Famous Birthdays on October 21

October 21 has 253 recorded notable births across history, from 1328 to 2002. This page lists every one of them, with the best-known people first.

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Benjamin Netanyahu

1949 — Benjamin Netanyahu

Israeli captain and politician, 9th Prime Minister of Israel

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  1. 1969 The 1969 Somali coup d'état establishes a Marxist–Leninist administration. Source
  2. 1945 In the 1945 French legislative election French women vote for the first time. Source

Did you know about Benjamin Netanyahu

Benjamin "Bibi" Netanyahu is an Israeli politician and diplomat who has served as prime minister of Israel since 2022.

Did you know about Kim Kardashian

Kim Kardashian first gained media attention in 2007 following the release of a sex tape with American singer Ray J. Afterwards, she and her family began to appear on the E!

Did you know about Carrie Fisher

Carrie Fisher's other film credits include Shampoo (1975), The Blues Brothers (1980), Hannah and Her Sisters (1986), The 'Burbs (1989), When Harry Met Sally...

Did you know about Glen Powell

Glen Powell began his career with small roles on television and in films including Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over (2003) and Fast Food Nation (2006).

Did you know about Andrew Scott

Known for his roles on stage and screen, his accolades include two Laurence Olivier Awards, a BAFTA TV Award, and a Silver Bear, in addition to nominations for three Primetime Emmy Awards and three Golden Globe Awards.


More major people born on October 21

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

1980 Kim Kardashian

Kim Kardashian

American reality television personality, actress, model, businesswoman and socialite
Kimberly Noel Kardashian is an American media personality, socialite, and businesswoman. She first gained media attention in 2007 following the release of a sex tape with American singer Ray J. Afterwards, she and her family began to appear on the E! reality television series Keeping Up with the Kardashians. The show aired until 2021, and its success led to the formation of several spin-offs before its revival in the form of Hulu's The Kardashians (2022–present) as part of her and her family's multi-year deal with the streaming service.
1956 Carrie Fisher

Carrie Fisher

American actress and screenwriter (died 2016)
Carrie Frances Fisher was an American actress and writer. She starred as Princess Leia in the original Star Wars films (1977–1983) and reprised the role in The Force Awakens (2015), The Last Jedi (2017)—a posthumous release that was dedicated to her—and The Rise of Skywalker (2019), the latter using unreleased footage from The Force Awakens. Her other film credits include Shampoo (1975), The Blues Brothers (1980), Hannah and Her Sisters (1986), The 'Burbs (1989), When Harry Met Sally... (1989), Soapdish (1991), and The Women (2008). She was nominated twice for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series for her performances in the NBC sitcom 30 Rock (2007) and the Channel 4 series Catastrophe (2017).
1988 Glen Powell

Glen Powell

American actor
Glen Thomas Powell Jr. is an American actor, screenwriter, and producer. He began his career with small roles on television and in films including Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over (2003) and Fast Food Nation (2006). Powell acted in the action film The Expendables 3 (2014), the comedy-horror series Scream Queens (2015–2016), the teen comedy Everybody Wants Some!! (2016), the historical romance The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (2018) and the romantic comedy Set It Up (2018). He also portrayed astronaut John Glenn in Hidden Figures (2016), which earned him an Actor Award, and aviator Tom Hudner in Devotion (2022).
1976 Andrew Scott

Andrew Scott

Irish actor
Andrew Scott is an Irish actor. Known for his roles on stage and screen, his accolades include two Laurence Olivier Awards, a BAFTA TV Award, and a Silver Bear, in addition to nominations for three Primetime Emmy Awards and three Golden Globe Awards.
1942 Judy Sheindlin

Judy Sheindlin

American judge and television host
Judith Susan Sheindlin is a retired American attorney, court-show arbitrator and television personality. For 25 seasons from 1996 to 2021, she starred in her eponymous court show Judge Judy. She became the longest-serving television arbitrator in courtroom-themed programming history, a distinction that earned her a place in the Guinness World Records in 2015, and received a Lifetime Achievement Emmy in 2019 for her work. Sheindlin has received twenty-six Daytime Emmy Award nominations, winning six times.
1995 Doja Cat

Doja Cat

American rapper, singer and songwriter
Amala Ratna Zandile Dlamini, known professionally as Doja Cat, is an American rapper and singer-songwriter. Regarded as the "Queen of Pop-Rap", she is known for her musical versatility, live performance skills and humorous internet presence. Billboard named her "one of the world's biggest pop stars" and "one of the defining pop stars of this era", and Time listed her as one of the world's most influential people in 2023.
1929 Ursula K. Le Guin

Ursula K. Le Guin

American author and critic (died 2018)
Ursula Kroeber Le Guin was an American author. She is best known for her works of speculative fiction, including science fiction works set in her Hainish universe and the fantasy series Earthsea. Her work was first published in 1959, and her literary career spanned nearly sixty years, producing more than twenty novels and more than a hundred short stories, in addition to poetry, literary criticism, translations, and children's books. Frequently described as an author of science fiction, Le Guin has also been called a "major voice in American Letters". Le Guin said that she would prefer to be known as an "American novelist".
1983 Amber Rose

Amber Rose

American model
Amber Rose Levonchuck is an American model and television personality. She gained attention after she starred in the music video for Young Jeezy's 2008 single "Put On", which featured Kanye West. She began a romantic relationship with West, leading her to model for the Louis Vuitton brand; she then signed a modeling contract with Ford Models. She earned wider recognition as a video vixen in more hip hop videos. After splitting from West in 2010, she dated and in 2013 married rapper Wiz Khalifa, but filed for divorce in 2014. Simon & Schuster then published her book How to Be a Bad Bitch. In 2015 she founded the Los Angeles chapter of the SlutWalk protest march, an annual feminist demonstration founded in Toronto. The next year she hosted her own talk show, The Amber Rose Show, for VH1, and began hosting the syndicated radio call-in program Loveline.
1833 Alfred Nobel

Alfred Nobel

Swedish chemist and engineer, invented dynamite and founded the Nobel Prize (died 1896)
Alfred Bernhard Nobel was a Swedish chemist, inventor, engineer, and businessman. Nobel is known for inventing dynamite, as well as having bequeathed his fortune to establish the Nobel Prizes. He worked on various important contributions and inventions to science, holding 355 patents during his life.
1929 George Stinney Jr.

George Stinney Jr.

wrongfully convicted African-American inmate; second youngest person in the U.S. to be executed (died 1944)
George Junius Stinney Jr. was an African American boy who was wrongfully executed at the age of 14 after being convicted, during an unfair trial, for the murders of two white girls – 11-year-old Betty June Binnicker and 8-year-old Mary Emma Thames – in his hometown of Alcolu, South Carolina. He was tried, convicted, and sentenced to death on a single day in April 1944 and then executed by electric chair on June 16, 1944, after Governor Olin D. Johnston refused to grant him clemency.
1959 Ken Watanabe

Ken Watanabe

Japanese actor and producer
Ken Watanabe is a Japanese actor. He is best known for playing tragic hero characters, such as General Tadamichi Kuribayashi in Letters from Iwo Jima and Lord Katsumoto Moritsugu in The Last Samurai, for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. Among other awards, Watanabe has won the Japan Academy Film Prize for Best Actor twice, in 2007 for Memories of Tomorrow and in 2010 for The Unbroken. He is also known for his roles in Christopher Nolan's films Batman Begins and Inception, as well as Memoirs of a Geisha, and Pokémon Detective Pikachu.
1925 Celia Cruz

Celia Cruz

Cuban-American singer (died 2003)
Celia Caridad Cruz Alfonso, known as Celia Cruz, was a Cuban-American singer and one of the most popular Latin artists of the 20th century. Cruz rose to fame in Cuba during the 1950s as a singer of guarachas, earning the nickname La Guarachera de Cuba. In the following decades, she became known internationally as the "Queen of Salsa" due to her contributions to Latin music. She sold over 30 million records, making her one of the best-selling Latin music artists.
1988 Hope Hicks

Hope Hicks

Donald Trump's Former White House Communications Director
Hope Charlotte Hicks is an American public relations executive and political advisor best known for her roles in the first Trump administration. She served as White House communications director from 2017 to 2018 and later as counselor to the president from 2020 to 2021. Earlier, she was the Trump 2016 campaign's press secretary and a longtime aide within the Trump Organization. Following her initial departure from the White House, she served as an executive at Fox Corporation before returning to the administration in a senior advisory role.
1931 Shammi Kapoor

Shammi Kapoor

Indian actor and director (died 2011)
Shammi Kapoor was an Indian actor known for his work in Hindi cinema. Kapoor is regarded as one of the greatest actors in the history of Indian cinema. In a career spanning over five decades, he worked in over 100 films and was the recipient of three Filmfare Awards, including one for Best Actor.
1959 Melora Walters

Melora Walters

American actress, director, and writer
Melora Walters is an American actress and filmmaker, best known for her starring roles as Wanda Henrickson on HBO's Big Love (2006–2010) and Kathy Kone on Hulu's Pen15 (2019–2021). She has frequently collaborated with Paul Thomas Anderson, earning two Screen Actors Guild nominations for her work in Boogie Nights (1997) and Magnolia (1999), respectively. Her other film credits include Dead Poets Society (1989), Eraser (1996), Matchstick Men, Cold Mountain, The Butterfly Effect (2004), Short Term 12 (2013), Cam, Venom, and Offseason (2021). Walters's directorial credits include Waterlily Jaguar (2018) and Drowning (2019), both of which she wrote and co-produced.
1993 Kane Brown

Kane Brown

American singer and songwriter
Kane Allen Brown is an American country singer and songwriter. First garnering a mass following on social media, he released his debut extended play (EP) Closer in June 2015, and followed it up with the single, "Used to Love You Sober" in October of that year. After Brown signed with RCA Nashville in early 2016, the song was included on his second EP and major label debut, Chapter 1 in March 2016. He released his eponymous debut studio album later that year in December. The album spawned the single "What Ifs", and in October 2017, Brown became the first artist to have simultaneous number ones on all five main Billboard country charts. Brown released his second album, Experiment, in November 2018, which became his first number one album on the Billboard 200.
1945 Everett McGill

Everett McGill

American actor
Charles Everett McGill III is an American retired actor, who rose to prominence for his portrayal of a caveman in Quest for Fire (1981). He went on to have prominent roles in the films Dune (1984), Silver Bullet (1985), Heartbreak Ridge (1986), Iguana (1988), Licence to Kill (1989), The People Under the Stairs (1991) and Under Siege 2: Dark Territory (1995).
1917 Dizzy Gillespie

Dizzy Gillespie

American trumpet player, composer, and bandleader (died 1993)
John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie was an American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, composer, educator, and singer. He was a trumpet virtuoso and improviser, building on the virtuosic style of Roy Eldridge but adding layers of harmonic and rhythmic complexity previously unheard in jazz. His combination of musicianship, showmanship, and wit made him a leading popularizer of early bebop styles. His beret and horn-rimmed spectacles, scat singing, bent horn, pouched cheeks, and light-hearted personality have made him an enduring icon.
1981 Nemanja Vidić

