Famous Birthdays on September 22

Q: Who was born on September 22?

Famous people born on September 22 include: Richeza of Poland, Ibn Khallikan, Thomas le Despenser, Tenali Rama, Anne of Cleves.

Q: What is Debby Boone known for?

Debby Boone, American singer, actress, and author

253 people 1013 – 2009

September 22 has seen 253 notable people enter the world across recorded history — from 1013 – 2009. Below are the most significant names born on this date.

By thisDay.info Editorial Team · September 22 — Wikipedia

1956 — Debby Boone

American singer, actress, and author

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She is best known for her 1977 hit, "You Light Up My Life", which spent ten weeks at No

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1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and led to her winning the Grammy Award for Best New Artist the following year

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Boone later focused her music career on country music, resulting in the 1980 No

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1 country hit "Are You on the Road to Lovin' Me Again"

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In the 1980s, she recorded Christian music which garnered her four top 10 Contemporary Christian albums as well as two more Grammys

Richeza of Poland

Queen of Hungary (died 1075)

Richeza of Poland was Queen of Hungary by marriage to Béla I, King of Hungary.

1013

Ibn Khallikan

Iraqi scholar and judge (died 1282)

Aḥmad bin Muḥammad bin Ibrāhīm bin Abū Bakr ibn Khallikān, better known as Ibn Khallikān, was a renowned Islamic historian who compiled the celebrated biographical encyclopedia of Muslim scholars and important men in…

1211

Thomas le Despenser

1st Earl of Gloucester (died 1400)

Thomas Despenser, 2nd Baron Despenser, 1st Earl of Gloucester was the son of Edward le Despenser, 1st Baron le Despencer, whom he succeeded in 1375.

1373

Tenali Rama

poet in the court of Krishnadevaraya of the Vijayanagara Empire (died 1528)

Tenali Ramakrishna, also known as Tenali Ramalinga and Tenali Rama, was a Telugu poet, scholar, and advisor in the court of Sri Krishnadevaraya of the Vijayanagara Empire. Hailing from Tenali, Andhra Pradesh. He earned…

1480

Anne of Cleves

Queen consort of England (died 1557)

Anne of Cleves was Queen of England as the fourth wife of Henry VIII from 6 January to 12 July 1540.

1515

Philipp Nicodemus Frischlin

German philologist, mathematician, astronomer, and poet (died 1590)

Philipp Nicodemus Frischlin was a German philologist, poet, playwright, mathematician, and astronomer, born at Erzingen, today part of Balingen in Württemberg, where his father was parish minister.

1547

Matthäus Merian

Swiss-German engraver and cartographer (died 1650)

Matthäus Merian der Ältere was a Swiss-born engraver who worked in Frankfurt, Germany for most of his career, where he also ran a publishing house. He was a member of the patrician Basel Merian family.

1593

Anne of Austria

Queen and regent of France (died 1666)

Anne of Austria was Queen of France from 1615 to 1643 by marriage to King Louis XIII. She was also Queen of Navarre until the kingdom's annexation into the French crown in 1620. After her husband's death, Anne was…

1601

Li Zicheng

Chinese emperor (died 1645)

Li Zicheng, born Li Hongji, also known as the Thunder King, was a Chinese peasant rebel leader who helped overthrow the Ming dynasty in April 1644 and ruled over northern China briefly as the Yongchang Emperor of the…

1606

Barthold Heinrich Brockes

German poet (died 1747)

Barthold Heinrich Brockes was a German poet.

1680

Philip Stanhope

4th Earl of Chesterfield, English politician, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (died 1773)

Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield was a British politician, diplomat and writer.

1694

Jean-Étienne Guettard

French mineralogist and botanist (died 1786)

Jean-Étienne Guettard, was a French naturalist and mineralogist. He was born at Étampes, near Paris.

1715

Peter Simon Pallas

German zoologist and botanist (died 1811)

Peter Simon Pallas FRS FRSE was a Prussian zoologist, botanist, ethnographer, explorer, geographer, geologist, natural historian, and taxonomist. He studied natural sciences at various universities in early modern…

1741

Quintin Craufurd

Scottish author (died 1819)

Quintin Craufurd was a British author born at Kilwinning, Scotland.

1743

Elizabeth Simcoe

English-Canadian painter and author (died 1850)

Dame Elizabeth Posthuma Simcoe was an English artist and diarist in colonial Canada. Her husband, John Graves Simcoe, was the first Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada. Her diary gives an account of Canadian life.

1762

Paolo Ruffini

Italian mathematician and philosopher (died 1822)

Paolo Ruffini was an Italian mathematician and philosopher. Remembered chiefly for what is now known as the Abel–Ruffini theorem, Ruffini also made a major contribution to the theory of equations, developing the…

1765

Theodore Hook

English composer and educator (died 1841)

Theodore Edward Hook was an English writer, intellectual, prankster and briefly a civil servant in Mauritius. One of the first writers of the English fashionable novel, he is best known for his practical jokes,…

1788

Michael Faraday

English physicist and chemist (died 1867)

Michael Faraday was an English chemist and physicist who contributed vastly to the study of electrochemistry and electromagnetism. His main discoveries include the principles underlying electromagnetic induction,…

1791

Bernardino António Gomes

Portuguese physician and naturalist (died 1877)

Bernardino António Gomes was a Portuguese physician and scientist. He is perhaps most widely remembered for his pioneering work in Portugal in the field of anaesthesiology, as the first physician in the country to use…

1806

Wilhelm Wattenbach

German historian and academic (died 1897)

Wilhelm Wattenbach, was a German historian.

1819

Tự Đức

Vietnamese emperor (died 1883)

Tự Đức was the fourth emperor of the Nguyễn dynasty of Vietnam, and the country's last pre-colonial monarch. Ruling for about 36 years from 1847 to 1883, this made him the longest reigning Nguyễn emperor.

1829

Stephen D. Lee

American general and academic (died 1908)

Stephen Dill Lee was an American officer in the Confederate Army, politician, and first president of Mississippi State University from 1880 to 1899. He served as lieutenant general of the Confederate States Army in the…

1833

Alexander Potebnja

Ukrainian linguist and philosopher (died 1891)

Alexander Afanasyevich Potebnja was a Russian Imperial linguist, philosopher and pan-Slavist of Ukrainian Cossack descent, who was a professor of linguistics at the Imperial Kharkov University. He is well known as a…

1835

Andrejs Pumpurs

Latvian soldier and poet (died 1902)

Andrejs Pumpurs was a poet who penned the Latvian epic Lāčplēsis and a prominent figure in the Young Latvia movement. Working in the land before volunteering to fight in Serbia against the Ottoman Empire in 1876, he…

1841

Anastasios Charalambis

Greek lieutenant and politician, Prime Minister of Greece (died 1949)

Anastasios Charalambis was a Greek Lieutenant General and interim Prime Minister of Greece for one day in 1922. Before retiring from the Army in 1918, Charalambis commanded the II Army Corps. He was previously an…

1862

Louise McKinney

Canadian educator and politician (died 1931)

Louise McKinney was a Canadian politician, temperance advocate, and women's rights activist. She was the first woman elected into the Legislative Assembly of Alberta and the first woman to serve in a legislature in the…

1868

Charlotte Cooper

English-Scottish tennis player (died 1966)

Charlotte "Chattie" Reinagle Cooper Sterry was an English female tennis player who won five singles titles at the Wimbledon Championships and in 1900 became Olympic champion. In winning in Paris on 11 July 1900, she…

1870

Arthur Pryor

American trombonist, composer, and bandleader (died 1942)

Arthur Willard Pryor was a trombone virtuoso, bandleader, and soloist with the Sousa Band. He was a prolific composer of band music, his best-known composition being "The Whistler and His Dog". In later life, he became…

1870

Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis

Lithuanian painter and composer (died 1911)

Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis was a Lithuanian composer, painter, choirmaster, cultural figure, and writer in Polish.

