Famous Births on 1 Aug

Famous Births on 1 Aug

10 BC - Claudius, Roman Emperor (d. 54)
126 - Pertinax, Roman Emperor (d. 193)
1313 - Emperor Kogon of Japan (d. 1364)
1377 - Emperor Go-Komatsu of Japan (d. 1433)
1545 - Andrew Melville, Scottish theologian and religious reformer (d. 1622)
1555 - Edward Kelley, English spirit medium (d. 1597)
1579 - Luís Vélez de Guevara, Spanish writer (d. 1644)
1626 - Sabbatai Zevi, Montenegrin rabbi, kabbalist, and founder of the Jewish Sabbatean movement (d. 1676)
1630 - Thomas Clifford, 1st Baron Clifford of Chudleigh, English statesman (d. 1673)
1713 - Charles I, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (d. 1780)
1714 - Richard Wilson, Welsh painter (d. 1782)
1738 - Jacques François Dugommier, French general (d. 1794)
1744 - Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, French scientist (d. 1829)
1770 - William Clark, American explorer (d. 1838)
1779 - Francis Scott Key, American lawyer and lyricist (d. 1843)
1779 - Lorenz Oken, German naturalist (d. 1851)
1815 - Richard Henry Dana, Jr., American lawyer, politician, and author (d. 1882)
1818 - Maria Mitchell, American astronomer (d. 1889)
1819 - Herman Melville, American writer (d. 1891)
1837 - Mother Jones, American labor organizer (d. 1930)
1843 - Robert Todd Lincoln, son of Abraham Lincoln; United States Secretary of War (d. 1926)
1856 - George Coulthard, Former Australian rules footballer and cricketer (d. 1883)
1858 - Hans Rott, Austrian composer (d. 1884)
1858 - Gaston Doumergue, French President (d. 1937)
1861 - Sammy Jones, Former Australian cricketer (d. 1951)
1871 - John Lester, American cricketer (d. 1969)
1881 - Otto Toeplitz, German mathematician (d. 1940)
1885 - George de Hevesy, Hungarian chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1966)
1889 - Walter Gerlach, German physicist (d. 1979)
1891 - Karl Kobelt, Swiss politician (d. 1968)
1893 - King Alexander I of Greece (d. 1920)
1894 - Ottavio Bottecchia, Italian cyclist (d. 1927)
1900 - Otto Nothling, Former Australain cricketer and rugby union footballer (d. 1965)
1901 - Pancho Villa, Filipino world boxing champion (d. 1925)
1910 - James Henry Govier, British artist (d. 1974)
1910 - Walter Scharf, American composer (d. 2003)
1910 - Mohammad Nissar, Indian cricketer (d. 1963)
1911 - Jackie Ormes, American cartoonist (d. 1985)
1912 - Henry Jones, American actor (d. 1999)
1914 - J. Lee Thompson, British film director (d. 2002)
1916 - Anne Hébert, French Canadian author and poet (d. 2000)
1921 - Jack Kramer, American tennis player
1922 - Pat McDonald, Australian actress (d. 1990)
1924 - Frank Worrell, Former West Indian cricketer
1924 - Marcia Mae Jones, American actress (d. 2007)
1924 - Georges Charpak, Ukrainian-born physicist, Nobel laureate
1925 - Ernst Jandl, Austrian writer (d. 2000)
1926 - Theo Adam, German bass-baritone
1927 - Raymond Leppard, English conductor
1929 - Ann Calvello, Roller Derby Queen (d. 2006)
1930 - Pierre Bourdieu, French sociologist (d. 2002)
1930 - Lionel Bart, English song-writer (d. 1999)
1930 - Julie Bovasso, American actor and writer (d. 1991)
1931 - Trevor Goddard, Former South African cricketer
1932 - Meir Kahane, American founder of the Jewish Defense League (d. 1990)
1932 - Meena Kumari, Indian film actress (d. 1972)
1933 - Dušan Třeštík, Czech historian (d. 2007)
1933 - Masaichi Kaneda, Japanese baseball player
1933 - Jesse Corti, Venezuelan-born actor and comedian
1933 - Dom DeLuise, American actor and comedian
1934 - John Beck, Former New Zealand cricketer (d. 2000)
1935 - Geoff Pullar, Former England cricketer
1936 - Yves Saint Laurent, French fashion designer (d. 2008)
1937 - Al D'Amato, United States Senator from New York
1940 - Mervyn Kitchen, Former Somerset cricketer and cricket international umpire
1941 - Étienne Roda-Gil, French songwriter and screenwriter (d. 2004)
1942 - Giancarlo Giannini, Italian actor
1942 - André Gagnon, French Canadian pianist and composer
1942 - Jerry Garcia, American musician (The Grateful Dead) (d. 1995)
1945 - Douglas D. Osheroff, American physicist, Nobel laureate
1945 - Sandi Griffiths, American singer, The Lawrence Welk Show
1946 - Fiona Stanley, Australian epidemiologist
1946 - Boz Burrell, British musician (King Crimson, Bad Company) (d. 2006)
1947 - Dennis Zine, Los Angeles City Councilman
1947 - Chris L. Barnard, Welsh footballer
1949 - Kurmanbek Bakiyev, President of Kyrgyzstan
1950 - Jim Carroll, American poet and actor
1951 - Tommy Bolin, American musician (Deep Purple) (d. 1976)
1951 - Pete Mackanin, American baseball player
1952 - Yajurvindra Singh, Former Indian cricketer
1952 - Zoran ĐinÄ'ić, Prime Minister of Serbia (d. 2003)
1953 - Robert Cray, American singer
1953 - Howard Kurtz, American journalist
1955 - Arun Lal, Former Indian cricketer
1955 - Trevor Berbick, Jamaican boxer (d. 2006)
1956 - Tom Leykis, American radio personality
1958 - Adrian Dunbar, Northern Irish actor
1958 - Rob Buck, American musician (10,000 Maniacs) (d. 2000)
1958 - Tor HÃ¥kon Holte, Norwegian cross country skier
1958 - Kiki Vandeweghe, American basketball player
1958 - Michael Penn, American singer and songwriter
1959 - Otomo Yoshihide, Japanese musician
1959 - Joe Elliott, English musician (Def Leppard)
1960 - Chuck D, American activist and rapper (Public Enemy)
1960 - Richard Roeper, American columnist and film critic
1961 - Mike Watkinson, Former England cricketer
1962 - Robert Clift, British field hockey player
1962 - Jacob Matlala, South African boxer
1963 - Dean Wareham, New Zealand musician (Galaxie 500, Luna, Dean and Britta)
1963 - John Carroll Lynch, American actor
1963 - Demián Bichir, Mexican actor
1963 - Coolio, American rapper
1964 - Adam Duritz, American musician (Counting Crows)
1965 - Sam Mendes, British stage and film director
1966 - Ganesh Mylvaganam, Former United Arab Emirates cricketer
1966 - James St. James, American author and nightlife personality
1967 - Gregg Jefferies, American baseball player
1968 - Dan Donegan, American musician (Disturbed)
1968 - Stacey Augmon, American basketball player
1969 - Graham Thorpe, Former England cricketer
1969 - David Wain, American actor
1969 - Kevin Jarvis, American baseball player
1970 - David James, English footballer
1971 - Stuart Wade, English actor
1972 - Devon Hughes, American professional wrestler
1972 - Nicke Royale, Swedish musician (The Hellacopters)
1972 - Tanya Reid, Canadian actress
1972 - Maqsood Rana, Former Pakistani cricketer
1973 - Les Hill,Australian Actor
1973 - Eduardo Noriega, Spanish actor
1973 - Veerle Dejaeghere, Belgian athlete
1973 - Tempestt Bledsoe, American actress
1973 - Gregg Berhalter, American footballer
1974 - Beckie Scott, Canadian cross-country skiing athlete
1976 - Kevin Joseph, American baseball player
1976 - Nwankwo Kanu, Nigerian footballer
1976 - Hasan ÅžaÅŸ, Turkish footballer
1976 - Søren Jochumsen, Danish footballer
1977 - Damien Saez, French musician, songwriter, and author
1977 - Marc Denis, Canadian ice hockey player
1978 - Dhani Harrison, English musician
1978 - Edgerrin James, American football player
1978 - Andy Blignaut, Former Zimbabwean cricketer
1979 - Junior Agogo, Ghanaian footballer
1979 - Jason Momoa, American actor
1979 - Honeysuckle Weeks, English actress
1980 - Mancini, Brazilian footballer
1981 - Ashley Parker Angel, North American singer and actor
1981 - Stephen Hunt, Irish footballer
1982 - Ai Tominaga, Japanese model and actress
1984 - Valery Ortiz, Puerto Rican actress
1984 - Bastian Schweinsteiger, German footballer
1986 - Andrew Taylor, English footballer
1986 - Anton Stralman, Swedish ice hockey player
1986 - Elena Vesnina, Russian tennis player
1987 - Sébastien Pocognoli, Belgian footballer
1998 - Khamani Griffin, American actor

Famous Births on 31 Jul

Famous Births on 31 Jul

1143 - Emperor Nijo of Japan (d. 1165)
1396 - Philip III, Duke of Burgundy (d. 1467)
1527 - Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1576)
1598 - Alessandro Algardi, Italian sculptor and architect (d. 1654)
1702 - Jean Denis Attiret, French Jesuit missionary and painter (d. 1768)
1704 - Gabriel Cramer, Swiss mathematician (d. 1752)
1718 - John Canton, English physicist (d. 1772)
1724 - Noël François de Wailly, French lexicographer (d. 1801)
1737 - Princess Augusta Charlotte of Wales (d. 1813)
1803 - John Ericsson, Swedish inventor and engineer (d. 1889)
1816 - George Henry Thomas, American general (d. 1870)
1825 - William S. Clark, American senator and scholar (d. 1886)
1835 - Henri Brisson, French statesman (d. 1912)
1835 - Paul du Chaillu, French explorer (d. 1903)
1837 - William Quantrill, American Civil War rebel guerrilla leader (d. 1865)
1843 - Peter Rosegger, Austrian poet (d. 1918)
1858 - Richard Dixon Oldham, British geologist (d. 1936)
1860 - Mary Vaux Walcott, American artist and naturalist (d. 1940)
1867 - Sebastian S. Kresge, American merchant and philanthropist (d. 1966)
1880 - Munshi Premchand, Indian Author (d. 1936)
1883 - Fred Quimby, American film producer (d. 1965)
1884 - Carl Friedrich Goerdeler, German politician (d. 1945)
1887 - Hans Freyer, German sociologist (d. 1969)
1892 - Joseph Charbonneau, French-Canadian Roman Catholic archbishop (d. 1959)
1894 - Fred Keenor, Welsh footballer (d.1972)
1901 - Jean Dubuffet, French painter and sculptor (d. 1985)
1904 - Brett Halliday, American writer (d. 1977)
1911 - George Liberace, American musician (d. 1983)
1912 - Irv Kupcinet, American newspaper columnist (d. 2003)
1912 - Milton Friedman, American economist, Nobel laureate (d. 2006)
1912 - Bill Brown, Australian cricketer (d. 2008)
1913 - Bryan Hextall, Canadian hockey player (d. 1984)
1914 - Louis de Funès, French actor and comedian (d. 1983)
1916 - Billy Hitchcock, American baseball player and official (d. 2006)
1916 - Bill Todman, American game show producer (d. 1979)
1916 - Sibte Hassan, Pakistani activist
1918 - Hank Jones, American pianist
1918 - Paul D. Boyer, American chemist, Nobel Prize Laureate
1919 - Curt Gowdy, American sports announcer (d. 2006)
1919 - Primo Levi, Italian author and chemist (d. 1987)
1920 - James Esdras Faust, American religious leader (d. 2007)
1921 - Whitney Young, American civil rights activist (d. 1971)
1921 - Peter Benenson, British founder of Amnesty International (d. 2005)
1922 - Hank Bauer, American baseball player and manager (d. 2007)
1923 - Ahmet Ertegün, Turkish-born record company executive (d. 2006)
1923 - Jimmy Evert, American tennis coach and father of Chris Evert
1926 - Hilary Putnam, American philosopher
1929 - Don Murray, American actor
1929 - José Santamaria, Uruguayan footballer
1929 - Lynne Reid Banks, British author
1930 - Oleg Popov, Russian clown
1931 - Kenny Burrell, American guitarist
1931 - Nick Bollettieri, American tennis coach
1932 - Ted Cassidy, American actor (d. 1979)
1932 - John Searle, American philosopher
1933 - Cees Nooteboom, Dutch writer
1935 - Yvon Deschamps, French-Canadian author and humorist
1935 - Geoffrey Lewis, American actor
1936 - Vic Davalillo, Venezuelan baseball player
1939 - France Nuyen, French actress
1941 - Amarsinh Chaudhary, Indian politician
1943 - Sab Shimono, Japanese-American actor
1943 - Lobo, American singer and songwriter
1943 - Susan Flannery, American actress
1943 - William Bennett, 3rd United States Secretary of Education
1944 - Geraldine Chaplin, American actress
1944 - Jonathan Dimbleby, British journalist and television presenter
1944 - Robert C. Merton, American mathematician
1945 - William Weld, 68th Governor of Massachusetts
1945 - Gary Lewis, American vocalist (Gary Lewis & the Playboys)
1946 - Bob Welch, American musician
1946 - Karen Zerby, American religious leader
1950 - Steve Miller, American writer
1950 - Lane Davies, American actor
1951 - Evonne Goolagong, Australian tennis player
1951 - Barry Van Dyke, American actor
1952 - Chris Ahrens, American ice hockey player
1952 - Alan Autry, American football player and politician
1952 - Helmuts Balderis, Latvian hockey player
1952 - João Barreiros, Portuguese writer
1953 - Jimmy Cook, Former South African cricketer
1953 - James Read, American actor
1953 - Ted Baillieu, Australian Politician
1954 - Derek Smith, Canadian ice hockey player
1956 - Michael Biehn, American actor
1956 - Deval Patrick, 71st Governor of Massachusetts
1956 - Bill Callahan, American football coach
1957 - Daniel Ash, British musician (Bauhaus)
1957 - Leon Durham, American baseball player
1957 - Dirk Blocker, American actor
1958 - Mark Cuban, American businessman, producer, and basketball team owner
1958 - Bill Berry, American musician (R.E.M.)
1959 - Stanley Jordan, American jazz guitarist
1960 - Dale Hunter, Canadian ice hockey player
1962 - Wesley Snipes, American actor
1962 - Kevin Greene, American football player
1962 - John Chiang, American politician
1963 - Brian Skrudland, Canadian ice hockey player
1963 - Norman Cook, British musician (The Housemartins, Freak Power, Beats International, Fatboy Slim)
1964 - Jim Corr, Irish singer and musician (The Corrs)
1965 - Julian Richards, British film director
1965 - J. K. Rowling, British writer
1965 - John Laurinaitis, American professional wrestler
1965 - Scott Brooks, American basketball player
1966 - Dean Cain, American actor
1967 - Minako Honda, Japanese singer and musical actress (d. 2005)
1967 - Mitsuo Iwata, Japanese seiyū
1968 - Saeed-Al-Saffar, Former UAE cricketer
1969 - Kenneth D. Schisler, American politician
1969 - Loren Dean, American actor
1969 - David Cash, American professional wrestler
1970 - Ahmad Akbarpour, Iranian writer
1971 - Gus Frerotte, American football player
1971 - John Lowery, American guitarist
1973 - Nathan Brown, Australian rugby league player
1973 - Chandra North, American supermodel
1974 - Emilia Fox, English actress
1974 - Jonathan Ogden, American football player
1975 - Andrew Hall, Former South African cricketer
1975 - Allan von Schenkel, American musician
1975 - Mike Lincoln, American baseball player
1975 - Simon Hirst, British radio DJ
1975 - Randy Flores, American baseball player
1976 - Joshua Cain, American musician (Motion City Soundtrack)
1976 - Annie Parisse, American actress
1976 - Paulo Wanchope, Costa Rican footballer
1977 - Tim Couch, American football player
1978 - Justin Wilson, English race car driver
1978 - Zeta Makripoulia, Greek actress, model and TV presenter
1978 - Will Champion, English musician (Coldplay)
1979 - J. J. Furmaniak, American baseball player
1979 - Per Krøldrup, Danish footballer
1979 - Jade Kwan, Hong Kong singer
1979 - Carlos Marchena, Spanish footballer
1979 - B. J. Novak, American actor
1980 - Mils Muliaina, New Zealand and Waikato rugby player
1981 - Matthew Sanders, American singer (Avenged Sevenfold)
1981 - Ira Losco, Maltese singer
1981 - J.Son Dinant, American comedian
1981 - Eric Lively, American actor
1982 - Blessing Mahwire, Zimbabwean cricketer
1984 - Glenn Holt, American football player
1986 - Evgeni Malkin, Russian hockey player
1987 - Michael Bradley, American soccer player
1987 - Brittany Byrnes, Australian Actress
1989 - Victoria Azarenka, Belarusian tennis player
1990 - Olga Galchenko, Russian juggler

