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Half Baked - DVD

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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• 1208 – James I of Aragon (d. 1276)
• 1455 – John, King of Denmark (d. 1513)
• 1457 – Peter Martyr d'Anghiera (d. 1526)
• 1494 – Bona Sforza, Italian wife of Sigismund I the Old (d. 1557)
• 1502 – Damião de Góis, Portuguese philosopher (d. 1574)
• 1506 – René de Birague, Italian-French cardinal and politician (d. 1583)
• 1522 – Lodovico Ferrari, Italian mathematician (d. 1565)
• 1600 – Gabriel Naudé, French librarian and scholar (d. 1653)
• 1613 – Noël Chabanel, French missionary (d. 1649)
• 1621 – Johannes Schefferus, Swedish author (d. 1679)
• 1650 – Pope Benedict XIII (d. 1730)
• 1650 – Nell Gwyn, English actress (d. 1687)
• 1669 – Louis Marchand, French organist and composer (d. 1732)
• 1677 – Jean-Baptiste Morin, French composer (d. 1745)
• 1695 – William Borlase, English geologist (d. 1772)
• 1695 – François de Chevert, French general (d. 1769)
• 1700 – Johann Christoph Gottsched, German author and critic (d. 1766)
• 1711 – Wenzel Anton, Prince of Kaunitz-Rietberg (d. 1794)
• 1714 – Gottfried August Homilius, German organist and composer (d. 1785)
• 1717 – Ernst Gideon von Laudon, Austrian field marshal (d. 1790)
• 1754 – Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord, French politician, Prime Minister of France (d. 1838)
• 1782 – Henri de Rigny, French admiral and politician (d. 1835)
• 1786 – Jacques Philippe Marie Binet, French mathematician, physicist, and astronomer (d. 1856)
• 1802 – Jean-Baptiste Boussingault, French chemist (d. 1887)
• 1803 – Albert Sidney Johnston, American general (d. 1862)
• 1829 – Alfred Brehm, German zoologist (d. 1884)
• 1829 – William Stanley, English inventor and engineer (d. 1909)
• 1841 – François-Alphonse Forel, Swiss scientist (d. 1912)
• 1842 – Julian Sochocki, Polish mathematician (d. 1927)
• 1849 – Pavol Országh Hviezdoslav, Slovak poet and playwright (d. 1921)
• 1851 – José Guadalupe Posada, Mexican illustrator (d. 1913)
• 1860 – Curtis Guild, Jr., American politician, 43rd Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1915)
• 1861 – Solomon R. Guggenheim, American businessman and philanthropist, founded the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (d. 1949)
• 1862 – Émile Coste, French fencer (d. 1927)
• 1866 – Enrique Simonet, Spanish painter (d. 1927)
• 1873 – Leo Fall, Austrian composer (d. 1925)
• 1873 – Konstantin von Neurath, German diplomat, 13th Minister of Foreign Affairs for Germany(d. 1956)
• 1875 – Fritz Kreisler, Austrian-American violinist and composer (d. 1962)
• 1878 – Alfréd Hajós, Hungarian swimmer (d. 1955)
• 1878 – Joe Lydon, American boxer (d. 1937)
• 1880 – Frederick Lane, Australian swimmer (d. 1969)
• 1881 – Orval Overall, American baseball player (d. 1947)
• 1882 – Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark (d. 1944)
• 1882 – James Joyce, Irish writer (d. 1941)
• 1883 – Johnston McCulley, American author (d. 1958)
• 1886 – William Rose Benét, American poet (d. 1950)
• 1887 – Ernst Hanfstaengl, German businessman (d. 1975)
• 1887 – Pat Sullivan, Australian-American animator and producer (d. 1933)
• 1888 – Frederick Lane, Australian swimmer (d. 1969)
• 1889 – Jean de Lattre de Tassigny, French general (d. 1952)
• 1890 – Charles Correll, American actor (d. 1972)
• 1892 – Tochigiyama Moriya, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 27th Yokozuna (d. 1959)
• 1893 – Cornelius Lanczos, Hungarian mathematician and physicist (d. 1974)
• 1893 – Raoul Riganti, Argentinian race car driver (d. 1970)
• 1893 – Damdin Sükhbaatar, Mongolian military leader (d. 1924)
• 1895 – George Halas, American football player and coach (d. 1983)
• 1896 – Kazimierz Kuratowski, Polish mathematician and logician (d. 1980)
