Famous Birthdays on July 29

Q: Who was born on July 29?

Famous people born on July 29 include: Muhammad al-Mahdi, Fujiwara no Norimichi, Henry II, Martin the Elder, Pedro Téllez-Girón.

Q: What is Fernando González known for?

Fernando González, Chilean tennis player

1980 — Fernando González

Chilean tennis player

July 29 has seen 221 notable people enter the world across recorded history — from 869 – 2003. Below are the most significant names born on this date.

By thisDay.info Editorial Team · July 29 — Wikipedia

Famous Birthdays 221 people 869 – 2003

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He contested his only major final at the 2007 Australian Open, losing to top-seeded Roger Federer

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González is the fourth man in history to have won an Olympic tennis medal in every color, with gold in doubles and bronze in singles at Athens 2004, and silver in singles at Beijing 2008

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The gold medal that González won partnering Nicolás Massú at the 2004 Olympics in men's doubles was Chile's first-ever Olympic gold medal

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Fernando Francisco González Ciuffardi is a Chilean former professional tennis player

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González qualified twice for the year-end Masters Cup event and was runner-up at two Masters Series tournaments

Muhammad al-Mahdi

The 12th Imam of Muslims (Shiites) (died 941)

Muhammad al-Mahdi is believed by the Twelver Shia to be the last of the Twelve Imams and the eschatological Mahdi, who will emerge in the end of time to establish peace and justice and redeem Islam.

869

Fujiwara no Norimichi

Japanese nobleman (died 1075)

Fujiwara no Norimichi , fifth son of Michinaga, was a kugyo of the Heian period. His mother was Minamoto no Rinshi, daughter of Minamoto no Masanobu. Regent Yorimichi, Empress Shōshi, Empress Kenshi were his brother and…

996

Henry II

French nobleman and king of Jerusalem (died 1197)

Henry II was the count of Champagne from 1181 and the lord of the Kingdom of Jerusalem from his marriage to Isabella I of Jerusalem in 1192 until his death in 1197. He was an assertive ruler and was especially popular…

1166

Martin the Elder

king of Aragon, Valencia and Majorca (died 1410)

Martin the Humane, also called the Elder and the Ecclesiastic, was King of Aragon, Valencia, Sardinia and Corsica and Count of Barcelona from 1396 and King of Sicily from 1409. He failed to secure the accession of his…

1356

Pedro Téllez-Girón

Spanish nobleman (died 1590)

Pedro Téllez-Girón, 1st Duke of Osuna, 5th count of Ureña was a Spanish nobleman and administrator.

1537

Philip II

duke of Pomerania-Stettin (died 1618)

Philip II, Duke of Pomerania-Stettin was from 1606 to 1618 the reigning duke of Pomerania-Stettin and is considered to be among of the most artistic of the Pomeranian dukes. He married Sophia of…

1573

Francesco Mochi

Italian sculptor (died 1654)

Francesco Mochi was an Italian early-Baroque sculptor active mostly in Rome, Piacenza and Orvieto. His dramatic early works in Orvieto are now often regarded as the first truly Baroque sculptures.

1580

Simon Dach

German poet and hymn-writer (died 1659)

Simon Dach was a German lyrical poet and hymnwriter, born in Memel, Duchy of Prussia.

1605

Johann Theile

German organist and composer (died 1724)

Johann Theile was a German composer of the Baroque era, famous for the opera Adam und Eva, Der erschaffene, gefallene und aufgerichtete Mensch, first performed in Hamburg on 2 January 1678.

1646

Giulio Maria della Somaglia

Italian cardinal (died 1830)

Giulio Maria della Somaglia was an Italian cardinal. and Secretary of State under Pope Leo XII. He was known as a staunch zelante cardinal who helped enforce an authoritarian regime in the crumbling Papal States.

1744

Philip Charles Durham

Scottish admiral and politician (died 1845)

Admiral Sir Philip Charles Henderson Calderwood Durham, GCB was a Royal Navy officer whose service in the American War of Independence, French Revolutionary War and Napoleonic Wars was lengthy, distinguished and at…

1763

Daniel Drew

American businessman and financier (died 1879)

Daniel Drew was an American businessman, steamship and railroad developer, and financier, one of the "robber barons" of the Gilded Age. Summarizing his life, Henry Clews wrote: "Of all the great operators of Wall Street…

1797

George Bradshaw

English cartographer and publisher (died 1853)

George Bradshaw was an English cartographer, engraver, printer and publisher. A devout Quaker, he developed Bradshaw's Guide, a widely sold series of combined railway guides and timetables.

1801

Alexis de Tocqueville

French historian and philosopher (died 1859)

Alexis Charles Henri Clérel, comte de Tocqueville, was a French diplomat, political philosopher and historian. He is best known for his works Democracy in America and The Old Regime and the Revolution (1856). In both,…

1805

Horace Abbott

American businessman and banker (died 1887)

Horace Abbott was an American iron manufacturer and banker. His work included the armor plating for the USS Monitor, USS Agamenticus, USS Roanoke, and USS Monadnock.

1806

Ivan Aivazovsky

Armenian-Russian painter and illustrator (died 1900)

Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky was a Russian Romantic painter who is considered one of the greatest masters of marine art. Baptized as Hovhannes Aivazian, he was born to Armenian parents in the Black Sea port of…

1817

Martin Körber

German pastor, composer, and conductor (died 1893)

Martin Georg Emil Körber was a Baltic German pastor, composer, writer and choir leader.

1817

Gerhard Armauer Hansen

Norwegian physician (died 1912)

Gerhard Henrik Armauer Hansen was a Norwegian physician, remembered for his identification of the bacterium Mycobacterium leprae in 1873 as the etiologic agent of leprosy. His distinguished work was recognized at the…

1841

Johannes Schmidt

German linguist and academic (died 1901)

Johannes Friedrich Heinrich Schmidt was a German linguist. He developed the Wellentheorie of language development.

