Famous Birthdays on July 25

July 25 has 256 recorded notable births across history, from 975 to 2002. This page lists every one of them, with the best-known people first.

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Emmett Till

1941 — Emmett Till

African-American lynching and kidnapping victim (died 1955)

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Famous Birthdays 256 source records 975 – 2002 Leo Ruby birthstone Larkspur birth flower

Major events on July 25

See what else happened on this day in history.

  1. 1861 American Civil War: The United States Congress passes the Crittenden–Johnson Resolution, stating that the war is being fought to preserve the Union and not to end slavery, in the wake of the defeat at the First Battle of Bull Run. Source
  2. 2010 WikiLeaks publishes classified documents about the War in Afghanistan, one of the largest leaks in U.S. military history. Source

Did you know about Emmett Till

Emmett Louis Till was an African-American boy who, at 14 years old, was abducted and lynched in Mississippi in 1955.

Did you know about Iman

Since her debut in 1975, she rose to the pinnacle of global fashion, establishing herself as one of the world’s most iconic models.

Did you know about Estelle Getty

Estelle Getty reprised the role in Empty Nest (1993–1995), The Golden Palace (1992–1993), Blossom (1990–1995), and Nurses (1991–1994).

Did you know about Gavrilo Princip

Gavrilo Princip was a Bosnian Serb student who assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir presumptive to the throne of Austria-Hungary, and his wife Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg, in Sarajevo on 28 June 1914.

Did you know about Illeana Douglas

Illeana Douglas's other credits include The Next Best Thing (2000), Ghost World (2001), Dummy (2002), Factory Girl (2006), She's Funny That Way (2014), and Return to Sender (2015).


More major people born on July 25

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

1955 Iman

Iman

Somali-English model and actress
Iman Mohamed Abdulmajid, known mononymously as Iman, is a Somali-American model and actress. A muse of the designers Gianni Versace, Thierry Mugler, Calvin Klein, Donna Karan, and Yves Saint Laurent, she is also noted for her philanthropic work. Since her debut in 1975, she rose to the pinnacle of global fashion, establishing herself as one of the world’s most iconic models. She was married to American professional basketball player Spencer Haywood from 1977 to 1987 and British musician David Bowie from 1992 until his death in 2016.
1923 Estelle Getty

Estelle Getty

American actress (died 2008)
Estelle Gettleman, known professionally as Estelle Getty, was an American actress and comedian. She was best known for her portrayal of Sophia Petrillo on The Golden Girls (1985–1992), for which she won a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Television Series Musical or Comedy and a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series. She reprised the role in Empty Nest (1993–1995), The Golden Palace (1992–1993), Blossom (1990–1995), and Nurses (1991–1994).
1894 Gavrilo Princip

Gavrilo Princip

Bosnian Serb revolutionary and assassin of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife (died 1918)
Gavrilo Princip was a Bosnian Serb student who assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir presumptive to the throne of Austria-Hungary, and his wife Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg, in Sarajevo on 28 June 1914. The assassination set off the July Crisis, a series of events that within one month led to the outbreak of World War I.
1961 Illeana Douglas

Illeana Douglas

American actress
Illeana Hesselberg, known professionally as Illeana Douglas, is an American actress and filmmaker. Following her screen debut with a small part in Hello Again (1987), she went on to appear in a variety of mainstream and independent features throughout the 1990s, such as Goodfellas (1990), Cape Fear (1991), Alive (1993), To Die For (1995), Grace of My Heart (1996), Chasing Amy, Picture Perfect, Happy, Texas; Message in a Bottle; and Stir of Echoes. Her other credits include The Next Best Thing (2000), Ghost World (2001), Dummy (2002), Factory Girl (2006), She's Funny That Way (2014), and Return to Sender (2015).
1964 Anne Applebaum

Anne Applebaum

American journalist and author
Anne Elizabeth Applebaum is an American journalist, historian and foreign-policy commentator. She has written extensively about the history of Communism and the development of civil society in Central and Eastern Europe. She became a Polish citizen in 2013, and is married to Radosław Sikorski, Poland's foreign minister.
1935 Adnan Khashoggi

Adnan Khashoggi

Saudi Arabian businessman (died 2017)
Adnan Khashoggi was a Saudi businessman and arms dealer known for his business dealings, extensive geopolitical influence, and opulent lifestyle, which earned him the moniker "The Great Gatsby of the Middle East". During his peak in the early 1980s, Khashoggi's net worth was estimated at around $4 billion, amassed through his pivotal role as an intermediary between Western defense companies and the Saudi government.
1394 James I

James I

king of Scotland (died 1437)
James I was King of Scots from 1406 to 1437. The youngest of three sons, he was born in Dunfermline Abbey to King Robert III and his wife Annabella Drummond. His older brother David, Duke of Rothesay died under suspicious circumstances while being detained by their uncle, Robert, Duke of Albany. His other brother, Robert, died young. Fears for James's safety grew through the winter of 1405/6 and plans were made to send him to France. In February 1406, James was forced to take refuge in the castle of the Bass Rock in the Firth of Forth after his escort was attacked by supporters of Archibald, 4th Earl of Douglas. He remained there until mid-March, when he boarded a vessel bound for France. On 22 March, English pirates captured the ship and delivered the prince to Henry IV of England. The ailing Robert III died on 4 April, and the 11-year-old James, now the uncrowned King of Scotland, would not regain his freedom for another eighteen years.
1875 Jim Corbett

Jim Corbett

Indian hunter, environmentalist, and author (died 1955)
Edward James Corbett was an Anglo-Indian hunter and author. He gained fame through hunting and killing several man-eating tigers and leopards in Northern India, as detailed in his bestselling 1944 memoir Man-Eaters of Kumaon. In his later years, he became an outspoken advocate of the nascent conservation movement.
1969 D. B. Woodside

D. B. Woodside

American actor
David Bryan Woodside is an American actor. He is best known for his television roles as the bass singer Melvin Franklin in The Temptations, Robin Wood in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Malcolm Franks in Single Ladies, Jeff Malone in Suits, Dr. Joseph Prestridge in Parenthood, the angel Amenadiel in Lucifer, and Wayne Palmer in the thriller series 24.
1750 Henry Knox

Henry Knox

American general and politician, 1st United States Secretary of War (died 1806)
Henry Knox was an American military officer, politician, bookseller, and a Founding Father of the United States. Knox, born in Boston, became a senior general of the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War, serving as chief of artillery in all of George Washington's campaigns. Following the war, he oversaw the War Department under the Articles of Confederation from 1785 to 1789. Washington appointed him the nation's first secretary of war, a position which he held from 1789 to 1794. He is well known today as the eponym of Fort Knox in Kentucky, which is often conflated with the adjacent United States Bullion Depository.
1165 Ibn Arabi

Ibn Arabi

Andalusian Sufi mystic, poet, and philosopher (died 1240)
Ibn al-ʿArabī was a Muslim Arab scholar, mystic, poet, and philosopher from al-Andalus, who exercised notable influence within Sufi metaphysics and Islamic thought in general. There are 850 works attributed to Ibn al-ʿArabī, though only 700 of these are considered authentic, and only 400 are extant. His cosmological teachings became a dominant intellectual framework in many regions of the Muslim world.
1848 Arthur Balfour

Arthur Balfour

Scottish-English lieutenant and politician, 33rd Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (died 1930)
Arthur James Balfour, 1st Earl of Balfour, was a British Conservative statesman who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1902 to 1905. He also later served as foreign secretary in the Lloyd George ministry, from 1916 to 1919.
1935 Barbara Harris

Barbara Harris

American actress and singer (died 2018)
Barbara Densmoor Harris was an American actress. She won a Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical for her performance in The Apple Tree (1966), and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for Who Is Harry Kellerman and Why Is He Saying Those Terrible Things About Me? (1971). She was also a four-time Golden Globe nominee.
1959 Geoffrey Zakarian

Geoffrey Zakarian

American chef and author
Geoffrey Zakarian is an American chef, restaurateur, television personality, and author. He is the executive chef of several restaurants in New York City, Atlantic City, and Miami. He is featured on several television shows on the Food Network, including Chopped and The Next Iron Chef. In 2011, on The Next Iron Chef he won an opportunity to join Iron Chef America.
1109 Afonso I

Afonso I

king of Portugal (died 1185)
Dom Afonso I nicknamed "the Conqueror", "the Founder" and "the Great" by the Portuguese, was the first king of Portugal, from 26 July 1139 until his death on 6 December 1185. He achieved the independence of the County of Portugal, establishing a new kingdom and doubling its area with the Reconquista, an objective that he pursued until his death.
1924 Frank Church

Frank Church

American lawyer and politician (died 1984)
Frank Forrester Church III was an American politician and lawyer. From 1957 to 1981, he served as a U.S. senator from Idaho, and is currently the last Democrat to do so. He was the longest serving Democratic senator from the state and the only Democrat from the state who served more than two terms in the Senate. Church was a prominent figure in American foreign policy and established a reputation as a member of the party's liberal wing.
1951 Jack Thompson

Jack Thompson

American lawyer and activist
John Bruce Thompson is an American activist and disbarred attorney. As an attorney, Thompson focused his legal efforts against what he perceives as obscenity in modern culture. He gained recognition as an anti-video game activist, criticizing the content of games and their alleged effects on children. He also targeted radio personality Howard Stern and rap music.
1930 Annie Ross

Annie Ross

Scottish-American singer and actress (died 2020)
Annie Ross was a British-born American singer and actress, best known as a member of the influential jazz vocal trio Lambert, Hendricks & Ross. She helped pioneer the vocalese style of jazz singing, with a style described by critic Dave Gelly as "a kind of dreamy watchfulness that is a definition of 1950s hip." In 2010, she was named a Jazz Master by the National Endowment for the Arts.
1973 Dani Filth

Dani Filth

English singer-songwriter
Daniel Lloyd Davey, known professionally as Dani Filth, is an English singer who is the lead vocalist, lyricist and founding member of the extreme metal band Cradle of Filth.
1971 Billy Wagner

Billy Wagner

American baseball player and coach
William Edward Wagner, nicknamed "Billy the Kid", is an American former professional baseball pitcher who played 16 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Houston Astros, Philadelphia Phillies, New York Mets, Boston Red Sox, and Atlanta Braves from 1995 to 2010. A seven-time All-Star and the 1999 National League (NL) Rolaids Relief Man Award winner, Wagner is one of only eight major league relief pitchers to reach 400 career saves. A left-handed batter and thrower, Wagner stands 5 feet 10 inches (1.78 m) tall and weighs 180 pounds (82 kg).
1928 Dolphy

Dolphy

Filipino actor, singer, and producer (died 2012)
Rodolfo Vera Quizon Sr., known professionally as Dolphy, was a Filipino comedian and actor. Widely regarded by Philippine media as the country's "King of Comedy", he starred in a long list of comedy films and television series over a career spanning more than six decades.
1956 Frances Arnold

