Did you know about Alan Peter Cayetano
Alan Peter Schramm Cayetano is a Filipino politician and lawyer who served as the 33rd president of the Senate for 23 days after being ousted.
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- 1918 World War I: Czech politicians peacefully take over the city of Prague, thus establishing the First Czechoslovak Republic. Source
- 2018 Jair Bolsonaro is elected president of Brazil with 57 million votes, with Workers' Party candidate Fernando Haddad as the runner-up. It is the first time in 16 years that a Workers' Party candidate is not elected president. Source
Did you know about Lenny Wilkens
Lenny Wilkens has been inducted three times into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, first in 1989 as a player, as a coach in 1998, and in 2010 as part of the 1992 United States Olympic "Dream Team" for which he was an assistant coach.
Did you know about Billy Wedlock
Billy Wedlock won 26 England caps between 1907 and 1914, his only rival for the centre-half position being Charlie Roberts of Manchester United, his opposite number in the 1909 FA Cup Final.
Did you know about Bill Gates
Following Microsoft's initial public offering in 1986 and the subsequent increase in its stock price, Gates became the world's then-youngest billionaire in 1987, at age 31.
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Examples of such themes include "Kiri's Piano", about the internment of Japanese Canadians, and "October 70", about the FLQ crisis, inspired by events and figures in Canadian history.
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1937
Lenny Wilkens
American basketball player and coach (died 2025)
Leonard Randolph Wilkens was an American professional basketball player and coach in the National Basketball Association (NBA). He has been inducted three times into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, first in 1989 as a player, as a coach in 1998, and in 2010 as part of the 1992 United States Olympic "Dream Team" for which he was an assistant coach. In 1996, Wilkens was named to the NBA 50th Anniversary Team, and in 2021 he was named to the NBA 75th Anniversary Team. In addition, in 2022 he was also named to the list of the 15 Greatest Coaches in NBA History, being the only person to be in both NBA 75th anniversary lists as a player and as a coach. He is also a 2006 inductee into the College Basketball Hall of Fame.
1880
Billy Wedlock
English footballer (died 1965)
William John Wedlock, also known as "Fatty" or the "India Rubber Man", was an English footballer who played for Bristol City in 1900–01 and from 1905 until his retirement in 1921. Between 1901 and 1905 he played for Aberdare. He was a centre-half whose short and stout stature belied his natural talent. He won 26 England caps between 1907 and 1914, his only rival for the centre-half position being Charlie Roberts of Manchester United, his opposite number in the 1909 FA Cup Final. The East End at Ashton Gate Stadium was named the Wedlock Stand in his honour, before being demolished in 2014 as part of the Ashton Gate Stadium redevelopment. Wedlock's pub opposite the ground was where he lived and worked for 43 years. Folk singer Fred Wedlock was Billy's grandson.
1955
Bill Gates
American businessman and philanthropist, co-founded Microsoft
William Henry Gates III is an American businessman and philanthropist. A pioneer of the microcomputer revolution of the 1970s and 1980s, he co-founded the software company Microsoft in 1975 with his childhood friend Paul Allen. Following Microsoft's initial public offering in 1986 and the subsequent increase in its stock price, Gates became the world's then-youngest billionaire in 1987, at age 31. Forbes magazine ranked him as the world's wealthiest person in their The World's Billionaires list for 18 out of 24 years between 1995 and 2017, including 13 years consecutively from 1995 to 2007. Gates became the first centibillionaire in 1999, when his net worth briefly surpassed US$100 billion. According to Forbes, as of July 2026, his net worth stood at US$106.5 billion, making him the 19th-wealthiest individual in the world.
1959
James Keelaghan
Canadian singer-songwriter and producer
James Keelaghan is a Canadian folk singer-songwriter. Born in Calgary, Alberta, Keelaghan is now based in Perth, Ontario. Many of the lyrics in his songs display a concern about social problems and justice in society. Examples of such themes include "Kiri's Piano", about the internment of Japanese Canadians, and "October 70", about the FLQ crisis, inspired by events and figures in Canadian history. Some of his songs concern tragic historical events, such as "Fires of Calais," about the 1940 Dunkirk evacuation of Allied troops during World War II, and "Cold Missouri Waters," about the Mann Gulch fire of 1949. Keelaghan's lilting baritone voice, driving rhythm guitar, and a sense of scene and narrative result in his ability to bridge traditional folk music with roots revival and Celtic music.
1943
Jimmy McRae
Scottish race car driver
James Steele McRae is a Scottish former rally driver. He was highly successful in the British Rally Championship, winning the title a record five times in 1981, 1982, 1984, 1987 and 1988 which as of 2023 still stands. In the European Rally Championship for drivers, he was runner-up in 1982, while his highest placing in the World Rally Championship was fifteenth in 1983. McRae runs a plumbing business in his home town of Lanark. He and his wife Margaret had three sons, Colin, Alister and Stuart. Both Colin and Alister were World Rally Championship drivers, with Colin winning the world championship in 1995. McRae's brother-in-law Hugh "Shug" Steele is also a former rally driver.
1978
Gwendoline Christie
English actress
Gwendoline Tracey Philippa Christie is a British actress. She is known for portraying Brienne of Tarth in the HBO fantasy-drama series Game of Thrones (2012–2019), and the First Order stormtrooper Captain Phasma in the films Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015) and Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017). For the former, she received a nomination for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series in 2019. Christie has since appeared in the Netflix fantasy series The Sandman and Wednesday, and the Apple TV+ sci-fi thriller series Severance (2025), for which she received a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series nomination in 2025.
1984
Finn Wittrock
American actor
Peter L. "Finn" Wittrock Jr. is an American actor, known for his collaborations with television producer Ryan Murphy. He began his career in guest roles on several television shows, while making his film debut in 2004's Halloweentown High and later returning to films in 2010's Twelve. After studying theater at The Juilliard School, he was a regular in the soap opera All My Children from 2009 to 2011, while performing in several theatrical productions. In 2011, he performed in playwright Tony Kushner's Off-Broadway play The Illusion and made his Broadway debut in 2012 as Happy Loman in the revival of Arthur Miller's play Death of a Salesman, directed by Mike Nichols.
1966
Andy Richter
American actor, producer, and screenwriter
Paul Andrew Richter is an American actor, comedian, writer, and talk show announcer. He is best known as the sidekick for Conan O'Brien on O'Brien's talk shows: Late Night, The Tonight Show on NBC, and Conan on TBS. He was also the star of the Fox television series Andy Richter Controls the Universe. He voiced Mort in the Madagascar film franchise and Ben Higgenbottom in the animated television series The Mighty B! on Nickelodeon. Since June 2019, Richter has hosted his own podcast, The Three Questions with Andy Richter, on the Earwolf network. In 2025, Richter played a supporting role in the supernatural horror film Obsession.
1837
Tokugawa Yoshinobu
Japanese shōgun (died 1913)
Prince Yoshinobu Tokugawa was a Japanese samurai, daimyo and the 15th and last shōgun of the Tokugawa shogunate. He was part of a movement which aimed to reform the aging shogunate, but was ultimately unsuccessful. He resigned his position as shogun in late 1867, while aiming at keeping some political influence. After these efforts failed following the defeat at the Battle of Toba–Fushimi in early 1868, he went into retirement, and largely avoided the public eye for the rest of his life. Despite his fall from power, he was later raised to a prince, the highest title of nobility in the new Japanese peerage.
1957
Stephen Morris
English drummer
Stephen Paul David Morris is an English musician who is the drummer and percussionist of the rock band New Order and, previously, Joy Division. He also wrote and performed in The Other Two, a band consisting of Morris and his girlfriend and later wife, Gillian Gilbert. Morris also participated in the New Order spin-off band Bad Lieutenant. He and frontman Bernard Sumner are the only two continuous members of New Order, and appeared on every one of the band’s albums. In 2026, Morris was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Joy Division/New Order after two previous nominations.
1948
Telma Hopkins
American singer and actress
Telma Louise Hopkins is an American actress and pop singer. Hopkins rose to prominence as a member of the pop group Tony Orlando and Dawn, who had several number-one songs. She also performed on the CBS variety show Tony Orlando and Dawn from 1974 until 1976 along with Tony Orlando and Joyce Vincent Wilson. In the late 1970s, Hopkins began working as an actress, playing roles on various sitcoms. In the 1980s-1990s, Hopkins held longer-running sitcom roles as Isabelle Hammond on Bosom Buddies (1980–82), Adelaide "Addy" Wilson on Gimme a Break! (1983–87) and Family Matters (1989–97) as Rachel Baines–Crawford.
1879
Channing H. Cox
American lawyer and politician, 49th Governor of Massachusetts (died 1968)
Channing Harris Cox was an American Republican politician, lawyer, and businessman from Massachusetts. He served as the 49th governor of Massachusetts, from 1921 to 1925. He attended Dartmouth College and served as 47th lieutenant governor to Calvin Coolidge, winning election as governor after Coolidge decided to run for vice president. Cox was noted for advancing progressive labor legislation and adjusting administrative law to Massachusetts' changing economy. He was also the first Massachusetts governor to use radio, when he broadcast live from the Eastern States Exposition on September 19, 1921, at the debut of station WBZ in Springfield.
1972
Brad Paisley
American singer-songwriter and guitarist
Brad Douglas Paisley is an American country music singer, songwriter, and guitarist. His first success came in 1997 as the writer of David Kersh's "Another You". After this, he signed with Arista Nashville in 1998, and released his debut album Who Needs Pictures in 1999. This was the first of 12 studio albums he released for the label before its closure in 2023, after which he transferred to EMI Nashville. His most commercially successful albums are Mud on the Tires (2003) and Time Well Wasted (2005), both certified double platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America.
