Famous Birthdays on June 11

Q: Who was born on June 11?

Famous people born on June 11 include: John IV, Anne Neville, Barnabe Googe, Lodovico Zacconi, Ben Jonson.

Q: What is Joe Montana known for?

Joe Montana, American football player and sportscaster

159 people 1403 – 2004

June 11 has seen 159 notable people enter the world across recorded history — from 1403 – 2004. Below are the most significant names born on this date.

By thisDay.info Editorial Team · June 11 — Wikipedia

1956 — Joe Montana

American football player and sportscaster

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With the 49ers, Montana started and won four Super Bowls and was the first player to be named the Super Bowl Most Valuable Player (MVP) three times

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He also holds Super Bowl career records for most passes without an interception and the all-time highest passer rating of 127.8

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In 1993, Montana was traded to the Kansas City Chiefs, where he played for his last two seasons and led the franchise to its first AFC Championship Game

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is an American former professional football quarterback who played in the National Football League (NFL) for 16 seasons, primarily with the San Francisco 49ers

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After winning a national championship with the Notre Dame Fighting Irish, Montana began his NFL career in 1979 at San Francisco, where he played for the next 14 seasons

John IV

Duke of Brabant (died 1427)

John IV, Duke of Brabant was the son of Antoine of Burgundy, Duke of Brabant, Lothier and Limburg and his first wife Jeanne of Saint-Pol. He was the second Brabantian ruler from the House of Valois. He is best known for…

1403

Anne Neville

Princess of Wales and Queen of England (died 1485)

Anne Neville was Queen of England from 26 June 1483 until her death in 1485 as the wife of King Richard III. She was the younger of the two daughters and co-heiresses of Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick, and Anne…

1456

Barnabe Googe

English poet and translator (died 1594)

Barnabe Googe, also spelt Barnabe Goche and Barnaby Goodge, was a poet and translator, one of the earliest English pastoral poets.

1540

Lodovico Zacconi

Italian composer and theorist (died 1627)

Lodovico Zacconi was an Italian composer and musical theorist of the late Renaissance and early Baroque eras. He worked as a singer, theologian, and writer on music in northern Italy and Austria; for a time he was in…

1555

Ben Jonson

English poet, playwright, and critic (died 1637)

Benjamin Jonson was an English poet and playwright. Jonson's artistry exerted a lasting influence on English poetry and stage comedy. He popularised the comedy of humours; he is best known for the satirical plays Every…

1572

Evert Horn

Swedish soldier (died 1615)

Evert Karlsson Horn af Kanckas was a Swedish field marshal and governor of Narva.

1585

George Wither

English poet (died 1667)

George Wither was a prolific English poet, pamphleteer, satirist, and writer of hymns. Wither's life spanned one of the most tumultuous periods in the history of England, during the reigns of Elizabeth I, James I, and…

1588

John Moore

English businessman and politician, Lord Mayor of London (died 1702)

Sir John Moore was an English politician. He was the Member of Parliament for the City of London from 15 May 1685 to 9 January 1687, and Lord Mayor of London from 1681–82. He also invested in the slave trade.

1620

Antonio Cifrondi

Italian painter (died 1730)

Antonio Cifrondi was an Italian painter of the late Baroque, mainly of genre themes. He was active in Brescia and near Bergamo.

1655

Tokugawa Ienobu

Japanese shōgun (died 1712)

Tokugawa Ienobu was a Japanese samurai, daimyo and the sixth shōgun of the Tokugawa dynasty of Japan. He was the eldest son of Tokugawa Tsunashige, thus making him the nephew of Tokugawa Ietsuna and Tokugawa…

1662

Francesco Antonio Bonporti

Italian priest and composer (died 1749)

Francesco Antonio Bonporti was an Italian priest and amateur composer.

1672

Giovanni Antonio Giay

Italian composer (died 1764)

Giovanni Antonio Giay was an Italian composer. His compositional output includes 15 operas, 5 symphonies, and a significant amount of sacred music.

1690

James Francis Edward Keith

Scottish-Prussian field marshal (died 1758)

James Francis Edward Keith was a Scottish soldier and Generalfeldmarschall of the Royal Prussian Army. As a Jacobite he took part in a failed attempt to restore the Stuart Monarchy to Britain. When this failed, he fled…

1696

Francesco Antonio Vallotti

Italian organist and composer (died 1780)

Francesco Antonio Vallotti was an Italian composer, music theorist, and organist.

1697

Carlos Seixas

Portuguese harpsichord player and composer (died 1742)

José António Carlos de Seixas was a pre-eminent Portuguese composer of the 18th century. An accomplished virtuoso of both the organ and the harpsichord, Seixas succeeded his father as the organist for Coimbra Cathedral…

1704

Joachim Martin Falbe

German painter (died 1782)

Joachim Martin Falbe was a German portrait painter.