Frances Arnold

American scientist and engineer (Nobel Prize for Chemistry 2018)
Frances Hamilton Arnold is an American chemical engineer and Nobel Laureate. She is the Linus Pauling Professor of Chemical Engineering, Bioengineering and Biochemistry at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). In 2018, she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for pioneering the use of directed evolution to engineer enzymes.
1908 Jack Gilford

Jack Gilford

American actor (died 1990)
Jack Gilford was an American Broadway, film, and television actor. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for Save the Tiger (1973).
1902 Eric Hoffer

Eric Hoffer

American philosopher and author (died 1983)
Eric Hoffer was an American philosopher and social critic. A moderate with an atypical working-class background, Hoffer wrote ten books over his career and was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in February 1983. His first book, The True Believer (1951), was widely recognized as a classic, receiving critical acclaim from both scholars and laymen, although Hoffer believed that The Ordeal of Change (1963) was his finest work. The Eric Hoffer Book Award is an international literary prize established in his honor. The University of California, Berkeley awards an annual literary prize named jointly for Hoffer.
1942 Bruce Woodley

Bruce Woodley

Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist
Bruce William Woodley is an Australian singer-songwriter and musician. He was a founding member of the successful folk-pop group the Seekers, and co-composer of the songs "I Am Australian," "Red Rubber Ball," and Simon & Garfunkel's "Cloudy."
1969 Annastacia Palaszczuk

Annastacia Palaszczuk

Australian politician, 39th Premier of Queensland
Annastacia Palaszczuk is an Australian politician who served as the 39th premier of Queensland from 2015 to 2023. She held office as the leader of the Queensland branch of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) from 2012 until her resignation, and was a member of the Legislative Assembly of Queensland (MLA) for the division of Inala from 2006 to 2023. Palaszczuk is the fifth-most-tenured premier in Queensland state history and the first woman to win the premiership from opposition, she also presided over the first majority female cabinet in Australian state and federal history.
1909 Elizabeth Francis

Elizabeth Francis

American centenarian (died 2024)
Elizabeth Francis was an American supercentenarian who was the oldest-living person in the United States from the death of Edith Ceccarelli on February 22, 2024, until her own death on October 22, 2024.
1906 Johnny Hodges

Johnny Hodges

American saxophonist and clarinet player (died 1970)
John Cornelius "Johnny" Hodges was an American alto saxophonist, best known for solo work with Duke Ellington's big band. He played lead alto in the saxophone section for many years. Hodges was also featured on soprano saxophone, but refused to play soprano after 1940. Along with Benny Carter, Hodges is considered to be one of the definitive alto saxophone players of the big band era.
1934 Don Ellis

Don Ellis

American trumpet player and composer (died 1978)
Donald Johnson Ellis was an American jazz trumpeter, drummer, composer, and bandleader. He is best known for his extensive musical experimentation, particularly in the area of time signatures. Later in his life he worked as a film composer, contributing a score to 1971's The French Connection and 1973's The Seven-Ups.
1966 Diana Johnson

Diana Johnson

English politician
Dame Diana Ruth Johnson is a British politician who has served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Kingston upon Hull North since the 2005 general election. A member of the Labour Party, she has served as Minister of State for Public Health and Patient Safety since 2026.
1946 José Areas

José Areas

Nicaraguan drummer
José Octavio "Chepito" Areas Dávila is a Nicaraguan percussionist best known for having played timbales and Conga drums in the Latin rock group Santana in 1969–1977 and 1987–1989.
1962 Doug Drabek

Doug Drabek

American baseball player and coach
Douglas Dean Drabek is an American former professional baseball pitcher, and a current minor league baseball coach. He is the pitching coach for the Reno Aces, the Triple-A affiliate of the Arizona Diamondbacks of Major League Baseball (MLB). He played in MLB for the New York Yankees, Pittsburgh Pirates, Houston Astros, Chicago White Sox and Baltimore Orioles between 1986 and 1998. Drabek batted and threw right-handed. Known for his fluid pitching motion and sound mechanics, he won the National League Cy Young Award in 1990. Drabek was an MLB All-Star in 1994.
1975 El Zorro

El Zorro

Mexican wrestler
Jesús Cristóbal Martínez Rodriguez is a Mexican professional wrestler who is best known as El Zorro. His gimmick started out very similar to the fictional character Zorro complete with mask, but in recent years it has evolved and the mask has been eliminated. He is best known for his work in the Lucha Libre AAA Worldwide (AAA) promotion in Mexico, where he is a former AAA Mega Champion. He has in the past worked both in Europe, Japan and made a few brief appearances for the World Wrestling Federation show WWF Super Astros. He was the "Deputy leader" of the La Legión Extranjera faction headed by Konnan. In December 2012, Martínez was repackaged as La Parka Negra, the storyline nemesis of La Parka. He returned as El Zorro in October 2013, before departing the company in February 2017.
1958 Alexei Filippenko

Alexei Filippenko

American astrophysicist and academic
Alexei Vladimir "Alex" Filippenko is an American astrophysicist and professor of astronomy at the University of California, Berkeley. Filippenko graduated from Dos Pueblos High School in Goleta, California. He received a Bachelor of Arts in physics from the University of California, Santa Barbara in 1979 and a Ph.D. in astronomy from the California Institute of Technology in 1984, where he was a Hertz Foundation Fellow. He was a postdoctoral Miller Fellow at Berkeley from 1984 to 1986 and was appointed to Berkeley's faculty in 1986. In 1996 and 2005, he was a Miller Research Professor, and he is currently a Senior Miller Fellow. His research focuses on supernovae and active galaxies at optical, ultraviolet, and near-infrared wavelengths, as well as on black holes, gamma-ray bursts, and the expansion of the Universe.
1969 Jon Barry

Jon Barry

American basketball player and sportscaster
Jon Alan Barry is an American former professional basketball player and television analyst for ABC and ESPN. Barry is currently the lead analyst for ESPN Radio's coverage of the NBA.
1901 Mohammed Helmy

Mohammed Helmy

Egyptian physician and Righteous Among the Nations (died 1982)
Mohammed ″Mod″ Helmy was an Egyptian-German physician who was recognized by Israel as one of the Righteous Among the Nations in 2013, with his name being listed at Yad Vashem in the city of Jerusalem. Born in Sudan, he moved to Berlin to study medicine and was later involved in saving many Jews from being exterminated by Nazi Germany during the Holocaust. After World War II he was finally allowed to marry his love Emmi. In 2013 Helmy was the first Arab to be recognized as a Righteous Among the Nations; his nephews were summoned by Yad Vashem to receive the honour on his behalf, but were reluctant to do so because of the Arab–Israeli conflict, though they eventually attended the ceremony at the German foreign ministry.
1960 Justice Howard

Justice Howard

American photographer
Justice Howard is an American photographer whose work includes shooting erotica, pin-up and celebrities. Her work has appeared in over 50 hardcover books and in thousands of magazines including Vogue Paris, Esquire, Easyriders, Playboy, Cosmopolitan, People, In Touch Weekly, Skin Two, and a 25-page spread in Bound by Ink, as well as being displayed in over 60 art gallery exhibits and numerous museum shows. She has also been featured in DankLook's "On Women in Black and White Fine Art Photography." Her photography features themes of female empowerment, freedom, and inner strength. She was previously a model before "graduating to photography" and training under a German master photographer. Her work has been compared to that of Annie Leibovitz and Herb Ritts.
1925 Benny Benjamin

Benny Benjamin

American R&B drummer (died 1969)
William "Benny" Benjamin, nicknamed Papa Zita, was an American musician, most notable as the primary drummer for the Motown Records studio band The Funk Brothers. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2003 and was named the eleventh best drummer of all time by Rolling Stone magazine in 2016.
1995 Alvin Kamara

Alvin Kamara

American football player
Alvin Mentian Kamara is an American professional football running back for the New Orleans Saints of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Tennessee Volunteers after transferring from Hutchinson Community College and was selected by the Saints in the third round of the 2017 NFL draft. Kamara was named the NFL Rookie of the Year in 2017, was named a Pro Bowler in his first five NFL seasons, and is a two-time second-team All-Pro. In 2020, Kamara became the second player in NFL history to score six rushing touchdowns and 36 points in a single game. Four years later, he became the Saints' all-time rushing leader.
1941 Nate Thurmond

Nate Thurmond

American basketball player (died 2016)
Nathaniel Thurmond was an American professional basketball player who spent the majority of his 14-year career in the National Basketball Association (NBA) with the Golden State Warriors franchise. He played the center and power forward positions. Thurmond was a seven-time All-Star and the first player in NBA history to record an official quadruple-double. In 1965, he grabbed 42 rebounds in a game; only Wilt Chamberlain and Bill Russell recorded more rebounds in an NBA game. Thurmond was named a member of the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 1985, one of the 50 Greatest Players in NBA History, and part of the NBA 75th Anniversary Team in 2021.
1973 Igli Tare

Igli Tare

Albanian footballer
Igli Tare is an Albanian football executive and former professional footballer who played as a forward. He was most recently the sporting director of Serie A club Milan.
1920 Rosalind Franklin

Rosalind Franklin

English biophysicist, chemist, and academic. Contributor to basic research of DNA. (died 1958)
Rosalind Elsie Franklin was an English chemist and X-ray crystallographer. Her work was central to the understanding of the molecular structures of DNA, RNA, viruses, coal, and graphite. Although her works on coal and viruses were appreciated in her lifetime, Franklin's contributions to the discovery of the structure of DNA were largely unrecognised during her life, for which Franklin has been variously referred to as the "wronged heroine", the "dark lady of DNA", the "forgotten heroine", a "feminist icon", and the "Sylvia Plath of molecular biology". James Watson believed that, had she not died, ideally, Franklin would have been awarded a Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
1957 Mark Hunter

Mark Hunter

English politician
Mark James Hunter is a British Liberal Democrat politician and former leader of Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council who became Member of Parliament (MP) for Cheadle at a 2005 by-election. At the 2015 general election, Hunter lost his seat to Mary Robinson of the Conservative Party. Hunter then returned to Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council, and served as the leader of from 19 May 2022 to 21 May 2025. As leader he was also a member of the Greater Manchester Combined Authority and was the combined authority's portfolio holder for Children and Young People. He has continued to serve as Councillor for Cheadle Hulme South.
1016

Casimir I the Restorer

duke of Poland (died 1058)
Casimir I the Restorer, a member of the Piast dynasty, was the duke of Poland from 1040 until his death. Casimir was the son of Mieszko II Lambert and Richeza of Lotharingia. He is known as the Restorer because he managed to reunite parts of the Kingdom of Poland after a period of turmoil. He reintegrated Masovia, Silesia and Pomerania. However, he failed to crown himself King of Poland, mainly because of internal and external threats to his rule.
1908 Bill Bowes

