Portuguese poet, writer, and philosopher (1888–1935); creator of the heteronymic system including Alberto Caeiro, Ricardo Reis, Álvaro de Campos, and Bernardo Soares

1888-06-13 · Portugal

Hugh Jackman

Australian and English actor and singer (born 1968)

1968-10-12 · Australia

Ian Fleming

British author (1908–1964)

1908-05-28 · United Kingdom

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Indian spiritual philosopher, mystic, speaker and writer (1895–1986)

1895-05-12 · India

John Forbes Nash

American mathematician and economist (1928–2015)

1928-06-13 · United States

Keira Knightley

British actress (born 1985)

1985-03-26 · United Kingdom

Nancy Reagan

First Lady of the United States from 1981 to 1989

1921-07-06 · United States

Ozzy Osbourne

English musician and television personality (1948–2025)

1948-12-03 · United Kingdom

Ray Charles

American singer, pianist and songwriter (1930–2004)

1930-09-23 · United States

Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell

lieutenant-general in the British Army, writer, founder and Chief Scout of the Scout Movement (1857-1941)

1857-02-22 · United Kingdom

Robert Lewandowski

Polish association football player (born 1988)

1988-08-21 · Poland

Seamus Heaney

Irish poet, playwright, translator, lecturer (1939–2013)

1939-04-13 · United Kingdom

Simon Pegg

English actor (born 1970)

1970-02-14 · United Kingdom

Vin Diesel

American actor (born 1967)

1967-07-18 · United States

Whoopi Goldberg

American actress, comedian, author and television personality

1955-11-13 · United States

Abd al-Aziz Boutafliqa

President of Algeria from 1999 to 2019

1937-03-02 · Morocco

Abdel Fattah el-Sisi

President of Egypt since 2014

1954-11-19 · Egypt

Charles Bukowski

German-American writer (1920–1994)

1920-08-16 · Germany

Chinua Achebe

Nigerian novelist, poet, professor, and critic (1930-2013)

1930-11-16 · Nigeria

Clark Gable

American actor (1901–1960)

1901-02-01 · United States

Daniel Craig

English actor

1968-03-02 · United Kingdom

David Lynch

American filmmaker (1946–2025)

1946-01-20 · United States

Dmitri Shostakovich

Soviet composer and pianist (1906-1975)

1906-09-25 · Russia

Erich Fromm

German-American sociologist and psychoanalyst (1900–1980)

1900-03-23 · Germany

George Marshall

American army officer and statesman (1880–1959)

1880-12-31 · United States

George Michael

English singer (1963–2016)

1963-06-25 · United Kingdom

Georges Bizet

French composer (1838–1875)

1838-10-25 · France

Harald V of Norway

King of Norway from 1991 to 2026 (1937–2026)

1937-02-21 · Norway

Jacques Offenbach

German-born French composer (1819–1880)

1819-06-20 · Germany

Jean Piaget

Swiss psychologist, biologist, logician, philosopher and academic (1896–1980)

1896-08-09 · Switzerland

Joan Miró

Spanish painter, sculptor, and ceramicist (1893–1983)

1893-04-20 · Spain

John Major

Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1990 to 1997

1943-03-29 · United Kingdom

Maurice Ravel

French composer (1875–1937)

1875-03-07 · France

Mesut Özil

Turkish-German association football player

1988-10-15 · Germany

Noemi

Italian singer, screenwriter and music video director (1982-)

1982-01-25 · Italy

Paul Heyse

German writer (1830–1914)

1830-03-15 · Germany

Robert Andrews Millikan

American physicist (1868–1953)

1868-03-22 · United States

Salma Hayek

Mexican and American actress (born 1966)

1966-09-02 · Mexico

Slobodan Milošević

Yugoslav–Serbian politician (1941–2006)

1941-08-20 · Serbia

Steve Wozniak

American computer pioneer, inventor, computer engineer and programmer; co-founder of Apple Inc.

1950-08-11 · United States

Tomas Tranströmer

Swedish poet, psychologist and translator (1931-2015)

1931-04-15 · Sweden

Vajiralongkorn

King of Thailand since 2016

1952-07-28 · Thailand

Wolfgang Pauli

physicist, Nobel prize winner (1900–1958)

1900-04-25 · Austria

Abdul Hamid II

34th Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (1876–1909)

1842-09-21 · Turkey

Baháʼu'lláh

founder of the Bahá'í Faith (1817–1892)

1817-11-12 · Iran

Bruno Mars

American singer-songwriter and record producer (born 1985)

1985-10-08 · United States

Béla Bartók

Hungarian composer and pianist (1881–1945)

1881-03-25 · Romania

Christopher Plummer

Canadian actor (1929–2021)

1929-12-13 · Canada

Dorothy Hodgkin

British chemist

1910-05-12 · Egypt

Enver Hoxha

former First Secretary of the Party of Labour of Albania, Prime Minister of Albania

1908-10-16 · Albania

Frank Lampard

English association football player and manager

1978-06-20 · United Kingdom

Gao Xingjian

Chinese novelist and playwright (1940- )

1940-01-04 · People's Republic of China

Gary Oldman

British actor and filmmaker (born 1958)

1958-03-21 · United Kingdom

George Soros

Hungarian-American investor and philanthropist (born 1930)

1930-08-12 · Hungary

Imre Kertész

Hungarian author (1929–2016)

1929-11-09 · Hungary

Jacob Zuma

4th President of South Africa (2009–2018)

1942-04-12 · South Africa

Jean Sibelius

Finnish composer (1865–1957)

1865-12-08 · Finland

Jens Stoltenberg

Minister of Finance, former prime minister of Norway and NATO secretary general

1959-03-16 · Norway

John D. Rockefeller

American industrialist and philanthropist (1839–1937)

1839-07-08 · United States

Kaja Kallas

Estonian politician and former prime minister of Estonia (born 1977)

1977-06-18 · Estonia

Max Verstappen

Dutch and Belgian racing driver

1997-09-30 · Belgium

Michel Platini

French football player, manager and executive (born 1955)

1955-06-21 · France

Mohammed VI of Morocco

king of Morocco since 1999

1963-08-21 · Morocco

Park Geun-hye

President of South Korea from 2013 to 2017

1952-02-02 · South Korea

Pierce Brosnan

Irish actor (born 1953)

1953-05-16 · Ireland

Rita Hayworth

American actress (1918–1987)

1918-10-17 · United States

Rita Levi-Montalcini

Italian neurologist (1909–2012)

1909-04-22 · Italy

Salman Khan

Indian actor and producer (born 1965)

1965-12-27 · India

Terry Pratchett

English fantasy author (1948–2015)

1948-04-28 · United Kingdom

Theodor Herzl

father of modern political Zionism (1860–1904)

1860-05-02 · Hungary