Italian race car driver

Alessandro Piccolo is an Italian racing driver.

1980

Justin Shenkarow

American actor

Justin Shenkarow is an American actor, producer, director and writer, best known for his roles of Matthew Brock in Picket Fences, Simon Holmes in Eerie, Indiana, and the voice of Harold Berman from the Nickelodeon…

1980

Horacio Cervantes

Mexican footballer

Horacio Javier Cervantes Chávez is a former Mexican footballer, who last played as defender for Veracruz, on loan for Cruz Azul. His brother Diego Alberto Cervantes is also a footballer.

1981

Kurumi Enomoto

Japanese singer-songwriter

Kurumi Enomoto , formerly known as Kurumi (くるみ), is a Japanese singer-songwriter. She debuted in 2002 with the independently released single Moeru Taiyō . She is most well known for singing the ending theme song for the…

1981

Holly Holm

American mixed martial artist

Holly Rene Holm is an American professional boxer and mixed martial artist. She previously competed in the women's Bantamweight division of the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC), where she is a former Women's…

1981

Tsubasa Imai

Japanese singer, actor, and dancer

Tsubasa Imai is a Japanese singer, actor and dancer formerly in the Japanese agency Johnny & Associates. He joined Johnny & Associates in 1995 and officially debuted in 2002 in the duo Tackey & Tsubasa with Hideaki…

1981

Ben Rothwell

American mixed-martial artist

Ben Rothwell is an American mixed martial artist and bare-knuckle boxer who competes as a Heavyweight and is the former BKFC Heavyweight World Champion. He most notably had a 17 bout stint in the Ultimate Fighting…

1981

Rubén Ramírez

Argentine footballer

Rubén Darío Ramírez is an Argentine football striker who plays for Huracán FC de Vera.

1982

Nick Riewoldt

Australian footballer

Nicholas Fredrick Riewoldt is a former Australian rules footballer who played for the St Kilda Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). He was the first draft selection in the 2000 AFL draft. He was the…

1982

Marion Rolland

French skier

Marion Rolland is a retired World Cup alpine ski racer from France.

1982

Michelle Ang

New Zealand actress

Michelle Ang is an actress, director and producer from New Zealand. Working mainly in film and television, she has won various professional accolades, including Best Actress at the New Zealand Film & Television Awards…

1983

Milica Brozovic

Serbian-Russian figure skater

Milica Brozović, sometimes Meliza Brozovich, is a former competitive pair skater. Skating with Anton Nimenko for Russia, she became the 1998 Nebelhorn Trophy bronze medalist and won four ISU Junior Grand Prix medals.…

1983

Felicity Jones

English actress

Felicity Rose Hadley Jones is an English actress. She began acting as a child, appearing in The Treasure Seekers (1996) and playing Ethel Hallow for one series of the television series The Worst Witch (1998). She then…

1983

Toshihiro Matsushita

Japanese footballer

Toshihiro Matsushita is a former Japanese football player.

1983

Riki Miura

Japanese actor

Riki Miura is a Japanese actor from Hiroshima Prefecture. Miura made his acting debut in 2005. His first major role has been as Gou Fukami/Geki Violet in Juken Sentai Gekiranger. He announced on March 10, 2018 that he…

1983

Junichi Miyashita

Japanese swimmer

Junichi Miyashita is a Japanese swimmer. He won a bronze medal in the men's 4 × 100 metre medley relay at the 2008 Summer Olympics.

1983

Ivan Saenko

Russian footballer

Ivan Ivanovich Saenko is a Russian former professional footballer who played as a winger.

1983

Mitch Talbot

American baseball player

Mitchell R. Talbot is an American former professional baseball pitcher. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Tampa Bay Rays and Cleveland Indians, the KBO League for the Samsung Lions and Hanwha Eagles and…

1983

Vitali Teleš

Estonian footballer

Vitali Teleš is an Estonian footballer who plays for Estonian club Maardu Linnameeskond as a goalkeeper.

1983

Sami Lepistö

Finnish ice hockey player

Sami Lepistö is a Finnish former professional ice hockey defenceman. He is the son of former Jokerit captain and youth international defenceman Jussi Lepistö. Sami was drafted by the Washington Capitals in the third…

1984

Chris Lowell

American actor

Christopher Lowell is an American actor. He is best known for playing the roles of Stosh "Piz" Piznarski in the television series Veronica Mars (2006–2007), William "Dell" Parker in the television series Private…

1984

Giovanni Marchese

Italian footballer

Giovanni Marchese is an Italian football coach and a former player who played as a defender. He is currently the manager of the Sicily national team.

