Historical Births

Famous Births on 1 Feb

2012-02-01T12:02:00.000-08:00

Famous Births on 1 Feb

1261 - Walter de Stapledon, English bishop (d. 1326)
1459 - Conrad Celtes, German scholar (d. 1508)
1462 - Johannes Trithemius, German cryptographer (d. 1516)
1552 - Edward Coke, English colonial entrepreneur (d. 1634)
1635 - Marquard Gude, German archaeologist (d. 1689)
1690 - Francesco Maria Veracini, Italian composer (d. 1768)
1761 - Christian Hendrik Persoon, South African mycologist (d. 1836)
1763 - Thomas Campbell, Irish theologian (d. 1854)
1796 - Abraham Emanuel FrÃ¶hlich, Swiss poet (d. 1865)
1801 - Ã‰mile LittrÃ©, French lexicographer (d. 1881)
1820 - George Hendric Houghton, American Protestant Episcopal clergyman (d. 1897)
1844 - G. Stanley Hall, American psychologist (d. 1924)
1851 - Durham Stevens, American diplomat (d. 1908)
1859 - Victor Herbert, Irish composer (d. 1924)
1872 - Jerome F. Donovan, American politician (d. 1949)
1872 - Andrew Kehoe, American mass murderer (d. 1927)
1873 - John Barry, Irish recipient of the Victoria Cross (d. 1901)
1873 - Joseph Allard, Canadian fiddler (d. 1947)
1874 - Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Austrian writer (d. 1929)
1878 - Milan HodÅ¾a, Slovak politician (d. 1944)
1882 - Louis Stephen St. Laurent, 12th Prime Minister of Canada (d. 1973)
1884 - Yevgeny Zamyatin, Russian writer (d. 1937)
1887 - Charles Nordhoff, English-born author (d. 1947)
1894 - John Ford, American director and producer (d. 1973)
1894 - James P. Johnson, American composer (d. 1955)
1895 - Conn Smythe, Canadian builder of the National Hockey League (d. 1980)
1901 - Clark Gable, American actor (d. 1960)
1902 - Langston Hughes American writer (d. 1967)
1902 - Therese Brandl, Nazi concentration camp guard (d. 1947, by execution)
1904 - S. J. Perelman, American humorist (d. 1979)
1905 - Emilio G. SegrÃ¨, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1989)
1906 - Hildegarde, American actress and singer (d. 2005)
1907 - GÃ¼nter Eich, German lyricist (d. 1972)
1907 - Camargo Guarnieri, Brazilian composer (d. 1993)
1908 - George PÃ¡l, Hungarian-born director and producer (d. 1980)
1909 - George Beverly Shea, Canadian singer
1915 - Stanley Matthews, English football player (d. 2000)
1918 - Muriel Spark, Scottish author (d. 2006)
1922 - Renata Tebaldi, Italian soprano (d. 2004)
1924 - H. Richard Hornberger, American writer (d. 1997)
1924 - Ben Weider, Quebec businessman and author
1926 - Stuart Whitman, American actor
1930 - Shahabuddin Ahmed, President of Bangladesh
1930 - Mario Beaulieu, Quebec politician (d. 1998)
1930 - Hossain Mohammad Ershad, Bangladeshi politician
1931 - Iajuddin Ahmed, President of Bangladesh
1931 - Boris Yeltsin, 1st President of the Russian Federation (d. 2007)
1934 - Bob Shane, American folk singer (The Kingston Trio)
1936 - Azie Taylor Morton, 35th Treasurer of the United States (d. 2003)
1937 - Don Everly, American musician (Everly Brothers)
1937 - Garrett Morris, American comedian
1937 - Ray Sawyer, American singer (Dr. Hook & the Medicine Show)
1938 - Sherman Hemsley, American comedian and actor
1939 - Joe Sample, American jazz pianist
1939 - Paul Gillmor, American politician (d. 2007)
1939 - Claude FranÃ§ois, French singer (d. 1978)
1940 - Bibi Besch, Austrian-American actress (d. 1996)
1940 - HervÃ© Filion, Quebec harness racer
1941 - Karl Dall, German television host
1941 - Jerry Spinelli, children's author
1942 - Terry Jones, Welsh actor and writer
1942 - Muna Wassef, Wassef is a well known Syrian/Arab movie star and a United Nations Goodwill ambassador.
1944 - Burkhard Ziese, German football manager
1944 - Mike Enzi, American politician, senator of Wyoming
1945 - Serge Joyal, French Canadian politician
1946 - Chris Clark, Motown Soul singer
1947 - Mike Brant, Israeli pop singer (d. 1975)
1947 - Normie Rowe, Australian singer
1947 - Jessica Savitch, American journalist (d. 1983)
1948 - Rick James, American musician and composer (d. 2004)
1948 - Elisabeth Sladen, British actress
1950 - Mike Campbell, American guitarist and producer
1951 - Sonny Landreth, American guitarist and songwriter
1953 - Brendan Batson, English former footballer
1953 - Duane Chapman, American TV personality
1954 - Chuck Dukowski, American musician (Black Flag)
1954 - Bill Mumy, American actor and musician
1955 - Ernie Camacho, baseball player
1956 - Brahmanandam, Indian film actor
1956 - Exene Cervenka, American musician
1956 - Mike Kitchen, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
1958 - Luther Blissett, English footballer
1958 - Jackie Shroff, Indian actor
1961 - Volker Fried, German field hockey player
1962 - JosÃ© Luis Cuciuffo, Argentinian footballer (d. 2004)
1962 - Tomoyasu Hotei, Japanese guitarist
1963 - Takashi Murakami, Japanese artist
1964 - Mario Pelchat, Quebec singer
1964 - Linus Roache, English actor
1965 - Princess StÃ©phanie of Monaco
1965 - Brandon Lee, American actor (d. 1993)
1965 - Sherilyn Fenn, American actress
1966 - Michelle Akers, American soccer player
1966 - Rob Lee, English footballer
1967 - Meg Cabot, American author
1967 - Patle Shishupal Natthu, Indian politician
1968 - Kent Mercker, American baseball player
1968 - Mark Recchi, Canadian ice hockey player
1968 - Pauly Shore, American comedian
1968 - Lisa Marie Presley, American singer and actress
1969 - Patrick Wilson, American musician
1969 - Brian Krause, American actor
1969 - Joshua Redman, American musician
1969 - Gabriel Batistuta, Argentine footballer
1970 - Malik Sealy, American basketball player (d. 2000)
1970 - Yasuyuki Kazama, Japanese racing driver
1971 - Ajay Jadeja, Former Indian cricketer
1971 - Zlatko ZahoviÄ, Slovenian footballer
1971 - Ron Welty, American musician
1971 - Jill Kelly, American porn actress
1971 - Michael C. Hall, American actor
1972 - Yoshi DeHerrera, American TV personality
1972 - Kami (musician), drummer of Japanese visual kei band Malice Mizer (d.1999)
1973 - Yuri Landman, Experimental musical instrument builder, musician and comic book artist
1973 - Makiko Ohmoto, Japanese voice actress
1974 - Roberto Heras, Spanish cyclist
1974 - David Meca, Spanish long distance swimmer
1975 - Katerina Thanou, Greek sprinter
1975 - Big Boi, American musician (Outkast)
1976 - Phil Ivey, American poker player
1977 - Kevin Kilbane, Irish footballer
1979 - Julie Augustyniak, American soccer player
1979 - Juan Silveira dos Santos, Brazilian footballer
1979 - Valentin Elizalde, Mexican Singer (d.2006)
1980 - Otilino Tenorio, Ecuadorian footballer (d. 2005)
1980 - MoisÃ©s MuÃ±oz, Mexican footballer
1980 - HÃ©ctor Luna, Dominican Republic baseball player
1981 - Luis LamÃ¡, Angolan footballer
1981 - Graeme Smith, South African cricketer
1981 - Rob Austin, British racing driver
1982 - Shoaib Malik, Pakistani cricketer
1983 - Kevin Martin, American basketball player
1983 - Jurgen Van Den Broeck, Belgian cyclist
1984 - Lee Thompson Young, American actor
1984 - Darren Fletcher, Scottish footballer
1985 - Dean Shiels, Northern Irish footballer
1985 - Rachael Scdoris, American dog musher
1985 - Jodi Gordon, Australian actress and model
1986 - Lauren Conrad, American TV star
1987 - Giuseppe Rossi, Italian footballer
1989 - Hurricane Chris, American rapper
1990 - Laura Marling, British singer-songwriter

Famous Births on 31 Jan

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Famous Births on 31 Jan

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

Famous Births on 30 Jan

2012-01-30T12:02:00.000-08:00

Famous Births on 30 Jan

133 - Marcus Severus Didius Julianus, Roman Emperor (d. 193)
1505 - Thomas Tallis, English composer (d. 1585)
1563 - Franciscus Gomarus, Dutch theologian (d. 1641)
1615 - Thomas Rolfe, American colonial settler and only child of Pocahontas and John Rolfe (d. 1675)
1661 - Charles Rollin, French historian (d. 1741)
1687 - Johann Balthasar Neumann, German architect (d. 1753)
1697 - Johann Joachim Quantz, German flautist and composer (d. 1773)
1720 - Charles De Geer, Swedish industrialist and entomologist (d. 1778)
1754 - John Lansing, Jr., American statesman (d. 1829)
1781 - Adelbert von Chamisso, German writer (d. 1838)
1816 - Nathaniel Prentice Banks, 24th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1894)
1822 - Franz Ritter von Hauer, Austrian geologist (d. 1899)
1832 - Infanta Luisa Fernanda, Duchess of Montpensier (d. 1897)
1841 - FÃ©lix Faure, 6th President of the French Third Republic (d. 1899)
1859 - Tony Mullane, Irish-born American baseball player (d. 1944)
1861 - Charles Martin Loeffler, German-born composer (d. 1935)
1873 - Georges Ricard-Cordingley, painter (d. 1939)
1878 - Anton Hansen Tammsaare, Estonian author (d. 1940)
1882 - Franklin D. Roosevelt, 32nd President of the United States (d. 1945)
1889 - Jaishankar Prasad, Hindi poet, dramatist and novelist (d. 1937)
1894 - Tsar Boris III of Bulgaria (d. 1943)
1899 - Max Theiler, South African virologist, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1972)
1901 - Rudolf Caracciola, German race car driver (d. 1959)
1902 - Nikolaus Pevsner, German-born art historian (d. 1983)
1910 - C Subramaniam, Indian politician (d. 2000)
1911 - Roy Eldridge, American musician (d. 1989)
1912 - Werner Hartmann, German physicist (d. 1988)
1912 - Francis Schaeffer, American Evangelical theologian and pastor (d. 1984)
1912 - Barbara W. Tuchman, American historian (d. 1989)
1913 - Percy Thrower, British Television Gardener (d. 1988)
1914 - John Ireland, Canadian actor (d. 1992)
1914 - David Wayne, American actor (d. 1995)
1915 - John Profumo, British cabinet minister (d. 2006)
1915 - Joachim Peiper, German SS officer (d. 1976, by assassination)
1917 - Paul FrÃ¨re, Belgian racing driver and motorsport journalist d. 2008)
1918 - David Opatoshu, American television actor (d. 1996)
1919 - Nikolay Glazkov, Russian poet (d. 1979)
1920 - Carwood Lipton, American WWII veteran (d. 2001)
1920 - Delbert Mann, American film director
1922 - Dick Martin, American comedian
1924 - Lloyd Alexander, American writer (d. 2007)
1925 - Douglas Engelbart, American computer scientist
1925 - Dorothy Malone, American actress
1927 - Olof Palme, Prime Minister of Sweden (d. 1986)
1928 - Hal Prince, American stage producer and director
1929 - Lucille Teasdale-Corti, Canadian surgeon and international aid worker (d. 1996)
1930 - Magnus Malan, South African politician
1930 - Gene Hackman, American actor
1930 - Samuel J. Byck, American attempted assassin of Richard Nixon (d. 1974)
1930 - Sandy AmorÃ³s, Cuban baseball player (d. 1992)
1931 - John Crosbie, Canadian politician
1931 - Allan W. Eckert, American historian, naturalist, and author
1931 - Shirley Hazzard, Australian-born author
1932 - Knock Yokoyama, Japanese comedian and politician
1933 - Louis Rukeyser, American journalist (d. 2006)
1935 - Richard Brautigan, American writer and poet (d. 1984)
1936 - Horst Jankowski, German popular pianist (d. 1998)
1936 - Patrick Caulfield, British painter and printmaker (d. 2005)
1936 - F. Vernon Boozer, American politician
1937 - Ed Hansen, American film director and editor (d. 2005)
1937 - Vanessa Redgrave, English actress
1937 - Boris Spassky, Russian chess player
1938 - Islom Karimov, President of Uzbekistan
1941 - Tineke Lagerberg, Dutch swimmer
1941 - Dick Cheney, 46th Vice President of the United States
1941 - Gregory Benford, American author and scientist
1942 - Marty Balin, American musician
1943 - Davey Johnson, American baseball player and manager
1945 - Michael Dorris, American author (d. 1997)
1947 - Les Barker, English poet
1947 - Steve Marriott, English musician (The Small Faces) (d. 1991)
1948 - Nick Broomfield, English film- and documentary-maker
1948 - Paul Magee, Provisional Irish Republican Army member
1949 - Peter Agre, American biologist, Nobel laureate
1950 - Trinidad Silva, American actor (d. 1988)
1951 - Phil Collins, English musician
1951 - Charles S. Dutton, American actor
1951 - Bobby Stokes, English former footballer (d. 1995)
1952 - Doug Falconer, Canadian football player
1955 - Curtis Strange, American golfer
1955 - Judith Tarr, American author
1956 - Keiichi Tsuchiya, Japanese racing driver
1956 - Jeremy Gittins, English actor
1957 - Payne Stewart, American golfer (d. 1999)
1958 - Brett Butler, American actress and comedian
1959 - Mark Eitzel, American singer and musician (American Music Club)
1959 - Jody Watley, American singer
1961 - Dexter Scott King, American actor and son of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Coretta Scott King
1962 - Mary Kay Letourneau, American convicted statutory rapist
1962 - King Abdullah II of Jordan
1965 - Julie McCullough, American model and actress
1966 - Danielle Goyette, Quebec female ice hockey player
1967 - Jay Gordon, American musician
1968 - Trevor Dunn, American musician (Mr. Bungle, FantÃ´mas, Secret Chiefs 3)
1968 - Prince Felipe of Spain
1969 - Carolyn Kepcher, American businesswoman and reality TV show star
1971 - Kimo von Oelhoffen, American football player
1971 - Darren Boyd, British actor
1972 - Lupillo Rivera, Mexican singer
1972 - Chris Simon, Canadian ice hockey player
1973 - Jalen Rose, American basketball player
1974 - Christian Bale, Welsh actor
1974 - Olivia Colman, English actress
1974 - Jemima Khan, English socialite
1975 - Juninho Pernambucano, Brazilian footballer
1975 - Yumi Yoshimura, Japanese singer (Puffy Amiyumi)
1976 - Andy Milonakis, American comedian
1977 - Deltha O'Neal, American football player
1978 - John Patterson, American baseball player
1980 - Leilani Dowding, British glamour model
1980 - Wilmer Valderrama, American actor
1980 - Pavel Ponomaryov, Russian-Estonian actor
1980 - JoÃ£ozinho, Brazilian footballer
1981 - Mathias Lauda, Austrian racing driver
1981 - Josh Kelley, American musician
1981 - Peter Crouch, English footballer
1981 - Dimitar Berbatov, Bulgarian footballer
1982 - Jorge Cantu, Mexican baseball player
1984 - Jeremy Hermida, American baseball player
1985 - Aaadietya Pandey, Indian astrologer
1985 - Trae Williams, American football player
1986 - Nick Evans, American baseball player
1986 - Sam Duckworth, British singer-songwriter
1987 - Rebecca Knox, Irish professional wrestler
1988 - Rob Pinkston, American actor
1989 - Khleo Thomas, American actor and rapper
1990 - Jake Thomas, American actor
1990 - Eiza Gonzalez, Mexican actress/singer
1991 - Matthew Werkmeister, Australian actor
2005 - Prince Hashem bin Al Abdullah II, of Jordan

Famous Births on 29 Jan

2012-01-29T12:02:00.000-08:00

Famous Births on 29 Jan

1584 - Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange (d. 1647)
1632 - Johann Georg Graevius, German classical scholar and critic (d. 1703)
1688 - Emanuel Swedenborg, Swedish scientist and philosopher (d. 1772)
1711 - Giuseppe Bonno, Austrian composer (d. 1788)
1715 - Georg Christoph Wagenseil, Austrian composer (d. 1777)
1717 - Jeffrey Amherst, British military leader (d. 1797)
1718 - Paul Rabaut, French Huguenot pastor (d. 1794)
1737 - Thomas Paine, English-born American patriot (d. 1809)
1749 - King Christian VII of Denmark (d. 1808)
1754 - Moses Cleaveland, founder of Cleveland (d. 1806)
1756 - Henry Lee III, American General
1761 - Albert Gallatin, Swiss-American United States Secretary of the Treasury
1782 - Daniel Auber, French composer (d. 1871)
1801 - Horatia Nelson, daughter of Emma Hamilton and Horatio Nelson (d. 1881)
1810 - Ernst Kummer, German mathematician (d. 1893)
1843 - William McKinley, 25th President of the United States (d. 1901)
1846 - Karol Olszewski, Polish scientist (d. 1915)
1860 - Anton Chekhov, Russian writer (d. 1904)
1862 - Frederick Delius, English composer (d. 1934)
1866 - Romain Rolland, French writer, Nobel Laureate (d. 1944)
1867 - Vicente Blasco IbÃ¡Ã±ez, Spanish writer (d. 1928)
1874 - John D. Rockefeller Jr., American entrepreneur (d. 1960)
1876 - Havergal Brian, British composer (d. 1972)
1877 - Georges Catroux, French general (d. 1969)
1880 - W.C. Fields, American actor (d. 1946)
1891 - R. Norris Williams, American survivor of the RMS Titanic sinking (d. 1968)
1891 - Elizaveta Gerdt, Russian ballerina (d. 1975)
1895 - Muna Lee, American poet (d. 1965)
1901 - Allen B. DuMont, American scientist and inventor (d. 1965)
1905 - Barnett Newman, American painter (d. 1970)
1910 - Colin Middleton, Irish artist (d. 1983)
1911 - Peter von Siemens, German industrialist (d. 1986)
1913 - Peter von Zahn, German journalist and writer (d. 2001)
1913 - Daniel Taradash, American screenwriter (d. 2003)
1913 - Victor Mature, American actor (d. 1999)
1915 - John Serry, Sr., American musician and arranger (d. 2003)
1918 - John Forsythe, American actor
1920 - JosÃ© Luis de Villalonga, Spanish aristocrat (d. 2007)
1921 - Anthony George, American actor (d. 2005)
1922 - Gerda Steinhoff, Nazi concetration camp supervisor (d. 1946)
1923 - Paddy Chayefsky, American writer (d. 1981)
1923 - Ivo Robic, Croatian singer and songwriter (d. 2000)
1924 - Peter Voulkos, American artist (d. 2002)
1924 - Marcelle Ferron, Quebec painter and stained glass artist (d. 2001)
1924 - Luigi Nono, Italian composer (d. 1990)
1926 - Franco Cerri, Italian musician
1926 - Abdus Salam, Pakistani physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1996)
1927 - Edward Abbey, American author and environmentalist (d. 1989)
1928 - Lee Shau Kee, Hong Kong property developer
1929 - Gordon Solie, American professional wrestling announcer (d. 2000)
1930 - John Junkin, English radio, television and film performer (d. 2006)
1930 - Derek Bailey, English guitar virtuoso (d. 2005)
1932 - Tommy Taylor, English footballer (d. 1958)
1932 - George Allen, English footballer
1933 - Sacha Distel, French singer and guitarist (d. 2004)
1933 - Ron Townson, American singer (The 5th Dimension) (d. 2001)
1936 - James Jamerson, American bass guitarist for Motown Records (d. 1983)
1939 - Germaine Greer, Australian writer
1940 - Katharine Ross, American actress
1940 - Kunimitsu Takahashi, Japanese motorcycle racer and racing driver
1941 - Robin Morgan, American feminist and activist
1942 - Claudine Longet, French singer, dancer and convicted murderer
1944 - Yoweri Museveni, President of Uganda
1945 - Jim Nicholson, Irish politician
1945 - Tom Selleck, American actor
1947 - Linda B. Buck, American scientist, Nobel laureate
1947 - David Byron, English singer (Uriah Heep) (d. 1985)
1947 - MariÃ¡n Varga, Slovak musician
1948 - Pat Kenny, Irish TV presenter & radio host
1948 - Marc Singer, Canadian-born actor
1948 - Cristina Saralegui, American talk-show host
1950 - Ann Jillian, American actress
1950 - Jody Scheckter, South African race car driver
1951 - Andy Roberts, West Indian cricketer
1952 - Tommy Ramone, Hungarian-born musician and record producer (The Ramones)
1953 - Lynne McGranger, Australian actress
1953 - Teresa Teng, Taiwanese singer (d. 1995)
1953 - Hwang Woo-Suk, South Korean biomedical scientist
1953 - Paulin Bordeleau, Quebec ice hockey player
1954 - Doug Risebrough, Canadian ice hockey player, coach and executive
1954 - Oprah Winfrey, American talk show host and actress
1954 - Terry Kinney, American actor
1954 - Richard Manitoba, American singer (The Dictators and MC5)
1955 - Eddie Jordan, American basketball player and head coach
1955 - Lynne McGranger, Australian actress
1957 - Grazyna Miller, Italian poet, translator, and journalist
1960 - J. G. Thirlwell, Australian-born musician
1960 - Steve Sax, American baseball player
1960 - Greg Louganis, American diver
1960 - Sean Kerly, English field hockey player
1960 - Gia Carangi, American model (d. 1986)
1960 - Matthew Ashford, American actor
1962 - Nicholas Turturro, American actor
1963 - Bob Holly, American professional wrestler
1964 - Anna Ryder Richardson, British interior designer and television presenter
1964 - Roddy Frame, Scottish singer (Aztec Camera)
1964 - John Habyan, American baseball player
1964 - Andre Reed, American football player
1965 - Dominik HaÅ¡ek, Czech ice hockey player
1965 - Peter Lundgren, Swedish tennis coach
1966 - RomÃ¡rio, Brazilian footballer
1967 - Cyril Suk, Czech tennis player
1967 - Stacey King, American basketball player
1968 - Sora Jung, Korean actress
1968 - Susi Erdmann, German bobsledder and luger
1968 - Edward Burns, American actor
1969 - Hyde, Japanese singer
1970 - Heather Graham, American actress
1970 - Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore, Indian shooter
1970 - JÃ¶rg Hoffmann, German swimmer
1973 - Jason Schmidt, American baseball player
1975 - Sara Gilbert, American actress
1976 - Charles Divins, American model and actor
1977 - Justin Hartley, American actor
1978 - Martin Schmitt, German ski jumper
1978 - Rob Bironas, American football player
1979 - April Scott, American actress and model
1979 - Joseph Todd, Arena Football League player
1979 - Sui Feifei, Chinese basketball player
1980 - Yael Bar-Zohar, Israeli actress and model
1980 - Ivan KlasniÄ‡, Croatian football player
1981 - DarÃo Lopilato, Argentine actor
1981 - Ãlex Ubago, Spanish musician
1981 - Jonny Lang, American musician
1982 - Heidi Mueller, American actress
1983 - NedÅ¾ad SinanoviÄ‡, Bosnian basketball player
1985 - Athina Onassis, French heiress
1985 - Marc Gasol, Spanish basketball player
1986 - Chris Bourque, American pro hockey player
1986 - Simon VukÄeviÄ‡, Montenegrin football player
1986 - Mark Howard, English football player
1986 - Drew Tyler Bell, American actor
1987 - Spencer Clark, American race car driver (d. 2006)
1987 - Matthew Wilson, English world rally driver
1988 - Stephanie Gilmore, Australian professional surfer
1991 - Hugh Grosvenor, Earl Grosvenor, Son of the Duke of Westminster
1993 - Michelle Larcher De Brito, Portuguese tennis player
1996 - Megan Jossa, English actress

Famous Births on 28 Jan

2012-01-28T12:02:00.000-08:00

Famous Births on 28 Jan

1225 - Saint Thomas Aquinas (d. 1274)
1312 - Queen Joan II of Navarre (d. 1349)
1457 - King Henry VII of England (d. 1509)
1540 - Ludolph van Ceulen, German mathematician (d. 1610)
1582 - John Barclay, Scottish writer (d. 1621)
1600 - Pope Clement IX (d. 1669)
1608 - Giovanni Alfonso Borelli, Italian physiologist and physicist (d. 1679)
1611 - Johannes Hevelius, astronomer (d. 1687)
1622 - Adrien Auzout, French astronomer (d. 1691)
1701 - Charles Marie de La Condamine, French mathematician and geographer (d. 1774)
1706 - John Baskerville, English printer (d. 1775)
1712 - Tokugawa Ieshige, Japanese shogun (d. 1761)
1717 - Mustafa III, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1774)
1719 - Johann Elias Schlegel, German critic and poet (d. 1749)
1755 - Samuel Thomas von SÃ¶mmering, German physician (d. 1830)
1784 - George Hamilton Gordon Aberdeen, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1860)
1818 - George S. Boutwell, 20th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1905)
1822 - Alexander Mackenzie, 2nd Prime Minister of Canada (d. 1892)
1833 - Charles George 'Chinese' Gordon, British soldier and administrator (d. 1885)
1841 - Henry Morton Stanley, Welsh-born explorer and journalist (d. 1904)
1853 - JosÃ© MartÃ, Cuban revolutionary (d. 1895)
1855 - William Seward Burroughs I, American inventor (d. 1898)
1863 - Ernst William Christmas, Australian painter (d. 1918)
1864 - Charles W. Nash, co-founder of Nash Motors, which would become American Motors as well as co-founder of Buick (d. 1948)
1864 - Herbert Akroyd Stuart, English engineer - inventor of the first compression ignition engine (d. 1927)
1865 - Kaarlo Juho StÃ¥hlberg, first president of Finland (d. 1952)
1865 - Lala Lajpat Rai, Indian freedom fighter (d. 1928)
1873 - Colette, French writer (d. 1954)
1874 - Vsevolod Meyerhold, Russian theatre director (d. 1940)
1879 - Francis Picabia, French-born painter and poet (d. 1953)
1880 - Herbert Strudwick, English cricketer (d. 1970)
1884 - Auguste Piccard, Swiss physicist (d. 1962)
1886 - Marthe Bibesco, Romanian writer (d. 1973)
1887 - Arthur Rubinstein, Polish pianist and conductor (d. 1982)
1890 - Robert Stroud, American convict, the Birdman of Alcatraz (d. 1963)
1891 - Bill Doak, American baseball player (d. 1954)
1892 - Ernst Lubitsch, German-born film director (d. 1947)
1897 - Valentin Kataev, Russian writer (d. 1986)
1899 - Elias Simojoki, Finnish clergyman and politician (d. 1940)
1903 - Aleksander KamiÅ„ski, Polish writer (d. 1978)
1904 - Canuplin, Filipino magician and bodabil entertainer (d. 1979)
1908 - Paul Misraki, French composer and songwriter (d. 1998)
1909 - John Thomson, Scottish footballer (d. 1931)
1910 - John Banner, Austrian actor (d. 1973)
1910 - Arnold Moss, American actor (d. 1989)
1910 - Verda Bryant, American author
1912 - Jackson Pollock, American painter (d. 1956)
1918 - Harry Corbett, English puppeteer (Sooty) (d. 1989)
1918 - Trevor Skeet, New Zealand-born British politician (d. 2004)
1919 - Francis Gabreski, American fighter pilot (d. 2002)
1922 - Robert W. Holley, American biochemist, Nobel Laureate (d. 1993)
1927 - Ronnie Scott, British jazz tenor saxophonist and jazz club owner (d. 1996)
1927 - Hiroshi Teshigahara, Japanese director (d. 2001)
1929 - Acker Bilk, English jazz clarinetist
1929 - Claes Oldenburg, Swedish-born artist
1933 - Jack Hill, American film director
1934 - Juan Manuel Bordeu, Argentine racing driver (d. 1990)
1934 - Mitr Chaibancha, Thai actor (d. 1970)
1935 - David Lodge, English author
1936 - Alan Alda, American actor, writer, and director
1936 - Ismail Kadare, Albanian writer
1938 - Leonid Zhabotynsky, Ukrainian weightlifter
1940 - Carlos Slim HelÃº, Mexican businessman
1941 - Joel Crothers, American actor (d. 1985)
1943 - Paul Henderson, Canadian ice hockey player
1943 - Dick Taylor, English musician (The Rolling Stones and The Pretty Things)
1944 - John Tavener, English composer
1944 - Susan Howard, American actress
1945 - Robert Wyatt, English musician
1948 - Mikhail Baryshnikov, Russian dancer
1948 - Charles Taylor, President of Liberia
1949 - Gregg Popovich, NBA Basketball Coach
1950 - Barbi Benton, American actress
1950 - Hamad ibn Isa Al Khalifah, King of Bahrain
1950 - Bob Hay, American songwriter and musician
1951 - Leonid Kadeniuk, Ukrainian cosmonaut
1951 - Brian Bilbray, American politician
1953 - Colin Campbell, Canadian ice hockey player and executive
1953 - Chris Carter, English musician (Throbbing Gristle, Chris & Cosey)
1954 - Rick Warren, American pastor and author
1955 - Nicolas Sarkozy, President of France
1957 - Mark Napier, Canadian ice hockey player
1957 - Frank Skinner English comedian
1959 - Dave Sharp, Welsh guitarist (The Alarm)
1959 - Randi Rhodes, Nova M Radio personality
1959 - Burkhard Dallwitz, German-born composer
1959 - Frank Darabont, American filmmaker
1960 - Robert von Dassanowsky, American cultural historian, writer, and producer
1961 - Normand Rochefort, Canadian ice hockey player
1962 - Keith Hamilton Cobb, American actor
1962 - Sam Phillips, American singer
1963 - Dan Spitz, American musician, guitarist for Anthrax
1965 - Lynda Boyd, American actress
1967 - Jan Lamb, Hong Kong disc jockey & stand-up comedian
1968 - Sarah McLachlan, Canadian singer and songwriter
1968 - DJ Muggs, American musician (Cypress Hill)
1968 - Rakim, born William Michael Griffin Jr., American rapper
1969 - Kathryn Morris, American actress
1969 - Mo Rocca, American writer and comedian
1969 - Linda Sanchez, American politician
1971 - Anthony Hamilton, American soul singer
1972 - Nicky Southall, English footballer
1974 - Tony Delk, American basketball player
1974 - Jermaine Dye, American baseball player
1974 - Magglio OrdÃ³Ã±ez, Venezuelan baseball player
1975 - Terri Colombino, American Actress
1975 - Junior Spivey, American baseball player
1975 - Lee Latchford-Evans, English singer
1975 - Anne Montminy, Canadian Olympic diver
1975 - David Zingler, American writer
1976 - Mark Madsen, American basketball player
1976 - Jarrod Montague, American drummer (Taproot)
1976 - Lee Ingleby, British actor
1976 - Miltiadis Sapanis, Greek footballer
1976 - Emiko Kado, Japanese professional wrestler (d. 1999)
1977 - Lyle Overbay, American baseball player
1977 - Takuma Sato, Japanese Formula One driver
1977 - Matt DeVries, American guitarist (Chimaira)
1977 - Joey Fatone, American singer (*NSYNC)
1977 - Daunte Culpepper, American football player
1978 - Gianluigi Buffon, Italian footballer
1978 - Jamie Carragher, English footballer
1978 - Papa Bouba Diop, Senegalese footballer
1979 - Ali Boulala, Swedish skateboarder
1980 - Nick Carter, American singer (Backstreet Boys)
1980 - Jesse James Hollywood, American drug dealer and fugitive
1981 - Elijah Wood, American actor
1981 - Rick Razzano, American football player
1984 - Andre Iguodala, American basketball player
1985 - Arnold Mvuemba, French footballer
1986 - Jessica Ennis, English heptathlete
1986 - Shruti Haasan, Indian actress
1986 - Alexis Texas, porn star
1988 - Henry Mortensen, American actor

Famous Births on 27 Jan

2012-01-27T12:02:00.000-08:00

Famous Births on 27 Jan

1443 - Albert, Duke of Saxony (d. 1500)
1546 - Joachim Friedrich, Elector of Brandenburg (d. 1608)
1585 - Hendrick Avercamp, Dutch painter (d. 1634)
1603 - Harbottle Grimston, English politician (d. 1685)
1621 - Thomas Willis, English physician (d. 1675)
1662 - Richard Bentley, English classical scholar (d. 1742)
1687 - Balthasar Neumann, German architect (d. 1753)
1701 - Johann Nikolaus von Hontheim, German historian (d. 1790)
1708 - Anna Petrovna of Russia (d. 1728)
1720 - Samuel Foote, English dramatist (d. 1777)
1741 - Hester Thrale, Welsh diarist (d. 1821)
1756 - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Austrian composer (d. 1791)
1805 - Samuel Palmer, English artist (d. 1881)
1805 - Sophie of Bavaria, archduchess of Austria (d. 1872)
1805 - Maria Anna of Bavaria, queen consort of Saxony (d. 1877)
1806 - Juan CrisÃ³stomo Arriaga, Spanish composer (d. 1826)
1814 - EugÃ¨ne Viollet-le-Duc, French architect (d. 1879)
1821 - John Chivington, American officer, (d. 1892)
1823 - Edouard Lalo, French composer (d. 1892)
1826 - Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin, Russian writer (d. 1889)
1826 - Richard Taylor, American Confederate general (d. 1879)
1832 - Lewis Carroll, English author (d. 1898)
1836 - Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, Austrian writer (d. 1895)
1841 - Arkhip Kuindzhi, Russian painter (d. 1910)
1848 - Togo Heihachiro, Japanese admiral (d. 1934)
1850 - Samuel Gompers, American labor leader (d. 1924)
1850 - Edward J. Smith, English captain of the Titanic (d. 1912)
1859 - Emperor Wilhelm II of Germany (d. 1941)
1885 - Jerome Kern, American composer (d. 1945)
1885 - Eduard KÃ¼nneke, German composer (d. 1953)
1885 - Maeda Seison, Japanese painter (d. 1977)
1891 - Ilya Ehrenburg, Russian writer (d. 1967)
1893 - Soong Ching-ling, Chinese wife of Sun Yat-sen (d. 1981)
1895 - Harry Ruby, American composer (d. 1974)
1900 - Hyman Rickover, American admiral (d. 1986)
1901 - Willy Fritsch, German actor (d. 1973)
1901 - Art Rooney, American football team owner (d. 1988)
1903 - John Carew Eccles, Australian neuropsychologist, Nobel Laureate (d. 1997)
1905 - Howard McNear, American actor (d. 1969)
1908 - Oran Page, American musician (d. 1954)
1908 - William Randolph Hearst, Jr., American newspaper magnate (d. 1993)
1912 - Arne NÃ¦ss, Norwegian philosopher
1918 - Skitch Henderson, English bandleader (d. 2005)
1918 - Elmore James, American blues musician (d. 1963)
1918 - William Seawell, United States Army Brigadier General (d. 2005)
1919 - Ross Bagdasarian, American musician (d. 1972)
1920 - Helmut Zacharias, German violinist (d. 2002)
1920 - John Box, British film production designer and art director (d. 2005)
1921 - Donna Reed, American actress (d. 1986)
1924 - Sabu Dastagir, Indian actor (d. 1963)
1924 - Rauf DenktaÅŸ, founder of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus
1926 - Fritz Spiegl, Austrian journalist (d. 2003)
1926 - Ingrid Thulin, Swedish actress (d. 2004)
1928 - Hans Modrow, a German politician, premier of East Germany
1928 - Michael Craig, British actor
1929 - GastÃ³n SuÃ¡rez, Bolivian novelist (d. 1984)
1930 - Bobby Blue Bland, American singer
1931 - Mordecai Richler, Canadian author (d. 2001)
1932 - Boris Shakhlin, Soviet gymnast
1933 - Mohamed Al-Fayed, Egyptian billionaire businessman
1934 - George Follmer, American race car driver
1936 - Samuel C. C. Ting, American physicist, Nobel Laureate
1936 - Troy Donahue, American actor (d. 2001)
1937 - John Ogdon, English pianist (d. 1989)
1940 - James Cromwell, American actor
1940 - Terry Harper, Canadian ice hockey player
1942 - John Witherspoon, American actor
1942 - Kate Wolf, American folk singer and songwriter (d. 1986)
1944 - Peter Akinola, Nigerian religious leader
1944 - MairÃ©ad Corrigan, Irish activist, Nobel Prize Laureate
1944 - Nick Mason, English drummer (Pink Floyd)
1945 - Harold Cardinal, Cree political leader (d. 2005)
1946 - Nedra Talley, American singer (Ronettes)
1947 - BjÃ¶rn Afzelius, Swedish singer (d. 1999)
1947 - Vyron Polydoras, Greek politician
1948 - Jean-Philippe Collard, French pianist
1949 - Ethan Mordden, American author
1950 - Amos Grunebaum, Israeli-born physician
1950 - Derek Acorah, English spirit medium
1951 - Brian Downey, Irish musician (Thin Lizzy)
1952 - Billy "White Shoes" Johnson, American football player
1954 - Peter Laird, American comic-book artist
1954 - Joko Ninomiya, Japanese martial artist
1955 - Brian Engblom, Canadian ice hockey player
1955 - John G. Roberts, 17th Chief Justice of the United States
1955 - Alexander Stuart, British author
1955 - Koji Ushikubo, Japanese racing driver
1956 - Mimi Rogers, American actress
1957 - Frank Miller, American comic book artist and writer and film director
1957 - Janick Gers, British guitarist (Iron Maiden)
1958 - James Grippando, American novelist
1958 - Kadri MÃ¤lk, Estonian artist and jewelry designer
1958 - Susanna Thompson, American actress
1959 - Keith Olbermann, American news presenter
1959 - GÃ¶ran HÃ¤gglund, Swedish politician
1959 - Cris Collinsworth, American football player
1961 - Narciso Rodriguez, American fashion designer
1961 - Gillian Gilbert, British musician (New Order)
1961 - Dina Bonnevie, Filipino actress
1961 - Margo Timmins, Canadian singer (Cowboy Junkies)
1964 - Bridget Fonda, American actress
1965 - Alan Cumming, Scottish actor
1965 - Mike Newell, English football manager
1967 - Bobby Deol, Indian actor
1967 - Byron Mann, Hong Kong actor
1967 - Dave Manson, Canadian ice hockey player
1968 - Tricky, English rapper
1968 - Mike Patton, American singer (Faith No More)
1968 - Patrick Blondeau, former French International footballer
1969 - Cornelius, Japanese musician and producer (Flipper's Guitar)
1969 - Michael Kulas, Canadian singer (James)
1969 - Patton Oswalt, American actor and writer
1970 - Emmanuel Pahud, French-Swiss flautist
1970 - Jon Douglas Rainey, American TV personality
1971 - Fann Wong, Singapore entertainer (Shanghai Knights)
1971 - Lil Jon, American rapper and producer
1971 - Patrice Brisebois, Canadian ice hockey player
1972 - Janine Ilitch, Australian netballer
1972 - Mark Owen, English pop singer
1972 - Keith Wood, Irish rugby player
1972 - Guillermo, Mexican-born American TV personality
1974 - Chaminda Vaas, Sri Lankan cricketer
1974 - Andrei Pavel, Romanian tennis player
1974 - ZP Theart, South African-born English singer (Dragonforce)
1976 - Todd MacCulloch, American Basketball Player
1976 - Ruby Lin, Taiwanese actress and singer
1976 - Ahn Jung-Hwan, Korean football player
1976 - Clint Ford, American voice actor
1978 - Pete Laforest, Canadian baseball player
1979 - Daniel Vettori, New Zealand cricketer
1979 - Rosamund Pike, British actress
1979 - Mario Fatafehi, American-born Canadian Football League player
1980 - Marat Safin, Russian tennis player
1980 - Chanda Gunn, ice hockey player
1981 - Alicia Molik, Australian tennis player
1983 - Carlo Colaiacovo, Canadian ice hockey player
1983 - Gavin Floyd, American baseball player
1983 - Mike Zagurski, American baseball player
1984 - Davetta Sherwood, American actress
1987 - Lily Donaldson, British model
1987 - Katy Rose, American pop singer
1987 - Zuleidy Spanish porn star
1988 - Kerlon Moura Souza, Brazilian footballer

Famous Births on 26 Jan

2012-01-26T12:02:00.000-08:00

Famous Births on 26 Jan

1497 - Emperor Go-Nara of Japan (d. 1557)
1541 - Florent Chrestien, French writer (d. 1596)
1714 - Jean-Baptiste Pigalle, French sculptor (d. 1785)
1716 - George Germain, 1st Viscount Sackville, British soldier and politician (d. 1785)
1722 - Alexander Carlyle, Scottish church leader (d. 1805)
1763 - Charles XIV John of Sweden, Napoleonic general (d. 1844)
1781 - Achim von Arnim, German poet (d. 1831)
1813 - Juan Pablo Duarte, Dominican founding father (d. 1876
1826 - Julia Dent Grant, First Lady of the United States (d. 1902)
1832 - George Shiras Jr., U.S. Supreme Court justice (d. 1924)
1842 - FranÃ§ois CoppÃ©e, French poet and novelist (d. 1908)
1852 - Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza (Pietro Paolo Savorgnan di BrazzÃ ), explorer (d. 1905)
1857 - the 12th Dalai Lama (d. 1875)
1868 - Juventino Rosas, Mexican composer (d. 1894)
1880 - Douglas MacArthur, American general and Medal of Honor recipient (d. 1964)
1887 - Marc Mitscher, American Navy Admiral (d. 1947)
1887 - FranÃ§ois Faber, Luxembourgian cyclist (d. 1915)
1891 - Frank Costello, Italian-born gangster (d. 1973)
1891 - Wilder Penfield, American-born Canadian neurosurgeon (d. 1976)
1892 - Zara Cully, American actress (d. 1978)
1892 - Bessie Coleman, American pioneer aviator (d. 1926)
1893 - Giuseppe Genco Russo, Sicilian mafioso (d. 1976)
1900 - Karl Ristenpart, German conductor (d. 1967)
1901 - Stuart Symington, American politician (d. 1988)
1902 - Menno ter Braak, Dutch author and polemicist (d. 1940)
1904 - Ancel Keys, American scientist (d. 2004)
1904 - SeÃ¡n MacBride, Irish statesman, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1988)
1905 - Charles Lane, American actor (d. 2007)
1905 - Maria von Trapp, Austrian-born singer (d. 1987)
1908 - Jill Esmond, English actress (d. 1990)
1908 - StÃ©phane Grappelli, French jazz violinist (d. 1997)
1910 - Jean Image, Hungarian-born French animator (d. 1989)
1911 - Polykarp Kusch, German-born physicist, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1993)
1911 - Norbert Schultze, German composer and songwriter (d. 2002)
1913 - Jimmy Van Heusen, American songwriter (d. 1990)
1914 - Princess Hadice Hayriye Ayshe DÃ¼rrÃ¼hsehvar (d. 2006)
1915 - William Hopper, American actor (d. 1970)
1918 - Philip JosÃ© Farmer, American writer
1918 - Nicolae CeauÅŸescu, Romanian dictator (d. 1989)
1921 - Akio Morita, Japanese businessman (d. 1999)
1921 - Eddie Barclay, French producer (Barclay Records) (d. 2005)
1922 - Michael Bentine, British comedian (d. 1996)
1923 - Anne Jeffreys, American actress
1924 - Alice Babs, Swedish singer
1924 - Annette Strauss, American philanthropist and politician (d. 1998)
1924 - Rauf DenktaÅŸ, Cypriot politician
1925 - Joan Leslie, American actress
1925 - Paul Newman, American actor, philanthropist, race car driver and race team owner
1925 - Claude Ryan, Quebec newspaper editor (d. 2004)
1926 - Farman Fatehpuri, Pakistani scholar
1927 - JosÃ© Azcona del Hoyo, President of Honduras (d. 2005)
1927 - Bob Nieman, American baseball player (d. 1985)
1928 - Roger Vadim, French film director and actor (d. 2000)
1929 - Jules Feiffer, American cartoonist and writer
1929 - Gordon Solie, American wrestling commentator (d. 2000)
1931 - Mary Murphy, American film actress
1932 - Coxsone Dodd, Jamaican record producer
1933 - Ercole Baldini, Italian cyclist
1934 - Roger Landry, Quebec businessman and newspaper publisher
1935 - Bob Uecker, American baseball player and broadcaster
1936 - Sal Buscema, American comic book artist
1937 - Joseph Saidu Momoh, Sierra Leone political leader (d. 2003)
1941 - Scott Glenn, American actor
1941 - Henry Jaglom, English director
1942 - Souad Hosni, Egyptian actress (d. 2001)
1943 - CÃ©sar GutiÃ©rrez, Venezuelan baseball player (d. 2005)
1943 - Jean Knight, American singer
1943 - Austin "Jack" Warner,Trinidadian FIFA Vice-President and CONCACAF President
1944 - Angela Davis, American feminist and activist
1945 - Jacqueline du PrÃ©, English cellist (d. 1987)
1946 - Gene Siskel, American film critic (d. 1999)
1947 - Michel Sardou, French singer
1947 - Patrick Dewaere, French actor (d. 1982)
1949 - Jonathan Carroll, American author
1949 - David Strathairn, American actor
1950 - Janet Lupo, American model
1953 - Lucinda Williams, American singer
1953 - Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Prime Minister of Denmark
1954 - Kim Hughes, Australian cricketer
1955 - Eddie Van Halen, Dutch musician
1958 - Anita Baker, American singer
1958 - Ellen DeGeneres, American actress and comedian
1958 - Salvador SÃ¡nchez, Mexican boxer
1960 - Charlie Gillingham, American musician (Counting Crows)
1960 - Road Warrior Animal, American professional wrestler
1961 - Wayne Gretzky, Canadian ice hockey player
1962 - Oscar Ruggeri, Argentine footballer
1963 - JosÃ© Mourinho, Portuguese football manager
1963 - Andrew Ridgeley, English musician
1964 - Paul Johansson, American actor
1965 - Thomas Ã–stros, Swedish politician
1965 - Natalia Yurchenko, Soviet gymnast
1967 - Pradip Somasundaran, Indian playback singer
1968 - Ravi Teja, Tollywood film actor
1970 - Kirk Franklin, American singer
1970 - Tracy Middendorf, American actress
1971 - Bryan Callen, American actor
1971 - Dorian Gregory, American actor
1973 - Mayu Shinjo, Japanese mangaka
1974 - Shannon Hale, American author
1976 - Frankie Rayder, American model
1976 - Willie Adler, American guitar player
1977 - Vince Carter, American basketball player
1977 - Justin Gimelstob, American tennis player
1978 - Kelly Stables, American actress
1978 - Corina Morariu, American tennis player
1978 - EstÃ©ban GermÃ¡n, Dominican baseball player
1979 - Sara Rue, American actress
1981 - Juan Jose Haedo, Argentinian Cyclist
1984 - Layla Kayleigh, British television personality
1984 - Iain Turner, Scottish footballer
1984 - Luo Xuejuan, Chinese swimmer
1986 - Shantelle Taylor, Canadian professional wrestler
1986 - Matt Heafy, American musician (Trivium)
1986 - Gerald Green, American basketball player
1987 - Vladimir Garin, Russian actor (d. 2003)
1988 - Mia Rose, British-Portuguese singer
1989 - Emily Hughes, American figure skater
1990 - Christopher Massey, American actor
1993 - Cameron Bright, Canadian actor

