History Births on June 21

Sidney Smith, English admiral and politician (d. 1840)
#Sidney_Smith_(Royal_Navy_officer)

Joko Widodo, Indonesian businessman and politician, 7th President of Indonesia
#Joko_Widodo

Enoch Poor, American general (d. 1780)
#Enoch_Poor
Mike McCormack, American football player and coach (d. 2013)
#Mike_McCormack_(American_football)

Lalo Schifrin, Argentinian pianist, composer, and conductor
#Lalo_Schifrin

Edward Snowden, American activist and academic
#Edward_Snowden

Charles Thomas Jackson, American physician and geologist (d. 1880)
#Charles_Thomas_Jackson

Garrett Jones, American baseball player
#Garrett_Jones

Yingluck Shinawatra, Thai businesswoman and politician, 28th Prime Minister of Thailand
#Yingluck_Shinawatra

Eumir Deodato, Brazilian pianist, composer, and producer
#Eumir_Deodato

Pierre Omidyar, French-American businessman, founded eBay
#Pierre_Omidyar

Anthony Collins, English philosopher and author (d. 1729)
#Anthony_Collins

Wade Phillips, American football coach
#Wade_Phillips

Increase Mather, American minister and author (d. 1723)
#Increase_Mather

Iztok Mlakar, Slovenian actor and singer-songwriter
#Iztok_Mlakar

Benazir Bhutto, Pakistani financier and politician, 11th Prime Minister of Pakistan (d. 2007)
#Benazir_Bhutto

Medardo Rosso, Italian sculptor and educator (d. 1928)
#Medardo_Rosso
Michael M. Richter, German mathematician and computer scientist
#Michael_M._Richter

Mike Einziger, American guitarist and songwriter
#Mike_Einziger

Giovanni Spadolini, Italian journalist and politician, 45th Prime Minister of Italy (d. 1994)
#Giovanni_Spadolini

Dale Thomas, Australian footballer
#Dale_Thomas_(footballer)

Fernando Savater, Spanish philosopher and author
#Fernando_Savater

Godefroy Maurice de La Tour d'Auvergne, Duke of Bouillon, French noble (d. 1721)
#Godefroy_Maurice_de_La_Tour_d'Auvergne,_Duke_of_Bouillon

Irene van Dyk, South African-New Zealand netball player
#Irene_van_Dyk

Sendy Rleal, Dominican baseball player
#Sendy_Rleal

John Dollond, English optician and astronomer (d. 1761)
#John_Dollond

Ian McEwan, British novelist and screenwriter
#Ian_McEwan

Al Wilson, American football player
#Al_Wilson

Chris Pratt, American actor
#Chris_Pratt

Mary McCarthy, American novelist and critic (d. 1989)
#Mary_McCarthy_(author)

Natalia Goncharova, Russian painter, costume designer, and illustrator (d. 1962)
#Natalia_Goncharova

Juliette Lewis, American actress and singer-songwriter
#Juliette_Lewis

Michael Gomez, Irish boxer
#Michael_Gomez

VĂctor Montoya, Bolivian journalist and author
#VĂctor_Montoya

John Mitchell, English guitarist, vocalist and songwriter
#John_Mitchell_(musician)

Eddie Lopat, American baseball player, coach, and manager (d. 1992)
#Eddie_Lopat

Pontus Hultén, Swedish art collector and historian (d. 2006)
#Pontus_Hultén

Brandon Flowers, American singer-songwriter
#Brandon_Flowers

Claude Auchinleck, English field marshal (d. 1981)
#Claude_Auchinleck

Clive Brooke, Baron Brooke of Alverthorpe, English businessman and politician
#Clive_Brooke,_Baron_Brooke_of_Alverthorpe

Heinrich Wölfflin, Swiss historian and critic (d. 1945)
#Heinrich_Wölfflin

Manu Chao, French singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
#Manu_Chao

Dimitris Papaioannou, Greek director and choreographer
#Dimitris_Papaioannou

Derrick Coleman, American basketball player and sportscaster
#Derrick_Coleman

Thaddeus Young, American basketball player
#Thaddeus_Young

LluĂs Companys, Spanish lawyer and politician, 123rd President of Catalonia (d. 1940)
#LluĂs_Companys

James Short, Scottish-English mathematician and optician (d. 1768)
#James_Short_(mathematician)

