Did you know about Dustin Hoffman
Dustin Hoffman was honored with the Cecil B. DeMille Award in 1997, the AFI Life Achievement Award in 1999, and the Kennedy Center Honors Award in 2012.
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August 8 has 266 recorded notable births across history, from 422 to 2005. This page lists every one of them, with the best-known people first.
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- -685 Spring and Autumn period: Battle of Qianshi: Upon the death of the previous Duke of Qi, Gongsun Wuzhi, Duke Zhuang of Lu sends an army into the Duchy of Qi to install the exiled Qi prince Gongzi Jiu as the new Duke of Qi – but is defeated at Qianshi by Jiu's brother and rival claimant, the newly inaugurated Duke Huan of Qi. Source
- 2000 Confederate submarine H.L. Hunley is raised to the surface after 136 years on the ocean floor and 30 years after its discovery by undersea explorer E. Lee Spence. Source
Did you know about Yandy Díaz
Yandy Díaz Fernández is a Cuban-born professional baseball first baseman, third baseman and designated hitter for the Tampa Bay Rays of Major League Baseball (MLB).
Did you know about Keith Carradine
In film, he is known for his roles as Tom Frank in Robert Altman's Nashville, E. J. Bellocq in Louis Malle's Pretty Baby, and Mickey in Alan Rudolph's Choose Me.
Did you know about Meagan Good
Meagan Good first gained critical attention for her role in the film Eve's Bayou (1997) prior to landing the role of Nina in the Nickelodeon sitcom Cousin Skeeter (1998–2001).
Did you know about Roger Federer
Roger Federer was ranked as the world No. 1 in men's singles by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) for 310 weeks, including a record 237 consecutive weeks, and finished as the year-end No. 1 five times.
More major people born on August 8
Notable people are ranked by substantive profile depth and public notability.
1991
Yandy Díaz
Cuban baseball player
Yandy Díaz Fernández is a Cuban-born professional baseball first baseman, third baseman and designated hitter for the Tampa Bay Rays of Major League Baseball (MLB). He has previously played in MLB for the Cleveland Indians. Díaz has won one Silver Slugger Award and is a two-time All-Star.
1949
Keith Carradine
American actor
Keith Ian Carradine is an American actor. In film, he is known for his roles as Tom Frank in Robert Altman's Nashville, E. J. Bellocq in Louis Malle's Pretty Baby, and Mickey in Alan Rudolph's Choose Me. On television, he is known for his roles as Wild Bill Hickok on the HBO series Deadwood, FBI agent Frank Lundy on the Showtime series Dexter, Lou Solverson in the first season of FX's Fargo, Penny's father Wyatt on the CBS sitcom The Big Bang Theory, and U.S. President Conrad Dalton on the CBS political drama Madam Secretary.
1981
Meagan Good
American actress and producer
Meagan Monique Good Majors is an American actress and model. She first gained critical attention for her role in the film Eve's Bayou (1997) prior to landing the role of Nina in the Nickelodeon sitcom Cousin Skeeter (1998–2001). Good received further prominence after starring in the films Deliver Us from Eva (2003), Roll Bounce (2005) and Stomp the Yard (2007).
1981
Roger Federer
Swiss tennis player
Roger Federer is a Swiss former professional tennis player. He was ranked as the world No. 1 in men's singles by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) for 310 weeks, including a record 237 consecutive weeks, and finished as the year-end No. 1 five times. Federer won 103 singles titles on the ATP Tour, the second most since the start of the Open Era in 1968, including 20 major men's singles titles, 28 Masters and six year-end championships.
2005
Alysa Liu
American figure skater
Alysa Liu is an American figure skater. She is the 2026 Olympic champion in both the women's singles and team events, the 2025 World champion, the 2022 World bronze medalist, the 2025–26 Grand Prix Final champion, a two-time Grand Prix medalist, a four-time Challenger Series champion, and a two-time U.S. national champion.
1998
Ryan Garcia
American boxer
Ryan Garcia is an American professional boxer. He has held the World Boxing Council (WBC) welterweight title since 2026. He previously held the WBC interim lightweight title in 2021.
1998
Shawn Mendes
Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist
Shawn Peter Raul Mendes is a Canadian singer, songwriter, and musician. Mendes gained early recognition for posting popular song covers on the social media platforms YouTube and Vine. He later signed to Island Records and released his self-titled debut EP in 2014.
1969
Faye Wong
Chinese singer-songwriter and actress
Faye Wong is a Hong Kong singer-songwriter and actress. Early in her career, she briefly used the stage name Shirley Wong (王靖雯). Born in Beijing, she moved to Hong Kong at the age of 18. Her debut album Shirley Wong, released in 1989, was in Cantonese and she broke through with the Cantopop song "Fragile Woman" in 1992. She established her style by blending alternative music with Chinese pop, and since the late 1990s has recorded primarily in her native Mandarin.
1961
The Edge
British-Irish musician, singer and songwriter
David Howell Evans, known by his stage name the Edge or simply Edge, is an Irish and British musician, singer, and songwriter. He is best known as the lead guitarist, keyboardist, and backing vocalist of the rock band U2. A member of the group since its inception, he has recorded 15 studio albums with them as well as one solo record. His understated style of guitar playing, a signature of U2's music, is distinguished by chiming timbres, use of rhythmic delay, drone notes, harmonics, and an extensive use of effects units.
1976
JC Chasez
American singer and dancer
Joshua Scott "JC" Chasez is an American singer, songwriter, actor, dancer, and record producer. He started his career as a singer, actor, and dancer on The All-New Mickey Mouse Club before rising to prominence as a member of the boy band NSYNC in the late 90s and early 2000s. The band has sold over 70 million records, becoming one of the best-selling boy bands of all time. Chasez released his debut single "Blowin' Me Up " in 2002, following NSYNC's decision to go on a hiatus earlier that year. Schizophrenic, his debut solo album, was released in 2004. Chasez has written and produced for a wide variety of music acts such as Liam Payne, Diplo, Backstreet Boys, McFly, The Cheetah Girls, Sugababes, Victoria Duffield, and Matthew Morrison. He also served as a judge on the first seven seasons of America's Best Dance Crew.
1931
Roger Penrose
English physicist, mathematician, and philosopher, Nobel Prize laureate
Sir Roger Penrose is an English mathematician, mathematical physicist, and philosopher of science. He is Emeritus Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics at the University of Oxford, an emeritus fellow of Wadham College, Oxford, and an honorary fellow of St John's College, Cambridge, and University College London. He shared the 1988 Wolf Prize in Physics with Stephen Hawking for the Penrose–Hawking singularity theorems, and the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics "for the discovery that black hole formation is a robust prediction of the general theory of relativity". He proposed the Penrose triangle and corresponded with M. C. Escher, influencing his Waterfall and Ascending and Descending. Penrose's eponymous aperiodic tiling presaged Dan Shechtman's discovery of quasicrystals.
1944
John C. Holmes
American film actor (died 1988)
John Curtis Holmes, better known as John C. Holmes or Johnny Wadd, was an American pornographic film actor. Holmes ranks among the most famous and prolific adult film performers, with documented credits for at least 573 films. Holmes was known for the exceptional size of his penis, which featured heavily in his marketing.
1953
Nigel Mansell
English racing driver
Nigel Ernest James Mansell is a British former racing driver who competed in Formula One from 1980 to 1995. Mansell won the Formula One World Drivers' Championship in 1992 with Williams, and won 31 Grands Prix across 15 seasons. In American open-wheel racing, Mansell won the IndyCar World Series in 1993 with Newman/Haas Racing, and remains the only driver to have simultaneously held both the World Drivers' Championship and the American open-wheel National Championship.
1938
Connie Stevens
American actress and businesswoman
Connie Stevens is an American actress and traditional pop singer. Born in Brooklyn to musician parents, Stevens was raised there until the age of 12, when she was sent to live with family friends in rural Missouri. In 1953, when she was 15 years old, Stevens relocated with her father to Los Angeles.
1988
Princess Beatrice
British royal
Princess Beatrice, Mrs Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi, is a member of the British royal family. She is the elder daughter of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor and Sarah Ferguson, and a niece of King Charles III. Born fifth in the line of succession to the British throne, she is ninth as of 2026.
1951
Mohamed Morsi
Egyptian engineer, academic, and politician, 5th President of Egypt (died 2019)
Mohamed Mohamed Morsi Eissa Al-Ayyat was an Egyptian politician, engineer, and professor who served as the fifth president of Egypt from 2012 to 2013, when General Abdel Fattah el-Sisi removed him from office in a coup d'état after protests in June. Affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood organization, Morsi led the Freedom and Justice Party from 2011 to 2012.
1921
Esther Williams
American swimmer and actress (died 2013)
Esther Jane Williams was an American competitive swimmer and actress. She set regional and national records in her late teens on the Los Angeles Athletic Club swim team. Unable to compete in the 1940 Summer Olympics because of the outbreak of World War II, she joined Billy Rose's Aquacade, where she took on the role vacated by Eleanor Holm after the show's move from New York City to San Francisco. While in the city, she spent five months swimming alongside Olympic gold medal-winner and Tarzan star Johnny Weissmuller. Williams caught the attention of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer scouts at the Aquacade. After appearing in several small roles, then with Mickey Rooney in an Andy Hardy film, and with future five-time co-star Van Johnson in A Guy Named Joe, Williams made a series of films in the 1940s and early 1950s known as "aquamusicals", which featured elaborate performances with synchronised swimming and diving.
1980
Michael Urie
American actor, director, and producer
Michael Lorenzo Urie is an American actor. He is known for his portrayal of Marc St. James on the ABC comedy drama television series Ugly Betty and Brian on the Apple TV+ series Shrinking, a role for which he won a Critics Choice Television Award for Best Supporting Actor and received two consecutive Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series nominations. He can be heard as Bobby Kerns in As the Curtain Rises, an original podcast soap opera from the Broadway Podcast Network.
1978
Louis Saha
French footballer
Louis Laurent Saha is a French former professional footballer who played as a striker. Saha was capped 20 times for the France national team and scored four goals. Louis Saha was initially a student of the Clairefontaine football academy, before beginning his professional career at Metz then moving on loan to Newcastle United. Before the start of the 2000–01 season, Saha moved to Fulham where he established himself as first-choice striker, helping them to gain promotion to the Premier League in his first season with them.
1902
Paul Dirac
English-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1984)
Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac was an English theoretical physicist who was one of the founders of quantum mechanics. Dirac laid the foundations for both quantum electrodynamics and quantum field theory, coining the former term. He was Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge from 1932 to 1969, and a professor of physics at Florida State University from 1970 to 1984. Dirac shared the 1933 Nobel Prize in Physics with Erwin Schrödinger "for the discovery of new productive forms of atomic theory."
1910
Sylvia Sidney
American actress (died 1999)
Sylvia Sidney was an American stage, screen, and film actress whose career spanned over 70 years. She rose to prominence in dozens of leading roles in the 1930s. She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams in 1973. She later gained attention for her role as Juno, a case worker in the afterlife, in Tim Burton's 1988 film Beetlejuice, for which she won a Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actress.
