Famous Birthdays on July 19

July 19 has 234 recorded notable births across history, from 810 to 2006. This page lists every one of them, with the best-known people first.

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Lizzie Borden

1860 — Lizzie Borden

American woman, tried and acquitted for the murders of her father and step-mother in 1892 (died 1927)

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Major events on July 19

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  1. 1963 Joe Walker flies a North American X-15 to a record altitude of 106,010 meters (347,800 feet) on X-15 Flight 90. Exceeding an altitude of 100 km, this flight qualifies as a human spaceflight under international convention. Source
  2. 1843 Brunel's steamship the SS Great Britain is launched, becoming the first ocean-going craft with an iron hull and screw propeller, becoming the largest vessel afloat in the world. Source

Did you know about Lizzie Borden

Lizzie Andrew Borden was an American woman who was tried and acquitted of the murders of her father and stepmother in Fall River, Massachusetts.

Did you know about Freddy Moore

In 2025, she appeared on Time's 100 most influential people in the world list, and received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame that year.

Did you know about Jon Jones

Jonathan Dwight Jones is an American former professional mixed martial artist who competed from 2008 to 2025.

Did you know about Benedict Cumberbatch

In 2014, Time magazine named him one of the 100 most influential people in the world, and in 2015, he was appointed a CBE for services to performing arts and charity.

Did you know about Anthony Edwards

Anthony Edwards played Dr. Mark Greene on the first eight seasons of ER, for which he received a Golden Globe Award and six Screen Actors Guild Awards, and was nominated for four consecutive Primetime Emmy Awards.


More major people born on July 19

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

1950 Freddy Moore

Freddy Moore

American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2022)
Demi Gene Moore is an American actress and producer. After rising to prominence in the 1980s, she became the world's highest-paid actress by 1995. Her accolades include a Golden Globe, a Critics' Choice Award, and an Actor Award, and nominations for an Academy Award, a British Academy Film Award, and a Primetime Emmy Award. In 2025, she appeared on Time's 100 most influential people in the world list, and received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame that year.
1987 Jon Jones

Jon Jones

American mixed martial artist
Jonathan Dwight Jones is an American former professional mixed martial artist who competed from 2008 to 2025. During his career with the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC), he was a two-time Light Heavyweight Champion, holding the title from 2011 to 2015 and again from 2018 to 2020, and held the Heavyweight Championship from 2023 to 2025. He also held the interim Light Heavyweight Championship in 2016. He is regarded as one of the greatest mixed martial artists of all time.
1976 Benedict Cumberbatch

Benedict Cumberbatch

English actor
Benedict Timothy Carlton Cumberbatch is an English actor. He has received various accolades, including a British Academy Television Award, a Primetime Emmy Award and a Laurence Olivier Award, in addition to nominations for two Academy Awards, two British Academy Film Awards, and four Golden Globes. In 2014, Time magazine named him one of the 100 most influential people in the world, and in 2015, he was appointed a CBE for services to performing arts and charity.
1962 Anthony Edwards

Anthony Edwards

American actor and director
Anthony Charles Edwards is an American actor, director, and producer. He played Dr. Mark Greene on the first eight seasons of ER, for which he received a Golden Globe Award and six Screen Actors Guild Awards, and was nominated for four consecutive Primetime Emmy Awards. He has appeared in various films and television series, including Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Top Gun, Zodiac, Gotcha!, Miracle Mile, Revenge of the Nerds, Thunderbirds, Planes, Northern Exposure, and Designated Survivor.
1982 Jared Padalecki

Jared Padalecki

American actor
Jared Tristan Padalecki is an American actor. He is best known for playing the lead role of Sam Winchester in the dark fantasy series Supernatural (2005–2020) after raising to fame in the early 2000s thanks to his appearances on the comedy drama series Gilmore Girls (2000–2005) as well as the films Flight of the Phoenix (2004), House of Wax (2005) and Friday the 13th (2009). He also played the title role in the action crime drama series Walker (2021–2024).
1947 Brian May

Brian May

English singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer, and astrophysicist
Sir Brian Harold May is an English musician, animal welfare activist, and astrophysicist. He achieved global fame as the lead guitarist and backing vocalist of the rock band Queen, which he co-founded with singer Freddie Mercury and drummer Roger Taylor. His guitar work and songwriting contributions helped Queen become one of the most successful acts in music history.
1988 Trent Williams

Trent Williams

American football player
Trent Williams is an American professional football offensive tackle for the San Francisco 49ers of the National Football League (NFL). Williams is considered one of the greatest offensive tackles of all time, having made twelve Pro Bowls and five All-Pro teams. He played college football for the Oklahoma Sooners and was selected by the Washington Redskins fourth overall in the 2010 NFL draft.
1961 Campbell Scott

Campbell Scott

American actor, director, and producer
Campbell Scott is an American actor, film director, and producer. He is the recipient of several accolades, including a National Board of Review Award, and has been nominated for three Independent Spirit Awards, a Genie Award, a Drama Desk Award, and the Sundance Film Festival's Grand Jury Prize, among others.
1951 Abel Ferrara

Abel Ferrara

American director, producer, and screenwriter
Abel Ferrara is an American filmmaker, actor and musician. Closely associated with the independent film movement in the United States, he is known for his provocative and often-controversial films which use and redefine neo-noir imagery. His best-known works include the New York-set, gritty crime thrillers The Driller Killer (1979), Ms .45 (1981), Fear City (1984), King of New York (1990), Bad Lieutenant (1992), and The Funeral (1996), chronicling violent crime in urban settings with spiritual overtones.
1971 Vitali Klitschko

Vitali Klitschko

Ukrainian boxer and politician, Mayor of Kyiv
Vitalii Volodymyrovych Klychko, known as Vitali Klitschko, is a Ukrainian politician and former professional boxer who has served as the mayor of Kyiv since 2014. He previously served as the head of the Kyiv City State Administration until the start of the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022.
1976 Vinessa Shaw

Vinessa Shaw

American actress
Vinessa Elizabeth Shaw is an American film actress and model. She began her career as a child actress, making her feature film debut in the slasher film Home Sweet Home (1981). She had her breakout role in Disney's Halloween comedy-fantasy film Hocus Pocus (1993). Shaw also appeared in Ladybugs (1992) and L.A. Without a Map (1998).
1945 Edwin Schlossberg

Edwin Schlossberg

American designer, author, and husband of Carolyn Kennedy
Edwin Arthur Schlossberg is an American designer, artist, and author. A pioneer and leader of interactive museum installations, he is the founder and principal designer of ESI Design, a multidisciplinary firm specializing in interactive environments for discovery learning and communication. An author of eleven books including Interactive Excellence: Defining and Developing New Standards for the Twenty-first Century, Schlossberg’s artworks have also appeared in solo exhibitions and museum collections in the United States and around the world.
1937 Richard Jordan

Richard Jordan

American actor (died 1993)
Robert Anson Jordan Jr., known professionally as Richard Jordan, was an American actor. A long-time member of the New York Shakespeare Festival, he performed in many Off Broadway and Broadway plays. His films include: Logan's Run, Les Misérables, Old Boyfriends, Raise the Titanic, The Friends of Eddie Coyle, The Yakuza, Interiors, The Bunker, Dune, The Secret of My Success, Timebomb, The Hunt for Red October, Posse and Gettysburg.
1947 Bernie Leadon

Bernie Leadon

American guitarist and songwriter
Bernard Matthew Leadon III is an American singer, musician, songwriter, and founding member of Eagles, for which he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1998. Prior to Eagles, he was a member of four country rock bands: Hearts & Flowers, Dillard & Clark, Linda Ronstadt & the Corvettes and the Flying Burrito Brothers. He is a multi-instrumentalist coming from a bluegrass background. He introduced elements of this music to a mainstream audience during his tenure with Eagles.
1922 George McGovern

George McGovern

American lieutenant, historian, and politician (died 2012)
George Stanley McGovern was an American politician, diplomat, and historian from South Dakota who served in both chambers of the United States Congress, first as a member of the United States House of Representatives representing South Dakota's 1st congressional district from 1957 to 1961, and then as a United States Senator from 1963 to 1981. McGovern also served as the director of Food for Peace in 1961 and 1962 under President John F. Kennedy. A member of the Democratic Party, he was the party's presidential nominee in the 1972 presidential election.
1989 James Austin Johnson

James Austin Johnson

American actor and comedian
James Austin Johnson, is an American actor and stand-up comedian. He is a cast member on the NBC sketch comedy television series Saturday Night Live, which he joined as a featured player for the show's 47th season in 2021. Known for his skills as an impressionist, he has impersonated both sitting U.S. Presidents during his time on SNL, playing both Donald Trump and Joe Biden. Johnson was promoted to a repertory player in 2023.
1970 Christopher Luxon

Christopher Luxon

New Zealand politician, 42nd Prime Minister of New Zealand
Christopher Mark Luxon is a New Zealand politician and businessman who has served as the 42nd prime minister of New Zealand since 2023. A member of the National Party, he has been the member of Parliament (MP) for Botany since 2020 and previously served as leader of the Opposition from 2021 to 2023. Prior to entering politics, he was the chief executive officer (CEO) of Air New Zealand from 2013 to 2019.
1953 Howard Schultz

Howard Schultz

American businessman and author
Howard D. Schultz is an American businessman and author who was the chairman and chief executive officer of Starbucks from 1986 to 2000, and from 2008 to 2017, and interim CEO from 2022 to 2023. Schultz owned the Seattle SuperSonics basketball team from 2001 to 2006.
1884 Charles Edward

Charles Edward

Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, British-born German nobleman and Nazi politician (died 1954)
Charles Edward was at various points in his life a British prince and royal duke, a German duke, and a Nazi politician. He was the last ruling Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, a state of the German Empire, from 30 July 1900 to 14 November 1918. He later held multiple positions in the Nazi regime, including leader of the German Red Cross, and acted as an unofficial diplomat for the German government.
1968 Jim Norton

