Gerda Kupferschmied (81)
August 19th, 1942

German high jumper – Gerda Kupferschmied was born in Cottbus (City in Brandenburg, Germany) on August 19th, 1942 and is 81 years old today.

Other personalities born on August 19

77

Bill Clinton

President of the United States from 1993 to 2001

*August 19th, 1946, Hope

37

Tian Qing

Chinese badminton player

*August 19th, 1986, Anhua County

80

Ginger Baker

British drummer (1939–2019)

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

54

Matthew Perry

American-Canadian actor (1969–2023)

*August 19th, 1969, Williamstown †October 28th, 2023, Los Angeles

80

Sid Going

New Zealand rugby union footballer

*August 19th, 1943, Northland Region

80

Johnny Nash

American singer (1940–2020)

*August 19th, 1940, Houston †October 6th, 2020, Houston

75

Ian McElhinney

Northern Irish actor, director

*August 19th, 1948, Belfast

72

Jean-Luc Mélenchon

French politician (born 1951)

*August 19th, 1951, Tangier

39

Simon Stone

Australian theatre director, writer and actor

*August 19th, 1984, Basel

67

Adam Arkin

American actor and director

*August 19th, 1956, Brooklyn

78

Ian Gillan

English singer

*August 19th, 1945, Chiswick

56

Nandana Sen

American actress

*August 19th, 1967, Kolkata

71

Renaud Van Ruymbeke

French judge

*August 19th, 1952, Neuilly-sur-Seine

80

Billy J. Kramer

British pop singer

*August 19th, 1943, Liverpool

20

Letshanaa A. Karupathevan

Malaysian badminton player

*August 19th, 2003, Selangor

68

Peter Gallagher

American actor

*August 19th, 1955, Manhattan

30

Nik Tendo

Czech rapper

*August 19th, 1993, Pardubice

58

James Tomkins

Australian rower

*August 19th, 1965, Sydney

63

Jean-François Bizot

French journalist and writer (1944-2007)

*August 19th, 1944, 15th arrondissement of Paris †September 8th, 2007, 15th arrondissement of Paris

79

Jack Canfield

American writer and motivational speaker

*August 19th, 1944, Fort Worth

39

Alessandro Matri

Italian footballer

*August 19th, 1984, Sant'Angelo Lodigiano

76

Dave Dutton

British actor

*August 19th, 1947, Atherton

39

Simon Bird

British actor and comedian

*August 19th, 1984, Guildford

58

Kyra Sedgwick

American actress (born 1965)

*August 19th, 1965, New York City

37

Sebastián Sosa

Uruguayan footballer violín

*August 19th, 1986, Montevideo

78

Alan Baker

English mathematician

*August 19th, 1939, London †February 4th, 2018, Cambridge

82

Sitanshu Yashaschandra

Gujarati poet

*August 19th, 1941, Bhuj

75

Raymond P. Kogovsek

American politician (1941-2017)

*August 19th, 1941, Pueblo †April 30th, 2017, Pueblo

70

Nanni Moretti

Italian screenwriter, film director, and actor

*August 19th, 1953, Bruneck

29

Fernando Gaviria

Colombian Road racing cyclist

*August 19th, 1994, La Ceja del Tambo

Also born in 1942

81

Joe Biden

President of the United States since 2021

*November 20th, 1942, Scranton

77

Terry Jones

Welsh actor, comedian, director, historian and writer (1942–2020)

*February 1st, 1942, Colwyn Bay †January 21st, 2020, North London

81

Dietrich Hollinderbäumer

German-Swedish actor

*August 16th, 1942, Essen

76

Stephen Hawking

British theoretical physicist, cosmologist and author (1942–2018)

*January 8th, 1942, Oxford †March 14th, 2018, Cambridge

81

Katherine Justice

American actress

*October 28th, 1942, Sacramento

81

Wolfgang Schäuble

German politician and statesman (1942–2023)

*September 18th, 1942, Freiburg im Breisgau †December 26th, 2023, Offenburg

81

Richard Stoltzman

American musician

*July 12th, 1942, Omaha

81

Amitabh Bachchan

Indian film actor (born 1942)

*October 11th, 1942, Prayagraj

82

John Cale

Welsh composer, singer-songwriter and record producer

*March 9th, 1942, Garnant

81

Paul McCartney

English musician and member of the Beatles (born 1942)

*June 18th, 1942, Liverpool

74

Daliah Lavi

Israeli actress, singer and model (1942-2017)

*October 12th, 1942, Shavei Tzion †May 3rd, 2017, Asheville

74

Muhammad Ali

American boxer, philanthropist, and activist (1942–2016)

*January 17th, 1942, Louisville †June 3rd, 2016, Scottsdale

82

Per A. Anonsen

Norwegian actor, film editor, screenwriter and film producer

*January 8th, 1942, Oslo

81

Søren Steen

Danish actor

*August 22nd, 1942, Denmark

69

Muammar Gaddafi

Libyan dictator, politician and political theorist (1942–2011)

*June 7th, 1942, Qasr Abu Hadi †October 20th, 2011, Sirte

82

Michel Mayor

Swiss astrophysicist & Nobel laureate of Physics

*January 12th, 1942, Lausanne

76

Aretha Franklin

American singer, songwriter, and pianist (1942–2018)

*March 25th, 1942, Memphis †August 16th, 2018, Detroit

82

Jun'ichirō Koizumi

Prime Minister of Japan from 2001 to 2006

*January 8th, 1942, Yokosuka

81

Raman Ghosh

Badminton player

*August 15th, 1942, Bareilly

81

Hu Jintao

General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party from 2002 to 2012

*December 21st, 1942, Jiangyan District

27

Jimi Hendrix

American guitarist (1942–1970)

*November 27th, 1942, Seattle †September 18th, 1970, Kensington

75

Pierre Seron

Belgian comics artist (1942-2017)

*February 9th, 1942, Chênée †May 24th, 2017, Saint-Bénézet

81

Thomas Danneberg

German actor (1942–2023)

*June 2nd, 1942, Berlin †September 30th, 2023, Berlin

74

Sven-Erik Magnusson

Swedish singer and musician

*October 13th, 1942, Säffle †March 22nd, 2017, Karlstad

71

Bob Hoskins

British actor (1942–2014)

*October 26th, 1942, Bury St Edmunds †April 29th, 2014, Bury St Edmunds

82

Michael Bloomberg

American businessman and politician; 108th mayor of New York City

*February 14th, 1942, Boston

82

Mike Pender

British musician

*March 3rd, 1942, Kirkdale

70

Roger Ebert

American film critic and author (1942–2013)

*June 18th, 1942, Urbana †April 4th, 2013, Chicago

75

David Ogden Stiers

American actor (1942–2018)

*October 31st, 1942, Peoria †March 3rd, 2018, Newport

81

Fraser Stoddart

Scottish chemist and Nobel Laureate in 2016 for the design and synthesis of molecular machines

*May 24th, 1942, Edinburgh

Gerda Kupferschmied