Famous Birthdays on October 29

Q: Who was born on October 29?

Famous people born on October 29 include: Alessandro Achillini, Benedetto Accolti the Younger, Shin Saimdang, Fernando Alvarez de Toledo, Laura Guidiccioni.

Q: What is Kelly Smith known for?

Kelly Smith, English footballer

212 people 1463 – 1998

October 29 has seen 212 notable people enter the world across recorded history — from 1463 – 1998. Below are the most significant names born on this date.

By thisDay.info Editorial Team · October 29 — Wikipedia

1978 — Kelly Smith

English footballer

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She accumulated 117 caps for the England national team after making her debut in 1995

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Despite being hit by serious injury during her career, Smith is England's second-highest goalscorer with 46 goals

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She played for Great Britain at the 2012 London Olympics

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Kelly Jayne Smith is an English former football forward who spent three spells with FA WSL club Arsenal

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After moving to the United States, Smith broke records with Seton Hall University then played professionally with Women's United Soccer Association (WUSA) franchise Philadelphia Charge

Alessandro Achillini

Italian physician and philosopher (died 1512)

Alessandro Achillini was an Italian philosopher and physician. He is known for the anatomic studies that he was able to publish, made possible by a 13th-century edict putatively by Emperor Frederick II allowing for…

1463

Benedetto Accolti the Younger

Italian cardinal (died 1549)

Benedetto Accolti the younger was an Italian cardinal. He was born in Florence, Italy, the son of Michele Accolti, patrician of Arezzo, and Lucrezia Alamanni. He died in Florence of an apoplexy. He was a nephew of…

1497

Shin Saimdang

South Korean painter and poet (died 1551)

Shin Saimdang was a Korean artist, writer, calligraphist, and poet, who lived during the Joseon period. She was born in Gangneung, Gangwon Province. Her birth home, Ojukheon, which is also her maternal family's home, is…

1504

Fernando Alvarez de Toledo

Spanish general (died 1582)

Fernando Álvarez de Toledo y Pimentel, 3rd Duke of Alba, known as the Grand Duke of Alba in Spain and Portugal and as the Iron Duke or shortly 'Alva' in the Netherlands and Belgium, was a Spanish military officer,…

1507

Laura Guidiccioni

Italian noblewoman and poet (died 1597/9)

Laura Guidiccioni was an Italian noblewoman and poet.

1550

George Abbot

English archbishop and academic (died 1633)

George Abbot was an English bishop who was Archbishop of Canterbury from 1611 to 1633. He also served as the fourth chancellor of the University of Dublin, from 1612 to 1633.

1562

Pierre François Xavier de Charlevoix

French historian, explorer, and author (died 1761)

Pierre François Xavier de Charlevoix, S.J. was a French Jesuit priest, traveller, and historian, often considered the first historian of New France.

1682

Martin Folkes

English mathematician and astronomer (died 1754)

Martin Folkes was an English antiquary, numismatist, mathematician and astronomer who served as the president of the Royal Society from 1741 to 1752.

1690

John Byng

English admiral and politician, 11th Commodore Governor of Newfoundland (died 1757)

Admiral of the Blue John Byng was a Royal Navy officer and politician who was court-martialled and executed by firing squad. After joining the navy at the age of thirteen, he participated at the Battle of Cape Passaro…

1704

Laura Bassi

Italian physicist and academic, first woman to have doctorate in science (died 1778)

Laura Maria Caterina Bassi Veratti was an Italian physicist and academic. Recognized and depicted as "Minerva", she was the first woman to have a doctorate in science, and the second woman in the world to earn the…

1711

James Boswell

Scottish lawyer and author (died 1795)

James Boswell, 9th Laird of Auchinleck, was a Scottish biographer, diarist, and lawyer, born in Edinburgh. He is best known for his biography of the English writer Samuel Johnson, Life of Samuel Johnson, which is…

1740

Caterina Scarpellini

Italian astronomer and meteorologist (died 1873)

Caterina Scarpellini was an Italian astronomer and meteorologist who discovered a comet and as a meteorologist she established a station in Rome in the 1850s. She published more than fifty notes and reports over twenty…

1808

Louise Granberg

Swedish playwright (died 1907)

Louise Elisabeth Granberg was a Swedish playwright, translator and theatre director.

1812

Dan Emmett

American composer (died 1904)

Daniel Decatur Emmett was an American composer, entertainer, and founder of the first troupe of the blackface minstrel tradition, the Virginia Minstrels. He is most remembered as the composer of the song "Dixie".

