Famous People Born in 1947 (Part 2)

Birthdays 201 - 400 of 1,074

Mar 10 Bob Greene, American journalist (Chicago Tribune), born in Bexley, Ohio
Mar 10 Laurie Langenbach, Dutch author
Mar 10 Paul Condon, Baron Condon, British law enforcement officer (Metropolitan Police Commissioner, 1993-2000)
Mar 10 Tom Scholz, American rock guitarist, singwriter, and inventor (Boston - "More Than a Feeling"), born in Toledo, Ohio

Kim Campbell (76 years old)

Mar 10 Canada's 1st female Prime Minister and 19th overall (1993), born in Port Alberni, British Columbia

Mar 11 Geoffrey Hunt, Australia, world-champion squash player
Mar 11 Mark Stein, American rock singer, Hammond organ and keyboard player, and songwriter (Vanilla Fudge - "You Keep Me Hanging On"), born in Bayonne, New Jersey
Mar 12 Jill O'Hara, American Broadway actress (Promises! Promises!), born in Warren, Pennsylvania
Mar 12 Kalervo Palsa, Finnish artist (d. 1987)

Mitt Romney (76 years old)

Mar 12 American politician (Senator-R-Utah 2019-, 70th Governor of Massachusetts 2003-07, 2012 presidential candidate), born in Detroit, Michigan

Mar 13 Beat Richner, Swiss physician (founder of children's hospitals in Cambodia) and cellist, born in Zürich, Switzerland
Mar 13 Lesley Collier, English ballet dancer, born in Orpington, England
Mar 13 Tomas Hinojosa, jockey
Mar 14 Jan at Veldhuis, Dutch politician (VVD)
Mar 14 Jona Lewie [John Lewis], British pop singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist ("You'll Always Find Me in the Kitchen at Parties"; "Stop the Cavalry"), born in Southampton, England
Mar 14 Pam Ayres, English poet, Radio and TV presenter, born in Stanford in the Vale, England
Mar 14 William J. Jefferson, American politician (Rep-D-Louisiana), convicted of bribery, born in New Providence, Louisiana
Mar 15 (Ryland) "Ry" Cooder, American blues guitarist and producer (Crossroads), born in Los Angeles, California
Mar 15 David Colley, Australian cricket fast bowler (3 Tests, 6 wickets, BB 3/83, 1 x 50; NSW CA), born in Sydney, Australia
Mar 15 Juraj Kukura, Slovak actor (Traffik; It's Better to Be Wealthy and Healthy Than Poor and Ill), born in Prešov, Slovakia
Mar 15 Larisa Grigoriyevna Pozharskaya, Russian cosmonaut
Mar 15 Stomu Yamash'ta, Japanese percussionist, keyboard player and traditional Japanese-progressive rock fusion composer (Go), born in Kyoto, Japan
Mar 15 Tomas Pettersson, Swedish cyclist (Olympic silver 1968)
Mar 16 Ramzan Paskayev, Chechen accordionist and folk musician, born in Taraz, Kazakhstan
Mar 17 Ian Gomm, British rock rhythm guitarist (Brinsely Schwarz, 1970-74 - Hooked On Love), and songwriter (Cruel To Be Kind), born in Chiswick, England
Mar 17 James K. Morrow, American author (The Last Witchfinder), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Mar 17 Jan Andersson, Swedish politician
Mar 17 Yury Chernavsky, Russian-born Composer and Producer
Mar 18 Barry Wilson, British rock drummer (Procol Harum - "Whiter Shade of Pale"), born in Edmonton, London (d. 1990)
Mar 18 David Lloyd, cricketer (England opener, 214 v India 1974)
Mar 18 Elliot Ray Scheiner, American Grammy winning music producer, mixer and engineer (History of the Eagles), born in the US
Mar 18 Patrick Barlow, English actor, comedian and playwright
Mar 18 Patrick Chesnais, French actor
Mar 18 Roger Kenneth Evans, English politician
Mar 18 Steven Schiff, American politician (Rep-R-New Mexico 1989-98), born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 1998)
Mar 19 Earlie Fires, jockey (Hialeah Park)