1980
Shayna Baszler
American mixed martial artist and wrestler
Shayna Andrea Baszler is an American professional wrestler and a former kickboxer and mixed martial artist. As of October 2026, she is signed to Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA), where she is one-half of the TNA Knockouts World Tag Team Champions alongside Zoey Serrano as Apex. She also performs on the independent circuit. She is best known for her tenure in WWE, where she became a two-time and longest combined-reigning NXT Women's Champion and a three-time WWE Women's Tag Team Champion.
1961
Bruce Matthews
American football player and coach
Bruce Rankin Matthews is an American former professional football guard, center, offensive tackle, and long snapper who played 19 seasons in the National Football League (NFL). He spent his entire career playing for the Houston / Tennessee Oilers / Titans. Highly versatile, Matthews played every position on the offensive line throughout his NFL career, starting in 99 games as a left guard, 87 as a center, 67 as a right guard, 22 as a right tackle, 17 as a left tackle, and was the long snapper on field goals, extra points, and punts. Having never missed a game due to injury, Matthews' 293 NFL games started is the third most of all time, behind quarterbacks Brett Favre and Tom Brady.
1935
Donald P. Bellisario
American director, producer, and screenwriter
Donald Paul Bellisario is an American television producer and screenwriter who created and wrote episodes for the TV series Magnum, P.I. (1980–1988), Tales of the Gold Monkey (1982–1983), Airwolf (1984–1987), Quantum Leap (1989–1993), JAG (1995–2005), and NCIS (2003–present).
1989
Anthony Rizzo
American baseball player
Anthony Vincent Rizzo is an American former professional baseball first baseman. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for 14 seasons, primarily for the Chicago Cubs and was pivotal in the team's 2016 World Series victory. Rizzo is a 3-time All-Star, and is the recipient of a Silver Slugger Award, 4 Gold Glove Awards, and a Roberto Clemente Award. A survivor of Hodgkin's lymphoma, Rizzo is also notable for his philanthropic endeavors, having started the Anthony Rizzo Foundation which partners with Lurie Children's Hospital. Rizzo won the Heart & Hustle Award in 2015.
1879
Emiliano Zapata
Mexican general and politician (died 1919)
Emiliano Zapata Salazar was a Mexican revolutionary and guerrilla leader. He was a leading figure in the Mexican Revolution of 1910–1920, the main leader of the people's revolution in the Mexican state of Morelos, and the inspiration of the agrarian movement called Zapatismo.
1966
Jimmy Wales
American-British entrepreneur, co-founder of Wikipedia
Jimmy Donal Wales is an American and British internet entrepreneur and former financial trader. He is best known for co-founding Wikipedia, a non-profit free encyclopedia, and Fandom, a for-profit wiki hosting service. He has also worked on Bomis, Nupedia, WikiTribune, and Trust Café.
1987
Katie Leung
Scottish actress
Katie Leung is a Scottish actress. She began her career playing Cho Chang in the Harry Potter film series from 2005 to 2011. On television, she is known for her roles in One Child (2014), Strangers (2018), Annika (2021–2023), The Peripheral (2022), and Bridgerton (2026), and as the voice of Caitlyn Kiramman in the Netflix animated series Arcane (2021–2024).
1973
Scott Stapp
American singer-songwriter and producer
Scott Anthony Stapp is an American singer and songwriter best known as the lead vocalist of the rock band Creed. He has also fronted Art of Anarchy and has released four solo albums.
1953
Lloyd Austin
American general, 1st black Secretary of Defense
Lloyd James Austin III is a retired United States Army general who served as the 28th United States secretary of defense from 2021 to 2025 under the Biden administration.
1977
Lindsay Sloane
American actress
Lindsay Sloane Leikin-Rollins is an American actress. She is known for playing Valerie Birkhead on Sabrina the Teenage Witch (1997–99) and Emily in The Odd Couple (2015–17). She has also starred in films such as Bring It On (2000), Over Her Dead Body (2008), She's Out of My League (2010), The Other Guys (2010), Horrible Bosses (2011), and its sequel Horrible Bosses 2 (2014).
1901
Ernest Lawrence
American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1958)
Ernest Orlando Lawrence was an American physicist who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1939 for his invention of the cyclotron. He is known for his work on uranium-isotope separation for the Manhattan Project, as well as for founding the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
1951
Louis van Gaal
Dutch footballer and manager
Aloysius Paulus Maria "Louis" van Gaal is a Dutch former football player and manager. At club level, he served as manager of Ajax, Barcelona, AZ, Bayern Munich and Manchester United, as well as having three spells in charge of the Netherlands national team. Nicknamed the "Iron Tulip", Van Gaal has won 20 major honours in his managerial career at club level.
1966
Chris Eubank
English boxer
Christopher Livingstone Eubank is a British former professional boxer who competed from 1985 to 1998. He held the World Boxing Organization (WBO) middleweight title from 1990 to 1991. He also held the (WBO) super-middleweight title from 1991 to 1995.
1990
Kane Williamson
New Zealand cricket captain
Kane Stuart Williamson is a New Zealand former international cricketer who captained the New Zealand national cricket team in all formats of the game. A right-handed batsman and an occasional off spin bowler, Williamson is the leading run-scorer for New Zealand in Test cricket and is widely regarded as one of the world's best contemporary batsmen and one of the greatest New Zealand captains and batsmen of all time. He captained New Zealand to victory in the 2021 ICC World Test Championship final and to the finals of the 2019 Cricket World Cup and 2021 T20 World Cup. He was also a part of the New Zealand squad to finish as runners-up at the 2015 Cricket World Cup and the 2025 ICC Champions Trophy. Williamson retired from international cricket on 12 June 2026.
1921
William Asher
American director, producer, and screenwriter (died 2012)
William Milton Asher was an American television and film producer, film director, and screenwriter. He was one of the most prolific early television directors, producing or directing over two dozen series.
1919
Dino De Laurentiis
Italian actor and producer (died 2010)
Agostino "Dino" De Laurentiis was an Italian and American film producer and businessman. Following a brief acting career in the late 1930s and early 1940s, he moved into film production; alongside Carlo Ponti, he brought Italian cinema to the international scene in the post-World War II period.
1922
Rory Calhoun
American actor (died 1999)
Rory Calhoun was an American film and television actor. He starred in numerous Westerns in the 1950s and 1960s and appeared in supporting roles in films such as How to Marry a Millionaire (1953) and Motel Hell (1980).
1994
Cameron Payne
American basketball player
Cameron Payne is an American professional basketball player for Anadolu Efes of the Turkish Basketbol Süper Ligi (BSL) and the EuroLeague. He played college basketball for Murray State and was selected 14th overall by the Oklahoma City Thunder in the 2015 NBA draft. After playing two seasons for the Thunder, he was traded to the Chicago Bulls in 2017, where he played for three seasons before being waived in 2019.
1929
Ronnie Biggs
English criminal (died 2013)
Ronald Arthur Biggs was a British criminal who helped plan and carry out the Great Train Robbery of 1963. He subsequently became notorious for his escape from prison in 1965, living as a fugitive for 36 years, and for his various publicity stunts while in exile. In 2001, Biggs returned to the United Kingdom and spent several years in prison, where his health rapidly declined. He was released from prison on compassionate grounds in August 2009 and died in a nursing home in December 2013.
1926
Richard Anderson
American actor and producer (died 2017)
Richard Norman Anderson was an American film and television actor. One of his best-known roles was his portrayal of Oscar Goldman, the boss of Steve Austin and Jaime Sommers in both The Six Million Dollar Man and The Bionic Woman television series between 1974 and 1978 and their subsequent television movies: The Return of the Six Million Dollar Man and the Bionic Woman (1987), Bionic Showdown: The Six Million Dollar Man and the Bionic Woman (1989) and Bionic Ever After? (1994).
2000
Félix Auger-Aliassime
Canadian tennis player
Félix Auger-Aliassime, sometimes referred to as "FAA", is a Canadian professional tennis player. His career-high ATP singles ranking is world No. 4 achieved on 8 June 2026. He has been ranked No. 60 in doubles, reached in November 2021. Auger-Aliassime is widely known and recognised as an indoor specialist, particularly on indoor hard courts. Auger-Aliassime has won nine ATP Tour titles in singles and one in doubles.. He was also part of the victorious Canadian team at the 2022 ATP Cup and the 2022 Davis Cup, and won a bronze medal in mixed doubles at the 2024 Paris Olympics with Gabriela Dabrowski. He is the current No. 1 singles player from Canada.
1958
Deborah Norville
American journalist and game show host
Deborah Anne Norville is an American television journalist and businesswoman. Norville is a former anchor of Inside Edition, a syndicated television news magazine, a position she held from March 6, 1995 to May 21, 2025. She markets and sells a line of yarns for knit and crochet enthusiasts, manufactured by Premier Yarns. Previously, she was an anchor and correspondent for CBS News and earlier co-host of Today on NBC. Her book Thank You Power was a New York Times best-seller.
1951
Mamoru Oshii
Japanese director, producer, and screenwriter
Mamoru Oshii is a Japanese filmmaker, television director and writer. Famous for his philosophy-oriented storytelling, Oshii has directed a number of acclaimed anime films, including Urusei Yatsura 2: Beautiful Dreamer (1984), Angel's Egg (1985), Patlabor 2: The Movie (1993), and Ghost in the Shell (1995). He also holds the distinction of directing the first ever OVA, Dallos (1983). As a writer, Oshii has worked as a screenwriter, and occasionally as a manga writer and novelist. His most notable works as a writer include the manga Kerberos Panzer Cop (1988–2000) and its feature film adaptation Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade (1999).
1947
Ken Dryden
Canadian ice hockey player, lawyer, and politician (died 2025)
Kenneth Wayne Dryden was a Canadian professional ice hockey player, politician, lawyer, businessman and author. He was a goaltender for the Montreal Canadiens of the National Hockey League (NHL) from 1971 to 1979, winning the Stanley Cup six times, the Vezina Trophy as the goaltender on the team allowing the fewest goals five times, and the Conn Smythe Trophy along with the Calder Memorial Trophy as the most valuable player of the playoffs and rookie of the year respectively over the course of his rookie campaign. He was elected as member of the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1983. Thereafter, Dryden served as a Liberal Member of Parliament from 2004 to 2011 and was appointed Minister of Social Development from 2004 to 2006 for which he was named an Officer of the Order of Canada. In 2017, the NHL commemorated him as one of the league's 100 Greatest Players. He received the Order of Hockey in Canada in 2020.
1988
Laura Slade Wiggins
American actress and singer
Laura Slade Wiggins is an American actress and singer. She had her breakthrough role on the Showtime television series Shameless (2011-2013), where she played Karen Jackson, a self-destructive teenager. While Wiggins was a main cast member in seasons one and two, she continued in a recurring role in the third season.