1843

Sophie Menter

German pianist and composer (died 1918)

Sophie Menter was a German pianist and composer who became the favorite female student of Franz Liszt. She was called l'incarnation de Liszt in Paris because of her robust, electrifying playing style and was considered…

1846

Isabel

Brazilian princess (died 1921)

Dona Isabel, known as "the Redemptress", was the Princess Imperial of Brazil and heiress presumptive to the throne of the Empire of Brazil. She served as regent of the empire on three occasions and was a central figure…

1846

Max Nordau

Hungarian physician, author, and critic, co-founded the World Zionist Organization (died 1923)

Max Simon Nordau was a Jewish Zionist leader, physician, author, and social critic. He was a co-founder of the Zionist Organization together with Theodor Herzl, and president or vice-president of several Zionist…

1849

Francisco Rodrigues da Cruz

Portuguese priest (died 1948)

Francisco Rodrigues da Cruz, SJ, more commonly known as Father Cruz was a Portuguese Catholic priest. Revered in Portugal for his apostolic fervor and charity, he visited prisons and hospitals in every city, gave alms…

1859

Charles Cochrane-Baillie

2nd Baron Lamington, English politician, 8th Governor of Queensland (died 1940)

Charles Wallace Alexander Napier Cochrane-Baillie, 2nd Baron Lamington,, was a British politician and colonial administrator who served as Governor of Queensland from 1896 to 1901, and Governor of Bombay from 1903 to…

1860

Berthold Oppenheim

Moravian rabbi (died 1942)

Berthold Oppenheim (1867–1942) was the rabbi of Olomouc, Moravia, from 1892 to 1939. He was murdered in 1942 at the Treblinka extermination camp.

1867

Booth Tarkington

American novelist and dramatist (died 1946)

Newton Booth Tarkington was an American novelist and dramatist best known for his novels The Magnificent Ambersons (1918) and Alice Adams (1921). He is one of only four novelists to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction…

1869

Jakob Mändmets

Estonian writer and journalist (died 1930)

Jakob Mändmets was an Estonian writer and journalist.

1871

Eric Alfred Knudsen

American author, lawyer, and politician (died 1957)

Eric Alfred Knudsen was an American writer, folklorist, lawyer and politician who grew up and lived on Kauai, Hawaii. His father was Valdemar Knudsen, a west Kauai sugar plantation pioneer.

1872

J. S. Woodsworth

Canadian minister and politician (died 1942)

James Shaver Charleston Woodsworth was a Canadian Methodist minister, politician, and labour activist. He was a pioneer of the Canadian Social Gospel, a Christian religious movement with social democratic values and…

1874

Maria Ouspenskaya

Russian-American actress and acting teacher (died 1949)

Maria Alekseyevna Ouspenskaya was a Russian actress and acting teacher. She achieved success as a stage actress as a young woman in Russia, and as an older woman in Hollywood films. She was twice nominated for the…

1876

Don Marquis

American author, poet, and playwright (died 1937)

Donald Robert Perry Marquis was an American humorist, journalist, and author. He was variously a novelist, poet, newspaper columnist, and playwright. He is remembered best for creating the characters Archy and…

1878

Porfirio Barba-Jacob

Colombian poet and author (died 1942)

Miguel Ángel Osorio Benítez, better known by his pseudonym, Porfirio Barba-Jacob, was a Colombian poet and writer.

1883

Benito Mussolini

Italian fascist revolutionary and politician, 27th Prime Minister of Italy (died 1945)

Benito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini was an Italian politician, journalist, and dictator who led Italy as Il Duce from 1922 until his overthrow in 1943. He founded fascism in 1919 with the creation of the Fasci Italiani di…

1883

Ralph Austin Bard

American financier and politician, 2nd Under Secretary of the Navy (died 1975)

Ralph Austin Bard was a Chicago financier who served as Assistant Secretary of the Navy, 1941–1944, and as Under Secretary, 1944–1945. He is noted for a memorandum he wrote to Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson in 1945…

1884

Theda Bara

American actress (died 1955)

Theda Bara was an American silent film and stage actress. Bara was one of the more popular actresses of the silent era and one of cinema's early sex symbols. Her femme fatale roles earned her the nickname "The Vamp",…

1885

Sigmund Romberg

Hungarian-American pianist and composer (died 1951)

Sigmund Romberg was a Hungarian-born American composer. He is best known for his musicals and operettas, particularly The Student Prince (1924), The Desert Song (1926) and The New Moon (1928).

1887

Bernhard Zondek

German-Israeli gynecologist and academic (died 1966)

Bernhard Zondek was a German-born Israeli gynecologist who developed the first reliable pregnancy test in 1928.

1891

William Powell

American actor and singer (died 1984)

William Horatio Powell was an American actor, known primarily for his film career. Under contract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, he was paired with Myrna Loy in 14 films, including the Thin Man series based on the Nick and…

1892

Maria L. de Hernández

Mexican-American rights activist (died 1986)

María Rebecca Latigo de Hernández was a Mexican-American rights activist. She was born in San Pedro Garza García, Mexico. During the 1930s, she spoke publicly and demonstrated on behalf of Mexican Americans about their…

1896

Neil Ritchie

Guyanese-English general (died 1983)

General Sir Neil Methuen Ritchie, was a British Army officer who served in the First and Second World Wars. During the Second World War he commanded the British Eighth Army in the North African campaign from November…

1897

Isidor Isaac Rabi

American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize Laureate (died 1988)

Israel Isaac "Isidor" Rabi was an American physicist who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1944 "for his resonance method for recording the magnetic properties of atomic nuclei." He was also one of the first…

1898

Walter Beall

American baseball player (died 1959)

Walter Esau Beall was an American baseball player who played for the New York Yankees on several championship teams in the 1920s.

1899

Mary V. Austin

Australian community worker and political activist (died 1986)

Dame Mary Valentine Austin DBE was an Australian community worker and political activist. The daughter of Admiral Percival Hall-Thompson and his wife, Helen, she was educated in New Zealand at Marsden College,…

1900

Eyvind Johnson

Swedish novelist and short story writer, Nobel Prize Laureate (died 1976)

Eyvind Johnson was a Swedish novelist and short story writer. Regarded as the most groundbreaking novelist in modern Swedish literature he became a member of the Swedish Academy in 1957 and shared the 1974 Nobel Prize…

1900

Teresa Noce

Italian labor leader, activist, and journalist (died 1980)

Teresa Noce, also known as Teresa Noce Longo since marriage, was an Italian labor leader, activist, journalist and feminist. She served as a parliamentary deputy and advocated broad social legislation benefiting mothers.