1991
Lucy Bronze
English footballer
Lucia Roberta Tough Bronze is an English professional footballer who plays as a right-back for Women's Super League club Chelsea and the England women's national team. She has previously played for Sunderland, Everton, Liverpool, Lyon, Manchester City and Barcelona, as well as North Carolina at college level in the United States and Great Britain at the Olympics. Bronze has won a total of five Champions League titles, three with Lyon and two with Barcelona; four Women's Super League titles, with Liverpool, Manchester City and Chelsea; and both the Euro 2022 and the Euro 2025 with England.
1846
Auguste Escoffier
French chef and author (died 1935)
Georges Auguste Escoffier was a French chef, restaurateur and culinary writer who popularised and updated traditional French cooking methods. Much of Escoffier's technique was based on that of Marie-Antoine Carême, one of the codifiers of French haute cuisine; Escoffier's achievement was to simplify and modernise Carême's elaborate and ornate style. In particular, he codified the recipes for the five mother sauces. Referred to by the French press as roi des cuisiniers et cuisinier des rois, Escoffier was a preeminent figure in London and Paris during the 1890s and the early part of the 20th century.
1860
Kanō Jigorō
Japanese martial artist (died 1938)
Kanō Jigorō was a Japanese judoka, educator, politician, and the founder of judo. Judo was one of the first Japanese martial arts to gain widespread international recognition, and the first to become an official Olympic sport since 1964 and 1992, as well as the Commonwealth Games sport in 1990. Pedagogical innovations attributed to Kanō include the use of black and white belts, and the introduction of dan ranking to show the relative ranking among members of a martial-art-style. Well-known mottoes attributed to Kanō include "maximum efficiency minimal effort" and "mutual welfare and benefit" .
1942
Terence Donovan
English-Australian actor (died 2026)
Terence Patrick Donovan was an Australian actor of stage, television and film. Donovan is perhaps known to audiences for his roles in the Australian police dramas Division 4 and Cop Shop, as well as his roles in the soap operas Home and Away as Al Simpson and Neighbours as patriarch Doug Willis. His film roles include Money Movers, Breaker Morant and The Man from Snowy River. He had guest roles in numerous serials including Prisoner, Sons and Daughters, A Country Practice and E Street. He was the father of actor and singer Jason Donovan.
1897
Hans Speidel
German general (died 1984)
Hans Speidel was a German general who successively served in the armies of the German Empire, Nazi Germany and West Germany. The first general officer of the Bundeswehr, he was a key player in West German rearmament during the Cold War as well as West Germany's integration into NATO and international negotiations on European and Western defence cooperation in the 1950s. He served as Commander of the Allied Land Forces Central Europe (COMLANDCENT) from 1957 to 1963 and then as President of the German Institute for International and Security Affairs from 1964.
1939
Miroslav Cerar
Slovenian gymnast and lawyer
Miroslav Cerar is a Yugoslav former artistic gymnast and lawyer of Slovene ethnicity who won the pommel horse event at the 1964 and 1968 Summer Olympics. He is also a four-time World champion and a ten-time European champion. Domestically, Cerar won 13 national all-around titles and was chosen eight times as Yugoslavia's Athlete of the Year. He was awarded the Silver Olympic Order by the International Olympic Committee. He is a co-founder of the Olympic Committee of Slovenia and a member of the executive committee of the European Fair Play Movement.
1967
Kevin Macdonald
Scottish director, producer, and screenwriter
Kevin Macdonald is a Scottish film director. His films include One Day in September (1999), a documentary about the 1972 murder of 11 Israeli athletes, which won him the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature, the climbing documentary Touching the Void (2003), the drama The Last King of Scotland (2006), the political thriller State of Play (2009), the Bob Marley documentary Marley (2012), the post-apocalyptic drama How I Live Now (2013), the thriller Black Sea (2014), the Whitney Houston documentary Whitney (2018), and the legal drama film The Mauritanian (2021).
1928
William Rodgers
Baron Rodgers of Quarry Bank, English politician, Shadow Secretary of State for Defence
William Thomas Rodgers, Baron Rodgers of Quarry Bank, is a British politician and life peer. As a Labour Party member of Parliament, he served as Secretary of State for Transport from 1976 to 1979, and was one of the "Gang of Four" of senior Labour politicians who defected to form the Social Democratic Party (SDP). He subsequently helped to lead the SDP into the merger that formed the Liberal Democrats in 1988, and later served as the party's leader in the House of Lords between 1997 and 2001.
1962
Daphne Zuniga
American actress
Daphne Eurydice Zuniga is an American actress. Following her film debut in The Dorm That Dripped Blood (1982), Zuniga had lead roles in films such as The Initiation (1984), Vision Quest (1985), The Sure Thing (1985), Modern Girls (1986), Last Rites (1988), Gross Anatomy, and The Fly II. She is best known for her lead role as Princess Vespa in the space opera parody film Spaceballs (1987), and will reprise her role in the sequel Spaceballs: The New One, which is scheduled for a release in April 2027.
1983
Jarrett Jack
American basketball player
Jarrett Matthew Jack is an American professional basketball coach and former player and an assistant coach for the Detroit Pistons of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He attended four high schools in North Carolina, Maryland and Massachusetts before playing collegiately at Georgia Tech. He was selected with the 22nd overall pick in the 2005 NBA draft by the Denver Nuggets, before playing with the Portland Trail Blazers, Indiana Pacers, Toronto Raptors, New Orleans Hornets, Golden State Warriors, Cleveland Cavaliers, Brooklyn Nets, New Orleans Pelicans, and New York Knicks.
1893
Christopher Kelk Ingold
British chemist (died 1970)
Sir Christopher Kelk Ingold was a British chemist based in Leeds and London. His groundbreaking work in the 1920s and 1930s on reaction mechanisms and the electronic structure of organic compounds was responsible for the introduction into mainstream chemistry of concepts such as nucleophile, electrophile, inductive and resonance effects, and such descriptors as SN1, SN2, E1, and E2 now known as the Hughes–Ingold symbols. He also was a co-author of the Cahn–Ingold–Prelog priority rules. Ingold is regarded as one of the chief pioneers of physical organic chemistry.
1907
John Hewitt
Irish poet, playwright, and critic (died 1987)
John Harold Hewitt was perhaps the most significant Belfast poet to emerge before the 1960s generation of Northern Irish poets that included Seamus Heaney, Derek Mahon and Michael Longley. He was appointed the first writer-in-residence at Queen's University Belfast in 1976. His collections include The Day of the Corncrake (1969) and Out of My Time: Poems 1969 to 1974 (1974). He was also made a Freeman of the City of Belfast in 1983, and was awarded honorary doctorates by the University of Ulster and Queen's University Belfast.
1979
Jawed Karim
American computer scientist
Jawed Karim is a German and American software engineer and internet entrepreneur of Bangladeshi descent. He is one of the co-founders of YouTube and the first person to upload a video to the site. The site's inaugural video, "Me at the zoo", uploaded on April 23, 2005, has been viewed over 445 million times as of October 2026. During Karim's time working at PayPal, where he met fellow YouTube co-founders Steve Chen and Chad Hurley, he designed many of its core components, including its real-time anti-fraud system.
1997
Stetson Bennett
American football player
Stetson Fleming Bennett IV is an American professional football quarterback for the Los Angeles Rams of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Jones College Bobcats and Georgia Bulldogs. Nicknamed "The Mailman", he started his career as a walk-on at Georgia before transferring to Jones College. Bennett transferred back to Georgia where he won consecutive national championships in 2021 and 2022, joining A. J. McCarron, Tommie Frazier, Jerry Tagge, and Steve Davis as the only quarterbacks to win consecutive NCAA national championships.
1927
Cleo Laine
English singer and actress (died 2025)
Dame Cleo Laine, Lady Dankworth was a British singer and actress known for her scat singing. She was the wife of jazz composer and musician Sir John Dankworth and the mother of bassist Alec and singer Jacqui Dankworth. Laine had popular success with singles such as "You'll Answer To Me" and appeared in a range of musical theatre productions. She received a number of awards and honours including appointment as an OBE in 1979, and a Grammy in 1986; she became a dame in 1997.
1964
Andrew Bridgen
English soldier and politician
Andrew James Bridgen is a British former politician who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for North West Leicestershire from 2010 until 2024. He was a member of the Conservative Party until his expulsion in April 2023, having had the whip suspended in January after criticising the efficacy of COVID-19 vaccines and saying that a cardiologist told him it constitutes "the biggest crime against humanity since the Holocaust". He was a member of the Reclaim Party in 2023 and joined Restore Britain in 2026.
1968
Chris Broussard
American journalist and sportscaster
Christopher Dana Broussard is an American sports analyst and commentator for Fox Sports 1 (FS1) and Fox Sports Radio. Best known for his coverage of the NBA, he is now a co-host on FS1's afternoon show First Things First, as well as co-host of The Odd Couple with Rob Parker on Fox Sports Radio. Previously, he worked for The New York Times, ESPN The Magazine and ESPN.com, and made appearances on ESPN's SportsCenter, NBA Countdown, First Take, and NBA Fastbreak as an analyst.
1979
Natina Reed
American rapper and actress (died 2012)
Natina Tiawana Reed was an American singer, rapper and actress. She was born in Queens and raised in Atlanta, where she pursued a career in music beginning in her early teens. Discovered by rapper Lisa Lopes, she worked as a writer for the girl group TLC. Reed gained notice in the late 1990s as a member of the girl group Blaque. They released two albums: their 1999 debut album Blaque that peaked at number 53 on the Billboard 200, and Blaque Out (2001).