1815

Mieczysław Halka-Ledóchowski

Russian-Polish cardinal (died 1902)

Mieczysław Halka-Ledóchowski was a Polish Roman Catholic cardinal-priest. He was born in Górki in Russian-controlled Congress Poland to Count Josef Ledóchowski and Maria Zakrzewska. He was uncle to Saint Ursula…

1822

James Boucaut

English-Australian politician, 11th Premier of South Australia (died 1916)

Sir James Penn Boucaut (;) was a South Australian politician and Australian judge. He was a member of the South Australian House of Assembly on four occasions: from 1861 to 1862 for City of Adelaide, from 1865 to 1870…

1831

Narcisa de Jesús

Ecuadorian saint (died 1869)

Narcisa de Jesús Martillo Morán was an Ecuadorian virgin and Dominican tertiary in the Roman Catholic Church. Martillo was known for her charitable giving and strict devotion to Jesus Christ while living a virginal and…

1832

Harriet Powers

American folk artist and quilter (died 1910)

Harriet Powers was an American folk artist and quilter born into slavery in rural northeast Georgia. Powers used traditional appliqué techniques to make quilts that expressed local legends, Bible stories, and…

1837

Paul Bruchési

Canadian archbishop (died 1939)

Louis Joseph Napoléon Paul Bruchési was a Canadian prelate, the second Archbishop of Montreal. In 1910 he directed the 21st International Eucharistic Congress held in Montreal.

1855

Paul-Jacques Curie

French physicist and academic (died 1941)

Jacques Curie was a French physicist and professor of mineralogy at the University of Montpellier. Along with his younger brother, Pierre Curie, he studied pyroelectricity in the 1880s, leading to their discovery of…

1855

Andrei Ryabushkin

Russian painter (died 1904)

Andrei Petrovich Ryabushkin was a Russian painter. His major works were devoted to life of ordinary Russians of the 17th century.

1861

Antonio Luna

Filipino general and politician (died 1899)

Antonio Narciso Luna de San Pedro y Novicio Ancheta was a Filipino brigadier general and a pharmacist who fought in the Philippine–American War before his assassination on June 5, 1899, at the age of 32.

1866

Carl Gustav Witt

German astronomer (died 1946)

Carl Gustav Witt was a German astronomer and discoverer of two asteroids who worked at the Berlin Urania Observatory, a popular observatory of the Urania astronomical association of Berlin.

1866

Marie of Romania (died 1938)

Marie was the last queen consort of Romania from 10 October 1914 to 20 July 1927 as the wife of King Ferdinand I.

1875

Narcisa de Leon

Filipino film producer (died 1966)

Narcisa Buencamino vda. de León was a Filipino film producer and businesswoman.

1877

Wilfred Rhodes

English cricketer and coach (died 1973)

Wilfred Rhodes was an English professional cricketer who played 58 Test matches for England between 1899 and 1930. In Tests, Rhodes took 127 wickets and scored 2,325 runs, becoming the first Englishman to complete the…

1877

Alva B. Adams

American lawyer and politician (died 1941)

Alva Blanchard Adams Sr. was an American lawyer and Democratic politician from Pueblo, Colorado. He served nine years as a United States senator from Colorado, serving by appointment from 1923 to 1924, then serving…

1879

Franz von Papen

German soldier and politician, Chancellor of Germany (died 1969)

Franz Joseph Hermann Michael Maria von Papen, Erbsälzer zu Werl und Neuwerk was a German politician, diplomat, army officer, and Prussian nobleman. A national conservative, he served as Chancellor of Germany in 1932,…

1879

Abram Ioffe

Russian physicist and academic (died 1960)

Abram Fedorovich Ioffe was a Russian and Soviet physicist. He received the Stalin Prize (1942) and the Lenin Prize (1961) (posthumously). Ioffe was an expert in various areas of solid state physics and electromagnetism.…

1880

John DeWitt

American football player and hammer thrower (died 1930)

John Riegel DeWitt was an American athlete. He played college football for Princeton from 1901 to 1903 and was selected as an All-American in 1902 and 1903. He also competed in the hammer throw, setting the world record…

1881

Jean Giraudoux

French author and playwright (died 1944)

Hippolyte Jean Giraudoux was a French novelist, essayist, diplomat and playwright. He is considered among the most important French dramatists of the period between World War I and World War II.

1882

Victor Hochepied

French swimmer and water polo player (died 1966)

Victor Fernand Hochepied was a French freestyle swimmer who competed in the 1900 Summer Olympics.

