Famous Births on 1 Sep

Famous Births on 1 Sep

1286 - Elisabeth Richeza of Poland, Queen of Poland (d. 1335)
1453 - Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba, Spanish general (d. 1515)
1566 - Edward Alleyn, English actor (d. 1626)
1588 - Henry II, Prince of Condé, French nobleman (d. 1646)
1651 - Nataliya Kyrillovna Naryshkina, Tsaritsa of Russia (d. 1694)
1653 - Johann Pachelbel, German composer (d. 1706)
1711 - William IV, Prince of Orange (d. 1759)
1795 - James Gordon Bennett, Sr., American newspaper publisher (d. 1872)
1848 - Auguste-Henri Forel, Swiss entomologist (d. 1931)
1854 - Engelbert Humperdinck, German composer (d. 1921)
1855 - Innokenty Annensky, Russian poet (d. 1909)
1856 - Sergei Winogradsky, Russian scientist (d. 1953)
1866 - James J. Corbett, American heavyweight boxer (d. 1933)
1868 - Henri Bourassa, French Canadian politician and publisher (d. 1952)
1871 - J. Reuben Clark, Jr., American Undersecretary of State (d. 1961)
1875 - Edgar Rice Burroughs, American writer (d. 1950)
1876 - Harriet Shaw Weaver, English political activist (d. 1961)
1877 - Francis William Aston, Nobel laureate (d. 1945)
1878 - Princess Alexandra of Edinburgh and Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (d. 1942)
1883 - Didier Pitre, French Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1934)
1884 - Sigurd Wallén, Swedish actor and filmdirector (d. 1947)
1887 - Blaise Cendrars, Swiss writer (d. 1961)
1888 - Andrija Å tampar, Croatian physician (d. 1958)
1889 - Richard Arlen, American actor (d. 1976)
1892 - Leverett Saltonstall, 55th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1979)
1895 - Chembai Vaidyanatha Bhagavatar, Indian musician (d. 1974)
1896 - A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, Indian theologian (d. 1977)
1897 - Andy Kennedy, Irish footballer (d. 1963)
1899 - Andrei Platonov, Russian writer (d. 1951)
1904 - Johnny Mack Brown, American actor (d. 1974)
1905 - Elvera Sanchez, Puerto Rican dancer (d. 2000)
1906 - Joaquín Balaguer, President of the Dominican Republic (d. 2002)
1906 - Franz Biebl, German composer (d. 2001)
1907 - Walter Reuther, American labor union leader (d. 1970)
1909 - E. Herbert Norman, Canadian diplomat (d. 1957)
1913 - Ludwig Merwart, Austrian painter and graphic artist (1979)
1913 - Christian Nyby, American director and film editor (d. 1993)
1920 - Richard Farnsworth, American actor (d. 2000)
1921 - Willem Frederik Hermans, Dutch writer (d. 1995)
1922 - Yvonne De Carlo, Canadian-born actress (d. 2007)
1922 - Vittorio Gassman, Italian actor (d. 2000)
1923 - Rocky Marciano, American boxer (d. 1969)
1923 - Kenneth Thomson, 2nd Baron Thomson of Fleet, Canadian businessman (d. 2006)
1925 - Art Pepper, American musician (d. 1982)
1926 - Abdur Rahman Biswas, President of Bangladesh
1926 - Gene Colan, American comic book artist
1928 - Clifford Lincoln, Canadian politician
1928 - George Maharis, American actor
1929 - Anne Ramsey, American actress (d. 1988)
1931 - Boxcar Willie, American country musician (d. 1999)
1933 - Ann W. Richards, American politician (d. 2006)
1933 - Conway Twitty, American singer (d. 1993)
1935 - Seiji Ozawa, Japanese conductor
1937 - Al Geiberger, American golfer
1937 - Ron O'Neal, American actor, film director and screenwriter (d. 2004)
1939 - Lily Tomlin, American actress and comedian
1941 - Graeme Langlands, Australian rugby league footballer
1942 - C. J. Cherryh, American writer
1943 - Don Stroud, American actor
1944 - Leonard Slatkin, American conductor
1945 - Mustafa Balel, Turkish writer
1946 - Roh Moo-Hyun, President of South Korea
1946 - Barry Gibb, English singer (Bee Gees)
1946 - Greg Errico, American drummer (Sly & the Family Stone)
1947 - Al Green, American politician
1948 - Józef Życiński, Polish archbishop and philosopher
1949 - P.A. Sangma, Indian politician
1950 - Phillip Fulmer, American football coach
1950 - Dr. Phil McGraw, American talk show host
1951 - Nicu CeauÅŸescu, Romanian politician (d. 1996)
1952 - Phil Hendrie, American radio personality
1954 - Dave Lumley, Canadian ice hockey player
1955 - Billy Blanks, American martial artist
1955 - Bruce Foxton, English bassist (The Jam)
1957 - Duško Ivanović, Montenegrin basketball coach
1957 - Gloria Estefan, Cuban/American singer
1958 - Armi Aavikko, Finnish singer (d. 2002)
1959 - Kenny Mayne, American sports journalist
1961 - Bam Bam Bigelow, American professional wrestler (d. 2007)
1962 - Tony Cascarino, Irish footballer
1962 - Ruud Gullit, Dutch footballer
1963 - Stephen Kernahan, Australian rules footballer
1963 - Carola Smit, Dutch singer
1964 - Brian Bellows, Canadian ice hockey player
1964 - Cécilia Rhode, Swedish model
1964 - Ray D'Arcy, Irish DJ and TV presenter
1966 - Tim Hardaway, American basketball player
1967 - David Whissell, Quebec politician
1968 - Mohammed Atta, Egyptian terrorist (d. 2001)
1969 - Henning Berg, Norwegian footballer
1970 - Hwang Jung-min, South Korean actor
1970 - Vanna, Croatian singer
1970 - Mitsou, Quebec singer, television and radio host, actress
1971 - Hakan Şükür, Turkish footballer
1971 - Jimmy Snuka, Jr., American professional wrestler
1971 - Lââm, French singer
1971 - Yoshitaka Hirota, Japanese composer
1971 - Joe Enochs, American soccer player
1971 - Ricardo Antonio Chavira, American actor
1973 - Zach Thomas, American football player
1973 - J. D. Fortune, Canadian singer (INXS)
1973 - Ram Kapoor, Indian actor
1974 - Jason Taylor, American football player
1974 - Jhonen Vasquez, American comic book artist
1975 - Cuttino Mobley, American basketball player
1975 - Omar Rodriguez-Lopez, Puerto Rican guitarist
1975 - Natalie Bassingthwaighte, Australian singer (Rogue Traders)
1975 - Scott Speedman, English-born actor
1976 - Marcos Ambrose, Australian racing driver
1976 - Erik Morales, Mexican boxer
1976 - Polly Shannon, Canadian actress
1976 - Sebastián Rozental, Chilean footballer
1977 - David Albelda, Spanish footballer
1977 - Aamir Ali, Indian television actor
1977 - Shoshana Bean, American stage actress
1977 - Raffaele Giammaria, Italian racing driver
1977 - Aaron Schobel, American football player
1978 - Max Vieri, Australian soccer player
1978 - Lucie Blackman, English murder victim (d. 2000)
1979 - James O'Connor, Irish footballer
1980 - Chris Riggott, English footballer
1980 - Sammy Adjei, Ghanaian footballer
1981 - Adam Quick, Australian basketball player
1981 - Clinton Portis, American football player
1982 - Ryan Gomes, American basketball player
1982 - Paul Dumbrell, Australian racing driver
1982 - Jeffrey Buttle, Canadian figure skater
1983 - José Antonio Reyes, Spanish footballer
1984 - Joseph Trohman, American musician (Fall Out Boy)
1984 - Nick Noble, American soccer player
1985 - Camile Velasco, Filipino-American singer
1986 - Anthony Allen, English rugby union player
1986 - Gaël Monfils, French tennis player
1987 - Dann Hume, New Zealand musician (Evermore)
1988 - Gabriel Ferrari, American soccer player
1988 - Mushfiqur Rahim, Bangladeshi cricketer
1989 - Juliana Lohmann, Brazilian actress
1993 - Ilona Mitrecey, French singer
1994 - Bianca Ryan, American singer

Famous Births on 31 Aug

Famous Births on 31 Aug

12 - Gaius Caligula, Roman Emperor (d. 41)
1569 - Jahangir, Mughal Emperor of India (d. 1627)
1602 - Amalia von Solms, countess of Solms-Braunfels (d. 1675)
161 - Commodus, Roman Emperor (d. 192)
1663 - Guillaume Amontons, French physicist and instrument maker (d. 1705)
1721 - George Hervey, 2nd Earl of Bristol, British statesman (d. 1775)
1741 - Jean Paul Egide Martini, French composer (d. 1816)
1741 - Husein Gradaščević, Bosniak general (d. 1834)
1811 - Theophile Gautier, French poet and novelist (d. 1872)
1821 - Hermann von Helmholtz, German physician (d. 1894)
1822 - Galusha A. Grow, American politician (d. 1907)
1834 - Amilcare Ponchielli, Italian composer (d. 1886)
1843 - Georg von Hertling, Chancellor of Germany (d. 1919)
1870 - Maria Montessori, Italian educator (d. 1952)
1871 - James E. Ferguson, Texan governor (d. 1944)
1878 - Frank Jarvis, American athlete (d. 1933)
1879 - Alma Mahler, wife of Gustav Mahler, Walter Gropius and Franz Werfel (d. 1964)
1880 - Wilhelmina I of the Netherlands (d. 1962)
1885 - DuBose Heyward, American playwright (d. 1940)
1893 - Lily Laskine, French harpist (d. 1988)
1896 - Félix-Antoine Savard, French-Canadian priest and novelist (d. 1982)
1897 - Fredric March, American actor (d. 1975)
1900 - Gino Lucetti, Italian anarchist (d. 1943)
1903 - Arthur Godfrey, American television host (d. 1983)
1903 - Vladimir Jankélévitch, French philosopher (d. 1985)
1905 - Sanford Meisner, American actor and teacher (d. 1997)
1907 - Augustus F. Hawkins, American politician and civil rights lawmaker (d. 2007)
1907 - Ramon Magsaysay, Filipino politician (d. 1957)
1907 - William Shawn, American editor (d. 1992)
1907 - Altiero Spinelli, Italian citizen and advocate of European federalism (d. 1986)
1908 - William Saroyan, American novelist (d. 1981)
1913 - Sir Bernard Lovell, English radio astronomer
1914 - Richard Basehart, American actor (d. 1984)
1916 - Daniel Schorr, American journalist
1918 - Alan Jay Lerner, American lyricist (d. 1986)
1919 - Amrita Preetam, Indian poetess and author (d. 2005)
1921 - Raymond Williams, Welsh academic (d. 1988)
1924 - Buddy Hackett, American actor and comedian (d. 2003)
1927 - Bill Daily, American actor and comedian
1928 - James Coburn, American actor (d. 2002)
1931 - Noble Willingham, American actor (d. 2004)
1931 - Jean Béliveau, Canadian ice hockey player
1934 - Nikos Xanthopoulos, Greek actor
1935 - Frank Robinson, American baseball player and manager
1935 - Eldridge Cleaver, American political activist (d. 1998)
1937 - Warren Berlinger, American actor
1937 - Bobby Parker, American blues musician/guitarist
1938 - Martin Bell, British journalist
1938 - Murray Gleeson, Australian Jurist, Chief Justice of the High Court of Australia (b. 1938
1939 - Jerry Allison, American drummer (The Crickets)
1941 - William DeWitt, Jr., American businessman
1944 - Roger Dean, British artist
1944 - Jos Leduc pro wrestler
1945 - Van Morrison, Northern Irish musician
1945 - Itzhak Perlman, Israeli violinist
1946 - Jerome Corsi, American writer
1947 - Luca di Montezemolo, Italian businessman
1947 - Yumiko ÅŒshima, Japanese manga artist
1947 - Mona Marshall, American voice actress
1948 - Holger Osieck, German footballer and coach
1948 - Harald Ertl, Austrian racing driver (d. 1982)
1948 - Rudolf Schenker, German guitarist (Scorpions)
1948 - Lowell Ganz, American screenwriter
1949 - Richard Gere, American actor
1949 - H. David Politzer, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
1952 - Herbert Reul, German politician
1953 - Pavel Vinogradov, Russian cosmonaut
1953 - Miguel Ángel Guerra, Argentine racing driver
1953 - György Károly, Hungarian author
1954 - Julie Brown, American actress, singer-songwriter and screenwriter
1954 - Caroline Cossey, English model
1955 - Edwin Moses, American athlete
1956 - Masashi Tashiro, Japanese television performer
1957 - Glenn Tilbrook, British musician (Squeeze)
1957 - Gina Schock, American drummer (The Go-Go's)
1958 - Serge Blanco, French rugby footballer
1959 - Ralph Krueger, German-Canadian ice hockey coach
1960 - Vali Ionescu, Rumanian long jumper
1960 - Chris Whitley, American musician (d. 2005)
1960 - Hassan Nasrallah, leader of Hizballah
1962 - Dee Bradley Baker, American voice actor
1963 - Reb Beach, American guitarist (Winger, Whitesnake)
1963 - Todd Carty, Irish actor
1963 - Sonny Silooy, Dutch football player
1964 - Raymond P. Hammond, American poet and editor
1965 - Daniel Bernhardt, Swiss actor
1965 - Céline Bonnier, Quebec actress
1966 - Jan Einar Thorsen, Norwegian Alpine skier
1967 - Anita Moen, Norwegian Cross-country skier
1968 - Hideo Nomo, Japanese baseball player
1969 - Jonathan LaPaglia, Australian actor
1969 - Nathalie Bouvier, French alpine skier
1970 - Arie van Lent, Dutch-German footballer
1970 - Zack Ward, Canadian actor
1970 - Queen Rania, Queen of Jordan
1970 - Deborah Gibson, American singer
1971 - Pádraig Harrington, Irish professional golfer
1972 - Chris Tucker, American actor
1973 - Scott Niedermayer, hockey player
1974 - Andriy Medvedev, Ukrainian tennis player
1975 - John Grahame, American-born Canadian hockey player
1975 - Sara Ramirez, American actress
1975 - Gabe Kapler, American baseball player and manager
1975 - Daniel Harding, British conductor
1976 - Radek Martinek, Czechoslovakian ice hockey player
1976 - Roque Júnior, Brazilian footballer
1976 - Vincent Delerm, French singer-songwriter, pianist and composer
1977 - Jeff Hardy, American professional wrestler
1977 - Ian Harte, Irish footballer
1977 - Craig Nicholls, Australian musician (The Vines)
1978 - Philippe Christanval, French footballer
1978 - Phina Oruche, British actress
1979 - Clay Hensley, professional baseball player
1979 - Mickie James, American professional wrestler
1979 - Mark Johnston, Canadian swimmer
1979 - Simon Neil, Scottish musician (Biffy Clyro)
1979 - Ramón Santiago, Dominican baseball player
1980 - Joe Budden, American rapper
1981 - Steve Saviano, American professional hockey player
1981 - Dwayne Peel, Welsh International rugby player
1981 - 40 Cal, American rapper
1981 - Joe Swanberg, American filmmaker
1982 - G. Willow Wilson, American journalist and comic book writer
1982 - Patrick Nuo, Swiss singer
1982 - Michele Rugolo, Italian racing driver
1982 - Jose Reina, Spanish footballer
1982 - Alexei Mikhnov, Ukrainian-born ice hockey player
1982 - Josh Kroeger, American baseball player
1982 - Lien Huyghebaert, Belgian athlete
1982 - Chris Duhon, American basketball player
1982 - Ian Crocker, American swimmer
1983 - Larry Fitzgerald, American football player
1984 - Ted Ligety, American alpine skier
1984 - Matti Breschel, Danish road bicycle racer
1984 - Charl Schwartzel, South African golfer
1987 - Petros Kravaritis, Greek footballer

