Post updated 4 July 2020
Scott Adams – 6/8/57 – Windham, NY – cartoonist – Dilbert
Craig Allen – 1/25/57 – Brooklyn – meteorologist, WCBS radio
Marc Almond – 7/9/57 – Southport, England – musician, Soft Cell
Maria Conchita Alonso -6/29/57 – Cienfuegos, Cuba – singer, actress (Moscow on the Hudson)
Jonathan Alter – 10/6/57 – Chicago – journalist, author (books on FDR and Obama)
Mukesh Ambani – 4/19/57 – Aden, Yemen – Managing Director, Reliance Industries – Richest 1957 baby according to Business Insider – net worth $38B
Garth Ancier – 9/3/57 – Perth Amboy, NJ- TV executive – Fox, Disney
Ottis Anderson – 1/19/57 – West Palm Beach, FL – NFL running back – St Louis Cardinals, New York Giants
Robert Andrews – 8/4/57 – Camden, NJ – US Representative (D) from NJ (Camden) (1990-2014) now lawyer
Eric Asimov – 7/17/57 – Bethpage, NY – food and wine critic, NY Times
Attila the Stockbroker (John Baine) – 10/21/57 – Southwick, England – poet, musician
Jim Babjak – 11/17/57 – Carteret, NJ – musician – The Smithereens
Una Baines – April 1957 – Manchester, Eng – musician – The Fall, Blue Orchids
Danny Baker – 6/22/57, Deptford, England – writer, NME and elsewhere
Nicholson Baker – 1/7/57 – Rochester NY- writer
Andre Balazs – 1/31/57 – Boston – hotelier, The Standard
Steve Balboni – 1/16/57, Brockton, MA- MLB player
Seve Ballesteros – 4/9/57 Pedreña, Spain- pro golfer – died 2011, brain tumor
Baltimora (Jimmy McShane) – 5/23/57 – Londonderry, Northern Ireland – singer, “Tarzan Boy” – died 1995 – AIDS
Afrika Bambaataa (Lance Taylor) – 4/17/57 – Bronx, NY – musician/DJ/producer – Planet Rock
Madison Smartt Bell – 8/1/57 – Nashville, TN – novelist
Lawrence Bender – 10/17/57 – Bronx, NY – movie producer (Tarantino films)
Jellybean Benitez – 11/7/57 – Bronx, NY – music composer/producer
Osama Bin Laden – 3/10/57 Riyadh, Saudi Arabia – leader of Al Qaeda – died 2011, US raid
Brad Bird – 9/11/57 – Kalispell, MT – film director, The Incredibles
Lisa Birnbach – 1957 – New York, NY – journalist, author, The Official Preppy Handbook
Carole Bouquet – 8/18/57 – Neuilly-sur-Seine, France – actress, That Obscure Object of Desire
Billy Bragg – 12/20/57 – Barking, England – musician
Bruce Braley – 10/30/57 – Grinnell, IA – US Representative (D) from IA 1st Dist. – northeast IA incl. Dubuque (2007-2015)
Berke Breathed – 6/21/57- Encino, CA – cartoonist- Bloom County
Margery Bronster – 12/12/57- NYC – Atty General, Hawaii (1995-1999), lawyer
Dennis Brown – 2/1/57 – Kingston, Jamaica – Reggae singer – died 1999, collapsed lung
Budgie (Peter Edward Clarke) – 8/21/57 – St Helens, England -musician- Siouxsie and the Banshees, also married to Siouxsie
LeVar Burton – 2/16/57 – Landstuhl, W Germany- actor – Roots, Star Trek: The Next Generation
Steve Buscemi – 12/13/57 – Brooklyn, NY – actor
Timothy Busfield – 6/12/57 – Lansing, MI – actor – thirtysomething
Robin Byrd – 4/6/57 – NYC – public access TV host
Princess Caroline – 1/23/57 – Monte Carlo, Monaco – Monaco royal
Nancy Cartwright – 10/25/57 – Kettering, Ohio – actress – voice of Bart Simpson
Nick Cave – 9/22/57 – Warracknabeal, Victoria, Australia – musician
Andrew Dice Clay – 9/29/57 – NYC – comedian
Ethan Coen – 9/21/57 – St Louis Park, MN – film director