1883

Fanny Brice

American actress and singer (died 1951)

Fania Borach, known professionally as Fanny Brice or Fannie Brice, was an American comedian, illustrated song model, singer, and actress who made many stage, radio, and film appearances. She is known as the creator and…

1891

Joseph Goebbels

German lawyer and politician, Chancellor of Nazi Germany (died 1945)

Paul Joseph Goebbels was a German politician and philologist who was the Gauleiter of Berlin, chief propagandist for the Nazi Party, and then Reich Minister of Propaganda from 1933 until his suicide in 1945. He was one…

1897

Billy Walker

English footballer (died 1964)

William Henry Walker was a prominent English footballer of the 1920s and 1930s. He is considered by many to be one of the greatest footballers to ever play for Aston Villa and England. As a manager he won the FA Cup…

1897

Alan Barker

English soldier (died 1984)

Brigadier Alan Robert Barker was a senior British Indian Army officer of the Second World War.

1898

Akim Tamiroff

Georgian-American actor (died 1972)

Akim Mikhailovich Tamiroff was an Armenian-American actor of film, stage, and television. One of the premier character actors of Hollywood's Golden Age, Tamiroff developed a prolific career despite his thick accent,…

1899

Émilienne Morin

French activist (died 1991)

Émilienne Léontine Morin was a French anarchist activist, journalist and stenographer. Born into an anarcho-syndicalist family, she joined the French anarchist movement at an early age, going on to write for its…

1901

Henry Green

English author (died 1973)

Henry Vincent Yorke, who wrote under the pen name Henry Green, was an English writer best remembered for the novels Party Going, Living, and Loving. He published a total of nine novels between 1926 and 1952. He is…

1905

Fredric Brown

American author (died 1972)

Fredric Brown was an American science fiction, fantasy, and mystery writer. He is known for his use of humor and for his mastery of the "short short" form—stories of one to three pages, often with ingenious plotting…

1906

Edwige Feuillère

French actress (died 1998)

Edwige Feuillère was a French stage and film actress.

1907

A. J. Ayer

English philosopher and author (died 1989)

Sir Alfred Jules "Freddie" Ayer was an English philosopher known for his promotion of logical positivism, particularly in his books Language, Truth, and Logic (1936) and The Problem of Knowledge (1956).

1910

Al Suomi

American ice hockey player and referee (died 2014)

Albert William Suomi was an American ice hockey player, who played 5 games in the National Hockey League with the Chicago Black Hawks during the 1936–37 season. Although he did not aspire to play at a professional…

1913

Maxim of Bulgaria

Bulgarian patriarch (died 2012)

Patriarch Maxim (Maximus) was the head of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church from 1971 until his death.

1914

William Berenberg

American physician and academic (died 2005)

William Berenberg, M.D. was an American physician, Harvard professor, and pioneer in the treatment and rehabilitation of cerebral palsy.

1915

Bernard Gordon

American screenwriter and producer (died 2007)

Bernard Gordon was an American writer and producer. For much of his 27-year career he was prevented from taking screen credit by the Hollywood Blacklist. Among his best-known works are screenplays for Flesh and Fury…

1918

Diana Serra Cary

American actress and author (died 2020)

Diana Serra Cary, known as Baby Peggy, was an American child film actress, vaudevillian, author and silent film historian. She was the last surviving person with a substantial career in silent films.

1918

Baruj Benacerraf

Venezuelan-American physician and immunologist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2011)

Baruj Benacerraf Lasry was a Venezuelan and American immunologist, who shared the 1980 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the "discovery of the major histocompatibility complex genes which encode cell surface…

1920

Václav Neumann

Czech violinist and conductor (died 1995)

Václav Neumann was a Czech conductor, violinist, violist, and opera director.

1920

Baselios Thoma Didymos I

Indian metropolitan (died 2014)

Baselios Marthoma Didymus I born C. T. Thomas was the primate of the Malankara Orthodox Church from 2005 to 2010. He was the 7th Catholicos of the Malankara since the Catholicate of the East was established India and…

1921

Baku Mahadeva

Sri Lankan civil servant and academic (died 2013)

Deshamanya Balakumara Mahadeva was a leading Sri Lankan Tamil civil servant.

1921

Bill Mauldin

American soldier and cartoonist (died 2003)

William Henry Mauldin was an American editorial cartoonist who won two Pulitzer Prizes for his work. He was most famous for his World War II cartoons depicting American soldiers, as represented by the archetypal…

1921

Neal Hefti

American trumpet player and composer (died 2008)

Neal Paul Hefti was an American jazz trumpeter, composer, and arranger. He wrote music for The Odd Couple movie and TV series and for the Batman TV series.

