Home » Today in History » Famous Birthdays

Famous Birthdays on this Day in History

Birthdays in History for Tuesday 3rd June 2014

◀ May June Jul ▶
1	2	3	4	5	6	7
8	9	10	11	12	13	14
15	16	17	18	19	20	21
22	23	24	25	26	27	28
29	30
All Events Birthdays
Weddings Deaths

Birthdays 1 - 255 of 255
1540 - Charles I of Austria (d. 1590)
1610 - Jacob Neefs, Flemish engraver/publisher, baptised
1657 - Manuel de Egues, composer
1659 - David Gregory, Scottish astronomer (d. 1708)
1660 - Johannes Schenck, composer
1685 - Cornelis Hop, Amsterdam regent/diplomat
1723 - Giovanni Antonio Scopoli, Italian-born naturalist (d. 1788)
1726 - James Hutton, Edinburgh Scotland, geologist
1738 - Johann Christoph Oley, composer
1746 - James Hook, composer
1750 - Frederic Thieme, composer
1761 - Henry Scrapnel, English inventor (shrapnel shell)
1770 - Manuel Belgrano, Argentina
1771 - Sydney Smith, Woodford Essex, preacher/reformer/author
1773 - Caspar G C Reinwardt, German/Dutch biologist
1773 - Michael Gottard Fischer, composer
1780 - William Hone, England, author/bookseller (Every-Day Book)
1782 - Charles Waterton, eccentric naturalist/pioneer
1801 - Frantisek Jan Skroup, composer
1804 - Richard Cobden, Sussex, founder (Anti-Corn-Law League)
1808 - Jefferson F Davis, Ky, Pres of Confederate States of America (1861-5)
1812 - Pieter Mijer, Dutch gov-gen of Neth Indies (1866-72)
1815 - Martin Edward Green, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1863
1818 - Louis Faidherbe, French general (d. 1889)
1819 - Johann Barthold Jongkind, Lattrop Neth, Dut/Fr painter (Winter Scenes)
1819 - Thomas Ball, US, sculptor/painter/singer
1824 - Charles Kinnaird Graham, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
1828 - Jean Alexander Ferdinand Poise, composer
1828 - Jose Inzenga y Castellanos, composer
1829 - Alfonse Charles Renaud de Vilback, composer
1831 - Otho French Strahl, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1864
1832 - Alexander Charles Lecocq, composer
1839 - Paul Lindau, German playwright/critic (Der Herr im Hause)
1840 - Eugeen van Oye, Flemish writer/poet (Morning Twilight)
1841 - Eduardo Caudella, composer
1843 - Frederik VIII, King of Denmark (1906-12)
1844 - Detlev [Freiherr Friedrich A von] Liliencron, German poet
1844 - Emile Paladilhe, composer
1844 - Garret Augustus Hobart, (R) 24th US VP (1897-99)
1853 - William Matthew Flinders Petrie, English Egyptologist (d. 1942)
1864 - Ransom Eli Olds, auto (Oldsmobile) & truck (REO) manufacturer
1865 - George V, Saksen-Coburg [Windsor], King of Great Britain (1910-36)
1866 - George Howells Broadhurst, English director (d. 1952)
1867 - Bela Anton Szabados, composer
1868 - Lvar Henning Mankell, composer
1869 - Maria Radulphus, inspector on Curacao (Radulphus College)
1870 - Jules JBV Bordet, Belgian bacteriologist (syphillis, Nobel 1919)
1873 - Otto Loewi, Frankfurt am Main Germany, physician (Nobel-1936)
1877 - Raoul Dufy, France, Fauvist painter (Palm)
1879 - Pieter J A Adriani, Dutch tax lawyer
1879 - Raymond Pearl, American biologist (d. 1940)
1881 - Mikhail Larionov, Russian painter (d. 1964)
1887 - Emil Axman, composer
1888 - Tom Brown, American musician (d. 1958)
1893 - Assen Karastoyanov, composer
1895 - Kavalam Madhava Panikkar, India, diplomat (Asia & Western Dominance)
1897 - Memphis Minnie, rocker
1898 - Rosa Chacel, spanish novelist
1899 - Georg von Bekesy, Budapest Hungary, physician (Nobel-1961)
1900 - Gerard den Brabander, [Jan G Jofriet], poet (Nothing New)
1901 - Maurice Evans, Dorchester England, actor (Maurice-Bewitched)
1902 - Edward Wayne, physician (Queen of Scotland)
1903 - Eddie Acuff, American actor (d. 1956)