Famous Births on 25 Jan

2012-01-25T12:02:00.000-08:00

Famous Births on 25 Jan

1477 - Anna, Duchess of Brittany, wife of Charles VIII of France (d. 1514)
1509 - Giovanni Morone, Italian cardinal (d. 1580)
1615 - Govert Flinck, Dutch painter (d. 1660)
1627 - Robert Boyle, Irish chemist (d. 1691)
1634 - Gaspar Fagel, Dutch statesman (d. 1688)
1640 - William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Devonshire, English soldier and statesman (d. 1707)
1688 - Juraj JÃ¡noÅ¡Ãk, famous Slovak outlaw (d. 1713)
1736 - Joseph Louis Lagrange, Italian-born mathematician (d. 1813)
1739 - Charles FranÃ§ois Dumouriez, French general (d. 1823)
1741 - Benedict Arnold, American general notorious for treason (d. 1801)
1759 - Robert Burns, Scottish poet (d. 1796)
1794 - FranÃ§ois-Vincent Raspail, French chemist (d. 1878)
1796 - William MacGillivray, Scottish naturalist and ornithologist (d. 1852)
1825 - George Pickett, American Confederate General (d. 1875)
1841 - Jackie Fisher, British First Sea Lord (d. 1920)
1858 - Kokichi Mikimoto, Japanese pearl farm pioneer (d. 1954)
1860 - Charles Curtis, 31st Vice President of the United States (d. 1936)
1864 - Julije Kempf, Croatian historian and writer (d. 1934)
1874 - W. Somerset Maugham, English writer (d. 1965)
1878 - Ernst Alexanderson, Swedish-born television pioneer (d. 1975)
1882 - Virginia Woolf, English writer (d. 1941)
1885 - Kitahara HakushÅ«, Japanese poets and children's writers (d. 1942)
1886 - Wilhelm FurtwÃ¤ngler, German conductor (d. 1954)
1899 - Paul-Henri Spaak, Belgian politician (d. 1972)
1900 - Yojiro Ishizaka, Japanese writer (d. 1986)
1900 - Theodosius Dobzhansky, Ukrainian-American geneticist and biologist (d. 1975)
1901 - Martin De Alzaga, Argentine racing driver (d. 1982)
1902 - Pablo Antonio, Filipino modernist architect (d. 1975)
1905 - Maurice Roy, French Canadian Roman Catholic cardinal, archbishop of Quebec (d. 1985)
1913 - Luis Marden, American photojournalist (d. 2003)
1913 - Witold LutosÅ‚awski, Polish composer (d. 1994)
1916 - Frank "Pop" Ivy, American and Canadian football coach (d. 2003)
1917 - Ilya Prigogine, Russian scientist Nobel Laureate (d. 2003)
1917 - JÃ¢nio Quadros, Brazilian politician (d. 1992)
1918 - Ernie Harwell, American baseball sportscaster
1919 - Edwin Newman, American journalist and writer
1923 - Shirley Mason, American psychiatric patient (Commonly known as "Sybil") (d. 1998)
1923 - Rusty Draper, American country and pop singer (d. 2003)
1924 - Lou Groza, American football player (d. 2000)
1924 - Speedy West, Country Hall of Fame steel guitar player (d. 2003)
1925 - Giorgos Zampetas, Greek musician and songwriter (d. 1992)
1927 - Antonio Carlos Jobim, Brazilian musician (d. 1994)
1928 - Eduard Shevardnadze, President of Georgia
1928 - JÃ©rÃ´me Choquette, Quebec lawyer and politician
1929 - Benny Golson, American jazz musician
1930 - Tanya Savicheva, Russian diarist (d. 1944)
1931 - Dean Jones, American actor
1933 - Corazon Aquino, President of the Philippines
1935 - AntÃ³nio Ramalho Eanes, 17th President of Portugal
1936 - Diana Hyland, American actress (d. 1977)
1937 - Judith Ann Mayotte, American humanitarian, author.
1937 - Ange-FÃ©lix PatassÃ©, President of the Central African Republic
1938 - Vladimir Vysotsky, Russian poet (d. 1980)
1938 - Etta James, American singer
1938 - Leiji Matsumoto, sJapanese creator of anime.
1938 - Shotaro Ishinomori, Japanese manga author (d. 1998)
1939 - Gabriel Romanus, Swedish politician
1941 - Gregory Sierra, American actor
1941 - Buddy Baker, American race car driver
1942 - EusÃ©bio, Portuguese footballer
1942 - Carl Eller, American football player
1943 - Tobe Hooper, American film director
1944 - Anita Pallenberg, Italian model
1945 - Leigh Taylor-Young, American actress
1947 - TostÃ£o, Brazilian footballer
1947 - Ãngel Nieto, Spanish motorcycle racer
1948 - Ros Kelly, Australian politician
1949 - Paul Nurse, English biochemist, Nobel Laureate
1949 - John Cooper Clarke, English punk-poet
1951 - Steve Prefontaine, American runner (d. 1975)
1952 - Timothy White, American journalist (d. 2002)
1952 - Sara Mandiano, French singer and songwriter
1953 - The Honky Tonk Man, American professional wrestler
1953 - Mark Weil, Uzbek theatre director (d. 2007)
1954 - Kim Gandy, American feminist
1954 - Richard Finch, American bass player (KC and the Sunshine Band)
1954 - Ricardo Bochini, Argentinian footballer
1955 - Terry Chimes, English musician (The Clash)
1956 - Andy Cox, English musician (The Beat, Fine Young Cannibals)
1957 - Jenifer Lewis, American actress
1957 - Eskil Erlandsson, Swedish politician
1957 - Andrew P. Harris, American politician
1958 - Dinah Manoff, American actress
1961 - Willie Revillame, Filipino game show host and comedian
1961 - Vivian Balakrishnan, Singaporean politician
1962 - Chris Chelios, American ice hockey player
1965 - Esa Tikkanen, Finnish ice hockey player
1966 - Chet Culver, American politician, governor of Iowa
1967 - Randy McKay, Canadian ice hockey player
1967 - Mark Bamford, American writer/director
1969 - Kina, American singer
1971 - China Kantner, American actress
1971 - Luca Badoer, Italian race car driver
1971 - Ana Ortiz, American actress and singer
1973 - Chris Guy, American professional wrestler
1973 - Geoff Johns, American comic book writer
1974 - Robert Budreau, Canadian film director
1975 - Angie Gregory, American Actress
1975 - Mia Kirshner, Canadian actress
1975 - Tim Montgomery, American athlete
1975 - Dat Phan, Vietnamese stand-up comedian
1976 - Mario Haberfeld, Brazilian racing car driver
1978 - Derrick Turnbow, Major League Baseball Player
1978 - Jason Roberts, English-born footballer
1978 - Denis Menchov, Russian cyclist
1979 - Christine Lakin, American actress
1979 - Pi Hongyan, French badminton player
1979 - Gabe Jennings, American distance runner
1979 - Rodrigo Ribeiro, Brazilian racing driver
1980 - Xavi, Catalan Spanish footballer
1980 - Efstathios Tavlaridis, Greek footballer
1980 - Michelle McCool, American professional wrestler
1981 - Tose Proeski, Macedonian Singer (d. 2007)
1981 - Francis Jeffers, English footballer
1981 - Alicia Keys, American singer
1982 - Shawna Waldron, American actress
1982 - The-Dream, singer
1982 - Sho Sakurai, Japanese singer and actor
1983 - AndrÃ©e Watters, Canadian singer
1984 - Robinho, Brazilian footballer
1985 - Tina Karol, Ukrainian singer
1985 - Acie Law IV, National Basketball Association player
1986 - Chris O'Grady, English footballer
1986 - Shahriar Nafees, Bangladeshi cricketer
1987 - Maria Kirilenko, Russian tennis player
1988 - Tatiana Golovin, French tennis player
750 - Leo IV the Khazar, Byzantine Emperor

Famous Births on 24 Jan

2012-01-24T12:02:00.000-08:00

Famous Births on 24 Jan

1287 - Richard Aungerville, English bishop (d. 1345)
1444 - Galeazzo Maria Sforza, Duke of Milan (d. 1476)
1540 - Edmund Campion, English Jesuit (d. 1581)
1638 - Charles Sackville, 6th Earl of Dorset, English poet (d. 1706)
1670 - William Congreve, English playwright (d. 1729)
1674 - Thomas Tanner, English bishop (d. 1735)
1679 - Christian Wolff, German philosopher (d. 1754)
1705 - Farinelli, Italian castrato (d. 1782)
1712 - King Frederick II of Prussia (d. 1786)
1724 - Frances Brooke, English writer (d. 1789)
1732 - Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais, French playwright (d. 1799)
1742 - Anne, Duchess of Cumberland and Strathearn (d. 1808)
1752 - Muzio Clementi, Italian composer (d. 1832)
1754 - Andrew Ellicott, American surveyor (d. 1820)
1763 - Louis Alexandre Andrault de Langeron, Russian general (d. 1831)
1776 - E.T.A. Hoffmann, German writer (d. 1822)
1779 - Elizabeth Alexeievna (Louise of Baden), Russian tsarina (d. 1826)
1848 - Vasily Surikov, Russian painter (d. 1916)
1862 - Edith Wharton, American writer (d. 1937)
1864 - Marguerite Durand, French feminist leader (d. 1936)
1872 - Konstantin Bogaevsky, Russian painter (d. 1943)
1872 - Ethel Turner, Australian author (d. 1958)
1873 - Leon Czolgosz, American anarchist, assassin of U.S. President William McKinley (d. 1901)
1886 - Henry King, American film director (d. 1982)
1888 - Vicki Baum, Austrian writer (d. 1960)
1888 - Ernst Heinkel, German aircraft designer (d. 1958)
1891 - Walter Model, German field marshal (d. 1945)
1895 - Eugen Roth, German writer (d. 1976)
1898 - Cliff Heathcote, American baseball player (d. 1939)
1901 - Harry Calder, South African cricketer (d. 1995)
1902 - E. A. Speiser, American Bible scholar (d. 1965)
1905 - J. Howard Marshall, American billionaire (d. 1995)
1907 - Maurice Couve de Murville, French politician (d. 1999)
1909 - Martin Lings, English Islamic scholar (d. 2005)
1909 - Ann Todd, English actress (d. 1993)
1913 - Norman Dello Joio, American composer
1915 - Robert Motherwell, American painter (d. 1991)
1916 - Jack Brickhouse, American sports broadcaster (d. 1998)
1917 - Ernest Borgnine, American actor
1918 - Oral Roberts, American evangelist
1919 - Coleman Francis, American film director
1920 - Jerry Maren, American actor
1922 - Charles Socarides, American psychiatrist (d. 2005)
1925 - Maria Tallchief, American ballerina
1926 - Georges Lautner, French director and screenwriter
1927 - Sir Patrick Macnaghten, 11th Baronet, British aristocrat (d. 2007)
1928 - Michel Serrault, French actor (d. 2007)
1928 - Desmond Morris, British anthropologist
1934 - StanisÅ‚aw Grochowiak, Polish poet (d. 1976)
1935 - Eric Ashton, English rugby league footballer (d. 2008)
1936 - Doug Kershaw, American musician
1939 - Ray Stevens, American musician
1941 - Neil Diamond, American singer
1941 - Aaron Neville, American singer
1942 - Gary Hart, American professional wrestling manager and wrestler (d. 2008)
1943 - Subhash Ghai, Indian film director
1943 - Sharon Tate, American actress and Manson murder victim (d. 1969)
1944 - Klaus Nomi, German singer (d. 1983)
1945 - John Garamendi, American politician
1946 - Michael Ontkean, Canadian actor
1947 - Warren Zevon, American musician (d. 2003)
1947 - Masashi Ozaki, Japanese golfer
1948 - Michael Des Barres, British actor and rock singer
1949 - John Belushi, American actor (d. 1982)
1950 - Benjamin Urrutia, Ecuadorian-born American writer
1950 - Daniel Auteuil, French actor
1951 - Yakov Smirnoff, Ukrainian-born American comedian
1954 - Jo Gartner, Austrian racing driver (d. 1986)
1956 - Hanne Krogh, Norwegian singer (Bobbysocks)
1957 - Adrian Edmondson, British comedian
1958 - Neil Allen, American baseball player
1958 - Jools Holland, British musician
1959 - Vic Reeves, English comedian
1959 - David Mills, American author
1961 - William Van Dijck, Belgian athlete
1961 - Vince Russo, American writer
1961 - Nastassja Kinski, German-born actress
1963 - Martyn Grimley, English field hockey player
1963 - Arnold Vanderlyde, Dutch boxer
1965 - Mike Awesome, American professional wrestler (d. 2007)
1965 - Carlos Saldanha, Brazilian film director
1966 - Jimeoin, Northern Irish comedian
1967 - Mark Kozelek, American singer/songwriter (Red House Painters, Sun Kil Moon)
1967 - Phil LaMarr, American voice actor
1967 - John Myung, American musician (Dream Theater)
1968 - Mary Lou Retton, American gymnast
1968 - Michael Kiske, German musician
1969 - Hilmir SnÃ¦r GuÃ°nason, Icelandic actor
1970 - Matthew Lillard, American actor
1971 - Cory Bailey, American baseball player
1971 - Andrea Mackris, American television producer
1972 - Ulla Werbrouck, Belgian judoka and politician
1972 - Naoshi Mizuta, Japanese composer
1974 - Shii Ann Huang, American game show contestant
1974 - Ed Helms, American actor
1975 - RÃ³nald GÃ³mez, Costa Rican footballer
1976 - Shae-Lynn Bourne, Canadian ice dancer with Victor Kraatz
1976 - Cindy Pieters, Belgian cyclist
1979 - Tatyana Ali, American actress and singer
1979 - Tom Kostopoulos, Canadian ice hockey player
1980 - Nicole Marie Lenz, American actress
1980 - Rocky Boiman, American football player
1981 - Travis Hanson, American baseball player
1983 - Shaun Maloney, Scottish footballer
1983 - Scott Speed, American race car driver
1984 - Scott Kazmir, American baseball player
1984 - Witold KieÅ‚tyka, Polish drummer (Decapitated) (d. 2007)
1986 - Mischa Barton, English-born American actress
1986 - Raviv Ullman, Israeli-born American actor
76 - Hadrian, Roman Emperor (d. 138)

Famous Births on 23 Jan

2012-01-23T12:02:00.000-08:00

Famous Births on 23 Jan

1350 - Vincent Ferrer, Spanish missionary and saint (d. 1419)
1688 - Queen Ulrika Eleonora of Sweden (d. 1741)
1719 - John Landen, English mathematician (d. 1790)
1737 - John Hancock, American statesman (d. 1793)
1745 - William Jessop, English canal engineer (d. 1814)
1783 - Stendhal, French writer (d. 1842)
1786 - Auguste de Montferrand, French architect (d. 1858)
1809 - Veer Surendra Sai, Indian Freedom Fighter
1813 - Camilla Collett, Norwegian writer and feminist (d. 1895)
1827 - Takamori Saigo, Samurai, leader of Satsuma rebellion (d. 1877)
1832 - Edouard Manet, French artist (d. 1883)
1840 - Ernst Abbe, German physicist (d. 1905)
1855 - John Moses Browning, American inventor (d. 1926)
1857 - Andrija MohoroviÄiÄ‡, Croatian seismologist (d. 1936)
1862 - David Hilbert, German mathematician (d. 1943)
1872 - Joze PleÄnik, Slovenian architect (d. 1957)
1872 - Paul Langevin, French physicist (d. 1946)
1872 - Goce Delchev, a revolutionary from the Balkans - leader of the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization (d. 1903)
1876 - Otto Diels, German chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1954)
1884 - Ralph DePalma, Italian-American race car driver (d. 1956)
1891 - Antonio Gramsci, Italian political philosopher, (d. 1937)
1896 - Charlotte, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg (d. 1985)
1897 - Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose, Indian Leader and Freedom Fighter (d. Unknown, Disputed)
1897 - Margarete SchÃ¼tte-Lihotzky, Austrian architect (d. 2000)
1897 - Sir William Samuel Stephenson, Canadian soldier, W.W.II codename, Intrepid. Inspiration for James Bond. (d. 1989)
1897 - Subhas Chandra Bose, Indian independence fighter (d. 1945)
1898 - Sergei Eisenstein, Russian film director (d. 1948)
1898 - Freda Utley, British scholar and author (d. 1978)
1898 - Randolph Scott, American actor (d. 1987)
1899 - Glen Kidston, British aviator and racing driver (d. 1931)
1900 - William Ifor Jones, Welsh conductor and organist (d. 1988)
1903 - Jorge EliÃ©cer GaitÃ¡n, Colombian politician (d. 1948)
1907 - Dan Duryea, American actor (d. 1968)
1907 - Hideki Yukawa, Japanese physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1981)
1910 - Django Reinhardt, Belgian guitarist (d. 1953)
1915 - Potter Stewart, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (d. 1985)
1915 - Arthur Lewis, British economist, Nobel laureate (d. 1991)
1916 - Airey Neave, British Major, politician and indictment server at the Nuremberg Trials (d. 1979)
1916 - David Douglas Duncan, American photo-journalist
1918 - Gertrude B. Elion, American scientist, Nobel laureate (d. 1999)
1919 - Hans Hass, Austrian zoologist and underwater scientist
1919 - Bob Paisley, English Football player and manager. (d. 1996)
1919 - Ernie Kovacs, American comedian (d. 1962)
1923 - Walter M. Miller, Jr., American writer (d. 1996)
1923 - Cot Deal, major league baseball player and coach
1924 - Bal Thackeray, founder and president of Indian political party Shiv Sena.
1927 - Lars-Eric Lindblad, Swedish-American entrepreneur and explorer (d. 1994)
1928 - Jeanne Moreau, French actress
1928 - Chico Carrasquel, Venezuelan baseball player (d. 2005)
1929 - Patriarch Filaret (Mykhailo Denysenko) of Ukrainian Orthodox Church - Kyiv Patriarchate
1929 - John Charles Polanyi, Canadian chemist, Nobel laureate
1930 - Derek Walcott, West Indian writer, Nobel laureate
1930 - Teresa Å»ylis-Gara, Polish singer
1933 - Chita Rivera, Puerto Rican actress and dancer
1934 - Pierre Bourgault, Quebec politician and essayist (d. 2003)
1936 - Bob Moses, American educator and 1960s Civil Rights Movement activist
1936 - Jerry Kramer, American football player
1938 - Shohei Baba, Japanese professional wrestler (d. 1999)
1938 - Georg Baselitz, German painter and sculptor
1939 - Sonny Chiba, Japanese actor and martial artist
1939 - Arlene Golonka, American actress
1940 - Johnny Russell, American country singer and songwriter (d. 2001)
1942 - Razzak, Bangladeshi actor and director
1943 - Gary Burton, American jazz vibraphonist
1943 - Gil Gerard, American actor
1943 - Millie Jackson, American singer
1944 - Rutger Hauer, Dutch actor
1945 - Mike Harris, Canadian politician, Premier of Ontario
1946 - Arnoldo AlemÃ¡n, ex-president of Nicaragua
1946 - Don Whittington, American businessman, car & airplane racer and convicted felon
1947 - Megawati Sukarnoputri, 5th President of Indonesia
1947 - Thomas R. Carper, American politician.
1948 - Anita Pointer, American singer (Pointer Sisters)
1950 - Richard Dean Anderson, American actor
1950 - Danny Federici, American musician (Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band)
1950 - John Greaves, English musician (Henry Cow, National Health)
1953 - Antonio Villaraigosa, Hispanic-American 52nd Mayor of Los Angeles
1953 - Robin Zander, American singer (Cheap Trick)
1954 - Edward Ka-Spel, English musician (Legendary Pink Dots)
1954 - Franco De Vita, Venezuelan singer and songwriter
1957 - Princess Caroline of Monaco
1957 - Lou Schuler, American fitness journalist
1959 - Clive Bull, English radio talk show host
1960 - Patrick de Gayardon, French skydiver and skysurfing pioneer (d. 1998)
1960 - Jean-FranÃ§ois SauvÃ©, Canadian ice hockey player
1961 - Mas Selamat bin Kastari, Singapore's most-wanted terror fugitive
1962 - Vasia Panayopoulou, Greek actress
1962 - Elvira Lindo, Spanish writer and journalist
1963 - Gail O'Grady, American actress
1964 - Mariska Hargitay, American actress
1964 - Mario Roberge, Canadian ice hockey player
1967 - Naim SÃ¼leymanoÄŸlu, Bulgaria-born Turkish weightlifter
1968 - Petr Korda, Czech tennis player
1969 - Brendan Shanahan, Canadian ice hockey player
1969 - Andrei Kanchelskis, Ukrainian-Russian footballer
1969 - Ariadna Gil, Spanish actress
1970 - Spiridon Vasdekis, Greek long jumper
1970 - Tracey Cherelle Jones, American actress
1971 - Kevin Mawae, American football player
1971 - Lorne Spicer, British TV presenter
1972 - Marcel Wouda, Dutch swimmer
1972 - Mark Curry, American rapper
1972 - Ewen Bremner, Scottish actor
1973 - Lanei Chapman, American actress
1974 - Joel Bouchard, Canadian ice hockey player
1974 - Rebekah Elmaloglou, Australian actress
1974 - Yosvani PÃ©rez, Cuban baseball player
1974 - Richard T. Slone, British artist
1974 - Tiffani Thiessen, American actress
1975 - Tito Ortiz, American UFC fighter
1976 - Brandon Duckworth, American baseball player
1976 - Angelica Lee, Taiwanese actress and singer
1976 - Nigel McGuinness, English professional wrestler
1979 - Sampsa Astala, Finnish musician (Lordi)
1979 - Larry Hughes, American basketball player
1979 - Juan RincÃ³n, Venezuelan baseball player
1981 - Rob Friend, Canadian footballer
1981 - Greg Smith, American UFC fighter
1982 - Wily Mo PeÃ±a, Dominican baseball player
1984 - Arjen Robben, Dutch footballer
1985 - Dong Fangzhuo, Chinese footballer
1985 - Doutzen Kroes, Dutch supermodel
1986 - Steven Taylor, English footballer
1987 - Felicia BrandstrÃ¶m, Swedish singer

Famous Births on 22 Jan

2012-01-22T12:02:00.000-08:00

Famous Births on 22 Jan

1263 - Ibn Taymiya, Islamic scholar (d. 1328)
1440 - Ivan III of Russia (d. 1505)
1553 - Mori Terumoto, Japanese warrior (d. 1625)
1561 - Sir Francis Bacon, English philosopher (d. 1626)
1570 - Sir Robert Bruce Cotton, English politician (d. 1631)
1592 - Pierre Gassendi, French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist (d. 1655)
1654 - Richard Blackmore, English physician and writer (d. 1729)
1690 - Nicolas Lancret, French painter (d. 1743)
1729 - Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, German author and philosopher (d. 1781)
1733 - Philip Carteret, British Naval Officer
1781 - FranÃ§ois Antoine Habeneck, French violinist (d. 1849)
1788 - George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron (Lord Byron), English poet (d. 1824)
1796 - Karl Claus, Russian chemist (d. 1864)
1797 - Maria Leopoldina of Austria, Empress of Brazil (d. 1826)
1799 - Ludger Duvernay, Canadian printer and publisher (d. 1852)
1820 - Joseph Wolf, German artist (d. 1899)
1840 - Ernest Roland Wilberforce, English bishop (d. 1907)
1849 - August Strindberg, Swedish writer (d. 1912)
1858 - Beatrice Webb, English economist (d. 1943)
1869 - Grigori Rasputin, Russian monk (d. 1916)
1874 - Edward Harkness, American philanthropist (d. 1940)
1875 - D. W. Griffith, American film director (d. 1948)
1882 - Theodore Kosloff, Russian-born actor, ballet dancer and choreographer (d. 1956)
1886 - Roman Ungern von Sternberg, Russian counter-revolutionary (d. 1921)
1887 - Helen Hoyt, American poet (d. 1972)
1889 - Henri PÃ©lissier, French cyclist (d. 1935)
1890 - Fred M. Vinson, 13th Chief Justice of the United States (d. 1953)
1890 - Vinko Zganec, Croatian ethnomusicologist (d. 1976)
1892 - Marcel Dassault, French industrialist (d. 1986)
1893 - Conrad Veidt, German actor (d. 1943)
1897 - Rosa Ponselle, American soprano (d. 1981)
1900 - Ernst Busch, German singer and actor (d. 1980)
1902 - Daniel Kinsey, American hurdler (d. 1970)
1903 - Fritz Houtermans, Polish physicist (d. 1966)
1904 - George Balanchine, Russian choreographer (d. 1983)
1904 - Arkady Gaidar, Russian children's writer (d. 1941)
1906 - Joe Gladwin, English actor (d. 1987)
1906 - Robert E. Howard, American author (d. 1936)
1907 - Mary Dresselhuys, Dutch actress (d. 2004)
1907 - Dixie Dean, English footballer (d. 1980)
1907 - Douglas Corrigan, American pilot (d. 1995)
1908 - Lev Landau, Soviet physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1968)
1909 - Porfirio Rubirosa, Dominican diplomat and international playboy (d. 1965)
1909 - Ann Sothern, American actress (d. 2001)
1909 - U Thant, Burmese 3rd United Nations Secretary General (d. 1974)
1911 - Bruno Kreisky, Chancellor of Austria (d. 1990)
1913 - William Cardinal Conway, Northern Irish clergyman (d. 1977)
1913 - Carl F. H. Henry, American theologian and publisher (d. 2003)
1914 - Dimitris Dragatakis, Greek composer (d. 2001)
1915 - Heinrich Albertz, German theologian and politician (d. 1993)
1916 - Henri Dutilleux, French composer
1916 - Bill Durnan, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1972)
1918 - Elmer Lach, Canadian ice hockey player
1920 - Sir Alf Ramsey, English football manager (d. 1999)
1922 - Howard Moss, American poet, dramatist, and critic (d. 1987)
1924 - J. J. Johnson, American jazz trombonist and composer (d. 2001)
1927 - Lou Creekmur, American football player
1928 - Yoshihiko Amino, Japanese historian (d. 2004)
1931 - Sam Cooke, American singer (d. 1964)
1932 - Piper Laurie, American actress
1932 - Berthold GrÃ¼nfeld, Norwegian psychiatrist and former sexologist
1934 - Bill Bixby, American actor (d. 1993)
1934 - Graham Kerr, British-born chef
1935 - Seymour Cassel, American actor
1936 - Ong Teng Cheong, 5th President of Singapore (d. 2002)
1936 - Alan J. Heeger, American chemist, Nobel laureate
1937 - EdÃ©n Pastora, Nicaraguan rebel leader
1937 - Joseph Wambaugh, American author
1938 - Altair, Brazilian footballer
1939 - J.C. Tremblay, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1994)
1939 - Jeff Smith, American chef (d. 2004)
1940 - Addie "Micki" Harris, singer (Shirelles) (d. 1982)
1940 - John Hurt, English actor
1940 - George Seifert, American football coach
1942 - Mimis Domazos, Greek footballer
1943 - MarÃlia PÃªra, Brazilian actress
1945 - Arthur Beetson, Australian rugby league footballer and coach
1946 - Serge Savard, Canadian ice hockey player
1946 - Malcolm McLaren, English impresario, musician and self-publicist
1948 - Gilbert Levine, American conductor
1948 - Northern Calloway, American actor (d. 1990)
1949 - Steve Perry, American singer and musician (Journey)
1949 - Phil Miller, English guitarist (National Health, In Cahoots, Matching Mole)
1949 - Mike Caldwell, American baseball player
1951 - Ondrej Nepela, Slovak figure skater (d. 1989)
1952 - Teddy Gentry, American musician (Alabama)
1952 - Ace Vergel, Filipino actor (d. 2007)
1953 - Myung-Whun Chung,South Korean Conductor and pianist
1953 - Jim Jarmusch, American director
1954 - Tully Blanchard, American professional wrestler
1954 - Chris Lemmon, American actor
1954 - Peter Pilz, Austrian politician
1955 - Timothy R. Ferguson, American politician
1956 - Steve Riley, American drummer
1956 - John Wesley Shipp, American actor
1957 - Rene Requiestas, Filipino comedian (d. 1993)
1957 - Francis Wheen, English writer and journalist
1957 - Mike Bossy, Canadian ice hockey player
1958 - Nikos Anastopoulos, Greek football player and manager
1959 - Linda Blair, American actress
1960 - Michael Hutchence, Australian singer (INXS) (d. 1997)
1961 - Daniel Johnston, American singer-songwriter and artist
1962 - Sultan Mizan Zainal Abidin of Terengganu, Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia
1962 - Choi Min-sik, South Korean actor
1963 - Andrei Tchmil, Ukrainian-Belgian cyclist
1965 - Chintara Sukapatana, Thai actress
1965 - Andrew Roachford, English singer and songwriter
1965 - Brian McCardie, Scottish actor
1965 - Diane Lane, American actress
1965 - DJ Jazzy Jeff, American rapper and actor
1965 - Steven Adler, American drummer (Guns N' Roses)
1966 - Ecaterina Szabo, Romanian gymnast
1967 - Manabu Nakanishi, Japanese professional wrestler
1968 - Heath, Japanese bass guitarist (X Japan)
1968 - Frank LebÅ"uf, French footballer
1968 - Mauricio Serna, Colombian footballer
1969 - John Linton Roberson, American cartoonist
1969 - Olivia d'Abo, English actress
1970 - Abraham Olano, Spanish cyclist
1970 - Alex Ross, American comic book painter (Marvels, Kingdom Come)
1971 - Stan Collymore, English footballer
1972 - Gonzalo RodrÃguez, Uruguayan racing driver (d. 1999)
1972 - Romi Paku, Japanese seiyu (voice actress)
1972 - Gabriel Macht, American actor
1973 - Rogerio Ceni, Brazilian footballer
1974 - Cameron McConville, Australian racing driver
1975 - David VÃ½bornÃ½, Czech ice hockey player
1975 - ZP Theart, South African singer
1975 - Felipe Giaffone, Brazilian racing driver
1975 - Balthazar Getty, American actor
1976 - James Dearth, American football player
1976 - Mikko Luoma, Finnish ice hockey player
1977 - Jono Gibbes, New Zealand rugby union footballer
1977 - Hidetoshi Nakata, Japanese footballer
1978 - Chone Figgins, American baseball player
1980 - Subhash Ram Prajapati, Nepalese Writer
1980 - Jonathan Woodgate, English footballer
1980 - Ben Moody, American guitarist (Evanescence)
1980 - Christopher Masterson, American actor
1980 - Jake Grove, American football player
1981 - Willa Ford, American singer
1981 - Beverley Mitchell, American actress
1981 - Ibrahima Sonko, French footballer
1982 - Jason Peters, American football player
1982 - Fabricio Coloccini, Argentine footballer
1983 - Shaun Cody, American football player
1983 - Robert SteinhÃ¤user, German perpetrator of the Erfurt massacre (d. 2002)
1984 - Maceo Rigters, Dutch footballer
1984 - Leon Powe, American basketball player
1984 - Raica Oliveira, Brazilian supermodel
1984 - Ben Eager, Canadian ice hockey player
1985 - Mohamed Sissoko, Malian footballer
1986 - Lee Pa-ni, South Korean model
1986 - Daniel Wayne Smith, American actor, reality television personality (d. 2006)
1987 - Astrid Jacobsen, Norwegian cross-country skier
1988 - Greg Oden, American basketball player

Famous Births on 21 Jan

2012-01-21T12:02:00.000-08:00

Famous Births on 21 Jan

1338 - King Charles V of France (d. 1380)
1721 - James Murray, British military officer, governor of Quebec (d. 1794)
1804 - Eliza Roxcy Snow, American poet (d. 1887)
1813 - John C. FrÃ©mont, American army officer, explorer and presidential candidate (d. 1890)
1815 - John Bingham, American politician and lawyer (d. 1900)
1824 - Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson, American, Confederate army general (d. 1863)
1825 - Imre MadÃ¡ch, Hungarian writer (d. 1864)
1827 - Ivan Mikheevich Pervushin, Russian mathematician (d. 1900)
1829 - King Oscar II of Sweden and Norway (d. 1907)
1848 - Henri Duparc, French composer (d. 1933)
1860 - Karl Staaff, Prime Minister of Sweden (d. 1915)
1867 - Ludwig Thoma, German writer (d. 1921)
1867 - Maxime Weygand, French general (d. 1965)
1882 - Pavel Florensky, Russian mathematician (d. 1937)
1883 - Amang Rodriguez, Filipino politician (d. 1964)
1883 - Olav Aukrust, Norwegian poet (d. 1929)
1884 - Roger Baldwin, American social activist (d. 1981)
1885 - Umberto Nobile, Italian politician (d. 1978)
1887 - Georges VÃ©zina, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1926)
1895 - CristÃ³bal Balenciaga, Spanish couturier (d. 1972)
1897 - RenÃ© IchÃ©, French sculptor (d. 1954)
1899 - Alexander Tcherepnin, Russian born American composer (d. 1977)
1901 - Ricardo Zamora, Spanish footballer (d. 1978)
1905 - Christian Dior, French fashion designer (d. 1957)
1905 - Karl Wallenda, German acrobat (d. 1978)
1906 - Igor Moiseyev, Russian choreographer (d. 2007)
1909 - Todor Skalovski, Macedonian composer (d. 2004)
1910 - Eua Sunthornsanan, Thai composer and bandleader (d. 1981)
1912 - Konrad Emil Bloch, German-born biochemist, Nobel laureate (d. 2000)
1918 - Richard D. Winters, American war hero
1918 - Chichay, Filipino actress (d. 1993)
1921 - Howard Unruh, American mass murderer
1922 - Paul Scofield, English actor (d. 2008)
1922 - Telly Savalas, American actor (d. 1994)
1923 - Lola Flores, Spanish singer (d. 1995)
1924 - Benny Hill, English actor, comedian, and singer (d. 1992)
1926 - Steve Reeves, American actor (d. 2000)
1926 - Brian Brockless, English organist (d. 1995)
1927 - Clive Churchill, Australian rugby league footballer (d. 1985)
1932 - John Chaney, American basketball coach
1933 - Joseph W. Eschbach, American doctor (d. 2007)
1934 - Audrey Dalton, Irish actress
1936 - Koji Hashimoto, Japanese film director (d. 2005)
1937 - Prince Max, Duke in Bavaria
1938 - Wolfman Jack, American disk jockey and actor (d. 1995)
1938 - John Savident, British actor
1940 - Jack Nicklaus, American golfer
1941 - Ivan Putski, Polish-born American professional wrestler
1941 - Mike Medavoy, American film producer
1941 - Richie Havens, American musician
1941 - Stathis Giallelis, Greek actor
1941 - PlÃ¡cido Domingo, Spanish tenor
1942 - Edwin Starr, American singer (d. 2003)
1942 - Mac Davis, American musician
1946 - Johnny Oates, American baseball player and manager (d. 2004)
1947 - Michel Jonasz, French singer and composer
1947 - Pye Hastings, English singer and musician (Caravan)
1947 - Jill Eikenberry, American actress
1950 - Billy Ocean, West Indian musician
1952 - Marco Camenisch, Swiss environmental activist
1952 - Louis Menand, American writer and critic
1953 - Paul Allen, American entrepreneur, co-founder of Microsoft
1955 - Jeff Koons, American artist
1956 - Geena Davis, American actress
1956 - Robby Benson, American actor
1957 - Greg Ryan, American soccer coach
1958 - Michael Wincott, Canadian actor
1959 - Alex McLeish, Scottish footballer and manager
1962 - Marie Trintignant, French actress (d. 2003)
1962 - Tyler Cowen, American economist
1963 - Hakeem Olajuwon, Nigerian-born American basketball player
1963 - Detlef Schrempf, German basketball player
1965 - Jam Master Jay, American disc jockey (d. 2002)
1966 - Robert Del Naja, English musician
1966 - Candi Milo, American voice actress
1968 - Ulrica Messing, Swedish politician
1968 - Charlotte Ross, American actress
1969 - Karina Lombard, American actress
1969 - Tsubaki Nekoi, Japanese manga artist
1970 - Mark Trojanowski, American musician (Sister Hazel)
1970 - Ken Leung, American actor
1971 - Alan McManus, Scottish snooker player
1971 - Doug Weight, American ice hockey player
1972 - Alan Benes, American baseball player
1972 - Rick Falkvinge, Swedish politician
1972 - Yasunori Mitsuda, Japanese composer
1972 - Cat Power (Chan Marshall), American musician
1974 - Alex Sperafico, Brazilian racing driver
1974 - Rove McManus, Australian television host and comedian
1975 - Ito, Spanish footballer
1975 - Nicky Butt, English footballer
1975 - Casey FitzRandolph, American speed skater
1975 - Yuji Ide, Japanese racing driver
1976 - Emma Bunton, English singer (Spice Girls)
1977 - Rick Ross, American rapper
1977 - Phil Neville, English footballer
1977 - Al Baxter, Australian rugby union footballer
1978 - Bryan Gilmore, National Football League player
1978 - Tamir "Nokio" Ruffin, American Singer
1978 - Faris al-Sultan, German-Iraqi triathlete
1978 - Phil Stacey, American Idol finalist
1978 - Andrei Zyuzin, Russian ice hockey player
1979 - Brian O'Driscoll, Irish rugby union footballer
1979 - Spider Loc, American rapper, member of G-Unit
1979 - Byung-Hyun Kim, Korean baseball player
1980 - Dave Kitson, English footballer
1980 - Nana Mizuki, Japanese voice actress and singer
1981 - Alex Ubago, Spanish-Basque singer-songwriter
1981 - Izabella Miko, Polish-born actress and model
1981 - Andy Lee, Korean singer (Shinhwa)
1981 - Dany Heatley, Canadian ice hockey player
1981 - Ivan ErgiÄ‡, Serbian footballer
1981 - Jamie Dalrymple, English cricketer
1981 - Gillian Chung Yan-tung, Hong Kong singer (Twins)
1982 - Dean Whitehead, English footballer
1983 - Maryse Ouellet, French-Canadian model and professional wrestler
1983 - Moritz Volz, German footballer
1983 - Peter Philipakos, Greek-American soccer player
1985 - Matt Unicomb, Australian basketball player
1985 - Sasha Pivovarova, Russian Model
1985 - Alex PÃ©rez, Spanish footballer
1986 - Coffin Joe, English drummer ( The Horrors)
1987 - Joe Ledley, Welsh footballer
1988 - William Johansson, Swedish composer
1990 - Jacob Smith, American actor
1994 - Laura Robson, Tennis Player
2004 - Princess Ingrid Alexandra of Norway

Famous Births on 20 Jan

2012-01-20T12:02:00.000-08:00

Famous Births on 20 Jan

1292 - Elisabeth I of Bohemia (d. 1330)
1358 - Eleanor of Aragon, wife of John I of Castile (d. 1382)
1435 - Ashikaga Yoshimasa, Japanese shogun (d. 1490)
1554 - King Sebastian of Portugal (d. 1578)
1586 - Johann Schein, German composer (d. 1630)
1664 - Giovanni Vincenzo Gravina, Italian writer and jurist (d. 1718)
1716 - King Charles III of Spain (d. 1788)
1716 - Jean-Jacques BarthÃ©lemy, French writer and numismatist (d. 1795)
1775 - AndrÃ©-Marie AmpÃ¨re, French physicist (d. 1836)
1781 - Joseph Hormayr Freiherr zu Hortenburg, Austrian politician (d. 1848)
1783 - Justus Johann Friedrich Dotzauer, German cellist and composer (d. 1860)
1798 - Anson Jones, 5th and last President of Texas (d. 1858)
1804 - EugÃ¨ne Sue, French novelist (d. 1857)
1812 - Thomas Meik, Scottish engineer (d. 1896)
1834 - George D. Robinson, 34th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1896)
1837 - David Josiah Brewer, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (d. 1910)
1855 - Ernest Chausson, French composer (d. 1899)
1867 - Yvette Guilbert, French singer and actress (d. 1944)
1873 - Johannes Vilhelm Jensen, Danish Nobel laureate (d. 1950)
1876 - JÃ³zef Hofmann, Polish pianist (d. 1967)
1878 - Finlay Currie, British actor (d. 1968)
1878 - Ruth St. Denis, American dancer (d. 1968)
1880 - Walter W. Bacon, American politician (d. 1962)
1889 - Allan Haines Loughead, American aviation executive (d. 1969)
1891 - Mischa Elman, Ukrainian born violinist (d. 1967)
1893 - Georg Ã…berg, Swedish athlete (d. 1946)
1894 - Walter Piston, American composer (d. 1976)
1896 - Isabel Withers, American actress (d. 1968)
1896 - George Burns, American actor, comedian (d. 1996)
1898 - U Razak, Burmese politician (d. 1947)
1899 - Kenjiro Takayanagi, Japanese development of television (d. 1990)
1900 - Colin Clive, British actor (d. 1937)
1902 - Leon Ames, American actor (d. 1993)
1907 - Paula Wessely, Austrian actress (d. 2000)
1910 - Joy Adamson, Austrian naturalist and writer (d. 1980)
1912 - Walter Briggs, Jr., American sports executive (d. 1970)
1915 - Ghulam Ishaq Khan, President of Pakistan (d. 2006)
1919 - Juan GarcÃa Esquivel, Mexican bandleader (d. 2002)
1920 - Thorleif Schjelderup, Norwegian author and ski jumper (d. 2006)
1920 - Federico Fellini, Italian film director (d. 1993)
1920 - DeForest Kelley, American actor (d. 1999)
1921 - Telmo ZarraonaindÃa, Spanish footballer (d. 2006)
1922 - Ray Anthony, American trumpeter, bandleader and actor
1923 - Nora Brockstedt, Norwegian singer
1924 - Slim Whitman, American singer
1925 - Ernesto Cardenal, Nicaraguan theologian and politician
1926 - Jamiluddin Aali, Pakistani poet, essayist and columnist
1926 - Qurratulain Hyder, Pakistani novelist (d. 2007)
1926 - Patricia Neal, American actress
1926 - David Tudor, American pianist and composer (d. 1996)
1929 - Glenn Roberts, American race car driver (d. 1964)
1929 - Arte Johnson, American actor
1929 - Bob Denard, French mercenary
1929 - Jimmy Cobb, American jazz drummer
1930 - Buzz Aldrin, American astronaut
1931 - David Lee, American physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics laureate
1932 - Lou Fontinato, Canadian ice hockey player
1933 - Ron Townson, American singer (The Fifth Dimension) (d. 2001)
1934 - Tom Baker, British actor
1935 - Joan Weston, Roller Derby Queen (d. 1997)
1937 - Dorothy Provine, American singer, dancer and actress
1938 - William Berger, Austrian actor (d. 1993)
1938 - Derek Dougan, Northern Irish footballer (d. 2007)
1939 - Paul Coverdell, American politician (d. 2000)
1940 - Carol Heiss, American figure skater
1940 - Krishnam Raju, Indian actor and politician
1941 - Pierre Lalonde, Quebec singer and television host
1943 - Farhad Mehrad, Iranian musician
1944 - JosÃ© Luis Garci, Spanish filmmaker
1945 - Robert Olen Butler, American writer
1945 - Christopher Martin-Jenkins, cricket commentator and correspondent
1945 - Eric Stewart, English musician and songwriter (10cc)
1946 - David Lynch, American film director
1947 - Cyrille Guimard, French cyclist and directeur sportif
1948 - Nancy Kress, American writer
1948 - Natan Sharansky, Russian-born physicist and politician
1949 - GÃ¶ran Persson, Prime Minister of Sweden
1950 - Liza Goddard, British actress
1950 - Edward Hirsch. American poet
1950 - Chuck Lefley, Canadian ice hockey player
1950 - Mahamane Ousmane, President of Niger
1951 - Ivan Fischer, Hungarian conductor
1951 - Ian Hill, British musician (Judas Priest)
1952 - Paul Stanley, American musician (Kiss)
1955 - Hiromi ÅŒta, Japanese singer
1955 - Joe Doherty, Provisional Irish Republican Army member
1955 - Wyatt Knight, American actor
1956 - Maria Larsson, Swedish politician
1956 - Bill Maher, American actor, comedian, and political analyst
1958 - Lorenzo Lamas, American actor
1960 - Scott Thunes, American musician (Frank Zappa)
1960 - Will Wright, American computer game designer
1963 - James Denton, American actor
1964 - Kazushige Nojima, Japanese game scenario writer
1965 - Colin Calderwood, Scottish footballer
1965 - Greg Kriesel, American bassist (The Offspring)
1965 - Sophie, The Countess of Wessex, the wife of Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex
1965 - John Michael Montgomery, American singer
1965 - Anton Weissenbacher, Romanian footballer
1966 - Stacey Dash, American actress
1966 - Tracii Guns, American guitarist
1968 - Rainn Wilson, American actor
1968 - Melissa Rivers, American reporter and actress
1969 - Patrick K. Kroupa, American computer hacker
1969 - Nicky Wire, British Musician (Manic Street Preachers)
1970 - Mitch Benn, UK comedian, songwriter, actor
1970 - Kerri Kenney-Silver, American actress
1970 - Skeet Ulrich, American actor
1971 - Ahmir "?uestlove" Thompson, American drummer (The Roots)
1971 - Brian Giles, American baseball player
1971 - Gary Barlow, English singer (Take That)
1971 - Derrick Green, American singer (Sepultura)
1973 - Princess Mathilde, Duchess of Brabant
1975 - David Eckstein, American baseball player
1975 - Norberto Fontana, Argentine racing driver
1976 - Gretha Smit, Dutch speed skater
1977 - Melody, Belgian singer
1978 - Sonja KesselschlÃ¤ger, German heptathlete
1978 - Allan SÃ¸gaard, Danish footballer
1978 - Joy Giovanni, American actress and glamour model
1979 - Rob Bourdon, American musician (Linkin Park)
1979 - Asaka Kubo, Japanese gravure idol of 20th Century
1979 - Will Young, British singer
1980 - Matthew Tuck, Welsh guitarist (Bullet for My Valentine)
1980 - Brigitte Olivier, Belgian judoka
1980 - Philippe Cousteau Jr., Freanch oceanographer; grandson of Jacques Cousteau
1981 - Freddy GuzmÃ¡n, Dominican baseball player
1981 - Christine Bleakley, BBC Television Host
1981 - Owen Hargreaves, English international footballer
1981 - Crystal Lowe, Canadian actress
1983 - Paula Taylor, English-Thai actress, model and presenter
1983 - Geovany Soto, Puerto Rican baseball player
1983 - Mari Yaguchi, Japanese singer (Morning Musume)
1984 - Olivia Hallinan, English Actress
1984 - Toni Gonzaga, Filipina Actress and Singer
225 - Gordian III, Roman Emperor (d. 244)

Famous Births on 19 Jan

2012-01-19T12:02:00.000-08:00

Famous Births on 19 Jan

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

Famous Births on 18 Jan

2012-01-18T12:02:00.000-08:00

Famous Births on 18 Jan

1519 - Isabella JagieÅ‚Å‚o, queen of Hungary (d. 1559)
1543 - (baptised) Alfonso Ferrabosco (I), Italian composer (d. 1588)
1641 - FranÃ§ois-Michel le Tellier, Marquis de Louvois, French war minister (d. 1691)
1672 - Antoine Houdar de la Motte, French writer (d. 1731)
1688 - Lionel Sackville, 1st Duke of Dorset, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (d. 1765)
1689 - Montesquieu, French writer (d. 1755)
1779 - Peter Roget, British lexicographer (d. 1869)
1782 - Daniel Webster, American statesman (d. 1852)
1795 - Anna Pavlovna of Russia, queen of The Netherlands (d. 1865)
1813 - Joseph Glidden, American farmer who patented barbed wire (d. 1906)
1815 - Constantin von Tischendorf, German biblical scholar (d. 1874)
1840 - Henry Austin Dobson, English poet (d. 1921)
1841 - Emmanuel Chabrier, French composer (d. 1894)
1842 - Albert Alonzo Ames, Mayor of Minneapolis (d. 1911)
1848 - Ioan Slavici, Transylvanian writer (d. 1925)
1849 - Edmund Barton, 1st Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1920)
1850 - Seth Low, American politician (d. 1916)
1854 - Thomas Watson, American telephone pioneer (d. 1934)
1856 - Daniel Hale Williams, African-American surgeon (d. 1931)
1867 - RubÃ©n DarÃo, Nicaraguan Journalist, Diplomat, Poet (d. 1916)
1877 - Samuel Zemurray, U.S. businessman (d.1961)
1879 - Henri Giraud, French general (d. 1949)
1881 - Gaston Gallimard, French publisher (d. 1975)
1882 - A. A. Milne, English author (d. 1956)
1886 - Clara NordstrÃ¶m, German writer and translator (d. 1962)
1888 - Thomas Sopwith, British aviation pioneer (d. 1989)
1892 - Oliver Hardy, American comedian and actor (d. 1957)
1892 - Paul Rostock, German surgeon (d. 1956)
1896 - C. M. Eddy, Jr., American writer (d. 1967)
1901 - Ivan Petrovsky, Russian mathematician (d. 1973)
1904 - Cary Grant, English actor (d. 1986)
1904 - Anthony Galla-Rini, American accordionist (d. 2006)
1905 - Joseph Bonanno, Italian-born gangster (d. 2002)
1908 - Princess Sibylla of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (d. 1972)
1908 - Jacob Bronowski, Polish-born mathematician, poet, and physicist (d. 1974)
1910 - Kenneth E. Boulding, English economist (d. 1983)
1913 - Danny Kaye, American actor (d. 1987)
1914 - Arno Schmidt, German author (d. 1979)
1915 - Vassilis Tsitsanis, Greek singer and songwriter (d. 1984)
1917 - Wang Yung-ching, Taiwanese businessman
1918 - Gustave Gingras, French Canadian physician (d. 1996)
1922 - Bob Bell, American clown (d. 1997)
1925 - Gilles Deleuze, French philosopher (d. 1995)
1927 - Sundaram Balachander, Indian veena player (d. 1990)
1931 - Chun Doo-hwan, President of South Korea
1932 - Robert Anton Wilson, American author (d. 2007)
1933 - Ray Dolby, American inventor (Dolby noise reduction system)
1933 - John Boorman, Irish film director
1934 - Raymond Briggs, English writer and illustrator
1935 - Albert Millaire, Quebec actor and theatre director
1935 - Jon Stallworthy, English poet
1935 - Gad Yaacobi, Israeli minister (d. 2007)
1937 - John Hume, Northern Irish politician, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1998
1938 - Curt Flood, American baseball player (d. 1997)
1940 - Pedro Rodriguez, Mexican racing driver (d. 1971)
1941 - Denise Bombardier, Quebec journalist, television host and novelist
1941 - Bobby Goldsboro, American country/pop singer
1941 - David Ruffin, American singer (The Temptations) (d. 1991)
1943 - Kay Granger, American politician
1944 - Carl Morton, American baseball player (d. 1983)
1944 - Paul Keating, twenty-fourth Prime Minister of Australia
1945 - JosÃ© Luis Perales, Spanish singer
1946 - Joseph Deiss, Swiss Federal Councilor
1947 - Takeshi Kitano, Japanese actor and director
1949 - Bill Keller, American newspaper editor
1949 - Philippe Starck, French designer
1950 - Gilles Villeneuve, Canadian race car driver (d. 1982)
1951 - Bram Behr, Surinamese journalist (d. 1982)
1951 - Bob Latchford, English footballer
1952 - R. Stevie Moore, American singer, songwriter, and home recording pioneer
1952 - Michael Behe, American advocate of Intelligent Design
1953 - Brett Hudson, American actor
1954 - Ted DiBiase, Retired Professional Wrestler
1955 - Kevin Costner, American actor
1955 - Fergus Martin, Irish artist
1956 - Tom Bailey, English singer (Thompson Twins)
1956 - Sharon Mitchell, American porn actress
1961 - Mark Messier, Canadian ice hockey player
1961 - Peter Beardsley, English footballer
1961 - Jeff Yagher, American actor
1962 - Alison Arngrim, American actress
1963 - Yury Zakharevich, Soviet weightlifter
1963 - Maxime Bernier, French Canadian politician
1963 - Martin O'Malley, Governor of Maryland
1964 - Andrea Leand, American tennis player
1964 - Enrico Lo Verso, Italian actor
1964 - Jane Horrocks, British actress
1965 - Dave Attell, American writer and comedian
1966 - Alexander Khalifman, Russian chess player
1966 - AndrÃ© Ribeiro, Brazilian racing driver
1967 - Kim Perrot, American basketball player (d. 1999)
1967 - IvÃ¡n Zamorano, Chilean footballer
1968 - Frank Quitely, Scottish comic book artist
1969 - Jim O'Rourke, American musician and producer (Loose Fur and Wilco)
1969 - Batista, American professional wrestler
1969 - Jesse L. Martin, American actor and singer
1970 - DJ Quik, American rapper
1970 - Peter van Petegem, Belgian cyclist
1971 - Josep Guardiola, Spanish footballer
1971 - Christian Fittipaldi, Brazilian race car driver
1971 - Jonathan Davis, American singer (KoÐ¯n)
1971 - Seamus O'Regan, Canadian broadcast journalist
1972 - Mike Lieberthal, American baseball player
1973 - Anthony Koutoufides, Australian rules footballer
1973 - Crispian Mills, British musician (The Jeevas and Kula Shaker)
1974 - Princess Claire of Belgium
1974 - Michael Tunn, Australian television and radio
1974 - Christian Burns, English musician (BBMak)
1974 - Devon Odessa, American actress
1974 - Maulik Pancholy, American actor
1976 - Laurence Courtois, Belgian tennis player
1976 - Damien Leith, Australian Idol 2006
1977 - Curtis Cregan, American actor
1977 - Alina Jidkova, Russian tennis player
1978 - Brian Falkenborg, American baseball player
1979 - Brian Gionta, American ice hockey player
1979 - Paulo Ferreira, Portuguese footballer
1979 - Jay Chou, Taiwanese singer and producer
1979 - Kenyatta Jones, American football player
1980 - Estelle Swaray, English singer
1980 - Jason Segel, American actor
1980 - Julius Peppers, American football player
1980 - Robert Green, English footballer
1981 - Kang Dong-won, South Korean model and actor
1981 - Olivier Rochus, Belgian tennis player
1981 - Khari Stephenson, Jamaican footballer
1982 - Joanna Newsom, American harpist
1983 - Samantha Mumba, Irish singer and actress
1984 - Seung-Hui Cho, shooter at Virginia Tech
1984 - Maarja Kivi, Estonian singer
1984 - Michael Kearney, American child prodigy
1984 - Benji Schwimmer, American dancer
1984 - Kristy Lee Cook, American Idol 7 cast member
1985 - Dale Begg-Smith, Australian freestyle skier
1985 - Riccardo Montolivo, Italian soccer player
1988 - Ronald Guglielmone Jr., American singer-songwriter
1993 - Morgan York, American actress
885 - Daigo, Emperor of Japan (d. 930)

