Famous Birthdays By Date

Violet McGraw, American actress

Danni Wyatt, English cricketer

Machine Gun Kelly, American rapper, singer, songwriter, actor

Kevin Kiermaier, American baseball player

Eve Muirhead, Scottish curler

Dee Strange-Gordon, American baseball player

David Luiz, Brazilian footballer

Amber Heard, American actress

Marshawn Lynch, American football player

Sam W. Heads, English-American entomologist and palaeontologist

Shkëlzen Shala, Albanian entrepreneur and veganism activist

Kaká, Brazilian footballer

Quincy Timberlake, Kenyan-Australian activist, engineer, and politician

Zoltán Gera, Hungarian international footballer and manager

Daniel Johns, Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist

Paul Malakwen Kosgei, Kenyan runner and coach

Dan Cloutier, Canadian ice hockey player and coach

Regine Velasquez, Filipino singer and actress

David J. C. MacKay, English physicist, engineer, and academic (died 2016)

Sherri Shepherd, American actress, comedian, and television personality

Mickey Morandini, American baseball player and manager

Jeffrey Dean Morgan, American actor

Rosalind Gill, English sociologist and academic

Sean Lock, English comedian and actor (died 2021)

Jeff Minter, British video game designer and programmer

Danièle Sauvageau, Canadian ice hockey player and coach

Jeff Hostetler, American football player

Alo Mattiisen, Estonian composer (died 1996)

Mart Laar, Estonian historian and politician, 9th Prime Minister of Estonia

Terry Francona, American baseball player and manager

Ryan Stiles, American-Canadian actor and comedian

Donald Tusk, Polish journalist and politician, 14th Prime Minister of Poland

Marilyn Chambers, American actress

Aivars Kalējs, Latvian organist, composer, and pianist

Ana María Shua, Argentinian author and poet

Peter Frampton, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer

Jancis Robinson, English journalist and critic

Lee Tamahori, New Zealand film director (died 2025)

Spencer Haywood, American basketball player

John Pritchard, English bishop

Steven L. Bennett, American captain and pilot, Medal of Honor recipient (died 1972)

Paul Davies, English physicist and author

Louise Harel, Canadian lawyer and politician

Archy Kirkwood, Baron Kirkwood of Kirkhope, Scottish lawyer and politician

Nicholas Stern, Baron Stern of Brentford, English economist and academic

John Waters, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter

Eddy Baldewijns, Belgian politician

Gopalkrishna Gandhi, Indian civil servant and politician, 22nd Governor of West Bengal

Demetrio Stratos, Greek-Egyptian singer-songwriter (died 1979)

Steve Fossett, American businessman, pilot, and sailor (died 2007)

Doug Jarrett, Canadian ice hockey player (died 2014)

Joshua Rifkin, American conductor and musicologist

Keith Crisco, American businessman and politician (died 2014)

Janet Evanovich, American author

Louise Glück, American poet (died 2023)

John Maples, Baron Maples, English lawyer and politician, Shadow Secretary of State for Defence (died 2012)

Scott W. Williams, American mathematician and professor

Giorgio Agamben, Italian philosopher and academic

Mary Prior, English politician, Lord Lieutenant of Bristol

Greville Howard, Baron Howard of Rising, English politician

Mel Carter, American singer and actor

John Foley, English general and politician, Lieutenant Governor of Guernsey

Ray Guy, Canadian journalist and author (died 2013)

Jason Miller, American actor and playwright (died 2001)

Theodor Waigel, German lawyer and politician, German Federal Minister of Finance

Alan Bond, English-Australian businessman (died 2015)

Gani Fawehinmi, Nigerian lawyer and activist (died 2009)

Issey Miyake, Japanese fashion designer (died 2022)

Adam Raphael, English journalist and author

Jack Nicholson, American actor and producer

Jack Nitzsche, American singer-songwriter, pianist, and conductor (died 2000)

Glen Campbell, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor (died 2017)

Pierre Hétu, Canadian pianist and conductor (died 1998)

Christopher Ball, English linguist and academic

Paul Chambers, African-American bassist and composer (died 1969)

Bhama Srinivasan, Indian-American mathematician and academic

Anthony Llewellyn, Welsh-American chemist and astronaut (died 2013)

John Buchanan, Canadian lawyer and politician, 20th Premier of Nova Scotia (died 2019)

Ronald Hynd, English dancer and choreographer

Enno Penno, Estonian politician, Prime Minister of Estonia in exile (died 2016)

Michael Atiyah, English-Lebanese mathematician and academic (died 2019)

Robert Wade-Gery, English diplomat, British High Commissioner to India (died 2015)

Estelle Harris, American actress and comedian (died 2022)

Laurel Aitken, Cuban-Jamaican singer (died 2005)

Charlotte Rae, American actress and singer (died 2018)

