1587 – Johannes Fabricius, Danish astronomer (discovered sunspots), born in East Frisia, Germany (d. 1616)
1883 – Patrick J. Hurley, United States Secretary of War (d. 1963)
1883 – Josue Teofilo Wilkes, composer
1899 – S.W.R.D. Bandaranaike, 4th Prime Minister of Sri Lanka (1956-59), born in Colombo, British Ceylon (d. 1959)
1902 – Carl R[ansom] Rogers, American psychologist (Client-Centered Therapy)
1904 – Karl Brandt, Alsacian Nazi war criminal (d. 1948)
1917 – Stanley Prager, American comedian (College Bowl), born in NYC, New York (d. 1972)
1928 – May Wynn [Donna Lee Hickey], American actress (Caine Mutiny, Noah’s Ark), born in NYC, New York
1968 – Paul Carey, American baseball infielder (Baltimore Orioles), born in Boston, Massachusetts
1981 – Jeff Francis, Canadian baseball player, born in Vancouver, British Columbia
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Famous Birthdays for 7th January 2021
1842 – Johan Lindegren, composer
1870 – Lord Gordon Hewart, British judge (d. 1943)
1898 – Al Bowlly, British jazz singer (d. 1941)
1928 – William Peter Blatty, American scriptwriter and author of The Exorcist, born in NYC, New York (d. 2017)
1932 – Joe Berinson, Australian politician
1936 – Eldee Young, US jazz upright bassist (Ramsey Lewis Trio; Young-Holt Unlimited Soulful Strut), born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 2007)
1943 – Jim Lefebvre, American baseball manager (Seattle Mariners), born in Hawthorne, California
1960 – David Marciano, American actor (Det Ray Vecchio-Due South), born in Newark, New Jersey
1970 – Paul McCallum, Canadian football punter and placekicker (Claymores, Sask Roughriders), born in Vancouver, British Columbia
1979 – Ryan Tedder, American singer, born in Tulsa, Oklahoma
Famous Birthdays for 6th January 2021
1655 – Jakob Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician, born in Basel, Switzerland (d. 1705)
1807 – Joseph Holt, American lawyer, politician and Brevet Major General (Union Army), born in Breckinridge County, Kentucky (d. 1894)
1902 – Helmut Poppendick, Nazi physician, born in Hude, Germany (d. 1994)
1939 – Murray Rose, Australian Olympic swimmer (4x oly gold), born in Birmingham, United Kingdom (d. 2012)
1951 – Don Gullett, American baseball player, born in Lynn, Kentucky
1954 – Norbert Hahn, 2 man luge (Olympic gold 1976, 80), born in Elbingerode, Germany
1957 – Nancy Lopez, American golfer (3 major titles, 48 LPGA Tour wins), born in Torrance, California
1962 – Philip Brown, English 4x400m runner (Olympic silver 1984), born in Birmingham, England
1971 – Gary Wiseman, American punk-rock drummer, born in Tyler, Texas
1972 – Nek [Filippo Neviani], Italian singer-songwriter, born in Sassuolo, Modena
Famous Birthdays for 5th January 2021
1762 – Constanze Mozart, wife of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, born in Zell im Wiesental, Germany (d. 1842)
1901 – Mario Scelba, Italian politician (Prime Minister 1954-55), born in Caltagirone, Italy (d. 1991)
1923 – Sam Phillips, American record producer and founder of Sun Records (launched Elvis Presley’s career), born in Florence, Alabama (d. 2003)
1930 – Richard Hayes, American actor and singer (Name That Tune), born in Passaic, New Jersey (d. 2014)
1938 – Piet Kruiver, Dutch soccer star, born in Koog aan de Zaan, Netherlands (d. 1989)
1947 – Mike DeWine, American politician, senator-R-Ohio (1995-2007), Governor of Ohio (2019-), born in Springfield, Ohio
1953 – Mike Rann, Australian politician, born in Sidcup, United Kingdom
1969 – Kurt Barber, American NFL defensive end (NY Jets), born in Paducah, Kentucky
1973 – Phil Joel, Australian bassist (Newsboys), born in Auckland, New Zealand
1983 – Sean Dockery, American basketball player, born in Chicago, Illinois
Famous Birthdays for 4th January 2021
1805 – Stephan Hale Alonzo Marsh, composer
1821 – John James Peck, American Major General (Union Army), born in Manlius, New York (d. 1878)
1878 – Alfred Edgar Coppard, England, writer (Black Dogs and Other Stories)
1914 – Herman Franks, American baseball player
1916 – Slim Gaillard [Bulee], Edinburgh, Scotland, American Jazz singer/songwriter (d. 1991)
1932 – Richard Stahl, American actor (Howard-It’s a Living), born in Detroit, Michigan (d. 2006)
1958 – Gary Jones, Welsh-born actor
1960 – Cory Everson, American body builder (6X Ms Olympia), born in Racine Wisconsin
1962 – Patrick Cassidy, American actor and composer (Fever Pitch, Off the Wall), born in Los Angeles, California
1976 – Ted Lilly, American baseball player, born in Torrance, California