Jim Norton

American comedian, actor, and author
James Joseph Norton is an American comedian, radio personality, actor, author, and television and podcast host. Norton has been the co-host of the podcast UFC Unfiltered with Matt Serra since 2016, and the host of Jim Norton Can't Save You since January 2025. He is well known for co-hosting morning radio shows Opie and Anthony, Opie with Jim Norton, and Jim Norton & Sam Roberts on SiriusXM Radio from October 2016 through December 2024, and The Chip Chipperson Podcast from 2017 until 2023.
1988 Shane Dawson

Shane Dawson

American comedian and actor
Shane Lee Yaw, known online as Shane Dawson, is an American YouTuber, actor, filmmaker, comedian, writer, and musician. Dawson was one of the first people to rise to fame on YouTube after he began making videos in 2008 at the age of 19 and garnered over 500 million views during the next two years.
1946 Ilie Năstase

Ilie Năstase

Romanian tennis player and politician
Ilie Theodoriu Năstase is a Romanian former professional tennis player. He was ranked as the inaugural world No. 1 in men's singles by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) for 40 weeks. Năstase is one of ten players to have won over 100 total ATP-level titles, with 64 in singles and 45 in doubles, among which seven majors: two in singles, three in men's doubles and two in mixed doubles. He also won four Masters Grand Prix year-end championships. He was the first professional sports figure to sign an endorsement contract with Nike, doing so in 1972. Năstase also wrote several novels in French in the 1980s, and was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 1991.
1952 Allen Collins

Allen Collins

American guitarist and songwriter (died 1990)
Larkin Allen Collins Jr. was an American guitarist, and one of the founding members of the Southern rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd. He co-wrote many of the band's songs with frontman and original lead singer Ronnie Van Zant.
1980 Chris Sullivan

Chris Sullivan

American actor
Chris Sullivan is an American actor and musician. He starred on Cinemax's The Knick as Tom Cleary, and on the NBC drama This Is Us as Toby Damon, for which he received two Primetime Emmy Award nominations.
1898 Herbert Marcuse

Herbert Marcuse

German-American sociologist and philosopher (died 1979)
Herbert Marcuse was a German and American philosopher, social critic, and political theorist, associated with the Frankfurt School of critical theory. Born in Berlin, Marcuse studied at the Friedrich Wilhelm University of Berlin and then at the University of Freiburg, where he received his PhD under the supervision of Martin Heidegger. He was a prominent figure in the Frankfurt-based Institute for Social Research, which later became known as the Frankfurt School. In his written works, he criticized capitalism, modern technology, Soviet Communism, and popular culture, arguing that they represent new forms of social control.
1789 John Martin

John Martin

English painter, engraver, and illustrator (died 1854)
John Martin was an English Romantic painter, engraver, and illustrator. He was known for his typically vast and dramatic paintings of religious subjects and fantastic compositions, populated with minute figures placed in imposing landscapes. Martin's paintings, and the prints made from them, enjoyed great success with the general public, with Thomas Lawrence referring to him as "the most popular painter of his day". He was also criticised by John Ruskin and other critics.
1924 Pat Hingle

Pat Hingle

American actor and producer (died 2009)
Martin Patterson Hingle was an American actor. He was best known to screen audiences for his character roles, often as tough blue-collar authority figures, in over 200 productions between 1954 and 2008.
1970 Nicola Sturgeon

Nicola Sturgeon

Scottish lawyer and politician, First Minister of Scotland
Nicola Ferguson Sturgeon is a Scottish politician who was First Minister of Scotland and Leader of the Scottish National Party (SNP) from 2014 to 2023. She served as a member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) from 1999 to 2026, firstly as an additional member for the Glasgow electoral region and then as the member for Glasgow Southside from 2007 to 2026.
1890 George II of Greece (died 1947)

George II of Greece (died 1947)

George II was King of Greece from 27 September 1922 until 25 March 1924, and again from 25 November 1935 until his death on 1 April 1947.
1985 LaMarcus Aldridge

LaMarcus Aldridge

American basketball player
LaMarcus Nurae Aldridge is an American former professional basketball player who played in the National Basketball Association (NBA) for 16 seasons. He played college basketball for two seasons with the Texas Longhorns. Aldridge was selected second overall in the 2006 NBA draft. After spending nine seasons with the Portland Trail Blazers, he signed with the San Antonio Spurs in 2015. In March 2021, he signed with the Brooklyn Nets after the Spurs bought out his contract. He retired after two weeks due to an irregular heartbeat, but returned to the Nets the following season after receiving medical clearance.
1965

Clea Lewis

American actress
Clea Lewis is an American actress, best known for her television role as Ellen Morgan 's annoying friend Audrey Penney in the sitcom Ellen. Lewis also played Margaret Redding on Royal Pains and Deirdre Kemp on The Americans. She guest-starred in The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air and the pilot episode of Friends, and was a series regular on Flying Blind and Andy Barker, P.I. Additionally, she appeared in movies like The Rich Man's Wife, Diabolique, and Perfect Stranger, and is also known for her theatre roles, including on Broadway in Absurd Person Singular, and her voiceover work, such as in the movie Ice Age: The Meltdown and voicing Nicky Little in the Disney cartoon Pepper Ann.
1937 Karen Dalton

Karen Dalton

American country blues and folk singer, guitarist, and banjo player (died 1993)
Karen J. Dalton was an American country blues singer, guitarist, and banjo player. She was associated with the early 1960s Greenwich Village folk music scene, particularly with Fred Neil, the Holy Modal Rounders, and Bob Dylan. Although she did not enjoy much commercial success during her lifetime, her music has gained significant recognition since her death. Artists like Nick Cave, Devendra Banhart, and Joanna Newsom have noted her as an influence.
1223 Baibars

Baibars

sultan of Egypt (died 1277)
Al-Malik al-Zahir Rukn al-Din Baybars al-Bunduqdari, commonly known as Baibars or Baybars (بَيْبَرْس) and nicknamed Abu al-Futuh, was the fourth Mamluk sultan of Egypt and Syria, ruling from 1260 to 1277. He is noted for leading the vanguard of the Mamluk army that inflicted the first substantial defeat of the Mongols at the Battle of Ain Jalut, as well as his successful campaigns against the Crusaders. Through a combination of diplomacy and military action, he ushered in an age of Mamluk dominance in the Eastern Mediterranean.
1929 Gaston Glock

Gaston Glock

Austrian engineer and businessman, co-founded Glock Ges.m.b.H. (died 2023)
Gaston Glock was an Austrian engineer and businessman. He founded the company Glock in 1963. When he entered the 1980 competition for a new Austrian service pistol, he hired two engineers who had worked on the development of HK's first two polymer-frame pistols, the VP70 and P9 models. The first Glock pistol, chambered in 9x19mm and named the Glock 17 because of it being Gaston Glock's 17th patent, and not because it holds 17 rounds, entered Austrian military and police service in 1982. It became one of the most influential and popular handguns of the 20th century, leading to a succession of other models in a variety of sizes and chamberings as well as an industry-wide trend toward polymer-frame, striker-fired pistols.
1904 Robert Todd Lincoln Beckwith

Robert Todd Lincoln Beckwith

American lawyer and farmer (died 1985)
Robert Todd Lincoln Beckwith was an American gentleman farmer and the great-grandson of Abraham Lincoln. In 1975, he became the last known undisputed legal descendant of Lincoln when his sister, Mary Lincoln Beckwith, died without children.
1922 Rachel Robinson

Rachel Robinson

American professor, registered nurse, and the widow of baseball player Jackie Robinson
Rachel Annetta Robinson is an American former professor and registered nurse. She is the widow of professional baseball player Jackie Robinson. After her husband's death, she founded the Jackie Robinson Foundation.
1893 Vladimir Mayakovsky

Vladimir Mayakovsky

Russian actor, playwright, and poet (died 1930)
Vladimir Vladimirovich Mayakovsky was a Russian poet, playwright, artist, and actor. During his early, pre-Revolution period leading into 1917, Mayakovsky became renowned as a prominent figure of the Russian Futurist movement. He co-signed the Futurist manifesto, A Slap in the Face of Public Taste (1913), and wrote such poems as A Cloud in Trousers (1915) and Backbone Flute (1916). Mayakovsky produced a large and diverse body of work during the course of his career: he wrote poems, wrote and directed plays, appeared in films, edited the art journal LEF, and produced agitprop posters in support of the Communist Party during the Russian Civil War of 1917–1922.
1827 Mangal Pandey

Mangal Pandey

Indian soldier (died 1857)
Mangal Pandey was an Indian soldier who played a key role in the events that led to the Indian Rebellion of 1857, which resulted in the dissolution of the East India Company and the beginning of the British Raj through the Government of India Act 1858. He was a sepoy in the 34th Regiment of the Bengal Native Infantry. In 1984, the Republic of India issued a postage stamp in his memory. His life and actions have also been portrayed in several Indian cinematic productions.
810 Muhammad al-Bukhari

Muhammad al-Bukhari

Persian scholar (died 870)
Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Ismāʿīl ibn Ibrāhīm al-Juʿfī al-Bukhārī, commonly known as al-Bukhārī, was a 9th-century Muslim muhaddith and one of the foremost authorities on hadith, widely regarded as the most important hadith scholar in the history of Sunni Islam.
1883 Max Fleischer

Max Fleischer

Austrian-American animator and producer (died 1972)
Max Fleischer was an American animator and studio owner. Born in Kraków, in Austrian Poland, Fleischer immigrated to the United States where he became a pioneer in the development of the animated cartoon and served as the head of Fleischer Studios, which he co-founded with his younger brother Dave. He brought such comic characters as Koko the Clown, Betty Boop, Popeye, and Superman to the movie screen, and was responsible for several technological innovations, including the Rotoscope, the "Follow the Bouncing Ball" technique pioneered in the Ko-Ko Song Car-Tunes films, and the "Stereoptical Process". Film director Richard Fleischer was his son.
1955 Roger Binny

Roger Binny

Indian cricketer and sportscaster
Roger Michael Humphrey Binny is a former Indian cricketer who was the 36th president of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI). He was the president of Karnataka State Cricket Association from 2019 to 2022. Binny was part of the India Team that won the 1983 Cricket World Cup and the 1985 World Championship of Cricket, being India's highest wicket-taker in both tournaments. He was also the head coach of the Indian U-19 team that won the 2000 Under-19 Cricket World Cup and has served as a national selector. He has also worked as a developmental officer in the Asian Cricket Council (ACC). The Indian team won the T20 World Cup 2024 and Champions Trophy 2025 when Binny was the president of BCCI.
1986 Jinder Mahal

