Famous people born in the 20th century
1,014 people we track were born in the 20th century. The best known are on the timeline.
- Barack Obama born 1961
- Donald Trump born 1946
- Michael Jackson 1958 – 2009
- Vladimir Putin born 1952
- Ronald Reagan 1911 – 2004
- Nelson Mandela 1918 – 2013
- George W. Bush born 1946
- Joe Biden born 1942
- Elizabeth II 1926 – 2022
- John F. Kennedy 1917 – 1963
- Martin Luther King Jr. 1929 – 1968
- Salvador Dalí 1904 – 1989
- Bill Gates born 1955
- Marilyn Monroe 1926 – 1962
- Jimmy Wales born 1966
- Pope Francis 1936 – 2025
- Shakira born 1977
- Steve Jobs 1955 – 2011
- Che Guevara 1928 – 1967
- Lionel Messi born 1987
- Corbin Bleu born 1989
- Bill Clinton born 1946
- Basshunter born 1984
- Angela Merkel born 1954
- Neil Armstrong 1930 – 2012
- François Hollande born 1954
- Walt Disney 1901 – 1966
- Elvis Presley 1935 – 1977
- Cristiano Ronaldo born 1985
- Volodymyr Zelenskyy born 1978
- George Orwell 1903 – 1950
- Margaret Thatcher 1925 – 2013
- John Paul II 1920 – 2005
- Gabriel García Márquez 1927 – 2014
- Fidel Castro 1926 – 2016
- Albert Camus 1913 – 1960
- Yuri Gagarin 1934 – 1968
- Marlene Dietrich 1901 – 1992
- Mikhail Gorbachev 1931 – 2022
- Jean-Paul Sartre 1905 – 1980
- Stephen Hawking 1942 – 2018
- Elon Musk born 1971
- Frida Kahlo 1907 – 1954
- Mother Teresa 1910 – 1997
- Jimmy Carter 1924 – 2024
- Benedict XVI 1927 – 2022
- Emmanuel Macron born 1977
- Hillary Clinton born 1947
- Lady Gaga born 1986
- George H. W. Bush 1924 – 2018
- Nicolas Sarkozy born 1955
- Madonna born 1958
- Kamala Harris born 1964
- Alan Turing 1912 – 1954
- Richard Nixon 1913 – 1994
- Xi Jinping born 1953
- Naruhito born 1960
- Noam Chomsky born 1928
- Simone de Beauvoir 1908 – 1986
- Hugo Chávez 1954 – 2013
- Muammar Gaddafi 1942 – 2011
- Sung Jae-gi 1967 – 2013
- John Lennon 1940 – 1980
- Bob Dylan born 1941
- Recep Tayyip Erdoğan born 1954
- Pelé 1940 – 2022
- Muhammad Ali 1942 – 2016
- J. K. Rowling born 1965
- Justin Bieber born 1994
- Andy Warhol 1928 – 1987
- Louis Armstrong 1901 – 1971
- Kofi Annan 1938 – 2018
- Taylor Swift born 1989
- Osama bin Laden 1957 – 2011
- Akira Kurosawa 1910 – 1998
- Lech Wałęsa born 1943
- Freddie Mercury 1946 – 1991
- Charles III born 1948
- Kim Jong-un born 1984
- Lyndon B. Johnson 1908 – 1973
- Gerald Ford 1913 – 2006
- Diego Maradona 1960 – 2020
- Eminem born 1972
- Beyoncé born 1981
- Selena Gomez born 1992
- Leo XIV born 1955
- Indira Gandhi 1917 – 1984
- Narendra Modi born 1950
- Rafael Correa born 1963
- Enrico Fermi 1901 – 1954
- Naguib Mahfouz 1911 – 2006
- Aung San Suu Kyi born 1945
- Steven Spielberg born 1946
- Michael Schumacher born 1969
- Angelina Jolie born 1975
- Anne Frank 1929 – 1945
- Saddam Hussein 1937 – 2006
- Benjamin Netanyahu born 1949
- Tenzin Gyatso born 1935
- Dmitry Medvedev born 1965
- Anna Netrebko born 1971
- Mark Zuckerberg born 1984
- Pablo Neruda 1904 – 1973
- Rafael Orozco Maestre 1954 – 1992
- Bruce Lee 1940 – 1973
- Silvio Berlusconi 1936 – 2023
- Bob Marley 1945 – 1981
- Shinzō Abe 1954 – 2022
- Isaac Asimov 1919–1920 – 1992
- Tim Berners-Lee born 1955
- Ingmar Bergman 1918 – 2007
- Federico Fellini 1920 – 1993
- Mahathir Mohamad born 1925
- Boris Yeltsin 1931 – 2007
- Ali Khamenei 1939 – 2026
- Robin Williams 1951 – 2014
- Jackie Chan born 1954
- Kim Il-sung 1912 – 1994
- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 1918 – 2008
- Jacques Chirac 1932 – 2019
- Guillermo Lasso born 1955
- Céline Dion born 1968
- Stanley Kubrick 1928 – 1999
- Roger Federer born 1981
