Famous Birthdays By Date

Rayan Aït-Nouri, French-Algerian footballer

Haechan, South Korean singer

Kenny Pickett, American football player

Jack Hetherington, Australian rugby league player

Julian Green, American soccer player

Yvon Mvogo, Swiss footballer

Vic Mensa, American rapper and singer

DeAndre Hopkins, American football player

Gavin Hoyte, English born footballer who represented Trinidad and Tobago

Anthony Rendon, American baseball player

Pape Souaré, Senegalese footballer

Anthony Pilkington, Irish footballer

Gin Wigmore, New Zealand singer and songwriter

Sebastian Larsson, Swedish footballer

Drew McIntyre, Scottish professional wrestler

Becky Sauerbrunn, American footballer; twice a winner of the FIFA Women's World Cup, also an Olympic gold medallist

Michael Krohn-Dehli, Danish footballer

Pete Hegseth, American author, political commentator and 29th United States Secretary of Defense

Roberto De Zerbi, Italian football manager

David Connolly, Irish footballer

Uncle Kracker, American musician

Sonya Walger, British-American actress

Jackie Arklöv, Swedish mercenary and convicted murderer

Natalie Morales, American television journalist and NBC News anchor

Paul Giamatti, American actor and producer

Sophie Jamal, Canadian endocrinologist involved in scientific misconduct

Tony Yeboah, Ghanaian footballer

Jason Isaacs, English actor

Hirokazu Kore-eda, Japanese director

Steve Vai, American musician

Raudin Anwar, Indonesian diplomat

Colin Quinn, American comedian and actor

Björn Borg, Swedish tennis player; winner of eleven Grand Slam singles titles including five consecutive Wimbledons

Sam Simon, American director, producer and screenwriter; co-developer of The Simpsons (died 2015)

Wladyslaw Zmuda, Polish footballer and manager; 91 caps for Poland and voted Best Young Player at the 1974 FIFA World Cup

Harvey Fierstein, American actor and playwright; winner of four Tony Awards

Dwight Twilley, American pop/rock singer and songwriter (died 2023)

Holly Near, American folk singer and songwriter

Arlene Harris, American entrepreneur, inventor, investor and policy advocate

David Blunkett, British Labour politician; Home Secretary 2001–2004

Robert Englund, American actor; best known for Nightmare on Elm Street

Ada Kok, Dutch butterfly stroke swimmer; winner of three Olympic medals including gold in 1968

Keith Daniel Williams, American convicted rapist and triple murderer (died 1996)

Tony Levin, American bass player and songwriter

Monty Alexander, Jamaican jazz pianist

Phillip Allen Sharp, American molecular biologist; 1993 Nobel Prize laureate (Physiology or Medicine)

Tommie Smith, American sprinter and football player; winner of 1968 Olympic 200m gold medal in a world record time

Richard Smalley, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate in 1996 for chemistry (died 2005)

Willie John McBride, Northern Irish rugby player who toured with the British Lions five times

Louis Andriessen, Dutch pianist and composer (died 2021)

Gary U.S. Bonds, American singer-songwriter

D. Ramanaidu, Indian actor, director, and producer, founded Suresh Productions (died 2015)

Levi Stubbs, American soul singer; lead vocalist of the Four Tops (died 2008)

Jon Henricks, Australian swimmer; winner of two Olympic gold medals in 1956

Albert II, King of the Belgians from 9 August 1993 to 21 July 2013 (abdicated)

Taichi Yamada, Japanese screenwriter and novelist (died 2023)

Heinrich Rohrer, Swiss physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2013)

David Scott, American colonel, engineer, and astronaut who was the commander of Apollo 15

Richard Hickock, American convicted murderer (died 1965)

Frank Tyson, English-Australian cricketer, coach and journalist (died 2015)

James Barnor, Ghanaian photographer

Sunil Dutt, Indian actor, director, producer, and politician (died 2005)

Klaus Tennstedt, German conductor (died 1998)

Maxine Kumin, American poet and author (died 2014)

Frank Chee Willeto, American soldier and politician, 4th Vice President of the Navajo Nation and a noted code talker during World War II (died 2013)

V. C. Andrews, American author, illustrator, and painter (died 1986)

Jean Pouliot, Canadian broadcaster (died 2004)

Peter Carington, 6th Baron Carrington, English army officer and politician, 6th Secretary General of NATO (died 2018)

Kenneth Connor, English comedy actor (died 1993)

Edwin G. Krebs, American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2009)

Kirk Kerkorian, American businessman, founded the Tracinda Corporation (died 2015)

Hamani Diori, Nigerien academic and politician, 1st President of Niger (died 1989)

Vincent Persichetti, American pianist and composer (died 1987)

Isaiah Berlin, Latvian-English historian and philosopher (died 1997)

Bill Dickey, American baseball player and manager who played in eight World Series, winning seven (died 1993)

Max August Zorn, German mathematician and academic who is noted for Zorn's Lemma (died 1993)

Aram Khachaturian, Armenian composer and conductor (died 1978)

Jimmie Lunceford, American saxophonist and bandleader (died 1947)

Jan Struther, English author, poet and hymnwriter who created the character Mrs Miniver (died 1953)

Sukarno, Indonesian engineer and politician, 1st President of Indonesia (died 1970)

Manfred Sakel, Ukrainian-American psychiatrist and physician (died 1957)

Jacobus Johannes Fouché, South African politician, 2nd State President of South Africa (died 1980)

Ninette de Valois, English ballerina, choreographer, and director (died 2001)

Joel Rinne, Finnish actor (died 1981)

Henry Allingham, English World War I soldier and supercentenarian (died 2009)

Italo Balbo, Italian air marshal and fascist politician who played a key role in developing Mussolini's air force (died 1940)

Masti Venkatesha Iyengar, Indian author and academic (died 1986)

Erich Marcks, German general in WWII who planned Operation Barbarossa (died 1944)

Ted Lewis, American singer, clarinet player, and bandleader (died 1971)

Thomas Mann, German author and critic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1955)

Alix of Hesse, German princess and Russian empress (died 1918)

Arthur Henry Adams, Australian journalist and author (died 1936)

Robert Falcon Scott, English sailor and explorer (died 1912)

David T. Abercrombie, American entrepreneur and co-founder of lifestyle brand Abercrombie & Fitch (died 1931)

Henry Newbolt, English historian, author, and poet (died 1938)

Aleksandr Lyapunov, Russian mathematician and physicist (died 1918)

Angelo Moriondo, Italian inventor of the espresso machine (died 1914)

Karl Ferdinand Braun, German-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate in 1909 for physics (died 1918)

Henriette Wulfsberg, Norwegian school owner and writer (died 1906)

Eliza Orzeszkowa, Polish author and publisher (died 1910)

Friedrich Bayer, German pharmacist, founded Bayer (died 1880)

Friedrich Wilhelm Schneidewin, German philologist and scholar (died 1856)

Alexander Pushkin, Russian author and poet (died 1837)

John Trumbull, American soldier and painter (died 1843)

Nathan Hale, American soldier (died 1776)

Joseph I of Portugal, King of Portugal from 31 July 1750 until his death (died 1777)

Claude-Jean Allouez, French-American missionary and explorer (died 1689)

Pierre Corneille, French playwright and producer (died 1684)

Diego Velázquez (date of baptism), Spanish painter and educator (died 1660)

Andrea Cesalpino, Italian philosopher, physician, and botanist (died 1603)

Regiomontanus (Johannes Müller von Königsberg), German mathematician, astronomer, and bishop (died 1476)