Famous Birthdays on April 6

April 6 has 266 recorded notable births across history, from 1135 to 2009. This page lists every one of them, with the best-known people first.

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Zach Braff

1975 — Zach Braff

American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter

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Major events on April 6

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  1. 2026 The crew of Artemis II makes the first crewed circumlunar flight since Apollo 17 in 1972, returning humanity to the Moon's vicinity and breaking Apollo 13's record by ~4,000 miles as the furthest crewed spaceflight. Source
  2. 1973 Launch of Pioneer 11 spacecraft. Source

Did you know about Zach Braff

Zach Braff starred in The Broken Hearts Club: A Romantic Comedy (2000), The Last Kiss (2006), The Ex (2006), and In Dubious Battle (2016).

Did you know about Charlie McDermott

Charlie McDermott is best known for portraying Axl Heck, the eldest child of the Heck family, in the ABC sitcom The Middle (2009–2018).

Did you know about Myleene Klass

Myleene Klass was a member of the pop group Hear'Say, and later released a solo classical crossover album in 2003, followed by additional "lullaby" albums from 2022 onward.

Did you know about Peyton List

Peyton List began her career as a child model, and transitioned to acting with a minor role in the film 27 Dresses (2008) at the age of nine.

Did you know about Oscar Piastri

Piastri has won nine Formula One Grands Prix across four seasons.


More major people born on April 6

Notable people are ranked by substantive profile depth and public notability.

1976 Candace Cameron Bure

Candace Cameron Bure

American actress and talk show panelist
Candace Helaine Cameron Bure is an American actress, author and former talk show panelist best known as D. J. Tanner in Full House and Fuller House, Summer van Horne in Make It or Break It, and many Hallmark Channel original films—including the title character in their adaptations of the Aurora Teagarden novel series.
1990 Charlie McDermott

Charlie McDermott

American actor
Charles Joseph McDermott Jr. is an American actor, filmmaker and musician. He is best known for portraying Axl Heck, the eldest child of the Heck family, in the ABC sitcom The Middle (2009–2018). He received an Independent Spirit Award nomination for his performance in the independent drama Frozen River (2008).
1978 Myleene Klass

Myleene Klass

Austrian/Filipino-English singer, pianist, and model
Myleene Angela Klass is a British musician, singer, television presenter, model, writer and designer. She was a member of the pop group Hear'Say, and later released a solo classical crossover album in 2003, followed by additional "lullaby" albums from 2022 onward. Klass then went into television and radio presenting, hosting series including Popstar to Operastar (2010–2011) and BBQ Champ (2015) on ITV and The One Show (2007) on BBC One. She was a regular panellist on the ITV lunchtime chat show Loose Women in 2014 and again from 2024 onwards. In 2006, Klass was runner-up on the sixth series of I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!, and returned in 2023 for the "all-stars" series I'm a Celebrity... South Africa, which she won.
1998 Peyton List

Peyton List

American actress and model
Peyton Roi List is an American actress. She began her career as a child model, and transitioned to acting with a minor role in the film 27 Dresses (2008) at the age of nine. She appeared in the films Remember Me and Bereavement, and achieved her breakout role as Holly Hills in the Diary of a Wimpy Kid film series (2011–2012). She gained further attention for portraying Emma Ross on the Disney Channel sitcom Jessie (2011–2015) and its spinoff Bunk'd.
2001 Oscar Piastri

Oscar Piastri

Australian racing driver
Oscar Jack Piastri is an Australian racing driver who competes in Formula One for McLaren. Piastri has won nine Formula One Grands Prix across four seasons.
1979 Lord Frederick Windsor

Lord Frederick Windsor

English journalist and financier
Lord Frederick Michael George David Louis Windsor is a relative of the British royal family. He is the only son of Prince and Princess Michael of Kent, and is 55th in the line of succession to the British throne. He is married to British actress Sophie Winkleman and is a financial analyst by profession. As a great-grandchild of King George V and Queen Mary, he is a second cousin of King Charles III.
1965 Black Francis

Black Francis

American singer-songwriter and guitarist
Charles Michael Kittridge Thompson IV, known professionally as Black Francis and formerly Frank Black, is an American singer, songwriter, and guitarist who is the lead vocalist of the alternative rock band Pixies. Following the band's breakup in 1993, he embarked on a solo career releasing fifteen albums and forming his band, the Catholics. Pixies regrouped in 2004, and he declared his solo career to be over in 2013.
2000 Shaheen Afridi

Shaheen Afridi

Pakistani cricketer
Shaheen Shah Afridi is a Pakistani international cricketer who represents the Pakistan national team. He is the captain of the national ODI team and previously served as captain of Pakistan T20I team. A left-arm fast bowler, he made his international debut against West Indies in 2018 and was named the ICC Men's Cricketer of the Year in 2021, becoming the first Pakistani cricketer to win the Sir Garfield Sobers Trophy. He led the Lahore Qalandars to Pakistan Super League titles in 2022, 2023, and 2025, becoming the first captain to win three PSL championships.
1978 Tim Hasselbeck

Tim Hasselbeck

American football player and sportscaster
Timothy Thomas Hasselbeck is an American sports journalist and former professional football player who is an analyst for ESPN. He played as a quarterback for eight seasons in the National Football League (NFL) with the New York Giants, Washington Redskins, Philadelphia Eagles, Buffalo Bills, Baltimore Ravens, and Arizona Cardinals as well as the Berlin Thunder of NFL Europe. He played college football for the Boston College Eagles. He is the younger brother of former NFL quarterback Matt Hasselbeck.
1983 James Wade

James Wade

English darts player
James Martin Wade is an English professional darts player who competes in Professional Darts Corporation (PDC) events, where he is ranked world number seven; he reached a peak ranking of world number two in 2010. Widely regarded as one of the greatest ever darts players to have never won a world championship and the greatest left-hander in the history of the sport, Wade is a four-time PDC World Championship semi-finalist and eleven-time PDC major winner, placing him fourth in the all-time list behind Phil Taylor, Michael van Gerwen and Luke Littler.
1985 Sinqua Walls

Sinqua Walls

American basketball player and actor
Sinqua Walls is an American actor known for his work in film and television. His work includes the feature films White Men Can’t Jump (2023), Carry-On, and Man of Tomorrow, as well as the Peacock limited series Fight Night: The Million Dollar Heist. Carry-On became one of Netflix’s most-watched films, recording 172.1 million views during its first 91 days of release. Earlier in his career, Walls starred as Don Cornelius in BET’s American Soul and appeared in the television series Power, Teen Wolf, Once Upon a Time, and Friday Night Lights.
1981 Robert Earnshaw

Robert Earnshaw

Welsh footballer
Robert Earnshaw is a Welsh former international footballer who played as a forward. He is the only player to have scored a hat-trick in the Premier League, all three divisions of the English Football League, the League Cup, the FA Cup, and for his country in an international match.
1981 Alex Suarez

Alex Suarez

American bass player
Cobra Starship is an American dance-rock band formed in New York City, New York, in 2005 by Gabe Saporta. He recorded the first album as a solo project, While the City Sleeps, We Rule the Streets. Saporta later enlisted guitarist Ryland Blackinton, bassist Alex Suarez, drummer Nate Novarro, and keytarist Victoria Asher, all of whom provide backing vocals.
1978 Robert Glasper

Robert Glasper

American singer-songwriter, pianist, and producer
Robert Andre Glasper is an American pianist, record producer, songwriter, and musical arranger. His music embodies numerous musical genres, primarily centered on jazz. Glasper has won five Grammy Awards from 11 nominations.
1955 Cathy Jones

Cathy Jones

Canadian actress, comedian, and writer
Catherine Frederica "Cathy" Jones is a Canadian actress, comedian and writer. She is known for her work for 28 years on the Canadian television series This Hour Has 22 Minutes. Jones left the show in 2021.
1956 Dilip Vengsarkar

Dilip Vengsarkar

Indian cricketer and coach
Dilip Balwant Vengsarkar is a former Indian cricketer and a cricket administrator. He was considered to have a very good drive. Along with Sunil Gavaskar and Gundappa Viswanath, he was a key player in the Indian batting line up in the late 70s and early 80s. He was a member of the Indian team that won the 1983 Cricket World Cup. Vengsarkar also led the national side to 1988 Asia Cup victory. He was also a part of the Indian squad which won the 1985 World Championship of Cricket. He went on to play until 1992.
2002 Andrea Botez

Andrea Botez

Canadian-American chess player, commentator, Twitch streamer and YouTuber
Andrea Cecilia Cristina Botez is a Canadian chess player, online streamer, DJ and electronic music producer. With her older sister Alexandra Botez, she co-hosts the chess and entertainment channel BotezLive, which became prominent during the growth of online chess streaming in the early 2020s. The sisters were named to the Forbes 30 Under 30 Games list in 2023 and were ranked fourth on Rolling Stone's list of the 20 most influential creators that year.
1969 Bret Boone

Bret Boone

American baseball player and manager
Bret Robert Boone is an American former professional baseball second baseman who played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Seattle Mariners, Cincinnati Reds, Atlanta Braves, San Diego Padres, Seattle Mariners and Minnesota Twins. During his career, Boone was a three-time All-Star, four-time Gold Glove winner, and two-time Silver Slugger Award winner. He is a third-generation professional athlete. His brother is Aaron Boone, manager of the New York Yankees.
1984 Max Bemis

Max Bemis

American singer-songwriter
Maxim Adam Bemis is an American musician, best known as the lead singer and primary songwriter of the rock band Say Anything. He sang alongside Chris Conley in the supergroup Two Tongues. He plays alongside his former wife Sherri DuPree under the name Perma, and is a comic book writer, chiefly for Marvel Comics, creating X-Men: Worst X-Man Ever and Foolkiller: Psycho Therapy.
1998 Spencer List

Spencer List

American actor
Spencer W. List is an American actor. List is best known from the Fox show Fringe. He has played Carter in The Fosters and its spin-off Good Trouble. He has also been on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit and Jack Ketchum's Offspring.
1997 Mingyu

Mingyu

South Korean singer and rapper
Kim Min-gyu, known mononymously as Mingyu (민규), is a South Korean rapper and singer. Managed by Pledis Entertainment, he is a member of the South Korean boy band Seventeen and its hip hop team, and in 2025, debuted in a sub-unit with S.Coups as CxM.
1992 Julie Ertz

Julie Ertz

American soccer player
Julie Beth Ertz is an American former professional soccer player. From 2014 to 2021, she played for National Women's Soccer League club Chicago Red Stars, and in 2023 she played for Angel City FC. A member of the United States women's national team from 2013 to 2023, she first appeared for the United States national team during an international friendly against Scotland on February 9, 2013, eventually making 123 total appearances for the team.
1951 Bert Blyleven

Bert Blyleven

Dutch-American baseball player and sportscaster
Rik Aalbert Blyleven is a Dutch-American former professional baseball pitcher and color commentator. He played 22 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) from 1970 to 1992 and from 1996 to 2020 was a color commentator for Minnesota Twins television broadcasts. Blyleven recorded 3,701 career strikeouts, the fifth-most in MLB history. He won 287 games, 27th-most all-time, and pitched 4,970 innings, 14th-most all-time. A renowned curveball pitcher, Blyleven was a two-time All-Star and World Series champion. In 2011, Blyleven was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame.
1988 Fabrice Muamba

Fabrice Muamba

Congolese-English footballer
Fabrice Ndala Muamba is a Congolese-born English former professional footballer who played for Arsenal, Birmingham City and Bolton Wanderers as a central midfielder. Born in Zaire, Muamba moved to England at the age of 11 and subsequently played for up to England under-21 level.
2001 Moritz Seider