1984

Randall Munroe

American author and illustrator

Randall Patrick Munroe is an American cartoonist, author, and engineer best known as the creator of the webcomic xkcd. Munroe has worked full-time on the comic since late 2006. In addition to publishing a book of the…

1984

Luke Rockhold

American mixed martial artist

Luke Skyler Rockhold is an American retired mixed martial artist who is currently signed with Bare Knuckle Fighting Championship and Karate Combat. He formerly competed for the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC),…

1984

Anja Eline Skybakmoen

Norwegian singer-songwriter and bandleader

Anja Eline Skybakmoen is a Norwegian jazz singer, composer and band leader, the younger sister of guitarist Jonas Skybakmoen, and married 31 July 2014, to the guitarist David Aleksander Sjølie.

1984

Gottfrid Svartholm

Swedish computer specialist

Per Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, alias anakata, is a Swedish computer specialist, known as the former co-owner of the web hosting company PRQ and co-founder of the BitTorrent site The Pirate Bay together with Fredrik Neij…

1984

Jared Tallent

Australian race walker

Jared Tallent is an Australian race walker and Olympic gold medallist in the 50 km walk from London in 2012. He is a four-time Olympic medallist, three-time World Championship medallist and holds the current Olympic…

1984

Carlos González

Venezuelan baseball player

Carlos Eduardo González, nicknamed "CarGo", is a Venezuelan former professional baseball outfielder. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) from 2008 to 2019, most prominently as a member of the Colorado Rockies,…

1985

Max Irons

English-Irish actor

Maximilian Paul Diarmuid Irons is an English actor. Following a bit part in the 2004 film Being Julia, he has gone on to major roles in films such as Red Riding Hood (2011), The Host (2013), Bitter Harvest (2017), and…

1985

Collins John

Dutch footballer

Collins John is a former professional footballer who played as a striker. Born in Liberia, he represented the Netherlands national team.

1985

Tomokazu Nagira

Japanese footballer

Tomokazu Nagira is a former Japanese football player.

1985

Alexandre Bonnet

French footballer

Alexandre Bonnet is a French professional footballer who plays as a midfielder.

1986

Antoni Bou

Spanish motorcyclist

Antoni Bou i Mena is a Spanish professional motorcycle trials rider. He has been the sole outdoor and indoor FIM Trial World Championship champion from 2007 to 2025. With these 39 world titles, he is the most successful…

1986

Aija Brumermane

Latvian basketball player

Aija Klakocka is a Latvian women's basketball player with the Latvia women's national basketball team. She competed with the team at the 2008 Summer Olympics and EuroBasket Women 2009.

1986

Constant Djakpa

Ivorian footballer

Tohouri Zahoui Constant Djakpa is an Ivorian former professional footballer who played as a left back.

1986

Yannick Ponsero

French figure skater

Yannick Ponsero is a French former competitive figure skater. He won two medals at the World Junior Championships and two medals on the ISU Junior Grand Prix series, including gold in France. On the senior level, he is…

1986

Nicolás Richotti

Argentine basketball player

Nicolás "Nico" Richotti is an Argentine former professional basketball player. At a height of 1.84 m, he played at both the point guard and shooting guard positions, with shooting guard being his main position. His most…

1986

Bea Alonzo

Filipino actress and singer

Phylbert Angelli Ranollo Fagestrom, known professionally as Bea Alonzo, is a Filipino actress and businesswoman. She is best known for playing dramatic roles in romantic drama films, including in The Mistress (2012), A…

1987

Jarosław Fojut

Polish footballer

Jarosław Fojut is a Polish former professional footballer who played as a centre-back. He currently serves as the sporting director of Stal Rzeszów.

1987

Elliot Grandin

French footballer

Elliot Grandin is a French former professional footballer who played as a winger

1987

Hideto Takahashi

Japanese footballer

Hideto Takahashi is a Japanese footballer who plays for Auckland United FC.

1987

Sergiy Gladyr

Ukrainian basketball player

Sergiy Viktorovych Gladyr is a Ukrainian former professional basketball player. He was selected with the 49th overall pick by the Atlanta Hawks in the 2009 NBA draft.

1988

Tori Matsuzaka

Japanese actor and model

Tori Matsuzaka is a Japanese actor and model. He debuted as Takeru Shiba/Shinken Red in Samurai Sentai Shinkenger. Since then, he has appeared in several television shows and films.

1988

Marina Salas

Spanish actress

Marina Salas Rodríguez is a Spanish screen and stage actress. She became known for her roles in the television series Hay alguien ahí (2009–10) and El Barco (2011–13) and the box office hits Three Steps Above Heaven…

1988

Débora García

Spanish footballer

Débora García Mateo, commonly known as Débora, is a Spanish footballer who plays as a midfielder for Primera División club Sevilla. In October 2012 she made her debut for the Spain national team at Glasgow's Hampden…

1989

Oleksandr Isakov

Ukrainian swimmer

Oleksandr Isakov is a Ukrainian swimmer. He swam for Ukraine in three events at the 2008 Summer Olympics, the 100 m backstroke, finishing in 38th place, the 200 m backstroke, finishing in 39th place, and the men's 4 x…

1989

Sophie Luck

Australian actress

Sophie Kathrin Luck is an Australian actress best known for her roles on the television shows Blue Water High and Home and Away.