1922

Carl Djerassi

Austrian-American chemist, author, and playwright (died 2015)

Carl Djerassi was an Austrian-born Bulgarian-American pharmaceutical chemist, novelist, playwright and co-founder of Djerassi Resident Artists Program with Diane Wood Middlebrook. He is best known for his contribution…

1923

Gerda van der Kade-Koudijs

Dutch runner, hurdler, and long jumper (died 2015)

Gerda Johanna Marie van der Kade-Koudijs, née Koudijs, was a Dutch athlete who competed at the 1948 Olympics. She won a gold medal in the 4 × 100 m relay with Xenia Stad-de Jong, Netti Witziers-Timmer, and Fanny…

1923

Bernard Middleton

British restoration bookbinder (died 2019)

Bernard Chester Middleton was a preeminent British restoration bookbinder. He was regarded as one of the foremost book craftsmen and trade historians of modern times, lecturing and teaching in Europe and the Americas.…

1924

Dominick Dunne

American journalist and author (died 2009)

Dominick John Dunne was an American writer, investigative journalist, and producer. He began his career in film and television as a producer of the pioneering gay film The Boys in the Band (1970) and as the producer of…

1925

Robert Hardy

English actor (died 2017)

Timothy Sydney Robert Hardy was an English actor who had a long career in theatre, film and television. He began his career as a classical actor and later earned widespread recognition for roles such as Siegfried Farnon…

1925

Haim Hefer

Polish-Israeli songwriter and poet (died 2012)

Haim Hefer was a Polish-born Israeli songwriter, poet, columnist, translator and writer. He wrote for numerous composers and musical artists, as well as for military bands. Several of his songs are considered Israeli…

1925

Klaus Roth

British mathematician (died 2015)

Klaus Friedrich Roth was a German-born British mathematician who won the Fields Medal for proving Roth's theorem on the Diophantine approximation of algebraic numbers. He was also a winner of the De Morgan Medal and the…

1925

Zoot Sims

American saxophonist and composer (died 1985)

John Haley "Zoot" Sims was an American jazz saxophonist, playing mainly tenor but also alto saxophone. He first gained attention in the "Four Brothers" sax section of Woody Herman's big band, afterward enjoying a long…

1925

Necmettin Erbakan

Turkish engineer and politician, 23rd Prime Minister of Turkey (died 2011)

Necmettin Erbakan was a Turkish politician and political theorist who served as the 23rd prime minister of Turkey from 1996 to 1997. He was pressured by the military to step down as prime minister and was later banned…

1926

Jon Vickers

Canadian tenor and actor (died 2015)

Jonathan Stewart Vickers, known professionally as Jon Vickers, was a world renowned Canadian heldentenor.

1926

Frank Sedgman

Australian tennis player

Francis Arthur Sedgman is an Australian former world No. 1 tennis player. Over the course of a three-decade career, Sedgman won five Grand Slam singles tournaments as an amateur as well as 9 Grand Slam doubles…

1927

Yevgeny Primakov

Ukrainian-Russian journalist and politician, 32nd Prime Minister of Russia (died 2015)

Yevgeny Maksimovich Primakov was a Russian politician and diplomat who served as Prime Minister of Russia from 1998 to 1999. During his long career, he also served as Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1996 to 1998, the…

1929

Bertha Brouwer

Dutch sprinter (died 2006)

Bertha "Puck" Brouwer was a Dutch sprinter.

1930

Niki de Saint Phalle

French sculptor and painter (died 2002)

Niki de Saint Phalle was a French American sculptor, painter, filmmaker, and author of colorful hand-illustrated books. Widely noted as one of the few female monumental sculptors, Saint Phalle was also known for her…

1930

Omara Portuondo

Cuban singer and dancer

Omara Portuondo Peláez is a Cuban singer and dancer. A founding member of the popular vocal group Cuarteto d'Aida, Portuondo has collaborated with many important Cuban musicians during her long career, including Julio…

1930

Natalie Sleeth

American pianist and composer (died 1992)

Natalie Allyn Sleeth was an American composer of hymns and choral music.

1930

Dick Garmaker

American basketball player (died 2020)

Richard Eugene Garmaker was an American basketball player who played professionally in the National Basketball Association (NBA) from 1955 to 1961.

1932

Joyce Gould

Baroness Gould of Potternewton, English pharmacist and politician

Joyce Brenda Gould, Baroness Gould of Potternewton is a British Labour Party politician.

1932

William Harrison

American author and screenwriter (died 2013)

William Neal Harrison was an American novelist, short story writer, and screenwriter.