Famous Birthdays for 3rd January 2021
1777 – M A Elisa Bonaparte, Corsican monarch of Lucca/Piombino
1810 – Antoine T. d’Abbadie, French explorer (Ethiopia), born in Dublin, Ireland (d. 1897)
1836 – Sakamoto Ryoma, Japanese revolutionary (d. 1867)
1870 – Henry Handel Richardson [Ethel Florence Lindesay Richardson], Australian novelist (Richard Mahoney), born in East Melbourne, Australia (d. 1946)
1891 – Osip E Mandelstam, Polish/Russian poet/author (Kamenj) [NS=Jan 15]
1901 – Ngô Đình Diệm, President and authoritarian leader of South Vietnam (1954-63), born in Quảng Bình, French Indochina (d. 1963)
1916 – Antonio Estevez, composer
1947 – Sergey Filipovich Protchenko, Russian cosmonaut
1953 – Peter Taylor, English soccer winger (4 caps; Crystal Palace, Tottenham Hotspur) and manager (Leicester City, Hull, Crystal Palace), born in Rochford, England
1962 – Gavin Hastings OBE, Scottish rugby union fullback and captain (61 caps Scotland, 6 caps British Lions; Watsonians, London Scottish, Cambridge University), born in Edinburgh, Scotland
Famous Birthdays for 2nd January 2021
1912 – Andre Ameller, composer
1925 – Larry Harmon, American entertainer and TV producer (d. 2008)
1928 – Avie Bennett, Canadian philanthropist
1951 – Alexander Pogrebinsky, Russian painter
1957 – Joanna Pacula, Tomszowaubelski Poland, actress (Gorky Park, Kiss)
1960 – Naoki Urasawa, Japanese manga author
1967 – Jón Gnarr, Icelandic comedian
1970 – Sanda Ladoşi, Romanian pop singer (“I Admit”), born in Târgu Mureș, Transylvania, Romania.
1974 – Ludmila Formanová, Czech athlete (World C’ship gold 800m 1999), born in Čáslav, Czech Republic
1980 – Mac Danzig, American mixed martial artist (The Ultimate Fighter 6 lightweight 2007), born in Cleveland, Ohio
Famous Birthdays for 1st January 2021
1723 – Christian Friedrich Gregor, composer
1881 – Carry van Bridges [de Haan], Dutch author (Heleen, Eva)
1910 – Russell “Russ” Bender, American actor and writer (Amazing Colossal Man, Space Monster, It Conquered the World), born in NYC, New York (d. 1969)
1921 – Alain Mimoun, Algerian/French distance runner (Olympic marathon gold 1956; 3 x silver 1948, 52), born in Telagh, Algeria (d. 2013)
1927 – Vernon L. Smith, American economist and Nobel laureate, born in Wichita, Kansas
1930 – Gaafar Muhammad Nimeiry, premier/president (Sudan)
1947 – Paula Tsui, Hong Kong singer
1963 – Lina Kačiušytė, Lithuanian swimmer (Olympic gold 200m breaststroke 1980; WR 1979 2:28.36), born in Vilnius, Lithuania
1973 – Anwar Mansoor Mangrio, Sindhi poet and research scholar.
1981 – Eden Riegel, American actress (All My Children), born in Washington, D.C.
Famous Birthdays for 31st December 2020
1878 – Elizabeth Arden, Canadian businesswoman, born in Woodbridge, Ontario (d. 1966)
1899 – Gaston Glass, American-French actor and producer, born in Paris, France (d. 1965)
1905 – Jule Styne, English songwriter and composer (1954 Acad Award, 1968 Tony), born in London, United Kingdom (d. 1994)
1919 – Tommy Byrne, American baseball player, born in Baltimore, Maryland (d. 2007)
1939 – Willye White, American athlete (Olympic silver long jump 1956, 4x100m relay 1964; Sports Illustrated 100 greatest women athletes of 20th century), born in Money, Mississippi (d. 2007)
1948 – René Robert, Canadian NHL player, born in Trois-Rivières, Canada
1959 – Phill Kline, American politician, born in Kansas City, Kansas
1966 – Paula Barbieri, American model and actress (Dangerous), born in Panama City, Florida
1971 – Erin Warren, American luger (Olympics 1994), born in Winchester Massachusetts
1981 – Jason Campbell, American football player, born in Laurel, Mississippi
Famous Birthdays for 30th December 2020
1851 – Asa Griggs Candler, developed Coca-Cola
1864 – Alessandro Longo, Italian composer and musicologist, born in Amantea, Italy (d. 1945)
1873 – Alfred “Al” Smith, American politician, 4 time Governor of New York (1919-20 and 1923-28), and 1st Catholic nominee for US President (1928), born in Manhattan, New York (d. 1944)
1884 – Hideki Tojo, Japanese Prime Minister during WW II (1941-44), born in Tokyo (d. 1948)
1958 – Brandon Clark, American actor (Sean-The Fitzpatricks), born in NYC, New York
1964 – Duglas T. Stewart, Scottish musician (BMX Bandits)
1965 – David Baker, UK cyclist, born in Sheffield, England
1972 – Kerry Collins, American College Football Hall of Fame quarterback ( Penn State Uni; Pro Bowl 1996, 2008; Carolina Panthers, Tennessee Titans), born in Lebanon, Pennsylvania
1973 – Ato Boldon, Trinidadian athlete
1981 – Ali Al Habsi, Omani footballer