Year of Birth | Birthplace | Name | Profession | Accomplishment |
-2450 | Egypt | Niankhkhnum and Khnumhotep | Stylist | Manicurists to the Pharaoh |
-2284 | Egypt | Pepi II Neferkare | Politician | Pharaoh |
-638 | Greece | Solon | Politician | Democracy |
-620 | Greece | Sappho | Poet | “Ode to Aphrodite” |
-570 | Samos | Polycrates | Soldier | Tyrant of Samos |
-470 | Greece | Socrates | Philosopher | Socratic Method |
-427 | Greece | Plato | Philosopher | The Republic |
-418 | Thebes | Epaminondas | Soldier | General |
-382 | Macedonia | Philip II | Soldier | Defeated Athens and Thebes |
-356 | Macedonia | Alexander the Great | Soldier | Created an empire |
-280 | Rome | Serge and Bacchus | Clerics | Saints |
-100 | Rome | Caesar, Julius | Soldier | Emperor |
-27 | China | Ai Ti | Politician | Emperor of China |
76 | Rome | Hadrian | Soldier | Emperor |
111 | Turkey | Antinous | Consort | Became a god |
747 | Persia | Nuwas, Abu | Poet | Khamriyyat |
774 | Japan | Kūkai | Cleric | Shingon and shudo |
811 | Macedonia | Basil I | Politician | Emperor |
971 | Afghanistan | Sultan Mahmud | Soldier | Invaded India 17 times |
1012 | Italy | Benedict IX | Cleric | Pope |
1033 | Italy | Anselm, Saint | Cleric | Archbishop of Canterbury |
1035 | France | Marbod | Cleric | Bishop of Rennes |
1046 | France | Baldric of Dol | Cleric | Archbishop of Dol |
1050 | France | Ralph, Archbishop | Cleric | Archbishop of Tours |
1056 | UK | William II | Politician | King of England |
1100 | UK | Hilarius | Poet | “To a Boy of Anjou” |
1110 | UK | Aethelred, Saint | Philosopher | Abbot of Rievaulx |
1140 | UK | Longchamp, William | Cleric | Bishop of Ely |
1157 | UK | Richard the Lion-Hearted | Soldier | King of England |
1284 | UK | Edward II | Politician | King of England |
1320 | Persia | Hafez | Poet | Ghazals |
1363 | Japan | Zeami Motokiyo | Playwright | Noh theatre |
1386 | Italy | Donatello | Artist | David |
1405 | Spain | Juan II | Politician | King of Castile |
1414 | Italy | Sixtus IV | Cleric | Pope |
1417 | Italy | Paul II | Cleric | Pope |
1433 | Italy | Ficino, Marsilio | Philosopher | Theologia Platonica |
1443 | Italy | Julius II | Cleric | Pope |
1445 | Italy | Botticelli, Sandro | Artist | Sistine Chapel (portions) |
1452 | Italy | Leonardo da Vinci | Artist | Mona Lisa |
1454 | Italy | Poliziano, Angelo Ambrogini | Poet | Favola d’Orfeo (first play in Italian) |
1466 | Netherlands | Erasmus, Desiderius | Cleric | Greek New Testament |
1475 | Italy | Leo X | Cleric | Pope |
1475 | Italy | Michelangelo | Artist | Sistine Chapel |
1479 | Russia | Vasili III | Politician | |
1487 | Italy | Julius III | Cleric | Pope |
1490 | Mexico | Xicomecoatl | Politician | |
1491 | China | Zhu Houzhao | Politician | |
1497 | Italy | Berni, Francesco | Poet | Bernesque poetry |
1500 | Italy | Cellini, Benvenuto | Artist | Autobiography |
1503 | Italy | Varchi, Benedetto | Author | Storia di Firenze |
1504 | UK | Udall, Nicholas | Playwright | Ralph Roister Doister |
1514 | Austria | Rheticus, Georg Joachim | Scientist | “No Rheticus, No Copernicus” |
1521 | Japan | Takeda Shingen | Politician | Daimyo |
1526 | France | Muret, Marc-Antoine | Teacher | Lectures in Paris |
1527 | Japan | Kōsaka Masanobu | Soldier | Battle of Kawanakajima |
1533 | France | Montaigne, Michel Eyquem de | Author | Essais |
1534 | Japan | Oda Nobunaga | Soldier | Conquered most of Japan |
1539 | Spain | Pérez, Antonio | Politician | Secretary of State |
1543 | Japan | Tokugawa Ieyasu | Politician | Shogun |
1550 | China | Zang Maoxun | Poet | |
1551 | France | Henri III de Valois | Politician | King of France |
1564 | UK | Marlowe, Christopher | Playwright | Dr. Faustus |
1564 | UK | Shakespeare, William | Playwright | Sonnets |
1566 | UK | James I | Politician | King of Great Britain |
1571 | Italy | Caravaggio, Michelangelo | Artist | Card Players |
1590 | France | Viau, Théophile de | Poet | “Pyrame et Thisbé” |
1590 | Italy | Carlini, Benedetta | Cleric | |
1592 | France | Boisrobert, François Le Métel de | Politician | Founder of the French Academy |
1601 | France | Louis XIII | Politician | King of France |
1604 | Japan | Tokugawa Iemitsu | Politician | Shogun |
1605 | France | Assoucy, Charles Coypeau d' | Composer | |
1622 | France | Molière, Jean Baptiste | Playwright | Greatest playwright of France |
1626 | Sweden | Christina | Politician | Queen of Sweden |
1631 | UK | Philips, Katherine | Poet | The matchless Orinda |
1632 | France | Lully, Jean-Baptiste | Composer | Alceste |
1640 | France | Philippe I | Soldier | Duc d’Orleans |
1642 | Japan | Ihara Saikaku | Author | Koshoku ichidai otoko |
1643 | UK | Newton, Isaac | Scientist | Newton’s Laws |
1651 | Mexico | Cruz, Juana Inez de la | Poet | Reply to Sister Philotea |
1663 | France | Eugene of Savoy | Soldier | Prince and General |
1665 | UK | Anne | Politician | Queen of England |
1666 | UK | Culliford, Captain Robert | Pirate | |
1671 | Italy | Gastone, Gian | Politician | Last of the Medicis |
1672 | Russia | Peter the Great | Politician | Tsar of Russia |
1682 | Sweden | Charles XII | Soldier | King |
1685 | Germany | Handel, George Frideric | Composer | Messiah |
1696 | UK | Hervey, John | Politician | Memoirs |
1698 | Italy | Metastasio | Poet | “Olimipiade” |
1712 | Italy | Algarotti, Francesco | Philosopher | Essays on the Fine Arts |
1712 | Prussia | Frederick the Great | Soldier | King |
1715 | France | Vauvenargues, Luc de Clapiers marquis de | Soldier | War of the Polish Secession |
1716 | UK | Gray, Thomas | Poet | “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard“ |
1717 | Germany | Winckelmann, Johann J. | Archaeologist | History of the Art of Antiquity |
1717 | UK | Walpole, Horace | Author | The Castle of Otranto |
1720 | UK | Foote, Samuel | Playwright | The Nabob |
1726 | Prussia | Henry of Prussia | Soldier | King of the US (almost) |
1728 | France | Éon, Chevalière d' | Soldier | |
1729 | France | Suffren de Saint Tropez, Pierre-André | Soldier | Admiral |
1730 | Prussia | Steuben, Friedrich Wilhelm von | Soldier | Valley Forge |
1739 | UK | Butler, Eleanor | Author | Diaries |
1747 | UK | Seward, Anna | Poet | “Llangollen Vale” |
1753 | France | Cambacérès, Jean Jacques-Régis de | Politician | Napoleonic Code |
1755 | US | Coxe, Tench | Businessperson | Delegate to Continental Congress |
1756 | France | Raucourt | Actress | Comédie francaise |
1757 | West Indies | Hamilton, Alexander | Politician | Secretary of the Treasury |
1759 | UK | Wollstonecraft, Mary | Author | Vindication of the Rights of Women |
1760 | France | Ponceau, Pierre-Étienne du | Soldier | Secretary to von Steuben |
1760 | UK | Beckford, William | Author | Vathek |
1760 | US | Sampson, Deborah | Soldier | Continental Army |
1766 | Switzerland | Staël, Madame de | Author | Corinne |
1769 | France | Bonaparte, Napoleon | Soldier | Emperor of France |
1769 | Germany | Humboldt, Alexander von | Scientist | Kosmos |
1769 | Ireland | Castlereagh, Viscount | Politician | Leader of the House of Commons |
1775 | UK | Lewis, Matthew | Playwright | The Monk |
1777 | France | Récamier, Julie | Socialite | Récamier daybed |
1777 | Germany | Kleist, Heinrich von | Playwright | Prinz Friedrich von Homburg's lover |
1779 | US | Decatur, Stephen | Soldier | Defeated the Macedonian |
1780 | India | Singh, Maharaja Ranjit | Politician | Lion of Punjab |
1783 | Ireland | Barry, James | Medical Doctor | |