Famous Births on 17 Jan

2012-01-17T12:02:00.000-08:00

Famous Births on 17 Jan

1463 - Friedrich III, Elector of Saxony (d. 1525)
1484 - George Spalatin, German reformer (d. 1545)
1501 - Leonhart Fuchs, German physician and botanist (d. 1566)
1504 - Pope Pius V (d. 1572)
1560 - Gaspard Bauhin, Swiss botanist (d. 1624)
1600 - Pedro Calderon de la Barca, Spanish playwright (d. 1681)
1612 - Thomas Fairfax, 3rd Lord Fairfax of Cameron, English Civil War general (d. 1671)
1666 - Antonio Maria Valsalva, Italian anatomist (d. 1723)
1686 - Archibald Bower, Scottish historian (d. 1766)
1706 - Benjamin Franklin American statesman (d. 1790)
1712 - John Stanley, English composer (d. 1786)
1719 - William Vernon, American merchant (d. 1806)
1732 - Stanislaw II August Poniatowski, King and Grand Duke of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (d. 1798)
1734 - FranÃ§ois-Joseph Gossec, Belgian composer (d. 1829)
1761 - James Hall, Scottish geologist (d. 1832)
1789 - August Neander, German theologian (d. 1850)
1814 - 'Mrs Henry Wood', English novelist (d. 1887)
1820 - Anne BrontÃ«, British author (d. 1849)
1828 - Lewis A. Grant, American Civil War general (d. 1918)
1828 - Eduard Remenyi, Hungarian violinist (d. 1898)
1831 - Archduchess Elisabeth Franziska of Austria (d. 1903)
1832 - Henry Martyn Baird, American educationalist (d. 1906)
1834 - August Weismann, German biologist (d. 1914)
1850 - Aleksandr Taneyev, Russian composer (d. 1918)
1851 - A. B. Frost, American illustrator (d. 1928)
1853 - Alva Belmont, American socialite (d. 1933)
1857 - Eugene Augustin Lauste, French inventor (d. 1935)
1857 - Wilhelm Kienzl, Austrian composer (d. 1941)
1858 - TomÃ¡s Carrasquilla, Colombian writer (d. 1940)
1860 - Douglas Hyde, President of Ireland (d. 1949)
1863 - Constantin Stanislavski, Russian theatre practitioner (d. 1938)
1863 - David Lloyd George, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1945)
1865 - Gen Sir Charles Fergusson, Governor-General of New Zealand (d. 1951)
1867 - Carl Laemmle, German-born film executive (d. 1939)
1871 - David Earl Beatty British admiral (d. 1936)
1871 - Nicolae Iorga, Romanian writer (d. 1940)
1875 - Florencio SÃ¡nchez, Uruguayan dramatist (d. 1910)
1876 - Frank Hague, American politician (d. 1956)
1877 - May Gibbs, Australian children's author (d. 1969)
1880 - Mack Sennett, Canadian film director (d. 1960)
1881 - Antoni Åomnicki, Polish mathematician (d. 1941)
1882 - Noah Beery, Sr., American actor (d. 1946)
1883 - Sir Compton Mackenzie, Scottish novelist (d. 1972)
1886 - Ronald Firbank, British novelist (d. 1926)
1886 - Glenn L. Martin, American aviation pioneer (d. 1955)
1887 - Ola Raknes, Norwegian psychoanalyst and philologist (d. 1975)
1897 - Marcel Petiot, French mass murderer (d. 1946)
1899 - Nevil Shute, English author (d. 1960)
1899 - Al Capone, American gangster (d. 1947)
1901 - Aron Gurwitsch, Lithuanian-born philosopher (d. 1973)
1903 - Jyoti Prasad Agarwala, Assamese poet, playwright, film maker (d. 1953)
1905 - Ray Cunningham, American baseball player (d. 2005)
1905 - Peggy Gilbert, American jazz saxophonist and bandleader (d. 2007)
1905 - Guillermo StÃ¡bile, Argentine footballer (d. 1966)
1907 - Henk Badings, Dutch composer (d. 1987)
1908 - Cus D'Amato, American boxing manager (d. 1985)
1911 - George Joseph Stigler, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1991)
1914 - Irving Brecher, American Screenwriter
1914 - Anacleto Angelini, Chilean businessman (d. 2007)
1914 - William Stafford, American poet and essayist (d. 1993)
1917 - M. G. Ramachandran, Indian politician, actor (d. 1987)
1917 - RamÃ³n Cardemil, Chilean huaso (d. 2007)
1918 - Keith Joseph, British politician (d. 1994)
1921 - Antonio Prohias, Cuban cartoonist (d. 1998)
1922 - Betty White, American actress
1922 - Nicholas Katzenbach, American politician
1922 - Luis EcheverrÃa Ãlvarez, President of Mexico
1923 - Carol Raye, Australian actress
1925 - Patricia Owens, Canadian actress (d. 2000)
1925 - Edgar Ray Killen, American convict, former preacher and K.K.K. member
1925 - Abdul Kardar, Pakistani cricketer
1925 - Robert Cormier, American author (d. 2000)
1926 - Newton N. Minow, American lawyer and statesman
1926 - Moira Shearer, Scottish actress (d. 2006)
1927 - Eartha Kitt, American actress and singer
1927 - Norman Kaye, Australian actor and musician (d. 2007)
1927 - Dr Tom Dooley, American humanitarian (d. 1961)
1928 - Jean BarraquÃ©, French composer (d. 1973)
1928 - Vidal Sassoon, English cosmetologist
1929 - Jacques Plante, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1986)
1930 - Eddie LeBaron, American football player
1931 - Don Zimmer, American baseball coach
1931 - L. Douglas Wilder, 66th Governor of Virginia
1931 - James Earl Jones, American actor
1932 - Sheree North, American actress (d. 2005)
1933 - Dalida, French singer (d. 1987)
1933 - Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan, French UN High Commissioner for Refugees (d. 2003)
1933 - Shari Lewis, American ventriloquist (d. 1998)
1935 - Ruth Ann Minner, Governor of Delaware
1939 - Maury Povich, American talk show host
1940 - Kipchoge Keino, Kenyan runner
1941 - Dame Gillian Weir, New Zealand organist
1942 - Nancy Parsons, American actress (d. 2001)
1942 - Ulf Hoelscher, German violinist
1942 - Ita Buttrose, Australian journalist and businesswoman
1942 - Muhammad Ali, American boxer
1943 - RenÃ© PrÃ©val, President of Haiti
1943 - Geoffrey Deuel, American actor
1943 - Chris Montez, American singer
1944 - FranÃ§oise Hardy, French singer
1945 - Javed Akhtar, Indian lyricist, poet and scriptwriter
1946 - MichÃ¨le Deslauriers, Quebec actress
1948 - DavÃÃ° Oddsson, former Prime Minister of Iceland
1948 - Jim Ladd, American freeform (radio format) Disc Jockey
1948 - Anne QueffÃ©lec, French pianist
1949 - Andy Kaufman, American comedian (d. 1984)
1949 - Mick Taylor, British musician (The Rolling Stones)
1950 - Luis LÃ³pez Nieves, Latin American writer
1952 - Darrell Porter, American baseball player (d. 2002)
1952 - Larry Fortensky, seventh husband of Elizabeth Taylor
1952 - Ryuichi Sakamoto, Japanese musician
1954 - Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., American lawyer and environmental activist
1954 - Susan Kiefel, Australian lawyer and judge
1955 - Steve Earle, American musician
1956 - Paul Young, English musician
1957 - Michel Vaarten, Belgian cyclist
1957 - Ann Nocenti, American comic book writer
1957 - Steve Harvey, American actor, comedian and radio personality
1957 - Keith Chegwin, English television presenter
1959 - Susanna Hoffs, American musician
1959 - Momoe Yamaguchi, Japanese singer and actress
1960 - Chatchai Plengpanich, Thai actor
1960 - Chili Davis, Jamaican-born American baseball player
1960 - John Crawford, American musician
1961 - Brian Helgeland, American writer and film director
1961 - Maia Chiburdanidze, Russian women's Chess grandmaster
1962 - Jim Carrey, Canadian actor and comedian
1962 - Sebastian Junger, American journalist and author
1963 - Kai Hansen, German singer and guitarist (Gamma Ray)
1964 - Andy Rourke, English bass guitarist (The Smiths)
1964 - Michelle Obama, wife of Barack Obama
1965 - Sylvain Turgeon, Canadian ice hockey player
1965 - Nikos Nioplias, Greek footballer
1966 - Shabba Ranks, Jamaican singer
1966 - Joshua Malina, American actor
1966 - Stephin Merritt, American singer and songwriter (The Magnetic Fields, The 6ths, The Gothic Archies)
1967 - Richard Hawley, English singer, guitarist and songwriter (Pulp, The Longpigs)
1967 - Filippo Raciti, Italian police officer (d. 2007)
1967 - Song Kang-ho, South Korean actor
1968 - Svetlana Masterkova, Russian athlete
1968 - Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer, Dutch writer
1968 - Craig Strong, American actor & voice actor
1969 - Lukas Moodysson, Swedish film writer and director
1969 - Naveen Andrews, British actor
1969 - Tijs Verwest, (DJ TiÃ«sto) Dutch DJ
1970 - James Wattana, Thai snooker player
1970 - Genndy Tartakovsky, Russian-born animator
1970 - Jeremy Roenick, American ice hockey player
1971 - Ann Wolfe, female boxer
1971 - Sylvie Testud, French actress
1971 - Youki Kudoh, Japanese actress
1971 - Leonardo Ciampa, Italian-American musician
1971 - Richard Burns, English rally driver (d. 2005)
1971 - Kid Rock, American singer
1972 - Ken Hirai, Japanese singer and songwriter
1972 - Benno FÃ¼rmann, German actor
1973 - Aaron Ward, Canadian ice hockey player
1973 - Liz Ellis, Australian netball captain
1973 - CuauhtÃ©moc Blanco, Mexican footballer
1974 - Yang Chen, Chinese footballer
1974 - Derrick Mason, American football player
1974 - Vesko Kountchev, Bulgarian musician
1975 - Rami Yacoub, Swedish songwriter/producer
1975 - Freddy Rodriguez, Puerto Rican-American actor
1975 - Tom Jenkinson, English musician (Squarepusher)
1977 - Kevin Fertig, American professional wrestler
1977 - Leigh Whannell, Australian screenwriter/actor
1980 - Gareth McLearnon, Northern Irish flautist
1980 - Kimberly Spicer, American model
1980 - Maksim Chmerkovskiy, Ukrainian ballroom dancer
1980 - Zooey Deschanel, American actress
1981 - Warren Feeney, Northern Irish footballer
1981 - Scott Mechlowicz, American actor
1981 - Ray J, American R&B singer
1982 - Alex Varkatzas, American Singer (Atreyu)
1982 - Amanda Wilkinson, Canadian singer
1982 - Dwyane Wade, American basketball player
1983 - Alvaro Arbeloa, Spanish Footballer
1983 - Johannes Herber, German basketball player
1983 - Andrea Lowell, American Model
1983 - Rick Kelly, Australian racing driver
1983 - Julie Budet, French Electronic-Pop Musician
1985 - Simone Simons, Dutch singer (Epica)
1985 - Riyu Kosaka, Japanese singer BeForU
1985 - Kang-In, South Korean singer/dancer/actor/MC/DJ(Super Junior)

Famous Births on 16 Jan

2012-01-16T12:02:00.000-08:00

Famous Births on 16 Jan

1245 - Edmund Crouchback, son of Henry III of England (d. 1296)
1409 - RenÃ© I of Naples (d. 1480)
1477 - Johannes SchÃ¶ner, German astronomer and cartographer (d. 1547)
1501 - Anthony Denny, confidant of King Henry VIII of England (d. 1559)
1616 - FranÃ§ois de VendÃ´me, duc de Beaufort, French soldier (d. 1669)
1626 - Lucas Achtschellinck, Flemish painter (d. 1699)
1634 - Dorthe Engelbrechtsdatter, Norwegian poet (d. 1716)
1675 - Louis de Rouvroy, duc de Saint-Simon, French writer (d. 1755)
1728 - NiccolÃ² Piccinni, Italian composer (d. 1800)
1807 - Charles Henry Davis, American Civil War Admiral (d 1877)
1815 - Henry W. Halleck, American Civil War general (d. 1872)
1821 - John C. Breckinridge, U.S. Vice-President and Confederate general (d. 1875)
1834 - Robert R. Hitt, American politician (d. 1906)
1836 - King Francis II of the Two Sicilies (d. 1894)
1838 - Franz Brentano, German philosopher and psychologist (d. 1917)
1844 - Ismail Qemali, Albanian nationalist (d. 1919)
1853 - Gen Sir Ian Hamilton, British military commander (d. 1947)
1853 - Sir Johnston Forbes-Robertson, English actor and theatre manager (d. 1937)
1853 - Andre Michelin, French industrialist (d. 1931)
1872 - Edward Gordon Craig, English actor, producer, director and scenic designer (d. 1966)
1872 - Henri Busser, French composer (d. 1973)
1874 - Robert W. Service, Canadian poet (d. 1958)
1875 - Leonor Michaelis, German enzyme kinetic theorist (d. 1947)
1878 - Harry Carey, American silent film actor (d. 1947)
1885 - Zhou Zuoren, Chinese writer (d. 1967)
1886 - John Hamilton, American actor (d. 1958)
1888 - Osip Brik, Russian writer (d. 1945)
1893 - Daisy Kennedy, Australian violinist (d. 1981)
1894 - Irving Mills, American jazz music publisher (d. 1985)
1895 - Nat Schachner, American author (d. 1955)
1897 - Carlos Pellicer, Mexican poet (d. 1977)
1898 - Irving Rapper, UK-US film director (d. 1999)
1898 - Margaret Booth, American film editor (d. 2002)
1901 - Fulgencio Batista, Cuban leader (d. 1973)
1901 - Frank Zamboni, American inventor (d. 1988)
1902 - Eric Liddell, Scottish runner (d. 1945)
1903 - William Grover-Williams, English-French racing driver and WWII resistance fighter (d. 1945, by execution)
1905 - Ernesto Halffter, Spanish composer and conductor (d. 1989)
1906 - Diana Wynyard, British actress (d. 1964)
1907 - Alexander Knox, Canadian actor (d. 1995)
1907 - Paul Nitze, American government official (d. 2004)
1908 - Ethel Merman, American actress and singer (d. 1984)
1908 - GÃ¼nther Prien, German World War II submarine captain (d. 1941)
1910 - Dizzy Dean, American baseball player (d. 1974)
1911 - Roger LapÃ©bie, French cyclist (d. 1996)
1911 - Eduardo Frei Montalva, Chilean politician (d.1982)
1914 - Roger Wagner, American choral musician (d. 1992)
1916 - Philip Lucock, Australian politician and Presbyterian minister (d. 1996)
1917 - Carl Karcher, founded the Carl's Jr. hamburger chain (d. 2008)
1918 - Nel Benschop, Dutch poet (d. 2005)
1918 - Clem Jones, Lord Mayor of Brisbane, Australia (d. 2007)
1918 - Stirling Silliphant, American writer (d. 1996)
1920 - Alberto Crespo, Argentine racing driver (d. 1991)
1921 - Francesco Scavullo, American photographer (d. 2004)
1922 - Ernesto Bonino, Italian singer (d. 2008)
1923 - Gene Feist, American stage actor and producer
1923 - Anthony Hecht, American poet (d. 2004)
1924 - Katy Jurado, Mexican actress (d. 2002)
1928 - Pilar Lorengar, Spanish soprano (d. 1996)
1928 - William Kennedy, American author
1930 - Clarence Ray Allen, American murderer (d. 2006)
1930 - Norman Podhoretz, US writer, foreign policy adviser
1931 - Johannes Rau, German politician (d. 2006)
1932 - Dian Fossey, American zoologist (d. 1985)
1933 - Susan Sontag, American writer (d. 2004)
1934 - Marilyn Horne, American opera singer
1935 - A.J. Foyt, American race car driver and team owner
1937 - Lorraine Bayly, Australian actress
1937 - Luiz Bueno, Brazilian racing driver
1938 - JÃ´ Soares, Brazilian author, musician and TV personality
1942 - RenÃ© AngÃ©lil, Canadian music executive
1942 - Barbara Lynn, American singer
1943 - Brian Ferneyhough, British composer
1943 - Gavin Bryars, English composer and double bassist
1944 - Jim Stafford, American singer and songwriter
1946 - Kabir Bedi, Indian actor
1946 - Ronnie Milsap, American singer and songwriter
1946 - Katia Ricciarelli, Italian soprano
1947 - Harvey Proctor, British politician
1947 - Magdalen Nabb, British author (d. 2007)
1947 - Laura Schlessinger, American radio talk show host
1948 - Ruth Reichl, American magazine editor
1948 - Cliff Thorburn, Canadian snooker player
1948 - Dalvanius Prime, New Zealand entertainer (d. 2002)
1948 - John Carpenter, American film director
1949 - Andrew Refshauge, Australian politician, Deputy Premier of New South Wales
1950 - Debbie Allen, American dancer and choreographer
1950 - Damo Suzuki, Japanese singer (Can)
1951 - Glenn Ordway, American radio talk show host
1952 - King Fuad II of Egypt
1953 - Robert Jay Mathews, American neo-Nazi (d. 1984)
1956 - Jennifer Dale, Canadian actress
1956 - Martin Jol, Dutch football manager
1956 - Ivan Safronov, Russian journalist (d. 2007)
1958 - Anatoli Boukreev, Russian climber (d. 1997)
1958 - Lena Ek, Swedish politician
1959 - Juanita Bynum, American televangelist
1959 - Sade, Nigerian-born singer
1961 - Jill Sobule, American singer-songwriter
1961 - Paul Raven, English musician (Killing Joke) (d. 2007)
1962 - Paul Webb, British musician (Talk Talk, .O.rang)
1962 - Joel Fitzgibbon, Australian Labor Party politician
1963 - James May, English television presenter
1965 - Maxine Jones, American singer (En Vogue)
1968 - David Chokachi, American actor
1969 - Roy Jones Jr., American boxer
1969 - Dead, Swedish black metal vocalist (Mayhem) (d. 1991)
1970 - Ron Villone, American baseball player
1970 - Brendan O'Hare, Scottish drummer (Teenage Fanclub, Telstar Ponies)
1970 - Garth Ennis, Irish comic book author
1971 - Sergi Bruguera, Spanish tennis player
1972 - Alen Peternac, Croatian soccer player
1972 - Greg Page, Australian musician and actor
1972 - Richard T. Jones, American actor
1972 - Joe Horn, American football player
1972 - Salah Hissou, Moroccan long-distance runner
1972 - Ezra Hendrickson, Vincentian soccer player
1972 - Yuri Drozdov, Russian soccer player
1972 - Dameon Clarke, Canadian actor
1972 - Ang Christou, Australian soccer player
1972 - Ruben Bagger, Danish soccer player
1973 - Josie Davis, American actress
1974 - Marlon Anderson, American baseball player
1974 - Kate Moss, English model
1975 - Greg Strause, American visual effects creator
1975 - Gillian Iliana Waters, American actress
1976 - Martina MoravcovÃ¡, Slovak female swimmer
1976 - Viktor Maslov, Russian racing driver
1977 - Jeff Foster, American basketball player
1978 - Alfredo AmÃ©zaga, Mexican baseball player
1979 - Aaliyah, American singer (d. 2001)
1979 - Brenden Morrow, Canadian ice hockey player
1979 - Jason Ward, Canadian ice hockey player
1980 - Lin Manuel Miranda, American actor, composer, lyricist (In The Heights)
1980 - Seydou Keita, Malian footballer
1980 - Michelle Wild, Hungarian model
1980 - Albert Pujols, Dominican-born baseball player
1981 - Bobby Zamora, English footballer
1981 - Nick Valensi, American guitarist (The Strokes)
1982 - Tuncay ÅanlÄ±, Turkish footballer
1982 - Samuel Preston, British singer (The Ordinary Boys)
1983 - Emanuel Pogatetz, Austrian footballer
1984 - Jared Slingerland, Canadian musician
1985 - Jonathan Richter, Danish professional football midfielder
1987 - Lauren McAvoy, British fashion model
1988 - Nicklas Bendtner, Danish footballer.

Famous Births on 15 Jan

2012-01-15T12:02:00.000-08:00

Famous Births on 15 Jan

1342 - Philip II, Duke of Burgundy (d. 1404)
1432 - King Afonso V of Portugal (d. 1481)
1481 - Ashikaga Yoshizumi, Japanese shogun (b. 1511)
1538 - Maeda Toshiie, Japanese general (d. 1599)
1622 - MoliÃ¨re, French playwright (d. 1673)
1671 - Abraham de la Pryme, English antiquarian (d. 1704)
1674 - Prosper Jolyot de CrÃ©billon, French writer (d. 1762)
1716 - Philip Livingston, American founding father (d. 1778)
1747 - John Aikin, English doctor and writer (d. 1822)
1754 - Richard Martin, Irish animal rights activist (d. 1834)
1791 - Franz Grillparzer, Austrian writer (d. 1872)
1795 - Alexandr Griboyedov, Russian playwright (d. 1829)
1803 - Marjory Fleming, Scottish writer and poet (d. 1811)
1809 - Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, French anarchist (d. 1865)
1812 - Peter Christen AsbjÃ¸rnsen, Norwegian writer (d. 1885)
1816 - Marie LaFarge, French murderer (d. 1852)
1824 - Marie Duplessis, French courtesan (d. 1847)
1841 - Frederick Stanley, 16th Earl of Derby, Governor General of Canada (d. 1908)
1842 - Josef Breuer, Austrian psychologist (d. 1925)
1842 - Blessed Mary McKillop, Australian candidate for sainthood (d. 1909)
1850 - Mihai Eminescu, Romanian poet (d. 1889)
1850 - Sofia Kovalevskaya, Russian mathematician (d. 1891)
1855 - Jacques Damala, Greek military officer and actor (d. 1889)
1859 - Archibald Peake, Premier of South Australia (d. 1920)
1863 - Wilhelm Marx, Chancellor of Germany (d. 1946)
1866 - Nathan SÃ¶derblom, Swedish archbishop, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1931)
1869 - StanisÅ‚aw WyspiaÅ„ski, Polish dramatist (d. 1907)
1870 - Pierre S. du Pont, American businessman (d. 1954)
1872 - Arsen Kotsoyev, Russian writer (d. 1944)
1875 - Tom Burke, American runner (d. 1929)
1877 - Lewis Terman, American psychologist (d. 1956)
1879 - Mazo de la Roche, Canadian author (d. 1961)
1882 - Princess Margaret of Sweden (d. 1920)
1885 - Lorenz BÃ¶hler, Austrian physician (d. 1973)
1885 - Huang Yuanyong, Chinese writer (d. 1915)
1885 - Grover Lowdermilk, American baseball player (d. 1968)
1890 - Tommy Fleming, American soccer player (d. 1965)
1891 - Osip Mandelstam, Russian poet (d. 1938)
1891 - Ray Chapman, American baseball player (d. 1920)
1892 - Rex Ingram, Irish director (d. 1950)
1893 - Ivor Novello, Welsh composer and actor (d. 1951)
1895 - Artturi Ilmari Virtanen, Finnish chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1973)
1897 - Xu Zhimo, Chinese poet (d. 1931)
1899 - Goodman Ace, American actor (d. 1982)
1902 - King Saud of Saudi Arabia (d. 1969)
1903 - Paul A. Dever, 58th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1958)
1905 - Torin Thatcher, English actor (d. 1981)
1906 - Aristotle Onassis, Greek shipping magnate (d. 1975)
1908 - Edward Teller, Hungarian-born physicist (d. 2003)
1909 - Jean Bugatti, German-born automobile designer (d. 1939)
1909 - Gene Krupa, American drummer (d. 1973)
1912 - Michel DebrÃ©, French politician (d. 1996)
1912 - Harry Hay, American gay rights activist (d. 2002)
1913 - Lloyd Bridges, American actor (d. 1998)
1913 - Miriam Hyde, Australian composer (d. 2005)
1913 - Alexander Marinesko, captain of the S-13 submarine, which sank the German ship Wilhelm Gustloff (d. 1963)
1914 - Hugh Trevor-Roper, English historian (d. 2003)
1918 - JoÃ£o Figueiredo, President of Brazil (d. 1999)
1918 - Ã‰douard Gagnon, Canadian Roman Catholic cardinal (d. 2007)
1918 - Gamal Abdal Nasser, President of Egypt (d. 1970)
1920 - John Cardinal O'Connor, American Catholic cardinal (d. 2000)
1920 - Steve Gromek, American baseball player (d. 2002)
1921 - Frank Thornton, English actor
1922 - Sir Eric Willis, Australian politician (d. 1999)
1923 - Ivor Cutler, Scottish poet (d. 2006)
1923 - Lee Teng-hui, Taiwanese politician
1925 - Ruth Slenczynska, U.S. pianist
1926 - Florence Buchsbaum, French theater director (d. 1996)
1926 - Maria Schell, Swiss actress (d. 2005)
1927 - Phyllis Coates, American actress
1929 - Martin Luther King, Jr., American civil rights leader, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1968)
1930 - Eddie Graham, American professional wrestler (d. 1985)
1933 - Ernest J. Gaines, American author
1937 - Margaret O'Brien, American actress
1938 - Chuni Goswami, Indian footballer and cricketer
1939 - Tony Bullimore, English sailor and adventurer
1941 - Captain Beefheart, American musician and visual artist
1941 - Charo, Spanish entertainer
1943 - Mike Marshall, American baseball player
1945 - Vince Foster, American lawyer (d. 1993)
1945 - William R. Higgins, USMC colonel (d. 1990)
1945 - Princess Michael of Kent, British royal
1947 - Andrea Martin, Canadian actress
1948 - Ronnie Van Zant, American singer (Lynyrd Skynyrd) (d. 1977)
1949 - Panos Mihalopoulos, Greek actor
1949 - Luis Alvarado, Puerto Rican baseball player (d. 1987)
1950 - Marius TrÃ©sor, French footballer
1953 - Kent Hovind, American evangelist
1953 - Ta-Tanisha, American actress
1953 - Randy White, American football player
1954 - Jose Dalisay, Jr., Filipino writer
1954 - Nikos Sarganis, Greek footballer
1955 - Nigel Benson, English author
1956 - Mayawati, Indian politician
1957 - Mario Van Peebles, American actor
1957 - Marty Lyons, American football player
1957 - Patrick Dixon, English entrepreneur
1958 - Boris TadiÄ‡, President of Serbia
1959 - Pete Trewavas, English musician (Marillion)
1959 - Sister Carol, Jamaican reggae singer
1960 - Kelly Asbury, American director and actor
1960 - Aaron Jay Kernis, American composer
1961 - Yves P. Pelletier, Canadian comedian and film director
1962 - Conrad Lant, English musician
1962 - Creflo Dollar, American televangelist
1964 - Osmo Tapio RÃ¤ihÃ¤lÃ¤, Finnish composer
1965 - Maurizio Fondriest, Italian cyclist
1965 - Bernard Hopkins, American boxer
1965 - Adam Jones, American musician (Tool)
1965 - James Nesbitt, Northern Irish actor
1968 - Chad Lowe, American actor
1968 - IÃ±aki UrdangarÃn, Spanish royalty
1969 - Delino DeShields, American baseball player
1970 - Shane McMahon, American professional wrestler
1971 - Max Beesley, English musician and actor
1971 - Teanna Kai, American porn star
1971 - Regina King, American actress
1972 - Kobe Tai, American porn star
1972 - Claudia Winkleman, English television presenter
1973 - Essam El-Hadary, Egyptian footballer
1974 - Ray King, American baseball player
1975 - Edith Bowman, Scottish television and radio presenter
1975 - Mary Pierce, French tennis player
1976 - Dorian Missick, American actor
1976 - Corey Chavous, American football player
1978 - Eddie Cahill, American actor
1978 - Franco Pellizotti, Italian cyclist
1979 - Drew Brees, American football player
1979 - Young Dro, American rapper
1979 - Ken Chu, Taiwanese singer-actor and taichi champ
1979 - Martin Petrov, Bulgarian footballer
1980 - Matt Holliday, American baseball player
1981 - Sean Lamont, Scottish rugby union footballer
1981 - El Hadji Diouf, Senegalese footballer
1981 - Howie Day, American singer
1982 - Benjamin Agosto, American skater
1982 - Armando Galarraga, Venezuelan baseball player
1982 - Prince Philip and Prince Alexander of Yugoslavia
1983 - Jermaine Pennant, English footballer
1983 - Hugo Viana, Portuguese footballer
1984 - Megan Jendrick, American swimmer
1984 - Victor Rasuk, American actor
1985 - Kenneth Emil Petersen, Danish footballer
1986 - Fred Davis, American football player
1987 - Kelly Kelly, American WWE Diva
1987 - Greg Inglis, Australian rugby league player
1987 - Aria C Jalali, American musician
1987 - David Knight, English footballer
1987 - Michael Seater, Canadian actor
1990 - Chris Warren Jr., American actor

Famous Births on 14 Jan

2012-01-14T12:02:00.000-08:00

Famous Births on 14 Jan

1131 - King Valdemar I of Denmark (d. 1182)
1451 - Franchinus Gaffurius, Italian music theorist (d. 1522)
1477 - Hermann of Wied, German Catholic archbishop (d. 1552)
1507 - Catherine of Habsburg, Infanta of Spain and queen of Portugal (d. 1578)
1551 - Alberico Gentili, Italian jurist (d. 1608)
1615 - John Biddle, English theologian (d. 1662)
1684 - Johann Matthias Hase, German scientist (d. 1742)
1684 - Jean-Baptiste van Loo, French painter (d. 1745)
1702 - Nakamikado Emperor of Japan (d. 1737)
1705 - Jean-Baptiste Charles Bouvet de Lozier, French governor (d. 1786)
1767 - Maria Theresia of Tuscany, queen consort of Saxony (d. 1827)
1780 - Henry Baldwin, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (d. 1844)
1792 - Christian Julius De Meza, Danish general (d. 1865)
1793 - John C. Clark, American politician (d. 1852)
1798 - Johan Rudolf Thorbecke, Dutch politician (d. 1872)
1800 - Ludwig Alois Ferdinand KÃ¶chel, Austrian musicologist (d. 1877)
1806 - Matthew Fontaine Maury American oceanographer (d. 1873)
1806 - Sir Charles Hotham, Governor of Victoria (d. 1855)
1818 - Zacharias Topelius, Finnish-Swedish writer (d. 1898)
1824 - Vladimir Stasov, Russian art and music critic (d. 1906)
1836 - Henri Fantin-Latour, French painter (d. 1904)
1841 - Berthe Morisot, French painter (d. 1895)
1845 - 5th Marquess of Lansdowne, Governor-General of Canada, Viceroy of India (d. 1927)
1850 - Jean de Reszke, Polish operatic tenor (d. 1925)
1850 - Pierre Loti, French writer (d. 1923)
1856 - J. F. Archibald, Australian journalist and publisher (d. 1919)
1861 - Mehmed VI, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1926)
1863 - Manuel Gomes da Costa, 96th Prime Minister of Portugal and 10th President of Portugal (d. 1929)
1870 - Sir George Pearce, Australian politician (d. 1952)
1875 - Albert Schweitzer, Alsatian physician, Nobel laureate (d. 1965)
1882 - Hendrik Willem van Loon, Dutch-American historian and journalist (d. 1944)
1883 - Nina Ricci, Italian-born French fashion designer (d. 1970)
1886 - Hugh Lofting, English author (d. 1947)
1892 - Martin NiemÃ¶ller, German theologian (d. 1984)
1892 - Hal Roach, American film producer (d. 1992)
1896 - John Dos Passos, American author (d. 1970)
1897 - Hasso von Manteuffel, German general and politician (d. 1978)
1899 - Carlos Romulo, Filipino diplomat and author (d. 1985)
1901 - Bebe Daniels, American actress (d. 1971)
1904 - Babe Siebert, National Hockey League player (d. 1939)
1904 - Emily Hahn, American writer (d. 1997)
1904 - Sir Cecil Beaton, English photographer (d. 1980)
1905 - Takeo Fukuda, 67th Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1995)
1906 - William Bendix, American actor (d. 1964)
1907 - Georges-Ã‰mile Lapalme, Quebec politician (d. 1985)
1908 - Russ Columbo, American singer (d. 1934)
1909 - Joseph Losey, American theatre and film director (d. 1984)
1911 - Anatoly Rybakov, Russian writer (d. 1998)
1912 - Tillie Olsen, American writer (d. 2007)
1914 - Harold Russell, Canadian-born actor (d. 2002)
1915 - Mark Goodson, American game show producer (d. 1992)
1917 - Billy Butterfield, American jazz trumpeter (d. 1988)
1919 - Giulio Andreotti, Italian politician
1919 - Andy Rooney, American journalist
1921 - Murray Bookchin, American libertarian socialist (d. 2006)
1924 - Guy Williams, American actor (d. 2002)
1925 - Yukio Mishima, Japanese writer (d. 1970)
1925 - Louis Quilico, Canadian baritone (d. 2000)
1926 - Frank Aletter, American actor
1926 - Warren Mitchell, English actor
1926 - Tom Tryon, American actor (d. 1991)
1927 - Zuzana Ruzickova, Czech harpsichordist
1928 - Lars Forssell, Swedish writer (d. 2007)
1928 - Garry Winogrand, American photographer (d. 1984)
1928 - Gerald Arpino, American dancer and choreographer
1931 - Frank Costigan, Australian lawyer
1931 - Caterina Valente, French-born singer
1932 - Don Garlits, American race car driver
1933 - Stan Brakhage, American filmmaker (d. 2003)
1934 - Alberto Rodriguez Larreta, Argentine racing driver (d. 1977)
1934 - Richard Briers, English actor
1935 - Lucille Wheeler, Canadian alpine skier
1937 - Ken Higgs, English cricketer
1937 - Erland Kops, Danish badminton player
1937 - Shoban Babu, Indian actor
1938 - Morihiro Hosokawa, 79th Prime Minister of Japan
1938 - Jack Jones, American singer
1938 - Allen Toussaint, American singer
1940 - Ron Kostelnik, American football player (d. 1993)
1940 - Sir Trevor Nunn, English theatre director and film director
1940 - Julian Bond, American civil rights activist
1941 - Faye Dunaway, American actress
1941 - Milan KuÄan, Slovenian statesman
1942 - Dave Campbell, American baseball player
1942 - Ian Brayshaw, Australian cricketer and footballer
1943 - Mariss Jansons, Latvian conductor
1943 - Shannon Lucid, American astronaut
1943 - JosÃ© Luis RodrÃguez, Venezuelan singer
1944 - Nina Totenberg, American journalist
1944 - Graham Marsh, Australian golfer
1944 - Marjoe Gortner, American evangelist
1945 - Einar Hakonarson, Icelandic painter
1945 - Maina Gielgud, British ballet dancer and administrator
1946 - Harold Shipman, British serial killer (d. 2004)
1947 - Bill Werbeniuk, Canadian snooker player (d. 2003)
1948 - T-Bone Burnett, American producer
1948 - Valery Kharlamov, Soviet Union ice hockey player (d. 1981)
1948 - Carl Weathers, American actor
1949 - Mary Robison, American writer
1949 - Lawrence Kasdan, American director
1949 - Paul Chubb, Australian actor (d. 2002)
1950 - Marco AntÃ´nio da Silva Ramos, Brazilian composer
1952 - Sydney Biddle Barrows, American author
1952 - Maureen Dowd, American writer
1952 - CÄƒlin Popescu-TÄƒriceanu, Prime Minister of Romania
1954 - Jim Duggan, American wrestler
1956 - Ã‰tienne Daho, French singer and songwriter
1956 - Ben Heppner, Canadian singer
1957 - Anchee Min, Chinese writer
1957 - Suzanne Danielle, English actress
1959 - Geoff Tate, American musician (QueensrÃ¿che)
1962 - Michael McCaul, American politician
1963 - Steven Soderbergh, American director
1964 - Mark Addy, British actor
1964 - Ernest Miller, American wrestler
1964 - Shepard Smith, American news anchor
1965 - Ellis Paul, American singer-songwriter and folk musician
1965 - Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, British chef
1965 - Bob Essensa, Canadian ice hockey player
1965 - Marc Delissen, Dutch field hockey player
1965 - Shamil Basayev, Chechen rebel (d. 2006)
1967 - Kerri Green, American actress
1967 - Emily Watson, English actress
1967 - Saskia Wickham, British actress
1967 - Zakk Wylde, American musician (Black Label Society)
1968 - LL Cool J, American rapper and actor
1968 - Ruel Fox, English footballer
1969 - David Grohl, American drummer and composer (Nirvana, Foo Fighters)
1969 - Jason Bateman, American actor
1970 - Gene Snitsky, American professional wrestler
1971 - Lasse Kjus, Norwegian skier
1971 - Antonios Nikopolidis, Greek footballer
1972 - Predrag Gosta, Yugoslav-born conductor
1972 - Kyle Brady, American football player
1972 - Raimondas RumÅ¡as, Lithuanian cyclist
1973 - Giancarlo Fisichella, Italian race car driver
1974 - Kevin Durand, Canadian actor
1977 - Darren Purse, English footballer
1978 - Shawn Crawford, American sprinter
1978 - Just Blaze, American hip hop producer
1979 - Karen Elson, British supermodel
1979 - Angela Lindvall, American supermodel
1979 - John Reuben, American hip hop artist
1980 - Cory Gibbs, American soccer player
1980 - Clive Clarke, Irish footballer
1980 - Hiroshi Tamaki, Japanese actor and model
1980 - Ossama Haidar, a Lebanese soccer player
1980 - Byron Leftwich, American football player
1980 - Sosuke Sumitani, Japanese announcer
1981 - Rosa LÃ³pez, Spanish singer
1981 - Pitbull, American rapper
1981 - Abdelmalek Cherrad, Algerian football
1982 - LÃ©o Lima, Brazilian footballer
1982 - VÃctor ValdÃ©s, Spanish goalkeeper
1983 - Maxime Monfort, Belgian cyclist
1984 - Mike Pelfrey, American baseball player
1986 - Gary Brolsma, American internet celebrity
1986 - Cristina Aicardi, Peruvian badminton player
1988 - Jack P. Shepherd, English actor
1988 - Mikalah Gordon, American singer
1994 - Samir Patel, American spelling bee winner
83 BC - Marcus Antonius, Roman politician (d. 30 BC)

Famous Births on 13 Jan

2012-01-13T12:02:00.000-08:00

Famous Births on 13 Jan

1334 - King Henry II of Castile (d. 1379)
1505 - Joachim II Hector, Elector of Brandenburg (d. 1571)
1562 - Mark Alexander Boyd, Scottish poet (d. 1601)
1596 - Jan van Goyen, Dutch painter (d. 1656)
1610 - Maria Anna of Austria, Electress of Bavaria (d. 1665)
1616 - Antoinette Bourignon, Flemish mystic (d. 1680)
1635 - Philipp Jakob Spener, German theologian (d. 1705)
1651 - Henry Booth, 1st Earl of Warrington, English politician (d. 1694)
1683 - Christoph Graupner, German composer (d. 1760)
1720 - Richard Hurd, English bishop and writer (d. 1808)
1749 - Friedrich MÃ¼ller, painter and dramatist (d. 1825)
1777 - Elisa Bonaparte, Grand Duchess of Tuscany, sister of Napoleon Bonaparte (d. 1820)
1787 - John Davis, 14th and 17th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1854)
1804 - Paul Gavarni, French caricaturist (d. 1866)
1805 - Thomas Dyer, Mayor of Chicago (d. 1862)
1808 - Salmon P. Chase, 6th Chief Justice of the United States (d. 1873)
1812 - Victor de Laprade, French poet and critic (d. 1883)
1832 - Horatio Alger, Jr., American minister and author (d. 1899)
1845 - FÃ©lix Tisserand, French Astronomer (d. 1896)
1858 - Oskar Minkowski, Biologist (d.1931)
1859 - Kostis Palamas, Greek poet (d. 1943)
1861 - Max Nonne, German neurologist (d. 1959)
1864 - Wilhelm Wien, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1928)
1865 - Princess Marie of OrlÃ©ans (d. 1908)
1866 - Vasily Kalinnikov, Russian composer (d. 1901)
1869 - Emanuele Filiberto, 2nd Duke of Aosta, Italian aristocrat (d. 1931)
1870 - Ross Granville Harrison, American biologist (d.1959)
1878 - Lionel Groulx, Canadian nationalist (d. 1967)
1881 - Essington Lewis, Australian industrialist (d. 1961)
1884 - Sophie Tucker, Russian-born singer and performer (d. 1966)
1885 - Alfred Fuller, Canadian businessman, The "Fuller Brush Man" (d. 1973)
1886 - Art Ross, Canadian ice hockey player and executive (d. 1964)
1887 - George Gurdjieff, Armenian-Greek mystic (d. 1949)
1890 - JÃ¼ri Uluots, Estonian Prime Minister (d. 1945)
1893 - Clark Ashton Smith, American writer (d. 1961)
1893 - Roy Cazaly, Australian rules footballer (d. 1963)
1898 - Kai Munk, Danish playwright and Lutheran pastor, martyr (d. 1944)
1898 - Carlo Tagliabue, Italian baritone (d. 1978)
1899 - Kay Francis, American actress (d. 1968)
1901 - A. B. Guthrie, American novelist, historian (d. 1991)
1901 - MieczysÅ‚aw Å»ywczyÅ„ski, Polish historian and priest (d. 1978)
1904 - Richard Addinsell, British composer (Warsaw Concerto) (d. 1977)
1909 - Marinus van der Lubbe, Dutch communist (d. 1934)
1910 - Yannis Tsarouchis, Greek painter (d. 1989)
1911 - Joh Bjelke-Petersen, Premier of Queensland (d. 2005)
1913 - Jeff Morrow, American actor (d. 1993)
1914 - Lord Ted Willis, British television dramatist (d. 1992)
1919 - Robert Stack, American actor (d. 2003)
1921 - Dachine Rainer, British writer (d. 2000)
1922 - Albert Lamorisse, French film director and producer (d. 1970)
1923 - Daniil Shafran, Russian cellist (d. 1997)
1924 - Roland Petit, French choreographer
1924 - Paul Feyerabend, Austrian-born philosopher (d. 1994)
1925 - Gwen Verdon, American actress and dancer (d. 2000)
1926 - Michael Bond, British writer
1926 - Carolyn Gold Heilbrun, American feminist author (d. 2003)
1927 - Sydney Brenner, British Nobel Laureate
1927 - Brock Adams, American politician (d. 2004)
1929 - Joe Pass, U.S. jazz guitarist (d. 1994)
1930 - Liz Anderson, American singer
1930 - Frances Sternhagen, American actress
1931 - Charles Nelson Reilly, American actor (d. 2007)
1931 - Ian Hendry, English actor (d. 1984)
1934 - Rip Taylor, American actor
1935 - Mauro Forghieri, Italian automotive & mechanical engineer (Scuderia Ferrari)
1935 - Elsa Martinelli, Italian actress
1936 - Renato Bruson, Italian operatic baritone
1938 - William B. Davis, Canadian actor
1938 - Tord Grip, Swedish football manager
1939 - Cesare Maniago, Canadian ice hockey player
1939 - Jacek Gmoch, Polish footballer
1940 - Edmund White, American author
1941 - Pasqual Maragall, Spanish politician
1943 - Carol Cleveland, English actress
1943 - Richard Moll, American actor
1946 - Eero Koivistoinen, Finnish musician
1947 - Jacek Majchrowski, Mayor of KrakÃ³w
1947 - Carles Rexach, former Spanish-Catalan footballer and coach
1948 - Gaj Singh, Maharaja of Jodhpur
1949 - Brandon Tartikoff, American television executive (d. 1997)
1949 - Rakesh Sharma, first Indian and 138th man to visit space
1950 - Bob Forsch, American baseball player
1950 - John McNaughton, American film director
1954 - Trevor Rabin, South African guitarist (Yes)
1955 - Paul Kelly, Australian singer
1955 - Jay McInerney, American writer
1957 - Mark O'Meara, Major winning American Golfer
1957 - Lorrie Moore, American writer
1959 - James Lomenzo, American musician (Megadeth)
1960 - Takis Lemonis, Greek footballer and coach
1961 - Wayne Coyne, American singer (The Flaming Lips)
1961 - Julia Louis-Dreyfus, American actress
1961 - Graham McPherson, English singer
1962 - Kevin Mitchell American baseball player
1962 - Paul Higgins, Canadian hockey player
1962 - Trace Adkins, American country music singer-songwriter
1963 - Kevin McClatchy, American businessman
1964 - Penelope Ann Miller, American actress
1964 - Ronan Rafferty, Northern Irish golfer
1966 - Patrick Dempsey, American actor
1967 - Annie Jones, Australian actress
1967 - George Paterson, Scottish singer/songwriter DMP
1968 - Chara, Japanese singer and actress
1968 - Mike Whitlow, English footballer
1968 - Traci Bingham, American actress
1969 - Stefania Belmondo, Italian cross-country skier
1969 - Stephen Hendry, Scottish snooker player
1970 - Keith Coogan, American actor
1970 - Marco Pantani, Italian cyclist (d. 2004)
1970 - Shonda Rhimes, American screenwriter/creator Grey's Anatomy
1971 - John Mallory Asher, American film actor/director
1972 - Vitaly Scherbo, Belarusian gymnast
1972 - Atoosa Rubenstein, Iranian-born American magazine editor
1972 - Nicole Eggert, American actress
1972 - Mark Bosnich, Australian footballer
1973 - Nikolai Khabibulin, Russian ice hockey player
1973 - Gloria Yip, Hong Kong actor
1974 - Sergei Brylin, Russian ice hockey player
1976 - Michael PeÃ±a, American actor
1976 - Tania Vicent, Canadian short track speed skater
1977 - James Posey, American basketball player
1977 - Orlando Bloom, English actor
1979 - Jill Wagner, American Actor
1980 - Krzysztof Czerwinski, Polish conductor and organist
1980 - Nils-Eric Johansson, Swedish footballer
1980 - Akira Kaji, Japanese footballer
1980 - Michael Rupp, American ice hockey player
1981 - Darrell Rasner, American baseball player
1981 - Jason James, Welsh musician (Bullet for My Valentine)
1981 - Shad Gaspard, American professional wrestler, bodyguard, and actor
1981 - Reggie Brown, American football player
1982 - Guillermo Coria, Argentine tennis player
1983 - Julian Morris, English actor
1983 - William Hung, American Idol contestant
1983 - Ronny Turiaf, French basketball player
1986 - Joannie Rochette, Canadian figure skater
1989 - Bryan Arguez, American soccer player
1989 - Triinu Kivilaan, Estonian singer

