Famous Birthdays on October 1

October 1 has 257 recorded notable births across history, from 86 BC to 2006. This page lists every one of them, with the best-known people first.

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Brie Larson

1989 — Brie Larson

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Famous Birthdays 257 source records 86 BC – 2006 Libra Opal birthstone Marigold birth flower

Major events on October 1

See what else happened on this day in history.

  1. 1931 Clara Campoamor persuades the Constituent Cortes to enfranchise women in Spain's new constitution. Source
  2. 1982 Sony and Phillips launch the compact disc in Japan; on the same day, Sony releases the model CDP-101 compact disc player, the first player of its kind. Source

Did you know about Brie Larson

Time magazine named her one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2019.

Did you know about Esai Morales

Esai Morales's television roles include the PBS 2002 drama series American Family, the Showtime series Resurrection Blvd.

Did you know about George Weah

Weah is the first African former professional footballer to become a head of state, and the only African Ballon d'Or and FIFA World Player of the Year winner in history, winning both awards in 1995.

Did you know about Livvy Dunne

In 2017, she was named as a member of the US Junior Women's National Team.

Did you know about Mark McGwire

Mark McGwire won two World Series championships, one with Oakland as a player in 1989 and one with St. Louis as a coach in 2011.


More major people born on October 1

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

1962 Esai Morales

Esai Morales

American actor
Esai Manuel Morales Jr. is an American actor. He has had notable roles in the films Bad Boys with Sean Penn and La Bamba with Lou Diamond Phillips. His television roles include the PBS 2002 drama series American Family, the Showtime series Resurrection Blvd. (2000–2002), portraying Lt. Tony Rodriguez on NYPD Blue (2001–2004), played Major Edward Beck in the second season of the post -apocalyptic series Jericho opposite Skeet Ulrich (2006), Joseph Adama in the science fiction series Caprica (2009–2010), Camino del Rio in the Netflix original series Ozark (2017), and the DC Comics supervillain Slade Wilson / Deathstroke in the superhero series Titans (2019).
1966 George Weah

George Weah

Liberian footballer and politician, 25th President of Liberia
George Manneh Oppong Weah is a Liberian politician and former professional footballer who served as the 25th president of Liberia from 2018 to 2024. Before his election for the presidency, Weah served as senator from Montserrado County. He played as a striker in his prolific 18-year professional football career which ended in 2003. Weah is the first African former professional footballer to become a head of state, and the only African Ballon d'Or and FIFA World Player of the Year winner in history, winning both awards in 1995. He won the African Footballer of the Year three times and is considered one of the greatest strikers ever.
2002 Livvy Dunne

Livvy Dunne

American gymnast and social media personality
Olivia Paige Dunne is an American actress, model, social media personality, and former artistic gymnast. She is currently part of the cast of Fox's Baywatch television series and is also a Sports Illustrated swimsuit model and former member of the LSU Tigers women's gymnastics team. In 2017, she was named as a member of the US Junior Women's National Team. Dunne has a social media following of over 10 million.
1963 Mark McGwire

Mark McGwire

American baseball player and coach
Mark David McGwire, nicknamed "Big Mac", is an American former professional baseball first baseman. He played 16 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Oakland Athletics and St. Louis Cardinals from 1986 to 2001. He won two World Series championships, one with Oakland as a player in 1989 and one with St. Louis as a coach in 2011. One of the most prolific home run hitters in baseball history, McGwire hit 583 home runs during his career, which ranked 5th-most in MLB history at the time of his retirement and currently ranks 11th. He holds the major-league career record for at bats per home run ratio (10.6), and is the former record holder for both home runs in a single season and home runs hit by a rookie. McGwire was one of several central figures in baseball's steroids scandal.
1973 Christian Borle

Christian Borle

American actor and singer
Christian Dominique Borle is an American actor and singer. He is a two-time Tony Award winner for his roles as Black Stache in Peter and the Starcatcher and as William Shakespeare in Something Rotten!. Borle also originated the roles of Prince Herbert, et al. in Spamalot, Emmett in Legally Blonde, and Joe in Some Like It Hot on Broadway, earning Tony nominations for the latter two. He starred as Marvin in the 2016 Broadway revival of Falsettos, which also earned him a Tony nomination. His first leading role on Broadway was Jimmy Smith in Thoroughly Modern Millie. He would later also star as Bert in Mary Poppins and Willy Wonka in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. He also portrayed Orin Scrivello in the Off-Broadway revival of Little Shop of Horrors. Borle starred as Tom Levitt on the NBC musical-drama television series Smash and Vox in the adult animated black comedy musical series Hazbin Hotel.
1986 Jurnee Smollett

Jurnee Smollett

American actress
Jurnee Diana Smollett is an American actress. She began her career as a child actress appearing on television sitcoms, including On Our Own (1994–1995) and Full House (1992–1994). She gained greater recognition with her role in Kasi Lemmons's independent film Eve's Bayou (1997), which earned her a Critics' Choice Movie Award.
1980 Sarah Drew

Sarah Drew

American actress
Sarah Drew is an American actress and director. She is known for her roles as Stacy Rowe in the MTV animated series Daria (1997–2001), Hannah Rogers in The WB family drama series Everwood (2004–2006), and Dr. April Kepner in the ABC medical drama series Grey's Anatomy. She currently plays the lead role of Emily Lane in the Hallmark Christmas mystery series Mistletoe Murders (2024–present).
1964 Harry Hill

Harry Hill

English comedian and author
Matthew Keith Hall, known professionally as Harry Hill, is an English comedian, presenter and writer. He pursued a career in stand-up following years working as a medical doctor, developing an offbeat, energetic performance style that fused elements of surrealism, observational comedy, slapstick, satire and music. When performing, he usually wears browline glasses and a dress shirt with a distinctive oversized collar and cuffs.
1984 Beck Bennett

Beck Bennett

American actor and comedian
Christopher Beck Bennett is an American actor and comedian. He was a cast member on the NBC sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live for eight seasons, joining for its 39th season in 2013 and leaving at the end of its 46th season in 2021. Before SNL, he performed in AT&T's "It's Not Complicated" commercials, in which he interviewed children, and produced sketch videos with the comedy group Good Neighbor.
1987 Gibran Rakabuming Raka

Gibran Rakabuming Raka

Indonesian businessman and politician, 14th Vice President of Indonesia
Gibran Rakabuming Raka is an Indonesian politician and businessman who is serving as the 14th vice president of Indonesia since 2024. Previously the 18th mayor of Surakarta from 2021 to 2024, he is the eldest child of the seventh president of Indonesia, Joko Widodo. He was the running mate of Prabowo Subianto in the 2024 presidential election, winning with almost 59% of the votes.
1968 Jay Underwood

Jay Underwood

American actor and pastor
Jay Underwood is an American actor. Beginning a prolific career as a teen actor in the mid-1980s, he is perhaps best known for his starring feature film roles; portraying Eric Gibb in The Boy Who Could Fly, Chip Carson in Not Quite Human, Grover Dunn in The Invisible Kid, Sonny Bono in The Sonny and Cher Story, Bug in Uncle Buck, and Ernest Hemingway in The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles. He also portrayed the Human Torch in the 1994 unreleased film Fantastic Four.
1970 Vince Zampella

Vince Zampella

American video game designer (died 2025)
Vincent Walter Zampella II was an American video game designer. He was best known for being a co-founder and the former studio head of Infinity Ward, the head of Respawn Entertainment, and the former CEO of Ripple Effect Studios.
1974 Sherri Saum

Sherri Saum

American actress
Sherri Saum is an American actress. Saum is best known for her co-lead role as Lena Adams Foster in the Freeform drama series The Fosters (2013–2018) as well as a subsequent guest star role in its spinoff Good Trouble (2019–2024). She is also known for her television roles in Beggars and Choosers, Rescue Me, In Treatment and Locke & Key, as well as for her roles in the daytime soap operas Sunset Beach and One Life to Live.
2001 Luna Blaise

Luna Blaise

American actress and singer
Luna Blaise Boyd is a Scottish-American actress. In 2015, she made her film debut in Memoria and subsequently gained recognition for her roles in the sitcom Fresh Off The Boat (2015–2018) and supernatural drama series Manifest (2018–2023). In 2025, she starred in the top-grossing science fiction film Jurassic World Rebirth, which brought her to greater attention.
1955 Howard Hewett

Howard Hewett

American singer-songwriter
Howard Hewett Jr. is an American singer–songwriter. Hewett rose to fame as the lead vocalist of the group Shalamar. In 1985, he left the group to pursue his solo career, but he later returned to the group in 2001. He signed with Elektra Records. In 1986, he released his debut solo album I Commit to Love. Hewett and his group Shalamar contributed material to the Beverly Hills Cop soundtrack. The soundtrack won a Grammy Award for Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media in 1986.
1992 Xander Bogaerts

Xander Bogaerts

Aruban baseball player
Xander Jan Bogaerts is an Aruban professional baseball shortstop and second baseman for the San Diego Padres of Major League Baseball (MLB). He has previously played in MLB for the Boston Red Sox. He represents the Netherlands national team in international competition.
1974 Keith Duffy

Keith Duffy

Irish singer-songwriter, dancer, and actor
Keith Peter Thomas Francis Julian John Duffy is an Irish singer, actor, radio and television presenter and drummer who began his professional music career as part of Irish boy band Boyzone alongside Ronan Keating, Mikey Graham, Shane Lynch and Stephen Gately in 1993. The band decided to focus on solo projects in 2000, since which Duffy has taken acting roles in soap operas such as Coronation Street and Fair City. He has also presented The Box and You're a Star.
1991 Robbie Ray

Robbie Ray

American baseball player
Robert Glenn Ray is an American professional baseball pitcher for the San Diego Padres of Major League Baseball (MLB). He has previously played in MLB for the Detroit Tigers, Arizona Diamondbacks, Toronto Blue Jays, Seattle Mariners, and San Francisco Giants.
1979 Curtis Axel

Curtis Axel

American wrestler
Joseph Curtis Hennig is an American professional wrestler. He is best known for his tenure in WWE from 2007 to 2020, where he performed under the ring name Curtis Axel.
1961 Gary Ablett Sr.

Gary Ablett Sr.