Nemanja Vidić

Serbian footballer
Nemanja Vidić is a Serbian former professional footballer who played as a centre-back. Widely considered as one of the greatest defenders of all time, Vidić is best known for his time at Manchester United, where he won 15 trophies and served as club captain. He is one of only five players to win the Premier League Player of the Season award twice, alongside Thierry Henry, Kevin De Bruyne, Cristiano Ronaldo and Mohamed Salah. He is the only defender to have ever won the award twice.
1971 Nick Oliveri

Nick Oliveri

American singer-songwriter and bass player
Nick Steven Oliveri is an American multi-instrumentalist, singer and songwriter. He is best known as a former bassist of Kyuss and later Queens of the Stone Age from 1998 to 2004. Oliveri is also a solo artist and frequent contributor to his friends' albums and tours, including Winnebago Deal, Masters of Reality, Turbonegro, Moistboyz, Svetlanas and Big Scenic Nowhere among many others.
1978 Will Estes

Will Estes

American actor
William Estes Nipper is an American actor. He is known for his role from 2010 to 2024 on CBS police drama Blue Bloods as Jameson "Jamie" Reagan, a New York City Police Department officer and the youngest son of the police commissioner, played by Tom Selleck. Prior to that role, he starred as J.J. Pryor on the NBC drama American Dreams.
1941 Steve Cropper

Steve Cropper

American guitarist, songwriter, producer, and actor (died 2025)
Stephen Lee Cropper, sometimes known as "The Colonel", was an American guitarist, songwriter and record producer. He was the guitarist of the Stax Records house band, Booker T. & the M.G.'s, which backed artists such as Otis Redding, Wilson Pickett, Sam & Dave, Carla Thomas, Rufus Thomas, Johnnie Taylor and Neil Young. He also acted as the producer of many of these artists' records. He was later a member of the Blues Brothers band. Rolling Stone magazine ranked him 36th on its list of the 100 greatest guitarists. He won two Grammy Awards out of his seven nominations.
1946 Lux Interior

Lux Interior

American singer-songwriter (died 2009)
Erick Lee Purkhiser, better known by the stage name Lux Interior, was an American singer-songwriter and a founding member of the American rock band the Cramps from 1976 until his death in 2009 at age 62.
1982 Lee Chong Wei

Lee Chong Wei

Malaysian badminton player
Lee Chong Wei is a Malaysian former professional badminton player. As a singles player, Lee was ranked first worldwide for a record of 349 weeks, including a 199-week streak from 21 August 2008 to 14 June 2012. He is the fifth Malaysian player after Foo Kok Keong, Rashid Sidek, Roslin Hashim and Wong Choong Hann to achieve such a ranking, and is the only Malaysian shuttler who has held the number one ranking for more than a year. On 2 May 2023, Lee was inducted to BWF Badminton Hall of Fame. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest badminton players of all time.
1926 Leonard Rossiter

Leonard Rossiter

English actor (died 1984)
Leonard Rossiter was an English actor. He had a long career in the theatre but achieved his highest profile for his television comedy roles starring as Rupert Rigsby in the ITV series Rising Damp from 1974 to 1978, and Reginald Perrin in the BBC's The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin from 1976 to 1979.
1772 Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

English poet, philosopher, and critic (died 1834)
Samuel Taylor Coleridge was an English poet, literary critic, philosopher, and theologian who was a founder of the Romantic Movement in England and a member of the Lake Poets with his friend William Wordsworth. He also shared volumes and collaborated with Charles Lamb, Robert Southey, and Charles Lloyd.
1982 Hari Kondabolu

Hari Kondabolu

American comedian, actor, and podcaster
Hari Karthikeya Kondabolu is an American stand-up comedian and writer. His comedy covers subjects such as race, inequity, and Indian stereotypes. He was a writer for Totally Biased with W. Kamau Bell and the creator of the 2017 documentary film The Problem with Apu.
1955 Catherine Hardwicke

Catherine Hardwicke

American film director, producer, and screenwriter
Catherine Hardwicke is an American film director, production designer, and screenwriter. Her directorial work includes Thirteen (2003), which she co-wrote with Nikki Reed, the film's co-star, Lords of Dogtown (2005), The Nativity Story (2006), Twilight (2008), Red Riding Hood (2011), Plush (2013), Miss You Already (2015), Miss Bala (2019), Prisoner's Daughter (2022), and Mafia Mamma (2023).
1949 Mike Keenan

Mike Keenan

Canadian ice hockey player and coach
Michael Edward Keenan is a Canadian-American former professional ice hockey coach. Previously, he served as head coach and/or general manager with several National Hockey League (NHL) teams between 1984 and 2009. He currently ranks sixth in playoff wins with 96. He is noted for his early career success in coaching, which started with reaching the Stanley Cup Final in his rookie season in 1985. In 1987, he reached the Finals once again. Months later, he led Team Canada to win the 1987 Canada Cup round-robin tournament in a thrilling best-of-three series finale against Viktor Tikhonov's Red Army team. He left the Flyers for Chicago in 1988. He reached the Finals once again in 1992 but lost again. After leaving the Blackhawks and spending a year away from coaching, Keenan won a Stanley Cup championship as coach of the New York Rangers in 1994.
1990 Ricky Rubio

Ricky Rubio

Spanish basketball player
Ricard Rubio Vives is a Spanish professional basketball player for Joventut Badalona of the Liga ACB. He became the youngest player ever to play in the Spanish Liga ACB on 15 October 2005, at age 14. He made his EuroLeague debut on 24 October 2006, a few days after turning 16, making him one of the youngest players to play in the EuroLeague.
1983 Zack Greinke

Zack Greinke

American baseball player
Donald Zackary Greinke is an American former professional baseball pitcher. Greinke played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for 20 seasons for the Kansas City Royals, Milwaukee Brewers, Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim, Los Angeles Dodgers, Arizona Diamondbacks, and Houston Astros. He is considered to be one of the greatest pitchers of his generation.
1942 Elvin Bishop

Elvin Bishop

American singer-songwriter and guitarist
Elvin Richard Bishop is an American blues and rock music singer, guitarist, bandleader, and songwriter. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of the Paul Butterfield Blues Band in 2015, and in the Blues Hall of Fame as a solo artist in 2016.
1928 Whitey Ford

Whitey Ford

American baseball player and coach (died 2020)
Edward Charles "Whitey" Ford, nicknamed "the Chairman of the Board", was an American professional baseball pitcher who played his entire 16-year Major League Baseball (MLB) career with the New York Yankees. He was a 10-time All-Star and six-time World Series champion. In 1961, he won both the Cy Young Award and World Series Most Valuable Player Award. Ford led the American League (AL) in wins three times and in earned run average twice. He is the Yankees franchise leader in career wins (236), shutouts (45), and innings pitched, and joint leader in games started by a pitcher (438). Ford was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1974.
1983 Charlotte Sullivan

Charlotte Sullivan

Canadian actress
Charlotte Sullivan is a Canadian actress. Her credits include Harriet the Spy (1996), Goosebumps (1996), The New Ghostwriter Mysteries (1997), How to Deal (2003), Fever Pitch (2005), MVP (2008), The Cry of the Owl (2009), Rookie Blue (2010), The Kennedys (2011), The Colony (2013), Chicago Fire (2016–2017), Mary Kills People (2017–2019), Caught (2018), Wynonna Earp (2021), Law & Order: Organized Crime (2021), and Pretty Hard Cases (2022).
1940 Manfred Mann

Manfred Mann

South African-English keyboard player and producer
Manfred Sepse Lubowitz, known professionally as Manfred Mann, is a South African-born musician, residing in the UK since 1961. He is best known as a founding member of the eponymous bands Manfred Mann, Manfred Mann Chapter Three and Manfred Mann's Earth Band.
1943 Tariq Ali

Tariq Ali

Pakistani historian and author
Tariq Ali is a Pakistani-British political activist, writer, journalist, filmmaker, and public intellectual. He is a member of the editorial committee of the New Left Review and Sin Permiso, and contributes to The Guardian, CounterPunch, and the London Review of Books. He read Philosophy, Politics, and Economics at Exeter College, Oxford.
1978 Joey Harrington

Joey Harrington

American football player and sportscaster
John Joseph Harrington is an American former professional football quarterback who played in the National Football League (NFL) for seven seasons. He played college football for the Oregon Ducks, winning Pac-10 Offensive Player of the Year in 2001. Harrington was selected third overall by the Detroit Lions in the 2002 NFL draft, but his tenure lasted only four seasons due to inconsistent play. He spent his final three seasons as the primary starter for the Miami Dolphins and Atlanta Falcons and as a backup with the New Orleans Saints.
1449 George Plantagenet

George Plantagenet

1st Duke of Clarence, Irish-English son of Cecily Neville, Duchess of York (died 1478)
George Plantagenet, Duke of Clarence, was the sixth child and third surviving son of Richard of York, 3rd Duke of York, and Cecily Neville, Duchess of York, and the brother of English kings Edward IV and Richard III. He played an important role in the dynastic struggle between rival factions of the Plantagenets now known as the Wars of the Roses.
1940 Geoffrey Boycott

Geoffrey Boycott

English cricketer and sportscaster
Sir Geoffrey Boycott is an English cricket commentator and former cricketer, who played professionally for Yorkshire and England. In a prolific and sometimes controversial playing career from 1962 to 1986, Boycott established himself as one of England's most successful opening batsmen. He was a part of the English squad which finished as runners-up at the 1979 Cricket World Cup.
1953 Keith Green

Keith Green

American singer-songwriter, pianist, and minister (died 1982)
Keith Gordon Green was an American pianist, singer, and songwriter. Born in Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn, New York, he was a child performer and recording artist before turning to contemporary Christian music in the late 1970s.
1955 Dick DeVos

Dick DeVos

American businessman
Richard Marvin DeVos Jr. is an American businessman, author, and former politician. The son of Amway co-founder Richard DeVos, he was CEO of the multi-level marketing company from 1993 to 2002. In 2006, DeVos ran for Governor of Michigan but lost to the then-incumbent Democrat Jennifer Granholm. In 2012, Forbes magazine listed his father as the No. 351 richest person in the world, with a net worth of approximately US$5.4 billion. DeVos is the husband of Betsy DeVos, the former United States Secretary of Education in the first Trump administration.
1957 Julian Cope

Julian Cope

English singer-songwriter
Julian David Cope is an English musician and author. He was the singer and songwriter in Liverpool post-punk band the Teardrop Explodes and has followed a solo career since 1983 in addition to working on musical side projects such as Queen Elizabeth, Brain Donor, and Black Sheep.
1894 Edogawa Ranpo

