Famous Birthdays on June 21

18 notable people were born on June 21.

19th Century

Choe Yong-gon

1900 – 1976

North Korea

North Korean vice-marshal and politician (1900-1976)

military officerpolitician

20th Century

Jean-Paul Sartre

1905 – 1980

France

French existentialist philosopher (1905–1980)

Luis Adolfo Siles Salinas

1925 – 2005

Bolivia

President of Bolivia (1925-2005)

politician

Abd al-Halim Khaddam

1932 – 2020

Syria

Syrian politician (1932–2020)

diplomatpoliticianlawyer

Shirin Ebadi

1947

Iran

Iranian lawyer, human rights activist, and Nobel Peace Prize recipient

women's rights activistpeace activisthuman rights defender

Andrzej Sapkowski

1948

Poland

Polish novelist (born 1948)

Benazir Bhutto

1953 – 2007

Pakistan

11th and 13th prime minister of Pakistan (1953–2007)

politician

Luis Antonio Tagle

1957

Philippines

Filipino Roman Catholic cardinal (1957-)

Catholic bishopCatholic priest

Nimr al-Nimr

1959 – 2016

Saudi Arabia

Saudi Shia Sheikh in al-Awamiyah in Saudi Arabia's Eastern Province

Islamic juristhuman rights defender

Joko Widodo

1961

Indonesia

7th President of the Republic of Indonesia

entrepreneurpoliticianengineer

Yingluck Shinawatra

1967

Serbia

Prime Minister of Thailand from 2011 to 2014

refugeeentrepreneurpolitician

Zuzana Čaputová

1973

Slovakia

Slovak lawyer, environmental activist and politician

activistenvironmentalistjurist

William, Prince of Wales

1982

United Kingdom

heir apparent to the throne of the United Kingdom and 14 Commonwealth Realms

Edward Snowden

1983

Russia

American whistleblower and former NSA contractor (born 1983)

Khatia Buniatishvili

1987

Georgia

Georgian concert pianist

classical pianistmusician

Abubaker Kaki Khamis

1989

Sudan

Athletics competitor, middle distance runner

middle-distance runnerathletics competitor

Anders Aplin

1991

Singapore

Singaporean association football player

association football player