If we were to pick people born during the 20th century - not relatives, but (other) public figures - that we most follow, respect, adore, look up to etc, it would most certainly, more than anything else, reflect who we ourselves are as people. Our choices would reflect our interests in life, our values, our likings, our origin. And no one list would look the same, but they would all differ depending on the aforementioned differentials.
Who has impressed you the most? With their personality, their skill set, their knowledge, professionalism - and even with their voice! We have chosen three people per year (picking just one is way too hard!), and down below you see the list - all these people were picked from the year files right here in Journeys of Life. The possible name in birth as well as date of death are omitted this time. Hope you have fun with it!
What would your list look like? Think about it. And if you really want to get into this, why not print the list here, and write your candidate beside our names. It is quite clear also that your list would, as anyone else’s, change as you get older. Your tastes, opinions and views on life change, and there would always be new people to choose from. But who would you choose right now?
For example from this list here you can pretty easily discern that the writer appreciates movies, sports, music, science, and good-natured people. What do you appreciate?
1901-0804 Louis Armstrong* trumpeter/ composer/ singer – New Orleans, LA USA
1901-1117 Lee Strasberg* actor/ director/theater practitioner – Budzanow, Austria-Hungary
1901-1205 Walt Disney* animator/ writer/co-founder of WDP – Chicago, IL USA
1902-0204 Charles Lindbergh* aviator/ author/activist – Detroit, MI USA
1902-0227 John Steinbeck* author/N – Salinas, CA USA
1902-1026 Alfred Vogel* herbalist/naturopath/ writer – Basel, Switzerland
1903-0529 Bob Hope* stand-up comedian/ actor – London, England
1903-0625 George Orwell* novelist/ journalist/critic – Motihari, British India
1903-0807 Louis Leakey* paleoanthropologist/archaeologist – Kabete, Kenya
1904-0103 Jeane Dixon* astrologer – Medford, WI USA
1904-0422 Robert Oppenheimer* physicist – New York, NY USA
1904-0511 Salvador Dali* artist – Figueres, Catalonia, Spain
1905-0121 Karl Wallenda* high wire artist/founder of The Flying Wallendas – Magdeburg, German Empire
1905-0516 Henry Fonda* actor – Grand Island, NE USA
1905-0621 Jean-Paul Sartre* philosopher/ political activist – Paris, France
1906-0622 Billy Wilder* Austrian-American film director – Sucha, Austria-Hungary
1906-0925 Dmitri Shostakovich* pianist/ composer – St. Petersburg, Russian Empire
1906-1205 Otto Preminger* Austrian-American film director – Wiznitz, Austria-Hungary
1907-0512 Katharine Hepburn* actress – Hartford, CT USA
1907-0522 Laurence Olivier* actor – Dorking, Surrey, England
1907-1114 Astrid Lindgren* author – Vimmerby, Sweden
1908-0405 Herbert von Karajan* conductor – Salzburg, Austria-Hungary
1908-0428 Oskar Schindler* industrialist/ saving Jews during the Holocaust – Svitavy, Austria-Hungary
1908-1231 Simon Wiesenthal* Holocaust survivor/Nazi hunter/writer – Buszazs, Austria-Hungary
1909-0103 Victor Borge* pianist/entertainer – Copenhagen, Denmark
