Famous Birthdays on October 11

October 11 has 241 recorded notable births across history, from 1492 to 2001. This page lists every one of them, with the best-known people first.

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Arman Tsarukyan

1996 — Arman Tsarukyan

Armenian professional mixed martial artist

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Major events on October 11

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  1. 1890 In Washington, D.C., the Daughters of the American Revolution is founded. Source
  2. 1958 NASA launches Pioneer 1, its first space probe, although it fails to achieve a stable orbit. Source

Did you know about Arman Tsarukyan

As of January 27, 2026, he is #2 in the Meta UFC lightweight rankings and as of September 22, 2026, he is #13 in the UFC men's pound-for-pound rankings.

Did you know about Amitabh Bachchan

Widely considered one of the greatest, most accomplished and commercially successful actors in the history of Indian cinema, he has starred in over 200 films.

Did you know about Luke Perry

Luke Perry became a teen idol for playing Dylan McKay on the Fox television series Beverly Hills, 90210 from 1990 to 1995, and again from 1998 to 2000.

Did you know about Joan Cusack

Joan Cusack is known for her distinctive voice and offbeat comedic timing, and her portrayals of neurotic, endearing characters have earned her numerous accolades, including a Primetime Emmy Award.

Did you know about Cardi B

Since launching her music career in 2016 and releasing her two mixtapes, Cardi B has been credited for elevating the relevance of female rappers in popular music.


More major people born on October 11

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

1942 Amitabh Bachchan

Amitabh Bachchan

Indian film actor, producer, television host, and former politician
Amitabh Bachchan is an Indian actor, playback singer, and producer who primarily works in Hindi cinema. Widely considered one of the greatest, most accomplished and commercially successful actors in the history of Indian cinema, he has starred in over 200 films. Bachchan has been called "the Angry Young Man", the Shahenshah of Bollywood, Sadi ke Mahanayak, Bollywood's Star of the Millennium, or simply Big B. His dominance in the Indian film industry during the 1970s–80s led the French director François Truffaut to describe him as a "one-man industry". He is a recipient of several accolades including seven National Film Awards and seventeen Filmfare Awards & one South Filmfare award.
1966 Luke Perry

Luke Perry

American actor and producer (died 2019)
Coy Luther "Luke" Perry III was an American actor. He became a teen idol for playing Dylan McKay on the Fox television series Beverly Hills, 90210 from 1990 to 1995, and again from 1998 to 2000. Perry also starred as Fred Andrews on the CW series Riverdale. He had guest roles on shows such as Criminal Minds, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, The Simpsons, and Will & Grace, as well as a recurring role voicing Rick Jones in The Incredible Hulk (1996–1997) from Marvel Comics, and also appeared in various films, including Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1992), 8 Seconds (1994), The Fifth Element (1997), The Final Storm, The Beat Beneath My Feet (2015), and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019), which was his final feature performance and earned him a Screen Actors Guild Award nomination. He died of a stroke on March 4, 2019, at the age of 52.
1962 Joan Cusack

Joan Cusack

American actress
Joan Mary Cusack is an American actress. She is known for her distinctive voice and offbeat comedic timing, and her portrayals of neurotic, endearing characters have earned her numerous accolades, including a Primetime Emmy Award.
1992 Cardi B

Cardi B

American rapper
Belcalis Marlenis Almánzar, known professionally as Cardi B, is an American rapper. Born and raised in New York City, she is known for her energetic rap flow and outspoken lyrics. Since launching her music career in 2016 and releasing her two mixtapes, Cardi B has been credited for elevating the relevance of female rappers in popular music.
1968 Jane Krakowski

Jane Krakowski

American actress and singer
Jane Krakowski is an American actress and singer. She starred as Jenna Maroney in the NBC satirical comedy series 30 Rock (2006–2013), for which she received four Primetime Emmy Award nominations for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series. Krakowski's other television roles have included Elaine Vassal in the Fox legal comedy-drama series Ally McBeal (1997–2002) and Jacqueline White in the Netflix comedy series Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt (2015–2020). For the latter, she received another Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series nomination.
1953 David Morse

David Morse

American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
David Bowditch Morse is an American actor. Morse became widely known for his role as Dr. Jack "Boomer" Morrison in the NBC medical drama series St. Elsewhere (1982–88), and he has had roles in The Negotiator, The Good Son, Horns, Contact, The Green Mile, Dancer in the Dark, Disturbia, The Hurt Locker, The Long Kiss Goodnight, The Rock and 12 Monkeys.
1946 Daryl Hall

Daryl Hall

American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
Daryl Franklin Hohl, known professionally as Daryl Hall, is an American rock and soul singer-songwriter. He is best known as the co-founder and principal lead vocalist of Hall & Oates, with guitarist and songwriter John Oates. Outside of his work in Hall & Oates, he has also released six solo albums, including the 1980 collaboration with progressive rock guitarist Robert Fripp, Sacred Songs. His 1986 album Three Hearts in the Happy Ending Machine provided his best-selling single, "Dreamtime", which peaked at number five on the Billboard Hot 100. He has also collaborated on numerous works by other artists, such as Fripp's 1979 release Exposure, and Dusty Springfield's 1995 album A Very Fine Love, which produced a UK Top 40 hit with "Wherever Would I Be". Since late 2007, he has hosted the streaming television series Live from Daryl's House, in which he performs alongside other artists, doing a mix of songs from each's catalog. The show has been rebroadcast on a number of cable and satellite channels as well.
1937 Bobby Charlton

Bobby Charlton

English footballer and manager (died 2023)
Sir Robert Charlton was an English footballer who played as an attacking midfielder, left winger or centre-forward. Widely considered one of the greatest players of all time, he was a member of the England team that won the 1966 FIFA World Cup, the year he also won the Ballon d'Or. He finished second in the Ballon d'Or voting in 1967 and 1968. He played almost all of his club football at Manchester United, where he became renowned for his attacking instincts, passing abilities from midfield, ferocious long-range shooting from both left and right foot, fitness, and stamina. He was cautioned only twice in his career: once against Argentina in the 1966 World Cup, and once in a league match against Chelsea. With success at club and international level, he was one of eleven players to have won the FIFA World Cup, the European Cup and the Ballon d'Or. His elder brother Jack, who was also in the World Cup–winning team, was a defender for Leeds United and also for ten years was the manager of the Republic of Ireland.
1970 Constance Zimmer

Constance Zimmer

American actress
Constance Zimmer is an American actress. She rose to prominence playing Dana Gordon on the HBO series Entourage (2005–11) and Claire Simms on the ABC series Boston Legal (2006–07). She went on to appear on the Netflix series House of Cards (2013–18) and voiced Strongarm on Transformers: Robots in Disguise (2014–17). She gained wider recognition for her role as Quinn King on Unreal (2015–18), for which she received a Critics' Choice Television Award and a Primetime Emmy Award nomination both in 2016.
1957 Dawn French

Dawn French

Welsh-English actress, comedian and screenwriter
Dawn Roma French is a British actress, comedian, and writer. She is known for writing and starring in the BBC sketch comedy series French and Saunders (1987–2007) with her friend and comedy partner Jennifer Saunders, and for starring in the BBC comedy series Murder Most Horrid (1991–1999) and The Vicar of Dibley (1994–2007). She has been nominated for seven British Academy Television Awards and won a BAFTA Fellowship with Saunders in 2009.
1967 Artie Lange

Artie Lange

American actor and comedian
Arthur Steven Lange Jr. is an American stand-up comedian, actor, and radio personality. He is best known for his tenures as a sketch performer on the television series Mad TV from 1995 to 1997 and as the third mic of The Howard Stern Show from 2001 to 2009. Raised in New Jersey, Lange's father was paralyzed in a workplace accident, prompting him to work as a longshoreman and taxi driver to support his family. He debuted as a stand-up comedian in 1987 and turned professional five years later, breaking through at Caroline's on Broadway and developing a storytelling-driven act on the New York City club circuit.
1993 Hardik Pandya

Hardik Pandya

Indian cricketer
Hardik Himanshu Pandya is an Indian international cricketer who plays for the Indian cricket team. He is an all-rounder who is a right-handed middle-order batsman and right arm fast-medium bowler. He is considered one of the best all-rounders in the world in white-ball cricket. Pandya is the first fast-bowling all-rounder in T20Is to complete 1,000 runs and 100 wickets. He captains Mumbai Indians in the Indian Premier League and occasionally plays for Baroda in domestic cricket. He has captained the Indian team in white-ball cricket and was the vice-captain of the team that won the 2024 T20 World Cup.
2000 Adin Ross

Adin Ross

American internet personality and streamer
Adin David Ross is an American internet personality and online streamer. He is known for his collaborations with celebrities and livestreams of the NBA 2K and Grand Theft Auto V video games. He previously streamed on Twitch, from which he was indefinitely banned in 2023. However, the ban was lifted in March 2025, allowing him to return to the platform. A few days before his initial ban, he signed with the livestreaming service Kick.
1965 Lennie James

Lennie James

English actor
Lennie Michael James is a British actor. He is best known for portraying Morgan Jones in the AMC series The Walking Dead (2010–2018) and in its spin-off, Fear the Walking Dead (2018–2023), and starring as DCI Tony Gates in Line of Duty series one.
1993 Brandon Flynn

Brandon Flynn

American actor
Brandon Flynn is an American actor known for his role as Justin Foley in the Netflix teen drama series 13 Reasons Why (2017–2020). His work in film and television includes the series Manhunt (2024), Ratched (2020), and True Detective (2019), and the films The Parenting (2025) and Hellraiser (2022).
1925 Elmore Leonard

Elmore Leonard

American novelist, short story writer, and screenwriter (died 2013)
Elmore John Leonard Jr. was an American novelist, short story author and screenwriter. He was, according to British journalist Anthony Lane, "hailed as one of the best crime writers in the land". His earliest novels, published in the 1950s, were Westerns, but he went on to specialize in crime fiction and suspense thrillers, many of which have been adapted into motion pictures. Among his best-known works are Hombre, Swag, City Primeval, LaBrava, Glitz, Freaky Deaky, Get Shorty, Rum Punch, Out of Sight and Tishomingo Blues.
2001 Maja Chwalińska

Maja Chwalińska

Polish tennis player
Maja Ewa Chwalińska is a Polish professional tennis player. She has career-high WTA rankings of No. 21 in singles, achieved on 8 June 2026, and No. 91 in doubles, reached on 9 June 2025. Chwalińska's best result is reaching the final of the 2026 French Open, the first qualifier to achieve the feat at the event.
1971 Justin Lin

