Famous Birthdays By Date

Juanlu Sánchez, Spanish footballer

Paola Reis, BMX rider

Chief Keef, American rapper

Setyana Mapasa, Indonesian-Australian badminton player

Lasse Vigen Christensen, Danish footballer

Kosuke Hagino, Japanese swimmer

Clinton N'Jie, Cameroonian footballer

Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain, English footballer

Baskaran Adhiban, Indian chess player

Matthew Judon, American football player

Petja Piiroinen, Finnish snowboarder

Jennifer Lawrence, American actress

Joe Jonas, American singer-songwriter

Ryan McGowan, Australian footballer

Carlos PenaVega, American actor and singer

Jordan Rapana, New Zealand rugby league player

Oussama Assaidi, Moroccan footballer

Boban Marjanović, Serbian basketball player

Ryan D'Imperio, American football player

Michel Kreder, Dutch cyclist

Sean McAllister, English footballer

Nipsey Hussle, American rapper (died 2019)

Jarrod Dyson, American baseball player

Emily Kinney, American actress and singer-songwriter

Siobhan Chamberlain, English association football goalkeeper

Rachel Haot, American businesswoman

Casey Burgener, American weightlifter

David Harrison, American basketball player

Brendan Hansen, American swimmer

Óliver Pérez, American baseball player

Fiann Paul, Icelandic explorer

Carl Edwards, American race car driver

Waleed Aly, Australian journalist and television host

Lilia Podkopayeva, Ukrainian gymnast

Stavros Tziortziopoulos, Greek footballer

Kerri Walsh Jennings, American volleyball player

Martin Biron, Canadian ice hockey player

Anthony Rocca, Australian footballer and coach

Boudewijn Zenden, Dutch footballer and manager

Bertrand Berry, American football player and radio host

Vijay Bharadwaj, Indian cricketer and coach

Brendan Morrison, Canadian ice hockey player

Kara Wolters, American basketball player

Natasha Henstridge, Canadian model and actress

Tomasz Suwary, Polish footballer

Ben Affleck, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter

Jennifer Alexander, Canadian ballerina (died 2007)

Mikey Graham, Irish singer

Adnan Sami, Indian singer, musician, music composer, pianist and actor

Anthony Anderson, American comedian, actor, and producer

Ben Silverman, American actor, producer, and screenwriter, founded Electus Studios

Bernard Fanning, Australian singer-songwriter

Carlos Roa, Argentine footballer

Debra Messing, American actress

Tony Hand, Scottish ice hockey player and coach

Peter Hermann, American actor

Scott Brosius, American baseball player and coach

Dimitris Papadopoulos, Greek basketball player and coach

Rob Thomas, American author, screenwriter, and producer

Jane Ellison, English lawyer and politician

Melinda Gates, American businesswoman and philanthropist, co-founded the Gates Foundation

Alejandro González Iñárritu, Mexican director, producer, and screenwriter

Simon Hart, Welsh soldier and politician

Jack Russell, English cricketer and coach

Tom Colicchio, American chef and author

Rıdvan Dilmen, Turkish footballer and manager

Inês Pedrosa, Portuguese writer

Vilja Savisaar-Toomast, Estonian lawyer and politician

Ed Gillespie, American political strategist

Matt Johnson, English singer-songwriter and musician

Gary Kubiak, American football player and coach

Suhasini Maniratnam, Indian actress and screenwriter

Scott Altman, American captain, pilot, and astronaut

Simon Baron-Cohen, English-Canadian psychiatrist and author

Craig MacTavish, Canadian ice hockey player and coach

Simple Kapadia, Indian actress and costume designer (died 2009)

Victor Shenderovich, Russian journalist and radio host

Rondell Sheridan, American actor and comedian

Željko Ivanek, Slovenian-American actor

Lorraine Desmarais, Canadian pianist and composer

Freedom Neruda, Ivorian journalist

Robert Syms, English businessman and politician

Stieg Larsson, Swedish journalist and author (died 2004)

Carol Thatcher, English journalist and author

Mark Thatcher, English businessman

Wolfgang Hohlbein, German author

Chuck Burgi, American drummer

Ann Biderman, American screenwriter and producer

Bobby Caldwell, American singer-songwriter (died 2023)

