Famous Birthdays on January 13

January 13 has 229 recorded notable births across history, from 5 BC to 2005. This page lists every one of them, with the best-known people first.

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Orlando Bloom

1977 — Orlando Bloom

English actor

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Major events on January 13

See what else happened on this day in history.

  1. 1847 The Treaty of Cahuenga ends the Mexican–American War in California. Source
  2. 1990 Douglas Wilder becomes the first elected African American governor as he takes office as Governor of Virginia in Richmond, Virginia. Source

Did you know about Orlando Bloom

Orlando Bloom made his breakthrough as the character Legolas in The Lord of the Rings film series (2001–03), earning him three Actors Award nominations, winning once.

Did you know about Liam Hemsworth

In American films, Hemsworth starred as Will Blakelee in The Last Song (2010), as Gale Hawthorne in The Hunger Games film series (2012–2015), and as Jake Morrison in Independence Day: Resurgence (2016).

Did you know about Julia Louis-Dreyfus

Julia Scarlett Elizabeth Louis-Dreyfus is an American actress, comedian, and producer.

Did you know about Michael Peña

Michael Peña has starred in many films, including Crash (2004), World Trade Center (2006), Shooter (2007), Observe and Report (2009), Tower Heist (2011), Battle: Los Angeles (2011), End of Watch (2012), and Gangster Squad (2013).

Did you know about Patrick Dempsey

Patrick Dempsey is also known for his leading man romantic film roles, such as Enchanted (2007).


More major people born on January 13

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

1990 Liam Hemsworth

Liam Hemsworth

Australian actor
Liam Hemsworth is an Australian actor. He played the roles of Josh Taylor in the soap opera Neighbours and Marcus in the children's television series The Elephant Princess. In American films, Hemsworth starred as Will Blakelee in The Last Song (2010), as Gale Hawthorne in The Hunger Games film series (2012–2015), and as Jake Morrison in Independence Day: Resurgence (2016).
1961 Julia Louis-Dreyfus

Julia Louis-Dreyfus

American actress, comedian, and producer
Julia Scarlett Elizabeth Louis-Dreyfus is an American actress, comedian, and producer. She is known for her roles in a string of successful comedy series and several comedy films. Louis-Dreyfus has received numerous accolades including eleven Primetime Emmy Awards, nine Actor Awards, and a Golden Globe Award.
1976 Michael Peña

Michael Peña

American actor
Michael Peña is an American actor. He has starred in many films, including Crash (2004), World Trade Center (2006), Shooter (2007), Observe and Report (2009), Tower Heist (2011), Battle: Los Angeles (2011), End of Watch (2012), and Gangster Squad (2013). He has also acted in films such as American Hustle (2013), The Martian (2015), Ant-Man (2015) and its sequel Ant-Man and the Wasp (2018), and Extinction (2018). Peña had the title role in Cesar Chavez (2014), played DEA agent Kiki Camarena in season one of the Netflix series Narcos: Mexico (2018), and CIA agent Domingo Chavez in season 4 of the Prime Video series Jack Ryan (2023). He also starred in A Million Miles Away (2023).
1966 Patrick Dempsey

Patrick Dempsey

American actor and race car driver
Patrick Galen Dempsey is an American actor and racecar driver who is best known for playing neurosurgeon Dr. Derek Shepherd in Grey's Anatomy. He is also known for his leading man romantic film roles, such as Enchanted (2007). Dempsey has received nominations for a Primetime Emmy Award and two Golden Globe Awards, and was named as People's Sexiest Man Alive in 2023.
1964 Penelope Ann Miller

Penelope Ann Miller

American actress
Penelope Ann Miller, sometimes credited as Penelope Miller, is an American actress. She began her career on Broadway in the original run of Biloxi Blues (1985–1986), later appearing in the 1988 film adaptation of the same name. After playing small roles in the comedies Adventures in Babysitting (1987) and Big Top Pee-wee (1988), and receiving a Tony Award nomination for her leading role in the Broadway revival of Our Town (1988–1989), Miller came to prominence with a succession of major parts in films such as The Freshman, Awakenings, Kindergarten Cop, Other People's Money (1991), Chaplin (1992), The Shadow (1994), and The Relic (1997). For her portrayal of exotic dancer Gail in Carlito's Way (1993), she was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress.
1982 Ruth Wilson

Ruth Wilson

English actress
Ruth Wilson is an English actress from Ashford, Surrey. She has played the title character in Jane Eyre (2006), Alice Morgan in the BBC psychological crime drama Luther, Alison Lockhart in the Showtime drama The Affair (2014–2018), and the title character, her real-life paternal grandmother, in Mrs Wilson (2018). From 2019 to 2022, she portrayed Marisa Coulter in the BBC/HBO fantasy series His Dark Materials, and for this role she won the 2020 BAFTA Cymru Award for Best Actress. Her film credits include The Lone Ranger (2013), Saving Mr. Banks (2013), I Am the Pretty Thing That Lives in the House (2016), and Dark River (2017).
1995 Natalia Dyer

Natalia Dyer

American actress
Natalia Danielle Dyer is an American actress. She is best known for her role as Nancy Wheeler in the Netflix science fiction horror series Stranger Things (2016–2025). She has also appeared in the Peacock comedy thriller series Based on a True Story (2023) and the films Yes, God, Yes (2019), Velvet Buzzsaw (2019), and Things Heard & Seen (2021).
1970 Shonda Rhimes

Shonda Rhimes

American actress, director, producer, and screenwriter
Shonda Lynn Rhimes is an American television producer and screenwriter, and founder of the production company Shondaland. Rhimes became known as the first showrunner—creator, head writer and executive producer—of the medical drama Grey's Anatomy (2005–present), its spin-off Private Practice (2007–2013) and the political thriller Scandal (2012–2018), becoming the first African American female showrunner to create three television dramas that have achieved the 100 episode milestone.
1919 Robert Stack

Robert Stack

American actor (died 2003)
Robert Stack was an American actor and television host. Known for his deep voice and commanding presence, he appeared in over 40 feature films. He starred in the ABC television series The Untouchables (1959–1963), for which he won the 1960 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Performance by an Actor in a Series, and later hosted/narrated the true-crime series Unsolved Mysteries (1987–2002). He was also nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in the film Written on the Wind (1956). Later in his career, Stack was known for his deadpan comedy roles that lampooned his dramatic on-screen persona, most notably as Captain Rex Kramer in Airplane! (1980).
1975 Andrew Yang

Andrew Yang

American entrepreneur, founder of Venture for America, and 2020 Democratic presidential candidate
Andrew Yang is an American businessman, lobbyist and political commentator. He founded the political party and action committee Forward Party in 2021, for which he serves as co-chair alongside former New Jersey Governor Christine Todd Whitman and Michael S. Willner.
1962 Trace Adkins

Trace Adkins

American singer-songwriter and actor
Tracy Darrell Adkins known professionally as Trace Adkins, is an American country music singer and actor. Adkins made his debut in 1996 with the album Dreamin' Out Loud, released on Capitol Records Nashville. Since then, he has released 10 more studio albums and two greatest hits compilations. In addition, Adkins has charted more than 20 singles on the Billboard country music charts, including the number-one hits "(This Ain't) No Thinkin' Thing", "Ladies Love Country Boys", and "You're Gonna Miss This", which peaked in 1997, 2007, and 2008, respectively.
1965 Bill Bailey

Bill Bailey

English musician and comedian
Mark Robert "Bill" Bailey is an English musician, comedian, actor and television presenter. He is known for his role as Manny in the sitcom Black Books (2000–2004), and for his regular appearances on the panel shows Never Mind the Buzzcocks, Have I Got News for You, and QI, as well as for his stand-up comedy work. He plays a variety of musical instruments and incorporates music into his performances.
1997 Luis Díaz

Luis Díaz

Colombian footballer
Luis Fernando Díaz Marulanda is a Colombian professional footballer who plays as a midfielder and winger for Bundesliga club Bayern Munich and the Colombia national team. Regarded as one of the best wingers in the world, he is known for his pace, dribbling, and pressing ability.
1943 Richard Moll

Richard Moll

American actor (died 2023)
Charles Richard Moll was an American actor known for playing Aristotle Nostradamus "Bull" Shannon, a bailiff on the NBC sitcom Night Court from 1984 to 1992. Moll also voiced Harvey Dent/Two-Face in the DC Animated Universe series Batman: The Animated Series and The New Batman Adventures, and briefly reprised the role in the Batman: The Brave and the Bold episode "Chill of the Night!" where he also voiced the character Lew Moxon.
1978 Mohit Sharma

Mohit Sharma

Indian soldier (died 2009)
Major Mohit Sharma was an Indian Army Officer who was posthumously awarded the Ashoka Chakra, India's highest peace-time military decoration. Sharma was from the elite 1st Para SF.
1931 Charles Nelson Reilly

Charles Nelson Reilly

American actor, comedian, director, game show panelist, and television personality (died 2007)
Charles Nelson Reilly was an American actor, comedian, director and drama teacher. He performed in the original Broadway casts of Bye Bye Birdie; Hello, Dolly!; and How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, for which he won the Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Musical. His television credits include The Ghost & Mrs. Muir and Match Game. A recording of his autobiographical one-man play Save It for the Stage: The Life of Reilly was adapted into a 2006 independent film.
1969 Stephen Hendry

Stephen Hendry

Scottish snooker player and journalist
Stephen Gordon Hendry is a Scottish retired professional snooker player and a current commentator and pundit. One of the most successful players in snooker history, he turned professional in 1985, aged 16, and rose rapidly through the snooker world rankings, reaching number four in the world by the end of his third professional season. He won his first World Snooker Championship in 1990 at the age of 21 years and 106 days, becoming the sport's youngest world champion, a record he still holds. He won seven world titles between 1990 and 1999, setting a new modern-era record that stood outright until Ronnie O'Sullivan equalled it in 2022. He also won the Masters six times and the UK Championship five times for a career total of 18 Triple Crown tournament wins, a total exceeded only by O'Sullivan's 23. His total of 36 ranking titles is second only to O'Sullivan's 41, while his nine seasons as world number one were the most by any player under the annual ranking system used until 2010.
1972 Nicole Eggert