Moritz Seider

German ice hockey player
Moritz Seider is a German professional ice hockey player who is a defenceman and alternate captain for the Detroit Red Wings of the National Hockey League (NHL). He was drafted sixth overall by the Red Wings in the 2019 NHL entry draft.
1987 Hilary Rhoda

Hilary Rhoda

American model
Hilary Rhoda Hollis is an American model. She is perhaps best known for her work with the brand Estée Lauder and her 2009, 2010 and 2011 appearances in the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue.
1986 Aaron Curry

Aaron Curry

American football player
Aaron Curry is an American professional football coach and former linebacker who most recently served as the linebackers coach for the New York Jets of the National Football League (NFL). Curry was selected by the Seattle Seahawks in the first round in the 2009 NFL draft out of Wake Forest. Curry also played for the Oakland Raiders in 2011 and 2012.
1969

Bison Dele

American basketball player (died 2002)
Bison Dele was an American professional basketball player who played center for the Orlando Magic, Denver Nuggets, Los Angeles Clippers, Chicago Bulls and Detroit Pistons of the National Basketball Association (NBA). Dele played college basketball for the Maryland Terrapins and the Arizona Wildcats before being selected by the Magic with the 10th overall pick in the 1991 NBA draft. He won a championship with the Bulls in 1997.
1972 Anders Thomas Jensen

Anders Thomas Jensen

Danish director and screenwriter
Anders Thomas Jensen is a Danish screenwriter and film director. His film Election Night won the 1998 Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film.
1976 Chris Hoke

Chris Hoke

American football player
Christopher L. Hoke is an American former professional football player. Hoke was a nose tackle for his entire career with the Pittsburgh Steelers of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the BYU Cougars.
1978 Martín Méndez

Martín Méndez

Uruguayan bass player and songwriter
Martín Méndez is a Uruguayan Swedish musician. He migrated to Sweden when he was 17 years old. He is the bassist of the progressive metal band Opeth and the second-longest-serving member of the band, behind frontman Mikael Åkerfeldt. He founded the band White Stones in Barcelona in 2019.
2009 Shaylee Mansfield

Shaylee Mansfield

deaf American actress and YouTuber
Shaylee Mansfield is an American actress. Mansfield, who is deaf, first gained recognition by making YouTube videos in which she told Christmas stories in American Sign Language. Mansfield appeared in an "Unforgettable Stories" video advertisement by Disney Parks, in which she met Minnie Mouse, who was learning sign language at Walt Disney World. The video quickly went viral and became one of Disney's most-watched advertisements.
1826 Gustave Moreau

Gustave Moreau

French painter and academic (died 1898)
Gustave Moreau was a French artist and an important figure in the Symbolist movement. Jean Cassou called him "the Symbolist painter par excellence". He was an influential forerunner of symbolism in the visual arts in the 1860s, and at the height of the symbolist movement in the 1890s, he was among the most significant painters. Art historian Robert Delevoy wrote that Moreau "brought symbolist polyvalence to its highest point in Jupiter and Semele." He was a prolific artist who produced over 15,000 paintings, watercolors, and drawings. Moreau painted allegories and traditional biblical and mythological subjects favored by the fine art academies. J. K. Huysmans wrote, "Gustave Moreau has given new freshness to dreary old subjects by a talent both subtle and ample: he has taken myths worn out by the repetitions of centuries and expressed them in a language that is persuasive and lofty, mysterious and new." The female characters from the Bible and mythology that he so frequently depicted came to be regarded by many as the archetypical symbolist woman. His art fell from favor and received little attention in the early 20th century but, beginning in the 1960s and 70s, he has come to be considered among the most paramount of symbolist painters.
1886 Osman Ali Khan

Osman Ali Khan

Asaf Jah VII, Indian ruler (died 1967)
Mir Osman Ali Khan, Asaf Jah VII was the last Nizam (ruler) of Hyderabad State, the largest state in the erstwhile British Indian Empire. He ascended the throne on 29 August 1911, at the age of 25 and ruled the State of Hyderabad until 1948, when the Indian Union annexed it. He was styled as His Exalted Highness (H.E.H) the Nizam of Hyderabad, and was widely considered one of the world's wealthiest people of all time. With some estimates placing his wealth at 2% of U.S. GDP, his portrait was on the cover of Time magazine in 1937. As a semi-autonomous monarch, he had his mint, printing his currency, the Hyderabadi rupee, and had a private treasury that was said to contain £100 million in gold and silver bullion, and a further £400 million of jewels. The major source of his wealth was the Golconda mines, the only supplier of diamonds in the world at that time. Among them was the Jacob Diamond, valued at some £50 million, and used by the Nizam as a paperweight.
1986 Goeido Gotaro

Goeido Gotaro

Japanese sumo wrestler
Gōeidō Gōtarō is a former sumo wrestler from Osaka Prefecture, Japan. He made his professional debut in January 2005 and reached the top makuuchi division in September 2007. Long regarded as one of the most promising Japanese wrestlers in sumo, Gōeidō holds the modern record for the most consecutive appearances at sumo's third highest rank of sekiwake, at 14 tournaments. He was finally promoted to the rank of ōzeki following the July 2014 tournament, after scores of twelve wins against three losses in two of the previous three tournaments. However, he only managed to win ten or more bouts in a tournament as an ōzeki on six occasions, and was kadoban, or in danger of demotion, eight times. He won his only top division tournament in September 2016 with a perfect 15–0 record and was a runner-up seven times in his career. He retired in January 2020 after two consecutive losing records that would have seen him demoted, to become an elder of the Japan Sumo Association under the name of Takekuma.
1978 Imani Coppola

Imani Coppola

American singer-songwriter and violinist
Imani Francesca Coppola is an American singer-songwriter and violinist. Her debut single "Legend of a Cowgirl" reached the top 40 on the Billboard Hot 100 and the UK Singles Chart in 1997. Her debut album, Chupacabra, released by Columbia Records, was praised by critics and appeared on the US Heatseekers Albums chart. In 2001, Coppola appeared as a guest artist on the Baha Men single "You All Dat", which broke the top 10 in Australia and gave Coppola her second entry on the Billboard Hot 100 to date.
1909 William M. Branham

William M. Branham

American minister and theologian (died 1965)
William Marrion Branham was an American Christian minister and faith healer who initiated the post-World War II healing revival, and claimed to be a prophet with the anointing of Elijah, who had come to prelude Christ's second coming; He is credited as "a principal architect of restorationist thought" for charismatics by some Christian historians, and has been called the "leading individual in the second wave of Pentecostalism." He made a lasting influence on televangelism and the modern charismatic movement, and his "stage presence remains a legend unparalleled in the history of the Charismatic movement". At the time they were held, Branham's inter-denominational meetings were the largest religious meetings ever held in some American cities. Branham was the first American deliverance minister to successfully campaign in Europe; his ministry reached global audiences with major campaigns held in North America, Europe, Africa, and India.
1936 Jean-Pierre Changeux

Jean-Pierre Changeux

French neuroscientist, biologist, and academic
Jean-Pierre Changeux is a French neuroscientist known for his research in several fields of biology, from the structure and function of proteins, to the early development of the nervous system up to cognitive functions. Although being famous in biological sciences for the MWC model, the identification and purification of the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor, the theory of epigenesis by synapse selection and the global neuronal workspace theory for conscious processing are also notable scientific achievements. Changeux is known by the non-scientific public for his ideas regarding the connection between mind and physical brain. As put forth in his book, Conversations on Mind, Matter and Mathematics, Changeux strongly supports the view that the nervous system functions in a projective rather than reactive style and that interaction with the environment, rather than being instructive, results in the selection amongst a diversity of preexisting internal representations.
1973 Donnie Edwards

Donnie Edwards

American football player
Donnie Lewis Edwards Jr. is an American former professional football player who was a linebacker for 13 seasons in the National Football League (NFL) for the Kansas City Chiefs and San Diego Chargers. He played college football for the UCLA Bruins, earning third-team All-American honors in 1994. He was selected by the Chiefs in the fourth round of the 1996 NFL draft.
1949 Ng Ser Miang

Ng Ser Miang

Singaporean athlete, entrepreneur and diplomat
Ng Ser Miang is a Singaporean entrepreneur, diplomat, retired sailor, and sports administrator. He founded Trans-Island Bus Services in 1982 and is a board member of Singapore Press Holdings. Ng has been the vice-president of the Singapore National Olympic Council since 1990, and served as the president of the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics organising committee. From 2009 to 2013, and again from 2020 to 2024, he served as a vice-president of the International Olympic Committee. In 2013, he was a candidate for the presidency of the International Olympic Committee, but lost to Thomas Bach. Domestically, Ng was a Nominated Member of Parliament (NMP) from 2002 to 2005, and served Singapore as the Ambassador to Norway and Hungary under prime ministers Goh Chok Tong and Lee Hsien Loong.
1919 Georgios Mylonas

Georgios Mylonas

Greek politician, 11th Greek Minister of Culture (died 1998)
Georgios Mylonas was a Greek Center Union politician and government minister. He was a close aide to Greek statesman and premier Georgios Papandreou, and was repeatedly elected deputy for the Ioannina seat with the Center Union. Mylonas had served as an undersecretary to the premier's office and education undersecretary from 1963 to 1965. He assumed the transport ministry in the first post-junta government in 1974 and was Minister for Culture from 1989 to 1990. Mylonas was the author of the book Escape From Amorgos, detailing his escape from the island, where he was exiled during the 1967-1974 military dictatorship. The escape was organized by his then, son-in-law Elias B.M. Kulukundis and his daughter Eleni Mylonas with the help of Maria Becket.
2009 Valentina Tronel

Valentina Tronel

French child singer
Valentina Tronel, known mononymously as Valentina, is a French singer. She rose to prominence after she won Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2020, becoming the first French entrant to win the contest. Previously, in 2017, she took part in the French version of The Voice Kids. Between 2018 and 2021, she was part of the child pop group Kids United Nouvelle Génération.
1810 Philip Henry Gosse

Philip Henry Gosse

English biologist and academic (died 1888)
Philip Henry Gosse, known to his friends as Henry, was an English naturalist, populariser of natural science, prolific author, "Father of the Aquarium", scientific illustrator, lecturer, entrepreneur and pioneer in the study of marine biology and ornithology. Gosse created and stocked the world's first public marine aquarium at London Zoo in 1853, and coined the term "aquarium". His 1854 work The Aquarium: An Unveiling of the Wonders of the Deep Sea was the catalyst for the aquarium craze in mid-Victorian England. Over thirty years later, Gosse co-authored a three-volume work on Rotifera, considered at the time "the most complete and exhaustive history of the Rotifera in any language", with drawings of "extreme minuteness, accuracy, and beauty".
1955 Michael Rooker

Michael Rooker

American actor, director, and producer
Michael Rooker is an American actor. He first rose to prominence for portraying the titular role in Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer (1986), and is best known for starring as Merle Dixon in the AMC series The Walking Dead (2010–2013) and as Yondu Udonta in Guardians of the Galaxy (2014), its sequel Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017), as well as a cameo in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 (2023). He is a recurring collaborator of Guardians of the Galaxy director and co-CEO of DC Studios James Gunn, appearing in all of his films to date including Slither (2006), Super (2010) and The Suicide Squad (2021), along with the TV series Peacemaker.
1929 Willis Hall

