Famous Birthdays By Date

Ryan Williams, American football player

Cooper DeJean, American football player

Jalen Green, American basketball player

Dylan Cozens, Canadian ice hockey player

Cem Bölükbaşı, Turkish racing driver and former sim racer

Isabella Gomez, Colombian-American actress

Jaire Alexander, American football player

Saquon Barkley, American football player

Valentini Grammatikopoulou, Greek tennis player

Jimmy Bennett, American actor

Kelli Berglund, American actress

Chungha, South Korean singer

Sebastián Driussi, Argentinian footballer

André Burakovsky, Swedish ice hockey player

Mario Pašalić, Croatian footballer

Sheraldo Becker, Surinamese footballer

Wataru Endō, Japanese footballer

K. J. McDaniels, American basketball player

Despina Papamichail, Greek tennis player

Niclas Füllkrug, German footballer

Avan Jogia, Canadian actor

Helena Kmieć, Polish Roman Catholic missionary (died 2017)

Logan Ryan, American football player

Randall Delgado, Panamanian baseball player

Tariq Sims, Australian-Fijian rugby league player

Camille Winbush, American actress

Maxime Dufour-Lapointe, Canadian skier

Michael B. Jordan, American actor

Davide Lanzafame, Italian footballer

Rose Leslie, Scottish actress

Magdalena Neuner, German biathlete

Nigel Dawes, Canadian-Kazakhstani ice hockey player

David Gallagher, American actor

Maurice Ager, American basketball player, singer, and producer

Dioner Navarro, Venezuelan baseball player

Shōhōzan Yūya, Japanese sumo wrestler

Mikel Arruabarrena, Spanish footballer

Domingo Cisma, Spanish footballer

Jameer Nelson, American basketball player

Ami Suzuki, Japanese singer-songwriter and actress

Chris Weale, English footballer and manager

Tom Hiddleston, English actor

John Walker Lindh, American Taliban member

Daisuke Sekimoto, Japanese wrestler

The Rev, American musician (died 2009)

Angelos Charisteas, Greek footballer

Margarita Levieva, Russian-American actress

Manu Raju, American journalist

Akinori Iwamura, Japanese baseball player

Irina Slutskaya, Russian figure skater

Zhang Ziyi, Chinese actress and model

A. J. Buckley, Irish-Canadian actor, director, and screenwriter

Charlie Day, American actor, producer, and screenwriter

Kurt Asle Arvesen, Norwegian cyclist and coach

Clinton Grybas, Australian journalist and sportscaster (died 2008)

Vladimir Guerrero, Dominican-American baseball player

Jordi Cruyff, Dutch footballer and manager

Brad Maynard, American football player

Amber Valletta, American model

John Wallace, American basketball player and coach

Svetlana Boginskaya, Belarusian gymnast

Colin Egglesfield, American actor

Makoto Shinkai, Japanese animator, director, and screenwriter

Darren Ferguson, Scottish footballer and manager

Jason Winston George, American actor and model

Sharon Case, American actress and model

Matt Gogel, American golfer

Johan Mjällby, Swedish footballer and manager

Glenn McGrath, Australian cricketer and sportscaster

Jimmy Smith, American football player

Alejandra Guzmán, Mexican singer-songwriter and actress

Derek Strong, American basketball player and race car driver

Gloria Trevi, Mexican singer and actress

Gaston Browne, Antiguan and Barbudan Prime Minister

Venus Lacy, American basketball player

Todd Pratt, American baseball player and coach

Dan Shulman, Canadian sportscaster

Harald Eia, Norwegian comedian, actor, and screenwriter

Dieter Baumann, German runner

Julie Warner, American actress

Debrah Miceli, Italian-American wrestler and manager

Dewi Morris, English rugby player

Ernesto Valverde, Spanish footballer and manager

Brian Greene, American physicist

Peter Rowsthorn, Australian comedian and actor

Travis Tritt, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor

Anik Bissonnette, Canadian ballerina

John Kruk, American baseball player and sportscaster

Holly Johnson, English singer-songwriter and bass player

David Simon, American journalist, author, screenwriter, and television producer

Peggy Whitson, American biochemist and astronaut

Sandy Lyle, Scottish golfer

Chris Nilan, American ice hockey player, coach, and radio host

Terry McAuliffe, American businessman and politician, 72nd Governor of Virginia

Gordon Strachan, Scottish footballer and manager

Phil Ford, American basketball player and coach

Mookie Wilson, American baseball player and coach

Jerry Beck, American historian and author

Jimmy Pursey, English singer-songwriter and producer

Charles Shaughnessy, English actor

Jo Duffy, American author

Chris Gardner, American businessman and philanthropist

Kevin Warwick, English scientist

Ciarán Hinds, Irish actor

Ezechiele Ramin, Italian missionary, priest, and martyr (died 1985)