1709

Benjamin Ingham

American missionary (died 1772)

Benjamin Ingham was an English cleric who was the founder of the Moravian Church in England as well as his own Inghamite societies.

1712

Johann Georg Palitzsch

German astronomer (died 1788)

Johann Georg Palitzsch – 21 February 1788 in Prohlis) was a German astronomer who became famous for recovering Comet 1P/Halley on Christmas Day, 1758. The periodic nature of this comet had been deduced by its namesake…

1723

Infanta Maria Teresa Rafaela of Spain (died 1746)

Maria Teresa Rafaela of Spain, Dauphine of France, was the daughter of King Philip V of Spain and Elisabeth Farnese and the wife of Louis, Dauphin of France, son of King Louis XV and Queen Marie Leczinska. The Dauphine…

1726

Joseph Warren

American physician and general (died 1775)

Joseph Warren, a Founding Father of the United States, was an American physician who was one of the most important figures in the Patriot movement in Boston during the early days of the American Revolution, eventually…

1741

John Constable

English painter and academic (died 1837)

John Constable was an English landscape painter in the Romantic tradition. Born in Suffolk, he is known principally for revolutionising the genre of landscape painting with his pictures of Dedham Vale, the area on the…

1776

François-Louis Cailler

Swiss chocolatier (died 1852)

François-Louis Cailler was a Swiss entrepreneur and early chocolatier who founded Cailler, the first modern brand of Swiss chocolate and the oldest still in existence, in 1819.

1796

José Trinidad Reyes

Honduran philosopher and theorist (died 1855)

Father José Trinidad Reyes y Sevilla was a Honduran priest who founded the National Autonomous University of Honduras, formerly called "La Sociedad del Genio emprendedor y del buen gusto". He advocated against poverty…

1797

James F. Schenck

American admiral (died 1882)

James Findlay Schenck was a rear admiral in the United States Navy who served in the Mexican–American War and the American Civil War. His younger brother, Robert C. Schenck, was a Union Army general and a United States…

1807

Julia Margaret Cameron

Indian-Sri Lankan photographer (died 1879)

Julia Margaret Cameron was an English photographer who is considered one of the most important portraitists of the 19th century. She is known for her soft-focus close-ups of famous Victorians and for illustrative images…

1815

Alexander Bain

Scottish philosopher and academic (died 1903)

Alexander Bain was a Scottish philosopher and educationalist in the British school of empiricism and a prominent and innovative figure in the fields of psychology, linguistics, logic, moral philosophy and education…

1818

Edward Braddon

English-Australian politician, 18th Premier of Tasmania (died 1904)

Sir Edward Nicholas Coventry Braddon was a British Indian civil servant and Australian politician who served as Premier of Tasmania from 1894 to 1899, and was a Member of the First Australian Parliament in the House of…

1829

Lucy Pickens

American wife of Francis Wilkinson Pickens (died 1899)

Lucy Petway Holcombe Pickens was a 19th-century American socialite of Tennessee and Texas, known during and after her lifetime as the "Queen of the Confederacy". She was also a First Lady of South Carolina. Described as…

1832

Johann Bauschinger

German mechanical engineer and physicist (died 1893)

Johann Bauschinger was a mathematician, builder, and professor of Engineering Mechanics at Munich Polytechnic, from 1868 until his death. The Bauschinger effect in materials science is named after him. He was also the…

1834

Carl von Linde

German engineer and academic (died 1934)

Carl Paul Gottfried von Linde was a German scientist, engineer, and businessman. He discovered the refrigeration cycle and invented the first industrial-scale air separation and gas liquefaction processes, which led to…

1842

William Louis Marshall

American general and engineer (died 1920)

William Louis Marshall was an influential figure in the US Corps of Engineers.

1846

Millicent Fawcett

English academic and activist (died 1929)

Dame Millicent Garrett Fawcett was an English political activist and writer. She campaigned for women's suffrage by legal change and in 1897–1919 led Britain's largest women's rights association, the National Union of…

1847

Alexander Peacock

Australian politician, 20th Premier of Victoria (died 1933)

Sir Alexander James Peacock was an Australian politician who served as the 20th Premier of Victoria.

1861

Richard Strauss

German composer and conductor (died 1949)

Richard Georg Strauss was a German composer and conductor known for his tone poems and operas. A leading figure of the late Romantic and early Modern era, and a successor to Richard Wagner and Franz Liszt, he combined,…

1864

Charles Fabry

French physicist and academic (died 1945)

Marie Paul Auguste Charles Fabry was a French physicist working on optics. Together with Alfred Pérot he invented the Fabry–Pérot interferometer. He is also one of the co-discoverers of the ozone layer.

