Famous Births on 1 Oct

Famous Births on 1 Oct

1207 - King Henry III of England (d. 1272)
1507 - Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola, Italian architect (d. 1573)
1540 - Johann Jakob Grynaeus, Swiss Protestant clergyman (d. 1617)
1577 - Fidelis of Sigmaringen, Swiss friar, martyr, and saint (d. 1622)
1620 - Nicolaes Pieterszoon Berchem, Dutch painter (d. 1683)
1644 - Alessandro Stradella, Italian composer (d. 1682)
1671 - Guido Grandi, Italian mathematician (d. 1742)
1685 - Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1740)
1691 - Arthur Onslow, English politician (d. 1768)
1730 - Richard Stockton, American attorney, signer of the Declaration of Independence (d. 1781)
1760 - William Thomas Beckford, English writer and politician (d. 1844)
1771 - Pierre Baillot, French violinist and composer (d. 1842)
1791 - Sergei Aksakov, Russian writer (d. 1859)
1800 - Lars Levi Laestadius, Swedish-born botanist and founder of Laestadianism (d. 1861)
1835 - Ádám Politzer, Austrian physician (d. 1920)
1842 - Charles Cros, French poet and inventor (d. 1888)
1865 - Paul Dukas, French composer (d. 1935)
1878 - Othmar Spann, Austrian philosopher and economist (d. 1950)
1881 - William Boeing, American engineer (d. 1956)
1885 - Louis Untermeyer, American author (d. 1977)
1890 - Stanley Holloway, British actor (d. 1982)
1893 - Cliff Friend, American songwriter (d. 1974)
1893 - Yip Man, Martial Arts Master d.(1972)
1896 - Ted Healy, American actor and comedian (d. 1937)
1896 - Liaquat Ali Khan, first Prime Minister of Pakistan (d. 1951)
1899 - Ernest Haycox, American writer (d. 1950)
1900 - Tom Goddard, English cricketer (d. 1966)
1903 - Vladimir Horowitz, Ukrainian-American pianist (d. 1989)
1904 - A.K. Gopalan, Indian communist leader (d. 1977)
1904 - Otto Robert Frisch, Austrian-born physicist (d. 1979)
1909 - Maurice Bardèche, French fascist, (d. 1998)
1909 - Sam Yorty, Mayor of Los Angeles (d. 1998)
1910 - Bonnie Parker, American outlaw (d. 1934)
1910 - José Enrique Moyal, Australian mathematical physicist (d. 1998)
1910 - Fritz Köberle, Austrian-born physician (d. 1983)
1914 - Daniel J. Boorstin, American historian, writer, and Librarian of Congress (d. 2004)
1920 - Walter Matthau, American actor (d. 2000)
1921 - James Whitmore, American actor
1924 - William Rehnquist, 16th Chief Justice of the United States (d. 2005)
1924 - Jimmy Carter, 39th President of the United States, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
1925 - Bob Boyd, American baseball player (d. 2004)
1926 - Roger Williams, American pianist
1927 - Tom Bosley, American actor
1927 - Sandy Gall, Malaysian-born British journalist and newscaster
1928 - Zhu Rongji, Chinese politician
1928 - Willy Mairesse, Belgian racing driver (d. 1969)
1928 - George Peppard, American actor (d. 1994)
1928 - Laurence Harvey, Lithuanian-born actor (d. 1973)
1929 - Ken Arthurson, Australian rugby league identity
1930 - Philippe Noiret, French actor (d. 2006)
1930 - Naimatullah Khan, Pakistani politician
1930 - Sir Richard Harris, Irish actor (d. 2002)
1930 - Frank Gardner, Australian racing driver
1931 - Sylvano Bussotti, Italian composer
1932 - Albert Collins, American guitarist (d. 1993)
1935 - Dame Julie Andrews, British actress and singer
1936 - Duncan Edwards, English footballer (d. 1958)
1936 - Stella Stevens, American actress
1939 - Geoffrey Whitehead, English actor
1939 - George Archer, American golfer (d. 2005)
1942 - Jean-Pierre Jabouille, French race car driver
1943 - Jean-Jacques Annaud, French film director
1943 - Angèle Arsenault, Canadian singer and songwriter
1943 - Jerry Martini, American saxophonist (Sly & the Family Stone)
1945 - Rod Carew, Panamanian-born baseball player
1945 - Donny Hathaway, American soul musician and composer (d. 1979)
1945 - Ellen McIlwaine, American singer/songwriter
1945 - Spider Sabich, American skier (d. 1976)
1946 - Tim O'Brien, American writer
1947 - Aaron Ciechanover, Israeli biologist
1947 - Stephen Collins, American actor
1947 - Adriano Tilgher, Italian politician
1947 - Mariska Veres, Dutch singer (Shocking Blue) (d. 2006)
1948 - Cub Koda, American singer (Brownsville Station) (d. 2000)
1949 - Isaac Bonewits, American author
1950 - Randy Quaid, American actor
1950 - Jeane Manson, American singer and actress
1952 - Jacques Martin, Canadian ice hockey coach and executive
1953 - John Hegley, British poet
1953 - Pete Falcone, American baseball player
1953 - Grete Waitz, Norwegian athlete
1954 - Martin Strel, Slovenian swimmer
1955 - Howard Hewett, R & B Singer
1955 - Duško Tadić, Bosnian Serb
1956 - Theresa May, British politician
1957 - Stelios Mainas, Greek actor
1958 - Masato Nakamura, Japanese musician
1959 - Youssou N'Dour, Senegalese singer
1961 - Robert Rey, Brazilian-American plastic surgeon and television personality
1961 - Gary Ablett, Australian rules footballer
1962 - Esai Morales, American actor
1962 - Paul Walsh, English footballer
1963 - Jean-Denis Délétraz, Swiss race car driver
1963 - Mark McGwire, American baseball player
1964 - Jonathan Sarfati, Australian-born chess player, scientist, and author
1964 - Max Matsuura, Japanese record producer
1964 - Harry Hill, British comedian
1965 - Ted King, American Actor
1965 - Cliff Ronning, Canadian ice hockey player
1965 - Cindy Margolis, American model and spokesmodel
1965 - Andreas Keller, German field hockey player
1966 - Christopher Titus, American actor/comedian
1966 - George Weah, Liberian politician and footballer
1966 - Cuco Ziganda, Spanish footballer
1967 - Mike Pringle, American football player
1967 - Scott Young, American ice hockey player
1968 - Jon Guenther, American author
1968 - Rob Collard, British racing driver
1969 - Ori Kaplan, Israeli jazz musician
1969 - Igor Ulanov, Russian hockey player
1970 - Gam Wu-seong, South Korean actor
1970 - Simon Davey, Barnsley football manager
1970 - Alexei Zhamnov, Russian ice hockey player
1971 - Andrew O'Keefe, Australian television personality
1971 - Song Il Gook, Korean actor
1971 - Gigi Lai, Hong Kong actress
1973 - John Thomson, American baseball player
1973 - Rachid Chékhémani, French runner
1973 - Jana Henke, German swimmer
1974 - Mats Lindgren, Swedish ice hockey player
1974 - Keith Duffy, Irish singer (Boyzone) and actor
1974 - Christian Borle, American actor
1975 - Chulpan Khamatova, Russian actress
1975 - Zoltán Sebescen, German footballer
1975 - Kim Suna, Korean actress
1976 - Ãœmit Karan, Turkish footballer
1976 - Dora Venter, Hungarian pornographic film actress
1976 - Denis Gauthier, Canadian hockey player
1976 - Antonio Roybal, American painter and sculptor
1977 - Jeffrey van Hooydonk, Belgian race car driver
1978 - Andrew JC Jackson, Australian surf lifesaver
1978 - Leticia Cline, American model and TV Personality
1979 - Marko Stanojevic, English-born Italian rugby union footballer
1979 - Gilberto Martínez, Costa Rican footballer
1979 - Rudi Johnson, American football player
1979 - Cameron Bruce, Australian rules footballer
1981 - Arnau Riera, Spanish footballer
1981 - Johnny Oduya, Swedish ice hockey player
1981 - Júlio Baptista, Brazilian footballer
1982 - Haruna Babangida, Nigerian footballer
1982 - Harry Lawrence, Bath born Entrepreneur
1982 - Sandra Oxenryd, Swedish singer
1983 - Mirko Vučinić, Montenegrin footballer
1984 - Matt Cain, American baseball player
1984 - Daniel Guillén, Spanish footballer
1985 - Tim Deasy, English footballer
1985 - Revazi Zintiridis, Greek judoka
1985 - Nazimuddin Ahmed, Bangladeshi cricketer
1985 - Ryo Miyamori, Japanese singer
1986 - Jurnee Smollett, American actress
1986 - Sayaka, Japanese singer
1986 - Ricardo Vaz Té, Portuguese footballer
1987 - Hiroki Aiba, Japanese actor, singer
1988 - Cariba Heine, Australian actress
1990 - Charlie McDonnell, British YouTube Personality

Famous Births on 30 Sep

Famous Births on 30 Sep

1207 - Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi, Persian mystic and poet (d. 1273)
1227 - Pope Nicholas IV (d. 1292)
1530 - Geronimo Mercuriali, Italian philologist and physician (d. 1606)
1550 - Michael Maestlin, German mathematician (d. 1631)
1631 - William Stoughton, American judge at the Salem witch trials (d. 1701)
1700 - Stanisław Konarski, Polish writer (d. 1773)
1710 - John Russell, 4th Duke of Bedford, British statesman (d. 1771)
1715 - Étienne Bonnot de Condillac, French philosopher (d. 1780)
1732 - Jacques Necker, French finance minister of Louis XVI (d. 1804)
1765 - José María Morelos, Mexican revolutionary (d. 1815)
1800 - Decimus Burton, British architect (d. 1881)
1811 - Augusta of Saxe-Weimar, Queen of Prussia and German Empress (d. 1890)
1827 - Ellis H. Roberts, American politician (d. 1918)
1861 - William Wrigley Jr., American industrialist (Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company) (d. 1932)
1870 - Thomas W. Lamont, American banker; father of Corliss Lamont; great-grandfather of Ned Lamont (d. 1948)
1870 - Jean Baptiste Perrin, French physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1942)
1882 - Hans Geiger, German physicist (d. 1945)
1883 - Bernhard Rust, Nazi education minister (d. 1945)
1887 - Lil Dagover, Dutch-born German actress (d. 1980)
1893 - Lansdale Sasscer, American politician (d. 1964)
1895 - Lewis Milestone, Russian-born film director (d. 1980)
1898 - Princess Charlotte of Monaco (d. 1977)
1898 - Renée Adorée, French actress (d. 1933)
1904 - Waldo Williams, Welsh poet (d. 1971)
1905 - Nevill Francis Mott, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1996)
1908 - David Oistrakh, Ukrainian violinist (d. 1974)
1912 - Kenny Baker, American singer and actor (d. 1985)
1913 - Bill Walsh, American film producer and writer (d. 1975)
1915 - Lester Maddox, American businessman, one-time segregationist and Governor of Georgia (d. 2003)
1917 - Buddy Rich, American big band drummer (d. 1987)
1917 - Park Chunghee, President of South Korea (d. 1979)
1918 - Lewis Nixon, WWII Veteran (d. 1996)
1919 - Roberto Bonomi, Argentine racing driver (d. 1992)
1919 - Patricia Neway, American soprano
1920 - Aldo Parisot, Brazilian-American musician and cellist
1921 - Deborah Kerr, Scottish actress (d. 2007)
1922 - Alan Stretton, Australian general
1924 - Truman Capote, American author (d. 1984)
1926 - Robin Roberts, American baseball player
1927 - W. S. Merwin, American poet
1928 - Elie Wiesel, Romanian Holocaust survivor, author, and lecturer, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
1931 - Angie Dickinson, American actress
1932 - Shintaro Ishihara, Japanese author and politician (Governor of Tokyo)
1932 - Johnny Podres, American baseball player (d. 2008)
1933 - Barbara Knox, English actress
1933 - Cissy Houston, American gospel/r&b singer
1934 - Udo Jürgens, Austrian singer
1934 - Anna Kashfi, Welsh actress
1935 - Johnny Mathis, American singer
1935 - Z. Z. Hill, American blues singer (d. 1984)
1937 - Valentin Silvestrov, Ukrainian composer
1939 - Jean-Marie Lehn, French chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
1942 - Frankie Lymon, American singer (d. 1968)
1943 - Johann Deisenhofer, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
1943 - Marilyn McCoo, American singer (The Fifth Dimension)
1943 - Ian Ogilvy, British Actor
1944 - Diane Dufresne, French Canadian singer
1945 - Bob Lassiter, American radio personality
1945 - Ehud Olmert, twelfth Prime Minister of Israel
1945 - Salaheddin Ali Nader Shah Angha, 42nd Present Sufi Master of the Oveyssi-Shahmaghsoudi order
1946 - Paul Sheahan, Australian Test Cricketer 1967-1974
1946 - Héctor Lavoe, Puerto Rican singer (d. 1993)
1946 - Claude Vorilhon, founder of Raelism, a ufo religion
1947 - Marc Bolan, British musician (d. 1977)
1947 - Dave Arneson, American game designer
1947 - Rula Lenska,English Actress
1948 - Craig Kusick, former Major League Baseball Player
1950 - Renato Zero, Italian musician
1951 - Barry Marshall, Australian physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
1952 - Jack Wild, British actor (d. 2006)
1953 - Deborah Allen, American singer
1953 - S.M. Stirling, Canadian-born author
1954 - Patrice Rushen, American musician
1954 - Barry Williams, American actor
1954 - Basia Trzetrzelewska, Polish-born singer and songwriter
1957 - Fran Drescher, American actress
1958 - Marty Stuart, American musician
1959 - Ettore Messina, Italian basketball coach
1960 - Blanche Lincoln, American politician
1961 - Sally Yeh, Hong Kong singer and actress
1961 - Eric van de Poele, Belgian racing driver
1961 - Crystal Bernard, American actress
1961 - Eric Stoltz, American actor
1962 - Frank Rijkaard, Dutch football player and manager
1962 - Shaan, Indian singer
1964 - Trey Anastasio, American musician (Phish)
1964 - Robby Takac, American singer and bassist (Goo Goo Dolls)
1965 - Kathleen Madigan, American comedian
1966 - Kerry G. Johnson, African American graphic designer and caricaturist
1968 - Monica Bellucci, Italian actress
1969 - Chris Von Erich, American professional wrestler (d. 1991)
1970 - Mark Smith, English body builder, former Gladiators player
1971 - Jenna Elfman, American actress
1972 - Ari Behn, Norwegian author
1972 - Jamal Anderson, American football player
1974 - Jeremy Giambi, American baseball player
1975 - Carlos Guillén, Venezuelan baseball player
1975 - Marion Cotillard, French actress
1977 - Maia Brewton, American actress
1977 - Roy Carroll, Northern Irish footballer
1977 - Sun Jihai, Chinese footballer
1978 - Candice Michelle, American female wrestler
1979 - Vince Chong, Malaysian singer-songwriter
1979 - Clio-Danae Othoneou, Greek actress, musician and pianist
1979 - Andy van der Meyde, Dutch footballer
1980 - Camilla D’Errico, Canadian comic book artist and painter
1980 - Martina Hingis, Swiss tennis player
1981 - Dominique Moceanu, American gymnast
1981 - Brandon Watson, American baseball
1982 - Ryan Stout, American comedian
1982 - Teal Redmann, American actress
1982 - Michelle Marsh, British model
1982 - Tory Lane, American nude model, exotic dancer, and pornographic actress
1982 - Kieran Culkin, American actor
1982 - Lacey Chabert, American actress
1983 - Andreea Răducan, Romanian gymnast
1985 - T-Pain, American rapper/singer
1987 - Denise Laurel, Filipine actress and singer