Julian Cope – 10/21/57 – Bargoed, Wales – musician and writer
Katie Couric – 1/7/57 – Arlington VA – television journalist
David Crane – 8/13/57 – West New York, NJ – TV producer – showrunner of Friends
Cameron Crowe – 7/13/57 – Palm Springs, CA – film director
Andrew Cuomo – 12/6/57 – NYC – Governor (D), NY State 2011-present
Alannah Currie – 9/20/57 – Auckland, New Zealand – musician, Thompson Twins
Darryl Dawkins – 1/11/57 – Orlando, FL – NBA player – Philadelphia 76ers
Morris Day – 12/13/57 – Minneapolis, MN – musician – The Time
Daniel Day Lewis – 4/29/57 – London – actor
Diana DeGette – 7/29/57 – Tachikawa, Japan – US Representative (D) from Colorado 1st Dist. (Denver) (1997-present)
Donny Deutsch – 11/22/57 – Queens, NY – advertising executive
Fran Drescher – 9/30/57 – Flushing, NY – actress, The Nanny
Sheila E (Sheila Escovedo) – 12/12/57 – Oakland, CA – musician
Adrian (Ade) Edmondson – 1/24/57 – Bradford, Yorkshire, England – actor – The Young Ones (Vyvvian)
Bob Ehrlich – 11/25/57 – Arbutus, MD – Former governor (R), Maryland (2003-2007)
Lewis Erskine – 3/1/57 – Manhattan, NYC – TV and film editor – documentaries
Gloria Estefan – 9/1/57 – Havana, Cuba – musician “Conga”
Falco (Johann Holzel) – 2/19/57 – Vienna, Austria – singer, Rock Me Amadeus – died 1998 car accident in the Dominican Republic
Susan Ford Bales – 7/6/57 – Washington DC – Presidential daughter, author, photojournalist, chair of Betty Ford Center
William Clay Ford Jr. – 5/3/57 – Detroit – Executive chairman, Ford Motor – Great-grandson of Henry Ford
Robert Forster – 6/29/57 – Brisbane, Australia – musician – The Go-Betweens
Trent Franks – 6/19/57 – Uravan, CO – US Representative (R) from 2nd dist AZ, northwest corner of state 2003-2017
Dawn French – 10/11/57 – Holyhead, Wales – comedian, actress
Stephen Fry – 8/24/57 – London – actor – Jeeves and Wooster
Leeza Gibbons – 3/26/57 – Irmo, SC – TV host – Entertainment Tonight
Vince Gill – 4/12/57 – Oklahoma City, OK- country musician
Brad Grey – 12/29/57 – NYC -film producer, studio executive – died 2017, cancer
Melanie Griffith – 8/9/57 – NYC – actress
Ofra Haza – 11/19/57 – Tel Aviv, Israel – singer – “Im Nin’alu” – died 2000, AIDS-related pneumonia
Jeb Hensarling – 5/29/57 – Stephenville, TX – US Representative (R) from 5th Dist, TX, incl part of Dallas 2003-2019
John Hoeven – 3/13/57- Bismarck, ND – US Senator (R) North Dakota, former Governor
Tim Holden – 3/5/57 – Pottsville, PA – US Representative (D) from PA – area around Harrisburg (1993-2013) now chairman, PA Liquor Control Board
Nick Hornby – 4/17/57 – Maidenhead, England – author, High Fidelity
Alan Hunter – 2/14/57 – Birmingham, AL – original MTV VJ, radio host
David Henry Hwang – 8/11/57 – Los Angeles – Playwright – M Butterfly
Marlon Jackson – 3/12/57 – Gary IN – one of the Jackson 5
T. D. Jakes – 6/9/57 – South Charleston, WV – TV Pastor
Tama Janowitz – 4/12/57 – San Francisco – author, Slaves of New York
Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg – 11/27/57 – NYC – Presidential daughter, US ambassador to Japan
Callie Khouri – 11/27/57- San Antonio, TX – screenwriter – Thelma and Louise, creator of TV show Nashville
Ron Klein – 7/10/57 – Cleveland, OH – US Representative (D) from 22nd dist Florida – coastal areas of Palm Beach and Broward counties (2007-2011), lawyer