1786 | US | King, William R. | Politician | Vice President US |
1788 | UK | Byron, Lord | Poet | Childe Harold |
1790 | France | Custine, Marquis de | Author | Empire of the Czar |
1791 | Austria | Grillparzer, Franz | Playwright | Das Goldene Vliess |
1791 | US | Buchanan, James | Politician | President US |
1796 | Germany | Platen, August von | Poet | Sonnets on Venice |
1798 | France | Dorval, Marie | Actress | Trente Ans |
1803 | Germany | Liebig, Count Justus von | Scientist | Organic Chemistry |
1804 | France | Sand, George | Author | Elle et Lui |
1804 | US | Bennett, John C. | Cleric | Chief advisor to Joseph Smith, Jr. |
1805 | Denmark | Andersen, Hans Christian | Author | The Ugly Duckling |
1806 | France | Lamorcière, Christophe | Soldier | French general |
1807 | US | Hammond, James Henry | Politician | US Senator |
1809 | Ukraine | Gogol, Nikolai | Author | Dead Souls |
1809 | UK | FitzGerald, Edward | Poet | Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam |
1809 | UK | Tennyson, Alfred | Poet | “Charge of the Light Brigade” |
1809 | US | Lincoln, Abraham | Politician | President US |
1810 | Poland | Chopin, Frederic | Composer | “Minute Waltz” |
1812 | UK | Lear, Edward | Poet | “The Owl and the Pussy-cat” |
1813 | US | Beecher, Henry Ward | Cleric | Seven Lectures to Young Men |
1819 | US | Melville, Herman | Author | Moby-Dick |
1819 | US | Whitman, Walt | Poet | Leaves of Grass |
1820 | US | Anthony, Susan B. | Politician | Women’s suffrage |
1821 | UK | Burton, Richard | Explorer | Arabian Nights |
1822 | France | Bonheur, Rosa | Artist | The Horse Fair |
1822 | Ireland | Nicholson, John | Soldier | Hero of Delhi |
1822 | UK | Lushington, Franklin | Judge | Chief Magistrate of London |
1823 | Germany | Charles I | Politician | King Karl of Württemberg |
1824 | Hungary | Kertbeny, Károly Mária | Journalist | |
1825 | Germany | Ulrichs, Karl | Author | Early gay rights activist |
1825 | US | Taylor, Bayard | Author | Joseph and His Friend |
1826 | US | Foster, Stephen | Composer | “Oh! Susanna” |
1828 | Ireland | Cleburne, Patrick R. | Soldier | Confederate Major General |
1829 | US | Gottschalk, Louis Moreau | Composer | “Cakewalk” |
1830 | UK | Leighton, Baron Frederic | Artist | Cimabue Finding Giotto |
1830 | US | Dickinson, Emily | Poet | "Wild Nights, Wild Nights!" |
1831 | US | Sitting Bull | Politician | Sioux Chief |
1832 | US | Alger, Horatio | Author | Ragged Dick |
1833 | UK | Gordon, Charles "Chinese" | Soldier | Defense of Khartoum |
1835 | France | Saint-Saëns, Camille | Composer | “Danse Macabre” |
1835 | UK | Butler, Samuel | Author | Erewhon |
1837 | Germany | Marées, Hans von | Artist | Frescos in Naples |
1837 | UK | Browning, Oscar | Teacher | History of England |
1837 | UK | Swinburne, Algernon Charles | Poet | “The Flogging Block” |
1839 | Russia | Mussorgsky, Modest | Composer | Pictures at an Exhibition |
1839 | Russia | Przhevalsky, Nikolai | Explorer | First maps of Siberia |
1839 | UK | Pater, Walter | Author | History Of The Renaissance |
1840 | Czech Republic | Vacano, Emil Mario | Entertainer | Famous circus performer |
1840 | Russia | Tchaikovsky, Peter | Composer | Swan Lake |
1840 | UK | Solomon, Simeon | Artist | Popular English painter |
1840 | UK | Symonds, John Addington | Author | Renaissance in Italy |
1841 | UK | Stanley, Henry Morton | Explorer | Found Dr. Livingstone |
1843 | US | James, Henry | Author | The Golden Bowl |
1843 | US | Stoddard, Charles Warren | Author | Cruising Under Crescent |
1844 | France | Verlaine, Paul | Poet | Invectives |
1844 | UK | Carpenter, Edward | Author | The Healing of Nations |
1845 | Germany | Ludwig II | Politician | King of Bavaria |
1847 | Germany | Eulenburg, Prince Philipp | Politician | Adviser to Kaiser Wilhelm II |
1847 | UK | Rosebery | Politician | Prime Minister |
1848 | UK | Shepard, Jesse | Musician | Villa Montezuma |
1849 | US | Riley, James Whitcomb | Poet | “The Ol’ Swimmin’ Hole” |
1849 | US | We’wha | Two-Spirit | Zuni Man-Woman |
1850 | Ireland | Kitchner, H.H. | Soldier | British Commander in Chief |
1850 | Russia | Kovalevsky, Sophia | Scientist | Prix Bordin for Mathematics |
1851 | US | Chopin, Kate | Author | Bayou Folk |
1852 | UK | Esher, Lord | Soldier | Reorganized the military |
1853 | Scotland | MacDonald, Hector | Soldier | British Major-General |
1853 | UK | Rhodes, Cecil | Businessperson | Diamond mines |
1854 | France | Lyautey, Hubert | Soldier | Marshal of France |
1854 | France | Rimbaud, Arthur | Poet | The Drunken Boat |
1854 | Germany | Krupp, Friedrich A. | Businessperson | Munitions factories |
1854 | Ireland | Wilde, Oscar | Author | The Importance of Being Earnest |
1855 | UK | Corelli, Marie | Author | Memoirs |
1856 | Germany | Gloeden, Baron Wilhelm von | Photographer | Taormina photos |
1856 | UK | Paget, Violet | Author | Hauntings |
1857 | Germany | Allers, Christian Wilhelm | Artist | Club Eintracht |
1857 | UK | Baden-Powell, Robert | Soldier | Founded Boy Scouts |
1857 | US | Fuller, Henry Blake | Author | The Cliff-Dwellers |
1857 | US | Thomas, M. Carey | Teacher | President of Bryn Mawr College |
1858 | Sweden | Lagerlöf, Selma | Author | Nobel Prize |
1858 | UK | Smyth, Dame Ethel | Composer | The Wreckers |
1859 | UK | Housman, A.E. | Poet | “A Shropshire Lad” |
1859 | US | Bates, Katharine Lee | Poet | “America the Beautiful” |
1860 | Scotland | Barrie, James M. | Author | Peter Pan |
1860 | UK | Rolfe, Frederick William | Author | Hadrian the Seventh |
1860 | US | Addams, Jane | Politician | Nobel Peace Prize |
1860 | US | Warren, Edward Perry | Businessperson | Boston Museum of Fine Arts |
1861 | Austria | Ferdinand I | Politician | Tsar of Bulgaria |
1862 | UK | Dickinson, Goldsworthy | Teacher | Dictionary of National Biography |
1862 | US | Wharton, Edith | Author | Keeping up with the Joneses |
1863 | Egypt | Cavafy, Constantine | Poet | “That’s the Man” |
1863 | France | Morny, Mathilde de | Artist | |
1863 | Netherlands | Couperus, Louis | Author | De Berg van Licht |
1863 | Spain | Santayana, George | Philosopher | Dominations and Powers |
1863 | US | Cram, Ralph Adams | Architect | US Military Academy |
1863 | US | Woolley, Mary Emma | Teacher | President of Mount Holyoke College |
1864 | Ireland | Casement, Roger | Politician | Rebel leader |
1864 | Ukraine | Redl, Colonel Alfred | Soldier | Chief of Counter-Intelligence |
1866 | Spain | Benavente, Jacinto | Playwright | Nobel Prize |
1867 | Germany | Hamilton, Edith | Author | Mythology |
1867 | Germany | Ives, George | Author | Order of Chaeronea |
1867 | Germany | Rathenau, Walther | Businessperson | Foreign Minister |
1867 | South Africa | Mathebula, Nongoloza | Soldier | Regiment of the Hills |
1867 | UK | Johnson, Lionel | Poet | Ireland and Other Poems |
1868 | Austria | Douglas, Norman | Author | South Wind |
1868 | Germany | George, Stefan | Poet | Blatter fur die Kunst |
1868 | Germany | Hirschfeld, Magnus | Author | Sexual History of the World |
1868 | Uganda | Mwanga | Politician | King of Buganda |
1869 | France | de Pougy, Liane | Author | |
1869 | France | Gide, André | Author | Nobel Prize for Literature |
1869 | UK | Baty, Thomas | Attorney | |
1870 | Myanmar | Saki | Author | Reginald |
1870 | UK | Douglas, Alfred | Author | Oscar Wilde’s lover |
1871 | France | Proust, Marcel | Author | In Search of Lost Time |
1872 | Russia | Chicherin, Georgi Vasilevich | Politician | Commissar for Foreign Affairs |
