Famous Birthdays on November 26

November 26 has 259 recorded notable births across history, from 907 to 2001. This page lists every one of them, with the best-known people first.

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Rita Ora

1990 — Rita Ora

Kosovan-English singer-songwriter and actress

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Famous Birthdays 259 source records 907 – 2001 Sagittarius Topaz birthstone Chrysanthemum birth flower

Major events on November 26

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  1. 1924 The Mongolian People's Republic is officially established after a new constitution, passed by the first State Great Khural, abolishes the monarchy. Source
  2. 1991 National Assembly of Azerbaijan abolishes the autonomous status of Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast of Azerbaijan and renames several cities with Azeri names. Source

Did you know about Rita Ora

Born in Pristina, modern-day Kosovo, she rose to prominence when she featured on DJ Fresh's 2012 single "Hot Right Now", which topped the UK singles chart.

Did you know about Peter Facinelli

Peter Facinelli portrayed Maxwell Lord on the first season of the TV series Supergirl.

Did you know about DJ Khaled

Khaled Mohammed Khaled, known professionally as DJ Khaled, is an American DJ, rapper, and record producer.

Did you know about Natasha Bedingfield

Unwritten also produced her only UK number one, "These Words".

Did you know about John McVie

John McVie is best known as a member of the band Fleetwood Mac, and prior to that, the blues band John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers, from 1964 to 1967.


More major people born on November 26

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

1973 Peter Facinelli

Peter Facinelli

American actor, director, and producer
Peter Facinelli is an American-Italian actor. He starred as Donovan "Van" Ray on the Fox series Fastlane from 2002 to 2003. He played Dr. Carlisle Cullen in the film adaptations of the Twilight novel series, and is also known for his role as Mike Dexter in the 1998 film Can't Hardly Wait. Facinelli was a regular on the Showtime comedy-drama series Nurse Jackie, portraying the role of Dr. Fitch "Coop" Cooper. He portrayed Maxwell Lord on the first season of the TV series Supergirl.
1975 DJ Khaled

DJ Khaled

American rapper and producer
Khaled Mohammed Khaled, known professionally as DJ Khaled, is an American DJ, rapper, and record producer. Originally a Miami-based radio personality, Khaled has since become known for enlisting music industry artists to perform on singles and albums, for which he typically serves as producer and hype man. His distinctions are his maximalist production style, booming voice presence, "motivational" abstractions, and numerous catchphrases.
1981 Natasha Bedingfield

Natasha Bedingfield

English singer-songwriter and producer
Natasha Anne Bedingfield is a British singer and songwriter. She released her debut album, Unwritten, in 2004, which contained primarily up-tempo pop songs and was influenced by R&B music. It enjoyed international success with more than 2.3 million copies sold worldwide. Bedingfield received a Grammy Award nomination for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance for the title track "Unwritten", and at the 2005 and 2006 Brit Awards, she was nominated for Best British Female Artist. Unwritten also produced her only UK number one, "These Words".
1945 John McVie

John McVie

English-American bass player
John Graham McVie is a British bass guitarist. He is best known as a member of the band Fleetwood Mac, and prior to that, the blues band John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers, from 1964 to 1967. His surname, combined with that of drummer Mick Fleetwood, was the source for the band's name "Fleetwood Mac".
1939

Mark Margolis

American actor (died 2023)
Mark Margolis was an American actor best known for his portrayal of the character Héctor Salamanca in Breaking Bad (2009–2011) and Better Call Saul (2016–2022). His performance in Breaking Bad was nominated for an Emmy Award in 2012.
1972 Arjun Rampal

Arjun Rampal

Indian actor and producer
Arjun Rampal is an Indian actor and model who mainly works in Hindi films. He has starred in more than 40 films. Described as a versatile actor by the media, Rampal has received several awards including the National Film Award for Best Supporting Actor and the Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in Rock On!!.
1996 Malik Beasley

Malik Beasley

American basketball player
Malik JonMikal Beasley is an American professional basketball player who last played for the Santurce Crabbers of the Baloncesto Superior Nacional (BSN). He played in the National Basketball Association (NBA) for the Denver Nuggets, Minnesota Timberwolves, Utah Jazz, Los Angeles Lakers, Milwaukee Bucks, and Detroit Pistons.
1992 Anuel AA

Anuel AA

Puerto Rican rapper and singer
Emmanuel Gazmey Santiago, known professionally as Anuel AA, is a Puerto Rican rapper and singer. Often dubbed as "The God of Latin trap" by himself and major Latin artists, his music often contains samples and interpolations of songs that were popular during his youth. He is seen as a controversial figure in the Latin music scene for his legal troubles and feuds with fellow Puerto Rican rappers Cosculluela, Ivy Queen, and Arcángel as well as American rapper 6ix9ine. Raised in Carolina, Puerto Rico, he started recording music at age fourteen and began posting it online four years later in 2014, before eventually signing to the Latin division of fellow American rapper Rick Ross's Maybach Music Group. His 2016 mixtape Real Hasta la Muerte was well-received, but his success was put on hold the same year by a 30-month prison sentence for illegal firearm possession in Puerto Rico. He recorded the entirety of his debut album while incarcerated, during which time his genre of music surged in popularity.
1953 Julien Temple

Julien Temple

English director, producer, and screenwriter
Julien Temple is a British film, documentary and music video director. He began his career with short films featuring the Sex Pistols, and has continued with various off-beat projects, including The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle, Absolute Beginners and a documentary film about Glastonbury.
1954 Velupillai Prabhakaran

Velupillai Prabhakaran

Sri Lankan rebel leader, founded the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (died 2009)
Velupillai Prabhakaran was an Eelam Tamil nationalist, revolutionary and guerrilla leader. A major figure of Tamil nationalism, he founded and led the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE). The LTTE was a militant organization that sought to create an independent Tamil state in the north and east of Sri Lanka in reaction to the oppression of the country's Tamil population by the Sri Lankan government. Under his direction, the LTTE undertook a military campaign against the Sri Lankan government for more than 25 years.
1983 Chris Hughes

Chris Hughes

American publisher and businessman, co-founded Facebook
Christopher Hughes is an American entrepreneur and author who co-founded and served as spokesman for the online social directory and networking site Facebook until 2007. He was the publisher and editor-in-chief of The New Republic from 2012 to 2016.
1827 Ellen G. White

Ellen G. White

American religious leader and author, co-founded the Seventh-day Adventist Church (died 1915)
Ellen Gould White was an American author, and was both the prophet and a co-founder of the Seventh-day Adventist Church. Along with other Adventist leaders, such as Joseph Bates and her husband James White, she was influential within a small group of early Adventists who formed what became known as the Seventh-day Adventist Church. White is considered a leading figure in American vegetarian history. Smithsonian named her among the "100 Most Significant Americans of All Time".
1853 Bat Masterson

Bat Masterson

American police officer and journalist (died 1921)
Bartholemew William Barclay "Bat" Masterson was a U.S. Army scout, lawman, professional gambler, and journalist known for his exploits in the late 19th and early 20th-century American Old West. He was born to a working-class Irish family in Quebec, but he moved to the Western frontier as a young man and quickly distinguished himself as a buffalo hunter, civilian scout, and Indian fighter on the Great Plains. He later earned fame as a gunfighter and sheriff in Dodge City, Kansas, during which time he was involved in several notable shootouts.
1951 Ilona Staller

Ilona Staller

Hungarian-Italian porn actress, singer, and politician
Ilona Anna Staller, known by her stage name Cicciolina, is a Hungarian-Italian former porn star, politician, and singer. Staller gained fame in the early 1970s through her radio show Voulez-vous coucher avec moi? and became widely recognized by her stage name Cicciolina. She appeared in numerous films and gained attention for being the first to bare her breasts on live Italian television in 1978. Staller ventured into politics and was elected to the Italian Parliament in 1987, campaigning on a libertarian platform with the Radical Party.
1945 Daniel Davis

Daniel Davis

American actor
Daniel Davis is an American film, stage and television actor. He portrayed Niles the butler on the sitcom The Nanny and had two guest appearances as Professor Moriarty on Star Trek: The Next Generation, affecting a received pronunciation English accent for both roles.
1966 Garcelle Beauvais

Garcelle Beauvais

Haitian-American actress and singer
Garcelle Beauvais is a Haitian actress and television personality. She is best known for her starring roles in the sitcom The Jamie Foxx Show and the crime drama series NYPD Blue. She also appeared in the films Coming to America (1988) and its sequel, Coming 2 America (2021), White House Down (2013), and Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017).
1910 Cyril Cusack

Cyril Cusack

South African-born Irish actor (died 1993)
Cyril James Cusack was an Irish stage and screen actor with a career that spanned more than 70 years. During his lifetime, he was considered one of Ireland's finest thespians, and was renowned for his interpretations of both classical and contemporary theatre, including Shakespearean roles as a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company, and over 60 productions for the Abbey Theatre, of which he was a lifelong member. In 2020, Cusack was ranked at number 14 on The Irish Times' list of Ireland's greatest film actors.
1997 Aaron Wan-Bissaka

Aaron Wan-Bissaka

English-Congolese footballer
Aaron Wan-Bissaka is a professional footballer who plays as a right-back for Premier League club Aston Villa, on loan from EFL Championship club West Ham United. Born in England, he plays for the DR Congo national team.
1938 Rich Little

Rich Little

Canadian-American comedian, actor, and singer
Richard Caruthers Little is a Canadian-American comedian, impressionist and voice actor. Sometimes known as the "Man of a Thousand Voices", Little has recorded nine comedy albums and made numerous television appearances, including three HBO specials.
1943

Bruce Paltrow

American director and producer (died 2002)
Bruce Weigert Paltrow was an American television and film director and producer. He was the husband of actress Blythe Danner, and the father of actress Gwyneth Paltrow and screenwriter/director Jake Paltrow.
1969 Shawn Kemp

Shawn Kemp

American basketball player
Shawn Travis Kemp Sr. is an American former professional basketball player who played for the Seattle SuperSonics, Cleveland Cavaliers, Portland Trail Blazers, and Orlando Magic in the National Basketball Association (NBA). Nicknamed "Reign Man", he was a six-time NBA All-Star and a three-time All-NBA Second Team member. Kemp is widely regarded as one of the best slam dunkers of all time and made the 1996 NBA Finals with the SuperSonics.
1956 Dale Jarrett

Dale Jarrett

American race car driver and sportscaster
Dale Arnold Jarrett is an American former race car driver and current racing commentator for NBC. He is best known for winning the Daytona 500 three times and winning the NASCAR Winston Cup Series championship in 1999. He is the son of two-time Grand National Champion Ned Jarrett, younger brother of Glenn Jarrett, father of former driver Jason Jarrett, and cousin of Todd Jarrett. In 2007, Jarrett joined the ESPN/ABC broadcasting team as an announcer in select Nationwide Series races. In 2008, after retiring from driving following the 2008 Food City 500, he joined ESPN permanently as the lead racing analyst replacing Rusty Wallace. In 2015, Jarrett became a part of the NBC Sports Broadcasting Crew for NASCAR events. He was inducted in the 2014 class of the NASCAR Hall of Fame and the Motorsports Hall of Fame of America in 2025.
1953 Shelley Moore Capito

Shelley Moore Capito

American politician
Shelley Wellons Moore Capito is an American politician serving as the senior United States senator from West Virginia. A member of the Republican Party, Capito served from 2001 to 2015 as the U.S. representative from West Virginia's 2nd congressional district. She is the daughter of three-term West Virginia governor and six-term U.S. representative Arch Alfred Moore Jr.
1965 Scott Adsit

