Births on 21 May
2000s
Elena Huelva
2002
Spanish influencer and writer (2002–2023)
1900s
Ivan De Santis
1997
Italian professional footballer
Sisca Folkertsma
1997
Dutch footballer
Viktoria Petryk
1997
Ukrainian singer and songwriter (born 1997)
Kevin Quinn (actor)
1997
American actor and singer
Josh Allen
1996
American football player (born 1996)
Indy de Vroome
1996
Dutch tennis player
Karen Khachanov
1996
Russian tennis player (born 1996)
Diego Loyzaga
1995
Filipino actor and model (born 1995)
Tom Daley
1994
English diver (born 1994)
Grete Gaim
1993
Estonian biathlete (born 1993)
Luke Garbutt
1993
English footballer
Matías Kranevitter
1993
Argentine footballer (born 1993)
Lynn Biyendolo
1993
American soccer player (born 1993)
Hutch Dano
1992
American actor
Lisa Evans
1992
Scottish footballer (born 1992)
Philipp Grüneberg
1992
German footballer (born 1992)
Olivia Olson
1992
American actress and singer-songwriter (born 1992)
Guilherme (footballer, born May 1991)
1991
Brazilian footballer
Kierre Beckles
1990
Barbadian hurdler (born 1990)
Rene Krhin
1990
Slovenian footballer (born 1990)
Emily Robins
1989
New Zealand actress and singer
Hal Robson-Kanu
1989
Wales international footballer (born 1989)
Claire Cashmore
1988
British Paralympic swimmer (born 1988)
Park Gyu-ri
1988
South Korean singer (born 1988)
Jonny Howson
1988
English footballer and coach (born 1988)
Kaire Leibak
1988
Estonian triple jumper
Beau Falloon
1987
Australian rugby league footballer
Mario Mandžukić
1986
Croatian footballer (born 1986)
Myra (singer)
1986
American pop singer (born 1986)
Eder Sánchez
1986
Mexican race walker
Park So-jin
1986
South Korean singer and actress (born 1986)
Greg Stewart (ice hockey)
1986
Canadian ice hockey player
Matt Wieters
1986
American baseball player (born 1986)
Mark Cavendish
1985
Road and track cyclist (born 1985)
Alexander Dale Oen
1985
Norwegian swimmer (1985–2012)
Isa Guha
1985
English cricketer
Lucie Hradecká
1985
Czech tennis player (born 1985)
Kano (British musician)
1985
British rapper (born 1985)
Dušan Kuciak
1985
Slovak international football goalkeeper
Heath L'Estrange
1985
Australian former professional rugby league footballer
Andrew Miller (baseball)
1985
American baseball player (born 1985)
Brandon Fields
1984
American football player (born 1984)
Sara Goller
1984
German beach volleyball player
Līga Dekmeijere
1983
Latvian tennis player
Veloso (Brazilian footballer)
1983
Brazilian footballer
Craig Anderson (ice hockey)
1981
American ice hockey player (born 1981)
Edson Buddle
1981
American soccer player (born 1981)
Josh Hamilton
1981
American baseball player (born 1981)
Max Mutzke
1981
Musical artist
Anna Rogowska
1981
Polish pole vaulter
Gotye
1980
Belgian-Australian musician (born 1980)
Damián Álvarez (footballer, born 1979)
1979
Mexican footballer
Jamie Hepburn
1979
Scottish politician (born 1979)
James Clancy Phelan
1979
Australian writer
Scott Smith (fighter)
1979
American mixed martial artist (born 1979)
Max B
1978
American rapper, singer, and songwriter
Briana Banks
1978
American pornographic actress and model
Jamaal Magloire
1978
Canadian basketball player (born 1978)
Quinton Fortune
1977
South African soccer player
Michael Fuß
1977
German footballer (born 1977)
Ricky Williams
1977
American football player (born 1977)
Stuart Bingham
1976
English snooker player (born 1976)
Abderrahim Goumri
1976
Moroccan long-distance runner
Deron Miller
1976
American musician (born 1976)
Anthony Mundine
1975
Australian boxer, rugby league footballer, and rapper (born 1975)
Brad Arthur
1974
Australian rugby league coach
Fairuza Balk
1974
American actress (born 1974)
Havoc (musician)
1974
American rapper (born 1974)
Stewart Cink
1973
American professional golfer
Noel Fielding
1973
British actor and comedian (born 1973)
The Notorious B.I.G.