1989

Charles Oliveira

Brazilian mixed martial artist

Charles Oliveira da Silva is a Brazilian professional mixed martial artist and fourth degree black belt Brazilian jiu-jitsu practitioner. Oliveira currently competes in the Lightweight division of the Ultimate Fighting…

1989

David Timor

Spanish footballer

David Timor Copoví is a Spanish professional footballer who plays as a central midfielder for Segunda Federación club Intercity.

1989

Paolo Campinoti

Italian footballer

Paolo Campinoti is an Italian footballer, who plays as a left midfielder for S.S.D. Massese.

1990

Maica García Godoy

Spanish water polo player

María del Carmen "Maica" García Godoy is a Spanish water polo player, playing at the centre forward position. She is 6 ft 2 in (1.88 m) tall and she plays for the Spanish club CN Sabadell. Maica is part of the Spain…

1990

Ronald González Tabilo

Chilean footballer

Ronald Damián González Tabilo is a Chilean footballer who plays as a winger for Municipal Mejillones.

1990

Saki Kumagai

Japanese footballer

Saki Kumagai is a Japanese professional footballer who plays as a midfielder or defender for Women's Super League club London City Lionesses and the Japan national team. A versatile defensive midfielder with keen sense…

1990

Patrick Lambie

South African rugby player

Patrick Jonathan Lambie is a retired South African professional rugby union player who represented the Sharks and Racing 92, and played fly-half, fullback and centre. Widely regarded as one of the most composed and…

1990

Brenda Asnicar

Argentine actress

Brenda Asnicar is an Argentinian actress and singer who gained international popularity for her debut role as Antonella Lamas Bernardi in the Disney Channel television series Patito Feo.

1991

Jacob Artist

American actor, singer, and dancer

Jacob Artist is an American actor, singer, and dancer. He is best known for his roles as Jake Puckerman on the Fox musical comedy-drama series Glee and as Brandon Fletcher on the ABC drama-thriller series Quantico.

1992

Anthony Gill

American basketball player

Anthony Remeral Gill is an American professional basketball player for the Washington Wizards of the National Basketball Association (NBA). Gill played college basketball for the South Carolina Gamecocks and the…

1992

Keerthy Suresh

Indian actress

Keerthy Suresh is an Indian actress who predominantly appears in Tamil, Telugu and Malayalam films. Her film accolades include one National Film Award, five SIIMA Awards, one Tamil Nadu State Film Award and two Filmfare…

1992

Kenneth Omeruo

Nigerian footballer

Kenneth Josiah Omeruo is a Nigerian professional footballer who plays as a defender.

1993

Vincent Poirier

French basketball player

Vincent Yann Poirier is a French professional basketball player for Anadolu Efes of the Turkish Basketbol Süper Ligi and the EuroLeague. He also represents the French national team in international competition.

1993

Jamal Adams

American football player

Jamal Lee Adams is an American professional football linebacker. He played college football for the LSU Tigers, and was selected by the New York Jets sixth overall in the 2017 NFL draft. Adams quickly became an…

1995

Ha-seong Kim

South Korean baseball player

Ha-seong Kim is a South Korean professional baseball infielder for the Atlanta Braves of Major League Baseball (MLB). He has previously played in MLB for the San Diego Padres and Tampa Bay Rays, and in the KBO League…

1995

Jake DeBrusk

Canadian ice hockey player

Jake DeBrusk is a Canadian professional ice hockey player who is a left winger for the Vancouver Canucks in the National Hockey League (NHL). He was drafted 14th overall by the Boston Bruins in the 2015 NHL entry draft.…

1996

Robert Williams III

American basketball player

Robert Lee Williams III is an American professional basketball player for the Portland Trail Blazers of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played college basketball for the Texas A&M Aggies.

1997

Thomas Strudwick

British motorcycle road racer

Thomas Strudwick is a British motorcycle road racer from West Sussex. During 2024, he raced in both the UK BMW F900 Cup national-level series winning the championship, and the inaugural National Sportbike Championship…

2001

Matthew Knies

American professional ice hockey player

Matthew Michael Knies is an American professional ice hockey player who is a forward for the Toronto Maple Leafs of the National Hockey League (NHL). Knies was drafted 57th overall by the Maple Leafs in the 2021 NHL…

2002

Lily

Australian-South Korean singer

Lily Jin Park Morrow, known mononymously as Lily (Korean: 릴리), is an Australian and South Korean singer. She is best known as the vocalist of South Korean girl group Nmixx under JYP Entertainment. She began her career…

2002

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