September 21 is the birthday of 61 notable people we've found so far, including authors, scientists, historical figures and actors, and 2 of them are billionaires.
Giovanni Ferrero is an Italian billionaire businessman. He assumed leadership of the confectionery company Ferrero SpA after the death of his brother, Pietro Ferrero, in 2011.
Rinat Leonidovych Akhmetov is a Ukrainian oligarch, billionaire and businessman. He is the founder and president of international investment group System Capital Management (SCM), and is the wealthiest man in Ukraine.
Михаил Масловский, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Share of the 61 people we list, by documented field. People can belong to more than one.
Authors26% (16 people)
Scientists25% (15 people)
Actors23% (14 people)
Politicians21% (13 people)
Creators20% (12 people)
Musicians16% (10 people)
Entrepreneurs13% (8 people)
Countries
28 countries, most often United States
Citizenship as recorded on Wikidata, one country per person.
United States16 (16 people)
France7 (7 people)
Japan4 (4 people)
United Kingdom4 (4 people)
Russia3 (3 people)
Australia2 (2 people)
Canada2 (2 people)
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Stephen Edwin King is an American author. Dubbed the "King of Horror", he is widely known for his horror fiction and has also explored other genres, among them suspense, crime, science-fiction, fantasy, and mystery.
Kevin Payravi, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Shinzo Abe was a Japanese statesman and politician who served as Prime Minister of Japan and President of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) from 2006 to 2007 and again from 2012 to 2020.
Prime Minister of Japan Official, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Cheryl Ruth Hines is an American actress and comedian. She portrayed Cheryl David on HBO's Curb Your Enthusiasm (2000–2024), earning two Primetime Emmy Award nominations.
The White House, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Aristotle Socrates Onassis was a Greek and Argentine business magnate and shipping tycoon. He amassed the world's largest privately-owned shipping fleet and was one of the world's richest and most famous men.
John Werner Kluge was a German-American entrepreneur who became a television industry mogul in the United States. He was the founder and chairman of Metromedia. At one time he was the richest person in the U.S.
New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Luke Cunningham Wilson is an American actor. He is best known for his work with filmmaker Wes Anderson, appearing in Anderson's Bottle Rocket (1996), Rushmore (1998) and The Royal Tenenbaums (2001).
Herbert George Wells was an English writer, prolific in many genres. He wrote more than forty novels and dozens of short stories. His non-fiction output included works of social commentary, politics, history, popular science, satire, biography, and autobiography.
George Charles Beresford, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
William John Paul Gallagher is an English singer and songwriter who is the lead singer and co-founder of the rock band Oasis. Gallagher fronted Beady Eye, an offshoot of Oasis, between 2009 and 2014, before starting a solo career in 2017.
Nicole Camille Richie is an American media personality, fashion designer, and actress. She came to prominence after appearing on the reality television series The Simple Life (2003–2007), in which she starred alongside her friend and fellow socialite Paris Hilton.
Kwame Nkrumah, was a Ghanaian politician, political theorist, and revolutionary. He served as Prime Minister of the Gold Coast from 1952 until 1957, when it gained independence from the United Kingdom.
Audrey Faith McGraw, known professionally as Faith Hill, is an American singer and actress. She is one of the most successful country music artists of all time, having sold almost 50 million albums worldwide.
Kingkongphoto & www.celebrity-photos.com from Laurel Maryland, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Margaret Grace Denig is an American actress. Grace earned a Young Artist Award nomination in 2002 with her portrayal of 15-year-old murder victim Martha Moxley in the television movie Murder in Greenwich.
Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Jason Joel Desrouleaux, known professionally as Jason Derulo, is an American singer, songwriter and dancer. Since the start of his solo recording career in 2009, he has sold over 250 million singles worldwide and has achieved fourteen platinum singles in the US.
Amy Martin Photography, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Larry Martin Hagman was an American actor, best known for playing ruthless oil baron J. R. Ewing in the 1978–1991 primetime television soap opera Dallas, and the handsome astronaut Major Anthony Nelson in the 1965–1970 sitcom I Dream of Jeannie.
Kevin Michael Rudd is an Australian diplomat and former politician who served as the 26th prime minister of Australia from 2007 to 2010 and from June to September 2013, holding office as the leader of the Labor Party.
Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Lindsey Stirling is an American musician, singer, songwriter, and dancer. She presents choreographed violin performances, in live and music videos found on her official YouTube channel, which she created in 2007.
Christian Marie Serratos is an American actress, who is best known for portraying Rosita Espinosa in AMC's The Walking Dead TV series, based on the comic book of the same name.
Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Gustav Holst was an English composer, arranger and teacher. Best known for his orchestral suite The Planets, he composed many other works across a range of genres, although none achieved comparable success.
Herbert Lambert, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Charles Martin Jones was an American animator, filmmaker, painter, and voice actor, best known for his work with Warner Bros. Cartoons on the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series of shorts.
Photo is done by Alan Light, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Sándor Péter Kocsis was a Hungarian footballer who played for Ferencvárosi TC, Budapest Honvéd, Young Fellows Zürich, FC Barcelona and Hungary as a striker.
Fortepan/Faragó György, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Politician · United States Agency for International Development
1970 · Ireland
Samantha Jane Power is an Irish-American journalist, diplomat, and government official who served as the United States ambassador to the United Nations from 2013 to 2017.
usembassykyiv, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Henry Lewis Stimson was an American statesman, lawyer, and politician. Over his long career, he emerged as a leading figure in U.S. foreign policy by serving in both Republican and Democratic administrations.
Harris & Ewing, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Jean-Louis André Théodore Géricault was a French painter and lithographer. His best-known painting is The Raft of the Medusa. Despite his short life, he was one of the pioneers of the Romantic movement.
Richard Patrick Dunne is an Irish former professional footballer, current Man City Youth Academy Coach and television pundit for TNT Sports, who played as a centre-back. He made 432 Premier League appearances, including 253 for Manchester City.
Tomasz Przechlewski, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
François Cluzet is a French film and theatre actor. Cluzet has collaborated with many important European and American directors, including Claude Chabrol, Bertrand Tavernier, Claire Denis, Agnieszka Holland, Robert Altman and Olivier Assayas.
Studio Harcourt., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Yury Mikhailovich Luzhkov was a Russian politician who served as mayor of Moscow from 1992 to 2010. Before the election of Gavriil Popov as the first mayor of Moscow, he also headed the capital in 1990–1991 as chairman of the Mosgorispolkom.
Heike Kamerlingh Onnes was a Dutch experimental physicist who became the first to liquefy helium, cooling it to near 1.5 kelvin (K). For this work, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1913.
Frédéric Beigbeder is a French writer, literary critic and television presenter. He won the Prix Interallié in 2003 for his novel Windows on the World and the Prix Renaudot in 2009 for his book A French Novel. He is also the creator of the Flore and Sade Awards.
Syukuro "Suki" Manabe is a Japanese–American physicist, meteorologist, and climatologist, who pioneered the use of computers to simulate global climate change and natural climate variations.
Bengt Nyman from Vaxholm, Sweden, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Pierre de Ronsard was a French poet. His works include Les Amours de Cassandre (1552), Les Hymnes (1555-1556), Les Discours (1562-1563), La Franciade (1572), and Sonnets pour Hélène (1578).
Benjamin Foulon, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
This page lists 61 people born on September 21, every one traced to a Wikidata record and, where shown, a Wikipedia summary (CC BY-SA) and a licensed Wikimedia Commons photo. 2 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 May 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 September 21. Read the full methodology.
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