Did you know about O. J. Simpson
O. J. Simpson played in the National Football League (NFL) for 11 seasons—nine with the Buffalo Bills—and is regarded as one of the greatest running backs of all time.
Famous Birthdays on July 9
July 9 has 210 recorded notable births across history, from 1249 to 2003. This page lists every one of them, with the best-known people first.
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Major events on July 9
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- 1776 George Washington orders the Declaration of Independence to be read out to members of the Continental Army in Manhattan, while thousands of British troops on Staten Island prepare for the Battle of Long Island. Source
- 2002 The African Union is established in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, replacing the Organisation of African Unity (OAU). The organization's first chairman is Thabo Mbeki, President of South Africa. Source
Did you know about Tom Hanks
Known for both his comedic and dramatic roles, he is one of the most popular and recognizable film stars worldwide, and is regarded as an American cultural icon.
Did you know about Lindsey Graham
Lindsey Olin Graham was an American politician, attorney, and military officer who represented South Carolina in the United States Senate from 2003 until his death in 2026.
Did you know about Courtney Love
A figure in the alternative and grunge scenes of the 1990s, Love has had a career spanning four decades.
Did you know about Fred Savage
Fred Savage is best known for his role as Kevin Arnold in the American television series The Wonder Years (1988–1993).
More major people born on July 9
Notable people are ranked by substantive profile depth and public notability.
1956
Tom Hanks
American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
Thomas Jeffrey Hanks is an American actor and filmmaker. Known for both his comedic and dramatic roles, he is one of the most popular and recognizable film stars worldwide, and is regarded as an American cultural icon. In 2020, Hanks was ranked as the fourth-highest-grossing American film actor of all time. His numerous awards include two Academy Awards, seven Emmy Awards, and four Golden Globe Awards; he has also been nominated for five BAFTAs and a Tony Award. He received the AFI Life Achievement Award in 2002, the Kennedy Center Honor in 2014, the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2016, and the Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award in 2020.
1955
Lindsey Graham
American lawyer and politician (died 2026)
Lindsey Olin Graham was an American politician, attorney, and military officer who represented South Carolina in the United States Senate from 2003 until his death in 2026. A member of the Republican Party, he represented South Carolina's 3rd congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1995 to 2003 and served in the South Carolina House of Representatives from 1993 to 1994.
1964
Courtney Love
American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actress
Courtney Michelle Love is an American singer, guitarist, songwriter, and actress. A figure in the alternative and grunge scenes of the 1990s, Love has had a career spanning four decades. She rose to prominence as the lead vocalist and rhythm guitarist of the alternative rock band Hole, which she formed in 1989. Love has drawn public attention for her uninhibited live performances and confrontational lyrics, as well as her highly publicized personal life following her marriage to the Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain.
1976
Fred Savage
American actor, director, and producer
Frederick Aaron Savage is an American actor and director. He is best known for his role as Kevin Arnold in the American television series The Wonder Years (1988–1993). He has earned several awards and nominations, such as People's Choice Awards and Young Artist Awards. He is also known for playing the Grandson in The Princess Bride, and voiced the title protagonist in Oswald. Savage has worked as a director, and in 2005 later starred in the television sitcom Crumbs. Savage returned to acting in the television series The Grinder, as well as the Netflix series Friends from College. He was fired from a The Wonder Years reboot in 2022 after the revelation of various misconduct allegations.
1975
Jack White
American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
John Anthony White is an American musician who was the guitarist and lead vocalist of the rock duo the White Stripes. He was a key artist of the 2000s indie and garage rock movements, noted for his musical techniques, eccentricity, and use of analog technology. After the White Stripes split up in 2011, he found success with his solo career and business ventures.
1954
Kevin O'Leary
Canadian journalist and businessman
Terrence Thomas Kevin O'Leary, self-styled as Mr. Wonderful, is a Canadian businessman and television personality. From 2004 to 2014, he appeared on various Canadian television shows, including the business news program The Lang and O'Leary Exchange as well as reality show Dragons' Den. O'Leary hosted Discovery Channel's Project Earth in 2008 and has appeared on Shark Tank, the American version of Dragons' Den, since 2009. He made his feature film debut as Milton Rockwell in Josh Safdie's Marty Supreme (2025).
1946
Bon Scott
Scottish-Australian singer-songwriter (died 1980)
Ronald Belford "Bon" Scott was a Scottish singer who was the second lead vocalist and lyricist of the hard rock band AC/DC from 1974 until his death in 1980. In the July 2004 issue of Classic Rock, Scott was ranked number one in a list of the "100 Greatest Frontmen of All Time". Hit Parader ranked Scott as fifth on their 2006 list of the 100 Greatest Heavy Metal Vocalists of all time.
1957
Kelly McGillis
American actress
Kelly Ann McGillis is an American actress. She is known for her film roles such as Rachel Lapp in Witness (1985), for which she received Golden Globe and BAFTA nominations; Charlotte 'Charlie' Blackwood in Top Gun (1986); Made in Heaven (1987); The House on Carroll Street (1988); and as Kathryn Murphy in The Accused (1988). In her later career, she has starred in horror films such as Stake Land (2010), The Innkeepers (2011), and We Are What We Are (2013).
1966
Pamela Adlon
American actress and voice artist
Pamela Adlon is an American actress, writer, and director. She is known for voicing Bobby Hill in the animated comedy series King of the Hill, for which she won a Primetime Emmy Award. She also voiced Baloo in Jungle Cubs (1996–1998), the title role in the Pajama Sam video game series (1996–2001), Lucky in 101 Dalmatians: The Series (1997–1998), Margaret "Moose" Pearson in Pepper Ann (1997–2001), Ashley Spinelli in Recess (1997–2001), Otto Osworth in Time Squad (2001–2003), Vidia in the Tinker Bell franchise and Brigette Murphy in Milo Murphy's Law (2016–2019), among numerous others.
1951
Chris Cooper
American actor
Christopher Walton Cooper is an American actor. Having debuted as a stage actor, his television breakthrough was as Sheriff July Johnson in the acclaimed Western television miniseries Lonesome Dove (1989). He has appeared in major Hollywood films, including A Time to Kill (1996), October Sky (1999), American Beauty (1999), The Bourne Identity (2002), Adaptation (2002), Seabiscuit (2003), Capote (2005), Syriana (2005), The Kingdom (2007), Where the Wild Things Are (2009), The Town (2010), The Muppets (2011), Live by Night (2016), Cars 3 (2017), A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood (2019), and Little Women (2019).
1938
Brian Dennehy
American actor (died 2020)
Brian Manion Dennehy was an American actor. Renowned for his performances on stage and screen and once described as "perhaps the foremost living interpreter" of Eugene O'Neill's works, he received two Tony Awards, a Laurence Olivier Award, and a Golden Globe Award, in addition to nominations for six Primetime Emmy Awards and a Grammy Award.
1932
Donald Rumsfeld
American captain and politician, 13th United States Secretary of Defense (died 2021)
Donald Henry Rumsfeld was an American politician, businessman, naval officer, and diplomat who served as the 13th United States secretary of defense from 1975 to 1977 under President Gerald Ford, and again as the 21st secretary of defense from 2001 to 2006 under President George W. Bush. He was both the youngest and the oldest secretary of defense. Additionally, Rumsfeld was a four-term U.S. Congressman from Illinois (1963–1969), director of the Office of Economic Opportunity (1969–1970), counselor to the president (1969–1973), the U.S. Representative to NATO (1973–1974), and the White House chief of staff (1974–1975). Between his terms as secretary of defense, he was the CEO and chairman of several companies.
1937
David Hockney
English painter and photographer (died 2026)
David Hockney was a British painter, stage designer and photographer. As an important contributor to the pop art movement of the 1960s, he is considered one of the most influential British artists of the 20th and 21st centuries. He was known for his vivid, stylised realism and championed figurative work, often in a bold style, during a period when abstract art predominated.
1959
Jim Kerr
Scottish singer-songwriter and keyboard player
James Kerr is a Scottish musician, singer and songwriter, best known for being the frontman of the rock band Simple Minds. Commercially successful singles released by Simple Minds include "Glittering Prize" (1982), "Someone Somewhere in Summertime" (1982), "Waterfront" (1983), "Don't You ", and "Alive and Kicking" (1985), as well as the UK number one single "Belfast Child" (1989).
1950
Viktor Yanukovych
Ukrainian engineer and politician, 4th President of Ukraine
Viktor Fedorovych Yanukovych is a Ukrainian former politician who served as the fourth president of Ukraine from 2010 to 2014. He also served as the prime minister of Ukraine several times between 2002 and 2007 and was a member of the Verkhovna Rada (parliament) from 2006 to 2010. Yanukovych was removed from the presidency during the 2014 Revolution of Dignity, which followed months of protests against him. Since then, he has lived in exile in Russia.
