Famous Birthdays By Date

Nico Williams, Spanish footballer

Kaylee McKeown, Australian swimmer

Vinícius Júnior, Brazilian footballer

Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, Canadian basketball player

Claire Chicha, French Korean singer-songwriter known by the stage name Spill Tab

Jean-Kévin Duverne, French footballer

Malala Yousafzai, Pakistani-English activist, Nobel Prize laureate

Moussa Dembélé, French footballer

Jordan Romero, American mountaineer

Evania Pelite, Australian rugby union player

Luke Shaw, English footballer

Moses Simon, Nigerian footballer

Jordyn Wieber, American gymnast

Kanako Momota, Japanese singer-songwriter

Bartosz Bereszyński, Polish footballer

Luke Berry, English footballer

Salih Dursun, Turkish footballer

James Rodríguez, Colombian footballer

Pablo Carreño Busta, Spanish tennis player

Bebé, Portuguese footballer

Rachel Brosnahan, American actress

Nick Palmieri, American ice hockey player

Phoebe Tonkin, Australian actress

Patrick Beverley, American basketball player

LeSean McCoy, American football player

Inbee Park, South Korean golfer

Didier Digard, French footballer

Hannaliis Jaadla, Estonian footballer

JP Pietersen, South African rugby player

Simone Laudehr, German footballer

Paulo Vitor Barreto, Brazilian footballer

Gianluca Curci, Italian footballer

Keven Lacombe, Canadian cyclist

Ismael Londt, Surinamese-Dutch kickboxer

Gareth Gates, English singer-songwriter

Jonathan Lewis, American football player

Natalie Martinez, American actress

Michael McGovern, Northern Irish footballer

Sami Zayn, Canadian professional wrestler

Antonio Cassano, Italian footballer

Jason Wright, American football player, businessman, and executive

Adrienne Camp, South African singer-songwriter

Pradeepan Raveendran, Sri Lankan director, producer, and screenwriter

Kristen Connolly, American actress

Nikos Barlos, Greek basketball player

Maya Kobayashi, Japanese journalist

Topher Grace, American actor

Michelle Rodriguez, American actress

Neil Harris, English footballer and manager

Steve Howey, American actor

Brock Lesnar, American mixed martial artist and wrestler

Francesca Lubiani, Italian tennis player

Marco Silva, Portuguese football manager

Dan Boyle, Canadian ice hockey player

Anna Friel, English actress

Tracie Spencer, American singer-songwriter and actress

Sharon den Adel, Dutch singer-songwriter

Stelios Giannakopoulos, Greek footballer and manager

Gregory Shane Helms, American professional wrestler

Christian Vieri, Italian footballer

Jake Wood, English actor

Andriy Kovalenco, Ukrainian-Spanish rugby player

Loni Love, American comedian, actress, and talk show host

Kristi Yamaguchi, American figure skater

Aure Atika, Portuguese-French actress, director, and screenwriter

Lee Byung-hun, South Korean actor, singer, and dancer

Susan Tyler Witten, American politician

Chantal Jouanno, French politician, French Minister of Youth Affairs and Sports

Alan Mullally, English cricketer and sportscaster

Anne-Sophie Pic, French chef

Jesse Pintado, Mexican-American guitarist (died 2006)

Catherine Plewinski, French swimmer

Richard Herring, English comedian and screenwriter

Mac McCaughan, American singer and guitarist

John Petrucci, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

Bruny Surin, Canadian sprinter

Jeff Bucknum, American race car driver

Annabel Croft, English tennis player and sportscaster

Taiji, Japanese bass player and songwriter (died 2011)

Sanjay Manjrekar, Indian cricketer and sportscaster

Robin Wilson, American singer and guitarist

Gaby Roslin, English television host and actress

Julio César Chávez, Mexican boxer

Luc De Vos, Belgian singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2014)

Joanna Shields, American-English businesswoman

Dean Wilkins, English footballer and manager

Heikko Glöde, German footballer and manager

Shiva Rajkumar, Indian actor, singer, and producer

David Brown, Australian meteorologist

Tupou VI, King of Tonga

Karl J. Friston, English psychiatrist and neuroscientist

Charlie Murphy, American actor and comedian (died 2017)

J. D. Hayworth, American politician and radio host

Tonya Lee Williams, English-Canadian actress and producer

Catherine Connolly, Irish politician, 10th President of Ireland

Rick Husband, American colonel, pilot, and astronaut (died 2003)