Australian footballer
Gary Robert Ablett Sr. is a former professional Australian rules footballer who represented Hawthorn and Geelong in the Australian Football League (AFL). Nicknamed "God", Ablett is widely regarded as one of Australian football's greatest players, and was especially renowned for his high-flying spectacular marks and his prolific goalkicking.
2006 Priah Ferguson

Priah Ferguson

American actress
Priah Nicole Ferguson is an American actress from Atlanta, Georgia. She is best known for her role as Erica Sinclair on the Netflix series Stranger Things. Ferguson began acting at a young age and her career spans TV and film.
1994 Trézéguet

Trézéguet

Egyptian footballer
Mahmoud Ahmed Ibrahim Hassan, known as Trézéguet, is an Egyptian professional footballer who plays as a left winger for Al-Riyadh and the Egypt national team. His nickname is taken from the French former footballer David Trezeguet, after his former youth coach noticed similarities of playing style and appearance between the pair. Trézéguet has been described as amongst the best Egyptian players of all time.
1947 Dave Arneson

Dave Arneson

American game designer, co-created Dungeons & Dragons (died 2009)
David Lance Arneson was an American game designer best known for co-developing the first published role-playing game (RPG), Dungeons & Dragons, with Gary Gygax, in the early 1970s. Arneson's fundamental early role-playing game (RPG) genre work pioneered now-archetypical devices, such as: cooperative play to develop a storyline instead of individual competitive play to "win"; and adventuring in dungeon, town, and wilderness settings as presented by a neutral judge who doubles as the voice and consciousness of all characters aside from the player characters.
1981 Júlio Baptista

Júlio Baptista

Brazilian footballer
Júlio César Clemente Pereira Baptista is a Brazilian football manager and former player who played as an attacking midfielder or a forward. He is nicknamed "The Beast" due to his size and physical presence on the football field.
1986 Sayaka Kanda

Sayaka Kanda

Japanese actress and singer (died 2021)
Sayaka Kanda , also known professionally as Sayaka, Lily, and Jun Uehara , was a Japanese actress, singer, and model. She was the only child of actor Masaki Kanda and pop singer Seiko Matsuda.
2000 Kalle Rovanperä

Kalle Rovanperä

Finnish professional rally driver
Kalle Alex Rovanperä is a Finnish professional rally and racing driver who last competed in the Formula Regional Oceania Trophy with Hitech. He is a double World Rally Championship (WRC) champion, having won the 2022 and 2023 World Championships consecutively. As the son of former WRC driver Harri Rovanperä, he garnered international attention by starting rallying at an exceptionally young age.
1952 Earl Slick

Earl Slick

American rock guitarist and songwriter
Earl Slick is an American guitarist best known for his collaborations with David Bowie, John Lennon, Yoko Ono and Robert Smith. He has also worked with John Waite, Tim Curry and David Coverdale, in addition to releasing several solo recordings, and two records with Phantom, Rocker & Slick, the band he formed with Slim Jim Phantom and Lee Rocker.
1971 Andrew O'Keefe

Andrew O'Keefe

Australian lawyer and television host
Andrew Patrick O'Keefe is an Australian former television presenter and lawyer. He co-hosted the weekend edition of breakfast program Weekend Sunrise from 2005 until 2017 as well as the Australian versions of game shows Deal or No Deal, and The Chase Australia. Since 2021, he has been convicted of drug and domestic violence offences.
1983 Mirko Vučinić

Mirko Vučinić

Montenegrin footballer
Mirko Vučinić is a Montenegrin football manager and former player, who is the manager of the Montenegro national team. Quick, versatile, and physically strong, Vučinić was known for his creativity, technique, and intelligence as a footballer, as well as his powerful striking ability from distance.
1979 Rudi Johnson

Rudi Johnson

American football player (died 2025)
Burudi Ali Johnson was an American professional football player who was a running back for eight seasons in the National Football League (NFL), primarily with the Cincinnati Bengals. He played college football for the Auburn Tigers and was selected by the Bengals in the fourth round of the 2001 NFL draft.
1953 Grete Waitz

Grete Waitz

Norwegian runner and coach (died 2011)
Grete Waitz, née Andersen was a Norwegian marathon runner and former world record holder. In 1979, at the New York City Marathon, she became the first woman in history to run the marathon in under two and a half hours. Waitz won nine New York City Marathons, women's division, between 1978 and 1988, the highest number of victories in a single big city marathon in history. She won the silver medal at the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles and a gold medal at the 1983 World Championships in Helsinki. She was also a five-time winner of the World Cross Country Championships.
1984 Matt Cain

Matt Cain

American baseball player
Matthew Thomas Cain is an American former professional baseball pitcher who played his entire Major League Baseball (MLB) career for the San Francisco Giants from 2005 to 2017. A three-time World Series champion and a three-time National League (NL) All-Star, he is widely regarded as a central figure of the Giants' success in the 2010s for his pitching and leadership.
1998 Daniel Gafford

Daniel Gafford

American basketball player
Daniel Gafford is an American professional basketball player for the Dallas Mavericks of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played college basketball for the Arkansas Razorbacks and was drafted in the second round of the 2019 NBA draft by the Chicago Bulls. He plays both the power forward and center positions.
1968 Kevin Griffin

Kevin Griffin

American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
Kevin Michael Griffin is an American singer, songwriter, and record producer. He is best known as the lead vocalist of the rock band Better Than Ezra, with whom he has released nine studio albums. He has also issued one solo record.
1978 Nicole Atkins

Nicole Atkins

American singer-songwriter
Nicole Atkins is an American singer-songwriter. Her influences include 1950s crooner music, 1960s psychedelia, soul music, and the Brill Building style of writing. Atkins has been compared to Roy Orbison and singers from the Brill Building era.
1993 Chris Green

Chris Green

South African-Australian cricketer
Christopher James Green is a South African-Australian cricketer. Green bowls right-arm off-break and bats right-handed, playing as an All-rounder. He plays for New South Wales and the Sydney Thunder in the Big Bash League. He also plays Sydney Grade Cricket for Northern District Cricket Club. Green made his Thunder debut in the final round of the BBL04. He made his international debut for the Australian cricket team in December 2023.
1953 Klaus Wowereit

Klaus Wowereit

German civil servant and politician, Governing Mayor of Berlin
Klaus Wowereit is a German politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) and was the Governing Mayor of Berlin from 21 October 2001 to 11 December 2014. In 2001 state elections his party won a plurality of the votes, 29.7%. He served as President of the Bundesrat in 2001/02. His SPD-led coalition was re-elected in the 2006 elections; after the 2011 elections the SPD's coalition partner changed from the Left to the Christian Democratic Union. He was also sometimes mentioned as a possible SPD candidate for the Chancellorship of Germany (Kanzlerkandidatur), but that never materialized.
1969 Marcus Stephen

Marcus Stephen

Nauruan weightlifter and politician, 27th President of Nauru
Marcus Ajemada Stephen is a Nauruan politician and former sportsperson who previously was a member of the Cabinet of Nauru, and who served as President of Nauru from December 2007 to November 2011. The son of Nauruan parliamentarian Lawrence Stephen, Stephen was educated at St Bedes College and RMIT University in Victoria, Australia. Initially playing Australian rules football, he opted to pursue the sport of weightlifting, in which he represented Nauru at the Summer Olympics and Commonwealth Games between 1990 and 2002, winning seven Commonwealth gold medals.
1968

Mark Durden-Smith

British television presenter
Mark Durden-Smith is an English television presenter best known for presenting ITV shows such as I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here! NOW! and This Morning Summer, Sky 1 shows such as The Match and Double or Nothing, and 5's rugby union coverage.
1955 Jeff Reardon

Jeff Reardon

American baseball player
Jeffrey James Reardon is an American former professional baseball relief pitcher who played in Major League Baseball (MLB) from 1979–1994 with the New York Mets, Montreal Expos, Minnesota Twins, Boston Red Sox, Atlanta Braves, Cincinnati Reds, and New York Yankees. Reardon was nicknamed "the Terminator" for his intimidating presence on the mound and 98 mph fastball. A long-time closer, Reardon became MLB's all-time saves leader in 1992 with his 342nd save, breaking Rollie Fingers' previous record of 341. Reardon's record was broken the following season by Lee Smith. Reardon currently ranks 12th on the all-time saves list with 367.
1972 Nicky Morgan

Nicky Morgan

British politician
Nicola Ann Morgan, Baroness Morgan of Cotes is a British politician who served as Secretary of State for Education and Minister for Women and Equalities from 2014 to 2016 and Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport from 2019 to 2020. She was the first woman to chair the Treasury Select Committee. A member of the Conservative Party, she was Member of Parliament (MP) for Loughborough from 2010 to 2019. She is the current Chair of the Advertising Standards Authority, having succeeded Lord Currie of Marylebone in November 2024.
1948 Cub Koda

Cub Koda

American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2000)
Michael John "Cub" Koda was an American rock and roll musician, songwriter, and critic. Rolling Stone magazine considered him best known for writing the song "Smokin' in the Boys Room", recorded by his band Brownsville Station, which reached number 3 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1974.
1976 Richard Oakes

Richard Oakes

English guitarist and songwriter
Richard John Oakes is an English musician and songwriter, best known as the guitarist, occasional pianist, backing vocalist and co-songwriter of the English band Suede.
1931 Sylvano Bussotti

Sylvano Bussotti

Italian violinist and composer (died 2021)
Sylvano Bussotti was an Italian composer of contemporary classical music and also a painter, set and costume designer, opera director and manager, and writer and professor. His compositions employ graphic notation, which has often created special problems of interpretation. He was known as a composer for the stage. His first opera was La Passion selon Sade, which premiered in Palermo in 1965. Later Bussotti operas and ballets were premiered at the Teatro Comunale di Firenze, Teatro Lirico di Milano, Teatro Regio di Torino, and Piccola Scala di Milano, among other venued. He was artistic director of La Fenice in Venice, the Puccini Festival, and the music section of the Venice Biennale. He taught internationally, for a decade at the Fiesole School of Music. He is regarded as a leading composer of Italy's avantgarde, and a having been a Renaissance man with many talents who combined the arts expressively.
1945 Rod Carew

Rod Carew

Panamanian-American baseball player and coach
Rodney Cline Carew is an American former professional baseball player and coach. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a second baseman, first baseman and designated hitter from 1967 to 1985 for the Minnesota Twins and the California Angels. The most accomplished contact hitter in Twins history, he won the 1977 AL Most Valuable Player Award, setting a Twins record with a .388 batting average. Carew appeared in 18 consecutive All-Star Games and led the AL in hits three times, with his 239 hits in 1977 ranking as the 12th most in a season at the time and the 16th most as of 2024, tied with Willie Keeler's 239 hits from 1897. He won seven AL batting titles, the second most AL batting titles in history behind Ty Cobb, and on July 12, 2016, the AL batting title was renamed the Rod Carew American League batting title.
1951 Brian Greenway

Brian Greenway

Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist
Brian Gilbert Greenway is a Canadian musician who is the longest-serving member of the rock band April Wine, which he joined in 1977 and performs guitar, harmonica, and vocals duties. Prior to joining April Wine he was a member of the bands Mashmakhan and the Dudes. Greenway initially performed with April Wine from 1977 to 1986 when the band split, and again from 1992 to the present day.
1945 Donny Hathaway

Donny Hathaway

American singer-songwriter, pianist, and producer (died 1979)
Donny Edward Hathaway was an American soul singer, keyboardist, songwriter, backing vocalist, and arranger who Rolling Stone described as a "soul legend". His most popular songs include "The Ghetto", "This Christmas", "Someday We'll All Be Free", and "Little Ghetto Boy". Hathaway is also renowned for his renditions of "A Song for You", "For All We Know", "Jealous Guy" and "I Love You More Than You'll Ever Know", along with "Where Is the Love" and "The Closer I Get to You", two of many collaborations with Roberta Flack. He has been inducted into the St. Louis Walk of Fame and won one Grammy Award from four nominations. Hathaway was also posthumously honored with a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2019. Dutch director David Kleijwegt made a documentary called Mister Soul – A Story About Donny Hathaway, which premiered at the International Film Festival Rotterdam on January 28, 2020.
1910 Bonnie Parker