Willis Hall

English playwright and author (died 2005)
Willis Edward Hall was an English playwright and radio, television and film writer who drew on his working-class roots in Leeds for much of his writing. Willis formed an extremely prolific partnership with his life-long friend Keith Waterhouse producing over 250 works. He wrote plays such as Billy Liar, The Long and the Short and the Tall, and Celebration; the screenplays for Whistle Down the Wind, A Kind of Loving and Alfred Hitchcock's Torn Curtain; and television programmes including Budgie, Worzel Gummidge and Minder. His passion for musical theatre led to a string of hits, including Wind in the Willows, The Card, and George Stiles' and Anthony Drewe's Peter Pan: A Musical Adventure.
1975 Hal Gill

Hal Gill

American ice hockey player
Harold Priestley Gill III is an American former professional ice hockey defenseman who played 16 NHL seasons with six different teams, winning the Stanley Cup with the Pittsburgh Penguins in 2009.
1660 Johann Kuhnau

Johann Kuhnau

German organist and composer (died 1722)
Johann Kuhnau was a German polymath, known primarily as a composer today. He was also active as a novelist, translator, lawyer, and music theorist, and was able to combine these activities with his duties in his official post as Thomaskantor in Leipzig, which he occupied for 21 years. Much of his music, including operas, masses, and other large-scale vocal works, is lost. His reputation today rests on his Biblical Sonatas, a set of programmatic keyboard sonatas published in 1700, in which each sonata depicted in detail a particular story from the Bible. After his death, Kuhnau was succeeded as Thomaskantor by Johann Sebastian Bach.
1927 Gerry Mulligan

Gerry Mulligan

American saxophonist, clarinet player, and composer (died 1996)
Gerald Joseph Mulligan, also known as Jeru, was an American jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, pianist, composer and arranger. Though primarily known as one of the leading jazz baritone saxophonists—playing the instrument with a light and airy tone in the era of cool jazz—Mulligan was also a significant arranger working with Claude Thornhill, Miles Davis, Stan Kenton, and others. His piano-less quartet of the early 1950s with trumpeter Chet Baker is still regarded as one of the best cool jazz ensembles. Mulligan was also a skilled pianist and played several other reed instruments. Several of his compositions, including "Walkin' Shoes" and "Five Brothers", have become standards.
1928 James Watson

James Watson

American biologist, geneticist, and zoologist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2025)
James Dewey Watson was an American molecular biologist, geneticist, and zoologist. In 1953, James Watson and Francis Crick co-authored an academic paper on DNA entitled, "Molecular Structure of Nucleic Acids: A Structure for Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid". Published in the scientific journal Nature, the paper proposed the existence of the double helix structure of the DNA molecule, having built on research by Rosalind Franklin and Raymond Gosling. In 1962, the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded to James Watson, Francis Crick, and Maurice Wilkins "for their discoveries concerning the molecular structure of nucleic acids and its significance for information transfer in living material".
1937 Billy Dee Williams

Billy Dee Williams

American actor, singer, and writer
William December Williams Jr. is an American actor, novelist and painter. He has appeared in over 100 films and television roles over six decades. He is best known for portraying Lando Calrissian in the Star Wars franchise and has also appeared in critically acclaimed and popular titles such as Mahogany (1975), Scott Joplin (1977), and Nighthawks (1981), as Harvey Dent in Batman (1989) and The Lego Batman Movie (2017), The Last Angry Man (1959), Carter's Army (1969), The Out-of-Towners (1970), The Final Comedown and Lady Sings the Blues, Hit! (1973), Fear City and Terror in the Aisles, Alien Intruder (1993) and The Visit (2000).
1947 John Ratzenberger

John Ratzenberger

American actor and director
John Dezso Ratzenberger is an American actor, widely known for his role as Cliff Clavin on the comedy series Cheers (1982–1993), for which he earned two Primetime Emmy nominations. Ratzenberger reprised the role in the short-lived spin-off The Tortellis, an episode of Wings, as well as in an episode of Frasier. He has voiced various characters in Pixar animated feature films including Hamm in the Toy Story franchise, Yeti the Abominable Snowman in the Monsters, Inc. franchise, The Underminer in The Incredibles franchise, Mack in the Cars franchise, Fritz in the Inside Out franchise, and many others.
1951 Jean-Marc Boivin

Jean-Marc Boivin

French skier, mountaineer, and pilot (died 1990)
Jean-Marc Boivin was a French mountaineer, extreme skier, hang glider and paraglider pilot, speleologist, BASE jumper, film maker and author. The holder of several altitude records for hang gliding and paragliding, the creator of numerous first ascents and first ski descents in the Alps, a member of the team that broke the record for a sub-glacial dive and the first person to paraglide from the summit of Mount Everest, Boivin was a pioneer of extreme sports. He died from injuries incurred after BASE jumping off Angel Falls in Venezuela, the highest waterfall in the world.
1953 Patrick Doyle

Patrick Doyle

Scottish actor and composer
Patrick Doyle is a Scottish composer and occasional actor best known for his film scores. During his 50-year career in film, television and theatre, he has composed the scores for over 60 feature films. A longtime collaborator of actor-director Kenneth Branagh, Doyle is known for his work on films such as Henry V, Sense and Sensibility, Hamlet, Carlito's Way, Quest for Camelot, and Gosford Park, as well as Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Rise of the Planet of the Apes, Thor, Brave, Cinderella, Murder on the Orient Express and Death on the Nile.
1929 André Previn

André Previn

American pianist, composer, and conductor (died 2019)
André George Previn was a German and American conductor, composer, and pianist. His career had three facets: Hollywood films, jazz, and classical music. In each he achieved success, and the latter two were part of his life until the end. In movies, he arranged and composed music. In jazz, he was a celebrated pianist, accompanist to singers, and interpreter of songs from the "Great American Songbook". In classical music, he also performed as a pianist but gained television fame as a conductor, and during his last thirty years created his legacy as a composer.
1984 Diana Matheson

Diana Matheson

Canadian soccer player
Diana Beverly Matheson is a Canadian former professional soccer player who played for the Canada national team from 2003 to 2020 and multiple professional women's teams over the course of her career. She is best known for scoring the bronze medal-winning goal for Canada in the 92nd minute against France at the 2012 Summer Olympics. She also won a bronze medal at the 2016 Rio Olympics and gold medal at the 2011 Pan American Games with the senior national team. Matheson was inducted to the Canada Soccer Hall of Fame in 2025.
1950 Claire Morissette

Claire Morissette

Canadian cycling activist (died 2007)
Claire Morissette was a Canadian cycling advocate who fought for equal cyclists' rights in Montreal since 1976. She was a member of the group Le Monde à Bicyclette. Notable were the stunts they organized to raise consciousness of automobile transportation's negative impact on cities and their inhabitants, such as bringing snow skis and toboggans on subways to protest the exclusion of bicycles and a die-in on the corner of St. Catherine and University streets in which 100 people lay in the street adorned with fake blood and surrounded with wrecked bikes.
1903 Mickey Cochrane

Mickey Cochrane

American baseball player and manager (died 1962)
Gordon Stanley "Mickey" Cochrane, nicknamed "Black Mike", was an American professional baseball player, manager and coach. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a catcher for the Philadelphia Athletics and Detroit Tigers. Cochrane was considered one of the best catchers in baseball history and is a member of the Baseball Hall of Fame. In his first season as manager, he led the Tigers to 101 wins, which was the most for a rookie manager for 27 years. Since Cochrane, six other managers have won 100 games as a rookie.
1965 Sterling Sharpe

Sterling Sharpe

American football player and sportscaster
Sterling Sharpe is an American former professional football player who was a wide receiver for the Green Bay Packers of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the South Carolina Gamecocks, and played in the NFL from 1988 to 1994 with the Packers in a career shortened by a neck injury. He became an analyst for the NFL Network. He is the older brother of Pro Football Hall of Fame tight end Shannon Sharpe. In 2025, Sterling Sharpe was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
1812 Alexander Herzen

Alexander Herzen

Russian philosopher and author (died 1870)
Alexander Ivanovich Herzen was a Russian writer and thinker known as the precursor of Russian socialism and one of the main precursors of agrarian populism. With his writings, many composed while exiled in London, he attempted to influence the situation in Russia, contributing to a political climate that led to the emancipation of the serfs in 1861. He published the important social novel Who is to Blame? (1845–46). His autobiography, My Past and Thoughts, is often considered one of the best examples of that genre in Russian literature.
1886 Walter Dandy

Walter Dandy

American physician and neurosurgeon (died 1946)
Walter Edward Dandy was an American neurosurgeon and scientist. He is considered one of the founding fathers of neurosurgery, along with Victor Horsley and Harvey Cushing. Dandy is credited with numerous neurosurgical discoveries and innovations, including the description of the circulation of cerebrospinal fluid in the brain, surgical treatment of hydrocephalus, the invention of air ventriculography and pneumoencephalography, the description of brain endoscopy, the establishment of the first intensive care unit, and the first clipping of an intracranial aneurysm, which marked the birth of cerebrovascular neurosurgery.
1957 Paolo Nespoli

Paolo Nespoli

Italian soldier, engineer, and astronaut
Major Paolo Angelo Nespoli is an Italian astronaut and engineer of the European Space Agency (ESA). In 2007, he first traveled into space aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery as a mission specialist of STS-120. In December 2010 he again traveled into space aboard the Soyuz TMA-20 spacecraft as an Expedition 26/27 flight engineer. Nespoli's third spaceflight was on board Soyuz MS-05, which launched in July 2017 for Expedition 52/53. He was also the European Space Agency's oldest active astronaut prior to his retirement in 2019.
1960 Warren Haynes

Warren Haynes

American singer-songwriter and guitarist
Warren Haynes is an American musician, singer and songwriter. He is best known for his work as longtime guitarist with the Allman Brothers Band and as founding member of the jam band Gov't Mule. Early in his career he was a guitarist for David Allan Coe and the Dickey Betts Band. Haynes is also known for his associations with the surviving members of the Grateful Dead, including touring with Phil Lesh and Friends and the Dead. In addition, Haynes founded and manages Evil Teen Records.
1956 Lee Scott

Lee Scott

English politician
Lee Scott is a British Conservative Party politician. He was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Ilford North from 2005 until his defeat at the 2015 general election. Scott is an officer of the Conservative Friends of Israel. In the 2021 Essex County Council election he was elected to the ward of Chigwell & Loughton Broadway, and was narrowly re-elected to the successor seat of Chigwell & Buckhurst Hill East in 2026, surviving the Reform UK wave that toppled the 26-year Conservative administration.
1992 Huh Chan-mi

Huh Chan-mi

South Korean singer
Huh Chan-mi, also known mononymously as Chanmi, is a South Korean singer. Chanmi made her debut in 2010 as a member of a South Korean co-ed group Coed School and its female unit F-ve Dolls from 2011 until her departure from the group in February 2012. Chanmi briefly returned to training and appeared on the survival shows Produce 101 (2016) and Mix Nine (2017). Chanmi later signed FirstOne Entertainment in 2020 prior to release her debut solo single album, Highlight, later that year.
1706 Louis de Cahusac

Louis de Cahusac

French playwright and composer (died 1759)
Louis de Cahusac was an 18th-century French playwright, librettist, and Freemason. He is most famous for his work with the composer Jean-Philippe Rameau. He provided the libretti for several of Rameau's operas, namely Les fêtes de l'Hymen et de l'Amour (1747), Zaïs (1748), Naïs (1749), Zoroastre, La naissance d'Osiris (1754), and Anacréon. He is also credited with writing the libretto of Rameau's final work, Les Boréades. Cahusac contributed to the Encyclopédie and was the lover of Marie Fel.
1969 Paul Rudd