Edogawa Ranpo

Japanese author and critic (died 1965)
Tarō Hirai , better known by the pen name Edogawa Ranpo or Edogawa Rampo , was a Japanese author and critic who played a major role in the development of Japanese mystery and thriller fiction. Many of his novels involve the detective hero Kogoro Akechi, who in later books was the leader of a group of boy detectives known as the "Boy Detectives Club" .
1992 Damion Lee

Damion Lee

American basketball player
Damion Lee is an American former professional basketball player. He played college basketball for four years at Drexel University and transferred to Louisville for his final year of eligibility. After going undrafted in 2016, Lee played in the G League before signing with the Atlanta Hawks in March 2018. He then signed a two-way contract with the Golden State Warriors the following season, winning an NBA championship with the team in 2022. He has also played for the Phoenix Suns and Ironi Ness Ziona.
1952 Brent Mydland

Brent Mydland

German-American keyboard player (died 1990)
Brent Mydland was an American keyboardist, songwriter and singer. He was a member of the rock band the Grateful Dead from 1979 until his death in 1990, a longer tenure than any other keyboardist in the band.
1912 Georg Solti

Georg Solti

Hungarian-English conductor and director (died 1997)
Sir Georg Solti was a Hungarian and British orchestral and operatic conductor, known for his appearances with opera companies in Munich, Frankfurt, and London, and as a long-serving music director of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Born in Budapest, he studied there with Béla Bartók, Leó Weiner, and Ernő Dohnányi. In the 1930s, he was a répétiteur at the Hungarian State Opera and worked at the Salzburg Festival for Arturo Toscanini. His career was interrupted by the rise of the Nazis' influence on Hungarian politics, and being Jewish, he fled the increasingly harsh Hungarian anti-Jewish laws in 1938. After conducting a season of Russian ballet in London at the Royal Opera House, he found refuge in Switzerland, where he remained during the Second World War. Prohibited from conducting there, he earned a living as a pianist.
1976 Jeremy Miller

Jeremy Miller

American actor and singer
Jeremy James Miller is an American actor, known mostly as a child actor. He is known for his portrayal of Ben Seaver on the TV series Growing Pains and its two reunion movies. He also voiced Linus van Pelt in the animated TV specials Happy New Year, Charlie Brown! and Snoopy!!! The Musical.
1945 Nikita Mikhalkov

Nikita Mikhalkov

Russian filmmaker
Nikita Sergeyevich Mikhalkov is a Russian filmmaker and actor. He made his directorial debut with the Red Western film At Home Among Strangers (1974) after appearing in a series of films, including the romantic comedy Walking the Streets of Moscow (1964), the war drama The Red and the White (1967), the romantic drama A Nest of Gentry (1969) and the adventure drama The Red Tent (1969). His subsequent films include the romantic comedy-drama A Slave of Love (1976), the drama An Unfinished Piece for Mechanical Piano (1977), the romantic drama Five Evenings (1978), the drama Without Witness (1983) and the romantic comedy-drama Dark Eyes (1987). Mikhalkov then directed, co-wrote and appeared in the adventure drama film Close to Eden (1991), for which he received the Golden Lion at the Venice International Film Festival and an Academy Award nomination.
1914 Martin Gardner

Martin Gardner

American mathematician and author (died 2010)
Martin Gardner was an American writer on popular mathematics and popular science. His interests also encompassed magic, scientific skepticism, micromagic, philosophy, religion, and literature – especially the writings of Lewis Carroll, L. Frank Baum, and G. K. Chesterton. He was a leading authority on Lewis Carroll; The Annotated Alice, which incorporated the text of Carroll's two Alice books, was his most successful work and sold over a million copies. He had a lifelong interest in magic and illusion and in 1999, MAGIC magazine named him as one of the "100 Most Influential Magicians of the Twentieth Century". He was considered the doyen of American puzzlers. He was a prolific and versatile author, publishing more than 100 books.
1944 Mandy Rice-Davies

Mandy Rice-Davies

English model and actress (died 2014)
Marilyn Foreman, better known as Mandy Rice-Davies, was a Welsh model and showgirl best known for her association with Christine Keeler and her role in the Profumo affair, which discredited the Conservative government of British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan in 1963.
1992 Marzia Kjellberg

Marzia Kjellberg

Italian businessperson and former YouTuber
Marzia Kjellberg, formerly known as CutiePieMarzia, is an Italian former YouTuber known for her beauty videos. She parlayed her popularity on YouTube into writing, fashion design, and business ventures. She announced her retirement from YouTube in 2018 and deleted her content.
1946 Lee Loughnane

Lee Loughnane

American singer-songwriter and trumpet player
Lee David Loughnane is an American musician who is a founding member of the rock band Chicago. He is best known for being one-third of Chicago's brass/woodwind section as well as a backing and occasional lead vocalist.
1911 Mary Blair

Mary Blair

American illustrator and animator (died 1978)
Mary Blair was an American artist, illustrator, animation concept artist, colorist, designer, and writer. She was prominent in producing art for The Walt Disney Company, drawing concept art for such films as Alice in Wonderland, Peter Pan, Song of the South, and Cinderella. Blair also created character designs for enduring attractions such as Disneyland's It's a Small World, the fiesta scene in El Rio del Tiempo in the Mexico pavilion in Epcot's World Showcase, and an enormous mosaic inside Disney's Contemporary Resort. Several of her illustrated children's books from the 1950s remain in print, such as I Can Fly by Ruth Krauss. Blair was inducted into the group of Disney Legends in 1991.
1933 Francisco Gento

Francisco Gento

Spanish footballer and manager (died 2022)
Francisco "Paco" Gento López was a Spanish footballer who played as an outside left. A fast runner, Gento was referred to as the "Gale of the Cantabrian Sea" in reference to his speed down the wing. He was voted by IFFHS as the greatest Spanish footballer and 30th greatest world footballer of the 20th century. Gento is also widely regarded as one of the greatest wingers in the history of the sport.
1978 Michael McMillian

Michael McMillian

American actor
Michael McMillian is an American actor and writer, known for his roles as Henry Gibson on What I Like About You, Steve Newlin on the HBO series True Blood, Owen on Hot in Cleveland and Tim in Crazy Ex-Girlfriend. McMillian is also the creator and writer of a comic book, Lucid.
1976 Josh Ritter

Josh Ritter

American singer-songwriter and guitarist
Joshua B. Ritter is an American singer, songwriter, musician, and author who performs and records with the Royal City Band. Ritter is known for his distinctive Americana style and narrative lyrics. In 2006, he was named one of the "100 Greatest Living Songwriters" by Paste magazine.
1992 Bernard Tomic

Bernard Tomic

German-Australian tennis player
Bernard Tomic is an Australian professional tennis player. He has been ranked as high as world No. 17 in men's singles by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP). Tomic has won four singles titles on the ATP Tour.
1970 Louis Koo

Louis Koo

Hong Kong actor and singer
Louis Koo Tin-lok is a Hong Kong actor and film producer. He gained popularity with his roles in television series The Condor Heroes 95 (1995), Detective Investigation Files IV (1999), and A Step into the Past (2001).
1985 Hadise

Hadise

Belgian-Turkish singer-songwriter and dancer
Hadise Açıkgöz is a Belgian-born Turkish singer, songwriter, dancer and television personality. Born and raised in Belgium, her family is of Lezgin-Kumyk origin who settled in Sivas, Turkey. In 2003, she participated in the Belgian singing competition show Idool 2003, but rose to fame after releasing her debut album Sweat in 2005. The album spawned 5 singles and earned Hadise both a TMF Award (Belgium) and Golden Butterfly Award (Turkey). Hadise established and maintained a successful career in both Belgium and Turkey with the release of her self-titled album Hadise (2008). The album, which includes English and Turkish songs, features the single "Deli Oğlan" that became a number-one hit in Turkey.
1930 Ivan Silayev

Ivan Silayev

Russian engineer and politician, 19th Prime Minister of Russia (died 2023)
Ivan Stepanovich Silayev was a Soviet and Russian politician. He served as Prime Minister of the Soviet Union through the offices of chairman of the Committee on the Operational Management of the Soviet economy and chairman of the Inter-republican Economic Committee. Responsible for overseeing the economy of the Soviet Union during the late Gorbachev era, he was the last head of government of the Soviet Union, succeeding Valentin Pavlov.
1953 Charlotte Caffey

Charlotte Caffey

American guitarist and songwriter
Charlotte Irene Caffey is an American guitarist and keyboardist, best known for her work in the rock band the Go-Go's in the 1980s, including writing "We Got the Beat".
1971 Damien Martyn

Damien Martyn

Australian cricketer
Damien Richard Martyn is an Australian former cricketer, who played Tests and ODIs. He played for the national team sporadically in 1992–1994 before becoming a regular Test and ODI player from 2000 until his retirement in late 2006. He was primarily a right-handed middle-order batsman with a 'classical' technique, known in particular for his elegant strokemaking square of the wicket on the off-side and through the covers. Martyn was a member of the Australian team that won two consecutive World Cups, as well as the 2006 ICC Champions Trophy.
1965

Horace Hogan

American wrestler
Michael Allan Bollea is an American retired professional wrestler. The nephew of fellow wrestler Hulk Hogan, he is best known for his appearances with World Championship Wrestling in the late 1990s under the ring name Horace Hogan.
1922

Liliane Bettencourt

French businesswoman and philanthropist (died 2017)
Liliane Henriette Charlotte Bettencourt was a French heiress, socialite and businesswoman. She was a board member and one of the principal shareholders of L'Oréal. At the time of her death, she was the richest woman in the world, and the 14th richest person in the world, with a net worth of US$44.3 billion.
1998 Kerem Aktürkoğlu

Kerem Aktürkoğlu

Turkish footballer
Muhammed Kerem Aktürkoğlu is a Turkish professional footballer who plays as a winger or wide midfielder for Süper Lig club Fenerbahçe and the Turkey national team.
1982 Ray Ventrone

Ray Ventrone

American football player
Raymond "Bubba" Ventrone is an American professional football coach and former player who is the special teams coordinator for the Los Angeles Rams of the National Football League (NFL). He played in the NFL as a safety.
1924 Joyce Randolph

Joyce Randolph

American actress (died 2024)
Joyce Randolph was an American actress of stage and television, best known for playing Trixie Norton on The Jackie Gleason Show and the television sitcom The Honeymooners, being the last surviving member of the cast.
1921 Malcolm Arnold

Malcolm Arnold

English composer (died 2006)
Sir Malcolm Henry Arnold was an English composer and conductor. His works feature music in many genres, including a cycle of nine symphonies, numerous concertos, concert works, chamber music, choral music and music for brass band and wind band. His style is tonal and rejoices in lively rhythms, brilliant orchestration, and an unabashed tunefulness. He wrote extensively for the theatre, with five ballets specially commissioned by the Royal Ballet, as well as two operas and a musical. He also composed scores for more than a hundred films, among these The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957), for which he won the Academy Award for Best Original Score for that year.
1958 Andre Geim