Justin Lin

American film director
Justin Lin is a Taiwanese-American filmmaker. His films have grossed over US$3 billion worldwide as of March 2017. He is best known for his directorial work on Better Luck Tomorrow (2002), the Fast & Furious franchise from The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift (2006) to Fast & Furious 6 (2013) and F9 (2021), and Star Trek Beyond (2016). He is also known for his work on television programs like Community, Warrior, and True Detective.
1932 Dottie West

Dottie West

American singer-songwriter and actress (died 1991)
Dottie West was an American country singer and songwriter. She also had several credits as an actress. A distinguished figure in the country genre, West was among several women who helped to elevate the platform of the genre's female artists. She was also known for mentoring up-and-coming artists and being the first woman to win a country music accolade from the Grammy Awards.
1919 Art Blakey

Art Blakey

American drummer and bandleader (died 1990)
Arthur Blakey was an American jazz drummer and bandleader. He was also known as Abdullah Ibn Buhaina after he converted to Islam for a short time in the late 1940s.
1951 Jean-Jacques Goldman

Jean-Jacques Goldman

French singer-songwriter and guitarist
Jean-Jacques Goldman is a French singer-songwriter and record producer whose work remains hugely popular in the French-speaking world. Since the death of Johnny Hallyday in 2017, he has been the highest-grossing living French pop rock act. Born in Paris and active in the French music scene from 1975, Goldman had a highly successful solo career in the 1980s. As part of the trio Fredericks Goldman Jones, he scored another string of hits in the 1990s.
1926

Earle Hyman

American actor (died 2017)
Earle Hyman was an American stage, television, and film actor. Hyman is known for his role on ThunderCats as the voice of Panthro and various other characters. He also appeared on The Cosby Show as Cliff's father, Russell Huxtable. Singer Phyllis Hyman was his cousin.
1951 Jon Miller

Jon Miller

American sportscaster
Jon Miller is an American sportscaster, known primarily for his broadcasts of Major League Baseball. Since 1997, he has been employed as a play-by-play announcer for the San Francisco Giants. He was also a baseball announcer for ESPN from 1990 to 2010. Miller received the Ford C. Frick Award from the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 2010.
1951 Charles Shyer

Charles Shyer

American director, producer, and screenwriter (died 2024)
Charles Richard Shyer was an American filmmaker. Shyer's films are mainly comedies, often with a romcom overtone. His writing-directing credits include Private Benjamin (1980), Irreconcilable Differences (1984), Baby Boom (1987), Father of the Bride (1991), The Parent Trap (1998), The Affair of the Necklace (2001), and Alfie (2004).
1991 Joel Bitonio

Joel Bitonio

American football player
Joel Michael Bitonio is an American former professional football player who spent his entire 12-year career as a guard for the Cleveland Browns of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Nevada Wolf Pack. He was selected by the Browns in the second round of the 2014 NFL draft. During his NFL career, Bitonio was named to seven Pro Bowls, two first-team and three second-team All-Pro teams.
1928 Alfonso de Portago

Alfonso de Portago

Spanish race car driver and bobsledder (died 1957)
Alfonso Cabeza de Vaca y Leighton, 11th Marquess of Portago, GE, best known as Alfonso de Portago, was a Spanish aristocrat, racing and bobsleigh driver, jockey and pilot.
1984 Jane Zhang

Jane Zhang

Chinese singer-songwriter
Zhang Liangying, also known as Jane Zhang, is a Chinese singer, songwriter and record producer. She is known for her signature use of the whistle register and has been dubbed the "Dolphin Princess" (海豚公主). Zhang began performing as a teenager by singing in pubs to help earn money for her family. After signing with Huayi Brothers Media Corporation in 2005, Zhang released her first studio album, The One (2006). Her second album, Update, was released in 2007. Zhang's third studio album, Jane@Music, was released in 2009. Her fourth studio album, Believe in Jane, was released in 2010. In 2011, Zhang released her fifth studio album, Reform, which was certified double platinum by the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI).
1999 Keldon Johnson

Keldon Johnson

American basketball player
Keldon Wilder Johnson is an American professional basketball player for the San Antonio Spurs of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played college basketball for the Kentucky Wildcats.
1919 Douglas Albert Munro

Douglas Albert Munro

United States Coast Guard signalman, posthumously awarded Medal of Honor (died 1942)
Douglas Albert Munro was a United States Coast Guardsman who was posthumously decorated with the Medal of Honor for an act of "extraordinary heroism" during World War II. He is the only person to have received the medal for actions performed during service in the Coast Guard.
1977 Desmond Mason

Desmond Mason

American basketball player and sportscaster
Desmond Tremaine Mason is an American painter and former professional basketball player. He played as a shooting guard and small forward. Mason has also found success as an artist, working in a variety of media. He has served as an NBA analyst and sports radio co-host for The Franchise, a sports talk station in Oklahoma City.
1962 Andy McCoy

Andy McCoy

Finnish musician
Antti Hulkko, better known as Andy McCoy, is a Finnish musician. He is best known for his role as the lead guitarist and main songwriter of the rock band Hanoi Rocks, but has also played with Iggy Pop and a variety of other groups.
1951 Louise Rennison

Louise Rennison

English author and comedian (died 2016)
Louise Rennison was an English author and comedian who wrote the Confessions of Georgia Nicolson series for teenage girls. The series records the exploits of a teenage girl, Georgia Nicolson, and her best friends, the Ace Gang. Her first and second novels, Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging and It's OK, I'm Wearing Really Big Knickers were portrayed in a film adaptation called Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging. Rennison also wrote a series of books about Georgia's younger cousin, The Misadventures of Tallulah Casey.
1935 Daniel Quinn

Daniel Quinn

American author and environmentalist (died 2018)
Daniel Clarence Quinn was an American author, cultural critic, and publisher of educational texts, best known for his novel Ishmael, which won the Turner Tomorrow Fellowship Award in 1991 and was published the following year. Quinn's ideas are popularly associated with environmentalism, though he criticized this term for portraying the environment as separate from human life, thus creating a false dichotomy, and the mainstream environmental movement as misguided and ultimately ineffective. Instead, Quinn referred to his philosophy as "new tribalism".
1973 Dmitri Young

Dmitri Young

American baseball player and radio host
Dmitri Dell Young is an American former professional baseball player. He played all or parts of 13 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a left fielder, first baseman, and designated hitter, for the St. Louis Cardinals, Cincinnati Reds, Detroit Tigers, and Washington Nationals from 1996 through 2008. He is a two-time All-Star and winner of the National League Comeback Player of the Year Award. His younger brother, Delmon Young, also played in MLB.
1932 Barry Jones

Barry Jones

Australian lawyer and politician
Barry Owen Jones is an Australian writer, teacher, lawyer, social activist, quiz champion, and former politician in the Australian Labor Party. He campaigned against the death penalty throughout the 1960s, particularly against the execution of Ronald Ryan. He is on the National Trust's list of Australian Living Treasures.
1916 Ahmad Abd al-Ghafur Attar

Ahmad Abd al-Ghafur Attar

Saudi Arabian writer and journalist (died 1991)
Ahmad Abd al-Ghafur Attar was a Saudi Arabian writer, journalist and poet, best known for his works about 20th-century Islamic challenges. Born in Mecca, capital city of Hejazi Hashemite Kingdom. He received a basic education and graduated from the Saudi Scientific Institute in 1937, took a scholarship for higher studies in Cairo University, then returned to his country and worked in some government offices before devoting himself to literature and research. Attar wrote many works about Arabic linguistic and Islamic studies, and gained fame as a Muslim apologist, anti-communist and anti-Zionist, he who believed in flexibility of Islamic jurisprudence for the modern era. Praised by Abbas Mahmoud al-Aqqad, he was also noted for his defense of Modern Standard Arabic against colloquial or spoken Arabic. In the 1960s, he established the famous Okaz newspaper and then the Kalimat al-Haqq magazine, which lasted only about eight months. He died at the age of 74 in Jeddah.
1999 Leicester Fainga'anuku

Leicester Fainga'anuku

New Zealand rugby union player
Leicester Ofa Ki Wales Twickenham Faingaʻanuku is a rugby union player, who plays as a wing or centre for Tasman in the Bunnings NPC, the Crusaders in Super Rugby and the All Blacks. He previously played for Toulon in the Top 14. Born in Tonga, he represents New Zealand internationally.
1972 Marcus Bai

Marcus Bai

Papua New Guinean rugby league player
Marcus "George" Bai is a Papua New Guinean former professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1990s and 2000s. An international representative winger, he represented Papua New Guinea on numerous occasions including at the 1995 Rugby League World Cup. Bai played club football for English clubs Hull FC, Leeds Rhinos and the Bradford Bulls, as well as Australian clubs the Gold Coast Chargers and Melbourne Storm. He became the first player to have won the World Club Challenge with three clubs. In 2005 he was minutes away from being the first person to win all of the major domestic competitions in both Australia and England however Hull F.C. struck with minutes to go in the Challenge Cup final to deny Leeds Rhinos the Challenge Cup and him a place in the history books.
1991 Gio Urshela

Gio Urshela

Colombian baseball player
Giovanny Urshela Salcedo is a Colombian former professional baseball third baseman who played in Major League Baseball (MLB) from 2015 to 2025. He played for the Cleveland Indians, Toronto Blue Jays, New York Yankees, Minnesota Twins, Los Angeles Angels, Detroit Tigers, Atlanta Braves, and Athletics. Urshela made his MLB debut in 2015 with Cleveland.
1896 Roman Jakobson

Roman Jakobson

Russian-American linguist and theorist (died 1982)
Roman Osipovich Jakobson was a Russian linguist and literary theorist. A pioneer of structural linguistics, Jakobson was one of the most celebrated and influential linguists of the twentieth century. With Nikolai Trubetzkoy, he developed revolutionary new techniques for the analysis of linguistic sound systems, in effect founding the modern discipline of phonology. Jakobson went on to extend similar principles and techniques to the study of other aspects of language such as syntax, morphology and semantics. He made numerous contributions to Slavic linguistics, most notably two studies of Russian case and an analysis of the categories of the Russian verb. Drawing on insights from C. S. Peirce's semiotics, as well as from communication theory and cybernetics, he proposed methods for the investigation of poetry, music, and the visual arts including cinema.
1950

Catlin Adams

American actress
Catlin Adams is an American actress, acting coach and film director. As an actress, she appeared in films including The Jerk and The Jazz Singer.
1884 Eleanor Roosevelt

