Famous People Born Today

Drew Carey

Listed In: Film & Theater Personalities

Birth Year: 1958

Birthplace: Cleveland, Ohio, United States

Comedian Drew Carey is best known for Whose Line is it Anyway? and The Drew Carey Show. He has also hosted The Price Is Right. The former U.S. Marine has also been a professional wrestler. He supports libraries, is an occasional sports photographer, and has written an autobiography.

Jewel

Listed In: Singers

Birth Year: 1974

Birthplace: Payson, Utah, United States

Height: 5'6" (168 cm)

Rosemary Clooney

Listed In: Singers

Birth Year: 1928

Birthplace: Maysville, Kentucky, United States

Died: 2002

Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award-winner Rosemary Clooney, aunt of George Clooney, was known for her roles in movies such as White Christmas and for her hit jazz/pop tracks such as This Ole House. She chaired a foundation for the brain-injured, in memory of her sister, and also authored two autobiographies.

Joan Collins

Listed In: Film & Theater Personalities

Birth Year: 1933

Birthplace: Paddington, London, England

Joan Collins, sister of renowned author Jackie Collins, is best known for her Golden Globe-winning role of Alexis Carrington in Dynasty, an iconic soap of the 1980s. She has also written several books, including beauty books, memoirs, and novels. A seasoned theater actor, she also received the DBE and OBE.

Carl Linnaeus

Listed In: Scientists

Birth Year: 1707

Birthplace: Linnés Råshults Stiftelse, Älmhult Municipality, Sweden

Died: 1778

Swedish botanist and lecturer Carl Linnaeus, who established the concept of binomial nomenclature, or the system of naming organisms, is also known as the father of modern taxonomy. His system of classification is known as Linnaean taxonomy. He was the first to include humans and apes under the header Anthropomorpha.

Aaron Donald

Listed In: Sportspersons

Birth Year: 1991

Birthplace: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

Height: 6'1" (185 cm)

Marvelous Marvin Hagler

Listed In: Sportspersons

Birth Year: 1954

Birthplace: Newark, New Jersey, United States

Died: 2021

Marvelous Marvin Hagler was an American boxer and actor who reigned as the middleweight division's undisputed champion from 1980 to 1987, during which he had 12 successful title defenses. Regarded as one of the greatest middleweight boxers of all time, Hagler was inducted into the World Boxing Hall of Fame as well as the International Boxing Hall of Fame.

Melissa McBride

Listed In: Film & Theater Personalities

Birth Year: 1965

Birthplace: Lexington, Kentucky, USA

Height: 5'6" (168 cm)

Scatman Crothers

Listed In: Film & Theater Personalities

Birth Year: 1910

Birthplace: Terre Haute, Indiana, United States

Died: 1986

Scatman Crothers was an American musician and actor. Also a prolific voice-over actor, Crothers contributed immensely to the success of several animated TV series, such as Harlem Globetrotters, The Transformers, and Hong Kong Phooey. For his contribution to the American TV and film industry, Scatman Crothers was awarded a star on Hollywood Walk of Fame.

James Charles

Listed In: YouTubers

Birth Year: 1999

Birthplace: Bethlehem, New York

Height: 5'9" (175 cm)

Artie Shaw

Listed In: Musicians

Birth Year: 1910

Birthplace: New York City, New York, USA

Died: 2004

Douglas Fairbanks

Listed In: Film & Theater Personalities

Birth Year: 1883

Birthplace: Denver, Colorado, United States

Died: 1939

Height: 5'7" (170 cm)

Ryan Coogler

Listed In: Film & Theater Personalities

Birth Year: 1986

Birthplace: Oakland, California, USA

Height: 5'10" (178 cm)

H. Jon Benjamin

Listed In: Film & Theater Personalities

Birth Year: 1966

Birthplace: Worcester

Maxwell

Listed In: Singers

Birth Year: 1973

Birthplace: Brooklyn, New York, United States

Height: 6'0" (183 cm)

Kelly Monaco

Listed In: Film & Theater Personalities

Birth Year: 1976

Birthplace: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

Height: 5'2" (157 cm)

Anatoly Karpov

Listed In: Sportspersons

Birth Year: 1951

Birthplace: Zlatoust, Russia

Russian chess grandmaster, Anatoly Karpov, was the official world champion from 1975 to 1985, before finally being defeated by Garry Kasparov. With over 160 first-place finishes, Karpov is widely considered one of the greatest players in history. Since his retirement, he has involved himself in several humanitarian causes. He has an extensive stamp collection.

Mitch Albom

Listed In: Writers

Birth Year: 1958

Birthplace: Passaic, New Jersey, United States

Rubens Barrichello

Listed In: Sportspersons

Birth Year: 1972

Birthplace: São Paulo, Brazil

Rubens Barrichello is a Brazilian racing driver best known for competing in Formula One and scoring 11 Grand Prix wins between 1993 and 2011. From 2000 to 2005, he drove for Ferrari as Michael Schumacher's teammate and contributed to five constructors' titles for Ferrari.

Ambrose Burnside

Listed In: Business People

Birth Year: 1824

Birthplace: Liberty, Indiana, United States

Died: 1881

Betty Garrett

Listed In: Singers

Birth Year: 1919

Birthplace: Saint Joseph, Missouri

Died: 2011

Lauren Shehadi

Listed In: Media Personalities

Birth Year: 1983

Birthplace: McLean, Virginia, United States

Karen Duffy

Listed In: Writers

Birth Year: 1962

Birthplace: Queens, New York (state) New York, U.S.