1867

Stjepan Radić

Croatian lawyer and politician (died 1928)

Stjepan Radić was a Croat politician and the co-founder of the Croatian People's Peasant Party (HPSS), active in Austria-Hungary and the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes.

1871

Alfred L. Kroeber

American-French anthropologist and ethnologist (died 1960)

Alfred Louis Kroeber was an American cultural anthropologist. He received his PhD under Franz Boas at Columbia University in 1901, the first doctorate in anthropology awarded by Columbia. He was also the first professor…

1876

Renée Vivien

English-French poet and author (died 1909)

Renée Vivien was a British poet who wrote in the French language. A high-profile lesbian writer in Paris during the Belle Époque era, she is widely considered to be one of the first noteworthy lesbian poets of the…

1877

Roger Bresnahan

American baseball player and manager (died 1944)

Roger Philip Bresnahan, nicknamed "the Duke of Tralee", was an American baseball player and manager in Major League Baseball (MLB). As a major-league player, Bresnahan competed for the Washington Senators (1897),…

1879

Jeannette Rankin

American social worker and politician (died 1973)

Jeannette Pickering Rankin was an American politician and women's rights advocate who became the first woman to hold federal office in the United States. She was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives as a…

1880

Spiros Xenos

Greek-Swedish painter (died 1963)

Spiros George Xenos was a Greek-Swedish artist.

1881

Mordecai Kaplan

Lithuanian rabbi, founded Reconstructionist Judaism (died 1983)

Mordecai Menahem Kaplan was an American Conservative rabbi, writer, Jewish educator, professor, theologian-philosopher, activist, and religious leader who founded the Reconstructionist movement of Judaism with his…

1881

Maggie Gripenberg

Finnish dancer and choreographer (died 1976)

Margarita Maria “Maggie” Gripenberg was a pioneer of modern dance in Finland. She was the first to introduce Dalcroze Eurhythmics to Finland and modeled her early works on the improvisational style of Isadora Duncan. As…

1881

Bartolomeo Vanzetti

Italian-American anarchist and convicted criminal (died 1927)

Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were Italian immigrants and anarchists, controversially accused of murdering Alessandro Berardelli and Frederick Parmenter, a guard and a paymaster, during the April 15, 1920, armed…

1888

Hugo Wieslander

Swedish decathlete (died 1976)

Karl Hugo Wieslander was a Swedish athlete. He set the inaugural world record in the pentathlon in Gothenburg in 1911 with a score of 5516 points. The following year, he finished second in the decathlon at the 1912…

1889

Kiichiro Toyoda

Japanese businessman, founded Toyota (died 1952)

Kiichiro Toyoda was a Japanese engineer and businessman, and the son of Toyoda Loom Works founder Sakichi Toyoda. His decision to change Toyoda's focus from automatic loom manufacture into automobile manufacturing…

1894

Nikolai Bulganin

Soviet politician (died 1975)

Nikolai Alexandrovich Bulganin was the Premier of the Soviet Union from 1955 to 1958. He also served as Minister of Defense, following service in the Red Army during World War II.

1895

Ram Prasad Bismil

Indian activist, founded the Hindustan Republican Association (died 1927)

Ram Prasad Bismil was an Indian poet, writer, and revolutionary Rajput who fought against British Raj, participating in the Mainpuri Conspiracy of 1918, and the Kakori Conspiracy of 1925. He composed in Urdu and Hindi…

1897

Reg Latta

Australian rugby league player (died 1970)

Reginald Augustine 'Whip' Latta (1897–1970) was an Australian professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1910s and 1920s who also became a coach. An Australia national and New South Wales state…

1897

Yasunari Kawabata

Japanese novelist and short story writer Nobel Prize laureate (died 1972)

Yasunari/Kōsei Kawabata was a Japanese novelist and short story writer whose spare, lyrical, subtly-shaded prose works won him the 1968 Nobel Prize in Literature, the first Japanese author to receive the award. His…

1899

Cap Fear

Canadian football player and rower (died 1978)

Alfred Henry "Cap" Fear was a star football player in the Canadian Football League (CFL) for seven seasons for the Toronto Argonauts. He was inducted into the Canadian Football Hall of Fame in 1967 and into the Canada's…

1901

Benny Wearing

Australian rugby league player (died 1968)

Benny Wearing was an Australian rugby league footballer who played in the 1920s and 1930s. An Australian international and New South Wales representative three-quarter, he played his club football in the NSWRFL…

1901

Eric Fraser

British illustrator and graphic designer (died 1983)

Eric George Fraser was a British illustrator and graphic artist. He was famous in the public mind for contributions to the Radio Times, and as the creator in 1931 of 'Mr Therm' in adverts for the Gas Light and Coke…

1902

Karl Hein

German hammer thrower (died 1982)

Karl Hein was a German hammer thrower who won a gold medal at the 1936 Summer Olympics.