Nicole Eggert

American actress
Nicole Elizabeth Eggert is an American actress. Her notable roles include Jamie Powell on the situation comedy Charles in Charge and Summer Quinn on the television series Baywatch. She guest-starred in The Super Mario Bros. Super Show! and Boy Meets World. She appeared in several Christmas movies that premiered on Lifetime. Eggert was also a contestant on the VH1 reality show Celebrity Fit Club in 2010 and came second in 2013 on ABC's celebrity diving show Splash.
1997 Connor McDavid

Connor McDavid

Canadian ice hockey player
Connor Andrew McDavid is a Canadian professional ice hockey player who is a centre and captain for the Edmonton Oilers of the National Hockey League (NHL). Selected first overall by the Oilers in the 2015 NHL entry draft, McDavid is widely considered one of the best players of all time.
1925 Gwen Verdon

Gwen Verdon

American actress and dancer (died 2000)
Gwyneth Evelyn "Gwen" Verdon was an American actress and dancer. She won four Tony Awards for her musical comedy performances, and she served as an uncredited choreographer's assistant and specialty dance coach for theater and film. Verdon was a critically acclaimed performer on Broadway in the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s, having originated many roles in musicals, including Lola in Damn Yankees, the title character in Sweet Charity, and Roxie Hart in Chicago.
1978 Nate Silver

Nate Silver

American journalist and statistician, developed PECOTA
Nathaniel Read Silver is an American statistician, political analyst, author, sports gambler, and poker player who analyzes baseball, basketball, football, and elections. He is the founder of FiveThirtyEight and held the position of editor-in-chief there, along with being a special correspondent for ABC News until May 2023. Since departing FiveThirtyEight, Silver has been publishing in his online newsletter Silver Bulletin and serves as an advisor to Polymarket.
1930 Frances Sternhagen

Frances Sternhagen

American actress (died 2023)
Frances Hussey Sternhagen was an American actress. She was known as a character actress who appeared on- and off-Broadway, in movies, and on television for over six decades. Sternhagen received numerous accolades, including two Tony Awards, a Drama Desk Award, and a Saturn Award, as well as nominations for three Primetime Emmy Awards.
1962 Kevin Mitchell

Kevin Mitchell

American baseball player
Kevin Darnell Mitchell is an American former professional baseball left fielder who played in Major League Baseball (MLB) and Nippon Professional Baseball from 1984 to 1998. Mitchell was a two-time MLB All-Star and won the National League Most Valuable Player Award and Silver Slugger Award in 1989, when he led the league in home runs and runs batted in.
1808 Salmon P. Chase

Salmon P. Chase

American jurist and politician, 6th Chief Justice of the United States (died 1873)
Salmon Portland Chase was an American politician and jurist who served as the sixth chief justice of the United States from 1864 to his death in 1873. Earlier, he had served as the 25th United States Secretary of the Treasury in the Abraham Lincoln administration from 1861 to 1864, during the American Civil War. Chase also served as the 23rd Governor of Ohio from 1856 to 1860, and represented Ohio in the United States Senate from 1849 to 1855 and again in 1861. Chase is therefore one of the few American politicians who have held constitutional office in all three branches of the federal government, in addition to serving in the highest state-level office. From the 1850s onward, even as Chief Justice, Chase unsuccessfully sought a presidential nomination.
1972 Mark Bosnich

Mark Bosnich

Australian footballer and sportscaster
Mark John Bosnich is an Australian former professional soccer player who played as a goalkeeper, and sports pundit. He played in England for Premier League clubs Aston Villa, Manchester United and Chelsea. He also played in Australia for Sydney United, Central Coast Mariners and Sydney Olympic, as well as representing Australia 17 times during his career, scoring one goal for his nation. He was a co-host of Bill & Boz on Fox Sports News.
1955 Jay McInerney

Jay McInerney

American novelist and critic
John Barrett "Jay" McInerney Jr. is an American novelist, screenwriter, editor, and columnist. His novels include Bright Lights, Big City, Ransom, Story of My Life, Brightness Falls, and The Last of the Savages. He edited The Penguin Book of New American Voices, wrote the screenplay for the 1988 film adaptation of Bright Lights, Big City, and co-wrote the screenplay for the television film Gia, which starred Angelina Jolie. He was the wine columnist for House & Garden magazine, and his essays on wine have been collected in Bacchus & Me (2000) and A Hedonist in the Cellar (2006). His most recent novel is titled See You on the Other Side, published in 2026. From April 2010 he was a wine columnist for The Wall Street Journal. In 2009, he published a book of short stories that spanned his entire career, titled How It Ended, which was named one of the 10 best books of the year by Janet Maslin of The New York Times.
1976

Ross McCall

Scottish actor
Ross McCall is a Scottish actor best known for his roles as T-5 Joseph Liebgott in the miniseries Band of Brothers (2001) and Matthew Keller in the series White Collar (2010–2014). In 1989, he played the child version of Freddie Mercury in the music video for the Queen single "The Miracle".
1970 Keith Coogan

Keith Coogan

American actor
Keith Coogan is an American actor. He is the grandson of actor Jackie Coogan. In 1982, he won a Young Artist Award as a guest performer on Knight Rider.
1954 Trevor Rabin

Trevor Rabin

South African-American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
Trevor Charles Rabin is a South African musician, songwriter and composer, known as a guitarist and singer in the pop rock band Rabbitt from 1972 to 1978, and the English progressive rock band Yes from 1983 to 1995, as well as for releasing solo albums and composing numerous film scores including Con Air, Armageddon, Remember the Titans and National Treasure. Rabin is also a multi-instrumentalist who plays piano, assorted keyboards, bass guitar, banjo and other instruments as well as being a seasoned producer, programmer and orchestral arranger, performing most of the instrumental parts on his own releases and recordings.
1931 Ian Hendry

Ian Hendry

English actor (died 1984)
Ian Mackendrick Hendry was an English actor. He worked on several British TV series of the 1960s and 1970s, including the lead in the first series of The Avengers and The Lotus Eaters. He was nominated for two BAFTA Awards for his film work: Most Promising Newcomer to Leading Film Roles for Live Now – Pay Later (1962) and Best Actor in a Supporting Role for Get Carter (1971).
1960 Eric Betzig

Eric Betzig

American physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
Robert Eric Betzig is an American physicist who works as a professor of physics and professor of molecular and cell biology at the University of California, Berkeley. He is also a senior fellow at the Janelia Farm Research Campus in Ashburn, Virginia.
1931 Rip Taylor

Rip Taylor

American actor and comedian (died 2019)
Charles Elmer "Rip" Taylor Jr. was an American actor and comedian, known for his exuberance and flamboyant personality, including his wild moustache, toupee, and his habit of showering himself with confetti. The Hollywood Reporter called him "a television and nightclub mainstay for more than six decades" who made thousands of nightclub and television appearances.
1955 Paul Kelly

Paul Kelly

Australian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
Paul Maurice Kelly is an Australian rock music singer-songwriter and guitarist. He has performed solo, and has led numerous groups, including the Dots, the Coloured Girls, and the Messengers. He has worked with other artists and groups, including associated projects Professor Ratbaggy and Stardust Five. Kelly's music style has ranged from bluegrass to studio-oriented dub reggae, but his core output straddles folk, rock and country. His lyrics capture the vastness of the culture and landscape of Australia by chronicling life about him for almost 50 years. David Fricke from Rolling Stone calls Kelly "one of the finest songwriters I have ever heard, Australian or otherwise". Kelly has said, "Song writing is mysterious to me. I still feel like a total beginner. I don't feel like I have got it nailed yet."
1893 Clark Ashton Smith

Clark Ashton Smith

American poet, sculptor, painter, and author (died 1961)
Clark Ashton Smith was an influential American writer of fantasy, horror, and science fiction stories and poetry, and an artist. He achieved early recognition in California for traditional verse in the vein of Swinburne. As a poet, Smith is grouped with the West Coast Romantics alongside Joaquin Miller, Sterling, and Nora May French and remembered as "The Last of the Great Romantics" and "The Bard of Auburn". Smith's work was praised by his contemporaries. H. P. Lovecraft stated that "in sheer daemonic strangeness and fertility of conception, Clark Ashton Smith is perhaps unexcelled", and Ray Bradbury said that Smith "filled my mind with incredible worlds, impossibly beautiful cities, and still more fantastic creatures". Other writers influenced by Smith include Leigh Brackett, Harlan Ellison, Stephen King, Fritz Leiber, George R. R. Martin, and Donald Sidney-Fryer.
1938 Billy Gray

Billy Gray

American actor, competitive motorcycle racer and inventor
William Thomas Gray is an American actor, competitive motorcycle racer and inventor, known for his role as Bud Anderson on the television series Father Knows Best (1954–1960).
1983 Julian Morris

Julian Morris

English actor
Julian David Morris is an English actor. After appearing in the British television series The Knock (1996) and Fish (2000) during his teenage years, he had his first starring role in the American slasher film Cry Wolf (2005). He subsequently had supporting roles in the thriller Donkey Punch (2008), the historical drama Valkyrie (2008), and another slasher film Sorority Row (2009).
1988 Josh Freeman

Josh Freeman

American football player
Joshua Tyler Freeman is an American former professional football player who was a quarterback in the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Kansas State Wildcats, and was selected by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in the first round of the 2009 NFL draft. Freeman became the starter for Tampa Bay in his rookie year and went on to break numerous franchise passing records. However, he was released partway through his fifth year with the team.
1949 Brandon Tartikoff

Brandon Tartikoff

American screenwriter and producer (died 1997)
Brandon Tartikoff was an American television executive who was head of the entertainment division of NBC from 1981 to 1991. He was credited with turning around NBC's low prime time reputation with several hit series: Hill Street Blues, L.A. Law, Law & Order, ALF, Family Ties, The Cosby Show, Cheers, Seinfeld, The Golden Girls, Wings, Miami Vice, Knight Rider, The A-Team, Saved by the Bell, The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, St. Elsewhere, Night Court and V.
1989 Beau Mirchoff