Bonnie Parker

American criminal (died 1934)
Bonnie Elizabeth Parker and Clyde Chestnut "Champion" Barrow were an outlaw couple who roamed the Central United States with their criminal gang during the Great Depression, committing a series of criminal acts such as store robberies, bank robberies, kidnappings and murders between 1932 and 1934. The couple were particularly infamous for their bank robberies and multiple murders, although they preferred to rob small stores or rural gas stations, and are believed to have murdered at least nine police officers and three civilians. Their exploits captured the attention of the American press and its readership during what is occasionally referred to as the "public enemy era" between 1931 and 1934. On May 23, 1934, the couple were ambushed and killed on Louisiana Highway 154 in Bienville Parish, Louisiana, by a law enforcement posse led by retired Texas Ranger Frank Hamer.
1960 Joshua Wurman

Joshua Wurman

American scientist, Doppler on Wheels inventor, and storm chaser
Joshua Michael Aaron Ryder Wurman is an American atmospheric scientist and inventor known for creating the Doppler on Wheels and pioneering tornado, tropical cyclone, and weather radar research. He currently serves as the executive director of the FARM Facility and has served as a principal investigator for various field projects including ROTATE, IHOP, and VORTEX 2.
1936 Duncan Edwards

Duncan Edwards

English footballer (died 1958)
Duncan Edwards was an English footballer who played as a left-half for Manchester United and the England national team. He was one of the Busby Babes, the young United team formed under manager Matt Busby in the mid-1950s, playing 177 matches for the club. He was noted for his physical strength, toughness, and level of authority on the pitch, and has been ranked amongst the toughest players of all time. One of eight players who died as a result of the Munich air disaster, he survived initially but succumbed to his injuries in hospital two weeks later. Many of his contemporaries have described him as one of the best, if not the best, players with whom they had played.
1928 Sivaji Ganesan

Sivaji Ganesan

Indian actor (died 2001)
Vettaithidal Chinnaiya Manrayar Ganesamoorthy, better known by his stage name Sivaji Ganesan, was an Indian actor and film producer. He was mainly active in Tamil cinema and theatre during the latter half of the 20th century. Sivaji Ganesan is acknowledged as one of the greatest Indian actors of all time and among the most imitated one by other actors. He was known for his versatility and the variety of roles he depicted on screen, which also gave him the Tamil nickname Nadigar Thilagam. In a nearly five-decade career, he acted in 288 Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Kannada, and Hindi films. He is the only actor in Tamil cinema to have played the lead role in over 250 films.
1927 Tom Bosley

Tom Bosley

American actor (died 2010)
Thomas Edward Bosley was an American actor, television personality and entertainer. Bosley is most notable for portraying Howard Cunningham on the ABC sitcom Happy Days (1974–1984) for which he received a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series nomination. Bosley also did a variety of voiceover work such as playing the lead character, Harry Boyle, in the animated series Wait Till Your Father Gets Home, and the narrator of the syndicated film history documentary series That's Hollywood. He was also known for his role as Sheriff Amos Tupper in the Angela Lansbury-led CBS mystery series Murder, She Wrote (1984–1988), and as the title character in the NBC/ABC series Father Dowling Mysteries (1989–1991).
1910 Chaim Pinchas Scheinberg

Chaim Pinchas Scheinberg

Polish-Israeli rabbi and scholar (died 2012)
Chaim Pinchas Scheinberg was a Polish-born, American-raised, Israeli Haredi rabbi and rosh yeshiva who, from 1965, made his home in the Kiryat Mattersdorf neighborhood of Jerusalem, Israel. He was the rosh yeshiva of the Torah Ore yeshiva in Kiryat Mattersdorf and Yeshivas Derech Chaim in Brooklyn. He was a posek, Gadol HaDor, and one of the last living Torah scholars to have been educated in the yeshivas of prewar Europe. He was often consulted on a range of communal and personal halachic issues. He was one of the rabbinic leaders of Kiryat Mattersdorf, together with Rabbi Yisroel Gans and Rabbi Yitzchok Yechiel Ehrenfeld. He was also a member of the Moetzes Gedolei HaTorah of Israel.
1968 Rob Collard

Rob Collard

English race car driver
Robert John Collard is a British auto racing driver from Hampshire, best known for racing in the British Touring Car Championship, winning two races in a West Surrey Racing MG, and claiming the Independent's Cup title in 2003. In 2008, he returned to running the series full-time, driving for the Motorbase Performance team, where he remained for 2009, before returning to West Surrey Racing. Collard also owns his own demolition firm, R Collard Ltd.
1947 Stephen Collins

Stephen Collins

American actor and director
Stephen Weaver Collins is an American former actor. He is known for playing Eric Camden on the WB/CW television series 7th Heaven from 1996 to 2007. Afterwards, Collins played the roles of Dayton King on the ABC television series No Ordinary Family and Gene Porter in the NBC television series Revolution, father of Elizabeth Mitchell's character, Rachel Matheson. Before 7th Heaven, Collins was known for his roles as Commander Willard Decker in the 1979 film Star Trek: The Motion Picture and pilot Jake Cutter in the ABC television series Tales of the Gold Monkey. In 2014, his career came to an end after he confessed to sexual abuse against multiple minors.
1934 Emilio Botín

Emilio Botín

Spanish banker and businessman (died 2014)
Emilio Botín-Sanz de Sautuola y García de los Ríos, iure uxoris Marquess of O'Shea was a Spanish banker. He was the executive chairman of Spain's Grupo Santander. In 1993 his bank absorbed Banco Español de Crédito (Banesto), and in 1999 it merged with Banco Central Hispano creating Banco Santander Central Hispano (BSCH), which became Spain's largest bank, of which he was co-president with Central Hispano's José María Amusategui, until Amusategui retired in 2002. In 2004, BSCH acquired the British bank Abbey National, making BSCH the second largest bank in Europe by market capitalisation. He was known for his obsession with growth and performance as well as regularly visiting branches.
1947 Dalveer Bhandari

Dalveer Bhandari

Indian lawyer and judge
Dalveer Bhandari is an Indian jurist. He is currently one of the judges of the International Court of Justice. He is a former judge of the Supreme Court of India and former chief justice of the Bombay High Court. Bhandari was also a judge of the Delhi High Court.
1927 Sandy Gall

Sandy Gall

Malaysian-Scottish journalist and author (died 2025)
Henderson Alexander Gall was a Scottish journalist, author and Independent Television News (ITN) news presenter whose career as a journalist spanned more than 50 years. He began his career in journalism as a sub-editor at the Aberdeen Press and Journal in 1952 and became a foreign correspondent for the Reuters international news agency from 1953 to 1963. Gall joined ITN as a foreign reporter and troubleshooter in 1963, and also worked as a newscaster on News at Ten between 1970 and 1991. He was the Rector of the University of Aberdeen from 1978 to 1981 and founded the Sandy Gall's Afghanistan Appeal charity with his wife in 1986.
-86 Sallust

Sallust

Roman historian (died 34 BC)
Gaius Sallustius Crispus, usually anglicised as Sallust, was a historian and politician of the Roman Republic from a plebeian family. Probably born at Amiternum in the country of the Sabines, Sallust became a partisan of Julius Caesar, circa 50s BC. He is the earliest known Latin-language Roman historian with surviving works to his name, of which Conspiracy of Catiline on the eponymous conspiracy, The Jugurthine War on the eponymous war, and the Histories remain extant. As a writer, Sallust was primarily influenced by the works of the 5th-century BC Greek historian Thucydides. During his political career he amassed great and ill-gotten wealth from his governorship of Africa.
1945 Ram Nath Kovind

Ram Nath Kovind

14th President of India
Ram Nath Kovind is an Indian politician and lawyer who served as the president of India from 2017 to 2022. He is the first person from Uttar Pradesh as well as the first member of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to become the president of India. Prior to his presidency, he served as the Governor of Bihar from 2015 to 2017 and as a Member of Rajya Sabha from Uttar Pradesh for two successive terms. Prior to entering politics, he was a lawyer and he practised in the Delhi High Court and the Supreme Court of India until 1993.
1956 Theresa May

Theresa May

English politician, former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Theresa Mary May, Baroness May of Maidenhead, is a British politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Leader of the Conservative Party from 2016 to 2019. She previously served as Home Secretary from 2010 to 2016. She was Member of Parliament (MP) for Maidenhead from 1997 to 2024, and has been a member of the House of Lords since August 2024. May was the second female British prime minister, after Margaret Thatcher, and the first woman to have held two of the Great Offices of State. May is a one-nation conservative.
1771 Pierre Baillot

Pierre Baillot

French violinist and composer (died 1842)
Pierre Marie François de Sales Baillot was a French violinist and composer born in Passy. He studied the violin under Giovanni Battista Viotti and taught at the Conservatoire de Paris together with Pierre Rode and Rodolphe Kreutzer, who wrote the Conservatoire's official violin method. He was sole author of the instructional L'Art du violon (1834). Baillot's teachings had a profound influence on technical and musical development in an age in which virtuosity was openly encouraged. He was leader of the Paris Opéra, gave solo recitals and was a notable performer of chamber music.
1935 Julie Andrews

Julie Andrews

English actress and singer
Dame Julie Andrews is an English actress, singer, author and theater director. Her accolades include an Academy Award, a British Academy Film Award, two Grammy Awards, four Emmy Awards, seven Golden Globe Awards and nominations for three Tony Awards. One of the biggest box office draws of the 1960s, Andrews has been honoured with the Kennedy Center Honors in 2001, the Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award in 2007, and the AFI Life Achievement Award in 2022. She was made a Dame (DBE) by Queen Elizabeth II in the 2000 New Year Honours.
1865 Paul Dukas

Paul Dukas

French composer, scholar, and critic (died 1935)
Paul Abraham Dukas was a French composer, critic, scholar and teacher. A studious man of retiring personality, he was intensely self-critical and abandoned and destroyed many of his compositions. His best-known work is the orchestral piece The Sorcerer's Apprentice, the fame of which has eclipsed that of his other surviving works, largely due to its usage in the 1940 Disney film Fantasia. Among these are the opera Ariane et Barbe-bleue, his Symphony in C and Piano Sonata, the Variations, Interlude and Finale on a Theme by Rameau, and a ballet, La Péri.
1915 Jerome Bruner

Jerome Bruner

American psychologist and author (died 2016)
Jerome Seymour Bruner was an American psychologist who made significant contributions to human cognitive psychology and cognitive learning theory in educational psychology. Bruner was a senior research fellow at the New York University School of Law. He received a BA in 1937 from Duke University and a PhD from Harvard University in 1941. He taught and conducted research at Harvard University, the University of Oxford, and New York University. A Review of General Psychology survey, published in 2002, ranked Bruner as the 28th most cited psychologist of the 20th century.
1857 John Mackenzie Moore

John Mackenzie Moore

Canadian architect (died 1930)
John Mackenzie Moore was a Canadian architect and politician who served as the mayor of London, Ontario, from 1926 to 1927. An apprentice of William Robinson and Thomas Henry Tracy, Moore worked as a hydraulic engineer and surveyor. He remained with their firm after George F. Durand took control, but left after a dispute over the terms of a gentlemen's agreement. In 1891, two years after Durand's death, Moore partnered with former staff member Fred Henry to continue the firm's operations. He remained its primary architect into the 1920s.
1904 Otto Robert Frisch