Famous Births on 30 Jul

Famous Births on 30 Jul

1511 - Giorgio Vasari, Italian painter, author and architect (d. 1574)
1549 - Ferdinando I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (d. 1609)
1641 - Regnier de Graaf, Dutch physician and anatomist (d. 1673)
1751 - Maria Anna Mozart, Austrian musician (d. 1829)
1763 - Samuel Rogers, English author (d. 1855)
1809 - Charles Chiniquy, Quebec-born excommunicated Catholic priest (d. 1899)
1818 - Emily Brontë, English novelist (d. 1848)
1825 - Chaim Aronson, inventor and academic (d. 1893)
1855 - Georg Wilhelm von Siemens, German industrialist (d. 1919)
1857 - Thorstein Veblen, American economist (d. 1929)
1859 - Henry Simpson Lunn, English humanitarian (d. 1939)
1863 - Henry Ford, American industrialist (d. 1947)
1872 - Princess Clémentine of Belgium (d. 1955)
1881 - Smedley Butler, American Marine general (d. 1940)
1885 - John Jules Barrish, Irish writer (d. 1939)
1889 - Vladimir Zworykin, Russian physicist (d. 1982)
1890 - Casey Stengel, American baseball manager (d. 1975)
1893 - Fatima Jinnah, Pakistani Mother of the Nation (d. 1967)
1895 - Wanda Hawley, American actress (d. 1963)
1898 - Henry Moore, English sculptor (d. 1986)
1899 - Gerald Moore, English pianist (d. 1987)
1901 - Alfred Lépine, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (d. 1955)
1904 - Salvador Novo, Mexican writer (d. 1974)
1909 - C. Northcote Parkinson, English historian (d. 1993)
1910 - Edgar de Evia, American photographer (d. 2003)
1914 - Lord Killanin, Irish IOC president (d. 1999)
1916 - Dick Wilson, American actor (d. 2007)
1919 - Berniece Baker Miracle, half-sister of Marilyn Monroe
1921 - Grant Johannesen, American pianist (d. 2005)
1922 - Henry W. Bloch, American co-founder of H&R Block
1925 - Alexander Trocchi, Scottish writer (d. 1984)
1925 - Jacques Sernas, French actor
1926 - Christine McGuire, American singer (The McGuire Sisters)
1927 - Victor Wong, American actor (d. 2001)
1928 - Joe Nuxhall, American baseball player and sportscaster (d. 2007)
1928 - Eunice Muñoz, Portuguese actress
1929 - Sid Krofft, Canadian children's television producer
1933 - Edd Byrnes, American actor
1934 - Bud Selig, American Commissioner of Baseball
1935 - Ted Rogers, English comedian and game show host (d. 2001)
1936 - Buddy Guy, American blues guitarist and singer
1936 - Infanta Pilar of Spain
1938 - Hervé de Charette, French politician
1939 - Peter Bogdanovich, American film director
1939 - Eleanor Smeal, American feminist
1940 - Pat Schroeder, American politician
1940 - Sir Clive Sinclair, English entrepreneur and inventor
1941 - Paul Anka, Canadian singer and composer
1943 - Henri-François Gautrin, Quebec politician
1945 - David Sanborn, American saxophonist
1945 - Patrick Modiano, French novelist
1946 - Neil Bonnett, American race car driver (d. 1994)
1947 - William Atherton, American actor
1947 - Jonathan Mann, AIDS activist (d. 1998)
1947 - Arnold Schwarzenegger, Austrian-born American actor, bodybuilder, and 38th Governor of California
1948 - Jean Reno, Moroccan-born French actor
1949 - Duck Baker, American guitarist
1950 - Frank Stallone, American singer and actor
1954 - Ken Olin, American actor
1956 - Delta Burke, American actress
1956 - Réal Cloutier, Canadian ice hockey player
1956 - Anita Hill, American author
1957 - Rat Scabies, English drummer (The Damned)
1957 - Nery Pumpido, Argentine footballer
1957 - Clint Hurdle, American baseball player and manager
1958 - Kate Bush, English singer/songwriter
1958 - Neal McCoy, American singer/songwriter and humanitarian
1958 - Daley Thompson, English decathlete
1960 - Richard Linklater, American filmmaker
1961 - Laurence Fishburne, American actor
1962 - Jay Feaster, American National Hockey League executive
1962 - Alton Brown, American television host and chef
1963 - Lisa Kudrow, American actress
1963 - Chris Mullin, American basketball player
1964 - Vivica A. Fox, American actress
1964 - Jürgen Klinsmann, German footballer and manager
1964 - Alek Keshishian, Lebanese-born American film director
1965 - Tim Munton, Former England cricketer
1966 - Allan Langer, Australian Rugby League Player, (Brisbane Broncos & Warrington Wolves)
1968 - Terry Crews, American football player and actor
1968 - Robert Korzeniowski, Polish athlete
1968 - Sean Moore, Welsh drummer (Manic Street Preachers)
1969 - Simon Baker, Australian actor
1969 - Errol Stewart, Former South Afrivan cricketer and lawyer
1970 - Christopher Nolan, English film director
1971 - Tom Green, Canadian comedian and actor
1971 - Christine Taylor, American actress
1971 - Sagi Kalev, Bodybuilder
1973 - Markus Naslund, Swedish ice hockey player
1973 - Sonu Nigam, Indian singer/actor
1974 - Jason Robinson, English dual-code rugby player
1974 - Radostin Kishishev, Bulgarian footballer
1974 - Hilary Swank, American actress
1975 - Graham Nicholls, English artist
1975 - Cherie Priest, American writer
1977 - Jaime Pressly, American actress
1977 - Ian Watkins, Welsh singer (Lostprophets)
1978 - James Branaman, American model and reality show contestant
1979 - Graeme McDowell, Northern Irish golfer
1979 - Carlos Arroyo, Puerto Rican basketball player
1980 - James Anderson, English cricketer
1980 - Justin Rose, British golfer
1980 - Sara Anzanello, Italian volleyball player
1980 - Chuck Thomas, British TV producer / presenter
1981 - Juan Smith, South African rugby player
1981 - Nicky Hayden, American motorcycle racer
1982 - Yvonne Strahovski, Australian actress
1983 - Sean Dillon, Irish footballer
1984 - Gabrielle Christian, American actress
1984 - Kevin Pittsnogle, American basketball player
1985 - Daniel Fredheim Holm, Norwegian footballer
2002 - Prince Hridayendra of Nepal, Nepalese royal

Famous Births on 29 Jul

Famous Births on 29 Jul

1166 - Henry II of Champagne (d. 1197)
1605 - Simon Dach, German poet (d. 1659)
1763 - Philip Charles Durham, Royal Navy Admiral (d. 1845)
1797 - Daniel Drew, American financier (d. 1879)
1801 - George Bradshaw, English publisher (d. 1853)
1805 - Alexis de Tocqueville, French historian and political scientist (d. 1859)
1843 - Johannes Schmidt, German linguist (d. 1901)
1849 - Max Nordau, Austrian author and Zionist leader (d. 1923)
1869 - Booth Tarkington, American author (d. 1946)
1872 - Eric Alfred Knudsen, American folklorist (d. 1957)
1874 - James Shaver Woodsworth, Canadian politician (d. 1942)
1876 - Maria Ouspenskaya, Russian-born actress (d. 1949)
1878 - Don Marquis, American author (d. 1937)
1883 - Benito Mussolini, Italian dictator (d. 1945)
1883 - Porfirio Barba-Jacob, Colombian poet and writer (d. 1942)
1884 - Ralph A. Bard, U.S. Navy Undersecretary (d. 1975)
1885 - Theda Bara, American film actress (d. 1955)
1887 - Sigmund Romberg, Hungarian-born composer (d. 1951)
1892 - William Powell, American actor (d. 1984)
1897 - Sir Neil Ritchie, British general (d. 1983)
1898 - Isidor Isaac Rabi, American physicist, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1988)
1899 - Walter Beall, American baseball player (d. 1959)
1900 - Eyvind Johnson, Swedish writer, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1976)
1900 - Don Redman, American musician (d. 1964)
1904 - J. R. D. Tata, Indian industrialist (d. 1993)
1905 - Clara Bow, American actress (d. 1965)
1905 - Dag Hammarskjöld, Swedish 2nd UN Secretary-General, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1961)
1905 - Thelma Todd, American actress (d. 1935)
1905 - Stanley Kunitz, American poet (d. 2006)
1906 - Diana Vreeland, French-born fashion editor (d. 1989)
1907 - Melvin Belli, American lawyer and actor (d. 1996)
1911 - Foster Furcolo, 60th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1995)
1911 - Iakovos, Archbishop of America (d. 2005)
1913 - Erich Priebke, Nazi war criminal
1914 - Irwin Corey, American stand-up comedian
1915 - Francis W. Sargent, 64th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1998)
1916 - Budd Boetticher, American film director (d. 2001)
1916 - Charlie Christian, American jazz guitarist (d. 1942)
1918 - Edwin O'Connor, American novelist and Pulitzer Prize winner (d. 1968)
1920 - Rodolfo Acosta, Mexican actor (d. 1974)
1920 - Neville Jeffress, Australian founder of Media Monitors Australia (d. 2007)
1921 - Richard Egan, American actor (d. 1987)
1923 - Jim Marshall, founder of Marshall Amplification
1923 - Gordon Mitchell, American actor (d. 2003)
1924 - Elizabeth Short, victim in the Black Dahlia case (d. 1947)
1924 - Lloyd Bochner, Canadian actor (d. 2005)
1925 - Mikis Theodorakis, Greek composer
1925 - Ted Lindsay, Canadian hockey player
1927 - Harry Mulisch, Dutch author
1929 - Jean Baudrillard, French philosopher
1930 - Paul Taylor, American dancer and choreographer
1932 - Nancy Kassebaum Baker, United States Senator from Kansas
1933 - Robert Fuller, American actor
1933 - Colin Davis, British racing driver
1933 - Lou Albano, American pro wrestling manager
1935 - Peter Schreier, German tenor
1936 - Elizabeth Dole, U.S. Senator from North Carolina
1937 - Daniel McFadden, American economist, Nobel Prize Laureate
1938 - Jean Rochon, Quebec politician
1938 - Peter Jennings, Canadian-born journalist (d. 2005)
1941 - Jennifer Dunn, American politician (d. 2007)
1941 - David Warner, English actor
1942 - Tony Sirico, American actor
1943 - David Taylor, English snooker player
1946 - Neal Doughty, American musician (REO Speedwagon)
1946 - Diane Keen, English actress
1947 - Dick Harmon, American golf instructor (d. 2006)
1949 - Leslie Easterbrook, American actress
1951 - Dan Driessen, American baseball player
1953 - Ken Burns, American producer and director
1953 - Geddy Lee, Canadian bassist and singer (Rush)
1953 - Patti Scialfa, American singer, guitarist and songwriter
1953 - Tim Gunn, American television personality
1955 - Jean-Hugues Anglade, French actor
1955 - Dave Stevens, American illustrator
1956 - Teddy Atlas, American boxing trainer and commentator
1956 - Ronnie Musgrove, Former Governor of Mississippi
1957 - Nellie Kim, Russian gymnast
1957 - Alessandra Marc, American operatic soprano
1959 - John Sykes, British guitarist (Thin Lizzy, Whitesnake, Tygers of Pan Tang)
1959 - Dave LaPoint, American baseball player
1959 - Ruud Janssen, Dutch writer and artist
1959 - Sanjay Dutt, Indian actor
1962 - Vincent Rousseau, Belgian athlete
1962 - Scott Steiner, American professional wrestler
1963 - Graham Poll, English football referee
1963 - Jim Beglin, Irish football commentator
1963 - Alexandra Paul, American actress
1965 - Dean Haglund, Canadian actor
1965 - Luis Alicea, baseball coach
1965 - Chang-Rae Lee, Korean-born author
1966 - Martina McBride, American singer
1966 - Richard Steven Horvitz, American comic voiceactor
1968 - Paavo Lotjonen, Finnish Cellist (Apocalyptica)
1969 - Adele Stevens, English model and erotic actress
1970 - John Rennie, Former Zimbabwean cricketer
1971 - Lisa Ekdahl, Swedish singer songwriter
1971 - Monica Calhoun, American actress
1972 - Wil Wheaton, American actor
1973 - Stephen Dorff, American actor
1973 - Wanya Morris, American singer (Boyz II Men)
1974 - Josh Radnor, American actor
1975 - Corrado Grabbi, Italian footballer
1975 - Lanka de Silva, Former Sri Lankan cricketer
1979 - Ronald Murray, American basketball player
1979 - Karim Essediri, Tunisian footballer
1980 - Ryan Braun, Canadian baseball player
1980 - Fernando González, Chilean tennis player
1980 - Rachel Miner, American actress
1981 - Fernando Alonso, Spanish Formula 1 Driver
1981 - Andrés Madrid, Argentine footballer
1981 - Troy Perkins, American soccer player
1982 - Allison Mack, American actress
1982 - Jônatas Domingos, Brazilian footballer
1982 - Janez Aljančič, Slovenian footballer
1983 - Alexei Kaigorodov, Russian hockey player
1984 - Chad Billingsley, American baseball player
1987 - Sabra Johnson, American dancer
1991 - Miki Ishikawa, American actress

