Famous Birthdays on September 16

Q: Who was born on September 16?

Famous people born on September 16 include: Julia Drusilla, Yuan Di, Elizabeth de Clare, Henry V of England (died 1422), Pietro Pomponazzi.

Q: What is Elgin Baylor known for?

Elgin Baylor, American basketball player and coach (died 2021)

1934 — Elgin Baylor

American basketball player and coach (died 2021)

September 16 has seen 291 notable people enter the world across recorded history — from 16 – 2003. Below are the most significant names born on this date.

By thisDay.info Editorial Team · September 16 — Wikipedia

Famous Birthdays 291 people 16 – 2003

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1 draft pick in 1958, NBA Rookie of the Year in 1959, 11-time NBA All-Star, and a 10-time member of the All-NBA first team, Baylor is regarded as one of the game's greatest ever players

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Baylor is the leader for most career rebounds in Lakers franchise history with 11,463.

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He played 14 seasons as a forward in the National Basketball Association (NBA) for the Minneapolis/Los Angeles Lakers

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In 1977, Baylor was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame

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In 1996, Baylor was named as one of the 50 Greatest Players in NBA History

Julia Drusilla

Roman daughter of Germanicus (died 38)

AD 16 (XVI) was a leap year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar. In the Roman Empire, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Taurus and Libo. The denomination AD 16 for this year has been used since the…

Yuan Di

emperor of the Liang dynasty (died 555)

Emperor Yuan of Liang, personal name Xiao Yi (蕭繹), courtesy name Shicheng (世誠), childhood name Qifu (七符), was an emperor of the Chinese Liang dynasty. After his father Emperor Wu and brother Emperor Jianwen were…

508

Elizabeth de Clare

English noblewoman (died 1360)

Elizabeth de Clare, 11th Lady of Clare was a member of the Anglo-Norman family, de Clare, and heiress to the lordships of Clare, Suffolk, in England and Usk in Wales.

1295

Henry V of England (died 1422)

Henry V, also called Henry of Monmouth, was King of England, Lord of Ireland, and Duke of Aquitaine from 1413 until his death in 1422. Despite his relatively short reign, Henry's great military successes in the Hundred…

1386

Pietro Pomponazzi

Italian philosopher (died 1525)

Pietro Pomponazzi was an Italian philosopher. He is sometimes known by his Latin name, Petrus Pomponatius.

1462

Jiajing Emperor of China (died 1567)

The Jiajing Emperor, personal name Zhu Houcong, was the 12th emperor of the Ming dynasty, reigning from 1521 to 1567. He succeeded his cousin, the Zhengde Emperor.

1507

Walter Devereux

1st Earl of Essex, English nobleman (died 1576)

Walter Devereux, 1st Earl of Essex, was an English nobleman and general. From 1573 until his death he fought in Ireland in connection with the Plantations of Ireland, most notably the Rathlin Island massacre. He was the…

1541

Jacques Mauduit

French composer (died 1627)

Jacques Mauduit was a French composer of the late Renaissance. He was one of the most innovative French composers of the late 16th century, combining voices and instruments in new ways, and importing some of the grand…

1557

Heinrich Bach

German organist and composer (died 1692)

Heinrich Bach was a German organist, composer, and a member of the Bach family.

1615

Gregorio Barbarigo

Roman Catholic saint (died 1697)

Gregorio Giovanni Gaspare Barbarigo was an Italian cardinal and is venerated as a saint of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as the Bishop of Bergamo and later as the Bishop of Padua. Barbarigo was a frontrunner in…

1625

Engelbert Kaempfer

German physician and botanist (died 1716)

Engelbert Kaempfer was a German naturalist, physician, explorer, and writer known for his tour of Russia, Persia, India, Siam and Japan between 1683 and 1693.

1651

Antoine Parent

French mathematician and theorist (died 1716)

Antoine Parent was a French mathematician, born in Paris and died there, who wrote in 1700 on analytical geometry of three dimensions. His works were collected and published in three volumes at Paris in 1713.

1666

Henry St John

1st Viscount Bolingbroke, English philosopher and politician, Secretary of State for the Southern Department (died 1751)

Henry St. John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke was a British Tory politician and philosopher. He was a leader of the Tories, and supported the Church of England politically despite his antireligious views and opposition to…

1678

Angelo Maria Amorevoli

Italian tenor and actor (died 1798)

Angelo Maria Amorevoli was a leading Italian tenor in Baroque opera.

1716

Gabriel Christie

Scottish-Canadian general (died 1799)

Gabriel Christie was a British Army General from Scotland, who settled in Montreal after the Seven Years' War. Following the British Conquest of New France, he invested in land and became one of the largest landowners…

1722

Nicolas Desmarest

French geologist, zoologist, and author (died 1815)

Nicolas Desmarest was a French geologist and contributor to the Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, in particular, the multi-volume Géographie-physique.

1725

Mikhail Kutuzov

Russian field marshal (died 1813)

Prince Mikhail Illarionovich Golenishchev-Kutuzov-Smolensky was a field marshal of the Russian Empire. He served as a military officer and a diplomat under the reign of three Romanov monarchs: Empress Catherine II, and…

1745

Nathan Mayer Rothschild

German-English banker and financier (died 1836)

Nathan Mayer Rothschild, also known as Baron Nathan Mayer Rothschild, was a British-German banker, businessman and financier. Born in Frankfurt am Main, he was the third of the five sons of Mayer Amschel Rothschild and…

1777

Daoguang Emperor of China (died 1850)

The Daoguang Emperor, also known by his temple name Emperor Xuanzong of Qing, personal name Minning, was the seventh emperor of the Qing dynasty, and the sixth Qing emperor to rule over China proper. His reign was…

1782

Anna Louisa Geertruida Bosboom-Toussaint

Dutch novelist (died 1886)

Anna Louisa Geertruida Bosboom-Toussaint was a Dutch novelist.

1812

Charles Crocker

American businessman (died 1888)

Charles Crocker was an American railroad executive and founding patriarch of the Crocker business dynasty. He was a member of the "Big Four" who famously oversaw construction of the Central Pacific Railroad and…

1822

Francis Parkman

American historian and author (died 1893)

Francis Parkman Jr. was an American historian, best known as author of The Oregon Trail: Sketches of Prairie and Rocky-Mountain Life and his monumental seven-volume France and England in North America. These works are…

1823

Ludwik Teichmann

Polish anatomist (died 1895)

Ludwik Karol Teichmann-Stawiarski (September 16, 1823 – November 24, 1895) was a Polish anatomist and discoverer of a new way of research in forensic medicine, after whom Teichmann crystals are called.

1823

Jean Albert Gaudry

French geologist and paleontologist (died 1908)

Jean Albert Gaudry was a French geologist and palaeontologist. He was born at St Germain-en-Laye, and was educated at the Catholic Collège Stanislas de Paris. He was a notable proponent of theistic evolution.

1827

Per Pålsson

Swedish murderer (died 1914)

Per Pålsson, also called Kitte-Pelle, was a Swedish murderer convicted for the murder of Hanna Pålsdotter. Per Pålsson was in the end pardoned and instead of having to face the death penalty was sentenced to life…

1828

Patrick Francis Moran

Irish-Australian cardinal (died 1911)

Patrick Francis Moran was a prelate of the Catholic Church and the third Archbishop of Sydney and the first cardinal appointed from Australia.

1830

Pedro V of Portugal (died 1861)

Dom Pedro V, nicknamed "the Hopeful", was King of Portugal from 1853 until his death in 1861.

1837

James J. Hill

Canadian-American railroad executive (died 1916)

James Jerome Hill was an American railway entrepreneur. He was the chief executive officer of a family of lines headed by the Great Northern Railway, which served a substantial area of the Upper Midwest, the northern…

1838

Paul Taffanel

French flute player and conductor (died 1908)

Claude-Paul Taffanel was a French flautist, conductor and instructor, regarded as the founder of the French Flute School that dominated much of flute composition and performance during the mid-20th century.

1844

Anna Kingsford

English author, poet, and activist (died 1888)

Anna Kingsford was an English anti-vivisectionist, Theosophist, a proponent of vegetarianism and a women's rights campaigner.

1846

Albrecht Kossel

German physician and biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1927)

Ludwig Karl Martin Leonhard Albrecht Kossel was a German biochemist and pioneer in the study of genetics. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1910 for his work in determining the chemical…

1853

Edward Marshall Hall

English lawyer and politician (died 1927)

Sir Edward Marshall Hall, was an English barrister and politician who had a formidable reputation as an orator. He successfully defended many people accused of notorious murders and became known as "The Great Defender".