Otto Robert Frisch

Austrian-English physicist and academic (died 1979)
Otto Robert Frisch was an Austrian physicist who worked on nuclear physics. With Otto Stern and Immanuel Estermann, he first measured the magnetic moment of the proton. With his aunt, Lise Meitner, he advanced the first theoretical explanation of nuclear fission and first experimentally detected the fission by-products. Later, with his collaborator, Rudolf Peierls, he designed the first theoretical mechanism for the detonation of an atomic bomb in 1940. Leading the Los Alamos Critical Assemblies experiments in 1945, he oversaw the world's first prompt criticality in the Dragon device.
1928 George Peppard

George Peppard

American actor (died 1994)
George Peppard was an American actor. He secured a major role as struggling writer Paul Varjak when he starred alongside Audrey Hepburn in Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961), and later portrayed a character based on Howard Hughes in The Carpetbaggers (1964). On television, he played the title role of millionaire insurance investigator and sleuth Thomas Banacek in the early-1970s mystery series Banacek. He played Col. John "Hannibal" Smith, the cigar-smoking leader of a renegade commando squad in the 1980s action television series The A-Team.
1940 Phyllis Chesler

Phyllis Chesler

American feminist psychologist
Phyllis Chesler is an American writer, psychotherapist, and professor emerita of psychology and women's studies at the College of Staten Island (CUNY). She is a second-wave feminist psychologist and the author of 20 books, including the best-sellers Women and Madness (1972), With Child: A Diary of Motherhood (1979), and An American Bride in Kabul: A Memoir (2013). Chesler has written extensively about topics such as gender, mental illness, divorce and child custody, surrogacy, second-wave feminism, pornography, prostitution, incest, and violence against women.
1760 William Thomas Beckford

William Thomas Beckford

English author and politician (died 1844)
William Thomas Beckford was a British writer and politician. He was reputed at one stage to be England's richest commoner. Beckford was the son of William Beckford and Maria Hamilton, the daughter of George Hamilton. He served as a Member of Parliament for Wells in 1784–1790 and Hindon in 1790–1795 and 1806–1820. Beckford is best known for writing the 1786 Gothic novel Vathek, for building Fonthill Abbey in Wiltshire and Beckford's Tower in Bath, and for his extensive art collection.
1526 Dorothy Stafford

Dorothy Stafford

English noble (died 1604)
Dorothy Stafford, Lady Stafford was an English noblewoman, and an influential person at the court of Queen Elizabeth I of England, to whom she served as Mistress of the Robes. Dorothy Stafford was the second wife of Sir William Stafford, widower of Mary Boleyn. She and her family sought exile in Geneva during the reign of Mary I to escape the persecution of their Protestant religion. The Protestant reformer John Calvin stood as godfather to her youngest son.
1997 Jade Bird

Jade Bird

English singer, songwriter, and musician
Jade Elizabeth Bird is an English singer, songwriter and musician. Bird's music has been influenced by many folk and Americana artists. The media, when describing Bird's music, have drawn comparisons with pop, Americana, country and folk rock.
1808 Mary Anna Custis Lee

Mary Anna Custis Lee

American wife of Robert E. Lee (died 1873)
Mary Anna Randolph Custis Lee was the wife of the Confederate general Robert E. Lee and the last private owner of Arlington House. She was the daughter of George Washington Parke Custis, who was the grandson of Martha Washington, the wife of George Washington. Through her grandmother Eleanor Calvert she was a descendant of King George I.. Lee was a highly educated woman, who edited and published her father's writings after his death.
1907 Maurice Bardèche

Maurice Bardèche

French journalist, author, and critic (died 1998)
Maurice Bardèche was a French art critic and journalist, better known as one of the leading exponents of neo-fascism and Holocaust denial in post–World War II Europe. Viewed as the "father-figure of Holocaust denial", Bardèche introduced in his works many aspects of neo-fascist and Holocaust denial propaganda techniques, methodology and ideological structures; his work is deemed influential in regenerating post-war European far-right ideas at a time of the identity crisis in the 1950–1960s.
1930 Richard Harris

Richard Harris

Irish actor (died 2002)
Richard St John Francis Harris was an Irish actor and singer. Having studied at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, he rose to prominence as an icon of the British New Wave. He received numerous accolades including the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actor, a Grammy Award, and a Golden Globe. In 2020 he was listed at number 3 on The Irish Times's list of Ireland's greatest film actors.
1909 Sam Yorty

Sam Yorty

American captain, politician, and 37th Mayor of Los Angeles (died 1998)
Samuel William Yorty was an American politician, attorney, and radio host from Los Angeles, California. He served as a member of the United States House of Representatives and the California State Assembly, but he is most remembered for his turbulent three terms as the 37th mayor of Los Angeles from 1961 to 1973. Although Yorty spent almost all of his political career as a Democrat, he became a Republican in 1973.
1919 Majrooh Sultanpuri

Majrooh Sultanpuri

Indian poet and songwriter (died 2000)
Asrar ul Hassan Khan, better known as Majrooh Sultanpuri, was an Indian Urdu poet and lyricist in the Hindi language film industry. He wrote lyrics for numerous Hindi film soundtracks. He was one of the dominant musical forces in Indian cinema in the 1950s and early 1960s, and was an important figure in the Progressive Writers' Movement. He is considered one of the finest avant-garde Urdu poets of 20th century literature.
1942 Herb Fame

Herb Fame

American R&B singer
Peaches & Herb is an American vocal duo. Herb Fame has remained a constant as "Herb" since the duo was created in 1966; seven different women have filled the role of "Peaches", most notably Francine Edna "Peaches" Hurd Barker, the original "Peaches" who lent her nickname to the duo, and Linda Greene Tavani, the third "Peaches", who appeared on the duo's biggest hits "Shake Your Groove Thing" (1978) and "Reunited" (1979).
1550 Anne of Saint Bartholomew

Anne of Saint Bartholomew

Spanish Discalced Carmelite nun (died 1626)
Anne of Saint Bartholomew was a Spanish Discalced Carmelite and companion to Teresa of Ávila who established new monasteries in France and the Low Countries. Anne sometimes struggled with her superiors as she set about setting new convents and holding her position as a prioress. She later settled in the Spanish Netherlands and opened a house, remaining there until her death in 1626. Pope Benedict XV beatified her in 1917.
1930 Frank Gardner

Frank Gardner

Australian race car driver and manager (died 2009)
Frank Gardner OAM was a racing driver from Australia. Born in Sydney, he was best known for touring car racing, winning the British Saloon Car Championship three times, and sports car racing driver but he was also a top flight open wheeler driver. He was European Formula 5000 champion, and participated in nine World Championship Formula One Grands Prix, debuting on 11 July 1964. He scored no championship points.
1938 Stella Stevens

Stella Stevens

American actress and director (died 2023)
Stella Stevens was an American actress. Stevens began her acting career in 1959 in the musical Say One for Me, winning the Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year – Actress. She then starred in films such as Girls! Girls! Girls! (1962), The Nutty Professor (1963), How to Save a Marriage and Ruin Your Life (1968), The Ballad of Cable Hogue (1970) and The Poseidon Adventure (1972).
1963 Jean-Denis Delétraz

Jean-Denis Delétraz

Swiss race car driver
Jean-Denis Delétraz is a Swiss racing driver. He participated in three Formula One Grands Prix, debuting in the 1994 Australian Grand Prix. Before reaching Formula One, he scored two third places in the 1988 Formula 3000 season, but principally earned his three Formula One drives as a pay driver. After Formula One, he competed in sports car racing, with two class wins at the 24 Hours of Le Mans.
1507 Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola

Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola

Italian architect who designed the Church of the Gesù (died 1573)
Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola, often simply called Vignola, was one of the great Italian architects of 16th-century Mannerism. His two great masterpieces are the Villa Farnese at Caprarola and the Jesuits' Church of the Gesù in Rome. The three architects who spread the Italian Renaissance style throughout Western Europe are Vignola, Serlio and Palladio. He is often considered the most important architect in Rome in the Mannerist era.
1952 Jacques Martin

Jacques Martin

Canadian ice hockey player, coach, and manager
Jacques Martin is a Canadian professional ice hockey coach. In the National Hockey League (NHL), he has served as head coach of the St. Louis Blues, Ottawa Senators, Montreal Canadiens and Florida Panthers. Martin also served as the general manager of the Panthers and has served as an assistant coach with the Canadian men's national ice hockey team. Martin is a Franco-Ontarian, and a two-time Stanley Cup champion.
1987 Mitchell Aubusson

Mitchell Aubusson

Australian rugby league player
Mitchell Aubusson is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer who played as a second-row and centre, spending his entire career with the Sydney Roosters in the National Rugby League (NRL). He won three NRL premierships with the Sydney Roosters in 2013, 2018 and 2019. He has also played for NSW Country at representative level. Aubusson is the Sydney Roosters 2nd highest capped player with 306 matches played.
1959 Brian P. Cleary

Brian P. Cleary

American author and poet
Brian P. Cleary is an American humorist, poet, and author. He is best known for his books written for grade-school children that explore grammar in humorous ways; he also controls a line of gift books for grownups. He is the senior editor for digital content at American Greetings, and his greetings have been performed by Dolly Parton, Christina Aguilera, Smokey Robinson, William Shatner, Meghan Trainor and others.
1542 Álvaro de Mendaña de Neira

Álvaro de Mendaña de Neira

Spanish explorer (died 1595)
Álvaro de Mendaña y Neira was a Spanish navigator, explorer, and cartographer, best known for two of the earliest recorded expeditions across the Pacific Ocean in 1567 and 1595. His voyages led to the discovery of the Marquesas, Cook Islands, and Solomons among other archipelagos. Born in Congosto, in El Bierzo Region (León), he was the nephew of Lope García de Castro, viceroy of Peru.
1685 Charles VI

Charles VI

Holy Roman Emperor (died 1740)
Charles VI was Holy Roman Emperor and ruler of the Austrian Habsburg monarchy from 1711 until his death, succeeding his elder brother, Joseph I. He unsuccessfully claimed the throne of Spain following the death of his relative Charles II of Spain. In 1708, he married Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, by whom he had his four children: Leopold Johann, Maria Theresa, Maria Anna, and Maria Amalia.
1920 Walter Matthau

Walter Matthau

American actor (died 2000)
Walter John Matthau was an American actor, known for his "hangdog face" and for playing world-weary characters. He starred in 10 films alongside his real-life friend Jack Lemmon, including The Odd Couple (1968) and Grumpy Old Men (1993). The New York Times called this "one of Hollywood's most successful pairings". Among other accolades, Matthau won an Academy Award, one BAFTA Award, and two Tony Awards.
1924 Jimmy Carter

Jimmy Carter

American naval lieutenant, politician, 39th President of the United States, and Nobel Prize laureate (died 2024)
James Earl Carter Jr. was an American politician and humanitarian who served as the 39th president of the United States from 1977 to 1981. A member of the Democratic Party, Carter served as the 76th governor of Georgia from 1971 to 1975 and in the Georgia State Senate from 1963 to 1967. He lived longer than any other president in U.S. history, reaching age 100.
1928 Willy Mairesse