Paul Rudd

American actor
Paul Stephen Rudd is an American actor. Rudd studied theatre at the University of Kansas and the American Academy of Dramatic Arts before making his acting debut in 1991. He was included on the Forbes Celebrity 100 list in 2019, and was named People magazine's "Sexiest Man Alive" in 2021. The accolades he has received include a Critics' Choice Television Award, alongside nominations for two Actor Awards, a Golden Globe Award, and two Primetime Emmy Awards.
1903 Harold Eugene Edgerton

Harold Eugene Edgerton

American engineer and academic (died 1990)
Harold Eugene Edgerton, also known as Papa Flash, was an American scientist and researcher, a professor of electrical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is largely credited with transforming the stroboscope from an obscure laboratory instrument into a common device. He also was deeply involved with the development of sonar and deep-sea photography, and his equipment was used in collaboration with Jacques Cousteau in searches for shipwrecks and even the Loch Ness Monster.
1920 Edmond H. Fischer

Edmond H. Fischer

Swiss-American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2021)
Edmond Henri Fischer was a Swiss-American biochemist. He and his collaborator Edwin G. Krebs were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1992 for describing how reversible phosphorylation works as a switch to activate proteins and regulate various cellular processes. From 2007 until 2014, he was the Honorary President of the World Cultural Council. At the time of his death at age 101 in 2021, he was the oldest living Nobel Prize laureate.
1931 Ram Dass

Ram Dass

American author and educator (died 2019)
Ram Dass, also known as Baba Ram Dass, was an American spiritual teacher, guru of modern yoga, psychologist, and writer. His best-selling 1971 book Be Here Now, which has been described by multiple reviewers as "seminal", helped popularize Eastern spirituality and yoga in the West. He authored or co-authored twelve more books on spirituality over the next four decades, including Grist for the Mill (1977), How Can I Help? (1985), and Polishing the Mirror (2013).
1952 Marilu Henner

Marilu Henner

Greek-Polish American actress and author
Marilu Henner is an American actress, singer, dancer, television host, and author. She began her career appearing in the original production of the musical Grease in 1971, before making her screen debut in the 1977 comedy-drama film Between the Lines. In 1978, Henner was cast in her breakthrough role as Elaine O'Connor Nardo in the ABC/NBC sitcom Taxi, a role she played until 1983 and for which she received five Golden Globe Award nominations.
1916 Vincent Ellis McKelvey

Vincent Ellis McKelvey

American geologist and author (died 1987)
Vincent Ellis McKelvey was an American geologist and earth scientist. Recognized as an international authority on deep-sea mineral deposits, he spent 46 years with the United States Geological Survey. From 1968 to 1982, he served as scientific adviser and senior deputy to the United States delegation to the Law of the Sea Conference of the United Nations, where fellow delegates often depended on his ability to render complex scientific issues into plain English.
1934 Guy Peellaert

Guy Peellaert

Belgian painter, illustrator, and photographer (died 2008)
Guy Peellaert was a Belgian artist, painter, illustrator, comic artist and photographer, most famous for the book Rock Dreams, and his album covers for rock artists like David Bowie and the Rolling Stones. He also designed film posters for films like Taxi Driver (1976), Paris, Texas (1984), and Short Cuts (1993). The band Frankie Goes to Hollywood took their name from Peellaert's painting, titled Frank Sinatra, which featured the headline "Frankie Goes Hollywood".
1937 Merle Haggard

Merle Haggard

American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2016)
Merle Ronald Haggard was an American country music singer, songwriter, guitarist, and fiddler. Widely regarded as one of the greatest and most influential figures in country music, he was a central pioneer of the Bakersfield sound. With a career spanning over five decades, Haggard had 38 number-one hits on the US country charts, several of which also made the Billboard all-genre singles chart. His song "Mama Tried" has become a country staple.
1941 Angeliki Laiou

Angeliki Laiou

Greek-American Byzantinist and politician (died 2008)
Angeliki E. Laiou was a Greek-American Byzantinist and politician. She taught at the University of Louisiana, Harvard University, Brandeis University, and Rutgers University. She was the Dumbarton Oaks Professor of Byzantine Studies at Harvard University from 1981 until her death. From 2000 to 2002, she was also a member of the Hellenic Parliament for the Panhellenic Socialist Movement (PASOK): she served as Deputy Secretary of Foreign Affairs for six months in 2000.
1942 Barry Levinson

Barry Levinson

American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
Barry Levinson is an American filmmaker. He has received numerous accolades including the Academy Award for Best Director for Rain Man (1988), as well as four Primetime Emmy Awards and nominations for three Golden Globe Awards. Levinson's other best-known works are Diner (1982), The Natural (1984), Good Morning, Vietnam (1987), Bugsy (1991), and Wag the Dog (1997). In 2021, he co-executive produced the Hulu miniseries Dopesick and directed the first two episodes.
1963 Rafael Correa

Rafael Correa

Ecuadorian economist and politician, 54th President of Ecuador
Rafael Vicente Correa Delgado is an Ecuadorian politician and economist who served as the 45th president of Ecuador from 2007 to 2017. The leader of the PAIS Alliance political movement from its foundation until 2017, Correa is a democratic socialist and his administration focused on the implementation of left-wing policies. Internationally, he served as president pro tempore of the UNASUR. Since 2017, he has been living with his family in Belgium.
1964 Tim Walz

Tim Walz

American politician, Governor of Minnesota & vice presidential candidate
Timothy James Walz is an American politician, former educator, and Army National Guard veteran serving since 2019 as the 41st governor of Minnesota. From 2007 to 2019, he was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives, representing Minnesota's 1st congressional district. Walz is a member of the Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party (DFL), which affiliates with the national Democratic Party, and was the party's vice presidential nominee in the 2024 presidential election.
1908 Ernie Lombardi

Ernie Lombardi

American baseball player (died 1977)
Ernesto Natali Lombardi was an American professional baseball player. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a catcher for the Brooklyn Robins, Cincinnati Reds, Boston Braves, and New York Giants during a career that spanned 17 years, from 1931 through 1947. He had several nicknames, including "Schnozz", "Lumbago", "Bocci", "the Cyrano of the Iron Mask", and "Lom". He was inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1986.
1944 Charles Sobhraj

Charles Sobhraj

French serial killer
Charles Sobhraj is a French serial killer, fraudster, and thief whose victims were mainly Western tourists travelling on the hippie trail of South Asia during the 1970s. He is of Sindhi and Vietnamese origin. He was known as the Bikini Killer because of the attire of several of his victims, as well as the Splitting Killer and the Serpent for "his snake-like ability to avoid detection by authorities".
1961 Rory Bremner

Rory Bremner

Scottish impressionist and comedian
Roderick Keith Ogilvy "Rory" Bremner, is a Scottish impressionist and comedian, noted for his work in political satire and impressions of British public figures. He is best known for co-starring with John Bird and John Fortune in the comedy sketch shows Rory Bremner...Who Else? and Bremner, Bird and Fortune, as well as being a team captain on the first two series of comedy panel show Mock the Week.
1892 Lowell Thomas

Lowell Thomas

American journalist and author (died 1981)
Lowell Jackson Thomas was an American writer, broadcaster, and documentary filmmaker, known as a world traveler. He authored more than fifty non-fiction books, mostly travel narratives and popular biographies of explorers and military men. Between 1930 and the mid-1970s, Thomas appeared regularly on radio and occasionally on television as a travel and news commentator. Until the 1950s, he was a narrator of Movietone newsreels shown in cinemas.
1844 William Lyne

William Lyne

Australian politician, 13th Premier of New South Wales (died 1913)
Sir William John Lyne KCMG was an Australian politician who served as Premier of New South Wales from 1899 to 1901, and later as a federal cabinet minister under Edmund Barton and Alfred Deakin. He is best known as the subject of the so called "Hopetoun Blunder", unexpectedly being asked to serve as the first Prime Minister of Australia but proving unable to form a government.
1992 Ken

Ken

South Korean singer
Lee Jae-hwan, known professionally as Ken (Korean: 켄), is a South Korean singer and actor, formerly signed under Jellyfish Entertainment. He is one of the members of the South Korean boy group VIXX, and has been widely praised for his unique, soulful, and husky vocal tone. Ken began his acting career in 2014 in MBC Every 1's comedy drama Boarding House No. 24 as Lee Jae-hwan.
1930 Qiu Dahong

Qiu Dahong

Chinese coastal and offshore engineer, member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (died 2025)
Qiu Dahong was a Chinese coastal and offshore engineer. He served as chief engineer of the Dalian Fishing Port, the New Dalian Port, the Qinhuangdao Petroleum Port, and many other projects. He was a professor of the Dalian University of Technology and directed the State Key Laboratory of Coastal and Offshore Engineering. He was elected an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1991.
1977 Andy Phillips

Andy Phillips

American baseball player and coach
George Andrew Phillips is an American baseball coach and former infielder. He played college baseball at Alabama for coach Jim Wells from 1996 to 1999 and played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the New York Yankees, New York Mets, and Cincinnati Reds. Phillips was raised in Demopolis, Alabama, where he played baseball for the Demopolis Academy Generals. Phillips was an All-American for the Tide.
1949 Horst Ludwig Störmer

Horst Ludwig Störmer

German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
Horst Ludwig Störmer is a German physicist, Nobel laureate and emeritus professor at Columbia University. He was awarded the 1998 Nobel Prize in Physics jointly with Daniel Tsui and Robert Laughlin "for their discovery of a new form of quantum fluid with fractionally charged excitations". He and Tsui were working at Bell Labs at the time of the experiment cited by the Nobel committee.
1931 Ivan Dixon

Ivan Dixon

American actor, director, and producer (died 2008)
Ivan Nathaniel Dixon III was an American actor, director, and producer best known for his series role in the 1960s sitcom Hogan's Heroes, and for his starring roles in the 1964 independent drama Nothing But a Man and "The Final War of Olly Winter" (1967), the debut episode of the anthology series CBS Playhouse. In addition, he directed many episodes of television series.
1820 Nadar

Nadar

French photographer, journalist, and author (died 1910)
Gaspard-Félix Tournachon, known by the pseudonym Nadar or Félix Nadar, was a French photographer, caricaturist, journalist, novelist and balloonist who was a proponent of heavier-than-air flight. In 1858, he became the first person to take aerial photographs. Photographic portraits by Nadar are held by many of the great national collections of photographs. His son, Paul Nadar, continued the studio after his death.
1904 Kurt Georg Kiesinger

Kurt Georg Kiesinger

German lawyer, politician and Chancellor of Germany (died 1988)
Kurt Georg Kiesinger was a German politician and lawyer who served as the chancellor of West Germany from 1 December 1966 to 21 October 1969. Before he became chancellor, he served as Minister-President of Baden-Württemberg from 1958 to 1966 and as President of the Bundesrat from 1962 to 1963. He was chairman of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) from 1967 to 1971.
1926 Sergio Franchi

Sergio Franchi

Italian-American singer and actor (died 1990)
Sergio Franchi was an Italian-American tenor and actor who enjoyed success in the United States and internationally after gaining notice in Britain in the early 1960s. In 1962, RCA Victor signed him to a seven-year contract and in October of that year Franchi appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show and performed at Carnegie Hall. Sol Hurok managed Franchi's initial American concert tour.
1982 Travis Moen

