Did you know about Megan Fox
Megan Fox's breakout role was as Mikaela Banes in the blockbuster action film Transformers (2007), which she reprised in its sequel Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009).
Famous Birthdays on May 16
May 16 has 213 recorded notable births across history, from 1418 to 2002. This page lists every one of them, with the best-known people first.
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Did you know about Pierce Brosnan
Pierce Brosnan achieved worldwide fame playing James Bond in four James Bond films from 1995 to 2002: GoldenEye (1995), Tomorrow Never Dies (1997), The World Is Not Enough (1999) and Die Another Day (2002).
Did you know about Melanie Lynskey
Known for her portrayals of complex women and her command of American accents, she works predominantly in independent films and television.
Did you know about Janet Jackson
Janet Jackson's sound and choreography became a catalyst in the growth of MTV, breaking American gender and racial barriers and enabling her rise to prominence.
Did you know about David Boreanaz
David Boreanaz is set to star in a reboot of The Rockford Files in 2027, which he will also serve as a producer.
More major people born on May 16
Notable people are ranked by substantive profile depth and public notability.
1953
Pierce Brosnan
Irish-American actor and producer
Pierce Brendan Brosnan is an Irish actor. He achieved worldwide fame playing James Bond in four James Bond films from 1995 to 2002: GoldenEye (1995), Tomorrow Never Dies (1997), The World Is Not Enough (1999) and Die Another Day (2002). He has also received two Golden Globes nominations for the television series Nancy Astor (1982) and the film The Matador (2005).
1977
Melanie Lynskey
New Zealand actress
Melanie Jayne Lynskey is a New Zealand actress. Known for her portrayals of complex women and her command of American accents, she works predominantly in independent films and television. She is the recipient of numerous accolades, including three Critics' Choice Awards and nominations for three Primetime Emmy Awards.
1966
Janet Jackson
American singer-songwriter and actress
Janet Damita Jo Jackson is an American singer, songwriter, actress, and dancer. An influential figure in popular culture, she is known for her innovative works that incorporate socially conscious and sexually provocative themes, as well as her elaborate stage shows. Her sound and choreography became a catalyst in the growth of MTV, breaking American gender and racial barriers and enabling her rise to prominence. Lyrical content that concerned social issues and deeply felt experiences contributed to the appeal of Jackson's work to the youth audience.
1969
David Boreanaz
American actor
David Paul Boreanaz is an American actor, television producer, and director known for playing the roles of vampire-turned-private investigator Angel on The WB/UPN supernatural drama television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997–2003) and its spin-off Angel (1999–2004); FBI Special Agent Seeley Booth, a homicide investigator, on the Fox television crime procedural comedy-drama series Bones (2005–2017); and United States Navy SEAL Master Chief Petty Officer Jason Hayes in CBS/Paramount+ military drama series SEAL Team (2017–2024). He is set to star in a reboot of The Rockford Files in 2027, which he will also serve as a producer.
1990
Thomas Brodie-Sangster
English actor
Thomas Brodie-Sangster is a British actor. As a child actor, he gained recognition for his roles in the commercially successful films Love Actually (2003) and Nanny McPhee (2005). He voiced Ferb in the first four seasons of Phineas and Ferb (2007–2015), and subsequently gained wider attention with his roles as Jake Murray in Accused (2010–2012), Jojen Reed in Game of Thrones (2013–2014) and as Newt in the Maze Runner film series (2014–2018). Continued acclaim ensued with the independent films Nowhere Boy (2009), in which he portrayed Paul McCartney, Bright Star (2009), and Death of a Superhero (2011).
1944
Danny Trejo
American actor
Danny Trejo is an American actor. In his body of work he appears as a character actor taking on roles such as inmates, gangsters, or other criminals.
1989
Behati Prinsloo
Namibian model
Behati Prinsloo is a Namibian model. In 2008, she became a Pink contract model, and moved on to become a Victoria's Secret Angel in 2009. She walked in thirteen Victoria's Secret Fashion Shows, and opened consecutive Victoria's Secret Fashion shows in 2014 and 2015.
1969
Tucker Carlson
American journalist, co-founded The Daily Caller
Tucker Swanson McNear Carlson is an American conservative political commentator, journalist, and host of The Tucker Carlson Show since 2023. He previously hosted the nightly political talk show Tucker Carlson Tonight on Fox News from 2016 to 2023, the highest rated cable news show at the time of its termination, and is an influential voice in right-wing media.
1973
Tori Spelling
American actress, reality television personality, and author
Victoria Davey Spelling is an American actress. Her first major role was Donna Martin on Beverly Hills, 90210, from 1990 to 2000. She has appeared in made-for-television films, including A Friend to Die For (1994), A Carol Christmas (2003), The Mistle-Tones (2012), both versions of Mother, May I Sleep with Danger? and The Last Sharknado: It's About Time (2018). She has also starred in several independent films including The House of Yes (1997), Trick (1999), Scary Movie 2 (2001), Cthulhu (2007), Kiss the Bride (2007) and Izzie's Way Home (2016). She reprised her role of Donna Martin in Beverly Hills, 90210's spin-off, BH90210, in 2019.
1955
Debra Winger
American actress
Mary Debra Winger is an American actress. She starred in the films An Officer and a Gentleman (1982), Terms of Endearment (1983), and Shadowlands (1993), each of which earned her a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress. Winger won the National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actress for Terms of Endearment, and the Tokyo International Film Festival Award for Best Actress for A Dangerous Woman (1993).
1993
IU
Korean singer-songwriter and actress
Lee Ji-eun, also known by her stage name IU (아이유), is a South Korean singer-songwriter and actress. She signed with LOEN Entertainment in 2007 as a trainee and debuted as a singer at the age of fifteen with the EP Lost and Found (2008). Although her follow-up albums brought mainstream success, it was only after the release of "Good Day", the lead single from her 2010 EP Real, that she achieved national stardom. "Good Day" went on to spend five consecutive weeks at the top of South Korea's Gaon Digital Chart, and in 2019, it was ranked number one on Billboard's "100 Greatest K-Pop Songs of the 2010s" list.
1991
Grigor Dimitrov
Bulgarian tennis player
Grigor Dimitrov Dimitrov is a Bulgarian professional tennis player. He has been ranked as high as world No. 3 in singles by the ATP, making him the highest-ranked Bulgarian in history. Dimitrov reached the ranking after winning the biggest title of his career at the season-ending ATP Finals in November 2017. He has won nine ATP Tour singles titles.
1946
Robert Fripp
English guitarist, songwriter and producer
Robert Fripp is an English musician, composer, record producer, and author, best known as the guitarist, founder and only constant member of the progressive rock band King Crimson. He has worked extensively as a session musician and collaborator, notably with David Bowie, Blondie, Brian Eno, Peter Gabriel, Peter Hammill, Daryl Hall, the Roches, Talking Heads, and David Sylvian. He also composed the startup sound of Windows Vista, in collaboration with Tucker Martine and Steve Ball. His discography includes contributions to more than 700 official releases.
1959
Mare Winningham
American actress and singer-songwriter
Mary Megan "Mare" Winningham is an American actress and singer-songwriter. Her accolades include two Primetime Emmy Awards, alongside nominations for an Academy Award, two Golden Globe Awards, and two Tony Awards.
1978
Lionel Scaloni
Argentinian footballer and manager
Lionel Sebastián Scaloni is an Argentine professional football manager and former player who is the head coach of the Argentina national team. He is also an Italian citizen. Under his leadership, Argentina won the 2022 FIFA World Cup. Scaloni is regarded as one of the best national coaches in the world. A versatile player throughout his career as a footballer, he operated as a right-back or right midfielder.
1947
Darrell Sweet
Scottish drummer (died 1999)
Nazareth are a Scottish hard rock band formed in Dunfermline in 1968 that had many hit singles and albums in Canada, the United Kingdom, and a number of other European countries beginning in the early 1970s. The breadth of their popularity expanded internationally, including in the United States, with their 1975 album Hair of the Dog, which featured their hits "Hair of the Dog" and a cover of the ballad "Love Hurts". They have continued to record and tour internationally for more than 50 years.