• 1897 – Howard Deering Johnson, American businessman, founded Howard Johnson's (d. 1972)
• 1900 – Willie Kamm, American baseball player (d. 1988)
• 1901 – Jascha Heifetz, Lithuanian violinist (d. 1987)
• 1902 – Newbold Morris, American lawyer and politician (d. 1966)
• 1904 – Bozorg Alavi, Iranian author and activist (d. 1997)
• 1905 – Ayn Rand, Russian-American author and philosopher (d. 1982)
• 1908 – Wes Ferrell, American baseball player (d. 1976)
• 1909 – Frank Albertson, American actor (d. 1964)
• 1912 – Millvina Dean, last remaining survivor of the Sinking of the RMS Titanic (d. 2009)
• 1912 – Burton Lane, American songwriter and composer (d. 1997)
• 1913 – Poul Reichhardt, Danish actor (d. 1985)
• 1914 – Eric Kierans, Canadian economist and politician (d. 2004)
• 1915 – Abba Eban, South African-Israeli politician and diplomat, 1st Israel Ambassador to the United Nations (d. 2002)
• 1915 – Stan Leonard, Canadian golfer (d. 2005)
• 1916 – Xuân Diệu, Vietnamese poet (d. 1985)
• 1917 – Đỗ Mười, Vietnamese politician
• 1918 – Hella Haasse, Dutch author (d. 2011)
• 1919 – Lisa Della Casa, Swiss soprano (d. 2012)
• 1919 – Georg Gawliczek, German footballer and manager (d. 1999)
• 1923 – James Dickey, American poet and author (d. 1997)
• 1923 – Bonita Granville, American actress (d. 1988)
• 1923 – Red Schoendienst, American baseball player, coach, and manager
• 1923 – Liz Smith, American journalist
• 1923 – Clem Windsor, Australian rugby union player and surgeon (d. 2007)
• 1924 – Elfi von Dassanowsky, Austrian-American singer, pianist, producer (d. 2007)
• 1925 – Elaine Stritch, American actress and singer
• 1926 – Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, French politician, 20th President of France
• 1927 – Stan Getz, American saxophonist (d. 1991)
• 1927 – C. R. Krishnaswamy Rao, Indian civil servant (d. 2013)
• 1927 – Doris Sams, American baseball player (d. 2012)
• 1928 – Jay Handlan, American basketball player (d. 2013)
• 1928 – A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr., American judge, author, and activist (d. 1998)
• 1929 – Sheila Matthews Allen, American actress and producer (d. 2013)
• 1929 – George Band, English mountaineer (d. 2011)
• 1929 – Věra Chytilová, Czech director
• 1931 – Les Dawson, English comedian and author (d. 1993)
• 1931 – Glyn Edwards, British actor
• 1931 – John Paul Harney, Canadian educator and politician
• 1931 – Dries van Agt, Dutch politician, Prime Minister of the Netherlands
• 1931 – Judith Viorst, American journalist and author
• 1932 – Arthur Lyman, American vibraphone player (d. 2002)
• 1932 – Robert Mandan, American actor
• 1933 – M'el Dowd, American actress and singer (d. 2012)
• 1933 – Tony Jay, English actor (d. 2006)
• 1933 – Orlando "Cachaito" López, Cuban bassist (Buena Vista Social Club) (d. 2009)
• 1935 – Evgeny Velikhov, Russian physicist
• 1936 – Duane Jones, American actor (d. 1988)
• 1937 – Don Buford, American baseball player
• 1937 – Anthony Haden-Guest French-English journalist, poet, and critic
• 1937 – Remak Ramsay, American actor
• 1937 – Tom Smothers, American comedian, actor, and singer (Smothers Brothers)
• 1938 – Norman Fowler, English politician
• 1938 – Gene MacLellan, Canadian singer-songwriter (d. 1995)
• 1939 – Metin Oktay, Turkish footballer (d. 1991)
• 1940 – Alan Caddy, English guitarist and producer (Johnny Kidd & the Pirates and The Tornados) (d. 2000)
• 1940 – Thomas M. Disch, American author and poet (d. 2008)
• 1940 – Wayne Fontes, American football player and coach
• 1940 – David Jason, English actor
• 1941 – Terry Biddlecombe, English jockey (d. 2014)
• 1941 – Lee Redmond, American Guinness World Record holder for longest fingernails
• 1942 – Bo Hopkins, American actor
• 1942 – Graham Nash, English-American singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Hollies, Crosby & Nash, and Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