Scott Adsit

American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
Robert Scott Adsit is an American actor, comedian, and writer. Born and raised in the Chicago suburbs, Adsit joined the mainstage cast of Chicago's The Second City in 1994 after attending Columbia College Chicago. He appeared in several revues, including Paradigm Lost for which he won The Joseph Jefferson Award for Best Actor in a Comedy.
1899 Richard Hauptmann

Richard Hauptmann

German-American murderer (died 1936)
Bruno Richard Hauptmann was a German-American carpenter and criminal who was convicted of the abduction and murder of Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr., the 20-month-old son of aviator Charles Lindbergh and his wife Anne Morrow Lindbergh. The Lindbergh kidnapping became known as the "crime of the century". He was executed in 1936 by electric chair at the Trenton State Prison. Both Hauptmann and his wife, Anna Hauptmann, proclaimed his innocence. In recent years, Hauptmann's guilt has been questioned by authors and researchers, and law enforcement behavior in the case has been widely criticized.
1976 Maven

Maven

American wrestler
Maven Klate Huffman is an American social media personality and semi-retired professional wrestler. He is the inaugural male winner of Tough Enough and went on to wrestle under his first name in the World Wrestling Federation/Entertainment (WWF/WWE) from 2001 to 2005, in which time he became a three-time WWF Hardcore Champion and was named 'Rookie of the Year' by Pro Wrestling Illustrated.
1999 Olivia O'Brien

Olivia O'Brien

American singer-songwriter
Olivia Gail O'Brien is an American singer-songwriter. She is best known for her guest appearance on Gnash's 2016 single "I Hate U, I Love U", which peaked at number 10 on the Billboard Hot 100. Its success led her to sign with Island Records; the label released two extended plays, three mixtapes, and her debut studio album Was It Even Real? (2019). In 2024, she formed the independent label Girlhood Records and released the EPs Love & Limerence and Everywhere I Go, There I Am. O'Brien signed with Gamma for the release of her second studio album Pixie (2026).
1943 Marilynne Robinson

Marilynne Robinson

American novelist and essayist
Marilynne Summers Robinson is an American novelist and essayist. Across her writing career, Robinson has received numerous awards, including the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2005, National Humanities Medal in 2012, and the 2016 Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction. In 2016, Robinson was named in Time magazine's list of 100 most influential people. Robinson began teaching at the Iowa Writers' Workshop in 1991 and retired in the spring of 2016.
1999 Jung Wooyoung

Jung Wooyoung

South Korean singer and dancer
Jung Woo-young, known mononymously as Wooyoung, is a South Korean singer and dancer. He debuted as one of the vocalists for the South Korean boy band Ateez in 2018.
1966 Kristin Bauer van Straten

Kristin Bauer van Straten

American actress
Kristin Bauer van Straten is an American film and television actress, notable for her roles as vampire Pamela Swynford De Beaufort on the HBO television series True Blood, Jerry's girlfriend Gillian on Seinfeld, and as Maleficent in the ABC series Once Upon a Time.
1960 Harold Reynolds

Harold Reynolds

American baseball player and sportscaster
Harold Craig Reynolds is an American former professional baseball player and current television sports commentator. He played in Major League Baseball as a second baseman from 1983 to 1994, most prominently as a member of the Seattle Mariners, where he was a two-time All-Star player and a three-time Gold Glove Award winner. He also played for the Baltimore Orioles and the California Angels. In 1991, Reynolds was named the recipient of the prestigious Roberto Clemente Award. After his playing career, he became a four-time Emmy Award winning television baseball analyst, working for the MLB Network and Fox Sports.
1894 Norbert Wiener

Norbert Wiener

American-Swedish mathematician and philosopher (died 1964)
Norbert Wiener was an American computer scientist, mathematician, and philosopher. He became a professor of mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). A child prodigy, Wiener later became an early researcher in stochastic and mathematical noise processes, contributing work relevant to electronic engineering, electronic communication, and control systems.
1909 Eugène Ionesco

Eugène Ionesco

Romanian-French playwright and critic (died 1994)
Eugène Ionesco was a Romanian-French playwright who wrote mostly in French, and was one of the foremost figures of the French avant-garde theatre in the 20th century. Ionesco instigated a revolution in ideas and techniques of drama, beginning with his "anti play", The Bald Soprano, which contributed to the beginnings of what is known as the Theatre of the Absurd. He wrote a number of plays that, following the ideas of the philosopher Albert Camus, explore concepts of absurdism and surrealism. He was made a member of the Académie française in 1970, and was awarded the 1970 Austrian State Prize for European Literature, and the 1973 Jerusalem Prize.
1946 Art Shell

Art Shell

American football player and coach
Arthur Lee Shell Jr. is an American former professional football player and coach. He played as an offensive tackle in the American Football League (AFL) and later in the National Football League (NFL) for the Oakland / Los Angeles Raiders. He played college football at Maryland State College—now University of Maryland Eastern Shore—and was drafted by the Raiders in the third round of the 1968 NFL/AFL draft. He was later a twice head coach for the Raiders. He holds the distinction of becoming the second African American head coach in the history of professional football and the first in the sport's modern era. Shell was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 2013 and into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1989.
1857 Ferdinand de Saussure

Ferdinand de Saussure

Swiss linguist and author (died 1913)
Ferdinand Mongin de Saussure was a Swiss linguist, semiotician and philosopher. His ideas laid a foundation for many significant developments in both linguistics and semiotics in the 20th century. He is widely considered one of the founders of 20th-century linguistics and one of two major founders of semiotics, or semiology, as Saussure called it.
1962 Chuck Finley

Chuck Finley

American baseball player
Charles Edward Finley is an American former professional baseball pitcher. He pitched from 1986 to 2002 for three teams in Major League Baseball (MLB), primarily with the California Angels. After a 14-year tenure with the Angels, he played for the Cleveland Indians for two-and-a-half seasons, then was traded to the St. Louis Cardinals and played there for a half-season. Listed at 6 feet 6 inches (1.98 m) and 220 pounds (100 kg), he threw and batted left-handed. During a 17-year major-league career, Finley compiled 200 wins, 2,610 strikeouts, and a 3.85 earned run average. He holds multiple Angels team records for a career, including games started (379), wins (165), losses (140), and innings pitched (2,675).
1909 Frances Dee

Frances Dee

American actress and singer (died 2004)
Frances Marion Dee was an American actress. Her first film was the musical Playboy of Paris (1930). She starred in films An American Tragedy (1931), Little Women (1933) and Becky Sharp (1935). She is also known for starring in the 1943 Val Lewton psychological horror film I Walked With a Zombie.
1895 Bill W.

Bill W.

American activist, co-founded Alcoholics Anonymous (died 1971)
William Griffith Wilson, also known as Bill Wilson or Bill W., was an American businessman who co-conceived and co-founded Alcoholics Anonymous (AA), with fellow co-founder Bob Smith.
1885 Heinrich Brüning

Heinrich Brüning

German lieutenant, economist, and politician, Chancellor of Germany (died 1970)
Heinrich Aloysius Maria Elisabeth Brüning was a German Centre Party politician and academic, who served as the chancellor of Germany during the Weimar Republic from 1930 to 1932. His use of deflation in an attempt to combat the effects of the Great Depression in Germany increased unemployment and poverty and earned him the nickname of the “Hunger Chancellor".
1999 Jaycee Horn

Jaycee Horn

American football player
Jaycee Carrington Horn is an American professional football cornerback for the Carolina Panthers of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the South Carolina Gamecocks and was selected eighth overall by the Panthers in the 2021 NFL draft. His father, Joe Horn, played wide receiver in the NFL.
1288 Go-Daigo

Go-Daigo

Japanese emperor (died 1339)
Emperor Go-Daigo was the 96th emperor of Japan, according to the traditional order of succession. He successfully overthrew the Kamakura shogunate in 1333 and established the short-lived Kenmu Restoration to bring the Imperial House back into power. This was to be the last time the emperor had real power until the Meiji Restoration in 1868. The Kenmu restoration was in turn overthrown by Ashikaga Takauji in 1336, ushering in the Ashikaga shogunate. The overthrow split the imperial family into two opposing factions between the Ashikaga backed Northern Court situated in Kyoto and the Southern Court based in Yoshino. The Southern Court was led by Go-Daigo and his later successors.
1921 Verghese Kurien

Verghese Kurien

Indian engineer and businessman, founded Amul (died 2012)
Verghese Kurien was an Indian dairy engineer and social entrepreneur. He led initiatives that contributed to the extensive increase in milk production in India termed as the White Revolution.
1876 Willis Carrier

Willis Carrier

American engineer, invented air conditioning (died 1950)
Willis Haviland Carrier was an American engineer, best known for inventing modern air conditioning by inventing the first electrical air conditioning unit in 1902. In 1915, he founded Carrier Corporation, a company specializing in the manufacture and distribution of heating, ventilation, and air conditioning systems.
1942 Jan Stenerud

Jan Stenerud

Norwegian-American football player
Jan Stenerud is a Norwegian-American former professional football placekicker who played in the National Football League (NFL) and American Football League (AFL) for 19 seasons, primarily with the Kansas City Chiefs. The first Norwegian NFL player, he played college football for the Montana State Bobcats and earned All-American honors. Stenerud began his career in the AFL after being selected by the Chiefs during the 1966 draft and joined the NFL following the AFL–NFL merger. Along with his 13 seasons in Kansas City, Stenerud was a member of the Green Bay Packers for four seasons and the Minnesota Vikings for two seasons until retiring in 1985.
1832 Mary Edwards Walker

Mary Edwards Walker

American surgeon and activist, Medal of Honor recipient (died 1919)
Mary Edwards Walker, commonly referred to as Dr. Mary Walker, was an American abolitionist, prohibitionist, prisoner of war in the American Civil War, and surgeon. She is the only woman to receive the Medal of Honor.
1607 John Harvard

John Harvard

English minister and philanthropist (died 1638)
John Harvard (1607–1638) was an English Puritan minister in colonial New England whose deathbed bequest to the "schoale or colledge" founded two years earlier by the Massachusetts Bay Colony was so gratefully received that the colony consequently ordered "that the Colledge agreed upon formerly to be built at Cambridge shalbee called Harvard Colledge".
1939 Abdullah Ahmad Badawi

Abdullah Ahmad Badawi

Malaysian civil servant and politician, 5th Prime Minister of Malaysia (died 2025)
Abdullah bin Ahmad Badawi, also known as Pak Lah, was a Malaysian politician and civil servant who served as the fifth prime minister of Malaysia from 2003 to 2009. A member of UMNO, he was the party's president from 2004 to 2009 and led the ruling Barisan Nasional coalition during his premiership.
1961 Ivory

Ivory

American wrestler and trainer
Lisa Mary Moretti is an American retired professional wrestler, teacher and coach. She is best known for her tenure in WWE, where she is a three-time WWE Women's Champion - twice in 1999 and once in 2000 - and she was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame in 2018.
1990 Avery Bradley

Avery Bradley

American basketball player
Avery Antonio Bradley Jr. is an American former professional basketball player who is the vice president of player development for the Utah Jazz of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played college basketball for the Texas Longhorns before being drafted 19th overall by the Boston Celtics in the 2010 NBA draft. With the Celtics, Bradley was twice recognized as an NBA All-Defensive Team member. He also played for the Detroit Pistons, Los Angeles Clippers, Memphis Grizzlies, Miami Heat, Houston Rockets and Los Angeles Lakers.
1996 Brandon Carlo

Brandon Carlo

American ice hockey player
Brandon Mitchell Carlo is an American professional ice hockey player who is a defenseman for the St. Louis Blues of the National Hockey League (NHL). The Boston Bruins selected him in the second round, 37th overall, of the 2015 NHL entry draft. He played the first nine seasons of his career with the Bruins until his trade to the Toronto Maple Leafs in 2025.
1957 Félix González-Torres