1909-0607 Jessica Tandy* actress – London, England
1909-0907 Elia Kazan* Greek-American film director – Istanbul, Ottoman Sultanate
1910-0323 Akira Kurosawa* writer/film director – Omori, Tokyo Japan
1910-0611 Jacques Cousteau* oceanographer/ filmmaker/inventor – Saint-André-de-Cubzac, France
1910-0826 Mother Teresa* Albanian-Indian nun/ humanitarian/N – Üsküp, Ottoman Empire
1911-0118 Danny Kaye* actor/singer/ dancer – Brooklyn, NY USA
1911-0806 Lucille Ball* actress/ comedian – Jamestown, NY USA
1911-0919 William Golding* novelist/ playwright/poet/N – Newquay, England
1912-0623 Alan Turing* computer scientist/ mathematician/ cryptanalyst – London, England
1912-0804 Raoul Wallenberg* architect/ businessman/ humanitarian – Stockholm, Sweden
1912-0823 Gene Kelly* dancer/actor/singer – Pittsburgh, PA USA
1913-0204 Rosa Parks* Civil Rights activist – Tuskegee, AL USA
1913-0810 Noah Beery Jr.* actor – New York, NY USA
1913-0912 Jesse Owens* athlete (OG in sprint/longjump) – Oakville, AL USA
1914-0809 Tove Jansson* painter/writer/creator of Moomin – Helsinki, GD of Finland
1914-1006 Thor Heyerdahl* explorer (Kon-Tiki expedition)/ethnographer – Larvik, Norway
1914-1028 Jonas Salk* virologist/medical researcher (polio vaccine) – New York, NY USA
1915-0506 Orson Welles* actor/film director – Kenosha, WI USA
1915-1212 Frank Sinatra* singer/actor – Hoboken, NJ USA
1915-1219 Édith Piaf* singer/ lyricist/actress – Paris, France
1916-0405 Gregory Peck* actor – La Jolla, CA USA
1916-0807 Kermit Love* puppet maker (the Muppets)/ puppeteer/actor – Spring Lake, NJ USA
1916-1209 Kirk Douglas* actor – Amsterdam, NY USA
1917-0425 Ella Fitzgerald* jazz singer – Newport News, VA USA
1917-0529 John F. Kennedy* politician/35usp – Brookline, MA USA
1917-1119 Indira Gandhi* politician/PM – Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh, British India
1918-0509 Mike Wallace* journalist/media personality – Brookline, MA USA
1918-0718 Nelson Mandela* politician/P – Mvezo, Union of South Africa
1918-1107 Billy Graham* evangelist – Charlotte, NC USA
1919-0114 Andy Rooney* radio and television writer (60 Minutes) – Albany, NY USA
1919-0317 Nat King Cole* jazz pianist/vocalist – Montgomery, AL USA
1919-0720 Edmund Hillary* conquerer of Mount Everest/ philanthropist – Auckland, New Zealand
1920-0102 Isaac Asimov* Russian-American biochemist/sci-fi writer – Petrovichi, Russia, Soviet Union
1920-0401 Toshiro Mifune* Japanese actor – Tsingtao, China
1920-0518 Pope John Paul II* helped end the Communist rule in Europe – Wadowice, Republic of Poland
1921-0811 Alex Haley* author – Ithaca, NY USA
1921-1013 Yves Montand* French actor/singer – Monsummano Terme, Italy
1921-1103 Charles Bronson* actor – Ehrenfeld, PA USA
1922-0117 Betty White* actress/ comedian – Oak Park, IL USA
1922-1126 Charles M. Schulz* cartoonist – Minneapolis, MN USA
1922-1228 Stan Lee* comic-book writer/ editor/producer – New York, NY USA
1923-0422 Aaron Spelling* actor/TV-producer – Dallas, TX USA
1923-0917 Hank Williams* singer/ songwriter/musician – Georgiana, AL USA
1923-1120 Nadine Gordimer* writer/activist/N – Springs, Union of South Africa
1924-0428 Kenneth Kaunda* teacher/1st president of Zambia – Chinsali, Northern Rhodesia