Andre Geim

Russian-English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
Sir Andre Konstantin Geim is a Russian-born British-Dutch physicist. Geim was appointed as a chair professor at the University of Hong Kong and assumed his tenure in 2026.
1757 Pierre Augereau

Pierre Augereau

French general (died 1816)
Charles-Pierre-François Augereau, duc de Castiglione was a French military commander and a Marshal of the Empire who served during the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars. After serving in the Revolutionary Wars, he earned rapid promotion while fighting against Spain and soon found himself as a division commander under Napoleon Bonaparte in Italy. He fought in all of Bonaparte's battles of 1796 with great distinction. During the Napoleonic Wars, Napoleon entrusted Augereau with important commands. He distinguished himself as a corps commander at Jena, although at Eylau he led a charge into a snowstorm that proved disastrous. His life ended under a cloud because of his poor timing in switching sides between Napoleon and Louis XVIII. Napoleon wrote of Augereau that he "has plenty of character, courage, firmness, activity; is inured to war; is well liked by the soldiery; is fortunate in his operations". Augereau is generally counted as one of the most capable generals of the Napoleonic Wars.
1887 Krishna Singh

Krishna Singh

Indian lawyer and politician, 1st Chief Minister of Bihar (died 1961)
Shri Krishna Singh (Sinha) (21 October 1887 – 31 January 1961), also known as Shri Babu, was the first chief minister of the Indian state of Bihar (1946–61). Except for the period of World War II, Sinha was the chief minister of Bihar from the time of the first Congress Ministry in 1937 until his death in 1961. He led the Dalit entry into the Baidyanath Dham, Deoghar. He was the first chief minister in the country to abolish the zamindari system. He was imprisoned for a total of about eight years in British India. He held mass meetings at which he spoke. He was known as Bihar Kesari for his "lionlike roars" in public speaking.
1895 Edna Purviance

Edna Purviance

American actress (died 1958)
Olga Edna Purviance was an American actress of the silent film era. She was the leading lady in many of Charlie Chaplin's early films and in a span of eight years, she appeared in over 30 films with him.
1942 Lou Lamoriello

Lou Lamoriello

American ice hockey player, coach, and manager
Louis P. Lamoriello is an American professional ice hockey executive who most recently served as the president of hockey operations and general manager for the New York Islanders of the National Hockey League (NHL). He was formerly the long-time general manager of the New Jersey Devils and also served in the position with the Toronto Maple Leafs. Lamoriello's tenure as president and general manager of the New Jersey Devils from 1987 to 2015 was the third-longest tenure by an NHL general manager with a single team, following those of Conn Smythe and Art Ross. Lamoriello resigned from New Jersey on May 4, 2015, and became the 16th general manager of the Maple Leafs on July 23 of the same year. After three years with the Maple Leafs, Lamoriello joined the Islanders, with whom he served until 2025.
1790 Alphonse de Lamartine

Alphonse de Lamartine

French poet and politician, French Head of State (died 1869)
Alphonse Marie Louis de Prat de Lamartine was a French author, poet, and statesman. Initially a moderate royalist, he became one of the leading critics of the July Monarchy of Louis-Philippe, aligning more with the Republican Left and Social Catholicism.
1989 Festus Ezeli

Festus Ezeli

Nigerian-American basketball player
Ifeanyi Festus Ezeli-Ndulue is a Nigerian-American former professional basketball player who played five seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played college basketball for the Vanderbilt Commodores before being selected with the 30th overall pick in the 2012 NBA draft by the Golden State Warriors, where he won an NBA Championship in 2015. Ezeli last appeared in the 2016 NBA Finals and did not play basketball due to knee surgery in the 2017 season, then coming back in 2021.
1983 Shelden Williams

Shelden Williams

American basketball player
Shelden DeMar Williams is an American former professional basketball player. Nicknamed "the Landlord", he played college basketball for the Duke Blue Devils, and later played in the NBA for parts of seven seasons.
1675 Emperor Higashiyama of Japan (died 1710)

Emperor Higashiyama of Japan (died 1710)

Emperor Higashiyama , personal name Asahito, was the 113th emperor of Japan, according to the traditional order of succession. Higashiyama's reign spanned the years from 1687 through to his abdication in 1709 corresponding to the Genroku era of the Edo period. The previous hundred years of peace and seclusion in Japan had created relative economic stability. The arts flourished, including theater and architecture.
1946

Jim Hill

American football player and sportscaster
James Webster Hill is an American sportscaster and former professional football player who is the lead sports anchor and sports director at KCBS-TV in Los Angeles. He played as a defensive back in the National Football League (NFL).
1874 Tan Kah Kee

Tan Kah Kee

Chinese businessman, community leader, communist and philanthropist (died 1961)
Tan Kah Kee was a Chinese businessman, investor, entrepreneur and philanthropist active in Singapore, Hong Kong and the Chinese cities of Shanghai, Xiamen, and Guangzhou.
1924 Julie Wilson

Julie Wilson

American actress and singer (died 2015)
Julie May Wilson was an American singer and actress widely regarded as "the queen of cabaret". She was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical in 1989 for her performance in Legs Diamond.
1962 David Campese

David Campese

Australian rugby player and coach
David Ian Campese, AM, also known as Campo, is a former Australian rugby union player (1982–1996), who was capped by the Wallabies 101 times, and played 85 tests at wing and 16 at fullback.
1976 Lavinia Miloșovici

Lavinia Miloșovici

Romanian gymnast
Lavinia Corina Miloșovici is a retired Romanian artistic gymnast. Also known as "Milo" in the gymnastics community, Miloșovici is considered to be one of Romania's top gymnasts and one of the most prolific female all-around medalists ever, earning a total 19 World Championships or Olympic medals in a span of six years. She medalled in every single World Championships meet, Olympic Games and European Championships between 1991 and 1996, and is only the third female gymnast ever, after Larisa Latynina and Věra Čáslavská, to win at least one World Championships or Olympic title on all four events. Miloșovici was also the last gymnast, along with Lu Li, to ever receive the perfect mark of 10.0 in an Olympic competition and the last to receive the benchmark score of 9.95 at the World Championships. She was inducted into the International Gymnastics Hall of Fame in 2011.
1982 Jim Henderson

Jim Henderson

American baseball player
James Duffy Henderson is a Canadian former professional baseball pitcher who currently serves as the pitching coordinator for the Milwaukee Brewers of Major League Baseball (MLB). He played in MLB for the Brewers and New York Mets.
1959 George Bell

George Bell

Dominican baseball player
Jorge Antonio Bell Mathey, better known as George Bell, is a Dominican former left fielder and American League MVP in Major League Baseball who played 12 seasons for the Toronto Blue Jays, Chicago Cubs (1991) and Chicago White Sox (1992–1993). Bell batted and threw right-handed.
1955 Fred Hersch

Fred Hersch

American pianist and composer
Fred Hersch is an American jazz pianist, composer, and a 17-time Grammy nominee. He was the first person to play weeklong engagements as a solo pianist at the Village Vanguard in New York City. He has written and recorded more than 75 original compositions.
1964 Jon Carin

Jon Carin

American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
Jon Carin is an American musician, singer, songwriter and producer. He has collaborated with acts including Pink Floyd, Roger Waters, David Gilmour, the Who, Pete Townshend, Psychedelic Furs, Kate Bush, the Dream Academy and Richard Butler.
1983 Ninet Tayeb

Ninet Tayeb

Israeli singer
Ninet Nati Tayeb, professionally known as Ninet, is an Israeli singer-songwriter, actress, model and radio broadcaster. She rose to prominence when she won the first season of reality TV show Kokhav Nolad in 2003.
1975 Henrique Hilário

Henrique Hilário

Portuguese footballer
Henrique Hilário Meireles Alves Sampaio, known as Hilário, is a Portuguese football coach and former player who played as a goalkeeper. He is the goalkeeping coach of the England national team.
1995 Cameron Burgess

Cameron Burgess

Scottish-Australian footballer
Cameron Robert Burgess is a professional soccer player who plays as a centre-back for EFL Championship club Swansea City. Born in Scotland, he represents the Australia national team.
1527 Louis I

Louis I

Cardinal of Guise (died 1578)
Louis de Lorraine, cardinal de Guise et prince-évêque de Metz was a French Roman Catholic cardinal and Bishop during the Italian Wars and French Wars of Religion. The fourth son of Claude, Duke of Guise and Antoinette de Bourbon he was destined from a young age for a church career. At the age of 18 he was appointed Bishop of Troyes, a position he could only serve in an administrative capacity as he would not reach the Canonical Age for another 9 years. Having served in this position for 5 years, he transferred to become Bishop of Albi, staying in this role until 1561, when he was replaced due to his lethargic suppression of 'heresy'. From here he moved to become Archbishop of Sens, a see he would hold from 1561 to 1562, during which time a massacre of Protestants would occur in the city. By 1562 he decided to retire from active episcopal involvement. Nevertheless, he would become Prince-Bishop of Metz in 1568, an office he would hold until his death a decade later. While he lacked much interest in spiritual matters and was renowned for his drinking, he built up a considerable empire of abbeys during his life, which he passed on to his nephew Claude, chevalier d'Aumale.
1983 Brent Hayden

Brent Hayden

Canadian swimmer
Brent Matthew Hayden is a Canadian retired competitive swimmer. Representing Canada for a decade, Hayden is regarded as the fastest swimmer in Canadian history. Hayden won a bronze medal in the 100 m freestyle at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London with a time of 47.80, and was world champion in the same event in 2007 with Filippo Magnini of Italy. By winning the 100 metre, Hayden became the first Canadian in 21 years to win a gold medal at the World Aquatics Championships, and was also the first Canadian to appear in the 100 metre final at the Olympics since Dick Pound at the 1960 Summer Olympics, and the first Canadian to win an Olympic medal in the 100 metre. Hayden added a further three silver and one bronze medal to his World Championship totals.
1979 Khalil Greene

Khalil Greene

American baseball player
Khalil Thabit Greene is an American former professional baseball shortstop. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the San Diego Padres and St. Louis Cardinals. Despite playing in fewer than five full seasons for the team, Greene is the Padres' career leader in home runs at the shortstop position.
1957 Steve Lukather

Steve Lukather

American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
Steven Lee Lukather is an American guitarist, singer, songwriter, arranger, and record producer, best known as the sole continuous founding member of the rock band Toto. His reputation as a skilled guitarist led to a steady flow of session work beginning in the 1970s that has since established him as a prolific session musician, recording guitar tracks for more than 1,500 albums spanning a broad array of artists and genres. He has also contributed to albums and hit singles as a songwriter, arranger, and producer. Notably, Lukather played guitar on Boz Scaggs's albums Down Two Then Left (1977) and Middle Man (1980), and was a prominent contributor to Michael Jackson's Thriller (1982). Lukather has released nine solo albums, the latest of which, Bridges, was released in June 2023.
1877 Oswald Avery