Eleanor Roosevelt

American humanitarian and politician, 32nd First Lady of the United States (died 1962)
Anna Eleanor Roosevelt was an American political figure, diplomat, and activist. She was the longest-serving first lady of the United States, during her husband Franklin D. Roosevelt's four terms as president from 1933 to 1945. Through her travels, public engagement, and advocacy, she largely redefined the role. Widowed in 1945, she served as a United States delegate to the United Nations General Assembly from 1945 to 1952, and took a leading role in designing the text and gaining international support for the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. In 1948, she was given a standing ovation by the assembly upon their adoption of the declaration. President Harry S. Truman called her the "First Lady of the World" in tribute to her human rights achievements.
1986 Ikioi Shōta

Ikioi Shōta

Japanese sumo wrestler
Ikioi Shōta is a Japanese former professional sumo wrestler from Katano, Osaka. He began his career in March 2005. He won the jūryō championship in November 2011 in his very first tournament in the division and just two tournaments later made his makuuchi division debut. He was runner up to Jōkōryū in the jūryō division in September 2012. His highest rank was sekiwake. He won four special prizes for Fighting Spirit and five gold stars for defeating yokozuna. He did not miss a single bout from his professional debut until the last day of the January 2021 tournament. He retired in June 2021 to become a coach and elder of the Japan Sumo Association under the name Kasugayama.
1961 Steve Young

Steve Young

American football player and sportscaster
Jon Steven Young is an American former professional football quarterback who played in the National Football League (NFL) for 15 seasons, primarily with the San Francisco 49ers. A three time Super Bowl champion, Young was named the NFL Most Valuable Player (MVP) in 1992 and 1994. He previously played for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, who drafted him. Prior to his NFL career, Young played for the Los Angeles Express of the United States Football League (USFL) for two seasons. He played college football for the BYU Cougars, setting school and NCAA records. In 2001, Young was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame. He joined the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2005.
1939 Austin Currie

Austin Currie

Northern Irish lawyer and SDLP politician (died 2021)
Joseph Austin Currie was an Irish politician who served as a Minister of State with responsibility for Children's Rights from 1994 to 1997. He served as a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Dublin West constituency from 1989 to 2002, representing Fine Gael, and as a Member of the Parliament of Northern Ireland (MP) for East Tyrone from 1964 to 1972, representing the Nationalist Party and later the Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP).
1965 Sean Patrick Flanery

Sean Patrick Flanery

American actor and producer
Sean Patrick Flanery is an American actor. He is known for playing Connor MacManus in The Boondock Saints (1999) and its sequel The Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day (2009), Greg Stillson in the television series The Dead Zone, Jeremy "Powder" Reed in Powder (1995), Indiana Jones in the George Lucas television series The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles, as well as Bobby Dagen in Saw 3D (2010). He is also known for his role as Sam Gibson on the CBS soap opera The Young and the Restless in 2011. He starred in Devil's Carnival, a short film which was screened on tour beginning in April 2012.
1985 Nesta Carter

Nesta Carter

Jamaican sprinter
Nesta Carter OD is a Jamaican retired sprinter who specialized in the 100 metres event. Carter was successful as part of the Jamaican 4 × 100 metres relay team, taking gold and setting successive world records at the 2011 World Championships and 2012 London Olympics. He also won a 4 × 100 m silver medal at the 2007 World Championship and a gold at the 2015 World Championships. On August 11, 2013, Carter secured an individual 100 m World Championship bronze medal in Moscow, behind Justin Gatlin and teammate Usain Bolt. He followed this with another gold in the 4 × 100 metres relay.
1949 Henry Luke Orombi

Henry Luke Orombi

Ugandan archbishop
Henry Luke Orombi in Pakwach, North Western Uganda, is a Ugandan Anglican bishop. He served as Archbishop of Uganda and Bishop of Kampala from 2004 until his retirement in December 2012, two years earlier than expected. He was succeeded as Archbishop by Stanley Ntagali, who was consecrated in December 2012. Orombi served as Bishop of the Diocese of Kampala, which is the fixed episcopal see of the Archbishop, but unlike many other fixed metropolitical sees, the incumbent is not officially known as "Archbishop of Kampala", but bears the longer compound title "Archbishop of Uganda and Bishop of Kampala".
1967 David Starr

David Starr

American race car driver
David Leon Starr is an American professional stock car racing driver. He currently competes part-time in the NASCAR O'Reilly Auto Parts Series, driving the No. 53/55 Chevrolet Camaro SS for Joey Gase Motorsports with Scott Osteen, the No. 42 Chevrolet Camaro SS for Young's Motorsports, and the No. 47 Chevrolet Camaro SS for Mike Harmon Racing with Team Stange Racing. He has also previously competed in the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series, where he is a four-time race winner, as well as NASCAR Cup Series, and what are now the ARCA Menards Series and ARCA Menards Series West.
1989 Michelle Wie

Michelle Wie

American golfer
Michelle Sung Wie West is an American professional golfer who plays on the LPGA Tour. At age 10, she became the youngest player to qualify for a USGA amateur championship. Wie also became the youngest winner of the U.S. Women's Amateur Public Links and the youngest to qualify for an LPGA Tour event. She turned professional shortly before her 16th birthday in 2005, accompanied by an enormous amount of publicity and endorsements. She won the Laureus World Breakthrough of the Year in 2004 and her first and only major at the 2014 U.S. Women's Open.
1965 Alexander Hacke

Alexander Hacke

German singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
Alexander Hacke is a German guitarist, bass guitarist, singer, musician, record producer, writer and filmmaker. He is primarily known as a longtime member of the influential German industrial music group Einstürzende Neubauten.
1872 Harlan F. Stone

Harlan F. Stone

American lawyer and jurist, 12th Chief Justice of the United States (died 1946)
Harlan Fiske Stone was an American attorney who served as an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1925 to 1941 and then as the 12th chief justice of the United States from 1941 until his death in 1946. He also served as the U.S. Attorney General from 1924 to 1925 under President Calvin Coolidge, with whom he had attended Amherst College as a young man. His most famous dictum was that "Courts are not the only agency of government that must be assumed to have capacity to govern."
1899 Eddie Dyer

Eddie Dyer

American baseball player and manager (died 1964)
Edwin Hawley Dyer was an American left-handed pitcher, manager and farm system official in Major League Baseball for the St. Louis Cardinals from 1922 to 1944 and 1946–1950. In 1946, Dyer's first season at the helm of the Cardinals, the Redbirds defeated the Brooklyn Dodgers in a thrilling National League season that featured the first postseason playoff in baseball history, then bested the favored Boston Red Sox in a seven-game World Series. He was the second rookie manager to win a World Series and first since Bucky Harris in 1924.
1926 Jean Alexander

Jean Alexander

English actress (died 2016)
Jean Margaret Hodgkinson, known by the stage name Jean Alexander, was a British actress. She was best known to television viewers for her long running role of Hilda Ogden in the soap opera Coronation Street, a role she played from 1964 until 1987, and as Auntie Wainwright in the long-running sitcom Last of the Summer Wine from 1988 to 2010. For her role in Coronation Street, she won the 1985 Royal Television Society Award for Best Performance, and received a 1988 BAFTA TV Award nomination for Best Actress.
1927 Jim Prior

Jim Prior

Baron Prior, English soldier and politician, Secretary of State for Northern Ireland (died 2016)
James Michael Leathes Prior, Baron Prior, was a British Conservative Party politician. A Member of Parliament from 1959 to 1987, he represented the Suffolk constituency of Lowestoft until 1983 and then the renamed constituency of Waveney from 1983 to 1987, when he stood down from the House of Commons and was made a life peer. He served in two Conservative cabinets, and outside parliament was Chairman of the Arab British Chamber of Commerce from 1996 to 2004, and Chancellor of Anglia Ruskin University from 1992 to 1999.
1964 Michael J. Nelson

Michael J. Nelson

American actor, director, and screenwriter
Michael John Nelson is an American comedian and writer, most known for his work on the television series Mystery Science Theater 3000 (MST3K). Nelson was the head writer of the series for most of the show's original eleven-year run, and spent half of that time as the on-air host, also named Mike Nelson. In addition to writing books, Nelson is currently part of the online movie riffing site RiffTrax, and was previously part of the straight-to-DVD Film Crew with fellow MST3K alumni, Bill Corbett and Kevin Murphy.
1985 Michelle Trachtenberg

Michelle Trachtenberg

American actress (died 2025)
Michelle Christine Trachtenberg was an American actress. After beginning her career in commercials at age three, she made her television debut in her first credited role on the Nickelodeon series The Adventures of Pete & Pete (1994–1996) and her feature film debut in the 1996 comedy Harriet the Spy. As a child actress, Trachtenberg starred in several Nickelodeon productions. In 1997, she won a Young Artist Award for her performance in CBS' sitcom Meego. She also played Penny Brown in Disney's 1999 superhero comedy film Inspector Gadget.
1994 T. J. Watt

T. J. Watt

American football player
Trent Jordan Watt is an American professional football outside linebacker for the Pittsburgh Steelers of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Wisconsin Badgers for four years. After redshirting his freshman year, Watt injured his knee in his sophomore year, keeping him out until the 2015 season. Watt broke out in 2016, recording 11.5 sacks and receiving various collegiate honors. After foregoing his last year of college eligibility, Watt was selected by the Steelers in the first round of the 2017 NFL draft.
1951 Miroslav Dvořák

Miroslav Dvořák

Czech ice hockey player (died 2008)
Miroslav Dvořák was a Czechoslovak ice hockey defenseman. He played three seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL) with the Philadelphia Flyers from 1982 to 1985. The rest of his career, which lasted from 1969 to 1989, was mainly spent with HC České Budějovice in the Czechoslovak First Ice Hockey League. Internationally, Dvořák played for the Czechoslovak national team at several Ice Hockey World Championships, winning gold medals in 1976 and 1977, along with six silver medals, and a silver medal at the 1976 Winter Olympics.
1970 Vanessa Harding

Vanessa Harding

American wrestler
Leslie Culton better known by her ring name Vanessa Harding, is a semi-retired American professional wrestler and manager who has competed in North American independent promotions throughout the early 2000s including Full Impact Pro, Future of Wrestling, the Heartland Wrestling Association, Ohio Valley Wrestling and NWA Florida. She has also had short stints in Ring of Honor, World League Wrestling and Women's Extreme Wrestling. She is also known as Elle Cee, where she has appeared in several adult films, such as on the bangbus.com website.
1897 Nathan Farragut Twining