Jinder Mahal

Canadian wrestler
Yuvraj Singh Dhesi is a Canadian professional wrestler. He currently performs on the independent circuit under his real name, stylized as Raj Dhesi. He is best known for his tenures in WWE, where he performed under the ring name Jinder Mahal and is a former one-time WWE Champion, WWE United States Champion, and two-time WWE 24/7 Champion.
1965 Stuart Scott

Stuart Scott

American sportscaster (died 2015)
Stuart Orlando Scott was an American sportscaster and anchor on ESPN, including on SportsCenter. Known for his hip-hop style and use of catchphrases, Scott was also a regular for the network in its National Basketball Association (NBA) and National Football League (NFL) coverage.
1868 Florence Foster Jenkins

Florence Foster Jenkins

American soprano and educator (died 1944)
Florence Foster Jenkins was an American socialite and amateur soprano who became known and mocked for her flamboyant performance costumes and notably poor singing ability. Stephen Pile, in his book The Book of Heroic Failures ranked her "the world's worst opera singer ... No one, before or since, has succeeded in liberating themselves quite so completely from the shackles of musical notation."
1960 Atom Egoyan

Atom Egoyan

Egyptian-Canadian director, producer, and screenwriter
Atom Egoyan is an Armenian-Canadian filmmaker. One of the most preeminent directors of the Toronto New Wave, he emerged during the 1980s and made his career breakthrough with Exotica (1994), a hyperlink film set in a strip club. He followed this with his most critically acclaimed film, The Sweet Hereafter (1997), an adaptation of the Russell Banks novel of the same name, for which he received Academy Award nominations for Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay.
1944 Tim McIntire

Tim McIntire

American actor and singer (died 1986)
Timothy John McIntire was an American character actor who starred as Alan Freed in the film American Hot Wax (1978), as singer George Jones in the television movie Stand by Your Man (1981), and for his performances in The Gumball Rally (1976) and Brubaker (1980).
1998 Karl Jacobs

Karl Jacobs

American YouTuber and streamer
Karl Thomas Jacobs, formerly known online as GamerBoyKarl, is an American YouTuber. He rose to prominence as a member of MrBeast's on-screen cast and then developed his own videos, primarily Minecraft content. Jacobs is the creator of the anthology series Tales from the SMP set in the Dream SMP, which was adapted into a series of comic books published by Dark Horse Comics. He was also a co-host of the Banter podcast with fellow YouTubers Sapnap and GeorgeNotFound.
1941 Vikki Carr

Vikki Carr

American singer and actress
Florencia Vicenta de Casillas-Martínez Cardona, known by her stage name Vikki Carr, is an American vocalist. She has a singing career that spans more than six decades.
1814 Samuel Colt

Samuel Colt

American businessman, founded the Colt's Manufacturing Company (died 1862)
Samuel Colt was an American inventor, industrialist, and businessman who established Colt's Patent Fire-Arms Manufacturing Company and made the mass production of revolvers commercially viable.
1984 Andrea Libman

Andrea Libman

Canadian voice actress
Andrea Libman is a Canadian actress. She is known for providing voice acting in various animated shows, such as voicing the characters of Pinkie Pie and Fluttershy in the Discovery Family series My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic and its spinoffs. She has also appeared in Little Women, Andre, and a guest role on The X-Files.
1759 Seraphim of Sarov

Seraphim of Sarov

Russian monk and saint (died 1833)
Seraphim of Sarov, born Prókhor Isídorovich Moshnín (Mashnín) [Про́хор Иси́дорович Мошни́н (Машни́н)], is one of the most renowned Russian saints and is venerated in the Eastern Orthodox Church and the Anglican Communion. He is generally considered the greatest of the 18th-century startsy (elders). Seraphim extended the monastic teachings of contemplation, theoria and self-denial to the layperson. He taught that the purpose of the Christian life was to receive the Holy Spirit. Perhaps his most popular quotation amongst his devotees is "Acquire the Spirit of Peace, and thousands around you will be saved."
1981 Nenê

Nenê

Brazilian footballer
Anderson Luiz de Carvalho, known as Nenê, is a Brazilian professional footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder for Campeonato Brasileiro Série C club Botafogo-PB. As of 2025, he is the oldest player to score in a Série A match, having set this record on 21 August 2025 at 44 years and 32 days old. He is also one of a few players in football with more than 1,100 official appearances.
1919 Patricia Medina

Patricia Medina

English-American actress (died 2012)
Patricia Paz Maria Medina was a British actress. She is perhaps best known for her roles in the films Phantom of the Rue Morgue (1954) and Mr. Arkadin (1955).
1963 Garth Nix

Garth Nix

Australian author
Garth Richard Nix is an Australian writer who specialises in children's and young adult fantasy novels, notably the Old Kingdom, Seventh Tower and Keys to the Kingdom series. He has frequently been asked if his name is a pseudonym, to which he has responded, "I guess people ask me because it sounds like the perfect name for a writer of fantasy. However, it is my real name."
1949 Kgalema Motlanthe

Kgalema Motlanthe

South African politician, 3rd President of South Africa
Kgalema Petrus Motlanthe is a South African politician who served as the third president of South Africa from 2008 to 2009, following the resignation of Thabo Mbeki. Thereafter, he was deputy president under Jacob Zuma from 2009 to 2014.
1984 Adam Morrison

Adam Morrison

American basketball player
Adam John Morrison is an American former professional basketball player. Morrison played for three years at Gonzaga University and was considered to be one of the top college basketball players in 2005–06. He was a finalist for the Naismith and the Wooden Award. He was named Co-Player of the Year with Duke's JJ Redick by the United States Basketball Writers Association and won the 2006 Chevrolet Player of the Year award. He played for the Charlotte Bobcats from 2006 to 2009, and for the L.A. Lakers from 2009 to 2010, where he won two NBA championships.
1896 A. J. Cronin

A. J. Cronin

Scottish physician and novelist (died 1981)
Archibald Joseph Cronin (Cronogue) (19 July 1896 – 6 January 1981) was a Scottish physician and novelist. His best-known novel is The Citadel (1937), about a Scottish physician who serves in a Welsh mining village, and then moves into a highly paid private practice in London where he becomes disillusioned with the greed and incompetence of some doctors. In writing the book, Cronin utilized his experiences both as a medical inspector of mines, and a physician on Harley Street. The Citadel exposed unfairness in British medicine and helped inspire the National Health Service.
1968 Robb Flynn

Robb Flynn

American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
Robert Conrad Flynn is an American musician best known as the lead vocalist and rhythm guitarist for heavy metal band Machine Head, being the only member to feature on every album. Flynn formed the band along with Adam Duce, Logan Mader and Tony Costanza after leaving Bay Area thrash band Vio-lence.
1997 Zach Werenski

Zach Werenski

American ice hockey player
Zachary Kenneth Werenski is an American professional ice hockey player who is a defenseman and alternate captain for the Columbus Blue Jackets of the National Hockey League (NHL). Drafted eighth overall by Columbus in the 2015 NHL entry draft, Werenski has become one of the most accomplished players in franchise history. In 2026, he won the James Norris Memorial Trophy as the NHL's top defenseman. Werenski was co-recipient in June 2026 of the Excellence in Sports Award from the National Polish-American Sports Hall of Fame in Troy, Michigan.
1948 Keith Godchaux

Keith Godchaux

American keyboard player and songwriter (died 1980)
Keith Richard Godchaux was an American pianist best known for his tenure in the rock group the Grateful Dead from 1971 to 1979. Following their departure from the Dead, he and his wife Donna formed the Heart of Gold Band in 1980, but Godchaux died from injuries sustained in a car accident shortly after their first concert.
1998 Erin Cuthbert

Erin Cuthbert

Scottish footballer
Erin Jacqueline Cuthbert is a Scottish professional footballer who plays for and captains Chelsea in the Women's Super League and is a member of the Scotland national team. She studied at University of the West of Scotland, combining graduation from the Open University with being a professional football player.
1979 Rick Ankiel

Rick Ankiel

American baseball player
Richard Alexander Ankiel is an American former professional baseball center fielder and pitcher. He spent most of his Major League Baseball (MLB) career with the St. Louis Cardinals, but also played for the Kansas City Royals, Atlanta Braves, Washington Nationals, Houston Astros, and New York Mets.
1995 Romee Strijd

Romee Strijd

Dutch model
Romee Strijd is a Dutch model. A former Victoria's Secret Angel, she appeared in the brand's annual fashion show from 2014 to 2018. She has worked for brands including Alexander McQueen, Michael Kors, and Carolina Herrera. She has also appeared in magazines such as Vogue, Elle, and Harper's Bazaar.
1955 Dalton McGuinty

Dalton McGuinty

Canadian lawyer and politician, 24th Premier of Ontario
Dalton James Patrick McGuinty Jr. is a Canadian former politician who served as the 24th premier of Ontario from 2003 to 2013. He was the first Liberal leader to win two majority governments since Mitchell Hepburn nearly 70 years earlier. In 2011, he became the first Liberal premier to secure a third consecutive term since Oliver Mowat after his party was re-elected in that year's provincial election.
1958 Robert Gibson

Robert Gibson

American wrestler
Robert Gibson is an American professional wrestler. He is best known as one half of the tag team known as The Rock 'n' Roll Express, with Ricky Morton. He has competed in singles competition also, and has won various singles championships throughout his career. Gibson was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame as a member of The Rock 'n' Roll Express, on March 31, 2017.
1965 Evelyn Glennie

Evelyn Glennie

Scottish musician
Dame Evelyn Elizabeth Ann Glennie, is a Scottish percussionist. She was selected as one of the two laureates for the Polar Music Prize of 2015.
1952 Jayne Anne Phillips American novelist and short story writer

Jayne Anne Phillips American novelist and short story writer

Jayne Anne Phillips is an American novelist and short story writer who was born in the small town of Buckhannon, West Virginia. She was a professor of English at Rutgers-Newark from 2005 to 2020 and helped establish the MFA program at Rutgers University-Newark.
1963 Thomas Gabriel Fischer

