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Discover all the world-renowned actors, singers, athletes, political leaders, and other celebrities who share a half birthday on this day. (Source: Wikipedia) And hey, don't forget to calculate half birthdays of family & friends and mark your calendar with alerts at least a week before so you can plan!

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• 1480 – Margaret of Austria, Duchess of Savoy, Governor of the Habsburg Netherlands (d. 1530)
• 1538 – Louis of Nassau, Dutch rebel (d. 1574)
• 1607 – Isaac Jogues, French priest and missionary (d. 1646)
• 1628 – George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham, English politician (d. 1687)
• 1644 – Louis François, duc de Boufflers, French marshal (d. 1711)
• 1654 – Joshua Barnes, English scholar (d. 1712)
• 1702 – Johannes Zick, German painter (d. 1762)
• 1715 – Christian August Crusius, German philosopher and theologian (d. 1775)
• 1729 – Lazzaro Spallanzani, Italian biologist (d. 1799)
• 1741 – Princess Elizabeth of Great Britain (d. 1759)
• 1745 – Isaac Titsingh, Dutch surgeon, scholar, and diplomat (d. 1812)
• 1750 – Thomas Erskine, 1st Baron Erskine, Scottish-English lawyer and politician (d. 1823)
• 1760 – Johann Rudolf Zumsteeg, German composer and conductor (d. 1802)
• 1769 – Michel Ney, French marshal (d. 1815)
• 1776 – George Birkbeck, English doctor and academic, founded Birkbeck, University of London (d. 1841)
• 1780 – Martin Lichtenstein, German physician and explorer (d. 1857)
• 1797 – Eugenio Kincaid, American missionary (d. 1883)
• 1802 – Carl Ritter von Ghega, Albanian engineer (d. 1860)
• 1810 – Ferdinand Barbedienne, French engineer (d. 1892)
• 1810 – Jeremiah S. Black, American jurist and politician, 23rd United States Secretary of State (d. 1883)
• 1812 – Georg Hermann Nicolai, German architect (d. 1881)
• 1828 – Herman Koeckemann, German bishop (d. 1892)
• 1834 – John Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton, English historian and politician (d. 1902)
• 1836 – Charles Ingalls, American father of Laura Ingalls Wilder (d. 1902)
• 1840 – Louis-Nazaire Bégin, Canadian cardinal (d. 1925)
• 1842 – Luigi Pigorini, Italian palaeontologist, archaeologist, and ethnographer (d. 1925)
• 1843 – Frank James, American soldier and outlaw (d. 1915)
• 1848 – Reinhold Sadler, American politician, 9th Governor of Nevada (d. 1906)
• 1849 – Robert Crosbie, Canadian theosophist, founded the United Lodge of Theosophists (d. 1919)
• 1850 – John Wellborn Root, American architect, designed the Rookery Building and Monadnock Building (d. 1891)
• 1853 – Jessie Bond, English singer and actress (d. 1942)
• 1858 – Heinrich Zille, German illustrator and photographer (d. 1929)
• 1859 – Francesc Ferrer i Guàrdia, Spanish philosopher (d. 1909)
• 1860 – Charles G. D. Roberts, Canadian poet and author (d. 1943)
• 1864 – Grand Duke Peter Nikolaevich of Russia, Russian general (d. 1931)
• 1865 – Mary Ingalls, American sister of Laura Ingalls Wilder (d. 1928)
• 1873 – Algernon Maudslay, English sailor (d. 1948)
• 1873 – Jack O'Neill, Irish-American baseball player (d. 1935)
• 1873 – George Orton, Canadian runner (d. 1958)
• 1875 – Issai Schur, German mathematician (d. 1941)
• 1880 – Manuel Azaña, Spanish politician, 7th President of Spain (d. 1940)
• 1881 – Leslie Rainey, Australian cricketer and footballer (d. 1962)
• 1883 – Francis X. Bushman, American actor (d. 1966)
