Famous Birthdays on November 21

November 21 has 208 recorded notable births across history, from 1495 to 2004. This page lists every one of them, with the best-known people first.

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Troy Aikman

1966 — Troy Aikman

American football player and sportscaster

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Major events on November 21

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  1. 1969 The first permanent ARPANET link is established between UCLA and SRI. Source
  2. 1959 American disc jockey Alan Freed, who had popularized the term "rock and roll" and music of that style, is fired from WABC radio over allegations he had participated in the payola scandal. Source

Did you know about Troy Aikman

After transferring from the Oklahoma Sooners, he played college football for the UCLA Bruins and won the Davey O'Brien Award in 1988.

Did you know about Harold Ramis

Harold Ramis's film acting roles include Egon Spengler in Ghostbusters (1984) and Ghostbusters II (1989), and as Russell Ziskey in Stripes (1981); he also co-wrote those films.

Did you know about Justin Tucker

Regarded as one of the greatest placekickers ever, Tucker previously held the NFL record for longest field goal at 66 yards and is second in career field goal percentage at 89.1%.

Did you know about Goldie Hawn

Goldie Jeanne Hawn is an American actress and singer.

Did you know about Isabel May

Isabel May first gained attention as high school student Katie Cooper on the Netflix series Alexa & Katie (2018–2020) as well as playing Elsa Dutton on the Paramount+ series 1883 (2021–2022).


More major people born on November 21

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

1944 Harold Ramis

Harold Ramis

American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (died 2014)
Harold Allen Ramis was an American actor, comedian, and filmmaker. His film acting roles include Egon Spengler in Ghostbusters (1984) and Ghostbusters II (1989), and as Russell Ziskey in Stripes (1981); he also co-wrote those films. As a director, his films include the comedies Caddyshack (1980), National Lampoon's Vacation (1983), Groundhog Day (1993), Analyze This (1999) and Analyze That (2002). Ramis was the original head writer of the television series SCTV, on which he also performed, as well as a co-writer of Groundhog Day and National Lampoon's Animal House (1978). The final film that he wrote, produced, directed, and acted in was Year One (2009).
1989 Justin Tucker

Justin Tucker

American football player
Justin Paul Tucker is an American professional football placekicker for the Kansas City Chiefs of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Texas Longhorns and signed with the Baltimore Ravens as an undrafted free agent in 2012, spending 13 seasons with the team. Regarded as one of the greatest placekickers ever, Tucker previously held the NFL record for longest field goal at 66 yards and is second in career field goal percentage at 89.1%. He has also been named to seven Pro Bowls and eight All-Pro teams, including five first-team. He also won Super Bowl XLVII with Baltimore as a rookie.
1945 Goldie Hawn

Goldie Hawn

American actress, singer, and producer
Goldie Jeanne Hawn is an American actress and singer. She achieved stardom and acclaim for playing lighthearted comedic roles in film and television. In a career spanning six decades, she has received several awards, including an Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award as well as nominations for a BAFTA Award and two Primetime Emmy Awards.
2000 Isabel May

Isabel May

American actress
Isabel May is an American actress. She first gained attention as high school student Katie Cooper on the Netflix series Alexa & Katie (2018–2020) as well as playing Elsa Dutton on the Paramount+ series 1883 (2021–2022). She reprised her role as Elsa Dutton as the narrator of its sequel series, 1923 (2022–2025). In 2026, she joined the Scream franchise starring as Tatum Evans, daughter of Sidney Prescott in Scream 7.
1984 Jena Malone

Jena Malone

American actress and singer
Jena Malone is an American actress and musician. Malone spent her early life in Sparks, Nevada, and in Las Vegas, while her mother acted in local theater productions. Inspired to become an actress herself, Malone convinced her mother to relocate to Los Angeles. After a series of auditions, Malone was cast in the television film Bastard Out of Carolina (1996), for which she received Independent Spirit and Screen Actors Guild Award nominations, and the television film Hope (1997), for which she received a Golden Globe Award nomination. She next appeared in the feature films Contact (1997) and Stepmom (1998), winning a Saturn Award for the former.
1965 Björk

Björk

Icelandic singer-songwriter
Björk Guðmundsdóttir is an Icelandic singer, songwriter, composer, record producer and actress. Noted for her distinct voice, three-octave vocal range, and eccentric public persona, she has developed an eclectic musical style over a career spanning five decades, drawing on electronica, pop, dance, trip hop, jazz, and avant-garde music. She is regarded as one of the most influential musicians of her era.
1963 Nicollette Sheridan

Nicollette Sheridan

English actress
Nicollette Sheridan is an English-American actress. She began her career as a fashion model before landing a role in the short-lived ABC primetime soap opera Paper Dolls in 1984, as well as starring in the romantic comedy film The Sure Thing (1985). She rose to prominence as Paige Matheson on the CBS primetime soap opera Knots Landing (1986–1993), for which she received two Soap Opera Digest Awards. Thereafter, Sheridan appeared in lead roles in numerous television films and miniseries, including Lucky Chances (1990), Virus (1995), and The People Next Door (1996). She also appeared in the feature films Noises Off (1992), Spy Hard (1996), Beverly Hills Ninja (1997), and Code Name: The Cleaner (2007).
1941 Juliet Mills

Juliet Mills

English-American actress
Juliet Maryon Mills is an English and American actress. The daughter of actor Sir John Mills and older sister of actress Hayley Mills, she began her career as a child actress and was nominated at age 18 for a Tony Award for her stage performance in Five Finger Exercise in 1960. She progressed to film work and then to television, playing the lead role on the sitcom Nanny and the Professor in the early 1970s. She received Golden Globe Award nominations for her work in this series and for her role in the film Avanti! in 1972. She won an Emmy Award for her performance in the television miniseries QB VII.
1975 Jimmi Simpson

Jimmi Simpson

American actor
Jimmi Simpson is an American actor. Known for his work across film, television, and theater. He is the recipient of BAFTA, Primetime Emmy, and Screen Actors Guild Award nominations.
1937 Marlo Thomas

Marlo Thomas

American actress, producer, and activist
Margaret Julia "Marlo" Thomas is an American actress, producer, author, and social activist. She is best known for starring as Ann Marie in the sitcom series That Girl (1966–1971) and her children's franchise Free to Be... You and Me. She has received three Primetime Emmy Awards, a Daytime Emmy Award, a Golden Globe Award, and a Peabody Award for her work in television and was inducted into the Broadcasting and Cable Hall of Fame. She also received a Grammy Award for her children's album Marlo Thomas and Friends: Thanks & Giving All Year Long. She was married to American television host Phil Donahue from May 1980 until his death in August 2024.
1694 Voltaire

Voltaire

French writer and philosopher (died 1778)
François-Marie Arouet, known by his pen name Voltaire, was a French Enlightenment writer, philosopher (philosophe), satirist, and historian. Famous for his wit and his criticism of Christianity and of slavery, Voltaire was an advocate of freedom of speech, freedom of religion, and separation of church and state.
1983 Nikki Bella

Nikki Bella

American wrestler and television personality
Stephanie Nicole Garcia-Colace, also known by the stage names Nikki Bella and Nikki Garcia, is an American professional wrestler and television personality. She is signed to WWE.
1956 Cherry Jones

Cherry Jones

American actress
Cherry Jones is an American actress. She started her career in theater as a founding member of the American Repertory Theater in 1980 before transitioning into film and television. Celebrated for her dynamic roles on stage and screen, she has received various accolades, including three Primetime Emmy Awards and two Tony Awards, as well as nominations for an Olivier Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award.
1971 Michael Strahan

Michael Strahan

American football player, actor, and talk show host
Michael Anthony Strahan is an American television host and former professional football defensive end who played in the National Football League (NFL) for 15 seasons with the New York Giants. A dominant pass rusher, Strahan set the NFL single-season record for quarterback sacks and helped the Giants win Super Bowl XLII in his final season in 2007. He was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2014.
1985 Carly Rae Jepsen

Carly Rae Jepsen

Canadian singer-songwriter and actress
Carly Rae Jepsen is a Canadian singer, songwriter and actress. After studying musical theatre for most of her school life and while in university, Jepsen garnered mainstream attention after placing third on the fifth season of Canadian Idol in 2007. Jepsen released her folk-influenced debut studio album Tug of War the following year.
1969 Ken Griffey Jr.

Ken Griffey Jr.

