Famous Birthdays on September 11

September 11 has 196 recorded notable births across history, from 600 to 2006. This page lists every one of them, with the best-known people first.

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Maria Bartiromo

1967 — Maria Bartiromo

American financial journalist and television personality

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Major events on September 11

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  1. 1973 A coup in Chile, headed by General Augusto Pinochet, topples the democratically elected president Salvador Allende. Source
  2. 9 The Battle of the Teutoburg Forest ends: The Roman Empire suffers the greatest defeat of its history and the Rhine is established as the border between the Empire and the so-called barbarians for the next four hundred years. Source

Did you know about Maria Bartiromo

Maria Bartiromo was the host of Mornings with Maria and Maria Bartiromo's Wall Street on the Fox Business channel, and Sunday Morning Futures With Maria Bartiromo on the Fox News channel until her firing in 2026.

Did you know about Bashar al-Assad

Bashar Hafez al-Assad is a former Syrian politician, medical doctor, military officer, and dictator who served as the president of Syria from 2000 until his overthrow in 2024 after the Syrian civil war.

Did you know about Taraji P. Henson

In 2016 and 2024, Time named Henson one of the 100 most influential people in the world.

Did you know about Dylan Klebold

The ensuing media frenzy and moral panic turned "Columbine" into a byword for school shootings, and the event into one of the most infamous mass shootings.

Did you know about Amy Madigan

Amy Marie Madigan is an American actress and singer.


More major people born on September 11

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

1965 Bashar al-Assad

Bashar al-Assad

Syrian politician, 21st President of Syria
Bashar Hafez al-Assad is a former Syrian politician, medical doctor, military officer, and dictator who served as the president of Syria from 2000 until his overthrow in 2024 after the Syrian civil war. He is the son of Hafez al-Assad, who ruled Syria from 1970 to 2000. His rule as president was a highly personalist dictatorship that governed Syria as a totalitarian police state, becoming arguably more repressive than his father. In August 2026, Assad was convicted of war crimes and crimes against humanity by a Syrian court and sentenced to death in absentia.
1970 Taraji P. Henson

Taraji P. Henson

American actress and singer
Taraji Penda Henson is an American actress, producer, author, and mental health advocate. Her accolades include a Golden Globe Award, alongside nominations for an Academy Award, six Emmy Awards, and a Tony Award. In 2016 and 2024, Time named Henson one of the 100 most influential people in the world.
1981 Dylan Klebold

Dylan Klebold

American mass murderer, responsible for the Columbine High School massacre (died 1999)
Eric David Harris and Dylan Bennet Klebold were an American mass murder duo who perpetrated the Columbine High School massacre, where they killed 13 students and one teacher, and wounded 23 others. After killing most of their victims in the school library, the two died from suicide by gunshot. At the time, the attack was the deadliest high school shooting in United States history. The ensuing media frenzy and moral panic turned "Columbine" into a byword for school shootings, and the event into one of the most infamous mass shootings.
1950 Amy Madigan

Amy Madigan

American actress
Amy Marie Madigan is an American actress and singer. Known for her work on stage and screen, her accolades include an Academy Award, an Actor Award, a Golden Globe Award, and a Critics' Choice Award, in addition to a nomination for a Primetime Emmy Award.
1977 Ludacris

Ludacris

American rapper and producer
Christopher Brian Bridges, known professionally as Ludacris, is an American rapper and actor. Born in Champaign, Illinois, Ludacris moved to Atlanta, Georgia, where he first began rapping. Starting out with a brief stint as a DJ, he formed the record label Disturbing tha Peace in the late 1990s to release his debut studio album Incognegro (1999). After its single, "What's Your Fantasy", became a top 40 hit on the Billboard Hot 100, the album was re-released by Def Jam Recordings as his major label debut, Back for the First Time (2000). The latter album peaked at number four on the Billboard 200 and spawned his second top 40 single, "Southern Hospitality".
1940 Brian De Palma

Brian De Palma

American director, producer, and screenwriter
Brian Russell De Palma is an American filmmaker. A major figure of the New Hollywood generation, he is best known for his work in the suspense, crime, and psychological thriller genres in a career spanning more than five decades.
1958 Scott Patterson

Scott Patterson

American actor and baseball player
Scott Patterson is an American actor and former baseball player. After making his film debut in Intent to Kill (1992), Patterson had his breakout with a main role as Luke Danes on the WB comedy-drama television series Gilmore Girls (2000–2007). He reprised his role on the Netflix miniseries Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life (2016).
1917 Ferdinand Marcos

