Famous Birthdays By Date

Suzan Lamens, Dutch tennis player

Kang Hye-won, South Korean actress and singer

Emily Fox, American soccer player

Aamir Jamal, Pakistani cricketer

Jeon Jong-seo, South Korean actress

Shohei Ohtani, Japanese baseball player

Yaroslav Kosov, Russian ice hockey player

Jorge Polanco, Dominican baseball player

Alberto Moreno, Spanish footballer

Chiara Scholl, American tennis player

Abeba Aregawi, Ethiopian-Swedish runner

Adam Cole, American wrestler

Georgios Efrem, Cypriot footballer

Samir Ujkani, Albanian footballer

Ji Chang-wook, South Korean actor

Safiq Rahim, Malaysian footballer

Alexander Kristoff, Norwegian cyclist

Iurii Cheban, Ukrainian canoe sprinter

Piermario Morosini, Italian footballer (died 2012)

Alexander Radulov, Russian ice hockey player

Alexandre R. Picard, Canadian ice hockey player

Megan Rapinoe, American soccer player

Danay Garcia, Cuban actress

Zack Miller, American golfer

Marco Estrada, Mexican baseball player

Jonás Gutiérrez, Argentinian footballer

Zheng Jie, Chinese tennis player

Taavi Peetre, Estonian shot putter (died 2010)

Fabrício de Souza, Brazilian footballer

Alexander Dimitrenko, Ukrainian-German boxer

Alberto Gilardino, Italian footballer

Philippe Gilbert, Belgian cyclist

Kate Gynther, Australian water polo player

Dave Haywood, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

Paíto, Mozambican footballer

Szabolcs Perenyi, Romanian-Hungarian footballer

Beno Udrih, Slovenian basketball player

Tuba Büyüküstün, Turkish actress

Junri Namigata, Japanese tennis player

Pauly D, American television personality

David Rozehnal, Czech footballer

Mads Tolling, Danish-American violinist and composer

Shane Filan, Irish singer-songwriter

Amélie Mauresmo, French-Swiss tennis player

Stiliyan Petrov, Bulgarian footballer and manager

Britta Oppelt, German rower

Allan Simonsen, Danish race car driver (died 2013)

İsmail YK, German-Turkish singer-songwriter

Nicolas Kiefer, German tennis player

Bizarre, American rapper

Nuno Gomes, Portuguese footballer

Hernán Crespo, Argentinian footballer and coach

Ai Sugiyama, Japanese tennis player

Márcio Amoroso, Brazilian footballer

Sarah Taylor, Jersey squash player

Marcus Allbäck, Swedish footballer and coach

Bengt Lagerberg, Swedish drummer

Róisín Murphy, Irish singer-songwriter and producer

Matthew Birir, Kenyan runner

Robert Esmie, Canadian sprinter

Gary Shteyngart, American writer

Derek McInnes, Scottish footballer and manager

Mac Dre, American rapper and producer, founded Thizz Entertainment (died 2004)

Valentí Massana, Spanish race walker

Jenji Kohan, American screenwriter and producer

John LeClair, American ice hockey player

RZA, American rapper, producer, actor, and director

Ken Akamatsu, Japanese illustrator

Kenji Ito, Japanese pianist and composer

Nardwuar, Canadian celebrity journalist and musician

Hedi Slimane, French fashion designer and photographer

Alex Zülle, Swiss cyclist

Susan Wojcicki, Polish-American technology executive (died 2024)

Mustafa Al-Kadhimi, Iraqi politician, 80th Prime Minister of Iraq

Susannah Doyle, English actress, director, and playwright

Gianfranco Zola, Italian footballer and coach

Ronald D. Moore, American screenwriter and producer

Edie Falco, American actress

Sarina Hülsenbeck, German swimmer

Marc Cohn, American singer-songwriter and keyboard player

Veronica Guerin, Irish journalist (died 1996)

Bill Watterson, American author and illustrator

Carlo Thränhardt, German high jumper

Doug Wilson, Canadian-American ice hockey player and manager

Horacio Cartes, Paraguayan businessman and politician, President of Paraguay

James Lofton, American football player and coach

Tony Hadley, English footballer

Peter McNamara, Australian tennis player and coach (died 2019)

Jimmy Crespo, American guitarist and songwriter

John Wright, New Zealand cricketer and coach

David Morrow, Australian radio host and sportscaster (died 2024)

Caryn Navy, American mathematician and computer scientist

Goose Gossage, American baseball player

Carlos Caszely, Chilean footballer

Huey Lewis, American singer-songwriter and actor

Ludwig G. Strauss, German physician and academic (died 2013)