Thomas Gabriel Fischer

Swiss musician
Thomas Gabriel Fischer, also known by the stage names Tom Warrior and Satanic Slaughter, is a Swiss musician. He led the extreme metal bands Hellhammer and Celtic Frost, and is currently the frontman of the bands Triptykon and Triumph of Death.
1822 Princess Augusta of Cambridge (died 1916)

Princess Augusta of Cambridge (died 1916)

Princess Augusta of Cambridge was a member of the British royal family as the granddaughter of George III. She married into the Grand Ducal House of Mecklenburg-Strelitz and became Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg-Strelitz.
1938 Jayant Narlikar

Jayant Narlikar

Indian astrophysicist and astronomer (died 2025)
Jayant Vishnu Narlikar was an Indian astrophysicist who performed research on alternative cosmology. He was also an author who wrote textbooks on cosmology, popular science books, and science fiction novels and short stories.
1982 Christopher Bear

Christopher Bear

American drummer
Christopher Robert Bear is an American multi-instrumentalist and composer. He is best known as a member of the Brooklyn-based indie-rock group Grizzly Bear, with whom he has recorded five studio albums. In 2025, Bear joined Dirty Projectors, recording a trio-based studio album with founding member Dave Longstreth and bassist Karl McComas-Reichl.
1998

Ronaldo Vieira

Bissau-Guinean footballer
Ronaldo Augusto Vieira Nan is a Bissau-Guinean professional footballer who plays as a defensive midfielder for Major League Soccer club San Jose Earthquakes and the Guinea-Bissau national team.
1894

Percy Spencer

American physicist and inventor of the microwave oven (died 1969)
Percy LaBaron Spencer was an American physicist, electrical engineer, and inventor of the microwave oven. As a boy he was twice orphaned and began work at a young age, never finishing grammar school. During the night shift, he taught himself topics such as calculus, trigonometry, physics, and chemistry, establishing a lifelong habit of self-education or "solving my own situation" as he called it.
1876 Joseph Fielding Smith

Joseph Fielding Smith

American religious leader, 10th President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (died 1972)
Joseph Fielding Smith Jr. was an American religious leader and writer who served as the tenth president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from 1970 until his death in 1972. He was the son of former church president Joseph F. Smith and the great-nephew of church founder Joseph Smith.
1921

Harold Camping

American evangelist, author, radio host (died 2013)
Harold Egbert Camping was an American Christian radio broadcaster and evangelist. Beginning in 1958, he served as president of Family Radio, a California-based radio station group that, at its peak, broadcast to more than 150 markets in the United States. In October 2011, he retired from active broadcasting following a stroke, but still maintained a role at Family Radio until his death. Camping was notorious for issuing a succession of failed predictions of dates for the End Times, which temporarily gained him a global following and millions of dollars of donations.
1937 George Hamilton IV

George Hamilton IV

American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2014)
George Hege Hamilton IV was an American country musician. He began performing in the late 1950s as a teen idol, switching to country music in the early 1960s.
1989 Patrick Corbin

Patrick Corbin

American baseball player
Patrick Alan Corbin is an American professional baseball pitcher for the Toronto Blue Jays of Major League Baseball (MLB). He has previously played in MLB for the Arizona Diamondbacks, Washington Nationals, and Texas Rangers. He won the 2019 World Series with the Nationals, recording the win in Game 7.
1969 Matthew Libatique

Matthew Libatique

American cinematographer
Matthew José Libatique ASC, LPS is an American cinematographer. He is best known for his collaborations with directors Darren Aronofsky, Joel Schumacher, Spike Lee, and Bradley Cooper. He has received three Academy Award nominations for Best Cinematography - for Black Swan (2010), A Star Is Born (2018), and Maestro (2023). He is also a two-time Independent Spirit Award winner, and two-time BAFTA Award nominee.
1819 Gottfried Keller

Gottfried Keller

Swiss author, poet, and playwright (died 1890)
Gottfried Keller was a Swiss poet and writer of German literature. Best known for his novel Green Henry and his cycle of novellas called Seldwyla Folks, he became one of the most popular narrators of literary realism in the late 19th century.
1999 Kim So-hye

Kim So-hye

South Korean actress and singer
Kim So-hye, known mononymously as Sohye, is a South Korean actress and singer under S&P Entertainment. She is a former member of the girl musical group I.O.I, finishing fifth on Mnet's survival show Produce 101. She is best known on her acting roles in Poetry Story (2017), Kang Deok-soon's Love History (2017), Best Chicken (2019), and My Lovely Boxer (2023).
1907 Isabel Jewell

Isabel Jewell

American actress (died 1972)
Isabel Jewell was an American actress, who rose to prominence in the 1930s and early 1940s. Some of her more famous films were Ceiling Zero, Marked Woman, A Tale of Two Cities, Lost Horizon, and Gone with the Wind.
1875 Alice Dunbar Nelson

Alice Dunbar Nelson

American poet and activist (died 1935)
Alice Dunbar Nelson was an American poet, journalist, and political activist. Among the first generation of African Americans born free in the Southern United States after the end of the American Civil War, she was one of the prominent African Americans involved in the artistic flourishing of the Harlem Renaissance. She gained recognition for her poetry, short stories, and essays that explored themes of race, gender, and respectability; for her journalism and newspaper columns advocating for Black women's rights and anti-lynching legislation; and for her editorial work on two influential anthologies that highlighted African American literature.
1894 Khawaja Nazimuddin

Khawaja Nazimuddin

Bangladeshi-Pakistani politician, 2nd Prime Minister of Pakistan (died 1965)
Sir Khwaja Nazimuddin was a Pakistani politician who served as the second governor-general of Pakistan from 1948 to 1951, and then as the second prime minister of Pakistan from 1951 to 1953.
1972 Ebbe Sand

Ebbe Sand

Danish footballer and manager
Ebbe Sand is a Danish former professional footballer who played as a striker for Brøndby IF in Denmark and FC Schalke 04 in Germany. He was the Bundesliga top scorer in 2001 and won the DFB-Pokal in 2001 and 2002 with Schalke. On the international stage, he played for the Denmark national team at the 1998 and 2002 FIFA World Cup, as well as the 2000 and 2004 European Championships. At the 1998 World Cup, he scored the fastest-ever World Cup goal by a substitute – 16 seconds after entering the match.
1924

Arthur Rankin Jr.

American director, producer, and screenwriter (died 2014)
Arthur Gardner Rankin Jr. was an American director, producer and screenwriter, who mostly worked in animation. Co-creator of Rankin/Bass Productions with his friend Jules Bass, he created stop-motion and traditional animation features such as Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, Frosty the Snowman, Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town, and the 1977 cartoon special of The Hobbit. He is credited on over 1,000 television programs.
1935 Nick Koback

Nick Koback

American baseball player and golfer (died 2015)
Nicholas Nicholie Koback was a Russian American professional baseball player whose career spanned eight seasons, three of which were spent with the Major League Baseball (MLB) Pittsburgh Pirates (1953–55). At the age of 17, Koback signed with the Pirates as a bonus baby out of Hartford Public High School. He made his MLB debut without ever playing in the minor leagues. At the time, he was the youngest Pittsburgh Pirates player ever. During his first career start, Koback caught a complete game shutout by Pirates pitcher Murry Dickson. Most of Koback's time with Pittsburgh was spent as a bullpen catcher. Over his three-year MLB career, Koback compiled a .121 batting average with one run scored, four hits, one triple and one base on balls in 16 games played. The majority of his playing career was spent in the minor leagues with the Lincoln Chiefs, Williamsport Grays (1956), Hollywood Stars (1956–57), New Orleans Pelicans (1956–57), Columbus/Gastonia Pirates (1958) and Charleston Senators (1960). He batted and threw right-handed. During his career, he weighed 187 pounds (85 kg) and stood at 6 feet (180 cm). After retiring from baseball, Koback played pro–am golf in Connecticut.
1892 Dick Irvin

Dick Irvin

Canadian ice hockey player and coach (died 1957)
James Dickinson "Dick" Irvin Jr. was a Canadian professional ice hockey player and coach. He played for professional teams in the Pacific Coast Hockey Association, the Western Canada Hockey League, and the National Hockey League (NHL) from 1916 to 1928, when he had to retire from repeated injuries. Irvin was one of the greatest players of his day, balancing a torrid slap shot and tough style with gentlemanly play. For his playing career, Irvin was named to the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1958. After playing, Irvin built a successful career as a coach in the NHL with the Chicago Black Hawks, Toronto Maple Leafs, and Montreal Canadiens. He coached his teams to the Stanley Cup Finals 16 times in 26 years as a full-time head coach, winning one Stanley Cup coaching Toronto and three coaching Montreal, finishing with over 600 wins as a coach. He also served in the Canadian Expeditionary Force during the First World War.
1964 Masahiko Kondō

Masahiko Kondō

Japanese singer-songwriter and race car driver
Masahiko Kondō , or Matchy, is a Japanese singer, lyricist, actor, racing car manager and former semi-professional racing driver. He was a member of the Tanokin Trio. Kondō is also a semi-professional racing driver and a racing team owner. He founded the racing team Kondo Racing in 2000, which currently competes in both Super Formula and Super GT.
1917 William Scranton

William Scranton

American captain and politician, 13th United States Ambassador to the United Nations (died 2013)
William Warren Scranton was an American Republican Party politician and diplomat. Scranton served as the 38th governor of Pennsylvania from 1963 to 1967, and as United States Ambassador to the United Nations from 1976 to 1977.
1946 Alan Gorrie

Alan Gorrie

Scottish singer-songwriter and musician
Alan Edward Gorrie is a Scottish bassist, guitarist, keyboardist and singer. He was a founding member of the Average White Band and was one of two original members in the group's final line-up alongside Onnie McIntyre.
1896 Bob Meusel

Bob Meusel

American baseball player and sailor (died 1977)
Robert William Meusel was an American professional baseball player. A left and right fielder, he played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for eleven seasons from 1920 through 1930, all but the last for the New York Yankees. He was best known as a member of the Yankees' championship teams of the 1920s, nicknamed "Murderers' Row", during which time the team won its first six American League (AL) pennants and first three World Series titles.
1980 Xavier Malisse