1933

David Allen

English cricketer (died 2014)

David Arthur Allen was an English cricketer who played first-class cricket for Gloucestershire between 1953 and 1972. He also played 39 Test matches for England between 1960 and 1966.

1935

Eddie Hopkinson

English footballer (died 2004)

Edward Hopkinson was an English football goalkeeper. He was born in Wheatley Hill, near Peterlee, County Durham.

1935

Michael Jayston

English actor (died 2024)

Michael A. James, known professionally as Michael Jayston, was an English actor. He played Nicholas II of Russia in the film Nicholas and Alexandra (1971). He also made many television appearances, which included…

1935

Isao Takahata

Japanese director (died 2018)

Isao Takahata was a Japanese director, screenwriter and producer. A co-founder of Studio Ghibli, he earned international critical acclaim for his work as a director of Japanese animated feature films.

1935

Sonny Osborne

American bluegrass singer and banjo player (died 2021)

Sonny Osborne was an American bluegrass musician and founding member of the Osborne Brothers.

1937

Ralph Bakshi

American director, producer, and screenwriter

Ralph Bakshi is an American animator and filmmaker, known for his fantastical animated films. In the 1970s, he established an alternative to mainstream animation through independent and adult-oriented productions.…

1938

Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

Liberian politician, President of Liberia, Nobel Prize laureate

Ellen Eugenia Johnson Sirleaf is a Liberian politician who served as the 24th president of Liberia from 2006 to 2018. Sirleaf was the first elected female head of state in Africa.

1938

Peter Stampfel

American fiddle player, violinist, and singer-songwriter

Peter Stampfel is an American fiddle player, old-time musician, and singer-songwriter. He is best known as a founding member of The Holy Modal Rounders, which he formed with guitarist Steve Weber in 1963 in New York…

1938

Connie Mack III

American lawyer and politician

Cornelius Alexander McGillicuddy III, also known as Connie Mack III, is an American politician who served as a member of the United States House of Representatives from Florida's 13th congressional district from 1983 to…

1940

Jack Shepherd

English actor, director, and playwright (died 2025)

Jack Shepherd was an English actor, playwright and theatre director. He was known for his television roles, most notably the title roles in Trevor Griffiths' political drama Bill Brand (1976), and the detective series…

1940

Galen Weston

English-Canadian businessman and philanthropist, founded George Weston Limited (died 2021)

Willard Gordon Galen Weston was a British-Canadian billionaire businessman and Chairman Emeritus of George Weston Limited, a Canadian food processing and distribution company. Weston and his family, with an estimated…

1940

George Davies

English fashion designer

George William Davies is an English fashion designer and retailer.

1941

Paul Tyler

Baron Tyler, English politician

Paul Archer Tyler, Baron Tyler is a Liberal Democrat politician in the United Kingdom. He was a Member of Parliament (MP) from February to October 1974 and from 1992 to 2005, and sat in the House of Lords as a life peer…

1941

Lee Clayton

American rock/country musician and songwriter (died 2023)

Lee Clayton was an American songwriter and musician. He notably wrote Waylon Jennings' 1972 outlaw country song "Ladies Love Outlaws".

1942

Bob Ross

American painter and television host (died 1995)

Robert Norman Ross was an American painter and art instructor who created and hosted The Joy of Painting, an instructional television program that aired from 1983 to 1994 on PBS in the United States and CBC in Canada.

1942

Don Simpson

American actor, producer, and screenwriter (died 1996)

Donald Clarence Simpson was an American film producer, screenwriter, and actor, known for his work on blockbuster films of the 1980s and 1990s. Simpson entered the film industry in the 1970s and worked at Warner Bros.…

1943

Claude Brochu

Canadian businessman

Claude Brochu, CM, is a Canadian businessman best known as former president and principal owner of the Montreal Expos.

1944

Mehmet Haberal

Turkish surgeon and academic

Mehmet Haberal, is the founder of Başkent University in Ankara, Turkey, best known for becoming the first transplant surgeon in Turkey after leading the team that performed Turkey's first living-related kidney…

1944

Denny Laine

English singer-songwriter and musician (died 2023)

Brian Frederick Hines, known professionally as Denny Laine, was an English musician who co-founded two major rock bands: the Moody Blues and Paul McCartney and Wings. Laine played guitar in the Moody Blues from 1964 to…

1944

Robbie van Leeuwen

Dutch musician and songwriter

Robbie van Leeuwen is a Dutch musician who was a guitarist, sitarist, background vocalist and main songwriter for multiple Dutch bands, including The Motions and Shocking Blue, with whom he recorded the worldwide hit…

1944

Mick Gallagher

English keyboard player and songwriter

Michael William Gallagher is an English Hammond organ, piano and synthesiser player best known as a member of Ian Dury and the Blockheads and for his contributions to albums by the Clash. He has also written music for…

1945

Ron Maag

American businessman and politician

Ron Maag is a former Republican member of the Ohio House of Representatives, serving in the House from 2009 to 2016.

