1945 births

former State Counsellor of Myanmar and Leader of the National League for Democracy

president of Brazil from 2003 to 2011 and since 2023

German sports official and association football player (1945–2024)

President of the Philippines from 2016 to 2022

Dame Helen Mirren is an English actor. Regarded amongst Britain's greatest actors, Mirren is the recipient of several accolades including an Academy Award, three Golden Globe Awards, four BAFTA Awards, five Emmy Awards, a Tony Award, two Cannes Film Festival Awards, a Volpi Cup and a Laurence Olivier Award. She is the only person to have achieved both the US and UK Triple Crowns of Acting, and has also received the BAFTA Fellowship, Honorary Golden Bear, Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award, and the Cecil B. DeMille Award. Mirren was made a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) by Queen Elizabeth II in 2003.

British musician

Nicaraguan politician

German association football player (1945–2021)

Prime Minister of Israel from 2006 to 2009

Goldie Jeanne Hawn is an American actress, comedian, producer, dancer, and singer. She achieved stardom and acclaim for playing lighthearted comedic roles in film and television. In a career spanning six decades, she has received several awards, including an Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award as well as nominations for a BAFTA Award and two Primetime Emmy Awards.

American television personality (1945-2013)

German filmmaker (born 1945)

Neil Percival Young is a Canadian and American singer-songwriter. Son of journalist and author Scott Young, Young embarked on a music career in Winnipeg in the 1960s. He then moved to Los Angeles, forming the folk rock group Buffalo Springfield. His solo career, often backed by the band Crazy Horse, includes critically acclaimed albums such as Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere (1969), After the Gold Rush (1970), Harvest (1972), On the Beach (1974), and Rust Never Sleeps (1979). Young was also a part-time member of Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, with whom he recorded the chart-topping 1970 album Déjà Vu.

English singer and songwriter (born 1945)

American astrophysicist and cosmologist (1945–2025)

monarch of Liechtenstein (born 1945)

Russian film director, writer, producer and actor (born 1945)

4th President of Ivory Coast

President of Sri Lanka from 2005 to 2015

Maria de Lourdes Villiers Farrow is an American actress. She first gained notice for her role as Allison MacKenzie in the prime-time television soap opera Peyton Place and gained further recognition for her subsequent short-lived marriage to Frank Sinatra. She achieved her career breakthrough and international acclaim as the titular character Rosemary in Roman Polanski's psychological horror film Rosemary's Baby (1968), receiving nominations for a BAFTA Award and a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress. She went on to appear in several films throughout the 1970s, such as Follow Me! (1972), The Great Gatsby (1974), and Death on the Nile (1978). Her younger sister is Prudence Farrow.

Bette Midler is an American actress, comedian, singer, and author. Throughout her six-decade career Midler has received numerous accolades, including four Golden Globe Awards, three Grammy Awards, three Primetime Emmy Awards, two Tony Awards, and a Kennedy Center Honor, in addition to nominations for two Academy Awards and a British Academy Film Award.

Ian Fraser Kilmister (24 December 1945 – 28 December 2015), better known as Lemmy, was an English musician. He was the founder, lead vocalist, bassist and primary songwriter of the rock band Motörhead, of which he was the only continuous member. Kilmister had previously been a member of Hawkwind from 1971 to 1975, before being sacked from that band.

Belgian cyclist (born 1945)

Swedish singer (born 1945)

President of Sri Lanka from 1994 to 2005

American actor (born 1945)

Malian politician

Stephen Glenn Martin is an American comedian, actor, writer, producer, and musician. Known for his work in comedy films, television, and recording, he has received many accolades, including five Grammy Awards, a Primetime Emmy Award, and a Screen Actors Guild Award as well as nominations for eight Golden Globe Awards and two Tony Awards. Martin received the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor in 2005, the Kennedy Center Honors in 2007, the Honorary Academy Award in 2013 and an AFI Life Achievement Award in 2015. In 2004, Comedy Central ranked Martin at sixth place in a list of the 100 greatest stand-up comics.

American physicist

German filmmaker, playwright and actor (1945-1982)

Swedish musician; member of ABBA

8th President of Israel (2000–2007)

leader of Suriname (1980–1987, 2010–2020)

American economist

Priscilla Ann Presley is an American businesswoman and actress. She was married to singer Elvis Presley from 1967 to 1973. Presley later co-founded and chaired Elvis Presley Enterprises (EPE), which oversaw the public opening of Graceland as a museum. As an actress, she portrayed Jane Spencer in the Naked Gun film series (1988–1994) and Jenna Wade on the television series Dallas (1983–1988).

American singer, songwriter and actress, frontwoman of Blondie (born 1945)

1945-, American chemist

American actor (born 1945)

British musician

American actor

92nd Prime Minister of France (born 1945)

Northern Irish musician

American professional wrestling promoter (born 1945)

member of the Swiss Federal Council

American geneticist and chronobiologist

Archbishop of Vienna and Cardinal of the roman catholic church

Chancellor of Austria from 2000 to 2007

British singer (born 1945)

king of Nepal (1945–2001)

American actress

Israeli-American violinist and conductor (born 1945)

Irish writer (born 1945)

Australian filmmaker (born 1945)

German painter and sculptor (born 1945)

Puerto Rican musician

Mozambican humanitarian activist and politician

American writer and screenwriter (born 1945)

English politician (born 1945); Mayor of London from 2000 until 2008

Russian physicist

American jazz/classical pianist and composer (born 1945)