1858

Bonar Law

Canadian-Scottish banker and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (died 1923)

Andrew Bonar Law was a British statesman and politician who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from October 1922 to May 1923.

1858

Yuan Shikai

Chinese general and politician, President of the Republic of China (died 1916)

Yuan Shikai was a Chinese general and statesman. As leader of the Beiyang Army, he played a decisive role in securing the abdication of the Qing court. He served as the second provisional president and the first formal…

1859

Miriam Benjamin

African-American educator and inventor (died 1947)

Miriam Elizabeth Benjamin was an American schoolteacher and inventor. In 1888, she obtained a patent for the Gong and Signal Chair for Hotels, becoming the second African-American woman to receive a patent.

1861

Georg Voigt

German lawyer and politician, Mayor of Marburg (died 1927)

Georg Philipp Wilhelm Voigt was a German politician. Voigt was the mayor of Rixdorf, Barmen, Frankfurt, and Marburg.

1866

John Pius Boland

Irish tennis player and politician (died 1958)

John Mary Pius Boland was an Irish Nationalist politician, and Member of Parliament (MP) in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and as member of the Irish Parliamentary Party for…

1870

James Cash Penney

American businessman and philanthropist, founded J. C. Penney (died 1971)

James Cash Penney Jr. was an American businessman and entrepreneur who founded the JCPenney stores in 1902.

1875

Marvin Hart

American boxer (died 1931)

Marvin Hart was the World Heavyweight Boxing Champion from July 3, 1905, to February 23, 1906.

1876

Jacob Schick

American-Canadian inventor and businessman, founded Schick Razors (died 1937)

Jacob Schick was an American military officer, inventor, and entrepreneur who patented an early electric razor and started the Schick Dry Shaver, Inc. razor company. He is the father of electric razors.

1877

Karl Albiker

German sculptor, lithographer, and educator (died 1961)

Karl Albiker was a German sculptor, lithographer and teacher of fine arts. Albiker studied with Auguste Rodin in Paris. From 1919 to 1945 he was a professor at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts. His monumental statues,…

1878

Clara Ayres

American nurse (died 1917)

Clara Ayres was an American nurse who joined the United States Army during the First World War. Ayres and Helen Burnett Wood were the first two women to be killed while serving in the United States military, following…

1880

Alfred Noyes

English author, poet, and playwright (died 1958)

Alfred Noyes CBE was an English poet, short-story writer and playwright.

1880

Clive Bell

English philosopher and critic (died 1964)

Arthur Clive Heward Bell was an English art critic, associated with formalism and the Bloomsbury Group. He developed the art theory known as significant form.

1881

T. E. Hulme

English poet and critic (died 1917)

Thomas Ernest Hulme was an English critic and poet who, through his writings on art, literature and politics, had a notable influence upon modernism. He was an aesthetic philosopher and the father of imagism.

1883

Jean Arp

Alsatian sculptor and painter (died 1966)

Hans Peter Wilhelm Arp, better known as Jean Arp in English, was a German-French sculptor, painter and poet. He was known as a Dadaist and an abstract artist.

1886

Nadia Boulanger

French composer and educator (died 1979)

Juliette Nadia Boulanger was a French music teacher, conductor and composer. She taught many of the leading composers and musicians of the twentieth century, and also performed occasionally as a pianist and organist.

1887

W. O. Bentley

English race car driver and engineer, founded Bentley Motors Limited (died 1971)

Walter Owen Bentley, was an English engineer who founded Bentley in London. He was a motorcycle and car racer as a young man. After making a name for himself as a designer of aircraft and automobile engines, Bentley…

1888

Frans Eemil Sillanpää

Finnish author, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1964)

Frans Eemil Sillanpää was a Finnish writer. In 1939, he became the first Finnish writer to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature "for his deep understanding of his country's peasantry and the exquisite art with…

1888

Avigdor Hameiri

Israeli author (died 1970)

Avigdor Hameiri was a Hungarian-Israeli author.

1890

Karl Dönitz

German admiral and politician, President of Germany (died 1980)

Karl Dönitz was a German naval officer and politician who briefly succeeded Adolf Hitler as the head of state of Nazi Germany after the latter's suicide during the Second World War in April 1945. He held this position…

1891

Stephanie von Hohenlohe

Austrian-German spy (died 1972)

Stephanie Julianne von Hohenlohe was an Austrian princess by her marriage to the diplomat Prince Friedrich Franz von Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst, a member of the noble Hohenlohe family. She was born a commoner,…

1891

Alexander Korda

Hungarian-English director, producer, and screenwriter (died 1956)

Sir Alexander Korda was a Hungarian-born British film director, producer, and screenwriter, who founded his own film production studios and film distribution company.

1893

Albert Szent-Györgyi

Hungarian-American physiologist and biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1986)

Albert Imre Szent-Györgyi de Nagyrápolt was a Hungarian biochemist who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1937. He is credited with first isolating vitamin C and discovering many of the components and…

1893

Zainal Abidin Ahmad

Malaysian author and scholar (died 1973)

Tan Sri Zainal Abidin bin Ahmad or better known by the moniker Za'aba, was a Malaysian writer and linguist. He modernised the Malay language with the publication of a series of grammar books entitled Pelita Bahasa in…

1895

Milt Franklyn

American composer (died 1962)

Milton J. Franklyn was an American musical composer and arranger who worked on the Warner Bros. Looney Tunes animated cartoons, working alongside and later succeeding Carl Stalling.

1897

H. A. Rey

American author and illustrator, co-created Curious George (died 1977)

H. A. Rey was a German-born American illustrator and author, known best for the series of children's picture books that he and his wife Margret Rey created about Curious George.

1898

Hans Swarowsky

Hungarian-Austrian conductor and educator (died 1975)

Hans Swarowsky was an Austrian conductor of Hungarian birth.

1899

Josef Schächter

Austrian rabbi and philosopher from the Vienna Circle (died 1994)

Josef Schächter was an Austrian rabbi, philosopher and member of the Vienna Circle from 1925 to 1936.

1901

Vladimír Holan

Czech poet and author (died 1980)

Vladimír Holan was a Czech poet. He was known for employing obscure language, dark topics and pessimistic views in his poems. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in the late 1960s.

1905

Jack Churchill

Sri Lankan-British colonel (died 1996)

John Malcolm Thorpe Fleming Churchill, was a British Army officer. Nicknamed "Fighting Jack Churchill" and "Mad Jack", he fought in the Second World War with a broadsword, longbow, and a set of bagpipes.

1906

Erich Kempka

German colonel and chauffeur (died 1975)

Erich Kempka was a member of the SS in Nazi Germany who served as Adolf Hitler's primary chauffeur from 1936 to April 1945. He was present in the area of the Reich Chancellery on 30 April 1945, when Hitler shot himself…

1910

Karl Kling

German race car driver and manager (died 2003)

Karl Kling was a German racing driver and motorsport executive, who competed in Formula One at 11 Grands Prix from 1954 to 1955.

1910

Wilfred Burchett

Australian journalist and author (died 1983)

Wilfred Graham Burchett was an Australian journalist known for being the first western journalist to report from Hiroshima after the dropping of the atomic bomb, and for his reporting from "the other side" during the…

1911

Paul Henning

American screenwriter and producer (died 2005)

Paul William Henning was an American TV producer and screenwriter. Most famous for creating the television sitcom The Beverly Hillbillies, he was also crucial in developing the "rural" comedies Petticoat Junction…

1911

Allen Funt

American director, producer, and screenwriter (died 1999)

Allen Albert Funt was an American television producer, director, writer and television personality, best known as the creator and host of Candid Camera from the 1940s to 1980s, as either a regular television show or a…

1914

Cy Walter

American pianist (died 1968)

Cyril Frank Walter was an American café society pianist based in New York City for four decades. Dubbed the "Art Tatum of Park Avenue," he was praised for his extensive repertoire and improvisatory skill. His long radio…

1915

Robert Llewellyn Bradshaw

Caribbean politician, 1st Prime Minister of Saint Kitts and Nevis (died 1978)

Robert Llewellyn Bradshaw was the first Premier of Saint Kitts and Nevis, and previously served as Chief Minister, legislator, and labour activist.

