Famous People Born Today

Tina Turner

Listed In: Singers

Birth Year: 1939

Birthplace: Nutbush, Tennessee, United States

Died: 2023

Known as the Queen of Rock 'n' Roll, Tina Turner was one of the best-selling recording artists of all time and had a very long and successful career. Let's Stay Together, What's Love Got to Do with It, Private Dancer and Golden Eye are some of her chartbuster songs. She was also a songwriter and had acted in films too.

Rita Ora

Listed In: Singers

Birth Year: 1990

Birthplace: Pristina, SFR Yugoslavia

Rita Ora is a popular singer and actress who became the first British female solo artist to release 13 top ten songs in the UK. Also a well-known philanthropist, Rita Ora was appointed as one of the ambassadors for UNICEF UK in 2019. She performs quite frequently in charity concerts and supports several charity organizations.

DJ Khaled

Listed In: Musicians

Birth Year: 1975

Birthplace: New Orleans, Louisiana, United States

Founder of We the Best Music Group record label, DJ Khaled is an internationally acclaimed DJ and record producer. He has won prestigious awards, such as the Grammy and American Music Award. Apart from music, Khaled is also known for his acting and writing skills; his book, The Keys, was named in New York Times Best Seller list.

Charles M. Schulz

Listed In: Media Personalities

Birth Year: 1922

Birthplace: Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States

Died: 2000

Charles M. Schulz was an American cartoonist. He is credited with creating the popular comic strip, Peanuts, which featured world-renowned characters like Snoopy and Charlie Brown. Considered one of the most influential cartoonists ever, Schulz's works have influenced other cartoonists like Dav Pilkey, Matt Groening, and Jim Davis. In 1996, he received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Alfredo Bowman

Listed In: Miscellaneous

Birth Year: 1933

Birthplace: Honduras

Died: 2016

Alfredo Bowman was a Honduran self-proclaimed healer and herbalist. Bowman was known for his dramatic claims that HIV doesn’t cause AIDS and diseases could be cured with a vegan diet and herbs. His client list included celebrities like Michael Jackson and Eddie Murphy. Bowman often landed in trouble for his controversial claims and was arrested on a couple of occasions.

Hafþór Júlíus Björnsson

Listed In: Sportspersons

Birth Year: 1988

Birthplace: Reykjavík, Iceland

Hafþór Júlíus Björnsson is an Icelandic actor and former professional strongman. He inspired a number of Icelandic strongmen by becoming the first person to win the World's Strongest Man, Europe's Strongest Man, and Arnold Strongman Classic in the same calendar year. His popularity as a strongman earned him the role of Gregor Clegane in the popular series Game of Thrones.

Bat Masterson

Listed In: Media Personalities

Birth Year: 1853

Birthplace: Henryville, Canada

Died: 1921

Bat Masterson was a lawman and professional gambler known for his exploits in the late 19th and early 20th-century American Old West. He was known for his hunting skills and earned fame as a gunfighter. Later in his life, he became a reporter and columnist for The Morning Telegraph and gained popularity as a leading sports writer.

Maurice McDonald

Listed In: Business People

Birth Year: 1902

Birthplace: Manchester, New Hampshire, United States

Died: 1971

Garcelle Beauvais

Listed In: Film & Theater Personalities

Birth Year: 1966

Birthplace: St. Marc, Haiti

Height: 5'8" (173 cm)

Peter Facinelli

Listed In: Film & Theater Personalities

Birth Year: 1973

Birthplace: Queens, New York, United States

Peter Facinelli is an Italian-American actor and filmmaker. Apart from playing important roles in popular films like The Twilight Saga, Peter Facinelli is also the founder of Facinelli Films, a production company. Also a writer, Facinelli has co-written novels, such as After the Red Rain, which is set on a future Earth.

John McVie

Listed In: Musicians

Birth Year: 1945

Birthplace: Ealing

Mark Margolis

Listed In: Film & Theater Personalities

Birth Year: 1939

Birthplace: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Height: 5'11" (180 cm)

Robert Goulet

Listed In: Singers

Birth Year: 1933

Birthplace: Lawrence, Massachusetts, United States

Died: 2007

Robert Goulet was an American actor and singer whose career, which spanned almost 60 years, is embellished with a Tony and Grammy Award. He is best remembered for his performance in the popular Broadway musical, Camelot. An actor of French-Canadian origin, Robert Goulet was honored with a star on Canada's Walk of Fame in 2006.

Shawn Kemp

Listed In: Sportspersons

Birth Year: 1969

Birthplace: Elkhart, Indiana, United States

Height: 6'10" (208 cm)

Ellen G White

Listed In: Writers

Birth Year: 1827

Birthplace: Gorham, Maine, United States

Died: 1915

Natasha Bedingfield

Listed In: Musicians

Birth Year: 1981

Birthplace: Haywards Heath, United Kingdom

Height: 5'6" (168 cm)

Tamsin Egerton

Listed In: Film & Theater Personalities

Birth Year: 1988

Birthplace: Hampshire, United Kingdom

Tamsin Egerton is best known as Chelsea Parker from the St. Trinian's films. She had started as a child actor in a Royal Shakespeare Company production of The Secret Garden. She was also seen as Guinevere in Camelot and as Fiona Richmond in the biopic The Look of Love.

Olivia O'Brien

Listed In: Singers

Birth Year: 1999

Birthplace: Thousand Oaks, California

Jessica Camacho

Listed In: Film & Theater Personalities

Birth Year: 1982

Birthplace: California, United States

Height: 5'2" (157 cm)

William Griffith Wilson

Listed In: Business People

Birth Year: 1895

Birthplace: Dorset, Vermont, United States

Died: 1971

William Griffith Wilson was an American social worker who co-founded Alcoholics Anonymous (AA). An international fellowship that requires no membership fees, Alcoholics Anonymous aims at helping alcoholics through its Twelve Steps program. In 1999, William Griffith Wilson was named in Time 100: The Most Important People of the Century list. His life and career inspired the 2012 documentary Bill W.