- Lana Del Rey born 1985
- Kwame Nkrumah 1909 – 1972
- Marlon Brando 1924 – 2004
- Alexander Lukashenka born 1954
- Hirohito 1901 – 1989
- Richard Feynman 1918 – 1988
- Woody Allen born 1935
- Tony Blair born 1953
- Rihanna born 1988
- Neymar born 1992
- Malala Yousafzai born 1997
- Scarlett Johansson born 1984
- Yasser Arafat 1929 – 2004
- Rafael Nadal born 1986
- Judy Garland 1922 – 1969
- Ban Ki-moon born 1944
- Arnold Schwarzenegger born 1947
- David Cameron born 1966
- Linus Torvalds born 1969
- Brigitte Bardot 1934 – 2025
- Novak Djokovic born 1987
- Hebe Camargo 1929 – 2012
- Umberto Eco 1932 – 2016
- Boris Johnson born 1964
- Jim Morrison 1943 – 1971
- Benazir Bhutto 1953 – 2007
- Jair Bolsonaro born 1955
- Diana, Princess of Wales 1961 – 1997
- Bashar al-Assad born 1965
- Audrey Hepburn 1929 – 1993
- Paul McCartney born 1942
- Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva born 1945
- Anggun born 1974
- Leonardo DiCaprio born 1974
- John Steinbeck 1902 – 1968
- Agnez Mo born 1986
- Stephen King born 1947
- Theresa May born 1956
- Johnny Depp born 1963
- Brad Pitt born 1963
- Édith Piaf 1915 – 1963
- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad born 1956
- Britney Spears born 1981
- Maya Angelou 1928 – 2014
- Sean Connery 1930 – 2020
- Zinedine Zidane born 1972
- Satyajit Ray 1921 – 1992
- Henry Kissinger 1923 – 2023
- Václav Havel 1936 – 2011
- Bhumibol Adulyadej 1927 – 2016
- Elizabeth Taylor 1932 – 2011
- Carl Sagan 1934 – 1996
- Emma Watson born 1990
- Georges Pompidou 1911 – 1974
- Nicolás Maduro born 1962
- Justin Trudeau born 1971
- Rishi Sunak born 1980
- Miley Cyrus born 1992
- Ariana Grande born 1993
- Werner Heisenberg 1901 – 1976
- Samuel Beckett 1906 – 1989
- Warren Buffett born 1930
- Bernie Sanders born 1941
- Richard Stallman born 1953
- Leonid Brezhnev 1906 – 1982
- Robert Mugabe 1924 – 2019
- Alain Delon 1935 – 2024
- Robert De Niro born 1943
- Michael Jordan born 1963
- David Beckham born 1975
- Avril Lavigne born 1984
- Günter Grass 1927 – 2015
- Hosni Mubarak 1928 – 2020
- Dilma Rousseff born 1947
- Orhan Pamuk born 1952
- Michelle Obama born 1964
- Julian Assange born 1971
- Deng Xiaoping 1904 – 1997
- Frank Sinatra 1915 – 1998
- Ferdinand Marcos 1917 – 1989
- José Saramago 1922 – 2010
- Kim Jong-il 1941 – 2011
- Richard Dawkins born 1941
- Jimi Hendrix 1942 – 1970
- David Bowie 1947 – 2016
- Whitney Houston 1963 – 2012
- Shah Rukh Khan born 1965
- Jennifer Lopez born 1969
- Natalie Portman born 1981
- Usain Bolt born 1986
- François Mitterrand 1916 – 1996
- Edmund Hillary 1919 – 2008
- Malcolm X 1925 – 1965
- Clint Eastwood born 1930
- Al Gore born 1948
- Oprah Winfrey born 1954
- Tom Hanks born 1956
- Tupac Shakur 1971 – 1996
- Bradley Cooper born 1975
- Katy Perry born 1984
- Adele born 1988
- Milton Friedman 1912 – 2006
- Al Pacino born 1940
- Will Smith born 1968
- Doris Lessing 1919 – 2013
- Toni Morrison 1931 – 2019
- George Lucas born 1944
- Paulo Coelho born 1947
- Kate Winslet born 1975
- Kylian Mbappé born 1998
- John McCain 1936 – 2018
- Valentina Tereshkova born 1937
- Meryl Streep born 1949
- Douglas Adams 1952 – 2001
- Nicole Kidman born 1967
- Cate Blanchett born 1969
- Alexei Navalny 1976 – 2024
- Demi Lovato born 1992
- Pol Pot 1925 – 1998
- Sophia Loren born 1934
- Leonard Cohen 1934 – 2016
- Mario Vargas Llosa 1936 – 2025
- Charlotte Rampling born 1946
- Julia Roberts born 1967
- Gwyneth Paltrow born 1972
- Akihito born 1933
- Ilham Aliyev born 1961
- Christina Aguilera born 1980