Beau Mirchoff

Canadian-American actor
William Beau Mirchoff is an American and Canadian actor. Mirchoff is best known for playing Matty McKibben in the MTV series Awkward, Jamie Hunter in Good Trouble, and Ford Halstead in the Starz series Now Apocalypse.
1984 Nick Mangold

Nick Mangold

American football player (died 2025)
Nicholas Allan Mangold was an American professional football player who spent his entire 11-season career as a center with the New York Jets of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Ohio State Buckeyes and was selected by the Jets in the first round of the 2006 NFL draft.
1982 Kamran Akmal

Kamran Akmal

Pakistani cricketer
Kamran Akmal is a Pakistani cricket administrator, coach and former cricketer, who played for Pakistan as a right-handed batsman & wicketkeeper. He started his international career in November 2002 with a Test match at Harare Sports Club. Akmal was a member of the Pakistan team that won the 2009 ICC World Twenty20. He was an integral member of the Peshawar Zalmi for the entire duration of his career in the Pakistan Super League having played for them from the inaugural season of the PSL 2016, till his last in PSL 2022. He scored three hundreds and was a key figure in their success in winning PSL 2017 and being runners up in PSL 2018, 2019 and 2021, being the top run scorer of the team for a large portion of those seasons.
1989 Doug Martin

Doug Martin

American football player (died 2025)
Douglas Martin was an American professional football player who was a running back for seven seasons in the National Football League (NFL), primarily with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. He played college football for the Boise State Broncos and was selected by the Buccaneers in the first round of the 2012 NFL draft.
1893 Roy Cazaly

Roy Cazaly

Australian footballer and coach (died 1963)
Roy Cazaly was an Australian rules footballer who played for South Melbourne and St Kilda in the Victorian Football League (VFL). He also represented Victoria and Tasmania in interstate football and, after his retirement as a player, turned to coaching.
1832 Horatio Alger

Horatio Alger

Jr., American novelist and journalist (died 1899)
Horatio Alger Jr. was an American author who wrote young adult novels about impoverished boys and their rise from humble backgrounds to middle-class security and comfort through good works. His writings were characterized by the "rags-to-riches" narrative, which had a formative effect on the United States from 1868 through to his death in 1899.
1981 Shad Gaspard

Shad Gaspard

American wrestler and actor (died 2020)
Shad Javier Gaspard was an American professional wrestler, actor and stunt performer. He was best known for his time with WWE, where he performed under his real name, or mononymously as Shad.
1982 Guillermo Coria

Guillermo Coria

Argentinian tennis player
Guillermo Sebastián Coria, nicknamed El Mago, is an Argentine former professional tennis player. He was ranked as high as world No. 3 in men's singles by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP), achieved in May 2004. Coria achieved his best results on clay, where he won eight of his nine ATP Tour singles titles, and during his prime years in 2003 and 2004 was considered "the world's best clay-court player." He reached the final of the 2004 French Open, losing to Gastón Gaudio despite serving for the match twice and being up two-sets-to-love. In later years, injuries and a lack of confidence affected his game, and he retired in 2009 at the age of 27. Between 2001 and 2002, he served a seven-month suspension for taking the banned substance nandrolone.
1949 Rakesh Sharma

Rakesh Sharma

Indian commander, pilot, and cosmonaut
Rakesh Sharma is an Indian cosmonaut and a pilot of the Indian Air Force. He became the first Indian to travel to outer space, when he flew aboard Soyuz T-11 on 3 April 1984 as part of the Soviet Interkosmos programme.
1967

Suzanne Cryer

American actress
Suzanne Cryer is an American actress known for her roles as Ashley on the ABC sitcom Two Guys and a Girl and as Laurie Bream on the HBO original series Silicon Valley. She featured in "The Yada Yada", an award-winning and fan favorite episode of Seinfeld. She has also performed on Broadway.
1970 Marco Pantani

Marco Pantani

Italian cyclist (died 2004)
Marco Pantani was an Italian road racing cyclist, widely regarded as one of the greatest climbing specialists in the history of the sport by measures of his legacy, credits from other riders, and records. He recorded the fastest climbs up the Tour's iconic venues of Mont Ventoux (46:00) and Alpe d'Huez (36:50), and other cyclists including Lance Armstrong and Charly Gaul have hailed Pantani's climbing skills. He is the second to last rider and one of only eight to ever win the Tour de France – Giro d'Italia double, doing so in 1998. He is the sixth of seven Italians, after Ottavio Bottecchia, Gino Bartali, Fausto Coppi, Gastone Nencini and Felice Gimondi, and before Vincenzo Nibali to win the Tour de France.
1924 Paul Feyerabend

Paul Feyerabend

Austrian-Swiss philosopher and academic (died 1994)
Paul Karl Feyerabend was an Austrian philosopher best known for his work in philosophy of science. He started his academic career as lecturer in philosophy of science at the University of Bristol (1955–1958); afterward, he moved to the University of California, Berkeley, where he taught for three decades (1958–1989). At various points in his life, he held joint appointments at the University College London (1967–1970), the London School of Economics (1967), the FU Berlin (1968), Yale University (1969), the University of Auckland, the University of Sussex (1974), and the ETH Zurich (1980–1990). He gave lectures and lecture series at the University of Minnesota (1958–1962), Stanford University (1967), the University of Kassel (1977), and the University of Trento (1992).
1929 Joe Pass

Joe Pass

American guitarist and composer (died 1994)
Joe Pass was an American jazz guitarist. Pass recorded and performed live with pianist Oscar Peterson, composer Duke Ellington, and vocalist Ella Fitzgerald, and he is generally esteemed as one of the most notable jazz guitarists of the 20th century for his solo guitar playing, found on recordings such as Virtuoso.
1987 Jack Johnson

Jack Johnson

American ice hockey player
John Joseph Louis Johnson III is an American former professional ice hockey player. A defenseman, he played 19 seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the Los Angeles Kings, Columbus Blue Jackets, Pittsburgh Penguins, New York Rangers, Colorado Avalanche and Chicago Blackhawks. In his prime, he was regarded as a two-way defenseman, combining physical prowess and offensive capability. Johnson won the Stanley Cup with the Avalanche in 2022.
1334 Henry II

Henry II

king of Castile and León (died 1379)
Henry II, called Henry of Trastámara or the Fratricidal, was the first King of Castile and León from the House of Trastámara. He became king in 1369 by defeating his half-brother King Peter the Cruel, after numerous rebellions and battles. As king he was involved in the Fernandine Wars and the Hundred Years' War.
1886 Sophie Tucker

Sophie Tucker

Russian-born American singer and actress (died 1966)
Sophie Tucker was a Jewish-American singer, comedian, actress, and radio personality. Known for her powerful delivery of comical and risqué songs, she was one of the most popular entertainers in the U.S. during the first half of the 20th century. She was known by the nickname "the Last of the Red-Hot Mamas".
1940 Edmund White

Edmund White

American novelist, memoirist, and essayist (died 2025)
Edmund Valentine White III was an American novelist, memoirist, playwright, biographer and essayist. A pioneering figure in LGBTQ and especially gay literature after the Stonewall riots, he wrote with rare candor about gay identity, relationships, and sex. His work emerged as part of an increasingly solidified and visible LGBTQ community, helping to reshape public narratives at a time when coming out was still a dangerous, even radical act. His writing, noted for intimate depth and literary elegance, includes the semi-autobiographical trilogy A Boy's Own Story (1982), The Beautiful Room Is Empty (1988), and The Farewell Symphony (1997). He also co-authored The Joy of Gay Sex (1977), promoting sex-positive discourse.
1961 Wayne Coyne

Wayne Coyne

American singer-songwriter and musician
Wayne Michael Coyne is an American musician. He is the founder, lead vocalist, main songwriter, and only constant member of the psychedelic rock band the Flaming Lips.
1911 Joh Bjelke-Petersen

Joh Bjelke-Petersen

New Zealand-Australian farmer and politician, 31st Premier of Queensland (died 2005)
Sir Johannes Bjelke-Petersen was an Australian politician and farmer who served as premier of Queensland from 1968 to 1987 as leader of the Queensland National Party. He was renowned for his political longevity and the institutional corruption that pervaded his government.
1905 Kay Francis

Kay Francis

American actress (died 1968)
Kay Francis was an American stage and film actress. After a brief period on Broadway in the late 1920s, she moved to film and achieved her greatest success between 1930 and 1936, when she was the number one female star and highest-paid actress at Warner Bros. studio. She adopted her mother's maiden name (Francis) as her professional surname.
1979 Katy Brand

Katy Brand

English actress and screenwriter
Katherine Frances Brand, known as Katy Brand, is an English actress, comedian and writer, known for her ITV2 series Katy Brand's Big Ass Show and Comedy Lab Slap on Channel 4.
1997 Egan Bernal

Egan Bernal

Colombian cyclist
Egan Arley Bernal Gómez is a Colombian professional cyclist who rides for UCI WorldTeam Netcompany–Ineos. He won the 2019 Tour de France, becoming the first Latin American rider to do so, and the youngest winner since 1909. Two years later, Bernal took his second Grand Tour win at the 2021 Giro d'Italia. Bernal was involved in a serious crash in 2022, and although he returned to racing in 2023, he has not raced at the same level as before.
2003 Oksana Selekhmeteva

Oksana Selekhmeteva

Russian tennis player
Oksana Olegovna Selekhmeteva is a Russian-born Spanish tennis player. She has a career-high singles ranking by the WTA of No. 71, achieved on 2 March 2026, and a best doubles ranking of No. 150, reached on 11 July 2022.
1926

Michael Bond

English author, created Paddington Bear (died 2017)
Thomas Michael Bond was an English author. He is best known for a series of children's books featuring the character of Paddington Bear. More than 35 million books in the series have been sold worldwide, and the characters have also appeared in several animated television series, a film series, and a stage musical.
1975 Rune Eriksen