Travis Moen

Canadian ice hockey player
Travis Shawn Moen is a Canadian former professional ice hockey winger. He was selected in the fifth round, 155th overall, by the Calgary Flames of the National Hockey League (NHL) in the 2000 NHL entry draft and previously played for the Chicago Blackhawks, Anaheim Ducks, with whom he won the Stanley Cup in 2007, San Jose Sharks, Montreal Canadiens, and Dallas Stars.
1632 Maria Leopoldine of Austria (died 1649)

Maria Leopoldine of Austria (died 1649)

Maria Leopoldine of Austria-Tyrol was by birth Archduchess of Austria and member of the Tyrolese branch of the House of Habsburg and by marriage the second spouse of her first cousin, Ferdinand III, Holy Roman Emperor. As such, she was Empress of the Holy Roman Empire, German queen and queen consort of Hungary and Bohemia. She died in childbirth, aged 17.
1942 Anita Pallenberg

Anita Pallenberg

Italian-English model, actress, and fashion designer (died 2017)
Anita Pallenberg was an Italian-German film actress, artist, and model. A style icon and "It girl" of the 1960s and 1970s, Pallenberg was credited as the muse of the Rolling Stones: she was the romantic partner of the Stones multi-instrumentalist Brian Jones and later, from 1967 to 1980, the partner of Stones guitarist Keith Richards, with whom she had three children.
1988 Ivonne Orsini

Ivonne Orsini

Puerto Rican model and television host, Miss World Puerto Rico 2008
Ivonne Marie Orsini López is a Puerto Rican actress, model, tv host and beauty pageant titleholder. Her career began in the pageantry industry, but she has moved into other media. Orsini was one of the hosts of WAPA-TV show ¡Viva la tarde!. Currently, she is now the co-host of the Puerto Rican version of Hoy Día on Telemundo station WKAQ-TV.
1936 Helen Berman

Helen Berman

Dutch-Israeli painter and illustrator
Helen Berman is a Dutch-Israeli visual artist. She was a textile designer in the 1960s and has been a painter and occasionally an art educator since the 1970s. She is well known in Israel and has exhibited also in Germany and the Netherlands. She created modern and postmodern art and has engaged in realistic impressionism and lyrical abstract expressionism.
1943 Ian MacRae

Ian MacRae

New Zealand rugby player
Ian Robert MacRae is a former New Zealand rugby union player. A second five-eighth and centre, MacRae represented West Coast, Bay of Plenty and Hawke's Bay at a provincial level, and was a member of the New Zealand national side, the All Blacks, from 1963 to 1970. He played 28 matches for the All Blacks—three as captain—including 17 internationals.
1934 Anton Geesink

Anton Geesink

Dutch martial artist and wrestler (died 2010)
Antonius Johannes Geesink was a Dutch 10th dan judoka. He was the first non-Japanese judoka to win gold at the World Judo Championships, a feat he accomplished in 1961 and 1965. He was also an Olympic Champion, having won gold at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Japan, and won a record 21 European Judo Championships during his career.
1939 John Sculley

John Sculley

American businessman, co-founded Zeta Interactive
John Sculley III is an American businessman, entrepreneur, and investor in high-tech startups. Sculley was vice-president (1970–1977) and president of PepsiCo (1977–1983), until he became chief executive officer (CEO) of Apple Inc. in April 1983, a position he held until October 1993. In 1987, Sculley was named Silicon Valley's top-paid executive, with an annual salary of US$10.2 million.
1940 Pedro Armendáriz

Pedro Armendáriz

Jr., Mexican-American actor and producer (died 2011)
Pedro Armendáriz Bohr was a Mexican actor. The son of actor Pedro Armendáriz, he had an extensive career in both Mexican and American films, appearing in over 200 productions between the 1960s and the 2010s. He was a two-time Ariel Award winner, Best Actor for Mina, Wind of Freedom (1977) and Best Supporting Actor for Herod's Law (1999).
1983 Katie Weatherston

Katie Weatherston

Canadian ice hockey player
Katherine Marie "Katie" Weatherston is a Canadian retired ice hockey player and head coach of the Lebanese women’s national ice hockey team. As a member of the Canadian women's national ice hockey team, she won Olympic gold in the women's ice hockey tournament at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin and medalled at two IIHF Women's World Championships.
1973 Randall Godfrey

Randall Godfrey

American football player
Randall Euralentris Godfrey is an American former professional football player who was a linebacker in the National Football League (NFL). Godfrey played college football for the Georgia Bulldogs football and was selected in the 1996 NFL draft by the Dallas Cowboys with the 49th overall pick. He then played for the Tennessee Titans and the Seattle Seahawks.
1861 Stanislas de Guaita

Stanislas de Guaita

French poet and author (died 1897)
Stanislas de Guaita was a French poet based in Paris, an expert on esotericism and European mysticism, and an active member of the Rosicrucian Order. He was very celebrated and successful in his time. He had many disputes with other people who were involved with occultism and magic. Occultism and magic were part of his novels.
1725 Pasquale Paoli

Pasquale Paoli

French soldier and politician (died 1807)
Filippo Antonio Pasquale de' Paoli was a Corsican patriot, statesman, and military leader who was at the forefront of resistance movements against the Genoese and later French rule over the island. He became the President of the Executive Council of the General Diet of the People of Corsica and wrote the Constitution of the state.
1901 Pier Giorgio Frassati

Pier Giorgio Frassati

Italian activist (died 1925)
Pier Giorgio Frassati was an Italian Catholic activist and a member of the Third Order of Saint Dominic. He was dedicated to social justice issues and joined several charitable organizations, including Catholic Action and the Society of Saint Vincent de Paul, to better aid the poor and less fortunate living in his hometown of Turin.
1900 Leo Robin

Leo Robin

American composer and songwriter (died 1984)
Leo Robin was an American composer, lyricist and songwriter. He is probably best known for collaborating with Ralph Rainger on the 1938 Oscar-winning song "Thanks for the Memory," sung by Bob Hope and Shirley Ross in the film The Big Broadcast of 1938, and with Jule Styne on "Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend".
1967 Tanya Byron

Tanya Byron

English psychologist and academic
Tanya Byron is a British psychologist, writer, and media personality, best known for her work as a child therapist on television shows Little Angels and The House of Tiny Tearaways. She also co-created the BBC Two sitcom The Life and Times of Vivienne Vyle with Jennifer Saunders, and still contributes articles to various newspapers.
1917 Leonora Carrington

Leonora Carrington

English-Mexican painter and author (died 2011)
Mary Leonora Carrington was a British and Mexican surrealist painter and novelist. She lived most of her adult life in Mexico City and was one of the last surviving participants in the Surrealist movement of the 1930s. Carrington was also a founding member of the women's liberation movement in Mexico during the 1970s.
1962 Iris Häussler

Iris Häussler

German sculptor and academic
Iris Haeussler is a conceptual and installation art artist of German origin. She lives in Toronto, Canada. Many of Iris Haeussler's works are detailed, hyperrealistic installations that visitors can decode as narrative stories. Recurring topics in her work include historic, cultural, social and geographic origins; family ties, relationships, memory, history, trauma and obsession.
1970 Olaf Kölzig

Olaf Kölzig

South African-German ice hockey player and coach
Olaf Kölzig is a South African-born German former professional ice hockey goaltender. He is a goaltender coach and player development coach for the Washington Capitals of the National Hockey League (NHL). With the exception of eight games with the Tampa Bay Lightning, he played his entire 14-year NHL career with the Capitals.
1985 Clarke MacArthur

Clarke MacArthur

Canadian ice hockey player
Clarke MacArthur is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player. He was a left winger in the National Hockey League (NHL) with the Ottawa Senators, Buffalo Sabres, Atlanta Thrashers and Toronto Maple Leafs. He was originally selected by Buffalo in the third round, 74th overall, at the 2003 NHL entry draft.
1988 Carlton Mitchell

Carlton Mitchell

American football player
Carlton Lorange Mitchell is an American former professional football player who was a wide receiver in the National Football League (NFL) and Canadian Football League (CFL). He was selected by the Cleveland Browns in the sixth round of the 2010 NFL draft. He played college football for the South Florida Bulls.
1911 Feodor Felix Konrad Lynen

Feodor Felix Konrad Lynen

German biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1979)
Feodor Felix Konrad Lynen was a German biochemist. In 1964, he won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine together with Konrad Bloch for their discoveries concerning the mechanism and regulation of cholesterol and fatty acid metabolism while he was director of the Max-Planck Institute for Cellular Chemistry in Munich.
1651 André Dacier

André Dacier

French scholar and academic (died 1722)
André Dacier was a French classical scholar and editor of texts. He began his career with an edition and commentary of Festus's De verborum significatione, and was the first to produce a "readable" text of the 20-book work. His wife was the influential classical scholar and translator, Anne Dacier.
1960 John Pizzarelli

John Pizzarelli

American singer-songwriter and guitarist
John Paul Pizzarelli Jr. is an American jazz guitarist and vocalist. He has recorded over twenty solo albums and has appeared on more than forty albums by other recording artists, including Paul McCartney, James Taylor, Rosemary Clooney; his father, jazz guitarist Bucky Pizzarelli; and his wife, singer Jessica Molaskey.
1961 Peter Jackson

Peter Jackson

English footballer and manager
Peter Allan Jackson is a football manager and former player. He has previously had two spells as Huddersfield Town manager, whom he helped win the Division Three play-off in 2004, and he has also managed Lincoln City, before taking charge at his former playing club Bradford City in 2011.
1956 Michele Bachmann

Michele Bachmann

American lawyer and politician
Michele Marie Bachmann is an American politician who was the U.S. representative for Minnesota's 6th congressional district from 2007 until 2015. A member of the Republican Party, she was a candidate for president of the United States in the 2012 election, but dropped out after the Iowa caucuses.
1976 Georg Hólm

Georg Hólm

Icelandic bass player
Georg "Goggi" Hólm is the bassist of the Icelandic post-rock band Sigur Rós. He is the most prominent member of Sigur Rós in the English press, as he does significantly more press than the other members due to him being the most fluent English speaker in the band.
1888 Hans Richter

Hans Richter

Swiss painter, illustrator, and director (died 1976)
Hans Johannes Siegfried Richter was a German Dada painter, graphic artist, avant-garde film producer, and art historian. In 1965 he authored the book Dadaism about the history of the Dada movement. He was born in Berlin into a well-to-do family and died in Minusio, near Locarno, Switzerland.
1929 Joi Lansing

Joi Lansing

American model, actress and nightclub singer (died 1972)
Joi Lansing was an American model, film and television actress, and nightclub singer. She was noted for her pin-up photos and roles in B-movies, as well as a prominent role in the famous opening "tracking shot" in Orson Welles' 1958 crime drama Touch of Evil.
1976 James Fox

James Fox

Welsh singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor
James Richard Mullett, known professionally as James Fox, is a Welsh pop singer and musician. He represented the United Kingdom in the Eurovision Song Contest 2004 in Istanbul. In 2008, he wrote and recorded the Cardiff City F.C. FA Cup Final song, "Bluebirds Flying High".
1981 Jeff Faine

Jeff Faine

American football player
Jeffrey Kalei Faine is an American former professional football player who was a center in the National Football League (NFL). He was selected by the Cleveland Browns 21st overall in the 2003 NFL draft. He played college football for the Notre Dame Fighting Irish.
1664 Arvid Horn