Famous Births on 28 Jul

Famous Births on 28 Jul

1347 - Margherita of Durazzo, queen of Naples (d. 1412)
1659 - Charles Ancillon, French Huguenot pastor (d. 1715)
1746 - Thomas Heyward, Jr., American patriot, signer of the Declaration of Independence (d. 1809)
1750 - Fabre d'Églantine French dramatist and politician, creator of the French Republican calendar (d. 1794)
1796 - Ignaz Bösendorfer, Austrian musician (d. 1859)
1804 - Ludwig Feuerbach, German philosopher (d. 1872)
1815 - Stefan Dunjov, Banat Bulgarian military figure (d. 1889)
1844 - Gerard Manley Hopkins, English poet (d. 1889)
1857 - Ballington Booth, co-founder of Volunteers of America (d. 1940)
1860 - Elias M. Ammons, governor of Colorado (d. 1925)
1860 - Grand Duchess Anastasia Mikhailovna of Russia (d. 1922)
1863 - Hussein Khan Nakhichevanski, Russian general (d. 1919)
1866 - Beatrix Potter, English author (d. 1943)
1867 - Charles Dillon Perrine, American-born astronomer (d. 1951)
1872 - Albert Sarraut, French politician (d. 1962)
1874 - Ernst Cassirer, German philosopher (d. 1945)
1887 - Marcel Duchamp, French painter (d. 1968)
1891 - Ron Oxenham, Former Australain cricketer (d. 1939)
1896 - Barbara La Marr, American actress (d. 1926)
1898 - Lawrence Gray, American actor (d. 1970)
1900 - Catherine Dale Owen, American actress (d. 1965)
1901 - Rudy Vallee, American entertainer (d. 1986)
1901 - Freddie Fitzsimmons, American baseball player (d. 1979)
1902 - Karl Popper, Austrian-born philosopher (d. 1994)
1907 - Earl Tupper, American inventor (d. 1983)
1909 - Malcolm Lowry, English novelist (d. 1957)
1914 - Carmen Dragon, American composer (d. 1984)
1915 - Charles Townes, American physicist, Nobel laureate
1916 - David Brown, American film producer
1922 - Jacques Piccard, Belgian-born undersea explorer
1924 - C.T. Vivian, American 1960s Civil Rights Movement activist
1925 - Baruch S. Blumberg, American scientist, Nobel laureate
1926 - Charlie Biddle, American-born Quebec jazz bassist (d. 2003)
1927 - John Ashbery, American poet
1929 - Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, First Lady of the United States (d. 1994)
1930 - Jean Roba, Belgian comics author (d. 2006)
1930 - Junior Kimbrough, American bluesman (d. 1998)
1930 - Ramsey Withers, Chief of the Defence Staff of Canada
1931 - Johnny Martin, Former Australain cricketer (d. 1992)
1933 - Charlie Hodge, French Canadian ice hockey goaltender
1934 - Jacques d'Amboise, American choreographer
1935 - Simon Dee, British television broadcaster
1936 - Russ Jackson, Canadian football player
1936 - Garfield Sobers, Barbadian West Indies cricketer
1937 - Francis Veber, French film director and screenwriter
1938 - Luis Aragonés, Spanish football manager
1938 - Chuan Leekpai, Thai politician and Former Prime Minister of Thailand
1938 - Alberto Fujimori, President of Peru
1940 - Philip Proctor, American comedian
1941 - Susan Roces, Filipino actress
1941 - Riccardo Muti, Italian conductor
1942 - Marty Brennaman, American sportscaster
1943 - Richard Wright, English musician (Pink Floyd)
1943 - Bill Bradley, American basketball player and politician
1943 - Mike Bloomfield, American musician (d. 1981)
1945 - Jim Davis, American cartoonist (Garfield)
1946 - Jonathan Edwards, American singer and songwriter
1946 - Linda Kelsey, American actress
1946 - Fahmida Riaz, Pakistani writer and feminist
1948 - Sally Struthers, American actress
1948 - Georgia Engel, American actress
1948 - Gerald Casale, american musician and director (founding member of Devo)
1949 - Steve Peregrin Took, English singer (d. 1980)
1949 - Vida Blue, American baseball player
1949 - Peter Doyle, Australian singer (The New Seekers) (d. 2001)
1950 - Shahyar Ghanbari, Iranian poet
1951 - Anthony A. Williams, Mayor of Washington, D.C.
1951 - Santiago Calatrava, Spanish architect
1952 - Vajiralongkorn, Crown Prince of Thailand
1952 - Yoshitaka Amano, Japanese artist
1954 - Bruce Abbott, American actor
1954 - Hugo Chávez, President of Venezuela
1954 - Gerd Faltings, German mathematician
1954 - Steve Morse, American guitarist
1954 - Mikey Sheehy, Gaelic footballer
1955 - Nikolay Zimyatov, Russian cross-country skier
1958 - Michael Hitchcock, American actor
1958 - Terry Fox, Canadian athlete and activist (d. 1981)
1960 - Yōichi Takahashi, Japanese mangaka of Captain Tsubasa and Hungry Heart Wild Striker
1961 - Yannick Dalmas, French race car driver
1961 - Alexander Kurlovitch, Soviet weightlifter
1962 - Rachel Sweet, American singer
1964 - Lori Loughlin, American actress
1965 - Priscilla Chan, Hong Kong singer
1965 - Delfeayo Marsalis, American jazz musician
1966 - Shikao Suga, Japanese singer/songwriter
1969 - Garth Snow, American ice hockey goaltender
1969 - Alexis Arquette, American actor
1969 - Dana White, UFC President
1970 - Michael Amott, Swedish guitarist (Arch Enemy)
1970 - Isabelle Brasseur, Canadian figure skater
1970 - Paul Strang, Former Zimbabwian cricketer
1971 - Annie Perreault, Canadian short-track speed skater
1971 - Stephen Lynch, American musician
1972 - Elizabeth Berkley, American actress
1972 - Ed Templeton, American skateboarder
1972 - Yeom Jeong-ah, South Korean actress
1973 - Steve Staios, Canadian ice hockey player
1973 - Marc Dupré, Quebec humorist and singer
1974 - Justin Lee Collins, British comedian
1975 - Leonor Watling, Spanish actress and singer
1976 - Jacoby Shaddix, American singer (Papa Roach)
1977 - Manu Ginóbili, Argentine basketball player
1977 - Aki Berg, Finnish ice hockey player
1978 - Hitomi Yaida, Japanese singer/songwriter
1979 - Lee Minwoo, Korean singer (Shinhwa)
1979 - Birgitta Haukdal, Icelandic singer
1979 - Henrik Hansen, Danish footballer
1980 - Stephen Christian, American singer (Anberlin)
1981 - Michael Carrick, English footballer
1981 - Jo In Sung, South Korean actor
1982 - Ágústa Eva Erlendsdóttir, Icelandic singer and actress
1982 - Tom Pelphrey, American actor
1984 - DeMeco Ryans, American football player
1984 - Zach Parise, American ice hockey player
1985 - Tynisha Keli, American singer
1985 - Dustin Milligan, Canadian actor
1986 - Alexandra Chando, American actress
1988 - Ayla Brown, American singer
1988 - Casper Johansen, Danish footballer
1990 - Shana Swash, English actress
1990 - Soulja Boy, American rapper
1993 - Hannah Lochner, Canadian actress

Famous Births on 27 Jul

Famous Births on 27 Jul

1452 - Ludovico Sforza, Duke of Milan (d. 1508)
1667 - Johann Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician (d. 1748)
1733 - Jeremiah Dixon, English surveyor and astronomer (d. 1779)
1740 - Jeanne Baré, French explorer (d. 1803)
1752 - Samuel Smith, American politician
1768 - Charlotte Corday, French aristocrat who killed Jean-Paul Marat (d. 1793)
1773 - Jakob Aall, Norwegian journalist and statesman (d. 1844)
1781 - Mauro Giuliani, Italian composer (d. 1828)
1784 - Denis Davydov, Russian general and poet (d. 1839)
1812 - Thomas Clingman, American Confederate general (d. 1897)
1824 - Alexandre Dumas, fils, French author (d. 1895)
1833 - Thomas George Bonney, English geologist (d. 1923)
1835 - Giosuè Carducci, Italian writer, Nobel laureate (d. 1907)
1848 - Loránd Eötvös, Hungarian physicist (d. 1919)
1853 - Vladimir Korolenko, Russian writer (d. 1921)
1857 - José Celso Barbosa, Puerto Rican politician (d. 1921)
1866 - António José de Almeida, Portuguese politician and 6th President of Portugal (d. 1929)
1867 - Enrique Granados, Spanish composer (d. 1916)
1870 - Hilaire Belloc, English writer (d. 1953)
1877 - ErnÅ' Dohnányi, Hungarian composer and conductor (d. 1960)
1879 - Jack Laviolette, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1960)
1881 - Hans Fischer, German chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1945)
1882 - Geoffrey de Havilland, British aircraft designer (d. 1965)
1886 - Ernst May, German architect (d. 1970)
1889 - Vera Karalli, Russian ballerina and actress (d. 1972)
1896 - Henri Longchambon, French politician (d. 1969)
1903 - Michail Stasinopoulos, Greek politician (d. 2002)
1903 - Nikolai Cherkasov, Russian actor (d. 1966)
1905 - Leo Durocher, American baseball player and manager (d. 1991)
1906 - Herbert Jasper, Canadian physiologist and neurologist (d. 1999)
1908 - Joseph Mitchell, American writer (d. 1996)
1910 - Julien Gracq, French writer (d. 2007)
1911 - Rayner Heppenstall, British novelist (d. 1981)
1913 - George L. Street III American Navy Submariner (d. 2000)
1913 - Gérard Côté, Quebec marathon runner (d. 1993)
1915 - Mario Del Monaco, Italian singer (d. 1982)
1915 - Josef "Pips" Priller, German fighter ace (d. 1961)
1916 - Elizabeth Hardwick, American literary critic and novelist (d. 2007)
1916 - Keenan Wynn, American actor (d. 1986)
1917 - Bourvil, French actor (d. 1970)
1918 - Leonard Rose, American cellist (d. 1984)
1921 - Émile Genest, Quebec actor (d. 2003)
1922 - Adolfo Celi, Italian actor (d. 1986)
1922 - Norman Lear, American television writer and producer
1923 - Masutatsu Oyama, Japanese Kyokushin founder (d. 1994)
1924 - Vincent Canby, American film critic (d. 2000)
1927 - Sat Mahajan, Indian politician
1928 - Karloff Lagarde, Mexican lucha libre wrestler (d. 2007)
1929 - Jack Higgins, British novelist
1930 - Shirley Williams, British politician
1931 - Khieu Samphan, Cambodian politician
1931 - Jerry Van Dyke, American actor
1933 - Ted Whitten, Australian rules footballer (d. 1995)
1933 - Nick Reynolds, American folk singer
1935 - Billy McCullough, Northern Irish footballer
1936 - J. Robert Hooper, American politician
1937 - Don Galloway, American actor
1938 - Isabelle Aubret, French singer
1938 - Gary Gygax, American role-playing game creator (d. 2008)
1939 - Michael Longley, Northern Irish poet
1940 - Pina Bausch, German dancer
1942 - Dennis Ralston, American tennis player
1942 - John Pleshette, American actor
1942 - Édith Butler, Canadian singer and songwriter
1944 - Tony Capstick, English comedian (d. 2003)
1944 - Jean-Marie Leblanc, French cyclist
1944 - Bobbie Gentry, American singer and songwriter
1946 - Rade Šerbedžija, Croatian actor
1948 - Peggy Fleming, American figure skater
1948 - Betty Thomas, American actor and film director
1949 - André Dupont, Quebec ice hockey player
1949 - Maureen McGovern, American singer
1952 - Hannu-Pekka Hänninen, Finnish sports commentator
1953 - Yahoo Serious, Australian comedian
1954 - G. S. Bali, Indian politician
1954 - Philippe Alliot, French racecar driver
1955 - Allan Border, Australian cricketer
1955 - Cat Bauer, American novelist
1956 - Carol Leifer, American actress
1957 - Bill Engvall, American comedian
1957 - Matt Osborne, American professional wrestler
1958 - Christopher Dean, English figure skater
1959 - Hugh Green, American football player
1959 - Joe DeSa, American baseball player (d. 1986)
1962 - Karl Mueller, American bassist (Soul Asylum) (d. 2005)
1963 - Donnie Yen, Hong Kong film actor
1963 - Karrin Allyson, American Jazz musician & songstress
1964 - Rex Brown, American musician (Pantera)
1965 - José Luis Chilavert, Paraguayan footballer
1967 - Neil Smith, Former England cricketer
1967 - Craig Wolanin, Canadian ice hockey player
1967 - Kellie Waymire, American actress (d. 2003)
1967 - Sasha Mitchell, American actor
1967 - Juliana Hatfield, American musician
1968 - Ricardo Rosset, Brazilian Formula One driver
1968 - Julian McMahon, Australian actor
1968 - Tom Goodwin, American baseball player
1968 - Cliff Curtis, New Zealand actor
1969 - Maria Grazia Cucinotta, Italian actress
1969 - Triple H, American professional wrestler
1969 - Jonty Rhodes, South African cricketer
1970 - Nikolaj Coster Waldau, Danish actor
1972 - Maya Rudolph, American actress and comedian
1972 - Takako Fuji, Japanese actress
1972 - Jill Arrington, American sports reporter
1973 - Abe Cunningham, American musician (Deftones)
1973 - Gorden Tallis, Australian rugby league footballer
1973 - Erik Nijs, Belgian long jumper
1974 - Eason Chan, Hong Kong singer
1974 - Pete Yorn, American musician
1975 - Alessandro Pistone, Italian footballer
1975 - Alex Rodriguez, American baseball player
1975 - Fred Mascherino, American musician
1975 - Shea Hillenbrand, American baseball player
1976 - Scott Mason, Australian cricketer (d. 2005)
1977 - Jonathan Rhys-Meyers, Irish actor
1977 - Foo Swee Chin, Singaporean comic book artist
1979 - Shannon Moore, American wrestler
1979 - Jorge Arce, Mexican boxer
1980 - Allan Davis, Australian cyclist
1980 - Nick Nemeth, American professional wrestler
1981 - Susan King Borchardt, American basketball player
1981 - Collins Obuya, Kenyan cricketer
1983 - Alsou, Russian pop-star and actress
1983 - Goran Pandev, Macedonian footballer
1985 - Lou Taylor Pucci, American actor
1986 - Courtney Kupets, American gymnast
1986 - Ryan Griffen, Australian rules footballer
1988 - Adam Biddle, Australian footballer
1989 - Charlotte Arnold, Canadian actress
1990 - Cheyenne Kimball, American musician
1990 - Nick Hogan, American reality TV star
1990 - Indiana Evans, Australian actress
1994 - Spencer Achtymichuk, Canadian actor
1994 - Princess Mafalda-Ceceilia of Bulgaria
2000 - Kali Rodriguez, American actress