Xavier Malisse

Belgian tennis player
Xavier Malisse is a Belgian tennis coach and a former professional player. Born in the north-western Flemish city of Kortrijk and nicknamed X-Man, he is one of only two Belgian men to have been ranked in the top 20 of the ATP Tour, with a career-high singles ranking of world No. 19.
1954 Alvan Adams

Alvan Adams

American basketball player
Alvan Leigh Adams is an American former professional basketball player. He spent his entire 13-year career with the Phoenix Suns of the National Basketball Association (NBA). Adams was named as the NBA Rookie of the Year in 1975 and selected as an NBA All-Star in 1976. He retired in 1988 and holds Suns records for games played (988), minutes played (27,203), rebounds (6,937) and steals (1,289). Raised in Oklahoma City, Adams was nicknamed the "Oklahoma Kid".
1987 Marc Murphy

Marc Murphy

Australian footballer
Marc Murphy is a retired Australian rules footballer who played for the Carlton Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). He was recruited with the first overall selection in the 2005 AFL draft and served as the captain of Carlton from the 2013 season to 2018. He is the son of John Murphy.
1977 Tony Mamaluke

Tony Mamaluke

American wrestler and manager
Charles John Spencer is an American retired professional wrestler. He is best known for his appearances with World Championship Wrestling under the ring name Tony Marinara and with Extreme Championship Wrestling and World Wrestling Entertainment under the ring name Tony Mamaluke.
1800 Juan José Flores

Juan José Flores

Venezuelan general and politician, 1st President of Ecuador (died 1864)
Juan José Flores y Aramburu was a Venezuelan-born military general who became the first, third and fourth President of the new Republic of Ecuador. He is often referred to as "The Founder of the Republic" or "Founder of Ecuador."
1987 Yan Gomes

Yan Gomes

Brazilian-American baseball player
Yan Gomes is a Brazilian former professional baseball catcher. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Toronto Blue Jays, Cleveland Indians, Washington Nationals, Oakland Athletics, and Chicago Cubs.
1688

Giuseppe Castiglione

Italian missionary and painter (died 1766)
Giuseppe Castiglione S.J., was an Italian Jesuit brother and missionary in China, where he served as an artist at the imperial court of three Qing emperors – the Kangxi, Yongzheng and Qianlong emperors. He painted in a style that is a fusion of European and Chinese traditions.
1569 Conrad Vorstius

Conrad Vorstius

Dutch theologian (died 1622)
Conrad Vorstius was a German-Dutch controversial Remonstrant theologian, successor to Jacobus Arminius in the theology chair at Leiden University, and—as a theologian—second to Johannes Uytenbogaert in the Remonstrant Society. His appointment, and the controversy surrounding it, became an international matter in the political and religious affairs of the United Provinces during the Twelve Years' Truce, supplying a pretext for the irregular intervention of King James I of England in those affairs. Vorstius published theological views which were taken by some to show sympathy with the Socinians, and was declared unworthy of his office by the Calvinists at the Synod of Dort in 1619.
1865 Charles Horace Mayo

Charles Horace Mayo

American surgeon, co-founder of the Mayo Clinic (died 1939)
Charles Horace Mayo was an American medical practitioner and was one of the founders of the Mayo Clinic along with his brother William James Mayo, Augustus Stinchfield, Christopher Graham, Edward Star Judd Jr., Henry Stanley Plummer, Melvin Millet, and Donald Balfour.
1936 David Colquhoun

David Colquhoun

English pharmacologist and academic
David Colquhoun is a British pharmacologist at University College London (UCL). He has contributed to the general theory of receptor and synaptic mechanisms, and in particular the theory and practice of single ion channel function. He held the A.J. Clark chair of Pharmacology at UCL from 1985 to 2004, and was the Hon. Director of the Wellcome Laboratory for Molecular Pharmacology. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 1985 and an honorary fellow of UCL in 2004. Colquhoun runs the website DC's Improbable Science, which is critical of pseudoscience, particularly alternative medicine, and managerialism.
1960

Kevin Haskins

English drummer and songwriter
Kevin Michael Dompe, born and best known as Kevin Michael Haskins, is an English drummer, best known from the British rock group Bauhaus. He was also a member of Tones on Tail and Love and Rockets.
1923 William A. Rusher

William A. Rusher

American lawyer and journalist (died 2011)
William Allen Rusher was an American lawyer, author, activist, and conservative columnist. He was one of the founders of the modern conservative movement and was one of its most prominent spokesmen for thirty years as publisher of National Review magazine, which was edited by William F. Buckley Jr. Historian Geoffrey Kabaservice argues that, "in many ways it was Rusher, not Buckley, who was the founding father of the conservative movement as it currently exists. We have Rusher, not Buckley, to thank for the populist, operationally sophisticated, and occasionally extremist elements that characterize the contemporary movement."
1968 Pavel Kuka

Pavel Kuka

Czech footballer and manager
Pavel Kuka is a Czech former professional footballer who played as a forward. He represented his national team on 87 occasions, scoring 29 goals. At club level Kuka started in 1987 with Rudá Hvězda Cheb in the Czechoslovak First League before transferring to Slavia Prague two years later. During the 1993–94 season he moved to Germany, where he played in the Bundesliga for 1. FC Kaiserslautern, 1. FC Nürnberg and VfB Stuttgart. In 2000 he returned to Slavia, where he spent a further five years before retiring from top-level football in 2005.
1891 Earl Hamilton

Earl Hamilton

American baseball player
Earl Andrew Hamilton was an American left-handed pitcher for the St. Louis Browns, Detroit Tigers (1916), Pittsburgh Pirates (1918–23), and the Philadelphia Phillies (1924) of Major League Baseball (MLB). He pitched a no-hitter against Detroit on August 30, 1912, becoming the first player to pitch a no-hitter without recording a strikeout. The Tigers did get a run on a Ty Cobb walk and an error, making the final score 5-1 Browns. Hamilton also batted left-handed and ended his career with an average pitcher's batting average of .153 in 733 at bats.
1984 Ryan O'Byrne

Ryan O'Byrne

Canadian ice hockey player
Ryan David O'Byrne is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player who played in the National Hockey League (NHL) from 2007 to 2013 with the Montreal Canadiens, Colorado Avalanche and the Toronto Maple Leafs. During this time, O'Byrne founded the Ryan O'Byrne Charity Camp, a non-profit hockey camp for youth. At the conclusion of the 2012–13 season, O'Byrne went on to play in the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL), Swiss National League (NL), and Swedish Hockey League, before retiring from a ten-year professional hockey career in 2016.
1947 André Forcier

André Forcier

Canadian director and screenwriter
André Forcier is a Canadian film director and screenwriter. His work has been linked to Latin American magic realism by its use of fantasy but is firmly rooted in Quebec's reality. His unromanticized, even Rabelaisian, portraits of people on the fringe of society, especially in Bar Salon, Au clair de la lune, Une Historie inventée, Le Vent du Wyoming and The Countess of Baton Rouge, blend observations of minutia of everyday life with elements of fantasy and imaginary.
1794 José Justo Corro

José Justo Corro

Mexican politician and president (died 1864)
José Justo Corro y Silva was a Mexican lawyer and statesman who was made president of Mexico on 2 March 1836, after the sudden death of President Miguel Barragán. During his administration, he oversaw the transition from the First Mexican Republic to the Centralist Republic of Mexico and the publication of the new constitution: the Siete Leyes. The nation also faced the ongoing Texas Revolution, and Mexican independence was recognized by Spain and by the Holy See.
1958 Brad Drewett

Brad Drewett

Australian tennis player and sportscaster (died 2013)
Brad Drewett was an Australian tennis player and ATP official. He was the 1975 and 1977 Australian Open junior champion and the youngest player at age 17 to win the title since Ken Rosewall and John Newcombe. He was also the third-youngest Australian Open quarterfinalist in his first Grand Slam appearance, at 17 years 5 months in 1975, behind Boris Becker, 17 years 4 days in 1984 and Goran Ivanišević, 17 years 4 months in 1989.
1921 Elizabeth Spencer

Elizabeth Spencer

American novelist, short story writer, and playwright (died 2019)
Elizabeth Spencer was an American writer. Spencer's first novel, Fire in the Morning, was published in 1948. She wrote a total of nine novels, seven collections of short stories, a memoir, and a play. Her novella The Light in the Piazza (1960) was adapted for the screen in 1962 and transformed into a Broadway musical of the same name in 2005. She was a five-time recipient of the O. Henry Award for short fiction.
1974 Preston Wilson

Preston Wilson

American baseball player and sportscaster
Preston James Richard Wilson is an American former professional baseball center fielder and currently the manager of the Aberdeen Ironbirds of the MLB Draft League. He played all or parts of ten seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) from 1998 to 2007 for the New York Mets, Florida Marlins, Colorado Rockies, Washington Nationals, Houston Astros and St. Louis Cardinals. He is both the nephew and stepson of former New York Mets outfielder Mookie Wilson.
1925 Sue Thompson

Sue Thompson

American singer (died 2021)
Sue Thompson was an American pop and country music singer. She is best known for the million selling 1961 hits "Sad Movies " and "Norman", "James " (1962), and "Paper Tiger" (1965).
1877 Arthur Fielder

Arthur Fielder

English cricketer (died 1949)
Arthur Fielder was an English cricketer who played as a fast bowler for Kent County Cricket Club and the England cricket team from 1900 to 1914. He played a major role in Kent's four County Championship wins in the years before World War I and toured Australia twice with the England team, making six Test match appearances. He was chosen as one of Wisden's Cricketers of the Year in 1907.
1934 Francisco de Sá Carneiro

Francisco de Sá Carneiro

Portuguese lawyer and politician, 111th Prime Minister of Portugal (died 1980)
Francisco Manuel Lumbrales de Sá Carneiro was a Portuguese politician, who was one of the founders and the first leader of the Social Democratic Party. He served as Prime Minister of Portugal for eleven months during 1980, until his death in a plane crash in Camarate on 4 December 1980.
1974 Rey Bucanero