Willy Mairesse

Belgian race car driver (died 1969)
Willem Edouard Numa Ghislain Mairesse was a Formula One and sports-car driver from Belgium. He participated in 13 World Championship Grands Prix, debuting on 19 June 1960. He achieved one podium and scored a total of seven championship points. He committed suicide in a hotel room in Ostend after a crash at the 1968 24 Hours of Le Mans forced an end to his career.
1979 Ryan Pontbriand

Ryan Pontbriand

American football player
Ryan David Pontbriand is an American former professional football player who was a long snapper and center in the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Rice Owls and was selected in the fifth round of the 2003 NFL draft by the Cleveland Browns. He has the distinction of being the highest-drafted pure long snapper in the history of the NFL draft.
1832 Henry Clay Work

Henry Clay Work

American composer and songwriter (died 1884)
Henry Clay Work was an American songwriter and composer. He is best remembered for his musical contributions to the Union in the Civil War: songs documenting the afflictions of slavery, the hardships of army life, and Northern triumphs in the conflict. Besides patriotic pieces, he wrote sentimental ballads and songs supporting the growing temperance movement. Many of Work's compositions were performed at minstrel shows.
1924 Roger Williams

Roger Williams

American pianist (died 2011)
Roger Williams was an American popular music pianist. Described by the Los Angeles Times as "one of the most popular instrumentalists of the mid-20th century", and "the rare instrumental pop artist to strike a lasting commercial chord," Williams had 22 hit singles – including the chart-topping "Autumn Leaves" in 1955 and "Born Free" in 1966 – and 38 hit albums between 1955 and 1972.
1928 Laurence Harvey

Laurence Harvey

Lithuanian-English actor, director, and producer (died 1973)
Laurence Harvey was a Lithuanian-born British actor and film director. He was born to Lithuanian Jewish parents and immigrated to South Africa at an early age, before later settling in the United Kingdom after World War II. In a career that spanned a quarter of a century, Harvey appeared in stage, film and television productions primarily in the United Kingdom and the United States.
1967 Mike Pringle

Mike Pringle

American-Canadian football player
Michael A. Pringle is an American former professional football player who was a running back in the Canadian Football League (CFL). He set or tied almost every significant league record for the position. He played college football for the Cal State Fullerton Titans, earning third-team All-American honors. He was twice signed by National Football League (NFL) teams, though he saw very limited playing time.
1924 Leonie Kramer

Leonie Kramer

Australian academic (died 2016)
Dame Leonie Judith Kramer, was an Australian academic, educator and professor. She is notable as the first female professor of English in Australia, first woman to chair the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and the first female chancellor of the University of Sydney. She was made a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire and a Companion of the Order of Australia.
1965 Cliff Ronning

Cliff Ronning

Canadian ice hockey player and coach
Clifford John Ronning is a Canadian former professional ice hockey forward. He was selected by the St. Louis Blues in the seventh round of the 1984 NHL entry draft, 134th overall. During a National Hockey League (NHL) career that spanned 18 years, Ronning played for the Blues, Vancouver Canucks, Phoenix Coyotes, Nashville Predators, Los Angeles Kings, Minnesota Wild and New York Islanders.
1906 S. D. Burman

S. D. Burman

Indian composer and singer (died 1975)
Sachin Dev Burman was an Indian music director and singer. He was a member of the Tripura royal family. He started his career with Bengali films in 1937. He later began composing for Hindi movies and became one of the most successful and influential Indian film music composers. Burman composed the soundtracks for over 100 movies, including Bengali films and Hindi.
1476 Guy XVI

Guy XVI

Count of Laval (died 1531)
Guy XVI, Count of Laval, Mayenne was a member of the House of Laval. He was christened Nicolas, but upon inheriting the title, he took the required name of Guy, as his predecessors had done. He was the son of Jean de Laval, who was the brother of Guy XV and the son of Guy XIV and Isabella of Brittany.
1895 Liaquat Ali Khan

Liaquat Ali Khan

Indian-Pakistani lawyer and politician, 1st Prime Minister of Pakistan (died 1951)
Liaquat Ali Khan was a Pakistani lawyer, politician and statesman who served as the first prime minister of Pakistan from 1947 until his assassination in 1951. He played a key role in consolidating the state of Pakistan, much as Muhammad Ali Jinnah did in founding it. A leading figure in the Pakistan Movement, he is revered as Quaid-e-Millat and Shaheed-e-Millat.
1921 James Whitmore

James Whitmore

American actor (died 2009)
James Allen Whitmore Jr. was an American actor who appeared in over 150 stage, film, and television roles over a 50-year career. He received numerous honors, notably a Grammy Award, a Primetime Emmy Award, and a Tony Award. He was nominated for two Academy Awards, Best Supporting Actor for Battleground (1949) and Best Actor for Give 'em Hell, Harry! (1975).
1965 Mia Mottley

Mia Mottley

Barbadian prime minister
Mia Amor Mottley is a Barbadian politician and lawyer who has served as the eighth prime minister of Barbados since 2018 and as Leader of the Barbados Labour Party (BLP) since 2008. Mottley is the first woman to hold both positions. Having overseen the abolition of the Barbadian monarchy, she is the first prime minister of the Barbadian republic.
1969 Joseph Patrick Moore

Joseph Patrick Moore

American musician, composer, and producer
Joseph Patrick Moore is an American musician from Knoxville, Tennessee, United States. He is a bass player, composer, arranger and record producer who has played alongside Colonel Bruce Hampton, Earl Klugh, Stewart Copeland, John Popper, and Derek Trucks. In 2003, he founded Blue Canoe Records, the internet's first all-digital independent jazz label; he co-owns the label with Travis Prescott.
1956 Andrus Ansip

Andrus Ansip

Estonian engineer and politician, 15th Prime Minister of Estonia
Andrus Ansip is an Estonian politician, a former member of the European Parliament, the former European Commissioner for Digital Single Market and Vice President of the European Commission, in office from 2014 until 2019. Previously, he was Prime Minister of Estonia from 2005 to 2014 and chairman of the liberal Estonian Reform Party from 2004 to 2014.
1896 Ted Healy

Ted Healy

American actor, singer, and screenwriter (died 1937)
Ted Healy was an American vaudeville performer, comedian, and actor. Though he is chiefly remembered as the creator of the Three Stooges and the style of slapstick comedy that they later made famous, he had a successful stage and film career of his own and was cited as a formative influence by several later comedy stars.
1914 Daniel J. Boorstin

Daniel J. Boorstin

American historian, lawyer, author, and 12th Librarian of Congress (died 2004)
Daniel Joseph Boorstin was an American historian at the University of Chicago who wrote on many topics in American and world history. He was appointed the twelfth Librarian of the United States Congress in 1975 and served until 1987. He was instrumental in the creation of the Center for the Book at the Library of Congress.
1924 William Rehnquist

William Rehnquist

American lawyer and jurist, 16th Chief Justice of the United States (died 2005)
William Hubbs Rehnquist was an American attorney who served as the 16th chief justice of the United States from 1986 until his death in 2005, having previously been an associate justice from 1972 to 1986. Considered a staunch conservative, Rehnquist favored a conception of federalism that emphasized the Tenth Amendment's reservation of powers to the states.
1890 Stanley Holloway

Stanley Holloway

English actor (died 1982)
Stanley Augustus Holloway was an English actor, comedian, singer and monologist. He was famous for his comic and character roles on stage and screen, especially that of Alfred P. Doolittle in My Fair Lady. He was also renowned for his comic monologues and songs, which he performed and recorded throughout most of his 70-year career.
1924 Bob Geigel

Bob Geigel

American wrestler and promoter (died 2014)
Robert Frederick Geigel was an American professional wrestling promoter and professional wrestler. He operated the Kansas City, Missouri-based Heart of America Sports Attractions promotion from 1963 to 1986, and served three terms as the president of the National Wrestling Alliance from 1978 to 1980, from 1982 to 1985, and finally from 1986 to 1987.
1931 Alan Wagner

Alan Wagner

American radio host and critic (died 2007)
Alan Cyril Wagner was an American television executive, radio personality, writer, and opera historian and critic. He served as the East Coast vice president of programming at CBS from 1976 to 1982. After he left CBS, he became the first president of Disney Channel, but only served in the role for a year.
1947 Buzz Capra

Buzz Capra

American baseball player and coach
Lee William Capra was an American professional baseball pitcher, who played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the New York Mets and Atlanta Braves, from 1971 to 1977. Nicknamed "Buzz", by a neighbor as a child, Capra was a National League (NL) All-Star and the NL earned run average (ERA) leader in 1974.
1920 David Herbert Donald

David Herbert Donald

American historian and author (died 2009)
David Herbert Donald was an American historian, best known for his 1995 biography of Abraham Lincoln. He twice won the Pulitzer Prize for Biography, for books about Thomas Wolfe and Charles Sumner; he published more than 30 books on United States political and literary figures and the history of the American South.
1959 Youssou N'Dour

Youssou N'Dour

Senegalese singer-songwriter, musician, and politician
Youssou "Madjiguène" N'Dour is a Senegalese singer, songwriter, musician, composer, and politician. N'Dour helped develop a style of popular Senegambian music known as mbalax, a genre that has sacred origins in the Serer music njuup tradition and ndut initiation ceremonies. From April 2012 to September 2013, he was Senegal's Minister of Tourism.
1942 Robert Lelièvre

Robert Lelièvre

French singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 1973)
Robert Lelièvre was a French singer, songwriter and guitar player. He is best remembered as a member of the folk rock trio Cy, Maia & Robert, and for fronting the Danish progressive rock band Pan. Their eponymous debut album is considered amongst the best in the history of Danish rock music.
1943 Jean-Jacques Annaud

Jean-Jacques Annaud

French director, producer, and screenwriter
Jean-Jacques Annaud is a French film director, screenwriter and producer. He directed Black and White in Color (1976), Quest for Fire (1981), The Name of the Rose (1986), The Bear (1988), The Lover (1992), Seven Years in Tibet (1997), Enemy at the Gates (2001), Black Gold (2011), and Wolf Totem (2015).
1947 Mariska Veres

Mariska Veres

Dutch singer (died 2006)
Maria Elisabeth Ender, better known as Mariska Veres, was a Dutch musician who was the lead vocalist of the rock group Shocking Blue. She was known for her sultry voice, eccentric performances, and her striking appearance which featured kohl-rimmed eyes, and high and long jet-black hair, which was actually a wig.
1893 Ip Man

Ip Man

Chinese martial artist (died 1972)
Ip Man, also known as Yip Man, was a Chinese martial arts grandmaster. He became a teacher of the martial art of Wing Chun when he was 20. He had several students who later became martial arts masters in their own right, the most famous among them being Bruce Lee.
1904 A. K. Gopalan

A. K. Gopalan

Indian educator and politician (died 1977)
Ayillyath Kuttiari Gopalan Nambiar, popularly known as A. K. Gopalan or AKG, was an Indian communist politician. He was one of sixteen Communist Party of India members elected to the first Lok Sabha in 1952, and later became one of the founding members of the Communist Party of India (Marxist).
1907 Ödön Pártos

Ödön Pártos

Hungarian-Israeli viola player and composer (died 1977)
Ödön Pártos [alternate transcription in English: Oedoen Partos, Hungarian: Pártos Ödön, Hebrew: עֵדֶן פרטוש ] was a Hungarian-Israeli violist and composer. A recipient of the Israel Prize, he taught and served as director of the Rubin Academy of Music, now known as the Buchmann-Mehta School of Music in Tel Aviv.
1967 Scott Young