Bill Bowes

English cricketer (died 1987)
William Eric Bowes was an English professional cricketer active from 1929 to 1947 who played in 372 first-class matches as a right arm fast bowler and a right-handed tail end batsman. He took 1,639 wickets with a best performance of nine for 121 and completed ten wickets in a match 27 times. He scored 1,531 runs with a highest score of 43* and is one of very few major players whose career total of wickets taken exceeded his career total of runs scored. He did not rate himself as a fielder but he nevertheless held 138 catches.
1967 Matt LeBlanc

Matt LeBlanc

American actor and producer
Matthew Steven LeBlanc is an American actor. He gained global recognition with his portrayal of Joey Tribbiani in the NBC sitcom Friends (1994–2004), and in its spin-off series Joey (2004–2006). For his work on Friends, LeBlanc received three nominations at the Primetime Emmy Awards. He has also starred as a fictionalized version of himself in Episodes (2011–2017), for which he won a Golden Globe Award and received four additional Emmy Award nominations. He co-hosted Top Gear from 2016 to 2019. From 2016 to 2020, he played patriarch Adam Burns in the CBS sitcom Man with a Plan.
1937 Colin Renfrew

Colin Renfrew

Baron Renfrew of Kaimsthorn, English archaeologist and academic (died 2024)
Andrew Colin Renfrew, Baron Renfrew of Kaimsthorn was a British archaeologist, paleolinguist and Conservative peer noted for his work on radiocarbon dating, the prehistory of languages, archaeogenetics, neuroarchaeology, and the prevention of looting at archaeological sites.
1953 Robert Zoellick

Robert Zoellick

American banker and politician, 14th United States Deputy Secretary of State
Robert Bruce Zoellick is an American lawyer and government official who was the 11th president of the World Bank Group from 2007 to 2012. He was previously chairman of international advisors at Goldman Sachs from 2006 to 2007, United States Deputy Secretary of State from 2005 to 2006, and U.S. Trade Representative from 2001 to 2005. Prior to those posts, from 1985 to 2001, he served in the administrations of Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush, and the presidential campaign of George W. Bush, in addition to positions in various think tanks and academia.
1857 Frank J. Sprague

Frank J. Sprague

American naval officer and inventor (died 1934)
Frank Julian Sprague was an American inventor who contributed to the development of the electric motor, electric railways, and electric elevators. His contributions were especially important in promoting urban development by increasing the size cities could reasonably attain and by allowing greater concentration of business in commercial sections. He became known as the "father of electric traction". Demonstrating an aptitude for science and mathematics, Sprague secured an appointment to the U.S. Naval Academy in 1874 and, after graduation in 1878 and two years at sea, resigned to pursue his career in electrical engineering.
1861 Andrew Lawson

Andrew Lawson

Scottish-Canadian Geologist, first to identify and name the San Andreas Fault (died 1952)
Andrew Cowper Lawson was a Scots-born Canadian geologist who became professor of geology at the University of California, Berkeley. He was the editor and co-author of the 1908 report on the 1906 San Francisco earthquake which became known as the "Lawson Report". He was also the first person to identify and name the San Andreas Fault in 1895, and after the 1906 quake, the first to delineate the entire length of the San Andreas Fault which previously had been noted only in the San Francisco Bay Area. He also named the Franciscan Complex.
1896 Josephine Tey

Josephine Tey

Scottish author and playwright (died 1952)
Elizabeth MacKintosh, known by the pen name Josephine Tey, was a Scottish author. She is known for her Inspector Alan Grant series, which started with The Man in the Queue (1929). Her 1951 novel The Daughter of Time, from the same series, a detective work investigating the death of the Princes in the Tower, was chosen by the Crime Writers' Association in 1990 as the greatest crime novel of all time. Her first play Richard of Bordeaux, written under another pseudonym, Gordon Daviot, starred John Gielgud in its successful West End run.
1935 Larry Sherry

Larry Sherry

American baseball player and coach (died 2006)
Lawrence Sherry was an American professional baseball player and coach. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a right-handed relief pitcher from 1958 to 1968, most prominently as a member of the Los Angeles Dodgers and Detroit Tigers. He was named the Most Valuable Player of the 1959 World Series as the Dodgers won their first championship since relocating from Brooklyn just two years earlier. After his playing career, Sherry managed in the minor leagues before serving as a major league coach for the Pittsburgh Pirates and the California Angels.
1975 Brian Gibson

Brian Gibson

American bass player
Brian Gibson is an American musician, artist, and video game designer based in Providence, Rhode Island. Gibson is best known as the bassist for the band Lightning Bolt. In the summer of 2015 he co-founded the game development company Drool. At Drool, he created the art and music for the video game Thumper and co-designed the game alongside Marc Flury. Thumper was released with critical acclaim in October 2016. He was previously a lead artist working at video game company Harmonix since 2001, but quit in the summer of 2015.
1985 Shantel VanSanten

Shantel VanSanten

American actress and model
Shantel VanSanten is an American actress and model. On television, she played Quinn James in the CW teen drama series One Tree Hill; recurred as Becca Butcher in the Amazon Prime Original The Boys; and starred as Julie Swagger, the wife of lead character Bob Lee Swagger on the USA Network series Shooter. On film, she has appeared in The Final Destination, You and I, and Something Wicked. From 2019 to 2026, VanSanten starred as Karen Baldwin in the Apple TV+ science fiction space drama series For All Mankind.
1894 Walter Brennan

Walter Brennan

American actor (died 1974)
Walter Andrew Brennan was an American actor and singer. He won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for Come and Get It (1936), Kentucky (1938) and The Westerner (1940), making him the only person to win three awards in the supporting actor category. Brennan was also nominated for his performance in Sergeant York (1941). Other noteworthy performances were in To Have and Have Not (1944), My Darling Clementine (1946), Red River (1948) and Rio Bravo (1959). On television, he starred in the sitcom The Real McCoys (1957–1963).
1948 Steve Goodman

Steve Goodman

American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 1984)
Steven Benjamin Goodman was an American folk and country singer-songwriter from Chicago. He wrote the song "City of New Orleans", which was recorded by artists including Arlo Guthrie, John Denver, Willie Nelson, and Judy Collins. In 1985, Goodman received the Grammy songwriter award for best country song. Goodman co-wrote "You Never Even Call Me by My Name", which became the best-selling song of country musician David Allan Coe. A lifelong Chicago Cubs fan, Goodman wrote "Go Cubs Go". Goodman died of leukemia in September 1984.
2001 Bryce Young

Bryce Young

American football player
Bryce Christopher Young is an American professional football quarterback for the Carolina Panthers of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Alabama Crimson Tide, where he set the school single-game passing yards record with 559 yards and won the Heisman Trophy in 2021. Young was selected first overall by the Panthers in the 2023 NFL draft. In the 2025 season, he set the Panthers' single-game passing yards record and helped Carolina win its first NFC South title since 2015.
1967 Tommy Skjerven

Tommy Skjerven

Norwegian footballer and referee
Tommy Skjerven is a Norwegian football referee from Kaupanger. He debuted as a referee in 1984, and served as a FIFA referee from 2001 until 2012. He is no longer included on the FIFA list as of 2013, because he reached the international retirement age of 45 in 2012. Skjerven represents Kaupanger IL. Skjerven was the main referee in the cup final between Odd Grenland and Vålerenga in 2002. His day job is working for noreg.no in Hermansverk in Leikanger Municipality.
1979 Ahmed Tantawi

Ahmed Tantawi

Egyptian politician and journalist
Ahmed Mohamed Ramadan Tantawi known as Ahmed Tantawi also: Al-Tantawy is an Egyptian politician and journalist. As of July 2022, he was the former head of the Dignity Party and a former member of the Egyptian House of Representatives. In 2023, Tantawi announced his potential candidacy for the 2023 Egyptian presidential election but repressive tactics, including retaliatory detentions of his family members, supporters and campaign members, prevented his campaign from collecting the 25,000 voters' endorsements required to officially file his candidacy.
1974 Kenzo Suzuki

Kenzo Suzuki

Japanese rugby player and wrestler
Kenzo Suzuki is a Japanese professional wrestler. He is perhaps best known for his appearances with New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW), in Mexico with Asistencia Asesoría y Administración (AAA) and in the United States with World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE), where he was a one-time WWE Tag Team Champion in the latter company. He currently performs for All Japan Pro Wrestling (AJPW) under the ring name Kenso, where he is a one-time World Tag Team Champion and a one-time Gaora TV Champion.
1936 Glenn Murcutt

Glenn Murcutt

English-Australian architect and academic
Glenn Marcus Murcutt is an Australian architect. He has been the recipient of the 1992 Alvar Aalto Medal, the 2002 Pritzker Architecture Prize, the 2009 American Institute of Architects Gold Medal and the 2021 Praemium Imperiale. Glenn Murcutt works as a sole practitioner without staff, builds only within Australia and is known to be very selective with his projects. Being the only Australian winner of the prestigious Pritzker Prize, he is often referred to as Australia's most famous architect.
1994 Mathew Dumba

Mathew Dumba

Canadian ice hockey player
Mathew Dumba is a Canadian former professional ice hockey defenceman. Dumba was selected with the seventh overall pick by the Minnesota Wild in the first round of the 2012 NHL entry draft, with whom he spent his first ten seasons. He has also played for the Arizona Coyotes, Tampa Bay Lightning, Dallas Stars, and Pittsburgh Penguins. Dumba previously played junior with the Red Deer Rebels and briefly for the Portland Winterhawks of the Western Hockey League (WHL).
1966 Maureen Herman

Maureen Herman

American bass player
Maureen Herman is an American musician and writer. She rose to prominence as the second bassist of the alternative rock band Babes in Toyland, which she joined in 1992, replacing original bassist Michelle Leon. After Herman quit the band in 1996, she became a writer and remained out of the public light for several years. In 2015, she reunited with Babes in Toyland and embarked on an international tour before she was fired later that year.
1988 Sarah Geronimo

Sarah Geronimo

Filipino singer and actress
Sarah Asher Tua Geronimo-Guidicelli is a Filipina singer, record producer and actress. Known for her vocal versatility, genre-spanning repertoire, and commanding stage presence, Geronimo is widely regarded as one of the most influential figures and one of the defining voices in Philippine pop music. Credited with shaping pop music in the Philippines, Geronimo became a staple of Pinoy pop culture and is considered one of the greatest pop stars of all time in the country.
1964 Tony Granato