1872 | Russia | Diaghilev, Sergey | Producer | Ballets Russes |
1872 | US | Adams, Maude | Actress | Peter Pan |
1872 | US | Walsh, David | Politician | Senator |
1873 | France | Colette, Sidonie-Gabrielle | Author | Cheri |
1873 | US | Cather, Willa | Author | Pulitzer Prize |
1874 | Germany | Leyendecker, J.C. | Artist | Arrow Collar Man |
1874 | UK | Maugham, W. Somerset | Author | The Razor’s Edge |
1874 | US | Brooks, Romaine | Artist | Natalie Barney |
1874 | US | Lowell, Amy | Poet | What’s O’Clock? |
1874 | US | Stein, Gertrude | Author | How to Write |
1874 | Venezuela | Hahn, Reynaldo | Composer | Director of Paris Opera |
1875 | France | Ravel, Maurice | Composer | Bolero |
1875 | Germany | Mann, Thomas | Author | Death in Venice |
1875 | UK | Crowley, Aleister | Author | The Book of The Law |
1876 | France | Jacob, Max | Author | La Défense de Tartuffe |
1876 | Spain | Falla, Manuel de | Composer | El Amor Brujo |
1876 | US | Barney, Natalie Clifford | Poet | Romaine Brooks' lover |
1877 | UK | Gregory, Maundy | Businessperson | |
1877 | UK | Agate, James | Critic | Ego |
1877 | UK | Vivien, Renée | Poet | “Toward Lesbos” |
1877 | US | Duncan, Isadora | Dancer | Modern Dance |
1877 | US | Hartley, Marsden | Artist | “Log Jam” |
1877 | US | Toklas, Alice B. | Author | Autobiography |
1878 | UK | Arden, Elizabeth | Businessperson | Cosmetics |
1879 | Ireland | Pearse, Patrick | Politician | Easter Rising |
1879 | Poland | Landowska, Wanda | Musician | Harpsichord |
1879 | Russia | Nazimova, Alla | Actress | Salome |
1879 | UK | Charlton, L.E.O. | Soldier | General |
1879 | UK | Forster, E.M. | Author | Passage to India |
1879 | US | Luhan, Mabel Dodge | Author | Backgrounds |
1880 | France | Fersen, Baron Adelswärd | Author | Hymnaire d’Adonis |
1880 | Spain | Azaña, Manuel | Politician | President of Spain |
1880 | UK | Hall, Radclyffe | Author | Well of Loneliness |
1880 | UK | Strachey, Lytton | Author | Eminent Victorians |
1880 | US | Grimké, Angelina Weld | Author | Rachel |
1880 | US | Van Vechten, Carl | Photographer | Harlem photos |
1881 | Netherlands | Haan, Jacob Israël de | Poet | “An endless desire for friendship” |
1881 | Turkey | Atatürk, Mustafa Kemal | Politician | President of Turkey |
1882 | UK | Woolf, Virginia | Author | Mrs. Dalloway |
1882 | Ukraine | Szymanowski, Karol | Composer | King Roger |
1883 | France | Chanel, Coco | Designer | Chanel No. 5 |
1883 | UK | Keynes, John Maynard | Economist | A Treatise on Money |
1883 | UK | Winwood, Estelle | Actress | Tallulah Bankhead |
1883 | US | Demuth, Charles | Artist | Watercolors |
1883 | US | Maxwell, Elsa | Businessperson | Famous parties |
1884 | New Zealand | Walpole, Hugh | Author | Lauritz Melchior |
1884 | US | Griffes, Charles Tomlinson | Composer | Symphony in Yellow |
1884 | US | Roosevelt, Eleanor | Politician | First Lady |
1885 | Russia | Parnok, Sophia Yakovlevna | Poet | Roses of Pieria |
1885 | Scotland | Grant, Duncan | Artist | Queen Mary (rejected) |
1886 | Iran | Nicolson, Harold | Politician | Member of Parliament |
1886 | UK | Firbank, Ronald | Author | Inspired Joe Orton |
1886 | UK | Sassoon, Siegfried | Author | The Weald of Youth |
1886 | US | Anderson, Margaret | Publisher | Little Review |
1886 | US | Byington, Spring | Actress | Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actress |
1886 | US | Doolittle, Hilda | Poet | Sea Garden |
1886 | US | Horton, Edward Everett | Actor | Fractured Fairy Tales |
1886 | US | Locke, Alain | Teacher | Harlem Renaissance |
1886 | US | Rainey, Ma | Musician | The Mother of the Blues |
1887 | Germany | Röhm, Ernst | Soldier | Leader of Storm Troopers |
1887 | UK | Brooke, Rupert | Poet | “Tiare Tahiti” |
1887 | UK | Fontanne, Lynn | Actress | Dulcy |
1887 | US | Beach, Sylvia | Businessperson | Shakespeare & Company |
1887 | US | Benedict, Ruth | Anthropologist | Patterns of Culture |
1888 | Germany | Murnau, F.W. | Director | Nosferatu |
1888 | Germany | Winsloe, Christa | Author | The Child Manuela |
1888 | New Zealand | Mansfield, Katherine | Poet | The Garden Party |
1888 | UK | Lawrence, T.E. | Soldier | Lawrence of Arabia |
1888 | US | Woolley, Monty | Actor | The Pied Piper |
1889 | Austria | Sagan, Leontine | Director | Mädchen in Uniform |
1889 | Austria | Wittgenstein, Ludwig | Philosopher | Tractus Logico-Philosophicus |
1889 | France | Cocteau, Jean | Poet | La Belle et la Bête |
1889 | Scotland | Reith, John | Businessperson | First Chairman of BBC |
1889 | UK | Heard, Gerald | Philosopher | The Ascent of Humanity |
1889 | UK | Whale, James | Director | Frankenstein |
1889 | US | Pangborn, Franklin | Actor | A Girl, A Guy, and a Gob |
1889 | US | Spellman, F. Cardinal | Cleric | Archbishop of New York |
1889 | US | Webb, Clifton | Actor | Laura |
1890 | Denmark | Melchior, Lauritz | Musician | Heldentenor |
1890 | Ukraine | Nijinsky, Vaslav | Dancer | Les Sylphides |
1890 | US | Hart, Alan | Medical Doctor | |
1890 | US | Main, Marjorie | Actress | Ma Kettle |
1891 | UK | Goulding, Edmund | Director | Oscar: Grand Hotel |
1891 | US | Porter, Cole | Composer | “Let’s Do It” |
1891 | US | Shawn, Ted | Choreographer | Dance We Must |
1892 | Ireland | O'Duffy, Eoin | Soldier | IRA Chief of Staff |
1892 | Russia | Erté | Designer | Art Deco |
1892 | Russia | Tsvetaeva, Marina | Poet | The Magic Lantern |
1892 | UK | Sackville-West, Vita | Author | All Passion Spent |
1892 | UK | Sitwell, Osbert | Author | Autobiography |
1892 | US | Barnes, Djuna | Author | Nightwood |
1892 | US | Flanner, Janet | Journalist | Letter from Paris |
1892 | US | Millay, Edna St. Vincent | Poet | Pulitzer Prize |
1892 | US | Sullivan, Harry Stack | Psychiatrist | Interpersonal Approach |
1892 | US | Welles, Sumner | Politician | Undersecretary of State |
1893 | France | Acosta, Mercedes de | Author | Conquered Marlene Dietrich and GretaGarbo |
1893 | Germany | Cornell, Katharine | Actress | The Green Hat |
1893 | Italy | Gadda, Carlo Emilio | Author | Il Castello di Udine |
1893 | UK | Warner, Sylvia Townsend | Author | Mr. Fortune’s Maggot |
1893 | US | Lunt, Alfred | Actor | Clarence |
1893 | US | McClintic, Guthrie | Producer | Katherine Cornell |
1893 | US | Thompson, Dorothy | Journalist | On The Record |
1893 | US | Tilden, Bill | Athlete | Tennis champion |
1893 | Wales | Novello, Ivor | Actor | The Lodger |
1894 | Netherlands | Arondeus, Willem | Soldier | Nazi resister |
1894 | Poland | Negri, Pola | Actress | Madame Bovary |
1894 | US | Kinsey, Alfred | Scientist | Kinsey Institute |
1894 | US | Mabley, Moms | Entertainer | Comic |
1894 | US | Smith, Bessie | Musician | Empress of the Blues |
1895 | Austria | Freud, Anna | Psychoanalyst | Hampstead Child Therapy Centre |
1895 | Italy | Valentino, Rudolph | Actor | The Sheik |
1895 | Russia | Yesenin, Sergey | Poet | “Ispoved Khuligana” |
1895 | Russia | Yezhov, Nikolai | Politician | NKVD Secret Police |
1895 | US | Hart, Lorenz | Composer | Rodgers and Hart musicals |
1895 | US | Hoover, J. Edgar | Politician | Director of FBI |
1895 | US | Hunter, Alberta | Musician | Blues singer |
1896 | Austria | Walbrook, Anton | Actor | The Red Shoes |
1896 | France | Montherlant, Henry de | Author | Les Olympiques |
1896 | Greece | Mitropoulos, Dimitri | Conductor | New York Philharmonic |
1896 | Russia | Massine, Léonide | Dancer | The Red Shoes |
1896 | UK | Ackerley, J.R. | Author | My Dog Tulip |
1896 | US | Thomson, Virgil | Composer | Four Saints in Three Acts |
