ON THIS DAY
Born in 1940
1,755 people in this dataset · ordered by Wikipedia popularity
- Claire Bretécher
comics writer
- Ermindo Onega
association football player
- Uwe Timm
writer, children's writer
- Cristino Seriche Bioko
minister, politician
- David Tukhmanov
composer
- Anzor Kavazashvili
association football player, coach
- Henri Dès
composer, recording artist
- Antonella Ragno-Lonzi
fencer
- Kishwar Naheed
poet, writer
- Roy Babbington
jazz musician, bassist
- Alfonso Guerra
university teacher, writer
- Abdul Rahim Wardak
politician, military personnel
- Ignacio Milam Tang
minister, politician
- William Sims Bainbridge
sociologist, university teacher
- Petr Čepek
film actor, stage actor
- Robert Blust
ethnologist, historical linguist
- Nanni Galli
racing automobile driver, Formula One driver
- Ricardo Palacios
actor, screenwriter
- Helma Sanders-Brahms
television producer, screenwriter
- Serge Latouche
essayist, university teacher
- Tan Yee Khan
badminton player, golfer
- Barbara Henneberger
alpine skier
- Barbara Franklin
businessperson, politician
- Tom Williams
ice hockey player
- Arvi Lind
journalist, news presenter
- Viktor Savinykh
engineer, flight engineer
- Lucy Shapiro
developmental biologist, academic
- Jean-Marie Périer
director, film director
- Sapardi Djoko Damono
writer, civil servant
- Marco Maciel
jurist, vice president
- Sherko Bekas
writer, poet
- Mike Troy
swimmer
- Big Jack Johnson
musician, guitarist
- Silvester Takač
association football player, association football coach
- Ruriko Asaoka
actor, singer
- Donald Stewart
judge, politician
- João Carlos Martins
conductor, musician
- Vladica Kovačević
association football coach, association football player
- Liang Guanglie
politician
- Takis Fotopoulos
writer, economist
- Arthur Moreira Lima
composer, pianist
- Gerhard Zemann
director, television actor
- Kenneth Binmore
philosopher, university teacher
- Ioannis Iliopoulos
physicist, scientist
- Manfred Bietak
university teacher, anthropologist
- Anna Chromý
graphic artist, sculptor
- Lyudmila Maksakova
actor
- Herbert Müller
racing automobile driver, Formula One driver
- Carlos Diegues
director, screenwriter
- António Victorino de Almeida
pianist, actor
- Marju Lauristin
sociologist, politician
- Slaven Zambata
association football player
- Bjørn Tidmand
singer, voice actor
- Cihangir Ghaffari
film actor, actor
- Georgie Dann
singer, composer
- Gerard Cox
columnist, singer-songwriter
- Gianfranco Barra
stage actor, film actor
- Jerzy Kulej
officer of the Milicja Obywatelska, politician
- Osei Kofi
association football player, priest
- Rosel Zech
musician, actor
- Kurt Ahrens
racing driver, Formula One driver
- Minori Matsushima
actor, child actor
- Mahzuni Şerif
singer, ashik
- Alix Dobkin
activist, songwriter
- Brigitte Skay
actor, film actor
- Manfred Manglitz
association football player
- Andres Tarand
politician, geographer
- JoAnn H. Morgan
engineer, mathematician
- Alain Calmat
surgeon, physician
- Katerina Gogou
actor, writer
- Mike Schuler
basketball coach, basketball player
- Ernie Chan
illustrator, graphic artist
- Barry Hoban
sport cyclist
- Juozas Budraitis
television actor, actor
- Dario Antiseri
university teacher, philosopher
- Giulietto Chiesa
author, blogger
- Miquel Roca
university teacher, politician
- Fernando Cruz
association football coach, association football player
- Panamarenko
draftsperson, artist
- Osamu Watanabe
amateur wrestler
- Yeo Woon-kay
stage actor, actor
- Arif Dirlik
historian, sinologist
- Nicolae Lupescu
association football coach, association football player
- Gloria Milland
actor
- LeRoy Ellis
basketball player
- Jim Roberts
ice hockey player, ice hockey coach
- Manuela Ferreira Leite
politician, economist
- Juan Luis Galiardo
television actor, stage actor
- Marion Michael
actor, film actor
- Władysław Komar
politician, rugby union player
- Giancarlo Cella
association football coach, association football player
- Edward James Slattery
Catholic priest, Catholic bishop
- Anthony Rolfe Johnson
musician, opera singer
- Karl Offmann
politician
- Gerd R. Puin
university teacher
- Dalil Boubakeur
physician, cleric
- Vicente Miera
association football player, association football coach
- Victor Pavlov
actor, film actor
- Moussa Arafat
politician, military personnel
- M. A. Numminen
artist, musician
- Silvano Maria Tomasi
Catholic bishop, Catholic priest
- Rubeena Qureshi
singer
- John Rockwell
writer, journalist
- Otacílio Gonçalves
association football coach, association football player
- Eduardo Mateo
guitarist, composer
- T. K. Padmini
artist
- Jan Pronk
diplomat, university teacher
- Adriana Ambesi
film actor
- Pilar Mercedes Miró Romero
film producer, actor
- Ernesto Pellegrini
sports official, entrepreneur
- Mukhu Aliyev
statesperson, politician
- Dmitri Prigov
painter, visual artist
- Ali Eid
politician
- Roger Pingeon
sport cyclist
- Lopo do Nascimento
politician, minister
- Roger K. Crouch
astronaut
- İsmail Kahraman
politician
- Takeshi Fuji
boxer
- José Luis Gómez
actor, film actor
- Miguel Ángel Virasoro
university teacher, physicist
- Nicolau Breyner
musician, film actor
- Marcel Aubour
association football player
- Helen Donath
opera singer, vocalist
- Milan Lasica
lyricist, screenwriter
- Pietro Torrisi
stunt performer, actor
- Hira Devi Waiba
singer
- Mirjam Pressler
English–German translator, children's writer
- Božidarka Frajt
actor
- Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa
banker, economist
- Raymond Lahey
university teacher, Catholic bishop
- Jim Neilson
ice hockey player
- Gösta Pettersson
sport cyclist
- Jean-Marie Cavada
radio personality, news presenter
- Frans Melckenbeeck
sport cyclist
- Andrés Pajares
director, film actor
- Akram Yari
teacher, revolutionary
- Varsha Adalja
short story writer, novelist
- André-Joseph Léonard
Catholic bishop, philosopher
- Chaim Oron
politician
- Hariton Pushwagner
draftsperson, artist
- Diego Causero
Catholic bishop, Catholic priest
- Hugo F. Sonnenschein
economist, professor