Tony Granato

American ice hockey player and coach
Anthony Lewis Granato is an American former professional ice hockey left winger and former head coach of the Wisconsin Badgers men's ice hockey team. He served as head coach of the United States men's national ice hockey team at the 2018 Winter Olympics. Previously, he was the head coach of the National Hockey League (NHL)'s Colorado Avalanche, as well as an assistant coach for the Detroit Red Wings and the Pittsburgh Penguins.
1987 Richard Bachman

Richard Bachman

American ice hockey player
Richard Harrison Bachman is an American former professional ice hockey goaltender who is currently the goaltending coach for the Iowa Wild of the American Hockey League (AHL). He played two seasons of college ice hockey at Colorado College before enjoying a career in the National Hockey League with the Dallas Stars, Edmonton Oilers and the Vancouver Canucks. Bachman was born in Salt Lake City, Utah, but grew up in Highlands Ranch, Colorado.
1922 John B. Goodenough

John B. Goodenough

American materials scientist, physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2023)
John Bannister Goodenough was an American materials scientist, a solid-state physicist, and a Nobel laureate in chemistry. From 1986 he was a professor of Materials Science, Electrical Engineering and Mechanical Engineering, at the University of Texas at Austin. He is credited with identifying the Goodenough–Kanamori rules of the sign of the magnetic superexchange in materials, with developing materials for computer random-access magnetic memory and with inventing cathode materials for lithium-ion batteries.
1914 Woody Strode

Woody Strode

American football player and actor (died 1994)
Woodrow Wilson Woolwine Strode was an American athlete, actor, and author. He was a decathlete and football star who was one of the first Black American players in the National Football League (NFL) in the postwar era. After football, he went on to become a film actor, where he was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in Spartacus in 1960.
975 Thietmar

Thietmar

bishop of Merseburg (died 1018)
Thietmar, Prince-Bishop of Merseburg from 1009 until his death in 1018, was an important chronicler recording the reigns of German kings and Holy Roman Emperors of the Ottonian (Saxon) dynasty. Two of Thietmar's great-grandfathers, both referred to as Liuthar, were the Saxon nobles Lothar II, Count of Stade, and Lothar I, Count of Walbeck. They were both killed fighting the Slavs at the Battle of Lenzen.
1867 Max Dauthendey

Max Dauthendey

German author and painter (died 1918)
Max Dauthendey was a German author and painter of the impressionist period. He was born in Würzburg and died in Malang. Together with Richard Dehmel and Eduard von Keyserling, he is regarded as one of the most influential authors of that period. Dauthendey was stranded in Java at the outbreak of World War One. Attempts to provide him with a safe passage back to Germany failed.
1979

Juan Pablo Di Pace

Argentine actor
Juan Pablo Di Pace is an Argentine actor. He began his career in the United Kingdom, performing in a number of musicals and appearing in films like Survival Island (2005) and Mamma Mia! (2008). He later moved to Spain, starring in several television series from 2009 to 2012. In 2013, Di Pace moved to Los Angeles where he starred as Nicolas Treviño in the TNT drama series Dallas. And in 2014, he was cast as Jesus Christ in the NBC limited series A.D. The Bible Continues which earned him a Movieguide Award for Best Male Performance. From 2016 to 2020, he played the role of Kimmy Gibbler's estranged husband, Fernando, on Fuller House, a spin-off series of Full House. In 2024, Juan Pablo wrote, co-directed and starred in the film Duino, his directorial debut feature alongside Andres P. Estrada (co-director) and executive produced by Norman Lear.
1878 Masaharu Anesaki

Masaharu Anesaki

Japanese philosopher and scholar (died 1949)
Masaharu Anesaki , also known under his pen name "Chōfū Anesaki" , was a leading Japanese intellectual and scholar of the Meiji period. Anesaki is credited as being the father of religious studies in Japan, but also wrote on a variety of subjects including culture, literature, and politics. He was also a member of the International Committee on Intellectual Cooperation of the League of Nations.
1915 Joseph P. Kennedy Jr.

Joseph P. Kennedy Jr.

American lieutenant and pilot (died 1944)
Joseph Patrick Kennedy Jr. was an American naval aviator who was a lieutenant in the U.S. Navy. He was a member of the Kennedy family and the oldest of the nine children born to Joseph P. Kennedy Sr. and Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy. During World War II, Kennedy was killed in action while serving as a land-based patrol bomber pilot, and posthumously awarded the Navy Cross.
1987 Jax Jones

Jax Jones

English DJ, singer and songwriter
Timucin Lam, known professionally as Jax Jones, is an English DJ and record producer. He rose to prominence in 2014 by featuring on Duke Dumont's number-one single "I Got U". He followed this with his own singles, "You Don't Know Me" featuring Raye in 2016, and "Instruction" featuring Demi Lovato and Stefflon Don in 2017. Jax's debut studio album, Snacks (Supersize) was released in 2019.
1923 Maria Gripe

Maria Gripe

Swedish journalist and author (died 2007)
Maria Gripe, born Maja Stina Walter, was a Swedish author of books for children and young adults, which were often written in magical and mystical tone. She has written almost forty books, with many of her characters presented in short series of three or four books. For her lasting contribution to children's literature, she received the Hans Christian Andersen Medal for Writing in 1974.
1978 Gerard Warren

Gerard Warren

American football player
Gerard Thurston Warren is an American former professional football player who was a defensive tackle in the National Football League (NFL) for eleven seasons. He played college football for the University of Florida. He was selected by the Cleveland Browns third overall in the 2001 NFL draft, and also played professionally for the Denver Broncos, Oakland Raiders and New England Patriots of the NFL.
1886 Edward Cummins

Edward Cummins

American golfer (died 1926)
Edward McClellan Cummins was an American golfer who competed in the 1904 Summer Olympics. In 1904 he was part of the American team which won the gold medal. He finished 25th in this competition. In the individual competition he finished 25th in the qualification and was eliminated in the first round of the match play. He died in a car accident in 1926.
1943 Jim McCarty

Jim McCarty

English singer and drummer
James Stanley McCarty is an English drummer, best known as a member of the Yardbirds and Renaissance. McCarty has performed and recorded as a drummer and occasional singer with the Yardbirds, Together, Renaissance, Shoot, Illusion, Box of Frogs, the British Invasion All-Stars, and Pilgrim. He was also a keyboardist for Stairway and, under his own name, a guitarist in the Jim McCarty Band.
2002 Alperen Şengün

Alperen Şengün

Turkish basketball player
Alperen Şengün is a Turkish professional basketball player for the Houston Rockets of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He also represents the senior Turkish national team. Known for his post skills and creative playmaking abilities, Şengün was selected with the 16th overall pick in the first round of the 2021 NBA draft. He was named to his first NBA All-Star Game in 2025.
1939 S. Ramadoss

S. Ramadoss

Indian politician
S. Ramadoss is an Indian politician from Tamil Nadu. He is the founder and president of the Pattali Makkal Katchi. In 2025, following a months long dispute with his son, Dr. Anbumani Ramadoss, he formed Anaithindhiya Jananayaka Padhugappu Kazhagam, a splinter faction of the original PMK party. The dispute ended with both of them getting reunited and thereby, disbanding the splinter faction.
1952 Eduardo Souto de Moura

Eduardo Souto de Moura

Portuguese architect, designed the Estádio Municipal de Braga
Eduardo Elísio Machado Souto de Moura, better known as Eduardo Souto de Moura, is a Portuguese architect who was the recipient of the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 2011 and the Wolf Prize in Arts in 2013. Along with Fernando Távora and Álvaro Siza, he is one of the alumni of the Porto School of Architecture, where he was appointed a professor.
1985 Nelson Piquet Jr.

Nelson Piquet Jr.

Brazilian race car driver
Nelson Ângelo Tamsma Piquet Souto Maior, also known as Nelson Piquet Jr. or Nelsinho Piquet, is a Brazilian stock car racing driver and former Formula One and Formula E driver where he was champion in the 2014–15 season. He currently competes full-time in the Brazilian Stock Car Pro Series, driving the No. 33 Toyota Corolla E210 for Motul TMG Racing.
1918 Jane Frank

Jane Frank

American painter and sculptor (died 1986)
Jane Schenthal Frank was an American multidisciplinary artist, known as a painter, sculptor, mixed media artist, illustrator, and textile artist. Her landscape-like, mixed-media abstract paintings are included in public collections, including those of the Corcoran Gallery of Art, the Baltimore Museum of Art, and the Smithsonian American Art Museum. She studied with artists, Hans Hofmann and Norman Carlberg.
1928 Mario Montenegro

Mario Montenegro

Filipino actor (died 1988)
Mario Montenegro was a Filipino actor and painter. He rose to stardom during the Golden Age of Philippine cinema as a heroic lead in historical and adventure films. He was dubbed "Brown Adonis" for his physique and portraying a number of culturally important Philippine figures, including Diego Silang, Andres Bonifacio, Macario Sakay, Ramon Magsaysay, Francisco Dagohoy, and Lapulapu.
1966 Daryl Halligan

Daryl Halligan

New Zealand rugby player and sportscaster
Daryl John Halligan is a rugby league commentator and former professional rugby player. A New Zealand international winger, he was the preeminent goal-kicker of his era, retiring as the highest point scorer in Australian premiership history. Halligan played club football in Australia for the North Sydney Bears and Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs, winning the 1995 ARL Premiership with the latter.
1975 Evgeni Nabokov

Evgeni Nabokov

Russian ice hockey player
Yevgeni Viktorovich Nabokov is a Kazakh-born Russian former professional ice hockey goaltender who played for the San Jose Sharks, New York Islanders, and Tampa Bay Lightning of National Hockey League (NHL) and for Torpedo Ust-Kamenogorsk, Dynamo Moscow, Metallurg Magnitogorsk and SKA Saint Petersburg of the Russian Super League (RSL) and Kontinental Hockey League (KHL) from 1991 to 2015.
1958 Thurston Moore

Thurston Moore

American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
Thurston Joseph Moore is an American musician, best known as guitarist and vocalist of alternative rock band Sonic Youth. He has participated in many solo and group collaborations outside Sonic Youth, as well as running the Ecstatic Peace! record label. Moore was ranked 34th in Rolling Stone's 2004 edition of the "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time".
1974 Lauren Faust

Lauren Faust

American animator, producer, and screenwriter
Lauren J. Faust is an American animator, writer, director, and producer. She is known for developing the animated series My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic and DC Super Hero Girls. Faust has collaborated with her husband Craig McCracken on his four animated series The Powerpuff Girls, Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends, Wander Over Yonder, and Kid Cosmic.
1982 Jason Dundas

Jason Dundas

Australian TV host
Jason Dundas is an Australian-born television presenter, actor, producer and director, known for his roles as special correspondent for CBS's Entertainment Tonight, the host of The X Factor Australia in 2016, host of America's Best Dance Crew on MTV, VH1's Big Morning Buzz Live, travel series Getaway in Australia, and the founder and director of Dundas Media.
1291 Hawys Gadarn