1908

Francisco Marto

Portuguese saint (died 1919)

Francisco de Jesus Marto and Jacinta de Jesus Marto were siblings from Aljustrel, a small hamlet near Fátima, Portugal, who, with their cousin Lúcia dos Santos (1907–2005), reportedly witnessed three apparitions of the…

1908

Natascha Artin Brunswick

German-American mathematician and photographer (died 2003)

Natascha Artin Brunswick was a Russian-American mathematician and photographer.

1909

Carmine Coppola

American flute player and composer (died 1991)

Carmine Valentino Coppola was an American composer, flutist, pianist, and songwriter who contributed original music to the films The Godfather, The Godfather Part II, Apocalypse Now, The Outsiders, The Black Stallion,…

1910

Jacques Cousteau

French biologist, author, and inventor, co-developed the aqua-lung (died 1997)

Jacques-Yves Cousteau was a French naval officer, oceanographer, filmmaker and author. He co-invented the first successful open-circuit self-contained underwater breathing apparatus (SCUBA), called the Aqua-Lung, which…

1910

James Algar

American director, producer, and screenwriter (died 1998)

James Algar was an American film director, screenwriter, and producer. He worked at Walt Disney Productions for 43 years and received the Disney Legends award in 1998. He was born in Modesto, California and died in…

1912

William Baziotes

American painter and academic (died 1963)

William Baziotes was an American painter influenced by Surrealism and was a contributor to Abstract Expressionism.

1912

Mohammad Hassan Ganji

Iranian meteorologist and academic (died 2012)

Mohammad Hassan Ganji, Ph.D. was an Iranian meteorologist and academic. He was born in Birjand. He is credited as being the father of modern geography in Iran.

1912

Vince Lombardi

American football player, coach, and manager (died 1970)

Vincent Thomas Lombardi was an American professional football coach and executive in the National Football League (NFL). Lombardi is considered by many to be among the greatest coaches and leaders in American sports. He…

1913

Risë Stevens

American soprano and actress (died 2013)

Risë Stevens was an American operatic mezzo-soprano and actress. Beginning in 1938, she sang for the Metropolitan Opera in New York City for more than two decades during the 1940s and 1950s. She was most noted for her…

1913

Jan Hendrik van den Berg

Dutch psychiatrist and academic (died 2012)

Jan Hendrik van den Berg was a Dutch psychiatrist notable for his work in phenomenological psychotherapy and metabletics, or "psychology of historical change." He is the author of numerous articles and books, including…

1914

Magda Gabor

Hungarian-American actress (died 1997)

Magdolna "Magda" Gabor was a Hungarian-American socialite and actress, and the elder sister of Zsa Zsa and Eva Gabor.

1915

Nicholas Metropolis

American mathematician and physicist (died 1999)

Nicholas Constantine Metropolis was a Greek-American physicist.

1915

Ruth Aarons

American table tennis player and manager (died 1980)

Ruth Hughes Aarons was a US table tennis player, vaudeville entertainer, and talent manager.

1918

Suleiman Mousa

Jordanian historian and author (died 2008)

Suleiman Mousa was a Jordanian author and historian born in Al-Rafeed, a small village north of the city of Irbid. He wrote up to fifty books of which most prominent are Biography of Sharif Hussein Bin Ali, Jordan in…

1919

Richard Todd

Irish-English actor (died 2009)

Richard Andrew Palethorpe-Todd was a British actor known for his leading man roles of the 1950s. He received a Golden Globe Award for Most Promising Newcomer – Male, and an Academy Award for Best Actor nomination and a…

1919

Hazel Scott

Trinidadian-American singer, actress, and pianist (died 1981)

Hazel Dorothy Scott was an American jazz and classical pianist and singer. An outspoken critic of racial discrimination and segregation, she used her influence to improve the representation of Black Americans in film.