1972
American rapper (1972–1997)
Shane Cloete
1971
Zimbabwean cricketer
Brigita Bukovec
1970
Slovenian hurdler (born 1970)
Dorsey Levens
1970
American football player (born 1970)
Pauline Menczer
1970
Australian surfer (born 1970)
Carl Veart
1970
Australian soccer player
Pierluigi Brivio
1969
Italian former professional footballer
Georgiy Gongadze
1969
Ukrainian journalist (1969–2000)
Masayo Kurata
1969
Japanese voice actress (born 1969)
George LeMieux
1969
American lawyer and politician (born 1969)
Brian Statham (footballer)
1969
English footballer (born 1969)
Ilmar Raag
1968
Estonian screenwriter and film director
Matthias Ungemach
1968
German rower
Julie Vega
1968
Filipina actress and singer (1968–1985)
Chris Benoit
1967
Canadian professional wrestler (1967–2007)
Alain Yzermans
1967
Belgian politician (born 1967)
Lisa Edelstein
1966
American actress (born 1966)
Tatyana Ledovskaya
1966
Soviet and Belarusian athletics competitor
Danny Bailey
1964
English footballer
Pete Sandoval
1964
American drummer
Richard Appel
1963
American writer and producer (born 1963)
Patrick Grant (composer)
1963
American classical composer
David Lonsdale
1963
English actor
Dave Specter
1963
American jazz and blues guitarist (born 1963)
Laurie Spina
1963
Australian rugby league footballer
David Crumb
1962
American contemporary composer
Jeffrey Dahmer
1960
American serial killer (1960–1994)
Kent Hrbek
1960
American baseball player (born 1960)
Mohanlal
1960
Indian actor and producer
Mark Ridgway
1960
Australian cricketer (born 1960)
Vladimir Salnikov
1960
Russian swimmer (born 1960)
Nick Cassavetes
1959
American actor, director, and screenwriter (born 1959)
Abdulla Yameen
1959
President of the Maldives from 2013 to 2018
Christian Audigier
1958
French fashion designer (1958–2015)
Muffy Calder
1958
Computer Scientist
Michael Crick
1958
English broadcaster, journalist and author (born 1958)
Naeem Khan
1958
Indian-American fashion designer (born 1958)
Jefery Levy
1958
American film and television director (1958–2026)
James Bailey (basketball)
1957
American basketball player (born 1957)
Nadine Dorries
1957
British politician (born 1957)
Judge Reinhold
1957
American actor (born 1957)
Renée Soutendijk
1957
Dutch actress (born 1957)
Paul Barber (field hockey)
1955
British field hockey player (born 1955)
Stan Lynch
1955
American drummer (born 1955)
Marc Ribot
1954
American guitarist and composer (born 1954)
Nora Aunor
1953
Filipino actress and singer (1953–2025)
Jim Devine
1953
British politician (born 1953)
Mr. T
1952
American actor and former professional wrestler (born 1952)
Al Franken
1951
American comedian and politician (born 1951)
Adrian Hardiman
1951
Irish supreme court judge (1951–2016)
Will Hutton
1950
English journalist (born 1950)
Andrew Neil
1949
Scottish journalist and broadcaster (born 1949)
Denis O'Connor (police officer)
1949
British police officer (born 1949)
Rosalind Plowright
1949
English opera singer (born 1949)
Elizabeth Buchan
1948
British novelist
Joe Camilleri
1948
Australian singer (born 1948)
Jonathan Hyde
1948
British-Australian actor (born 1948)
Denis MacShane
1948
British politician (born 1948)
Leo Sayer
1948
British and Australian singer (born 1948)
Bill Champlin
1947
American musician (born 1947)
Linda Laubenstein
1947
American medical researcher (1947–1992)
İlber Ortaylı
1947
Turkish historian (1947–2026)
Allan McKeown
1946
British television and stage producer (1946–2013)
Wayne Roycroft
1946
Australian equestrian (born 1946)
Ernst Messerschmid
1945