Glenn Close (76 years old)

Mar 19 American actress (The Big Chill, Fatal Attraction), born in Greenwich, Connecticut

Mar 19 John Beckwith, English real estate developer/multi-millionaire
Mar 19 Marinho Peres, Brazilian football player
Mar 20 Carl Palmer, British progressive rock drummer (Emerson Lake & Palmer - Karn Evil 9; Asia - Heat of the Moment), born in Handsworth, Birmingham, England
Mar 20 John Eastburn Boswell, medievalist
Mar 21 Franco Mussida, Italian progressive rock musician (Premiata Forneria Marconi), born in Milan, Italy
Mar 22 Harry Vanda [Vandenberg], Dutch-Australian rock guitarist, songwriter, and producer (Easybeats - "Friday On My Mind"), born in Voorburg, Netherlands

James Patterson (76 years old)

Mar 22 American author (Alex Cross, Witch and Wizard), born in Newburgh, New York

Mar 22 Marek Bliziński, Polish jazz guitarist and composer, born in Warsaw, Poland (d. 1989)
Mar 22 Patrick Olive, Grenadian percussionist (Hot Chocolate - "You Sexy Thing"), born in Grenada
Mar 23 Barbara Rhodes, Poughkeepsie NY, actress (Don't Just Stand There)
Mar 23 Ray Phiri, South African jazz and mbaqanga guitarist (Paul Simon), born near Nelspruit, South Africa (d. 2017)
Mar 23 Terry Alexander, African-American actor (Day of the Dead, One Life to Live), born in Detroit, Michigan

Alan Sugar (76 years old)

Mar 24 English computer manufacturer (Amstrad; chairman / part-owner Tottenham Hotspur FC 1991-2001) and television celebrity (The Apprentice), born in London, England

Mar 24 Christine Gregoire (née O'Grady), American politician (Governor of Washington, 2005-13), born in Adrian, Michigan
Mar 24 Meiko Kaji [Masako Ohta], Japanese film actress and singer (Lady Snowblood), born in Kanda, Tokyo, Japan
Mar 24 Mike Kellie, British session and touring rock drummer (Spooky Tooth; The Only Ones), born in Birmingham, England (d. 2017)
Mar 24 Paul McCandless, American jazz and new age oboist, bass-clarinetist, and composer (Oregon; Paul Winter Consort; Steven Halpern), born in Indiana, Pennsylvania
Mar 24 Pieter W Coetzer, South African journalist/MP (NP)
Mar 25 Claudine Schneider, American politician (Rep-R-RI, 1981-91), born in Clairton, Pennsylvania

Elton John (76 years old)

Mar 25 English singer-songwriter and piano player ("Rocketman"; "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road"; "Candle In The Wind"), born in Pinner, Middlesex