1945

Melba Moore

American singer-songwriter and actress

Beatrice Melba Smith, known by her stage name Melba Moore, is an American singer and actress.

1945

Gerrit Ybema

Dutch civil servant and politician (died 2012)

Gerrit Ybema was a Dutch politician in the Democrats 66 (D66) party. He served as a Member of the House of Representatives from 14 September 1989 to 3 August 1998, when he became State Secretary for Economic Affairs in…

1945

Peter Green

English singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2020)

Peter Allen Greenbaum, known professionally as Peter Green, was an English blues rock singer-songwriter and guitarist who was the founder and original leader of the band Fleetwood Mac. Green formed the group in 1967…

1946

Helen Coonan

Australian lawyer and politician, 52nd Australian Minister for Communications

Helen Lloyd Coonan is a former Australian politician who was a Senator for New South Wales from 1996 to 2011, representing the Liberal Party. She was a minister in the Howard government, serving as Minister for Revenue…

1947

Richard Dreyfuss

American actor and activist

Richard Stephen Dreyfuss is an American actor. He emerged from the New Hollywood wave of American cinema, finding fame with a succession of leading man parts in the 1970s. He has received an Academy Award, a BAFTA, and…

1947

Frans de Waal

Dutch-American ethologist, author, and academic (died 2024)

Franciscus Bernardus Maria de Waal was a Dutch-American primatologist and ethologist. He was the Charles Howard Candler Professor of Primate Behavior in the Department of Psychology at Emory University in Atlanta,…

1948

Kate Jackson

American actress, director, and producer

Lucy Kate Jackson is an American actress and television producer, known for her television roles as Sabrina Duncan in the series Charlie's Angels (1976–1979) and Amanda King in the series Scarecrow and Mrs. King…

1948

Kieron Baker

English footballer

Kieron Richard Baker is an English retired professional footballer who made over 210 appearances as a goalkeeper in the Football League for AFC Bournemouth. He also played in Canada.

1949

Raphael Carl Lee

American surgeon and academic

Raphael Lee is an American surgeon, biomedical engineer and inventor. He is the Paul and Allene Russell Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus at the University of Chicago and Director of Renacyte BioMolecular…

1949

Paul Orndorff

American football player and wrestler (died 2021)

Paul Parlette Orndorff Jr., nicknamed "Mr. Wonderful", was an American professional wrestler and football player, best known for his appearances with the World Wrestling Federation (WWF) and World Championship Wrestling…

1949

David Paton

Scottish guitarist

David Paton is a Scottish bassist, guitarist and singer. He first achieved success in the mid-1970s as lead vocalist and bassist of Pilot, who scored hits with "Magic", "January", "Just a Smile" and "Call Me Round"…

1949

James Williamson

American guitarist, songwriter, and producer

James Robert Williamson is an American guitarist, songwriter, record producer and electronics engineer. He was a member of the proto-punk rock band the Stooges, notably on the album Raw Power and in the reformed Stooges…

1949

Abdullah Gül

Turkish academic and politician, 11th President of Turkey

Abdullah Gül is a Turkish politician who served as the president of Turkey from 2007 to 2014. He previously served for four months as Prime Minister from 2002 to 2003, and concurrently served as both Deputy Prime…

1950

Dirk Kempthorne

American businessman and politician, 49th United States Secretary of the Interior (died 2026)

Dirk Arthur Kempthorne was an American politician from the state of Idaho. A Republican, he served as a United States senator from Idaho from 1993 to 1999 and as the 30th governor of Idaho from 1999 to 2006. Kempthorne…

1951

Tiff Needell

English race car driver and television host

Timothy Richard "Tiff" Needell is a British racing driver and television presenter. He is a presenter of Lovecars, and formerly served as co-presenter of Top Gear and Fifth Gear.

1951

Marcia Fudge

American lawyer and politician

Marcia Louise Fudge is an American attorney and retired politician who served as the 18th United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development from 2021 to 2024. A member of the Democratic Party, she served as the…

1952

Denis Potvin

Canadian ice hockey player and sportscaster

Denis Charles Potvin is a Canadian former professional ice hockey defenceman and team captain for the New York Islanders of the National Hockey League (NHL). He is a four-time Stanley Cup winner as a member of the early…

1953

Kevin DuBrow

American heavy metal singer-songwriter (died 2007)

Kevin Mark DuBrow was an American singer, best known as the lead vocalist of the heavy metal band Quiet Riot from 1975 until 1987, and again from 1993 until his death in 2007.

