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Famous Birthdays in June
Who was born in June? Browse the best-known birthdays for every day of the month, then tap any date to see everyone famous born on that day.
The most famous June birthdays849
b. 1946Donald Trump
Businessman and reality TV star who became the 45th and 47th President of the United States, serving two non-consecutive terms
PoliticsAge 80
View profile Photo: Daniel Torok · Public domain
b. 1942Paul McCartney
Singer, bassist and co-songwriter of the Beatles, writer of Yesterday and Hey Jude, who later led Wings and a long solo career
MusicAge 84
View profile Photo: Raph_PH · CC BY 2.0
b. 1949Meryl Streep
American actress famed for her range and accents, with a record 21 Oscar nominations and three wins, including for The Iron Lady
FilmAge 77
View profile Photo: Ministry of culture, sports and Tourism- Lee Jeong-woo · CC BY-SA 4.0
b. 1955Tim Berners-Lee
British computer scientist who invented the World Wide Web at CERN in 1989 and gave it to the world for free
TechnologyAge 71
View profile Photo: Summit · CC BY 4.0
1799–1837Alexander Pushkin
Russian poet and author of Eugene Onegin and The Bronze Horseman, regarded as the founder of modern Russian literature
LiteratureDied aged 37
View profile Photo: Orest Kiprensky · Public domain
1926–1962Marilyn Monroe
Hollywood star of Gentlemen Prefer Blondes and Some Like It Hot who became one of the most famous screen icons of all time
FashionWould be 100
View profile Photo: Sam Shaw · Public domain
1712–1778Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Genevan philosopher whose book The Social Contract argued for popular sovereignty and influenced the French Revolution
LiteratureDied aged 66
View profile Photo: Maurice Quentin de La Tour · Public domain
b. 1987Lionel Messi
Argentine footballer who won a record eight Ballon d'Or awards and led Argentina to the 2022 World Cup title
SportsAge 39
View profile Photo: Bryan Berlin · CC BY-SA 4.0
June birthdays, day by day
- June 1
- Marilyn Monroe (1926) · Hollywood star of Gentlemen Prefer Blondes and Some Like It Hot who became one of the most famous screen icons of all time
- Morgan Freeman (1937) · American actor of The Shawshank Redemption and Driving Miss Daisy, known for his voice, who won an Oscar for Million Dollar Baby
- Tom Holland (1996)
- June 2
- Pius X (1835) · Italian pope who reformed church music and liturgy, opposed modernism and was declared a saint in 1954
- Thomas Hardy (1840) · English novelist and poet of Far from the Madding Crowd, Tess of the d'Urbervilles and Jude the Obscure, set in his fictional Wessex
- Marquis de Sade (1740) · French aristocrat and writer whose scandalous, violent novels such as Justine made his name the root of the word sadism
- June 3
- Rafael Nadal (1986) · Spanish tennis champion who won 22 Grand Slam singles titles, including a record 14 French Open crowns
- Raúl Castro (1931) · Cuban revolutionary who succeeded his brother Fidel as president in 2008 and restored relations with the United States
- George V (1865) · British king during the First World War who changed the royal family's name to Windsor in 1917
- June 4
- Angelina Jolie (1975)
- Alexei Navalny (1976)
- George III of Great Britain (1738) · British king for 60 years who lost the American colonies and suffered bouts of mental illness
- June 5
- Adam Smith (1723) · Scottish philosopher and author of The Wealth of Nations, often called the father of modern economics and the free market
- John Maynard Keynes (1883) · British economist whose General Theory argued that governments should spend to fight recessions, reshaping economic policy worldwide
- Igor Stravinsky (1882) · Russian-born composer whose ballets The Firebird, Petrushka and The Rite of Spring transformed 20th-century music
- June 6
- Alexander Pushkin (1799) · Russian poet and author of Eugene Onegin and The Bronze Horseman, regarded as the founder of modern Russian literature
- Diego Velázquez (1599) · Spanish court painter to Philip IV whose masterpiece Las Meninas is one of the most studied paintings in Western art
- Thomas Mann (1875) · German novelist of Buddenbrooks, The Magic Mountain and Death in Venice who won the Nobel Prize in Literature
- June 7
- Muammar Gaddafi (1942) · Libyan army officer who seized power in 1969 and ruled for 42 years until he was overthrown and killed in 2011
- Orhan Pamuk (1952) · Turkish novelist of My Name Is Red and Snow and the memoir Istanbul, who won the Nobel Prize in Literature
- Paul Gauguin (1848) · French Post-Impressionist painter who left Paris for Tahiti and painted bold, colourful scenes of Polynesian life
- June 8
- Tim Berners-Lee (1955) · British computer scientist who invented the World Wide Web at CERN in 1989 and gave it to the world for free