John Childs, English cricketer

Tommy Aldridge, American drummer

Tess Harper, American actress

Tom Kelly, American baseball player

Anne, Princess Royal of the United Kingdom

Phyllis Smith, American actress

Patsy Gallant, Canadian singer-songwriter and actress

Tom Johnston, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

Rakhee Gulzar, Indian film actress

Jimmy Webb, American singer-songwriter and pianist

Khaleda Zia, Bangladeshi politician, Prime Minister of Bangladesh (died 2025)

Dimitris Sioufas, Greek lawyer and politician, Greek Minister of Health (died 2019)

Eileen Bell, Northern Irish civil servant and politician, 2nd Speaker of the Northern Ireland Assembly

Pete York, English rock drummer

Jim Brothers, American sculptor (died 2013)

Don Rich, American country musician (died 1974)

Gudrun Ensslin, German militant leader, founded Red Army Faction (died 1977)

Stephen Breyer, American lawyer and jurist, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States

Stix Hooper, American jazz drummer

Pran Kumar Sharma, Indian cartoonist (died 2014)

Maxine Waters, American educator and politician

Janusz Zajdel, Polish engineer and author (died 1985)

Pat Priest, American actress

Rita Shane, American soprano and educator (died 2014)

Jim Dale, English actor, narrator, singer, director, and composer

Régine Deforges, French author, playwright, and director (died 2014)

Bobby Byrd, American singer-songwriter and producer (died 2007)

Purushottam Upadhyay, Indian musician, singer and composer (died 2024)

Reginald Scarlett, Jamaican cricketer and coach (died 2019)

Darrell K. Sweet, American illustrator (died 2011)

Valentin Varlamov, Soviet pilot and cosmonaut instructor (died 1980)

Bobby Helms, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 1997)

Stanley Milgram, American social psychologist (died 1984)

Mike Seeger, American folk musician and folklorist (died 2009)

Abby Dalton, American actress (died 2020)

Robert L. Forward, American physicist and engineer (died 2002)

Jim Lange, American game show host and DJ (died 2014)

Johan Steyn, Baron Steyn, South African-English lawyer and judge (died 2017)

Ernest C. Brace, American captain and pilot (died 2014)

Richard F. Heck, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2015)

Carl Joachim Classen, German scholar and academic (died 2013)

Malcolm Glazer, American businessman and sports team owner (died 2014)

Nicolas Roeg, English director and cinematographer (died 2018)

Eddie Leadbeater, English cricketer (died 2011)

Oliver Popplewell, English cricketer and judge (died 2024)

Julius Katchen, American pianist and composer (died 1969)

Eddie Little Sky, American actor (died 1997)

Sami Michael, Iraqi-Israeli author and playwright (died 2024)

John Silber, American philosopher and academic (died 2012)

Konstantinos Stephanopoulos, Greek lawyer and politician, 6th President of Greece (died 2016)

Mike Connors, American actor and producer (died 2017)

Rose Maddox, American singer-songwriter and fiddle player (died 1998)

Oscar Peterson, Canadian pianist and composer (died 2007)

Bill Pinkney, American singer (died 2007)

Erik Schmidt, Swedish-Estonian painter and author (died 2014)

Robert Bolt, English playwright and screenwriter (died 1995)

Hedy Epstein, German-American Holocaust survivor and activist (died 2016)

Yoshirō Muraki, Japanese production designer, art director, and fashion designer (died 2009)

Phyllis Schlafly, American lawyer, writer, and political activist (died 2016)

Rose Marie, American actress and singer (died 2017)

Leonard Baskin, American sculptor and illustrator (died 2000)

Giorgos Mouzakis, Greek trumpet player and composer (died 2005)

Sabino Barinaga, Spanish footballer and manager (died 1988)

August Kowalczyk, Polish actor and director (died 2012)

Judy Cassab, Austrian-Australian painter (died 2008)

Huntz Hall, American actor (died 1999)

Benedict Kiely, Irish journalist and author (died 2007)

Jack Lynch, Irish footballer and politician, 5th Taoiseach of Ireland (died 1999)

Óscar Romero, Salvadoran archbishop (died 1980)

Aleks Çaçi, Albanian journalist and author (died 1989)

Signe Hasso, Swedish-American actress (died 2002)

Paul Rand, American graphic designer and art director (died 1996)