Nathan Farragut Twining

American general (died 1982)
Nathan Farragut Twining was a United States Air Force general. He was the chief of Staff of the United States Air Force from 1953 until 1957, and the third chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff from 1957 to 1960. He was the first member of the Air Force to serve as Chairman. Twining was a distinguished "mustang" officer, rising from private to four-star general and appointment to the highest post in the United States Armed Forces in the course of his 45-year career.
1927 Princess Joséphine Charlotte of Belgium (died 2005)

Princess Joséphine Charlotte of Belgium (died 2005)

Princess Joséphine-Charlotte of Belgium was Grand Duchess of Luxembourg as the wife of Grand Duke Jean. She was the first child of King Leopold III of Belgium, and sister of the late King Baudouin and former King Albert II and aunt of King Philippe. She was also the maternal first cousin of the late King Harald V of Norway, maternal second cousin of former Queen Margrethe II of Denmark, and a paternal third cousin of the late Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom.
1924 Mal Whitfield

Mal Whitfield

American athlete (died 2015)
Malvin Greston Whitfield was an American athlete, goodwill ambassador, and airman. Nicknamed Marvelous Mal, he was the Olympic champion in the 800 meters at the 1948 and 1952 Summer Olympics, and a member of the 1948 gold medal team in the 4 × 400 metres relay. Overall, Whitfield was a five-time Olympic medalist. After his competitive career, he worked for 47 years as a coach, goodwill ambassador, as well as an athletic mentor in Africa on behalf of the United States Information Service.
1977 Rhett McLaughlin

Rhett McLaughlin

American YouTuber
Rhett James McLaughlin and Charles Lincoln "Link" Neal III, collectively known as Rhett & Link, are an American comedy duo. Since 2012, they have created and hosted the YouTube series Good Mythical Morning. Self-styled as "Internetainers", their other notable projects include comedic songs and sketches, their IFC series Rhett & Link: Commercial Kings, their scripted series Rhett & Link's Buddy System on YouTube Premium and Rhett & Link's Wonderhole, their podcast Ear Biscuits, and their novel The Lost Causes of Bleak Creek.
1872 Emily Davison

Emily Davison

English educator and activist (died 1913)
Emily Wilding Davison was an English suffragette who fought for votes for women in Britain in the early twentieth century. A member of the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) and a militant fighter for her cause, she was arrested on nine occasions, went on hunger strike seven times and was force-fed on forty-nine occasions. She died after being hit by King George V's horse Anmer at the 1913 Derby when she walked onto the track during the race.
1982 Terrell Suggs

Terrell Suggs

American football player
Terrell Raymonn Suggs, nicknamed "T-Sizzle", is an American former professional football player who was a linebacker for 17 seasons in the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Arizona State Sun Devils, and was recognized as a unanimous All-American. He was selected by the Baltimore Ravens with the 10th overall pick in the 2003 NFL draft, and is the franchise's all-time leader in sacks. He also played for the Arizona Cardinals and the Kansas City Chiefs.
1980 Nyron Nosworthy

Nyron Nosworthy

English-born Jamaican footballer
Nyron Paul Henry Nosworthy is a former professional footballer who played as a centre back. After beginning his career with Gillingham, he moved to Sunderland in 2005 with whom he played in the Premier League. After two lengthy loan spells with Sheffield United he made a permanent switch to Watford in 2012 but was released in the summer of 2014 after a loan to Bristol City. Nosworthy represented Jamaica at international level, playing fourteen games and scoring once.
1916 Nanaji Deshmukh

Nanaji Deshmukh

Indian educator and activist (died 2010)
Chandikadas Amritrao Deshmukh, better known as Nanaji Deshmukh, was an Indian social activist and politician. He worked in the fields of education, health, and rural self-reliance. He was posthumously awarded the Bharat Ratna, India's highest civilian award in 2019 by the Government of India. He was a leader of the Bharatiya Jana Sangh (BJS), the precursor to the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), alongside being a member of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), a right-wing Hindutva paramilitary organisation.
1991 Toby Fox

Toby Fox

American video game developer and composer
Robert F. "Toby" Fox is an American indie video game developer and composer. He is best known for creating and scoring the 2015 role-playing video game (RPG) Undertale, as well as Deltarune, a parallel story to Undertale released in chapters since 2018, with five of its planned seven chapters released as of October 2026. Undertale has been ranked in numerous publications as one of the greatest video games, and was developed almost entirely by Fox.
1883 Kristian Welhaven

Kristian Welhaven

Norwegian police officer (died 1975)
Kristian Welhaven was a Norwegian police officer. He was chief of police of Oslo for 27 years, from 1927 to 1954. He was a leading force in establishing an organized Norwegian intelligence service before World War II, and in re-establishing it after the war. During the war years Welhaven was arrested by the Germans and imprisoned in both Norway and Germany, before spending the remainder of the war as a civilian internee in Bavaria.
1885 Alfred Haar

Alfred Haar

Hungarian mathematician (died 1933)
Alfréd Haar was a Hungarian mathematician. In 1904 he began to study at the University of Göttingen. His doctorate was supervised by David Hilbert. The Haar measure, Haar wavelet, and Haar transform are named in his honor. Between 1912 and 1919 he taught at Franz Joseph University in Kolozsvár. Together with Frigyes Riesz, he made the University of Szeged a centre of mathematics. He also founded the Acta Scientiarum Mathematicarum journal together with Riesz.
1950 Patty Murray

Patty Murray

American educator and politician
Patricia Lynn Murray is an American politician serving as the senior United States senator from Washington, a seat she has held since 1993. From 2023 to 2025, she held the position of president pro tempore of the United States Senate, becoming the first woman to hold the position. Prior to serving in the U.S. Senate, she served in the Washington State Senate from 1989 to 1993. She is a member of the Democratic Party.
1902 Jayaprakash Narayan

Jayaprakash Narayan

Indian activist and politician (died 1979)
Jayaprakash Narayan Srivastava, also known as JP and Lok Nayak, was an Indian politician, theorist and independence activist. He is mainly remembered for leading the mid-1970s opposition against Prime Minister Indira Gandhi and calling for her overthrow in a "total revolution". In 1999, Narayan was posthumously awarded the Bharat Ratna, India's highest civilian award, in recognition of his social service. His other awards include the Ramon Magsaysay Award for public service in 1965.
1939 Maria Bueno

Maria Bueno

Brazilian tennis player (died 2018)
Maria Esther Andion Bueno was a Brazilian professional tennis player. During her 11-year career in the 1950s and 1960s, she won 19 major titles, making her the most successful South American tennis player in history and the only one ever to win Wimbledon in singles. Bueno was the year-end No. 1 female player in 1959 and 1960 and was known for her graceful style of play, that earned her the nickname "tennis ballerina".
1954 David Michaels

David Michaels

American epidemiologist and politician
David Michaels is an American epidemiologist and professor in the Departments of Environmental and Occupational Health and Epidemiology at the Milken Institute School of Public Health of the George Washington University. He held high-level, senate-confirmed public health positions in the administrations of Presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton, including a stint from 2009 to 2017 as the administrator of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, the longest term of any OSHA administrator.
1835 Ernst Sars

Ernst Sars

Norwegian historian (died 1917)
Johan Ernst Welhaven Sars was a Norwegian professor, historian, author and editor. Assuming perspectives from the positivism philosophical school, his main work was Udsigt over den norske Historie, four volumes issued from 1873 to 1891. He co-edited the magazines Nyt norsk Tidskrift from 1877 to 1878, and Nyt Tidsskrift from 1882 to 1887. He was politically active for the Liberal Party of Norway and among the party's most central theoreticians.
1884 Friedrich Bergius

Friedrich Bergius

German-Argentinian chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1949)
Friedrich Karl Rudolf Bergius was a German chemist known for the Bergius process for producing synthetic fuel from coal, Nobel Prize in Chemistry in recognition of contributions to the invention and development of chemical high-pressure methods. Having worked with IG Farben during World War II, his citizenship came into question following the war, causing him to ultimately flee to Argentina, where he acted as adviser to the Ministry of Industry.
1970 MC Lyte

MC Lyte

American rapper, DJ, and actress
Lana Michele Moorer, better recognized by her stage name MC Lyte, is an American rapper, songwriter, actress, television announcer, and businesswoman. Regarded as a pioneer in the field of female rap, MC Lyte initially gained fame in the late 1980s, becoming the first female rapper to release a full solo album with 1988's critically acclaimed Lyte as a Rock. The album spawned the singles "10% Dis" and "Paper Thin".
1930 LaVell Edwards

LaVell Edwards

American football player and coach (died 2016)
Reuben LaVell Edwards was an American college football head coach for Brigham Young University (BYU). With 257 career victories, he ranks as one of the most successful college football coaches of all time. Among his notable accomplishments, Edwards guided BYU to a national championship in 1984 and coached Heisman Trophy winner Ty Detmer in 1990. Edwards was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 2004.
1959 Wayne Gardner

Wayne Gardner

Australian motorcycle racer
Wayne Michael Gardner is an Australian former professional motorcycle and touring car racer. He competed in the Grand Prix motorcycle racing world championships from 1986 to 1992, most prominently as a member of the Honda factory racing team where he became the first Australian to win motorcycling's premier class in 1987. His success on the world motorcycle road racing circuit earned him the nickname The Wollongong Whiz.
1977 Ty Wigginton

Ty Wigginton

American baseball player
Ty Allen Wigginton is an American former professional baseball infielder. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the New York Mets, Pittsburgh Pirates, Tampa Bay Devil Rays, Houston Astros, Baltimore Orioles, Colorado Rockies, Philadelphia Phillies, and St. Louis Cardinals. He mainly played as a first and third baseman, but also platooned as an infielder and an outfielder during his career. He batted and threw right-handed.
1955 Norm Nixon

Norm Nixon

American basketball player and sportscaster
Norman Ellard Nixon is an American former professional basketball player who played for the Los Angeles Lakers and the San Diego/Los Angeles Clippers of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He also played with Scavolini Pesaro in Italy. Nicknamed "Stormin' Norman", he is a two-time NBA All-Star. He won two NBA championships with the Lakers in 1980 and 1982, at the beginning of their Showtime era.
1985 Peter Ölvecký

Peter Ölvecký

Slovak ice hockey player
Peter Ölvecký is a Slovak professional ice hockey forward. He played 32 games in the National Hockey League with the Minnesota Wild and Nashville Predators from 2008 to 2010. The rest of his career, which lasted from 2003 to 2019, was mainly spent in the Slovak Extraliga. Internationally Ölvecký played for the Slovakian national team at several tournaments, including the 2014 and 2018 Winter Olympics.
1937 Ron Leibman