1955
Jimmy Smits
American actor and producer
Jimmy L. Smits is an American actor. He is best known for his roles as Attorney Victor Sifuentes on the legal drama L.A. Law, NYPD Detective Bobby Simone on the police drama NYPD Blue, Matt Santos on the political drama The West Wing and Bail Organa in the Star Wars franchise.
1945
Dean Koontz
American author and screenwriter
Dean Ray Koontz is an American author. His novels are billed as suspense thrillers, but frequently incorporate elements of horror, fantasy, science fiction, mystery, and satire. Many of his books have appeared on The New York Times Best Seller list, with fourteen hardcovers and sixteen paperbacks reaching the number-one position. Koontz wrote under a number of pen names earlier in his career, including "David Axton", "Deanna Dwyer", "K. R. Dwyer", "Leigh Nichols", "Brian Coffey" and "Joe Cocker". He has published over 105 novels and a number of novellas and collections of short stories, and has sold over 500 million copies of his work. He has been acknowledged as "America's most popular suspense novelist" by Rolling Stone and as one of today's most celebrated and successful writers.
1971
Marc Andreessen
American software developer, co-founded Netscape
Marc Lowell Andreessen is an American businessman, venture capitalist, and former software engineer. He is the co-author of Mosaic, the first web browser to display inline images; co-founder of Netscape; and co-founder and general partner of Silicon Valley venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz.
1916
Edward Heath
English colonel and politician; Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, 1970-74 (died 2005)
Sir Edward Richard George Heath was a British politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1970 to 1974 and Leader of the Conservative Party from 1965 to 1975. Heath also served as a Member of Parliament (MP) from 1950 to 2001. Outside politics, Heath was a yachtsman, musician and author.
1959
Kevin Nash
American professional wrestler and actor
Kevin Scott Nash is an American retired professional wrestler, actor and podcaster. He is signed to WWE under a legends contract. He is also known for his tenures in World Championship Wrestling (WCW) and Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA).
1935
Michael Williams
English actor (died 2001)
Michael Leonard Williams was a British actor who played both classical and comedy roles. He was best known for voicing Dr. Watson in the long-running Sherlock Holmes adaptations for BBC Radio, opposite Clive Merrison as Holmes, and for starring alongside his wife Judi Dench in the ITV sitcom A Fine Romance.
1985
Ashley Young
English footballer
Ashley Simon Young is an English former professional footballer who played as a winger and full-back. Young has joined Sky Sports as a guest pundit for the 2026-27 Premier League season.
1938
Sanjeev Kumar
Indian film actor (died 1985)
Sanjeev Kumar was an Indian actor who worked in Hindi and Gujarati cinema. Regarded as one of the greatest and finest actors in the history of Indian cinema, Kumar was known for his acting versatility. He acted in a wide variety of genres ranging from romantic drama to thriller. He was voted seventh among the "Greatest Actors of Indian cinema of All Time" in a poll conducted by Rediff.com. His double role in Angoor was listed among the "25 Iconic Performances of Indian cinema" by Forbes India on the occasion of celebrating 100 years of Indian Cinema.
1942
Richard Roundtree
American actor (died 2023)
Richard Arnold Roundtree was an American actor. He was best known for his portrayal of private detective John Shaft in the 1971 film Shaft and four of its sequels, Shaft's Big Score! (1972), Shaft in Africa (1973), its 2000 sequel and its 2019 sequel, as well as the television series (1973–1974). He was also known for featuring in several TV series, including Roots, Generations, and Desperate Housewives.
1991
Mitchel Musso
American actor and singer
Mitchel Tate Musso is an American actor and singer. He is best known for his Disney Channel roles as Oliver Oken in Hannah Montana, Jeremy Johnson in the animated series Phineas and Ferb, and his Disney XD role as King Brady on Pair of Kings as well as the host of Disney Channel's PrankStars.
1930
K. Balachander
Indian actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (died 2014)
Kailasam Balachander was an Indian playwright, film director, producer, screenwriter and actor who worked mainly in the Tamil cinema. He was well known for his distinct film-making style, which tackled unconventional themes and hard-hitting contemporary subject matter. Balachander's films are well known for their portrayal of women as bold personalities and central characters. Popularly referred to as Iyakkunar Sigaram, his films are usually centred on unusual or complicated interpersonal relationships and social themes. He started his film career in 1964 as a screenwriter and graduated to a director with Neerkumizhi (1965).
1935
Mighty Sparrow
Grenadian calypso musician (died 2026)
Slinger Francisco ORTT CM OBE, OCC, better known as The Mighty Sparrow, was a Trinidadian calypso vocalist, songwriter and guitarist. Known as the "Calypso King of the World", he was one of the best-known and most successful calypsonians. Francisco won Trinidad's Carnival Road March competition eight times, Calypso King/Monarch eight times, and twice won the Calypso King of Kings title.
1987
Rebecca Sugar
American animator, composer, and screenwriter
Rebecca Sugar is an American animator, storyboard artist, screenwriter, producer, director, and musician. A pioneer of LGBTQ representation in children's television, she is best known for being the creator of the Cartoon Network series Steven Universe, making her the first non-binary person to independently create a series for the network; prior to coming out as non-binary, Sugar was described as the first woman to do so. Prior to the premiere of Steven Universe in 2013, Sugar was a writer and storyboard artist on the animated television series Adventure Time. Her work on the two series has earned her seven Primetime Emmy Award nominations in total.
1967
Mark Stoops
American football player and coach
Mark Thomas Stoops is an American college football coach and former player who is the special assistant to the head coach at the University of Texas. He most recently served as head football coach for the University of Kentucky from 2013 to 2025. Stoops is the all-time winningest head coach in the history of the Kentucky football program, surpassing former coach Paul "Bear" Bryant.
1901
Barbara Cartland
English author (died 2000)
Dame Mary Barbara Hamilton Cartland was an English writer and socialite who published both contemporary and historical romance novels, the latter set primarily during the Victorian or Edwardian period. Cartland is one of the best-selling authors worldwide of the 20th century.
1957
Paul Merton
English comedian, actor, and screenwriter
Paul James Martin, known by the stage name Paul Merton, is an English comedian, actor, broadcaster and director who is best known as one of the two regular panellists on the television show Have I Got News for You.
1970
Trent Green
American football player and sportscaster
Trent Jason Green is an American former professional football quarterback who played in the National Football League (NFL) for 15 seasons. He was a member of five teams during his career, most notably the Kansas City Chiefs.
1952
John Tesh
American pianist, composer, and radio and television host
John Frank Tesh Jr. is an American musician and radio and television presenter. He wrote the NBA on NBC basketball theme "Roundball Rock" and hosts the Intelligence for Your Life radio show. In addition, since 2014, he has hosted Intelligence for Your Life TV with his wife, Connie Sellecca.
1964
Gianluca Vialli
Italian footballer and coach (died 2023)
Gianluca Vialli was an Italian football player and manager who played as a striker. Vialli started his club career at his hometown club Cremonese in 1980, where he made 105 league appearances and scored 23 goals. His performances impressed Sampdoria, who signed him in 1984 and with whom he scored 85 league goals, won three Italian cups, Serie A and the European Cup Winners Cup.
1925
Guru Dutt
Indian actor, director, and producer (died 1964)
Guru Dutt was an Indian film actor, director, producer, choreographer, and writer. He is regarded as one of the greatest filmmakers of Indian cinema. He was heavily influenced by Alfred Hitchcock in his initial films and later was compared with Orson Welles due to his works getting a legitimate amount of prominence amongst the cinephiles.
1947
Mitch Mitchell
English drummer (died 2008)
John Graham "Mitch" Mitchell was an English rock and jazz drummer, best known for his contributions in the Jimi Hendrix Experience, for which he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1992. He was inducted into the Modern Drummer Hall of Fame in 2009. In 2016, Mitchell was ranked number 8 in Rolling Stone magazine's list of the "100 Greatest Drummers of All Time".
1968
Paolo Di Canio
Italian footballer and manager
Paolo Di Canio is an Italian former professional footballer and manager. During his playing career he made over 500 league appearances and scored over one hundred goals as a forward. He primarily played as a deep-lying forward, but he could also play as an attacking midfielder, or as a winger. Di Canio was regarded as a technically skilled but temperamental player.
1957
Marc Almond
English singer-songwriter
Peter Mark Almond is an English singer-songwriter and musician. He is the lead vocalist of the synth-pop duo Soft Cell. He is known for his distinctive soulful voice and androgynous image, and has had a diverse career as a solo artist.
