ON THIS DAY
Born in 1940
1,755 people in this dataset · ordered by Wikipedia popularity
- Jean Ratelle
ice hockey player
- Moudud Ahmed
barrister, politician
- Georgi Ivanov
military officer, aircraft pilot
- Mike Melvill
astronaut, test pilot
- Christoph Eschenbach
pianist, conductor
- Lebbeus Woods
sculptor, university teacher
- Ruth Dreifuss
politician
- Gerald Okamura
stunt performer, actor
- Orlando Patterson
university teacher, historian
- Joseph L. Goldstein
geneticist, university teacher
- George Ritzer
sociologist, university teacher
- Michael Ruse
philosopher, university teacher
- Abdollah Movahed
amateur wrestler
- Tadeusz Piotrowski
mountaineer
- Sultan Khan
singer, musician
- Taylor G. Wang
physicist, astronaut
- Jan Eliasson
foreign minister, politician
- Petru Lucinschi
politician, statesperson
- Carroll A. Campbell, Jr.
politician
- Hanako, Princess Hitachi
translator, aristocrat
- Abbas El Fassi
diplomat, lawyer
- Kieth Merrill
film producer, film director
- Don Brash
economist, politician
- Franz Müntefering
trade unionist, politician
- Robert Jervis
political scientist, university teacher
- Silvio Marzolini
association football player, association football coach
- Pippo Franco
musician, singer
- Yoshio Harada
film actor, actor
- Juliet Mitchell
psychoanalyst, feminist
- Luis Cubilla
association football player, association football coach
- Chris Menges
cinematographer, film director
- Hérard Abraham
diplomat, politician
- John D. Caputo
theologian, university teacher
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
writer
- Tilo Prückner
film actor, author
- Otto Jelinek
diplomat, athlete
- Joe DioGuardi
politician
- Marutei Tsurunen
translator, politician
- Evi Nemeth
professor, engineer
- Wayne McLaren
television actor, film actor
- James Welch
poet, novelist
- Jia Qinglin
politician
- Cedric Robinson
political theorist, university teacher
- Vladimir Vasiliev
dancer, actor
- Eric Griffiths
musician, guitarist
- Aron Kincaid
actor, film actor
- Keith Prentice
actor, television actor
- Carole Pateman
women's rights activist, philosopher
- Meghnad Desai, Baron Desai
politician, economist
- Mirko Jozić
association football coach, association football player
- Michael Cook
historian, orientalist
- David Broome
show jumper
- Mohamed Khouna Ould Haidalla
dictator, politician
- Seán Cannon
singer, guitarist
- Vera Tschechowa
film producer, actor
- Kishin Shinoyama
photographer
- Fouad Twal
Catholic bishop, Catholic priest
- Bobby Freeman
musician, recording artist
- Frances FitzGerald
writer, historian
- Whitney Smith
university teacher, vexillologist
- Peter Gethin
Formula One driver
- Ronald Grigor Suny
political scientist, historian
- Lokendra Bahadur Chand
politician, jurist
- Manto Tshabalala-Msimang
politician, minister
- Arati Saha
swimmer
- Gaston Caperton
politician, governor
- Geoffrey West
physicist, university teacher
- Stephen J. Solarz
politician
- Sonja Barend
actor, presenter
- Edy Vessel
businessperson, actor
- Boaventura de Sousa Santos
poet, philosopher
- Bernd Heinrich
athletics competitor, non-fiction writer
- Zack Norman
film actor, actor
- Stanley R. Jaffe
film director, film producer
- Wolfgang Paul
association football player, watchmaker
- Marie-José Nat
stage actor, film actor
- Anatolii Bondarchuk
hammer thrower
- Peter Meyer
association football player
- Lucy Kibaki
politician
- Homa Darabi
psychiatrist, university teacher
- Lucinda Childs
researcher, dancer
- Lepa Lukić
singer, actor
- Roscoe Mitchell
percussionist, musician
- Talal Maddah
actor, composer
- David Price
politician, lawyer
- Hwang In-shik
film actor, actor
- Muse Hassan Sheikh Sayid Abdulle
politician, diplomat
- Steve O'Rourke
racing automobile driver, talent manager
- Agostino Vallini
Catholic bishop, theologian
- Raymonda Tawil
writer, journalist
- Albert Razin
philosopher, docent
- Maria Grazia Buccella
film actor, actor
- Joseph Sinde Warioba
head of government, politician
- Eiichi Yamamoto
screenwriter, director
- Jürgen Todenhöfer
politician, opinion journalist
- Peppino Gagliardi
composer, singer-songwriter
- Henry Flynt
violinist, musician
- Yang Jisheng
opinion journalist, journalist
- Stephen J. Lippard
chemist, university teacher
- Marian Zazeela
musician, painter
- Faisal Husseini
politician
- Proinsias De Rossa
politician
- Richard Chew
film editor
- Jan Janssen
sport cyclist, track cyclist
- Anita Shapira
university teacher, historian
- Alessandro Minuto-Rizzo
politician, jurist
- Janis Martin
bandleader, songwriter
- Lyudmila Marchenko
actor, film actor
- Craig Rodwell
businessperson
- Marcelino Martínez
association football player
- Antonio Skármeta
screenwriter, director
- Gerald L. Baliles
governor, jurist
- Jacques Higelin
film actor, singer-songwriter
- Elizabeth Murray
illustrator, sculptor
- Laura Efrikian
announcer, film actor
- Diana Lorys
film actor, actor
- Hugh Porter
track cyclist, sport cyclist
- Vincenzo Cerami
playwright, screenwriter
- Richard Robbins
musician, screenwriter
- Renato Pozzetto
film director, film actor
- Giacomo Bulgarelli
association football player
- Dick Morrissey
composer, musician
- Stone Johnson
American football player, sprinter
- Derrick Morgan
singer, musician
- Pierre Guyotat
writer, playwright
- Francisco Toledo
draftsperson, sculptor
- Hamzah Haz
politician
- Tom Moulton
record producer, composer
- Donald J. Kessler
astrophysicist
- Robert S. Kaplan
economist, university teacher
- François Duprat
professor, politician
- Souleymane Cissé
screenwriter, film director
- Masahiko Tsugawa
actor, film director
- Tan Cheng Bock
physician, politician
- James W. Fowler
Protestant theologian, university teacher
- Ali Saibou
minister, military personnel
- Paul Cox
photographer, film director
- Anjolie Ela Menon
artist, painter
- Dwijendra Narayan Jha
historian, author
- Fausto Bertinotti
writer, politician
- Édika
comics writer, comics artist
- Yossi Sarid
writer, journalist
- Rubén Hinojosa
politician, adjunct professor
- Jan Stráský
banker, politician