Surgeon and Medical Researcher Charles R. Drew (1904) 1904 - Charles R. Drew, pioneer of blood plasma research
1904 - Jan Peerce, [Jacob Pincus Perelmuth], NYC, tenor (NY Met Opera)
1905 - Martin Gottfried Weiss, German, commandant of Dachau concentration camp (d. 1946, by execution)
1906 - Josephine Baker, dancer/Parisian night club owner (Folies-Bergere)
1906 - Louis Simmonds, bookseller
1906 - Norman Gallichan, cricketer (all-rounder in 1 Test NZ v England 1937)
1906 - Robert Brown Black, British diplomat/gov (Hong Kong)
1906 - Walter Robins, cricketer (dynamic England leg-spin all-rounder)
1907 - Antonio Emmanvilovich Spadavecchia, composer
1908 - Adele Dixon, actress (Calling the Tune)
1908 - Eddie Acuff, actor (Guns of the Pecos, Phantom Creeps, Outer Gate)
1910 - Wilfred Thesiger, explorer/writer
1911 - Ellen Corby, Racine Wisc, actress (Grandma Walton-Waltons)
1911 - Mason Gross, Dr/TV professor (Think Fast, Two for the Money)
1911 - Olaf Okern, Norway, Nordic skier (Olympic-medal-1948)
1911 - Paulette Goddard, [Marion Levy], Switz, actress (Great Dictator)
1912 - Richard D'Aeth, president (Hughes Hall Cambridge)
1912 - William Douglas-Home, playwright (Now .. Barabbas)
1913 - Pedro Mir, Dominican Poet Laureate (d. 2000)
1914 - Eugene Fuller, polymath/linguist
1914 - Ronald George Woodman, pilot
1915 - Iris Meredith, Sioux City Iowa, actress (Son of Davy Crockett)
1915 - Leo Gorcey, NYC, actor (Mannequin, Road to Zanzibar)
1917 - Leo Gorcey, American actor (d. 1969)
1918 - Patrick Cargill, British actor (Help, Hammerhead)
1918 - Lili St. Cyr, American ecdysiast (d. 1999)
1920 - Lord Brandon of Oakbrook, Lord of appeal (Ordinary)
1921 - Forbes Carlile, Australian athlete
1922 - Alain Resnais, France, director (Providence, Hiroshima, Mon Amour)
1922 - Ivan Patachich, composer
1922 - M Alain Resnais, Vannes France, director (Melo, I Want to Go Home)
1923 - Michael Jaffe, director (Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge England)
1923 - Igor Shafarevich, Russian mathematician
1924 - David Richard Holloway, literary Editor
1924 - Michael Gow, commandant (Royal College of Defense Studies)
1924 - Jimmy Rogers, Ruleville, Mississippi, Blues musician (Muddy Waters' Band), (d. 1997)
1924 - Ted Mallie, American radio and television announcer (d. 1999)
1925 - Gerhard Zwerenz, writer
1925 - Thomas Winning, Roman Catholic archbishop (Glasgow)
1925 - Tony Curtis, [Bernard Schwartz], Bronx, NY, actor (Some Like It Hot)