1953
Thomas Ligotti
American author
Thomas Ligotti is an American horror author, philosopher, and writer. His writings are rooted in several literary genres – most prominently weird fiction – and have been described by critics as works of philosophical horror, often formed into short stories and novellas in the tradition of gothic fiction. The worldview espoused by Ligotti in his fiction and non-fiction has been described as pessimistic and nihilistic. The Washington Post called him "the best kept secret in contemporary horror fiction."
1929
Lee Hazlewood
American singer-songwriter and producer (died 2007)
Barton Lee Hazlewood was an American country and pop singer, songwriter, and record producer, most widely known for his work with guitarist Duane Eddy during the late 1950s and singer Nancy Sinatra in the 1960s and 1970s. His collaborations with Sinatra and his solo output in the late 1960s and early 1970s have been praised as an essential contribution to a sound often described as "cowboy psychedelia" or "saccharine underground". Rolling Stone ranked Lee Hazlewood and Nancy Sinatra number 9 on its list of the 20 Greatest Duos of All Time.
1935
Mercedes Sosa
Argentine singer and activist (died 2009)
Haydée Mercedes Sosa was an Argentine singer who was popular throughout Latin America and many countries outside the region. With her roots in Argentine folk music, Sosa became one of the preeminent exponents of the nuevo cancionero movement. She gave voice to songs written by many Latin American songwriters. She was hailed as the "voice of the voiceless ones", and often called "the conscience of Latin America".
2003
Conor Bradley
Northern Irish footballer
Conor Bradley is a Northern Irish professional footballer who plays as a right-back for Premier League club Liverpool and captains the Northern Ireland national team.
1975
Isaac Brock
American singer-songwriter and guitarist
Isaac Kristofer Brock is an American musician and singer-songwriter. He is the lead vocalist, principal songwriter, guitarist and only constant member of the indie rock band Modest Mouse, as well as his side project band, Ugly Casanova.
1911
John Archibald Wheeler
American physicist and author (died 2008)
John Archibald Wheeler was an American theoretical physicist. He was largely responsible for reviving interest in general relativity in the United States after World War II. Wheeler also worked with Niels Bohr to explain the basic principles of nuclear fission. Together with Gregory Breit, Wheeler explored positron-electron pair production from the collision of two photons, now known as the Breit–Wheeler process. He is known for popularizing the term "black hole" to describe the gravitationally completely collapsed objects predicted by general relativity. He also coined "quantum foam", "neutron moderator", "wormhole" and "it from bit", and hypothesized the "one-electron universe". Stephen Hawking called Wheeler the "hero of the black hole story".
1947
Haruomi Hosono
Japanese singer-songwriter, bass player, and producer
Haruomi Hosono , sometimes credited as Harry Hosono, is a Japanese musician, singer, songwriter and record producer. He is considered to be one of the most influential musicians in Japanese pop music history, credited with shaping the sound of Japanese pop for decades as well as pop music outside of Japan. He also inspired genres such as city pop and Shibuya-kei, and as the leader of the Yellow Magic Orchestra, contributed to the development and pioneering of numerous electronic genres.
1975
Shelton Benjamin
American wrestler
Shelton James Benjamin is an American professional wrestler and former amateur wrestler. As of October 2024, he is signed to All Elite Wrestling (AEW), where he is a member of The Hurt Syndicate and a former AEW World Tag Team Champion with stablemate Bobby Lashley.
1911
Mervyn Peake
English author and illustrator (died 1968)
Mervyn Laurence Peake was a British writer, artist, poet, and illustrator. He is best known for what are usually referred to as the Gormenghast books. The four works were part of what Peake conceived as a lengthy cycle, the completion of which was prevented by his death. They are sometimes compared to the work of his older contemporary J. R. R. Tolkien, but Peake's surreal fiction was influenced by his early love for Charles Dickens and Robert Louis Stevenson rather than Tolkien's studies of mythology and philology.
1858
Franz Boas
German-American anthropologist and linguist (died 1942)
Franz Uri Boas was a German-American anthropologist and ethnomusicologist. He was a pioneer of modern anthropology who has been called the "Father of American Anthropology". His work is associated with the movements known as historical particularism and cultural relativism.
1974
Siân Berry
English environmentalist and politician
Siân Rebecca Berry is a British politician who has served as the Member of Parliament for Brighton Pavilion since July 2024, succeeding Caroline Lucas. She was a co-leader of the Green Party of England and Wales alongside Jonathan Bartley from 2018 to 2021, and was its sole leader from July to October 2021. From 2006 to 2007, she was one of the Green Party's principal speakers.
1986
Kiely Williams
American singer-songwriter and dancer
Kiely Williams is an American singer, dancer and actress. She is known for her membership in the girl groups 3LW, the Cheetah Girls and BluPrint.
1944
Tabassum
Indian actress and talk show host (died 2022)
Tabassum was an Indian actress, talk show host and YouTuber, who started her career as child actor Baby Tabassum in 1947. She later had a television career as the host of first TV talk show of Indian television, Phool Khile Hain Gulshan Gulshan. It ran on National broadcaster Doordarshan from 1972 to 1993, wherein she interviewed film and TV personalities.
1927
Ed Ames
American singer and actor (died 2023)
Edmund Dantes Urick, known professionally as Ed Ames or Eddie Ames, was an American pop singer and actor. He was known for playing Mingo in the television series Daniel Boone, and for his Easy Listening No. 1 hits of the mid-to-late 1960s including "My Cup Runneth Over", "Time, Time", and "When the Snow Is on the Roses". He was also part of the popular 1950s singing group with his siblings, the Ames Brothers.
1990
Rafael
Brazilian footballer
Rafael Pereira da Silva, commonly known as simply Rafael or Rafael da Silva, is a Brazilian former professional footballer who last played for Campeonato Brasileiro Série A club Botafogo. He normally played as a right-back, but he has also been deployed as a midfielder.
1965
Frank Bello
American bass player
Frank Bello is an American musician who plays bass for the thrash metal band Anthrax. He was also a member of Helmet from 2004 to 2005 and was the touring bassist of Norwegian black metal band Satyricon in 2024.
1879
Ottorino Respighi
Italian composer and conductor (died 1936)
Ottorino Respighi was an Italian composer, violinist, teacher, and musicologist and one of the leading Italian composers of the early 20th century. His compositions range over operas, ballets, orchestral suites, choral songs, chamber music, and transcriptions of Italian compositions of the 16th–18th centuries, but his best known and most performed works are his three orchestral tone poems which brought him international fame: Fountains of Rome (1916), Pines of Rome (1924), and Roman Festivals (1928).
1984
Jacob Hoggard
Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist
Jacob William Hoggard is a Canadian musician who was the lead singer for the pop rock band Hedley. Hoggard competed on the second season of Canadian Idol in 2004, where he placed third.
1990
Fábio
Brazilian footballer
Fabio Pereira da Silva, known as Fabio, is a Brazilian former professional footballer who last played as a full-back for Campeonato Brasileiro Série A club Grêmio.
1993
DeAndre Yedlin
American footballer
DeAndre Roselle Yedlin is an American professional soccer player who plays as a defender for Major League Soccer club Real Salt Lake. Primarily a right-back, Yedlin has also featured as a right wing-back and wide midfielder.
1957
Tim Kring
American screenwriter and producer
Richard Timothy Kring is an American screenwriter and television producer, best known for his creation of the drama series Strange World, Crossing Jordan, Heroes, and Touch.
1959
Clive Stafford Smith
English lawyer and author
Clive Adrian Stafford Smith is a British attorney who specialises in the areas of civil rights and working against capital punishment in the United States. He worked to overturn death sentences for convicts, and helped found the not-for-profit Louisiana Capital Assistance Center in New Orleans. By 2002 this was the "largest capital defence organisation in the South." He was a founding board member of the Gulf Region Advocacy Center, based in Houston, Texas.
1922
Angelines Fernández
Spanish-Mexican actress (died 1994)
María de los Ángeles Fernández Abad, known professionally as Angelines Fernández, was a Mexican actress. She is best remembered for playing Doña Clotilde "La Bruja del 71" in the sitcom El Chavo del Ocho. She was an anti-Franco refugee who remained in Mexico from 1947 until the end of her life.
1934
Michael Graves
American architect, designed the Portland Building and the Humana Building (died 2015)
Michael Graves was an American architect, designer, and educator, and principal of Michael Graves and Associates and Michael Graves Design Group. He was a member of The New York Five and the Memphis Group and a professor of architecture at Princeton University for nearly forty years. Following his own partial paralysis in 2003, Graves became an internationally recognized advocate of health care design.