German physicist and astronaut (born 1945)
Richard Hatch (actor)
1945
American actor (1945–2017)
Haleh Afshar, Baroness Afshar
1944
British life peer (1944–2022)
Marcie Blane
1944
American singer (born 1944)
Janet Dailey
1944
American writer
Mary Robinson
1944
President of Ireland from 1990 to 1997
Vincent Crane
1943
English keyboardist (1943–1989)
John Dalton (musician)
1943
British bass guitar player (born 1943)
Hilton Valentine
1943
British guitarist (1943–2021)
David Hunt, Baron Hunt of Wirral
1942
British politician (born 1942)
John Konrads
1942
Australian swimmer (1942–2021)
Danny Ongais
1942
American racing driver (1942–2022)
Martin Carthy
1941
English singer and guitarist (born 1941)
Bobby Cox
1941
American baseball player and manager (born 1941)
Ambrose Greenway, 4th Baron Greenway
1941
Ronald Isley
1941
American singer and songwriter (born 1941)
Tony Sheridan
1940
British musician (1940–2013)
Heinz Holliger
1939
Swiss composer, oboist, and conductor (born 1939)
Lee "Shot" Williams
1938
American singer
Günter Blobel
1936
German-American biologist (1936–2018)
Terry Lightfoot
1935
British jazz clarinettist and bandleader (1935–2013)
Jocasta Innes
1934
British writer and journalist (1934–2013)
Bob Northern
1934
American jazz musician (1934–2020)
Bengt I. Samuelsson
1934
Swedish biochemist (1934–2024)
Maurice André
1933
French trumpeter
Yevgeny Minayev
1933
Russian weightlifter (1933–1993)
Inese Jaunzeme
1932
Latvian javelin thrower
Leonidas Vasilikopoulos
1932
Greek naval and intelligence officer
Tommy Bryant
1930
American jazz musician
Keith Davis (rugby union)
1930
New Zealand rugby union player (1930–2019)
Malcolm Fraser
1930
Prime Minister of Australia from 1975 to 1983
Larance Marable
1929
American jazz drummer (1929–2012)
Robert Welch (designer)
1929
English industrial designer and silversmith (1929–2000)
Tom Donahue (DJ)
1928
American DJ
Alice Drummond
1928
American actress (1928–2016)
Kay Kendall
1927
English actress and singer (1927–1959)
Péter Zwack
1927
Hungarian businessman and politician (1927–2012)
Robert Creeley
1926
American poet (1926–2005)
Peggy Cass
1924
American actress, comedian (1924–1999)
Vernon Biever
1923
American photographer
Armand Borel
1923
Swiss mathematician (1923–2003)
Ara Parseghian
1923
American football player and coach (1923–2017)
Dorothy Hewett
1923
Australian feminist poet, playwright and novelist (1923–2002)
Evelyn Ward
1923
American actress (1923–2012)
Sandy Douglas
1921
British professor of computer science
Andrei Sakharov
1921
Soviet nuclear physicist and human rights activist (1921–1989)
Bill Barber (musician)
1920
American jazz tubist (1920–2007)
Forrest White
1920
American businessman (1920–1994)
George P. Mitchell
1919
American billionaire businessman and shale gas pioneer
Raymond Burr
1917
Canadian actor (1917–1993)
Dennis Day
1916
American actor, comedian and singer (1916–1988)
Tinus Osendarp
1916
Dutch sprinter and WW2 collaborator (1916–2002)
Harold Robbins
1916
American author (1916–1997)
Chakravarthi V. Narasimhan
1915
Indian diplomat (1915–2003)
Romain Gary
1914
French writer and diplomat (1914–1980)
Gina Bachauer
1913
Greek pianist (1913–1976)
Chen Dayu
1912
Chinese artist (1912–2001)
John Curtis Gowan
1912
American psychologist and academic
Monty Stratton
1912
American baseball player (1912–1982)
John C. Allen
1907
American roller coaster designer
Robert Montgomery (actor)
1904
American actor (1904–1981)
Fats Waller
1904
American jazz pianist and composer (1904–1943)
Manly Wade Wellman
1903
American novelist (1903–1986)