Famous Births on 30 Aug

Famous Births on 30 Aug

1334 - Pedro of Castile (d. 1369)
1377 - Shah Rukh, ruler of Persia and Transoxonia (d. 1447)
1705 - David Hartley, English philosopher (d. 1757)
1720 - Samuel Whitbread, English brewer (d. 1796)
1748 - Jacques-Louis David, French painter (d. 1825)
1797 - Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, English writer (d. 1851)
1808 - Princess Ludovika of Bavaria (d. 1892)
1813 - Princess Mathilde of Bavaria d. 1862
1818 - Alexander H. Rice, 30th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1895)
1821 - Anita Garibaldi, Brazilian warrior; Garibaldi's wife (War of Tatters) (d. 1849)
1839 - Gulstan Ropert, French Catholic prelate (d. 1903)
1842 - Grand Duchess Alexandra Alexandrovna of Russia (d. 1849)
1848 - Andrew Onderdonk, Canadian railway contractor (d. 1905)
1852 - Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1911)
1856 - Carle David Tolmé Runge, German physicist (d. 1927)
1860 - Isaac Levitan, Russian artist (d. 1900)
1870 - Grand Duchess Alexandra Georgievna of Russia (d. 1891)
1871 - Ernest Rutherford, New Zealand-born Nobel Prize in Chemistry laureate (d. 1937)
1884 - Theodor Svedberg, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1971)
1893 - Huey Long, American politician (d. 1935)
1896 - Raymond Massey, Canadian actor (d. 1983)
1898 - Shirley Booth, American actress (d. 1992)
1901 - Roy Wilkins, American civil rights leader (1981)
1901 - John Gunther, American writer (d. 1970)
1906 - Joan Blondell, American actress (d. 1979)
1908 - Fred MacMurray, American actor (d. 1991)
1912 - Edward Mills Purcell, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1997)
1912 - Nancy Wake AC GM, New Zealand-born World War II secret agent
1913 - Richard Stone, Bank of Sweden Prize winner (d. 1991)
1915 - Robert Strassburg, American composer (d. 2003)
1918 - Ted Williams, American baseball player (d. 2002)
1918 - Billy Johnson, American baseball player (d. 2006)
1919 - Kitty Wells, American singer
1922 - Lionel Murphy, Australian politician (d. 1986)
1922 - Regina Resnik, American mezzo-soprano
1923 - Vic Seixas, American tennis player
1923 - Barbara Mary Ansell, UK founder of paediatric rheumatology (d. 2001)
1924 - Geoffrey Beene, American fashion designer (d. 2004)
1925 - Laurent de Brunhoff, French writer and illustrator
1928 - Lloyd Casner, American racecar driver and owner (d. 1965)
1930 - Warren Buffett, American entrepreneur
1930 - Jerry Tarkanian, American basketball coach
1931 - Jack Swigert, American astronaut (d. 1982)
1933 - Don Getty, Canadian politician
1935 - John Phillips, American singer (Mamas and the Papas) (d. 2001)
1937 - Bruce McLaren, New Zealand car racer and founder of eponymous race team (d. 1970)
1939 - John Peel, English radio disc jockey (d. 2004)
1939 - Elizabeth Ashley, American actress
1941 - Ben Jones, American actor and politician
1943 - Jean-Claude Killy, French skier
1943 - Robert Crumb, American cartoonist
1944 - Molly Ivins, American political humorist (d. 2007)
1944 - Tug McGraw, American baseball player (d. 2004)
1946 - Peggy Lipton, American actress
1946 - Queen Anne-Marie of Greece
1947 - Allan Rock, Canadian politician and diplomat
1948 - Donnacha O'Dea, Irish poker player and swimmer
1948 - Lewis Black, American comedian
1949 - Peter Maffay, German musician
1949 - Ted Ammon, American financier (d. 2001)
1949 - Christopher Collins, American actor and comedian (d. 1994)
1949 - Don Boudria, Canadian politician
1951 - Timothy Bottoms, American actor
1951 - Dana, Irish singer and politician
1953 - Ron George, American politician
1953 - Robert Parish, American basketball player
1953 - Horace Panter, British musician (The Specials and General Public)
1953 - Robin Harris, American comedian (d. 1990)
1954 - David Paymer, American actor
1954 - Alexander Lukashenko, President of Belarus
1958 - Martin Jackson, British drummer (Swing out Sister)
1958 - Anna Politkovskaya, Russian journalist (d. 2006)
1959 - Mark 'Jacko' Jackson, Australian rules footballer and actor
1960 - Chalino Sanchez, Mexican musician (d. 1992)
1960 - Hassan Nasrallah, leader of the Lebanese terrorist group Hizbollah
1960 - Master Sgt. Gary Gordon, Medal of Honor recipient (d. 1993)
1960 - Guy A. Lepage, Quebec humorist, television host and producer
1962 - Alexander Litvinenko, Russian KGB officer (d. 2006)
1963 - Michael Chiklis, American actor
1963 - Paul Oakenfold, British disc jockey
1964 - Gavin Fisher, British engineer
1966 - Michael Michele, American actress
1968 - Vladimir Malakhov, Russian ice hockey player
1969 - Dimitris Sgouros, Greek pianist
1970 - Michael Wong Guang Liang, Chinese Malaysian singer
1971 - Lars Frederiksen, American guitarist (Rancid and UK Subs)
1972 - Pavel Nedvěd, Czech footballer
1972 - Cameron Diaz, American actress
1973 - Lisa Ling, American journalist
1974 - Javier Otxoa, Spanish cyclist
1974 - Aaron Barrett, Lead singer/guitarist of Reel Big Fish
1975 - Radhi Jaidi, Tunisian footballer
1976 - Mike Koplove, American baseball player
1977 - Jens Ludwig, German guitarist
1977 - Kamil Kosowski, Polish footballer
1977 - Elden Henson, American actor
1977 - Marlon Byrd, American baseball player
1977 - Shaun Alexander, American football player
1978 - Swizz Beatz, rapper/producer
1978 - Cliff Lee, American baseball player
1979 - Tavia Yeung, Hong Kong actress
1979 - Niki Chow, Hong Kong actress and singer
1979 - Leon Lopez, British actor
1979 - Juan Ignacio Chela, Argentine tennis player
1982 - Andy Roddick, American tennis player
1982 - Will Davison, Australian racing driver
1983 - Gustavo Eberto, Argentine footballer (d. 2007)
1983 - Jonne Aaron, Vocalist of the Finnish Band Negative
1983 - Jun Matsumoto, Japanese singer and actor
1984 - Anthony Ireland, Zimbabwean cricketer
1985 - Richard Duffy, Welsh footballer
1985 - Steven Smith, Scottish footballer
1986 - Ryan Ross, American guitarist and lyricist (Panic at the Disco)
1988 - Ernests Gulbis, Latvian tennis player
1990 - Kyle Swann, American actor

Famous Births on 29 Aug

Famous Births on 29 Aug

1619 - Jean-Baptiste Colbert, French minister of finance (d. 1683)
1628 - John Granville, 1st Earl of Bath, English royalist statesman (d. 1701)
1632 - John Locke, English philosopher (d. 1704)
1694 - Charlotte Christine of Brunswick-Lüneburg (d. 1715)
1725 - Charles Townshend, English politician (d. 1767)
1728 - Maria Anna Sophia of Saxony, Electress of Bavaria (d. 1797)
1756 - Jan Åšniadecki, Polish mathematician (d. 1830)
1756 - Heinrich Graf von Bellegarde, Austrian field marshal and statesman (d. 1845)
1777 - Nikita Yakovlevich Bichurin, founder of Sinology (d. 1853)
1780 - Jean Ingres, French painter (d. 1867)
1805 - Frederick Maurice, English theologian (d. 1872)
1809 - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., American physician (d. 1894)
1810 - Juan Bautista Alberdi, founding father of the Argentine Republic (d. 1884)
1811 - Henry Bergh, founder of American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (d. 1888)
1843 - David B. Hill, Governor of New York (d. 1910)
1844 - Edward Carpenter, English poet (d. 1929)
1862 - Andrew Fisher, 5th Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1928)
1862 - Maurice Maeterlinck, Nobel laureate (d. 1949)
1871 - Albert Lebrun, French politician (d. 1950)
1876 - Charles F. Kettering, American inventor (d. 1958)
1876 - Kim Gu, President of the Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea (d. 1949)
1898 - Preston Sturges, American filmmaker (d. 1959)
1901 - Aurel Joliat, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1986)
1905 - Werner Forssmann, Nobel laureate (d. 1979)
1905 - Dhyan Chand, Indian hockey player (d. 1979)
1912 - Wolfgang Suschitzky, Austrian-Polish cinematographer
1912 - Barry Sullivan, American actor (d. 1994)
1915 - Ingrid Bergman, Swedish actress (d. 1982)
1916 - Luther Davis, American playwright
1916 - George Montgomery, American actor (d. 2000)
1917 - Isabel Sanford, American actress (d. 2004)
1920 - Charlie Parker, American musician (d. 1955)
1923 - Richard Attenborough, English film director
1923 - Marmaduke Hussey, BBC Chairman (d. 2006)
1924 - Consuelo Velázquez, Mexican songwriter (d. 2005)
1924 - Dinah Washington, American singer (d. 1963)
1926 - María Dolores Pradera, Spanish melodic singer
1928 - Charles Gray, English actor (d. 2000)
1929 - Thom Gunn, British poet (d. 2004)
1930 - Jacques Bouchard, Quebec advertising executive (d. 2006)
1931 - Stelios Kazantzidis, Greek singer (d. 2001)
1931 - Lise Payette, Quebec politician, writer and columnist
1933 - Arnold Koller, Swiss Federal Councilor
1935 - William Friedkin, American film director
1936 - John McCain, American politician
1937 - James Florio, Governor of New Jersey
1938 - Elliott Gould, American actor
1938 - Robert Rubin, United States Secretary of the Treasury
1939 - Joel Schumacher, American film director
1940 - Gary Gabelich, American race car driver (d. 1984)
1941 - Robin Leach, English television host
1942 - John Heuser, Electron Microscopist, Washington University in Saint Louis
1942 - James Glennon, American cinematographer (d. 2006)
1945 - Wyomia Tyus, American athlete
1946 - Bob Beamon, American jumper
1947 - James Hunt, English race car driver and one-time F1 world champion (d. 1993)
1950 - Doug DeCinces, American baseball player
1950 - Dave Reichert, American politician and former sheriff
1952 - Dave Malone, American rock guitarist
1952 - Karen Hesse, American children's writer
1953 - James Quesada, Nicaraguan-American anthropologist
1954 - Michael P. Kube-McDowell, American science fiction novelist
1955 - Frank Hoste, Belgian cyclist
1956 - GG Allin, American rock singer
1957 - Jerry D. Bailey, American racing jockey
1958 - Michael Jackson, American singer, dancer and composer
1958 - Lenny Henry, British writer, comedian and actor
1959 - Ernesto Rodrigues, Portuguese composer
1959 - Akkineni Nagarjuna, Telugu film actor
1959 - Timothy Perry Shriver, Member of the Kennedy Family
1959 - Chris Hadfield, Canadian astronaut
1959 - Rebecca De Mornay, American actress
1960 - Tony MacAlpine, American shred guitarist
1961 - Carsten Fischer, German field hockey player
1961 - Rodney McCray, Former basketball player
1962 - Hiroki Kikuta, Japanese composer
1962 - Carl Banks, American Football Player
1963 - Elizabeth Fraser, Scottish singer
1965 - Dina Spybey, American actress
1965 - Will Perdue, American basketball player
1967 - Anton Newcombe, American musician (The Brian Jonestown Massacre)
1969 - Joe Swail, Northern Irish snooker player
1969 - Me'Shell NdegéOcello, American singer
1971 - Henry Blanco, Venezuelan baseball player
1971 - Carla Gugino, American actress
1972 - Bae Yong Joon, South Korean actor
1973 - Adam Sessler, American TV show host
1973 - Olivier Jacque, motorcyclist
1974 - Kumi Tanioka, Japanese composer
1975 - Dante Basco, Filipino-American actor
1976 - Stephen Carr, Irish footballer
1976 - Kevin Kaesviharn, National Football League player
1976 - Pablo Mastroeni, American soccer player
1976 - Jon Dahl Tomasson, Danish footballer
1977 - Charlie Pickering, Australian comedian
1977 - Roy Oswalt, American baseball player
1977 - Devean George, American basketball player
1977 - Aaron Rowand, American baseball player
1977 - John Patrick O'Brien, American soccer player
1978 - Celestine Babayaro, Nigerian footballer
1979 - Chieu Luu, Canadian journalist
1979 - Ryan Shealy, American baseball player
1980 - Nicholas Tse, Hong Kong singer and actor
1980 - David West, American basketball player
1980 - Chris Simms, American football player
1980 - David Desrosiers, Canadian musician(Simple Plan)
1981 - Lanny Barbie, Canadian adult actress
1981 - Geneviève Jeanson, Quebec bicycle racer
1981 - Jay Ryan (Jay Bunyan), Australian actor
1982 - A+, American rapper
1982 - Carlos Delfino, Argentinean basketball player
1985 - Jeffrey Licon, American actor
1985 - Pouyan Afkary, Iranian-American musician (Scary Kids Scaring Kids)
1986 - Lauren Collins, Canadian actress
1987 - Tony Kane, Irish footballer
1990 - Sam Stern, English Chef / Author
1992 - Mallu Magalhães, Brazilian singer-songwriter
1993 - Lucas Cruikshank, youtube comedian