Rune Eriksen

Norwegian guitarist and composer
Rune Eriksen, also known by his stage name Blasphemer, is a Norwegian musician best known as the former guitarist and songwriter of black metal band Mayhem. He took his stage name from a Sodom song and joined Mayhem in October 1994, before departing the band in late 2008. Eriksen founded his solo project RUÏM in 2020 and is currently a member of Aura Noir, Earth Electric, and the multinational bands Twilight Of The Gods and Vltimas, the former initially being a Bathory tribute band and the latter being a supergroup with former Morbid Angel vocalist David Vincent and drummer Flo Mounier of Cryptopsy. Eriksen and Mounier has previously been a part of death metal artist Nader Sadek's band along with Steve Tucker of Morbid Angel. Eriksen has also been a live member of Gaahls Wyrd and made guest appearances on recordings by Absu, Negură Bunget and Root. His former bands and projects include Mezzerschmitt and the Portuguese gothic doom band Ava Inferi. Eriksen has resided in Portugal since 2004.
-5 Guangwu of Han

Guangwu of Han

Chinese emperor (died 57)
Emperor Guangwu of Han, personal name Liu Xiu (劉秀), courtesy name Wenshu (文叔), was the founding emperor of the Chinese Eastern Han dynasty. Through the Eastern Han's suppression and conquest of regional warlords, the dynasty's rule over the whole of China proper was consolidated by the time of Emperor Guangwu's death in AD 57. During his reign, Taoism was made the official religion of the Eastern Han, and the Chinese folk religion began to decline.
1893 Chaïm Soutine

Chaïm Soutine

Belarusian-French painter (died 1943)
Chaïm Soutine was a French painter of Belarusian-Jewish origin of the School of Paris, who made a major contribution to the Expressionist movement while living and working in Paris.
1960 Matthew Bourne

Matthew Bourne

English choreographer and director
Sir Matthew Christopher Bourne is a British choreographer. His productions contain many classic cinema and popular culture references and draw thematic inspiration from musicals, film noir and popular culture.
1968 Traci Bingham

Traci Bingham

American actress, model, and television personality
Traci A. Bingham is an American actress, model, and television personality. Beginning her professional career in the early 1990s, Bingham is best known for her role as Jordan Tate on the syndicated action drama television series Baywatch (1996–1998).
1994 Vasilije Micić

Vasilije Micić

Serbian basketball player
Vasilije "Vasa" Micić is a Serbian professional basketball player for Hapoel Tel Aviv of the Israeli Basketball Premier League and the EuroLeague. He also represents the Serbian national team in international competition.
1927 Sydney Brenner

Sydney Brenner

South African biologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2019)
Sydney Brenner was a South African biologist. In 2002, he shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with H. Robert Horvitz and Sir John E. Sulston. Brenner made significant contributions to work on the genetic code, and other areas of molecular biology while working in the Medical Research Council (MRC) Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, England. He established the roundworm Caenorhabditis elegans as a model organism for the investigation of developmental biology, and founded the Molecular Sciences Institute in Berkeley, California, United States.
1961 Kelly Hrudey

Kelly Hrudey

Canadian ice hockey player and sportscaster
Kelly Hrudey is a Canadian former professional ice hockey goaltender and former broadcaster with Sportsnet as a studio analyst for Hockey Night in Canada and colour commentator for Calgary Flames regional broadcasts. During his playing career, Hrudey played in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the New York Islanders, Los Angeles Kings, and San Jose Sharks from 1983 to 1998.
1983 Ronny Turiaf

Ronny Turiaf

French basketball player
Ronny Turiaf is a French former professional basketball player who played 10 seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA). Turiaf grew up in France and played college basketball for the Gonzaga Bulldogs in the United States, where he led the West Coast Conference (WCC) in scoring in his senior year. After graduating from Gonzaga, he entered the 2005 NBA draft and was picked by the Los Angeles Lakers. He later played for the Golden State Warriors, New York Knicks, Washington Wizards, Miami Heat, Los Angeles Clippers and Minnesota Timberwolves. Turiaf won an NBA championship with Miami in 2012. He was also a member of the French national team. He was inducted into the French Basketball Hall of Fame in 2020.
1995 Eros Vlahos

Eros Vlahos

English actor and comedian
Eros Vlahos is an English actor and comedian. He is known for his roles as Cyril Gray in Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang (2010), Jake Farley in Summer in Transylvania (2010), and Lommy Greenhands in Game of Thrones. He also appeared in a recurring role on the television series Da Vinci's Demons, as Nico Machiavelli (2013–2015).
1987 Marc Staal

Marc Staal

Canadian ice hockey player
Marc Staal is a Canadian professional ice hockey coach and former defenceman who is a player development assistant for the New York Rangers of the National Hockey League (NHL). Staal played 17 seasons in the NHL for the New York Rangers, Detroit Red Wings, Florida Panthers, and Philadelphia Flyers, amassing over 1,100 games played. He is the second oldest of the four Staal brothers to play in the NHL, and the third to reach 1,000 games played, making them the first trio of brothers to each reach the mark. Of the brothers, Marc is the only defenceman and only one who never played for the Carolina Hurricanes.
1957 Mark O'Meara

Mark O'Meara

American golfer
Mark Francis O'Meara is an American retired professional golfer. He won tournaments on the PGA Tour and around the world from the mid-1980s to the late 1990s. He spent nearly 200 weeks in the top-10 of the Official World Golf Ranking from their debut in 1986 to 2000. He won two major championships, the 1998 Masters Tournament and the 1998 Open Championship, becoming the oldest player to win two majors in a year. He was inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame in 2015.
1925 Rosemary Murphy

Rosemary Murphy

American actress (died 2014)
Rosemary Murphy was an American actress of stage, film, and television. She was nominated for three Tony Awards for her stage work, as well as two Emmy Awards for television work, winning once, for her performance in Eleanor and Franklin (1976).
1976 Mario Yepes

Mario Yepes

Colombian footballer
Mario Alberto Yepes Díaz is a Colombian former professional footballer who played as a centre-back. He is well known for his time in Paris Saint-Germain, where he was considered to be one of the best defenders at the time, being dubbed by fans as "Super Mario". During his time in Italy with Chievo, he earned a reputation in the media as a solid and physical old-fashioned man-marking centre-back, known as a "stopper" in Italian football jargon. He served as the captain of the Colombia national team between 2008 and 2014.
1927 Liz Anderson

Liz Anderson

American singer-songwriter (died 2011)
Elizabeth Jane Anderson was an American country music singer-songwriter who was one in a wave of new-generation female vocalists in the genre during the 1960s to write and record her own songs on a regular basis. Writing in The New York Times, Bill Friskics-Warren noted, "Like her contemporary Loretta Lynn, Ms. Anderson gave voice to female survivors; inhabiting their struggles in a soprano at times alluring, at times sassy."
1749 Maler Müller

Maler Müller

German poet, painter, and playwright (died 1825)
Friedrich Müller, German poet, dramatist and painter from the Electoral Palatinate, is best known for his slightly sentimental prose idylls on country life. Usually known as Maler Müller.
1977 James Posey

James Posey

American basketball player and coach
James Mikely Mantell Posey Jr. is an American former professional basketball player who currently serves as an assistant coach for the Portland Trail Blazers of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played the small forward position for the Denver Nuggets, Memphis Grizzlies, Miami Heat, Boston Celtics, New Orleans Hornets, and Indiana Pacers. Posey won NBA championships as a member of the 2006 Miami Heat and the 2008 Boston Celtics, and as an assistant coach for the 2016 Cleveland Cavaliers.
1869 Prince Emanuele Filiberto

Prince Emanuele Filiberto

Duke of Aosta (died 1931)
Prince Emanuele Filiberto Vittorio Eugenio Alberto Genova Giuseppe Maria di Savoia, 2nd Duke of Aosta was an Italian general and member of the House of Savoy, as the son of Amadeo I, and was also a cousin of Victor Emmanuel III of Italy. Filiberto was also commander of the Italian Third Army during World War I, which earned him the title of the "Undefeated Duke". After the war he became a Marshal of Italy.
1957 Lorrie Moore

Lorrie Moore

American author
Lorrie Moore is an American writer, critic, and essayist. She is best known for her short stories, some of which have won major awards. Since 1984, she has also taught creative writing.
1865 Princess Marie of Orléans (died 1908)

Princess Marie of Orléans (died 1908)

Princess Marie of Orléans was a French princess by birth and a Danish princess by marriage to Prince Valdemar. She was politically active by the standards of her day.
1914 Osa Massen

Osa Massen

Danish-American actress (died 2006)
Osa Massen was a Danish actress who became a successful movie actress in Hollywood. She became a naturalized citizen of the United States in 1941.
1938 Cabu

Cabu

French cartoonist (died 2015)
Jean Maurice Jules Cabut, known by the pen-name Cabu, was a French comic strip artist and caricaturist. He was murdered in the January 2015 shooting attack on the Charlie Hebdo newspaper offices. Cabu was a staff cartoonist and shareholder at Charlie Hebdo.
1946 Eero Koivistoinen

Eero Koivistoinen

Finnish saxophonist, composer, and conductor
Eero Koivistoinen is a Finnish jazz musician and saxophone player, who started his career in the mid-1960s. Koivistoinen has worked as a musician, composer, arranger, conductor, producer and educator. He was born in Helsinki and first heard jazz from the records his sailor brother had brought in from his travels. As a youngster Koivistoinen studied classical violin, saxophone and also composition at the Sibelius Academy, and later jazz at Berklee College of Music in Boston. His first line-up featured the drummer Edward Vesala and bassist Pekka Sarmanto. Koivistoinen was also a member of the seminal Finnish rock band Blues Section in the years 1967 and 1968. In 1968 he released his first solo album, a "literary record" called Valtakunta which featured songs composed to the texts of such poets as Pentti Saarikoski, Jarkko Laine, Tuomas Anhava and Hannu Mäkelä; interpreted by the vocalists Vesa-Matti Loiri, Eero Raittinen and Seija Simola. Eero Koivistoinen's later solo albums such as Wahoo (1972) enjoy a considerable international reputation. His hip hop-influenced 2006 album X-Ray features such people as the vocalists Charles Salter and Bina Nkwazi, DJ LBJ and the rap artist Redrama.
1810 Ernestine Rose

