Famous Births on 1 Feb

Famous Births on 1 Feb

1261 - Walter de Stapledon, English bishop (d. 1326)
1459 - Conrad Celtes, German scholar (d. 1508)
1462 - Johannes Trithemius, German cryptographer (d. 1516)
1552 - Edward Coke, English colonial entrepreneur (d. 1634)
1635 - Marquard Gude, German archaeologist (d. 1689)
1690 - Francesco Maria Veracini, Italian composer (d. 1768)
1761 - Christian Hendrik Persoon, South African mycologist (d. 1836)
1763 - Thomas Campbell, Irish theologian (d. 1854)
1796 - Abraham Emanuel Fröhlich, Swiss poet (d. 1865)
1801 - Émile Littré, French lexicographer (d. 1881)
1820 - George Hendric Houghton, American Protestant Episcopal clergyman (d. 1897)
1844 - G. Stanley Hall, American psychologist (d. 1924)
1851 - Durham Stevens, American diplomat (d. 1908)
1859 - Victor Herbert, Irish composer (d. 1924)
1872 - Jerome F. Donovan, American politician (d. 1949)
1872 - Andrew Kehoe, American mass murderer (d. 1927)
1873 - John Barry, Irish recipient of the Victoria Cross (d. 1901)
1873 - Joseph Allard, Canadian fiddler (d. 1947)
1874 - Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Austrian writer (d. 1929)
1878 - Milan Hodža, Slovak politician (d. 1944)
1882 - Louis Stephen St. Laurent, 12th Prime Minister of Canada (d. 1973)
1884 - Yevgeny Zamyatin, Russian writer (d. 1937)
1887 - Charles Nordhoff, English-born author (d. 1947)
1894 - John Ford, American director and producer (d. 1973)
1894 - James P. Johnson, American composer (d. 1955)
1895 - Conn Smythe, Canadian builder of the National Hockey League (d. 1980)
1901 - Clark Gable, American actor (d. 1960)
1902 - Langston Hughes American writer (d. 1967)
1902 - Therese Brandl, Nazi concentration camp guard (d. 1947, by execution)
1904 - S. J. Perelman, American humorist (d. 1979)
1905 - Emilio G. Segrè, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1989)
1906 - Hildegarde, American actress and singer (d. 2005)
1907 - Günter Eich, German lyricist (d. 1972)
1907 - Camargo Guarnieri, Brazilian composer (d. 1993)
1908 - George Pál, Hungarian-born director and producer (d. 1980)
1909 - George Beverly Shea, Canadian singer
1915 - Stanley Matthews, English football player (d. 2000)
1918 - Muriel Spark, Scottish author (d. 2006)
1922 - Renata Tebaldi, Italian soprano (d. 2004)
1924 - H. Richard Hornberger, American writer (d. 1997)
1924 - Ben Weider, Quebec businessman and author
1926 - Stuart Whitman, American actor
1930 - Shahabuddin Ahmed, President of Bangladesh
1930 - Mario Beaulieu, Quebec politician (d. 1998)
1930 - Hossain Mohammad Ershad, Bangladeshi politician
1931 - Iajuddin Ahmed, President of Bangladesh
1931 - Boris Yeltsin, 1st President of the Russian Federation (d. 2007)
1934 - Bob Shane, American folk singer (The Kingston Trio)
1936 - Azie Taylor Morton, 35th Treasurer of the United States (d. 2003)
1937 - Don Everly, American musician (Everly Brothers)
1937 - Garrett Morris, American comedian
1937 - Ray Sawyer, American singer (Dr. Hook & the Medicine Show)
1938 - Sherman Hemsley, American comedian and actor
1939 - Joe Sample, American jazz pianist
1939 - Paul Gillmor, American politician (d. 2007)
1939 - Claude François, French singer (d. 1978)
1940 - Bibi Besch, Austrian-American actress (d. 1996)
1940 - Hervé Filion, Quebec harness racer
1941 - Karl Dall, German television host
1941 - Jerry Spinelli, children's author
1942 - Terry Jones, Welsh actor and writer
1942 - Muna Wassef, Wassef is a well known Syrian/Arab movie star and a United Nations Goodwill ambassador.
1944 - Burkhard Ziese, German football manager
1944 - Mike Enzi, American politician, senator of Wyoming
1945 - Serge Joyal, French Canadian politician
1946 - Chris Clark, Motown Soul singer
1947 - Mike Brant, Israeli pop singer (d. 1975)
1947 - Normie Rowe, Australian singer
1947 - Jessica Savitch, American journalist (d. 1983)
1948 - Rick James, American musician and composer (d. 2004)
1948 - Elisabeth Sladen, British actress
1950 - Mike Campbell, American guitarist and producer
1951 - Sonny Landreth, American guitarist and songwriter
1953 - Brendan Batson, English former footballer
1953 - Duane Chapman, American TV personality
1954 - Chuck Dukowski, American musician (Black Flag)
1954 - Bill Mumy, American actor and musician
1955 - Ernie Camacho, baseball player
1956 - Brahmanandam, Indian film actor
1956 - Exene Cervenka, American musician
1956 - Mike Kitchen, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
1958 - Luther Blissett, English footballer
1958 - Jackie Shroff, Indian actor
1961 - Volker Fried, German field hockey player
1962 - José Luis Cuciuffo, Argentinian footballer (d. 2004)
1962 - Tomoyasu Hotei, Japanese guitarist
1963 - Takashi Murakami, Japanese artist
1964 - Mario Pelchat, Quebec singer
1964 - Linus Roache, English actor
1965 - Princess Stéphanie of Monaco
1965 - Brandon Lee, American actor (d. 1993)
1965 - Sherilyn Fenn, American actress
1966 - Michelle Akers, American soccer player
1966 - Rob Lee, English footballer
1967 - Meg Cabot, American author
1967 - Patle Shishupal Natthu, Indian politician
1968 - Kent Mercker, American baseball player
1968 - Mark Recchi, Canadian ice hockey player
1968 - Pauly Shore, American comedian
1968 - Lisa Marie Presley, American singer and actress
1969 - Patrick Wilson, American musician
1969 - Brian Krause, American actor
1969 - Joshua Redman, American musician
1969 - Gabriel Batistuta, Argentine footballer
1970 - Malik Sealy, American basketball player (d. 2000)
1970 - Yasuyuki Kazama, Japanese racing driver
1971 - Ajay Jadeja, Former Indian cricketer
1971 - Zlatko Zahovič, Slovenian footballer
1971 - Ron Welty, American musician
1971 - Jill Kelly, American porn actress
1971 - Michael C. Hall, American actor
1972 - Yoshi DeHerrera, American TV personality
1972 - Kami (musician), drummer of Japanese visual kei band Malice Mizer (d.1999)
1973 - Yuri Landman, Experimental musical instrument builder, musician and comic book artist
1973 - Makiko Ohmoto, Japanese voice actress
1974 - Roberto Heras, Spanish cyclist
1974 - David Meca, Spanish long distance swimmer
1975 - Katerina Thanou, Greek sprinter
1975 - Big Boi, American musician (Outkast)
1976 - Phil Ivey, American poker player
1977 - Kevin Kilbane, Irish footballer
1979 - Julie Augustyniak, American soccer player
1979 - Juan Silveira dos Santos, Brazilian footballer
1979 - Valentin Elizalde, Mexican Singer (d.2006)
1980 - Otilino Tenorio, Ecuadorian footballer (d. 2005)
1980 - Moisés Muñoz, Mexican footballer
1980 - Héctor Luna, Dominican Republic baseball player
1981 - Luis Lamá, Angolan footballer
1981 - Graeme Smith, South African cricketer
1981 - Rob Austin, British racing driver
1982 - Shoaib Malik, Pakistani cricketer
1983 - Kevin Martin, American basketball player
1983 - Jurgen Van Den Broeck, Belgian cyclist
1984 - Lee Thompson Young, American actor
1984 - Darren Fletcher, Scottish footballer
1985 - Dean Shiels, Northern Irish footballer
1985 - Rachael Scdoris, American dog musher
1985 - Jodi Gordon, Australian actress and model
1986 - Lauren Conrad, American TV star
1987 - Giuseppe Rossi, Italian footballer
1989 - Hurricane Chris, American rapper
1990 - Laura Marling, British singer-songwriter

Famous Births on 31 Jan

Famous Births on 31 Jan

1512 - King Henry of Portugal (d. 1580)
1543 - Tokugawa Ieyasu, Shogun of Japan (d. 1616)
1550 - Henry I, Duke of Guise, French Catholic leader (d. 1588)
1597 - John Francis Regis, French saint (d. 1640)
1624 - Arnold Geulincx, Flemish philosopher (d. 1669)
1673 - Louis de Montfort, French catholic priest and saint (d. 1716)
1686 - Hans Egede, Norwegian Lutheran missionary (d. 1758)
1752 - Gouverneur Morris, American lawmaker and diplomat (d. 1816)
1759 - François Devienne, French composer (d. 1803)
1797 - Franz Schubert, Austrian composer (d. 1828)
1820 - William B. Washburn, 28th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1887)
1835 - William Charles Lunalilo, Monarch of Hawaii (d. 1874)
1857 - George Jackson Churchward, Great Western Railway Chief mechanical engineer. (d. 1933)
1865 - Henri Desgrange, Founder of the Tour-de-France (d. 1940)
1865 - Shastriji Maharaj, Indian spiritual leader (d. 1951)
1866 - Lev Shestov, Russian philosopher (d. 1938)
1868 - Theodore William Richards, American chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1928)
1872 - Zane Grey, American Western writer (d. 1939)
1881 - Irving Langmuir, American chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1957)
1881 - Anna Pavlova, Russian ballerina (d. 1931)
1884 - Theodor Heuss, 1st President of Germany (Bundespräsident) (d. 1963)
1889 - Frank Foster, English cricketer (d. 1958)
1892 - Eddie Cantor, American actor and singer (d. 1964)
1894 - Isham Jones, American musician (d. 1956)
1896 - Sofya Yanovskaya, Russian mathematician (d. 1966)
1902 - Tallulah Bankhead, American actress (d. 1968)
1902 - Alva Myrdal, Swedish politician, Nobel laureate (d. 1986)
1905 - John O'Hara, American writer (d. 1970)
1911 - Eddie Byrne, British actor (d. 1981)
1913 - Don Hutson, American football player (d. 1997)
1914 - Carey Loftin, American actor and stuntman (d. 1997)
1914 - Jersey Joe Walcott, American boxer (d. 1994)
1914 - Sri Daya Mata, Hindu religious figure
1915 - Garry Moore, American comedian (d. 1993)
1915 - Thomas Merton, American author and monk (d. 1968)
1915 - Alan Lomax, American musicologist (d. 2002)
1919 - Jackie Robinson, American baseball player, and the first black player in Major League Baseball (d. 1972)
1921 - John Agar, American actor (d. 2002)
1921 - Carol Channing, American actress and singer
1921 - E. Fay Jones, American architect (d. 2004)
1921 - Mario Lanza, American singer (d. 1959)
1922 - Joanne Dru, American actress (d. 1996)
1923 - Norman Mailer, American writer and journalist (d. 2007)
1925 - Benjamin Hooks, American civil rights leader
1926 - Tom Alston, American baseball player (d. 1993)
1928 - Chuck Willis, American singer and songwriter (d. 1958)
1929 - Rudolf Mössbauer, German physicist, Nobel laureate
1929 - Jean Simmons, English actress
1930 - Lynn Carlin, American actress
1930 - Joakim Bonnier, Swedish racecar driver (d. 1972)
1931 - Christopher Chataway, English athlete, newscaster and politician
1931 - Ernie Banks, American baseball player
1933 - Camille Henry, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1997)
1933 - Bernardo Provenzano , Mafia Boss
1934 - James Franciscus, American actor (d. 1991)
1934 - Bob Turner, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2005)
1935 - Kenzaburo Oe, Japanese writer, Nobel laureate
1937 - Philip Glass, American composer
1937 - Suzanne Pleshette, American actress (d. 2008)
1937 - Andrée Boucher, Canadian politician (d. 2007)
1937 - Regimantas Adomaitis, Lithuanian actor
1938 - Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands
1938 - James G. Watt, American politician
1939 - Claude Gauthier, Canadian singer and songwriter
1940 - Kitch Christie, South African rugby union coach (d. 1998)
1941 - Richard A. Gephardt, American politician
1941 - Jessica Walter, American actress
1942 - Daniela Bianchi, Italian actress
1942 - Derek Jarman, British director and writer (d. 1994)
1944 - Charlie Musselwhite, American musician
1945 - Joseph Kosuth, American conceptual artist
1946 - Terry Kath, American musician (Chicago) (d. 1978)
1947 - Jonathan Banks, American actor
1947 - Nolan Ryan, American baseball player
1948 - Muneo Suzuki, Japanese politician
1949 - Ken Wilber, American philosopher
1949 - Johan Derksen, Dutch footballer and sports journalist
1950 - Alexander Korzhakov, Boris Yeltsin's bodyguard
1951 - Dave Benton, Aruban-born singer
1951 - Harry Wayne Casey, American singer and musician (KC and the Sunshine Band)
1951 - Phil Manzanera, English guitarist (Roxy Music, Quiet Sun, 801)
1952 - Nadya Rusheva, Russian painter (d. 1969)
1954 - Adrian Vandenberg, Dutch musician (Whitesnake)
1956 - John Lydon aka Johnny Rotten, English singer (Sex Pistols, Public Image Ltd.)
1959 - Kelly Moore, American stock car driver
1959 - Anthony LaPaglia, Australian actor
1959 - Kelly Lynch, American actress
1960 - Grant Morrison, British comic book author
1961 - Lloyd Cole, British singer
1962 - Sophie Muller, Music video director
1964 - Sylvie Bernier, Quebec diver
1964 - Billey Shamrock, Swedish singer
1964 - Jeff Hanneman, American musician (Slayer)
1966 - Dr Umar Alisha, A Sufi Master was Born at Pithapuram.
1967 - Joey Wong, Taiwanese actress
1967 - Irene Wan, Hong Kong actress
1967 - Fat Mike, American musician
1968 - Matt King, British actor and comedian
1968 - Patrick Stevens, Belgian athlete
1970 - Minnie Driver, British actress
1971 - Dimitris Markos, Greek footballer
1971 - Lee Young Ae, South Korean actress
1971 - Patrick Kielty, Northern Irish comedian
1973 - Portia de Rossi, Australian actress
1974 - Ariel Pestano, Cuban baseball player
1974 - Wil Anderson, Australian comedian
1975 - Fred Coleman, former National Football League wide receiver
1975 - Jackie O, Australian radio host
1975 - Preity Zinta, Indian actress
1976 - Traianos Dellas, Greek footballer
1976 - Buddy Rice, American race car driver
1977 - Jim Kleinsasser, National Football League tight end
1977 - Kerry Washington, American actress
1977 - Kate Shindle, American actress
1977 - Shingo Katori, Japanese actor and singer (SMAP)
1977 - Mark Dutiaume, National Hockey League player
1978 - Fabián Caballero, Argentine footballer
1978 - Brad Rutter, Jeopardy! champion
1978 - Ray Shah, Irish DJ, TV, radio presenter
1979 - Daniel Tammet, British autistic savant
1980 - Tiffany Limos, American actress
1980 - Ryan Kienle, American musician
1980 - James Adomian, American actor
1981 - Sergio D. Acosta, Chicano Filmmaker
1981 - Julio Arca, Argentinian football player
1981 - Justin Timberlake, American singer
1982 - Brad Thompson, Major League Baseball player
1982 - Jānis Sprukts, National Hockey League player
1982 - Elena Paparizou, Greek singer
1982 - Bruno Nogueira, Portuguese actor, comedian and TV host
1982 - Andreas Görlitz, German football player
1982 - Yuniesky Betancourt, Major League Baseball shortstop
1983 - James Sutton, British television actor
1983 - Tom Vangeneugden, Belgian swimmer
1984 - Jeremy Wariner, American 400m runner
1984 - Vernon Davis, NFL player
1985 - Mario Williams, NFL player
1985 - Adam Federici, Australian footballer
1986 - Yves Makabu-Makalambay, Belgian football goalkeeper
877 - Taejo of Goryeo, ruler of Korea (d. 943)