Félix González-Torres

Cuban-American sculptor (died 1996)
Félix González-Torres or Felix Gonzalez-Torres was a Cuban-born American visual artist. He lived and worked primarily in New York City between 1979 and 1995 after attending university in Puerto Rico. González-Torres’s practice incorporates a minimalist visual vocabulary and certain artworks that are composed of everyday materials such as strings of light bulbs, paired wall clocks, stacks of paper, and individually wrapped candies. He was gay and frequently explored themes around his sexuality and stigma in his work. González-Torres is known for having made significant contributions to the field of conceptual art in the 1980s and 1990s. His practice continues to influence and be influenced by present-day cultural discourses. González-Torres died in Miami in 1996 from AIDS-related illness.
1970 Dave Hughes

Dave Hughes

Australian comedian and radio host
David "Hughesy" Hughes is an Australian stand-up comedian, and television and radio presenter. He is known for his larrikin personality, drawling Australian accent, and deadpan comedic delivery.
1999 Jacob Shaffelburg

Jacob Shaffelburg

Canadian soccer player
Jacob Everett Shaffelburg is a Canadian professional soccer player who plays as a winger for Major League Soccer club Los Angeles FC and the Canada national team.
1953 Hilary Benn

Hilary Benn

English politician, Secretary of State for International Development
Hilary James Wedgwood Benn is a British politician who served as Secretary of State for Northern Ireland from 2024 to 2026. A member of the Labour Party, he has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Leeds South, formerly Leeds Central, since 1999. He previously served in various ministerial positions under Prime Ministers Sir Tony Blair and Gordon Brown from 2001 to 2010.
1972 James Dashner

James Dashner

American author
James Smith Dashner is an American writer known for speculative fiction. Many of his books are primarily aimed at children or young adults. He is best known for The Maze Runner series and the young adult fantasy series The 13th Reality. His 2008 novel The Journal of Curious Letters, the first in the series, was one of the annual Borders Original Voices picks.
1858 Katharine Drexel

Katharine Drexel

American nun and saint (died 1955)
Katharine Drexel, SBS was an American Catholic religious sister and educator. In 1891, she founded the Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament, a religious congregation serving Black and Indigenous Americans. Canonized by Pope John Paul II in 2000, Drexel was the second person born in the United States to be declared a saint and the first who was born a U.S. citizen.
1953 Harry Carson

Harry Carson

American football player
Harry Donald Carson is an American former professional football player who spent his entire career as a linebacker for the New York Giants of the National Football League (NFL). Carson was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 2002, the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2006 and the New Jersey Hall of Fame in 2018.
1811 Zeng Guofan

Zeng Guofan

Chinese general and politician, Viceroy of Liangjiang (died 1872)
Zeng Guofan, Marquis Yiyong, birth name Zeng Zicheng, courtesy name Bohan (伯涵), was a Chinese statesman and military general of the late Qing dynasty. He is best known for raising and organizing the Xiang Army to aid the Qing military in suppressing the Taiping Rebellion and restoring the stability of the Qing Empire. Along with other prominent figures such as Zuo Zongtang and Li Hongzhang of his time, Zeng set the scene for the Tongzhi Restoration, an attempt to arrest the decline of the Qing dynasty. Zeng was known for his strategic perception, administrative skill and noble personality on Confucian practice, but also for his ruthlessness in repressing rebellions.
1959 Jamie Rose

Jamie Rose

American actress, singer, and dancer
Jamie Rose is an American actress and acting coach. Born in New York City, Rose was raised in Southern California, where she began her career as a child actor, first appearing in commercials. She made her feature film debut in the cult horror film Just Before Dawn (1981), and subsequently had supporting roles in Clint Eastwood's Tightrope and Heartbreakers.
1972 Chris Osgood

Chris Osgood

Canadian ice hockey player and sportscaster
Christopher John Osgood is a Canadian former professional ice hockey goaltender who is currently a Detroit Red Wings studio analyst and part-time color commentator for FanDuel Sports Network Detroit. He won three Stanley Cup championships in his career, all with the Red Wings, with his first as the backup goaltender in 1997, and his other two as the starting goaltender in 1998 and 2008. All together, he appeared in five Stanley Cup Finals during his career, again all with the Red Wings. Between the four Stanley Cups the Red Wings won between 1997 and 2008, Osgood only missed the 2002 Stanley Cup championship. He is currently ranked 13th in wins in NHL regular season history with 401.
1959 Sergey Golovkin

Sergey Golovkin

Russian serial killer, rapist, torturer, and necrophile (died 1996)
Sergey Aleksandrovich Golovkin was a Soviet-Russian serial killer, rapist and necrophile, convicted for the killing of 11 boys between the ages of 10 and 16 in the Moscow area between 1986 and 1992. Golovkin, also known as Fisher and The Boa, tortured, raped and killed young boys in his garage basement and the forests outside Moscow.
1552 Seonjo of Joseon

Seonjo of Joseon

King of Joseon (died 1608)
Seonjo, personal name Yi Gyun, later changed to Yi Yeon, was the 14th monarch of Joseon. The youngest son of Prince Deokheung and a grandson of King Jungjong, he ascended to the throne at the age of 14, upon the death of his uncle, King Myeongjong. At the beginning of his reign, he promoted Confucianism and attempted reforms. However, he later gained infamy due the political discord and incompetent leadership during the Imjin War.
1953 Desiré Wilson

Desiré Wilson

South African race car driver
Desiré Wilson, born 26 November 1953, is a former racing driver from South Africa and one of only five women to have competed in Formula One. Born in Brakpan, she entered one Formula One World Championship Grand Prix in 1980 with a non-works RAM Racing-prepared Williams FW07, but failed to qualify. She also raced in the 1981 non-world championship South African Grand Prix in a one off deal with Tyrrell Racing. This race was not part of the 1981 World Championship due, in part, to the FISA–FOCA war. She qualified 16th and, after the car stalled during the start of the race, she moved up through the field in wet conditions; as conditions dried, she fell back and damaged the car when it touched a wall while she was letting the race leader through.
1970 John Amaechi

John Amaechi

American-English basketball player and sportscaster
John Uzoma Ekwugha Amaechi, OBE is an English former professional basketball player, a psychologist, and a consultant. He played college basketball for the Vanderbilt Commodores and Penn State Nittany Lions, and professional basketball in the National Basketball Association (NBA). Amaechi played in France, Greece, Italy, the United Kingdom and the United States. Since retiring from basketball, Amaechi has worked as a psychologist and consultant, establishing his company Amaechi Performance Systems.
1918 Patricio Aylwin

Patricio Aylwin

Chilean lawyer and politician, 31st President of Chile (died 2016)
Patricio Aylwin Azócar was a Chilean politician, lawyer, author, professor and former senator who was the 30th president of Chile from 1990 to 1994. He was the first president to be elected after the end of Augusto Pinochet's military dictatorship following the 1988 Chilean presidential referendum, marking the Chilean transition to democracy in 1990. He was from the Christian Democratic Party.
1978

Jun Fukuyama

Japanese voice actor and singer
Jun Fukuyama is a Japanese voice actor and singer. He played Lelouch Lamperouge in Code Geass, Yukio Okumura in Blue Exorcist, Koro-sensei in Assassination Classroom, Ichimatsu in Mr. Osomatsu, Yuta Togashi in Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions, Kraft Lawrence in Spice and Wolf, Hero in Maoyu, Kimihiro Watanuki in xxxHOLiC, Joker in Persona 5, Riku in Yashahime: Princess Half-Demon, King in The Seven Deadly Sins, Finral in Black Clover and Makoto Hanamiya in Kuroko's Basketball, and Hakuryuu in Inazuma Eleven GO.
1987 Kat DeLuna

Kat DeLuna

American singer, songwriter and dancer
Kathleen Emperatriz DeLuna is an American singer. DeLuna began pursuing a career as a singer when she was a teenager and later signed with Epic Records. Her debut single, "Whine Up", released in 2007, went on to become a commercial success, entering the Top 40 in numerous countries and topping the Billboard Hot Dance Club Play chart. Her debut studio album, 9 Lives (2007), failed to see the success of its lead single. The album's third single, "Run the Show", became a hit in various territories, and reached number two on the Hot Dance Club Play chart.
1990 Chip

Chip

English rapper
Jahmaal Noel Fyffe, better known by his stage name Chip, is an English rapper and grime MC. In the past 14 years, he has collaborated with the likes of Skepta, T.I., Meek Mill, Young Adz and many others. In 2009, he released his debut album, I Am Chipmunk, featuring four songs which peaked in the top 10 of the UK Singles Chart, including the chart-topping "Oopsy Daisy". In 2011, Chipmunk released his follow-up album, the American hip-hop-influenced Transition. It included the single "Champion" featuring Chris Brown, which peaked at number two on the UK Singles Chart.
1938 Porter Goss

Porter Goss

American soldier and politician, 19th Director of the CIA
Porter Johnston Goss is an American politician who served as the head of the Central Intelligence Agency from 2004 to 2006. He was the last director of Central Intelligence (DCI) from 2004 to 2005, then became the first director of the Central Intelligence Agency following the passage of the 2004 Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act, which abolished the DCI position and replaced it with the Director of National Intelligence on December 17, 2004.
1911 Samuel Reshevsky

Samuel Reshevsky

Polish-American chess player and author (died 1992)
Samuel Herman Reshevsky was a Polish chess prodigy and later a leading American chess grandmaster. He was a contender for the World Chess Championship from the mid-1930s to the late 1960s. He tied for third place in the 1948 World Chess Championship tournament, tied for second in the 1953 Candidates tournament, and was a Candidate as late as 1968. He was a seven-time winner of the US Chess Championship.
1969 Kara Walker

Kara Walker

American painter and illustrator
Kara Elizabeth Walker is an American contemporary painter, silhouettist, printmaker, sculptor, installation artist, filmmaker, and university professor, who explores race, gender, sexuality, violence, and identity in her work. Walker is most well known for her room-size tableaux of black cut-paper silhouettes that interrogate romantic narratives of the antebellum South of the United States. She is regarded as among the most prominent and acclaimed Black American artists working today.
1956 Keith Vaz

Keith Vaz

Indian-English lawyer and politician, Minister of State for Europe
Nigel Keith Anthony Standish Vaz is a British politician who served as the Labour Party Member of Parliament (MP) for Leicester East for 32 years, from 1987 to 2019. He is the UK Parliament's longest-serving British Asian MP.
1940 Quentin Skinner

Quentin Skinner

English historian, author, and academic
Quentin Robert Duthie Skinner is a British intellectual historian. He is regarded as one of the founders of the Cambridge School of the history of political thought. He has won numerous prizes for his work, including the Wolfson History Prize in 1979 and the Balzan Prize in 2006. Between 1996 and 2008 he was Regius Professor of History at the University of Cambridge. He is the Emeritus Professor of the Humanities and Co-director of The Centre for the Study of the History of Political Thought at Queen Mary University of London.
1990 Gabriel Paulista

Gabriel Paulista

Brazilian footballer
Gabriel Armando de Abreu, commonly known as Gabriel Paulista or simply Gabriel, is a Brazilian professional footballer who plays as a centre-back for Campeonato Brasileiro Série A club Corinthians.
1945

Michael Omartian

American singer-songwriter, keyboard player, and producer
Michael S. Omartian is an American singer-songwriter, arranger, keyboardist, and music producer. He produced number-one records in three consecutive decades. He has earned 11 Grammy Awards nominations and won three. He spent five years on the A&R staff of ABC/Dunhill Records as a producer, artist, and arranger; then was hired by Warner Bros. Records as an in-house producer and A&R staff member. Omartian moved from Los Angeles to Nashville in 1993, where he served on the Board of Governors of the Recording Academy, and has helped to shape the curriculum for the first master's degree program in the field of Music Business at Belmont University.
1983 Matt Garza

