Famous Birthdays on June 22

June 22 has 254 recorded notable births across history, from 662 to 2006. This page lists every one of them, with the best-known people first.

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Meryl Streep

1949 — Meryl Streep

American actress

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Major events on June 22

See what else happened on this day in history.

  1. 1793 Haitian Revolution: The Battle of Cap-Français ends with French Republican troops and black slave insurgents capturing the city. Source
  2. 1984 Virgin Atlantic launches with its first flight from London to Newark. Source

Did you know about Meryl Streep

Mary Louise "Meryl" Streep is an American actress.

Did you know about Vijay

Prior to entering politics, he was a leading actor in Tamil cinema and among the highest-paid actors in India, having won numerous accolades including multiple Tamil Nadu State Film Awards and South Indian International Movie Awards.

Did you know about Kurt Warner

Kurt Warner's career, which saw him ascend from an undrafted free agent to a two-time Most Valuable Player and Super Bowl MVP, is widely regarded as one of the greatest Cinderella stories in NFL history.

Did you know about Rodri

Rodri is one of eleven players to have won the FIFA World Cup, UEFA Champions League, and Ballon d'Or in their career.

Did you know about Bruce Campbell

Bruce Campbell has also featured in many low-budget cult movies, such as Crimewave (1985), Maniac Cop (1988), Sundown: The Vampire in Retreat (1989), and Bubba Ho-Tep (2002).


More major people born on June 22

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

1974 Vijay

Vijay

Indian actor
Chandrasekaran Joseph Vijay is an Indian politician and former actor who is currently serving as the 9th chief minister of Tamil Nadu since 10 May 2026. He is the founder and president of the political party Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam (TVK). Prior to entering politics, he was a leading actor in Tamil cinema and among the highest-paid actors in India, having won numerous accolades including multiple Tamil Nadu State Film Awards and South Indian International Movie Awards.
1971 Kurt Warner

Kurt Warner

American football player and sportscaster
Kurtis Eugene Warner is an American former professional football quarterback who played in the National Football League (NFL) for 12 seasons, primarily with the St. Louis Rams and Arizona Cardinals. His career, which saw him ascend from an undrafted free agent to a two-time Most Valuable Player and Super Bowl MVP, is widely regarded as one of the greatest Cinderella stories in NFL history.
1996 Rodri

Rodri

Spanish footballer
Rodrigo Hernández Cascante, known as Rodrigo or simply Rodri, is a Spanish professional footballer who plays as a defensive midfielder for La Liga club Barcelona and captains the Spain national team. Widely regarded as one of the best midfielders in the world, he is known for his passing, composure, playmaking and physical attributes. He is one of eleven players to have won the FIFA World Cup, UEFA Champions League, and Ballon d'Or in their career.
1958 Bruce Campbell

Bruce Campbell

American actor, director, producer and writer
Bruce Lorne Campbell is an American actor and filmmaker. He is best known for portraying Ash Williams in Sam Raimi's Evil Dead horror series. He has also featured in many low-budget cult movies, such as Crimewave (1985), Maniac Cop (1988), Sundown: The Vampire in Retreat (1989), and Bubba Ho-Tep (2002). His roles in horror earned him the fame to be known as a scream king, being referred as "the definitive one".
1953 Cyndi Lauper

Cyndi Lauper

American singer-songwriter, producer, and actress
Cynthia Ann Stephanie Lauper is an American singer, songwriter and actress. Lauper is known for her distinctive image, which features eccentric clothing and a variety of hair colors. She is also known for her powerful four-octave vocal range. Lauper has been dubbed the "Queen of Quirky Pop". She has sold over 50 million records worldwide. She has also been celebrated for her humanitarian work, particularly as an advocate for LGBTQ rights in the United States.
1948 Todd Rundgren

Todd Rundgren

American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
Todd Harry Rundgren is an American musician, singer, songwriter, and record producer who has performed a diverse range of styles as a solo artist and as a member of the bands Nazz and Utopia. He is known for his sophisticated and often unorthodox music, his occasionally lavish stage shows, and his later experiments with interactive art. He also produced music videos and was an early adopter and promoter of various computer technologies, such as using the Internet as a means of music distribution in the late 1990s.
1960 Erin Brockovich

Erin Brockovich

American lawyer and environmentalist
Erin Brockovich is an American paralegal, consumer advocate, and environmental activist who was instrumental in building a case against Pacific Gas & Electric Company (PG&E) involving groundwater contamination in Hinkley, California, for attorney Ed Masry in 1993. Their successful lawsuit was the subject of the Oscar-winning film Erin Brockovich (2000), starring Julia Roberts as Brockovich and Albert Finney as Masry.
1932 Amrish Puri

Amrish Puri

Indian actor (died 2005)
Amrish Puri was an Indian actor, who predominantly worked in Hindi cinema. He was one of the most notable and important figures in Indian cinema and theatre. Puri was known for his acting versatility. His dominating screen presence and distinctive deep voice made him stand out amongst other actors of his generation. Puri acted in more than 450 films, and established himself as one of the greatest actors in Indian cinema. He holds most Filmfare Award for Best Villain nominations. While he primarily worked in Hindi-language films, he had also appeared in Telugu, Kannada, Tamil, Malayalam and Marathi language films.
1973 Carson Daly

Carson Daly

American radio and television host
Carson Jones Daly is an American television host, radio personality, producer, and television personality. From 1998 to 2003, with occasional appearances in 2004, Daly was the primary VJ on MTV's Total Request Live (TRL), and a DJ for the Southern California-based radio station 106.7 KROQ-FM. In 2002, Daly joined NBC, where he hosted and produced the late-night talk show Last Call with Carson Daly, and occasionally hosting special event programming for NBC, such as the Macy's 4th of July Fireworks show, and executive producing New Year's Eve with Carson Daly from Times Square beginning in 2003.
1974 Donald Faison

Donald Faison

American actor
Donald Adeosun Faison is an American actor and comedian. He is known for his leading role as Dr. Chris Turk in the ABC/NBC comedy-drama Scrubs and its revival and a supporting role as Murray in both the film Clueless (1995) and the subsequent television series of the same name. He also starred as Phil Chase in the TV Land sitcom The Exes (2011–2015). Faison has also co-starred in the films Waiting to Exhale (1995), Remember the Titans (2000), Uptown Girls (2003), Something New (2006), Next Day Air (2009), Skyline (2010), and Kick-Ass 2 (2013).
1949 Lindsay Wagner

Lindsay Wagner

American actress
Lindsay Jean Wagner is an American actress. Wagner is popular for her leading role in the American science fiction television series The Bionic Woman (1976–1978), in which she portrayed character Jaime Sommers. She first played the role on the series The Six Million Dollar Man. The character became a pop culture icon of the 1970s. For this role, Wagner won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Dramatic Role in 1977 – the first for an actor or actress in a science fiction series. Wagner began acting professionally in 1971 and has maintained a lengthy acting career in a variety of film and television productions to the present day.
1952 Graham Greene

Graham Greene

Canadian actor
Graham Greene was a Canadian First Nations (Oneida) actor and recording artist, active in film, television and theatre in a career spanning over 50 years. He achieved international fame for his role as Kicking Bird in Kevin Costner's Dances With Wolves (1990), which earned him an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor. His other notable films include Thunderheart (1992), Maverick (1994), Die Hard with a Vengeance (1995), The Green Mile (1999), Skins (2002), Transamerica (2005), Casino Jack (2010), Winter's Tale (2014), The Shack (2017), and Wind River (2017).
1954 Freddie Prinze

Freddie Prinze

American comedian and actor (died 1977)
Frederick James Prinze was an American stand-up comedian and actor, and the star of the NBC-TV sitcom Chico and the Man from 1974 until his death in 1977. He was described in a Vulture magazine article as "having blown up like no other comedian in history." Prinze is the father of actor Freddie Prinze Jr.
1994 Marnus Labuschagne

Marnus Labuschagne

South African-Australian cricketer
Marnus Labuschagne is an Australian international cricketer who plays for the Australia national cricket team. He also captains Queensland and plays for the Brisbane Heat in the Big Bash League. Labuschagne was once ranked as high as no.1 in the Test batting rankings. He was a member of the Australian team that won the 2023 WTC and the 2023 ODI World Cup.
1949 Elizabeth Warren

Elizabeth Warren

American academic and politician
Elizabeth Ann Warren is an American politician and former law professor serving as the senior United States senator from Massachusetts, a seat she has held since 2013. A member of the Democratic Party and regarded as a progressive, Warren has focused on consumer protection, equitable economic opportunity, and the social safety net while in the Senate. Warren was also a candidate in the 2020 Democratic Party presidential primaries, ultimately finishing third after Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders.
1964 Amy Brenneman

Amy Brenneman

American actress
Amy Frederica Brenneman is an American actress and producer. She first gained prominence as Detective Janice Licalsi in the ABC police drama series NYPD Blue (1993–1994). Brenneman later co-created and starred as Judge Amy Gray in the CBS drama series Judging Amy (1999–2005), earning multiple Primetime Emmy Award nominations for these roles.
1962 Stephen Chow

Stephen Chow

Hong Kong actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
Stephen Chow Sing-chi is a Hong Kong filmmaker and former actor, known for his mo lei tau comedy, which has a significant influence on Chinese popular culture. His career began in television, where he gained recognition through variety shows and TV dramas. Chow's breakthrough came in 1989 with the comedy dramas The Final Combat and The Justice of Life, the latter marking the beginning of his on-screen collaboration with Ng Man-tat. He consecutively broke Hong Kong’s box office records in the next two years with films All for the Winner (1990) and Fight Back to School (1991), cementing his status as one of the region's most popular actors.
1960 Tracy Pollan

Tracy Pollan

American actress
Tracy Jo Pollan Fox is an American actress. She is best known for playing Ellen Reed on the NBC sitcom Family Ties (1985–1987) and Harper Anderson on the crime drama series Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (2000), for which she received a Primetime Emmy Award nomination.
1964 Dan Brown

Dan Brown

American author and academic
Daniel Gerhard Brown is an American writer best known for his thriller novels, particularly the Robert Langdon series Angels & Demons (2000), The Da Vinci Code (2003), The Lost Symbol (2009), Inferno (2013), Origin (2017) and The Secret of Secrets (2025). His novels are treasure hunts that usually take place over a 24-hour period and center on recurring themes of cryptography, art, and conspiracy theories.
1987 Lee Min-ho

Lee Min-ho

South Korean actor, singer, model, creative director and businessman
Lee Min-ho is a South Korean actor and singer. He gained widespread fame with his role as Gu Jun-pyo in the television series Boys Over Flowers (2009), which also earned him the Baeksang Arts Award for Best New Actor. His other notable works are television series City Hunter (2011), The Heirs (2013), The Legend of the Blue Sea (2016), and The King: Eternal Monarch (2020), as well as the action thriller film Gangnam Blues (2015). In 2022, he starred in the Apple TV+ period drama Pachinko based on the novel of the same name.
1961 Jimmy Somerville