Famous Births on 30 Jan

Famous Births on 30 Jan

133 - Marcus Severus Didius Julianus, Roman Emperor (d. 193)
1505 - Thomas Tallis, English composer (d. 1585)
1563 - Franciscus Gomarus, Dutch theologian (d. 1641)
1615 - Thomas Rolfe, American colonial settler and only child of Pocahontas and John Rolfe (d. 1675)
1661 - Charles Rollin, French historian (d. 1741)
1687 - Johann Balthasar Neumann, German architect (d. 1753)
1697 - Johann Joachim Quantz, German flautist and composer (d. 1773)
1720 - Charles De Geer, Swedish industrialist and entomologist (d. 1778)
1754 - John Lansing, Jr., American statesman (d. 1829)
1781 - Adelbert von Chamisso, German writer (d. 1838)
1816 - Nathaniel Prentice Banks, 24th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1894)
1822 - Franz Ritter von Hauer, Austrian geologist (d. 1899)
1832 - Infanta Luisa Fernanda, Duchess of Montpensier (d. 1897)
1841 - Félix Faure, 6th President of the French Third Republic (d. 1899)
1859 - Tony Mullane, Irish-born American baseball player (d. 1944)
1861 - Charles Martin Loeffler, German-born composer (d. 1935)
1873 - Georges Ricard-Cordingley, painter (d. 1939)
1878 - Anton Hansen Tammsaare, Estonian author (d. 1940)
1882 - Franklin D. Roosevelt, 32nd President of the United States (d. 1945)
1889 - Jaishankar Prasad, Hindi poet, dramatist and novelist (d. 1937)
1894 - Tsar Boris III of Bulgaria (d. 1943)
1899 - Max Theiler, South African virologist, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1972)
1901 - Rudolf Caracciola, German race car driver (d. 1959)
1902 - Nikolaus Pevsner, German-born art historian (d. 1983)
1910 - C Subramaniam, Indian politician (d. 2000)
1911 - Roy Eldridge, American musician (d. 1989)
1912 - Werner Hartmann, German physicist (d. 1988)
1912 - Francis Schaeffer, American Evangelical theologian and pastor (d. 1984)
1912 - Barbara W. Tuchman, American historian (d. 1989)
1913 - Percy Thrower, British Television Gardener (d. 1988)
1914 - John Ireland, Canadian actor (d. 1992)
1914 - David Wayne, American actor (d. 1995)
1915 - John Profumo, British cabinet minister (d. 2006)
1915 - Joachim Peiper, German SS officer (d. 1976, by assassination)
1917 - Paul Frère, Belgian racing driver and motorsport journalist d. 2008)
1918 - David Opatoshu, American television actor (d. 1996)
1919 - Nikolay Glazkov, Russian poet (d. 1979)
1920 - Carwood Lipton, American WWII veteran (d. 2001)
1920 - Delbert Mann, American film director
1922 - Dick Martin, American comedian
1924 - Lloyd Alexander, American writer (d. 2007)
1925 - Douglas Engelbart, American computer scientist
1925 - Dorothy Malone, American actress
1927 - Olof Palme, Prime Minister of Sweden (d. 1986)
1928 - Hal Prince, American stage producer and director
1929 - Lucille Teasdale-Corti, Canadian surgeon and international aid worker (d. 1996)
1930 - Magnus Malan, South African politician
1930 - Gene Hackman, American actor
1930 - Samuel J. Byck, American attempted assassin of Richard Nixon (d. 1974)
1930 - Sandy Amorós, Cuban baseball player (d. 1992)
1931 - John Crosbie, Canadian politician
1931 - Allan W. Eckert, American historian, naturalist, and author
1931 - Shirley Hazzard, Australian-born author
1932 - Knock Yokoyama, Japanese comedian and politician
1933 - Louis Rukeyser, American journalist (d. 2006)
1935 - Richard Brautigan, American writer and poet (d. 1984)
1936 - Horst Jankowski, German popular pianist (d. 1998)
1936 - Patrick Caulfield, British painter and printmaker (d. 2005)
1936 - F. Vernon Boozer, American politician
1937 - Ed Hansen, American film director and editor (d. 2005)
1937 - Vanessa Redgrave, English actress
1937 - Boris Spassky, Russian chess player
1938 - Islom Karimov, President of Uzbekistan
1941 - Tineke Lagerberg, Dutch swimmer
1941 - Dick Cheney, 46th Vice President of the United States
1941 - Gregory Benford, American author and scientist
1942 - Marty Balin, American musician
1943 - Davey Johnson, American baseball player and manager
1945 - Michael Dorris, American author (d. 1997)
1947 - Les Barker, English poet
1947 - Steve Marriott, English musician (The Small Faces) (d. 1991)
1948 - Nick Broomfield, English film- and documentary-maker
1948 - Paul Magee, Provisional Irish Republican Army member
1949 - Peter Agre, American biologist, Nobel laureate
1950 - Trinidad Silva, American actor (d. 1988)
1951 - Phil Collins, English musician
1951 - Charles S. Dutton, American actor
1951 - Bobby Stokes, English former footballer (d. 1995)
1952 - Doug Falconer, Canadian football player
1955 - Curtis Strange, American golfer
1955 - Judith Tarr, American author
1956 - Keiichi Tsuchiya, Japanese racing driver
1956 - Jeremy Gittins, English actor
1957 - Payne Stewart, American golfer (d. 1999)
1958 - Brett Butler, American actress and comedian
1959 - Mark Eitzel, American singer and musician (American Music Club)
1959 - Jody Watley, American singer
1961 - Dexter Scott King, American actor and son of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Coretta Scott King
1962 - Mary Kay Letourneau, American convicted statutory rapist
1962 - King Abdullah II of Jordan
1965 - Julie McCullough, American model and actress
1966 - Danielle Goyette, Quebec female ice hockey player
1967 - Jay Gordon, American musician
1968 - Trevor Dunn, American musician (Mr. Bungle, Fantômas, Secret Chiefs 3)
1968 - Prince Felipe of Spain
1969 - Carolyn Kepcher, American businesswoman and reality TV show star
1971 - Kimo von Oelhoffen, American football player
1971 - Darren Boyd, British actor
1972 - Lupillo Rivera, Mexican singer
1972 - Chris Simon, Canadian ice hockey player
1973 - Jalen Rose, American basketball player
1974 - Christian Bale, Welsh actor
1974 - Olivia Colman, English actress
1974 - Jemima Khan, English socialite
1975 - Juninho Pernambucano, Brazilian footballer
1975 - Yumi Yoshimura, Japanese singer (Puffy Amiyumi)
1976 - Andy Milonakis, American comedian
1977 - Deltha O'Neal, American football player
1978 - John Patterson, American baseball player
1980 - Leilani Dowding, British glamour model
1980 - Wilmer Valderrama, American actor
1980 - Pavel Ponomaryov, Russian-Estonian actor
1980 - Joãozinho, Brazilian footballer
1981 - Mathias Lauda, Austrian racing driver
1981 - Josh Kelley, American musician
1981 - Peter Crouch, English footballer
1981 - Dimitar Berbatov, Bulgarian footballer
1982 - Jorge Cantu, Mexican baseball player
1984 - Jeremy Hermida, American baseball player
1985 - Aaadietya Pandey, Indian astrologer
1985 - Trae Williams, American football player
1986 - Nick Evans, American baseball player
1986 - Sam Duckworth, British singer-songwriter
1987 - Rebecca Knox, Irish professional wrestler
1988 - Rob Pinkston, American actor
1989 - Khleo Thomas, American actor and rapper
1990 - Jake Thomas, American actor
1990 - Eiza Gonzalez, Mexican actress/singer
1991 - Matthew Werkmeister, Australian actor
2005 - Prince Hashem bin Al Abdullah II, of Jordan