Famous Births on 28 Aug

Famous Births on 28 Aug

1025 - Emperor Go-Reizei of Japan (d. 1068)
1582 - Taichang Emperor, of the Ming dynasty of China (d. 1620)
1592 - George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham, English statesman (d. 1628)
1612 - Marcus Zuerius van Boxhorn, Dutch scholar (d. 1653)
1667 - Louise of Mecklenburg-Güstrow, queen of Denmark and Norway (d. 1721)
1691 - Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Holy Roman Empire Empress (d. 1750)
1714 - Anthony Ulrich II, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (d. 1774)
1749 - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German writer and scientist (d. 1832)
1774 - Elizabeth Ann Seton, American-born Catholic saint (d. 1821)
1789 - Stéphanie de Beauharnais, Grand Duchess of Baden (d. 1860)
1801 - Antoine Augustin Cournot, French mathematician (d. 1877)
1814 - Sheridan le Fanu, Irish writer (d. 1873)
1827 - Grand Duchess Catherine Mikhailovna of Russia (d. 1894)
1840 - Alexander Cameron Sim, Scottish merchant (d. 1900)
1853 - Vladimir Shukhov, Russian engineer and inventor (d. 1939)
1867 - Umberto Giordano, Italian composer (d. 1948)
1878 - George Whipple, American scientist and Nobel laureate (d. 1976)
1894 - Karl Böhm, Austrian conductor (d. 1981)
1898 - Charlie Grimm, baseball player (d. 1983)
1899 - Charles Boyer, French actor (d. 1978)
1903 - Bruno Bettelheim, American psychologist (d. 1990)
1904 - Secondo Campini, Italian jet engine pioneer (d. 1980)
1906 - John Betjeman, English poet (d. 1984)
1908 - Roger Tory Peterson, American ornithologist (d. 1996)
1910 - Tjalling Koopmans, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1985)
1911 - Joseph Luns, Dutch politician (d. 2002)
1913 - Boris Pahor, Slovenian writer
1913 - Terence Reese, British bridge player (d. 1996)
1913 - Richard Tucker, American tenor (d. 1975)
1913 - Robertson Davies, Canadian writer (d. 1995)
1915 - Max Robertson, British sports commentator
1915 - Tasha Tudor, American illustrator (d. 2008)
1916 - Jack Vance, American author
1916 - Hélène Baillargeon, Quebec singer and folklorist (d. 1997)
1917 - Jack Kirby, American comic book artist (d. 1994)
1919 - Godfrey Hounsfield, Nobel Laureate (d. 2004)
1920 - Frits Bernard, pedophile activist (d. 2006)
1921 - Fernando Fernán Gómez, Spanish actor, director, academic and playwright (d. 2007)
1921 - Nancy Kulp, American actress (d. 1991)
1924 - Janet Frame, New Zealand author (d. 2004)
1924 - Peggy Ryan, American actress (d. 2004)
1925 - Donald O'Connor, American singer, dancer, and actor (d. 2003)
1925 - Billy Grammer, American country music singer and guitarist
1928 - F. William Free, American advertising executive (d. 2003)
1929 - Istvan Kertesz, Hungarian conductor (d. 1973)
1929 - Ken Gampu, South African actor (d. 2003)
1930 - Windsor Davies, British actor
1930 - Ben Gazzara, American actor
1931 - John Shirley-Quirk, English bass-baritone
1931 - Tito Capobianco, Argentinian stage impresario
1932 - Andy Bathgate, Canadian ice hockey player
1935 - Gilles Rocheleau, French Canadian politician (d. 1998)
1936 - Don Denkinger, American baseball umpire
1938 - Paul Martin, Canadian politician
1938 - Maurizio Costanzo, Italian television journalist
1940 - Ken Jenkins, American actor
1940 - Roger Pingeon, French cylist
1940 - Nik Turner, English musician (Hawkwind)
1941 - Sybille de Selys Longchamps, Belgian aristocrat
1941 - Paul Plishka, American bass
1942 - Sterling Morrison, American guitarist (The Velvet Underground) (d. 1995)
1943 - David Soul, American actor
1943 - Lou Piniella, American baseball manager
1944 - Marianne Heemskerk, Dutch swimmer
1944 - Melvin Dummar, American claimant to the Howard Hughes estate
1945 - Robert Greenwald, American film director/producer
1945 - Bob Segarini, Musician and radio personality
1947 - Shoto Tanemura, Japanese martial artist
1947 - Liza Wang, Hong Kong actress
1948 - Danny Seraphine, American musician (Chicago)
1949 - Hugh Cornwell, British musician (The Stranglers)
1949 - Svetislav Pešić, Serbian basketball player and coach
1951 - Keiichi Suzuki, Japanese composer
1951 - Wayne Osmond, American singer (The Osmonds)
1952 - Jacques Chagnon, Canadian politician
1952 - Guy Nadon, Canadian actor
1952 - Wendelin Wiedeking, German businessman
1952 - Rita Dove, American poet
1954 - George Church, American geneticist
1957 - Daniel Stern, American actor
1957 - Rick Rossovich, American actor
1958 - Scott Hamilton, American figure skater
1960 - Emma Samms, English actress
1961 - Cliff Benson, American football player
1961 - Kim Appleby, English singer
1962 - Paul Allen, English footballer
1962 - David Fincher, American music video and film director
1963 - Jennifer Coolidge, American actress
1965 - Amanda Tapping, Canadian actress
1965 - Shania Twain, Canadian singer
1966 - Priya Dutt, Indian social worker and politician
1967 - Frederick Kesner, Philippine-born Australian poet
1968 - Billy Boyd, Scottish actor
1969 - Jason Priestley, Canadian-born actor
1969 - Jack Black, American actor
1969 - Mary McCartney, English photographer
1969 - Pierre Turgeon, French Canadian ice hockey player
1970 - Sherrié Austin, Australian actress/singer
1970 - Rick Recht, Jewish singer
1971 - Shane Andrews, American baseball player
1971 - Raul Marquez, Mexican-born American boxer
1971 - Janet Evans, American swimmer
1971 - Todd Eldredge, American figure skater
1972 - Jay Witasick, American baseball player
1973 - Matthew John Armstrong, American actor
1973 - DJ Assault, American musician
1974 - Johan Andersson, Swedish game programmer
1974 - Carsten Jancker, German footballer
1974 - Takahito Eguchi, Japanese composer
1975 - Gareth Farrelly, Irish footballer
1975 - Jamie Cureton, English footballer
1978 - Jess Margera, American drummer (CKY)
1978 - Shaniqua, American wrestling valet
1979 - Robert Hoyzer, German football referee
1979 - Shaila Durcal, Spanish singer
1979 - Kristen Hughes, Australian netballer
1979 - Markus Pröll, German footballer
1979 - Ruth Riley, American basketball player
1980 - T.J. Beam, American baseball player
1981 - Martin Erat, Czech hockey player
1981 - Vaggelis Moras, Greek footballer
1981 - Agata Wróbel, Polish weightlifter,
1981 - Raphael Matos, Brazilian racing driver
1982 - Anderson Silva de França, Brazilian footballer
1982 - LeAnn Rimes, American singer
1982 - Kevin McNaughton, Scottish footballer
1982 - Thiago Motta, Brazilian footballer
1983 - Alfonso Herrera, Actor, and singer in the Latin pop group RBD
1983 - Lasith Malinga, Sri Lankan cricketer
1985 - Ralph Woolfolk IV, American actor
1986 - Gilad Shalit, Israeli corporal
1988 - Ray Jones, English footballer (d. 2007)
1990 - Bojan Krkić, Serbian-Spanish footballer
1991 - Kyle Massey, American actor
1991 - Sarah Jane Santos, Filipino singer
1999 - Prince Nikolai of Denmark

Famous Births on 27 Aug

Famous Births on 27 Aug

1407 - Ashikaga Yoshikazu, Japanese shogun (d. 1425)
1471 - George, Duke of Saxony (d. 1539)
1487 - Anna of Brandenburg, queen of Denmark (d. 1514)
1637 - Charles Calvert, 3rd Baron Baltimore, Governor of the Province of Maryland (d. 1715)
1665 - John Hervey, 1st Earl of Bristol, English politician (d. 1751)
1669 - Anne Marie of Orléans, queen of Italy (d. 1728)
1677 - Otto Ferdinand von Abensberg und Traun, Austrian field marshal (d. 1748)
1698 - Baal Shem Tov, Founder of the Chasiddic movement {d. 1760)
1724 - John Joachim Zubly, Swiss-born Continental Congressman (d. 1781)
1730 - Johann Georg Hamann, German philosopher (d. 1788)
1770 - Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, German philosopher (d. 1831)
1803 - Edward Beecher, American theologian (d. 1895)
1809 - Hannibal Hamlin, Vice President of the United States of America (d. 1891)
1858 - Giuseppe Peano, Italian mathematician (d. 1932)
1865 - James Henry Breasted, American Egyptologist (d. 1935)
1865 - Charles G. Dawes, 30th Vice President of the United States and Nobel Peace Prize laureate (d. 1951)
1870 - Amado Nervo, Mexican poet (d. 1919)
1871 - Theodore Dreiser, American author (d. 1945)
1874 - Carl Bosch, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1940)
1875 - Katharine McCormick, American women's rights activist (d. 1967)
1877 - Charles Rolls, Co-founder of Rolls-Royce (d. 1910)
1877 - Ernst Wetter, member of the Swiss Federal Council (d. 1963)
1882 - Samuel Goldwyn, Hollywood producer (d. 1974)
1884 - Vincent Auriol,French President (d. 1966)
1886 - Eric Coates, English composer (d. 1957)
1886 - Rebecca Helferich Clarke, English composer and violist (d. 1979)
1890 - Man Ray, photographer and artist (d. 1976)
1896 - Faina Ranevskaya, Russian actress (d. 1984)
1898 - Gaspard Fauteux, French Canadian parliamentarian (d. 1963)
1899 - C. S. Forester, British author (d. 1966)
1899 - Byron Foulger, American actor (d. 1970)
1904 - John Hay Whitney, American financier (d. 1982)
1904 - Norah Lofts, British author (d. 1983)
1906 - Ed Gein, American serial killer (d. 1984)
1908 - Don Bradman, Australian cricketer (d. 2001)
1908 - Lyndon B. Johnson, 36th President of the United States (d. 1973)
1908 - Kurt Wegner, German artist (d. 1985)
1909 - Lester Young, American musician (d. 1959)
1909 - Sylvère Maes, Belgian cyclist (d. 1966)
1911 - Kay Walsh, British actress (d. 2005)
1912 - Gloria Guinness, Mexican socialite and writer(d.1980)
1913 - Nina Schenk von Stauffenberg, wife of Claus Schenk von Stauffenberg (d. 2006)
1915 - Norman F. Ramsey, Nobel Prize laureate
1916 - Martha Raye, American actress (d. 1994)
1917 - Peanuts Lowrey, American baseball player (d. 1986)
1919 - Murray Grand, American songwriter and cabaret singer (d. 2007)
1921 - Leo Penn, American film director (d. 1998)
1921 - Georg Alexander, Duke of Mecklenburg, head of the House of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (d. 1996)
1925 - Darry Cowl, French actor (d. 2006)
1926 - Pat Coombs, English actress (d. 2002)
1926 - Kristen Nygaard, Norwegian mathematician (d. 2002)
1927 - Jimmy C. Newman, American singer
1928 - Mangosuthu Buthelezi, South African politician
1929 - Ira Levin, American author (d. 2007)
1931 - Sri Chinmoy, Indian guru (d. 2007)
1931 - Joe Cunningham, American baseball player
1932 - Antonia Fraser, British author
1935 - Ernie Broglio, American baseball player
1935 - Frank Yablans, American film producer
1936 - Joel Kovel, American politician
1937 - Alice Coltrane, American jazz musician (d. 2007)
1937 - Tommy Sands, American actor and singer
1940 - Sonny Sharrock, American jazz guitarist (d. 1994)
1942 - Daryl Dragon, American keyboardist (Captain & Tennille)
1942 - Brian Peckford, Canadian politician
1943 - Tuesday Weld, American actress
1945 - G. W. Bailey, American actor
1947 - Barbara Bach, American actress
1947 - Harry Reems, American actor
1948 - Pavlos Sidiropoulos, Greek musician (d. 1990)
1949 - Jeff Cook, vocals, guitar, keyboards, bass, fiddle, banjo and mandolin for Alabama
1950 - Charles Fleischer, American actor
1951 - Mack Brown, University of Texas Head Football Coach
1951 - Buddy Bell, American baseball player-manager
1952 - Paul "Pee-Wee Herman" Reubens, American actor
1953 - Alex Lifeson, Canadian guitarist (Rush)
1953 - Peter Stormare, Swedish-born actor
1954 - John Lloyd, British former tennis player
1954 - Derek Warwick, British race car driver
1955 - Diana Scarwid, American actress
1955 - Robert Richardson, American cinematographer
1955 - Laura Fygi, Dutch singer
1957 - Bernhard Langer, German golfer and two-time Masters champion
1958 - Sergei Krikalev, Russian cosmonaut
1958 - Tom Lanoye, Belgian author
1958 - Normand Brathwaite, Canadian comedian and television and radio host
1959 - Gerhard Berger, Austrian race car driver and F1 team co-owner (Scuderia Toro Rosso)
1959 - Juan Fernando Cobo, Colombian artist
1961 - Tom Ford, American fashion designer
1961 - Yolanda Adams, American gospel singer
1962 - Vic Mignogna, American voice actor
1962 - Adam Oates, Canadian ice hockey player
1963 - Downtown Julie Brown, Welsh TV personality and former MTV VJ
1964 - Frankie Thorn , American actress
1965 - Wayne James, Zimbabwean cricketer
1966 - Juhan Parts, Prime Minister of Estonia
1967 - Bob Nastanovich, American musician (Pavement, Silver Jews)
1969 - Chandra Wilson, American actress
1969 - Reece Shearsmith, British actor and comedian
1970 - Peter Ebdon, English snooker player
1970 - Tony Kanal, English-born musician (No Doubt)
1970 - Jeff Kenna, Irish footballer
1970 - Jim Thome, American baseball player
1971 - Julian Cheung, Hong Kong actor and singer
1972 - Mike Smith, Canadian actor
1972 - Dalip Singh, Indian professional wrestler
1972 - Denise Lewis, English heptathlete
1973 - Dietmar Hamann, German footballer
1973 - Danny Coyne, Welsh footballer
1973 - Cory Bowles, Canadian actor
1973 - Carlene Begnaud, American professional wrestler
1974 - José Vidro, Puerto Rican baseball player
1975 - Jonny Moseley, American skier
1975 - Mark Rudan, Australian footballer
1976 - Mark Webber, Australian race car driver
1976 - Milano Collection Akihito Terui, Japanese professional wrestler
1976 - Steve Taylor, British writer
1976 - Carlos Moyà , Spanish tennis player
1976 - Sarah Chalke, Canadian actress
1977 - Deco, Portuguese footballer
1978 - Mase, American rapper
1979 - Sarah Neufeld, Canadian musician (Arcade Fire)
1979 - Tian Liang, Chinese diver
1979 - Giovanni Capitello, American filmmaker/actor
1983 - Wilson Chen, Taiwanese actor
1984 - David Bentley, English footballer
1984 - Sulley Muntari, Ghanaian footballer
1985 - Alexandra Nechita, Artist
1986 - Mario, American R&B singer
1988 - Alexa Vega, American actress