Jimmy Somerville

Scottish singer-songwriter
James William Somerville is a Scottish singer. He rose to prominence in the 1980s as a member of the synth-pop groups Bronski Beat and the Communards. With the former, Somerville achieved commercial success worldwide with the 1984 single "Smalltown Boy", which peaked at number three on the UK Singles Chart.
1996 Mikel Merino

Mikel Merino

Spanish footballer
Mikel Merino Zazón is a Spanish professional footballer who plays as a midfielder or striker for Premier League club Arsenal and the Spain national team.
1966 Emmanuelle Seigner

Emmanuelle Seigner

French actress
Emmanuelle Seigner is a French actress and singer. She is known for her roles in The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007), The Ninth Gate (1999) and Frantic (1988). She has been nominated for a César Award for Best Actress for Venus in Fur (2013), and for two César Awards for Best Supporting Actress in Place Vendôme (1998) and La Vie en Rose (2007). She has been married to Polish film director Roman Polanski since 1989.
1971 Mary Lynn Rajskub

Mary Lynn Rajskub

American actress and comedian
Mary Lynn Rajskub is an American actress and comedian who is best known for portraying Chloe O'Brian in the action thriller series 24 and Gail the Snail in It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia. She was a regular cast member on HBO's Mr. Show with Bob and David, appeared in The Larry Sanders Show, Brooklyn Nine-Nine, and Veronica's Closet, and acted in films including Dude, Where's My Car?, Firewall, Sweet Home Alabama, Punch-Drunk Love, Mysterious Skin, Little Miss Sunshine, Sunshine Cleaning, Safety Not Guaranteed, and The Kings of Summer, among others.
1906 Billy Wilder

Billy Wilder

Austrian-born American director, producer, and screenwriter (died 2002)
Billy Wilder was an Austrian and American film director and screenwriter. His career in Hollywood spanned five decades, and he is regarded as one of America's most versatile filmmakers. He received seven Academy Awards, a BAFTA Award and the Palme d'Or.
1944 Peter Asher

Peter Asher

English singer, guitarist, and producer
Peter Asher is an English guitarist, singer, manager and record producer. He came to prominence in the 1960s as a member of the pop music vocal duo Peter and Gordon before going on to a successful career as a manager and record producer, helping to foster the recording careers of James Taylor and Linda Ronstadt among others.
1962 Clyde Drexler

Clyde Drexler

American basketball player and coach
Clyde Austin Drexler Sr. is an American former professional basketball player who currently serves as the second commissioner of the Big3 3-on-3 basketball league. Nicknamed "Clyde the Glide", he played 15 seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA), spending a majority of his career with the Portland Trail Blazers before finishing with the Houston Rockets. He was a 10-time NBA All-Star, five-time All-NBA Selection, and was named to the NBA's 50th and 75th anniversary teams. Drexler led Portland to the NBA Finals in 1990 and 1992, won an NBA championship with Houston in 1995, and earned a gold medal on the 1992 United States Olympic team known as "The Dream Team". He was inducted twice into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, in 2004 for his individual career and in 2010 as a member of the "Dream Team". Drexler is often considered among the top basketball players and top shooting guards of all time.
1947 Octavia E. Butler

Octavia E. Butler

American author (died 2006)
Octavia Estelle Butler was an American science fiction and speculative fiction author who won Hugo, Locus, and Nebula awards. In 1995, Butler became the first science-fiction writer to receive a MacArthur Fellowship.
1912 Princess Caroline Mathilde of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (died 1983)

Princess Caroline Mathilde of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (died 1983)

Charles Edward was at various points in his life a British prince and royal duke, a German duke, and a Nazi politician. He was the last ruling Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, a state of the German Empire, from 30 July 1900 to 14 November 1918. He later held multiple positions in the Nazi regime, including leader of the German Red Cross, and acted as an unofficial diplomat for the German government.
1965 Uwe Boll

Uwe Boll

German director, producer, and screenwriter
Uwe Boll is a German filmmaker. He has directed more than 30 films during a four-decade career, coming to prominence for his adaptations of video games.
1974 Jo Cox

Jo Cox

British politician (died 2016)
Helen Joanne Cox was a British politician who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Batley and Spen from May 2015 until her murder in June 2016. She was a member of the Labour Party.
1940 Abbas Kiarostami

Abbas Kiarostami

Iranian director, producer, and screenwriter (died 2016)
Abbas Kiarostami was an Iranian film director, screenwriter, poet, photographer, and film producer. An active filmmaker from 1970, Kiarostami had been involved in the production of over forty films, including multiple shorts and documentaries. Kiarostami attained critical acclaim for directing the Koker trilogy (1987–1994), Close-Up (1990), The Wind Will Carry Us (1999), and Taste of Cherry (1997), which was awarded the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival that year. His films Where Is the Friend's House? (1987), Close-Up, and The Wind Will Carry Us were ranked among the 100 best foreign films in a 2018 critics' poll by BBC Culture. Close-Up was also ranked one of the 50 greatest movies of all time in the famous decennial Sight & Sound poll conducted in 2012. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest and most influential filmmakers of all time.
1978 Champ Bailey

Champ Bailey

American football player
Roland "Champ" Bailey Jr. is an American former professional football player who was a cornerback in the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Georgia Bulldogs, where he earned consensus All-American honors, and was selected by the Washington Redskins in the first round of the 1999 NFL draft.
1987 Danny Green

Danny Green

American basketball player
Daniel Richard Green Jr. is an American former professional basketball player. In his NBA career, Green played for six teams. As of 2025, Green is one of just four players in history to have won NBA championships with three different teams; he won titles with the San Antonio Spurs in 2014, the Toronto Raptors in 2019, and the Los Angeles Lakers in 2020.
1943 Brit Hume

Brit Hume

American journalist and author
Alexander Britton Hume, known professionally as Brit Hume, is an American journalist and political commentator. He had a 23-year career with ABC News, where he contributed to World News Tonight with Peter Jennings, Nightline, and This Week. Hume served as the ABC News chief White House correspondent from 1989 to 1996.
1949 Alan Osmond

Alan Osmond

American singer and producer (died 2026)
Alan Ralph Osmond was an American musician. He was a member of the family musical group The Osmonds. Prior to that, Alan and his brothers performed as the Osmond Brothers Boys' Quartet. He served as leader of the group.
1956 Tim Russ

Tim Russ

American actor, director, and screenwriter
Timothy Darrell Russ is an American actor, musician, screenwriter, director and amateur astronomer. He is best known for his roles as Lieutenant Commander Tuvok on Star Trek: Voyager; Robert Johnson in Crossroads (1986); Casey in East of Hope Street (1998); Frank on Samantha Who?; Principal Franklin on the Nickelodeon sitcom iCarly; D. C. Montana on The Highwaymen (1987–1988), and for his brief role in Spaceballs (1987). He appeared in The Rookie: Feds (2022) and reprised his role as Captain Tuvok on Season 3 of Star Trek: Picard.
1965 Ľubomír Moravčík

Ľubomír Moravčík

Czech footballer and manager
Ľubomír Moravčík is a Slovak football manager and former player. A creative midfielder renowned for his technical ability, he was capable of unleashing powerful, accurate shots, and pinpoint crosses with both feet. He played for teams in Czechoslovakia and Slovakia, France, Germany, Japan, and Scotland. During his time at Scottish club Celtic, Moravčík made 129 appearances, scoring 35 goals and winning two Scottish Premier League titles.
1989 Jung Yong-hwa

Jung Yong-hwa

South Korean singer-songwriter and actor
Jung Yong-hwa, also known mononymously as Yonghwa, is a South Korean singer, musician and actor. He is the leader, lead vocalist and rhythm guitarist of the rock band CNBLUE. Jung made his television debut in You're Beautiful (2009), and has since starred in television dramas Heartstrings (2011), Marry Him If You Dare (2013), The Three Musketeers (2014), The Package (2017), Sell Your Haunted House (2021) and Brainworks (2023). On the music front, Jung also made his solo debut with the album One Fine Day in 2015.
1950 Tom Alter

Tom Alter

Indian actor (died 2017)
Thomas Beach Alter was an Indian actor of American descent who worked in Indian cinema. He was best known for his works in Hindi cinema, and Indian theatre. In 2008, he was awarded the Padma Shri by the Government of India.
1963 John Tenta

John Tenta

Canadian-American wrestler (died 2006)
John Anthony Tenta Jr. was a Canadian professional wrestler and sumo wrestler (rikishi) best known for his work in the World Wrestling Federation as Earthquake.
1978 Dan Wheldon

Dan Wheldon

English racing driver (died 2011)
Daniel Clive Wheldon was a British motor racing driver who won the 2005 IndyCar Series for Andretti Green Racing (AGR). He won the Indianapolis 500 in 2005 and 2011, and was co-winner of the 2006 24 Hours of Daytona with Chip Ganassi Racing (CGR).
1906 Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

American pilot and author (died 2001)
Anne Spencer Morrow Lindbergh was an American writer and aviator. She was the wife of decorated pioneer aviator Charles Lindbergh, with whom she made many exploratory flights.
1999 Sam Retford

Sam Retford

Australian-English actor
Sam Retford is an Australian actor, known for portraying the role of Cory Wilson on the Channel 4 drama Ackley Bridge (2017–2019). As well as starring in various stage productions, he has also made appearances in television series such as Casualty (2019) and Death in Paradise (2021). In 2021, he joined the cast of the ITV soap opera Coronation Street as Curtis Delamere.
1984 Dustin Johnson

Dustin Johnson

American golfer
Dustin Hunter Johnson is an American professional golfer. He has won two major championships, the 2016 U.S. Open at Oakmont Country Club with a 4-under-par score of 276 and the 2020 Masters Tournament with a record score of 268, 20-under-par. He had previously finished in a tie for second at both the 2011 Open Championship and the 2015 U.S. Open. He has six World Golf Championships victories, second only to Tiger Woods's 18 wins, and was the first and only player to win each of the four World Golf Championship events. He has played in The LIV Golf League since 2022.
1962 Bobby Gillespie

Bobby Gillespie

Scottish musician and singer-songwriter
Robert Gillespie is a Scottish musician, singer-songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist. He is the lead singer, founding member, primary lyricist, and sole continuous member of the alternative rock band Primal Scream. He was the drummer for The Jesus and Mary Chain in the mid-1980s, leaving after the release of the band's debut album Psychocandy, and was once the bassist for The Wake.
1947 Jerry Rawlings

Jerry Rawlings

Ghanaian lieutenant and politician, President of Ghana (died 2020)
Jerry John Rawlings was a Ghanaian military officer, aviator, politician, and revolutionary who led the country briefly in 1979 and then from 1981 to 2001. He led a military regime until 1993 and then served two terms as the democratically elected president of Ghana. He was the longest-serving president in Ghana's history, presiding over the country for 19 years..
1950