Scott Young

American ice hockey player and coach
Scott Allen Young is an American professional ice hockey coach and former player who most recently served as an assistant coach for the Vancouver Canucks of the National Hockey League (NHL). Young previously served as director of player development for the Canucks as well as for the Pittsburgh Penguins.
1846 Nectarios of Aegina

Nectarios of Aegina

Greek metropolitan and saint (died 1920)
Nectarios of Aegina, Metropolitan of Pentapolis and Wonderworker of Aegina, is one of the most renowned Greek saints, venerated in the Eastern Orthodox Church. On 20 April 1961, Patriarch Athenagoras I of Constantinople glorified him as a saint. His feast day is celebrated every year on 9 November.
1932 Albert Collins

Albert Collins

American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 1993)
Albert Gene Collins was an American electric blues guitarist and singer with a distinctive guitar style. He was noted for his powerful playing and his use of altered tunings and a capo. His long association with the Fender Telecaster led to the title "The Master of the Telecaster".
1950 Susan Greenfield

Susan Greenfield

Baroness Greenfield, English neuroscientist, academic, and politician
Susan Adele Greenfield, Baroness Greenfield, is an English scientist, writer, broadcaster and member of the House of Lords. Her research has focused on the treatment of Parkinson's disease and Alzheimer's disease. She is also interested in the neuroscience of consciousness and the impact of technology on the brain.
1957 Éva Tardos

Éva Tardos

Hungarian mathematician and educator
Éva Tardos is a Hungarian mathematician and the Jacob Gould Schurman Professor of Computer Science at Cornell University, known for her work in theoretical computer science. For her work, she has received the Fulkerson Prize (1988), the Dantzig Prize (2006), and the IEEE John von Neumann Medal (2019).
1983 Mohamed Abdelwahab

Mohamed Abdelwahab

Egyptian footballer (died 2006)
Mohamed Mohamed Abdelwahab was an Egyptian footballer. He played in the defensive left back position. He was an important part of the Egyptian squad that went on to win the 2006 African Cup of Nations. He died during training with his club El Ahly on 31 August 2006.
1878 Othmar Spann

Othmar Spann

Austrian economist, sociologist, and philosopher (died 1950)
Othmar Spann was a conservative Austrian philosopher, sociologist and economist. His radical anti-liberal and anti-socialist views, based on early 19th century Romantic ideas expressed by Adam Müller et al. and popularized in his books and lecture courses, helped antagonise political factions in Austria during the interwar years.
1881 William Boeing

William Boeing

American engineer and businessman who founded the Boeing Company (died 1956)
William Edward Böing was an American aviation pioneer. He founded the Pacific Airplane Company in 1916, which was renamed to Boeing a year later. The company is now the largest exporter in the United States by dollar value and among the largest aerospace manufacturers in the world.
1949 Sheila Gilmore

Sheila Gilmore

Scottish lawyer and politician
Sheila Gilmore is a British Labour Party politician, who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Edinburgh East from 2010 to 2015. Gilmore stood for the seat following the decision of Gavin Strang to stand down; she is a former councillor at the City of Edinburgh Council.
1976 Denis Gauthier

Denis Gauthier

Canadian ice hockey player
Denis Gauthier, Jr. is a Canadian former professional ice hockey defenceman. A first round selection of the Calgary Flames at the 1995 NHL entry draft, Gauthier played for the Flames, Phoenix Coyotes, Philadelphia Flyers and Los Angeles Kings during his ten-season National Hockey League (NHL) career.
1947 Nevill Drury

Nevill Drury

English-Australian journalist and publisher (died 2013)
Nevill Drury was an English and Australian editor and publisher, as well as the author of over 40 books on subjects ranging from shamanism and western magical traditions to art, music, and anthropology. His books have been published in 26 countries and in 19 languages.
1949 Isaac Bonewits

Isaac Bonewits

American singer-songwriter, liturgist, and author (died 2010)
Phillip Emmons Isaac Bonewits was an American Neo-Druid who wrote a number of books on the subject of Neopaganism and magic. Bonewits was a public speaker, liturgist, singer and songwriter, and founder of the Neopagan organizations Ár nDraíocht Féin (ADF) and the Aquarian Anti-Defamation League.
1981 Tom Donnelly

Tom Donnelly

New Zealand rugby player
Thomas Mathew Donnelly is a former rugby union player who played for Montpellier in the Top 14. He also made 15 appearances for the All Blacks since 2009 and played for Otago Rugby Football Union. He moved into a coaching career at Otago from 2017.
1681 Giulia Lama

Giulia Lama

Italian painter (died 1747)
Giulia Elisabetta Lama was an Italian painter active in Venice during the late Baroque period. Her dark, intense style contrasted with the dominant pastel tones of the era. She was one of the first female artists to study and depict the nude male figure.
1832 Caroline Harrison

Caroline Harrison

American educator, 24th First Lady of the United States (died 1892)
Caroline Lavinia Harrison was an American music teacher, artist, and the first lady of the United States from 1889 until her death in 1892. She was married to President Benjamin Harrison, and was the second first lady to die while serving in the role.
1847 Annie Besant

Annie Besant

English-Indian activist and author (died 1933)
Annie Besant was an English socialist, theosophist, freemason, educationist, and activist involved in women's rights, Home Rule, and Indian nationalism. She gave support to both Irish and Indian self-rule. She had been the first female president of the Indian National Congress in 1917.
1969 Ori Kaplan

Ori Kaplan

Israeli-American saxophonist and producer
Ori Kaplan is an Israeli jazz saxophonist and a music producer. He moved to the United States in 1991. He has worked with many artists including Shotnez Tom Abbs, Firewater, Gogol Bordello, and Balkan Beat Box. He is also known as DJ Shotnez.
208 Alexander Severus

Alexander Severus

Roman emperor (died 235)
Marcus Aurelius Severus Alexander, also known as Alexander Severus, was Roman emperor from 222 until 235 AD. He was the last emperor from the Severan dynasty and, at the age of 13, became the youngest sole emperor of the united Roman Empire.
1943 Jerry Martini

Jerry Martini

American saxophonist
Gerald L. Martini is an American musician, best known for being the saxophonist for Sly and the Family Stone. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1993 as a member of Sly and the Family Stone.
1947 Martin Turner

Martin Turner

English singer-songwriter and bass player
Martin Robert Turner is an English musician best known for his time as the bass guitarist, lead vocalist and a founding member of the rock band, Wishbone Ash. Turner is now the lead singer and bassist for "Martin Turner Ex-Wishbone Ash".
1480 Saint Cajetan

Saint Cajetan

Italian Catholic priest and religious reformer (died 1547)
Gaetano dei Conti di Thiene, known in English as Saint Cajetan, was an Italian Catholic priest and religious reformer, co-founder of the Theatines. He is recognised as a saint in the Catholic Church, and his feast day is 7 August.
1950 Boris Morukov

Boris Morukov

Russian physician and astronaut (died 2015)
Boris Vladimirovich Morukov was a Russian physician at the State Research Center RF-Institute for Biomedical Problems (IBMP). He trained with the Russian Federal Space Agency as a research-cosmonaut and flew aboard NASA Space Shuttle mission STS-106 as a mission specialist
1964 Jonathan Sarfati

Jonathan Sarfati

Australian-New Zealand chess player and author
Jonathan David Sarfati is a New Zealand young Earth creationist who writes articles for Creation Ministries International (CMI), a non-profit Christian apologetics ministry. Sarfati has a PhD in chemistry, and was New Zealand national chess champion in 1987 and 1988.
1935 Walter De Maria

Walter De Maria

American sculptor and drummer (died 2013)
Walter Joseph De Maria was an American artist, sculptor, illustrator and composer, who lived and worked in New York City. Walter de Maria's artistic practice is connected with minimal art, conceptual art, and land art of the 1960s.
1969 Igor Ulanov

Igor Ulanov

Russian ice hockey player
Igor Sergeevich Ulanov is a Russian former professional ice hockey defenceman who played 14 seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL). Ulanov was drafted by the Winnipeg Jets in the tenth round of the 1991 NHL entry draft.
1946 Tim O'Brien

Tim O'Brien

American novelist and short story writer
Tim O'Brien is an American author who served as a soldier in the Vietnam War. Much of his writing is about wartime Vietnam, and his work later in life often explores the postwar lives of its veterans.
1729 Anton Cajetan Adlgasser

Anton Cajetan Adlgasser

German organist and composer (died 1777)
Anton Cajetan Adlgasser was a German organist and composer at Salzburg Cathedral. He composed a good deal of liturgical music that included eight masses and two requiems, as well as oratorios and orchestral and keyboard works.
1842 S. Subramania Iyer

S. Subramania Iyer

Indian lawyer and jurist (died 1924)
Sir Subbier Subramania Iyer ; was an Indian lawyer, jurist and freedom fighter who, along with Annie Besant, founded the Indian Home Rule Movement. He was popularly known as the "Grand Old Man of South India".
1913 Hélio Gracie

Hélio Gracie

Brazilian martial artist (died 2009)
Hélio Gracie was a Brazilian martial artist who together with his brothers Oswaldo, Gastao Jr, George and Carlos Gracie founded and developed the self-defense martial art system of Gracie jiu-jitsu, also known as Brazilian jiu-jitsu (BJJ).
1691 Arthur Onslow

Arthur Onslow

English lawyer and politician, Speaker of the House of Commons (died 1768)
Arthur Onslow was a British Whig politician. He set a record for length of service when repeatedly elected to serve as speaker of the House of Commons, where he was known for his integrity.
1903 Vladimir Horowitz

Vladimir Horowitz

Russian-born American pianist and composer (died 1989)
Vladimir Samoylovich Horowitz was a Russian and American pianist. Considered one of the greatest pianists of all time, he was known for his virtuoso technique, timbre, and the public excitement engendered by his playing.
1962 Attaphol Buspakom

Attaphol Buspakom

Thai footballer and manager (died 2015)
Attaphol Buspakom, nicknamed "Tak" ; was a Thai retired national footballer and football manager. He was given the role at Muangthong United and Buriram United after TTM Samut Sakhon folded after the 2009 season.
1981 Johnny Oduya

Johnny Oduya

Swedish ice hockey player
David Johnny Oduya is a Swedish former professional ice hockey defenceman who played in the National Hockey League (NHL). Oduya is a two-time Stanley Cup champion with the Chicago Blackhawks in 2013 and 2015.
1900 Ashfaqulla Khan

Ashfaqulla Khan

Indian activist (died 1927)
Ashfaqulla Khan was an Indian freedom fighter and martyr in the Indian independence movement against British rule, and the co-founder of the Hindustan Republican Association, later to become the Hindustan Socialist Republican Association.
1912 Kathleen Ollerenshaw

Kathleen Ollerenshaw

English mathematician, astronomer, and politician, Lord Mayor of Manchester (died 2014)
Dame Kathleen Mary Ollerenshaw, was a British mathematician and politician who was Lord Mayor of Manchester from 1975 to 1976 and an advisor on educational matters to Margaret Thatcher's government in the 1980s.
1946 Dave Holland