1949
Raoul Cédras
Haitian military officer and politician
Joseph Raoul Cédras is a Haitian former military officer who was the de facto ruler of Haiti from 1991 to 1994. Cedras was the last military ruler of Haiti. He took power in the 1991 Haitian coup d'état against President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, and agreed to relinquish control of the government back to Aristide during Operation Uphold Democracy in 1994.
1986
Sébastien Bassong
Cameroonian footballer
Sébastien Aymar Bassong Nguena is a former professional footballer who played as a defender. Born in France, he opted to play for the Cameroon national team.
1978
Kara Goucher
American runner
Kara Goucher is an American long-distance runner, author, television commentator, and podcaster. She was the 10,000 meters silver medalist at the 2007 World Championships in Athletics and represented the US at the 2008 Beijing Olympics and 2012 London Olympics. She made her marathon debut in 2008, finishing third at the New York City Marathon, and finished third the following year at the Boston Marathon.
1999
Claire Corlett
American voice actress
Claire Margaret Corlett Brown is a Canadian actress and singer, known most notably for providing the voice of Sweetie Belle in the animated television series My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic. She is the daughter of voice actor Ian James Corlett.
1966
Zheng Cao
Chinese-American soprano and actress (died 2013)
Zheng Cao was a Chinese-born, American operatic mezzo-soprano known for her signature role of Suzuki in Madama Butterfly. She performed this role with opera companies such as San Francisco Opera, Grand Théâtre de Genève, Pittsburgh Opera, Vancouver Opera, Washington National Opera and San Diego Opera, and under the baton of Seiji Ozawa with the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Her portrayal of the role of Cherubino in The Marriage of Figaro also earned her recognition at several American opera companies, including San Francisco Opera, Pittsburgh Opera, and Houston Grand Opera. She died from lung cancer in San Francisco, California in 2013.
1990
Earl Bamber
New Zealand race car driver
Earl Anderson Bamber is a New Zealand professional racing driver and racing team owner who currently competes in the IMSA SportsCar Championship and the FIA World Endurance Championship for Cadillac Hertz Team Jota and Cadillac Whelen. He is a factory driver for Corvette Racing, having previously driven in a factory capacity for Porsche.
1977
Sarah Ashton-Cirillo
American journalist
Sarah Ashton-Cirillo is an American former journalist who has worked as a spokesperson for Ukraine's Territorial Defense Forces, in which she is a junior sergeant. A self-described "recovering political operative" from Las Vegas, Nevada, she was active in Nevada politics from 2020 to 2021, including an abortive run for Las Vegas City Council. She arrived in Ukraine in March 2022, shortly after the full-scale Russian invasion, and has variously served as a war correspondent, a representative in aid negotiations, a civilian analyst with the Ministry of Defense, and a combat medic.
1967
Yordan Letchkov
Bulgarian footballer
Yordan Letchkov Yankov is a Bulgarian former professional footballer. He is generally regarded as one of the best players to come out of Bulgaria and was a key member of the squad which reached the semi-finals of the 1994 FIFA World Cup. Known to many as "The Magician", Letchkov was a gifted player who could play as a central midfielder or on the left side of midfield, and he was easily recognizable for his baldness. He was best known for his dribbling ability. However, his career was often adversely affected by his moody nature and the numerous arguments and fallings-out he had with fellow players and managers. He was the mayor of his home town for eight years, but was removed from duty due to corruption.
1979
Gary Chaw
Malaysian Chinese singer-songwriter
Gary Chaw, also known as Gary Cao or Cao Ge or by his alter ego Cao Xiaoge, is a Malaysian Chinese singer-songwriter based in Taiwan, who has had achieved success in Taiwan, mainland China, Malaysia, Hong Kong, and Singapore. He is renowned for his stage presence, wide vocal range, and rich voice. In addition, he composes for himself and other singers.
1955
Willie Wilson
American baseball player and manager
Willie James Wilson is an American former professional baseball player. He played 19 seasons in Major League Baseball for the Kansas City Royals, Oakland Athletics, and Chicago Cubs. He was an outfielder known for his speed and ability as an effective leadoff hitter. Wilson's career total of 668 stolen bases currently ranks him in 12th place all-time among major leaguers.
1910
Govan Mbeki
South African anti-apartheid and ANC leader and activist (died 2001)
Govan Archibald Mvunyelwa Mbeki was a South African politician, military commander, Communist leader who served as the Secretary of Umkhonto we Sizwe, at its inception in 1961. He was also the younger son of Chief Skelewu Mbeki and Johanna Mabula and also the father of the former South African president Thabo Mbeki and political economist Moeletsi Mbeki.
1894
Pyotr Kapitsa
Russian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1984)
Pyotr Leonidovich Kapitsa, also known as Peter Kapitza, was a Russian and Soviet physicist, whose research focused on low-temperature physics. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1978.
1982
Sakon Yamamoto
Japanese race car driver
Sakon Yamamoto is a Japanese politician and former racing driver who competed in Formula One between 2006 and 2010. Yamamoto was a member of the House of Representatives of Japan from 2021 to 2024, representing Tōkai PR for the Liberal Democratic Party.
1960
Eduardo Montes-Bradley
Argentine journalist, photographer, and author
Eduardo Montes-Bradley is a documentary filmmaker born in Córdoba, whose work focuses on biographical, cultural, and historical subjects. He is co-founder of Heritage Film Project and resides in Charlottesville. In addition to his work in film, he is the author of Cortázar sin barba, a literary biography of Julio Cortázar published by Random House Mondadori. His most recent works include The Piccirilli Factor, a film about the Italian-American sculptors, and Black Fiddlers. He is also known for directing Evita (2008), Rita Dove: An American Poet, Harto the Borges, and Daniel Chester French: American Sculptor made possible with the support of the National Trust for Historic Preservation. Among Montes-Bradley's other documentary works is his biographical film on civil rights leader Julian Bond.
1887
Samuel Eliot Morison
American admiral and historian (died 1976)
Samuel Eliot Morison was an American historian noted for his works of maritime history and American history that were both authoritative and popular. He received his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1912, and taught history at the university for 40 years. He won Pulitzer Prizes for Admiral of the Ocean Sea (1942), a biography of Christopher Columbus, and John Paul Jones: A Sailor's Biography (1959). In 1942, he was commissioned to write a history of United States naval operations in World War II, which was published in 15 volumes between 1947 and 1962. Morison wrote the popular Oxford History of the American People (1965), and co-authored the classic textbook The Growth of the American Republic (1930) with Henry Steele Commager.
1935
Wim Duisenberg
Dutch economist and politician, Dutch Minister of Finance (died 2005)
Willem Frederik "Wim" Duisenberg was a Dutch politician, economist and senior official who served as the first President of the European Central Bank from 1998 to 2003. A member of the Labour Party (PvdA), he previously was Minister of Finance from 1973 to 1977 and presided over De Nederlandsche Bank (DNB), the Dutch central bank, from 1982 to 1997.
1850
George F. Durand
Canadian architect (died 1889)
George Ferguson Durand was a Canadian architect. Born in London, Canada West, to a Scottish immigrant, he showed an interest in the arts from a young age. He apprenticed under William Robinson before working with Thomas Fuller on the Parliament Buildings in Ottawa and the New York State Capitol in Albany, New York. Returning to London by 1878, he joined Robinson, Tracy, & Company as a junior partner, being made partner in 1880; with the departure of Thomas Henry Tracy in 1882, Durand became the lead architect for the firm. He received many commissions in London and throughout Southwestern Ontario, including several from the federal government, and helped establish the Ontario Association of Architects in 1889.
1982
Alecko Eskandarian
American soccer player and manager
Alecko Eskandarian is an American retired soccer player. A 2004 and 2006 MLS All-Star, Eskandarian notably scored two goals in the 2004 MLS Cup where he was named the match MVP after helping to win the championship for D.C. United. The son of Andranik Eskandarian, a former player of the Iranian national team and the Taj team, Alecko Eskandarian represented the United States in their youth and senior national teams. He is a former assistant coach for New York Cosmos and head coach for their reserve team, New York Cosmos B.
1578
Ferdinand II
Holy Roman Emperor (died 1637)
Ferdinand II was Holy Roman Emperor, King of Bohemia, Hungary, and Croatia from 1619 until his death in 1637. He was the son of Archduke Charles II of Inner Austria and Maria of Bavaria, who were devout Catholics. In 1590, it was when Ferdinand was 11 years old, they sent him to study at the Jesuits' college in Ingolstadt because they wanted to isolate him from the Lutheran nobles. A few months later, his father died, and he inherited Inner Austria–Styria, Carinthia, Carniola and smaller provinces. His cousin, Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor, who was the head of the Habsburg family, appointed regents to administer these lands.
