Did you know about Angelina Jolie
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June 4 has 202 recorded notable births across history, from 590 to 2021. This page lists every one of them, with the best-known people first.
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- 1919 Women's rights: The U.S. Congress approves the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which guarantees suffrage to women, and sends it to the U.S. states for ratification. Source
- 1989 In the 1989 Iranian supreme leader election, Ali Khamenei is elected as the new Supreme Leader of Iran after the death and funeral of Ruhollah Khomeini. Source
Did you know about George III of the United Kingdom (died 1820)
George III of the United Kingdom (died 1820) was the first monarch of the House of Hanover who was born in Great Britain, spoke English as his first language, and never visited Hanover.
Did you know about Noah Wyle
Noah Wyle is best known for portraying Dr. John Carter in the NBC medical drama ER (1994–2005) and Dr. Michael "Robby" Robinavitch in the HBO Max medical drama The Pitt (2025–present).
Did you know about Russell Brand
Russell Edward Brand is an English comedian, actor, podcaster, and media personality.
Did you know about Michelle Phillips
Described by Time magazine as the "purest soprano in pop music", she rose to fame in the mid-1960s with the folk rock vocal group the Mamas & the Papas.
More major people born on June 4
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1738
George III of the United Kingdom (died 1820)
George III was King of Great Britain and Ireland from 25 October 1760 until his death in 1820. He was concurrently duke and prince-elector of Hanover in the Holy Roman Empire before becoming King of Hanover on 12 October 1814. He was the first monarch of the House of Hanover who was born in Great Britain, spoke English as his first language, and never visited Hanover.
1971
Noah Wyle
American actor and producer
Noah Strausser Speer Wyle is an American actor, television director, producer and writer. He is best known for portraying Dr. John Carter in the NBC medical drama ER (1994–2005) and Dr. Michael "Robby" Robinavitch in the HBO Max medical drama The Pitt (2025–present). These performances earned him six Actor Awards, a Golden Globe Award and four Primetime Emmy Awards.
1975
Russell Brand
English comedian and actor
Russell Edward Brand is an English comedian, actor, podcaster, and media personality. He initially was a stand-up comedian and radio and television presenter in the UK, where he received public attention for being the host of the television show Big Brother's Big Mouth, which was a spin-off from the reality show Big Brother, broadcast on E4.
1944
Michelle Phillips
American singer-songwriter and actress
Holly Michelle Phillips is an American former singer, songwriter, and actress. Described by Time magazine as the "purest soprano in pop music", she rose to fame in the mid-1960s with the folk rock vocal group the Mamas & the Papas. After their disbandment, she started a successful acting career in film and television in the 1970s.
1956
Keith David
American actor
Keith David Williams is an American actor. He is mostly known for his deep distinctive bass voice, distinctive face and screen presence in over 400 roles across film, stage, television, voice work and interactive media.
1936
Bruce Dern
American actor
Bruce MacLeish Dern is an American actor. He has received several accolades, including the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actor for Nebraska (2013), which also earned him a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actor, and won the Silver Bear for Best Actor for That Championship Season (1982). He was also Oscar nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for Coming Home (1978). He is also a BAFTA Award, two-time Genie Award, and three-time Golden Globe Award nominee.
1959
Anil Ambani
Indian businessman
Anil Dhirubhai Ambani is an Indian businessman, chairman, and managing director of the Reliance Group. The Reliance Group was created in July 2006 following a demerger from Reliance Industries Limited. He led several listed corporations, including Reliance Capital, Reliance Infrastructure, Reliance Power, and Reliance Communications. Ambani, once the sixth richest person in the world, declared bankruptcy before a UK court in February 2020. He served in the Rajya Sabha, the upper house of the Parliament of India from Uttar Pradesh, as an independent MP between 2004 and 2006.
1976
Alexei Navalny
Russian lawyer and politician (died 2024)
Alexei Anatolyevich Navalny was a Russian opposition leader, anti-corruption activist and political prisoner. He founded the Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK) in 2011. He was recognised by Amnesty International as a prisoner of conscience and was awarded the Sakharov Prize for his work on human rights.
1968
Scott Wolf
American actor
Scott Richard Wolf is an American actor. In television, he portrayed Bailey Salinger on Party of Five (1994–2000), Jeremy Kates on The Nine (2006–2007), Donnie Ryan on Perception (2013–2015) and Carson Drew on Nancy Drew (2019–2023). In film, his roles include Go (1999) and voicing Scamp in Lady and the Tramp II: Scamp's Adventure (2001).
1998
Central Cee
British rapper and songwriter
Oakley Neil Caesar-Su, known professionally as Central Cee, is a British rapper from Shepherd's Bush, London. Regarded as a leading figure in UK rap, he rose to prominence in 2020 with the release of his drill singles "Day in the Life" and "Loading". His first mixtape, Wild West (2021), debuted at number two on the UK Albums Chart, while his second, 23 (2022), debuted atop the chart.
1981
T.J. Miller
American actor and comedian
Todd Joseph Miller is an American stand-up comedian, actor, producer, and screenwriter. He played Erlich Bachman in the HBO sitcom Silicon Valley (2014–2017) and the Marvel Comics character Weasel in the superhero comedy film Deadpool (2016) and its 2018 sequel.
1932
John Drew Barrymore
American actor (died 2004)
John Drew Barrymore was an American film actor and member of the Barrymore family of actors, which included his father, John Barrymore and his father's siblings, Lionel and Ethel. Early in his career, he was credited as John Barrymore, Jr. He was the father of four children, including the actor John Blyth Barrymore III and the actress Drew Barrymore. Diana Barrymore was his half-sister from his father's second marriage.
1970
Izabella Scorupco
Polish-Swedish actress and model
Izabella Scorupco is a Polish-Swedish-American actress, singer and model. She is best known for having played a Bond girl, Natalya Simonova, in the 1995 James Bond film GoldenEye. She is also known for her cover of the Shirley & Company song "Shame, Shame, Shame" which was released in 1992 and became a European hit.
1924
Dennis Weaver
American actor and director (died 2006)
Billy Dennis Weaver was an American actor and president of the Screen Actors Guild, best known for his work in television and films from the early 1950s until just before his death in 2006. Weaver's two most famous roles were as Marshal Matt Dillon's deputy Chester Goode on the western Gunsmoke and as Deputy Marshal Sam McCloud on the police drama McCloud. He starred in the 1971 television film Duel, the first film of director Steven Spielberg. He is also remembered for his role as the twitchy motel attendant in Orson Welles's film Touch of Evil (1958). He also appeared in the TV series Wildfire.
1964
Sean Pertwee
English actor
Sean Carl Roland Pertwee is an English actor, narrator and producer. His credits include Chancer (1990), Leon the Pig Farmer (1992), Cadfael (1994), Bodyguards (1997), Event Horizon (1997), Stiff Upper Lips (1998), Soldier (1998), Cleopatra (1999), Love, Honour and Obey (2000), Dog Soldiers (2002), Julius Caesar (2003), Ancient Rome: The Rise And Fall of an Empire – Caesar (2006), Doomsday (2008), Honest (2008), Devil's Playground (2010), Four (2011), Wild Bill (2011), Elementary (2013–2014), Howl (2015), Gotham (2014–2019), Agatha Christie's The Pale Horse (2020), You (2023), Silent Witness (2024), and The Night Caller (2024).
1990
Evan Spiegel
American Internet entrepreneur
Evan Thomas Spiegel is an American businessman who is the co-founder and CEO of Snap Inc. Spiegel was the youngest billionaire in the world in 2015. As of August 2025, he had a personal net worth of $2.5 billion according to Forbes.
2004
Mackenzie Ziegler
American child actress, dancer, and recording artist
Mackenzie Frances Ziegler is an American singer, actress, internet personality, and former dancer. She appeared as a child for six years on the Lifetime reality dance series Dance Moms together with her older sister, dancer and actress Maddie Ziegler.
2021
Princess Lilibet of Sussex
Princess Lilibet of Sussex is an American-born member of the British royal family. She is the daughter of Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex, and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex. She is a granddaughter of King Charles III and is seventh in the line of succession to the British throne.