• 1942 – Jang Sung-taek, North Korean politician (d. 2013)
• 1943 – Susan Hanson, English actress
• 1944 – Andrew Davis, English conductor
• 1944 – Karen Foss, American journalist
• 1944 – Geoffrey Hughes, English actor (d. 2012)
• 1945 – John Eatwell, British economist and politician
• 1946 – John Armitt, English chairman of the Olympic Delivery Authority
• 1946 – Blake Clark, American comedian and actor
• 1946 – Alpha Oumar Konaré, Malian politician, 3rd President of Mali
• 1946 – Constantine Papadakis, Greek-American businessman and academic (d. 2009)
• 1947 – Farrah Fawcett, American actress (d. 2009)
• 1948 – Caroline Gipps, British academic
• 1948 – Ina Garten, American chef and author
• 1948 – Al McKay, American guitarist, songwriter, and producer (Earth, Wind & Fire)
• 1948 – Roger Williamson, English race car driver (d. 1973)
• 1949 – Duncan Bannatyne, Scottish businessman and author
• 1949 – Yasuko Namba, Japanese mountaineer (d. 1996)
• 1949 – Brent Spiner, American actor
• 1949 – Ross Valory, American bass player (Journey and The Storm)
• 1950 – Osamu Kido, Japanese wrestler
• 1950 – Libby Purves, English radio presenter, journalist and author
• 1950 – Barbara Sukowa, German actress
• 1950 – Genichiro Tenryu, Japanese wrestler
• 1951 – Ken Bruce, Scottish radio presenter
• 1951 – Vangelis Alexandris, Greek basketball player and coach
• 1952 – John Cornyn, American politician
• 1952 – Park Geun-hye, South Korean politician, 11th President of South Korea
• 1952 – Rick Dufay, American guitarist who played in Aerosmith
• 1953 – Duane Chapman, American bounty hunter
• 1953 – Jerry Sisk, Jr., American gemologist, co-founded Jewelry Television (d. 2013)
• 1954 – Christie Brinkley, American model and actress
• 1954 – Hansi Hinterseer, Austrian skier, actor, and singer
• 1954 – Nelson Ne'e, Solomon Islander politician (d. 2013)
• 1954 – John Tudor, American baseball player
• 1955 – Leszek Engelking, Polish poet and author
• 1955 – Virginia Leng, Maltese horse rider
• 1955 – Kim Zimmer, American actress
• 1957 – Phil Barney, Algerian-French singer-songwriter
• 1958 – Michel Marc Bouchard, Canadian playwright
• 1960 – Jari Porttila, Finnish journalist
• 1961 – Abraham Iyambo, Namibian politician (d. 2013)
• 1961 – Lauren Lane, American actress
• 1961 – Steve Penney, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1962 – Philippe Claudel, French director
• 1962 – Andy Fordham, English darts player
• 1962 – Luke Johnson, English entrepreneur
• 1962 – Paul Kilgus, American baseball player
• 1962 – Michael T. Weiss, American actor
• 1963 – Eva Cassidy, American singer and guitarist (d. 1996)
• 1963 – Kjell Dahlin, Swedish ice hockey player
• 1963 – Philip Laats, Belgian martial artist
• 1963 – Stephen McGann, English actor
• 1965 – Carl Airey, English footballer
• 1965 – Naoki Sano, Japanese wrestler and mixed martial artist
• 1966 – Andrei Chesnokov, Russian tennis player
• 1966 – Robert DeLeo, American bass player, songwriter, and producer (Stone Temple Pilots, Army of Anyone, and Talk Show)
• 1966 – Michael Misick, Caicos Islander politician, Premier of the Turks and Caicos Islands
• 1967 – Artūrs Irbe, Latvian ice hockey player
• 1967 – Laurent Nkunda, Congolese general
• 1968 – Sean Elliott, American basketball player
• 1968 – Scott Erickson, American baseball player
• 1968 – Thomas Teige, German martial artist and actor
• 1968 – Simon Wickham-Smith, English singer, astrologer, and academic
• 1969 – Valeri Karpin, Russian footballer
• 1970 – C. Ernst Harth, Canadian actor
• 1970 – Nikolaos Michopoulos, Greek footballer
• 1970 – Roar Strand, Norwegian footballer
• 1970 – Jennifer Westfeldt, American actress and screenwriter
• 1971 – Michelle Gayle, English singer-songwriter, actress and author.