Famous Births on 29 Sep

Famous Births on 29 Sep

106 BC - Pompey the Great, consul of Rome (d. 48 BC)
1240 - Margaret of England, Queen consort of Scotland, (d. 1275)
1321 - John of Artois, Count of Eu, French soldier (d. 1387)
1328 - Joan of Kent, wife of Edward, the Black Prince (d. 1385)
1388 - Thomas of Lancaster, 1st Duke of Clarence, son of Henry IV of England (d. 1421)
1511 - Miguel Servet, Spanish humanist (d. 1553)
1547 - Miguel de Cervantes, Spanish author (d. 1616)
1548 - William V, Duke of Bavaria (d. 1626)
1561 - Adriaan van Roomen, Flemish mathematician (d. 1615)
1571 - Caravaggio, Italian artist (d. 1610)
1636 - Thomas Tenison, Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1715)
1639 - Lord William Russell, English politician (d. 1683)
1640 - Antoine Coysevox, French sculptor (d. 1720)
1678 - Adrien-Maurice, 3rd duc de Noailles, French soldier (d. 1766)
1691 - Richard Challoner, English Catholic prelate (d. 1781)
1703 - François Boucher, French painter (d. 1770)
1725 - Robert Clive, 1st Baron Clive, British general and statesman (d. 1774)
1758 - Horatio Nelson, British admiral (d. 1805)
1766 - Charlotte, Princess Royal, German queen (d. 1828)
1786 - Guadalupe Victoria, 1st President of Mexico (d. 1843)
1803 - Jacques Charles François Sturm, French mathematician (d. 1850)
1803 - Mercator Cooper, American sea captain (d. 1872)
1808 - Henry Bennett, American politician (d. 1868)
1810 - Elizabeth Gaskell, British novelist (d. 1865)
1842 - Louis J. Weichmann, chief witness in the trial of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln (d. 1902)
1843 - Mikhail Skobelev, Russian general (d. 1882)
1853 - Princess Thyra, daughter of Christian IX of Denmark (d. 1933)
1863 - Hugo Haase, German politician and jurist (d. 1919)
1864 - Miguel de Unamuno, Spanish writer and philosopher (d. 1936)
1864 - Alexandra Kitchin, British model for Lewis Carroll (d. 1925)
1881 - Ludwig von Mises, Austrian Economist
1895 - J.B. Rhine, American parapsychologist (d. 1980)
1895 - Roscoe Turner, American aviator and racer (d. 1970)
1897 - Herbert Agar, American journalist and historian (d. 1980)
1898 - Trofim Lysenko, Stalinist biologist (d. 1976)
1900 - Miguel Alemán Valdés, President of Mexico (d. 1983)
1901 - Lanza del Vasto, Italian philosopher and activist (d. 1981)
1901 - Enrico Fermi, Italian physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1954)
1904 - Greer Garson, British actress (d. 1996)
1907 - Gene Autry, American actor, singer, and businessman (d. 1998)
1907 - George W. Jenkins, American businessman (d. 1996)
1908 - Eddie Tolan, American athlete (d. 1967)
1910 - Virginia Bruce, American actress (d. 1982)
1912 - Michelangelo Antonioni, Italian film director (d. 2007)
1913 - Trevor Howard, English actor (d. 1988)
1913 - Stanley Kramer, American film director (d. 2001)
1915 - Brenda Marshall, American film actress (d. 1992)
1915 - Vincent DeDomenico, American entrepreneur (d. 2007)
1920 - Peter D. Mitchell, English chemist, Nobel laureate
1922 - Lizabeth Scott, American actress
1923 - Stan Berenstain, American children's author (d. 2005)
1924 - Steve Forrest, American actor
1930 - Colin Dexter, British author of Inspector Morse novels
1931 - Anita Ekberg, Swedish actress
1931 - James Watson Cronin, American nuclear physicist, Nobel laureate
1932 - Mehmood, Indian actor (d. 2004)
1932 - Robert Benton, American screenwriter and director
1934 - Lance Gibbs, Guyanese West Indies cricketer,
1934 - Mihály Csíkszentmihályi, Psychology professor
1935 - Jerry Lee Lewis, American musician
1936 - Silvio Berlusconi, former Prime Minister of Italy
1938 - Wim Kok, Prime Minister of the Netherlands
1939 - Jim Baxter, Scottish footballer (d. 2001)
1939 - Larry Linville, American actor (d. 2000)
1939 - Molly Haskell, American film critic
1939 - Tommy Boyce, American songwriter
1940 - Nicola Di Bari, Italian singer
1941 - Fred West, British serial killer (d. 1995)
1942 - Steve Tesich, Serbian screenwriter (d. 1996)
1942 - Jean-Luc Ponty, French jazz violinist
1942 - Bill Nelson, American politician
1942 - Ian McShane, British actor
1942 - Felice Gimondi, Italian cyclist
1942 - Madeline Kahn, American actress (d. 1999)
1943 - Lech Wałęsa, President of Poland, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
1943 - Gary Boyd Roberts, American genealogist
1943 - Mohammad Khatami, former President of Iran
1944 - Mike Post, American composer
1945 - Kyriakos Sfetsas, Greek composer
1947 - Martin Ferrero, American actor
1948 - Theo Jörgensmann, German jazz clarinetist
1948 - Mark Farner, American guitarist Grand Funk
1948 - Bryant Gumbel, American television personality
1949 - George Dalaras, Greek singer
1951 - Mike Enriquez, Philippine broadcaster
1951 - Maureen Caird, Australian hurdler
1951 - Andrés Caicedo, Colombian writer (d. 1977)
1951 - Michelle Bachelet, President of Chile
1952 - Gabor Csupo, Hungarian-born animator
1952 - Max Sandlin, American politician
1953 - Jean-Claude Lauzon, Canadian film director (d. 1997)
1953 - Drake Hogestyn, American actor
1953 - Warren Cromartie, American baseball player
1955 - Benoît Ferreux, French actor
1956 - Sebastian Coe, British athlete
1957 - Chris Broad, former English cricketer and current match referee
1957 - Sokratis Malamas, Greek singer and composer
1957 - Andrew Dice Clay, American comedian and actor
1960 - Alan McGee, British music industry mogul and musician
1961 - Julia Gillard, Australian politician
1961 - Stephanie Miller, American comedian and talk radio host
1962 - Roger Bart, American actor
1962 - Al Pitrelli, American musician, guitarist
1963 - Dave Andreychuk, Canadian ice hockey player
1963 - Les Claypool, American bassist (Primus)
1966 - Jill Whelan, American actress
1967 - Brett Anderson, British musician/singer (Suede, The Tears)
1968 - Patrick Burns, American television presenter
1968 - Samir Soni, Indian film actor
1969 - Erika Eleniak, American actress and Playboy Playmate
1969 - Aleks Syntek, Mexican singer
1969 - Angelo Barretto, Filipino racecar driver
1970 - Nicolás Pereira, Venezuelan tennis player
1970 - Emily Lloyd, British actress
1970 - Natasha Gregson Wagner, American actress
1970 - Yoshihiro Tajiri, Japanese professional wrestler
1971 - Sibel Tüzün, Turkish singer
1971 - Mackenzie Crook, British actor and comedian
1972 - Robert Webb, British actor, comedian, and writer
1972 - Oliver Gavin, British racing car driver
1973 - Scout Niblett, British singer/songwriter
1973 - Athanasios Michalopoulos, Greek volleyball player
1973 - Joe Hulbig, American ice hockey player
1974 - Brian Ash, American film producer
1974 - Alexis Cruz, American actor
1975 - Albert Celades, Spanish football player
1976 - Andriy Shevchenko, Ukrainian football player
1976 - Darren Byfield, English football player
1976 - Oscar Sevilla, Spanish cyclist
1977 - Jake Westbrook, American baseball player
1977 - Debelah Morgan, American R&B singer
1977 - Wade Brookbank, Canadian ice hockey player
1977 - Won Bin, South Korean actor
1978 - Kurt Nilsen, Norwegian singer
1978 - Mohini Bhardwaj, American gymnast
1978 - Gunner McGrath, American guitarist (Much the Same)
1979 - Shelley Duncan, American Baseball Player
1979 - Takumi Beppu, Japanese cyclist
1980 - Patrick Agyemang, English footballer
1980 - Zachary Levi, American actor
1980 - Dallas Green, Canadian musician (Alexisonfire,City and Colour)
1981 - Siarhei Rutenka, Belarusian handball player
1982 - Ariana Jollee, American pornographic actress
1982 - Rob Smith, Irish musician and songwriter
1984 - Per Mertesacker, German football player
1986 - Mark Fraser, Canadian ice hockey player
1986 - Benoît Pouliot, Canadian ice hockey player
1988 - Kevin Durant, American basketball player
1988 - Justin Nozuka, singer/songwriter
1999 - Juan Valentín Urdangarín y de Borbón, Spanish royal