Ernestine Rose

American suffragist, abolitionist, and freethinker (died 1892)
Ernestine Louise Rose was a suffragist, abolitionist, and freethinker who has been called the "first Jewish feminist." Her career spanned from the 1830s to the 1870s, making her a contemporary to the more famous suffragists Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony. Largely forgotten in contemporary discussions of the American women's rights movement, she was one of its major intellectual forces in nineteenth-century America. The quote, "women's rights are human rights," was believed to be coined by her. Her relationship with Judaism is a debated motivation for her advocacy. As a rabbi's daughter, Ernestine had received more education than other women her age. Although less well remembered than her fellow suffragists and abolitionists, in 1996, she was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame, and in 1998 the Ernestine Rose Society was founded to "revive the legacy of this important early nineteenth century reformer by recognizing her pioneering role in the first wave of feminism."
1886 Art Ross

Art Ross

Canadian-American ice hockey player and coach (died 1964)
Arthur Howey Ross was a Canadian professional ice hockey player and executive from 1905 until 1954. Regarded as one of the best defenders of his era by his peers, he was one of the first to skate with the puck up the ice rather than pass it to a forward. He was on Stanley Cup championship teams twice in a playing career that lasted thirteen seasons; in January 1907 with the Kenora Thistles and 1908 with the Montreal Wanderers. Like other players of the time, Ross played for several different teams and leagues, and is noted for his time with the Wanderers while they were members of the National Hockey Association (NHA) and its successor, the National Hockey League (NHL). In 1911, he led one of the first organized player strikes over increased pay. When the Wanderers' home arena burned down in January 1918, the team ceased operations and Ross retired as a player.
1933 Tom Gola

Tom Gola

American basketball player, coach, and politician (died 2014)
Thomas Joseph Gola was an American basketball player and politician. Gola was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 1976 and the National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame in 2006. He is widely considered one of the greatest NCAA basketball players of all time, playing four years with the La Salle Explorers. Gola was a consensus first-team All-American for three consecutive years. He has held the record for the most total rebounds in NCAA history since 1955, and was the first college player to have over 2,000 points and 2,000 rebounds in a career. Gola was the Helms Foundations College Basketball Player of the Year in 1954, and the United Press Player of the Year in 1955, as well as being the highest vote recipient for the Associated Press' 1955 All-America Team. He was selected the most valuable player in the 1952 National Invitation Tournament and the 1954 NCAA basketball tournament.
1926 Carolyn Gold Heilbrun

Carolyn Gold Heilbrun

American author and academic (died 2003)
Carolyn Heilbrun was an American academic at Columbia University, the first woman to receive tenure in the English department, and a prolific feminist author of academic studies. In addition, beginning in the 1960s, she published numerous popular mystery novels, under the pen name of Amanda Cross. These have been translated into numerous languages and in total sold nearly one million copies worldwide.
915 Al-Hakam II

Al-Hakam II

Umayyad caliph (died 976)
Al-Hakam II, also known as Abū al-ʿĀṣ al-Mustanṣir bi-Llāh al-Hakam b. ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, was the Caliph of Córdoba. He was the second Umayyad Caliph of Córdoba in Al-Andalus, and son of Abd-al-Rahman III and Murjan. He ruled from 961 to 976.
1906 Zhou Youguang

Zhou Youguang

Chinese linguist, sinologist, and academic (died 2017)
Zhou Youguang, also known as Chou Yu-kuang or Chou Yao-ping, was a Chinese economist, linguist, sinologist, and supercentenarian. He has been credited as the father of pinyin, the most popular romanization system for Chinese, which was adopted by the People's Republic of China (PRC) in 1958, the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) in 1982, and the United Nations in 1986.
1927 Brock Adams

Brock Adams

American lawyer and politician, 5th United States Secretary of Transportation (died 2004)
Brockman Adams was an American lawyer and politician. A Democratic Party member from the state of Washington, Adams served as United States Attorney for the Western District of Washington for U.S. Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson from 1961 to 1964, a member of the United States House of Representatives representing Washington's 7th congressional district from 1965 to 1977, the 5th United States Secretary of Transportation from 1977 to 1979, and a member of the United States Senate. He was forced to retire in January 1993 due to public and widespread sexual harassment, sexual assault and rape allegations.
1997 Ivan Provorov

Ivan Provorov

Russian ice hockey player
Ivan Vladimirovich Provorov is a Russian professional ice hockey player who is a defenceman for the Columbus Blue Jackets of the National Hockey League (NHL). He previously played in the NHL for the Philadelphia Flyers.
1973 Nikolai Khabibulin

Nikolai Khabibulin

Russian ice hockey player
Nikolai Alexandrovich Khabibulin is a Russian former professional ice hockey goaltender. Known by the nickname "The Bulin Wall", he spent the majority of his playing career in the National Hockey League (NHL) with the Winnipeg Jets, Phoenix Coyotes, Chicago Blackhawks, Tampa Bay Lightning, and Edmonton Oilers.
1900 Gertrude Mary Cox

Gertrude Mary Cox

American mathematician (died 1978)
Gertrude Mary Cox was an American statistician and founder of the department of Experimental Statistics at North Carolina State University. She was later appointed director of both the Institute of Statistics of the Consolidated University of North Carolina and the Statistics Research Division of North Carolina State University. Her most important and influential research dealt with experimental design; In 1950 she published the book Experimental Designs, on the subject with W. G. Cochran, which became the major reference work on the design of experiments for statisticians for years afterwards. In 1949 Cox became the first woman elected into the International Statistical Institute and in 1956 was President of the American Statistical Association.
1381 Colette of Corbie

Colette of Corbie

French abbess and saint in the Catholic Church (died 1447)
Colette of Corbie, PCC was a French abbess and the foundress of the Colettine Poor Clares, a reform branch of the Order of Saint Clare, better known as the Poor Clares. She is honored as a saint in the Catholic Church. Due to a number of miraculous events claimed during her life, she is venerated as a patron saint of women seeking to conceive, expectant mothers, and sick children.
1993 Max Whitlock

Max Whitlock

English artistic gymnast
Max Antony Whitlock is an English artistic gymnast. With fourteen medals and six titles in Olympic and World Championships, Whitlock is the most successful gymnast in British history. He is also the most successful pommel horse worker in Olympic Games history, with two gold medals and one bronze.
1400 Infante John

Infante John

Constable of Portugal (died 1442)
Infante John, Constable of Portugal was a Portuguese infante (prince) of the House of Aviz, Constable of Portugal and master of the Portuguese Order of St. James (Santiago). In Portugal, he is commonly referred to as the O Infante Condestável.
1883 Nathaniel Cartmell

Nathaniel Cartmell

American runner and coach (died 1967)
Nathaniel John Cartmell, also known as Nat and Nate, was an American athlete who won medals at two editions of the Olympic Games. Importantly, Nate was on first racially integrated Men's Medley relay team that won Olympic gold medal at the 1908 London Olympics, which Nate helped form and featured Nate's fellow University of Pennsylvania alumnus and former teammate, Dr. John Baxter Taylor Jr., the first black athlete in America to win a gold medal in the Olympics. Nate is also known for being the first head coach of the North Carolina Tar Heels men's basketball team
1925 Ron Tauranac

Ron Tauranac

Australian engineer and businessman (died 2020)
Ronald Sidney Tauranac was a British-Australian engineer and racing car designer, who with Formula One driver Jack Brabham founded the Brabham constructor and racing team in 1962. Following Brabham's retirement as a driver at the end of the 1970 season, Tauranac owned and managed the Brabham team until 1972, when he sold it to Bernie Ecclestone. He remained in England to assist with a redesign of a Politoys Formula One chassis for Frank Williams in 1973 and helped Trojan develop a Formula One version of their Formula 5000 car.
1477 Henry Percy

Henry Percy

5th Earl of Northumberland (died 1527)
Henry Algernon Percy, 5th Earl of Northumberland, KG was an English nobleman and a member of the courts of both Kings Henry VII and Henry VIII.
1616 Antoinette Bourignon

Antoinette Bourignon

French-Flemish mystic and author (died 1680)
Antoinette Bourignon de la Porte was a French-Flemish mystic and adventurer. She taught that the end times would come soon and that the Last Judgment would then fall. Her belief was that she was chosen by God to restore true Christianity on earth and became the central figure of a spiritual network that extended beyond the borders of the Dutch Republic, including Holstein and Scotland. Bourignon's sect belonged to the spiritualist movements that have been characterized as the "third power".
1932

Barry Bishop

American mountaineer, photographer, and scholar (died 1994)
Barry Chapman Bishop was an American mountaineer, scientist, photographer and scholar. With teammates Jim Whittaker, Lute Jerstad, Willi Unsoeld and Tom Hornbein, he was a member of the American Mount Everest Expedition led by Norman Dyhrenfurth, the first American team to summit Mount Everest on May 22, 1963. He reached the summit of Mount Everest by the South Col route on May 22, 1963 with fellow American Lute Jerstad, sharing the honor of becoming the second and third Americans to stand on Everest's summit. Prior to his Everest summit, Bishop participated in several other notable first ascents; the West Buttress route on Denali in 1951, and the South West ridge route on 6,170 meter Himalayan peak Ama Dablam in 1961. He worked for the National Geographic Society for most of his life, beginning as a picture editor in 1959 and serving as a photographer, writer, and scientist with the society until his retirement in 1994. He was killed in an automobile accident near Pocatello, Idaho later that year.
1980 Nils-Eric Johansson

Nils-Eric Johansson

Swedish footballer
Nils-Eric Claes Johansson is a Swedish former professional footballer who played as a defender. Born in Stockholm, Johansson signed with FC Bayern Munich in 1997. He then went on to represent 1. FC Nürnberg, Blackburn Rovers, and Leicester City before returning to his native Sweden and the club AIK in 2007. He made 371 appearances for AIK until his retirement from football in 2018 due to a heart condition. He won three caps for the Sweden national team in 2002.
1992 Austin Watson

Austin Watson

American ice hockey player
Austin Watson is an American professional ice hockey left winger who is currently an unrestricted free agent. He most recently played for the Grand Rapids Griffins in the American Hockey League (AHL) while under contract to the Detroit Red Wings of the National Hockey League (NHL). He was selected 18th overall by the Nashville Predators in the 2010 NHL entry draft. He has also played for the Ottawa Senators and Tampa Bay Lightning.
1989 Heath Hembree