1945
Wayne Fontana
English pop singer (died 2020)
Glyn Geoffrey Ellis, known professionally as Wayne Fontana, was an English rock and pop singer best known for fronting the beat group the Mindbenders, with whom he recorded the hit singles "Um, Um, Um, Um, Um, Um" (1964) and "The Game of Love" (1965). After leaving the Mindbenders to pursue a solo career, Fontana had further UK successes, including "Pamela Pamela" (1966). Despite legal issues in the 2000s, he continued to perform on the 60s nostalgia circuit until his death.
1982
Anthony Lerew
American baseball player
Anthony Allen Lerew is an American former professional baseball pitcher who played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Atlanta Braves and Kansas City Royals; he also played Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) for the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks, and in the KBO League for the Kia Tigers, he also played for the Navegantes del Magallanes on the LVBP Liga Venezolana de Béisbol Profesional where on 11/21/2010 against the Leones del Caracas he managed to throw a no hit no run game.
1996
Jack Eichel
American ice hockey player
John Robert Eichel is an American professional ice hockey player who is a center and alternate captain for the Vegas Golden Knights of the National Hockey League (NHL). Eichel was selected second overall in the 2015 NHL entry draft by the Buffalo Sabres. Before entering the league, Eichel was described at the age of 17 as "the new face of American hockey," and he was considered a member of a rising class of generational talents in the sport.
1952
Annie Potts
American actress
Anne Hampton Potts is an American actress. She was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Corvette Summer (1978) and won a Genie Award for Heartaches (1981), before appearing in Ghostbusters (1984), Ghostbusters II (1989), and in various projects within the Ghostbusters franchise. She also appeared in the films Pretty in Pink (1986), Jumpin' Jack Flash (1986), and Who's Harry Crumb? (1989). She voiced Bo Peep in the Toy Story franchise and in various Disney video games.
1599
Marie of the Incarnation
foundress of the Ursuline Monastery in Quebec (died 1672)
Marie of the Incarnation was a French Ursuline nun from Quebec City. As part of a group of nuns sent to New France to establish the Ursuline Order, Marie was crucial in the spread of Catholicism in New France. She was a religious author and has been credited with founding the first girls' school in the New World. A skilled creative, Marie wrote many letters, learned Indigenous languages, practiced embroidery and needlework, and spread her faith.
1864
Adolfo Camarillo
Mexican-American rancher and philanthropist (died 1958)
Don Adolfo Camarillo was a prominent Californio philanthropist, ranchero, and horse breeder, known for founding the city of Camarillo, California, along with his brother Juan Camarillo Jr. Camarillo also donated the land for Adolfo Camarillo High School. The horse breed Camarillo White Horse was named for Camarillo. He began breeding them in 1921 and the line continues today. Because of his philanthropy in 1950, Pope Pius XII named him a Knight of St. Gregory the Great.
1875
Gilbert Hovey Grosvenor
Turkish-Canadian journalist (died 1966)
Gilbert Hovey Grosvenor was an American magazine editor who was the first full-time editor of the National Geographic magazine from 1899 to 1954, and is credited with having consolidated the nascent magazine. As President of the National Geographic Society from 1920 to 1954, he assisted its rise to one of the world's largest and best known science and learning organizations, aided by the chronicling in its magazine of ambitious natural and cultural explorations around the globe.
1970
Greg Eagles
American voice actor and producer
Greg Eagles is an American actor. He voiced the Grim Reaper in Cartoon Network's Grim & Evil and its spin-off The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy, Captain Bob and Sketch Pad on HBO's Canadian-American children's television series Crashbox, Brother 6 and Rokutaro in Afro Samurai, Blind Mud Puddle Johnson in Cartoon Network’s Cow and Chicken, Aku Aku in the Crash Bandicoot video game franchise since 2007, and several characters in the Metal Gear Solid games.
1703
Antoine Deparcieux
French mathematician and engineer (died 1768)
Antoine Deparcieux was a French mathematician. He was born at Clessous in the Portes, province of Languedoc. He attended the school of Saint Florent for 10 years while working on his family farm. In 1725, his desire for learning took him to Lyon, where he studied at a Jesuit school for five years. Then, in 1730, he went to Paris to increase his knowledge of mathematics and physics. He made a living by manufacturing sundials.
1903
Evelyn Waugh
English journalist, author, and critic (died 1966)
Arthur Evelyn St. John Waugh was an English writer of novels, biographies, and travel books; he was also a prolific journalist and book reviewer. His most famous works include the early satires Decline and Fall (1928) and A Handful of Dust (1934), the novel Brideshead Revisited (1945), and the Second World War trilogy Sword of Honour (1952–1961). He is recognised as one of the great prose stylists of the English language in the 20th century.
1963
Lauren Holly
American actress
Lauren Michael Holly is an American and Canadian actress. She has played the roles of Deputy Sheriff Maxine Stewart in the television series Picket Fences, NCIS Director Jenny Shepard in the series NCIS, and Dr. Betty Rogers on Motive. In film, she portrayed Mary Swanson in Dumb and Dumber (1994), Bruce Lee's wife Linda Lee in Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story (1993), Darian Smalls in Beautiful Girls (1996), and Gigi in What Women Want (2000).
1976
Keiron Cunningham
British rugby league player and coach
Keiron Cunningham is a professional rugby league coach and former player. A Great Britain and Wales international representative hooker, he played his entire professional career at St Helens, making nearly 500 appearances for the club between 1994 and 2010 and winning numerous trophies. He has been frequently cited as being among the best players in the Super League history and is widely regarded to be one of St Helens' greatest players of all time.
1986
Aki Toyosaki
Japanese voice actress and singer
Aki Toyosaki is a Japanese actress and singer. She had her first major voice acting roles in 2007, voicing Amuro Ninagawa in Kenkō Zenrakei Suieibu Umishō and Su in Shugo Chara!. She was named "Best New Actress" at the 4th Seiyu Awards in 2010 for her role as Yui Hirasawa in K-On! and Kana Nakamachi in Kanamemo, and received the "Best Lead Actress" and "Best Personality" awards at the 5th Seiyu Awards in 2011.
1969
Jeremy Davies
American actor
Jeremy Boring, known professionally as Jeremy Davies, is an American actor. He is known for playing Ray Aibelli in Spanking the Monkey (1994), Corporal Timothy Upham in Saving Private Ryan (1998), Private Toffler in Ravenous (1999), Snow in Solaris (2002), Bill Henson in Dogville (2003), Charles Manson in Helter Skelter (2004), Sergeant Gene DeBruin in Rescue Dawn (2006), Daniel Faraday on the series Lost (2008–2010), and Dickie Bennett in the series Justified (2011–2015).
1944
Dennis Franz
American actor
Dennis Franz Schlachta, known professionally as Dennis Franz, is a retired American actor best known for his role as NYPD Detective Andy Sipowicz in the ABC television series NYPD Blue (1993–2005), a role that earned him a Golden Globe Award, three Screen Actors Guild Awards and four Primetime Emmy Awards. He also portrayed two different characters on the similar NBC series Hill Street Blues and its short-lived spin-off, Beverly Hills Buntz (1987–1988).
1956
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
Iranian engineer and politician, 6th President of Iran
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is an Iranian politician who served as the president of Iran from 2005 to 2013. Ideologically a principlist and nationalist, he was a member of the Expediency Discernment Council. He was also the main political leader of the Alliance of Builders of Islamic Iran, a coalition of conservative political groups in the country, and served as the mayor of Tehran from 2003 to 2005, reversing many of his predecessor's reforms.
1963
Sheryl Underwood
American comedian, actress, and talk show host
Sheryl Patrice Underwood is an American comedian, actress, and television host. She first rose to prominence in the comedy world as the first female finalist in 1989's Miller Lite Comedy Search. Underwood was one of the hosts on the CBS Daytime talk show The Talk from September 2011 to December 2024, becoming the show's longest running co-host. She received a Daytime Emmy Award in 2017 and has been nominated seven times overall.
1985
Anthony Fantano
American music critic
Anthony Nicholas Fantano is an American music critic and internet personality who runs The Needle Drop, a YouTube channel with a tie-in website and Twitch streaming channel. Self-billed as "the internet's busiest music nerd", as a social media influencer Fantano discusses and reviews music from a variety of genres online. He also runs the channel Fantano where he talks about events in the music industry solo or with guests and conducts interviews.
1908
Arturo Frondizi
Argentinian lawyer and politician, 32nd President of Argentina (died 1995)
Arturo Frondizi Ércoli was an Argentine lawyer, journalist, teacher, statesman, and politician. He was elected president of Argentina and governed from May 1, 1958, to March 29, 1962, when he was overthrown in a military coup. His government was characterized by its strong developmentalist policies, that was less promoted by the State and more oriented to the development of heavy industry as a consequence of the entry of multinational companies.
1997
Georgia Godwin
Australian artistic gymnast
Georgia Godwin is an Australian artistic gymnast. She is the 2022 Commonwealth Games all-around and vault champion and the team, uneven bars and balance beam silver-medalist. She is also the 2018 Commonwealth Games all-around silver medalist and the team and uneven bars bronze medalist. She represented Australia at the 2020 Summer Olympics and was the third reserve for the all-around final. She is also a two-time World Cup silver medalist.
1914
Glenn Robert Davis
American lieutenant and politician (died 1988)
Glenn Robert Davis was an American lawyer and Republican politician from Waukesha County, Wisconsin. He served ten terms in the U.S. House of Representatives, representing Wisconsin's 2nd congressional district from 1947 to 1957, then representing Wisconsin's 9th congressional district from 1965 to 1975. Before serving in Congress, he served one term in the Wisconsin State Assembly, but resigned to enlist in the U.S. Navy for World War II.
1965
Jami Gertz
American actress
Jami Beth Gertz is an American actress and businesswoman. Gertz has performed in the films Crossroads, Quicksilver, Less than Zero (1987), The Lost Boys (1987), and Twister (1996). On television, she acted in the 1980s TV series Square Pegs, in the CBS sitcom Still Standing, and in the ABC sitcom The Neighbors. Along with her husband, Tony Ressler, Gertz is an owner of the Atlanta Hawks basketball team.