1924-0704 Eva-Marie Saint* actress – Newark, NJ USA
1924-1225 Rod Serling* screenwriter/producer/ activist – Syracuse, NY USA
1925-0729 Mikis Theodorakis* songwriter/ composer – Chios, Greece
1925-0916 B. B. King* blues singer/ guitarist/producer – Itta Bena, MS USA
1925-1016 Angela Lansbury* actress – London, England
1926-0330 Ingvar Kamprad* founder of IKEA – Pjätteryd, Sweden
1926-0508 David Attenborough* natural historian/broadcaster/author – Isleworth, Middlesex, England
1926-0601 Andy Griffith* actor/comedian/ producer – Mount Airy, NC USA
1927-0130 Olof Palme* politician/prime minister – Stockholm, Sweden
1927-0220 Sidney Poitier* actor/ director/diplomat – Miami, FL USA
1927-0916 Peter Falk* actor (Columbo) – New York, NY USA
1928-0320 Fred Rogers* minister/television host (Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood) – Latrobe, PA USA
1928-0726** Stanley Kubrick*** film director – New York, NY USA
1928-1110 Ennio Morricone* composer/conductor – Rome, Kingdom of Italy
1929-0115 Martin Luther King Jr.* civil rights activist – Atlanta, GA USA - I Have a Dream
1929-0210 Jerry Goldsmith* composer – Los Angeles, CA USA
1929-0612 Anne Frank* Holocaust author – Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany
1930-0217 Ruth Rendell* mystery writer – South Woodford, Essex, England
1930-0805 Neil Armstrong* astronaut/ #1Moon1969 – Wapakoneta, OH USA
1930-0825 Sean Connery* actor – Edinburgh, Scotland
1931-0105 Robert Duvall* actor – San Diego, CA USA
1931-0302 Mikhail Gorbachev* politician/P – Stavropol, Russia, Soviet Union
1931-0322 William Shatner* actor/producer/ director – Montreal, QC Canada
1932-0218 Milos Forman* film director/screenwriter – Caslav, Czechoslovakia
1932-0226 Johnny Cash* singer/ guitarist/actor – Kingsland, AR USA
1932-0227 Elizabeth Taylor* actress – Hampstead, London, England
1933-0118 Ray Dolby* inventor of the noise reduction system Dolby NR – Portland, OR USA
1933-0314 Michael Caine* actor – Rotherhithe, London, England
1933-1119 Larry King* television and radio host – Brooklyn, NY USA
1934-0424 Shirley MacLaine* actress/dancer/author – Richmond, VA USA
1934-0921 Leonard Cohen* poet/singer-songwriter/novelist – Montreal, QC Canada
1934-1109 Carl Sagan* astronomer/ science popularizer – Brooklyn, NY USA
1935-0108 Elvis Presley* singer – Tupelo, MS USA
1935-0414 Erich von Däniken* author/ ufologist – Zofingen, Aargau, Switzerland
1935-0917 Ken Kesey* novelist/essayist – La Junta, CO USA
1936-0924 Jim Henson* puppeteer/creator of the Muppets – Greenville, MS USA
1936-1005 Václav Havel* writer/statesman/P – Prague, Czechoslovakia
1936-1121 Alexander Ginzburg* journalist/dissident – Moscow, Russia, Soviet Union
1937-0422 Jack Nicholson* actor – Manhattan, NY USA
1937-0601 Morgan Freeman* actor/ narrator – Memphis, TN USA
1937-1130 Ridley Scott* film director – South Shields, County Durham, England
1938-0114 Jack Jones* singer/actor – Hollywood, CA USA
1938-0709 Brian Dennehy* actor – Bridgeport, CT USA
1938-0928 Ben E. King* singer&co-composer of Stand by Me – Henderson, NC USA
1939-0407 Francis Ford Coppola* film director – Detroit, MI USA
1939-0420 Gro Harlem Brundtland* politician/PM – Bärum, Norway