Sharon Maughan

English actress
Sharon Patricia Maughan is a British actress. She became internationally recognised in the 1980s from the Gold Blend couple television advertisements for Nescafé instant coffee, alongside actor Anthony Head. Her credits include She's Out of My League, MacGyver, Inspector Morse, Hannay, and Murder, She Wrote. She made it to the semi-final of Celebrity MasterChef in 2011.
1947 Bruno Latour

Bruno Latour

French philosopher, anthropologist and sociologist (died 2022)
Bruno Latour was a French philosopher, anthropologist and sociologist. He was especially known for his work in the field of science and technology studies (STS). After teaching at the Centre de Sociologie de l'Innovation of the École des Mines de Paris from 1982 to 2006, he became a professor at Sciences Po Paris (2006–2017), where he was the scientific director of the Sciences Po Medialab. He retired from several university activities in 2017. He was also a Centennial Professor at the London School of Economics.
1947 Howard Kaylan

Howard Kaylan

American pop-rock singer-songwriter and musician
Howard Kaylan is an American retired musician and songwriter, who was a founding member and lead singer of the 1960s rock band The Turtles, and, with bandmate and friend Mark Volman, a member of the 1970s rock duo Flo & Eddie, where he used the pseudonym Eddie. He also was a member of Frank Zappa's band, The Mothers of Invention.
1994 Sébastien Haller

Sébastien Haller

French-Ivorian footballer
Sébastien Romain Teddy Haller is a professional footballer who plays as a striker for J1 League club Sanfrecce Hiroshima. Born in France, he plays for the Ivory Coast national team.
1971

Laila Rouass

British actress
Laila Rouass is an English actress. On television, she is known for her roles as in the ITV series Footballers' Wives (2004–2006) and Primeval (2009), the BBC One soap opera Holby City and series Spooks (2009), and the Netflix series Safe (2018). She was also a contestant on Strictly Come Dancing (2009), in which she finished fourth.
1957 Danny Baker

Danny Baker

English journalist and screenwriter
Danny Baker is an English comedy writer, journalist, radio DJ and screenwriter. Throughout his career he has largely presented for London's regional radio and television.
1953 Bruce McAvaney

Bruce McAvaney

Australian journalist and sportscaster
Bruce William McAvaney is an Australian sports broadcaster with the Seven Network. McAvaney has presented high-profile events including the AFL Grand Final, Melbourne Cup, Australian Open, Test cricket and both Winter and Summer Olympics, as well as annual special events such as the Brownlow Medal. McAvaney is well known for his commentary of AFL matches as well as covering every Summer Olympic Games from the Los Angeles 1984 Summer Olympic Games to the Paris 2024 Summer Olympic Games.
1949 Larry Junstrom

Larry Junstrom

American bass player (died 2019)
Lawrence Edward Junstrom was an American bassist who was a member of the rock band .38 Special from 1977 until 2014. He was also one of the founding members of the southern rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd.
1956 Derek Forbes

Derek Forbes

Scottish bass player and guitarist
Derek Forbes is a Scottish musician. He is mostly associated with the Scottish band Simple Minds, having joined in time to record their early demos in 1978 and stayed with the band during their rise to mainstream success and their first six albums, until leaving shortly after their 1985 hit "Don't You ". He has also played with Big Country, Propaganda, Oblivion Dust, Spear of Destiny, Kirk Brandon's 10:51 and The Alarm, as well as leading his own projects.
1956 Shah Mehmood Qureshi

Shah Mehmood Qureshi

Pakistani agriculturist and politician, 25th Pakistani Minister of Foreign Affairs
Makhdoom Shah Mahmood Hussain Qureshi is a Pakistani politician who has twice served as the Federal Minister for Foreign Affairs of Pakistan, first from 2008 to 2011 and later from 2018 to 2022. He has served as the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI)'s Vice Chairman since 2011. Qureshi has had an extensive parliamentary career, serving five non-consecutive terms as a Member of the National Assembly of Pakistan between 1993 and 2022, representing Multan. He previously served as a Member of the Provincial Assembly of Punjab for three consecutive terms from 1985 to 1993.
1982 Ian Kinsler

Ian Kinsler

American baseball player
Ian Michael Kinsler is an American-Israeli former professional baseball player. He was a second baseman in Major League Baseball (MLB) for 14 seasons for the Texas Rangers, Detroit Tigers, Los Angeles Angels, Boston Red Sox, and San Diego Padres. Kinsler was a four-time All Star, two-time Gold Glove winner, and a member of the 2018 World Series champion Boston Red Sox.
1980 Ilya Bryzgalov

Ilya Bryzgalov

Russian ice hockey player
Ilya Nikolayevich Bryzgalov is a Russian former professional ice hockey goaltender who played in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the Anaheim Ducks, Phoenix Coyotes, Philadelphia Flyers, Edmonton Oilers and Minnesota Wild. He was drafted by Anaheim in the second round of the 2000 NHL entry draft, 44th overall.
1992 Ura Kazuki

Ura Kazuki

Japanese sumo wrestler
Ura Kazuki is a Japanese professional sumo wrestler from Neyagawa, Osaka. After winning a gold medal in sumo at the 2013 World Combat Games, he made his professional debut in 2015, wrestling with the Kise stable and he won the jonokuchi division championship in his first tournament. He reached the top makuuchi division in March 2017, but a pair of serious injuries led to two extended layoffs, and his rank dropped to the lowest since his debut tournament, and it was three and a half years before he returned to top-level competition. He has two kinboshi, or gold stars, for defeating a yokozuna.
1958 Jennifer Finney Boylan

Jennifer Finney Boylan

American author
Jennifer Finney Boylan is an American author, transgender activist, professor at Barnard College, and a former contributing opinion writer for the New York Times. In December 2023, she became the president of PEN America, having previously been the vice president.
1949 Brian Leveson

Brian Leveson

English lawyer and judge
Brian Henry Leveson, Baron Leveson of Liverpool is an English retired senior judge who is the current Investigatory Powers Commissioner, having previously served as the President of the Queen's Bench Division and Head of Criminal Justice.
1903 Carl Hubbell

Carl Hubbell

American baseball player (died 1988)
Carl Owen Hubbell, nicknamed "the Meal Ticket" and "King Carl", was an American Major League Baseball (MLB) player. He was a pitcher for the New York Giants of the National League (NL) from 1928 to 1943, and remained on the team's payroll for the rest of his life, long after their move to San Francisco.
1963 Hokutoumi Nobuyoshi

Hokutoumi Nobuyoshi

Japanese sumo wrestler, the 61st Yokozuna
Hokutoumi Nobuyoshi is a Japanese former professional sumo wrestler from Hokkaidō. He was the sport's 61st yokozuna and won eight top division championships. He wrestled for Kokonoe stable. In 1989 he and Chiyonofuji were the first yokozuna stablemates to take part in a play-off for the championship. After a number of injury problems he retired in 1992, and is now the head coach of Hakkaku stable. In November 2015 he was appointed chairman of the Japan Sumo Association, following the death of Kitanoumi, initially to serve until the end of March 2016. He was then elected as head for a full term by his fellow board members in a vote held in March 2016. He was reappointed to a full term as chairman five times, most recently in 2026.
1946 Eliades Ochoa

Eliades Ochoa

Cuban singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
Eliades Ochoa Bustamante is a Cuban guitarist and singer from Loma de la Avispa, Songo La Maya in the east of the country near Santiago de Cuba.
1939 Ada Yonath

Ada Yonath

Israeli crystallographer and Nobel laureate in Chemistry (died 2026)
Ada Esther Yonath was an Israeli crystallographer and Nobel laureate in chemistry, best known for her pioneering work on the structure of ribosomes. She was the director of the Helen and Milton A. Kimmelman Center for Biomolecular Structure and Assembly of the Weizmann Institute of Science.
1988 Omri Casspi

Omri Casspi

Israeli basketball player
Omri Moshe Casspi is an Israeli former professional basketball player. He mainly played at the small forward position, but also played at the power forward position.
1984 Janko Tipsarević

Janko Tipsarević

Serbian tennis player
Janko Tipsarević is a Serbian tennis coach and former professional player. In tennis, his career-high singles ranking is world No. 8, achieved on 2 April 2012. In his career, he won 4 ATP World Tour titles, one ATP doubles title, three Futures, and 15 Challenger titles. Tipsarević also won the 2001 Australian Open junior title. He holds notable victories over former world No. 1 players Carlos Moyá, Marat Safin, Lleyton Hewitt, Juan Carlos Ferrero, Andy Roddick, his compatriot Novak Djokovic, and Andy Murray. His best results at a Grand Slam tournament were reaching the quarterfinals at the US Open in 2011 and 2012.
1922 Bill Blass

Bill Blass

American fashion designer, founded Bill Blass Group (died 2002)
William Ralph Blass was an American fashion designer. He was the recipient of many fashion awards, including seven Coty Awards and the Fashion Institute of Technology's Lifetime Achievement Award (1999).
1921 Joseph Papp

Joseph Papp

American director and producer (died 1991)
Joseph Papp was an American theatrical producer and director. Papp is a pioneering figure in American theater, known for creating Shakespeare in the Park, which aimed to make classical theater accessible to all people by producing free-of-charge performances. He was a known advocate for non-traditional and diverse casting practices. He established The Public Theater in what had been the Astor Library Building in Lower Manhattan. There Papp created a year-round producing home to focus on new plays and musicals. Eventually, one of the six performance spaces inside the Public Theater was renamed Joe's Pub in honor of Joseph Papp. It continues to host live performances across a wide range of art forms. Among numerous examples of these were the works of David Rabe, Ntozake Shange's For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf, Charles Gordone's No Place to Be Somebody, and Papp's production of Michael Bennett's Pulitzer Prize–winning musical A Chorus Line. Papp also helped to develop other off-Broadway theatres and worked to preserve the historic Broadway Theatre District.
1966 Joanna Kołaczkowska

Joanna Kołaczkowska

Polish cabaret performer (died 2025)
Joanna Dorota Kołaczkowska was a Polish cabaret performer, theatre actress, songwriter and radio presenter. She was widely recognized as one of the most prominent figures in Polish cabaret in the early 21st century, particularly through her long-standing involvement with the Hrabi Cabaret troupe, with which she performed from 2002 until 2025.
1972 Damien Oliver

Damien Oliver

Australian jockey
Damien Oliver is an Australian retired thoroughbred racing jockey. Oliver comes from a racing family; his father Ray Oliver had a successful career until his death in a race fall during the 1975 Kalgoorlie Cup in Western Australia. In 2008, Oliver was inducted into the Australian Racing Hall of Fame. In August 2023 he announced that he would retire at the end of that year's spring carnival.
1956 Darryl Brohman

Darryl Brohman

Australian rugby league player and sportscaster
Darryl Gregory Brohman, also known by the nickname of "The Big Marn", is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1970s and 1980s, and coached in the 1980s, now best known as a commentator and media personality. Brohman played professional league for the Penrith Panthers, Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs and the Queensland rugby league team. At present, he is working for 2GB on its Continuous Call Team broadcasts, on The Footy Show and makes guest appearances on the Australian version of the ESPN show Pardon the Interruption. In the summer, he plays a small role in the nationally syndicated radio program entitled Summer Weekend Detention which broadcasts from the Sydney studios of 2GB on weekends during the summer months.
1968 Darrell Armstrong