1510
Francis Borgia
4th Duke of Gandía, Spanish priest and saint, 3rd Superior General of the Society of Jesus (died 1572)
Francis Borgia, was a Spanish Jesuit priest. The great-grandson of both Pope Alexander VI and King Ferdinand II of Aragon, he was Duke of Gandía and a grandee of Spain. After the death of his wife, Borgia renounced his titles and became a priest in the Society of Jesus, later serving as its third superior general. He was canonized on 20 June 1670 by Pope Clement X.
1896
Howard Hanson
American composer, conductor, and educator (died 1981)
Howard Harold Hanson was an American composer, conductor, educator and music theorist. As director for forty years of the Eastman School of Music, he raised its quality and provided opportunities for commissioning and performing American classical music. In 1944, he won a Pulitzer Prize for his Symphony No. 4, and received numerous other awards, including the George Foster Peabody Award for Outstanding Entertainment in Music in 1946.
1936
Charlie Daniels
American singer-songwriter, fiddle-player and guitarist (died 2020)
Charles Edward Daniels was an American singer, songwriter, and musician. His music fused rock, country, blues and jazz and was a pioneering contribution to Southern rock and progressive country. He was best known for his number-one country hit "The Devil Went Down to Georgia". Much of his output, including all but one of his eight Billboard Hot 100 charting singles, was credited to the Charlie Daniels Band.
1951
Joe R. Lansdale
American martial artist and author
Joe Richard Lansdale is an American writer and martial arts instructor. A prose writer in a variety of genres, including Western, horror, science fiction, mystery, and suspense, he has also written comic books and screenplays. Several of his novels have been adapted for film and television. He is the winner of the British Fantasy Award, the American Horror Award, the Edgar Award, and eleven Bram Stoker Awards.
1980
Christy Hemme
American wrestler and ring announcer
Christina Lee Hemme is an American wrestling executive and retired professional wrestler, ring announcer, backstage interviewer, singer and model. She is best known for her time in Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) where she performed as a wrestler and ring announcer. She also worked as a front office executive at the company. She is also a former wrestler in WWE, where she won the 2004 Diva Search.
1967
John Romero
American video game designer, co-founded Id Software
Alfonso John Romero is an American video game developer. He co-founded id Software and designed their early games, including Wolfenstein 3D (1992), Doom (1993), Doom II (1994), Hexen (1995) and Quake (1996). His designs and development tools, along with programming techniques developed by the id programmer John Carmack, popularized the first-person shooter (FPS) genre. Romero is also credited with coining the multiplayer term "deathmatch".
1912
Richard Doll
English physiologist and epidemiologist (died 2005)
Sir William Richard Shaboe Doll was a British physician who became an epidemiologist in the mid-20th century and made important contributions to that discipline. He was a pioneer in research linking smoking to health problems. With Ernst Wynder, Bradford Hill and Evarts Graham, he was credited with being the first to prove that smoking increased the risk of lung cancer and heart disease.
1929
Joan Plowright
English actress (died 2025)
Joan Ann Olivier, Baroness Olivier, commonly known as Dame Joan Plowright, was an English actress whose career spanned eight decades. She received several accolades including two Golden Globe Awards, an Olivier Award, and a Tony Award as well as nominations for an Academy Award, two BAFTA Awards, and a Primetime Emmy Award. She was made a Dame by Queen Elizabeth II in 2004.
1938
Howard Blake
English composer and conductor
Howard David Blake is an English composer, conductor, and pianist whose career has spanned more than 50 years and produced more than 650 works. Blake's most successful work is his soundtrack for Channel 4’s 1982 film The Snowman, which includes the song "Walking in the Air". He is increasingly recognised for his classical works including concertos, oratorios, ballets, operas and many instrumental pieces.
1966
Chris Bauer
American actor
Chris Bauer is an American actor. He is best known for his television work in The Wire, Third Watch, True Blood, Survivor's Remorse, The Deuce, and the science fiction space drama series For All Mankind. He has also appeared on Broadway, as Mitch in A Streetcar Named Desire, and has originated roles in plays by David Mamet, John Patrick Shanley, and Jez Butterworth.
1973
Montel Vontavious Porter
American wrestler and actor
Hassan Hamid Assad, better known by his ring name Montel Vontavious Porter or simply MVP, is an American professional wrestler, manager, Brazilian jiu-jitsu practitioner and rapper. He is signed to All Elite Wrestling (AEW), where he is the on-screen manager of The Hurt Syndicate. He is also known for his work in WWE, Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA), and New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW).
1958
Ashok Chavan
Indian businessman and politician, 16th Chief Minister of Maharashtra
Ashok Shankarrao Chavan is an Indian politician from Maharashtra. He is the son of the late former Maharashtra Chief Minister Shankarrao Chavan. He was one of the most influential leaders of Indian National Congress in Maharashtra but joined Bhartiya Janata Party on 13 February 2024. He served as the chief minister of Maharashtra state from 8 December 2008 to 9 November 2010.
1963
Kevin Dineen
Canadian ice hockey player and coach
Kevin William Dineen is a Canadian professional ice hockey coach and former player. From 2021 to 2024, Dineen was the head coach of the Utica Comets in the American Hockey League (AHL). Dineen previously served as the head coach for the Florida Panthers and assistant coach of the Chicago Blackhawks. He was born in Quebec City, Quebec. He currently has pancreatic cancer.
1922
Gershon Kingsley
German-American pianist, composer, and conductor (died 2019)
Gershon Kingsley was a German-American composer, a pioneer of electronic music and the Moog synthesizer, a partner in the electronic music duo Perrey and Kingsley, founder of the First Moog Quartet, and writer of rock-inspired compositions for Jewish religious ceremonies. Kingsley is most famous for his 1969 influential electronic instrumental composition "Popcorn", and his composition of the WGBH-TV Soundmark.
1968
Marc Lièvremont
French rugby player and coach
Marc Lièvremont is a former rugby union footballer and was the head coach of the French national rugby union team. He played as a back-row forward for France, gaining 25 caps from 1995 to 1999, and was selected in France's 1999 Rugby World Cup squad. He also played with the French Rugby Sevens team and with the French Barbarians.
1944
Coluche
French comedian and actor (died 1986)
Michel Gérard Joseph Colucci, better known under his stage name Coluche, was a French stand-up comedian, film actor, activist and philanthropist. He adopted Coluche as a stage name at age 26, as he began his entertainment career. He became known for his irreverent attitude towards politics and the establishment, and he incorporated this into much of his material.
1922
Butch van Breda Kolff
American basketball player and coach (died 2007)
Willem Hendrik "Butch" van Breda Kolff was an American basketball player and coach. He played four seasons for the New York Knicks before becoming a head coach at Lafayette. Ultimately, he coached for eleven different teams in five classifications. He reached the NCAA Final Four and two NBA Finals while winning a championship in four different conferences.
1932
Spyros Kyprianou
Cypriot lawyer and politician, 2nd President of Cyprus (died 2002)
Spyros Achilleos Kyprianou was a Cypriot barrister and politician, who served as President of Cyprus from 1977 to 1988. He also served as President of the Cypriot House of Representatives from 1976 to 1977 and then again from 1996 to 2001, as well as being President of the Democratic Party, which he founded, from 1976 to 2000.
1974
Joaquin Phoenix
American actor and producer
Joaquin Rafael Phoenix is an American actor. Widely described as one of the preeminent actors of his generation and known for his roles as dark, unconventional and eccentric characters in independent film, he has received various accolades, including an Academy Award, an Actor Award, a BAFTA Award, a Grammy Award, a Volpi Cup, and two Golden Globes.
2001
Sonay Kartal
British tennis player
Sonay Kartal is a British professional tennis player. She has career-high rankings of world No. 44 in singles, achieved on 14 July 2025, and No. 171 in doubles, achieved on 5 January 2026. Kartal has won one WTA Tour title and 14 ITF titles, all in singles. She is the current British No. 2 women's singles player.
1794
Robert Liston
Scottish surgeon (died 1847)
Robert Liston was a Scottish surgeon. Liston was noted for his speed and skill in an era prior to anaesthetics, when speed made a difference in terms of pain and survival. He was the first Professor of Clinical Surgery at University College Hospital in London and performed the first public operation utilising modern anaesthesia in Europe.
1967
Julia Roberts
American actress and producer
Julia Fiona Roberts is an American actress. Known for her leading roles across several genres, she has received various accolades, including an Academy Award, a British Academy Film Award, and three Golden Globes. She became known for playing charming and relatable characters in romantic comedies and blockbusters, before expanding into dramas, thrillers, and independent films.
1986
Anthony Griffith
English footballer
Anthony James Griffith is a former professional footballer and coach who is the assistant manager at Northern Premier League Division One West club Congleton Town. He was noted as a tough tackling defensive midfielder, though at times, this led to him having a poor disciplinary record. Born in England, he represented the Montserrat national team.
1550
Stanislaus Kostka
Polish saint (died 1568)
Stanisław Kostka, SJ was a Polish novice in the Society of Jesus. He was born at Rostkowo, Przasnysz County, Poland, on 28 October 1550, and died in Rome during the night of 14–15 August 1568. He is said to have foretold his death a few days before it occurred. He was canonized in 1726.
1610
Jacob Kettler
3rd duke of Courland and Semigallia (died 1682)
Jacob Kettler was Duke of Courland and Semigallia from 1642 to 1682. Under his rule, Courland and Semigallia became more independent of its Polish suzerain, reached its peak in wealth, and even engaged in its own overseas colonization, making it one of the smallest, but fastest growing states in the world at that time.