Rey Bucanero

Mexican wrestler
Arturo García Ortiz, better known under the ring name Rey Bucanero, is a Mexican professional wrestler. He is best known for his time in Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL) from 1992 to 2026. His ring name is Spanish for "Buccaneer King", which was originally reflected in his mask that featured a skull face and an eye patch. Ortiz was unmasked in 1999 and has worked unmasked ever since.
1921 Rosalyn Sussman Yalow

Rosalyn Sussman Yalow

American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2011)
Rosalyn Sussman Yalow was an American medical physicist, and a co-winner of the 1977 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for development of the radioimmunoassay technique. She was the second woman, and the first American-born woman, to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
1926 Helen Gallagher

Helen Gallagher

American actress, singer, and dancer (died 2024)
Helen Gallagher was an American actress, dancer, and singer. She received three Daytime Emmy Awards, two Tony Awards, a Donaldson Award, and a Drama Desk Award.
1932 Buster Benton

Buster Benton

American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 1996)
Arley "Buster" Benton was an American blues guitarist and singer. He played guitar in Willie Dixon's Blues All-Stars and is best known for his solo rendition of Dixon's song "Spider in My Stew." Benton was tenacious, and despite the amputation of parts of both legs in the latter part of his lengthy career, he never stopped playing his own version of Chicago blues.
1913 Kay Linaker

Kay Linaker

American actress and screenwriter (died 2008)
Mary Katherine Linaker was an American actress and screenwriter who appeared in many B movies during the 1930s and 1940s, most notably Kitty Foyle (1940). Linaker used her married name, Kate Phillips, as a screenwriter, notably for the cult film The Blob (1958). She is credited with coining the name "The Blob" for the movie, which was originally titled The Molten Meteor.
1973 Martin Powell

Martin Powell

English keyboard player and songwriter
Martin Powell is an English musician. In 1991, Powell auditioned for the position of bass player in the band My Dying Bride but was turned down as the band had just filled the position. Upon informing the band he was also a violin and keyboard player, he was hired as a session musician, before becoming the band's permanent violinist and keyboardist.
1959 Juan J. Campanella

Juan J. Campanella

Argentinian director, producer, and screenwriter
Juan José Campanella is an Argentine television and film director, writer and producer. He achieved worldwide attention with the release of The Secret in Their Eyes (2009), for which he was awarded the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.
1921 André Moynet

André Moynet

French soldier, race car driver, and politician (died 1993)
André Moynet was a French aviator, politician, and businessman. Moynet began his career as a fighter pilot, serving in World War II. Moynet later worked as a test pilot. Elected as a Deputy of the National Assembly of France in 1946, Moynet would later serve as a member of the Mendès Government, and as mayor of Biot, France.
1982 Phil Coke

Phil Coke

American baseball player
Phillip Douglas Coke is an American former professional baseball pitcher. Pitching primarily in relief, he played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the New York Yankees, Detroit Tigers, Chicago Cubs, Toronto Blue Jays, and Pittsburgh Pirates. Coke's MLB career spanned from 2008 to 2016. He won a World Series championship as a member of the Yankees in 2009.
1909 Balamani Amma

Balamani Amma

Indian poet and author (died 2004)
Nalapat Balamani Amma was an Indian poet who wrote in Malayalam. Amma (Mother), Muthassi (Grandmother), and Mazhuvinte Katha are some of her well-known works. She was a recipient of many awards and honours, including the Padma Bhushan, Saraswati Samman, Sahitya Akademi Award, and Ezhuthachan Award. She was the mother of writer Kamala Das, also known as Madhavikutty.
1941

Carole Jordan

British astrophysicist and the first female president of the Royal Astronomical Society
Dame Carole Jordan was a British physicist, astrophysicist, astronomer and academic. She was Professor Emeritus of Astrophysics at the University of Oxford and Emeritus Fellow at Somerville College, Oxford. From 1994 to 1996, she was President of the Royal Astronomical Society; she was the first woman to hold this position. She won the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society in 2005; she was only the third female recipient following Caroline Herschel in 1828 and Vera Rubin in 1996. She was head of the Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics at the University of Oxford from 2003 to 2004 and 2005 to 2008, and was one of the first female professors in Astronomy in Britain. She was made a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 2006 for services to physics and astronomy.
1899 Balai Chand Mukhopadhyay

Balai Chand Mukhopadhyay

Indian physician, author, poet, and playwright (died 1979)
Balai Chand Mukhopadhyay was an Indian Bengali-language writer, physician, and playwright, best known by his pen name Banaphul,. His oeuvre spanned novels, poetry, plays, essays and over 400 short stories, the genre for which he is best remembered. For his contribution to literature, he was awarded the Padma Bhushan in 1975, India's third-highest civilian honor.
1908 Daniel Fry

Daniel Fry

American contactee (died 1992)
Daniel William Fry was an American contactee of the 1950s who claimed he had multiple contacts with an alien and took a ride in a remotely piloted alien spacecraft. Fry was born in Verdon Township, Minnesota. He was also the founder of the UFO religion Understanding, Inc., though Fry insisted it was not a religion.
1771 Thomas Talbot

Thomas Talbot

Irish-Canadian colonel and politician (died 1853)
Thomas Talbot was an Irish-born Canadian soldier and colonial administrator. He founded the community of Port Talbot, Ontario, which was at one time the most prosperous town in the region due to his insistence on building quality roads, and was responsible for enticing 50,000 people to settle in the Thames River area.
1979 Dilhara Fernando

Dilhara Fernando

Sri Lankan cricketer
Congenige Randhi Dilhara Fernando is a former professional Sri Lankan international cricketer. He played as a right-handed pace bowler and was a key member of the Sri Lankan teams which finished as runners-up in the 2007 and 2011 Cricket World Cups. Fernando won the 2002 ICC Champions Trophy with his country.
1835 Justo Rufino Barrios

Justo Rufino Barrios

Guatemalan president (died 1885)
Justo Rufino Barrios Auyón was a Guatemalan politician and military general who served as President of Guatemala from 1873 to his death in 1885. He was known for his liberal reforms and his attempts to reunite Central America. During his rule, Guatemala had a close relationship with the United States.
1912 Peter Leo Gerety

Peter Leo Gerety

American prelate (died 2016)
Peter Leo Gerety was an American Catholic prelate who served as Archbishop of Newark from 1974 to 1986. He previously served as Bishop of Portland in Maine from 1969 to 1974. Gerety was the oldest living Catholic bishop in the world at the time of his death at age 104.
1920 Robert Mann

Robert Mann

American violinist, composer, and conductor (died 2018)
Robert Nathaniel Mann was a violinist, composer, conductor, and founding member of the Juilliard String Quartet, as well as a faculty member at the Manhattan School of Music. Mann, the first violinist at Juilliard, served on the school's string quartet for over fifty years until his retirement in 1997.
1985 Marina Kuzina

Marina Kuzina

Russian basketball player
Marina Kuzina is a Russian basketball player who competed for the Russian National Team at the 2008 Summer Olympics, winning the bronze medal. She was also part of the 2012 Summer Olympics Russian team who missed out on a bronze medal, losing the bronze medal match 74-83 to Australia.
1842 Frederic T. Greenhalge

Frederic T. Greenhalge

English-American lawyer and politician, 38th Governor of Massachusetts (died 1896)
Frederic Thomas Greenhalge was an American lawyer and politician in Massachusetts. He served in the United States House of Representatives and was the 38th governor of Massachusetts. He was elected three consecutive times, but died early in his third term. He was the state's first foreign-born governor.
1869 Xenophon Stratigos

Xenophon Stratigos

Greek general and politician, Greek Minister of Transport (died 1927)
Xenophon Stratigos was a Greek military officer. He played a major role in the Balkan Wars of 1912–13 and the Asia Minor Campaign of the Greco-Turkish War in 1921–22, serving also as de facto Chief of the Hellenic Army General Staff in 1916–17 and in 1921. He retired from the army in September 1921 and served as Minister for Transport in 1922. Condemned to life imprisonment at the Trial of the Six, he was later pardoned and left for Switzerland, where he lived until his death.
1988 Jakub Kovář

Jakub Kovář

Czech ice hockey player
Jakub Kovář is a Czech professional ice hockey goaltender who is currently playing for HC Sparta Praha in the Czech Extraliga. He was selected by the Philadelphia Flyers in the 4th round of the 2006 NHL entry draft. He is the older brother of Jan Kovář.
1888 Enno Lolling

Enno Lolling

German physician (died 1945)
Enno Lolling was a Nazi doctor. As a member of the SS, he served as a Lagerarzt at Dachau concentration camp. He later headed up the medical division for all the SS concentration camps. Lolling committed suicide in Flensburg as the war was ending.
1929 Orville Turnquest

Orville Turnquest

Bahamian politician
Sir Orville Alton Turnquest is a Bahamian politician who was the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of External Relations of the Bahamas from 1992 to 1994, and the sixth governor-general of the Bahamas from 3 January 1995 until his retirement on 13 November 2001.
1979 Josué Anunciado de Oliveira

Josué Anunciado de Oliveira

Brazilian footballer
Josué Anunciado de Oliveira, known as simply Josué, is a Brazilian former professional footballer who played as a defensive midfielder. He played for the Brazil national team from 2007 to 2010, winning the 2007 Copa América and playing at the 2010 FIFA World Cup.
1938 Tom Raworth

Tom Raworth

English poet and academic (died 2017)
Thomas Moore Raworth was an English-Irish poet, publisher, editor, and teacher who published over 40 books of poetry and prose during his life. His work has been translated and published in many countries. Raworth was a key figure in the British Poetry Revival.
1923 Alex Hannum

Alex Hannum

American basketball player and coach (died 2002)
Alexander Murray Hannum was an American professional basketball player and coach. Known as Sarge because of his military background, Hannum played center for six different teams, most notably the Milwaukee Hawks in the National Basketball Association (NBA), where he spent three seasons.
1980 Giorgio Mondini

Giorgio Mondini

Italian race car driver
Giorgio Mondini is an Italo-Swiss former racing driver who last competed in the 2018 European Le Mans Series. In 2004, he was champion of the Formula Renault V6 Eurocup series. He previously served as a Formula One test driver for Midland.
1973 Scott Walker