Famous Births on 29 Jan

Famous Births on 29 Jan

1584 - Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange (d. 1647)
1632 - Johann Georg Graevius, German classical scholar and critic (d. 1703)
1688 - Emanuel Swedenborg, Swedish scientist and philosopher (d. 1772)
1711 - Giuseppe Bonno, Austrian composer (d. 1788)
1715 - Georg Christoph Wagenseil, Austrian composer (d. 1777)
1717 - Jeffrey Amherst, British military leader (d. 1797)
1718 - Paul Rabaut, French Huguenot pastor (d. 1794)
1737 - Thomas Paine, English-born American patriot (d. 1809)
1749 - King Christian VII of Denmark (d. 1808)
1754 - Moses Cleaveland, founder of Cleveland (d. 1806)
1756 - Henry Lee III, American General
1761 - Albert Gallatin, Swiss-American United States Secretary of the Treasury
1782 - Daniel Auber, French composer (d. 1871)
1801 - Horatia Nelson, daughter of Emma Hamilton and Horatio Nelson (d. 1881)
1810 - Ernst Kummer, German mathematician (d. 1893)
1843 - William McKinley, 25th President of the United States (d. 1901)
1846 - Karol Olszewski, Polish scientist (d. 1915)
1860 - Anton Chekhov, Russian writer (d. 1904)
1862 - Frederick Delius, English composer (d. 1934)
1866 - Romain Rolland, French writer, Nobel Laureate (d. 1944)
1867 - Vicente Blasco Ibáñez, Spanish writer (d. 1928)
1874 - John D. Rockefeller Jr., American entrepreneur (d. 1960)
1876 - Havergal Brian, British composer (d. 1972)
1877 - Georges Catroux, French general (d. 1969)
1880 - W.C. Fields, American actor (d. 1946)
1891 - R. Norris Williams, American survivor of the RMS Titanic sinking (d. 1968)
1891 - Elizaveta Gerdt, Russian ballerina (d. 1975)
1895 - Muna Lee, American poet (d. 1965)
1901 - Allen B. DuMont, American scientist and inventor (d. 1965)
1905 - Barnett Newman, American painter (d. 1970)
1910 - Colin Middleton, Irish artist (d. 1983)
1911 - Peter von Siemens, German industrialist (d. 1986)
1913 - Peter von Zahn, German journalist and writer (d. 2001)
1913 - Daniel Taradash, American screenwriter (d. 2003)
1913 - Victor Mature, American actor (d. 1999)
1915 - John Serry, Sr., American musician and arranger (d. 2003)
1918 - John Forsythe, American actor
1920 - José Luis de Villalonga, Spanish aristocrat (d. 2007)
1921 - Anthony George, American actor (d. 2005)
1922 - Gerda Steinhoff, Nazi concetration camp supervisor (d. 1946)
1923 - Paddy Chayefsky, American writer (d. 1981)
1923 - Ivo Robic, Croatian singer and songwriter (d. 2000)
1924 - Peter Voulkos, American artist (d. 2002)
1924 - Marcelle Ferron, Quebec painter and stained glass artist (d. 2001)
1924 - Luigi Nono, Italian composer (d. 1990)
1926 - Franco Cerri, Italian musician
1926 - Abdus Salam, Pakistani physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1996)
1927 - Edward Abbey, American author and environmentalist (d. 1989)
1928 - Lee Shau Kee, Hong Kong property developer
1929 - Gordon Solie, American professional wrestling announcer (d. 2000)
1930 - John Junkin, English radio, television and film performer (d. 2006)
1930 - Derek Bailey, English guitar virtuoso (d. 2005)
1932 - Tommy Taylor, English footballer (d. 1958)
1932 - George Allen, English footballer
1933 - Sacha Distel, French singer and guitarist (d. 2004)
1933 - Ron Townson, American singer (The 5th Dimension) (d. 2001)
1936 - James Jamerson, American bass guitarist for Motown Records (d. 1983)
1939 - Germaine Greer, Australian writer
1940 - Katharine Ross, American actress
1940 - Kunimitsu Takahashi, Japanese motorcycle racer and racing driver
1941 - Robin Morgan, American feminist and activist
1942 - Claudine Longet, French singer, dancer and convicted murderer
1944 - Yoweri Museveni, President of Uganda
1945 - Jim Nicholson, Irish politician
1945 - Tom Selleck, American actor
1947 - Linda B. Buck, American scientist, Nobel laureate
1947 - David Byron, English singer (Uriah Heep) (d. 1985)
1947 - Marián Varga, Slovak musician
1948 - Pat Kenny, Irish TV presenter & radio host
1948 - Marc Singer, Canadian-born actor
1948 - Cristina Saralegui, American talk-show host
1950 - Ann Jillian, American actress
1950 - Jody Scheckter, South African race car driver
1951 - Andy Roberts, West Indian cricketer
1952 - Tommy Ramone, Hungarian-born musician and record producer (The Ramones)
1953 - Lynne McGranger, Australian actress
1953 - Teresa Teng, Taiwanese singer (d. 1995)
1953 - Hwang Woo-Suk, South Korean biomedical scientist
1953 - Paulin Bordeleau, Quebec ice hockey player
1954 - Doug Risebrough, Canadian ice hockey player, coach and executive
1954 - Oprah Winfrey, American talk show host and actress
1954 - Terry Kinney, American actor
1954 - Richard Manitoba, American singer (The Dictators and MC5)
1955 - Eddie Jordan, American basketball player and head coach
1955 - Lynne McGranger, Australian actress
1957 - Grazyna Miller, Italian poet, translator, and journalist
1960 - J. G. Thirlwell, Australian-born musician
1960 - Steve Sax, American baseball player
1960 - Greg Louganis, American diver
1960 - Sean Kerly, English field hockey player
1960 - Gia Carangi, American model (d. 1986)
1960 - Matthew Ashford, American actor
1962 - Nicholas Turturro, American actor
1963 - Bob Holly, American professional wrestler
1964 - Anna Ryder Richardson, British interior designer and television presenter
1964 - Roddy Frame, Scottish singer (Aztec Camera)
1964 - John Habyan, American baseball player
1964 - Andre Reed, American football player
1965 - Dominik Hašek, Czech ice hockey player
1965 - Peter Lundgren, Swedish tennis coach
1966 - Romário, Brazilian footballer
1967 - Cyril Suk, Czech tennis player
1967 - Stacey King, American basketball player
1968 - Sora Jung, Korean actress
1968 - Susi Erdmann, German bobsledder and luger
1968 - Edward Burns, American actor
1969 - Hyde, Japanese singer
1970 - Heather Graham, American actress
1970 - Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore, Indian shooter
1970 - Jörg Hoffmann, German swimmer
1973 - Jason Schmidt, American baseball player
1975 - Sara Gilbert, American actress
1976 - Charles Divins, American model and actor
1977 - Justin Hartley, American actor
1978 - Martin Schmitt, German ski jumper
1978 - Rob Bironas, American football player
1979 - April Scott, American actress and model
1979 - Joseph Todd, Arena Football League player
1979 - Sui Feifei, Chinese basketball player
1980 - Yael Bar-Zohar, Israeli actress and model
1980 - Ivan Klasnić, Croatian football player
1981 - Darío Lopilato, Argentine actor
1981 - Álex Ubago, Spanish musician
1981 - Jonny Lang, American musician
1982 - Heidi Mueller, American actress
1983 - Nedžad Sinanović, Bosnian basketball player
1985 - Athina Onassis, French heiress
1985 - Marc Gasol, Spanish basketball player
1986 - Chris Bourque, American pro hockey player
1986 - Simon Vukčević, Montenegrin football player
1986 - Mark Howard, English football player
1986 - Drew Tyler Bell, American actor
1987 - Spencer Clark, American race car driver (d. 2006)
1987 - Matthew Wilson, English world rally driver
1988 - Stephanie Gilmore, Australian professional surfer
1991 - Hugh Grosvenor, Earl Grosvenor, Son of the Duke of Westminster
1993 - Michelle Larcher De Brito, Portuguese tennis player
1996 - Megan Jossa, English actress

Famous Births on 28 Jan

Famous Births on 28 Jan

1225 - Saint Thomas Aquinas (d. 1274)
1312 - Queen Joan II of Navarre (d. 1349)
1457 - King Henry VII of England (d. 1509)
1540 - Ludolph van Ceulen, German mathematician (d. 1610)
1582 - John Barclay, Scottish writer (d. 1621)
1600 - Pope Clement IX (d. 1669)
1608 - Giovanni Alfonso Borelli, Italian physiologist and physicist (d. 1679)
1611 - Johannes Hevelius, astronomer (d. 1687)
1622 - Adrien Auzout, French astronomer (d. 1691)
1701 - Charles Marie de La Condamine, French mathematician and geographer (d. 1774)
1706 - John Baskerville, English printer (d. 1775)
1712 - Tokugawa Ieshige, Japanese shogun (d. 1761)
1717 - Mustafa III, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1774)
1719 - Johann Elias Schlegel, German critic and poet (d. 1749)
1755 - Samuel Thomas von Sömmering, German physician (d. 1830)
1784 - George Hamilton Gordon Aberdeen, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1860)
1818 - George S. Boutwell, 20th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1905)
1822 - Alexander Mackenzie, 2nd Prime Minister of Canada (d. 1892)
1833 - Charles George 'Chinese' Gordon, British soldier and administrator (d. 1885)
1841 - Henry Morton Stanley, Welsh-born explorer and journalist (d. 1904)
1853 - José Martí, Cuban revolutionary (d. 1895)
1855 - William Seward Burroughs I, American inventor (d. 1898)
1863 - Ernst William Christmas, Australian painter (d. 1918)
1864 - Charles W. Nash, co-founder of Nash Motors, which would become American Motors as well as co-founder of Buick (d. 1948)
1864 - Herbert Akroyd Stuart, English engineer - inventor of the first compression ignition engine (d. 1927)
1865 - Kaarlo Juho Ståhlberg, first president of Finland (d. 1952)
1865 - Lala Lajpat Rai, Indian freedom fighter (d. 1928)
1873 - Colette, French writer (d. 1954)
1874 - Vsevolod Meyerhold, Russian theatre director (d. 1940)
1879 - Francis Picabia, French-born painter and poet (d. 1953)
1880 - Herbert Strudwick, English cricketer (d. 1970)
1884 - Auguste Piccard, Swiss physicist (d. 1962)
1886 - Marthe Bibesco, Romanian writer (d. 1973)
1887 - Arthur Rubinstein, Polish pianist and conductor (d. 1982)
1890 - Robert Stroud, American convict, the Birdman of Alcatraz (d. 1963)
1891 - Bill Doak, American baseball player (d. 1954)
1892 - Ernst Lubitsch, German-born film director (d. 1947)
1897 - Valentin Kataev, Russian writer (d. 1986)
1899 - Elias Simojoki, Finnish clergyman and politician (d. 1940)
1903 - Aleksander Kamiński, Polish writer (d. 1978)
1904 - Canuplin, Filipino magician and bodabil entertainer (d. 1979)
1908 - Paul Misraki, French composer and songwriter (d. 1998)
1909 - John Thomson, Scottish footballer (d. 1931)
1910 - John Banner, Austrian actor (d. 1973)
1910 - Arnold Moss, American actor (d. 1989)
1910 - Verda Bryant, American author
1912 - Jackson Pollock, American painter (d. 1956)
1918 - Harry Corbett, English puppeteer (Sooty) (d. 1989)
1918 - Trevor Skeet, New Zealand-born British politician (d. 2004)
1919 - Francis Gabreski, American fighter pilot (d. 2002)
1922 - Robert W. Holley, American biochemist, Nobel Laureate (d. 1993)
1927 - Ronnie Scott, British jazz tenor saxophonist and jazz club owner (d. 1996)
1927 - Hiroshi Teshigahara, Japanese director (d. 2001)
1929 - Acker Bilk, English jazz clarinetist
1929 - Claes Oldenburg, Swedish-born artist
1933 - Jack Hill, American film director
1934 - Juan Manuel Bordeu, Argentine racing driver (d. 1990)
1934 - Mitr Chaibancha, Thai actor (d. 1970)
1935 - David Lodge, English author
1936 - Alan Alda, American actor, writer, and director
1936 - Ismail Kadare, Albanian writer
1938 - Leonid Zhabotynsky, Ukrainian weightlifter
1940 - Carlos Slim Helú, Mexican businessman
1941 - Joel Crothers, American actor (d. 1985)
1943 - Paul Henderson, Canadian ice hockey player
1943 - Dick Taylor, English musician (The Rolling Stones and The Pretty Things)
1944 - John Tavener, English composer
1944 - Susan Howard, American actress
1945 - Robert Wyatt, English musician
1948 - Mikhail Baryshnikov, Russian dancer
1948 - Charles Taylor, President of Liberia
1949 - Gregg Popovich, NBA Basketball Coach
1950 - Barbi Benton, American actress
1950 - Hamad ibn Isa Al Khalifah, King of Bahrain
1950 - Bob Hay, American songwriter and musician
1951 - Leonid Kadeniuk, Ukrainian cosmonaut
1951 - Brian Bilbray, American politician
1953 - Colin Campbell, Canadian ice hockey player and executive
1953 - Chris Carter, English musician (Throbbing Gristle, Chris & Cosey)
1954 - Rick Warren, American pastor and author
1955 - Nicolas Sarkozy, President of France
1957 - Mark Napier, Canadian ice hockey player
1957 - Frank Skinner English comedian
1959 - Dave Sharp, Welsh guitarist (The Alarm)
1959 - Randi Rhodes, Nova M Radio personality
1959 - Burkhard Dallwitz, German-born composer
1959 - Frank Darabont, American filmmaker
1960 - Robert von Dassanowsky, American cultural historian, writer, and producer
1961 - Normand Rochefort, Canadian ice hockey player
1962 - Keith Hamilton Cobb, American actor
1962 - Sam Phillips, American singer
1963 - Dan Spitz, American musician, guitarist for Anthrax
1965 - Lynda Boyd, American actress
1967 - Jan Lamb, Hong Kong disc jockey & stand-up comedian
1968 - Sarah McLachlan, Canadian singer and songwriter
1968 - DJ Muggs, American musician (Cypress Hill)
1968 - Rakim, born William Michael Griffin Jr., American rapper
1969 - Kathryn Morris, American actress
1969 - Mo Rocca, American writer and comedian
1969 - Linda Sanchez, American politician
1971 - Anthony Hamilton, American soul singer
1972 - Nicky Southall, English footballer
1974 - Tony Delk, American basketball player
1974 - Jermaine Dye, American baseball player
1974 - Magglio Ordóñez, Venezuelan baseball player
1975 - Terri Colombino, American Actress
1975 - Junior Spivey, American baseball player
1975 - Lee Latchford-Evans, English singer
1975 - Anne Montminy, Canadian Olympic diver
1975 - David Zingler, American writer
1976 - Mark Madsen, American basketball player
1976 - Jarrod Montague, American drummer (Taproot)
1976 - Lee Ingleby, British actor
1976 - Miltiadis Sapanis, Greek footballer
1976 - Emiko Kado, Japanese professional wrestler (d. 1999)
1977 - Lyle Overbay, American baseball player
1977 - Takuma Sato, Japanese Formula One driver
1977 - Matt DeVries, American guitarist (Chimaira)
1977 - Joey Fatone, American singer (*NSYNC)
1977 - Daunte Culpepper, American football player
1978 - Gianluigi Buffon, Italian footballer
1978 - Jamie Carragher, English footballer
1978 - Papa Bouba Diop, Senegalese footballer
1979 - Ali Boulala, Swedish skateboarder
1980 - Nick Carter, American singer (Backstreet Boys)
1980 - Jesse James Hollywood, American drug dealer and fugitive
1981 - Elijah Wood, American actor
1981 - Rick Razzano, American football player
1984 - Andre Iguodala, American basketball player
1985 - Arnold Mvuemba, French footballer
1986 - Jessica Ennis, English heptathlete
1986 - Shruti Haasan, Indian actress
1986 - Alexis Texas, porn star
1988 - Henry Mortensen, American actor