1997
Taylor Fritz
American tennis player
Taylor Harry Fritz is an American professional tennis player. He has been ranked by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) as high as world No. 4 in singles, which he achieved on November 18, 2024, and No. 104 in doubles, attained on July 26, 2021. He is the current No. 3 American singles player.
1923
John Connell
American actor (died 2015)
John P. Connell was an American stage, television, film and voice actor. Born in Philadelphia, Connell served aboard a B-24 Liberator during World War II, for which he received a Purple Heart. He attended the University of Missouri School of Journalism upon his discharge from the Army Air Force and graduated in 1950.
1931
Harold Battiste
American saxophonist, pianist, and composer (died 2015)
Harold Raymond Battiste Jr. was an American music composer, arranger, performer, and teacher. A native of, and later community leader in, New Orleans, he is best known for his work as an arranger on records by Barbara George, Sam Cooke, Joe Jones, Lee Dorsey, Sonny and Cher, Dr. John, and others.
1936
Ted Hawkins
American soul-blues singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 1995)
Ted Hawkins was an American singer-songwriter born in Biloxi, Mississippi. He split his time between his adopted hometown of Venice Beach, California, where he was a mostly anonymous street performer, and Europe and Australia, where he and his songs were better known and well received in clubs and small concert halls.
1940
Susan Harris
American screenwriter and producer
Susan Harris is an American former television writer and producer who created the Emmy Award–winning sitcoms Soap (1977–1981) and The Golden Girls (1985–1992). Between 1975 and 1998, Harris was one of the most prolific television writers, creating 13 comedy series. In 2011, she was inducted into the Television Hall of Fame.
1979
Martin Škoula
Czech ice hockey player
Martin Škoula is a Czech former professional ice hockey defenceman, who enjoyed a lengthy career in the National Hockey League (NHL) with the Colorado Avalanche, Mighty Ducks of Anaheim, Dallas Stars, Minnesota Wild, Pittsburgh Penguins and the New Jersey Devils. He won the Stanley Cup with the Colorado Avalanche in 2001.
1995
Jae'Sean Tate
American basketball player
Jae'Sean Antoine Tate is an American professional basketball player for the Houston Rockets of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played college basketball for the Ohio State Buckeyes in the Big Ten Conference. Tate is represented by Beyond Athlete Management. Tate started his career overseas before joining the Rockets in 2020.
1938
Keigo Abe
Japanese martial artist and coach (died 2019)
Keigo Abe was a Japanese master of Shotokan karate who founded the Japan Shotokan Karate Association in 1999 and is its Chief Instructor. He held the rank of 9th dan in karate, was a direct student of Masatoshi Nakayama (1913–1987), and was a senior instructor in the Japan Karate Association.
1949
Dwight Davis
American basketball player
Dwight E. Davis is a retired American professional basketball player. After playing college basketball at the University of Houston from 1969 to 1972, Davis was selected as the 3rd overall pick of 1972 NBA draft by the Cleveland Cavaliers. Nicknamed "Double D", Davis played for five seasons in the NBA.
1951
Peter Hitchens
English journalist and author
Peter Jonathan Hitchens is an English author, broadcaster, journalist, and commentator. He writes for The Mail on Sunday and was a foreign correspondent reporting from both Moscow and Washington, D.C. Hitchens has contributed to The Spectator, The American Conservative, The Guardian, First Things, Prospect, The Critic and the New Statesman.
1966
Steve Atwater
American football player
Stephen Dennis Atwater is an American former professional football player who was a safety for the Denver Broncos of the National Football League (NFL). He was an eight-time Pro Bowl selection and two-time Super Bowl champion. Atwater was elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame on February 1, 2020.
1994
Andrew Harrison
American basketball player
Andrew Michael Harrison is an American professional basketball player for Mitteldeutscher BC of the Basketball Bundesliga. He was considered one of the top recruits for 2013. He attended Travis High School in Richmond, Texas, and played college basketball for the University of Kentucky along with his twin brother, Aaron Harrison.
1886
O. G. S. Crawford
British archaeologist (died 1957)
Osbert Guy Stanhope Crawford was a British archaeologist who specialised in the archaeology of prehistoric Britain and Sudan. A keen proponent of aerial archaeology, he spent most of his career as the archaeological officer of the Ordnance Survey (OS) and also wrote a range of books on archaeological subjects.
1897
Edith Head
American costume designer (died 1981)
Edith Claire Head was an American film costume designer. With a total of 8 wins out of 35 nominations, she is the most decorated woman at the Academy Awards. She also holds the Guinness World Record for most-credited costume designer in film history, with a total of 432 credits.
1929
John Hollander
American poet, critic, and educator (died 2013)
John Hollander was an American poet and literary critic. At the time of his death, he was Sterling Professor Emeritus of English at Yale University, having previously taught at Connecticut College, Hunter College, and CUNY Graduate Center. He was a 1990 MacArthur Fellow and poet laureate of Connecticut 2007–2009.
1959
Randy Wittman
American basketball player and coach
Randy Scott Wittman is an American former professional basketball player at the guard position and former coach of the NBA's Cleveland Cavaliers, Minnesota Timberwolves, and Washington Wizards. Resulting from his five-year tenure as the Wizards head coach, Wittman received media praise for his defensive coaching style and competitive spirit.
1969
Ben Harper
American singer-songwriter and guitarist
Benjamin Charles Harper is an American singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. Harper plays an eclectic mix of blues, folk, soul, reggae, and rock music, and he is known for his guitar-playing skills, vocals, live performances, and activism. He has released 12 studio albums, mostly through Virgin Records, and has toured internationally.
1815
Ľudovít Štúr
Slovak philologist and politician (died 1856)
Ľudovít Štúr, also known as Ľudovít Velislav Štúr, was a Slovak revolutionary, philosopher, politician and writer. He was a leader of the Slovak national revival in the 19th century and the codifier of standard Slovak. He is lauded as one of the most important figures in Slovak history.
1926
Bowie Kuhn
American lawyer and businessman, 5th Commissioner of Baseball (died 2007)
Bowie Kent Kuhn was an American lawyer and sports administrator who served as the fifth commissioner of Major League Baseball from February 4, 1969, to September 30, 1984. He served as legal counsel for Major League Baseball owners for almost 20 years prior to his election as commissioner.
1972
Terrell Davis
American football player and sportscaster
Terrell Lamar Davis is an American former professional football player who was a running back for the Denver Broncos of the National Football League (NFL) from 1995 to 2001. Despite his short seven-year career, Davis is often regarded as one of the greatest running backs of all time.
1816
Malwida von Meysenbug
German writer (died 1903)
Malwida von Meysenbug was a German writer, her work including Memoirs of an Idealist, the first volume of which she published anonymously in 1869. As well, she was a friend of Friedrich Nietzsche and Richard Wagner, and met the French writer Romain Rolland in Rome in 1890.
1939
Jane Alexander
American actress and producer
Jane Alexander is an American-Canadian actress and author. She is the recipient of two Primetime Emmy Awards, a Tony Award, and nominations for four Academy Awards, and three Golden Globe Awards. From 1993 to 1997, Alexander served as the chairwoman of the National Endowment for the Arts.
2006
Yoon Do-young
South Korean footballer
Yoon Do-young is a South Korean professional footballer who plays as a winger for 2. Bundesliga club 1. FC Magdeburg, on loan from Premier League club Brighton & Hove Albion. He made his debut professional appearance in the 2024 K League 1 season with Daejeon Hana Citizen.
1696
Maurice de Saxe
French general (died 1750)
Maurice de Saxe was a prominent soldier, general and military theorist in the first half of the 18th century. The illegitimate son of Augustus II the Strong, he initially served in the Army of the Holy Roman Empire, then the Imperial Army, before entering French service.
1889
Juliette Béliveau
Canadian actress and singer (died 1975)
Juliette Béliveau was a French Canadian actress and singer, who starred in various radio and television comedies and dramas, as well as in theatre productions. She was also the heroine of a weekly comic strip drawn by Dick Lucas, published by Radiomonde from 1950 through 1954.
1962
Erik Thorstvedt
Norwegian footballer and manager
Erik Thorstvedt is a Norwegian former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper. He won 97 caps for the Norway national team, and was the starter in goal at the 1994 FIFA World Cup. He played for Viking, Eik-Tønsberg, Borussia Mönchengladbach, IFK Göteborg and Tottenham Hotspur.
1982
Matt Smith
English actor and director
Matthew Robert Smith is an English actor. He is best known as the Eleventh Doctor in Doctor Who (2010–2013), Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh in The Crown (2016–2017), for which he received a Primetime Emmy Award nomination, and Daemon Targaryen in House of the Dragon (2022–present).
1466
Erasmus
Dutch philosopher (died 1536)
Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus, commonly known in English as Erasmus of Rotterdam or simply Erasmus, was a Dutch humanist, theologian, and philosopher. He was, through his writings and translations, one of the most influential scholars of the Northern Renaissance and a major figure of Western culture.
1919
Hans Klenk
German race car driver (died 2009)
Hans Klenk was a racing driver from Germany. He participated in one World Championship Grand Prix on 3 August 1952 and did not score any championship points. Klenk won the 1952 edition of La Carrera Panamericana in a Mercedes Benz W194, along with Karl Kling.
1933
Garrincha
Brazilian footballer (died 1983)
Manuel Francisco dos Santos, nicknamed Mané Garrincha, best known as simply Garrincha, was a Brazilian professional footballer who played as a right winger. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest players of all time, and by many, one of the greatest dribblers ever.
1938
David Dimbleby
English journalist
David Dimbleby is an English journalist and former presenter of current affairs and political programmes, best known for having presented the BBC topical debate programme Question Time. He is the son of broadcaster Richard Dimbleby and elder brother of Jonathan Dimbleby, of the Dimbleby family.