1900

Don Redman

American composer, and bandleader (died 1964)

Donald Matthew Redman was an American jazz musician, arranger, bandleader, and composer.

1900

Mahasi Sayadaw

Burmese monk and philosopher (died 1982)

Mahāsī Sayādaw U Sobhana was a Burmese Theravada Buddhist monk and meditation master who had a significant impact on the teaching of Vipassana (insight) meditation in the West and throughout Asia.

1904

J. R. D. Tata

French-Indian pilot and businessman, founded Tata Motors and Tata Global Beverages (died 1993)

Jehangir Ratanji Dadabhoy Tata was a French-born Indian industrialist, and aviator, who was the chairman of Tata Sons and Tata Group from 1938 to 1991.

1904

Clara Bow

American actress (died 1965)

Clara Gordon Bow was an American actress who rose to stardom during the silent film era of the 1920s and successfully made the transition to "talkies" in 1929. Her appearance as a plucky shopgirl in the 1927 film It…

1905

Dag Hammarskjöld

Swedish economist and diplomat, 2nd Secretary-General of the United Nations, Nobel Prize Laureate (died 1961)

Dag Hjalmar Agne Carl Hammarskjöld was a Swedish economist and diplomat who served as the second Secretary-General of the United Nations from April 1953 until his death in a plane crash in September 1961. As of 2026, he…

1905

Stanley Kunitz

American poet and translator (died 2006)

Stanley Jasspon Kunitz was an American poet. He was appointed Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress twice, first in 1974 and then again in 2000.

1905

Thelma Todd

American actress and singer (died 1935)

Thelma Alice Todd was an American actress and businesswoman who carried the nicknames "The Ice Cream Blonde" and "Hot Toddy". Appearing in about 120 feature films and shorts between 1926 and 1935, she is remembered for…

1906

Melvin Belli

American lawyer (died 1996)

Melvin Mouron Belli was an American lawyer and writer known as "The King of Torts" and by insurance companies as "Melvin Bellicose". He had many celebrity clients, including Zsa Zsa Gabor, Errol Flynn, Chuck Berry,…

1907

Samm Sinclair Baker

American author (died 1997)

Samm Sinclair Baker was the author/co-author of many how-to and self-help books, most notably The Complete Scarsdale Medical Diet which he co-authored with Dr. Herman Tarnower.

1909

Chester Himes

American-Spanish author (died 1984)

Chester Bomar Himes was an American writer. His works, some of which have been filmed, include If He Hollers Let Him Go, published in 1945, and the Harlem Detective series of novels for which he is best known, set in…

1909

Gale Page

American actress (died 1983)

Gale Page was an American singer and actress.

1910

Foster Furcolo

American lawyer and politician, 60th Governor of Massachusetts (died 1995)

John Foster Furcolo was an American lawyer, writer, and Democratic Party politician from Massachusetts. He was the state's 60th governor, and also represented the state as a member of the United States House of…

1911

Archbishop Iakovos of America (died 2005)

Archbishop Iakovos of North and South America was the primate of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of North and South America from 1959 until his resignation in 1996.

1911

Erich Priebke

German war criminal, leader of the 1944 Ardeatine massacre (died 2013)

Erich Priebke was a German mid-level Schutzstaffel (SS) commander in the Sicherheitspolizei (SiPo) of Nazi Germany. In 1996, he was convicted of war crimes in Italy for commanding the unit which was responsible for the…

1913

Irwin Corey

American actor and activist (died 2017)

Irwin Corey was an American stand-up comic, film actor and activist, often billed as "The World's Foremost Authority". He introduced his unscripted, improvisational style of stand-up comedy at the San Francisco club the…

1914

Bruce R. McConkie

American colonel and religious leader (died 1985)

Bruce Redd McConkie was a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from 1972 until his death. McConkie was a member of the LDS Church's First Council of the Seventy…

1915

Francis W. Sargent

American soldier and politician, 64th Governor of Massachusetts (died 1998)

Francis Williams Sargent was an American politician who served as the 64th governor of Massachusetts from 1969 to 1975. A member of the Republican Party, he previously served as the 63rd lieutenant governor of…

1915

Budd Boetticher

American director, producer, and screenwriter (died 2001)

Oscar Boetticher Jr., known as Budd Boetticher, was an American film director. He is best remembered for a series of low-budget Westerns he made in the late 1950s starring Randolph Scott.

1916

Charlie Christian

American guitarist (died 1942)

Charles Henry Christian was an American swing and jazz guitarist. He was among the first electric guitarists and was a key figure in the development of bebop and cool jazz. He gained national exposure as a member of the…

1916

Rupert Hamer

Australian politician, 39th Premier of Victoria (died 2004)

Sir Rupert James "Dick" Hamer, was an Australian politician who served as the 39th premier of Victoria from 1972 to 1981, and prior to that, the 18th deputy premier of Victoria from 1971 to 1972. He held office as the…

1916

Rochus Misch

German SS officer (died 2013)

Rochus Misch was a German Oberscharführer (sergeant) in the 1st SS Panzer Division Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler (LSSAH). He was badly wounded during the Polish campaign during the first month of World War II in Europe.…

1917

Don Ingalls

American writer and producer (died 2014)

Donald George Ingalls was an American screenwriter and television producer. During his 35-year career Ingalls wrote scripts for more than 70 episodes of network television, including Adam-12, Bonanza, The Big Valley,…

1918

Edwin O'Connor

American journalist and author (died 1968)

Edwin Greene O'Connor was an American journalist, novelist, and radio commentator. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1962 for his novel The Edge of Sadness (1961). His ancestry was Irish, and his novels concerned…

1918

Mary Lee Settle

American novelist, essayist, and memoirist (died 2005)

Mary Lee Settle was an American writer.

1918

Neville Jeffress

Australian businessman (died 2007)

Neville Jeffress was an Australian advertising executive and the founder of Media Monitors Australia, now called Isentia.