1920

Keith Seaman

Australian lawyer and politician, 29th Governor of South Australia (died 2013)

Sir Keith Douglas Seaman was Governor of South Australia from 1 September 1977 until 28 March 1982. He was the second successive governor to have been a minister of religion, Seaman being a minister in then recently…

1920

Jean Sutherland Boggs

Peruvian-Canadian historian, academic, and civil servant (died 2014)

Jean Sutherland Boggs D. Litt. LL. D. was a Canadian academic, art historian and civil servant. She was the first female Director of both the National Gallery of Canada and the Philadelphia Museum of Art. She was also a…

1922

Michael Cacoyannis

Greek Cypriot director, producer, and screenwriter (died 2011)

Michalis Kakogiannis, usually credited as Michael Cacoyannis or Michael Yannis, was a Greek Cypriot filmmaker, theatre director, and playwright. He is best known for writing, directing, producing, and editing Zorba the…

1922

William Styron

American novelist and essayist (died 2006)

William Clark Styron Jr. was an American novelist and essayist who won major literary awards for his work, including the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1968 for The Confessions of Nat Turner.

1925

Carlisle Floyd

American composer and educator (died 2021)

Carlisle Sessions Floyd was an American composer primarily known for his operas. These stage works, for which he wrote not only the music but also the librettos, typically engage with themes from the American South,…

1926

Beryl Grey

English ballerina (died 2022)

Dame Beryl Elizabeth Grey was a British ballet dancer.

1927

Queen Fabiola of Belgium (died 2014)

Fabiola Fernanda María-de-las-Victorias Antonia Adelaida de Mora y Aragón was Queen of the Belgians as the wife of King Baudouin from their marriage in 1960 until his death in 1993. The couple had no children, as all…

1928

Charles Rangel

American soldier, lawyer, and politician (died 2025)

Charles Bernard Rangel was an American politician who served as U.S. representative for districts in New York City for 46 years. A member of the Democratic Party, he was the second-longest serving incumbent member of…

1930

Athol Fugard

South African-American actor, director, and playwright (died 2025)

Harold Athol Lanigan Fugard was a South African playwright, novelist, actor and director. Widely regarded as South Africa's greatest playwright and acclaimed as "the greatest active playwright in the English-speaking…

1932

Tim Sainsbury

English businessman and politician, Minister of State for Trade

Sir Timothy Alan Davan Sainsbury is a Conservative politician and businessman in the United Kingdom.

1932

Gene Wilder

American actor, director, and screenwriter (died 2016)

Gene Wilder was an American actor, comedian, writer and filmmaker. He was mainly known for his comedic roles, including his collaborations with Mel Brooks on the films The Producers (1967), Blazing Saddles and Young…

1933

Chad Everett

American actor and director (died 2012)

Raymon Lee Cramton, known professionally as Chad Everett, was an American actor who appeared in more than 40 films and television series. He played Dr. Joe Gannon in the television drama Medical Center, which aired…

1937

Robin Warren

Australian pathologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2024)

John Robin Warren was an Australian pathologist, Nobel laureate, and researcher who is credited with the 1979 re-discovery of the bacterium Helicobacter pylori, together with Barry Marshall. The duo proved to the…

1937

Rachael Heyhoe Flint

Baroness Heyhoe Flint, English cricketer and journalist (died 2017)

Rachael Heyhoe Flint, Baroness Heyhoe Flint, was an English cricketer, businesswoman, and philanthropist. She was best known for being captain of England from 1966 to 1978, and was unbeaten in six Test series: in total,…

1939

Jackie Stewart

Scottish racing driver and sports presenter

Sir John Young Stewart is a British former racing driver, broadcaster and motorsport executive from Scotland who competed in Formula One from 1965 to 1973. Nicknamed "the Flying Scot", Stewart won three Formula One…

1939

Tony Whitford

Canadian politician (died 2024)

Anthony Wilfred James Whitford was a Canadian politician, who served as the commissioner of the Northwest Territories from 2005 to 2010.

1941

Parris Glendening

American politician, 59th Governor of Maryland

Parris Nelson Glendening is an American politician and academic who served as the 59th governor of Maryland from 1995 to 2003. He previously served as the county executive of Prince George's County, Maryland from 1982…

1942

Ray Warren

Australian sportscaster

Raymond Warren is an Australian retired sports commentator, known for his coverage of televised professional rugby league matches on the Nine Network. He is known as the "Voice of Rugby League", and called 99 State of…

1943

Adrienne Barbeau

American actress

Adrienne Jo Barbeau is an American actress and author. She came to prominence in the 1970s as Broadway's original Betty Rizzo in the musical Grease, and as Carol Traynor, the divorced daughter of Maude Findlay on the…

1945

Lalu Prasad Yadav

Indian politician, 20th Chief Minister of Bihar

Lalu Prasad Yadav is an Indian politician who served as the chief minister of Bihar from 1991 to 1997 and as the union minister for Railways from 2004 to 2009. He is the founding president of the Rashtriya Janata Dal…

1948

Lynsey de Paul

English singer-songwriter, pianist, producer, cartoonist and actress (died 2014)

Lynsey de Paul was an English singer-songwriter and record producer. After initially writing hits for others, she had her own chart hits in the UK and Europe in the 1970s, starting with UK top 10 single "Sugar Me", and…

1948

Frank Beard

American drummer and songwriter

Frank Lee Beard is an American drummer best known as the long-time drummer of the rock band ZZ Top.

