Famous Birthdays By Date

Cooper Hoffman, American actor

Jahmyr Gibbs, American football player

Trevor Zegras, American ice hockey player

Hyunjin, South Korean rapper

Kei, South Korean singer

Nick Paul, Canadian ice hockey player

Fabian Fahl, German politician

JaKarr Sampson, American basketball player

Justin Faulk, American ice hockey player

Mattia Destro, Italian footballer

Michał Kucharczyk, Polish footballer

Nick Leddy, American ice hockey player

Blake Ferguson, Australian rugby league player

Brad Hand, American baseball player

Marcos Rojo, Argentine footballer

Xavier Dolan, Canadian actor and director

Tamim Iqbal, Bangladeshi cricketer

Daniel Maa Boumsong, Cameroonian footballer

Jon Brockman, American basketball player

Jô, Brazilian footballer

Pedro Ken, Brazilian footballer

Sergei Kostitsyn, Belarusian ice hockey player

Dean Geyer, South African-Australian singer-songwriter and actor

Julián Magallanes, Argentinian footballer

Román Torres, Panamanian footballer

Morgan Amalfitano, French footballer

Ronnie Brewer, American basketball player

Nicolas Lombaerts, Belgian footballer

Vikram Banerjee, English cricketer

Valtteri Filppula, Finnish ice hockey player

IJustine, American YouTuber

Fernando Torres, Spanish footballer

Carolina Padrón, Venezuelan journalist

Jenni Vartiainen, Finnish singer

Terrence Duffin, Zimbabwean cricketer

Tomasz Kuszczak, Polish footballer

José Moreira, Portuguese footballer

Ian Murray, Scottish footballer

Jamal Crawford, American basketball player

Robertas Javtokas, Lithuanian basketball player

Michelle Snow, American basketball player

Shinnosuke Abe, Japanese baseball player

Freema Agyeman, English actress

Daniel Cormier, American mixed martial artist

Keven Mealamu, New Zealand rugby player

Kevin Betsy, English-Seychelles footballer and manager

Chester Bennington, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actor (died 2017)

Ramin Bahrani, American director, producer, and screenwriter

Isolde Kostner, Italian skier

Carsten Ramelow, German footballer

Nicky Boje, South African cricketer

Natalya Khrushcheleva, Russian runner

Talal Khalifa Aljeri, Kuwaiti businessman

Chilly Gonzales, Canadian-German singer-songwriter, pianist, and producer

Alex Kapranos, English-Scottish singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer

Greg Searle, English rower

Marco Sejna, German footballer

Cristel Vahtra, Estonian skier

Manny Alexander, Dominican baseball player

Touré, American journalist and author

Edoardo Ballerini, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter

Josephine Medina, Filipino Paralympic table tennis player (died 2021)

Yvette Cooper, English economist and politician, former Secretary of State for Work and Pensions

Fabien Galthié, French rugby player

A. J. Jacobs, American journalist and author

Paul Merson, English footballer and manager

Ultra Naté, American singer, songwriter, record producer, DJ, and promoter

Ken Ono, Japanese-American mathematician

Xavier Beauvois, French actor, director, and screenwriter

Mookie Blaylock, American basketball player

William Dalrymple, Scottish historian and author

Natacha Atlas, Belgian singer-songwriter

Paul Annacone, American tennis player and coach

Yelena Romanova, Russian runner (died 2007)

Stephen Sommers, American director, producer, and screenwriter

Ingrid Arndt-Brauer, German politician

Jesper Olsen, Danish footballer and manager

Sara Wheeler, English author and journalist

Norm Magnusson, American painter and sculptor

Norbert Pohlmann, German computer scientist and academic

Yuri Shargin, Russian colonel, engineer, and astronaut

Dave Beasant, English footballer and coach

Mary Roach, American author

Sting, American wrestler

Peter Truscott, Baron Truscott, British Labour Party politician and peer

Rickey Jackson, American football player

David Foster, Australian woodchopper

Spike Lee, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter

Chris Wedge, American animator, producer, screenwriter, and voice actor

Catherine Ashton, English politician, Vice-President of the European Commission

Anne Donahue, American lawyer and politician

Naoto Takenaka, Japanese actor, comedian, singer, and director

Nina Kiriki Hoffman, American author

Ian Moss, Australian guitarist and singer-songwriter

Mariya Takeuchi, Japanese singer-songwriter

Mike Francesa, American radio talk show host and television commentator

Liana Kanelli, Greek journalist and politician

Paul Mirabella, American baseball player

Phil Judd, New Zealand singer-songwriter, guitarist and painter

Geoff Brabham, Australian race car driver

David Greenaway, English economist and academic

Richard Dowden, English journalist and educator

John de Lancie, American actor

Nikos Papazoglou, Greek singer-songwriter and producer (died 2011)