Matt Garza

American baseball player
Matthew Scott Garza is an American former professional baseball pitcher. He made his Major League Baseball (MLB) debut in 2006 with the Minnesota Twins, and also played in MLB for the Tampa Bay Rays, Chicago Cubs, Texas Rangers and Milwaukee Brewers. With the Rays, Garza was named the American League Championship Series Most Valuable Player in 2008, and threw a no-hitter on July 26, 2010.
1919 Ryszard Kaczorowski

Ryszard Kaczorowski

Polish soldier and politician, 6th President of the Republic of Poland (died 2010)
Ryszard Kaczorowski, GCMG was a Polish statesman. From 1989 to 1990, he served as the last president of Poland-in-exile. He succeeded Kazimierz Sabbat, and resigned his post following Poland's regaining independence from the Soviet sphere of influence and the election of Lech Wałęsa as the first democratically elected president of Poland since before the World War II. He died on 10 April 2010 in the plane crash near Smolensk, Russia, along with the president of Poland Lech Kaczyński and other senior government officials.
1919 Frederik Pohl

Frederik Pohl

American journalist and author (died 2013)
Frederik George Pohl Jr. was an American science-fiction writer, editor, and fan, with a career spanning nearly 75 years—from his first published work, the 1937 poem "Elegy to a Dead Satellite: Luna", to the 2011 novel All the Lives He Led.
1971

Winky Wright

American boxer and actor
Ronald Lamont "Winky" Wright is an American former professional boxer who competed from 1990 to 2012. He is a two-time light middleweight world champion and was the last to hold the undisputed title at that weight until Jermell Charlo in 2022. In his later career he also challenged for a unified middleweight world title. He announced his retirement from boxing in 2012, following a loss to Peter Quillin.
1956

Don Lake

Canadian actor, producer, and screenwriter
Donald Lake is a Canadian actor, writer, and television producer. He is frequently cast by director Christopher Guest, and is also a close friend and frequent collaborator of Bonnie Hunt.
1948 Elizabeth Blackburn

Elizabeth Blackburn

Australian-American biologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
Elizabeth Helen Blackburn is an Australian–American Nobel laureate who is the former president of the Salk Institute for Biological Studies. In 1984, Blackburn co-discovered telomerase, the enzyme that replenishes the telomere, with Carol W. Greider. For this work, she was awarded the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, sharing it with Carol W. Greider and Jack W. Szostak, becoming the first Australian woman Nobel laureate.
1929 Betta St. John

Betta St. John

American actress, singer and dancer (died 2023)
Betta St. John was an American actress, singer, and dancer who worked on Broadway, the West End, and in Hollywood films. She started her career aged 10 as a child actress in uncredited movie parts in her native USA. As an adult actress her first starring role was in the MGM film Dream Wife opposite Cary Grant in 1953. In 1954 she starred with Victor Mature in Dangerous Mission. After moving to England she appeared in starring roles in British films including High Tide at Noon, two Tarzan films, and the horror features Corridors of Blood with Boris Karloff and Horror Hotel with Christopher Lee.
1996 Louane

Louane

French singer and actress
Anne Edwige Maria Peichert, known by her stage name Louane Emera or simply Louane, is a French singer and actress. In France she became known for being a semi-finalist in the 2013 season of The Voice: la plus belle voix, and is known internationally for her role in the 2014 film La Famille Bélier, for which she won the César Award for Most Promising Actress. She represented France in the Eurovision Song Contest 2025 with the song Maman, where she finished seventh with 230 points.
1908 Lefty Gomez

Lefty Gomez

American baseball player and manager (died 1989)
Vernon Louis "Lefty" Gomez was an American baseball player. A left-handed pitcher, Gomez played in Major League Baseball (MLB) between 1930 and 1943 for the New York Yankees and the Washington Senators; he was a five-time World Series champion with the Yankees. During the 1930s he had the most strikeouts (1,337) of any pitcher and joint most All-Star selections of any player.
1963 Matt Frei

Matt Frei

German-English journalist and author
Matthias "Matt" Frei is a British-German television news journalist and writer, formerly the Washington, D.C. correspondent for Channel 4 News. As of 2024 he is the channel's Europe editor and a presenter of the main Channel 4 News at 7pm.
1919 Ram Sharan Sharma

Ram Sharan Sharma

Indian historian and academic (died 2011)
Ram Sharan Sharma was a Marxist historian and Indologist who specialised in the history of Ancient and early Medieval India. He taught at Patna University and Delhi University (1973–85) and was visiting faculty at University of Toronto (1965–1966). He also was a senior fellow at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. He was a University Grants Commission National Fellow (1958–81) and the president of Indian History Congress in 1975. It was during his tenure as the dean of Delhi University's History Department that major expansion of the department took place in the 1970s. The creation of most of the positions in the department were the results of his efforts. He was the founding Chairman of the Indian Council of Historical Research (ICHR) and a historian of international repute.
1792 Sarah Moore Grimké

Sarah Moore Grimké

American author and activist (died 1873)
Sarah Moore Grimké was an American abolitionist and feminist, widely held to be the mother of the women's suffrage movement. Born and reared in South Carolina to a prominent and wealthy planter family, she moved to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in the 1820s and became a Quaker, as did her younger sister Angelina. The sisters began to speak on the abolitionist lecture circuit, joining a tradition of women who had been speaking in public on political issues since colonial days, including Susanna Wright, Hannah Griffitts, Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Anna Dickinson. They recounted their knowledge of slavery firsthand, urged abolition, and also became activists for women's rights.
1937 Bob Babbitt

Bob Babbitt

American bass player (died 2012)
Robert Andrew Kreinar, known as Bob Babbitt, was an American bassist, most famous for his work as a member of Motown Records' studio band, the Funk Brothers, from 1966 to 1972, as well as his tenure as part of MFSB for Philadelphia International Records afterwards. Also in 1968, with Mike Campbell, Ray Monette and Andrew Smith, he formed the band Scorpion, which lasted until 1970. He is ranked number 59 on Bass Player magazine's list of "The 100 Greatest Bass Players of All Time".
1912 Eric Sevareid

Eric Sevareid

American journalist (died 1992)
Arnold Eric Sevareid was an American author and CBS news journalist from 1939 to 1977. He was one of a group of elite war correspondents who were hired by CBS newsman Edward R. Murrow and nicknamed "Murrow's Boys." Sevareid was the first to report the Fall of Paris in 1940, when the city was captured by German forces during World War II.
1986 Bauke Mollema

Bauke Mollema

Dutch cyclist
Bauke Mollema is a Dutch professional cyclist, who rides for UCI WorldTeam Lidl–Trek. He has finished in the top 10 in all three Grand Tours, with stage wins in the 2021 Tour de France, 2017 Tour de France, and the 2013 Vuelta a España. His best result in the general classification in the Tour de France came in 2013 when he finished in 6th place. He won the Clásica de San Sebastián in 2016 and finished on the podium on three other occasions at the race. In 2019, he achieved the biggest win of his career in Il Lombardia.
1981 Jon Ryan

Jon Ryan

Canadian football player
Jonathan Robert Ryan is a Canadian former professional football player who was a punter in the Canadian Football League (CFL) and National Football League (NFL). He played university football for the Regina Rams, and began his professional career in the CFL with the Winnipeg Blue Bombers after being selected in the 2004 CFL draft. He also played in the NFL for the Green Bay Packers and was a member of the Seattle Seahawks for ten seasons.
1976

Maia Campbell

American actress
Maia Campbell is an American former actress known for her roles as Tiffany Warren on the NBC/UPN sitcom In the House (1995–1999), and Nicole on the 1994 Fox comedy-drama series South Central.
1983

Emiri Katō

Japanese voice actress and singer
Emiri Katō is a Japanese voice actress and singer. At the 2nd Seiyu Awards, she won Best New Actress with her roles in Powerpuff Girls Z as Momoko Akatsutsumi/Hyper Blossom, Lucky Star as Kagami Hiiragi and Pretty Rhythm: Rainbow Live as Naru Ayase. She also shared a Best Singing Award with the rest of the Lucky Star girls for the theme song "Motteke! Sailor Fuku". At the 6th Seiyu Awards, Katō won Best Supporting Actress with roles such as Kyubey in Puella Magi Madoka Magica, Kiko Kayanuma in Darker than Black, and Mey-Rin in Black Butler. Katō and fellow voice actress Kaori Fukuhara were in a music duo called Kato*Fuku, which sang theme songs for When Supernatural Battles Became Commonplace. Kato*Fuku released three albums from 2012 to 2015, and disbanded in 2016. Katō left 81 Produce in February 2022, and has since transferred to Stardust Promotion.
1940 Davey Graham

Davey Graham

English guitarist and songwriter (died 2008)
David Michael Gordon "Davey" Graham was a British guitarist and one of the most influential figures in the 1960s British folk revival. He inspired many famous practitioners of the fingerstyle acoustic guitar such as Bert Jansch, Wizz Jones, John Renbourn, Martin Carthy, John Martyn, Paul Simon and Jimmy Page, who based his solo "White Summer" on Graham's "She Moved Through the Fair". Graham is probably best known for his acoustic instrumental "Anji" and for popularizing DADGAD tuning, later widely adopted by acoustic guitarists.
1939 John Gummer

John Gummer

English politician, Secretary of State for the Environment
John Selwyn Gummer, Baron Deben, FRASE is a British Conservative Party politician, formerly the Member of Parliament (MP) for Suffolk Coastal and Lewisham West, now a member of the House of Lords. He was Chairman of the Conservative Party from 1983 to 1985 and held various government posts including Secretary of State for the Environment from 1993 to 1997.
1954 Roz Chast

Roz Chast

American cartoonist
Roz Chast is an American cartoonist and a staff cartoonist for The New Yorker. Since 1978, she has published more than 1000 cartoons in The New Yorker. She also publishes cartoons in Scientific American and the Harvard Business Review.
1989 Angeline Quinto

Angeline Quinto

Filipina singer and actress
Angeline Quinto is a Filipino singer, actress, and television personality. Known for her vocal range and soulful singing style, Quinto's music has garnered critical praise for its lyrical content and themes of love, heartbreak, and empowerment. It has been featured in the soundtracks of films and television series in the Philippines.
1963 Mario Elie

Mario Elie

American basketball player and coach
Mario Antoine Elie is an American former professional basketball coach and player in the National Basketball Association (NBA). Elie grew up in New York City and played college basketball for the American International Yellow Jackets men's basketball, before being selected in the seventh round of the 1985 NBA draft with the 160th overall pick by the Milwaukee Bucks.
1982 Keith Ballard

Keith Ballard

American ice hockey player
Keith Galen Ballard is an American former professional ice hockey player. A defenseman, he previously played in the National Hockey League (NHL) with the Phoenix Coyotes, Florida Panthers, Vancouver Canucks and Minnesota Wild. He played college hockey for the Minnesota Golden Gophers of the Western Collegiate Hockey Association (WCHA) for three seasons. After his freshman year, he was selected 11th overall by the Buffalo Sabres in the 2002 NHL entry draft. Before he made his NHL debut, he was traded twice – initially to the Colorado Avalanche, then to the Phoenix Coyotes. He played his professional rookie season in 2004–05 with the Coyotes' American Hockey League (AHL) affiliate, the Utah Grizzlies, then debuted with Phoenix the following season. After three years, he was traded to the Florida Panthers, where he spent two seasons before being dealt to Vancouver at the 2010 NHL entry draft.
1949 Mari Alkatiri