- J. Robert Oppenheimer 1904 – 1967
- Ellen Johnson Sirleaf born 1938
- Salman Rushdie born 1947
- Haruki Murakami born 1949
- Valery Leontiev born 1949
- António Guterres born 1949
- Amy Winehouse 1983 – 2011
- Karl Popper 1902 – 1994
- Katharine Hepburn 1907 – 2003
- Rosa Parks 1913 – 2005
- Arthur C. Clarke 1917 – 2008
- Gamal Abdel Nasser 1918 – 1970
- Shimon Peres 1923 – 2016
- Michel Foucault 1926 – 1984
- Helmut Kohl 1930 – 2017
- Wangari Muta Maathai 1940 – 2011
- Johan Cruyff 1947 – 2016
- Gordon Brown born 1951
- George Clooney born 1961
- Sandra Bullock born 1964
- Kurt Cobain 1967 – c. 1994
- Sukarno 1901 – 1970
- Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh 1921 – 2021
- Alice Munro 1931 – 2024
- Jack Nicholson born 1937
- Morgan Freeman born 1937
- Steven Seagal born 1952
- Herta Müller born 1953
- Jennifer Aniston born 1969
- Giorgia Meloni born 1977
- Chris Pratt born 1979
- Ayn Rand 1905 – 1982
- Hannah Arendt 1906 – 1975
- John Paul I 1912 – 1978
- Anwar Sadat 1918 – 1981
- Toshirō Mifune 1920 – 1997
- Juan Carlos I of Spain born 1938
- Amitabh Bachchan born 1942
- Elfriede Jelinek born 1946
- Olaf Scholz born 1958
- Jim Carrey born 1962
- Tom Cruise born 1962
- Mariah Carey born 1969
- Jeremy Renner born 1971
- Francesco Totti born 1976
- Nadine Gordimer 1923 – 2014
- George Harrison 1943 – 2001
- Sylvester Stallone born 1946
- Keir Starmer born 1962
- Russell Crowe born 1964
- Andrew Garfield born 1983
- Dag Hammarskjöld 1905 – 1961
- Willy Brandt 1913 – 1992
- Joseph Brodsky 1940 – 1996
- Gerhard Schröder born 1944
- Keanu Reeves born 1964
- Selena 1971 – 1995
- Ronaldo born 1976
- Serena Williams born 1981
- Paul Dirac 1902 – 1984
- Bing Crosby 1903 – 1977
- Salvador Allende 1908 – 1973
- Czesław Miłosz 1911 – 2004
- Ingrid Bergman 1915 – 1982
- Hassan Rouhani born 1948
- Quentin Tarantino born 1963
- Kylie Minogue born 1968
- John von Neumann 1903 – 1957
- Jane Goodall 1934 – 2025
- Jane Fonda born 1937
- Muhammad Yunus born 1940
- Hu Jintao born 1942
- Dolly Parton 1946 – 2026
- Evo Morales born 1959
- Joko Widodo born 1961
- Petro Poroshenko born 1965
- Octavio Paz 1914 – 1998
- Kurt Vonnegut 1922 – 2007
- Wisława Szymborska 1923 – 2012
- Svetlana Alexievich born 1948
- Sigourney Weaver born 1949
- Rowan Atkinson born 1955
- Nicolas Cage born 1964
- Mikheil Saakashvili born 1967
- John Wayne 1907 – 1979
- Saul Bellow 1915 – 2005
- Augusto Pinochet 1915 – 2006
- Heinrich Böll 1917 – 1985
- Kuan Yew Lee 1923 – 2015
- Anatoliy Solovyanenko 1932 – 1999
- Anthony Hopkins born 1937
- Ursula von der Leyen born 1958
- Jet Li born 1963
- Liz Truss born 1975
- Jennifer Lawrence born 1990
- William Golding 1911 – 1993
- Nicolae Ceaușescu 1918 – 1989
- Ray Bradbury 1920 – 2012
- Suharto 1921 – 2008
- Ariel Sharon 1928 – 2014
- Michelle Bachelet born 1951
- Cristina Fernández de Kirchner born 1953
- James Cameron born 1954
- Mel Gibson born 1956
- Mike Pence born 1959
- Garry Kasparov born 1963
- Halle Berry born 1966
- Felipe VI of Spain born 1968
- Penélope Cruz born 1974
- Zlatan Ibrahimović born 1981
- Mila Kunis born 1983
- Jackson Pollock 1912 – 1956
- Desmond Tutu 1931 – 2021
- Johnny Cash 1932 – 2003
- Cher born 1946
- Viktor Yanukovych born 1950
- Melania Trump born 1970
- Charlize Theron born 1975
- Tom Holland born 1996
- Mikhail Sholokhov 1905 – 1984
- Astrid Lindgren 1907 – 2002
- J. D. Salinger 1919 – 2010
- Grace Kelly 1929 – 1982
- Luciano Pavarotti 1935 – 2007
- Vladimir Vysotsky 1938 – 1980
- J. M. Coetzee born 1940