Famous Births on 27 Jan

Famous Births on 27 Jan

1443 - Albert, Duke of Saxony (d. 1500)
1546 - Joachim Friedrich, Elector of Brandenburg (d. 1608)
1585 - Hendrick Avercamp, Dutch painter (d. 1634)
1603 - Harbottle Grimston, English politician (d. 1685)
1621 - Thomas Willis, English physician (d. 1675)
1662 - Richard Bentley, English classical scholar (d. 1742)
1687 - Balthasar Neumann, German architect (d. 1753)
1701 - Johann Nikolaus von Hontheim, German historian (d. 1790)
1708 - Anna Petrovna of Russia (d. 1728)
1720 - Samuel Foote, English dramatist (d. 1777)
1741 - Hester Thrale, Welsh diarist (d. 1821)
1756 - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Austrian composer (d. 1791)
1805 - Samuel Palmer, English artist (d. 1881)
1805 - Sophie of Bavaria, archduchess of Austria (d. 1872)
1805 - Maria Anna of Bavaria, queen consort of Saxony (d. 1877)
1806 - Juan Crisóstomo Arriaga, Spanish composer (d. 1826)
1814 - Eugène Viollet-le-Duc, French architect (d. 1879)
1821 - John Chivington, American officer, (d. 1892)
1823 - Edouard Lalo, French composer (d. 1892)
1826 - Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin, Russian writer (d. 1889)
1826 - Richard Taylor, American Confederate general (d. 1879)
1832 - Lewis Carroll, English author (d. 1898)
1836 - Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, Austrian writer (d. 1895)
1841 - Arkhip Kuindzhi, Russian painter (d. 1910)
1848 - Togo Heihachiro, Japanese admiral (d. 1934)
1850 - Samuel Gompers, American labor leader (d. 1924)
1850 - Edward J. Smith, English captain of the Titanic (d. 1912)
1859 - Emperor Wilhelm II of Germany (d. 1941)
1885 - Jerome Kern, American composer (d. 1945)
1885 - Eduard Künneke, German composer (d. 1953)
1885 - Maeda Seison, Japanese painter (d. 1977)
1891 - Ilya Ehrenburg, Russian writer (d. 1967)
1893 - Soong Ching-ling, Chinese wife of Sun Yat-sen (d. 1981)
1895 - Harry Ruby, American composer (d. 1974)
1900 - Hyman Rickover, American admiral (d. 1986)
1901 - Willy Fritsch, German actor (d. 1973)
1901 - Art Rooney, American football team owner (d. 1988)
1903 - John Carew Eccles, Australian neuropsychologist, Nobel Laureate (d. 1997)
1905 - Howard McNear, American actor (d. 1969)
1908 - Oran Page, American musician (d. 1954)
1908 - William Randolph Hearst, Jr., American newspaper magnate (d. 1993)
1912 - Arne Næss, Norwegian philosopher
1918 - Skitch Henderson, English bandleader (d. 2005)
1918 - Elmore James, American blues musician (d. 1963)
1918 - William Seawell, United States Army Brigadier General (d. 2005)
1919 - Ross Bagdasarian, American musician (d. 1972)
1920 - Helmut Zacharias, German violinist (d. 2002)
1920 - John Box, British film production designer and art director (d. 2005)
1921 - Donna Reed, American actress (d. 1986)
1924 - Sabu Dastagir, Indian actor (d. 1963)
1924 - Rauf DenktaÅŸ, founder of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus
1926 - Fritz Spiegl, Austrian journalist (d. 2003)
1926 - Ingrid Thulin, Swedish actress (d. 2004)
1928 - Hans Modrow, a German politician, premier of East Germany
1928 - Michael Craig, British actor
1929 - Gastón Suárez, Bolivian novelist (d. 1984)
1930 - Bobby Blue Bland, American singer
1931 - Mordecai Richler, Canadian author (d. 2001)
1932 - Boris Shakhlin, Soviet gymnast
1933 - Mohamed Al-Fayed, Egyptian billionaire businessman
1934 - George Follmer, American race car driver
1936 - Samuel C. C. Ting, American physicist, Nobel Laureate
1936 - Troy Donahue, American actor (d. 2001)
1937 - John Ogdon, English pianist (d. 1989)
1940 - James Cromwell, American actor
1940 - Terry Harper, Canadian ice hockey player
1942 - John Witherspoon, American actor
1942 - Kate Wolf, American folk singer and songwriter (d. 1986)
1944 - Peter Akinola, Nigerian religious leader
1944 - Mairéad Corrigan, Irish activist, Nobel Prize Laureate
1944 - Nick Mason, English drummer (Pink Floyd)
1945 - Harold Cardinal, Cree political leader (d. 2005)
1946 - Nedra Talley, American singer (Ronettes)
1947 - Björn Afzelius, Swedish singer (d. 1999)
1947 - Vyron Polydoras, Greek politician
1948 - Jean-Philippe Collard, French pianist
1949 - Ethan Mordden, American author
1950 - Amos Grunebaum, Israeli-born physician
1950 - Derek Acorah, English spirit medium
1951 - Brian Downey, Irish musician (Thin Lizzy)
1952 - Billy "White Shoes" Johnson, American football player
1954 - Peter Laird, American comic-book artist
1954 - Joko Ninomiya, Japanese martial artist
1955 - Brian Engblom, Canadian ice hockey player
1955 - John G. Roberts, 17th Chief Justice of the United States
1955 - Alexander Stuart, British author
1955 - Koji Ushikubo, Japanese racing driver
1956 - Mimi Rogers, American actress
1957 - Frank Miller, American comic book artist and writer and film director
1957 - Janick Gers, British guitarist (Iron Maiden)
1958 - James Grippando, American novelist
1958 - Kadri Mälk, Estonian artist and jewelry designer
1958 - Susanna Thompson, American actress
1959 - Keith Olbermann, American news presenter
1959 - Göran Hägglund, Swedish politician
1959 - Cris Collinsworth, American football player
1961 - Narciso Rodriguez, American fashion designer
1961 - Gillian Gilbert, British musician (New Order)
1961 - Dina Bonnevie, Filipino actress
1961 - Margo Timmins, Canadian singer (Cowboy Junkies)
1964 - Bridget Fonda, American actress
1965 - Alan Cumming, Scottish actor
1965 - Mike Newell, English football manager
1967 - Bobby Deol, Indian actor
1967 - Byron Mann, Hong Kong actor
1967 - Dave Manson, Canadian ice hockey player
1968 - Tricky, English rapper
1968 - Mike Patton, American singer (Faith No More)
1968 - Patrick Blondeau, former French International footballer
1969 - Cornelius, Japanese musician and producer (Flipper's Guitar)
1969 - Michael Kulas, Canadian singer (James)
1969 - Patton Oswalt, American actor and writer
1970 - Emmanuel Pahud, French-Swiss flautist
1970 - Jon Douglas Rainey, American TV personality
1971 - Fann Wong, Singapore entertainer (Shanghai Knights)
1971 - Lil Jon, American rapper and producer
1971 - Patrice Brisebois, Canadian ice hockey player
1972 - Janine Ilitch, Australian netballer
1972 - Mark Owen, English pop singer
1972 - Keith Wood, Irish rugby player
1972 - Guillermo, Mexican-born American TV personality
1974 - Chaminda Vaas, Sri Lankan cricketer
1974 - Andrei Pavel, Romanian tennis player
1974 - ZP Theart, South African-born English singer (Dragonforce)
1976 - Todd MacCulloch, American Basketball Player
1976 - Ruby Lin, Taiwanese actress and singer
1976 - Ahn Jung-Hwan, Korean football player
1976 - Clint Ford, American voice actor
1978 - Pete Laforest, Canadian baseball player
1979 - Daniel Vettori, New Zealand cricketer
1979 - Rosamund Pike, British actress
1979 - Mario Fatafehi, American-born Canadian Football League player
1980 - Marat Safin, Russian tennis player
1980 - Chanda Gunn, ice hockey player
1981 - Alicia Molik, Australian tennis player
1983 - Carlo Colaiacovo, Canadian ice hockey player
1983 - Gavin Floyd, American baseball player
1983 - Mike Zagurski, American baseball player
1984 - Davetta Sherwood, American actress
1987 - Lily Donaldson, British model
1987 - Katy Rose, American pop singer
1987 - Zuleidy Spanish porn star
1988 - Kerlon Moura Souza, Brazilian footballer

Famous Births on 26 Jan

Famous Births on 26 Jan

1497 - Emperor Go-Nara of Japan (d. 1557)
1541 - Florent Chrestien, French writer (d. 1596)
1714 - Jean-Baptiste Pigalle, French sculptor (d. 1785)
1716 - George Germain, 1st Viscount Sackville, British soldier and politician (d. 1785)
1722 - Alexander Carlyle, Scottish church leader (d. 1805)
1763 - Charles XIV John of Sweden, Napoleonic general (d. 1844)
1781 - Achim von Arnim, German poet (d. 1831)
1813 - Juan Pablo Duarte, Dominican founding father (d. 1876
1826 - Julia Dent Grant, First Lady of the United States (d. 1902)
1832 - George Shiras Jr., U.S. Supreme Court justice (d. 1924)
1842 - François Coppée, French poet and novelist (d. 1908)
1852 - Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza (Pietro Paolo Savorgnan di Brazzà ), explorer (d. 1905)
1857 - the 12th Dalai Lama (d. 1875)
1868 - Juventino Rosas, Mexican composer (d. 1894)
1880 - Douglas MacArthur, American general and Medal of Honor recipient (d. 1964)
1887 - Marc Mitscher, American Navy Admiral (d. 1947)
1887 - François Faber, Luxembourgian cyclist (d. 1915)
1891 - Frank Costello, Italian-born gangster (d. 1973)
1891 - Wilder Penfield, American-born Canadian neurosurgeon (d. 1976)
1892 - Zara Cully, American actress (d. 1978)
1892 - Bessie Coleman, American pioneer aviator (d. 1926)
1893 - Giuseppe Genco Russo, Sicilian mafioso (d. 1976)
1900 - Karl Ristenpart, German conductor (d. 1967)
1901 - Stuart Symington, American politician (d. 1988)
1902 - Menno ter Braak, Dutch author and polemicist (d. 1940)
1904 - Ancel Keys, American scientist (d. 2004)
1904 - Seán MacBride, Irish statesman, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1988)
1905 - Charles Lane, American actor (d. 2007)
1905 - Maria von Trapp, Austrian-born singer (d. 1987)
1908 - Jill Esmond, English actress (d. 1990)
1908 - Stéphane Grappelli, French jazz violinist (d. 1997)
1910 - Jean Image, Hungarian-born French animator (d. 1989)
1911 - Polykarp Kusch, German-born physicist, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1993)
1911 - Norbert Schultze, German composer and songwriter (d. 2002)
1913 - Jimmy Van Heusen, American songwriter (d. 1990)
1914 - Princess Hadice Hayriye Ayshe Dürrühsehvar (d. 2006)
1915 - William Hopper, American actor (d. 1970)
1918 - Philip José Farmer, American writer
1918 - Nicolae CeauÅŸescu, Romanian dictator (d. 1989)
1921 - Akio Morita, Japanese businessman (d. 1999)
1921 - Eddie Barclay, French producer (Barclay Records) (d. 2005)
1922 - Michael Bentine, British comedian (d. 1996)
1923 - Anne Jeffreys, American actress
1924 - Alice Babs, Swedish singer
1924 - Annette Strauss, American philanthropist and politician (d. 1998)
1924 - Rauf DenktaÅŸ, Cypriot politician
1925 - Joan Leslie, American actress
1925 - Paul Newman, American actor, philanthropist, race car driver and race team owner
1925 - Claude Ryan, Quebec newspaper editor (d. 2004)
1926 - Farman Fatehpuri, Pakistani scholar
1927 - José Azcona del Hoyo, President of Honduras (d. 2005)
1927 - Bob Nieman, American baseball player (d. 1985)
1928 - Roger Vadim, French film director and actor (d. 2000)
1929 - Jules Feiffer, American cartoonist and writer
1929 - Gordon Solie, American wrestling commentator (d. 2000)
1931 - Mary Murphy, American film actress
1932 - Coxsone Dodd, Jamaican record producer
1933 - Ercole Baldini, Italian cyclist
1934 - Roger Landry, Quebec businessman and newspaper publisher
1935 - Bob Uecker, American baseball player and broadcaster
1936 - Sal Buscema, American comic book artist
1937 - Joseph Saidu Momoh, Sierra Leone political leader (d. 2003)
1941 - Scott Glenn, American actor
1941 - Henry Jaglom, English director
1942 - Souad Hosni, Egyptian actress (d. 2001)
1943 - César Gutiérrez, Venezuelan baseball player (d. 2005)
1943 - Jean Knight, American singer
1943 - Austin "Jack" Warner,Trinidadian FIFA Vice-President and CONCACAF President
1944 - Angela Davis, American feminist and activist
1945 - Jacqueline du Pré, English cellist (d. 1987)
1946 - Gene Siskel, American film critic (d. 1999)
1947 - Michel Sardou, French singer
1947 - Patrick Dewaere, French actor (d. 1982)
1949 - Jonathan Carroll, American author
1949 - David Strathairn, American actor
1950 - Janet Lupo, American model
1953 - Lucinda Williams, American singer
1953 - Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Prime Minister of Denmark
1954 - Kim Hughes, Australian cricketer
1955 - Eddie Van Halen, Dutch musician
1958 - Anita Baker, American singer
1958 - Ellen DeGeneres, American actress and comedian
1958 - Salvador Sánchez, Mexican boxer
1960 - Charlie Gillingham, American musician (Counting Crows)
1960 - Road Warrior Animal, American professional wrestler
1961 - Wayne Gretzky, Canadian ice hockey player
1962 - Oscar Ruggeri, Argentine footballer
1963 - José Mourinho, Portuguese football manager
1963 - Andrew Ridgeley, English musician
1964 - Paul Johansson, American actor
1965 - Thomas Östros, Swedish politician
1965 - Natalia Yurchenko, Soviet gymnast
1967 - Pradip Somasundaran, Indian playback singer
1968 - Ravi Teja, Tollywood film actor
1970 - Kirk Franklin, American singer
1970 - Tracy Middendorf, American actress
1971 - Bryan Callen, American actor
1971 - Dorian Gregory, American actor
1973 - Mayu Shinjo, Japanese mangaka
1974 - Shannon Hale, American author
1976 - Frankie Rayder, American model
1976 - Willie Adler, American guitar player
1977 - Vince Carter, American basketball player
1977 - Justin Gimelstob, American tennis player
1978 - Kelly Stables, American actress
1978 - Corina Morariu, American tennis player
1978 - Estéban Germán, Dominican baseball player
1979 - Sara Rue, American actress
1981 - Juan Jose Haedo, Argentinian Cyclist
1984 - Layla Kayleigh, British television personality
1984 - Iain Turner, Scottish footballer
1984 - Luo Xuejuan, Chinese swimmer
1986 - Shantelle Taylor, Canadian professional wrestler
1986 - Matt Heafy, American musician (Trivium)
1986 - Gerald Green, American basketball player
1987 - Vladimir Garin, Russian actor (d. 2003)
1988 - Mia Rose, British-Portuguese singer
1989 - Emily Hughes, American figure skater
1990 - Christopher Massey, American actor
1993 - Cameron Bright, Canadian actor