Kate Brown, American politician, 38th Governor of Oregon
#Kate_Brown

Brenda Holloway, American singer-songwriter
#Brenda_Holloway

Matt Kuchar, American golfer
#Matt_Kuchar

Pier Luigi Nervi, Italian architect and engineer, co-designed the Pirelli Tower and Cathedral of Saint Mary of the Assumption (d. 1979)
#Pier_Luigi_Nervi

Lana Del Rey, American singer-songwriter
#Lana_Del_Rey

Mariette Hartley, American actress and television personality
#Mariette_Hartley

Judy Holliday, American actress and singer (d. 1965)
#Judy_Holliday
Trygve Thue, Norwegian guitarist and record producer
#Trygve_Thue

Oscar Florianus Bluemner, German-American painter and illustrator (d. 1938)
#Oscar_Florianus_Bluemner

Aloysius Paul D'Souza, Indian bishop
#Aloysius_Paul_D'Souza
Gerald Kaufman, English journalist and politician, Shadow Foreign Secretary (d. 2017)
#Gerald_Kaufman

Marjorie Margolies, American journalist and politician
#Marjorie_Margolies

Hermann Scherchen, German-Swiss viola player and conductor (d. 1966)
#Hermann_Scherchen

Rebecca Black, American singer-songwriter
#Rebecca_Black

Jane Russell, American actress and singer (d. 2011)
#Jane_Russell

Kate Hoey, Northern Irish-British academic and politician, Minister for Sport and the Olympics
#Kate_Hoey

Adam Zagajewski, Polish author and poet
#Adam_Zagajewski

Gennady Padalka, Russian colonel, pilot, and astronaut
#Gennady_Padalka

Nikolaus Nilles, German Catholic writer and teacher (d. 1907)
#Nikolaus_Nilles

Charles Momsen, American admiral, invented the Momsen lung (d. 1967)
#Charles_Momsen

Leonhard Rauwolf, German physician and botanist (d. 1596)
#Leonhard_Rauwolf

Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach, German pianist and composer (d. 1791)
#Johann_Christoph_Friedrich_Bach

Ray Davies, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
#Ray_Davies

Ralph Craig, American sprinter and sailor (d. 1972)
#Ralph_Craig

Richard Jefferson, American basketball player
#Richard_Jefferson

Pierre-Nicolas Beauvallet, French sculptor and illustrator (d. 1818)
#Pierre-Nicolas_Beauvallet

John Baron, English captain and politician
#John_Baron_(politician)

David Beerling, English biologist and academic
#David_Beerling

Joe Flaherty, American-Canadian actor, producer, and screenwriter
#Joe_Flaherty

Yang Liwei, Chinese general, pilot, and astronaut
#Yang_Liwei

Luc Urbain de Bouëxic, comte de Guichen, French admiral (d. 1790)
#Luc_Urbain_de_Bouëxic,_comte_de_Guichen

Boles?aw V the Chaste of Poland (d. 1279)
#Boles?aw_V_the_Chaste

Rockwell Kent, American painter and illustrator (d. 1971)
#Rockwell_Kent

Nobuharu Asahara, Japanese sprinter and long jumper
#Nobuharu_Asahara

Giuseppe De Sanctis, Italian painter (d. 1924)
#Giuseppe_De_Sanctis

Shirin Ebadi, Iranian lawyer, judge, and activist, Nobel Prize laureate
#Shirin_Ebadi

Willem Hendrik Keesom, Dutch physicist and academic (d. 1956)
#Willem_Hendrik_Keesom

Craig Lowndes, Australian race car driver
#Craig_Lowndes

Kostas Katsouranis, Greek footballer
#Kostas_Katsouranis

Gretchen Carlson, American model and television journalist, Miss America 1989
#Gretchen_Carlson

Kathy Mattea, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
#Kathy_Mattea

Daniel Carter Beard, American author and illustrator, co-founded the Boy Scouts of America (d. 1941)
#Daniel_Carter_Beard

Robert Dewar, English-American computer scientist and academic (d. 2015)
#Robert_Dewar

Doug Savant, American actor
#Doug_Savant

Alexander J. Dallas, American lawyer and politician, 6th United States Secretary of the Treasury (d. 1817)
#Alexander_J._Dallas_(statesman)

Pierre Paul Royer-Collard, French philosopher and academic (d. 1845)
#Pierre_Paul_Royer-Collard