Famous Births on 28 Sep

Famous Births on 28 Sep

1330 - Nicolas Flamel, French alchemist (d. 1417?)
1493 - Agnolo Firenzuola, Italian poet (d. 1545)
1571 - Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, Italian artist (d. 1610)
1605 - Ismaël Bullialdus, French astronomer (d. 1694)
1667 - Asano Naganori, Japanese warlord (d. 1701)
1681 - Johann Mattheson, German composer (d. 1764)
1705 - Henry Fox, 1st Baron Holland, English statesman (d. 1774)
1746 - Sir William Jones, English philologist (d. 1794)
1803 - Prosper Mérimée, French author (d. 1870)
1821 - Jonathan Clarkson Gibbs, American politician (d. 1874)
1823 - Alexandre Cabanel, French painter (d. 1889)
1824 - Francis Turner Palgrave, British critic and poet (d. 1897)
1836 - Thomas Crapper, English inventor (d. 1910)
1841 - Georges Clemenceau, French politician (d. 1929)
1852 - Henri Moissan, French chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1907)
1856 - Kate Douglas Wiggin, American children's author (d. 1923)
1861 - Amélie of Orléans, queen of Portugal (d. 1951)
1867 - Hiranuma Kiichirō, Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1952)
1881 - Pedro de Cordoba, American actor (d. 1950)
1887 - Avery Brundage, American athlete and sports official (d. 1975)
1889 - Jack Fournier, American baseball player (d. 1973)
1891 - Myrtle Gonzalez, American actress (d. 1918)
1893 - Giannis Skaribas, Greek writer and dramatist (d. 1984)
1898 - Carl Clauberg, Nazi concentration camp doctor (d. 1957)
1901 - Ed Sullivan, American television show host (d. 1974)
1901 - William S. Paley, American radio and television executive (d. 1990)
1905 - Max Schmeling, German boxer (d. 2005)
1907 - Bhagat Singh, Indian activist (d. 1931)
1907 - Heikki Savolainen, Finnish gymnast (d. 1997)
1909 - Al Capp, American cartoonist (d. 1979)
1910 - Wenceslao Vinzons, Filipino politician and resistance leader (d. 1942)
1913 - Warja Honegger-Lavater, Swiss artist and illustrator
1916 - Peter Finch, English-born actor (d. 1977)
1918 - Ángel Labruna, Argentinian football player and coach (d. 1983)
1923 - John Scott, 9th Duke of Buccleuch, British politician (d. 2007)
1923 - William Windom, American actor
1924 - Marcello Mastroianni, Italian actor (d. 1996)
1925 - Arnold Stang, American actor
1925 - Seymour Cray, American computer scientist (d. 1996)
1925 - Cromwell Everson, South African composer (d. 1991)
1926 - Jerry Clower, American comedian (d. 1998)
1929 - Lata Mangeshkar, Indian playback singer
1932 - Víctor Jara, Chilean folk singer and activist (d. 1973)
1933 - Miguel Berrocal, Sculptor (d. 2006)
1934 - Brigitte Bardot, French actress
1934 - Janet Munro, British actress (d. 1972)
1935 - Heather Sears, British actress (d. 1994)
1937 - Rod Roddy, American television announcer (d. 2003)
1937 - Alice Mahon, English politician and labor leader
1938 - Ben E. King, American r&b singer
1939 - Stuart Kauffman, American biologist
1939 - Rudolph Walker, Trinidadian-born British actor
1941 - Edmund Stoiber, German politician
1942 - Tim Maia, Brazilian Singer (d. 1998)
1942 - Pierre Clémenti, French actor (d. 1999)
1942 - Marshall Bell, American actor
1943 - Warren Lieberfarb, American media executive
1943 - Joel Higgins, American actor
1943 - Nick St. Nicholas, Canadian musician (Steppenwolf)
1943 - J. T. Walsh, American actor (d. 1998)
1946 - Jeffrey Jones, American actor
1946 - Helen Shapiro, English singer
1947 - Bob Carr, Australian politician
1947 - Sheikh Hasina, Bangladeshi politician
1950 - Laurie Lewis, American musician
1950 - John Sayles, American director and screenwriter
1951 - Wei Chen, Canadian journalist
1952 - Sylvia Kristel, Dutch actress
1954 - Steve Largent, American football player and U.S. Congressman
1954 - George Lynch, American musician (Dokken)
1955 - Stéphane Dion, Canadian politician
1959 - Ron Fellows, Canadian race car driver
1959 - Steve Hytner, American actor
1960 - Jennifer Rush, American pop singer
1961 - Quentin Kawananakoa, pretender to the throne of the Kingdom of Hawaii
1962 - Grant Fuhr, Canadian hockey player
1963 - Steve Blackman, American professional wrestler
1964 - Laura Cerón, American actress
1964 - Claudio Borghi, Argentine football manager (Colo-Colo)
1964 - Janeane Garofalo, American actress and comedian
1964 - Paul Jewell, English football manager
1965 - Ginger Fish, American drummer (Marilyn Manson)
1966 - Puri Jagannadh, Indian film director
1967 - Moon Unit Zappa, American singer and actress
1967 - Mira Sorvino, American actress
1968 - Mika Häkkinen, Finnish race car driver
1968 - Naomi Watts, English-born Australian actress
1969 - Mark Everett, American fugitive
1969 - Ben Greenman, American author
1969 - Éric Lapointe, Canadian singer
1969 - Nico Vaesen, Belgian footballer
1970 - Mike DeJean, American baseball player
1970 - Gualter Salles, Brazilian racing driver
1971 - Joseph Arthur, American singer-songwriter
1971 - Alan Wright, English footballer
1972 - Dita Von Teese, American burlesque artist
1973 - Jori Hulkkonen, Finnish electronic musician
1973 - Brian Rafalski, American ice hockey player
1974 - John Light, English actor
1974 - Shane Webcke, Australian rugby player
1974 - Joonas Kolkka, Finnish footballer
1974 - Mariya Kiselyova, Russian swimmer
1975 - Lenny Krayzelburg, American swimmer
1976 - Fedor Emelianenko, Russian mixed martial artist
1977 - Young Jeezy, American Rapper
1977 - Se Ri Pak, Korean golfer
1978 - Bushido, German rapper
1979 - Bam Margera, American skateboarder
1981 - Iracema Trevisan, Brazilian musician (CSS)
1981 - Gül Gölge, Turkish model and actress
1981 - Jorge Guagua, Ecuadorian footballer
1981 - José Calderón, Spanish basketball player
1982 - Abhinav Bindra, Indian shooter
1982 - Anderson Varejão, Brazilian basketball player
1982 - Dustin Penner, Canadian hockey player
1982 - Emeka Okafor, American basketball player
1982 - Nolwenn Leroy, French Singer
1982 - Ranbir Kapoor, Indian Actor
1982 - Ray Emery, Canadian hockey player
1983 - Stefan Moore, English footballer
1984 - Ryan Zimmerman, American baseball player
1984 - Melody Thornton, American singer and dancer
1986 - Andrés Guardado, Mexican footballer
1987 - Hilary Duff, American actress, singer
1988 - Aleks Vrteski, Australian footballer
1988 - Esmée Denters, Dutch singer
1989 - Mark Randall, English footballer
1992 - Skye McCole Bartusiak, American actress
551 BC - Confucius, Chinese philosopher (d. 479 BC)
58 BC - Livia Drusilla, wife of the Roman emperor Caesar Augustus (d. 29)

Famous Births on 27 Sep

Famous Births on 27 Sep

1275 - John II of Brabant (d. 1312)
1384 - Cosimo de Medici, Italian Patron of the Arts
1601 - King Louis XIII of France (d. 1643)
1627 - Jacques Benigne Bossuet, French bishop (d. 1704)
1643 - Solomon Stoddard, American Puritan clergyman
1696 - St. Alphonsus Liguori, Italian founder of the Redemptionist order (d. 1787)
1719 - Abraham Gotthelf Kästner, German mathematician (d. 1800)
1722 - Samuel Adams, American revolutionary leader (d. 1803)
1729 - Michael Denis, Austrian poet (d. 1800)
1772 - Martha Jefferson Randolph, daughter of Thomas Jefferson (d. 1836)
1803 - Samuel Francis du Pont, American admiral (d. 1865)
1805 - George Müller, Prussian orphanage builder (d. 1898)
1818 - Adolph Wilhelm Hermann Kolbe, German chemist (d. 1884)
1821 - Henri Frederic Amiel, Swiss writer (d. 1881)
1824 - William "Bull" Nelson, American Civil War general (d. 1862)
1830 - William Babcock Hazen, American Civil War general (d. 1887)
1840 - Thomas Nast, German-born political cartoonist (d. 1902)
1842 - Alphonse Francois Renard, Belgian geologist (d. 1903)
1843 - Gaston Tarry, French mathematician (d. 1913)
1861 - Corinne Roosevelt Robinson, sister of US President Theodore Roosevelt (d. 1933)
1864 - Andrej Hlinka, Slovak politician and Catholic Priest (d. 1938)
1866 - Eurosia Fabris, Italian Catholic Blessed (d. 1932)
1871 - Grazia Deledda, Italian writer, Nobel laureate (d. 1936)
1879 - Hans Hahn, Austrian mathematician (d. 1934)
1879 - Cyril Scott, English composer (d. 1970)
1885 - Harry Blackstone, Sr., American magician (d. 1965)
1894 - Olive Tell, American actress (d. 1951)
1894 - Lothar von Richthofen German pilot (d. 1922)
1895 - Woolf Barnato, British racing driver (d. 1948)
1896 - Sam Ervin, American politician (d. 1985)
1898 - Vincent Youmans, American composer and producer (d. 1946)
1906 - William Empson, British poet (d. 1984)
1906 - Jim Thompson, American author (d. 1977)
1907 - Maurice Blanchot, French philosopher (d. 2003)
1907 - Bhagat Singh, Indian freedom fighter (d. 1931)
1911 - John Harvey, stage and film actor (d. 1982)
1913 - Albert Ellis, American psychologist (d. 2007)
1916 - Frank Handlen, American artist
1917 - William T. Orr, American television producer (d. 2002)
1917 - Louis Auchincloss, American novelist
1918 - Martin Ryle, English radio astronomer, Nobel laureate (d. 1984)
1919 - James H. Wilkinson, American mathematician (d. 1986)
1919 - Johnny Pesky, American baseball player
1919 - Charles Percy. American politician
1920 - William Conrad, American actor (d. 1994)
1920 - Jayne Meadows, American actress
1921 - Milton Subotsky, American TV and film producer (d. 1991)
1922 - Arthur Penn, American director
1922 - Carl Ballantine, American actor
1924 - Bernard Waber, American author
1924 - Fred Singer, American scientist
1924 - Bud Powell, American jazz pianist (d. 1966)
1927 - Romano Scarpa, Italian comic book artist
1927 - Steve Stavro, Canadian businessman (d. 2006)
1931 - Freddy Quinn, Austrian singer
1932 - Geoff Bent, English footballer (d. 1958)
1932 - Yash Chopra, Indian director
1932 - Oliver E. Williamson, American economist
1932 - Michael Colvin, Canadian singer
1932 - Roger C. Carmel, American actor (d. 1986)
1933 - Will Sampson, American actor (d. 1987)
1933 - Greg Morris, American actor (d. 1996)
1933 - Rodney Cotterill, Danish-English physicist (d. 2007)
1934 - Dick Schaap, American sports reporter (d. 2001)
1934 - Claude Jarman Jr., American actor
1934 - Wilford Brimley, American actor
1936 - Don Cornelius, American television host
1936 - Gordon Honeycombe, British playwright
1939 - Carol Lynn Pearson, American poet and writer
1939 - Kathy Whitworth, American golfer
1940 - Benoni Beheyt, Belgian cyclist
1941 - Serge Ménard, Québécois politician
1941 - Peter Bonetti, English footballer
1941 - Gay Kayler Ashcroft, Australian country music singer
1942 - Alvin Stardust, English singer
1942 - Dith Pran, Cambodian-born photojournalist
1943 - Randy Bachman, Canadian musician
1943 - Amedeo, 5th Duke of Aosta, Italian aristocrat
1945 - Kay Ryan, American poet
1945 - Jack Goldstein, Canadian-born artist (d. 2003)
1946 - Robin Nedwell, English comedy actor (d. 1999)
1946 - T.C. Cannon, Kiowa/Caddo artist (d. 1978)
1947 - Barbara Dickson, Scottish singer
1947 - Denis Lawson, Scottish actor
1947 - Meat Loaf, American singer
1947 - Liz Torres, American actress and singer
1948 - John K. Reed, American coral biologist
1948 - Tom Braidwood, Canadian actor
1948 - A Martinez, American actor
1948 - Michele Dotrice, English actor
1949 - Graham Richardson, Australian politician
1949 - Mike Schmidt, American baseball player
1949 - Jahn Teigen, Norwegian singer
1950 - Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, Japanese actor
1951 - Jim Shooter, American comic book writer
1951 - Paul Craig, British law professor
1951 - Michel Rivard, Québécois singer and composer (Beau Dommage)
1952 - André Viger, French Canadian marathoner
1952 - Dumitru Prunariu, Romanian cosmonaut
1952 - Didier Dubois, French mathematician
1953 - Diane Julie Abbott, British politician
1953 - Mata Amritanandamayi, Indian religious leader
1953 - Greg Ham, Australian musician (Men at Work)
1953 - Claudio Gentile, Italian footballer
1954 - Ray Hadley, Australian radio broadcaster
1958 - Shaun Cassidy, American singer
1959 - Beth Heiden, American speed skater
1960 - Jean-Marc Barr, French-American actor and director
1960 - Barron Lerner, American physician and historian
1961 - Irvine Welsh, Scottish writer
1961 - Andy Lau, Hong Kong actor and singer
1964 - Stephan Jenkins, American singer (Third Eye Blind)
1965 - Bernard Lord, Premier of New Brunswick
1965 - Alexis Stewart, American radio personality
1965 - Peter MacKay, Canadian political leader
1965 - Steve Kerr, American basketball player
1965 - Ricky Fuji, Japanese professional wrestler
1966 - Lorenzo Cherubini, Italian singer (Jovanotti)
1967 - Uche Okechukwu, Nigerian international soccer player
1970 - Yoshiharu Habu, Japanese professional shogi player
1971 - Li Yapeng, Chinese actor
1971 - Amanda Detmer, American actress
1972 - Craig L. Rice, American Politician
1972 - Gwyneth Paltrow, American actress
1972 - Clara Hughes, Canadian cyclist
1972 - Sylvia Crawley, American basketball player
1973 - Chris Demakes, American singer/guitarist (Less Than Jake)
1976 - Francesco Totti, Italian footballer
1976 - Jason Phillips, American baseball player
1976 - Matt Harding, American video game developer
1976 - Dean Butterworth, English musician
1977 - Andrus Värnik, Estonian javelin thrower
1978 - Brad Arnold, American singer (3 Doors Down)
1978 - Jon Rauch, American baseball player
1979 - Jon Garland, American baseball player
1979 - Zita Görög, Hungarian actress and model
1979 - Christian Jones, Australian racing driver
1979 - Steve Simpson, Australian rugby league footballer
1980 - Asashoryu, Mongolian sumo wrestler
1981 - Lakshmipathy Balaji, Indian cricketer
1981 - Sophie Crumb, American comics artist
1981 - Brendon McCullum, New Zealand cricketer
1981 - Cytherea, American adult actress
1982 - Lil Wayne, American rapper
1982 - Darrent Williams, American football player (d. 2007)
1983 - Travis MacRae, Canadian singer-songwriter
1983 - Shermon Tang, Hong Kong actress
1983 - Jeon Hye Bin, Korean actress
1984 - Avril Lavigne, Canadian singer-songwriter
1984 - John Lannan, American baseball player
1984 - Paul Bevan, Australian rules footballer
1986 - Ricardo Risatti, Argentine racing driver
1990 - Kylee Lin, American beauty pageant winner
1991 - Adam Chicksen, English Football Player
1992 - Jake Burbage, American actor
1996 - Iman bint Al Abdullah II, princess of Jordan
1996 - Daeg Faerch, Danish-born Canadian actor