1940
David B. Frohnmayer
American lawyer and politician, 12th Oregon Attorney General (died 2015)
David Braden Frohnmayer was an American attorney, politician, and academic administrator from Oregon. He was the 15th president of the University of Oregon, serving from 1994 to 2009. His tenure as president was the second-longest after John Wesley Johnson. He was the first native Oregonian to run the University of Oregon. Frohnmayer previously served as Oregon Attorney General from 1981 to 1991, and subsequently served as dean at the University of Oregon School of Law before serving as president of the university. He served in an of counsel attorney role with the Oregon law firm, Harrang Long Gary Rudnick P.C.
1808
Alexander William Doniphan
American lawyer and colonel (died 1887)
Alexander William Doniphan was a 19th-century American attorney, soldier and politician from Missouri who is best known today as the man who prevented the summary execution of Joseph Smith, founder of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, at the close of the 1838 Mormon War in that state. He also achieved renown as a leader of American troops during the Mexican–American War, as the author of a legal code that still forms the basis of New Mexico's Bill of Rights, and as a successful defense attorney in the Missouri towns of Liberty, Richmond and Independence.
1887
Saturnino Herrán
Mexican painter (died 1918)
Saturnino Herrán Guinchard, also known as Saturnino Herrán was a Mexican painter influential to Latin culture in the late 19th and early 20th century. His work is part of the Mexican muralism, and also is considered to be one of the first queer painters in Mexico, as presented on the international exhibition “The First Homosexuals: The Birth of a New Identity, 1869-1939”. His paintings are recognized for addressing pre-Hispanic myths as well as scenes from popular and indigenous classes. Although he only lived 31 years, he created some of the most recognized plastic works of Mexican art.
1951
Māris Gailis
Latvian politician, businessman, and former Prime Minister of Latvia
Māris Gailis is a Latvian businessman and former politician. He is the former prime minister of Latvia, an office he held from September 1994 to December 1995. In the government of the Prime Minister Valdis Birkavs, Gailis became a Minister of State Reform; in the government of the Prime Minister Andris Šķēle, he was the Minister of Environmental Protection and Regional Development. As a member of the right-wing liberal political party Latvian Way, he was elected in the 5th Saeima and 6th Saeima. He led a round-the-globe expedition on the yacht Milda from 2001 to 2003.
1928
Federico Bahamontes
Spanish cyclist (died 2023)
Federico Martín Bahamontes, born Alejandro Martín Bahamontes, was a Spanish professional road racing cyclist. He won the 1959 Tour de France and a total of 11 Grand Tour stages between 1954 and 1965. He won a total of nine mountain classifications and was the first cyclist to complete a "career triple" by winning the mountain classification in all three Grand Tours. Following his retirement, Bahamontes ran a bicycle and motorcycle shop and was named the best climber in the history of the Tour de France by a panel organised by L'Équipe in 2013.
1526
Elizabeth of Austria
Polish noble (died 1545)
Elizabeth of Austria was Queen of Poland and Grand Duchess of Lithuania by marriage. She was the eldest of fifteen children of Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor, and his wife Anne of Bohemia and Hungary. A member of the House of Habsburg, she was married to Sigismund II Augustus, who was already crowned as King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania even though both of his parents were still alive and well. The marriage was short and unhappy. Elizabeth was of frail health, experiencing epileptic seizures, and died at age 18.
1927
Red Kelly
Canadian ice hockey player, coach, and politician (died 2019)
Leonard Patrick "Red" Kelly was a Canadian professional hockey player and coach. Kelly won eight Stanley Cups, four each with Detroit and then Toronto. He achieved more cup victories than any other player who never played for the Montreal Canadiens. He was also one of the only two players to have never played for the Canadiens and to be part of two of the nine dynasties recognized by the National Hockey League (NHL) in its history. In 2017, Kelly was named one of the “100 Greatest NHL Players” in history.
1965
Jason Rhoades
American sculptor (died 2006)
Jason Fayette Rhoades was an American installation artist. Better known in Europe, where he exhibited regularly for the last twelve years of his life, Rhoades was celebrated for his combination dinner party/exhibitions that feature violet neon signs and his large scale sculptural installations inspired by his rural upbringing in Northern California and Los Angeles car culture. His work often incorporated building materials and found objects assembled with "humor and conceptual rigor." He was known for by-passing conventional ideas of taste and political correctness in his pursuit of the creative drive.
1905
Clarence Campbell
Canadian ice hockey player and referee (died 1984)
Clarence Sutherland Campbell was a Canadian ice hockey executive and referee, and soldier. He refereed in the National Hockey League (NHL) during the 1930s, served in the Canadian Army during World War II, then served as the third president of the NHL from 1946 to 1977. His tenure as president included the Richard Riot and the 1967 NHL expansion. His career was recognized with induction into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1966, and the naming of the Clarence S. Campbell Bowl for him.
1926
Murphy Anderson
American illustrator (died 2015)
Murphy C. Anderson Jr. was an American comics artist, known as one of the premier inkers of his era, who worked for companies such as DC Comics for over fifty years, starting in the Golden Age of Comic Books in the 1940s. He worked on such characters as Hawkman, Batgirl, Zatanna, the Spectre, and Superman, as well as on the Buck Rogers daily syndicated newspaper comic strip. Anderson also contributed for many years to PS, the preventive maintenance comics magazine of the U.S. Army.
1984
LA Tenorio
Filipino basketball player
Lewis Alfred Vasquez Tenorio is a Filipino professional basketball player and head coach for the Magnolia Chicken Timplados Hotshots of the Philippine Basketball Association (PBA) and the Gilas Youth. He was an assistant coach for the Letran Knights of the Philippines' NCAA.
1766
Jacob Perkins
American inventor (died 1849)
Jacob Perkins was an American inventor, mechanical engineer and physicist based in the United Kingdom. Born in Newburyport, Massachusetts, Perkins was apprenticed to a goldsmith. He soon made himself known with a variety of useful mechanical inventions and eventually had twenty-one American and nineteen English patents. He is sometimes known as the father of the refrigerator. He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1813 and a member of the American Philosophical Society in 1819.
1879
Carlos Chagas
Brazilian physician and parasitologist (died 1934)
Carlos Justiniano Ribeiro Chagas, was a Brazilian sanitary physician, scientist, and microbiologist who worked as a clinician and researcher. Best known for the discovery of an eponymous protozoal infection called Chagas disease, also called American trypanosomiasis, he also discovered the causative fungi of the pneumocystis pneumonia. He described the two pathogens in 1909, while he was working at the Oswaldo Cruz Institute in Rio de Janeiro, and named the former Trypanosoma cruzi to honour his friend Oswaldo Cruz.
1929
Chi Haotian
Chinese general
Chi Haotian, also spelled as Chih Hao-tien, is a retired general of the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) who served as Minister of National Defense and a state councilor from 1993 to 2003, and as a vice chairman of the Central Military Commission (CMC) from 1995 to 2003. A veteran of the Chinese Civil War and the Korean War, he was chief of the PLA General Staff during the military's suppression of the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests.
1950
Adriano Panatta
Italian tennis player and sailor
Adriano Panatta is an Italian former professional tennis player. He won the 1976 French Open, becoming the first Italian man in the Open Era to win a major singles title. That year, Panatta also led Italy to the Davis Cup crown, and he reached his career-high ranking of world No. 4 in men's singles by the Association of Tennis Professionals. Panatta was the only player ever to defeat Björn Borg at the French Open, doing so twice.
1944
John Cunniff
American ice hockey player and coach (died 2002)
John Paul Cunniff was an American ice hockey coach and former professional player who appeared in 65 World Hockey Association regular season games between 1972 and 1976. After his playing career he worked as a coach, including in the National Hockey League with the Hartford Whalers in 1983 and the New Jersey Devils from 1989 to 1991. Cunniff was inducted into the United States Hockey Hall of Fame in 2003.
1917
Krystyna Dańko
Polish orphan, survivor of Holocaust (died 2019)
Krystyna Dańko, née Chłond, was a Polish orphan from the town of Otwock, daughter of Karol Chłond – a respected city official in prewar Poland – who was awarded the title of Righteous among the Nations by Yad Vashem in 1998, for saving the lives of Polish Jews during the Holocaust while risking her own life at the time of the Nazi German occupation of Poland.
1922
Kathleen Booth
British computer scientist and mathematician (died 2022)
Kathleen Hylda Valerie Booth was a British computer scientist and mathematician who co-wrote the first assembly language and co-designed the assembler and autocode for the first computer systems at Birkbeck College, University of London. She helped design three different machines including the ARC, SEC, and APE(X)C.