Jill Murphy, British children's author (died 2021)

Pierre-Marc Johnson, Canadian lawyer, physician, and politician, 24th Premier of Quebec

Paul Smith, English fashion designer

Gerard 't Hooft, Dutch physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate

Vladimir Mikhailovich Zakharov, Russian dancer and choreographer (died 2013)

Michael Blake, American author and screenwriter (died 2015)

Humberto Benítez Treviño, Mexican lawyer and politician, Attorney General of Mexico

Leni Björklund, Swedish politician, 28th Swedish Minister of Defence for Sweden

Curt Blefary, American baseball player and coach (died 2001)

Mark Cox, English tennis player, coach and sportscaster

Robbie Robertson, Canadian singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer, and actor (died 2023)

Matthias Bamert, Swiss composer and conductor

Hannes Löhr, German footballer, coach, and manager (died 2016)

Epeli Nailatikau, Fijian chief, President of Fiji

Chuck Close, American painter and photographer (died 2021)

Ronnie Self, American singer-songwriter (died 1981)

Nita Lowey, American politician (died 2025)

Shirley Knight, American actress (died 2020)

James Mirrlees, Scottish economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2018)

John Schoenherr, American illustrator (died 2010)

Amnon Barzel, Israeli art critic (died 2025)

Paul-Gilbert Langevin, French musicologist, critic and physicist (died 1986)

Gyula Horn, Hungarian politician, 37th Prime Minister of Hungary (died 2013)

Ismail Mahomed, South African lawyer and politician, 17th Chief Justice of South Africa (died 2000)

Jimmy Carruthers, Australian boxer (died 1990)

Katherine Helmond, American actress and director (died 2019)

Tony Lock, English cricketer (died 1995)

Jovan Rašković, Serbian psychiatrist, academic, and politician (died 1992)

Jiří Reynek, Czech poet and graphic artist (died 2014)

Pierre Mauroy, French educator and politician, Prime Minister of France (died 2013)

Warren Oates, American actor (died 1982)

Diana Lynn, American actress (died 1971)

Fernando de Szyszlo, Peruvian painter and sculptor (died 2017)

Jean Raspail, French author and explorer (died 2020)

János Starker, Hungarian-American cellist and educator (died 2013)

Edward Cassidy, Australian Roman Catholic cardinal priest (died 2021)

George Moore, Australian jockey (died 2008)

Mitsuye Yamada, Japanese American activist

Viktor Kulikov, Russian marshal (died 2013)

Nanos Valaoritis, Greek author, poet, and playwright (died 2019)

K. Karunakaran, Indian lawyer and politician, 7th Chief Minister of Kerala (died 2010)

Brian James, Australian actor (died 2009)

Zakaria Mohieddin, Egyptian general and politician, 33rd Prime Minister of Egypt (died 2012)

George Rochberg, American composer and educator (died 2005)

Lívia Rév, Hungarian classical pianist (died 2018)

Ivor Powell, Welsh footballer (died 2012)

Babe Paley, American socialite (died 1978)

John Woodruff, American runner and commander (died 2007)

Al Timothy, Trinidadian musician and songwriter (died 2000)

John Thomas Dunlop, American administrator and labor scholar (died 2003)

Annie Fischer, Hungarian pianist and composer (died 1995)

George Costakis, Russian art collector (died 1990)

Smiley Lewis, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 1966)

Endel Aruja, Estonian-Canadian physicist and academic (died 2008)

Haydn Bunton, Sr., Australian footballer and coach (died 1955)

Giorgio Borġ Olivier, Maltese lawyer and politician, 7th Prime Minister of Malta (died 1980)

Georges Pompidou, French banker and politician, 19th President of France (died 1974)

Georges Vedel, French lawyer and academic (died 2002)

Henri of Orléans, (died 1999)

Lyman S. Ayres II, American businessman (died 1996)

Madeleine Sylvain-Bouchereau, Haitian sociologist and educator (died 1970)

Harold Acton, English scholar and author (died 1994)

Ernst Mayr, German-American biologist and ornithologist (died 2005)

Milburn Stone, American actor (died 1980)

Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., American colonel and politician, 3rd United States Ambassador to the United Nations (died 1985)

Julio Libonatti, Italian-Argentinian footballer (died 1981)

Yoshimaro Yamashina, Japanese ornithologist, founded the Yamashina Institute for Ornithology (died 1989)