Darrell Armstrong

American basketball player and coach
Darrell Eugene Armstrong is an American professional basketball coach and former player who last was an assistant coach for the Dallas Mavericks of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played 14 seasons in the NBA for the Orlando Magic, New Orleans Hornets, Dallas Mavericks, Indiana Pacers and New Jersey Nets. Armstrong was selected as the Most Improved Player and Sixth Man of the Year while playing for the Magic in 1999. He retired from playing in 2008 and joined the Mavericks as an assistant coach in 2009. He won his first NBA championship with the Mavericks in 2011.
1984 Jerome Taylor

Jerome Taylor

Jamaican cricketer
Jerome Everton Taylor is a Jamaican former cricketer who played as a fast bowler for the West Indies. Taylor took over 100 wickets for the Windies in both Tests and One Day Internationals (ODI). During 2017 he reversed an initial decision to retire from international cricket. Taylor has also featured for Jamaica, English sides Somerset, Leicestershire and Sussex, CPL teams St Lucia Zouks and Jamaica Tallawahs and IPL side Pune Warriors in his cricketing career. Taylor was a member of the West Indies team that won the 2016 T20 World Cup. He is the only bowler to have ever taken a hat-trick in a Champions Trophy match, which he did in the 2006 tournament against Australia, and that was the first hat-trick taken by a West Indian bowler in the ODI format.
1861 Maximilian von Spee

Maximilian von Spee

Danish-German admiral (died 1914)
Maximilian Johannes Maria Hubert Reichsgraf von Spee was a German naval officer in the Imperial German Navy, who commanded the East Asia Squadron during World War I. Spee entered the navy in 1878 and served in a variety of roles and locations, including on a colonial gunboat in German West Africa in the 1880s, the East Africa Squadron in the late 1890s, and as commander of several warships in the main German fleet in the early 1900s. During his time in Germany in the late 1880s and early 1890s, he married his wife, Margareta, and had three children, his sons Heinrich and Otto and his daughter Huberta. By 1912, he had returned to the East Asia Squadron as its commander, and was promoted to the rank of Vizeadmiral the following year.
1805 Giuseppe Mazzini

Giuseppe Mazzini

Italian journalist and politician (died 1872).
Giuseppe Mazzini was an Italian politician, lawyer, journalist, philosopher, and political activist who worked for the unification of Italy (Risorgimento) and was a major leader of the Italian revolutionary movement. His efforts helped bring about the independent and unified Italy in place of the several separate states, many dominated by foreign powers, that existed until the 19th century. An Italian nationalist in the historical radical tradition and a proponent of a republicanism of social-democratic inspiration, Mazzini "helped define the European movement for popular democracy in a republican state." He is widely known as the "Prophet of Italian Nationalism".
1898 Erich Maria Remarque

Erich Maria Remarque

German-Swiss soldier and author (died 1970)
Erich Maria Remarque was a German novelist. His 1928 landmark novel All Quiet on the Western Front, which was based on his experience in the Imperial German Army during World War I, was an international bestseller which created a new literary genre of veterans writing about conflict. The book was adapted to film several times. Remarque's anti-war themes led to his condemnation by Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels as "unpatriotic". He was able to use his literary success and fame to relocate to Switzerland as a refugee, and to the United States, where he became a naturalized citizen.
1919 Clifton McNeely

Clifton McNeely

American basketball player and coach (died 2003)
Clyde Clifton McNeely was an American basketball player and coach. A 5 ft 10 in (1.78 m) forward, he played college basketball for the Texas Wesleyan Rams for three seasons and led the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) in scoring during his senior season in 1946–47. McNeely was the first player ever drafted in the National Basketball Association (NBA) when he was selected by the Pittsburgh Ironmen as the first pick of the league's inaugural 1947 draft. He never played professional basketball and instead pursued a coaching career at Pampa High School in Texas.
662 Rui Zong

Rui Zong

emperor of the Tang Dynasty (died 716)
Emperor Ruizong of Tang, personal name Li Dan, also known at times during his life as Li Xulun, Li Lun, Wu Lun, and Wu Dan, was the fifth and ninth emperor of the Chinese Tang dynasty. He was the eighth son of Emperor Gaozong and the fourth son of Emperor Gaozong's second wife Empress Wu. He was wholly a figurehead during his first reign (684–690), when he was controlled by his mother. During his second reign after his mother's death, significant power and influence was exercised by his sister Princess Taiping.
1959 Nicola Sirkis

Nicola Sirkis

French singer-songwriter and guitarist
Nicolas Henri Didier Sirchis, better known by his stage name Nicola Sirkis, is a French musician, primarily known for his work as the frontman and singer of the French rock band Indochine. He is the only remaining member of the original line-up of the band which he formed in 1981 with a friend, Dominique Nicolas, soon to be joined by his twin brother Stéphane and Dimitri Bodianski.
1892 Robert Ritter von Greim

Robert Ritter von Greim

German general and pilot (died 1945)
Robert Ritter von Greim was a German Generalfeldmarschall and First World War flying ace. In April 1945, in the last days of World War II in Europe, Adolf Hitler appointed Greim commander-in-chief of the Luftwaffe after Hermann Göring had been dismissed for treason. He was the last person to have been promoted to field marshal in the German armed forces. After the surrender of Nazi Germany in May 1945, Greim was captured by the Allies. He committed suicide in an American-controlled prison on 24 May 1945.
1894 Bernard Ashmole

Bernard Ashmole

English archaeologist and art historian (died 1988)
Bernard Ashmole was a British archaeologist and art historian, who specialized in ancient Greek sculpture. He held a number of professorships during his lifetime; Yates Professor of Classical Art and Archaeology at the University of London from 1929 to 1948, Lincoln Professor of Classical Archaeology and Art at University of Oxford from 1956 to 1961, and Greek Art and Archaeology at the University of Aberdeen from 1961 to 1963. He was also Keeper of Greek and Roman Antiquities at the British Museum from 1939 to 1956.
1920 Jovito Salonga

Jovito Salonga

Filipino lawyer and politician, 14th President of the Senate of the Philippines (died 2016)
Jovito Reyes Salonga also called "Ka Jovy," was a Filipino lawyer and politician, as well as a leading opposition leader during the regime of Ferdinand Marcos from the declaration of martial law in 1972 until the People Power Revolution in 1986, which removed Marcos from power. Salonga was then elected as the 14th president of the Senate of the Philippines and the first one after the new Constitution was just ratified, serving from 1987 up to his retirement from politics in 1992.
1934 James Bjorken

James Bjorken

American physicist, author, and academic (died 2024)
James Daniel "BJ" Bjorken was an American theoretical physicist. He was a Putnam Fellow in 1954, received a BS in physics from MIT in 1956, and obtained his PhD from Stanford University in 1959. Bjorken was a visiting scholar at the Institute for Advanced Study in the fall of 1962. He was also emeritus professor in the SLAC Theory Group at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, and was a member of the Theory Department of the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (1979–1989).
1932 Prunella Scales

Prunella Scales

English actress (died 2025)
Prunella Margaret Rumney West, known professionally as Prunella Scales, was an English actress. She is best known for her portrayal of Sybil Fawlty in the BBC television sitcom Fawlty Towers (1975–1979) and her performance as Queen Elizabeth II in Alan Bennett's A Question of Attribution (1991), which earned her a BAFTA nomination. She later appeared in the TV documentary series Great Canal Journeys (2014–2019), travelling waterways in the UK and abroad with her husband, the actor Timothy West.
1936 Kris Kristofferson

Kris Kristofferson

American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor (died 2024)
Kristoffer Kristofferson was an American musician, songwriter, and actor. He was a pioneering figure in the outlaw country movement of the 1970s, moving away from the polished Nashville sound and toward a more raw, introspective style. Some of his most famous songs include "Me and Bobby McGee" (1970), "For the Good Times" (1968), "Sunday Mornin' Comin' Down" (1969), and "Help Me Make It Through the Night" (1970), which were also recorded by and became hits for other artists.
1909 Mike Todd

Mike Todd

American producer and manager (died 1958)
Michael Todd was an American theater and film producer, celebrated for his 1956 Around the World in 80 Days, which won an Academy Award for Best Picture. Actress Elizabeth Taylor was his third wife. Todd was the third of Taylor's seven husbands, and the only one Taylor did not divorce. He died in a private plane accident a year after they married. He was the driving force behind the development of the eponymous Todd-AO widescreen film format.
1953 Wim Eijk

Wim Eijk

Dutch cardinal
Willem Jacobus "Wim" Eijk is a Dutch prelate of the Catholic Church, a cardinal since 2012. He has been the Metropolitan Archbishop of Utrecht since 2007. He was Bishop of Groningen-Leeuwarden from 1999 to 2007. Before his clerical career, he worked as a medical doctor; as a priest, he made medical ethics the focus of his academic studies. He has done his doctoral studies in medicine and philosophy, and also holds a licentiate in theology.
1921 Radovan Ivšić

Radovan Ivšić

Croatian writer (died 2009)
Radovan Ivšić was a Croatian writer, best known for his drama Kralj Gordogan and book of poems Crno. Ivšić spent his life uncompromisingly in the spirit of liberty. Such values brought him close to the surrealist movement. He was a friend of André Breton and Toyen and was one of the signers of the last Manifeste du surréalisme, 1955. His best-known statements are “Never give up your dreams” and paraphrase “We are our dreams”.
1903 John Dillinger

John Dillinger

American criminal (died 1934)
John Herbert Dillinger was an American gangster during the Great Depression. He commanded the Dillinger Gang, which was accused of robbing twenty-four banks and four police stations. Dillinger was imprisoned several times and escaped twice. He was charged with but not convicted of the murder of East Chicago, Indiana, police officer William O'Malley, who shot Dillinger in his bulletproof vest during a shootout; it was the only time Dillinger was charged with homicide.
1966 Michael Park

Michael Park

English racing driver (died 2005)
Michael Steven Park was a rally co-driver from Newent in Gloucestershire. He worked with former world champions Richard Burns and Colin McRae as a gravel note expert while co-driving for both David Higgins and Mark Higgins in the British national series. His big break, however, came when he teamed up with the emerging Estonian talent Markko Märtin as a privateer pairing in a Toyota Corolla WRC for the 2000 World Rally Championship season.
1930 Walter Bonatti

Walter Bonatti

Italian journalist and mountaineer (died 2011)
Walter Bonatti was an Italian mountaineer, alpinist, explorer and journalist. He was noted for many climbing achievements, including a solo climb of a new alpine climbing route on the south-west pillar of the Aiguille du Dru in August 1955, the first ascent of Gasherbrum IV in 1958, and, in 1965, the first solo climb in winter of the North face of the Matterhorn on the mountain's centenary year of its first ascent.
1427 Lucrezia Tornabuoni