1577
Thomas West
3rd Baron De La Warr, English-American soldier and politician, Colonial Governor of Virginia (died 1618)
Thomas West, 3rd Baron De La Warr was an English colonial administrator for whom the bay, the river, and, consequently, a Native American people and U.S. state, all later called "Delaware", were named. A member of the House of Lords from the death of his father in 1602 until his own death in 1618, he served as the governor of Virginia from 1610 to 1611.
1922
Jim Pollard
American basketball player and coach (died 1993)
James Clifford Pollard was an American professional basketball player and coach. As a player in the National Basketball Association (NBA), Pollard was considered one of the best forwards in the 1950s and was known for his leaping ability, earning him the nickname "The Kangaroo Kid". A five-time NBA champion and four-time NBA All-Star, Pollard spent his entire eight-year professional career with the Minneapolis Lakers.
1915
David Diamond
American composer and educator (died 2005)
David Leo Diamond was an American composer of classical music. He is considered one of the preeminent American composers of his generation. Many of his works are tonal or modal. His early compositions are typically triadic, often with widely spaced harmonies, giving them a distinctly American tone, but some of his works are consciously French in style. His later style became more chromatic.
1921
David C. Jones
American general (died 2013)
David Charles Jones was a United States Air Force general and the ninth chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. In this capacity, Jones served as the highest-ranking uniformed officer of the United States Armed Forces. He previously served as the ninth Chief of Staff of the United States Air Force and fifteenth commander of the United States Air Forces in Europe.
1941
Mac MacLeod
English musician (died 2020)
Keith "Mac" MacLeod, was an English musician who was a part of the Hertfordshire folk and blues scene from 1959 onwards. He played in St Albans alongside Mick Softley and Maddy Prior and toured with John Renbourn. Influences include Softley, Ramblin' Jack Elliott, Derroll Adams, Jesse Fuller, Big Bill Broonzy, Snooks Eaglin, Reverend Gary Davis and Davey Graham.
1848
Robert I
Duke of Parma (died 1907)
Robert I was the last sovereign Duke of Parma and Piacenza from 1854 until 1859, when the duchy was annexed to Sardinia-Piedmont during the Risorgimento. He was a member of the House of Bourbon-Parma and descended from Philip, Duke of Parma, the third son of King Philip V of Spain and Queen Elisabeth Farnese.
1809
Friedrich Gustav Jakob Henle
German physician, pathologist, and anatomist (died 1885)
Friedrich Gustav Jakob Henle was a German medical doctor, pathologist, and anatomist. He is credited with the discovery of the loop of Henle in the kidney. His essay, "On Miasma and Contagia," was an early argument for the germ theory of disease. He was an important figure in the development of modern medicine.
1926
Pedro Dellacha
Argentine football defender and coach (died 2010)
Pedro Rodolfo Dellacha was an Argentine football player and coach. A defender, he was the captain of the Argentina national team that won the 1957 Copa América and earned the nickname "Don Pedro del Area". As a manager, he won the Copa Libertadores twice and league championships in four countries.
1775
Matthew Lewis
English author and playwright (died 1818)
Matthew Gregory Lewis was an English novelist and dramatist, whose writings are often classified as "Gothic horror". He was frequently referred to as "Monk" Lewis, because of the success of his 1796 Gothic novel The Monk. He also worked as a diplomat, politician and an estate owner in Jamaica.
1907
Eddie Dean
American singer-songwriter (died 1999)
Eddie Dean was an American Western singer and actor. His smooth baritone impressed both Roy Rogers and Gene Autry, who considered Dean the best cowboy singer of all time.
1834
Jan Neruda
Czech journalist and poet (died 1891)
Jan Nepomuk Neruda was a Czech journalist, writer, poet and art critic; one of the most prominent representatives of Czech Realism and a member of the "May School".
1974
Kārlis Skrastiņš
Latvian ice hockey player (died 2011)
Kārlis Skrastiņš was a Latvian professional ice hockey player. Skrastiņš was drafted by the Nashville Predators of the National Hockey League in 1998 as a defenceman and spent twelve years in the league playing for the Predators, the Colorado Avalanche, the Florida Panthers, and the Dallas Stars.
1973
Kelly Holcomb
American football player and sportscaster
Bryan Kelly Holcomb is an American former professional football player who was a quarterback in the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Middle Tennessee Blue Raiders. Holcomb was signed by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers as an undrafted free agent after the 1995 NFL draft. He was also a member of the Indianapolis Colts, Cleveland Browns, Buffalo Bills, Philadelphia Eagles, and Minnesota Vikings.
1909
Basil Wolverton
American author and illustrator (died 1978)
Basil Wolverton was an American cartoonist and illustrator known for his intricately detailed grotesques of bizarre or misshapen people. Wolverton was described as "Producer of Preposterous Pictures of Peculiar People who Prowl this Perplexing Planet." His many publishers included Marvel Comics and Mad magazine.
1975
Robert Koenig
American director, producer, and screenwriter
Robert "Bob" Koenig is an American film director, producer, writer and editor. Koenig directed the documentary film "Returned: Child Soldiers of Nepal's Maoist Army", which won the 2008 Artivist Award for Child Advocacy and produced "Coexist", which was nominated for Best Documentary Film by the Africa Movie Academy Awards (AMAA) in 2011. In 2014, Koenig co-founded HeartMind International, a nonprofit organization focused on expanding access to culturally appropriate mental health care in South Asia. He currently serves as Creative Services Manager for Maxim Healthcare.
1914
Willi Stoph
German engineer and politician, 4th Prime Minister of East Germany (died 1999)
Wilhelm Stoph was a German politician. He served as Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the German Democratic Republic from 1964 to 1973, and again from 1976 until 1989. He also served as chairman of the State Council from 1973 to 1976.
1993
Mitch Larkin
Australian swimmer
Mitchell James Larkin is an Australian former competitive swimmer who specialises in backstroke events. He represented the Cali Condors as part of the International Swimming League. Larkin competed for Australia at the 2012 Summer Olympics, 2016 Summer Olympics and the 2020 Summer Olympics.
1925
Charles E. Wicks
American engineer, author, and academic (died 2010)
Charles Edward Wicks was an American chemical engineer. He was a professor in the Chemical Engineering Department at Oregon State University. His focus was mass transfer, which was the subject of the textbook he coauthored, Fundamentals of Momentum, Heat, and Mass Transfer.
1974
Nikola Šarčević
Swedish singer-songwriter and bass player
Nikola Šarčević is a Swedish musician of Serbian origin. He is the bassist, vocalist, and primary songwriter for the Swedish punk rock band Millencolin and also has a solo career with four studio albums. He also runs the Swedish brewery Duckpond Brewing.
1984
Chris Campoli
Canadian ice hockey player
Christopher Campoli is a Canadian professional ice hockey player for the Dundas Real McCoys of the Ontario Hockey Association's Allan Cup Hockey. He played for the Chicago Blackhawks, Ottawa Senators, New York Islanders, and Montreal Canadiens in the National Hockey League (NHL).
1931
Haynes Johnson
American journalist and author (died 2013)
Haynes Bonner Johnson was an American journalist, author, and television analyst. He reported on most of the major news stories of the latter half of the 20th century and was widely regarded as one of the top American political commentators.
1942
David Chidgey
Baron Chidgey, English engineer and politician (died 2022)
David William George Chidgey, Baron Chidgey was a British Liberal Democrat politician who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Eastleigh from 1994 to 2005, and latterly sat in the House of Lords from 2005 until his death.
1953
Margie Gillis
Canadian dancer and choreographer
Margie Gillis is a Canadian dancer and choreographer. Gillis has been creating original works of modern dance for over thirty-five years. Her repertoire includes more than one hundred pieces, which she performs as solos, duets, and group pieces.
1969
Agnieszka Kłopotek
Polish politician and zootechnician
Agnieszka Maria Kłopotek is a politician and zootechnician. She is a member of the Sejm of Poland since 2023, was a member of the Kuyavian–Pomeranian Voivodeship Sejmik from 2014 to 2023. She belongs to the Polish People's Party.
1828
Luigi Oreglia di Santo Stefano
Italian cardinal (died 1913)
Luigi Oreglia di Santo Stefano was a cardinal of the Catholic Church in the late nineteenth century. He was Bishop of Ostia e Velletri and Dean of the Sacred College of Cardinals from 1896 until his death.
1686
Philip Livingston
American merchant and politician (died 1749)
Philip Livingston was an American merchant, slave trader and politician in colonial New York. The son of Robert Livingston the Elder and elder brother of Robert of Clermont, Philip was the second lord of Livingston Manor.