1916

Frank Farrell

Australian rugby league player and policeman (died 1985)

Francis Michael "Bumper" Farrell was an Australian premiership winning and international representative rugby league footballer. A prop forward, his long club career with the Newtown Bluebags was from 1938 to 1951 with…

1916

M. S. Subbulakshmi

Indian Carnatic vocalist (died 2004)

Madurai Shanmukhavadivu Subbulakshmi was an Indian Carnatic singer. She was the first musician ever to be awarded the Bharat Ratna, India's highest civilian honour and also the first Indian musician to receive the Ramon…

1916

Frank Leslie Walcott

Barbadian cricketer, umpire, and politician (died 1999)

Sir Frank Leslie Walcott, KA, OBE was a Barbadian trade unionist, politician, ambassador and one of the eleven National Heroes of Barbados. He played a key role in organizing the Barbados labour movement and was a major…

1916

Marie Vieux-Chauvet

Haitian writer (died 1973)

Marie Vieux-Chauvet was a Haitian novelist, playwright, and short story writer. Her novels are considered by translator Myriam J. A. Chancy to be "by far the best-known works by a Haitian woman novelist". Born in…

1916

Raosaheb Gogte

Indian industrialist (died 2000)

Balkrishna Mahadev Gogte, known colloquially as Raosaheb Gogte, was an Indian lawyer, industrialist, philanthropist and educationist.

1916

Władysław Kędra

Polish pianist (died 1968)

Władysław Kędra was a Polish pianist.

1918

Bill Daley

American football player and sportscaster (died 2015)

William Edward Daley was an All-American fullback who played for the University of Minnesota Golden Gophers from 1940 to 1942 and for the University of Michigan Wolverines in 1943. The Gophers were national champions in…

1919

Laurence J. Peter

Canadian-American hierarchiologist and educator (died 1990)

Laurence Johnston Peter was a Canadian educator and "hierarchiologist" who is best known to the general public for the formulation of the Peter principle.

1919

Andy Russell

American singer and actor (died 1992)

Andy Russell was an American popular singer, actor, and entertainer. He specialized in traditional pop and Latin music. He sold 8 million records in the 1940s wherein he sang bilingually in English and Spanish. His most…

1919

Staryl C. Austin

American air force general (died 2015)

Staryl Chester Austin, Jr. was a brigadier general in the United States Air Force. He was a P-47 pilot during World War II. He later joined the Oregon Air National Guard. Austin commanded the 142nd Fighter Group and was…

1920

Sheila Quinn

English nurse and educator (died 2016)

Dame Sheila Margaret Imelda Quinn, DBE, FRCN, RGN, RM, RNT, was a British nurse and fellow of the Royal College of Nursing. She was president of the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) from 1982 to 1986. She was awarded an…

1920

Art Sansom

American cartoonist (died 1991)

Arthur Baldwin Sansom Jr., better known as Art Sansom, was an American comic strip cartoonist who created the long-running comic strip The Born Loser.

1920

Ursula Franklin

German-Canadian metallurgist (died 2016)

Ursula Martius Franklin was a Canadian metallurgist, activist, research physicist, author, and educator who taught at the University of Toronto for more than 40 years. Franklin is best known for her writings on the…

1921

Jon Hendricks

American singer-songwriter (died 2017)

John Carl Hendricks, known professionally as Jon Hendricks, was an American jazz lyricist and singer. He is one of the originators of vocalese, which adds lyrics to existing instrumental songs and replaces many…

1921

Korla Pandit

American pianist and composer (died 1998)

Korla Pandit, was an American exotica musician, composer, pianist, and organist. Redd was an African-American man from Missouri who moved to California in the 1940s. After getting involved in show business, Redd became…

1921

Guy Hamilton

French-English director and screenwriter (died 2016)

Mervyn Ian Guy Hamilton was an English film director. He directed 22 films from the 1950s to the 1980s, including four James Bond films.

1922

Janis Paige

American actress and singer (died 2024)

Janis Paige was an American actress and singer. With a career spanning nearly 60 years, she was one of the last surviving stars from the Golden Age of Hollywood.

1922

Lee Kuan Yew

Singaporean lawyer and politician, 1st Prime Minister of Singapore (died 2015)

Lee Kuan Yew, also known as LKY, was a Singaporean politician and barrister who served as the first prime minister of Singapore from 1959 to 1990. A member of the People's Action Party (PAP), his authoritarian…

1923

Lauren Bacall

American actress (died 2014)

Betty Joan Perske, known professionally as Lauren Bacall, was an American actress. She was named the 20th-greatest female star of classic Hollywood cinema by the American Film Institute and was one of the last surviving…

1924

Raoul Coutard

French cinematographer and director (died 2016)

Raoul Coutard was a French cinematographer. He is best known for his connection with the French New Wave period and particularly for his work with director Jean-Luc Godard, which includes Breathless (1960), A Woman Is a…

1924

Charlie Byrd

American singer and guitarist (died 1999)

Charlie Lee Byrd was an American jazz guitarist who played fingerstyle on a classical guitar. Byrd was best known for his association with Brazilian music, especially bossa nova. In 1962, he collaborated with Stan Getz…

1925

Charles Haughey

Irish accountant, lawyer, and politician, 7th Taoiseach of Ireland (died 2006)

Charles James Haughey was an Irish politician who served as Taoiseach three times between 1979 and 1992, when he was leader of Fianna Fáil. Over a forty-year career, Haughey was the most complex and divisive figure in…

1925

B.B. King

American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (died 2015)

Riley B. King, known professionally as B. B. King, was an American blues guitarist, singer, songwriter, and record producer. He introduced a sophisticated style of soloing based on fluid string bending, shimmering…

1925

Eric Gross

Austrian-Australian pianist and composer (died 2011)

Eric Gross AM was an Austrian–Australian pianist, composer and teacher.

1926

John Knowles

American novelist (died 2001)

John Knowles was an American novelist best known for A Separate Peace (1959).

1926

Roger McKee

American baseball player (died 2014)

Roger Hornsby McKee was an American Major League Baseball pitcher who played from 1943–44 for the Philadelphia Phillies while still a teenager.

1926

Robert H. Schuller

American pastor and author (died 2015)

Robert Harold Schuller was an American Christian televangelist, pastor, motivational speaker, and author. Over five decades, Schuller pastored his church in Garden Grove, California starting in 1955. The weekly…

1926

Peter Falk

American actor (died 2011)

Peter Michael Falk was an American actor. He is best known for his role as Lieutenant Columbo on the NBC/ABC series Columbo, for which he won four Primetime Emmy Awards and a Golden Globe Award (1973). In 1996, TV Guide…

1927

Jack Kelly

American actor and politician (died 1992)

John Augustus Kelly Jr. was an American film and television actor most noted for the role of Bart Maverick in the television series Maverick, which ran on ABC from 1957 to 1962.

1927

Sadako Ogata

Japanese academic and diplomat, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (died 2019)

Sadako Ogata, née Nakamura , was a Japanese academic, diplomat, author, administrator, and professor emerita at the Roman Catholic Sophia University. She was widely known as the head of the office of the United Nations…

1927

Rex Trailer

American television host, actor, and singer (died 2013)

Rex Trailer was an American regional television personality, broadcast pioneer, cowboy and Country and Western recording artist. He is best known as the host of the children's television show Boomtown which initially…

1928

Lady Gwen Thompson

English author and educator (died 1986)

Lady Gwen Thompson was the pseudonym of Phyllis Thompson, author and teacher of traditionalist initiatory witchcraft through her own organisation, the New England Covens of Traditionalist Witches.

1928

Patricia Wald

American judge (died 2019)

Patricia Ann McGowan Wald was an American lawyer and jurist who served as the chief judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit from 1986 until 1991. She was the Court's first female…

1928

Jamshid bin Abdullah of Zanzibar

last sultan of Zanzibar (died 2024)

Jamshid bin Abdullah Al Busaidi, was a Zanzibari royal who was the last reigning Sultan of Zanzibar. He was deposed in the Zanzibar Revolution, after the United Kingdom gave up its protectorate.

1929

Stan Stephens

Canadian-American politician, 20th Governor of Montana (died 2021)

Stanley Graham Stephens was a Canadian-American politician, journalist, and broadcaster who served as the 20th governor of Montana from 1989 until 1993 as a member of the Republican Party.

1929

Anne Francis

American actress (died 2011)

Anne Lloyd Francis was an American actress known for her pioneering roles in the science fiction film Forbidden Planet (1956) and the television action-drama series Honey West (1965–1966). Forbidden Planet marked a…

1930

K. D. Arulpragasam

Sri Lankan zoologist and academic (died 2003)

Professor Kandiah David Arulpragasam was a Sri Lankan Tamil academic. He was the first vice-chancellor of Eastern University, Sri Lanka.