Arvid Horn

Swedish general and politician, Governor of Västerbotten County (died 1742)
Count Arvid Bernhard Horn af Ekebyholm was a Swedish general, diplomat and politician, a member of the noble Horn family. He served twice as president of the privy council chancellery and was one of the leading figures of the Swedish Age of Liberty.
1918 Alfredo Ovando Candía

Alfredo Ovando Candía

Bolivian general and politician, 56th President of Bolivia (died 1982)
Alfredo Ovando Candia was a Bolivian military officer and political leader who served as the 48th president of Bolivia from 1965 to 1966 and 1969 to 1970. During his first term, he shared power with René Barrientos as co-president of a military junta.
1952 Michel Larocque

Michel Larocque

Canadian ice hockey player and manager (died 1992)
Michel Raymond "Bunny" Larocque was a Canadian professional ice hockey goaltender who played for the Montreal Canadiens, Toronto Maple Leafs, Philadelphia Flyers and St. Louis Blues in the National Hockey League (NHL). He was a four-time Stanley Cup winner with the Montreal Canadiens.
1741 Nicolas Chamfort

Nicolas Chamfort

French author and playwright (died 1794)
Sébastien-Roch Nicolas, known in his adult life as Nicolas Chamfort and as Sébastien Nicolas de Chamfort, was a French writer, best known for his epigrams and aphorisms. He was secretary to Louis XVI's sister Madame Élisabeth, and of the Jacobin club.
1773 James Mill

James Mill

Scottish historian, economist, and philosopher (died 1836)
James Mill was a Scottish historian, economist, and political theorist, who was a founder of the Ricardian school of economics. He wrote the influential The History of British India (1817) which divided Indian history into three parts: Hindu, Muslim and British.
1916 Phil Leeds

Phil Leeds

American actor (died 1998)
Phil Leeds was an American character actor. He appeared in many movies and television series, including guest appearances on The Dick Van Dyke Show, Maude, The Monkees, Friends, Barney Miller, The Golden Girls, Everybody Loves Raymond, Boy Meets World and more.
1926 Ian Paisley

Ian Paisley

Northern Irish evangelical minister and politician, 2nd First Minister of Northern Ireland (died 2014)
Ian Richard Kyle Paisley, Baron Bannside was a loyalist politician and Protestant religious leader from Northern Ireland who served as leader of the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) from 1971 to 2008 and First Minister of Northern Ireland from 2007 to 2008.
1980 Tanja Poutiainen

Tanja Poutiainen

Finnish skier
Tanja Tuulia Poutiainen is a retired World Cup alpine ski racer from Finland. She specialized in the technical events of slalom and giant slalom, and was the silver medalist in the women's giant slalom at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Torino.
1878 Erich Mühsam

Erich Mühsam

German author, poet, and playwright (died 1934)
Erich Mühsam was a German antimilitarist anarchist essayist, poet and playwright. He emerged at the end of World War I as one of the leading agitators for a federated Bavarian Soviet Republic, for which he served five years in prison.
1890 Anthony Fokker

Anthony Fokker

Dutch engineer and businessman, founded Fokker Aircraft Manufacturer (died 1939)
Anton Herman Gerard "Anthony" Fokker was a Dutch aviation pioneer, aviation entrepreneur, aircraft designer, and aircraft manufacturer. He produced fighter aircraft in Germany during the First World War such as the Eindecker monoplanes, the Dr.1 triplane and the D.VII biplane.
1966 Vince Flynn

Vince Flynn

American author (died 2013)
Vincent Joseph Flynn was an American author of political thriller novels featuring the fictional assassin Mitch Rapp. He was a story consultant for the fifth season of the television series 24. He died of prostate cancer on June 19, 2013.
1135 Maimonides

Maimonides

Jewish philosopher, Torah scholar, physician and astronomer (March 30 also proposed, died 1204)
Moses ben Maimon, commonly known as Maimonides and also referred to by the Hebrew acronym Rambam, was a Sephardic Jewish rabbi who is widely acknowledged as one of the most prolific and influential Torah scholars of the Middle Ages.
1913 Shannon Boyd-Bailey McCune

Shannon Boyd-Bailey McCune

American geographer and academic (died 1993)
Shannon Boyd-Bailey McCune was an American geographer who was the civil administrator of the Ryukyu Islands from 1962 to 1964, the first civilian to hold that office. He was president of the University of Vermont from 1964 to 1966.
1946 Paul Beresford

Paul Beresford

New Zealand-English dentist and politician
Sir Alexander Paul Beresford is a British–New Zealander politician who served as the Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) for Mole Valley in Surrey from 1997 to 2024. He previously served as MP for Croydon Central from 1992 to 1997.
1955 Rob Epstein

Rob Epstein

American director and producer
Robert P. Epstein, is an American director, producer, writer, and editor. He is known for directing numerous documentaries, several of them focusing on the LGBTQ community and has won two Academy Awards, two Emmy Awards, and a Grammy Award.
2002 Leyre Romero Gormaz

Leyre Romero Gormaz

Spanish tennis player
Leyre Romero Gormaz is a Spanish tennis player. She has a career-high singles ranking of No. 123 by the WTA, achieved on 25 August 2025, and a best doubles ranking of world No. 130, reached on 25 November 2024.
1823 Joseph Medill

Joseph Medill

Canadian-American publisher and politician, 26th Mayor of Chicago (died 1899)
Joseph Medill was a Canadian-American newspaper editor, publisher, and Republican Party politician. He was co-owner and managing editor of the Chicago Tribune, and he was Mayor of Chicago from after the Great Chicago Fire of 1871 until 1873.
1886 Athenagoras I of Constantinople (died 1972)

Athenagoras I of Constantinople (died 1972)

Ecumenical Patriarch Athenagoras I, born Aristocles Matthaiou Spyrou, was the 268th Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople from November 1948, until his death in July 1972, serving as the primus inter pares and spiritual leader of Eastern Orthodox Christianity worldwide.
1898 Jeanne Hébuterne

Jeanne Hébuterne

French painter and author (died 1920)
Jeanne Hébuterne was a French painter and art model best known as the frequent subject and common-law wife of the artist Amedeo Modigliani. She died by suicide two days after Modigliani's death, and is now buried beside him.
1906 Virginia Hall

Virginia Hall

American who was a spy in France for the UK and US during WWII (died 1982)
Virginia Hall Goillot DSC, Croix de Guerre,, code name Bookworm, was an American who worked with the United Kingdom's clandestine Special Operations Executive (SOE) and the American Office of Strategic Services (OSS) in France during World War II.
1945 Rodney Bickerstaffe

Rodney Bickerstaffe

English trade union leader (died 2017)
Rodney Kevan Bickerstaffe was a British trade unionist. He was General Secretary of the National Union of Public Employees (1982–1993) and UNISON (1996–2001), Britain's largest trade union. He later became president of the UK National Pensioners Convention (2001–2005).
1938 Paul Daniels

Paul Daniels

English magician and television host (died 2016)
Newton Edward Daniels, known professionally as Paul Daniels, was an English magician and television presenter. He achieved international fame through his television series The Paul Daniels Magic Show, which ran on the BBC from 1979 to 1994.
1708 Johann Georg Reutter

Johann Georg Reutter

Austrian organist and composer (died 1772)
Johann Adam Joseph Karl Georg Reutter, during his life known as Georg Reutter the Younger was an Austrian composer. According to David Wyn Jones, in his prime he was "the single most influential musician in Vienna".
1915 Tadeusz Kantor

Tadeusz Kantor

Polish director, painter, and set designer (died 1990)
Tadeusz Kantor was a Polish painter, assemblage and Happenings artist, set designer and theatre director. Kantor is renowned for his revolutionary theatrical performances in Poland and abroad. Laureate of Witkacy Prize – Critics' Circle Award (1989).
1952 Udo Dirkschneider

Udo Dirkschneider

German singer-songwriter
Udo Dirkschneider is a German singer who first rose to fame with the heavy metal band Accept. After leaving the band in 1987, he formed the band U.D.O., in which he has also enjoyed commercial success.
1969 Spencer Wells

Spencer Wells

American geneticist and anthropologist
Rush Spencer Wells is an American geneticist, anthropologist, author and entrepreneur. He co-hosts The Insight podcast with Razib Khan. Wells led The Genographic Project from 2005 to 2015, as an Explorer-in-Residence at the National Geographic Society.
1884 J. G. Parry-Thomas

J. G. Parry-Thomas

Welsh race car driver and engineer (died 1927)
John Godfrey Parry Thomas was a Welsh engineer and motor-racing driver who at one time held the land speed record. He was the first driver to be killed in pursuit of the land speed record.
1943 Roger Cook

Roger Cook

New Zealand-English journalist and academic (died 2026)
Roger James Cook was an Australian and British investigative journalist and television broadcaster. In 1998 he received a BAFTA special award "for 25 years of outstanding quality investigative reporting", for his programme The Cook Report.
1869 Levon Shant

Levon Shant

Armenian author, poet, and playwright (died 1951)
Levon Shant born Levon Nahashbedian, then changed to Levon Seghposian; 6 April 1869 – 29 November 1951) was an Armenian playwright, novelist, poet and founder of the Hamazkayin Armenian Educational and Cultural Society.
1922 Gordon Chater

Gordon Chater

English-Australian comedian and actor (died 1999)
Gordon Maitland Chater AM was an English Australian comedian and actor, and recipient of the Gold Logie, he appeared in revue, theatre, radio, television and film, with a career spanning almost 50 years.
1932 Connie Broden

Connie Broden

Canadian ice hockey player (died 2013)
Thomas Connell Broden was a Canadian ice hockey forward. Broden is the only player to have won the International Ice Hockey Federation's World Championships and the Stanley Cup in the same year (1958).
1973 Rie Miyazawa

Rie Miyazawa

Japanese model and actress
Rie Miyazawa is a Japanese actress and former idol singer. She is regarded as one of Japan's top actresses, and her accolades include six Japan Academy Film Prizes and three Kinema Junpo Awards.
1824 George Waterhouse

George Waterhouse

English-New Zealand politician, 7th Prime Minister of New Zealand (died 1906)
George Marsden Waterhouse was a Premier of South Australia from 8 October 1861 until 3 July 1863 and the seventh premier of New Zealand from 11 October 1872 to 3 March 1873.
1987 Heidi Mount

Heidi Mount

American model
Heidi Mount is an American fashion model, modeling for fashion houses such as Michael Kors, Bottega Veneta, Sonia Rykiel, Versace, and Valentino. She has appeared in campaigns for Chanel, Prada, and Bally.
1852 Will Crooks

Will Crooks

English trade unionist and politician (died 1921)
William Crooks was a noted trade unionist and politician from Poplar, London, and a member of the Fabian Society. He is particularly remembered for his campaigning work against poverty and inequality.
1937 Tom Veivers

Tom Veivers

Australian cricketer and politician
Thomas Robert Veivers is an Australian former cricketer, teacher, politician and public administrator who played in 21 cricket Test matches between 1963 and 1967. He is the great-uncle of Jack Wildermuth.
1970 Roy Mayorga

Roy Mayorga

American drummer, songwriter, and producer
Roy Mayorga is an American musician, best known as the drummer of heavy metal bands Soulfly, Hellyeah and Stone Sour and is currently the drummer for the sludge metal band Kylesa.
1980 Tommi Evilä

Tommi Evilä

Finnish long jumper
Jaakko Tommi Kristian Evilä is a Finnish former long jumper. He gained fame following his surprise bronze in the 2005 Helsinki World Championships, which was Finland's only medal in the championships.
1726 Gerard Majella