1928
Billy Martin
American baseball player and coach (died 1989)
Alfred Manuel "Billy" Martin was an American Major League Baseball (MLB) second baseman and manager, who, in addition to leading other teams, was five times the manager of the New York Yankees. First known as a scrappy infielder who made considerable contributions to the championship Yankee teams of the 1950s, he then built a reputation as a manager who would initially make bad teams good, before ultimately being fired amid dysfunction. In each of his stints with the Yankees he managed them to winning records before being fired by team owner George Steinbrenner or resigning under fire.
1961
Kevin McDonald
Canadian actor and screenwriter
Kevin Hamilton McDonald is a Canadian actor, comedian and writer. He is a member of the comedy troupe The Kids in the Hall, who have appeared together in a number of stage, television and film productions, most notably the 1988–1995 TV series The Kids in the Hall. He played Pastor Dave in That '70s Show, and starred as a co-pilot in the 2011 web comedy series Papillon. He also does voice work in animation, most notably as Agent Wendy Pleakley in the Lilo & Stitch franchise, Waffle in Catscratch, and the Almighty Tallest Purple in Invader Zim.
1947
Roch Thériault
Canadian religious leader (died 2011)
Roch Thériault was a Canadian cult leader and convicted murderer. Thériault, a self-proclaimed prophet under the name Moïse, founded the Ant Hill Kids in 1977. They were a doomsday cult whose beliefs were based on those of the Seventh-day Adventist Church. In April 1978, Thériault was removed from the Seventh-day Adventist Church. He maintained multiple wives and concubines, impregnating all female members as a religious requirement, and fathering 26 children. Thériault's followers, including 12 adults and 22 children, lived under his totalitarian rule in a commune and were subject to severe physical and sexual abuse.
1970
Gabriela Sabatini
Argentinian tennis player
Gabriela Beatriz Sabatini is an Argentine former professional tennis player. A former world No. 3 in both singles and doubles, Sabatini was one of the leading players from the mid-1980s to the mid-1990s, amassing 41 titles across both disciplines.
1985
Corey Perry
Canadian ice hockey player
Corey Perry is a Canadian professional ice hockey player who is a winger for the Los Angeles Kings of the National Hockey League (NHL). He played the first 14 years of his career with the Anaheim Ducks where he won the Stanley Cup in 2007. He has also played for the Dallas Stars, Montreal Canadiens, Chicago Blackhawks, Edmonton Oilers and Tampa Bay Lightning.
1992
Kirstin Maldonado
American singer and songwriter
Kirstin Taylor Maldonado is an American singer-songwriter and actress. She is known for being a vocalist in the a cappella group Pentatonix. With the group, she has released seven studio albums, won three Grammy Awards, and sold over six million albums.
1974
Laura Pausini
Italian singer-songwriter and producer
Laura Pausini is an Italian pop singer. She rose to fame in 1993, winning the newcomer artists' section of the 43rd Sanremo Music Festival with the song "La solitudine", which became an Italian standard and an international hit. Her self-titled debut album was released in Italy on 23 April 1993 and later became an international success, selling two million copies worldwide. Its follow-up, Laura, was released in 1994 and confirmed her international success, selling three million copies worldwide.
1961
Charles Wright
American wrestler
Charles Wright, better known under his ring name The Godfather, is an American professional wrestler. He is best known for his tenure with the World Wrestling Federation throughout the 1990s and early 2000s, and underwent several gimmick changes; the most notable were Papa Shango, Kama, Kama Mustafa, The Godfather and The Goodfather.
1964
John Salley
American basketball player and actor
John Thomas Salley is an American former professional basketball player. He was the first player in NBA history to win championships with three franchises, as well as the first player in the NBA to win a championship in three different decades.
1955
Olga Korbut
Soviet gymnast
Olga Valentinovna Korbut is a Belarusian retired gymnast who competed for the Soviet Union. Nicknamed the "Sparrow from Minsk," she won four gold medals and two silver medals at the Summer Olympic Games, in which she competed in 1972 and 1976 for the Soviet team, and was the inaugural inductee to the International Gymnastics Hall of Fame in 1988.
1953
Richard Page
American singer-songwriter and bass player
Richard James Page is an American musician who is best known as the lead singer and bassist of 1980s band Mr. Mister. The band's hits include "Broken Wings" and "Kyrie". Page has also sung in other bands, been a solo artist, written songs for other artists, and worked as a background singer for other artists.
1951
Jonathan Richman
American singer-songwriter and guitarist
Jonathan Michael Richman is an American singer, songwriter and guitarist. In 1970, he founded the Modern Lovers, an influential proto-punk band. Since the mid-1970s, Richman has worked either solo or with low-key acoustic and electric backing. He is known for his wide-eyed, unaffected, and childlike outlook, and music that, while rooted in rock and roll, is influenced by music from around the world.
1968
Ralph Tresvant
American singer and producer
Ralph Edward Tresvant is an American R&B singer, songwriter, rapper and record producer, best known as the lead singer of R&B group New Edition. As a solo artist, Tresvant released his double platinum-selling debut album Ralph Tresvant (1990). In 2008, he began touring with Bobby Brown and Johnny Gill in a new group named Heads of State. On February 3, 2023, Tresvant became host of the syndicated radio show Love and R&B, heard on WOSF.
1929
Adrienne Rich
American poet, essayist, and feminist (died 2012)
Adrienne Cecile Rich was an American poet, essayist and feminist. She was called "one of the most widely read and influential poets of the second half of the 20th century", and was credited with bringing "the oppression of women and lesbians to the forefront of poetic discourse". Rich criticized the rigid identities that are sometimes created by feminism, called for feminism that is flexible and open to being transformed, and drew attention to the existing current of solidarity and creativity among women, which she named the "lesbian continuum."
1948
Emma Georgina Rothschild
English historian and academic
Emma Georgina Rothschild is an English economic historian, a professor of history at Harvard University. She is director of the Joint Centre for History and Economics at Harvard, and an honorary Professor of History and Economics at the University of Cambridge. She formerly served as board member of United Nations Foundation and as a professor at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS) in Paris.
1955
Jack Morris
American baseball player and sportscaster
John Scott Morris is an American former professional baseball starting pitcher. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) between 1977 and 1994, mainly for the Detroit Tigers. Morris won 254 games throughout his career.
1944
Billy Cobham
Panamanian-American drummer, composer, and bandleader
William Emanuel Cobham Jr. is a Panamanian–American jazz drummer who came to prominence in the late 1960s and early 1970s with trumpeter Miles Davis and then with the Mahavishnu Orchestra.
1991
Joey Graceffa
American internet celebrity
Joseph Michael Graceffa Jr. is an American YouTuber, vlogger, actor, author, and producer. He runs four active YouTube channels, all named after him. His main channel is dedicated to vlogging, while the second features video gaming content. The third is for daily vlogs, and the fourth is a react channel. His channels have a combined total of more than 2.9 billion views. He was a contestant on the 22nd and 24th seasons of The Amazing Race, and has appeared in a handful of short films as well as creating and hosting Escape the Night, an immersive reality web series, distributed by YouTube via its paid-subscription service YouTube Premium. He appears in all four of the seasons with several other YouTubers, including Liza Koshy, Tyler Oakley, Justine Ezarik, Lele Pons, Matthew Patrick, and Rosanna Pansino.
1948
Judy Finnigan
English talk show host and author
Judith Adele Finnigan is an English television presenter and writer. She co-presented ITV's This Morning and the Channel 4 chat show, Richard & Judy (2001–2008) alongside her husband Richard Madeley. Her debut novel Eloise, published in 2012, was a Sunday Times bestseller. Her second novel, I Do Not Sleep, was published in 2015.
1948
Jesper Christensen
Danish actor, director, and producer
Jesper Christensen is a Danish actor. A veteran of European cinema, he has made the transition to English language projects, including The Interpreter and Revelations. He has also appeared as the mysterious villain Mr. White in the James Bond films Casino Royale, Quantum of Solace, and Spectre.
1984
Rick Rypien
Canadian ice hockey player (died 2011)
Richard Joseph Rypien was a Canadian professional ice hockey player who was a forward for parts of six seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL) with the Vancouver Canucks from 2005 to 2011. After a major junior career of four years with the Regina Pats of the Western Hockey League (WHL), he was signed to a professional contract by the minor league Manitoba Moose of the American Hockey League (AHL) in 2005. The following season, he signed with the Canucks. He spent six years with the organization, splitting time between the Canucks and Moose, their AHL affiliate. A fourth-line player in the NHL, he was known for his hitting and fighting abilities, though his size was not typical of an enforcer.