1925
Alija Izetbegović
Bosnian lawyer and politician, 1st President of Bosnia and Herzegovina (died 2003)
Alija Izetbegović was a Bosnian politician, Islamic philosopher and author who served as the president of the presidency of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina from 1990 to 1996. He later served as the first chairman of the presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina from 1996 to 1998, and then briefly in 2000. He was also the founder and first president of the Party of Democratic Action.
1947
Larry Wilcox
American actor, director, and producer
Larry Wilcox is an American actor best known for his role as California Highway Patrol officer Jon Baker in the television series CHiPs, which ran from 1977 to 1983 on NBC.
1170
Saint Dominic
founder of the Dominicans (died 1221)
Dominic de Guzmán, almost exclusively known as Saint Dominic, was a Castilian religious priest and the founder of the Order of Preachers (Dominicans). He is the patron saint of astronomers and natural scientists, and he and the Dominicans are traditionally credited with spreading and popularizing the rosary.
1974
Manjul Bhargava
Canadian-American mathematician and academic
Manjul Bhargava is an Indian Canadian-American mathematician. He is the Robert Gunning-Brandon Fradd, Class of 1983, professor of mathematics at Princeton University, the Stieltjes professor of number theory at Leiden University, and also holds adjunct professorships at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, and the University of Hyderabad. He is known primarily for his contributions to number theory.
1974
Brian Harvey
English singer-songwriter
Brian Lee Harvey is an English singer from London. He was the lead vocalist of the pop boy band East 17. The later incarnation of the band, E-17, had two top 20 singles on the UK singles chart between 1998 and 1999, with their fourth studio album Resurrection peaking within the top 50 of the UK Albums Chart. After leaving E-17, Harvey signed a recording contract with Edel Records and had two singles released in 2001, "Straight Up " and "Loving You ".
1964
Giuseppe Conte
Prime Minister of Italy
Giuseppe Conte is an Italian jurist, academic, and politician who served as prime minister of Italy from June 2018 to February 2021. He has been the president of the Five Star Movement (M5S) since August 2021.
1976
Drew Lachey
American singer and actor
Andrew John Lachey is an American singer and actor. He is known as a member of 98 Degrees, the winner of the second season of Dancing with the Stars, and the younger brother of Nick Lachey.
1932
Mel Tillis
American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2017)
Lonnie Melvin Tillis was an American country music singer and songwriter. Although he recorded songs since the late 1950s, his biggest success occurred in the 1970s as part of the outlaw country movement, with a long list of Top 10 hits. Tillis' biggest hits include "I Ain't Never", "Good Woman Blues", and "Coca-Cola Cowboy". His composition "Ruby, Don't Take Your Love To Town" became a world-wide hit in 1969 when recorded by Kenny Rogers.
1950
Ken Kutaragi
Japanese businessman, created PlayStation
Ken Kutaragi is a Japanese engineering technologist and businessman, currently president and CEO of Cyber AI Entertainment. Formerly the chairman and CEO of Sony Computer Entertainment (SCE), the video game division of Sony, Kutaragi is known as "The Father of the PlayStation" having overseen the development of the original console and its successors and spinoffs until departing the company in 2007, shortly after the PlayStation 3 was released.
1951
Martin Brest
American director, producer, and screenwriter
Martin Brest is an American film director, screenwriter, and producer. After his feature debut, Going in Style (1979), he directed the action comedies Beverly Hills Cop (1984) and Midnight Run (1988), which were critical and commercial hits. He then directed Scent of a Woman (1992), starring Al Pacino, who won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance, and earned Brest nominations for Best Director and Best Picture.
1989
Ken Baumann
American actor and author
Ken Baumann is a former American actor, writer, publisher, and book designer. He is known for playing Ben Boykewich on The Secret Life of the American Teenager. He is the author of numerous novels, nonfiction stories, essays, and poems. He also owns and co-owns Sator Press. He also co-founded the iOS app Sweetspot. In 2014, Baumann enrolled at St. John's College in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
1911
Rosetta LeNoire
American actress (died 2002)
Rosetta LeNoire was an American stage, film, and television actress. She was known to contemporary audiences for her work in television. She had regular roles on such series as Gimme a Break! and Amen ; she is particularly known for her role as Estelle "Mother" Winslow on Family Matters, which aired from 1989 to 1998. In 1999, she was awarded the National Medal of Arts.
1988
Rinku Singh
Indian baseball player and wrestler
Rinku Singh Rajput is an Indian former professional wrestler and former professional baseball player. As a professional wrestler, he is best known for his tenure in WWE, where he performed under the ring names Rinku and Veer Mahaan.
1839
Nelson A. Miles
American general (died 1925)
Nelson Appleton Miles was a United States Army officer who served in the American Civil War (1861–1865), the last stages of the American Indian Wars (1840–1890), and the Spanish–American War (1898). From 1895 to 1903, Miles served as the last Commanding General of the United States Army, before the office was transformed into the current Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army in 1903.
1961
Rikki Rockett
American glam rock drummer
Richard Allan Ream, known professionally as Rikki Rockett, is an American musician, best known as the drummer for the band Poison. The band has sold more than 50 million albums worldwide and 15 million records in the United States alone.
1605
Cecil Calvert
2nd Baron Baltimore, English lawyer and politician, Governor of Newfoundland (died 1675)
Cecil Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore was an English politician and lawyer who was the first proprietor of Maryland. Born in Kent, England in 1605, he inherited the proprietorship of overseas colonies in Avalon (Newfoundland) along with Maryland after the 1632 death of his father, George Calvert, 1st Baron Baltimore (1580–1632), for whom it had been originally intended in a vast land grant from King Charles I. Young Calvert proceeded to establish and manage the Province of Maryland as a proprietary colony for English Catholics from his English country house of Kiplin Hall in North Yorkshire.
1866
Matthew Henson
American explorer (died 1955)
Matthew Alexander Henson was an American explorer who accompanied Robert Peary on seven voyages to the Arctic over a period of nearly 23 years. They spent a total of 18 years on expeditions together. He is best known for his participation in the 1908–1909 expedition that claimed to have reached the geographic North Pole on April 6, 1909. Henson later said that he was the first of their party to reach the North Pole.
1986
Jackie Cruz
Dominican-American actress and singer
Jackie Cruz is a Dominican–American actress, singer and former model. She is known for her role as Marisol "Flaca" Gonzales on the Netflix original series Orange Is the New Black.
1930
Jerry Tarkanian
American basketball player and coach (died 2015)
Jerry Tarkanian was an American basketball coach. He coached college basketball for 31 seasons over five decades at three schools. He spent the majority of his career coaching with the UNLV Runnin' Rebels, leading them four times to the Final Four of the NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament, winning the national championship in 1990. Tarkanian revolutionized the college game at UNLV, utilizing a pressing defense to fuel its fast-paced offense. Overall, he won over 700 games in his college coaching career, only twice failing to win 20 games, while never having a losing season. Tarkanian was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 2013.
1961
Ron Klain
American lawyer and politician, White House Chief of Staff
Ronald Alan Klain is an American attorney, political consultant, and former lobbyist who served as White House Chief of Staff under President Joe Biden from 2021 to 2023.
1986
Pierre Garçon
American football player
Pierre Andre Garçon is a Haitian-American former professional football player who was a wide receiver in the National Football League (NFL) for 11 seasons. He played college football at Norwich University and Mount Union College, and was selected by the Indianapolis Colts in the sixth round of the 2008 NFL draft. He also played five seasons with the Washington Redskins and two seasons with the San Francisco 49ers.
1995
S.Coups
South Korean rapper and singer
Choi Seung-cheol, known by his stage name S.Coups (에스쿱스), is a South Korean rapper, singer, and songwriter. Managed by Pledis Entertainment, he is the leader of the South Korean boy band Seventeen and its hip hop team, and in 2025 debuted in a sub-unit with Mingyu as CxM.
1988
Danilo Gallinari
Italian basketball player
Danilo Gallinari is an Italian former professional basketball player who played 14 seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA). After spending his first four years as a professional in his native Italy, Gallinari was drafted sixth overall in the 2008 NBA draft by the New York Knicks. He played with the Knicks for two and a half seasons before being traded to the Denver Nuggets in 2011.
1952
Anton Fig
South African-American drummer
Anton Fig is a South African session drummer perhaps best known as the drummer and second-in-command for Paul Shaffer and the World's Most Dangerous Band. David Letterman, for whom the band served as house band on his late-night talk shows, often called Fig "Anton Zip" or "Buddy Rich Jr." Fig is also known for his work with Kiss, Ace Frehley, and Joe Bonamassa.
1881
Paul Ludwig Ewald von Kleist
German field marshal (died 1954)
Paul Ludwig Ewald von Kleist was a German Generalfeldmarschall of the Wehrmacht during World War II. Born into the Prussian noble family von Kleist, Kleist entered the Prussian Army in 1900 and commanded a cavalry squadron during World War I. Kleist joined the Reichswehr of inter-war Germany before being discharged in 1938.
1896
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
American author and academic (died 1953)
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings was an American writer who lived in rural Florida and wrote novels with rural themes and settings. Her best known work, The Yearling—about a boy who adopts an orphaned fawn—won a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1939 and was later made into a movie of the same name. The book was written before the concept of young adult fiction arose but is now commonly included in teen reading lists.
1979
Rashard Lewis
American basketball player
Rashard Quovon Lewis is an American former professional basketball player, currently serving as player development coach for the San Antonio Spurs. Lewis entered the NBA directly from Alief Elsik High School. He rose to prominence in the NBA as a scorer with the Seattle SuperSonics, and was later a member of the Orlando Magic, Washington Wizards, and Miami Heat. He garnered two NBA All-Star selections, one with Seattle and another with Orlando.
1973
Mark Wills
American singer-songwriter
Mark Wills is an American country music artist. Signed to Mercury Records between 1996 and 2003, he released five studio albums for the label – Mark Wills, Wish You Were Here, Permanently, Loving Every Minute, and And the Crowd Goes Wild – as well as a greatest hits package. In that same timespan, he charted sixteen singles on the Billboard country charts, all of which made the top 40. After leaving Mercury in 2003, he signed to Equity Music Group and charted three more singles. Two of these were later included on his sixth studio album, Familiar Stranger, which was released on the Tenacity label in 2008.
1980
Craig Breslow
American baseball pitcher and executive
Craig Andrew Breslow is an American baseball executive and former professional baseball pitcher. He is currently the Chief Baseball Officer of the Boston Red Sox. Breslow pitched for 12 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the San Diego Padres, Boston Red Sox, Cleveland Indians, Minnesota Twins, Oakland Athletics, Arizona Diamondbacks, and Miami Marlins. He also pitched for Team Israel at the 2017 World Baseball Classic.
1968
Huey Morgan
American singer-songwriter and guitarist
Hugh Thomas Diaz Morgan is an American musician and DJ best known as the former frontman of rock/hip hop band Fun Lovin' Criminals. Morgan performs both vocals and guitar and combines rock, hip hop, jazz, reggae, and funk influences in his music. He presents The Huey Show on Virgin Radio, having previously hosted on BBC Radio 6 Music for 17 years.