Famous Births on 25 Jan

Famous Births on 25 Jan

1477 - Anna, Duchess of Brittany, wife of Charles VIII of France (d. 1514)
1509 - Giovanni Morone, Italian cardinal (d. 1580)
1615 - Govert Flinck, Dutch painter (d. 1660)
1627 - Robert Boyle, Irish chemist (d. 1691)
1634 - Gaspar Fagel, Dutch statesman (d. 1688)
1640 - William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Devonshire, English soldier and statesman (d. 1707)
1688 - Juraj Jánošík, famous Slovak outlaw (d. 1713)
1736 - Joseph Louis Lagrange, Italian-born mathematician (d. 1813)
1739 - Charles François Dumouriez, French general (d. 1823)
1741 - Benedict Arnold, American general notorious for treason (d. 1801)
1759 - Robert Burns, Scottish poet (d. 1796)
1794 - François-Vincent Raspail, French chemist (d. 1878)
1796 - William MacGillivray, Scottish naturalist and ornithologist (d. 1852)
1825 - George Pickett, American Confederate General (d. 1875)
1841 - Jackie Fisher, British First Sea Lord (d. 1920)
1858 - Kokichi Mikimoto, Japanese pearl farm pioneer (d. 1954)
1860 - Charles Curtis, 31st Vice President of the United States (d. 1936)
1864 - Julije Kempf, Croatian historian and writer (d. 1934)
1874 - W. Somerset Maugham, English writer (d. 1965)
1878 - Ernst Alexanderson, Swedish-born television pioneer (d. 1975)
1882 - Virginia Woolf, English writer (d. 1941)
1885 - Kitahara Hakushū, Japanese poets and children's writers (d. 1942)
1886 - Wilhelm Furtwängler, German conductor (d. 1954)
1899 - Paul-Henri Spaak, Belgian politician (d. 1972)
1900 - Yojiro Ishizaka, Japanese writer (d. 1986)
1900 - Theodosius Dobzhansky, Ukrainian-American geneticist and biologist (d. 1975)
1901 - Martin De Alzaga, Argentine racing driver (d. 1982)
1902 - Pablo Antonio, Filipino modernist architect (d. 1975)
1905 - Maurice Roy, French Canadian Roman Catholic cardinal, archbishop of Quebec (d. 1985)
1913 - Luis Marden, American photojournalist (d. 2003)
1913 - Witold Lutosławski, Polish composer (d. 1994)
1916 - Frank "Pop" Ivy, American and Canadian football coach (d. 2003)
1917 - Ilya Prigogine, Russian scientist Nobel Laureate (d. 2003)
1917 - Jânio Quadros, Brazilian politician (d. 1992)
1918 - Ernie Harwell, American baseball sportscaster
1919 - Edwin Newman, American journalist and writer
1923 - Shirley Mason, American psychiatric patient (Commonly known as "Sybil") (d. 1998)
1923 - Rusty Draper, American country and pop singer (d. 2003)
1924 - Lou Groza, American football player (d. 2000)
1924 - Speedy West, Country Hall of Fame steel guitar player (d. 2003)
1925 - Giorgos Zampetas, Greek musician and songwriter (d. 1992)
1927 - Antonio Carlos Jobim, Brazilian musician (d. 1994)
1928 - Eduard Shevardnadze, President of Georgia
1928 - Jérôme Choquette, Quebec lawyer and politician
1929 - Benny Golson, American jazz musician
1930 - Tanya Savicheva, Russian diarist (d. 1944)
1931 - Dean Jones, American actor
1933 - Corazon Aquino, President of the Philippines
1935 - António Ramalho Eanes, 17th President of Portugal
1936 - Diana Hyland, American actress (d. 1977)
1937 - Judith Ann Mayotte, American humanitarian, author.
1937 - Ange-Félix Patassé, President of the Central African Republic
1938 - Vladimir Vysotsky, Russian poet (d. 1980)
1938 - Etta James, American singer
1938 - Leiji Matsumoto, sJapanese creator of anime.
1938 - Shotaro Ishinomori, Japanese manga author (d. 1998)
1939 - Gabriel Romanus, Swedish politician
1941 - Gregory Sierra, American actor
1941 - Buddy Baker, American race car driver
1942 - Eusébio, Portuguese footballer
1942 - Carl Eller, American football player
1943 - Tobe Hooper, American film director
1944 - Anita Pallenberg, Italian model
1945 - Leigh Taylor-Young, American actress
1947 - Tostão, Brazilian footballer
1947 - Ángel Nieto, Spanish motorcycle racer
1948 - Ros Kelly, Australian politician
1949 - Paul Nurse, English biochemist, Nobel Laureate
1949 - John Cooper Clarke, English punk-poet
1951 - Steve Prefontaine, American runner (d. 1975)
1952 - Timothy White, American journalist (d. 2002)
1952 - Sara Mandiano, French singer and songwriter
1953 - The Honky Tonk Man, American professional wrestler
1953 - Mark Weil, Uzbek theatre director (d. 2007)
1954 - Kim Gandy, American feminist
1954 - Richard Finch, American bass player (KC and the Sunshine Band)
1954 - Ricardo Bochini, Argentinian footballer
1955 - Terry Chimes, English musician (The Clash)
1956 - Andy Cox, English musician (The Beat, Fine Young Cannibals)
1957 - Jenifer Lewis, American actress
1957 - Eskil Erlandsson, Swedish politician
1957 - Andrew P. Harris, American politician
1958 - Dinah Manoff, American actress
1961 - Willie Revillame, Filipino game show host and comedian
1961 - Vivian Balakrishnan, Singaporean politician
1962 - Chris Chelios, American ice hockey player
1965 - Esa Tikkanen, Finnish ice hockey player
1966 - Chet Culver, American politician, governor of Iowa
1967 - Randy McKay, Canadian ice hockey player
1967 - Mark Bamford, American writer/director
1969 - Kina, American singer
1971 - China Kantner, American actress
1971 - Luca Badoer, Italian race car driver
1971 - Ana Ortiz, American actress and singer
1973 - Chris Guy, American professional wrestler
1973 - Geoff Johns, American comic book writer
1974 - Robert Budreau, Canadian film director
1975 - Angie Gregory, American Actress
1975 - Mia Kirshner, Canadian actress
1975 - Tim Montgomery, American athlete
1975 - Dat Phan, Vietnamese stand-up comedian
1976 - Mario Haberfeld, Brazilian racing car driver
1978 - Derrick Turnbow, Major League Baseball Player
1978 - Jason Roberts, English-born footballer
1978 - Denis Menchov, Russian cyclist
1979 - Christine Lakin, American actress
1979 - Pi Hongyan, French badminton player
1979 - Gabe Jennings, American distance runner
1979 - Rodrigo Ribeiro, Brazilian racing driver
1980 - Xavi, Catalan Spanish footballer
1980 - Efstathios Tavlaridis, Greek footballer
1980 - Michelle McCool, American professional wrestler
1981 - Tose Proeski, Macedonian Singer (d. 2007)
1981 - Francis Jeffers, English footballer
1981 - Alicia Keys, American singer
1982 - Shawna Waldron, American actress
1982 - The-Dream, singer
1982 - Sho Sakurai, Japanese singer and actor
1983 - Andrée Watters, Canadian singer
1984 - Robinho, Brazilian footballer
1985 - Tina Karol, Ukrainian singer
1985 - Acie Law IV, National Basketball Association player
1986 - Chris O'Grady, English footballer
1986 - Shahriar Nafees, Bangladeshi cricketer
1987 - Maria Kirilenko, Russian tennis player
1988 - Tatiana Golovin, French tennis player
750 - Leo IV the Khazar, Byzantine Emperor

Famous Births on 24 Jan

Famous Births on 24 Jan

1287 - Richard Aungerville, English bishop (d. 1345)
1444 - Galeazzo Maria Sforza, Duke of Milan (d. 1476)
1540 - Edmund Campion, English Jesuit (d. 1581)
1638 - Charles Sackville, 6th Earl of Dorset, English poet (d. 1706)
1670 - William Congreve, English playwright (d. 1729)
1674 - Thomas Tanner, English bishop (d. 1735)
1679 - Christian Wolff, German philosopher (d. 1754)
1705 - Farinelli, Italian castrato (d. 1782)
1712 - King Frederick II of Prussia (d. 1786)
1724 - Frances Brooke, English writer (d. 1789)
1732 - Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais, French playwright (d. 1799)
1742 - Anne, Duchess of Cumberland and Strathearn (d. 1808)
1752 - Muzio Clementi, Italian composer (d. 1832)
1754 - Andrew Ellicott, American surveyor (d. 1820)
1763 - Louis Alexandre Andrault de Langeron, Russian general (d. 1831)
1776 - E.T.A. Hoffmann, German writer (d. 1822)
1779 - Elizabeth Alexeievna (Louise of Baden), Russian tsarina (d. 1826)
1848 - Vasily Surikov, Russian painter (d. 1916)
1862 - Edith Wharton, American writer (d. 1937)
1864 - Marguerite Durand, French feminist leader (d. 1936)
1872 - Konstantin Bogaevsky, Russian painter (d. 1943)
1872 - Ethel Turner, Australian author (d. 1958)
1873 - Leon Czolgosz, American anarchist, assassin of U.S. President William McKinley (d. 1901)
1886 - Henry King, American film director (d. 1982)
1888 - Vicki Baum, Austrian writer (d. 1960)
1888 - Ernst Heinkel, German aircraft designer (d. 1958)
1891 - Walter Model, German field marshal (d. 1945)
1895 - Eugen Roth, German writer (d. 1976)
1898 - Cliff Heathcote, American baseball player (d. 1939)
1901 - Harry Calder, South African cricketer (d. 1995)
1902 - E. A. Speiser, American Bible scholar (d. 1965)
1905 - J. Howard Marshall, American billionaire (d. 1995)
1907 - Maurice Couve de Murville, French politician (d. 1999)
1909 - Martin Lings, English Islamic scholar (d. 2005)
1909 - Ann Todd, English actress (d. 1993)
1913 - Norman Dello Joio, American composer
1915 - Robert Motherwell, American painter (d. 1991)
1916 - Jack Brickhouse, American sports broadcaster (d. 1998)
1917 - Ernest Borgnine, American actor
1918 - Oral Roberts, American evangelist
1919 - Coleman Francis, American film director
1920 - Jerry Maren, American actor
1922 - Charles Socarides, American psychiatrist (d. 2005)
1925 - Maria Tallchief, American ballerina
1926 - Georges Lautner, French director and screenwriter
1927 - Sir Patrick Macnaghten, 11th Baronet, British aristocrat (d. 2007)
1928 - Michel Serrault, French actor (d. 2007)
1928 - Desmond Morris, British anthropologist
1934 - Stanisław Grochowiak, Polish poet (d. 1976)
1935 - Eric Ashton, English rugby league footballer (d. 2008)
1936 - Doug Kershaw, American musician
1939 - Ray Stevens, American musician
1941 - Neil Diamond, American singer
1941 - Aaron Neville, American singer
1942 - Gary Hart, American professional wrestling manager and wrestler (d. 2008)
1943 - Subhash Ghai, Indian film director
1943 - Sharon Tate, American actress and Manson murder victim (d. 1969)
1944 - Klaus Nomi, German singer (d. 1983)
1945 - John Garamendi, American politician
1946 - Michael Ontkean, Canadian actor
1947 - Warren Zevon, American musician (d. 2003)
1947 - Masashi Ozaki, Japanese golfer
1948 - Michael Des Barres, British actor and rock singer
1949 - John Belushi, American actor (d. 1982)
1950 - Benjamin Urrutia, Ecuadorian-born American writer
1950 - Daniel Auteuil, French actor
1951 - Yakov Smirnoff, Ukrainian-born American comedian
1954 - Jo Gartner, Austrian racing driver (d. 1986)
1956 - Hanne Krogh, Norwegian singer (Bobbysocks)
1957 - Adrian Edmondson, British comedian
1958 - Neil Allen, American baseball player
1958 - Jools Holland, British musician
1959 - Vic Reeves, English comedian
1959 - David Mills, American author
1961 - William Van Dijck, Belgian athlete
1961 - Vince Russo, American writer
1961 - Nastassja Kinski, German-born actress
1963 - Martyn Grimley, English field hockey player
1963 - Arnold Vanderlyde, Dutch boxer
1965 - Mike Awesome, American professional wrestler (d. 2007)
1965 - Carlos Saldanha, Brazilian film director
1966 - Jimeoin, Northern Irish comedian
1967 - Mark Kozelek, American singer/songwriter (Red House Painters, Sun Kil Moon)
1967 - Phil LaMarr, American voice actor
1967 - John Myung, American musician (Dream Theater)
1968 - Mary Lou Retton, American gymnast
1968 - Michael Kiske, German musician
1969 - Hilmir Snær Guðnason, Icelandic actor
1970 - Matthew Lillard, American actor
1971 - Cory Bailey, American baseball player
1971 - Andrea Mackris, American television producer
1972 - Ulla Werbrouck, Belgian judoka and politician
1972 - Naoshi Mizuta, Japanese composer
1974 - Shii Ann Huang, American game show contestant
1974 - Ed Helms, American actor
1975 - Rónald Gómez, Costa Rican footballer
1976 - Shae-Lynn Bourne, Canadian ice dancer with Victor Kraatz
1976 - Cindy Pieters, Belgian cyclist
1979 - Tatyana Ali, American actress and singer
1979 - Tom Kostopoulos, Canadian ice hockey player
1980 - Nicole Marie Lenz, American actress
1980 - Rocky Boiman, American football player
1981 - Travis Hanson, American baseball player
1983 - Shaun Maloney, Scottish footballer
1983 - Scott Speed, American race car driver
1984 - Scott Kazmir, American baseball player
1984 - Witold Kiełtyka, Polish drummer (Decapitated) (d. 2007)
1986 - Mischa Barton, English-born American actress
1986 - Raviv Ullman, Israeli-born American actor
76 - Hadrian, Roman Emperor (d. 138)