Julia Child, American chef and author (died 2004)

Wendy Hiller, English actress (died 2003)

Hugo Winterhalter, American composer and bandleader (died 1973)

George Klein, Canadian inventor, invented the motorized wheelchair (died 1992)

Jan Campert, Dutch journalist and critic (died 1943)

Arnulfo Arias Madrid, Panamanian politician, 21st President of Panamá (died 1988)

Pyotr Novikov, Russian mathematician and theorist (died 1975)

Estelle Brody, American silent film actress (died 1995)

Jack Tworkov, Polish-American painter and educator (died 1982)

Jan Brzechwa, Polish author and poet (died 1966)

Gerty Cori, Czech-American biochemist and physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1957)

Catherine Doherty, Russian-Canadian activist, founded the Madonna House Apostolate (died 1985)

Paul Outerbridge, American photographer and educator (died 1958)

Leslie Comrie, New Zealand astronomer and academic (died 1950)

Louis de Broglie, French physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1987)

Abraham Wachner, New Zealand politician, 35th Mayor of Invercargill (died 1950)

Jacques Ibert, French composer and educator (died 1962)

Bill Whitty, Australian cricketer (died 1974)

Edna Ferber, American novelist, short story writer, and playwright (died 1968)

Ivan Meštrović, Croatian sculptor and architect (died 1962)

Marion Bauer, American composer and critic (died 1955)

Gisela Richter, English archaeologist and art historian (died 1972)

Alfred Wagenknecht, German-American activist and politician (died 1956)

Ethel Barrymore, American actress (died 1959)

Tachiyama Mineemon, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 22nd Yokozuna (died 1941)

Stylianos Gonatas, Greek colonel and politician, 111th Prime Minister of Greece (died 1966)

Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, English pianist, violinist, and composer (died 1912)

Ramaprasad Chanda, Indian archaeologist and historian (died 1942)

Sri Aurobindo, Indian guru, poet, and philosopher (died 1950)

Italo Santelli, Italian fencer (died 1945)

Mikao Usui, Japanese spiritual leader, founded Reiki (died 1926)

Aleksey Krylov, Russian mathematician and engineer (died 1945)

Florence Harding, American publisher, 31st First Lady of the United States (died 1924)

Charles Comiskey, American baseball player and manager (died 1931)

E. Nesbit, English author and poet (died 1924)

Albert Ballin, German businessman (died 1918)

Keir Hardie, Scottish politician and trade unionist (died 1915)

Walter Crane, English artist and book illustrator (died 1915)

Thomas-Alfred Bernier, Canadian journalist, lawyer, and politician (died 1908)

Antonín Petrof, Czech piano maker (died 1915)

John Chisum, American businessman (died 1884)

Louise Colet, French poet (died 1876)

Jules Grévy, French lawyer and politician, 4th President of the French Republic (died 1891)

Sangolli Rayanna, Indian warrior (died 1831)

Eliza Lee Cabot Follen, American writer, editor, abolitionist (died 1860)

Thomas De Quincey, English journalist and author (died 1859)

Walter Scott, Scottish novelist, playwright, and poet (died 1832)

Napoleon Bonaparte, French general and emperor (died 1821)

Matthias Claudius, German poet and author (died 1815)

Johann Christoph Kellner, German organist and composer (died 1803)

Blind Jack, English engineer (died 1810)

Francesco Zuccarelli, Italian painter and Royal Academician (died 1788)

John Grubb, American politician (died 1708)

Marie de Lorraine, duchess of Guise (died 1688)

Gilles Ménage, French lawyer, philologist, and scholar (died 1692)

Henry Howard, 22nd Earl of Arundel, English politician (died 1652)

Herman IV, landgrave of Hesse-Rotenburg (died 1658)

Gabriel Báthory, Prince of Transylvania (died 1613)

Bartol Kašić, Croatian linguist and lexicographer (died 1650)

George III, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau, German prince (died 1553)

George, duke of Bavaria (died 1503)

Luigi Pulci, Italian poet (died 1484)

Richard de Vere, 11th Earl of Oxford, English commander (died 1417)

Anthony of Padua, Portuguese priest and saint (died 1231)

Alfonso IX, king of León and Galicia (died 1230)

Teishi, empress of Japan (died 1094)