1974
Scott D'Amore
Canadian wrestler and manager
Scott Francis D'Amore is a Canadian professional wrestling manager, promoter, booker and retired professional wrestler, best known for his time with Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA), where he served as the president and an on-screen personality. Since 2024, D'Amore owns Maple Leaf Pro Wrestling, a professional wrestling promotion based in his native Canada.
1940
Dilip Sardesai
Indian cricketer (died 2007)
Dilip Narayan Sardesai was an Indian international cricketer. He played Tests for the Indian national team as a batsman, the first Goa-born cricketer to play for India, and was often regarded as one of India's best batsmen against spin, although Indian batsmen have been known to play better against spin.
1962
Kool Moe Dee
American musician, singer and actor
Mohandas Dewese, better known by his stage name Kool Moe Dee, is an American rapper, songwriter, and actor. Considered one of the forerunners of the New Jack Swing sound in hip hop, he gained fame in the 1980s as a member of one of the pioneering groups in hip hop music, the Treacherous Three, and for his later solo career. During his career he released a total of seven studio albums, with 1994's Interlude being the last to date.
1984
Kirk Broadfoot
Scottish footballer
Kirk John Broadfoot is a Scottish former footballer who is now on the coaching staff of Kilmarnock. He last played as a defender for Scottish League One club Kelty Hearts in 2025.
1956
Chris Foreman
English singer-songwriter and guitarist
Christopher John Foreman, nicknamed Chrissy Boy, is an English musician, songwriter, and composer. In a career spanning more than 45 years, Foreman came to prominence in the late 1970s as the guitarist for the English band Madness.
1936
Frank Howard
American baseball player and manager (died 2023)
Frank Oliver Howard, nicknamed "Hondo", "the Washington Monument" and "the Capital Punisher", was an American professional baseball player, coach, and manager in Major League Baseball (MLB) who played most of his career for the Los Angeles Dodgers and Washington Senators/Texas Rangers franchises. One of the most physically intimidating players in the sport, Howard was 6 feet 7 inches (2.01 m) tall and weighed between 275 and 295 pounds, according to former Senators/Rangers trainer Bill Zeigler.
1908
Arthur Goldberg
American jurist and politician, 6th United States Ambassador to the United Nations (died 1990)
Arthur Joseph Goldberg was an American politician and jurist who served as the 9th U.S. secretary of labor, an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, and the 6th United States ambassador to the United Nations.
1933
Joe Tex
American soul singer-songwriter (died 1982)
Yusuf Hazziez, known professionally as Joe Tex, was an American singer and musician who gained success in the 1960s and 1970s with his brand of Southern soul, which mixed the styles of funk, country, gospel, and rhythm and blues.
1951
Randy Shilts
American journalist and author (died 1994)
Randy Shilts was an American journalist and author. After studying journalism at the University of Oregon, Shilts began working as a reporter for both The Advocate and the San Francisco Chronicle, as well as for San Francisco Bay Area television stations. In the 1980s, he was noted for being the first openly gay reporter for the San Francisco Chronicle.
1558
George Clifford
3rd Earl of Cumberland, English noble (died 1605)
George Clifford, 3rd Earl of Cumberland, 13th Baron de Clifford, 13th Lord of Skipton, was an English peer, naval commander, and courtier of Queen Elizabeth I of England. He was notable at court for his jousting, at the Accession Day Tilts, which were highlights of the year at court. Two famous survivals, his portrait miniature by Nicholas Hilliard and a garniture of Greenwich armour, reflect this important part of his life. In contrast, he neglected his estates in the far north of England and left a long succession dispute between his heirs.
1910
Jimmy Murphy
Welsh-English footballer and manager (died 1989)
James Patrick Murphy was a Welsh footballer who made over 200 appearances for West Bromwich Albion and won 15 caps for the Wales national team, which he later managed. Murphy is most famous for being an influential figure at Manchester United from 1946 until the 1970s, as assistant manager, first-team coach, reserve team manager and a full-time scout, although he disliked the limelight and preferred to work quietly behind the scenes.
1970
Chester Williams
South African rugby player and coach (died 2019)
Chester Mornay Williams was a South African rugby union player. He played as a winger for the South Africa national rugby union team (Springboks) from 1993 to 2000, most notably for the team that won the 1995 Rugby World Cup, which was hosted in South Africa. He was the only black player on the team. During the tournament he scored four tries for South Africa in its quarter-final match and also appeared in the semi-final and final. Domestically he played rugby for the Western Province in the Currie Cup.
1646
Godfrey Kneller
German-English painter (died 1723)
Sir Godfrey Kneller, 1st Baronet was a British painter of German origin. The leading portraitist in England during the late Stuart and early Georgian eras, he served as court painter to successive English and British monarchs, including Charles II of England and George I of Great Britain. Kneller also painted scientists such as Isaac Newton, foreign monarchs such as Louis XIV of France and visitors to England such as Michael Shen Fu-Tsung. A pioneer of the kit-cat portrait, he was also commissioned by William III of England to paint eight "Hampton Court Beauties" to match a similar series of paintings of Charles II's "Windsor Beauties" that had been painted by Kneller's predecessor as court painter, Peter Lely.
1944
Michael Johnson
American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (died 2017)
Michael Jay Johnson was an American pop, country, and folk singer-songwriter and guitarist. He is best remembered for his 1978 hit song "Bluer Than Blue". He charted four hits on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and nine more on Hot Country Songs, including two number one country hits in 1986's "Give Me Wings" and "The Moon Is Still Over Her Shoulder". He also co-wrote "Cain's Blood", the debut single of 1990s country group 4 Runner.
1952
Jostein Gaarder
Norwegian author
Jostein Gaarder is a Norwegian intellectual and author of several novels, short stories, and children's books. Gaarder often writes from the perspective of children, exploring their sense of wonder about the world. He often utilizes metafiction in his works and constructs stories within stories. His best known work is the novel Sophie's World (1991). It has been translated into 60 languages; there are over 40 million copies in print.
1944
John Renbourn
English-Scottish guitarist and songwriter (died 2015)
John Renbourn was an English guitarist and songwriter. He was best known for his collaboration with guitarist Bert Jansch as well as his work with the folk group Pentangle, although he maintained a solo career before, during and after that band's existence (1967–1973). Several albums were credited to the John Renbourn Group. He worked later in a duo with Stefan Grossman.
1930
Terry Nation
Welsh-American author and screenwriter (died 1997)
Terence Joseph Nation was a Welsh screenwriter and novelist. Best known for his work in British television science fiction, he created the Daleks and Davros for Doctor Who, as well as the series Survivors (1975–1977) and Blake's 7 (1978–1981).
1884
Sara Teasdale
American poet and educator (died 1933)
Sara Trevor Teasdale was an American lyric poet. She was born in St. Louis, Missouri, and used the name Filsinger after her 1914 marriage. In 1918, she won a Pulitzer Prize for her 1917 poetry collection Love Songs.
1922
Rudi Gernreich
Austrian-American fashion designer, created the Monokini (died 1985)
Rudolf "Rudi" Gernreich was an Austrian-born American fashion designer whose avant-garde clothing designs are generally regarded as the most innovative and dynamic fashion of the 1960s. He purposefully used fashion design as a social statement to advance sexual freedom, producing clothes that followed the natural form of the female body, freeing them from the constraints of high fashion.
1985
Toby Flood
English rugby player
Tobias Gerald Albert Lieven Flood is an English rugby union coach and former player. He is currently kicking and skills coach at Newcastle Falcons in Premiership Rugby. During his playing career, his position was fly half or inside centre. He played over 300 games in his club career across his three professional clubs, Newcastle Falcons, Toulouse and Leicester Tigers. He played 60 international matches for England between 2006 and 2014.
1956
Cecilia Roth
Argentinian actress
Cecilia Edith Rotenberg Gutkin, known professionally as Cecilia Roth is an Argentine actress. She is the winner of two Goya Awards and a European Film Award. She is known for being an "Almodóvar girl" and the "muse" of Fito Páez during the 1990s.
1907
Benny Carter
American saxophonist, trumpet player, and composer (died 2003)
Bennett Lester Carter was an American jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, trumpeter, composer, arranger, and bandleader. With Johnny Hodges, he was a pioneer on the alto saxophone. From the beginning of his career in the 1920s, he worked as an arranger, including writing charts for Fletcher Henderson's big band that shaped the swing style. He had an unusually long career that lasted into the 1990s. During the 1980s and 1990s, he was nominated for eight Grammy Awards, which included receiving a Lifetime Achievement Award.
1987
Tatjana Maria
German tennis player
Tatjana Maria is a German professional tennis player. In July 2025, she reached her career-best singles ranking of world No. 36 at 37 years and 11 months old. In June 2016, she peaked at No. 54 in the doubles rankings.
1694
Francis Hutcheson
Irish philosopher and academic (died 1746)
Francis Hutcheson was an Irish philosopher widely regarded as one of the key figures of the early Scottish Enlightenment. He served as Professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of Glasgow and was a major advocate of moral sense theory, which holds that humans possess an innate sense that guides moral judgments. Hutcheson is best known for his ethical writings, in which he defends benevolence as the primary source of moral virtue and anticipates later utilitarian theories with his formulation of "the greatest happiness for the greatest number".
1940
Dennis Tito
American engineer and businessman, founded Wilshire Associates
Dennis Anthony Tito is an American engineer and entrepreneur. During mid-2001, he became the first space tourist to fund his own visit to space, when he spent nearly eight days in orbit as a crew member of ISS EP-1, a visiting mission to the International Space Station. This mission was launched by the spacecraft Soyuz TM-32, and was landed by Soyuz TM-31.
1952
Doug Melvin
Canadian baseball player and manager
Robert Douglas Melvin is a Canadian front-office executive in Major League Baseball (MLB) who previously served as the general manager of the Texas Rangers (1995–2001) and Milwaukee Brewers (2002–2015). He is currently a senior advisor for the Brewers.
1921
Webb Pierce
American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 1991)
Michael Webb Pierce was an American country music vocalist, songwriter, and guitarist of the 1950s, one of the most popular of the genre, charting more number-one hits than any other country and western performer during the decade.
1948
Svetlana Savitskaya
Russian engineer and astronaut
Svetlana Yevgenyevna Savitskaya is a Russian former aviator and Soviet cosmonaut who flew aboard Soyuz T-7 in 1982, becoming the second woman in space. On her 1984 Soyuz T-12 mission she became the first woman to fly to space twice, and the first woman to perform a spacewalk.
1929
Luis García Meza Tejada
Bolivian general and politician, 68th President of Bolivia (died 2018)
Luis Arturo García Meza Tejada was a Bolivian military officer who served as the 57th president of Bolivia from 1980 to 1981. He was a dictator convicted of human rights violations and leader of a violent coup. A native of La Paz, he was a career military officer who rose to the rank of general during the dictatorship of Hugo Banzer (1971–78).