American baseball player and actor
George Kenneth Griffey Jr., nicknamed "Junior" and "the Kid", is an American former professional baseball outfielder who played 22 years in Major League Baseball (MLB). He spent most of his career with the Seattle Mariners and Cincinnati Reds, along with a short stint with the Chicago White Sox. The first overall pick in the 1987 draft and a 13-time All-Star, Griffey is widely considered one of the greatest baseball players of all time. His 630 home runs rank as the seventh-most in MLB history. Griffey was also an exceptional defender and won 10 Gold Glove Awards in center field. He is tied for the record of most consecutive games with a home run.
1898 René Magritte

René Magritte

Belgian painter (died 1967)
René François Ghislain Magritte was a Belgian surrealist artist known for his depictions of familiar objects in unfamiliar, unexpected contexts, which often provoked questions about the nature and boundaries of reality and representation. His imagery has influenced pop art, minimalist art, and conceptual art.
1840 Victoria

Victoria

Princess Royal of England (died 1901)
Victoria, Princess Royal was German Empress and Queen of Prussia as the wife of Frederick III, German Emperor. She was the eldest child of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom and Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha and was created Princess Royal in 1841. As the eldest child of the British monarch, she was briefly heir presumptive until the birth of her younger brother, the future Edward VII. She was the mother of Wilhelm II, the last German Emperor.
1939 R. Budd Dwyer

R. Budd Dwyer

American educator and politician, 30th Treasurer of Pennsylvania (died 1987)
Robert Budd Dwyer was an American politician who served as the 70th treasurer of Pennsylvania from 1981 until his suicide in 1987. A member of the Republican Party, he also served in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives and the Pennsylvania State Senate from 1971 to 1981, representing the state's 50th district.
1967 Ken Block

Ken Block

American race car driver (died 2023)
Kenneth Paul Block was an American professional rally driver, extreme sports racer, and business entrepreneur with the Hoonigan Racing Division, formerly known as the Monster World Rally Team. Block was also one of the co-founders of DC Shoes. He also competed in many action sports events, including skateboarding, snowboarding, and motocross.
1952 Lorna Luft

Lorna Luft

American actress and singer
Lorna Luft is an American actress and singer. She is the daughter of Judy Garland and Sidney Luft, the sister of Joey Luft and the half-sister of Liza Minnelli.
1972 Rain Phoenix

Rain Phoenix

American actress and singer
Rain Joan of Arc Phoenix is an American actress, musician, and singer. She is the older sister of Joaquin, Liberty and Summer Phoenix and younger sister of River Phoenix.
1924 Christopher Tolkien

Christopher Tolkien

English author and academic (died 2020)
Christopher John Reuel Tolkien was an English academic editor and writer. The son of the author and academic J. R. R. Tolkien, he edited 24 volumes based on his father's posthumously published work, including The Silmarillion and the 12-volume series The History of Middle-Earth, a task that took 45 years. He drew the original maps for his father's fantasy novel The Lord of the Rings. He spent the second half of his life in France, becoming a French citizen.
1986 Colleen Ballinger

Colleen Ballinger

American YouTuber, comedian, actress, and singer
Colleen Mae Ballinger is an American comedian, YouTuber, actress, singer and writer. She is best known for her creation and portrayal of the Internet character Miranda Sings, posting videos of the character on YouTube, performing her one-woman comedy act on tour in theatres worldwide, and creating and starring in a Netflix original series titled Haters Back Off (2016–2017). Ballinger created the comically talentless, egotistical and eccentric character to satirize the many YouTube videos featuring people singing badly in hopes of breaking into show business but who appear unaware of their lack of talent.
1934 Laurence Luckinbill

Laurence Luckinbill

American actor, director, and playwright
Laurence George Luckinbill is an American actor, playwright and director. He has worked in film, television and theatre, doing triple duty in the theatre by writing, directing and starring in stage productions. He is known for penning and starring in one-man shows based upon the lives of U.S. presidents Theodore Roosevelt, and Lyndon B. Johnson, author Ernest Hemingway, and American defense attorney Clarence Darrow, and for his portrayal of Spock's half-brother Sybok in the film Star Trek V: The Final Frontier.
1944 Dick Durbin

Dick Durbin

American lawyer and politician
Richard Joseph Durbin is an American politician and attorney serving as the senior United States senator from Illinois, a seat he has held since 1997. A member of the Democratic Party, Durbin is in his fifth Senate term and has served since 2005 as the Senate Democratic Whip and since 2025 as the Senate minority whip. He is the longest-serving Democratic whip since the position was established in 1913.
1981 Wesley Britt

Wesley Britt

American football player
Wesley Britt is an American former professional football player who was a offensive tackle for three seasons with the New England Patriots in the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Alabama Crimson Tide and received third-team All-American and a first-team All-SEC honors as a senior. Selected by the San Diego Chargers in the fifth round of the 2005 NFL draft, Britt was released before making the final roster and signed with the Patriots, where he played from 2006 to 2008. He is the husband of U.S. Senator Katie Britt.
1940 Richard Marcinko

Richard Marcinko

American commander and author (died 2021)
Richard Marcinko was a U.S. Navy SEAL commander, Vietnam War veteran, and convicted fraudster. He was the first commanding officer of SEAL Team Six. After retiring from the United States Navy, he became an author, radio talk show host, military consultant, and motivational speaker.
1983 Brie Bella

Brie Bella

American wrestler and television personality
Brianna Monique Danielson, is an American professional wrestler and media personality. She is signed to WWE, where she performs under the ring name Brie Bella. She is one-half of The Bella Twins alongside her twin sister Nikki Bella. She is currently inactive due to a shoulder injury.
1968 Antonio Tarver

Antonio Tarver

American boxer, sportscaster, and actor
Antonio Deon Tarver is an American former professional boxer and boxing commentator. In boxing, he competed from 1997 to 2015, and held multiple light heavyweight world championships, including the WBA (Unified), WBC, IBF and Ring magazine titles, as well as the IBO light heavyweight and cruiserweight titles. Tarver will be inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame in 2026.
1920 Stan Musial

Stan Musial

American baseball player and manager (died 2013)
Stanley Frank Musial, nicknamed "Stan the Man", was an American professional baseball player. Widely considered to be one of the greatest and most consistent hitters in baseball history, Musial spent 22 seasons as an outfielder and first baseman in Major League Baseball (MLB), playing for the St. Louis Cardinals from 1941 to 1944 and from 1946 to 1963. He was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1969 in his first year of eligibility.
1967 Amanda Lepore

Amanda Lepore

American model and singer
Amanda Lepore is an American model, singer, and performance artist. A former Club Kid, she has appeared in advertising for numerous companies. Lepore is noted as a regular subject in photographer David LaChapelle's work, serving as his muse, as well as many other photographers, such as Terry Richardson and Ruben van Schalm. She participated in LaChapelle's Artists and Prostitutes 1985–2005 exhibit in New York City, where she "lived" in a voyeuristic, life-sized set.
2004 Rico Lewis

Rico Lewis

English footballer
Rico Mark Lewis is an English professional footballer who plays as a full-back or defensive midfielder for Premier League club Manchester City and the England national team.
1912 Eleanor Powell

Eleanor Powell

American actress and dancer (died 1982)
Eleanor Torrey Powell was an American dancer and actress. Best remembered for her tap dance numbers in musical films in the 1930s and 1940s, she was one of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's top dancing stars during the Golden Age of Hollywood. Powell appeared in vaudeville, on Broadway, and most prominently, in a series of movie musical vehicles tailored especially to showcase her dance talents, including Born to Dance (1936), Broadway Melody of 1938 (1937), Rosalie (1937), and Broadway Melody of 1940 (1940). She retired from films in the mid-1940s, but resurfaced for the occasional specialty dance scene in films such as Thousands Cheer. In the 1950s, she hosted a Christian children's TV show and eventually headlined a successful nightclub act in Las Vegas. She died from cancer at 69. Powell is known as one of the most versatile and athletic female dancers of the Hollywood studio era.
1944 Earl Monroe

Earl Monroe

American basketball player
Vernon Earl Monroe is an American former professional basketball player. He played for two teams, the Baltimore Bullets and the New York Knicks, during his career in the National Basketball Association (NBA). Both teams have retired Monroe's number. Due to his on-court success and flashy style of play, Monroe was given the nicknames "Black Jesus" and "Earl the Pearl". Monroe was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 1990 and the International Sports Hall of Fame in 2013. In 1996, Monroe was named as one of the 50 Greatest Players in NBA History, and in 2021, Monroe was named as one of the 75 greatest players in NBA history.
1903 Isaac Bashevis Singer

Isaac Bashevis Singer

Polish-American novelist and short story writer, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1991)
Isaac Bashevis Singer was a Polish-born Jewish American novelist, short-story writer, memoirist, essayist, and translator in the United States. Some of his works were adapted for the theater. He wrote and published first in Yiddish and later translated his own works into English with the help of editors and collaborators. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1978. A leading figure in the Yiddish literary movement, he was awarded two U.S. National Book Awards, one in Children's Literature for his memoir A Day of Pleasure: Stories of a Boy Growing Up in Warsaw (1970) and one in Fiction for his collection A Crown of Feathers and Other Stories (1974).
1965 Reggie Lewis

Reggie Lewis

American basketball player (died 1993)
Reginald C. Lewis was an American professional basketball player for the National Basketball Association's Boston Celtics from 1987 to 1993. Lewis died at the age of 27, and his number was posthumously retired by the team.
2000 Matt O'Riley

Matt O'Riley

English-Danish footballer
Matthew Sean O'Riley is a professional footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder or right midfielder for Premier League club Brighton & Hove Albion. Born in England, he plays for the Denmark national team.
1962 Alan Smith

Alan Smith

English football player
Alan Martin Smith is an English football commentator and former player who played as a striker. He played for Leicester City and Arsenal in a career that spanned over a decade. A co-commentator for Sky Sports, Smith has also provided his voice to the football video game series FIFA alongside Martin Tyler from 2011 until 2019.
1919 Paul Bogart