• 1971 – Rockwilder, American rapper and producer
• 1972 – Dana International, Israeli singer-songwriter
• 1972 – Melvin Mora, Venezuelan baseball player
• 1972 – Aleksey Naumov, Russian footballer
• 1973 – Andrei Luzgin, Estonian tennis player and coach
• 1973 – Aleksander Tammert, Estonian discus thrower
• 1973 – Marissa Jaret Winokur, American actress and singer
• 1975 – Todd Bertuzzi, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1975 – Donald Driver, American football player
• 1975 – Vaggelis Koutsoures, Greek footballer
• 1975 – Ieroklis Stoltidis, Greek footballer
• 1976 – Lori Beth Denberg, American actress
• 1976 – James Hickman, English swimmer
• 1977 – Shakira, Colombian singer-songwriter, producer, and actress
• 1977 – Libor Sionko, Czech footballer
• 1978 – Eden Espinosa, American actress and singer
• 1978 – Barry Ferguson, Scottish footballer
• 1978 – Rich Sommer, American actor
• 1978 – Faye White, English footballer
• 1979 – Urmo Aava, Estonian race car driver
• 1979 – Christine Bleakley, Northern Irish television presenter
• 1979 – Fani Chalkia, Greek hurdler
• 1979 – Klaus Mainzer, German rugby player
• 1979 – Shamita Shetty, Indian actress
• 1979 – Irini Terzoglou, Greek shot putter
• 1980 – Angela Finger-Erben, German journalist
• 1980 – Teddy Hart, Canadian wrestler
• 1980 – Gucci Mane, American rapper and producer
• 1980 – Oleguer Presas, Spanish footballer
• 1981 – Salem al-Hazmi, Saudi Arabian terrorist, hijacker of American Airlines Flight 77 (d. 2001)
• 1981 – Michelle Bass, English model
• 1981 – Brianne Delcourt, Canadian pair skater
• 1982 – Sergio Castaño Ortega, Spanish footballer
• 1982 – Kelly Mazzante, American basketball player
• 1982 – Brandy Talore, American porn actress
• 1983 – Ronny Cedeño, Venezuelan baseball player
• 1983 – Carolina Klüft, Swedish heptathlete, long jumper and triple jumper
• 1983 – Jeanne Thornton, American novelist and artist
• 1983 – Jordin Tootoo, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1983 – Vladimir Voskoboinikov, Estonian footballer
• 1983 – Alex Westaway, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (Fightstar)
• 1984 – Renn Kiriyama, Japanese actor
• 1984 – Rudi Wulf, New Zealand rugby player
• 1985 – Masoud Azizi, Afghan sprinter
• 1985 – Kristo Saage, Estonian basketball player
• 1985 – Silvestre Varela, Portuguese footballer
• 1985 – Prinzzess, American pornographic actress and Penthouse Pet
• 1986 – Gemma Arterton, English actress
• 1987 – Anthony Fainga'a, Australian rugby player
• 1987 – Saia Fainga'a, Australian rugby player
• 1987 – Gerard Piqué, Spanish footballer
• 1987 – Javon Ringer, American football player
• 1987 – Jill Scott, English footballer
• 1987 – Martin Spanjers, American actor
• 1991 – Nathan Delfouneso, English footballer
• 1992 – Joonas Tamm, Estonian footballer
• 1992 – Danielle White, American singer-songwriter and actress (American Juniors)
• 1993 – Ravel Morrison, English footballer
• 1995 – Paul Digby, English footballer
• 1995 – Arfa Karim, Pakistani student and computer programmer (d. 2012)