Feodor Gladkov, Russian author and educator (d. 1958)
#Feodor_Gladkov

Maureen Stapleton, American actress (d. 2006)
#Maureen_Stapleton

Joey Kramer, American rock drummer and songwriter (Aerosmith)
#Joey_Kramer

David Morrissey, English actor and director
#David_Morrissey

Sentayehu Ejigu, Ethiopian runner
#Sentayehu_Ejigu

Maria of Austria, Holy Roman Empress (d. 1603)
#Maria_of_Austria,_Holy_Roman_Empress

Michael Crocker, Australian rugby league player and sportscaster
#Michael_Crocker

Patrick Dunleavy, English political scientist and academic
#Patrick_Dunleavy

Michel Platini, French footballer and manager
#Michel_Platini

Luis Antonio Tagle, Filipino cardinal
#Luis_Antonio_Tagle

Hideaki Wakui, Japanese baseball player
#Hideaki_Wakui

Pope Leo IX (d. 1054)
#Pope_Leo_IX

Al Hirschfeld, American caricaturist, painter and illustrator (d. 2003)
#Al_Hirschfeld

Antonia Mesina, Italian martyr and saint (d. 1935)
#Antonia_Mesina

Sebastian Prödl, Austrian footballer
#Sebastian_Prödl

Kathleen O'Kelly-Kennedy, Australian wheelchair basketball player
#Kathleen_O'Kelly-Kennedy

Meredith Baxter, American actress
#Meredith_Baxter
?ukasz Cyborowski, Polish chess player
#?ukasz_Cyborowski

Fred Cone, American football player
#Fred_Cone_(American_football)

Eric Reed, American pianist and composer
#Eric_Reed_(musician)

Samuel Griffith, Welsh-Australian politician, 9th Premier of Queensland (d. 1920)
#Samuel_Griffith

Norman L. Bowen, Canadian geologist and petrologist (d. 1956)
#Norman_L._Bowen

Sascha Konietzko, German keyboard player and producer
#Sascha_Konietzko

Anton Nuhn, German anatomist and academic (d. 1889)
#Anton_Nuhn
Alois HĂĄba, Czech composer and educator (d. 1973)
#Alois_HĂĄba

Terence Etherton, English lawyer and judge
#Terence_Etherton

Shelley Craft, Australian television host
#Shelley_Craft

Kip Winger, American rock singer-songwriter and musician
#Kip_Winger

Buddy O'Connor, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1977)
#Buddy_O'Connor

Per Eklund, Swedish race car driver
#Per_Eklund

Karl Erjavec, Slovenian politician
#Karl_Erjavec

Nils Lofgren, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
#Nils_Lofgren

Ferdinand Christian Baur, German theologian and scholar (d. 1860)
#Ferdinand_Christian_Baur

Kazimierz Leski, Polish pilot and engineer (d. 2000)
#Kazimierz_Leski
Paolo Soleri, Italian-American architect, designed the Cosanti (d. 2013)
#Paolo_Soleri

Yann Danis, Canadian ice hockey player
#Yann_Danis
John II, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Haderslev (d. 1580)
#John_II,_Duke_of_Schleswig-Holstein-Haderslev

Ba?ak Erayd?n, Turkish tennis player
#Ba?ak_Erayd?n

William Stubbs, English bishop and historian (d. 1901)
#William_Stubbs

Byron Schammer, Australian footballer
#Byron_Schammer

Alexandre Lagoya, Egyptian-Greek guitarist and composer (d. 1999)
#Alexandre_Lagoya

Jacques Goddet, French journalist (d. 2000)
#Jacques_Goddet

Michael Gross, American actor
#Michael_Gross_(actor)

Jussie Smollett, American actor and singer
#Jussie_Smollett

Pavel Haas, Czech composer (d. 1944)
#Pavel_Haas

Thomas Edward Cliffe Leslie, Irish economist and jurist (d. 1882)
#Thomas_Edward_Cliffe_Leslie

James Joll, English historian, author, and academic (d. 1994)
#James_Joll

Luis Taruc, Filipino political activist (d. 2005)
#Luis_Taruc

Ri?ardas Berankis, Lithuanian tennis player
#Ri?ardas_Berankis

Jean-Paul Sartre, French philosopher and author (d. 1980)
#Jean-Paul_Sartre

Margaret Heckler, American journalist, lawyer, and politician, 15th United States Secretary of Health and Human Services
#Margaret_Heckler