Hawys Gadarn

Welsh noblewoman (died 1353)
Hawys Gadarn ferch Owain or Hawise de la Pole was the daughter of Owen de la Pole and the heir to Powys Wenwynwyn in Wales. She was married to John Charleton after seeking the intervention of Edward II of England to support her inheritance against the schemes of four of her uncles to take her lands.
1932 Paul J. Weitz

Paul J. Weitz

American astronaut (died 2017)
Paul Joseph Weitz was an American naval officer and aviator, aeronautical engineer, test pilot, and NASA astronaut, who flew into space twice. He was a member of the three-man crew who flew on Skylab 2, the first crewed Skylab mission. He was also commander of the STS-6 mission, the maiden flight of the Space Shuttle Challenger.
1984 Zawe Ashton

Zawe Ashton

British actress
Zawedde Emma Muwanga-Ashton is a British actress and playwright. She gained recognition for her roles in the comedy dramas Fresh Meat and Not Safe for Work, the Netflix horror thriller film Velvet Buzzsaw, and for her portrayal of Joyce Carol Vincent in Dreams of a Life (2011). She also portrayed Dar-Benn in The Marvels (2023).
1404 Philip I

Philip I

Duke of Brabant (died 1430)
Philip of Saint-Pol was the younger son of Duke Anthony of Brabant and Joan of Saint-Pol. He succeeded his brother John IV as duke of Brabant in 1427, while he had inherited Saint-Pol and Ligny as an appanage on the death of his maternal grandfather, Waleran III of Luxembourg, Count of Ligny, in 1415.
1882 George S. Rentz

George S. Rentz

American commander (died 1942)
George Snavely Rentz was a United States Navy chaplain who served during World War I and World War II. For selfless heroism following the loss of USS Houston (CA-30) in the Battle of Sunda Strait, he was posthumously awarded the Navy Cross— the only Navy Chaplain to be so honored during World War II.
1979 Ali Carter

Ali Carter

English snooker player
Allister Carter is an English professional snooker player. He has twice been a World Championship finalist, in 2008 and 2012, losing both finals to Ronnie O'Sullivan. He has won seven ranking titles and briefly reached number two in the world rankings in 2010. His nickname, "The Captain", comes from his hobby of piloting aeroplanes.
1992 Jordan Martinook

Jordan Martinook

Canadian ice hockey player
Jordan Martinook is a Canadian professional ice hockey player who is a left winger and alternate captain for the Carolina Hurricanes of the National Hockey League (NHL). He was selected by the Phoenix Coyotes in the second round of the 2012 NHL entry draft. Martinook won the Stanley Cup with the Hurricanes in 2026.
2000 Zhang Hao

Zhang Hao

Chinese singer
Zhang Hao is a Chinese singer based in South Korea and signed under YH Entertainment. He was a member of the South Korean boy band Zerobaseone from its debut in July 2023 until his contract expired in March 2026. He re-debuted as a member of the boy group And2ble under YH Entertainment in 2026.
1984 Loukas Mavrokefalidis

Loukas Mavrokefalidis

Greek basketball player
Loukas Mavrokefalidis is a Greek former professional basketball player. He has also represented the senior Hellenic national team. Born in Jeseník, Czechoslovakia, he is a 2.10 m, 120 kg (265 lbs.) power forward and center. He was selected by the Minnesota Timberwolves in the 2nd round of the 2006 NBA draft.
1633 Joseph Williamson

Joseph Williamson

English politician (died 1701)
Sir Joseph Williamson, PRS was an English civil servant, diplomat and politician who sat in the House of Commons of England variously between 1665 and 1701 and in the Irish House of Commons between 1692 and 1699. He was Secretary of State for the Northern Department from 1674 to 1679.
1753 Santiago de Liniers

Santiago de Liniers

1st Count of Buenos Aires, French-Spanish captain and politician, 10th Viceroy of the Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata (died 1810)
Santiago Antonio María de Liniers y Bremond, 1st Count of Buenos Aires, KOM, OM was a Spanish military officer and a viceroy of the Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata. Although born Jacques de Liniers in France, he is more widely known by the Spanish form of his name.
1797 Princess Augusta of Hesse-Kassel (died 1889)

Princess Augusta of Hesse-Kassel (died 1889)

Princess Augusta of Hesse-Kassel was the wife of Prince Adolphus, Duke of Cambridge, the tenth-born child and seventh son of George III of the United Kingdom and Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz. The longest-lived daughter-in-law of George III, she was the maternal grandmother of Mary of Teck, wife of George V.
1870 Maxfield Parrish

Maxfield Parrish

American painter and illustrator (died 1966)
Maxfield Parrish was an American painter and illustrator active in the first half of the 20th century. His works featured distinctive saturated hues and idealized neo-classical imagery. The National Museum of American Illustration deemed his painting Daybreak (1922) to be the most successful art print of the 20th century.
1988 John Goossens

John Goossens

Dutch footballer
John Goossens is a Dutch former professional footballer who mainly played as a defensive midfielder, although he was capable of playing in several positions in midfield, and even as a left winger. Since his retirement from football in 2022, he has worked as a financial counsellor for professional footballers.
1995 Maria Sakkari

Maria Sakkari

Greek tennis player
Maria Sakkari is a Greek professional tennis player. She has been ranked as high as No. 3 by the WTA, which she first achieved on 21 March 2022, making her the highest-ranked Greek women's tennis player. Her career-best doubles ranking is world No. 169, achieved on 9 September 2019.
1925 Jutta Zilliacus

Jutta Zilliacus

Finnish journalist and politician (died 2026)
Jutta Armelle Zilliacus was a Finnish-Estonian journalist and author in the Swedish language. She was also a politician, and served as a member of Parliament for the Swedish People's Party for Helsinki from 1975 to 1987 and a member of the Helsinki City Council from 1968 to 1984.
1946 Rita Marley

Rita Marley

Cuban-Jamaican singer
Alfarita Constantia "Rita" Marley is a Jamaican reggae singer. She is the widow of reggae musician Bob Marley. Along with Marcia Griffiths and Judy Mowatt, Rita was a member of the reggae vocal group the I Threes, and the backing vocalists for Bob Marley and the Wailers.
1996 Jaafar Jackson

Jaafar Jackson

American actor and singer
Jaafar Jeremiah Jackson is an American actor and singer. A member of the Jackson family, he released his debut single "Got Me Singing" in 2019 but gained popularity for portraying his uncle Michael Jackson in the record-breaking biographical film Michael (2026) which grossed over $1 billion globally.
1929 Somnath Chatterjee

Somnath Chatterjee

Indian lawyer and politician, 14th Speaker of the Lok Sabha (died 2018)
Somnath Chatterjee was an Indian politician who was associated with the Communist Party of India (Marxist) for most of his life, though he had been a non affiliated independent during his last decade. He was the Speaker of the Lok Sabha from 2004 to 2009.
1925 Jerry Paris

Jerry Paris

American actor and director (died 1986)
William Gerald Paris was an American actor and director best known for playing Jerry Helper, the dentist and next-door neighbor of Rob and Laura Petrie on The Dick Van Dyke Show, and for directing the majority of the episodes of the sitcom Happy Days.
1865 Jac. P. Thijsse

Jac. P. Thijsse

Dutch botanist and conservationist (died 1945)
Jacobus Pieter Thijsse was a Dutch conservationist and botanist. He founded the Society for Preservation of Nature Monuments in the Netherlands. Along with Eli Heimans and Johannes Bernink, he was active in a period of revival of biological education known as biologisch reveil.
1967 Wendy Raquel Robinson

Wendy Raquel Robinson

American actress
Wendy Raquel Robinson is an American actress. She is best known for her roles as high school principal Regina "Piggy" Grier on The WB comedy sitcom The Steve Harvey Show (1996–2002), and as sports agent Tasha Mack on The CW/BET/Paramount+ comedy-drama The Game.
1989 Natalia Vieru

Natalia Vieru

Russian basketball player
Natalia Stanislavovna Vieru is a Russian former basketball player. She is a member of the Russia women's national basketball team and competed in the 2012 Summer Olympics. Vieru played last for the Russian club UMMC Ekaterinburg as a center from 2015 to 2020.
1994 Andrei Vasilevskiy

Andrei Vasilevskiy

Russian ice hockey player
Andrei Andreyevich Vasilevskiy is a Russian professional ice hockey player who is a goaltender for the Tampa Bay Lightning of the National Hockey League (NHL). He was drafted in the first round, 19th overall, by the Lightning at the 2012 NHL entry draft.
1336 Albert I

Albert I

Duke of Bavaria (died 1404)
Albert I, Duke of Lower Bavaria was a feudal ruler of the counties of Holland, Hainaut, and Zeeland in the Low Countries. Additionally, he held a portion of the Bavarian province of Straubing, his Bavarian ducal line's appanage and seat, Lower Bavaria.
1562 Katō Kiyomasa

Katō Kiyomasa

Japanese warlord (died 1611)
Katō Kiyomasa was a Japanese daimyō of the Azuchi–Momoyama and Edo periods. His court title was Higo no Kami . His name as a child was Yashamaru, and first name was Toranosuke. He was one of Hideyoshi's Seven Spears of Shizugatake.
1941 Manny Charlton

Manny Charlton

Spanish-born Scottish rock musician and songwriter (died 2022)
Manuel Charlton was a Scottish musician, record producer and founding member of the Scottish hard rock band Nazareth. He was the band's lead guitarist from 1968 to 1990. He also produced Nazareth albums in the 1970s, including Hair of the Dog.
1953 Walter Payton

Walter Payton

American football player and race car driver (died 1999)
Walter Jerry Payton was an American professional football running back who played in the National Football League (NFL) for 13 seasons with the Chicago Bears. Nicknamed "Sweetness", he is widely regarded as one of the greatest football players of all time.
1988 Paulinho

Paulinho

Brazilian footballer
José Paulo Bezerra Maciel Júnior, known as Paulinho, is a Brazilian former professional footballer who played as a midfielder. He was known for his physicality, stamina, late attacking runs into the penalty area and ability to contribute both defensively and offensively.
2000 Meg Donnelly

Meg Donnelly

American actress
Meg Elizabeth Donnelly is an American actress and singer. She played Taylor Otto in the ABC sitcom American Housewife (2016–2021), Addison Wells in the Disney Channel film series Zombies (2018–2025), and Mary Campbell in the CW television series The Winchesters (2022–2023).
1951 Verdine White

Verdine White

American bass player and producer
Verdine Adams White is an American musician, best known as a founding member and bassist for the band Earth, Wind & Fire. White was placed at No. 19 on Rolling Stone's list of "The 50 Greatest Bassists of All Time".
1997 Nat Butcher