Heath Hembree

American baseball player
Richard Heath Hembree, nicknamed Heater, is an American former professional baseball pitcher in Major League Baseball (MLB). Listed at 6 feet 4 inches (1.93 m) and 220 pounds (100 kg), Hembree throws and bats right-handed. He made his MLB debut with the San Francisco Giants in 2013 and also played for the Boston Red Sox, Philadelphia Phillies, Cincinnati Reds, New York Mets, Pittsburgh Pirates, Los Angeles Dodgers, and Tampa Bay Rays.
1977 Mi-Hyun Kim

Mi-Hyun Kim

South Korean golfer
Mi-Hyun Kim is a professional golfer from South Korea. She turned professional in 1996 and won 11 events on the LPGA of Korea Tour (KLPGA) between 1996 and 2000. In 1999, she joined the LPGA Tour and was named was Rookie of the Year that year. She has won eight LPGA events with her best finish in a major championship second place at the 2001 Women's British Open.
1596 Jan van Goyen

Jan van Goyen

Dutch painter and illustrator (died 1656)
Jan Josephszoon van Goyen was a Dutch landscape painter. The scope of his landscape subjects was very broad as he painted forest landscapes, marine paintings, river landscapes, beach scenes, winter landscapes, cityscapes, architectural views and landscapes with peasants. The list of painters he influenced is much longer. He was an extremely prolific artist who left approximately twelve hundred paintings and more than one thousand drawings.
1926 Melba Liston

Melba Liston

American trombonist and composer (died 1999)
Melba Doretta Liston was an American jazz trombonist, arranger, and composer. She was the first woman trombonist to play alongside men in big bands during the 1940s and 1960s, but as her career progressed she became better known as an arranger, particularly in partnership with pianist Randy Weston. Other major artists with whom she worked include Dizzy Gillespie, Billie Holiday, John Coltrane, and Count Basie.
1866 Vasily Kalinnikov

Vasily Kalinnikov

Russian bassoon player and composer (died 1901)
Vasily Sergeyevich Kalinnikov was a Russian composer. His body of work consists of two symphonies, several additional orchestral works, and numerous songs, all of them imbued with characteristics of folksong. His symphonies, particularly the First, were frequently performed in the early 20th century. Kalinnikov's musical style was inspired by composers like Tchaikovsky and Rimsky-Korsakov, and is notable for its expressive melodies and lush orchestration.
1870 Ross Granville Harrison

Ross Granville Harrison

American biologist and anatomist (died 1959)
Ross Granville Harrison was an American biologist and anatomist credited for his pioneering work on animal tissue culture. His work also contributed to the understanding of embryonic development. Harrison studied in many places around the world and made a career as a university professor. He was also a member of many learned societies and received several awards for his contributions to anatomy and biology.
1901 A. B. Guthrie

A. B. Guthrie

Jr., American novelist, screenwriter, historian (died 1991)
Alfred Bertram "Bud" Guthrie Jr. was an American novelist, screenwriter, historian, and literary historian known for writing western stories. His novel The Way West won the 1950 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and his screenplay for Shane (1953) was nominated for an Academy Award.
1991 Kyle Clifford

Kyle Clifford

Canadian ice hockey player
Kyle Frank Clifford is a Canadian former professional ice hockey forward. He was selected by the Los Angeles Kings in the second round of the 2009 NHL entry draft, and spent the majority of his career with the team, though also made appearances with the Toronto Maple Leafs and St. Louis Blues. Clifford is a two-time Stanley Cup champion with the Kings.
1864 Wilhelm Wien

Wilhelm Wien

German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1928)
Wilhelm Carl Werner Otto Fritz Franz Wien was a German physicist who used theories about heat and electromagnetism to deduce Wien's displacement law, which calculates the emission of a blackbody at any temperature from the emission at any one reference temperature.
1905 Jack London

Jack London

English sprinter and pianist (died 1966)
John Edward London was a British athlete who competed mainly in the 100 metres. Born in British Guiana, now Guyana, he won a silver and a bronze medal at the 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam. He was the second Black British Olympian to win a medal for Great Britain, and the third to represent Great Britain at the Olympics.
1939 Jacek Gmoch

Jacek Gmoch

Polish footballer and coach
Jacek Wojciech Gmoch is a Polish former professional footballer, manager, and commentator. As a player he spent the majority of his career playing for Legia Warsaw as a defender, and represented Poland 29 times internationally. After a career-ending injury he became a successful trainer, winning multiple titles in Poland, Greece, and Cyprus, while also managing the Poland National Team.
1505 Joachim II Hector

Joachim II Hector

Elector of Brandenburg (died 1571)
Joachim II was a Prince-elector of the Margraviate of Brandenburg (1535–1571), the sixth member of the House of Hohenzollern. Joachim II was the eldest son of Joachim I Nestor, Elector of Brandenburg and his wife Elizabeth of Denmark, Norway, and Sweden. He received the cognomen Hector after the Trojan prince and warrior for his athel qualities and prowess.
1902 Karl Menger

Karl Menger

Austrian-American mathematician from the Vienna Circle (died 1985)
Karl Menger was an Austrian-born American mathematician, the son of the economist Carl Menger. In mathematics, Menger studied the theory of algebras and the dimension theory of low-regularity ("rough") curves and regions; as well as topology. In graph theory, he is credited with Menger's theorem. Outside of mathematics, Menger has substantial contributions to game theory and social sciences.
1974 Sergei Brylin

Sergei Brylin

Russian ice hockey player and coach
Sergei Vladimirovich Brylin is a Russian professional ice hockey coach and former player who is formerly an assistant coach for the New Jersey Devils of the National Hockey League (NHL) and currently the head coach of HC Dinamo Minsk. Brylin played with the Devils from 1995 to 2008 and is a three-time Stanley Cup champion with the team.
1989 Morgan Burnett

Morgan Burnett

American football player
Morgan Mark Burnett is an American former professional football player who was a safety in the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets and was selected by the Green Bay Packers in the third round of the 2010 NFL draft. He also played for the Pittsburgh Steelers and Cleveland Browns.
1904 Richard Addinsell

Richard Addinsell

English composer (died 1977)
Richard Stewart Addinsell was an English composer, known early in his career for his music for the theatre in collaboration with Clemence Dane, later for his film music – including his best-known piece, the Warsaw Concerto, composed for the 1941 Dangerous Moonlight – and subsequently for his musical collaboration with the lyricist and performer Joyce Grenfell.
1987 Steven Michaels

Steven Michaels

Australian rugby league player
Steven Michael Michaels is an Australian professional rugby league footballer who played in the 2000s and 2010s. He's played in the National Rugby League (NRL) and the Super League. His usual position was as a wing but he also played centre. Michaels previously played for Hull FC, the Brisbane Broncos, and the Gold Coast Titans.
1955 Anne Pringle

Anne Pringle

English diplomat, British Ambassador to Russia
Dame Anne Fyfe Pringle is a British diplomat and the former HM Ambassador of the United Kingdom to the Russian Federation. From 2001 to 2004, Pringle was the British ambassador to the Czech Republic. In 2026, she was elected to serve as Chancellor of the University of St Andrews in Scotland.
1787 John Davis

John Davis

American lawyer and politician, 14th Governor of Massachusetts (died 1854)
John Davis was an American lawyer, businessman and politician from Massachusetts. He spent 25 years in public service, serving in both houses of the United States Congress and for three non-consecutive years as Governor of Massachusetts. Because of his reputation for personal integrity he was known as "Honest John" Davis.
1950 Bob Forsch

Bob Forsch

American baseball player (died 2011)
Robert Herbert Forsch was an American professional baseball pitcher. He played 16 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the St. Louis Cardinals and Houston Astros. He was a member of the 1982 World Series champions and National League (NL) pennant winners in 1985 and 1987.
1859 Kostis Palamas

Kostis Palamas

Greek poet and playwright (died 1943)
Kostis Palamas was a Greek poet who wrote the words to the Olympic Hymn. He was a central figure of the Greek literary generation of the 1880s and one of the cofounders of the so-called New Athenian School along with Georgios Drosinis and Ioannis Polemis.
1986 Joannie Rochette

Joannie Rochette

Canadian figure skater
Joannie Rochette is a Canadian physician and retired competitive figure skater. She is the 2010 Olympic bronze medallist, the 2009 World silver medallist, the 2008 and 2009 Four Continents silver medallist, the 2004 Grand Prix Final bronze medallist, and a six-time (2005–10) Canadian national champion.
1921 Necati Cumalı

Necati Cumalı

Greek-Turkish author and poet (died 2001)
Necati Cumalı was a Turkish writer of novels, short-stories, essays and poetry. He was born in Florina, Greece to a Turkish family who had settled in Urla near İzmir in the framework of the 1923 agreement for the population exchange between Greece and Turkey.
1997 Henry Ellenson

Henry Ellenson

American basketball player
Henry John Ellenson is an American professional basketball player for the Wonju DB Promy of the Korean Basketball League (KBL). He played one season of college basketball for Marquette, before being drafted 18th overall by the Detroit Pistons in the 2016 NBA draft.
1338 Chŏng Mong-ju

Chŏng Mong-ju

Korean civil minister, diplomat and scholar (died 1392)
Chŏng Mongju, also known by his art name P'oŭn (포은), was a Korean statesman, diplomat, philosopher, poet, calligrapher and reformist of the Goryeo period. He was a major figure of opposition to the transition from the Goryeo (918–1392) to Joseon (1392–1897) periods.
1610 Maria Anna of Bavaria

Maria Anna of Bavaria

archduchess of Austria (died 1665)
Archduchess Maria Anna of Austria, was a German regent, Electress of Bavaria by marriage to Maximilian I, Elector of Bavaria, and co-regent of the Electorate of Bavaria during the minority of her son Ferdinand Maria, Elector of Bavaria from 1651 to 1654.
1858 Oskar Minkowski

Oskar Minkowski

Lithuanian-German biologist and academic (died 1931)
Oskar Minkowski was a German physician and physiologist who held a professorship at the University of Breslau and is most famous for his research on diabetes. He was the brother of the mathematician Hermann Minkowski and father of astrophysicist Rudolph Minkowski.
1957 Mary Glindon