1896 | US | Waters, Ethel | Musician | “Heat Wave” |
1897 | Australia | Anderson, Dame Judith | Actress | Rebecca |
1897 | Australia | Orry-Kelly, John | Designer | Three Oscars and Cary Grant's lover |
1897 | France | Aragon, Louis | Poet | La Semaine Sainte |
1897 | UK | Sprott, Sebastian | Psychologist | Maynard Keynes |
1897 | US | Arzner, Dorothy | Director | Dance, Girl, Dance |
1897 | US | Cowell, Henry | Composer | Tone clusters |
1897 | US | Wilder, Thornton | Playwright | Our Town |
1898 | Latvia | Eisenstein, Sergei | Director | Potemkin |
1898 | Spain | Lorca, Federico García | Poet | Romancero Gitano |
1898 | UK | Lawrence, Gertrude | Actress | The Glass Menagerie |
1898 | UK | Waugh, Alec | Author | Invented the cocktail party |
1898 | US | Abbott, Berenice | Photographer | Changing New York |
1898 | US | Leisen, Mitchell | Director | Swing High, Swing Low |
1898 | US | Scott, Randolph | Actor | My Favorite Wife |
1899 | France | Poulenc, Francis | Composer | Les Biches |
1899 | Mexico | Novarro, Ramón | Actor | Ben Hur |
1899 | UK | Coward, Noël | Playwright | “Mad About the Boy” |
1899 | UK | Laughton, Charles | Actor | Mutiny on the Bounty |
1899 | UK | Le Gallienne, Eva | Actress | National Medal of the Arts |
1899 | UK | MacLiammóir, Michéal | Producer | The Gate Theatre |
1899 | US | Crane, Hart | Poet | “The Bridge” |
1899 | US | Cukor, George | Director | Oscar: My Fair Lady |
1900 | France | Green, Julien | Author | |
1900 | France | Crevel, René | Author | Dadaist |
1900 | UK | Mountbatten, Louis | Soldier | Supreme Allied Commander of Southeast Asia |
1900 | US | Arthur, Jean | Actress | The Talk Of The Town |
1900 | US | Arvin, Newton | Author | Biography of Melville |
1900 | US | Copland, Aaron | Composer | Billy the Kid |
1900 | US | Haines, William | Actor | The Marines Are Coming |
1900 | US | Halliburton, Richard | Explorer | Travel books |
1901 | Germany | Dietrich, Marlene | Actress | Blue Angel |
1901 | UK | Daley, Harry | Policeman | |
1901 | US | Gable, Clark | Actor | The King of Hollywood |
1901 | US | Mead, Margaret | Anthropologist | Samoa |
1902 | Spain | Cernuda, Luis | Poet | Los Placeres Prohibidos |
1902 | UK | Asquith, Anthony | Director | The Importance Of Being Earnest |
1902 | US | Bankhead, Tallulah | Actress | Private Lives |
1902 | US | Beebe, Lucius | Journalist | This New York |
1902 | US | Geer, Will | Actor | Grandpa Walton |
1902 | US | Hughes, Langston | Poet | Shakespeare in Harlem |
1902 | US | Plunkett, Walter | Designer | Gone With The Wind |
1903 | Belgium | Yourcenar, Marguerite | Author | Memoirs of Hadrian |
1903 | France | Colbert, Claudette | Actress | Palm Beach Story |
1903 | France | Nin, Anaïs | Author | Novel of the Future |
1903 | Russia | Horowitz, Vladimir | Musician | Pianist |
1903 | Russia | Kolmogorov, Andrey Nikolaevich | Scientist | Probability theory |
1903 | South Africa | Plomer, William | Author | Turbott Wolfe |
1903 | UK | Connolly, Cyril | Editor | Horizon |
1903 | UK | Rowse, A.L. | Author | Homosexuals in History |
1903 | UK | Waugh, Evelyn | Author | Brideshead Revisited |
1903 | US | Beard, James | Chef | Cookbooks |
1903 | US | Cullen, Countee | Poet | “The Black Christ” |
1903 | US | Minnelli, Vincente | Director | Oscar: Gigi |
1903 | US | Munson, Ona | Actress | Belle Watling in Gone With the Wind |
1904 | Holland | Belinfante, Frieda | Musician | |
1904 | Italy | Umberto II | Politician | |
1904 | Mexico | Novo, Salvador | Poet | The War of the Fatties |
1904 | Spain | Dalí, Salvador | Artist | Surrealist paintings |
1904 | UK | Beaton, Cecil | Photographer | Oscar: My Fair Lady Design |
1904 | UK | Gielgud, John | Actor | Oscar: Arthur |
1904 | UK | Grant, Cary | Actor | Bringing Up Baby |
1904 | UK | Isherwood, Christopher | Author | Cabaret |
1904 | Ukraine | Lifar, Serge | Dancer | Paris Opera Ballet |
1904 | US | Holman, Libby | Actress | |
1904 | US | Cadmus, Paul | Artist | The Fleet’s In! |
1904 | US | Rogers, Buddy | Actor | Wings |
1904 | US | Zerbe, Jerome | Photographer | Vodka martini |
1905 | France | Dior, Christian | Designer | |
1905 | France | Vigo, Jean | Director | Zero de Conduite |
1905 | Poland | Stryjkowski, Julian | Author | |
1905 | Sweden | Garbo, Greta | Actress | Ninotchka |
1905 | UK | Renault, Mary | Author | The Charioteer |
1905 | US | Blitzstein, Marc | Playwright | Cradle Will Rock |
1905 | US | Crawford, Joan | Actress | Mildred Pierce |
1905 | US | Hughes, Howard | Businessperson | Hughes Aircraft |
1905 | US | Wright, Russell | Designer | American Modern Dinnerware |
1905 | Wales | Williams, Emlyn | Playwright | Night Must Fall |
1906 | China | Puyi | Politician | The last emperor |
1906 | Italy | Visconti, Count Luchino | Director | Palme D’Or: The Leopard |
1906 | US | Nugent, Richard Bruce | Writer | |
1906 | US | Brooks, Louise | Actress | |
1906 | US | Baker, Josephine | Musician | Conquered Paris |
1906 | US | Johnson, Philip | Architect | Crystal Cathedral |
1906 | US | Sutton, Grady | Actor | The Great Moment |
1907 | France | Peyrefitte, Roger | Author | Les Amitiés Particulières |
1907 | Mexico | Kahlo, Frida | Artist | Self-portraits |
1907 | UK | Auden, W.H. | Author | National Medal for Literature |
1907 | UK | Blunt, Anthony | Art Historian | Surveyor of the King’s pictures |
1907 | UK | du Maurier, Daphne | Author | The Birds |
1907 | UK | Lehmann, John | Editor | New Writing |
1907 | UK | Olivier, Laurence | Actor | Rebecca |
1907 | US | Darrow, John | Actor | The All American |
1907 | US | Kirstein, Lincoln | Producer | New York City Ballet |
1907 | US | Lynes, George Platt | Photographer | Kinsey Institute photos |
1907 | US | Romero, Cesar | Actor | The Joker |
1907 | US | Stanwyck, Barbara | Actress | The Lady Eve |
1908 | UK | Beaumont, "Binkie" | Producer | The West End |
1908 | UK | Crisp, Quentin | Author | Naked Civil Servant |
1908 | UK | Redgrave, Michael | Actor | The Lady Vanishes |
1908 | UK | Watson, Peter | Editor | Horizon |
1908 | US | Jacobs, Helen | Athlete | |
1908 | US | Ford, Charles Henri | Author | |
1908 | US | Raymond, Gene | Actor | Married to Jeanette MacDonald |
1908 | US | White, Minor | Photographer | Frost on Window |
1909 | Ireland | Bacon, Francis | Artist | Pope Innocent X |
1909 | Ireland | Bacon, Francis | Artist | Novum Organum |
1909 | UK | Spender, Stephen | Poet | Editor of Horizon |
1910 | France | Genet, Jean | Author | The Blacks |
1910 | US | Alsop, Joseph | Journalist | The Missile Gap |
1910 | US | Barber, Samuel | Composer | “Adagio for Strings” |
1910 | US | Bowles, Paul | Author | The Sheltering Sky |
1910 | US | Brown, Margaret Wise | Author | Goodnight Moon |
1910 | US | Cromwell, Richard | Actor | Young Mr. Lincoln |
1910 | US | Holland, Joseph | Actor | Mercury Theatre |
1910 | US | Kelly, Patsy | Actress | Tony: No No Nanette |
1910 | US | Sharaff, Irene | Designer | Five Oscars |
1911 | Italy | Menotti, Gian Carlo | Composer | The Island God |
1911 | UK | Burgess, Guy | Soldier | Double agent |
1911 | UK | Cooper, Douglas | Businessperson | Patron of the arts |
1911 | UK | Rattigan, Terence | Playwright | The Browning Version |
1911 | US | Bishop, Elizabeth | Poet | Poet Laureate |
1911 | US | Goodman, Paul | Author | Growing Up Absurd |
1911 | US | Ray, Nicholas | Director | Rebel Without a Cause |
1911 | US | Walters, Charles | Director | Easter Parade |
1911 | US | Williams, Tennessee | Playwright | Streetcar Named Desire |