1949

Yasumasa Morimura

Japanese painter and photographer

Yasumasa Morimura is a contemporary Japanese performance and appropriation artist whose work encompasses photography, film, and live performance. He is known for his reinterpretation of recognizable artworks and figures…

1951

Yekaterina Podkopayeva

Russian runner

Yekaterina Ilyinychna Podkopayeva, née Poryvkina, is a retired middle-distance runner who represented the USSR and later Russia. She gained international recognition in 1983, when she won two bronze medals at the World…

1952

Donnie Van Zant

American singer-songwriter and guitarist

Donald Newton Van Zant is an American rock and roll singer, songwriter, and guitarist. He is best known as a member of the band 38 Special, from its formation in 1974 until 2013. Van Zant was the original lead vocalist…

1952

John Dyson

Australian cricketer

John Dyson is an Australian former international cricketer (batsman) who is now a cricket coach, most recently in charge of the West Indies.

1954

Yuriy Sedykh

Ukrainian hammer thrower (died 2021)

Yuriy Georgiyevich Sedykh was a track and field athlete who represented the Soviet Union from 1976 to 1991 in the hammer throw. He was a European, World and Olympic Champion, and holds the world record with a throw of…

1955

Hugh Laurie

English actor and screenwriter

James Hugh Calum Laurie is an English actor, comedian, and musician. Laurie first gained professional recognition as a member of the English comedy double act Fry and Laurie with Stephen Fry. Fry and Laurie acted…

1959

Mehmet Oz

American surgeon, author, and television host

Mehmet Cengiz Oz, also known as Dr. Oz, is an American television presenter, physician, author, educator, and government official serving as the 17th administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)…

1960

Mano Menezes

Brazilian footballer and coach

Luiz Antônio Venker Menezes, known as Mano Menezes, is a Brazilian professional football manager who is the head coach of the Peru national team.

1962

Britta Phillips

American singer-songwriter, musician, and actress

Britta Phillips is an American singer-songwriter, musician, record producer, and actress.

1963

Sandra Schmirler

Canadian curler and sportscaster (died 2000)

Sandra Marie Schmirler was a Canadian curler who captured three Canadian Curling Championships and three World Curling Championships. Schmirler also skipped (captained) her Canadian team to a gold medal at the 1998…

1963

Jean Alesi

French racing driver

Jean Robert Alesi is a French former racing driver, who competed in Formula One from 1989 to 2001. Alesi won the 1995 Canadian Grand Prix with Ferrari.

1964

Kim Gallagher

American runner (died 2002)

Kimberly Ann "Kim" Gallagher was an American middle-distance runner who won a silver and a bronze medal at the 1984 and 1988 Olympics.

1964

Penny Ford

American singer

Penny Ford, also known as Pennye Ford, is an American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and record producer from Cincinnati, Ohio, who lives in Germany. She rose to fame in the 1980s after signing a recording…

1964

Georgios Bartzokas

Greek former professional basketball player

Georgios Bartzokas is a Greek former professional basketball player, and the current head basketball coach for Olympiacos of the Greek Basketball League (GBL) and the EuroLeague. During his career as a head coach,…

1965

Graeme Bachop

New Zealand rugby player

Graeme Thomas Miro Bachop is a former rugby union footballer from New Zealand.

1967

João Garcia

Portuguese mountaineer

João José Silva Abranches Garcia, is a mountaineer in Portugal. His main professional activities are as organizer and guide in mountaineering expeditions. On 18 May 1999 he became the first Portuguese man to reach the…

1967

Alois

Hereditary Prince of Liechtenstein

Alois, Hereditary Prince of Liechtenstein is the eldest son of Hans-Adam II, Prince of Liechtenstein, and Countess Marie Kinsky von Wchinitz und Tettau, and the heir apparent to the throne of Liechtenstein. Alois has…

1968

Manoa Thompson

Fijian rugby player

Manoa Thompson is a Fijian former professional rugby league footballer. Primarily playing as a centre, he played his first grade career with the South Sydney Rabbitohs, Western Suburbs Magpies, and the Auckland Warriors…

1968

Peter Dinklage

American actor and producer

Peter Hayden Dinklage is an American actor. Portraying Tyrion Lannister on the HBO television series Game of Thrones (2011–2019), he won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series a…

1969

Olaf Kapagiannidis

German footballer

Olaf Kapagiannidis is a former professional German footballer.