Dave Semenko, Canadian ice hockey player and sportscaster (died 2017)

Mel Harris, American actress

Pate Mustajärvi, Finnish rock singer (died 2025)

Sandi Patty, American singer and pianist

Mario Soto, Dominican baseball player

Timothy Garton Ash, English historian and author

Jimmy LaFave, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2017)

Eric Adams, American singer-songwriter

Robert Carl, American pianist and composer

Wolfgang Dremmler, German footballer and coach

Voja Antonić, Serbian computer scientist and journalist, designed the Galaksija computer

Irina Bokova, Bulgarian politician, Bulgarian Minister of Foreign Affairs

Philip Taylor Kramer, American bass player (died 1995)

Joan Bauer, American author

Brian Grazer, American screenwriter and producer, founded Imagine Entertainment

Cheryl Ladd, American actress

Piotr Pustelnik, Polish mountaineer

Jamey Sheridan, American actor

Eric Carr, American drummer and songwriter (died 1991)

Gilles Meloche, Canadian ice hockey player and coach

Simon Fox, English drummer (died 2024)

Rick Hendrick, American businessman, founded Hendrick Motorsports

Ben Burtt, American director, screenwriter, and sound designer

Walter Egan, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

Elias Khoury, Lebanese intellectual, playwright and novelist (died 2024)

Richard Simmons, American fitness trainer and actor (died 2024)

Gareth Edwards, Welsh rugby player and sportscaster

Carl Lundgren, American artist and illustrator

Richard C. McCarty, American psychologist and academic

Sian Barbara Allen, American television actress (died 2025)

Butch Hancock, American country-folk singer-songwriter and musician

Simon Blackburn, English philosopher and academic

Delia Ephron, American author, playwright, and screenwriter

Christine McVie, English singer-songwriter and keyboard player (died 2022)

Paul Silas, American basketball player and coach (died 2022)

Swamp Dogg, American R&B singer-songwriter and musician

Roy Palmer, English cricketer and umpire

Billy Smith, Australian rugby league footballer and coach

Steve Young, American country singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2016)

Benny Parsons, American race car driver and sportscaster (died 2007)

Phillip Adams, Australian journalist and producer

Bill Cooper, American football player

Ron Fairly, American baseball player and sportscaster (died 2019)

Wieger Mensonides, Dutch swimmer

Eiko Ishioka, Japanese art director and graphic designer (died 2012)

Bill Cosby, American actor, comedian, producer, and screenwriter

Mickey Edwards, American lawyer and politician

Lionel Jospin, French civil servant and politician, 165th Prime Minister of France

Robert McFarlane, American colonel and diplomat, 13th United States National Security Advisor (died 2022)

Guy Woolfenden, English composer and conductor (died 2016)

Jan Němec, Czech director and screenwriter (died 2016)

Frank Ryan, American football player and mathematician (died 2024)

Satoshi Ōmura, Japanese biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate

Van Cliburn, American pianist and composer (died 2013)

Victor Poor, American engineer, developed the Datapoint 2200 (died 2012)

Donald E. Westlake, American author and screenwriter (died 2008)

Monte Hellman, American director and producer (died 2021)

Otis Davis, American sprinter (died 2024)

Eric Ives, English historian and academic (died 2012)

Geeto Mongol, Canadian-American wrestler and trainer (died 2013)

Giuseppe Malandrino, Italian Roman Catholic prelate (died 2025)

Gordon Pinsent, Canadian actor, director, and screenwriter (died 2023)

Guy Ligier, French race car driver and team owner (died 2015)

Alastair Burnet, English journalist (died 2012)

Elias James Corey, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate

Imero Fiorentino, American lighting designer (died 2013)

Françoys Bernier, Canadian pianist, conductor, and educator (died 1993)

Conte Candoli, American trumpet player (died 2001)

Jack Harshman, American baseball player (died 2013)

Harley Hotchkiss, Canadian businessman (died 2011)

Albert Lance, Australian-French tenor (died 2013)

Roger Smith, American businessman (died 2007)

Faidon Matthaiou, Greek basketball player and coach (died 2011)

Michel d'Ornano, French politician (died 1991)

James E. Gunn, American science fiction author (died 2020)

Mark Hatfield, American soldier and politician, 29th Governor of Oregon (died 2011)

Pierre Berton, Canadian journalist and author (died 2004)

Bob Fillion, Canadian ice hockey player and manager (died 2015)