Hwang Kyo-ahn – 4/15/57 – Seoul, South Korea – Prime Minister of South Korea 2015-2017
John Lasseter – 1/12/57 – Hollywood, CA – chief creative officer, Pixar, director, Toy Story
Matt Lauer 12/30/57 – NYC – television journalist
Denis Leary – 8/18/57 – Worcester, MA – comedian, actor
Spike Lee – 3/20/57 – Atlanta, GA – film director
Jerry Levine – 3/12/57 – New Brunswick, NJ – actor (Teen Wolf), director
Nancy Lopez Melton – 1/6/57 – Torrance, CA – pro golfer
Patty Loveless – 1/4/57 – Pikeville, KY – country musician
Lyle Lovett – 11/1/57 – Klein, TX – musician – was married to Julia Roberts
Jon Lovitz – 7/21/57 – Tarzana, CA – actor, SNL cast member
Dolph Lundgren – 11/3/57 – Stockholm, Sweden – actor, Rocky IV
Shane MacGowan – 12/25/57 – Kent, England – musician – The Pogues
Billy MacKenzie – 3/27/57 – Dundee, Scotland – musician, The Associates – died 1/22/1997, suicide
Mike McAlary – 12/15/57 – Brooklyn, NY – columnist, NY Daily News – died 1998, cancer
Paddy McAloon – 6/7/57 – Durham, Newcastle, England – musician, Prefab Sprout
Terry McAuliffe – 2/9/57 Syracuse, NY – governor (D) Virginia 2014-2018, former chair of Democratic National Committee
Frances McDormand – 6/23/57 – Chicago IL – actress
Kelly McGillis – 7/9/57 – Newport Beach, CA – actress – Top Gun
Kevin McHale – 12/19/57 – Hibbing, MN – NBA player, Boston Celtics
Jaroslava Maxova – 4/6/57 Moravska Trebova, Moravia, Czechoslovakia – Czech opera singer
Stephanie Mills – 3/22/57 – Brooklyn, NY – singer, actress – Original Dorothy in The Wiz
Walter Moers – 5/24/57 – Mönchengladbach, Germany – author, The 13 1/2 Lives of Captain Bluebear, The City of Dreaming Books
Paul Morley – 3/26/57 – Stockport, Cheshire, England – writer, NME 1977-83
Art Monk – 12/5/57 – White Plains, NY – NFL wide receiver (1980-1995), mostly for Washington Redskins
Lori Montana – 1957- musician, Pulsallama
Stephen Morris – 10/28/57 – Macclesfield, England – musician – New Order
Lisa Murkowski – 5/22/57 – Ketchikan, AK – Senior US Senator (R) from Alaska (2002-present)
Kathy Najimy – 2/6/57 – San Diego – TV Actress – Veronica’s Closet
Janet Napolitano – 11/29/57 – New York City – President, Univ of California 2013-present, US Secretary of Homeland Security under Obama 2009-2013, Gov (D) Arizona 2003-2009
Paolo Nespoli – 4/6/57 – Milan – Italian soldier, engineer, and astronaut – went into space aboard US Space Shuttle in 2007
Jakob Nielsen – 10/5/57 – Copenhagen, Denmark – writer, web site usability
Mojo Nixon (Neill Kirby McMillan) – 8/2/57 – Chapel Hill, NC – singer – Elvis is Everywhere
Bob Ojeda – 12/17/57 – Los Angeles – pitcher, Red Sox, Mets
Donny Osmond – 12/9/57 – Ogden, UT – musician, TV host
Rose Pasquale – 4/6/57 – New Brunswick NJ – actress (bit parts)
Amanda Plummer – 3/23/57 – NYC – actress – Pulp Fiction
Robert Pollard – 10/31/57 – Dayton, OH – musician, Guided By Voices
Steve Porcaro – 9/2/57 – Hartford, CT – musician, Toto
Susan Powter – 12/12/57 – Sydney, Australia – fitness guru – “Stop the insanity”, author
Judge Reinhold – 5/21/57 – Wilmington, DE – actor
Paul Reiser – 3/30/57 – NYC – actor – Mad About You
Ray Romano – 12/21/57 – Queens, NY – actor – Everybody Loves Raymond