Famous Births on 26 Sep

Famous Births on 26 Sep

1181 - Saint Francis of Assisi, Italian founder of the Franciscan Order (d. 1226)
1329 - Anna of Bavaria, Queen of the Romans (d. 1353)
1406 - Thomas de Ros, 9th Baron de Ros, English soldier and politician (d. 1430)
1711 - Richard Grenville-Temple, 2nd Earl Temple, English politician (d. 1779)
1750 - Cuthbert Collingwood, 1st Baron Collingwood, British admiral (d. 1810)
1758 - Cosme Argerich, Argentine physician, founder of the Medicine School of Buenos Aires.
1774 - Johnny Appleseed, American environmentalist (d. 1847)
1791 - Théodore Géricault, French painter (d. 1824)
1820 - Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar, Bengali scholar (d. 1891)
1840 - Louis-Olivier Taillon, French Canadian politician (d. 1923)
1865 - Mary Russell, Duchess of Bedford, English pilot and ornithologist (d. 1937)
1869 - Komitas, Armenian composer (d. 1935)
1870 - King Christian X of Denmark (d. 1947)
1871 - Winsor McCay, American cartoonist (d. 1934)
1873 - Wacław Berent, Polish novelist and translator (d. 1940)
1873 - Aleksey Shchusev, Russian architect (d. 1949)
1874 - Lewis Hine, American photographer and social activist (d. 1940)
1875 - Edmund Gwenn, Welsh actor (d. 1959)
1876 - Edith Abbott, American social worker, educator, and author (d. 1957)
1877 - Ugo Cerletti, Italian neurologist (d. 1963)
1877 - Alfred Cortot, Swiss pianist (d. 1962)
1881 - Hiram Wesley Evans, Ku Klux Klan Imperial Wizard (d. 1966)
1886 - Archibald Vivian Hill, English physiologist, Nobel laureate (d. 1977)
1887 - Edwin Keppel Bennett, English writer (d. 1958)
1887 - Antonio Moreno, Spanish-born actor (d. 1967)
1887 - Sir Barnes Wallis, English scientist, engineer and inventor (d. 1979)
1888 - J. Frank Dobie, American folklorist and newspaper columnist (d. 1964)
1888 - T. S. Eliot, American-born writer and editor, Nobel laureate (d. 1965)
1889 - Martin Heidegger, German philosopher (d. 1976)
1891 - Charles Münch, French conductor and violinist (d. 1968)
1893 - Gladys Brockwell, American actress (d. 1929)
1895 - George Raft, American actor (d. 1980)
1897 - Pope Paul VI (d. 1978)
1897 - Arthur Rhys Davids, English pilot (d. 1917)
1898 - George Gershwin, American composer (d. 1937)
1905 - Emilio Navarro, Puerto Rican baseball player
1907 - Bep van Klaveren, Dutch boxer (d. 1992)
1907 - Anthony Blunt, English art historian and Soviet spy (d. 1983)
1909 - Bill France, Sr., American founder of NASCAR (d. 1992)
1913 - Frank Brimsek, American ice hockey player (d. 1998)
1914 - Jack LaLanne, American fitness, exercise and nutritional expert
1917 - Réal Caouette, French Canadian politician, leader of the Ralliement créditiste (d. 1976)
1919 - Matilde Camus, Spanish poet and researcher
1919 - Barbara Britton, American actress (d. 1980)
1922 - Nicholas Romanov, French-born pretender to the Russian throne
1923 - Dev Anand, Indian actor and film producer
1924 - Marcello Mastroianni, Italian actor (d. 1996)
1925 - Marty Robbins, American singer (d. 1982)
1925 - Norm Dussault, American ice hockey player
1926 - Julie London, American singer and actress (d. 2000)
1926 - Manfred Mayrhofer, Austrian Indo-European Philologist
1927 - Robert Blackburn, Irish educationist (d. 1990)
1927 - Robert Cade, American physician and inventor of the beverage Gatorade (d. 2007)
1927 - Patrick O'Neal, American actor (d. 1994)
1928 - Bob Van der Veken, Belgian actor
1930 - Fritz Wunderlich, German tenor (d. 1966)
1932 - Vladimir Voinovich, Russian writer and dissident
1932 - Dr. Manmohan Singh, Prime Minister of India
1932 - Richard Herd, American actor
1933 - Donna Douglas, American actress
1935 - Joe Sherlock, Irish Labour Party politician (d. 2007)
1936 - Winnie Mandela, South African anti-apartheid activist
1937 - Valentin Pavlov, Soviet politician (d. 2003)
1937 - Jerry Weintraub, American film producer
1939 - Ricky Tomlinson, English actor
1941 - Salvatore Accardo, Italian violinist and conductor
1942 - Kent McCord, American actor
1943 - Ian Chappell, Australian cricketer and broadcaster
1943 - Tim Schenken, Australian racing driver
1944 - Anne Robinson, English television host
1945 - Louise Beaudoin, French Canadian politician
1945 - Gal Costa, Brazilian singer
1945 - Bryan Ferry, English singer (Roxy Music)
1946 - Louise Simonson, American comic book writer and editor
1946 - Radha Krishna Mainali, Nepalese politician
1946 - Christine Todd Whitman, American politician
1946 - Andrea Dworkin, American feminist (d. 2005)
1947 - Lynn Anderson, American country music singer
1948 - Olivia Newton-John, English-born Australian singer and actress
1949 - Minette Walters, English novelist
1949 - Jane Smiley, American novelist
1949 - Clodoaldo, Brazilian football player
1951 - Stuart Tosh, Scottish musician
1952 - Predrag Miletić, Serbian actor
1953 - Aivars Lembergs, Latvian politician
1953 - Dolores Keane, Irish folk singer
1953 - Joe Benigno, American radio personality
1954 - Kevin Kennedy, American baseball manager and television host
1955 - Carlene Carter, American singer
1956 - Steve Butler, American racing driver
1956 - Linda Hamilton, American actress
1958 - Richard B. Weldon, Jr., American politician
1959 - Rich Gedman, American baseball player
1961 - Will Self, English author
1962 - Melissa Sue Anderson, American actress
1962 - Peter Foster, Australian con-man
1963 - Lysette Anthony, English actress
1964 - Nicki French, English singer
1965 - Cindy Herron, American singer (En Vogue)
1965 - Alexandra Lencastre, Portuguese actress
1966 - Jillian Barberie, Canadian actress and television hostess
1966 - Christos Dantis, Greek composer and singer
1966 - Craig "Ironhead" Heyward, American football player (d. 2006)
1967 - Shannon Hoon, American singer (Blind Melon) (d. 1995)
1968 - James Caviezel, American actor
1969 - Anthony Kavanagh, French Canadian comedian, actor and singer
1969 - Andy Petterson, Australian footballer
1969 - Paul Warhurst, English footballer
1969 - David Ferguson, British murderer
1970 - Rachel Jacobs, American actress
1970 - Sheri Moon Zombie, American actress
1972 - Shawn Stockman, American singer (Boyz II Men)
1972 - Melanie Paxson, American actress
1972 - Ras Kass, American rapper
1973 - Marty Casey, American singer (Lovehammers)
1973 - Chris Small, Scottish snooker player
1973 - Olga Vasdeki, Greek triple jumper
1974 - Boris Cepeda,German-Ecuadorian pianist and diplomat
1974 - Gary Hall, Jr., American swimmer
1974 - Martin Müürsepp, Estonian basketball player
1975 - Jake Paltrow, American film director, brother of Gwyneth Paltrow
1975 - Emma Härdelin, Swedish singer (Garmarna and Triakel)
1976 - Michael Ballack, German footballer
1976 - Tyler Denk, American model and reality show contestant
1977 - Kaylynn, American porn star
1978 - Robert Kipkoech Cheruiyot, Kenyan long-distance runner
1979 - Jon Harley, English footballer
1979 - Fuifui Moimoi, New Zealand (Tongan) rugby league footballer
1979 - Jaycie Phelps, American gymnast
1980 - Henrik and Daniel Sedin, Swedish ice hockey players
1980 - Patrick Friesacher, Austrian race car driver
1980 - Jane Darling, Czech porn model/actress
1981 - Collien Fernandes, German TV host and actress
1981 - Christina Milian, American actress and singer
1981 - Serena Williams, American tennis player
1982 - Miguel Alfredo Portillo, Argentine footballer
1982 - Rob Burrow, English rugby league player
1983 - Ricardo Quaresma, Portuguese footballer
1983 - Samantha Hammel, American record producer and actress
1984 - Keisha Buchanan, English singer (Sugababes)
1985 - Lenna Kuurmaa, Estonian singer (Vanilla Ninja)
1986 - Ashley Leggat, Canadian actress
1987 - Rosie Munter, Swedish singer (Play)
1988 - Kiira Korpi, Finnish figure skater
1988 - Mark Simpson, English clarinetist and composer
1989 - Emma Rigby, English actress
2000 - Princess Salma bint Al Abdullah II of Jordan

Famous Births on 25 Sep

Famous Births on 25 Sep

1358 - Ashikaga Yoshimitsu, Japanese shogun (d. 1408)
1525 - Steven Borough, English explorer (d. 1584)
1599 - Francesco Borromini, Italian architect (d. 1667)
1644 - Ole Rømer, Danish astronomer (d. 1710)
1683 - Jean-Philippe Rameau, French composer (d. 1764)
1694 - Henry Pelham, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1754)
1711 - Qianlong Emperor of China (d. 1799)
1725 - Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot, French steam vehicle pioneer (d. 1804)
1738 - Nicholas Van Dyke, American lawyer and President of Delaware (d. 1789)
1764 - Fletcher Christian, English Bounty mutineer (d. 1793)
1766 - Armand-Emmanuel du Plessis, Duc de Richelieu, French-Russian statesman (d. 1822)
1773 - Agostino Bassi, Italian entomologist (d. 1856)
1780 - Jason Fairbanks, American murderer (d. 1801)
1782 - Charles Robert Maturin, Irish playwright and novelist (d. 1824)
1796 - Antoine-Louis Barye, French sculptor (d. 1875)
1798 - Jean-Baptiste Élie de Beaumont, French geologist (d. 1874)
1825 - William Pitt Ballinger, Texas lawyer and statesman (d. 1888)
1839 - Karl Alfred von Zittel, German palaeontologist (d. 1904)
1862 - Billy Hughes, seventh Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1952)
1866 - Thomas Hunt Morgan, American geneticist, Nobel laureate (d. 1945)
1867 - Evgenii Miller, Russian counter-revolutionary (d. 1938)
1879 - Lope K. Santos, Filipino writer and labor leader, Father of the Philippine National Language and Grammar (d. 1963)
1881 - Lu Xun, Chinese writer (d. 1936)
1889 - C. K. Scott-Moncrieff, Scottish writer and translator (d. 1930)
1896 - Sandro Pertini, President of the Italian Republic (d. 1990)
1897 - William Faulkner, American writer, Nobel laureate (d. 1962)
1898 - Robert Brackman American artist (d. 1980)
1901 - Robert Bresson, French film director (d. 1999)
1903 - Mark Rothko, Latvian-born American painter (d. 1970)
1906 - Dmitri Shostakovich, Russian composer (d. 1975)
1911 - Eric Williams, first Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago (d. 1981)
1915 - Ethel Rosenberg, American Communist (d. 1953)
1916 - Jessica Anderson, Australian author
1917 - Phil Rizzuto, American baseball player and sportscaster (d. 2007)
1917 - Johnny Sain, American baseball player (d. 2006)
1920 - Sergei Bondarchuk, Ukrainian-born actor (d. 1994)
1921 - Sir Robert Muldoon, Prime Minister of New Zealand (d. 1992)
1922 - Hammer DeRoburt, first President of Nauru (d. 1992)
1925 - Paul B. MacCready, Jr., American aeronautical engineer (d. 2007)
1925 - Silvana Pampanini, Italian actress
1926 - Jack Hyles, Baptist pastor (d. 2001)
1926 - Aldo Ray, American actor (d. 1991)
1927 - Sir Colin Davis, English conductor
1929 - Ronnie Barker, British comedian and actor (d. 2005)
1929 - Barbara Walters, American broadcaster
1930 - Shel Silverstein, American humorist and author (d. 1999)
1931 - Manouchehr Atashi, Iranian poet (d. 2005)
1932 - Adolfo Suárez, Prime Minister of Spain (1977-1981)
1932 - Terry Medwin, Welsh retired footballer
1932 - Glenn Gould, Canadian pianist and composer (d. 1982)
1933 - Hubie Brown, American basketball coach and broadcaster
1933 - Brian Murphy, British actor
1934 - Jean Sorel, French actor
1936 - Juliet Prowse, British actress and dancer (d. 1996)
1938 - Jonathan Motzfeldt, first Prime Minister of Greenland
1939 - Feroz Khan, Indian actor
1943 - Robert Gates, American Secretary of Defense
1943 - John Locke, American musician (d. 2006)
1944 - Michael Douglas, American actor and producer
1944 - Doris Matsui, American politician
1945 - Carol Vadnais, Canadian ice hockey player
1946 - Jerry Penrod, American bass player
1946 - Bryan MacLean, American musician and songwriter (Love) (d. 1998)
1946 - Felicity Kendal, British actress
1947 - Cheryl Tiegs, American model
1951 - Mark Hamill, American actor
1952 - Christopher Reeve, American actor (d. 2004)
1952 - Gloria Jean Watkins, American scholar
1952 - Anson Williams, American actor and director
1953 - Richard Harvey, British musician and composer (Gryphon)
1954 - Juande Ramos, Spanish Football Manager
1954 - Sylvester Croom, American college football coach
1955 - Steven Severin, British musician (Siouxsie & the Banshees)
1955 - Karl-Heinz Rummenigge, German footballer
1955 - Ludo Coeck, Belgian footballer (d. 1985)
1956 - Jamie Hyneman, American visual effects technician
1957 - Ian Reddington, English actor
1958 - Eamonn Healy, Irish chemist
1958 - Michael Madsen, American actor
1960 - Igor Belanov, Ukrainian footballer
1960 - Sonia Benezra, Canadian television host
1961 - Heather Locklear, American actress and model
1962 - Aida Turturro, American actress
1963 - Keely Shaye Smith, American journalist; wife of Pierce Brosnan
1963 - Tate Donovan, American actor
1964 - Maria Doyle Kennedy, Irish actress and singer
1964 - Gary Ayles, British racing driver
1964 - Joey Saputo, Canadian businessman and sports executive
1964 - Kikuko Inoue, Japanese singer and voice actress (seiyū)
1964 - Anita Barone, American actress
1965 - Scottie Pippen, American basketball player
1967 - Kim Issel, Canadian ice hockey player
1968 - Prince Johan-Friso of Orange-Nassau
1968 - John Worsfold, Australian rules football coach
1968 - Will Smith, American actor and rapper
1969 - Catherine Zeta-Jones, Welsh actress
1969 - Hal Sparks, American actor
1969 - Heather Stewart-Whyte, British supermodel
1970 - Dean Ween, American musician (Ween)
1971 - John Lynch, American football player
1973 - Bridget Marquardt, American model
1973 - Tijani Babangida, Nigerian footballer
1973 - Bridgette Wilson, American actress
1974 - Daniel Kessler, American musician (Interpol)
1975 - Declan Donnelly, English television presenter (Ant and Dec)
1975 - Matt Hasselbeck, American football player
1975 - Daniel Hyde, British actor
1976 - Chauncey Billups, American basketball player
1977 - Wil Nieves, Puerto Rican baseball player
1977 - Mike Krahulik, Illustrator
1977 - Clea DuVall, American actress
1978 - Roudolphe Douala, Cameroonian footballer
1978 - Ricardo Gardner, Jamaican footballer
1978 - Jodie Kidd, English model
1978 - Joel Pineiro, Puerto Rican baseball player
1980 - T.I., American rapper
1981 - Van Hansis, American actor
1981 - Shane Tutmarc, American songwriter and musician
1981 - Jason Bergmann, American baseball player
1981 - Rocco Baldelli, American baseball player
1982 - Hyun Bin, South Korean actor
1983 - Terrance Pennington, National Football League guard
1984 - Matt Carle, American ice hockey player
1985 - Calvin Johnson, American football player
1990 - Mao Asada, Japanese figure skater
1994 - Jansen Panettiere, American actor