Ron Leibman

American actor and screenwriter (died 2019)
Ron Leibman was an American actor. He won both the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play and the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actor in a Play in 1993 for his performance as Roy Cohn in Angels in America. Leibman also won a Primetime Emmy Award in 1979 for his role as Martin 'Kaz' Kazinsky in his short-lived crime drama series Kaz.
1996 Rhea Ripley

Rhea Ripley

Australian wrestler
Demi Bennett is an Australian professional wrestler. As of July 2017, she is signed to WWE, where she performs on the SmackDown brand under the ring name Rhea Ripley. She is a former two-time Women's World Champion and a two-time WWE Women's Champion. Ripley's first reign as Women's World Champion is tied with Bayley as the longest in the title's history at 380 days.
1983 Denis Grebeshkov

Denis Grebeshkov

Russian ice hockey player
Denis Sergeyevich Grebeshkov is a Russian former professional ice hockey defenceman who last played for Vityaz Podolsk of the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL). He has previously played in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the Los Angeles Kings, New York Islanders, Edmonton Oilers and Nashville Predators, the former which drafted him in the first round, 18th overall, in the 2002 NHL entry draft.
1947 Lucas Papademos

Lucas Papademos

Greek economist and politician, 183rd Prime Minister of Greece
Lucas Demetrios Papademos is a Greek economist and academic who served as Prime Minister of Greece from November 2011 to May 2012, leading a national unity government in the wake of the Greek debt crisis. A technocrat, he previously served as Vice-President of the European Central Bank from 2002 to 2010 and Governor of the Bank of Greece from 1994 to 2002.
1966 Stephen Williams

Stephen Williams

Welsh lawyer and politician
Stephen Roy Williams is a British Liberal Democrat politician who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Bristol West from the 2005 general election until his defeat by Labour Party candidate Thangam Debbonaire in 2015. As an MP, he served in the Cameron–Clegg coalition government as Parliamentary under-secretary of state in the Department of Communities and Local Government from 2013 to 2015.
1970 Shin Tae-yong

Shin Tae-yong

South Korean footballer and coach
Shin Tae-yong is a South Korean football manager and former professional player. He is currently the head coach of Super League (Indonesia) club Persija Jakarta. He is the first man in history to win the AFC Champions League as both player and manager, having won the 1995 tournament as a player and the 2010 tournament as the manager with Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma.
1909 Sir Ken Anderson

Sir Ken Anderson

Australian politician (died 1985)
Sir Kenneth McColl Anderson was an Australian politician, soldier and businessman. He was a member of the Liberal Party and served as a Senator for New South Wales from 1953 to 1975. He held senior ministerial office in the Coalition governments of the late 1960s and early 1970s, including as Leader of the Government in the Senate from 1968 to 1972.
1930 Sam Johnson

Sam Johnson

American colonel and politician (died 2020)
Samuel Robert Johnson was an American politician who served as the U.S. representative for Texas's 3rd congressional district in Congress from 1991 to 2019. He was a member of the Republican Party. In October and November 2015, he was the acting Chairman of the House Committee on Ways and Means, where he also served as chairman of the Social Security Subcommittee.
1963 Marcus Graham

Marcus Graham

Australian actor
Marcus Graham is an Australian film, television and stage actor, writer and director, with roles including Mulholland Drive and Josh Jarman. He was known as a teenage heartthrob in the early 1990s while starring in the Australian TV soap E Street as the character Stanley 'Wheels' Kovac. He is also known for his role as Harvey Ryan in Home and Away.
1788 Simon Sechter

Simon Sechter

Austrian organist, composer, and conductor (died 1867)
Simon Sechter was an Austrian music theorist, composer, conductor, and organist. He is best known as a strict music teacher, whose many students included Anton Bruckner, Sigismond Thalberg, and Henri Vieuxtemps. In 1851, he was professor of composition at the Vienna Conservatory; after Sechter's death, his student Bruckner would succeed him and continue teaching his approach to harmony and counterpoint.
1901 Masanobu Tsuji

Masanobu Tsuji

Japanese colonel and politician (died 1961)
Masanobu Tsuji was a Japanese army officer, politician, and war criminal. During World War II, he was an important tactical planner in the Imperial Japanese Army and developed the detailed plans for the successful Japanese invasion of Malaya at the start of the war. He also helped plan and lead the final Japanese offensive during the Guadalcanal campaign.
1969 Prince Constantijn of the Netherlands

Prince Constantijn of the Netherlands

Prince Constantijn of the Netherlands is the third and youngest son of the former Dutch queen, Beatrix, and her husband, Claus von Amsberg, and is the younger brother of the reigning Dutch king, Willem-Alexander. He is a member of the Dutch Royal House and currently fourth in the line of succession to the Dutch throne behind his nieces.
1936 C. Gordon Fullerton

C. Gordon Fullerton

American colonel, engineer, and astronaut (died 2013)
Charles Gordon Fullerton was a United States Air Force colonel, a USAF and NASA astronaut, and a research pilot at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Facility, Edwards, California. His assignments included a variety of flight research and support activities piloting NASA's B-52 launch aircraft, the Boeing 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft (SCA), and other multi-engine and high performance aircraft.
1963 Rima Te Wiata

Rima Te Wiata

English-New Zealand actress and singer
Heather Rima Te Wiata is a New Zealand actress, comedian, singer and voice artist, who is also notable for her career in Australia. Her career in stage, TV and film has spanned over 50 years and she is especially known her long-running recurring role in TV soap opera Sons and Daughters as Janice Reid in 204 episodes.
1844 Henry J. Heinz

Henry J. Heinz

American businessman, founded the H. J. Heinz Company (died 1919)
Henry John Heinz was an American entrepreneur who co-founded the H. J. Heinz Company of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He was involved in the passage of the 1906 Pure Food and Drug Act. Many of his descendants are known for philanthropy and involvement in politics and public affairs. His fortune became the basis for the Heinz Foundations.
1926 Neville Wran

Neville Wran

Australian lawyer and politician, 35th Premier of New South Wales (died 2014)
Neville Kenneth Wran was an Australian politician who was the Premier of New South Wales from 1976 to 1986. He was the national president of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) from 1980 to 1986 and chairman of both the Lionel Murphy Foundation and the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) from 1986 to 1991.
1936 James M. McPherson

James M. McPherson

American historian and author
James Munro McPherson is an American historian specializing in the American Civil War. He is the George Henry Davis '86 Professor Emeritus of United States History at Princeton University. He received the 1989 Pulitzer Prize for Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era. McPherson was the president of the American Historical Association in 2003.
1979 Kim Yong-dae

Kim Yong-dae

South Korean footballer
Kim Yong-dae is a South Korean former football goalkeeper who last played for Ulsan Hyundai. He is considered one of South Korea's best goalkeepers even to the point where he had been nicknamed by fans as "Yong Der Sar" in reference to former goalkeeper Edwin van der Sar of Manchester United and the Netherlands.
1814 Jean-Baptiste Lamy

Jean-Baptiste Lamy

French-American archbishop (died 1888)
Jean-Baptiste Lamy, was a French-American Catholic prelate who served as the first Archbishop of Santa Fe, New Mexico. Willa Cather's novel Death Comes for the Archbishop is based on his life and career, as is Paul Horgan's nonfiction work Lamy of Santa Fe. He sometimes anglicised his name to John Baptist Lamy.
1974 Rachel Barton Pine

Rachel Barton Pine

American violinist and educator
Rachel Barton Pine is an American violinist. She debuted with the Chicago Symphony at age 10, and was the first American and youngest ever gold medal winner of the International Johann Sebastian Bach Competition. The Washington Post wrote that she "displays a power and confidence that puts her in the top echelon."
1943 Gene Watson

Gene Watson

American singer-songwriter and producer
Gary Gene Watson is an American country music singer. He is most famous for his 1975 hit "Love in the Hot Afternoon", his 1981 number-one hit "Fourteen Carat Mind", and his signature 1979 song "Farewell Party". Watson's long career has included five number-one hits, 21 top 10s, and 48 charted singles.
1987

Nathan Coulter-Nile

Australian cricketer
Nathan Mitchell Coulter-Nile is an Australian cricketer who has played at One Day International (ODI) and Twenty20 International level for the Australian national team. Domestically, he is contracted to Western Australia and the Melbourne Stars. From Perth, Western Australia, Coulter-Nile attended Aquinas College, and represented the state under-17 and under-19 teams, later going on to play three youth ODI matches for the Australian national under-19 team. Having held a rookie contract from the Western Australian Cricket Association (WACA) for several seasons, he made his debut at state level during the 2009–10 season, and has since become a regular selection in Western Australia and the Perth Scorchers' fast bowling attacks. Coulter-Nile made his Twenty20 International debut for the Australian national cricket team in February 2013, and his ODI debut in September 2013.
1943 John Nettles

John Nettles

English actor and writer
John Vivian Drummond Nettles is an English actor, author, and historian. He is best known for his starring roles as detectives in the crime drama television series Bergerac (1981–1991) in the title role, and Midsomer Murders (1997–2011) as Detective Chief Inspector Tom Barnaby. He has also narrated several television series.
1965 Orlando Hernández

Orlando Hernández

Cuban baseball player
Orlando Hernández Pedroso, nicknamed "El Duque", is a Cuban-born right-handed former professional baseball pitcher. He pitched for the Industriales of the Cuban National Series, the New York Yankees, Chicago White Sox, Arizona Diamondbacks, and New York Mets of Major League Baseball, and the Cuban national baseball team in international play.
1616 Andreas Gryphius

Andreas Gryphius

German poet and playwright (died 1664)
Andreas Gryphius was a German poet and playwright. With his eloquent sonnets, which contains "The Suffering, Frailty of Life and the World", he is considered one of the most important Baroque poets of the Germanosphere. He was one of the first improvers of the German language and German poetry.
1945 Andrew Logan

Andrew Logan

English sculptor and painter
Andrew Logan is an English sculptor, performance artist, jewellery-maker, and portraitist. He founded the Alternative Miss World in 1972, and his works have been exhibited in museums around the world. A museum dedicated to his works, The Andrew Logan Museum of Sculpture, opened in Berriew in Wales in 1991.
1949 Lawrence Tanter

Lawrence Tanter

American basketball player and sportscaster
Lawrence Tanter, also known as L.T., was an American public address announcer for the Los Angeles Lakers of the National Basketball Association (NBA). While working with the Lakers, he was a longtime disc jockey and program director at both jazz and rhythm and blues radio stations in Los Angeles.
1926 Thích Nhất Hạnh

Thích Nhất Hạnh

Vietnamese monk, author, and poet (died 2022)
Thích Nhất Hạnh was a Vietnamese Thiền Buddhist monk, peace activist, prolific author, poet, and teacher, who founded the Plum Village Tradition, historically recognized as the main inspiration for engaged Buddhism. Known as the "father of mindfulness", Nhất Hạnh was a major influence on Western practices of Buddhism.
1928 Roscoe Robinson Jr.