Earl Averill
1902
American baseball player (1902–1983)
Marcel Breuer
1902
Hungarian-American architect and designer (1902–1981)
Anatole Litvak
1902
Russian-American film director (1902–1974)
Regina M. Anderson
1901
American playwright and librarian
Horace Heidt
1901
American pianist and band leader (1901–1986)
Sam Jaffe (producer)
1901
American film producer
Suzanne Lilar
1901
Belgian essayist, novelist (1901–1992)
1800s
Armand Hammer
1898
American businessman (1898–1990)
Charles-Léon Hammes
1898
Carl Johnson (long jumper)
1898
American long jumper (1898–1932)
John McLaughlin (artist)
1898
American painter (1898–1976)
Lázaro Cárdenas
1895
President of Mexico from 1934 to 1940
Arthur Carr (cricketer)
1893
English cricketer (1893–1963)
Giles Chippindall
1893
Australian public servant
Sophie, Princess of Albania
1885
Princess consort of Albania
Manuel Pérez y Curis
1884
Uruguayan poet
Tudor Arghezi
1880
Romanian writer and political figure (1880–1967)
Glenn Curtiss
1878
American aviator and industrialist (1878–1930)
Hans Berger
1873
German psychiatrist (1873-1941)
Anne Walter Fearn
1867
American physician
Princess Stéphanie of Belgium
1864
Crown Princess of Austria (1864–1945)
Archduke Eugen of Austria
1863
Archduke of Austria and a Prince of Hungary and Bohemia
Abel Ayerza
1861
Willem Einthoven
1860
Dutch physiologist (1860–1927)
Édouard Goursat
1858
French mathematician (1858–1936)
José Batlle y Ordóñez
1856
Uruguayan politician (1856–1929)
Ella Stewart Udall
1855
American Latter-day Saint telegraphist and entrepreneur (1855–1937)
Jacques Marie Eugène Godefroy Cavaignac
1853
French politician (1853–1905)
Léon Bourgeois
1851
French statesman (1851–1925)
Giuseppe Mercalli
1850
Italian volcanologist and priest (1850–1914)
Édouard-Henri Avril
1849
French artist (1849–1928)
Henri Rousseau
1844
French painter (1844–1910)
Charles Albert Gobat
1843
Swiss politician, lawyer and educational administrator (1843–1914)
Louis Renault (jurist)
1843
French jurist and Nobel Prize recipient (1843–1918)
Itagaki Taisuke
1837
Japanese politician (1837–1919)
František Chvostek
1835
Czech-Austrian military physician
Rudolf Koller
1828
19th-century Swiss painter
William P. Sprague
1827
American politician
David de Jahacob Lopez Cardozo
1808
Dutch rabbi (1808 – 1890)
Harriet Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, Duchess of Sutherland
1806
British duchess, abolitionist and Mistress of the Robes
Princess Sophie of Sweden
1801
Grand Duchess of Baden from 1830 to 1852
Before 1800
Mary Anning
1799
British fossil collector and palaeontologist (1799–1847)
Gaspard-Gustave de Coriolis
1792
French mathematician, mechanical engineer, and scientist
William Cavendish, 6th Duke of Devonshire
1790
English peer, courtier and politician (1790–1858)
Elizabeth Fry
1780
English social reformer (1780–1845)
Lucien Bonaparte
1775
French politician and diplomat (1775–1840)
Joseph Fouché
1759
French statesman, revolutionary and police chief (1763–1820)
William Babington (physician)
1756
Anglo-Irish physician and mineralogist
Alfred Moore
1755
US Supreme Court justice from 1800 to 1804
Old Style and New Style dates
1688
Changes in calendar conventions
Eleonore of Austria, Queen of Poland
1653
Queen of Poland (1670–1673), Duchess of Lorraine (1678–1690)
Philip II of Spain
1527
King of Spain (1556–1598), England (by marriage, 1554–1558), Portugal (1580–1598)
Al-Hattab
1497
16th-century Tripolitanian Muslim jurist
Albrecht Dürer
1471
German painter, printmaker and theorist (1471–1528)