Mar 26 Dar Robinson, American stuntman, born in Los Angeles, California (d. 1986)
Mar 27 Daphne Todd, English artist and president (Royal Society of Portrait Painters), born in York
Mar 27 Doug Wilkerson, American football guard (Pro Bowl 1980–82; First-team All-Pro 1982; SD Chargers), born in Fayetteville, North Carolina (d. 2021)
Mar 27 Tom Sullivan, blind actor (If You Could See What I Hear), born in Boston, Massachusetts
Mar 27 Walt Mossberg, American journalist, the highest-paid journalist at the Wall Street Journal, born in Warwick, Rhode Island
Mar 28 Bruce Gilbert, English producer (China Syndrome, 9 to 5, On Golden Pond), born in Watford, Hertfordshire, England
Mar 28 John Landecker, American disk jockey, born in Michigan
Mar 29 Aleksandr Stepenovich Viktorenko, Soviet cosmonaut (Soyuz TM-3, 8, 14, 20), born in Olginka, Kazakh SSR, Soviet Union
Mar 29 Bobby Kimball American rocker (Toto-Roseann), born in Orange, Texas
Mar 29 Peter Hinchcliffe, British businessman (co-founder of Iceland Frozen Foods)
Mar 29 Robert Gordon, American rockabilly revival singer-songwriter (Red Hot), and actor (The Loveless), born in Bethesda, Maryland (d. 2022)
Mar 30 Marilyn Crispell, American jazz pianist and composer (Anthony Braxton Quartet), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Mar 30 Ryszard Kotla, Polish travel writer and activist, tour guide, journalist, academic teacher, engineer
Mar 31 Al Goodman, American pop-soul singer (Ray, Goodman, Brown - "Special Lady"), born in Jackson, Mississippi
Mar 31 Caesar Gaviria Trujillo, president (Colombia, 1990-94)
Mar 31 John Poulos, American drummer (The Buckinghams - "Kind Of A Drag"), born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 1980)
Mar 31 Jon-Jon Poulos, rocker (Buckinghams), born in Chicago, Illinois
Apr 1 Alain Connes, French mathematician
Apr 1 Norm Van Lier, American basketball point guard (NBA All Star 1974, 76, 77; Chicago Bulls) and broadcaster (Comcast SportsNet), born in East Liverpool, Ohio (d. 2009)
Apr 1 Robin Scott, English singer (M), born in London
Apr 2 Camille Paglia, American author and social critic, born in Endicott, New York
Apr 2 Emmylou Harris, American country singer ("Together Again"; "Blue Kentucky Girl"), born in Birmingham, Alabama
Apr 3 Anders Eliasson, Swedish contemporary classical composer, born in Borlänge, Sweden (d. 2013)
Apr 4 James Hazeldine, British stage and screen actor (London's Burning), born in Salford, Lancashire, England (d. 2002)
Apr 4 Ray Fosse, American baseball catcher (MLB All-Star, Gold Glove Award 1970, 71 Cleveland Indians; World Series Oakland A's 1973, 74) and broadcaster (Oakland A's NBC), born in Marion, Illinois (d. 2021)
Apr 4 Salvatore Sciarrino, Italian composer, born in Palermo, Italy
Apr 4 Wiranto, Indonesian army general (Commander of the Indonesian National Armed Forces), born in Yogyakarta, Indonesia

Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo (75 years old)

Apr 5 President of the Philippines (2001-2010), born in San Juan

Apr 6 Jan-Kees Wiebenga, Dutch politician (VVD), born in Haarlem, Netherlands
Apr 6 John Ratzenberger, American actor (Cheers -"Cliff Clavin"; Toy Story; Ghandi), born in Bridgeport, Connecticut
Apr 6 Rosemary Ann Butler, American session singer (Bonnie Raitt, Linda Ronstadt, James Taylor, Warren Zevon, Neil Young, Neil Diamond, Jackson Browne), born in California
Apr 6 Tony Cooner, British drummer (Hot Chocolate - "You Sexy Thing"), born in Romford, England
Apr 7 Charles '"Skip" Pitts, American soul & blues guitarist (Shaft), born in Washington, D.C. (d. 2012)
Apr 7 Eliseo Soriano, Filipino televangelist, born in Pasay, Philippines
Apr 7 Florian Schneider, German musician (Kraftwerk), born in Düsseldorf, Germany (d. 2020)
Apr 7 Patricia Bennett, American singer (Chiffons - "He's So Fine"), born in The Bronx, New York
Apr 8 Cindy Pickett, American actress (Guiding Light, St Elsewhere), born in Norman, Oklahoma
Apr 8 Hsiao-hsien Hou, Taiwanese director (Cheerful Wind, City of Sadness, The Puppetmaster), born in Mei County, China
Apr 8 Larry Norman, American musician and pioneer of Christian rock music ("Why Should the Devil Have All the Good Music?"), born in Corpus Christi, Texas (d. 2008)
Apr 8 Robert Kiyosaki, American investor (Rich Dad Company), born in Hilo, Hawaii