1911 | US | Willson, Henry | Businessperson | Beefcake |
1911 | US | Zaharias, Babe Didrikson | Athlete | Founder of the LPGA |
1912 | Belgium | Sarton, May | Poet | The House by the Sea |
1912 | Ireland | Brambell, Wilfred | Actor | |
1912 | UK | Hay, Harry | Politician | Founded Mattachine Society |
1912 | UK | Turing, Alan | Scientist | Early computers |
1912 | UK | White, Patrick | Author | Nobel Prize for Literature |
1912 | US | Cage, John | Composer | 4’ 33” |
1912 | US | Cheever, John | Author | Falconer |
1912 | US | Nikolais, Alwin | Choreographer | National Medal of Arts |
1912 | US | Rustin, Bayard | Politician | Aide to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. |
1913 | Australia | Browne, Coral | Actress | Killing of Sister George |
1913 | Austria | Lamarr, Hedy | Actress | Spread Spectrum Radio |
1913 | France | Marais, Jean | Actor | La Belle et
la Bête La Belle et la Bête |
1913 | UK | Britten, Benjamin | Composer | Young Person’s Guide |
1913 | US | Broughton, James | Poet | |
1913 | US | Cregar, Laird | Actor | The Lodger |
1913 | US | Inge, William | Playwright | Bus Stop |
1913 | US | Kaye, Danny | Actor | Hans Christian Andersen |
1914 | US | Tipton, Billy | Musician | |
1914 | US | Burroughs, William S. | Author | Naked Lunch |
1915 | China | Welch, Denton | Author | Maiden Voyage |
1915 | France | Barthes, Roland | Philosopher | The Death of the Author |
1915 | UK | Price, Dennis | Actor | Kind Hearts and Coronets |
1915 | US | Huncke, Herbert | Muse | |
1915 | US | Holiday, Billie | Musician | “Strange Fruit” |
1915 | US | Strayhorn, Billy | Composer | “Take the A Train” |
1916 | UK | Gysin, Brion | Artist | The dreamachine |
1916 | US | Price, Eugenia | Writer | |
1916 | US | Billings, Lem | Businessperson | Fizzies |
1916 | US | Johnson, Van | Actor | Two Girls and a Sailor |
1916 | US | Raye, Martha | Actress | Alice |
1916 | US | Wynn, Keenan | Actor | Dr. Strangelove |
1917 | Canada | Burr, Raymond | Actor | Perry Mason, Ironsides |
1917 | UK | Clarke, Arthur C. | Author | |
1917 | UK | Howerd, Frankie | Actor | Up Pompeii! |
1917 | US | McCullers, Carson | Playwright | The Heart is a Lonely Hunter |
1918 | US | Eythe, William | Actor | |
1918 | US | Bernstein, Leonard | Conductor | West Side Story |
1918 | US | Heath, Gordon | Actor | Deep Are The Roots |
1918 | US | Jenkins, Walter | Politician | Chief of Staff for President Lyndon Johnson |
1918 | US | Laurents, Arthur | Playwright | West Side Story |
1918 | US | Robbins, Jerome | Choreographer | West Side Story |
1918 | US | Susann, Jacqueline | Author | Valley of the Dolls |
1919 | Ireland | Murdoch, Iris | Author | Under the Net |
1919 | UK | Mills, Freddie | Athlete | Boxing champion |
1919 | US | Carswell, G. Harold | Judge | US Supreme Court nominee |
1919 | US | Cunningham, Merce | Choreographer | Fielding the Sixes |
1919 | US | Forbes, Malcolm | Publisher | $2 million party in Tangier, 1990 |
1919 | US | Liberace | Musician | Liberace Museum |
1920 | US | Claiborne, Craig | Chef | Cookbooks |
1921 | UK | Bogarde, Dirk | Actor | Victim |
1921 | UK | Rawcliffe, Derek | Cleric | Bishop of Glasgow and Galloway |
1921 | US | Clift, Montgomery | Actor | Red River |
1921 | US | Deacon, Richard | Actor | Mel on Dick Van Dyke Show |
1921 | US | Dennis, Patrick | Author | Auntie Mame |
1921 | US | Highsmith, Patricia | Author | Strangers on a Train |
1921 | US | Holliday, Judy | Actress | Born Yesterday |
1921 | US | Kulp, Nancy | Actress | Miss Hathaway on Beverly Hillbillies |
1921 | US | Nader, George | Actor | Ellery Queen |
1922 | Austria | Gernreich, Rudi | Designer | Topless bathing suit |
1922 | Italy | Cardin, Pierre | Designer | Neckties |
1922 | Italy | Pasolini, Pier Paolo | Director | Decameron |
1922 | UK | Elliott, Denholm | Actor | Raiders of the Lost Ark |
1922 | US | Bernbaum, Glenn | Businessperson | |
1922 | US | Garland, Judy | Actress | The Wizard of Oz |
1922 | US | Kerouac, Jack | Author | On The Road |
1923 | India | Anderson, Lindsay | Director | Oscar: Thursday’s Children |
1923 | Italy | Zeffirelli, Franco | Director | Romeo and Juliet |
1923 | US | Boyd, Malcolm | Cleric | Running With Me, Jesus? |
1923 | US | Rivers, Larry | Artist | Abstract Paintings |
1923 | US | Rorem, Ned | Composer | Nantucket Songs |
1923 | US | Smith, Liz | Journalist | Gossip column |
1924 | UK | Lambert, Gavin | Screenwriter | The Loved One |
1924 | US | Shelton, Reid | Actor | |
1924 | US | Garon, Jay | Businessperson | |
1924 | US | Baldwin, James | Author | Giovanni’s Room |
1924 | US | Brando, Marlon | Actor | On the Waterfront |
1924 | US | Capote, Truman | Author | In Cold Blood |
1924 | US | Cox, Wally | Actor | Brando’s roommate |
1924 | US | Kirkwood Jr., James | Author | A Chorus Line |
1924 | US | Wood, Ed | Director | Plan 9 From Outer Space |
1925 | Canada | Griffin, Merv | Entertainer | Wheel of Fortune producer |
1925 | Japan | Mishima Yukio | Author | Sun and Steel |
1925 | US | Brown, Roger | Psychologist | |
1925 | US | Beck, Julian | Producer | The Living Theatre |
1925 | US | Granger, Farley | Actor | Strangers On A Train |
1925 | US | Hudson, Rock | Actor | Movies with Doris Day |
1925 | US | Moore, Charles | Architect | Beverly Hills Civic Center |
1925 | US | Rauschenberg, Robert | Artist | Album cover for Talking Heads |
1925 | US | Vidal, Gore | Author | The City and The Pillar |
1926 | France | Foucault, Michel | Philosopher | History of Sexuality |
1926 | UK | Shaffer, Peter | Playwright | |
1926 | UK | Schlesinger, John | Director | Oscar: Midnight Cowboy |
1926 | UK | Williams, Kenneth | Actor | Carry On, friend of Joe Orton |
1926 | US | Jorgensen, Christine | Activist | |
1926 | US | Ginsberg, Allen | Poet | “Howl” |
1926 | US | Hoiby, Lee | Composer | The Scarf |
1926 | US | Louis, Murray | Choreographer | Dance as an art form |
1926 | US | Lynde, Paul | Actor | Hollywood Squares |
1926 | US | Merrill, James | Poet | Pulitzer Prize |
1926 | US | O'Hara, Frank | Poet | A City Winter |
1926 | US | Tryon, Tom | Actor | In Harm’s Way |
1927 | Singapore or France | Wyngarde, Peter | Actor | |
1927 | US | Anger, Kenneth | Director | Scorpio Rising |
1927 | US | Cohn, Roy | Attorney | US Senate HUAC counsel |
1927 | US | Donaldson, Herb | Judge | S.F. Municipal Court |
1927 | US | Ray, Johnnie | Musician | “Cry” |
1928 | France | Chazot, Jacques | Choreographer | Star dancer at Opera Comique |
1928 | Lithuania | Harvey, Laurence | Actor | I Am A Camera |
1928 | UK | Richardson, Tony | Director | Oscar: Tom Jones |
1928 | US | Sendak, Maurice | Author | |
1928 | US | Albee, Edward | Playwright | Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? |
1928 | US | Chester, Alfred | Author | Jamie Is My Hearts Desire |
1928 | US | Ivory, James | Director | Oscar: Howard’s End |
1928 | US | McDowall, Roddy | Actor | Friend of Liz Taylor |
1928 | US | Maharis, George | Actor | Route 66 |
1928 | US | Warhol, Andy | Artist | Brillo boxes |
1929 | UK | Meek, Joe | Musician | |
1929 | UK | Thorpe, Jeremy | Politician | |
1929 | UK | Brophy, Brigid | Author | Hackenfeller’s Ape |
1929 | UK | Gunn, Thom | Poet | MacArthur Fellowship |
1929 | UK | Osborne, John | Playwright | Look Back In Anger |
1929 | US | Coco, James | Actor | Only When I Laugh |
1929 | US | Galley Jr., Howard E. | Cleric | Book of Common Prayer |
1929 | US | Rich, Adrienne | Poet | National Book Award |
1929 | Wales | Spinetti, Victor | Actor | |