Paul Bogart

American director and producer (died 2012)
Paul Bogart was an American television and film director and producer. Bogart directed episodes of the television series 'Way Out in 1961, Coronet Blue in 1967, Get Smart, The Dumplings in 1976, All in the Family from 1975 to 1979, Archie Bunker’s Place in 1979, Mama Malone in 1982, and four episodes of the first season of The Golden Girls in 1985. Among his films are Oh, God! You Devil, Torch Song Trilogy, Halls of Anger, Marlowe, Skin Game, and Class of '44. He won five Primetime Emmy Awards during his long career, from sixteen nominations. In 1991, he was awarded the French Festival Internationelle Programmes Audiovisuelle at the Cannes Film Festival.
1924 Joseph Campanella

Joseph Campanella

American actor (died 2018)
Joseph Anthony Campanella was an American character actor. He appeared in more than 200 television and film roles from the early 1950s to 2009. Campanella was widely known for his roles as Joe Turino on Guiding Light from 1959 to 1962, Lew Wickersham on the detective series Mannix from 1967 to 1968, Brian Darrell on the legal drama The Bold Ones: The Lawyers from 1969 to 1972, Harper Deveraux on the soap opera Days of Our Lives from 1987 to 1992, co-host of Science International from 1976 to 1979, and his recurring role as Jonathan Young on The Bold and the Beautiful from 1996 to 2005.
1904 Coleman Hawkins

Coleman Hawkins

American saxophonist and clarinet player (died 1969)
Coleman Randolph Hawkins, nicknamed "Hawk" and sometimes "Bean", was an American jazz tenor saxophonist. He was one of the first prominent jazz musicians on his instrument, as Joachim-Ernst Berendt explained: "There were some tenor players before him, but the instrument was not an acknowledged jazz horn." Hawkins biographer John Chilton described the prevalent styles of tenor saxophone solos prior to Hawkins as "mooing" and "rubbery belches". Hawkins denied being first and noted his contemporaries Happy Caldwell, Stump Evans, and Prince Robinson, although he was the first to tailor his method of improvisation to the saxophone rather than imitate the techniques of the clarinet. Hawkins's virtuosic, arpeggiated approach to improvisation, with his characteristic rich, emotional, and vibrato-laden tonal style, was the main influence on a generation of tenor players that included Chu Berry, Charlie Barnet, Tex Beneke, Ben Webster, Vido Musso, Herschel Evans, Buddy Tate, and Don Byas, and through them the later tenormen Arnett Cobb, Illinois Jacquet, Flip Phillips, Ike Quebec, Al Sears, Paul Gonsalves, and Lucky Thompson. While Hawkins became known with swing music during the big band era, he had a role in the development of bebop in the 1940s.
1920 Ralph Meeker

Ralph Meeker

American actor (died 1988)
Ralph Meeker was an American film, stage, and television actor. He first rose to prominence for his roles in the Broadway productions of Mister Roberts (1948–1951) and Picnic (1953), the former of which earned him a Theatre World Award for his performance. In film, Meeker is known for his portrayal of Mike Hammer in Robert Aldrich's 1955 Kiss Me Deadly and as condemned infantryman Cpl. Philippe Paris in Stanley Kubrick’s Paths of Glory.
1970 Justin Langer

Justin Langer

Australian cricketer and coach
Justin Lee Langer is an Australian cricket coach and former cricketer. He is the former coach of the Australia men's national team, having been appointed to the role in May 2018 and leaving in February 2022 and became the coach of Lucknow based IPL franchise Lucknow Super Giants in July, 2023. A left-handed batsman, Langer is best known for his partnership with Matthew Hayden as Australia's test opening batsmen during the early and mid-2000s, considered one of the most successful ever. Representing Western Australia domestically, Langer played English county cricket for Middlesex and also Somerset. He holds the record for the most runs scored at first-class level by an Australian. As Australia's coach, he led the team to victory in the 2021 T20 World Cup.
1953 Tina Brown

Tina Brown

English-American journalist and author
Christina Hambley Brown, Lady Evans, is an English and American journalist, magazine editor, columnist, broadcaster, and author. She is the former editor in chief of Tatler (1979–1982), Vanity Fair (1984–1992), The New Yorker (1992–1998), and the founding editor in chief of The Daily Beast (2008–2013). From 1998–2002, Brown was chairman of Talk Media, which included Talk magazine and Talk Miramax Books. In 2010, she founded Women in the World, a live journalism platform to elevate the voices of women globally, with summits held through 2019. Brown is author of The Diana Chronicles (2007), The Vanity Fair Diaries (2017) and The Palace Papers (2022).
1986 Sam Palladio

Sam Palladio

English actor and musician
Sam Christian Palladio Scott is an English actor and musician. He is best known for his starring role as Gunnar Scott in the ABC musical drama series Nashville (2012–18). Palladio has also had recurring roles on the comedy series Episodes (2012–15) and the science fiction series Humans (2015–2018). His feature film credits include 7 Lives (2011), Runner, Runner (2013), Strange Magic (2015), The Princess Switch (2018), The Princess Switch: Switched Again (2020) and The Princess Switch 3: Romancing the Star (2021).
1994 Saúl Ñíguez

Saúl Ñíguez

Spanish footballer
Saúl Ñíguez Esclápez, often known simply as Saúl, is a Spanish professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Campeonato Brasileiro Série A club Flamengo. A versatile player, he can also be deployed as a box-to-box midfielder or a left-back.
1964 Shane Douglas

Shane Douglas

American wrestler and manager
Troy Allan Martin is an American professional wrestler, manager, and promoter, better known by his ring name Shane Douglas. He is best known for his tenures in Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW), World Championship Wrestling (WCW), the World Wrestling Federation (WWF), Xtreme Pro Wrestling (XPW), and Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA).
1834 Hetty Green

Hetty Green

American businesswoman and financier (died 1916)
Henrietta "Hetty" Howland Robinson Green was an American businesswoman and financier known as "the richest woman in America" during the Gilded Age. Those who knew her well referred to her admiringly as the "Queen of Wall Street" due to her willingness to lend freely and at reasonable interest rates to financiers and city governments during financial panics. Her extraordinary discipline during such times enabled her to amass a fortune as a financier at a time when nearly all major financiers were men.
1943 Phil Bredesen

Phil Bredesen

American businessman and politician, 48th Governor of Tennessee
Philip Norman Bredesen Jr. is an American politician and businessman who served as the 48th governor of Tennessee from 2003 to 2011. A member of the Democratic Party, he was elected in 2002 with 50.6% of the vote and re-elected in 2006 with 68.6%. He served as the 66th mayor of Nashville from 1991 to 1999. Bredesen is the founder of the HealthAmerica Corporation, which he sold in 1986. He is the last Democrat to win and/or hold statewide office in Tennessee.
1854 Pope Benedict XV (died 1922)

Pope Benedict XV (died 1922)

Pope Benedict XV was head of the Catholic Church from 1914 until his death in January 1922. His pontificate was largely focused on World War I and its political, social, and humanitarian consequences in Europe.
2004 Liz

Liz

South Korean singer
Kim Ji-won, known professionally as Liz (리즈), is a South Korean singer under Starship Entertainment. She is a member of the South Korean girl group Ive.
1974 Marina de Tavira

Marina de Tavira

Mexican actress
Marina de Tavira Servitje is a Mexican actress. She is internationally known for her role in the film Roma (2018), for which she received widespread acclaim and a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.
1768 Friedrich Schleiermacher

Friedrich Schleiermacher

German theologian, philosopher, and scholar (died 1834)
Friedrich Daniel Ernst Schleiermacher was a German Reformed theologian, pastor, philosopher, and biblical scholar known for his attempt to reconcile the criticisms of the Enlightenment with traditional Protestant Christianity. He also became influential in the evolution of higher criticism, and his work forms part of the foundation of the modern field of hermeneutics. Because of his profound effect on subsequent Christian thought, he is often called the "Father of Modern Liberal Theology" and is considered an early leader in liberal Christianity. The neo-orthodoxy movement of the twentieth century, typically seen to be spearheaded by Karl Barth, was in many ways an attempt to challenge his influence. As a philosopher he was a leader of German Romanticism.
1960 Brian McNamara

Brian McNamara

American actor, director, and producer
Brian McNamara is an American actor. His first major role was in the film The Flamingo Kid (1984). He then went on to appear in a few films, such as Short Circuit (1986), Caddyshack II (1988), Arachnophobia (1990) and Mystery Date (1991).
1950 Livingston Taylor

Livingston Taylor

American singer-songwriter and musician
Livingston Taylor is an American singer-songwriter and folk musician. Born in Boston and raised in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, he is the brother of singer-songwriter James Taylor, singer-songwriter Kate Taylor, singer Alex Taylor, and innkeeper and singer Hugh Taylor. Taylor is most notable for his Billboard hits "I Will Be In Love With You", "First Time Love", and "I'll Come Running".
1902 Mikhail Suslov

Mikhail Suslov

Russian soldier, economist, and politician (died 1982)
Mikhail Andreyevich Suslov was a Soviet politician. In addition to serving as the Central Committee's longtime Secretary of Ideology, he held office as Second Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1965 until his death in 1982.
1916 Sid Luckman