Gabriel Rotello, American journalist and author, founded OutWeek

Danny White, American football player and sportscaster

David Pomeranz, American singer, musician, and composer

Richard F. Colburn, American sergeant and politician

Bernard Gallacher, Scottish golfer and journalist

Judith Light, American actress

Marcia Garbey, Cuba's first Olympic long jump finalist (died2024)

Guy Standing, English economist and academic

Carla Del Ponte, Swiss lawyer and diplomat

Joe Ely, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2025)

Major Harris, American singer (died 2012)

Alexis Smirnoff, Canadian-American wrestler and actor (died 2019)

Bob Eastwood, American golfer

Vince Papale, American football player and sportscaster

Jim Webb, American captain and politician, 18th United States Secretary of the Navy

Bill Bergey, American football player (died 2024)

Mia Farrow, American actress, activist, and model

Yoshinori Ohsumi, Japanese biologist, 2016 Nobel Prize Laureate in Physiology or Medicine

Carol Wood, American mathematician and academic

Derryn Hinch, New Zealand-Australian radio and television host and politician

Alice Walker, American novelist, short story writer, and poet

Barbara Lewis, American singer-songwriter

Joe Pesci, American actor

Joseph Stiglitz, American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate

Carole King, American singer-songwriter and pianist

Kermit Gosnell, American abortionist and serial killer

Sheila Kuehl, American actress, lawyer, gay rights activist, and politician

Brian Bennett, English drummer and songwriter

J. M. Coetzee, South African-Australian novelist, essayist, and linguist, Nobel Prize laureate

Mahala Andrews, English vertebrae palaeontologist (died 1997)

Barry Mann, American pianist, songwriter, and producer

Janet Suzman, South African-British actress and director

Raul Martirez, Filipino Roman Catholic prelate (died 2024)

Clete Boyer, American baseball player and manager (died 2007)

Fazle Haque, Bengali state minister

Callistus Ndlovu, Zimbabwean academic and politician (died 2019)

Clive Swift, English actor and singer-songwriter (died 2019)

Lionel Fanthorpe, English-Welsh priest, journalist, and author

Tatsuro Hirooka, Japanese baseball player and manager

Gerhard Richter, German painter and photographer

Thomas Bernhard, Austrian author, poet, and playwright (died 1989)

Josef Masopust, Czech footballer and coach (died 2015)

Robert Morris, American sculptor and painter (died 2018)

Garner Ted Armstrong, American evangelist and author (died 2003)

A. R. Antulay, Indian social worker and politician, 8th Chief Minister of Maharashtra (died 2014)

Clement Meadmore, Australian-American sculptor (died 2005)

Frank Frazetta, American painter and illustrator (died 2010)

Rinus Michels, Dutch footballer and coach (died 2005)

Roger Mudd, American journalist (died 2021)

Richard A. Long, American historian and author (died 2013)

Garret FitzGerald, Irish lawyer and politician, 7th Taoiseach of Ireland (died 2011)

John B. Cobb, American philosopher and theologian (died 2024)

Burkhard Heim, German physicist and academic (died 2001)

Brendan Behan, Irish rebel, poet, and playwright (died 1964)

Tonie Nathan, American radio host, producer, and politician (died 2014)

Kathryn Grayson, American actress and soprano (died 2010)

Jim Laker, English cricketer and broadcaster (died 1986)

C. P. Krishnan Nair, Indian businessman, founded The Leela Palaces, Hotels and Resorts (died 2014)

Robert E. Ogren, American zoologist (died 2005)

Fred Allen, New Zealand rugby player and coach (died 2012)

Enrico Schiavetti, Italian football player (died 1993)

John Abramovic, American basketball player (died 2000)

Lloyd Noel Ferguson, American chemist (died 2011)

Tex Hughson, American baseball player (died 1993)

Ernest Tubb, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 1984)

Ginette Leclerc, French actress (died 1992)

Futabayama Sadaji, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 35th Yokozuna (died 1968)

William Orlando Darby, American general (died 1945)

Esa Pakarinen, Finnish actor and musician (died 1989)

Jacques Monod, French biochemist and geneticist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1976)

Marjorie Ogilvie Anderson, Scottish historian (died 2002)

Heather Angel, English-American actress (died 1986)

Carmen Miranda, Portuguese-Brazilian actress, singer, and dancer (died 1955)