1930 | Spain | Almendros, Néstor | Cinematographer | Oscar for cinematography |
1930 | UK | Hawthorne, Nigel | Actor | The Madness of King George |
1930 | US | Lilly, Frank | Scientist | |
1930 | US | Hansberry, Lorraine | Playwright | A Raisin in the Sun |
1930 | US | Johns, Jasper | Artist | Three Flags |
1930 | US | Milk, Harvey | Politician | San Francisco Board of Supervisors |
1930 | US | Nabors, Jim | Actor | Gomer Pyle |
1930 | US | Sargent, Dick | Actor | Bewitched |
1930 | US | Schippers, Thomas | Conductor | Spoleto |
1930 | US | Sondheim, Stephen | Composer | Into The Woods |
1931 | Canada | Rule, Jane | Author | The Desert Of The Heart |
1931 | France | Capucine | Actress | The Pink Panther |
1931 | Scotland | Fraser, John | Actor | Repulsion |
1931 | UK | Sherrin, Ned | Producer | That Was The Week That Was |
1931 | US | Adams, Nick | Actor | Pillow Talk |
1931 | US | Ailey, Alvin | Choreographer | American Dance Theatre |
1931 | US | Cino, Joe | Producer | Caffé Cino |
1931 | US | Dean, James | Actor | Rebel Without a Cause |
1931 | US | Hormel, James | Businessperson | Ambassador to Luxembourg |
1931 | US | Hunter, Tab | Actor | Polyester |
1931 | US | McKinney, Stewart B. | Politician | Congressman |
1931 | US | Ram Dass | Philosopher | Be Here Now |
1931 | US | Reilly, Charles Nelson | Actor | Charlotte’s Web |
1932 | Argentina | Puig, Manuel | Author | Kiss of the Spider Woman |
1932 | UK | Hodgkin, Howard | Artist | New Worlds postage stamp |
1932 | US | Smith, Jack | Artist | |
1932 | US | Davis, Clive | Businessperson | |
1932 | US | Halston, Roy | Designer | Couture |
1932 | US | Little Richard | Musician | “Tutti Frutti” |
1932 | US | Michals, Duane | Photographer | Homage to Cavafy |
1932 | US | Perkins, Anthony | Actor | Psycho |
1932 | US | Reed, Robert | Actor | Dad on The Brady Bunch |
1933 | UK | Sacks, Oliver | Scientist | |
1933 | UK | Epstein, Brian | Businessperson | Managed the Beatles |
1933 | UK | Kray, Ronnie | Criminal | The Kray Twins |
1933 | UK | Orton, Joe | Playwright | Entertaining Mr. Sloane |
1933 | US | Judge, Mychal | Cleric | Chaplain FDNY |
1933 | US | McKuen, Rod | Poet | The Beautiful Strangers |
1933 | US | Sontag, Susan | Author | AIDS And Its Metaphors |
1934 | Australia | Stigwood, Robert | Producer | The Bee Gees, Grease |
1934 | Italy | Armani, Giorgio | Designer | |
1934 | UK | Bates, Alan | Actor | Far From the Madding Crowd |
1934 | UK | Bennett, Alan | Playwright | The History Boys |
1934 | UK | Hebborn, Eric | Artist | Master forger |
1934 | US | Wayne, Ronald | Businessperson | |
1934 | US | Richards, Renée | Athlete | |
1934 | US | Apolinar, Danny | Composer | “Your Own Thing” |
1934 | US | Bachardy, Don | Artist | Portraits of Christopher Isherwood |
1934 | US | Lorde, Audre | Poet | Undersong |
1934 | US | Millett, Kate | Author | Sexual Politics |
1934 | US | Rechy, John | Author | City Of Night |
1935 | Germany | Fichte, Hubert | Author | The History of Sensibility |
1935 | US | Haren, Christian | Model | |
1935 | US | Chamberlain, Richard | Actor | King of the Miniseries |
1935 | US | Kopkind, Andrew | Journalist | The Nation Senior Writer |
1935 | US | Kramer, Larry | Playwright | The Normal Heart |
1935 | US | Mathis, Johnny | Musician | “Chances Are” |
1935 | US | Presley, Elvis | Musician | “Hound Dog” |
1936 | Algeria | St. Laurent, Yves | Designer | Couture |
1936 | India | Merchant, Ismail | Producer | Oscar: Howard’s End |
1936 | US | Limato, Ed | Businessperson | |
1936 | US | Bridges, James | Director | The China Syndrome |
1936 | US | Jordan, Barbara | Politician | 1976 Democratic Convention keynote speech |
1936 | Zimbabwe | Banana, Canaan | Politician | |
1937 | UK | Hockney, David | Artist | Opera sets |
1937 | US | Bauman, Robert | Politician | Congressman |
1937 | US | Carr, Allan | Producer | Grease |
1937 | US | Chambers, Jane | Playwright | Last Summer at Bluefish Cove |
1937 | US | Dennis, Sandy | Actress | Oscar: Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? |
1937 | US | Randall, Bob | Playwright | 6 Rms Riv Vu |
1937 | US | Studds, Gerry | Politician | Congressman |
1937 | US | Takei, George | Actor | Star Trek |
1937 | US | Waddell, Tom | Athlete | Decathlon champion |
1937 | US | Wilson, Lanford | Playwright | Burn This |
1938 | Russia | Nureyev, Rudolf | Dancer | Ken Russell’s Valentino |
1938 | UK | Jacobi, Derek | Actor | I, Claudius |
1938 | US | Bartel, Paul | Director | Eating Raoul |
1938 | US | Esquerita | Musician | “Gollie Gollie Annie Mae” |
1938 | Virgin Islands | Griffith, Emile | Athlete | Middleweight boxing champ |
1939 | UK | McKellen, Ian | Actor | Bent |
1939 | UK | Napier-Bell, Simon | Businessperson | Wham! Manager |
1939 | UK | Springfield, Dusty | Musician | A Girl Called Dusty |
1939 | US | Bakker, Jim | Cleric | The PTL Club |
1939 | US | Boone Jr., Ashley | Businessperson | President of Distribution at Fox |
1939 | US | Mackie, Bob | Designer | Sultan of Sequins |
1939 | US | McNally, Terrence | Playwright | The Ritz |
1939 | US | Mineo, Sal | Actor | Rebel Without a Cause |
1939 | US | Schumacher, Joel | Director | Flatliners |
1939 | US | Sherman, Martin | Playwright | Bent |
1939 | US | Tomlin, Lily | Actress | Nine to Five |
1939 | US | Tune, Tommy | Dancer | Nine Tonys |
1940 | Palestine | Stevens, David | Screenwriter | Breaker Morant |
1940 | US | Ellis, Perry | Designer | Ties |
1940 | US | Frank, Barney | Politician | Congressman |
1940 | US | Gallin, Sandy | Businessperson | Superagent |
1940 | US | White, Mel | Author | Jerry Falwell’s ghost writer |
1941 | Canada | Menard, Pierre | Musician | Founded Vermeer Quartet |
1941 | New Caledonia | Higgins, Colin | Director | Harold and Maude (Writer) |
1941 | UK | Baldry, Long John | Musician | |
1941 | UK | Chapman, Graham | Comedian | Monty Python |
1941 | UK | Hope, Dr. David | Cleric | Archbishop of York |
1941 | UK | Margolyes, Miriam | Actress | Harry Potter |
1941 | US | Bandy, Way | Stylist | Nancy Reagan’s face |
1941 | US | Carlos, Wendy | Musician | Switched on Bach |
1941 | US | Kirk, Tommy | Actor | Disney films |
1941 | US | Kuehl, Sheila James | Politician | Speaker pro tempore, California Assembly |
1941 | US | Sipple, Oliver | Soldier | Saved President Gerald Ford’s life |
1941 | US | Smith, Jerry | Athlete | All-pro tight end |
1941 | US | Spoto, Donald | Author | Alfred Hitchcock and Preston Sturges Biogrpahies |
1942 | Austria | Kobal, John | Author | John Kobal Presents The Top 100 Movies |
1942 | Iceland | Sigurðardóttir, Jóhanna | Politician | |
1942 | Peru | Monk, Meredith | Musician | Turtle Dreams |
1942 | UK | Jarman, Derek | Director | Queer Edward II |
1942 | US | Cammermeyer, Margarethe | Nurse | V.A. Nurse of the Year |
1942 | US | Delany, Samuel R. | Author | Jewels of Aptor |
1942 | US | Diller, Barry | Producer | Fox Pictures |
1942 | US | Hinson, Jon | Politician | Congressman |
1942 | US | Klein, Calvin | Designer | Underwear |
1942 | US | Kopay, David | Athlete | NFL running back |
1942 | US | Wigginton, Eliot | Teacher | Foxfire, Teacher of the Year |
1943 | Cuba | Arenas, Reinaldo | Poet | |
1943 | UK | Jagger, Mick | Musician | Their Satanic Majesties’ Request |
1943 | US | Ardolino, Emile | Director | Sister Act, Dirty Dancing |
1943 | US | Bennett, Michael | Choreographer | A Chorus Line |
1943 | US | Burton, Gary | Musician | Vibes for Stan Getz |
1943 | US | Geffen, David | Producer | Gay Lesbian Serices Center |
1943 | US | Joplin, Janis | Musician | Pearl |