Mari Alkatiri

East Timorese geographer and politician, 1st Prime Minister of East Timor
Mari bin Amude Alkatiri is a Timorese politician. He was Prime Minister of East Timor from May 2002 until his resignation on 26 June 2006 following weeks of political unrest in the country, and again from September 2017 until May 2018. He is the Secretary-General of the Fretilin party and was the former President of the Special Administrative Region of Oecusse.
1985 Matt Carpenter

Matt Carpenter

American baseball player
Matthew Martin Lee Carpenter is an American former professional baseball infielder. He played 14 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the St. Louis Cardinals, New York Yankees, and San Diego Padres. A left-handed batter and right-handed thrower, Carpenter stands 6 feet 3 inches (1.91 m) and weighs 205 pounds (93 kg).
1920 Daniel Petrie

Daniel Petrie

Canadian-American director and producer (died 2004)
Daniel Mannix Petrie was a Canadian film, television, and stage director who worked in Canada, Hollywood, and the United Kingdom; known for directing grounded human dramas often dealing with taboo subject matter. He was one of several Canadian-born expatriate filmmakers, including Norman Jewison and Sidney J. Furie, to find critical and commercial success overseas in the 1960s due to the limited opportunities in the Canadian film industry at the time. He was the patriarch of the Petrie filmmaking family, with four of his children working in the film industry.
1991 Corey Knebel

Corey Knebel

American baseball player
Corey Andrew Knebel is an American former professional baseball pitcher. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Detroit Tigers, Milwaukee Brewers, Los Angeles Dodgers, and Philadelphia Phillies.
1901 William Sterling Parsons

William Sterling Parsons

American admiral (died 1953)
William Sterling "Deak" Parsons was an American naval officer who worked as an ordnance expert on the Manhattan Project during World War II. He is best known for being the weaponeer on the Enola Gay, the aircraft which dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, in 1945. To avoid the possibility of a nuclear explosion if the aircraft crashed and burned on takeoff, he decided to arm the bomb in flight. While the aircraft was en route to Hiroshima, Parsons climbed into the cramped and dark bomb bay, and inserted the powder charge and detonator. He was awarded the Silver Star for his part in the mission.
1401 Henry Beaufort

Henry Beaufort

2nd Earl of Somerset (died 1418)
Henry Beaufort, 2nd Earl of Somerset was an English nobleman who died aged possibly 16 at the Siege of Rouen in France during the Hundred Years' War, fighting for the Lancastrian cause. As he died unmarried without issue, his younger brother, John Beaufort, became his heir and the 3rd Earl of Somerset.
1898 Karl Ziegler

Karl Ziegler

German chemist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1973)
Karl Waldemar Ziegler was a German chemist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1963, with Giulio Natta, for work on polymers. The Nobel Committee recognized his "excellent work on organometallic compounds [which]...led to new polymerization reactions and ... paved the way for new and highly useful industrial processes". He is also known for his work involving free-radicals, many-membered rings, and organometallic compounds, as well as the development of Ziegler–Natta catalyst. One of many awards Ziegler received was the Werner von Siemens Ring in 1960 jointly with Otto Bayer and Walter Reppe, for expanding the scientific knowledge of and the technical development of new synthetic materials.
1924 George Segal

George Segal

American painter and sculptor (died 2000)
George Segal was an American sculptor and painter associated with the pop art movement. He was presented with the United States National Medal of Arts in 1999.
1941 Jeff Torborg

Jeff Torborg

American baseball player and manager (died 2025)
Jeffrey Allen Torborg was an American professional baseball catcher and manager. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Los Angeles Dodgers and California Angels from 1964 to 1973. He managed the Cleveland Indians, Chicago White Sox, New York Mets, Montreal Expos, and Florida Marlins.
1995 James Guy

James Guy

English swimmer
James George Guy is an English competitive swimmer who specialises in freestyle and butterfly. Guy has won multiple gold medals at each of the major international meets available to him, including for Great Britain at the Olympic Games (3), the World (6) and European Championships (8), and for England in the Commonwealth Games (2). In addition to further medals in those events, he has also reached the podium at both the World and European short-course championships. With over 50 major medals at international championship meets, 19 at global level, and nine global titles, he is one of the most decorated swimmers in British history.
1678 Jean-Jacques d'Ortous de Mairan

Jean-Jacques d'Ortous de Mairan

French geophysicist and astronomer (died 1771)
Jean-Jacques d'Ortous de Mairan was a French natural philosopher (physicist), born in the town of Béziers on 26 November 1678. De Mairan lost his father, François d'Ortous, at age four and his mother twelve years later at age sixteen. Over the course of his life, de Mairan was elected into numerous scientific societies and made key discoveries in a variety of fields, including ancient texts and astronomy. His observations and experiments also inspired the beginning of what is now known as the study of biological circadian rhythms. At the age of 92, de Mairan died of pneumonia in Paris on 20 February 1771.
1870 Sir Hari Singh Gour

Sir Hari Singh Gour

founder and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Sagar (died 1949)
Sir Hari Singh Gour was a lawyer, jurist, educationist, social reformer, poet, and novelist. Gour was the First Vice-Chancellor of the University of Delhi and Nagpur University, founder and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Sagar, Deputy President of the Central Legislative Assembly of British India, an Indian Delegate to the Joint Parliamentary Committee, a Member of the Indian Central Committee associated with the Royal Commission on the Indian Constitution, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
1940 Kotozakura Masakatsu

Kotozakura Masakatsu

Japanese sumo wrestler, the 53rd Yokozuna (died 2007)
Kotozakura Masakatsu was a Japanese professional sumo wrestler from Kurayoshi, Tottori. He was the sport's 53rd yokozuna. He made his professional debut in 1959, reaching the top division in 1963. After several years at the second highest rank of ōzeki, in 1973 he was promoted to yokozuna at the age of thirty-two years two months, becoming the oldest wrestler to be promoted to yokozuna since 1958, when the current six tournaments system was established. After his retirement he was head coach of Sadogatake stable and produced a string of top division wrestlers.
1923 V. K. Murthy

V. K. Murthy

Indian cinematographer (died 2014)
Venkatarama Pandit Krishnamurthy known professionally as V. K. Murthy, was an Indian cinematographer. Murthy, a one-time violinist and jailed freedom fighter, was Guru Dutt's regular cameraman on his movies. He provided some of Indian cinema's most notable images in starkly contrasted black and white. He also shot India's first cinemascope film, Kaagaz Ke Phool. For his contribution to film industry, particularly Indian film industry he was awarded the IIFA Lifetime Achievement Award in 2005. In 2010, he was honoured with the Dada Saheb Phalke Award for his contributions to Indian cinema.
1948 Galina Prozumenshchikova

Galina Prozumenshchikova

Ukrainian-Russian swimmer and journalist (died 2015)
Galina Nikolayevna Prozumenshchikova was a Soviet breaststroke swimmer who also competed in medley relays. She won five Olympic medals in 1964, 1968 and 1972 and five European Championships medals in 1966 and 1970. Her first Olympic medal, the gold in 200 m breaststroke in 1964, was the first Olympic gold in swimming for the Soviet Union. From 1964 to 1966, she set five world records: four in 200 m and one in 100 m breaststroke events. Between 1963 and 1972, she won 15 national titles and set 27 national records.
1923 Tom Hughes

Tom Hughes

Australian politician and barrister (died 2024)
Thomas Eyre Forrest Hughes was an Australian barrister and politician. A member of the Liberal Party, he served as Attorney-General in the Gorton government from 1969 to 1971, and was a member of the House of Representatives from 1963 to 1972, representing the New South Wales seats of Parkes and Berowra. He was a president of the New South Wales Bar Association and was one of Sydney's most prominent barristers for a number of decades. Hughes was the last surviving Liberal minister of the Gorton and McMahon governments.
1817 Charles Adolphe Wurtz

Charles Adolphe Wurtz

Alsatian-French chemist (died 1884)
Charles Adolphe Wurtz was an Alsatian French chemist. He is best remembered for his decades-long advocacy for the atomic theory and for ideas about the structures of chemical compounds, against the skeptical opinions of chemists such as Marcellin Berthelot and Henri Étienne Sainte-Claire Deville. He is well known by organic chemists for the Wurtz reaction, to form carbon-carbon bonds by reacting alkyl halides with sodium, and for his discoveries of ethylamine, ethylene glycol, and the aldol reaction. Wurtz was also an influential writer and educator.
1947 Roger Wehrli

Roger Wehrli

American football player
Roger Russell Wehrli is an American former professional football player who spent his entire 14-year career as a cornerback for the St. Louis Cardinals of the National Football League (NFL) from 1969 until 1982. He was a seven-time Pro Bowler after playing college football for the Missouri Tigers, where he was a consensus All-American and a first-round draft choice by the Cardinals in 1969. He was inducted to the College Football Hall of Fame in 2003 and the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2007.
1967 Ridley Jacobs

Ridley Jacobs

Antiguan cricketer
Ridley Detamore Jacobs is a former Antiguan cricketer, who played as a left-handed wicketkeeper batsman for the West Indian cricket team in the late 1990s and early 2000s. He was the first opening batsman to carry his bat in the history of Cricket World Cup and was the fourth batsman to do so in a One Day International. Jacobs also picked up 219 dismissals in tests along with 189 in ODIs, which is second only to Jeff Dujon, for the Windies in his international career.
1976 Andreas Augustsson

Andreas Augustsson

Swedish footballer
Eiton Andreas Augustsson is a Swedish retired footballer who played as a defender. He made his professional debut in Twente, before he moved to Norway in 2001 where in played for Raufoss, Vålerenga and Sandefjord. Augustsson later returned to his native Sweden, where he won the Allsvenskan with IF Elfsborg in 2006. After a spell in Danish club AC Horsens, he returned to Elfsborg in 2011. After winning his second Allsvenskan title with Elfsborg in 2012, he joined GAIS ahead of the 2013 season.
1974 Roman Šebrle

Roman Šebrle

Czech decathlete and high jumper
Roman Šebrle is a Czech retired decathlete. He is considered to be one of the best decathlon athletes of all time. Originally a high jumper, he later switched to the combined events and is a former world record holder in the decathlon, holding the record for over eleven years. In 2001 in Götzis he became the first decathlete ever to achieve over 9,000 points, setting the record at 9,026 points, succeeding his compatriot, Tomáš Dvořák, who had scored 8,994 points two years earlier.
1727 Artemas Ward

Artemas Ward

American general and politician (died 1800)
Artemas Ward was an American major general in the American Revolutionary War and a Congressman from Massachusetts. He was considered an effective political leader, President John Adams describing him as "universally esteemed, beloved, and confided in by his army and his country".
2000 Lamecha Girma

Lamecha Girma

Ethiopian athlete
Lamecha Girma is an Ethiopian middle- and long-distance runner who holds the world record in the 3,000 metres steeplechase. He is the 2020 Tokyo Olympic silver medallist in the steeplechase and won silver medals at the 2019, 2022 and 2023 World Athletics Championships. Girma is also the former world record holder for the indoor 3,000 metres and won the silver medal at that distance at the 2022 World Indoor Championships. He is the Ethiopian national record holder for the 1500m.
1937 John Moore

John Moore

Baron Moore of Lower Marsh, English businessman and politician, Secretary of State for Health (died 2019)
John Edward Michael Moore, Baron Moore of Lower Marsh was a British Conservative Party politician who was Member of Parliament for Croydon Central from February 1974 until 1992. During the Premiership of Margaret Thatcher he enjoyed a meteoric rise through the ranks of government, which culminated in his serving as a Secretary of State in the Cabinet from 1987 to 1989. For a time, he was considered a rising star of his party and a potential leadership contender.
1977 Ivan Basso