1920

Richard Egan

American actor (died 1987)

Richard Egan was an American actor. After beginning his career in 1949, he subsequently won a Golden Globe Award for his performances in the films The Glory Brigade (1953) and The Kid from Left Field (1953). He went on…

1921

Chris Marker

French photographer and journalist (died 2012)

Chris Marker was a French writer, photographer, documentary film director, multimedia artist and film essayist. His best known films are La Jetée (1962), A Grin Without a Cat (1977) and Sans Soleil (1983). Marker is…

1921

George Burditt

American screenwriter and producer (died 2013)

George Henry Burditt was an American television writer and producer who wrote sketches for television variety shows and other programs such as Three's Company, for which he was also an executive producer in its last few…

1923

Edgar Cortright

American scientist and engineer (died 2014)

Edgar Maurice Cortright was a scientist and engineer, and senior official at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) in the United States. His most prominent positions during his career were Director of…

1923

Jim Marshall

English businessman, founded Marshall Amplification (died 2012)

James Charles Marshall known as The Father of Loud or The Lord of Loud, was an English businessman and pioneer of guitar amplification. His company, Marshall Amplification, founded in 1962, has created equipment that is…

1923

Gordon Mitchell

American bodybuilder and actor (died 2003)

Gordon Mitchell was an American actor and bodybuilder, known for his starring roles in Italian sword-and-sandal and Spaghetti Western films.

1923

Lloyd Bochner

Canadian-American actor (died 2005)

Lloyd Wolfe Bochner was a Canadian actor. He appeared in many Canadian and Hollywood productions between the 1950s and 1990s, including the films Point Blank (1967), The Detective (1968), The Young Runaways (1968),…

1924

Robert Horton

American actor (died 2016)

Mead Howard "Robert" Horton Jr. was an American actor and singer. He is known for playing Flint McCullough in Wagon Train (1957–1962).

1924

Harold W. Kuhn

American mathematician and academic (died 2014)

Harold William Kuhn was an American mathematician who studied game theory. He won the 1980 John von Neumann Theory Prize jointly with David Gale and Albert W. Tucker. A former professor emeritus of mathematics at…

1925

Ted Lindsay

Canadian ice hockey player, manager, and sportscaster (died 2019)

Robert Blake Theodore Lindsay was a Canadian professional ice hockey player who played as a forward for the Detroit Red Wings and Chicago Black Hawks of the National Hockey League (NHL). Lindsay scored over 800 points…

1925

Hilary Smart

American sailor (died 2000)

Hilary Hurlburt Smart was an American sailor and Olympic champion. He competed at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London, where he received a gold medal in the star class with the boat Hilarius, together with his father,…

1925

Mikis Theodorakis

Greek composer (died 2021)

Michail "Mikis" Theodorakis was a Greek composer and lyricist credited with over 1,000 works.

1925

Robert Kilpatrick

Baron Kilpatrick of Kincraig, Scottish physician, academic, and politician (died 2015)

Robert Kilpatrick, Baron Kilpatrick of Kincraig was a Scottish physician, educator, academic and former President of the General Medical Council.

1926

Harry Mulisch

Dutch author, poet, and playwright (died 2010)

Harry Kurt Victor Mulisch was a Dutch writer. He wrote more than 80 novels, plays, essays, poems, and philosophical reflections. Mulisch's works have been translated into 38 languages.

1927

Paul Taylor

American dancer and choreographer (died 2018)

Paul Belville Taylor Jr. was an American dancer and choreographer. He was one of the last living members of the third generation of America's modern dance artists. He founded the Paul Taylor Dance Company in 1954 in New…

1930

Kjell Karlsen

Norwegian pianist, composer, and bandleader (died 2020)

Kjell Oddvar Karlsen was a Norwegian band leader, composer, arranger, jazz pianist and organist, and a Nestor of Norwegian music and show business, with a career spanning more than 60 years. He was the father of the…

1931

Leslie Fielding

English diplomat (died 2021)

Sir Leslie Fielding was a British diplomat. In the Diplomatic Service, he spent time in the Foreign Office in London before serving as the European Commission Ambassador to Tokyo between 1978 and 1982. He was…

1932

Nancy Kassebaum

American businesswoman and politician

Nancy Josephine Kassebaum Baker is an American retired politician from Kansas who served as a member of the United States Senate from 1978 to 1997. She is the daughter of Alf Landon, who was Governor of Kansas from 1933…

1932

Lou Albano

Italian-American wrestler, manager, and actor (died 2009)

Louis Vincent Albano was an Italian-American professional wrestler, manager and actor, who performed under the ring/stage name "Captain" Lou Albano. He was active as a professional wrestler from 1953 until 1969, before…

1933

Colin Davis

English race car driver (died 2012)

Colin Charles Houghton Davis was a British racing driver from England, who won the 1964 Targa Florio.

1933

Robert Fuller

American actor and rancher

Robert Fuller is an American retired actor. Fuller was known for his deep "charcoal" voice, his roles on the popular Western series Laramie as Jess Harper and Wagon Train as Cooper Smith, and as Dr. Kelly Brackett in…

1933

Randy Sparks

American folk singer-songwriter and musician (died 2024)

Lloyd Arrington Sparks, known professionally as Randy Sparks, was an American musician, singer-songwriter, and founder of The New Christy Minstrels and The Back Porch Majority.

1933

Peter Schreier

German tenor and conductor (died 2019)

Peter Schreier was a German tenor in opera, concert and lied, and a conductor. He was regarded as one of the leading lyric tenors of the 20th century.