1963
Emi Shinohara
Japanese voice actress and singer (died 2024)
Emiko Shinohara , known professionally as Emi Shinohara , was a Japanese voice actress from Fukushima Prefecture. At the time of her death, she was affiliated with 81 Produce. She was best known for voicing Sailor Jupiter in the first anime adaptation of Sailor Moon, Kaho Mizuki in Cardcaptor Sakura and its sequel Cardcaptor Sakura: Clear Card, and Kushina Uzumaki in Naruto: Shippuden. She was married to tokusatsu actor Hiroshi Watari, best known for playing the titular hero in Space Sheriff Sharivan.
1990
Aleksandra Szwed
Polish actress and singer
Aleksandra Szwed is a Polish actress, television presenter, and singer. She is best known for starring as Eliza in the Polsat sitcom television series Foster Family. She also portrayed Liliana Górecka in Barwy szczęścia (2013–2017), Patrycja Blechacz in Leśniczówka (2018–2021), Magda Rosiak in Na Wspólnej (2021–2023), Melisa in First Love (2022–2026), and Kalina Skrzywińska in Pawned & Perilous (2023–2026). Szwed also stares as Kalina Skrzywińska in the TV Puls drama series Pawned & Perilous (2023–2026). Additionally, she appeared in the feature films Fighter (2019), Raz, jeszcze raz (2019), and Wheel of Love (2023). Szwed also hosted the Polsat reality show Ekipa na swoim in 2013, and the Polsat game show Ninja Warrior Polska in 2019, and was one of the jurors in the Polsat talent show Śpiewajmy razem. All Together Now. Furthermore, she recorded singles "Ach Ten Pan!" (2013), "For Once in My Life" (2015), "I Won't Give Up" (2016), and "Ty coś w sobie masz" (2016). Szwed is also a model and fashion designer.
1948
Wincey Willis
British broadcaster (died 2024)
Wincey Willis was a British television and radio broadcaster who achieved national fame in the 1980s. She was perhaps best known for being part of the line up at TV-am, the UK's first national operator of a commercial breakfast television franchise, in which she was ITV's first female weather presenter, appearing on Good Morning Britain. She was also known for her adjudicator role in the popular television game show Treasure Hunt.
1999
Xiaojun
Chinese singer
Xiao Dejun, known professionally as Xiaojun (Korean: 샤오쥔), is a Chinese singer based in South Korea. He is a member of the South Korean boy group NCT and its sub-unit WayV.
1987
Pierre Boulanger
French actor
Pierre Boulanger is a French actor. He is known for the 2003 film Monsieur Ibrahim, where he played a young Jewish boy, Moises "Momo" Schmidt and for 2008 film Nos 18 ans where he played Richard. The young actor was then reported to be concentrating on his studies, and thus was not able to do movies. After two years, he did TV appearances and minor roles in movies. He is best known for his first major English film in 2011, Monte Carlo with Selena Gomez.
1972
Axel Merckx
Belgian cyclist
Axel Eddy Lucien Jonkheer Merckx is a Belgian former professional road bicycle racer and the son of five-time Tour de France champion Eddy Merckx. He is team director of UCI Continental team Hagens Berman Jayco.
1880
Earle Page
Australian lawyer, academic, and politician, 11th Prime Minister of Australia (died 1961)
Sir Earle Christmas Grafton Page served as the 11th prime minister of Australia from 7 to 26 April 1939, in a caretaker capacity following the death of Joseph Lyons. He was the leader of the Country Party from 1921 to 1939, and was the most influential figure in its later years.
1985
Anita Włodarczyk
Polish track and field athlete
Anita Włodarczyk is a Polish hammer thrower. She is the 2012, 2016 and 2020 Olympic champion, and the first woman in history to throw the hammer over 80 m; she currently holds the women's world record of 82.98 m. She is widely considered the greatest female hammer thrower of all time.
1990
Parker Kligerman
American race car driver
Parker Lindsley Kligerman is an American semi-retired professional stock car racing driver, color commentator for NASCAR on The CW. He competes part-time in the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series, driving the No. 25 Ram 1500 for Kaulig Racing, the No. 75 Chevrolet Silverado for Henderson Motorsports and the No. 77 Silverado for Spire Motorsports. Kligerman is a former development driver for Team Penske. He has worked for NBC since 2015 as a TV analyst and pit reporter. In 2023, Kligerman co-founded the motorsports media company "The Money Lap" with Landon Cassill.
1922
Gertrude Himmelfarb
American historian, author, and academic (died 2019)
Gertrude Himmelfarb, also known as Bea Kristol, was an American historian. She was a leader of conservative interpretations of history and historiography. She wrote extensively on intellectual history, with a focus on Great Britain and the Victorian era, as well as on contemporary society and culture.
1875
Artur Bernardes
Brazilian lawyer and politician, 12th President of Brazil (died 1955)
Artur da Silva Bernardes was a Brazilian lawyer and politician who served as the 12th president of Brazil from 1922 to 1926. Bernades' presidency was marked by the crisis of the First Brazilian Republic and the almost uninterrupted duration of a state of emergency. During his long political career, from 1905 until his death, he was the main leader of the Republican Party of Minas Gerais (PRM) from 1918–1922 until the party's closure in 1937, and founder and leader of the Republican Party (PR).
1937
Sheila Varian
American horse breeder (died 2016)
Sheila Varian was an American breeder of Arabian horses who lived and worked at the Varian Arabians Ranch near Arroyo Grande, California. She grew up with a strong interest in horses, and was mentored in horsemanship by Mary "Sid" Spencer, a local rancher and Morgan horse breeder who also introduced Varian to the vaquero or "Californio" tradition of western riding. She started her horse ranch, Varian Arabians, in 1954 with the assistance of her parents. Raising and training horses was her full-time occupation beginning in 1963. She used vaquero-influenced methods of training horses, although she adapted her technique over the years to fit the character of the Arabian horse, which she viewed as a horse breed requiring a smart yet gentle approach.
1977
Rocky Thompson
Canadian ice hockey player and coach
Rocky Lee Thompson is a Canadian former ice hockey right wing. Most recently, he was the head coach of the Bridgeport Islanders of the American Hockey League, and was previously an assistant coach with the Philadelphia Flyers of the NHL. He was drafted in the third round, 72nd overall, by the Calgary Flames in the 1995 NHL entry draft. This Cree forward/defenseman was born in Calgary, Alberta and raised in Whitecourt, Alberta. During his hockey career, he was known as an enforcer. Along with hockey, he showed promise in boxing as a teenager, winning gold in the 1993 North American Indigenous Games as well as in provincial Golden Gloves tournament championships in Alberta and Saskatchewan.
1961
Daniel House
American bass player and producer
Daniel House is an American business owner and former musician. He was a co-founder and bass player for Skin Yard, a grunge band that was active from 1985 to 1992, and was president and owner of C/Z Records, a Seattle-based independent record label that released music by many bands, including 7 Year Bitch, Built to Spill, Coffin Break, Engine Kid, The Gits, Hammerbox, Love Battery, The Melvins, The Presidents of the United States of America, Silkworm, and Skin Yard. In 2003, House moved from Seattle to Los Angeles where he oversaw the development and creation of the now-defunct www.DownloadPunk.com as well as the music-centric online dating website RocknRollDating.com.
1935
John Laws
Papua New Guinean-born Australian singer and radio host (died 2025)
Richard John Sinclair Laws was an Australian radio announcer who had a broadcasting career spanning 71 years. His distinctive voice earned him the nickname Golden Tonsils.
1882
Ladislas Starevich
Russian-French animator, screenwriter, and cinematographer (died 1965)
Ladislas Starevich was a Polish-Russian stop-motion animator notable as the author of the first puppet-animated film The Beautiful Leukanida (1912). He also used dead insects and other animals as protagonists of his films. Following the Russian Revolution, Starevich settled in France.
1966
John Hudek
American baseball player and coach
John Raymond Hudek is an American former Major League Baseball pitcher. He played all or part of six seasons in the majors, from 1994 until 1999, for five different teams. He appeared in a total of 194 major league games, all in relief, making the 1994 NL All-Star team as a rookie. Once, in a game on September 5, 1997, he was tasked to pitch against Brian Johnson with runners on. With two strikes, catcher Tony Pena seemed to call for an intentional walk before Hudek threw a pitch in the middle of the zone for a strike that struck-out Johnson.
1968
Abey Kuruvilla
Indian cricketer and coach
Abey Kuruvilla is an Indian former cricketer and general manager of Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI). He played as a bowler in mid-1990s for Indian cricket team. He was a selector of BCCI.
1973
Shane Lee
Australian cricketer and guitarist
Shane Lee is a former Australian first-class cricketer. He was an all-rounder known for his hard batting and medium-pace bowling and is the elder brother of Australian pace bowler Brett Lee. He played for Australia and also captained the NSW team. Lee was a part of the Australian team that won the 1999 Cricket World Cup.
1989
Hannah Miley
English-Scottish swimmer
Hannah Louise Miley is a Scottish former competitive swimmer who specialised in the Individual Medley. Miley trained when she was younger at Inverurie Swimming Centre. She has represented Great Britain at three Olympic Games, reaching the final of the 400 metres individual medley on each occasion, finishing sixth in 2008, fifth in 2012 and fourth in 2016. Also in the 400 m individual medley, she is a former World short-course champion (2012), European champion (2010), and two-time European short-course champion representing Great Britain, and a two-time Commonwealth champion representing Scotland.
1910
Lucky Millinder
American swing and rhythm-and-blues bandleader (died 1966)
Lucius Venable "Lucky" Millinder was an American swing and rhythm-and-blues bandleader. Although he could not read or write music, did not play an instrument, and rarely sang, his showmanship and musical taste made his bands successful. His group was said to have been the greatest big band to play rhythm and blues, and it gave work to a number of musicians who later became influential at the dawn of the rock and roll era. He was inducted into the Alabama Jazz Hall of Fame in 1986.
1851
George Turner
Australian politician, 18th Premier of Victoria (died 1916)
Sir George Turner was an Australian politician. He served two terms as Premier of Victoria, holding office from 1894 to 1899 and 1900 to 1901 as a liberal. After Federation he was invited by Edmund Barton to join the inaugural federal ministry, becoming the first Treasurer of Australia. He held office until 1904 under Barton and Alfred Deakin, then a few months later resumed office under George Reid. The government fell in 1905 and Turner retired from politics at the 1906 election.
1949
Terry Burnham
American actress (died 2013)
Elizabeth Teresa "Terry" Burnham was an American actress. She had most of her career as a child actress in television series. She is best known for her performance in the Twilight Zone episode "Nightmare as a Child", which originally aired in 1960.
1983
Willie Tonga
Australian rugby league player
Villiami Sione "Willie" Tonga, also known by the nickname of ”Willie", is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer who last played for the Leigh Centurions in the Super League. An Australia international and Queensland State of Origin representative centre, he previously played for the Parramatta Eels, the Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs, with whom he won the 2004 NRL Premiership, and the North Queensland Cowboys. He joined French club the Catalans Dragons in 2015 and signed a contract with the Centurions for 2016.