1875

André Tardieu

French journalist and politician, 67th Prime Minister of France (died 1945)

André Pierre Gabriel Amédée Tardieu was three times Prime Minister of France and a dominant figure of French political life in 1929–1932. He was a moderate conservative with a strong intellectual reputation, but became…

1876

Shigeru Yoshida

Japanese politician and diplomat, 51st Prime Minister of Japan (died 1967)

Shigeru Yoshida was a Japanese diplomat and politician who served as prime minister of Japan from 1946 to 1947 and again from 1948 to 1954, serving through most of the country's occupation after World War II. Yoshida…

1878

Christabel Pankhurst

English activist, co-founded the Women's Social and Political Union (died 1958)

Dame Christabel Harriette Pankhurst was a British suffragette and Royalist born in Manchester, England. A co-founder of the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) and founder of The Suffragette newspaper, she…

1880

Wilhelm Keitel

German field marshal, head of the German armed forces (OKW), and convicted Nuremberg war criminal (died 1946)

Wilhelm Bodewin Johann Gustav Keitel was a German field marshal who held office as chief of the Oberkommando der Wehrmacht (OKW), the high command of Nazi Germany's armed forces, during World War II. He signed a number…

1882

Ferenc Oslay

Hungarian-Slovene historian and author (died 1932)

Ferenc Oslay was a Hungarian-Slovene historian, writer, Trianon irredentist, and propagandist.

1883

Frank George Woollard

English engineer (died 1957)

Frank George Woollard was a British mechanical engineer who worked for nearly three decades in the British motor industry in various roles in design, production, and management. He was a pioneer in flow production, what…

1883

Gunnar Asplund

Swedish architect and academic, designed the Stockholm Public Library (died 1940)

Erik Gunnar Asplund was a Swedish architect, mostly known as a key representative of Nordic Classicism of the 1920s during the last decade of his life. At this time, he was a major proponent of the modernist style which…

1885

Ben Chifley

Australian engineer and politician, 16th Prime Minister of Australia (died 1951)

Joseph Benedict Chifley was an Australian politician who served as the 16th prime minister of Australia from 1945 to 1949. He held office as the leader of the Australian Labor Party (ALP), and was notable for defining…

1885

Erich von Stroheim

Austrian-American actor, director, and screenwriter (died 1957)

Erich Oswald Hans Carl Maria von Stroheim was an Austrian-American director, screenwriter, actor and producer, most noted as a film star and avant-garde, visionary director of the silent era. His 1924 film Greed,…

1885

Bhaurao Patil

Indian educator and activist (died 1959)

Bhaurao Patil, was a social activist and educator in Maharashtra, India. A strong advocate of mass education, he founded the Rayat Education Society. Bhaurao played an important role in educating backward castes and low…

1887

Hooks Dauss

American baseball player (died 1963)

George August "Hooks" Dauss was an American professional baseball player from 1909 to 1926. He played 15 seasons of Major League Baseball as a right-handed pitcher for the Detroit Tigers from 1912 to 1926. He was given…

1889

Alma Thomas

American painter and educator (died 1978)

Alma Woodsey Thomas was an American artist and art teacher who lived and worked in Washington, D.C., and is now recognized as a major American painter of the 20th century. She is the first African-American woman to be…

1891

Billy West

American actor, director, and producer (died 1975)

Billy West was a silent film actor, producer, and director. Active during the silent film era, he is best known as the premier Charlie Chaplin impersonator. He was a star in his own right, appearing in more than 100…

1892

Elisabeth Rethberg

German soprano (died 1976)

Elisabeth Rethberg was a German operatic spinto soprano singer who was active from the period of the First World War through the early 1940s. After Richard Strauss assigned the role of the Empress in his Die Frau ohne…

1894

Paul Muni

Ukrainian-born American actor (died 1967)

Paul Muni was an American stage and film actor from Chicago. He started his acting career in the Yiddish theater and during the 1930s, he was considered one of the most prestigious actors at the Warner Bros. studio and…

1895

Uri Zvi Greenberg

Ukrainian-Israeli poet and journalist (died 1981)

Uri Zvi Greenberg was an Israeli poet, journalist and politician who wrote in Yiddish and Hebrew.

1896

Henry Segrave

American-English race car driver (died 1930)

Sir Henry O'Neal de Hane Segrave was an early British pioneer in land speed and water speed records. Segrave, who set three land and one water record, was the first person to hold both titles simultaneously and the…

1896

Frank O'Connor

American actor, rancher, and painter (died 1979)

Charles Francis O'Connor was an American actor, painter, and rancher and the husband of novelist Ayn Rand. Frank O'Connor performed in several films, typically as an extra, during the silent and early sound eras. While…

1897

Elsie Allen

Native American Pomo basket weaver (died 1990)

Elsie Comanche Allen was a Native American Pomo basket weaver from the Cloverdale Rancheria of Pomo Indians of California in Northern California. She is notable for historically categorizing and teaching Californian…

1899

Paul Hugh Emmett

American chemist and engineer (died 1985)

Paul Hugh Emmett was an American chemist best known for his pioneering work in the field of catalysis and for his work on the Manhattan Project during World War II. He spearheaded the research to separate isotopes of…

1900

William Spratling

American-Mexican silversmith and educator (died 1967)

William Spratling was an American-born silver designer and artist, best known for his influence on 20th century Mexican silver design.

1900

Nadezhda Alliluyeva

second wife of Joseph Stalin (died 1932)

Nadezhda Sergeyevna Alliluyeva was the second wife of Joseph Stalin.

1901

Charles Brenton Huggins

Canadian-American physician and physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1997)

Charles Brenton Huggins was a Canadian-American surgeon and physiologist known for his work on prostate function, prostate cancer, and breast cancer. Born in Halifax in 1901, Huggins moved to the United States for…

1901

John Houseman

Romanian-American actor and producer (died 1988)

John Houseman was a British-American theatre and film producer, actor, director, and teacher. He became known for his highly publicized collaboration with director Orson Welles from their days in the Federal Theatre…

1902

Haakon Lie

Norwegian lawyer and politician (died 2009)

Haakon Steen Lie was a Norwegian politician who served as party secretary for the Norwegian Labour Party from 1945 to 1969. Coming from humble origins, he became involved in the labour movement at an early age, and…

1905

Eugen Sänger

Czech-Austrian engineer (died 1964)

Eugen Sänger was an Austrian aerospace engineer best known for his contributions to lifting body and ramjet technology.

1905

Ilse Koch

German war criminal (died 1967)

Margarete Ilse Koch was a German war criminal who committed atrocities while her husband Karl-Otto Koch was the commandant at Buchenwald. Though Ilse Koch had no official position in Nazi Germany, she became one of the…

1906

Maurice Blanchot

French philosopher and author (died 2003)

Maurice Blanchot was a French writer, philosopher and literary theorist. His work, exploring a philosophy of death alongside poetic theories of meaning and sense, bore significant influence on post-structuralist…

1907

Philip Fotheringham-Parker

English race car driver (died 1981)

Philip Fotheringham-Parker was a racing driver from England.