- Sergio Mattarella born 1941
- Elton John born 1947
- Mohamed Morsi 1951 – 2019
- John Travolta born 1954
- Kazuo Ishiguro born 1954
- Bruce Willis born 1955
- Liu Xiaobo 1955 – 2017
- Jodie Foster born 1962
- Viktor Orbán born 1963
- Marine Le Pen born 1968
- Josh Duhamel born 1972
- Chris Pine born 1980
- Fernando Alonso born 1981
- Elisha Cuthbert born 1982
- Edward Snowden born 1983
- Greta Garbo 1905 – 1990
- Valéry Giscard d'Estaing 1926 – 2020
- Manmohan Singh 1932 – 2024
- Ringo Starr born 1940
- Aretha Franklin 1942 – 2018
- Harrison Ford born 1942
- Bobby Fischer 1943 – 2008
- Pervez Musharraf 1943 – 2023
- Franz Beckenbauer 1945 – 2024
- Aishwarya Rai born 1973
- Lewis Hamilton born 1985
- Yuri Andropov 1914 – 1984
- Milan Kundera 1929 – 2023
- Buzz Aldrin born 1930
- Lech Kaczyński 1949 – 2010
- Abdullah Gül born 1950
- Frank-Walter Steinmeier born 1956
- Julia Gillard born 1961
- Jeff Bezos born 1964
- Lila Downs born 1968
- Kurt Gödel 1906 – 1978
- Arthur Miller 1915 – 2005
- Rosalind Franklin 1920 – 1958
- Andrei Sakharov 1921 – 1989
- Yitzhak Rabin 1922 – 1995
- Patrice Lumumba 1925 – 1961
- Martin Scorsese born 1942
- Mohammad Khatami born 1943
- Tsai Ing-wen born 1956
- Enya born 1961
- Matt Damon born 1970
- Kobe Bryant 1978 – 2020
- Ronaldinho born 1980
- Jessica Alba born 1981
- Nicki Minaj born 1982
- Luis Suárez born 1987
- Emma Stone born 1988
- Taylor Lautner born 1992
- Isaac Bashevis Singer 1904 – 1991
- Orson Welles 1915 – 1985
- Mohammad Reza I of Iran 1919 – 1980
- Christopher Lee 1922 – 2015
- Idi Amin 1923–1928 – 2003
- Giorgio Napolitano 1925 – 2023
- Harold Pinter 1930 – 2008
- Raúl Castro born 1931
- Nūrsūltan Nazarbaev born 1940
- Dick Cheney 1941 – 2025
- Alex Ferguson born 1941
- Rodrigo Duterte born 1945
- Sheikh Hasina born 1947
- George R. R. Martin born 1948
- Condoleezza Rice born 1954
- Mariano Rajoy born 1955
- Yulia Tymoshenko born 1960
- Mark Rutte born 1967
- Larry Sanger born 1968
- Kim Kardashian born 1980
- Anne Hathaway born 1982
- Dua Lipa born 1995
- Linus Pauling 1901 – 1994
- Elias Canetti 1905 – 1994
- James Dean 1931 – 1955
- Wole Soyinka born 1934
- Shirin Ebadi born 1947
- Denzel Washington born 1954
- Prince 1958 – 2016
- Abdullah II of Jordan born 1962
- Robert Downey Jr. born 1965
- Dwayne Johnson born 1972
- Ben Affleck born 1972
- Gianluigi Buffon born 1978
- William, Prince of Wales born 1982
- JD Vance born 1984
- LeBron James born 1984
- Luka Modrić born 1985
- Megan Fox born 1986
- Maria Sharapova born 1987
- Daniel Radcliffe born 1989
- Kendall Jenner born 1995
- Graham Greene 1904 – 1991
- Rachel Carson 1907 – 1964
- Helmut Schmidt 1918 – 2015
- Sylvia Plath 1932 – 1963
- Roman Polanski born 1933
- Tina Turner 1939 – 2023
- Margrethe II of Denmark born 1940
- Kevin Costner born 1955
- Donald Tusk born 1957
- Dani Rodrik born 1957
- Stephen Harper born 1959
- Demi Moore born 1962
- Benedicta Boccoli born 1966
- 50 Cent born 1975
- Justin Timberlake born 1981
- Paris Hilton born 1981
- Yukio Mishima 1925 – 1970
- James Watson 1928 – 2025
- Ursula K. Le Guin 1929 – 2018
- V. S. Naipaul 1932 – 2018
- Michael Caine born 1933
- Margaret Atwood born 1939
- Chuck Norris 1940 – 2026
- Frank Zappa 1940 – 1993
- Hayao Miyazaki born 1941
- Boris Perchatkin born 1946
- Pablo Escobar 1949 – 1993
- Dan Brown born 1964
- Mike Tyson born 1966
- Jason Bateman born 1969
- Kanye West born 1977
- Heath Ledger 1979 – 2008
- Magnus Carlsen born 1990
- Abdullah of Saudi Arabia 1924 – 2015
- Paul Newman 1925 – 2008