Mary Edwards Walker

Listed In: Physicians

Birth Year: 1832

Birthplace: Oswego

Died: 1919

Mary Edwards Walker, or Dr. Mary Walker, was the only female surgeon who served injured soldiers during the American Civil War. A dress reform supporter, she believed women should value comfort more than tradition when it came to clothes. She was also the first and only Medal of Honor winner.

Cyril Cusack

Listed In: Film & Theater Personalities

Birth Year: 1910

Birthplace: Durban, South Africa

Died: 1993

Françoise Gilot

Listed In: Artists & Painters

Birth Year: 1921

Birthplace: Neuilly-sur-Seine, France

Françoise Gilot is a French painter whose professional career was overshadowed by her long and turbulent relationship with Spanish painter Pablo Picasso. After breaking up with Picasso, with whom Gilot had two children, the former deterred galleries from buying her work. He even tried blocking the release of her memoir Life With Picasso which was released in 1964.

Dougray Scott

Listed In: Film & Theater Personalities

Birth Year: 1965

Birthplace: Glenrothes

Dougray Scott is a Scottish actor known for playing important roles in popular American films, such as Mission: Impossible 2, Hitman, and Ever After. Scott was hand-picked by Tom Cruise to portray the antagonist in Mission: Impossible 2, which says a lot about his acting skills. He was also the original choice to play Wolverine in X-Men, a role he missed due to an injury.

William Cowper

Listed In: Writers

Birth Year: 1731

Birthplace: Berkhamsted

Died: 1800

Lil Fizz

Listed In: Singers

Birth Year: 1985

Birthplace: New Orleans, Louisiana

Height: 5'7" (170 cm)

Emma Portner

Listed In: Dancers

Birth Year: 1994

Birthplace: Ottawa

Emma Portner is a popular dancer and choreographer, who has choreographed music videos for celebrities like Justin Bieber. One of the few dancers to have been featured on the covers of both Dance Magazine and Dance Spirit, Portner serves as an inspiration to the LGBT community as she publicly married actress Ellen Page in 2018.

Arturo Castro

Listed In: Film & Theater Personalities

Birth Year: 1985

Birthplace: Guatemala

Daniel Davis

Listed In: Film & Theater Personalities

Birth Year: 1945

Birthplace: Gurdon, Arkansas, USA

Height: 5'11" (180 cm)

Abdullah Ahmad Badawi

Listed In: Leaders

Birth Year: 1939

Birthplace: Bayan Lepas

Former Malaysian prime minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi had initially served the civil services. He focused on removing corruption and poverty from his country during his tenure as the PM. He is also a talented poet, and following his retirement, he now serves as the chancellor of the Universiti Teknologi Petronas.

Norbert Wiener

Listed In: Scientists

Birth Year: 1894

Birthplace: Columbia, Missouri, United States

Died: 1964

Matt Carpenter

Listed In: Sportspersons

Birth Year: 1985

Birthplace: Galveston, Texas, United States

Height: 6'3" (190 cm)

John Harvard

Listed In: Miscellaneous

Birth Year: 1607

Birthplace: Southwark, London, United Kingdom

Died: 1638

Kristin Bauer van Straten

Listed In: Film & Theater Personalities

Birth Year: 1966

Birthplace: Racine, Wisconsin, United States

Height: 5'9" (175 cm)

Frances Dee

Listed In: Film & Theater Personalities

Birth Year: 1909

Birthplace: Los Angeles, California, United States

Died: 2004

Height: 5'5" (165 cm)

Trevor Morgan

Listed In: Film & Theater Personalities

Birth Year: 1986

Birthplace: Chicago, Illinois, United States

Height: 6'0" (183 cm)

Elizabeth Blackburn

Listed In: Scientists

Birth Year: 1948

Birthplace: Hobart, Australia

Nobel Prize-winning Australian-American biochemist and molecular biologist Elizabeth Blackburn is best known for co-discovering the enzyme telomerase. She was allegedly removed from the American President's Council on Bioethics over her support for stem cell research, which went against the government. She has honorary doctorate degrees from Harvard, Yale, and Princeton.

Samuel Reshevsky

Listed In: Sportspersons

Birth Year: 1911

Birthplace: Ozorkow, Poland

Died: 1992

Art Shell

Listed In: Sportspersons

Birth Year: 1946

Birthplace: Charleston, South Carolina, United States

Height: 6'5" (196 cm)

Eugène Ionesco

Listed In: Writers

Birth Year: 1909

Birthplace: Slatina, Romania Slatina, Romania

Died: 1994

Eugene Ionesco was a Romanian-French playwright and one of the 20th century's leading figures of the French avant-garde theatre. He is best remembered for his play, The Bald Soprano, which played an important role in the development of the Theatre of the Absurd. Eugène Ionesco was the recipient of several prestigious awards, including the Austrian State Prize for European Literature.

Harold Reynolds

Listed In: Sportspersons

Birth Year: 1960

Birthplace: Eugene, Oregon, United States

Height: 5'11" (180 cm)

Michael Teutul

Listed In: Business People

Birth Year: 1978

Birthplace: Suffern, New York, United States

American television personality Michael Teutul started working at his family company Orange County Iron Works at age 14. He worked as assistant general manager of Orange County Choppers, founded by his father Paul Teutul Sr., but was eventually forced out. Michael is known for his features in TV shows like American Chopper and American Chopper: Senior vs. Junior.