Famous Births on 12 Jan

2012-01-12T12:02:00.000-08:00

Famous Births on 12 Jan

1483 - Henry III of Nassau-Breda, German noblem (d. 1538)
1562 - Charles Emmanuel I, Duke of Savoy (d. 1630)
1576 - Petrus Scriverius, Dutch writer (d. 1660)
1577 - Jan Baptist van Helmont, Flemish chemist (d. 1644)
1580 - Lord Alexander Ruthven, Scottish nobleman (d. 1600)
1591 - JosÃ© Ribera, Spanish painter (d. 1652)
1597 - FranÃ§ois Duquesnoy, French sculptor (d. 1643)
1628 - Charles Perrault, French folklorist (d. 1703)
1715 - Jacques Duphly, French composer (d. 1789)
1716 - Antonio de Ulloa, Spanish general (d. 1795)
1721 - Duke Ferdinand of Brunswick, Prussian general (d. 1792)
1723 - Samuel Langdon, American college educator (d. 1797)
1729 - Edmund Burke, Irish statesman (d. 1797)
1746 - Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi, Swiss pedagogue (d. 1827)
1751 - Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies (d. 1825)
1772 - Count Mikhail Speransky, Russian reformer (d. 1839)
1786 - Sir Robert Inglis, Bt, English politician (d. 1855)
1792 - Johan August Arfwedson, Swedish chemist (d. 1841)
1797 - Gideon Brecher, Austrian physician (d. 1873)
1810 - King Ferdinand II of the Two Sicilies (d. 1859)
1822 - Ã‰tienne Lenoir, French engineer (d. 1900)
1849 - Jean BÃ©raud, French painter (d. 1935)
1852 - Joseph Joffre, French general (d. 1931)
1856 - John Singer Sargent, American artist (d. 1925)
1860 - Henry Larkin, American baseball player (d. 1942)
1863 - Swami Vivekananda, Indian philosopher (d. 1902)
1873 - Spiridon Louis, Greek marathon runner (d. 1940)
1876 - Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari, Italian composer (d. 1948)
1876 - Jack London, American author (d. 1916)
1877 - Frank J. Corr, American politician (d. 1934)
1878 - Ferenc MolnÃ¡r, Hungarian writer (d. 1952)
1879 - Ray Harroun, American race car driver (d. 1968)
1882 - Milton Sills, American actor (d. 1930)
1884 - Texas Guinan, American actress (d. 1933)
1892 - Mikhail Gurevich, Russian aircraft designer (d. 1976)
1893 - Hermann GÃ¶ring, German Nazi official (d. 1946)
1893 - Alfred Rosenberg, German Nazi official (d. 1946)
1894 - Georges Carpentier, French boxer (d. 1975)
1896 - David Wechsler, American psychologist (d.1981)
1899 - Paul Hermann MÃ¼ller, Swiss chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1965)
1899 - Pierre Bernac, French baritone (d. 1979)
1903 - Igor_Kurchatov, Russian physicist , (d. 1960)
1904 - Fred McDowell, American blues musician (d. 1972)
1905 - James Bennett Griffin, American archaeologist (d. 1997)
1905 - Tex Ritter, American country singer and actor (d. 1974)
1906 - Daniil Kharms, Russian playwright (d. 1942)
1907 - Patsy Kelly, American actress (d. 1981)
1907 - Sergei Korolev, Russian rocket scientist (d. 1966)
1908 - Jean Delannoy, French film director
1908 - Clement Hurd, American illustrator (d. 1988)
1910 - Luise Rainer, German actress
1915 - Joseph-AurÃ¨le Plourde, Catholic archbishop of Ottawa
1915 - Paul Jarrico, American writer (d. 1997)
1916 - Pieter Willem Botha, South African politician (d. 2006)
1916 - Jay McShann, American musician (d. 2006)
1916 - William Pleeth, British cellist (d. 1999)
1917 - Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Indian spiritualist (d. 2008)
1917 - Jimmy Skinner, Canadian hockey coach (d. 2007)
1917 - Walter Hendl, American conductor (d. 2007)
1920 - James L. Farmer, Jr., American activist (d. 1999)
1920 - Prof Jerzy Zubrzycki, Polish-born Australian sociologist
1922 - Tadeusz Å»ychiewicz, Polish journalist and art historian (d. 1994)
1923 - Ira Hayes, American soldier (d. 1955)
1924 - Olivier Gendebien, Belgian racing driver (d. 1998)
1925 - Bill Burrud, American television host (d. 1990)
1925 - Scottie MacGregor, American actress
1926 - Morton Feldman, American composer
1926 - Ray Price, American singer
1928 - Lloyd Ruby, American race car driver
1928 - Ruth Brown, American singer (d. 2006)
1929 - Alasdair MacIntyre, Scottis-born American philosopher
1930 - Tim Horton, Canadian hockey player (d. 1974)
1930 - Glenn Yarborough, American singer
1932 - Des O'Connor, British television presenter
1933 - Michael Aspel, English broadcaster
1934 - Mick Sullivan, English rugby league footballer
1935 - Kreskin, American mentalist
1935 - Tomiko Ishii, Japanese actress
1937 - Vicente Sardinero, Spanish baritone (d. 2002)
1937 - Shirley Eaton, British actress
1937 - Marie Dubois, French actress
1938 - Lewis Fiander, Australian actor
1941 - Long John Baldry, British blues singer (d. 2005)
1942 - Bernardine Dohrn, former leader of the radical leftist organization Weather Underground
1944 - Carlos VillagrÃ¡n, Mexican actor
1944 - Viktoria Postnikova, Russian pianist
1944 - Vlastimil Hort, Czechoslovakian chess player
1944 - Hans Henning Atrott, Prussian euthanasia advocate
1944 - Joe Frazier, American boxer
1945 - Maggie Bell, Scottish singer (Stone the Crows)
1946 - Cynthia Robinson, American musician (Sly & the Family Stone)
1946 - George Duke, American musician
1946 - Lady Cosgrove, Scottish judiciary figure
1948 - Kenny Allen, English footballer
1948 - Anthony Andrews, English actor
1948 - Khalid Abdul Muhammed, American Nation of Islam spokesman (d. 2001)
1948 - William Nicholson, English writer
1949 - Wayne Wang, Hong Kong-born American film director
1949 - Michael W. Vannier, American radiologist
1949 - Haruki Murakami, Japanese novelist
1949 - Ottmar Hitzfeld, German football manager
1949 - Kentaro Haneda, Japanese composer (d. 2007)
1950 - Ricky Ray Rector, American murderer (d. 1992)
1950 - Dorrit Moussaieff, First Lady of Iceland
1950 - Bob McEwen, American politician
1950 - GÃ¶ran Lindblad, Swedish politician
1950 - Sheila Jackson Lee, American politician
1951 - Kirstie Alley, American actress
1951 - Ann Althouse, American law professor
1951 - Rush Limbaugh, American radio personality and political commentator
1952 - Charles Faulkner, American motivational speaker and author
1952 - Walter Mosley, American author
1952 - John Walker, New Zealand middle distance runner
1954 - Howard Stern, American radio personality
1955 - Rockne S. O'Bannon, American screenwriter
1957 - John Lasseter, American animation director
1958 - Curt Fraser, American ice hockey coach
1959 - Blixa Bargeld, German singer and musician (EinstÃ¼rzende Neubauten, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds)
1959 - Per Gessle, Swedish songwriter and musician (Roxette)
1959 - Nick Nairn, British celebrity chef
1960 - Dominique Wilkins, American basketball player
1960 - Oliver Platt, Canadian actor
1963 - FranÃ§ois Girard, French-Canadian film director and screenwriter
1964 - Jeff Bezos, American entrepreneur
1964 - Laura Gildemeister, Argentine tennis player
1965 - Rob Zombie, American musician
1965 - Mark Moore, British record producer
1966 - Olivier Martinez, French actor
1967 - Vendela Kirsebom, Swedish supermodel
1968 - Mauro Silva, Brazilian footballer
1968 - Heather Mills, British activist
1968 - Junichi Masuda, Japanese composer
1968 - Rachael Harris, American actress
1968 - Keith Anderson, American country music singer-songwriter
1969 - Margaret Nagle, American screenwriter and TV producer
1969 - Robert ProsineÄki, Croatian footballer
1970 - Zack de la Rocha, American musician (Rage Against the Machine)
1970 - Raekwon, American rapper
1972 - Priyanka Gandhi, daughter of Rajiv Gandhi
1972 - Espen Knutsen, Norwegian ice hockey player
1972 - Jason Sklar, American comedian
1972 - Randy Sklar, American comedian
1973 - Hande Yener, Turkish singer
1973 - Matt Wong, American musician (Reel Big Fish)
1973 - Dan Haseltine, American singer (Jars of Clay)
1974 - Melanie Chisholm, British singer
1974 - Tor Arne Hetland, Norwegian cross-country skier
1975 - Jason Freese, American musician
1975 - Jocelyn Thibault, Canadian ice hockey player
1976 - Miki Nakatani, Japanese actress and singer
1977 - Dominic Etli, American soccer player
1977 - Yoandy Garlobo, Cuban baseball player
1977 - Cade McNown, American football player
1977 - Piolo Pascual, Filipino actor
1978 - Kris Roe, American musician (The Ataris)
1978 - Kim Sa Rang, Korean actress
1978 - Bonaventure Kalou, Ivorian footballer
1978 - Jeremy Camp, American musician
1978 - Luis Ayala, Mexican baseball pitcher
1978 - Amerie, American singer and songwriter
1979 - Grzegorz Rasiak, Polish footballer
1979 - MariÃ¡n Hossa, Slovak ice hockey player
1980 - Bobby Crosby, American baseball player
1981 - Dan Klecko, American football player
1982 - Dontrelle Willis, American baseball player
1982 - Hans Van Alphen, Belgian decathlete
1982 - Dimitrios Tsiamis, Greek triple jumper
1982 - Chris Ray, American baseball player
1982 - Paul-Henri Mathieu, French tennis player
1982 - Sherzod Abdurahmonov, Uzbekistanian boxer
1984 - Scott Olsen, American baseball player
1985 - Artem Milevskiy, Ukrainian footballer
1985 - Yohana Cobo, Spanish actress
1986 - Miguel Ãngel Nieto, Spanish footballer
1987 - Will Rothhaar, American actor
1987 - Salvatore Sirigu, Italian footballer
1988 - Andrew Lawrence, American actor
1988 - Joseph Dundas, British TV Presenter
1988 - Chris Casement, Irish footballer
1990 - Sergey Karjakin, Ukrainian chess player
1992 - Mao Kobayashi, Japanese gravure idol
1995 - Laurel McGoff, American singer
1998 - Nathan Gamble, American child actor

Famous Births on 12 Jan

2012-01-11T12:02:00.000-08:00

Famous Births on 12 Jan

Famous Births on 11 Jan

2012-01-10T12:02:00.000-08:00

Famous Births on 11 Jan

1322 - Emperor Komyo of Japan (d. 1380)
1359 - Emperor Go-En'yu of Japan (d. 1393)
1395 - Michelle of Valois, Duchess of Burgundy (d. 1422)
1503 - Parmigianino, Italian artist (d. 1540)
1591 - Robert Devereux, 3rd Earl of Essex, English Civil War general (d. 1646)
1630 - John Rogers, American President of Harvard in the US (d. 1684)
1671 - FranÃ§ois-Marie, 1st duc de Broglie, French military leader (d. 1745)
1723 - Prithvi Narayan Shah, began the unification of modern Nepal (d. 1774)
1755 - Alexander Hamilton, 1st United States Secretary of the Treasury (d. 1804)
1757 - Samuel Bentham, English mechanical engineer (d. 1831)
1788 - William Thomas Brande, English chemist (d. 1866)
1800 - Ãnyos Jedlik, Hungarian physicist (d. 1895)
1807 - Ezra Cornell, American businessman and university founder (d. 1874)
1814 - James Paget, British surgeon and pathologist (d. 1899)
1815 - John A. Macdonald, 1st Prime Minister of Canada (d. 1891)
1825 - Bayard Taylor, U.S. poet and writer (d. 1878
1839 - Eugenio Maria de Hostos, Puerto Rican educator, philosopher and nationalist (d. 1903)
1842 - William James, American psychologist and philosopher (d. 1910)
1843 - Charles Yelverton O'Connor, Irish-Australian engineer (d. 1902)
1845 - Albert Victor BÃ¤cklund, Swedish physicist (d. 1912)
1850 - Joseph Charles Arthur, American botanist (d. 1942)
1852 - Konstantin Fehrenbach, Chancellor of Germany (d. 1926)
1853 - Georgios Jakobides, Greek painter (d. 1926)
1856 - Christian Sinding, Norwegian composer (d. 1932)
1857 - Fred Archer, English jockey (d. 1886)
1858 - Harry Gordon Selfridge, American retailer (d. 1947)
1859 - Lord George Nathaniel Curzon, British statesman, Viceroy of India (d. 1925)
1864 - Thomas Dixon, American playwright, lecturer, North Carolina state legislator, lawyer, and author (d. 1946)
1867 - Edward B. Titchener, British psychologist. (d. 1927)
1868 - Cai Yuanpei, Chinese educator (d. 1940)
1870 - Alexander Stirling Calder, American sculptor (d. 1945)
1872 - George Washington Pierce, American physicist (d. 1956)
1873 - John Callan O'Laughlin, American political and military figure and journalist (d. 1949)
1875 - Reinhold GliÃ¨re, Russian composer (d. 1956)
1876 - Elmer Flick, American baseball player (d. 1971)
1885 - Alice Paul, American women's rights activist (d. 1977)
1885 - Jack Hoxie, American actor, rodeo performer (d. 1965)
1887 - Aldo Leopold, American ecologist (d. 1948)
1888 - Chester Conklin, American comedian and actor (d. 1971)
1889 - Calvin Bridges, American geneticist (d. 1938)
1890 - Oswald de Andrade, Brazilian author (d. 1954)
1890 - Max Carey, American baseball player (d. 1976)
1895 - Laurens Hammond, American inventor of the Hammond organ (d. 1973)
1897 - August Heissmeyer, German SS officer (d. 1979)
1899 - Eva Le Gallienne, English-American actress (d. 1991)
1901 - Kwon Ki-ok, Korean pilot (d. 1988)
1902 - Maurice DuruflÃ©, French composer (d. 1986)
1903 - Alan Paton, South African writer (d. 1988)
1905 - Clyde Kluckhohn, American anthropologist (d. 1960)
1905 - Manfred B Lee, U.S. writer, co-eponym of Ellery Queen (d. 1971)
1906 - Albert Hofmann, Swiss chemist (d. 2008)
1907 - Pierre MendÃ¨s-France, French politician (d. 1982)
1908 - Lionel Stander, American actor (d. 1994)
1910 - Izler Solomon, American conductor (d. 1987)
1910 - Nikos Kavvadias, Greek poet and writer (d. 1975)
1910 - Sir Shane Paltridge, Australian politician (d. 1966)
1911 - Nora Heysen, Australian artist (d. 2003)
1911 - Zenko Suzuki, Prime Minister of Japan (d. 2004)
1915 - Robert Blair Mayne, British soldier, co-founder Special Air Service (d. 1955)
1916 - Bernard Blier, French actor (d. 1989)
1917 - John Robarts, Canadian politician, Premier of Ontario (d. 1982)
1921 - Juanita M. Kreps, former U.S. Secretary of Commerce
1921 - Gory Guerrero, professional wrestler (d. 1990)
1923 - Carroll Shelby, American race car driver, automobile designer and businessman
1924 - Don Cherry, American singer and golfer
1924 - Roger Guillemin, French neuroendocrinologist, Nobel laureate
1924 - Slim Harpo, American musician (d. 1970)
1924 - Sam B. Hall, American politician (d. 1994)
1925 - Grant Tinker, American television executive
1926 - Lev Demin, Soviet cosmonaut (d. 1998)
1928 - David L. Wolper, American television producer
1930 - Rod Taylor, Australian actor
1930 - Ron Mulock, Australian politician
1931 - Betty Churcher, director of the National Gallery of Australia
1932 - Alfonso Arau, Mexican film director
1934 - Jean ChrÃ©tien, 20th Prime Minister of Canada
1934 - Sir Charles Antony Richard Hoare, Computer scientist
1935 - Ghita NÃ¸rby, Danish actress
1938 - Fischer Black, American economist (d. 1995)
1938 - Arthur Scargill, Socialist Labour Party (UK) leader
1939 - Anne Heggtveit, Canadian alpine skier
1941 - GÃ©rson, Brazilian footballer
1942 - Clarence Clemons, American musician (E Street Band)
1943 - Jim Hightower, American radio host and author
1944 - Mohammed Abed Elhai, Sudanese writer and academic (d. 1989)
1944 - Shibu Soren, Indian politician
1945 - Christine Kaufmann, German-Austrian actress
1945 - Samdech Preah Sanghareach Bour Kry, Supreme Patriarch of the Cambodian Dhammayutt Order
1946 - Tony Kaye, British keyboard player (Yes)
1946 - Naomi Judd, American singer
1946 - John Piper, American theologian
1949 - Daryl Braithwaite, Australian rock singer
1951 - Willie Maddren, English former footballer (d. 2000)
1952 - Lee Ritenour, American musician and composer
1952 - Bille Brown, Australian actor and playwright
1952 - Ben Crenshaw, American golfer
1952 - Michael Forshaw, Australian politician
1953 - John Sessions, Scottish actor
1956 - Robert Earl Keen, American singer
1957 - Bryan Robson, English footballer and manager
1958 - Diego LeÃ³n Montoya SÃ¡nchez, former Columbian crime boss
1958 - Vicki Peterson, American musician (The Bangles)
1959 - Rob Ramage, Canadian ice hockey player
1961 - Karl Habsburg-Lothringen, Prince of Austria and Prince Royal of Hungary
1961 - Jasper Fforde, British author
1962 - Susan Lindauer, American peace activist and accused spy
1963 - Dean Reynolds, English snooker player
1963 - Tracy Caulkins, U.S. Olympic swimmer
1965 - Roland Scholten, Dutch Darts Player
1966 - Kelley Law, Canadian curler
1966 - Marc Acito, American novelist and humorist
1967 - Derek Riddell, Scottish actor
1968 - Anders Borg, Swedish politician
1968 - Tom Dumont, American musician
1969 - Manny Acta, Dominican baseball player
1969 - Kyle Richards, American actress
1970 - Chris Jent, American basketball player and coach
1970 - Malcolm D. Lee, American actor, film director, and screenwriter.
1971 - Mary J. Blige, American singer
1972 - Marc Blucas, American actor
1972 - Amanda Peet, American actress
1973 - Joanna Brodzik, Polish actress
1973 - Rahul Dravid, Indian cricketer
1973 - Rockmond Dunbar, American actor
1974 - Jens Nowotny, German footballer
1974 - Cody McKay, Canadian baseball player
1975 - Rory Fitzpatrick, American ice hockey player
1976 - Efthimios Rentzias, Greek basketball player
1976 - Gregory Zimmerman, Philosopher
1977 - Shomari Buchanan, American football player
1977 - Nadia Turner, American singer
1978 - Michael Duff, Northern Irish footballer
1978 - Emile Heskey, English footballer
1978 - Holly Brisley, Australian actress
1979 - Darren Lynn Bousman, American film director
1979 - Siti Nurhaliza, Malaysian singer
1980 - Deanna Wright, American actress
1980 - Mike Williams, American football player
1981 - Jamelia, English singer
1981 - Tom Meighan, British singer (Kasabian)
1982 - Ashley Taylor Dawson, British actor and singer
1982 - Son Ye-jin, South Korean actress
1983 - Matthew Palleschi, Canadian soccer player
1983 - Adrian Sutil, German racing driver
1985 - Rie fu, Japanese singer
1985 - Kazuki Nakajima, Japanese racing driver
1987 - Scotty Cranmer, American professional BMX rider
1993 - Flora Cross, American actress
347 - Emperor Theodosius I "The Great" of Rome (d. 395)
889 - Abd-ar-Rahman III, Emir and Caliph of Cordoba (d. 961)

Famous Births on 10 Jan

2012-01-09T12:02:00.000-08:00

Famous Births on 10 Jan

1480 - Margaret of Austria, Regent of the Netherlands (d. 1530)
1538 - Louis of Nassau, Dutch general (d. 1574)
1573 - Simon Marius, German astronomer (d. 1624)
1607 - Isaac Jogues, French Jesuit missionary (d. 1646)
1628 - George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham, English statesman (d. 1687)
1638 - Nicolas Steno, Danish geologist (d. 1686)
1644 - Louis FranÃ§ois, duc de Boufflers, French marshal (d. 1711)
1654 - Joshua Barnes, English scholar (d. 1712)
1702 - Johannes Zick, German fresco painter (d. 1762)
1715 - Christian August Crusius, German philosopher and theologian (d. 1775)
1721 - Johann Philipp Baratier, German scholar (d. 1740)
1729 - Lazzaro Spallanzani, Italian biologist (d. 1799)
1738 - Ethan Allen, American Revolution military leader (d. 1789)
1750 - Thomas Erskine, 1st Baron Erskine, British Lord Chancellor (d. 1823)
1769 - Michel Ney, French marshal (d. 1815)
1797 - Annette von Droste-HÃ¼lshoff, German writer (d. 1848)
1810 - Jeremiah S. Black, American statesman (d. 1883)
1812 - Georg Hermann Nicolai, German architect (d. 1881)
1815 - Sir John Alexander Macdonald, First Prime Minister of Canada (d. 1891)
1828 - Herman Koeckemann, German Catholic prelate (d. 1892)
1834 - Lord Acton, British historian (d. 1902)
1836 - Charles Ingalls, father of Laura Ingalls Wilder (d. 1902)
1840 - Louis Nazaire BÃ©gin, French Canadian archbishop and cardinal (d. 1925)
1843 - Frank James, American outlaw (d. 1915)
1849 - Francisco Ferrer Guardia, Spanish free-thinker (d. 1909)
1850 - John Wellborn Root, American architect (d. 1891)
1858 - Heinrich Zille, German illustrator and photographer (d. 1929)
1864 - Grand Duke Peter Nikolaevich of Russia, son of Grand Duke Nicholas Nikolaevich (d. 1931)
1865 - Mary Ingalls, sister of Laura Ingalls Wilder (d. 1928)
1873 - Jack O'Neill, Irish-born baseball player (d. 1935)
1873 - George Orton, Canadian athlete (d. 1958)
1880 - Manuel AzaÃ±a y Diaz, Spanish republican President (d. 1940)
1880 - Grock (Charles Adrien Wettach), Swiss circus clown (d. 1959)
1883 - Francis X. Bushman, American actor (d. 1966)
1883 - Aleksei Nikolaevich Tolstoi, Russian writer (d. 1945)
1887 - Robinson Jeffers, American poet (d. 1962)
1890 - Grigory Landsberg, Russian physicist (d. 1957)
1893 - Albert Jacka, Australian soldier, first Australian World War I Victoria Cross winner (d. 1932)
1903 - Barbara Hepworth, English sculptor (d. 1975)
1903 - Voldemar VÃ¤li, Estonian wrestler (d. 1997)
1903 - Violet Wilkey, American actress (d. 1976)
1904 - Ray Bolger, American actor/dancer (d. 1987)
1908 - Paul Henreid, Austrian actor (d. 1993)
1908 - Bernard Lee, English actor (d. 1981)
1910 - Jean Martinon, French conductor, composer (d. 1976)
1912 - Maria Mandel, Camp leader at Auschwitz (d. 1948)
1913 - Mehmet Shehu, Albanian politician (d. 1981)
1913 - GustÃ¡v HusÃ¡k, President of Czechoslovakia (d. 1991)
1914 - Yu Kuo-hwa, former Premier of Taiwan (d. 2000)
1915 - Dean Dixon, U.S. conductor (d. 1976)
1916 - Sune BergstrÃ¶m, Swedish biochemist, Nobel laureate (d. 2004)
1916 - Don Metz, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2007)
1917 - Jerry Wexler, American record producer
1918 - Arthur Chung, President of Guyana
1920 - Georges Marchal, French actor (d. 1997)
1920 - Max Patkin, American baseball player (d. 1999)
1921 - Rodger Ward, American race car driver (d. 2004)
1924 - Ludmilla Chiriaeff, Canadian ballet dancer, choreographer and director (Les Grands Ballets Canadiens) (d. 1996)
1924 - Max Roach, American percussionist, drummer, and composer (d. 2007)
1926 - Musallam Bseiso, Palestinian journalist, thinker, and politician
1927 - Gisele MacKenzie, Canadian singer (d. 2003)
1927 - Johnnie Ray, American singer (d. 1990)
1927 - Otto Stich, Swiss politician
1928 - Philip Levine, American poet
1929 - Derek Hammond-Stroud, English operatic baritone
1930 - Roy Edward Disney, American film executive
1931 - Peter Barnes, English writer (d. 2004)
1932 - Elaine Devry, American actress
1933 - Anton Rodgers, English actor (d. 2007)
1934 - Leonid Kravchuk, Ukrainian politician
1935 - Ronnie Hawkins, American musician
1935 - Sherrill Milnes, American baritone
1936 - Al Goldstein, American publisher and pornographer
1936 - Robert Woodrow Wilson, American physicist and radio astronomer, Nobel laureate
1936 - Stephen Ambrose, American historian (d. 2002)
1936 - Burnum Burnum, Australian Aboriginal activist, actor, author and dreamer (d. 1997)
1937 - Thomas Penfield Jackson, American judge
1938 - Donald Knuth, American mathematician and computer scientist
1938 - Frank Mahovlich, Canadian ice hockey player and Canadian Senator
1938 - Willie McCovey, American baseball player
1939 - Bill Toomey, American athlete
1939 - Sal Mineo, American actor (d. 1976)
1939 - Scott McKenzie, American singer
1939 - William Levy, Dutch writer
1939 - David Horowitz, American author and political commentator
1939 - Jared Carter, American poet
1940 - Yesudas, Indian playback singer and classical musician
1940 - Ntare VI of Ankole, Omugabe of Nkole
1940 - Guy Chevrette, Quebec politician
1942 - Walter Hill, American film director
1943 - Jim Croce, American singer (d. 1973)
1944 - Frank Sinatra, Jr., American singer
1944 - William Sanderson, American actor
1944 - Bernard Derome, Canadian news presenter (Le TÃ©lÃ©journal)
1944 - Rory Byrne, South African racing car designer
1945 - Edward Wiskoski, American professional wrestler
1945 - Rod Stewart, Scottish singer
1945 - John Fahey, Australian politician, Premier of New South Wales, chairman of WADA
1945 - Jennifer Moss, English Actress (d. 2006)
1946 - Aynsley Dunbar, English musician
1947 - Afeni Shakur, mother of Tupac "2Pac" Shakur, member of the Black Panther Party
1948 - Bernard ThÃ©venet, French cyclist
1948 - Mischa Maisky, Latvian cellist
1948 - Teresa Graves, American actress and singer (d. 2002)
1948 - Donald Fagen, American keyboardist, singer and songwriter (Steely Dan)
1949 - George Foreman, American boxer
1949 - James Lapine, American stage director
1949 - Linda Lovelace, American pornographic actress (d. 2002)
1952 - Scott Thurston, American musician, songwriter
1953 - Pat Benatar, American singer
1953 - Dennis Cooper, American author
1953 - Bobby Rahal, American race car driver and race team owner
1955 - Michael Schenker, German guitarist (UFO)
1956 - Shawn Colvin, American singer
1956 - Antonio MuÃ±oz Molina, Spanish writer
1957 - Greg Walden, U.S. Congressman from Oregon
1958 - Anatoly Pisarenko, Soviet weightlifter
1959 - Fran Walsh, New Zealand screenwriter
1960 - BenoÃ®t Pelletier, Canadian politician
1960 - Samira Said, Moroccan singer
1961 - Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg, Italian-American violinist
1961 - Janet Jones, American actress; wife of Wayne Gretzky
1961 - Evan Handler, American actor
1962 - Michael Fortier, Canadian politician
1963 - Mark Pryor, American politician
1964 - Brad Roberts, Canadian singer (Crash Test Dummies)
1965 - Butch Hartman, American animator
1966 - Steve Kramer, American politician
1967 - Johan Laats, Belgian judoka
1970 - Marcus Bagwell, American professional wrestler
1970 - Alisa Maric, Serbian-American chess grandmaster
1972 - Brian Lawler, American professional wrestler
1972 - Thomas Alsgaard, Norwegian cross-country skier
1973 - Ryan Drummond, American voice actor
1973 - Glenn Robinson, American basketball player
1974 - Jemaine Clement, New Zealand actor
1974 - Davide Dionigi, Italian footballer
1974 - Akari Kaida, Japanese composer
1974 - Steve Marlet, French footballer
1974 - Hrithik Roshan, Indian actor
1975 - Jake Delhomme, American football player
1976 - Adam Kennedy, American baseball player
1978 - Brent Smith, American singer (Shinedown)
1980 - Matt Roney, American baseball player
1980 - Sarah Shahi, American actress and model
1981 - Brian Joo, Korean-American singer
1982 - Josh Ryan Evans, American actor (d. 2002)
1983 - Danilo Dirani, Brazilian racing driver
1983 - Li Nina, Chinese aerial free-style skier
1986 - Saleisha Stowers, American model

Famous Births on 9 Jan

2012-01-08T12:02:00.000-08:00

Famous Births on 9 Jan

1554 - Pope Gregory XV (d. 1623)
1571 - Karel Bonaventura Buquoy, French soldier (d. 1621)
1589 - Ivan Gundulic, Croatian poet (d. 1638)
1624 - Empress MeishÅ (d. 1696)
1685 - Tiberius Hemsterhuis, Dutch philologist (d. 1766)
1728 - Thomas Warton, English poet (d. 1790)
1745 - Caleb Strong, 6th and 10th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1819)
1773 - Cassandra Austen, English watercolorist and sister of Jane Austen (d. 1845)
1790 - Per Daniel Amadeus Atterbom, Swedish poet (d. 1855)
1811 - Gilbert Abbott Ã Beckett, English writer (d. 1856)
1819 - James Francis, Premier of Victoria (d. 1884)
1823 - Johannes Friedrich August von Esmarch, German surgeon (d. 1908)
1829 - Thomas William Robertson, English playwright (d. 1871)
1829 - Adolf von Schlagintweit, German explorer (d. 1857)
1832 - FÃ©lix-Gabriel Marchand, journalist, author and politician, Premier of Quebec (d. 1900)
1839 - John Knowles Paine, U.S. composer (d. 1906)
1848 - Princess Frederica of Hanover (d. 1926)
1849 - John Hartley, English tennis player, double winner of Wimbledon (d. 1935)
1854 - Jennie Jerome, American society beauty and mother of Winston Churchill (d. 1921)
1856 - Anton AÅ¡kerc, Slovenian priest and poet (d. 1912)
1859 - Carrie Chapman Catt, American suffragist leader (d. 1947)
1864 - Vladimir Steklov, Russian mathematician (d. 1926)
1868 - S. P. L. SÃ¸rensen, Danish chemist (d. 1939)
1870 - Joseph B Strauss, American civil engineer (d. 1938)
1873 - Hayyim Nahman Bialik, Hebrew poet (d. 1934)
1875 - Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, American socialite (d. 1942)
1879 - John Broadus Watson, American psychologist (d. 1958)
1881 - Lascelles Abercrombie, British poet and critic (d. 1938)
1881 - Edouard BeauprÃ©, horse lifter (d. 1904)
1881 - Giovanni Papini, Italian writer (d. 1956)
1890 - Kurt Tucholsky, German journalist (d. 1935)
1890 - Karel ÄŒapek, Czech writer (d. 1938)
1892 - Eva Bowring, American politician (d. 1985)
1896 - Warwick Braithwaite, New Zealand-born British conductor (d. 1971)
1897 - Karl LÃ¶with, German philosopher (d. 1973)
1898 - Vilma BÃ¡nky, Hungarian actress (d. 1991)
1898 - Gracie Fields, English vaudeville performer (d. 1979)
1898 - Wally Baker, American supercentenarian
1900 - Richard Halliburton, American adventurer (presumed dead 1939)
1900 - Maria of Romania, Queen Consort of Yugoslavia (d. 1961)
1901 - Chic Young, American cartoonist (d. 1973)
1902 - Rudolph Bing, Austrian-born opera manager (d. 1997)
1902 - Saint JosemarÃa EscrivÃ¡, Spanish Catholic priest and founder of Opus Dei (d. 1975)
1903 - Hem Vejakorn, Thai illustrator (d. 1969)
1908 - Simone de Beauvoir, French author (d. 1986)
1909 - Herva Nelli, Italian-born soprano (d. 1994)
1912 - Ralph Tubbs, British architect (d. 1996)
1913 - Richard Nixon, 37th President of the United States (d. 1994)
1914 - Gypsy Rose Lee (or 1911), American burlesque entertainer (d. 1970)
1914 - Kenny (Klook) Clarke, American jazz drummer and composer (d. 1985)
1915 - Fernando Lamas, Argentine actor (d. 1982)
1915 - Anita Louise, U.S. actress (d. 1970)
1916 - Vic Mizzy, American orchestra leader
1916 - Peter Twinn, English World War II code-breaker (d. 2004)
1920 - Chan Canasta, Polish-British magician (d. 1999)
1920 - Clive Dunn, British actor
1920 - Hakim Mohammed Said, Pakistani scholar
1921 - Lister Sinclair, Canadian broadcaster and playwright (d. 2006)
1922 - Har Gobind Khorana, Nobel laureate
1922 - Ahmed SÃ©kou TourÃ©, President of Guinea (d. 1984)
1924 - Sergei Parajanov, Armenian film director (d. 1990)
1925 - Lee Van Cleef, American actor (d. 1989)
1926 - Giannis Christou, Greek composer (d. 1970)
1926 - Jean-Pierre CÃ´tÃ©, Canadian politician, Lieutenant governor of Quebec (d. 2002)
1928 - Judith Krantz, American author
1928 - Domenico Modugno, Italian singer and songwriter (d. 1994)
1929 - Dorothea Puente, American serial killer
1929 - Heiner Muller, German dramatist (d. 1995)
1929 - Brian Friel, Irish dramatist
1931 - Algis Budrys, American author
1933 - Wilbur Smith, Zambian-British novelist
1933 - Robert Garcia, American politician
1934 - Bart Starr, American football player
1935 - Bob Denver, American actor (d. 2005)
1935 - Dick Enberg, American sportscaster
1935 - Earl G. Graves, Sr., African-American Publisher
1935 - Brian Harradine, Australian independent Senator
1936 - Anne Rivers Siddons, American writer
1940 - Ruth Dreifuss, Swiss politician
1940 - Al Downing, American singer (d. 2005)
1940 - Barbara Buczek, Polish composer (d. 1993)
1940 - Jimmy Boyd, American actor and singer
1941 - Joan Baez, American singer and activist
1941 - Gilles Vaillancourt, Quebec politician
1942 - K Callan, American actress
1942 - Lee Kun-hee, Korean industrialist, chairman of Samsung
1942 - Susannah York, British actress
1943 - Scott Walker, American singer
1943 - Freddie Starr, English comedian and singer
1943 - Elmer MacFadyen, Canadian politician (d. 2007)
1944 - Ian Hornak, American Painter, Draughtsman and Sculptor (d. 2002)
1944 - Jimmy Page, British musician and producer (Led Zeppelin)
1945 - John Doman, American actor
1947 - Ronnie Landfield, American artist
1948 - Cassie Gaines Backup Singer (Lynyrd Skynyrd) (d. 1977)
1948 - Bill Cowsill, American singer (The Cowsills) (d. 2006)
1950 - David Johansen American singer
1950 - Rio Reiser, German singer (d. 1996)
1951 - Crystal Gayle, American singer
1951 - M.L. Carr, basketball player and coach
1952 - Hugh Bayley, British politician
1953 - Morris Gleitzman, British-Australian children's author
1955 - J. K. Simmons, American actor
1955 - Michiko Kakutani, American literary critic
1956 - Mike Walczewski, American Public Address Announcer at Madison Square Garden
1956 - Imelda Staunton, British actress
1956 - Kimberly Beck, American actress
1957 - Phil Lewis, lead singer of L.A. Guns
1958 - Stephen Neale, British philosopher
1958 - Mehmet Ali AÄŸca, Turkish attempted assassin of Pope John Paul II
1959 - Mark Martin, American race car driver
1959 - Rigoberta MenchÃº, Nobel Peace Prize laureate
1959 - Cristi Minculescu, Romanian musician
1959 - Otis Nixon, American baseball player
1961 - Oliver Goldstick, American screenwriter
1963 - Michael Everson, expert in writing systems and Unicode
1965 - Joely Richardson, British actress
1965 - Eric Erlandson, American musician
1965 - Iain Dowie, English football manager
1965 - Muggsy Bogues, American basketball player
1965 - Darren Bennett, Australian-born American football player
1967 - Dave Matthews, South African singer and musician
1967 - Steven Harwell, American singer and musician (Smash Mouth)
1967 - Claudio Caniggia, Argentinian footballer
1967 - Carl Bell, American musician
1968 - Jimmy Adams, West Indian cricketer
1968 - Joey Lauren Adams, American actress
1968 - Al Schnier, American rock guitarist (moe.)
1970 - Alex Staropoli, Italian keyboardist (Rhapsody Of Fire)
1970 - Lara Fabian, Belgian singer
1971 - Daniel Dumile, American hip hop artist
1971 - Hal Niedzviecki, Canadian author
1971 - Scott Thornton, Canadian ice hockey player
1971 - Yusuke Naora, Japanese game art director
1972 - Jay Powell, baseball player
1972 - Angie Martinez, American radio and television personality
1972 - Sarah Beeny, British TV personality
1973 - Angela Bettis, American actress
1974 - Farhan Akhtar, Indian Bollywood Director, Actor, Producer, Singer.
1975 - Kimberley Ann Scott Mathers, former wife of Eminem
1975 - Kiko Calero, Puerto Rican baseball player
1976 - Radek Bonk, Czech ice hockey player
1976 - Todd Grisham, American professional wrestling interviewer
1977 - Beth Troutman, American production assistant
1978 - Mathieu Garon, Canadian ice hockey player
1978 - Gennaro Gattuso, Italian footballer
1978 - Chad Johnson, American football player
1978 - AJ McLean, American singer (Backstreet Boys)
1978 - Maggie Rizer, American model and AIDS activist
1979 - Tomiko Van, Japanese singer
1980 - Sergio GarcÃa, Spanish golfer
1981 - Euzebiusz Smolarek, Polish footballer
1982 - Kate Middleton, girlfriend of Prince William of Wales
1987 - Sam Bird, English racing driver
1987 - Paolo Nutini, Scottish singer/songwriter
1987 - Pablo Santos, Mexican actor (d. 2006)
1987 - Lucas Pezzini Leiva, Brazilian and Liverpool Footballer
1989 - Michaella Krajicek, Dutch tennis player
1997 - Lauryn McClain, American actress and singer

Famous Births on 8 Jan

2012-01-07T18:02:00.000-08:00

Famous Births on 8 Jan

1556 - Uesugi Kagekatsu, Japanese samurai and warlord (d. 1623)
1583 - Simon Episcopius, Dutch theologian (d. 1643)
1587 - Johannes Fabricius, German astronomer (d. 1616)
1601 - Baltasar GraciÃ¡n y Morales, Spanish writer (d. 1658)
1628 - FranÃ§ois Henri de Montmorency-Bouteville, duc de Luxembourg, French general (d. 1695)
1632 - Samuel Pufendorf, German jurist (d. 1694)
1635 - Luis Manuel FernÃ¡ndez de Portocarrero, Spanish Archbishop (d. 1709)
1735 - John Carroll, American Roman Catholic archbishop (d. 1815)
1763 - Edmond Charles GenÃªt, French diplomat (d. 1834)
1786 - Nicholas Biddle, American banking executive (d. 1844)
1788 - Pavel Kiselyov, Russian general and politician (d. 1874)
1788 - Archduke Rudolph of Austria (d. 1831)
1792 - Lowell Mason, American composer (d. 1872)
1805 - John Bigler, American politician (d. 1871)
1805 - Orson Hyde, American religious leader (d. 1878)
1812 - Sigismond Thalberg, French pianist and composer (d. 1871)
1817 - Sir Theophilus Shepstone, South African statesman (d. 1893)
1821 - James Longstreet, American Confederate general (d. 1904)
1821 - W.H.L. Wallace, American Union general (d. 1862)
1823 - Alfred Russel Wallace, British naturalist and biologist (d. 1913)
1824 - Wilkie Collins, British novelist (d. 1889)
1824 - Francisco GonzÃ¡lez Bocanegra, Mexican poet (d. 1861)
1830 - Hans von BÃ¼low, German pianist and composer (d. 1894)
1836 - Lawrence Alma-Tadema, Dutch artist (d. 1912)
1843 - Frederick Abberline, British police investigator (d. 1929)
1843 - John H. Moffitt, American politician (d. 1926)
1852 - James Milton Carroll, American pastor and author (d. 1931)
1860 - Emma Booth, daughter of William and Catherine Booth (d. 1903)
1862 - Frank Nelson Doubleday, American publisher (d. 1934)
1864 - Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence and Avondale (d. 1892)
1866 - William G. Conley, American politician (d. 1940)
1867 - Emily Greene Balch, American writer and pacifist, Nobel Peace Prize laureate (d. 1961)
1870 - Miguel Primo de Rivera, Spanish politician (d. 1930)
1871 - James Craig, 1st Viscount Craigavon, Irish politician (d. 1940)
1873 - Iuliu Maniu, Romanian politician (d. 1953)
1873 - Elena of Montenegro, queen of Italy (d. 1956)
1881 - Henrik Shipstead, American politician (d. 1960)
1883 - Patrick J. Hurley, United States Secretary of War (d. 1963)
1883 - Pavel Filonov, Russian painter (d. 1941)
1885 - John Curtin, Australian politician (d. 1945)
1885 - A. J. Muste, Dutch pacifist and activist (d. 1967)
1888 - Matthew Moore, Irish-American actor (d. 1960)
1888 - Richard Courant, German-American mathematician (d. 1972)
1891 - Walther Bothe, German physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics laureate (d. 1957)
1891 - Storm Jameson, English writer (d. 1986)
1891 - Bronislava Nijinska, Russian choreographer (d. 1972)
1894 - St Maximilian Kolbe, Polish martyr (d. 1941)
1896 - Jaromir Weinberger, Czech-American composer (d. 1967)
1896 - Arthur Ford, American psychic (d. 1971)
1897 - Dennis Wheatley, British author (d. 1977)
1899 - Solomon Bandaranaike, Ceylonese Prime Minister (d. 1959)
1900 - Dame Merlyn Myer, Australian philanthropist (d. 1982)
1902 - Carl Rogers, American psychologist (d. 1987)
1902 - Georgy Malenkov, Soviet politician (d. 1988)
1903 - Igor Kurchatov, Russian physicist (d. 1960)
1904 - Karl Brandt, Alsacian Nazi war criminal (d. 1948)
1905 - Giacinto Scelsi, Italian composer (d. 1988)
1905 - Franjo Cardinal Seper, Croatian Catholic cardinal (d. 1981)
1908 - William Hartnell, British actor (d. 1975)
1909 - JosÃ© Ferrer, Puerto Rican actor (d. 1992)
1909 - Willy Millowitsch, German actor (d. 1999)
1909 - Evelyn Wood, American educator (d. 1995)
1910 - Galina Sergeyevna Ulanova, Russian ballerina (d. 1988)
1911 - Tom Delaney, British racing driver (d. 2006)
1915 - Walker Cooper, American baseball player (d. 1991)
1921 - Herta Bothe, Nazi concentration camp guard
1922 - Abbey Simon, U.S. pianist
1923 - Joseph Weizenbaum, German-American author and computer scientist (d. 2008)
1923 - Johnny Wardle, English cricketer (d. 1985)
1923 - Giorgio Tozzi, American bass
1923 - Larry Storch, American actor
1924 - Benjamin Lees, American composer
1924 - Ron Moody, English actor
1925 - Helmuth Hubener, German activist (d. 1942)
1926 - Soupy Sales, American comedian
1926 - Hanae Mori, Japanese fashion designer
1926 - Kelucharan Mohapatra, Indian Odissi dancer (d. 2004)
1926 - Evelyn Lear, American soprano
1927 - Charles Tomlinson, British poet and translator
1928 - Gaston Miron, Quebec poet and editor (d. 1996)
1928 - Slade Gorton, former American politician
1929 - Saeed Jaffrey, Indian actor
1931 - Bill Graham, German-born American music promoter (d. 1991)
1933 - Ko Un, Korean poet
1933 - Jean-Marie Straub, French film director
1933 - Charles Osgood, American journalist and commentator
1934 - Jacques Anquetil, French cyclist (d. 1987)
1934 - Gene Freese, American baseball player
1934 - Roy Kinnear, English actor (d. 1988)
1934 - Alexandra Ripley, American writer (d. 2004)
1935 - Elvis Presley, American singer and guitarist (d. 1977)
1936 - ZdenÄ›k MÃ¡cal, Czech conductor
1936 - Robert May, Baron May of Oxford, Australian-born British scientist
1937 - Dame Shirley Bassey, Welsh singer
1938 - Yevgeny Nesterenko, Russian bass-baritone
1938 - Bob Eubanks, American game show host
1941 - Graham Chapman, British comedian (d. 1989)
1941 - Boris Vallejo, Peruvian illustrator
1942 - Valya Balkanska, Bulgarian folk singer
1942 - Stephen Hawking, English theoretical physicist and author
1942 - Junichiro Koizumi, Japanese politician
1942 - Yvette Mimieux, American actress
1944 - Terry Brooks, American writer
1945 - Kathleen Noone, American actress
1945 - Kojo Nnamdi, Guyanese-born American radio host
1945 - Jeannie Lewis, Australian actress and singer
1946 - Robby Krieger, American musician
1947 - Terry Sylvester, British singer and musician
1947 - Samuel Schmid, Swiss politician
1947 - David Bowie, English musician
1947 - Don Bendell, American author & karate master
1948 - Gillies MacKinnon, Scottish film director
1951 - Kenny Anthony, Saint Lucian politician
1951 - John McTiernan, American film director
1952 - Vladimir Feltsman, Russian-American pianist
1953 - Bruce Sutter, American baseball player
1955 - Spiros Livathinos, Greek footballer
1955 - Mike Reno, Canadian musician
1957 - Nacho Duato, Spanish classical dancer and choreographer
1958 - Rey Misterio, Sr., Mexican wrestler
1959 - Paul Hester, Australian drummer (d. 2005)
1961 - Kazuki Takahashi, Japanese creator of Yu-Gi-Oh
1961 - Calvin Smith, American athlete
1962 - Chris Marion, American musician
1965 - Michelle Forbes, American actress
1966 - Andrew Wood, American musician (d. 1990)
1966 - Igor Vyazmikin, Russian ice hockey player
1967 - R. Kelly, American singer
1968 - Keith Mullings, American boxer
1969 - Jeff Abercrombie, American musician
1969 - Ami Dolenz, American actress
1970 - Rachel Friend, Australian actress
1971 - Jason Giambi, American baseball player
1971 - Pascal ZuberbÃ¼hler, Swiss footballer
1973 - Jason Stevens, Australian rugby league footballer
1973 - Sean Paul, Jamaican singer
1973 - Mark Knight, English sound designer
1975 - DJ Clue, American DJ and producer
1975 - Harris Jayaraj, Indian music composer
1976 - Brad Snyder, Canadian shot putter
1976 - Carl Pavano, American baseball player
1976 - Josh Meyers, American actor
1976 - Jenny Lewis, American actress and musician
1977 - Amber Benson, American actress
1977 - Ron Pederson, Canadian actor
1977 - Lee Yoo-jin, Korean actress
1978 - Marco Fu, Hong Kong snooker player
1978 - Boris Avrukh, Israeli chess grandmaster
1979 - Seol Ki-Hyeon, South Korean footballer
1979 - Adrian Mutu, Romanian footballer
1979 - Sarah Polley, Canadian actress
1979 - Stipe Pletikosa, Croatian footballer
1980 - Rachel Nichols, American actress
1981 - Jeff Francis, Canadian baseball player
1981 - Xie Xingfang, Chinese badminton player
1982 - John Utaka, Nigerian footballer
1982 - Gaby Hoffmann, American actress
1982 - wiL Francis, American singer
1982 - Emanuele CalaiÃ², Italian footballer
1983 - Chris Mordetzky, American wrestler
1983 - Felipe Colombo, Argentine-Mexican actor and singer
1984 - Jeff Francoeur, American baseball player
1985 - Rachael Lampa, American singer
1986 - Jaclyn Linetsky, Canadian actress (d. 2003)
1986 - David Silva, Spanish footballer
1988 - Adam T. Siska, American musician
1990 - Maci Wainwright, American singer
1991 - Asuka Hinoi, Japanese singer

