What the data says
Against the other 365
Ranks compare all 366 dates in the dataset; ties share a rank. See every January birthday · battle January 31 against another date · all rankings
Who shares January 31
Share of the 57 people we list, by documented field. People can belong to more than one.
Countries
Citizenship as recorded on Wikidata, one country per person.
Life timeline
Dated milestones from Wikidata (company foundings, awards, top jobs, notable works), placed at the age each person reached them. Add your birth year above to see the ones you have passed.
The standouts
Ordered by sourced wealth, then documented achievement and coverage.
Top tier
Actor
1970 · United States
Amelia Fiona Jessica "Minnie" Driver is a British and American actress and singer. She rose to prominence with her break-out role in the 1995 film Circle of Friends.
Raph_PH, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Top tier
Athlete
2000 · Italy
Julián Alvarez is an Argentine professional footballer who plays as a forward for La Liga club Atlético Madrid and the Argentina national team.
Bryan Berlin, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Top tier
Actor
1977 · United States
Kerry Marisa Washington is an American actress. She has received several accolades, including a Primetime Emmy Award as well as nominations for two Golden Globe Awards and two Tony Awards.
Max Surprenant, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Top tier
Athlete
1919–1972 · United States
Jack Roosevelt Robinson was an American professional baseball player who was the first African American to play in Major League Baseball (MLB) in the modern era. Robinson broke the color line when he started at first base for the Brooklyn Dodgers on April 15, 1947.
Harry Warnecke / Frank Livia / Robert F. Cranston / William Klein, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons
Top tier
Actor
1947 · United States
Jonathan Ray Banks is an American actor. He played FBI Special Agent Frank McPike in the television series Wiseguy (1987–1990), for which he was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series.
Gage Skidmore, derivative editing by Poke2001, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Top tier
Creator
1935–2023 · Japan
Kenzaburō Ōe was a Japanese writer and a major figure in contemporary Japanese literature.
Thesupermat, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Builders
Entrepreneur
1974 · United States
Michael George Glen Waltz is an American politician, diplomat, businessman, author, and former Army Special Forces officer who has served as the 32nd United States ambassador to the United Nations since September 2025 in the second Trump administration.
Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Founder · entertainment
1986 · United States
Margaret "Megan" Elizabeth Ellison is an American film producer. She founded Annapurna Pictures in 2011.
Entrepreneur
1896–1974 · United States
Lewis Lichtenstein Strauss was an American government official, businessman, philanthropist, and naval officer. He was one of the original members of the United States Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) in 1946 and he served as the commission's chairman in the 1950s.
Credit: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration/Department of Commerce [1], Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Entrepreneur · Gazprom · telecommunications
1962 · Russia
Alexey Borisovich Miller is a Russian businessman. Miller is the Deputy Chairman of the Board of Directors and the Chairman of the Management Committee (CEO) of Russian energy company Gazprom, Russia's largest state-owned company and the world's biggest public energy supplier.
council.gov.ru, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Entrepreneur · Melitta
1873–1950 · Germany
Amalie Auguste Melitta Bentz was a German inventor and entrepreneur known for revolutionizing the process of coffee brewing with her invention of the coffee filter. Her company, Melitta, has long been a significant leader in the coffee industry.
Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Entrepreneur
1924–2015 · United States
Adolph Alfred "Al" Taubman was an American businessman, investor, and philanthropist.
Tribeca Disruptive Innovation, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
January 31 in history
Events from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA.
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Actor
1975 · India
Preity G. Zinta is an Indian actress and entrepreneur primarily known for her work in Hindi films. After graduating with degrees in English honours and criminal psychology, Zinta made her acting debut in Dil Se. in 1998, followed by a role in Soldier in the same year.
Ash Gupta, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Actor
1973 · United States
Portia Lee James DeGeneres, known professionally as Portia de Rossi, is an Australian-American former actress.
Greg2600, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Actor
1956 · Ireland
John Joseph Lydon, also known by his former stage name Johnny Rotten, is an English singer, songwriter, author, and television personality.
Σπάρτακος, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Musician
1797–1828 · Austrian Empire
Franz Peter Schubert was an Austrian composer of the late Classical and early Romantic eras.
Wilhelm August Rieder, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Artist
1938 · Kingdom of the Netherlands
Beatrix is a member of the Dutch royal house who reigned as Queen of the Netherlands from 30 April 1980 until her abdication in 2013.
RVD Koninklijk Huis, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons
Actor
1937–2008 · United States
Suzanne Pleshette was an American actress known for her roles in theatre, film, and television. She was nominated for three Emmy Awards and two Golden Globe Awards.
en:Alan Light, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Actor
1929–2010 · United States
Jean Merilyn Simmons was a British actress and singer. One of J. Arthur Rank's "well-spoken young starlets", she appeared predominantly in films, beginning with those made in Britain during and after the Second World War, followed mainly by Hollywood films from 1950 onwards.
Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Actor
1941–2021 · United States
Jessica Ann Walter was an American actress who appeared in more than 170 film, stage, and television productions.
Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Actor
1923–2007 · United States
Nachem Malech Mailer, known by his pen name Norman Kingsley Mailer, was an American writer, journalist, and filmmaker. In a career spanning more than six decades, Mailer had 11 best-selling books, at least one in each of the seven decades after World War II.