Steve Howe (75 years old)

Apr 8 English progressive rock guitarist (Yes - "Roundabout"; Asia - "Heat Of The Moment"), born in London, England

Apr 8 Tom DeLay, American politician (Rep-R-Texas, 1985-2006), born in Laredo, Texas
Apr 10 Bunny Wailer [Neville O'Riley Livingston], Jamaican vocalist and percussionist (The Wailers with Bob Marley), born in Kingston, Jamaica (d. 2021)
Apr 11 Lev Bulat, Russian physicist, born in Chernovtsy, Ukraine
Apr 11 Meshach Taylor, American actor, born in Altadena, CA, (d. 2014)
Apr 11 Michael Hindley, British politician, Member of the European Parliament, born in Blackburn, England
Apr 11 Michael Wright, British academic, Vice-Chancellor of Aston University
Apr 11 Peter Riegert, American actor (Animal House, Crossing Delancey), born in NYC, New York
Apr 11 Uli Edel, German film director (Last Exit to Brooklyn), born in Neuenburg am Rhein, South Baden, Germany
Apr 12 Antonin Kratochvil, Czech-American photojournalist (VII Photo Agency), born in Litoměřice, Czechoslovakia
Apr 12 Dan Lauria, American actor (Jack Arnold-Wonder Years), born in Brooklyn, New York

David Letterman (75 years old)

Apr 12 American comedian and late night TV host (Late Night; Late Show), born in Indianapolis, Indiana

Apr 12 Tom Clancy, American author (Rainbow Six, The Hunt for Red October), born in Baltimore, Maryland (d. 2013)
Apr 13 František Cipro, Czech soccer forward (SK Slavia Prague 232 games) and manager (SK Slavia Prague, SK Dynamo České Budějovice), born in Jihlava, Czech Republic (d. 2023)
Apr 13 Mike Chapman, Australian songwriter and record producer (Chinn & Chapman), born in Nambour, Australia
Apr 13 Thanos Mikroutsikos, Greek composer and politician, born in Patras, Greece
Apr 14 Bob Massie, Australian cricket swing bowler (6 Tests; 16 wickets on debut v England 1972), born in Perth, Australia
Apr 15 Bojoura [Raina van Melzen], Dutch singer and wife of Hans Cleuver, born in The Hague, The Netherlands
Apr 15 Cristina Husmark Pehrsson, Swedish politician, born in Uddevalla, Sweden
Apr 15 Diane "DeDe" Lind, American glamour model and Playboy playmate (Aug, 1967), born in Los Angeles, California
Apr 15 George Marino, American Grammy Award-winning mastering engineer who worked with Guns N' Roses, Bon Jovi, Stevie Wonder, John Lennon & Yoko Ono, born in Bronx, New York (d. 2012)
Apr 15 Linda Bloodworth-Thomason, American TV producer (Designing Women, Murphy Brown), born in Poplar Bluff, Missouri
Apr 15 Stuart "Woolly" Wolstenholme, British keyboardist and vocalist (Barclay James Harvest), born in Chadderton, Lancashire (d. 2010)
Apr 16 Gerry Rafferty, Scottish guitarist and vocalist (Stealers Wheel - "Stuck In The Middle With You"; solo -"Baker Street"), born in Paisley, Renfrewshire, Scotland (d. 2011)
Apr 16 Johnny Grier, American football official (1981-2004; first African-American referee in NFL history 1988), born in Charlotte, North Carolina (d. 2022)

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (75 years old)

Apr 16 American Basketball Hall of Fame center (6 x NBA champion; NBA Finals MVP 1971, 85; 6 × NBA MVP; 19 × NBA All-Star), born in NYC, New York