1907

Hermann Schlichting

German engineer and academic (died 1982)

Hermann Schlichting was a German fluid dynamics engineer.

1907

Esphyr Slobodkina

Russian-American author and illustrator (died 2002)

Esphyr Solomonovna Slobodkina was a Russian-born American artist, author, and illustrator, best known for her classic children's picture book Caps for Sale. Slobodkina was a celebrated avant garde artist and feminist in…

1908

John Engstead

American photographer and journalist (died 1983)

John Engstead was an American photographer. Engstead was born in California, and began his career in 1926, when he was hired as an office boy by Paramount Pictures' head of studio publicity, Harold Harley.

1909

Allan Lane

American actor (died 1973)

Allan "Rocky" Lane was an American studio leading man and the star of many cowboy B-movies in the 1940s and 1950s. He appeared in more than 125 films and TV shows in a career lasting from 1929 to 1966. He is best known…

1909

György Faludy

Hungarian poet and author (died 2006)

György Faludy, sometimes anglicized as George Faludy, was a Hungarian poet, writer and translator.

1910

Herbert Mataré

German physicist and academic (died 2011)

Herbert Franz Mataré was a German physicist. The focus of his research was the field of semiconductor research. His best-known work is the first functional European transistor, which he developed and patented together…

1912

Martha Scott

American actress (died 2003)

Martha Ellen Scott was an American actress. She was featured in major films such as Cecil B. DeMille’s The Ten Commandments (1956), and William Wyler's Ben-Hur (1959). Martha played the mother of Charlton Heston's…

1912

Lillian Chestney

American painter and illustrator (died 2000)

Lillian Chestney was an American illustrator and painter. She studied in New York City and illustrated children's books, comic books, and magazine and book covers at a time when few women held artist positions in the…

1913

Grigory Frid

Russian pianist and composer (died 2012)

Grigory Samuilovich Frid, also known as Grigori Fried, was a Russian composer of music written in many different genres, including chamber opera.

1915

Hans Scholl

German activist and co-founder of the anti-Nazi resistance group White Rose (died 1943)

Hans Fritz Scholl was, along with Alexander Schmorell, one of the two founding members of the White Rose resistance movement in Nazi Germany. The principal author of the resistance movement's literature, he was found…

1918

Henryk Szeryng

Mexican violinist and educator (died 1988)

Henryk Bolesław Szeryng was a Polish-Mexican violinist.

1918

Eric Baker

English activist, co-founded Amnesty International (died 1976)

Eric Baker was a British activist and one of the founders of the human rights group Amnesty International, and the second Secretary-General of the organization. He was also a founder of the Campaign for Nuclear…

1920

Anders Lassen

Danish-English soldier, Victoria Cross recipient (died 1945)

Major Anders Frederik Emil Victor Schau Lassen,, was a Danish military officer who was the only non-Commonwealth recipient of the Victoria Cross during the Second World War. Serving in the British Army, he was…

1920

Bob Lemon

American baseball player and manager (died 2000)

Robert Granville Lemon was an American right-handed pitcher and manager in Major League Baseball (MLB). He was elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1976.

1920

William H. Riker

American political scientist and academic (died 1993)

William Harrison Riker was an American political scientist known for applying game theory and mathematics to political science. He helped establish University of Rochester as a center of the behavioral revolution in…

1920

Will Elder

American illustrator (died 2008)

William Elder was an American illustrator and comic book artist who worked in numerous areas of commercial art but is best known for a frantically funny cartoon style that helped launch Harvey Kurtzman's Mad comic book…

1921

David Sive

American environmentalist and lawyer (died 2014)

David Sive was an American attorney, environmentalist, and professor of environmental law, who has been recognized as a pioneer in the field of United States environmental law.

1922

Dannie Abse

Welsh physician, poet, and author (died 2014)

Daniel Abse CBE FRSL was a Welsh poet and physician. His poetry won him many awards. As a medic, he worked in a chest clinic for over 30 years.

1923

Bernard Gauthier

French cyclist (died 2018)

Bernard Gauthier was a French road racing cyclist, who was professional from 1947 to 1961. He won the Bordeaux–Paris road race on four occasions.

1924

Charles Keeping

English author and illustrator (died 1988)

Charles William James Keeping was an English illustrator, children's book author and lithographer. He made the illustrations for Rosemary Sutcliff's historical novels for children, and he created more than twenty…

1924

Rosamunde Pilcher

English author (died 2019)

Rosamunde E. M. L. Pilcher, OBE was a British novelist, best known for her sweeping novels set in Cornwall. Her books have sold over 60 million copies worldwide. Early in her career she was published under the pen name…

1924

Charles Waterhouse

American painter, sculptor, and illustrator (died 2013)

Charles H. Waterhouse was an American painter, illustrator and sculptor renowned for using United States Marine Corps historical themes as the motif for his works. His art spans subjects from Tun Tavern, the birthplace…

1924

J. William Middendorf

American soldier and politician, 14th United States Secretary of the Navy (died 2025)

John William Middendorf II was an American diplomat who was the 62nd Secretary of the Navy from 1974 to 1977 and the United States Ambassador to the European Communities from 1985 to 1987. He wrote books and articles on…

1924

Ray Wetzel

American trumpet player and composer (died 1951)

Ray Wetzel was an American jazz trumpeter. Critic Scott Yanow described him as "greatly admired by his fellow trumpeters".

1924

Virginia Capers

American actress and singer (died 2004)

Eliza "Virginia" Capers was an American actress. She won the Tony Award for Best Lead Actress in a Musical in 1974 for her performance as Lena Younger in Raisin, a musical version of Lorraine Hansberry's play A Raisin…

1925

Leila Hadley

American author (died 2009)

Leila Hadley was an American travel writer and socialite. Her books include Give Me the World (1958) and A Journey with Elsa Cloud (1997).

1925

Bill Smith

American clarinet player and composer (died 2020)

William Overton Smith was an American clarinetist and composer. He worked extensively in modern classical music, third stream and jazz, and was perhaps best known for having played with pianist Dave Brubeck…

1926

Gordon Astall

English footballer and coach (died 2020)

Gordon Astall was an English professional footballer. He played as an outside right, and represented the Football League, the England B team and the full England side. At club level he made 456 appearances in the…

1927

Tommy Lasorda

American baseball player, coach, and manager (died 2021)

Thomas Charles Lasorda was an American professional baseball pitcher and manager. He managed the Los Angeles Dodgers of Major League Baseball (MLB) from 1976 through 1996. He was inducted into the National Baseball Hall…

1927

Eric Broadley

English engineer and businessman, founded Lola Cars (died 2017)

Eric Harrison Broadley MBE was a British entrepreneur, engineer, and founder and chief designer of Lola Cars, the motor racing manufacturer and engineering company. He was arguably one of the most influential automobile…

1928

James Lawson

American activist, author, and academic (died 2024)

James Morris Lawson Jr. was an American activist and university professor. He was a leading theoretician and tactician of nonviolence within the Civil Rights Movement. During the 1960s, he served as a mentor to the…

1928

Eugene Roche

American actor (died 2004)

Eugene Harrison Roche was an American actor and the original "Ajax Man" in 1970s television commercials.