1955

Wilfredo Gómez

Puerto Rican-American boxer

Wilfredo Gómez Rivera, sometimes referred to as Bazooka Gómez, is a Puerto Rican former professional boxer and three weight world champion. He is frequently mentioned among the best Puerto Rican boxers of all time by…

1956

Dan Castellaneta

American actor, voice artist, comedian, singer and producer

Daniel Louis Castellaneta is an American actor and comedian. He is best known for voicing Homer Simpson on the animated series The Simpsons, as well as other characters on the show such as Grampa Simpson, Krusty the…

1957

Blažej Baláž

Slovak painter, sculptor, and illustrator

Blažej Baláž is a Slovak contemporary artist. His practise as an artist is usually associated with political art, environmental, activist, mail-art and neo-conceptualism. After 1988 he began working with text as art,…

1958

David Remnick

American journalist and author

David J. Remnick is an American journalist, writer, and editor. He won a Pulitzer Prize in 1994 for his book Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire, and is also the author of Resurrection and King of the…

1958

Danny Vranes

American basketball player

Daniel LaDrew Vranes is an American former professional basketball player.

1958

Jesse Barfield

American baseball player and coach

Jesse Lee Barfield is an American former professional baseball player and coach. He played in Major League Baseball as a right fielder from 1981 to 1992 for the Toronto Blue Jays and the New York Yankees.

1959

Mike Gartner

Canadian ice hockey player and coach

Michael Alfred Gartner is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player who was a right winger for 19 seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the Washington Capitals, Minnesota North Stars, New York Rangers,…

1959

Finola Hughes

English actress

Finola Hughes is a British actress, best known for her role as Anna Devane on the ABC soap operas General Hospital and All My Children, and her portrayal of Laura in the 1983 film Staying Alive.

1959

John Magufuli

Tanzanian politician, 5th President of Tanzania (died 2021)

John Pombe Joseph Magufuli was a Tanzanian politician who served as the country's fifth president, serving from 2015 until his death in 2021. He served as Minister of Works, Transport and Communications from 2000 to…

1959

Michael Carter

American football player and athlete

Michael D'Andrea Carter is an American former professional football player and track and field athlete. He played pro football as a nose tackle with the San Francisco 49ers in the National Football League (NFL). Carter…

1960

Fabiola Gianotti

Italian physicist and academic

Fabiola Gianotti is an Italian experimental particle physicist who served as Director-General of the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) from 2016 to 2026.

1960

Thorsten Schlumberger

German footballer

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1960

Randy Jackson

American singer-songwriter and dancer

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1961

Joel Otto

American ice hockey player and coach

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1961

Einar Örn Benediktsson

Icelandic singer, trumpet player, and politician

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1962

Damian Chapa

American actor

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1963

Gerald Morris

American author

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1963

Yasmin Le Bon

English model

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1964

Eddie McGuire

Australian businessman and television host

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1964

Tyler Collins

American singer-songwriter and actress

Tyler Collins is an American R&B singer and actress. Her song "Girls Nite Out" was a hit in 1990.

1965

Andrew Ettingshausen

Australian rugby league player and television host

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1965

Michael Passons

American singer-songwriter

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1965

Mary Bucholtz

American linguist and academic

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1966

Beth Chapman

American reality television star (died 2019)

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1967

Thorsten Fink

German footballer and manager

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1967

Joely Fisher

American actress and director

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1967

Rufus Sewell

English actor

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1967

Johann Olav Koss

Norwegian speed skater and physician

Johann Olav Koss is a former speed skater from Norway. He won four Olympic gold medals, including three at the 1994 Winter Olympics in his home country.

1968

David Farr

English director and playwright

David Farr is a British writer, theatrical director and Associate Director of the Royal Shakespeare Company.