Oswald Avery

Canadian-American physician and microbiologist (died 1955)
Oswald Theodore Avery Jr. was a Canadian-American physician and medical researcher. The major part of his career was spent at the Rockefeller Hospital in New York City. Avery was one of the first molecular biologists and a pioneer in immunochemistry, but he is best known for the experiment that isolated DNA as the material of which genes and chromosomes are made.
1954 Brian Tobin

Brian Tobin

Canadian journalist and politician, 6th Premier of Newfoundland
Brian Vincent Tobin is a Canadian businessman and former politician. Tobin served as the sixth premier of Newfoundland from 1996 to 2000. Tobin was also a prominent Member of Parliament and served as a cabinet minister in Jean Chrétien's Liberal government.
1942 Allan Grice

Allan Grice

Australian race car driver and politician
Allan Maxwell Grice, known to motor-racing fans as "Gricey", is an Australian former racing driver and politician, most famous for twice winning the prestigious Bathurst 1000, and as a privateer driver of a Holden in the Australian Touring Car Championship.
1981 Martin Castrogiovanni

Martin Castrogiovanni

Argentine-Italian rugby player
Martín Leandro Castrogiovanni is an Italian-Argentine retired rugby union player. He was born in Paraná, Argentina, but qualified for Italy through his heritage. Castrogiovanni moved to Italy as a teenager and represented the Italian national team 119 times over 14 years. In Italy he played for Calvisano between 2001 and 2006, before moving to England to play for Leicester Tigers where he played 145 games over seven seasons, winning four Premiership Rugby titles. In 2013 he moved to Toulon where he won a Heineken Cup, before finishing his career with Racing 92 in Paris.
1969 Michael Hancock

Michael Hancock

Australian rugby league player
Michael John "Mick" Hancock is an Australian former rugby league footballer who played in the 1980s, 1990s and 2000s. An Australian international and Queensland State of Origin representative wing, he played in the Brisbane Broncos' first five Grand Final victories in 1992, 1993, 1997 Super League, 1998 and 2000. At the time of his retirement from football in Australia in 2000 he held the Broncos' club records for most career appearances. He played out the rest of his career in England with the Salford City Reds and retired in 2002.
1949 Michel Brière

Michel Brière

Canadian ice hockey player (died 1971)
Michel Edouard Brière was a Canadian professional ice hockey player for one season in the National Hockey League (NHL) with the Pittsburgh Penguins in 1969–70. Following his rookie season with the Penguins, Brière was involved in a car accident in which he suffered major head trauma. After multiple brain surgeries and 11 months in a coma, he died as a result of his injuries at the age of 21.
1967 Paul Ince

Paul Ince

English footballer and manager
Paul Emerson Carlyle Ince is an English professional football manager and former player. A midfielder, Ince played professionally from 1986 to 2007, starting his career with West Ham United and later representing Manchester United, Liverpool, Middlesbrough, Wolverhampton Wanderers, Swindon Town and Macclesfield Town in England, as well as Inter Milan in Italy. With a combined total of 271 league appearances for the two, Ince is one of the few players, especially in the Premier League era, to have represented both of arch rivals Liverpool and Manchester United.
1921

Robert Clothier

Canadian actor (died 1999)
Robert Allan Clothier, DFC was a Canadian stage and television actor most famous for his role as Relic on the CBC television series, The Beachcombers.
1971 Thomas Ulsrud

Thomas Ulsrud

Norwegian curler (died 2022)
Thomas Ulsrud was a Norwegian curler from Oslo. He won a silver medal at the 2010 Winter Olympics, one World Curling Championship, two European Curling Championships, and fourteen Norwegian titles. He was also known for being the skip of the team that competed while wearing colourful harlequin trousers at the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics. Team Ulsrud's combined showmanship and sportsmanship became iconic and contributed to reviving worldwide interest in curling since then. In 2024, he was posthumously inducted into the World Curling Hall of Fame.
1987 Tonje Brenna

Tonje Brenna

Norwegian politician
Tonje Brenna is a Norwegian politician currently serving as the parliamentary leader of the Labour Party since 2025. A member of the Labour Party, she previously served in Jonas Gahr Støre's government between 2021 and 2025 and has been the party's deputy leader since 2023. She previously served as the chairwoman of the Viken county cabinet from 2020 to 2021 and a deputy member in the Storting for Akershus from 2017 to 2025. She has been a regular representative since 2025 for the same constituency.
1933 Maureen Duffy

Maureen Duffy

English author, poet, playwright and activist (died 2026)
Maureen Patricia Duffy was an English poet, playwright, novelist and non-fiction author. Long an activist covering such issues as gay rights and animal rights, she campaigned especially on behalf of authors. Duffy received the Benson Medal from the Royal Society of Literature in 2004 for her lifelong writings. In 2025, she was announced as the inaugural winner of the RSL Pioneer Prize, founded by Bernardine Evaristo, to be awarded to a different woman writer aged over 60 every year for ten years.
1955 Rich Mullins

Rich Mullins

American singer-songwriter (died 1997)
Richard Wayne Mullins was an American contemporary Christian music singer and songwriter best known for his worship songs "Awesome God" and "Sometimes by Step". Some of his albums were listed by CCM Magazine in their ranking of the 100 Greatest Albums in Christian Music, including A Liturgy, a Legacy, & a Ragamuffin Band (1993) at No. 3, The World As Best As I Remember It, Volume One (1991) at No. 7, and Winds of Heaven, Stuff of Earth (1988) at No. 31.
1957 Wolfgang Ketterle

Wolfgang Ketterle

German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
Wolfgang Ketterle is a German physicist and professor of physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). His research has focused on experiments that trap and cool atoms to temperatures close to absolute zero, and he led one of the first groups to realize Bose–Einstein condensation in these systems in 1995. For this achievement, as well as early fundamental studies of condensates, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2001, together with Eric Allin Cornell and Carl Wieman.
1725 Franz Moritz von Lacy

Franz Moritz von Lacy

Austrian field marshal (died 1801)
Franz Moritz Graf von Lacy was an Austrian military leader of Baltic German and Irish origins. He was the son of Count Peter von Lacy, and was a famous Austrian field marshal. Lacy served during the reign of Maria Theresa, and was a close friend to Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor, becoming one of the latter's advisers. He was made a count of the Holy Roman Empire, while his father had been a count of the Russian Empire.
1943 Ron Elliott

Ron Elliott

American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and composer
Ronald Charles Elliott is an American musician, composer and record producer, best known as songwriter and lead guitarist of the rock band The Beau Brummels. Elliott wrote or co-wrote the band's 1965 U.S. top 20 hits "Laugh, Laugh" and "Just a Little". In addition to reuniting with the Beau Brummels on occasion over the years, Elliott released a solo album in 1970, and has played on and produced albums by a number of other artists.
1944

Michael Tugendhat

English lawyer and judge
Sir Michael George Tugendhat is a retired High Court judge in England and Wales. He was the High Court's senior media judge, taking over that role from Mr Justice Eady on 1 October 2010.
1868 Ernest Swinton

Ernest Swinton

British Army officer (died 1951)
Major-General Sir Ernest Dunlop Swinton, was a British Army officer who played a part in the development and adoption of the tank during the First World War. He was also a war correspondent and author of several short stories on military themes. He is credited, along with fellow officer Lieutenant-Colonel Walter Dally Jones, with having initiated the use of the word "tank" as a code-name for the first British, tracked, armoured fighting vehicles.
1928 Vern Mikkelsen

Vern Mikkelsen

American basketball player and coach (died 2013)
Arild Verner Agerskov Mikkelsen was an American professional basketball player. One of the National Basketball Association's first power forwards in the 1950s, he was known for his tenacious defense and durability, playing 699 out of a possible 704 games during his career. He was a six-time All-Star and four-time Second Team All-Pro, and was inducted into the NAIA Basketball Hall of Fame and the sport's Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 1995.
1912 Alfredo Pián

Alfredo Pián

Argentine race car driver (died 1990)
Alfredo Pián was an Argentine racing driver. He entered the 1950 Monaco Grand Prix with a Maserati 4CLT run by Scuderia Achille Varzi. During the Saturday practice sessions, Pián, who had the sixth fastest time at that point, spun on an oil patch and crashed against the guard-rail, being thrown out of the cockpit. He sustained leg injuries and was not able to start the race, and the injury ended his career.
1983 Andy Marte

Andy Marte

Dominican baseball player (died 2017)
Andy Manuel Marte was a Dominican professional baseball third baseman. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Atlanta Braves, Cleveland Indians, and Arizona Diamondbacks. He also played in the KBO League for the KT Wiz. On January 22, 2017, Marte was killed in a car crash in the Dominican Republic.
1942 Christopher A. Sims

Christopher A. Sims

American economist and statistician, Nobel Prize laureate
Christopher Albert Sims was an American econometrician and macroeconomist. He was the John J.F. Sherrerd '52 University Professor of Economics at Princeton University. Together with Thomas Sargent, he won the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 2011. The award cited their "empirical research on cause and effect in the macroeconomy".
1953 Peter Mandelson

Peter Mandelson

English journalist and politician, Secretary of State for Northern Ireland
Peter Benjamin Mandelson, Baron Mandelson, is a British former Labour Party politician, lobbyist and diplomat. He was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Hartlepool from 1992 to 2004. He served in Tony Blair and Gordon Brown's cabinets as Minister without portfolio, Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, Business Secretary and First Secretary of State. He was the British Ambassador to the United States in 2025 under Prime Minister Keir Starmer.
1712 James Steuart

James Steuart

Scottish economist and author (died 1780)
Sir James Steuart, 3rd Baronet of Goodtrees and 7th Baronet of Coltness, also known as Sir James Steuart Denham, was a prominent Scottish Jacobite and author of "probably the first systematic treatise written in English about economics" and the first book in English with 'political economy' in the title. He assumed the surname of Denham late in life; he inherited his cousin's baronetcy of Coltness in 1773.
1950 Leela Vernon

Leela Vernon

Belizean musician and cultural conservationist (died 2017)
Leela Vernon MBE was a Belizean cultural icon noted for her contributions to preserving Creole culture in the country. She was awarded the title "Queen of Brukdown", received the Order of the British Empire for promoting Creole culture and music, and was named the Brukdown Artist of the Year in 2004. She was honored as National Hero in 2016 by the National Institute of Culture and History.
1971 Conor O'Shea

Conor O'Shea

Irish rugby player and coach
Conor O'Shea is an Irish rugby union coach and former player. He was the head coach of the Italy national team from 2016 to 2019. He played as a full back and occasionally at out-half and centre for Ireland, Lansdowne and London Irish. He has also coached London Irish and Harlequins, and held management positions with the English Rugby Football Union and the English Institute of Sport.
1918 Albertina Sisulu

Albertina Sisulu

South African anti-apartheid activist (died 2011)
Albertina Sisulu was a South African anti-apartheid activist. A member of the African National Congress (ANC), she was the founding co-president of the United Democratic Front. In South Africa, where she was affectionately known as Ma Sisulu, she is often called a mother of the nation.
1991 Alexander Burmistrov