Mary Glindon

English lawyer and politician
Mary Theresa Glindon is a British Labour Party politician who has been Member of Parliament (MP) for Newcastle upon Tyne East and Wallsend since 2024, and previously for North Tyneside from 2010 until the abolition of the constituency in 2024.
1945 Gordon McVie

Gordon McVie

English oncologist and author (died 2021)
John Gordon McVie was an international authority on the treatment and research of cancer. He wrote over 350 peer-reviewed articles, editorials and books. McVie was born in Glasgow, Scotland and died of non-Hodgkin lymphona and COVID-19 in Bristol, England.
1904 Dick Rowley

Dick Rowley

Irish footballer (died 1984)
Richard William Morris Rowley DCM was an Irish professional footballer who played as an inside-forward or centre-forward for Southampton, Tottenham Hotspur and Preston North End in the English Football League, as well as representing the Irish national team.
1995 Maxim Mamin

Maxim Mamin

Russian ice hockey player
Maxim Vladimirovich Mamin is a Russian professional ice hockey forward currently playing for the HC CSKA Moscow in the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL). He was drafted 175th overall in the 2016 NHL entry draft by the Florida Panthers.
1980 Mike Rupp

Mike Rupp

American ice hockey player
Michael Ryan Rupp is an American former professional ice hockey center. He played in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the New Jersey Devils, Phoenix Coyotes, Columbus Blue Jackets, Pittsburgh Penguins, New York Rangers and Minnesota Wild.
1977 Elliot Mason

Elliot Mason

English trombonist and keyboard player
Elliot Mason is an English jazz trombonist. He also plays the keyboard and the bass trumpet. He has been praised by such musicians as Michael Brecker for his technical facility and innovative harmonically complex improvisation.
1941 Pasqual Maragall

Pasqual Maragall

Spanish academic and politician, 127th President of the Generalitat de Catalunya
Pasqual Maragall Mira is a Spanish retired politician and former President of Generalitat de Catalunya. He had previously been Mayor of Barcelona, from 1982 to 1997, and helped run the city's successful Olympic bid.
1923 Willem Slijkhuis

Willem Slijkhuis

Dutch runner (died 2003)
Willem Frederik "Wim" Slijkhuis was a Dutch athlete. During his career that lasted from 1939 to 1954 he was a world's top middle distance runner, excelling in distances from 1500 to 5000 metres.
1957 Claudia Emerson

Claudia Emerson

American poet and academic (died 2014)
Claudia Emerson was an American poet. She won the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for her collection Late Wife, and was named the Poet Laureate of Virginia by Governor Tim Kaine in 2008.
1975 Mailis Reps

Mailis Reps

Estonian academic and politician, 31st Estonian Minister of Education and Research
Mailis Reps is an Estonian politician, a member of the Estonian Centre Party. She served as the Minister of Education and Research from 2002 to 2003, 2005 to 2007 and 2016 to 2020.
1983 Ender Arslan

Ender Arslan

Turkish basketball player
Ender Arslan is a Turkish professional basketball coach and former player who played at the point guard position. He is the current head coach for Çayırova Belediyespor of the Türkiye Basketbol Ligi (TBL).
1939 Cesare Maniago

Cesare Maniago

Canadian ice hockey player
Cesare Maniago is a Canadian former professional ice hockey goaltender who played 410 of his 568 National Hockey League (NHL) games for the Minnesota North Stars, the second most in franchise history.
1950 Clive Betts

Clive Betts

English economist and politician
Clive James Charles Betts is a British Labour Party politician and former economist who has served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Sheffield South East, previously Sheffield Attercliffe since 1992.
1910 Yannis Tsarouchis

Yannis Tsarouchis

Greek painter and illustrator (died 1989)
Yannis Tsarouchis was a Greek modernist painter and set designer who achieved international fame, and was "known in particular for his homoerotic subjects," including soldiers, sailors, and nude males.
1938 Tord Grip

Tord Grip

Swedish footballer and manager
Tord Erland Grip is a Swedish former football coach and player. He has worked with several national teams, including Norway, England, Sweden, Indonesia, Mexico, the Ivory Coast and Kosovo.
1885 Alfred Fuller

Alfred Fuller

Canadian-American businessman, founded the Fuller Brush Company (died 1973)
Alfred Carl Fuller was a Canadian-born American businessman, entrepreneur, and philanthropist who was the original "Fuller Brush Man". He created the Fuller Brush Company, a multi-million dollar corporation.
1683 Christoph Graupner

Christoph Graupner

German harpsichord player and composer (died 1760)
Christoph Graupner was a German composer and harpsichordist of late Baroque music who was a contemporary of Johann Sebastian Bach, Georg Philipp Telemann and George Frideric Handel.
1881 Essington Lewis

Essington Lewis

Australian engineer and businessman (died 1961)
Essington Lewis was an Australian industrialist. He was the Director-General of the Department of Munitions and Director-General of the Department of Aircraft Production during World War II.
1924 Roland Petit

Roland Petit

French dancer and choreographer (died 2011)
Roland Petit was a French ballet company director, choreographer and dancer. He trained at the Paris Opera Ballet school, and became well known for his creative ballets.
1973 Gigi Galli

Gigi Galli

Italian race driver
Gianluigi Galli, commonly known as Gigi Galli, is an Italian rally driver, best known for his spectacular driving style. He comes from and lives in Livigno, Italy.
2000 Harley Smith-Shields

Harley Smith-Shields

Australian rugby league player
Harley Smith-Shields is a professional rugby league footballer who last played as a winger or centre for the Gold Coast Titans in the National Rugby League (NRL).
1805 Thomas Dyer

Thomas Dyer

American lawyer and politician, 18th Mayor of Chicago (died 1862)
Thomas Dyer served as mayor of Chicago, Illinois (1856–1857) for the Democratic Party. He also served as the founding president of the Chicago Board of Trade.
1936 Renato Bruson

Renato Bruson

Italian opera singer
Renato Bruson is an Italian operatic baritone. Bruson is widely considered one of the most important Verdi baritones of the late 20th and early 21st century.
1947 Jacek Majchrowski

Jacek Majchrowski

Polish historian, lawyer, and politician
Jacek Maria Majchrowski is a Polish politician, lawyer, historian, and professor at the Jagiellonian University, who served as the Mayor of Kraków between 2002 and 2024.
1890 Jüri Uluots

Jüri Uluots

Estonian journalist, lawyer, and politician, 7th Prime Minister of Estonia (died 1945)
Jüri Uluots was an Estonian prime minister, journalist, prominent attorney and distinguished Professor and Dean of the Faculty of Law at the University of Tartu.
1980 Wolfgang Loitzl

Wolfgang Loitzl

Austrian ski jumper
Wolfgang Loitzl is an Austrian former ski jumper. He was the winner of the 2008–09 Four Hills Tournament and the 2009 Normal Hill World Champion.
1972

Vitaly Scherbo

Belarusian gymnast
Vitaly Venediktovich Scherbo is a Belarusian former artistic gymnast. One of the most successful gymnasts of all time, as of at least as recently as after the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics, he is the only male gymnast in the 100+ year history of the World Championships to have won a world title in all 8 events. He was the most successful athlete at the 1992 Summer Olympics, winning 6 of 8 events – team, all-around, and 4 of the 6 event finals.
1562

Mark Alexander Boyd

Scottish poet and soldier (died 1601)
Mark Alexander Boyd was a Scottish poet and soldier of fortune. He was born in Ayrshire, Scotland. His father was from Penkill, Carrick, in Ayrshire. He was educated under the care of his uncle, the Archbishop of Glasgow, James Boyd of Trochrig. As a young man, he left Scotland for France, where he studied civil law. He took part in the French Wars of Religion, serving in the army of Henri III.
1943

William Duckworth

American composer and author (died 2012)
William Duckworth was an American composer, author, educator, and Internet pioneer. He wrote more than 200 pieces of music and is credited with the composition of the first postminimal piece of music, The Time Curve Preludes (1977–78), for piano. Duckworth was a Professor of Music at Bucknell University. Together with Nora Farrell, his wife, he ran Monroe Street Music, the publisher of many Duckworth's pieces.
101

Lucius Aelius

Roman adopted son of Hadrian (died 138)
Year 101 (CI) was a common year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Traianus and Paetus. The denomination 101 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.
1921

Arthur Stevens

English footballer (died 2007)
Arthur Stevens was an English footballer who scored 110 goals from 386 games in the Football League playing as an outside right for Fulham. Although outside right was his primary position, Arthur Stevens would regularly switch to any other of the forward positions with equal success. A genuine utility striker. Arthur was also Fulham’s designated penalty taker, rarely failing.
1974

Jason Sasser

American basketball player
Jason Jermane Sasser is an American former professional basketball player. Standing at 6-foot-7-inch (201 cm) and weighing 225 pounds (102 kg), Sasser played as small forward. He graduated from Justin F. Kimball High School in Dallas, Texas, and played college basketball for the Texas Tech Red Raiders. He competed in the NBA from 1997 to 1999.
1941

Meinhard Nehmer

German bobsledder
Meinhard Nehmer is a former East German bobsledder who competed from the mid-1970s to the early 1980s. Competing in two Winter Olympics, he won four medals with three golds and one bronze. Nehmer also carried the East German flag during the opening ceremonies of the 1976 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck.
1987

Florica Leonida

Romanian gymnast
Florica (Floarea) Leonida is a retired Romanian artistic gymnast. She is a silver world medalist and a silver European medalist with the team. She was a successful junior gymnast winning gold on beam and three silver medals at the 2002 Junior European Championships.
1893

Charles Arnison

English lieutenant and pilot (died 1974)
Lieutenant Charles Henry Arnison was a British World War I flying ace credited with nine aerial victories. He won the Military Cross for valour in World War I, and returned to the RAF to serve in World War II.
1980

Mirko Soltau

German footballer
Mirko Soltau is a German former footballer who played as a midfielder. He played nine matches for Dynamo Dresden in the 3. Liga, the third tier of German professional football, and had a lengthy career in the lower leagues.
1901

Mieczysław Żywczyński

Polish priest and historian (died 1978)
Mieczysław Żywczyński was a Polish historian and priest. He was a professor of Catholic University of Lublin. He was a researcher of the Church's history and general history. He was born in Warsaw and died in Lublin.
1914

