1813 – Henry Ward Beecher, American clergyman and orator (Independent), born in Litchfield, Connecticut (d. 1887)
1820 – Henry R. Jackson, American Brigadier General (Confederate Army), born in Athens, Georgia (d. 1898)
1822 – Birkett D. Fry, American Brigadier General (Confederate Army), born in Kanawha County, Virginia (d. 1891)
1840 – Louis Brassin, Belgian composer and pianist, born in Aix-la-Chapelle (d. 1884)
1911 – Ernesto Sábato, Argentinian writer (Sábato Report), born in Rojas, Argentina (d. 2011)
1931 – Billy Casper, American golfer (US Open 1959, 66; US Masters 1970), born in San Diego, California (d. 2015)
1945 – Colin Blunstone, British rock singer-songwriter (The Zombies – “She’s Not There”; “Time Of The Season”), born in Hatfield, Hertfordshire, England
1949 – John Illsley, British rock bassist (Dire Straits), born in Leicester, England
1961 – Iain Glen, Scottish actor (Game of Thrones; Resident Evil), born in Edinburgh, Scotland
1972 – Mitch Berger, Canadian NFL punter (Super Bowl XLIII Pittsburgh Steelers; First-team All-Pro 2004 NO Saints; Pro Bowl 1999, 2004; Minnesota Vikings), born in Kamloops, British Columbia
Category: Famous Birthdays
Famous Birthdays for 23rd June 2025
1160 – John of Matha, French Christian saint and founder of the Order of the Most Holy Trinity dedicated to ransoming Christians captured by North African marauders, born in Faucon-de-Barcelonnette, France (d. 1213)
1838 – Edwin Henry Stoughton, American Brigadier General (Union Army), born in Chester, Vermont (d. 1868)
1902 – Howard Engstrom, American computer designer (co-creator Univac computer), born in Boston, Massachusetts (d. 1962)
1903 – Anthony Veiller, American writer (Night of Iguana, Moulin Rouge), born in New York City (d. 1965)
1907 – Dercy Gonçalves, Brazilian comedienne, singer and actress, worlds longest acting career (1922-2008), born in Santa Maria Madalena, Brazil (d. 2008)
1921 – Jean [Jean Benoît Guillaume Robert Antoine Louis Marie Adolphe Marc d’Aviano], Grand Duke of Luxembourg (1964-2000), born in Berg Castle, Luxembourg (d. 2019)
1935 – György Kárpáti, Hungarian water polo player (Olympic gold 1952, 56, 64), born in Budapest, Hungary (d. 2020)
1940 – Diana Trask, Australian-American country music and pop singer (“It’s a Man’s World (If You Have a Man Like Mine)”; “When I Get My Hands on You”), and television personality (Sing Along With Mitch), born in Camberwell, Australia
1960 – Donald Harrison, American jazz saxophonist, born in New Orleans, Louisiana
1978 – Matt Light, American football offensive tackle (Super Bowl XXXVI, XXXVIII, XXXIX; First-team All-Pro 2007; 3 × Pro Bowl; NE Patriots), born in Greenville, Ohio
Famous Birthdays for 22nd June 2025
1856 – Henry Rider Haggard, British author (King Solomon’s Mines, She, Dawn), born in Bradenham, England (d. 1925)
1906 – (Samuel) Billy Wilder, Austrian-American filmmaker (Stalag 17: Some Like It Hot; The Lost Weekend; The Apartment), born in Sucha, Austria-Hungary (now Sucha Beskidzka, Poland) (d. 2002)
1920 – Marea Hartman, English sports executive (President Amateur Athletic Association of England 1991-94; integrated women’s athletics), born in London (d. 1994)
1931 – Teruyuki Okazaki, Japanese karate master (10th degree black belt Shotokan Karate; founder International Shotokan Karate Federation), born in Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan (d. 2020)
1937 – Chris Blackwell, English businessman and record producer (Island Records), born in Westminster, London, England
1970 – Steven Page, Canadian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and record producer (Barenaked Ladies, 1988-2009 – “If I Had $1000000”), born in Scarborough, Ontario
1971 – Brant Brown, American MLB infielder, 1996-2000 (Chicago Cubs and 3 other teams), and hitting coach, born in Porterville, California
1974 – [C. Joseph] Vijay, Indian actor and singer (Poove Unakkaga), born in Madras (now Chennai), India
1981 – Chris Urbanowicz, British rock guitarist (The Editors, 2002-12), born in Aslockton, England
1994 – Marnus Labuschagne, Australian cricket batsman (HS 215; Queensland CA, Brisbane Heat, Glamorgan CCC), born in Klerksdorp, South Africa
Famous Birthdays for 21st June 2025
1668 – Cajetan Kolberer, composer, born in Salzburg, Austria (d. 1732)
1805 – Karl Friedrich Curschmann, German composer, born in Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia (d. 1841)