Bernardus Johannes Alfrink, Dutch cardinal (died 1987)

Marcel Achard, French playwright, screenwriter, and author (died 1974)

Georgios Grivas, Greek general (died 1974)

Thomas Playford IV, Australian politician, 33rd Premier of South Australia (died 1981)

Ants Lauter, Estonian actor and director (died 1973)

Anthony Berkeley Cox, English writer (died 1971)

Giuseppe Caselli, Italian painter (died 1976)

John Howard Northrop, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1987)

Tin Ujević, Croatian poet and translator (died 1955)

Frederick Lewis Allen, American historian and journalist (died 1954)

Jean Cocteau, French novelist, poet, and playwright (died 1963)

Herbert Spencer Gasser, American physiologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1963)

Louise Freeland Jenkins, American astronomer and academic (died 1970)

Willem Drees, Dutch politician and historian, Prime Minister of the Netherlands (1948–1958) (died 1988)

Prince John Konstantinovich of Russia (died 1918)

Blas Infante, Spanish historian and politician (died 1936)

André Lhote, French sculptor and painter (died 1962)

Enrico Dante, Italian cardinal (died 1967)

Gustave Lanctot, Canadian historian, author, and academic (died 1975)

Inayat Khan, Indian mystic and educator (died 1927)

Jan Kubelík, Czech violinist and composer (died 1940)

Constantin Tănase, Romanian actor and playwright (died 1945)

Dwight F. Davis, American tennis player and politician, 49th United States Secretary of War (died 1945)

Wanda Landowska, Polish-French harpsichord player and educator (died 1959)

Eugen Fischer, German physician and academic (died 1967)

Édouard Herriot, French lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of France (died 1957)

A. E. Douglass, American astronomer (died 1962)

Stephan Krehl, German composer (died 1924)

George Nuttall, American-British bacteriologist (died 1937)

Horatio Caro, English chess master (died 1920)

Robert Bacon, American colonel and politician, 39th United States Secretary of State (died 1919)

Mathieu Jaboulay, French surgeon (died 1913)

Clara Zetkin, German theorist and activist (died 1933)

Julien Tiersot, French musicologist and composer (died 1936)

Cecil Rhodes, English-South African businessman and politician, 6th Prime Minister of the Cape Colony (died 1902)

William Thomas Stead, English journalist (died 1912)

William Collins Whitney, American financier and politician, 31st United States Secretary of the Navy (died 1904)

Pavel Chistyakov, Russian painter and educator (died 1919)

Ignacio Mariscal, Mexican politician and diplomat, Secretary of Foreign Affairs for Mexico (died 1910)

William John Macquorn Rankine, Scottish physicist, mathematician, and engineer (died 1872)

P. T. Barnum, American businessman, co-founded Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus (died 1891)

Robert FitzRoy, English captain, meteorologist, and politician, 2nd Governor of New Zealand (died 1865)

George Borrow, British writer (died 1881)

Pavel Nakhimov, Russian admiral (died 1855)

David Farragut, American admiral (died 1870)

Sylvester Graham, American minister and activist (died 1851)

Pavel Pestel, Russian officer (died 1826)

Stamford Raffles, English politician, founded Singapore (died 1826)

François Carlo Antommarchi, French physician (died 1838)

Sarah Siddons, English actress (died 1831)

Carl Arnold Kortum, German physician and poet (died 1824)

Francis Seymour-Conway, 1st Marquess of Hertford, English politician, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (died 1794)

Peter III, Portuguese king (died 1786)

Étienne de Silhouette, French translator and politician, Controller-General of Finances (died 1767)

Mary Walcott, American accuser and witness at the Salem witch trials (died 1719)

Dorothea Sophie of Neuburg, countess palatine (died 1748)

Thomas Pitt, English businessman and politician (died 1726)

Achille d'Étampes de Valençay, French military leader (died 1646)

Thomas Hooker, English-born founder of the Colony of Connecticut (died 1647)

Carlo Contarini, doge of Venice (died 1656)

Elisabeth of Austria, French queen (died 1592)

Francesco Maria del Monte, Italian cardinal and art collector (died 1627)

Garzia de' Medici, Tuscan son of Cosimo I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (died 1562)

Giovanni Sforza, Italian nobleman (died 1510)

Joan of the Tower, English consort of David II of Scotland (died 1362)

Al-Mustansir Billah, Fatimid caliph (died 1094)

Mokjong of Goryeo, Korean king (died 1009)

Ahkal Moʼ Nahb I, Mayan ruler (died 524)