• 1883 – Oscar Goerke, American cyclist (d. 1934)
• 1883 – Alfred Saalwächter, German admiral (d. 1945)
• 1883 – Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy, Russian author (d. 1945)
• 1887 – Robinson Jeffers, American poet (d. 1962)
• 1889 – Maurice Collis, Irish author (d. 1973)
• 1890 – Grigory Landsberg, Russian physicist (d. 1957)
• 1890 – Pina Menichelli, Italian actress (d. 1984)
• 1891 – Heinrich Behmann, German mathematician (d. 1970)
• 1891 – Andrejs Krūkliņš, Latvian runner (d. unknown)
• 1892 – Dumas Malone, American historian (d. 1986)
• 1892 – Melchior Wańkowicz, Polish journalist (d. 1974)
• 1893 – Albert Jacka, Australian soldier, Victoria Cross recipient (d. 1932)
• 1894 – Pingali Lakshmikantam, Indian poet (d. 1972)
• 1898 – Katharine Burr Blodgett, American physicist (d. 1979)
• 1903 – Barbara Hepworth, English sculptor (d. 1975)
• 1903 – Voldemar Väli, Estonian wrestler (d. 1997)
• 1903 – Violet Wilkey, American actress (d. 1976)
• 1904 – Ray Bolger, American actor and dancer (d. 1987)
• 1905 – Albert Arlen, Australian pianist, composer, actor, and playwright (d. 1993)
• 1908 – Paul Henreid, Italian-American actor and director (d. 1992)
• 1908 – Bernard Lee, English actor (d. 1981)
• 1910 – Jean Martinon, French conductor and composer (d. 1976)
• 1911 – Binod Bihari Chowdhury, Bangladeshi activist (d. 2013)
• 1911 – Norman Heatley, English biologist (d. 2004)
• 1912 – Maria Mandel, Austrian SS guard (d. 1948)
• 1913 – Gustáv Husák, Slovak politician, 9th President of Czechoslovakia (d. 1991)
• 1913 – Mehmet Shehu, Albanian politician (d. 1981)
• 1914 – Pierre Cogan, French cyclist (d. 2013)
• 1914 – Yu Kuo-hwa, Chinese politician, 23rd Premier of the Republic of China (d. 2000)
• 1915 – Dean Dixon, American conductor (d. 1976)
• 1915 – Cynthia Freeman, American novelist (d. 1988)
• 1916 – Sune Bergström, Swedish biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2004)
• 1916 – Eldzier Cortor, American painter
• 1916 – Don Metz, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2007)
• 1917 – Hilde Krahl, Austrian actress (d. 1999)
• 1917 – Jerry Wexler, American record producer and journalist (d. 2008)
• 1918 – Les Bennett, English footballer (d. 1999)
• 1918 – Arthur Chung, Guyanese politician, 1st President of Guyana (d. 2008)
• 1919 – Terukuni Manzō, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 38th Yokozuna (d. 1977)
• 1919 – Milton Parker, American businessman, co-founded the Carnegie Deli (d. 2009)
• 1919 – Billy Varga, American wrestler and actor (d. 2013)
• 1920 – Georges Marchal, French actor (d. 1997)
• 1920 – Max Patkin, American baseball player (d. 1999)
• 1921 – Tasso Kavadia, Greek actress (d. 2010)
• 1921 – Rodger Ward, American race car driver (d. 2004)
• 1922 – Billy Liddell, Scottish footballer (d. 2001)
• 1922 – Ester Mägi, Estonian composer
• 1922 – Hannelore Schroth, German actress (d. 1987)
• 1924 – Ludmilla Chiriaeff, Canadian ballerina, choreographer, and director (d. 1996)
• 1924 – Max Roach, American drummer and composer (M'Boom) (d. 2007)
• 1925 – Billie Sol Estes, American businessman (d. 2013)
• 1925 – Günther Knödler, German fencer
• 1926 – Musallam Bseiso, Palestinian journalist and politician
• 1927 – Gisele MacKenzie, Canadian-American singer and actress (d. 2003)
• 1927 – Lee Philips, American actor and director (d. 1999)
• 1927 – Johnnie Ray, American singer-songwriter and pianist (d. 1990)