Roscoe Robinson Jr.

American general (died 1993)
Roscoe Robinson Jr. was the first African American to become a four-star general in the United States Army. He served as the United States representative to the NATO Military Committee. Robinson previously served as commanding general of the 82nd Airborne Division and then of United States Army, Japan.
1778 George Bridgetower

George Bridgetower

British musician and composer (died 1860)
George Augustus Polgreen Bridgetower was a British musician, of African and Polish descent. He was a virtuoso violinist who lived in England for much of his life. His playing impressed Beethoven, who made Bridgetower the original dedicatee of his Kreutzer Sonata after they presented its premiere performance.
1995 Nicolás Jarry

Nicolás Jarry

Chilean tennis player
Nicolas Jarry Fillol is a Chilean professional tennis player. He has a career-high ATP singles ranking of world No. 16, achieved on 20 May 2024, and a doubles ranking of No. 40, attained on 18 March 2019. He is currently the No. 4 singles player from Chile.
1913 Joe Simon

Joe Simon

American author and illustrator (died 2011)
Joseph Henry Simon was an American comic book writer, artist, editor, and publisher. Simon created or co-created many important characters in the 1930s–1940s Golden Age of Comic Books and served as the first editor of Timely Comics, the company that would evolve into Marvel Comics.
1973 Greg Chalmers

Greg Chalmers

Australian golfer
Gregory John Chalmers is an Australian professional golfer. Chalmers has played primarily on the PGA Tour of Australasia and PGA Tour. He is a two-time winner of the Australian Open and late in his career eventually won a PGA Tour event, the 2016 Barracuda Championship.
1946 Sawao Katō

Sawao Katō

Japanese gymnast
Sawao Katō is a Japanese former gymnast and one of the most successful Olympic athletes of all time. Between 1968 and 1976 he won twelve Olympic medals, including eight gold medals, making him the most successful Japanese Olympian by number of gold medals won.
1984 Martha MacIsaac

Martha MacIsaac

Canadian-American actress, producer, and screenwriter
Martha MacIsaac is a Canadian actress. She has appeared in several feature films, including Superbad (2007), The Last House on the Left (2009), Dead Before Dawn (2012), and Battle of the Sexes (2017). She has also worked in television and as a voice actress.
1881 Hans Kelsen

Hans Kelsen

Czech-American jurist and philosopher (died 1973)
Hans Kelsen was an Austrian and later American jurist, legal philosopher and political philosopher. He is known principally for his theory of law, which he named the "pure theory of law ", and for his writings on international law and theory of democracy.
1967 Peter Thiel

Peter Thiel

German and American entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and political activist
Peter Andreas Thiel is a German-American entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and conservative political activist. A co-founder of PayPal, Palantir Technologies, and Founders Fund, he was also the first outside investor in Facebook. As of October 2026, Forbes estimated Thiel's net worth at US$37.7 billion.
1675 Samuel Clarke

Samuel Clarke

English minister and philosopher (died 1729)
Samuel Clarke was an English philosopher and Anglican priest. He is considered the major British figure in philosophy between John Locke and George Berkeley. Clarke's altered, Nontrinitarian revision of the 1662 Book of Common Prayer continues to influence worship among modern Unitarians.
1815 Pierre Napoléon Bonaparte

Pierre Napoléon Bonaparte

Italian-French politician (died 1881)
Prince Pierre-Napoléon Bonaparte was a French nobleman, revolutionary and politician, the son of Lucien Bonaparte and his second wife Alexandrine de Bleschamp. He was a nephew of Napoleon I, Joseph Bonaparte, Elisa Bonaparte, Louis Bonaparte, Pauline Bonaparte, Caroline Bonaparte and Jérôme Bonaparte.
1915 T. Llew Jones

T. Llew Jones

Welsh author and poet (died 2009)
Thomas Llewelyn Jones was a Welsh language author. Over a writing career of more than 50 years, he became one of the most prolific and popular authors of children's books in Welsh. He wrote, and was generally known, as T. Llew Jones.
1821 George Williams

George Williams

English philanthropist, founded the YMCA (died 1905)
Sir George Williams was an English philanthropist, businessman and founder of the Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA). The oldest and largest youth charity in the world, its aim is to support young people to belong, contribute and thrive in their communities.
1956 Nicanor Duarte

Nicanor Duarte

Paraguayan lawyer and politician, President of Paraguay
Óscar Nicanor Duarte Frutos is a Paraguayan lawyer, journalist and politician who served as the 47th President of Paraguay from 2003 to 2008. A member of the Colorado Party, he became the central figure of Paraguayan politics during his presidency.
1885 François Mauriac

François Mauriac

French novelist, poet, and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1970)
François Charles Mauriac was a French novelist, dramatist, critic, poet, and journalist, a member of the Académie française, and laureate of the Nobel Prize in Literature (1952). He was awarded the Grand Cross of the Légion d'honneur in 1958.
1894 Julius Kuperjanov

Julius Kuperjanov

Estonian educator and lieutenant (died 1919)
Julius Kuperjanov VR I/2, VR II/2 and VR II/3 was an Estonian military officer who helped to liberate Tartu during the War of Independence, and was the commander of the Tartumaa Partisan Battalion, posthumously renamed the Kuperjanov Infantry Battalion.
1973 Brendan B. Brown

Brendan B. Brown

American singer-songwriter and guitarist
Wheatus is an American rock band from New York City, formed in 1995. Their 2000 single, "Teenage Dirtbag" and 2001 cover version of Erasure's "A Little Respect" charted worldwide. Their self-titled album was certified platinum in the United Kingdom.
1979 Andy Douglas

Andy Douglas

American wrestler
The Naturals were a professional wrestling tag team made up of Andy Douglas and Chase Stevens. They are best known for their work in Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA), where they are former three-time NWA World Tag Team Champions.
1739 Grigory Potemkin

Grigory Potemkin

Russian general and politician (died 1791)
Prince Grigory Aleksandrovich Potemkin-Tauricheski was a Russian military leader, statesman, nobleman, and favourite of Catherine the Great. He died during negotiations over the Treaty of Iași, which ended a war with the Ottoman Empire that he had overseen.
1786 Stevenson Archer

Stevenson Archer

American judge and politician (died 1848)
Stevenson Archer was a judge and United States Representative from Maryland, representing the sixth district from 1811 to 1817 and from 1819 to 1821. His son Stevenson Archer and father John Archer were also U.S. Congressmen from Maryland.
1960 Nicola Bryant

Nicola Bryant

English actress
Nicola Jane Bryant is an English actress best known for her role as Peri Brown, a companion to both the Fifth and Sixth Doctors, in the BBC science fiction television series Doctor Who, from 1984 to 1986.
1976 Dominic Aitchison

Dominic Aitchison

Scottish bass player and songwriter
Dominic Aitchison is a Scottish bassist and songwriter. He is best known as the bassist and founding member of post-rock band Mogwai. Aside from Mogwai, he also played bass guitar in Crippled Black Phoenix and Stage Blood.
1987 Mike Conley Jr.

Mike Conley Jr.

American basketball player
Michael Alexander Conley Jr. is an American professional basketball player for the Boston Celtics of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He was drafted as the fourth overall pick in the 2007 NBA draft by the Memphis Grizzlies.
1977 Matt Bomer

Matt Bomer

American actor and producer
Matthew Staton Bomer is an American actor. His works have earned him accolades including a Golden Globe Award, a Critics' Choice Television Award, and a Peabody Award, in addition to nominations for two Primetime Emmy Awards.
1957 Francky Dury

Francky Dury

Belgian footballer and manager
Francky Dury is a Belgian football manager. He most recently managed Zulte Waregem, the team he coached for almost 20 years. Before that, he had already worked for their predecessor Zultse VV for 10 seasons.
1758 Heinrich Wilhelm Matthias Olbers

Heinrich Wilhelm Matthias Olbers

German physician and astronomer (died 1840)
Heinrich Wilhelm Matthias Olbers was a German astronomer. He found a convenient method of calculating the orbit of comets, and in 1802 and 1807, discovered the second and the fourth asteroids Pallas and Vesta.
1884 Sig Ruman

Sig Ruman

German-American actor (died 1967)
Siegfried Carl Alban Rumann, billed as Sig Ruman and Sig Rumann, was a German-American character actor known for his portrayals of pompous and often stereotypically Teutonic officials or villains in more than 100 films.
1954 Vojislav Šešelj

Vojislav Šešelj

Serbian lawyer and politician, Deputy Prime Minister of Serbia
Vojislav Šešelj is a Serbian politician and war criminal. He is the founder and president of the far-right Serbian Radical Party (SRS). From 1998 to 2000, he was a deputy prime minister of Serbia.
1910 Cahit Arf

Cahit Arf

Turkish mathematician and academic (died 1997)
Cahit Arf was a Turkish mathematician. He is known for the Arf invariant of a quadratic form in characteristic 2 in topology, the Hasse–Arf theorem in ramification theory, Arf semigroups and Arf rings.
1988 Ricochet

Ricochet

American wrestler
Trevor Mann, known by his ring name Ricochet, is an American professional wrestler. As of August 2024, he is signed to All Elite Wrestling (AEW), where he is the leader of The Demand.
1835 Theodore Thomas

Theodore Thomas

American conductor, founded the Chicago Symphony Orchestra (died 1905)
Theodore Thomas was a German-American violinist, conductor, and orchestrator. He is considered the first renowned American orchestral conductor and was the founder and first music director of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra (1891–1905).
1905 Fred Trump

Fred Trump

American real estate entrepreneur (died 1999)
Frederick Christ Trump was an American real estate developer and businessman. He was the father of Donald Trump, the 45th and 47th president of the United States, along with four other children.
1969 Stephen Moyer

Stephen Moyer

English actor
Stephen John Emery, known professionally as Stephen Moyer, is an English actor and film director. He is best known for portraying the vampire Bill Compton in the HBO television series True Blood.
1941 Lester Bowie

Lester Bowie

American trumpet player and composer (died 1999)
Lester Bowie was an American jazz trumpet player and composer. He was a member of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians and co-founded the Art Ensemble of Chicago.
1969 Merieme Chadid

