Chiranjeevi

Konidela Chiranjeevi is an Indian actor, film producer and former politician who works predominantly in Telugu cinema. He is regarded as one of the most successful and influential actors in the history of Indian cinema. In a career spanning over four decades, he starred in over 150 feature films, predominantly in Telugu, as well as some films in Hindi, Tamil and Kannada. Chiranjeevi won the Andhra Pradesh state's highest film award, the Raghupathi Venkaiah Award, three Nandi Awards, and nine Filmfare Awards South including the Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2024, The Government of India honoured him with Padma Vibhushan, the second highest civilian honour. Earlier In 2006, he was honoured with the Padma Bhushan, India's third-highest civilian award, for his contributions to Indian cinema. In 2013, CNN-IBN named him as one of "the men who changed the face of the Indian Cinema".

22 August 1955

Born on the same birth day (22 August): Adam Thielen • Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje • Bob Flanigan (singer) • Claude Debussy • Jean Regnault de Segrais • Julius J. Epstein • Lautaro Martínez • Marius Bezykornovas • Masatoshi Shima • Melville Elijah Stone • Paul Molitor • Randall Cobb (American football) • Ron Dante • Stephen Ireland • Steve Kline (left-handed pitcher) • Sylva Koscina • Wilfred Kitching

Born in the same month (August 1955): Alberto Gonzales • Aleksander Krupa • Anthony Thistlethwaite • Butch Vig • Caleb Carr • Colin Moulding • Diana Scarwid • Gerd Müller (politician) • Herbert Prohaska • Ian Dejardin • James Reilly (Irish politician) • Jamie Moses • John McGeoch • Mike Huckabee • Sylvia Hermon • Thomas Kidd (illustrator)