Lucrezia Tornabuoni

Italian writer and wife of Piero di Cosimo de' Medici (died 1482)
Lucrezia Tornabuoni was an Italian noblewoman and writer, wife of Piero di Cosimo de' Medici, de facto Lord of Florence and his political adviser. Lucrezia had significant political influence during the rule of her husband and then of her son Lorenzo the Magnificent, investing in several institutions and improving relationships to support the needs of the poor. She was also a patroness of the arts who wrote several poems and plays.
1937 Chris Blackwell

Chris Blackwell

English record producer, co-founded Island Records
Christopher Percy Gordon Blackwell is a Jamaican-British former record producer and the founder of Island Records, which has been called "one of Britain's great independent labels". According to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, to which Blackwell was inducted in 2001, he is "the single person most responsible for turning the world on to reggae music." Variety describes him as "indisputably one of the greatest record executives in history."
1945 Rainer Brüderle

Rainer Brüderle

German economist and politician, German Minister of Economics and Technology
Rainer Brüderle is a German politician and member of the Free Democratic Party (FDP). He served as Minister of Economics and Transport of Rhineland-Palatinate from 1987–1998. On 28 October 2009, he was appointed Federal Minister for Economics and Technology in the second cabinet of Chancellor Angela Merkel. Following his election in May 2011 as chairman of his party's parliamentary group, Brüderle resigned as Federal Minister for Economic Affairs and Technology.
1373 Elizabeth Bonifacia

Elizabeth Bonifacia

heiress of Poland (died 1399)
Jadwiga, also known as Hedwig, was Queen of the Kingdom of Poland, as well as its last hereditary ruler. Crowned "King" to highlight her sovereign status, she reigned from 16 October 1384 until her death. Born in Buda, she was the youngest daughter of Louis I of Hungary and Elizabeth of Bosnia. Jadwiga was a member of the Capetian House of Anjou and had forebears among the Polish Piasts.
1887 Julian Huxley

Julian Huxley

English biologist and academic (died 1975)
Sir Julian Sorell Huxley was an English evolutionary biologist, eugenicist and internationalist. He was a proponent of natural selection, and a leading figure in the mid-twentieth-century modern synthesis. He was secretary of the Zoological Society of London (1935–1942), the first director of UNESCO, a founding member of the World Wildlife Fund, the president of the British Eugenics Society (1959–1962), and the first president of the British Humanist Association.
1975 Urmas Reinsalu

Urmas Reinsalu

Estonian academic and politician, 28th Estonian Minister of Defence
Urmas Reinsalu is an Estonian politician who served as Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2022 to 2023 and previously from 2019 to 2021. Before that, Urmas has served as the Minister of Defence between 2012 and 2014, and Minister of Justice from 2015 to 2019. Reinsalu is a member and current leader of the Isamaa ("Fatherland") political party, and was the party leader from 2012 to 2015.
1856 Henry Rider Haggard

Henry Rider Haggard

English novelist (died 1925).
Sir Henry Rider Haggard was an English writer of adventure fiction romances set in exotic locations, predominantly Africa, and a pioneer of the lost world literary genre. He was also involved in land reform throughout the British Empire. His stories, situated at the lighter end of Victorian literature and including the eighteen Allan Quatermain stories beginning with King Solomon's Mines, continue to be popular and influential.
1932 Soraya Esfandiary-Bakhtiari

Soraya Esfandiary-Bakhtiari

Princess of Iran (died 2001)
Soraya Esfandiary-Bakhtiary was the second wife of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi and Queen of Iran from 1951 to 1958. Their marriage suffered many pressures, particularly when it became clear that she was infertile. In March 1958, their divorce was announced. After a brief career as an actress, and a liaison with Italian film director Franco Indovina, Soraya lived with her brother in Paris until her death.
1899 Michał Kalecki

Michał Kalecki

Polish economist and academic (died 1970)
Michał Kalecki was a Polish Marxian economist. Over the course of his life, Kalecki worked at the London School of Economics, University of Cambridge, University of Oxford, and Warsaw School of Economics, and was an economic advisor to the governments of Poland, France, Cuba, Israel, Mexico, and India. He also served as the deputy director of the United Nations Economic Department in New York City.
1939 Ed Paschke

Ed Paschke

Polish-American painter and academic (died 2004)
Edward Francis Paschke was an American painter. His childhood interest in animation and cartoons, as well as his father's creativity in wood carving and construction, led him toward a career in art. As a student at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago he was influenced by many artists featured in the museum's special exhibitions, in particular the work of Gauguin, Picasso and Seurat.
1958 Rocío Banquells

Rocío Banquells

Mexican pop singer and actress
Rocío Banquells is a Mexican pop singer, politician, and actress, best known for her work on television, the stage and cinema of Mexico and Latin America. Her mezzo voice is one of the most versatile voices from Mexico. She sings operetta, ranchera, rock, and ballads.
1982 Soraia Chaves

Soraia Chaves

Portuguese actress and model
Soraia Chaves is a Portuguese actress and model. She became famous with the role of Amélia in the film O Crime do Padre Amaro and the role of Maria in her next film, Call Girl. She also played the role of Raquel in Dancing Days, a 2012-13 soap opera broadcast on the Portuguese television network SIC. She also starred in the film Real Playing Game.
2006 Zépiqueno Redmond

Zépiqueno Redmond

Dutch footballer
Zépiqueno Ponimin Charmant Redmond is a Dutch professional footballer who plays as a striker for Ligue 2 club Annecy, on loan from side Aston Villa.
1738 Jacques Delille

Jacques Delille

French poet and translator (died 1813).
Jacques Delille was a French poet who came to national prominence with his translation of Virgil's Georgics and made an international reputation with his didactic poem on gardening. He barely survived the slaughter of the French Revolution and lived for some years outside France, including three years in England. The poems on abstract themes that he published after his return were less well received.
1873 Filippo Silvestri

Filippo Silvestri

Italian entomologist and academic (died 1949)
Filippo Silvestri was an Italian entomologist. He specialised in world Protura, Thysanura, Diplura and Isoptera, but also worked on Hymenoptera, Myriapoda, Italian Diptera and South American ground pearls, scale insects from the family Margarodidae. He is also noted for describing and naming the previously unknown order Zoraptera. In 1938 he was nominated to the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, the scientific academy of the Vatican.
1926 Rachid Solh

Rachid Solh

Lebanese politician, 48th Prime Minister of Lebanon (died 2014)
Rachid Solh was a Lebanese lawyer and politician who served twice as prime minister of Lebanon from 1974 to 1975 and from May to October 1992. He belonged to the prominent Solh family, a Sunni Muslim family originally from Sidon whose members played significant roles in Lebanese politics, including several who served as prime minister. The family later transferred its civil registration to Beirut.
1757 George Vancouver

George Vancouver

English lieutenant and explorer (died 1798).
Captain George Vancouver was a Royal Navy officer and explorer best known for leading the Vancouver Expedition, which explored and charted North America's northwestern Pacific Coast regions, including the coasts of what became the Canadian province of British Columbia and the U.S. states of Alaska, Washington, Oregon and California. The expedition also explored the Hawaiian Islands and the southwest coast of Australia.
1820 James Hutchison Stirling

James Hutchison Stirling

Scottish physician and philosopher (died 1909).
James Hutchison Stirling was a Scottish idealist philosopher and physician. His work The Secret of Hegel gave great impetus to the study of Hegelian philosophy both in Britain and in the United States, and it was also accepted as an authoritative work on Hegel's philosophy in Germany and Italy. The book helped to create the philosophical movement known as British idealism.
1763 Étienne Méhul

Étienne Méhul

French pianist and composer (died 1817).
Étienne Nicolas Méhul was a French composer of the late classical and early romantic periods. He was known as "the most important opera composer in France during the Revolution". He was also the first composer to be called a "Romantic". He is known particularly for his operas, written in keeping with the reforms introduced by Gluck and Mozart.
1855 Samuel Morris

Samuel Morris

Australian cricketer (died 1931)
Samuel Morris was an Australian cricketer who played in one Test in 1885. He was the first black man to play Test cricket, as well as the first person of West Indian heritage and the first Tasmanian-born player to play Tests. He and Andrew Symonds are the only people of West Indian heritage to play for Australia.
1864 Hermann Minkowski

Hermann Minkowski

German mathematician and academic (died 1909)
Hermann Minkowski was a mathematician and professor at the University of Königsberg, ETH Zürich, and the University of Göttingen, described variously as German, Polish, Lithuanian-German, or Russian. He created and developed the geometry of numbers and elements of convex geometry, and used geometrical methods to solve problems in number theory, mathematical physics, and the theory of relativity.
1940 Esther Rantzen

Esther Rantzen

English journalist
Dame Esther Louise Rantzen was an English journalist and television presenter who presented the BBC television series That's Life! for 21 years, from 1973 until 1994. She worked with various charitable causes and founded the charities Childline, a helpline for children, in 1986, and The Silver Line, designed to combat loneliness in older people's lives, in 2012.
1946 Sheila Hollins

Sheila Hollins

Baroness Hollins, English psychiatrist and academic
Sheila Clare Hollins, Baroness Hollins, is Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry of Learning Disability at St George's, University of London, and was created a crossbench life peer in the House of Lords on 15 November 2010 taking the title Baroness Hollins, of Wimbledon in the London Borough of Merton and of Grenoside in the County of South Yorkshire.
1946 Stephen Waley-Cohen

Stephen Waley-Cohen

English journalist and businessman
Sir Stephen Harry Waley-Cohen, 2nd Baronet is an English theatre owner-manager and producer, following a career as a businessman and financial journalist. He manages the St. Martin's Theatre in London's West End and is the current producer of the world's longest running play The Mousetrap. He was chairman of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) Council.
1915 Cornelius Warmerdam

Cornelius Warmerdam

American pole vaulter and coach (died 2001)
Cornelius "Dutch" Warmerdam was an American pole vaulter who held the world record between 1940 and 1957. He missed the Olympics due to World War II, and retired from senior competitions in 1944, though he continued to vault into his sixties. He was inducted into the International Association of Athletics Federations Hall of Fame in 1974.
1885 Milan Vidmar

Milan Vidmar

Slovenian engineer and chess player (died 1962)
Milan Vidmar was a Yugoslav-Slovenian electrical engineer, chess player, chess theorist, and writer. He was among the top dozen chess players in the world from 1910 to 1930 and in 1950, was among the inaugural recipients of the title International Grandmaster from FIDE. Vidmar was a specialist in power transformers and transmission of electric current.
1910 Konrad Zuse

Konrad Zuse

German computer scientist and engineer, invented the Z3 computer (died 1995)
Konrad Ernst Otto Zuse was a German civil engineer, pioneering computer scientist, inventor and businessman. His greatest achievement was the world's first programmable computer; the functional program-controlled Turing-complete Z3 became operational in May 1941. Thanks to this machine and its predecessors, Zuse is regarded by some as the inventor and father of the modern computer.
1912 Raymonde Allain