1928

Johnny Valentine

American wrestler (died 2001)

John Theodore Wisniski, better known by his ring name Johnny Valentine, was an American professional wrestler with a career spanning almost three decades. He has been inducted into four halls of fame for his…

1928

Vitthalrao Gadgil

Indian politician (died 2001)

Vitthalrao Gadgil was a leader of Indian National Congress. He served as union minister of information and broadcasting during Rajeev Gandhi era.

1928

Serge Garant

Canadian composer and conductor (died 1986)

Albert Antonio Serge Garant, was a Canadian composer, conductor, music critic, professor of music at the University of Montreal and radio host of Musique de notre siècle on Radio-Canada. In 1966, with Jean…

1929

Carlo Ubbiali

Italian motorcycle racer (died 2020)

Carlo Ubbiali was an Italian professional motorcycle road racer. He competed in the FIM Grand Prix motorcycle racing world championships from 1949 to 1960, most prominently as a member of the MV Agusta factory racing…

1929

Joni James

American singer (died 2022)

Giovanna Carmella Babbo, known professionally as Joni James, was an American singer of traditional pop.

1930

T. S. Sinnathuray

Judge of the High Court of Singapore (died 2016)

Thirugnana Sampanthar Sinnathuray, known professionally as T. S. Sinnathuray and to his friends as Sam Sinnathuray, was a judge of the High Court of Singapore. Educated at University College London and called to the bar…

1930

Fay Weldon

English author and playwright (died 2023)

Fay Weldon was a British author, essayist and playwright.

1931

George Younger

4th Viscount Younger of Leckie, Scottish banker and politician, Secretary of State for Defence (died 2003)

George Kenneth Hotson Younger, 4th Viscount Younger of Leckie, Baron Younger of Prestwick, was a British Conservative Party politician and banker. He was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Ayr from 1964 to 1992. During…

1931

Algirdas Brazauskas

Lithuanian politician, 2nd President of Lithuania (died 2010)

Algirdas Mykolas Brazauskas was the fourth president of Lithuania, in office from 1993 to 1998. He also served as Prime Minister of Lithuania from 2001 to 2006. Brazauskas was the first democratically elected president…

1932

Ingemar Johansson

Swedish boxer (died 2009)

Jens Ingemar "Ingo" Johansson was a Swedish professional boxer who competed from 1952 to 1963. He held the world heavyweight title from 1959 to 1960 and was the fifth heavyweight champion born outside the United States.…

1932

Leonardo Balada

Spanish-American composer and educator

Leonardo Balada Ibáñez is a Spanish-American classical composer, who is noted for his operas and orchestral works.

1933

T. Cullen Davis

American businessman

Thomas Cullen Davis is an American former oil tycoon who is best known for being acquitted of murder and attempted murder in two high-profile trials during the 1970s. At the time of his first trial, Davis was believed…

1933

Carmelo Simeone

Italian-Argentinian footballer (died 2014)

Carmelo "Cholo" Simeone, was an Argentine football defender who won three league championships with Boca Juniors and played for the Argentina national team. Nicknamed "Cholo", he was known for his energetic playing…

1933

Jesco von Puttkamer

German-American engineer (died 2012)

Jesco Hans Heinrich Max Freiherr von Puttkamer was a German-American aerospace engineer, senior manager at NASA, and a pulp science fiction writer.

1933

Jack McGregor

American captain, lawyer, and politician

Jack Edwin McGregor was an American politician and lawyer who served as a Pennsylvania state senator for the 44th district from 1963 to 1970. He was the founder of the National Hockey League's Pittsburgh Penguins.…

1934

Lute Olson

American basketball player and coach (died 2020)

Robert Luther "Lute" Olson was an American basketball coach, who was inducted into both the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame and the National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame. He was the head coach of the…

1934

T. Somasekaram

Sri Lankan geographer and politician, 37th Surveyor General of Sri Lanka (died 2010)

Sri Lanka Sikhamani Thamotharam Somasekaram was a leading Sri Lankan Tamil geographer and Surveyor General.

1934

Maurice Evans

English footballer and manager (died 2000)

Maurice George Evans was a football player with Reading, and later manager of Shrewsbury Town, Reading and Oxford United.

1936

Robin Gammell

Canadian actor

Robin Gammell is a Canadian film, television and stage actor.

1936

Don Rutherford

English rugby player (died 2016)

Donald Rutherford was an England international rugby union player and administrator. He was the first ever Technical Director of the Rugby Football Union at Twickenham, becoming Director of Rugby where he served with…

1937

Gene Mingo

American football player

Eugene L. Mingo is an American former professional football player who played in the American Football League (AFL) and National Football League (NFL). He played several positions including halfback, placekicker, and…

1938

Bogdan Baltazar

Romanian economist and engineer (died 2012)

Bogdan Baltazar was a leading Romanian banker and the first spokesman of the Romanian government following the fall of the communist regime. He was also a significant financial and banking advisor.

1939

Deborah Lavin

South African-English historian and academic

Deborah Margaret Lavin, FRSA, is a South African academic and historian, resident in the United Kingdom for most of her career.

1939

Gilbert E. Patterson

American bishop (died 2007)

Gilbert Earl Patterson was an American Holiness Pentecostal leader and pastor. He served as the founding pastor of the Temple of Deliverance COGIC Cathedral of Bountiful Blessings, one of the largest COGIC churches in…

1939

Marlena Shaw

American jazz singer (died 2024)

Marlina Burgess, professionally known by her stage name Marlena Shaw, was an American singer. Shaw began her singing career in the 1960s and continued to perform until her death. Her music has often been sampled in hip…

1939

Junko Tabei

Japanese mountaineer (died 2016)

Junko Tabei was a Japanese mountaineer, author and teacher. She was the first woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest and ascend the Seven Summits, climbing the highest peak on every continent.

1939

Anna Karina

Danish-French actress, director, and screenwriter (died 2019)

Anna Karina was a Danish and French film actress, director, writer, model, and singer. She was an early collaborator of French New Wave director Jean-Luc Godard, her first husband, performing in several of his films,…

1940

Jeremiah Wright

American pastor and theologian

Jeremiah Alvesta Wright Jr. is a pastor emeritus of Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago, a congregation he led for 36 years, during which its membership grew to over 8,000 parishioners. Following retirement, his…

1941

Ole Anderson

American wrestler (died 2024)

Alan Robert Rogowski, better known by the ring name Ole Anderson, was an American professional wrestler, booker, and promoter.