Scott Walker

Canadian ice hockey player and coach
Scott Walker is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player who currently serves as the co-owner and team president of the Guelph Storm in the OHL. He previously held the position of player development consultant for the Vancouver Canucks.
1924 Stanley K. Hathaway

Stanley K. Hathaway

American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 40th United States Secretary of the Interior (died 2005)
Stanley Knapp Hathaway was an American politician who served as the 27th governor of Wyoming from 1967 to 1975 and as the 40th United States secretary of the interior under President Gerald Ford from June to October 1975.
1920 Richard Oriani

Richard Oriani

Salvadoran-American metallurgist and engineer (died 2015)
Richard A. Oriani was an El Salvador-born American chemical engineer and metallurgist who was instrumental in the study of the effects of hydrogen in metal. He also made significant contributions to the field of cold fusion.
1916 Phil Cavarretta

Phil Cavarretta

American baseball player and manager (died 2010)
Philip Joseph Cavarretta was an American professional baseball first baseman, outfielder, and manager. He was known to friends and family as "Phil" and was also called "Philibuck", a nickname bestowed by Cubs manager Charlie Grimm.
1954 Srđa Trifković

Srđa Trifković

Serbian-American journalist and historian
Srđa Trifković is a Serbian-American publicist, politician and historian. He is currently a foreign affairs editor for the paleoconservative magazine Chronicles, and a politics professor at the University of Banja Luka in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
1846 Edward Charles Pickering

Edward Charles Pickering

American astronomer and physicist (died 1919)
Edward Charles Pickering was an American astronomer and physicist and the older brother of William Henry Pickering. Along with Carl Vogel, Pickering discovered the first spectroscopic binary stars. He wrote Elements of Physical Manipulations.
1971

Michael Modest

American wrestler
Michael K. Cariglio is an American professional wrestler, better known by his stage name, Michael Modest. Modest ran the promotion Pro Wrestling Iron with tag partner Donovan Morgan and Frank Murdoch until its closure in 2005. Modest has also wrestled in Japan for Pro Wrestling Noah, winning the GHC Junior Heavyweight Championship after defeating Yoshinobu Kanemaru. He has also wrestled in Canada, Mexico and Ireland. He is perhaps best known for his appearances in the wrestling documentary Beyond the Mat, the film Ready to Rumble, and the TV special Exposed! Pro Wrestling's Greatest Secrets.
1914 Marius Russo

Marius Russo

American baseball player (died 2005)
Marius Ugo Russo was an American starting pitcher in Major League Baseball who played for the New York Yankees from 1939 to 1943 and in 1946). He batted right-handed and threw left-handed.
1941 Neelie Kroes

Neelie Kroes

Dutch politician and diplomat, European Commissioner for Digital Economy and Society
Neelie Kroes is a retired Dutch politician of the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD) and businessperson who served as European Commissioner from 22 November 2004 to 1 November 2014.
1967 Jean-François Mercier

Jean-François Mercier

Canadian comedian, screenwriter, and television host
Jean-François Mercier is a comedian, screenwriter and television host from Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Mercier's comedy features his scruffy appearance and mixes social criticism with vulgarity, curse words and expressions of anger.
1983 Fedor Tyutin

Fedor Tyutin

Russian ice hockey player
Fedor Anatolievich Tyutin is a Russian former professional ice hockey defenceman. Tyutin was drafted in the second round, 40th overall by the New York Rangers in the 2001 NHL entry draft.
1977 Jean-Sébastien Aubin

Jean-Sébastien Aubin

Canadian ice hockey player
Jean-Sébastien Aubin is a Canadian former professional ice hockey goaltender who played in the National Hockey League (NHL) with the Pittsburgh Penguins, Toronto Maple Leafs and the Los Angeles Kings.
1992 Jake Nicholson

Jake Nicholson

English footballer
Jake Charlie Nicholson is an English former footballer. He is a product of the West Ham United and Tottenham Hotspur youth academies. He has also represented England at under-19 level.
1984 Lewis Price

Lewis Price

Welsh footballer
Lewis Peter Price is a retired Welsh international professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper. He is currently the First-Team Goalkeeping Coach for EFL Championship club Oxford United.
1986 Leandro Greco

Leandro Greco

Italian footballer
Leandro Greco is an Italian football coach and a former player who played as a midfielder who is the head coach of Serie C Group C club Crotone.
1989 Sam McKendry

Sam McKendry

Australian-New Zealand rugby league player
Sam McKendry is a former New Zealand Māori and New Zealand international rugby league footballer who played as a prop for the Penrith Panthers in the NRL.
1932 Szilárd Keresztes

Szilárd Keresztes

Hungarian Greek Catholic bishop (died 2025)
Szilárd Keresztes was a Hungarian Greek Catholic bishop. He was Bishop of Hajdúdorog and apostolic administrator of the Apostolic Exarchate of Miskolc from 1975 to 2008.
1943 Carla Mazzuca Poggiolini

Carla Mazzuca Poggiolini

Italian journalist and politician
Carla Mazzuca Poggiolini is a professional journalist and Italian politician who served in both chambers of the Italian Parliament. She is the wife of Danilo Poggiolini.
1965 Claus-Dieter Wollitz

Claus-Dieter Wollitz

German footballer and manager
Claus-Dieter Wollitz is a German football coach and former player, who is the current director of football and manager of 2. Bundesliga club FC Energie Cottbus.
1975 Luca Castellazzi

Luca Castellazzi

Italian footballer
Luca Castellazzi is an Italian former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper. He serves as the goalkeeper coach of AC Milan young team under 17.
1985 Zhou Haibin

Zhou Haibin

Chinese footballer
Zhou Haibin is a Chinese football coach and retired professional footballer who spent the majority of his playing career at Chinese Super League club Shandong Luneng.
1994 Christian Welch

Christian Welch

Australian rugby league player
Christian Welch is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer who last played as a prop for the Melbourne Storm in the National Rugby League (NRL).
1996 Paul Momirovski

Paul Momirovski

Australian rugby league player
Paul Momirovski is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer who last played as a centre and winger for the Lézignan Sangliers in the Super XIII.
1923 Lon Simmons

Lon Simmons

American baseball player and sportscaster (died 2015)
Lonnie Alexander "Lon" Simmons was an American sports announcer, best known for his play-by-play broadcasts of San Francisco Giants baseball and San Francisco 49ers football.
1985 Hadi Norouzi

Hadi Norouzi

Iranian footballer (died 2015)
Hadi Norouzi was an Iranian footballer who played as a striker. He spent most of his career with Persepolis in the Persian Gulf Pro League.
1972

Tully Bevilaqua

Australian basketball player
Tully Louise Bevilaqua is an Australian retired professional women's basketball player. She previously served as an assistant with the Phoenix Mercury in 2023; she was added to the Indiana Fever coaching staff as a video associate in 2024. She formerly played for the San Antonio Stars in the WNBA and the Perth Lynx in Australia's WNBL. The 5'7" Bevilaqua's play style is energetic and disruptive, so much so that she is usually in the top 10 in steals. In the 2005 regular season, she had more steals per turnover than any other player.
1981

Mark Gasnier

Australian rugby player and sportscaster
Mark Gasnier is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer who played in the 2000s and 2010s. A rugby league New South Wales State of Origin and international representative centre, he played eleven seasons in the National Rugby League with the St. George Illawarra Dragons, punctuated by two seasons of rugby union played with the French club Stade Français. Gasnier was a member of the Dragons' NRL premiership-winning team in 2010. He retired at the end of the 2011 season. He is the nephew of the 1960s St. George star Reg Gasnier.
1915 Åke Hellman

Åke Hellman

Finnish painter (died 2017)
Åke Fredrik Hellman was a Swedish-speaking Finnish still life and portrait artist and art professor. He worked as art teacher at the University of Helsinki. In 1963, he received the order of the Lion of Finland.
1945

Paule Baillargeon

Canadian actress, director, and screenwriter
Paule Baillargeon is a Canadian actress and film director. She won the Genie Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in the film I've Heard the Mermaids Singing, and was a nominee for Best Director for The Sex of the Stars . Her film roles have included August 32nd on Earth , Jesus of Montreal , A Woman in Transit , Réjeanne Padovani and Days of Darkness .
1943

Han Sai Por

Singaporean sculptor and academic
Han Sai Por is a Singaporean sculptor and artist. A graduate of the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts (NAFA), East Ham College of Art, Wolverhampton College of Art, and Lincoln University, New Zealand, she worked as a teacher and later as a part-time lecturer at NAFA, the LASALLE-SIA College of the Arts, and the National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, before becoming a full-time artist in 1997.
1956

Mark Crispin

American computer scientist, designed the IMAP (died 2012)
Mark Reed Crispin is best known as the father of the Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP), having invented it in 1985 during his time at the Stanford Knowledge Systems Laboratory. He is the author or co-author of numerous RFCs and was the principal author of UW IMAP, one of the reference implementations of the IMAP4rev1 protocol described in RFC 3501. He also designed the MIX mail storage format.
1919

Miltos Sachtouris

Greek poet and author (died 2005)
Miltos Sachtouris was a Greek poet. He was a descendant of Georgios Sachtouris, whose origins were the Island of Ydra. When he was young he abandoned his law studies to follow his real passion, poetry, adopting the pen name Miltos Chrysanthis. Sachtouris wrote his first poetry collection, The Music of My Islands, under his pen name in 1941.
1966

David Segui

American baseball player
David Vincent Segui is an American former professional baseball first baseman who currently serves as a hitting coach for the Leones de Yucatán of the Mexican League. During a 15-year Major League Baseball (MLB) career, he played for the Baltimore Orioles, New York Mets, Montreal Expos, Seattle Mariners, Toronto Blue Jays, Texas Rangers, and Cleveland Indians.
1896

Reginald Baker

English film producer (died 1985)
Reginald Poynton Baker, MC FCA FRSA was a British film producer and a major contributor to the development of the British film industry. Along with his younger brother Leslie Forsyth, he played a decisive role in establishing Ealing Studios. He was the father of Conservative MP Peter Baker. Baker died in Australia aged 89.
1974

Josée Piché

Canadian ice dancer
Josée Piché is a Canadian former ice dancer. She was born in Montreal and competed with partner Pascal Denis for 17 years, winning a bronze medal at the 2000 Canadian Figure Skating Championships and finishing 23rd at the 2004 World Figure Skating Championships, their final competition together.
1981

David Bernard

Jamaican cricketer
David Eddison Bernard is a West Indian cricketer who has played for the West Indies in Tests and ODIs. He played his second Test for a weakened West Indies team on 9 July 2009. In the second Test he scored 17 and 69.
1928

Samuel John Hazo

American author
Samuel John Hazo is a poet, playwright, fiction novelist, and the founder and director emeritus of the International Poetry Forum in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He is also McAnulty Distinguished Professor of English Emeritus at Duquesne University, where he taught for forty-three years.
1902

Samudrala Sr.