1825 – William Stubbs, English historian and Anglican bishop of Oxford, born in High Street, Knaresborough, England (d. 1901)
1839 – Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis, Brazilian writer (Epitaph of a small winner), born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (d. 1908)
1844 – Ernest F. Cambier, Belgian colonial official (built railway in the Congo), born in Ath, Belgium (d. 1909)
1914 – William Vickrey, Canadian economist (Nobel 1996), born in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada (d. 1996)
1948 – Andrzej Sapkowski, Polish writer (The Witcher), born in Łódź, Poland
1953 – Augustus Pablo, Jamaican musician (King Tubbys Meets Rockers Uptown), born in St. Andrew, Jamaica (d. 1999)
1961 – Kip Winger, American rock bassist and singer (Winger), born in Denver, Colorado
1983 – Edward Snowden, American NSA contractor who leaked classified information, born in Elizabeth City, North Carolina
Famous Birthdays for 20th June 2025
1647 – Johann Georg III, Elector of Saxony (1680-91), born in Dresden, Electorate of Saxony, Holy Roman Empire (d. 1691)
1771 – Thomas Douglas, 5th Earl of Selkirk, Scottish philanthropist, born in St Mary’s Isle, Kirkcudbrightshire, Scotland (d. 1820)
1808 – Samson Raphael Hirsch, German Orthodox rabbi and intellectual founder of the Torah im Derech Eretz school of contemporary Orthodox Judaism, born in Hamburg, French Empire (d. 1888)
1887 – Floyd Collins, American cave owner and caver (died in Sand Cave rescue), born in Logan County, Kentucky (d. 1925)
1903 – Sam Rabin [Rabinowitz], British sculptor, artist, actor and freestyle wrestler (Olympic bronze middleweight 1928), born in Cheetham, North Manchester, England (d. 1991)
1928 – Eric Dolphy, American jazz saxophone, bass clarinet, and flute player, born in Los Angeles, California (d. 1964)
1931 – Arne Nordheim, Norwegian conductor and composer (Aftonland; Canzona per orchestra; Poly-poly), born in Larvik, Norway (d. 2010)
1946 – Xanana Gusmão, East Timorese independence activist and politician, President of East Timor (2023-), born in Manatuto, Portuguese Timor
1985 – Darko Miličić, Serbian basketball player (Detroit Pistons), born in Novi Sad, Serbia, Yugoslavia
1987 – Christie Raleigh Crossley, American Paralympic swimmer (2024 2 golds, 2 silver, 1 bronze), born in Toms River, New Jersey
Famous Birthdays for 19th June 2025
1623 – Blaise Pascal, French mathematician, physicist and Christian philosopher (Pascal’s Law, Pascal’s Wager), born in Clermont-Ferrand, France (d. 1662)
1904 – Balys Dvarionas, Lithuanian pianist, composer and educator, born in Liepāja, Russian Empire (d. 1972)
1910 – Frederick Harry Baines, English figurative painter, born in Manchester, England (d. 1995)
1916 – Pat Buttram, American actor (Mr Haney-Green Acres), born in Addison, Alabama (d. 1994)
1924 – Wassil Bykau, Belarusian writer, born in Bytschki, Vitebsk Region (d. 2003)
1935 – Tommy Devito, American rock baritone vocalist and guitarist (Four Seasons – “Sherry”), born in Montclair, New Jersey (d. 2020)
1942 – J Edward Oliver, British cartoonist (Record Mirror; Buster and Master’s Mind), born in Dartford, Kent, England (d. 2007)
1942 – Neil Chalmers, British zoologist and director of the National History Museum in London (1988-2004), born in Surrey, England
1945 – Radovan Karadžić, Bosnian Serb politician, 1st President of Republika Srpska (1992-96) and war criminal convicted of genocide and crimes against humanity, born in Petnjica, Montenegro, Yugoslavia
1982 – Joe Cheng, Taiwanese model and actor (Mischievous Kiss, Chinese Partner), born in Taichung, Taiwan
Famous Birthdays for 18th June 2025
1882 – Georgi Dimitrov, Bulgarian Communist leader (Prime Minister 1946-49), born in Kovachevtsi, Bulgaria (d. 1949)
1891 – Con Conrad [Dober], American songwriter (“Ma! He’s Making Eyes at Me”; “The Continental”), and theatrical producer, born in New York City (d. 1938)
1920 – Ian Carmichael, British actor (Private’s Progress, I’m All Right Jack), born in Hull, England (d. 2010)
1929 – Jürgen Habermas, German sociologist and philosopher (Frankfurter Schule), born in Düsseldorf, Germany
1932 – Dudley R. Herschbach, American chemist known for molecular dynamics (Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1986), born in San Jose, California