1957
Dennis Drew
American keyboard player
Dennis Arnold Drew is the keyboardist for the American alternative rock band 10,000 Maniacs. He has been with the band since its inception in 1981 and is one of three founding members along with Steve Gustafson and John Lombardo in the current band lineup. Drew also spent 17 years (2004–2021) as the general manager of WRFA-LP, a community radio station in Jamestown, New York. He previously had a stint at WNAE-AM in nearby city Warren, Pennsylvania, before the band's beginning.
1814
Esther Hobart Morris
American suffragette and judge (died 1902)
Esther Hobart Morris was an American judge who was the first woman justice of the peace in the United States. She began her tenure as justice in South Pass City, Wyoming, on February 14, 1870, serving a term of nearly nine months. The Sweetwater County Board of County Commissioners appointed Morris as justice of the peace after the previous justice, R. S. Barr, resigned in protest of Wyoming Territory's passage of the women's suffrage amendment in December 1869.
1960
Mustafa Balbay
Turkish journalist and politician
Mustafa Ali Balbay is a journalist, writer and former Turkish MP. As the main political correspondent in Ankara for the left-wing Kemalist daily newspaper Cumhuriyet, he wrote a regular column called Gözlem which he took over from the prominent investigative journalist Ugur Mumcu, who was assassinated in 1993. Balbay was arrested on March 5, 2009 as an Ergenekon suspect in the Odatv case, and in August 2009 he was sentenced to 34 years and eight months.
1939
Viorica Viscopoleanu
Romanian long jumper
Viorica Viscopoleanu is a retired Romanian long jumper. She competed at the 1964, 1968 and 1972 Olympics and won a gold medal in 1968, setting a new world record. At the European championships she won a silver medal outdoors in 1969 and two medals indoors, in 1970 (gold) and 1971 (bronze). After retiring from competitions she worked as a coach at her club Steaua București. Monica Iagăr was one of her trainees.
1955
Herbert Prohaska
Austrian footballer and manager
Herbert Prohaska is an Austrian former professional footballer. He ranks among Austria's greatest football players of all time. Prohaska works as a football pundit for the Austrian Broadcasting Corporation (ORF). His nickname "Schneckerl", Viennese dialect for curly hair, derives from his curly haircut in his younger years. A talented, elegant, and combative midfielder, Prohaska played as a deep-lying playmaker, and was known for his technique, intelligence, and precise passing.
1997
Panipak Wongpattanakit
Thai taekwondo athlete
Panipak Wongpattanakit is a Thai retired taekwondo athlete. Twice Olympic, World Championships, and Asian Games champion, she was a leading athlete in the women's 49 kg throughout her international career, from 2013 to 2024. She is the only Thai athlete to have repeated as an Olympic champion.
1942
John Gustafson
English singer-songwriter and bass player (died 2014)
John Frederick "Johnny" Gustafson was an English bass guitar player and singer, who had a lengthy recording and live performance career. During his career, he was a member of the bands The Big Three, The Merseybeats, Quatermass, Roxy Music, The Pirates and Ian Gillan Band.
1982
David Florence
English canoe racer
David Florence is a retired British slalom canoeist who competed at the international level from 1999 to 2021. He is the 2013 and 2015 world champion in individual single canoe (C1) and 2013 champion in double canoe (C2), the latter with Richard Hounslow. Florence was the first canoeist since Charles Dussuet, sixty years earlier, to achieve the C1, C2 double at the same World Championships.
1986
Chris Pressley
American football player
Chris Pressley is an American former professional football player who was a fullback in the National Football League (NFL). He went undrafted in the 2009 NFL draft after playing college football for five years with the Wisconsin Badgers. Pressley's maximum back squat weight is 770 pounds (349 kg), and he has been videotaped squatting 605 pounds nine times in a row with no assistive equipment.
1754
Hipólito Ruiz López
Spanish botanist (died 1816)
Hipólito Ruiz López, or Hipólito Ruiz, was a Spanish botanist known for researching the floras of Peru and Chile during an expedition under Carlos III from 1777 to 1788. During the reign of Carlos III, three major botanical expeditions were sent to the New World; Ruiz and José Antonio Pavón Jiménez were the botanists for the first of these expeditions, to Peru and Chile.
1970
Ben G. Davis
English chemist and academic
Benjamin Guy Davis is a British chemist who is Professor of Chemical biology in the Department of Pharmacology and a member of the Faculty in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Pembroke College, Oxford. He also holds the role of Science Director for Next Generation Chemistry (2019-) at the Rosalind Franklin Institute.
1967
Marcelo Balboa
American soccer player, coach, and sportscaster
Marcelo Balboa is an American former professional soccer player who played as a defender in the 1990s for the United States national team, becoming its captain. He is a member of the National Soccer Hall of Fame.
1861
William Bateson
English biologist (originator of term "genetics") (died 1926)
William Bateson was an English biologist who coined the term genetics to describe the study of heredity. His popularization of Gregor Mendel's work following its rediscovery in 1900 earned him the nickname "Mendel's bulldog". His 1894 book Materials for the Study of Variation was one of the earliest formulations of the new approach to genetics.
1905
André Jolivet
French composer (died 1974)
André Jolivet was a French composer. Known for his devotion to French culture and musical thought, Jolivet drew on his interest in acoustics and atonality, as well as both ancient and modern musical influences, particularly on instruments used in ancient times. He composed in a wide variety of forms for many different types of ensembles.
1942
James Blanchard
American diplomat and politician, 45th Governor of Michigan
James Johnston Blanchard is an American attorney, diplomat, and politician who served as the 45th governor of Michigan from 1983 to 1991. A member of the Democratic Party, Blanchard previously served in the United States House of Representatives from 1975 to 1983, and later as the United States Ambassador to Canada from 1993 to 1996.
1985
Brett Ratliff
American football player
Brett Ratliff is an American former professional football quarterback. He was signed by the New York Jets as an undrafted free agent in 2007. He played college football at Butte College and Utah. He was also a member of the Cleveland Browns, Jacksonville Jaguars, New England Patriots, Tennessee Titans, and Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
1942
Dennis Canavan
Scottish educator and politician
Dennis Andrew Canavan is a Scottish politician. He was the Member of Parliament for Falkirk West from 1974 to 2000, first as a member of the Labour Party, and then as an independent. He then served as an independent member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for Falkirk West from 1999 to 2007.
1964
Scott Sandelin
American ice hockey player and coach
Scott Alan Sandelin is an American former professional ice hockey player. He is currently the head coach of the Minnesota-Duluth Bulldogs men's ice hockey team. In 2011, he became the first coach in Bulldog history to lead them to a national title, in a 3–2 overtime game against the University of Michigan at the Xcel Energy Center in Saint Paul, Minnesota. In the 2018 NCAAs, he led the Bulldogs to a second national title, over Notre Dame 2–1, also played at the Xcel Energy Center. The following season, in the 2019 NCAAs, he led the Bulldogs to a third national title. Sandelin grew up in Hibbing, Minnesota, where he went on to be drafted in the second round by the Montreal Canadiens and play collegiate hockey for the North Dakota Fighting Sioux.
1909
Bill Voce
England cricketer and coach (died 1984)
Bill Voce was an English cricketer who played for Nottinghamshire and England. As a fast bowler, he was an instrumental part of England's infamous Bodyline strategy in their tour of Australia in 1932–1933 under Douglas Jardine. He was born at Annesley Woodhouse, near Kirkby-in-Ashfield, Nottinghamshire. He died at Lenton, Nottingham.
1927
Johnny Temple
American baseball player and coach (died 1994)
John Ellis Temple was an American professional baseball player and coach. He played in Major League Baseball as a second baseman from 1952 to 1964, most prominently as a member of the Cincinnati Reds, where he was the leadoff hitter and starting second baseman for six seasons.
1949
Ricardo Londoño
Colombian racing driver (died 2009)
Ricardo Londoño Bridge was a racing driver from Colombia. He had an unremarkable international career apart from his one attempt at Formula One in the 1981 Brazilian Grand Prix with Ensign. Londoño was the first racing driver from Colombia to participate in a Formula One race weekend.
1974
Andy Priaulx
Guernseyan racing driver
Andrew Graham Priaulx, MBE is a British racing driver from Guernsey. In 2019 he raced for Ford Chip Ganassi Team UK in the FIA World Endurance Championship, and Cyan Racing Lynk & Co in the FIA World Touring Car Cup, having been a former BMW factory driver.
1874
Albert Stanley
1st Baron Ashfield, English businessman and politician, President of the Board of Trade (died 1948)
Albert Henry Stanley, 1st Baron Ashfield,, born Albert Henry Knattriess, was a British-American businessman who was managing director, then chairman of the Underground Electric Railways Company of London (UERL) from 1910 to 1933 and chairman of the London Passenger Transport Board (LPTB) from 1933 to 1947.
1982
Ross Ohlendorf
American baseball player
Curtis Ross Ohlendorf is an American former professional baseball pitcher. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the New York Yankees, Pittsburgh Pirates, San Diego Padres, Washington Nationals, Texas Rangers, and Cincinnati Reds, and in the Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) for the Tokyo Yakult Swallows.
1973
Ilka Agricola
German mathematician
Ilka Agricola is a German mathematician specialising in differential geometry and its applications in mathematical physics. She is the dean of mathematics and computer science at Marburg University, where she has also been responsible for making the university's collection of mathematical models public.
1920
Leo Chiosso
Italian songwriter and producer (died 2006)
Leo Matteo Chiosso was an Italian lyricist mostly known for his work with Fred Buscaglione. They formed a songwriting duo who produced about forty songs and created Buscaglione's public persona, a humorous tough guy with a penchant for whisky and women.
1971
Johnny Balentina
Dutch baseball player
Randolph Benito "Johnny" Balentina is a Curaçaoan former baseball player. He was a catcher in three consecutive Summer Olympics for the Netherlands, starting in 1996 in Atlanta. Twice, the Dutch team finished in sixth place and once in fifth place (2000).
1856
Thomas Anstey Guthrie
English journalist and author (died 1934)
Sir Thomas Anstey Guthrie was an English writer, most noted for his comic novel Vice Versa about a boarding-school boy and his father exchanging identities. His reputation was confirmed by The Tinted Venus and many humorous parodies in Punch magazine.
1979
Richard Lyons
Northern Irish racing driver
Richard William Lyons is a British motor racing driver that competed in the Japanese Super GT series. In the 2006 Goodwood Festival of Speed Lyons set the fastest shootout time of 49.51 seconds while driving the Nissan 350Z GT500.
1790
Ferenc Kölcsey
Hungarian poet, critic, and politician (died 1838)
Ferenc Kölcsey was a Hungarian poet, literary critic, orator, and politician, noted for his support of the liberal current in Hungary regarding the politics involving the Austrian Empire. He wrote "Himnusz", the national anthem of Hungary in 1823.
1986
Kateryna Bondarenko
Ukrainian tennis player
Kateryna Volodymyrivna Volodko is a tennis player from Ukraine. Her career-high rankings are world No. 29 in singles and No. 9 in doubles. She was the doubles champion at the 2008 Australian Open, partnering her sister Alona Bondarenko.
1863
Jean Leon Gerome Ferris
American painter (died 1930)
Jean Leon Gerome Ferris was an American painter best known for his series of 78 scenes from American history, entitled The Pageant of a Nation, the largest series of American historical paintings by a single artist.