Alexander Burmistrov

Russian ice hockey player
Alexander Olegovich Burmistrov is a Russian professional ice hockey centre who currently plays for the Cincinnati Cyclones of the ECHL. He previously played in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the Atlanta Thrashers/Winnipeg Jets franchise as well as the Arizona Coyotes, before leaving the NHL after a short stint with the Vancouver Canucks. Burmistrov won the Gagarin Cup with Ak Bars Kazan in 2018.
1809 James Clark

James Clark

American Jesuit (died 1885)
James Clark was an American Catholic priest and Jesuit who led the College of the Holy Cross during the American Civil War as president from 1861 to 1867. Born in Pennsylvania, he was educated at the United States Military Academy and served as an officer in the U.S. Army for one year, before converting to Catholicism and later entering the Society of Jesus.
1987 Andrey Grechin

Andrey Grechin

Russian swimmer
Andrey Vladimirovich Grechin is a Russian swimmer. He competed in the 50 m, 100 m and 4 × 100 m freestyle and 4 × 100 m medley events at the 2008 and 2012 Olympics and won a bronze medal in the 4 × 100 m freestyle relay in 2012. He won three more medals in this event at the world championships in 2009–2015.
1975 Toby Hall

Toby Hall

American baseball player
Toby Jason Hall is an American professional baseball coach and former catcher who is the manager of the Florence Y'alls of the Frontier League. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) from 2000 to 2008, primarily with the Tampa Bay Devil Rays. Listed at 6 feet 3 inches (1.91 m) and 205 pounds (93 kg), he batted and threw right-handed.
1851 George Ulyett

George Ulyett

English cricketer and footballer (died 1898)
George Ulyett was an English cricketer, noted particularly for his very aggressive batsmanship. A well-liked man, Ulyett was popularly known as "Happy Jack", once musing memorably that Yorkshire played him only for his good behaviour and his whistling. A fine all round sportsman, Ulyett played football in the 1882–83 and 1883–84 seasons as goalkeeper for Sheffield Wednesday.
1969

Mo Lewis

American football player
Morris Clyde Lewis III is an American former professional football linebacker who played in the National Football League (NFL) for 13 seasons with the New York Jets. He played college football for the Georgia Bulldogs, earning two consecutive second-team All-SEC honors. Lewis was selected by the Jets in the third round of the 1991 NFL draft.
1984 Marvin Mitchell

Marvin Mitchell

American football player
Marvin Mitchell is an American former professional football player who was a linebacker in the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Tennessee Volunteers and was selected by the New Orleans Saints in the seventh round of the 2007 NFL draft. Mitchell also played for the Miami Dolphins and Minnesota Vikings.
1811 Filippo Colini

Filippo Colini

Italian operatic baritone (died 1863)
Filippo Colini was an Italian operatic baritone. Debuted with the Accademia Filarmonica Romana in 1831. He is best known today for creating roles in the world premieres of several operas by Giuseppe Verdi, including Giacomo in Giovanna d'Arco (1845), Rolando in La battaglia di Legnano (1849), and Stankar in Stiffelio (1850).
1944 Jean-Pierre Sauvage

Jean-Pierre Sauvage

French chemist, (Nobel Prize for Chemistry, 2016, for the development of molecular machines)
Jean-Pierre Sauvage is a French coordination chemist working at Strasbourg University. He graduated from the National School of Chemistry of Strasbourg, in 1967. He has specialized in supramolecular chemistry for which he has been awarded the 2016 Nobel Prize in Chemistry along with Sir J. Fraser Stoddart and Bernard L. Feringa.
1898 Eduard Pütsep

Eduard Pütsep

Estonian wrestler and actor (died 1960)
Eduard Pütsep was an Estonian wrestler. He competed in Greco-Roman wrestling in the 1920, 1924 and 1928 Olympics and won a gold medal in the bantamweight division in 1924, becoming the first Olympic champion in wrestling from Estonia. In 1928 he placed sixth in Greco-Roman and ninth in freestyle wrestling.
1912 Don Byas

Don Byas

American saxophonist and educator (died 1972)
Carlos Wesley "Don" Byas was an American jazz tenor saxophonist, associated with swing and bebop. He played with Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Art Blakey, and Dizzy Gillespie, among others, and also led his own band. He lived in Europe for the last 26 years of his life.
1984 Anna Bogdanova

Anna Bogdanova

Russian heptathlete
Anna Bogdanova is a Russian heptathlete. Bogdanova was the bronze medallist at the 2008 IAAF World Indoor Championships and placed sixth at the 2008 Summer Olympics. She won at the European Athletics Indoor Championships the following year. In professional competitions she placed third at the 2008 Hypo-Meeting.
1984 Kenny Cooper

Kenny Cooper

American soccer player
Kenneth Scott Cooper Jr. is an American former soccer player who played as a forward. He began his soccer career with Manchester United but failed to break into the first team. He went on to play for clubs in Portugal, Germany, England, the United States, and Canada.
1940 Frances FitzGerald

Frances FitzGerald

American journalist and author
Frances FitzGerald is an American journalist and historian, who is primarily known for Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam (1972), an account of the Vietnam War. It was a bestseller that won the Pulitzer Prize, Bancroft Prize, and National Book Award.
1950 Ronald McNair

Ronald McNair

American physicist and astronaut (died 1986)
Ronald Erwin McNair was an American NASA astronaut and physicist. He died at the age of 35 during the launch of the Space Shuttle Challenger on mission STS-51-L, in which he was serving as one of three mission specialists in a crew of seven.
1984 Tom Brandstater

Tom Brandstater

American football player
Thomas Brandstater is an American former professional football player who was a quarterback in the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Fresno State Bulldogs. He was selected by the Denver Broncos in the sixth round of the 2009 NFL draft.
1907 Nikos Engonopoulos

Nikos Engonopoulos

Greek painter and poet (died 1985)
Nikos Engonopoulos was a Greek painter and poet. He was one of the most important members of "Generation of the '30s", as well as a major representative of the surrealist movement in Greece. His work as a writer also includes critique and essays.
1884 Claire Waldoff

Claire Waldoff

German singer and actress (died 1957)
Claire Waldoff, born Clara Wortmann, was a German singer. She was a famous kabarett singer and entertainer in Berlin during the 1910s to the 1930s, chiefly known for performing ironic songs in the Berlin dialect and with lesbian undertones and themes.
1968 Kerstin Andreae

Kerstin Andreae

German politician
Kerstin Andreae is a German politician of Alliance '90/The Greens who served as Member of the Bundestag from 2002 to 2019. Since leaving politics, she has been serving as managing director of the German Association of Energy and Water Industries (BDEW).
1982 Antony Kay

Antony Kay

English footballer
Antony Roland Kay is an English former footballer and manager who is a first-team coach at National League North club Southport. He scored 70 goals in 819 appearances during a 24-year playing career. His son, Arley, is also a professional footballer.
1847 Giuseppe Giacosa

Giuseppe Giacosa

Italian poet and playwright (died 1906)
Giuseppe Giacosa was an Italian poet, playwright and librettist. Regarded at the turn of the 20th century as one of Italy's leading playwrights, Giacosa is remembered chiefly for his association with Puccini in double harness with the librettist Luigi Illica.
1979 Gabe Gross

Gabe Gross

American baseball player
Gabriel Jordan Gross is an American former professional baseball outfielder who is currently the hitting coach for the Auburn Tigers. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Toronto Blue Jays, Milwaukee Brewers, Tampa Bay Rays, and Oakland Athletics.
1902 Eddy Hamel

Eddy Hamel

American footballer (died 1943)
Eddy Hamel was an American soccer player who played as a right winger for Dutch club AFC Ajax. Hamel was the first Jewish player for Ajax. He was murdered by the Nazis in 1943 in Auschwitz concentration camp.
1919

Jim Wallwork

English-Canadian sergeant and pilot (died 2013)
Staff Sergeant James Harley Wallwork DFM was a British soldier and a member of the Glider Pilot Regiment who achieved notability as the pilot of the first Horsa glider to land at Pegasus Bridge in France in the early hours of D-Day, 6 June 1944, during the Second World War. This achievement was described as "the greatest feat of flying of the Second World War" by Air Chief Marshal Sir Trafford Leigh-Mallory. Although most noted for his part in the Battle of Normandy, Wallwork flew gliders in every major British airborne operation of the Second World War. These also included the Sicily landings, Arnhem and the Rhine Crossings. In later life he lived in Vancouver.
1986 Almen Abdi

Almen Abdi

Swiss footballer
Almen Abdi is a Swiss former footballer who played as an attacking midfielder. He played for Zürich, Le Mans, Udinese, Watford and Sheffield Wednesday. He was capped on six occasions by the Switzerland national team.
1921 Bruce Beeby

Bruce Beeby

Australian-English actor (died 2013)
Bruce Edward Beeby was an Australian actor who worked primarily in British films and television. He was probably best known for portraying Stephen "Mitch" Mitchell in the 1950s BBC radio serials Journey into Space.
1984 José Lobatón

José Lobatón

Venezuelan baseball player
José Manuel Lobatón is a Venezuelan former professional baseball catcher. He has played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the San Diego Padres, Tampa Bay Rays, Washington Nationals, New York Mets, and Chicago Cubs.
1966 Phillip Price

Phillip Price

Welsh golfer
John Phillip Price is a Welsh professional golfer who plays on the European Senior Tour. He won three European Tour events between 1994 and 2003 and played in the 2002 Ryder Cup.
1972 Evhen Tsybulenko

Evhen Tsybulenko

Ukrainian scholar and academic
Evhen Tsybulenko is an Estonian legal scholar of Ukrainian descent. He is professor of law at the Tallinn University of Technology and Kyiv International University and is focused on International Humanitarian Law.
1978 Henrik Klingenberg

Henrik Klingenberg

Finnish singer and keyboard player
Henrik "Henkka" Klingenberg is a Finnish keyboardist, keytarist and singer. He joined the Finnish power metal band Sonata Arctica in late 2002 and currently resides in Kemi, Finland, when not on tour.
1990 Bengali-Fodé Koita

Bengali-Fodé Koita

French footballer
Bengali-Fodé Koita is a professional footballer who plays as a striker for Turkish TFF 1. Lig club Ümraniyespor. Born in France, he represented it on junior level, before switching allegiance to Guinea.
1536 Joachim Ernest

Joachim Ernest

Prince of Anhalt (died 1586)
Joachim Ernest of Anhalt, was a German prince of the House of Ascania, ruler of the principality of Anhalt-Zerbst from 1551, and from 1570 sole ruler of all the Anhalt lands.
1923 Samuel Khachikian

Samuel Khachikian

Iranian director, screenwriter, and author (died 2001)
Samuel Khachikian was an Iranian film director, screenwriter, author, and film editor of Armenian descent. He was one of the most influential figures of Iranian cinema and was nicknamed "Iran's Hitchcock".
1983 Casey Fien