1931

Little Willie Littlefield

American-Dutch singer-songwriter and pianist (died 2013)

Willie Littlefield, Jr., billed as Little Willie Littlefield, was an American R&B and boogie-woogie pianist and singer whose early recordings "formed a vital link between boogie-woogie and rock and roll". Littlefield…

1931

George Chakiris

American actor

George Chakiris is an American actor and dancer. He is best known for his appearance in the 1961 film version of West Side Story as Bernardo, the leader of the Sharks gang, for which he won both the Academy Award for…

1932

Micky Stewart

English cricketer and coach

Michael James Stewart is an English former cricketer, coach and administrator. A right-handed batsman, Stewart's international career was hampered by illness that curtailed his first overseas tour – serving as…

1932

Steve Shirley

German-English businesswoman and philanthropist, founded Xansa

Dame Vera Stephanie Shirley was a German-born British information technology pioneer, businesswoman and philanthropist.

1933

Ronnie Drew

Irish singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2008)

Joseph Ronald Drew was an Irish singer, folk musician and actor who had a fifty-year career recording with The Dubliners.

1934

Carl Andre

American sculptor (died 2024)

Carl Andre was an American minimalist artist recognized for his ordered linear and grid format sculptures. His stark minimal art sculptures range from large public artworks, to large interior works exhibited on the…

1935

Billy Boy Arnold

American singer-songwriter and guitarist

William "Billy Boy" Arnold is an American blues harmonica player, singer, and songwriter. Arnold is a self-taught harmonica player and has worked with blues musicians such as Bo Diddley, Johnny Shines, Otis Rush, Earl…

1935

Jules Bass

American director, producer, composer, and author (died 2022)

Julius Caesar Bass was an American director, producer, lyricist, composer and author. Until 1960, he worked at a New York advertising agency, and then co-founded the film production company Videocraft International,…

1935

Lilia Cuntapay

Filipino actress (died 2016)

Lilia B. Cuntapay was a Filipina actress and former teacher. She is popularly recognized as the "Queen of Philippine Horror Movies" for her subsequent appearances in horror movies and exceptional contributions to…

1935

Bob Kiley

American-English businessman (died 2016)

Robert R. Kiley was an American public transit planner and supervisor known for his ability to rehabilitate transit systems experiencing serious problems. From 2001 to 2006 he was the first commissioner of Transport for…

1935

Esther Vilar

Argentinian-German author and playwright

Esther Margareta Vilar is an Argentine-German writer. She trained and practised as a medical doctor before establishing herself as an author. She is best known for her 1971 book The Manipulated Man and its various…

1935

Helen Williams

American fashion model (died 2023)

Helen Marie Williams Jackson was an American fashion model, and one of the first African American models to be featured in mainstream publications of her time.

1935

Aleksandr Medved

Russian wrestler (died 2024)

Aleksandr Vasilyevich Medved was a Ukrainian-born Soviet Belarusian freestyle wrestler who competed for the Soviet Union and was named "one of the greatest wrestlers in history" by FILA, the sport's governing body.…

1937

Vince Naimoli

American businessman and philanthropist (died 2019)

Vincent Joseph Naimoli was an American businessman, and the first owner of the Major League Baseball team the Tampa Bay Devil Rays.

1937

Breyten Breytenbach

South African-French poet and painter (died 2024)

Breyten Breytenbach was a South African writer, poet, and painter. He became internationally well-known as a dissident poet and vocal critic of South Africa under apartheid, and as a political prisoner of the National…

1939

Bill McGill

American basketball player (died 2014)

Bill "the Hill" McGill was an American basketball player best known for inventing the jump hook. McGill was the No. 1 overall pick of the 1962 NBA draft out of the University of Utah, with whom he led the NCAA in…

1939

Hamiet Bluiett

American jazz saxophonist and composer (died 2018)

Hamiet Bluiett was an American jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, and composer. His primary instrument was the baritone saxophone, and he was considered one of the finest players of this instrument. A member of the World…

1940

Butch Buchholz

American tennis player

Earl Henry "Butch" Buchholz, Jr. is a former professional tennis player from the United States who was one of the game's top players in the late 1950s and early 1960s.

1940

Paul White

Baron Hanningfield, British life peer (died 2024)

Paul Edward Winston White, Baron Hanningfield,, was a British politician and farmer. As a member of the Conservative Party, he served in various leadership roles in local government in Essex and was influential in…

1940

Joe Butler

American singer, autoharp player, and drummer

Joseph Campbell Butler is an American drummer, singer and actor. He is best known as a member of folk-rock band The Lovin' Spoonful, where he was drummer and later lead vocalist; the group had seven top 10 hits between…

1941

Richard Perle

American political scientist and politician

Richard Norman Perle is an American political advisor who served as the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Global Strategic Affairs under President Ronald Reagan. He began his political career as a senior staff member…

1941

Bernie Calvert

English bass player and keyboard player

Bernard Bamford Calvert is an English former musician who played bass guitar with The Hollies from 1966 until 1981.

1942

Susan L. Graham

American computer scientist and academic

Susan Lois Graham is an American computer scientist. Graham is the Pehong Chen Distinguished Professor Emerita in the Computer Science Division of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at the…

1942

Wang Houjun

Chinese footballer and manager (died 2012)

Wang Houjun was a Chinese international football player and coach.

1943

James Alan McPherson

American short story writer and essayist (died 2016)

James Alan McPherson was an American essayist and short-story writer. He was the first African-American writer to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and was included among the first group of artists who received a…

1943

Linda Kaye Henning

American actress

Linda Kaye Henning is an American actress and singer most notable for starring in the 1960s sitcom Petticoat Junction.

1944

Betty Kelly

American soul/R&B singer

Betty Kelly, also known as Betty Kelley, is an American singer most noted as being a member of the popular Motown singing group Martha and the Vandellas.

1944

Sonny LeMaire

American country music singer-songwriter and bass player

Alfred William "Sonny" LeMaire is an American country music artist. LeMaire is best known as being the bass guitarist of the band Exile, a role that he first held in 1977. After lead singer J. P. Pennington quit the…

1946

Mike Reynolds

Australian lawyer and politician

Michael Francis Reynolds is an Australian politician. He was a Labor member of the Legislative Assembly of Queensland from 1998 to 2009, representing the district of Townsville. He served as Speaker of the Legislative…

1946

Camilo Sesto

Spanish singer-songwriter and producer (died 2019)

Camilo Blanes Cortés, known professionally as Camilo Sesto, was a Spanish singer, songwriter and producer.

1946

Dusty Hughes

English director and playwright

Dusty Hughes is an English playwright, director and television screenwriter. In the early 1970s he was Theatre Editor of Time Out and helped to establish that magazine's theatre coverage as an alternative voice. He…

1947

Ron Blair

American bass player

Ronald Edward Blair is an American musician notable for being the bassist for Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. He was originally the band's bassist from 1976 to 1981. In 2002, he returned to the group after a 20-year…

1948

Rosemary Casals

American tennis player and sportscaster

Rosemary Casals is an American former professional tennis player. During a tennis career that spanned more than two decades, she won more than 90 titles and was crucial to many of the changes in women's tennis during…

1948

Julia Donaldson

English author and playwright

Julia Catherine Donaldson is an English writer and playwright, and the 2011–2013 Children's Laureate. She is best known for her popular rhyming stories for children, especially those illustrated by Axel Scheffler, which…

1948

Kenney Jones

English drummer

Kenneth Thomas Jones is an English drummer best known for his work in the groups Small Faces, Faces and the Who. Jones was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2012 as a member of Small Faces/Faces.

1948

Susan Ruttan

American actress

Susan Diane Ruttan is an American actress. She is best known for her role as Roxanne Melman on L.A. Law (1986–1993), for which she was nominated four times for a Primetime Emmy Award, twice for a Golden Globe Award, and…

1948

Ed Begley Jr.

American actor and environmental activist

Edward James Begley Jr. is an American actor and environmentalist who has appeared in hundreds of films, series, and plays.

1949

David Bellamy

American singer-songwriter and guitarist

The Bellamy Brothers are an American country music duo from Darby, Florida. The duo consists of brothers David Milton Bellamy and Homer Howard Bellamy. The duo had considerable musical success in the 1970s and 1980s,…

1950

Henry Louis Gates Jr.