1935

Elizabeth Dole

American lawyer and politician, 20th United States Secretary of Labor

Mary Elizabeth Alexander Dole is an American attorney, author, and politician who served as a United States senator from North Carolina from 2003 to 2009. A member of the Republican Party, she previously served in five…

1936

Daniel McFadden

American economist and academic, Nobel Prize Laureate

Daniel Little McFadden is an American econometrician who shared the 2000 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences with James Heckman. McFadden's share of the prize was "for his development of theory and methods for…

1937

Peter Jennings

Canadian-American journalist and author (died 2005)

Peter Charles Archibald Ewart Jennings was a Canadian and American television journalist. He was best known for serving as the sole anchor of ABC World News Tonight from 1983 until his death from lung cancer in 2005.…

1938

Jean Rochon

Canadian physician and politician (died 2021)

Jean Rochon was a Canadian politician and member of the National Assembly of Quebec. He was a cabinet minister for several ministries from 1994 to 2003 when the Parti Québécois formed the government under the leadership…

1938

Betty Harris

American chemist

Betty Wright Harris is an American chemist. She is known for her work on the chemistry of explosives completed at Los Alamos National Laboratory. She patented a spot test for detecting…

1940

Bernard Lafayette

American civil rights movement activist (died 2026)

Bernard Lafayette Jr. was an American civil rights activist, organizer and Baptist minister, who was a leader in the civil rights movement. He played a leading role in early organizing of the Selma Voting Rights…

1940

Winnie Monsod

Filipina economist and political commentator

Solita Garduño Collás-Monsod, popularly known as Mareng Winnie, is a Filipino economist, broadcaster, columnist, radio host, and public intellectual. She had been the 5th Director-General of the National Economic and…

1940

Jennifer Dunn

American engineer and politician (died 2007)

Jennifer Jill Dunn was an American politician and engineer who served six terms as a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from 1993 to 2005, representing Washington's 8th congressional…

1941

Goenawan Mohamad

Indonesian poet and playwright

Goenawan Mohamad is an Indonesian poet, essayist, playwright and editor. He is the founder and editor of the Indonesian magazine Tempo. Mohamad is a vocal critic of the Indonesian government, and his magazine was…

1941

David Warner

English actor (died 2022)

David Hattersley Warner was an English actor who portrayed a variety of villainous characters, as well as more sympathetic roles, in a career spanning six decades across stage and screen. His accolades include a…

1941

Doug Ashdown

Australian singer-songwriter

Douglas Wesley Ashdown is an Australian rock music singer-songwriter from Adelaide. He had a top 40 hit on the Australian singles chart with "Winter in America" or "Leave Love Enough Alone" (1976). It also reached No.…

1942

Tony Sirico

American actor (died 2022)

Genaro Anthony Sirico Jr. was an American actor. Often cast as a mobster, he is known for portraying Paulie Gualtieri in The Sopranos.

1942

David Taylor

English snooker player and sportscaster

David Taylor is an English former professional snooker player. He won the English Amateur Championship 11–6 against Chris Ross in 1968 and the 1968 World Amateur Snooker Championship 8–7 against Max Williams later that…

1943

Jim Bridwell

American rock climber and mountaineer (died 2018)

Jim Bridwell was an American rock climber and mountaineer, active from 1965 in Yosemite Valley, but later in Patagonia and Alaska. He was noted for pushing the standards of both aid climbing and big wall climbing, and…

1944

Sharon Creech

American author and educator

Sharon Creech is an American writer of children's novels. She was the first American winner of the Carnegie Medal for British children's books and the first person to win both the American Newbery Medal and the British…

1945

Mircea Lucescu

Romanian footballer, coach, and manager (died 2026)

Mircea Lucescu was a Romanian professional football player and manager.

1945

Ximena Armas

Chilean painter

Ximena Armas is a Chilean painter.

1946

Stig Blomqvist

Swedish race car driver

Stig Lennart Blomqvist is a retired Swedish rally driver. He made his international breakthrough in 1981. Driving an Audi Quattro for the Audi factory team, Blomqvist won the World Rally Championship drivers' title in…

1946

Neal Doughty

American keyboard player, songwriter, and producer

REO Speedwagon, or simply REO, was an American rock band formed in Champaign, Illinois, in 1967. The band cultivated a following during the 1970s and achieved significant commercial success throughout the 1980s. Their…

1946

Alessandro Gogna

Italian mountaineer and adventurer

Alessandro Gogna is a mountaineer, adventurer and mountain guide from Italy.

1946

Diane Keen

English actress

Diane Keen is an English actress. With a career spanning decades, she has appeared in television series, films and stage productions. Keen's notable roles include Fliss Hawthorne in the Granada sitcom The Cuckoo Waltz,…

1946

Aleksei Tammiste

Estonian basketball player

Aleksei Tammiste is a retired Estonian professional basketball player, who competed for the Soviet Union. He won a gold medal at the 1971 EuroBasket Championship held in West Germany. During his career Tammiste won 10…

1946

Dick Harmon

American golfer and coach (died 2006)

Dick Harmon was a PGA golf professional and instructor.

1947

John Clarke

New Zealand-Australian comedian, actor, producer, and screenwriter (died 2017)

John Morrison Clarke was a New Zealand comedian, writer and satirist who lived and worked in Australia from the late 1970s. He was a highly regarded actor and writer whose work appeared on the Australian Broadcasting…

1948

Leslie Easterbrook

American actress

Leslie Easterbrook is an American actress and producer. She played Sgt./Lt./Capt. Debbie Callahan in the Police Academy films and Rhonda Lee on the television series Laverne & Shirley.

1949

Jamil Mahuad

Ecuadorian lawyer and politician, 51st President of Ecuador

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1949

Jenny Holzer

American painter, author, and dancer

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1950

Susan Blackmore

English psychologist and theorist

Susan Jane Blackmore is a British writer, lecturer, sceptic, broadcaster, and a visiting professor at the University of Plymouth. Her fields of research include memetics, parapsychology, consciousness, and she is best…

1951

Dan Driessen

American baseball player and coach

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1951

Dean Pitchford

American actor, director, screenwriter, and composer

Dean Pitchford is an American songwriter, screenwriter, director, actor, and novelist. His work has earned him an Oscar and a Golden Globe Award, as well as nominations for three additional Oscars, two more Golden…

1951

Norman Blackwell

Baron Blackwell, English businessman and politician

Norman Roy Blackwell, Baron Blackwell is a British former businessman, civil servant, Conservative politician, campaigner and policy advisor.