1909
Jack Renshaw
Australian politician, 31st Premier of New South Wales (died 1987)
John Brophy Renshaw was an Australian politician. He was Labor Premier of New South Wales from 30 April 1964 to 13 May 1965. He was the first New South Wales Premier born in the 20th century.
1518
Conrad Lycosthenes
French-German scholar and author (died 1561)
Conrad Lycosthenes, born Conrad Wolffhart, was an Alsatian humanist and encyclopedist. Deacon of Saint Leonard in Basel, professor of grammar and dialectics, Lycosthenes had a passion for the study of nature and geophysics.
1925
Aziz Sattar
Malaysian actor, comedian, singer and director (died 2014)
Datuk Abdul Aziz bin Sattar was a Malaysian actor, singer, comedian, and director who is mostly known for his roles in the black and white Malay films of the 1950s and 1960s.
1876
Varghese Payyappilly Palakkappilly
Indian-Syrian priest, founded the Sisters of the Destitute (died 1929)
Varghese Payyappilly was an Indian Syro-Malabar priest from Kerala and the founder of the congregation of Sisters of the Destitute. He was declared Venerable by Pope Francis on 14 April 2018.
1993
Emilie Mehl
Norwegian politician
Emilie Enger Mehl is a Norwegian politician for the Centre Party. She served as minister of justice from 2021 to 2025 and member of parliament for Hedmark from 2017 to 2025.
1984
Norbert Michelisz
Hungarian racing driver
Norbert Michelisz is a Hungarian auto racing driver. He was the 2019 winner of the World Touring Car Cup and winner of the TCR World Tour in 2023 and 2024.
1706
Johan Augustin Mannerheim
Swedish nobleman and military leader (died 1778)
Baron Johan Augustin Mannerheim was a Swedish nobleman, the Artillery Colonel and the Gothenburg Commandant. He was a great-great-grandfather of Baron C. G. E. Mannerheim, the Marshal of Finland.
1938
Jack Baldwin
English chemist and academic (died 2020)
Sir Jack Edward Baldwin was a British chemist. He was a Waynflete Professor of Chemistry at the University of Oxford (1978–2005) and head of the organic chemistry at Oxford.
1939
Jana Andrsová
Czech actress and ballerina (died 2023)
Jana Andrsová was a Czech ballerina and actress. In 1957 she graduated from the Dance Conservatory in Prague and began to work with the Vitus Nejedly Army Art Ensemble.
1975
Mick Moss
English singer-songwriter
Mick Moss is an English singer/songwriter. He is best known for his role in the band Antimatter, as well as being co-vocalist on the Number 1 single 'Broken Smile'.
1492
Matteo Tafuri
Italian alchemist (died 1582)
Matteo Tafuri was an Italian philosopher, astrologer and physician, who was famed for his divination, but also was reputed to be a magician who practised demonic arts.
1981
Harel Skaat
Israeli singer-songwriter
Harel Skaat sometimes known by the mononym Harel is an Israeli singer and songwriter. He represented Israel in the Eurovision Song Contest 2010 with the song "Milim".
1985
Ryan Koolwijk
Dutch footballer
Ryan Koolwijk is a professional football manager and former player who is the assistant coach of the Suriname national team and the ADO Den Haag under-19 team.
1960
Ulrich Maly
German politician, 16th Mayor of Nuremberg
Dr. Ulrich Maly is a German politician, a member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany who served as Mayor of Nuremberg from 2002 till 2020.
1954
Nick Holtam
English bishop
Nicholas Roderick Holtam is a retired bishop of the Church of England. He served as Bishop of Salisbury from 2011 until his retirement in 2021.
1963
Rika Fukami
Japanese voice actress and singer
Rika Fukami is a Japanese voice actress and narrator. Born in Kyoto Prefecture and raised in Chichibu, Saitama, she was originally a competitor at the NHK Cup National High School Broadcasting Contest while studying at Saitama Prefectural Chichibu High School, before joining Dojinsha Productions and debuting as a voice actress in Tokimeki Tonight. Since then, she has voiced Minako Aino/Sailor Venus in the Sailor Moon series, as well as Fran in Final Fantasy XII, Carmen la Bailaora in Ashita no Nadja, Schaffe in Ninja Senshi Tobikage and Daiko Hayami in New Cutie Honey.
1907
Jimmy Steele (Irish republican)
lifelong militant and editor (died 1970)
Jimmy Steele was an Irish republican militant. He was one of the most prominent Irish Republican Army (IRA) men in Belfast after the Irish Civil War who held practically every senior position in the Northern Command of the IRA. Later in life Steele publicly denounced the leadership of the IRA which was a prelude to the split in the IRA. Steele founded and edited several Irish Republican publications. Steele spent a large portion of his life in jails as a result of his actions against British security forces.
422
Casper
ruler of the Maya city of Palenque
"Casper", also known as 11 Rabbit or Casper II, was an ajaw of the Maya city of Palenque from August 9, 435, to 487. He was the immediate successor of Kʼukʼ Bahlam I, who founded the ruling dynasty. The real name of the ruler has not been deciphered. He was given the nickname Casper by Mayanist scholar Floyd Lounsbury because his name glyph is said to resemble the cartoon character Casper the Friendly Ghost. An incomplete transcription of the name is ch'a-?..
1951
Phil Carlson
Australian cricketer (died 2022)
Phillip Henry Carlson was an Australian cricketer who played in two Test matches and four One Day Internationals (ODIs) in 1979. He was an all-rounder who played for Queensland between 1969–70 and 1980–81. He played his two Test matches for Australia v England in the 1978–79 Ashes series and the four One Day Internationals against the same opponents. He was called up by Australia when most of their regular first-choice players were playing in World Series Cricket.
1936
Jan Pieńkowski
Polish-English author and illustrator (died 2022)
Jan Michał Pieńkowski was a Polish-born British author of children's books—as illustrator, as writer, and as designer of movable books. He is best known for illustrating the Meg and Mog picture book series. He also did stage design for the theatre. For his contribution as a children's illustrator he was UK nominee in 1982 and again in 2008 for the biennial, international Hans Christian Andersen Award, the highest recognition available to creators of children's books.
1965
Angus Fraser
English cricketer, manager, and journalist
Angus Robert Charles Fraser is an English cricket administrator and former player. Fraser played in forty-six Test matches and forty-two One Day Internationals for England, and played for Middlesex in his first-class career between 1984 and 2002, winning the County Championship three times. He was awarded an MBE in the 1999 New Year Honours and was named one of the Wisden Cricketers of the Year in 1996.
1948
Margaret Urban Walker
American philosopher
Margaret Urban Walker is an American philosopher and the Donald J. Schuenke Chair Emerita in Philosophy at Marquette University. Before her appointment at Marquette, she was the Lincoln Professor of Ethics at Arizona State University, and before that she was at Fordham University. She has also previously held visiting appointments at Washington University in St. Louis, University of South Florida, and Catholic University of Leuven.
1970
Trev Alberts
American football player and journalist
Trev Kendall Alberts is an American sports administrator and former professional football linebacker who is the athletic director at Texas A&M University. He previously played in the National Football League (NFL) for three seasons with the Indianapolis Colts. Alberts was also the athletic director at the University of Nebraska Omaha from 2009 to 2021 and the University of Nebraska–Lincoln from 2021 to 2024.
1955
Diddú
Icelandic singer-songwriter
Sigrún Hjálmtýsdóttir, better known as Diddú, is an Icelandic soprano and songwriter. Educated at the Reykjavík College of Music and the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London, she began her singing career in the 1970s as a vocalist for the popular folk and pop group Spilverk Þjóðanna. She subsequently turned to classical music, particularly Lieder and operas.
1980
Diego Markwell
Dutch baseball player
Diegomar Raymundo "Diego" Markwell is a Curaçaoan former professional baseball pitcher. He pitched for the Netherlands national team in many tournaments. He played in Minor League Baseball for seven seasons and briefly played in the Chinese Professional Baseball League (CPBL) for the Macoto Cobras in 2007. He also pitched in more than 200 games in the Honkbal Hoofklasse.
1997
Karim Walid
Egyptian footballer
Karim Walid Sayed Saleh Hassan commonly known as Nedvěd is an Egyptian professional footballer who plays as a winger for Al Ahly and the Egypt U-20. He is a product of Al Ahly youth academy. He got his nickname in the youth team as his position and looks were similar to the Czech legend Pavel Nedvěd.
1942
Vardo Rumessen
Estonian pianist and musicologist (died 2015)
Vardo Rumessen was an Estonian pianist, musicologist and politician for the Union of Pro Patria and Res Publica. He is best known for his work with Eduard Tubin's music. He was born in Pärnu. In his performances abroad, he played works by Estonian composed that were forbidden under the Soviet regime.
1968
Yvie Burnett
Scottish soprano
Yvie Burnett, is a Scottish mezzo-soprano and vocal coach, best known for her work with Simon Cowell on television shows The X Factor and Britain's Got Talent, The Big Reunion, The Voice UK and BBC's Let It Shine. She also presented her own TV series for BBC Scotland called, Scotland Sings.
1963
Stephen Walkom
Canadian ice hockey player, referee, and manager
Stephen Walkom currently serves as vice president and director of officiating for the National Hockey League (NHL). This is his second stint in that position, having previously served from 2005 to 2009. From 1990 to 2004, and from 2009 to 2013, he worked as an on-ice referee for the league.
1968
Aldo Calderón van Dyke
Honduran journalist (died 2013)
Aldo Calderón van Dyke was a Honduran journalist that worked for Canal 11, La Prensa, and El Tiempo. He committed suicide and died on 14 August 2013 at around ten at night in a Honduran Social Security Institute hospital. He was buried in San Pedro Sula.
1673
John Ker
Scottish spy (died 1726)
John Ker, born John Crawford in Crawfurdland, Ayrshire, was a Scots Presbyterian linked with Cameronian radicals who between 1705 and 1709 acted as a government informer against the Jacobites. Dogged by financial issues most of his life, he died in King's Bench Prison in 1726.
1904
Achille Varzi
Italian racing driver (died 1948)
Achille Varzi was an Italian racing driver. He is remembered as the winner of the 1933 Monaco Grand Prix, as well as the winner of the first Formula One Grand Prix at the 1946 Turin Grand Prix, and as the chief rival of Tazio Nuvolari.
1984
Martrez Milner
American football player
Martrez Milner is an American former professional football player who was a tight end in the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Georgia Bulldogs and was selected by the Atlanta Falcons in the fourth round of the 2007 NFL draft.
1977
Mohammad Wasim
Pakistani cricketer
Mohammad Wasim is a Punjabi Pakistani cricket coach and cricketer who played for both the Pakistan and Dutch cricket teams. He played in 18 Test matches and 25 One Day Internationals from 1996 to 2000 for the Pakistan national cricket team.
1977
Darren Manzella
American sergeant (died 2013)
Darren Manzella was a United States Army Sergeant, Army medic and gay activist from Portland, New York, who was discharged under the Don't ask, don't tell policy. Manzella served in Iraq and Kuwait, and was stationed in Fort Hood, Texas.