Famous Births on 26 Aug

Famous Births on 26 Aug

1469 - Ferdinand II of Naples (d. 1496)
1540 - King Magnus of Livonia (d. 1583)
1676 - Robert Walpole, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1745)
1694 - Elisha Williams, American rector of Yale College (d. 1755)
1728 - Johann Heinrich Lambert, German scientist (d. 1777)
1736 - Jean-Baptiste L. Romé de l'Isle, French chemist (d. 1790)
1740 - Joseph Montgolfier, French inventor (d. 1810)
1743 - Antoine Lavoisier, French chemist (d. 1794)
1775 - William Joseph Behr, German writer (d. 1851)
1789 - Abbas Mirza, Prince of Persia (d. 1833)
1792 - Manuel Oribe, Uruguayan political figure (d. 1857)
1826 - Princess Alexandra of Bavaria (d. 1875)
1845 - Mary Ann Nichols, English victim of Jack the Ripper (d. 1888)
1850 - Charles Robert Richet, French physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1935)
1862 - Herbert Booth, American son of William and Catherine Booth (d. 1926)
1873 - Lee DeForest, American inventor (d. 1961)
1874 - Zona Gale, American novelist (d. 1938)
1875 - John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir, Scottish novelist, Governor General of Canada (d. 1940)
1880 - Guillaume Apollinaire, French poet and art critic (d. 1918)
1882 - James Franck, German-born physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1964)
1885 - Jules Romains, French author (d. 1972)
1894 - Sparky Adams, Baseball player (d. 1989)
1896 - Ivan Mihailov, Bulgarian revolutionary (d. 1990)
1897 - Yoon Boseon, President of South Korea (d. 1990)
1898 - Peggy Guggenheim, American art collector (d. 1979)
1899 - Rufino Tamayo, Mexican painter (d. 1991)
1900 - Hellmuth Walter, German engineer and inventor (d. 1980)
1901 - Chen Yi, Chinese communist military commander and politician (d. 1972)
1901 - Maxwell Taylor, American general (d. 1987)
1904 - Christopher Isherwood, English-born writer (d. 1986)
1906 - Albert Sabin, American polio researcher (d. 1993)
1908 - W. B. Henning, Prussian-born Iranist (d. 1967)
1908 - Aubrey Schenck, film producer (d. 1999)
1909 - Gene Moore, baseball player (d. 1978)
1909 - Jim Davis, American actor (d. 1981)
1910 - Mother Teresa, Roman Catholic nun, Nobel laureate (d. 1997)
1914 - Julio Cortázar, Argentine writer (d. 1984)
1920 - Brant Parker, American cartoonist (d. 2007)
1921 - Benjamin Bradlee, American journalist
1922 - Irving R. Levine, American journalist
1923 - Wolfgang Sawallisch, German conductor and pianist
1924 - Alex Kellner, baseball player (d. 1996)
1925 - Jack Hirshleifer, American economist (d. 2005)
1925 - Alain Peyrefitte, French politician and writer (d. 1999)
1927 - B. V. Doshi, Indian architect
1928 - Peter Appleyard, Canadian jazz vibraphonist
1928 - Naïm Kattan, Canadian novelist and essayist
1934 - Tom Heinsohn, American basketball player and commentator
1935 - Geraldine Ferraro, U.S. Vice Presidential candidate
1936 - Yvette Vickers, American actress
1940 - Don LaFontaine, American voice actor
1941 - Barbet Schroeder, Swiss film director
1941 - Akiko Wakabayashi, Japanese actress
1941 - Chris Curtis, English singer and drummer (The Searchers) (d. 2005)
1942 - Dennis Turner, British politician
1942 - Vic Dana, American singer
1944 - Prince Richard, Duke of Gloucester
1944 - Stephen Greif, English actor
1944 - Maureen Tucker, American musician (The Velvet Underground)
1945 - Tom Ridge, first United States Secretary of Homeland Security
1946 - Chantal Renaud, Quebec singer and actress
1946 - Zhou Ji, Education Minister of the People's Republic of China
1946 - Mark Snow, American composer
1946 - Valerie Simpson, American singer
1947 - Emiliano Díez, Cuban actor
1950 - Benjamin Hendrickson, American actor (d. 2006)
1952 - Bryon Baltimore, Canadian ice hockey player
1952 - Michael Jeter, American actor (d. 2003)
1952 - Will Shortz, American crossword editor
1953 - Pat Sharkey, Irish footballer
1954 - Efren Reyes, Filipino pool player
1956 - Mark Mangino, American football coach
1957 - Dr. Alban, Nigerian-Swedish singer
1957 - Rick Hansen, Canadian paraplegic athlete
1958 - Jan Nevens, Belgian cyclist
1960 - Nancy Martinez, Canadian-born singer
1960 - Branford Marsalis, American saxophonist and bandleader
1961 - Jeff Parrett, American baseball player
1962 - Bob Mionske, American cyclist and attorney
1965 - Chris Burke, American actor
1965 - Bobby Duncum, Jr., wrestler (d. 2000)
1965 - Jon Hensley, American actor
1966 - Shirley Manson, Scottish singer
1966 - Jacques Brinkman, Dutch field hockey player
1967 - Kelly Madison, porn star
1970 - Olimpiada Ivanova, Russian athlete
1971 - Thalía, Mexican singer
1974 - Eric D. Snider, American humor columnist / movie reviewer
1975 - Morgan Ensberg, American baseball player
1976 - Zemfira, Russian singer
1976 - Amaia Montero, Spanish singer (La Oreja de Van Gogh)
1977 - Saeko Chiba, Japanese seiyuu
1977 - Morris Peterson, American basketball player
1978 - Raja Kashif, Pakistani singer
1979 - Rubén Pazos, Spanish footballer
1979 - Cristian Mora, Ecuadorian footballer
1979 - Jamal Lewis, American football player
1980 - Macaulay Culkin, American actor
1980 - Brendan Harris, American baseball player
1980 - Chris Pine, American actor
1981 - Jesse Martin, Australian yachtsman
1981 - Petey Williams, Canadian professional wrestler
1983 - Félix Porteiro, Spanish racing driver
1986 - Cassie Ventura, American singer
1988 - Danielle Savre, American actress
1988 - Princess Maria Laura of Belgium, Archduchess of Austria-Este
1988 - Evan Ross, American actor
1990 - Lil' Chris, British singer
1993 - Keke Palmer, American actress

Famous Births on 25 Aug

Famous Births on 25 Aug

1530 - Tsar Ivan IV of Russia (d. 1584)
1561 - Philippe van Lansberge, Dutch astronomer (d. 1632)
1624 - François de la Chaise, French confessor of Louis XIV of France (d. 1709)
1662 - John Leverett the Younger, American educator (d. 1724)
1719 - Charles-Amédée-Philippe van Loo, French painter (d. 1795)
1724 - George Stubbs, British painter (d. 1806)
1741 - Karl Friedrich Bahrdt, German theologian (d. 1792)
1744 - Johann Gottfried Herder, German writer (d. 1803)
1767 - Antoine Louis Léon de Richebourg de Saint-Just, French revolutionary and writer (d. 1794)
1786 - King Ludwig I of Bavaria (d. 1868)
1796 - James Lick, American land baron (d. 1876)
1802 - Nikolaus Lenau, Austrian poet (d. 1850)
1803 - Luís Alves de Lima e Silva, the Duque de Caxias, Brazilian military leader
1819 - Allan Pinkerton, American private detective (d. 1884)
1836 - Bret Harte, American writer (d. 1902)
1841 - Emil Theodor Kocher, Swiss medical researcher; Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1917)
1845 - King Ludwig II of Bavaria (d. 1886)
1867 - James W. Gerard, American jurist and diplomat (d. 1951)
1868 - Nikolaos Levidis, Greek shooter
1882 - Seán T. O'Kelly, Irish politician (d. 1966)
1893 - Henry Trendley Dean, American dental researcher (d. 1962)
1898 - Helmut Hasse, German mathematician (d. 1975)
1900 - Hans Adolf Krebs, German physician and biochemist; Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1981)
1902 - Stefan Wolpe, German-born composer (d. 1972)
1903 - Arpad Elo, American chess writer (d. 1992)
1905 - Faustina Kowalska, Polish mystic (d. 1938)
1909 - Michael Rennie, English actor (d. 1971)
1909 - Ruby Keeler, Canadian singer and actress (d. 1993)
1911 - Vo Nguyen Giap (Võ Nguyên Giáp), Vietnamese general and statesman
1912 - Erich Honecker, East German politician (d. 1994)
1913 - Walt Kelly, American cartoonist (d. 1973)
1913 - Don DeFore, American actor (d. 1993)
1915 - Walter Trampler, American violist (d. 1997)
1916 - Saburo Sakai, Japanese aviator (d. 2000)
1916 - Frederick Chapman Robbins, American pediatrician and virologist; Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2003)
1916 - Van Johnson, American actor
1917 - Mel Ferrer, Cuban-American actor, film director and film producer (d. 2008)
1918 - Leonard Bernstein, American conductor and composer (d. 1990)
1918 - Richard Greene, English actor (d. 1985)
1919 - George Wallace, American politician (d. 1998)
1921 - Monty Hall, Canadian-born game show host
1921 - Brian Moore, Irish-born writer (d. 1999)
1921 - Bryce Mackasey, Canadian politician (d. 1999)
1925 - Thea Astley, Australian writer, (d. 2004)
1927 - Althea Gibson, American tennis player (d. 2003)
1928 - Herbert Kroemer, German-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
1928 - Darrell Johnson, American baseball player (d. 2004)
1930 - Sean Connery, Scottish actor
1930 - Graham Jarvis, Canadian actor (d. 2003)
1930 - Bruce Allpress, New Zealand actor
1931 - Hal Fishman, Los Angeles based local news anchor. (d. 2007)
1931 - Regis Philbin, American television host
1933 - Tom Skerritt, American actor
1933 - Wayne Shorter, American jazz musician
1934 - Lise Bacon, French Canadian politician
1934 - Eddie Ilarde, Filipino disk jockey, television host, and Senator
1935 - Charles Wright, American poet
1938 - David Canary, American actor
1938 - Frederick Forsyth, English author
1939 - John Badham, American film director
1940 - José Van Dam, Belgian baritone
1944 - Jacques Demers, Canadian hockey coach
1944 - Conrad Black, newspaper magnate
1944 - Anthony Heald, American actor
1946 - Rollie Fingers, American baseball player
1946 - Charles Ghigna (Father Goose), American poet and Children's Author
1946 - Charlie Sanders, American football player
1949 - Fariborz Lachini, Canadian-Iranian composer
1949 - Gene Simmons, Israeli-born musician (Kiss)
1949 - John Savage, American actor
1949 - Martin Amis, English novelist
1950 - Charles Fambrough, American jazz musician
1951 - Rob Halford, English singer (Judas Priest)
1951 - Bill Handel, American radio personality
1952 - Geoff Downes, English keyboardist (Buggles, Yes, Asia)
1954 - Elvis Costello, English musician
1956 - Henri Toivonen, Finnish rally driver
1958 - Christian LeBlanc, American actor
1958 - Tim Burton, American film director
1960 - Ashley Crow, American actress
1961 - Billy Ray Cyrus, American singer and actor
1961 - Joanne Whalley, British actress
1962 - David Packer, American actor
1962 - Vivian Campbell, Irish musician (Def Leppard, Whitesnake, Dio)
1964 - Marti Noxon, American television writer and producer
1964 - Vassilios Kotronias, Greek chess grandmaster
1964 - Blair Underwood, American actor
1964 - Maxim Kontsevich, Russian mathematician
1965 - Mia Zapata, American singer (The Gits) (d. 1994)
1966 - Robert Maschio, American Actor ("The Todd" in Scrubs)
1966 - Derek Sherinian, American keyboardist
1966 - Albert Belle, American Major League Baseball player
1967 - Jeff Tweedy, American singer (Wilco)
1968 - Spider One, American musician (Powerman 5000)
1968 - Rachael Ray, American chef and television personality
1968 - Takeshi Ueda, Japanese singer and composer
1968 - Stuart Murdoch, Scottish musician (Belle & Sebastian)
1968 - Yuri Mitsui, Japanese actress, model and racing driver
1968 - Rafet El Roman, Turkish singer and composer
1969 - Cameron Mathison, Canadian actor
1970 - Claudia Schiffer, German model
1970 - Jo Dee Messina, American country music singer
1970 - Robert Horry, American basketball player
1971 - Mike Lockwood, professional wrestler (d. 2003)
1971 - Thalia Sodi, Mexican actress and singer
1972 - Marvin Harrison, American football player
1973 - Fatih Akin, Turkish-German film director
1973 - Olavi Mikkonen, Swedish heavy metal guitarist (Amon Amarth)
1974 - Pablo Ozuna, Dominican baseball player
1974 - Dave Luza, Dutch comedian
1974 - Eric Millegan, American actor
1975 - Jeremy Horn, American MMA Fighter
1976 - Alexander Skarsgård, Swedish actor
1977 - Sophie Cadieux, Quebec actress
1977 - Diego Corrales, American boxer (d. 2007)
1977 - Jonathan Togo, American actor
1978 - Kel Mitchell, American actor
1979 - Marlon Harewood, English footballer
1980 - Neal Musser, American baseball player
1981 - Rachel Bilson, American actress
1981 - Clare Oliver, Australian cancer activist (d. 2007)
1983 - James Righton, Musician (Klaxons)
1983 - James Rossiter, British racing driver
1983 - Janet Chow, Miss Hong Kong 2006 Runner-Up
1987 - Liu Yifei, Chinese actress and singer
1987 - James Wesolowski, Australian soccer player
1987 - Justin Upton, American baseball player
1987 - Blake Lively, American actress
1987 - Stacey Farber, Canadian actress
1988 - Angela Park, Brazilian golfer
1988 - Raymond Quinn, English singer
1992 - Miyabi Natsuyaki, Japanese singer
1994 - Josh Flitter, American actor
1997 - Holly Gibbs, English child actor
1998 - China Anne McClain, American actress