American historian, scholar, and journalist

Henry Louis Gates Jr., popularly known by his childhood nickname "Skip", is an American literary critic, professor, historian, and filmmaker who serves as the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and the director of…

1950

Loyd Grossman

American-English singer, guitarist, and television host

Sir Loyd Daniel Gilman Grossman is an American-British author, broadcaster, musician, businessman and cultural campaigner who has mainly worked in the United Kingdom. He presented the BBC programme MasterChef from 1990…

1950

Vince Bell

American singer-songwriter and guitarist

Vince Bell is a Texas singer-songwriter who has appeared on the PBS television program Austin City Limits along with NPR broadcasts such as Mountain Stage, World Cafe and Morning Edition. His songs have been performed…

1951

Andy Irvine

Scottish rugby player and coach

Andrew Robertson Irvine is a former president of the Scottish Rugby Union (SRU), and a former Scottish international rugby player. He earned fifty one Scotland caps, captaining the team on fifteen occasions, and scored…

1951

Cornelius Sim

Bruneian cardinal (died 2021)

Cornelius Sim DD was a Bruneian prelate of the Catholic Church who served as Vicar Apostolic of Brunei from 2004 until his death. He had previously served as the apostolic prefect of Brunei from 1997 to 2004.

1951

Tony Cunningham

English educator and politician

Sir Thomas Anthony Cunningham is a British politician who served as member of parliament (MP) for Workington from 2001 to 2015. A member of the Labour Party, he was Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for Cumbria…

1952

Česlovas Laurinavičius

Lithuanian historian

Česlovas Laurinavičius is a Lithuanian historian and political scientist, In 2003, he was the recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Order for Merits to Lithuania. Since 2001, he has served as the head of the Department…

1952

Karen Muir

South African swimmer and physician (died 2013)

Karen Muir was a South African competitive swimmer. Born and raised in Kimberley, she attended the Diamantveld High School, where she matriculated in 1970.

1952

Mickey Rourke

American boxer and actor

Philip Andre "Mickey" Rourke Jr. is an American actor and former professional boxer who has appeared primarily as a leading man in drama, action, and thriller films. In a film career spanning more than forty years, his…

1952

Kurt Fuller

American character actor

Kurt Fuller is an American character actor. He has appeared in a number of television, film, and stage projects. He is known for his roles in the films No Holds Barred and Ghostbusters II, Wayne's World (1992), and…

1953

Alan Barton

English singer and guitarist (died 1995)

Alan Leslie Barton was a British singer and member of the hit-making duo Black Lace. Their hits include "Agadoo", "Superman" and their United Kingdom Eurovision Song Contest 1979 seventh-place finisher "Mary Ann" in…

1953

Nancy Huston

Canadian-American author and translator

Nancy Louise Huston is a Canadian novelist and essayist, a longtime resident of France, who writes primarily in French and translates her own works into English.

1953

Earl Klugh

American musician

Earl Klugh is an American acoustic guitarist and composer. Klugh has won one Grammy Award and received 13 nominations.

1953

Mark Malloch Brown

Baron Malloch-Brown, English journalist and politician, 2nd Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations

George Mark Malloch Brown, Baron Malloch-Brown, is a British diplomat, communications consultant, journalist and former politician. He served as president of the Open Society Foundations from 2021 to 2024. Malloch Brown…

1953

Jerry Pate

American golfer and sportscaster

Jerome Kendrick Pate is an American professional golfer on the PGA Tour Champions, formerly on the PGA Tour. As a 22-year-old rookie, he won the U.S. Open in 1976.

1953

Manuel Pellegrini

Chilean footballer and manager

Manuel Luis Pellegrini Ripamonti is a Chilean professional football manager and former player who is the head coach of La Liga club Real Betis. He has managed clubs in Spain, England, Argentina, Chile, China, and…

1953

Christopher Rich

American actor

Christopher Rich Wilson is an American actor, best known for his roles on Murphy Brown, Reba, and Boston Legal.

1953

Eric Vail

Canadian ice hockey player and sportscaster

Eric Vail is a Canadian former ice hockey player who played nine seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the Atlanta Flames, Calgary Flames and Detroit Red Wings. He helped Calgary reach the 1981 NHL playoff…

1953

Sanjoy Bandopadhyay

Indian sitar player and composer

Sanjoy Bandopadhyay is a Bengali Hindustani classical sitar player. He is primarily a disciple of Radhika Mohan Maitra and Bimalendu Mukherjee. His performance is a unique synthesis of Senia-Shahjehanpur, Rampur-Senia…

1954

William McKeen

American author and academic

William McKeen is an American author and educator. He is professor and former chairman of the Department of Journalism at Boston University.

1954

Colin Newman

English singer-songwriter, guitarist and producer

Colin John Newman is an English musician, record producer and record label owner. He is best known as the primary vocalist and songwriter for the post-punk band Wire.

1954

Frank Reed

American singer-songwriter (died 2014)

Frank Kevin "Tchallah" Reed was an American singer-songwriter. Reed was best known as the first replacement lead singer for the American vocal group The Chi-Lites. He replaced original lead singer and songwriter Eugene…

1954

Roger Woolley

Australian cricketer

Roger Douglas Woolley is a former Australian cricketer who played in two Test matches and four One Day Internationals (ODIs) between 1983 and 1984. He was a middle-order batsman, and later a wicket-keeper. He was a…

1954

Ron Brewer

American basketball player

Ronald Charles Brewer is an American former professional basketball player. A 6-foot-4-inch (1.93 m) guard from the University of Arkansas, he was selected by the Portland Trail Blazers in the first round of the 1978…

1955

Robin Yount

American baseball player and coach

Robin R. Yount, nicknamed "the Kid" and "Rockin' Robin", is an American former professional baseball player. He spent his entire 20-year career in Major League Baseball as a shortstop and center fielder for the…

1955

Maggie Atkinson

English educator and civil servant

Margaret Elizabeth Atkinson is an English educator and the former Children's Commissioner for England. After a career in teaching, she moved into public service administration, initially in education, but later in…

1956

David Copperfield

American magician and actor

David Seth Kotkin, known professionally as David Copperfield, is an American stage magician and illusionist described by Forbes as the most commercially successful magician in history.

1956

Ross Greenberg

American journalist and antivirus pioneer (died 2017)

Ross Matthew Greenberg was an American software developer, noted for creating one of the first antivirus software products. He also worked in journalism, and was a founding member of the Internet Press Guild.

1956

Dave Schulthise

American bass player (died 2004)

David Schulthise, also known as Dave Blood, was an American musician best known as the original bass guitarist for the punk band The Dead Milkmen. Schulthise was born in Ridley Park, Pennsylvania. He helped form the…

1956

Kazuharu Sonoda

Japanese wrestler (died 1987)

Kazuharu Sonoda also known under the ring names Haru Sonoda and Magic Dragon , was a Japanese professional wrestler. He was a former NWA Western States Tag Team Champion, NWA/WWC North American Tag Team Champion with…

1956

D. C. Drake

American wrestler

Don Clyde Drake is an American addictions counselor, retired professional wrestler and former promoter. He is best known for his appearances on the northeastern independent circuit under the ring name D. C. Drake.

1957

Clara Furse

English businesswoman

Dame Clara Hedwig Frances Furse DBE was the Chief Executive of the London Stock Exchange between January 2001 and May 2009, and was the first woman to occupy the position. In 2005, she was ranked 19th in Fortune…

1957

Norman Lamb

English lawyer and politician

Sir Norman Peter Lamb is a British politician and solicitor. He was the Liberal Democrat Member of Parliament (MP) for North Norfolk from 2001 to 2019, and was the chair of the Science and Technology Select Committee…

1957

David McCreery

Northern Irish footballer and manager

David McCreery is a Northern Irish former professional footballer who played for Newcastle United and many other clubs during his long career.

