Famous Birthdays By Date

Josh Wilson-Esbrand, English footballer

Aleksej Pokuševski, Serbian basketball player

Tamara Zidanšek, Slovenian tennis player

Colby Cave, Canadian ice hockey player (died 2020)

Souleymane Coulibaly, Ivorian footballer

Cecilia Costa Melgar, Chilean tennis player

Jade Thirlwall, English singer

Brandon Scherff, American football player

Eden Sher, American actress

Trevor Siemian, American football player

Denis Cheryshev, Russian footballer

Cory Jefferson, American basketball player

Aaron Ramsey, Welsh footballer

Yohan Blake, Jamaican sprinter

Sofiane Feghouli, Algerian footballer

Tomáš Kundrátek, Czech ice hockey player

Oskar Osala, Finnish ice hockey player

Joe Alexander, American-Israeli basketball player

Kit Harington, English actor

Hugo Lloris, French footballer

Selen Soyder, Turkish actress and beauty queen

Damir Markota, Croatian basketball player

Ahmed Barusso, Ghanaian footballer

Leonardo Ghiraldini, Italian rugby player

Alex Schwazer, Italian race walker

Jeroen Soete, Belgian politician

Yu Takahashi, Japanese singer-songwriter

Alexander Wang, American fashion designer

Kenneth Darby, American football player

Noel Hunt, Irish footballer

Aksel Lund Svindal, Norwegian skier

Pablo Canavosio, Argentine-Italian rugby player

Omar Infante, Venezuelan baseball player

Todd Dunivant, American soccer player

Ceylan Ertem, Turkish singer

Fabián Carini, Uruguayan footballer

Chris Daughtry, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

Dimitry Vassiliev, Russian ski jumper

Craig Wing, Australian rugby player

Karel Rüütli, Estonian lawyer and politician

Kaoru Sugayama, Japanese volleyball player

Fatih Akyel, Turkish footballer and manager

Adrienn Hegedűs, Hungarian tennis player

Simon Goodwin, Australian footballer and coach

Chris Calaguio, Filipino basketball player

Marcelo Ríos, Chilean tennis player

María Vasco, Spanish race walker

Joshua John Miller, American actor, director, and screenwriter

Paulo Frederico Benevenute, Brazilian footballer

Gianluca Faliva, Italian rugby player

Nobuhiko Matsunaka, Japanese baseball player

Steve Prescott, English rugby player (died 2013)

Gaby Colebunders, Belgian politician

Esteban Fuertes, Argentinian footballer

Robert Muchamore, English author

Jared Leto, American actor and musician

Mika Nurmela, Finnish footballer

Tatiana Sorokko, Russian-American model and journalist

James Mercer, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

Isaac Viciosa, Spanish runner

Matt Zoller Seitz, American film critic and author

Jay Farrar, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

Tim Legler, American basketball player and sportscaster

Elizabeth Kostova, American author

Craig Teitzel, Australian rugby league player

Lars Ulrich, Danish-American drummer, songwriter, and producer

James Kottak, American drummer (died 2024)

Mark Starr, English wrestler (died 2013)

Andrew Lock, Australian mountaineer

Keith Martin Ball, American mathematician and academic

Ruud Kaiser, Dutch footballer and manager

Cem Uzan, Turkish businessman and politician

Wang Lijun, Chinese police officer and politician

Kōji Morimoto, Japanese animator and director

Hans Nielsen, Danish motorcycle racer

Adrian Newey, English aerodynamicist and engineer

Dermot Murnaghan, English-Northern Irish journalist and game show host

David Sedaris, American comedian, author, and radio host

Evan Bayh, American lawyer and politician, 46th Governor of Indiana

Peter Hillary, New Zealand mountaineer and philanthropist

Ozzie Smith, American baseball player and sportscaster

Leonel Fernández, Dominican lawyer and politician, 51st President of the Dominican Republic

Toomas Hendrik Ilves, Swedish-Estonian journalist and politician, 4th President of Estonia

Makis Katsavakis, Greek footballer and manager

Henning Schmitz, German drummer

Raja Pervaiz Ashraf, Pakistani businessman and politician, 17th Prime Minister of Pakistan

Mario Mendoza, Mexican baseball player and manager

José Ramos-Horta, East Timorese lawyer and politician, 2nd President of East Timor, Nobel Prize laureate

Candy Crowley, American journalist

James T. Conway, American general

Jean Echenoz, French author

Carlton Fisk, American baseball player

Josef Janíček, Czech singer-songwriter, guitarist, and keyboard player

Liz Lochhead, Scottish poet and playwright

Richard Levis McCormick, American historian and academic

Alan Frumin, American lawyer and politician

Tiit Rosenberg, Estonian historian and academic

John Walsh, American television host, producer, and activist, created America's Most Wanted

William Ayers, American academic and activist

Vinicio Cerezo, Guatemalan politician, 28th President of Guatemala

Catherine Coulter, American author

Gray Davis, American captain, lawyer, and politician, 37th Governor of California

Daniel Schmid, Swiss actor, director, and screenwriter (died 2006)

Edward C. Prescott, American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2022)

Ray Sadecki, American baseball player (died 2014)

Fred Schepisi, Australian director and screenwriter

Phil Spector, American singer-songwriter and producer (died 2021)

Bahram Beyzai, Iranian director, screenwriter, and playwright (died 2025)

Robert Hamerton-Kelly, South African-American pastor, scholar, and author (died 2013)

Alamgir Kabir, Bangladeshi director, producer, and screenwriter (died 1989)

Mirko Kovač, Yugoslav-Croatian author, playwright, and screenwriter (died 2013)

John Horton Conway, English mathematician, known for Conway's Game of Life (died 2020)