Famous Births on 26 Jul

Famous Births on 26 Jul

1030 - Stanislaus of Szczepanów, St. Stanislaw (d. 1079)
1678 - Joseph I, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1711)
1782 - John Field, Irish composer (d. 1837)
1791 - Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart, composer (d. 1844)
1802 - Mariano Arista, President of Mexico (d. 1855)
1829 - Auguste Marie François Beernaert, Belgian statesman, Nobel Laureate (d. 1912)
1846 - Texas Jack Omohundro, American frontier scout, actor, and cowboy (d. 1880)
1855 - Ferdinand Tönnies, German sociologist (d. 1936)
1856 - George Bernard Shaw, Irish writer, Nobel Laureate (d. 1950)
1858 - Tom Garrett, Former Australain cricketer (d. 1943)
1865 - Philipp Scheidemann, First Chancellor of the Weimar Republic (d. 1939)
1874 - Serge Koussevitsky, Russian conductor (d. 1951)
1875 - Carl Jung, Swiss psychiatrist (d. 1961)
1875 - Antonio Machado, Spanish poet (d. 1939)
1880 - Volodymyr Vynnychenko, Ukrainian statesman (d. 1951)
1885 - André Maurois, French author (d. 1967)
1886 - Lars Hanson, Swedish actor (d. 1965)
1888 - Reginald Hands, Former South African cricketer (d. 1918)
1892 - Sam Jones, American baseball player (d. 1966)
1894 - Aldous Huxley, English-born author (d. 1963)
1895 - Jane Bunford, Britain's tallest-ever person (d. 1922)
1895 - Gracie Allen, American actress and comedian (d. 1964)
1896 - Henry Birkin, British racing driver (d. 1933)
1897 - Paul Gallico, American author (d. 1976)
1903 - Estes Kefauver, U.S. Senator from Tennessee (d. 1963)
1906 - Irena IÅ‚Å‚akowicz, Polish agent of Intelligence (d. 1943)
1909 - Peter Thorneycroft, British politician (d. 1994)
1909 - Vivian Vance, American actress (d. 1979)
1914 - Erskine Hawkins, American musician and bandleader (d. 1993)
1914 - Ellis Kinder, American baseball player (d. 1968)
1918 - Marjorie Lord, American actress
1919 - Virginia Gilmore, American actress (d. 1986)
1920 - Bob Waterfield, American football player (d. 1983)
1921 - Jean Shepherd, American writer (d. 1999)
1922 - Blake Edwards, American film director
1922 - Jason Robards, American actor (d. 2000)
1923 - Hoyt Wilhelm, American baseball player (d. 2002)
1923 - Jan Berenstain, American author
1925 - Jerzy Einhorn, Polish-Swedish doctor, researcher and politician (d. 2000)
1926 - James Best, American actor
1926 - Ana María Matute, Spanish author
1927 - Gulabrai Ramchand, Former Indian cricketer (d. 2003)
1928 - Peter Lougheed, Canadian politician
1928 - Stanley Kubrick, American film director (d. 1999)
1928 - Ibn-e-Safi, Pakistani fiction writer and Urdu poet (d. 1980)
1928 - Francesco Cossiga, 8th President of the Italian Republic
1928 - Don Beauman, British racing driver (d. 1955)
1929 - Marc Lalonde, French Canadian politician
1929 - Alexis Weissenberg, Bulgarian-born French pianist
1931 - Takashi Ono, Japanese gymnast
1936 - Mary Millar, English actress (d. 1998)
1938 - Darlene Love, American singer
1939 - Bob Lilly, American football player
1939 - John Howard, 25th Prime Minister of Australia
1940 - Dobie Gray, American singer
1940 - Mary Jo Kopechne, American aide to Robert F. Kennedy (d. 1969)
1940 - Bobby Rousseau, Quebec ice hockey player
1940 - Tolis Voskopoulos, Greek singer
1941 - Bobby Hebb, American musician
1941 - Brenton Wood, American singer-songwriter
1942 - Teddy Pilette, Belgian racing driver
1942 - Vladimír Mečiar, Slovak prime minister
1943 - Peter Hyams, American film director
1943 - Mick Jagger, English singer (The Rolling Stones)
1944 - Kiel Martin, American actor (d. 1990)
1945 - Helen Mirren, English actress
1949 - Roger Taylor, English musician (Queen)
1949 - Thaksin Shinawatra, ex-Prime Minister of Thailand
1950 - Rich Vogler, American race car driver (d. 1990)
1950 - Nelinho, Brazilian footballer
1950 - Susan George, English actress
1951 - Rick Martin, Canadian ice hockey player
1953 - Robert Phillips, classical guitarist
1954 - Vitas Gerulaitis, American tennis player (d. 1994)
1956 - Dorothy Hamill, American figure skater
1956 - Tommy Rich, American professional wrestler
1957 - Hart Hanson, American television writer and producer
1957 - Yuen Biao, Hong Kong actor
1957 - Nana Visitor, American actress
1958 - Angela Hewitt, Canadian classical pianist
1959 - Rick Bragg, American writer
1959 - Kevin Spacey, American actor
1959 - Michael Ross, American serial killer (d. 2005)
1961 - Dimitris Saravakos, Greek footballer
1961 - Keiko Matsui, Japanese musician and composer
1961 - Andy Connell, English musician (Swing Out Sister, A Certain Ratio)
1961 - Gary Cherone, American musician (Extreme)
1964 - Sandra Bullock, American actress
1964 - Ralf Metzenmacher, German painter and designer
1964 - Danny Woodburn, American actor
1965 - Jim Lindberg, American musician (Pennywise)
1965 - Jeremy Piven, American actor
1967 - Anthony Durante, American professional wrestler (d. 2003)
1967 - Tim Schafer, American computer game designer
1968 - Olivia Williams, English actress
1970 - Joan Wasser, American singer and musician
1971 - Khaled Mahmud, Former Bangladeshi cricketer
1973 - Lenka Šarounová, Czech astronomer
1973 - Kate Beckinsale, British actress
1974 - Dean Sturridge, English Footballer
1974 - Daniel Negreanu, Canadian poker player
1974 - Dan Konopka, American musician (OK Go)
1975 - Joe Smith, American basketball player
1976 - Brad Wilkins, American architect
1977 - Rebecca St. James, Australian-born singer
1977 - Martin Laursen, Danish footballer
1979 - Peter Sarno, Canadian ice hockey player
1979 - Mageina Tovah, American actress
1979 - Erik Westrum, American ice hockey player
1980 - Dave Baksh, Canadian guitarist (Sum 41)
1980 - Lee Dong-gun, South Korean actor
1981 - Abe Forsythe, Australian actor/director
1982 - Chez Starbuck, American actor
1983 - Delonte West, American basketball player
1983 - Roderick Strong, American professional wrestler
1984 - Kyriakos Ioannou, Cypriot high jumper
1985 - Gaël Clichy, French footballer
1985 - Audrey De Montigny, Quebec singer
1987 - Miriam McDonald, Canadian actress
1993 - Taylor Momsen, American actress

Famous Births on 25 Jul

Famous Births on 25 Jul

1016 - Casimir I, Duke of Poland (d. c. 1058)
1109 - Afonso I of Portugal (d. 1185)
1336 - Albert, Count of Holland (d. 1404)
1404 - Philip I, Duke of Brabant (d. 1430)
1421 - Henry Percy, 3rd Earl of Northumberland, English politician (d. 1461)
1562 - Kiyomasa Kato, Japanese warlord (d. 1611)
1653 - Agostino Steffani, Italian diplomat (d. 1728)
1658 - Archibald Campbell, 1st Duke of Argyll, Scottish privy councillor (d. 1703)
1750 - Henry Knox, American general (d. 1806)
1797 - Princess Augusta, Duchess of Cambridge (d. 1889)
1799 - David Douglas, Scottish botanist (d. 1834)
1839 - Francis Garnier, French explorer (d. 1873)
1844 - Thomas Eakins, American artist (d. 1916)
1848 - Arthur Balfour, 33rd Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1930)
1860 - Princess Louise Margaret, Duchess of Connaught (d. 1917)
1867 - Alexander Rummler, American painter (d. 1959)
1867 - Max Dauthendey, German writer (d. 1918)
1870 - Maxfield Parrish, American illustrator (d. 1966)
1882 - George S. Rentz, Navy Chaplain, Navy Cross (d. 1942)
1883 - Alfredo Casella, Italian composer (d. 1947)
1886 - Bror von Blixen-Finecke, Swedish big-game hunter (d. 1946)
1894 - Walter Brennan, American actor (d. 1974)
1894 - Gavrilo Princip, Serbian assassin (d. 1918)
1895 - Yvonne Printemps, French actress and singer (d. 1977)
1896 - Jack Perrin, American actor (d. 1967)
1901 - Lila Lee, American actress (d. 1973)
1902 - Eric Hoffer, American philosopher (d. 1983)
1905 - Elias Canetti, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1994)
1905 - Denys Watkins-Pitchford, writer and illustrator (d. 1990)
1907 - Johnny Hodges, American saxophonist (d. 1970)
1908 - Jack Gilford, American actor (d. 1990)
1908 - Semmangudi Srinivasa Iyer, Indian musician (d. 2003)
1908 - Bill Bowes, English cricketer (d. 1987)
1914 - Woody Strode, American actor and decathlete (d. 1994)
1916 - Lucien Saulnier, Quebec politician (d. 1989)
1917 - Whipper Billy Watson, Canadian professional wrestler (d. 1990)
1918 - Jane Frank, American artist (d. 1986)
1920 - Jean Carmet, French actor (d. 1994)
1920 - Rosalind Franklin, English scientist (d. 1958)
1923 - Maria Gripe, Swedish writer (d. 2007)
1923 - Estelle Getty, American actress (d. 2008)
1924 - Frank Church, American politician (d. 1984)
1924 - Scotch Taylor, Former South African cricketer (d. 2004)
1925 - Jerry Paris, American actor (d. 1986)
1926 - Whitey Lockman, American baseball player
1927 - Daniel Ceccaldi, French actor (d. 2003)
1927 - Sadiq Hussain Qureshi, Pakistani politician (d. 2000)
1928 - Mario Montenegro, Filipino actor (d. 1988)
1928 - Keter Betts, American jazz bassist (d. 2005)
1929 - Somnath Chatterjee, Indian communist leader
1929 - Eddie Mazur, Canadian hockey player (d. 1995)
1930 - Maureen Forrester, Canadian contralto
1930 - Alice Parizeau, Polish-born Quebec writer and essayist (d. 1990)
1930 - Annie Ross, British jazz singer
1930 - Murray Chapple, Former New Zealand cricketer (d. 1985)
1934 - Claude Zidi, French film director and screenwriter
1934 - Don Ellis, American jazz trumpeter (d. 1978)
1935 - Barbara Harris, American actress
1935 - Larry Sherry, American baseball player (d. 2006)
1935 - Lars Werner, Swedish communist leader
1935 - Adnan Khashoggi, Saudi arms merchant
1936 - Glenn Murcutt, Australian architect
1936 - Gerry Ashmore, British racing driver
1937 - Colin Renfrew, English archeologist
1941 - Peter Suschitzky, Polish-British cinematographer
1941 - Emmett Till, American murder victim (d. 1955)
1942 - Bruce Woodley, Australian musician (The Seekers)
1943 - Jim McCarty, English musician (The Yardbirds)
1946 - Rita Marley, Jamaican-Cuban singer (I Threes)
1946 - John Gibson, American media host
1951 - Verdine White, American musician (Earth, Wind & Fire)
1954 - Walter Payton, American football player (d. 1999)
1955 - Iman Abdulmajid, Somali model
1955 - Kike Elomaa, Finnish bodybuilder
1958 - Thurston Moore, American musician (Sonic Youth)
1959 - Anatoly Onoprienko, a Ukrainian serial Killer
1960 - Alain Robidoux, Canadian snooker player
1961 - Katherine Kelly Lang, American actress
1961 - Bobbie Eakes, American actress
1963 - Denis Coderre, French Canadian politician
1963 - Julian Hodgson, English chess player
1965 - Illeana Douglas, American actress
1966 - Maureen Herman, American bassist
1966 - Lynda Lemay, French Canadian singer
1966 - Christine C. Quinn, American politician
1967 - Tommy Skjerven, Norwegian football referee
1967 - Wendy Raquel Robinson, American actress
1967 - Matt LeBlanc, American actor
1968 - Rudi Bryson, Former South African cricketer
1969 - Jon Barry, American basketball player
1971 - Roger Creager, American country music singer-songwriter
1971 - Billy Wagner, American baseball player
1973 - Michael C. Williams, American actor
1973 - Mur Lafferty, American podcaster and writer
1973 - Kevin Phillips, English footballer
1973 - David Denman, American actor
1973 - Dani Filth, British singer (Cradle of Filth)
1974 - Kenzo Suzuki, Japanese professional wrestler
1974 - Jay R. Ferguson, American actor
1975 - Jean-Claude Darcheville, French footballer
1976 - Javier Vázquez, Puerto Rican baseball player
1976 - Jovica Tasevski-Eternijan, Macedonian poet
1976 - Tera Patrick, American pornographic actress
1977 - Kenny Thomas, American basketball player
1978 - Louise Brown, World's first test tube baby
1978 - Gerard Warren, American football player
1979 - Amy Adams, American singer
1979 - Allister Carter, English professional snooker player
1980 - Toni Vilander, Finnish racing driver
1980 - Shawn Riggans, American baseball player
1980 - Diam's, French rapper
1981 - Conor Casey, American soccer player
1981 - Jani Rita, Finnish ice hockey player
1982 - Brad Renfro, American actor (d. 2008)
1982 - Monde Zondeki, South African cricketer
1984 - Loukas Mavrokefalidis, Greek basketball player
1985 - Nelson Piquet Jr., Brazilian race car driver
1985 - Jasmine Lennard, English model
1985 - James Lafferty, American actor
1987 - Michael Welch, American actor
1988 - Heather Marks, Canadian model
1988 - Anthony Stokes, Irish footballer
1989 - Noel Callahan, Canadian actor