1957

Anca Parghel

Romanian singer and pianist (died 2008)

Anca Parghel was a Romanian jazz singer, composer, arranger, pianist, choir conductor, and music teacher. As a jazz vocalist, she excelled in scat, vocal percussion, and improvisation. Her voice had a four octave range,…

1957

Orel Hershiser

American baseball player and coach

Orel Leonard Hershiser IV is an American former baseball pitcher who played 18 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) from 1983 to 2000. He later became a pitching coach for the Texas Rangers from 2002 to 2005 and a…

1958

Neville Southall

Welsh footballer and manager

Neville Southall is a Welsh football manager and former international footballer. He has been described as one of the best goalkeepers of his generation. He won the FWA Footballer of the Year award in 1985 and was…

1958

Jennifer Tilly

American actress and poker player

Jennifer Tilly is an American actress and professional poker player. Known for her distinctive breathy voice and comedic timing, she began her career with small parts in film and television throughout the mid-late…

1958

Peter Keleghan

Canadian actor and screenwriter

Peter Keleghan is a Canadian actor and writer, known for portraying Ben Bellow in the comedy series 18 to Life, Clark Claxton Sr. in the comedy series Billable Hours and Ranger Gord in The Red Green Show. Since 2008, he…

1959

Tim Raines

American baseball player, coach, and manager

Timothy Raines Sr., nicknamed "Rock", is an American professional baseball coach and former player. He played as a left fielder in Major League Baseball for six teams from 1979 to 2002 and was best known for his 13…

1959

Dave Richardson

South African cricketer, manager, and lawyer

David John Richardson is a South African former cricketer and the former CEO of the International Cricket Council.

1959

Victory Tischler-Blue

American bass player, director, and producer

Victory Tischler-Blue is an American film producer, director, writer, musician and photographer. She was born and raised in Newport Beach, California. Tischler-Blue began working in the entertainment industry at age 17,…

1959

Jayne Brook

American actress

Jayne Brook is an American actress, best known for her roles as Dr. Diane Grad on the medical drama Chicago Hope, as a series regular for five of the show's six seasons, and Mary Ann Mitchell on The District from 2000…

1960

Graham Haynes

American trumpet player and composer

Graham Haynes is an American cornetist, trumpeter and composer. The son of jazz drummer Roy Haynes, Graham is known for his work in nu jazz, fusing jazz with elements of hip hop and electronic music.

1960

Mike Mignola

American author and illustrator

Michael Mignola is an American comic book writer best known for creating Hellboy for Dark Horse Comics, part of a shared universe of titles including B.P.R.D., Abe Sapien, Lobster Johnson, and various spin-offs. He has…

1960

Bilinda Butcher

English singer-songwriter and guitarist

Bilinda Jayne Butcher is an English musician who achieved international fame as a guitarist, vocalist and lyricist of the alternative rock band My Bloody Valentine. Their studio albums Isn't Anything (1988) and Loveless…

1961

Philip Lafon

Canadian wrestler

Philippe Lafon is a Canadian professional wrestler. He is best known for his appearances with the World Wrestling Federation as Phil Lafon and with All Japan Pro Wrestling and Extreme Championship Wrestling under the…

1961

Annamária Szalai

Hungarian journalist, economist, and politician (died 2013)

Annamária Szalai was a Hungarian journalist, politician, Member of Parliament (MP) for Zala County, Fidesz (1998–2004). She became a member of the National Radio and Television Commission (ORTT) in 2004, and as a result…

1961

Seth

Canadian author and illustrator

Gregory Gallant, better known by his pen name Seth, is a Canadian cartoonist. He is best known for his series Palookaville and his mock-autobiographical graphic novel It's a Good Life, If You Don't Weaken (1996).

1962

Richard Marx

American singer-songwriter and producer

Richard Noel Marx is an American singer-songwriter. He has sold over 30 million albums worldwide.

1963

Mary Coustas

Australian actress and screenwriter

Mary Coustas is an Australian actress, comedian and television personality and writer. Originally from Melbourne, Coustas often performs as the character "Effie", a stereotypical second-generation Greek Australian prone…

1964

Rossy de Palma

Spanish-French model and actress

Rosa Elena García Echave, known professionally as Rossy de Palma, is a Spanish actress and model. She is well known for her roles in films by Pedro Almodóvar such as Law of Desire, Women on the Verge of a Nervous…

1964

Dave Sabo

American guitarist and songwriter

David Michael Sabo, nicknamed Snake, is an American musician best known as one of the guitarists of heavy metal band Skid Row.

1964

Molly Shannon

American actress, comedian and producer

Molly Shannon is an American actress and comedian. She was a cast member on the NBC sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live from 1995 to 2001. In 2017, she won the Film Independent Spirit Award for playing Joanne…

1964

Katy Kurtzman

American actress and producer

Katy Kurtzman is an American actress and modelist.

1965

Karl-Heinz Riedle

German footballer and manager

Karl-Heinz Riedle is a German former professional footballer who played as a striker.

1965

Stephen Shareaux

American singer-songwriter

Stephen Shareaux is an American singer best known as lead vocalist for the hard rock band Kik Tracee. He is also a solo artist as well as lead vocalist and co-founder of alternative rock band Zen from Mars which…

1965

John Bel Edwards

American attorney and politician

John Bel Edwards is an American politician and attorney who served as the 56th governor of Louisiana from 2016 to 2024. A Southern Democrat, he previously served in the Louisiana House of Representatives from 2008 to…

1966

Wil McCarthy

American author and playwright

Wil McCarthy is an American science fiction novelist, president and co-founder of RavenBrick, and the science columnist for Syfy. He currently resides in Colorado. Rich Man's Sky won the 2022 Prometheus Award. Beggar's…

1966

Kevin Young

American hurdler

Kevin C. Young is an American former athlete. He was the winner of the 400 metres hurdles at the 1992 Summer Olympics. In the final of this event he set a world record and Olympic record of 46.78 seconds, the first time…

1966

Hiroya Oku

Japanese author and illustrator

Hiroya Oku is a Japanese manga artist, known for his works Hen, Gantz, Inuyashiki, and Gigant, the first two of which have been serialized in Weekly Young Jump. Originally influenced by Katsuhiro Otomo and Ryoichi…

1967

Damon Thayer

Kentucky State Senate Majority Leader

Damon Daniel Thayer is an American politician. He was a Republican member of the Kentucky Senate, representing the 17th District. He did not run for reelection in 2024.

1967

Marc Anthony

American singer-songwriter, actor, and producer

Marco Antonio Muñiz, known by the stage name Marc Anthony, is an American singer and actor. He is the top selling salsa artist of all time. A four-time Grammy Award, eight-time Latin Grammy Award and twenty-nine-time Lo…

1968

Walt Becker

American director, producer, and screenwriter

Walter William Becker is an American filmmaker and novelist, whose directorial credits include the films Van Wilder (2002), Wild Hogs (2007), and Old Dogs (2009).

1968

Tommy Keane

Irish footballer (died 2012)

Tommy Keane was an Irish professional footballer who played as a midfielder.

1968

Justine Frischmann

English singer-songwriter and guitarist

Justine Elinor Frischmann is an English artist and retired musician. After forming Suede, she co-founded the Britpop band Elastica before retiring from the music industry and pursuing a career as an artist.

1969

Janno Gibbs

Filipino singer-songwriter and actor

Janno Ronaldo Ilagan Gibbs is a Filipino singer, songwriter, comedian and actor. He was a regular host of GMA Network television shows SOP Rules, Nuts Entertainment, Eat Bulaga!, Kakasa Ka Ba Sa Grade 5?, Power of 10,…

1969

Mark Schultz

American singer-songwriter

Mark Mitchell Schultz is an American contemporary Christian music artist. He has been nominated for numerous Dove Awards, winning his first at the 2006 Dove Awards when the CD/DVD Mark Schultz Live: A Night of Stories &…

1970

Joel Heyman

American actor, producer, and screenwriter

Joel Pearce Heyman is an American actor, best known for voicing Michael J. Caboose in the Rooster Teeth web series Red vs. Blue from 2003 until 2020. He co-founded Rooster Teeth with Burnie Burns, Matt Hullum, Geoff…

1971

Charlie Jacobs

American businessman

Charles Marvin Jacobs is the co-Chief Executive Officer of Delaware North, a role he shares with his brothers, Jerry and Lou. Jacobs is also Chief Executive Officer and Alternate Governor for the Boston Bruins. He is…

1971

Amy Poehler

American actress, comedian, and producer

Amy Meredith Poehler is an American actress and comedian. Known for her roles in sketch comedy, sitcoms and comedy films, she has earned acclaim and several accolades including a Primetime Emmy Award and two Golden…

1971

Richard Slinger

American wrestler

Richard Aslinger is a retired American professional wrestler, known by his ring name Richard Slinger. Slinger was a long-time mainstay of All Japan Pro Wrestling and later Pro Wrestling Noah, where he was one of two…

1971

Shawntel Smith

American beauty pageant contestant

Shawntel Smith Wuerch is an American beauty pageant contestant, who was Miss America in 1996. She was born in Muldrow, Oklahoma. She attended Oklahoma City University.

