ON THIS DAY
Born in 1939
1,650 people in this dataset · ordered by Wikipedia popularity
- Hubert Laws
film score composer, musician
- Lo Lieh
film director, film actor
- Ray McGovern
human rights defender, intelligence analyst
- Juliette Kaplan
actor
- Anita Guha
actor
- Gollapudi Maruti Rao
journalist, writer
- Czesław Niemen
singer-songwriter, recording artist
- Toni Cade Bambara
author, writer
- Arik Einstein
recording artist, composer
- Stuart Kauffman
biochemist, biophysicist
- Charles Jencks
architect, landscape architect
- Masako Ikeda
child actor, seiyū
- Enrico Albertosi
association football player
- Jake Holmes
singer-songwriter, singer
- Julius Chan
politician
- Nicolino Locche
boxer
- Ed Sanders
writer, activist
- Kenzō Takada
businessperson, costume designer
- Leo Brouwer
composer, guitarist
- Paddy Crerand
association football coach, association football player
- Joseph Raz
jurist, university teacher
- Raymond Flynn
biographer, politician
- Oliver Clark
film actor, actor
- Bulle Ogier
screenwriter, stage actor
- Ben Cayetano
politician, lawyer
- Bangaru Laxman
politician
- Ruth Perry
politician
- Bob May
actor, television actor
- Mary-Dell Chilton
geneticist, biologist
- Michael S. Gazzaniga
university teacher, physician
- Barbara Hammer
artist, film editor
- Johnny Bristol
musician, record producer
- Phil Read
businessperson, motorcycle racer
- Lucia Popp
opera singer
- Charles Webb
novelist, screenwriter
- Barry Hines
writer, screenwriter
- Kenneth Hartley Blanchard
entrepreneur, orator
- Tetsuya Chiba
actor, mangaka
- Lili Ivanova
recording artist, singer
- Larry Speakes
journalist
- Rosalba Neri
film actor
- Anthony Lake
politician, political adviser
- Brito
association football coach, association football player
- Luther Allison
songwriter, singer
- Enzo Staiola
actor
- James Dunn
university teacher, theologian
- Herb Adderley
American football player
- Krzysztof Zanussi
writer, film producer
- Pieter van Vollenhoven
jurist, pianist
- Zeng Qinghong
politician
- George Gilder
economist, writer
- John LaMotta
television actor, actor
- Daniel C. Tsui
physicist, university teacher
- Harry Kroto
chemist, scientist
- John Edward Hopcroft
university teacher, computer scientist
- Bill Toomey
athletics competitor
- Dariush Mehrjui
film director, translator
- Jean-Marie Lehn
university teacher, professor
- Kathleen E. Woodiwiss
writer, novelist
- Brigitte Fontaine
novelist, recording artist
- Neil Sloane
mathematician
- Viktor Shustikov
association football player, association football coach
- Ron Ziegler
politician
- Adam Osborne
chemical engineer, writer
- David Ray Griffin
theologian, university teacher
- Velibor Vasović
association football player, lawyer
- Nicholas Grimshaw
architect
- Sidney Altman
university teacher, biochemist
- Magda Konopka
film actor, model
- Zelmo Beaty
basketball coach, basketball player
- Marco St. John
film actor, actor
- George M. Whitesides
chemist, university teacher
- Jon Halliday
biographer, historian
- Meco
record producer, composer
- Fernando Luján
actor
- George V. Higgins
journalist, poet lawyer
- Shanta Gokhale
writer, critic
- Arundhati Ghose
diplomat
- Peter Grünberg
university teacher, teacher
- David A. Kolb
psychologist, pedagogue
- Paul Winter
jazz musician, bandleader
- Robert Darnton
research fellow, university teacher
- Anatoly Kashpirovsky
television presenter, politician
- Masao Adachi
film producer, film director
- Sumit Sarkar
writer, historian
- Tim Wirth
politician
- John S. Herrington
lawyer, politician
- Jean-Pierre Chevènement
politician
- Concha Velasco
dancer, film actor
- Frank Wolf
congressional staff, politician
- Don Alias
percussionist, drummer
- Ghada Karmi
writer, journalist
- Blowfly
record producer, rapper
- Louis Andriessen
graphic designer, pianist
- Edoardo Menichelli
Catholic bishop, Catholic priest
- Glen Hardin
string arranger, pianist
- Afric Simone
singer
- Mohammad Baqir al-Hakim
politician, religious person
- Branko Kostić
politician, political commissar
- Cesare Fiorio
co-driver, team manager
- Livio Berruti
athlete, athletics competitor
- Trinh Cong Son
poet, writer
- Alfredo Bryce Echenique
literary scholar, jurist
- Alan Baker
university teacher, mathematician
- Giorgio Gaber
guitarist, manufacturer
- Walter Wolf
engineer, businessperson
- Yael Dayan
journalist, politician
- Barry Cunliffe
prehistorian, university teacher
- Anthony D. Smith
university teacher, anthropologist
- Paul Coverdell
businessperson, politician
- Mike Lowry
preface author, politician
- Haidar Abu Bakr al-Attas
engineer, politician
- Lloyd Axworthy
foreign minister, diplomat
- Brian Johnson
film director
- Colin Thubron
film director, writer
- George F. R. Ellis
astronomer, mathematician
- Alfredo Palacio
university teacher, politician
- Irina Press
athletics competitor
- Michel Colombier
conductor, bandleader
- Mary Catherine Bateson
anthropologist
- Andrei Khrzhanovsky
film producer, painter
- Janusz Gajos
television actor, film actor
- Gila Almagor
screenwriter, film actor
- Michael Meacher
politician
- Claudio Magris
writer, essayist
- James M. Bardeen
astrophysicist, university teacher
- Viola Wills
composer, musician
- Kiko Argüello
painter, artist
- Pádraig Flynn
politician
- Johnny Preston
singer
- Seán Brady
Catholic priest, Catholic bishop
- Hemananda Biswal
politician
- Guntis Ulmanis
politician, economist
- Ariane Mnouchkine
film director, theatre director
- Joachim Yhombi-Opango
politician, soldier
- John M. Fabian
astronaut, military officer
- Narayan Gopal
singer, singer-songwriter
- Pierre Tendean
military personnel
- Edwin Frederick O'Brien
theologian, Catholic bishop
- Letty Cottin Pogrebin
writer, journalist
- Kathy Whitworth
professional golfer, golfer
- Patrick Williams
composer, musician
- David Jacobs
television producer, screenwriter
- Murray Rose
swimmer, actor
- Fatima Bernawi
politician, resistance fighter