- Dario Fo 1926 – 2016
- Harper Lee 1926 – 2016
- Corazon Aquino 1933 – 2009
- José Mujica 1935 – 2025
- Madeleine Albright 1937 – 2022
- Barbra Streisand born 1942
- John Kerry born 1943
- Yoshihide Suga born 1948
- Alla Pugacheva born 1949
- Mo Yan born 1955
- Carrie Fisher 1956 – 2016
- Hamid Karzai born 1957
- Ayrton Senna 1960 – 1994
- Eddie Murphy born 1961
- Björk born 1965
- Catherine, Princess of Wales born 1982
- Priyanka Chopra born 1982
- Bette Davis 1908 – 1989
- Wernher von Braun 1912 – 1977
- Vivien Leigh 1913 – 1967
- Roald Dahl 1916 – 1990
- Eva Perón 1919 – 1952
- Jean-Paul Belmondo 1933 – 2021
- Thabo Mbeki born 1942
- Rajiv Gandhi 1944 – 1991
- José Mourinho born 1963
- Monica Bellucci born 1964
- William Alexander of the Netherlands born 1967
- Pamela Anderson born 1967
- Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović born 1968
- Andrzej Duda born 1972
- Cameron Diaz born 1972
- Jacinda Ardern born 1980
- Michael Phelps born 1985
- Ian Fleming 1908 – 1964
- Kenzaburō Ōe 1935 – 2023
- Harald V of Norway 1937 – 2026
- Nancy Pelosi born 1940
- Bruce Springsteen born 1949
- Viktor Yushchenko born 1954
- Whoopi Goldberg born 1955
- Julianne Moore born 1960
- Christopher Nolan born 1970
- Karim Benzema born 1987
- Clark Gable 1901 – 1960
- Dmitri Shostakovich 1906 – 1975
- Nancy Reagan 1921 – 2016
- John Forbes Nash 1928 – 2015
- Elie Wiesel 1928 – 2016
- Ray Charles 1930 – 2004
- Amartya Sen born 1933
- Dustin Hoffman born 1937
- Seamus Heaney 1939 – 2013
- Ozzy Osbourne 1948 – 2025
- Vin Diesel born 1967
- Anastacia born 1968
- Hugh Jackman born 1968
- Simon Pegg born 1970
- Andrés Iniesta born 1984
- Keira Knightley born 1985
- Robert Lewandowski born 1988
- Mesut Özil born 1988
- Rita Levi-Montalcini 1909 – 2012
- Dorothy Hodgkin 1910 – 1994
- Charles Bukowski 1920 – 1994
- Chinua Achebe 1930 – 2013
- Tomas Tranströmer 1931 – 2015
- Abd al-Aziz Boutafliqa 1937 – 2021
- Slobodan Milošević 1941 – 2006
- John Major born 1943
- David Lynch 1946 – 2025
- Steve Wozniak born 1950
- Vajiralongkorn born 1952
- Pierce Brosnan born 1953
- Abdel Fattah el-Sisi born 1954
- Jens Stoltenberg born 1959
- George Michael 1963 – 2016
- Salma Hayek born 1966
- Daniel Craig born 1968
- Noemi born 1982
- Bruno Mars born 1985
- Theodor W. Adorno 1903 – 1969
- Enver Hoxha 1908 – 1985
- Rita Hayworth 1918 – 1987
- Imre Kertész 1929 – 2016
- Christopher Plummer 1929 – 2021
- George Soros born 1930
- Gao Xingjian born 1940
- Jacob Zuma born 1942
- Terry Pratchett 1948 – 2015
- Park Geun-hye born 1952
- Michel Platini born 1955
- Gary Oldman born 1958
- Mohammed VI of Morocco born 1963
- Salman Khan born 1965
- Kaja Kallas born 1977
- Frank Lampard born 1978
- Mohamed Salah born 1992
- Max Verstappen born 1997
- Maria Göppert Mayer 1906 – 1972
- Eugène Ionesco 1909 – 1994
- Stanisław Lem 1921 – 2006
- Doris Day 1922 – 2019
- Truman Capote 1924 – 1984
- Jürgen Habermas 1929 – 2026
- Peter O'Toole 1932 – 2013
- George Carlin 1937 – 2008
- Martti Ahtisaari 1937 – 2023
- Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio born 1940
- Joan Baez born 1941
- Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden born 1946
- Mitt Romney born 1947
- Moon Jae-in born 1953
- Sarah Palin born 1964
- Aamir Khan born 1965
- Janet Jackson born 1966
- Uma Thurman born 1970
- Larry Page born 1973
- Zuzana Čaputová born 1973
- Thierry Henry born 1977
- Marjorie Estiano born 1982
- Halldór Laxness 1902 – 1998
- Joan Crawford 1904–1908 – 1977
- Lauren Bacall 1924 – 2014
