Ernst Thomke (85)
April 21st, 1939

Swiss businessman – Ernst Thomke was born in Bienne (Town and municipality in the canton of Bern in Switzerland) on April 21st, 1939 and is 85 years old today.

Other personalities born on April 21

89

Kjeld Hillingsø

Danish general

*April 21st, 1935, Frederiksberg

96

Elizabeth II

Queen of the United Kingdom from 1952 to 2022

*April 21st, 1926, Mayfair †September 8th, 2022, Balmoral Castle

26

Zé Felipe

Brazilian sertanejo singer

*April 21st, 1998, Goiânia

91

Olbram Zoubek

Czech sculptor

*April 21st, 1926, Prague †June 15th, 2017, Prague

86

Charles Grodin

American actor (1935–2021)

*April 21st, 1935, Pittsburgh †May 18th, 2021, Wilton

92

Elaine May

American screenwriter, film director, actress, and comedian

*April 21st, 1932, Philadelphia

63

Dirk Heidenblut

German politician

*April 21st, 1961, Essen

84

Kai-Uwe von Hassel

German politician (1913–1997)

*April 21st, 1913 †May 8th, 1997, Aachen

75

Patti LuPone

American actress and singer

*April 21st, 1949, Northport

26

Rodion Alimov

Russian badminton player

*April 21st, 1998, Ufa

71

Mark Wainberg

Canadian AIDS researcher

*April 21st, 1945, Montreal †April 11th, 2017, Bal Harbour

59

Zhao Jianhua

Chinese badminton player

*April 21st, 1965, Nantong

74

Gerd-Peter Eigner

German writer

*April 21st, 1942, Ozimek †April 13th, 2017, Berlin

47

Mette Schjoldager

Danish badminton player

*April 21st, 1977, Viby

37

Yuhan Tan

Belgian badminton player

*April 21st, 1987, Bilzen

43

Nicholas Kidd

Badminton player

*April 21st, 1981, Rabaul

41

Mesinee Mangkalakiri

Badminton player

*April 21st, 1983, Los Alamitos

28

Rachel Honderich

Canadian badminton player

*April 21st, 1996, Toronto

77

Iggy Pop

American singer

*April 21st, 1947, Muskegon

31

Taichi Saito

Japanese badminton player

*April 21st, 1993, Chiba Prefecture

82

Geoffrey Palmer

Prime Minister of New Zealand from 1989 to 1990

*April 21st, 1942, Nelson

27

Lin Guipu

Chinese badminton player

*April 21st, 1997, Cangnan County

76

Dieter Fromm

East German middle distance runner

*April 21st, 1948, Bad Langensalza

52

Gwendal Peizerat

French ice dancer

*April 21st, 1972, Lyon

61

John Cameron Mitchell

American actor, playwright, screenwriter, and director

*April 21st, 1963, El Paso

54

Glen Hansard

Irish musician and songwriter

*April 21st, 1970, Dublin

41

Gugu Mbatha-Raw

British actress (born 1983)

*April 21st, 1983, Oxford

86

Gabriella Csire

Romanian writer

*April 21st, 1938, Ocna Mureș

55

Toby Stephens

British actor

*April 21st, 1969, London

86

Anthony Quinn

Mexican and American actor (1915–2001)

*April 21st, 1915, Chihuahua City †June 3rd, 2001, Boston

Also born in 1939

85

Hans Kloft

German historian of classical antiquity

*April 10th, 1939, Düsseldorf

64

João César Monteiro

Portuguese film director, actor, writer and film critic

*February 2nd, 1939, Figueira da Foz †February 3rd, 2003, Lisbon

77

Dudley Storey

New Zealand rower

*November 27th, 1939, Wairoa †March 6th, 2017, Auckland

84

Thilo Ulbert

German christian archaeologist

*June 20th, 1939, Augsburg

83

Tina Turner

American-born Swiss singer and songwriter (1939–2023)

*November 26th, 1939, Brownsville †May 24th, 2023, Küsnacht

83

Hans-Christian Ströbele

German lawyer and politician (1939–2022)

*June 7th, 1939, Halle (Saale) †August 29th, 2022, Moabit

78

Oscar Fulloné

Argentine association football player and manager (1939-2017)

*April 4th, 1939, La Plata †May 22nd, 2017, Casablanca

84

Helga Piur

German actress and voice actress

*May 24th, 1939, Berlin

84

Yves Meyer

French mathematician

*July 19th, 1939, Paris

84

Margaret Atwood

Canadian poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, teacher, environmental activist,pépiniériste and inventor

*November 18th, 1939, Ottawa

56

Peter Aust

1939-1996 German actor

*March 17th, 1939, Bytom †January 26th, 1996, Bad Wildungen

70

Dixie Carter

American actress (1939–2010)

*May 25th, 1939, McLemoresville †April 10th, 2010, Houston

78

Irio De Paula

Brazilian composer

*May 10th, 1939, Rio de Janeiro †May 23rd, 2017, Rome

78

Peter Grünberg

German physicist, and Nobel Prize in Physics laureate (1939-2018)

*May 18th, 1939, Plzeň †April 7th, 2018, Jülich

59

Dusty Springfield

British singer (1939–1999)

*April 16th, 1939, London †March 2nd, 1999, Henley-on-Thames

74

Karen Black

American actress, screenwriter, singer, and songwriter (1939-2013)

*July 1st, 1939, Park Ridge †August 8th, 2013, Santa Monica

80

Karel Gott

Czech singer and actor

*July 14th, 1939, Plzeň †October 1st, 2019, Prague

84

Brenda Vaccaro

American actress

*November 18th, 1939, Brooklyn

80

Valerie Harper

American actress (1939-2019)

*August 22nd, 1939, Suffern †August 30th, 2019, Los Angeles

84

Jane Alexander

American actress (b. 1939)

*October 28th, 1939, Boston

84

Amanda Lear

French singer, actress, television presenter

*November 18th, 1939, Ho Chi Minh City

85

Beate Klarsfeld

French journalist, Nazi hunter, and historian

*February 13th, 1939, Berlin

85

Tommy Tune

American actor, dancer, singer, theatre director, producer, and choreographer

*February 28th, 1939, Wichita Falls

85

Francis Ford Coppola

American filmmaker

*April 7th, 1939, Detroit

85

Ariane Mnouchkine

French theater and film director, theater director and author

*March 3rd, 1939, Boulogne-Billancourt

80

Ginger Baker

British drummer (1939–2019)

*August 19th, 1939, Lewisham †October 6th, 2019, Canterbury

80

Sid Haig

American actor (1939–2019)

*July 14th, 1939, Fresno †September 21st, 2019, Los Angeles

85

Alan Ayckbourn

English playwright

*April 12th, 1939, London

85

Gro Harlem Brundtland

29th Prime Minister of Norway

*April 20th, 1939, Bærum Municipality

85

Marty Wilde

British rock and roll singer (born 1939)

*April 15th, 1939, Blackheath

Ernst Thomke