Raymonde Allain

French model and actress (died 2008)
Raymonde Allain was a French model and actress. She was Miss France in 1928. Her participation in the Miss Universe contest drew international media attention, and her controversial loss to American Ella Van Hueson prompted critical dispute over what counted as "real beauty". Allain later wrote an autobiography titled Histoire vraie d'un prix de beauté.
1955 Christine Orengo

Christine Orengo

British academic and educator
Christine Anne Orengo is a Professor of Bioinformatics at University College London (UCL) known for her work on protein structure, particularly the CATH database. From 2021 to 2024, Orengo served as president of the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB), the first woman to do so in the history of the society.
1593 Sir John Gell

Sir John Gell

1st Baronet, English landowner and Parliamentarian commander (died 1671)
Sir John Gell was an English military officer who acted as local Parliamentarian commander for most of the First English Civil War from 1643 to his resignation in 1646. He was notorious for parading the body of his Royalist opponent through Derby after the Battle of Hopton Heath in March 1643.
1964 Miroslav Kadlec

Miroslav Kadlec

Czech footballer
Miroslav Kadlec is a Czech former professional footballer who played as a defender. Either side of an eight-year spell playing in Germany for Kaiserslautern, Kadlec played for four Czech clubs. In an international career spanning from 1987 to 1997, Kadlec made 64 international appearances split between Czechoslovakia and the Czech Republic.
1871 William McDougall

William McDougall

English psychologist and polymath (died 1938)
William McDougall was an early 20th century psychologist who was a professor at University College London, University of Oxford, Harvard University and Duke University. He wrote a number of influential textbooks, and was important in the development of the theory of instinct and of social psychology in the English-speaking world.
1918 Cicely Saunders

Cicely Saunders

English nurse, social worker, physician and writer (died 2005)
Dame Cicely Mary Strode Saunders was an English nurse, social worker, physician and writer. She is noted for her work in terminal care research and her role in the birth of the hospice movement, emphasising the importance of palliative care in modern medicine, and opposing the legalisation of voluntary euthanasia.
1932 June Salter

June Salter

Australian actress (died 2001)
June Marie Salter was an Australian actress and author prominent in theatre and television. She is best known for her character roles, in particular as schoolteacher Elizabeth McKenzie in the soap opera The Restless Years and for her regular guest appearances in A Country Practice as Matron Hilda Arrowsmith.
1941 Terttu Savola

Terttu Savola

Finnish journalist and politician
Terttu Savola is a Finnish politician. She is the chairperson of the For the Poor party, a member of the council of the city of Espoo, the ambassador for human rights and children's rights in the Finnish United Nations alliance, and a lecturer in the Finnish Refugee Help Association.
1879 Thibaudeau Rinfret

Thibaudeau Rinfret

Canadian lawyer and jurist, 9th Chief Justice of Canada (died 1962)
Thibaudeau Rinfret was a Canadian jurist who served as the ninth Chief Justice of Canada from 1944 to 1954 and briefly as Administrator of Canada from January to February 1952. He also served as a puisne justice of the Supreme Court of Canada from 1924 to 1944.
1928 Ralph Waite

Ralph Waite

American actor and director (died 2014)
Ralph Waite was an American actor, best known for his lead role as John Walton Sr. on The Waltons (1972–1981), which he occasionally directed. He later had recurring roles in NCIS as Jackson Gibbs, the father of Leroy Jethro Gibbs, and in Bones, as Seeley Booth's grandfather.
1981 Sione Lauaki

Sione Lauaki

New Zealand rugby player (died 2017)
Sione Tuitupu Lauaki was a Tongan-born New Zealand rugby union footballer who played for Bayonne. He previously played for the New Zealand national team, the All Blacks. His brother, Epalahame Lauaki, is a 2nd row rugby league footballer previously playing for Auckland Warriors in the NRL competition.
1450 Eleanor of Naples

Eleanor of Naples

duchess of Ferrara (died 1493)
Eleanor of Naples was Duchess of Ferrara by marriage to Ercole I d'Este. She was the first duchess of Ferrara, and mother of many famous Renaissance figures. She was a well known political figure, and served as regent of Ferrara during the absence of her spouse.
1837 Ernst Ziller

Ernst Ziller

German-Greek architect, designed the Presidential Mansion (died 1923)
Ernst Moritz Theodor Ziller was a German-born university teacher and architect who later became a Greek national. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, he was a major designer of royal and municipal buildings in Athens, Patras, and other Greek cities, mostly in neoclassical style.
1922 Clair Cameron Patterson

Clair Cameron Patterson

American scientist (died 1995)
Clair Cameron Patterson was an American geochemist. Born in Des Moines and raised in nearby Mitchellville, Iowa, he graduated from Grinnell College. He later received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago and spent his entire professional career at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech).
1932 Yevgeny Kychanov

Yevgeny Kychanov

Russian orientalist, historian, and academic (died 2013)
Evgenij Ivanovich Kychanov was a Soviet-Russian orientalist, an expert on the Tangut people and their mediaeval Xi Xia Empire. From 1997 to 2003 he served as the director of the Saint Petersburg Branch of the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
1937 Bernie McGann

Bernie McGann

Australian saxophonist and composer (died 2013)
Bernard Francis McGann was an Australian jazz alto saxophone player. He began his career in the late 1950s and remained active as a performer, composer and recording artist until near the end of his life. McGann won four ARIA Music Awards between 1993 and 2001.
1943 J. Michael Kosterlitz

J. Michael Kosterlitz

British-American physicist
John Michael Kosterlitz is a British-American physicist. He is a professor of physics at Brown University and the son of biochemist Hans Kosterlitz. He was awarded the 2016 Nobel Prize in physics along with David Thouless and Duncan Haldane for work on condensed matter physics.
1992 Harry Reid

Harry Reid

British actor
Harry Reid is an English actor. He is known for his role as Ben Mitchell in the BBC soap opera EastEnders, from 2014 until 2018.
1897

Edmund A. Chester

American journalist and broadcaster (died 1973)
Edmund Albert Chester Sr. was an American television executive and journalist. He served as a vice president and executive at the CBS radio and television networks during the 1940s. As Director of Latin American Relations he collaborated with the Department of State to develop CBS's La Cadena de las Américas radio network in support of Pan-Americanism during World War II. He also served as a highly respected journalist and Bureau Chief for Latin America at Associated Press and Vice President at La Prensa Asociada in the 1930s. He was awarded the Carlos Manuel de Céspedes National Order of Merit by the government of Cuba in recognition of his efforts to foster greater understanding between the peoples of Cuba and the United States of America.
1936 Hermeto Pascoal

Hermeto Pascoal

Brazilian accordion player and composer (died 2025)
Hermeto Pascoal Oliveira da Costa best known as Hermeto Pascoal was a Brazilian composer and multi-instrumentalist. Pascoal was best known in Brazilian music for his orchestration and improvisation, as well as for being a record producer and contributor to many Brazilian and international albums.
1979 Joey Cheek

Joey Cheek

American speed skater
William Joseph Cheek is an American former speed skater and inline speed skater. He specialized in the short and middle distances and won Olympic gold in 2006. As of 2024, he is the Executive Vice President of Entrepreneurship for the Greensboro Chamber of Commerce.
1933 Dianne Feinstein

Dianne Feinstein

American politician (died 2023)
Dianne Emiel Feinstein was an American politician who served as a United States senator from California from 1992 until her death in 2023. A member of the Democratic Party, she previously served as the 38th mayor of San Francisco from 1978 to 1988.
1896 Leonard W. Murray

Leonard W. Murray

Canadian admiral (died 1971)
Rear Admiral Leonard Warren Murray, CB, CBE was an officer in the Royal Canadian Navy who played a central role in the Battle of the Atlantic, and was the only Canadian to command an Allied theatre of operations during World War II.
1909 Infanta Beatriz of Spain

Infanta Beatriz of Spain

Spanish princess and aristocrat (died 2002)
Infanta Beatriz of Spain, Princess of Civitella-Cesi was a daughter of King Alfonso XIII of Spain and Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg and the wife of Alessandro Torlonia, 5th Prince di Civitella-Cesi. She was a paternal aunt of King Juan Carlos I.
916 Sayf al-Dawla

Sayf al-Dawla

founder of the Emirate of Aleppo (died 967)
ʿAlī ibn ʾAbū'l-Hayjāʾ ʿAbdallāh ibn Ḥamdān ibn Ḥamdūn ibn al-Ḥārith al-Taghlibī, more commonly known simply by his honorific of Sayf al-Dawla, was the founder of the Emirate of Aleppo, encompassing most of northern Syria and parts of the western Jazira.
1767 Wilhelm von Humboldt

Wilhelm von Humboldt

German philosopher, academic, and politician, Interior Minister of Prussia (died 1835).
Friedrich Wilhelm Christian Karl Ferdinand von Humboldt was a Prussian philosopher, linguist, government functionary, diplomat, and founder of the Humboldt University of Berlin. In 1949, the university was named after him and his younger brother, Alexander von Humboldt, a naturalist.
1910 Anne Ziegler

Anne Ziegler

English singer (died 2003)
Anne Ziegler was an English singer, known for her light operatic duets with her husband Webster Booth. The pair were known as the "Sweethearts in Song" and were among the most famous and popular British musical acts of the 1940s.
1845 Richard Seddon

Richard Seddon

English-New Zealand politician, 15th Prime Minister of New Zealand (died 1906)
Richard John Seddon was a New Zealand politician who served as the 15th premier of New Zealand from 1893 until his death in 1906. In office for thirteen years, he is to date New Zealand's longest-serving head of government.
1919 Henri Tajfel

Henri Tajfel

Polish social psychologist (died 1982)
Henri Tajfel was a Polish social psychologist, best known for his pioneering work on the cognitive aspects of prejudice and social identity theory, as well as being one of the founders of the European Association of Experimental Social Psychology.
1923 José Giovanni

José Giovanni

French-Swiss director and screenwriter (died 2004)
Joseph Damiani, known by the pen name José Giovanni, was a French writer, filmmaker, and convicted criminal. He became known for his realistic, gritty crime novels which drew upon his own personal experiences and knowledge of the French underworld.
1985 Thomas Leuluai

Thomas Leuluai

New Zealand rugby league player
Thomas James Leuluai is a New Zealand professional rugby league coach who is an assistant coach at the Wigan Warriors in the Super League and a former professional rugby league footballer who played for New Zealand at international level.
1951 Craig Gruber

Craig Gruber

American bass player (died 2015)
Craig M. Gruber was an American rock bassist, best known as the original bassist in Rainbow. He also played in Elf, consisting of vocalist Ronnie James Dio, keyboardist Mickey Lee Soule, drummer Gary Driscoll, and guitarist Steve Edwards.
1837 Paul Morphy

Paul Morphy

American chess player (died 1884)
Paul Charles Morphy was an American chess player. During his brief career in the late 1850s, Morphy was acknowledged as the world's greatest chess master. Later commentators have concluded that he was far ahead of his time.
1884 James Rector

James Rector

American sprinter and lawyer (died 1949)
John "James" Alcorn Rector was an American athlete. He was the first Arkansas-born athlete to compete in the Olympic Games. While competing he was a University of Virginia student and went there to train with Pop Lannigan.
1888 Harold Hitz Burton