Casey Fien

American baseball player
Casey Michael Fien, is an American former professional baseball pitcher. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Detroit Tigers, Minnesota Twins, Los Angeles Dodgers, Seattle Mariners, and Philadelphia Phillies.
1990 Kristján Þórður Snæbjarnarson

Kristján Þórður Snæbjarnarson

Icelandic politician
Kristján Þórður Snæbjarnarson is an Icelandic trade unionist, politician and member of the Althing. A member of the Social Democratic Alliance, he has represented the Reykjavík South constituency since November 2024.
1948 Allen Henry Vigneron

Allen Henry Vigneron

American archbishop
Allen Henry Vigneron is an American Catholic prelate who served as archbishop of the Archdiocese of Detroit in Michigan and ecclesiastical superior of the Cayman Islands from 2008 to 2025.
1921

Jim Shumate

American fiddler and composer (died 2013)
Jim Shumate was a fiddler that played with Bill Monroe and the Blue Grass Boys from 1943–1945. Shumate's main influences were Fiddlin' Arthur Smith, Curly Fox, and his uncle who played the fiddle while he was growing up. Shumate joined the band after Bill Monroe heard him playing on the radio station WHKY from downtown Hickory, North Carolina, and asked him to join the Blue Grass Boys. Howdy Forrester, who was Bill Monroe's fiddle player at the time, gave his notice and was going into the Navy. At age 20, Shumate became the fiddler for the Blue Grass Boys, and he sang bass on gospel songs. During this time, the Blue Grass Boys were also a baseball team, so they would arrive early to towns they were playing at and challenge the local baseball team. Unfortunately, there were no recordings made while Shumate was in the Blue Grass Boys.
1972 Ashutosh Agashe

Ashutosh Agashe

Indian businessman and cricketer
Ashutosh Dnyaneshwar Agashe is an Indian businessman and former cricketer. He has served as the chairman and managing director of the Brihan Maharashtra Sugar Syndicate Ltd. since 2009.
1985 Dean Collis

Dean Collis

Australian rugby league player
Dean Collis is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer who last played for the Camden Rams in the Group 6 Rugby League Competition, primarily as a centre.
1988 Daniel Schorn

Daniel Schorn

Austrian cyclist
Daniel Schorn is an Austrian former professional road bicycle racer, who rode professionally between 2008 and 2016 for the Elk Haus, Bora–Argon 18, and Team Felbermayr–Simplon Wels teams.
1972 Matthew Friedberger

Matthew Friedberger

American singer-songwriter and guitarist
Matthew Friedberger is an American singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist best known for his work in the indie rock duo the Fiery Furnaces with his sister Eleanor Friedberger.
1987 Justin De Fratus

Justin De Fratus

American baseball player
Justin Andrew De Fratus, is an American former professional baseball relief pitcher. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Philadelphia Phillies from 2011 to 2015.
1658 Henri de Boulainvilliers

Henri de Boulainvilliers

French nobleman (died 1722)
Henri de Boulainvilliers was a French nobleman, writer and historian. He was educated at the College of Juilly; he served in the army until 1697.
1927 Fritz Wintersteller

Fritz Wintersteller

Austrian mountaineer (died 2018)
Fritz Wintersteller was an Austrian climber who made the first ascent of Broad Peak together with Hermann Buhl, Kurt Diemberger, and Marcus Schmuck in 1957.
1938 Carl Brewer

Carl Brewer

Canadian ice hockey player (died 2001)
Carl Thomas Brewer was a Canadian professional ice hockey defenceman. Brewer attended De La Salle College and Riverdale Collegiate Institute prior to his hockey career.
1915

Owen Bradley

American country music record producer (died 1998)
William Owen Bradley was an American musician, bandleader and record producer who, along with Chet Atkins, Bob Ferguson, Bill Porter, and Don Law, was one of the chief architects of the 1950s and 1960s Nashville sound in country music and rockabilly.
1965

Hisashi Imai

Japanese singer-songwriter and guitarist
Hisashi Imai is a Japanese musician, singer and songwriter. He is best known as the lead guitarist of the rock band Buck-Tick since 1983. Following the October 2023 death of vocalist Atsushi Sakurai, Imai began sharing lead vocal duties in the band with fellow guitarist Hidehiko Hoshino. He has also performed in side-projects such as the duo Schaft with Soft Ballet member Maki Fujii, the supergroup Schwein, and the rock trio Lucy. Imai is known for his visual aesthetics, and Buck-Tick are commonly credited as one of the founders of the visual kei movement.
1940

Marita Petersen

Faroese educator and politician, Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands (died 2001)
Marita Petersen was the first and to date only female prime minister of the Faroe Islands and the first female speaker of the Løgting (Parliament). She was elected to the Løgting in 1988 for Javnaðarflokkurin . In January 1993, she was elected to the post of prime minister, which she held until September 1994. Later, she became chairman of the parliament from 1994 to 1995. She was Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands in a very difficult time with economic crisis. Marita Petersen died of cancer in 2001.
1966

Arne Sandstø

Norwegian footballer and manager
Arne Sandstø is a Norwegian football manager and former player who most recently was the head coach at Värnamo. Starting his career as a striker, he failed to break through at his hometown's largest club SK Brann, but reached professional football in West Germany's Tennis Borussia Berlin via a number of smaller clubs. Returning to Norway, he played on the highest tier for Lillestrøm and Odd, starting his managerial career in the latter club. He notably worked eight years in Odd followed by seven years in FK Jerv.
1942

John Stevens

Baron Stevens of Kirkwhelpington, English police officer and academic
John Arthur Stevens, Baron Stevens of Kirkwhelpington, is a former Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis, having served from 2000 until 2005. From 1991 to 1996, he was Chief Constable of Northumbria Police before being appointed one of HM Inspectors of Constabulary in September 1996. He was then appointed Deputy Commissioner of the Met in 1998 until his promotion to Commissioner in 2000. He was a writer for the News of the World, for £7,000 an article, until his resignation as the hacking scandal progressed.
1953

Marc Johnson

American bassist, composer, and bandleader
Marc Alan Johnson is an American jazz bass player, composer and band leader. Johnson was born in Nebraska and grew up in Texas. He is married to the Brazilian jazz pianist and singer Eliane Elias.
1967

Gavin Lovegrove

New Zealand javelin thrower and graphic designer
Gavin Brian Lovegrove is a retired New Zealand track and field athlete who competed in the javelin throw. His personal best of 88.20 m, set in 1996, is the New Zealand record. During his career, he twice represented his homeland at the Summer Olympics, won a bronze medal at three consecutive Commonwealth Games and participated in five World Championships. He also twice broke the world junior record and was a six-time national champion.
1937

Hank Nelson

Australian historian and academic (died 2012)
Hyland Neil "Hank" Nelson was one of Australia's foremost historians of the Pacific, particularly Papua New Guinea. His interest in the region began in 1966 when he took a teaching position at the Administrative College of Papua New Guinea and later the University. He lived in Papua New Guinea for seven years and studied the period of Japanese occupation, which led to several publications.
1989

Mads Dahm

Norwegian footballer
Mads Dahm, is a Norwegian footballer playing for Lyn in the Norwegian Third Division. He has played two games for Norway national under-21 football team. He is the younger brother of former Lyn player Fredrik Dahm. In August 2010, he signed for Lillestrøm, following Lyn's bankruptcy. In February, he decided to go back and help his old club Lyn back to the top.
1972

Orlando Thomas

American football player (died 2014)
Orlando Paul Thomas was an American professional football player who was a defensive back for the Minnesota Vikings of the National Football League (NFL) from 1995 until 2001. He played college football for the Louisiana Ragin' Cajuns.
1948

Shaye J. D. Cohen

American historian and academic
Shaye J. D. Cohen is an American Hebraist, historian, and rabbi. He is a modern scholar of the Hebrew Bible. Currently, he is the Littauer Professor of Hebrew Literature and Philosophy in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations of Harvard University.
1931

Jim Parks Jr.

English cricketer and manager (died 2022)
James Michael Parks was an English cricketer. He played in forty-six Tests for England, between 1954 and 1968. In those Tests, Parks scored 1,962 runs with a personal best of 108 not out, and took 103 catches and made 11 stumpings.
1980

Brian Pittman

American bass player
Brian Lee Pittman is an American musician most notable as the former bassist for the Christian rock band Relient K, of which he was a founding member. He has also played bass for the Christian metal band Inhale Exhale.
1968

Alexandros Alexandris

Greek footballer and manager
Alexis Alexandris is a Greek former professional footballer who played as a striker. He has won 10 Greek championships from 1992 until 2003 and is also one of the youngest players to score a hat-trick in Greek football.
1956

Mike Tully

American pole vaulter
Michael Scott Tully is an American pole vaulter. He represented the United States twice in the Olympics, earning a silver in 1984, and held the American pole vault record from 1984 to 1985.
1990

Mathieu Peybernes

French footballer
Mathieu Philippe Peybernes is a French professional footballer who plays as a centre-back for Ligue 2 club Sochaux. He was a France youth international having earned caps with the under-18 and under-19 teams.
1929

Fritz Hollaus

Austrian footballer (died 1994)
Friedrich Jörg "Fritz" Hollaus was an Austrian footballer who played in Austria for SC Rapid Oberlaa, Wiener Sportclub and SV Stadlau, and in Spain for Atlético Madrid and Real Mallorca.
1947

Dominique Braye

French politician
Dominique Braye is a former member of the Senate of France, representing the Yvelines department from 1995 to 2011. He is a member of the Union for a Popular Movement.
1952

Allen Hoey

American poet and author (died 2010)
Allen Hoey was an American poet, novelist, and literary critic who received numerous honors during his lifetime, including a Pulitzer Prize nomination for his 2008 collection of poems Country Music.
1935

Derek Bell

Irish harp player, pianist, and songwriter (died 2002)
George Derek Fleetwood Bell, MBE was a Northern Irish harpist, pianist, oboist, musicologist and composer who was best known for his accompaniment work on various instruments with The Chieftains.
1937

Said Afandi al-Chirkawi

Russian spiritual leader and scholar (died 2012)
Said Afandi al-Chirkawi was a prominent scholar in Shafii mazhab and a spiritual master, or murshid. He was killed by a suicide bomber in August 2012.
1328 Hongwu Emperor of China (died 1398)

Hongwu Emperor of China (died 1398)

The Hongwu Emperor, personal name Zhu Yuanzhang, was the founding emperor of the Ming dynasty of China, reigning from 1368 to 1398.
1409 Alessandro Sforza

Alessandro Sforza

Italian condottiero (died 1473)
Alessandro Sforza was an Italian condottiero and lord of Pesaro, the first of the Pesaro line of the Sforza family.
1581 Domenichino

Domenichino

Italian painter (died 1641)
Domenico Zampieri, known by the diminutive Domenichino after his shortness, was an Italian Baroque painter of the Bolognese School of painters.
1650 Jean Bart