Famous Births on 24 Jul

Famous Births on 24 Jul

1660 - Charles Talbot, 1st Duke of Shrewsbury, English politician (d. 1718)
1725 - John Newton, English cleric and hymnist (d. 1807)
1757 - Vladimir Borovikovsky, Russian painter (d. 1825)
1783 - Simón Bolívar, South American liberator (d. 1830)
1786 - Joseph Nicollet, French mathematician and explorer (d. 1843)
1794 - Johan Georg Forchhammer, Danish geologist (d. 1865)
1802 - Alexandre Dumas, père, French writer (d. 1870)
1803 - Adolphe Charles Adam, French composer (d. 1856)
1821 - William Poole, American gang member (New York City's Bowery Boys) (d. 1855)
1826 - Ivan Bloch, Polish military theorist and peace activist (d. 1902)
1851 - Friedrich Schottky, German mathematician (d. 1935)
1853 - William Gillette, American actor and author (d. 1937)
1856 - Charles Émile Picard, French mathematician (d. 1941)
1857 - Henrik Pontoppidan, Danish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1943)
1860 - Alfons Mucha, Czech artist (d. 1939)
1864 - Frank Wedekind, German writer (d. 1918)
1867 - Edward Frederic Benson, English writer (d. 1940)
1867 - Fred Tate, England cricketer (d. 1943)
1867 - Vicente Acosta, Salvadoran poet (d. the same day 1908)
1874 - Oswald Chambers, Scottish minister and writer (d. 1917)
1877 - Calogero Vizzini, Sicilian mafioso (d. 1954)
1878 - Lord Dunsany, Irish writer (d. 1957)
1880 - Kristian Hellström, Swedish athlete (d. 1946)
1880 - Ernest Bloch, Swiss composer (d. 1959)
1886 - Jun'ichirō Tanizaki, Japanese novelist (d. 1965)
1888 - Arthur Richardson, Australian cricketer (d. 1973)
1895 - Robert Graves, English author (d. 1985)
1897 - Amelia Earhart, American aviator (disappeared 1937)
1899 - Chief Dan George, Meti actor (d. 1981)
1900 - Zelda Fitzgerald, American artist, wife of writer F. Scott Fitzgerald (d. 1948)
1904 - Leo Arnaud, French-American composer (d. 1991)
1908 - Cootie Williams, American trumpeter (d. 1985)
1910 - Harry Horner, American art director (d. 1994)
1914 - Ed Mirvish, Canadian businessman, philanthropist and theatrical impresario (d. 2007)
1915 - Enrique Fernando, Philippino jurist (d. 2004)
1916 - John D. MacDonald, American novelist, (d. 1986)
1917 - Robert Farnon, Canadian-born conductor, composer, and arranger (d. 2005)
1917 - Jack Moroney, Australian cricketer (d. 1999)
1918 - Ruggiero Ricci, American violinist
1919 - Ferdinand Kübler, Swiss cyclist
1919 - Robert Marsden Hope, Australian Justice (d. 1999)
1920 - Bella Abzug, U.S. Congresswoman from New York (d. 1998)
1921 - Giuseppe Di Stefano, Italian operatic tenor (d. 2008)
1922 - Madeleine Ferron, French Canadian writer
1929 - Alfred Binns, West Indian cricketer
1931 - Ermanno Olmi, Italian director
1931 - Éric Tabarly, French sailor (d. 1998)
1933 - John Aniston, American actor; father of Jennifer Aniston
1933 - Doug Sanders, American golfer
1934 - Sante Kimes, American convicted con artist and murderess
1935 - Pat Oliphant, Australian political cartoonist
1935 - Derek Varnals, South African cricketer
1936 - Ruth Buzzi, American actress and comedian
1936 - Mark Goddard, American actor
1937 - Manoj Kumar, Indian actor
1938 - John Sparling, New Zealand cricketer
1938 - Eugene J. Martin, American painter, artist
1940 - Stanley Hauerwas, American theologian
1940 - Dan Hedaya, American actor
1942 - Chris Sarandon, American actor
1945 - Azim Premji, Indian businessman
1947 - Peter Serkin, American pianist
1947 - Robert Hays, American actor
1947 - Zaheer Abbas, Pakistani cricketer
1949 - Yves Duteil, French singer and songwriter
1949 - Michael Richards, American comedian
1951 - Lynda Carter, American actress
1951 - Chris Smith, British politician
1952 - Gus Van Sant, American film director
1953 - Claire McCaskill, American politician, junior senator from Missouri
1956 - Pat Finn, American game show host and producer
1956 - Charles Crist, Governor of Florida
1957 - Pam Tillis, American singer
1961 - Kerry Dixon, English footballer
1962 - Johnny O'Connell, American race car driver
1963 - Paul Geary, American musician (Extreme)
1963 - Julie Krone, American jockey
1963 - Karl Malone, American basketball player
1964 - Banana Yoshimoto, Japanese author
1964 - Barry Bonds, American baseball player
1965 - Andrew Gaze, Australian basketball player
1965 - Kadeem Hardison, American actor
1965 - Doug Liman, American film director
1966 - Martin Keown, English footballer
1968 - Laura Leighton, American actress
1968 - Malcolm Ingram, Canadian director
1968 - Colleen Doran, American comic book writer and artist
1968 - Kristin Chenoweth, American singer and actress
1969 - Rick Fox, Bahamian basketball player
1969 - Jennifer Lopez, American actress and singer
1970 - Stephanie Adams, American model and author
1971 - Dino Baggio, Italian footballer
1971 - John Partridge, English singer
1972 - Rev. Jen Miller, American performance artist
1972 - Kaiō Hiroyuki, Japanese sumo wrestler
1975 - Jamie Langenbrunner, American ice hockey player
1975 - Eric Szmanda, American actor
1975 - Torrie Wilson, American wrestler
1976 - Rafer Alston, American basketball player
1976 - Nate Bump, American baseball player
1976 - Tiago Monteiro, Portuguese Formula One driver
1977 - Mehdi Mahdavikia, Iranian football player
1977 - Danny Dyer, English actor and television presenter
1979 - Rose Byrne, Australian actress
1979 - Lee Si-yeon, South Korean actress
1979 - Stat Quo, American rapper
1979 - Valerio Scassellati, Italian racing driver
1979 - Anne-Gaëlle Sidot, French tennis player
1979 - José Valverde, American baseball player
1980 - Wilfred Bungei, Kenyan middle-distance runner
1980 - Gauge, American pornographic actress
1981 - Summer Glau, American actress
1982 - Elise Crombez, Belgian model
1982 - Thiago Medeiros, Brazilian racing driver
1982 - Anna Paquin, Canadian-born New Zealand actress
1983 - Daniele De Rossi, Italian footballer
1984 - John Dhani Lennevald, Swedish singer (A-Teens)
1985 - Teagan Presley, American pornographic actress
1985 - Patrice Bergeron, Canadian hockey player
1986 - Andrei Lutai, Russian figure skater
1986 - Megan Park, Canadian actress
1987 - Mara Wilson, American actress
1988 - Luke Mitchell, Scottish murderer
1990 - Daveigh Chase, American actress
1998 - Bindi Irwin, Australian entertainer; daughter of Steve Irwin

Famous Births on 23 Jul

Famous Births on 23 Jul

1301 - Duke Otto of Austria (d. 1339)
1339 - King Louis I of Naples (d. 1384)
1503 - Anna Jagello, Queen of the Romans (d. 1547)
1649 - Pope Clement XI (d. 1721)
1705 - Francis Blomefield, English topographer (d. 1752)
1775 - Etienne-Louis Malus, French physicist and mathematician (d. 1812)
1777 - Philipp Otto Runge, German painter (d. 1810)
1796 - Franz Berwald, Swedish composer (d. 1868)
1823 - Alexandre-Antonin Taché, Canadian Catholic priest and archbishop (d. 1894)
1838 - Edouard Judas Colonne, French violinist (d. 1910)
1851 - Charles Bannerman, Former Australian cricketer (d. 1930)
1856 - Lokmanya Tilak, Indian freedom fighter (d. 1920)
1864 - Apolinario Mabini, Filipino political theoretician and Prime Minister (d. 1903)
1865 - Max Heindel, Danish Christian occultist, astrologer, and mystic (d. 1919)
1884 - Emil Jannings, Swiss actor (d. 1950)
1886 - Walter H. Schottky, German physicist (d. 1976)
1886 - Salvador de Madariaga, Spanish League of Nations official (d. 1978)
1888 - Raymond Chandler, American-born author (d. 1959)
1892 - Haile Selassie, Emperor of Ethiopia (d. 1975)
1894 - Arthur Treacher, English character actor (d. 1975)
1895 - Aileen Pringle, American actress (d. 1989)
1898 - Red Dutton, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1987)
1898 - Jacob Marschak, American economist (d. 1977)
1899 - Gustav Heinemann, 3rd President of the Federal Republic of Germany (d. 1976)
1901 - Hank Worden, American actor and rodeo cowboy (d. 1992)
1906 - Vladimir Prelog, Croatian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1998)
1906 - Chandrasekhar Azad, Indian revolutionary (d. 1931)
1912 - Michael Wilding, English actor (d. 1979)
1913 - Michael Foot, English politician
1918 - Pee Wee Reese, American baseball player (d. 1999)
1918 - Bueno de Mesquita Dutch comedian and actor (d. 2005)
1920 - Amalia Rodrigues, Portuguese fado singer (d. 1999)
1921 - Calvert DeForest, American actor (d. 2007)
1923 - Amalia Mendoza, Mexican singer (d. 2001)
1923 - Cyril M. Kornbluth, American writer (d. 1958)
1923 - Luis Aloma, Cuban baseball player (d. 1997)
1924 - Gavin Lambert, British-born screenwriter (d. 2005)
1927 - Gérard Brach, French film director and screenwriter (d. 2006)
1928 - Hubert Selby Jr., American author (d. 2004)
1931 - Te Atairangi Kaahu, Māori Queen (d. 2006)
1931 - Guy Fournier, French Canadian author and screenwriter
1931 - Claude Fournier, French Canadian film director and screenwriter
1933 - Bert Convy, American game show host and performer (d. 1991)
1935 - Jim Hall, American race car driver and constructor (Chaparral Cars)
1935 - Hein Heinsen, Danish artist
1936 - Shiv Kumar Batalvi, Punjabi revolutionary (d. 1973)
1936 - Don Drysdale, American baseball player (d. 1993)
1936 - Anthony Kennedy, U.S. Supreme Court Justice
1937 - Dave Webster, Led his football team to a National Championship in 1958
1938 - Bert Newton, Australian actor and television show host
1938 - Charles Harrelson, American convicted murderer; father of Woody Harrelson (d. 2007)
1938 - Götz George, German actor
1938 - Ronny Cox, American actor
1938 - Juliet Anderson, American pornographic actress
1940 - Don Imus, American talk radio host
1941 - Richie Evans, 9 time NASCAR Modified Champion (died at Martinsville in 1985)
1942 - Myra Hindley, English murderer (d. 2002)
1942 - Sallyanne Atkinson, Australian politician
1943 - Tony Joe White, American singer and songwriter
1943 - Dr. Randall Forsberg, American nuclear freeze advocate (d. 2007)
1947 - Gardner Dozois, American author
1947 - David Essex, English singer
1947 - Torsten Palm, Swedish racing driver
1948 - John Cushnahan, Northern Irish politician
1948 - John Hall, American politician and former rock musician
1949 - Clive Rice, Former South African cricketer
1950 - Alan Turner, Former Australian cricketer
1950 - Blair Thornton, Canadian guitarist (Bachman-Turner Overdrive)
1950 - Alex Kozinski, Romanian-born American judge
1951 - Edie McClurg, American actress
1952 - Bill Nyrop, American ice hockey player (d. 1995)
1952 - Paul Hibbert, Former Australian cricketer
1953 - Graham Gooch, Former English cricketer
1957 - Nick Galis, Greek basketball player
1957 - Theo van Gogh, Dutch film director (d. 2004)
1960 - Al Perez, American professional wrestler
1961 - Martin Gore, English musician and songwriter (Depeche Mode)
1961 - Woody Harrelson, American actor
1961 - André Ducharme, Canadian (Québécois) humorist (Rock et Belles Oreilles) and author
1962 - Eriq La Salle, American actor
1964 - Ed Forchion, American marijuana activist
1965 - Slash, American guitarist (Guns N' Roses)
1965 - Rob Dickinson, English musician
1966 - Samantha Beckinsale, English actress
1967 - Philip Seymour Hoffman, American actor
1968 - Nick Menza, American musician, drummer
1968 - Gary Payton, American basketball player
1968 - Stephanie Seymour, American supermodel
1970 - Thea Dorn, German writer
1970 - Charisma Carpenter, American actress
1971 - Christopher Lee, Singaporean actor and model
1971 - Chris Michalek, American musician
1971 - Alison Krauss, American singer and fiddler
1971 - Dalvin DeGrate, American singer
1972 - Marlon Wayans, American actor
1972 - Floyd Reifer, Former West Indian cricketer
1973 - Monica Lewinsky, American White House intern
1973 - Himesh Reshammiya, Indian Bollywood composer, singer and actor.
1973 - Francis Healy, Scottish rock musician (Travis)
1973 - Omar Epps, American actor
1973 - Nomar Garciaparra, American baseball player
1974 - Terry Glenn, American football player
1974 - Maurice Greene, American athlete
1974 - Stephanie March, American actress
1974 - Sonny Siaki, Samoan-born professional wrestler
1974 - Rik Verbrugghe, Belgian cyclist
1974 - Kathryn Hahn, American actress
1975 - Surya Sivakumar, Tamil actor
1975 - Seong Hyeon-ah, South Korean actress
1976 - Judit Polgár, Hungarian chess player
1976 - Jonathan Gallant, Canadian musician (Billy Talent)
1977 - Neicer Reasco, Ecuadorian footballer
1977 - Scott Clemmensen, American ice hockey player
1978 - Stuart Elliott, Northern Irish footballer
1978 - Stefanie Sun, Singaporean singer
1979 - Richard Sims, Former Zimbabwean cricketer
1979 - Ricardo Sperafico, Brazilian racing driver
1979 - Perro Aguayo, Jr., Mexican professional wrestler
1980 - Michelle Williams, American singer (Destiny's Child)
1981 - Steve Jocz, Canadian drummer (Sum 41)
1981 - Jarkko Nieminen, Finnish tennis player
1982 - Gerald Wallace, American basketball player
1983 - Andrew Eiden, American actor
1983 - Bec Hewitt, Australian actress
1983 - Aaron Peirsol, American swimmer
1984 - Brandon Roy, American professional basketball player
1985 - Luis Ángel Landín, Mexican footballer
1985 - Matthew Murphy, English musician (The Wombats)
1986 - Ayaka Komatsu, Japanese model and actress
1986 - Nelson Philippe, French racing driver
1986 - Reece Ritchie, English actor
1988 - Pippa Bennett-Warner, English actress
1989 - Daniel Radcliffe, English actor
1996 - Rachel G. Fox, American actress
645 - Yazid I, Sixth caliph of Islam (d. 683)