1966
Scott Reeves
American singer-songwriter and actor
Gregory Scott Reeves is an American actor, musician, and songwriter. He is known for playing the roles of Ryan McNeil on the CBS Daytime soap opera The Young and the Restless, Steven Webber on the ABC Daytime soap opera General Hospital, and Noel Laughlin on the ABC series Nashville. For his work on The Young and the Restless, Reeves was nominated for two Daytime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series. He has received two Soap Opera Digest Award nominations and won the award for Outstanding Younger Leading Actor in 1994.
1955
Hazel O'Connor
English-born Irish singer-songwriter and actress
Hazel Thereasa O'Connor is an English singer-songwriter and actress. She became famous in the early 1980s with hit singles "Eighth Day", "D-Days" and "Will You?" She also starred in the 1980 film Breaking Glass.
1971
Rachel Goswell
English singer-songwriter and guitarist
Rachel Ann Goswell is an English musician who rose to prominence as vocalist and guitarist of the shoegaze band Slowdive, which formed in 1989. When Slowdive disbanded in 1995, Goswell, along with Neil Halstead, Ian McCutcheon and former Chapterhouse member Simon Rowe became Mojave 3, performing in a more country/folk rock style. She released a solo album in 2004, titled Waves Are Universal on 4AD Records.
2000
Luis García Jr.
Dominican-American baseball player
Luis Victoriano García is a Dominican-American professional baseball infielder for the New York Yankees of Major League Baseball (MLB). He has previously played in MLB for the Washington Nationals. He made his MLB debut in 2020.
1943
Dan Coats
American politician and diplomat, 29th United States Ambassador to Germany
Daniel Ray Coats is an American politician, attorney, and diplomat from the state of Indiana. A Republican, Coats has served in the United States House of Representatives, in the United States Senate, as United States Ambassador to Germany, and as Director of National Intelligence.
1953
Peter Onorati
American actor
Peter Onorati is an American actor. He is known for his TV roles as Charlie Howell on Civil Wars (1991–1993), Mr. Scotto on Murder One (1995–1997), Stanley Pearson on This Is Us (2017–2022), and Jeffrey Mumford on S.W.A.T. (2017–2019), and his film roles in Goodfellas (1990), and Fallen Arches (1998).
1964
Milton Jones
English comedian, actor, and screenwriter
Milton Hywel Jones is an English comedian. His style of humour is based on one-liners involving puns delivered in a deadpan and slightly neurotic style.
1957
Joan Benoit
American runner
Joan Benoit Samuelson is an American marathon runner who was the first women's Olympic Games marathon champion, winning the gold medal at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles. She held the fastest time for an American woman at the Chicago Marathon for 32 years after winning the race in 1985. Her time at the Boston Marathon was the fastest time by an American woman in that race for 28 years. She was inducted into the Maine Women's Hall of Fame in 2000.
1883
Celâl Bayar
Turkish politician, 3rd President of Turkey (died 1986)
Mahmut Celâlettin "Celâl" Bayar was a Turkish economist and politician who was the president of Turkey from 1950 to 1960. He previously served as the prime minister of Turkey from 1937 to 1939.
1992
Jeff Skinner
Canadian ice hockey player
Jeffrey Scott Skinner is a Canadian professional ice hockey forward for EHC Biel-Bienne in the National League. He was selected seventh overall by the Carolina Hurricanes in the 2010 NHL entry draft, and has also played for the Buffalo Sabres, Edmonton Oilers and San Jose Sharks.
1960
Bruce Norris
American actor and playwright
Bruce Norris is an American character actor and playwright associated with the Steppenwolf Theatre Company of Chicago. His play Clybourne Park won the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.
1977
Emilíana Torrini
Icelandic singer-songwriter
Emilíana Torrini is an Icelandic singer and songwriter. Her most popular works include the 2009 single "Jungle Drum" and her third studio album Love in the Time of Science (1999). She performed "Gollum's Song" for the film The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002).
1991
Ashley Wagner
American figure skater
Ashley Elisabeth Wagner is an American former competitive figure skater. She is the 2016 World silver medalist, a 2014 Olympic bronze medalist in the team event, the 2012 Four Continents champion, a three-time Grand Prix Final medalist, a thirteen-time Grand Prix medalist, and a three-time U.S. national champion. Wagner competed at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia, and placed 7th. At the junior level, Wagner is a two-time World Junior bronze medalist, the 2006-07 Junior Grand Prix Final silver medalist, a two-time Junior Grand Prix medalist, and the 2007 U.S. junior bronze medalist.
1929
Betty Carter
American singer-songwriter (died 1998)
Betty Carter was an American jazz singer known for her improvisational technique, scatting, and other complex musical abilities that demonstrated her vocal talent and imaginative interpretation of lyrics and melodies. Vocalist Carmen McRae once remarked, "There's really only one jazz singer—only one: Betty Carter."
1924
Dawda Jawara
1st President of the Gambia (died 2019)
Sir Dawda Kairaba Jawara was a Gambian politician who served as prime minister from 1962 to 1970, and then as the first President of The Gambia from 1970 to 1994, when he was overthrown by Yahya Jammeh.
1986
Andy Keogh
Irish footballer
Andrew Declan Keogh is an Irish professional footballer who plays as a forward for semi-professional side East Perth FC. Born in Dublin, Keogh played the first several years of his professional career playing for a number of clubs in England, including Wolverhampton Wanderers, for whom he made over 100 appearances. In 2014, Keogh moved to Australia to play for Perth Glory. He left the Glory for one year to play in the Thai Premier League for Ratchaburi before returning in early 2016, and again in 2020, after leaving in 2019, for Al-Qadsiah.
1938
Ivan Sutherland
American computer scientist and academic
Ivan Edward Sutherland is an American computer scientist, widely regarded as a pioneer of computer graphics. His early work in computer graphics, as well as his teaching with David C. Evans in that subject at the University of Utah in the 1970s, was pioneering in the field. Sutherland, Evans, and their students from that era developed several foundations of modern computer graphics. He received the 1988 ACM Turing Award for the invention of the Sketchpad, an early predecessor to the sort of graphical user interface that has become ubiquitous in personal computers, and his contributions to computer graphics. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, as well as the National Academy of Sciences among many other major awards. In 2012, he was awarded the Kyoto Prize in Advanced Technology for "pioneering achievements in the development of computer graphics and interactive interfaces".
1983
Daniel Kerr
Australian footballer
Daniel Alan Kerr is a former Australian rules footballer who played for the West Coast Eagles in the Australian Football League (AFL). He played 220 games for the club between 2001 and 2013, as a hard-running inside midfielder.
1975
Tony Kakko
Finnish musician, composer, and vocalist
Toni Kristian "Tony" Kakko is a Finnish musician, composer and vocalist. He is known as the vocalist, primary songwriter, and creative lead of the band Sonata Arctica since 1996.
1949
Rick Reuschel
American baseball player
Rickey Eugene Reuschel is an American former professional baseball player. He played in Major League Baseball as a right-handed pitcher from 1972 to 1991, winning 214 games with a career 3.37 ERA. His nickname was "Big Daddy" because his speed belied his portly physique. He was known for his deceptive style of pitching, which kept hitters off balance by constantly varying the speeds of his pitches.
1876
Fred Conrad Koch
American biochemist and endocrinologist (died 1948)
Frederick Conrad Koch was an American biochemist and endocrinologist. Born in Chicago, Illinois, Koch graduated from the University of Illinois in 1899. He was affiliated with the University of Chicago from 1912 to 1941, serving as chairman of the department of biochemistry from 1936 to 1941. He retired as professor emeritus, and was director of biomedical research at Armour and Company. He was known primarily for his work on male sex hormones and testicular function. He served as the 19th president of the Endocrine Society, which in 1957 established the Fred Conrad Koch Lifetime Achievement Award, the society's highest honor.
1954
Dafydd Williams
Canadian physician and astronaut
Dafydd "Dave" Rhys Williams is a Canadian physician, public speaker, CEO, author and retired CSA astronaut. Williams was a mission specialist on two Space Shuttle missions. His first spaceflight, STS-90 in 1998, was a 16-day mission aboard Space Shuttle Columbia dedicated to neuroscience research. His second flight, STS-118 in August 2007, was flown by Space Shuttle Endeavour to the International Space Station. During that mission he performed three spacewalks, becoming the third Canadian to perform a spacewalk and setting a Canadian record for total number of spacewalks. These spacewalks combined for a total duration of 17 hours and 47 minutes.