1969

Vladimir Gaidamașciuc

Moldovan footballer

Vladimir Gaidamașciuc is a Moldovan former footballer who played as a midfielder for various clubs in Moldova, Ukraine and Russia. He made 45 appearances for the Moldova national team, scoring once.

1971

Liz Kendall

British politician

Elizabeth Louise Kendall is a British politician who has served as Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology since 2025, having previously served as Secretary of State for Work and Pensions from 2024 to…

1971

Mark Richardson

New Zealand cricketer

Mark Hunter Richardson is a former New Zealand cricketer. He was a left-handed opening batsman. He represented New Zealand in 38 Test matches between 2000 and 2004. During his cricketing career he played for Auckland,…

1971

José Manuel Abundis

Mexican footballer and coach

José Manuel Abundis Sandoval is a Mexican former professional footballer who played as a forward.

1973

Fragiskos Alvertis

Greek basketball player, coach, and manager

Fragiskos "Frankie" Alvertis is a Greek former professional basketball player and general manager of Panathinaikos Athens. As a player, he was the long-time captain of Panathinaikos, where he spent his whole…

1974

Reiko Tosa

Japanese runner

Reiko Tosa is a Japanese long-distance runner who specializes in the marathon race. She was born in Matsuyama, Ehime.

1976

Ryan Dunn

American stunt performer (died 2011)

Ryan Matthew Dunn was an American stunt performer, television personality, and actor. He was one of the stars of the MTV reality stunt show Jackass and its film franchise.

1977

Geoff Ogilvy

Australian golfer

Geoff Charles Ogilvy is an Australian professional golfer. He won the 2006 U.S. Open and has also won three World Golf Championships.

1977

Joshua Jackson

Canadian-American actor

Joshua Carter Jackson is a Canadian and American actor. He is known for his portrayals of Pacey Witter on The WB's teen drama Dawson's Creek (1998–2003), Peter Bishop in the Fox science fiction series Fringe…

1978

Daryl Tuffey

New Zealand cricketer

Daryl Raymond Tuffey is a former New Zealand cricketer who represented New Zealand in all formats internationally. Tuffey was born in Milton, Otago, and played domestic first-class cricket for Northern Districts…

1978

Ali Boussaboun

Moroccan-Dutch footballer

Ali Boussaboun is a Dutch-Moroccan former professional footballer who played as a striker. After retiring as a player, Boussaboun worked as a scout for the Moroccan football federation.

1979

Amy Duggan

Australian footballer and sportscaster

Amy Elizabeth Duggan is an Australian retired soccer player and media personality.

1979

Yhency Brazoban

Dominican baseball player

Yhency José Brazobán is a Dominican former professional baseball pitcher. He pitched in Major League Baseball for the Los Angeles Dodgers and Arizona Diamondbacks and in Nippon Professional Baseball for the Fukuoka…

1980

Emiliano Moretti

Italian footballer

Emiliano Moretti is an Italian former professional footballer who played as a centre back.

1981

Kristo Tohver

Estonian footballer and referee

Kristo Tohver is an Estonian international referee who refereed at 2014 FIFA World Cup qualifiers.

1981

Vanessa Boslak

French pole vaulter

Vanessa Boslak is a French pole vaulter. She was born in Lesquin, France.

1982

Jacques Freitag

South African high jumper (died 2024)

Jacques Freitag was a South African high jumper. Freitag is one of only eleven athletes to win World Championship titles at the youth, junior, and senior levels of an athletic event.

1982

Reni Maitua

Australian rugby league player

Reni Maitua is a former professional rugby league footballer. An Australian and Samoan International representative player, he previously played for the Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs, with whom he won the 2004 NRL…

1982

Eldar Rønning

Norwegian skier

Eldar Rønning is a Norwegian former cross-country skier. He skis with the Skogn IL club, in Nord-Trøndelag.

1982

Diana Taurasi

American basketball player

Diana Lorena Taurasi is an Argentine-American former professional basketball player. She played 20 seasons in the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA), spending her entire WNBA career with the Phoenix Mercury.…

1982

Chuck Hayes

American basketball player

Charles Edward Hayes Jr. is a retired American professional basketball player and director of basketball operations for the Golden State Warriors of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played college…

1983

José Reyes

Dominican baseball player

José Bernabe Reyes is a Dominican former professional baseball infielder. He played most notably at shortstop in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the New York Mets, Miami Marlins, Toronto Blue Jays, and Colorado Rockies.