Ivan Basso

Italian cyclist
Ivan Basso is an Italian former professional road bicycle racer, who rode professionally between 1999 and 2015 for seven different teams. Basso, nicknamed Ivan the Terrible, was considered among the best mountain riders in the professional field in the early 21st century, and was considered one of the strongest stage race riders. He is a double winner of the Giro d'Italia, having won the race in 2006 for Team CSC and 2010 for Liquigas–Doimo.
1959 Dai Davies

Dai Davies

Welsh politician
David Clifford Davies, commonly known as Dai Davies, is a Welsh politician. He was the Member of Parliament (MP) for the Blaenau Gwent constituency in South Wales from 2006 to 2010, representing the Blaenau Gwent People's Voice Group. He was elected at a by-election in June 2006 following the death of independent MP Peter Law, but lost his seat at the 2010 general election to Labour's Nick Smith by 10,516 votes.
1939 Grey Ruthven

Grey Ruthven

2nd Earl of Gowrie, Irish-Scottish politician, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (died 2021)
Alexander Patrick Greysteil Hore-Ruthven, 2nd Earl of Gowrie,, usually known as Grey Gowrie or Lord Gowrie, was an Irish-born British hereditary peer, politician, and businessman. Lord Gowrie was also the hereditary Clan Chief of Clan Ruthven in Scotland. He was educated at Eton and Oxford, and held posts in academia for a period, in the US and London, including time working with poet Robert Lowell and at Harvard University.
1968 Edna Campbell

Edna Campbell

American basketball player
Edna Campbell is a former women's basketball player who played in the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA). The 5 ft 8 in guard played with the Sacramento Monarchs as well as three other teams, but is well known for continuing to play despite suffering breast cancer. In 2004, she was designated a Women's History Month honoree by the National Women's History Project. Campbell was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
1981 Natalie Gauci

Natalie Gauci

Australian singer and pianist
Natalie Rose Gauci is an Australian musician, producer and teacher. Gauci undertook music tuition at the Victorian College of the Arts, formed her own band that played gigs in Melbourne, while also working as a music teacher. After an appearance on national radio station Triple J's talent contest, Unearthed, she successfully auditioned for the fifth series of Australian Idol in 2007 and went on to win the series.
1944 Joyce Quin

Joyce Quin

Baroness Quin, English academic and politician, Minister of State for Europe
Joyce Gwendolen Quin, Baroness Quin, is a British Labour Party politician. She was a member of the European Parliament from 1979 to 1989, and served as the member of Parliament (MP) for Gateshead East and Washington West and for its predecessor Gateshead East from 1987 to 2005. Quin was appointed a life peer in 2006 and sat in the House of Lords until her retirement in 2024.
1945 Björn von Sydow

Björn von Sydow

Swedish academic and politician, 27th Swedish Minister for Defence
Björn Gustaf von Sydow is a former speaker (talman) of the Riksdag, the Swedish parliament. He held this office following the 2002 election, when he succeeded Birgitta Dahl, until he was replaced on 2 October 2006. A member of the Swedish Social Democratic Party, he had been minister for defence in Göran Persson's government between 1997 and 2002, preceded by a short term as minister of trade.
1955 Gisela Stuart

Gisela Stuart

German-English academic and politician
Gisela Stuart, Baroness Stuart of Edgbaston is a British-German politician and life peer who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Birmingham Edgbaston from 1997 to 2017. A former member of the Labour Party, she now sits as a crossbencher in the House of Lords.
1940 Enrico Bombieri

Enrico Bombieri

Italian mathematician and academic
Enrico Bombieri is an Italian mathematician, known for his work in analytic number theory, Diophantine geometry, complex analysis, and group theory. Bombieri is currently professor emeritus in the School of Mathematics at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey. Bombieri won the Fields Medal in 1974 for his work on the large sieve and its application to the distribution of prime numbers.
1977 Paris Lenon

Paris Lenon

American football player
Paris Michael Lenon is an American former professional football player who was a linebacker in the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Richmond Spiders football and was signed by the Carolina Panthers of the NFL as an undrafted free agent in the spring of 2000, then chosen by the Memphis Maniax in the XFL draft in the fall of 2000.
1938 Rodney Jory

Rodney Jory

Australian physicist and academic (died 2021)
Rodney Leonard (Rod) Jory AM,, was an Australian physicist noted for establishing and running the National Youth Science Forum (NYSF/NSSS) and for his contributions to Australian teams which have competed at the International Physics Olympiad. He retired from the position of director of the NYSF in January 2005. He died in 2021 in Merimbula, New South Wales, at the age of 82.
1980 Satoshi Ohno

Satoshi Ohno

Japanese singer
Satoshi Ohno is a former Japanese idol, singer, actor, radio host, artist, dancer, and choreographer, registered under Johnny & Associates and later under Starto Entertainment. He was the lead vocalist and leader of the boy band Arashi, hence his nickname Leader .
1951 Sulejman Tihić

Sulejman Tihić

Bosnian lawyer, judge, and politician (died 2014)
Sulejman Tihić was a Bosnian politician who served as the Bosniak member of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina from 2002 to 2006. He also served as the second president of the Party of Democratic Action (SDA) from 2001 until his death in 2014. From 2007 until his death, Tihić served as member of the national House of Peoples.
1903 Alice Herz-Sommer

Alice Herz-Sommer

Czech-English pianist and educator (died 2014)
Alice Herz-Sommer, was a Czech-born Israeli classical pianist, music teacher, and supercentenarian who survived Theresienstadt concentration camp. She lived for 40 years in Israel, before emigrating to London in 1986, where she resided until her death, and at the age of 110 was the world's oldest known Holocaust survivor until Yisrael Kristal was recognized as such.
1931 Adolfo Pérez Esquivel

Adolfo Pérez Esquivel

Argentinian painter, sculptor, and activist, Nobel Prize laureate
Adolfo Pérez Esquivel is an Argentine activist, community organizer, painter, writer and sculptor. He was the recipient of the 1980 Nobel Peace Prize for his opposition to Argentina's last civil-military dictatorship (1976–1983), during which he was detained, tortured, and held without trial for 14 months. He also received, among other distinctions, the Pacem in Terris Award.
1938 Elizabeth Bailey

Elizabeth Bailey

American economist (died 2022)
Elizabeth Ellery Bailey was an American economist. She was the John C. Hower Professor of Business and Public Policy, at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Bailey studied deregulation, market competition and regulatory capture through her career and contributed to the deregulation of the airline industry in the United States in the late 1970s.
1943

Dale Sommers

American radio host (died 2012)
Bruce Dale Sommers, known by his nickname "The Truckin' Bozo", was an American radio personality, best known for his long-running country music show geared toward truck drivers. Sommers hosted the overnight show from Cincinnati, Ohio-based clear-channel station WLW from 1984 to 2004, and it was carried by a small network of similarly high-powered stations across the United States. Sommers discontinued playing music on his nightly show, focusing on general and truck news, and talk from his listeners. Sommers announced his retirement from radio in 2004, but XM Satellite Radio was successful in getting him to do an afternoon truck show, which aired on Sirius Satellite Radio and XM from 4 PM to 7 PM Eastern time. Sommers retired from XM/Sirius on June 21, 2012, only to return for the last time on July 16, 2012.
1961 Tom Carroll

Tom Carroll

Australian surfer
Thomas Victor Carroll is an Australian former professional surfer from Sydney. He won the Australian Junior Title in 1978, the Pro Juniors in 1977 and 1980, the 1983 and 1984 ASP World Tour, and the 1987, 1990 and 1991 Pipe Masters. He became the first surfing millionaire after signing a contract with Quiksilver in 1989.
1976 Brian Schneider

Brian Schneider

American baseball player and manager
Brian Duncan Schneider, nicknamed "Hoops", is an American former professional baseball catcher and coach, who played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Montreal Expos/Washington Nationals, New York Mets, and Philadelphia Phillies. Schneider was the Miami Marlins catching coach from 2016 through 2019, and the quality control coach for the Mets from 2020 through 2021.
1939 Art Themen

Art Themen

English saxophonist and surgeon
Arthur Edward George Themen is a British jazz saxophonist and formerly orthopaedic surgeon. Critic John Fordham has described him as "an appealing presence on the British jazz circuit for over 40 years.... Originally a Dexter Gordon and Sonny Rollins disciple ... Themen has proved himself remarkably attentive to the saxophone styles of subsequent generations."
1930 Berthold Leibinger

Berthold Leibinger

German engineer and philanthropist, founded Berthold Leibinger Stiftung (died 2018)
Berthold Leibinger was a German mechanical engineer, businessman, and philanthropist. He was the head of the German company Trumpf, a leader in laser technology, and founder of the non-profit foundation Berthold Leibinger Stiftung. He served on the advisory board of major companies and was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Stuttgart.
1939 Tina Turner

Tina Turner

American-Swiss singer-songwriter, dancer, and actress (died 2023)
Tina Turner was a singer, songwriter, actress and author. Dubbed the "Queen of Rock 'n' Roll", she broke both racial and gender barriers in rock music with her vocal prowess and stage presence. She is one of the best-selling music artists of all time, with estimated sales of over 100 million records worldwide.
1949 Ivan Patzaichin

Ivan Patzaichin

Romanian canoe world and Olympic champion (died 2021)
Ivan Patzaichin was a Romanian canoe racing coach and sprint canoeist. He took part in all major competitions between 1968 and 1984, including five consecutive Olympics, and won seven Olympic and 22 world championship medals, including four Olympic gold medals. This makes him the most decorated Romanian canoeist of all time.
1915 Inge King

Inge King

German-born Australian sculptor (died 2016)
Ingeborg Viktoria "Inge" King was a German-born Australian sculptor. She received many significant public commissions. Her work is held in public and private collections. Her best known work is Forward Surge (1974) at the Melbourne Arts Centre. She became a Member of the Order of Australia in January 1984.
1905 Bob Johnson

Bob Johnson

American baseball player (died 1982)
Robert Lee Johnson, nicknamed "Indian Bob", was an American professional baseball player. He played as a left fielder in Major League Baseball for three American League teams from 1933 to 1945, primarily the Philadelphia Athletics. His elder brother Roy was a major league outfielder from 1929 to 1938.
1926 Rabi Ray

Rabi Ray

Indian activist and politician, 10th Speaker of the Lok Sabha (died 2017)
Rabi Ray was an Indian socialist politician, a Gandhian, a speaker of the Lok Sabha and a former Union minister. He hailed from Odisha. He joined the Socialist Party in 1948, and later became member of the Samyukta Socialist Party, the Janata Party and the Janata Dal.
1929 Slavko Avsenik

Slavko Avsenik

Slovenian singer-songwriter and accordion player (died 2015)
Slavko Avsenik was a Slovene composer and musician. Beginning in 1953 with the formation of the Avsenik Brothers Ensemble, Avsenik produced more than 1,000 songs and garnered success both in Slovenia and in other parts of Europe and America, and is viewed as a Slovenian cultural icon.
1939 Wayland Flowers

Wayland Flowers

American actor and puppeteer (died 1988)
Wayland Parrott Flowers Jr. was an American actor, comedian and puppeteer. Flowers was best known for the comedy act he created with his puppet Madame. His performances as "Wayland Flowers and Madame" were a major national success on stage and on screen in the 1970s and 1980s.
1946 Itamar Singer

Itamar Singer

Romanian-Israeli historian and author (died 2012)
Itamar Singer was an Israeli author and historian of Jewish-Romanian origin. He is known for his research of the Ancient Near East and as a leading Hittitologist, pioneering the study of this ancient Anatolians culture in Israel and elucidating the tensions which brought about its demise.
1942 Đặng Thùy Trâm

Đặng Thùy Trâm

Vietnamese physician and author (died 1970)
Đặng Thùy Trâm was a Vietnamese doctor. She worked as a battlefield surgeon for the People's Army of Vietnam and Vietcong during the Vietnam War. Her wartime diaries, which chronicle the last two years of her life, attracted international attention following their publication in 2005.
1981 Stephan Andersen