1930
Roy McLean
South African cricketer and rugby player (died 2007)
Roy Alastair McLean was a South African cricketer who played in 40 Test matches between 1951 and 1964. A stroke-playing middle-order batsman, he scored over 2,000 Test runs, but made 11 ducks in 73 Test innings.
1981
Junauda Petrus
American author and performance artist
Junauda Juanita Petrus is an American author, filmmaker, performance artist, "pleasure activist", and Poet Laureate. Her debut novel, The Stars and the Blackness Between Them, was a winner of a Coretta Scott King Honor Award.
1928
Vince Edwards
American actor, singer, and director (died 1996)
Vince Edwards was an American actor, director, and singer. He was best known for his TV role as Dr. Ben Casey and as Major Cliff Bricker in the 1968 war film The Devil's Brigade.
1856
John Verran
English-Australian politician, 26th Premier of South Australia (died 1932)
John Verran was an Australian politician and trade unionist. He served as premier of South Australia from 1910 to 1912, the second member of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) to hold the position.
1511
Dorothea of Saxe-Lauenburg
queen consort of Denmark and Norway (died 1571)
Dorothea of Saxe-Lauenburg was queen consort of Denmark and Norway by marriage to King Christian III of Denmark. She was known to having wielded influence upon the affairs of state in Denmark.
1825
A. C. Gibbs
American lawyer and politician, 2nd Governor of Oregon (died 1886)
Addison Crandall Gibbs was an American politician. He was the second governor of Oregon from 1862 until 1866, and previously served in the Oregon Territory's legislative body and later the state legislature.
1956
Michael Lederer
American author, poet, and playwright
Michael Lederer is an American playwright, screenwriter, novelist, short story writer, poet, and essayist currently living in Berlin, Germany. Die Welt has called him "an archaeologist among the great American writers."
1948
Hassan Wirajuda
Indonesian lawyer and politician, 15th Indonesian Minister of Foreign Affairs
Noer Hassan Wirajuda is an Indonesian politician who was the foreign minister of Indonesia from 2001 to 2009. He served during the presidencies of Megawati Sukarnoputri and Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono.
1981
Lee Chun-soo
South Korean footballer
Lee Chun-soo is a South Korean former professional footballer who played as a winger and attacking midfielder. He was known for his pace, dribbling ability, and proficiency at free kicks.
1654
Emperor Reigen of Japan (died 1732)
Emperor Reigen , personal name Satohito , was the 112th emperor of Japan, according to the traditional order of succession. Reigen's reign spanned the years from 1663 through 1687.
1987
Gert Jõeäär
Estonian cyclist
Gert Jõeäär is an Estonian road bicycle racer, who rides for Estonian amateur team CFC Spordiklubi. From 2013 to 2016, Jõeäär competed with UCI Professional Continental cycling team Cofidis.
1893
George Geary
English cricketer and coach (died 1981)
George Geary was a first-class cricketer who played for Leicestershire County Cricket Club and the England cricket team. Primarily a bowler, he took 46 wickets in 14 Tests.
1930
Elsa Lystad
Norwegian actress (died 2023)
Elsa Lystad was a Norwegian film and stage actress. She was a recipient of the Leonard Statuette, the King's Medal of Merit, the Amanda Honorary Award, and Gullruten.
1963
Klaus Theiss
German footballer
Klaus Theiss is a German former professional footballer. He made a total of 146 appearances in the Bundesliga and 94 in the 2. Bundesliga during his playing career.
1985
Paweł Korzeniowski
Polish swimmer
Paweł Korzeniowski is a Polish competitive swimmer who won the 200-meter butterfly at the 2005 World Aquatics Championships in Montreal. He also competes in the freestyle events.
1908
Allamah Rasheed Turabi
Pakistani philosopher and scholar (died 1973)
Raza Hussain also known as Allama Rasheed Turabi (9 July 1908 – 18 December 1973) was an Islamic scholar, religious leader, public speaker, poet and philosopher.
1926
Ben Roy Mottelson
American-Danish physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2022)
Benjamin Roy Mottelson was an American-Danish nuclear physicist. He won the 1975 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on the non-spherical geometry of atomic nuclei.
1753
William Waldegrave
1st Baron Radstock, English admiral and politician, 34th Lieutenant Governor of Newfoundland (died 1825)
Admiral of the Red William Waldegrave, 1st Baron Radstock, GCB was a Royal Navy officer and colonial administrator who served as the governor of Newfoundland.
1930
Patricia Newcomb
American publicist
Margot Patricia "Pat" Newcomb Wigan is an American publicist and producer. After working for Pierre Salinger, she was hired by the agency of Arthur P. Jacobs and briefly represented Marilyn Monroe in 1956. In 1960, she became Monroe's permanent publicist until her death. She later worked for Barbra Streisand and Natalie Wood. She also worked for the United States Information Agency and assisted Robert F. Kennedy in his political campaigns. In 1969, she founded the Pickwick Public Relations Agency and became vice president of motion picture production at MGM in 1985. She was married to producer Gareth Wigan, who died in 2010.
1930
Janice Lourie
American computer scientist and graphic artist
Janice Richmond "Jan" Lourie is an American computer scientist and graphic artist. In the late 1960s she was a pioneer in CAD/CAM for the textile industry. She is best known for inventing a set of software tools that facilitate the textile production stream from artist to manufacturer. For the Graphical Design Of Textiles process she was granted IBM's first software patent. Other projects, in differing disciplines, share the focus on graphic representation. She returns throughout an ongoing career to the stacked two-dimensional tabular arrays of textiles and computer graphics, and the topological structures of interrelated data.
1889
Léo Dandurand
American-Canadian ice hockey player, coach, and referee (died 1964)
Joseph Viateur "Léo" Dandurand, was an American-Canadian sportsman and businessman. He was the owner and coach of the Montreal Canadiens ice hockey team in the National Hockey League (NHL). He also was an owner of race tracks and of the Montreal Alouettes football team in the league that evolved into the Canadian Football League (CFL).
1974
Ian Bradshaw
Barbadian cricketer
Ian David Russell Bradshaw is a former Barbadian cricketer who played for the West Indies cricket team as a left-arm fast bowler. A former West Indies under-19s and Barbados captain, he was a notable member of the West Indies team that won the 2004 Champions Trophy, being named man of the match in the tournament's final, and scored the winning boundary. Bradshaw eventually picked up 78 wickets for the Windies at an average of 29.47 from 62 ODIs.
1966
Gary Glasberg
American television writer and producer (died 2016)
Gary Glasberg was an American television writer and producer. He was born in New York City. He was the showrunner on NCIS and creator of NCIS: New Orleans.
1954
Théophile Abega
Cameroonian footballer and politician (died 2012)
Théophile Abega Mbida, nicknamed Doctor, was a Cameroonian football player and politician. Playing as a midfielder he was part of the Cameroon national team, playing all three matches at the 1982 FIFA World Cup and captaining the side to their first African Nations Cup victory in 1984, where he scored a goal in the final. He was nicknamed "The Doctor" in tribute to his footballing intelligence.
1969
Nicklas Barker
Swedish singer-songwriter and guitarist
Nicklas Barker, formerly Berg, is a Swedish musician best known as the founder, guitarist, vocalist and keyboardist of the progressive rock band Anekdoten. He is also involved with other bands and projects, such as horror soundtrack band Morte Macabre and psychedelic improvisation rock band My Brother The Wind. He also wrote the original soundtrack for the Spanish movie El Ultimo Fin De Semana.
1764
Ann Ward
English author and poet (died 1823)
Ann Radcliffe was an English novelist and poet who pioneered the Gothic novel. Her fourth and most popular novel, The Mysteries of Udolpho, was published in 1794. She is also remembered for her third novel, The Romance of the Forest (1791) and her fifth novel, The Italian (1797). Her novels combine suspenseful narratives, exotic historical settings, and apparently-supernatural events.
1931
Sylvia Bacon
American judge (died 2023)
Sylvia Adelaide Bacon was an American judge of the Superior Court of the District of Columbia who was considered by both Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan as a potential nominee to the Supreme Court of the United States at a time when no women had yet been appointed to the Court.
1914
Mac Wilson
Australian rules footballer (died 2017)
Andrew McDonald "Mac" Wilson was an Australian rules footballer who played with Carlton in the Victorian Football League (VFL). He was the second Carlton player to reach 100 years of age and was the oldest living person to have played in the VFL/AFL at the time of his death.
1960
Wally Fullerton Smith
Australian rugby league player
Wally John Fullerton-Smith is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1980s and 1990s. An Australian international and Queensland State of Origin representative back-rower, he played club football in Queensland, France, England and New South Wales.