Oliver Mark, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Actor
1902–1968 · United States
Tallulah Brockman Bankhead was an American actress. Primarily an actress of the stage, Bankhead also appeared in several films including an award-winning performance in Alfred Hitchcock's Lifeboat (1944).
Photographer:Talbot (presumably in New York)-rest of stamp is smudged., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Musician
1937 · United States
Philip Morris Glass is an American composer and pianist. He is widely regarded as one of the most influential composers of the late 20th century. Glass's work has been associated with minimalism, being built up from repetitive phrases and shifting layers.
Pasquale Salerno, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Athlete
1959 · Australia
Anthony LaPaglia is an Australian actor. Known for his roles on stage and screen he has received several accolades including three AACTA Awards, a Primetime Emmy Award, and a Tony Award.
Eva Rinaldi, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Actor
1921–2019 · United States
Carol Elaine Channing was an American actress, comedian, singer and dancer who starred in Broadway and film musicals. Each of her characters typically possessed a fervent expressiveness and an easily identifiable voice.
Allan Warren, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Author
1956 · Kingdom of the Netherlands
Guido van Rossum is a Dutch programmer. He is the creator of the Python programming language, for which he was the "benevolent dictator for life" (BDFL) until he stepped down from the position on 12 July 2018.
Kushal Das, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Musician
1964–2013 · United States
Jeffrey John Hanneman was an American musician, best known as a founding member and co-lead guitarist of the thrash metal band Slayer. Hanneman wrote both music and lyrics for every Slayer album until his death in 2013.
Victoria Morse, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Actor
1921–1959 · United States
Mario Lanza was an American tenor and actor. He was a Hollywood film star popular in the late 1940s and the 1950s. Lanza began studying to be a professional singer at the age of 16.
UnknownUnknown, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Actor
1971 · South Korea
Lee Young-ae is a South Korean actress. She is best known for her appearances in the historical drama Jewel in the Palace (2003), in Hur Jin-ho's film One Fine Spring Day (2001), in Park Chan Wook's films Joint Security Area (2000) and Lady Vengeance (2005).
TV10, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Actor
1892–1964 · United States
Eddie Cantor was an American comedian, actor, dancer, singer, songwriter, film producer, screenwriter and author. Cantor was one of the prominent entertainers of his era.
NBC Radio, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Athlete
1872–1939 · United States
Zane Grey was an American author. He is known for his popular adventure novels and stories associated with the Western genre in literature and the arts; he idealized the American frontier. Riders of the Purple Sage (1912) was his best-selling book.
Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Politician
1953–2026 · Russia
Sergei Borisovich Ivanov was a Russian politician and senior official who served as Secretary of the Security Council from November 1999 to March 2001, as Minister of Defense from March 2001 to February 2007, as Deputy Prime Minister from November 2005 to February 2007, and as…
This file comes from the website of the President of the Russian Federation and is licensed under the Creative Commons A, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Athlete
1983 · Italy
Fabio Quagliarella is an Italian former professional footballer who played as a forward.
Вячеслав Евдокимов, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Politician
1884–1963 · Germany
Theodor Heuss was a German politician who served as the first president of West Germany from 1949 to 1959.
Author
1979 · United Kingdom
Daniel Paul Tammet is an English writer and savant.
De Lorelei, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Actor
1982 · Sweden
Helena Paparizou is a Swedish-born Greek singer and television personality. Born and raised in Sweden to Greek parents, she launched her singing career in 1999 as a member of the musical duo Antique, alongside her friend Nikos Panagiotidis.
StrangeTraveler, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Actor
1980 · United States
James Adomian is an American stand-up comedian, actor, and impressionist. He is best known for his work on Comedy Bang! Bang!, Chapo Trap House, Last Comic Standing, The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson where he impersonated President George W.
Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Athlete
1966 · Brazil
Luís Antônio Corrêa da Costa, nicknamed Müller, is a Brazilian football pundit and retired footballer who played as a second striker.
Júnior Faria/flickr (cropped by tales.ebner), CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Scientist
1881–1957 · United States
Irving Langmuir was an American chemist, physicist, and metallurgical engineer. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1932 for his work in surface chemistry.
Nobel Foundation, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Inventor
1769–1823 · France
André-Jacques Garnerin was a French balloonist and the inventor of the frameless parachute. He was appointed Official Aeronaut of France.
Edward Hawke Locker, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Author
1686–1758 · Norway
Hans Poulsen Egede was a Norwegian Lutheran priest and missionary who launched mission efforts to Greenland, which led him to be styled the Apostle of Greenland.
Johan Hörner, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Politician
1902–1986 · Sweden
Alva Myrdal was a Swedish sociologist, diplomat and politician. She was a prominent leader of the disarmament movement. She, along with Alfonso García Robles, received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1982.
This page lists 57 people born on January 31, every one traced to a Wikidata record and, where shown, a Wikipedia summary (CC BY-SA) and a licensed Wikimedia Commons photo. No one here has a sourced net-worth estimate yet, so no wealth figures are shown. Rankings compare all 366 dates in the dataset built on 2026-09-28. Milestone ages come from dated Wikidata statements; a tilde marks year-only dates. Nothing on this page is a prediction about anyone born on January 31. Read the full methodology.
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