Stephan Andersen

Danish footballer
Stephan Maigaard Andersen is a Danish former professional football player, who played as a goalkeeper. He was a full international for the Denmark national team and was chosen to represent his country at UEFA Euro 2004, the 2010 FIFA World Cup and UEFA Euro 2012.
1900 Anna Maurizio

Anna Maurizio

Swiss biologist, known for her study of bees (died 1993)
Anna Maurizio was a Swiss biologist who studied bees. She worked for more than three decades in the Department of Bees at the Liebefeld Federal Dairy Industry and Bacteriological Institute, where she developed new methods for determining the amount of pollen in honey.
1936 Margaret Boden

Margaret Boden

English computer scientist and psychologist
Margaret Ann Boden was a British academic. She was a research professor of cognitive science in the department of informatics at the University of Sussex, where her work embraced the fields of artificial intelligence, psychology, philosophy, and cognitive and computer science.
1986 Konstadinos Filippidis

Konstadinos Filippidis

Greek pole vaulter
Konstantinos Filippidis is a Greek former pole vaulter. He won the gold medal at the 2014 World Indoor Championships and the silver medal at the 2017 European Indoor Championships. He took the sixth place at the 2012 Olympic Games in London.
1837 Thomas Playford

Thomas Playford

English-Australian politician, 17th Premier of South Australia (died 1915)
Thomas Playford was an Australian politician who served two terms as Premier of South Australia. He subsequently entered federal politics, serving as a Senator for South Australia from 1901 to 1906 and as Minister for Defence from 1905 to 1907.
1966 Sue Wicks

Sue Wicks

American basketball player and coach
Susan Joy Wicks is an American former basketball player in the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA). She played with the New York Liberty from 1997 to 2002. Wicks was inducted into the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame in 2013.
1894 James Charles McGuigan

James Charles McGuigan

Canadian cardinal (died 1974)
James Charles McGuigan was a Canadian prelate of the Catholic Church. He was the longest-serving Archbishop of Toronto, serving for almost 37 years from 1934 to 1971. He became the first English-speaking cardinal from Canada in 1946.
1909 Fritz Buchloh

Fritz Buchloh

German footballer and manager (died 1998)
Friedrich Hermann "Fritz" Buchloh was a German football manager and footballer who played as a goalkeeper. He was born in Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany. Buchloh was the last surviving member of Germany's 1934 World Cup squad.
1933 Stanley Long

Stanley Long

English director, producer, and screenwriter (died 2012)
Stanley A. Long was an English exploitation cinema and sexploitation filmmaker. He was also a driving force behind the VistaScreen stereoscopic (3D) photographic company. He was a writer, cinematographer, editor, and eventually, producer/director of low-budget exploitation movies.
1964 Vreni Schneider

Vreni Schneider

Swiss skier
Verena "Vreni" Schneider is a retired ski racer from Switzerland. She is the most successful alpine ski racer of her country, the fourth most successful female ski racer ever and was voted "Swiss Sportswoman of the Century".
1907 Ruth Patrick

Ruth Patrick

American botanist (died 2013)
Ruth Myrtle Patrick was an American botanist and limnologist specializing in diatoms and freshwater ecology. She authored more than 200 scientific papers, developed ways to measure the health of freshwater ecosystems and established numerous research facilities.
1925 Eugene Istomin

Eugene Istomin

American pianist (died 2003)
Eugene George Istomin was an American pianist. He was a winner of the Leventritt Award and recorded extensively as a soloist and in a piano trio in which he collaborated with Isaac Stern and Leonard Rose.
1925 Gregorio Conrado Álvarez

Gregorio Conrado Álvarez

Uruguayan dictator (died 2016)
Gregorio Conrado Álvarez Armelino, also known as El Goyo, was an Uruguayan Army general and dictator who served as president of Uruguay from 1981 until 1985. He was the last surviving president of the civic-military dictatorship.
1959 Jerry Schemmel

Jerry Schemmel

American sportscaster
Gerard H. Schemmel is an American sportscaster, formerly working as a play-by-play radio announcer for the Colorado Rockies of Major League Baseball. He previously called Denver Nuggets games on both Radio and TV for 18 seasons.
1988 Blake Harnage

Blake Harnage

American singer-songwriter and guitarist
Blake Preston Harnage is an American songwriter, music producer, multi-instrumentalist and composer. He has written, produced, engineered, mixed or performed on songs for Versa, PVRIS, Hands Like Houses, All Time Low, With Beating Hearts, and others.
1933 Jamshid Mashayekhi

Jamshid Mashayekhi

Iranian actor (died 2019)
Jamshid Mashayekhi was an Iranian actor. Mashayekhi, Ali Nasirian, Ezatollah Entezami, Mohammad Ali Keshavarz and Davoud Rashidi are known as "the five most important actors in the history of Iranian cinema" because of their influence.
1997 Jennie Wåhlin

Jennie Wåhlin

Swedish curler
Jennie Frances Wåhlin is a Swedish curler from Huddinge. She was a longtime member of Team Isabella Wranå. She won a gold medal at the 2018 Winter Olympics as alternate for the Anna Hasselborg team.
1832 Rudolph Koenig

Rudolph Koenig

German-French physicist and academic (died 1901)
Karl Rudolph Koenig was a German businessman, instrument maker, and physicist, chiefly concerned with acoustic phenomena. He was best known for designing and building acoustical instruments such as the tuning fork and sound analyser.
1980 Jackie Trail

Jackie Trail

American tennis player
Jacqueline Trail Harang is a retired American tennis player. She had a prolific junior tennis career and played on the professional tour from 1997 to 2003. Trail retired due to injury in 2003.
1974 Line Horntveth

Line Horntveth

Norwegian tuba player, composer, and producer
Line Horntveth is a Norwegian musician, the sister of the musicians Martin and Lars Horntveth, married to the upright bassist Bjørn Holm, and known from a series of recordings within Jaga Jazzist.
1928 Nishida Tatsuo

Nishida Tatsuo

Japanese linguist and academic (died 2012)
Tatsuo Nishida was a professor at Kyoto University. His work encompasses research on a variety of Tibeto-Burman languages, having made great contributions in particular to the deciphering of the Tangut language.
1534 Henry Berkeley

Henry Berkeley

7th Baron Berkeley (died 1613)
Henry Berkeley, 7th Baron Berkeley, KB was an English peer and politician. He was Lord Lieutenant and Vice-Admiral of Gloucestershire. He was the grandfather of George Berkeley, 8th Baron Berkeley.
1888 Ford Beebe

Ford Beebe

American director and screenwriter (died 1978)
Ford Ingalsbe Beebe was a screenwriter and director. He entered the film business as a writer around 1916 and over the next 60 years wrote and/or directed almost 200 films.
1989

Junior Stanislas

English footballer
Felix Junior Stanislas is an English former professional footballer who played as a winger most notably for club AFC Bournemouth during their two promotion seasons to the Premier League.
1931 Adrianus Johannes Simonis

Adrianus Johannes Simonis

Dutch cardinal (died 2020)
Adrianus Johannes Simonis was a Dutch cardinal of the Catholic Church. He served as Archbishop of Utrecht from 1983 to 2007, and was made a cardinal in 1985.
1949 Shlomo Artzi

Shlomo Artzi

Israeli singer-songwriter and guitarist
Shlomo Artzi is an Israeli folk rock musician, composer, music producer, radio host and singer-songwriter. He is one of the most popular and successful musicians in Israel.
1657 William Derham

William Derham

English minister and philosopher (died 1735)
William Derham FRS was an English clergyman, natural theologian, natural philosopher and scientist. He produced the earliest reasonably accurate measurement of the speed of sound.
1945 Jim Mullen

Jim Mullen

Scottish guitarist
Jim Mullen is a Scottish, Glasgow-born jazz guitarist with a distinctive style, like Wes Montgomery before him, picking with the thumb rather than a plectrum.
1981 Gina Kingsbury

Gina Kingsbury

Canadian ice hockey player
Gina Kingsbury is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player and current general manager for the Toronto Sceptres of the Professional Women's Hockey League (PWHL).
1971

Vicki Pettersson

American author
Vicki Pettersson is an American author known for her Signs of the Zodiac urban fantasy series and Celestial Blues trilogy, both set in modern-day Las Vegas. The Zodiac series follows casino heiress Joanna Archer, who discovers on her 25th birthday that she has superpowers. The Celestial Blues features a P.I. angel and a rockabilly reporter who join forces to fight crime in a noir/paranormal hybrid fiction. As of 2013, she is actively writing straight thrillers.
1946

Raymond Louis Kennedy

American singer-songwriter, saxophonist, and producer (died 2014)
Raymond Louis Kennedy was an American singer, songwriter, musician, and record producer based in Los Angeles. His works span multiple genres including R&B, pop, rock, jazz, fusion, acid rock, country, and many more. He co-wrote "Sail On, Sailor", one of The Beach Boys' mid-career hits, as well as two hits for The Babys: "Every Time I Think of You" and "Isn't It Time".
1952

Elsa Salazar Cade

Mexican-American science teacher and entomologist
William Henry Cade was an American-Canadian biologist who served as the president and vice-chancellor of the University of Lethbridge from 2000 to 2010. Before serving as president and vice-chancellor, he was dean of science at Brock University and vice president, there. His research articles dealt mainly with entomology and animal behavior, particularly with field crickets.
1963

Joe Lydon

English rugby player and coach
Joseph Paul Lydon is an English former professional rugby league footballer, rugby union coach, and manager in both sports. He played during the 1980s and 1990s as a fullback, wing, centre, or stand-off for Widnes, Wigan and Eastern Suburbs. He also represented Lancashire, and won 30 caps for Great Britain.
1952

Wendy Turnbull

Australian tennis player
Wendy Turnbull, is an Australian former tennis player. During her career, she won nine Grand Slam titles, four of them in women's doubles and five of them in mixed doubles. She also was a three-time Grand Slam runner-up in singles and won 11 singles titles and 55 doubles titles.
1609

Henry Dunster

English-American clergyman and academic (died 1659)
Henry Dunster was a New England Puritan clergyman who served as the first president of Harvard College from 1640 to 1654. Brackney says Dunster was "an important precursor" of the Baptist denomination in America, especially regarding infant baptism, soul freedom, religious liberty, congregational governance, and a radical biblicism.
1959

Gabriella Gutiérrez y Muhs

American author and academic
Gabriella Gutiérrez y Muhs is a full professor of Modern Languages and Cultures, and Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the Seattle University. She is the current Theiline Pigott-McCone Chair (2018-2020) at Seattle University. She was a commissioner for the Washington State Arts Commission from 2014 to 2017.
1958

Michael Skinner

English rugby player
Michael Gordon Skinner, usually known as Mickey or Mick, is a former English rugby union player who played at flanker for Harlequins, Blackheath and England. He was nicknamed "Mick the Munch" because of his strong tackling. He was born in Newcastle-Upon-Tyne and attended Walbottle Grammar School.
1604

Johannes Bach

German organist and composer (died 1673)
Johann or Johannes Bach was a German composer and musician of the early Baroque period. He was the father of the so-called "Erfurt line" of Bach family musicians. His surviving works—two motets and an aria—make him the first Bach with extant compositions.
1679

Isidro de Espinosa

Franciscan missionary from Spanish Texas (died 1755)
Isidro Félix de Espinosa (1679–1755) was a Franciscan missionary from New Spain who participated in several expeditionary missions throughout the province of Tejas. He was the president of the missionaries from the College of Santa Cruz de Querétaro.
1904