Indian singer, director, producer, and screenwriter (died 1968)
Samudrala Raghavacharya, also known as Samudrala Sr., was an Indian screenwriter, lyricist, playback singer, director, and producer known for his works in Telugu cinema. Samudrala Senior made his screen debut in 1937, and was known for his collaborations with Ghantasala.
1958

David Robertson

American conductor
David Eric Robertson is an American conductor. He was chief conductor of the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, and was formerly music director of the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra from 2005 until 2018. He is Director of Orchestral Studies at Juilliard.
1981

Jimmy Gobble

American baseball player
Billy James Gobble is an American former professional baseball pitcher. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Kansas City Royals and Chicago White Sox.
1950

Adrian Noble

English director and screenwriter
Adrian Keith Noble is a theatre director, and was also the artistic director and chief executive of the Royal Shakespeare Company from 1990 to 2003.
1930

Elsie Vartanian

American politician and director of the United States Women's Bureau (died 2019)
Elsie Vartanian was an American politician from New Hampshire. She served in the New Hampshire House of Representatives from 1979 to 1990, and later served as the director of the United States Women's Bureau.
1420 William VIII

William VIII

Marquis of Montferrat (died 1483)
William VIII Palaiologos was the Marquis of Montferrat from 1464 until his death.
1670 Richard Leveridge

Richard Leveridge

English singer-songwriter (died 1758)
Richard Leveridge was an English bass singer of the London stage and a composer of baroque music, including many popular songs.
1744 Heinrich Christian Boie

Heinrich Christian Boie

German author and poet (died 1806)
Heinrich Christian Boie was a German author. In 1781, he was appointed as landfoged of North Dithmarschen.
1759 Marianna Auenbrugger

Marianna Auenbrugger

Austrian pianist and composer (died 1782)
Marianna Auenbrugger was an Austrian pianist and composer.
1834 Edgar Degas

Edgar Degas

French painter, sculptor, and illustrator (died 1917)
Edgar Degas was a French Impressionist artist famous for his pastel drawings and oil paintings.
1849 Ferdinand Brunetière

Ferdinand Brunetière

French scholar and critic (died 1906)
Ferdinand Vincent-de-Paul Marie Brunetière was a French writer and critic.
1864 Fiammetta Wilson

Fiammetta Wilson

English astronomer (died 1920)
Fiammetta Wilson was a British astronomer elected a fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society in 1916.
1865 Georges Friedel

Georges Friedel

French mineralogist and crystallographer (died 1933)
Georges Friedel was a French mineralogist and crystallographer.
1881

Friedrich Dessauer

German physicist and philosopher (died 1963)
Friedrich Dessauer was a German physicist, a philosopher, a socially engaged entrepreneur and a journalist.
1886 Michael Fekete

Michael Fekete

Hungarian-Israeli mathematician and academic (died 1957)
Michael (Mihály) Fekete was a Hungarian-Israeli mathematician.
1894 Aleksandr Khinchin

Aleksandr Khinchin

Russian mathematician and academic (died 1959)
Aleksandr Yakovlevich Khinchin was a Soviet mathematician and one of the most significant contributors to the Soviet school of probability theory.
1895 Xu Beihong

Xu Beihong

Chinese painter and academic (died 1953)
Xu Beihong, also known as Ju Péon, was a Chinese painter.
1908

Hans Trippel

German engineer, developed Amphicar (died 2001)
Hans Trippel was a German industrial designer, responsible for the designs of the Trippel SG6, Mercedes-Benz Gullwing's door and the Amphicar.
1919

Ron Searle

English-Canadian soldier, publisher, and politician, 4th Mayor of Mississauga (died 2015)
Ronald Alfred Searle was an English-born Canadian soldier, publisher, and politician who served as the fourth mayor of Mississauga, Ontario from 1976 to 1978.
1923 Joseph Hansen

Joseph Hansen

American author and poet (died 2004)
Joseph Hansen was an American crime writer and poet, best known for a series of novels featuring private eye Dave Brandstetter.
1923

Theo Barker

English historian (died 2001)
Theodore Cardwell Barker, usually known as Theo Barker, was a British social and economic historian.
1928

Choi Yun-chil

South Korean long-distance runner and a two-time national champion in the marathon (died 2020)
Choi Yoon-chil was a South Korean long-distance runner who was a two-time Olympian and a two-time national champion in the marathon.
1932

Jan Lindblad

Swedish biologist and photographer (died 1987)
Jan Victor Armas Lindblad was a Swedish naturalist, writer, photographer, film maker, and whistling artist who imitated animals.
1944

Andres Vooremaa

Estonian chess player (died 2022)
Andres Vooremaa was an Estonian chess player, who twice won the Estonian Chess Championship. He was awarded the Soviet Master title in 1969.
1947 Hans-Jürgen Kreische

Hans-Jürgen Kreische

German footballer and manager (died 2026)
Hans-Jürgen "Hansi" Kreische was an East German footballer who played as a forward for Dynamo Dresden and the East Germany national team.
1950 Per-Kristian Foss

Per-Kristian Foss

Norwegian politician, Norwegian Minister of Finance
Per-Kristian Foss (born 19 July 1950) is a Norwegian politician for the Conservative Party and from 2014 to 2021 the Auditor General of Norway.
1954

Mark O'Donnell

American playwright (died 2012)
Mark O'Donnell was an American writer and humorist.
1954 Steve O'Donnell

Steve O'Donnell

American screenwriter and producer
Steve O'Donnell is an American television writer. His credits include Late Night with David Letterman, The Simpsons, Seinfeld, and The Chris Rock Show.
1961 Benoît Mariage

Benoît Mariage

Belgian director and screenwriter
Benoît Mariage is a Belgian film director.
1961 Harsha Bhogle

Harsha Bhogle

Indian journalist and author
Harsha Bhogle is an Indian cricket commentator and journalist.
1961 Hideo Nakata

Hideo Nakata

Japanese director, producer, and screenwriter
Hideo Nakata is a Japanese filmmaker, most famous for his 1998 film Ring.
1961 Lisa Lampanelli

Lisa Lampanelli

American comedian, actress, and author
Lisa Lampanelli is an American former stand-up comedian, actress, and insult comic.
1961 Maria Filatova

Maria Filatova

Russian gymnast
Maria Evgenievna Filatova is a retired Russian gymnast who competed at the 1976 and 1980 Olympics.
1962

Craig Muni

Canadian ice hockey player
Craig Douglas James Muni is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player who played 819 National Hockey League (NHL) games throughout his career.
1964 Teresa Edwards

Teresa Edwards

American basketball player
Teresa Edwards is an American former women's basketball player and four time Olympic gold medalist.
1967 Yael Abecassis

Yael Abecassis

Israeli model and actress
Yael Abecassis is an Israeli actress and model.
1970 Bill Chen

Bill Chen

American poker player and software designer
William Chen is an American quantitative analyst, poker player, and software designer.
1971 Catriona Rowntree

Catriona Rowntree

Australian television host
Catriona Rowntree is an Australian television and radio presenter.
1971

Lesroy Weekes

Montserratian cricketer
Lesroy Charlesworth Weekes in Montserrat, Lesser Antilles, West Indies) is a former first-class cricketer.
1971 Rene Busch

Rene Busch

Estonian tennis player and coach
Rene Busch is a tennis coach and former Estonian tennis player. He achieved his career high ATP ranking in 1995 on No.793.
1974

Francisco Copado

German footballer and manager
Francisco Alberto Copado Álvarez is a German retired footballer who played as a striker or midfielder.
1974 Jason McGerr

Jason McGerr

American drummer
Jason McGerr is an American musician, best known as the drummer for the indie rock band Death Cab for Cutie.
1974 Vince Spadea

Vince Spadea

American tennis player
Vincent Spadea is a former professional tennis player from the United States.
1976 Gonzalo de los Santos

Gonzalo de los Santos

Uruguayan footballer and manager
Gonzalo de los Santos da Rosa is a Uruguayan retired footballer who played as a defensive midfielder, and is a manager.
1977

Ed Smith

English cricketer and journalist
Edward Thomas Smith is an English author and journalist, former professional cricketer, and cricket commentator. He played first-class cricket for Kent, Middlesex and England.
1979 Luke Young

Luke Young

English footballer
Luke Paul Young is an English former professional footballer who played as a defender.
1981 Grégory Vignal

Grégory Vignal

French footballer
Grégory Vignal is a French football coach and former professional player.
1982 Jess Vanstrattan

Jess Vanstrattan

Australian footballer
Jess Kedwell Vanstrattan is a retired Australian professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper.
1983 Helen Skelton

Helen Skelton

English television host and actress
Helen Elizabeth Skelton is an English television presenter who appears regularly on BBC1's Morning Live.
1988 Cherami Leigh

Cherami Leigh

American actress
Cherami Leigh Kuehn is an American actress. She has provided voices for a number of English-language versions of anime series and video games.
1988 Kevin Großkreutz

Kevin Großkreutz

German footballer
Kevin Großkreutz is a semi-retired German professional footballer who plays as a right back and winger for TuS Eichlinghofen.
1991 Eray İşcan

Eray İşcan

Turkish footballer
Eray İşcan is a Turkish professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper.
2003

Tyler Downs

American diver
Tyler Downs is an American competitive diver. He represented the United States at the 2020 Summer Olympics and the 2024 Summer Olympics.
2006

Dani Muñoz

Spanish footballer
Daniel Muñoz Navas is a Spanish professional footballer who plays as a left-back for Super League Greece club Iraklis.

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