- Imelda Marcos born 1929
- Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis 1929 – 1994
- Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud born 1935
- Francis Ford Coppola born 1939
- Louise Glück 1943 – 2023
- Helen Mirren born 1945
- Susan Sarandon born 1946
- Sergey Lavrov born 1950
- Juan Manuel Santos born 1951
- Daniel Day-Lewis born 1957
- Gillian Anderson born 1968
- Catherine Zeta-Jones born 1969
- Viswanathan Anand born 1969
- Lance Armstrong born 1971
- Pedro Sánchez born 1972
- Matteo Renzi born 1975
- Reese Witherspoon born 1976
- Kirsten Dunst born 1982
- Sebastian Vettel born 1987
- Kristen Stewart born 1990
- Nadia Murad born 1993
- Zendaya born 1996
- Robert A. Heinlein 1907 – 1988
- Jacques Cousteau 1910 – 1997
- Tennessee Williams 1911 – 1983
- Konstantin Chernenko 1911 – 1985
- Kirk Douglas 1916 – 2020
- A. P. J. Abdul Kalam 1931 – 2015
- Gene Wilder 1933 – 2016
- Beatrix of the Netherlands born 1938
- Jon Voight born 1938
- Patrick Modiano born 1945
- Gérard Depardieu born 1948
- Michelle Pfeiffer born 1958
- Peter Jackson born 1961
- Olga Tokarczuk born 1962
- Miroslav Klose born 1978
- Wayne Rooney born 1985
- Henry Fonda 1905 – 1982
- W. H. Auden 1907 – 1973
- Hedy Lamarr 1914 – 2000
- Ella Fitzgerald 1917 – 1996
- Jiang Zemin 1926 – 2022
- Sidney Poitier 1927 – 2022
- Eduard Shevardnadze 1928 – 2014
- Chingiz Aĭtmatov 1928 – 2008
- Jacques Derrida 1930 – 2004
- Andrei Tarkovsky 1932 – 1986
- James Brown 1933 – 2006
- Mahmoud Abbas born 1935
- Romano Prodi born 1939
- Roger Ebert 1942 – 2013
- Isabel Allende born 1942
- Janis Joplin 1943 – 1970
- Eric Clapton born 1945
- Sauli Niinistö born 1948
- Imran Khan born 1952
- Friedrich Merz born 1955
- Antonio Banderas born 1960
- Sean Penn born 1960
- Claudia Sheinbaum born 1962
- Giuseppe Conte born 1964
- Andre Agassi born 1970
- Winona Ryder born 1971
- Paul Walker 1973 – 2013
- Drew Barrymore born 1975
- Jimmie Johnson born 1975
- Iker Casillas born 1981
- Kaká born 1982
- Layal Abboud born 1982
- Antoine Griezmann born 1991
- Cary Grant 1904 – 1986
- Lev Landau 1908 – 1968
- Claude Lévi-Strauss 1908 – 2009
- Jack Kerouac 1922 – 1969
- Stan Lee 1922 – 2018
- Marcello Mastroianni 1924 – 1996
- Miles Davis 1926 – 1991
- Chuck Berry 1926 – 2017
- Mick Jagger born 1943
- Michael Douglas born 1944
- Slavoj Žižek born 1949
- Stevie Wonder born 1950
- John Goodman born 1952
- Cyril Ramaphosa born 1952
- Ebrahim Raisi 1960 – 2024
- Mark Wahlberg born 1971
- Christian Bale born 1974
- Chris Evans born 1981
- Manuel Neuer born 1986
- André Malraux 1901 – 1976
- Eugene Paul Wigner 1902 – 1995
- Oscar Niemeyer 1907 – 2012
- Camilo José Cela 1916 – 2002
- Park Chung-hee 1917 – 1979
- Mikhail Kalashnikov 1919 – 2013
- Charles Aznavour 1924 – 2018
- B. B. King 1925 – 2015
- Robert F. Kennedy 1925 – 1968
- Yoko Ono born 1933
- Maggie Smith 1934 – 2024
- Julie Andrews born 1935
- Pranab Mukherjee 1935 – 2020
- Joachim Gauck born 1940
- Diane Keaton 1946 – 2025
- Samuel L. Jackson born 1948
- Liam Neeson born 1952
- Serzh Sargsyan born 1954
- Han Kang born 1970
- Snoop Dogg born 1971
- Maia Sandu born 1972
- Sergey Brin born 1973
- Amy Adams born 1974
- Milla Jovovich born 1975
- Chester Bennington 1976 – 2017
- Natalia Oreiro born 1977
- Alicia Keys born 1981
- Sanna Marin born 1985
- Erling Haaland born 2000
- Gary Cooper 1901 – 1961
- Josephine Baker 1906 – 1975
- Simone Weil 1909 – 1943
- Erich Honecker 1912 – 1994
- Menachem Begin 1913 – 1992
- Louis de Funès 1914 – 1983
- Gregory Peck 1916 – 2003