K. D. Sethna

Indian poet, scholar, writer, philosopher, and cultural critic (died 2011)
Kaikhosru Dhunjibhoy Sethna was an Indian poet, scholar, writer, philosopher, and cultural critic. He published more than 50 books. He was known by the diminutive Kekoo, but wrote his poetry under nom de plume of Amal Kiran.
1977

Campbell Walsh

Scottish canoe racer
Campbell Walsh is a Scottish slalom canoeist who competed at the international level from 1995 to 2012. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won a silver medal in the K1 event in Athens in 2004.
1942

Maki Carrousel

Japanese actor
Maki Hirahara , born November 26, 1942, in Kushiro, Hokkaido, Japan and known as Maki Carrousel , is a Japanese transgender actress who is represented by the talent agency Office Carrousel.
1933

Richard Holloway

Scottish bishop and radio host
Richard Holloway is a Scottish writer, broadcaster and cleric. He was the Bishop of Edinburgh from 1986 to 2000 and Primus of the Scottish Episcopal Church from 1992 to 2000.
1986

Alberto Sgarbi

Italian rugby player
Alberto Sgarbi is an Italian rugby union former player who played at Centre for the Italian national team. He represented italy on 29 occasions with 2 tries.
1998

Shivam Mavi

Indian cricketer
Shivam Pankaj Mavi is an Indian international cricketer, who is a right-arm fast-medium bowler. He made his international debut for the Indian cricket team in January 2023.
1962

Fernando Bandeirinha

Portuguese footballer and manager
Fernando Óscar Bandeirinha Barbosa, known as Bandeirinha, is a Portuguese retired footballer who played as a right back or a defensive midfielder throughout his career.
1988

Yumi Kobayashi

Japanese model and actress
Yumi Kobayashi is a female fashion model from Tokyo, Japan. She works for the show-business production Burning Production, K.K. and previously worked for Platica Inc.
907 Rudesind

Rudesind

Galician bishop (died 977)
Saint Rudesind was a Galician bishop and abbot. He was also a regional administrator and military leader under his kinsmen, the Kings of León.
1436 Catherine of Portugal (died 1463)

Catherine of Portugal (died 1463)

Infanta Catarina ; was a Portuguese infanta (princess), daughter of King Edward of Portugal and Eleanor of Aragon.
1466

Edward Hastings

2nd Baron Hastings, English noble (died 1506)
Edward Hastings, 2nd Baron Hastings, KB PC was an English peer.
1518 Guido Ascanio Sforza di Santa Fiora

Guido Ascanio Sforza di Santa Fiora

Catholic cardinal (died 1564)
Guido Ascanio Sforza di Santa Fiora was an Italian cardinal, known also as The cardinal of Santa Fiora.
1594 James Ware

James Ware

Irish genealogist (died 1666)
Sir James Ware was an Anglo-Irish historian.
1703 Theophilus Cibber

Theophilus Cibber

English actor and playwright (died 1758)
Theophilus Cibber was an English actor, playwright, writer, and son of the actor-manager Colley Cibber.
1731 William Cowper

William Cowper

English poet and hymnwriter (died 1800)
William Cowper was an English poet and Anglican hymnwriter.
1828 René Goblet

René Goblet

French journalist and politician, 52nd Prime Minister of France (died 1905)
René Marie Goblet was a French politician, Prime Minister of France for a period in 1886–1887.
1828 Robert Battey

Robert Battey

American surgeon and academic (died 1895)
Robert Battey was an American physician who is known for pioneering a surgical procedure then called Battey's Operation and now termed radical oophorectomy.
1864 Edward Higgins

Edward Higgins

English 3rd General of the Salvation Army (died 1947)
Edward John Higgins was the third General of The Salvation Army (1929–1934).
1869 Maud of Wales (died 1938)

Maud of Wales (died 1938)

Maud of Wales was Queen of Norway from 18 November 1905 until her death in 1938 as the wife of King Haakon VII.
1873 Fred Herd

Fred Herd

Scottish golfer (died 1954)
Fred Herd was a Scottish professional golfer from St Andrews.
1878 Major Taylor

Major Taylor

American cyclist (died 1932)
Marshall Walter "Major" Taylor was an American professional cyclist. He has been called "the first Black American global sports superstar."
1889 Albert Dieudonné

Albert Dieudonné

French actor, director, and screenwriter (died 1976)
Albert Dieudonné was a French actor, screenwriter, film director and novelist.
1891 Scott Bradley

Scott Bradley

American pianist, composer, and conductor (died 1977)
Walter Scott Bradley was an American composer, pianist, arranger, and conductor.
1902 Maurice McDonald

Maurice McDonald

American businessman, co-founded McDonald's (died 1971)
Richard James McDonald and Maurice James "Mac" McDonald, known as the McDonald brothers, were American entrepreneurs who founded McDonald's.
1904 Armand Frappier

Armand Frappier

Canadian physician and microbiologist (died 1991)
Armand Frappier was a Canadian physician, microbiologist, and expert on tuberculosis from Quebec.
1908 Charles Forte

Charles Forte

Baron Forte, Italian-Scottish businessman, founded Forte Group (died 2007)
Charles Carmine Forte, Baron Forte was an Italian-born Scottish hotelier who founded the leisure and hotels conglomerate that ultimately became the Forte Group.
1915 Earl Wild

Earl Wild

American pianist and composer (died 2010)
Earl Wild was an American pianist known for his transcriptions of jazz and classical music.
1917 Nesuhi Ertegun

Nesuhi Ertegun

Turkish-American record producer (died 1989)
Nesuhi Ertegun was a Turkish-American record producer and executive of Atlantic Records and WEA International.
1922 Charles M. Schulz

Charles M. Schulz

American cartoonist, created Peanuts (died 2000)
Charles Monroe "Sparky" Schulz was an American cartoonist who created the comic strip Peanuts, featuring the characters Charlie Brown and Snoopy.
1924 Jasu Patel

Jasu Patel

Indian cricketer (died 1992)
Jasubhai Motibhai Patel was an off-spinner who played Test cricket for India.
1926 Arturo Luz

Arturo Luz

Filipino visual artist (died 2021)
Arturo Rogerio Dimayuga Luz was a Filipino visual artist. He was also a known printmaker, sculptor, designer and art administrator.
1927 Ernie Coombs

Ernie Coombs

American-Canadian television host (died 2001)
Ernest Arthur Coombs, CM was an American-Canadian children's entertainer who starred in the Canadian television series Mr. Dressup (1967–1996).
1933 Robert Goulet

Robert Goulet

American-Canadian singer and actor (died 2007)
Robert Gérard Goulet was an American singer and actor.
1933 Tony Verna

Tony Verna

American director and producer, invented instant replay (died 2015)
Anthony F. Verna was a producer of television sports and entertainment blockbusters.
1934 Cengiz Bektaş

Cengiz Bektaş

Turkish architect, engineer, and journalist (died 2020)
Cengiz Bektaş was a Turkish architect, engineer, poet and writer for Evrensel newspaper.
1934

Jerry Jameson

American director and producer
Jerry Jameson is an American television and film director, editor and producer.
1934 Sergio Pollastrelli

Sergio Pollastrelli

Italian politician (died 2025)
Sergio Pollastrelli was an Italian politician.
1935 Marian Mercer

Marian Mercer

American actress and singer (died 2011)
Marian Ethel Mercer was an American actress and singer.
1937 Boris Yegorov

Boris Yegorov

Russian physician and astronaut (died 1994)
Boris Borisovich Yegorov was a Soviet and Russian physician and cosmonaut who became the first physician to travel to space.
1941 Susanne Marsee

Susanne Marsee

American mezzo-soprano
Susanne Marsee is an American mezzo-soprano of note, particularly acclaimed as a singing-actress.
1942 Olivia Cole

Olivia Cole

American actress (died 2018)
Olivia Carlena Cole was an American actress, best known for her Emmy Award-winning role in the 1977 miniseries Roots.
1943

Paul Burnett

English radio host
Paul Burnett is an English radio disc jockey.
1944

Jean Terrell

American singer
Velma Jean Terrell is an American R&B and jazz singer. She replaced Diana Ross as the lead singer of the Supremes in 1970.
1948 Claes Elfsberg

Claes Elfsberg

Swedish journalist
Claes-Gösta Elfsberg is a Swedish television journalist.
1948

Marianne Muellerleile

American actress
Marianne Muellerleile is an American actress.
1948

Peter Wheeler

English rugby player
Peter John Wheeler, CBE is a former England international rugby union player who played hooker and was Chief Executive of Leicester Tigers.
1949 Martin Lee

Martin Lee

English singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2024)
Martin Lee was an English singer, best known as a member of the pop group Brotherhood of Man.
1949

Vincent A. Mahler

American political scientist and academic
Vincent A. Mahler is a professor of Political Science at Loyola University Chicago, where he serves as the Undergraduate Program Director.
1953

Jacki MacDonald

Australian television host and actress
Jacki MacDonald is a former Australian television personality from Blackall, Queensland, who also has worked in radio broadcasting.
1955 Jelko Kacin

Jelko Kacin

Slovenian politician and a former Member of the European Parliament
Jelko Kacin is a Slovenian politician.
1960 Chuck Eddy

Chuck Eddy

American journalist
Chuck Eddy is an American music journalist.
1961 Karan Bilimoria

Karan Bilimoria

Baron Bilimoria, Indian-English businessman, co-founded Cobra Beer
Karan Faridoon Bilimoria, Baron Bilimoria, is a British Indian businessman, member of the House of Lords, and former Chancellor of the University of Birmingham.
1965 Des Walker

Des Walker

English footballer
Desmond Sinclair Walker is an English football coach and former player who played as a defender.
1966

Fahed Dermech

Tunisian footballer
Fahed Dermech is a retired Tunisian footballer.
1968 Haluk Levent

Haluk Levent

Turkish singer
Haluk Levent is a Turkish rock singer who helped revive the long forgotten Anatolian rock genre in the 1990s.
1974

Tammy Lynn Michaels

American actress
Tammy Lynn Michaels, also known by the surname Etheridge from her relationship with Melissa Etheridge, is an American actress.
1975 Patrice Lauzon

Patrice Lauzon

Canadian figure skater
Patrice Lauzon is a Canadian ice dancing coach and former competitor. With his wife Marie-France Dubreuil, he is a two-time (2006–2007) World silver medalist.
1980

Jessica Bowman

American actress
Jessica Bowman is an American actress known for her role as Colleen Cooper on Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman.
1982 Luther Head

Luther Head

American basketball player
Luther Dale Head is an American former professional basketball player.
1984 Antonio Puerta

Antonio Puerta

Spanish footballer (died 2007)
Antonio José Puerta Pérez was a Spanish professional footballer who played solely for Sevilla.
1987 Georgios Tzavellas

Georgios Tzavellas

Greek footballer
Georgios Tzavellas is a Greek former professional footballer who played as a centre-back or a left-back.
1990 Danny Welbeck

Danny Welbeck

English footballer
Daniel Nii Tackie Mensah Welbeck is an English professional footballer who plays as a forward for Premier League club Chelsea.
1991 Manolo Gabbiadini

Manolo Gabbiadini

Italian footballer
Manolo Gabbiadini is an Italian former professional footballer who played as a forward.
1996

Marc Roca

Spanish footballer
Marc Roca Junqué is a Spanish professional footballer who plays as a defensive midfielder for La Liga club Real Betis.
1997 Aubrey Joseph

Aubrey Joseph

American actor
Aubrey Omari Joseph is an American actor best known for his role as Tyrone Johnson / Cloak in Freeform's Cloak & Dagger.
2001

Pau Víctor

Spanish footballer
Pau Víctor Delgado is a Spanish professional footballer who plays as a forward or winger for Primeira Liga club Braga.

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