Kevin Ashcroft (79)
June 5th, 1944

English rugby league footballer and coach – Kevin Ashcroft was born in Newton-le-Willows (Town in St Helens, Merseyside, UK) on June 5th, 1944 and is 79 years old today.

Other personalities born on June 5

72

Ellen Foley

American singer and actress

*June 5th, 1951, St. Louis

60

Shane Reti

New Zealand politician and doctor

*June 5th, 1963, Hamilton

88

Helmut Benthaus

German association football player and manager

*June 5th, 1935, Herne

37

Chau Hoi Wah

Badminton player

*June 5th, 1986, British Hong Kong

76

Laurie Anderson

American artist and musician (born 1947)

*June 5th, 1947, Chicago

69

Rudolf Henke

German politician

*June 5th, 1954, Birkesdorf

81

Teodoro Obiang

Equatoguinean politician, President of Equatorial Guinea since 1979

*June 5th, 1942, Akuacam

59

Rick Riordan

American author (born 1964)

*June 5th, 1964, San Antonio

82

Martha Argerich

Argentine pianist (born 1941)

*June 5th, 1941, Buenos Aires

82

Peter Weingart

German sociologist

*June 5th, 1941, Marburg

52

Eske Willerslev

Danish biologist

*June 5th, 1971, Gentofte

50

Anne Søndergaard

Badminton player

*June 5th, 1973, Hjørring

53

Claus Norreen

Danish musician

*June 5th, 1970, Charlottenlund

69

Robert Hochbaum

German politician

*June 5th, 1954, Pforzheim

33

Ben Stawski

Badminton player

*June 5th, 1990, Nuneaton

35

Fernando Kurniawan

Badminton player

*June 5th, 1988, Palembang

32

Leanne Choo

Badminton player

*June 5th, 1991, Ashford

52

Mark Wahlberg

American actor

*June 5th, 1971, Boston

76

David Hare

British playwright, screenwriter and theatre and film director (1947- )

*June 5th, 1947, St Leonards-on-Sea

80

George W. Della, Jr.

American politician

*June 5th, 1943, Baltimore

29

Keiichiro Matsui

Badminton player

*June 5th, 1994, Ishikawa Prefecture

45

Nick Kroll

American entertainer

*June 5th, 1978, New York City

62

John Maynard Keynes

English economist (1883–1946)

*June 5th, 1883, Cambridge †April 21st, 1946, Firle

77

Stefania Sandrelli

Italian actress

*June 5th, 1946, Viareggio

74

Ken Follett

British novelist

*June 5th, 1949, Cardiff

28

Brandon Paiber

Maltese association football player

*June 5th, 1995, Pilar

38

Federico García Lorca

Spanish poet, dramatist and theatre director (1898–1936)

*June 5th, 1898, Fuente Vaqueros †July 31st, 1936, Víznar

77

Robert Wattebled

French Catholic prelate

*June 5th, 1946, Calais

67

Adam Smith

Scottish moral philosopher and political economist (1723-1790)

*June 5th, 1723, Kirkcaldy †July 17th, 1790, Edinburgh

71

László Makra

Climatologist, university professor

*June 5th, 1952, Siklós

Also born in 1944

79

Udo Kier

German actor

*October 14th, 1944, Cologne

79

Poul Michelsen

Faroese businessperson and politician

*July 22nd, 1944, Tórshavn

79

Nils Ole Oftebro

Norwegian actor

*December 1st, 1944, Sarpsborg Municipality

73

Jonathan Demme

American film director (1944–2017)

*February 22nd, 1944, Baldwin †April 26th, 2017, Manhattan

79

John Rhys-Davies

British actor

*May 5th, 1944, Ammanford

80

Syed Mohammed Arif

Badminton player and trainer

*January 29th, 1944, Hyderabad

80

Joachim Schimpke

Badminton player

*March 8th, 1944, Hohenstein-Ernstthal

79

Michael Douglas

American actor and film producer

*September 25th, 1944, New Brunswick

80

Gerhard Schröder

Chancellor of Germany from 1998 to 2005

*April 7th, 1944, Mossenberg-Wöhren

80

Gert Audring

German historian of classical antiquity

*February 6th, 1944, Śrem

79

Dieter Planck

German archaeologist

*August 14th, 1944, Rottenburg am Neckar

80

Alice Walker

American author and activist (1944- )

*February 9th, 1944, Eatonton

79

Ban Ki-moon

8th Secretary-General of the United Nations

*June 13th, 1944, Eumseong County

77

Judi Rollick

Badminton player

*August 17th, 1944, Seattle †April 5th, 2022

80

Alexander Van der Bellen

President of Austria since 2017

*January 18th, 1944, Vienna

77

Volker Lechtenbrink

German actor and singer

*August 18th, 1944, Zelenogradsk †November 22nd, 2021, Hamburg

72

David Chandler

American chemist (1944-2017)

*October 15th, 1944, New York City †April 18th, 2017, Berkeley

72

Helena Štáchová

Czech actress, theatre director, manager and puppeteer

*November 18th, 1944, Prague †March 22nd, 2017, Prague

79

Serge Haroche

French physicist, Nobel laureate

*September 11th, 1944, Casablanca

79

Dieter Hertrampf

German musician, singer and guitarist

*November 29th, 1944, Berlin

79

Mary Robinson

Former President of Ireland and former United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights

*May 21st, 1944, Ballina

79

Chris Hillman

American musician

*December 4th, 1944, Los Angeles

79

Arne Lindtner Næss

Norwegian actor, director and screenwriter

*December 19th, 1944, Bergen

79

George Lucas

American filmmaker (born 1944)

*May 14th, 1944, Modesto

80

Françoise Hardy

French singer and songwriter

*January 17th, 1944, 9th arrondissement of Paris

76

Alan Parker

English film producer and director (1944-2020)

*February 14th, 1944, Islington †July 31st, 2020, London

80

Rakel Surlien

Norwegian judge and politician

*February 10th, 1944, Svelvik

73

Wolfgang Bochow

Badminton player

*May 26th, 1944, Brunswick †September 14th, 2017, Siegburg

72

László Csendes

Hungarian actor (1944-2017)

*September 21st, 1944, Rimavská Sobota †March 24th, 2017

72

Sibylle Tönnies

German opinion journalist, sociologist and jurist

*November 24th, 1944, Potsdam †March 25th, 2017

Kevin Ashcroft