• 1927 – Otto Stich, Swiss politician, 140th President of the Swiss Confederation (d. 2012)
• 1928 – Philip Levine, American poet
• 1928 – Peter Mathias, English economic historian
• 1929 – Derek Hammond-Stroud, English opera singer (d. 2012)
• 1929 – Tony Soper, English naturalist, writer and broadcaster
• 1930 – Elaine Devry, American actress
• 1930 – Roy E. Disney, American businessman and movie producer (d. 2009)
• 1931 – Peter Barnes, English screenwriter (d. 2004)
• 1931 – Rosalind Howells, Baroness Howells of St Davids, Grenadian-British politician
• 1931 – John Zizioulas, Greek metropolitan
• 1933 – Anton Rodgers, English actor and director (d. 2007)
• 1934 – Leonid Kravchuk, Ukrainian politician, 1st President of Ukraine
• 1935 – Ronnie Hawkins, American singer-songwriter and producer
• 1935 – Georg Katzer, German composer
• 1935 – Sherrill Milnes, American opera singer
• 1936 – Stephen E. Ambrose, American historian and author (d. 2002)
• 1936 – Walter Bodmer, German-British geneticist
• 1936 – Burnum Burnum, Australian activist, actor and author (d. 1997)
• 1936 – Al Goldstein, American publisher and pornographer (d. 2013)
• 1936 – Robert Woodrow Wilson, American physicist and astronomer, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1937 – Daniel Walker Howe, American historian
• 1937 – Thomas Penfield Jackson, American judge (d. 2013)
• 1938 – Donald Knuth, American computer scientist and author
• 1938 – Frank Mahovlich, Canadian ice hockey player and politician
• 1938 – Willie McCovey, American baseball player
• 1939 – Jared Carter, American poet
• 1939 – Sonosuke Fujimaki, Japanese fencer
• 1939 – David Horowitz, American activist and author, founded the David Horowitz Freedom Center
• 1939 – William Levy, Dutch author
• 1939 – Scott McKenzie, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2012)
• 1939 – Sal Mineo, American actor (d. 1976)
• 1939 – Bill Toomey, American decathlete
• 1940 – Guy Chevrette, Canadian politician
• 1940 – Harry Gant, American race car driver
• 1940 – Godfrey Hewitt, English geneticist (d. 2013)
• 1940 – Walter Hill, American director, screenwriter, and producer
• 1940 – Ntare VI of Ankole, Ugandan diplomat (d. 2011)
• 1940 – K. J. Yesudas, Indian singer-songwriter
• 1941 – Tom Clarke, English politician
• 1942 – Graeme Gahan, Australian footballer
• 1943 – Jim Croce, American singer-songwriter (d. 1973)
• 1943 – Jantzen Derrick, English footballer
• 1943 – Kristiina Elstelä, Finnish actress
• 1944 – Rory Byrne, South African engineer
• 1944 – Bernard Derome, Canadian journalist
• 1944 – William Sanderson, American actor
• 1944 – Frank Sinatra, Jr., American singer-songwriter and actor
• 1945 – Jerome Drayton, Canadian runner
• 1945 – John Fahey, Australian politician, 38th Premier of New South Wales
• 1945 – Gunther von Hagens, German anatomist, inventor of plastination
• 1945 – Jennifer Moss, English actress and singer (d. 2006)
• 1945 – Rod Stewart, English-Scottish singer-songwriter (The Jeff Beck Group, Faces, Shotgun Express, and The Steampacket)
• 1945 – Edward Wiskoski, American wrestler
• 1946 – Aynsley Dunbar, English drummer and songwriter (The Jeff Beck Group, Journey, Jefferson Starship, UFO, The Mojos, and John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers)
• 1946 – Alexis Nihon, Jr., Canadian wrestler (d. 2013)
• 1947 – Arlene Ackerman, American educator (d. 2013)
• 1947 – George Alec Effinger, American science fiction author (d. 2002)