1942

Candida Lycett Green

Anglo-Irish journalist and author (died 2014)

Candida Rose Lycett Green was a British author who wrote sixteen books including English Cottages, Goodbye London, The Perfect English House, Over the Hills and Far Away and The Dangerous Edge of Things. Her television…

1942

Rubén Salazar Gómez

Colombian cardinal

Jesús Rubén Darío Salazar Gómez is a Colombian prelate of the Catholic Church who was Metropolitan Archbishop of Bogotá from 2010 to 2020. He was made a cardinal in 2012. He was Metropolitan Archbishop of Barranquilla…

1942

David Stern

American lawyer and businessman, 4th Commissioner of the NBA (died 2020)

David Joel Stern was an American lawyer and business executive who was the commissioner of the National Basketball Association (NBA) from 1984 to 2014. He oversaw NBA basketball's growth into one of the world's most…

1942

Toni Basil

American singer-songwriter, dancer, and actress

Antonia Christina Basilotta, better known by her stage name Toni Basil, is an American singer, choreographer, dancer, actress, and director. "Mickey", her cover of "Kitty", topped the charts in the US, Canada and…

1943

Barry Cable

Australian footballer and coach

Barry Thomas Cable MBE is a former Australian rules footballer and coach. Considered one of the greatest rovers in the sport's history, he played in 379 premiership games in the Western Australian Football League (WAFL)…

1943

Paul Hoffert

American keyboard player, composer, and academic

Paul Matthew Hoffert, LLD, CM is a recording artist, performer, media music composer, author, academic, and corporate executive. He studied mathematics and physics at the University of Toronto. He later studied music…

1943

Brian Gibson

English director, producer, and screenwriter (died 2004)

Brian Gibson was an English film and television director.

1944

Paul Le Mat

American actor

Paul Le Mat is an American actor. He first came to prominence with his role in American Graffiti (1973); his performance was met with critical acclaim and earned him the Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year –…

1945

King Sunny Adé

Nigerian singer-songwriter and guitarist

Chief Sunday Adeniyi Adegeye, known professionally as King Sunny Adé, is a Nigerian jùjú singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist. He is regarded as one of the first African pop musicians to gain international…

1946

Larry Dierker

American baseball player and manager

Lawrence Edward Dierker is an American former Major League Baseball (MLB) pitcher, manager, and broadcaster. During a 14-year baseball career as a pitcher, he pitched from 1964 to 1977 for the Houston Colt .45s/Astros…

1946

Jo Beverley

English-Canadian author (died 2016)

Mary Josephine Beverley was a prolific English-Canadian writer of historical and contemporary romance novels from 1988 to 2016.

1947

David Drewry

English glaciologist and geophysicist

David John Drewry is a glaciologist and geophysicist who was described in the conferring of an honorary degree by Anglia Ruskin University in 1998 as having an "outstanding reputation as an eminent scientist of…

1947

Norma McCorvey

American activist (died 2017)

Norma Leah Nelson McCorvey, also known by the pseudonym Jane Roe, was the plaintiff in the landmark 1973 American legal case Roe v. Wade in which the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that individual state laws banning abortion…

1947

Robert Morace

American author and academic

Robert Morace is an American writer.

1947

Denis Burke

Australian soldier and politician, 6th Chief Minister of the Northern Territory

Denis Gabriel Burke is a former Australian politician. A former Australian Army officer, he served as a Country Liberal Party member of the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly from 1994 to 2005. He spent two years…

1948

Mark Phillips

English equestrian, trainer, and journalist

Mark Anthony Peter Phillips is an English Olympic gold medal-winning horseman who competed for Great Britain, and the first husband of Anne, Princess Royal, with whom he has two children. He remains a leading figure in…

1948

Harold Carmichael

American football player

Lee Harold Carmichael is an American former professional football player who was a wide receiver in the National Football League (NFL) for thirteen seasons with the Philadelphia Eagles (1971–1983) and one year with the…

1949

James Cartwright

American general

James Edward "Hoss" Cartwright is a retired United States Marine Corps general who last served as the eighth vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff from August 31, 2007, to August 3, 2011. He previously served as…

1949

Jim McGinty

Australian lawyer and politician, Attorney-General of Western Australia

James Andrew McGinty is an Australian former politician. He was a Labor member of the Western Australian Legislative Assembly from 1990 to 2009, representing the district of Fremantle. He was Labor Party leader and…

1949

David Coverdale

English singer-songwriter

David Coverdale is a retired English singer and songwriter best known as the founder and lead singer of the hard rock band Whitesnake.

1951

Mike Graham

American wrestler and promoter (died 2012)

Edward Michael Gossett, better known as Mike Graham, was an American professional wrestler who was the son of Eddie Graham.

1951

Doug Somers

American wrestler (died 2017)

Douglas Duane Somerson was an American professional wrestler known by his ring name "Pretty Boy" Doug Somers. He worked in the American Wrestling Association (AWA) in the mid-1980s as part of a tag team with "Playboy"…

1951

Bob Goodlatte

American lawyer and politician

Robert William Goodlatte is an American politician, attorney, and lobbyist who served as the U.S. representative for Virginia's 6th congressional district from 1993 to 2019. A Republican, he was also the Chair of the…

1952

Sukhumbhand Paribatra

Thai political scientist and politician, 15th Governor of Bangkok

Mom Rajawongse Sukhumbhand Paribatra is a Thai politician belonging to the Democrat Party. From 2009 to 2016 he was the Governor of Bangkok. He was removed from the post in October 2016 by Prime Minister Prayut…

1952

Américo Rocca

Mexican wrestler

Javier Hernández Padilla is a semi-retired Mexican professional wrestler best known under the ring name Américo Rocca. Hernández also worked as the enmascarado (masked) Ponzoña from 1990 until 1994, and as Ninja Samurai…

1952

Richard Fairbrass

English singer-songwriter, musician and producer

Richard Peter John Fairbrass is an English singer and television presenter, best known as lead singer of the pop group Right Said Fred, who achieved hits in the early 1990s including the singles "I'm Too Sexy" and…

1953

Ségolène Royal

French politician

Ségolène Royal is a French politician who took part in the 2007 French presidential election, losing to Nicolas Sarkozy in the second round. She was the first woman in France's history to reach the second round in a…

1953

Jeffrey Leonard

American baseball player and coach

Jeffrey N. Leonard is an American former professional baseball left fielder. He played 14 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) from 1977 to 1990 for the Los Angeles Dodgers, Houston Astros, San Francisco Giants,…

1955

Doug Wimbish

American singer-songwriter and bass player

Douglas Arthur Wimbish is an American bassist, primarily known for being a member of rock band Living Colour and funk/dub/hip hop collective Tackhead, and as a session musician with artists such as Sugarhill Gang,…

1956

Ibrahim Shema

Nigerian lawyer, politician

Ibrahim Shehu Shema ); born 22 September 1957) is a Nigerian lawyer and politician who was elected as a Governor of the north western State of Katsina during the 2007 general elections.

1956

Steve Carney

English footballer (died 2013)

Stephen Carney was an English professional footballer who played in the Football League as a defender for Newcastle United, Carlisle United, Darlington, Rochdale and Hartlepool United.

1957

Nick Cave

Australian singer-songwriter, author, and actor

Nicholas Edward Cave is an Australian singer, musician and writer. He is the frontman of the rock band Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds. Known for his baritone voice, Cave's music is characterised by emotional intensity, a…

1957

Mark Johnson

American ice hockey player and coach

Mark Einar Johnson is an American ice hockey coach for the University of Wisconsin–Madison women's ice hockey team. He is a former National Hockey League (NHL) player who appeared in 669 NHL regular season games between…

1957

Johnette Napolitano

American singer-songwriter and bass player

Johnette Napolitano is an American musician best known as the lead vocalist, songwriter, and bassist for the rock band Concrete Blonde.

