Did you know about Ranomi Kromowidjojo
Kromowidjojo holds the world record as part of the Dutch team in the 4×50 m freestyle relay.
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August 20 has 226 recorded notable births across history, from 1377 to 2003. This page lists every one of them, with the best-known people first.
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- 1858 Charles Darwin first publishes his theory of evolution through natural selection in The Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London, alongside Alfred Russel Wallace's same theory. Source
- 1648 The Battle of Lens is the last major military confrontation of the Thirty Years' War, contributing to the signing of the Peace of Westphalia in October that year. Source
Did you know about Andrei Konchalovsky
Andrei Konchalovsky's filmmaking career spans over 60 years in Soviet, Hollywood, and contemporary Russian cinema.
Did you know about Laura Georges
Laura Georges last played for German club Bayern Munich of the Bundesliga, and served as the first-choice captain of her club and played primarily as a central defender, but was also used as a defensive midfielder.
Did you know about Benjamin Harrison
Benjamin Harrison was defeated by Cleveland in the 1892 United States presidential election, becoming the first president to be succeeded in office by his predecessor.
Did you know about Demi Lovato
After appearing on the children's television series Barney & Friends (2002–2004), she starred in the Disney Channel short series As the Bell Rings (2007–2008), and as the titular character on the sitcom Sonny with a Chance (2009–2011).
More major people born on August 20
Notable people are ranked by substantive profile depth and public notability.
1937
Andrei Konchalovsky
Russian director, producer, and screenwriter
Andrei Sergeyevich Konchalovsky is a Russian film and theatre director, screenwriter, and producer. His filmmaking career spans over 60 years in Soviet, Hollywood, and contemporary Russian cinema. Early in his career, he was a screenwriting collaborator of Andrei Tarkovsky. His film credits include Uncle Vanya (1970), Siberiade (1979), House of Fools (2002), The Postman's White Nights (2014), Paradise (2016), and Dear Comrades! (2020). During the 1980s, he resided in the United States, where he directed films such as Maria's Lovers (1984), Runaway Train (1985), Shy People (1987), and Tango & Cash (1989). He also directed the 1997 miniseries adaptation of the ancient Greek narrative The Odyssey.
1984
Laura Georges
French footballer
Laura Stéphanie Georges is a French retired footballer who is the Secretary General of the French Football Federation. She last played for German club Bayern Munich of the Bundesliga, and served as the first-choice captain of her club and played primarily as a central defender, but was also used as a defensive midfielder. Georges was also a France women's international having made her senior international debut in September 2001. She represented her nation at seven major international tournaments; the 2003, 2011 and 2015 editions of the FIFA Women's World Cup and the 2005, 2009, 2013 and 2017 editions of the UEFA Women's Championship.
1833
Benjamin Harrison
American general, lawyer, and politician, 23rd President of the United States (died 1901)
Benjamin Harrison was the 23rd president of the United States, serving from 1889 to 1893. He was a member of the Harrison family of Virginia—a grandson of the ninth president, William Henry Harrison, and a great-grandson of Benjamin Harrison V, a Founding Father. A Union army veteran and a Republican, he defeated Democratic Party incumbent Grover Cleveland to win the presidency in the 1888 United States presidential election by winning the Electoral College while losing the popular vote. He was defeated by Cleveland in the 1892 United States presidential election, becoming the first president to be succeeded in office by his predecessor.
1992
Demi Lovato
American singer-songwriter and actress
Demetria Devonne "Demi" Lovato is an American singer, songwriter, and actress. After appearing on the children's television series Barney & Friends (2002–2004), she starred in the Disney Channel short series As the Bell Rings (2007–2008), and as the titular character on the sitcom Sonny with a Chance (2009–2011). Lovato rose to prominence for playing Mitchie Torres in the musical television film Camp Rock (2008) and its sequel Camp Rock 2: The Final Jam (2010). The former film's soundtrack featured "This Is Me", her debut single with Joe Jonas, peaking at number nine on the US Billboard Hot 100.
1948
John Noble
Australian actor and director
John Noble is an Australian actor. He is best known for his roles as Denethor in The Lord of the Rings film trilogy (2001–2003), and Dr. Walter Bishop in the Fox science fiction series Fringe (2008–2013). His other television credits include the supernatural drama Sleepy Hollow (2013–2017) and the police procedural Elementary (2015–2019). Noble has also lent his distinctively deep voice to animated and video game projects, most notably as Leland Monroe in Rockstar Games' L.A. Noire (2011), Unicron in the animated series Transformers: Prime (2010–2013), and Scarecrow in the DC Comics game Batman: Arkham Knight (2015).
1942
Isaac Hayes
American singer-songwriter, pianist, producer, and actor (died 2008)
Isaac Lee Hayes Jr. was an American singer, songwriter, composer, and actor. He was one of the creative forces behind the Southern soul music label Stax Records in the 1960s, serving as an in-house songwriter with his partner David Porter, as well as a session musician and record producer. Hayes and Porter were inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2005 in recognition of writing scores of songs for themselves, the duo Sam & Dave, Carla Thomas, and others. In 2002, Hayes was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
1954
Quinn Buckner
American basketball player and coach
William Quinn Buckner is an American former professional basketball player and coach. He played collegiate basketball for the Indiana University Hoosiers, and won a national championship in 1976. He was a captain of the last undefeated NCAA Division I basketball champion and of the 1976 Olympics gold medal team. Buckner was selected by the Milwaukee Bucks with the 7th pick of the 1976 NBA draft. He had a ten-year NBA career for three teams: the Bucks, the Boston Celtics, and the Indiana Pacers. In 1984, he won an NBA title with the Celtics.
1517
Antoine Perrenot de Granvelle
French cardinal and art collector (died 1586)
Antoine Perrenot de Granvelle, Comte de La Baume Saint Amour, typically known as Cardinal Granvelle in English, was a Burgundian statesman, made a cardinal, who followed his father as a leading minister of the Spanish Habsburgs. Granvelle was one of the most influential European politicians during the time which immediately followed the appearance of Protestantism in Europe; "the dominating Imperial statesman of the whole century". He was also a notable art collector, the "greatest private collector of his time, the friend and patron of Titian and Leoni and many other artists".
1982
Mijaín López
Cuban wrestler
Mijaín López Núñez is a Cuban retired Greco-Roman wrestler. Widely considered one of the greatest wrestlers of all time, López is a five-time Olympic gold medalist, five-time World Champion, for a total of 10 world gold medals, and a five-time Pan American Games champion. He is the younger brother of Michel López Núñez, a Cuban amateur boxer. López was Cuba's flag bearer at the opening ceremony of the 2008, 2012, 2016 and 2020 Summer Olympics, and one of the country's flag bearers at the closing ceremony of the 2024 Summer Olympics.
1992
Alex Newell
American actor and singer
Alex Eugene Newell is an American actor and singer. They are known for their role as Unique Adams on the Fox musical series Glee and Mo on Zoey's Extraordinary Playlist. Newell also starred as Asaka in the Broadway revival of Once on This Island at the Circle in the Square Theatre in 2018. For their role in Shucked, Newell won the 2023 Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Musical. Newell and J. Harrison Ghee were the first openly non-binary actors to be nominated for and win the Tony Award.
1917
Terry Sanford
65th governor of North Carolina (died 1998)
James Terry Sanford was an American lawyer and politician from North Carolina. A member of the Democratic Party, Sanford served as the 65th governor of North Carolina from 1961 to 1965, was a two-time U.S. presidential candidate in the 1970s, and served as a U.S. senator from 1986 to 1993. He was a strong proponent of public education and introduced several reforms and new programs in North Carolina's schools and institutions of higher education as the state's governor. From 1970 to 1985, Sanford served as the president of Duke University.
1933
George J. Mitchell
American lieutenant, lawyer, and politician
George John Mitchell Jr. is an American politician, diplomat, and lawyer. A leading member of the Democratic Party, he served as a United States senator from Maine from 1980 to 1995, and as Senate Majority Leader from 1989 to 1995. After retiring from the Senate, Mitchell played a leading role in negotiations for peace in Northern Ireland and the Middle East. He was appointed United States Special Envoy for Northern Ireland (1995–2001) by President Clinton and as United States Special Envoy for Middle East Peace (2009–2011) by President Barack Obama.
1939
Fernando Poe Jr.