1952

Joe Johnson

English snooker player and sportscaster

Joseph Johnson is an English former professional snooker player and a snooker commentator for Eurosport. As an amateur, he became the British under-19 champion in 1971, defeating George Crimes in the final. He turned…

1952

Marie Panayotopoulos-Cassiotou

Greek politician

Marie Panayotopoulos-Cassiotou is a Greek politician and was a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) with the New Democracy from 2004 to 2009, . As a member of the European Parliament Mrs Panayotopoulos was…

1952

Ken Burns

American director and producer

Kenneth Lauren Burns is an American filmmaker known for his documentary films and television series, many of which chronicle United States history and culture. His work is often produced in association with WETA-TV or…

1953

Tim Gunn

American television host and actor

Timothy MacKenzie Gunn is an American author, academic, and television personality. He served on the faculty of Parsons School of Design in Greenwich Village, New York from 1982 to 2007 and was chair of fashion design…

1953

Geddy Lee

Canadian musician

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1953

Frank McGuinness

Irish poet and playwright

Professor Frank McGuinness is an Irish writer. As well as his own plays, which include The Factory Girls, Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme, Someone Who'll Watch Over Me and Dolly West's Kitchen, he…

1953

Patti Scialfa

American musician

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1953

Jean-Hugues Anglade

French actor, director, and screenwriter

Jean-Hugues Anglade is a French actor, film director, and screenwriter. He has been twice nominated for the César Award for Best Actor, for Betty Blue (1986) and Nocturne Indien (1990), and won Best Supporting Actor for…

1955

Dave Stevens

American illustrator (died 2008)

Dave Lee Stevens was an American illustrator and comics artist. He was most famous for creating The Rocketeer comic book and film character, and for his pin-up style "glamour art" illustrations, especially of model…

1955

Stephen Timms

English politician, Minister of State for Competitiveness

Sir Stephen Creswell Timms is a British politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for East Ham, formerly Newham North East, since 1994. A member of the Labour Party, he has served as Minister of State for…

1955

Teddy Atlas

American boxer, trainer, and sportscaster

Theodore A. Atlas Jr. is an American boxing trainer and fight commentator.

1956

Ronnie Musgrove

American lawyer and politician, 62nd Governor of Mississippi

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1956

Faustino Rupérez

Spanish cyclist

Faustino Rupérez Rincón is a Spanish former professional road racing cyclist who raced between 1979 and 1985. Ruperez is most famous for capturing the overall title at the 1980 Vuelta a España.

1956

Liam Davison

Australian author and educator (died 2014)

Liam Patrick Davison was an Australian novelist and reviewer. He was born in Melbourne, where, until 2007, he taught creative writing at the Chisholm Institute in Frankston.

1957

Viktor Gavrikov

Lithuanian-Swiss chess player (died 2016)

Viktor Nikolaevich Gavrikov was a Lithuanian-Swiss chess player. He was awarded the title of Grandmaster by FIDE in 1984.

1957

Nellie Kim

Russian gymnast and coach

Nellie Vladimirovna Kim is a retired Soviet and Belarusian gymnast of Sakhalin Korean and Tatar descent who won three gold medals and a silver medal at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, and two gold medals at the…

1957

Gail Dines

English-American author, activist, and academic

Gail Dines is professor emerita of sociology and women's studies at Wheelock College in Boston, Massachusetts.

1958

Simon Nye

English screenwriter and producer

Simon Nye is an English screenwriter, best known for television comedy. He wrote the hit sitcom Men Behaving Badly, and all of the four ITV Pantos. He co-wrote the 2006 film Flushed Away, created an adaptation of…

1958

Cynthia Rowley

American fashion designer

Cynthia Rowley is an American fashion designer, known for her books, television appearances and "flirty" and "carefree" women's clothing designs.

1958

Sanjay Dutt

Indian actor, singer, and producer

Sanjay Balraj Dutt is an Indian actor and film producer who works primarily in Hindi cinema, and has also appeared in some Telugu, Kannada, Tamil, Marathi and Punjabi films. He has acted in over 135 films. Known for his…

1959

Ruud Janssen

Dutch blogger and illustrator

Ruud Janssen is a Dutch Fluxus and mail artist currently living in Breda in the Netherlands.

1959

Dave LaPoint

American baseball player and manager

David Jeffrey LaPoint is an American former Major League Baseball pitcher. He was the manager of the Rockland Boulders, an American professional baseball team based in Pomona, New York, and member of the Canadian…

1959

John Sykes

English singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2024)

John James Sykes was an English guitarist and singer, best known as a member of Whitesnake, Thin Lizzy and Tygers of Pan Tang. He also fronted the hard rock group Blue Murder and released several solo albums.

1959

Didier Van Cauwelaert

French author

Didier Van Cauwelaert is a French author and director of Belgian descent who was born in Nice. In 1994 his novel Un Aller simple won the Prix Goncourt.

1960

Carl Cox

English DJ and producer

Carl Andrew Cox is a British house and techno club DJ, radio DJ, motorsport team owner and record producer. He lives in Frankston, Victoria, Australia.

1962

Frank Neubarth

German footballer and manager

Frank Neubarth is a German football manager and former player who spent his whole career with SV Werder Bremen and has since managed FC Schalke 04, Holstein Kiel and FC Carl Zeiss Jena.

1962

Vincent Rousseau

Belgian runner

Vincent Rousseau is a Belgian former long-distance runner, who competed in three consecutive Summer Olympics for his native country, starting in 1984.

1962

Scott Steiner

American wrestler

Scott Rechsteiner, better known by the ring name Scott Steiner, is an American professional wrestler.

1962

Hans-Holger Albrecht

Belgian-German businessman

Hans-Holger Albrecht is a German businessman. He was CEO of Deezer until 2021, one of the largest music streaming services worldwide. Deezer offers more than 53 million tracks in over 180 countries to currently more…

1963

Jim Beglin

Irish footballer and sportscaster

James Martin Beglin is an Irish former professional footballer who played as a defender, and a current co-commentator for RTÉ, CBS Sports, TNT Sports, and Premier League Productions.

1963

Julie Elliott

English politician

Julie Elliott, Baroness Elliott of Whitburn Bay, is a British Labour Party politician who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Sunderland Central from 2010 to 2024. Elliott served as Shadow Minister for Energy and…

1963

Azeem Hafeez

Pakistani cricketer

Raja Azeem Hafeez is a Pakistani former cricketer who played 18 Test matches for the national team from 1983 to 1985.