- Frank Lloyd Wright (1867) · American architect who designed Fallingwater and the Guggenheim Museum in New York, pioneering organic architecture
- Jean de La Fontaine (1621) · French poet whose Fables, including The Tortoise and the Hare and The Grasshopper and the Ant, are still learned by schoolchildren
- June 9
- Peter the Great (1672) · Russian tsar who modernised his country on Western lines, built a navy and founded Saint Petersburg as his new capital
- Johnny Depp (1963) · American actor of Edward Scissorhands and Sweeney Todd, best known as Captain Jack Sparrow in Pirates of the Caribbean
- Natalie Portman (1981) · Israeli-American actress of Léon, the Star Wars prequels and V for Vendetta who won an Oscar for Black Swan
- June 10
- Judy Garland (1922) · American singer and actress who played Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz and sang Over the Rainbow, later starring in A Star Is Born
- Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (1921) · Greek-born naval officer who married Elizabeth II, founded the Duke of Edinburgh's Award and was the longest-serving British consort
- Saul Bellow (1915) · Canadian-born American novelist of The Adventures of Augie March, Herzog and Humboldt's Gift who won the Nobel Prize
- June 11
- Yasunari Kawabata (1899) · Japanese novelist of Snow Country and The Sound of the Mountain, the first Japanese writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature
- Gene Wilder (1933) · Comic actor known for Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
- Jacques Cousteau (1910) · Oceanographer and filmmaker who co-developed the Aqua-Lung
- June 12
- George H. W. Bush (1924) · 41st US President who led the coalition in the 1991 Gulf War and presided over the end of the Cold War
- Anne Frank (1929) · Jewish teenager who hid from the Nazis in Amsterdam and whose diary, published after her death in Bergen-Belsen, became world famous
- Anthony Eden (1897) · British Prime Minister during the Suez Crisis of 1956
- June 13
- James Clerk Maxwell (1831) · Scottish physicist whose equations united electricity, magnetism and light and who produced the first colour photograph
- William Butler Yeats (1865) · Irish poet and playwright of The Second Coming and Easter, 1916, a leader of the Irish Literary Revival and Nobel laureate
- Ban Ki-moon (1944) · South Korean diplomat who served two terms as Secretary-General of the United Nations, from 2007 to 2016
- June 14
- Donald Trump (1946) · Businessman and reality TV star who became the 45th and 47th President of the United States, serving two non-consecutive terms
- Olaf Scholz (1958) · Social Democrat politician who served as Chancellor of Germany from 2021 to 2025 after years as finance minister
- Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811) · American abolitionist whose novel Uncle Tom's Cabin turned many against slavery in the years before the Civil War
- June 15
- Xi Jinping (1953) · General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party since 2012 and President of China, the country's most powerful leader since Mao
- Yuri Andropov (1914) · Soviet leader who headed the KGB for 15 years before leading the USSR from 1982 until his death in 1984
- Edvard Grieg (1843) · Norwegian composer of the Piano Concerto in A minor and the Peer Gynt music, including In the Hall of the Mountain King
- June 16
- Oscar Wilde (1854) · Irish playwright and wit who wrote The Importance of Being Earnest and The Picture of Dorian Gray before his imprisonment
- Giovanni Boccaccio (1313) · Italian writer and humanist whose Decameron, 100 tales told during the Black Death, influenced Chaucer and Shakespeare
- Tupac Shakur (1971) · American rapper and actor of Dear Mama and California Love, one of hip-hop's best-selling artists, shot dead in Las Vegas in 1996
- June 17
- Venus Williams (1980) · American tennis champion who has won multiple Grand Slam titles
- Edward I of England (1239) · King of England known for his military campaigns and legal reforms
- M. C. Escher (1898) · Graphic artist famous for creating impossible structures and patterns
- June 18
- Paul McCartney (1942) · Singer, bassist and co-songwriter of the Beatles, writer of Yesterday and Hey Jude, who later led Wings and a long solo career
- Lech Kaczyński (1949) · Polish president and former Solidarity activist who died with 95 others in the 2010 Smolensk air crash
- Thabo Mbeki (1942) · Second President of South Africa after the end of apartheid
- June 19
- Blaise Pascal (1623) · French mathematician and philosopher who built an early mechanical calculator, pioneered probability theory and wrote the Pensées
- Aung San Suu Kyi (1945) · Burmese democracy leader and Nobel Peace Prize winner who spent years under house arrest and later led Myanmar's civilian government