1957

Giuseppe Saronni

Italian cyclist and manager

Giuseppe Saronni, also known as Beppe Saronni, is an Italian former racing cyclist. He had remarkable success riding in the Giro d'Italia. In 1980 he won 7 stages and finished 7th overall; in 1981 he won 3 stages and…

1957

Andrea Bocelli

Italian singer-songwriter and producer

Andrea Bocelli is an Italian tenor. He rose to fame in 1994 after winning the newcomers' section of the 44th Sanremo Music Festival performing "Il mare calmo della sera".

1958

Beth Catlin

American autistic savant

Elizabeth "Beth" Catlin is an American autistic savant who sends birthday cards to people whom she has met. Using only her memory, Catlin can recall the names, birthdates, and addresses of the people she has met. As of…

1958

Neil Cavuto

American journalist and author

Neil Patrick Cavuto is an American television news anchor, executive, commentator, and business journalist. He was the host of Your World with Neil Cavuto and Cavuto Live, both on Fox News, and Cavuto: Coast to Coast on…

1958

Joan Jett

American singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer, and actress

Joan Jett is an American singer, songwriter, guitarist, businesswoman, and actress. Often referred to as the "Godmother of Punk", she is regarded as a rock icon and an influential figure in popular rock music.

1958

Tai Babilonia

American figure skater and talk show host

Tai Reina Babilonia is an American pair skater. Together with Randy Gardner, she won the 1979 World Figure Skating Championships and five U.S. Figure Skating Championships (1976–1980). The pair qualified for the 1976…

1959

Wally Backman

American baseball player

Walter Wayne Backman is an American former Major League Baseball second baseman. He is best known for his time with the New York Mets from 1980–1988 and was a member of their 1986 World Series-winning team. He was also…

1959

Saul Perlmutter

American astrophysicist, astronomer, and academic, Nobel Prize Laureate

Saul Perlmutter is an American astrophysicist who is a professor of physics at the University of California, Berkeley, where he holds the Franklin W. and Karen Weber Dabby Chair, and is head of the International…

1959

Scott Baio

American actor

Scott Vincent Baio is an American actor. He is known for playing Chachi Arcola on the sitcom Happy Days (1977–1984) and its spin-off Joanie Loves Chachi (1982–1983), the title character on the sitcom Charles in Charge…

1960

Vince Coleman

American baseball player

Vincent Maurice Coleman is an American former professional baseball left fielder. He played 13 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the St. Louis Cardinals, New York Mets, Kansas City Royals, Seattle Mariners,…

1961

Liam Fox

Scottish physician and politician, Secretary of State for Defence

Sir Liam Fox is a British politician who served as Secretary of State for International Trade from 2016 to 2019 and Secretary of State for Defence from 2010 to 2011. A member of the Conservative Party, he was the Member…

1961

Bonnie Hunt

American actress, producer, and talk show host

Bonnie Hunt is an American actress and comedian. Her film roles include Rain Man, Beethoven, Beethoven's 2nd, Jumanji, Jerry Maguire, The Green Mile, Cheaper by the Dozen, Cheaper by the Dozen 2, and Red One.

1961

Diane Lemieux

Canadian lawyer and politician

Diane Lemieux is a Canadian politician and administrator who serves as the president and chief executive officer of the Commission de la construction du Québec.

1961

Catherine Oxenberg

American actress

Catherine Oxenberg is an American actress. She is best known for her role as Amanda Carrington on the 1980s prime time soap opera Dynasty. Oxenberg is the daughter of Princess Elizabeth of Yugoslavia and her first…

1961

Michael Torke

American composer

Michael Torke is an American composer who writes music influenced by jazz and minimalism.

1961

Martin Crowe

New Zealand cricketer and sportscaster (died 2016)

Martin David Crowe was a New Zealand cricketer, Test and ODI captain as well as a commentator. He played for the New Zealand national cricket team between 1982 and 1995, and is regarded as one of the country's greatest…

1962

Juha Turunen

Finnish lawyer and politician

The kidnapping of Minna Nurminen took place in Helsinki, Finland on 27 May 2009.

1964

Ken Vandermark

American saxophonist and composer

Ken Vandermark is an American composer, saxophonist, and clarinetist.

1964

Dan Bucatinsky

American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter

Dan Bucatinsky is an American actor, writer and producer, best known for his role as James Novak in the Shonda Rhimes drama series Scandal, for which he won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a…

1965

Andrii Deshchytsia

Ukrainian politician and diplomat, Ukrainian Minister of Foreign Affairs

Andrii Bohdanovych Deshchytsia is a Ukrainian diplomat and politician.

1965

Mark Guthrie

American baseball player

Mark Andrew Guthrie is an American former Major League Baseball relief pitcher who played for several teams between 1989 and 2003, and was a member of the 1991 World Series Champion Minnesota Twins.

1965

Robert Satcher

American physician, engineer, and astronaut

Robert Lee Satcher Jr. is an American orthopedic surgeon, chemical engineer, and former NASA astronaut. He participated in two spacewalks during STS-129, accumulating 12 hours and 19 minutes of extravehicular activity.…

1965

Ruth Jones

Welsh actress, producer, and screenwriter

Ruth Alexandra Elizabeth Jones is a Welsh actress, comedian, writer and producer. She co-wrote and co-starred in the critically acclaimed BBC sitcom Gavin & Stacey, for which she won the BAFTA Award for Best Female…

1966

Mike Richter

American ice hockey player

Michael Thomas Richter is an American former professional ice hockey goaltender. He played his entire National Hockey League career, from 1989 to 2002, with the New York Rangers organization, and led the team to the…

1966

Michael Shank

American racing team owner

Michael Shank is an American race car team owner and former race car driver born in Columbus, Ohio. Before leaving driving to concentrate on car ownership, he ran one race in the 1996–97 Indy Racing League season, the…

1966

Matt Besser

American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter

Matthew Gregory Besser is an American actor, comedian, director, producer, writer, and one of the four founding members of the Upright Citizens Brigade sketch comedy troupe, who had their own show on Comedy Central from…

1967

Super Delfin

Japanese wrestler

Hiroto Wakita is a Japanese professional wrestler and politician who currently runs and wrestles for Kaisen Puroresu. He is better known by his stage name Super Delfin .

1967

Brian Keene

American novelist

Brian Keene is an American author, podcaster, and film producer, primarily known for his work in horror, dark fantasy, crime fiction, and comic books. He has won the 2014 World Horror Grandmaster Award and two Bram…

1967

Ian Mortimer

English historian and novelist

Ian James Forrester Mortimer is a British historian and writer of historical fiction. He is best known for his book The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England, which became a Sunday Times bestseller in paperback in…

1967

Rickard Rydell

Swedish race car driver

John Rickard Rydell is a Swedish retired racing driver. He won the 1998 British Touring Car Championship, the 2011 Scandinavian Touring Car Championship, and has also been a frontrunner in the European/World Touring Car…

1967

Félix Savón

Cuban boxer

Félix Savón Fabre is a Cuban former amateur boxer who competed from 1980 to 2000. Considered one of the all-time greatest amateurs, he became three-time Olympic gold medalist, and the World Champion six times in a row,…

1967

Nicole Bradtke

Australian tennis player and sportscaster

Nicole Bradtke is a retired professional tennis player from Australia.