Theresa Russell – 3/20/57 – San Diego, CA – actress – Bad Timing, Spiderman 3
Nina Sadowsky – 1957 – Movie producer, author, Just Fall and other books
Joan Benoit Samuelson – 5/16/57- Cape Elizabeth, Maine – long-distance runner – 1984 gold medalist women’s marathon in Los Angeles
Saundra Santiago – 4/13/57 – Bronx, NY – actress – Miami Vice
Gina Schock – 8/31/57 – Baltimore, MD – musician – The Go-Go’s
Peter Sellars – 9/27/57 – Philadelphia, PA – opera, theatre and film director, librettist
Cindy Sheehan – 7/10/57 – Los Angeles – anti war protestor
Russell Simmons – 10/4/57 – Queens, NY – entrepreneur – founder Def Jam records
Siouxsie Sioux (Susan Ballion) – 5/27/57 – London, England – musician
Kimberly Smith – 1957 – Sister of Patti, subject of a great song, musician
Mark E. Smith – 3/5/57 – Salford, Manchester, England – musician – The Fall – died 2018, lung and kidney cancer
Patty Smyth – 6/26/57 – NYC – musician, Scandal – married to Richard Hell and John McEnroe
Hilda Solis – 10/20/57 – Los Angeles – Member of LA Board of Supervisors, US Secretary of Labor 2009-2013
Daniel Stern – 8/28/57 – Bethesda, MD – actor – Diner, Home Alone
Tom Steyer – 6/27/57 – Manhattan, NYC – financier, hedge-fund founder, 2020 presidential candidate (D)
Poly Styrene (Marianne Elliot-Said) – 7/3/57 – Bromley, Kent, England – musician, X-Ray Spex – died 4/25/2011, metastatic breast cancer
Lee Thompson – 10/5/57 – London – musician – saxophonist of Madness
Glenn Tilbrook – 8/31/57 – Dulwich, London, England – musician – Squeeze
Liza Todd – 8/6/57 – NYC – sculptor, daughter of Mike Todd and Elizabeth Taylor
Robert Townsend – 2/6/57 – Chicago, IL – actor/director – Hollywood Shuffle
John Turturro – 2/28/57 – Brooklyn, NY – actor – Barton Fink
Shannon Tweed – 1/10/57 – St John’s, NF – Playboy model, actress
Mario Van Peebles – 1/15/57 – Mexico City, Mexico – film actor/director – 21 Jump Street, New Jack City
Sid Vicious (John Richie) – 5/10/57 – London – musician – Sex Pistols – died 1979, heroin OD
Greg Walden – 1/10/57 – The Dalles, OR – US Representative (R) from eastern Oregon (1999-present)
Kevin Walsh – 1957 – Editor/Publisher of web site Forgotten NY
Zach Wamp – 10/28/57 – Fort Benning, GA – US Representative (R) from TN’s 3rd District, which includes Chattanooga and Oak Ridge (1995-2011)
Anita Ward – 12/20/57 – Memphis, TN – singer – “Ring My Bell”
Rachel Ward – 9/12/57 – Cornwell Manor, England – actress – The Thorn Birds
Mike Watt – 12/20/57 – Portsmouth, VA – musician – Minutemen
J.C. Watts – 11/18/57 – Eufaula, OK – congressman (R), Oklahoma (1995-2003)
Ai Weiwei – 8/28/57 – Beijing, China – Chinese artist / activist
Vanna White – 2/18/57 – N Myrtle Beach, SC – TV hostess
Cindy Wilson – 2/28/57 – Athens, GA – musician – The B-52’s
Hans Zimmer – 9/12/57 – Frankfurt, West Germany – film score composer – Academy Award winner 1995 for The Lion King
4/6/57 (My date of birth)
Robin Byrd – 4/6/57 – NYC – public access TV host
Jaroslava Maxova – 4/6/57 Moravska Trebova, Moravia – Czech opera singer, has several discs out
Paolo Nespoli – 4/6/57 Milan – Italian soldier, engineer, and astronaut – went into space aboard US Space Shuttle in 2007
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