Famous Births on 22 Jul

Famous Births on 22 Jul

1210 - Joan of England, Queen consort of Scotland, wife of Alexander II of Scotland (d. 1238)
1478 - King Philip I of Castile (d. 1506)
1510 - Alessandro de' Medici, Duke of Florence (d. 1537)
1535 - Katarina Stenbock, wife of Gustav I of Sweden (d. 1621)
1559 - Lawrence of Brindisi, Italian monk (d. 1619)
1621 - Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury, English politician (d. 1683)
1711 - Georg Wilhelm Richmann, Russian physicist (d. 1753)
1713 - Jacques-Germain Soufflot, French architect (d. 1780)
1733 - Mikhail Shcherbatov, Russian philosopher and writer (d. 1790)
1755 - Gaspard de Prony, French mathematician (d. 1839)
1784 - Friedrich Bessel, German mathematician and astronomer (d. 1846)
1844 - William Archibald Spooner, English priest and scholar (d. 1930)
1848 - Adolf Friedrich V, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (d. 1914)
1849 - Emma Lazarus, American poet (d. 1887)
1863 - Alec Hearne, Former England cricketer (d. 1952)
1882 - Edward Hopper, American painter (d. 1967)
1887 - Gustav Ludwig Hertz, German physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1975)
1888 - Selman Waksman, Ukrainian/American biochemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1973)
1888 - Kirk Bryan, American geologist (d. 1950)
1889 - James Whale, English film director (d. 1957)
1890 - Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, American Kennedy family matriarch (d. 1995)
1892 - Jack MacBryan, Former England cricketer and Olympic gold medallist (d. 1983)
1893 - Jesse Haines, American baseball player (d. 1978)
1893 - Karl Menninger, American psychiatrist (d. 1990)
1898 - Stephen Vincent Benét, American author (d. 1943)
1898 - Alexander Calder, American artist (d. 1976)
1905 - Doc Cramer, American baseball player (d. 1990)
1907 - Zubir Said, Singaporean composer who composed Singapore's national anthem (d. 1987)
1908 - Amy Vanderbilt, American author (d. 1974)
1909 - Dorino Serafini, Italian racing driver (d. 2000)
1913 - Licia Albanese, American opera singer
1913 - Gorni Kramer, Italian bandleader (d. 1995)
1915 - Shaista Suhrawardy Ikramullah, Pakistani politician, diplomat and author. (d. 2000)
1916 - Gino Bianco, Brazilian racing driver (d. 1984)
1916 - Marcel Cerdan, French boxer (d. 1949)
1921 - William Roth, U.S. Senator (d. 2003)
1923 - Bob Dole, American politician
1923 - Lillian Ellison, American professional wrestler (d. 2007)
1923 - Mukesh, Indian singer (d. 1976)
1924 - Margaret Whiting, American singer
1928 - Orson Bean, American film actor
1929 - John Barber, British racing driver
1932 - Oscar De la Renta, Dominican/American fashion designer
1934 - Louise Fletcher, American actress
1935 - Tom Cartwright, Former England cricketer (d. 2007)
1936 - Tom Robbins, American author
1937 - Yasuhiro Kojima, Japanese professional wrestler (d. 1999)
1937 - John Price, Former England cricketer
1937 - Vasant Ranjane, Former Indian cricketer
1938 - Terence Stamp, English actor
1939 - Gila Almagor, Israeli actress
1940 - Alex Trebek, Canadian game show host
1940 - Judith Walzer Leavitt, American college professor
1940 - George Clinton, American musician
1941 - Ron Turcotte, Canadian jockey
1943 - Kay Bailey Hutchison, U.S. Senator from Texas
1943 - Bobby Sherman, American singer and actor
1944 - Sparky Lyle, American baseball player
1944 - Dennis Firestone, Australian racing driver
1944 - Rick Davies, British musician (Supertramp)
1944 - Estelle Bennett, American singer (Ronettes)
1946 - Stephen M. Wolownik, Russian musician (d. 2000)
1946 - Paul Schrader, American film director and screenwriter
1946 - Mireille Mathieu, French singer
1946 - Danny Glover, American actor
1947 - Albert Brooks, American comedian
1947 - Gilles Duceppe, Canadian politician
1947 - Don Henley, American musician (Eagles)
1948 - S. E. Hinton, American author
1948 - Otto Waalkes, German comedian
1949 - Lasse Virén, Finnish athlete
1949 - Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Ruler of Dubai and PM of UAE
1949 - Alan Menken, American composer
1951 - J. V. Cain, American football player (d. 1979)
1953 - Jimmy Bruno, American jazz guitarist
1953 - Sylvia Chang, Taiwanese actress
1954 - Pierre Lebeau, Canadian actor
1954 - Lonette McKee, American actress
1954 - Al Di Meola, American guitarist
1955 - Willem Dafoe, American actor
1957 - Dave Stieb, American baseball player
1958 - David Von Erich, American professional wrestler (d. 1984)
1958 - Tatsunori Hara, Japanese professional-baseball player and coach
1960 - Jon Oliva, American musician (Savatage)
1961 - Calvin Fish, English racing driver
1961 - Keith Sweat, American singer
1962 - Steve Albini, American writer, recording engineer and musician (Big Black, Rapeman, Shellac)
1962 - Martine St. Clair, Canadian singer
1963 - Emily Saliers, American singer (Indigo Girls)
1963 - Rob Estes, American actor
1963 - Emilio Butragueno, Spanish footballer
1964 - Rafael Addison, American basketball player
1964 - Adam Godley, British actor
1964 - John Leguizamo, Colombian actor
1964 - Don Van Natta, Jr., American journalist
1964 - David Spade, American comedian
1965 - Shawn Michaels, American professional wrestler
1965 - Patrick Labyorteaux, American actor
1966 - Shaun Cohen, South African professional wrestler
1966 - Tim Brown, American football player
1967 - Lauren Booth, British journalist
1967 - Pat Badger, American musician Extreme
1968 - Rhys Ifans, Welsh actor
1969 - Despina Vandi, Greek singer
1970 - Sergei Zubov, Russian ice hockey player
1970 - Craig Baird, New Zealander racing driver
1970 - Jason Becker, American musician
1971 - Kristine Lilly, American soccer player
1972 - Colin Ferguson, Canadian actor
1972 - Seth Fisher, American comic book artist and penciller (d.2006)
1972 - Keyshawn Johnson, American football player
1973 - Rufus Wainwright, Canadian singer
1973 - Mike Sweeney, American baseball player
1973 - Daniel Jones, Australian musician (Savage Garden)
1973 - Ronald Ray Howard, American murderer (d. 2005)
1974 - Franka Potente, German actress
1974 - Sonija Kwok, Hong Kong actress
1977 - Gustavo Nery, Brazilian footballer
1978 - Runako Morton, West Indian cricketer
1978 - Martyn Lee, English radio presenter
1978 - A. J. Cook, Canadian actress
1978 - Dennis Rommedahl, Danish footballer
1979 - James Mason, British professional wrestler
1979 - Yadel Martí, Cuban baseball player
1979 - Lucas Luhr, German racing driver
1980 - Scott Dixon, New Zealand racing driver
1980 - Dirk Kuyt, Dutch footballer
1980 - Kate Ryan, Belgian singer
1980 - Tablo, Korean hip-hop musician (Epik High)
1982 - Nuwan Kulasekara, Sri lankan cricketer
1983 - Sharni Vinson, Australian actress and model
1983 - Steven Jackson, American football player
1983 - Arsenium, Moldovan singer (O-Zone)
1984 - Stewart Downing, English footballer
1984 - Kinzie Kenner, American pornographic actress
1985 - Takudzwa Ngwenya, Zimbabwean/American rugby player
1985 - Akira Tozawa, Japanese professional wrestler
1992 - Selena Gomez, American actress
1997 - Field Cate, American actor
1998 - Madison Pettis, American actress
2002 - Prince Felix of Denmark