1801
William H. Seward
American lawyer and politician, 24th United States Secretary of State (died 1872)
William Henry Seward was an American politician who served as United States Secretary of State from 1861 to 1869 and earlier served as governor of New York and as a United States senator. A determined opponent of the spread of slavery in the years leading up to the American Civil War, he was prominent in the Republican Party in its formative years and was praised for his work on behalf of the Union as Secretary of State during the Civil War. He also negotiated the treaty for the United States to purchase the Alaska Territory.
1981
Ricardo Costa
Portuguese footballer
Ricardo Miguel Moreira da Costa is a Portuguese former professional footballer who played mainly as a central defender but occasionally as a full-back. He is the current manager of Liga Portugal 2 club Tondela.
1898
Kenji Mizoguchi
Japanese director and screenwriter (died 1956)
Kenji Mizoguchi was a Japanese filmmaker who directed roughly one hundred films during his career between 1923 and 1956. His most acclaimed works include The Story of the Last Chrysanthemums (1939), The Life of Oharu (1952), Ugetsu (1953), and Sansho the Bailiff (1954), with the latter three all being awarded at the Venice International Film Festival. A recurring theme of his films was the oppression of women in historical and contemporary Japan. Together with Akira Kurosawa and Yasujirō Ozu, Mizoguchi is seen as a representative of the "golden age" of Japanese cinema.
1920
Martine Carol
French actress (died 1967)
Martine Carol was a French film actress. She frequently was cast as an elegant blonde seductress. During the late 1940s and early 1950s, she was the leading sex symbol and a top box-office draw of French cinema, and she was considered a French version of America's Marilyn Monroe. One of her more famous roles was as the title character in Lola Montès (1955), directed by Max Ophüls, in a role that required dark hair. However, by late 1956, roles for Carol had become fewer, partly because of the introduction of Brigitte Bardot.
1937
Yvonne Craig
American ballet dancer and actress (died 2015)
Yvonne Joyce Craig was an American actress best known for her role as Barbara Gordon/Batgirl in the 1960s television series Batman. Other notable roles in her career include Dorothy Johnson in the 1963 movie It Happened at the World's Fair, Azalea Tatum in the 1964 movie Kissin' Cousins, and the green-skinned Orion Marta in the Star Trek episode "Whom Gods Destroy" (1969). The Huffington Post called her "a pioneer of female superheroes" for television. Craig was a philanthropist and "an advocate for workers unions, free mammograms, and equal pay for women".
1898
Desanka Maksimović
Serbian poet and academic (died 1993)
Desanka Maksimović was a Serbian poet, writer and translator. Her first works were published in the literary journal Misao in 1920, while she was studying at the University of Belgrade. Within a few years, her poems appeared in the Serbian Literary Herald, Belgrade's most influential literary publication. In 1925, Maksimović earned a French Government scholarship for a year's study at the University of Paris. Upon her return, she was appointed a professor at Belgrade's elite First High School for Girls, a position she would hold continuously until World War II.
1919
Ramon Margalef
Spanish ecologist and biologist (died 2004)
Ramon Margalef López was a Catalan biologist and ecologist. He was Emeritus Professor of Ecology at the Faculty of Biology of the University of Barcelona. Margalef, one of the most prominent scientists that Spain has produced, worked at the Institute of Applied Biology (1946–1951), and at the Fisheries Research Institute, which he directed during 1966–1967. He created the Department of Ecology of the University of Barcelona, from where he trained a huge number of ecologists, limnologists and oceanographers. In 1967 he became Spain's first professor of ecology.
1926
Glen Michael
British television presenter and entertainer (died 2025)
Cecil Edward Buckland, known professionally as Glen Michael, was a British children's television presenter and entertainer. He hosted the popular children's television show Glen Michael's Cartoon Cavalcade, which ran for 26 years on Scottish Television from 1966. He also acted on stage across Scotland supporting comic Jack Milroy as a feed, later working with Rikki Fulton too. He appeared in the three series of The Adventures of Francie and Josie and in other television shows. He was a radio presenter for several years between 1974 and 2009.
1967
Susan Williams
Baroness Williams of Trafford, British politician
Susan Frances Maria Williams, Baroness Williams of Trafford is a Conservative life peer who was appointed the Chief Conservative Whip of the House of Lords in 2022. As government chief whip she was Captain of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms until the electoral defeat of the Conservative Party in July 2024. In March 2022 she was made a member of the Privy Council. She continued to be chief whip in the House of Lords for the Conservative Party, now in opposition, in July 2024.
1953
Kitanoumi Toshimitsu
Japanese sumo wrestler, the 55th Yokozuna (died 2015)
Kitanoumi Toshimitsu , born Toshimitsu Obata , was a Japanese professional sumo wrestler from Sōbetsu, Hokkaido. He entered professional sumo at the age of 13 and set several youth-related records, including promotion to the highest rank of yokozuna at the age of 21.
1879
Pierre Gilliard
Swiss author and academic (died 1962)
Pierre Gilliard was a Swiss academic and author, best known as the French-language tutor to the five children of Russian emperor Nicholas II from 1905 to 1918. In 1921, after the Russian Revolution, he published a memoir, Thirteen Years at the Russian Court, about his time with the family. In his memoirs, Gilliard described Empress Alexandra's torment over her son Alexei's hemophilia and her faith in the ability of the starets (elder) Grigori Rasputin to heal the boy.
1966
Thurman Thomas
American football player
Thurman Lee Thomas is an American former professional football running back who played in the National Football League (NFL) for 13 seasons, primarily with the Buffalo Bills. He played college football for the Oklahoma State Cowboys, earning All-American honors twice. Thomas was selected by the Bills in the second round of the 1988 NFL draft, where he spent all but one season of his professional career. In his final season, he was a member of the Miami Dolphins.
1917
Juan Rulfo
Mexican author and photographer (died 1986)
Juan Nepomuceno Carlos Pérez Rulfo Vizcaíno, best known as Juan Rulfo, was a Mexican writer, screenwriter, and photographer. He is best known for two literary works, the 1955 novel Pedro Páramo, and the collection of short stories El Llano en llamas. In spite of Rulfo's slim literary production, he is considered one of the greatest Mexican and Latin American writers of the twentieth century who has influenced many subsequent writers including the Nobel laureate Gabriel García Márquez.
1910
Higashifushimi Kunihide
Japanese monk and educator (died 2014)
Count Higashifushimi Kunihide was the titular head of the Higashifushimi-no-miya, an extinct branch of the Imperial House of Japan, and a Buddhist monk. He was the youngest brother of Empress Kōjun and was the maternal uncle of Emperor Emeritus Akihito. If he had kept his Imperial status, at the time of his death, at age 103, he would have been the longest-lived member, of the Imperial House of Japan. His Dharma name was Jigō (慈洽).
1957
Anthony St John
22nd Baron St John of Bletso, English lawyer and businessman
Anthony Tudor St John, 22nd Baron St John of Bletso is a British peer, politician, businessman and solicitor. He was one of the ninety hereditary peers elected to remain in the House of Lords after the House of Lords Act 1999 until the House of Lords Act 2026. He spoke on African affairs, deregulation, financial services and information technology. Rather than aligning with a particular political party, he remained a crossbencher.
1996
Louisa Chirico
American tennis player
Louisa Chirico is an American tennis player. On 24 October 2016, she reached her best singles ranking of world No. 58. On 6 March 2017, she peaked at No. 184 in the WTA doubles rankings. Chirico has won seven singles titles and two doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit. Her best performance in singles at a Grand Slam tournament was reaching the second round at the 2016 French Open.
1919
Liberace
American pianist and entertainer (died 1987)
Władziu Valentino Liberace was an American pianist, singer, and actor. He was born in Wisconsin to parents of Italian and Polish origin and enjoyed a career spanning four decades of concerts, recordings, television, motion pictures, and endorsements. At the height of his fame, from the 1950s to 1970s, he was the highest-paid entertainer in the world, with established concert residencies in Las Vegas and an international touring schedule.