1953
Desmond Child
American musician, songwriter, and producer
John Charles Barrett, known professionally as Desmond Child, is an American songwriter and record producer. He was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2008. He has been nominated for four Grammy Awards, a Primetime Emmy Award, and has won a Latin Grammy Award.
1957
Zach Wamp
American businessman and politician
Zachary Paul Wamp is an American politician who was the U.S. representative for Tennessee's 3rd congressional district from 1995 to 2011. He is a member of the Republican Party. The district is based in Chattanooga and includes large parts of East Tennessee, including Oak Ridge.
1985
Troian Bellisario
American actress
Troian Avery Bellisario is an American actress and filmmaker. The daughter of producer Donald P. Bellisario and actress Deborah Pratt, she gained international attention for her portrayal of Spencer Hastings in the Freeform drama series Pretty Little Liars (2010–2017), for which she received various accolades.
1945
Sandy Berger
American lawyer and politician, 19th United States National Security Advisor (died 2015)
Samuel Richard "Sandy" Berger was a Democratic attorney who served as the 18th US National Security Advisor for U.S. President Bill Clinton from 1997 to 2001 after he had served as the Deputy National Security Advisor for the Clinton administration from 1993 to 1997.
1969
Javier Grillo-Marxuach
Puerto Rican screenwriter and producer
Javier "Javi" Grillo-Marxuach is a television screenwriter and producer, and podcaster, known for his work as writer and producer on the first two seasons of the ABC television series Lost, as well as other series including Charmed and Law & Order: Special Victims Unit.
1972
Trista Sutter
American reality star
Trista Nicole Sutter is an American television personality who was the runner-up on season 1 of The Bachelor before becoming the star of the first season of its companion show, The Bachelorette. Sutter has also appeared on Dancing with the Stars and Fear Factor.
1983
Kayo Noro
Japanese singer and actress
Kayo Noro is a Japanese singer and entertainer who is represented by the talent agency, Ohta Production. She is a former member of idol groups AKB48 and SDN48. She was a 1st Generation captain in SDN48. Her former stage name was Kayo Asakura .
1974
Dayanara Torres
Puerto Rican actress and singer, Miss Universe 1993
Dayanara Torres Delgado is a Puerto Rican actress, dancer, singer, model, and beauty queen who won the Miss Universe 1993 pageant and she was the third Puerto Rican to win Miss Universe since Marisol Malaret in 1970 and Deborah Carthy Deu in 1985.
1989
Devin Ebanks
American basketball player
Devin Maurice Ebanks is an American professional basketball player for Manama Club of the Bahraini Premier League. He was selected 43rd overall by the Los Angeles Lakers in the 2010 NBA draft, after playing college basketball for two seasons at West Virginia University.
1965
Miyako Yoshida
Japanese ballerina
Miyako Yoshida is a Japanese ballet dancer and director. She was a Principal Guest Artist of The Royal Ballet as well as a principal dancer with K-ballet, Japan. Since 2020 she has been the artistic director of the National Ballet of Japan.
1983
Joe Thomas
English actor and screenwriter
Joseph Owen Thomas is an English actor and comedian. He is best known for his breakthrough role as Simon Cooper in the E4 teen sitcom The Inbetweeners (2008–2010) and its two film adaptations, The Inbetweeners Movie (2011) and The Inbetweeners 2 (2014).
1690
Peter Tordenskjold
Norwegian admiral (died 1720)
Peter Jansen Wessel Tordenskiold was a Norwegian naval officer and Vice-Admiral of the Royal Dano-Norwegian fleet during the Great Northern War. Born in Trondheim, he travelled to Copenhagen in 1704 and eventually joined the navy, rising to the rank of vice-admiral.
1914
Jonas Salk
American biologist and physician (died 1995)
Jonas Edward Salk was an American virologist and medical researcher who developed one of the first successful polio vaccines. He was born in New York City and attended the City College of New York and New York University School of Medicine.
1929
Virginia Held
American philosopher, author, and academic (died 2026)
Virginia Potter Held was an American moral, social, political and feminist philosopher whose work on the ethics of care sparked significant research into the ethical dimensions of providing care for others and critiques of the traditional roles of women in society.
1909
Francis Bacon
Irish painter and illustrator (died 1992)
Francis Bacon was an Irish-born British figurative painter known for his raw, unsettling imagery. Focusing on the human form, his subjects included crucifixions, portraits of popes, self-portraits, and portraits of close friends, with abstracted figures sometimes isolated in geometrical structures.
1928
Ion Mihai Pacepa
Romanian general (died 2021)
Ion Mihai Pacepa was a Romanian lieutenant general in the Securitate, the secret police of the Socialist Republic of Romania, who defected to the United States in July 1978 following President Jimmy Carter's approval of his request for political asylum.
1932
Suzy Parker
American model and actress (died 2003)
Suzy Parker was an American model and actress active from 1947 until 1970. Her modeling career reached its zenith during the 1950s, when she appeared on the covers of dozens of magazines and in advertisements and movie and television roles.
1981
Nick Montgomery
English-Scottish footballer
Nicholas Anthony Montgomery is a professional football coach and former player who is the head coach of Chinese Super League club Beijing Guoan. Born in England, Montgomery represented Scotland at under-21 level and as part of a Scotland 'Futures' side.
1988
Edd Gould
English cartoonist and animator (died 2012)
Edward Duncan Ernest "Edd" Gould was a British animator, cartoonist, artist, and voice actor. He created Eddsworld, a Flash animator and web comic franchise featuring fictionalised versions of himself and longtime collaborators Tom Ridgewell, Matt Hargreaves, Tord Larsson and others.
1479
John Gage
English courtier (died 1556)
Sir John Gage was an English courtier during the Tudor period. He held a number of offices, including Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (1542–1547), Comptroller of the Household (1540–1547), Constable of the Tower (1540–1556) and Lord Chamberlain (1553–1556).
1901
Eileen Shanahan
Irish poet (died 1979)
Eileen Shanahan was an Irish poet. Her best-known poem, The Three Children , has been republished five times since its original publication in The Atlantic Monthly in 1929, and was included in the Oxford Book of Irish Verse (1958).
1930
Bernie Ecclestone
English businessman
Bernard Charles Ecclestone is a British business magnate, motorsport executive and former racing driver. Widely known in journalism as the "F1 Supremo", Ecclestone founded the Formula One Group in 1987, controlling the commercial rights to Formula One until 2017.
1969
Wolfgang Kocevar
Austrian politician
Wolfgang Kocevar is an Austrian politician and member of the Landtag of Lower Austria. A member of the Social Democratic Party, he has been a State List member since March 2023. He has been mayor of Ebreichsdorf since 2010.
1986
May Calamawy
Egyptian-Palestinian actress
May El Calamawy is an Egyptian-Palestinian actress. Calamawy gained recognition for her portrayal of Layla El-Faouly / Scarlet Scarab in the Marvel Studios miniseries Moon Knight (2022), marking the first Egyptian and Arab superhero in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
1667
Maria Anna of Neuburg
Queen consort of Spain
Maria Anna of Neuburg, was a German princess and member of the Wittelsbach family. In 1689, she became Queen of Spain as the second wife of Charles II of Spain, last Habsburg ruler of the Spanish Empire.
1943
Karalyn Patterson
English psychologist and academic
Karalyn Eve Patterson is a British psychologist in Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Cambridge and MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit. She is a specialist in cognitive neuropsychology and an Emeritus Fellow of Darwin College, Cambridge.
1793
Eliphalet Remington
American businessman, founded Remington Arms (died 1861)
Eliphalet Remington II was an American engineer who founded what would become known as Remington Arms. Originally the company was known as E. Remington followed by E. Remington & Son and then E. Remington and Sons.
1880
Wilhelm Anderson
Belarusian-Estonian astrophysicist and astronomer (died 1940)
Wilhelm Robert Karl Anderson was a Russian-Estonian astrophysicist of Baltic German descent who studied the physical structure of the stars. He is known for being one of the discoverers of the mass limit of white dwarfs.
1960
Landon Curt Noll
American computer scientist and mathematician
Landon Curt Noll is an American computer scientist, co-discoverer of the 25th Mersenne prime and discoverer of the 26th, which he found while still enrolled at Hayward High School and concurrently at California State University, Hayward.
1988
Jamie xx
English musician, DJ, record producer and remixer
James Thomas Smith, known professionally as Jamie xx, is an English musician, DJ, record producer, and remixer. He is known for both his solo work and as a member of the indie pop band the xx.
1017
Henry III
Holy Roman Emperor (died 1056)
Henry III, called Heinrich the Pious, was Holy Roman Emperor from 1046 until his death in 1056. A member of the Salian dynasty, he was the eldest son of Conrad II and Gisela of Swabia.
1981
Nate McLouth
American baseball player
Nathan Richard McLouth is an American former professional baseball outfielder. He has played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Atlanta Braves, Pittsburgh Pirates, Baltimore Orioles and Washington Nationals. He was primarily a center fielder.
1938
Dave Budd
American basketball player
David L. Budd is a retired American basketball player who played for the New York Knicks in the National Basketball Association. He played college ball at Division I Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, N.C.
1987
Frank Ocean
American singer-songwriter
Frank Ocean is an American singer and songwriter. His accolades include two Grammy Awards and a Brit Award. He has been credited by several music critics as a pioneer of the alternative R&B genre.
1754
John Laurens
American soldier (died 1782)
John Laurens was an American soldier and statesman from South Carolina during the American Revolutionary War, best known for his efforts to help recruit slaves to fight for their freedom as U.S. soldiers.
1946
John Hewson
Australian economist and politician
John Robert Hewson is an Australian former politician who served as leader of the Liberal Party from 1990 to 1994. He led the Liberal-National Coalition to defeat at the 1993 Australian federal election.