1971

Mark Bruener

American football player

Mark Frederick Bruener is an American former professional football player who was a tight end in the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Washington Huskies, earning All-American honors in…

1972

Mike Doyle

American actor and producer

Michael Doyle is an American actor. He is mainly known for his role on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit as Ryan O'Halloran, Adam Guenzel in Oz, and from 2018 to 2023 on New Amsterdam as Martin McIntyre.

1972

Alessandro Nunziati

Italian singer-songwriter and producer

Alessandro Nunziati, better known by his stage name Lord Vampyr, is an Italian musician, record producer and writer, famous for being the former vocalist of the gothic metal band Theatres des Vampires, as well as one of…

1972

George Corrie

English footballer

George Corrie is an English footballer, born in Workington, who played for ten years as a midfielder for American USL Second Division side Wilmington Hammerheads, of which he was the captain. He joined the Hammerheads…

1973

Camiel Eurlings

Dutch businessman and member of the International Olympic Committee

Camiel Martinus Petrus Stephanus Eurlings is a Dutch politician and businessman. A member of the Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA), he served as Minister of Transport, Public Works and Water Management from 2007 to 2010.

1973

Justin Haythe

American author and screenwriter

Justin Haythe is an American novelist, short story writer, and screenwriter. He is best known for his book The Honeymoon, and the screenplay for Revolutionary Road, directed by Sam Mendes.

1973

Alexander Vinokourov

Kazakh cyclist and manager

Alexander Nikolayevich Vinokourov is a Kazakhstani former professional road bicycle racer and the current general manager of UCI WorldTeam XDS Astana Team. As a competitor, his achievements include two bronze medals at…

1973

Loona

Dutch singer-songwriter and dancer

Loona is a Dutch pop singer and dancer.

1974

Monique Brumby

Australian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer

Monique Brumby is an Australian indie pop/rock singer-songwriter, guitarist and producer. Her debut single, "Fool for You", peaked into the top 40 in the Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) ARIA Singles…

1974

Joaquin Castro

American lawyer and politician

Joaquin Castro is an American lawyer and Democratic politician who has represented Texas's 20th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives since 2013. The district includes just over half of…

1974

Julian Castro

American lawyer and politician, 16th United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development

Julián Castro is an American lawyer and politician from San Antonio, Texas. A member of the Democratic Party, he was the youngest member of President Obama's cabinet, serving as the 16th United States secretary of…

1974

Jason Leffler

American race car driver (died 2013)

Jason Charles Leffler nicknamed "LEFturn", was an American professional open-wheel and stock car racing driver. Leffler began racing in the open-wheel ranks, competing in the 2000 Indianapolis 500 before moving to…

1975

Shannon Noll

Australian singer-songwriter

Shannon Neil Noll is an Australian singer-songwriter who first came to prominence as runner-up of the first season of Australian Idol in 2003, which led to him being signed to Sony BMG. He has released five top-ten…

1975

Toks Olagundoye

Nigerian actress

Olatokunbo Susan Olasobunmi Abeke "Toks" Olagundoye is a Nigerian actress known for playing Jackie Joyner-Kersee on The Neighbors, Hayley Shipton on Castle and Olivia Finch on Frasier. She also voices Nanefua Pizza on…

1975

Elīna Garanča

Latvian soprano

Elīna Garanča is a Latvian mezzo-soprano. She began to study singing in her hometown of Riga in 1996 and continued her studies in Vienna and in the United States. By 1999 she had won first place in the Mirjam Helin…

1976

Tina Barrett

English singer-songwriter, dancer, and actress

Tina Ann Barrett is an English singer and actress. Her major breakthrough came in 1999 when she became a member of the pop group S Club. She has been a member of spin-off group S Club Allstars since 2014. She is also a…

1976

Greg Buckner

American basketball player and coach

Gregory Derayle Buckner is an American former professional basketball player who is an assistant coach for the Milwaukee Bucks of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He had previously served as an assistant coach…

1976

Gregory Ball

American captain and politician

Gregory R. Ball is a former American politician from 2006 to 2014, former active duty U.S. Air Force officer, and member of the New York State Senate and the New York State Assembly.

1977

Musiq Soulchild

American singer-songwriter

Taalib Hassan Johnson, better known by his stage name Musiq Soulchild is an American singer-songwriter. His music blends R&B, funk, blues, jazz, and gospel influences fused with hip hop.

1977

Dan Dickau

American basketball player and coach

Daniel David Dickau is an American former professional basketball player who currently works as an on-air broadcaster for ESPN, the Pac-12 Network, CBS Sports Network, Fox Sports and Westwood One. He is also a co-host…

1978

Claudia Marx

German runner

Claudia Marx is a German athlete. She runs in the 400 metres and the 400 metres hurdles. She also competes in the German team in the 4 × 400 metres relay. She won the 400 metres at the German Athletics Championships in…

1978

Sensei

Mexican wrestler

Sensei is a Mexican professional wrestler, best known for working for Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL). He previously worked for International Wrestling Revolution Group (IWRG) as Fantasy where he won several…

1978

Brian Sims

American lawyer, politician, and LGBT activist

Brian Kendall Sims is an American politician, activist and attorney. A Democrat, he was a member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for the 182nd district from 2013 until 2022. Sims is also a lawyer and…

1978

Bobby Korecky

American baseball player

Robert John Korecky is an American former professional baseball relief pitcher. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Minnesota Twins, Arizona Diamondbacks, and Toronto Blue Jays.

1979

Flo Rida

American rapper, singer, and songwriter

Tramar Lacel Dillard, known professionally as Flo Rida, is an American rapper and singer. His 2007 debut and breakout single "Low" was number 1 for ten weeks in the United States and broke the record for digital…

1979

Kenny van Weeghel

Dutch wheelchair racer

Kenny van Weeghel is a Paralympic athlete from the Netherlands competing in the 100, 200 and 400 m T54 class wheelchair racing. He participated in the Paralympic games six times already and he has won 6 Paralympic…

1980

Fan Bingbing

Chinese actress, singer, and producer

Fan Bingbing is a Chinese actress. After gaining recognition for the costume drama My Fair Princess (1998–1999), Fan's breakthrough came with Feng Xiaogang's film Cell Phone (2003), which won her the Hundred Flowers…

1981

Alexis Bledel

American actress

Kimberly Alexis Bledel is an American actress and model. She is best known for her roles as Rory Gilmore on the television series Gilmore Girls and Emily Malek in The Handmaid's Tale. Bledel also had a recurring role in…

1981

LaVerne Jones-Ferrette

Virgin Islander sprinter

LaVerne Janet Jones-Ferrette is a sprinter from the United States Virgin Islands who specializes in the 100 and 200 meters. She represented her country at the Summer Olympics in 2004, 2008 and 2012. She won the silver…

1981

Leon Knight

English footballer

Leon Leroy Knight is an English former footballer who plays as a striker. A journeyman player, he has played for fifteen different clubs spanning five countries; England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland and Greece.

1982

Michele Rizzo

Italian rugby player

Michele Rizzo is a retired Italian former rugby union player. His preferred position was prop but he can also play as a hooker. Rizzo last played for Petrarca, the club where he spent most of his career and where he…

1982

John Afoa

New Zealand rugby player

Ioane Fitu "John" Afoa is a former professional rugby union player from New Zealand. He played prop for Auckland, the Blues, Ulster, Gloucester, Bristol Bears, Vannes, the Crusaders and Bay of Plenty, and won 38 caps…

1983

Katerine Avgoustakis

Belgian singer and pianist

Katerine Avgoustakis is a Greek-Belgian singer. She was the winner of the 2005 Star Academy show.

1983

Jennifer Blake

Canadian wrestler

Jennifer Ykema is a Canadian professional wrestler, better known by her ring name Jennifer Blake, and is often referred to by her nickname "Girl Dynamite". She is best known for her work in Lucha Libre AAA Worldwide in…

1983

Kirsty Coventry

Zimbabwean swimmer and 10th President of the International Olympic Committee

Kirsty Leigh Coventry Seward is a Zimbabwean politician, sports administrator, and former competitive swimmer who is the president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC). She has served as the president of the IOC…

1983

Brandon Moss

American baseball player

Brandon Douglas Moss is an American former professional baseball outfielder and first baseman. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Boston Red Sox, Pittsburgh Pirates, Philadelphia Phillies, Oakland…

1983

Sabrina Bryan

American singer-songwriter, dancer, and actress

Reba Sabrina Hinojosa, known professionally as Sabrina Bryan, is an American singer and actress. She is best known as a member of the girl group the Cheetah Girls, starring in the Disney Channel Original Movie The…

1984

Katie Melua

Georgian-English singer-songwriter and guitarist

Ketevan "Katie" Melua is a British singer. She was born in Kutaisi, Georgia and raised in Belfast and London. Under the management of composer Mike Batt, she was signed to the small Dramatico record label. She made her…

1984

Matt Harrison

American baseball player

Matthew Reid Harrison is an American former professional baseball pitcher. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Texas Rangers from 2008 through 2015. He was an MLB All-Star in 2012.