Sid Luckman

American football player and soldier (died 1998)
Sidney Luckman was an American professional football player. During his 12 seasons as a quarterback with the Chicago Bears of the National Football League (NFL), he led them to four NFL championships in 1940, 1941, 1943, and 1946. He also played safety on defense for most of his career.
1986 Ben Bishop

Ben Bishop

American ice hockey player
Benjamin Manning Bishop III is an American former professional ice hockey player. As a goaltender, he played for the St. Louis Blues, Ottawa Senators, Tampa Bay Lightning, Los Angeles Kings, and Dallas Stars of the NHL. Nicknamed "Big Ben", Bishop is one of the tallest goaltenders ever to play in the NHL, along with Mikko Koskinen, Mads Søgaard, Ivan Fedotov, and Dennis Hildeby at a height of 6 ft 7 in (2.01 m). He was a three-time Vezina Trophy finalist as the NHL's top goaltender.
1933 Jean Shepard

Jean Shepard

American country music singer-songwriter (died 2016)
Ollie Imogene "Jean" Shepard, was an American country singer who was considered one of the genre's first significant female artists. Her commercial success ran from the 1950s to the 1970s while also being a member of the Grand Ole Opry for 60 years.
1955 Cedric Maxwell

Cedric Maxwell

American basketball player, coach, and sportscaster
Cedric Bryan Maxwell is an American former professional basketball player now in radio broadcasting. Nicknamed "Cornbread", he played 11 seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA), and played a key role in two championships with the Boston Celtics.
1870 Alexander Berkman

Alexander Berkman

Lithuanian-American activist and author (died 1936)
Alexander Berkman was a Russian-American anarchist and author. He was a leading member of the anarchist movement in the early 20th century, famous for both his political activism and his writing.
1952 Mervyn Davies

Mervyn Davies

Baron Davies of Abersoch, Welsh banker and politician
Evan Mervyn Davies, Baron Davies of Abersoch, is a British former banker, and was a Labour government minister until May 2010, as Minister of State for Trade, Investment and Small Business. He is co-chair of the UAE-UK Business Council, and a former UK government Trade Envoy for Sri Lanka. Prior to government appointments, he was a director, chief executive and chair of Standard Chartered for 12 years.
1984 Álvaro Bautista

Álvaro Bautista

Spanish motorcycle racer
Álvaro Bautista Arce is a Spanish motorcycle road racer. He won the 2022 and 2023 Superbike World Championship with the Ducati factory team. He was the 2006 125cc World Champion and runner-up in 250cc, and finished in the top six in MotoGP in 2012 and 2013. He competed in the MotoGP class from 2010 to 2018.
1968 Alex James

Alex James

English singer-songwriter, bass player
Steven Alexander James is an English musician, best known as the bassist of the rock band Blur. He has also played with the bands Fat Les, Me Me Me, WigWam, and Bad Lieutenant.
1853 Hussein Kamel of Egypt (died 1917)

Hussein Kamel of Egypt (died 1917)

Hussein Kamel was the Sultan of Egypt from 19 December 1914 to 9 October 1917, during the British protectorate over Egypt. He was the first person to hold the title of Sultan of Egypt since the killing of Sultan Tuman Bay II by the Ottomans in 1517 following their conquest of Egypt.
1964 Olden Polynice

Olden Polynice

Haitian-American basketball player and coach
Olden Polynice is a Haitian former professional basketball player. He played center for the Seattle SuperSonics, Los Angeles Clippers, Detroit Pistons, Sacramento Kings, and Utah Jazz of the National Basketball Association (NBA).
1994 Wyatt Teller

Wyatt Teller

American football player
Wyatt Teller is an American professional football guard for the Houston Texans of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Virginia Tech Hokies.
1984

Lindsey Haun

American actress, singer, and director
Lindsey Haun is an American actress, singer, and director. She is known for her role as Hadley on the HBO television series True Blood. She was nominated for a Young Artist Award for her role in the 2000 Disney Channel original movie The Color of Friendship as Mahree Bok, and has starred in the film Broken Bridges, for which she also recorded a portion of the soundtrack. She starred in and co-directed the 2023 comedy horror film Hanky Panky.
1852 Francisco Tárrega

Francisco Tárrega

Spanish guitarist and composer (died 1909)
Francisco de Asís Tárrega y Eixea was a Spanish composer and classical guitarist of the late Romantic period. He is known for such pieces as Capricho Árabe, Recuerdos de la Alhambra and Gran Vals.
1729 Josiah Bartlett

Josiah Bartlett

American physician and politician, 6th Governor of New Hampshire (died 1795)
Josiah Bartlett was an American Founding Father, physician, statesman, a delegate to the Continental Congress for New Hampshire, and a signatory to the Declaration of Independence and Articles of Confederation. He was a member of the convention which framed the Constitution of the United States in 1787. He served as the fourth governor of New Hampshire and chief justice of the New Hampshire Superior Court of Judicature, now the New Hampshire Supreme Court.
1960 Brian Ritchie

Brian Ritchie

American bass player and songwriter
Brian Taigan Ritchie is an American-Australian musician, best known as the bassist for the alternative rock band Violent Femmes. Ritchie was born and raised in the United States and is currently a dual citizen of the U.S. and Australia, with his full-time residence in Australia.
1970 Karen Davila

Karen Davila

Filipino journalist
Kristin Karen Lising Davila-Sta. Ana, is a Filipino broadcast journalist. She has been the anchor or host of multiple programs under ABS-CBN's News and Current Affairs division, including Bandila, My Puhunan: Kaya Mo!, and TV Patrol.
1913 John Boulting

John Boulting

English director, producer, and screenwriter (died 1985)
John Edward Boulting and Roy Alfred Clarence Boulting, known collectively as the Boulting brothers, were English filmmakers and identical twins who became known for their series of satirical comedies in the 1950s and 1960s. They produced many of their films through their own production company, Charter Film Productions, which they founded in 1937.
1913 Roy Boulting

Roy Boulting

English director, producer, and screenwriter (died 2001)
John Edward Boulting and Roy Alfred Clarence Boulting, known collectively as the Boulting brothers, were English filmmakers and identical twins who became known for their series of satirical comedies in the 1950s and 1960s. They produced many of their films through their own production company, Charter Film Productions, which they founded in 1937.
1943 Jacques Laffite

Jacques Laffite

French race car driver
Jacques-Henri Marie Sabin Laffite is a French former racing driver and broadcaster, who competed in Formula One from 1974 to 1986. Laffite won six Formula One Grands Prix across 13 seasons.
1999 Jaelin Howell

Jaelin Howell

American soccer player
Jaelin Marie Howell is an American professional soccer player who plays as a midfielder for Gotham FC of the National Women's Soccer League (NWSL) and the United States national team. She played college soccer for the Florida State Seminoles, winning the Hermann Trophy in two consecutive seasons. She won national championships in 2018 and 2021.
1818 Lewis H. Morgan

Lewis H. Morgan

American lawyer, anthropologist, and theorist (died 1881)
Lewis Henry Morgan (November 21, 1818 – December 17, 1881) was an American anthropologist and social theorist, who worked as a railroad lawyer. He is best known for his work on kinship and social structure, his theories of social evolution, and his ethnography of the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois). Interested in what holds societies together, he proposed the concept that the earliest human domestic institution was the matrilineal clan, not the patriarchal family.
1948 Alphonse Mouzon

Alphonse Mouzon

American jazz drummer (died 2016)
Alphonse Lee Mouzon was an American musician and vocalist, most prominently known as a jazz fusion drummer. He was also a composer, arranger, producer, and actor. Mouzon gained popularity in the late 1960s and early 1970s. He was the owner of Tenacious Records, a label that primarily released Mouzon's recordings.
1977 Michael Batiste

Michael Batiste

American basketball player
Michael James Batiste is an American professional basketball coach and former player who is currently an assistant coach for Panathinaikos of the Greek Basketball League (GBL) and the EuroLeague. A two-time All-EuroLeague selection, Batiste won three EuroLeague championships in 2007, 2009, and 2011 with the Greek Basket League club Panathinaikos. In 2018, he was named one of the 101 Greats of European Basketball. He was inducted into the Greek Basket League Hall of Fame in 2022.
1760 Joseph Plumb Martin

Joseph Plumb Martin

American sergeant (died 1850)
Joseph Plumb Martin was a soldier in the Connecticut Militia and Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War, and was mustered out as a 23-year-old Sergeant in a Sapper company. His published narrative of his experiences, re-discovered in the 1950s, has become a valuable resource for historians in understanding the conditions of a common soldier of that era, as well as the battles in which Martin participated.
1979 Stromile Swift

Stromile Swift

American basketball player
Stromile Emanuel Swift is an American former professional basketball player. He played college basketball for the LSU Tigers before being selected second overall by the Vancouver Grizzlies in the 2000 NBA draft. At 6'10" and 220 lbs, he played the power forward and center positions.
1940 Natalia Makarova

Natalia Makarova

Russian ballerina, choreographer, and actress
Natalia Romanovna Makarova is a Russian prima ballerina and choreographer. The History of Dance, published in 1981, notes that "her performances set standards of artistry and aristocracy of dance which mark her as the finest ballerina of her generation in the West."
1995 Vladislav Gavrikov