Famous Births on 21 Jul

Famous Births on 21 Jul

1515 - Philip Neri, Italian churchman (d. 1595)
1620 - Jean Picard, French astronomer (d. 1682)
1664 - Matthew Prior, English poet and diplomat (d. 1721)
1693 - Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1768)
1710 - Paul Möhring, German physician (d. 1792)
1808 - Simion Bărnuţiu, Romanian philosopher and politician (d. 1864)
1810 - Henri Victor Regnault, French chemist (d. 1878)
1816 - Paul Reuter, German-born British journalist and media owner (Reuters) (d. 1899)
1858 - Lovis Corinth, German painter (d. 1925)
1858 - Maria Christina of Austria, queen of Spain (d. 1929)
1858 - Alfred Henry O'Keeffe, New Zealand artist (d. 1941)
1863 - Aubrey Smith, English cricketer and actor (d. 1948)
1870 - Emil Orlik, Czech painter (d. 1932)
1880 - Milan Rastislav Štefánik, Slovak politician, French general and astronomer (d. 1919)
1882 - David Burliuk, Ukrainian artist (d. 1967)
1893 - Hans Fallada, German writer (d. 1947)
1899 - Hart Crane, American poet (d. 1932)
1899 - Ernest Hemingway, American writer, Nobel laureate (d. 1961)
1903 - Roy Neuberger, American financier
1908 - Harold "Jug" McSpaden, American professional golfer (d. 1996)
1911 - Marshall McLuhan, Canadian author (d. 1980)
1920 - Isaac Stern, Ukrainian-born violinist (d. 2001)
1920 - Constance Dowling, American actress (d. 1969)
1922 - Kay Starr, American singer
1923 - Rudolph A. Marcus, Canadian chemist, Nobel laureate
1924 - Don Knotts, American actor (d. 2006)
1925 - Anne Meacham, American actress
1926 - Karel Reisz, British film director (d. 2002)
1926 - Queenie Watts, English actress (d. 1980)
1926 - Rahimuddin Khan, Pakistani general
1926 - Norman Jewison, Canadian film director
1926 - Paul Burke, American actor
1928 - Marcel Gauthier, Canadian wrestler (d. 1998)
1929 - Bob Orton, American wrestler (d. 2006)
1930 - Anand Bakshi, Indian lyricist (d. 2002)
1932 - Ernie Warlick, American football player
1933 - John Gardner, American author (d. 1982)
1934 - Chandu Borde, Former Indian cricketer
1935 - Norbert Blüm, German politician
1935 - Moe Drabowsky, baseball player (d. 2006)
1938 - Les Aspin, American politician (d. 1995)
1938 - Anton Kuerti, Canadian pianist, composer and conductor
1938 - Janet Reno, 79th United States Attorney General
1939 - John Negroponte, 1st United States Director of National Intelligence
1943 - Edward Herrmann, American actor
1944 - Tony Scott, British film director
1944 - Paul Wellstone, American politician (d. 2002)
1945 - Geoff Dymock, Former Australian cricketer
1945 - Barry Richards, Former South African cricketer
1945 - Lydia Shum, Hong Kong comedian and actress (d. 2008)
1945 - John Lowe, English darts player
1946 - Kenneth Starr, American lawyer
1946 - Barry Whitwam, British musician (Herman's Hermits)
1947 - Chetan Chauhan, Former Indian cricketer
1948 - Garry Trudeau, American cartoonist
1948 - Ed Hinton, American sportswriter
1948 - Yusuf Islam, stage name was "Cat Stevens", English singer/songwriter
1949 - Al Hrabosky, baseball player
1950 - Ubaldo Fillol, Argentinian footballer
1951 - Robin Williams, American comedian/actor
1952 - John Barrasso, American politician, junior senator from Wyoming
1953 - Brian Talbot, British footballer
1953 - Jeff Fatt, Chinese Australian actor
1955 - Taco Ockerse, Indonesian singer
1955 - Howie Epstein, American musician (d. 2003)
1956 - Michael Connelly, American author
1957 - Jon Lovitz, American comedian
1957 - George Landress, American songwriter and music producer
1959 - Paul "Fatty" Vautin, Australian rugby league player
1960 - Lance Guest, American actor
1960 - Fritz Walter, German footballer
1961 - Amar Singh Chamkila, Punjabi folk singer
1961 - Jim Martin, American musician (Faith No More)
1963 - Kevin Poole, English footballer
1963 - Paulo Silva, Brazilian mixed martial artist and professional wrestler
1964 - Jens Weißflog, German ski jumper
1965 - Jovy Marcelo, Filipino racing driver (d. 1992)
1965 - Mike Bordick, American baseball player
1965 - Gudni Bergsson, Icelandic footballer
1966 - Arija Bareikis, American actress
1968 - Brandi Chastain, American soccer player
1968 - Lyle Odelein, Canadian hockey player
1969 - Emerson Hart, American musician (Tonic)
1969 - Klaus Graf, German racing driver
1970 - Shawn Stasiak, American professional wrestler
1971 - Nuno Markl, Portuguese comedian and radio host
1971 - Charlotte Gainsbourg, French actress and singer
1971 - Emmanuel Bangué, French long jumper
1972 - Shinjiro Otani, Japanese professional wrestler
1973 - Ali Landry, American model and actress
1974 - Geoff Jenkins, American baseball player
1975 - Mike Sellers, National Football League fullback
1975 - Ravindra Pushpakumara, Former Sri Lankan cricketer
1977 - Paul Casey, English golfer
1978 - Josh Hartnett, American actor
1978 - Justin Bartha, American actor
1978 - Damian Marley, Jamaican musician
1978 - Gary Teale, Scottish football player
1979 - David Carr, American football player
1979 - Tamika Catchings, American basketball player
1980 - CC Sabathia, American baseball player
1980 - Tailor James, Canadian model
1981 - Titus Bramble, English footballer
1981 - Stefan Schumacher, German cyclist
1981 - Joaquín Sánchez, Spanish footballer
1981 - Chrishell Stause, American actress
1983 - Eivør Pálsdóttir, Faroese singer
1983 - Kellen Winslow II, American football player
1984 - Liam Ridgewell, English footballer
1984 - Paul Davis, American basketball player
1985 - Von Wafer, American basketball player
1987 - AnnaLynne McCord, American actress
1988 - Chris Mitchell, Scottish footballer
1989 - Chris Gunter, Welsh footballer
1989 - Jamie Waylett, British actor
1989 - Rory Culkin, American actor
1992 - Rachael Flatt, American figure skater
810 - Imam Bukhari, Islamic scholar (d. 870)

Famous Births on 20 Jul

Famous Births on 20 Jul

1304 - Francesco Petrarch, Italian poet (d. 1374)
1537 - Arnaud d'Ossat, French diplomat and writer (d. 1604)
1620 - Nikolaes Heinsius, Dutch scholar (d. 1681)
1659 - Hyacinthe Rigaud, French painter (d. 1743)
1754 - Destutt de Tracy, French philosopher (d. 1836)
1757 - Garsevan Chavchavadze, Georgian diplomat and politician (d. 1811)
1774 - Auguste Marmont, French marshal (d. 1852)
1797 - Sir Paweł Edmund Strzelecki, Polish explorer and geologist (d. 1873)
1822 - Gregor Mendel, father of modern genetics (d. 1884)
1838 - Augustin Daly, American playwright (d. 1899)
1838 - George Otto Trevelyan, British statesman and biographer (d. 1928)
1847 - Max Liebermann, German artist (d. 1935)
1849 - Robert Anderson Van Wyck, Mayor of New York City (d. 1918)
1858 - Ivan Vucetic, Croatian anthropologist (d. 1925)
1864 - Erik Axel Karlfeldt, Swedish writer, Nobel Prize in Literature laureate (d. 1931)
1868 - Miron Cristea, 1st Patriarch of All Romania (d. 1939)
1873 - Alberto Santos-Dumont, Brazilian aviator (d. 1932)
1876 - Otto Blumenthal, German mathematician (d. 1944)
1889 - John Reith, British broadcast executive (d. 1971)
1890 - King George II of Greece (d. 1947)
1893 - George Llewelyn-Davies, English Peter Pan character model (d. 1915)
1895 - László Moholy-Nagy, Hungarian painter, photographer, and sculptor (d. 1946)
1897 - Tadeus Reichstein, Polish-born chemist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate (d. 1996)
1900 - Maurice Leyland, Former England cricketer (d. 1967)
1901 - Heinie Manush, American baseball player (d. 1971)
1902 - Jimmy Kennedy, Irish composer (d. 1984)
1909 - Jean Focas, Greco-French astronomer (d. 1969)
1909 - Eric Rowan, Former South African cricketer (d. 1993)
1910 - Vilém Tauský, Czech conductor and composer (d. 2004)
1911 - Baqa Jilani, Former Indian cricketer (d. 1941)
1918 - Cindy Walker, American singer (d. 2006)
1919 - Sir Edmund Hillary, New Zealand mountain climber (d. 2008)
1920 - Elliot Richardson, American politician (d. 1999)
1922 - Alan Stephenson Boyd, American politician
1923 - Stanisław Albinowski, Polish economist and journalist (d. 2005)
1924 - Thomas Berger, American novelist
1924 - Mort Garson, Canadian composer
1925 - Frantz Fanon, West Indian psychiatrist and writer (d. 1961)
1925 - Jacques Delors, French President of the European Commission
1926 - Lola Albright, American actress
1926 - Patricia Cutts, English actress (d. 1974)
1929 - Mike Ilitch, American businessman and sports executive
1929 - Rajendra Kumar, Indian actor (d. 1999)
1930 - Chuck Daly, American basketball coach
1930 - Sally Ann Howes, English-born singer and actress
1931 - Tony Marsh, English racing driver
1932 - Nam June Paik, Korean-born artist (d. 2006)
1932 - Otto Schily, German politician
1933 - Buddy Knox, American singer and songwriter (d. 1999)
1933 - Cormac McCarthy, American author
1933 - Rex Williams, English snooker player
1934 - Aliki Vougiouklaki, Greek actress (d. 1996)
1934 - Uwe Johnson, German writer
1934 - Doug Padgett, Former England cricketer
1935 - Ted Rogers, English comedian (d. 2001)
1936 - Barbara Mikulski, American politician
1937 - Ken Ogata, Japanese actor
1938 - Natalie Wood, American actress (d. 1981)
1938 - Dame Diana Rigg, English actress
1938 - Roger Hunt, English footballer
1939 - Judy Chicago, American artist
1940 - Tony Oliva, Cuban baseball player
1941 - Kurt Raab, German actor (d. 1988)
1942 - T. G. Sheppard, American country music singer
1942 - Pete Hamilton, American race car driver
1942 - Ron Bowden, Australian politician
1943 - Chris Amon, New Zealand racing driver
1943 - Wendy Richard, English actress
1945 - Bo Rein, American football coach (d. 1980)
1945 - Johnny Loughrey, Irish singer (d. 2005)
1945 - Kim Carnes, American singer and songwriter
1945 - Larry Craig, American politician
1945 - John Lodge, English musician (The Moody Blues)
1946 - Randal Kleiser, American film director
1947 - Carlos Santana, Mexican-born American guitarist
1947 - Gerd Binnig, German-born physicist, Nobel laureate
1948 - Muse Watson, American actor
1950 - Naseeruddin Shah, Indian actor
1950 - Tantoo Cardinal, Canadian actress
1951 - Jeff Rawle, English actor
1952 - Keiko Matsuzaka, Japanese actress
1953 - Marcia Hines, American-born Australian singer
1953 - Thomas Friedman, American journalist
1953 - Dan Shaughnessy, American sports writer
1954 - Moira Harris, American actress
1955 - Jem Finer, English musician and composer (The Pogues)
1956 - Jim Prentice, Canadian politician
1956 - Paul Cook, English musician (The Sex Pistols)
1957 - Nancy Cruzan, American figure in right-to-die case (d. 1990)
1957 - Donna Dixon, American actress
1958 - Mick MacNeil, Scottish musician (Simple Minds)
1960 - Claudio Langes, Italian racing driver
1962 - Carlos Alazraqui, American actor and comedian
1962 - Giovanna Amati, Italian racing driver
1962 - Lee Harris, English drummer (Talk Talk, .O.rang)
1963 - Frank Whaley, American actor
1964 - Dean Winters, American actor
1964 - Bernd Schneider, German racing driver
1964 - Kool G Rap, American musician
1964 - Terri Irwin, American naturalist; widow of Steve Irwin
1964 - Chris Cornell, American musician (Soundgarden, Audioslave)
1966 - Stone Gossard, American musician (Pearl Jam, Mother Love Bone, Brad)
1967 - Reed Diamond, American actor
1968 - Jimmy Carson, American ice hockey player
1968 - Michael Park, American actor
1968 - Julian Rhind-Tutt, English actor
1969 - Vitamin C, American singer
1969 - Tobi Vail, American musician (Bikini Kill, The Go Team, The Frumpies)
1969 - Giovanni Lombardi, Italian cyclist
1969 - Josh Holloway, American actor
1971 - DJ Screw, American hiphop DJ (d. 2000)
1971 - Sandra Oh, Korean Canadian actress
1971 - Charles Johnson, American baseball player
1971 - Ed Giddins, England cricketer
1972 - Erik Ullenhag, Swedish jurist and politician
1972 - Jozef Stümpel, Slovak ice hockey player
1973 - Mads Rieper, Danish footballer
1973 - Courtney Taylor-Taylor, American singer (The Dandy Warhols)
1973 - Claudio Reyna, American soccer player
1973 - Haakon Magnus, Crown Prince of Norway
1973 - Nixon McLean, West Indian cricketer
1973 - Peter Forsberg, Swedish ice hockey player
1974 - Bengie Molina, Puerto Rican baseball player
1974 - Simon Rex, American actor
1975 - Atiq-uz-Zaman, Pakistani cricketer
1975 - Birgitta Ohlsson, Swedish politician
1975 - Erik Hagen, Norwegian footballer
1975 - Judy Greer, American actress
1975 - Ray Allen, American basketball player
1976 - Alex Yoong, Malaysian racing driver
1976 - Andrew Stockdale, Australian musician (Wolfmother)
1976 - Debashish Mohanty, Indian cricketer
1976 - Erica Hill, American news anchor
1977 - Kiki Musampa, Congolese footballer
1977 - Alessandro dos Santos, Brazilian-born Japanese footballer
1978 - Elliott Yamin, American Idol contestant
1978 - Will Solomon, American basketball player
1978 - Tamsyn Lewis, Australian athlete
1978 - Charlie Korsmo, American actor
1978 - Pavel Datsyuk, Russian ice hockey player
1979 - Claudine Barretto, Filipino actress
1979 - Miklos Feher, Hungarian football player (d. 2004)
1979 - David Ortega, Spanish freestyle and backstroke swimmer
1980 - Gisele Bündchen, Brazilian model
1980 - Mike Kennerty, American guitarist (The All-American Rejects)
1981 - Thorsten Engelmann, German rower
1981 - Damien Delaney, Irish footballer
1982 - Percy Daggs III, American actor
1984 - Alexi Casilla, Dominican baseball player
1984 - Troy Smith, American football player
1985 - John Francis Daley, American actor
1988 - Julianne Hough, American ballroom dancer
1989 - Witwisit Hirunwongkul, Thai actor
1991 - William Tomlin, British actor
1997 - Billi Bruno, American actress
1999 - Princess Alexandra of Hanover, daughter of Princess Caroline of Monaco
356 BC - Alexander the Great, Macedonian-Greek king and military leader (d. 323 BC)
810 - Imam Bukhari, Muslim scholar and compiler of Hadith (d. 870)