Famous Births on 7 Jan

2012-01-06T18:02:00.000-08:00

Famous Births on 7 Jan

1355 - Thomas of Woodstock, 1st Duke of Gloucester, son of Edward III of England (d. 1397)
1502 - Pope Gregory XIII (d. 1585)
1528 - Jeanne d'Albret, Queen of Navarre (d. 1572)
1647 - Wilhelm Ludwig, Duke of WÃ¼rttemberg (d. 1677)
1685 - Jonas AlstrÃ¶mer, Swedish industrialist (d. 1761)
1706 - Johann Heinrich Zedler, German publisher (d. 1751)
1718 - Israel Putnam, American Revolutionary War general (d. 1790)
1768 - Joseph Bonaparte, King of Naples (d. 1844)
1786 - John Catron, Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (d. 1865)
1796 - Princess Charlotte Augusta of Wales (d. 1817)
1800 - Millard Fillmore, 13th President of the United States (d. 1874)
1827 - Sir Sandford Fleming, Canadian engineer; introduced Universal Standard Time (d. 1915)
1830 - Albert Bierstadt, German-American painter (d. 1902)
1831 - Heinrich von Stephan, German labor organizer (d. 1897)
1832 - James Munro, Premier of Victoria (d. 1908)
1834 - Johann Philipp Reis, German physicist and inventor (d. 1874)
1844 - Bernadette Soubirous, French saint (d. 1879)
1845 - King Ludwig III of Bavaria (d. 1921)
1858 - Eliezer Ben-Yehuda, key figure in the revival of Hebrew as a spoken language (d. 1922)
1860 - Emanuil Manolov, Bulgarian composer (d. 1902)
1870 - Lord Gordon Hewart, British judge (d. 1943)
1871 - Ã‰mile Borel, French mathematician and politician (d. 1956)
1873 - Charles PÃ©guy, French poet and essayist (d. 1914)
1873 - Adolph Zukor, Hungarian producer (d. 1976)
1875 - Gustav Flatow, German gymnast (d. 1945)
1875 - Thomas Hicks, American runner (d. 1963)
1876 - William Hurlstone, English composer (d. 1906)
1891 - Zora Neale Hurston, American writer (d. 1960)
1895 - Sir Hudson Fysh, Australian aviator and co-founder of QANTAS (d. 1974)
1895 - Clara Haskil, Romanian pianist (d. 1960)
1896 - Arnold Ridley, British playwright and actor (d. 1984)
1898 - Al Bowlly, British jazz singer (d. 1941)
1899 - Francis Poulenc, French composer (d. 1963)
1900 - John Brownlee, Australian tenor (d. 1969)
1903 - Alan Napier, English actor (d. 1988)
1903 - Warren Hull, American actor (d. 1974)
1907 - Nicanor Zabaleta, Spanish harpist (d. 1993)
1908 - Red Allen, American musician (d. 1967)
1910 - Orval Faubus, Governor of Arkansas (d. 1994)
1910 - Faiz Ahmed Faiz, Pakistani poet (d. 1984)
1911 - Butterfly McQueen, American actress (d. 1995)
1912 - Charles Addams, American cartoonist (d. 1988)
1912 - GÃ¼nter Wand, German conductor, composer (d. 2002)
1913 - Johnny Mize, American baseball player (d. 1993)
1916 - Paul Keres, Estonian chess player (d. 1975)
1917 - Ulysses Kay, American composer (d. 1995)
1922 - Alvin Dark, American baseball player and manager
1922 - Eric Jupp, British-born Australian composer, arranger, conductor (d. 2003)
1922 - Jean-Pierre Rampal, French flutist (d. 2000)
1922 - Vincent Gardenia, Italian-born actor (d. 1992)
1923 - Hugh Kenner, Canadian literary critic (d. 2003)
1924 - Pablo Birger, Argentine racing driver (d. 1966)
1925 - Gerald Durrell, British naturalist (d. 1995)
1928 - William Peter Blatty, American screenwriter
1929 - Terry Moore, American actress
1932 - Joe Berinson, Australian politician
1933 - Elliott Kastner, U.S. film producer
1934 - Charlie Jenkins, American runner
1934 - Jean Corbeil, Canadian politician (d. 2002)
1935 - Kenny Davern, American jazz clarinetist (d. 2006)
1935 - Tommy Johnson, American tubist (d. 2006)
1935 - Valeri Kubasov, Soviet cosmonaut
1936 - Ben Cropp, Australian shark hunter and photographer
1936 - G. Robert Blakey, American attorney
1937 - Paul Revere, American musician
1938 - Lou Graham, American golfer
1938 - Roland Topor, French illustrator (d. 1997)
1938 - Rory Storm, British singer (d. 1972)
1939 - Prince Michael of Greece and Denmark
1941 - Iona Brown, British violinist and conductor (d. 2004)
1941 - Manfred Schellscheidt, German American soccer coach
1941 - John E. Walker, English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
1942 - Danny Williams, South African singer (d. 2005)
1942 - Vasily Alexeev, Russian weightlifter
1942 - Jim Lefebvre, American baseball player and manager
1943 - Sir Richard Armstrong, British conductor
1943 - Sadako Sasaki, Japanese child victim of the Hiroshima atomic bomb (d. 1955)
1944 - Arne Scheie, Norwegian sports commentator
1944 - Tony Whitlam, Australian judge
1945 - Dick Marty, Swiss politician
1945 - Gilles Marotte, French Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2005)
1945 - Tony Conigliaro, American baseball player (d. 1990)
1946 - Jann Wenner, American publisher
1947 - Shobha De, Indian writer
1948 - Kenny Loggins, American singer
1949 - Steven Williams, American actor
1949 - Anne Schedeen, American actress
1949 - Marshall Chapman, American singer/songwriter
1950 - Juan Gabriel, Mexican singer and songwriter
1950 - Erin Gray, American actress
1950 - Ross Grimsley, American baseball player
1950 - Johnny Lever, Indian actor
1951 - Helen Worth, British actress
1952 - Sammo Hung, Hong Kong actor
1956 - Mike Liut, Canadian ice hockey player
1956 - David Caruso, American actor
1957 - Nicholson Baker, American novelist
1957 - Katie Couric, American television host
1957 - Julian Solis, Puerto Rican boxer
1957 - Reena Roy, Indian actress
1958 - Linda Kozlowski, American actress
1958 - Donna Rice, American sex scandal figure
1959 - Kathy Valentine, American musician (The Go-Gos)
1960 - Loretta Sanchez, American politician
1960 - David Marciano, American actor
1961 - Andrew Thomson, Australian politician
1961 - Supriya Pathak, Indian actress
1961 - John Thune, American politician
1962 - Aleksandr Dugin, Russian politician
1963 - Clint Mansell, English musician and composer
1964 - Nicolas Cage, American actor
1966 - Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy, American publicist (d. 1999)
1967 - Nick Clegg, British Liberal Democrat
1967 - Mark Lamarr, British comedian and broadcaster
1967 - Guy Hebert, American ice hockey player
1969 - David Yost, American actor
1970 - Doug E. Doug, American actor
1970 - Joao Ricardo, Angolan footballer
1971 - C.W. Anderson, American professional wrestler
1971 - Tina Anderson, American comic book writer
1971 - Jeremy Renner, American actor
1972 - Donald Brashear, American ice hockey player
1973 - Jonna Tervomaa, Finnish singer
1974 - John Rich, American musician (Big & Rich)
1976 - Ã‰ric GagnÃ©, Canadian baseball player
1976 - Alfonso Soriano, Dominican baseball player
1977 - Michelle Behennah, British model
1977 - Dustin Diamond, American actor
1977 - John Gidding, American architect and TV host (Designed to Sell)
1978 - Kevin Mench, American baseball player
1979 - Ryan Tedder, American singer
1979 - Mariangel Ruiz, Venezuelan actress and model
1979 - Bipasha Basu, Indian model
1981 - Alex Auld, Canadian ice hockey player
1981 - Marquis Daniels, American basketball player
1982 - Francisco Rodriguez, Venezuelan baseball player
1982 - Hannah Stockbauer, German swimmer
1982 - Ianina Zanazzi, Argentine racing driver
1983 - Natalie Gulbis, American golfer
1984 - Jon Lester, American baseball player
1985 - Lewis Hamilton, English F1 racing driver
1986 - Grant Leadbitter, English footballer
1988 - Haley Bennett, American Singer and Actress
1988 - Scott Pendlebury, Australian rules footballer
1988 - Robert Sheehan, Irish actor
1989 - Emiliano InsÃºa, Argentine footballer
1990 - Liam Aiken, American actor
1990 - Elene Gedevanishvili, Georgian figure skater
1990 - Camryn Grimes, American actress
1990 - Gregor Schlierenzauer, Austrian skijumper
1991 - Max Morrow, Canadian actor

Famous Births on 6 Jan

2012-01-05T18:02:00.000-08:00

Famous Births on 6 Jan

1367 - Richard II of England (d. 1400)
1412 - Joan of Arc, Roman Catholic Saint and national heroine of France (legendary date) (d. 1431)
1486 - Martin Agricola, German composer (d. 1556)
1488 - Helius Eobanus Hessus, German poet (d. 1540)
1525 - Caspar Peucer, German reformer (d. 1602)
1561 - Thomas Fincke, Danish mathematician (d. 1656)
1580 - (baptised) John Smith of Jamestown (d. 1631)
1587 - Gaspar de GuzmÃ¡n y Pimentel, Count-Duke of Olivares, Spanish statesman (d. 1645)
1595 - Claude Favre de Vaugelas, French man of letters (d. 1650)
1617 - Kristoffer Gabel, Danish statesman (d. 1673)
1655 - Eleonore-Magdalena of Neuburg, Holy Roman Empire Empress (d. 1720)
1655 - Jakob Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician (d. 1705)
1673 - 1st Duke of Chandos, English aristocrat, eponym of Handel's Chandos Anthems (d. 1744)
1714 - Percivall Pott, English physician (d. 1788)
1745 - Ã‰tienne Montgolfier, French inventor (d. 1799)
1793 - James Madison Porter, American politician (d. 1862)
1795 - Anselme Payen, French chemist (d. 1871)
1799 - Jedediah Strong Smith, U.S. hunter, explorer (d. 1831)
1803 - Henri Herz, Austrian pianist, composer (d. 1888)
1807 - Jozef MaximiliÃ¡n Petzval, Slovak inventor (d. 1891)
1808 - Joseph Pitty Couthouy, American naval officer (d. 1864)
1811 - Charles Sumner, U.S. politician (d. 1874)
1812 - Melchora Aquino, Filipino revolutionary hero (d. 1919)
1819 - Baldassare Verazzi, Italian painter (d. 1886)
1822 - Heinrich Schliemann, German archaeologist (d. 1890)
1832 - Gustave DorÃ©, French painter and sculptor (d. 1883)
1838 - Max Bruch, German composer (d. 1920)
1848 - Hristo Botev, Bulgarian poet and revolutionary (d. 1876)
1850 - Franz Xaver Scharwenka, Polish-German pianist and composer (d. 1924)
1856 - Giuseppe Martucci, Italian composer (d. 1909)
1857 - Hugh Mahon, Irish-born Australian politician (d. 1931)
1857 - William E. Russell, 37th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1896)
1861 - George Exton Lloyd, Anglican bishop and theologian (d. 1940)
1868 - Vittorio Monti, Italian composer (Csardas) (d. 1922)
1870 - Gustav Bauer, Chancellor of Germany (d. 1944)
1872 - Alexander Scriabin, Russian composer (d. 1915)
1874 - Fred Niblo, U.S. film actor, director, producer (d. 1948)
1878 - Carl Sandburg, American poet and historian (d. 1967)
1878 - Dame Adeline GenÃ©e, Danish-British ballerina (d. 1970)
1880 - Tom Mix, American actor (d. 1940)
1882 - Fan S. Noli, Albanian bishop (d. 1965)
1882 - Sam Rayburn, Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (d. 1961)
1882 - Aleksandra Ekster, Russian painter (d. 1949)
1883 - Khalil Gibran, Lebanese writer (d. 1931)
1898 - Charles E. Pont, American artist (d. 1971)
1898 - James Fitzmaurice, Irish aviation pioneer (d. 1965)
1899 - Phyllis Haver, American actress (d. 1960)
1899 - Heinrich Nordhoff, German automobile engineer (d. 1968)
1900 - Kathryn Hulme, U.S. novelist (The Nun's Story) (d. 1981)
1902 - Helmut Poppendick, Nazi physician (d. 1994)
1903 - Maurice Abravanel, Greek-born conductor (d. 1993)
1903 - Francis L. Sullivan, English actor (d. 1956)
1905 - Idris Davies, Welsh poet (d. 1953)
1907 - David Fleay, Australian naturalist (d. 1993)
1910 - Wright Morris, American writer (d. 1998)
1912 - Danny Thomas, American actor (d. 1991)
1913 - Edward Gierek, Polish politician (d. 2001)
1913 - Loretta Young, American actress (d. 2000)
1915 - Alan Watts, English writer/philosopher (d. 1973)
1915 - John C Lilly, U.S. psychoanalyst, writer (d. 2001)
1916 - Vincent Serventy, Australian writer and conservationist (d. 2007)
1917 - Koo Chen-fu, Chinese negotiator (d. 2005)
1920 - Sun Myung Moon, Korean evangelist
1920 - John Maynard Smith, English biologist (d. 2004)
1920 - Early Wynn, American baseball player (d. 1999)
1920 - Doris Stokes, British psychic medium (d. 1987)
1921 - Cary Middlecoff, American golfer (d. 1998)
1923 - Jacobo Timerman, Argentine writer (d. 1999)
1923 - Norman Kirk, Prime Minister of New Zealand (d. 1974)
1924 - Earl Scruggs, American musician
1925 - John De Lorean, American auto maker (d. 2005)
1926 - Kim Dae-jung, President of South Korea and Nobel laureate
1926 - Ralph Branca, American baseball player
1926 - Mickey Hargitay, Hungarian-born actor and bodybuilder (d. 2006)
1926 - Kid Gavilan, Cuban boxer (d. 2003)
1926 - Pat Flaherty, American racecar driver (2002)
1928 - Capucine, French actress (d. 1990)
1928 - George H. Ross, American businessman
1929 - Babrak Karmal, Afghani politician (d. 1996)
1930 - Vic Tayback, American actor (d. 1990)
1931 - E. L. Doctorow, American author
1931 - Dickie Moore, Canadian ice hockey player
1932 - Stuart A. Rice, American chemist
1933 - Emil Steinberger, Swiss comedian
1933 - Oleg Makarov, Soviet cosmonaut (d. 2003)
1934 - Harry M Miller, Australian entrepreneur
1934 - Tassos Papadopoulos, president of the Republic of Cyprus
1934 - Sylvia Sims, English actress
1935 - Nino Tempo, American singer and actor
1935 - Margarita Gomez-Acebo y Cejuela, Tsaritsa of Bulgaria
1936 - RubÃ©n Amaro, Sr., Mexican baseball player
1936 - Darlene Hard, U.S. tennis player
1936 - Julio MarÃa Sanguinetti Coirolo, President of Uruguay
1937 - Lou Holtz, American football coach
1937 - Paolo Conte, Italian singer
1937 - Doris Troy, American singer (d. 2004)
1938 - Adriano Celentano, Italian singer and actor
1938 - Prof Adrienne Clarke, Australian botanist, Lieutenant Governor of Victoria
1938 - Mario RodrÃguez Cobos "Silo", Argentine writer and spiritual leader
1939 - Murray Rose, Australian Olympic swimmer
1940 - Penny Lernoux, American journalist (d. 1989)
1940 - Van McCoy, American musician (d. 1979)
1943 - Terry Venables, English football manager
1944 - Bonnie Franklin, American actress
1944 - Rolf M. Zinkernagel, Swiss immunologist, Nobel laureate
1945 - Allen Appel, American novelist
1946 - Syd Barrett, English guitarist, singer and songwriter Pink Floyd (d. 2006)
1947 - Sandy Denny, English singer and songwriter (d. 1978)
1950 - Louis Freeh, former Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation
1951 - Don Gullett, American baseball player
1951 - Kim Wilson, American musician (The Fabulous Thunderbirds)
1952 - Frank Sivero, Italian-born American actor
1952 - Moondog Spot, American professional wrestler (d. 2003)
1953 - Malcolm Young, Scottish-born Australian guitarist (AC/DC)
1954 - Trudie Styler, English actress
1954 - Karen Moras, Australian Olympic swimmer
1954 - Anthony Minghella, British film director (d. 2008)
1954 - Yuji Horii, Japanese video game designer
1954 - Hans Robert Hiegel, German architect
1955 - Rowan Atkinson, English comedian and actor
1955 - Richard Corbett, Labour Member of the European Parliament
1956 - Angus Deayton, English comedian, actor and television presenter
1957 - Nancy Lopez, American golfer
1958 - Scott Bryce, American actor
1958 - Themos Anastasiadis, Greek journalist, television presenter and newspaper editor
1959 - Kapil Dev, Indian cricketer
1959 - Kathy Sledge, American singer
1960 - Andrea Thompson, American actress
1960 - Howie Long, National Football League player
1960 - Nigella Lawson, English chef and writer
1960 - Kari Jalonen, Finnish ice hockey player
1960 - Paul Azinger, American golfer
1962 - Michael Houser, American guitarist (Widespread Panic) (d. 2002)
1964 - Yuri, Mexican actress and singer
1964 - Mark O'Toole, English bass guitarist (Frankie Goes to Hollywood)
1964 - Jacqueline Moore, American wrestler
1964 - Henry Maske, German boxer
1964 - Charles Haley, American football player
1964 - Rafael Vidal, Venezuelan athlete (d. 2005)
1965 - Bjorn Lomborg, Danish mathematician
1965 - Konnan, Cuban-born professional wrestler
1965 - Muhammed al-Ahari, American Muslim writer
1966 - Andrew Wood, American singer (Mother Love Bone) (d. 1990)
1966 - Fernando Carrillo, Venezuelan actor
1966 - A. R. Rahman, Indian composer
1968 - John Singleton, American film director
1969 - Norman Reedus, American model and actor
1970 - Julie Chen, American television presenter
1970 - Gabrielle Reece, American volleyball player
1971 - Gary Wiseman, American punk-rock drummer
1971 - Irwin Thomas, Australian singer (ex-Southern Sons)
1972 - Nek, Italian singer
1973 - Scott Ferguson, Canadian ice hockey player
1974 - Daniel Cordone, Argentine footballer
1974 - Nicole DeHuff, American actress (d. 2005)
1975 - Yukana, Japanese seiyÅ«
1975 - Jason King, English radio DJ (Radio 1)
1975 - James Farrior, American football player
1976 - Danny Pintauro, American actor
1976 - Richard ZednÃk, Slovak ice hockey player
1976 - Johnny Yong Bosch, American actor
1978 - Tara Spencer-Nairn, Canadian actress
1978 - Casey Fossum, Major League Baseball player
1978 - Nikki Einfeld, Canadian opera singer
1980 - Steed Malbranque, French footballer
1980 - Hiromi Oshima, Japanese adult model
1981 - Asante Samuel, National Football League Defensive Back
1981 - JÃ©rÃ©mie Renier, Belgian actor
1981 - Rinko Kikuchi, Japanese actress
1981 - Mike Jones, American rapper
1982 - Gilbert Arenas, American basketball player
1982 - Brian Bass, American baseball player
1982 - Tiffany Pollard, American reality television personality
1984 - Sean O'Brien, Australian professional windsurfer
1984 - A.J. Hawk, American football player
1985 - RP Singh, Indian cricketer
1986 - Paul McShane, Irish footballer
1986 - Alex Turner, English musician (Arctic Monkeys)
1991 - Nikola Saric , Danish footballer

Famous Births on 5 Jan

2012-01-04T18:02:00.000-08:00

Famous Births on 5 Jan

1209 - Richard, 1st Earl of Cornwall, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1272)
1548 - Francisco Suarez, Spanish theologian (d. 1617)
1587 - Xu Xiake, Chinese geographer (d. 1641)
1592 - Shah Jahan, Mughal Emperor of India (d. 1666)
1614 - Archduke Leopold Wilhelm of Austria (d. 1662)
1696 - Giuseppe Galli-Bibiena, Italian architect/painter (d. 1757)
1717 - William Wildman Shute Barrington, British statesman (d. 1793)
1762 - Constanze Mozart, wife of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (d. 1842)
1779 - Stephen Decatur, American naval officer (d. 1820)
1779 - Zebulon Pike, American explorer (d. 1813)
1829 - Sir Roger Tichborne, missing U.K. heir who was the subject of the longest criminal trial in British history (d. c.1854)
1834 - William John Wills, English explorer of Australia, member of the Burke and Wills expedition (d. 1861)
1838 - Camille Jordan, French mathematician (d. 1922)
1846 - Rudolf Christoph Eucken, German writer, Nobel laureate (d. 1926)
1855 - King Camp Gillette, American inventor (d. 1932)
1864 - Bob Caruthers, American baseball player (d. 1911)
1864 - Ban Johnson, American baseball executive (d. 1931)
1865 - Julio Garavito Armero, Colombian astronomer (d. 1920)
1871 - Frederick Converse, U.S. composer (d. 1940)
1874 - Joseph Erlanger, American physiologist, Nobel laureate (d. 1965)
1876 - Konrad Adenauer, German statesman (d. 1967)
1879 - Hans Eppinger, Austrian physician (d. 1946)
1880 - Nikolay Medtner, Russian composer (d. 1951)
1882 - Herbert Bayard Swope, U.S. journalist who coined the term "Cold War" (d. 1958)
1885 - Humbert Wolfe, Italian-British poet (d. 1940)
1893 - ZoltÃ¡n BÃ¶szÃ¶rmÃ©ny, Hungarian Nazi politician (d. unknown)
1893 - Paramahansa Yogananda, Indian guru (d. 1952)
1895 - Elizabeth Cotten, American musician (d. 1987)
1900 - Yves Tanguy, French painter (d. 1955)
1902 - Stella Gibbons, English novelist (d. 1989)
1903 - Harold Gatty, Australian aviator, navigator with Wiley Post (d. 1957)
1904 - Erica Morini, Austrian violinist (d. 1995)
1904 - Jeane Dixon, American astrologer (d. 1997)
1906 - Kathleen Kenyon, English archaeologist (d. 1978)
1908 - George Dolenz, American actor (d. 1963)
1909 - Lucienne Bloch, Swiss-U.S. sculptor, muralist, photographer (d. 1995)
1909 - Stephen Kleene, American mathematician (d. 1994)
1910 - Jack Lovelock, New Zealand athlete (d. 1949)
1910 - Hugh Brannum, American actor (d. 1987)
1911 - Jean-Pierre Aumont, French actor (d. 2001)
1914 - Nicolas de StaÃ«l, French-Russian painter (d. 1955)
1914 - George Reeves, American actor (d. 1959)
1915 - Arthur H. Robinson, Canadian-born cartographer (d. 2004)
1917 - Francis L. Kellogg, U.S. diplomat and prominent socialite (d. 2006)
1917 - Jane Wyman, American actress (d. 2007)
1917 - Wieland Wagner, German stage director (d. 1966)
1919 - Severino Gazzelloni, Italian flautist (d. 1992)
1920 - Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli, Italian pianist (d. 1995)
1921 - Jean, Grand Duke of Luxembourg
1921 - Paul Governali, American professional football player (d. 1978)
1921 - Friedrich DÃ¼rrenmatt, Swiss writer (d. 1990)
1922 - Admiral Sir Anthony Synnot, Chief of the Australian Defence Force (d. 2001)
1923 - Sam Phillips, American music producer (d. 2003)
1924 - Dr Gilbert Bogle, Australian scientist who died in the Bogle-Chandler case (1963)
1926 - William De Witt Snodgrass, American poet
1926 - Hosea Williams, American activist (d. 2000)
1928 - Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, Pakistani statesman (d. 1979)
1928 - Walter Mondale, American politician
1929 - Wilbert Harrison, American singer (d. 1994)
1931 - Alvin Ailey, American choreographer (d. 1989)
1931 - Alfred Brendel, Austrian pianist
1931 - Joan Coxsedge, Australian politician
1931 - Robert Duvall, American actor
1932 - Chuck Noll, American football coach
1932 - Umberto Eco, Italian writer
1932 - Raisa Gorbacheva, wife of Mikhail Gorbachev (d. 1999)
1934 - William Bendeck, Bolivian rally driver (d. 1971)
1936 - Florence King, American humorist
1938 - King Juan Carlos I of Spain
1938 - Jim Otto, American football player
1938 - NgÅ©gÄ© wa Thiong'o, Kenyan writer
1940 - General Sir Michael Rose, UK military officer, prominent in Bosnia
1940 - Athol Guy, Australian singer, member of The Seekers
1940 - Yuri Ershov, Russian mathematician
1940 - Michael O'Donoghue, American writer (d. 1994)
1941 - Hayao Miyazaki, Japanese film maker
1941 - Mansur Ali Khan Pataudi, Indian cricketer
1942 - Jan Leeming, English television presenter and newsreader
1942 - Terenci Moix, Spanish writer (d. 2003)
1942 - Maurizio Pollini, Italian pianist
1942 - Charlie Rose, American talk show host
1943 - Justice Mary Gaudron, first female judge of the High Court of Australia
1945 - Chuck McKinley, U.S. tennis player (d. 1986)
1945 - Roger Spottiswoode, Canadian-born film director
1946 - Diane Keaton, American actress
1947 - Mercury Morris, American football player
1948 - Ted Lange, American actor
1949 - George Brown, American drummer (Kool & The Gang)
1950 - Chris Stein, American guitarist (Blondie)
1950 - Charlie Richmond, Canadian entrepreneur
1950 - John Manley, Canadian politician
1950 - Ioan Petru Culianu, Romanian-born professor (d. 1991)
1951 - Steve Arnold, English footballer
1953 - George Tenet, American CIA director
1953 - Mike Rann, Australian politician
1953 - Pamela Sue Martin, American actress
1953 - Steve Archer, American singer (The Archers)
1954 - Alex English, American basketball player
1956 - Chen Kenichi, Japanese-born chef
1957 - Kevin Hastings, Australian rugby league footballer
1959 - Clancy Brown, American actor
1960 - Steve Jones, British aviator (Red Bull Air Race World Series)
1960 - Glenn StrÃ¶mberg, Swedish footballer
1960 - Phil Thornalley, English bass guitarist (The Cure)
1962 - Suzy Amis, American actress
1962 - Perry Fenwick, English actor
1962 - Danny Jackson, American baseball player
1963 - Jeff Fassero, American baseball player
1964 - Grant Young, American drummer (Soul Asylum)
1965 - Vinnie Jones, English-born Welsh footballer and actor
1966 - Kate Schellenbach, American drummer (Luscious Jackson)
1967 - Joe Flanigan, American actor
1968 - DJ Bobo, Swiss singer
1968 - Ricky Paull Goldin, American actor
1968 - Andrew Golota, Polish boxer
1968 - Carrie Ann Inaba, American dancer and choreographer
1968 - JoÃ© Juneau, Canadian ice hockey player
1969 - Marilyn Manson, American singer
1969 - Paul McGillion, Scottish actor
1970 - Rick Campanelli, Canadian TV presenter
1971 - Mayuko Takata, Japanese actress
1972 - Sakis Rouvas, Greek singer
1973 - Phil Joel, Australian bassist (Newsboys)
1975 - Kylie Bax, New Zealand model
1975 - Bradley Cooper, American actor
1975 - Warrick Dunn, American football player
1975 - Mike Grier, American ice hockey player
1976 - Diego TristÃ¡n, Spanish footballer
1976 - Matt Wachter, American bassist (30 Seconds to Mars)
1978 - Sabrina Harman, American military figure and accused torturer
1978 - Franck Montagny, French Formula One driver
1978 - January Jones, American actress
1979 - Kyle Calder, Canadian ice hockey player
1979 - Ronnie O'Brien, Irish footballer
1980 - Bennie Joppru, National Football League tight end
1981 - Corey Flynn, New Zealand rugby union footballer
1981 - Brooklyn Sudano, American actress
1982 - Janica KosteliÄ‡, Croatian skier
1983 - Sean Dockery, American basketball player
1984 - Amanda Hearst, American heiress
1985 - Michael Cuccione, Canadian actor (d. 2001)
1985 - Yoon So-Yi, South Korean actress
1986 - Deepika Padukone, Indian model and actress
1986 - Teppei Koike, Japanese actor and singer
1987 - Kristin Cavallari, American actress
1988 - Pauline, French singer
1989 - KrisztiÃ¡n NÃ©meth, Hungarian footballer
1996 - Max Baldry, English actor

Famous Births on 4 Jan

2012-01-03T18:02:00.000-08:00

Famous Births on 4 Jan

1077 - Emperor Zhezong of Song Dynasty in China (d. 1100)
1334 - Amadeus VI of Savoy (d. 1383)
1581 - James Ussher, Irish Anglican archbishop (d. 1656)
1643 - Sir Isaac Newton, English mathematician and natural philosopher (d. 1727)
1664 - Lars Roberg, Swedish physician (d. 1742)
1672 - Hugh Boulter, Irish Archbishop of Armagh (d. 1742)
1710 - Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, Italian composer (d. 1736)
1720 - Johann Friedrich Agricola, German composer (d. 1774)
1785 - Jakob Grimm, German philologist and folklorist (d. 1863)
1809 - Louis Braille, French teacher of the blind and inventor of braille (d. 1852)
1813 - Isaac Pitman, English inventor (Pitman shorthand) (d. 1897)
1832 - George Tryon, British admiral (d. 1893)
1838 - Charles Sherwood Stratton, American circus performer (d. 1883)
1839 - Carl Humann, German engineer (d. 1896)
1842 - Frederic T. Greenhalge, 38th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1896)
1848 - Katsura Taro, Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1913)
1869 - Tommy Corcoran, American baseball player (d. 1960)
1870 - Percy Pitt, English organist and conductor (d. 1932)
1874 - Josef Suk, Czech composer (d. 1935)
1878 - Augustus John, Welsh painter (d. 1961)
1881 - Wilhelm Lehmbruck, German sculptor (d. 1919)
1882 - Aristarkh Lentulov, Russian artist (d. 1943)
1883 - Max Eastman, American writer (d. 1969)
1891 - Edward Brooker, Premier of Tasmania (d. 1948)
1893 - Yone Minagawa, Japanese, became worlds Oldest living person January 29, 2007. (d. Aug. 13, 2007)
1894 - Manuel de Abreu, Brazilian physician (d. 1962)
1895 - Leroy Grumman, American industrialist (d. 1982)
1896 - Everett Dirksen, American politician (d. 1969)
1896 - AndrÃ© Masson, French artist (d. 1987)
1900 - James Bond, American ornithologist (d. 1989)
1901 - C. L. R. James, writer and journalist (d. 1989)
1902 - John McCone, CIA Director (d. 1991)
1905 - Sterling Holloway, American actor (d. 1992)
1910 - Arthur Villeneuve, Quebec painter (d. 1990)
1913 - Malietoa Tanumafili II, Sovereign Ruler of Samoa (d.2007)
1914 - Herman Franks, American baseball player
1916 - Lionel Newman, American film music composer (d. 1989)
1916 - Robert Parrish, U.S. film editor and director (d. 1995)
1920 - William Colby, American CIA director (d. 1996)
1922 - Rosalie Crutchley, English actress (d. 1997)
1924 - Sebastian Kappen, Indian theologian (d. 1993)
1925 - Veikko Hakulinen, Finnish cross-country skier (d. 2003)
1927 - Barbara Rush, American actress
1927 - Paul Desmarais, Canadian businessman
1929 - Yayoi Kusama, Japanese artist, sculptor
1930 - Sorrell Booke, American actor (d. 1994)
1930 - Don Shula, American football coach
1931 - Adi Lady Lala Mara, First Lady of Fiji (d. 2004)
1931 - Sir William Deane, Governor-General of Australia 1996-2001
1932 - Carlos Saura, Spanish director
1933 - Ilia II Catholicos-Patriarch of all Georgia.
1934 - Rudolf Schuster, President of Slovakia
1935 - Floyd Patterson, American boxer (d. 2006)
1937 - Grace Bumbry, American singer
1937 - Dyan Cannon, American actress
1940 - Helmut Jahn, German architect
1940 - Brian David Josephson, Welsh physicist, Nobel laureate
1940 - Gao Xingjian, Chinese-born French novelist and dramatist, Nobel laureate
1941 - John Bennett Perry, American actor
1941 - George Pan Cosmatos, Greek film director (d. 2005)
1941 - Maureen Reagan, American political activist (d. 2001)
1942 - John McLaughlin, English jazz guitarist
1943 - Doris Kearns Goodwin, American writer
1945 - Vesa-Matti Loiri, Finnish entertainer
1945 - Richard R. Schrock, American chemist, Nobel laureate
1946 - Arthur Conley, American singer (d. 2003)
1946 - Susannah McCorkle, American jazz singer (d. 2001)
1947 - Chris Cutler, English musician and composer (Henry Cow, Art Bears)
1947 - Rick Stein, English chef and television presenter
1948 - Eugeniusz WycisÅ‚o, Polish politician
1950 - John Louis Evans, convicted murderer (d. 1983)
1951 - Barbara Cochran, American alpine skier
1953 - Norberto Alonso, Argentine footballer
1954 - Eugene Chadbourne, American composer and musician
1955 - Mark Hollis, English musician and composer (Talk Talk)
1956 - Nels Cline, American guitarist and composer
1956 - Bernard Sumner, English musician (Joy Division, New Order, Electronic)
1957 - Patty Loveless, American singer
1958 - Andy Borowitz, American comedian and satirist
1958 - Matt Frewer, American actor
1958 - Gary Jones, Welsh-born actor
1958 - Julian Sands, English actor
1959 - Yoshitomo Nara, Japanese pop artist
1960 - Michael Stipe, American singer (R.E.M.)
1960 - April Winchell, American actress
1961 - Lee Curreri, American actor
1962 - Peter Steele, American musician (Type O Negative)
1962 - Robin Guthrie, Scottish guitarist (Cocteau Twins)
1962 - Laila Eloui, Egyptian actress
1963 - Dave Foley, Canadian comedian and actor
1963 - Till Lindemann, German singer (Rammstein)
1965 - Julia Ormond, English actress
1965 - Cait O'Riordan, British musician (The Pogues)
1965 - Beth Gibbons, English singer (Portishead)
1965 - Guy Forget, French tennis player
1965 - Yvan Attal, French actor and director
1966 - Deana Carter, American singer
1967 - David Toms, American professional golfer
1967 - Marina Orsini, Canadian actress
1967 - Johnny Nelson, English boxer
1967 - David Berman, American poet and singer/songwriter (Silver Jews)
1968 - Mike Wilpolt, Head Coach of the Cleveland Gladiators of the Arena Football League
1970 - Chris Kanyon, American professional wrestler
1971 - Junichi Kakizaki, Japanese artist, sculptor
1972 - James Longley, American documentary filmmaker
1973 - Frank HÃ¸j, Danish cyclist
1973 - Harmony Korine, American film director and artist
1974 - Ian Moor, English singer
1976 - Ted Lilly, American baseball player
1976 - BenoÃ®t Joachim, Luxembourg cyclist
1977 - IrÃ¡n Castillo, Mexican actress
1977 - Tim Wheeler, Irish singer (Ash)
1978 - Dominik HrbatÃ½, Slovakian tennis player
1978 - Mai Meneses, Spanish singer
1979 - Tristan Gommendy, French racing driver
1979 - Jeph Howard, American musician (The Used)
1980 - Miguel Monteiro, Portuguese footballer
1980 - Erin Cahill, American actress
1980 - Yaroslav Popovych, Ukrainian Cyclist
1980 - Greg Cipes, American actor
1982 - Paulo Ferrari, Argentinian footballer
1982 - Kang Hye-jeong, South Korean actress
1982 - Richard Logan, English footballer
1985 - Al Jefferson, American basketball player
1985 - Fernando Rees, Brazilian race car driver
1986 - Steve Slaton , American football player
1986 - James Milner, English footballer
1988 - Nabila Jamshed, Indian writer
1989 - Graham Rahal, American race car driver
1991 - Olivia Tennet, New Zealand actress
1995 - MarÃa Isabel, Spanish singer
1995 - Harry Skinner, English skiier
2000 - Rhiannon Leigh Wryn, American actress

Famous Births on 3 Jan

2012-01-02T18:02:00.000-08:00

Famous Births on 3 Jan

106 BC - Cicero, Roman statesman and philosopher (d. 43 BC)
1196 - Emperor Tsuchimikado of Japan (d. 1231)
1698 - Pietro Metastasio, Italian poet (d. 1782)
1710 - Richard Gridley, American Revolutionary soldier (d. 1796)
1719 - Francisco JosÃ© Freire, Portuguese historian (d. 1773)
1722 - Fredric Hasselquist, Swedish naturalist (d. 1752)
1733 - Sir Richard Arkwright, English industrialist and inventor (d. 1792)
1760 - John Storm, American Revolutionary soldier (d. 1835)
1778 - Antoni Melchior FijaÅ‚kowski, Polish bishop (d. 1861)
1793 - Lucretia Mott, American women's rights activist (d. 1880)
1802 - Charles Pelham Villiers, British House of Commons member (d. 1898)
1803 - Douglas William Jerrold, British playwright (d. 1857)
1806 - Henriette Sontag, German soprano (d. 1854)
1810 - Antoine Thomson d'Abbadie, French geographer (d. 1897)
1819 - Charles Piazzi Smyth, Astronomer Royal for Scotland (d. 1900)
1836 - Sakamoto Ryoma, Japanese revolutionary (d. 1867)
1840 - Father Damien, Flemish missionary (d. 1889)
1855 - Hubert Bland, English socialist (d. 1914)
1861 - William Renshaw, British champion tennis player (d. 1904)
1862 - Sir Matthew Nathan, British Governor of Queensland and other places (d. 1939)
1865 - Henry Lytton, British actor and opera singer (d. 1936)
1870 - Henry Handel Richardson, Australian author (d. 1946)
1873 - Ichizo Kobayashi, Japanese businessman (d. 1957)
1876 - Wilhelm Pieck, first President of East Germany (d. 1960)
1879 - Grace Coolidge, First Lady of the United States (d. 1957)
1883 - Clement Attlee, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1967)
1884 - Raoul von Koczalski, Polish pianist and composer (d. 1948)
1886 - Josephine Hull, American actress (d. 1957)
1887 - August Macke, German painter (d. 1914)
1887 - Helen Parkhurst, American educator (d. 1973)
1892 - J. R. R. Tolkien, British writer (d. 1973)
1894 - ZaSu Pitts, American actress (d. 1963)
1897 - Marion Davies, American actress (d. 1961)
1898 - Carlos Keller, Chilean fascist politician (d. 1974)
1901 - NgÃ´ ÄÃ¬nh Diá»‡m, President of South Vietnam (d. 1963)
1905 - Anna May Wong, American actress (d. 1961)
1905 - Ray Milland, Welsh actor (d. 1986)
1909 - Victor Borge, Danish entertainer (d. 2000)
1910 - Frenchy Bordagaray, American baseball player (d. 2000)
1911 - John Sturges, American director (d. 1982)
1912 - Armand Lohikoski, Finnish director (d. 2005)
1912 - Renaude Lapointe, Canadian journalist and senator (d. 2002)
1916 - Betty Furness, American actress (d. 1994)
1916 - Maxene Andrews, American singer (The Andrews Sisters) (d. 1995)
1916 - Bernard Greenhouse, American cellist
1917 - General Vernon Walters, U.S. military officer, diplomat (d. 2002)
1917 - Roger W. Straus, Jr., American publisher (d. 2004)
1920 - Renato Carosone, Italian musician (d. 2001)
1921 - John Russell, American actor (d. 1991)
1922 - Ronald Smith, British pianist (d. 2004)
1922 - Bill Travers, English actor and director (d. 1994)
1923 - Hank Stram, American football coach (d. 2005)
1923 - Charles Tingwell, Australian actor
1924 - AndrÃ© Franquin, Belgian cartoonist (Gaston Lagaffe) (d. 1997)
1924 - Nell Rankin, American singer (d. 2005)
1924 - Doug Ellis, British entrepreneur
1926 - George Martin, British producer
1929 - Ernst Mahle, Brazilian composer
1929 - Sergio Leone, Italian director (d. 1989)
1930 - Marcel DubÃ©, Quebec playwright
1930 - Robert Loggia, American actor
1932 - Coo Coo Marlin, American race car driver (d. 2005)
1932 - Dabney Coleman, American actor
1935 - Raymond Garneau, French Canadian politician and businessman
1936 - David Vine, British sports commentator
1937 - Seri Wangnaitham, Thai dancer and choreographer (d. 2007)
1939 - Nikos Alefantos, Greek football manager
1939 - Janice Crosio, Australian politician
1939 - Bobby Hull, Canadian hockey player
1939 - Ruben Reyes, Filipino Supreme Court jurist
1941 - Van Dyke Parks, American musician
1942 - John Thaw, British actor (d. 2002)
1942 - John Marsden, Australian lawyer, gay activist (d. 2006)
1944 - Blanche d'Alpuget, Australian novelist, biographer and second wife of Bob Hawke
1944 - David Atherton, English conductor
1945 - Stephen Stills, American musician
1946 - John Paul Jones, British musician (Led Zeppelin)
1946 - Cissy King, American entertainer
1949 - Sylvia Likens, American torture victim (d. 1965)
1950 - Victoria Principal, American actress
1951 - Gary Nairn, Australian politician
1952 - Jim Ross, American wrestling announcer
1954 - Dean Hart, Canadian wrestler (d. 1990)
1954 - Ned Lamont, American businessman
1955 - Palmolive, English musician (The Slits, The Raincoats)
1956 - Mel Gibson, Australian actor and director
1956 - Willy T. Ribbs, American race car driver
1957 - Bojan KriÅ¾Ð°Ñ˜, Slovenian skier
1958 - Shim Hyung-rae, South Korean filmmaker
1960 - Sandeep Marwah Founder of Film City, Noida, India
1962 - Francesca Lia Block, American author
1963 - Vic Grimes, American professional wrestler
1963 - Jerome Young, American professional wrestler
1964 - Bruce LaBruce, Canadian filmmaker
1966 - Martin Galway, Northern Ireland composer
1969 - Michael Schumacher, German seven-time F1 World Champion
1970 - Matt Ross, American actor
1970 - Christian Duguay, American comic actor
1970 - Mahaya Petrosian, Iranian actress
1971 - Cory Cross, Canadian ice hockey player
1972 - Yoon Chan, South Korean actor
1972 - Nichole Nordeman, American singer
1974 - Alessandro Petacchi, Italian cyclist
1975 - Danica McKellar, American actress
1975 - Jason Marsden, American actor
1975 - Thomas Bangalter, French DJ (Daft Punk)
1976 - Nicholas Gonzalez, American actor
1976 - Dinara Drukarova, Russian actress
1976 - Alisen Down, Canadian actress
1976 - Angelos Basinas, Greek footballer
1977 - Lee Bowyer, English footballer
1977 - A.J. Burnett, American baseball player
1977 - Mayumi Iizuka, Japanese voice actress (seiyÅ«)
1977 - Michelle Stephenson, English singer (The Spice Girls)
1978 - Mike York, American ice hockey player
1978 - Dominic Wood, English children's television presenter and magician
1978 - Park Sol-mi, South Korean actress
1978 - Kimberley Locke, American singer
1979 - Francesco Bellissimo, Italian mangaka
1980 - Rob Arnold, American guitarist (Chimaira)
1980 - Liya Kebede, Ethiopian model
1980 - Angela Ruggiero, American ice hockey player
1980 - David Tyree, American football player
1981 - Chris Blais, California racecar driver
1981 - Eli Manning, American football player
1985 - John David Booty, American football player
1986 - Lloyd Polite, American R&B singer
1986 - Jacob Timpano, Australian soccer player
1988 - Rodrigo de la Cadena, Mexican artist and performer
1989 - Alex D. Linz, American actor
1989 - Anya Kop, Russian model and America's Next Top Model contestant

Famous Births on 2 Jan

2012-01-01T18:02:00.000-08:00

Famous Births on 2 Jan

1642 - Mehmed IV, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1693)
1647 - Nathaniel Bacon, English-born American colonist (d. 1676)
1699 - Osman III, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1757)
1713 - Marie Dumesnil, French actress (d. 1803)
1719 - Jacques-Alexandre Laffon de Ladebat, French shipbuilder (d. 1797)
1727 - James Wolfe, British general (d. 1759)
1777 - Christian Daniel Rauch, German sculptor (d. 1857)
1822 - Rudolf Clausius, German physicist (d. 1888)
1827 - Peter Semenov of Tian Shan, Russian explorer (d. 1914)
1833 - Frederick A. Johnson, American politician (d. 1893)
1836 - Queen Emma of Hawaii, Consort of King Kamehameha IV (d. 1885)
1836 - Mendele Moykher Sforim, Jewish writer (d. 1917)
1837 - Mily Balakirev, Russian composer (d. 1910)
1866 - Prof Gilbert Murray, Australian classical scholar (d. 1957)
1870 - Ernst Barlach, German sculptor (d. 1938)
1873 - ThÃ©rÃ¨se de Lisieux, French Roman-Catholic nun (d. 1897)
1877 - Slava Raskaj, Croatian painter (d.1906)
1886 - Florence Lawrence, Canadian actress (d. 1938)
1886 - Apsley Cherry-Garrard, English Antarctic explorer (d. 1959)
1888 - Tito Schipa, Italian tenor (d. 1965)
1889 - Sir Bertram Stevens, Premier of New South Wales 1932-39 (d. 1973)
1892 - Seiichiro Kashio, Japanese tennis player (d. 1962)
1893 - Lillian Leitzel, German acrobat and strongwoman (d. 1931)
1895 - Count Folke Bernadotte, Swedish diplomat (d. 1948)
1896 - Dziga Vertov, Russian filmmaker (d. 1954)
1896 - Sir Lawrence Wackett, Australian aircraft engineer (d. 1982)
1897 - Jim Londos, Greek wrestler (d. 1975)
1902 - Dan Keating, Irish republican (d. 2007)
1902 - Barry Goldwater, American politician (d. 1998)
1904 - Sally Rand, American fan dancer (d. 1979)
1905 - Michael Tippett, English composer (d. 1998)
1905 - Luigi Zampa, Italian film director and screenwriter (d. 1991)
1905 - Lev Schnirelmann, Russian mathematician (d. 1938)
1910 - Srirangam Srinivasarao, Telugu Poet (d. 1983)
1913 - Anna Lee, English actress (d. 2004)
1917 - Vera Zorina, German dancer (d. 2003)
1918 - Willi Graf, German anti-Nazi activist (d. 1943)
1920 - Isaac Asimov, Russian author (d. 1992)
1921 - Glen Harmon, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2007)
1925 - Larry Harmon, American entertainer and TV producer (d. 2008)
1925 - William J. Crowe, American admiral and ambassador (d. 2007)
1928 - Robert Goralski, American journalist (d. 1988)
1928 - Avie Bennett, Canadian philanthropist
1928 - Daisaku Ikeda, Japanese writer
1930 - Julius LaRosa, American singer
1931 - Toshiki Kaifu, Japanese politician
1933 - Ed Casey, Australian politician (d. 2006)
1933 - Morimura Seiichi, Japanese novelist
1936 - Roger Miller, American singer (d. 1992)
1938 - Ian Brady, British serial killer
1938 - Hans HerbjÃ¸rnsrud, Norwegian author
1939 - Jim Bakker, American televangelist
1940 - S. R. S. Varadhan, Indian-American mathematician
1942 - Dennis Hastert, 59th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives
1942 - Hugh Shelton, 15th Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
1943 - BarÄ±ÅŸ ManÃ§o, Turkish singer and television producer (d. 1999)
1944 - Prince Norodom Ranariddh, Cambodian politician
1946 - Richard Cole, American tour manager
1947 - Jack Hanna, American zoologist
1947 - Calvin Hill, American football player
1949 - Christopher Durang, American playwright
1950 - David Shifrin, American classical clarinetist
1951 - Alexander Pogrebinsky, Russian painter
1952 - Graeme Strachan, Australian rock singer (Skyhooks) (d. 2001)
1954 - Dawn Silva, American singer (The Brides of Funkenstein, P-Funk)
1954 - Henry Bonilla, American politician
1955 - Tex Brashear, American voice actor
1956 - Lynda Barry, American cartoonist
1957 - Joanna Pacula, Polish actress
1958 - Vladimir Ovchinnikov, Russian pianist
1960 - Naoki Urasawa, Japanese manga author
1961 - Gabrielle Carteris, American actress
1961 - Todd Haynes, American film director
1963 - Edgar MartÃnez, American baseball player
1963 - David Cone, American baseball player
1964 - Pernell Whitaker, American boxer
1965 - Greg Swindell, American baseball player
1967 - Tia Carrere, American actress
1967 - JÃ³n Gnarr, Icelandic comedian
1967 - Francois Pienaar, South African rugby player
1968 - Goichi Suda, Japanese video game developer
1968 - Evan Parke, Jamaican actor
1968 - Anky van Grunsven, Dutch dressage champion
1968 - Cuba Gooding Jr., American actor
1969 - Robby Gordon, American racing driver
1969 - Christy Turlington, American model
1969 - RÃ³bert Å vehla, Slovak ice hockey player
1969 - Tommy Morrison, American boxer
1969 - Glen Johnson, Jamaican boxer
1969 - Patrick Huard, Quebec actor and comedian
1969 - Karl-Heinz Grasser, Austrian politician
1970 - Royce Clayton, American baseball player
1970 - Robert Fertitta, American opera singer
1970 - Sanda LadoÅŸi, Romanian singer
1971 - Lisa Harrison, American basketball player
1971 - Renee Elise Goldsberry, American actress and singer
1971 - Taye Diggs, American actor
1972 - Adam Elliot, Australian animator
1972 - Christopher Lennertz, American composer
1972 - Hristos Meletoglou, Greek triple jumper
1973 - Lucy Davis, British actress
1973 - Will Kirby, American actor
1975 - Reuben Thorne, New Zealand rugby union player
1975 - Dax Shepard, American actor
1975 - Doug Robb, American singer (Hoobastank)
1975 - Chris Cheney, Australian musician (The Living End)
1976 - Hrysopiyi Devetzi, Greek triple jumper
1976 - Danilo Di Luca, Italian cyclist
1976 - Cletidus Hunt, American football player
1976 - MahÃ©e Paiement, Canadian actress
1976 - Paz Vega, Spanish actress
1977 - Scott Proctor, American baseball player
1977 - Ales Pisa, Czech ice hockey player
1978 - Toyoguchi Megumi, Japanese seiyuu (voice actress)
1979 - Suranne Jones, British actress
1979 - Jonathan Greening, British footballer
1980 - Mac Danzig, American Mixed martial arts combatant
1981 - Maxi RodrÃguez, Argentine footballer
1981 - Kirk Hinrich, American basketball player
1981 - Ryan Garko, American baseball player
1981 - Hanno Balitsch, German footballer
1982 - Athanasia Tsoumeleka, Greek race walker
1983 - Kate Bosworth, American actress
1984 - Colleen Taylor, American journalist
1985 - Heather O'Reilly, American soccer player
1987 - Loui Batley, British actress
1987 - Syesha Mercado, American singer
1988 - Jonny Evans, Northern Irish footballer