1971
Joseph Kabila
Congolese soldier and politician, President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Joseph Kabila Kabange is a Congolese politician and former military officer who was the fourth president of the Democratic Republic of the Congo from 2001 to 2019. He took office ten days after the assassination of his father, President Laurent-Désiré Kabila, in the context of the Second Congo War. He was allowed to remain in power as the president of the new transitional government after the 2002 peace agreements ended the war. Kabila founded the People's Party for Reconstruction and Democracy (PPRD) and was elected president in 2006. He was re-elected for a second term in 2011. Since stepping down after the 2018 election, Kabila, as a former president, is a senator for life. Kabila was the country's second-longest serving president.
1999
Kim So-hyun
South Korean actress
Kim So-hyun is an Australian-born South Korean actress. She is known for her leading roles in the youth drama Who Are You: School 2015 (2015), historical melodramas The Emperor: Owner of the Mask (2017) and River Where the Moon Rises (2021), romantic drama Love Alarm (2019), and the action-comedy Good Boy (2025).
1907
Rosalind Russell
American actress (died 1976)
Catherine Rosalind Russell was an American actress, model, comedian, screenwriter, and singer, known for her role as fast-talking newspaper reporter Hildy Johnson in the Howard Hawks screwball comedy His Girl Friday (1940), opposite Cary Grant, as well as for her role of catty Sylvia Fowler in George Cukor's The Women (1939), opposite Joan Crawford and Norma Shearer, and for her portrayals of Mame Dennis in the 1956 stage and 1958 film adaptations of Auntie Mame, and Rose in Gypsy (1962). A noted comedienne, she received various accolades, including five Golden Globe Awards and a Tony Award, in addition to nominations for four Academy Awards and a BAFTA Award. Russell has been honored with a Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award in 1973 and Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award in 1975.
1867
Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim
Finnish general and politician, 6th President of Finland (died 1951)
Baron Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim was a Finnish military commander and statesman. He served as the military leader of the Whites in the Finnish Civil War (1918), as regent of Finland (1918–1919), as commander-in-chief of the Finnish Defence Forces during World War II (1939–1945), and as the president of Finland (1944–1946). He became Finland's only field marshal in 1933 and was appointed honorary Marshal of Finland in 1942.
1953
Jimmy McCulloch
Scottish musician and songwriter (died 1979)
James McCulloch was a Scottish musician best known for playing lead guitar and bass and singing backing and occasional lead vocals as a member of Paul McCartney's band Wings from 1974 to 1977. He was also a member of the Glasgow psychedelic band One in a Million, Thunderclap Newman, and Stone the Crows.
1985
Lukas Podolski
German footballer
Lukas Josef Podolski is a former professional footballer who played as a striker or left winger. Born in Poland, he played for the Germany national team. He is the current owner of Ekstraklasa club Górnik Zabrze, for whom he played before his retirement in 2026. He was known for his powerful and accurate left foot, explosive shooting, technique and probing attacks from the left side.
1985
Bar Refaeli
Israeli model and actress
Bar Refaeli is an Israeli actress, model, philanthropist and host. She is among the most internationally successful models to come from Israel, appearing on the cover of the 2009 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue, and being voted No. 1 on Maxim magazine's Hot 100 list of 2012. As a television host, Refaeli has hosted The X Factor Israel since 2013 and co-hosted the Eurovision Song Contest 2019 in Tel Aviv.
1971
Mike Lee
American lawyer and politician
Michael Shumway Lee is an American lawyer and politician serving as the senior United States senator from Utah, a seat he has held since 2011. A member of the Republican Party, Lee has been Utah's senior senator since 2019 and the dean of Utah's congressional delegation since 2021.
1927
Geoffrey Palmer
English actor (died 2020)
Geoffrey Dyson Palmer was an English actor. His roles in British television sitcoms include Jimmy Anderson in The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin (1976–79), Ben Parkinson in Butterflies (1978–1983) and Lionel Hardcastle in As Time Goes By (1992–2005).
1972
Rob Huebel
American comedian, actor, producer, and screenwriter
Robert Anderson Huebel is an American comedian and actor. He is best known for his sketch comedy work on the MTV series Human Giant and for his role of Dr. Owen Maestro on the Adult Swim series Childrens Hospital. He also appeared as Russell on the FX/FXX series The League and as Len Novak on the Amazon Prime Video series Transparent. In December 2022, Entertainment Weekly called Huebel "the premier d-bag character actor of his generation".
1968
Al B. Sure!
American R&B singer-songwriter, keyboard player, and producer
Albert Joseph Brown III, known professionally as Al B. Sure!, is an American singer, songwriter, record producer, radio host and former record executive. He was born in Boston and raised in Mount Vernon, New York. During the late 1980s and early 1990s, Brown was one of new jack swing's most popular performers.
1991
Ben Stokes
New Zealand-English cricketer
Benjamin Andrew Stokes is an English former international cricketer who captained the England Test team from 2022 to 2026. Stokes played for England in all three formats and is regarded as one of England's greatest all-rounders. In domestic cricket, he represents Durham and has played in multiple Twenty20 leagues around the world. He was part of the England team that won the 2019 Cricket World Cup and the 2022 T20 World Cup.
2001
Takefusa Kubo
Japanese footballer
Takefusa Kubo , nicknamed Take (タケ), is a Japanese professional footballer who plays as a right winger for La Liga club Real Sociedad and the Japan national team. He has been dubbed "Japanese Messi" by Japanese football fans because of his technical ability.
1937
Freddy Fender
American singer and guitarist (died 2006)
Freddy Fender was an American country and Tejano singer and songwriter, known for his work as a solo artist and in the groups Los Super Seven and the Texas Tornados. His signature sound fused country, rock, rockabilly, swamp pop and Tex-Mex styles.
1991
Lorenzo Insigne
Italian footballer
Lorenzo Insigne is an Italian professional footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder or forward for Serie B club Sampdoria. He is known in particular for his creativity, versatility, short height, speed and technical ability, as well as his accuracy from free kicks.
1969
Horatio Sanz
Chilean-American actor and comedian
Horacio Sanz, better known by his stage name Horatio Sanz, is an American comedian and actor. Sanz was a cast member on the NBC sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live (SNL) from 1998 to 2006.
1961
El DeBarge
American singer-songwriter and producer
Eldra "El" Patrick DeBarge is an American singer, songwriter and musician. He was the focal point and primary lead singer of the family group DeBarge. Popular songs led by El DeBarge include "Time Will Reveal", "Who's Holding Donna Now", "Stay with Me", "All This Love", and "Rhythm of the Night". As a solo artist, he is best known for his unique high tenor register, strong falsetto and hits like "Who's Johnny" and "Love Always". He has also collaborated with artists such as Dionne Warwick, Al Green, Lalah Hathaway, Tone Loc, Babyface, Faith Evans, Quincy Jones, Fourplay, and DJ Quik.
1930
Morgana King
American singer and actress (died 2018)
Maria Grazia Morgana Messina, better known as Morgana King, was an American jazz singer and actress. She began a professional singing career at sixteen years old. In her twenties, she was singing at a Greenwich Village nightclub when she was recognized for her unique phrasing and vocal range, described as a four-octave contralto range. She was signed to a label and began recording solo albums. She recorded dozens of albums well into the late 1990s.
1926
Judith Malina
German-American actress and director, co-founded The Living Theatre (died 2015)
Judith Malina was an American actress, director and writer. With her husband Julian Beck, Malina co-founded The Living Theatre, a radical political theatre troupe that rose to prominence in New York City and Paris during the 1950s and 1960s.
1955
Val McDermid
Scottish author
Valerie McDermid is a Scottish crime writer of more than 30 novels. Her work is considered part of a sub-genre known as Tartan Noir, and is known for uncompromising depictions of violence. Her books have received numerous awards, including the Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger Award and the Cartier Diamond Dagger Award.
590
Harsha
Maharajadhiraja of Kannauj (died 647)
Harshavardhana was the emperor of Kannauj from April 606 until his death in 647. He was the king of Thanesar who had defeated the Alchon Huns, and the younger brother of Rajyavardhana, son of Prabhakaravardhana and last king of Thanesar. He is regarded as one of the greatest kings of the Kingdom of Kannauj, which under him expanded into a vast realm in northern India.
1880
Clara Blandick
American actress (died 1962)
Clara Blandick was an American character actress of the film, stage and theater. Today's audiences may recognize her as Aunt Em in the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer classic film adaptation of The Wizard of Oz (1939). As a character actress, she often played eccentric elderly matriarchs.