- Francis Crick 1916 – 2004
- Charles Bronson 1921 – 2003
- Gina Lollobrigida 1927 – 2023
- Philip K. Dick 1928 – 1982
- Jean-Luc Godard 1930 – 2022
- Osho 1931 – 1990
- François Truffaut 1932 – 1984
- Miriam Makeba 1932 – 2008
- Donald Sutherland 1935 – 2024
- Robert Redford 1936 – 2025
- Megawati Soekarnoputri born 1947
- Ichirō Mizuki 1948 – 2022
- Thomas Sankara 1949 – 1987
- Jean-Claude Juncker born 1954
- Martina Navratilova born 1956
- Shavkat Mirziyoyev born 1957
- Sharon Stone born 1958
- Jason Statham born 1967
- Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi 1971 – 2019
- Victoria Beckham born 1974
- Maryam Mirzakhani 1977 – 2017
- Psy born 1977
- Robin van Persie born 1983
- Salvatore Quasimodo 1901 – 1968
- Margaret Mead 1901 – 1978
- James Stewart 1908 – 1997
- Jesse Owens 1913 – 1980
- Ravi Shankar 1920 – 2012
- Pier Paolo Pasolini 1922 – 1975
- Roger Moore 1927 – 2017
- Shirley Temple 1928 – 2014
- Peter Higgs 1929 – 2024
- Derek Walcott 1930 – 2017
- Hafez al-Assad 1930 – 2000
- Steven Weinberg 1933 – 2021
- Shirley MacLaine born 1934
- Judi Dench born 1934
- Muhammadu Buhari 1942 – 2025
- Horst Köhler 1943 – 2025
- Alice Walker born 1944
- Pedro Almodóvar born 1949
- Zaha Hadid 1950 – 2016
- Ayman al-Zawahiri 1951 – 2022
- Sting born 1951
- Li Keqiang 1955 – 2023
- Anthony Bourdain 1956 – 2018
- Fumio Kishida born 1957
- Tim Burton born 1958
- Andrea Bocelli born 1958
- José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero born 1960
- Sanae Takaichi born 1961
- Carles Puigdemont born 1962
- Marilyn Manson born 1969
- Kersti Kaljulaid born 1969
- Orlando Bloom born 1977
- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie born 1977
- Xavi Hernández born 1980
- Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck born 1980
- Steven Gerrard born 1980
- Kareena Kapoor born 1980
- Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex born 1984
- Emmy Rossum born 1986
- Alia Bhatt born 1993
- Harry Kane born 1993
- Jaroslav Seifert 1901 – 1986
- Konrad Lorenz 1903 – 1989
- Abraham Maslow 1908 – 1970
- John Bardeen 1908 – 1991
- Paul Samuelson 1915 – 2009
- Joan Fuster 1922 – 1992
- Elinor Ostrom 1933 – 2012
- Charles Manson 1934 – 2017
- Donald Knuth born 1938
- Islam Karimov 1938 – 2016
- Gro Harlem Brundtland born 1939
- Eusébio 1942 – 2014
- Tarja Halonen born 1943
- Daniel Ortega born 1945
- Laura Bush born 1946
- Sebastián Piñera 1949 – 2024
- Kevin Rudd born 1957
- Anna Politkovskaya 1958 – 2006
- Rigoberta Menchú born 1959
- Jean-Claude Van Damme born 1960
- Arundhati Roy born 1961
- Pep Guardiola born 1971
- Alexis Tsipras born 1974
- Enrique Iglesias born 1975
- John Cena born 1977
- Meghan, Duchess of Sussex born 1981
- Emily Blunt born 1983
- Nathalia Dill born 1986
- Lindsay Lohan born 1986
- Zac Efron born 1987
- Barbara McClintock 1902 – 1992
- Adolf Eichmann 1906 – 1962
- Hans Bethe 1906 – 2005
- Laurence Olivier 1907 – 1989
- Tenzing Norgay 1914 – 1986
- Harold Wilson 1916 – 1995
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- Allen Ginsberg 1926 – 1997
- Ferenc Puskás 1927 – 2006
- Ennio Morricone 1928 – 2020
- Susan Sontag 1933 – 2004
- Ridley Scott born 1937
- Omar al-Bashir born 1944
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- Emilia Clarke born 1986
- Gareth Bale born 1989
- Thomas Müller born 1989
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- Ernest Lawrence 1901 – 1958
- Leni Riefenstahl 1902 – 2003
- Hideki Yukawa 1907 – 1981
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- James Callaghan 1912 – 2005