Nat Butcher

Australian rugby league player
Nathaniel Zane Butcher is an Australian professional rugby league footballer who plays as a second-rower and lock for the Sydney Roosters in the National Rugby League (NRL). He won NRL premierships with the Roosters in 2019 and 2026.
1486 Albrecht VII

Albrecht VII

Duke of Mecklenburg (died 1547)
Albrecht VII, the Handsome, Duke of Mecklenburg in Güstrow, was a minor ruler in North Germany of the 16th century. He also asserted claims to Scandinavian thrones based on the royal lineage of the House of Mecklenburg.
1884 Davidson Black

Davidson Black

Canadian paleoanthropologist, discovered and named the Peking Man fossil (died 1934)
Davidson Black was a Canadian paleoanthropologist, best known for his naming of Sinanthropus pekinensis. He was Chairman of the Geological Survey of China and a Fellow of the Royal Society. He was known as 步達生 in China.
1976 Javier Vázquez

Javier Vázquez

Puerto Rican-American baseball player
Javier Carlos Vázquez is a Puerto Rican former Major League Baseball starting pitcher. He played for the Montreal Expos (1998–2003), New York Yankees, Arizona Diamondbacks (2005), Chicago White Sox (2006–2008), Atlanta Braves (2009), and Florida Marlins (2011).
1261 Arthur II

Arthur II

Duke of Brittany (died 1312)
Arthur II, of the House of Dreux, was Duke of Brittany from 1305 to his death. He was the first son of John II and Beatrice, daughter of Henry III of England and Eleanor of Provence.
1605 Theodore Haak

Theodore Haak

German scholar (died 1690)
Theodore Haak was a German Calvinist scholar, resident in England in later life. Haak's communications abilities and interests in the new science provided the backdrop for convening the "1645 Group", a precursor of the Royal Society.
1806 Maria Weston Chapman

Maria Weston Chapman

American abolitionist (died 1885)
Maria Weston Chapman was an American abolitionist. She was elected to the executive committee of the American Anti-Slavery Society in 1839 and from 1839 until 1842, she served as editor of the anti-slavery journal The Non-Resistant.
1960 Alain Robidoux

Alain Robidoux

Canadian snooker player
Alain Robidoux is a Canadian retired professional snooker player. Robidoux played on the sport's main tour from 1987 to 2004 and reached the final of the 1996 German Open, which he lost 7–9 to Ronnie O'Sullivan.
1994 Natalija Stevanović

Natalija Stevanović

Serbian tennis player
Natalija Stevanović is a Serbian inactive tennis player. She reached her best singles ranking of world No. 145 on 17 July 2023. On 6 May 2024, she peaked at No. 152 in the WTA doubles rankings.
1982 Brad Renfro

Brad Renfro

American actor and musician (died 2008)
Brad Barron Renfro was an American actor. He made his film debut at age 11 with a starring role in The Client (1994). Renfro went on to appear in 21 feature films, winning several awards.
1926 Beatriz Segall

Beatriz Segall

Brazilian actress (died 2018)
Beatriz Segall was a Brazilian actress. One of her most notable works is the role of Odete Roitman on the telenovela Vale Tudo (1988), considered the greatest villain in the history of Brazilian television.
1930 Murray Chapple

Murray Chapple

New Zealand cricketer and manager (died 1985)
Murray Ernest Chapple was a New Zealand cricketer. He played 14 Test matches over 13 years, scoring three fifties with a highest score of 76. He captained New Zealand in one Test in 1966.
1974 Julia Laffranque

Julia Laffranque

Estonian lawyer and judge
Julia Laffranque, is an Estonian jurist, judge, and legal scientist. She is a visiting professor of European law, justice at the Supreme Court of Estonia, judge at the European Court of Human Rights (2011-2020).
1981 Conor Casey

Conor Casey

American soccer player
Conor Patrick Casey is an American former soccer player. He played for 16 seasons as a forward, finishing his career with Columbus Crew SC, before turning to coaching with his former club Colorado Rapids.
1991 Toni Duggan

Toni Duggan

English footballer
Toni Duggan is an English former footballer who played as a winger or forward. During her career, she played in England for Everton and Manchester City, and in Spain for Barcelona and Atlético Madrid.
2000 Shakira Austin

Shakira Austin

American basketball player
Shakira Austin is an American professional basketball player for the Washington Mystics of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) and for the Rose of Unrivaled. She played college basketball at Maryland and Ole Miss.
1839 Francis Garnier

Francis Garnier

French captain and explorer (died 1873)
Marie Joseph François Garnier was a French officer, inspector of Indigenous Affairs of Cochinchina and explorer. He eventually became mission leader of the Mekong Exploration Commission in 19th century Southeast Asia.
1967 Ruth Peetoom

Ruth Peetoom

Dutch minister and politician
Gerhardine Ruth Peetoom is a Dutch politician of the Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA). She was the party chair of the Christian Democratic Appeal between 2 April 2011 and 9 February 2019.
2002 Equi Fernández

Equi Fernández

Argentine footballer
Ignacio Ezequiel Agustín Fernández Carballo, better known as Equi Fernández, is an Argentine professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Bundesliga club Bayer Leverkusen and the Argentina national team.
1921 Adolph Herseth

Adolph Herseth

American soldier and trumpet player (died 2013)
Adolph Sylvester "Bud" Herseth was principal trumpet in the Chicago Symphony Orchestra from 1948 until 2001, and served as principal trumpet emeritus from 2001 until his retirement in 2004.
1921 Lionel Terray

Lionel Terray

French mountaineer (died 1965)
Lionel Terray was a French climber who made many first ascents, including on the 1955 French Makalu expedition in the Himalaya and Cerro Fitz Roy in the Patagonian Andes.
1981 Finn Bálor

Finn Bálor

Irish wrestler
Fergal Devitt is an Irish professional wrestler. As of May 2014, he is signed to WWE, where he performs on the SmackDown brand under the ring name Finn Bálor.
1985 James Lafferty

James Lafferty

American actor and athlete
James Martin Lafferty is an American actor, director, and producer. He is best known for his portrayal of Nathan Scott on The WB/CW drama series One Tree Hill (2003–2012).
1949 Alaksandar Milinkievič

Alaksandar Milinkievič

Belarusian political dissident (died 2026)
Alaksandar Uładzimieravič Milinkievič was a Belarusian politician. He was nominated by the leading opposition parties in Belarus to run against incumbent Alexander Lukashenko in the 2006 presidential election.
1981 Jani Rita

Jani Rita

Finnish ice hockey player
Jani Markus Rita is a Finnish former professional ice hockey winger who last played with Jokerit of the Russian KHL, for whom he played most of his career.
1844 Thomas Eakins

Thomas Eakins

American painter, sculptor, and photographer (died 1916)
Thomas Cowperthwait Eakins was an American realist painter, photographer, sculptor, and fine arts educator. He is widely acknowledged to be one of the most important American artists.
1847 Paul Langerhans

Paul Langerhans

German pathologist, physiologist and biologist (died 1888)
Paul Langerhans was a German pathologist, physiologist and biologist, credited with the discovery of the cells that secrete insulin, named after him as the islets of Langerhans.
1927 Jean-Marie Seroney

Jean-Marie Seroney

Kenyan activist and politician (died 1982)
Jean-Marie Seroney was a Kenyan human rights advocate, legislator, and an Amnesty International prisoner of conscience. He was detained as a prisoner of conscience for 1,155 days.
1935 Gilbert Parent

Gilbert Parent

Canadian educator and politician, 33rd Speaker of the House of Commons of Canada (died 2009)
Gilbert "Gib" Parent was a Canadian member of Parliament. He is best known in his role as speaker of the House of Commons between 1994 and 2001.
1950 Mark Clarke

Mark Clarke

English singer-songwriter and bass player
Mark Clarke is an English bassist and singer, best known for his work with Colosseum and Mountain, as well as brief stints with Uriah Heep and Rainbow.
1975 Jody Craddock

Jody Craddock

English footballer and coach
Jody Darryl Craddock is an English former professional footballer and artist who played as a centre back in the Premier League for Sunderland and Wolverhampton Wanderers.
1980 Shawn Riggans

Shawn Riggans

American baseball player
Shawn Willis Riggans is an American former professional baseball catcher. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) from 2006 to 2009 for the Tampa Bay Rays.
1980 Toni Vilander

Toni Vilander

Finnish race car driver
Toni Markus Vilander is a Finnish professional racing driver who currently drives for the Risi Competizione Ferrari team in various categories of sports car racing.
1986 Hulk

Hulk

Brazilian footballer
Givanildo Vieira de Sousa, mononymously known as Hulk, is a Brazilian professional footballer who plays as a forward for Campeonato Brasileiro Série A club Fluminense.
1988 Stacey Kemp

Stacey Kemp

English skater
Stacey King is an English former competitive pair skater who represented Great Britain. With her husband David King, she is an eight-time British national champion.
1965

Dale Shearer

Australian rugby league player
Dale Shearer, also known by the nickname of "Rowdy", is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1980s and 1990s. A Queensland State of Origin and Australian international representative of Aboriginal heritage, he played club football in Queensland, New South Wales and England. His playing career included a NSWRL Premiership win with Manly-Warringah in 1987 and a Rugby League World Cup Final win in 1988. Ten years after his retirement, Shearer was still the all-time top try-scorer in State of Origin and he was named on the wing of the Indigenous Australian team of the century.
1935

John Robinson

American football player and coach (died 2024)
John Alexander Robinson was an American football coach best known for his two stints as head coach of the USC Trojans and for his tenure as the head coach for the Los Angeles Rams of the National Football League (NFL) from 1983 to 1991. Robinson's USC teams won four Rose Bowls and captured a share of the national championship in the 1978 season. Robinson is one of the few college football head coaches to have non-consecutive tenure at the same school. In 2009, he was elected to the College Football Hall of Fame.
1556

George Peele

English translator, poet, and dramatist (died 1596)
George Peele was an English translator, poet, and dramatist, who is most noted for his supposed, but not universally accepted, collaboration with William Shakespeare on the play Titus Andronicus. Many anonymous Elizabethan plays have been attributed to him, but his reputation rests mainly on Edward I, The Old Wives' Tale, The Battle of Alcazar, The Arraignment of Paris, and David and Bethsabe. The Troublesome Reign of John, King of England, the immediate source for Shakespeare's King John, has been published under his name.
1968

Shi Tao

Chinese journalist and poet
Shi Tao is a Chinese journalist, writer and poet, who in 2005 was sentenced to 10 years in prison for releasing a document of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) to an overseas Chinese democracy site. Yahoo! China was later discovered to have facilitated his arrest by providing his personal details to the Chinese government. Yahoo! was subsequently rebuked by a panel of the U.S. Congress, settled a lawsuit by Shi's family out of court, and pledged to reform its practices.
1984