1937
Mortimer Zuckerman
Canadian-American businessman and publisher, founded Boston Properties
Mortimer Benjamin Zuckerman is a Canadian-American billionaire media proprietor, magazine editor, and investor. He is the co-founder, executive chairman and former CEO of Boston Properties, one of the largest real estate investment trusts in the United States. Zuckerman is also the owner and publisher of U.S. News & World Report, and its editor-in-chief. He formerly owned the New York Daily News, The Atlantic, and Fast Company. As of August 2024, his net worth is estimated at US$2.6 billion.
1984
Rainie Yang
Taiwanese actress
Rainie Yang Cheng Lin is a Taiwanese singer, actress, and television host. Yang began her career in 2000 as a member of girl group 4 in Love. After the group disbanded in 2002, she began a successful solo career with her album, My Intuition, in 2005. In addition to singing, she is known for co-hosting the variety show Guess from 2002 to 2007, and for her acting roles in TV dramas Meteor Garden (2001), Devil Beside You (2005), Why Why Love (2007), and Hi My Sweetheart (2009), for which she received the Golden Bell Award for Best Actress.
1744
Patrick Ferguson
Scottish soldier, designed the Ferguson rifle (died 1780)
Major Patrick Ferguson was a British Army officer who served in the Seven Years' War and American War of Independence. Born in the Pitfour estate in Aberdeenshire, Ferguson was commissioned into the Royal North British Dragoons at the rank of cornet in 1758 and was sent with his regiment to Continental Europe in 1760. He served in Flanders and Germany until returning to Britain due to a leg ailment. Following his recovery Ferguson served on garrison duty before transferring to the 70th Regiment of Foot at the rank of captain in 1768 and commanding a battalion company in Tobago. Following his return to Britain in 1774 Ferguson undertook light infantry training and invented the Ferguson rifle.
1394
Philippa of England
Queen of Denmark, Norway and Sweden (died 1430)
Philippa of England, also known as Philippa of Lancaster, was Queen of Denmark, Norway, and Sweden from 1406 to 1430 by marriage to King Eric of the Kalmar Union. She was the daughter of King Henry IV of England and his first wife Mary de Bohun and the younger sister of King Henry V of England. Queen Philippa participated significantly in state affairs during the reign of her spouse and served as regent of Denmark from 1423 to 1425.
1953
Linda Lingle
American journalist and politician, 6th Governor of Hawaii
Linda Lingle is an American politician and publisher who served as the sixth governor of Hawaii from 2002 to 2010. A member of the Republican Party, she was the first Republican elected governor of Hawaii since 1959, and was the state's first female and Jewish governor. Prior to serving as governor, Lingle served as mayor of Maui County from 1991 to 1999 and as chair of the Hawaii Republican Party from 1999 to 2002. As of 2025, Lingle and her lieutenant governor, Duke Aiona, are the last Republicans to have won or held statewide office in Hawaii.
1965
Andrea Jaeger
American tennis player and preacher
Andrea Jaeger is an American former professional tennis player. She started her professional tennis career at the age of 14 and went on to win pro tennis tournaments while still competing in other junior tennis events. By the age of 16, she was the second ranked female professional tennis player in the world. She reached the singles finals at the French Open in 1982 and at Wimbledon in 1983. She also reached the singles semifinals at the Australian Open and the U.S. Open. During her career, she won 10 singles titles. In mixed doubles, she won the French Open with Jimmy Arias in 1981. She reached a career-high singles ranking of world No. 2.
1923
Masutatsu Ōyama
Korean-Japanese karateka (died 1994)
Masutatsu Ōyama, commonly known outside Japan as Mas Oyama, was a Korean-Japanese karateka. He was the founder of Kyokushin Karate, considered the first and most influential style of full contact karate.
1976
Kasey Chambers
Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist
Kasey Chambers is an Australian country singer-songwriter and musician born in Mount Gambier to musicians Diane and Bill Chambers. Her older brother is musician and producer Nash Chambers. All four were members of family country-music group Dead Ringer Band in Bowral, New South Wales, from 1992 to 1998. Chambers launched her solo career thereafter. Five of her 12 studio albums have reached No. 1 on the ARIA Albums Chart: Barricades & Brickwalls, Wayward Angel, Carnival, Rattlin' Bones and Dragonfly. In November 2018, she was inducted into the ARIA Hall of Fame and has won an additional 14 ARIA Music Awards with nine for Best Country Album. Her autobiography, A Little Bird Told Me..., co-authored with music journalist Jeff Apter, was released in 2011.
1993
Jonathan Huberdeau
Canadian ice hockey player
Jonathan Huberdeau is a Canadian professional ice hockey player who is a winger and alternate captain for the Calgary Flames of the National Hockey League (NHL). Huberdeau was selected third overall by the Florida Panthers in the 2011 NHL entry draft and made his NHL debut with the team in 2013. After playing with the Panthers for ten seasons and setting the franchise record for points scored in a single season, Huberdeau was included in a blockbuster trade with the Flames which sent Matthew Tkachuk to Florida.
1926
Robert Earl Hughes
American who was the heaviest human being recorded in the history of the world during his lifetime (died 1958)
Robert Earl Hughes was an American man who was, during his lifetime, the heaviest human being recorded, weighing 1,071 pounds (486 kg). He remains the heaviest human in the world able to walk without the need of assistance.
1977
Alex Manninger
Austrian footballer (died 2026)
Alexander Manninger was an Austrian footballer who played as a goalkeeper. He played internationally for the Austria national team on 33 occasions, including at UEFA Euro 2008, and represented football clubs in Italy, Germany, Austria and England.
1952
Bronisław Komorowski
Polish historian and politician, 5th President of Poland
Bronisław Maria Komorowski is a Polish politician and historian who served as the 5th president of Poland from 2010 to 2015. Komorowski previously served as Marshal of the Sejm from 2007 to 2010 and in this position Komorowski exercised the powers and duties of acting president following the death of President Lech Kaczyński in a plane crash on 10 April 2010. Earlier, from 2000 to 2001, he served as Minister of National Defence.
1999
Drew Pavlou
Australian activist
Drew Pavlou is an Australian political activist best known for his criticism of the Chinese government and the Chinese Communist Party, and their influence within Australia. Pavlou is also known for having organised protests on-campus in support of the 2019–2020 Hong Kong protests, and for later protest activity against the Chinese government.
1973
Mikey Whipwreck
American wrestler and trainer
John Michael Watson, better known by his ring name Mikey Whipwreck, is an American semi-retired professional wrestler. He is best known for his time with Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW), where he was an ECW Triple Crown Champion. Whipwreck is a former world champion, winning the ECW World Heavyweight Championship once. He also became a two-time World Television Champion and a three-time World Tag Team Champion in ECW.
1970
Richie Hawtin
English-Canadian DJ and producer
Richard "Richie" Hawtin is a British-Canadian electronic musician and DJ. He became involved with Detroit techno's second wave in the early 1990s, and has been a leading exponent of minimal techno since the mid-1990s. He became known for his recordings under the Plastikman and F.U.S.E. aliases. Under the latter, he released his debut album Dimension Intrusion (1993) as part of Warp's Artificial Intelligence series.
1948
Paquito D'Rivera
Cuban-American Grammy Award-winning musician
Francisco de Jesús Rivera Figueras, known as Paquito D'Rivera, is a Cuban-American alto saxophonist, clarinetist and composer. He was a member of the Cuban songo band Irakere and, since the 1980s, he has established himself as a bandleader in the United States. His smooth saxophone tone and his frequent combination of Latin jazz and classical music have become his trademarks.
1945
Gordon Waller
Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2009)
Gordon Trueman Riviere Waller was a Scottish guitarist, singer-songwriter and actor, best known as Gordon of the 1960s pop music duo Peter and Gordon, whose biggest hit was the no. 1 million-selling single "A World Without Love".
1952
Dambudzo Marechera
Zimbabwean author and poet (died 1987)
Dambudzo Marechera was a Zimbabwean novelist, short story writer, playwright, and poet. His short career produced a book of stories, two novels, a book of plays, prose, and poetry, and a collection of poetry. His first book, a fiction collection entitled The House of Hunger (1978), won the Guardian Fiction Prize in 1979. Marechera was best known for his abrasive, heavily detailed, and self-aware writing, which was considered a new frontier in African literature, and his unorthodox behaviour at the universities from which he was expelled despite excelling in his studies.
1954
Raphael Ravenscroft
English saxophonist and composer (died 2014)
Raphael Ravenscroft was a British musician, composer and author. He is best known for playing the saxophone riff on Gerry Rafferty's 1978 song "Baker Street".
1966
Cecilia Bartoli
Italian soprano and actress
Cecilia Bartoli OMRI is an Italian mezzo-soprano, widely known for her renditions of the music of Bellini, Handel, Mozart, Rossini, and Vivaldi, as well as lesser-known music of the Baroque and Classical periods. She has also sung soprano and alto repertory.
1945
Anthony Braxton
American saxophonist, clarinet player, and composer
Anthony Braxton is an American experimental composer, educator, music theorist, improviser, and multi-instrumentalist who is best known for playing saxophones, particularly the alto sax. He grew up on the South Side of Chicago and was a key early member of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians. He received great acclaim for his 1969 double-LP record For Alto, the first full-length album of solo saxophone music.
1916
Gaylord Nelson
American politician and environmentalist, 35th Governor of Wisconsin (died 2005)
Gaylord Anton Nelson was an American lawyer, Democratic politician, and environmentalist from Wisconsin. He served three terms as a United States senator from Wisconsin, from 1963 to 1981, and was chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Small Business for the last six years of his tenure. During his time in the U.S. Senate, he was the creator of Earth Day, which launched a new wave of environmental activism. After losing his bid for re-election in 1980, he continued his environmental activism as counselor for The Wilderness Society, and was honored with a Presidential Medal of Freedom for his environmental efforts by President Bill Clinton.
1971
Shoji Meguro
Japanese director and composer
Shoji Meguro is a Japanese composer, guitarist, and video game designer. Formerly an employee of the game company Atlus, he is best known for his work in their Shin Megami Tensei and Persona series. His music spans several genres, such as rock, electronic, J-pop, jazz, and symphonic. Meguro has also designed indie games and was the creative director of the PlayStation Portable remakes of Persona and the Persona 2 duology.
1985
Evan Lysacek
American figure skater
Evan Frank Lysacek is an American retired figure skater. He is the 2010 Olympic champion, the 2009 World champion, a two-time Four Continents champion, the 2009 Grand Prix Final champion, and a two-time U.S. national champion. Lysacek was the 2010 United States Olympic Committee's SportsMan of the Year, and the winner of the James E. Sullivan Award as the top U.S. amateur athlete of 2010. On January 22, 2016, he was inducted into the U.S. Figure Skating Hall of Fame.
1932
Oliver Nelson
American saxophonist and composer (died 1975)
Oliver Edward Nelson was an American jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, arranger, composer, and bandleader. His 1961 Impulse! album The Blues and the Abstract Truth (1961) is regarded as one of the most significant recordings of its era. The centerpiece of the album is the definitive version of Nelson's composition, "Stolen Moments". Other important recordings from the 1960s are the albums More Blues and the Abstract Truth (1964) and Sound Pieces (1966), both also on Impulse!.
1489
Antoine
Duke of Lorraine (died 1544)
Antoine, known as the Good, was Duke of Lorraine from 1508 until his death in 1544. Raised at the French court, Antoine would campaign in Italy twice: once under Louis XII and the other with Francis I. During the German Peasants' War, he would defeat two armies while retaking Saverne and Sélestat. Antoine succeeded in freeing Lorraine from the Holy Roman Empire with the Treaty of Nuremberg of 1542. In 1544, while Antoine suffered from an illness, the Duchy of Lorraine was invaded by Emperor Charles V's army on their way to attack France. Fleeing the Imperial armies, Antoine was taken to Bar-le-Duc where he died.
1961
Ferenc Gyurcsány
Hungarian businessman and politician, 6th Prime Minister of Hungary
Ferenc Gyurcsány is a Hungarian entrepreneur and retired politician who served as Prime Minister of Hungary from 2004 to 2009. Prior to that, he held the position of Minister of Youth Affairs and Sports between 2003 and 2004.
1948
Bob Champion
English jockey
Robert Champion is an English former jump jockey, who won the 1981 Grand National on Aldaniti. His triumph, while recovering from cancer, was made into the 1984 film Champions, with John Hurt portraying Champion. The film is based on Champion's book Champion's Story, which he wrote with close friend, racing journalist and broadcaster Jonathan Powell.
1957
Tinsley Ellis
American electric blues guitarist and singer
Tinsley Ellis is an American blues and rock musician, who was born in Atlanta, Georgia, United States, and grew up in South Florida. According to Billboard, "nobody has released more consistently excellent blues albums than Atlanta's Tinsley Ellis. He sings like a man possessed and wields a mean lead guitar."
1694
François Quesnay
French economist and physician (died 1774)
François Quesnay was a French economist and physician of the Physiocratic school. He is known for publishing the "Tableau économique" in 1758, which provided the foundations of the ideas of the Physiocrats. This was perhaps the first work attempting to describe the workings of the economy in an analytical way, and as such can be viewed as one of the first important contributions to economic thought. His Le Despotisme de la Chine, written in 1767, describes Chinese politics and society, and his own political support for enlightened despotism.
1988
Tjaronn Chery
Dutch-born Surinamese footballer
Tjaronn Inteff Chefren Chery is a professional footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder for Eredivisie club NEC. Born in the Netherlands, he represents the Suriname national team.
1966
Vladimir Voevodsky
Russian mathematician and academic (died 2017)
Vladimir Alexandrovich Voevodsky was a Russian-American mathematician. His work in developing a homotopy theory for algebraic varieties and formulating motivic cohomology led to the award of a Fields Medal in 2002. He is also known for the proof of the Milnor conjecture and motivic Bloch–Kato conjectures and for the univalent foundations of mathematics and homotopy type theory.
1963
Xavier McDaniel
American basketball player and coach
Xavier Maurice McDaniel, nicknamed "X-Man", is an American former professional basketball player who, at 6 ft 7 in, played both small forward and power forward. He played college basketball for the Wichita State Shockers.
1985
Leon Botha
South African painter and DJ (died 2011)
Leon Botha was a South African painter and disk jockey. He was known for his close association with the hip hop group Die Antwoord, as well as for being the second of the world's longest-lived persons with progeria before Sammy Basso who was one of the oldest known survivors of the disease.
1972
Derian Hatcher
American ice hockey defenseman
Derian John Hatcher is an American former professional ice hockey defenseman who played 16 seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL) with the Minnesota North Stars, Dallas Stars, Detroit Red Wings, and Philadelphia Flyers. He is the current owner of the Sarnia Sting of the Ontario Hockey League (OHL).
1981
Giourkas Seitaridis
Greek footballer
Georgios "Giourkas" Seitaridis is a Greek former professional footballer who played as a right-back and occasionally as a centre-back. He has last played in 2013 for Super League Greece side Panathinaikos, having played previously at PAS Giannina, Porto, Dynamo Moscow and Atlético Madrid. He is a former member of the Greece national team, for which he made a total of 72 international appearances, scoring one goal. He was part of their team which won Euro 2004, for which he was voted into the Team of the Tournament.
1945
Daniel Topolski
English rower and coach (died 2015)
Daniel Topolski was a British writer, rower, rowing coach and commentator. He studied at the University of Oxford where he represented the Blue boat twice, in 1967 and 1968. In 1977, he won a gold medal at the World Rowing Championships. He coached the Oxford University Boat Club crew fifteen times, leading them to victory twelve times, including a ten-win streak. He also coached British squads at two Olympic Games. After retiring from coaching he commentated on rowing at the Olympic Games and Boat Races.
1984
Ian White
Canadian ice hockey player
Ian White is a Canadian former professional ice hockey defenceman who played over 500 games in the National Hockey League. In a career spanning parts of nine seasons, White suited up for the Toronto Maple Leafs, Calgary Flames, Carolina Hurricanes, San Jose Sharks and Detroit Red Wings. White was originally selected in the sixth round, 191st overall in the 2002 NHL Draft. He returned to professional hockey in 2022 with the Columbus River Dragons of the Federal Prospects Hockey League. On October 26, 2022, White was traded to the Motor City Rockers of the Federal Prospects Hockey League. On January 23, 2023, White was signed to a standard player contract with the Norfolk Admirals the ECHL. He was released on November 14, 2023.
1866
Miina Sillanpää
Finnish journalist and politician (died 1952)
Miina Sillanpää was a Finnish politician. She served as Deputy Minister of Social Affairs in 1926–1927. She was Finland's first female minister and a key figure in the workers' movement. In 2016, the Finnish government made 1 October an official flag flying day in honour of Sillanpää. She was involved in the preparation of Finland's first Municipal Homemaking Act.
1915
Modibo Keïta
Malian educator and politician, 1st President of Mali (died 1977)
Modibo Keïta was a Malian politician who served as the first President of Mali from 1960 to 1968. He espoused a form of African socialism. He was deposed in a coup d'état in 1968 by Moussa Traoré.
1979
Daniel Vickerman
South African-Australian rugby player (died 2017)
Daniel Joseph Vickerman was a professional rugby union player. The 204 cm, 119 kg lock played 63 Tests with the Wallabies, the national team of his adopted country of Australia. After seven seasons with the Wallabies, and having played Super Rugby for the New South Wales Waratahs and ACT Brumbies, Vickerman left his successful international rugby career in 2008. He attended the University of Cambridge, where he read a degree in Land Economy at Hughes Hall. While in England, he played rugby for Cambridge University and Northampton Saints. In 2011, he returned to Australia and played again for the Wallabies, including at the 2011 Rugby World Cup, before he retired from the game.
1917
Robert Merrill
American actor and singer (died 2004)
Robert Merrill was an American operatic baritone and actor, who was also active in the musical theatre circuit. He received the National Medal of Arts in 1993.
2001
Choerry
South Korean singer and member of Loona
Choi Ye-rim, known professionally as Choerry (최리), is a South Korean singer. She is a member of Loona, its sub-unit Odd Eye Circle, and its spinoff Artms.
1754
Miguel de Azcuénaga
Argentinian soldier (died 1833)
Brigadier Miguel de Azcuénaga was an Argentine army officer and politician. Educated in Spain, at the University of Seville, Azcuénaga began his military career in the Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata and became a member of the Primera Junta, the first autonomous government of modern Argentina. He was shortly exiled because of his support to the minister Mariano Moreno, and returned to Buenos Aires when the First Triumvirate replaced the Junta. He held several offices since then, most notably being the first Governor intendant of Buenos Aires after the May Revolution. He died at his country house in 1833.
1821
Apollon Maykov
Russian poet and playwright (died 1897)
Apollon Nikolayevich Maykov was a Russian poet, best known for his lyric verse showcasing images of Russian villages, nature, and history. His love for ancient Greece and Rome, which he studied for much of his life, is also reflected in his works. Maykov spent four years translating the epic The Tale of Igor's Campaign (1870) into modern Russian. He translated the folklore of Belarus, Greece, Serbia and Spain, as well as works by Heine, Adam Mickiewicz and Goethe, among others. Several of Maykov's poems were set to music by Russian composers, among them Rimsky-Korsakov and Tchaikovsky.
1942
Louis Reichardt
American mountaineer
Louis French Reichardt is a noted American neuroscientist and mountaineer, the first American to summit both Everest and K2. He was also director of the Simons Foundation Autism Research Initiative, the largest non-federal supporter of scientific research into autism spectrum disorders and is an emeritus professor of physiology and biochemistry/biophysics at UCSF, where he studied neuroscience. The character of Harold Jameson, U.C.S.F. biophysicist and mountaineer in the film K2, is based on Reichardt, though the events of his actual 1978 K2 attempt with Jim Wickwire bear little resemblance to the plot of the film.
1967
Robert S. Kimbrough
American colonel and astronaut
Robert Shane Kimbrough is a retired United States Army officer and former NASA astronaut. He was part of the first group of candidates selected for NASA astronaut training following the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster. Kimbrough is a veteran of three spaceflights, the first being a Space Shuttle flight, and the second being a six-month mission to the ISS on board a Russian Soyuz craft. He was the commander of the International Space Station for Expedition 50, and returned to Earth in April 2017. He is married to the former Robbie Lynn Nickels.
1920
Mia Bustam
Indonesian painter, writer, and political prisoner (died 2011)
Mia Bustam was an Indonesian painter, activist, and memoirist. The daughter of a minor nobleman, Mia was educated to be a kindergarten teacher but left school after her father lost his job. In 1943, she met and married the painter S. Sudjojono, with whom she had eight children. After the couple divorced in 1959, Mia took up painting, joining the Young Artists of Indonesia as well as the communist-aligned Institute for People's Culture. Her works were well received, with her style likened to that of her former husband.
1930
Viktor Tikhonov
Russian ice hockey player and coach (died 2014)
Viktor Vasilyevich Tikhonov was a Russian ice hockey player and coach. Tikhonov was a defenceman with VVS Moscow and Dynamo Moscow from 1949 to 1963, winning four national championships. He was the coach of the Soviet team when it was the dominant team in international play, winning eight World Championship gold medals, as well as Olympic gold medals in 1984, 1988 and 1992. Tikhonov also led CSKA Moscow to twelve consecutive league championships. He was named to the IIHF Hall of Fame as a builder in 1998.
1923
Elizabeth Jolley
English-Australian author and academic (died 2007)
Monica Elizabeth Jolley was an English-born Australian writer who settled in Western Australia in the late 1950s and forged an illustrious literary career there. She was 53 when her first book was published, and she went on to publish fifteen novels, four short story collections and three non-fiction books, publishing well into her 70s and achieving significant critical acclaim. She was also a pioneer of creative writing teaching in Australia, counting many well-known writers such as Tim Winton among her students at Curtin University.
1939
George Reid
Scottish journalist and politician, 2nd Presiding Officer of the Scottish Parliament
Sir George Newlands Reid was a Scottish politician and journalist who served as Presiding Officer of the Scottish Parliament from 2003 to 2007. A member of the Scottish National Party (SNP), he was a Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for the Mid Scotland and Fife region from 1999 to 2003 and then for the Ochil constituency from 2003 to 2007. Reid was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Clackmannan and Eastern Stirlingshire from February 1974 to 1979.
1964
Kōji Yamamura
Japanese animator, producer, and screenwriter
Kōji Yamamura is a Japanese independent animator who, after leaving a career as a background artist at an animation studio, directs, writes, edits, animates, creates the model sheets and background art for and sometimes produces his own short films and has worked on many commissions such as music videos, television advertisements, title sequences and station idents, both on his own and under or with other directors. He is also a regular illustrator of children's literature and textbooks.
1982
Abel Kirui
Kenyan runner
Abel Kirui is a long-distance runner from Kenya who competes in marathons. He had back-to-back wins in the World Championship marathon in 2009 and 2011. Kirui won in 2009 with a time of 2:06:54, then defended his title with a winning margin of two minutes and 28 seconds – the largest ever margin at the World Championship event. He earned the silver medal in the 2012 London Olympic marathon.
1921
Bobby Wanzer
American basketball player and coach (died 2016)
Robert Francis Wanzer was an American professional basketball player and coach. A five time NBA All-Star and three time All-NBA Second Team selection, Wanzer played his entire professional career for the Rochester Royals of the Basketball Association of America (BAA) and National Basketball Association (NBA). He won an NBA championship with the Royals in 1951. During his final two years as a player, he served as the team's player-coach. After he retired from playing in 1957, he remained as a coach with the Royals for one season, before he became the head coach of the St. John Fisher Cardinals college basketball team in 1963. He stayed in the role with the college for 24 years until his retirement in 1987. Wanzer was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 1987 and into the newly formed New York City Basketball Hall of Fame in 1991.
1923
Yuriko
Princess Mikasa, Japanese princess (died 2024)
Yuriko, Princess Mikasa was a member of the Imperial House of Japan as the wife of Takahito, Prince Mikasa, the fourth son of Emperor Taishō and Empress Teimei. The Princess was the last surviving paternal great-aunt by marriage of Emperor Naruhito and, before her death, was the oldest member of the imperial family, and the final living member who was born in the Taishō era.
1915
Walter Hadlee
New Zealand cricketer (died 2006)
Walter Arnold Hadlee was a New Zealand cricketer and Test match captain. He played domestic first-class cricket for Canterbury and Otago. Three of his five sons, Sir Richard, Dayle and Barry played cricket for New Zealand. The Chappell–Hadlee Trophy, which is competed for by ODI teams from New Zealand and Australia is named in honour of the Hadlee family and the Australian Chappell family.
1951
Bronisław Malinowski
Polish runner (died 1981)
Bronisław Malinowski was a Polish track and field athlete, who is best known for winning a gold medal in the 3000 m steeplechase race during the 1980 Summer Olympics held in Moscow, Soviet Union and the silver four years earlier in Montreal. One year after his last Olympic appearance, Malinowski was killed in a car accident in Grudziądz, at the age of 30.
1981
Gary Taylor-Fletcher
English footballer
Gary Taylor-Fletcher is an English football manager and former professional player who manages Widnes Town. Prior to marrying his wife in June 2004 he was known as Gary Fletcher, adopting the surname Taylor-Fletcher in football terms from the beginning of the 2004–05 season.
1977
Roman Miroshnichenko
Ukrainian guitarist and composer
Roman Maksimovich Miroshnichenko is a Ukrainian guitarist and composer. From 1994 to 1999, he was a member of his father's, Maxim Miroshnichenko, big band. He formed RMProject in 2003 and toured Europe and made many appearances at Jazz festivals. In 2009, he joined up with Herman Romero and together they toured Russia. Miroshnichenko also composes for film and worked as an actor.
1938
Art Mahaffey
American baseball player
Arthur Mahaffey Jr. is an American former professional baseball starting pitcher, who played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the National League (NL) Philadelphia Phillies (1960–1965) and St. Louis Cardinals (1966). He batted and threw right-handed. In a seven-season MLB career, Mahaffey posted a 59–64 record, with 639 strikeouts, and a 4.17 earned run average (ERA), in 999.0 innings pitched.
1904
Bhagat Puran Singh
Indian publisher, environmentalist, and philanthropist (died 1992)
Bhagat Puran Singh was an Indian writer, environmentalist, and philanthropist. As a young man he decided to dedicate his life to humanitarian work, and in 1947, he established Pingalwara, a home for the sick and disabled in Amritsar. He was also an environmental campaigner, raising awareness of pollution and soil erosion and writing many books about environmental topics.
1989
Paweł Fajdek
Polish hammer thrower
Paweł Fajdek is a Polish hammer thrower, a five-time World Champion, European Champion, Olympic bronze medal winner, multiple Polish Champion and Polish men's hammer throw record holder. In 2013, he became the youngest world champion in the event. His personal best throw of 83.93 metres was achieved on 9 August 2015 at the Janusz Kusociński Memorial in Szczecin.
1966
Svetlana Jitomirskaya
American mathematician
Svetlana Yakovlevna Jitomirskaya is a mathematician working on dynamical systems and mathematical physics. She serves as the Richard and Rhonda Goldman Distinguished Chair and Professor of Mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley. She is best known for pioneering nonperturbative methods in quasiperiodic operators, and for solving the ten martini problem along with mathematician Artur Avila.
1974
Jacob Sahaya Kumar Aruni
Indian chef (died 2012)
Jacob Sahaya Kumar Aruni, popularly known as "Chef Jacob", was an Indian celebrity chef born in Uthamapalayam, Tamil Nadu. He was known for his authentic South Indian cuisines. Aruni was a visiting chef at several hotels, and a consultant chef. He was also a food historian, spice collector and promoter of South Indian cooking.
1980
François Beauchemin
Canadian ice hockey player
Joseph Jean-François Vinet Beauchemin is a Canadian former professional ice hockey defenceman who played in the National Hockey League (NHL). Drafted in the third round, 75th overall, by the Montreal Canadiens in the 1998 NHL entry draft, he spent most of his career playing for the Anaheim Ducks, winning a Stanley Cup in 2007.
1968
Niurka Montalvo
Cuban-Spanish long jumper
Niurka Montalvo Amaro is a former Cuban and Spanish athlete who specialised in the long jump and triple jump events. Her greatest achievement came in 1999, when she became world champion with a personal best jump of 7.06 metres. She was the autonomous secretary of sport for the Autonomous government of Valencia.
1861
William Propsting
Australian politician, 20th Premier of Tasmania (died 1937)
William Bispham Propsting, CMG was an Australian lawyer and politician. He served as premier of Tasmania from 1903 to 1904. He was a member of the parliament of Tasmania for over 35 years and also served terms as Attorney-General of Tasmania and president of the Tasmanian Legislative Council.
1915
Nils Kihlberg
Swedish actor, singer, and director (died 1965)
Nils Kihlberg was a Swedish actor, singer and director known for En trallande jänta (1942), Bröderna Östermans huskors (1945) and Det är min musik (1942). He died on 2 April 1965 in Stockholm. Nils appeared in approximately 40 films and He was married to actress Mimi Nelson.
1948
Sandra Post
Canadian golfer and sportscaster
Sandra Post, is a retired professional golfer, the first Canadian to play on the LPGA Tour. In 1968 at age 20 in her rookie professional year, she won a women's major – the LPGA Championship, and was the youngest player at the time to win a major.
1962
Zenon Jaskuła
Polish cyclist
Zenon Jaskuła is a Polish former professional racing cyclist from Śrem, who was active in the 1990s. He won stage 16 and finished third overall in the 1993 Tour de France. He competed in the team time trial at the 1988 Summer Olympics winning a silver medal.
1981
Natalia Vodopyanova
Russian basketball player
Natalia Andreyevna Vodopyanova is a Russian basketball player. She was part of the Russian teams that won bronze medals at the 2004 and 2008 Olympics and placed fourth in 2012; she also won the European title in 2007 and a silver medal at the 2006 World Championships.
1563
George Heriot
Scottish goldsmith (died 1624)
George Heriot was a Scottish goldsmith and philanthropist. He is chiefly remembered today as the founder of George Heriot's School, an independent school in Edinburgh; his name has also been given to Heriot-Watt University, as well as several streets in the same city.
1889
Beno Gutenberg
German-American seismologist (died 1960)
Beno Gutenberg was a German-American seismologist who made several important contributions to the science. He was a colleague and mentor of Charles Francis Richter at the California Institute of Technology and Richter's collaborator in developing the Richter scale for measuring an earthquake's magnitude.
1916
Fernand Leduc
Canadian painter (died 2014)
Fernand Leduc was a Canadian abstract expressionist painter and a major figure in the Quebec contemporary art scene in the 1940s and 1950s. During his 50-year career, Leduc participated in many exhibitions in Canada and France. He was born in Viauville, Montreal, Quebec.
1604
Claudia de' Medici
Italian daughter of Christina of Lorraine (died 1648)
Claudia de' Medici was by birth a Tuscan princess and by her marriage to Leopold V an archduchess of Austria and from 1632 until 1646 regent of the Austrian County of Tyrol during the minority of her son Ferdinand Charles.
1907
Jacques Roumain
Haitian journalist and politician (died 1944)
Jacques Roumain was a Haitian writer, politician, and Marxist. He is considered one of the most prominent figures in Haitian literature. Langston Hughes translated some of Roumain's works, including Gouverneurs de la Rosée, which was also adapted to film.
1940
Ludwig Schwarz
Slovak-Austrian bishop
Ludwig Schwarz, S.D.B. was the Catholic bishop of the Diocese of Linz, Austria from 2005–2015. A member of the Salesians of Don Bosco, he previously served as an auxiliary bishop for the Archdiocese of Vienna from 2001 to 2005
1934
Daphne Sheldrick
Kenyan-British conservationist and author (died 2018)
Dame Daphne Marjorie Sheldrick, was a Kenyan author, conservationist and expert in animal husbandry, particularly the raising and reintegrating of orphaned elephants into the wild for over 30 years. She was the founder of the Sheldrick Wildlife Trust.
1962
Krzysztof Hołowczyc
Polish racing driver
Krzysztof Wiesław Hołowczyc is a Polish rally driver. He won the Polish Rally Championship in 1995, 1996 and 1999 and the European Rally Championship in 1997. He was also member of European Parliament (2007–2009) from Civic Platform list.
1936
Vince Camuto
American fashion designer and businessman, co-founded Nine West (died 2015)
John Vincent "Vince" Camuto was an American women's footwear designer and shoe industry executive, best known for co-founding the women's fashion brand Nine West. Following the 1999 sale of Nine West to Jones Apparel Group for $900 million, Camuto became CEO and Chief Creative Officer of a new fashion company, Camuto Group, maker of the Jessica Simpson brand. On October 10, 2018, Vince Camuto was acquired by Authentic Brands Group, as part of the company's definitive agreement to purchase a majority stake in the intellectual property of the Camuto Group's proprietary brands in partnership with DSW Inc.
1938
John Harvard
Canadian journalist and politician, 23rd Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba (died 2016)
John Harvard was a Canadian journalist and politician. He served as a federal Member of Parliament (MP) from 1988 to 2004, and was appointed the 23rd Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba just before Canada's 2004 federal election.
1983
Romaric
Ivorian footballer
Koffi Christian Romaric N'Dri, commonly known as Romaric, is an Ivorian former professional footballer and current manager of Ligue 1 club AFAD Djékanou. A versatile midfielder, he could play as either a defensive or central midfielder.
1955
Mary Testa
American singer and actress
Mary Testa is an American stage and film actress. She is a three-time Tony Award nominee, for performances in revivals of Leonard Bernstein's On the Town (1998), 42nd Street (2001) and Oklahoma (2019).
1941
Kenneth G. Ross
Australian playwright and screenwriter
Kenneth Graham Ross is an Australian playwright, screenwriter, and lyricist best known for writing the 1978 stage play Breaker Morant, that was based on the life of Australian soldier Harry "Breaker" Morant.
1984
Henri Bedimo
Cameroonian footballer
Henri Bedimo Nsamé is a Cameroonian former professional footballer who played as a left-back. He represented the Cameroon national team internationally from 2009 to 2016 making 51 appearances and scoring once.
1991
Rajiv van La Parra
Dutch footballer
Rajiv Ramon van La Parra is a Dutch professional footballer who is a winger, he can also play as a striker. At the international level, he has represented the Netherlands U21.
1879
Mabel Lucie Attwell
English author and illustrator (died 1964)
Mabel Lucie Attwell was a British illustrator and comics artist. She was known for her drawings of children. Her drawings are featured on many postcards, advertisements, posters, books and figurines.
1924
Tofilau Eti Alesana
Samoan politician, 5th Prime Minister of Samoa (died 1999)
Tofilau Eti Alesana was a Samoan politician who served as the fifth prime minister of Samoa from 1982 to 1985, and again from 1988 until his resignation in 1998.
1829
Jinmaku Kyūgorō
Japanese sumo wrestler, the 12th Yokozuna (died 1903)
Jinmaku Kyūgorō was a Japanese professional sumo wrestler from Itō, Izumo Province. He was the sport's 12th yokozuna and one of its most important record keepers and historians.
1966
Bill Wiggin
English politician, Shadow Secretary of State for Wales
Sir William David Wiggin is a former British Conservative Party politician who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for North Herefordshire, previously Leominster, from 2001 to 2024.
1979
Naohiro Takahara
Japanese footballer
Naohiro Takahara is a Japanese football manager and former player who played as a forward. He is currently the president of Japan Football League club Okinawa SV.
1916
Robert F. Furchgott
American biochemist and pharmacologist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2009)
Robert Francis Furchgott was an American Nobel Prize winning biochemist who contributed to the discovery of nitric oxide as a transient cellular signal in mammalian systems.
1931
Gustav Nossal
Austrian-Australian biologist and academic
Sir Gustav Victor Joseph Nossal is an Austrian-born Australian research biologist. He is famous for his contributions to the fields of antibody formation and immunological tolerance.
1970
Deborah Compagnoni
Italian skier
Deborah Compagnoni Golden Collar of Sports Merit is an Italian former Alpine skier who won three gold medals at the 1992, 1994, and 1998 Winter Olympics.
1860
Alexis Lapointe
Canadian runner (died 1924)
Alexis Lapointe, known as Alexis le Trotteur was a Quebec athlete in the early 20th century who has become a legendary character of québécois folklore.
1934
Monica Dacon
Vincentian educator and politician, 6th Governor-General of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Dame Monica Jessie Dacon is a Saint Vincent and the Grenadines former schoolteacher, educator and politician. She is the widow of parliamentarian St. Clair Dacon.
1988
Matt Bartkowski
American ice hockey defenseman
Matthew Richard Bartkowski is an American former professional ice hockey defenseman. He most recently played for the Rochester Americans of the American Hockey League (AHL).
1927
Henning Carlsen
Danish director, producer, and screenwriter (died 2014)
Henning Carlsen was a Danish film director, screenwriter, and producer most noted for his documentaries and his contributions to the style of cinéma vérité. Carlsen's 1966 social-realistic drama Hunger (Sult) was nominated for the Palme d'Or and won the Bodil Award for Best Danish Film. Carlsen also won the Bodil Award the following year for the comedy People Meet and Sweet Music Fills the Heart. Acting as his own producer since 1960, Carlsen has directed more than 25 films, 19 for which he wrote the screenplay. In 2006, he received the Golden Swan Lifetime Achievement Award at the Copenhagen International Film Festival.
1988
Kimberley Busteed
Australian model
Kimberley Busteed is an Australian TV host, model and beauty pageant titleholder who won Miss Universe Australia 2007 and represented Australia in the 2007 Miss Universe pageant. She is from Gladstone in Central Queensland, Australia and is a former teen swimming champion and surf lifesaving competitor. In 2006 she was the Fashion on the Field winner at the Doomben races in Brisbane, following that she won the Melbourne Cup Fashions on the Field. In 2012 Busteed resumed her competitive swimming by competing in the Noosa Tri, swimming the 1500m ocean stretch for her team.
1665
Zacharie Robutel de La Noue
Canadian captain (died 1733)
Zacharie Robutel de La Noue was a French lieutenant and captain in the colonial regular troops, and seigneur of Châteauguay. Robutel de La Noue was born in Montreal, New France. He was the son of Claude Robutel de La Noue, seigneur of Île Saint-Paul, and Suzanne de Gabrielle. As a soldier he escorted various expeditions - to Hudson Bay in 1686 with Pierre de Troyes, Chevalier de Troyes and up the Ottawa River in 1692. He also led military attacks on Mohawk villages in 1692–93. He was sent by governor Vaudreuil in July 1717 to establish a chain of three posts from Lake Superior to Lake of the Woods, but he was only able to re-establish a fur trading post, Fort Kaministiquia, on the Kaministiquia River. He remained there as commandant until 1721.
1935
Berhanu Dinka
Ethiopian economist and diplomat (died 2013)
Berhanu Dinka was an Ethiopian diplomat. His distinguished diplomatic career spanned more than five decades, during which he held a number of senior portfolios in the Ethiopian Foreign Service, including as the first Ethiopian ambassador to Djibouti and as the permanent representative to the United Nations for Ethiopia, and as an official of the United Nations, including as Under-Secretary-General, Special Envoy for Sierra Leone, and Special Representative for the Great Lakes region and for Burundi.
1907
Patience Strong
English poet and journalist (died 1990)
Winifred Emma May was a poet from the United Kingdom, best known for her work under the pen name Patience Strong. Her poems were usually short, simple and imbued with sentimentality, the beauty of nature and inner strength. She was also a successful lyricist, composing English words for the tango "Jealousy" and "The Dream of Olwen", and an author of several books dealing with Christianity and practical psychology.
1974
Buddy Wakefield
American poet and author
Buddy Wakefield is an American poet, three-time world champion spoken word artist, and the most toured performance poet in history. His latest works have been released by Righteous Babe Records (album) and Write Bloody Publishing (books). He has lived in Sanborn, New York, Baytown, Texas, Seattle, Washington, Los Angeles, California, and currently lives in Porto, Portugal.
1984
Kento Handa
Japanese actor and singer
Kento Handa is a Japanese actor and singer, best known for his role as Takumi Inui/Kamen Rider Faiz in Kamen Rider 555. He plays many musical instruments including the guitar, bass, drums and the piano. His album "HOMEMADE" was released in 2017, and his album Seikatsu was released in 2018.
1873
Nictzin Dyalhis
American author (died 1942)
Nictzin Wilstone Dyalhis was an American chemist and short story writer who specialized in the genres of science fiction and fantasy. He wrote as Nictzin Dyalhis. During his lifetime he attained a measure of celebrity as a writer for the pulp fiction magazine Weird Tales.
1984
Stuart Kettlewell
Scottish football manager and former player
Stuart Kettlewell is a Scottish professional football manager and former player who is currently the manager of Ross County. He played as a midfielder for Queen's Park, Clyde, Ross County and Brora Rangers. Kettlewell has since managed Ross County, Motherwell and Kilmarnock.
1943
Sandra Haynie
American golfer
Sandra Jane Haynie is an American former professional golfer on the LPGA Tour starting in 1961. She won four major championships, 42 LPGA Tour career events, and is a member of the World Golf Hall of Fame.
1704
Benjamin Huntsman
English inventor and businessman (died 1776)
Benjamin Huntsman was an English inventor and manufacturer of cast or crucible steel.
1754
Franz Xaver von Zach
Slovak astronomer and academic (died 1832)
Baron Franz Xaver von Zach was an Austrian astronomer born in Pest, Hungary.
1787
Constant Prévost
French geologist and academic (died 1856)
Louis-Constant Prévost was a French geologist.
1801
James Pennethorne
English architect, designed Victoria Park (died 1871)
Sir James Pennethorne was a British architect and planner, particularly associated with buildings and parks in central London.
1854
Solko van den Bergh
Dutch target shooter (died 1916)
Solko Johannes van den Bergh was a Dutch sport shooter.
1877
Heinrich Otto Wieland
German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1957)
Heinrich Otto Wieland was a German chemist. He won the 1927 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his research into the bile acids.
1885
Arturo Rawson
Argentinian general and politician, 26th President of Argentina (died 1952)
Arturo Rawson was the provisional President of Argentina from June 4, 1943, to June 7, 1943.
1903
Yevgeny Mravinsky
Russian conductor (died 1988)
Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Mravinsky was a Soviet and Russian conductor, pianist, and music pedagogue; he was a professor at Leningrad State Conservatory.
1910
Christopher Cockerell
English engineer, invented the hovercraft (died 1999)
Sir Christopher Sydney Cockerell was an English engineer, best known as the inventor of the hovercraft.
1912
Robert Jacobsen
Danish sculptor and painter (died 1993)
Robert Julius Tommy Jacobsen was a Danish sculptor and painter. The Danish Robert Award is named in his honor.
1921
Milan Komar
Slovenian-Argentinian philosopher and academic (died 2006)
Milan Komar, also known as Emilio Komar was a Slovene Argentine Catholic philosopher and essayist.
1925
Antonio Puchades
Spanish footballer (died 2013)
Antonio Puchades Casanova was a Spanish footballer who played as a defensive midfielder.
1926
Ain Kaalep
Estonian poet, playwright, and critic (died 2020)
Ain Kaalep was an Estonian poet, playwright, literary critic and translator.
1928
Ruth Westheimer
German-American sex therapist, talk show host, professor, author, and Holocaust survivor (died 2024)
Karola Ruth Westheimer, better known as Dr. Ruth, was a German and American sex therapist and talk show host.
1929
Karolos Papoulias
Greek lawyer and politician, 5th President of Greece (died 2021)
Karolos Papoulias was a Greek politician who served as the president of Greece from 2005 to 2015.
1930
George Chesworth
English air marshal and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Moray (died 2017)
Air Vice Marshal George Arthur Chesworth was a senior Royal Air Force officer and Lord Lieutenant of Moray.
1932
Maurice Shadbolt
New Zealand author and playwright (died 2004)
Maurice Francis Richard Shadbolt was a New Zealand writer and occasional playwright.
1935
Colette Boky
Canadian soprano and actress
Colette Boky , is a French-Canadian operatic soprano, particularly associated with lyric roles in the French, Italian, and German repertories.
1937
Gorilla Monsoon
American wrestler (died 1999)
Robert James "Gino" Marella, better known by his ring name, Gorilla Monsoon, was an American professional wrestler, play-by-play commentator, and booker.
1942
Bill Rowe
Canadian lawyer and politician
William Neil Rowe, is a former politician, lawyer, broadcaster, and writer in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
1947
Viktor Klima
Austrian businessman and politician, 25th Chancellor of Austria
Viktor Klima is a retired Austrian politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPÖ). He served as Chancellor of Austria from 1997 to 2000.
1948
Jürgen Sparwasser
German footballer and manager
Jürgen Sparwasser is a retired German football player and, later, briefly a football manager.
1950
Raymond Dumais
Canadian bishop (died 2012)
Raymond Dumais was the Roman Catholic bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Gaspé, Quebec, Canada.
1951
Lyle Stewart
Canadian politician, Saskatchewan MLA (1999–2023) (died 2024)
Lyle Eldon Stewart was a Canadian provincial politician. A member of the Saskatchewan Party, he served six terms in the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan.
1952
Stephen J. Hemsley
American businessman
Stephen J. Hemsley is an American businessman. He is the board chairman and chief executive officer of UnitedHealth Group Inc.
1953
Susumu Ojima
Japanese businessman, founded Huser
Susumu Ojima is a Japanese entrepreneur who was a founder and chairman of Huser Co., Ltd.
1954
Kazuhiro Yamaji
Japanese actor and voice actor
Kazuhiro Yamaji is a Japanese actor and voice actor affiliated with the Seinenza Theater Company. He has been married to Romi Park since 2020.
1956
Joyce Sidman
American author and poet
Joyce Sidman is an American children's writer. She was a runner-up for the 2011 Newbery Medal, and won the Sibert Medal in 2019.
1957
Neil McNab
Scottish footballer
Neil McNab is a Scottish former footballer who played as a midfielder.
1959
Georgios Voulgarakis
Greek politician, 21st Greek Minister for Culture
Georgios Voulgarakis is a Greek politician and the former Minister for Mercantile Marine, Aegean Sea and Island Policy.
1960
Bradley Walsh
English television presenter, comedian, singer and former footballer
Bradley John Walsh is an English actor, television presenter, comedian, singer, and former professional footballer.
1960
Miloš Đelmaš
Serbian footballer and manager
Miloš Đelmaš is a Serbian retired professional footballer who played as a midfielder.
1963
Sean Fitzpatrick
New Zealand rugby union player
Sean Brian Thomas Fitzpatrick is a New Zealand former rugby union player.
1965
Mick Doohan
Australian motorcycle racer
Michael Sydney Doohan is an Australian former Grand Prix motorcycle road racing World Champion, who won five consecutive 500 cc World Championships.
1967
Michael Greyeyes
Canadian actor, dancer, choreographer, director, and educator
Michael Greyeyes is a Canadian First Nations actor, dancer, choreographer, director, and educator.
1970
Dave Pybus
English bass player and songwriter
Dave Pybus is an English extreme metal musician, best known as the former bass player of Cradle of Filth.
1974
Janette Husárová
Slovak tennis player
Janette Husárová is a Slovak former tennis player.
1975
Dinanath Ramnarine
Trinidadian cricketer
Dinanath Ramnarine is a Trinidadian cricketer who retired in 2002.
1976
Nenad Zimonjić
Serbian tennis player
Nenad Zimonjić is a Serbian former professional tennis player who was ranked world No. 1 in doubles.
1977
Dionisis Chiotis
Greek footballer
Dionysis Chiotis is a Greek former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper. Currently, he serves as a goalkeeping coach for OFI.
1981
1982
Matt Gilks
Scottish footballer
Matthew Gilks is a former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper.
1983
Emmanuel Eboué
Ivorian footballer
Emmanuel Eboué is an Ivorian former professional footballer who played as a right back.
1983
Olha Saladuha
Ukrainian triple jumper
Olha Valeriivna Saladukha is a Ukrainian former triple jumper. Since the 2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election she is a member of the Ukrainian parliament.
1984
Enrico Rossi Chauvenet
Italian footballer
Enrico Rossi Chauvenet is an Italian footballer who plays as a goalkeeper.
1985
Anna-Lena Grönefeld
German tennis player
Anna-Lena Grönefeld is a German former professional tennis player.
1985
Oddvar Reiakvam
Norwegian politician
Oddvar Hallset Reiakvam is a Norwegian politician as a member of the Progress Party.
1987
Mollie King
English singer, former member of The Saturdays
Mollie Elizabeth King is an English radio presenter, singer and songwriter who rose to fame as a member of girl group the Saturdays.
1991
Matt McIlwrick
New Zealand rugby league player
Matt McIlwrick is a New Zealand former professional rugby league footballer who played as a hooker and lock.
1992
Jordan Hugill
English footballer
Jordan Thomas Hugill is an English professional footballer who plays as a forward for National League club Hartlepool United.
1993
Aaron Nola
American baseball player
Aaron Michael Nola is an American professional baseball pitcher for the Philadelphia Phillies of Major League Baseball (MLB).
1993
Annika Taylor
British-American cross-country skier
Annika Taylor is a cross-country skier with joint British and American nationality.
1993
Juan Iturbe
Paraguayan footballer
Juan Manuel Iturbe Arévalo is a professional footballer who plays as a winger for Cerro Porteño.
1996
Oli McBurnie
Scottish footballer
Oliver Robert McBurnie is a professional footballer who plays as a striker for Premier League club Hull City and the Scotland national football team.