1939-1126 Tina Turner* (b Anna Mae Bullock) singer – Nutbush, TN USA
1940-0425 Al Pacino* actor – New York, NY USA
1940-0722 Alex Trebek* game show host (Jeopardy) – Sudbury, ON Canada
1940-1009 John Lennon* singer/musician (The Beatles) – Liverpool, England
1941-0124 Neil Diamond* singer-songwriter/musician – Brooklyn, NY USA
1941-0524 Bob Dylan* singer/songwriter/author/N – Duluth, MN USA
1941-0924 Linda McCartney* musician/ photographer/ activist – New York, NY USA
1942-0108 Stephen Hawking* theoretical physicist/ cosmologist – Oxford, England
1942-0120 Linda Moulton Howe* journalist/ufologist – Boise, ID USA
1942-0901 Jukka Kuoppamäki* singer/ songwriter/ priest – Helsinki, Finland
1943-0119 Janis Joplin* singer – Port Arthur, TX USA
1943-0329 Vangelis (b Evángelos Papathanassíou) composer – Agria, Greece
1943-1122 Billlie Jean King* tennis player – Long Beach, CA USA
1944-0514 George Lucas* film director – Modesto, CA USA
1944-0713 Ernö Rubik* architect/inventor of the Rubik Cube – Budapest, Hungary
1944-0809 Sam Elliott* actor – Sacramento, CA USA
1945-0330 Eric Clapton* musician – Ripley, Surrey, England
1945-0617 Art Bell* radio broadcaster (Coast to Coast AM)/author – Camp Lejeune, NC USA
1945-0728 Jim Davis* cartoonist (Garfield) – Marion, IN USA
1946-1004 Susan Sarandon* actress – New York, NY USA
1946-1106 Sally Field* actress/director – Pasadena, CA USA
1946-1218 Steven Spielberg* film director/ producer/screenwriter – Cincinnati, OH USA
1947-0624 Mick Fleetwood* drummer/co-founder of Fleetwood Mac – Redruth, Cornwall, England
1947-0730 Arnold Schwarzenegger* Austrian-American actor/politician – Thal, Styria, Austria
1947-0921 Stephen King* author – Portland, ME USA
1948-0526 Stevie Nicks* singer (Fleetwood Mac) – Phoenix, AZ USA
1948-0824 Jean-Michel Jarre* composer/ performer/ producer – Lyon, France
1948-0824 Sauli Niinistö* politician/12thP – Salo, Finland
1949-0622 Meryl Streep* actress – Summit, NJ USA
1949-1120 Juha Mieto* cross-country skier/OG – Kurikka, Finland
1949-1212 Bill Nighy* actor/voice artist – Caterham, Surrey, England
1950-0604 George Noory* radio talk show host – Detroit, MI USA
1950-0901 Phil McGraw* psychologist/host of Dr. Phil – Vinita, OK USA
1950-0921 Bill Murray* actor/ comedian – Wilmette, IL USA
1951-0215 Jane Seymour* British-American actress – Uxbridge, Middlesex, England
1951-0721 Robin Williams* stand-up comedian/actor – Chicago, IL USA
1951-1002 Gordon “Sting” Sumner* singer – Wallsend, Northumberland, England
1952-0117 Ryuichi Sakamoto* 坂本 龍 composer/ record producer/writer – Tokyo, Japan
1952-0418 George Knapp* investigative journalist/talk radio host – Woodbury, NJ USA
1952-0607 Liam Neeson* actor – Ballymena Co.Antrim, Northern Ireland
1953-0531 Pirkka-Pekka Petelius* actor/director/producer – Ala-Tornio, Finland
1953-0814 James Horner* composer – Los Angeles CA USA
1953-1209 John Malkovich* actor – Christopher, IL USA
1954-0129 Oprah Winfrey* television host/author/philanthropist – Kosciusko, MS USA
1954-0301 Ron Howard* actor/film director – Duncan, OK USA
1954-0423 Michael Moore* documentary filmmaker – Davison, MI USA
1955-0106 Rowan Atkinson* actor/comedian – Consett, County Durham, England