1975
Simon Whitfield
Canadian triathlete
Simon St. Quentin Whitfield is a Canadian retired Olympic triathlon champion. Whitfield won ten consecutive Canadian Triathlon Championships titles and carried the Canadian national flag during the 2000 Summer Olympics closing ceremony in Sydney, where he had won his gold medal, and the opening ceremony at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, making him one of few Canadian athletes to be honoured twice as Olympic flag bearer.
1909
Margaret Sullavan
American actress and singer (died 1960)
Margaret Brooke Sullavan was an American stage and film actress. She began her career onstage in 1929 with the University Players on Cape Cod, Massachusetts. In 1933, she caught the attention of film director John M. Stahl and made her screen debut that same year in Only Yesterday. She continued to be successful on stage and film, best known for The Shop Around the Corner.
1819
Johann Voldemar Jannsen
Estonian journalist and poet (died 1890)
Johann Voldemar Jannsen was an Estonian journalist. He was one of the earliest figures of the Estonian national awakening, which he promoted through his newspaper, the Eesti Postimees, and two Estonian Song Festivals. He wrote the nationalist song "Mu isamaa, mu õnn ja rõõm", which became the national anthem of Estonia after its independence. Jannsen was the father of poet Lydia Koidula.
1913
Woody Herman
American singer, saxophonist, and clarinet player (died 1987)
Woodrow Charles Herman was an American jazz clarinetist, saxophonist, singer, and big band leader. Leading groups called "The Herd", Herman came to prominence in the late 1930s and was active until his death in 1987. His bands often played music that was cutting edge and experimental; their recordings received numerous Grammy nominations with three wins plus a lifetime achievement award for Herman.
1887
Maria Lacerda de Moura
Brazilian teacher and anarcha-feminist (died 1945)
Maria Lacerda de Moura was a Brazilian teacher, writer and anarcha-feminist. The daughter of spiritist and anti-clerical parents, she grew up in the city of Barbacena, in the interior of Minas Gerais, where she graduated as a teacher at the Escola Normal Municipal de Barbacena and participated in official efforts to tackle social inequality through national literacy campaigns and educational reforms.
1944
Friedrich Schorlemmer
German Protestant theologian (died 2024)
Friedrich Schorlemmer was a German Protestant theologian. He was a prominent member of the civil rights movement in East Germany, leading to the Peaceful Revolution. Remaining active in politics and society after German reunification in 1990, he was engaged in the Wittenberg town council and several organisations as an activist for peace and nature preservation, and as a critical voice.
1948
Jimmy Hood
Scottish engineer and politician (died 2017)
James Hood was a Scottish Labour Party politician, who served as a Member of Parliament from 1987 until being defeated in 2015. He represented the Clydesdale constituency until 2005, and the Lanark and Hamilton East constituency thereafter. Hood, a National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) trade union official during the miners' strike of 1984–85, remained a backbencher throughout his parliamentary career.
1993
Johannes Thingnes Bø
Norwegian biathlete
Johannes Thingnes Bø is a Norwegian former biathlete who has achieved significant success in the sport. Thingnes Bø has won the Biathlon World Cup five times, in the 2018/19, 2019/20, 2020/21, 2022/23, and 2023/24 seasons. He is the male biathlete with the second most individual World Cup victories in history, totaling 91, including victories at the Winter Olympic Games.
1917
Ben Kuroki
American sergeant and pilot (died 2015)
Ben Kuroki was the only American of Japanese descent in the United States Army Air Forces to serve in combat operations in the Pacific theater of World War II. He flew a total of 58 combat missions over Europe, North Africa, and Japan during World War II. He was also an advocate for Japanese-Americans after World War II.
1923
Peter Underwood
English parapsychologist and author (died 2014)
Peter Underwood was an English author, broadcaster and parapsychologist. Underwood was born in Letchworth, Hertfordshire. Described as "an indefatigable ghost hunter", he wrote many books which surveyed alleged hauntings within the United Kingdom - beginning the trend of comprehensive regional 'guides' to (purportedly) haunted places. One of his well-known investigations concerned Borley Rectory, which he also wrote about.
1990
Darko Šarović
Serbian sprinter
Darko Šarović is a Serbian medical doctor, PhD in child psychiatry, Master of Science in psychology, and former professional athlete who specialised in the short sprint events, holding a national 100m record in the under 23 category. He is a postdoctoral research fellow at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital. He holds both Serbian and Swedish citizenships.
1923
Merton Miller
American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2000)
Merton Howard Miller was an American economist, and the co-author of the Modigliani–Miller theorem (1958), which proposed the irrelevance of debt-equity structure. He shared the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1990, along with Harry Markowitz and William F. Sharpe. Miller spent most of his academic career at the University of Chicago's Booth School of Business.
1929
K. Natwar Singh
Indian scholar and politician, Indian Minister of External Affairs (died 2024)
Natwar Singh was an Indian politician and diplomat of the Indian Foreign Service who later served as India's Minister of External Affairs from May 2004 to December 2005. Having been suspended by the Indian National Congress (INC) in 2006, he joined the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) in 2008 but was removed from the party within four months.
1978
Scott Nicholls
English motorcycle racer
Scott Karl Nicholls is an English motorcycle speedway rider, who has won the British Championship seven times, and was a full participant in the Speedway Grand Prix series between 2002 and 2008. He earned 8 international caps for the England national speedway team and 27 caps for the Great Britain team. He is also a speedway commentator.
1983
Kyle Wellwood
Canadian ice hockey player
Kyle Wellwood is a Canadian former professional ice hockey centre who played the majority of his career in the National Hockey League (NHL). He was originally selected by the Toronto Maple Leafs 134th overall in the 2001 NHL entry draft, playing his first three seasons in the NHL with Toronto before joining the Vancouver Canucks in 2008.
1986
Shamcey Supsup
Filipino model and architect
Shamcey Gurrea Supsup-Lee is a Filipino architect and a beauty pageant titleholder. She was crowned as Binibining Pilipinas Universe 2011. She represented the Philippines at the Miss Universe 2011 pageant in São Paulo, Brazil where she finished as 3rd Runner-Up. From 2020 to 2023, Supsup was the national director for the Miss Universe Philippines Organization.
1827
Pierre Cuypers
Dutch architect, designed the Amsterdam Centraal railway station and Rijksmuseum (died 1921)
Petrus Josephus Hubertus "Pierre" Cuypers was a Dutch architect, designer and restoration architect. A leading figure in nineteenth-century Dutch Gothic Revival architecture, he is best known for the Rijksmuseum and Amsterdam Centraal station in Amsterdam. Much of his career, however, was devoted to Roman Catholic churches, ecclesiastical furnishings and the restoration of historic monuments.
1938
Stuart Bell
English lawyer and politician (died 2012)
Sir Stuart Bell was a British Labour Party politician, who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Middlesbrough from the 1983 general election until his death in 2012. He was known as the longest serving Second Church Estates Commissioner, serving in this role during the entire period of Labour government from 1997 to 2010.
1994
Kathinka von Deichmann
Liechtenstein tennis player
Kathinka von Deichmann is a former professional tennis player from Liechtenstein. On 8 October 2018, she reached her best WTA ranking of world No. 153 in singles, and on 17 July 2017, she peaked at No. 343 in doubles. Von Deichmann has won 15 singles and four doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit.
1914
Edward T. Hall
American anthropologist and author (died 2009)
Edward Twitchell Hall Jr. was an American anthropologist and cross-cultural researcher. He is remembered for developing the concept of proxemics and exploring cultural and social cohesion, and describing how people behave and react in different types of culturally defined personal space. Hall was an influential colleague of Marshall McLuhan and Buckminster Fuller.
1976
Dirk Nannes
Australian-Dutch cricketer
Dirk Peter Nannes is an Australian-Dutch cricket commentator and former cricketer who has played internationally for both Australia and the Netherlands, one of the few players to represent multiple international teams.
1606
John Bulwer
British doctor (died 1656)
John Bulwer was an English physician and early Baconian natural philosopher who wrote five works exploring the body and human communication, particularly by gesture. He was the first person in England to propose educating deaf people, the plans for an Academy he outlines in Philocophus and The Dumbe mans academie.
1831
David Edward Hughes
Welsh-American physicist, co-invented the microphone (died 1900)
David Edward Hughes, was a Welsh-American inventor, practical experimenter, and professor of music known for his work on the printing telegraph and the microphone. He is generally considered to have been born in London but his family moved around that time so he may have been born in Corwen, Wales.
