ON THIS DAY
Born in 1940
1,755 people in this dataset · ordered by Wikipedia popularity
- Mina
television presenter, lyricist
- Peter Mutharika
lawyer, politician
- Bobby Hatfield
composer, singer
- James Gammon
theatre director, voice actor
- A. K. Antony
journalist, politician
- Pete Duel
actor, stage actor
- Jerry Lucas
writer, basketball player
- Sue Grafton
journalist, novelist
- William Cohen
university teacher, writer
- Angela Carter
children's writer, screenwriter
- Hannelore Schmatz
mountaineer
- Wayne Dyer
actor, motivational speaker
- Peter Benchley
writer, novelist
- John Hagee
parson, theologian
- Adam Faith
actor, singer
- Michael Sarrazin
actor, television actor
- Mary Rand
athletics competitor
- Winston Churchill
journalist, historian
- Saul Kripke
university teacher, logician
- Solomon Burke
pastor, songwriter
- Thelma Schoonmaker
film editor, television actor
- Manfred Mann
pianist, composer
- Dave DeBusschere
sports executive, basketball player
- Charles Robert Jenkins
soldier, actor
- Geoffrey Boycott
cricketer
- Robert Walker Jr.
television actor, film actor
- Jeffrey R. Holland
priest, dean
- Tim Considine
sports journalist, actor
- Dennis Cole
television actor, actor
- Susan Harris
screenwriter, film producer
- Krishnam Raju
politician, photojournalist
- Joachim Gauck
cleric, Protestant theologian
- Stuart Margolin
director, filmmaker
- Pharoah Sanders
jazz musician, recording artist
- Lamar Alexander
lobbyist, politician
- Clive Sinclair
inventor, engineer
- Luke Kelly
guitarist, singer
- Tony Tarantino
television actor, director
- Stanley Johnson
eurocrat, environmentalist
- Daniel J. Travanti
television actor, film actor
- Jo Ann Pflug
voice actor, film actor
- Arthur Laffer
university teacher, economist
- Don Francisco
businessperson, television presenter
- Sharon Farrell
actor, ballet dancer
- Karolyn Grimes
film actor, actor
- Roberto Cavalli
businessperson, fashion designer
- Mamnoon Hussain
entrepreneur, politician
- Jack Thompson
film producer, film actor
- Ronald Pickup
actor, stage actor
- Sadaharu Oh
professional baseball player, baseball coach
- Gianluigi Aponte
ship-owner, chief executive officer
- Bruce Beresford
screenwriter, film director
- Michael Lindsay-Hogg
television director, theatre director
- Billy Fury
singer-songwriter, singer
- Alan Kay
programmer, university teacher
- Bill Koch
art collector, entrepreneur
- Roy Ayers
recording artist, singer-songwriter
- Bruce Chatwin
writer, novelist
- Sukumari
actor
- Richard Lynch
actor
- Jerry Lawson
inventor, businessperson
- Brian David Josephson
physicist, university teacher
- Eduardo Galeano
journalist, essayist
- John Schuck
singer, film actor
- Johnny Giles
journalist, association football player
- Mary Beth Peil
film actor, musician
- Norbert Grupe
television actor, film actor
- Pina Bausch
ballet dancer, screenwriter
- Gudrun Ensslin
Volksschule teacher, terrorist
- Hope Cooke
historian, queen consort
- Bill Hunter
film actor, television actor
- Clifford Olson
serial killer, criminal
- Tony Tan Keng Yam
mathematician, businessperson
- Lei Feng
soldier, military personnel
- Julie Sommars
television actor, film actor
- Julie Payne
actor, television actor
- Dakin Matthews
stage actor, voice actor
- Don LaFontaine
announcer, actor
- Michael O'Donoghue
film director, television actor
- Paolo Borsellino
judge, magistrate
- Dobie Gray
singer-songwriter, composer
- Dewi Sukarno
seiyū, tarento
- Louise Sorel
television actor, stage actor
- Philippe Junot
banker
- Michael Cole
television actor, film actor
- Barbara Kwiatkowska-Lass
dancer, film actor
- Roy Thomas
journalist, publisher
- Li Na
journalist, politician
- Ghulam Ali
singer
- Willie Stargell
baseball player
- Julian Bond
journalist, civil rights advocate
- Gao Xingjian
novelist, film director
- Tabaré Vázquez
mayor, physician
- Mike Hailwood
Formula One driver, athlete
- Gopichand Hinduja
entrepreneur, business executive
- Reinhard Bonnke
writer, missionary
- Princess Maria Gabriella of Savoy
art collector, historian
- Robin Cook
science fiction writer, medical author
- Joe South
composer, singer
- Ira Einhorn
peace activist, environmentalist
- Chris Farlowe
singer
- Zandra Rhodes
fashion designer, designer
- Rudi Dutschke
industrial management assistant, sociologist
- Ela Gandhi
politician
- Valie Export
university teacher, visual artist
- Jeannie Seely
songwriter, singer
- Stan Mikita
ice hockey player, athlete
- Trevor Nunn
theatre manager, conductor
- George Akerlof
economist, professor
- Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio
novelist, university teacher
- Barry Sadler
Liedermacher, singer-songwriter
- Peter Gerety
stage actor, actor
- Miss Major Griffin-Gracy
human rights defender, writer
- Vyacheslav Ivankov
criminal authority, thief in law
- John Castle
film actor, actor
- Lothar de Maizière
politician, musician
- Ralph Towner
bandleader, pianist
- Paul Shane
television actor
- Larry Knechtel
pianist, harpsichordist
- Bechara Boutros al-Rahi
Catholic bishop, Catholic priest
- Theodore Olson
lawyer
- David Rabe
writer, screenwriter
- Adel Emam
television actor, stage actor
- Philippe Cousteau
television director, film director
- Dieter F. Uchtdorf
aircraft pilot, religious leader
- Vittorio Storaro
camera operator, photographer
- Donald Jackson
figure skater
- Dennis Tito
space tourist, glider pilot
- Gloria Leonard
pornographic film actor, film actor
- John Louis Esposito
writer, religious studies scholar
- Billy McNeill
association football player, association football coach
- Wolf Kahler
television actor, character actor
- Patricia Schroeder
lawyer, teacher
- Phyllis Davis
television actor, actor
- Heinz Stücke
cyclist, world traveler
- Tony Bill
director, film producer
- Carole Ann Ford
stage actor, actor
- Fabrizio De André
Liedermacher, composer
- Taihō Kōki
rikishi
- Talitha Getty
model, actor