1955-1028 Bill Gates* co-founder of Microsoft/ philanthropist – Seattle, WA USA
1955-1127 Bill Nye* mechanical engineer/science communicator – Washington, D.C. USA
1956-0117 Antero Mertaranta* sports commentator – Hyvinkää, Finland
1956-0117 Paul Young* singer – Luton, Bedfordshire, England
1956-0709 Tom Hanks* actor/film director – Concord, CA USA
1957-0216 LeVar Burton* American actor/television host (Reading Rainbow) – Landstuhl, West Germany
1957-0912 Hans Zimmer* composer/record producer – Frankfurt-am-Main, West Germany
1957-1210 Michael Clarke Duncan* actor – Chicago, IL USA
1958-0126 Ellen DeGeneres* stand-up comedian/television host – Metairie, LA USA
1958-0816 Angela Bassett* actress/activist – New York, NY USA
1958-1122 Jamie Lee Curtis* actress – Los Angeles, CA USA
1959-0630 Vincent D’Onofrio* actor – Brooklyn, NY USA
1959-1007 Simon Cowell* television personality/entrepreneur – Brighton, East Sussex, England
1959-1119 Allison Janney* actress – Boston, MA USA
1960-0609 Eva Dahlgren* singer (Roxette) – Umeå, Sweden
1960-0817 Sean Penn* actor/ director – Santa Monica, CA USA
1960-1018 Jean-Claude Van Damme* martial artist/ actor – Brussels, Belgium The Epic Split Feat
1961-0126 Wayne Gretzky* hockey player (NHL 100)/coach/executive – Brantford, ON Canada
1961-0517 Enya* singer – Gweedore, County Donegal, Ireland
1961-1104 Jeff Probst* Survivor host/producer – Wichita, KS USA
1962-0701 Richard M. Dolan* historian/ufology – Brooklyn, NY USA
1962-0816 Steve Carell* actor/director/ producer – Concord, MA USA
1962-1119 Jodie Foster* actress – Los Angeles, CA USA
1963-0107 Clint Mansell* musician/composer – Coventry, England
1963-0413 Garry Kasparov* chess grandmaster/political activist - Baku, Azerbaijan, Soviet Union
1963-1218 Brad Pitt* actor – Shawnee, OK USA
1964-0107 Nicholas Cage* actor – Long Beach, CA USA
1964-0407 Russell Crowe* actor – Wellington, North Island, New Zealand
1964-0822 Mats Wilander* tennis player/commentator – Växjö, Sweden
1965-0404 Robert Downey Jr.* actor – New York, NY USA
1965-0811 Viola Davis* actress – St. Matthews, SC USA
1965-1005 Mario Lemieux* hockey player (NHL 100)/philanthropist – Montreal, QC Canada
1966-0227 Baltasar Kormákur* actor/ director/producer – Reykjavik, Iceland
1966-0422 Jeffrey Dean Morgan* actor – Seattle, WA USA
1966-1007 Marco Beltrami* film and television composer – Long Island, NY USA
1967-0501 Tim McGraw* country music singer/record producer/actor – Start, LA USA
1967-0620 Nicole Kidman* actress – Honolulu, HI USA
1967-0811 Joe Rogan* stand-up comedian/podcaster/UCF commentator – Newark, NJ USA
1968-0520 Pekka Pouta* meteorologist – Savonlinna, Finland
1968-0925 Will Smith* actor/singer – Philadelphia, PA USA
1968-1012 Hugh Jackman* actor/singer/producer – Sydney, NSW, Australia
1969-0212 Darren Aronofsky* novelist/film director – Brooklyn, NY USA
1969-0420 Felix Baumgartner* skydiver/ daredevil – Salzburg, Austria
1969-1228 Linus Torvalds* software engineer/creator of Linux – Helsinki, Finland
1970-0703 Teemu Selänne* hockey player (NHL 100)/SC/entrepreneur – Helsinki, Finland
1970-0806 M. Night Shyamalan* film director – Mahé, Pondicherry, India
1970-0826 Melissa McCarthy* actress/producer/fashion designer – Plainfield, IL USA