Harold Hitz Burton

American lawyer and politician, 45th Mayor of Cleveland (died 1964)
Harold Hitz Burton was an American politician and lawyer. He served as the 45th mayor of Cleveland, Ohio, as a U.S. senator from Ohio, and as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.
1921 Barbara Vucanovich

Barbara Vucanovich

American lawyer and politician (died 2013)
Barbara Farrell Vucanovich was an American Republican politician from Nevada. She was the first woman from Nevada elected to the United States House of Representatives, in which she served seven terms representing Nevada from 1983 to 1997.
1946 Józef Oleksy

Józef Oleksy

Polish economist and politician, 7th Prime Minister of Poland (died 2015)
Józef Oleksy was a Polish left-wing politician who served as Prime Minister of Poland from 7 March 1995 to 7 February 1996, when he resigned due to espionage allegations. He was chairman of the Democratic Left Alliance.
1950 John Perdue

John Perdue

former West Virginia State Treasurer
John D. Perdue is an American politician who served as the 24th West Virginia State Treasurer from 1997 to 2021. He is the latest Democratic candidate to receive more than 50% of the vote in the state.
1869 Hendrikus Colijn

Hendrikus Colijn

Dutch Politician and Prime Minister of the Netherlands (died 1944)
Hendrikus "Hendrik" Colijn was a Dutch politician of the Anti-Revolutionary Party. He served as Prime Minister of the Netherlands from 4 August 1925 until 8 March 1926, and from 26 May 1933 until 10 August 1939.
1901 Elias Katz

Elias Katz

Finnish runner and coach (died 1947)
Elias Katz was a Finnish track and field athlete, who competed mainly in the 3000 metres steeplechase in the 1920s. In 1933, he immigrated to Mandatory Palestine, where he lived for the rest of his life.
1909 Katherine Dunham

Katherine Dunham

American dancer and choreographer (died 2006)
Katherine Mary Dunham was an American dancer, choreographer, anthropologist, and social activist. One of the most renowned modern dance artists of the 20th century, she has been called the "matriarch and queen mother of black dance."
1915 Dolf van der Linden

Dolf van der Linden

Dutch conductor and composer (died 1999)
David Gijsbert van der Linden, known as Dolf van der Linden, was a Dutch conductor of popular music. HIs reputation extended beyond the Netherlands. He was a three-time Eurovision Song Contest winning conductor.
1959 Daniel Xuereb

Daniel Xuereb

French footballer
Daniel Xuereb is a French football manager and former forward. His most notable achievement was a gold medal at the 1984 Summer Olympics, where he finished as joint top scorer with five goals.
1850 Ignác Goldziher

Ignác Goldziher

Hungarian scholar of Islam (died 1921)
Ignác Goldziher, often credited as Ignaz Goldziher, was a Hungarian scholar of Islam. Alongside Joseph Schacht and G.H.A. Juynboll, he is considered one of the pioneers of modern academic hadith studies.
1932 John Wakeham

John Wakeham

Baron Wakeham, English businessman and politician, Leader of the House of Lords
John Wakeham, Baron Wakeham, is a British businessman and Conservative Party politician. He was chancellor of Brunel University between 1998 and 2012, and since then has been its chancellor emeritus.
1951 Brian Cookson

Brian Cookson

British cyclist and sports administrator
Michael Brian Cookson OBE is the former president of the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI), having been elected to the post in September 2013 at the 2013 UCI Road World Championships.
1899 Richard Gurley Drew

Richard Gurley Drew

American engineer, invented Masking tape (died 1980)
Richard Gurley Drew was an American inventor who worked for Johnson and Johnson, Permacel Co., and 3M in St. Paul, Minnesota, where he invented masking tape and cellophane tape.
1956 Alfons De Wolf

Alfons De Wolf

Belgian cyclist
Alfons "Fons" De Wolf is a retired Belgian road race cyclist, a professional from 1979 to 1990. He represented his country at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Canada.
1929 Bruce Kent

Bruce Kent

English activist and laicised Roman Catholic priest (died 2022)
David Bruce Kent was an English Roman Catholic priest who became a political activist in the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND), holding various leadership positions in the organisation.
1910 John Hunt

John Hunt

Baron Hunt, Indian-English lieutenant and mountaineer (died 1998)
Henry Cecil John Hunt, Baron Hunt was a British Army officer who is best known as the leader of the successful 1953 British expedition to Mount Everest.
1931 Ruby Garrard Woodson

Ruby Garrard Woodson

American educator and cultural historian (died 2008)
Ruby Garrard Woodson was an educator and chemistry teacher who founded Cromwell Academy in Washington, D. C. and Florida Academy of African American Culture in Sarasota, Florida.
1949 Luís Filipe Vieira

Luís Filipe Vieira

Portuguese businessman
Luís Filipe Ferreira Vieira is a Portuguese real estate businessman who was the 33rd president of sports club Benfica, from 31 October 2003 to 15 July 2021.
1973 Eydís Ásbjörnsdóttir

Eydís Ásbjörnsdóttir

Icelandic politician
Eydís Ásbjörnsdóttir is an Icelandic politician and member of the Althing. A member of the Social Democratic Alliance, she has represented the Northeast constituency since November 2024.
1950 Adrian Năstase

Adrian Năstase

Romanian lawyer and politician, 59th Prime Minister of Romania
Adrian Năstase is a Romanian jurist, academic/professor, blogger, and former politician who served as the prime minister of Romania from December 2000 to December 2004.
1979 Thomas Voeckler

Thomas Voeckler

French cyclist
Thomas Voeckler is a French former road racing cyclist, who competed professionally between 2001 and 2017, for the Direct Énergie team and its previous iterations.
1900

Oskar Fischinger

German-American abstract artist, filmmaker, and painter (died 1967)
Oskar Wilhelm Fischinger was a German-American animator and filmmaker notable for creating abstract musical animation many decades before the appearance of computer graphics and music videos. He created special effects for Fritz Lang's 1929 Woman in the Moon, one of the first sci-fi rocket films, and influenced Disney's Fantasia. He made over 50 short films and painted around 800 canvases, many of which are in museums, galleries, and collections worldwide. Among his film works is Motion Painting No. 1 (1947), which is now listed on the National Film Registry of the U.S. Library of Congress.
1845

Tom Dula

American soldier (died 1868)
Thomas C. Dula was a former Confederate soldier who was convicted of murdering Laura Foster. National publicity from newspapers such as The New York Times turned Dula's story into a folk legend. Although Laura was murdered in Wilkes County, North Carolina, Dula was tried, convicted, and hanged in Statesville. Considerable controversy surrounded the case. In subsequent years, a folk song was written, and many oral traditions were passed down about the circumstances surrounding Foster's murder and Dula's subsequent execution. The Kingston Trio recorded a hit version of the murder ballad in 1958.
1000

Robert I

duke of Normandy (died 1035)
1000 (M) was a leap year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar, the 1000th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 1000th and last year of the 1st millennium, the 100th and last year of the 10th century, and the 1st year of the 1000s decade. As of the start of 1000, the Gregorian calendar was 5 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which was the dominant calendar of the time.
1939

Don Matthews

American-Canadian football player and coach (died 2017)
Donald J. "The Don" Matthews was a head coach of several professional football teams, mostly in the Canadian Football League (CFL). He won 231 games in the CFL, the second highest win total by a head coach in the league's history while the first and so far only coach to lead four teams to Grey Cup victories. He was inducted into the Canadian Football Hall of Fame in September 2011.
1950

Greg Oliphant

Australian rugby league player
Greg Oliphant is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer, a state and national representative halfback who made one Kangaroo tour. Oliphant played in the New South Wales Rugby League for the two seasons of 1978–1979 with the Balmain Tigers. Prior to and after those years he played in the Brisbane Rugby League with Wests, Valleys and Redcliffe.
1927

Anthony Low

Indian-English historian and academic (died 2015)
Donald Anthony Low, known as Anthony Low or D. A. Low, was a historian of modern South Asia, Africa, the British Commonwealth, and, especially, decolonization. He was the emeritus Smuts Professor of History of the British Commonwealth at the University of Cambridge, former Vice-Chancellor of the Australian National University, Canberra, and President of Clare Hall, Cambridge.
1906

William Kneale

English logician and philosopher (died 1990)
William Calvert Kneale was an English logician best known for his 1962 book The Development of Logic, a history of logic from its beginnings in Ancient Greece written with his wife Martha. Kneale was also known as a philosopher of science and the author of a book on probability and induction.
1966

Dean Woods

Australian cyclist
Dean Anthony Woods OAM was an Australian racing cyclist from Wangaratta in Victoria known for his track cycling at the Olympic Games and Commonwealth Games. On Australia Day 1985 he was awarded the Order of Australia medal for service to cycling. He was an Australian Institute of Sport scholarship holder.
1876

Pascual Díaz y Barreto

Mexican archbishop (died 1936)
The Most Reverend Pascual Díaz y Barreto, SJ was a Mexican prelate of the Catholic Church, who served as Archbishop of Mexico City from June 22, 1929 until his death in 1936. Throughout his tenure, he frequently came into conflict with the anti-Catholic Mexican government.
1915

Randolph Hokanson

American pianist (died 2018)
Randolph Henning Hokanson was an American pianist and professor emeritus at the University of Washington in Seattle. He was noted for his recordings of Bach, Schubert, Beethoven, Chopin, Liszt and Mendelssohn, and gave over 100 performances, including the complete cycle of Beethoven sonatas.
1874

Walter Friedrich Otto

German philologist and scholar (died 1958)
Walter Friedrich Gustav Hermann Otto was a German classical philologist particularly known for his work on the meaning and legacy of Greek religion and mythology, especially as represented in his seminal 1929 work The Homeric Gods.
1957

Michael Stratton

English geneticist and academic
Sir Michael Rudolf Stratton is a British clinical scientist and the third director of the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute. He currently heads the Cancer Genome Project and is a leader of the International Cancer Genome Consortium.
1889

Joseph Cohen

British solicitor, property developer, cinema magnate and Jewish community leader (died 1980)
Joseph Cohen (1889–1980) was a solicitor and property developer in Birmingham, England, and was chairman and managing director of the Jacey Cinemas chain. He was also a prominent figure in Birmingham's Jewish community.
1940

Joan Busfield

English sociologist, psychologist, and academic
Joan Busfield, is a British sociologist and psychologist, Professor of Sociology at the University of Essex and former President of the British Sociological Association (2003–2005). Her research focuses on psychiatry and mental disorder.
1713

John Sackville

English cricketer and politician (died 1765)
Lord John Philip Sackville was the second son of Lionel Sackville, 1st Duke of Dorset. He was a keen cricketer who was closely connected with the sport in Kent.
1952

Santokh Singh

Malaysian football player
Datuk Santokh Singh s/o Gurdial Singh is a retired Malaysian football player. His wife is Taljit Kaur and has 3 children, Kiranjeet Kaur, Sukhveer Singh and Rajveer Singh.
1950