Beat Poet Allen Ginsberg (1926) 1926 - Allen Ginsberg, Newark, New Jersey, American beat poet (Howl)
1926 - Carlos Veerhoff, composer
1926 - Colleen Dewhurst, Montreal Canada, actress (Maggie-Blue & Grey)
1926 - Hamilton Fish Jr, (Rep-R-NY, 1969- )
1926 - Janez Maticic, composer
1926 - Roscoe G Bartlett, (Rep-R-Maryland)
1927 - Boots Randolph, Paducah KY, saxophonist (Yakety Sax)
1928 - Donald Judd, US, sculptor (minimal art)
1928 - John Reid, cricketer (prolific NZ batsman 1949-65)
1928 - Sheila Faith, MP/MEP
1929 - Chuck Barris, Phila, TV game show producer/host (Gong Show) [or 6/2]
1929 - Howard Yanks, founder (Philadelphia folk festival)
1929 - Werner Arber, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate
1930 - Marion [Eleanor] Zimmer Bradley [Breen], sci-fi author (Storm Queen)
1930 - Michael Melle, cricketer (South African pace bowler of early 1950's)
1930 - Dakota Staton, American jazz singer (d. 2007)
1930 - Ben Wada, Japanese television producers
1931 - Francoise Arnoul, actress/composer (French Cancan, Jacko & Lise)
1931 - Raúl Castro, Cuban statesman
1931 - Lindy Remigino, American athlete
1932 - Dakota Staton, [Rabia Aliyah], US jazz singer (In the Night)
1933 - Isa ibn Salman Al Khalifah, emir of Bahrain (d. 1999)
1934 - Jim Gentile, baseball player
1934 - Rolland D. McCune, American theologian
1935 - Edward McGrady, MP
1935 - Raoul Franklin, chancellor (City University London)
1935 - Ted Curson [Theodore], Philadelphia, Jazz Trumpeter, (d. 2012)
1936 - Colin Meads, New Zealand rugby player
1936 - David Nicholls, priest/theologian/political theorist
1936 - Harry Pitt, vice chancellor (Reading University)
1936 - Larry McMurtry, US scriptwriter (Lonesome Dove, Pulitzer 1986)
1936 - Philip J Attenborough, CEO/publisher (Hodder & Stoughton)
1936 - Jim Gentile, baseball player
1937 - Solomon P Ortiz, (Rep-D-TX, 1983- )
1939 - David Frederick Stock, composer
1939 - Phil Gallie, MP
1939 - Steve Dalkowski, baseball player
1940 - Richard Edwards, cricketer (WI pace bowler 1968-69 Aust/NZ tour)
1942 - Anita Harris, singer/actress (Follow that Camel)
1942 - Curtis Mayfield, Chicago, rock vocalist (Freddie's Dead, Superfly)
1942 - Duane Josephson, baseball player
1943 - Billy Cunningham, NBA/ABA (Phila 76ers, Carolina Cougers)
1943 - Eddie McGrady, MP
1943 - Mike Dennis, rocker (Dovells)
1944 - Edith McGuire, US 200m sprinter (Olympic-gold-1964)
1944 - Michael Clarke, NYC, rock drummer (Byrds-Turn! Turn! Turn!)
1944 - Eddy Ottoz, Italian athlete
1945 - Hale S Irwin, Joplin MO, PGA golfer (1974 US Open)
1946 - Anita Pollack, MEP (Labour)
1946 - Earl of Cromer, managing director (Inchcape (China) Ltd)
1946 - Eddie Holman, rocker
1946 - Ian Hunter, England, rocker (Mott the Hoople-All the Young Dudes)
1946 - Tristan Rogers, Australia, actor (Robert Scorpio-General Hospital)
1946 - Penelope Wilton [Penelope Alice], Scarborough, North Yorkshire, English actress (Cry Freedom, Norman Conquests)
1947 - Timothy David, diplomat
1947 - Mickey Finn, British guitarist and percussionist (T. Rex) (d. 2003)
1947 - Mike Burgmann, Australian racing driver (d. 1986)
1947 - John Dykstra, American special effects supervisor
1949 - David Evenett, MP (Conservative)
1949 - Stephen Ruppenthal, composer
1950 - Marlene Elejarde, Havana Cuba, 4x100m runner (Olympic-silver-1968)
1950 - Suzi Quatro[cchio], Detroit, singer (Stumblin')/actress (Happy Days)
1950 - Melissa Mathison, American screenwriter
1950 - Christos Verelis, Greek politician
1951 - David Ogilvie, cricketer (5 Tests for Australia 1977-78)
1951 - Deniece Williams, [Chandler], IN, singer (Love Wouldn't Let Me Wait)
1952 - Billy Powell, keyboards (Lynyrd Skynyrd-That Smell, Freebird)
1952 - David Richards, CBE, British motor racing entrepreneur
1954 - Cindy Ferro, LPGA golfer
1954 - Dan Hill, rocker (Sometimes When We Touch)
1954 - Wally Weir, Quebec ice hockey player
1956 - Danny Wilde, rocker (Rembrandts)
1956 - Suren Nalbandyan, USSR, lightweight (Olympic-gold-1976)
1956 - George Burley, Scottish football player and manager
1957 - Horst-Ulrich Hänel, German field hockey player
1958 - Ann Wilson, Brisbane Qld, golfer (1985 R/U NSW Open)
1958 - Ibrahim Hussein, marathoner, (Boston Marathon-1988, 91, 92)
1958 - Scott Valentine, actor (Nick-Family Ties, My Demon Lover)
1959 - Sam Mills, NFL linebacker ( New Orleans Saints and Carolina Panthers), (d. 2005)
1959 - Tom Arnold, former husband of Rosanne Barr/actor (True Lies, Stupids)
1960 - Barry Lyons, baseball player
1960 - Carl Rackemann, cricketer (Queensland & Australian quickie)
1960 - Jack Daugherty, baseball player
1960 - Steve Lyons, baseball player
1961 - Kevin Arnott, cricketer (Zimbabwe batsman, 101* v NZ 1992)
1961 - Peter Glen Vidmar, Los Angeles California, gymnist (Olympic-2 gold/silver-1984)
1961 - Lawrence Lessig, American lawyer and author
1962 - Connie Price-Smith, St Charles MO, discus thrower (Oly-5th-96)
1962 - Susannah Constantine, British fashion guru
1963 - Deb Richard, Abbeville LA, LPGA golfer (1991 Women's Kemper Open)
1963 - Sabrina Goles, Yugoslavia, tennis star
1963 - Yuri Yuriyevich Krikun, Russia, cosmonaut
1963 - Rudy Demotte, Belgian politician
1963 - Toshiaki Karasawa, Japanese actor
1964 - Nelson Liriano, Puerto Plata Dom Rep, infielder (Pittsburgh Pirates)
1964 - Kerry King, American musician (Slayer)
1964 - Doro Pesch, German singer
1964 - James Purefoy, British actor
1965 - Suzan Kaminga, Austin TX, bodybuilder
1965 - Mike Gordon, American musician
1965 - Jeff Blumenkrantz, American composer and actor
1966 - Wasim Akram, cricketer (brilliant Pakistani lefty fast bowler)
1967 - Tamas Darnyi, Hungary, backstroke swimmer (Oly-gold-88, 92)
1967 - William "Bill" Carlucci, Minneapolis Minn, rower (Olympics-bronze-96)
1967 - Anderson Cooper, American reporter
1968 - Jon Baker, WLAF defensive end (Frankfurt Galaxy)
1968 - Samantha Sprackling, Nigerian singer
1969 - Ray Roberts, tackle (Detroit Lions)
1969 - Hiroyuki Takami, Japanese musician
1970 - Andrea Congreaves, WNBA forward/center (Charlotte Sting)
1970 - Carl Everett, baseball player
1970 - Lanee Butler, Manhasset NY, mistral sailboat yachter (Olymp-11th-1996)
1970 - Peter Newton, Kailua Hawaii, sprint kayak (Olympics-96)
1970 - Esther Hart, Dutch singer
1970 - Julie Masse, French Canadian singer
1970 - Peter Tägtgren, Swedish musician (Hypocrisy) and producer
1970 - Ammon McNeely, American rock climber
1971 - Aaron Ledesma, baseball player
1971 - Carl Everett, Tampa Fla, outfielder (NY Mets)
1971 - Mark Parrish, Columbia MD, canoe (alt-Olympics-96)
1972 - Bryan Rekar, Oak Lawn IL, pitcher (Colorado Rockies)
1972 - Omar Douglas, NFL wide receiver (NY Giants)
1972 - Robert Kennedy, cricketer (New Zealand opening bowler 1996)
1973 - Charles Emanuel, safety (Philadelphia Eagles)
1973 - Sargis Sargsian, Yerevan Armenia, tennis star (1995 NCAA)
1974 - Alison McCreary, Florence Alabama, Miss America (Alabama-4th-1997)
1974 - Ashaundai Smith, CFL receiver (Hamilton Tiger Cats)
1974 - Bryan Still, wide receiver (San Diego Chargers)