1983

Andy Lee

Irish boxer

Andy Lee is an Irish former professional boxer who competed from 2006 to 2017. He held the WBO middleweight title from 2014 to 2015, and in doing so became the first member of the travelling community to win a major…

1984

Vágner Love

Brazilian footballer

Vágner Silva de Souza, known as Vágner Love, is a former Brazilian professional footballer who played as a forward. He has been described by World Soccer Magazine as possessing "mobility, flair, awareness and powerful…

1984

Brad Jacobs

Canadian curler

Bradley Robert Jacobs is a Canadian curler from Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario. He currently skips his own team out of Calgary, Alberta. He is a 2-time Olympic champion skip, having led Canada to gold medals at the 2014…

1985

Sebastian Bayer

German long jumper

Sebastian Bayer is a German long jumper best known for having history's second longest indoor long jump.

1986

Shia LaBeouf

American actor

Shia Saide LaBeouf is an American actor and filmmaker. He played Louis Stevens in the Disney Channel series Even Stevens, a role for which he received Young Artist Award nominations in 2001 and 2002 and won a Daytime…

1986

Gonzalo Castro

German footballer

Gonzalo Castro Randón is a German former professional footballer who played as a midfielder. He is also a former Germany international.

1987

Jesús Fernández Collado

Spanish footballer

Jesús Fernández Collado is a Spanish professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper.

1988

Claire Holt

Australian actress

Claire Rhiannon Holt (born 11 June 1988) is an Australian-American actress. She made her acting debut playing Emma Gilbert in the fantasy series H2O: Just Add Water (2006–2008), before moving to the United States and…

1988

Yui Aragaki

Japanese actress, voice actress, singer-songwriter, model, radio host

Yui Aragaki is a Japanese actress, model, singer and occasional radio show host. She has been selected several times as the most desired girlfriend and the most desired female celebrity face in Oricon's yearly survey.

1988

Maya Moore

American basketball player

Maya April Moore is an American social justice advocate and former professional basketball player. Naming her their inaugural Performer of the Year in 2017, Sports Illustrated called Moore the "greatest winner in the…

1989

Christophe Lemaitre

French sprinter

Christophe Lemaitre is a French former sprinter who specialised in the 100 and 200 metres. In 2010, Lemaitre became the first white athlete to break the 10-second barrier in an officially timed 100 m event. Lemaitre has…

1990

Kyle Troup

American bowler

Kyle Troup is an American professional ten-pin bowler originally from Taylorsville, North Carolina. He uses the two-handed shovel-style delivery with a dominant right hand. Troup says he needed two hands when learning…

1991

Davide Zappacosta

Italian footballer

Davide Zappacosta is an Italian professional footballer who plays as a wing-back for Serie A club Atalanta and the Italy national team.

1992

Ivana Baquero

Spanish actress

Ivana Baquero Macías is a Spanish actress. At the age of 11, she was chosen to star as Ofelia in Pan's Labyrinth, for which she won critical acclaim and the Goya Award for Best New Actress. In 2015, she was cast as…

1994

Philip Billing

Danish footballer

Philip Anyanwu Billing is a Danish professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Danish Superliga club Midtjylland.

1996

Ayaka Sasaki

Japanese singer

Ayaka Sasaki is a Japanese idol. She is known as a member of the female musical group Momoiro Clover Z.

1996

Kodak Black

American rapper

Bill Kahan Kapri, known professionally as Kodak Black, is a Haitian-American rapper and singer-songwriter. He gained initial recognition following the release of his 2014 songs "No Flockin" and "Skrt", both of which led…

1997

Unai Simón

Spanish footballer

Unai Simón Mendibil is a Spanish footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for La Liga club Athletic Bilbao and the Spain national team.

1997

Jorja Smith

English singer

Jorja Alice Smith is an English singer and songwriter. Born and raised in Walsall, West Midlands, she has been writing songs since the age of 11. In 2012, Smith's friend uploaded her cover of Labrinth's "Earthquake" to…

1997

Charlie Tahan

American actor

Charles Tahan is an American actor. Starting as a child actor, with appearances in the 2007 films American Loser and I Am Legend, he has progressed through teen and adult roles. His notable roles include Ben Burke in…

1998

Eartha Cumings

Scottish footballer

Eartha Cumings is a Scottish footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Women's Super League club Manchester City and the Scotland national team.

1999

Kai Havertz

German footballer

Kai Lukas Havertz is a German professional footballer who plays as a forward or attacking midfielder for Premier League club Arsenal and the Germany national team.

1999

Billy Gilmour

Scottish footballer

Billy Clifford Gilmour is a Scottish professional footballer who plays as a defensive midfielder for Serie A club Napoli and the Scotland national team. He is considered one of Scotland's best players, particularly in…

2001

Katrina Scott

American tennis player

Katrina Scott is an American tennis player.

2004

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