Nikolay Nikolayevich Storonsky is a British billionaire entrepreneur and technology executive. He is the co-founder and CEO of Revolut, and the founder of venture capital firm QuantumLight.
Joseph Lau Luen-hung is a Hong Kong billionaire businessman. Lau is the former chairman of property developer Chinese Estates. He is an avid art and wine collector. His fortune is estimated by Forbes at $13.3 billion as of September 2021.
Robin McLaurin Williams was an American actor and comedian. Known for his improvisational skills and the wide variety of characters he created spontaneously and portrayed in drama and comedy films, he is regarded as one of the greatest comedians of all time.
Share of the 45 people we list, by documented field. People can belong to more than one.
Authors29% (13 people)
Actors22% (10 people)
Creators22% (10 people)
Politicians22% (10 people)
Artists11% (5 people)
Athletes11% (5 people)
Entrepreneurs11% (5 people)
Countries
22 countries, most often United States
Citizenship as recorded on Wikidata, one country per person.
United States11 (11 people)
United Kingdom4 (4 people)
Canada3 (3 people)
France3 (3 people)
Germany3 (3 people)
Philippines3 (3 people)
Spain2 (2 people)
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Erling Braut Haaland is a Norwegian professional footballer who plays as a striker for Premier League club Manchester City and the Norway national team.
Ernest Miller Hemingway was an American novelist, short-story writer, and journalist. Known for an economical, understated style that influenced later 20th-century writers, he has been romanticized for his adventurous lifestyle and outspoken, blunt public image.
Lloyd Arnold, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Juno Temple is an English actress. She is known for her roles in the comedy series Ted Lasso (2020–present), the voice of Ivy in the animated Skydance/Netflix film Swapped (2026), and in the fifth season of the crime drama series Fargo (2023–2024).
USANA Health Sciences, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Rudolph Arthur Marcus was a Canadian-born American chemist who received the 1992 Nobel Prize in Chemistry "for his contributions to the theory of electron transfer reactions in chemical systems".
Charlotte Lucy Gainsbourg is a French and British actress and singer. She is the daughter of English actress and singer Jane Birkin and French singer Serge Gainsbourg.
Harald Krichel, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Américo Ferreira Amorim was a Portuguese billionaire businessman, and a 50% owner of Corticeira Amorim, founded by his grandfather. He was the richest person in Portugal at the time of his death with a fortune estimated of $4.8 billion.
Jesse Donald Knotts was an American actor and comedian. He is widely known for his role as Deputy Sheriff Barney Fife on the 1960s sitcom The Andy Griffith Show, for which he earned five Emmy Awards. He also played Ralph Furley on the sitcom Three's Company from 1979 to 1984.
CBS Television, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Marcelo Alberto Bielsa Caldera is an Argentine professional football manager and former player who most recently managed the Uruguay national team. He is widely regarded as one of the most influential coaches of all time.
Рыбакова Елена, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Jonathan Michael Lovitz is an American comedian and actor. He is best known for his tenure as a cast member on the NBC sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live from 1985 to 1990, for which he was nominated for two Primetime Emmy Awards.
Romina Espinosa at http://www.rominaespinosa.com, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Michael Joseph Connelly is an American author of detective novels and other crime fiction, notably those featuring LAPD Detective Hieronymus "Harry" Bosch and criminal defense attorney Mickey Haller, including 10 with both those characters.
Mark Coggins from San Francisco, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Justin Lee Bartha is an American actor. In film, Bartha has played Riley Poole in the National Treasure film series and Doug Billings in The Hangover trilogy.
Justin Bartha (Transferred by Matanya/Originally uploaded by LadyUranus), CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Herbert Marshall McLuhan was a Canadian philosopher whose work is among the cornerstones of the study of media theory. Raised in Winnipeg, McLuhan studied at the University of Manitoba and the University of Cambridge.
Josephine Smith, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Béla Tarr was a Hungarian film director, screenwriter and producer. His films are distinguished by their stark black-and-white visuals, extended long takes, languid pacing, and an absence of traditional plotting.
Endrick Felipe Moreira de Sousa Pessoa, known mononymously as Endrick, is a Brazilian professional footballer who plays as a striker for La Liga club Real Madrid and the Brazil national team.
Norman Frederick Jewison was a Canadian filmmaker. He is known for directing films which addressed topical social and political issues, often making controversial or complicated subjects accessible to mainstream audiences.
Canadian Film Centre from Toronto, Canada, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Sami Yusuf is a British composer, multi-instrumentalist and vocalist. He gained international attention with the release of his debut album, Al-Muʽallim, in 2003. As of 2026, he has released eight studio albums, five live albums and one compilation album.
work for hire; copyright owned by Sami Yusuf, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Sarah Ann Waters is a Welsh novelist. She is best known for her novels set in Victorian society and featuring lesbian protagonists, such as Tipping the Velvet (1998) and Fingersmith (2002). Both novels were adapted into TV mini-series by BBC in 2002 and 2005 respectively.
Harold Hart Crane was an American poet. Inspired by the Romantics and his fellow Modernists, Crane wrote highly stylized poetry, often noted for its complexity.
Hans Fallada was a German writer of the first half of the 20th century. Some of his better known novels include Little Man, What Now? (1932) and Every Man Dies Alone (1947).
e.o.plauen, das ist Erich Ohser, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Vasily Danilovich Sokolovsky was a Soviet general, military theorist, Marshal of the Soviet Union, and a commander of Red Army forces during World War II. As Georgy Zhukov's chief of staff, Sokolovsky helped plan and execute the Battle of Berlin.
Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Milan Rastislav Štefánik was a Slovak politician, diplomat, aviator and astronomer. During World War I, he served at the same time as a general in the French Army and as Minister of War for Czechoslovakia.
Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Buchi Emecheta was a Nigerian writer, whose work includes novels, plays, autobiography, and children's books. She was best known for her 1974 novel, Second Class Citizen. Her other novels include The Bride Price (1976), The Slave Girl (1977), and The Joys of Motherhood (1979).
Luis de Góngora y Argote was a Spanish Baroque lyric poet and a Catholic priest at Córdoba Cathedral. Góngora and his lifelong rival, Francisco de Quevedo, are widely considered the most prominent Spanish poets of all time.
Diego Velázquez, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Albert Gustaf Aristides Edelfelt was a Finnish painter noted for his naturalistic style and Realist approach to art. He lived in the Grand Duchy of Finland and made Finnish culture visible abroad, before Finland gained independence.
Albert Edelfelt, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Ramon Cases Nolasco is a Filipino politician who is a member of the House of Representatives representing the First District of Cagayan. He was a member of the Cagayan Provincial Board, representing the First District, and the former mayor of Gattaran, Cagayan.
Henri Victor Regnault was a French chemist and physicist best known for his careful measurements of the thermal properties of gases. He was an early thermodynamicist and was mentor to William Thomson in the late 1840s.
Unknown (Mondadori Publishers), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Carlito Marquez is a Filipino politician. He last served as a member of the Philippine House of Representatives representing the 1st District of Aklan from 2016 to 2025. He previously served as Governor of Aklan from 2004 to 2013.
Baby Aline Vargas Alfonso, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
This page lists 45 people born on July 21, every one traced to a Wikidata record and, where shown, a Wikipedia summary (CC BY-SA) and a licensed Wikimedia Commons photo. 4 of them carry a dated net-worth estimate citing Forbes or Bloomberg; combined wealth is the sum of the low end of those estimates, the newest as of 2026. 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 July 21. Read the full methodology.
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