1925
Nancy Roman
American astronomer (died 2018)
Nancy Grace Roman was an American astronomer who made important contributions to stellar classification and stellar motions. The first female executive at NASA, Roman served as NASA's first chief of astronomy throughout the 1960s and 1970s, establishing her as one of the "visionary founders of the US civilian space program".
1931
Lowell P. Weicker Jr.
American soldier and politician, 85th Governor of Connecticut (died 2023)
Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr. was an American politician who served as a member of the United States House of Representatives representing Connecticut's 4th congressional district from 1969 to 1971, a member of the United States Senate from 1971 to 1989, and the 85th governor of Connecticut from 1991 to 1995.
1948
Enrico Fumia
Italian automobile and product designer
Enrico Fumia is an Italian automobile and product designer. He is widely known for his work with the car design firm Pininfarina, helping to design and package a new sports car version of the Alfa Romeo, which included front-wheel drive and traversely-mounted engines. Today he runs Fumia Design Studio.
1934
Kenneth O. Morgan
Welsh historian and author
Kenneth Owen Morgan, Baron Morgan, is a Welsh historian and author, known especially for his writings on modern British history and politics and on Welsh history. He is a regular reviewer and broadcaster on radio and television. He has been an influential intellectual resource in the Labour Party.
1859
Horace Hutchinson
English golfer (died 1932)
Horatio Gordon "Horace" Hutchinson was an English amateur golfer who played in the late 19th century and early 20th century. Hutchinson won the 1886 and 1887 Amateur Championships. He had three top-10 finishes in the Open Championship, his best result being sixth in the 1890 Open Championship.
1862
Margaret Fountaine
English lepidopterist and diarist (died 1940)
Margaret Elizabeth Fountaine, was a Victorian lepidopterist, natural history illustrator, diarist, and traveller who published in The Entomologist's Record and Journal of Variation. She is also known for her personal diaries, which were edited into two volumes by W.F. Cater for the popular market and published posthumously.
1898
Tamara de Lempicka
Polish-American painter (died 1980)
Tamara Łempicka, known outside Poland as Tamara de Lempicka, was a Polish painter who spent her working life in France and the United States. She is best known for her polished Art Deco portraits of aristocrats and the wealthy, and for her highly stylized paintings of nudes.
1931
Hana Brady
Jewish-Czech Holocaust victim (died 1944)
Hana "Hanička" Brady was a Czechoslovak Jewish girl murdered in the gas chambers of the German concentration camp at Auschwitz, located in the occupied territory of Poland, during the Holocaust. She is the subject of the 2002 non-fiction children's book Hana's Suitcase, written by Karen Levine.
1912
Studs Terkel
American historian and author (died 2008)
Louis "Studs" Terkel was an American writer, historian, actor and broadcaster. He received the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction in 1985 for The Good War and is best remembered for his oral histories of common Americans, and for hosting a long-running radio show in Chicago.
1955
Páidí Ó Sé
Irish footballer and manager (died 2012)
Páidí Ó Sé was an Irish Gaelic football manager and player, whose league and championship career at senior level with the Kerry county team spanned fifteen seasons from 1974 to 1988. Ó Sé is widely regarded as one of the greatest defenders of his generation.
1971
Phil Clarke
English rugby league player and sportscaster
Philip Clarke is an English former professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1980s and 1990s. A Great Britain and England international representative back-rower or stand-off, he played his club rugby league in England for Wigan, and in Australia for the Sydney City Roosters.
1935
Floyd Smith
Canadian ice hockey player and coach
Floyd Robert Donald Smith is a Canadian former professional ice hockey centre and coach. Smith played 616 total games in the National Hockey League (NHL), doing so for the Boston Bruins, New York Rangers, Detroit Red Wings, Toronto Maple Leafs, and the Buffalo Sabres.
1967
Doug Brocail
American baseball player and coach
Douglas Keith Brocail is an American professional baseball pitcher and pitching coach. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the San Diego Padres, Houston Astros, Detroit Tigers, and Texas Rangers. He has coached in MLB for the Astros, Rangers, and the Orioles.
1917
James C. Murray
American lawyer and politician (died 1999)
James Cunningham Murray was a U.S. representative from Illinois from 1955 to 1957. He graduated from De Paul University Law School in 1940 and subsequently worked as a lawyer. He served in the United States Army Air Forces from 1942 to 1945.
1926
Robert Jay Lifton
American psychiatrist and author (died 2025)
Robert Jay Lifton was an American psychiatrist and author, chiefly known for his studies of the psychological causes and effects of wars and political violence, and for his theory of thought reform. He was an early proponent of the techniques of psychohistory.
1929
John Conyers
American lawyer and politician (died 2019)
John James Conyers Jr. was an American politician of the Democratic Party who served as a U.S. representative from Michigan from 1965 to 2017. Conyers was the sixth-longest serving member of Congress and the longest-serving African American member of Congress in history.
1718
Maria Gaetana Agnesi
Italian mathematician and philosopher (died 1799)
Maria Gaetana Agnesi was a Milanese mathematician, philosopher, theologian, and humanitarian. She was the first woman to write a mathematics handbook, the first woman appointed as a mathematics professor at a university and the second woman appointed as a professor overall.
1824
Levi P. Morton
American banker and politician, 22nd United States Vice President (died 1920)
Levi Parsons Morton was the 22nd vice president of the United States from 1889 to 1893. He also served as United States ambassador to France, as a United States representative from New York, and as the 31st governor of New York.
1939
Mario Segni
Italian professor and politician
Mariotto "Mario" Segni is a retired Italian politician and professor of civil law. He founded several parties, which focused on fighting for electoral reform through referendums. He is the son of the politician Antonio Segni, one-time president of Italy.
1918
Wilf Mannion
English footballer and manager (died 2000)
Wilfrid James Mannion was an English professional footballer who played as an inside forward, making over 350 senior appearances for Middlesbrough. He also played international football for England. With his blonde hair, he was nicknamed "The Golden Boy".
1910
Olga Bergholz
Russian poet and author (died 1975)
Olga Fyodorovna Berggolts was a Soviet and Russian poet, writer, playwright and journalist. She is most famous for her work on the Leningrad radio during the city's siege, when she became the symbol of the city's resilience.
1980
Nuria Llagostera Vives
Spanish tennis player
Nuria Llagostera Vives is a Spanish former tennis player. In June 2005, she reached her best singles ranking of world No. 35. In November 2009, she peaked at No. 5 in the WTA doubles rankings.
1804
Elizabeth Palmer Peabody
American educator who founded the first U.S. kindergarten (died 1894)
Elizabeth Palmer Peabody was an American educator who opened the first English-language kindergarten in the United States. Long before most educators, Peabody embraced the premise that children's play has intrinsic developmental and educational value.
1905
Henry Fonda
American actor (died 1982)
Henry Jaynes Fonda was an American actor whose career spanned five decades on Broadway and in Hollywood. Known for his work on screen and stage, he often portrayed characters who embodied an everyman image.
1906
Margret Rey
German author and illustrator (died 1996)
Margret Elizabeth Rey was a German-born American writer and illustrator, best known for the Curious George series of children's picture books that she and her husband H. A. Rey created from 1939 to 1966.
1965
Tanel Tammet
Estonian computer scientist, engineer, and academic
Tanel Tammet is an Estonian computer scientist, professor, software engineer, and computer programmer. He was also one of the founding members of the Estonian Greens party, and helped found the IT College in Tallinn.
1824
Edmund Kirby Smith
American general (died 1893)
Edmund Kirby Smith was a Confederate States Army general, who oversaw the Trans-Mississippi Department from 1863 to 1865. Before the American Civil War, Smith served as an officer of the United States Army.
1925
Nílton Santos
Brazilian footballer (died 2013)
Nílton dos Santos was a Brazilian footballer who played primarily as a left-back. At international level, he was a member of the Brazil teams that won the 1958 and 1962 FIFA World Cups.
1963
Rachel Griffith
Anglo-American economist
Dame Rachel Susan Griffith is a British and American academic and educator. She is professor of economics at the University of Manchester and a research director at the Institute for Fiscal Studies.