• 1947 – Matthew Oakeshott, Baron Oakeshott of Seagrove Bay, English investment banker and politician
• 1947 – Peer Steinbrück, German politician
• 1947 – Tiit Vähi, Estonian politician and businessman
• 1947 – Stephen Wall, English retired diplomat
• 1948 – Donald Fagen, American singer-songwriter and pianist (Steely Dan)
• 1948 – Teresa Graves, American actress and singer (d. 2002)
• 1948 – Mischa Maisky, Latvian-Israeli cellist
• 1948 – David Neuberger, Baron Neuberger of Abbotsbury, English judge
• 1948 – Bernard Thévenet, French cyclist
• 1949 – Allu Aravind, Indian film producer
• 1949 – Fred Bronson, American journalist, author and writer
• 1949 – George Foreman, American boxer
• 1949 – James Lapine, American director
• 1949 – Linda Lovelace, American porn actress and anti-pornography activist (d. 2002)
• 1950 – Roy Blunt, American politician
• 1950 – Ernie Wasson, American gardener and author
• 1951 – Paul DiMaggio, American educator
• 1951 – Nicolas Philibert, French actor and director
• 1951 – Pez Whatley, American wrestler (d. 2005)
• 1952 – Scott Thurston, American guitarist and songwriter (Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers and The Stooges)
• 1953 – Pat Benatar, American singer-songwriter
• 1953 – Dennis Cooper, American author
• 1953 – Bobby Rahal, American race car driver
• 1954 – John Gidman, English footballer
• 1954 – Greg Towns, Australian footballer
• 1955 – Michael Schenker, German guitarist (UFO, Scorpions, Contraband, and McAuley Schenker Group)
• 1955 – Franco Tancredi, Italian footballer
• 1956 – Shawn Colvin, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1956 – Antonio Muñoz Molina, Spanish author
• 1957 – Paula Smith, American tennis player
• 1957 – Greg Walden, American politician
• 1958 – Eddie Cheever, American race car driver
• 1958 – Caroline Langrishe, English actress
• 1958 – Anatoly Pisarenko, Ukrainian weightlifter
• 1959 – Bernhard Hoff, German sprinter
• 1959 – Chris Van Hollen, American politician
• 1959 – Fran Walsh, New Zealand screenwriter and producer
• 1960 – Gurinder Chadha, Kenyan-English director
• 1960 – Brian Cowen, Irish politician, 12th Taoiseach
• 1960 – John Mann, English politician
• 1960 – Benoît Pelletier, Canadian lawyer and politician
• 1960 – Samira Said, Moroccan singer-songwriter
• 1961 – Steve Hamilton, American author
• 1961 – Evan Handler, American actor
• 1961 – Janet Jones, American actress
• 1961 – Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg, Italian-American violinist, author, and educator
• 1962 – Michael Fortier, Canadian lawyer and politician
• 1963 – Malcolm Dunford, New Zealand footballer
• 1963 – Kira Ivanova, Soviet figure skater (d. 2001)
• 1963 – David Dewayne Johnson, American murderer (d. 2000)
• 1963 – Mark Pryor, American politician, 53rd Arkansas Attorney General
• 1964 – Chitti Babu, Indian actor (d. 2013)
• 1964 – Tony Gardner, English actor
• 1964 – Akifumi Tada, Japanese composer
• 1964 – Brad Roberts, Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist (Crash Test Dummies)
• 1965 – Wally Bell, American baseball player and umpire (d. 2013)
• 1965 – Butch Hartman, American animator, voice actor, and singer
• 1966 – Robert Jürjendal, Estonian composer and guitarist
• 1966 – Steve Kramer, American politician
• 1966 – Murali Nair, Indian director and screenwriter
• 1966 – Jeremy Sims, Australian actor and director
• 1967 – Jeremy Cumpston, Australian actor