Filipino actor and politician (died 2004)
Ronald Allan "Ronnie" Kelley Poe, known professionally as Fernando Poe Jr., was a Filipino actor, director and screenwriter. Nicknamed "Da King" and often referred to by his initials FPJ, he has been described as a cultural icon, having dominated the Philippine box-office from the 1960s to 1990s through his leading roles in action films. For his career that spanned nearly five decades, he has received numerous honors including the Order of National Artists of the Philippines in 2006 and the CCP Centennial Honors for the Arts in 1999.
1947
Larry Kudlow
American conservative news analyst, economist, and journalist
Lawrence Alan Kudlow is an American conservative broadcast news analyst, economist, columnist, journalist, political commentator, and radio personality. He is a financial news commentator for Fox Business and served as the director of the National Economic Council during the first Trump administration from 2018 to 2021. He assumed that role after his previous employment as a CNBC television financial news host. He is the vice chair of the board of the America First Policy Institute, a nonprofit think tank founded to promote an America First public policy agenda.
1983
Andrew Garfield
American-English actor
Andrew Russell Garfield is an English and American actor. He is known for his work across a variety of genres, from biographical dramas to action films, spanning both independent and blockbuster productions. His accolades include a Tony Award, two Critics' Choice Awards, a Golden Globe Award and a British Academy Television Award, in addition to nominations for two Academy Awards, three British Academy Film Awards and a Primetime Emmy Award. In 2022, Time magazine named him one of the 100 most influential people in the world.
1946
Connie Chung
American journalist
Constance Yu-Hwa Chung Povich is an American journalist who has been a news anchor and reporter for the U.S. television news networks ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, and MSNBC. Some of her more famous interview subjects include Claus von Bülow and U.S. representative Gary Condit, whom Chung interviewed first after the Chandra Levy disappearance, and basketball legend Magic Johnson after he went public about being HIV-positive. In 1993, she became the second woman to co-anchor a network newscast, as part of CBS Evening News.
1964
Azarias Ruberwa
Congolese lawyer and politician, Vice-President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Azarias Ruberwa Manywa is a Rwandese, and public figure. During the Second Congo War he was Secretary-General of the Rassemblement Congolais pour la Démocratie (RCD-G) rebel group. Following the war, he was one of the vice-presidents in the transitional government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo between 2003 and 2006. He has also been the leader and president of RCD-G's political party since 2003. He is a member of the Banyamulenge community of South Kivu who belong to the Tutsi ethnic group.
1989
Kirko Bangz
American rapper and producer
Kirk Jerel Randle, better known by his stage name Kirko Bangz, is an American rapper. He is best known for his 2011 single "Drank in My Cup", which peaked at number 28 on the US Billboard Hot 100 and received platinum certification by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). His guest appearance on Meek Mill's 2012 single, "Young & Gettin' It", peaked at number 86. As his following releases have failed to chart, he has been regarded as a one-hit wonder.
1779
Jöns Jacob Berzelius
Swedish chemist and academic (died 1848)
Jöns Jacob Berzelius was a Swedish chemist. Berzelius is considered, along with Robert Boyle, John Dalton, and Antoine Lavoisier, to be one of the founders of modern chemistry. Berzelius became a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in 1808 and served from 1818 as its principal functionary. He is known in Sweden as the "Father of Swedish Chemistry". During his lifetime he did not customarily use his first given name, and was universally known simply as Jacob Berzelius.
1944
Rajiv Gandhi
Indian lawyer and politician, 6th Prime Minister of India (died 1991)
Rajiv Ratna Gandhi was an Indian aircraft pilot, technocrat and statesman who served as the prime minister of India from 1984 to 1989 for two terms. He took office after the assassination of his mother, then–prime minister Indira Gandhi, to become the youngest Indian prime minister at the age of 40. He served until his defeat at the 1989 election, and then became Leader of the Opposition in Lok Sabha, resigning in December 1990, six months before his own assassination.
1995
Liana Liberato
American actress
Liana Daine Liberato is an American actress. She played the younger version of the female lead in the 2014 film The Best of Me and starred in the drama films The Last Sin Eater (2007) and Trust (2010), the thriller films Trespass (2011) and Erased (2012), and the horrors Haunt (2013) and The Beach House (2019). In 2017, she was part of the ensemble cast of the drama Novitiate and in 2018 she starred in the comedy Banana Split.
1935
Ron Paul
American captain, physician, and politician
Ronald Ernest Paul is an American author, activist, medical doctor, and former politician who served as the U.S. representative for Texas's 22nd congressional district from 1976 to 1977, and again from 1979 to 1985, as well as for Texas's 14th congressional district from 1997 to 2013. On three occasions, he sought the presidency of the United States, first as the Libertarian Party nominee in 1988, and then as a candidate for the Republican Party in 2008 and 2012.
1943
Sylvester McCoy
Scottish actor
Percy James Patrick Kent-Smith, known professionally as Sylvester McCoy, is a Scottish actor. Gaining prominence as a physical comedian, he portrayed the seventh incarnation of the Doctor in the BBC science fiction series Doctor Who from 1987 to 1989—the final Doctor of the classic series—and reprised the role in the televised stories Dimensions in Time (1993), Doctor Who (1996) and "The Power of the Doctor" (2022). He also portrayed the wizard Radagast in The Hobbit film series (2012–2014).
1910
Eero Saarinen
Finnish-American architect and furniture designer, designed the Gateway Arch (died 1961)
Eero Saarinen was a Finnish-American architect and industrial designer. Saarinen's work includes the General Motors Technical Center, the Dulles International Airport Main Terminal, the TWA Flight Center at John F. Kennedy International Airport, the Vivian Beaumont Theater at Lincoln Center, the Gateway Arch, and the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center. During his career, Saarinen was elected a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects and served on the National Institute of Arts and Letters.
1948
Robert Plant
English singer-songwriter
Robert Anthony Plant is an English singer and songwriter. He was the lead singer and lyricist of the rock band Led Zeppelin from its founding in 1968 until their break-up in 1980. Since then, he has had a successful solo career, sometimes collaborating with other artists such as Alison Krauss. Regarded by many as one of the greatest singers in rock music, he is known for his raw stage performances and his powerful, wide-ranging voice.
1908
Al López
American baseball player and manager (died 2005)
Alfonso Ramón López was a Spanish-American professional baseball catcher and manager. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Brooklyn Robins / Dodgers, Boston Bees, Pittsburgh Pirates, and Cleveland Indians between 1928 and 1947, and was the manager for the Cleveland Indians and the Chicago White Sox from 1951 to 1965 and during portions of the 1968 and 1969 seasons. Due to his Spanish ancestry and "gentlemanly" nature, he was nicknamed "El Señor".
1971
David Walliams
English comedian, actor, and author
David Edward Williams, known professionally as David Walliams, is an English actor, comedian, writer, and television personality. He rose to prominence for his work with Matt Lucas on the BBC sketch comedy series Little Britain (2003–2006) and Come Fly with Me (2010–2011). From 2012 to 2022, Walliams was a judge on the television talent competition Britain's Got Talent. He is also a writer of children's books, having sold more than 50 million copies worldwide.
1946
Laurent Fabius
French politician, 158th Prime Minister of France
Laurent Pierre Emmanuel Fabius is a French politician who has served in a number of capacities, most recently as president of the Constitutional Council from 2016 to 2025. A member of the Socialist Party, he previously served as Prime Minister of France from 17 July 1984 to 20 March 1986. Fabius was 37 years old when he was appointed and is, after Gabriel Attal, the second youngest prime minister of the Fifth Republic.
1947
Ray Wise
American actor
Raymond Herbert Wise is an American actor best known for his role as Leland Palmer in Twin Peaks and its prequel film Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (1992). He has appeared in films such as Swamp Thing (1982), The Journey of Natty Gann (1985), RoboCop (1987), Bob Roberts (1992), Jeepers Creepers 2 (2003), Dead End (2003), Good Night, and Good Luck (2005), X-Men: First Class (2011) and God's Not Dead 2 (2016).
1957
Simon Donaldson
English mathematician and academic
Sir Simon Kirwan Donaldson is an English mathematician known for his work on the topology of smooth (differentiable) four-dimensional manifolds, Donaldson–Thomas theory, and his contributions to Kähler geometry. He is currently a Professor in Pure Mathematics at Imperial College London. After being a member of the Simons Center for Geometry and Physics (SCGP) for a decade, he holds Emeritus Professor status at the SCGP and Stony Brook University, in New York state.