Singer Kelly Jones (1974) 1974 - Kelly Jones, Welsh singer (Stereophonics)
1974 - Arianne Zuker, American actress
1975 - Jamie Nails, offensive tackle (Buffalo Bills)
1975 - Jose Molina, Puerto Rican baseball player
1976 - Jamie McMurray, American NASCAR driver
1976 - Yuri Ruley, American drummer
1976 - Enda Markey, Irish/Australian entertainer
1977 - Cris, Brazilian footballer
1977 - Az-Zahir Hakim, American football player
1977 - Travis Hafner, American baseball player
1978 - Lyfe Jennings, R&B singer and song-writer
1980 - Lazaros Papadopoulos, Greek basketball player
1982 - Yelena Isinbayeva, Russian pole vaulter
1986 - Alexandros Karageorgiou, Greek archer
1986 - Rafael Nadal, Manacor, Majorca, Balearic Islands, Spanish tennis player

Tennis Player Rafael Nadal (1986) 1986 - Tomas Verner, Czech Republic ice skater
1986 - Adrián Vallés, Spanish racing driver
1986 - Al Horford, American basketball player
1986 - Brenden Richard Jefferson, African-American actor
1987 - Lalaine, American actress and singer
1987 - Masami Nagasawa, Japanese actress
1989 - Katie Hoff, American swimmer
2002 - Prince Tirso of Bulgaria, titular Bulgarian royal family
2006 - Countess Leonore, Member of the Dutch Royal Family

Today's Celebrity Birthdays