Vladislav Gavrikov

Russian ice hockey player
Vladislav Andreyevich Gavrikov is a Russian professional ice hockey player who is a defenceman for the New York Rangers of the National Hockey League (NHL). He was drafted 159th overall by the Columbus Blue Jackets in the 2015 NHL entry draft.
1932

Beryl Bainbridge

English author and screenwriter (died 2010)
Dame Beryl Margaret Bainbridge was an English writer. She was primarily known for her works of psychological fiction, often macabre tales set among the English working class. She won the Whitbread Awards prize for best novel in 1977 and 1996, and was nominated six times for the Booker Prize. She was described in 2007 as a national treasure. In 2008, The Times named Bainbridge on their list of the "50 greatest British writers since 1945".
1931 Lewis Binford

Lewis Binford

American archaeologist and academic (died 2011)
Lewis Roberts Binford was an American archaeologist known for his influential work in archaeological theory, ethnoarchaeology and the Paleolithic archaeology. He is widely considered among the most influential archaeologists of the later 20th century, and is credited with fundamentally changing the field with the introduction of processual archaeology in the 1960s. Binford, a highly productive writer, who achieved an extraordinary level influence in ideas, methodology, and behavioral research internationally, a legacy that continues to the present. His influence was controversial, however, as he seemed to pit theoretical work in archaeology in the late 1980s and 1990s as either a reaction to or in support of the processual paradigm. Recent appraisals remain split, some judging his contributions mainly in terms of his innovative ideas and approaches, and others focusing on the fact that his approach owed more to prior work in the 1940s and 50s than he recognized.
1908

Elizabeth George Speare

American author and educator (died 1994)
Elizabeth George Speare was an American writer of children's historical fiction, including two Newbery Medal winners, recognizing the year's "most distinguished contribution to American literature for children". In 1989 she received the Children's Literature Legacy Award for her contributions to American children's literature and one of the Educational Paperback Association's top 100 authors.
1897 Mollie Steimer

Mollie Steimer

Russian-American activist (died 1980)
Mollie Steimer was an anarchist activist. A Ukrainian Jew, she left Russia and settled in New York City in 1913. She quickly became involved in the local anarchist movement and was caught up in the case of Abrams v. United States. Charged with sedition, she was eventually deported to Soviet Russia, where she met her lifelong partner Senya Fleshin and agitated for the rights of anarchist political prisoners in the country. For her activities, she and Fleshin were again deported to western Europe, where they spent time organising aid for exiles and political prisoners, and took part in the debates of the international anarchist movement. Following the rise of the Nazis in Europe, she and Fleshin fled to Mexico, where they spent the rest of their lives working as photographers.
1785 William Beaumont

William Beaumont

American surgeon, "Father of Gastric Physiology" (died 1853)
William Beaumont was a surgeon in the U.S. Army. He served as an assistant surgeon from 1812 to 1815, and then rejoined the army in 1820. He became known as the "Father of Gastric Physiology" for his research on human digestion on Alexis St. Martin in 1822.
1955 Peter Koppes

Peter Koppes

Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist
Peter Koppes is an Australian guitarist, best known as a founding and almost-continuous member of the independent rock band The Church. He is a multi-instrumentalist, also playing mandolin, drums, piano, and harmonica. He has also released various solo albums and various recordings with his group The Well (1989–1995). Koppes lives on the Australian Central Coast in NSW but sometimes spends time on the Sunshine Coast in Queensland where he sometimes produces albums and has previously conducted seasonal 'song writing' and 'performance for demo recording' short courses at Nambour TAFE, as well as offering private tuition in guitar, bass, drums and song writing. His daughters are Tatiana 'O' Koppes and Neige Koppes who had their own band, Rain Party but now have independent solo careers.
1982 John Lucas III

John Lucas III

American basketball player and coach
John Harding Lucas III is an American professional basketball coach and former player who is currently serving as a player development coach for the Las Vegas Aces of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA). He played college basketball for Baylor and Oklahoma State.
1948 Michel Suleiman

Michel Suleiman

Lebanese general and politician, 16th President of Lebanon
Michel Suleiman is a Lebanese politician who served as the 12th president of Lebanon from 2008 to 2014. Before becoming president, he served as commander of the Lebanese Armed Forces from 1998 to 2008.
1979 Alex Tanguay

Alex Tanguay

Canadian ice hockey player
Alex Joseph Jean Tanguay is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player who was a winger for the Colorado Avalanche, Calgary Flames, Montreal Canadiens, Tampa Bay Lightning and Arizona Coyotes in the National Hockey League (NHL) and briefly for HC Lugano in the Swiss National League A in 2004. An offensive player, he is best known for his passing and playmaking ability. Tanguay currently serves as an assistant coach for the Detroit Red Wings.
1968 Andy Caddick

Andy Caddick

New Zealand-English cricketer
Andrew Richard Caddick is a former cricketer who played for England as a fast bowler in Tests and ODIs. At 6 ft 5in, Caddick was a successful bowler for England for a decade, taking 13 five-wicket hauls in Test matches. He spent his entire English domestic first-class cricket career at Somerset County Cricket Club, and then played one Minor Counties match for Wiltshire in 2009.
1495 John Bale

John Bale

English bishop and historian (died 1563)
John Bale was an English churchman, historian controversialist, and Bishop of Ossory in Ireland. He wrote the oldest known historical verse drama in English, King Johan, which depictes King John in a virtuous struggle against the Catholic Church. Bale also developed and published a very extensive list of the works of British authors down to his own time, just as the monastic libraries were being dispersed. His contention that Joseph of Arimathea had brought a proto-Protestant faith to Britain that was purer than Catholicism was to have far-reaching ramifications; but his unhappy disposition and habit of quarrelling earned him the nickname "bilious Bale".
1988 Larry Sanders

Larry Sanders

American basketball player
Larry Sanders is an American former professional basketball player. He played power forward for the Virginia Commonwealth University Rams before declaring himself eligible for the 2010 NBA draft and was selected 15th overall by the Milwaukee Bucks.
1870 Joe Darling

Joe Darling

Australian cricketer and politician (died 1946)
Joseph Darling was an Australian cricketer who played 34 Test matches as a specialist batsman between 1894 and 1905. As captain, he led Australia in a total of 21 Tests, winning seven and losing four. In Test cricket, he scored 1,657 runs at an average of 28.56 per innings, including three centuries. Darling toured England four times with the Australian team—in 1896, 1899, 1902 and 1905; the last three tours as captain. He was captain of the Australian cricket team in England in 1902, widely recognised as one of the best teams in Australian cricket history.
1931 Malcolm Williamson

Malcolm Williamson

Australian pianist and composer (died 2003)
Malcolm Benjamin Graham Christopher Williamson was an Australian composer. He was the Master of the Queen's Music from 1975 until his death. According to Grove Music Online, although Williamson's earlier compositions aligned with Serialist techniques, "he later modified his approach to composition in the search of a more inclusive musical language that was fundamentally tonal and, above all, lyrical. In the 1960s, he was commonly referred to as the most often commissioned composer in Britain, and over his lifetime he produced more than 250 works in a wide variety of genres."
1787 Samuel Cunard

Samuel Cunard

Canadian businessman, founded the Cunard Line (died 1865)
Sir Samuel Cunard, 1st Baronet, was a British-Canadian shipping magnate, born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, who founded the Cunard Line, establishing the first scheduled steamship connection with North America. He was the son of a master carpenter and timber merchant who had fled the American Revolution and settled in Halifax.
1972 Galina Kukleva

Galina Kukleva

Russian biathlete (died 2026)
Galina Alekseyevna Kukleva was a Russian biathlete. At the 1998 Winter Olympics she won a gold medal in the 7.5 km sprint, and was a part of the team that won a silver medal in the relay. Four years later at the 2002 Winter Olympics she was a part of the team that won a bronze medal. In the World Championships she earned a silver medal in the mass start from 2000, in addition to five relay medals. She won 9 world cup competitions by the end of her career.
1976 Daniel Whiston

Daniel Whiston

English figure skater
Daniel J Whiston is an English figure skater. He appeared in Strictly Ice Dancing on BBC One in 2004 and for all series of ITV show Dancing on Ice since its inception in 2006. He won the first series of Dancing on Ice while partnering actress Gaynor Faye, the fifth series with former Emmerdale actress Hayley Tamaddon and the eighth series with Olympic artistic gymnast, Beth Tweddle. Since 2019, Whiston has been Associate Creative Director of Dancing on Ice responsible for creating all professional routines and training all celebrity contestants.
1899 Harekrushna Mahatab

Harekrushna Mahatab

Indian journalist and politician, 1st Chief Minister of Odisha (died 1987)
Harekrushna Mahatab was a leader of the Indian National Congress, a notable figure in the Indian independence movement and the Chief Minister of Odisha from 1946 to 1950 and from 1956 to 1961. He was popularly known by the sobriquet "Utkal Keshari".
1899 Jobyna Ralston

Jobyna Ralston

American actress (died 1967)
Jobyna Ralston was an American stage and film actress. She had a featured role in Wings in 1927, and is remembered for her on-screen chemistry with Harold Lloyd, with whom she appeared in seven films.
1941 David Porter