1873
Eliel Saarinen
Finnish architect and academic, co-designed the National Museum of Finland (died 1950)
Gottlieb Eliel Saarinen was a Finnish and American architect, designer, and urban planner. Saarinen worked in a diverse range of styles in his native Finland and, after emigrating in 1923, the United States. He was the father of architect Eero Saarinen and designer Pipsan Saarinen Swanson. Through his rejected 1922 design of the Chicago Tribune building he indirectly played a significant role in the influence and development of Art Deco architecture.
1997
Daniel Vladař
Czech ice hockey player
Daniel Vladař is a Czech professional ice hockey player who is a goaltender for the Philadelphia Flyers of the National Hockey League (NHL). Selected by the Boston Bruins in the 2015 NHL entry draft, Vladař played several years in his native Czech Republic before moving to North America in 2015. After four seasons in the minor leagues he made his NHL debut with the Bruins during the 2020 Stanley Cup playoffs.
1923
Jim Reeves
American singer-songwriter (died 1964)
James Travis Reeves was an American singer, songwriter, and musician. One of the earliest pioneers and practitioners of the Nashville sound, he played a central role in the sonic development of country music in the 1960s. Known as "Gentleman Jim", his songs continued to chart for years after his death in a plane crash. He is a member of both the Country Music and Texas Country Music Halls of Fame.
1940
Rubén Hinojosa
American businessman and politician
Rubén Eloy Hinojosa is an American politician who served as the U.S. representative for Texas's 15th congressional district, from 1997 to 2017. He is a member of the Democratic Party. The district stretched from Seguin, to McAllen on the Mexican border. Much of the region was rural although Hidalgo County is part of the third-fastest-growing metropolitan statistical area in the country. Hinojosa served on the Financial Services and Education committees.
1941
Slobodan Milošević
Serbian lawyer and politician, 1st President of Serbia (died 2006)
Slobodan Milošević was a Yugoslav and Serbian politician who was the president of Serbia between 1989 and 1997 and president of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia from 1997 until his overthrow in 2000. Milošević played a major role in the Yugoslav Wars and became the first sitting head of state charged with war crimes, as well as the first former head of state charged with crimes against humanity and genocide.
1946
Ralf Hütter
German singer and keyboard player
Ralf Hütter is a German musician and composer best known as the lead singer and keyboardist of Kraftwerk, which he founded with Florian Schneider in 1970, and became the only consistent member of the band, and the only one to have appeared on every single one of the band's albums. On 12 May 2021, Kraftwerk was announced as one of the inductees of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
1960
Sally Yates
American lawyer and former Acting Attorney General
Sally Quillian Yates is an American lawyer. From 2010 to 2015, she was United States Attorney for the Northern District of Georgia. In 2015, she was appointed United States Deputy Attorney General by President Barack Obama. Following the inauguration of President Donald Trump and the departure of Attorney General Loretta Lynch at noon on January 20, 2017, Yates served as acting United States Attorney General for 10 days.
1888
Tôn Đức Thắng
Vietnamese politician, 2nd President of Vietnam (died 1980)
Tôn Đức Thắng was the second President of Vietnam under the leadership of Communist Party General Secretary Lê Duẩn. The position of president is ceremonial and Tôn was never a major policymaker or even a member of the Politburo, Vietnam's ruling council. He served as president, initially of Democratic Republic of Vietnam from September 2, 1969, and later of a united Vietnam, until his death in 1980.
1968
Klas Ingesson
Swedish footballer and manager (died 2014)
Klas Inge "Klabbe" Ingesson was a Swedish professional footballer and manager. He spent most of his career as a midfielder in Sweden, Belgium, Netherlands, England, Italy and France. Ingesson represented the Sweden national team on 57 occasions, including the 1990 and 1994 FIFA World Cups, as well as the 1992 European Championship. He was the manager of IF Elfsborg from 2013 until his death in October 2014.
1981
Ben Barnes
English actor
Benjamin Thomas Barnes is an English actor and singer. He is best known for his roles as Prince Caspian in The Chronicles of Narnia film series (2008–2010), Logan Delos in the HBO science fiction series Westworld (2016–2020), Billy Russo/Jigsaw in the Marvel series The Punisher (2017–2019), The Darkling in the Netflix series Shadow and Bone (2021–2023), and Tim Jamieson in the MGM+ supernatural series The Institute (2025-present).
1799
James Prinsep
English orientalist and scholar (died 1840)
James Prinsep was an English scholar, orientalist, and antiquary. He was the founding editor of the Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal and is best remembered for deciphering the Kharosthi and Brahmi scripts of ancient India. He studied, documented, and illustrated many aspects of numismatics, metallurgy, and meteorology apart from pursuing his career in India as an assay master at the mint in Benares.
1857
George Griffith
British writer (died 1906)
George Chetwynd Griffith-Jones was a British writer. He was active mainly in the science fiction genre—or as it was known at the time, scientific romance—in particular writing many future-war stories and playing a significant role in shaping that emerging subgenre. For a short period of time, he was the leading science fiction author in his home country both in terms of popularity and commercial success.
1884
Rudolf Bultmann
German Lutheran theologian and professor of New Testament at the University of Marburg (died 1976)
Rudolf Karl Bultmann was a German Lutheran theologian and professor of the New Testament at the University of Marburg. He was one of the major figures of early 20th-century biblical studies. A prominent critic of liberal theology, Bultmann instead argued for an existentialist interpretation of the New Testament. His hermeneutical approach to the New Testament led him to be a proponent of dialectical theology.
1919
Walter Bernstein
American screenwriter and producer (died 2021)
Walter Bernstein was an American screenwriter and film producer who was blacklisted by the Hollywood movie studios in the 1950s because of his views on communism. Some of his notable works included The Front (1976), Yanks (1979), and Little Miss Marker (1980). He was a recipient of Writers Guild of America Awards including the Ian McLellan Hunter Award and the Evelyn F. Burkey Award.
1898
Vilhelm Moberg
Swedish historian, journalist, author, and playwright (died 1973)
Karl Artur Vilhelm Moberg was a Swedish journalist, author, playwright, historian, and debater. His literary career, spanning more than 45 years, is associated with his four‑volume series The Emigrants. The novels, published between 1949 and 1959, deal with the Swedish emigration to the United States in the 19th century. They have been adapted for a total of three movies, and a musical.
1979
Jamie Cullum
English singer-songwriter and pianist
Jamie Paul Joseph Cullum is an English jazz-pop singer, pianist, songwriter and radio presenter. Although primarily a vocalist and pianist, he also accompanies himself on other instruments, including guitar and drums. He has recorded nine studio albums, three compilation albums, one live album and twenty-four singles. Since April 2010, he has presented a weekly Tuesday evening jazz show on BBC Radio 2.
1981
Brett Finch
Australian rugby league player and sportscaster
Brett John Finch is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1990s, 2000s, and 2010s. A New South Wales State of Origin representative half back, he played in the National Rugby League for Australian clubs the Canberra Raiders, Sydney Roosters, Parramatta Eels and Melbourne Storm. Finch also played in the Super League for English club the Wigan Warriors.
1951
Greg Bear
American author (died 2022)
Gregory Dale Bear was an American science fiction writer. His work covered themes of conflict, consciousness, and accelerated evolution. The Forge of God and Anvil of Stars established his reputation. As time went on these works were rolled into lengthier trilogies and series. Along with Forge, popular series have included parallel universes in The Way and evolutionary themes in Darwin's Children.
1990
Culoe De Song
South African music producer and DJ
Culolethu Zulu, known commonly by his stage name Culoe De Song, is a South African record producer, DJ and sangoma. His first name, "Culolethu", is an IsiZulu name meaning "our song", and he is known as "Culo" or "Culoe" meaning "song"; the name is pronounced with a clicking "C", not to be erroneously pronounced like the Spanish word "culo", which rhymes with "cool". He released his first album, A Giant Leap, in 2009. In 2011, he released his album Elevation with the help of Kindnes Khupe, a Zimbabwean-born tribal mix DJ. Later, he released Exodus (2013). Culoe De Song recently won The Best Male Artist for the 2014 Metro FM Awards for his album Exodus, an album that was featured on Rolling Stone's Top 500 Albums of 2013. He also participated in the 2008 Red Bull Music Academy in Barcelona, Spain.
1919
Adamantios Androutsopoulos
Greek lawyer, educator and politician, Prime Minister of Greece (died 2000)
Adamantios Androutsopoulos was a lawyer and professor. He held various ministerial posts under the Greek military junta of 1967–1974 and was finally appointed interim Prime Minister of Greece from 1973 to 1974 by junta strongman Dimitrios Ioannides. He was the last Prime Minister appointed under the junta before the 1974 general election that marked a return to civilian rule.