1984
Bryn Evans
New Zealand rugby player
Bryn Evans is a retired New Zealand rugby union player, who most recently played as a lock for the Highlanders in Super Rugby and Hawke's Bay in New Zealand's National Provincial Championship competition.
1995
Glen Kamara
Finnish footballer
Glen Adjei Kamara is a Finnish professional footballer who plays as a central midfielder for EFL Championship club Queens Park Rangers, on loan from Ligue 1 club Rennes, and the Finland national team.
1839
Edward P. Allen
American captain, lawyer, and politician (died 1909)
Edward Payson Allen was an American Civil War veteran and politician from the U.S. state of Michigan. He served two terms in the United States House of Representatives from 1887 to 1891.
1966
Aris Spiliotopoulos
Greek politician, Greek Minister of Education and Religious Affairs
Aris Spiliotopoulos is a Greek politician of the New Democracy party. He served as Minister for Tourism (2007–2009) and Minister for National Education and Religious Affairs from January to October 2009.
1966
Matt Drudge
American blogger and activist, founded the Drudge Report
Matthew Nathan Drudge is an American journalist and the creator/editor of the Drudge Report, an American news aggregator. Drudge is also an author and a former radio and television show host.
1767
Marie of Hesse-Kassel (died 1852)
Marie Sophie Frederikke of Hesse-Kassel was Queen of Denmark and Norway by marriage to Frederick VI. She served as regent of Denmark during the absence of her spouse in 1814–1815.
1982
Jeremy Bonderman
American baseball player
Jeremy Allen Bonderman is an American former professional baseball pitcher. Bonderman played in Major League Baseball for the Detroit Tigers and Seattle Mariners from 2003 to 2010 and in 2013.
1804
Pierre François Verhulst
Belgian mathematician and theorist (died 1849)
Pierre François Verhulst was a Belgian mathematician and a doctor in number theory from the University of Ghent in 1825. He is best known for the logistic growth model.
1929
Marcel Bozzuffi
French actor, director, and screenwriter (died 1988)
Marcel Bozzuffi was a French film actor. Internationally, he appeared as a hitman in the Oscar-winning American film The French Connection. In 1963, he married French actress Françoise Fabian.
1942
Abdelkader Fréha
Algerian footballer (died 2012)
Abdelkader Benfréha, known more commonly as Abdelkader Fréha, was an Algerian footballer who played nine times for the Algerian national team. He was nicknamed Béka or Head of gold.
1958
William Reid
Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist
William Adam Reid is a Scottish musician, best known for being the lead guitarist, main songwriter, and co-founder of the Scottish alternative rock band, the Jesus and Mary Chain.
1989
Camille Muffat
French swimmer (died 2015)
Camille Muffat was a French swimmer and three-time Olympic medalist who specialised in the individual medley and the free style events. Her career spanned from 2005 to 2014.
1957
Marian Bell
English economist and academic
Marian Patricia Bell, CBE is a British consultant economist, and was a member of the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee from June 2002 to June 2005.
1980
Alan Smith
English footballer and coach
Alan Smith is an English former professional footballer. Smith first came to prominence as both a striker and a right winger, but later became a holding midfielder.
1845
Zygmunt Florenty Wróblewski
Polish physicist and chemist (died 1888)
Zygmunt Florenty Wróblewski was a Polish physicist and chemist. Together with Karol Olszewski, he was the first scientist in the world to liquefy nitrogen in 1883.
1914
Richard Laurence Millington Synge
English biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1994)
Richard Laurence Millington Synge was an English biochemist, and shared the 1952 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the invention of partition chromatography with Archer Martin.
1917
Jack Soo
American actor and singer (died 1979)
Jack Soo was an American actor and singer. He was best known for his role as Detective Nick Yemana on the television sitcom Barney Miller.
1938
Anne Perry
English author (died 2023)
Anne Perry was a British crime writer. She was the author of the Thomas and Charlotte Pitt and William Monk series of historical detective fiction.
1969
Noriyoshi Omichi
Japanese baseball player and coach
Noriyoshi Omichi is a Japanese former professional baseball infielder, and current third squad hitting coach for the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks of Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB).
1974
Vicente Moreno
Spanish footballer and manager
Vicente Moreno Peris is a Spanish former professional footballer who played as a defensive midfielder. He is the manager of Qatar Stars League club Al-Rayyan.
1904
George Dangerfield
English-American historian, journalist, and author (died 1986)
George Bubb Dangerfield was a British-born American journalist, historian, and the literary editor of Vanity Fair from 1933 to 1935. He is known primarily for his book The Strange Death of Liberal England (1935), a classic account of how the Liberal Party in Great Britain ruined itself in dealing with the House of Lords, women's suffrage, the Irish question, and labour unions, 1906–1914. His book on the United States in the early 19th century, The Era of Good Feelings, won the 1953 Pulitzer Prize for History.
1942
Gillian Lovegrove
English computer scientist and academic
Gillian Lovegrove is a retired computer scientist and academic. She was Dean of the School of Informatics at Northumbria University, president of the Conference of Professors and Heads of Computing and was Higher Education consultant to the British Computer Society and manager of its Education and Training Forum. She is known for her interest in gender imbalance in computer education and employment, and her public discussion of possible solutions to a shortage of information technology graduates in the UK.
1959
Toshio Masuda
Japanese composer
Toshio Masuda is a Japanese composer. He has composed and synthesized scores for several Japanese television shows and animated series. Masuda is perhaps best known as the composer of the 2002 hit anime series Naruto where he combined traditional instruments like the shamisen and shakuhachi together with guitar, drums, bass, piano and other keyboard instruments along with chanting.
1886
Noel Macklin
English soldier and engineer (died 1946)
Sir (Albert) Noel Campbell Macklin was an innovative British car maker and boat designer. He founded Eric-Campbell in 1919, Silver Hawk in 1920, Invicta in 1925, and Railton in 1933. In 1939 he founded Fairmile Marine and supplied boats to the Royal Navy throughout World War II, an effort for which he was honoured with a knighthood.
1992
Lexi Ainsworth
American actress
Alexandra Danielle Ainsworth is an American actress. She is best known for playing the role of Kristina Davis on General Hospital, off and on from 2009 to 2023. She won a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Younger Actress for her role on General Hospital in 2017. She also received a nomination in the same category in 2011.
1924
Antonio Creus
Spanish race car driver and motorcycle racer (died 1996)
Antonio Creus i Rubín de Celis was a motorcycle racer and racing driver from Spain. He participated in one Formula One World Championship Grand Prix, the 1960 Argentine Grand Prix on 7 February 1960, driving a privately entered Maserati 250F. He retired with electrical problems and exhaustion, and scored no championship points.
1996
Jasmine Jessica Anthony
American actress
Commander in Chief is an American political drama television series that focused on the fictional administration and family of Mackenzie Allen, the first female president of the United States, who ascends to the post from the vice presidency after the death of the sitting president from a sudden cerebral aneurysm.
1884
William Douglas Cook
New Zealand horticulturalist, founded Eastwoodhill Arboretum (died 1967)
William Douglas Cook was the founder of Eastwoodhill Arboretum, now the national arboretum of New Zealand, and one of the founders of Pukeiti, a rhododendron garden, close to New Plymouth. He was a "plantsman with the soul of a poet and the vision of a philosopher".
1919
Walt Hansgen
American race car driver (died 1966)
Walter Edwin Hansgen was an American racecar driver. His motorsport career began as a road racing driver, he made his Grand Prix debut at 41, and he died aged 46, several days after crashing during testing for the 1966 24 Hours of Le Mans.
1944
Gerry Anderson
Irish radio and television host (died 2014)
Gerald Michael Anderson was a Northern Irish radio and television broadcaster for BBC Northern Ireland. Renowned for his unique style and distinctive sense of humour, Anderson often referred to himself on his show, as "Turkey Neck", "Puppet Chin" or "Golf Mike Alpha".
1953
Pierre Boivin
Canadian businessman
Pierre Boivin is a Canadian businessman and was president of the Montreal Canadiens from September 2, 1999, through June 30, 2011, succeeding Ronald Corey. On July 9, 2024, he succeeded John McCall MacBain as chancellor of McGill University.
1934
Charles A. Gargano
American diplomat, businessman and government official
Charles A. Gargano is an Italian-American actor, businessman and government official who was the U.S. Ambassador to Trinidad and Tobago. He was the chairman of the Empire State Development Corporation during the tenure of Governor George Pataki.
1939
Curtis Lee
American singer-songwriter (died 2015)
Curtis Edwin Lee was an American singer and songwriter. He is known for his early 1960s hits "Pretty Little Angel Eyes" and "Under the Moon of Love", both of which were produced by Phil Spector.
1950
Ludo Delcroix
Belgian cyclist
Ludo Delcroix was a Belgian professional road bicycle racer, who won the 9th stage in the 1979 Tour de France. He also competed in the team time trial at the 1972 Summer Olympics.
1903
John Chamberlain
American historian, journalist, and critic (died 1995)
John Rensselaer Chamberlain was an American journalist, business and economic historian, syndicated columnist, and literary critic who was dubbed "one of America's most trusted book reviewers" by the libertarian magazine The Freeman.
1922
Simon Muzenda
Zimbabwe politician, 1st Vice President of Zimbabwe (died 2003)
Simon Vengai Muzenda was a Zimbabwean politician who served as Deputy Prime Minister from 1980 to 1987 and as Vice-President of Zimbabwe from 1987 to 2003 under President Robert Mugabe.
1969
Steven Chamuleau
Dutch cardiologist
Steven Anton Jozef Chamuleau is a cardiologist and professor at the University Medical Center Utrecht (UMCU) in the Netherlands, specializing in cardiac regenerative therapy, valvular disease and cardiac imaging.