• 1967 – Johan Laats, Belgian martial artist
• 1967 – Maciej Śliwowski, Polish footballer
• 1969 – Janko Kastelic, Slovene-Canadian conductor
• 1969 – Andreas Reinke, German footballer
• 1970 – Buff Bagwell, American wrestler and actor
• 1970 – Katherine Dienes, New Zealander-English conductor, composer and organist
• 1970 – Scott Ludlam, Australian politician
• 1970 – Alisa Marić, Serbian chess player
• 1972 – Thomas Alsgaard, Norwegian skier
• 1972 – Mohammed Benzakour, Moroccan-Dutch columnist, poet, and author
• 1972 – Brian Lawler, American wrestler
• 1973 – Jakob Cedergren, Danish actor
• 1973 – Ryan Drummond, American actor and singer
• 1973 – Glenn Robinson, American basketball player
• 1973 – Félix Trinidad, Puerto Rican boxer
• 1974 – Jemaine Clement, New Zealand actor, singer, and guitarist (Flight of the Conchords)
• 1974 – Davide Dionigi, Italian footballer
• 1974 – Ryōka Yuzuki, Japanese voice actress
• 1974 – Akari Kaida, Japanese composer
• 1974 – Andrey Korneyev, Russian swimmer
• 1974 – Steve Marlet, French footballer
• 1974 – Clinton O'Brien, Australian rugby player
• 1974 – Bob Peeters, Belgian footballer
• 1974 – Hrithik Roshan, Indian actor
• 1975 – Jake Delhomme, American football player
• 1976 – Adam Kennedy, American baseball player
• 1976 – Ian Poulter, English golfer
• 1976 – Alec Shelbrooke, English politician
• 1978 – Brent Smith, American singer-songwriter (Shinedown)
• 1978 – Tamina Snuka, American wrestler
• 1978 – Tanel Tein, Estonian basketball player
• 1979 – Simone Cavalli, Italian footballer
• 1979 – Bodo Sieber, German rugby player
• 1980 – Nelson Cuevas, Paraguayan footballer
• 1980 – Petri Lindroos, Finnish singer and guitarist (Ensiferum and Norther)
• 1980 – Tatjana Mannima, Estonian skier
• 1980 – Aleksandr Pogorelov, Russian decathlete
• 1980 – Sarah Shahi, American actress
• 1981 – James Coppinger, English footballer
• 1981 – Inga Jankauskaitė, Lithuanian actress, singer, and pianist
• 1981 – Brian Joo, American-South Korean singer-songwriter, producer, and actor (Fly to the Sky)
• 1982 – Julien Brellier, French footballer
• 1982 – Josh Ryan Evans, American actor (d. 2002)
• 1983 – Danilo Dirani, Brazilian race car driver
• 1983 – Li Nina, Chinese skier
• 1984 – Marouane Chamakh, Moroccan footballer
• 1984 – Trent Cutler, Australian rugby player
• 1984 – Nando Rafael, Angolan-German footballer
• 1985 – Abdulkader Dakka, Syrian footballer
• 1985 – Jaroslav Kolbas, Slovak footballer
• 1985 – Craig Lewis, American cyclist
• 1985 – Alex Meraz, American actor
• 1986 – Trent Barreta, American wrestler
• 1986 – Chen Jin, Chinese badminton player
• 1986 – Abbey Clancy, English model and television host
• 1986 – Kirsten Flipkens, Belgian tennis player
• 1986 – Hideaki Ikematsu, Japanese footballer
• 1986 – Saleisha Stowers, American model
• 1986 – Kenneth Vermeer, Dutch footballer
• 1987 – César Cielo, Brazilian swimmer
• 1988 – Marvin Martin, French footballer
• 1988 – Vladimir Zharkov, Russian ice hockey player
• 1989 – Emily Meade, American film and television actress
• 1989 – Kyle Reimers, Australian footballer
• 1990 – Mirko Bortolotti, Italian race car driver
• 1990 – Wilhelm Ingves, Finnish footballer
• 1990 – Stefano Lilipaly, Dutch-Indonesian footballer
• 1990 – César Ruiz, Peruvian footballer
• 1990 – Tao Li, Singaporean swimmer
• 1991 – Romain Wattel, French golfer
• 1992 – Emmanuel Frimpong, Ghanaian footballer
• 1998 – Xu Shilin, Chinese tennis player