List of Famous people born on June 21st
Allison Moorer
Allison Moorer is an American singer/songwriter. She signed to MCA Nashville in 1997 and made her debut on the U.S. Billboard Country Chart with the release of her debut single, “A Soft Place To Fall,” which she co-wrote with Gwil Owen. The song was also featured in Robert Redford’s The Horse Whisperer and as a result was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Song in 1999. Moorer performed on the Oscars ceremony in the same year. She has made ten albums and has had songs recorded by Trisha Yearwood, Kenny Chesney, Miranda Lambert, Steve Earle, and Hayes Carll.
Christian Lee
Christian Lee is a Canadian–American mixed martial artist of Chinese–Singaporean and Korean heritage who competes in ONE Championship. He holds Canadian and American citizenship. He is the current ONE Lightweight World Champion and the 2019 ONE Lightweight World Grand Prix Champion. Lee is also currently ranked #3 in the ONE featherweight rankings.
Tyler Childers
Timothy Tyler Childers is an American singer and songwriter. His music is a mix of country, bluegrass and folk. He released his breakthrough album Purgatory in August 2017. Childers released his surprise fourth and most recent LP, Long Violent History, via his own Hickman Holler Records in September 2020.
Yvette Lévy
Yvette Henriette Lévy is a French educator and survivor of the Holocaust. In July 1944, she was arrested by the Gestapo and was eventually sent to Auschwitz concentration camp. She survived and now educates youths about her experiences. Lévy is a Commander of the National Order of Merit and Officer of the Legion of Honour.
Nobuharu Asahara
Nobuharu Asahara is a Japanese former athlete who specialized in the 100 metres and long jump. He won the 100 m at the Japanese national championship on five occasions in 1996, 1997, 2000, 2001 and 2002, and he took part in the Olympics four times in 1996, 2000, 2004 and 2008. He represented Japan six times at the World Championships in Athletics.
Francisco Luis Urquizo
Francisco Luis Urquizo Benavides was a Mexican soldier, writer and historian who fought in the Mexican Revolution, rose to the rank of Major General, and served as Secretary of National Defense. He was also one of the most significant authors in the genre of historical fiction known as the “novela revolucionaria,” a term used to describe works set during the Mexican Revolution. Tropa vieja, which is considered his major narrative work, earned him the sobriquet “novelist of the soldier.”
Ezzatolah Entezami
Ezzatolah Entezami was an Iranian actor.
Rafael Catalá
Rafael Catalá Polo is a Spanish politician and member of the People's Party. He has been Minister of Justice and First Notary of the Kingdom since September 2014, and was additionally interim Minister of Public Works between 19 July 2016 and 4 November 2016. Before this, he served as the 4th Secretary of State for Justice between 2002 and 2004 and as the 8th Secretary of State for Infrastructure, Transport and Housing from 2011 to 2014.
Abbasgulu Bakikhanov
Abbasgulu agha Bakikhanov, Abbas Qoli Bakikhanov, or Abbas-Qoli ibn Mirza Mohammad (Taghi) Khan Badkubi was an Azerbaijani writer, historian, journalist, linguist, poet and philosopher.
Kate Hoey
Catharine Letitia Hoey, Baroness Hoey, known as Kate Hoey, is a Northern Irish politician and life peer who served as Parliamentary Under-Secretary for Home Affairs from 1998 to 1999 and Minister for Sport from 1999 to 2001. A former member of the Labour Party, she was Member of Parliament (MP) for Vauxhall from 1989 to 2019.