1971-0331 Ewan McGregor* actor – Crieff, Perthshire, Scotland
1971-0628 Elon Musk* entrepreneur/engineer/ inventor – Pretoria, South Africa
1971-0703 Julian Assange* founder of WikiLeaks – Townsville, Queensland, Australia
1972-0215 Jaromír Jágr* hockey player (NHL 100)/3GC – Kladno, Czechoslovakia
1972-0906 Idris Elba* actor – London, England
1972-1017 Eminem* rapper/record producer – St. Joseph, MO USA
1973-0226 Maria Veitola* journalist/television host – Eno, Finland
1973-0326 Larry Page* co-founder of Google – Lancing, MI USA
1973-0821 Sergey Brin* co-founder of Google – Moscow, Russia, Soviet Union
1974-0130 Christian Bale* actor – Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire, Wales
1974-0601 Alanis Morissette* singer/musician – Ottawa, ON Canada
1974-1103 Ella Kanninen* journalist/television host – Vihti, Finland
1975-0404 Kevin Weekes* hockey goalie/studio hockey analyst – Toronto, ON Canada
1975-0502 David Beckham* football player – Leytonstone, London, England
1975-1118 Anthony McPartlin* TV-personality (Ant&Dec) – Newcastle upon Tyne, England
1976-0216 Tuomas Sammelvuo* volleyball player/coach – Pudasjärvi, Finland
1976-0224 Jan Koum* computer engineer/co-founder of WhatsApp – Kiev, Ukraine, Soviet Union
1976-0528 Krisse Salminen* stand-up comedian – Hollola, Finland
1977-0107 Sofi Oksanen* writer/ playwright- Jyväskylä, Finland
1977-0324 Jessica Chastain* actress – Sacramento County, CA USA
1977-0402 Michael Fassbender* Irish actor – Heidelberg, West Germany
1978-0101 Yohann Diniz* race walker – Épernay, France
1978-0125 Volodymyr Zelensky* screenwriter/actor/politician/P – Kryvyi Rih, Ukraine, Soviet Union
1978-1007 Alesha Dixon* singer/ dancer/talent-show judge – Welwyn Garden City, England
1979-0122 Ismo Leikola* standup-comedian – Jyväskylä, Finland
1979-0127 Rosamund Pike* actress – Hammersmith, London, England
1979-0320 Daniel Cormier* mixed martial artist/commentator – Lafayette, LA USA
1980-0617 Venus Williams* tennis player – Lynwood, CA USA
1980-0715 Jasper Pääkkönen* actor – Helsinki, Finland
1980-1219 Jake Gyllenhaal* actor – Los Angeles, CA USA
1981-0630 Barbora Spotaková* athlete (javelin/OG) – Jablonec nad Nisou, Czechoslovakia
1981-0808 Roger Federer* tennis player – Basel, Switzerland
1981-0926 Serena Williams* tennis player – Saginaw, MI USA
1982-0129 Adam Lambert* singer/ songwriter – Indianapolis, IN USA
1982-0613 Kenenisa Bekele* athlete/runner/OG – Bekoji /Arsi, Ethiopia
1982-1112 Anne Hathaway* actress – Brooklyn, NY USA
1983-0119 Kaisa Mäkäräinen* biathlete/WG – Ristijärvi, Finland
1983-0202 Carolina Klüft* athlete (hepathlon/OG) – Sandhult, Sweden
1983-1108 Blanka Vlašić* athlete (high jump)/OS – Split, Croatia, Yugoslavia
1984-0227 Antti Tuisku* singer – Rovaniemi, Finland
1984-1018 Robert Harting* athlete (discus)/OG – Cottbus, West Germany
1984-1122 Scarlett Johansson* actress/w Danish father – Manhattan, NY USA
1985-0430 Gal Gadot* model/ actress (Wonder Woman) – Petah Tikva, Israel
1985-0808 Anita Wlodarczyk* athlete (hammer/OG) – Rawisz, Poland
1985-1116 Sanna Marin* politician – Helsinki, Finland
1986-0221 Charlotte Church* (b Reed) singer-songwriter/ actress/political activist – Cardiff, Wales