1958
Abdul Latiff Ahmad
Malaysian politician
Abdul Latiff bin Ahmad is a Malaysian politician who served as Minister in the Prime Minister's Department for Special Functions from 2021 to 2022. He was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Mersing from 1999 to 2022.
1932
Amitzur Shapira
Israeli sprinter and long jumper (died 1972)
Amitzur Shapira was an Israeli sprinter and long jumper. He was head coach for the Israeli track and field team at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, Germany. He was killed in the Munich massacre.
1960
Yūko Asano
Japanese actress and singer
Yūko Asano is a Japanese actress and singer. She won the award for best actress at the 19th Japan Academy Prize for Kura. She was born in Kobe.
1915
Lee Embree
American sergeant and photographer (died 2008)
Lee Embree was an American Army staff sergeant and photographer who took the first American air-to-air photographs of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941. Embree took the pictures of the attack from on board an Army Air Corps B-17 which he happened to be flying on from California to Hawaii on December 7, 1941, as the Japanese attacked the Pacific Fleet stationed at Pearl Harbor.
1916
Dean Goffin
New Zealand composer (died 1984)
Sir Dean Goffin was one of New Zealand's first prolific Salvation Army composers who composed not only music for the Army but for non-Army bands as well.
1950
Amal ibn Idris al-Alami
Moroccan physician and neurosurgeon
Amal El Alami is a Moroccan physician, neurosurgeon and writer. He was born at Casablanca, the quartier Habous, in a nationalist family linked to the Istiqlal Party.
1970
Masami Tsuda
Japanese author and illustrator
Masami Tsuda is a Japanese manga artist. She specialises in shōjo manga, the most famous being Kare Kano: His and Her Circumstances, which is set in Kanagawa.
1887
James Ormsbee Chapin
American-Canadian painter and illustrator (died 1975)
James Ormsbee Chapin was an American painter and illustrator. He was the father of jazz musician Jim Chapin and grandfather of folk singer Harry Chapin.
1929
Patricia Kenner
American politician and registered nurse (died 2013)
Patricia Eileen Kenner was an American politician and registered nurse. She served two terms in the South Dakota House of Representatives as a member of the Democratic Party.
1249
Emperor Kameyama of Japan (died 1305)
Emperor Kameyama was the 90th emperor of Japan, according to the traditional order of succession. His reign spanned the years from 1260 through 1274.
1455
Frederick IV of Baden
Dutch bishop (died 1517)
Frederik of Baden was a German nobleman who served as Bishop of Utrecht from 1496 until his resignation in 1517.
1689
Alexis Piron
French epigrammatist and playwright (died 1773)
Alexis Piron was a French epigrammatist and dramatist.
1721
Johann Nikolaus Götz
German poet and author (died 1781)
Johann Nikolaus Götz was a German poet from Worms.
1777
Paavo Ruotsalainen
Finnish farmer and lay preacher (died 1852)
Paavo Heikki Ruotsalainen was a Finnish farmer and lay preacher who became the leader of the revivalist Awakening religious movement in Finland.
1819
Elias Howe
American inventor, invented the sewing machine (died 1867)
Elias Howe Jr. was an American inventor best known for his creation of the modern lockstitch sewing machine.
1836
Camille of Renesse-Breidbach (died 1904)
Camille Maximilien Frédéric, Count de Renesse-Breidbach was a Belgian nobleman, entrepreneur and author.
1853
William Turner Dannat
American painter (died 1929)
William Turner Dannat was an American artist known especially for paintings of Spanish subject matter.
1867
Georges Lecomte
French author and playwright (died 1958)
Georges Lecomte was a French novelist and playwright, who also wrote literary, historical and artistic studies.
1902
Peter Acland
English soldier (died 1993)
Brigadier Peter Bevil Edward Acland was a British Army officer.
1908
Minor White
American photographer, critic, and educator (died 1976)
Minor Martin White was an American photographer, theoretician, critic, and educator.
1918
Jarl Wahlström
Finnish 12th General of The Salvation Army (died 1999)
Jarl Holger Wahlström was the 12th General of The Salvation Army (1981–86).
1918
Nicolaas Govert de Bruijn
Dutch mathematician and academic (died 2012)
Nicolaas Govert "Dick" de Bruijn was a Dutch mathematician, noted for his many contributions in the fields of analysis, number theory, combinatorics and logic.
1924
Pierre Cochereau
French organist and composer (died 1984)
Pierre Eugène Charles Cochereau was a French organist, improviser, composer, and pedagogue.
1925
Ronald I. Spiers
American ambassador (died 2021)
Ronald Ian "Ron" Spiers was an American diplomat who served as an Ambassador to several countries during the 1970s and 1980s.
1926
Mathilde Krim
Italian-American medical researcher and health educator (died 2018)
Mathilde Krim was a medical researcher and the founding chairman of the American Foundation for AIDS Research (amfAR).
1929
Hassan II of Morocco (died 1999)
Hassan II was King of Morocco from 1961 until his death in 1999.
1929
Jesse McReynolds
American singer and mandolin player (died 2023)
Jesse Lester McReynolds was an American bluegrass musician. He was best known for his innovative crosspicking and split-string styles of mandolin playing.
1930
Buddy Bregman
American composer and conductor (died 2017)
Louis Isidore "Buddy" Bregman was an American arranger and conductor.
1933
Oliver Sacks
English-American neurologist, author, and academic (died 2015)
Oliver Wolf Sacks was a British neurologist, naturalist, historian of science, and writer.
1936
David Zinman
American violinist and conductor
David Zinman is an American conductor.
1936
June Jordan
American poet and educator (died 2002)
June Millicent Jordan was an American poet, essayist, teacher, and activist. In her writing she explored issues of gender, race, immigration, and representation.
1940
Eugene Victor Wolfenstein
American psychoanalyst and theorist (died 2010)
Eugene Victor Wolfenstein was an American social theorist, practicing psychoanalyst, and a professor of political science at University of California, Los Angeles.
1943
John Casper
American colonel, pilot, and astronaut
John Howard Casper is a former American astronaut and retired United States Air Force pilot.
1944
Judith M. Brown
Indian-English historian and academic
Judith Margaret Brown is a British historian, academic and Anglican priest, who specialises in the study of modern South Asia.
1945
Root Boy Slim
American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 1993)
Foster MacKenzie III, known professionally as Root Boy Slim, was an American musician and songwriter.
1947
Patrick Wormald
English historian (died 2004)
Charles Patrick Wormald was a British historian born in Neston, Cheshire, son of historian Brian Wormald.
1950
Moisés Canelo
Honduran singer-songwriter (died 2024)
Moisés Canelas Withol, better known as Moisés Canelo, was a Honduran singer and songwriter.
1955
Steve Coppell
English footballer and manager
Stephen James Coppell is an English professional football manager and former player.
1958
1965
Thomas Jahn
German director and screenwriter
Thomas Jahn is a German film and television director.
1966
Marco Pennette
American screenwriter and producer
Marco Pennette is an American television writer and producer.
1967
Gunnar Axén
Swedish politician
Hans Gunnar Axén is a Swedish Moderate Party politician and a member of the Swedish Riksdag for Östergötland from 1998 to 2014.
1967
1969
Jason Kearton
Australian footballer and coach
Jason Brett Kearton is an Australian soccer coach and former professional player.
1972
Ara Babajian
American drummer and songwriter
Ara Babajian is an American drummer who has been a member of such bands as Leftöver Crack and The Slackers.
1974
Gary Kelly
Irish footballer
Gary Oliver Kelly is an Irish former footballer who played his entire professional career with Leeds United.
1975
Craig Quinnell
Welsh rugby player
Craig Quinnell is a Welsh former rugby union player.
1976
Radike Samo
Fijian-Australian rugby player
Radike Samo is an Australian retired rugby union player. He plays lock, flanker, number 8 and can even play on the wing.
1976
Thomas Cichon
Polish-German footballer and manager
Thomas Joachim Cichon is a German former professional footballer who played as a centre-back.
1978
Nuno Santos
Portuguese footballer
Nuno Filipe Oliveira Santos is a Portuguese former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper.
1984
Ave Pajo
Estonian footballer
Ave Pajo is an Estonian football player, who plays as a striker for Naiste Meistriliiga club Kalev Tallinn.
1984
Gianni Fabiano
Italian footballer
Gianni Fabiano is an Italian footballer who plays as a midfielder for Serie D club A.C. Mestre.
1984
Piia Suomalainen
Finnish tennis player
Piia Suomalainen is a Finnish former tennis player.
1986
1988
Raul Rusescu
Romanian footballer
Raul Andrei Rusescu is a Romanian former professional footballer who played as a forward.