Famous Births on 24 Aug

Famous Births on 24 Aug

1113 - Geoffrey of Anjou, Count of Anjou (d. 1151)
1198 - King Alexander II of Scotland (d. 1249)
1358 - King John I of Castile (d. 1390)
1393 - Arthur III, Duke of Brittany (d. 1458)
1552 - Lavinia Fontana, Italian painter (d. 1614)
1580 - John Taylor, English poet (d. 1654)
1591 - Robert Herrick, English poet (d. 1674)
1635 - Peder Griffenfeld, Danish statesman (d. 1699)
1669 - Alessandro Marcello, Italian composer (d. 1747)
1707 - Selina Hastings, Countess of Huntingdon, English Evangelical Revivalist (d. 1791)
1750 - Letizia Ramolino, mother of Napoleon Bonaparte (d. 1836)
1758 - Sophia Frederica of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, queen of Denmark and Norway (d. 1794)
1759 - William Wilberforce, English abolitionist (d. 1833)
1772 - King William I of the Netherlands (d. 1840)
1787 - James Weddell, English explorer of Antarctica (d. 1834)
1817 - Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy, Russian writer (d. 1875)
1837 - Théodore Dubois, French composer and teacher (d. 1924)
1845 - James C. Calhoun, American soldier, brother-in-law of George Armstrong Custer (d. 1876)
1852 - Deacon White, American baseball player (d. 1919)
1863 - Dragutin Lerman, Croatian explorer (d. 1918)
1865 - King Ferdinand I of Romania (d. 1927)
1872 - Max Beerbohm, British caricaturist (d. 1956)
1880 - Joshua Lionel Cowen, American entrepreneur (d. 1965)
1884 - Earl Derr Biggers, American author (d. 1933)
1887 - Harry Hooper, American baseball player (d. 1974)
1890 - Duke Kahanamoku, American swimmer and surfer (d. 1968)
1890 - Jean Rhys, British writer (d. 1979)
1895 - Richard Cardinal Cushing, archbishop of Boston (d. 1970)
1897 - Fred Rose, American songwriter and publishing executive (d. 1954)
1898 - Malcolm Cowley, American literary critic (d. 1989)
1899 - Jorge Luis Borges, Argentine writer (d. 1986)
1899 - Gaylord DuBois, American comic book writer (d. 1993)
1899 - Albert Claude, Belgian biologist, Nobel laureate (d. 1983)
1901 - Preston Foster, American actor (d. 1970)
1902 - Carlo Gambino, Sicilian-born American mafioso (d. 1976)
1902 - Fernand Braudel, French historian (d. 1985)
1903 - Karl Hanke, Nazi official (d. 1945)
1904 - Alice White, American actress (d. 1983)
1905 - Siaka Stevens, President of Sierra Leone (d. 1988)
1905 - Arthur Crudup, American singer and guitarist (d. 1976)
1911 - Lofty England, English automotive engineer and race team manager (d.1995)
1912 - Durward Kirby, American television personality (d. 2000)
1915 - James Tiptree, Jr., American writer (d. 1987)
1916 - Hal Smith, American actor (d. 1994)
1916 - Léo Ferré, French composer and singer (d. 1993)
1917 - Dennis James, American game show host (d. 1997)
1918 - Sikander Bakht, Governor of Kerala (d. 2004)
1921 - Sam Tingle, Zimbabwean racing driver
1922 - René Lévesque, Premier of Quebec (d. 1987)
1922 - Howard Zinn, American historian and activist
1923 - Arthur Jensen, American psychologist
1927 - Harry Markowitz, American economist, Nobel laureate
1927 - David Ireland, Australian author
1929 - Yasser Arafat, Palestinian leader (d. 2004)
1934 - Kenny Baker, English actor
1936 - A. S. Byatt, English novelist
1936 - Kenny Guinn, American Governor, Nevada
1937 - Moshood Kashimawo Olawale Abiola, Nigerian politician (d. 1998)
1938 - Halldór Blöndal, Icelandic politician
1938 - David Freiberg, American bassist (Quicksilver Messenger Service and Jefferson Starship)
1938 - Mason Williams, American guitarist and composer
1940 - Francine Lalonde, Quebec politician
1942 - Howard Jacobson, British novelist and newspaper columnist
1942 - Max Cleland, American politician
1943 - John Cipollina, American guitarist (Quicksilver Messenger Service) (d. 1989)
1943 - Pini Zahavi, Israeli football agent
1944 - Bill Goldsworthy, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1996)
1944 - Gregory Jarvis, American astronaut (d. 1986)
1945 - Ken Hensley, English musician (Uriah Heep)
1945 - Vince McMahon, American professional wrestling promoter
1947 - Anne Archer, American Actress
1947 - Vladimir Masorin, Russian admiral
1947 - Roger De Vlaeminck, Belgian cyclist
1947 - Paulo Coelho, Brazilian author
1948 - Jean-Michel Jarre, French musician
1948 - Kim Sung-Il, Chief of Staff of Republic of Korea Air Force
1949 - Charles Rocket, American actor (d. 2005)
1949 - Joe Regalbuto, American actor
1950 - Tim White, American anthropologist
1951 - Orson Scott Card, American writer
1951 - Oscar Hijuelos, Pulitzer Prize winning author
1952 - Bob Corker, American politician
1952 - Mike Shanahan, American football coach
1953 - Ron Holloway, American tenor saxophonist
1954 - Alain Daigle, French Canadian ice hockey player
1955 - Mike Huckabee, American politician, Governor/Presidential candidate
1956 - John Culberson, American politician
1956 - Dick Lee, Singaporean singer-songwriter
1957 - Jeffrey Daniel, American dancer and singer (Shalamar)
1957 - Stephen Fry, English comedian and actor
1958 - Chris Offutt, American author
1958 - Tracy Harris, American artist
1958 - Steve Guttenberg, American actor
1959 - Linda Bollea, Wife of Professional wrestler Hulk Hogan
1960 - Cal Ripken, Jr., American baseball player
1960 - Kim Christofte, Danish footballer
1960 - Takashi Miike, Japanese filmmaker
1961 - Ingrid Berghmans, Belgian judoka
1962 - Craig Kilborn, American talk show host
1962 - David Koechner, American actor
1963 - Hideo Kojima, Japanese video game director
1963 - John Bush, American singer (Anthrax)
1964 - Salizhan Sharipov, Russian cosmonaut
1965 - Marlee Matlin, American actress
1965 - Brian Rajadurai, Sri Lankan cricketer
1965 - Reggie Miller, American basketball player
1967 - Michael Thomas, English Footballer
1968 - Tim Salmon, American baseball player
1968 - Benoit Brunet, French Canadian ice hockey player
1968 - Andreas Kisser, Brazilian guitarist (Sepultura)
1968 - Shoichi Funaki, Japanese professional wrestler
1970 - Tugay KerimoÄŸlu, Turkish footballer
1970 - Dan Henderson, American Mixed Martial Artist
1971 - Pierfrancesco Favino, Italian actor
1972 - Jean-Luc Brassard, Canadian freestyle skier
1973 - Andrew Brunette, Canadian ice hockey player
1973 - Carmine Giovinazzo, American actor
1973 - Inge de Bruijn, Dutch swimmer
1973 - Dave Chappelle, American actor and Comedian
1974 - Jennifer Lien, American actress
1974 - Orla Fallon, Irish Vocalist for Celtic Woman
1975 - Mark de Vries, Surinamese-Dutch footballer
1976 - Nordin Wooter, Dutch footballer
1977 - Jürgen Macho, Austrian footballer
1977 - John Green, American author/Nerdfighter
1977 - Per Gade, Danish footballer
1977 - Robert Enke, German footballer
1977 - Denílson, Brazilian footballer
1978 - Rafael Furcal, Dominican baseball player
1978 - Derek Morris, Canadian ice hockey player
1979 - Michael Redd, American basketball player
1979 - Elva Hsiao, Taiwanese singer
1980 - Sonja Bennett, Canadian actress
1981 - Mercedes Scelba - Shorte, American model
1981 - Jiro Wang Dong Cheng, Taiwanese singer, actor
1981 - Chad Michael Murray, American actor
1982 - Kim Kallstrom, Swedish footballer
1983 - Marcel Goc, German ice hockey player
1983 - Christopher Parker, British actor
1985 - Destiny Davis, Playboy Playmate
1987 - Anže Kopitar, Slovenian ice hockey player
1987 - Jon Scheyer, American basketball player
1988 - Rupert Grint, English actor
1995 - Runa Tsukishima, Japanese child model
2003 - Alexandre Coste, son of Albert II, Prince of Monaco