David Porter

American songwriter, musician, and producer
David Porter is an American songwriter. He was a 2005 inductee into the Songwriters Hall of Fame, with catalog sales exceeding 400 million units. In 2015, Rolling Stone listed him among the 100 Greatest Songwriters of All Time. He co-wrote Sam & Dave's "Soul Man" and "Hold On, I'm Comin'", among others. His songs have been sampled in Mariah Carey's "Dreamlover", Will Smith's "Gettin' Jiggy wit It", and The Notorious B.I.G.'s "Who Shot Ya?".
1902 Foster Hewitt

Foster Hewitt

Canadian sportscaster (died 1985)
Foster William Hewitt was a Canadian radio broadcaster, most famous for his commentating on Hockey Night in Canada. He was the son of W. A. Hewitt and the father of Bill Hewitt.
1937 John Kerin

John Kerin

Australian politician (died 2023)
John Charles Kerin was an Australian economist and Labor Party politician who served in the House of Representatives from 1972 to 1975 and again from 1978 to 1993. He held a number of senior ministerial roles in both the Hawke and Keating governments, including six months as Treasurer of Australia and eight years as Minister for Primary Industries and Energy, holding the latter role for the longest period in Australian history.
1914 Henri Laborit

Henri Laborit

French physician and philosopher (died 1995)
Henri Laborit was a French surgeon, neurobiologist, writer and philosopher. In 1952, Laborit was instrumental in the development of the drug chlorpromazine, published his findings, and convinced three psychiatrists to test it on a patient, resulting in great success. Laborit was recognized for his work, but as a surgeon searching for an anesthetic, he came to be at odds with psychiatrists who made their own discoveries and competing claims.
1989 José Pirela

José Pirela

Venezuelan baseball player
José Manuel Pirela is a Venezuelan professional baseball second baseman and outfielder for the Diablos Rojos del México of the Mexican League. He has previously played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the New York Yankees, San Diego Padres, and Philadelphia Phillies. He has also played in Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) for the Hiroshima Toyo Carp and in the KBO League for the Samsung Lions.
1991 Almaz Ayana

Almaz Ayana

Ethiopian sprinter
Almaz Ayana Eba is an Ethiopian long-distance runner. She won the gold medal in the 10,000 metres and bronze in the 5,000 metres at the 2016 Rio Olympics. Almaz is a four-time World Athletics Championships medallist earning a bronze for the 5,000m in 2013, gold at the event in 2015 as well as gold in the 10,000m and silver in the 5,000m in 2017.
1692 Carlo Innocenzo Frugoni

Carlo Innocenzo Frugoni

Italian poet and academic (died 1768)
Carlo Innocenzo Frugoni was an Italian poet and librettist. As a poet Frugoni was one of the best of the school of the Arcadian Academy, and his lyrics and pastorals had great facility and elegance. His collected works were published at Parma in 10 volumes in 1799, and a more complete edition appeared at Lucca in the same year in 15 volumes.
1917 Chung Il-kwon

Chung Il-kwon

Korean politician, diplomat, and soldier (died 1994)
Chung Il-kwon was a South Korean politician, diplomat, and soldier. A general in the Republic of Korea Army, he served as foreign minister 1963 to 1964, and prime minister from 1964 to 1970. He was an ally of President Park Chung Hee.
1950 Hisham Barakat

Hisham Barakat

Egyptian lawyer and judge (died 2015)
Hisham Muhammad Zaki Barakat was Attorney General of Egypt from 2013 to 2015. During his term as state prosecutor, he was responsible of thousands of controversial prosecutions, including several widely deemed politically motivated resulting in death sentences for hundreds of Muslim Brotherhood members and supporters of deposed Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi. He was assassinated in a car bombing on 29 June 2015.
1980 Alec Brownstein

Alec Brownstein

American author and director
Alec Brownstein is an American creative marketer, the co-author of several humor books, and a film director. He attended The Haverford School in Haverford, Pennsylvania, and Tufts University. He is currently advisor and investor in a number of American startups. Previously, he was Global Head of Creative at PayPal Honey and was also the original Creative Director of Dollar Shave Club.
1994 Andreas Johnsson

Andreas Johnsson

Swedish ice hockey player
Andreas Karl Johnsson is a Swedish professional ice hockey winger for Skellefteå AIK of the Swedish Hockey League (SHL). Johnsson played with the Toronto Maple Leafs, New Jersey Devils, San Jose Sharks, and Pittsburgh Penguins in the National Hockey League (NHL). He was selected by the Toronto Maple Leafs in the seventh round, 202nd overall, of the 2013 NHL entry draft.
1851 Désiré-Joseph Mercier

Désiré-Joseph Mercier

Belgian cardinal and theologian (died 1926)
Désiré Félicien François Joseph Mercier was a Belgian Catholic prelate who served as Archbishop of Mechelen from 1906 until his death in 1926. A Thomist scholar, he had several of his works translated into other European languages. He was known for his book, Les origines de la psychologie contemporaine (1897). He was elevated to the cardinalate in 1907.
1963 Dave Molyneux

Dave Molyneux

Manx motorcycle racer
Dave Molyneux is a Manx sidecar racer and chassis engineer. He is the most successful Sidecar competitor in the history of the Isle of Man TT races, achieving 17 TT victories and 30 podium finishes. His race wins place him fourth on the all-time wins list, behind solo bike racers Michael Dunlop, Joey Dunlop and John McGuinness (23).
1940 Freddy Beras-Goico

Freddy Beras-Goico

Dominican comedian and television host (died 2010)
Freddy Reinaldo Antonio Beras-Goico, popularly known as "Freddy Beras" or just "Beras-Goico", was a Dominican comedian, TV presenter, writer and media personality for over 30 years. He hosted the TV show El Gordo de La Semana and he was a staple of primetime TV. He was one of the most recognized personalities in the Dominican Republic.
1968 Jan Bertels

Jan Bertels

Belgian politician
Jan Bertels is a Belgian politician and member of the Chamber of Representatives. A member of Vooruit, he has represented Antwerp since June 2024. He had previously been a member of the Chamber of Representatives from June 2019 to November 2020. He was a member of the Flemish Parliament from June 2014 to May 2019.
1908 Leo Politi

Leo Politi

Italian-American author and illustrator (died 1996)
Leo Politi was an American artist and author who wrote and illustrated some 20 children's books, largely focused on the Mexican-American community in Los Angeles, along with Bunker Hill, Los Angeles, a book intended for adults. His works often celebrated cultural diversity, and many were published in both English and Spanish.
1931 Stanley Kalms

Stanley Kalms

Baron Kalms, English businessman (died 2025)
Harold Stanley Kalms, Baron Kalms was a British businessman who was the life president and chairman of Currys plc. In 1948 he joined Dixons, which was founded by his father Charles Kalms in 1937. He spent his whole career with the company, through its various mergers and acquisitions into Currys.
1876 Olav Duun

Olav Duun

Norwegian author and educator (died 1939)
Olav Duun was a writer of Norwegian fiction. He is generally recognized to be one of the more outstanding writers in Norwegian literature. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature twenty-four times in fourteen years, and once lacked only one vote to receive the prize.
1894 Cecil M. Harden

Cecil M. Harden

American politician (died 1984)
Cecil Murray Harden was an American educator who became a Republican politician and an advocate of women's rights. She served five terms in the U.S. Representative representing Indiana's 6th congressional district. Harden was the only Republican woman elected to represent Indiana in the U.S. Congress until 2012.
1924 Milka Planinc

Milka Planinc

Yugoslav politician, 28th Prime Minister of Yugoslavia (died 2010)
Milka Planinc was a Yugoslav communist politician who served as Prime Minister of Yugoslavia from 1982 to 1986. She was the first and only woman to hold this office. Planinc was also the first female head of government of a diplomatically recognized socialist state in Europe.
1926 William Wakefield Baum

William Wakefield Baum

American cardinal (died 2015)
William Wakefield Baum was an American Catholic prelate who served as bishop of Springfield-Cape Girardeau in Missouri and archbishop of Washington in the District of Columbia. He then served in the Roman Curia as prefect of the Congregation for Catholic Education and the major penitentiary.
1952 Janne Kristiansen

Janne Kristiansen

Norwegian lawyer and jurist
Janne Kristiansen is a Norwegian jurist. She was the first head of the Criminal Cases Review Commission from 2004 to 2009. and head of the Norwegian Police Security Service (PST) from 2009 to 2012, a position from which she resigned following a heavily politicized scandal.
1631 Catharina Questiers

Catharina Questiers

Dutch poet (died 1669)
Catharina Questiers was a Dutch poet and dramatist. Along with Cornelia van der Veer and Katharyne Lescailje, she was the most successful female Dutch poet of the second half of the 17th century. Her brother David also achieved some note as a poet.
1933 Etta Zuber Falconer

Etta Zuber Falconer

American educator and mathematician (died 2002)
Etta Zuber Falconer was an American educator and mathematician the bulk of whose career was spent at Spelman College, where she eventually served as department head and associate provost. She was one of the earlier African-American women to receive a Ph.D. in mathematics.
1930 Marjan Rožanc

Marjan Rožanc

Slovenian journalist, author, and playwright (died 1990)
Marjan Rožanc was a Slovenian author, playwright, and journalist. He is mostly known for his essays, and is considered one of the foremost essayists in Slovene, along with Ivan Cankar, Jože Javoršek, and Drago Jančar, and as a great master of style.
1940 Terry Dischinger