1998
Lieke Klaver
Dutch track and field athlete
Lieke Klaver is a Dutch track and field athlete who competes in sprinting. She specializes in the 200 metres and in the 400 metres. In the 4 × 400 metres relay, she is the 2023 World Champion and the 2024 World Indoor Champion with the Dutch women's team and the 2024 Olympic Champion with the Dutch mixed team.
1918
Jacqueline Susann
American actress and author (died 1974)
Jacqueline Susann was an American novelist and actress. Her novel Valley of the Dolls (1966) is one of the best-selling books in publishing history. With her two subsequent works, The Love Machine (1969) and Once Is Not Enough (1973), Susann became the first author to have three novels top The New York Times Best Seller list consecutively.
1778
Bernardo O'Higgins
Chilean general and politician, 2nd Supreme Director of Chile (died 1842)
Bernardo O'Higgins Riquelme was a Chilean military officer, statesman and a major leader of Chile's successful struggle for independence from the Spanish Empire. He was the second Supreme Director of Chile from 1817 to 1823, the first holder of the title to head a fully independent Chilean state, and is considered one of Chile's founding fathers.
1881
Aleksander Hellat
Estonian politician, 6th Estonian Minister of Foreign Affairs (died 1943)
Aleksander Hellat was an Estonian politician and a Minister of Foreign Affairs of Estonia. He was a member of the Estonian Social Democratic Workers' Party. After Estonia had been annexed by the Soviet Union, Hellat was arrested in 1940 by the NKVD and deported to a prison camp in Siberia, where he died three years later.
1974
Amy Adams
American actress
Amy Lou Adams is an American actress. Known for both her comedic and dramatic roles, she has been featured three times in annual rankings of the world's highest-paid actresses. She has received various accolades including two Golden Globes, and has been nominated for six Academy Awards, seven British Academy Film Awards, and two Primetime Emmy Awards.
1982
Meghan Ory
Canadian actress
Meghan Ory is a Canadian-American television and film actress. She is known for her role as Red Riding Hood/Ruby on the ABC fantasy series Once Upon a Time and also starred in the short-lived CBS drama Intelligence as Riley Neal. Ory starred in the Hallmark family drama Chesapeake Shores as New York City careerwoman Abby O'Brien.
1988
Jerryd Bayless
American basketball player
Jerryd Andrew Bayless is an American former professional basketball player. He played a year of college basketball for the Arizona Wildcats after playing high school basketball at St. Mary's High School in Phoenix. He was selected 11th overall in the 2008 NBA draft by the Indiana Pacers and was then traded to the Portland Trail Blazers.
1886
Paul Tillich
German-American philosopher and theologian (died 1965)
Paul Johannes Tillich was a German and American Christian existentialist philosopher, religious socialist, and Lutheran theologian who was one of the most influential theologians of the twentieth century. Tillich taught at German universities before migrating to the United States in 1933, where he taught at Union Theological Seminary, Harvard University, and the University of Chicago.
1927
Yootha Joyce
English actress (died 1980)
Yootha Joyce Needham, known as Yootha Joyce, was a British actress best known for playing Mildred Roper opposite Brian Murphy in the sitcom Man About the House (1973–1976) and its spin-off George and Mildred (1976–1979). She had a large number of film and television credits to her name, and also made many appearances on stage.
1913
Roger Wolcott Sperry
American neuropsychologist and neurobiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1994)
Roger Wolcott Sperry was an American neuropsychologist, neurobiologist, cognitive neuroscientist, who, together with David H. Hubel and Torsten Nils Wiesel, won the 1981 Nobel Prize in Medicine for his work with split-brain research. A Review of General Psychology survey, published in 2002, ranked Sperry as the 44th most cited psychologist of the 20th century.
1944
José Wilker
Brazilian actor and director (died 2014)
José Wilker Almeida was a Brazilian film, stage, and television actor and director. He gained fame in telenovelas such as Roque Santeiro (1985), but became internationally known for his role as Vadinho, the husband who returns from the dead to tempt Sônia Braga's character in the film Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands (1976).
1659
Henry Every
English pirate (died 1696)
Henry Every, also known as Henry Avery, sometimes erroneously given as Jack Avery or John Avery, was an English pirate who operated in the Atlantic and Indian oceans in the mid-1690s. He probably used several aliases throughout his career, including Benjamin Bridgeman, and was known as Long Ben to his crewmen and associates.
1856
Jakub Bart-Ćišinski
German poet and playwright (died 1909)
Jakub Bart-Ćišinski, also known as Łužičan, Jakub Bart Kukowski, was a Sorbian poet, writer and playwright, translator of Czech, Polish, Italian and German literature. He produced his works in Upper Sorbian. He is also an inventor of modern Upper Sorbian poetic language. He has been described as "the classical writer of Sorbian literature."
1946
N. R. Narayana Murthy
Indian businessman, co-founded Infosys
Nagavara Ramarao Narayana Murthy is an Indian billionaire businessman. He is one of the founders of Infosys, and was the chairman, chief executive officer (CEO), president and chief mentor of the company before retiring and becoming chairman emeritus. As of January 2025, his net worth was estimated at US$5.0 billion, according to Forbes.
1949
Phil Lynott
Irish singer-songwriter, bass player, and producer (died 1986)
Philip Parris Lynott was an Irish musician who was the co-founder, lead vocalist, bassist, and primary songwriter of the hard rock band Thin Lizzy. He was noted for his distinctive pick-based style on the bass and for his imaginative lyrics, including working-class tales and numerous characters drawn from personal influences and Celtic culture.
1985
Joe Vitale
American ice hockey player
Joseph Dominic Vitale is an American former professional ice hockey player and the current radio and television color analyst for the St. Louis Blues. Vitale was drafted 195th overall in the 2005 NHL entry draft by the Pittsburgh Penguins, with whom he made his NHL debut. He also played with the Arizona Coyotes.
1985
Thomas Domingo
French rugby player
Thomas Domingo is a French rugby union player. He is of Portuguese descent. Domingo, who is a loosehead prop, plays his club rugby for ASM Clermont Auvergne. He made his debut for France against Wales on 27 February 2009. He played in the final as Clermont won the Top 14 title in 2009–10.
1710
Thomas Simpson
English mathematician and academic (died 1761)
Thomas Simpson FRS was a British mathematician and inventor known for the eponymous Simpson's rule to approximate definite integrals. The attribution, as often in mathematics, can be debated: this rule had been found 100 years earlier by Johannes Kepler, and in German it is called Keplersche Fassregel, or roughly "Kepler's Barrel Rule".
1901
Salvatore Quasimodo
Italian novelist and poet, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1968)
Salvatore Quasimodo was an Italian poet and translator, awarded the 1959 Nobel Prize in Literature "for his lyrical poetry, which with classical fire expresses the tragic experience of life in our own times". Along with Giuseppe Ungaretti and Eugenio Montale, he was one of the foremost Italian poets of the 20th century.
1947
Alan Lee
English painter and illustrator
Alan Lee is an English book illustrator and film conceptual designer. He is best known for his artwork inspired by J. R. R. Tolkien's fantasy novels, and for his work on the concept design of Peter Jackson's film adaptations of Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit film series.
1976
Chris Drury
American ice hockey player
Christopher Ellis Drury is an American professional ice hockey executive and former player. He has served as the president and general manager for the New York Rangers since May 5, 2021. He previously served as the general manager of the Rangers American Hockey League (AHL) affiliate, the Hartford Wolf Pack.
1979
Sarah Borwell
English tennis player
Sarah Leah Borwell is an English former professional tennis player who enjoyed her greatest success in doubles. She was the British number one in doubles. Her career-high doubles ranking is 65, set on 9 August 2010, and her career-high singles ranking is 199, which she reached on 10 July 2006.
1915
Ivo Rojnica
Croatian-Argentine war crimes suspect, businessman, diplomat, and intelligence agent (died 2007)
Ivo Rojnica was a Croatian Ustaše official and intelligence agent who was active in the World War II Axis puppet state known as the Independent State of Croatia (NDH) from 1941 to 1945. After the war, he escaped to Argentina, where he reinvented himself as a businessman and diplomat.
1971
Ke Huy Quan
Vietnamese-American actor
Ke Huy Quan, also known as Jonathan Ke Quan, is an American actor. His accolades include an Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award, as well as a nomination for a BAFTA Award. Time magazine named Quan one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2023.
