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Aung San Suu Kyi
former State Counsellor of Myanmar and Leader of the National League for Democracy
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva
president of Brazil from 2003 to 2011 and since 2023
Franz Beckenbauer
German sports official and association football player (1945–2024)
Rodrigo Duterte
President of the Philippines from 2016 to 2022
Helen Mirren
Dame Helen Mirren is an English actor. Regarded amongst Britain's greatest actors, Mirren is the recipient of several accolades including an Academy Award, three Golden Globe Awards, four BAFTA Awards, five Emmy Awards, a Tony Award, two Cannes Film Festival Awards, a Volpi Cup and a Laurence Olivier Award. She is the only person to have achieved both the US and UK Triple Crowns of Acting, and has also received the BAFTA Fellowship, Honorary Golden Bear, Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award, and the Cecil B. DeMille Award. Mirren was made a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) by Queen Elizabeth II in 2003.
Eric Clapton
British musician
Daniel Ortega
Nicaraguan politician
Gerd Müller
German association football player (1945–2021)
Ehud Olmert
Prime Minister of Israel from 2006 to 2009
Goldie Hawn
Goldie Jeanne Hawn is an American actress, comedian, producer, dancer, and singer. She achieved stardom and acclaim for playing lighthearted comedic roles in film and television. In a career spanning six decades, she has received several awards, including an Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award as well as nominations for a BAFTA Award and two Primetime Emmy Awards.
Huell Howser
American television personality (1945-2013)
Wim Wenders
German filmmaker (born 1945)
Neil Young
Neil Percival Young is a Canadian and American singer-songwriter. Son of journalist and author Scott Young, Young embarked on a music career in Winnipeg in the 1960s. He then moved to Los Angeles, forming the folk rock group Buffalo Springfield. His solo career, often backed by the band Crazy Horse, includes critically acclaimed albums such as Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere (1969), After the Gold Rush (1970), Harvest (1972), On the Beach (1974), and Rust Never Sleeps (1979). Young was also a part-time member of Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, with whom he recorded the chart-topping 1970 album Déjà Vu.
Rod Stewart
English singer and songwriter (born 1945)
George F. Smoot
American astrophysicist and cosmologist (1945–2025)
Hans-Adam II, Prince of Liechtenstein
monarch of Liechtenstein (born 1945)
Nikita Mikhalkov
Russian film director, writer, producer and actor (born 1945)
Laurent Gbagbo
4th President of Ivory Coast
Mahinda Rajapaksa
President of Sri Lanka from 2005 to 2015
Mia Farrow
Maria de Lourdes Villiers Farrow is an American actress. She first gained notice for her role as Allison MacKenzie in the prime-time television soap opera Peyton Place and gained further recognition for her subsequent short-lived marriage to Frank Sinatra. She achieved her career breakthrough and international acclaim as the titular character Rosemary in Roman Polanski's psychological horror film Rosemary's Baby (1968), receiving nominations for a BAFTA Award and a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress. She went on to appear in several films throughout the 1970s, such as Follow Me! (1972), The Great Gatsby (1974), and Death on the Nile (1978). Her younger sister is Prudence Farrow.
Bette Midler
Bette Midler is an American actress, comedian, singer, and author. Throughout her six-decade career Midler has received numerous accolades, including four Golden Globe Awards, three Grammy Awards, three Primetime Emmy Awards, two Tony Awards, and a Kennedy Center Honor, in addition to nominations for two Academy Awards and a British Academy Film Award.
Lemmy
Ian Fraser Kilmister (24 December 1945 – 28 December 2015), better known as Lemmy, was an English musician. He was the founder, lead vocalist, bassist and primary songwriter of the rock band Motörhead, of which he was the only continuous member. Kilmister had previously been a member of Hawkwind from 1971 to 1975, before being sacked from that band.
Eddy Merckx
Belgian cyclist (born 1945)
Anni-Frid Lyngstad
Swedish singer (born 1945)
Chandrika Kumaratunga
President of Sri Lanka from 1994 to 2005
John Lithgow
American actor (born 1945)
Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta
Malian politician
Steve Martin
Stephen Glenn Martin is an American comedian, actor, writer, producer, and musician. Known for his work in comedy films, television, and recording, he has received many accolades, including five Grammy Awards, a Primetime Emmy Award, and a Screen Actors Guild Award as well as nominations for eight Golden Globe Awards and two Tony Awards. Martin received the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor in 2005, the Kennedy Center Honors in 2007, the Honorary Academy Award in 2013 and an AFI Life Achievement Award in 2015. In 2004, Comedy Central ranked Martin at sixth place in a list of the 100 greatest stand-up comics.
Douglas Osheroff
American physicist
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
German filmmaker, playwright and actor (1945-1982)
Björn Ulvaeus
Swedish musician; member of ABBA
Moshe Katsav
8th President of Israel (2000–2007)
Desi Bouterse
leader of Suriname (1980–1987, 2010–2020)
Richard Thaler
American economist
Priscilla Presley
Priscilla Ann Presley is an American businesswoman and actress. She was married to singer Elvis Presley from 1967 to 1973. Presley later co-founded and chaired Elvis Presley Enterprises (EPE), which oversaw the public opening of Graceland as a museum. As an actress, she portrayed Jane Spencer in the Naked Gun film series (1988–1994) and Jenna Wade on the television series Dallas (1983–1988).
Debbie Harry
American singer, songwriter and actress, frontwoman of Blondie (born 1945)
Richard R. Schrock
1945-, American chemist
Tom Selleck
American actor (born 1945)
Pete Townshend
British musician
Barry Bostwick
American actor
Alain Juppé
92nd Prime Minister of France (born 1945)
Van Morrison
Northern Irish musician
Vince McMahon
American professional wrestling promoter (born 1945)
Micheline Calmy-Rey
member of the Swiss Federal Council
Jeffrey C. Hall
American geneticist and chronobiologist
Christoph Schönborn
Archbishop of Vienna and Cardinal of the roman catholic church
Wolfgang Schüssel
Chancellor of Austria from 2000 to 2007
Bryan Ferry
British singer (born 1945)
Birendra of Nepal
king of Nepal (1945–2001)
Linda Hunt
American actress
Itzhak Perlman
Israeli-American violinist and conductor (born 1945)
John Banville
Irish writer (born 1945)
George Miller
Australian filmmaker (born 1945)
Anselm Kiefer
German painter and sculptor (born 1945)
José Feliciano
Puerto Rican musician
Graça Machel
Mozambican humanitarian activist and politician
Dean Koontz
American writer and screenwriter (born 1945)
Ken Livingstone
English politician (born 1945); Mayor of London from 2000 until 2008
Alexey Ekimov
Russian physicist
Keith Jarrett
American jazz/classical pianist and composer (born 1945)