Dave Holland

English bassist, composer, and bandleader
David Holland is an English double bassist, bass guitarist, cellist, composer and bandleader who has been performing and recording for five decades. He has lived in the United States since the early 1970s.
1620 Nicolaes Pieterszoon Berchem

Nicolaes Pieterszoon Berchem

Dutch painter (died 1683)
Nicolaes Pieterszoon Berchem was a highly esteemed and prolific Dutch Golden Age painter of pastoral landscapes, populated with mythological or biblical figures, but also of a number of allegories and genre pieces.
1922 Chen-Ning Yang

Chen-Ning Yang

Chinese-American physicist, academic, and Nobel Prize laureate (died 2025)
Yang Chen-Ning also known as C.N. Yang and Franklin Yang, was a Chinese-American theoretical physicist who made significant contributions to statistical mechanics, integrable systems, gauge theory, particle physics and condensed matter physics.
1943 Robert Slater

Robert Slater

American author and journalist (died 2014)
Robert Slater was an American author and journalist known for over two dozen books, including biographies of political and business figures such as Golda Meir, Yitzhak Rabin, George Soros, and Donald Trump.
1931 Anwar Shamim

Anwar Shamim

Pakistani general (died 2013)
Mohammad Anwar Shamim was a former fighter pilot who was the Chief of Air Staff of the Pakistan Air Force, serving in the post from 1978 until retiring in 1985.
1894 Edgar Krahn

Edgar Krahn

Estonian mathematician and academic (died 1961)
Edgar Krahn was an Estonian mathematician. Krahn was born in Sootaga, Governorate of Livonia, as a member of the Baltic German minority. He died in Rockville, Maryland, United States.
1942 Jean-Pierre Jabouille

Jean-Pierre Jabouille

French race car driver and engineer (died 2023)
Jean-Pierre Alain Jabouille was a French racing driver and engineer, who competed in Formula One from 1974 to 1981. Jabouille won two Formula One Grands Prix across seven seasons.
1958 Martin Cooper

Martin Cooper

English saxophonist, composer, and painter
Martin Cooper is an English musician. He is the secondary keyboardist and occasional saxophonist for the band Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, whom he first joined in 1980.
1961 Rico Constantino

Rico Constantino

American wrestler and manager
Americo Sebastiano Costantino is a retired American professional wrestler. He performed under the ring names Rico Costantino and Rico in World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) from 1998 to 2004.
1947 Aaron Ciechanover

Aaron Ciechanover

Israeli biologist and physician, Nobel Prize laureate
Aaron Ciechanover is an Israeli biologist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for characterizing the method that cells use to degrade and recycle proteins using ubiquitin.
1207 Henry III of England (died 1272)

Henry III of England (died 1272)

Henry III, also known as Henry of Winchester, was King of England, Lord of Ireland and Duke of Aquitaine from 1216 until his death in 1272.
1719 John Bligh

John Bligh

3rd Earl of Darnley, British parliamentarian (died 1781)
John Bligh, 3rd Earl of Darnley, styled The Honourable John Bligh between 1721 and 1747, lord of the Manor of Cobham, Kent, was a British parliamentarian.
1791 Sergey Aksakov

Sergey Aksakov

Russian soldier and author (died 1859)
Sergey Timofeyevich Aksakov was a 19th-century Russian literary figure remembered for his semi-autobiographical tales of family life, as well as his books on hunting and fishing.
1885 Louis Untermeyer

Louis Untermeyer

American poet, anthologist, and critic (died 1977)
Louis Michael Untermeyer was an American poet, anthologist, critic, and editor. He was appointed the fourteenth Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1961.
1998 Haumole Olakau'atu

Haumole Olakau'atu

Australian-Tongan rugby league player
Haumole Olakau'atu is a Tonga international rugby league footballer who plays as a second-row forward for the Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles in the National Rugby League (NRL).
1712 William Shippen

William Shippen

American physician and politician (died 1801)
William Shippen Sr. was an American physician from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He was also a civic and educational leader who represented Pennsylvania in the Continental Congress.
1887 Ned Hanlon

Ned Hanlon

Australian politician, 26th Premier of Queensland (died 1952)
Edward Michael Hanlon, nicknamed the "Digger Premier", was an Australian politician and soldier, who was Premier of Queensland from 1946 until his death in 1952.
1950

Yvette Freeman

American actress
Yvette Freeman is an American actress, singer and director. Predominantly active as a stage actress, she made her Broadway debut in 1979 in the original production of Ain't Misbehavin'. She won the Obie Award for Distinguished Performance by an Actress for her portrayal of Dinah Washington in the 1998 Off-Broadway play Dinah Was. On television, she is best known for her roles as Haleh Adams in the NBC medical drama series ER, Evelyn Smalley in the TV series Working, and Irma Lerman in Orange Is the New Black.
1970

Simon Davey

Welsh footballer and manager
Simon Davey is a Welsh former professional footballer and football manager. He is now Executive Director of a youth club in America called Southern Soccer Academy. He played for Swansea City, Carlisle United and Preston North End and had a short loan spell with Darlington, making a total of 271 appearances in the Football League. After retiring as a player, he spent eight years as a coach at Preston, before going on to manage Barnsley, Darlington and, until October 2010, Hereford United.
1929

Ken Arthurson

Australian rugby player and coach
Kenneth Richard "Arko" Arthurson AM is an Australian rugby league football identity. Affectionately known as "The Godfather of Manly", he played, coached and was later an administrator at the Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles club in the New South Wales Rugby League premiership. Later he ran the NSWRL, and then the Australian Rugby League during the 1990s' Super League war, resigning in 1997 as part of the peace process for creating the unified National Rugby League.
1970

Alexei Zhamnov

Russian ice hockey player and manager
Alexei Yuryevich "Alex" Zhamnov is a former professional ice hockey centre who played in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the Winnipeg Jets, Chicago Blackhawks, Philadelphia Flyers and Boston Bruins. He is currently serving the head coach of HC Spartak Moscow of the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL). He previously served as general manager of Vityaz Chekhov and Atlant Moscow Oblast and was the head coach of the Russia men's national ice hockey team.
1952

Ivan Sekyra

Czech singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2012)
Ivan Sekyra was a Czech rock guitarist, singer, songwriter, director, and screenwriter. He learned to play the violin as a child. In 1978, he graduated from the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Life Sciences in Prague. In 1976, he co-founded the group Abraxas. Later, he was a member of Projektil and Drakar. He eventually founded the heavy metal band Silent Garden.
1964

Max Matsuura

Japanese songwriter, producer, and manager
Masato Matsuura , better known by his stage name Max Matsuura , is a Japanese record producer and entrepreneur. He is the founder and chairman of Avex Group, one of the largest music labels. He is known mainly for discovering and developing new artists into stars, as well as for reviving Ami Suzuki's career after she was dismissed by her previous record label.
1953

Viljar Loor

Estonian volleyball player (died 2011)
Viljar Loor was among the most accomplished Estonian volleyball players. At the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, Loor won the gold medal with the Soviet Union men's national volleyball team. He also won gold medals with the Soviet team at the 1978 FIVB World Championship in Italy and the 1982 FIVB World Championship in Argentina. He was a middle blocker.
1957

Kang Seok-woo

South Korean actor
Kang Seok-woo is a South Korean actor. He made his acting debut in 1978 in the Kim Soo-yong film Yeosu , then starred in his first television drama Ordinary People in 1982. Kang was most active on the big screen in the 1980s, but has worked exclusively in television since 1995. He has also displayed his artwork in several exhibitions.
1987

Hiroki Aiba

Japanese actor and singer
Hiroki Aiba is a Japanese actor associated with Grand-Arts. He debuted as an actor in 2005 as Shusuke Fuji in Musical: The Prince of Tennis and also reprised his role in the live-action film The Prince of Tennis. Since then, he has appeared in other theater productions, television programs, and films, such as Ryunosuke Ikenami/Shinken Blue in Samurai Sentai Shinkenger.
1958

Masato Nakamura

Japanese bass player and producer
Masato Nakamura is a Japanese musician, bass guitarist, and record producer. He is a member of the J-pop band Dreams Come True, which was formed in 1988 and went on to sell over 50 million CDs. He also composed the soundtracks for the video games Sonic the Hedgehog (1991) and Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (1992).
1965

Andreas Keller

German field hockey player
Andreas Keller is a former field hockey player from West Germany, who competed at three Summer Olympics for his native country. He won the gold medal with Germany at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, after securing silver at the two previous Olympics in Los Angeles (1984) and Seoul (1988), with West Germany.
1968

Jon Guenther

American author and engineer
Jon Guenther is an American author of nearly forty novels in a variety of genres. In addition to books under his own name, he has written many novels in The Executioner series created by Don Pendleton about the fictional character Mack Bolan. He is also creator of the Christian Pulp brand and genre.
1908

Herman David Koppel

Danish pianist and composer (died 1998)
Herman David Koppel, known in Denmark as Herman D. Koppel, was a Danish composer and pianist of Jewish origin. Born in Copenhagen, he fled the Nazis with his family to Sweden in 1943. He wrote 7 symphonies, numerous concertos, 6 string quartets and other chamber music, piano works, operas and film music.
1942

David Stancliffe

English bishop and scholar
David Staffurth Stancliffe is a British retired Anglican bishop in the Church of England. He was provost of Portsmouth Cathedral from 1982 to 1993 and Bishop of Salisbury from 1993 to 2010. He is the third generation of his family to be in ordained ministry.
1893

Cliff Friend

American pianist and songwriter (died 1974)
Cliff Friend was an accomplished American songwriter and pianist. A member of Tin Pan Alley, Friend co-wrote several hits including "Lovesick Blues", "My Blackbirds Are Bluebirds Now" and "The Merry-Go-Round Broke Down", also known as the theme song to the Looney Tunes cartoon series.
1940

Steve O'Rourke

English race car driver and manager (died 2003)
Steve O'Rourke was an English music manager and racing driver. He was the manager of Pink Floyd, a position he held from 1968 until his death. Among his accomplishments was negotiating Pink Floyd's split with bass player and main songwriter Roger Waters.
1972

Ayşe Yiğit

Belgian politician
Ayşe Yiğit is a Belgian politician and member of the Chamber of Representatives. A member of the Workers' Party of Belgium, she has represented Hainaut since June 2024. She had previously been a member of the Senate from 2019 to 2024.
1961

Corrie van Zyl

South African cricketer and coach
Cornelius Johannes Petrus Gerthardus van Zyl is a former South African cricketer who played two One Day Internationals in 1992. As of 2018 he was employed by Cricket South Africa as general manager of cricket.
1973

John Mackey

American composer
John Mackey is an American composer of contemporary classical music, with an emphasis on music for wind band, as well as orchestra. For several years, he focused on music for modern dance and ballet.
1913

Harry Lookofsky

American violinist and producer (died 1998)
Harry William Lookofsky was an American jazz violinist. He was also the father of keyboardist-songwriter Michael Brown, who most notably was a founding member of the Left Banke and Stories.
1953

Miguel Lopez

Salvadorian-American soccer player
Miguel Angel López was a soccer defender who played one season in the North American Soccer League. Born in El Salvador, he played for the U.S. national team.
1985