Dean Rusk, American colonel and politician, 54th United States Secretary of State (died 1994)

Trường Chinh, Vietnamese politician, 4th President of Vietnam (died 1988)

Dit Clapper, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (died 1978)

Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter, English-Canadian mathematician and academic (died 2003)

André Kostolany, Hungarian-French economist and journalist (died 1999)

David Cecil, 6th Marquess of Exeter, English hurdler and politician (died 1981)

Brian Donlevy, American actor (died 1972)

James Murray, American actor (died 1936)

Jūkichi Yagi, Japanese poet and educator (died 1927)

Charles Kingsford Smith, Australian captain and pilot (died 1935)

Alberto Vargas, Peruvian-American painter and illustrator (died 1982)

Hermann Brill, German lawyer and politician, 8th Minister-President of Thuringia (died 1959)

Georgios Athanasiadis-Novas, Greek lawyer and politician, 163rd Prime Minister of Greece (died 1987)

Peggy Wood, American actress (died 1978)

Ronald Colman, English-American actor (died 1958)

Kristian Krefting, Norwegian footballer and chemical engineer (died 1964)

Pietro Nenni, Italian journalist and politician, Secretary of the Italian Socialist Party (died 1980)

Larry Semon, American actor, producer, director and screenwriter (died 1928)

Alban Berg, Austrian composer and educator (died 1935)

Clarence H. Haring, American historian and author (died 1960)

Jules Berry, French actor and director (died 1951)

Lipót Fejér, Hungarian mathematician and academic (died 1959)

Jack Kirwan, Irish international footballer (died 1959)

Arthur Edward Moore, New Zealand-Australian politician, 23rd Premier of Queensland (died 1963)

Amy Lowell, American poet, critic, and educator (died 1925)

Howard Taylor Ricketts, American pathologist and physician (died 1910)

Natsume Sōseki, Japanese author and poet (died 1916)

Mrs. Patrick Campbell, English-French actress (died 1940)

Erich von Drygalski, German geographer and geophysicist (died 1949)

Miina Härma, Estonian organist, composer, and conductor (died 1941)

Anthony Hope, English author and playwright (died 1933)

Akiyama Yoshifuru, Japanese general (died 1930)

Hara Takashi, Japanese politician, 10th Prime Minister of Japan (died 1921)

Aletta Jacobs, Dutch physician and suffrage activist (died 1929)

Hugh Price Hughes, Welsh-English clergyman and theologian (died 1902)

Wilhelm Maybach, German engineer and businessman, founded Maybach (died 1929)

Whitaker Wright, English businessman and financier (died 1904)

Silas Adams, American colonel, lawyer, and politician (died 1896)

José Burgos, Filipino priest and revolutionary (died 1872)

Felix Dahn, German lawyer, historian, and author (died 1912)

Abdülaziz of the Ottoman Empire, Turkish emperor (died 1876)

Keʻelikōlani, Hawaiian royal and governor (died 1883)

Federico de Madrazo, Spanish painter (died 1894)

Samuel J. Tilden, American lawyer and politician, 28th Governor of New York (died 1886)

Hyrum Smith, American religious leader (died 1844)

Franz Xaver Gabelsberger, German engineer, invented Gabelsberger shorthand (died 1849)

Vasily Zhukovsky, Russian poet and translator (died 1852)

Johann Baptist von Spix, German biologist and explorer (died 1826)

Farkas Bolyai, Hungarian mathematician and academic (died 1856)

William Henry Harrison, American general and politician, 9th President of the United States (died 1841)

George W. Campbell, Scottish-American lawyer and politician, 5th United States Secretary of the Treasury (died 1848)

Louis I, Grand Duke of Baden (died 1830)

Sir John Duckworth, 1st Baronet, English admiral and politician, Commodore Governor of Newfoundland (died 1817)

Henri-Joseph Rigel, German-French composer (died 1799)

Thomas Paine, English-American philosopher, author, and activist (died 1809)

Luis Vicente de Velasco e Isla, Spanish sailor and commander (died 1762)

George Hamilton, 1st Earl of Orkney, Scottish field marshal (died 1737)

Procopio Cutò, French entrepreneur (died 1727)

Johannes Meursius, Dutch classical scholar (died 1639)

Shimazu Yoshihisa, Japanese daimyō (died 1611)

Ali-Shir Nava'i, Turkic poet, linguist, and painter (died 1501)

Meinhard III, count of Tyrol (died 1363)

Maria of Portugal, Queen of Castile, Portuguese infanta (died 1357)

Louis of Toulouse, French bishop (died 1297)

Honorius II, pope of the Catholic Church (died 1130)