Paul Gonsalves, American saxophonist (died 1974)

Randolph Quirk, Manx linguist and academic (died 2017)

Beah Richards, American actress (died 2000)

Luigi Gorrini, Italian soldier and pilot (died 2014)

Satyendra Narayan Sinha, Indian statesman (died 2006)

Andrew Wyeth, American artist (died 2009)

Lyudmila Pavlichenko, Ukrainian-Russian soldier and sniper (died 1974)

Mohammad Moin, Iranian linguist and lexicographer (died 1971)

Willis Lamb, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2008)

Evald Mikson, Estonian footballer (died 1993)

Joe DeRita, American actor (died 1993)

Motoichi Kumagai, Japanese photographer and illustrator (died 2010)

Fritz Leonhardt, German engineer, designed Fernsehturm Stuttgart (died 1999)

Herbert Zim, American naturalist, author, and educator (died 1994)

Milton Berle, American comedian and actor (died 2002)

Alain Cuny, French actor (died 1994)

Paul Runyan, American golfer and sportscaster (died 2002)

Weary Dunlop, Australian colonel and surgeon (died 1993)

Prince John of the United Kingdom, Youngest son of George V and Mary of Teck (died 1919)

Pablo Neruda, Chilean poet and diplomat, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1973)

Günther Anders, German philosopher and journalist (died 1992)

Vic Armbruster, Australian rugby league footballer (died 1984)

Marcel Paul, French communist politician and Holocaust survivor (died 1982)

Kirsten Flagstad, Norwegian soprano (died 1962)

Buckminster Fuller, American architect and engineer, designed the Montreal Biosphère (died 1983)

Oscar Hammerstein II, American director, producer, and songwriter (died 1960)

Bruno Schulz, Ukrainian-Polish author and painter (died 1942)

Zygmunt Janiszewski, Polish mathematician and academic (died 1920)

Jean Hersholt, Danish-American actor and director (died 1956)

Bob Diry, Austrian-born wrestler and boxer (died 1935)

Louis B. Mayer, Russian-born American film producer, co-founded Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (died 1957)

Amedeo Modigliani, Italian painter and sculptor (died 1920)

Natalia Goncharova, Russian theatrical costume and set designer, painter and illustrator (died 1962)

Tod Browning, American actor, director, and screenwriter (died 1962)

Margherita Piazzola Beloch, Italian mathematician (died 1976)

Han Yong-un, Korean poet (died 1944)

Peeter Põld, Estonian scientist and politician, 1st Estonian Minister of Education (died 1930)

Max Jacob, French poet, painter, and critic (died 1944)

Emil Hácha, Czech lawyer and politician, 3rd President of Czechoslovakia (died 1945)

Louis II, Prince of Monaco (died 1949)

Stefan George, German poet and translator (died 1933)

Albert Calmette, French physician, bacteriologist, and immunologist (died 1933)

Paul Drude, German physicist and academic (died 1906)

Anton Arensky, Russian pianist, composer, and educator (died 1906)

George E. Ohr, American potter (died 1918)

Ned Hanlan, Canadian rower, academic, and businessman (died 1908)

George Eastman, American businessman, founded Eastman Kodak (died 1933)

Hipólito Yrigoyen, Argentinian lawyer and politician, 19th President of Argentina (died 1933)

Otto Schoetensack, German anthropologist and academic (died 1912)

William Osler, Canadian physician and author (died 1919)

Eugène Boudin, French painter (died 1898)

D. H. Hill, American general and academic (died 1889)

Henry David Thoreau, American essayist, poet, and philosopher (died 1862)

Alvin Saunders, Territorial Governor and Senator from Nebraska (died 1899)

Claude Bernard, French physiologist and academic (died 1878)

Thomas Hawksley, English engineer and academic (died 1893)

Peter Chanel, French priest and saint (died 1841)

Josiah Wedgwood, English potter, founded the Wedgwood Company (died 1795)

Evaristo Felice Dall'Abaco, Italian violinist and composer (died 1742)

Henry Howard, 6th Duke of Norfolk (died 1684)

Edward Manners, 3rd Earl of Rutland (died 1587)

Jacopo Sadoleto, Italian cardinal (died 1547)

Juan del Encina, Spanish poet, playwright, and composer (probable; (died 1530)

Ashikaga Yoshinori, Japanese shōgun (died 1441)

Julius Caesar, Roman politician and general (died 44 BC)