Famous Births on 1 Jan

2011-12-31T18:02:00.000-08:00

Famous Births on 1 Jan

1431 - Pope Alexander VI (d. 1503)
1449 - Lorenzo de' Medici, Italian statesman (d. 1492)
1467 - Sigismund I the Old, King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania (d. 1548)
1484 - Huldrych Zwingli, Swiss Protestant leader (d. 1531)
1511 - Henry, Duke of Cornwall (d. 1511)
1516 - Margaret Leijonhufvud, Queen of Gustav I of Sweden (d. 1551)
1557 - IstvÃ¡n Bocskay, Prince of Transylvania (d. 1606)
1600 - Friedrich Spanheim, Dutch theologian (d. 1649)
1614 - John Wilkins, English Bishop of Chester (d. 1672)
1618 - baptised BartolomÃ© EstÃ©ban Murillo, Spanish painter (d. 1682)
1638 - Emperor Go-Sai of Japan (d. 1685)
1648 - Elkanah Settle, English writer (d. 1724)
1655 - Christian Thomasius, German jurist (d. 1728)
1684 - Arnold Drakenborch, Dutch classical scholar (d. 1748)
1704 - Soame Jenyns, English writer (d. 1787)
1711 - Franz Freiherr von der Trenck, Austrian soldier (d. 1749)
1714 - Kristijonas Donelaitis, Lithuanian poet (d. 1780)
1735 - Paul Revere, American patriot (d. 1818)
1745 - Anthony Wayne, American general and statesman (d. 1796)
1750 - Frederick Muhlenberg, American statesman (d. 1801)
1752 - Betsy Ross, American seamstress (d. 1836)
1767 - Maria Edgeworth, Anglo-Irish novelist (d. 1849)
1774 - AndrÃ© Marie Constant DumÃ©ril, French zoologist (d. 1860)
1779 - William Clowes, English printer (d. 1847)
1803 - Guglielmo Libri Carucci dalla Sommaja, Italian mathematician (d. 1869)
1814 - Hong Xiuquan, Chinese rebel (d. 1864)
1819 - Arthur Hugh Clough, English poet (d. 1861)
1823 - SÃ¡ndor PetÅ'fi, Hungarian poet and revolutionary (d. 1849)
1833 - Robert Lawson, New Zealand architect (d. 1902)
1834 - Ludovic HalÃ©vy, French playwright (d. 1908)
1848 - John Goff, Irish lawyer (d. 1924)
1852 - EugÃ¨ne-Anatole DemarÃ§ay, French chemist (d. 1904)
1854 - Sir James George Frazer, Scottish anthropologist (d. 1941)
1863 - Pierre de Coubertin, French organizer of the Olympic Games (d. 1937)
1864 - Alfred Stieglitz, American photographer (d. 1946)
1864 - Qi Baishi, Chinese painter (d. 1957)
1868 - Snitz Edwards, American actor (d. 1937)
1873 - Mariano Azuela, Mexican novelist (d. 1952)
1874 - Gustave Whitehead, German inventor (d. 1927)
1874 - Frank Knox, American Secretary of the Navy (d. 1944)
1876 - Harriet Brooks, Canadian physicist (d. 1933)
1878 - Agner Krarup Erlang, Danish scientist and engineer (d. 1929)
1879 - E. M. Forster, English novelist (d. 1970)
1879 - William Fox, Hungarian-born American film producer (d. 1952)
1881 - Vajiravudh, King of Thailand (d. 1925)
1887 - Wilhelm Canaris, German admiral (d. 1945)
1888 - John Garand, American inventor (d. 1974)
1889 - Charles Bickford, American film actor (d. 1967)
1890 - Anton Melik, Slovenian geographer (d. 1966)
1892 - Manuel Roxas, Philippino politician (d. 1948)
1892 - Artur RodziÅ„ski, Croatian conductor (d. 1958)
1894 - Shitsu Nakano, Japanese supercentenarian (d. 2007)
1894 - Satyendra Nath Bose, Bengali mathematician (d. 1974)
1895 - J. Edgar Hoover, American FBI director (d. 1972)
1900 - Xavier Cugat, Spanish musician (d. 1990)
1900 - Chiune Sugihara, Japanese diplomat (d. 1986)
1902 - Buster Nupen, South African cricketer (d. 1977)
1904 - Fazal Ilahi Chaudhry, Pakistani politician (d. 1982)
1904 - Ethan Allen, American baseball player (d. 1993)
1905 - Kamatari Fujiwara, Japanese actor (d. 1985)
1905 - StanisÅ‚aw Mazur, Polish mathematician (d. 1981)
1906 - Giovanni D'Anzi, Italian songwriter (d. 1974)
1909 - Barry Goldwater, American politician (d. 1998)
1909 - Dana Andrews, American actor (d. 1992)
1909 - Stepan Bandera, Ukrainian nationalist leader (d. 1959)
1911 - Basil Dearden, British film director (d. 1971)
1911 - Roman Totenberg, Polish-American violinist
1911 - Hank Greenberg, American baseball player (d. 1986)
1912 - Boris Vladimirovich Gnedenko, Russian mathematician (d. 1995)
1912 - Kim Philby, British spy (d. 1988)
1914 - Noor Inayat Khan, Indian princess and SOE agent (d. 1944)
1917 - Jule Gregory Charney, American meteorologist (d. 1981)
1917 - Albert Mol, Dutch actor (d. 2004)
1918 - Patrick Anthony Porteous, Scottish Victoria Cross recipient (d. 2000)
1919 - J. D. Salinger, American novelist
1919 - Carole Landis, American film actress (d. 1948)
1920 - Virgilio Savona, Italian singer (Quartetto Cetra)
1921 - Ismail al-Faruqi, Palestinian philosopher (d. 1986)
1922 - Rocky Graziano, American boxer (d. 1990)
1922 - Ernest Hollings, American politician
1923 - Daniel Gorenstein, American mathematician (d. 1992)
1923 - Milt Jackson, American jazz vibraphonist (d. 1999)
1924 - Roberts Blossom, American actor and poet
1925 - Matthew "Stymie" Beard, American actor (d. 1981)
1925 - Valentina Cortese, Italian actress
1925 - Raymond Pellegrin, French actor
1926 - Richard Verreau, French-Canadian tenor (d. 2005)
1927 - Calum MacKay, Canadian hockey player (d. 2001)
1927 - Vernon L. Smith, American economist, winner
1927 - Pat Heywood, Scottish actress
1927 - Maurice BÃ©jart, French choreographer (d. 2007)
1927 - Doak Walker, American football star (d. 1998)
1928 - Ernest Tidyman, American writer (d. 1984)
1930 - Ty Hardin, American film actor
1930 - Gaafar al-Nimeiry, President of Sudan 1971-85
1932 - Jackie Parker, American football player (d. 2006)
1932 - Giuseppe PatanÃ¨, Italian opera conductor (d. 1989)
1933 - Joe Orton, English writer (d. 1967)
1933 - Frederick Lowy, Canadian educator
1933 - Norman Yemm, Australian actor
1935 - B. Kliban, American cartoonist (d. 1990)
1936 - James Sinegal, American businessman
1937 - Adam WiÅ›niewski-Snerg, Polish author (d. 1995)
1938 - Robert Jankel, British coachbuilder (d. 2005)
1938 - Clay Cole, American television host and producer
1939 - MichÃ¨le Mercier, French actress
1940 - Frank Langella, American actor
1942 - Alassane Ouattara, Former Prime Minister of Ivory Coast
1942 - Judy Stone, Australian pop singer
1942 - Martin Frost, American politician
1942 - Country Joe McDonald, American musician (Country Joe and the Fish)
1942 - Gennadi Sarafanov, Soviet cosmonaut (d. 2005)
1943 - Larry Clark, American director
1943 - Don Novello, American actor
1943 - Tony Knowles, 9th Governor of Alaska
1943 - Raghunath Anant Mashelkar, Indian scientist
1944 - Jimmy Hart, American wrestling manager
1944 - Zafarullah Khan Jamali, Pakistani politician
1945 - Peter Duncan, Australian politician
1945 - Jacky Ickx, Belgian race car driver
1946 - Rivelino, Brazilian football player
1946 - Rick Hurst, American actor
1946 - Carl B. Hamilton, Swedish economist and politician
1947 - Jon Corzine, American politician
1947 - Paula Tsui, Hong Kong singer
1948 - Pavel Grachev, Russian general
1949 - Daniel E Gawthrop, American composer
1950 - Deepa Mehta, Indian-born Canadian film director and screenwriter
1950 - Wayne Bennett, Australian rugby league coach
1950 - Morgan Fisher, English musician (Mott the Hoople)
1951 - Ashfaq Hussain, Urdu poet
1951 - Nana Patekar, Indian film and stage actor
1951 - Hans-Joachim Stuck, German race car driver
1953 - Greg Carmichael, British guitarist (Acoustic Alchemy)
1954 - Bob Menendez, American politician
1956 - KÃ´ji Yakusho, Japanese actor
1956 - Mike Mitchell, American basketball player
1956 - Sergei Avdeyev, Russian cosmonaut
1956 - Mark R. Hughes, American entrepreneur (d. 2000)
1957 - Ewa Kasprzyk, Polish actress
1957 - Evangelos Venizelos, Greek lawyer, professor and politician
1958 - Grandmaster Flash, Barbadian musician
1959 - Panagiotis Giannakis, Greek basketball player and coach
1959 - Jennifer Edwards, American actress
1959 - Azali Assoumani, Comorian president
1961 - Fiona Phillips, British television presenter
1961 - Sam Backo, Australian rugby league footballer
1961 - Mark Wingett, British actor
1961 - Sam Palahnuk, American video game designer
1962 - Ari Up, German musician (The Slits)
1962 - Sophie Thompson, British actress
1963 - Lina KaÄiuÅ¡ytÄ—, Lithuanian swimmer
1964 - Juliana Donald, American actress
1964 - Dedee Pfeiffer, American actress
1966 - Anna Burke, Australian politician
1967 - John Digweed, English DJ
1967 - Tim Dog, American rapper
1967 - Juanma Bajo Ulloa, Spanish film director
1967 - Derrick Thomas, American football player (d. 2000)
1968 - Joey Stefano, American adult actor (d. 1994)
1968 - Miki Higashino, Japanese composer
1968 - Davor Å uker, Croatian footballer
1969 - Verne Troyer, American actor
1969 - Nicolle Dickson, Australian actress
1969 - Christi Paul, American news anchor
1969 - Sophie Okonedo, British actress
1969 - Morris Chestnut, American actor
1970 - Kimberly Page, American actress
1970 - Shelley O'Donnell, Australian netballer
1970 - Gabriel Jarret, American actor
1971 - Bobby Holik, Czech hockey player
1971 - Sammie Henson, American wrestler
1972 - Neve McIntosh, Scottish actress
1972 - Lilian Thuram, French footballer
1972 - DJ Shadow, American DJ and songwriter
1973 - Anwar Mansoor Mangrio, Sindhi poet & research scholar.
1974 - Catalina Guirado, English model and TV personality
1975 - Sonali Bendre, Indian model and actress
1975 - Joe Cannon, American soccer player
1975 - Eiichiro Oda, Japanese Manga artist
1976 - Caleb Wyatt, American motocross rider
1976 - Georgina Chapman, British fashion designer and actress
1977 - Keeley Hawes, British actress
1977 - Hasan SalihamidÅ¾iÄ‡, Bosnian footballer
1978 - Paramahamsa Sri Nithyananda, Indian spiritualist
1978 - Tarik O'Regan, British composer
1978 - Phillip Mulryne, Northern Irish footballer
1978 - Jensen Ackles, American actor
1978 - Nina Bott, German actress
1978 - Vidya Balan, Indian actress
1979 - Brody Dalle, Australian singer (The Distillers)
1979 - Koichi Domoto, Japanese artist
1979 - Freema Agyeman, British actress
1980 - Elin Nordegren, Swedish model
1981 - Jonas Armstrong, Irish actor
1981 - Zsolt Baumgartner, Hungarian race car driver
1981 - AbdÃ¼lkadir KoÃ§ak, Turkish boxer
1981 - Eden Riegel, American actress
1982 - David Nalbandian, Argentinian tennis player
1983 - Emi Kobayashi, Japanese model
1983 - Calum Davenport, English footballer
1983 - Ali Bastian, English actress and model
1984 - JosÃ© Paolo Guerrero, Peruvian footballer
1984 - Alok Kapali, Bangladeshi cricketer
1984 - Shareefa, American singer
1984 - Michael Witt, Australian rugby league footballer
1985 - Steven Davis, Northern Irish footballer
1986 - Glen Davis, American basketball player
1987 - Gilbert Brule, Canadian professional hockey player
1987 - Meryl Davis, American ice dancer
1987 - Devin Setoguchi, Canadian professional hockey player
1989 - Marvin Austin, American football player
1991 - Kathleen Herles, American voice actor
1996 - Mary Gibbs, American child actress
1998 - Marlene Lawston, American child actress
766 - Ali al-Rida, Shia Imam (d. 818)

Famous Births on 31 Dec

2011-12-30T18:02:00.000-08:00

Famous Births on 31 Dec

 695 - Muhammad bin Qasim, Syrian general (d. 715)
1378 - Pope Callixtus III (d. 1458)
1491 - Jacques Cartier, French explorer (d. 1557)
1514 - Andreas Vesalius, Flemish anatomist (d. 1564)
1572 - Emperor Go-Yozei of Japan, (d. 1617)
1668 - Herman Boerhaave, Dutch humanist and physician (d. 1738)
1720 - Charles Edward Stuart, pretender to the British throne (d. 1788)
1738 - Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis, British general (d. 1805)
1741 - Isabella Maria of Parma, wife of future Holy Roman emperor (d. 1763)
1763 - Pierre-Charles Villeneuve, French admiral (d. 1806)
1815 - George Meade, American Civil War general (d. 1872)
1830 - Isma'il Pasha, Governor of Egypt (d. 1895)
1830 - Alexander Smith, Scottish poet (d. 1867)
1857 - King Kelly, American baseball player (d. 1894)
1860 - Joseph S. Cullinan, American oil industrialist (d. 1937)
1869 - Henri Matisse, French painter (d. 1954)
1877 - Lawrence Beesley, English journalist and author (d. 1967)
1878 - Elizabeth Arden, Canadian businesswoman (d. 1966)
1878 - Horacio Quiroga, Uruguayan-Argentinian writer (d. 1937)
1880 - George C. Marshall, United States Secretary of State, Nobel Laureate (d. 1959)
1880 - Fred Beebe, American baseball player (d. 1957)
1881 - Max Pechstein, German painter (d. 1955)
1882 - Martin O'Meara, Australian soldier (d. 1935)
1884 - Bobby Byrne, American baseball player (d. 1964)
1885 - Princess Victoria Adelaide of Schleswig-Holstein (d. 1970)
1894 - Pola Negri, Polish actress (d. 1987)
1899 - Silvestre Revueltas, Mexican composer (d. 1940)
1902 - Lionel Daunais, Quebec singer and composer (d. 1982)
1903 - Nathan Milstein, Ukrainian violinist (d. 1992)
1904 - Umm Kulthum, Egyptian singer and actress (d. 1975)
1905 - Jule Styne, English-born composer (d. 1994)
1908 - Simon Wiesenthal, Austrian Holocaust survivor (d. 2005)
1909 - Jonah Jones, American jazz trumpeter (d. 2000)
1910 - Carl Dudley, American film director (d. 1973)
1912 - Maj-Gen John Frost, British para commander (d. 1993)
1919 - Tommy Byrne, American baseball player
1920 - Rex Allen, American actor, singer, and songwriter (d. 1999)
1924 - Taylor Mead, American actor
1928 - SinÃ©, French cartoonist
1930 - Odetta, American singer
1931 - Bob Shaw, Irish writer (d. 1996)
1933 - Edward Bunker, American author and actor (d. 2005)
1934 - Akram Awan, Islamic scholar
1937 - Avram Hershko, Israeli biologist, Nobel laureate
1937 - Sir Anthony Hopkins, Welsh actor
1938 - Rosalind Cash, American actress (d. 1995)
1940 - Mani Neumeier, German musician (Guru Guru)
1941 - Sarah Miles, English actress
1941 - Sir Alex Ferguson, Scottish football manager
1942 - Andy Summers, British guitarist (The Police)
1943 - John Denver, American singer and songwriter (d. 1997)
1943 - Sir Ben Kingsley, English actor
1943 - Pete Quaife, English bassist (The Kinks)
1944 - Taylor Hackford, American producer and director
1945 - Connie Willis, American writer
1945 - Barbara Carrera, Nicaraguan actress and model
1945 - Diane von FÃ¼rstenberg, Belgian-born fashion designer
1946 - Pius Ncube, Zimbabwean human rights advocate
1947 - Burton Cummings, Canadian keyboardist (The Guess Who)
1947 - Tim Matheson, American actor
1947 - Rita Lee, Brazilian Rock Star
1948 - RenÃ© Robert, National Hockey League player
1948 - Donna Summer, American singer
1949 - Ellen Datlow, American editor
1949 - Susan Shwartz, American writer
1951 - George Thorogood, American musician
1951 - Tom Hamilton, American bassist (Aerosmith)
1953 - James Remar, American actor
1953 - Jane Badler, American actress
1954 - Hermann Tilke, German racing circuit architect
1954 - Alex Salmond, Scottish politician
1955 - Dawood Ibrahim, Indian crime boss
1956 - Steve Rude, American comics artist
1958 - Bebe Neuwirth, American actress
1959 - Alfie Anido, Filipino actor (d. 1981)
1959 - Paul Westerberg, American musician (The Replacements)
1959 - Val Kilmer, American actor
1959 - Phill Kline, American politician
1960 - John Allen Muhammad, American serial killer
1960 - Steve Bruce, English football player & manager
1961 - Rick Aguilera, American baseball player
1961 - Nina Li Chi, Chinese actress
1962 - Heather McCartney, British activist
1962 - Tyrone Corbin, American basketball player
1963 - Konishiki, American sumo wrestler
1963 - Scott Ian, American guitarist (Anthrax)
1964 - Michael McDonald, American actor-comedian
1964 - Allen D'Nulderf, American stuntman
1964 - Lowri Turner, British TV presenter
1965 - Julie Doucet, Canadian underground cartoonist
1965 - Gong Li, Chinese actress
1965 - Nicholas Sparks, American author
1966 - Lisa Joyner, American entertainment reporter
1968 - Gerry Dee, Canadian comedian and actor
1969 - Kate Beahan, Australian actress
1969 - Dominik Diamond, Scittish presenter and newspaper columnist
1970 - Carlos Morales Quintana, husband of Princess Alexia of Greece and Denmark
1970 - Bryon Russell, American basketball player
1971 - Ricardo LÃ³pez Felipe, Spanish footballer
1971 - Esteban Loaiza, Mexican Major League Baseball player
1971 - Brent Barry, American basketball player
1972 - Joe McIntyre, American singer (New Kids on the Block)
1973 - Shandon Anderson, American basketball player
1973 - Malcolm Middleton, Scottish musician (Arab Strap)
1974 - Mario Aerts, Belgian cyclist
1974 - Tony Kanaan, Brazilian racing driver
1974 - Ryan Sakoda, Japanese American professional wrestler
1975 - Toni Kuivasto, Finnish footballer
1976 - Craig Reucassel, Australian comedian, member of The Chaser
1977 - Wardy Alfaro, Costa Rican footballer
1977 - Donald Trump Jr., son of Donald Trump and Ivana Trump
1978 - Papoose, American rapper
1979 - Bob Bryar, American drummer (My Chemical Romance, Gerardolopoly)
1979 - Elaine Cassidy, Irish actress
1980 - Richie McCaw, New Zealand rugby player
1980 - Matt Cross, American professional wrestler
1981 - Matthew Pavlich, Australian football player
1981 - Jason Campbell, American football player
1982 - Julio DePaula, Dominican baseball player
1982 - Craig Gordon, Scottish footballer
1982 - Luke Schenscher, Australian basketball player
1987 - Javaris Crittenton, American basketball player
1987 - Ã‰milie Le Pennec, French gymnast

Famous Births on 30 Dec

2011-12-29T18:02:00.000-08:00

Famous Births on 30 Dec

1204 - AbÃ» 'UthmÃ¢n Sa'Ã®d Hakam al Qurashi, ruler of Minorca (d. 1282)
1552 - Simon Forman, English occultist and astrologer (d. 1611)
1642 - Vincenzo da Filicaja, Italian poet (d. 1707)
1673 - Ahmed III, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1736)
1678 - William Croft, English composer (d. 1727)
1722 - Charles Yorke, Lord Chancellor of Great Britain (d. 1770)
1724 - Louis-Jean-FranÃ§ois LagrenÃ©e, French painter (d. 1805)
1740 - Princess Elizabeth Caroline of Wales (d. 1759)
1785 - Dorothea Lieven, Russian noblewoman (d. 1857)
1819 - Theodor Fontane, German writer (d. 1898)
1819 - John W. Geary, 1st Mayor of San Francisco (d. 1873)
1838 - Ã‰mile Loubet, 7th President of France (d.1929)
1851 - Asa Griggs Candler, American businessman and politician (d. 1929)
1853 - AndrÃ© Messager, French composer (d. 1929)
1865 - Rudyard Kipling, English writer, Nobel laureate (d. 1936)
1869 - Stephen Butler Leacock, English-born Canadian writer and economist (d. 1944)
1873 - Al Smith, American politician (d. 1944)
1878 - William Aberhart, Canadian politician (d. 1943)
1879 - Sri Ramana Maharshi, Indian philosopher (d. 1950)
1883 - Lester Patrick, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (d. 1960)
1884 - Hideki Tojo, Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1948)
1890 - Adolfo Ruiz Cortines, President of Mexico (d. 1973)
1897 - Alfredo Bracchi, Italian author (d. 1976)
1899 - Helge Ingstad, Norwegian explorer (d. 2001)
1904 - Dmitri Kabalevsky, Russian composer (d. 1987)
1906 - Carol Reed, English film director (d. 1976)
1910 - Paul Bowles, American composer and author (d. 1999)
1911 - Jeanette Nolan, American actress (d. 1998)
1913 - Lucio Agostini, Italian-born Canadian conductor and composer (d. 1996)
1913 - Elyne Mitchell, Australian author (d. 2002)
1914 - Bert Parks, American television host (d. 1992)
1914 - Jo Van Fleet, American actress (d. 1996)
1917 - Seymour Melman, American industrial engineer (d. 2004)
1920 - Jack Lord, American actor (d. 1998)
1921 - Rashid Karami, Lebanese statesman (d. 1987)
1927 - Bernard Barrow, American actor (d. 1993)
1927 - Robert Hossein, French film actor and director
1928 - Bo Diddley, American singer and musician (d. 2008)
1929 - Rosalind Hurley, British physician, barrister, ethicist and writer (d. 2004)
1929 - Barbara Nichols, American actress (d. 1976)
1931 - Skeeter Davis, American singer (d. 2004)
1934 - Russ Tamblyn, American actor, dancer, and singer
1934 - Del Shannon, American singer (d. 1990)
1934 - Joseph P. Hoar, former US Central Command commander
1934 - Joseph Bologna, American actor
1934 - John Norris Bahcall, American physicist (d. 2005)
1935 - Omar Bongo, President of Gabon
1935 - Sandy Koufax, American baseball player
1935 - Jack Riley, American actor
1937 - Noel Paul Stookey, American folk singer (Peter, Paul & Mary)
1937 - Jim Marshall, American football player
1937 - John Hartford, American musician (d. 2001)
1937 - Gordon Banks, English footballer
1939 - Glenda Adams, Australian author (d. 2007)
1939 - Felix Pappalardi, American musician and recording producer (d.1983) (Mountain)
1940 - James Burrows, American television director
1941 - Mel Renfro, American football player
1942 - Fred Ward, American actor
1942 - Vladimir Bukovsky, Russian author and dissident
1942 - Guy Edwards, English racing driver
1942 - Michael Nesmith, American singer and musician (The Monkees)
1942 - Janko Prunk, Slovenian historian
1944 - William J. Fallon, U.S. Navy Admiral, former U.S. Central Command commander
1945 - Concetta Tomei, American actress
1945 - Lloyd Kaufman, American film director and producer
1945 - Davy Jones, English singer (The Monkees)
1945 - Vernon Wells, Australian actor
1946 - Patti Smith, American singer and poet
1947 - Michael Burns, American historian
1947 - Jeff Lynne, English musician (ELO)
1949 - Jim Flaherty, Canadian politician
1950 - Lewis Shiner, American sci-fi/fantasy author
1951 - Doug Allder, English footballer
1951 - Jocky Wilson, Scottish Darts player
1952 - June Anderson, American soprano
1953 - Meredith Vieira, American television journalist
1953 - Harald Schmautz, German-born journalist
1953 - Bill Kazmaier, American powerlifter
1955 - Dindo Yogo, Congolese musician (d. 2000)
1956 - Suzy Bogguss, American singer
1956 - Sheryl Lee Ralph, American actress
1957 - Matt Lauer, American newscaster
1958 - Rod Harrington, English darts player
1958 - Steven L. Smith, American astronaut
1959 - JosÃ©e Verner, French Canadian politician
1959 - Tracey Ullman, English actress and singer
1961 - Douglas Coupland, Canadian author
1961 - Sean Hannity, American talk radio and television host
1961 - Ben Johnson, Canadian athlete
1962 - Henry Cho, Korean-American comedian
1963 - Milan Å rejber, Czech tennis player
1963 - Chandler Burr, American author
1963 - Michelle Douglas, Canadian human rights activist
1964 - Duglas T. Stewart, Scottish musician (BMX Bandits)
1964 - Sylvie Moreau, French Canadian actress
1965 - Heidi Fleiss, American madam
1967 - Carl Ouellet, Canadian professional wrestler
1969 - Dave England, American television personality
1969 - Jay Kay, English musician (Jamiroquai)
1969 - Meredith Monroe, American actress
1971 - Daniel Sunjata, American actor
1972 - Steven Wiig, American actor and musician
1972 - Paul Keegan, Irish footballer
1972 - Kerry Collins, American football player
1973 - Jason Behr, American actor
1973 - Ato Boldon, Trinidadian athlete
1973 - Nacho Vidal, Spanish porn star
1974 - Johanna SÃ¤llstrÃ¶m, Swedish actress (d. 2007)
1975 - Tiger Woods, American golfer
1975 - Scott Chipperfield, Australian soccer player
1976 - Patrick Kerney, American football player
1976 - A.J. Pierzynski, American baseball player
1977 - Laila Ali, American boxer
1977 - Grant Balfour, Australian baseball player
1977 - Scott Lucas, Australian rules footballer
1977 - Kenyon Martin, American basketball player
1978 - Zbigniew Robert PromiÅ„ski, Polish drummer
1978 - Tyrese, American singer and actor
1978 - Devin Brown , American basketball player
1979 - FlÃ¡vio, Angolan footballer
1980 - Eliza Dushku, American actress
1980 - Kenny Kwan, Hong Kong singer
1981 - Matt Ulrich, American football player
1981 - Michael RodrÃguez, Costa Rican footballer
1981 - Haley Paige, American porn star (d. 2007)
1981 - Ali Al Habsi, Omani footballer
1982 - Dathan Ritzenhein, American runner
1982 - Dawan Landry, American football player
1982 - Kristin Kreuk, Canadian actress
1984 - Randall Azofeifa, Costa Rican footballer
1984 - LeBron James, American basketball player
1985 - Lars Boom, Dutch cyclist
1987 - Jake Cuenca, Filipino actor and commercial model
1988 - Leon Jackson, Scottish singer
1989 - Ryan Sheckler, American professional skateboarder
39 - Titus, Roman emperor (d. 81)

Famous Births on 29 Dec

2011-12-28T18:02:00.000-08:00

Famous Births on 29 Dec

1709 - Empress Elizabeth of Russia (d. 1762)
1721 - Madame de Pompadour, mistress of King Louis XV of France (d. 1764)
1796 - Johann Christian Poggendorff, German physicist (d. 1877)
1800 - Charles Goodyear, American inventor (d. 1860)
1806 - William Gladstone, Liberal Prime Minister
1808 - Andrew Johnson, 17th President of the United States (d. 1875)
1809 - William Ewart Gladstone, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1898)
1816 - Carl Ludwig, German physician (d. 1895)
1843 - Elisabeth of Wied (pen name was Carmen Sylva), queen of Romania and writer (d. 1916)
1856 - Thomas Joannes Stieltjes, Dutch mathematician (d. 1894)
1859 - Venustiano Carranza, 54th President of Mexico (d. 1920)
1876 - Pablo Casals, Catalan musician (d. 1973)
1881 - Jess Willard, American boxer (d. 1968)
1896 - David Alfaro Siqueiros, Mexican painter (d. 1974)
1899 - Nie Rongzhen, People's Liberation Army Chief of General Staff (d. 1992)
1902 - Nels Stewart, National Hockey League player (d. 1957)
1908 - Helmut Gollwitzer, German theologian (d. 1993)
1910 - Ronald Coase, British economist, Nobel Prize laureate
1914 - Billy Tipton, American musician (d. 1989)
1914 - Albert Tucker, Australian artist (d. 1999)
1915 - Bill Osmanski, American football player (d. 1996)
1917 - Tom Bradley, American politician (d. 1998)
1917 - Ramanand Sagar, Indian film director (d. 2005)
1920 - Viveca Lindfors, Swedish-American actress (d. 1995)
1922 - William Gaddis, American writer (d. 1998)
1925 - Pete Dye, American golf course architect
1927 - Andy Stanfield, American athlete (d. 1985)
1928 - Bernard Cribbins, British actor
1931 - Prince Gu of Korea, Korean royalty (d. 2005)
1932 - Inga Swenson, American actress
1934 - Ed Flanders, American actor (d. 1995)
1936 - Mary Tyler Moore, American actress
1936 - Ray Nitschke, American football player (d. 1998)
1937 - Barbara Steele, British actress
1937 - Wayne Huizenga, American football team owner
1938 - Harvey Smith, English showjumper
1938 - Jon Voight, American actor
1941 - Ray Thomas, British musician (The Moody Blues)
1942 - Rick Danko, Canadian musician (The Band) (d. 1999)
1942 - Rajesh Khanna, Indian actor
1946 - Marianne Faithfull, British singer
1947 - Ted Danson, American actor
1947 - Cozy Powell, English rock drummer (d. 1998)
1947 - Vincent Winter, British actor (d. 1998)
1949 - Syed Kirmani, Indian cricket player
1949 - David Topliss, rugby league player
1950 - Jon Polito, American actor
1951 - Georges Thurston, Canadian singer (d. 2007)
1951 - Yvonne Elliman, American disco singer
1952 - Gelsey Kirkland, American dancer
1953 - Stanley Tookie Williams, American author/murderer (executed 2005)
1953 - Gali Atari, Israeli singer and actress
1954 - Prince Takamado of Japan (d. 2002)
1954 - Roger Voudouris, American singer
1956 - Fred MacAulay, Scottish comedian
1957 - Brad Grey, American film producer
1957 - Paul Rudnick, American screenwriter/playwright
1958 - Nancy J. Currie, American astronaut
1959 - Paula Poundstone, American comedian
1959 - Patricia Clarkson, American actress
1960 - David Boon, Australian Cricketer
1960 - Katerina Didaskou, Greek actress
1960 - Thomas Lubanga, founder and leader of Union of Congolese Patriots
1961 - Kevin Granata, American associate professor at Virginia Tech, victim of the Virginia Tech massacre (d. 2007)
1961 - Jim Reid, Scottish singer (The Jesus and Mary Chain, Freeheat)
1962 - Devon White, Jamaican baseball player
1962 - Blake Mitchell, American adult actress
1963 - Francisco Bustamante, Filipino billiard player
1963 - Des Foy, British rugby league player
1963 - Dave McKean, British artist and filmmaker
1963 - Sean Payton, American football coach
1965 - Dexter Holland, American musician (The Offspring)
1966 - Stefano Eranio, Italian footballer
1967 - Andy Wachowski, American director
1967 - Chris Barnes, American singer
1967 - Ashleigh Banfield, Canadian journalist
1969 - Jennifer Ehle, American actress
1969 - Allan McNish, Scottish race car driver
1970 - Kevin Weisman, American actor
1970 - Glen Phillips, American musician (Toad The Wet Sprocket)
1970 - Hidetoshi Mitsusada, Japanese racing driver
1970 - Aled Jones, Welsh singer
1972 - Asheru, American rapper
1972 - Jason Kreis, American soccer player
1972 - Jude Law, British actor
1972 - Evan Seinfeld, American musician (Biohazard) and actor
1973 - Theo Epstein, American baseball general manager
1973 - Pimp C, American rapper (UGK) (d. 2007)
1974 - Mekhi Phifer, American actor
1974 - Richie Sexson, American baseball player
1975 - Jaret Wright, American baseball player
1976 - Danny R. McBride, American actor, writer, and producer
1977 - Jimmy Journell, American baseball player
1977 - Katherine Moennig, American actress
1978 - Alexis Amore, Peruvian pornographic actress
1978 - Kieron Dyer, English footballer
1978 - LaToya London, American singer
1979 - Diego Luna, Mexican actor
1979 - Mitsuhiro Ishida, Japanese mixed-martial arts fighter
1979 - Ariel Schrag, American Cartoonist
1981 - Shizuka Arakawa, Japanese figure skater
1982 - Gabrielle Destroismaisons, Quebec singer
1983 - Jessica Andrews, American country/pop singer
1986 - Kim Ok-bin, South Korean actress and model
1988 - Agnes Szavay, Hungary tennis player
1989 - Nathan Forbes, British footballer
1994 - Princess Kako of Akishino of Japan

Famous Births on 28 Dec

2011-12-27T18:02:00.000-08:00

Famous Births on 28 Dec

1164 - Emperor RokujÅ of Japan (d. 1176)
1522 - Margaret of Austria, regent of the Netherlands (d. 1583)
1619 - Antoine FuretiÃ¨re, French writer (d. 1688)
1635 - Princess Elizabeth of England (d. 1650)
1655 - Charles Cornwallis, 3rd Baron Cornwallis, First Lord of the British Admiralty (d. 1698)
1665 - George FitzRoy, 1st Duke of Northumberland, British general (d. 1716)
1763 - John Molson, English-born Canadian brewer (d. 1836)
1778 - Franciszek Ksawery Drucki-Lubecki, Polish politician (d. 1846)
1842 - Calixa LavallÃ©e, French-Canadian composer (O Canada) (d. 1891)
1856 - Woodrow Wilson, 28th President of the United States, Nobel laureate (d. 1924)
1866 - Szymon Askenazy, Polish historian and diplomat (d. 1935)
1879 - Billy Mitchell, American military aviation pioneer (d. 1936)
1882 - Arthur Stanley Eddington, British astronomer (d. 1944)
1888 - Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau, German film director (d. 1931)
1898 - Shigematsu Sakaibara, Japanese admiral (d. 1947)
1898 - Carl-Gustaf Rossby, Swedish meteorologist (d. 1957)
1899 - Eugeniusz Bodo, Polish actor (d. 1943)
1902 - Mortimer Adler, American philosopher (d. 2001)
1902 - Shen Congwen, Chinese writer (d. 1988)
1903 - Earl Hines, American musician (d. 1983)
1903 - John von Neumann, Hungarian-born mathematician (d. 1957)
1905 - Cliff Arquette, American actor (d. 1974)
1908 - Lew Ayres, American actor (d. 1996)
1910 - Billy Williams, American singer (d. 1972)
1913 - Lou Jacobi, Canadian actor
1914 - Bernard Youens, English actor (d. 1984)
1915 - Pops Staples, American musician (The Staple Singers) (d. 2000)
1922 - Stan Lee, American comic book writer
1924 - Milton Obote, President of Uganda (d. 2005)
1925 - Hildegard Knef, German actress (d. 2002)
1928 - Moe Koffman, Canadian musician (d. 2001)
1929 - Brian Redhead, British journalist (d. 1994)
1929 - Terry Sawchuk, Canadian hockey player (d. 1970)
1931 - Guy Debord, French writer (d. 1994)
1932 - Manuel Puig, Argentine writer (d. 1990)
1932 - Nichelle Nichols, American actress and singer
1932 - Harry Howell, Canadian hockey player
1932 - Roy Hattersley, British politician
1932 - Dorsey Burnette, American singer (d. 1979)
1932 - Dhirubhai Ambani, Indian businessman (d. 2002)
1933 - John Y. Brown, Jr., American politician
1934 - Dame Maggie Smith, British actress
1934 - Yujiro Ishihara, Japanese actor (d. 1987)
1936 - Lawrence Schiller, American journalist
1936 - Jacques Mesrine, French criminal (d. 1979)
1937 - Ratan Tata, Indian industrialist
1938 - Dick Sudhalter, American jazz musician
1939 - Philip Anschutz, American businessman
1940 - Don Francisco, Chilean television host
1942 - Roger Swerts, Belgian cyclist
1943 - David Peterson, Canadian politician
1943 - Richard Whiteley, British television presenter (d. 2005)
1944 - Johnny Isakson, American politician
1944 - Kary Mullis, American chemist, Nobel laureate
1946 - Edgar Winter, American musician
1946 - Pierre Falardeau, Quebec film director
1946 - Tim Johnson, American politician, senior senator from South Dakota
1947 - Aurelio RodrÃguez, Mexican baseball player (d. 2000)
1950 - Alex Chilton, American musician (Box Tops)
1950 - Ã˜ivind Blunck, Norwegian comedian and actor
1951 - Ian Buruma, Anglo-Dutch scholar and writer on Japan and the Far East.
1952 - Arun Jaitley, Indian Politician
1953 - Richard Clayderman, French pianist
1954 - Denzel Washington, American actor
1956 - Nigel Kennedy, British violinist
1957 - Anne Sargeant, Australian netballer
1959 - Ana Torroja, Spanish singer (Mecano)
1959 - Phil Abrams, American actor
1960 - Raymond Bourque, Canadian hockey player
1961 - Kent Nielsen, Danish footballer and football coach
1962 - Melissa R. Kelly, former Maryland politician
1962 - Michel Petrucciani, French pianist (d. 1999)
1962 - Rachel Z, American pianist
1964 - Maite ZÃºÃ±iga, Spanish athlete
1967 - Chris Ware, American cartoonist
1969 - Linus Torvalds, Finnish computer programmer
1970 - Francesca Le, American porn star
1971 - Frank Sepe, American bodybuilder
1971 - Benny Agbayani, American baseball player
1972 - Kevin Walker, American soccer player
1972 - Adam Vinatieri, American football player
1972 - Roberto Palacios, Peruvian footballer
1972 - Patrick Rafter, Australian tennis player
1973 - Alex Dimitriades, Australian actor
1973 - Herborg KrÃ¥kevik, Norwegian singer and actress
1973 - Seth Meyers, American actor
1974 - Rob Niedermayer, Canadian-born icehockey player.
1974 - Jason Ridge, American porn actor
1975 - B.J. Ryan, American baseball player
1977 - Shane Elford, Australian rugby league player
1978 - Chris Coyne, Australian footballer
1978 - John Legend, American musician
1979 - Senna Guemmour, German Singer (Monrose)
1979 - Bill Hall, American baseball player
1979 - James Blake, American tennis player
1980 - Lomana LuaLua, Congo footballer
1980 - Vanessa Ferlito, American actress
1981 - Mika VÃ¤yrynen, Finnish footballer
1981 - Khalid Boulahrouz, Dutch footballer
1981 - Sienna Miller, British actress
1981 - Elizabeth Jordan Carr, American Test-Tube Baby
1982 - Cedric Benson, American footballer
1982 - FranÃ§ois Gourmet, Belgian decathlete
1982 - Kevin Pereira, American television host
1982 - Quinton Porter, American footballer
1983 - Mike He, Taiwanese actor
1984 - Beverly Mullins, American Wrestler/Model
1984 - Alex Lloyd, British racing driver
1984 - Leroy Lita, English footballer
1985 - Kamani Hill, American footballer
1986 - Tom Huddlestone, English footballer
1987 - Thomas Dekker, American actor
1989 - Mackenzie Rosman, American actress
1990 - David Archuleta, runner-up of season 7 American Idol

Famous Births on 27 Dec

2011-12-26T18:02:00.000-08:00

Famous Births on 27 Dec

1390 - Anne de Mortimer, claimant to the English throne (d. 1411)
1571 - Johannes Kepler, German astronomer (d. 1630)
1654 - Jacob Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician (d. 1705)
1683 - Conyers Middleton, English minister (d. 1750)
1715 - Philippe de Noailles, duc de Mouchy, French soldier (d. 1794)
1717 - Pope Pius VI (d. 1799)
1721 - FranÃ§ois Hemsterhuis, Dutch philosopher (d. 1790)
1761 - Michael Andreas Barclay de Tolly, Russian military commander (d. 1818)
1773 - George Cayley, English scientist, inventor, and politician (d. 1857)
1776 - Nikolay Kamensky, Russian general (d. 1811)
1796 - Mirza Ghalib, Indian poet (d. 1869)
1803 - FranÃ§ois-Marie-Thomas Chevalier de Lorimier, French Canadian Patriote (d. 1839)
1822 - Louis Pasteur, French scientist (d. 1895)
1823 - Sir Mackenzie Bowell, fifth Prime Minister of Canada (d. 1896)
1832 - Pavel Tretyakov, Russian businessman and patron of art (d. 1897)
1864 - RenÃ© Georges Hermann-Paul, French artist (d. 1940)
1879 - Sydney Greenstreet, English actor (d. 1954)
1883 - Cyrus S. Eaton, Canadian-American financier, industrialist and philanthropist (d. 1979)
1888 - Thea von Harbou, German author and actress (d. 1954)
1892 - Alfred Edwin McKay, Canadian World War One flying ace (d. 1917)
1896 - Carl Zuckmayer, German author and dramatist (d. 1977)
1896 - Louis Bromfield, American writer (d. 1956)
1896 - Maurice De Waele, Belgian cyclist (d. 1952)
1900 - Hans Stuck, German race car driver (d. 1978)
1901 - Irene Handl, English actress (d. 1987)
1901 - Marlene Dietrich, German actress and singer (d. 1992)
1906 - Oscar Levant, American pianist, composer, and actor (d. 1972)
1907 - Sebastian Haffner, German journalist and writer (d. 1999)
1907 - Conrad L. Raiford, Goodwill Ambassador (d. 2002)
1907 - Willem van Otterloo, Dutch conductor and composer (d. 1978)
1910 - Charles Olson, American poet (d. 1970)
1915 - Gyula ZsengellÃ©r, Hungarian footballer (d. 1999)
1915 - William Masters, American gynecologist (d. 2001)
1915 - Mary Kornman, American actress (d. 1973)
1916 - Werner Baumbach, German bomber pilot (d. 1953)
1917 - Onni Palaste, Finnish writer
1918 - John Celardo, American comic strip artist
1920 - Bruce Hobbs, American jockey (d. 2005)
1925 - Michel Piccoli, French actor
1926 - Jerome Courtland, American actor, director and producer
1927 - Agnes Nixon, American television producer, director, and writer
1927 - Antony Gardner, British politician
1930 - Wilfrid Sheed, English-born American writer
1931 - Scotty Moore, American guitarist
1934 - Larissa Latynina, Russian gymnast
1939 - John Amos, American actor
1941 - Nolan Richardson, American basketball coach
1941 - Michael Pinder, British musician (Moody Blues)
1942 - Byron Browne, baseball player
1942 - Charmian Carr, American actress
1943 - Cokie Roberts, American journalist
1943 - Joan Manuel Serrat, Spanish musician
1943 - Peter Sinfield, British lyricist and producer
1944 - Mick Jones, British musician (Foreigner)
1944 - Barry Elliot British actor
1946 - Lenny Kaye, American guitarist
1946 - Janet Street-Porter, British journalist, producer and presenter
1947 - Bill Eadie, professional wrestler known as "Ax" of Demolition
1947 - Tracy Nelson, American blues singer
1947 - Mickey Redmond, National Hockey League player
1947 - Janet Perry, American soprano
1947 - Willy Polleunis, Belgian athlete
1948 - GÃ©rard Depardieu, French actor
1950 - Roberto Bettega, Italian footballer
1950 - Terry Bozzio, American drummer (Missing Persons)
1951 - Ernesto Zedillo, President of Mexico
1952 - Karla Bonoff, American singer and songwriter
1952 - Tovah Feldshuh, American actress
1952 - Jay Hill, Canadian politician
1952 - David Knopfler, British musician (Dire Straits)
1955 - Brad Murphey, Australian racing driver
1955 - Barbara Olson, American political commentator (d. 2001)
1959 - Gerina Dunwich, American author
1959 - Andre Tippett, American football player
1960 - Maryam d'Abo, British actress
1960 - Victoria Paige Meyerink, American actress and producer
1960 - Donald Nally, American choral conductor
1962 - Sherri Steinhauer, American golfer
1962 - Bill Self, American basketball coach
1962 - Mark Few, American basketball coach
1962 - Barbara Crampton, American actress
1963 - Gaspar NoÃ©, Argentinian-born director
1964 - Ian Gomez, American actor
1964 - Theresa Randle, American actress
1965 - Salman Khan, Indian actor
1965 - Chris Mainwaring, Australian rules footballer (d. 2007)
1966 - Fabian NÃºÃ±ez, American politician
1966 - Bill Goldberg, American football player and professional wrestler
1966 - Eva LaRue, American actress
1966 - Wendy Coakley-Thompson, American writer
1969 - Jean-Christophe Boullion, French race car driver
1969 - Chyna, American professional wrestler
1969 - Sarah Vowell, American author and journalist
1970 - Lorenzo Neal, American football player
1970 - Brendon Cook, Australian racing driver
1971 - Duncan Ferguson, Scottish footballer
1971 - Bryan Smolinski, American ice hockey player
1972 - Thomas Wilson Brown, American actor
1972 - Colin Charvis, Welsh rugby union player
1972 - Matt Slocum, American musician (Sixpence None the Richer)
1973 - Dee Ferris, British painter
1973 - Wilson Cruz, Puerto Rican actor
1973 - Kristoffer Zegers, Dutch composer
1974 - Masi Oka, Japanese-American actor
1974 - Jay Pandolfo, American ice hockey player
1975 - Heather O'Rourke, American actress (d. 1988)
1976 - Fernando Pisani, Canadian/Italian ice hockey player
1976 - Aaron Stanford, American actor
1977 - Jacqueline Pillon, Canadian actress
1979 - Carson Palmer, American football player
1979 - David Dunn, English footballer
1980 - Claudio Castagnoli, Swiss wrestler
1980 - Cas Haley, American singer and guitarist
1981 - Emilie de Ravin, Australian actress
1981 - Javine, British singer
1982 - James Mead, American guitarist (Kutless)
1982 - Terji SkibenÃ¦s, Faroese guitarist, (TÃ½r)
1983 - Cole Hamels, American baseball player
1984 - Gilles Simon, French tennis player
1984 - Pleasure P,American R&B Singer. Former member of Pretty Ricky (band)
1985 - Logan Bailly, Belgian football goalkeeper
1985 - Paul Stastny, Canadian-American ice hockey player
1986 - Tristan Mathews, Porn Star,Model
1988 - Rick Porcello, American baseball player
1990 - Luis Trujillo, Peruvian Football Player