John Boswell, American historian, philologist, and academic (died 1994)

Douglas B. Green, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

Malcolm Simmons, English motorcycle racer (died 2014)

Henry Bartholomay, American soldier and pilot (died 2015)

Jay Ingram, Canadian television host and author

Pat Riley, American basketball player, coach and executive

Tim Yeo, English politician, Shadow Secretary of State for Health

John Cameron, English composer and conductor

Camille Cosby, American author, producer, and philanthropist

Alan Harper, English-Irish archbishop

Gerard Malanga, American poet and photographer

Douglas Tompkins, American businessman, co-founded The North Face and Esprit Holdings (died 2015)

Paul Junger Witt, American director and producer (died 2018)

Pat Corrales, American baseball player and manager (died 2023)

Kenji Kimihara, Japanese runner

Stathis Chaitas, Greek footballer and manager

Mary Ellen Mark, American photographer and journalist (died 2015)

Giampiero Moretti, Italian race car driver and businessman, founded the Momo company (died 2012)

Gerald Curran, American lawyer and politician (died 2013)

Don Edwards, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2022)

Walter Jakob Gehring, Swiss biologist and academic (died 2014)

Brian Mulroney, Canadian lawyer and politician, 18th Prime Minister of Canada (died 2024)

Sergei Novikov, Russian mathematician and academic, winner of the Fields Medal (died 2024)

Lois Lowry, American author

Jerry Reed, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor (died 2008)

Lee "Scratch" Perry, Jamaican singer, songwriter, music producer, and inventor (died 2021)

Mark Saville, Baron Saville of Newdigate, English lieutenant, lawyer, and judge

Ted Bessell, American actor and director (died 1996)

Bettye Washington Greene, American chemist (died 1995)

Willie Brown, American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 41st Mayor of San Francisco

David Malouf, Australian author and playwright

Lateef Adegbite, Nigerian lawyer and politician (died 2012)

George Altman, American baseball player

Dinos Christianopoulos, Greek poet (died 2020)

Rein Raamat, Estonian director and screenwriter

S. Arasaratnam, Sri Lankan historian, author, and academic (died 1998)

William Andrew MacKay, Canadian lawyer and judge (died 2013)

Germán Robles, Spanish-Mexican actor and director (died 2015)

Jerome Biffle, American long jumper and coach (died 2002)

James P. Gordon, American physicist and engineer (died 2013)

Fred Rogers, American television host and producer (died 2003)

John Joubert, South African-English composer and academic (died 2019)

John Ehrlichman, American lawyer, 12th White House Counsel (died 1999)

Con Martin, Irish footballer and manager (died 2013)

Shaukat Siddiqui, Pakistani journalist, author, and activist (died 2006)

Larry Elgart, American saxophonist and bandleader (died 2017)

Ray Goulding, American actor and screenwriter (died 1990)

Carl Reiner, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (died 2020)

Usmar Ismail, Indonesian filmmaker (died 1971)

Dušan Pirjevec, Slovenian historian and philosopher (died 1977)

Alfréd Rényi, Hungarian mathematician and theorist (died 1970)

Pamela Harriman, English-American diplomat, 58th United States Ambassador to France (died 1997)

Rosemary Timperley, English author and screenwriter (died 1988)

Gerhard Barkhorn, German fighter ace (died 1983)

Jack Barry, American game show host and producer, co-founded Barry & Enright Productions (died 1984)

Donald Featherstone, English soldier and author (died 2013)

Marian McPartland, English-American pianist and composer (died 2013)

Bernd Alois Zimmermann, German composer (died 1970)

Vera Lynn, English singer, songwriter and actress (died 2020)

Yigael Yadin, Israeli archaeologist, general, and politician, Deputy Prime Minister of Israel (died 1984)

Pierre Messmer, French lieutenant and politician, Prime Minister of France (died 2007)

Rudolf Kirchschläger, Austrian judge and politician, 8th President of Austria (died 2000)