Gerard Majella

Italian saint (died 1755)
Gerard Majella was an Italian lay brother of the Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer, better known as the Redemptorists, who is honored as a saint by the Catholic Church.
1866 Felix-Raymond-Marie Rouleau

Felix-Raymond-Marie Rouleau

Canadian cardinal (died 1931)
Félix-Raymond-Marie Rouleau was a Canadian Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Archbishop of Quebec from 1926 until his death, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1927.
1904 Erwin Komenda

Erwin Komenda

Austrian car designer and engineer (died 1966)
Erwin Komenda was an Austrian automobile designer and Porsche employee, and a lead contributor to the design of the bodies for the VW Beetle and various Porsche sports cars.
1950 Cleo Odzer

Cleo Odzer

American anthropologist and author (died 2001)
Cleo Odzer was an American author and anthropologist known for her works exploring subcultures, including prostitution in Thailand, the hippie culture of Goa, and the emerging phenomenon of cybersex.
1962 Marco Schällibaum

Marco Schällibaum

Swiss footballer, coach, and manager
Marco Schällibaum is a Swiss football manager and former player. He was most recently the manager of Swiss Super League side Grasshopper Club Zürich, whom he saved from relegation.
1860 René Lalique

René Lalique

French sculptor and jewellery designer (died 1945)
René Jules Lalique was a French jeweller, medallist, and glass designer known for his creations of glass art, perfume bottles, vases, jewellery, chandeliers, clocks, and automobile hood ornaments.
1938 Roy Thinnes

Roy Thinnes

American television and film actor
Roy Thinnes is an American former television and film actor best known for his portrayal of lonely hero David Vincent in the ABC 1967–68 television series The Invaders.
1921 Wilbur Thompson

Wilbur Thompson

American shot putter (died 2013)
Wilbur Marvin "Moose" Thompson was an American shot putter who won a gold medal at the 1948 Summer Olympics, leading an American sweep of the medals.
1923 Herb Thomas

Herb Thomas

American race car driver (died 2000)
Herbert Watson Thomas was a stock car racer who was one of NASCAR's most successful drivers in the 1950s. Thomas was NASCAR's first multi-time Cup Champion.
1983 Mehdi Ballouchy

Mehdi Ballouchy

Moroccan footballer
Mehdi Ballouchy is a Moroccan retired professional footballer who played as a midfielder. He is currently one of the coaching staff for New York City FC.
1935

Douglas Hill

Canadian author and critic (died 2007)
Douglas Arthur Hill was a Canadian science fiction author, editor and reviewer. He was born in Brandon, Manitoba, the son of a railroad engineer, and was raised in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan. An avid science fiction reader from an early age, he studied English at the University of Saskatchewan and at the University of Toronto. He married fellow writer and U of S alumna Gail Robinson in 1958; they moved to Britain in 1959, where he worked as a freelance writer and editor for Aldus Books. In 1967–1968, he served as assistant editor of the controversial New Worlds science fiction magazine under Michael Moorcock.
1968

Archon Fung

American political scientist, author, and academic
Archon Fung is the Winthrop Laflin McCormack Professor of Citizenship and Democracy at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government and co-founder of the Transparency Policy Project. Fung served as an assistant professor of public policy at the Kennedy School from July 1999–June 2004, then as an associate professor of public policy at the Kennedy School from July 2004–October 2007, and finally as a professor of public policy from October 2007–March 2009 before being named as the Ford Foundation Chair of Democracy and Citizenship in March 2009. In 2015, he was elected to the Common Cause National Governing Board.
1967

Kathleen Barr

Canadian voice actress and singer
Kathleen Barr is a Canadian voice actress. She is best known for the voice of Evil-Lyn in He-Man and the Masters of the Universe, Marie Kanker and Kevin in Ed, Edd n Eddy, Dot Matrix in ReBoot, Trixie Lulamoon and Queen Chrysalis in My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic, Misako, Aspheera in Ninjago, and the Source and Arc Dragons of Focus in Ninjago: Dragons Rising. She also voiced Henri Richard Maurice Dutoit LeFevbre in Liberty's Kids, Kaiko Nekton in The Deep, Wheezie in Dragon Tales, and Gelorum in Hot Wheels: World Race and its 4-film sequel AcceleRacers.
1956

Mudassar Nazar

Pakistani cricketer
Mudassar Nazar is a Pakistani cricket coach and former cricketer with a career in Test cricket for Pakistan and in league cricket in Pakistan and England. He was an all-rounder and opening batsman who played 76 test and 122 one-day matches for Pakistan. After retiring from professional cricket, he has had a number of administrative positions in the cricketing world, including two stints as coach for Pakistan in 1993 and 2001, for Kenya and for several other teams. He was born in Lahore, Punjab.
1888

Gerhard Ritter

German historian and academic (died 1967)
Gerhard Georg Bernhard Ritter was a German historian who served as a professor of history at the University of Freiburg from 1925 to 1956. He studied under Professor Hermann Oncken. A Lutheran, he first became well known for his 1925 biography of Martin Luther and hagiographic portrayal of Prussia. A member of the German People's Party during the Weimar Republic, he was a lifelong monarchist and remained sympathetic to the political system of the defunct German Empire.
1983

Remi Nicole

English singer-songwriter and actress
Remi Nicole Wilson, better known as Remi Nicole, is a British singer-songwriter and actress who was born in North London, but now resides in Los Angeles. She is best known for her single "Go Mr Sunshine", which was released in 2007. Her debut album, My Conscience and I, was released later that year and her second, Cupid Shoot Me, on 31 August 2009. As an actress she is credited as Remi Wilson.
1933

Eduardo Malapit

American lawyer and politician, Mayor of Kauai (died 2007)
Eduardo Enabore Malapit was an American Democratic politician who served as Mayor of Kauaʻi, Hawaii. Elected for four consecutive two-year terms as mayor of Kauaʻi beginning in 1974, he was the first Filipino American mayor of any United States municipality. He was widely respected in Kauaʻi and throughout Hawaii for his belief in community service, and was known as "Mala" by friends and constituents.
1933

Roy Goode

English lawyer and academic
Sir Royston Miles Goode was an English academic commercial lawyer who was an Emeritus Professor of Law at Oxford and Emeritus Fellow of St John's College. He founded the Centre for Commercial Law Studies at Queen Mary, University of London. He was awarded the OBE in 1972 followed by the CBE in 1994 before being knighted for services to academic law in 2000.
1871

Prince Alexander John of Wales

British Prince
Prince Alexander John of Wales was the youngest child of Albert Edward, Prince of Wales and Alexandra of Denmark. He was born prematurely at Sandringham House in Norfolk and died less than 24 hours after birth; he was buried at St Mary Magdalene Church, Sandringham. News of the royal birth and the prince's short life attracted media coverage around the world.
1970

Huang Xiaomin

Chinese swimmer
Huang Xiaomin is a Chinese former breaststroke swimmer, whose best performance during her career was winning the silver medal in the 200 m breaststroke at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea. She was born in Qiqihar, Heilongjiang. She admitted to have used doping substances during her active career and is now publicly opposed to it.
1958

Graeme Base

Australian author and illustrator
Graeme Rowland Base is a British-Australian author and artist of picture books. He is perhaps best known for his second book, Animalia published in 1986, and third book The Eleventh Hour which was released in 1989.
1959

Gail Shea

Canadian politician
Anne Marie Gail Shea was a Canadian politician who served as the Member of Parliament for Egmont from 2008 to 2015. She had previously been a member of the Legislative Assembly of Prince Edward Island from 2000 to 2007, representing the electoral district of Tignish-DeBlois as a member of the Progressive Conservative Party.
1895

Dudley Nichols

American director, producer, and screenwriter (died 1960)
Dudley Nichols was an American screenwriter and film director. He was the first person to decline an Academy Award, as part of a boycott to gain recognition for the Screen Writers Guild; he would later accept his Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay in 1938.
1908

Marcel-Marie Desmarais

Canadian preacher, missionary, and author (died 1994)
Marcel-Marie Desmarais,, was a Quebec writer, preacher and broadcaster. A member of the Roman Catholic Dominican Order, he became a personality through his popular books and radio and TV programs in Quebec. He was also sent as missionary to Brazil during the 1940s.
1966

Young Man Kang

South Korean-American director and producer
Young Man Kang is a South Korean filmmaker based in Los Angeles, California, United States. Kang directed and produced The Last Eve (2005), Soap Girl (2002), Cupid's Mistake (2001) and Kimchi Warrior (2009). He is the director and founder of Seoul Webfest.
1968

Affonso Giaffone

Brazilian race car driver
Affonso Giaffone Neto is a Brazilian former racing driver. He is one of several racing drivers in his family; he is a cousin of Felipe Giaffone, and a cousin-in-law of Rubens Barrichello. His father Affonso Giaffone Jr. was also a racing driver.
1978

Blaine Neal

American baseball player
Blaine Neal is an American former professional baseball relief pitcher. Neal played with the Florida Marlins (2001–2003), San Diego Padres (2004), Boston Red Sox (2005), and Colorado Rockies (2005) of Major League Baseball (MLB). He bats left-handed and throws right-handed.
1941

Christopher Allsopp

English economist and academic
Christopher Allsopp was a British economist. He was Director of the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies from 2006 to 2013, was emeritus Fellow of New College, Oxford, and a Reader in Economic Policy at the University of Oxford.
1960

Richard Loe

New Zealand rugby player
Richard Wyllie Loe is a New Zealand former rugby union player. He won 49 international caps for New Zealand, the All Blacks, as a prop forward. He is a sports broadcaster on BSport, Radio Live and SKY Sport.
1881

Karl Staaf

Swedish pole vaulter and hammer thrower (died 1953)
Karl Gustaf Vilhelm Staaf was a Swedish track and field athlete and tug of war competitor who competed at the 1900 Summer Olympics. He was born in Stockholm and died in Motala.
1972

Dickey Simpkins

American basketball player and sportscaster
LuBara Dixon "Dickey" Simpkins is an American former professional basketball player best known for his tenure with the Chicago Bulls in the late 1990s. He is currently a commentator for Fox Sports.
1943

Mitchell Melton

American lawyer and politician (died 2013)
Mitchell Wesley Melton was a former Democratic member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives. He was the founder, organizer and original spokesman of the Pennsylvania Legislative Black Caucus, founded in 1969.
1973

Sun Wen

Chinese footballer
Sun Wen is a Chinese former professional footballer who played as a forward. She previously captained the China national team and the Atlanta Beat of the Women's United Soccer Association (WUSA).
1967

Jonathan Firth

English actor
Jonathan Stephen Firth is an English actor. He is best known for his roles in such British television productions as Middlemarch, Far from the Madding Crowd, and Victoria & Albert.
1984

Siboniso Gaxa

South African footballer
Siboniso "Pa" Gaxa is a former South African football defender who played for Ajax Cape Town, Kaizer Chiefs F.C., Mamelodi Sundowns F.C. and the South African national team.
1939

André Ouellet

Canadian lawyer and politician, 1st Canadian Minister of Foreign Affairs
André Ouellet, is a former longtime Liberal federal politician and cabinet member in Canada. Following his political career, he served as chairman of Canada Post.
1342

Infanta Maria

Marchioness of Tortosa
Maria of Portugal was a Portuguese infanta (princess) member of the House of Burgundy and by marriage marchioness of Tortosa and lady of Albarracín.
1573 Margaret of Brunswick-Lüneburg

Margaret of Brunswick-Lüneburg

German noble (died 1643)
Margaret of Brunswick-Lüneburg, was a German member of the House of Welf and the Duchess of Saxe-Coburg by marriage.
1671 Jean-Baptiste Rousseau