1969

Chris Verene

American photographer

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1969

Phillip Cocu

Dutch footballer and manager

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1970

Dan Ratushny

Canadian ice hockey player and coach and lawyer

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1970

Kaido Reivelt

Estonian physicist and academic

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1970

Toby Smith

English keyboardist and songwriter (died 2017)

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1970

Edwin van der Sar

Dutch footballer and sportscaster

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1970

Daniel J. Bernstein

American mathematician, cryptologist, and academic

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1971

Greg Blewett

Australian cricketer, coach, and sportscaster

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1971

Matthew Hayden

Australian cricketer

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1971

Winona Ryder

American actress and producer

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1971

Tracee Ellis Ross

American actress and producer

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1972

Takafumi Horie

Japanese businessman, founded Livedoor

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1972

Gabrielle Union

American actress and producer

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1972

Vonetta Flowers

American bobsledder, sprinter, and long jumper

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1973

Éric Messier

Canadian ice hockey player

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1973

Robert Pires

French footballer

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1973

R. A. Dickey

American baseball player

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1974

Michael Vaughan

English cricketer and sportscaster

Michael Paul Vaughan is an English cricket commentator and former cricketer who played all forms of the game. He served as England captain for the test team from 2003 to 2008, the one-day international team from 2003 to…

1974

Yenny Wahid

Indonesian activist and politician

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1974

Baba Ali

Iranian-American comedian, games developer, businessman, and actor

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1975

Joy Osmanski

American actress

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1975

Stephen Craigan

Irish footballer and manager

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1976

Milena Govich

American actress, singer, and dancer

Milena Govich is an American actress, director, singer, dancer, and musician, who may be best known for portraying Detective Nina Cassady for one season on Law & Order (2006–2007).

1976

Raghava Lawrence

Indian actor, director, and choreographer

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1976

Mark Sheehan

Irish guitarist (died 2023)

Mark Anthony Sheehan was an Irish musician. From 1996 to 2001, he was a member of the boy band Mytown. In 2001, he co-founded and played lead guitar for pop rock band the Script, which he stayed in until his death in…

1976

Jon Abrahams

American actor

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1977

Brendan Fehr

Canadian actor

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1977

Travis Henry

American football player

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1978

Ignasi Giménez Renom

Catalan lawyer and politician

Ignasi Giménez Renom was the mayor of Castellar del Vallès from 2007 and president of the Consell Comarcal del Vallès Occidental from 2015 until his resignation from the position in December 2024.

1979

Andrew-Lee Potts

English actor, director, and producer

Andrew-Lee Potts is an English actor and director. He is best known for his role as the quirky Connor Temple on ITV's British science fiction programme Primeval and Space's Canadian spinoff Primeval: New World. He also…

1979

Ben Foster

American actor

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1980

Kaine Robertson

New Zealand-Italian rugby player

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1980

Amanda Beard

American swimmer

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1981

Jonathan Brown

Australian footballer

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1981

Angelika dela Cruz

Filipino actress and singer

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1981

Ariel Lin

Taiwanese actress and singer

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1982

Ahmed al-Sharaa

Syrian revolutionary and military leader, President of Syria

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1982

Richard Brancatisano

Australian actor

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1983

Maurice Clarett

American football player

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1983

Freddy Eastwood

Welsh footballer

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1983

Jérémy Mathieu

French footballer

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1983

Nurcan Taylan

Turkish weightlifter

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1983

Chris Baio

American bass player

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1984

Lee Chung-ah

South Korean actress

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1984

Eric Staal

Canadian ice hockey player

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1984

Cal Crutchlow

English motorcycle racer

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1985

Ximena Sariñana

Mexican singer-songwriter and actress

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1985

Vijender Singh

Indian boxer

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1985

Italia Ricci

Canadian actress

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1986

Andy Dalton

American football player

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1987

Jessica Dubé

Canadian figure skater

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1987

Tove Lo

Swedish singer

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1987

Makoto Ogawa

Japanese singer and actress

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1987

Janoris Jenkins

American football player

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1988

Irina Karamanos

Chilean anthropologist and political scientist, First Lady of Chile

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1989

Primož Roglič

Slovenian ski jumper and cyclist

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1989

Ender Inciarte

Venezuelan baseball player

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1990

Ben Proudfoot

Canadian filmmaker

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1990

Eric Saade

Swedish singer

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1990

Parris Goebel

New Zealand dancer and choreographer

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1991

Nikita Zaitsev

Russian ice hockey player

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1991

Evan Fournier

French basketball player

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1992

Colin Miller

Canadian ice hockey player

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1992

Ágnes Bukta

Hungarian tennis player

Ágnes Bukta is a Hungarian former professional tennis player.

1993

India Eisley

American actress

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1993

Danielle Hunter

American football player

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1994

Vince Dunn

Canadian ice hockey player

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1996

Mikko Rantanen

Finnish ice hockey player

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1996

Astrid S

Norwegian singer and songwriter

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1996

Lance Stroll

Canadian racing driver

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1998

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Known forAfter moving to the United States, Smith broke records with Seton Hall University then played professionally with Women's United Soccer Association (WUSA) franchise Philadelphia Charge

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