1986-0327 Manuel Neuer* football goalie – Gelsenkirchen, West Germany
1986-1227 Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce* (b Fraser) sprinter/OG – Kingston, Jamaica
1987-0201 Ronda Rousey* mixed martial artist – Riverside, CA USA
1987-0502 Saara Aalto* singer – Oulunsalo, Finland
1987-0624 Lionel Messi* football player – Rosario, Argentina
1988-0121 Ashton Eaton* athlete (decathlon/OG) – Portland, OR USA
1988-0307 Valentina Shevchenko* mixed martial artist – Frunze, Kyrgyzstan, Soviet Union
1988-0602 Awkwafina* (b Nora Lum) rapper/actress/writer – Stony Brook, NY USA
1989-0306 Agnieszka Radwanska* tennis player – Krakow, Poland
1989-0513 P. K. Subban* hockey player/OG – Toronto, ON Canada
1989-1124 Lukas Hradecky* Finnish football goalie – Bratislava, Czechoslovakia
1990-0329 Teemu Pukki* football player – Kotka, Finland
1990-0423 Dev Patel* actor – Harrow, London, England
1990-0621 Sandra Perkovic* athlete (discus)/OG – Zagreb, Croatia, Yugoslavia
1991-0217 Ed Sheeran* singer/songwriter/ record producer – Halifax, West Yorkshire, England
1991-0321 Antoine Griezmann* football player – Macon, France
1991-0624 Mutaz Essa Barshim* athlete (high jump)/OG – Doha, Qatar
1992-0112 Iivo Niskanen* cross-country skier/OG – Oulu, Finland
1992-0214** Christian Eriksen*** football player – Denmark
1992-0827 Daniel Ståhl* athlete (discus/OG) – Stockholm, Sweden
1993-0101 Sifan Hassan* Dutch runner/OG/to Netherlands at age 15 – Adama, Ethiopia
1993-0315 Paul Pogba* football player – Lagny-sur-Marne, France
1993-0513 Romelu Lukaku* football player – Antwerp, Belgium
1994-0412 Saoirse Ronan* actress/ Irish parents – New York City, NY USA
1994-0819 Nafissatou Thiam* athlete (heptathlon/OG) – Brussels, Belgium
1994-1208 Raheem Sterling* Jamaican-British football player – Kingston, Jamaica
1995-0902 Aleksander Barkov Jr.* hockey player/OB – Tampere, Finland
1995-1025 Valter Skarsgård* actor – Stockholm, Sweden
1995-1227 Timothée Chalamet* actor/w French father – Manhattan, NY USA
1996-0414 Abigail Breslin* actress – New York, NY USA
1996-1029 Mikko Rantanen* hockey player – Nousiainen, Finland
1996-1117 Roope Hintz* hockey player – Tampere, Finland
1997-0113 Connor McDavid* hockey player – Richmond Hill, ON Canada
1997-0210 Chloë Grace Moretz* actress – Atlanta, GA USA
1997-0726 Sebastian Aho* hockey player – Rauma, Finland
1998-0611 Wilma Murto* athlete (pole vault/EG) – Kuusjoki, Finland
1998-0808 Ronan Parke* singer/BGT runner-up – Poringland, Norfolk, England
1998-0824 Robin Packalen* singer – Turku, Finland
1999-0718 Miro Heiskanen* hockey player – Espoo, Finland
1999-0722 Jason Robertson* hockey player/w Filipino mother – Arcadia, CA USA
1999-1110 Armand Duplantis* Swedish-American athlete (pole vault/OG) – Lafayette, LA USA
And then the last year of the century: 2000. Not very easy to put anything here since these people are still so young (as are those borb in the 1990’s, and therefore include mostly actors and athletes), but we’ll give it a try:
2000-0223 Femke Bol* athlete (hurdles)/OB – Amersfoort, Netherlands
2000-0326 Andrei Svechnikov* hockey player – Barnaul, Russia
2000-1001 Kalle Rovanperä* rally driver/WC/son of Harri Rovanperä – Jyväskylä, Finland
Updated 3.3.2023