James Stirling, Scottish architect, designed the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart and Seeley Historical Library (died 1992)

Nam Duck-woo, South Korean politician, 12th Prime Minister of South Korea (died 2013)

Peter Kane Dufault, American soldier, pilot, and poet (died 2013)

Bettie Page, American model and actress (died 2008)

Aaron Spelling, American actor, producer, and screenwriter (died 2006)

Richard Diebenkorn, American soldier and painter (died 1993)

Charles Mingus, American bassist, composer, and bandleader (died 1979)

Wolf V. Vishniac, American microbiologist and academic (died 1973)

Donald J. Cram, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2001)

Carl Lindner, Jr., American businessman and philanthropist (died 2011)

William Jay Smith, American poet and academic (died 2015)

Mickey Vernon, American baseball player and coach (died 2008)

Yvette Chauviré, French ballerina (died 2016)

Sidney Nolan, Australian painter (died 1992)

Hanfried Lenz, German mathematician and academic (died 2013)

Yehudi Menuhin, American-Swiss violinist and conductor (died 1999)

Baldev Raj Chopra, Indian director and producer (died 2008)

Jan de Hartog, Dutch-American author and playwright (died 2002)

José Quiñones Gonzales, Peruvian soldier and pilot (died 1941)

Michael Wittmann, German SS officer (died 1944)

Kathleen Ferrier, English operatic singer (died 1953)

Kaneto Shindo, Japanese director, producer, and screenwriter (died 2012)

Norman Steenrod, American mathematician and academic (died 1971)

Rita Levi-Montalcini, Italian neurologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2012)

Indro Montanelli, Italian journalist and historian (died 2001)

Spyros Markezinis, Greek politician, Prime Minister of Greece (died 2000)

Eric Fenby, English composer and educator (died 1997)

Prince Gustaf Adolf, Duke of Västerbotten (died 1947)

Robert Choquette, American-Canadian author, poet, and diplomat (died 1991)

J. Robert Oppenheimer, American physicist and academic (died 1967)

Nellie Beer, British politician, Lord Mayor of Manchester (died 1988)

Vladimir Nabokov, Russian-born novelist and critic (died 1977)

Vernon Johns, African-American minister and activist (died 1965)

Laura Gilpin, American photographer (died 1979)

Vittorio Jano, Italian engineer (died 1965)

Harold Jeffreys, English mathematician, geophysicist, and astronomer (died 1989)

Nicola Sacco, Italian-American anarchist (died 1927)

Richard Glücks, German SS officer (died 1945)

Harald Bohr, Danish mathematician and footballer (died 1951)

Izidor Cankar, Slovenian historian, author, and diplomat (died 1958)

Otto Rank, Austrian-American psychologist and academic (died 1939)

Bernhard Gregory, Estonian-German chess player (died 1939)

Róbert Bárány, Austrian-Swedish otologist and physician, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1936)

Georg Lurich, Estonian wrestler and strongman (died 1920)

Wu Peifu, Chinese warlord, politician, and marshal of the Beiyang Army (died 1939)

Ellen Glasgow, American author (died 1945)

Princess Margaret of Prussia (died 1954)

Vladimir Lenin, Russian revolutionary and founder of Soviet Russia (died 1924)

Ethel Smyth, English composer (died 1944)

Fritz Mayer van den Bergh, Belgian art collector and art historian (died 1901)

Henri La Fontaine, Belgian lawyer and author, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1943)

William IV, Grand Duke of Luxembourg (died 1912)

Lewis Powell, American soldier, attempted assassin of William H. Seward (died 1865)

Julius Sterling Morton, American journalist and politician, 3rd United States Secretary of Agriculture (died 1902)

Emily Davies, British suffragist and educator, co-founder and an early Mistress of Girton College, Cambridge University (died 1921)

Charles-Denis Bourbaki, French general (died 1897)

Solomon Caesar Malan, Swiss-English orientalist (died 1894)

Germaine de Staël, French author and political philosopher (died 1817)

James Sullivan, American lawyer and politician, 7th Governor of Massachusetts (died 1808)

John Johnson, English architect and surveyor (died 1814)

Immanuel Kant, German anthropologist, philosopher, and academic (died 1804)

Paul II Anton, Prince Esterházy, Austrian soldier (died 1762)

Henry Fielding, English novelist and playwright (died 1754)

John Carteret, 2nd Earl Granville, English politician, Lord President of the Council (died 1763)

Giuseppe Torelli, Italian violinist and composer (died 1709)

Pope Alexander VIII (died 1691)

Wilhelm Schickard, German astronomer and mathematician (died 1635)

Antoine of Navarre (died 1562)

Isabella I of Castile (died 1504)

Elizabeth of York, Duchess of Suffolk (died 1503)

Reinhard III, Count of Hanau (1451–1452) (died 1452)