Sviatoslav Richter, Ukrainian pianist and composer (died 1997)

Sister Rosetta Tharpe, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 1973)

Wendell Corey, American actor and politician (died 1968)

Nikolai Stepulov, Russian-Estonian boxer (died 1968)

Ralph Hauenstein, American businessman and philanthropist (died 2016)

Alfonso García Robles, Mexican lawyer and diplomat, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1991)

Erwin Blask, German hammer thrower (died 1999)

Elisabeth Geleerd, Dutch-American psychoanalyst (died 1969)

Michael Redgrave, English actor and director (died 1985)

Hugh MacLennan, Canadian author and educator (died 1990)

Abraham Beame, American accountant and politician, 104th Mayor of New York City (died 2001)

Ozzie Nelson, American actor and bandleader (died 1975)

Jean Galia, French rugby player and boxer (died 1949)

B. F. Skinner, American psychologist and author (died 1990)

Edgar Buchanan, American actor (died 1979)

Amelia Chopitea Villa, Bolivia's first female physician (died 1942)

Vladimír Mandl, Czechoslovak lawyer (died 1941)

Eduard Wiiralt, Estonian artist (died 1954)

Frank Sheed, Australian-British Catholic writer and apologist (died 1981)

Fredric Wertham, German-American psychologist and author (died 1981)

Amalie Sara Colquhoun, Australian landscape and portrait painter (died 1974)

Lauritz Melchior, Danish-American tenor and actor (died 1973)

Amanda Clement, American baseball player, umpire, and educator (died 1971)

Vernon Ransford, Australian cricketer (died 1958)

Philipp Frank, Austrian-American physicist, mathematician, and philosopher (died 1966)

John Jensen, Australian public servant (died 1970)

René Coty, French lawyer and politician, 17th President of France (died 1962)

Harold Weber, American golfer (died 1933)

Maud Menten, Canadian physician and biochemist (died 1960)

Payne Whitney, American businessman and philanthropist (died 1927)

Börries von Münchhausen, German poet and activist (died 1945)

Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck, German general (died 1964)

John Lavery, Irish painter (died 1941)

Frederick Winslow Taylor, American tennis player and engineer (died 1915)

Ismail Gasprinski, Crimean Tatar educator, publisher, and politician (died 1914)

Ambrosio Flores, Filipino politician (died 1912)

Illarion Pryanishnikov, Russian painter (died 1894)

Ferris Jacobs, Jr., American general, lawyer, and politician (died 1886)

Edward Poynter, English painter, illustrator, and curator (died 1919)

Charles William Eliot, American mathematician and academic (died 1926)

Patrick Jennings, Northern Irish-Australian politician, 11th Premier of New South Wales (died 1897)

Solomon L. Spink, American lawyer and politician (died 1881)

Henrik Ibsen, Norwegian poet, playwright, and director (died 1906)

Theodor von Heuglin, German explorer and ornithologist (died 1876)

Ned Buntline, American journalist, author, and publisher (died 1886)

Napoleon II, French emperor (died 1832)

George Caleb Bingham, American painter and politician, State Treasurer of Missouri (died 1879)

Thomas Cooper, British poet (died 1892)

Braulio Carrillo Colina, Costa Rican lawyer and politician, President of Costa Rica (died 1845)

Karl August Nicander, Swedish poet and author (died 1839)

Edward Gibbon Wakefield, English politician (died 1862)

Heinrich Clauren, German author (died 1854)

Rama I, Thai king (died 1809)

Abdul Hamid I, Ottoman sultan (died 1789)

Emanuele d'Astorga, Italian composer (died 1736)

Ivan Mazepa, Ukrainian diplomat, Hetman of Ukraine (died 1709)

Dara Shikoh, Indian prince (died 1659)

Anne Bradstreet, Puritan American poet (died 1672)

Juan de Ribera, Roman Catholic archbishop (died 1611)

Pierino Belli, Italian soldier and jurist (died 1575)

Ippolito d'Este, Italian cardinal (died 1520)

Jerome Emser, German theologian and scholar (died 1527)

Cecily of York (died 1507)

Laurence Hastings, 1st Earl of Pembroke (died 1348)

Magadu, renamed Wareru, founder of Ramanya Kingdom, renamed Hanthawady Kingdom of Pegu (died 1307)

Ovid, Roman poet (died 17)