Famous Births on 24 Sep

Famous Births on 24 Sep

1301 - Ralph Stafford, 1st Earl of Stafford, English soldier (d. 1372)
15 - Vitellius, Roman Emperor (d. 69)
1501 - Gerolamo Cardano, Italian mathematician (d. 1576)
1513 - Catherine of Saxe-Lauenburg, Queen of Sweden (d. 1535)
1534 - Guru Ram Das, fourth Sikh Guru (d. 1581)
1564 - William Adams, British navigator (d. 1620)
1583 - Albrecht von Wallenstein, Austrian general (d. 1634)
1625 - Johan de Witt, Dutch politician (d. 1672)
1705 - Leopold Josef Graf Daun, Austrian field marshal (d. 1766)
1717 - Horace Walpole, British novelist and politician (d. 1797)
1725 - Sir Arthur Guinness, Irish brewer (d. 1803)
1739 - Grigori Alexandrovich Potemkin, Russian statesman (d. 1791)
1755 - John Marshall, 4th Chief Justice of the United States (d. 1835)
1801 - Mikhail Vasilievich Ostrogradsky, Ukrainian scientist (d. 1862)
1802 - Adolphe d'Archiac, French paleontologist and geologist (d. 1868)
1817 - Ramón de Campoamor y Campoosorio, Spanish poet and philosopher (d. 1901)
1829 - Charles S. West, Texas jurist and politician (d. 1885)
1858 - Eugene Foss, 45th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1939)
1870 - Georges Claude, French chemist and inventor (d. 1960)
1871 - Lottie Dod, English athlete (d. 1960)
1878 - C. F. Ramuz, Swiss writer (d. 1947)
1884 - Gustave Garrigou, French cyclist (d. 1963)
1884 - Hugo Schmeisser, German weapons designer (d. 1953)
1890 - Mike González, baseball player (d. 1977)
1890 - A. P. Herbert, British humorist, barrister, novelist (d. 1971)
1892 - Adélard Godbout, premier of Québec (d. 1956)
1894 - Tommy Armour, Anglo-American golfer (d. 1968)
1895 - André Frédéric Cournand, French Nobel Laureate (d. 1988)
1896 - F. Scott Fitzgerald, American novelist (d. 1940)
1898 - Howard Walter Florey, Nobel Laureate (d. 1968)
1899 - Sir William Dobell, Australian portrait artist (d. 1970)
1900 - Ham Fisher, American cartoonist (d. 1955)
1902 - Ruhollah Khomeini, Iranian politician, religious figure, and political leader of the 1979 Iranian Revolution (d. 1989)
1905 - Severo Ochoa, Nobel Laureate (d. 1993)
1909 - Gerard Ciołek, Polish architect (d. 1966)
1910 - Jean Servais, Belgian actor (d. 1976)
1911 - Konstantin Chernenko, Soviet premier (d. 1985)
1912 - Don Porter, American actor (d. 1997)
1914 - Sir John Kerr, 18th Governor-General of Australia (d. 1991)
1918 - Audra Lindley, American actress (d. 1997)
1919 - Dayton Allen, American actor and comedian (d. 2004)
1920 - Richard Bong, American ace fighter pilot and Medal of Honor recipient (d. 1945)
1921 - Jim McKay, American sportscaster (d. 2008)
1922 - Cornell MacNeil, American baritone
1923 - Louis Edmonds, American actor (d. 2001)
1923 - Fats Navarro, American jazz trumpet player (d. 1950)
1924 - Nina Bocharova, Soviet gymnast
1924 - Theresa Merritt, American actress (d. 1998)
1924 - Sheila MacRae, singer & actress
1925 - Autar Singh Paintal, Indian medical scientist (d. 2004)
1927 - Alfredo Kraus, Spanish tenor (d. 1999)
1929 - Edward M. Lawson, Canadian politician
1930 - Józef Krupiński, Polish poet (d. 1998)
1930 - Angelo Muscat, Maltese actor (d. 1977)
1930 - John W. Young, American astronaut
1931 - Anthony Newley, British actor and singer (d. 1999)
1931 - Mike Parkes, British Formula One driver (d. 1977)
1932 - Dominique Michel, French Canadian comedian
1934 - Manfred Wörner, German politician and diplomat (d. 1994)
1934 - John Brunner, British author (d. 1995)
1934 - Tommy Anderson, Scottish footballer
1935 - Sean McCann, Canadian actor
1936 - Jim Henson, American puppeteer (d. 1990)
1940 - Yves Navarre, French writer (d. 1994)
1941 - Linda McCartney, American singer (d. 1998)
1941 - John Mackey, National Football League player
1942 - Gerry Marsden, English singer (Gerry and the Pacemakers)
1942 - Ilkka "Danny" Lipsanen, Finnish singer
1944 - Diana Körner, German actress
1945 - Lou Dobbs, American journalist
1946 - "Mean" Joe Greene, American football player
1946 - Lars Emil Johansen, Prime Minister of Greenland
1947 - Erik Hivju, Norwegian actor
1948 - Phil Hartman, Canadian actor (d. 1998)
1948 - Gordon Clapp, American actor
1948 - Heinz Chur, German composer
1950 - Alan Colmes, American talk show host
1950 - Kristina Wayborn, Swedish actress
1951 - Douglas Kmiec, American legal scholar
1952 - Mark Sandman, American musician (d. 1999)
1955 - Riccardo Illy, Italian politician
1956 - Hubie Brooks, American baseball player
1958 - Kevin Sorbo, American actor
1959 - Steve Whitmire, American voice actor
1961 - Allen Bestwick, Nascar broadcaster
1961 - John Logan, American screenwriter
1962 - Jack Dee, British comedian
1962 - Rosamund Kwan, Hong Kong Actress
1962 - Mike Phelan, English former footballer
1962 - Nia Vardalos, Canadian actress
1964 - Rafael Palmeiro, Cuban-born baseball player
1965 - Sean McNabb, American bassist (Quiet Riot, Great White, Rough Cutt, House of Lords)
1966 - Michael J. Varhola, American author
1966 - Bernard Gilkey, Baseball player
1966 - Stacy Galina, American actress
1969 - Shawn "Clown" Crahan, American musician (Slipknot)
1969 - Donald DeGrate, Jr., American music producer
1969 - Goya Toledo, Spanish actress and model
1969 - Megan Ward, American actress
1971 - Peter Salisbury, English drummer (The Verve)
1971 - Kevin Millar, American baseball player
1971 - Michael S. Engel, American paleontologist & entomologist
1973 - Eddie George, American football player
1974 - John McDonald, American baseball player
1975 - Kyle Turley, former National Football League offensive lineman
1976 - Carlos Almeida, Angolan basketball player
1976 - Stephanie McMahon-Levesque, American professional wrestler
1977 - Frank Fahrenhorst, German footballer
1978 - Tarek Saab, American TV show contestant
1978 - Wietse van Alten, Dutch archer
1979 - Justin Bruening, American actor
1979 - Fábio Aurélio, Brazilian footballer
1979 - Katja Kassin, German pornographic actress
1979 - Ross Mathews, American television personality and comedian
1980 - John Arne Riise, Norwegian footballer
1980 - Petri Pasanen, Finnish footballer
1980 - Sabrine Maui, Filipino pornstar
1980 - Dean Canto, Australian racing driver
1980 - Daniele Bennati, Italian professional road racing cyclist
1981 - Drew Gooden, National Basketball Association player
1981 - Ryan Briscoe, Australian racing driver
1982 - Morgan Hamm, American gymnast
1982 - Paul Hamm, American gymnast
1982 - Jeff Karstens, American baseball player
1983 - Randy Foye, American basketball player
1984 - Szilvia Molnar, Swedish writer
1986 - Leah Dizon, model, singer and Japanese television
1987 - Spencer Treat Clark, American actor
1987 - Matthew Connolly, English footballer
1988 - Karl Alzner, Canadian hockey player
1988 - Kyle Sullivan, American actor
1988 - Lisa Wang, American gymnast

Famous Births on 23 Sep

Famous Births on 23 Sep

1158 - Geoffrey II, Duke of Brittany (d. 1186)
1161 - Emperor Takakura of Japan (d. 1181)
1215 - Kublai Khan of the Mongol Empire (d. 1294)
1434 - Yolande of Valois, Duchess of Savoy (d. 1478)
1598 - Eleonore Gonzaga, wife of Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1655)
1647 - Joseph Dudley, American statesman (d. 1720)
1650 - Jeremy Collier, English bishop (d. 1726)
1713 - King Ferdinand VI of Spain (d. 1759)
1740 - Empress Go-Sakuramachi of Japan (d. 1813)
1759 - Clothilde of France, queen of piedmont-Sardinia (d. 1802)
1771 - Emperor Kokaku of Japan (d. 1840)
1781 - Princess Juliane of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld (d. 1860)
1791 - Johann Franz Encke, German astronomer (d. 1865)
1819 - Hippolyte Fizeau, French physicist (d. 1896)
1838 - Victoria Woodhull, American suffragist (d. 1927)
1852 - William Stewart Halsted, American surgeon (d. 1922)
1861 - Robert Bosch, German inventor and industrialist (d. 1942)
1863 - Mary Eliza Church Terrell, American writer (d. 1954)
1864 - Draga Mašin, Queen of Serbia (d. 1903)
1865 - Emmuska Orczy, British novelist (d. 1947)
1869 - Mary Mallon, also known as Typhoid Mary, first carrier of typhoid
1880 - John Boyd Orr, Scottish physician, Nobel Laureate (d. 1971)
1889 - Walter Lippmann, American journalist (d. 1974)
1890 - Friedrich Paulus, German general (d. 1957)
1895 - Miron Merzhanov, Soviet architect (d. 1975)
1895 - Johnny Mokan, American baseball player (d. 1985)
1897 - Walter Pidgeon, Canadian actor (d. 1984)
1899 - Tom C. Clark, Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (d. 1977)
1900 - Louise Nevelson, American sculptor (d. 1988)
1900 - William Stone, British serviceman (Royal Navy) (At 107 years of age he is one of the last surviving veterans of the World War II
1901 - Jaroslav Seifert, Czech writer, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1986)
1902 - Su Buqing, Chinese mathematician and educator (d. 2003)
1907 - Dominique Aury, French novelist (d. 1998)
1907 - Duarte Nuno, Duke of Braganza, heir to the throne of Portugal (d. 1976)
1911 - Frank Moss, United States Senator from Utah (d. 2003)
1912 - Tony Smith, American sculptor (d. 1980)
1912 - Ghulam Mustafa Khan, Pakistani researcher, critic and linguist (d. 2005)
1914 - Omar Ali Saifuddin III, Sultan of Brunei (d. 1986)
1915 - Clifford Shull, American physicist, Nobel Laureate (d. 2001)
1916 - Aldo Moro, Italian politician (d. 1978)
1920 - Mickey Rooney, American actor
1924 - Pedro Joaquín Chamorro Cardenal, Nicaraguan newspaper editor (d. 1978)
1925 - Eleonora Rossi Drago, Italian actress
1925 - Denis Twitchett, Cambridge scholar, and Chinese historian (d. 2006)
1926 - John Coltrane, American saxophonist (d. 1967)
1929 - Wally Whyton, English musician (d. 1997)
1930 - Colin Blakely, British actor (d. 1987)
1930 - Ray Charles, American musician (d. 2004)
1930 - Sehba Akhtar,poet of Pakistan (d.1996)
1931 - Gerald Stairs Merrithew, Canadian educator (d. 2004)
1934 - Ahmad Shah Khan, Crown Prince of Afghanistan
1936 - Valentín Paniagua, Peruvian politician
1938 - Romy Schneider, Austrian actress (d. 1982)
1938 - Tom Lester, American actor
1939 - Henry Blofeld, English cricket commentator
1939 - Roy Buchanan, American guitarist (d. 1988)
1939 - Janusz Gajos, Polish actor
1939 - Sonny Vaccaro, American former sports executive
1941 - Simon Nolet, French-Canadian ice hockey player
1941 - George Jackson, American civil-rights activist
1942 - Sila María Calderón, Puerto Rican politician
1943 - Marty Schottenheimer, American football coach
1943 - Julio Iglesias, Spanish singer
1944 - Eric Bogle, Scottish-born Australian singer and songwriter
1945 - Igor Ivanov, Russian politician
1945 - Paul Petersen, American actor
1946 - Franz Fischler, Austrian politician
1947 - Mary Kay Place, American actress
1947 - Jerry Corbetta, American singer and musician (Sugarloaf)
1947 - Neal Smith, American musician (Alice Cooper)
1949 - Bruce Springsteen, American singer and songwriter
1954 - Charlie Barnett, American actor (d. 1996)
1956 - Peter David, American writer
1956 - Paolo Rossi, Italian footballer
1957 - Rosalind Chao, American actress
1957 - Tony Fossas, Cuban baseball player
1958 - Marvin Lewis, American football coach
1958 - Larry Mize, American golfer
1958 - Lita Ford, English-born singer (The Runaways)
1958 - Danielle Dax, British musician
1959 - Jason Alexander, American actor
1959 - Martin Page, English singer and songwriter
1959 - Elizabeth Peña, American actress
1960 - Jason Carter, British actor
1961 - Willie McCool, American astronaut (d. 2003)
1961 - Chi McBride, American actor
1964 - Clayton Blackmore, Welsh footballer
1964 - Koshi Inaba, Japanese singer (B'z)
1964 - Larry Krystkowiak, Former American basketball player and head coach
1966 - Pete Harnisch, Former American Baseball player
1966 - LisaRaye, American actress
1968 - Yvette Fielding, English television presenter
1969 - Michelle Thomas, American actress (d. 1998)
1969 - Tapio Laukkanen, Finnish rally driver
1969 - Donald Audette, Canadian ice hockey player
1969 - Patrick Fiori, French singer
1970 - Georgios Koltsidas, Greek footballer
1970 - Ani DiFranco, American musician
1971 - Eric Montross, Former American Basketball Player
1972 - Jermaine Dupri, American music producer and rapper
1972 - Karl Pilkington, British radio personality
1973 - Ingrid Fliter, Argentinian pianist
1974 - Harumi Inoue, Japanese actress and model
1974 - Matt Hardy, American professional wrestler
1975 - Kim Dong-moon, South Korean badminton player
1975 - Chris Hawkins, British radio personality
1975 - Jaime Bergman, American model and actress
1975 - Layzie Bone, American rapper (Bone Thugs-N-Harmony)
1976 - Wladimir Sidorenko, Ukrainian boxer and current WBA Bantamweight champion
1976 - Faune A. Chambers, American actress
1976 - Kip Pardue, American actor and model
1977 - Rachael Yamagata, American singer and songwriter
1977 - Matthieu Descoteaux, Canadian ice hockey player
1978 - Keri Lynn Pratt, American actress
1978 - Worm Miller, American filmmaker
1979 - Ricky Davis, American basketball player
1980 - Cameron Litvack, American television producer
1981 - Robert Doornbos, Dutch race car driver
1981 - Natalie Horler, German singer (Cascada)
1981 - Misti Traya, American actress
1982 - Billie Piper, British singer and actress
1984 - Matt Kemp, American baseball player
1984 - Nathan Jendrick, American author
1984 - Anneliese van der Pol, American actress
1984 - Louie Stephens, American musician (Rooney)
1985 - Brian Brohm, American football player
1985 - Lukáš Kašpar, Czech ice hockey player
1985 - Jared High, American victim of bullying (d. 1998)
1985 - Maki Goto, Japanese pop singer
1985 - Hossein Ka'abi, Iranian footballer
1985 - Joba Chamberlain, American baseball player
1986 - Martin Cranie, English footballer
1989 - Brandon Jennings, American basketball player
480 BC - Euripides, Greek playwright (d. 406 BC)
63 BC - Augustus Caesar, Roman Emperor (d. 14)