Robert Clardy

American football coach
Robert Ira Clardy is an American high school football coach. He is the head football coach at Bolivar High School in Bolivar, Missouri, a position he has held since 2025. Clardy served as the head football coach at Southwest Baptist University from 2015 to 2024, compiling a record of 39–60 in ten seasons. He was an assistant coach at Southwest Baptist for seven seasons prior to his head-coaching tenure. He played college football for Southwest Baptist as a quarterback.
1581

Brian Twyne

English archivist (died 1644)
Brian Twyne was an English antiquary and an academic at the University of Oxford. After being educated at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, and becoming a Fellow of the college in 1606, he published his one main work, a history of the university, in 1608. This was designed to prove that Oxford was older than Cambridge University, and has been described by a modern writer as a "remarkable achievement for a young scholar of twenty-eight."
1971

Tracy Murray

American basketball player
Tracy Lamont Murray is an American former professional basketball player who works as an analyst with the UCLA Sports Network for all of the games during the UCLA Bruins' basketball season. Tracy is also a part-time analyst on the Slam Dunk Show on ABC7 Los Angeles. He worked as an assistant coach for the Los Angeles Lakers of the National Basketball Association (NBA) for the 2015–16 NBA season.
1923

Edgar Gilbert

American mathematician and theorist (died 2013)
Edgar Nelson Gilbert was an American mathematician and coding theorist, a longtime researcher at Bell Laboratories. His accomplishments include the Gilbert–Varshamov bound in coding theory, the Gilbert–Elliott model of bursty errors in signal transmission, the Erdős–Rényi–Gilbert model for random graphs, the Gilbert disk model of random geometric graphs, the Gilbert–Shannon–Reeds model of card shuffling, Gilbert tessellations, and the formulation of the Gilbert–Pollak conjecture on the Steiner ratio.
1940

Richard Ballantine

American-English journalist and author (died 2013)
Richard Ballantine was a cycling writer, journalist and cycling advocate. Born in America, the son of Ian and Betty Ballantine of Ballantine Books, and educated at the Browning School in New York and Columbia University, he principally resided in London, England. He wrote the popular Richard's Bicycle Book (1972) and its subsequent editions. He was an editor at Rufus Publications and founded several magazines including Bicycle magazine.
1908

Ambroise-Marie Carré

French priest and author (died 2004)
Ambroise-Marie Carré OP was a Catholic priest, author and member of the Académie française. Born in Fleury-les-Aubrais in Loiret, France, Carré studied at l'école Saint-Joseph and the collège Sainte-Croix de Neuilly before entering the Dominican order in 1926 and being ordained a priest in 1933. Not long thereafter, he was to edit, from 1936 until 1939, the Revue des Jeunes. Under the German Occupation, following the capitulation of the French government to the Nazis during the Second World War, Carré aided those persecuted by the Vichy government, regardless of their religion or ethnicity; for this, he was awarded the Légion d'honneur and the Croix de Guerre.
1924

Scotch Taylor

South African cricketer and hockey player (died 2004)
Alistair Innes "Scotch" Taylor was a South African sportsman who played first-class cricket and hockey for Transvaal, and captained the Transvaal cricket team for four seasons. Taylor represented South Africa in one cricket Test in 1956. He was an alumnus of the King Edward VII School, set up a squash section in the Old Edwardians club, and was elected president of the South African Hockey Union.
1927

Sadiq Hussain Qureshi

Pakistani politician, 10th Governor of Punjab (died 2000)
Nawab Sadiq Hussain Qureshi was a Pakistani politician who served as the eighth chief minister of Punjab from 1975 till Zia-ul-Haq's military coup in 1977. He also served as the governor of Punjab from 1974 to 1975. He was a close aide of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, and retired from all active politics after Bhutto's overthrow in the 1977 coup.
1934

Claude Zidi

French director and screenwriter
Claude Zidi is a French film director and screenwriter. From 1971, he became known as a director of comedies, the majority of which were box-office hits in France. He was one of France's most commercially successful directors between the 1970s and the 1990s. In 1985, he won the César Award for Best Director for his film My New Partner.
1962

Carin Bakkum

Dutch tennis player
Carin Bakkum is a Dutch former tennis player. During her career, Bakkum won two ITF singles titles as well as one WTA and 11 ITF doubles titles. She reached a singles ranking high of world number 141 on 27 March 1989, and on 22 June 1987, she reached a doubles ranking high of world number 69.
1980

David Wachs

American actor and producer
David Wachs is an American actor and musician. He was born and raised in Palm Desert, California to parents who were both musicians. He has appeared in several TV shows, including ER, Living with Fran, and Still Standing, as well as in films such as Hotel California (2008), and The Last Hurrah (2009), among others.
1926

Bernard Thompson

British television producer and director (died 1998)
Bernard Thompson was a British television producer and director most famous for his work on Last of the Summer Wine and Are You Being Served?. Thompson served as producer and director during Last of the Summer Wine's second series. Thompson also served as a director on Are You Being Served?.
1965

Marty Brown

American singer-songwriter and guitarist
Dennis Martin Brown is an American country music artist. Active between 1991 and 1996, he has released six studio albums and has charted one single on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts. Marty Brown and his wife, Shellie, currently reside in Simpson County, Franklin, Kentucky, since July 2004.
1929

Eddie Mazur

Canadian ice hockey player (died 1995)
Edward Joseph "Spider" Mazur was a Canadian ice hockey forward. He played in the National Hockey League with the Montreal Canadiens and Chicago Black Hawks between 1951 and 1956. The rest of his career, which lasted from 1948 to 1966, was spent in the minor leagues.
1975

Jean-Claude Darcheville

Guianan-French footballer
Jean-Claude Jacques Ducan Darcheville is a French former professional footballer who played as a striker. He played for various clubs in France, England, Scotland, and Greece. He represented French Guiana at the 2012 Caribbean Cup. He is currently the manager of the Saint Martin national team.
1964

Breuk Iversen

American designer and journalist
Breuk Iversen is an American designer and writer. He is known for launching 11211 Magazine and creating 2003 site-specific exhibit "Offal: Salon des Refuses", with Jan McLaughlin, at the Dam, Stuhltrager Gallery, that explored issues of economy, aesthetics, politics and popular culture through society's byproducts.
1905

Georges Grignard

French race car driver (died 1977)
Auguste Georges Paul Grignard was a racing driver from France. He raced in Formula One from 1947 to 1953, participating in one World Championship Grand Prix on 28 October 1951. He also participated in numerous non-Championship races, including winning the 1950 Paris Grand Prix.
1928

Nils Taube

Estonian-English businessman (died 2008)
Baron Nils Taube was Britain's longest serving fund manager. A colleague of George Soros and advisor to Lord Rothschild, he also anticipated the 1987 stockmarket crash, while delivering an annual return of 15 percent for over 35 years while he ran his own fund.
1980

Scott Waldrom

New Zealand rugby player
Scott Waldrom is a New Zealand former rugby union player. When Waldroms playing career finished in 2012 due to injury he was playing for the Waikato Chiefs in Super Rugby and Taranaki in the ITM Cup. He played in the openside flanker position.
1978

Louise Brown

English woman, first person to be born through in vitro fertilization
Louise Joy Brown is an English woman noted as the first human born following conception by in vitro fertilisation (IVF). Her birth, following a procedure pioneered in Britain, has been lauded among "the most remarkable medical breakthroughs of the 20th century".
1981

Mac Lethal

American rapper and producer
David McCleary Sheldon, known professionally as Mac Lethal, is an American rapper, songwriter and author from Kansas City, Missouri. He is the founder of Black Clover Records and formerly a radio host on KRBZ 96.5 the Buzz show Black Clover Radio.
1946

Ljupka Dimitrovska

Macedonian-Croatian pop singer (died 2016)
Ljupka Dimitrovska was a Macedonian-born Croatian singer. Internationally, she was best known for "Adio," written by Nikica Kalogjera and Ivica Krajač, which won the first prize at the 1970 Athens pop song festival. She died in Zagreb, aged 70.
1946

John Gibson

American radio host
John David Gibson is an American radio talk show host. As of September 2008, he hosts the syndicated radio program The John Gibson Show. He formerly co-hosted the weekday edition of The Big Story on Fox News.
1927

Midge Decter

American journalist and author (died 2022)
Midge Decter was an American journalist and author. Originally liberal, she was one of the pioneers of the neoconservative movement in the 1970s and 1980s. She was a critic of feminism and the women's liberation movement.
1916

Lucien Saulnier

Canadian lawyer and politician (died 1989)
Lucien Saulnier, was a Canadian politician. He was chair of the Montreal Urban Community during the October Crisis. He was also chairman and chief executive officer of the Société de développement industriel du Québec.
1968

Rudi Bryson

South African cricketer
Rudi Edwin Bryson is a former South African cricketer who played seven One Day Internationals in 1997. He also played in 96 first-class and 155 List A matches during his career.
1925

Dick Passwater

American race car driver (died 2020)
Richard Passwater was an American racecar driver who raced in NASCAR and USAC Stock Cars. He won the fifth race of the 1953 NASCAR Grand National Series at Charlotte Speedway.
1960

Māris Martinsons

Latvian film director, producer, screenwriter, and editor
Māris Martinsons is a Latvian film director, producer, screenwriter and film editor. From 1991 he has lived and worked in Lithuania, but moved back to his homeland Latvia in 2010.
1901

Ruth Krauss

American author and poet (died 1993)
Ruth Ida Krauss was an American writer of children's books, including The Carrot Seed, and of theatrical poems for adult readers. Many of her books are still in print.
1946

Nicole Farhi

French fashion designer and sculptor
Nicole Farhi, Lady Hare, CBE is a French former fashion designer. In mid-career in London, she took up sculpture and, on retirement from the fashion industry, became a sculptor.
1936

Gerry Ashmore

English race car driver (died 2021)
Joseph Frederick Harold Gerald "Gerry" Ashmore was a British motor racing driver from England. He participated in four Formula One World Championship Grands Prix, scoring no championship points.
1657

Philipp Heinrich Erlebach

German composer (died 1714)
Philipp Heinrich Erlebach was a German Baroque composer, a prolific writer of church music and secular music. Much of his work is lost due to a fire.
1905

Denys Watkins-Pitchford

English author and illustrator (died 1990)
Denys James Watkins-Pitchford MBE was an English naturalist, artist and author under the pen name 'BB'. He won the 1942 Carnegie Medal for The Little Grey Men.
1972

David Penna

Australian rugby league player and coach
David Penna is an Australian rugby league coach and former footballer who played for the Parramatta Eels and the South Sydney Rabbitohs during his long professional career.
1421 Henry Percy