Famous Births on 23 Jan

Famous Births on 23 Jan

1350 - Vincent Ferrer, Spanish missionary and saint (d. 1419)
1688 - Queen Ulrika Eleonora of Sweden (d. 1741)
1719 - John Landen, English mathematician (d. 1790)
1737 - John Hancock, American statesman (d. 1793)
1745 - William Jessop, English canal engineer (d. 1814)
1783 - Stendhal, French writer (d. 1842)
1786 - Auguste de Montferrand, French architect (d. 1858)
1809 - Veer Surendra Sai, Indian Freedom Fighter
1813 - Camilla Collett, Norwegian writer and feminist (d. 1895)
1827 - Takamori Saigo, Samurai, leader of Satsuma rebellion (d. 1877)
1832 - Edouard Manet, French artist (d. 1883)
1840 - Ernst Abbe, German physicist (d. 1905)
1855 - John Moses Browning, American inventor (d. 1926)
1857 - Andrija Mohorovičić, Croatian seismologist (d. 1936)
1862 - David Hilbert, German mathematician (d. 1943)
1872 - Joze Plečnik, Slovenian architect (d. 1957)
1872 - Paul Langevin, French physicist (d. 1946)
1872 - Goce Delchev, a revolutionary from the Balkans - leader of the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization (d. 1903)
1876 - Otto Diels, German chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1954)
1884 - Ralph DePalma, Italian-American race car driver (d. 1956)
1891 - Antonio Gramsci, Italian political philosopher, (d. 1937)
1896 - Charlotte, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg (d. 1985)
1897 - Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose, Indian Leader and Freedom Fighter (d. Unknown, Disputed)
1897 - Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky, Austrian architect (d. 2000)
1897 - Sir William Samuel Stephenson, Canadian soldier, W.W.II codename, Intrepid. Inspiration for James Bond. (d. 1989)
1897 - Subhas Chandra Bose, Indian independence fighter (d. 1945)
1898 - Sergei Eisenstein, Russian film director (d. 1948)
1898 - Freda Utley, British scholar and author (d. 1978)
1898 - Randolph Scott, American actor (d. 1987)
1899 - Glen Kidston, British aviator and racing driver (d. 1931)
1900 - William Ifor Jones, Welsh conductor and organist (d. 1988)
1903 - Jorge Eliécer Gaitán, Colombian politician (d. 1948)
1907 - Dan Duryea, American actor (d. 1968)
1907 - Hideki Yukawa, Japanese physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1981)
1910 - Django Reinhardt, Belgian guitarist (d. 1953)
1915 - Potter Stewart, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (d. 1985)
1915 - Arthur Lewis, British economist, Nobel laureate (d. 1991)
1916 - Airey Neave, British Major, politician and indictment server at the Nuremberg Trials (d. 1979)
1916 - David Douglas Duncan, American photo-journalist
1918 - Gertrude B. Elion, American scientist, Nobel laureate (d. 1999)
1919 - Hans Hass, Austrian zoologist and underwater scientist
1919 - Bob Paisley, English Football player and manager. (d. 1996)
1919 - Ernie Kovacs, American comedian (d. 1962)
1923 - Walter M. Miller, Jr., American writer (d. 1996)
1923 - Cot Deal, major league baseball player and coach
1924 - Bal Thackeray, founder and president of Indian political party Shiv Sena.
1927 - Lars-Eric Lindblad, Swedish-American entrepreneur and explorer (d. 1994)
1928 - Jeanne Moreau, French actress
1928 - Chico Carrasquel, Venezuelan baseball player (d. 2005)
1929 - Patriarch Filaret (Mykhailo Denysenko) of Ukrainian Orthodox Church - Kyiv Patriarchate
1929 - John Charles Polanyi, Canadian chemist, Nobel laureate
1930 - Derek Walcott, West Indian writer, Nobel laureate
1930 - Teresa Żylis-Gara, Polish singer
1933 - Chita Rivera, Puerto Rican actress and dancer
1934 - Pierre Bourgault, Quebec politician and essayist (d. 2003)
1936 - Bob Moses, American educator and 1960s Civil Rights Movement activist
1936 - Jerry Kramer, American football player
1938 - Shohei Baba, Japanese professional wrestler (d. 1999)
1938 - Georg Baselitz, German painter and sculptor
1939 - Sonny Chiba, Japanese actor and martial artist
1939 - Arlene Golonka, American actress
1940 - Johnny Russell, American country singer and songwriter (d. 2001)
1942 - Razzak, Bangladeshi actor and director
1943 - Gary Burton, American jazz vibraphonist
1943 - Gil Gerard, American actor
1943 - Millie Jackson, American singer
1944 - Rutger Hauer, Dutch actor
1945 - Mike Harris, Canadian politician, Premier of Ontario
1946 - Arnoldo Alemán, ex-president of Nicaragua
1946 - Don Whittington, American businessman, car & airplane racer and convicted felon
1947 - Megawati Sukarnoputri, 5th President of Indonesia
1947 - Thomas R. Carper, American politician.
1948 - Anita Pointer, American singer (Pointer Sisters)
1950 - Richard Dean Anderson, American actor
1950 - Danny Federici, American musician (Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band)
1950 - John Greaves, English musician (Henry Cow, National Health)
1953 - Antonio Villaraigosa, Hispanic-American 52nd Mayor of Los Angeles
1953 - Robin Zander, American singer (Cheap Trick)
1954 - Edward Ka-Spel, English musician (Legendary Pink Dots)
1954 - Franco De Vita, Venezuelan singer and songwriter
1957 - Princess Caroline of Monaco
1957 - Lou Schuler, American fitness journalist
1959 - Clive Bull, English radio talk show host
1960 - Patrick de Gayardon, French skydiver and skysurfing pioneer (d. 1998)
1960 - Jean-François Sauvé, Canadian ice hockey player
1961 - Mas Selamat bin Kastari, Singapore's most-wanted terror fugitive
1962 - Vasia Panayopoulou, Greek actress
1962 - Elvira Lindo, Spanish writer and journalist
1963 - Gail O'Grady, American actress
1964 - Mariska Hargitay, American actress
1964 - Mario Roberge, Canadian ice hockey player
1967 - Naim Süleymanoğlu, Bulgaria-born Turkish weightlifter
1968 - Petr Korda, Czech tennis player
1969 - Brendan Shanahan, Canadian ice hockey player
1969 - Andrei Kanchelskis, Ukrainian-Russian footballer
1969 - Ariadna Gil, Spanish actress
1970 - Spiridon Vasdekis, Greek long jumper
1970 - Tracey Cherelle Jones, American actress
1971 - Kevin Mawae, American football player
1971 - Lorne Spicer, British TV presenter
1972 - Marcel Wouda, Dutch swimmer
1972 - Mark Curry, American rapper
1972 - Ewen Bremner, Scottish actor
1973 - Lanei Chapman, American actress
1974 - Joel Bouchard, Canadian ice hockey player
1974 - Rebekah Elmaloglou, Australian actress
1974 - Yosvani Pérez, Cuban baseball player
1974 - Richard T. Slone, British artist
1974 - Tiffani Thiessen, American actress
1975 - Tito Ortiz, American UFC fighter
1976 - Brandon Duckworth, American baseball player
1976 - Angelica Lee, Taiwanese actress and singer
1976 - Nigel McGuinness, English professional wrestler
1979 - Sampsa Astala, Finnish musician (Lordi)
1979 - Larry Hughes, American basketball player
1979 - Juan Rincón, Venezuelan baseball player
1981 - Rob Friend, Canadian footballer
1981 - Greg Smith, American UFC fighter
1982 - Wily Mo Peña, Dominican baseball player
1984 - Arjen Robben, Dutch footballer
1985 - Dong Fangzhuo, Chinese footballer
1985 - Doutzen Kroes, Dutch supermodel
1986 - Steven Taylor, English footballer
1987 - Felicia Brandström, Swedish singer

Famous Births on 22 Jan

Famous Births on 22 Jan

1263 - Ibn Taymiya, Islamic scholar (d. 1328)
1440 - Ivan III of Russia (d. 1505)
1553 - Mori Terumoto, Japanese warrior (d. 1625)
1561 - Sir Francis Bacon, English philosopher (d. 1626)
1570 - Sir Robert Bruce Cotton, English politician (d. 1631)
1592 - Pierre Gassendi, French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist (d. 1655)
1654 - Richard Blackmore, English physician and writer (d. 1729)
1690 - Nicolas Lancret, French painter (d. 1743)
1729 - Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, German author and philosopher (d. 1781)
1733 - Philip Carteret, British Naval Officer
1781 - François Antoine Habeneck, French violinist (d. 1849)
1788 - George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron (Lord Byron), English poet (d. 1824)
1796 - Karl Claus, Russian chemist (d. 1864)
1797 - Maria Leopoldina of Austria, Empress of Brazil (d. 1826)
1799 - Ludger Duvernay, Canadian printer and publisher (d. 1852)
1820 - Joseph Wolf, German artist (d. 1899)
1840 - Ernest Roland Wilberforce, English bishop (d. 1907)
1849 - August Strindberg, Swedish writer (d. 1912)
1858 - Beatrice Webb, English economist (d. 1943)
1869 - Grigori Rasputin, Russian monk (d. 1916)
1874 - Edward Harkness, American philanthropist (d. 1940)
1875 - D. W. Griffith, American film director (d. 1948)
1882 - Theodore Kosloff, Russian-born actor, ballet dancer and choreographer (d. 1956)
1886 - Roman Ungern von Sternberg, Russian counter-revolutionary (d. 1921)
1887 - Helen Hoyt, American poet (d. 1972)
1889 - Henri Pélissier, French cyclist (d. 1935)
1890 - Fred M. Vinson, 13th Chief Justice of the United States (d. 1953)
1890 - Vinko Zganec, Croatian ethnomusicologist (d. 1976)
1892 - Marcel Dassault, French industrialist (d. 1986)
1893 - Conrad Veidt, German actor (d. 1943)
1897 - Rosa Ponselle, American soprano (d. 1981)
1900 - Ernst Busch, German singer and actor (d. 1980)
1902 - Daniel Kinsey, American hurdler (d. 1970)
1903 - Fritz Houtermans, Polish physicist (d. 1966)
1904 - George Balanchine, Russian choreographer (d. 1983)
1904 - Arkady Gaidar, Russian children's writer (d. 1941)
1906 - Joe Gladwin, English actor (d. 1987)
1906 - Robert E. Howard, American author (d. 1936)
1907 - Mary Dresselhuys, Dutch actress (d. 2004)
1907 - Dixie Dean, English footballer (d. 1980)
1907 - Douglas Corrigan, American pilot (d. 1995)
1908 - Lev Landau, Soviet physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1968)
1909 - Porfirio Rubirosa, Dominican diplomat and international playboy (d. 1965)
1909 - Ann Sothern, American actress (d. 2001)
1909 - U Thant, Burmese 3rd United Nations Secretary General (d. 1974)
1911 - Bruno Kreisky, Chancellor of Austria (d. 1990)
1913 - William Cardinal Conway, Northern Irish clergyman (d. 1977)
1913 - Carl F. H. Henry, American theologian and publisher (d. 2003)
1914 - Dimitris Dragatakis, Greek composer (d. 2001)
1915 - Heinrich Albertz, German theologian and politician (d. 1993)
1916 - Henri Dutilleux, French composer
1916 - Bill Durnan, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1972)
1918 - Elmer Lach, Canadian ice hockey player
1920 - Sir Alf Ramsey, English football manager (d. 1999)
1922 - Howard Moss, American poet, dramatist, and critic (d. 1987)
1924 - J. J. Johnson, American jazz trombonist and composer (d. 2001)
1927 - Lou Creekmur, American football player
1928 - Yoshihiko Amino, Japanese historian (d. 2004)
1931 - Sam Cooke, American singer (d. 1964)
1932 - Piper Laurie, American actress
1932 - Berthold Grünfeld, Norwegian psychiatrist and former sexologist
1934 - Bill Bixby, American actor (d. 1993)
1934 - Graham Kerr, British-born chef
1935 - Seymour Cassel, American actor
1936 - Ong Teng Cheong, 5th President of Singapore (d. 2002)
1936 - Alan J. Heeger, American chemist, Nobel laureate
1937 - Edén Pastora, Nicaraguan rebel leader
1937 - Joseph Wambaugh, American author
1938 - Altair, Brazilian footballer
1939 - J.C. Tremblay, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1994)
1939 - Jeff Smith, American chef (d. 2004)
1940 - Addie "Micki" Harris, singer (Shirelles) (d. 1982)
1940 - John Hurt, English actor
1940 - George Seifert, American football coach
1942 - Mimis Domazos, Greek footballer
1943 - Marília Pêra, Brazilian actress
1945 - Arthur Beetson, Australian rugby league footballer and coach
1946 - Serge Savard, Canadian ice hockey player
1946 - Malcolm McLaren, English impresario, musician and self-publicist
1948 - Gilbert Levine, American conductor
1948 - Northern Calloway, American actor (d. 1990)
1949 - Steve Perry, American singer and musician (Journey)
1949 - Phil Miller, English guitarist (National Health, In Cahoots, Matching Mole)
1949 - Mike Caldwell, American baseball player
1951 - Ondrej Nepela, Slovak figure skater (d. 1989)
1952 - Teddy Gentry, American musician (Alabama)
1952 - Ace Vergel, Filipino actor (d. 2007)
1953 - Myung-Whun Chung,South Korean Conductor and pianist
1953 - Jim Jarmusch, American director
1954 - Tully Blanchard, American professional wrestler
1954 - Chris Lemmon, American actor
1954 - Peter Pilz, Austrian politician
1955 - Timothy R. Ferguson, American politician
1956 - Steve Riley, American drummer
1956 - John Wesley Shipp, American actor
1957 - Rene Requiestas, Filipino comedian (d. 1993)
1957 - Francis Wheen, English writer and journalist
1957 - Mike Bossy, Canadian ice hockey player
1958 - Nikos Anastopoulos, Greek football player and manager
1959 - Linda Blair, American actress
1960 - Michael Hutchence, Australian singer (INXS) (d. 1997)
1961 - Daniel Johnston, American singer-songwriter and artist
1962 - Sultan Mizan Zainal Abidin of Terengganu, Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia
1962 - Choi Min-sik, South Korean actor
1963 - Andrei Tchmil, Ukrainian-Belgian cyclist
1965 - Chintara Sukapatana, Thai actress
1965 - Andrew Roachford, English singer and songwriter
1965 - Brian McCardie, Scottish actor
1965 - Diane Lane, American actress
1965 - DJ Jazzy Jeff, American rapper and actor
1965 - Steven Adler, American drummer (Guns N' Roses)
1966 - Ecaterina Szabo, Romanian gymnast
1967 - Manabu Nakanishi, Japanese professional wrestler
1968 - Heath, Japanese bass guitarist (X Japan)
1968 - Frank LebÅ"uf, French footballer
1968 - Mauricio Serna, Colombian footballer
1969 - John Linton Roberson, American cartoonist
1969 - Olivia d'Abo, English actress
1970 - Abraham Olano, Spanish cyclist
1970 - Alex Ross, American comic book painter (Marvels, Kingdom Come)
1971 - Stan Collymore, English footballer
1972 - Gonzalo Rodríguez, Uruguayan racing driver (d. 1999)
1972 - Romi Paku, Japanese seiyu (voice actress)
1972 - Gabriel Macht, American actor
1973 - Rogerio Ceni, Brazilian footballer
1974 - Cameron McConville, Australian racing driver
1975 - David Výborný, Czech ice hockey player
1975 - ZP Theart, South African singer
1975 - Felipe Giaffone, Brazilian racing driver
1975 - Balthazar Getty, American actor
1976 - James Dearth, American football player
1976 - Mikko Luoma, Finnish ice hockey player
1977 - Jono Gibbes, New Zealand rugby union footballer
1977 - Hidetoshi Nakata, Japanese footballer
1978 - Chone Figgins, American baseball player
1980 - Subhash Ram Prajapati, Nepalese Writer
1980 - Jonathan Woodgate, English footballer
1980 - Ben Moody, American guitarist (Evanescence)
1980 - Christopher Masterson, American actor
1980 - Jake Grove, American football player
1981 - Willa Ford, American singer
1981 - Beverley Mitchell, American actress
1981 - Ibrahima Sonko, French footballer
1982 - Jason Peters, American football player
1982 - Fabricio Coloccini, Argentine footballer
1983 - Shaun Cody, American football player
1983 - Robert Steinhäuser, German perpetrator of the Erfurt massacre (d. 2002)
1984 - Maceo Rigters, Dutch footballer
1984 - Leon Powe, American basketball player
1984 - Raica Oliveira, Brazilian supermodel
1984 - Ben Eager, Canadian ice hockey player
1985 - Mohamed Sissoko, Malian footballer
1986 - Lee Pa-ni, South Korean model
1986 - Daniel Wayne Smith, American actor, reality television personality (d. 2006)
1987 - Astrid Jacobsen, Norwegian cross-country skier
1988 - Greg Oden, American basketball player