Merieme Chadid

Moroccan astronomer and explorer
Merieme Chadid is a Moroccan-French astronomer, explorer and astrophysicist. She leads international polar scientific programs and has been committed to installing a major astronomical observatory at the heart of Antarctica.
1977 Jérémie Janot

Jérémie Janot

French footballer and manager
Jérémie Roger Janot is a French former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper. He played for Saint-Étienne for 16 years of his career, and last played for Le Mans.
1671 Frederick IV of Denmark (died 1730)

Frederick IV of Denmark (died 1730)

Frederick IV was King of Denmark and Norway from 1699 until his death. Frederick was the son of Christian V of Denmark–Norway and his wife Charlotte Amalie of Hesse-Kassel.
1948 Peter Turkson

Peter Turkson

Ghanaian cardinal
Peter Kodwo Appiah Turkson is a Ghanaian Catholic prelate who has been a cardinal since 2003 and has served as chancellor of the Pontifical Academies of Sciences since 2022.
1960 Curt Ford

Curt Ford

American baseball player and manager
Curtis Glenn Ford is an American former professional baseball outfielder, who played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the St. Louis Cardinals and Philadelphia Phillies, from 1985 through 1990.
1973 Steven Pressley

Steven Pressley

Scottish footballer and manager
Steven John Pressley is a Scottish professional football manager and former player who played as a centre back. He is currently the head coach of Scottish Premiership club Dundee.
1865 Hans E. Kinck

Hans E. Kinck

Norwegian philologist and author (died 1926)
Hans Ernst Kinck was a Norwegian author and philologist who wrote novels, short stories, dramas, and essays. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature seven times.
1978 Trevor Donovan

Trevor Donovan

American actor
Trevor Donovan Neubauer is an American actor, author, and model. He is best known for his role as Teddy Montgomery on The CW teen drama series 90210 (2009–2013).
1911 Nello Pagani

Nello Pagani

Italian motorcycle racer and race car driver (died 2003)
Cirillo Pagani, nicknamed "Nello", was an Italian Grand Prix motorcycle road racer and Formula One driver. He was born in Milan, Lombardy, and died in Bresso.
1943 Ilmar Reepalu

Ilmar Reepalu

Swedish lawyer and politician
Ilmar Reepalu is a Swedish Social Democratic politician of Estonian origin who was the 17th chairman of the municipal board in Malmö from 1994 to 2013.
1956 Derek Ringer

Derek Ringer

Scottish race car driver
Derek Ringer is a British rally co-driver from Scotland. He is most closely associated with Colin McRae, with whom he won the 1995 World Rally Championship.
1982 Jeff Larish

Jeff Larish

American baseball player
Jeffrey David Larish is an American former professional baseball infielder and outfielder. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Detroit Tigers and Oakland Athletics.
1984 Zeb Taia

Zeb Taia

Australian-New Zealand rugby league player
Zeb Taia is a former professional rugby league footballer who played as a second-row forward for both New Zealand and the Cook Islands at international level.
1992 Riffi Mandanda

Riffi Mandanda

Congolese footballer
Riffi Mandanda is a former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper. Born in France, he is a former youth international for France and DR Congo.
1552 Tsarevich Dmitry Ivanovich of Russia

Tsarevich Dmitry Ivanovich of Russia

Grand Prince of Moscow (died 1553)
Dmitry Ivanovich was the eldest son of Ivan the Terrible, the Tsar of all Russia, and as such the first Tsarevich. He died in infancy.
1952

Paulette Carlson

American singer-songwriter and guitarist
Paulette Tenae Carlson is an American country music singer-songwriter, who rose to fame in the 1980s as the founder and lead vocalist for the country band Highway 101. With Highway 101, she charted four No. 1 hit singles, seven Top 10 hits and won two Country Music Association Awards. As a solo artist, she has charted five times on Hot Country Songs and recorded three studio albums. Her most successful solo single is "I'll Start with You", which peaked at number 21 in 1991. Carlson continues to tour and record new music as a solo artist.
1990

Joo

South Korean singer and actress
Jung Min-joo, born Jung A-rin and known professionally as Joo, is a South Korean singer, songwriter and musical actress. In 2006, she became a contestant on JYP Entertainment's Superstar Survival. Although she didn't win, she was accepted as a trainee at JYP Entertainment. After two years of training, Joo debuted as a soloist with her single album Young Girl in January 2008. However, she resumed training for two years, as she didn't feel ready for her debut. Joo later returned in January 2011 by releasing her EP Heartmade.
1948

David Rendall

English tenor and actor
David Montague Rendall was an English operatic tenor who developed an international career performing regularly at the Royal Opera House in London and the Metropolitan Opera in New York City. His roles included Ferrando in Mozart's Così fan tutte and other Mozart roles, Almaviva in Rossini's The Barber of Seville and Matteo in R. Strauss's Arabella. He appeared at leading opera houses in Europe, the United States and Japan, growing into heavier roles such as Verdi's Otello and Wagner's Lohengrin.
1992

Christian Davis

English cricketer
Christian Arthur Linghorne Davis is an English former cricketer who played for Sussex. He is a right-handed batsman and left arm fast-medium bowler. He made his one day debut for Northamptonshire against Essex, on 8 August 2010. He has since played four first-class matches for Leeds-Bradford MCCU, and played for Sussex in one day and first-class cricket. In July 2016 he scored the record individual score for Sussex 2nd XI, 258* against Glamorgan 2nd XI at Abergavenny
1977

Igor Figueiredo

Brazilian snooker player
Igor Almeida Figueiredo is a Brazilian professional snooker player. As an amateur, Figueiredo entered the International Open Series (PIOS) tour in 2009 finishing 12th at year end. The same year, he was a finalist at the IBSF World Championship, earning himself a wild card entry onto the main tour for 2010. He went on to play as a professional from 2010 to 2017 but was relegated from the tour at the end of the 2017 season.
1968

Brett Salisbury

American football player and author
Brett Jon Salisbury is an American former college football quarterback, model, and author. He played college football at Brigham Young University, the University of Oregon, and Wayne State College before playing professionally in Europe. During the mid-1990s he also worked as an international commercial model based primarily in Milan, Italy, and Scandinavia. In 2012, L'Uomo Vogue included Salisbury at No. 15 in its feature "The Top 25 Male Models Ever."
1961

Neil Buchanan

English guitarist
Neil Buchanan is an English artist, photographer, and musician, best known for his work on British children's television. During his tenure as a children's television presenter, he hosted the CITV programme Art Attack, a television programme that he co-created, during its original run from 1990 to 2007, as well as Finders Keepers and It's a Mystery, while he also produced and starred in CITV's ZZZap!.
1938

Darrall Imhoff

American basketball player (died 2017)
Darrall Tucker Imhoff was an American professional basketball player. He spent 12 seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA), playing for six teams from 1960 to 1972. He made an NBA All-Star team, and was also an Olympic Gold medalist. He is often remembered for being one of the defenders tasked with guarding Wilt Chamberlain during his famed 100-point game in 1962.
1879

Ernst Mally

Austrian philosopher and academic (died 1944)
Ernst Mally was an Austrian analytic philosopher, initially affiliated with Alexius Meinong's Graz School of object theory. Mally was one of the founders of deontic logic and is mainly known for his contributions in that field of research. In metaphysics, he is known for introducing a distinction between two kinds of predication, better known as the dual predication approach.
1960

Randy Breuer

American basketball player
Randall W. Breuer is an American former professional basketball player who was selected by the Milwaukee Bucks in the first round of the 1983 NBA draft. A 7'3" center from the University of Minnesota, Breuer played in 11 NBA seasons from 1983 to 1994. He played for the Bucks, Minnesota Timberwolves, Atlanta Hawks and Sacramento Kings.
1970

Chidi Ahanotu

American football player
Chidi Obioma Ahanotu is an American former professional football player who was a defensive end in the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the California Golden Bears and was selected in the 1993 NFL draft by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, for whom he would play in nine of his twelve professional seasons.
1672

Pylyp Orlyk

Ukrainian-Romanian diplomat (died 1742)
Pylyp Stepanovych Orlyk was a Zaporozhian Cossack statesman, diplomat and member of Cossack starshyna. Described as the first Ukrainian political emigrant, he served as the hetman in exile from 1710 to 1742. He was a close associate of hetman Ivan Mazepa, and the author of the Constitution of Pylyp Orlyk.
1956

Stephen Spinella

American actor
Stephen Spinella is an American actor. He originated the role of Prior Walter in the original Broadway production of Angels in America, winning the 1993 Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play and the 1994 Tony Award for Best Leading Actor in a Play.
1793

Maria James

Welsh-born American poet, domestic servant (died 1868)
Maria James was a Welsh-born American poet and domestic servant. Her poetry includes Ode on the Fourth of July 1833. As a child, she emigrated with her family from Wales to New York. She would spend most of her life in this state.
1951

Bruce Bartlett

American economist, historian, and author
Bruce Reeves Bartlett is an American historian and author. He served as a domestic policy adviser to Ronald Reagan and as a Treasury official under George H. W. Bush. Bartlett also writes for the New York Times Economix blog.
1922

G. C. Edmondson

American soldier and author (died 1995)
G. C. Edmondson was the working name of science fiction author Garry Edmonson. According to the obituary published in Locus Magazine, Edmondson was born in Washington state During World War II he served as a U. S. Marine.
1943

Keith Boyce

Barbadian cricketer (died 1996)
Keith David Boyce was a cricketer who played 21 Tests and 8 One Day Internationals for the West Indies between 1971 and 1976. He was a member of the squad that won the 1975 Cricket World Cup.
1946

Elinor Goodman

English journalist
Elinor Mary Goodman is a UK journalist, best known as political editor of Channel 4 News from 1988 to 2005. She was educated at the Manor House School, an independent school in Surrey, England.
1968

Claude Lapointe

Canadian ice hockey player and coach
Claude Lapointe is a Canadian former ice hockey player. He played in the National Hockey League for the Quebec Nordiques, Colorado Avalanche, Calgary Flames, New York Islanders, and Philadelphia Flyers between 1991 and 2004.
1978

Carl Bussey

American soccer player
Carl Bussey is an American retired soccer midfielder who played professionally in Major League Soccer and the USL First Division. He played three games for the U.S. at the 1995 FIFA U-17 World Championship.
1938

Michael Stear

English air marshal (died 2020)
Air Chief Marshal Sir Michael James Douglas Stear, was a senior commander of the Royal Air Force (RAF). He served as Deputy Commander in Chief, Allied Forces Central Europe from 1992 to 1996.
1944