1994
Mitchell Trubisky
American football player
Mitchell David Trubisky is an American professional football quarterback for the Tennessee Titans of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the North Carolina Tar Heels, receiving third-team All-ACC honors in 2016. Trubisky was selected second overall by the Chicago Bears in the 2017 NFL draft.
1885
Dino Campana
Italian poet and author (died 1932)
Dino Campana was an Italian visionary poet. His fame rests on his only published book of poetry, the Canti Orfici, as well as his wild and erratic personality, including his ill-fated love affair with Sibilla Aleramo. He is often seen as an Italian example of a poète maudit.
1981
Byron Saxton
American wrestler, manager, and sportscaster
Bryan Jesús Kelly, better known by the ring name Byron Saxton, is an American professional wrestling commentator, ring announcer, and former professional wrestler. He is signed to WWE, where he works as a backstage interviewer on Raw, and also serves as a ring announcer for its live events.
1847
Andrew Greenwood
English cricketer (died 1889)
Andrew Greenwood was an English professional cricketer who played for Yorkshire County Cricket Club from 1869 to 1880. He was born and died in Huddersfield, West Riding of Yorkshire. He was a member of the England team which played in the first two Test matches, retrospectively recognised.
1936
Hideki Shirakawa
Japanese chemist, engineer, and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
Hideki Shirakawa was a Japanese chemist and engineer who was Professor Emeritus at the University of Tsukuba and Zhejiang University. He was best known for his discovery of conductive polymers. He was co-recipient of the 2000 Nobel Prize in Chemistry jointly with Alan MacDiarmid and Alan Heeger.
1955
Agnes Chan
Hong Kong singer and author
Agnes Miling Kaneko Chan is a Hong-Kong-born Japanese singer, television personality, university professor, essayist and novelist. Since 1998, Chan has been a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador and supports the Japan Committee for UNICEF. In Japan she is professionally known as Agnes Chan (アグネス・チャン), Agnes being her Christian name.
1966
Dimebag Darrell
American guitarist and songwriter (died 2004)
Darrell Lance Abbott, known professionally as Dimebag Darrell, was an American musician. He was the guitarist of the heavy metal bands Pantera and Damageplan, both of which he co-founded with his brother Vinnie Paul. He is considered one of the greatest heavy metal guitarists of all time.
1938
Jean-Loup Chrétien
French military officer and astronaut
Jean-Loup Jacques Marie Chrétien is a French retired Général de Brigade in the Armée de l'Air, and a former CNES spationaut. He flew on two Franco-Soviet space missions and a NASA Space Shuttle mission. Chrétien was the first Frenchman and the first western European in space.
1987
Gunther
Austrian wrestler
Walter Hahn is an Austrian professional wrestler. He is signed to WWE, where he performs on the SmackDown brand under the ring name Gunther. He is a former two-time World Heavyweight Champion, and the longest reigning WWE Intercontinental and NXT United Kingdom champion in company history.
1952
John Hiatt
American singer-songwriter and guitarist
John Robert Hiatt is an American singer-songwriter. He has played a variety of musical styles on his albums, including new wave, blues, and country. Hiatt has been nominated for nine Grammy Awards and has been awarded a variety of other distinctions in the music industry.
1968
Sandy Brondello
Australian basketball player and coach
Sandra Anne Brondello is an Australian professional basketball coach and former professional basketball player. She is the inaugural head coach of the Toronto Tempo of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA). She is also the head coach of the Australian women's national team, the Opals.
1989
Judd Trump
English snooker player
Judd Trump is an English professional snooker player who is a former world champion and a former world number one. He is in fourth place on the list of all-time ranking event winners, having won 31 ranking titles. He has won five Triple Crown events.
1785
Oliver Hazard Perry
American Naval hero (died 1819)
Oliver Hazard Perry was a United States Navy officer from South Kingstown, Rhode Island. A prominent member of the Perry family naval dynasty, he was the son of Sarah Wallace Alexander and Captain Christopher Raymond Perry, and older brother of Commodore Matthew C. Perry.
1966
Enrico Letta
Italian lawyer and politician, 55th Prime Minister of Italy
Enrico Letta is an Italian politician who served as Prime Minister of Italy from April 2013 to February 2014, leading a grand coalition of centre-left and centre-right parties. He later was the leader of the Democratic Party (PD) from March 2021 to March 2023.
1868
Ellen Roosevelt
American tennis player (died 1954)
Ellen Crosby Roosevelt was an American tennis player. Roosevelt was a daughter of John Aspinwall Roosevelt, an estate proprietor, and Ellen Murray Crosby. She started playing tennis with her sister Grace in 1879 when her father installed a tennis court at their mansion.
1956
Joan Allen
American actress
Joan Allen is an American actress. Known for her work on stage and screen, she has received various accolades, including a Tony Award, in addition to nominations for three Academy Awards, a BAFTA Award, three Primetime Emmy Awards, and three Golden Globe Awards.
1845
Albert Chmielowski
Polish saint, founded the Albertine Brothers (died 1916)
Albert Chmielowski – born Adam Hilary Bernard Chmielowski – was a Polish Franciscan tertiary, painter, and disabled veteran of the Uprising of 1863. He was founder of both the Albertine Brothers and Albertine Sisters who are servants of the homeless and destitute.
1952
Doug Fieger
American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2010)
Douglas Lars Fieger was an American musician, singer and songwriter. He was the rhythm guitarist and lead vocalist of the rock band the Knack. He co-wrote "My Sharona," the biggest hit song of 1979 in the U.S., with lead guitarist Berton Averre.
1997
Kaho Minagawa
Japanese rhythmic gymnast
Kaho Minagawa is a retired Japanese individual rhythmic gymnast. She is the 2017 Asian Championships All-around silver medalist. She trained in Novogorsk in Moscow, Russia. She is the first Japanese individual rhythmic gymnast to win a medal at the World Cup series.
1954
Al Roker
American news anchor, television personality, and author
Albert Lincoln Roker Jr. is an American weather presenter, journalist, television personality, and author. He is the weather anchor on NBC's Today, and occasionally co-hosts 3rd Hour Today. He has a lapsed American Meteorological Society (AMS) Television Seal of Approval (#238).
1890
H. P. Lovecraft
American short story writer, editor, novelist (died 1937)
Howard Phillips Lovecraft was an American writer of weird, horror, fantasy, and science fiction. He is best known for his creation of the Cthulhu Mythos, but his legacy is also apparent in terms like "Lovecraftian horror" and an enduring fandom.
1932
Vasily Aksyonov
Russian physician, author, and academic (died 2009)
Vasily Pavlovich Aksyonov was a Soviet and Russian novelist. He became known in the West as the author of The Burn and of Generations of Winter, a family saga following three generations of the Gradov family between 1925 and 1953.
1900
Freddie Moore
American jazz drummer, washboarder, and singer (died 1992)
Freddie Moore was an American jazz drummer, washboarder and singer. Over the span of his 80-year career, he performed in bands with prominent jazz musicians in New York City and other cities across the United States, also touring Europe.
1966
Colin Cunningham
American actor
Colin Alexander Cunningham is an American television and film actor. Cunningham is best known for his roles as John Pope in the TNT science fiction series Falling Skies and as Major/Lt.Col Paul Davis on Stargate SG-1 and Stargate Atlantis.
1989
Dean Winnard
English footballer
Dean Winnard is an English footballer who last played for Marine in the Northern Premier League Division One West. His natural position is as a central defender. However, at Accrington Stanley, he was predominantly used as a left full-back.
1991
Jyrki Jokipakka
Finnish hockey player
Jyrki Jokipakka is a Finnish professional ice hockey defenceman who is under contract to Adler Mannheim of the Deutsche Eishockey Liga (DEL). He was selected by the Dallas Stars in the seventh round of the 2011 NHL entry draft.
1860
Raymond Poincaré
French lawyer and politician, 10th President of France (died 1934)
Raymond Nicolas Landry Poincaré was a French statesman who served as President of France from 1913 to 1920, and three times as Prime Minister of France. He was a conservative leader, primarily committed to political and social stability.
1561
Jacopo Peri
Italian singer and composer (died 1633)
Jacopo Peri was an Italian composer, singer, and instrumentalist of the late Renaissance and early Baroque periods. He wrote what is considered the first opera, the mostly lost Dafne, and also the earliest extant opera, Euridice (1600).
1970
Fred Durst
American singer-songwriter
William Frederick Durst is an American rapper, singer, songwriter, film director, and actor. He is the frontman and lyricist of the nu metal band Limp Bizkit, formed in 1994, with whom he has released six studio albums.