Famous Births on 21 Jan

Famous Births on 21 Jan

1338 - King Charles V of France (d. 1380)
1721 - James Murray, British military officer, governor of Quebec (d. 1794)
1804 - Eliza Roxcy Snow, American poet (d. 1887)
1813 - John C. Frémont, American army officer, explorer and presidential candidate (d. 1890)
1815 - John Bingham, American politician and lawyer (d. 1900)
1824 - Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson, American, Confederate army general (d. 1863)
1825 - Imre Madách, Hungarian writer (d. 1864)
1827 - Ivan Mikheevich Pervushin, Russian mathematician (d. 1900)
1829 - King Oscar II of Sweden and Norway (d. 1907)
1848 - Henri Duparc, French composer (d. 1933)
1860 - Karl Staaff, Prime Minister of Sweden (d. 1915)
1867 - Ludwig Thoma, German writer (d. 1921)
1867 - Maxime Weygand, French general (d. 1965)
1882 - Pavel Florensky, Russian mathematician (d. 1937)
1883 - Amang Rodriguez, Filipino politician (d. 1964)
1883 - Olav Aukrust, Norwegian poet (d. 1929)
1884 - Roger Baldwin, American social activist (d. 1981)
1885 - Umberto Nobile, Italian politician (d. 1978)
1887 - Georges Vézina, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1926)
1895 - Cristóbal Balenciaga, Spanish couturier (d. 1972)
1897 - René Iché, French sculptor (d. 1954)
1899 - Alexander Tcherepnin, Russian born American composer (d. 1977)
1901 - Ricardo Zamora, Spanish footballer (d. 1978)
1905 - Christian Dior, French fashion designer (d. 1957)
1905 - Karl Wallenda, German acrobat (d. 1978)
1906 - Igor Moiseyev, Russian choreographer (d. 2007)
1909 - Todor Skalovski, Macedonian composer (d. 2004)
1910 - Eua Sunthornsanan, Thai composer and bandleader (d. 1981)
1912 - Konrad Emil Bloch, German-born biochemist, Nobel laureate (d. 2000)
1918 - Richard D. Winters, American war hero
1918 - Chichay, Filipino actress (d. 1993)
1921 - Howard Unruh, American mass murderer
1922 - Paul Scofield, English actor (d. 2008)
1922 - Telly Savalas, American actor (d. 1994)
1923 - Lola Flores, Spanish singer (d. 1995)
1924 - Benny Hill, English actor, comedian, and singer (d. 1992)
1926 - Steve Reeves, American actor (d. 2000)
1926 - Brian Brockless, English organist (d. 1995)
1927 - Clive Churchill, Australian rugby league footballer (d. 1985)
1932 - John Chaney, American basketball coach
1933 - Joseph W. Eschbach, American doctor (d. 2007)
1934 - Audrey Dalton, Irish actress
1936 - Koji Hashimoto, Japanese film director (d. 2005)
1937 - Prince Max, Duke in Bavaria
1938 - Wolfman Jack, American disk jockey and actor (d. 1995)
1938 - John Savident, British actor
1940 - Jack Nicklaus, American golfer
1941 - Ivan Putski, Polish-born American professional wrestler
1941 - Mike Medavoy, American film producer
1941 - Richie Havens, American musician
1941 - Stathis Giallelis, Greek actor
1941 - Plácido Domingo, Spanish tenor
1942 - Edwin Starr, American singer (d. 2003)
1942 - Mac Davis, American musician
1946 - Johnny Oates, American baseball player and manager (d. 2004)
1947 - Michel Jonasz, French singer and composer
1947 - Pye Hastings, English singer and musician (Caravan)
1947 - Jill Eikenberry, American actress
1950 - Billy Ocean, West Indian musician
1952 - Marco Camenisch, Swiss environmental activist
1952 - Louis Menand, American writer and critic
1953 - Paul Allen, American entrepreneur, co-founder of Microsoft
1955 - Jeff Koons, American artist
1956 - Geena Davis, American actress
1956 - Robby Benson, American actor
1957 - Greg Ryan, American soccer coach
1958 - Michael Wincott, Canadian actor
1959 - Alex McLeish, Scottish footballer and manager
1962 - Marie Trintignant, French actress (d. 2003)
1962 - Tyler Cowen, American economist
1963 - Hakeem Olajuwon, Nigerian-born American basketball player
1963 - Detlef Schrempf, German basketball player
1965 - Jam Master Jay, American disc jockey (d. 2002)
1966 - Robert Del Naja, English musician
1966 - Candi Milo, American voice actress
1968 - Ulrica Messing, Swedish politician
1968 - Charlotte Ross, American actress
1969 - Karina Lombard, American actress
1969 - Tsubaki Nekoi, Japanese manga artist
1970 - Mark Trojanowski, American musician (Sister Hazel)
1970 - Ken Leung, American actor
1971 - Alan McManus, Scottish snooker player
1971 - Doug Weight, American ice hockey player
1972 - Alan Benes, American baseball player
1972 - Rick Falkvinge, Swedish politician
1972 - Yasunori Mitsuda, Japanese composer
1972 - Cat Power (Chan Marshall), American musician
1974 - Alex Sperafico, Brazilian racing driver
1974 - Rove McManus, Australian television host and comedian
1975 - Ito, Spanish footballer
1975 - Nicky Butt, English footballer
1975 - Casey FitzRandolph, American speed skater
1975 - Yuji Ide, Japanese racing driver
1976 - Emma Bunton, English singer (Spice Girls)
1977 - Rick Ross, American rapper
1977 - Phil Neville, English footballer
1977 - Al Baxter, Australian rugby union footballer
1978 - Bryan Gilmore, National Football League player
1978 - Tamir "Nokio" Ruffin, American Singer
1978 - Faris al-Sultan, German-Iraqi triathlete
1978 - Phil Stacey, American Idol finalist
1978 - Andrei Zyuzin, Russian ice hockey player
1979 - Brian O'Driscoll, Irish rugby union footballer
1979 - Spider Loc, American rapper, member of G-Unit
1979 - Byung-Hyun Kim, Korean baseball player
1980 - Dave Kitson, English footballer
1980 - Nana Mizuki, Japanese voice actress and singer
1981 - Alex Ubago, Spanish-Basque singer-songwriter
1981 - Izabella Miko, Polish-born actress and model
1981 - Andy Lee, Korean singer (Shinhwa)
1981 - Dany Heatley, Canadian ice hockey player
1981 - Ivan Ergić, Serbian footballer
1981 - Jamie Dalrymple, English cricketer
1981 - Gillian Chung Yan-tung, Hong Kong singer (Twins)
1982 - Dean Whitehead, English footballer
1983 - Maryse Ouellet, French-Canadian model and professional wrestler
1983 - Moritz Volz, German footballer
1983 - Peter Philipakos, Greek-American soccer player
1985 - Matt Unicomb, Australian basketball player
1985 - Sasha Pivovarova, Russian Model
1985 - Alex Pérez, Spanish footballer
1986 - Coffin Joe, English drummer ( The Horrors)
1987 - Joe Ledley, Welsh footballer
1988 - William Johansson, Swedish composer
1990 - Jacob Smith, American actor
1994 - Laura Robson, Tennis Player
2004 - Princess Ingrid Alexandra of Norway