Ted Willis

Baron Willis, English author, playwright, and screenwriter (died 1992)
Edward Henry Willis, Baron Willis was an English playwright, novelist and screenwriter who was also politically active in support of the Labour Party. He created several television series, including the long-running police drama Dixon of Dock Green.
1925

Vanita Smythe

American singer and actress (died 1994)
Vannie Smith, known professionally as Vanita Smythe was an American blues and jazz singer and actress. She was professionally active between 1945 and 1950, making eight soundies, two motion pictures and releasing a couple of singles.
1970

Frank Kooiman

Dutch footballer
Frank Kooiman is a Dutch former football goalkeeper. He made his debut in Dutch professional football on 25 September 1994 for Sparta Rotterdam, replacing Edward Metgod in a game against Vitesse Arnhem.
1962

Paul Higgins

Canadian ice hockey player
Paul Higgins is a Canadian retired professional ice hockey right winger who played 25 games in the National Hockey League for the Toronto Maple Leafs during the 1981–82 and 1982–83 seasons.
1991

Rob Kiernan

English-Irish footballer
Robert Samuel Kiernan is a former professional footballer who played as a defender. Born in England, he represented the Republic of Ireland at youth level.
1651 Henry Booth

Henry Booth

1st Earl of Warrington, English soldier and politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer (died 1694)
Henry Booth, 1st Earl of Warrington, PC was an English politician who served as Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1689 to 1690.
1672 Lucy Filippini

Lucy Filippini

Italian teacher and saint (died 1732)
Lucy Filippini is venerated as a Catholic saint.
1720 Richard Hurd

Richard Hurd

English bishop (died 1808)
Richard Hurd was an English divine and writer, and bishop of Worcester.
1804 Paul Gavarni

Paul Gavarni

French illustrator (died 1866)
Paul Gavarni was the pen name of Sulpice Guillaume Chevalier, a French illustrator, born in Paris.
1812 Victor de Laprade

Victor de Laprade

French poet and critic (died 1883)
Pierre Martin Victor Richard de Laprade, known as Victor de Laprade, was a French poet and critic.
1845 Félix Tisserand

Félix Tisserand

French astronomer and academic (died 1896)
François Félix Tisserand was a French astronomer.
1861 Max Nonne

Max Nonne

German neurologist and academic (died 1959)
Max Nonne was a German neurologist.
1878 Lionel Groulx

Lionel Groulx

Canadian priest and historian (died 1967)
Lionel Groulx was a Canadian Roman Catholic priest, historian, professor, public intellectual and Quebec nationalist.
1892 Ermanno Aebi

Ermanno Aebi

Italian-Swiss footballer (died 1976)
Ermanno Aebi was an Italian-Swiss footballer who played as a midfielder.
1900 Shimizugawa Motokichi

Shimizugawa Motokichi

Japanese sumo wrestler (died 1967)
Shimizugawa Motokichi was a Japanese sumo wrestler from Goshogawara, Aomori, Japan. His highest rank was ōzeki.
1904 Nathan Milstein

Nathan Milstein

Ukrainian-American violinist and composer (died 1992)
Nathan Mironovich Milstein was a Russian-American virtuoso violinist.
1909

Helm Glöckler

German race car driver (died 1993)
Helmut Erik "Helm" Glöckler was a German amateur racing driver.
1921 Dachine Rainer

Dachine Rainer

American-English author and poet (died 2000)
Dachine Rainer was an American-born English writer, poet, and anarchist.
1922 Albert Lamorisse

Albert Lamorisse

French director and producer (died 1970)
Albert Lamorisse was a French filmmaker, film producer, and writer of short films which he began making in the late 1940s.
1923 Daniil Shafran

Daniil Shafran

Russian cellist (died 1997)
Daniil Borisovich Shafran was a Soviet Russian cellist.
1923 Jack Watling

Jack Watling

English actor (died 2001)
Jack Stanley Watling was an English actor.
1931 Chris Wiggins

Chris Wiggins

English-born Canadian actor (died 2017)
Christopher John Wiggins was an English-born Canadian actor.
1937 Guy Dodson

Guy Dodson

New Zealand-English biochemist and academic (died 2012)
George Guy Dodson, was a British biochemist who specialised in protein crystallography at the University of York.
1938

Anna Home

English children's television executive and producer
Anna Margaret Home is an English television producer and executive who worked for most of her career at the BBC.
1938

Charlie Brill

American actor, voice artist, and comedian
Charlie Sanford Brill is an American actor, voice artist, and comedian.
1938 Daevid Allen

Daevid Allen

Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2015)
Christopher David "Daevid" Allen was an Australian musician. He was co-founder of the Canterbury scene groups Soft Machine and Gong.
1938

Dave Edwards

American captain and politician (died 2013)
David Richard Edwards was an American retired United States Navy officer, businessman, and politician.
1938 Richard Anthony

Richard Anthony

Egyptian-French singer-songwriter (died 2015)
Richard Anthony was an Egyptian-born French pop singer who had his greatest success in the 1960s and 1970s.
1939 Edgardo Cozarinsky

Edgardo Cozarinsky

Argentinian author, screenwriter, and director (died 2024)
Edgardo Cozarinsky was an Argentine writer and filmmaker. He was best known for his Spanish-language novel Vudú urbano.
1945

Peter Simpson

English footballer
Peter Frederick Simpson was an English footballer who played most of his career as a defender with Arsenal.
1946

Ordal Demokan

Turkish physicist and academic (died 2004)
Ordal Demokan was a Turkish physicist.
1947 Carles Rexach

Carles Rexach

Spanish footballer and coach
Carles Rexach Cerdà is a Spanish former football winger and manager.
1948 Gaj Singh

Gaj Singh

Indian lawyer and politician
Gaj Singh II, known as 'Bapji', is the titular Maharaja of Jodhpur since 1952, as well as an Indian politician and diplomat.
1950 Gholam Hossein Mazloumi

Gholam Hossein Mazloumi

Iranian footballer and manager (died 2014)
Gholamhossein Mazloumi, nicknamed Sar Talaei, was an Iranian football player, coach and football administrator.
1952

Stephen Glover

English journalist, co-founded The Independent
Stephen Charles Morton Glover is a British journalist and columnist for the Daily Mail.
1953 Silvana Gallardo

Silvana Gallardo

American actress and producer (died 2012)
Sandra Silvana Gallardo was an American film and television actress, acting coach, and writer.
1954

Richard Blackford

English composer
Richard Blackford is an English composer.
1958 Francisco Buyo

Francisco Buyo

Spanish footballer and manager
Francisco "Paco" Buyo Sánchez is a Spanish former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper.
1958

Juan Pedro de Miguel

Spanish handball player (died 2016)
Juan Pedro de Miguel Rubio was a Spanish handball player who competed in the 1980 Summer Olympics and in the 1984 Summer Olympics.
1959 Winnie Byanyima

Winnie Byanyima

Ugandan engineer, politician, and diplomat
Winifred Byanyima is the executive director of UNAIDS. She is a Ugandan aeronautical engineer, politician, human rights activist, feminist, and diplomat.
1960

Kevin Anderson

American actor
Kevin Anderson is an American stage and film actor, singer and drummer.
1961 Suggs

Suggs

English singer-songwriter, musician, and actor
Graham McPherson, known by his stage name Suggs, is an English singer-songwriter, musician, radio personality and actor.
1966 Leo Visser

Leo Visser

Dutch speed skater and pilot
Leendert "Leo" Visser is a Dutch former speed skater, who in 1989 won the World Allround championships and European championships.
1968

Mike Whitlow

English footballer and coach
Michael William Whitlow is an English former professional footballer and Under-18s coach at League Two club Mansfield Town.
1969 Stefania Belmondo

Stefania Belmondo

Italian skier
Stefania Belmondo is an Italian former cross-country skier, a two-time Olympic champion and four-time world champion.
1980 Akira Kaji

Akira Kaji

Japanese footballer
Akira Kaji is a Japanese former professional footballer who played as a defender. He played for the Japan national team from 2003 until 2008.
1980 Krzysztof Czerwiński

Krzysztof Czerwiński

Polish organist and conductor
Krzysztof Czerwinski is a Polish conductor, organist and voice teacher.
1982 Constantinos Makrides

Constantinos Makrides

Cypriot footballer
Constantinos Makrides is a Cypriot retired footballer and manager who played as a central midfielder.
1983

Mauricio Romero

Argentinian footballer
Mauricio Martín Romero is a former Argentine football defender and current manager. He also holds Mexican citizenship.
1983

Sebastian Kneißl

German footballer
Sebastian Kneißl is a German former professional footballer who played as a midfielder and forward.
1984 Kamghe Gaba

Kamghe Gaba

German sprinter
Kamghe Gaba is a German sprinter who specialises in the 400 metres. He represents LG Eintracht Frankfurt.
1984

Matteo Cavagna

Italian footballer
Matteo Cavagna is an Italian footballer who plays as a winger.
1987 Daniel Oss

Daniel Oss

Italian cyclist
Daniel Oss is an Italian cyclist, who competes in gravel cycling for the Specialized Gravel team.
1987

Stefano Del Sante

Italian footballer
Stefano Del Sante is an Italian footballer who plays as a forward for Eccellenza marche club A.S.D. Fabriano Cerreto.
1990 Vincenzo Fiorillo

Vincenzo Fiorillo

Italian footballer
Vincenzo Fiorillo is an Italian professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Serie C Group B club Pescara.
1992 Adam Matthews

Adam Matthews

Welsh footballer
Adam James Matthews is a Welsh footballer who plays as a right back for Shamrock Rovers. He is a former Wales international.
1992 Dinah Pfizenmaier

Dinah Pfizenmaier

German tennis player
Dinah Pfizenmaier is a German former tennis player.
1997 Douglas Augusto

Douglas Augusto

Brazilian footballer
Douglas Augusto Soares Gomes is a Brazilian professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Russian Premier League club Krasnodar.
2005

Iker Bravo

Spanish footballer
Iker Bravo Solanilla is a Spanish professional footballer who plays as a forward for EFL Championship club Watford.

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