Jean-Baptiste Rousseau

French poet and playwright (died 1741)
Jean-Baptiste Rousseau was a French playwright and poet, particularly noted for his cynical epigrams.
1672 André Cardinal Destouches

André Cardinal Destouches

French composer (died 1749)
André Cardinal Destouches was a French composer best known for the opéra-ballet Les élémens.
1766 Wilhelm von Kobell

Wilhelm von Kobell

German painter and educator (died 1853)
Wilhelm von Kobell was a German painter, printmaker and teacher.
1787

Celestina Cordero

Puerto Rican educator (died 1862)
Celestina Cordero, was an educator who in 1802 founded a school for girls "escuela de amigas" in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
1815 Robert Volkmann

Robert Volkmann

German organist, composer, and conductor (died 1883)
Friedrich Robert Volkmann was a German composer.
1818 Aasmund Olavsson Vinje

Aasmund Olavsson Vinje

Norwegian journalist and poet (died 1870)
Aasmund Olavsson Vinje was a Norwegian poet and journalist who is remembered for poetry, travel writing, and his pioneering use of Landsmål.
1851 Guillaume Bigourdan

Guillaume Bigourdan

French astronomer and academic (died 1932)
Camille Guillaume Bigourdan was a French astronomer.
1855 Charles Huot

Charles Huot

Canadian painter and illustrator (died 1930)
Charles Édouard Masson Huot was a French-Canadian painter and illustrator based in Quebec City.
1857 Arthur Wesley Dow

Arthur Wesley Dow

American painter and photographer (died 1922)
Arthur Wesley Dow was an American painter, printmaker, photographer and an arts educator.
1864 William Bate Hardy

William Bate Hardy

English biologist and academic (died 1934)
Sir William Bate Hardy, FRS was a British biologist and food scientist. The William Bate Hardy Prize is named in his honour.
1892 Donald Wills Douglas

Donald Wills Douglas

Sr., American businessman, founded the Douglas Aircraft Company (died 1981)
Donald Wills Douglas Sr. was an American aircraft industrialist and engineer.
1902 Julien Torma

Julien Torma

French author, poet, and playwright (died 1933)
Julien Torma was credited as a French writer, playwright and poet who was part of the Dadaist movement.
1909 Hermann Lang

Hermann Lang

German race car driver (died 1987)
Hermann Albert Lang was a German racing driver who raced motorcycles, Grand Prix cars, and sports cars.
1910 Barys Kit

Barys Kit

Belarusian-American rocket scientist (died 2018)
Barys Kit was a Belarusian-American rocket scientist.
1920 Jack Cover

Jack Cover

American pilot and physicist, invented the Taser gun (died 2009)
John Higson Cover Jr. was an American aerospace scientist who invented the taser stun gun.
1926 Gil Kane

Gil Kane

Latvian-American author and illustrator (died 2000)
Gil Kane was an American comics artist whose career spanned the 1940s to the 1990s and virtually every major comics company and character.
1926 Randy Weston

Randy Weston

American jazz pianist and composer (died 2018)
Randolph Edward "Randy" Weston was an American jazz pianist and composer whose creativity was inspired by his ancestral African connection.
1929 Christos Sartzetakis

Christos Sartzetakis

Greek jurist, supreme justice and President of Greece (died 2022)
Christos Sartzetakis was a Greek attorney who served as the president of Greece from 1985 to 1990.
1932 Helmut Griem

Helmut Griem

German actor and director (died 2004)
Helmut Griem was a German film, television and stage actor, and director.
1933 Tom C. Korologos

Tom C. Korologos

American journalist and diplomat, United States Ambassador to Belgium (died 2024)
Tom Chris Korologos was an American lobbyist, political advisor, and diplomat who served as the United States ambassador to Belgium.
1934 Enrique Álvarez Félix

Enrique Álvarez Félix

Mexican actor (died 1996)
Enrique Álvarez Félix was a Mexican actor.
1940 Homero Aridjis

Homero Aridjis

Mexican journalist, author, and poet
Homero Aridjis is a Mexican poet, novelist, environmental activist, journalist, and former ambassador and ex-president of PEN International.
1941 Don Prudhomme

Don Prudhomme

American race car driver and manager
Donald Ray Prudhomme, nicknamed "the Snake", is an American drag racer. He won the NHRA FC championship four times across a 35-year career.
1941 Gheorghe Zamfir

Gheorghe Zamfir

Romanian flute player and composer
Gheorghe Zamfir is a Romanian nai musician.
1941 Hans W. Geißendörfer

Hans W. Geißendörfer

German director and producer
Hans W. Geißendörfer is a German film director and producer.
1941 Phil Austin

Phil Austin

American comedian, actor, and screenwriter (died 2015)
Philip Baine Austin was an American comedian and writer, best known as a member of the Firesign Theatre.
1943 Max Clifford

Max Clifford

English journalist and publicist (died 2017)
Maxwell Frank Clifford was an English publicist and convicted sex offender who was particularly associated with promoting "kiss and tell" stories in tabloid newspapers.
1944

Felicity Palmer

English operatic soprano
Dame Felicity Joan Palmer,, is an English mezzo-soprano and music professor. She sang soprano roles until 1983.
1945

Peter Hill

English journalist
Peter Hill is a British journalist and a former editor of the Daily Express.
1947 André Weinfeld

André Weinfeld

French-American director, producer, and screenwriter
André Weinfeld is a French and American film and television producer, director, screenwriter, cinematographer, photographer, and journalist.
1947

Mike Worboys

English mathematician and computer scientist
Michael Worboys is a British mathematician, computer scientist and composer.
1949 Alyson Bailes

Alyson Bailes

English academic and diplomat (died 2016)
Alyson Judith Kirtley Bailes CMG was a British diplomat, political scientist, academic and polymath.
1949

Patrick Hernandez

French singer-songwriter
Patrick Pierre Hernandez is a French singer who had a worldwide hit with "Born to Be Alive" in 1979.
1951

Pascal Rogé

French pianist
Pascal Rogé is a French pianist.
1953 Christopher Franke

Christopher Franke

German-American drummer and songwriter
Christopher Franke is a German film composer and a pioneer of electronic music, as well as a former member of the band Tangerine Dream.
1956 Normand Corbeil

Normand Corbeil

Canadian composer (died 2013)
Normand Corbeil was a Canadian composer known for his work on films, video games and television.
1956 Sebastian Spreng

Sebastian Spreng

Argentinian-American painter and journalist
Sebastian Spreng is an Argentine-born American visual artist and music journalist. He is a self-taught artist. He lives in Bay Harbor Islands, Florida.
1957 Giorgio Damilano

Giorgio Damilano

Italian race walker and coach
Giorgio Damilano is an Italian former race walker.
1957 Jaroslava Maxová

Jaroslava Maxová

Czech soprano and educator
Jaroslava Maxová is a Czech mezzo-soprano opera singer and vocal coach.
1957 Maurizio Damilano

Maurizio Damilano

Italian race walker and coach
Maurizio Damilano is an Italian former race walker. He won 15 individual medals, at senior level, at the International athletics competitions.
1967

Julian Anderson

English composer and educator
Julian Anderson is a British composer and teacher of composition.
1969 Philipp Peter

Philipp Peter

Austrian race car driver
Philipp Peter is a race car driver from Austria.
1976 Hirotada Ototake

Hirotada Ototake

Japanese author and educator
Hirotada Ototake is a Japanese writer from Tokyo, who has written in the memoir, fiction and sports journalism genres.
1977 Ville Nieminen

Ville Nieminen

Finnish ice hockey player
Ville Juhani Nieminen is a Finnish former professional ice hockey forward who played over 400 games in the National Hockey League.
1978 Igor Semshov

Igor Semshov

Russian footballer
Igor Petrovich Semshov is a Russian professional football coach and a former player.
1979 Clay Travis

Clay Travis

American sports journalist, blogger, and broadcaster
Richard Clay Travis is an American political commentator, journalist, radio host, and television analyst, and the founder of OutKick.
1981

Lucas Licht

Argentine footballer
Lucas Matías Licht is an Argentine former professional footballer who played as a left-back but also as a left winger.
1982 Miguel Ángel Silvestre

Miguel Ángel Silvestre

Spanish actor
Miguel Ángel Silvestre Rambla is a Spanish actor. He rose to prominence with his performance as El Duque in Sin tetas no hay paraíso.
1983 Jerome Kaino

Jerome Kaino

New Zealand rugby player
Jerome Kaino is a former New Zealand rugby union player.
1983 Mitsuru Nagata

Mitsuru Nagata

Japanese footballer
Mitsuru Nagata is a Japanese retired football player. He played for Japan national team.
1984 Michaël Ciani

Michaël Ciani

French footballer
Michaël Henry Ciani is a French former professional footballer who played as a centre back.
1985 Fatau Dauda

Fatau Dauda

Ghanaian footballer
Abdul Fatawu Dauda, known as Fatau Dauda, is a Ghanaian former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper.
1985 Frank Ongfiang

Frank Ongfiang

Cameroonian footballer
Franck Olivier Ongfiang is a Cameroonian former professional footballer who played as a midfielder.
1986

Nikolas Asprogenis

Cypriot footballer
Nikolas Asprogenous is a Cypriot former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper.
1986

Ryota Moriwaki

Japanese footballer
Ryota Moriwaki is a Japanese football player who plays for Ehime FC.
1987 Benjamin Corgnet

Benjamin Corgnet

French footballer
Benjamin Corgnet is a French former professional footballer who plays as a midfielder.
1987 Levi Porter

Levi Porter

English footballer
Levi Roger Porter is an English footballer who most recently played for Melton Town.
1988

Daniele Gasparetto

Italian footballer
Daniele Gasparetto is an Italian footballer who plays as a defender for ASD Sant'Agostino.
1988 Jucilei

Jucilei

Brazilian footballer
Jucilei da Silva, known simply as Jucilei, is a Brazilian former professional footballer who played as a central or defensive midfielder.
1988

Leigh Adams

Australian footballer
Leigh Adams is a former professional Australian rules footballer who played with the North Melbourne Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL).
1990

Andrei Veis

Estonian footballer
Andrei Veis is an Estonian retired international footballer who played as a defender and a midfielder.
1990 Lachlan Coote

Lachlan Coote

Australian rugby league player
Lachlan Coote is a former professional rugby league footballer who last played for Hull Kingston Rovers in the Super League.
1994

Adrián Alonso

Mexican actor
Adrián Alonso Barona is a Mexican actor. As a child actor, he was best known for the movie The Legend of Zorro.
1995

Darya Lebesheva

Belarusian tennis player
Darya Vyacheslavovna Lebesheva is a Belarusian tennis player.
1996 Al-Musrati

Al-Musrati

Libyan footballer
Al-Mu'attasim Billah Ali Mohamed Al-Musrati, known simply as Al-Musrati, is a Libyan professional footballer who plays as a defensive midfielder for Al Ahli.
1998 Nahuel Molina

Nahuel Molina

Argentine footballer
Nahuel Molina Lucero is an Argentine professional footballer who plays as a right-back for Serie A club Roma and the Argentina national team.
1998 Nicolás González

Nicolás González

Argentine footballer
Nicolás Iván González is an Argentine professional footballer who plays as a winger for Serie A club Juventus and the Argentina national team.
2000 Maxence Lacroix

Maxence Lacroix

French footballer
Maxence Guy Lacroix is a French professional footballer who plays as a centre-back for Premier League club Chelsea and the France national team.

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