Famous Births on 20 Jan

Famous Births on 20 Jan

1292 - Elisabeth I of Bohemia (d. 1330)
1358 - Eleanor of Aragon, wife of John I of Castile (d. 1382)
1435 - Ashikaga Yoshimasa, Japanese shogun (d. 1490)
1554 - King Sebastian of Portugal (d. 1578)
1586 - Johann Schein, German composer (d. 1630)
1664 - Giovanni Vincenzo Gravina, Italian writer and jurist (d. 1718)
1716 - King Charles III of Spain (d. 1788)
1716 - Jean-Jacques Barthélemy, French writer and numismatist (d. 1795)
1775 - André-Marie Ampère, French physicist (d. 1836)
1781 - Joseph Hormayr Freiherr zu Hortenburg, Austrian politician (d. 1848)
1783 - Justus Johann Friedrich Dotzauer, German cellist and composer (d. 1860)
1798 - Anson Jones, 5th and last President of Texas (d. 1858)
1804 - Eugène Sue, French novelist (d. 1857)
1812 - Thomas Meik, Scottish engineer (d. 1896)
1834 - George D. Robinson, 34th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1896)
1837 - David Josiah Brewer, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (d. 1910)
1855 - Ernest Chausson, French composer (d. 1899)
1867 - Yvette Guilbert, French singer and actress (d. 1944)
1873 - Johannes Vilhelm Jensen, Danish Nobel laureate (d. 1950)
1876 - Józef Hofmann, Polish pianist (d. 1967)
1878 - Finlay Currie, British actor (d. 1968)
1878 - Ruth St. Denis, American dancer (d. 1968)
1880 - Walter W. Bacon, American politician (d. 1962)
1889 - Allan Haines Loughead, American aviation executive (d. 1969)
1891 - Mischa Elman, Ukrainian born violinist (d. 1967)
1893 - Georg Ã…berg, Swedish athlete (d. 1946)
1894 - Walter Piston, American composer (d. 1976)
1896 - Isabel Withers, American actress (d. 1968)
1896 - George Burns, American actor, comedian (d. 1996)
1898 - U Razak, Burmese politician (d. 1947)
1899 - Kenjiro Takayanagi, Japanese development of television (d. 1990)
1900 - Colin Clive, British actor (d. 1937)
1902 - Leon Ames, American actor (d. 1993)
1907 - Paula Wessely, Austrian actress (d. 2000)
1910 - Joy Adamson, Austrian naturalist and writer (d. 1980)
1912 - Walter Briggs, Jr., American sports executive (d. 1970)
1915 - Ghulam Ishaq Khan, President of Pakistan (d. 2006)
1919 - Juan García Esquivel, Mexican bandleader (d. 2002)
1920 - Thorleif Schjelderup, Norwegian author and ski jumper (d. 2006)
1920 - Federico Fellini, Italian film director (d. 1993)
1920 - DeForest Kelley, American actor (d. 1999)
1921 - Telmo Zarraonaindía, Spanish footballer (d. 2006)
1922 - Ray Anthony, American trumpeter, bandleader and actor
1923 - Nora Brockstedt, Norwegian singer
1924 - Slim Whitman, American singer
1925 - Ernesto Cardenal, Nicaraguan theologian and politician
1926 - Jamiluddin Aali, Pakistani poet, essayist and columnist
1926 - Qurratulain Hyder, Pakistani novelist (d. 2007)
1926 - Patricia Neal, American actress
1926 - David Tudor, American pianist and composer (d. 1996)
1929 - Glenn Roberts, American race car driver (d. 1964)
1929 - Arte Johnson, American actor
1929 - Bob Denard, French mercenary
1929 - Jimmy Cobb, American jazz drummer
1930 - Buzz Aldrin, American astronaut
1931 - David Lee, American physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics laureate
1932 - Lou Fontinato, Canadian ice hockey player
1933 - Ron Townson, American singer (The Fifth Dimension) (d. 2001)
1934 - Tom Baker, British actor
1935 - Joan Weston, Roller Derby Queen (d. 1997)
1937 - Dorothy Provine, American singer, dancer and actress
1938 - William Berger, Austrian actor (d. 1993)
1938 - Derek Dougan, Northern Irish footballer (d. 2007)
1939 - Paul Coverdell, American politician (d. 2000)
1940 - Carol Heiss, American figure skater
1940 - Krishnam Raju, Indian actor and politician
1941 - Pierre Lalonde, Quebec singer and television host
1943 - Farhad Mehrad, Iranian musician
1944 - José Luis Garci, Spanish filmmaker
1945 - Robert Olen Butler, American writer
1945 - Christopher Martin-Jenkins, cricket commentator and correspondent
1945 - Eric Stewart, English musician and songwriter (10cc)
1946 - David Lynch, American film director
1947 - Cyrille Guimard, French cyclist and directeur sportif
1948 - Nancy Kress, American writer
1948 - Natan Sharansky, Russian-born physicist and politician
1949 - Göran Persson, Prime Minister of Sweden
1950 - Liza Goddard, British actress
1950 - Edward Hirsch. American poet
1950 - Chuck Lefley, Canadian ice hockey player
1950 - Mahamane Ousmane, President of Niger
1951 - Ivan Fischer, Hungarian conductor
1951 - Ian Hill, British musician (Judas Priest)
1952 - Paul Stanley, American musician (Kiss)
1955 - Hiromi ÅŒta, Japanese singer
1955 - Joe Doherty, Provisional Irish Republican Army member
1955 - Wyatt Knight, American actor
1956 - Maria Larsson, Swedish politician
1956 - Bill Maher, American actor, comedian, and political analyst
1958 - Lorenzo Lamas, American actor
1960 - Scott Thunes, American musician (Frank Zappa)
1960 - Will Wright, American computer game designer
1963 - James Denton, American actor
1964 - Kazushige Nojima, Japanese game scenario writer
1965 - Colin Calderwood, Scottish footballer
1965 - Greg Kriesel, American bassist (The Offspring)
1965 - Sophie, The Countess of Wessex, the wife of Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex
1965 - John Michael Montgomery, American singer
1965 - Anton Weissenbacher, Romanian footballer
1966 - Stacey Dash, American actress
1966 - Tracii Guns, American guitarist
1968 - Rainn Wilson, American actor
1968 - Melissa Rivers, American reporter and actress
1969 - Patrick K. Kroupa, American computer hacker
1969 - Nicky Wire, British Musician (Manic Street Preachers)
1970 - Mitch Benn, UK comedian, songwriter, actor
1970 - Kerri Kenney-Silver, American actress
1970 - Skeet Ulrich, American actor
1971 - Ahmir "?uestlove" Thompson, American drummer (The Roots)
1971 - Brian Giles, American baseball player
1971 - Gary Barlow, English singer (Take That)
1971 - Derrick Green, American singer (Sepultura)
1973 - Princess Mathilde, Duchess of Brabant
1975 - David Eckstein, American baseball player
1975 - Norberto Fontana, Argentine racing driver
1976 - Gretha Smit, Dutch speed skater
1977 - Melody, Belgian singer
1978 - Sonja Kesselschläger, German heptathlete
1978 - Allan Søgaard, Danish footballer
1978 - Joy Giovanni, American actress and glamour model
1979 - Rob Bourdon, American musician (Linkin Park)
1979 - Asaka Kubo, Japanese gravure idol of 20th Century
1979 - Will Young, British singer
1980 - Matthew Tuck, Welsh guitarist (Bullet for My Valentine)
1980 - Brigitte Olivier, Belgian judoka
1980 - Philippe Cousteau Jr., Freanch oceanographer; grandson of Jacques Cousteau
1981 - Freddy Guzmán, Dominican baseball player
1981 - Christine Bleakley, BBC Television Host
1981 - Owen Hargreaves, English international footballer
1981 - Crystal Lowe, Canadian actress
1983 - Paula Taylor, English-Thai actress, model and presenter
1983 - Geovany Soto, Puerto Rican baseball player
1983 - Mari Yaguchi, Japanese singer (Morning Musume)
1984 - Olivia Hallinan, English Actress
1984 - Toni Gonzaga, Filipina Actress and Singer
225 - Gordian III, Roman Emperor (d. 244)

Famous Births on 19 Jan

Famous Births on 19 Jan

1544 - King Francis II of France (d. 1560)
1736 - James Watt, Scottish inventor (d. 1819)
1739 - Joseph Bonomi the Elder, Italian architect (d. 1808)
1752 - James Morris III, American army officer (d. 1820)
1757 - Augusta Reuss-Ebersdorf, German Princess (d. 1831)
1807 - Robert E. Lee, American Confederate general (d. 1870)
1808 - Lysander Spooner, American philosopher (d. 1887)
1809 - Edgar Allan Poe, American writer and poet (d. 1849)
1813 - Sir Henry Bessemer, English inventor (d. 1898)
1832 - Ferdinand Laub, Czech violinist (d. 1875)
1833 - Alfred Clebsch, German mathematician (d. 1872)
1839 - Paul Cézanne, French painter (d. 1906)
1848 - John F. Stairs, Canadian businessman (d. 1904)
1851 - Jacobus Kapteyn, Dutch astronomer (d. 1922)
1863 - Werner Sombart, German sociologist (d. 1941)
1878 - Herbert Chapman, English football player and manager (d. 1934)
1879 - Boris Savinkov, Russian writer (d. 1925)
1887 - Alexander Woollcott, American intellectual (d. 1943)
1892 - Ã"lafur Thors, Icelandic politician (d. 1964)
1905 - Stanley Hawes, British-born Australian film producer, director and administrator (d. 1991)
1908 - Aleksandr Gennadievich Kurosh, Russian mathematician (d. 1971)
1909 - Hans Hotter, German bass-baritone (d. 2003)
1912 - Leonid Kantorovich, Russian economist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1986)
1913 - "Minnesota Fats", American billiards player (d. 1996)
1913 - Rex Ingamells, Australian poet (d. 1955)
1914 - Bob Gerard, British racing driver (d. 1990)
1917 - John Raitt, American singer and actor (d. 2005)
1918 - John H. Johnson, American publisher (d. 2005)
1920 - Javier Pérez de Cuéllar, Peruvian United Nations Secretary General
1921 - Patricia Highsmith, American author (d. 1995)
1921 - "Billy Batts" Devino, American gangster (d. 1970)
1922 - Guy Madison, American actor (d. 1996)
1923 - Markus Wolf, German spy (d. 2006)
1923 - Jean Stapleton, American actress
1924 - Jean-François Revel, French author (d. 2006)
1924 - Nicholas Colasanto, American actor (d. 1985)
1925 - Nina Bawden, English author
1926 - Fritz Weaver, American actor
1930 - Tippi Hedren, American actress
1931 - Robert MacNeil, Canadian journalist
1932 - Richard Lester, British director
1935 - Johnny O'Keefe, Australian singer (d. 1978)
1936 - Ziaur Rahman, President of Bangladesh (d. 1981)
1939 - Phil Everly, American musician
1940 - Paolo Borsellino, Italian magistrate (d. 1992)
1940 - Mike Reid, English comedian (d. 2007)
1941 - Tony Anholt, British actor (d. 2002)
1941 - Colin Gunton, British theologian (d. 2003)
1942 - Michael Crawford, British singer and actor
1943 - Princess Margriet of the Netherlands
1943 - Larry Clark, American film director
1943 - Petchara Chaowarat, Thai film actress
1943 - Janis Joplin, American singer (d. 1970)
1944 - Shelley Fabares, American actress
1944 - Laurie London, English singer
1944 - Peter Lynch, American investor
1944 - Dan Reeves, American football coach
1946 - Julian Barnes, English author
1946 - Dolly Parton, American singer and actress
1947 - Rod Evans, British musician (Deep Purple)
1947 - Paula Deen, American chef and restaurateur
1947 - Ann Compton, American news reporter
1948 - Frank McKenna, Canadian politician
1949 - Robert Palmer, English singer and guitarist (d. 2003)
1949 - Dennis Taylor, Northern Irish snooker player
1950 - Sébastien Dhavernas, Quebec actor
1950 - Grant Nordman, Canadian politician
1951 - Dewey Bunnell, American singer and songwriter (America)
1953 - Richard Legendre, Canadian politician
1953 - Linda Hayden, English actress
1953 - Desi Arnaz, Jr., American actor
1954 - Ted DiBiase, American professional wrestler
1954 - Katey Sagal, American actress
1954 - Cindy Sherman, American artist
1954 - Katharina Thalbach, German actress and film director
1955 - Simon Rattle, English conductor
1955 - Paul Rodriguez, Mexican-born actor and comedian
1956 - Carman Licciardello, American Christian singer
1957 - Kenneth McClintock, Puerto Rican politician
1962 - Hans Daams, Dutch cyclist
1963 - Michael Adams, American basketball player
1963 - Martin Bashir, Pakistani-born reporter
1963 - Caron Wheeler, British singer (Soul II Soul)
1964 - Janine Antoni, Bahamian artist
1964 - Ricardo Arjona, Guatemalan singer
1966 - Lena Philipsson, Swedish singer
1966 - Stefan Edberg, Swedish tennis player
1966 - Sylvain Côté, Canadian ice hockey player
1966 - Floris Jan Bovelander, Dutch field hockey player
1967 - Javier Cámara, Spanish actor
1969 - Luc Longley, Australian basketball player
1969 - Steve Staunton, Irish footballer
1969 - Junior Seau, American football player
1969 - Predrag Mijatović, Yugoslavian footballer
1969 - Edwidge Danticat, Haitian-born American author
1970 - Kathleen Smet, Belgian triathlete
1970 - Udo Suzuki, Japanese comedian
1971 - Shawn Wayans, American actor and producer
1971 - John Wozniak, American singer and songwriter (Marcy Playground)
1972 - Angham, Egyptian singer, record producer and actress
1972 - Troy Wilson, Australian racing driver and AFL player
1972 - Princess Kalina of Bulgaria, titular Bulgarian royal family
1972 - Ron Killings, American professional wrestler
1972 - Elena Kaliská, Slovak slalom canoer
1972 - Joana Benedek, Mexican actress
1973 - Drea de Matteo, American actress
1973 - Antero Manninen, Finnish Cellist
1973 - Aaron Yonda, YouTube celebrity
1974 - Jaime Moreno, Bolivian footballer
1974 - Ian Laperrière, Canadian ice hockey player
1974 - Frank Caliendo, American comedian
1975 - Noah Georgeson, American Musician and Producer
1976 - Tarso Marques, Brazilian racing driver
1977 - Cocco, Ryukyuan singer
1977 - Nicole, Chilean singer
1977 - Lauren Etame Mayer, Cameroonian footballer
1979 - Svetlana Khorkina, Russian gymnast
1979 - Josu Sarriegi, Spanish/Basque footballer
1979 - Wiley, English Rapper (Grime)
1980 - Kotoko, Japanese Singer
1980 - Jenson Button, English Formula One driver
1981 - Asier Del Horno, Spanish footballer
1981 - Lucho González, Argentine footballer
1982 - Angela Chang, Taiwanese singer and actress
1982 - Mike Komisarek, American ice hockey player
1982 - Jodie Sweetin, American child actress
1983 - Hikaru Utada, American-born Japanese singer and songwriter
1984 - Karun Chandhok, Indian racing driver
1984 - Thomas Vanek, Austrian ice hockey player
1984 - Euan Blair, Eldest son of Tony Blair
1985 - Benny Feilhaber, American soccer player
1985 - Esteban Guerrieri, Argentine racing driver
1985 - Rika Ishikawa, Japanese singer (Morning Musume)
1987 - Edgar Manucharyan, Armenian footballer
1991 - Erin Sanders, American child actress
1992 - Logan Lerman, American child actor
1992 - Shawn Johnson, American Gymnastics Champion
399 - Pulcheria, Byzantine empress (d. 453)