Zenonas Petrauskas

Lithuanian lawyer and politician (died 2009)
Zenonas Petrauskas was a Lithuanian lawyer and deputy foreign minister of Lithuania (2004–2006). He was as an associate professor of international law. He was born in Čekiškė.
1477 Thomas Grey

Thomas Grey

2nd Marquess of Dorset, English nobleman (died 1530)
Thomas Grey, 2nd Marquess of Dorset was an English peer, courtier, soldier and landowner of the House of Grey.
1680 Ebenezer Erskine

Ebenezer Erskine

Scottish minister and theologian (died 1754).
Ebenezer Erskine was a Scottish minister whose actions led to the establishment of the Secession Church.
1684

Francesco Manfredini

Italian violinist and composer (died 1762)
Francesco Onofrio Manfredini was an Italian Baroque composer, violinist, and church musician.
1704

John Taylor

English author and scholar (died 1766)
John Taylor, English classical scholar, was born at Shrewsbury in Shropshire, England.
1792 James Beaumont Neilson

James Beaumont Neilson

Scottish engineer and businessman (died 1865)
James Beaumont Neilson was a Scottish inventor whose hot-blast process greatly increased the efficiency of smelting iron.
1834 William Chester Minor

William Chester Minor

American surgeon and linguist (died 1920)
William Chester Minor was an American army surgeon, psychiatric hospital patient, and lexicographical researcher.
1844

Oscar von Gebhardt

German theologian and academic (died 1906)
Oscar Leopold von Gebhardt was a German Lutheran theologian, born in the Baltic German settlement of Wesenberg in the Russian Empire.
1880

Johannes Drost

Dutch swimmer (died 1954)
Johannes Drost was a Dutch backstroke swimmer and diver who competed in the 1900 Summer Olympics.
1890 Aleksander Warma

Aleksander Warma

Estonian commander and politician, 4th Prime Minister of Estonia in exile (died 1970)
Aleksander Warma VR I/3 was an Estonian navy officer, diplomat, and painter.
1891 Franz Alexander

Franz Alexander

Hungarian psychoanalyst and physician (died 1964)
Franz Gabriel Alexander was a Hungarian-American psychoanalyst and physician, who is considered one of the founders of psychosomatic medicine and psychoanalytic criminology.
1897 Norbert Elias

Norbert Elias

German-Dutch sociologist and philosopher (died 1990)
Norbert Elias was a German sociologist who later became a British citizen. He is especially famous for his theory of civilizing/decivilizing processes.
1902 Marguerite De La Motte

Marguerite De La Motte

American actress (died 1950)
Marguerite De La Motte was an American film actress, most notably of the silent film era.
1907 Eriks Ādamsons

Eriks Ādamsons

Latvian writer, poet, and novelist (died 1946)
Eriks Ādamsons was a Latvian writer, poet and novelist.
1911 Vernon Kirby

Vernon Kirby

South African tennis player (died 1994)
Vernon Gordon 'Bob' Kirby was a South African tennis player.
1913 Sándor Weöres

Sándor Weöres

Hungarian poet and author (died 1989)
Sándor Weöres was a Hungarian poet and author.
1914 Mei Zhi

Mei Zhi

Chinese author and essayist (died 2004)
Mei Zhi was a Chinese children's author and essayist.
1915

Thomas Quinn Curtiss

American writer, and film and theatre critic (died 2000)
Thomas Quinn Curtiss was an American writer, and film and theater critic. He is also known for his relationship with author Klaus Mann.
1916 Emil Fackenheim

Emil Fackenheim

German Jewish philosopher and Reform rabbi (died 2003)
Emil Ludwig Fackenheim was a Jewish philosopher and Reform rabbi.
1916 Johnny Jacobs

Johnny Jacobs

American television announcer (died 1982)
John Byron Jacobs was an American television announcer, often for Chuck Barris productions—namely, The Newlywed Game and The Dating Game.
1916

Richard Eastham

American actor (died 2005)
Richard Eastham was an American actor of stage, film, and television, a concert singer known for his deep baritone voice, and an inventor.
1918 Yeoh Ghim Seng

Yeoh Ghim Seng

Singaporean politician, acting President of Singapore (died 1993)
Yeoh Ghim Seng was a Singaporean politician who served as Speaker of the Parliament of Singapore between 1970 and 1988.
1919 Gower Champion

Gower Champion

American dancer and choreographer (died 1980)
Gower Carlyle Champion was an American actor, theatre director, choreographer, and dancer.
1920 James H. Pomerene

James H. Pomerene

American computer scientist and engineer (died 2008)
James Herbert Pomerene was an electrical engineer and computer pioneer.
1921 Barbara Perry

Barbara Perry

American actress (died 2019)
Barbara Perry was an American actress, singer and dancer who worked for 84 years in Hollywood and on Broadway.
1924

Christopher Booth

English clinician and historian (died 2012)
Sir Christopher Charles Booth was an English clinician and medical historian, characterised as "one of the great characters of British medicine".
1924

Larkin Kerwin

Canadian physicist and academic (died 2004)
John Larkin Kerwin was a Canadian physicist.
1926 George Englund

George Englund

American film editor, director, producer and actor (died 2017)
George Englund was an American film editor, director, producer, and actor.
1930 Yuri Artyukhin

Yuri Artyukhin

Russian colonel, engineer, and astronaut (died 1998)
Yuri Petrovich Artyukhin was a Soviet Russian cosmonaut and engineer who made a single flight into space.
1936 Ferran Olivella

Ferran Olivella

Spanish footballer (died 2023)
Ferran Olivella Pons was a Spanish footballer who played as a defender.
1940 Hubert Chesshyre

Hubert Chesshyre

English historian and author (died 2020)
David Hubert Boothby Chesshyre was a British officer of arms.
1941 Ed Bradley

Ed Bradley

American journalist (died 2006)
Edward Rudolph Bradley Jr. was an American broadcast journalist and news anchor who is best known for reporting with 60 Minutes and CBS News.
1943 Klaus Maria Brandauer

Klaus Maria Brandauer

Austrian actor and director
Klaus Maria Brandauer is an Austrian actor and director. He is also a professor at the Max Reinhardt Seminar.
1944

Helmut Dietl

German director, producer, and screenwriter (died 2015)
Helmut Dietl was a German film director and author from Bad Wiessee.
1946 Linda Bond

Linda Bond

Canadian 19th General of The Salvation Army
Linda Bond served as the 19th General of the Salvation Army. She was born in Glace Bay, Nova Scotia, Canada.
1947 Pete Maravich

Pete Maravich

American basketball player (died 1988)
Peter Press Maravich, also known by his nickname "Pistol Pete", was an American professional basketball player.
1948 James Charteris

James Charteris

13th Earl of Wemyss, Scottish businessman
James Donald Charteris, 13th Earl of Wemyss and 9th Earl of March,, also known as Jamie Neidpath, is a British peer and landowner.
1951 Humphrey Ocean

Humphrey Ocean

English painter and academic
Humphrey Ocean is a contemporary British painter.
1953

Mauro Francaviglia

Italian mathematician and academic (died 2013)
Mauro Francaviglia was an Italian mathematician.
1955 Green Gartside

Green Gartside

Welsh singer-songwriter and guitarist
Green Gartside is a Welsh singer, songwriter and musician. He is the frontman of the British band Scritti Politti.
1956

Markus Schatte

German footballer, manager, and coach
Markus Schatte is a German football coach.
1957 Garry Gary Beers

Garry Gary Beers

Australian bass player, songwriter, and producer
Garry William Beers, known as Garry Gary Beers, is an Australian musician who was the bass guitarist for the rock group INXS.
1957 Kevin Bond

Kevin Bond

English footballer and manager
Kevin John Bond is an English professional football manager and former footballer who played as a centre back.
1959 Michael Kinane

Michael Kinane

Irish jockey
Michael J. Kinane is an Irish former flat racing jockey. He had a 34-year career, retiring on 8 December 2009.
1960

Margrit Klinger

German runner
Margrit Klinger is a retired West German middle-distance runner who specialized in the 800 metres.
1962

Gerald Hillringhaus

German footballer
Gerald "Gerry" Hillringhaus is a former German footballer.
1964

Cadillac Anderson

American basketball player
Gregory Wayne "Cadillac" Anderson is an American former professional basketball player.
1968 Miri Yu

Miri Yu

Zainichi, Korean novelist
Miri Yu is a Zainichi Korean playwright, novelist, and essayist. Yu writes in Japanese, her native language, but is a citizen of South Korea.
1971

Gary Connolly

English rugby player
Gary John Connolly is an English former professional rugby league and rugby union footballer.
1980 Stephanie Jacobsen

Stephanie Jacobsen

Hong Kong-Australian actress
Stephanie Chaves-Jacobsen, is a Hong Kong-born Australian actress.
1981 Aquivaldo Mosquera

Aquivaldo Mosquera

Colombian footballer
Aquivaldo Mosquera Romaña is a Colombian former professional footballer who played as a defender. He also holds Mexican citizenship.
1982 Andoni Iraola

Andoni Iraola

Spanish footballer and manager
Andoni Iraola Sagarna is a Spanish professional football manager and former player who is the manager of Premier League club Liverpool.
1983 Allar Raja

Allar Raja

Estonian rower
Allar Raja is an Estonian rower. He is a member of rowing club SK Kalev located in Pärnu.
1984 Rubén Iván Martínez

Rubén Iván Martínez

Spanish footballer
Rubén Iván Martínez Andrade, known simply as Rubén, is a Spanish former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper.
1987 Nikita Rukavytsya

Nikita Rukavytsya

Ukrainian-Australian footballer
Nikita Vadymovych Rukavytsya is a retired professional soccer player. Born in Ukraine, he played for the Australia national team.
1989

Cédric Mongongu

Congolese footballer
Cédric Mongongu is a Congolese professional footballer who plays as a centre back for the DR Congo national team.
1990 Sebastian Jung

Sebastian Jung

German footballer
Sebastian Alexander Jung is a German professional footballer who plays as a right back for Karlsruher SC in the 2. Bundesliga.
1991 Hugo Mallo

Hugo Mallo

Spanish footballer
Hugo Mallo Novegil is a Spanish professional footballer who plays as a right-back.
1993 Danny Ward

Danny Ward

Welsh footballer
Daniel Ward is a Welsh professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for EFL Championship club Wrexham and the Wales national team.
1993 Loris Karius

Loris Karius

German footballer
Loris Sven Karius is a German professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Bundesliga club Schalke 04. He represented Germany at youth level.
1994 Carlos Vinícius Santos de Jesus

Carlos Vinícius Santos de Jesus

Brazilian footballer
Carlos Vinícius Santos de Jesus is a Brazilian professional footballer who plays as an attacking or central midfielder for Kuwait.
2001 Luciano Gondou

Luciano Gondou

Argentine footballer
Luciano Emilio Gondou Zanelli is an Argentine professional footballer who plays as an attacker for the Russian club CSKA Moscow.

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