1969

Tuomas Kantelinen

Finnish composer and conductor

Tuomas Kantelinen is a Finnish composer. He was born in Kankaanpää and studied composition at the Sibelius Academy with Eero Hämeenniemi. He is best known for his scores for films such as Rukajärven tie, Äideistä…

1969

Sue Perkins

English comedian, actress, and radio host

Susan Elizabeth Perkins is an English broadcaster, comedian, actress, singer and writer. Originally coming to prominence through her comedy partnership with Mel Giedroyc in Mel and Sue, she progressed into radio and…

1969

Matt Sharp

American singer-songwriter and bass player

Matthew Kelly Sharp is an American musician. Until 1998, he was the bassist for the rock band Weezer, which he co-founded in 1992. He appears on their first two albums, the Blue Album (1994) and Pinkerton (1996). In…

1969

Gladys Berejiklian

Australian politician, 45th Premier of New South Wales

Gladys Berejiklian is an Australian businesswoman and former politician who served as the 45th premier of New South Wales and the leader of the New South Wales division of the Liberal Party from 2017 to 2021.…

1970

Mike Matheny

American baseball player and manager

Michael Scott Matheny is an American former professional baseball catcher and manager. He played 13 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Milwaukee Brewers, Toronto Blue Jays, St. Louis Cardinals, and San…

1970

Mystikal

American rapper and actor

Michael Lawrence Tyler, better known by his stage name Mystikal, is an American rapper and actor from New Orleans, Louisiana. He is noted for his brash, obstreperous vocal delivery, characterized by a Southern rasp. He…

1970

Hitro Okesene

New Zealand rugby player and coach

John Haitrosene "Hitro" Okesene, also known by the nickname "Nitro", is a former professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1990s and 2000s and represented three countries; Western Samoa, American Samoa and…

1970

Rupert Penry-Jones

English actor

Rupert William Penry-Jones is an English actor from London. He is known for his performances as Adam Carter in Spooks, Clive Reader in Silk, DI Joseph Chandler in Whitechapel, and Mr. Quinlan in the American horror…

1970

Emmanuel Petit

French footballer

Emmanuel Laurent Petit is a French former professional footballer who played as a defensive midfielder at club level for Arsenal, Barcelona, Monaco, and Chelsea. He represented France at international level in two FIFA…

1970

Elizabeth Bear

American author and poet

Sarah Bear Elizabeth Wishnevsky is an American author who works primarily in speculative fiction genres, writing under the name Elizabeth Bear. She won the 2005 John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer, the 2008 Hugo…

1971

Toomas Krõm

Estonian footballer

Toomas Krõm is a former professional footballer from Estonia, playing as a forward. Born in Tallinn, he twice became topscorer of the Premier Estonian League, named Meistriliiga: in 1999 and 2000. Krõm obtained a total…

1971

Luther Reigns

American actor and wrestler

Matthew Robert Wiese is an American retired professional wrestler and actor. He is best known for his tenure in WWE, where he performed on its SmackDown brand under the ring name Luther Reigns.

1971

Yoo Chae-yeong

South Korean singer-songwriter and actress (died 2014)

Yoo Chae-yeong was a South Korean singer, actress, and radio host.

1973

Stéfan Louw

South African tenor and producer

Stéfan Louw is a South African operatic tenor, regarded as one of South Africa's leading tenors. He has been performing opera since 1995.

1973

Bob Sapp

American wrestler, kickboxer, mixed martial artist, and actor

Robert Malcolm Sapp is an American former mixed martial artist, kickboxer, professional wrestler, actor, and football player. Sapp has a combined fight record of 24–39–1, mostly fighting in Japan. He is well known in…

1973

Jenn Colella

American actress and singer

Jennifer Lin Colella is an American actress and singer. She is best known for her work in musical theatre.

1974

Kostas Kaiafas

Cypriot footballer and manager

Kostas Kaiafas is a Cypriot former football player and manager.

1974

Mireille Enos

American actress

Marie Mireille Enos is an American actress known for the lead role as homicide detective Sarah Linden in the drama series The Killing.

1975

Ethan Moreau

Canadian ice hockey player and scout

Ethan Byron Moreau is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player. Moreau was selected in the first round of the 1994 NHL entry draft, 14th overall, by the Chicago Blackhawks of the National Hockey League (NHL). He…

1975

David Berkeley

American singer-songwriter and guitarist

David Berkeley is an American singer and songwriter.

1976

Mo Collins

American football player and coach (died 2014)

Damon Jamal "Mo" Collins, was an American professional football player who was an offensive lineman in the National Football League (NFL) for six seasons during the 1990s and early 2000s. Collins played college football…

1976

Antti-Jussi Niemi

Finnish ice hockey player

Antti-Jussi Jormanpoika Niemi is a Finnish former professional ice hockey player. Niemi played for Jokerit of the SM-liiga, the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim in the National Hockey League, HC Lada Togliatti in the Kontinental…

1977

Daniella Alonso

American actress and model

Daniella Alonso is an American actress and former fashion model. She has appeared in a number of horror films, including The Hills Have Eyes 2 and Wrong Turn 2: Dead End. Alonso was a regular cast member in the NBC…

1978

Harry Kewell

Australian footballer and coach

Harry Kewell is an Australian soccer coach, manager and former player. He is currently the head coach of V.League 1 club Hanoi FC.

1978

Emilie Autumn

American singer-songwriter, violinist, and poet

Emilie Autumn Liddell is an American singer-songwriter, poet, author, and violinist. Autumn's musical style is described by her as "Fairy Pop", "Fantasy Rock" or "Victoriandustrial". It is influenced by glam rock and…

1979

Swin Cash

American basketball player and executive

Swintayla Marie Cash Canal is an American former professional basketball player. She played in college for the University of Connecticut and professionally for 15 years in the Women's National Basketball Association…

1979

Michael Graziadei

American actor

Michael Graziadei is an American actor, known for his role as Daniel Romalotti on the CBS daytime soap opera The Young and the Restless.

1979

Phil Waugh

Australian rugby player

Phillip Waugh is the chief executive of Rugby Australia and a former rugby union footballer who played 136 matches in Super Rugby for the NSW Waratahs, and in 79 Test matches for the Wallabies. His usual position was…

1979

Ashley Eckstein

American actress

Ashley Eckstein is an American actress and fashion designer. She is the founder of the fashion label Her Universe. She is best known for voicing the role of Ahsoka Tano throughout the Star Wars franchise, beginning with…

1981

Janne Niskala

Finnish ice hockey player

Janne Juhani Niskala is a Finnish former professional ice hockey defenceman. He last played for Lukko of the Finnish Liiga.

1981

Alexei Ramírez

Cuban baseball player

Alexei Fernando Ramírez Rodriguez is a Cuban professional baseball shortstop for Vegueros de Pinar del Río of the Cuban National Series. He previously played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Chicago White Sox, San…

1981

Subaru Shibutani

Japanese singer-songwriter

Subaru Shibutani is a Japanese singer, actor, and lyricist. He began his career as a member of Kansai Johnny's Jr. and later served as the main vocalist of the Japanese boy band Kanjani Eight, which originally debuted…

1981

Ingrid Vetlesen

Norwegian soprano

Ingrid Vetlesen is a Norwegian soprano.

1981

Katie Lowes

American actress

Katie Quinn Lowes is an American actress and theater director. She is best known for her role as Quinn Perkins in the ABC political drama series Scandal (2012–2018) and her portrayal of Rachel DeLoache Williams in the…

1982

Billie Piper

English actress and singer

Billie Paul Piper is an English actress and former singer. She initially gained recognition as a singer after releasing her debut single "Because We Want To" at the age of 15, which made her the youngest female singer…

1982

Maarten Stekelenburg

Dutch footballer

Maarten Stekelenburg is a Dutch former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper.