Famous Births on 22 Sep

Famous Births on 22 Sep

1515 - Anne of Cleves, wife of Henry VIII of England (d. 1557)
1547 - Philipp Nikodemus Frischlin, German philologist and poet (d. 1590)
1593 - Matthäus Merian, Swiss engraver (d. 1650)
1601 - Anne of Austria, queen of Louis XIII of France (d. 1666)
1606 - Li Zicheng, Chinese rebel (d. 1645)
1680 - Barthold Heinrich Brockes, German poet (d. 1747)
1694 - Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield, English statesman (d. 1773)
1715 - Jean-Étienne Guettard, French physician and scientist (d. 1786)
1717 - Pehr Wilhelm Wargentin, Swedish astronomer (d. 1783)
1722 - John Home, Scottish writer (d. 1808)
1741 - Peter Simon Pallas, German zoologist (d. 1811)
1743 - Quintin Craufurd, British author (d. 1819)
1765 - Paolo Ruffini, Italian mathematician (d. 1822)
1788 - Theodore Edward Hook, English author (d. 1841)
1791 - Michael Faraday, English scientist (d. 1867)
1819 - Wilhelm Wattenbach, German historian (d. 1897)
1829 - Tự Đức, Emperor of Vietnam (d. 1883)
1875 - Mikalojus Konstantinas ÄŒiurlionis, Lithuanian painter and composer (d. 1911)
1876 - André Tardieu, Prime Minister of France (d. 1945)
1878 - Yoshida Shigeru, Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1967)
1880 - Dame Christabel Pankhurst, English suffragist (d. 1958)
1882 - Wilhelm Keitel, German field marshal (d. 1946)
1885 - Gunnar Asplund, Swedish architect (d. 1940)
1885 - Ben Chifley, Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1951)
1885 - Erich von Stroheim, Austrian-born actor (d. 1957)
1889 - Hooks Dauss, American baseball player (d. 1963)
1891 - Hans Albers, German actor and singer (d. 1960)
1895 - Paul Muni, Polish-born actor (d. 1967)
1896 - Henry Segrave, British racing driver (d. 1930)
1898 - Katherine Alexander, American actress (d. 1981)
1900 - William Spratling, American silversmith (d. 1967)
1900 - Paul H. Emmett, American chemical engineer (d. 1985)
1901 - Charles B. Huggins, Canadian-born scientist, Nobel laureate (d. 1997)
1902 - John Houseman, Romanian-born actor (d. 1988)
1903 - Joseph Valachi, American gangster (d. 1971)
1904 - Ellen Church, American stewardess (d. 1965)
1905 - Eugen Sänger, Austrian aerospace engineer (d. 1964)
1907 - Philip Fotheringham-Parker, British racing driver (d. 1981)
1912 - Martha Scott, American actress (d. 2003)
1912 - Herbert Mataré, German physicist and European co-inventor of the transistor
1915 - Arthur Lowe, British actor (d. 1982)
1918 - Hans Scholl, member of The White Rose (d. 1943)
1918 - Henryk Szeryng, Polish-born violinist (d. 1988)
1920 - Eric Baker, British human rights activist (d. 1976)
1920 - Bob Lemon, American baseball player (d. 2000)
1920 - William H. Riker, American political scientist (d. 1993)
1920 - Anders Lassen, Danish military officer (d. 1945)
1922 - Chen Ning Yang, Chinese-born physicist, Nobel laureate
1923 - Dannie Abse, Welsh poet and writer
1924 - Charles Keeping, British illustrator (d. 1988)
1924 - Rosamunde Pilcher, English novelist
1927 - Gordon Astall, English footballer
1927 - Tommy Lasorda, American baseball manager
1928 - Eric Broadley, MBE, British automotive engineer (Lola Cars)
1928 - James Lawson, American minister and civil rights activist
1928 - Eugene Roche, American actor (d. 2004)
1929 - Serge Garant, French Canadian conductor (d. 1986)
1931 - Fay Weldon, British feminist
1931 - George Younger, 4th Viscount Younger of Leckie, British politician (d. 2003)
1931 - Manzoor Ahmad, Pakistani philosopher
1932 - Ingemar Johansson, Swedish boxer and former heavyweight champion of the world.
1934 - Lute Olson, American basketball coach
1936 - Maurice Evans, English footballer and manager (d. 2000)
1938 - Gene Mingo, American football player
1939 - Gilbert E. Patterson, American minister and presiding bishop of the Church of God in Christ (d. 2007)
1940 - Anna Karina, Danish born actress
1941 - Jeremiah Wright, American pastor
1942 - David Stern, American basketball commissioner
1943 - Toni Basil, American singer
1946 - King Sunny Ade, Nigerian singer
1946 - Dan Baker, American public address announcer
1946 - Larry Dierker, American baseball player and manager
1947 - Robert Morace, American writer
1948 - Jim Byrnes, American actor and musician
1948 - Denis Burke, Australian politician
1949 - Jim Keith, American conspiracy theorist and author (d. 1999)
1949 - Jim McGinty, Australian politician
1950 - Kirka, Finnish singer (d. 2007)
1951 - David Coverdale, English singer
1952 - Bob Goodlatte, American politician
1952 - Paul Le Mat, American actor
1952 - Gary Holton, English actor and musician (d. 1985)
1953 - Geoff Gilpin, American author
1953 - Ségolène Royal, French politician
1954 - Shari Belafonte, American singer
1954 - Randy Lanier, American racing driver
1955 - Jeffrey Leonard, Major League baseball player
1956 - Debby Boone, American singer
1956 - Masayuki Suzuki, Japanese singer (Rats & Star)
1957 - Nick Cave, Australian musician
1957 - Giuseppe Saronni, Italian cyclist
1958 - Joan Jett, American musician
1958 - Neil Cavuto, American television commentator
1958 - Andrea Bocelli, Italian tenor
1959 - Tai Babilonia, American figure skater
1959 - Pope Michael, American anti-pope
1961 - Scott Baio, American actor
1961 - Vince Coleman, American baseball player
1961 - Dr. Liam Fox, British Conservative politician
1961 - Bonnie Hunt, American actress
1961 - Catherine Oxenberg, British actress
1962 - Diogo Mainardi, Brazilian writer
1964 - Randy Lanier, American car racer, marijuana smuggler and convicted felon
1965 - Andy Cairns, Irish musician
1965 - Tony Drago, Maltese snooker player
1965 - Mark Guthrie, American baseball player
1966 - Moustafa Amar, Egyptian singer
1966 - Stefan Rehn, Swedish footballer
1966 - Mike Richter, American ice hockey player
1967 - Kim Watkins, Australian television presenter
1967 - Félix Savón, Cuban boxer
1967 - Rickard Rydell, Swedish racing driver
1967 - Matt Besser, American comedian
1969 - Chris Powell, English footballer
1969 - Matt Sharp, American musician (Weezer, The Rentals)
1970 - Mike Matheny, American baseball player
1970 - Mystikal, American rapper
1970 - Rupert Penry-Jones, English actor
1970 - Emmanuel Petit, French footballer
1971 - Princess Märtha Louise of Norway
1971 - Chesney Hawkes, English singer
1972 - Dana Vespoli, American porn actress
1974 - Bob Sapp, American boxer and kickboxer
1974 - Yoo Chae-yeong, South Korean singer and actress
1975 - Svilen Noev, Bulgarian singer-songwriter
1975 - Ethan Moreau, Canadian ice hockey player
1977 - Paul Sculthorpe, English rugby league footballer
1978 - Ed Joyce, Irish-English cricketer
1978 - Harry Kewell, Australian soccer player
1979 - Michael Graziadei, American actor
1979 - Emilie Autumn, American singer, violinist, and harpsichordist
1980 - Fernanda Tavares, Brazilian supermodel
1981 - Ashley Drane, American actress
1981 - Adam Lazzara, American singer (Taking Back Sunday)
1981 - Subaru Shibutani, Japanese singer, dancer, actor (Kanjani8)
1982 - Billie Piper, English singer and actress
1982 - Kosuke Kitajima, Japanese swimmer
1982 - Mandy Chiang, Hong Kong singer and actress
1984 - Eduardo Rubio, Mexican pilot and pianist
1984 - Laura Vandervoort, Canadian actress
1984 - Ross Jarman, Drummer The Cribs
1984 - Theresa Fu, Hong Kong singer and actress
1985 - Faris Haroun, Belgian footballer
1987 - Tom Felton, English actor
1988 - Bethany Dillon, American musician
1995 - Juliette Goglia, American actress
2007 - Albert Windsor, descendant of British monarch