1963

Alexandra Paul

American actress and producer

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1963

Graham Poll

English footballer, referee, and journalist

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1963

Jaanus Veensalu

Estonian footballer

Jaanus Veensalu is a retired football (soccer) defender from Estonia, who retired in 1997. His last club was JK Tervis Pärnu. Veensalu obtained a total number of six caps for the Estonia national football team during…

1964

Luis Alicea

Puerto Rican-American baseball player and coach

Luis René Alicea de Jesús is a Puerto Rican former Major League Baseball second baseman and coach.

1965

Dean Haglund

Canadian actor, producer, and screenwriter

Dean Haglund is a Canadian actor, known for the role of Richard "Ringo" Langly, one of The Lone Gunmen on The X-Files. Haglund is also a stand-up comedian, specializing in improvisational comedy, including work with the…

1965

Adam Holloway

English captain and politician

Adam James Harold Holloway is a British politician and military veteran who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Gravesham from 2005 until 2024. He resigned from the Conservative Party in 2025 to join Reform UK.

1965

Stan Koziol

American soccer player (died 2014)

Joseph Stanley Koziol was an American soccer midfielder who played professionally in the Major Indoor Soccer League, National Professional Soccer League and American Professional Soccer League. He also competed with the…

1965

Chang-Rae Lee

South Korean-American author and academic

Chang-rae Lee is a Korean-American novelist and a professor of creative writing at Stanford University. He was previously Professor of Creative Writing at Princeton and director of Princeton University's Program in…

1965

Xavier Waterkeyn

Australian author

Xavier Waterkeyn is an Australian non-fiction and fiction writer and literary agent. He is the author of twenty-three books.

1965

Woody Weatherman

American guitarist and songwriter

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1965

Sally Gunnell

English hurdler and sportscaster

Sally Jane Janet Gunnell, OBE, DL is a British former track-and-field athlete, who won the 1992 Olympic gold medal in the 400 metres hurdles. During a 24-month period between 1992 and 1994, Gunnell won every…

1966

Stuart Lampitt

English cricketer

Stuart Richard Lampitt is a former English cricketer. He was a right-handed batsman and a right-arm medium-pace bowler. He played for Worcestershire from 1985 to 2002. During his career he was victorious in the 1986…

1966

Martina McBride

American singer-songwriter and producer

Martina Mariea McBride is an American country music singer and songwriter. An icon in the country music world, she is known for her country pop material with a powerful soprano voice and expansive range. McBride has won…

1966

Paavo Lötjönen

Finnish cellist and educator

Paavo Lötjönen is a cello player for Finnish band Apocalyptica. Paavo comes from a family where both of his parents were professional musicians. At the age of 6, he took a cello and decided that would be the instrument…

1968

Adele Griffin

American author

Adele Griffin is the author of over thirty highly acclaimed books across a variety of genres, including Sons of Liberty and Where I Want to Be, both National Book Award finalists. Her debut adult novel The Favor…

1970

Andi Peters

English journalist, actor, and producer

Andi Eleazu Peters is a British television presenter, producer, journalist and voice actor, currently employed by ITV and known for presenting Children's BBC, roles on breakfast TV shows Live & Kicking, GMTV, Good…

1970

John Rennie

Zimbabwean cricketer

John Alexander Rennie is a former Zimbabwean cricketer who played in four Test matches and 44 One Day Internationals (ODIs) from 1993 to 2000. He played as a swing bowler for the Zimbabwe national team between 1993 and…

1970

Andrea Philipp

German sprinter

Andrea Philipp is a retired German sprinter. A three-time Olympian, she won a bronze medal in the 200 metres at the 1999 World Championships, and a gold medal in the 100 metres at the 1990 World Junior Championships.

1971

Anssi Kela

Finnish singer and songwriter

Anssi Kela is a Finnish singer-songwriter multi-instrumentalist who has published six albums. During his career, Kela has sold over 230,000 records in Finland. He received four Emma awards in 2002.

1972

Wil Wheaton

American actor, producer, and screenwriter

Richard William "Wil" Wheaton III is an American actor and writer. He portrayed Wesley Crusher on the television series Star Trek: The Next Generation, Gordie Lachance in the film Stand by Me, Joey Trotta in Toy…

1972

Stephen Dorff

American actor and producer

Stephen Hartley Dorff Jr. is an American actor. Starting his film career as a child appearing in the cult horror film The Gate (1987), Dorff first rose to prominence playing Peter Philip Kennith Keith in The Power of…

1973

Denis Urubko

Kazakh mountaineer

Denis Urubko is a Russian-Polish climber. In 2009, he became the 15th person to climb all 14 eight-thousanders and the 8th person to achieve the feat without supplemental oxygen. During his 25 eight-thousander climbs,…

1973

Josh Radnor

American actor and musician

Joshua Thomas Radnor is an American actor, filmmaker, author, and musician. He is best known for portraying Ted Mosby on the Emmy Award–winning CBS sitcom How I Met Your Mother (2005–2014). He made his writing and…

1974

Yoshihiro Akiyama

Japanese mixed martial artist

Yoshihiro Akiyama , also known as Choo Sung-hoon (Korean: 추성훈) and by his nickname Sexyama, is a Japanese mixed martial artist and judoka who won the gold medal at the 2001 Asian Championships for South Korea and for…

1975

Lanka de Silva

Sri Lankan cricketer

Lanka de Silva is a Sri Lankan former cricketer who played in three Test matches and 11 One Day Internationals in 1997. He is also the current interim head coach of the Sri Lanka women's national cricket team.

1975

Corrado Grabbi

Italian footballer

Corrado Grabbi is an Italian former professional footballer who played as a forward. He was nicknamed "Ciccio" throughout his career.

1975

Jaanus Sirel

Estonian footballer

Jaanus Sirel is an Estonian former professional footballer. He was playing the position of defender and midfielder.

1975

Mike Adams

American baseball player

Jon Michael Adams is an American former professional baseball right-handed relief pitcher. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Milwaukee Brewers (2004–06), San Diego Padres (2008–11), Texas Rangers…

1978

Marina Lazarovska

Macedonian tennis player

Marina Lazarovska is a former Macedonian tennis player.

1978

Karim Essediri

Tunisian footballer

Karim Essediri is a former professional footballer who played as a right winger. Born in France, he earned eight caps with the Tunisia national team at international level.