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- Hal Holbrook 1925 – 2021
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- Annie Ernaux born 1940
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- Alan Rickman 1946 – 2016
- Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono born 1949
- Arsène Wenger born 1949
- Ellen DeGeneres born 1958
- Droupadi Murmu born 1958
- "Weird Al" Yankovic born 1959
- James Gandolfini 1961 – 2013
- Adam Sandler born 1966
- Renée Zellweger born 1969
- Steffi Graf born 1969
- Matthew McConaughey born 1969
- Hilary Swank born 1974
- Chris Hemsworth born 1983
- Arjen Robben born 1984
- Robert Pattinson born 1986
- Eden Hazard born 1991
- Paul Pogba born 1993
- Eva Braun 1912 – 1945
- Patrick White 1912 – 1990
- Primo Levi 1919 – 1987
- Pran 1920 – 2013
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- Boutros Boutros-Ghali 1922 – 2016
- Heydar Aliyev 1923 – 2003
- Kim Dae-jung 1924 – 2009
- David Attenborough born 1926
- Murray Gell-Mann 1929 – 2019
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- Sepp Blatter born 1936
- Catherine Deneuve born 1943
- Radovan Karadžić born 1945
- Hassanal Bolkiah I of Brunei born 1946
- Mario Draghi born 1947
- Herman Van Rompuy born 1947
- Kim Basinger born 1953
- Christine Lagarde born 1956
- Qasem Soleimani 1957 – 2020
- Ismail Haniyeh 1962–1963 – 2024
- Jack Ma born 1964
- Philip Seymour Hoffman 1967 – 2014
- Naomi Watts born 1968
- Matthew Perry 1969 – 2023
- Rachel Weisz born 1970
- Leymah Gbowee born 1972
- Robbie Williams born 1974
- Joaquin Phoenix born 1974
- Marion Cotillard born 1975
- Abiy Ahmed born 1976
- Rachel McAdams born 1978
- Venus Williams born 1980
- Mohammed bin Salman Al Saud born 1985
- Gerard Piqué born 1987
- Kevin De Bruyne born 1991
- Marguerite Yourcenar 1903 – 1987
- Léopold Sédar Senghor 1906 – 2001
- Claude Simon 1913 – 2005
- Aldo Moro 1916 – 1978
- Carl Reiner 1922 – 2020
- Norodom Sihanouk 1922 – 2012
- Atal Bihari Vajpayee 1924 – 2018
- John Updike 1932 – 2009
- Philip Roth 1933 – 2018
- F. W. de Klerk 1936 – 2021
- Ian McKellen born 1939
- Qaboos bin Said Al Said 1940 – 2020
- Gerd Müller 1945 – 2021
- Sally Field born 1946
- Phil Collins born 1951
- Isabelle Adjani born 1955
- Asif Ali Zardari born 1955
- Michael Clarke Duncan 1957 – 2012
- Christian Wulff born 1959
- Kevin Spacey born 1959
- Bryan Adams born 1959
- Bono born 1960
- Yoon Suk Yeol born 1960
- Nadia Comăneci born 1961
- Roberto Baggio born 1967
- Tobey Maguire born 1975
- Ryan Reynolds born 1976
- Didier Drogba born 1978
- Samuel Eto'o born 1981
- Fernando Torres born 1984
- Andy Murray born 1987
- Hilary Duff born 1987
- Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez born 1989
- Margot Robbie born 1990
- Sadio Mané born 1992
- Anaïs Nin 1903 – 1977
- Alberto Moravia 1907 – 1990
- Marshall McLuhan 1911 – 1980
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- Billie Holiday 1915 – 1959
- Kurt Waldheim 1918 – 2007
- Julius Nyerere 1922 – 1999
- Edward Said 1935 – 2003
- Miloš Zeman born 1944
- Sonia Gandhi born 1946
- Jessica Lange born 1949
- Ashraf Ghani born 1949
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- Mark Carney born 1965
- R. Kelly born 1967
- María Corina Machado born 1967
- Edward Norton born 1969
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- Jude Law born 1972
- Kimi Räikkönen born 1979
- Jolin Tsai born 1980
- Sergio Ramos born 1986
- Shia LaBeouf born 1986
- Sergio Agüero born 1988