Height: 5'6" (168 cm)

Joe Gomez

Listed In: Sportspersons

Birth Year: 1997

Birthplace: Catford, England

Height: 6'2" (188 cm)

John Payne

Listed In: Film & Theater Personalities

Birth Year: 1912

Birthplace: Roanoke, Virginia

Died: 1989

Herbert Marshall

Listed In: Film & Theater Personalities

Birth Year: 1890

Birthplace: London, England

Died: 1966

Herbert Marshall was an English actor best remembered for playing important roles in popular Hollywood films during the 1930s and 1940s. He was one of the most sought-after actors in Hollywood at the peak of his career. In 1960, Herbert Marshall was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for his contributions to the film industry.

Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester

Listed In: Leaders

Birth Year: 1208

Birthplace: Montfort-l'Amaury

Died: 1265

French nobleman Simon de Montfort gave away his family lands to become the Earl of Leicester instead. Though King Henry III married off his sister Eleanor to Simon without consulting his barons, Simon later turned against the king. After being killed by Roger Mortimer, Simon’s body was mutilated by royalists.

John Bardeen

Listed In: Scientists

Birth Year: 1908

Birthplace: Madison, Wisconsin, United States

Died: 1991

American engineer, physicist and Nobel laureate John Bardeen is the only person who received the Nobel Prize in Physics twice. He shared the first Nobel with William Shockley and Walter Brattain in 1956 for inventing the transistor, and the second with Leon N Cooper and John Robert Schrieffer in 1972 for proposing the BCS theory, a microscopic theory of superconductivity.

Michael Porter

Listed In: Writers

Birth Year: 1947

Birthplace: Ann Arbor

Barbara Barrie

Listed In: Writers

Birth Year: 1931

Birthplace: Chicago, Illinois, United States

While she soared to fame with her Cannes Award-winning role in One Potato, Two Potato, Barbara Barrie later also earned an Academy Award nomination for Breaking Away. She was typecast as plain Janes and bespectacled women. She later defeated rectal cancer and penned a book on her struggle with disease.

John Ortiz

Listed In: Film & Theater Personalities

Birth Year: 1968

Birthplace: Brooklyn, New York

John Ortiz is an American actor best known for his performance in the 2010 romantic drama film Jack Goes Boating, for which he received nominations for a Gotham Award and Independent Spirit Award. John Ortiz is credited with co-founding the LAByrinth Theater Company, a non-profit, Off-Broadway company, for which he serves as the current artistic director.

Alex Eala

Listed In: Sportspersons

Birth Year: 2005

Birthplace: Quezon City, Philippines

Alex Eala is a Filipino professional tennis player best known for winning the US Open Junior title in 2022. Eala first achieved popularity in 2020, when she won the Australian Open Junior Doubles title. The following year, Alex Eala won the French Open Junior Doubles title. In 2021, she also won three bronze medals at the Southeast Asian Games.

Robert Moog

Listed In: Engineers

Birth Year: 1934

Birthplace: New York, New York, United States

Died: 2005

Robert Moog was an engineering physicist widely regarded as the pioneer of electronic music. He launched the first commercial synthesizer, the Moog synthesizer, in 1964. A few years later, he launched the Minimoog, which went on to become the most famous and influential synthesizer in history. He taught at the University of North Carolina in his later years.

Linden Ashby

Listed In: Film & Theater Personalities

Birth Year: 1960

Birthplace: Atlantic Beach, Florida, United States

Linden Ashby is an American martial artist and actor. He is best known for playing Johnny Cage in the 1995 movie Mortal Kombat, which was adapted from a video game series of the same name. Ashby is also renowned for his performance in The Young and the Restless for which he was nominated at the 2005 Soap Opera Digest Awards.

Gavin Free

Listed In: Film & Theater Personalities

Birth Year: 1988

Birthplace: Thame, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom

Height: 5'10" (178 cm)

D. J. Cotrona

Listed In: Film & Theater Personalities

Birth Year: 1980

Birthplace: New Haven, Connecticut, United States

Height: 5'10" (178 cm)

Alfred P. Sloan

Listed In: Business People

Birth Year: 1875

Birthplace: New Haven

Died: 1966

Jaxson Hayes

Listed In: Sportspersons

Birth Year: 2000

Birthplace: Norman, Oklahoma, United States

Height: 6'11" (211 cm)

Franz Mesmer

Listed In: Physicians

Birth Year: 1734

Birthplace: Swabia, Germany

Died: 1815

Though a doctor, Franz Mesmer studied the influence of astronomical bodies on the human body and on an invisible fluid inside it. He was a pioneer of animal magnetism, or mesmerism, which paved the path for modern-day hypnotism. Critics slammed his ideas and called him a fraud, too.

Chris Gethard

Listed In: Film & Theater Personalities

Birth Year: 1980

Birthplace: West Orange, New Jersey

Lauren Chapin

Listed In: Film & Theater Personalities

Birth Year: 1945

Birthplace: Los Angeles, California, USA

Height: 5'2" (157 cm)

Otto Lilienthal

Listed In: Engineers

Birth Year: 1848

Birthplace: Anklam, Germany

Died: 1896

German aeronautical engineer Otto Lilienthal became the first known person to use gliders for a successful flight. A mechanical engineer, he owned a shop and flight factory and developed gliders, with which he completed around 2,000 flights. Lilienthal, however, died after breaking his back in a glider crash.

Victor Espinoza

Listed In: Sportspersons

Birth Year: 1972

Birthplace: Tulancingo, Mexico

Victor Espinoza is a Mexican jockey who competes in the American Thoroughbred horse racing. In 2015, Espinoza became the first Hispanic and oldest jockey to achieve the Triple Crown; he achieved the feat on a famous horse named American Pharoah. A three-time Kentucky Derby winner, Victor Espinoza has also won the Preakness Stakes on three occasions.