Jean Bart

French admiral (died 1702)
Jean Bart was a Franco-Flemish naval commander and privateer.
1687 Nicolaus I Bernoulli

Nicolaus I Bernoulli

Swiss mathematician and theorist (died 1759)
Nicolaus Bernoulli was a Swiss mathematician and was one of the many prominent mathematicians in the Bernoulli family.
1762 Herman Willem Daendels

Herman Willem Daendels

Dutch general, lawyer, and politician, 36th Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies (died 1818)
Herman Willem Daendels was a Dutch military officer and colonial administrator who served as governor-general of the Dutch East Indies from 1808 to 1811.
1775 Giuseppe Baini

Giuseppe Baini

Italian priest, composer, and critic (died 1844)
Abbate Giuseppe Baini was an Italian priest, music critic, conductor, and composer of church music.
1821 Sims Reeves

Sims Reeves

English tenor and actor (died 1900)
John Sims Reeves was an English operatic, oratorio and ballad tenor vocalist during the mid-Victorian era.
1845 Will Carleton

Will Carleton

American poet and journalist (died 1912)
William McKendree Carleton was an American poet from Michigan. Carleton's poems were most often about his rural life.
1886 Eugene Burton Ely

Eugene Burton Ely

American soldier and pilot (died 1911)
Eugene Burton Ely was an American aviation pioneer, credited with the first shipboard aircraft takeoff and landing.
1895 Paavo Johansson

Paavo Johansson

Finnish javelin thrower and decathlete (died 1983)
Paavo Johansson was a Finnish athlete who competed mainly in the javelin throw.
1896

Esther Shumiatcher-Hirschbein

Russian-Canadian poet and screenwriter (died 1985)
Esther Shumiatcher-Hirschbein was a Belarusian-Canadian Yiddish-language poet and screenwriter active in New York City and Los Angeles.
1900

Andrée Boisson

French Olympic fencer (died 1973)
Andrée Boisson was a French fencer. She competed in the women's individual foil event at the 1936 Summer Olympics.
1908

Niyazi Berkes

Cypriot-English sociologist and academic (died 1988)
Niyazi Berkes was a Turkish Cypriot sociologist.
1918 Milton Himmelfarb

Milton Himmelfarb

American sociologist and author (died 2006)
Milton Himmelfarb was an American sociographer of the American Jewish community.
1921 Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld

Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld

Dutch astronomer and academic (died 2015)
Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld was a Dutch astronomer and prolific discoverer of asteroids.
1925 Louis Robichaud

Louis Robichaud

Canadian Premier of New Brunswick (died 2005)
Louis Joseph Robichaud, popularly known as "Little Louis" or "P'tit-Louis", was the second Acadian premier of New Brunswick, serving from 1960 to 1970.
1925 Virginia Zeani

Virginia Zeani

Romanian soprano and educator (died 2023)
Virginia Zeani was a Romanian-born opera singer who sang leading soprano roles in the opera houses of Europe and North America.
1926 Bob Rosburg

Bob Rosburg

American golfer (died 2009)
Robert Reginald "Rossie" Rosburg was an American professional golfer who later became a sports color analyst for ABC television.
1927

Howard Zieff

American director and photographer (died 2009)
Howard Burton Zieff was an American director, television commercial director, and advertising photographer.
1928 Eudóxia Maria Froehlich

Eudóxia Maria Froehlich

Brazilian zoologist (died 2015)
Eudóxia Maria Froehlich was a Brazilian zoologist.
1929 Pierre Bellemare

Pierre Bellemare

French radio and television host (died 2018)
Pierre Bellemare was a French writer, novelist, radio personality, television presenter, TV producer, director, and actor.
1932

Pál Csernai

Hungarian footballer and manager (died 2013)
Pál Csernai was a Hungarian football player and manager.
1935 Mel Street

Mel Street

American country music singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 1978)
King Malachi "Mel" Street was an American country music singer who had 13 top-20 hits on the Billboard country charts.
1942 Thomas Cavalier-Smith

Thomas Cavalier-Smith

English academic and biologist (died 2021)
Thomas (Tom) Cavalier-Smith, FRS, FRSC, NERC Professorial Fellow, was a professor of evolutionary biology in the Department of Zoology, at the University of Oxford.
1945 Michael White

Michael White

English journalist
Michael White is a British journalist who was until 2016 an associate editor of The Guardian. He is the paper's former political editor.
1946 Jane Heal

Jane Heal

English philosopher and academic
Barbara Jane Heal is a British philosopher, and since 2012, Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Cambridge.
1952 Patti Davis

Patti Davis

American actress and author
Patricia Ann Davis is an American actress and author. She is the daughter of U.S. president Ronald Reagan and his second wife, Nancy Reagan.
1953 Eric Faulkner

Eric Faulkner

Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist
Eric Faulkner is a guitarist, songwriter and singer, best known as a member of the Scottish pop band the Bay City Rollers.
1957

Irene Edgar

Scottish lawn bowler
Irene Edgar is a Scottish lawn bowler.
1959

Andy Picheta

English director, producer, and screenwriter
Andy Picheta is a director and producer of film and television, music videos and musical concerts.
1959

Kevin Sheedy

Welsh-Irish footballer and manager
Kevin Mark Sheedy is a football coach and former Republic of Ireland international player.
1959 Rose McDowall

Rose McDowall

Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist
Rose McDowall is a Scottish musician who formed Strawberry Switchblade with Jill Bryson in 1981.
1965 Ion Andoni Goikoetxea

Ion Andoni Goikoetxea

Spanish footballer and manager
Jon Andoni Goikoetxea Lasa, often known as Goiko, is a Spanish former professional footballer.
1966 Igor Prins

Igor Prins

Estonian footballer and manager
Igor Prins is an Estonian football manager and former professional player.
1967

Georgi Dakov

Bulgarian high jumper (died 1996)
Georgi Krumov Dakov was a Bulgarian high jumper.
1967

Krzysztof Sitko

Polish association football player (died 2018)
Krzysztof Sitko was a Polish footballer who played as a striker. Throughout most of his career, he was associated with GKS Tychy.
1971 Hal Duncan

Hal Duncan

Scottish author and poet
Hal Duncan is a Scottish science fiction and fantasy writer.
1971

Paul Telfer

Scottish footballer and coach
Paul Norman Telfer is a Scottish football coach and former professional footballer.
1973 Charlie Lowell

Charlie Lowell

American pianist and songwriter
Charles Daniel Lowell is an American pianist most known for being the pianist and keyboardist for Christian alternative folk rock group Jars of Clay.
1973

Lera Auerbach

Russian-American pianist and composer
Lera Auerbach is a Soviet-born Austrian-American classical composer, conductor and concert pianist.
1974 Costel Busuioc

Costel Busuioc

Romanian tenor
Costel Busuioc is a Romanian tenor.
1976 Henrik Gustavsson

Henrik Gustavsson

Swedish footballer
Lars Henrik Gustavsson is a Swedish former footballer who played as a goalkeeper, most notably for Åtvidabergs FF.
1976 Mélanie Turgeon

Mélanie Turgeon

Canadian skier
Mélanie Turgeon is a skier and former member of the Canadian national ski team.
1981 Olivier Pla

Olivier Pla

French racing driver
Olivier Pla is a French racing driver who competed in the Asian Le Mans Series for AF Corse.
1982 James White

James White

American basketball player
James William White IV is an American former professional basketball player and current player development coach for the Minnesota Timberwolves.
1982 Matt Dallas

Matt Dallas

American actor
Matthew Joseph Dallas is an American actor, best known for playing the title character on the ABC Family series Kyle XY.
1983 Chris Sherrington

Chris Sherrington

English-Scottish martial artist
Christopher David Sherrington is a British judoka. He competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics in the +100 kg event. He is a black belt.
1983

Gonzalo Klusener

Argentine footballer
Gonzalo Martín Klusener is an Argentine footballer currently playing for F.A.D.E.P, which disputes the Torneo Regional Federal Amateur and the Liga Mendocina de Fútbol.
1984

Anouk Leblanc-Boucher

Canadian speed skater
Anouk Leblanc-Boucher is a Canadian short track speed skating athlete at the 2006 Winter Olympics.
1984 Kieran Richardson

Kieran Richardson

English footballer
Kieran Edward Richardson is an English former professional footballer who played as a winger, left-back, or central midfielder.
1985

Simone Bracalello

Italian footballer
Simone Bracalello, also known in Italy as Bracca, is an Italian former footballer who played as a Striker.
1986

Chibuzor Chilaka

Nigerian footballer
Chibuzor "Chib" Chilaka is a Nigerian footballer who plays as a forward for Matlock Town in the Northern Premier League.
1986

Scott Rendell

English footballer
Scott David Rendell is an English footballer who plays as a striker for AFC Totton, where he holds the role of player-manager.
1988

Ricki Olsen

Danish footballer
Ricki Olsen is a Danish professional footballer. He is the son of the former Denmark national team player Lars Olsen.
1989 Jonathan Viera

Jonathan Viera

Spanish footballer
Jonathan Viera Ramos is a Spanish professional footballer who plays as a left winger or attacking midfielder for Thai League 1 club Ratchaburi.
1989 Luke Murphy

Luke Murphy

English footballer
Luke John Murphy is an English professional footballer who most recently played as a midfielder for Northern Premier League Division One West side Macclesfield.
1989 Sam Vokes

Sam Vokes

English-Welsh footballer
Samuel Michael Vokes is a former professional footballer who played as a striker.
1991 Geoffry Hairemans

Geoffry Hairemans

Belgian footballer
Geoffry Hairemans is a Belgian professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Hasselt in the Challenger Pro League.
1991 Harry Pell

Harry Pell

English footballer
Harry David Balraj Pell is a former English professional footballer who played as a midfielder. He is currently assistant manager of Hereford.
1991 Rob Keogh

Rob Keogh

English cricketer
Robert Ian Keogh is a former English cricketer who played for Northamptonshire. Keogh was a right-handed batsman who bowled right-arm off break.
1991 Tom Eastman

Tom Eastman

English footballer
Thomas Michael Eastman is an English professional footballer who plays as a centre-back for Isthmian League Premier Division club Maldon & Tiptree.
1991 Vadaine Oliver

Vadaine Oliver

English footballer
Vadaine Aston James Oliver is an English professional footballer who last played as a striker for Hartlepool United.
1992 Natasha Bassett

Natasha Bassett

Australian actress
Natasha Bassett is an Australian actress and screenwriter born in Sydney, New South Wales.
1995

Antoinette Guedia Mouafo

Cameroonian swimmer
Antoinette Joyce Guedia Mouafo is a Cameroonian swimmer.
1999

Matteo Gabbia

Italian footballer
Matteo Gabbia is an Italian professional footballer who plays as a centre-back for Serie A club AC Milan.
2002

Thierno Barry

French footballer
Thierno Mamadou Barry is a French professional footballer who plays as a striker for Premier League club Everton.

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