1984
Tomáš Fleischmann
Czech ice hockey player
Tomáš Fleischmann is a Czech former professional ice hockey winger. He most notably played in the National Hockey League (NHL) with several teams, including stints with the Washington Capitals and Florida Panthers.
1418
John II of Cyprus
King of Cyprus and Armenia and also titular King of Jerusalem from 1432 to 1458 (probable; (died 1458)
John II or III of Cyprus was the King of Cyprus and Armenia and also titular King of Jerusalem from 1432 to 1458. He was previously a titular Prince of Antioch.
1913
Gordon Chalk
Australian politician, 30th Premier of Queensland (died 1991)
Sir Gordon William Wesley Chalk, was Premier of Queensland for a week, from 1 to 8 August 1968. He was the first and only Queensland Premier from the post-war Liberal Party.
1990
Omar Strong
American basketball player
Omar Strong Sr. is an American former professional basketball player. In 2012–13, he was a senior at Texas Southern University and was named the Southwestern Athletic Conference Player of the Year.
1943
Wieteke van Dort
Dutch actress, comedian, singer, writer and artist (died 2024)
Louisa Johanna Theodora "Wieteke" van Dort was a Surabaya-born Javindo actress, comedian, singer, writer and artist. On 29 April 1999, Queen Beatrix appointed her Knight of the Order of Orange-Nassau.
1984
Jensen Lewis
American baseball player
Jensen Daniel Lewis is an American former Major League Baseball pitcher who played for the Cleveland Indians from 2007 to 2010 and is currently a baseball analyst with Bally Sports.
1988
Martynas Gecevičius
Lithuanian basketball player
Martynas Gecevičius is a Lithuanian professional basketball player for BC Stekas Ukmergė of the National Basketball League (NKL). Standing at 1.93 m, he primarily plays at the shooting guard position.
1611
Pope Innocent XI (died 1689)
Pope Innocent XI, born Benedetto Odescalchi, was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 21 September 1676 until his death on 12 August 1689.
1936
Karl Lehmann
German cardinal (died 2018)
Karl Lehmann was a German prelate and cardinal of the Catholic Church. He served as Bishop of Mainz from 1983 to 2016, being elevated to the cardinalate in 2001.
1937
Jim Hunt
American politician, 69th and 71st Governor of North Carolina (died 2025)
James Baxter Hunt Jr. was an American politician and attorney who was the 69th and 71st governor of North Carolina. He was the longest-serving governor in the state's history.
1987
Tom Onslow-Cole
English race car driver
Thomas Michael Onslow-Cole is a British former racing driver. He won the International GT Open in Pro-Am category in 2018 and in 2019 and the 24H Series in 2015.
1950
Georg Bednorz
German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
Johannes Georg Bednorz is a German physicist who, together with K. Alex Müller, discovered high-temperature superconductivity in ceramics, for which they shared the 1987 Nobel Prize in Physics.
1993
Karol Mets
Estonian footballer
Karol Mets is an Estonian professional footballer who plays as a centre back or defensive midfielder for German 2. Bundesliga club VfL Bochum and the Estonia national team.
1953
David Maclean
Scottish politician
David John Maclean, Baron Blencathra, is a Conservative Party life peer. He was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Penrith and The Border from 1983 to 2010.
1921
Harry Carey Jr.
American actor, producer, and screenwriter (died 2012)
Henry George Carey Jr. was an American actor. He appeared in more than 90 films, including several John Ford Westerns, as well as numerous television series.
1957
Yuri Shevchuk
Russian singer-songwriter and guitarist
Yuri Yulianovich Shevchuk is a Soviet and Russian rock musician and singer/songwriter who leads the rock band DDT, which he founded with Vladimir Sigachyov in 1980.
1907
Bob Tisdall
Irish hurdler (died 2004)
Robert Morton Newburgh Tisdall was an Irish athlete who won a gold medal in the 400-metre hurdles at the 1932 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles.
1943
Kay Andrews
Baroness Andrews, English politician
Elizabeth Kay Andrews, Baroness Andrews is a British Labour politician and life peer. She was Chair of English Heritage from July 2009 to July 2013.
1710
William Talbot
1st Earl Talbot, English politician, Lord Steward of the Household (died 1782)
William Talbot, 1st Earl Talbot, PC, styled as Lord Talbot from 1737 to 1761, was an English peer and Whig politician. Talbot was a notable figure among opposition Whig politicians during the reign of King George II before later coming to Court during the reign of King George III, taking the office of Lord Steward of the Household.
1959
Mitch Webster
American baseball player
Mitchell Dean Webster is an American former outfielder in Major League Baseball who played from 1983 through 1995 for the Toronto Blue Jays, Montreal Expos, Chicago Cubs, Cleveland Indians, Pittsburgh Pirates and Los Angeles Dodgers. Listed at 6' 0", 185 lb., he was a switch hitter and threw left handed.
1929
Claude Morin
Canadian academic and politician (died 2026)
Claude Morin was a Canadian politician from Quebec, who was the Parti Québécois Member of the National Assembly for the electoral district of Louis-Hébert, from 1976 to 1981. He became embroiled in controversy in 1992 when the affaire Morin came to light.
1946
John Law
English sociologist and academic
John Law, is a sociologist and science and technology studies scholar, currently on the Faculty of Social Sciences at the Open University. He has remained one of the leading proponents of Actor-Network Theory together with Madeleine Akrich, Michel Callon and Bruno Latour.
1923
Victoria Fromkin
American linguist and academic (died 2000)
Victoria Alexandra Fromkin was an American linguist who taught at UCLA. She studied slips of the tongue, mishearing, and other speech errors, which she applied to phonology, the study of how the sounds of a language are organized in the mind.
1924
Barbara Bachmann
American microbiologist (died 1999)
Barbara Joyce Bachmann was a lecturer at Yale University, UC Berkeley, Columbia and NYU, and is best known as director of the E. coli Genetic Stock Center and for publishing editions of the standard E. coli K-12 genetic linkage map.
1951
Janet Soskice
Canadian philosopher and theologian
Janet Martin Soskice is a Canadian-born English Roman Catholic theologian and philosopher. Soskice completed her Bachelor of Arts at Cornell University and her Master of Arts at Sheffield University. She then obtained her Doctor of Philosophy from Somerville College, Oxford.
1890
Edith Grace White
American ichthyologist (died 1975)
Edith Grace White was an American zoologist known for her studies of elasmobranchs. She was a professor of biology at Wilson College, and was a research associate of the American Museum of Natural History in New York City.
1944
Antal Nagy
Hungarian footballer
Antal Nagy is a Hungarian former professional footballer who played as a striker. In his only season for Standard de Liège (1968–69), he won the Belgian championship and he became the Belgian First Division top scorer.
1963
David Wilkinson
English theologian and academic
David Adam Wilkinson, FRAS, is a British Methodist minister, theologian, astrophysicist, broadcaster, and academic. He is Professor in the Department of Theology and Religion at Durham University and Principal Investigator at St John's College, Durham.
1905
H.E. Bates
British writer (died 1974)
Herbert Ernest Bates, better known as H. E. Bates, was an English writer of novels and short stories. His best-known works include Love for Lydia, The Darling Buds of May and My Uncle Silas.
1947
Cheryl Clarke
American writer
Cheryl Lynn Clarke is an American lesbian poet, essayist, educator, and Black feminist community activist. Her scholarship focuses on African-American women's literature, black lesbian feminism, and the Black Arts Movement in the United States.
1995
Elizabeth Ralston
Australian footballer
Elizabeth Rose "Liz" Ralston is an Australian football (soccer) player, who plays for Western Sydney Wanderers in the Australian W-League. She has previously played for Sydney FC. She also works as a physiotherapist.
1972
Matthew Hart
New Zealand cricketer
Matthew Norman Hart is a former New Zealand cricketer. Hart, a left-arm orthodox spinner, played in 14 Tests between 1994 and 1996, claiming 29 wickets including one five-wicket haul against South Africa.
1979
Michael Oberlechner
Austrian politician
Michael Oberlechner is an Austrian politician of the Freedom Party serving as a member of the National Council since 2024. He has been a district councillor of Ottakring since 2010.
1542
Anna Sibylle of Hanau-Lichtenberg
German noblewoman (died 1580)
Countess Anna Sibylle of Hanau-Lichtenberg was a German noblewoman. She was born in Lichtenberg, the eldest surviving daughter of Count Philipp IV and his wife, Countess Eleonore of Fürstenberg.