Kitty Dukakis, American author, First Lady of Massachusetts (died 2025)

Peep Jänes, Estonian architect

Trevor Taylor, English race car driver (died 2010)

Rohan Kanhai, Guyanese cricketer

Norm Ullman, Canadian ice hockey player

Caroll Spinney, American puppeteer and voice actor (died 2019)

Jean Ferrat, French singer-songwriter and poet (died 2010)

Harry Gamble, American football player, coach, and manager (died 2014)

Donald Moffat, English-American actor (died 2018)

Kathleen Crowley, American actress (died 2017)

Régine Zylberberg, Belgian-French singer and actress (died 2022)

Martin Cooper, American engineer, invented the mobile phone

Denis Gifford, English journalist and historian (died 2000)

Alan King, American actor, producer, and screenwriter (died 2004)

Stu Miller, American baseball player (died 2015)

Denis Quilley, English actor (died 2003)

Earle Brown, American composer (died 2002)

Frank Broyles, American football player, coach, and sportscaster (died 2017)

Richard Artschwager, American painter, illustrator, and sculptor (died 2013)

Richard Mayes, English actor (died 2006)

Steve Allen, American actor, singer, talk show host, and screenwriter (died 2000)

John Severin, American illustrator (died 2012)

Olga Lopes-Seale, Guyanese-Barbadian singer and radio host (died 2011)

Georgios Rallis, Greek lieutenant and politician, 173rd Prime Minister of Greece (died 2006)

Rolf Botvid, Swedish actor and screenwriter (died 1998)

Richard Widmark, American actor (died 2008)

Frank Swift, English footballer and journalist (died 1958)

Arsenio Lacson, Filipino journalist and politician, Mayor of Manila (died 1962)

Imperio Argentina, Argentine-Spanish actress and singer (died 2003)

Marguerite Churchill, American actress (died 2000)

Matt Gordy, American pole vaulter (died 1989)

Ralph Hill, American runner (died 1994)

Albert Gore, Sr., American lawyer and politician (died 1998)

William Loeb III, American publisher (died 1981)

Alejo Carpentier, Swiss-Cuban musicologist and author (died 1980)

Elisha Cook, Jr., American actor (died 1995)

Anatoli Lvovich Kaplan, Russian painter and sculptor (died 1980)

Elmar Muuk, Estonian linguist and author (died 1941)

Evelyn Bark, leading member of the British Red Cross, first female recipient of the CMG (died 1993)

Jean Toomer, American author and poet (died 1967)

Mao Zedong, Chinese politician, Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party (died 1976)

Don Barclay, American actor and illustrator (died 1975)

Henry Miller, American author and painter (died 1980)

Konstantinos Georgakopoulos, Greek lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of Greece (died 1973)

Percy Hodge, English runner (died 1967)

Ragnhild Kaarbø, Norwegian painter (died 1949)

Marius Canard, French orientalist and historian (died 1982)

Arthur Percival, English general (died 1966)

Bazoline Estelle Usher, African-American educator (died 1992)

Maurice Utrillo, French painter (died 1955)

Khan Bahadur Ahsanullah, Bangladeshi theologian and academic (died 1965)

Thomas Wass, English cricketer (died 1953)

Norman Angell, English journalist, academic, and politician, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1967)

Virginia Bolten, Argentine feminist and trade unionist (died 1960)

Mathieu Cordang, Dutch cyclist (died 1942)

Phan Bội Châu, Vietnamese activist (died 1940)

Yun Chi-ho, Korean activist and politician (died 1945)

Charles Pathé, French record producer, co-founded Pathé Records (died 1957)

William Stephens, American lawyer and politician, 24th Governor of California (died 1944)

José Yves Limantour, Mexican financier and politician, Mexican Secretary of Finance (died 1935)

René Bazin, French author and academic (died 1932)

Johannes François Snelleman, Dutch zoologist, orientalist, and ethnographer (died 1938)

Morgan Bulkeley, American soldier and politician, 54th Governor of Connecticut (died 1922)

George Dewey, American admiral (died 1917)

Dion Boucicault, Irish actor and playwright (died 1890)

E. D. E. N. Southworth, American author and educator (died 1899)

Friedrich Reinhold Kreutzwald, Estonian physician and author (died 1882)

Charles Babbage, English mathematician and engineer, invented the Difference engine (died 1871)

Étienne Constantin de Gerlache, Belgian lawyer and politician, 1st Prime Minister of Belgium (died 1871)

Philaret Drozdov, Russian metropolitan and saint (died 1867)

Mary Somerville, Scottish mathematician, astronomer, and author (died 1872)

Ernst Moritz Arndt, German writer and poet (died 1860)

Lord George Gordon, English lieutenant and politician (died 1793)

Clemens Maria Hofbauer, Austrian priest, missionary, and saint (died 1820)

Prince Josias of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld (died 1815)

Friedrich Melchior, Baron von Grimm, German-French author and playwright (died 1807)

Thomas Gray, English poet and scholar (died 1771)

Jean François de Saint-Lambert, French soldier and philosopher (died 1803)

Johann Georg Pisendel, German violinist and composer (died 1755)

Robert Bolling, English/English Colonial merchant and planter (died 1709)

John Page, English Colonial politician (died 1692)

Elisabeth of the Palatinate, German princess, philosopher, and Calvinist (died 1680)

Philip III, Landgrave of Hesse-Butzbach (died 1643)

Albert, Count of Nassau-Weilburg (died 1593)

Yi I, Korean philosopher and scholar (died 1584)

Wilhelm Xylander, German scholar and academic (died 1576)

Rose Lok, businesswoman and Protestant exile (died 1613)

Charles de Valois, Duke de Berry, French noble (died 1472)

Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor (died 1250)