ON THIS DAY
Born in 1921
1245 people in this dataset · ordered by Wikipedia popularity
- Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
naval officer, military officer
- Charles Bronson
actor, screenwriter
- Satyajit Ray
painter, children's writer
- Rodney Dangerfield
screenwriter, voice actor
- John Glenn
television actor, military officer
- Nancy Reagan
autobiographer, film actor
- Donna Reed
actor, film actor
- Lana Turner
autobiographer, television actor
- Suharto
military personnel, politician
- Eunice Kennedy Shriver
athletics competitor, philanthropist
- Peter Ustinov
writer, film director
- Deborah Kerr
stage actor, film actor
- P. V. Narasimha Rao
minister, writer
- Gene Roddenberry
film screenwriter, writer
- Vera-Ellen
screenwriter, film actor
- Jane Russell
musician, television actor
- Chuck Connors
military officer, baseball player
- Sugar Ray Robinson
boxer, film actor
- Brian Keith
stage actor, film actor
- Jean-Bedel Bokassa
criminal, sovereign
- Michael I of Romania
monarch, aircraft pilot
- Hua Guofeng
politician
- Abe Vigoda
television actor, dub actor
- Dirk Bogarde
journalist, film actor
- Patricia Highsmith
comics writer, literary scholar
- Carol Channing
entertainer, musician
- James Whitmore
stage actor, character actor
- Sophie Scholl
resistance fighter, university student
- Stanisław Lem
essayist, playwright
- Vasily Dzhugashvili
military officer, aircraft pilot
- John Money
sexologist, psychologist
- John Rawls
philosopher, politician
- Esther Williams
singer, swimmer
- Andrei Sakharov
physicist, human rights defender
- Judy Holliday
singer, actor
- Tommy Cooper
stage actor, television actor
- Betty Friedan
journalist, sociologist
- Steve Allen
military officer, military personnel
- Jackie Stallone
dancer, astrologer
- Alan Hale, Jr.
television actor, actor
- Mary Jackson
computer scientist, military flight engineer
- Harald Quandt
aircraft pilot, military personnel
- Alex Haley
writer, military personnel
- Yves Montand
musician, singer
- Françoise Gilot
writer, graphic artist
- Stanley Ho
politician, entrepreneur
- Simone Signoret
translator, tutor
- Gianni Agnelli
politician, business magnate
- Leo Penn
actor, director
- Louis Jourdan
television actor, French resistance fighter
- Nancy Kulp
musician, television actor
- John Agar
actor, television actor
- Mario Lanza
singer, actor
- Paulo Freire
pedagogue, writer
- James Dougherty
writer, police officer
- Peter Sallis
television actor, soldier
- James Clavell
director, writer
- George Roy Hill
theatre director, director
- Alexander Dubček
diplomat, mechanical technician
- Jean, Grand Duke of Luxembourg
politician
- Seretse Khama
freedom fighter, lawyer
- John Lindsay
mayor, jurist
- Harry Carey
television actor, film actor
- Lizabeth Scott
model, actor
- Lloyd Bentsen
entrepreneur, jurist
- Betty Hutton
stage actor, dancer
- Tom Poston
television actor, actor
- Alida Valli
singer, film director
- Lynn Compton
baseball player, police officer
- Liz Smith
film actor, actor
- Gordon MacRae
musician, actor
- Richard Deacon
film actor, chef
- Jesse Helms
military officer, journalist
- Harry K. Daghlian, Jr.
physicist, nuclear physicist
- John Russell
military officer, actor
- Jim Garrison
film actor, judge
- Astor Piazzolla
bandoneonist, conductor
- Deanna Durbin
singer, actor
- Maurice Richard
ice hockey coach, athlete
- Ben Bradlee
journalist, editor
- William Asher
film director, screenwriter
- Jan Sterling
actor, stage actor
- Sheb Wooley
composer, songwriter
- Murray Bookchin
sociologist, historian
- Herschel Grynszpan
resistance fighter
- Monty Hall
sports commentator, singer
- Elizabeth Wilson
television actor, film actor
- Verghese Kurien
mechanical engineer, engineer
- Mamie Till
teacher, civil rights advocate
- Sahir Ludhianvi
songwriter, lyricist
- Leo Major
military personnel
- Marilyn Maxwell
musician, singer
- Violette Szabo
resistance fighter, SOE agent
- Joseph Beuys
performance artist, choreographer
- Donald Campbell
racing automobile driver
- Alexis Smith
singer, film actor
- Iris Apfel
fashion designer, interior designer
- Giulietta Masina
film actor, stage actor
- Edgar Morin
philosopher, author
- Roy Campanella
baseball player
- Donald Malarkey
paratrooper, soldier
- Artem Sergeev
major general, military personnel
- Alexandra of Yugoslavia
consort
- Harry Secombe
film actor, singer
- Frank Thornton
television actor, stage actor
- Akio Morita
supervisor, engineer
- Richard Egan
university teacher, film actor
- Gunnar Nordahl
athlete, association football coach
- Philippe de Gaulle
admiral, politician
- Alan Freed
songwriter, disc jockey
- Joan Greenwood
film actor, actor
- Otto Graham
American football player, basketball player
- Amin al-Hafez
politician, army officer
- S. Truett Cathy
restaurateur
- Saul Zaentz
film producer, record producer
- Gene Saks
film director, actor
- Ezzard Charles
boxer
- Nancy Kelly
television actor, film actor
- Robert Brown
actor, film actor
- Kenneth Arrow
writer, political scientist
- Abdul Salam Arif
military personnel, politician
- Friedrich Dürrenmatt
writer, graphic artist
- Marija Gimbutas
prehistorian, ethnologist
- Diana Barrymore
film actor, writer
- Carl Betz
television actor, film actor
- Peggy Rea
television actor, actor
- Joe Fagan
association football coach, association football player
- Chris Marker
film director, poet
- Erroll Garner
recording artist, composer
- Nelson Riddle
music arranger, actor
- James Jones
screenwriter, novelist
- Warren Spahn
baseball player
- Buddy Rogers
actor, professional wrestler
- Raymond Williams
philosopher, professor
- Hal David
composer, songwriter
- Aaron Beck
professor of medicine, psychotherapist
- Ferdinand Waldo Demara
impostor
- Paul Schäfer
paramedic, cult leader
- Thomas Schelling
university teacher, economist
- Johnny Otis
singer, disc jockey
- Caryl Chessman
criminal, writer
- Kurt Knispel
soldier, Feldwebel
- Warren Anderson
businessperson
- Lydia Litvyak
fighter pilot, airman
- Franklin J. Schaffner
trade unionist, film director
- Farley Mowat
biologist, writer
- Mike Douglas
actor, television presenter
- George Nader
actor, television actor