Henry Percy

3rd Earl of Northumberland, English politician (died 1461)
Henry Percy, 3rd Earl of Northumberland, was an English magnate.
1450 Jakob Wimpfeling

Jakob Wimpfeling

Renaissance humanist (died 1528)
Jakob Wimpfeling was an Alsatian Renaissance humanist and theologian.
1498 Hernando de Aragón

Hernando de Aragón

Archbishop of Zaragoza (died 1575)
Hernando de Aragón y de Gurrea, OCist, Archbishop of Zaragoza and Lieutenant General of Aragon, was an Aragonese humanist and historian.
1532 Alphonsus Rodriguez

Alphonsus Rodriguez

Jesuit lay brother and saint (died 1617)
Alphonsus Rodríguez was a Spanish Jesuit religious brother who is venerated as a saint in the Catholic Church.
1573 Christoph Scheiner

Christoph Scheiner

German astronomer and Jesuit (died 1650)
Christoph Scheiner was a Jesuit priest, physicist and astronomer in Ingolstadt.
1642 Louis I

Louis I

Prince of Monaco (died 1701)
Louis I was Prince of Monaco from 1662 until 1701.
1654 Agostino Steffani

Agostino Steffani

Italian composer and diplomat (died 1728)
Agostino Steffani was an Italian bishop, polymath, diplomat and composer.
1658 Archibald Campbell

Archibald Campbell

1st Duke of Argyll, Scottish general (died 1703)
Archibald Campbell, 1st Duke of Argyll, 10th Earl of Argyll was a Scottish peer.
1683 Pieter Langendijk

Pieter Langendijk

Dutch playwright and poet (died 1756)
Pieter Langendijk was a damask weaver, city artist, dramatist, and poet.
1866

Frederick Blackman

English physiologist and academic (died 1947)
Frederick Frost Blackman FRS was a British plant physiologist.
1867 Alexander Rummler

Alexander Rummler

American painter (died 1959)
Alexander Joseph Rummler was an American painter best known for his work on murals and billboards.
1869 Platon

Platon

Estonian bishop and saint (died 1919)
Platon, born Paul Kulbusch, was an Estonian bishop and the first Orthodox saint of Estonian ethnicity.
1883 Alfredo Casella

Alfredo Casella

Italian pianist, composer, and conductor (died 1947)
Alfredo Casella was an Italian composer, pianist and conductor.
1895

Ingeborg Spangsfeldt

Danish actress (died 1968)
Ingeborg Spangsfeldt was a Danish film actress whose career began in the early 1910s until her retirement upon getting married in 1924.
1896 Jack Perrin

Jack Perrin

American actor and stuntman (died 1967)
Jack Perrin was an American actor specializing in Westerns.
1901 Lila Lee

Lila Lee

American actress and singer (died 1973)
Lila Lee was a prominent screen actress, primarily a leading lady, of the silent film and early sound film eras.
1905 Elias Canetti

Elias Canetti

Bulgarian-Swiss novelist, playwright, and memoirist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1994)
Elias Canetti was a German-language writer, known as a modernist novelist, playwright, memoirist, and nonfiction writer.
1915

S. U. Ethirmanasingham

Sri Lankan businessman and politician (date of death unknown)
Somasunderam Udayar Ethirmanasingham MBE was a Ceylon Tamil businessman and politician who served as a Member of Parliament.
1917 Fritz Honegger

Fritz Honegger

Swiss lawyer and politician (died 1999)
Fritz Honegger was a Swiss politician.
1926 Whitey Lockman

Whitey Lockman

American baseball player, coach, and manager (died 2009)
Carroll Walter "Whitey" Lockman was an American left-handed hitting first baseman and outfielder, coach, manager and front office executive in Major League Baseball.
1927 Daniel Ceccaldi

Daniel Ceccaldi

French actor, director, and screenwriter (died 2003)
Daniel Ceccaldi was a French actor.
1929

Judd Buchanan

Canadian businessman and politician, 36th Canadian Minister of Public Works
Julian Judd Buchanan is a Canadian former politician and businessman.
1930 Alice Parizeau

Alice Parizeau

Polish-Canadian journalist and criminologist (died 1990)
Alice Parizeau was a Polish-Canadian writer, essayist, journalist and criminologist.
1930 Herbert Scarf

Herbert Scarf

American economist and academic (died 2015)
Herbert Eli "Herb" Scarf was an American mathematical economist and Sterling Professor of Economics at Yale University.
1930 Maureen Forrester

Maureen Forrester

Canadian actress and singer (died 2010)
Maureen Kathleen Stewart Forrester was a Canadian operatic contralto.
1931

James Butler

English sculptor and educator (died 2022)
James Walter Butler MBE RA was a British sculptor most famous for his 1980 statue of Richard III in Leicester.
1935 Lars Werner

Lars Werner

Swedish lawyer and politician (died 2013)
Lars Helge Werner was a Swedish socialist politician.
1943 Erika Steinbach

Erika Steinbach

Polish-German politician
Erika Steinbach is a German right-wing politician. She previously served as a member of the Bundestag from 1990 until 2017.
1944

Sally Beauman

English journalist and author (died 2016)
Sally Vanessa Beauman was an English journalist and writer. She was the author of eight widely translated and best-selling novels.
1946

P. Selvarasa

Sri Lankan politician
Ponnambalam Selvarasa is a Sri Lankan Tamil politician and former Member of Parliament.
1953

Joseph A. Tunzi

Chicago based author, foremost expert on Elvis Presley
Joseph Anthony Tunzi is an American author, publisher, and producer, based in Chicago, Illinois.
1954

Jochem Ziegert

German footballer and manager
Jochem Ziegert is a former German footballer.
1954 Ken Greer

Ken Greer

Canadian guitarist, keyboard player, and producer
Kenneth William Greer is a Canadian guitarist and keyboardist. He is one of the founding members of the Canadian rock band Red Rider.
1954 Sheena McDonald

Sheena McDonald

Scottish journalist
Sheena Elizabeth McDonald is a Scottish journalist and broadcaster.
1955

Randall Bewley

American guitarist and songwriter (died 2009)
Randall Eugene Bewley was the guitarist for the Athens, Georgia-based band Pylon.
1957 Steve Podborski

Steve Podborski

Canadian skier
Stephen Gregory Podborski is a Canadian former World Cup and Olympic downhill ski racer.
1959 Fyodor Cherenkov

Fyodor Cherenkov

Russian footballer and manager (died 2014)
Fyodor Fyodorovich Cherenkov was a Soviet and Russian football midfielder who played for Spartak Moscow and Red Star Football Club (1990–91).
1961 Katherine Kelly Lang

Katherine Kelly Lang

American actress
Katherine Kelly Lang is an American actress. She has portrayed Brooke Logan in the CBS soap opera The Bold and the Beautiful since 1987.
1963 Denis Coderre

Denis Coderre

Canadian politician, 44th Mayor of Montreal
Denis Coderre is a Canadian politician who served as the 44th mayor of Montreal from 2013 to 2017.
1963 Julian Hodgson

Julian Hodgson

Welsh chess player
Julian Michael "Jules" Hodgson is a British chess player, grandmaster, and former British chess champion.
1965 Torey Lovullo

Torey Lovullo

American baseball player and coach
Salvatore Anthony "Torey" Lovullo is an American former professional baseball infielder and the current manager for the Arizona Diamondbacks of Major League Baseball (MLB).
1971 Roger Creager

Roger Creager

American singer-songwriter
Roger Creager is an American Texas country music singer and songwriter from Corpus Christi, Texas.
1973 David Denman

David Denman

American actor
David Denman is an American actor. He played Roy Anderson on the NBC sitcom The Office, which earned him a Screen Actors Guild Award.
1973 Kevin Phillips

Kevin Phillips

English footballer
Kevin Mark Phillips is an English former professional footballer who was most recently the head coach of National League club AFC Fylde.
1976

Jovica Tasevski-Eternijan

Macedonian poet and critic
Jovica Tasevski-Eternijan is a Macedonian poet, essayist and literary critic.
1976 Marcos Assunção

Marcos Assunção

Brazilian footballer
Marcos dos Santos Assunção is a Brazilian former professional footballer. A central midfielder, he was renowned as a world-class free kick specialist.
1977 Kenny Thomas

Kenny Thomas

American basketball player
Kenneth Cornelius Thomas is an American former professional basketball player who played eleven seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA).
1979

Tom Lungley

English cricketer and umpire
Tom Lungley is an English first-class cricketer and umpire. He is a left-handed batsman and a right-arm medium-pace bowler.
1981 Constantinos Charalambidis

Constantinos Charalambidis

Cypriot footballer
Constantinos Charalambidis is a Cypriot former professional footballer.
1981

Yūichi Komano

Japanese footballer
Yuichi Komano is a former Japanese professional footballer who last played as a defender. He played for Japan national team until 2013.
1983 Nenad Krstić

Nenad Krstić

Serbian basketball player
Nenad Krstić is a Serbian basketball executive and former professional player.
1985 Hugo Rodallega

Hugo Rodallega

Colombian footballer
Hugo Rodallega Martínez is a Colombian professional footballer who plays as a forward for Categoría Primera A club Santa Fe.
1986 Abraham Gneki Guié

Abraham Gneki Guié

Ivorian footballer
Abraham Gneki Guié Guié is an Ivorian former professional footballer who played as a winger or striker.
1987 Eran Zahavi

Eran Zahavi

Israeli footballer
Eran Zahavi is an Israeli former professional footballer who played as a forward.
1987 Fernando

Fernando

Brazilian footballer
Fernando Francisco Reges, known simply as Fernando, is a Brazilian former professional footballer who played as a defensive midfielder.
1987

Mitchell Burgzorg

Dutch footballer and rapper
Mitchell Burgzorg is a Dutch retired footballer and a rapper under the name Priester.
1988 Anthony Stokes

Anthony Stokes

Irish footballer
Anthony Christopher Stokes is an Irish former professional footballer who played as a striker.
1988 Tom Hiariej

Tom Hiariej

Dutch footballer
Tom Jan Hiariej is a Dutch former professional footballer who played as a defensive midfielder or right-back. He is of Moluccan descent.
1990

Thodoris Karapetsas

Greek footballer
Thodoris "Theodoros" Karapetsas is a Greek footballer.
1991 Hasan Piker

Hasan Piker

American Twitch streamer
Hasan Doğan Piker, known online as HasanAbi, is an American left-wing political commentator, Twitch streamer, and influencer.
1992

Sergei Simonov

Russian ice hockey player (died 2016)
Sergei Sergeevich Simonov was a Russian professional ice hockey player. He played with HC Lipetsk of the Russian Hockey League.
2002 Adam Hložek

Adam Hložek

Czech footballer
Adam Hložek is a Czech professional footballer who plays as a forward for Bundesliga club TSG Hoffenheim and the Czech Republic national team.

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