Apr 16 Lee Kerslake, British drummer (Uriah Heep; Ozzy Osbourne), born in Winton, Bournemouth, Dorset, England (d. 2020)
Apr 17 Linda Martin, Irish singer and TV presenter, born in Belfast, Northern Ireland
Apr 17 Tsutomu Wakamatsu, Japanese baseball player, born in Rumoi, Hokkaidō, Japan
Apr 18 Dorothy Lyman, American actress (All my Children, Naomi-Mama's Family), born in Minneapolis, Minnesota
Apr 18 Herbert Mullin, American serial killer (killed thirteen people in California in the early 1970s), born in Salinas, California

James Woods (75 years old)

Apr 18 American actor (Salvador, Against All Odds), born in Vernal, Utah

Apr 18 Kathy Acker, American experimental novelist (Blood and Guts in High School), born in NYC, New York (d. 1997)
Apr 18 Lori Martin, American actress (Velvet-National Velvet), born in Glendale, California
Apr 18 Walt Richmond, American rock keyboardist (The Tractors; J.J. Cale; Bob Seger; Eric Clapton), born in Tulsa, Oklahoma
Apr 19 (Rodolfo) "Fito" Olivares, Mexican-American Tejano saxophonist and songwriter ("Juana La Cubana; "El Colesterol."), born in Tamaulipas, Mexico (d. 2023)
Apr 19 Frits Castricum, Dutch journalist and politician (PvdA), born in Boxtel, Netherlands (d. 2011)
Apr 19 Mark Volman, American rock and roll musician and songwriter (The Turtles - "Happy Together"), born in Los Angeles, California
Apr 19 Murray Perahia, American pianist (Avery Fischer Prize, 1975; Grammy, 1988), born in NYC, New York
Apr 20 Andrew Tobias, American journalist and author (The Best Little Boy in the World), born in NYC, New York
Apr 20 Björn Skifs, Swedish singer (Blue Swede), born in Vansbro, Dalarna, Sweden
Apr 20 David Leland, English actor and director (Nothing But Trouble), born in Cambridge, England
Apr 20 Ken Scott, British record producer and engineer (The Beatles, Elton John, Pink Floyd), born in London, England
Apr 21 Alan Warner, rocker (Foundations)

Iggy Pop (75 years old)

Apr 21 American singer and lyricist known as "The Godfather of Punk" (The Stooges - "I Wanna Be Your Dog"; solo - "Lust For Life"), born in Muskegon, Michigan

Apr 21 John Weider, bassist (Family-Family Entertainment)
Apr 22 Barry Guy, English composer and double bass player, born in London
Apr 23 Alan Broadbent, New Zealand jazz pianist (Developing Story), born in Auckland, New Zealand
Apr 23 Bernadette Devlin McAliskey, Irish political activist, born in Cookstown, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland
Apr 23 Glenn Cornick, English rock bassist (Jethro Tull, 1967-70; Wild Turkey), born in Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, (d. 2014)
Apr 23 Saskia [Trudy van den Berg], Dutch singer (S & Serge; Spinning Wheel), born in Grootebroek, North Holland
Apr 24 Ann Kelly, American popsinger (The Hues Corporation - "Rock The Boat"), born in Fairfield, Alabama
Apr 24 Josep Borrell, 22nd President of the European Parliament (2004-07), born in La Pobla de Segur, Lérida, Spain
Apr 24 Roger D. Kornberg, American biochemist (Nobel 2006), born in St. Louis, Missouri
Apr 25 Bill Fontana, American composer, born in Cleveland, Ohio
Apr 25 Jeffrey DeMunn, American actor (Blaze, Frances, Windy City), born in Buffalo, New York

Johan Cruyff (1947-2016)

Apr 25 Dutch soccer player and coach (Ajax/Barcelona), born in Amsterdam, the Netherlands