1979

Ronald Murray

American basketball player

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1979

Juris Umbraško

Latvian basketball player

Juris Umbraško is a Latvian professional basketball coach and player. He heads the Latvian-Estonian Basketball League team Rīgas Zeļļi.

1979

Ryan Braun

Canadian-American baseball player

Ryan Zachary Braun is a Canadian former professional baseball pitcher. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Kansas City Royals. Listed at 6 feet 1 inch (1.85 m) and 215 pounds (98 kg) as a player, he threw…

1980

Ben Koller

American drummer

Ben Koller is an American drummer who has played with Converge, Mutoid Man, Killer Be Killed and All Pigs Must Die. He started playing a full drum kit at age 14.

1980

John Morris

Australian rugby league player

John Morris, is an Australian professional rugby league coach who is the Assistant Coach and defence coach for Wests Tigers and a former professional rugby league footballer.

1980

Fernando Alonso

Spanish race car driver

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1981

Andrés Madrid

Argentinian footballer

Andrés David Madrid is an Argentine former footballer who played as a defensive midfielder, and is a current manager.

1981

Troy Perkins

American soccer player

Troy Perkins is an American former soccer player. During his career, he played for clubs in the United States, Canada, and Norway. The 2006 Major League Soccer Goalkeeper of the Year award winner earned seven caps with…

1981

Janez Aljančič

Slovenian footballer

Janez Aljančič is a retired Slovenian football defender.

1982

Jônatas Domingos

Brazilian footballer

Jônatas Domingos, or simply Jônatas, is a Brazilian former professional footballer who played as a midfielder.

1982

Allison Mack

American actress and criminal

Allison Mack is an American former actress. She played Chloe Sullivan on the superhero series Smallville (2001–2011) and had a recurring role on the comedy series Wilfred (2012–2014).

1982

Jason Belmonte

Australian bowler

Jason Belmonte is an Australian professional ten-pin bowler. He plays on the PBA Tour in the United States and in world events. He is known for being one of the first bowlers to gain media attention for using the…

1983

Inés Gómez Mont

Mexican journalist and actress

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1983

Alexei Kaigorodov

Russian ice hockey player

Alexei Pavlovich Kaigorodov is a Russian former professional ice hockey forward who last played with Metallurg Magnitogorsk of the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL).

1983

Jerious Norwood

American football player

Jerious Montreal Norwood is an American former professional football player who was a running back in the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Mississippi State Bulldogs and is the school's…

1983

Elise Testone

American singer-songwriter

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1983

Oh Beom-seok

South Korean footballer

Oh Beom-Seok is a South Korean former professional footballer who played as a right back and currently Analysis coach for Yongin FC.

1984

Chad Billingsley

American baseball player

Chad Ryan Billingsley is an American former professional baseball right-handed starting pitcher. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Los Angeles Dodgers from 2006 through 2013 and Philadelphia Phillies in…

1984

Wilson Palacios

Honduran footballer

Wilson Roberto Palacios Suazo is a Honduran former professional footballer who played as a defensive midfielder.

1984

Okinoumi Ayumi

Japanese sumo wrestler

Okinoumi Ayumi is a former Japanese professional sumo wrestler from Okinoshima, Shimane. He joined professional sumo in 2005, reaching the top division in 2010. He was runner-up in makuuchi three times in the January…

1985

Besart Berisha

Albanian footballer

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1985

Simon Santoso

Indonesian badminton player

Simon Santoso is an Indonesian former badminton player. He was two-time SEA Games men's singles champion winning in 2009 and 2011, also featured in Indonesia team that won the men's team title in 2003, 2007, 2009, and…

1985

Tarjei Bø

Norwegian biathlete

Tarjei Bø is a former Norwegian professional biathlete. Awarded Olympic gold medals, World Championship gold medals and World Cup victories from 2010 to 2025. Bø debuted in the Biathlon World Cup on 26 March 2009 in…

1988

Grit Šadeiko

Estonian heptathlete

Grit Šadeiko is an Estonian heptathlete. She won the heptathlon at the 2011 European Athletics U23 Championships.

1989

Shin Se-kyung

South Korean actress, singer and model

Shin Se-kyung is a South Korean actress. She started as a child actress and had her breakthrough in the sitcom High Kick Through the Roof (2009). Since then, she starred in the films Hindsight (2011), R2B: Return to…

1990

Dale Copley

Australian rugby league player

Dale Copley is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer who last played as a centre or winger for the Sydney Roosters in the NRL.

1991

Irakli Logua

Russian footballer

Irakli Genovich Logua is a Russian professional football player who plays for Amkal Moscow.

1991

Karen Torrez

Bolivian swimmer

Karen Milenka Torrez Guzmán is a Bolivian swimmer from Cochabamba. She competes in the Women's 100m Freestyle. She was flag bearer for the nation at the 2012 Summer Olympics.

1992

Nicole Melichar

American tennis player

Nicole Melichar-Martinez is an American professional tennis player who specializes in doubles. On 3 July 2023, she peaked at world No. 6 in the WTA doubles rankings. Melichar won a title in mixed doubles at the 2018…

1993

Dak Prescott

American football player

Rayne Dakota Prescott is an American professional football quarterback for the Dallas Cowboys of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Mississippi State Bulldogs, twice earning…

1993

Liam O'Brien

Canadian ice hockey player

Liam O'Brien is a Canadian professional ice hockey player who is a forward for the Utah Mammoth of the National Hockey League (NHL). Nicknamed "Spicy Tuna" by Utah fans, O'Brien is mostly known as an enforcer.

1994

Mirjam Björklund

Swedish tennis player

Mirjam Björklund is a Swedish former professional tennis player. She has a career-high singles ranking of world No. 123 by the WTA, achieved on 20 June 2022. She also has a best doubles ranking of No. 281, reached on 31…

1998

Clayton Keller

American ice hockey player

Clayton Davis Keller is an American professional ice hockey player who is a forward and captain for the Utah Mammoth of the National Hockey League (NHL). The Arizona Coyotes selected him seventh overall in the 2016 NHL…

1998

Johnny Brackins

American long jumper and hurdler

Johnny Brackins Jr. is an American long jumper and hurdler and the 2024 USA Indoor Track and Field Championships winner in the long jump. Brackins was a former U.S. U20 champion in the long jump and bronze medallist in…

2003

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