Rodney Marsh

English footballer, manager, and sportscaster
Rodney William Marsh is an English former footballer and football coach; he later worked as a broadcaster. A forward, he won nine caps for England between 1971 and 1973, scoring one international goal.
1947

Alan Pascoe

English hurdler
Alan Peter Pascoe is a British former athlete who gained success in hurdles and competed at three Olympic Games. After his athletics career, he has been successful in events marketing and consulting.
1924

André Emmerich

German-American art dealer (died 2007)
André Emmerich was a German-born American gallerist who specialized in the color field school and pre-Columbian art while also taking on artists such as David Hockney and John D. Graham.
1930

Michael Edwardes

South African-English businessman (died 2019)
Sir Michael Owen Edwardes was a British-South African business executive who held chairmanships at several companies - most notably motor manufacturer British Leyland in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
1950

William R. Forstchen

American historian and author
William R. Forstchen is an American historian and author. A professor of History and Faculty Fellow at Montreat College, in Montreat, North Carolina, he received his doctorate from Purdue University.
1924

Sammy McCrory

Northern Irish footballer (died 2011)
Samuel McKee McCrory was a professional footballer from Northern Ireland, most notably spending five years with Southend United and scoring the first goal at their Roots Hall stadium.
1994

Clésio Baúque

Mozambican footballer
Clésio Palmirim David Baúque, known simply as Clésio, is a Mozambican professional footballer who plays as a winger for Mozambican side Black Bulls and the Mozambique national team.
1943

Michael Harloe

English sociologist and academic
Professor Michael Harloe was the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Salford between 1997 and 2009, and is a social scientist who has worked for many years on issues of urban and regional development.
1492 Charles Orlando

Charles Orlando

Dauphin of France, French noble (died 1495)
Charles Orlando, Dauphin of France was the eldest son and heir of King Charles VIII of France and Duchess Anne of Brittany.
1661 Melchior de Polignac

Melchior de Polignac

French cardinal and poet (died 1742)
Melchior Cardinal de Polignac was a French diplomat, Cardinal and Neo-Latin poet.
1738 Arthur Phillip

Arthur Phillip

English admiral and politician, 1st Governor of New South Wales (died 1814)
Arthur Phillip was a Royal Navy officer who served as the first governor of the Colony of New South Wales.
1782 Steen Steensen Blicher

Steen Steensen Blicher

Danish author and poet (died 1848)
Steen Steensen Blicher was a writer and poet born in Vium near Viborg, Denmark.
1803 Gregor von Helmersen

Gregor von Helmersen

Estonian-Russian general and geologist (died 1885)
Gregor von Helmersen or Grigory Petrovich Helmersen was a Baltic German geologist.
1827 Afzal-ud-Daulah

Afzal-ud-Daulah

Asaf Jah V, 5th Nizam of Hyderabad
Afzal ad-Dawlah, Asaf Jah V Mir Tahniyat Ali Khan Siddiqi was the fifth Nizam of Hyderabad, India, from 1857 to 1869.
1871 Johan Oscar Smith

Johan Oscar Smith

Norwegian evangelist, founded the Brunstad Christian Church (died 1943)
Johan Oscar Smith was a Norwegian Christian leader who founded the evangelical non-denominational fellowship now known as Brunstad Christian Church.
1890

A. V. Kulasingham

Sri Lankan journalist, lawyer, and politician (died 1978)
Aiyathurai Varnakulasingham Kulasingham was a Ceylon Tamil lawyer, politician, journalist and editor of the Ceylon Daily News and Hindu Organ.
1918

Fred Bodsworth

Canadian journalist and author (died 2012)
Charles Frederick "Fred" Bodsworth was a Canadian writer, journalist and amateur naturalist.
1918 Jerome Robbins

Jerome Robbins

American director, producer, and choreographer (died 1998)
Jerome Robbins was an American dancer, choreographer, film director, theatre director and producer who worked in classical ballet, and on stage, film, and television.
1926 Yvon Dupuis

Yvon Dupuis

Canadian politician (died 2017)
Yvon Dupuis, was a Canadian politician.
1928 Geoffrey Tordoff

Geoffrey Tordoff

Baron Tordoff, English businessman and politician (died 2019)
Geoffrey Johnson Tordoff, Baron Tordoff was a British businessman and politician.
1929

Curtis Amy

American saxophonist and clarinetist (died 2002)
Curtis Edward Amy was an American jazz saxophonist.
1932 Saul Friedländer

Saul Friedländer

Israeli historian and author
Saul Friedländer is a Czech-born Jewish historian and a professor emeritus of history at UCLA.
1935

Dan Evins

American businessman, founded Cracker Barrel Old Country Store (died 2012)
Danny Wood Evins was an American entrepreneur and founder of Cracker Barrel, a Southern-themed restaurant chain.
1936 Billy Higgins

Billy Higgins

American drummer and educator (died 2001)
Billy Higgins was an American jazz drummer. He played mainly free jazz and hard bop.
1937 R. H. W. Dillard

R. H. W. Dillard

American poet, author, and critic (died 2023)
Richard Henry Wilde Dillard was an American poet, author, critic, and translator.
1940 Lucy Morgan

Lucy Morgan

American newspaper reporter (died 2023)
Lucy Ware Morgan was an American long-time reporter and editorialist at the Tampa Bay Times.
1942 Richard Wilson

Richard Wilson

Baron Wilson of Dinton, Welsh academic and politician
Richard Thomas James Wilson, Baron Wilson of Dinton, is a member of the British House of Lords and former Cabinet Secretary.
1947

Thomas Boswell

American journalist and author
Thomas M. Boswell is an American retired sports columnist who spent his whole career with The Washington Post.
1950 Amos Gitai

Amos Gitai

Israeli director, producer, and author
Amos Gitai is an Israeli artist and filmmaker, born 11 October 1950 in Haifa, Israel.
1956 Doug Lawrence

Doug Lawrence

American jazz saxophonist
Doug Lawrence is an American jazz tenor saxophonist from Lake Charles, Louisiana, United States.
1959

Allan Little

Scottish journalist and author
James Allan Stuart Little is a Special Correspondent for BBC News, based at New Broadcasting House, London.
1960

Gábor Pölöskei

Hungarian footballer and manager
Gábor Pölöskei is a retired Hungarian football player and current manager.
1963

Brian Rice

Scottish footballer and manager
Brian Rice is a Scottish football coach and former player, who is currently first team coach to David Martindale at Scottish Premiership club Livingston.
1963 Ronny Rosenthal

Ronny Rosenthal

Israeli footballer
Ronny Rosenthal, nicknamed "Rocket Ronny", is an Israeli former footballer who played as a forward.
1965

Volodymyr Horilyi

Ukrainian footballer and coach
Volodymyr Ivanovych Horilyi is a Soviet and Ukrainian retired football defender and a football coach.
1966 Todd Snider

Todd Snider

American singer-songwriter
Todd Daniel Snider was an American singer-songwriter whose music incorporated elements of folk, rock, blues, alt country and funk.
1967 Jay Grdina

Jay Grdina

American businessman and pornographic actor
John G. "Jay" Grdina is an American businessman and former pornographic actor. He is often credited under the stage name Justin Sterling.
1970 Andy Marriott

Andy Marriott

English-Welsh footballer and manager
Andrew Marriott is an English-born Welsh professional footballer, who played as a goalkeeper. He represented the Welsh national team.
1971

Oleksandr Pomazun

Ukrainian footballer and manager
Aleksandr Vasil'evich Pomazun is a former goalkeeper and football coach. He is the goalkeepers coach with FC Khimik-Arsenal.
1971 Petra Haden

Petra Haden

American violinist and singer
Petra Haden is an American musician and singer.
1973

Niki Xanthou

Greek long jumper
Niki Xanthou is a Greek long jumper.
1974 Jason Arnott

Jason Arnott

Canadian ice hockey player
Jason William Arnott is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player.
1976 Emily Deschanel

Emily Deschanel

American actress and producer
Emily Erin Deschanel is an American actress. She played Dr. Temperance "Bones" Brennan in the Fox crime procedural series Bones (2005–2017).
1978

Takuya Kawaguchi

Japanese footballer
Takuya Kawaguchi is a former Japanese football player.
1979

Jamar Beasley

American football player
Jamar Beasley is an American soccer player.
1982

Cameron Knowles

New Zealand footballer
Cameron Knowles is a New Zealand professional football coach and former player who is currently the head coach of MLS club Minnesota United.
1982 Mauricio Victorino

Mauricio Victorino

Uruguayan footballer
Mauricio Bernardo Victorino Dansilo is a Uruguayan football coach and a former defender. He is an assistant manager with Nacional.
1984

Sergio Hellings

Dutch footballer
Sergio Hellings is a Dutch retired footballer who played as a midfielder.
1985 Álvaro Fernández

Álvaro Fernández

Uruguayan footballer
Álvaro Fernández Gay is a Uruguayan former footballer who played as a midfielder.
1985

Yang Cheng

Chinese footballer
Yang Cheng is a former Chinese football goalkeeper.
1987 Tony Beltran

Tony Beltran

American soccer player
Anthony Benjamin Beltran is an American former soccer player who spent nearly all of his entire professional career at Real Salt Lake.
1988 Omar Gonzalez

Omar Gonzalez

American soccer player
Omar Alejandro Gonzalez is an American professional soccer player who plays as a center-back for MLS Next Pro club Chicago Fire FC II.
1990 Sebastian Rode

Sebastian Rode

German footballer
Sebastian Rode is a German former professional footballer who played as a midfielder.
1991 Kika van Es

Kika van Es

Dutch footballer
Kika van Es is a Dutch former professional footballer who played as a defender for the Netherlands national team.
1992 Ligi Sao

Ligi Sao

New Zealand rugby league player
Liligiifo Sao is a Samoa international rugby league footballer who plays as a prop and loose forward for Bradford Bulls in the Super League.
1994 Zior Park

Zior Park

South Korean rapper
Park Ji-won, better known by his stage name Zior Park (Korean: 지올팍), is a South Korean rapper and music video director.
2001

Chu Ye-jin

South Korean actress
Chu Ye-jin is a South Korean actress. She was a contestant on Mnet's girl group survival program Produce 101.
2001

Daniel Maldini

Italian footballer
Daniel Maldini is an Italian professional footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder or forward for Serie A club Cagliari, on loan from Atalanta.
2001 Jacob Preston

Jacob Preston

Australian rugby league player
Jacob Preston is an Australian professional rugby league footballer who plays as a second-rower for the Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs in the NRL.

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