1985

Max Minghella

English actor

Max Giorgio Choa Minghella is a British actor and director. He is known for his roles in the films Syriana (2005), The Social Network (2010), The Ides of March (2011), Spiral (2021) and Babylon (2022) as well as his…

1985

Madeline Zima

American actress

Madeline Zima is an American actress. She portrayed Grace Sheffield on the CBS sitcom The Nanny (1993–1999), Mia Lewis on the Showtime comedy drama series Californication (2007–2011), and Gretchen Berg on the NBC series…

1985

Gordon Beckham

American baseball player

James Gordon Beckham III is an American former professional baseball infielder who serves as a fill-in sportscaster for the Atlanta Braves and Chicago White Sox of Major League Baseball (MLB). He played in MLB for the…

1986

Ian Harding

American actor

Ian Michael Harding is an American actor. He is best known for his role as Ezra Fitz in the Freeform mystery drama series Pretty Little Liars (2010–2017).

1986

Kyla Pratt

American actress and singer

Kyla Alissa Pratt is an American actress. She is best known for providing the voice of Penny Proud in the first Disney Channel animated series, The Proud Family, and portraying Breanna Latrice Barnes in UPN's One on…

1986

Merve Boluğur

Turkish actress

Merve Boluğur is a Turkish actress and model. She is well known for her roles in the fantasy series Acemi Cadı, Küçük Sırlar, Kuzey Güney and the historical series Muhteşem Yüzyıl.

1987

Kyle Lafferty

Northern Irish footballer

Kyle Joseph George Lafferty is a Northern Irish professional footballer who plays as a striker for Lowland League West side Johnstone Burgh.

1987

Louis Ngwat-Mahop

Cameroonian footballer

Louis Clément Ngwat-Mahop is a Cameroonian professional footballer who plays for the junior team of Austrian side SCR Altach, combining his playing duties with being responsible for the integration of foreign and…

1987

Anthony Padilla

American internet personality and filmmaker

Daniel Anthony Padilla is an American YouTuber, comedian, filmmaker, painter, and actor. With Ian Hecox, he co-founded the YouTube-based video production company Smosh. Padilla and Hecox wrote, directed, and starred in…

1987

Burry Stander

South African cyclist (died 2013)

Burry Willie Stander was a South African mountain biker, the UCI Mountain Bike World Cup under-23 men's cross-country 2009 world champion.

1987

Travis Wall

American dancer and choreographer

Travis Michael Wall is an American dancer, instructor, and choreographer specializing in contemporary and jazz dance styles. He rose to international attention in 2006 as a competitor on the second season of the Fox…

1987

Teddy Geiger

American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actress

Teddy Geiger is an American singer-songwriter and record producer who first gained teen idol status with the song "For You I Will (Confidence)" in 2006. Geiger acted in the television series Love Monkey (2006) and the…

1988

Robbie Grossman

American baseball player

Robert Edward Grossman is an American professional baseball outfielder who is a free agent. He has previously played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Houston Astros, Minnesota Twins, Oakland Athletics, Detroit…

1989

Braden Holtby

Canadian ice hockey player

Braden Holtby is a Canadian professional ice hockey goaltender. He previously played for the Washington Capitals, Vancouver Canucks and Dallas Stars of the National Hockey League (NHL). He was selected in the fourth…

1989

Salomón Rondón

Venezuelan footballer

José Salomón Rondón Giménez is a Venezuelan professional footballer who plays as a striker for Liga MX club Pachuca and captains the Venezuela national team.

1989

Dustin Tokarski

Canadian ice hockey player

Dustin Michael Tokarski is a Canadian professional ice hockey goaltender for Olimpija Ljubljana of the ICE Hockey League (ICEHL). He was born in Humboldt, Saskatchewan, but grew up in neighbouring Watson, which he…

1989

Alexandra Paul

Canadian figure skater (died 2023)

Alexandra Jane Paul was a Canadian competitive ice dancer. With her skating partner and eventual husband, Mitchell Islam, she won the silver medal at the 2010 World Junior Championships. In their senior career, Paul and…

1991

Vytenis Čižauskas

Lithuanian basketball player

Vytenis Čižauskas is a Lithuanian professional basketball player. He plays the point guard position.

1992

Nick Jonas

American singer-songwriter and guitarist

Nicholas Jerry Jonas is an American singer, songwriter, musician and actor. He rose to fame as a member of the pop rock band Jonas Brothers, alongside his brothers Joe and Kevin. The group released multiple albums…

1992

Jake Roche

English singer-songwriter and actor

Jake Peter Roche is an English singer and actor. He is known as the lead vocalist of the band Rixton, charting at number 1 on the UK singles chart with "Me and My Broken Heart". In 2010, he appeared in the ITV soap…

1992

Chase Stokes

American actor

James Alexander Chase Stokes is an American actor and director known for his role as John B. in the Netflix series Outer Banks (2020–present).

1992

Metro Boomin

American record producer and songwriter

Leland Tyler Wayne, known professionally as Metro Boomin, is an American record producer. Widely acclaimed for his dark and cinematic production style, he is regarded as one of the most influential producers in…

1993

Sam Byram

English footballer

Samuel Mark Byram is an English professional footballer who plays as a defender for Premier League club Leeds United.

1993

Bryson DeChambeau

American golfer

Bryson James Aldrich DeChambeau is an American professional golfer who plays on the LIV Golf League. He formerly played on the PGA Tour, and has won two major championships, the 2020 and 2024 U.S. Open.

1993

Joji

Japanese-Australian singer-songwriter

George Kusunoki Miller , known professionally as Joji and formerly as Filthy Frank and Pink Guy, is a Japanese-Australian singer, songwriter, rapper, and internet personality. His music has been described as a mix…

1993

Anthony Mantha

Canadian ice hockey player

Anthony Mantha is a Canadian professional ice hockey player who is a winger for the Pittsburgh Penguins of the National Hockey League. Mantha was drafted 20th overall by the Detroit Red Wings in the 2013 NHL entry draft.

1994

Aleksandar Mitrović

Serbian footballer

Aleksandar Mitrović is a Serbian professional footballer who plays as a striker for Qatar Stars League club Al Rayyan and captains the Serbia national team.

1994

Mitchell Moses

Australian rugby league player

Mitchell Moses is a professional rugby league footballer who captains and plays as a halfback for the Parramatta Eels in the National Rugby League, New South Wales in the State of Origin series and has played for…

1994

Aaron Gordon

American basketball player

Aaron Addison Gordon is an American professional basketball player for the Denver Nuggets of the National Basketball Association (NBA). Born in San Jose, California, Gordon attended Archbishop Mitty High School where he…

1995

Jackie Young

American basketball player

Jacquelyn Young is an American professional basketball player for the Las Vegas Aces of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) and for the Laces of Unrivaled. She is the daughter of Linda Young and David…

1997

Brady Tkachuk

American ice hockey player

Braeden Tkachuk is an American professional ice hockey player who is a left winger and captain for the Ottawa Senators of the National Hockey League (NHL). Tkachuk was chosen by the Senators as the fourth overall pick…

1999

Sam Howell

American football player

Samuel Duke Howell is an American professional football quarterback for the Dallas Cowboys of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the North Carolina Tar Heels, setting school records for…

2000

Oliver Skipp

English footballer

Oliver William Skipp is an English professional footballer who plays as a defensive midfielder for EFL League One club Leicester City.

2000

Avishag Semberg

Israeli Olympic taekwondo bronze medalist

Avishag Semberg is an Israeli Olympic taekwondo athlete. She is an Olympic bronze medalist for Israel at the 2020 Summer Olympics in the women's 49 kg competition. She won Israel's all-time tenth Olympic medal, and is…

2001

Toby Couchman

Australian rugby league player

Toby Couchman is an Australian professional rugby league footballer who plays as a prop for the St. George Illawarra Dragons in the National Rugby League (NRL).

2003

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