Famous Births on 23 Aug

Famous Births on 23 Aug

1486 - Sigismund von Herberstein, Austrian diplomat and historian (d. 1566)
1524 - François Hotman, French lawyer and writer (d. 1590)
1623 - Stanisław Lubieniecki, Polish astronomer (d. 1675)
1724 - Abraham Yates, American Continental Congressman (d. 1796)
1741 - Jean-François de Galaup, comte de La Pérouse, French explorer (d. 1788)
1754 - King Louis XVI of France (d. 1793)
1769 - Georges Cuvier, French biologist and statesman (d. 1832)
1783 - William Tierney Clark, English civil engineer (d. 1852)
1785 - Oliver Hazard Perry, U.S. naval officer (d. 1819)
1805 - Anton von Schmerling, Austrian statesman (d. 1893)
1814 - James Roosevelt Bayley, first Bishop of Newark, New Jersey, and the eighth Archbishop of Baltimore (d. 1877)
1829 - Moritz Cantor, German mathematician (d. 1920)
1836 - Marie Henriette of Austria, Queen of the Belgians (d. 1902)
1843 - William Southam, Canadian newspaper publisher (d. 1932)
1846 - Alexander Milne Calder, American sculptor (d. 1923)
1847 - Sarah Frances Whiting, American physicist and astronomer (d. 1927)
1849 - William Ernest Henley, British poet, critic, and editor (d. 1903)
1852 - Arnold Toynbee, English economist and social reformer (d. 1883)
1852 - Clímaco Calderón, President of Colombia. (d. 1913)
1854 - Moritz Moszkowski, Polish/German composer (d. 1925)
1864 - Eleftherios Venizelos, Prime Minister of Greece (d.1936)
1868 - Edgar Lee Masters, American author (d. 1950)
1875 - Eugene Lanceray, Russian artist (d. 1946)
1875 - William Eccles, English radio pioneer (d. 1966)
1880 - Alexander Grin, Russian writer (d. 1932)
1883 - Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright IV, U.S. general (d. 1953)
1884 - Will Cuppy, American humorist (d. 1949)
1884 - Ogden L. Mills, U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, 1927-1932 (d. 1937)
1900 - Ernst Krenek, Austrian-born composer (d. 1991)
1900 - Malvina Reynolds, American folk singer/songwriter (d. 1978)
1901 - John Sherman Cooper, U.S. Senator from Kentucky (d. 1991)
1903 - William Primrose, Scottish violist (d. 1982)
1905 - Constant Lambert, British composer (d. 1951)
1908 - Hannah Frank, Scottish Artist and Sculptor
1910 - Giuseppe Meazza, Italian footballer (d. 1979)
1911 - Birger Ruud, Norwegian athlete (d. 1998)
1912 - Gene Kelly, American dancer and actor (d. 1996)
1917 - Tex Williams, American singer (d. 1985)
1919 - Vladimir Abramovich Rokhlin, Russian mathematician (d. 1984)
1921 - Kenneth Arrow, American economist, Bank of Sweden Prize winner
1922 - Pierre Gauvreau, Quebec painter, television writer and producer
1922 - Jean Darling, American child actress
1922 - George Kell, baseball player
1923 - Edgar F. Codd, English computer scientist (d. 2003)
1924 - Ephraim Kishon, Israeli writer (d. 2005)
1924 - Robert Solow, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate
1925 - Robert Mulligan, American movie and television director
1926 - Clifford Geertz, American anthropologist, (d. 2006)
1927 - Dick Bruna, Dutch illustrator
1928 - Marian Seldes, American actress
1929 - Vera Miles, American actress
1930 - Michel Rocard, Prime Minister of France
1931 - Hamilton O. Smith, American microbiologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
1932 - Houari Boumedienne, President of Algeria (d. 1978)
1932 - Mark Russell, American comedian, musician, and political commentator
1933 - Pete Wilson, Governor of California
1933 - Robert Curl, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
1934 - Barbara Eden, American actress and singer
1934 - Sonny Jurgensen, American football player
1936 - Henry Lee Lucas, American serial killer (d. 2001)
1943 - Nelson DeMille, American novelist
1944 - Antonia Novello, former United States Surgeon General
1945 - Rayfield Wright, American football player
1946 - Keith Moon, English singer and drummer (The Who) (d. 1978)
1947 - Willy Russell, British playwright
1947 - David Robb, British actor
1948 - Daniel Ruettiger "Rudy", University of Notre Dame football legend
1948 - Andrei PleÅŸu, Romanian writer, essayist
1949 - Katiana Balanika, Greek actress and singer
1949 - Geoff Capes, English Strongman
1949 - Shelley Long, American actress
1949 - Rick Springfield, Australian singer and actor
1951 - Jimi Jamison, American singer (Survivor)
1951 - Akhmad Kadyrov, President of Chechnya (d. 2004)
1951 - Queen Noor of Jordan
1952 - Vicky Leandros, Greek singer and politician
1953 - Bobby G, British singer (Bucks Fizz)
1954 - Charles Busch, American director, writer, actor and drag queen
1956 - Andreas Floer, German mathematician (d. 1991)
1956 - Valgerd Svarstad Haugland, Norwegian politician
1956 - Skipp Sudduth, American actor
1957 - Tasos Mitropoulos, Greek footballer and politician
1958 - Julio Franco, Atlanta Braves, oldest regular position player in MLB history
1959 - George Kalovelonis, Greek tennis player
1960 - Chris Potter, Canadian actor
1960 - Rodney Alan Greenblat, American graphic artist
1961 - Dean DeLeo, American musician (Stone Temple Pilots)
1961 - Gary Mabbutt, English footballer
1962 - Martin Cauchon, Canadian politician
1963 - Hans-Henning Fastrich, German field hockey player
1963 - Kenny Wallace, American race car driver
1963 - Park Chan-wook, Korean director and screenwriter
1964 - Kong Hee, Singaporean, Founder and Senior Pastor of the City Harvest movement in Asia
1964 - Johan Bruyneel, Belgian cyclist
1965 - Roger Avary, Canadian-born screenwriter, director, and producer
1966 - Rik Smits, Dutch-American basketball player
1968 - Chris DiMarco, American golfer
1969 - Geneviève Brouillette, Quebec television and film actress
1969 - Keith Tyson, English artist
1969 - Jeremy Schaap, American sportswriter
1970 - Brad Mehldau, American pianist
1970 - River Phoenix, American actor (d. 1993)
1970 - Jay Mohr, American actor and comedian
1971 - Demetrio Albertini, Italian footballer
1971 - BoneCrusher, American rapper
1972 - Martin Grainger, English footballer
1972 - Raul Casanova, Puerto Rican baseball player
1973 - Casey Blake, American baseball player
1974 - Christian Beranek, American graphic novelist and actor
1974 - Benjamin Limo, Kenyan runner
1974 - Shifty, American musician (Crazy Town)
1974 - Ray Park, Scottish actor
1975 - Eliza Carthy, English singer and fiddler
1975 - Jarkko Ruutu, Finnish ice hockey player
1976 - Scott Caan, American actor
1977 - Douglas Sequeira, Costa Rican footballer
1978 - Julian Casablancas, American musician
1978 - Kobe Bryant, American basketball player
1979 - Edgar Sosa, Mexican boxer
1980 - Denny Bautista, Dominican baseball player
1980 - Rex Grossman, American football player
1981 - Carlos Cuéllar, Spanish footballer
1981 - Ozzy Lusth, American Survivor contestant
1981 - Stephan Loboué, Ivorian footballer
1981 - Carmen Luvana, American pornographic actress.
1982 - Scott Palguta, professional soccer player
1982 - YTCracker, American musician
1982 - Natalie Coughlin, American swimmer
1983 - Sun Ming Ming, Chinese basketball player
1984 - Glen Johnson, English footballer
1986 - Neil Cicierega, American cartoonist and musician
1987 - Nikki Gil, Filipina actress, host and singer
1988 - Daniel Schwaab, German footballer
1995 - Eliza Pineda, Filipina child actress
686 - Charles Martel, grandfather of Charlemagne (d. 741)

Famous Births on 22 Aug

Famous Births on 22 Aug

1601 - Georges de Scudéry, French writer (d. 1667)
1624 - Jean Renaud de Segrais, French writer (d. 1701)
1647 - Denis Papin, French physicist and inventor (d. c. 1712)
1679 - Pierre Guérin de Tencin, French cardinal (d. 1758)
1760 - Pope Leo XII (d. 1829)
1764 - Charles Percier, French architect (d. 1838)
1771 - Henry Maudslay, English inventor (d. 1831)
1773 - Aimé Bonpland, French explorer (d. 1858)
1779 - James Kirke Paulding, American author (d. 1860)
1800 - William S. Harney, U.S. general (d. 1889)
1800 - Samuel David Luzzatto, Italian-Jewish scholar (d. 1865)
1811 - William Kelly, American inventor (d. 1888)
1822 - Virginia Clemm Poe, wife of Edgar Allan Poe (d. 1847)
1827 - Ezra Butler Eddy, Canadian businessman, industrialist and politician (d. 1906)
1834 - Samuel Pierpont Langley, American astronomer (d. 1906)
1836 - Archibald MacNeal Willard, American artist (d. 1918)
1845 - William Lewis Douglas, 42nd Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1924)
1848 - Melville E. Stone, American newspaper publisher (d. 1929)
1854 - Milan I, King of Serbia (d. 1901)
1857 - Ned Hanlon, American baseball player and manager (d. 1937)
1860 - Paul Gottlieb Nipkow, German inventor (d. 1940)
1860 - Eleonore of Reuss-Köstritz, tsaritsa of Bulgaria (d. 1917)
1862 - Claude Debussy, French composer (d. 1918)
1867 - Maximilian Bircher-Benner, Swiss physician and nutritionist (d. 1939)
1873 - Alexander Bogdanov, Russian physician and philosopher (d. 1928)
1874 - Max Scheler, German philosopher (d. 1928)
1880 - Gorch Fock, German author and poet (d. 1916)
1880 - George Herriman, American cartoonist (d. 1944)
1887 - Lutz Graf Schwerin von Krosigk, German minister of finance (d. 1977)
1891 - Jacques Lipchitz, Lithuanian-born American sculptor (d. 1973)
1893 - Dorothy Parker, American writer (d. 1967)
1893 - Wilfred Kitching, British Salvation Army general (d. 1977)
1895 - Paul Comtois, French Canadian politician (d. 1966)
1900 - Sergei Ozhegov, Russian lexicographer (d. 1964)
1902 - Thomas Pelly, American politician (d. 1973)
1902 - Leni Riefenstahl, German film director (d. 2003)
1904 - Deng Xiaoping, Premier of the People's Republic of China (d. 1997)
1908 - Henri Cartier-Bresson, French photographer (d. 2004)
1909 - Julius J. Epstein, American screenwriter (d. 2000)
1909 - Mel Hein, American football player (d. 1992)
1909 - Lucille Ricksen, American actress (d. 1925)
1913 - Bruno Pontecorvo, Italian physicist (d. 1993)
1915 - Edward Szczepanik, former Polish Prime Minister (d. 2005)
1915 - James Hillier, Co-inventor of the electron microscope (d. 2007)
1915 - Hugh Paddick, British actor (d. 2000)
1915 - David Dellinger, American social rights and peace movement leader (d. 2004)
1917 - John Lee Hooker, American guitarist and singer (d. 2001)
1918 - Mary McGrory, American journalist (d. 2004)
1920 - Ray Bradbury, American writer
1920 - Denton Cooley, American heart surgeon
1922 - Micheline Presle, French actress
1925 - James Kirkwood, Jr., American playwright and author (d. 1989)
1925 - Honor Blackman, English actress
1928 - Tinga Seisay, Sierra Leonean diplomat and pro-democracy advocate
1928 - Karlheinz Stockhausen, German composer (d. 2007)
1930 - Gilmar, Brazilian football player
1932 - Gerald P. Carr, American astronaut
1934 - Norman Schwarzkopf, U.S. general
1934 - Sir Donald McIntyre, English bass-baritone
1935 - E. Annie Proulx, American author
1936 - Dale Hawkins, American singer and songwriter
1938 - Paul Maguire, American football commentator
1939 - George Reinholt, American actor
1939 - Carl Yastrzemski, baseball player
1940 - Valerie Harper, American actress
1940 - Bill McCartney, former college football coach
1941 - Bill Parcells, American football coach
1942 - UÄŸur Mumcu, Turkish journalist and writer (d. 1993)
1943 - Masatoshi Shima, Japanese computer scientist
1945 - Erol Gelenbe, Turkish computer scientist and mathematician
1945 - Ron Dante, American songwriter and record producer (The Archies)
1947 - Cindy Williams, American actress
1947 - Donna Godchaux, singer (Grateful Dead)
1948 - Eleonora Brown, Italian actress
1949 - Diana Nyad, American swimmer, world record holder
1949 - Doug Bair, baseball player
1949 - Þórarinn Eldjárn, an Icelandic writer
1949 - Alfred Musema, Rwandan genocidaire
1950 - Ray Burris, baseball player
1951 - Chandra Prakash Mainali, Nepalese politician
1952 - Peter Laughner, American singer and guitarist (Rocket From the Tombs, Pere Ubu) (d. 1977)
1953 - Paul Ellering, American wrestling manager
1955 - Will Shetterly, writer
1955 - Chiranjeevi, Telugu film actor
1956 - Paul Molitor, baseball player
1957 - Steve Davis, English snooker player
1958 - Vernon Reid, American musician (Living Colour)
1958 - Lane Huffman, American professional wrestler
1958 - Colm Feore, American-born actor
1959 - Juan Croucier, American musician
1959 - Pia Gjellerup, Danish politician
1961 - Roland Orzabal, British musician (Tears for Fears)
1961 - Debbi Peterson, American singer (The Bangles)
1963 - Tori Amos, American singer/songwriter
1963 - Terry Catledge, American basketball player
1964 - Mats Wilander, Swedish tennis player
1965 - Tom Gibis, American voice actor
1966 - Eric Andolsek, American football player (d. 1992)
1966 - GZA, American rapper
1966 - Rob Witschge, Dutch footballer
1967 - Yukiko Okada, Japanese singer (d. 1986)
1967 - Alfred Gough, American screenwriter
1967 - Ty Burrell, American actor
1967 - Ant, American comedian
1967 - Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, British actor
1967 - Layne Staley, American musician (Alice in Chains) (d. 2002)
1968 - Paul Colman, Australian guitarist (Newsboys)
1968 - Alexander Mostovoi, Russian footballer
1968 - Horst Skoff, Austrian tennis player
1968 - Rich Lowry, American magazine editor
1970 - Giada De Laurentiis, Italian-born American chef and television host
1970 - Charlie Connelly, English writer
1971 - Richard Armitage, English actor
1971 - Rick Yune, Korean American actor
1972 - Steve Kline, American baseball player
1972 - Okkert Brits, South African pole vaulter
1972 - Max Wilson, Brazilian racing driver
1973 - Kristen Wiig, American comedian
1973 - Howie Dorough, American singer (Backstreet Boys)
1974 - Stefano Verderi, Italian guitarman
1974 - Agustín Pichot, Argentine rugby player
1974 - William Kucmierowski, American professional wrestler
1975 - Clint Bolton, Australian footballer
1975 - Sheree Murphy, British actress
1975 - Rodrigo Santoro, Brazilian actor
1977 - Heiðar Helguson, Icelandic footballer
1977 - Keren Cytter, Israeli visual artist
1977 - Jenna Leigh Green, American actress
1978 - Jeff Stinco, Canadian musician (Simple Plan)
1980 - Nicolas Macrozonaris, French-Canadian track-and-field athlete
1980 - Roland Benschneider, German footballer
1980 - Christi Shake, American model and actress
1981 - Alex Holmes, American football player
1982 - Heather Campbell, Canadian writer
1983 - Theo Bos, Dutch cyclist
1983 - Laura Breckenridge, American actress
1984 - Lee Camp, English football goalkeeper
1986 - Keiko Kitagawa, Japanese actress