1933 – Colin Brumby, Australian composer (Fibonacci Variations), conductor (Queensland Opera, 1968-71), and educator, born in Melbourne (d. 2018)
1944 – Rick Griffin, American artist and a leading designer of psychedelic posters in the 1960s (Grateful Dead), born in Palos Verdes, California (d. 1991)
1947 – Douglas Young, British pianist, composer (Songs of Exile), and music director (Dreamtiger Ensemble, 1974-84), born in London, England
1962 – Mitsuharu Misawa, Japanese professional wrestler and 3x Wrestling Observer Newsletter’s wrestler of the year (1995; 1997; 1999), born in Koshiyaga, Japan (d. 2009)
1980 – Antonio Gates, American football tight end (First-team All-Pro 2004, 05, 06, 07; 8 × Pro Bowl; SD Chargers), born in Detroit, Michigan
Famous Birthdays for 17th June 2025
1830 – Richard Montgomery Gano, American Brigadier General (Confederate Army), born in Bourbon County, Kentucky (d. 1913)
1884 – Christine Bakker-van Bosse, Dutch feminist and pacifist, born in Batavia (d. 1973)
1913 – Felix Hartlaub, German historian and writer, born in Bremen, Germany (d. 1945)
1926 – Manuel Enríquez, Mexican composer, born in Ocotlán, Jalisco, Mexico (d. 1994)
1933 – Harry Browne, American free-market libertarian writer (How I Found Freedom in an Unfree World) and Libertarian Party presidential nominee in 1996 and 2000, born in New York City (d. 2006)
1950 – Cathy Sherk, Canadian golfer (Canadian Women’s PGA C’ship 1988, 90-91), born in Bancroft, Ontario
1962 – Michael Monroe, Finnish singer (Hanoi Rocks), born in Helsinki, Finland
1969 – Paul Tergat, Kenyan long distance runner, born in Riwo, Baringo District, Kenya
1977 – Branko Tomovic, German Serbian actor, born in Münster, Germany
1983 – Jaimie Branch, American avant-garde trumpet player and composer (Fly Or Die), born in Huntington, Long Island, New York (d. 2022)
Famous Birthdays for 16th June 2025
1514 – John Cheke, English classical scholar, statesman, and tutor to King Edward VI, born in Cambridge, England (d. 1557)
1821 – Old Tom Morris, Scottish golfer (British Open 1861-62, 64, 67), born in St. Andrews, Fife, Scotland (d. 1908)
1873 – Antonina Nezhdanova, Russian soprano (Rigoletto), born in Kryva Balka, Russian Empire (d. 1950)
1937 – Erich Segal, American author (Love Story, Oliver’s Story), born in Brooklyn, New York (d. 2010)
1946 – Neil MacGregor, British arts administrator (Director of the British National Gallery and the British Museum), born in Glasgow, Scotland
1950 – James Smith, American singer (Stylistics), born in New York City
1955 – Simon Bailey, priest, 1st British priest to say he had AIDS, born in Halifax, West Yorkshire (d. 1995)
1959 – The Ultimate Warrior [James Brian Hellwig], American professional wrestler, born in Crawfordsville, Indiana (d. 2014)
1978 – Daniel Brühl, German actor (Good Bye Lenin!), born in Barcelona, Spain
1982 – May Andersen, Danish model (Victoria’s Secret), born in Copenhagen, Denmark
Famous Birthdays for 15th June 2025
1640 – Bernard Lamy, French Oratorian, theologian, and mathematician (parallelogram of forces), born in Le Mans, Kingdom of France (d. 1715)
1878 – Margaret Abbott, American golfer (1st American woman to win Olympic event, golf 1900), born in Calcutta, India (d. 1955)
1903 – (Carlos) “Charlie” Gemora, Filipino-American film make-up artist and actor who specialized in playing gorillas (Murders in the Rue Morgue; The Chimp and Swiss Miss; At the Circus; Road to Zanzibar), born in Negros, Philippine Islands (d. 1961)
1910 – David Rose, American Emmy Award-winning composer (“The Stripper”; “Holiday For Strings”), and orchestra leader (The Red Skelton Show), born in London (d. 1990)
1933 – Paul Wolfisberg, Swiss soccer forward (FC Luzern) and coach (Switzerland 1981-85), born in Horw, Switzerland (d. 2020)
1948 – Mike Holmgren, American football coach and executive (Super Bowl XXI HC Green Bay Packers; HC Seattle Seahawks), born in San Francisco, California
1957 – Seppo Pääkkönen, Finnish actor (The Midwife, Run Sister Run!), born in Kuhmo, Finland
1957 – Clio Goldsmith, actress (Gift, Heat of Desire), born in Paris, France
1969 – Idalis DeLeón, American singer (Seduction – “Two To Make It Right”), actress (Six Feet Under), and television host (MTV; Extra), born in Brooklyn, New York
1973 – Pia Miranda, Australian actress (Looking for Alibrandi, The Tender Hook), born in Melbourne, Australia