Sonique, English singer-songwriter and DJ
#Sonique_(musician)

HĂ„vard Nordtveit, Norwegian footballer
#HĂ„vard_Nordtveit

David Kushnir, Israeli Olympic long-jumper
#David_Kushnir

Max Wolf, German astronomer and academic (d. 1932)
#Max_Wolf

Malcolm Rifkind, Scottish lawyer and politician, Secretary of State for Scotland
#Malcolm_Rifkind

Ezzatolah Entezami, Iranian actor (d. 2018)
#Ezzatolah_Entezami

Wilhelm KĂŒchelbecker, Russian poet and author (d. 1846)
#Wilhelm_KĂŒchelbecker

Carlo Matteucci, Italian physicist and neurophysiologist (d. 1868)
#Carlo_Matteucci

Robert Menasse, Austrian author and academic
#Robert_Menasse

Marcella Detroit, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
#Marcella_Detroit

Hermann Engelhard, German runner and coach (d. 1984)
#Hermann_Engelhard

Derrius Guice, American football player
#Derrius_Guice

William Brede Kristensen, Norwegian historian of religion (d. 1953)
#William_Brede_Kristensen

Daniel D. Tompkins, American lawyer and politician, 6th Vice President of the United States (d. 1825)
#Daniel_D._Tompkins

Viktor Tsoi, Russian singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1990)
#Viktor_Tsoi

Mona-Lisa Pursiainen, Finnish sprinter (d. 2000)
#Mona-Lisa_Pursiainen

Fiorella Mari, Brazilian-Italian actress
#Fiorella_Mari
Don Black, English songwriter
#Don_Black_(lyricist)

Clara Immerwahr, Jewish-German chemist and academic (d. 1915)
#Clara_Immerwahr

Hans Gerschwiler, Swiss figure skater (d. 2017)
#Hans_Gerschwiler

Joey Molland, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
#Joey_Molland
Andrzej Sapkowski, Polish author and translator
#Andrzej_Sapkowski

Dean Saunders, Welsh footballer and manager
#Dean_Saunders

Motoori Norinaga, Japanese poet and scholar (d. 1801)
#Motoori_Norinaga

Carrie Preston, American actress, director, and producer
#Carrie_Preston

Prince William, Duke of Cambridge
#Prince_William,_Duke_of_Cambridge

Mark Kimmitt, American general and politician, 16th Assistant Secretary, Bureau of Political-Military Affairs
#Mark_Kimmitt

William Frankena, American philosopher and academic (d. 1994)
#William_Frankena

MAX, American singer, songwriter, actor, dancer and model
#Max_Schneider

Tim Bray, Canadian software developer and businessman
#Tim_Bray

Prince Benedetto, Duke of Chablais (d. 1808)
#Prince_Benedetto,_Duke_of_Chablais

Henry Ossawa Tanner, American-French painter and illustrator (d. 1937)
#Henry_Ossawa_Tanner

Ferdinand André Fouqué, French geologist and academic (d. 1904)
#Ferdinand_André_Fouqué

François Moubandje, Swiss footballer
#François_Moubandje

John Paul Young, Scottish-Australian singer-songwriter
#John_Paul_Young

Brian Sternberg, American pole vaulter (d. 2013)
#Brian_Sternberg

Luigi Tripepi, Italian theologian (d. 1906)
#Luigi_Tripepi

Jim Breuer, American comedian, actor, and producer
#Jim_Breuer

Berkeley Breathed, American author and illustrator
#Berkeley_Breathed

Pablo Barrera, Mexican footballer
#Pablo_Barrera

Damrong Rajanubhab, Thai historian and author (d. 1943)
#Damrong_Rajanubhab

Wolfgang Haken, German-American mathematician and academic
#Wolfgang_Haken
Bernie Kopell, American actor and comedian
#Bernie_Kopell

Siméon Denis Poisson, French mathematician and physicist (d. 1840)
#Siméon_Denis_Poisson

Jim Douglas, American academic and politician, 80th Governor of Vermont
#Jim_Douglas

Tyrone May, Australian rugby league player
#Tyrone_May

Charles Edward Horn, English singer-songwriter (d. 1849)
#Charles_Edward_Horn