1943 | US | King, Billie Jean | Athlete | Won Wimbledon six times |
1943 | US | Ludlam, Charles | Playwright | Ridiculous Theatre Company |
1943 | US | Matlovich, Leonard | Soldier | Air Force sergeant |
1944 | Australia | Allen, Peter | Composer | “I Go to Rio” |
1944 | Austria | Berger, Helmut | Actor | The Damned |
1944 | UK | Everett, Kenny | Entertainer | The Kenny Everett Video Show |
1944 | US | Brown, Jay | Medical Doctor | President of the Association of Black Cardiologists |
1944 | US | Brown, Rita Mae | Author | Rubyfruit Jungle |
1944 | US | Davis, Angela Y. | Teacher | Freedom |
1944 | US | Flagg, Fannie | Author | Fried Green Tomatoes |
1944 | US | Glover, John | Actor | Chocolate War |
1944 | US | Hendryx, Nona | Musician | LaBelle |
1944 | US | Maupin, Armistead | Author | Tales Of The City |
1944 | US | Sylvester | Musician | Disco |
1944 | US | Tilson-Thomas, Michael | Conductor | San Francisco Symphony |
1944 | US | Walker, Alice | Author | The Color Purple |
1945 | UK | Davies, Terence | Director | Distant Voices, Still Lives |
1945 | US | McClatchy, J.D. | Poet | |
1945 | US | Divine | Actor | Pink Flamingos |
1945 | US | Lehman, Bruce | Attorney | Lawyer of the Year |
1945 | US | Monette, Paul | Author | National Book Award |
1945 | US | Ryder, Mitch | Musician | “Devil with A Blue Dress On” |
1946 | Germany | Fassbinder, Rainer Werner | Director | Querelle |
1946 | Italy | Versace, Gianni | Designer | Clothing line |
1946 | Puerto Rico (US) | Woodlawn, Holly | Actress | Trash |
1946 | UK | Faithfull, Marianne | Musician | “As Tears Go By” |
1946 | UK | Mackintosh, Cameron | Producer | The Phantom of the Opera |
1946 | US | Garcia, Francisco | Musician | |
1946 | US | Obletz, Peter | Businessperson | |
1946 | US | Gore, Lesley | Musician | “It’s My Party” |
1946 | US | Ireland, Patricia | Politician | President of NOW |
1946 | US | Mapplethorpe, Robert | Photographer | Portrait of Patti Smith |
1946 | US | Mixner, David | Politician | Moratorium to End the War in Vietnam |
1946 | US | Preston, Billy | Musician | Keyboards on Let It Be |
1946 | US | Silkwood, Karen | Factory worker | Exposed nuclear danger |
1946 | US | Waters, John | Director | Polyester |
1946 | US | Weber, Bruce | Photographer | Calvin Klein ads |
1946 | US | Wenner, Jann | Publisher | Rolling Stone |
1946 | Zanzibar | Mercury, Freddie | Musician | Queen |
1947 | Australia | Connelli, Judi | Entertainer | Into The Woods |
1947 | UK | Davies, Dave | Musician | |
1947 | UK | Bowie, David | Musician | Low |
1947 | UK | John, Elton | Musician | “Your Song” |
1947 | US | Nyro, Laura | Musician | |
1947 | US | Batts, Deborah | Judge | Federal District Court Judge |
1947 | US | Boswell, John | Teacher | Chairman of Yale history department |
1947 | US | McCormick, Dale | Politician | State Senator |
1947 | US | McCorvey, Norma | Plaintiff | Roe v. Wade court decision |
1947 | US | Paglia, Camille | Author | Sexual Personae |
1947 | US | Robinson, Gene | Cleric | Bishop of New Hampshire |
1947 | US | Tobias, Andrew | Author | Managing Your Money |
1948 | Netherlands | Fortuyn, Pim | Politician | Party leader |
1948 | US | Johnson, Jed | Designer | |
1948 | US | Dallesandro, Joe | Actor | Trash |
1948 | US | Smith, Willi | Designer | Willi Wear |
1949 | Scotland | Charleson, Ian | Actor | Chariots of Fire |
1949 | South Africa | Sher, Antony | Actor | Stanley |
1949 | Spain | Almodóvar, Pedro | Director | Oscar: All About My Mother |
1949 | UK | Ackroyd, Peter | Author | London: The Biography |
1949 | UK | Callow, Simon | Actor | Maurice |
1949 | UK | Curry, John | Athlete | Olympic and world champion |
1949 | UK | Finch, Nigel | Director | Stonewall |
1949 | US | Jenner, Caitlyn | Athlete | |
1949 | US | Davis, Brad | Actor | Midnight Express |
1949 | US | Gorman, Greg | Photographer | Movie posters |
1949 | US | Leibovitz, Annie | Photographer | Rolling Stone covers |
1949 | US | Near, Holly | Musician | Lifelines |
1950 | Australia | Enright, Nick | Playwright | Lorenzo’s Oil |
1950 | Mexico | Gabriel, Juan | Musician | Sold more than 40 million albums |
1950 | Norway | Foss, Per-Kristian | Politician | Prime Minister of Norway |
1950 | UK | Cashman, Michael | Politician | Member of European Parliament |
1950 | UK | Robinson, Tom | Musician | “Glad to be Gay” |
1950 | US | Achtenberg, Roberta | Politician | |
1950 | US | Ashman, Howard | Composer | Oscar: The Little Mermaid |
1950 | US | Hutton, Kate | Scientist | LA’s favorite seismologist |
1950 | US | Kalkin, Gary | Businessperson | Disney Vice President |
1950 | US | Rollins, Howard | Actor | Soldier’s Story |
1951 | UK | Halford, Rob | Musician | Judas Priest |
1951 | US | Ride, Sally | Soldier | |
1951 | US | Gunderson, Steven | Politician | Congressman |
1951 | US | Ian, Janis | Musician | “At Seventeen” |
1951 | US | Kritsick, Stephen M. | Veterinarian | Good Morning America |
1951 | US | Schneider, Fred | Musician | B-52s |
1951 | US | Shilts, Randy | Journalist | And The Band Played On |
1952 | France | Schneider, Maria | Actress | Last Tango in Paris |
1952 | UK | Barker, Clive | Director | Hellraiser |
1952 | UK | Barrymore, Michael | Entertainer | My Kind of People |
1952 | US | Finn, William | Playwright | |
1952 | US | Burke, Glenn | Athlete | L.A. Dodgers outfielder |
1952 | US | Perry, Ralph M. | Teacher | Rhode Island Teacher of the Year |
1952 | US | Ritts, Herb | Photographer | Notorious |
1952 | US | Sherwood, Bill | Director | Parting Glances |
1952 | US | Van Sant, Gus | Director | Drugstore Cowboy |
1953 | Germany | Wowereit, Klaus | Politician | Mayor of Berlin |
1953 | US | Frasier, Margo | Sheriff | |
1953 | US | Dutt, Hank | Musician | Kronos Quartet |
1953 | US | Feniger, Susan | Chef | City Restaurant |
1953 | US | Hulce, Tom | Actor | Amadeus |
1953 | US | Strickland, Keith | Musician | B-52s |
1953 | US | Villard, Tom | Actor | The Trouble With Dick |
1953 | US | Williams, Pete | Journalist | Pentagon spokesperson |
1953 | US | Wilson, Ricky | Musician | B-52s |
1954 | UK | Tennant, Neil | Musician | Pet Shop Boys |
1954 | US | Rothblatt, Martine | Businessperson | |
1954 | US | Butler, Dan | Actor | Bulldog on Frasier |
1954 | US | Fierstein, Harvey | Playwright | Torch Song Trilogy |
1954 | US | Travolta, John | Actor | The Boy in the Bubble |
1955 | Germany | Emmerich, Roland | Director | Independence Day |
1955 | UK | Shelley, Pete | Musician | The Buzzcocks |
1955 | US | Jordan, Leslie | Actor | |
1955 | US | Bernhard, Sandra | Actress | Madonna |
1955 | US | Condon, Bill | Director | Gods and Monsters |
1955 | US | Knuckles, Frankie | Musician | DJ |
1955 | US | Rose, Felipe | Musician | Village People |
1956 | China | Cheung, Leslie | Musician | Summer Romance |
1956 | Czechoslovakia | Navrátilová, Martina | Athlete | Won Wimbledon nine times |
1956 | UK | Almond, Marc | Musician | Soft Cell |
1956 | UK | Hytner, Nicholas | Director | Director of the National Theatre |
1956 | UK | Mathias, Sean | Director | Bent |
1956 | US | Alsop, Marin | Musician | |
1956 | US | Cornwell, Patricia | Author | Postmortem |
1956 | US | Feinstein, Michael | Musician | Ira Gershwin catalog |
1956 | US | Jones, Cherry | Actress | Doubt |
1956 | US | Kushner, Tony | Playwright | Angels In America |
1956 | US | Lane, Nathan | Actor | The Producers |
1956 | US | Morris, Mark | Dancer | MacArthur Grant |
1956 | US | Sedaris, David | Author | Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim |
1957 | UK | Fry, Stephen | Author | The Liar |
1957 | US | Ball, Alan | Screenwriter | American Beauty |
1957 | US | McGreevey, Jim | Politician | Governor of New Jersey |
1957 | US | Riggs, Marlon | Director | Tongues Untied |
1957 | US | Rudnick, Paul | Playwright | Jeffrey, Addams Family |
1957 | US | Simmons, Roy | Athlete | NY Giants offensive tackle |
1958 | Denmark | Toksvig, Sandy | Entertainer | |
1958 | Ireland | Shaw, Fiona | Actress | Aunt Petunia |
1958 | UK | Barnett, Tim | Politician | NZ government whip |
1958 | US | Bearse, Amanda | Actress | Married With Children |
1958 | US | DeGeneres, Ellen | Comedian | Ellen |
1958 | US | DeLaria, Lea | Entertainer | Arsenio Hall Show |
1958 | US | Haring, Keith | Artist | Swatch watch design |
1958 | US | Jett, Joan | Musician | “I Love Rock ’n‘ Roll” |
1958 | US | Lieberman, Nancy | Athlete | Basketball silver medal |
1958 | US | Madonna | Musician | Erotica |
1958 | US | Rudin, Scott | Producer | The Hours |
1959 | Canada | Thompson, Scott | Entertainer | Kids In The Hall |
1959 | UK | Burns, Pete | Musician | Dead or Alive |
1959 | UK | Everett, Rupert | Actor | Another Country |
1959 | UK | Morrissey | Musician | The Smiths |
1959 | UK | Winterson, Jeanette | Author | Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit |
1959 | US | Spacey, Kevin | Actor | |
1959 | US | Graff, Todd | Actor | Dominic and Eugene |
1959 | US | Pierce, David Hyde | Actor | Frasier |
1959 | US | Roos, Don | Director | The Opposite of Sex |
1959 | US | Shaiman, Marc | Composer | “Blame Canada” |
1960 | UK | Bourne, Matthew | Choreographer | Swan Lake |
1960 | UK | Johnson, Holly | Musician | Frankie Goes to Hollywood |
1960 | US | Cook, Tim | Businessperson | |
1960 | US | Lynch, Jane | Actress | |
1960 | US | Louganis, Greg | Athlete | Olympic gold medal winner |
1960 | US | McManus, Michael | Soldier | Colin Powell’s bodyguard |
1960 | US | Marshall, Rob | Director | Chicago |
1960 | US | Mould, Bob | Musician | Hüsker Dü |
1960 | US | RuPaul | Entertainer | Supermodel |
1960 | US | Stipe, Michael | Musician | R.E.M. |
1960 | US | Sweeney, Terry | Actor | Saturday Night Live |
1961 | Canada | lang, k.d. | Musician | Grammies |
1961 | Malaysia | Beale, Simon Russell | Actor | Hamlet |
1961 | Scotland | Somerville, Jimmy | Musician | The Communards, Bronski Beat |
1961 | UK | Boy George | Musician | Culture Club |
1961 | UK | Daldry, Stephen | Director | The Hours |
1961 | UK | Fashanu, Justin | Athlete | Top British footballer |
1961 | UK | Wiggs, Josephine | Musician | The Breeders |
1961 | US | Ford, Tom | Designer | |
1961 | US | Etheridge, Melissa | Musician | Grammies |
1961 | US | Haynes, Todd | Director | Far From Heaven |
1961 | US | Leavitt, David | Author | Lost Language of Cranes |
1961 | US | Mizrahi, Isaac | Designer | Unzipped |
1962 | UK | Davis, Evan | Economist | Dragon’s Den |
1962 | US | Baldwin, Tammy | Politician | |
1962 | US | Brock, David | Journalist | Blinded by The Right |
1962 | US | Bruce, Tammy | Broadcaster | Tammy Bruce Show |
1962 | US | Foster, Jodie | Actress | Silence of the Lambs |
1962 | US | Livingston, Jennie | Director | Paris is Burning |
1962 | US | O'Donnell, Rosie | Comedian | The Queen of Nice |
1962 | US | Oldham, Todd | Designer | Ivana Trump’s dresses |
1962 | US | Wong, B.D. | Actor | M. Butterfly |
1963 | Ireland | Norton, Graham | Comedian | So Graham Norton |
1963 | UK | Davies, Russell T. | Producer | Doctor Who |
1963 | UK | Michael, George | Musician | Sex |
1963 | UK | Sullivan, Andrew | Editor | The New Republic |
1963 | US | LaChapelle, David | Photographer | Hotel LaChapelle |
1963 | US | Saliers, Emily | Musician | Indigo Girls |
1964 | Canada | Leduc, Mark | Athlete | Olympic boxer |
1964 | UK | Alli, Waheed | Businessperson | The Big Breakfast |
1964 | UK | Bell, Andy | Musician | Erasure |
1964 | US | Kidd, Chip | Artist | |
1964 | US | Chapman, Tracey | Musician | |
1964 | US | Bottum, Roddy | Musician | Faith No More |
1964 | US | Ray, Amy | Musician | Indigo Girls |
1965 | Scotland | Cumming, Alan | Actor | Anniversary Party |
1965 | US | Wachowski, Lana | Director | |
1965 | US | Murphy, Ryan | Producer | |
1965 | US | Singer, Bryan | Director | The X-MEN film franchise |
1966 | India | Gohil, Manvendrasinh | Politician | Coming out |
1966 | US | Lemon, Don | Journalist | |
1966 | US | Drudge, Matt | Journalist | The Drudge Report |
1966 | US | Nixon, Cynthia | Actress | Sex and the City |
1967 | Germany | Thiel, Peter | Businessperson | |
1967 | Scotland | Barrowman, John | Actor | Torchwood |
1967 | US | Cooper, Anderson | Journalist | |
1968 | US | Anderson, Gillian | Actress | |
1968 | US | Cho, Margaret | Comedian | All American Girl |
1968 | US | Davidson, Jaye | Actor | The Crying Game |
1968 | US | Tuaolo, Esera | Athlete | Super Bowl |
1969 | US | Arquette, Alexis | Actor | Pulp Fiction |
1969 | US | Zuniga, José M. | Soldier | Soldier of the Year |
1970 | US | Wright, Chely | Musician | |
1970 | US | Phoenix, River | Actor | Stand By Me |
1971 | Puerto Rico (US) | Martin, Ricky | Musician | |
1971 | US | Rapp, Anthony | Actor | Rent |
1972 | Chile | Amenábar, Alejandro | Director | The Others |
1972 | US | Armstrong, Billie Joe | Musician | Green Day |
1973 | UK | Burrows, Saffron | Actress | Deep Blue Sea |
1973 | US | Parsons, Jim | Actor | |
1973 | US | Harris, Neil Patrick | Actor | Doogie Howser, MD |
1973 | US | Maddow, Rachel | Broadcaster | The Rachel Maddow Show |
1973 | US | Wainwright, Rufus | Musician | “I’m Running” |
1974 | UK | Lucas, Matt | Actor | |
1974 | US | Allen, Chad | Actor | Our House |
1974 | Wales | Thomas, Gareth | Athlete | |
1975 | Serbia | Brnabic, Ana | Politician | |
1975 | US | Landon, Christopher | Writer/Director | |
1975 | US | Gilbert, Sara | Actress | |
1975 | US | Jolie, Angelina | Actress | Brad Pitt |
1976 | Ireland | Gateley, Stephen | Musician | Boyzone |
1977 | US | Bomer, Matt | Actor | |
1977 | US | Dave, GT | Businessperson | |
1977 | US | Quinto, Zachary | Actor | |
1978 | US | Ehrenfeld, Jesse | Medical Doctor | |
1978 | US | Silver, Nate | Scientist | |
1978 | US | Aiken, Clay | Musician | American Idol |
1978 | US | Hilton, Perez | Journalist | PerezHilton.com |
1979 | France | Mauresmo, Amélie | Athlete | World number one female tennis player Player |
1979 | Ireland | Varadkar, Leo | Politician | |
1979 | UK | Young, Will | Musician | |
1979 | UK | Doherty, Pete | Musician | Babyshambles |
1979 | US | Bass, Lance | Musician | ’N Sync |
1980 | Netherlands | Kenkhuis, Johan | Athlete | Olympic bronze medal |
1980 | UK | Whishaw, Ben | Actor | |
1981 | US | Cruz, Orlando | Athlete | |
1982 | Canada | Paquin, Anna | Actress | The Piano, X-Men |
1982 | US | Buttigieg, Pete | Politician | |
1985 | US | Altman, Sam | Businessperson | |
1986 | US | Escola, Cole | Playwright | |
1986 | US | Lohan, Lindsay | Actress | Mean Girls |
1987 | Canada | Page, Eliot | Actor | Juno |
1987 | US | Ocean, Frank | Musician | |
1988 | Australia | Mitcham, Matthew | Athlete | Olympic gold medal |
1988 | South Africa | Peck, Orville | Musician | |
1990 | US | Colfer, Chris | Actor | |
1990 | US | McBride, Sarah | Politician | |
1990 | US | Stewart, Kristen | Actress | |
1991 | US | Okonma, Tyler | Musician | |
1992 | US | Cyrus, Miley | Musician | |
1999 | US | Glenn, Amber | Athlete | |
1999 | US | Lil Nas X | Musician |
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