- Boris Johnson (1964) · Former Mayor of London who became British Prime Minister in 2019, led the country out of the European Union and through Covid
- June 20
- Nicole Kidman (1967) · Australian-American actress of Moulin Rouge! and Big Little Lies who won an Oscar for playing Virginia Woolf in The Hours
- Frank Lampard (1978) · Chelsea's all-time record goalscorer and former England footballer
- Jacques Offenbach (1819) · Composer of the Can-can and many popular nineteenth-century operettas
- June 21
- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646) · German polymath who invented calculus independently of Newton and devised the notation for it still used today
- Jean-Paul Sartre (1905) · French existentialist philosopher and author of Being and Nothingness and Nausea, who turned down the Nobel Prize in Literature
- Lana Del Rey (1985) · American singer-songwriter of Video Games and Born to Die, known for her cinematic, melancholy take on Americana
- June 22
- Meryl Streep (1949) · American actress famed for her range and accents, with a record 21 Oscar nominations and three wins, including for The Iron Lady
- Erich Maria Remarque (1898) · German novelist and First World War veteran who wrote All Quiet on the Western Front, later banned and burned by the Nazis
- Dan Brown (1964) · American author of The Da Vinci Code and Angels & Demons, thrillers starring symbologist Robert Langdon
- June 23
- Alan Turing (1912) · British mathematician who helped break the Enigma code at Bletchley Park and laid the foundations of computer science and AI
- Zinedine Zidane (1972) · French midfielder who scored twice in the 1998 World Cup final and later won three straight Champions Leagues as Real Madrid coach
- Anna Akhmatova (1889) · Russian poet whose Requiem bore witness to Stalin's terror, one of the greatest voices of 20th-century Russian poetry
- June 24
- Lionel Messi (1987) · Argentine footballer who won a record eight Ballon d'Or awards and led Argentina to the 2022 World Cup title
- Francis of Assisi (1182) · Italian friar who gave up wealth to live in poverty, founded the Franciscan order and became the patron saint of animals
- Claudia Sheinbaum (1962)
- June 25
- George Orwell (1903) · English writer whose novels Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four warned against totalitarianism and gave us the term Big Brother
- Antoni Gaudí (1852) · Catalan architect whose fantastical buildings, including the Sagrada Família, Casa Batlló and Park Güell, define Barcelona
- George Michael (1963) · British singer and songwriter who rose to fame with the duo Wham!
- June 26
- Pearl S. Buck (1892) · American writer raised in China whose novel The Good Earth won the Pulitzer Prize; she later won the Nobel Prize in Literature
- Ariana Grande (1993) · American singer and actress with a four-octave range, known for Thank U, Next and 7 Rings, who played Glinda in Wicked
- Salvador Allende (1908) · Chilean doctor who became the first Marxist elected president in Latin America and died in the 1973 coup
- June 27
- Helen Keller (1880) · American author and activist who was deaf and blind from infancy, learned to communicate with Anne Sullivan and campaigned for disability rights
- Emma Goldman (1869) · Lithuanian-born anarchist writer and speaker who campaigned for free speech, birth control and workers' rights in America
- Isabelle Adjani (1955) · Award-winning French actress known for intense psychological dramas
- June 28
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712) · Genevan philosopher whose book The Social Contract argued for popular sovereignty and influenced the French Revolution
- Elon Musk (1971) · Entrepreneur who leads SpaceX and Tesla, owns the social network X and is frequently ranked as the world's richest person
- Peter Paul Rubens (1577) · Flemish Baroque painter of dramatic, colourful religious and mythological scenes who also worked as a royal diplomat
- June 29
- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1900) · French pilot and writer of The Little Prince, one of the best-selling books ever, who vanished on a flight in 1944
- Giacomo Leopardi (1798) · Italian poet and philosopher of the Canti, including L'infinito, whose pessimistic lyric verse is a summit of Italian literature
- Giorgio Napolitano (1925) · Former communist who became Italy's longest-serving president and the first to be re-elected, serving from 2006 to 2015
- June 30
- Czesław Miłosz (1911) · Polish poet and diplomat who defected to the West, wrote The Captive Mind and won the Nobel Prize in Literature
- Mike Tyson (1966) · American boxer who became the youngest heavyweight champion in history at 20 and was famed for his ferocious punching
- Michael Phelps (1985) · American swimmer who won a record 23 Olympic gold medals, including eight at the 2008 Beijing Games