1982

Glenn Loovens

Dutch professional footballer

Glenn Loovens is a Dutch former professional footballer who played as a centre-back. He represented his national team twice at senior level, and also played abroad for football clubs in England, Wales, Scotland and…

1983

Thiago Silva

Brazilian footballer

Thiago Emiliano da Silva is a Brazilian professional footballer who plays as a centre-back for Primeira Liga club Porto. Regarded as one of the best defenders of his generation, Silva is known for his defensive ability,…

1984

Jerma985

American internet personality

Jerma, or Jerma985, is the pseudonym of an American live streamer, YouTuber, performance artist and voice actor known for his elaborate Twitch live streams incorporating surreal comedy. He has been described as an…

1985

Faris Haroun

Belgian footballer

Faris Dominguere Jenny Haroun is a Belgian former professional footballer who played as a defensive midfielder. He has also played for the Belgium national team.

1985

Jamie Mackie

Scottish footballer

James Charles Mackie is a former Scotland international footballer who played as a striker or winger, most notably for Queens Park Rangers, Plymouth Argyle, and Oxford United.

1985

Tatiana Maslany

Canadian actress

Tatiana Gabriele Maslany is a Canadian actress. She rose to prominence for playing multiple characters in the science-fiction thriller television series Orphan Black (2013–2017), which won her a Primetime Emmy Award…

1985

Ibragim Todashev

Russian-American mixed martial artist (died 2013)

Ibragim Abdulbakievich Todashev was a Chechen-born former mixed martial artist, former amateur boxer and friend of Boston Marathon bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev. He was shot dead at his apartment in Orlando, Florida, by FBI…

1985

Derick Brassard

Canadian ice hockey player

Derick Brassard is a Canadian professional ice hockey centre who currently plays for Genève-Servette HC of the National League (NL). He previously played 16 seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the Columbus…

1987

Stefan Denifl

Austrian cyclist

Stefan Denifl is an Austrian former professional cyclist, who rode professionally between 2006 and 2018 for seven different professional teams. In 2019, Denifl confessed to doping during a five-year period in his…

1987

Tom Felton

English actor

Thomas Andrew Felton is an English actor. Born in Surrey, Felton began appearing in commercials and made his screen debut in the role of Peagreen Clock in The Borrowers (1997). He portrayed Louis T. Leonowens in Anna…

1987

Zdravko Kuzmanović

Serbian footballer

Zdravko Kuzmanović is a former Serbian footballer who played as a defensive or central midfielder. He last played for FC Basel. He represented Serbia in the 2010 FIFA World Cup.

1987

Teyonah Parris

American actress

Teyonah Parris is an American actress. A graduate of Juilliard School, she began acting in 2010. Her first prominent roles were in the drama series Mad Men (2012–2015) and in the independent film Dear White People…

1987

Sana Saeed

Indian actress and model

Sana Saeed is an Indian actress and model, who primarily appears in Bollywood films and Indian television. Her first appearance was as a child artist in Kuch Kuch Hota Hai (1998) and continued to do so in films like Har…

1988

Jon Bass

American actor

Jonathan Bass is an American actor, known for his roles in She-Hulk: Attorney at Law, Super Pumped, Baywatch, and the comedy series Big Time in Hollywood, FL and Miracle Workers.

1989

Kim Hyo-yeon

South Korean singer, dancer, and actress

Kim Hyo-yeon, known professionally as Hyoyeon or DJ Hyo, is a South Korean singer, dancer, and DJ. She debuted as a member of the girl group Girls' Generation in August 2007, which went on to become one of the…

1989

Sabine Lisicki

German tennis player

Sabine Katharina Lisicki is a German inactive professional tennis player.

1989

Denard Robinson

American football player

Denard Xavier Robinson is an American former professional football player. He played four seasons as a running back in the National Football League (NFL), and was a college football All-American for the Michigan…

1990

Kenny Bromwich

New Zealand rugby league player

Kenneath Bromwich is a former New Zealand professional rugby league footballer who last played as a second-row forward for the Dolphins in the National Rugby League (NRL), and represented New Zealand at international…

1991

Philip Hindes

English track cyclist

Philip Hindes MBE is a British former track cyclist, specialising in sprints. He holds dual nationality, having been born in Germany to a British father. Having initially competed for Germany at a junior level, in 2010…

1992

Carlos Correa

Puerto Rican-American baseball player

Carlos Javier Correa Oppenheimer Jr. is a Puerto Rican professional baseball shortstop and third baseman for the Houston Astros of Major League Baseball (MLB). He has previously played in MLB for the Minnesota Twins.…

1994

Jinyoung

South Korean singer, actor, songwriter

Park Jin-young, known mononymously as Jinyoung, and formerly as Jr. and Junior, is a South Korean singer, actor, and songwriter. He is a member of the South Korean boy band Got7 and boy band duo JJ Project. As an actor,…

1994

Haason Reddick

American football player

Haason Samir Reddick is an American professional football linebacker. He played college football for the Temple Owls, and was selected by the Arizona Cardinals in the first round of the 2017 NFL draft. He also played…

1994

Alexander Wennberg

Swedish ice hockey player

Alexander Wennberg is a Swedish professional ice hockey player who is a centre and alternate captain for the San Jose Sharks of the National Hockey League (NHL). He previously played for the Columbus Blue Jackets,…

1994

Nayeon

South Korean singer

Im Na-yeon, known mononymously as Nayeon, is a South Korean singer. She rose to prominence as a member of the South Korean girl group Twice, created by JYP Entertainment through the reality television show Sixteen…

1995

Kim Yo-han

South Korean singer and actor

Kim Yo-han, also known by the mononym Yohan (요한), is a South Korean singer and actor. He is a member of the boy group WEi and a former member of boy group X1, finishing first on Produce X 101. He made his solo debut…

1999

Kim You-jung

South Korean actress

Kim You-jung is a South Korean actress. She started out as a model for a confectionery brand at the age of four and after her acting debut in 2003, Kim became one of the most in-demand child actresses in South Korea…

1999

Louise Christie

British rhythm gymnast

Louise Christie is a British retired rhythmic gymnast. She is the 2022 Commonwealth Games silver medalist with ribbon.

2000

Stephen Crichton

Samoan rugby league footballer

Stephen Crichton is a Samoan professional rugby league footballer who captains and plays as a centre for the Canterbury Bankstown Bulldogs in the National Rugby League. He has represented New South Wales in the State of…

2000

Seungmin

South Korean singer

Kim Seung-min, known mononymously as Seungmin, is a South Korean singer. He is a member of the South Korean boy band Stray Kids, formed by JYP Entertainment in 2017.

2000

Jessie Murph

American singer and songwriter

Jessie Murph is an American singer and songwriter. She was discovered after uploading vlogs and covers to TikTok and YouTube. Her music style spans multiple genres, with critics describing Murph's sound as a mix of…

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Coco Yoshizawa is a Japanese skateboarder. She competed at the 2024 Summer Olympics and won the gold medal in the women's street event.

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Debby Boone — American singer, author, and actress (born 1956)

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Known forShe is best known for her 1977 hit, "You Light Up My Life", which spent ten weeks at No

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