ON THIS DAY
Born in 1939
1,650 people in this dataset · ordered by Wikipedia popularity
- Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
politician, head of government
- Kate O'Mara
film actor, television actor
- Yuri Bezmenov
informant, whistleblower
- Rudolph Walker
actor, television actor
- Raymond J. Barry
film actor, television actor
- Bernie Casey
director, American football player
- Ricky Tomlinson
film actor, trade unionist
- Gro Harlem Brundtland
politician, physician
- Dick Smothers
comedian, racing driver
- Clay Regazzoni
Formula One driver, racing automobile driver
- Jacques Vallée
mathematician, astrophysicist
- Melvyn Bragg
librettist, television presenter
- Hugh Masekela
trumpeter, composer
- Margaret Drabble
screenwriter, novelist
- Ernie Davis
basketball player, American football player
- Tony Roberts
voice actor, film actor
- Carlo Ginzburg
essayist, university teacher
- Junko Tabei
mountaineer, explorer
- David Birney
film actor, television actor
- Ion Țiriac
tennis coach, factory worker
- Timothy Carlton
television actor, film actor
- Terry Kiser
film actor, television actor
- Jimmie Nicol
drummer, singer
- Wally Funk
inspector, aircraft pilot
- Claude François
photographer, music executive
- Bob Neuwirth
musician, composer
- Roy Buchanan
musician, guitarist
- John Badham
television director, director
- Zviad Gamsakhurdia
translator, writer
- Kanchana
actor
- Dieter Schwarz
entrepreneur, businessperson
- Chuck Robb
governor, law clerk
- Phil Everly
composer, musician
- Ernst Zündel
publisher, holocaust denier
- Jerry Krause
scout, basketball coach
- Jose Maria Sison
politician, writer
- Michael Bambang Hartono
bridge player, shareholder
- Marty Wilde
songwriter, singer
- Bob Clark
actor, film director
- Ada Yonath
biologist, crystallographer
- George Cohen
autobiographer, association football player
- Lynda Baron
actor
- Festus Mogae
politician
- Bob James
musician, record producer
- Princess Irene of the Netherlands
aristocrat, interpreter
- Tommy Tune
dancer, actor
- Barbara Liskov
engineer, university teacher
- Ali Farka Touré
farmer, singer
- Gary Paulsen
short story writer, young adult author
- Angela Thorne
actor
- Felix Pappalardi
songwriter, composer
- Jacqueline Mars
businessperson
- Brian Jacques
radio personality, writer
- John Fahey
musician, composer
- Janet Suzman
actor, film director
- Jerry Butler
singer, musician
- Patrick Kearney
serial killer
- Jalaluddin Haqqani
military leader
- Clive James
writer, broadcaster
- Amos Oz
novelist, poet
- Aníbal Cavaco Silva
economist, politician
- Richard Posner
economist, judge
- Billy Joe Shaver
musician, composer
- Wilhelmina Cooper
model, model agent
- Peter Purves
television presenter, stage actor
- Tom Harkin
lawyer, military officer
- James Galway
editor, flautist
- Ruggero Deodato
television director, writer
- Bernard Purdie
jazz musician, drummer
- Charles Cyphers
actor
- Adrienne Clarkson
novelist, politician
- Phil Niekro
baseball player
- Helen Prejean
Christian nun, human rights defender
- Chris Dickerson
fashion model, bodybuilder
- Eugene Fama
pedagogue, university teacher
- Akiko Wakabayashi
actor
- John Negroponte
politician, university teacher
- Robert Shaye
screenwriter, actor
- Robert Wall
actor, stunt performer
- Barry Mann
DJ producer, songwriter
- Marie Laforêt
actor, singer
- Allen Garfield
television actor, film actor
- Spencer Davis
musician, guitarist
- Cale Yarborough
racing automobile driver, NASCAR team owner
- Breyten Breytenbach
lithographer, painter
- John Pilger
director, writer
- Mark Slade
screenwriter, television actor
- Barbara Bosson
actor, film actor
- Jimmy Ruffin
singer
- Anjanette Comer
actor, television actor
- Barbara Colby
stage actor, actor
- Leka, Crown Prince of Albania
businessperson, politician
- Jane Yolen
science fiction writer, children's writer
- Jean Obeid
diplomat, politician
- Joy Mukherjee
actor, film actor
- John Stewart
banjoist, songwriter
- Alan Ayckbourn
actor, playwright
- Flaco Jiménez
musician, singer-songwriter
- Lou Brock
baseball player
- Carole Shelley
stage actor, voice actor
- Valeriy Lobanovskyi
association football player, association football coach
- Marisa Mell
actor, film actor
- Mary Peters
athletics competitor, shot putter
- Judy Chicago
installation artist, painter
- Jaime Paz Zamora
political scientist, politician
- Michael Chow
film actor, restaurateur
- Lawrence Pressman
voice actor, film producer
- Hafiz Uddin Ahmad
association football player, politician
- Robert A. M. Stern
university teacher, architect
- Helmut Haller
association football player
- Cindy Birdsong
singer, nurse
- Jean-Lucien Savi de Tové
minister, politician
- Marita Lorenz
writer, spy
- Danny Thompson
musician, double-bassist
- Sheikh Abubakr Ahmad
chancellor, Grand Mufti
- James Mancham
politician, diplomat
- Margaret Jay, Baroness Jay of Paddington
journalist, politician
- Allan Moffat
racing automobile driver
- Oliver Ford Davies
actor, stage actor
- Jorge Sampaio
politician, jurist
- Prakash Mehra
film producer, director
- Peter Revson
Formula One driver, racing automobile driver
- Walt Bellamy
basketball player
- Jackie Burroughs
screenwriter, voice actor
- Ann Prentiss
actor, film actor
- William Eggleston
photographer
- Joe Sample
pianist, musician
- Stanley Anderson
actor, television actor
- Jet Harris
musician, guitarist
- Jorge Paulo Lemann
entrepreneur, tennis player
- Erin Pizzey
writer, activist
- Ruud Lubbers
entrepreneur, politician
- Carmen Salinas
theatre entrepreneur, stage actor
- Ali Mahdi Muhammad
businessperson, politician
- Joaquim Chissano
minister, politician
- Fikret Abdić
entrepreneur, politician
- Karel Gott
composer, painter
- Michael Hudson
writer, political economist
- Moses Ali
minister, politician
- Major Lance
singer, musician
- Pilita Corrales
presenter, songwriter
- Veruschka von Lehndorff
actor, model
- Bernard Kouchner
diplomat, physician