Famous Births on 19 Jul

Famous Births on 19 Jul

1670 - Richard Leveridge, English bass and composer (d. 1758)
1688 - Giuseppe Castiglione, Italian missionary to China (d. 1766)
1744 - Heinrich Christian Boie, German author (d. 1806)
1759 - Seraphim of Sarov, Russian Orthodox Saint (d. 1833)
1789 - John Martin, English painter (d. 1854)
1800 - Juan José Flores, military and first president of Ecuador (d. 1864)
1814 - Samuel Colt, American firearms inventor (d. 1862)
1819 - Gottfried Keller, Swiss writer (d. 1890)
1822 - Augusta of Cambridge, Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (d. 1916)
1827 - Mangal Pandey, Indian freedom fighter (d. 1857)
1834 - Edgar Degas, French painter (d. 1917)
1849 - Ferdinand Brunetière, French writer and critic (d. 1906)
1860 - Lizzie Borden, American accused murderer (d. 1927)
1865 - Charles Horace Mayo, American surgeon and founder of the Mayo Clinic (d. 1939)
1876 - John Gunn, Former England cricketer (d. 1963)
1876 - Joseph Fielding Smith, 10th president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (d. 1972)
1877 - Arthur Fielder, English cricketer (d. 1949)
1883 - Max Fleischer, Austrian animator and film producer (d. 1972)
1892 - Dick Irvin, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (d. 1957)
1893 - Vladimir Mayakovsky, Russian poet (d. 1930)
1894 - Khawaja Nazimuddin, 2nd Prime Minister of Pakistan (d. 1965)
1894 - Aleksandr Yakovlevich Khinchin, Russian mathematician (d. 1959)
1895 - Xu Beihong, Chinese painter (d. 1953)
1896 - A. J. Cronin, Scottish writer (d. 1981)
1896 - Bob Meusel, American baseball player (d. 1977)
1898 - Herbert Marcuse, German-born philosopher (d. 1979)
1904 - Robert Todd Lincoln Beckwith, Last Lincoln descendant (d.1985)
1907 - Isabel Jewell, American actress (d. 1972)
1912 - Norman Carr, British conservationist (b. 1997)
1914 - Marius Russo, baseball player (d. 2005)
1917 - William Scranton, American politician
1919 - Miltos Sachtouris, Greek poet (d. 2005)
1921 - Rosalyn Yalow, American physicist, Nobel laureate
1922 - Harold Camping, American evangelist, founder of Family Radio
1922 - George McGovern, American politician
1923 - William A. Rusher, American columnist
1924 - Stanley K. Hathaway, American politician (d. 2005)
1924 - Pat Hingle, American actor
1925 - Sue Thompson, American pop and country music singer
1926 - Helen Gallagher, American actress
1934 - Francisco Sá Carneiro, Prime Minister of Portugal (d. 1980)
1935 - Vasily Livanov, Russian and Soviet film actor
1937 - George Hamilton IV, American country singer
1938 - Jayant Narlikar, Indian astrophysicist
1938 - Nicholas Bethell, British historian (d. 2007)
1938 - Richard Jordan, American actor (d. 1993)
1941 - Neelie Kroes, Dutch EU Commissioner for Competition
1941 - Vikki Carr, American singer
1946 - Alan Gorrie, Scottish musician (Average White Band)
1946 - Ilie Năstase, Romanian tennis player
1947 - Hans-Jürgen Kreische, East German footballer
1947 - Bernie Leadon, American musician (The Eagles)
1947 - Brian May, English musician (Queen)
1948 - Keith Godchaux, American musician (Grateful Dead) (d. 1980)
1948 - Beverly Archer, American actress
1949 - Ivar Kants, Australian actor
1950 - Per-Kristian Foss, Norwegian Minister of Finance
1950 - Freddy Moore, American songwriter
1951 - Abel Ferrara, American filmmake
1951 - Jayson Stark, American sportswriter
1952 - John Griesheimer, American politician
1952 - Robert A. Ficano, American politician
1952 - Allen Collins, American musician (Lynyrd Skynyrd) (d. 1990)
1954 - SrÄ'a Trifković, Serbian-American journalist
1955 - Roger Binny, Former Indian cricketer
1956 - Nikki Sudden, English musician (d. 2006)
1958 - Robert Gibson, American professional wrestler
1958 - David Robertson, American symphony orchestra conductor
1960 - Atom Egoyan, Canadian filmmaker
1961 - Benoît Mariage, Belgian film director
1961 - Campbell Scott, American actor
1961 - Hideo Nakata, Japanese film director
1961 - Maria Filatova, Soviet gymnast
1962 - Anthony Edwards, American actor
1963 - Garth Nix, Australian author
1964 - André A. Jackson, founder African Diamond Producers Association
1964 - Masahiko Kondo, Japanese singer, actor and racing driver
1965 - Stuart Scott, American sportscaster
1965 - Evelyn Glennie, Scottish percussionist
1966 - Nancy Walls, American actress
1966 - David Segui, American baseball player
1967 - Yael Abecassis, Israeli actress and model
1968 - Robert Flynn, American musician (Machine Head)
1968 - Jim Norton, American comedian and radio personality (The Opie and Anthony Show)
1969 - Matthew Libatique, American cinematographer
1971 - Vitali Klitschko, Ukrainian boxer
1971 - Michael Modest, American professional wrestler
1971 - Urs Bühler, Swiss tenor (Il Divo)
1971 - Russell Allen, American musician (Symphony X)
1972 - Naohito Fujiki, Japanese actor and singer
1972 - Ebbe Sand, Danish footballer
1973 - Scott Walker, Canadian hockey player
1973 - Saïd Taghmaoui, French actor
1973 - Martin Powell, English musician (Cradle of Filth)
1974 - Rey Bucanero, Mexican professional wrestler
1974 - Preston Wilson, baseball player
1976 - Vinessa Shaw, American actress
1976 - Gonzalo de los Santos, Uruguayan footballer
1977 - Jean-Sébastien Aubin, Canadian ice hockey goaltender
1977 - Haitham Mustafa, Sudanese footballer
1977 - Tony Mamaluke, American professional wrestler
1977 - Ed Smith, English cricketer
1978 - Nené, Brazilian footballer
1979 - Luke Young, English footballer
1979 - Rick Ankiel, Baseball pitcher/ outfielder
1979 - Dilhara Fernando, Sri Lankan cricketer
1980 - Mark Webber, American actor
1980 - Xavier Malisse, Belgian tennis player
1980 - Giorgio Mondini, Italian racing driver
1981 - Didz Hammond, bassist/backing vocalist (Dirty Pretty Things and The Cooper Temple Clause)
1981 - Jimmy Gobble, American baseball player
1981 - Anderson Luiz de Carvalho, Brazilian footballer
1981 - Nikki Osborne, Australian actress
1981 - David Bernard, West Indian cricketer
1982 - Jess Vanstrattan, Australian footballer
1982 - Stuart Parnaby, English footballer
1982 - Jared Padalecki, American actor
1984 - Lasse Gjertsen, Norwegian animator
1984 - Alessandra De Rossi, Filipino actress
1984 - Adam Morrison, American basketball player
1984 - Lewis Price, Welsh footballer
1990 - Steven Anthony Lawrence, American actor

Famous Births on 18 Jul

Famous Births on 18 Jul

1501 - Isabella of Burgundy, wife of Christian II of Denmark (d. 1526)
1504 - Heinrich Bullinger, Swiss religious reformer (d. 1575)
1552 - Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1612)
1634 - Johannes Camphuys, Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies (d. 1695)
1635 - Robert Hooke, English scientist (d. 1703)
1670 - Giovanni Bononcini, Italian composer (d. 1747)
1718 - Saverio Bettinelli, Italian writer (d. 1808)
1720 - Gilbert White, English ornithologist (d. 1793)
1797 - Immanuel Hermann Fichte, German philosopher (d. 1879)
1811 - William Makepeace Thackeray, English author (d. 1863)
1818 - Louis De Geer, 1st Swedish Prime Minister (d. 1896)
1821 - Pauline Garcia-Viardot, French mezzo-soprano and composer (d. 1910)
1837 - Vasil Levski, Bulgarian revolutionary (d. 1873)
1845 - Tristan Corbière, French poet (d. 1875)
1848 - W. G. Grace, English cricketer (d. 1915)
1850 - Rose Hartwick Thorpe, American poet (d. 1939)
1853 - Hendrik Lorentz, Dutch physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1928)
1862 - Nikolai Nikolaevich Yudenich, Russian general (d. 1933)
1864 - Phillip Snowden, British politician (d. 1937)
1867 - Margaret Brown, American activist, philanthropist, and RMS Titanic passenger (d. 1932)
1871 - Sada Yacco, Japanese stage actress (d. 1946)
1881 - Larry McLean, baseball player (d. 1921)
1884 - Alberto di Jorio, former head of the Vatican Bank and secretary of the 1958 conclave (d. 1979)
1887 - Vidkun Quisling, Norwegian soldier, politician and convicted traitor (d. 1945)
1890 - Frank Forde, 15th Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1983)
1892 - Arthur Friedenreich, Brazilian football player (d. 1969)
1895 - George Machine Gun Kelly, American gangster (d. 1954)
1897 - E. A. D. Eldridge, British racing driver (d. 1935)
1898 - John Stuart, Scottish actor (d. 1979)
1900 - Nathalie Sarraute, French writer (d. 1999)
1902 - Jessamyn West, American writer (d. 1984)
1903 - Chill Wills, American actor (d. 1978)
1906 - S. I. Hayakawa, American semanticist and politician (d. 1992)
1906 - Clifford Odets, American writer (d. 1963)
1908 - Mildred Lisette Norman, American peace activist, earned the moniker Peace Pilgrim (d. 1981)
1908 - Lupe Vélez, Mexican actress (d. 1944)
1909 - Andrei Gromyko, Soviet diplomat and President (d. 1989)
1909 - Mohammed Daoud Khan, President of Afghanistan (d. 1978)
1909 - Harriet Nelson, American singer and actress (d. 1994)
1911 - Hume Cronyn, Canadian actor (d. 2003)
1912 - Max Rousié, French rugby footballer (d. 1950)
1913 - Red Skelton, American actor and comedian (d. 1997)
1914 - Gino Bartali, Italian cyclist (d. 2000)
1916 - Johnny Hopp, baseball player (d. 2003)
1917 - Henri Salvador, French singer (d. 2008)
1918 - Nelson Mandela, President of South Africa, Nobel Peace Prize laureate
1920 - Eric Brandon, British racing driver (d. 1982)
1921 - John Glenn, American astronaut and politician
1922 - Thomas Kuhn, American philosopher (d. 1996)
1923 - Jerome H. Lemelson, American inventor (d. 1997)
1924 - Inge Sørensen, Danish swimmer
1925 - Hubert Doggart, Former England cricketer
1925 - Shirley Strickland, Australian athlete (d. 2004)
1926 - Robert Sloman, writer (d. 2005)
1926 - Margaret Laurence, Canadian writer (d. 1987)
1927 - Kurt Masur, Silesian-born conductor
1929 - Dick Button, American figure skater
1929 - Screamin' Jay Hawkins, American singer (d. 2000)
1930 - Burt Kwouk, English actor
1932 - Robert Ellis Miller, American film director
1933 - Jean Yanne, French film actor and director (d. 2003)
1933 - Syd Mead, American industrial and conceptual designer
1933 - Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Russian poet
1934 - Darlene Conley, American actress (d. 2007)
1934 - Roger Reynolds, American composer and teacher
1935 - Jayendra Saraswathi, Hindu religious leader
1936 - Ted Harris, Canadian ice hockey player
1937 - Hunter S. Thompson, American journalist and author (d. 2005)
1937 - Roald Hoffman, Polish-born chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
1938 - Paul Verhoeven, Dutch film director
1938 - Ian Stewart, Scottish pianist (d. 1985)
1939 - Dion DiMucci, American singer
1939 - Brian Auger, British musician
1939 - Edward Gramlich, American economics professor (d. 2007)
1939 - Jerry Moore, American football coach
1940 - Joe Torre, American baseball player and manager
1940 - James Brolin, American actor
1941 - Frank Farian, German music producer
1941 - Lonnie Mack, American guitarist and singer
1941 - Martha Reeves, American singer
1942 - Adolf Ogi, Swiss politician
1942 - Bobby Susser, American songwriter and record producer
1942 - Giacinto Facchetti, Italian footballer (d. 2006)
1946 - Leo Madder, Belgian actor
1947 - Steven W. Mahoney, Canadian politician
1947 - Steve Forbes, American entrepreneur and politician
1948 - Hartmut Michel, German chemist, Nobel laureate
1950 - Jerome Barkum, American football player
1950 - Sir Richard Branson, British entrepreneur
1950 - Glenn Hughes, American singer (Village People) (d. 2001)
1950 - Jack Layton, Canadian politician
1950 - Kostas Eleftherakis, Greek footballer
1951 - Margo Martindale, American actress
1951 - Elio Di Rupo, Belgian politician
1954 - Ricky Skaggs, American country/bluegrass musician
1955 - Bernd Fasching, Austrian painter and sculptor
1956 - Razor Shines, American baseball player, manager and coach
1957 - Nick Faldo, English golfer
1960 - Anne-Marie Johnson, American actress
1961 - Elizabeth McGovern, American-born actress
1962 - Jack Irons, American drummer
1962 - Lee Arenberg, American actor
1963 - Martín Torrijos Espino, President of Panama
1963 - Mike Greenwell, baseball player
1963 - Al Snow, American professional wrestler
1964 - Wendy Williams, radio host
1966 - Lori Alan, American actress
1967 - Vin Diesel, American actor
1969 - Masanori Murakawa, Japanese professional wrestler
1971 - Sarah McLeod, New Zealand actress
1971 - Penny Hardaway, American basketball player
1974 - Alan Morrison, British poet
1975 - Torii Hunter, baseball player
1975 - Daron Malakian, American guitarist
1976 - Elsa Pataky, Spanish actress
1977 - Dylan Lane, American television host
1977 - Alfian bin Sa'at, Singaporean writer, poet and playwright
1978 - Verónica Romeo, Spanish singer
1978 - Mélissa Theuriau, French newscaster
1978 - Ben Sheets, American baseball player
1978 - Shane Horgan, Irish rugby player
1979 - Rick Baxter, American politician
1979 - Deion Branch, American football player
1979 - Jared Hess, American film director and screenwriter
1979 - Joey Mercury, American professional wrestler
1979 - Jermaine Paul, American musician
1980 - Ryoko Hirosue, Japanese actress and singer
1980 - Kristen Bell, American actress
1982 - Priyanka Chopra, Indian actress and beauty queen
1982 - Ryan Cabrera, American musician and TV host
1982 - Panagiotis Lagos, Greek footballer
1983 - Carlos Diogo, Uruguayan footballer
1985 - Chace Crawford, American actor
1988 - César Villaluz, Mexican footballer
1991 - Karina Pasian, American singer and pianist