1934
Antony Walker
English general (died 2023)
General Sir Antony Kenneth Frederick Walker, was a British Army officer who served as Commandant of the Royal College of Defence Studies from 1990 to 1992.
1957
Bob Suter
American ice hockey player and coach (died 2014)
Robert Allen Suter was an American ice hockey defenseman and member of the U.S. national team that won the gold medal at the 1980 Winter Olympics.
1969
Steve Lewis
American sprinter
Steven Earl Lewis is a former American track and field athlete, winner of three gold medals at the 1988 Summer Olympics and 1992 Summer Olympics.
1455
Wolfgang I of Oettingen
German count (died 1522)
Wolfgang I of Oettingen was a Count of Oettingen-Oettingen.
1641
Dudley North
English economist and politician (died 1691)
Sir Dudley North was an English merchant, politician, economist and writer on free trade. He was also a member of the North family.
1763
Louis Nicolas Vauquelin
French pharmacist and chemist (died 1829)
Louis Nicolas Vauquelin FRS(For) HFRSE was a French pharmacist and chemist. He was the discoverer of chromium and beryllium.
1788
Friedrich Rückert
German poet and translator (died 1866)
Johann Michael Friedrich Rückert was a German poet, translator, and professor of Oriental languages.
1821
Pafnuty Chebyshev
Russian mathematician and statistician (died 1894)
Pafnuty Lvovich Chebyshev was a Russian mathematician and considered to be the founding father of Russian mathematics.
1882
Simeon Price
American golfer (died 1945)
Simeon Taylor "Sim" Price Jr. was an American golfer who competed in the 1904 Summer Olympics.
1888
Royal Rife
American microbiologist and instrument maker (died 1971)
Royal Raymond Rife was an American inventor and early exponent of high-magnification time-lapse cine-micrography.
1892
Osgood Perkins (actor
born 1892), American actor (died 1937)
James Ridley Osgood Perkins was an American actor.
1894
Walter Yust
American journalist and writer (died 1960)
Walter M. Yust was an American journalist and writer. Yust was the American editor-in-chief of the Encyclopædia Britannica from 1938 to 1960.
1897
Zvi Sliternik
Israeli entomologist and academic (died 1993)
Zvi Saliternik was an Israeli entomologist.
1903
Charles F. Brannock
American inventor and manufacturer (died 1992)
Charles F. Brannock was the inventor and manufacturer of the Brannock Device for measuring overall length, width, and heel-to-ball length of the foot.
1906
Alfred Pellan
Canadian painter and educator (died 1988)
Alfred Pellan was an important figure in twentieth-century Canadian painting.
1906
Arturo Uslar Pietri
Venezuelan lawyer, journalist, and author (died 2001)
Arturo Uslar Pietri was a Venezuelan intellectual, historian, writer, television producer, and politician.
1906
Ernie McCormick
Australian cricketer (died 1991)
Ernest Leslie McCormick was an Australian cricketer who played in 12 Test matches from 1935 to 1938.
1909
Luigi Villoresi
Italian race car driver (died 1997)
Luigi "Gigi" Villoresi was an Italian racing driver, who competed in Formula One from 1950 to 1956.
1915
Mario Monicelli
Italian director and screenwriter (died 2010)
Mario Alberto Ettore Monicelli was an Italian film director and screenwriter.
1916
Ephraim Katzir
Israeli biophysicist and politician, 4th President of Israel (died 2009)
Ephraim Katzir was an Israeli biophysicist and Labor Party politician. He was the president of Israel from 1973 until 1978.
1925
Ola Vincent
Nigerian banker and economist (died 2012)
Olatunde Olabode Vincent was a Nigerian economist and banker who was governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria from 1977 to 1982.
1930
Friedrich Gulda
Austrian pianist and composer (died 2000)
Friedrich Gulda was an Austrian pianist and composer who worked in both the classical and jazz fields.
1931
Vujadin Boškov
Serbian footballer, coach, and manager (died 2014)
Vujadin Boškov was a Serbian football player and manager.
1938
Marco Aurelio Denegri
Peruvian television host and sexologist (died 2018)
Marco Aurelio Denegri Santa Gadea was a Peruvian intellectual, literary critic, television host and sexologist.
1941
Denis Hart
Australian archbishop
Denis James Hart is a retired Australian prelate of the Catholic Church. He was Archbishop of Melbourne from 2001 to 2018.
1942
David Penry-Davey
English lawyer and judge (died 2015)
Sir David Herbert Penry-Davey was a judge of the High Court of England and Wales.
1948
Staf Van Roosbroeck
Belgian cyclist
Gustaf Van Roosbroeck is a retired Belgian professional road bicycle racer who competed in the 1970s.
1950
Bruce Coville
American author
Bruce Farrington Coville is an author of young adult fiction. Coville was first published in 1977 and has written over 100 books.
1950
Ray Condo
Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2004)
Ray Condo, born Ray Tremblay, was a Canadian rockabilly singer, saxophonist, and guitarist.
1951
Christian Lacroix
French fashion designer
Christian Marie Marc Lacroix is a French fashion designer. The name also refers to the company he founded.
1953
Stephen Woolman
Lord Woolman, Scottish judge and academic
Stephen Errol Woolman, Lord Woolman, is a Scottish legal academic and a retired Senator of the College of Justice.
1956
Loretta Schrijver
Dutch television host, news anchor (died 2025)
Loretta Maxine Schrijver was a Dutch television presenter.
1957
Benjamin Mancroft
3rd Baron Mancroft, English politician
Benjamin Lloyd Stormont Mancroft, 3rd Baron Mancroft, is a British peer, businessman and Conservative Party politician.
1960
Landon Deireragea
Nauruan politician, Nauruan Speaker of Parliament
Landon Deireragea is a Nauruan politician.
1960
S. Shanmuganathan
Sri Lankan commander and politician (died 1998)
Sarawanabavanandan Shanmuganathan was a Sri Lankan Tamil militant, politician and Member of Parliament.
1962
Helga Radtke
German long jumper
Helga Radtke is a retired German track and field athlete, former World Indoor Long Jump Champion.
1964
Boyd Tinsley
American singer-songwriter and violinist
Boyd Calvin Tinsley is an American violinist and mandolinist who is best known for having been a member of the Dave Matthews Band.
1965
Krist Novoselic
American bass player, songwriter, author, and activist
Krist Anthony Novoselic is an American musician, politician, and activist. Novoselic co-founded and played bass on every album for the rock band Nirvana.
1970
Danielle Spencer
Australian singer-songwriter and actress
Danielle Spencer is an Australian actress, singer, and songwriter. In 2026 her album Regenerate peaked at number 70 Australian Albums Chart.
1972
Christian Califano
French rugby player
Christian Califano is a former French rugby union player who finished his career at Gloucester Rugby.
1974
Sonny Sandoval
American singer-songwriter and rapper
Paul Joshua "Sonny" Sandoval is an American rapper and singer who is the lead vocalist and a founding member of nu metal band P.O.D.
1982
Łukasz Kubot
Polish tennis player
Łukasz Kubot is a former Polish professional tennis player who was ranked world No. 1 in doubles.
1982
Melissa Altro
Canadian actress
Melissa Amy Altro is a Canadian voice actress and voiceover coach from Montreal, Quebec.
1984
Darío Cvitanich
Argentinian footballer
Darío Cvitanich is an Argentine retired professional footballer who played as a striker.
1985
Anja Mittag
German footballer
Anja Mittag is a German football coach and former player who played as a striker.
1985
Rodrigo Peters Marques
Brazilian footballer
Rodrigo Peters Marques, known as Café, is a Brazilian footballer who plays as a goalkeeper.
1988
Jaak Põldma
Estonian tennis player
Jaak Põldma is a retired Estonian tennis player.
1988
Jesús Castillo
Mexican footballer
Jesús Castillo Ugarte is a former defender who last played for the Celaya on loan from Monarcas Morelia, in the Ascenso MX.
1990
Amanda Carreras
Gibraltarian tennis player
Amanda Carreras is an inactive British tennis player from Gibraltar.
2002
Ryan Gravenberch
Dutch footballer
Ryan Jiro Gravenberch is a Dutch professional footballer who plays as a defensive midfielder for Premier League club Liverpool and the Netherlands national team.