Famous Births on 21 Aug

Famous Births on 21 Aug

1165 - King Philip II of France (d. 1223)
1535 - Shimazu Yoshihiro, Japanese samurai and warlord (d. 1619)
1567 - Francis de Sales, Bishop of Geneva and saint (d. 1622)
1597 - Roger Twysden, English antiquarian and royalist (d. 1672)
1643 - King Afonso VI of Portugal (d. 1683)
1660 - Hubert Gautier, French scientist and civil engineer (d. 1737)
1665 - Giacomo F. Maraldi, French-Italian astronomer (d. 1729)
1670 - James FitzJames, 1st Duke of Berwick, French military leader (d. 1734)
1725 - Jean-Baptiste Greuze, French painter (d. 1805)
1754 - William Murdoch, Scottish inventor (d. 1839)
1754 - Banastre Tarleton, British soldier and politician (d. 1833)
1765 - William IV of the United Kingdom (d. 1837)
1789 - Augustin Louis Cauchy, French mathematician (d. 1857)
1798 - Jules Michelet, French historian (d. 1874)
1800 - Hiram Walden, American politician (d. 1880)
1801 - Guillaume Groen van Prinsterer, Dutch politician (d. 1876)
1813 - Jean Stas, Belgian chemist (d. 1891)
1816 - Charles Frédéric Gerhardt, French chemist (d. 1856)
1826 - Karl Gegenbaur, German anatomist (d. 1903)
1872 - Aubrey Beardsley, English illustrator (d. 1898)
1891 - Emiliano Mercado del Toro, World's oldest living man 2004-2007 (d. 2007)
1892 - Charles Vanel, French actor and director (d. 1989)
1904 - William "Count" Basie, American bandleader (d. 1984)
1906 - Friz Freleng, American movie animator (d. 1995)
1908 - M. M. Kaye, British writer (d. 2004)
1909 - Nikolay Bogolyubov, Russian mathematician (d. 1992)
1912 - Toe Blake, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (d. 1995)
1915 - Raquel Rastenni, Danish singer (d. 1998)
1918 - Billy Reay, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2004)
1920 - Christopher Robin Milne, inspiration for the Winnie-the-Pooh stories (d. 1996)
1924 - Jack Buck, American sports announcer (d. 2002)
1924 - Chris Schenkel, American sports journalist (d. 2005)
1924 - Jack Weston, American actor (d. 1996)
1925 - Maurice Pialat, French actor and director (d. 2003)
1925 - Jorge Rafael Videla, ex-dictator of Argentina
1927 - Thomas S. Monson, 16th president of the (Mormon) Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
1928 - Art Farmer, American trumpet player (d. 1999)
1929 - Marie Severin, American comic book artist and colorist
1929 - X. J. Kennedy, American poet
1930 - Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon (d. 2002)
1930 - Frank Perry, American film director (d. 1995)
1932 - Melvin Van Peebles, American actor and screenwriter
1933 - Janet Baker, English mezzo-soprano
1934 - Paul Panhuysen, Dutch composer, visual and sound artist
1936 - Radish Tordia, Painter Of Figurative Art From Georgia
1936 - Wilt Chamberlain, American basketball player (d. 1999)
1937 - Robert Stone, American novelist
1938 - Kenny Rogers, American singer and actor
1939 - James Burton, American guitarist
1939 - Clarence Williams III, American actor
1939 - Festus Mogae, president of Botswana
1943 - Hugh Wilson, American director, writer and actor
1944 - Jackie DeShannon, American singer
1944 - Peter Weir, Australian film director
1944 - Perry Christie, former prime minister of the Bahamas
1945 - Jerry DaVanon, baseball player
1945 - Basil Poledouris, American film score composer (d. 2006)
1949 - Loretta Devine, American actress
1950 - Patrick Juvet, Swiss singer
1951 - Eric Goles, Chilean mathematician and computer scientist
1951 - Char Margolis, American medium
1951 - Harry Smith, American television journalist
1951 - Margo Kane, Canadian playwright.
1952 - Joe Strummer, British musician and singer (The Clash) (d. 2002)
1952 - Glenn Hughes, British bassist and vocalist (Finders Keepers/Trapeze/Deep Purple)
1954 - Ivan Stang, American writer
1954 - Archie Griffin, former American football player and only two-time Heisman Trophy winner.
1956 - Kim Cattrall, English-born actress
1959 - Jim McMahon, American football player
1961 - David Morales, American disc jockey
1961 - Stephen Hillenburg, American animator and cartoonist
1962 - Jeff Stryker, American actor
1963 - Richmond Arquette, American actor
1963 - King Mohammed VI of Morocco
1964 - Trinity Loren, American actress and model (d. 1998)
1965 - Jim Bullinger, American baseball player
1966 - John Wetteland, Major League Baseball player
1967 - Carrie-Anne Moss, Canadian actress
1967 - Serj Tankian, Armenian-born singer (System of a Down)
1967 - Darren Bewick, AFL footballer
1969 - Josée Chouinard, Canadian figure skater
1970 - Nathan Jones, American professional wrestler
1970 - Erik Dekker, Dutch cyclist
1971 - Liam Howlett, British musician (The Prodigy)
1971 - Matthew Noonan, American Concert Organist
1971 - Robert Harvey, Australian Rules Footballer (St Kilda Football Club)
1973 - Sergey Brin, Co-founder of Google
1973 - Steve McKenna, Canadian ice hockey player
1975 - Alicia Witt, American actress
1975 - Simon Katich, Australian cricketer
1976 - Alex Brooks, American ice hockey player
1976 - Jeff Cunningham, Jamaican American soccer player
1978 - Peter Buxton, English rugby union player
1978 - Lee Gronkiewicz, American baseball player
1978 - Alan Lee, Irish footballer
1978 - Jason Marquis, American baseball player
1978 - Reuben Droughns, American football player
1979 - Kelis Rogers-Jones, American singer
1980 - Burney Lamar, American race car driver
1980 - Paul Menard, NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Driver
1981 - Collie Buddz, (Colin Harper) Reggae & Dancehall artist
1981 - Andreas Glyniadakis, Greek basketball player
1983 - Josh Harrington, American professional BMX rider
1983 - Chantelle Houghton, British TV personality
1983 - Brody Jenner, American actor
1983 - Scott McDonald, Australian footballer
1984 - B.J. Upton, American baseball player
1984 - Melissa Schuman, American actress
1984 - Alizée Jacotey, French singer
1984 - Neil Dexter, South African cricketer
1986 - Usain Bolt, Jamaican sprinter
1987 - Kim Kibum, one of the member of Korean boy band Super junior. actor and singer
1988 - Louise Setara, English singer-songwriter
1988 - Paris Bennett, American singer and finalist on American Idol (season 5)
1989 - Hayden Panettiere, American actress, model and singer
1996 - Jamia Simone Nash, American singer and actress

Famous Births on 20 Aug

Famous Births on 20 Aug

1517 - Antoine Perrenot de Granvelle, French church leader (d. 1586)
1561 - Jacopo Peri, Italian composer (d. 1633)
1625 - Thomas Corneille, French dramatist (d. 1709)
1632 - Louis Bourdaloue, French Jesuit preacher (d. 1704)
1710 - Thomas Simpson, British mathematician (d. 1761)
1719 - Christian Mayer, Czech astronomer (d. 1783)
1719 - Charles-François de Broglie, marquis de Ruffec, French soldier and diplomat (d. 1791)
1776 - Bernardo O'Higgins, South American revolutionary (d. 1842)
1779 - Jöns Jakob Berzelius, Swedish chemist (d. 1848)
1833 - Benjamin Harrison, 23rd President of the United States (d. 1901)
1845 - St. Albert Chmielowski, Polish Catholic Saint (d. 1916)
1847 - Bolesław Prus, Polish writer (d. 1912)
1856 - Jakub Bart-Ćišinski, Sorbian writer (d. 1909)
1860 - Raymond Poincaré, French statesman (d. 1934)
1868 - Ellen Roosevelt, American tennis player (d. 1954)
1873 - Gottlieb Eliel Saarinen, Finnish architect (d. 1950)
1881 - Edgar Guest, English poet (d. 1959)
1886 - Paul Tillich, German-American theologian (d. 1965)
1890 - H. P. Lovecraft, American writer (d. 1937)
1897 - Tarjei Vesaas, Norwegian writer (d. 1970)
1898 - Vilhelm Moberg, Swedish author and historian (d. 1973)
1901 - Salvatore Quasimodo, Italian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1968)
1905 - Jack Teagarden, American musician (d. 1964)
1905 - Jean Gebser, German-born author, linguist, and poet (d. 1973)
1907 - Alan Reed, original voice of Fred Flintstone. (d. 1977)
1908 - Al Lopez, American baseball player and manager (d. 2005)
1910 - Eero Saarinen, Finnish architect (d. 1961)
1913 - Roger Wolcott Sperry, American neurobiologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1994)
1916 - Paul Felix Schmidt, Estonian-German chess player (d. 1984)
1918 - Jacqueline Susann, American novelist (d. 1974)
1923 - Jim Reeves, American singer (d. 1964)
1926 - Nobby Wirkowski, American and Canadian football player and coach
1927 - Geriatric1927, English video blogger
1927 - Yootha Joyce, English actress (d. 1980)
1930 - Mario Bernardi, Canadian conductor
1931 - Don King, American Boxing Promoter
1932 - Anthony Ainley, British actor (d. 2004)
1932 - Vasily Aksyonov, Russian novelist
1933 - George J. Mitchell, former United States Senator
1934 - Armi Kuusela, Finnish beauty queen
1936 - Hideki Shirakawa, Japanese chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
1937 - Andrei Konchalovsky, Russian film director
1937 - El Fary, Spanish singer and actor (d. 2007)
1937 - Jim Bowen, English comedian
1938 - Alain Vivien, French politician
1939 - Fernando Poe Jr., Filipino actor and politician (d. 2004)
1940 - Rubén Hinojosa, American politician
1941 - Slobodan Milošević, President of Serbia and of Yugoslavia (d. 2006)
1941 - Rich Brooks, American football coach
1941 - Dave Brock, British musician and founder of Hawkwind
1941 - Robin Oakley, British journalist
1941 - Jo Ramirez, Mexican motor racing team manager and author
1942 - Isaac Hayes, American singer, songwriter, and actor (d. 2008)
1942 - Fred Norman, American baseball player
1943 - Sylvester McCoy, Scottish actor
1944 - Rajiv Gandhi, Prime Minister of India (d. 1991)
1946 - Connie Chung, American journalist
1946 - Ralf Hütter, German musician (Kraftwerk)
1946 - N.R. Narayana Murthy, Indian businessman
1947 - Alan Lee, English conceptual artist
1948 - John Noble, Australian actor
1948 - Robert Plant,British Musician (Led Zeppelin)
1949 - Phil Lynott, Irish musician (d. 1986)
1949 - Nikolas Asimos, Greek composer and singer (d. 1988)
1949 - Norman Featherstone, South African cricketer
1949 - Alan Hardwick, English TV presenter
1951 - Greg Bear, American author
1952 - John Emburey, English cricketer
1952 - Doug Fieger, American musician (The Knack)
1952 - John Hiatt, American musician
1954 - Tawn Mastrey, American disc jockey (d. 2007)
1954 - Al Roker, American television personality
1954 - Don Stark, American actor
1955 - Agnes Chan, Hong Kong singer and writer
1956 - Joan Allen, American actress
1957 - Finlay Calder, Scottish rugby player
1961 - Joe Pasquale, English comedian
1961 - Greg Egan, Australian author
1962 - Sophie Aldred, English actress
1962 - James Marsters, American actor
1962 - Dong-Wook Song, South Korean tennis player
1965 - KRS-One, American rapper
1966 - Dimebag Darrell, American guitarist (Pantera and Damageplan) (d. 2004)
1967 - Terri Poch, American yogini and former professional wrestler
1967 - Colin Cunningham, American actor
1967 - Andy Benes, American baseball player
1968 - Klas Ingesson, Swedish footballer
1968 - Yuri Shiratori, Japanese voice actress and singer
1969 - Duke Droese, American professional wrestler
1970 - Els Callens, Belgian tennis player
1970 - John D. Carmack, American computer game programmer
1970 - Fred Durst, American singer (Limp Bizkit)
1971 - David Walliams, British comedian
1971 - Steve Stone, English footballer
1971 - Jonathan Ke Quan, Vietnamese American actor
1971 - Brad Avery, American musician (guitarist for Third Day)
1973 - Todd Helton, American baseball player
1974 - Andy Strachan, Australian musician (The Living End)
1974 - Szabolcs Sáfár, Hungarian footballer
1974 - Maxim Vengerov, Russian violinist
1974 - Big Moe, American rapper (d. 2007)
1974 - Amy Adams, American actress
1975 - Marcus Mastin, American author
1976 - Chris Drury, American hockey player
1977 - Felipe Contepomi, Argentine rugby player
1977 - Manuel Contepomi, Argentine rugby player
1977 - Ivar Ingimarsson, Icelandic footballer
1977 - Mayra Veronica, Cuban model and actress
1979 - Cory Sullivan, American baseball player
1980 - Rochelle Gadd, British actress
1980 - Corey Carrier, American actor
1981 - Bernard Mendy, French footballer
1981 - Benjamin Barnes, English actor (Prince Caspian)
1982 - Joshua Kennedy, Australian footballer
1982 - Youssouf Hersi, Ethiopian footballer
1982 - Cléber Luis Alberti, Brazilian footballer
1984 - Mirai Moriyama, Japanese actor
1986 - Robert Clark, Canadian actor
1987 - Cătălina Ponor, Romanian gymnast
1990 - Ranomi Kromowidjojo, Dutch swimmer
1991 - Marko Đoković, Serbian tennis player
1992 - Demi Lovato, American Actress
2003 - Prince Gabriel of Belgium