Terry Dischinger

American basketball player (died 2023)
Terry Gilbert Dischinger was an American professional basketball player in the National Basketball Association (NBA). Dischinger was a three-time NBA All-Star and the 1963 NBA Rookie of the Year, after averaging 28 points per game in his three seasons at Purdue University.
1990 Dani King

Dani King

English cyclist
Danielle Rowe is a British former road and track cyclist. As a track cyclist, she is an Olympic gold medallist, three-time world champion, and two-time European champion in the team pursuit. She is a member of the British Cycling Hall of Fame.
1915 Norm Smith

Norm Smith

Australian footballer and coach (died 1973)
Norman Walter Smith was an Australian rules football player and coach in the Victorian Football League (VFL). After more than 200 games as a player with Melbourne and Fitzroy, Smith began a twenty-year coaching career, including a fifteen-year stint at Melbourne.
1966 Evgeny Bareev

Evgeny Bareev

Russian chess player and coach
Evgeny Ilgizovich Bareev is a Russian-Canadian chess player, trainer, and writer. Awarded the FIDE Grandmaster title in 1989, he was ranked fourth in the world in the international rankings in 1992 and again in 2003, with an Elo rating of 2739.
1984 Josh Boone

Josh Boone

American basketball player
Oscar Joshua Boone is an American former professional basketball player. A 6'10" power forward-center, he played three years of college basketball for UConn. He declared for the 2006 NBA draft after his junior season, forgoing his final year of college.
1995 Chris Chiozza

Chris Chiozza

American basketball player
Christopher Xavier Chiozza is an American professional basketball player who last played for Pallacanestro Cantù of the Lega Basket Serie A (LBA). He played college basketball for the Florida Gators. Chiozza won an NBA championship with the Warriors in 2022.
1870 Stanley Jackson

Stanley Jackson

English cricketer and politician (died 1947)
Sir Francis Stanley Jackson, known as the Honourable Stanley Jackson during his playing career, was an English cricketer, soldier and Conservative Party politician. He played in 20 Test matches for the England cricket team between 1893 and 1905.
1878 Gustav Radbruch

Gustav Radbruch

German lawyer and politician, German Minister of Justice (died 1949)
Gustav Radbruch was a German legal scholar and politician. He served as Minister of Justice of Germany during the early Weimar period. Radbruch is also regarded as one of the most influential legal philosophers of the 20th century.
1922 Abe Lemons

Abe Lemons

American basketball player and coach (died 2002)
A.E. "Abe" Lemons was an American college basketball player and coach. As a head coach at Oklahoma City University, Pan American University and the University of Texas at Austin, he compiled a record of 594–343 in 34 seasons.
1933 Henry Hartsfield

Henry Hartsfield

American colonel, pilot, and astronaut (died 2014)
Henry Warren Hartsfield Jr. was a colonel in the United States Air Force and a NASA astronaut who logged over 480 hours in space. He was inducted into the United States Astronaut Hall of Fame in 2006.
1987 Eesha Karavade

Eesha Karavade

Indian chess player
Eesha Karavade is an Indian chess player from Pune. She holds the titles of International Master (IM) and Woman Grandmaster (WGM). She played for India in the Chess Olympiads of 2010, 2012, 2014, 2018 and 2022.
1913 Gunnar Kangro

Gunnar Kangro

Estonian mathematician, author, and academic (died 1975)
Gunnar Kangro was an Estonian mathematician. He worked mainly on summation theory. He taught various courses on mathematical analysis, functional analysis and algebra in the University of Tartu and he has written several university textbooks.
1567 Anne de Xainctonge

Anne de Xainctonge

French saint, founded the Society of the Sisters of Saint Ursula of the Blessed Virgin (died 1621)
Anne de Xainctonge was a French religious sister who founded of the Society of the Sisters of Saint Ursula of the Blessed Virgin. She was declared venerable by the Roman Catholic Church in 1991.
1925

Veljko Kadijević

Croatian general and politician, 5th Federal Secretary of People's Defence (died 2014)
Veljko Kadijević was a Serbian general of the Yugoslav People's Army (JNA). He was the Minister of Defence in the Yugoslav government from 1988 until his resignation in 1992, which made him de facto commander-in-chief of the JNA during the Ten-Day War in Slovenia and the initial stages of the Croatian War of Independence.
1989 Chris Singleton

Chris Singleton

American basketball player
Christopher Carl Singleton Jr. is an American former professional basketball player. Listed at 6'9", he played as a power forward and small ball center. He played college basketball for the Florida State Seminoles.
1718 Friedrich Wilhelm Marpurg

Friedrich Wilhelm Marpurg

German composer, critic, and theorist (died 1795)
Friedrich Wilhelm Marpurg was a German music critic, music theorist and composer. Described as "one of Germany's leading mid[18th-]century music critics," he was friendly and active with many figures of the Enlightenment.
1945 Vincent Di Fate

Vincent Di Fate

American artist
Vincent Di Fate is an American artist specializing in science fiction, fantasy and realistic space art illustration. He was inducted by the Science Fiction Hall of Fame on June 25, 2011.
1976 Michael Wilson

Michael Wilson

Australian footballer
Michael Robert Wilson is a former professional Australian rules footballer who played for Port Adelaide Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL) and the South Australian National Football League (SANFL)
1988 Len Väljas

Len Väljas

Canadian skier
Lennard "Len" Väljas is a Canadian former cross-country skier. He was born in Toronto, and is of Estonian descent. He is the younger brother of Canadian beach volleyball Olympian Kristina May.
1907

Buck Ram

American songwriter and music producer (died 1991)
Samuel "Buck" Ram was an American songwriter, and popular music producer and arranger. He was one of BMI's top five songwriters/air play in its first 50 years, alongside Paul Simon, Kris Kristofferson, Jimmy Webb, and Paul McCartney. He is best known for his long association with The Platters and also wrote, produced and arranged for the Penguins, the Coasters, the Drifters, Ike and Tina Turner, Ike Cole, Duke Ellington, Glenn Miller, Ella Fitzgerald, and many others. He was also known as Ande Rand, Lynn Paul or Jean Miles.
1986 Kristof Goddaert

Kristof Goddaert

Belgian cyclist (died 2014)
Kristof Goddaert was a Belgian road racing cyclist who competed as a professional between 2008 and 2014 for the Topsport Vlaanderen–Mercator, Ag2r–La Mondiale and IAM Cycling squads.
1978 Daniel Bradshaw

Daniel Bradshaw

Australian footballer
Daniel Mark Bradshaw is a former Australian rules footballer who played for the Brisbane Bears, Brisbane Lions and Sydney Swans in the Australian Football League (AFL).
1980 Hank Blalock

Hank Blalock

American baseball player
Hank Joe Blalock is an American former professional baseball third baseman. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Texas Rangers and Tampa Bay Rays.
1987 Karl Stollery

Karl Stollery

Canadian ice hockey player
Karl Stollery is a Canadian former professional ice hockey defenceman. He most recently played with HC Bolzano, Italian team of the ICE Hockey League (ICEHL).
1991 Peni Terepo

Peni Terepo

New Zealand rugby league player
Peni Terepo is a Tonga former international rugby league footballer who played as a prop, second-row and lock for the Parramatta Eels in the NRL.
1977

Jonas Jennings

American football player
Jonas Duran Jennings is an American former professional football player who was an offensive tackle that played in the National Football League (NFL). He was selected by the Buffalo Bills in the third round of the 2001 NFL draft. He has also played for the San Francisco 49ers. He played college football for the Georgia Bulldogs. Jennings is now director of player development for his alma mater, the University of Georgia. He was part of the Bulldogs' coaching staff that won the National Championship over Alabama in the 2021 season.
1960

Mark Bailey

English rugby player, author, and educator
Mark David Bailey, is a British academic, headteacher and former rugby union player. Since 2020, he has been Professor of Late Medieval History at the University of East Anglia. In 2019, he delivered the James Ford Lectures in British History at Oxford University, which were later published as a book, After the Black Death: Economy, society, and the law in fourteenth-century England.
1976

Mihaela Botezan

Romanian long-distance runner
Mihaela Maria Botezan is a Romanian long-distance runner who specializes mainly in the 10000 metres and the half marathon. She represented Romania at the 2004 Summer Olympics, the 2002 European Athletics Championships, twice at the World Championships in Athletics and five times at the IAAF World Half Marathon Championships.
1976

Saleem Elahi

Pakistani cricketer
Saleem Elahi is a former Pakistani cricketer who played 13 Test matches and 48 One Day Internationals between 1995 and 2004. He made 102 not out on his international debut, against Sri Lanka in September 1995, becoming the first player from Pakistan to score a century on ODI debut.
1977

Yolande James

Canadian lawyer and politician
Yolande James is a former Quebec provincial politician. She was the first black female MNA, the youngest, and the first black cabinet minister in Quebec history. A member of the Quebec Liberal Party, she represented the multicultural riding of Nelligan in the Island of Montreal from 2004 to 2014.
1954

Fiona Pitt-Kethley

English journalist, author, and poet
Fiona Pitt-Kethley is a British poet, novelist, travel writer and journalist, who is the author of more than 20 books of poetry and prose. She lived for many years in Hastings, East Sussex and moved to Spain in 2002 with her husband James Plaskett and their son, Alexander.
1967