Famous Births on 26 Dec

2011-12-25T18:02:00.000-08:00

Famous Births on 26 Dec

1194 - Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1250)
1532 - Guilielmus Xylander, German classical scholar (d. 1576)
1536 - Yi I, Korean Confucian scholar (d. 1584)
1542 - Tokugawa Ieyasu, unifier of Japan and first Tokugawa Shogun (d. 1616)
1646 - Robert Bolling, English settler in Virginia (d. 1709)
1666 - Guru Gobind Singh, Tenth Guru of Sikhism (d. 1708)
1687 - Johann Georg Pisendel, German musician (d. 1755)
1716 - Thomas Gray, English writer (d. 1771)
1716 - Jean FranÃ§ois de Saint-Lambert, French poet (d. 1803)
1723 - Friedrich Melchior, baron von Grimm, German writer (d. 1807)
1737 - Prince Josias of Coburg, Austrian general (d. 1815)
1751 - Clement Hofbauer, Austrian missionary and saint (d. 1820)
1771 - Julie Clary, queen consort of Naples (d. 1845)
1780 - Mary Fairfax Somerville, British mathematician (d. 1872)
1782 - Filaret Drozdov, Metropolitan of Moscow (d. 1867)
1791 - Charles Babbage, English mathematician and inventor (d. 1871)
1819 - E. D. E. N. Southworth, American novelist (d. 1899)
1822 - Dion Boucicault, Irish actor and playwright (d. 1890)
1837 - George Dewey, U. S. admiral (d. 1917)
1837 - Morgan Bulkeley, American politician and baseball commissioner (d. 1922)
1853 - RenÃ© Bazin, French novelist (d. 1932)
1859 - William Stephens, U.S. political figure (d. 1944)
1872 - Norman Angell, British politician, Nobel laureate (d. 1967)
1873 - Thomas Wass, English cricketer (d. 1953)
1883 - Maurice Utrillo, French artist (d. 1955)
1887 - Arthur Ernest Percival, British Army officer (d. 1966)
1890 - Uncle Charlie Osborne, American fiddler (d. 1992)
1891 - Henry Miller, American writer (d. 1980)
1893 - Mao Zedong, Chinese military leader and politician (d. 1976)
1894 - Jean Toomer, American writer (d. 1967)
1902 - Anatoli Lvovich Kaplan, Russian painter (d. 1980)
1903 - Elisha Cook Jr., American actor (d. 1995)
1904 - Alejo Carpentier, Cuban writer (d. 1980)
1906 - Imperio Argentina, Argentine actress and singer (d. 2003)
1911 - Arsenio Lacson, Filipino politician and sportswriter (d. 1962)
1913 - Frank Swift, English footballer and journalist (d. 1958)
1914 - Annemarie Wendl, German actress (d. 2006)
1914 - Richard Widmark, American actor (d. 2008)
1918 - George Rallis, Greek politician, Prime Minister of Greece (d. 2006)
1921 - Steve Allen, American comedian (d. 2000)
1922 - Richard Mayes, English actor (d. 2006)
1924 - Frank Broyles, American athlete, long time athletic director of the University of Arkansas.
1927 - Alan King, American comedian (d. 2004)
1927 - Stu Miller, American baseball player
1927 - Denis Quilley, British actor (d. 2003)
1929 - RÃ©gine, French singer and nightclub owner
1930 - Donald Moffat, English-born actor
1930 - Jean Ferrat, French singer and songwriter
1933 - Caroll Spinney, American puppeteer
1933 - Ugly Dave Gray, Australian television personality
1935 - Abdul "Duke" Fakir, American singer (The Four Tops)
1935 - Norm Ullman, Canadian hockey player
1937 - John Horton Conway, British mathematician
1937 - Jay Heimowitz, American poker player
1938 - Alamgir Kabir, Bangladeshi film director (d. 1989)
1938 - Bahram Beizai, Iranian playwright and film director
1939 - Fred Schepisi, Australian film director
1940 - Edward C. Prescott, American economist, Nobel laureate
1940 - Ray Sadecki, American Major league baseball pitcher
1940 - Phil Spector, American music producer
1941 - Daniel Schmid, Swiss film director (d. 2006)
1942 - Gray Davis, former Governor of California
1942 - Marco Vinicio Cerezo ArÃ©valo, Guatemalan president
1944 - Jane Lapotaire, British actress
1945 - John Walsh, American talk show host
1947 - James T. Conway, 34th Commandant of the United States Marine Corps
1947 - Carlton Fisk, American baseball player
1948 - Candy Crowley, American journalist
1949 - JosÃ© Ramos-Horta, President of East Timor, Nobel laureate
1951 - Richard Skinner, British radio presenter
1953 - Leonel FernÃ¡ndez, Dominican politician and current President of the Dominican Republic
1953 - Henning Schmitz, German musician (Kraftwerk)
1954 - Ozzie Smith, American baseball player
1954 - Steve Steen, English actor
1955 - Evan Bayh, American politician
1956 - David Sedaris, American essayist
1957 - Dermot Murnaghan, British broadcaster
1958 - Adrian Newey, British engineer
1959 - Koji Morimoto, Japanese animated film director
1960 - Temuera Morrison, New Zealand actor
1960 - Jim Toomey, American syndicated cartoonist
1961 - John Lynch, Irish actor
1963 - Lars Ulrich, Danish-born drummer (Metallica)
1964 - Elizabeth Kostova, American author
1966 - Sandra Taylor, American model and actress
1968 - Dennis Knight, American professional wrestler
1970 - James Mercer, American musician (The Shins)
1970 - Krissada Terrence, Thai singer and actor
1971 - Jonathan M. Parisen, American film director
1971 - Mika Nurmela, Finnish footballer
1971 - Jared Leto, American actor and singer (30 Seconds to Mars)
1972 - Esteban Fuertes, Argentine footballer
1972 - Robert Muchamore, English children's author
1973 - Reichen Lehmkuhl, American television personality
1974 - Josie Ho, Hong Kong singer and actor
1974 - Joshua John Miller, American actor
1975 - Marcelo RÃos, Chilean tennis player
1976 - Lea De Mae, Czech actress (d. 2004)
1978 - Kaoru Sugayama, Japanese volleyball player
1979 - FabiÃ¡n Carini, Uruguayan footballer
1979 - Chris Daughtry, American singer
1979 - Mzbel, Ghanaian singer
1979 - Dimitry Vassiliev, Russian ski jumper
1980 - Todd Dunivant, American soccer player
1982 - Oguri Shun, Japanese Actor/Model
1982 - Kenneth Darby, American National Football League player
1984 - Alex Schwazer, Italian race walker
1985 - Yuu Shirota, Japanese Idol
1987 - Adam Walker, British flautist
1990 - Aaron Ramsey, Welsh footballer
1995 - Zach Mills, American actor

Famous Births on 25 Dec

2011-12-24T18:02:00.000-08:00

Famous Births on 25 Dec

1250 - John IV Laskaris, Byzantine Emperor (d. circa 1305)
1461 - Christina of Saxony, queen of Denmark and Norway (d. 1521)
1583 - Orlando Gibbons, English composer (d. 1625)
1587 - Margarita of Austria, queen of Philip III of Spain (d. 1611)
1628 - NoÃ«l Coypel, French painter (d. 1707)
1652 - Archibald Pitcairne, Scottish physician (d. 1713)
1665 - Lady Grizel Baillie, Scottish songwriter (d. 1746)
1667 - Ehrengard von der Schulenburg, English royal mistress (d. 1743)
1674 - Thomas Halyburton, Scottish theologian (d. 1712)
1700 - Leopold II of Anhalt-Dessau, Prussian general (d. 1758)
1711 - Jean Joseph de Mondonville, French composer (d. 1772)
1716 - Johann Jakob Reiske, German scholar and physician (d. 1774)
1730 - Philip Mazzei, Italian physician and friend of Thomas Jefferson (d. 1816)
1742 - Charlotte von Stein, German friend of Goethe (d. 1827)
1757 - Benjamin Pierce, U.S. politician (d 1839)
1763 - Claude Chappe, French telecommunications pioneer (d. 1805)
1771 - Dorothy Wordsworth, English diarist and sister of William Wordsworth (d. 1855)
1810 - Alexandros Rhizos Rhankaves, Greek poet and statesman (d. 1892)
1821 - Clara Barton, founder of the American Red Cross (d. 1912)
1856 - Pud Galvin, American professional baseball pitcher (d. 1902)
1856 - Hans von Bartels, German painter (d. 1913)
1860 - Manuel Dimech, Maltese philosopher and social reformer (d. 1921)
1861 - Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya, Indian founder of Banaras Hindu University (d. 1946)
1863 - Charles PathÃ©, French pioneer of film and record industries (d. 1957)
1864 - Thomas Cahill, American soccer coach (d. 1951)
1865 - Evangeline Booth, the 4th General of The Salvation Army (d. 1950)
1870 - Helena Rubinstein, Polish-born American cosmetics industrialist (d. 1965)
1873 - Otto Frederick Hunziker, Swiss-born American dairy educator (d. 1959)
1874 - Lina Cavalieri, Italian soprano (d. 1944)
1875 - Theodor Cardinal Innitzer, Austrian archbishop (d. 1955)
1876 - Muhammad Ali Jinnah, founder of Pakistan (d. 1948)
1876 - Adolf Otto Reinhold Windaus, Nobel laureate (d. 1959)
1878 - Louis Chevrolet, Swiss-born race car driver (d. 1941)
1884 - Evelyn Nesbit, American actress (d. 1967)
1886 - Kid Ory, American musician (d. 1973)
1887 - Conrad Hilton, American hotelier (d. 1979)
1889 - Lila Bell Wallace, American magazine publisher (Reader's Digest) (d. 1984)
1890 - Robert Ripley, collector of odd facts (d. 1949)
1891 - Clarrie Grimmett, Australian cricketer (d.1980)
1899 - Humphrey Bogart, American actor (d. 1957)
1901 - Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester (d. 2004)
1902 - Barton MacLane, American actor (d. 1969)
1904 - Gerhard Herzberg, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1999)
1906 - Lew Grade, Ukrainian-born film producer (d. 1998)
1906 - Ernst Ruska, Nobel laureate (d. 1988)
1907 - Cab Calloway, American bandleader (d. 1994)
1907 - Glenn McCarthy, American oil tycoon and businessman (d. 1988)
1907 - Mike Mazurki, Ukrainian-born actor (d. 1990)
1908 - Zora Arkus-Duntov, Belgian-American automotive engineer (d. 1996)
1908 - Jo-Jo Moore, baseball player (d. 2001)
1908 - Quentin Crisp, English author (d. 1999)
1911 - Louise Bourgeois, sculptor
1912 - Tony Martin, American singer and actor
1912 - Natalino Otto, Italian singer (d. 1969)
1913 - Henri Nannen, German journalist (d. 1966)
1914 - James Muir Cameron Fletcher, New Zealand industrialist (d. 2007)
1915 - Pete Rugolo, Italian-born composer
1918 - Anwar Sadat, President of Egypt, Nobel laureate (d. 1981)
1918 - Ahmed Ben Bella, politician, first President of Algeria
1919 - Noele Gordon, English actress (d. 1985)
1919 - Paul David, French Canadian cardiologist, founder of the Montreal Heart Institute (d. 1999)
1919 - Naushad Ali, Indian music director (d. 2006)
1921 - Zaib-un-Nissa Hamidullah, Pakistani journalist (d. 2000)
1924 - Rod Serling, American television writer (d. 1975)
1924 - Atal Bihari Vajpayee, former Prime Minister of India
1925 - Carlos Castaneda, Peruvian-born author (d. 1998)
1926 - Enrique JorrÃn, Cuban composer and musician (d. 1987)
1927 - Nellie Fox, baseball player (d. 1975)
1928 - Dick Miller, American actor
1929 - Chris Kenner, American singer and songwriter (d. 1976)
1929 - Stuart Hall, British radio and television presenter
1930 - Emmanuel Agassi, Iranian boxer and father of Andre Agassi
1930 - Salah Jaheen, Egyptian poet and cartoonist (d.1986)
1932 - Mabel King, American actress (d. 1999)
1935 - Al Jackson, baseball player
1936 - HRH Princess Alexandra of Kent
1936 - Ismail Merchant, Indian-born film producer (d. 2005)
1937 - O'Kelly Isley, Jr., American singer (The Isley Brothers) (d. 1986)
1938 - Noel Picard, Quebec ice hockey player
1940 - Pete Brown, English poet and lyricist
1943 - Hanna Schygulla, German actress
1943 - Wilson Fittipaldi JÃºnior, Brazilian racing driver
1944 - Jairzinho, Brazilian footballer
1944 - Kenny Everett, British entertainer (d. 1995)
1944 - Henry Vestine, American musician (d. 1997)
1945 - Mike Pringle, Scottish politician
1945 - Gary Sandy, American actor
1945 - Rick Berman, Star Trek producer
1945 - Noel Redding, English musician (d. 2003)
1946 - Gene Lamont, American baseball player and manager
1946 - Larry Csonka, American football player
1946 - Jimmy Buffett, American singer and songwriter
1948 - Barbara Mandrell, American singer and actress
1948 - Alia al Hussein, of Jordan (d. 1977)
1948 - Joel Natalino Santana, Brazilian soccer coach
1949 - Nawaz Sharif, Prime Minister of Pakistan
1949 - Simone Bittencourt de Oliveira, Singer and icon of the Brazilian music
1949 - Sissy Spacek, American actress
1949 - Joe Louis Walker, American musician
1950 - Karl Rove, former American presidential advisor
1950 - Yehuda Poliker, Israeli singer-songwriter
1950 - Manny Trillo, baseball player
1952 - CCH Pounder, Guyana-born actress
1952 - Desireless, French singer
1954 - Annie Lennox, Scottish singer, from Aberdeen
1954 - Steve Wariner, American country music singer
1955 - Alannah Myles, Canadian singer
1957 - Chris Kamara, English footballer and commentator
1957 - Shane MacGowan, Irish musician
1958 - Rickey Henderson, baseball player
1958 - Hanford Dixon, American football player
1959 - Michael P. Anderson, astronaut (d. 2003)
1960 - Ron Bottitta, British actor
1961 - Ingrid Betancourt, Colombian senator
1962 - Dean Cameron, American actor
1962 - Darren Wharton, British Keyboardist (Thin Lizzy and Dare)
1964 - Gary McAllister, Scottish footballer
1964 - Tim Royes - Music Video Director and Editor
1964 - Bob Stanley, English musician (Saint Etienne), filmmaker and journalist
1967 - Jason Thirsk, American bass player (d. 1996)
1968 - Helena Christensen, Danish model
1968 - Jim Dowd, American ice hockey player
1971 - Dido, English singer
1971 - Justin Trudeau, Canadian media personality
1971 - Noel Hogan, Irish musician
1972 - Mac Powell, American musician, singer/songwriter (lead singer of Third Day)
1972 - Josh Freese, American drummer
1973 - Robbie Elliott, English footballer
1973 - Chris Harris, American professional wrestler
1973 - Alexandre Trudeau, Canadian journalist
1974 - Nagma, Indian actress
1975 - Marcus Trescothick, English cricketer
1975 - Hideki Okajima, Japanese baseball player
1975 - Rob Mariano, American reality show contestant
1976 - Tuomas Holopainen, Finnish keyboardist and songwriter
1976 - Armin van Buuren, Dutch DJ & Producer
1977 - Jim Greco, American skateboarder
1977 - Uhm Ji-won, South Korean actress
1977 - Israel Vasquez, Current WBC Super bantamweight champion
1978 - Simon Jones, English cricketer
1978 - Joel Porter, Australian footballer
1980 - Marcus Trufant, American football player (Seattle Seahawks)
1980 - Reika Hashimoto, Japanese actress
1980 - LocÃ³, Angolan footballer
1980 - Laura Sadler, British actress (d. 2003)
1981 - Katie Wright, American actress
1981 - Willy Taveras, baseball player
1982 - Shystie, British rapper-songwriter
1982 - Rob Edwards, Welsh footballer
1982 - Shawn Andrews, American football player
1984 - Lisa Origliasso, Australian Singer (The Veronicas)
1984 - Jessica Origliasso, Australian Singer (The Veronicas)
1984 - Georgia Moffett, British actress
1984 - Alastair Cook, English cricketer
1984 - Chris Cahill, Samoan footballer
1985 - Leon Pisani, Welsh singer
1985 - Perdita Weeks, British actress
1986 - Doug Loft, English footballer
1988 - Eric Gordon, American Basketball Player

Famous Births on 24 Dec

2011-12-23T18:02:00.000-08:00

Famous Births on 24 Dec

1166 - King John of England (d. 1216)
1389 - John VI, Duke of Brittany (d. 1442)
1475 - Thomas Murner, German writer (d.c. 1537)
1491 - Ignatius of Loyola, Spanish founder of the Jesuit order (d. 1556)
1508 - Pietro Carnesecchi, Italian humanist (d. 1567)
1588 - Constance of Austria, queen of Poland (d. 1631)
1609 - Philip Warwick, English writer and politician (d. 1683)
1635 - Mariana of Austria, second wife of king Philip IV of Spain (d. 1696)
1698 - William Warburton, English Bishop of Gloucester (d. 1779)
1724 - Johann Conrad Ammann, Swiss physician and naturalist (d. 1811)
1745 - Benjamin Rush, doctor and Founding Father of the United States (d. 1813)
1754 - George Crabbe, British poet and naturalist (d. 1832)
1761 - Jean-Louis Pons, French astronomer (d. 1831)
1784 - Grand Duchess Elena Pavlovna of Russia (d. 1803)
1798 - Adam Mickiewicz, Polish poet (d. 1855)
1809 - Kit Carson, American frontiersman (d. 1868)
1810 - Wilhelm Marstrand, Danish painter (d. 1873)
1812 - Karl Eduard Zachariae, German jurist (d. 1894)
1818 - James Prescott Joule, British physicist (d. 1889)
1822 - Matthew Arnold, British poet (d. 1888)
1837 - Elisabeth of Bavaria a.k.a Sissi, Empress of Austria (d. 1898)
1843 - Lydia Koidula, Estonian poet (d. 1886)
1845 - King George I of Greece (d. 1913)
1867 - Kantaro Suzuki, 42nd Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1948)
1868 - Emanuel Lasker, German chess player (d. 1941)
1879 - Queen Alexandrine of Denmark, Queen Consort to Christian X (d. 1952)
1879 - Ã‰mile Nelligan, Quebec poet (d. 1941)
1880 - Johnny Gruelle, American cartoonist, children's book writer and creator of Raggedy Ann (d. 1939)
1881 - Juan RamÃ³n JimÃ©nez, Spanish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1958)
1886 - Michael Curtiz, Hungarian-born director (d. 1962)
1887 - Louis Jouvet, French actor and producer (d. 1951)
1893 - Harry Warren, American composer and lyricist (Chattanooga Choo Choo - I Only Have Eyes for You) (d. 1981)
1894 - Georges Guynemer, French aviator (d. 1917)
1895 - E. Roland Harriman, American financier (d. 1978)
1898 - Baby Dodds, American jazz drummer (d. 1959)
1898 - HÃ©ctor Scarone, Uruguayan footballer (d. 1967)
1900 - Joey Smallwood, Canadian politician, Premier of Newfoundland (d. 1991)
1904 - Joseph Moses Juran, American industrial engineer and philanthropist.
1905 - Howard Hughes, American film producer and inventor (d. 1976)
1906 - Franz Waxman, German film composer (d. 1967)
1907 - I. F. Stone, American journalist (d. 1989)
1910 - Max Miedinger, typeface designer, famous for creating Helvetica in 1957. (d. 1980)
1910 - Fritz Leiber, American writer (d. 1992)
1914 - Ralph Marterie, American trumpet player and big band leader (d. 1978)
1914 - Herbert Reinecker, German writer
1917 - Kim Jong-suk, Wife of Kim Il-sung, mother of Kim Jung-Il, "The Heroine of the Anti-Japanese Revolution" (d. 1949)
1920 - Evgeniya Rudneva, Russian World War II heroine (d. 1944)
1922 - Ava Gardner, American actress (d. 1990)
1923 - George Patton IV, American general (d. 2004)
1923 - Michael DiBiase, American wrestler (d. 1969)
1924 - Lee Dorsey, American singer (d. 1986)
1924 - Grigory Kriss, Russian Olympic champion fencer
1925 - Mohd. Rafi, Indian actor and playback singer (d. 1980)
1926 - Paul Buissonneau, French-born Quebec theatre director
1927 - Mary Higgins Clark, American author
1931 - Mauricio Kagel, Argentine composer
1931 - Ray Bryant, American jazz pianist and composer
1932 - On Kawara, Japanese conceptual artist
1934 - Stjepan MesiÄ‡, president of Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Secretary General of Non-Aligned Movement and president of Croatia.
1937 - FÃ©lix MiÃ©li Venerando, Brazilian football player
1938 - Valentim Loureiro, Portuguese politician, and former football chairman of Boavista F.C. and Liga Portuguesa de Futebol Profissional
1938 - Bobby Henrich, American baseball player
1941 - John Levene, British actor
1943 - Tarja Halonen, President of Finland
1944 - Barry Chuckle, British comedian
1944 - Daniel Johnson, Jr., Quebec politician, Premier of Quebec
1944 - Mike Curb, American musician, record company executive and politician
1944 - Oswald Gracias, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Bombay
1945 - Steve Smith, Canadian Comedian, The New Red Green Show, Duct Tape Forever
1945 - Nicholas Meyer, American author
1945 - Lemmy, British singer, bassist (MotÃ¶rhead)
1946 - Brenda Howard, American bisexual activist (d. 2005)
1946 - Jeff Sessions, American politician
1947 - Kevin Sheedy, coach of Australian Football League club Essendon FC
1948 - Frank Oliver, New Zealand rugby player
1949 - Randy Neugebauer, American politician
1949 - Warwick Brown, Australian racing driver
1950 - Dana Gioia, American poet
1951 - John D'Acquisto, baseball player
1953 - FranÃ§ois Loos, French politician
1954 - JosÃ© MarÃa Figueres, Costa Rican politician
1955 - Clarence Gilyard, American actor
1955 - Grand L. Bush, American actor
1957 - Hamid Karzai, President of Afghanistan
1957 - Diane Tell, Quebec singer
1958 - Munetaka Higuchi, Japanese drummer
1959 - Keith Deller, British darts player
1959 - Anil Kapoor, Indian actor
1960 - Glenn McQueen, American animator (d. 2002)
1960 - Carol Vorderman, British television presenter
1961 - Jay Wright, American basketball coach
1961 - Ilham Aliyev, President of Azerbaijan Republic
1963 - Jay Bilas, American basketball analyst
1963 - Mary Ramsey, American singer (10,000 Maniacs)
1963 - Caroline Aherne, British comedienne, writer and actress
1964 - Mark Valley, American actor
1965 - Millard Powers, American musician and songwriter
1966 - Diedrich Bader, American actor
1967 - Mikhail Shchennikov, Russian race walker
1968 - Doyle Bramhall II, American guitarist
1968 - Marleen Renders, Belgian athlete
1969 - Mark Millar, Scottish comic book writer
1970 - Will Oldham, American singer and songwriter
1970 - Amaury Nolasco, American actor
1971 - Giorgos Alkaios, Greek singer
1971 - Ricky Martin, Puerto Rican singer
1971 - Christopher Daniels, American professional wrestler
1972 - Alvaro Mesen, Costa Rican footballer
1973 - Eddie Pope, American soccer player
1973 - Stephenie Meyer, Author
1974 - Marcelo Salas, Chilean footballer
1974 - Ryan Seacrest, American television host
1978 - YÄ±ldÄ±ray BaÅŸtÃ¼rk, Turkish footballer
1979 - Chris Hero, American professional wrestler
1980 - Tomas Kalnoky, American musician (Streetlight Manifesto)
1981 - Dima Bilan, Karachay-Russian pop artist
1982 - Aiba Masaki, Japanese singer and actor
1982 - Robert Carmine, American singer
1985 - David Ragan, American race car driver
1986 - Riyo Mori, Miss Universe 2007 from Japan
1986 - Edward Southall, British composer
1992 - Melissa Suffield, English actress
3 BC - Galba, Roman Emperor (d. 69)

Famous Births on 23 Dec

2011-12-22T18:02:00.000-08:00

Famous Births on 23 Dec

1173 - Louis I, Duke of Bavaria (d. 1231)
1513 - Thomas Smith, English diplomat and scholar (d. 1577)
1537 - King John III of Sweden (d. 1592)
1582 - Severo Bonini, Italian composer (d. 1663)
1597 - Martin Opitz von Boberfeld, German poet (d. 1639)
1613 - Carl Gustaf Wrangel, Swedish soldier (d. 1676)
1621 - Heneage Finch, 1st Earl of Nottingham, Lord Chancellor of England (d. 1682)
1621 - Edmund Berry Godfrey, English magistrate (d. 1678)
1689 - Joseph Bodin de Boismortier, French composer (d. 1755)
1732 - Richard Arkwright, English industrialist and inventor (d. 1792)
1743 - Ippolit Bogdanovich, Russian poet (d. 1803)
1750 - King Frederick Augustus I of Saxony (d. 1827)
1758 - Nathan Wilson U.S. Represenative from New York
1777 - Tsar Alexander I of Russia (d. 1825)
1790 - Jean FranÃ§ois Champollion, French Egyptologist (d. 1832)
1804 - Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve, French literary critic (d. 1869)
1805 - Joseph Smith, Jr., American religious leader (d. 1844)
1819 - Jan Jakob Lodewijk ten Kate, Dutch poet and clergyman (d. 1889)
1822 - Wilhelm Bauer, German engineer (d. 1875)
1843 - Richard Conner, American Civil War Medal of Honor Recipient (d. 1924)
1854 - Henry B. Guppy, British botanist (d. 1926)
1864 - Zorka of Montenegro, Princess of Serbia (d. 1890)
1867 - Madam C.J. Walker, American philanthropist and tycoon (d. 1919)
1878 - Stephen Timoshenko, Ukrainian-born mechanical engineer (d. 1972)
1885 - Pierre Brissaud, French artist (d. 1964)
1891 - Alexandr Rodchenko, Russian painter and photographer (d. 1956)
1900 - Otto Soglow, American comics artist (d. 1975)
1902 - Norman Maclean, American author (d. 1990)
1907 - Manuel Lopes, Cape Verdean writer and poet (d. 2005)
1907 - Avraham Stern, Polish-born Zionist leader (d. 1942)
1908 - Yousuf Karsh, Turkish-born, Canadian portrait photographer (d. 2002)
1910 - Kurt Meyer, German SS officer (d. 1961)
1911 - James Gregory, American actor (d. 2002)
1911 - Niels Kaj Jerne, English-born immunologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1994)
1916 - Dino Risi, Italian film director and screenwriter
1918 - Helmut Schmidt, Chancellor of Germany
1918 - JosÃ© Greco, Italian-born flamenco dancer (d. 2001)
1918 - Kumar Pallana, Indian-born American actor
1919 - Kenneth M. Taylor, American pilot (d. 2006)
1921 - Guy Beaulne, French Canadian actor and theatre director (d. 2001)
1922 - Micheline Ostermeyer, French athlete and musician (d. 2001)
1923 - GÃ¼nther Schifter, Austrian music journalist
1923 - Claudio Scimone, Italian conductor
1923 - James Stockdale, American admiral (d. 2005)
1923 - Onofre MarimÃ³n, Argentine racing driver (d. 1954)
1926 - Robert Bly, American poet
1928 - Chronis Aidonidis, Greek singer
1929 - Dick Weber, American professional tenpin bowler (d. 2005)
1929 - Chet Baker, American jazz trumpet player (d. 1988)
1931 - Ronnie Schell, American actor
1933 - Akihito, Emperor of Japan
1935 - Paul Hornung, American football player
1935 - Esther Phillips, American singer (d. 1984)
1936 - Frederic Forrest, American actor
1937 - Barney Rosenzweig, American television producer
1938 - Bob Kahn, American Internet pioneer
1940 - Eugene Record, American singer (The Chi-Lites) (d. 2005)
1940 - Robert Labine, French-Canadian politician
1940 - Jorma Kaukonen, American musician (Jefferson Airplane, Hot Tuna)
1941 - Serge Reding, Belgian weightlifter (d. 1975)
1941 - Ron Bushy, American musician
1941 - Tim Hardin, American musician (d. 1980)
1942 - John Peterman, American fashion designer
1943 - Elizabeth Hartman, American actress (d. 1987)
1943 - Silvia Sommerlath, Queen of Sweden
1943 - Ron Allen, American baseball player
1943 - Harry Shearer, American actor
1943 - Mikhail Gromov, Russian-born mathematician
1944 - Wesley Clark, American military officer
1945 - Ron Bushy, American drummer (Iron Butterfly)
1946 - Edita Gruberova, Slovak operatic soprano
1946 - Susan Lucci, American actress
1948 - Leslie Moonves, American television executive
1948 - Jack Ham, American football player
1949 - Adrian Belew, American musician
1950 - Michael C. Burgess, American politician
1950 - Ilchi Lee, Korean educator and author
1951 - Anthony Phillips, British musician (Genesis)
1952 - William Kristol, American political commentator
1953 - Grand Duchess Maria Vladimirovna of Russia
1956 - Michele Alboreto, Italian Formula one driver (d. 2001)
1957 - Trisha Goddard, English television presenter
1957 - Dan Bigras, Canadian singer
1958 - Victoria Williams, American singer
1958 - Joan Severance, American actress
1958 - Dave Murray, English musician (Iron Maiden)
1959 - Geoff Willis, British engineer
1961 - Carol Smillie, British television personality
1962 - Keiji Muto, Japanese professional wrestler
1962 - Kang Je-gyu, South Korean film director
1962 - Bertrand Gachot, Belgian racing driver
1963 - Jim Harbaugh, American football player
1963 - Donna Tartt, American author
1964 - Eddie Vedder, American musician (Pearl Jam)
1967 - Carla Bruni, Italian-French model and singer
1967 - Tim Fountain, British playwright
1968 - Quincy Jones III, Swedish-American musician
1969 - Rob Pelinka, American sports agent
1969 - Martha Byrne, American actress
1969 - Greg Biffle, American racecar driver
1970 - Catriona LeMay Doan, Canadian speed skater
1970 - Raymont Harris, American football player
1971 - Wim Vansevenant, Belgian cyclist
1971 - Tara Palmer-Tomkinson, British socialite
1971 - Michalis Klokidis, Greek footballer
1971 - Masayoshi Yamazaki, Japanese singer-songwriter
1971 - Corey Haim, Canadian actor
1974 - AgustÃn Delgado, Ecuadorian footballer
1975 - Vadim Sharifijanov, Russian ice hockey player
1975 - Sky Lopez, American actress
1976 - Brad Lidge, American baseball player
1976 - Dimitris Mavrogenidis, Greek footballer
1976 - Jamie Noble, American professional wrestler
1977 - Paul Shirley, American basketball player
1977 - Jari MÃ¤enpÃ¤Ã¤, Finnish guitarist and singer
1977 - Alge Crumpler, American football player
1978 - Andra Davis, American football player
1978 - Esthero, Canadian musician and singer
1978 - Jodie Marsh, British glamour model
1978 - VÃctor MartÃnez, Venezuelan baseball player
1978 - Estella Warren, Canadian model and actress
1979 - Kenny Miller, Scottish football player
1979 - Holly Madison, American model
1979 - Scott Gomez, American ice hockey player
1979 - Summer Altice, American model and actress
1980 - Cody Ross, American baseball player
1981 - Beth, Spanish singer
1983 - Hanley RamÃrez, Dominican baseball player
1983 - Michael Chopra, English footballer
1985 - Harry Judd, British drummer (McFly)
1985 - Luke O'Loughlin, Australian actor
1988 - Eri Kamei, Japanese singer
1990 - Anna Maria Perez de Tagle, American actress, model, and singer
245 - Zenobia, Queen of Palmyra

Famous Births on 22 Dec

2011-12-21T18:02:00.000-08:00

Famous Births on 22 Dec

1095 - Roger II of Sicily, King of Sicily (d. 1154)
1178 - Emperor Antoku of Japan (d. 1185)
1546 - Kuroda Yoshitaka, Japanese Daimyo (d. 1604)
1550 - Cesare Cremonini, Italian philosopher (d. 1631)
1639 - Jean Racine, French dramatist (d. 1699)
1666 - Guru Gobind Singh, Sikh guru (d. 1708)
1690 - Meidingnu Pamheiba, King of Manipur (d. 1751)
1694 - Hermann Samuel Reimarus, German philosopher and writer (d. 1768)
1696 - James Oglethorpe, English general and founder of the state of Georgia (d. 1785)
1723 - Carl Friedrich Abel, German composer (d. 1787)
1765 - Johann Friedrich Pfaff, German mathematician (d. 1825)
1805 - John Obadiah Westwood, British entomologist (d. 1893)
1807 - Johann Sebastian Welhaven, Norwegian poet (d. 1873)
1819 - Pierre Ossian Bonnet, French mathematician (d. 1892)
1819 - Franz Wilhelm Abt, German composer (d. 1870)
1853 - Teresa CarreÃ±o, Venezuelan pianist (d. 1917)
1853 - Yevgraf Fyodorov, Russian mathematician (d. 1919)
1856 - Frank B. Kellogg, U.S. Secretary of State, Nobel laureate (d. 1937)
1858 - Giacomo Puccini, Italian composer (d. 1924)
1860 - Austin Norman Palmer, American penmanship innovator (d. 1927)
1862 - Connie Mack, American baseball executive (d. 1956)
1869 - Edwin Arlington Robinson, American poet (d. 1935)
1869 - Dmitri Egorov, Russian mathematician (d. 1931)
1872 - Camille GuÃ©rin, French veterinarian and bacteriologist (d. 1961)
1874 - Franz Schmidt, Austrian composer (d. 1939)
1876 - Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, Italian poet and editor (d. 1944)
1883 - Edgard VarÃ¨se French-born composer (d. 1965)
1887 - Srinivasa Ramanujan, Indian mathematician (d. 1920)
1888 - J. Arthur Rank, British film producer (d. 1972)
1898 - Vladimir Aleksandrovich Fock, Russian physicist (d. 1974)
1899 - Gustav GrÃ¼ndgens, German actor (d. 1963)
1900 - Marc AllÃ©gret, French film director and screenwriter (d. 1973)
1901 - AndrÃ© Kostelanetz, American popular music orchestra leader and arranger (d. 1980)
1903 - Haldan Keffer Hartline, American physiologist, Nobel laureate (d. 1983)
1905 - Pierre Brasseur, French actor (d. 1972)
1905 - Kenneth Rexroth, American poet (d. 1982)
1907 - Dame Peggy Ashcroft, English actress (d. 1991)
1909 - Patricia Hayes, English actress (d. 1998)
1912 - Lady Bird Johnson, First Lady of the United States (d. 2007)
1915 - Barbara Billingsley, American actress
1917 - Gene Rayburn, American game show host (d. 1999)
1921 - Hawkshaw Hawkins, American country singer (d. 1963)
1922 - Jack Brooks, American politician
1922 - Ruth Roman, American actress (d. 1999)
1924 - Frank Corsaro, American stage director
1925 - Lewis Glucksman, American financier (d. 2006)
1934 - David Pearson, American racecar driver
1936 - Wojciech Frykowski, Polish actor (d. 1969)
1936 - Hector Elizondo, American actor
1936 - James Burke, British writer
1937 - Eduard Uspensky, Russian writer
1938 - Matty Alou, Dominican baseball player
1938 - Lucien Bouchard, Quebec politician
1939 - James Gurley, American musician
1942 - Dick Parry, English musician (Pink Floyd)
1943 - Paul Wolfowitz, American politician
1944 - Steve Carlton, American baseball player
1945 - Diane Sawyer, American journalist
1946 - Rick Nielsen, American musician (Cheap Trick)
1948 - Lynne Thigpen, American actress (d. 2003)
1948 - Steve Garvey, American baseball player
1948 - Noel Edmonds, English game show host
1949 - Maurice Gibb, English musician (The Bee Gees) (d. 2003)
1949 - Robin Gibb, English musician (The Bee Gees)
1951 - Gerald Cavendish Grosvenor, Duke of Westminster
1953 - BernNadette Stanis, actress
1953 - Ian Turnbull, Canadian ice hockey player
1954 - Hideshi Matsuda, Japanese racing driver
1955 - Lonnie Smith, American baseball player
1957 - Carole James, Canadian politician
1958 - Frank Gambale, Australian musician
1958 - David Heavener, American actor and musician
1959 - Bernd Schuster, German footballer
1960 - Patrick Fitzgerald, American attorney
1960 - Luther Campbell (Luke), American rap artist (2 Live Crew)
1960 - Jean-Michel Basquiat, American artist (d. 1988)
1960 - Wakin Chau, Chinese singer
1961 - Andrew Fastow, American businessman
1962 - Ralph Fiennes, English actor
1963 - Giuseppe Bergomi, Italian footballer
1963 - Luna H. Mitani, Japanese American surrealism painter
1966 - Marcel "Schmier" Schirmer, German singer and bassplayer (Destruction)
1966 - Dmitry Bilozerchev, Soviet gymnast
1967 - Dan Petrescu, Romanian footballer
1967 - Richey James Edwards, Welsh musician (Manic Street Preachers) (disappeared in 1995)
1967 - StÃ©phane Gendron, Quebec politician
1967 - Paul Morris, Australian racing driver
1968 - Dina Meyer, American actress
1968 - Lauralee Bell, American actress
1969 - Myriam BÃ©dard, Canadian athlete
1971 - Pat Mastroianni, Canadian actor
1972 - Big Tigger, television host
1972 - Vanessa Paradis, French singer
1974 - Heather Donahue, American actress
1975 - Stanislav NeckÃ¡Å™, Czech ice hockey player
1975 - Dmitri Khokhlov, Russian footballer
1975 - Crissy Moran, American erotic actress
1975 - Chris Adler, American actor
1976 - Brian A. Alexander, American screenwriter and director
1976 - Katleen De CaluwÃ©, Belgian athlete
1976 - Jason Lane, American Baseball Player
1977 - Steve Kariya, Canadian ice hockey player
1980 - Chris Carmack, American actor
1983 - Jennifer Hawkins, Australian Miss Universe
1984 - Basshunter, popular Swedish singer
1989 - Jordin Sparks, American singer and American Idol winner
1990 - Jean-Baptiste Maunier, French actor
1993 - Aliana Lohan, American actress

Famous Births on 21 Dec

2011-12-20T18:02:00.000-08:00

Famous Births on 21 Dec

1118 - Thomas Becket, Lord Chancellor of England and Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1170)
1401 - Tommaso Masaccio, Italian painter (d. 1428)
1596 - Petro Mohyla, Moldovan Orthodox Metropolitan Bishop of Kiev and Galicia (d. 1646)
1603 - Roger Williams, English theologian and colonist (d. 1684)
1714 - John Bradstreet, Canadian-born soldier (d. 1774)
1778 - Anders SandÃ¸e Ã˜rsted, Danish politician (d. 1860)
1795 - Leopold von Ranke, German historian (d. 1886)
1804 - Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1881)
1805 - Thomas Graham, British chemist (d. 1869)
1811 - Archibald Campbell Tait, Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1882)
1815 - Thomas Couture French painter and teacher (d. 1879)
1818 - Amalia of Oldenburg, Queen of Greece (d. 1875)
1832 - John H. Ketcham, American politician (d. 1906)
1843 - Thomas Bracken, Irish-born New Zealander poet (d. 1898)
1850 - ZdenÄ›k Fibich, Bohemian composer (d. 1900)
1850 - William Wallace Lincoln, son of U.S. president Abraham Lincoln
1851 - Thomas Chipman McRae, American politician, 34th Governor of Arkansas (d. 1929)
1859 - Gustave Kahn, French poet (d. 1936)
1872 - Sidney Ainsworth, British actor (d. 1922)
1872 - Don Lorenzo Perosi, Italian composer (d. 1956)
1872 - Albert Payson Terhune, American author (d. 1942)
1873 - Blagoje Bersa, Croatian composer (d. 1934)
1876 - Jack Lang (John Thomas Lang), Premier of New South Wales (d. 1975)
1878 - Jan Åukasiewicz, Polish philosopher and mathematician (d. 1956)
1879 - Joseph Stalin, U.S.S.R Leader
1885 - Frank Patrick, hockey player (d. 1960)
1889 - Sewall Wright, American biologist (d. 1988)
1890 - Hermann Joseph Muller, American geneticist and Nobel laureate (d. 1967)
1891 - John William McCormack, American politician (d. 1980)
1892 - Walter Hagen, American golfer (d. 1969)
1892 - Rebecca West, American writer (d. 1983)
1892 - Amy Key Clarke, English mystical poet
1896 - Leroy Robertson, American composer (d. 1971)
1905 - Anthony Powell, British author (d. 2000)
1909 - Seicho Matsumoto, Japanese mystery writer and journalist (d. 1992)
1911 - Josh Gibson, American baseball player (d. 1947)
1914 - Ivan GeneraliÄ‡, Austro-Hungarian-born Croatian painter (d. 1992)
1915 - Werner von Trapp, member of the Trapp Family Singers (d. 2007)
1917 - Heinrich BÃ¶ll, German writer and Nobel laureate (d. 1985)
1917 - Sophie Masloff, American politician
1918 - Kurt Waldheim, Austrian United Nations Secretary-General and Federal President of Austria (d. 2007)
1918 - Donald Regan, American White House Chief of Staff (d. 2003)
1920 - Alicia Alonso, Cuban ballerina
1920 - Bob Bindig, cartoonist (d. 2006)
1920 - Jean Gascon, Canadian actor (d. 1988)
1921 - Maila Nurmi, aka Vampira, Finnish-born American actress (d. 2008)
1921 - John Severin, American comics artist
1922 - Paul Winchell, American ventriloquist (d. 2005)
1923 - Intizar Hussain, Urdu writer and columnist of Pakistan
1926 - Joe Paterno, American football coach
1932 - Edward Hoagland, American essayist
1935 - John G. Avildsen, American film director
1935 - Lorenzo Bandini, Italian racecar driver (d. 1967)
1935 - Yusuf Bey (Joseph Stephens), American activist (d. 2003)
1935 - Phil Donahue, American talk show host
1935 - Edward Schreyer, Canadian politician, Premier of Manitoba
1937 - Donald F. Munson, American politician
1937 - Jane Fonda, American actress
1939 - Lloyd Axworthy, Canadian politician
1940 - Frank Zappa, American musician (d. 1993)
1940 - Ray Hildebrand, American singer (Paul & Paula)
1942 - Hu Jintao, Chinese president
1942 - Reinhard Mey, German singer
1942 - Carla Thomas, American singer
1943 - AndrÃ© Arthur. Quebec radio host
1944 - Zheng Xiaoyu, Chinese bureaucrat (d. 2007)
1944 - Michael Tilson Thomas, American conductor
1944 - Bill Atkinson, English footballer
1946 - Carl Wilson, American musician (The Beach Boys) (d. 1998)
1946 - Christopher Keene, American conductor (d. 1995)
1947 - Paco de LucÃa, Spanish musician
1947 - Bryan Hamilton, Northern Irish footballer
1948 - Dave Kingman, baseball player
1948 - Willi Resetarits, Austrian musician
1948 - Samuel L. Jackson, American actor
1949 - Nikolaos Sifounakis, Greek politician
1950 - Jeffrey Katzenberg, American producer
1950 - LillebjÃ¸rn Nilsen, Norwegian singer-songwriter
1951 - Nick Gilder, English musician (Sweeney Todd)
1952 - JoaquÃn AndÃºjar, baseball player
1953 - Betty Wright, American singer
1954 - Chris Evert, American tennis player
1955 - Jane Kaczmarek, American actress
1955 - Kazuyuki Sekiguchi, Japanese musician
1957 - Tom Henke, American baseball player
1957 - Ray Romano, Italian-American comedian
1959 - Florence Griffith Joyner, American sprinter (d. 1998)
1960 - Andy Van Slyke, baseball player
1960 - Roger McDowell, Former Major League Baseball Pitcher
1960 - Louis Demetrius Alvanis, London-based pianist
1961 - Francis Ng, Hong Kong actor
1961 - Ryuji Sasai, Japanese composer
1964 - Rob Kelly, English football manager
1964 - Fabiana Udenio, Argentine actress
1965 - Andy Dick, American actor and comedian
1965 - Anke Engelke, German comedian
1966 - Karri Turner, American actress
1966 - Kiefer Sutherland, British-born Canadian actor
1967 - Mikhail Saakashvili, Soviet-born President of Georgia
1967 - Ervin Johnson, American basketball player
1967 - Terry Mills, American basketball player
1969 - Julie Delpy, French actress
1969 - Mihails ZemÄ¼inskis, Latvian footballer
1971 - Brett Scallions, American singer (Fuel, The X's)
1971 - Fenton Keogh, Australian celebrity chef
1971 - Mathieu Chedid, French musician
1972 - Latroy Hawkins, baseball player
1972 - Erwin Schrott, Uruguayan opera singer
1972 - Dustin Hermanson, baseball player
1973 - Karmen Stavec, German-born Slovenian singer
1973 - Mike Alstott, American football player
1974 - Karrie Webb, Australian golfer
1975 - Paloma Herrera, Argentine ballet dancer
1976 - Mirela Manjani, Greek javelin thrower
1978 - Mike Vitar, American actor
1979 - Tuva Novotny, Swedish actress and singer
1980 - Royce Ring, Major League Baseball Player
1981 - Frankie Abernathy, Former The Real World: San Diego castmate. (d. 2007)
1981 - Sajid Mahmood, English cricketer
1981 - Lynda Thomas, Mexican singer
1981 - Cristian Zaccardo, Italian football player
1982 - Mike Gansey, American basketball player
1982 - Erica Hayden, American journalist and radio personality
1982 - Philip Humber, American baseball player
1982 - Iljo Keisse, Belgian cyclist
1984 - Darren Potter, Irish footballer
1985 - James Stewart Jr., American motorcycle racer
1987 - Valerie Concepcion, Filipino Actress