Apr 26 Donna De Varona, American swimmer (Olympic-2 gold-64), born in Greenwich, Connecticut
Apr 26 Gervase Jackson-Stops, British architectural adviser to the National Trust (d. 1995)
Apr 26 Warren Clarke, English actor (Clockwork Orange), born in Oldham, Lancashire, (d. 2014)
Apr 27 Ann Peebles, American soul singer-songwriter ("I Can't Stand the Rain"), born in St. Louis, Missouri
Apr 27 George Kenneth Butterfield, American politician, U.S. House of Representatives from North Carolina, born in Wilson, North Carolina
Apr 27 Herbie Murrell, American soul singer (Stylistics - "You Are My Everything"), born in Lane, South Carolina
Apr 27 Keith Magnuson, Canadian ice hockey defenseman (NHL All Star 1971, 72; Chicago Black Hawks), born in Wadena, Saskatchewan (d. 2003)
Apr 27 Pete Ham, Welsh rock singer-songwriter, and guitarist (Badfinger - "Without You"; "No Matter What"; Day After Day"), born in Swansea, Wales (d. 1975)
Apr 28 Steve Khan [Cahn], American jazz guitarist (Christmas Waltz), born in Los Angeles, California
Apr 29 Jim Ryun, American 1500m runner/broke 4 minute mile (Olympic silver 1968)
Apr 29 John J. Cascella, American rock keyboard and accordion player (John Mellencamp), born in Indianapolis, Indiana (d. 1992)
Apr 29 Johnny Miller, American golfer (US Open 1973, British Open 1976), born in San Francisco, California
Apr 29 Olavo de Carvalho, Brazilian polemicist and right wing conspiracy theorist, born in Campinas, Brazil
Apr 29 Tommy James, American singer-songwriter (cri-im-son & clo-o-ver o-o-ver & o-o-ver), born in Dayton, Ohio
Apr 30 Abdul Wadud {Ronald DeVaughn], American jazz, avant-garde, and classical cellist (Camille; By Myself), born in Cleveland, Ohio (d. 2022)
Apr 30 Denny Carmassi, American session and touring drummer (Montrose/Sammy Hagar, 1972-79; Heart, 1982-93; Whitesnake), born in San Francisco, California
Apr 30 Leslie Grantham, English actor (EastEnders), born in London, England (d. 2018)
Apr 30 Robert Scott, American politician, Rep-D-Virginia (1993-), born in Washington D.C.
Apr 30 Tom Køhlert, Danish former player and Brondby IF coach
May 1 Carlos Ward, rocker (B T Express)
May 1 Danilo Popivoda, Serbian soccer forward (20 caps Yugoslavia; Olimpija, Eintracht Braunschweig), born in Lovćenac, Serbia (d. 2021)
May 1 Jacob Bekenstein, American-Israeli theoretical physicist (Bekenstein-Hawking radiation), born in Mexico City (d. 2015)
May 1 Jerry Heard, American golfer (5 PGA Tour titles), born in Visalia, California
May 1 Sergio Infante, Chilean poet and writer
May 2 Bill Lowery, American politician (U.S. House of Representatives from California, 1981-93), born in San Diego, California
May 2 James Dyson, British inventor, industrial designer, and entrepreneur (bagless vacuum cleaner; bladeless fan), born in Cromer, Norfolk, England
May 2 Philippe Herreweghe, Belgian conductor, choirmaster (La Chapelle Royale; Vocale Gent), and period instrument advocate, born in Ghent, Belgium
May 3 Doug Henning, Canadian magician, born in Winnipeg, Manitoba (d. 2000)
May 6 Alan Dale, New Zealand born actor (Neighbours), born in Dunedin, New Zealand
May 6 Andy Roberts, New Zealand cricketer (NZ batsman 1976), born in Te Aroha, New Zealand (d. 1989)

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