Nazimuddin Ahmed

Bangladeshi cricketer
Mohammed Nazimuddin Ahmed is a Bangladeshi cricketer. A right-handed batsman, he is the captain of Chittagong Division, and has played Test, limited overs and Twenty20 cricket for Bangladesh.
1942

Bob Lanigan

Australian rugby league player (died 2024)
Robert Lanigan was an Australian rugby league footballer who played in the 1960s. He played for Newtown in the New South Wales Rugby League (NSWRL) competition.
1950

Elpida

Greek singer-songwriter
Elpida Karayiannopoulou is a Greek singer who was one of the most successful singers in Greece and the Greek diaspora in the 1970s and 1980s.
1991

Jennifer Dodds

Scottish curler
Jennifer Carmichael Dodds is a Scottish curler. She is the 2022 Olympic champion in women's curling and the 2021 World champion in mixed doubles curling.
1910

Fritz Köberle

Austrian-Brazilian physician and pathologist (died 1983)
Fritz Köberle was an Austrian-Brazilian physician, pathologist and scientist, discoverer of the neurogenic mechanism of the chronic phase of Chagas disease, a human parasitic disease caused by Trypanosoma cruzi, a protozoan.
1540 Johann Jakob Grynaeus

Johann Jakob Grynaeus

Swiss pastor and theologian (died 1617)
Johann Jakob Grynaeus or Gryner was a Swiss Protestant divine.
1554 Leonardus Lessius

Leonardus Lessius

Jesuit theologian (died 1623)
Lenaert Leys, better known as Leonardus Lessius was a Brabant jurist, theologian, economist from the Jesuit order.
1671 Luigi Guido Grandi

Luigi Guido Grandi

Italian monk, mathematician, and engineer (died 1742)
Dom Guido Grandi, was an Italian monk, priest, philosopher, theologian, mathematician, and engineer.
1724 Giovanni Battista Cirri

Giovanni Battista Cirri

Italian cellist and composer (died 1808)
Giovanni Battista Cirri was an Italian cellist and composer in the 18th century.
1730 Richard Stockton

Richard Stockton

American lawyer, jurist, and politician (died 1781)
Richard Stockton was an American Founding Father, lawyer, jurist, legislator, and first person from New Jersey to sign the Declaration of Independence.
1762 Anton Bernolák

Anton Bernolák

Slovak priest and linguist (died 1813)
Anton Bernolák was a Slovak linguist, nobleman and Catholic priest, and the author of the first Slovak language standard.
1835 Ádám Politzer

Ádám Politzer

Hungarian-Austrian physician and anatomist (died 1920)
Ádám Politzer was a Hungarian and Austrian physician and one of the pioneers and founders of otology.
1842 Charles Cros

Charles Cros

French poet and author (died 1888)
Charles Cros or Émile-Hortensius-Charles Cros was a French poet and inventor. He was born in Fabrezan, Aude.
1887 Shizuichi Tanaka

Shizuichi Tanaka

Japanese general (died 1945)
Shizuichi Tanaka was a general in the Imperial Japanese Army and Japanese Military Governor of the Philippines during World War II.
1899 Ernest Haycox

Ernest Haycox

American author (died 1950)
Ernest James Haycox was an American writer of Western fiction.
1900

Tom Goddard

English cricketer (died 1966)
Thomas William John Goddard was an English cricketer and the fifth-highest wicket taker in first-class cricket.
1903 Pierre Veyron

Pierre Veyron

French race car driver (died 1970)
Pierre Veyron was a French Grand Prix motor racing driver active from 1933 through 1953.
1910

José Enrique Moyal

Australian physicist and engineer (died 1998)
José Enrique Moyal was an Australian mathematician and mathematical physicist who contributed to aeronautical engineering, electrical engineering and statistics, among other fields.
1911 Heinrich Mark

Heinrich Mark

Estonian lawyer and politician, 5th Prime Minister of Estonia in exile (died 2004)
Heinrich Mark was an Estonian politician and Prime Minister of the Estonian Government in Exile.
1911

Irwin Kostal

American songwriter, screenwriter, and publisher (died 1994)
Irwin Kostal was an American musical arranger of films and an orchestrator of Broadway musicals.
1917 Cahal Daly

Cahal Daly

Irish cardinal and theologian (died 2009)
Cahal Brendan Daly KGCHS was a Roman Catholic cardinal, theologian and writer from County Antrim.
1919 Bob Boyd

Bob Boyd

American baseball player (died 2004)
Robert Richard Boyd was an American first baseman in the Negro leagues and Major League Baseball.
1927

Sherman Glenn Finesilver

American lawyer and judge (died 2006)
Sherman Glenn Finesilver was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Colorado.
1929 Bonnie Owens

Bonnie Owens

American singer-songwriter (died 2006)
Bonnie Owens was an American country music singer who was married to Buck Owens and later to Merle Haggard.
1929

Grady Chapman

American singer (died 2011)
Grady Chapman was best known as the American lead singer of doo wop group The Robins.
1930 Naimatullah Khan

Naimatullah Khan

Pakistani lawyer and politician, Mayor of Karachi (died 2020)
Naimatullah Khan was a Pakistani politician who served as the City Nazim (Mayor) of Karachi from August 2001 to June 2005.
1930 Philippe Noiret

Philippe Noiret

French actor (died 2006)
Philippe Noiret was a French film actor.
1937

Saeed Ahmed

Pakistani cricketer (died 2024)
Saeed Ahmed was a Pakistani Test cricketer who captained the national team, and later became a preacher and member of Tablighi Jamaat.
1938 Mary McFadden

Mary McFadden

American fashion designer (died 2024)
Mary McFadden was an American fashion designer of women's clothing and other high-fashion items, including historically inspired form-fitting dresses.
1938 Tunç Başaran

Tunç Başaran

Turkish actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (died 2019)
Tunç Başaran was a Turkish screenwriter, film director, film producer and actor.
1939

Geoffrey Whitehead

English actor
Geoffrey Whitehead is an English actor. He has appeared in a range of television, film and radio roles.
1939 George Archer

George Archer

American golfer (died 2005)
George William Archer was an American professional golfer who won 13 events on the PGA Tour, including one major championship, the Masters in 1969.
1940 Marc Savoy

Marc Savoy

American accordion player, created the Cajun accordion
Marc Savoy is an American musician, and builder and player of the Cajun accordion.
1942 Günter Wallraff

Günter Wallraff

German journalist and author
Günter Wallraff is a German writer and undercover journalist.
1943

Angèle Arsenault

Canadian singer-songwriter (died 2014)
Angèle Arsenault, was a Canadian-Acadian singer, songwriter and media host.
1947

Adriano Tilgher

Italian politician
Adriano Tilgher is an Italian far-right and neo-fascist politician.
1949 André Rieu

André Rieu

Dutch violinist, composer, and conductor
André Léon Marie Nicolas Rieu is a Dutch violinist and conductor best known as the founder of the waltz-playing Johann Strauss Orchestra.
1950 Mark Helias

Mark Helias

American bassist and composer
Mark Helias is an American double bass player and composer born in New Brunswick, New Jersey.
1950 Randy Quaid

Randy Quaid

American actor
Randy Randall Rudy Quaid is an American actor.
1950 Sigbjørn Johnsen

Sigbjørn Johnsen

Norwegian politician, Norwegian Minister of Finance
Sigbjørn Johnsen is a Norwegian politician for the Labour Party and was Norwegian Minister of Finance in the periods 1990–1996 and 2009–2013.
1952 Bob Myrick

Bob Myrick

American baseball player (died 2012)
Robert Howard Myrick was an American relief pitcher in Major League Baseball. He was the great-nephew of longtime Washington Senators second baseman Buddy Myer.
1953 Pete Falcone

Pete Falcone

American baseball player
Peter Frank Falcone is an American former professional baseball pitcher for the San Francisco Giants, St. Louis Cardinals, New York Mets, and Atlanta Braves.
1955 Morten Gunnar Larsen

Morten Gunnar Larsen

Norwegian pianist and composer
Morten Gunnar Larsen is a Norwegian jazz pianist and composer, well known for several ragtime and stride piano recordings and collaborations.
1959

Mark Aizlewood

Welsh footballer and manager
Mark Aizlewood is a Welsh manager and former professional footballer who manages Cymru South side Carmarthen Town.
1962

Nico Claesen

Belgian footballer and coach
Nicolaas "Nico" Pieter Claesen is a former Belgian football player who works as head coach of RFC Liège.
1962 Paul Walsh

Paul Walsh

English footballer and sportscaster
Paul Anthony Walsh is an English former professional footballer who now works as a television pundit.
1965 Chris Reason

Chris Reason

Australian journalist
Chris Reason is a journalist, foreign correspondent and news anchor for the Seven Network Australia.
1965 Cindy Margolis

Cindy Margolis

American actress and model
Cynthia Dawn Margolis is an American glamour spokesmodel and actress.
1966 José Ángel Ziganda

José Ángel Ziganda

Spanish footballer and manager
José Ángel "Cuco" Ziganda Lakunza is a Spanish football manager and former player who played as a centre-forward.
1968 Phil de Glanville

Phil de Glanville

English rugby player
Philip Ranulph de Glanville is a former English rugby union player who played at centre for Bath and England.
1969 Zach Galifianakis

Zach Galifianakis

American actor, comedian, producer, and screenwriter
Zachary Knight Galifianakis is an American comedian, actor and writer.
1972 Ronen Altman Kaydar

Ronen Altman Kaydar

Israeli author and poet
Ronen Elimelech Altman Kaydar is an Israeli writer and poet.
1973

Jana Henke

German swimmer
Jana Henke is a former freestyle swimmer from Germany, becoming two times European champion in 800 m freestyle.
1975 Justin Leppitsch

Justin Leppitsch

Australian rules footballer
Justin Leppitsch is a former professional Australian rules footballer and the former coach of the Brisbane Lions in the Australian Football League (AFL).
1976

Mark Švets

Estonian footballer
Mark Švets is a retired Estonian professional footballer.
1976

Ümit Karan

Turkish footballer
Ümit Karan is a Turkish football manager and former player who is currently the manager of Menemenspor.
1979 Gilberto Martínez

Gilberto Martínez

Costa Rican footballer
Gilberto Martínez Vidal is a Costa Rican former professional footballer who played as a defender.
1980

Antonio Narciso

Italian footballer
Antonio Narciso is an Italian former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper.
1987 Matthew Daddario

Matthew Daddario

American actor
Matthew Quincy Daddario is an American actor. He gained recognition for his role as Alec Lightwood in the television series Shadowhunters (2016–2019).
1990 Albert Prosa

Albert Prosa

Estonian footballer
Albert Prosa is an Estonian professional footballer who plays as a forward.
1990 Pedro Filipe Mendes

Pedro Filipe Mendes

Portuguese footballer
Pedro Filipe Teodósio Mendes is a former professional footballer who played as a central defender. Born in Switzerland, he represented Portugal internationally.
1993

Lizaad Williams

South African cricketer
Lizaad Buyron Williams is a South African cricketer who plays for Northerns. He made his international debut for South Africa in April 2021.
2001 Mason Greenwood

Mason Greenwood

English footballer
Mason Will John Greenwood is an English professional footballer who plays as a forward for Turkish Süper Lig club Fenerbahçe.

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