John Cleese

John Marwood Cleese is an English actor, comedian, screenwriter, producer, and presenter. Emerging from the Cambridge Footlights in the 1960s, he first achieved success at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and as a scriptwriter and performer on The Frost Report. In the late 1960s, he cofounded Monty Python, the comedy troupe responsible for the sketch show Monty Python's Flying Circus. Along with his Python costars Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, Michael Palin, and Graham Chapman, Cleese starred in Monty Python films, which include Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975), Life of Brian (1979), and The Meaning of Life (1983).

27 October 1939

Born on the same birth date (27 October 1939): Dallas Frazier • Suzy Covey

Born on the same birth day (27 October): Boris Chetkov • Carmen Argenziano • Chai Rong • Charlie Tagawa • Garry Tallent • George Thompson (cricketer) • Guillaume Franke • Harry Gregg • Kit Malthouse • Lee Greenwood • Nancy Jacobs • Nancy Storace • Poul Bundgaard • Raymond VI, Count of Toulouse • Roberto Benigni • Scott Weiland • Sheeri Rappaport • Suzy Covey • Topi Sorsakoski • Walt Kuhn • Warren Allen Smith

Born in the same month (October 1939): Dallas Frazier • David Clark, Baron Clark of Windermere • Eddie Holland • F. Murray Abraham • Flavio Cotti • George Cohen • Harvey Goldstein • Harvey Pekar • Larry Bowie (guard) • Lynne Stewart • Melinda Dillon • Melvyn Bragg • Nikos Nikolaidis • Patrick Hughes (artist) • Ron Rifkin • Stephen Sedley • Suzy Covey • Tom O'Connor (comedian)