Famous Births on 21 Sep

Famous Births on 21 Sep

1051 - Bertha of Savoy, German queen and Holy Roman Empire Empress (d. 1087)
1328 - Hongwu Emperor of China (d. 1398)
1411 - Richard Plantagenet, 3rd Duke of York, claimant to the English throne (d. 1460)
1415 - Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1493)
1428 - Jingtai Emperor of China (d. 1457)
1452 - Girolamo Savonarola, Dominican priest and ruler of Florence (d. 1498)
1559 - Cigoli, Florentine painter, architect, and sculptor (d. 1613)
1629 - Philip Cardinal Howard, English Catholic cardinal (d. 1694)
1645 - Louis Joliet, Canadian explorer (d. 1700)
1706 - Polyxena Christina of Hesse-Rotenburg, queen of Sardinia (d. 1735)
1756 - John MacAdam, Scottish engineer and road-builder (d. 1836)
1758 - Christopher Gore, 8th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1827)
1760 - Ivan Dmitriev, Russian statesman (d. 1837)
1819 - Princess Louise Marie Thérèse of France (d. 1864)
1840 - Murad V, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1904)
1842 - Abd-ul-Hamid II, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1918)
1849 - Maurice Barrymore, Indian-born patriarch of the Barrymore family (d. 1905)
1853 - Heike Kamerlingh Onnes, Dutch physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1926)
1863 - John Bunny, American film comedian (d. 1915)
1866 - Charles Nicolle, French bacteriologist, received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1936)
1866 - H. G. Wells, English writer (d. 1946)
1873 - Papa Jack Laine, American musician (d. 1966)
1874 - Gustav Holst, English composer (d. 1934)
1895 - Sergei Yesenin, Russian poet (d. 1925)
1899 - Frederick Coutts, the 8th General of The Salvation Army (d. 1986)
1902 - Sir Allen Lane, British founder of Penguin Books (d. 1970)
1902 - Luis Cernuda, Spanish poet (d. 1963)
1905 - Robert Lebel, French Canadian ice hockey executive (d. 1999)
1906 - Henry Beachell, American plant breeder (d. 2006)
1912 - György Sándor, Hungarian pianist (d. 2005)
1912 - Chuck Jones, American animator (d. 2002)
1916 - Françoise Giroud, French journalist and politician (d. 2003)
1917 - Phyllis Nicolson, British mathematician (d. 1968)
1918 - John Gofman, American Manhattan Project scientist and advocate (d. 2007)
1919 - Mario Bunge, Argentine philosopher and physicist
1919 - Fazlur Rahman, Pakistani scholar (d. 1988)
1926 - Donald A. Glaser, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
1929 - Sándor Kocsis, Hungarian footballer (d. 1979)
1929 - Bernard Williams, English philosopher (d. 2003)
1931 - Larry Hagman, American actor
1933 - Dick Simon, American racing driver
1934 - Leonard Cohen, Canadian singer and songwriter
1935 - Jimmy Armfield, Former English Footballer and Manager
1935 - Henry Gibson, American actor
1936 - Diane Rehm, American radio talk show host for National Public Radio
1936 - Yuriy Luzhkov, Russian politician, mayor of Moscow
1936 - Dickey Lee, American singer and songwriter
1938 - Doug Moe, American basketball player and coach
1940 - Bill Kurtis, American television journalist
1940 - Hermann Knoflacher, Austrian civil engineer
1941 - R. James Woolsey, Jr., Central Intelligence Agency director
1941 - Jack Brisco, American professional wrestler
1944 - Fannie Flagg, American actress and novelist
1944 - Hamilton Jordan, U.S. President Jimmy Carter's original chief of staff
1944 - Steve Beshear, Democratic Governor of Kentucky.
1945 - Shaw Clifton, the 18th General of The Salvation Army
1945 - Richard Childress, NASCAR team owner
1945 - Jerry Bruckheimer, American film and television producer
1946 - Moritz Leuenberger, Swiss Federal Councilor
1947 - Stephen King, American author
1947 - Marsha Norman, American playwright
1947 - Don Felder, American guitarist (Eagles)
1949 - Artis Gilmore, American basketball player
1950 - Charles Clarke, British politician
1950 - Bill Murray, American actor
1951 - Aslan Maskhadov, Chechen rebel leader (d. 2005)
1951 - Bruce Arena, American soccer coach
1952 - Anneliese Michel, German exorcism victim (d. 1976)
1953 - Arie Luyendyk, Dutch race car driver
1954 - Shinzo Abe, Japanese politician
1954 - Phil "Philthy Animal" Taylor, British musician (Motörhead)
1955 - Mika Kaurismäki, Finnish director
1955 - Richard Hieb, American astronaut
1956 - Marta Kauffman, American television producer
1956 - Jack Givens, American basketball player
1957 - Ethan Coen, American film director
1957 - Sidney Moncrief, American basketball player
1957 - Kevin Rudd, Australian politician
1957 - Penny Smith, English television presenter
1958 - Bruno Fitoussi, French poker player
1959 - Dave Coulier, American actor
1959 - Danny Cox, American baseball player
1959 - Corinne Drewery, British singer (Swing Out Sister)
1960 - David James Elliott, Canadian actor
1961 - Nancy Travis, American actress
1962 - Rob Morrow, American actor
1963 - Curtly Ambrose, Antiguan West Indies cricketer
1963 - Cecil Fielder, American baseball player
1963 - Angus Macfadyen, Scottish actor
1964 - Jorge Drexler, Uruguayan singer and composer
1965 - Cheryl Hines, American actress
1965 - David Wenham, Australian actor
1967 - Tyler Stewart, Canadian drummer (Barenaked Ladies)
1967 - Faith Hill, American singer
1968 - Ricki Lake, American actress and talk show hostess
1969 - Jason Christiansen, American baseball player
1970 - John Cudia, American actor
1970 - Bridget Moynahan, American model and actress
1971 - Luke Wilson, American actor
1971 - Alfonso Ribeiro, American actor
1971 - John Crawley, English cricketer
1972 - David Silveria, American drummer (KoЯn)
1972 - Jon Kitna, American football player
1972 - Scott Spiezio, American baseball player
1972 - Liam Gallagher, English singer (Oasis)
1973 - Oswaldo Sanchez, Mexican footballer
1973 - Vanessa Grigoriadis, American journalist
1974 - Taral Hicks, American musician
1974 - Jana Kandarr, German tennis player
1974 - Andy Todd, English footballer
1975 - Doug Davis, American baseball player
1976 - Jonas Bjerre, Danish singer and guitarist (Mew)
1976 - Poul Hübertz, Danish footballer
1977 - Brian Tallet, American baseball player
1978 - Doug Howlett, New Zealand rugby union footballer
1979 - Jaymee Ong, Chinese-Australian model
1979 - Julian Gray, English footballer
1979 - Chris Gayle, Jamaican West Indies cricketer
1979 - Richard Dunne, Irish footballer
1980 - Tomas Scheckter, South African racing driver
1980 - Autumn Reeser, American actress
1980 - Aleksa Palladino, American actress
1980 - Kareena Kapoor, Indian actress
1980 - Robert Hoffman, American actor
1981 - Nicole Richie, American socialite
1981 - Rimi Sen, Indian actress
1981 - Meilinda Soerjoko, Indonesian-Australian actress
1982 - Rowan Vine, English footballer
1982 - Marat Izmailov, Russian footballer
1982 - Danny Kass, American snowboarder
1982 - Eduardo Azevedo, Brazilian racing driver
1983 - Anna Meares, Australian cyclist
1983 - Joseph Mazzello, American actor
1983 - Maggie Grace, American actress
1983 - Fernando Cavenaghi, Argentinian footballer
1984 - Benjamin Wildman-Tobriner, American swimmer
1985 - Maryam Hassouni, Dutch actor
1986 - Faris Rotter, English vocalist (The Horrors)
1987 - Courtney Paris, American basketball player
1987 - Ashley Paris, American basketball player
1987 - Jimmy Clausen, American football player
1988 - Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, Pakistani politician
1989 - Lyn-Z Adams Hawkins, American skateboarder
1990 - Allison Scagliotti, American actress
1990 - Christian Serratos, American actress
1991 - Jordan Hasay, American track and field athlete
1998 - Brino quadruplets, American actor/actresses

Famous Births on 20 Sep

Famous Births on 20 Sep

1486 - Arthur, Prince of Wales, son of King Henry VII of England (d. 1502)
1599 - Christian the Younger, German Protestant military leader (d. 1623)
1744 - Thomas Grosvenor, American Revolutionary War hero (d. 1825)
1746 - Móric Beňovský, Slovak officer and explorer, King of Madagascar (d. 1786)
1778 - Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen, Russian naval officer and explorer (d. 1852)
1833 - Ernesto Teodoro Moneta, Italian pacifist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1918)
1842 - James Dewar, Scottish chemist (d. 1923)
1844 - William H. Illingworth, American photographer (d. 1893)
1851 - Henry Arthur Jones, English writer (d. 1929)
1853 - Rama V, King of Thailand (d. 1910)
1861 - Herbert Putnam, Librarian of Congress (d. 1955)
1872 - Maurice Gamelin, French army general (d. 1958)
1873 - Sidney Olcott, Canadian film director (d. 1949)
1873 - Ferenc Szisz, Hungarian race car driver (d. 1944)
1878 - Upton Sinclair, American writer (d. 1968)
1880 - Louise Peete, American murderess (d. 1947)
1884 - Maxwell Perkins, American editor and publisher (d. 1947)
1885 - Jelly Roll Morton, American jazz pianist, bandleader and composer (d. 1941)
1886 - Charles Williams, British author (d. 1945)
1889 - Charles Reidpath, American athlete (d. 1975)
1899 - Leo Strauss, German-born philosopher (d. 1973)
1902 - Stevie Smith, British poet (d. 1971)
1911 - Shriram Sharma Acharya, Indian spiritual leader (d. 1991)
1914 - Kenneth More, English actor (d. 1982)
1916 - Malik Meraj Khalid, Former Caretaker Prime Minister of Pakistan (d. 2003)
1917 - Red Auerbach, American basketball coach (d. 2006)
1917 - Fernando Rey, Spanish-born actor (d. 1994)
1920 - Alberto de Lacerda, Portuguese poet (d. 2007)
1920 - Jay Ward, American animated cartoonist (d. 1989)
1922 - William Kapell, American pianist (d. 1953)
1923 - Geraldine Clinton Little, Irish-born poet (d. 1997)
1924 - Gogi Grant, American singer
1925 - Ananda Mahidol, King of Thailand (d. 1946)
1925 - Bobby Nunn, American singer (The Coasters) (d. 1986)
1927 - Rachel Roberts, English actress (d. 1980)
1927 - Johnny Dankworth, English musician and composer
1928 - Joyce Brothers, American psychologist and advice columnist
1928 - Kirsten Rolffes, Danish actress (d. 2000)
1928 - Donald Hall, American poet and US Poet Laureate
1929 - Anne Meara, American comic and actress
1931 - Cherd Songsri, Thai filmmaker (d. 2006)
1933 - Dennis Viollet, English former footballer (d. 1999)
1934 - Sophia Loren, Italian actress
1935 - Jim Taylor, National Football League player
1935 - Keith Roberts, British science fiction author (d. 2000)
1935 - David Pegg, English footballer (d. 1958)
1937 - Birgitta Dahl, Swedish politician
1937 - Monica Zetterlund, Swedish actress and singer (d. 2005)
1939 - Robert L. Gerry III, American businessman
1941 - Dale Chihuly, American glass artist
1942 - Gérald Tremblay, Québec politician
1947 - Mia Martini, Italian singer (d. 1995)
1947 - Bruce Pasternack, American CEO
1947 - Steve Gerber, American comics writer (d. 2008)
1948 - George R. R. Martin, American writer
1948 - Chuck Panozzo and John Panozzo (d. 1996), American musicians (Styx)
1949 - Mahesh Bhatt. Indian film director
1949 - John W. Henry, American MLB team owner
1951 - Guy Lafleur, Canadian ice hockey player
1951 - Javier Marías, Spanish author, translator and academic
1954 - Henry Samueli, American NHL team owner
1956 - Gary Cole, American actor
1957 - Alannah Currie, New Zealander musician (Thompson Twins)
1957 - Rich DiSilvio, American new media developer & artist
1958 - Arn Anderson, American wrestler
1959 - Danny Devos, Belgian artist
1960 - Deborah Roberts, American journalist and TV reporter
1961 - Lisa Bloom, American lawyer and television personality
1964 - Maggie Cheung, Hong Kong actress
1965 - Robert Rusler, American actor
1966 - Nuno Bettencourt, Portuguese rock musician
1967 - Gunnar and Matthew Nelson, American musicians (Nelson)
1967 - Kristen Johnston, American actress
1967 - Martin Harrison, American NFL Football Player
1968 - Leah Pinsent, Canadian actress
1968 - Darrell Russell, American race car driver (d. 2004)
1968 - Tim Rogers, Australian singer / songwriter
1969 - Richard Witschge, former Dutch footballer
1969 - Megumi Kudo, Japanese pro-wrestler
1969 - Victoria Dillard, American actress
1970 - Moon Bloodgood, American actress and model
1971 - Henrik Larsson, Swedish footballer
1971 - Masashi Hamauzu, Japanese composer
1973 - Ronald McKinnon, National Football League linebacker
1974 - Michael Waddington, American defense lawyer
1975 - Juan Pablo Montoya, Colombian race car driver
1975 - Asia Argento, Italian actress
1976 - Yui Horie, Japanese seiyuu
1976 - Enuka Okuma, Canadian actress
1976 - Reuben Singh, British entrepreneur
1977 - Namie Amuro, Japanese pop singer
1978 - Luke Heron, British entrepreneur & investor
1978 - Dante Hall, American football player
1978 - T.J. Tucker, American baseball player
1978 - Sarit Hadad, Israeli singer
1978 - Patrizio Buanne, Italian singer
1978 - Jason Bay, Canadian baseball player
1979 - Sean Davis, English footballer
1980 - Vladimir Karpets, Russian cyclist
1980 - Jonathan Le Billon, British actor
1980 - Mariacarla Boscono, Italian fashion model
1981 - Joanie Dodds, America's Next Top Model contestant
1981 - Feliciano López, Spanish tennis player
1981 - Jordan Tata, American baseball player
1983 - Yuna Ito, Japanese singer and actress
1983 - Ángel Sánchez, Puerto Rican baseball player
1985 - David Allen, American composer and writer
1987 - Jack Lawless, American drummer for the Jonas Brothers
1990 - John Tavares, Canadian ice hockey player
1990 - Marilou, Quebec pop singer
1991 - Spencer Locke, American actress
1993 - Taylor Parks, American actress
1995 - Sammi Hanratty, American actress