Famous Births on 19 Aug

Famous Births on 19 Aug

1342 - Katharine of Bohemia, Duchess of Bavaria (d. 1395)
1398 - Marqués de Santillana, Spanish poet (d. 1458)
1557 - Frederick I, Duke of Württemberg (d. 1608)
1590 - Henry Rich, 1st Earl of Holland, English soldier (d. 1649)
1596 - Elizabeth Stuart, Electress Palatine and Queen of Bohemia (d. 1662)
1621 - Gerbrand van den Eeckhout, Dutch painter (d. 1674)
1631 - John Dryden, English poet (d. 1700)
1646 - John Flamsteed, English astronomer (d. 1719)
1686 - Nicola Porpora, Italian composer (d. 1768)
1686 - Eustace Budgell, English writer (d. 1737)
1689 - Samuel Richardson, English writer (d. 1761)
1711 - Edward Boscawen, British admiral (d. 1761)
1743 - Madame du Barry, French courtesan (d. 1793)
1846 - Luis Martín, Spanish Superior-General of the Society of Jesus (d. 1906)
1848 - Gustave Caillebotte, French Painter (d. 1894)
1853 - Aleksei Brusilov, Russian general (d. 1926)
1870 - Bernard Baruch, American financier (d. 1965)
1871 - Orville Wright, American aviation pioneer (d. 1948)
1875 - Stjepan Seljan, Croatian explorer (d. 1936)
1878 - Manuel Quezon, President of the Philippines (d. 1944)
1881 - George Enescu, Romanian composer (d. 1955)
1883 - José Mendes Cabeçadas, 95th Prime Minister of Portugal and 9th President of Portugal (d. 1965)
1883 - Coco Chanel, French clothing designer (d. 1971)
1883 - Elsie Ferguson, American film actress (d. 1961)
1892 - Alfred Lunt, American actor (d. 1977)
1896 - Olga Baclanova, Russian-born actress (d. 1974)
1899 - Charlie Hall, English comedian actor (d. 1959)
1900 - Gilbert Ryle, British philosopher (d. 1976)
1902 - Ogden Nash, American poet (d. 1971)
1902 - J. B. L. Reyes, Filipino jurist (d. 1994)
1903 - James Gould Cozzens, American novelist (d. 1978)
1906 - Philo Farnsworth, American inventor (d. 1971)
1907 - Thruston B. Morton, American politician (d. 1982)
1912 - Austin Dobson, British racing driver (d. 1963)
1913 - Richard Simmons, American actor (d. 2003)
1913 - John Argyris, Greek aeronautical engineer, one of the creators of the Finite Element Method (d. 2004)
1914 - Lajos Baróti, Hungarian footballer (d. 2005)
1915 - Ring Lardner Jr, American journalist and screenwriter (d. 2000)
1915 - Alfred Rouleau, French Canadian businessman and administrator (Desjardins Group) (d. 1985)
1919 - Malcolm Forbes, American publisher (d. 1990)
1921 - Gene Roddenberry, American television producer (d. 1991)
1925 - Claude Gauvreau, Canadian playwright (d. 1971)
1926 - Arthur Rock, American venture capitalist
1928 - Bernard Levin, English journalist, author, and broadcaster (d. 2004)
1928 - Norman Brooks, Canadian singer (d. 2006)
1930 - Frank McCourt, Irish-American author
1931 - Willie Shoemaker, American jockey (d. 2003)
1932 - Thomas P. Salmon, 75th Governor of Vermont
1934 - Renée Richards, American physician
1935 - Bobby Richardson, American baseball player
1938 - Diana Muldaur, American actress
1939 - Ginger Baker, English drummer (Cream)
1940 - Johnny Nash, American singer-songwriter
1940 - Jill St. John, American actress
1942 - Fred Thompson, American politician and actor
1943 - Billy J. Kramer, British singer
1944 - Buzz Kilman, Chicago radio personality
1944 - Bodil Malmsten, Swedish writer
1944 - Charles Wang, Chinese-born philanthropist
1945 - Ian Gillan, English singer (Deep Purple)
1946 - Bill Clinton, Former American president
1946 - Beat Raaflaub, Swiss conductor
1946 - Dawn Steel, American film producer (d. 1997)
1947 - Gerard Schwarz, American conductor
1947 - Terry Hoeppner, American football coach (d. 2007)
1947 - Dave Dutton, English actor
1948 - Gerald McRaney, American actor
1948 - Tipper Gore, Second Lady of the United States
1950 - Jennie Bond, British journalist
1951 - John Deacon, English musician (Queen)
1951 - Gustavo Santaolalla, Argentine film composer
1952 - Jonathan Frakes, American actor and director
1953 - Mary Matalin, American political consultant
1953 - Nanni Moretti, Italian film actor, director and producer
1954 - Oscar Larrauri, Argentine racing driver
1955 - Peter Gallagher, American actor
1955 - Ned Yost, American baseball player and manager
1956 - Adam Arkin, American actor
1957 - Li-Young Lee, Indonesia-born American poet
1957 - Christine Soetewey, Belgian high jumper
1958 - Brendan Nelson, Australian politician
1958 - Gary Gaetti, American baseball player
1958 - Anthony Muñoz, American football player
1959 - Ricky Pierce, American basketball player
1959 - Susan Cummings, Monegasque-born American heiress and convicted murderer
1960 - Morten Andersen, American football player
1960 - Antonio Banderas, Spanish actor
1961 - Jonathan Coe, British author
1962 - Tammy Bruce, American political commentator
1962 - Valérie Kaprisky, French actress
1963 - Joey Tempest, Swedish singer (Europe)
1963 - Yip Sai Wing, Hong Kong musician (Beyond)
1963 - John Stamos, American actor
1965 - Kyra Sedgwick, American actress
1965 - Kevin Dillon, American actor
1965 - Maria de Medeiros, Portuguese actress and director
1966 - Lee Ann Womack, American musician
1968 - Mark McGuinn, country music singer
1968 - Nikolaos Kaklamanakis, Greek windsurfer
1969 - Clay Walker, American singer
1969 - Patrick Van Horn, American actor
1969 - Kazuyoshi Tatsunami, Japanese baseball player
1969 - Matthew Perry, Canadian actor
1969 - Paula Jai Parker, American actress
1969 - Emigdio Preciado, Hispanic fugitive on FBI's Most Wanted list
1969 - Kirk Herbstreit, American football analyst (College GameDay)
1969 - Nate Dogg, American rapper
1970 - Fat Joe, American rapper
1971 - João Vieira Pinto, Portuguese football player
1972 - Roberto Abbondanzieri, Argentine footballer
1972 - Sammi Cheng Sau Man, Hong Kong singer and actress
1972 - Chihiro Yonekura, Japanese singer
1973 - Mette-Marit, Crown Princess of Norway
1973 - Callum Blue, British actor
1973 - Marco Materazzi, Italian footballer
1973 - Lilian Garcia, wrestling announcer
1975 - Chynna Clugston, American comic book creator
1975 - Tracie Thoms, American actress
1977 - Iban Mayo, Spanish cyclist
1978 - Chris Capuano, American baseball player
1979 - Dave Douglas, American musician (Relient K)
1979 - Oumar Kondé, Swiss footballer
1980 - Jun Jin, Korean rapper (Shinhwa)
1980 - Darius Danesh, Scottish singer-songwriter & actor
1980 - Paul Parry, Welsh footballer
1980 - Michael Todd, American musician (Coheed and Cambria)
1982 - Kevin Rans, Belgian pole vaulter
1982 - J. J. Hardy, American baseball player
1982 - Erika Christensen, American actress
1983 - Missy Higgins, Australian singer-songwriter
1983 - John McCargo, American football player
1983 - Tammin Sursok, Australian actress & singer
1983 - Mike Conway, British racing driver
1984 - Micah Alberti, American actor
1984 - Alessandro Matri, Italian footballer
1984 - Ryan Taylor, English footballer
1985 - Megan Rochell, American singer
1986 - Saori Kimura, Japanese volleyball player
1987 - Anaïs Lameche, Swedish singer (Play)
1987 - Ileana D'Cruz, Indian actress
1987 - Richard Stearman, English footballer
1988 - Travis Tedford, American actor
1989 - Romeo, American rapper
1998 - Ella Guevara, Filipino child actress

Famous Births on 18 Aug

Famous Births on 18 Aug

1414 - Jami, Persian poet (d. 1492)
1450 - Marko Marulić, Croatian poet (d. 1524)
1579 - Charlotte Flandrina of Nassau, Roman Catholic nun (died 1640)
1587 - Virginia Dare, first English child born in North America (d. 1588)
1596 - Jean Bolland, Flemish Jesuit writer (d. 1665)
1605 - Henry Hammond, English churchman (d. 1660)
1606 - Maria Anna of Spain, Holy Roman Empire Empress and Queen of Hungary (d. 1646)
1611 - Ludwika Maria Gonzaga, queen of Poland (d. 1650)
1657 - Ferdinando Galli Bibiena, Italian architect/designer (d. 1743)
1685 - Brook Taylor, English mathematician (d. 1731)
1692 - Louis Henri, Duc de Bourbon, Prime Minister of France (d. 1740)
1720 - Laurence Shirley, 4th Earl Ferrers, English murderer (d. 1760)
1750 - Antonio Salieri, Italian composer (d. 1825)
1754 - François, marquis de Chasseloup-Laubat, French general (d. 1833)
1774 - Meriwether Lewis, American explorer (d. 1809)
1792 - John Russell, 1st Earl Russell, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1878)
1803 - Nathan Clifford, American statesman, diplomat, and Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (d. 1881)
1819 - Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaievna, Duchess of Leuchtenberg (d. 1876)
1822 - Isaac P. Rodman, American Union general (d. 1862)
1830 - Emperor Franz Josef I of Austria (d. 1916)
1841 - William Halford, American naval officer (d. 1919)
1855 - Alfred Wallis, English artist and mariner (d. 1942)
1857 - Libert H. Boeynaems, Belgian Catholic prelate (d. 1926)
1870 - Lavr Georgevich Kornilov, Russian general (d. 1918)
1879 - Aleksandr Rodzyanko, Russian general (d. 1970)
1890 - Walther Funk, German Nazi politician (d. 1960)
1893 - Ernest MacMillan, Canadian musician (d. 1973)
1893 - Burleigh Grimes, baseball player (d. 1985)
1896 - Jack Pickford, Canadian-born actor (d. 1933)
1900 - Glenn Albert Black, American archaeologist (d. 1964)
1902 - Adamson-Eric, Estonian painter (d. 1968)
1903 - Lucienne Boyer, French singer (d. 1983)
1904 - Max Factor, Polish-born cosmetics entrepreneur (d. 1996)
1906 - Marcel Carné, French film director (d. 1996)
1908 - Edgar Faure, French politician and historian (d. 1988)
1909 - Gérard Filion, French Canadian businessman and journalist (d. 2005)
1913 - Romain Maes, Belgian cyclist (d. 1983)
1915 - Max Lanier, baseball player (d. 2007)
1916 - Dame Moura Lympany, British pianist (d. 2005)
1917 - Caspar Weinberger, American politician (d. 2006)
1918 - Cisco Houston, American folk singer (d. 1961)
1919 - Walter Joseph Hickel, 2nd and 8th Governor of Alaska
1920 - Bob Kennedy, baseball player (d. 2005)
1920 - Shelley Winters, American actress (d. 2006)
1921 - Zdzisław Żygulski, Jr., Polish art historian
1922 - Alain Robbe-Grillet, French writer
1925 - Brian Aldiss, English writer
1925 - Pierre Grondin, French Canadian cardiac surgeon (d. 2006)
1927 - Rosalynn Carter, First Lady of the United States
1928 - Marge Schott, baseball team owner (d. 2004)
1929 - Hugues Aufray, French singer
1930 - Liviu Librescu, Israeli professor, killed in the Virginia Tech massacre
1931 - Bramwell Tillsley, Canadian Salvation Army general
1931 - Dick White, English footballer
1932 - William R. Bennett, Premier of British Columbia
1933 - Roman Polanski, French-born director and actor
1933 - Just Fontaine, French footballer
1934 - Ronnie Carroll, British singer
1934 - Roberto Clemente, Puerto Rican baseball player and humanitarian (d. 1972)
1934 - Vincent Bugliosi, American attorney
1935 - Rafer Johnson, American athlete
1935 - Howard Morrison, New Zealand entertainer
1936 - Robert Redford, American actor
1938 - Joe Frank, American radio personality
1939 - Johnny Preston, American singer
1939 - Robert Horton, British businessman
1939 - Harald Heide-Steen Jr., Norwegian actor and comedian (d. 2008)
1943 - Martin Mull, American comedian
1943 - Gianni Rivera, Italian footballer and politician
1943 - Carl Wayne, English singer (d. 2004)
1945 - Barbara Harris, American singer (Toys)
1948 - Joseph Marcell, British actor
1949 - Rudy Hartono, Indonesian badminton player
1952 - Ricky Villa, Argentine former footballer
1952 - Patrick Swayze, American actor
1952 - Elayne Boosler, American comedian
1953 - Louie Gohmert, American politician
1955 - Taher ElGamal, Egyptian scientist
1956 - John Debney, American composer
1956 - Jon "Bermuda" Schwartz, American musician
1957 - Carole Bouquet, French actress
1957 - Denis Leary, American comedian and actor
1958 - Madeleine Stowe, American actress
1959 - Tom Prichard, American wrestler
1960 - Fat Lever, American basketball player
1960 - Mike LaValliere, baseball player
1961 - Bob Woodruff, American journalist, anchor
1962 - Felipe Calderón, President of Mexico
1962 - Geoff Courtnall, Canadian ice hockey player
1964 - Edith Frost, American singer/songwriter
1964 - Kenny Walker, American basketball player
1965 - Jim Florentine, American comedian
1965 - Koji Kikkawa, Japanese singer
1966 - Gustavo Charif, Argentine artist
1966 - Kang Soo-yeon, South Korean actress
1967 - Brian Michael Bendis, American comic book writer
1967 - Daler Mehndi, Indian bhangra/pop singer
1968 - Lee Seung-yeon, South Korean actress
1968 - Dan Peters, American musician
1969 - Christian Slater, American actor
1969 - Edward Norton, American actor
1969 - Everlast, American musician
1969 - Masta Killa, American rapper
1970 - Jessica Hsuan, Hong Kong actress
1970 - Greg Dean Schmitz, American online film journalist
1970 - Malcolm-Jamal Warner, American actor
1971 - Richard D James, Irish-born musician (Aphex Twin)
1971 - Jacob Vargas, American actor
1972 - Shaun Wilson, Australian artist
1972 - Leo Ku, Hong Kong singer
1972 - Keiko Yamada, Japanese singer
1976 - Daphnee Duplaix Samuel, American actress, Playboy Playmate
1976 - Bryan Volpenhein, American rower
1977 - Régine Chassagne, member of the Canadian rock band Arcade Fire
1978 - Andy Samberg, American comedian
1979 - Selena Silver, pornographic actress
1980 - Jeremy Shockey, American football Tight End
1980 - Athina Papayianni, Greek race walker
1980 - Rob Nguyen, Australian racing driver
1980 - Preeti Jhangiani, Indian actress
1980 - Esteban Cambiasso, Argentine footballer
1981 - César Delgado, Argentine footballer
1981 - Jonathan Schneck, American musician (Relient K)
1983 - Daniel Keith Swain (Danny!), American record producer/hip-hop artist
1983 - Mica Penniman (Mika), Lebanese-born musician
1983 - Michael Montgomery, American football player
1983 - Kris Boyd, Scottish footballer
1984 - Robert Huth, German footballer
1987 - Mika Boorem, American actress
1992 - Frances Bean Cobain, daughter Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love
1992 - Riko Narumi, Japanese actress
1994 - Jessie Flower, American actress
1995 - Parker McKenna Posey, American actress