1976
Martin Lepa
Estonian footballer
Martin Lepa is a retired football defender from Estonia. He played for several clubs in his native country, including FC Flora Tallinn, FC Kuressaare and JK Tulevik Viljandi.
1982
Enver Jääger
Estonian footballer
Enver Jääger is a former Estonian footballer. He was a striker, and is 1.80 m tall. He played two games for the Estonia national football team.
1877
Joe Adams
American baseball player and manager (died 1952)
Joe Edward "Old Wagon Tongue" Adams was an American Major League Baseball player and minor league manager. He was also known as "Old Wagon Tongue."
1937
Graham Bond
English keyboard player, singer, and saxophonist (died 1974)
Graham John Clifton Bond was an English rock/blues musician and vocalist, considered a founding father of the English rhythm and blues boom of the 1960s.
1938
Kenneth Best
Liberian journalist, founded The Daily Observer
Kenneth Yakpawolo Best is a Liberian journalist who founded the Liberian newspaper The Daily Observer and a paper of the same name in The Gambia.
1585
Cornelius Jansen
Dutch bishop and theologian (died 1638)
Cornelius Jansen was the Dutch Catholic bishop of Ypres in Flanders and the father of a theological movement known as Jansenism.
1693
Šimon Brixi
Czech composer (died 1735)
Šimon Brixi was a Czech composer and organist. He was the father of composer František Brixi.
1718
Ignacije Szentmartony
Croatian priest, mathematician, astronomer, and explorer (died 1793)
Ignacije Szentmartony was a Croatian Jesuit priest, missionary, mathematician, astronomer, explorer and cartographer.
1733
Franz Ignaz von Beecke
German composer (died 1803)
Franz Ignaz von Beecke was a classical music composer born in Wimpfen am Neckar, Holy Roman Empire.
1854
Jean-Marie Guyau
French philosopher and poet (died 1888)
Jean-Marie Guyau was a French philosopher and poet.
1867
Sister Nivedita
Irish-Indian nurse, author, and educator (died 1911)
Sister Nivedita was an Irish–Indian philosopher, educator, writer, social activist and disciple of Swami Vivekananda.
1881
Vin Coutie
Australian footballer (died 1951)
Arthur Vincent "Vin" Coutie was an Australian rules footballer who played for Melbourne in the Victorian Football League (VFL) during the early 1900s.
1888
Christopher Vane
10th Baron Barnard, English soldier and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Durham (died 1964)
Christopher William Vane, 10th Baron Barnard,, was a British peer and military officer.
1892
Dink Johnson
American pianist, drummer, and clarinet player (died 1954)
Ollie "Dink" Johnson was an American Dixieland jazz pianist, clarinetist, and drummer.
1901
Ambrogio Gianotti
Italian partigiano and priest (died 1969)
Don Antonio Ambrogio Gianotti was a Catholic priest and member of the Italian resistance movement.
1902
Elsa Lanchester
English-American actress and singer (died 1986)
Elsa Sullivan Lanchester was a British actress with a long career in theatre, film and television.
1905
Tatyana Ehrenfest
Dutch mathematician (died 1984)
Tatyana Pavlovna van Aardenne-Ehrenfest was a Dutch mathematician. She is known for her contributions to De Bruijn sequences, low-discrepancy sequences, and the BEST theorem.
1916
Pearl Hackney
English actress (died 2009)
Pearl Hackney was a British actress. She was born in Burton upon Trent, Staffordshire, but spent much of her early life in Liverpool, Lancashire.
1921
Azumafuji Kin'ichi
Japanese sumo wrestler, the 40th Yokozuna (died 1973)
Azumafuji Kin'ichi was a Japanese professional sumo wrestler from Taitō, Tokyo. He was the sport's 40th yokozuna, and later a professional wrestler.
1924
Peddibhotla Suryakantam
Telugu actress (died 1994)
Suryakantham was an Indian actress in Telugu cinema. She was popular for her portrayal of cruel and cunning women with a comedic touch.
1925
Ian Hamilton Finlay
Bahamian-Scottish poet, sculptor, and gardener (died 2006)
Ian Hamilton Finlay was a Scottish poet, writer, artist and gardener.
1933
Michael Noakes
English painter and illustrator (died 2018)
Michael Noakes was an English artist and portrait painter.
1935
Alan Clarke
English director and screenwriter (died 1990)
Alan John Clarke was an English television and film director, producer and writer.
1939
Andy Bey
American singer and pianist
Andrew Wideman Bey Jr. was an American jazz singer and pianist. Bey had a wide vocal range, with a four-octave baritone voice.
1941
Hank Marvin
English singer and guitarist
Hank Brian Marvin is an English musician and songwriter. He is known as the lead guitarist for the Shadows.
1942
Kees Verkerk
Dutch speed skater
Cornelis Arie "Kees" Verkerk is a former speed skater from the Netherlands.
1944
Anton Schlecker
German businessman, founded the Schlecker Company
Anton Kut Schlecker is a German businessman, founder and owner of the Schlecker drug store chain in Germany.
1945
Don Iverson
American golfer
Donald Iverson is an American professional golfer who played on the PGA Tour in the 1970s.
1946
Sharon Thesen
Canadian poet and academic
Sharon Thesen is a Canadian poet who lives in Lake Country, British Columbia. She teaches at University of British Columbia Okanagan.
1946
Wim Jansen
Dutch footballer and manager (died 2022)
Wilhelmus Marinus Antonius "Wim" Jansen was a Dutch professional football player and manager.
1949
Caitlyn Jenner
American decathlete and actress
Caitlyn Marie Jenner is an American media personality and retired Olympic gold medal-winning decathlete.
1950
Sihem Bensedrine
Tunisian journalist and activist
Sihem Bensedrine is a Tunisian journalist and human rights activist. In 2005, she was honored with the Oxfam Novib/PEN Award.
1955
Indra Nooyi
Indian-American businesswoman
Indra Nooyi is an Indian-born American business executive who was the chairman and chief executive officer (CEO) of PepsiCo from 2006 to 2018.
1956
Volker Zotz
Austrian philosopher, scholar, and author
Volker Helmut Manfred Zotz is an eminent Austrian philosopher, religious studies scholar, Buddhologist and a prolific author.
1958
Concha García Campoy
Spanish journalist (died 2013)
Concepción García Campoy, also known as Concha García Campoy, was a Spanish radio and television journalist and personality.
1964
Peter Coyne
Australian rugby league player
Peter Coyne is an Australian former rugby league footballer who played in the 1980s and 1990s.
1965
David Warburton
English pianist, businessman, and politician
David John Warburton was a British Conservative politician who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Somerton and Frome from 2015 until 2023.
1968
Mayumi Ozaki
Japanese wrestler
Mayumi Ozaki is a Japanese professional wrestler. She is currently working for Oz Academy.
1971
Caroline Dinenage
English businesswoman and politician
Dame Caroline Julia Dinenage is a British Conservative politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Gosport since 2010.
1971
Roxana Briban
Romanian soprano and actress (died 2010)
Roxana Briban was a Romanian operatic soprano.
1973
Aleksandar Stanojević
Serbian footballer and manager
Aleksandar Stanojević is a professional Serbian football manager and former player.
1974
Braden Looper
American baseball player
Braden LaVerne Looper is an American former Major League Baseball pitcher who played for several teams between 1998 and 2009.
1974
Dejan Stefanović
Serbian footballer and coach
Dejan Stefanović is a Serbian former professional footballer, who is the president of the Slovenian footballers and sportsmen union.
1976
Simone Loria
Italian footballer
Simone Loria is an Italian former footballer who played as a centre-back.
1978
Justin Guarini
American singer-songwriter and actor
Justin Guarini is an American singer, songwriter and actor who in 2002 was the runner-up on the first season of American Idol.
1979
Olcay Çetinkaya
Turkish footballer
Olcay Çetinkaya is a Turkish former professional footballer. He played as a goalkeeper.
1980
Agnes Obel
Danish singer-songwriter and pianist
Agnes Caroline Thaarup Obel is a Danish singer, songwriter, and musician based in Berlin.
1981
Milan Baroš
Czech footballer
Milan Baroš is a Czech former professional footballer who played as a forward.
1981
Shane Gore
English footballer
Shane Gore is an English retired footballer who played as a goalkeeper.
1982
Hironori Saruta
Japanese footballer
Hironori Saruta is a Japanese retired football player.
1984
Obafemi Martins
Nigerian footballer
Obafemi Akinwunmi Martins is a Nigerian former professional footballer who played as a forward.
1985
Tyrone Barnett
English footballer
Tyrone Barnett is an English semi-professional footballer who plays as a forward for Southern League Premier Division Central club Halesowen Town.
1986
1988
Devon Murray
Irish actor
Devon Michael Murray is an Irish actor, best known for playing Seamus Finnigan in the Harry Potter film series.
1992
Jeon Ji-hee
South Korean table tennis player
Jeon Ji-hee, born Tian Minwei, is a Chinese-South Korean retired table tennis player of Manchu ethnicity.
1992
Maria Sergejeva
Estonian figure skater
Maria Sergejeva is an Estonian former competitive pair skater, graduate gemologist, jewelry designer, and entrepreneur
1995
An Ye-seul
South Korean singer
An Ye-seul is a South Korean singer. She is known as one of the Top 9 of Mnet's Superstar K4.
1996
Una Raymond-Hoey
Irish cricketer
Una Raymond-Hoey is an Irish cricketer who has played for Scorchers, Typhoons, Melbourne Stars, Victoria and Ireland.
1998
Nolan Gould
American actor
Nolan Gould is an American actor, widely known for his role as Luke Dunphy on the ABC sitcom Modern Family (2009–2020).