You could enter your data into a two-column cell array and then use CELL2STRUCT:
data = {'Krista', [10 5 1993]; ...
'Kranthi', [6 16 1990]; ...
'Kevin', [4 20 1991]; ...
'Kalil', [7 10 1819]; ...
'Kristen', [2 31 1992]};
s = cell2struct(data, {'name', 'date'},2)