Toshihiko Koga

Japanese martial artist (died 2021)
Toshihiko Koga was a Japanese judoka, 9th degree black belt and Olympic champion who competed in the –71 kg and –78 kg divisions. Koga is regarded as having perhaps the greatest ippon seoi nage ever. He died of cancer on 24 March 2021 at the age of 53.
1811

Ludwik Gorzkowski

Polish politician, physicist, and revolutionary activist (died 1857)
Ludwik Jędrzej Gorzkowski (1811–1857) was a Polish politician, physicist and revolutionary activist, one of the organizers of the Kraków uprising, during which he was a member of the newly formed Polish National Government alongside Jan Tyssowski and Aleksander Grzegorzewski.
1934

Peter Philpott

Australian cricketer (died 2021)
Peter Ian Philpott was an Australian cricketer. He was a leg-spin bowler and middle order batsman who played for New South Wales and the national team in the 1960s. More recently, he was known as a coach.
1982

Ioana Ciolacu

Romanian fashion designer
Ioana Ciolacu Miron Mistretu is a Romanian fashion designer and researcher. She is the founder and creative director of the womenswear label Ioana Ciolacu, known for combining architectural design principles with contemporary womenswear and sustainable fashion practices.
1981

Ainārs Kovals

Latvian javelin thrower
Ainārs Kovals is a former Latvian track and field athlete who competes in the javelin throw. His personal best throw is 86.64 m. He achieved this at the 2008 Summer Olympics, where he finished second.
1931

Revaz Dogonadze

Georgian chemist and physicist (died 1985)
Revaz Dogonadze was a notable Georgian scientist, Corresponding Member of the Georgian National Academy of Sciences (GNAS) (1982), Doctor of Physical & Mathematical Sciences (1966), Professor (1972), one of the founders of quantum electrochemistry,
1967

Tripp Cromer

American baseball player
Roy Bunyan "Tripp" Cromer III is an American former professional baseball player. He is an alumnus of the University of South Carolina. His younger brother, D. T. was also a Major League Baseball player.
1955

Glenn Ridge

Australian radio and television host and producer
Glenn Daryl Ridge is an Australian television and radio presenter, and the owner and managing director of the Q Media Group, a production company making television specials and documentaries.
1866 Konishiki Yasokichi I

Konishiki Yasokichi I

Japanese sumo wrestler, the 17th Yokozuna (died 1914)
Konishiki Yasokichi I was a Japanese professional sumo wrestler from Musha District, Kazusa Province. He was the sport's 17th yokozuna.
1866 Sigbjørn Obstfelder

Sigbjørn Obstfelder

Norwegian poet and author (died 1900)
Sigbjørn Obstfelder was a 19th-century Norwegian writer and poet.
1877 Sigfrid Karg-Elert

Sigfrid Karg-Elert

German composer and educator (died 1933)
Sigfrid Theodor Karg-Elert was a German composer and organist who wrote prolifically for pipe and reed organs.
1886 Harold Nicolson

Harold Nicolson

English author and politician (died 1968)
Sir Harold George Nicolson was a British politician, writer, broadcaster and gardener. His wife was Vita Sackville-West.
1905

Georgina Battiscombe

British biographer (died 2006)
Georgina Battiscombe was a British biographer, specialising mainly in lives from the Victorian era.
1914 Nusret Fişek

Nusret Fişek

Turkish physician and politician, Turkish Minister of Health (died 1990)
Hasan Nusret Fişek was a Turkish physician and Minister of Health.
1921

Donald Sheldon

American pilot (died 1975)
Donald Edward Sheldon was an Alaskan bush pilot who pioneered the technique of glacier landings on Denali during the 1950s and 1960s.
1926 Matti Ranin

Matti Ranin

Finnish actor (died 2013)
Matti Helge Ranin was a Finnish actor.
1927 Georgia Frontiere

Georgia Frontiere

American businesswoman (died 2008)
Georgia Frontiere was an American businesswoman and entertainer. She was the majority owner and chairperson of the Los Angeles/St. Louis Rams NFL team.
1929 Laurier LaPierre

Laurier LaPierre

Canadian historian, journalist, and politician (died 2012)
Laurier L. LaPierre was a Canadian Senator, professor, broadcaster, journalist and author. He was a member of the Liberal Party of Canada.
1929 Marilyn French

Marilyn French

American author and academic (died 2009)
Marilyn French was an American radical feminist author, most widely known for her second book and first novel, the 1977 work The Women's Room.
1932 Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen

Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen

Danish composer (died 2016)
Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen was a Danish composer.
1936 Victor Chang

Victor Chang

Chinese-Australian surgeon (died 1991)
Victor Peter Chang was a Chinese-born Australian cardiac surgeon and a pioneer of modern heart transplantation in Australia.
1937 Ingrid Pitt

Ingrid Pitt

Polish-English actress (died 2010)
Ingrid Pitt was a Polish and British actress and writer. She was best known for her work in British horror cinema of the 1970s.
1942 Heidemarie Wieczorek-Zeul

Heidemarie Wieczorek-Zeul

German educator and politician
Heidemarie Wieczorek-Zeul is a German politician and a member of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) since 1965.
1959

Sergei Ratnikov

Estonian footballer and manager
Sergei Ratnikov is an Estonian professional football manager and former player. He last managed Levadia in Estonian Meistriliiga.
1961 João Domingos Pinto

João Domingos Pinto

Portuguese footballer and manager
João Domingos da Silva Pinto is a Portuguese former footballer and manager. He spent his entire professional career with Porto.
1962 Steven Curtis Chapman

Steven Curtis Chapman

American Christian music singer-songwriter, musician, record producer, actor, author, and social activist
Steven Curtis Chapman is an American contemporary Christian music singer, songwriter, record producer, actor, author, and social activist.
1964

Liza Tarbuck

English actress, television and radio presenter
Liza Tarbuck is an English actress, comedian, and television and radio presenter.
1966

Thanasis Kolitsidakis

Greek footballer
Thanasis Kolitsidakis is a Greek football manager and former player.
1972 Rich Johnston

Rich Johnston

English author and critic
Richard "Rich" Johnston is a British comics creator, columnist, and founder of the comics news site Bleeding Cool.
1976

Martin Meichelbeck

German footballer
Martin Meichelbeck is a German former professional footballer who played as a centre-back.
1978 Lucía Jiménez

Lucía Jiménez

Spanish actress and singer
Lucía Jiménez Arranz is a Spanish actress.
1979 Vincenzo Iaquinta

Vincenzo Iaquinta

Italian footballer
Vincenzo Iaquinta is an Italian former professional footballer who played as a striker.
1980 Leonardo González

Leonardo González

Costa Rican footballer
Leonardo González Arce is a Costa Rican former professional footballer who played as a defender.
1981 Jonny Magallón

Jonny Magallón

Mexican footballer
José Jonny Magallón Oliva is a Mexican former professional footballer who played as a centre-back.
1982

Georgios Kalogiannidis

Greek archer
Georgios Kalogiannidis is an archer from Greece. He competed at the 2004 Summer Olympics.
1985 Jesús Navas

Jesús Navas

Spanish footballer
Jesús Navas González is a Spanish former professional footballer who played as a right-back or right winger.
1985

Nicola Silvestri

Italian footballer
Nicola Silvestri is an Italian footballer.
1987

Stefan Glarner

Swiss footballer
Stefan Glarner is a Swiss footballer who plays for FC Köniz in the Swiss 1. Liga.
1988

Preston Zimmerman

American soccer player
Preston Mark Zimmerman is a retired American soccer player.
1989 Dárvin Chávez

Dárvin Chávez

Mexican footballer
Dárvin Francisco Chávez Ramírez is a Mexican former professional footballer who played as a left-back. He is an Olympic gold medalist.
1989 Fabian Delph

Fabian Delph

English footballer
Fabian Delph is an English former professional footballer who primarily played as a midfielder.
1989 Will Buckley

Will Buckley

English footballer
William Edward Buckley is an English former professional footballer who played as a winger.
1990 Georgie Twigg

Georgie Twigg

English field hockey player
Georgina Sophie Twigg is an English international field hockey player and an Olympic gold medalist at the 2016 Summer Olympics.
1991 Lewis Dunk

Lewis Dunk

English footballer
Lewis Carl Dunk is an English professional footballer who plays as a centre-back for and captains Premier League club Brighton & Hove Albion.
1997 Reo Hatate

Reo Hatate

Japanese footballer
Reo Hatate is a Japanese professional footballer who plays as a central midfielder for EFL Championship club Burnley and the Japan national team.
1998 Ognjen Ilić

Ognjen Ilić

Serbian cyclist
Ognjen Ilić is a Serbian cyclist.
1998 Vangelis Pavlidis

Vangelis Pavlidis

Greek footballer
Vangelis Pavlidis is a Greek professional footballer who plays as a centre forward for Primeira Liga club Benfica and the Greece national team.
2001 Rizky Ridho

Rizky Ridho

Indonesian footballer
Rizky Ridho Ramadhani is an Indonesian professional footballer who plays as a centre-back for Super League club Persija Jakarta and the Indonesia national team.

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