Famous Births on 19 Sep

Famous Births on 19 Sep

1377 - Albert IV, Duke of Austria (d. 1404)
1551 - King Henry III of France (d. 1589)
1714 - Charles Humphreys, American delegate to the Continental Congress (d. 1786)
1737 - Charles Carroll of Carrollton, American signer of the Declaration of Independence and U.S. Senator (d. 1832)
1749 - Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre, French mathematician (d. 1822)
1754 - John Ross Key, commissioned officer in the Continental Army, judge, lawyer and the father of Francis Scott Key (d. 1821)
1759 - William Kirby, English entomologist (d. 1850)
1778 - Henry Peter Brougham, Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain (d. 1868)
1796 - Hartley Coleridge, English poet (d. 1849)
1799 - René Caillé, French explorer (d. 1838)
1802 - Lajos Kossuth, Hungarian lawyer and Regent-President (d. 1894)
1803 - Maria Anna of Savoy, Empress of Austria and queen of Hungary and Bohemia (d. 1884)
1811 - Orson Pratt, American religious leader (d. 1881)
1828 - Fridolin Anderwert, Swiss Federal Councilor (d. 1880)
1882 - Christopher Stone, first disc jockey in the United Kingdom (d. 1965)
1887 - Lovie Austin, American jazz pianist (d. 1972)
1887 - Lynne Overman, American actor (d. 1943)
1888 - J. W. Alexander, American mathematician (d. 1971)
1889 - Sadie Delany, American physician and author (d. 1999)
1898 - Giuseppe Saragat, president of the Italian Republic (d. 1988)
1901 - Joe Pasternak, Hungarian-born film producer (d. 1991)
1905 - Leon Jaworski, American Watergate scandal special prosecutor (d. 1982)
1907 - Lewis Franklin Powell, Jr., American Supreme Court Justice (d. 1998)
1908 - Tatsuo Shimabuku, founder of Isshinryu Karate (d. 1975)
1908 - Mika Waltari, Finnish novelist (d. 1979)
1908 - Robert Lecourt, French politician and president of the European Court of Justice (d. 2004)
1909 - Ferry Porsche, Austrian automobile pioneer (d. 1998)
1910 - Margaret Lindsay, American actress (d. 1981)
1911 - Sir William Golding, English writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1993)
1912 - Kurt Sanderling, German conductor
1913 - Frances Farmer, American actress (d. 1970)
1915 - Germán Valdés, Mexican actor, singer and comedian (d. 1973)
1920 - Roger Angell, American sports writer
1921 - Paulo Freire, Brazilian educator & writer (d. 1997)
1922 - Damon Knight, American writer (d. 2002)
1922 - Emil Zátopek, Czech athlete (d. 2000)
1926 - Duke Snider, baseball player
1926 - Masatoshi Koshiba, Japanese physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
1926 - James Lipton, American actor, writer and host of Inside the Actors Studio
1927 - Rosemary Harris, English actress
1927 - William Hickey, American actor (d. 1997)
1928 - Adam West, American actor
1930 - Antonio Margheriti, Italian filmmaker (d. 2002)
1931 - Jean-Claude Carrière, French screenwriter and actor
1931 - Brook Benton, American singer (d. 1988)
1933 - David McCallum, Scottish actor
1934 - Brian Epstein, English musical group manager (The Beatles) (d. 1967)
1935 - Benjamin Hacker, American naval aviator (d. 2003)
1935 - Nick Massi, American singer (The Four Seasons) (d. 2000)
1936 - Al Oerter, American athlete (d. 2007)
1937 - Abner Haynes, American football player
1940 - Ed Westfall, Canadian ice hockey player
1940 - Paul Williams, American composer
1940 - Bill Medley, American singer and songwriter (The Righteous Brothers)
1940 - Anna Karen, South African-born British actress
1941 - Umberto Bossi, Italian politician
1941 - Mama Cass Elliot, American musician (d. 1974)
1942 - Freda Payne, American singer and actress
1943 - Joe Morgan, baseball player
1944 - Jean Succar Kuri, Lebanese-born Mexican businessman
1944 - Anders Björck, Swedish politician
1945 - Randolph Mantooth, American actor
1946 - Brian Henton, English racing driver
1947 - Lol Creme, English musician (10cc, Godley & Creme)
1948 - Jeremy Irons, English actor
1948 - Mihai Timofti, Director, actor, musician from Moldova-Chisinau
1949 - Twiggy, English model
1949 - Barry Scheck, American lawyer, co-founder Innocence Project
1949 - Sally Potter, English film director and screenwriter
1950 - Joan Lunden, American journalist and television host
1951 - Daniel Lanois, Canadian record producer
1952 - Bernard de Dryver, Belgian racing driver
1952 - Gunnar Hökmark, Swedish politician
1952 - Nile Rodgers, American musician and composer
1955 - Rex Smith, American singer and actor
1955 - Richard Burmer, American composer and musician (d. 2006)
1956 - Juan Manuel Fangio II, Argentine racing driver
1956 - Charlie Reliford, baseball umpire
1958 - Kevin Hooks, American actor and director
1958 - Azumah Nelson, Ghanaian boxer
1960 - Loïc Bigois, French engineer
1962 - Ken Rosenthal, American sportswriter
1962 - Cheri Oteri, American actress and comedian
1963 - David Seaman, English footballer
1963 - Jarvis Cocker, English musician (Pulp)
1964 - Trisha Yearwood, American singer
1964 - Bob Papa, American sportscaster
1964 - Patrick Marber, British playwright
1965 - Alexandra Vandernoot, Belgian actress
1965 - Sabine Paturel, French singer
1966 - Soledad O'Brien, American journalist
1966 - Eric Robert Rudolph, American criminal
1967 - Stéphane Crête, Quebec actor
1967 - Alexander Karelin, Russian wrestler
1967 - Jim Abbott, baseball player
1969 - Alkinoos Ioannidis, Greek-Cypriot singer and composer
1969 - Tapio Wilska, Finnish singer
1970 - Dan Bylsma, National Hockey League player
1970 - Gilbert Dionne, National Hockey League player
1970 - Takanori Nishikawa, Japanese pop/rock singer
1970 - Victor Williams, American actor
1971 - Sanaa Lathan, American actress
1973 - Jeremy Lindsay Taylor, Australian actor
1973 - Cristiano da Matta, Brazilian racing car driver
1973 - Nick Colgan, Irish footballer
1974 - Jimmy Fallon, American actor and comedian
1974 - Victoria Silvstedt, Swedish model
1976 - Jan Hlaváč, Czech ice hockey player
1976 - Jessica York, television personality
1976 - Jim Ward, American musician (At the Drive-In, Sparta)
1976 - Alison Sweeney, American actress
1976 - Raja Bell, American basketball player
1977 - Ryan Dusick, American drummer (Maroon 5)
1978 - Michelle Alves, Brazilian supermodel
1978 - Nick Johnson, baseball player
1978 - Nigel Mitchell, Quizmania and Capital Disney presenter
1978 - Jorge López Montaña, Spanish footballer
1979 - Noémie Lenoir, French supermodel and actress
1979 - Dannielle Brent, British actress
1980 - Tegan and Sara, Canadian singer/songwriters
1981 - Rick DiPietro, American ice hockey goaltender
1981 - Damiano Cunego, Italian cyclist
1981 - Scott Baker, American baseball player
1982 - Eleni Daniilidou, Greek tennis player
1982 - Jordan Parise, American ice hockey player
1982 - Nicole Voss, American model
1983 - Charlie Haeger, American baseball player
1983 - Matt Wiman, American mixed martial artist
1983 - Joey Devine, American baseball player
1984 - Eamon Doyle, American pop singer
1984 - Kevin Zegers, Canadian actor
1986 - Ken Gushi, Japanese racing driver
1986 - Peter Vack, American voice actor
1986 - Gerald Ciolek, German cyclist
1987 - Danielle Panabaker, American actress
1990 - Saki Fukuda, Japanese actress
1991 - Demelza Reveley, Australian model
1994 - Alex Etel, British actor
86 - Antoninus Pius, Roman Emperor (d. 161)
866 - Leo VI, Byzantine Emperor (d. 912)

Famous Births on 18 Sep

Famous Births on 18 Sep

1344 - Marie Valois, Princess of France (d. 1404)
1434 - Eleanor of Portugal, Holy Roman Empress (d. 1467)
1505 - Maria of Austria, wife of Louis II of Hungary and Bohemia (d. 1558)
1587 - Francesca Caccini, Italian composer (d. circa 1640)
1643 - Gilbert Burnet, Scottish Bishop of Salisbury (d. 1715)
1676 - Eberhard Ludwig, Duke of Württemberg (d. 1733)
1684 - Johann Gottfried Walther, German composer (d. 1748)
1709 - Samuel Johnson, English writer and lexicographer (d. 1784)
1718 - Maria Anna of Austria, Duchess of Lorraine (d. 1744)
1718 - Nikita Ivanovich Panin, Russian statesman (d. 1783)
1733 - George Read, signer of the United States Declaration of Independence (d. 1798)
1750 - Tomas de Iriarte, Spanish writer (d. 1791)
1752 - Adrien-Marie Legendre, French mathematician (d. 1833)
1765 - Pope Gregory XVI (d. 1846)
1779 - Joseph Story, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (d. 1845)
1786 - Justinus Kerner, German poet (d. 1862)
1786 - Christian VIII of Denmark, King of Denmark (d. 1848)
1812 - Herschel Vespasian Johnson, American politician (d. 1880)
1819 - Leon Foucault, French physicist (d. 1868)
1837 - Aires de Ornelas e Vasconcelos, (Portuguese) Archbishop of Goa (d. 1880)
1838 - Anton Mauve, Dutch artist (d. 1888)
1857 - John Hessin Clarke, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (d. 1945)
1858 - Kate Booth, the oldest daughter of William and Catherine Booth (d. 1955)
1859 - John L. Bates, 41st Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1946)
1859 - Lincoln Loy McCandless, American cattle rancher (d. 1940)
1863 - Hermann Kutter, Swiss theologian (d. 1931)
1870 - Clark Wissler, American anthropologist (d. 1947)
1875 - Tomas Burgos, Chilean philanthropist (d.1945)
1876 - James Scullin, 9th Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1953)
1883 - Gerald Hugh Tyrwhitt-Wilson, British composer (d. 1950)
1889 - Doris Blackburn, Australian politician (d. 1970)
1893 - Arthur Benjamin, Australian composer (d. 1960)
1893 - William March, American writer (d. 1954)
1895 - John Diefenbaker, 13th Prime Minister of Canada (d. 1979)
1895 - Tomoji Tanabe, the oldest man in the world as of June 2007
1901 - Harold Clurman, American film producer (d. 1980)
1905 - Greta Garbo, Swedish actress (d. 1990)
1905 - Agnes de Mille, American choreographer (d. 1993)
1905 - Eddie Anderson, American actor (d. 1977)
1907 - Leon Askin, Austrian actor (d. 2005)
1907 - Edwin McMillan, Nobel laureate (d. 1991)
1911 - Syd Howe, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1976)
1912 - Kurt Lotz, German business executive, second postwar CEO of Volkswagen (d. 2005)
1914 - Jack Cardiff, British film director
1916 - Frank Bell, British educator (d. 1989)
1916 - John Jacob Rhodes, Jr., American politician and lawyer (d. 2003)
1916 - Rossano Brazzi, Italian singer and actor (d. 1994)
1917 - June Foray, American voice actress
1917 - Francis Parker Yockey, author of Imperium (d. 1960)
1918 - John Berger, English politician
1920 - Jack Warden, American actor (d. 2006)
1922 - Grayson Hall, American actress (d. 1985)
1922 - Ray Steadman-Allen, English composer
1923 - Peter Smithson, English architect (d. 2003)
1923 - Queen Anne of Romania
1925 - Harvey Haddix, American baseball player (d. 1994)
1926 - Bud Greenspan, American film producer
1926 - Bob Toski, American golfer
1927 - Phyllis Kirk, American actress (d. 2006)
1929 - Nancy Littlefield, American film producer (d. 2007)
1932 - Nikolai Rukavishnikov, Soviet cosmonaut (d. 2002)
1933 - Robert Foster Bennett, American senator (Utah)
1933 - Jimmie Rodgers, American singer and composer
1933 - Robert Blake, American actor
1933 - Scotty Bowman, Canadian ice hockey coach
1935 - John Spencer, English former snooker player (d. 2006)
1937 - Ralph Backstrom, Canadian ice hockey player
1939 - Frankie Avalon, American musician
1939 - Jorge Sampaio, former President of Portugal
1939 - Fred Willard, American comedian
1942 - Alex Stepney, English football goalkeeper
1944 - Charles L. Veach, American astronaut (d. 1995)
1944 - Michael Franks, American musician
1944 - Rocío Jurado, Spanish singer and actress (d. 2006)
1946 - Otis Sistrunk, American football player
1946 - Nicholas Clay, English actor (d. 2000)
1947 - Giancarlo Minardi, Italian motor racing team boss
1948 - Ken Brett, American baseball player (d. 2003)
1949 - Jim McCrery, American politician
1949 - Mo Mowlam, British politician (d. 2005)
1949 - Peter Shilton, English footballer
1949 - Kerry Livgren, American singer (Kansas)
1950 - Anna Deavere Smith, American actress and playwright
1950 - Darryl Sittler, Canadian ice hockey player
1950 - Shabana Azmi, Indian actress
1951 - Benjamin Carson, American neurosurgeon
1951 - Darryl Stingley, American football player (d. 2007)
1951 - Marc Surer, Swiss motor racing driver
1952 - Rick Pitino, American basketball coach
1952 - Dee Dee Ramone, American bassist (The Ramones) (d. 2002)
1953 - Betsy Boze nee: Vogel, American Academic
1954 - Dennis Johnson, American basketball player (d. 2007)
1954 - Murtaza Bhutto, Pakistani politician (d. 1996)
1954 - Tommy Tuberville, Auburn Head Football Coach
1954 - Takao Doi, Japanese astronaut
1955 - Bob Papenbrook, American voice actor (d. 2006)
1956 - Peter Šťastný, Slovak ice hockey player
1956 - Chris Hedges, American journalist and author
1958 - John Aldridge, Irish footballer
1958 - Don Geronimo, Radio personality of the Don & Mike Show
1959 - Mark Romanek, American filmmaker
1959 - Ian Arkwright, English footballer
1959 - Ryne Sandberg, American baseball player
1960 - Karim Rashid, Egyptian-English industrial designer
1961 - James Gandolfini, American actor
1962 - Joanne Catherall, English singer
1962 - John Fashanu, English footballer
1962 - Boris Said, American race car driver
1963 - Rob Brettle, British historian
1963 - Jim Pocklington, British racing driver
1964 - Marco Masini, Italian singer-songwriter
1964 - Holly Robinson Peete, American actress
1967 - Tara Fitzgerald, English actress
1967 - Ricky Bell, American singer (New Edition, Bell Biv DeVoe)
1968 - Toni Kukoč, Croatian basketball player
1968 - Cappadonna, American rapper
1970 - Darren Gough, English cricketer
1970 - Dan Eldon, British photojournalist (d. 1993)
1970 - Aisha Tyler, American actress and comedian
1971 - Jada Pinkett Smith, American model and actress
1971 - Michael Patrick Walker, American composer and lyricist
1971 - Anna Netrebko, Russian opera singer
1971 - Lance Armstrong, American cyclist
1972 - Brigitte Becue, Belgian swimmer
1972 - David Jefferies, British motorcycle racer (d. 2003)
1973 - Mark Shuttleworth, South African entrepreneur
1973 - Paul Brousseau, Canadian ice hockey player
1973 - James Marsden, American actor
1973 - Ami Onuki, Japanese singer (Puffy Amiyumi)
1974 - Xzibit, American rapper
1974 - Ticha Penicheiro, Portuguese basketball player
1974 - Sol Campbell, English footballer
1975 - Kanstantsin Lukashyk, Belarusian pistol shooter
1975 - Jason Sudeikis, American actor and comedian
1975 - "Habacuc" Guillermo Vargas, a Costa Rican artist
1976 - Gabriel Gervais, Canadian football player
1977 - Kieran West, British Olympic oarsman
1977 - Li Tie, Chinese footballer
1978 - Augustine Simo, Cameroonian footballer
1978 - Pilar López de Ayala, Spanish actress
1979 - Alison Lohman, American actress
1979 - Daniel Aranzubia, Spanish footballer
1980 - Charles Hedger - A British musician for the band Cradle of Filth
1980 - Avi Strool, Israeli footballer
1980 - Chris Tarrant (footballer), Australian football Player
1981 - Jennifer Tisdale, American Actress & Model
1983 - Kevin Doyle, Irish footballer
1984 - Anthony Gonzalez, Professional American Football Player
1986 - Keeley Hazell, British model
1988 - Annette Obrestad, Norwegian poker player
53 - Trajan, Roman Emperor (d. 117)