Famous Births on 20 Dec

2011-12-19T18:02:00.000-08:00

Famous Births on 20 Dec

1494 - Oronce FinÃ©, French mathematician (d. 1555)
1537 - King John III of Sweden (d. 1592)
1566 - Edward Wightman, English Baptist preacher (d. 1612)
1579 - (baptized) John Fletcher, English playwright (d. 1625)
1626 - Veit Ludwig von Seckendorff, German statesman (d. 1692)
1629 - Pieter de Hooch, Dutch painter (d. 1684)
1717 - Charles Gravier, comte de Vergennes, French statesman and diplomat (d. 1787)
1786 - Pietro Raimondi, Italian composer (d. 1853)
1792 - Nicolas Charlet, French painter (d. 1845)
1833 - Samuel Mudd, American physician (d. 1883)
1838 - Edwin Abbott Abbott, English schoolmaster, theologian, and author (d. 1926)
1841 - Ferdinand Buisson, French pacifist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1932)
1860 - Dan Leno, English entertainer (d. 1904)
1861 - Ivana Kobilca, Slovenian painter (d. 1926)
1865 - Elsie De Wolfe, American socialite and interior decorator (d. 1950)
1868 - Harvey Firestone, American automobile pioneer (d. 1938)
1873 - Kwan-Ichi Asakawa, Japanese historian(d. 1948)
1881 - Branch Rickey, baseball executive (d. 1965)
1886 - Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman, American tennis player (d. 1974)
1888 - Fred Merkle, American baseball figure (d. 1958)
1890 - Yvonne Arnaud, French-born actress (d. 1958)
1890 - Jaroslav HeyrovskÃ½, Czech chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1967)
1894 - Sir Robert Menzies, twelfth Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1978)
1898 - Irene Dunne, American actress (d. 1990)
1901 - Robert Van de Graaff, American physicist and inventor (d. 1967)
1902 - Sidney Hook, American philosopher (d. 1989)
1902 - George Edward Alexander Windsor, Duke of Kent (d. 1942)
1904 - Spud Davis, baseball player (d. 1984)
1905 - Bill O'Reilly, Australian cricket player
1907 - Paul Francis Webster, songwriter (d. 1984)
1908 - Dennis Morgan, American actor (d. 1994)
1909 - Vakkom Majeed, Indian politician (d. 2000)
1911 - Hortense Calisher, American author
1916 - Michel Chartrand, Quebec union leader
1917 - David Bohm, American-born physicist, philosopher, and neuropsychologist (d. 1992)
1918 - Jean Marchand, French Canadian trade unionist and politician (d. 1988)
1918 - Audrey Totter, American actress
1922 - George Roy Hill, American film director (d. 2002)
1922 - Beverly Pepper, American sculptor and painter
1924 - Judy LaMarsh, Canadian politician and broadcaster (d. 1980)
1924 - Charlie Callas, American comedian
1925 - Benito Lorenzi, Italian footballer (d. 2007)
1925 - Mahathir bin Mohamad, Prime Minister of Malaysia
1926 - Sir Geoffrey Howe, British politician
1926 - Otto Graf Lambsdorff, German politician
1927 - Kim Young-sam, President of South Korea
1931 - Mala Powers, American film actress (d. 2007)
1932 - John Hillerman, American actor, Magnum P.I.
1933 - Jean Carnahan, U.S. Senator
1933 - Rik van Looy, Belgian cyclist
1935 - Khalid Ibadulla, Pakistani cricket player
1938 - John Harbison, American composer
1942 - Rana Bhagwandas, Former Pakistani Chief Justice
1944 - Bobby Colomby, American musician (Blood, Sweat & Tears)
1944 - Jean Fergusson, English actress
1945 - Peter Criss, American drummer and singer (Kiss)
1946 - Uri Geller, Israeli psychic
1946 - John Spencer, American actor (d. 2005)
1946 - Dick Wolf, American television series creator
1947 - Gigliola Cinquetti, Italian singer
1948 - Alan Parsons, British music producer and artist
1949 - Cecil Cooper, American baseball player
1949 - SoumaÃ¯la CissÃ©, Malian politician
1951 - Gilbert MontagnÃ©, French musician
1951 - Peter May, Scottish novelist and scriptwriter
1952 - Jenny Agutter, English actress
1954 - Michael Badalucco, American actor
1954 - Sandra Cisneros, American writer
1955 - Ed Kuepper, German-born Australian musician (The Saints, Laughing Clowns)
1956 - Junji Hirata, Japanese professional wrestler
1956 - Blanche Baker, American actress
1957 - Billy Bragg, English singer and songwriter
1957 - Mike Watt, American bassist
1957 - Stephen Bicknell, British organ builder and scholar (d. 2007)
1957 - Joyce Hyser, American actress
1957 - Anna Vissi, Greek-Cypriot singer
1958 - Steve Sailer, American political commentator
1960 - Nalo Hopkinson, Canadian writer
1961 - Mohammad Fouad, Arab singer and actor
1963 - Infanta Elena of Spain
1963 - Joel Gretsch, American actor
1964 - Mark Coleman, American Mixed Martial Artist, UFC Hall of Famer
1965 - Robert Cavanah, Scottish actor
1965 - Rich Gannon, American football player
1966 - Myrra Malmberg, Swedish singer
1966 - Chris Robinson, American singer (Black Crowes)
1966 - Matt Neal , British Race Driver
1968 - Karl Wendlinger, Austrian racing driver
1968 - Joe Cornish, British comedian
1968 - Phil Andrews, British racing driver
1970 - Nicole DeBoer, Canadian actress
1970 - Grant Flower, Zimbabwean cricketer
1972 - Anders Odden, Norwegian musician
1973 - Cory Stillman, National Hockey League forward
1974 - Die, Japanese musician (Dir en grey)
1975 - Bartosz Bosacki, Polish footballer
1975 - Jaydy Michel, Mexican model
1976 - Jang Hyuk, Korean actor
1976 - Aubrey Huff, American baseball player
1976 - Adam Powell, Neopets creator
1976 - Ramon Stoppelenburg, world traveler and Dutch author
1977 - Saukrates, Canadian rapper
1978 - Andrei Markov, Russian ice hockey player
1978 - Geremi Njitap, Cameroon footballer
1979 - David DeJesus, American baseball player
1979 - Michael Rogers, Australian cyclist
1980 - Ashley Cole, English footballer
1980 - Fitz Hall, English footballer
1980 - Tony, French-born Portuguese footballer
1981 - Chris Edwards, British musician (Kasabian)
1981 - James Shields, American baseball player
1981 - Roy Williams, American football player
1982 - David Cook, American singer, winner of American Idol.
1982 - Mohammed Asif, Pakistani cricket player
1982 - Kasper Klausen, Danish footballer
1982 - David Wright, American baseball player
1983 - AdriÃ¡n Varela, Mexican singer
1983 - Lara Stone, Dutch model
1983 - Darren Sammy, St. Lucian West Indies cricketer
1983 - Lucy Pinder, British model
1983 - Jonah Hill, American actor
1987 - Tariel Zintiridis, Greek judoka
1989 - Virgilio Falco, Italian politician
1990 - JoJo, American singer

Famous Births on 19 Dec

2011-12-18T18:02:00.000-08:00

Famous Births on 19 Dec

1554 - Philip William, Prince of Orange (d. 1618)
1683 - Philip V of Spain (d. 1746)
1699 - William Bowyer, English printer (d. 1777)
1714 - John Winthrop, American astronomer (d. 1779)
1778 - Princess Marie-ThÃ©rÃ¨se-Charlotte, eldest child of Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI (d. 1851)
1784 - Marcus Morton, 16th and 18th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1864)
1813 - Thomas Andrews, Irish chemist (d. 1885)
1817 - James J. Archer, Confederate general (d. 1904)
1831 - Bernice Pauahi Bishop, Hawaiian philanthropist (d. 1884)
1852 - Albert Abraham Michelson, Prussian-born American physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1931)
1853 - Charles Fitzpatrick, Canadian politician, lieutenant-governor of Quebec (d. 1942)
1865 - Minnie Maddern Fiske, American actress (d. 1932)
1885 - Joe "King" Oliver, American jazz musician (d. 1938)
1888 - Fritz Reiner, Hungarian-born American conductor (d. 1963)
1894 - Ford Frick, American baseball commissioner (d. 1978)
1901 - Rudolf Hell, German inventor (d. 2002)
1902 - Sir Ralph Richardson, English actor (d. 1983)
1903 - George Davis Snell, American geneticist, Nobel laureate (d. 1996)
1906 - Leonid Brezhnev, leader of the Soviet Union (d. 1982)
1907 - Jimmy McLarnin, former Welterweight Champion (d. 2004)
1909 - W.A. Criswell, American (Baptist) preacher (d. 2002)
1910 - Jean Genet, French writer (d. 1986)
1915 - Ã‰dith Piaf, French singer and actress (d. 1963)
1918 - Professor Longhair, American blues musician (d. 1980)
1920 - Little Jimmy Dickens, American country singer
1920 - David Susskind, American TV talk show host (d. 1987)
1922 - Eamonn Andrews, Irish-born television presenter (d. 1987)
1923 - Gordon Jackson, Scottish actor (d. 1990)
1924 - Edmund Purdom, English actor
1924 - Gary Morton, second husband of Lucille Ball (d. 1999)
1924 - Doug Harvey, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1989)
1924 - Carlo Chiti, Italian race car engineer (d. 1994)
1925 - Tankred Dorst, German dramatist
1925 - Robert B. Sherman, American songwriter
1926 - Bobby Layne, American football player (d. 1986)
1926 - Herb Stempel, American game show contestant
1927 - James Booth, English actor and screenwriter (d. 2005)
1928 - Nathan Oliveira, American artist
1929 - Howard Sackler, American screenwriter (d. 1982)
1929 - Bob Brookmeyer, American jazz musician
1932 - Salvador Elizondo, Mexican writer
1933 - Kevan Gosper, Australian athlete
1933 - Cicely Tyson, American actress
1934 - Rudi Carrell, Dutch singer
1934 - Al Kaline, American baseball player
1934 - Casper R. Taylor, Jr., American politician
1935 - Bobby Timmons, American jazz pianist (d. 1974)
1935 - Barbara Bostock, American actress
1936 - Marian McKnight, Miss America 1957
1940 - Phil Ochs, American folk singer (d. 1976)
1941 - Maurice White, American singer and songwriter (Earth, Wind & Fire)
1942 - Rufus, French actor
1943 - Ross M. Lence, American political scientist (d. 2006)
1944 - Zal Yanovsky, Canadian guitarist (The Lovin' Spoonful) (d. 2002)
1944 - Tim Reid, American actor
1944 - Alvin Lee, English singer/guitarist (Ten Years After)
1944 - Richard Leakey, Kenyan paleontologist, conservationist and politician
1944 - Mitchell Feigenbaum, American mathematical physicist
1944 - William Christie, American-born director of Les Arts Florissants
1945 - Elaine Joyce, American actress
1946 - Rosemary Conley, English businesswoman, author and broadcaster
1946 - Robert Urich, American actor (d. 2002)
1948 - Ken Brown, Canadian ice hockey player
1949 - Nancy Kyes, American actress
1949 - Sebastian, Danish musician
1956 - Tom Lawless, American baseball player
1957 - Cyril Collard, French film director (d. 1993)
1957 - John Gulager, American film director
1957 - Kevin McHale, American basketball player
1958 - Limahl, English singer (Kajagoogoo)
1960 - Michelangelo Signorile, American writer
1960 - Mike Lookinland, American actor
1961 - Eric Allin Cornell, American physicist, Nobel laureate
1961 - Matthew Waterhouse, English actor
1961 - Reggie White, American football player (d. 2004)
1962 - Jill Talley, American actress
1963 - Jennifer Beals, American film actress
1963 - Til Schweiger, German actor
1964 - Arvydas Sabonis, Lithuanian basketball player
1965 - Chito MartÃnez, Belizean baseball player
1965 - Jessica Steen, American actress
1966 - Chuckii Booker, American singer, musician and producer
1966 - Robert MacNaughton, American stage and screen actor
1966 - Alberto Tomba, Italian alpine skier
1966 - Eric Weinrich, American ice hockey player
1967 - Criss Angel, Illusionist,Actor, Musician, etc.
1967 - Frankie Lam, Hong Kong actor
1969 - Richard Hammond, English television presenter
1969 - Tom Gugliotta, American basketball player
1969 - Kristy Swanson, American actress
1969 - Villano IV, Mexican professional wrestler
1970 - Tyson Beckford, American model
1971 - Tiffany Towers, Canadian adult film actress
1971 - Amy Locane, American actress
1971 - Liz Cho, American television reporter
1972 - Alyssa Milano, American actress
1972 - Rosa Blasi, American actress
1972 - Warren Sapp, American football player
1973 - Takashi Sorimachi, Japanese actor
1973 - Zulfiya Zabirova, Russian cyclist
1974 - Ricky Ponting, Australian cricketer
1974 - Jake Plummer, American football player
1974 - Mikko Paananen, Finnish bassist (HIM)
1975 - Olivier Tebily, Ivorian footballer
1975 - Jon Smith, British writer
1977 - Jorge Garbajosa, Spanish basketball player
1978 - Patrick Casey, American screenwriter and actor
1979 - Kevin Devine, American musician
1979 - Paola Rey, Colombian actress
1980 - Marla Sokoloff, American actress
1980 - Jake Gyllenhaal, American actor
1982 - Vincent Accardi, American musician
1982 - Maurice Williams, American basketball player
1982 - Tero Pitkamaki, Finnish javelin thrower
1983 - Matt Stajan, Canadian ice hockey player
1984 - Ian Kennedy, Major League Baseball pitcher
1985 - Lady Sovereign, English musician
1985 - Neil Kilkenny, English-born Australian footballer
1985 - Gary Cahill, English footballer
1986 - Ryan Babel, Dutch Footballer
1987 - Karim Benzema, French footballer
1987 - Alexis SÃ¡nchez, Chilean footballer
1988 - Paulina Gretzky, American-born Canadian actress and model
1988 - Peter Winn, English footballer
1991 - Declan Galbraith, English singer

Famous Births on 18 Dec

2011-12-17T18:02:00.000-08:00

Famous Births on 18 Dec

1507 - ÅŒuchi Yoshitaka, Japanese warlord (d. 1551)
1602 - Simonds d'Ewes, English antiquarian and politician (d. 1650)
1610 - Charles du Fresne, sieur du Cange, French philologist (d. 1688)
1620 - Heinrich Roth, German Sanskrit scholar (d. 1668)
1661 - Christopher Polhem, Swedish scientist and inventor (d. 1751)
1662 - James Douglas, 2nd Duke of Queensberry, Scottish politician (d. 1711)
1707 - Charles Wesley, English Methodist hymnist (d. 1788)
1725 - Johann Salomo Semler, German historian and Bible commentator (d. 1791)
1825 - Charles Griffin (general), American general (d. 1876)
1835 - Lyman Abbott, American author (d. 1922)
1847 - Augusta HolmÃ¨s, French composer (d. 1903)
1851 - Graciano Lopez Jaena, Filipino hero, orator and satirist (d. 1896)
1856 - Sir J. J. Thomson, English physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1940)
1860 - Edward MacDowell, American composer and pianist (d. 1908)
1863 - Franz Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria (d. 1914)
1870 - Saki, English writer (d. 1916)
1873 - Francis Burton Harrison, American political figure (d. 1957)
1879 - Paul Klee, Swiss-born painter (d. 1940)
1886 - Ty Cobb, American baseball player (d. 1961)
1888 - Dame Gladys Cooper, English actress (d. 1971)
1888 - Robert Moses, American public works official (d. 1981)
1890 - Edwin Armstrong, American inventor (d. 1954)
1897 - Fletcher Henderson, American arranger and composer (d. 1952)
1904 - George Stevens, American film director (d. 1975)
1907 - Bill Holland, American auto racer (d. 1984)
1908 - Paul Siple, American Antarctic explorer (d. 1969)
1910 - Abe Burrows, American playwright (d. 1985)
1911 - Jules Dassin, American film director (d. 2008)
1912 - Benjamin O. Davis Jr., American General (d. 2002)
1913 - Alfred Bester, American author (d. 1987)
1913 - Willy Brandt, Chancellor of Germany, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1992)
1913 - Ray Meyer, American basketball coach (d. 2006)
1916 - Betty Grable, American actress (d. 1973)
1916 - Douglas Fraser, Scottish-born American trade unionist (d. 2008)
1917 - Ossie Davis, American actor and activist (d. 2005)
1927 - Ramsey Clark, U.S. Attorney General
1927 - RomÃ©o LeBlanc, 25th Governor General of Canada
1928 - JÃ³zef Glemp, Polish cardinal
1929 - Gino Cimoli, American baseball player
1930 - Moose Skowron, American baseball player
1931 - Alison Plowden, English historian (d. 2007)
1931 - Allen Klein, American rock and roll business manager
1932 - Roger Smith, American actor
1933 - Arthur Leigh Allen, Suspected Zodiac serial killer (d. 1992)
1934 - Boris Volynov, Soviet cosmonaut
1935 - Jacques PÃ©pin, French chef
1936 - Malcolm Kirk, English professional wrestler (d. 1987)
1938 - Roger E. Mosley, American actor
1938 - Joel Hirschhorn, American songwriter and composer (d. 2005)
1938 - Chas Chandler, English musician (The Animals) (d. 1996)
1939 - Michael Moorcock, English author
1939 - Harold E. Varmus, American scientist, Nobel laureate
1940 - Bramwell Morrison, member of Sharon, Lois & Bram
1941 - Wadada Leo Smith, American trumpeter and composer
1942 - Harvey Atkin, Canadian actor
1943 - Alan Rudolph, American film director and screenwriter
1943 - Keith Richards, English guitarist (The Rolling Stones)
1945 - Jean Pronovost, Canadian ice hockey player
1946 - Steve Biko, South African anti-apartheid activist (d. 1977)
1946 - Steven Spielberg, American film director
1948 - Bill Nelson, English musician (Be Bop Deluxe)
1948 - Laurent Voulzy, French singer and composer
1949 - David A. Johnston, American volcanologist, first to report 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens (d. 1980)
1950 - Leonard Maltin, American film critic
1950 - Randy Castillo, American drummer (Ozzy Osbourne) (d. 2002)
1950 - Gillian Armstrong, Australian film director
1953 - Elliot Easton, American guitarist (The Cars)
1953 - Khas-Magomed Hadjimuradov, Chechen bard
1955 - Ray Liotta, American actor
1956 - Ron White, American comedian
1960 - Kazuhide Uekusa, Japanese economist
1961 - Brian Orser, Canadian figure skater
1962 - Renaldo Lapuz, Filipino-American Singer
1963 - Karl Dorrell, American football coach
1963 - Pauline Ester, French singer
1963 - Allan Kayser, American actor
1963 - Charles Oakley, American basketball player
1963 - Brad Pitt, American actor
1964 - Robson Green, English actor and singer
1964 - Don Beebe, American football player
1964 - "Stone Cold" Steve Austin, American professional wrestler
1965 - Mick Collins, American musician (The Gories, The Dirtbombs)
1965 - Tommy Davidson, American actor
1966 - Makiko Esumi, Japanese actress
1966 - Mille Petrozza, German singer (Kreator)
1967 - Toine van Peperstraten, Dutch sports journalist
1968 - Casper Van Dien, American actor
1968 - Alejandro Sanz, Spanish singer
1968 - Rachel Griffiths, Australian actress
1969 - Santiago CaÃ±izares, Spanish footballer
1969 - Justin Edinburgh, English footballer
1969 - Akira Iida, Japanese racing driver
1970 - Johnny Yeo, English artist
1970 - Rob Van Dam, American professional wrestler
1970 - Victoria Pratt, Canadian actress and fitness model
1970 - Miles Marshall Lewis, American author
1970 - DMX, American rapper and actor
1970 - Cowboy Troy, American rapper
1970 - Anthony Catanzaro, American fitness model
1971 - Barkha Dutt, Indian journalist
1971 - Noriko Matsueda, Japanese composer
1971 - Arantxa SÃ¡nchez Vicario, Spanish tennis player
1972 - Raymond Herrera, American drummer (Fear Factory) and businessman
1972 - DJ Lethal, Latvian-born American DJ (House of Pain, Limp Bizkit)
1974 - Peter Boulware, American football player
1974 - Kari Byron, artist and television personality
1974 - Euroboy, Norwegian musician (Turbonegro)
1974 - Bill Duggan, American television actor and host
1975 - Trish Stratus, Canadian professional wrestler
1975 - Masaki Sumitani, Japanese comedian
1976 - Koyuki, Japanese actress and model
1977 - JosÃ© Acevedo, Dominican baseball player
1978 - Daniel Cleary, Canadian ice hockey player
1978 - Ali Curtis, American soccer player
1978 - Katie Holmes, American actress
1979 - Carlos, Portuguese footballer
1980 - Christina Aguilera, American singer
1982 - Dave Luetkenhoelter, American bassist (Kutless)
1983 - Steph Jones, American R&B singer
1983 - Darren Carter, English footballer
1985 - Tara Conner, 2006 Miss USA
1985 - Hana SoukupovÃ¡, Czech supermodel
1987 - Miki AndÅ, Japanese figure skater
1987 - Ayaka, Japanese singer
1987 - Fernando Jara, Panamanian-American jockey
1989 - Ashley Benson, American actress
1989 - Ashley Slanina-Davies, Hollyoaks actress

Famous Births on 17 Dec

2011-12-16T18:02:00.000-08:00

Famous Births on 17 Dec

1239 - Kujo Yoritsugu, Japanese Shogun (d. 1256)
1267 - Emperor Go-Uda of Japan (d. 1324)
1619 - Prince Rupert of the Rhine, commander in the English Civil War (d. 1682)
1632 - Anthony Wood, English antiqurian (d. 1695)
1685 - Thomas Tickell, English writer (d. 1740)
1706 - Ã‰milie du ChÃ¢telet, French mathematician and physicist (d. 1749)
1734 - Maria I of Portugal, Portuguese queen (d. 1816)
1749 - Domenico Cimarosa, Italian composer (d. 1801)
1770 - (Baptism) - Ludwig van Beethoven, German composer (d. 1827)
1778 - Sir Humphry Davy, English chemist and physicist (d. 1829)
1796 - Thomas Chandler Haliburton, Canadian novelist (d. 1865)
1807 - John Greenleaf Whittier, American poet and abolitionist (d. 1892)
1830 - Jules de Goncourt, French publisher (d. 1870)
1835 - Alexander Emanuel Agassiz, American scientist; son of Louis Agassiz (d.
1847 - Ã‰mile Faguet, French writer and critic (d. 1916)
1853 - Ã‰mile Roux, French physician (d. 1933)
1859 - Paul CÃ©sar Helleu, French artist (d. 1927)
1873 - Ford Madox Ford, English writer (d. 1939)
1874 - William Lyon Mackenzie King, 10th Prime Minister of Canada (d. 1950)
1883 - Raimu, French actor (d. 1946)
1887 - Josef Lada, Czech painter (d. 1957)
1887 - Hermine Reuss, Empress of Germany and Duchess of Bohemia (d. 1947)
1888 - King Alexander I of Yugoslavia (d. 1934)
1892 - Sam Barry, American basketball coach (d. 1950)
1893 - Erwin Piscator, German film director (d. 1966)
1894 - Arthur Fiedler, American conductor (d. 1979)
1900 - Katina Paxinou, Greek actress (d. 1973)
1900 - Mary Cartwright, English mathematician (d. 1998)
1903 - Erskine Caldwell, American author (d. 1987)
1903 - Ray Noble, English bandleader and actor (d. 1978)
1904 - Paul Cadmus, American artist (d. 1999)
1905 - Simo HÃ¤yhÃ¤, Finnish sniper (d. 2002)
1905 - Ã‰rico Lopes VerÃssimo, Brazilian writer (d. 1975)
1906 - Fernando Lopes-GraÃ§a, Portuguese composer and musicologist (d. 1994)
1908 - Willard Frank Libby, American chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1980)
1910 - Sy Oliver, American jazz arranger and bandleader (d. 1988)
1915 - AndrÃ© Claveau, French singer (d. 2003)
1916 - Penelope Fitzgerald, English writer (d. 2000)
1920 - Kenneth E. Iverson, Canadian computer scientist (d. 2004)
1922 - Alan Voorhees, American engineer and urban planner (d. 2005)
1923 - Jaroslav Pelikan, American historian (d. 2006)
1926 - Ray Jablonski, American baseball player (d. 1985)
1927 - Richard Long, American actor (d. 1974)
1929 - Jacqueline Hill, English actress (d. 1993)
1929 - William Safire, American columnist
1930 - Armin Mueller-Stahl, German actor
1930 - Bob Mathias, American decathlete and congressman (d. 2006)
1930 - Bob Guccione, American magazine publisher
1931 - Dave Madden, Canadian-born American actor
1934 - Ray Wilson, English footballer
1935 - George Lindsey, American actor
1935 - Cal Ripken, Sr., American baseball coach (d. 1999)
1936 - Tommy Steele, English singer and actor
1937 - Calvin Waller, US Army general (d. 1996)
1937 - John Kennedy Toole, American novelist (d. 1969)
1937 - Kerry Packer, Australian businessman (d. 2005)
1938 - Carlo Little, English drummer (d. 2005)
1938 - Peter Snell, New Zealand runner
1939 - Eddie Kendricks, American singer (The Temptations) (d. 1992)
1940 - KÃ¥re Valebrokk, Norwegian journalist
1942 - Paul Butterfield, American musician (d. 1987)
1943 - Mary Brunner, American former "Manson Family" member
1943 - Ron Geesin, Scottish musician and composer
1944 - Bernard Hill, English actor
1944 - Jack L. Chalker, American novelist (d. 2005)
1945 - Ernie Hudson, American actor
1945 - Chris Matthews, American journalist
1945 - Jacqueline Wilson, English author
1946 - Eugene Levy, Canadian actor
1947 - Wes Studi, American actor
1949 - Paul Rodgers, English singer (Free; Bad Company)
1949 - Sotiris Kaiafas, Cypriot footballer
1950 - Laurence F. Johnson, American educator
1951 - Ken Hitchcock, Canadian ice hockey coach
1951 - Tatyana Kazankina, Soviet athlete
1953 - Samuel Hadida, film distributor
1953 - Barry Livingston, American actor
1953 - Bill Pullman, American actor
1955 - Brad Davis, American basketball player
1956 - Peter Farrelly, American film director
1957 - Earl Hudson, American drummer (Bad Brains)
1958 - Mike Mills, American musician (R.E.M.)
1960 - Moreno Argentin, Italian cyclist
1961 - Sara Dallin, English singer (Bananarama)
1962 - Paul Dobson, English footballer
1962 - Richard Jewell, central figure in the 1996 Centennial Olympic Park bombing (d. 2007)
1962 - Rocco Mediate, American golfer
1964 - Michele Tafoya, American sportscaster
1964 - Joe Wolf, American basketball player
1964 - Frank Musil, Czech ice hockey player
1964 - Ginger, English singer and guitarist (The Wildhearts)
1965 - Craig Berube, Canadian ice hockey player
1966 - Tracy Byrd, American musician
1966 - Valeri Liukin, Soviet gymnast
1966 - Kristiina Ojuland, Estonian politician
1967 - Gigi D'Agostino, Italian DJ and musician
1967 - Vincent Damphousse, Canadian ice hockey player
1968 - Paul Tracy, Canadian race car driver
1968 - Andrey Golovatiuk, Russian politician
1969 - Chuck Liddell, American mixed martial artist
1969 - Chris Mason, English darts player
1970 - Sean Patrick Thomas, American actor
1971 - Alan Khan, South African radio disc jockey
1971 - Antoine Rigaudeau, French basketball player
1972 - Laurie Holden, American actress
1972 - John Abraham, Indian actor
1973 - Konstadinos Gatsioudis, Greek javelin thrower
1973 - Paula Radcliffe, English runner
1974 - Duff Goldman, American chef
1974 - Giovanni Ribisi, American actor
1974 - Sarah Paulson, American actress
1975 - Bree Sharp, American singer/songwriter
1975 - Milla Jovovich, Ukrainian-born actress
1975 - Nick Dinsmore (Eugene), American professional wrestler
1976 - Ã‰ric BÃ©dard, Canadian speed skater
1976 - Zsanett Ã‰gerhÃ¡zi, Hungarian-born porn actress
1976 - Nir Davidovich, Israeli footballer
1976 - Patrick MÃ¼ller, Swiss footballer
1976 - Takeo Spikes, American football player
1977 - Arnaud Clement, French tennis player
1978 - Chase Utley, American baseball player
1978 - Neil Sanderson, Canadian drummer (Three Days Grace)
1978 - Manny Pacquiao, Filipino boxer
1978 - Riteish Deshmukh, Indian actor
1978 - Alex CintrÃ³n, Puerto Rican baseball player
1979 - Jaimee Foxworth, American actress and porn star
1979 - Ryan Key, American musician and songwriter (Yellowcard)
1979 - Matt Murley, American ice hockey player
1980 - Ryan Hunter-Reay, American race car driver
1980 - Eli Pariser, American political activist (MoveOn.org)
1982 - Ryan Moats, National Football League runningback
1982 - Stephane Lasme, Gabonese basketball player
1982 - Craig Kielburger, Canadian labour activist
1982 - Josh Barfield, American baseball player
1984 - Andrew Davies, English footballer
1985 - Ryuichi Ogata, member of Japanese boy band w-inds.
1986 - Vanessa Zima, American actress
1992 - Thomas Law, British Actor
1992 - Jordan Garrett, American actor
2007 - James Windsor, Viscount Severn, son of Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex

Famous Births on 16 Dec

2011-12-15T18:02:00.000-08:00

Famous Births on 16 Dec

1485 - Catherine of Aragon, Queen of England (d. 1536)
1584 - John Selden, English jurist and oriental scholar (d. 1654)
1614 - Eberhard III, Duke of WÃ¼rttemberg (d. 1674)

Famous Births on 15 Dec

2011-12-14T18:02:00.000-08:00

Famous Births on 15 Dec

1832 - Gustave Eiffel, French engineer and architect (Eiffel tower) (d. 1923)
1852 - Henri Becquerel, French physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1908)
1859 - L. L. Zamenhof, Polish initiator of Esperanto (d. 1917)
1860 - Abner Powell, American baseball player (d. 1953)
1860 - Niels Ryberg Finsen, Danish physician, Nobel laureate (d. 1904)
1861 - Charles Duryea, American automobile pioneer (d. 1938)
1875 - Emilio Jacinto, Filipino poet and revolutionary (d. 1899)
1878 - Hans Carossa, German writer (d. 1956)
1888 - Maxwell Anderson, American writer (d. 1959)
1892 - J. Paul Getty, American oil tycoon (d. 1976)
1896 - Betty Smith, American author (d. 1972)
1899 - Harold Abrahams, English sprinter (d. 1978)
1902 - Robert F. Bradford, 57th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1983)
1907 - Oscar Niemeyer, Brazilian architect
1910 - John H. Hammond, American musician (d. 1987)
1911 - Nicholas P. Dallis, American psychiatrist and comic strip writer (d. 1991)
1911 - Stan Kenton, American musician (d. 1979)
1912 - Ray Eames, American designer (d. 1988)
1913 - Muriel Rukeyser, American poet (d. 1980)
1913 - Roger Gaudry, French Canadian chemist, businessman and corporate director (d. 2001)
1916 - Buddy Cole, American pianist (d. 1964)
1916 - Maurice Wilkins, New Zealand-born physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 2004)
1917 - Shan-ul-Haq Haqqee, linguist and writer of Pakistan (d. 2005)
1918 - Jeff Chandler, American actor (d. 1961)
1919 - Max Yasgur, owner of the Woodstock Festival site (d. 1973)
1920 - Kurt Schaffenberger, American comics artist (d. 2002)
1921 - Alan Freed, American disc jockey (d. 1965)
1923 - Freeman Dyson, English-born American physicist
1923 - Uziel Gal, Israeli firearm designer (d. 2002)
1923 - Valentin Varennikov, Russian general and statesman
1925 - Kasey Rogers, American actress (d. 2006)
1925 - Sam Pollock, Canadian ice hockey general manager
1928 - Friedensreich Hundertwasser, Austrian artist (d. 2000)
1928 - Jerry Wallace, American singer
1929 - Barry Harris, American bebop jazz pianist
1930 - Edna O'Brien, Irish novelist and short story writer
1932 - Jesse Belvin, American musician (d. 1960)
1933 - Donald Woods, South African journalist and anti-apartheid activist (d. 2001)
1933 - Tim Conway, American actor and comedian
1933 - Bapu, Indian cartoonist, designer and film director
1938 - Billy Shaw, American football player
1939 - Cindy Birdsong, American singer (The Supremes)
1940 - Nick Buoniconti, American football player
1942 - Dave Clark, English musician (The Dave Clark Five)
1943 - Lucien den Arend, Dutch artist
1943 - Kathleen Blanco, American politician
1944 - Jim Leyland, American baseball manager
1944 - Chico Mendes, Brazilian campaigner (d. 1988)
1945 - Thaao Penghlis, Australian actor
1946 - Art Howe, American baseball player and manager
1948 - Cassandra Harris, Australian actress (d. 1991)
1948 - Melanie Chartoff, American actress
1949 - Don Johnson, American actor
1952 - Allan Simonsen, Danish footballer
1952 - Julie Taymor, American director
1953 - J. M. DeMatteis, American comic book writer
1955 - Paul Simonon, English bassist (The Clash)
1957 - Laura Molina, American artist, musician and actress
1957 - Yuuichi Nagashima, Japanese voice actor
1957 - Mike McAlary, American journalist (d. 1998)
1957 - Mario Marois, Canadian ice hockey player
1958 - Eddy Annys, Belgian high jumper
1960 - Walter Werzowa, Austrian composer
1961 - Karin Resetarits, Austrian journalist
1963 - Helen Slater, American actress
1963 - Andrew Luster, Max Factor heir
1966 - Manos Papayiannis, Greek fashion model and actor
1967 - David Howells, English footballer
1967 - Mo Vaughn, American baseball player
1968 - Garrett Wang, American actor
1968 - Osama Ali Maher, Swedish politician
1968 - Javid Hussain, Indian film producer
1969 - Chantal Petitclerc, Canadian wheelchair athlete
1970 - Frankie Dettori, Italian jockey
1970 - Michael Shanks, Canadian actor
1972 - Rodney Harrison, American football player
1972 - Stuart Townsend, Irish actor
1973 - Ryu Seung-wan, South Korean actor and director
1973 - Surya Bonaly, French-born American figure skater
1976 - Baichung Bhutia, Indian footballer
1976 - Aaron Miles, American baseball player
1976 - Elix Skipper, American professional wrestler
1978 - Jerome McDougle, American football player
1978 - Mark Jansen, Dutch guitarist (Epica)
1979 - Adam Brody, American actor
1979 - Eric Young, Canadian professional wrestler
1980 - Sergio Pizzorno, English guitarist (Kasabian)
1981 - Roman Pavlyuchenko, Russian football player
1981 - Thomas Herrion, American football player (d. 2005)
1981 - Creighton Lovelace, American Baptist minister
1981 - Andy GonzÃ¡lez, Puerto Rican baseball player
1981 - Brendan Fletcher, Canadian actor
1981 - Najoua Belyzel, French singer
1982 - George O. Gore II, American actor
1982 - Charlie Cox, English actor
1982 - Borja GarcÃa, Spanish racing driver
1983 - RenÃ© Goguen (RenÃ© DuprÃ©e), Canadian professional wrestler
1983 - Ronnie Radke, American singer (Escape the Fate)
1983 - Wang Hao, Chinese table tennis player
1984 - Joshua Third, British Guitarist in The Horrors.
1984 - Martin Skrtel Slovakian Footballer
1986 - Snejana Onopka, Ukrainian supermodel
1991 - Eunice Cho, American actress
37 - Nero, Roman Emperor of the Julio-Claudian dynasty (d. 68)

Famous Births on 14 Dec

2011-12-13T18:02:00.000-08:00

Famous Births on 14 Dec

1009 - Emperor Go-Suzaku of Japan (d. 1045)
1503 - Nostradamus, French astrologer (d. 1566)
1546 - Tycho Brahe, Danish astronomer and alchemist (d. 1601)
1625 - BarthÃ©lemy d'Herbelot de Molainville, French orientalist (d. 1695)
1631 - Anne Conway, Viscountess Conway, English philosopher (d. 1679)
1640 - (baptism date) - Aphra Behn, English playwright and novelist (d. 1689)
1678 - Daniel Neal, English historian (d. 1743)
1720 - Justus MÃ¶ser, German statesman (d. 1794)
1775 - Thomas Cochrane, 10th Earl of Dundonald, British admiral (d. 1860)
1775 - Philander Chase, American founder of Kenyon College (d. 1852)
1784 - Princess Maria Antonia of Naples and Sicily, Princess of Asturias (d. 1806)
1787 - Maria Ludovika of Austria-Este, Empress of Austria and queen of Hungary and Bohemia (d. 1816)
1791 - Charles Wolfe, Irish poet (d. 1823)
1794 - Erastus Corning, American businessman and politician (d. 1872)
1824 - Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, French painter (d. 1898)
1866 - Roger Fry, English artist and art critic (d. 1934)
1870 - Karl Renner, President of Austria (d. 1950)
1881 - Katherine MacDonald, American actress and film producer (d. 1956)
1884 - Jane Cowl, American actress and playwright (d. 1950)
1895 - Paul Eluard, French poet (d. 1952)
1895 - King George VI of the United Kingdom (d. 1952)
1896 - Jimmy Doolittle, American General (d. 1993)
1897 - Margaret Chase Smith, American politician (d. 1995)
1897 - Kurt Schuschnigg, Austrian politician (d. 1977)
1902 - Frances Bavier, American actress (d. 1989)
1908 - Morey Amsterdam, American comedian and actor (d. 1996)
1908 - Claude Davey, Welsh rugby union footballer
1908 - MÃ¡ria Szepes, Hungarian authoress (d. 2007)
1909 - Edward Tatum, American geneticist, Nobel laureate (d. 1975)
1911 - Spike Jones, American comedian and musician (d. 1965)
1911 - Hans von Ohain, German/American aerospace engineer (d. 1998)
1913 - Dan Dailey, American actor (d. 1978)
1914 - Karl Carstens, President of Germany (d. 1992)
1914 - Attila Petschauer, Hungarian fencer (d. 1943)
1914 - Rosalyn Tureck, American pianist and harpsichordist (d. 2003)
1916 - Shirley Jackson, American writer (d. 1965)
1917 - Elyse Knox, American Actress
1917 - June Taylor, American choreographer (d. 2004)
1917 - C.-H. Hermansson, Swedish communist leader
1918 - James T. Aubrey, American television executive (d. 1994)
1918 - B.K.S. Iyengar, Indian yoga advocate
1920 - Clark Terry, American trumpeter
1922 - Nikolay Basov, Soviet physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 2001)
1922 - Don Hewitt, American creator of 60 Minutes
1923 - Gerard Reve, Dutch writer (d. 2006)
1924 - Raj Kapoor, Indian actor (d. 1988)
1925 - Sam Jones, American baseball player (d. 1971)
1927 - Richard Cassilly, American tenor (d.1998)
1931 - Jon Elia, Pakistani scholar, poet and philosopher (d. 2002)
1932 - Abbe Lane, American singer and actress
1932 - Charlie Rich, American musician (d. 1995)
1935 - Lewis Arquette, American film actor, writer and producer (d. 2001)
1935 - Lee Remick, American actress (d. 1991)
1938 - Leonardo Boff, Brazilian theologian
1939 - Ernie Davis, American football player (d. 1963)
1940 - Lex Gold, Scottish football administrator
1941 - Karan Armstrong, American soprano
1941 - Ellen Willis, American journalist (d. 2006)
1942 - Zoe Laskari, Greek actress
1943 - R. Emmett Tyrrell, American magazine publisher
1946 - Joyce Vincent Wilson, American singer (Tony Orlando and Dawn)
1946 - Stan Smith, American tennis player
1946 - Michael Ovitz, American film producer
1946 - Ruth Fuchs, East German athlete
1946 - Patty Duke, American actress
1946 - Jane Birkin, English-born French actress and singer
1947 - Christopher Parkening, American guitarist
1947 - Linda Sutton, English artist
1948 - Lester Bangs, American music journalist (d. 1982)
1948 - Kim Beazley, Australian politician
1948 - Dee Wallace-Stone, American actress
1949 - Cliff Williams, English bassist (AC/DC)
1949 - Bill Buckner, American baseball player
1951 - Jan Timman, Dutch chess grandmaster
1952 - Germain Houde, French Canadian actor
1953 - Vijay Amritraj, Indian tennis player
1953 - RenÃ© Eespere, Soviet-born Estonian composer
1953 - Vangelis Meimarakis, Greek lawyer and politician
1953 - Mikael Odenberg, Swedish politician
1954 - Steven MacLean, Canadian astronaut
1954 - Alan Kulwicki, American NASCAR driver (d. 1993)
1954 - James Horan, American actor
1956 - Hanni Wenzel, Liechtenstein skier
1957 - Gary Ferris, American author
1958 - Mike Scott, Scottish singer-songwriter (The Waterboys)
1958 - Spider Stacy, English musician (The Pogues)
1959 - Jorge Vaca, Mexican boxer
1960 - Bob Paris, American bodybuilder and gay rights advocate
1960 - Chris Waddle, English footballer
1962 - Ginger Lynn (Ginger Lynn Allen), American adult film actress
1963 - Greg Abbott, English former football player
1963 - Cynthia Gibb, American actress
1965 - Craig Biggio, American baseball player
1965 - Ken Hill, American baseball player
1966 - Fabrizio Giovanardi, Italian racecar driver
1966 - Bill Ranford, Canadian ice hockey player
1966 - Tim Skold, Swedish/American musician
1967 - Ewa BiaÅ‚oÅ‚Ä™cka, Polish writer
1969 - Scott Hatteberg, American baseball player
1970 - Nadine Garner, Australian actress
1970 - Anna Maria Jopek, Polish singer
1970 - Beth Orton, English singer-songwriter
1971 - Natascha McElhone, English actress
1972 - Eric Anderson, American musical theatre actor
1972 - Marcus Jensen, American baseball player
1973 - Thuy Trang, American actress (d. 2001)
1973 - Tia Texada, American actress and singer
1973 - Tomasz Radzinski, Polish-born Canadian soccer player
1974 - Billy Koch, American baseball player
1975 - Justin Furstenfeld, American rock singer
1976 - Leland Chapman, American bounty hunter
1976 - AndrÃ© Couto, Portuguese racing driver
1976 - Santiago Ezquerro, Spanish footballer
1977 - KaDee Strickland, American actress
1978 - Patty Schnyder, Swiss tennis player
1978 - Radu SÃ¢rbu, Moldovan singer (O-Zone)
1978 - Kim St-Pierre, Canadian ice hockey player
1979 - Sophie Monk, Australian actress, singer, and model
1979 - Michael Owen, English footballer
1980 - Frankie J, American singer
1980 - Tata Young, Thai-American singer
1980 - Didier Zokora, Ivorian footballer
1981 - Liam Lawrence, English footballer
1981 - Shaun Marcum, American baseball player
1981 - Johnny Jeter, American professional wrestler
1981 - Emilie Heymans, Canadian diver
1981 - Amber Chia, Malaysian model and actress
1982 - Josh Fields, American baseball player
1982 - Steve Sidwell, English footballer
1982 - Anthony Way, English singer and actor
1984 - Chris Brunt, Northern Irish footballer
1984 - Edward Rainsford, Zimbabwean cricketer
1985 - Nonami Takizawa, Japanese actress
1985 - Tom Smith, Welsh rugby union footballer
1985 - Julio Pimentel, Dominican baseball player
1985 - Paul Rabil, professional lacrosse player
1985 - Jakub BÅ‚aszczykowski, Polish footballer
1988 - Nicolas Batum, French basketball player
1988 - Vanessa Hudgens, American singer and actress
1989 - Pedro Silva, Brazilian footballer
1992 - Tori Kelly, American singer
1995 - Princess Olimpia Preslavska of Bulgaria

Famous Births on 13 Dec

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Famous Births on 13 Dec

1521 - Pope Sixtus V (d. 1590)
1533 - King Eric XIV of Sweden (d. 1577)
1553 - King Henry IV of France (d. 1610)
1585 - William Drummond of Hawthornden, Scottish poet (d. 1649)
1640 - Robert Plot, English naturalist (d. 1696)
1662 - Francesco Bianchini, Italian philosopher and scientist (d. 1729)
1678 - Yongzheng Emperor of China (d. 1735)
1720 - Carlo Gozzi, Italian dramatist (d. 1804)
1724 - Franz Aepinus, German scientist (d. 1802)
1784 - Archduke Louis of Austria (d. 1864)
1797 - Heinrich Heine, German poet (d. 1856)
1804 - Joseph Howe, Canadian politician (d. 1873)
1816 - Ernst Werner von Siemens, German engineer, inventor, and industrialist (d. 1892)
1818 - Mary Todd Lincoln, First Lady of the United States (d. 1882)
1836 - Franz von Lenbach, German painter (d. 1904)
1856 - Svetozar BoroeviÄ‡, Austro-Hungarian field marshal (d. 1920)
1860 - Lucien Guitry, French actor (d. 1925)
1864 - Emil Seidel, Mayor of Milwaukee (d. 1947)
1867 - Kristian Birkeland, Norwegian explorer and scientist (d. 1917)
1870 - Edward LeSaint, American actor and director (d. 1940)
1871 - Emily Carr, Canadian artist (d. 1945)
1874 - Josef LhÃ©vinne, Russian-born pianist (d. 1944)
1883 - Belle da Costa Greene, American librarian, bibliographer and archivist (d. 1950)
1887 - Alvin York, American soldier & Medal of Honor recipient (d. 1964)
1887 - George Polya, Hungarian-born mathematician (d. 1985)
1897 - Drew Pearson, American journalist (d. 1969)
1902 - Talcott Parsons, American sociologist, (d.1979)
1903 - Carlos Montoya, Spanish guitarist (d. 1993)
1906 - Princess Marina, Duchess of Kent (d. 1968)
1906 - Sir Laurens van der Post, South African author (d. 1996)
1910 - Van Heflin, American actor (d. 1971)
1911 - Kenneth Patchen, American poet and painter (d. 1972)
1911 - Trygve Haavelmo, Norwegian economist and Bank of Sweden Prize winner (d. 1999)
1913 - Arnold Brown, the 11th General of The Salvation Army (d. 2002)
1913 - Archie Moore, American boxer (d. 1998)
1915 - Curd JÃ¼rgens, German-born Austrian actor (d. 1982)
1915 - Ross Macdonald, American-born author (d. 1983)
1915 - B. J. Vorster, Prime Minister of South Africa 1966-1978 (d. 1983)
1917 - John Hart, American actor
1919 - Hans-Joachim Marseille, German flying ace of World War II (d. 1942)
1920 - George Shultz, United States Secretary of State 1982-1989
1923 - Philip Warren Anderson, American physicist, Nobel laureate
1923 - Larry Doby, American baseball player (d. 2003)
1925 - Dick Van Dyke, American actor and comedian
1926 - George Rhoden, Jamaican athlete
1929 - Christopher Plummer, Canadian actor
1930 - Robert Prosky, American actor
1934 - Richard D. Zanuck, American film producer
1935 - Lindy McDaniel, American baseball player
1935 - Ken Hall, American football player
1935 - Joe Christopher, American baseball player
1936 - His Highness Prince Karim Aga Khan (Aga Khan IV), Imam (leader) of the Shia Imami Ismaili Muslims
1936 - J. C. Martin, American baseball player
1937 - Ron Taylor, Canadian baseball player
1938 - Alvin Curran, American composer
1938 - Heino, German folk singer.
1939 - Eric Flynn, British actor and singer (d. 2002)
1941 - John Davidson, American actor and game show host
1942 - Anna Eshoo, American politician
1943 - Ferguson Jenkins, Canadian baseball player
1943 - GÃ¶sta Winbergh, Swedish tenor (d. 2002)
1944 - Hwang Jang Lee, Korean martial artist and film actor
1945 - Kathy Garver, American actress
1945 - Brian McGuire, Australian racing driver (d. 1977)
1947 - Dave Hamilton, American baseball player
1947 - Darlene Cates, American actress
1948 - Jeff Baxter, American guitarist (Steely Dan, The Doobie Brothers)
1948 - Ted Nugent, American guitarist
1948 - Brian Wilson, Scottish politician
1949 - Tom Verlaine, American singer/guitarist of Television
1949 - Randy Owen, lead vocals, rhythm guitar for Alabama
1949 - Paula Wilcox, English actress
1950 - Tom Vilsack, Governor of Iowa
1950 - Wendie Malick, American actress
1952 - Sylvester Ritter (Junkyard Dog), American professional wrestler (d. 1998)
1953 - Ben Bernanke, American economist and current United States Chairman of the Federal Reserve
1953 - Bill Castro, Dominican baseball player
1953 - Bob Gainey, Canadian ice hockey player
1954 - John Anderson, American country music singer-songwriter
1954 - Tamora Pierce, American author
1956 - Majida El Roumi, Lebanese singer
1956 - Dale Berra, American baseball player
1957 - Steve Buscemi, American actor
1957 - Morris Day, American singer (The Time)
1957 - Jean-Marie Messier, French businessman
1958 - Lynn-Holly Johnson, American figure skater and actress
1959 - Jim Barrell, American professional wrestler
1959 - Johnny Whitaker, American actor
1960 - Daggubati Venkatesh, Indian actor
1961 - Gary Zimmerman, former NFL offensive lineman
1961 - Irene Saez, Miss Universe 1981 and Venezuelan politician
1961 - Harry Gregson-Williams, English composer
1962 - Roger Ilegems, Belgian track cyclist and road bicycle racer
1962 - Kendra Slewenski, English netballer
1964 - hide, Japanese musician (X Japan) (d. 1998)
1965 - Marko MÃ¤etamm, Estonian artist
1966 - Don Roff, American writer and filmmaker
1966 - Ross Burden, New Zealand celebrity chef
1967 - Jamie Foxx, American actor
1967 - Bo Pelini, American football coach
1968 - Tony Curran, Scottish actor
1969 - Sergei Fedorov, Russian ice hockey player
1969 - Murat Nasyrov, Russian singer (d. 2007)
1973 - Christie Clark, American actress
1974 - Nicholas McCarthy, English guitarist (Franz Ferdinand)
1974 - Sara Cox, English TV and radio presenter
1975 - Bates Battaglia, National Hockey League player
1975 - Tom DeLonge, American guitarist,(blink-182, Angels & Airwaves)
1975 - Matthew LeCroy, American baseball player
1976 - Josh Fogg, American baseball player
1976 - RadosÅ‚aw Sobolewski, Polish footballer
1976 - SÃ¸ren Friis, Danish footballer
1977 - Peter Stringer, Irish rugby union footballer
1978 - Ryo Kawakita, Japanese guitarist (Maximum the Hormone)
1978 - BJ Penn, American mixed martial artist
1981 - Amy Lee, American singer/songwriter (Evanescence)
1982 - Dominik Werling, German footballer
1982 - Freddie Weinke, American football player
1982 - Tuka Rocha, Brazilian racing driver
1982 - Ricky Nolasco, American baseball player
1982 - Anthony Callea, Australian singer/songwriter
1983 - Matt Deis, American bassist
1983 - Otylia JÄ™drzejczak, Polish swimmer
1988 - Darcy Blake, Welsh footballer
1989 - Taylor Swift, American singer/songwriter
1991 - Jay Greenberg, American composer
2005 - Prince Aymeric of Belgium
2005 - Prince Nicolas of Belgium