1992
Callum Skinner
Scottish track cyclist
Callum Skinner is a British former track cyclist. He won the silver medal in the individual sprint at the 2016 Summer Olympics, and was a member of the British team that won gold in the team sprint.
1905
Jack Teagarden
American singer-songwriter and trombonist (died 1964)
Weldon Leo "Jack" Teagarden was an American jazz trombonist and singer. He led both of his bands himself and was a sideman for Paul Whiteman's orchestra. From 1946 to 1951, he played in Louis Armstrong's All-Stars.
1981
Bernard Mendy
French footballer
Bernard Mendy is a French former professional footballer who played as a right-back. He was known for his blistering pace and constant overlapping runs. He most recently served as the assistant manager of Paris Saint-Germain Féminine.
1991
Cory Joseph
Canadian basketball player
Cory Ephram Joseph is a Canadian professional basketball player for Olympiacos of the Greek Basketball League (GBL) and the EuroLeague. He plays the combo guard position and was previously the captain of the Canadian national team.
1946
Mufaddal Saifuddin
53rd Da'i al-Mutlaq of Fatimid Caliphate
Mufaddal Saifuddin is the 53rd al-Dai al-Mutlaq and leader of the Dawoodi Bohra community, a Tayyibi, Musta'li, Ismaili, Shia Muslim denomination. He succeeded his father, Syedna Mohammed Burhanuddin, upon the latter’s death in January 2014.
1958
David O. Russell
American director and screenwriter
David Owen Russell is an American film director, screenwriter and producer. He has earned numerous accolades including two British Academy Film Awards, and a Golden Globe Award as well as nominations for five Academy Awards.
2003
Prince Gabriel of Belgium
Prince Gabriel of Belgium is the elder son and second child of King Philippe and Queen Mathilde of Belgium. He is currently second in line to the throne of Belgium after his elder sister, Elisabeth.
1847
Bolesław Prus
Polish journalist and author (died 1912)
Aleksander Głowacki, better known by his pen name Bolesław Prus, was a Polish journalist, novelist, a leading figure in the history of Polish literature and philosophy, and a distinctive voice in world literature.
1896
Gostha Pal
Indian footballer (died 1976)
Gostha Behari Paul was an Indian footballer who played primarily as a defender. Nicknamed "the Chinese wall", Paul was the captain of the India national team, who played during the 1920s and 30s.
1958
Patricia Rozema
Canadian director and screenwriter
Patricia Rozema is a Canadian film director, writer and producer. She was part of a loosely-affiliated group of filmmakers who emerged in the 1980s from Toronto, Canada, known as the Toronto New Wave.
1982
Joshua Kennedy
Australian footballer
Joshua Blake Kennedy is an Australian former professional soccer who played as a striker for the Australia national soccer team. At club level, he played mostly for soccer clubs in Germany and Japan.
1897
Tarjei Vesaas
Norwegian author and poet (died 1970)
Tarjei Vesaas was a Norwegian poet and novelist. Vesaas is widely considered to be one of Norway's greatest writers of the twentieth century and perhaps its most important since World War II.
1898
Leopold Infeld
Polish nuclear physicist, writer (died 1968)
Leopold Infeld was a Polish physicist who worked mainly in Poland and Canada (1938–1950). He was a Rockefeller fellow at Cambridge University (1933–1934) and a member of the Polish Academy of Sciences.
1977
Paolo Bianco
Italian footballer
Paolo Bianco is an Italian professional football coach and a former player who is the head coach of Serie B club Pisa. He played for several Serie A clubs as a defender.
1978
Chris Schroder
American baseball player
Christopher Keith Schroder is an American former professional baseball relief pitcher. He attended Oklahoma City University. Bob Carpenter coined him one of the 'er boys' along with Chris Booker and Ryan Wagner.
1989
Silas Kiplagat
Kenyan runner
Silas Kiplagat is a Kenyan middle-distance runner who specialises in the 1500 metres. He has a personal best of 3:27.64 minutes, which makes him the seventh fastest of all-time over the distance.
1956
Alvin Greenidge
Barbadian cricketer
Alvin Ethelbert Greenidge is a former West Indian cricketer who played in six Tests and one ODI from 1978 to 1979. Born in Barbados, he was an opening batsman who shares his name with, but is unrelated to, fellow opener Gordon Greenidge. He was selected to play for the West Indies when the side was depleted by the defection of players to the breakaway World Series Cricket. Their return after WSC ended, as well as his participation in the tour of South Africa in 1982–83 signified the end for Alvin's international career. His best score of 69 in Tests, and one of his two Test half-centuries, came against Australia in 1977–78.
1979
Cory Sullivan
American baseball player
Cory Sullivan is an American former professional baseball outfielder. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Colorado Rockies, New York Mets, and Houston Astros between 2005 and 2010.
1972
Derrick Alston
American basketball player
Derrick Samuel Alston Sr. is an American basketball coach and former player who serves as an assistant coach for the Perth Wildcats of the Australian National Basketball League (NBL).
1982
Richard Petiot
Canadian ice hockey player
Richard Allan Petiot is a Canadian former professional ice hockey defenceman. He was drafted by the Los Angeles Kings in the fourth round of the 2001 NHL entry draft.
1985
Stephen Ward
Irish footballer
Stephen Robert Ward is an Irish retired professional footballer who played as a left-back. He is currently Head of Football Development at UAE Third Division League club Dubai Irish.
1982
Enyelbert Soto
Venezuelan-Japanese baseball player
Enyelbert Soto is a Venezuelan former professional baseball pitcher. He played in Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) for the Chunichi Dragons and Yokohama DeNA BayStars from 2011 to 2014.
1881
Edgar Guest
English-American poet and author (died 1959)
Edgar Albert Guest was a British-born American poet who became known as the People's Poet. His poems often had an inspirational and optimistic view of everyday life.
1931
Don King
American boxing promoter
Donald King is an American boxing promoter, known for his flamboyant and charismatic style, who was involved in some of the most famous boxing matches in history.
1946
Henryk Broder
Polish-German journalist and author
Henryk Marcin Broder, self-designation Henryk Modest Broder, is a Polish-born German journalist, author, and television personality. He was born into a Jewish family in Katowice, Poland.
1932
Anthony Ainley
English actor (died 2004)
Anthony Ainley was a British actor. He is best known for portraying the Master in the BBC television series Doctor Who from 1981 to 1989.
1969
Billy Gardell
American comedian, actor, and producer
William Gardell Jr. is an American actor and stand-up comedian. Gardell played Chicago police officer Mike Biggs on Mike & Molly. He also had a recurring role as Billy Colivida on Yes, Dear, and he appeared in a dozen episodes of My Name Is Earl as a police officer. Gardell voiced Santa in Ice Age: A Mammoth Christmas, as well as starring on Sullivan & Son in the recurring role of Lyle Winkler. From 2019 to 2024, Gardell played Bob Wheeler in the CBS sitcom series Bob Hearts Abishola.
1887
Phan Khôi
Vietnamese journalist and scholar (died 1959)
Phan Khôi was an intellectual leader who inspired a North Vietnamese variety of the Chinese Hundred Flowers Campaign, in which scholars were permitted to criticize the government, but for which he himself was ultimately persecuted by the Worker's Party of Vietnam.
1949
Nikolas Asimos
Greek singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 1988)
Nikolas Asimos was a Greek composer, singer and performance artist. His real surname was Asimopoulos (Ασημόπουλος). Asimos was a very special case of a counter-culture artist, mostly because of his lifestyle. His behavior and songs were often received as provocative by the general public. He was a person with strong political opinions. Ideologically, he could be categorized as an anarchist but he never accepted being put in a specific political ideology.
1909
André Morell
English actor (died 1978)
Cecil André Mesritz, known professionally as André Morell, was an English actor. He appeared frequently in theatre, film and on television from the 1930s to the 1970s. His best known screen roles were as Professor Bernard Quatermass in the BBC Television serial Quatermass and the Pit (1958–59), and as Doctor Watson in the Hammer Film Productions version of The Hound of the Baskervilles (1959).
1972
Scott Quinnell
Welsh rugby player and sportscaster
Scott Quinnell is a Welsh former rugby union and rugby league footballer who played in the 1990s and 2000s. He was a number eight for Wales, Llanelli RFC, Llanelli Scarlets, Richmond and the British & Irish Lions in rugby union. He won 52 caps for Wales and three for the Lions, and scored 11 international tries for Wales and one for the Lions.