1980
Jack Cassel
American baseball player
Joseph "Jack" Buren Cassel II is an American former professional baseball pitcher. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the San Diego Padres and Houston Astros. He retired from professional baseball in 2010 after suffering a career-ending shoulder injury.
1944
Simon Taylor
English journalist and author
Simon Taylor is a motor sports journalist who writes for several publications. Taylor is a writer, historian, radio and TV commentator and a keen loyal supporter of historic racing. He is editor-at-large of Classic & Sports Car magazine. and contributes a monthly column under the title "Full Throttle". He is particularly known for the in-depth interviews of motor sports personalities past and present which he contributed to Motor Sport magazine between 2006 and 2016, under the title "Lunch with...."
1922
Károly Reich
Hungarian illustrator (died 1988)
Károly Reich was a Hungarian artist best known for his illustrations in children's books and for his distinctive draughtsmanship. His work was widely popular among Hungarian children throughout his 40-year career, during which he illustrated approximately 500 books.
1693
Laurent Belissen
French composer (died 1762)
Laurent Belissen was a French Baroque composer. He was born in Aix-en-Provence and may have been among the last students of Guillaume Poitevin, then maître de musique at the choir school of the Aix Cathedral.
1915
James Elliott
American runner and coach (died 1981)
James F. "Jumbo" Elliott was an American track and field coach, often considered to be one of the greatest of all time. His achievements include producing five Olympic gold medal winners between 1956 and 1968.
1898
Marguerite Bise
French chef (died 1965)
Marguerite Valentine Bise was a French chef and restaurateur at her restaurant Auberge du Père Bise in Talloires, Haute-Savoie, France. In 1951, she became the third woman to win three Michelin stars.
1988
Agata Sobczyk (born 1988)
Polish economist and politician
Agata Sobczyk is a Polish economist and politician. Since 2023, she has served as the voivode of Greater Poland Voivodeship in Poland. She is a member of the Poland 2050 political party.
1927
Maia Wojciechowska
Polish-American author (died 2002)
Maia Teresa Wojciechowska was a Polish-American writer best known for children's and young adult fiction. Her first book and two books for adults were published under her married name Maia Rodman.
1938
Jacques Hétu
Canadian composer and educator (died 2010)
Jacques Joseph Robert Hétu was a prominent Canadian composer and music educator. Hétu is the most frequently performed of Canadian classical composers, both within Canada and internationally.
1952
Sudhakar Rao
Indian cricketer
Ramchandra Sudhakar Rao is a former Indian cricketer. He played domestic cricket for Karnataka and played one One Day International for India against New Zealand in 1976.
1964
Paul Taylor
English cricketer
Jonathan Paul Taylor is an English former cricketer, who played in two Test matches and one One Day International for England in 1993 and 1994.
1079
Emperor Horikawa of Japan (died 1107)
Emperor Horikawa was the 73rd emperor of Japan, according to the traditional order of succession.
1306
Rudolf II
Duke of Bavaria (died 1353)
Rudolf II "the Blind" was Count Palatine of the Rhine from 1329 to 1353.
1640
Amalia Catharina
German poet and composer (died 1697)
Countess Amalia Katharina of Waldeck, née Countess of Erbach-Erbach, was a German noblewoman, poet and composer.
1709
Hermann Anton Gelinek
German-Italian monk and violinist (died 1779)
Hermann Anton Gelinek was a German monk and musician.
1720
Carl Fredrik Pechlin
Swedish general and politician (died 1796)
Baron Carl Fredrik Pechlin was a Swedish politician and demagogue.
1758
Friedrich Georg Weitsch
German painter (died 1828)
Friedrich Georg Weitsch was a German painter and etcher.
1807
Emilie Flygare-Carlén
Swedish author (died 1892)
Emilie Flygare-Carlén was a Swedish novelist.
1822
George Stoneman
Jr., United States Army cavalry officer (died 1894)
George Stoneman Jr. was an American military officer and politician who served as the 15th governor of California from 1883 to 1887.
1857
Cécile Chaminade
French pianist and composer (died 1944)
Cécile Louise Stéphanie Chaminade was a French composer and pianist. In 1913, she was awarded the Légion d'Honneur, a first for a female composer.
1879
Bob Smith
American physician and surgeon, co-founded Alcoholics Anonymous (died 1950)
Robert Holbrook Smith, also known as Dr. Bob, was an American physician and surgeon who cofounded Alcoholics Anonymous with Bill Wilson.
1889
Hans Egede Budtz
Danish actor (died 1968)
Hans Egede Budtz was a Danish stage and film actor.
1889
Jack Ryder
Australian cricketer (died 1977)
John Ryder was a cricketer who played for Victoria and Australia.
1891
Adolf Busch
German violinist and composer (died 1952)
Adolf Georg Wilhelm Busch was a German-Swiss violinist, conductor, and composer.
1909
Charles Lyttelton
10th Viscount Cobham, English cricketer and politician, 9th Governor-General of New Zealand (died 1977)
Charles John Lyttelton, 10th Viscount Cobham was the ninth Governor-General of New Zealand and an English cricketer from the Lyttelton family.
1919
John David Wilson
English animator and producer (died 2013)
John David Wilson was an English artist, animator and producer. He owned his own production studio, Fine Arts Films.
1920
Jimmy Witherspoon
American jump blues singer (died 1997)
James Witherspoon was an American jump blues and jazz singer.
1928
Don Burrows
Australian saxophonist, clarinet player, and flute player (died 2020)
Donald Vernon Burrows was an Australian jazz and swing musician who played clarinet, saxophone and flute.
1929
Larisa Bogoraz
Russian linguist and activist (died 2004)
Larisa Iosifovna Bogoraz was a dissident in the Soviet Union.
1934
Sarat Pujari
Indian actor, director, and screenwriter (died 2014)
Sarat Pujari was an Indian actor, director and producer in Odia film industry (Ollywood). He was originally from Jhaduapada, Sambalpur.
1937
Cornelis Vreeswijk
Dutch-Swedish singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor (died 1987)
Cornelis Vreeswijk was a Dutch singer-songwriter and poet who lived and worked primarily in Sweden.
1939
Alexander Watson
American diplomat, United States Ambassador to Peru
Alexander Fletcher Watson is an American retired ambassador and diplomat. He served as United States Ambassador to Peru from 1986 to 1989.
1946
Joe Bethancourt
American singer-songwriter (died 2014)
W.J. "Joe" Bethancourt III was an American multi-genre, multi-instrument musician known chiefly for Americana music.
1950
Willie Hall
American drummer and producer
Willie Clarence Hall is an American drummer best known for his work with Isaac Hayes and as a member of the Blues Brothers band.
1952
Robin Quivers
American nurse, radio host/personality, and author
Robin Ophelia Quivers is an American radio personality and long-running co-host of The Howard Stern Show.
1953
Don Most
American actor and singer
Don Most is an American actor. He is known for his role as Ralph Malph on the television series Happy Days.
1955
Michael Roe
Irish racing driver
Michael Roe is a former racing driver from Naas, Ireland.
1956
David Grant
English singer
David Beresford Grant is an English singer and vocal coach.
1959
Caroline Ansink
Dutch flute player, composer, and educator
Caroline Ansink is a Dutch musician, music educator and composer.
1963
Hur Jin-ho
South Korean director and screenwriter
Hur Jin-ho is a South Korean film director and screenwriter.
1963
Jon Turteltaub
American director and producer
Jonathan Charles Turteltaub is an American filmmaker.
1963
Ron Karkovice
American baseball player and manager
Ronald Joseph Karkovice is an American former professional baseball catcher.
1965
Kate Langbroek
Australian talk show host
Katherine Langbroek is an Australian comedian, radio and television presenter, and conservative commentator.
1967
Yūki Amami
Japanese theater and film actress
Yūki Amami is a Japanese actress and former leading otokoyaku of Takarazuka Revue.
1969
Monika Tsõganova
Estonian chess player
Monika Tsõganova is an Estonian chess Woman International Master (1991). She was the Estonian rapid chess champion six times.
1970
José Francisco Molina
Spanish footballer and manager
José Francisco Molina Jiménez is a Spanish former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper. He is currently manager of the Honduras national team.
1972
Andrea de Rossi
Italian rugby player and coach
Andrea De Rossi is an Italian former rugby union footballer and a current coach. He played as number eight.
1972
Joely Collins
Canadian actress and producer
Joely Collins is a Canadian film and television producer, writer and actress. She is the daughter of Andrea Bertorelli and English musician Phil Collins.
1972
1972
Steven Tweed
Scottish footballer and manager
Steven Tweed is a Scottish former footballer and manager.
1973
Gert Olesk
Estonian footballer and manager
Gert Olesk is an Estonian football coach and former professional player. He played the position of defender.
1977
Nicolas Vogondy
French cyclist
Nicolas Vogondy is a French former professional road racing cyclist, who competed as a professional between 1997 and 2013.
1978
Alan Maybury
Irish footballer and coach
Alan Paul Maybury is an Irish professional football manager and former player.
1978
Miho Shiraishi
Japanese actress
Miho Shiraishi is a Japanese actress from Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan.
1979
1980
Denisse Guerrero
Mexican singer-songwriter
Denisse Guerrero Flores is a Mexican musician and singer-songwriter, best known as the lead vocalist of the electropop band Belanova.
1980
Pat Noonan
American soccer player
Patrick John Noonan is an American soccer coach and former player. He is the head coach of FC Cincinnati in Major League Soccer.
1980
Sabine Klaschka
German tennis player
Sabine Klaschka is a retired German tennis player.
1981
Vanessa Amorosi
Australian singer-songwriter
Vanessa Joy Amorosi is an Australian singer-songwriter and recording artist. She has sold at least two million units in albums or singles worldwide.
1983
Guy Burnet
English actor and producer
Guy Burnet is a British actor who has worked in film, television, and theatre. He had a notable supporting role in Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer.
1985
1989
Prajakta Mali
Indian actress
Prajakta Mali is an Indian actress, producer, and poet who primarily works in Marathi films and television.
1990
Vladimír Darida
Czech footballer
Vladimír Darida is a Czech professional footballer who plays as a central midfielder for Czech First League club Hradec Králové.
1991
Joël Matip
Cameroonian footballer
Joël André Matip Job is a former professional footballer who played as a centre back.
1991
Nélson Oliveira
Portuguese footballer
Nélson Miguel Castro Oliveira is a Portuguese professional footballer who plays as a forward for Liga Portugal 2 club Farense.
1991
Tyrone Peachey
Australian rugby league player
Tyrone Peachey is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer.
1992
Casey Cott
American actor
Casey Morton Cott is an American actor, known for his role as Kevin Keller on The CW series Riverdale.
1992
Josip Drmić
Swiss footballer
Josip Drmić is a Swiss former professional footballer who played as a striker.
1996
A'ja Wilson
American basketball player
A'ja Riyadh Wilson is an American professional basketball player for the Las Vegas Aces of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA).