Famous Birthdays on March 20

March 20 has 255 recorded notable births across history, from 43 BC to 2004. This page lists every one of them, with the best-known people first.

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Chester Bennington

1976 — Chester Bennington

American singer and songwriter (died 2017)

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Famous Birthdays 255 source records 43 BC – 2004 Pisces Aquamarine birthstone Daffodil birth flower

Major events on March 20

See what else happened on this day in history.

  1. 1903 The first of a series of auctions of sheep farming land in southern Patagonia takes place impacting established settlers. Source
  2. 1888 The premiere of the very first Romani language operetta is staged in Moscow, Russia. Source

Did you know about Chester Bennington

Chester Charles Bennington was an American singer and songwriter.

Did you know about Ruby Rose

Ruby Rose Langenheim is an Australian actress, television presenter, and model.

Did you know about Michael Rapaport

Michael Rapaport's film roles include Zebrahead (1992), True Romance (1993), Higher Learning (1995), Metro (1997), Cop Land (1997), Deep Blue Sea (1999), The 6th Day (2000), Dr. Dolittle 2 (2001), Big Fan (2009), and The Heat (2013).

Did you know about Mikey Day

Mikey Day was hired as a writer for the NBC sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live before its 39th season in 2013.

Did you know about Jahmyr Gibbs

Gibbs was selected with the 12th overall pick by the Lions in the first round of the 2023 NFL draft.


More major people born on March 20

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

1986 Ruby Rose

Ruby Rose

Australian actress and model
Ruby Rose Langenheim is an Australian actress, television presenter, and model. She gained prominence for her role in season three of the Netflix series Orange Is the New Black (2015–2016) and for portraying Kate Kane / Batwoman in the Arrowverse television franchise, including season one of the series Batwoman (2019–2020).
1970 Michael Rapaport

Michael Rapaport

American actor and comedian
Michael David Rapaport is an American actor, comedian, and podcast host. His film roles include Zebrahead (1992), True Romance (1993), Higher Learning (1995), Metro (1997), Cop Land (1997), Deep Blue Sea (1999), The 6th Day (2000), Dr. Dolittle 2 (2001), Big Fan (2009), and The Heat (2013). On television, he headlined the Fox sitcom The War at Home (2005–2007) and was a series regular on the Fox drama Boston Public (2001–2004), the fourth season of the Fox serial drama Prison Break (2008–2009), and the Netflix comedy drama Atypical (2017–2021). Rapaport held recurring roles on the NBC sitcoms Friends (1999), My Name Is Earl (2007–2008), and Justified (2014). Outside of his acting career, Rapaport directed the 2011 documentary Beats, Rhymes & Life: The Travels of A Tribe Called Quest about the hip hop group A Tribe Called Quest. Active on several podcasts, he is the host of the I Am Rapaport Stereo Podcast.
1980 Mikey Day

Mikey Day

American actor and comedian
Michael William Day is an American actor and comedian. He was hired as a writer for the NBC sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live before its 39th season in 2013. Shortly thereafter, he joined as an on-air featured player during the show's 42nd season in 2016, later being promoted to repertory status beginning with the 44th season in 2018. Day is also the host of the Netflix show Is It Cake? He previously was an on-air correspondent for The Tonight Show with Jay Leno and The Jay Leno Show.
2002 Jahmyr Gibbs

Jahmyr Gibbs

American football player
Jahmyr Gibbs is an American professional football running back for the Detroit Lions of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets and Alabama Crimson Tide. Gibbs was selected with the 12th overall pick by the Lions in the first round of the 2023 NFL draft.
1950 William Hurt

William Hurt

American actor (died 2022)
William McChord Hurt was an American actor. Known for his performances on stage and screen, he received various accolades including an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, and a Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actor, in addition to nominations for five Golden Globe Awards, two Primetime Emmy Awards, and a Tony Award.
1957 Spike Lee

Spike Lee

American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
Shelton Jackson "Spike" Lee is an American filmmaker and actor. Cited by various publications as one of the most important filmmakers of the late 20th century, his work explores issues including race relations, issues within the black community, the role of media in contemporary life, urban crime and poverty. Lee has received numerous accolades including an Academy Award, a British Academy Film Award, and four Emmy Awards, as well as nominations for three Golden Globe Awards and a Grammy Award.
2003 Cooper Hoffman

Cooper Hoffman

American actor
Cooper Alexander Hoffman is an American actor. He made his acting debut with a leading role in Paul Thomas Anderson's coming-of-age film Licorice Pizza (2021), for which he was nominated for a Golden Globe Award. He has since portrayed Dick Ebersol in the comedy-drama Saturday Night (2024) and played the lead role in The Long Walk (2025), adapted from Stephen King's 1979 novel. He made his stage debut in an Off-Broadway production of Sam Shepard's tragedy play Curse of the Starving Class (2025).
1959 Sting

Sting

American wrestler
Steve Borden, better known by the ring name Sting, is an American retired professional wrestler. He is signed to All Elite Wrestling (AEW), with which he continues to make sporadic appearances since his retirement. Borden is best known for his lengthy runs in two major American professional wrestling promotions: World Championship Wrestling (WCW) from 1988 to 2001 and Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) from 2003 to 2014, as well as his retirement run in AEW from 2020 to 2024. Although the World Wrestling Federation purchased WCW in 2001, Borden did not sign with them at the time; he would later work in WWE from 2014 to 2020. Prior to WCW, he wrestled for the National Wrestling Alliance's (NWA) Jim Crockett Promotions (JCP)—which became WCW in 1988—the Universal Wrestling Federation (UWF), and the Continental Wrestling Association (CWA). Borden wore face-paint throughout his career, and in 1996, changed from the multi-colored paint of his "Surfer" persona to the monochromatic paint of the "Crow" gimmick.
1928 Fred Rogers

Fred Rogers

American television host and author
Fred McFeely Rogers, also known professionally as Mister Rogers, was an American television personality, Presbyterian minister, and author. He was the creator, showrunner, and host of the preschool television series Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, which ran from 1968 to 2001.
1963 David Thewlis

David Thewlis

English actor
David Wheeler, better known by his stage name David Thewlis, is an English actor and filmmaker. He has won one Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actor and received nominations for two BAFTA Awards, one Golden Globe Award, one Primetime Emmy Award, and one Screen Actors Guild Award.
1958 Holly Hunter

Holly Hunter

American actress
Holly Hunter is an American actress. Born in Conyers, Georgia, her first acting role was as Helen Keller in a fifth-grade play, before appearing in Rockdale County High School stagings of Oklahoma!, Man of La Mancha, and Fiddler on the Roof. In Pittsburgh, she graduated with a drama degree at Carnegie Mellon University and performed in local theater.
1984 Fernando Torres

Fernando Torres

Spanish footballer
Fernando José Torres Sanz is a Spanish football manager and former player who played as a striker. He is the current manager of Atlético Madrid B. Due to his consistent goalscoring as a young player, Torres came to be nicknamed El Niño, which stuck with him throughout his career. In his prime, he was regarded as one of the best strikers in the world and was known for his pace, prolific goalscoring, and technical abilities.
1937 Jerry Reed

Jerry Reed

American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor (died 2008)
Jerry Reed Hubbard, known professionally as Jerry Reed, was an American country singer, guitarist, composer, songwriter, and actor who appeared in more than a dozen films. His signature songs included "Guitar Man", "U.S. Male", "A Thing Called Love", "Alabama Wild Man", "Amos Moses", "When You're Hot, You're Hot", "Ko-Ko Joe", "Lord, Mr. Ford", "East Bound and Down", "The Bird", and "She Got the Goldmine ".
1948 John de Lancie

John de Lancie

American actor
John Sherwood de Lancie Jr. is an American actor. De Lancie's first television role was in Captains and the Kings in 1976. His other television series roles include Eugene Bradford in Days of Our Lives, Frank Simmons in Stargate SG-1 (2001–2002), Donald Margolis in Breaking Bad (2009–2010), Agent Allen Shapiro in Torchwood (2011), the voice of Discord in My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (2011–2019), as well as Q in various Star Trek series, beginning with Star Trek: The Next Generation in 1987 and leading up to the third season of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds in 2025.
1948 Bobby Orr

Bobby Orr

Canadian ice hockey player
Robert Gordon Orr is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player who is widely acknowledged as one of the greatest players of all time. Orr used his skating speed, scoring, and play-making abilities to revolutionize the position of defenceman. He played in the National Hockey League (NHL) for 12 seasons, the first 10 with the Boston Bruins, followed by two with the Chicago Black Hawks. Orr remains the only defenceman to have won the league scoring title with two Art Ross Trophies. He holds the record for most points and assists in a single season by a defenceman. Orr won a record eight consecutive Norris Trophies as the NHL's best defenceman and three consecutive Hart Trophies as the league's most valuable player (MVP). Orr was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1979 at age 31, the youngest to be inducted at that time. In 2017, Orr was named by the National Hockey League as one of the "100 Greatest NHL Players" in history.
1979 Bianca Lawson

Bianca Lawson

American actress
Bianca Lawson is an American actress. Lawson is known for her regular roles in the television series Saved by the Bell: The New Class, Goode Behavior, Pretty Little Liars, and Rogue. She has also had recurring roles in the series Sister, Sister, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, The Steve Harvey Show, Dawson's Creek, The Secret Life of the American Teenager, The Vampire Diaries, Teen Wolf, and Witches of East End. In 2016, Lawson began starring in the Oprah Winfrey Network drama series Queen Sugar.
1979 Daniel Cormier

Daniel Cormier

American mixed martial artist
Daniel Ryan Cormier is an American former professional mixed martial artist, freestyle wrestler, and current color commentator for the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC). As a former UFC Light Heavyweight and Heavyweight Champion, Cormier is the second fighter in UFC history to hold titles in two weight classes simultaneously and is the first fighter to have title defenses in two divisions. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest mixed martial artists of all time.
1945 Pat Riley

Pat Riley

American basketball player, coach and executive
Patrick James Riley is an American professional basketball executive, former coach, and former player in the National Basketball Association (NBA). He has been the team president of the Miami Heat since 1995, and he also served as the team's head coach from 1995 to 2003 and again from 2005 to 2008.
1963 Kathy Ireland

Kathy Ireland

American model, actress and businesswoman
Kathleen Marie Ireland is an American actress, author, entrepreneur, fashion designer, philanthropist, and former fashion model. Ireland was a supermodel in the 1980s and 1990s, initially known for appearing in 13 consecutive Sports Illustrated swimsuit issues, including three covers. In 1993, she founded a brand licensing company, Kathy Ireland Worldwide (KIWW), which has made her one of the wealthiest former models in the world. As a result of her career in business, she earned a $420 million personal fortune by 2015. In 2021 alone, her company generated retail sales of $3.1 billion. The brand became ranked number 15 in the world and Ireland entered the Licensing Hall of Fame.
1969 Yvette Cooper

Yvette Cooper

English economist and politician, former Secretary of State for Work and Pensions
Yvette Cooper is a British politician who has served as Secretary of State for Health and Social Care since July 2026. She previously served as Foreign Secretary from September 2025 to July 2026 and as Home Secretary from 2024 to 2025. A member of the Labour Party, Cooper has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Pontefract, Castleford and Knottingley, formerly Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford, since 1997. She previously held various ministerial positions under Tony Blair and Gordon Brown from 1999 to 2010, lastly as Secretary of State for Work and Pensions from 2009 to 2010.
1915 Sister Rosetta Tharpe

Sister Rosetta Tharpe

American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 1973)
Sister Rosetta Tharpe was an American singer, songwriter, and guitarist. She gained popularity in the 1930s and 1940s with her gospel recordings, characterized by a unique mixture of spiritual lyrics and electric guitar. She was rooted in a pentecostal church and became the first great recording star of gospel music, and was among the first gospel musicians to appeal to rhythm and blues and rock and roll audiences, later being referred to as "the original soul sister" and "the Godmother of Rock and Roll". She influenced early rock-and-roll musicians, including Tina Turner, Little Richard, Chuck Berry, Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins, Elvis Presley, and Jerry Lee Lewis.
1917 Vera Lynn

Vera Lynn

English singer and actress (died 2020)
Dame Vera Margaret Lewis, known professionally as Vera Lynn, was an English singer and entertainer whose musical recordings and performances were popular during World War II. She is honorifically known as the "Forces' Sweetheart", having given outdoor concerts for the troops in Egypt, India, and Burma during the war as part of the Entertainments National Service Association. The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography wrote of Lynn, "Her reassuring voice and mastery of radio made her the forces' sweetheart in the Second World War—a connection she fostered with her ongoing commitment to veterans and memory of the war." The songs most associated with her include "We'll Meet Again", "(There'll Be Bluebirds Over) The White Cliffs of Dover" and "A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square".
1944 Camille Cosby

Camille Cosby

American author, producer, and philanthropist
Camille Olivia Cosby is an American television producer, philanthropist, and the wife of comedian Bill Cosby. The character of Clair Huxtable from The Cosby Show was based on her. Cosby has avoided public life, but has been active in her husband's businesses as a manager, as well as involving herself in academia and writing. In 1990, Cosby earned a master's degree from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, followed by a Doctorate of Education (Ed.D.) in 1992.
1980 Jamal Crawford

Jamal Crawford

American basketball player
Aaron Jamal Crawford is an American former professional basketball player who played in the National Basketball Association (NBA) from 2000 to 2020. Nicknamed "J-Crossover", he is regarded as one of the best ball handlers in NBA history. Also regarded as one of the best sixth men in league's history, Crawford was named NBA Sixth Man of the Year three times, a record he shares with Lou Williams.
1979 Freema Agyeman

Freema Agyeman

English actress
Freema Agyeman is an English actress. She rose to fame with her role as the Doctor's companion Martha Jones in the BBC science fiction series Doctor Who (2007–2010) and its spin-off Torchwood (2008), and received further recognition for playing Crown Prosecutor Alesha Phillips in the ITV crime procedural Law & Order: UK (2009–2012), Amanita Caplan in the Netflix science fiction drama Sense8 (2015–2018) and Dr. Helen Sharpe in the NBC medical drama New Amsterdam (2018–2023).
1957 Theresa Russell

Theresa Russell

American actress
Theresa Lynn Russell is an American actress whose career spans over four decades. Her filmography includes over 50 feature films, ranging from mainstream to independent and experimental films. She is known for her frequent portrayals of brooding, troubled, and disturbed characters, as well as for her multiple collaborations with her husband, director Nicolas Roeg.
1962

Stephen Sommers

American director, producer, and screenwriter
Stephen Sommers is an American film director, screenwriter and producer, best known for big-budget action films, such as The Mummy (1999), its sequel, The Mummy Returns (2001), Van Helsing (2004), and G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra (2009). He also directed The Adventures of Huck Finn (1993), Disney's first live action version of Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book (1994) and the action horror film Deep Rising (1998).
1939 Brian Mulroney

Brian Mulroney

Canadian lawyer and politician, 18th Prime Minister of Canada (died 2024)
Martin Brian Mulroney was a Canadian lawyer, businessman, and politician who served as the 18th prime minister of Canada from 1984 to 1993. He led the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada and served as a member of Parliament (MP) from 1983 to 1993.
1937 Lois Lowry

Lois Lowry

American writer
Lois Ann Lowry is an American writer. She is the author of many books for children and young adults, including The Giver Quartet, Number the Stars, the Anastasia series, and Rabble Starkey. She is known for writing about difficult subject matter, dystopias, and complex themes in works for young audiences.
1950 Carl Palmer

Carl Palmer

English drummer
Carl Frederick Kendall Palmer is an English drummer. He was a founding member of the supergroups Emerson, Lake & Palmer and Asia, a touring drummer for The Crazy World of Arthur Brown and a founding member of Atomic Rooster. He has toured with his own bands since 2001, including Palmer, the Carl Palmer Band, and currently, Carl Palmer's ELP Legacy.
1968 Ultra Naté

Ultra Naté

American singer, songwriter, record producer, DJ, and promoter
Ultra Naté is an American singer, songwriter, record producer, DJ, and promoter who has achieved success on the pop charts with songs such as "Free", "If You Could Read My Mind", "Automatic", and "Movin' to the Sun".
2000 Hyunjin

Hyunjin

South Korean rapper
Hwang Hyun-jin, known mononymously as Hyunjin, is a South Korean rapper, dancer, and singer. He is a member of the South Korean boy band Stray Kids, formed by JYP Entertainment in 2017.
1989 Xavier Dolan

Xavier Dolan

Canadian actor and director
Xavier Dolan-Tadros is a Canadian filmmaker and actor. He began his career as a child actor in commercials before directing several arthouse feature films. He first received international acclaim in 2009 for his feature film directorial debut, I Killed My Mother, which he also starred in, wrote, and produced, and which premiered at the 62nd Cannes Film Festival in the Directors' Fortnight section and won three awards from the program.
1973 Cedric Yarbrough

Cedric Yarbrough

American actor and comedian
Cedric Yarbrough is an American actor and comedian. He has starred in the series Reno 911! as Deputy S. Jones and as Kenneth on the ABC sitcom Speechless, as well as voicing Gerald Fitzgerald on the Netflix comedy Paradise PD, Officer Meow Meow Fuzzyface on the Netflix comedy-drama BoJack Horseman, and Tom DuBois and Colonel H. Stinkmeaner on the Adult Swim sitcom The Boondocks.
1957 Chris Wedge

Chris Wedge

American animator, producer, screenwriter, and voice actor
John Christian Wedge is an American filmmaker, animator, and voice actor. He is best known for being the lead animator of the sci-fi action film Tron (1982), co-founding Blue Sky Studios, and directing the short film Bunny (1998) and the feature films Ice Age (2002), Robots (2005) and Epic (2013). He also directed the live-action film Monster Trucks (2016). Wedge has received two Academy Awards nominations: one for Bunny, for which he won Best Animated Short; and Ice Age, nominated for Best Animated Feature. He also created and voiced the character Scrat in the Ice Age franchise (2002–present).
1995 Nick Paul

Nick Paul

Canadian ice hockey player
Nicholas Paul is a Canadian professional ice hockey player who is a forward for the Toronto Maple Leafs of the National Hockey League (NHL). He was selected by the Dallas Stars in the fourth round, 101st overall, of the 2013 NHL entry draft. He has also played for the Tampa Bay Lightning and Ottawa Senators.
1986 Dean Geyer

Dean Geyer

South African-Australian singer-songwriter and actor
Dean Stanley Geyer is a South African Australian singer-songwriter, actor and martial artist who finished third in the 2006 season of the talent show television series Australian Idol, and has had a notable role in the Australian soap opera Neighbours as Ty Harper. He joined the cast of the US show Glee in the 4th season as NYADA Junior Brody Weston and appeared in Terra Nova as Mark Reynolds.
1984 IJustine

IJustine

American YouTuber
Justine Ezarik is an American YouTuber. She is best known as iJustine, with over one billion views on her YouTube channel. She gained attention as a lifecaster who communicated directly with her millions of viewers on her Justin.tv channel, ijustine.tv. She acquired notability in roles variously described as a "lifecasting star," a "new media star," or one of the Internet's most popular lifecasters. She posts videos on her main channel iJustine.
1936 Lee "Scratch" Perry

Lee "Scratch" Perry

Jamaican singer, songwriter, music producer, and inventor (died 2021)
Lee "Scratch" Perry was a Jamaican record producer, singer and songwriter noted for his innovative studio techniques and production style. Perry was a pioneer in the 1970s development of dub music with his early adoption of remixing and studio effects to create new instrumental or vocal versions of existing reggae tracks. He worked with and produced for a wide variety of artists, including Bob Marley and the Wailers, Junior Murvin, the Congos, Max Romeo, the Heptones, Adrian Sherwood, the Beastie Boys, Ari Up, the Clash, the Orb, and many others.
1990 Marcos Rojo

Marcos Rojo

Argentine footballer
Faustino Marcos Alberto Rojo is an Argentine professional footballer who plays as a defender for Argentine Primera División club Estudiantes. Mainly a centre-back, he can also play as a left-back.
2001 Trevor Zegras

Trevor Zegras

American ice hockey player
Trevor John Zegras is an American professional ice hockey player who is a center for the Philadelphia Flyers of the National Hockey League (NHL). He was selected ninth overall by the Anaheim Ducks in the 2019 NHL entry draft and made his NHL debut in the 2020–21 season.
1935 Ted Bessell

Ted Bessell

American actor and director (died 1996)
Howard Weston "Ted" Bessell Jr. was an American television actor and director widely known for his role as Donald Hollinger, the boyfriend and eventual fiancé of Marlo Thomas's character in the TV series That Girl (1966–1971).
1955 Mariya Takeuchi

Mariya Takeuchi

Japanese singer-songwriter
Mariya Takeuchi is a Japanese singer-songwriter and record producer. Regarded as the "Queen of City Pop", Takeuchi is one of the best-selling music artists in Japan with over 16 million records sold. Internationally, her 1985 song "Plastic Love" became a sleeper hit and the catalyst of the 21st century revival of city pop.
1972 Alex Kapranos

Alex Kapranos

English-Scottish singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
Alexander Paul Kapranos is a Scottish musician. He is the lead vocalist and guitarist of Scottish rock band Franz Ferdinand. He has also been a part of the supergroups FFS and BNQT.
1993 Sloane Stephens

Sloane Stephens

American tennis player
Sloane Stephens is an American professional tennis player. She has been ranked as high as world No. 3 in singles by the Women's Tennis Association. Stephens has won eight WTA Tour-level singles titles, including the 2017 US Open. She was also the runner-up at the 2018 French Open. She has a career-high doubles ranking of world No. 63, and has won one WTA Tour doubles title.
1943 Douglas Tompkins

Douglas Tompkins

American businessman, co-founded The North Face and Esprit Holdings (died 2015)
Douglas Rainsford Tompkins was an American businessman, conservationist, outdoorsman, philanthropist, filmmaker, and agriculturalist. He founded the North Face Inc., co-founded Esprit and various environmental groups, including the Foundation for Deep Ecology and Tompkins Conservation.
1925 John Ehrlichman

John Ehrlichman

American lawyer, 12th White House Counsel (died 1999)
John Daniel Ehrlichman was an American lawyer who served as White House Counsel and Assistant to the President for Domestic Affairs under President Richard Nixon. Ehrlichman was an important influence on Nixon's domestic policy, coaching him on issues and enlisting his support for environmental initiatives.
1959 Mary Roach

Mary Roach

American author
Mary Roach is an American author specializing in popular science and humor. She has published eight New York Times bestsellers: Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers (2003), Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife (2005), Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex (2008), Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void (2010), Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal (2013), Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War (2016), Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law (2021), and Replaceable You: Adventures in Human Anatomy (2025).
1970 Edoardo Ballerini

Edoardo Ballerini

American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
Edoardo Ballerini is an American actor, narrator, writer, and film director. On screen he is best known for his work as junkie Corky Caporale in The Sopranos and the hotheaded chef in the indie film Dinner Rush (2001). Ballerini is a two-time winner of the Audio Publishers Association's Best Male Narrator Audie Award (2013), Beautiful Ruins by Jess Walter; 2019 Watchers by Dean Koontz) and is the co-author of the story "The Angel Of Rome" in the 2021 collection of stories The Angel of Rome, by Jess Walter. His directorial debut, Good Night Valentino, premiered at the 2003 Sundance Film Festival.
1971 Touré

Touré

American journalist and author
Touré is an American writer, music journalist, cultural critic, podcaster, and television personality. He was a co-host of the TV show The Cycle on MSNBC. He was also a contributor to MSNBC's The Dylan Ratigan Show, and the host of Fuse's Hiphop Shop and On the Record. He serves on the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Nominating Committee. He taught a course on the history of hip-hop at the Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music, part of the Tisch School of the Arts in New York.
1915 Sviatoslav Richter

Sviatoslav Richter

Ukrainian pianist and composer (died 1997)
Sviatoslav Teofilovich Richter was a Soviet and Russian classical pianist. Widely considered one of the greatest pianists of the 20th century, he has been praised for the "depth of his interpretations, his virtuoso technique, and his vast repertoire".
1954 Mike Francesa

Mike Francesa

American radio talk show host and television commentator
Michael Patrick Francesa is an American sports-radio talk-show host. Together with Chris Russo, he launched Mike and the Mad Dog in 1989 on WFAN in New York City, which ran until 2008.
1943 Paul Junger Witt

Paul Junger Witt

American director and producer (died 2018)
Paul Junger Witt was an American film and television producer. He, with his partners Tony Thomas and Susan Harris, produced such television shows as Here Come the Brides, The Partridge Family, The Golden Girls, Soap, Benson, It's a Living, Empty Nest, and Blossom. The majority of their shows have been produced by their company, Witt/Thomas Productions, founded in 1975. Witt also produced the films Dead Poets Society, Three Kings, Insomnia, and the made-for-TV movie Brian's Song. He was a graduate of the University of Virginia.
1992 Justin Faulk

Justin Faulk

American ice hockey player
Justin Michael Faulk is an American professional ice hockey player who is a defenseman for the Detroit Red Wings of the National Hockey League (NHL). He played for the Carolina Hurricanes for the first eight years of his career, then playing seven seasons for the St. Louis Blues. He was selected by the Hurricanes in the second round of the 2010 NHL entry draft.
1967

Mookie Blaylock

American basketball player
Daron Oshay "Mookie" Blaylock is an American former professional basketball player. He spent 13 years in the National Basketball Association (NBA) with the New Jersey Nets, Atlanta Hawks, and the Golden State Warriors.
1955 Ian Moss

Ian Moss

Australian guitarist and singer-songwriter
Ian Richard Moss is an Australian rock musician from Alice Springs. He is the founding mainstay guitarist and occasional singer of Cold Chisel. In that group's initial eleven year phase from 1973 to 1984, Moss was recorded on all five studio albums, three of which reached number one on the national Kent Music Report Albums Chart. In August 1989 he released his debut solo album, Matchbook, which peaked at number one on the ARIA Albums Chart. It was preceded by his debut single, "Tucker's Daughter", which reached number two on the related ARIA Singles Chart in March. The track was co-written by Moss with Don Walker, also from Cold Chisel. Moss had another top ten hit with "Telephone Booth" in June 1989.
1919 Gerhard Barkhorn

Gerhard Barkhorn

German fighter ace (died 1983)
Gerhard "Gerd" Barkhorn was a German military aviator who was a renowned wing commander in the Luftwaffe during World War II. As a fighter ace, he was the second most successful fighter pilot of all time after fellow German Erich Hartmann. Other than Hartmann, Barkhorn is the only fighter ace to ever exceed 300 claimed victories. Following World War II, he became a high-ranking officer in the German Air Force of the Federal Republic of Germany.
1982 Tomasz Kuszczak

Tomasz Kuszczak

Polish footballer
Tomasz Mirosław Kuszczak is a Polish former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper. He was most recently the goalkeeping coach of the Poland national team.
1956 Catherine Ashton

Catherine Ashton

English politician, Vice-President of the European Commission
Catherine Margaret Ashton, Baroness Ashton of Upholland is a British Labour politician who served as the High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy and First Vice President of the European Commission in the Barroso Commission from 2009 to 2014.
1989 Tamim Iqbal

Tamim Iqbal

Bangladeshi cricketer
Tamim Iqbal Khan is a Bangladeshi cricket administrator and former cricketer. He has served as the president of the Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) since June 2026. A left-handed opening batter, he represented Bangladesh from 2007 to 2023, with over 15,000 career runs across Tests, One Day Internationals (ODIs), and Twenty20 Internationals (T20Is). Iqbal served as the ODI captain from 2020 to 2023.
1958

Rickey Jackson

American football player
Rickey Anderson Jackson is an American former professional football player who was a linebacker in the National Football League (NFL) for the New Orleans Saints (1981–1993) and the San Francisco 49ers (1994–1995). He led the team's Dome Patrol linebacker corps while playing with the Saints. In 1997, Jackson was inducted into the New Orleans Saints Hall of Fame. Jackson won a Super Bowl ring with the 49ers in Super Bowl XXIX one year before retiring. On February 7, 2010, Jackson was elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame, the same day his New Orleans Saints won Super Bowl XLIV.
1934 David Malouf

David Malouf

Australian author and playwright (died 2026)
David George Joseph Malouf was an Australian poet, novelist, short story writer, playwright and librettist. Elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in London in 2008, Malouf lectured at both the University of Queensland and the University of Sydney. He also delivered the 1998 Boyer Lectures.
1968 Ken Ono

Ken Ono

Japanese-American mathematician
Ken Ono is an American mathematician who studies number theory. Formerly the STEM Advisor to the Provost and the Marvin Rosenblum Professor of Mathematics at the University of Virginia, he now works in artificial intelligence at Axiom Math in Palo Alto, California.
1972 Chilly Gonzales

Chilly Gonzales

Canadian-German singer-songwriter, pianist, and producer
Jason Charles Beck, known professionally as Chilly Gonzales or just Gonzales, is a Canadian musician and composer. Currently based in London, England, he previously lived for several years in Paris, Berlin, and Cologne.
2004 Belle

Belle

American singer
Shim Hye-won, better known by her stage name Belle (벨), is an American singer. She is a member of the South Korean girl group Kiss of Life.
1975 Ramin Bahrani

Ramin Bahrani

American director, producer, and screenwriter
Ramin Bahrani is an American director and screenwriter. Film critic Roger Ebert ranked Bahrani's Chop Shop (2007) as the sixth-best film of the 2000s, calling him "the new director of the decade". Bahrani was the recipient of the 2009 Guggenheim Fellowship. Bahrani is a professor of film directing at his alma mater, the Columbia University School of the Arts.
1945 Tim Yeo

Tim Yeo

English politician, Shadow Secretary of State for Health
Timothy Stephen Kenneth Yeo is a British politician. A member of the Conservative Party, he was the Member of Parliament (MP) for the constituency of South Suffolk between the 1983 United Kingdom general election and that of 2015, when he was deselected by his constituency party.
1943 Gerard Malanga

Gerard Malanga

American poet and photographer
Gerard Joseph Malanga is an American poet, photographer, filmmaker, actor, curator, and archivist. He is best known for his work with Pop artist Andy Warhol at the Factory from 1963 to 1970. The New York Times described him as "Andy Warhol's most important associate."
1916 Pierre Messmer

Pierre Messmer

French lieutenant and politician, Prime Minister of France (died 2007)
Pierre Joseph Auguste Messmer was a French Gaullist politician. He served as Minister of Armies under Charles de Gaulle from 1960 to 1969 – the longest serving since Étienne François, duc de Choiseul under Louis XV – and then as Prime Minister under Georges Pompidou from 1972 to 1974. A member of the French Foreign Legion, he was considered one of the historical Gaullists, and died aged 91 in the military hospital of the Val-de-Grâce in August 2007. He was elected a member of the Académie française in 1999; his seat was taken over by Simone Veil.
1957 David Foster

David Foster

Australian woodchopper
David George Foster OAM is an Australian world champion woodchopper, and Tasmanian community figure. He held the World 600 mm Double-handed Sawing Championship title at Sydney Royal Easter Show for 21 consecutive years, and is Australia's most successful athlete and first and possibly the only athlete in any sport in the world to win over 1,000 titles.
1918 Jack Barry

Jack Barry

American game show host and producer, co-founded Barry & Enright Productions (died 1984)
Jack Barry was an American game show host, television personality and executive who made a name for himself in the game show field. Barry served as host of several game shows in his career, many of which he developed along with Dan Enright as part of their joint operation Barry & Enright Productions.
1978 Kevin Betsy

Kevin Betsy

English-Seychellois footballer and manager
Kevin Eddie Lewis Betsy is a football coach and a former professional footballer having played at the Championship level, briefly in the Premier League, and for the Seychelles national team. Betsy is currently the assistant coach at championship club Queens Park Rangers.
1973 Nicky Boje

Nicky Boje

South African cricketer
Nico Boje is a South African former cricketer who played in 43 Tests, 115 One Day Internationals and single Twenty20 International for South Africa. Boje was a member of the South Africa team that won the 1998 ICC KnockOut Trophy.
1961 Jesper Olsen

Jesper Olsen

Danish footballer and manager
Jesper Olsen is a Danish former professional footballer who played as a left winger. He is best remembered for representing Ajax of the Netherlands and Manchester United of England. He was a regular player for the Danish national team, scoring five goals in 43 matches. He represented Denmark at the Euro 1984 and 1986 World Cup tournaments.
1956 Naoto Takenaka

Naoto Takenaka

Japanese actor, comedian, singer, and director
Naoto Takenaka is a Japanese actor, comedian, singer, whistler, and director from Kanazawa-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, affiliated with From First Production. He is married to idol singer and actress Midori Kinouchi. He is also known as the voice of Samuel L. Jackson in the dubbed version of the Avengers film series as Nick Fury.
1964 Natacha Atlas

Natacha Atlas

Belgian singer-songwriter
Natacha Atlas is an Egyptian-Belgian singer known for her fusion of Arabic and Western music, particularly hip-hop. She once termed her music "cha'abi moderne". Her music has been influenced by many styles including Maghrebain, hip-hop, drum and bass and reggae.
1991 Nick Leddy

Nick Leddy

American ice hockey player
Nicholas Michael Leddy is an American professional ice hockey defenseman who is currently an unrestricted free agent. He most recently played for the San Jose Sharks of the National Hockey League (NHL). He was drafted in the first round, 16th overall, by the Minnesota Wild in the 2009 NHL entry draft. He previously played for the Chicago Blackhawks, New York Islanders, Detroit Red Wings and St. Louis Blues. He won a Stanley Cup with the Blackhawks in 2013.
1856 Frederick Winslow Taylor

Frederick Winslow Taylor

American tennis player and engineer (died 1915)
Frederick Winslow Taylor was an American mechanical engineer. He was widely known for his methods to improve industrial efficiency. He was one of the first management consultants. In 1909, Taylor summed up his efficiency techniques in his book The Principles of Scientific Management which, in 2001, Fellows of the Academy of Management voted the most influential management book of the twentieth century. His pioneering work in applying engineering principles to the work done on the factory floor was instrumental in the creation and development of the branch of engineering that is now known as industrial engineering. Taylor made his name, and was most proud of his work, in scientific management; as a result, scientific management is sometimes referred to as Taylorism. His main source of income came from patenting improvements to steelmaking.
-43 Ovid

Ovid

Roman poet (died 17)
Publius Ovidius Naso, known in English as Ovid, was a Roman poet who lived during the reign of Augustus. He was a younger contemporary of Virgil and Horace, with whom he is often ranked as one of the three canonical poets of Latin literature. The Imperial scholar Quintilian considered him to be the last of the Latin love elegists. Although Ovid enjoyed enormous popularity during his lifetime, the emperor Augustus exiled him to Tomis, the capital of the newly organized province of Moesia, on the Black Sea, where he remained for the last nine or 10 years of his life. Ovid himself attributed his banishment to a carmen et error, but his reluctance to disclose specifics has resulted in much speculation among scholars.
1639 Ivan Mazepa

Ivan Mazepa

Ukrainian diplomat, Hetman of Ukraine (died 1709)
Ivan Stepanovych Mazepa was a Ukrainian military, political and civic leader who served as hetman of the Cossack Hetmanate in 1687–1709. His long and stable rule was marked by economical and political recovery from the Ruin. A loyal subject of Russia during most of his rule, Mazepa's close relationship with Tsar Peter I deteriorated as a result of the latter's administrative reforms, which increasingly deprived Mazepa and the Hetmanate of their autonomy. In 1708, Mazepa abandoned his alliance with Peter I and sided with Charles XII of Sweden after the Tsar refused to protect the Hetmanate against the advancing Swedes, instead ordering that much of Ukraine be burned to prevent the Swedes from gaining access to supplies and winter quarters.
1928 James P. Gordon

James P. Gordon

American physicist and engineer (died 2013)
James Power Gordon was an American physicist known for his work in the fields of optics and quantum electronics. His contributions include the design, analysis and construction of the first maser in 1954 as a doctoral student at Columbia University under the supervision of C. H. Townes, development of the quantal equivalent of Shannon's information capacity formula in 1962, development of the theory for the diffusion of atoms in an optical trap in 1980, and the discovery of what is now known as the Gordon-Haus effect in soliton transmission, together with H. A. Haus in 1986. Gordon was a member of the National Academy of Engineering and the National Academy of Sciences.
1938 John Barnhill

John Barnhill

American basketball player and coach (died 2013)
John Anthony "Rabbit" Barnhill was an American professional basketball player. He played for the St. Louis Hawks, Detroit Pistons, Baltimore Bullets and San Diego Rockets in the National Basketball Association (NBA); and the Indianapolis Pacers and Denver Rockets in the American Basketball Association (ABA). Barnhill attended Tennessee A & I State College where he was the starting point guard on three consecutive NAIA national men's basketball championship teams from 1956 to 1959, playing under Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame coach John McClendon. These three teams were collectively inducted into the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame in 2019. He was named to the first or second all-tournament teams in each of those seasons.
1918 Marian McPartland

Marian McPartland

English-American pianist and composer (died 2013)
Margaret Marian McPartland OBE, was an English and American jazz pianist, composer, and writer. She was the host of Marian McPartland's Piano Jazz on National Public Radio from 1978 to 2011.
1995 Kei

Kei

South Korean singer
Kim Ji-yeon , known professionally as Kei (케이), is a South Korean singer and musical actress. She rose to fame as a member of South Korean girl group Lovelyz in November 2014. Kei officially made her solo debut with the EP, Over and Over on October 8, 2019. On November 16, 2021, she left Woollim Entertainment, although she remains as a member of Lovelyz. She joined Palm Tree Island in January 2022 to focus on her musical career, before moving to A2Z Entertainment later that year. In 2023, Kei participated in Mnet reality competition show Queendom Puzzle, debuting with the resulting project supergroup El7z Up in September of that year.
1828 Henrik Ibsen

Henrik Ibsen

Norwegian poet, playwright, and director (died 1906)
Henrik Johan Ibsen was a Norwegian playwright. He is considered one of the world's pre-eminent writers of the 19th century and is often referred to as "the father of modern drama". He pioneered theatrical realism but also wrote lyrical epic works. His major works include Brand, Peer Gynt, Emperor and Galilean, A Doll's House, Ghosts, An Enemy of the People, The Wild Duck, Rosmersholm, Hedda Gabler, The Master Builder, and When We Dead Awaken. In 2014, Ibsen was considered the most frequently performed dramatist in the world after Shakespeare. Store norske leksikon describes him as "the center of the Norwegian literary canon".
1927 John Joubert

John Joubert

South African-English composer and academic (died 2019)
John Pierre Herman Joubert was a British composer of South African birth, particularly of choral works. He lived in Moseley, a suburb of Birmingham, England, for over 50 years. A music academic in the universities of Hull and Birmingham for 36 years, Joubert took early retirement in 1986 to concentrate on composing and remained active into his eighties. Though perhaps best known for his choral music, particularly the carols Torches and There is No Rose of Such Virtue and the anthem O Lorde, the Maker of Al Thing, Joubert composed over 160 works including three symphonies, four concertos and seven operas.
1939 Don Edwards

Don Edwards

American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2022)
Don Edwards was an American cowboy singer, guitarist, and recording artist who specialized in Western music. Two of his albums, Guitars & Saddle Songs and Songs of the Cowboy, are included in the Folklore Archives of the Library of Congress.
1979 Shinnosuke Abe

Shinnosuke Abe

Japanese baseball player
Shinnosuke Abe is a Japanese former professional baseball player and manager. He spent his entire 19-year career with Nippon Professional Baseball's Yomiuri Giants, serving as the team's captain from 2007 to 2014. He has twice been named the MVP of the Nippon Professional Baseball All-Star Series, in 2007 and 2010. Currently, he serves as the manager for the Giants.
1865 Mike Griffin

Mike Griffin

American baseball player (died 1908)
Michael Joseph Griffin was an American Major League Baseball center fielder who was born in Utica, New York. He played in 1,511 games over 12 seasons for teams in the American Association, Players' League, and National League. He had 1,755 hits, resulting in a .296 batting average, and was a prolific base stealer who swiped 473 bases during his career. In his last year in the majors, he was also a player-manager for the Brooklyn Bridegrooms. He scored 1,406 runs in his career; only Billy Hamilton recorded more runs than Griffin in the span of his career.
1983 Jenni Vartiainen

Jenni Vartiainen

Finnish singer
Jenni Mari Vartiainen is a Finnish pop singer. Before her professional musical endeavours, she was a figure skater in her teenage years and attended the Kuopio Senior High of Music and Dance. Vartiainen rose to publicity by winning the Finnish talent show Popstars in October 2002 with Susanna Korvala, Ushma Karnani and Jonna Pirinen. The four formed the band Gimmel that released three studio albums, sold over 160,000 records and received three Emma Awards, accolades for outstanding achievements in music, awarded by the Finnish music industry federation, Musiikkituottajat. The band broke up in October 2004.
1940 Mary Ellen Mark

Mary Ellen Mark

American photographer and journalist (died 2015)
Mary Ellen Mark was an American photographer known for her photojournalism, documentary photography, portraiture, and advertising photography. She photographed people who were "away from mainstream society and toward its more interesting, often troubled fringes".
1615 Dara Shikoh

Dara Shikoh

Indian prince (died 1659)
Dara Shikoh, also transliterated as Dara Shukoh, was the eldest son and heir-apparent of the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan. Dara was designated with the title Padshahzada-i-Buzurg Martaba and was favoured as a successor by his father and his elder sister, Princess Jahanara Begum. He had been given the title of 'Shah-e-Buland Iqbal' by Shah Jahan. In the war of succession which ensued after Shah Jahan's illness in 1657, Dara was defeated by his younger brother Prince Muhiuddin. He was executed in 1659 on Aurangzeb's orders after a bitter struggle for the imperial throne.
1985 Ronnie Brewer

Ronnie Brewer

American basketball player
Ronnie Brewer is an American former professional basketball player and currently an assistant coach. Brewer played collegiately at the University of Arkansas, where his father Ron Brewer was a star in the late 1970s. Brewer is known for having an unorthodox shooting technique, the result of a childhood water slide injury.
1946 Douglas B. Green

Douglas B. Green

American singer-songwriter and guitarist
Douglas Bruce Green, better known by his stage name Ranger Doug, is an American musician, arranger, award-winning Western music songwriter, and Grand Ole Opry member best known for his work with Western music and the group Riders in the Sky in which he plays guitar and sings lead and baritone vocals. He is also a yodeler. With the Riders, he is billed as "Ranger Doug — The Idol of American Youth" and "Governor of the Great State of Rhythm". He is also a member of The Time Jumpers.
1947 John Boswell

John Boswell

American historian, philologist, and academic (died 1994)
John Eastburn Boswell was an American historian and a full professor at Yale University. Many of Boswell's studies focused on the issue of religion and homosexuality, specifically Christianity and homosexuality. Much of his work addressed the history of marginalized groups, particularly in the context of religion and sexuality.
1871 Joe McGinnity

Joe McGinnity

American baseball player
Joseph Jerome McGinnity was an American right-handed pitcher in Major League Baseball (MLB) in the late 19th and early 20th century. McGinnity played in MLB for ten years, pitching for the National League's (NL) Baltimore Orioles (1899) and Brooklyn Superbas (1900), before jumping to the American League (AL) to play for the Baltimore Orioles (AL) (1901–1902). He returned to the NL with the New York Giants (1902–1908). McGinnity continued to pitch in the minor leagues, eventually retiring from baseball for good at the age of 54.
1993 JaKarr Sampson

JaKarr Sampson

American basketball player
JaKarr Jordan Sampson is an American-Bahraini professional basketball player for the Beijing Ducks of the Chinese Basketball Association (CBA). He played college basketball for the St. John's Red Storm. He is a frequent rebounder and shot-blocker, and is noted for his speed and a near 7'0" wingspan. He won a national championship with Brewster Academy in 2012 after achieving star status with his high school team.
1909 Elisabeth Geleerd

Elisabeth Geleerd

Dutch-American psychoanalyst (died 1969)
Elisabeth Rozetta Geleerd Loewenstein was a Dutch-American psychoanalyst. Born to an upper-middle-class family in Rotterdam, Geleerd studied psychoanalysis in Vienna, then London, under Anna Freud. Building a career in the United States, she became one of the nation's major practitioners in child and adolescent psychoanalysis throughout the mid-20th century. Geleerd specialized in the psychoanalysis of psychosis, including schizophrenia, and was an influential writer on psychoanalysis in childhood schizophrenia. She was one of the first writers to consider the concept of borderline personality disorder in childhood.
1725 Abdul Hamid I

Abdul Hamid I

Ottoman sultan (died 1789)
Abdülhamid I or Abdul Hamid I was the sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1774 to 1789. A devout and pacifist sultan, he inherited a bankrupt empire and sought military reforms, including overhauling the Janissaries and navy. Despite internal efforts and quelling revolts in Syria, Egypt, and Greece, his reign saw the critical loss of Crimea and defeat by Russia and Austria. The 1774 Treaty of Küçük Kaynarca granted Russia territorial and religious influence. He died soon after the fall of Ochakov in 1788.
1945 Jay Ingram

Jay Ingram

Canadian television host and author
Jay Ingram CM is a Canadian author, broadcaster and science communicator. He was host of the television show Daily Planet, which aired on Discovery Channel Canada, since the channel's inception in 1995. Ingram's last episode of Daily Planet aired on June 5, 2011. Ingram announced his retirement but stated he will make guest appearances on Daily Planet. He was succeeded by Dan Riskin. His book The End of Memory: A Natural History of Aging and Alzheimer's was published by St. Martin's Press in 2015.
1979 Keven Mealamu

Keven Mealamu

New Zealand rugby player
Keven Filipo Mealamu is a former New Zealand rugby union footballer. He played at hooker for the Blues in Super Rugby, Auckland in the National Provincial Championship, and the New Zealand national team. He was part of the Blues team that won the 2003 Super 12 title, the third for the franchise. He was a key member of 2011 and 2015 Rugby World Cup winning teams, becoming one of only 21 players who have won the Rugby World Cup on multiple occasions.
1888 Amanda Clement

Amanda Clement

American baseball player, umpire, and educator (died 1971)
Amanda E. Clement was an American baseball umpire who was the first woman paid to referee a game, and may have also been the first woman to referee a high school basketball game. Clement served as an umpire on a regular basis for six years, and served occasionally for several decades afterwards. An accomplished athlete in multiple disciplines, Clement competed in baseball, basketball, track, gymnastics, and tennis, and has been attributed world records in shot put, sprinting, hurdling, and baseball.
1913 Nikolai Stepulov

Nikolai Stepulov

Russian-Estonian boxer (died 1968)
Nikolai Stepulov was an Estonian lightweight boxer, military officer and criminal. As a boxer he won silver medals at the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin and 1937 European Championships, and fought professionally in 1938–39. During World War II, after the Soviet invasion of Estonia in 1940, Stepulov, an ethnic Russian, became a collaborationist in the so-called people's self-defence (RO). Later after returning to Soviet-controlled Estonia he was arrested a few times for burglary and died in a Soviet prison hospital.
1800 Braulio Carrillo Colina

Braulio Carrillo Colina

Costa Rican lawyer and politician, President of Costa Rica (died 1845)
Braulio Evaristo Carrillo Colina was a Costa Rican lawyer and statesman who served as the 3rd and 5th Head of State of Costa Rica from 1835 to 1837 and as a dictator from 1838 until 1842. His administrations implemented extensive legal, fiscal, administrative, and economic reforms that contributed to the consolidation of the Costa Rican state. Following its secession from the Federal Republic of Central America, Carrillo declared Costa Rica a sovereign and independent state on 14 November 1838.
1894 Amalie Sara Colquhoun

Amalie Sara Colquhoun

Australian landscape and portrait painter (died 1974)
Amalie Sara Colquhoun was an Australian landscape and portrait painter who is represented in national and state galleries. In addition to painting landscapes, portraits and still lifes, Colquhoun designed and supervised the construction of stained glass windows for three of Ballarat's churches, St Andrew's Kirk, Lydiard Street Uniting Church and Mount Pleasant Methodist Church. She studied in both Melbourne and Sydney, exhibited in England and Australia and taught in the school she started with her husband in Melbourne.
1963 Paul Annacone

Paul Annacone

American tennis player and coach
Paul Annacone is an American former touring professional tennis player and current tennis coach. He is the former coach of 20-time Grand Slam winner Roger Federer, 14-time Grand Slam winner Pete Sampras, and 2017 US Open champion Sloane Stephens. Annacone is currently a coach at ProTennisCoach.com, a commentator at Tennis Channel, and works with Taylor Fritz.
1870 Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck

Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck

German general (died 1964)
Paul Emil von Lettow-Vorbeck (popularly known as the Lion of Africa, was a general in the Imperial German Army and the commander of its forces in the German East Africa campaign. For four years, with a force of about 14,000, he held in check a much larger force of 300,000 British, Indian, Belgian, and Portuguese troops. He is known for never being captured in battle, and for keeping his forces intact throughout the war.
1532 Juan de Ribera

Juan de Ribera

Roman Catholic archbishop (died 1611)
Juan de Ribera was an influential figure during the reign of Philip III of Spain. He urged harsh measures against so-called New Christians, resulting in the expulsion of the Moriscos in 1609. Ribera held appointments as Archbishop and Viceroy of Valencia, Latin Patriarchate of Antioch, Commander in Chief, president of the Audiencia, and Chancellor of the University of Valencia. He was beatified in 1796 and canonized by Pope John XXIII in 1960.
1796 Edward Gibbon Wakefield

Edward Gibbon Wakefield

English politician (died 1862)
Edward Gibbon Wakefield was an English politician in colonial Canada and New Zealand. He is considered a key figure in the establishment in the 1830s, 1840s and 1850s of British colonies in Australia and New Zealand. He also played a role in the history of Canada, being involved in the drafting of Lord Durham's Report and serving as a member of the Parliament of the Province of Canada for a short time.
1933 George Altman

George Altman

American baseball player
George Lee Altman was an American professional baseball outfielder who had a lengthy career in both Major League Baseball (MLB) and Nippon Professional Baseball. A three-time National League (NL) All-Star, he appeared in 991 games over nine full seasons in the major leagues. Then, at age 35, he began an eight-year tenure in Japanese baseball, where he would hit 205 home runs and bat .309 with 985 hits.
1737 Rama I

Rama I

Thai king (died 1809)
Phutthayotfa Chulalok, posthumously honoured as King Phutthayotfa Chulalok the Great, also known by his regnal name Rama I, was the founder of the Rattanakosin Kingdom and the first King of Siam from the reigning Chakri dynasty. He ascended the throne in 1782, following the deposition of King Taksin of Thonburi. He was also celebrated as the founder of Rattanakosin as the new capital of the reunited kingdom.
1895 Fredric Wertham

Fredric Wertham

German-American psychologist and author (died 1981)
Fredric Wertham was a German–American psychiatrist and author. Wertham had an early reputation as a progressive psychiatrist who treated poor black patients at his Lafargue Clinic at a time of heightened discrimination in urban mental health practice. Wertham also authored a definitive textbook on the brain, and his institutional stressor findings were cited when courts overturned multiple segregation statutes, most notably in Brown v. Board of Education.
1479 Ippolito d'Este

Ippolito d'Este

Italian cardinal (died 1520)
Ippolito (I) d'Este was an Italian cardinal, and Archbishop of Esztergom. He was a member of the ducal House of Este of Ferrara, and was usually referred to as the Cardinal of Ferrara. Though a bishop of five separate dioceses, he was never consecrated a bishop. He spent much of his time supporting the ducal house of Ferrara and negotiating on their behalf with the Pope.
1959 Peter Truscott

Peter Truscott

Baron Truscott, British Labour Party politician and peer
Peter Derek Truscott, Baron Truscott is a British petroleum and mining consultant, independent member of the House of Lords and writer. He was a Labour Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from 1994 to 1999 and was elevated to the peerage in 2004. He has written on Russia, defence and energy, and works with a variety of companies in the field of non-renewable resource extraction.
1805 Thomas Cooper

Thomas Cooper

British poet (died 1892)
Thomas Cooper was an English poet and a leading Chartist. His prison rhyme the Purgatory of Suicides (1845) runs to 944 stanzas. He also wrote novels and in later life religious texts. He was self-educated and worked as a shoemaker, then a preacher, a schoolmaster and a journalist, before taking up Chartism in 1840. He was seen as a passionate, determined and fiery man.
1908 Michael Redgrave

Michael Redgrave

English actor (died 1985)
Sir Michael Scudamore Redgrave was an English actor and filmmaker. Beginning his career in theatre, he first appeared in the West End in 1937. He made his film debut in Alfred Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes in 1938. He and his contemporaries John Gielgud, Laurence Olivier and Ralph Richardson made up a quartet of male actors who dominated the British stage of the mid-20th century.
1935 Bettye Washington Greene

Bettye Washington Greene

American chemist (died 1995)
Bettye Washington Greene was an American industrial research chemist. She was one of the first few African American women to earn her Ph.D. in chemistry and she was the first African American female Ph.D. chemist to work in a professional position at the Dow Chemical Company. At Dow, she researched latex and polymers. Greene is considered an early African American pioneer in science.
1968 A. J. Jacobs

A. J. Jacobs

American journalist and author
Arnold Stephen Jacobs Jr., commonly called A.J. Jacobs, is an American journalist, author, and lecturer best known for writing about his lifestyle experiments. He is an editor at large for Esquire and has worked for the Antioch Daily Ledger and Entertainment Weekly. Books written by him include The Know-It-All (2004), The Year of Living Biblically (2007) and The Guinea Pig Diaries (2009).
1980 Robertas Javtokas

Robertas Javtokas

Lithuanian basketball player
Robertas Javtokas is a Lithuanian professional basketball executive and former player. He most recently served as sports director of Žalgiris Kaunas. Standing at 2.11 m, he played the center position. He has been a member of the senior men's Lithuanian national team since 2004. In the 2001 NBA draft, he was selected by the San Antonio Spurs with the 55th overall pick.
1253 Magadu

Magadu

renamed Wareru, founder of Ramanya Kingdom, renamed Hanthawady Kingdom of Pegu (died 1307)
Wareru, personal name Magadu, was the founder of the Martaban Kingdom, located in present-day Myanmar (Burma). By using both diplomatic and military skills, he successfully carved out a Mon-speaking polity in Lower Burma, during the collapse of the Pagan Empire in the 1280s. Wareru was assassinated in 1307 but his line ruled the kingdom until its fall in the mid-16th century.
1851 Ismail Gasprinski

Ismail Gasprinski

Crimean Tatar educator, publisher, and politician (died 1914)
Ismail bey Gasprinsky was a Crimean Tatar intellectual, educator, publisher and Pan-Turkist politician who inspired the Jadidist movement in Central Asia. He was one of the first Muslim intellectuals in the Russian Empire, who realized the need for education and cultural reform and modernization of the Turkic and Islamic communities. His last name comes from the town of Gaspra in Crimea.
1876 Payne Whitney

Payne Whitney

American businessman and philanthropist (died 1927)
William Payne Whitney was an American businessman and member of the influential Whitney family. He inherited a fortune and enlarged it through business dealings, then devoted much of his money and efforts to a wide variety of philanthropic purposes. His will included funds to expand the New York Hospital, now called NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, where the Payne Whitney Psychiatric Clinic was established.
1879 Maud Menten

Maud Menten

Canadian physician and biochemist (died 1960)
Maud Leonora Menten was a Canadian physician and chemist. As a bio-medical and medical researcher, she made significant contributions to enzyme kinetics and histochemistry, and invented a procedure that remains in use. She is primarily known for her work with Leonor Michaelis on enzyme kinetics in 1913. The paper has been translated from its written language of German into English.
1949 Richard Dowden

Richard Dowden

English journalist and educator
Richard Dowden is an English journalist who has specialised in African issues. Since 1975, he has worked for several British media and was formerly Executive Director of the Royal African Society (2002–2017). He is the author of the book Africa: Altered States, Ordinary Miracles, which has a foreword by the Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe. Dowden lives and works in London.
1834 Charles William Eliot

Charles William Eliot

American mathematician and academic (died 1926)
Charles William Eliot was an American academic who was the president of Harvard University from 1869 to 1909, the longest term of any Harvard president. A member of the prominent Eliot family of Boston, he transformed Harvard from a respected provincial college into America's preeminent research university. Theodore Roosevelt called him "the only man in the world I envy."
1939 Walter Jakob Gehring

Walter Jakob Gehring

Swiss biologist and academic (died 2014)
Walter Jakob Gehring was a Swiss developmental biologist who was a professor at the Biozentrum Basel of the University of Basel, Switzerland. He obtained his PhD at the University of Zurich in 1965 and after two years as a research assistant of Ernst Hadorn he joined Alan Garen's group at Yale University in New Haven as a postdoctoral fellow.
1978 Brent Sherwin

Brent Sherwin

Australian rugby league player
Brent Sherwin is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer. Bearing the iconic nickname "Shifty", Sherwin plays in the Illawarra Carlton League which is an indirect feeder league to the St George Illawarra Dragons. He plays as a half-back. Sherwin previously played for the Catalans Dragons, Castleford Tigers, the Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs and has also been represented for City Origin.
1987 Sergei Kostitsyn

Sergei Kostitsyn

Belarusian ice hockey player
Sergei Olegovich Kostitsyn is a Belarusian professional ice hockey winger for Metallurg Zhlobin of the Belarusian Extraleague (BHL). He was selected in the seventh round, 200th overall, by the Montreal Canadiens in the 2005 NHL entry draft. He has also played for the Nashville Predators of the National Hockey League (NHL) alongside his older brother Andrei.
1912 Ralph Hauenstein

Ralph Hauenstein

American businessman and philanthropist (died 2016)
Ralph Hauenstein was an American philanthropist, army officer and business leader, best known as a newspaper editor. His leadership has produced institutions such as the Hauenstein Center for Presidential Studies at Grand Valley State University, the Hauenstein Parkinsons and Neuroscience Centers at Saint Mary's Hospital and the Grace Hauenstein Library at Aquinas College.
1941 Kenji Kimihara

Kenji Kimihara

Japanese runner
Kenji Kimihara is a retired Japanese long-distance runner. He competed in the marathon at the 1964, 1968 and 1972 Olympics and finished in eighth, second and fifth place, respectively. He won two gold medals in the marathon at the Asian Games in 1966 and 1970, and won the Boston Marathon in 1966.
1941 Pat Corrales

Pat Corrales

American baseball player and manager (died 2023)
Patrick Corrales was an American professional baseball catcher, manager, and coach, who played in Major League Baseball (MLB), from 1964 to 1973, primarily for the Cincinnati Reds as well as the Philadelphia Phillies, St. Louis Cardinals, and San Diego Padres. He was the first major league manager of Mexican American descent.
1612 Anne Bradstreet

Anne Bradstreet

Puritan American poet (died 1672)
Anne Bradstreet was among the most prominent of early English poets of North America and the first writer in England's North American colonies to be published. She is the first Puritan figure in American literature and notable for her large corpus of poetry, as well as personal writings published posthumously.
1890 Lauritz Melchior

Lauritz Melchior

Danish-American tenor and actor (died 1973)
Lauritz Melchior was a Danish-American opera singer. He was the preeminent Wagnerian heldentenor of the 1920s through the 1940s and has come to be considered the quintessence of his voice type. Late in his career, Melchior appeared in movie musicals and on radio and television. He also made numerous recordings.
1811 George Caleb Bingham

George Caleb Bingham

American painter and politician, State Treasurer of Missouri (died 1879)
George Caleb Bingham is recognized as one of the most important American artists of the 19th century. Known in his lifetime as “the Missouri artist,” he is distinguished among the first generation of painters of the early American West for classic narrative scenes drawn from his observation and experience.
1899 Vladimír Mandl

Vladimír Mandl

Czechoslovak lawyer (died 1941)
Vladimír Mandl was a Czech lawyer and university lecturer. In 1932, he authored Das Weltraum-Recht: Ein Problem der Raumfahrt, the first stand-alone treatise on space law, which preceded the launch of Sputnik 1 by 25 years. For this work, some scholars consider him as the "father of space law".
1906 Abraham Beame

Abraham Beame

American accountant and politician, 105th Mayor of New York City (died 2001)
Abraham David Beame was an English-born American accountant, investor, and Democratic Party politician who served from 1974 to 1977 as the 105th mayor of New York City. Beame presided over the city during the 1975 New York City fiscal crisis, when the city was almost forced to declare bankruptcy.
1915 Stan Spence

Stan Spence

American baseball player (died 1983)
Stanley Orville Spence was an American Major League Baseball center fielder who played from 1940 through 1949 for the Boston Red Sox, Washington Senators (1942–47) and St. Louis Browns (1949). Spence batted and threw left-handed. He was born in South Portsmouth, Kentucky to Jesse and Catherine (Byers) Spence.
1954 Paul Mirabella

Paul Mirabella

American baseball player
Paul Thomas Mirabella is an American former professional baseball pitcher. Mirabella, who threw left-handed, played all or parts of 13 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Texas Rangers, New York Yankees (1979), Toronto Blue Jays (1980–81), Baltimore Orioles (1983), Seattle Mariners (1984–86) and Milwaukee Brewers (1987–90).
1990 Brad Hand

Brad Hand

American baseball player
Bradley Richard Hand is an American former professional baseball pitcher. Between 2011 and 2023, he played 13 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Florida/Miami Marlins, San Diego Padres, Cleveland Indians, Washington Nationals, Toronto Blue Jays, New York Mets, Philadelphia Phillies, Colorado Rockies, and Atlanta Braves.
1960 Norm Magnusson

Norm Magnusson

American painter and sculptor
Norm Magnusson is a New York-based artist and political activist and founder, in 1991, of the art movement funism; he began his career creating allegorical animal paintings with pointed social commentaries. Eventually became more and more interested in political art and its potential for persuasion.
1884 Philipp Frank

Philipp Frank

Austrian-American physicist, mathematician, and philosopher (died 1966)
Philipp Frank was an Austrian-American physicist, mathematician and philosopher of the early-to-mid 20th century. He was a logical positivist, and a member of the Vienna Circle. He was influenced by Mach and was one of the Machists criticised by Lenin in Materialism and Empirio-criticism.
1971 Manny Alexander

Manny Alexander

Dominican baseball player
Manuel De Jesús Alexander is a Dominican former professional baseball infielder. He has played for the Baltimore Orioles, New York Mets (1997), Chicago Cubs (1997–1999), Boston Red Sox (2000), Texas Rangers (2004) and San Diego Padres (2005–2006). He bats and throws right-handed.
1903 Edgar Buchanan

Edgar Buchanan

American actor (died 1979)
William Edgar Buchanan II was an American actor with a long career in both film and television. He is most familiar today as Uncle Joe Carson from the Petticoat Junction, Green Acres, and The Beverly Hillbillies television sitcoms of the 1960s.
1975 Isolde Kostner

Isolde Kostner

Italian skier
Isolde Kostner is an Italian former Alpine skier who won two bronze medals at the 1994 Winter Olympics and a silver medal at the 2002 Winter Olympics. She was the Italian flag bearer at the opening ceremony of the 2002 Olympics.
1840 Illarion Pryanishnikov

Illarion Pryanishnikov

Russian painter (died 1894)
Illarion Mikhailovich Pryanishnikov was a Russian painter, one of the founders of the Peredvizhniki artistic cooperative, which broke away from the rigors of their time and became one of the most important Russian art schools of the late 19th century.
1914 Wendell Corey

Wendell Corey

American actor and politician (died 1968)
Wendell Reid Corey was an American actor and politician. He was President of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and a board member of the Screen Actors Guild, and also served on the Santa Monica City Council.
1906 Ozzie Nelson

Ozzie Nelson

American actor and bandleader (died 1975)
Oswald George Nelson was an American actor, filmmaker, musician, and bandleader. He originated and starred in The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet, a radio and television series with his wife Harriet and two sons David and Ricky Nelson.
1923 Con Martin

Con Martin

Irish footballer and manager (died 2013)
Cornelius Joseph Martin was an Irish footballer. Martin initially played Gaelic football for the Dublin county team before switching codes and embarking on a successful soccer career, playing for, among others, Drumcondra, Glentoran, Leeds United and Aston Villa.
1954 Charlie Simmer

Charlie Simmer

Canadian ice hockey player
Charles Robert Simmer is a Canadian former professional ice hockey left winger. He played for 14 seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the California Golden Seals, Cleveland Barons, Los Angeles Kings, Boston Bruins, and Pittsburgh Penguins.
1983 Dennis Wideman

Dennis Wideman

Canadian ice hockey player
Dennis Earl Wideman is a Canadian former professional ice hockey defenceman who played in the National Hockey League (NHL). Wideman was drafted in the eighth round, 241st overall, by the Buffalo Sabres in the 2002 NHL entry draft.
1836 Ferris Jacobs

Ferris Jacobs

Jr., American general, lawyer, and politician (died 1886)
Ferris Jacobs Jr. was an American military officer, politician, and lawyer. He served in the Union Army in several roles during the American Civil War, and afterwards spent one term as United States representative from New York.
1995 Lindsay Allen

Lindsay Allen

American basketball player
Lindsay Wilson Dozier Allen is an American professional basketball player. She played college basketball for the Notre Dame Fighting Irish. She was drafted in the second round of the 2017 WNBA draft by the New York Liberty.
1905 Jean Galia

Jean Galia

French rugby player and boxer (died 1949)
Jean Galia was a French rugby union and rugby league footballer and champion boxer. He is credited with establishing the sport of rugby league in France in 1934, where it is known as rugby à treize.
1930 S. Arasaratnam

S. Arasaratnam

Sri Lankan historian, author, and academic (died 1998)
Sinnappah Arasaratnam was a Sri Lankan academic, historian and author, born during British colonial rule. Known as 'Arasa', he was a lecturer at the University of Ceylon, University of Malaya and University of New England (Australia).
1934 Willie Brown

Willie Brown

American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 41st Mayor of San Francisco
Willie Lewis Brown Jr. is an American politician and attorney. A member of the Democratic Party, he served as mayor of San Francisco from 1996 to 2004, the first African American to hold the office.
1319 Laurence Hastings

Laurence Hastings

1st Earl of Pembroke (died 1348)
Laurence de Hastings, 1st Earl of Pembroke was an English nobleman and held the titles 1st Earl of Pembroke, Baron Abergavenny and Baron Hastings under Edward II of England and Edward III of England.
1811 Napoleon II

Napoleon II

French emperor (died 1832)
Napoleon II was the disputed Emperor of the French for 2 weeks in 1815. He was the son of Emperor Napoleon I and Empress Marie Louise, daughter of Emperor Francis I of Austria.
1952 David Greenaway

David Greenaway

English economist and academic
Sir David Greenaway DL is a British economist. He is Emeritus Professor of Economics and was previously the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Nottingham, having succeeded Sir Colin Campbell on 1 October 2008.
1991 Michał Kucharczyk

Michał Kucharczyk

Polish footballer
Michał Kucharczyk is a Polish professional footballer who plays as a winger or a striker. In 2025, he briefly joined Canal+ as a pundit, becoming a part of their Ekstraklasa coverage team.
1824 Theodor von Heuglin

Theodor von Heuglin

German explorer and ornithologist (died 1876)
Martin Theodor von Heuglin, was a German explorer and ornithologist. It is principally by his zoological, and more especially his ornithological, labours that Heuglin has taken rank as an independent authority.
1931 Dinos Christianopoulos

Dinos Christianopoulos

Greek poet (died 2020)
Konstantinos Dimitriadis, better known by his pen name Dinos Christianopoulos, was a Greek contemporary and post-war poet, novelist, folklorist, and scholar. He was also a music scholar who wrote about rebetiko.
1904 B. F. Skinner

B. F. Skinner

American psychologist and author (died 1990)
Burrhus Frederic Skinner was an American psychologist, behaviorist, inventor, and social philosopher. He was the Edgar Pierce Professor of Psychology at Harvard University from 1948 until his retirement in 1974.
1917 Yigael Yadin

Yigael Yadin

Israeli archaeologist, general, and politician, Deputy Prime Minister of Israel (died 1984)
Yigael Yadin was an Israeli archeologist, soldier and politician. He was the second Chief of Staff of the Israel Defense Forces and Deputy Prime Minister from 1977 to 1981.
1944 Alan Harper

Alan Harper

English-Irish archbishop
Alan Edwin Thomas Harper, is a retired Anglican bishop. He served in the Church of Ireland as Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland from 2007 to 2012.
1973 Talal Khalifa Aljeri

Talal Khalifa Aljeri

Kuwaiti businessman
Talal Khalifa Al Jeri is a Kuwaiti businessman. He is the chairman and CEO of Al Jeri Holding Group, chosen by Forbes in 2018 as a leading educational company.
1933 Lateef Adegbite

Lateef Adegbite

Nigerian lawyer and politician (died 2012)
Lateef Adegbite was a lawyer who became Attorney General of the Western Region of Nigeria, and who later became Secretary-General of the Nigerian Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs.
1946 Malcolm Simmons

Malcolm Simmons

English motorcycle racer (died 2014)
Malcolm Simmons was a motorcycle speedway rider from England. He earned 73 international caps for the England national speedway team and five caps for the Great Britain team.
1910 Erwin Blask

Erwin Blask

German hammer thrower (died 1999)
Erwin Blask was a German athlete who competed mainly in the hammer throw event. He won the silver medal for Germany at the 1936 Summer Olympics.
1921 Usmar Ismail

Usmar Ismail

Indonesian filmmaker (died 1971)
Usmar Ismail was an Indonesian film director, author, journalist and revolutionary of Minangkabau descent. He is widely regarded as the native Indonesian pioneer of Indonesian cinema.
1928 Jerome Biffle

Jerome Biffle

American long jumper and coach (died 2002)
Jerome Cousins Biffle was an American athlete who competed mainly in the long jump, where he was the Gold Medalist at the 1952 Helsinki Olympic Games.
1960 Norbert Pohlmann

Norbert Pohlmann

German computer scientist and academic
Norbert Pohlmann is a computer scientist and a professor at the Westfälische Hochschule. He is also chairman of the board of the IT security association TeleTrusT.
1907 Hugh MacLennan

Hugh MacLennan

Canadian author and educator (died 1990)
John Hugh MacLennan was a Canadian writer and professor of English at McGill University. He won five Governor General's Awards and a Royal Bank Award.
1921 Alfréd Rényi

Alfréd Rényi

Hungarian mathematician and theorist (died 1970)
Alfréd Rényi was a Hungarian mathematician known for his work in probability theory, though he also made contributions in combinatorics, graph theory, and number theory.
1922 Larry Elgart

Larry Elgart

American saxophonist and bandleader (died 2017)
Lawrence Joseph Elgart was an American jazz bandleader. With his brother Les, he recorded "Bandstand Boogie", the theme to the long-running dance show American Bandstand.
1984

Vikram Banerjee

English cricketer
Vikram Banerjee is an English former cricketer and cricket executive. A slow left-arm orthodox bowler, he played first-class and limited-overs cricket primarily for Gloucestershire between 2006 and 2011, having previously represented Cambridge University. After retiring from professional cricket, Banerjee joined the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) in 2017, where he has held several senior roles including Head of Strategy and Director of Business Operations. He led initiatives to increase diversity and private investment in English cricket. In 2025, he was appointed managing director of The Hundred, overseeing the competition's commercial development and long-term strategy.
1987

Jon Brockman

American basketball player
Jonathan Rodney Brockman is an American former professional basketball player. He was the starting power forward and team captain for the University of Washington men's basketball team. He is the University of Washington's all-time leading rebounder and second-all-time leading scorer in University of Washington history. He grabbed the 1,000th rebound of his career on December 30, 2008, in a win over Morgan State, and became Washington's all-time leading rebounder on January 15, 2009, in a win over Oregon, breaking Doug Smart's school record of 1,051.
1944

John Cameron

English composer and conductor
John Cameron is a British composer, arranger, conductor and musician. He is well known for his many film, TV and stage credits, and for his contributions to pop recordings, notably those by Donovan, Cilla Black and the group Hot Chocolate. Cameron's instrumental version of Led Zeppelin's "Whole Lotta Love", became a hit for his group CCS and, for many years, a version of Cameron's arrangement was used as the theme music for the BBC TV show Top of the Pops.
1956

Anne Donahue

American lawyer and politician
Anne de la Blanchetai Donahue is an American politician from the state of Vermont. She has served as a member of the Vermont House of Representatives since 2003, representing the Washington-1 district, which includes the Washington County towns of Berlin and Northfield. Donahue represented Washington-2 until 2013, when she was redistricted. She was also editor of Counterpoint, a quarterly mental health publication distributed for free throughout Vermont, until retiring in 2023.
1918

Bernd Alois Zimmermann

German composer (died 1970)
Bernd Alois Zimmermann was a German composer. He is perhaps best known for his opera Die Soldaten, which is regarded as one of the most important German operas of the 20th century, after those of Berg. His eclectic music, which employs a wide range of techniques including dodecaphony and musical quotation, encompasses the styles of the avant-garde, serial, and postmodern.
1920

Rosemary Timperley

English author and screenwriter (died 1988)
Rosemary Timperley was a British novelist, short story writer and screenwriter. She wrote a wide range of fiction, publishing 66 novels in 33 years, and several hundred short stories, but is best remembered for her ghost stories which appear in many anthologies. She also edited several volumes of ghost stories.
1931

Rein Raamat

Estonian director and screenwriter
Rein Raamat is an Estonian animation film director, artist and screenwriter. He is the first internationally successful Estonian animator and along with Elbert Tuganov is regarded as the "Father of Estonian Animation". He has directed many short animated films since the early 1970s and also produced over 20 documentary films.
1898

Eduard Wiiralt

Estonian artist (died 1954)
Eduard Wiiralt was an Estonian graphic artist. In art history, Wiiralt is considered as the most remarkable master of Estonian graphic art in the first half of his century. The best-known of his works include "Inferno", "Hell", "Cabaret", "Heads of Negroes", "Sleeping Tiger", and "Head of a Camel".
1983

Carolina Padrón

Venezuelan journalist
Carolina Desireé José Padrón Ríos is a Venezuelan-Mexican sportscaster, journalist and television host currently working for ESPN Deportes and ESPN Mexico. Padrón is the co-anchor of ESPN's Spanish version of SportsCenter and also has covered sporting events such as the FIFA World Cup and the Summer Olympics.
1897

Frank Sheed

Australian-British Catholic writer and apologist (died 1981)
Francis Joseph Sheed was an Australian-born lawyer, Catholic writer, publisher, speaker, and lay theologian. He and his wife Maisie Ward were the names behind the imprint Sheed & Ward and as forceful public lecturers in the Catholic Evidence Guild.
1942

Robin Luke

American singer-songwriter
Robin Luke is an American rock and roll singer who is best known for his 1958 song, "Susie Darlin'". He later worked as a University professor in Marketing. Luke has been enshrined in the Rockabilly Hall of Fame.
1973

Natalya Khrushcheleva

Russian runner
Natalya Khrushcheleva is a retired Russian middle-distance runner who won a bronze medal in 800 metres at the 2003 World Championships in Athletics. She has also been a member of the Russian 4 × 400 metres relay team.
1923

Shaukat Siddiqui

Pakistani journalist, author, and activist (died 2006)
Shaukat Siddiqi was a Pakistani writer of fiction who wrote in Urdu language. He is best known for his novels Khuda Ki Basti and Jangloos, the former of which won the Adamjee Literary Award in 1960.
1938

Sergei Novikov

Russian mathematician and academic, winner of the Fields Medal (died 2024)
Sergei Petrovich Novikov was a Soviet and Russian mathematician, noted for work in both algebraic topology and soliton theory. He became the first Soviet mathematician to receive the Fields Medal in 1970.
1921

Dušan Pirjevec

Slovenian historian and philosopher (died 1977)
Dušan Pirjevec, known by his nom de guerre Ahac, was a Slovenian Partisan, literary historian and philosopher. He was one of the most influential public intellectuals in post–World War II Slovenia.
1972

Cristel Vahtra

Estonian skier
Cristel Vahtra is an Estonian cross-country skier who competed from 1994 to 2001. Her best World Cup finish was 22nd in a 10 km event in Russia in 1996.
1940

Stathis Chaitas

Greek footballer and manager
Stathis Chaitas is a retired Greek footballer who played as a midfielder during the 1960s and '70s. He was named the 1969 Greek Athlete of the Year.
1945

Henry Bartholomay

American soldier and pilot (died 2015)
Flight leader Lieutenant Henry Adams "Black Bart" Bartholomay was a United States Naval Aviator. He was a recipient of the Silver Star and the Distinguished Flying Cross.
1469 Cecily of York (died 1507)

Cecily of York (died 1507)

Cecily of York, also known as Cecelia, was the third daughter of King Edward IV of England and his queen consort Elizabeth Woodville.
1477 Jerome Emser

Jerome Emser

German theologian and scholar (died 1527)
Jerome Emser, was a German theologian and antagonist of Martin Luther, was born of a good family at Ulm.
1502

Pierino Belli

Italian soldier and jurist (died 1575)
Pierino Belli was a soldier and jurist.
1680

Emanuele d'Astorga

Italian composer (died 1736)
Emanuele Gioacchino Cesare Rincon, baron of Astorga was an Italian composer known mainly for his Stabat Mater.
1771 Heinrich Clauren

Heinrich Clauren

German author (died 1854)
Carl Gottlieb Samuel Heun, better known by his pen name Heinrich Clauren, was a German author.
1799 Karl August Nicander

Karl August Nicander

Swedish poet and author (died 1839)
Karl August Nicander was a Swedish lyric poet.
1821 Ned Buntline

Ned Buntline

American journalist, author, and publisher (died 1886)
Edward Zane Carroll Judson Sr., known by his pen name Ned Buntline, was an American publisher, journalist, and writer.
1831 Patrick Jennings

Patrick Jennings

Northern Irish-Australian politician, 11th Premier of New South Wales (died 1897)
Sir Patrick Alfred Jennings, was an Irish-Australian politician and Premier of New South Wales.
1831 Solomon L. Spink

Solomon L. Spink

American lawyer and politician (died 1881)
Solomon Lewis Spink was an American politician. A Republican, he was a delegate to the United States House of Representatives from the Dakota Territory.
1836 Edward Poynter

Edward Poynter

English painter, illustrator, and curator (died 1919)
Sir Edward John Poynter, 1st Baronet was an English painter, designer, and draughtsman, who served as President of the Royal Academy.
1843 Ambrosio Flores

Ambrosio Flores

Filipino politician (died 1912)
Ambrosio Flores y Flores was a Filipino general in the Philippine Revolution and the first governor of the province of Rizal.
1856 John Lavery

John Lavery

Irish painter (died 1941)
Sir John Lavery was an Irish painter best known for his portraits and wartime depictions.
1874 Börries von Münchhausen

Börries von Münchhausen

German poet and activist (died 1945)
Börries Albrecht Conon August Heinrich Freiherr von Münchhausen was a German poet and Nazi activist.
1882 Harold Weber

Harold Weber

American golfer (died 1933)
Harold Weber was an American golfer who competed in the 1904 Summer Olympics.
1882 René Coty

René Coty

French lawyer and politician, 17th President of France (died 1962)
Gustave Jules René Coty was President of France from 1954 to 1959. He was the second and last president of the Fourth French Republic.
1884

John Jensen

Australian public servant (died 1970)
Sir John Klunder Jensen was a senior Australian public servant. He was Secretary of the Department of Munitions between 1942 and 1948.
1885 Vernon Ransford

Vernon Ransford

Australian cricketer (died 1958)
Vernon Seymour Ransford OBE was an Australian cricketer who played in 20 Test matches between 1907 and 1912.
1900 Amelia Chopitea Villa

Amelia Chopitea Villa

Bolivia's first female physician (died 1942)
María Amelia Chopitea Villa was Bolivia's first female physician and writer. She was born in a time when the Bolivian society was very patriarchal.
1911 Alfonso García Robles

Alfonso García Robles

Mexican lawyer and diplomat, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1991)
Alfonso García Robles was a Mexican diplomat and politician who, in conjunction with Sweden's Alva Myrdal, received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1982.
1915 Rudolf Kirchschläger

Rudolf Kirchschläger

Austrian judge and politician, 8th President of Austria (died 2000)
Rudolf Kirchschläger was an Austrian diplomat, politician and judge. From 1974 to 1986, he served as the president of Austria.
1918 Donald Featherstone

Donald Featherstone

English soldier and author (died 2013)
Donald F. Featherstone was a British author of more than forty books on wargaming and military history.
1922 Ray Goulding

Ray Goulding

American actor and screenwriter (died 1990)
Raymond Walter Goulding was an American comedian, who, together with Bob Elliott formed the comedy duo of Bob and Ray.
1929 Germán Robles

Germán Robles

Spanish-Mexican actor and director (died 2015)
Germán Horacio Robles San Agustín was a Spanish actor who came to Mexico when he was 17, after the Spanish civil war.
1929

William Andrew MacKay

Canadian lawyer and judge (died 2013)
William Andrew MacKay was a Canadian lawyer and former judge, civil servant, legal academic, and university president.
1936 Mark Saville

Mark Saville

Baron Saville of Newdigate, English lieutenant, lawyer, and judge
Mark Oliver Saville, Baron Saville of Newdigate, is an English judge and former Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom.
1939

Gerald Curran

American lawyer and politician (died 2013)
Gerald Curran was an American politician and lawyer.
1940 Giampiero Moretti

Giampiero Moretti

Italian race car driver and businessman, founded the Momo company (died 2012)
Gianpiero Moretti was an Italian racing driver and the founder of the MOMO company in the 1960s. He was born in Milan.
1948 Nikos Papazoglou

Nikos Papazoglou

Greek singer-songwriter and producer (died 2011)
Nikolaos "Nikos" Papazoglou was a Greek singer-songwriter, musician, and producer from Thessaloniki.
1952 Geoff Brabham

Geoff Brabham

Australian race car driver
Geoffrey John Brabham is an Australian racing driver. Brabham spent the majority of his racing career in the United States.
1953

Phil Judd

New Zealand singer-songwriter, guitarist and painter
Philip Raymond Judd is a New Zealand singer-songwriter known for being one of the founders of the bands Split Enz and The Swingers.
1954 Liana Kanelli

Liana Kanelli

Greek journalist and politician
Garyfallia "Liana" Kanelli is a Greek journalist and Member of the Greek Parliament for the Communist Party of Greece since 2000.
1955 Nina Kiriki Hoffman

Nina Kiriki Hoffman

American author
Nina Kiriki Hoffman is an American fantasy, science fiction and horror writer.
1959 Dave Beasant

Dave Beasant

English footballer and coach
David John Beasant is an English football coach and former goalkeeper.
1960 Yuri Shargin

Yuri Shargin

Russian colonel, engineer, and astronaut
Yuri Georgiyevich Shargin is a retired cosmonaut of the Russian Space Forces.
1961 Ingrid Arndt-Brauer

Ingrid Arndt-Brauer

German politician
Ingrid Arndt-Brauer is a German politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) who served as a member of the Bundestag from 1999 until 2021.
1961

Sara Wheeler

English author and journalist
Sara Diane Wheeler is an English travel author and biographer, noted for her accounts of polar regions.
1963 Yelena Romanova

Yelena Romanova

Russian runner (died 2007)
Yelena Nikolaevna Romanova was a Russian distance runner. She won an Olympic gold medal in women's 3000 metres in 1992.
1965 William Dalrymple

William Dalrymple

Scottish historian and author
William Benedict Hamilton-Dalrymple is a Scottish historian, art historian, indologist, curator, broadcaster, critic and author.
1967 Xavier Beauvois

Xavier Beauvois

French actor, director, and screenwriter
Xavier Beauvois is a French actor, film director and screenwriter.
1968 Paul Merson

Paul Merson

English footballer and manager
Paul Charles Merson is an English former professional footballer, manager, commentator and sports television pundit for Sky Sports.
1969 Fabien Galthié

Fabien Galthié

French rugby player
Fabien Galthié is a French rugby union coach and former player, currently the head coach of the France national team.
1970 Josephine Medina

Josephine Medina

Filipino Paralympic table tennis player (died 2021)
Josephine Rebeta Medina was a Filipino table tennis player. Medina represented the Philippines at the 2012 and 2016 Summer Paralympics.
1972

Greg Searle

English rower
Gregory Mark Pascoe Searle is a British Olympic rower educated at Hampton School and London South Bank University.
1972 Marco Sejna

Marco Sejna

German footballer
Marco Sejna is a German former professional footballer as a goalkeeper.
1974 Carsten Ramelow

Carsten Ramelow

German footballer
Carsten Ramelow is a German former professional footballer who played as either a central defender or a defensive midfielder.
1980 Michelle Snow

Michelle Snow

American basketball player
Donnette Jé-Michelle Snow is an American former professional basketball player who played most recently in the Turkish Women's Basketball League.
1981 Carl Webb

Carl Webb

Australian rugby league player (died 2023)
Carl Webb was an Australian professional rugby league footballer who played as a prop, second-row and lock in the 2000s and 2010s.
1981

Ian Murray

Scottish footballer
Ian William Murray is a Scottish football player and coach, who was most recently the manager of Scottish Championship club Greenock Morton.
1982 José Moreira

José Moreira

Portuguese footballer
José Filipe da Silva Moreira is a Portuguese former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper.
1982

Terrence Duffin

Zimbabwean cricketer
Terrence Duffin is a former Zimbabwean international cricketer, who played Test matches and One Day Internationals, captaining the side in ODIs.
1984 Valtteri Filppula

Valtteri Filppula

Finnish ice hockey player
Valtteri Filppula is a Finnish former professional ice hockey forward.
1985 Morgan Amalfitano

Morgan Amalfitano

French footballer
Morgan Henri René Amalfitano is a French former professional footballer who played as a midfielder.
1985 Nicolas Lombaerts

Nicolas Lombaerts

Belgian footballer
Nicolas Robert Christian Lombaerts is a Belgian professional football coach and a former centre-back.
1986

Julián Magallanes

Argentinian footballer
Julián David Magallanes is an Argentine footballer who played professionally for a number of clubs in the Italian leagues.
1986 Román Torres

Román Torres

Panamanian footballer
Román Aureliano Torres Morcillo is a Panamanian professional footballer who plays as a defender for Tacoma Stars.
1987

Daniel Maa Boumsong

Cameroonian footballer
Daniel Maa Boumsong is a Cameroonian former professional footballer who played as a midfielder.
1987 Jô

Jô

Brazilian footballer
João Alves de Assis Silva, known as Jô or João Alves, is a Brazilian former professional footballer who played as a forward.
1987 Pedro Ken

Pedro Ken

Brazilian footballer
Pedro Ken Morimoto Moreira, known as Pedro Ken, is a Brazilian former footballer. He is of Japanese descent.
1990 Blake Ferguson

Blake Ferguson

Australian rugby league player
Blake Ferguson is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer.
1991 Mattia Destro

Mattia Destro

Italian footballer
Mattia Destro is an Italian professional footballer who plays as a striker. He has also featured at international level, holding eight caps for Italy.
1993

Fabian Fahl

German politician
Fabian Fahl is a German politician and member of the Bundestag. A member of The Left, he has represented North Rhine-Westphalia since 2025.
1995 Samantha Weinstein

Samantha Weinstein

Canadian actress (died 2023)
Samantha Gail Weinstein was a Canadian actress.

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