1977
Manuel Contepomi
Argentine rugby player
Manuel Contepomi is an Argentine rugby union footballer. He started playing rugby at his secondary school, Colegio Cardenal Newman, and currently plays for Club Newman in the Unión de Rugby de Buenos Aires competition. He has also made numerous appearances for the Argentina national team. He is the twin brother of fellow Argentine rugby international Felipe Contepomi.
1991
Marko Djokovic
Serbian tennis player
Marko Djokovic is a Serbian former tennis player. He is the middle of the three children of Dijana and Srđan Đoković, younger brother of Novak and elder to Djordje Djokovic. Djokovic was included as a fifth player in a Serbian Davis Cup team for a quarterfinal tie against Croatia in the 2010 Davis Cup.
1993
Tonisha Rock-Yaw
Barbadian netball player
Tonisha Rock-Yaw is a Barbadian netball player who represents Barbados internationally and plays in the positions of centre and wing defense. She made her maiden World Cup appearance representing Barbados at the 2019 Netball World Cup. She also represented Barbados at the 2018 Commonwealth Games, which also marked her maiden Commonwealth Games appearance.
1927
Fred Kavli
Norwegian-American businessman and philanthropist, founded The Kavli Foundation (died 2013)
Fred Kavli was a Norwegian-American businessman and philanthropist born on a small farm in Eresfjord, Norway. He founded the Kavlico Corporation in Moorpark, California. Under his leadership, Kavlico became one of the world's largest suppliers of sensors for aeronautic, automotive, and industrial applications supplying General Electric and the Ford Motor Company.
1977
James Ormond
English cricketer
James Ormond is an English former cricketer. He played two Test matches for the England cricket team and in total made 137 first-class appearances. Ormond was a right-handed batsman and a right-arm medium-fast bowler although he has also bowled off-spin in his second and final Test match against India in Mohali.
1957
Cindy Nicholas
Canadian swimmer (died 2016)
Cynthia Maria "Cindy" Nicholas, was a long distance swimmer and a politician in Ontario, Canada. In 1977, she became the first woman to complete a two-way crossing of the English Channel. From 1987 to 1990 she was a Liberal member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario.
1977
Stéphane Gillet
Luxembourgish footballer
Stéphane Gillet was a Luxembourgish footballer. He played in goal twenty times for Luxembourg. He has played for clubs in several countries, including Jeunesse Esch and Racing FC Union Luxembourg in Luxembourg, Chester City in England, SV Elversberg in Germany, and FC Wil in Switzerland.
1966
Liu Chunyan
Chinese host and voice actress
Liu Chunyan, better known by her stage name Jin Guizi, is a Chinese television host and voice actress. She won the Golden Mic Award in both 1999 and 2011, and received the Flying Apsaras Award for Best Female Voice Actress in 1989.
1985
Brant Daugherty
American actor
Brant David Daugherty is an American actor, known for his recurring role as Noel Kahn on the teen drama television series Pretty Little Liars. In 2013, he had a recurring role as Brian in the NBC daytime drama Days of Our Lives.
1972
Anna Umemiya
Japanese model and actress
Anna Umemiya is a Japanese television personality and model. Born in Tokyo, she is the daughter of a Japanese father and an American mother, herself a former model. Her father, Tatsuo Umemiya, was an actor, and former original Iron Chef judge.
1977
Aaron Hamill
Australian footballer and coach
Aaron Hamill is a former professional Australian rules footballer, who is best known for his time at the St Kilda Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL) when he briefly captained the club. He also played five seasons with Carlton.
1975
Marko Martin
Estonian pianist and educator
Marko Martin is an Estonian pianist trained at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, teaching at the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre. He is a member of the Association of Estonian Professional Musicians and the Eduard Tubin Society.
1981
Craig Ochs
American football player
Craig Ochs is an American former football quarterback for the San Diego Chargers and Buffalo Bills in the National Football League (NFL) and was also assigned to the Frankfurt Galaxy of NFL Europe in the 2006 season.
1987
Sido Jombati
Portuguese footballer
Sido Coelho Jombati is a Portuguese footballer who most recently played as a right back or centre back for Salisbury. He has played in the English Football League for Cheltenham Town, Wycombe Wanderers and Oldham Athletic.
1973
Scott Goodman
Australian swimmer
Scott Linton Goodman is an Australian butterfly swimmer who competed at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, winning a bronze medal in the 200-metre butterfly. He was also an Australian Institute of Sport scholarship holder.
1984
Ingrid Lukas
Estonian-Swiss singer-songwriter and pianist
Ingrid Lukas is an Estonian-Swiss singer-songwriter, pianist, and bandleader. She is known for blending Estonian folk music with modern electronic and pop elements, creating a unique soundscape that has gained recognition across Europe and beyond.
1921
Keith Froome
Australian rugby league player (died 1978)
George Keith Froome (1920–1978) was an Australian rugby league player. He was a halfback for the Australian national team. He played in eight Tests between 1948 and 1949 as captain on two occasions.
1969
Santeri Kinnunen
Finnish actor
Santeri Karl-Henrik Kinnunen is a Finnish actor. Kinnunen, who spent most of his career at the Helsinki City Theatre, has acted in numerous film and television productions and worked as a voice actor.
1976
Kristen Miller
American actress, producer, and screenwriter
Kristen Miller is an American actress. She is best known for her roles as Ashley Elliot on the sitcom USA High (1997–1999) and Deedra "D.D." Cummings on the action-adventure series She Spies (2002–2004).
1963
Uwe Bialon
German footballer and manager
Uwe Bialon is a German professional football manager and former player. He made his single Bundesliga appearance for VfB Stuttgart on 23 October 1982 in a 5–2 win over VfL Bochum.
1973
Alexandre Finazzi
Brazilian footballer
Alexandre Silveira Finazzi, known as Finazzi, is a Brazilian professional football coach and former player who played as a forward. He is the current head coach of Tapajós.
1906
Vidrik Rootare
Estonian chess player (died 1981)
Vidrik "Frits" Rootare was an Estonian chess player. His wife, Salme Rootare, was also an Estonian chess player, 15-time Estonian Champion and a Women's International Master (WIM).
1976
Cornel Frăsineanu
Romanian footballer
Cornel Dănuț Frăsineanu is a Romanian former professional footballer who played as a left-back. He was also a manager at Atletic Bradu in the Romanian Liga IV.
1920
H. R. Van Dongen
American illustrator (died 2010)
Henry Richard Van Dongen, often professionally known as H.R. Van Dongen, was an American artist best known for his science fiction magazine and book covers.
1973
Alban Bushi
Albanian footballer
Alban Bushi is an Albanian professional football coach and former player who is the manager of Albania under-21 and under-20 team. He is nicknamed "Loku".
1982
Barney Rogers
Zimbabwean cricketer
Barney Guy Rogers is a Zimbabwean former international cricketer. He played four Test matches and 15 One Day Internationals (ODIs) for the Zimbabwe national cricket team between 2002 and 2005 and first-class cricket in Zimbabwean domestic competitions. He played as a left-handed batsman who bowled occasional off-spin. Rogers was good enough at field hockey to play at under-20 level for Zimbabwe.
1930
Peter Randall
English sergeant and recipient of the George Cross (died 2007)
Peter John Randall, was a British Army soldier and a recipient of the George Medal, and the RSPCA's Margaret Wheatley Cross, for his actions on 8 October 1954 where he saved the life of a fellow soldier and a military dog from a burning truck.
1377
Shahrukh Mirza
ruler of Persia and Transoxiania (died 1447)
Shah Rukh or Shahrukh Mirza was the ruler of the Timurid Empire between 1405 and 1447.
1625
Thomas Corneille
French playwright and philologist (died 1709)
Thomas Corneille was a French lexicographer and dramatist.
1632
Louis Bourdaloue
French preacher and academic (died 1704)
Louis Bourdaloue was a French Jesuit and preacher.
1719
Christian Mayer
Czech astronomer and educator (died 1783)
Christian Mayer was a Moravian-German Catholic priest, astronomer and teacher.
1720
Bernard de Bury
French harpsichord player and composer (died 1785)
Bernard de Bury or Buri was a French musician and court composer of the late Baroque era.
1865
Bernard Tancred
South African cricketer and lawyer (died 1911)
Augustus Bernard Tancred was a 19th-century South African Test cricketer. His brothers, Vincent and Louis, also played Test cricket for South Africa.
1905
Jean Gebser
German linguist, poet, and philosopher (died 1973)
Jean Gebser was a Swiss philosopher, linguist, and poet who described the structures of human consciousness.
1905
Mikio Naruse
Japanese director and screenwriter (died 1969)
Mikio Naruse was a Japanese film director and screenwriter who directed 89 films spanning the period 1930 to 1967.
1909
Alby Roberts
New Zealand cricketer and rugby player (died 1978)
Albert William Roberts was a New Zealand Test cricketer who played in five Test matches between 1930 and 1937.
1916
Paul Felix Schmidt
Estonian–German chess player and chemist (died 1984)
Paul Felix Schmidt was an Estonian and German chess player, writer and chemist.
1921
Jack Wilson
Australian cricketer (died 1985)
John William Wilson was an Australian cricketer who played in one Test match in 1956.
1926
Frank Rosolino
American jazz trombonist (died 1978)
Frank Rosolino was an American jazz trombonist.
1929
Kevin Heffernan
Irish footballer and manager (died 2013)
Kevin Heffernan was an Irish Gaelic footballer and manager who played as a left corner-forward at senior level for the Dublin county team.
1930
Mario Bernardi
Canadian pianist and conductor (died 2013)
Mario Bernardi, was a Canadian conductor and pianist. He conducted 75 different operas and over 450 other works with the National Arts Centre Orchestra.
1937
Stelvio Cipriani
Italian composer (died 2018)[citation needed]
Stelvio Cipriani, also known as Viostel, was an Italian composer, mostly of motion picture soundtracks, conductor and pianist.
1941
Dame Anne Evans
English soprano and actress
Dame Anne Elizabeth Jane Evans, is an international British operatic soprano.
1947
James Pankow
American musician
James Carter Pankow is an American trombone player, songwriter, and a founding member of the rock band Chicago.
1953
Peter Horton
American actor and director
Peter Horton is an American actor and director. He played Professor Gary Shepherd on the television series Thirtysomething from 1987 until 1991.
1960
Dom Duff
Breton singer-songwriter, guitarist, composer
Dominique Le Duff is a Breton singer-songwriter.
1962
James Marsters
American actor
James Wesley Marsters is an American actor, musician and comic book writer.
1965
KRS-One
American rapper and producer
Lawrence Kris Parker, known professionally as KRS-One, is an American rapper from New York City.
1966
Miguel Albaladejo
Spanish director and screenwriter
Miguel Albaladejo is a Spanish screenwriter and film director.
1968
Abdelatif Benazzi
Moroccan-French rugby player
Abdelatif Benazzi is a French-Moroccan rugby union player who represented both Morocco and France. He played as a lock or back row forward.
1970
Els Callens
Belgian tennis player and sportscaster
Els Callens is a former professional female tennis player from Belgium.
1971
Nenad Bjelica
Croatian footballer and manager
Nenad Bjelica is a Croatian professional football manager and former player. He is currently the head coach of Turkish club Samsunspor.
1971
Steve Stone
English footballer and coach
Steven Brian Stone is an English professional football coach and former player. He is currently first team coach at Premier League club Nottingham Forest.
1973
Cameron Mather
New Zealand rugby player and sportscaster
Cameron George Mather is a rugby union footballer who plays in the back row. He won eleven caps for Scotland between 1999 and 2004.
1974
Maxim Vengerov
Russian-Israeli violinist and conductor
Maxim Alexandrovich Vengerov is a Soviet-born Israeli violinist, violist, and conductor. Classic FM has called him "one of the greatest violinists in the world".
1974
Misha Collins
American actor
Dmitri "Misha" Collins is an American actor best known for his role as the angel Castiel on the CW television series Supernatural (2008–2020).
1974
Szabolcs Sáfár
Hungarian footballer and coach
Szabolcs Sáfár is a former Hungarian football goalkeeper.
1975
Marcin Adamski
Polish footballer and manager
Marcin Adamski is a Polish football executive, manager and former player. He is currently the chairman of III liga club Flota Świnoujście.
1976
Fabio Ulloa
Honduran footballer
Fabio Renán Ulloa Castillo is a Honduran footballer.
1976
Tony Grant
Irish footballer
Tony Grant is an Irish professional footballer who last played for Duleek.
1977
Aaron Taylor
American baseball player
Aaron Wade Taylor, nicknamed Big Country, is an American former Major League Baseball (MLB) relief pitcher for the Seattle Mariners.
1977
Felipe Contepomi
Argentine rugby player, coach, and physician
Felipe Contepomi is an Argentine professional rugby coach who is currently the head coach of the Argentine national side.
1977
Ívar Ingimarsson
Icelandic footballer
Ívar Ingimarsson is an Icelandic former professional footballer who played as a centre back.
1977
Josh Pearce
American baseball player
Joshua Ray Pearce is an American former Major League Baseball pitcher who played for the St. Louis Cardinals from 2002 to 2004.
1977
Wayne Brown
English footballer
Wayne Lawrence Brown is an English football coach and former player who was most recently manager of Colchester United.
1978
Alberto Martín
Spanish tennis player
Alberto Martín Magret is a retired tennis player from Spain. He won three singles titles and reached five Masters Series quarterfinals on clay.
1978
Emir Mkademi
Tunisian footballer
Emir Mkademi is a Tunisian former footballer who played as a defender.
1981
Artur Kotenko
Estonian footballer
Artur Kotenko is a retired Estonian professional footballer who last played as a goalkeeper for FCI Levadia.
1982
Aleksandr Amisulashvili
Georgian footballer
Aleksandre Amisulashvili is a retired Georgian international footballer.
1982
Cléber Luis Alberti
Brazilian footballer
Cléber Luis Alberti or simply Cléber is a goalkeeper player from Brazil, who plays for Portuguese Liga de Honra side GD Estoril.
1982
Monty Dumond
South African rugby player
Godfried 'Monty' Dumond is a South African rugby union player for the Boland Cavaliers in the Currie Cup and the Rugby Challenge.
1982
Youssouf Hersi
Ethiopian footballer
Youssouf Hersi is a retired professional footballer who played as an attacking midfielder. Born in Ethiopia, Hersi represented the Netherlands at youth international level.
1983
Héctor Landazuri
Colombian footballer
Héctor Fabio Landázuri is a Colombian football goalkeeper currently playing for Boyacá Chicó in the Categoría Primera A.
1983
Paulo André Cren Benini
Brazilian footballer
Paulo André Cren Benini is a Brazilian former professional footballer who played as a central defender.
1983
Yuri Zhirkov
Russian footballer
Yuri Valentinovich Zhirkov is a Russian football coach and a former player who played as a left-back and as a left-winger.
1984
Aílton José Almeida
Brazilian footballer
Aílton José Almeida, simply known as Aílton, is a Brazilian former footballer who played as a forward.
1984
Pavel Eismann
Czech footballer
Pavel Eismann is a Czech former professional footballer who played as a midfielder.
1986
Andrew Surman
South African-English footballer
Andrew Ronald Edward Surman is a former professional footballer who played as a midfielder. He is currently manager of Southampton Under-18s.
1987
Stefan Aigner
German footballer
Stefan Aigner is a German former professional footballer who played as a midfielder.
1987
Vedran Janjetović
Croatian-Australian footballer
Vedran Janjetović is a Croatian-Australian footballer who last played as a goalkeeper for National Premier Leagues NSW club St George FC.
1988
José Zamora
Spanish footballer
José Zamora Girona is a Spanish former professional footballer who played as a winger.
1988
Sarah R
Lotfi, American director, producer, and screenwriter
Sarah R. Lotfi is an American filmmaker best known for her short film Menschen.
1989
Slavcho Shokolarov
Bulgarian footballer
Slavcho Petrov Shokolarov is a Bulgarian retired professional footballer who played as a midfielder and now a manager, currently leading Asenovets II.
1990
Bradley Klahn
American tennis player
Bradley Klahn is an American former professional tennis player from Poway, California.
1990
Leigh Griffiths
Scottish footballer
Leigh Griffiths is a Scottish professional footballer who plays as a striker for National Premier Leagues Western Australia club Armadale.
1990
Macauley Chrisantus
Nigerian footballer
Macauley Chrisantus is a Nigerian professional footballer who last played as a striker for Lynx.
1992
Carolina Horta
Brazilian beach volleyball player
Carolina Horta is a Brazilian beach volleyball player.
1992
Deniss Rakels
Latvian footballer
Deniss Rakeļs is a Latvian professional footballer who plays as a forward for III liga club Mławianka Mława.
1996
Bunty Afoa
New Zealand rugby league player
Iulio "Bunty" Afoa is a Samoan international rugby league footballer who plays for the Wests Tigers in the National Rugby League (NRL).