Ferdinand Marcos

Filipino soldier, lawyer, and politician, 10th President of the Philippines (died 1989)
Ferdinand Emmanuel Edralin Marcos Sr. was a Filipino lawyer and politician who served as the tenth president of the Philippines from 1965 to 1986. From 1972 to 1981, Marcos ruled the Philippines under martial law, embracing a policy of "constitutional authoritarianism." Following the lifting of martial law in 1981, a wide-ranging economic crisis, and the assassination of Ninoy Aquino, Marcos was deposed in 1986 by the People Power Revolution and was succeeded as president by Aquino's widow, Corazon Aquino. He was also the father of Bongbong Marcos, the incumbent president of the Philippines since 2022.
1961 Virginia Madsen

Virginia Madsen

American actress
Virginia Madsen is an American actress. She is the recipient of two Critics' Choice Awards, an Independent Spirit Award, and a Screen Actors Guild Award, as well as nominations for one Academy Award and one Golden Globe Award.
1913 Bear Bryant

Bear Bryant

American football player and coach (died 1983)
Paul William "Bear" Bryant was an American college football player and coach. He is considered by many to be one of the greatest college football coaches of all time, and best known as the head coach of the University of Alabama football team, the Alabama Crimson Tide, from 1958 to 1982. During his 25-year tenure as Alabama's head coach, he amassed six national championships and 13 conference championships. Upon his retirement in 1982, he held the record for the most wins (323) as a head coach in collegiate football history. The Paul W. Bryant Museum, Paul W. Bryant Hall, Paul W. Bryant Drive, and Saban Field at Bryant–Denny Stadium are all named in his honor at the University of Alabama.
1962 Kristy McNichol

Kristy McNichol

American actress
Christina Ann "Kristy" McNichol is an American former actress. Beginning her career as a child actress, she rose to fame in 1976 with her role as the teenage daughter Letitia "Buddy" Lawrence in the TV drama Family for which she won two Emmy Awards. Subsequent roles included Angel in the film Little Darlings, Polly in Only When I Laugh, and Barbara Weston in the TV sitcom Empty Nest. McNichol retired from acting in 2001.
1987 Tyler Hoechlin

Tyler Hoechlin

American actor
Tyler Lee Hoechlin is an American actor. He initially earned recognition for starring as Michael Sullivan Jr. in the 2002 film Road to Perdition, for which he was nominated for the Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Young Performer. In television, Hoechlin starred as Martin Brewer on 7th Heaven from 2003 to 2007, and also became known for portraying Derek Hale on Teen Wolf, Clark Kent / Superman in the CW's Supergirl (2016–2019) and Superman & Lois (2021–2024), and for voicing Sephiroth in the Final Fantasy VII Remake franchise.
1967 Harry Connick Jr.

Harry Connick Jr.

American singer-songwriter, pianist, actor, and talk show host
Joseph Harry Fowler Connick Jr. is an American singer, pianist, composer, actor, and former television host. As of 2019, he has sold over 30 million albums worldwide. Connick is ranked among the top 60 best-selling male artists in the United States by the Recording Industry Association of America, with 16 million in certified sales. He has had seven top 20 U.S. albums, and ten number-one U.S. jazz albums, earning more number-one albums than any other artist in U.S. jazz chart history as of 2009.
1885 D. H. Lawrence

D. H. Lawrence

English novelist, poet, playwright, and critic (died 1930)
David Herbert Lawrence was an English novelist, short story writer, poet, playwright, literary critic, travel writer, essayist, and painter. His modernist works reflect on modernity, social alienation and industrialisation, while championing sexuality, vitality and instinct. Four of his most famous novels – Sons and Lovers (1913), The Rainbow (1915), Women in Love (1920), and Lady Chatterley's Lover (1928) – were the subject of censorship trials for their radical portrayals of romance, sexuality, and use of explicit language.
1924 Tom Landry

Tom Landry

American football player and coach (died 2000)
Thomas Wade Landry was an American professional football coach, player, and World War II bomber pilot. Regarded as one of the greatest head coaches of all time, he was the first head coach of the Dallas Cowboys in the National Football League (NFL), a position he held for 29 seasons. During his coaching career, he created many new formations and methods, such as the now default 4–3 defense that is used by a majority of teams in the NFL, and the "flex defense" system made famous by the "Doomsday Defense" squads he built during his tenure with the Cowboys. His 29 consecutive years from 1960 to 1988 as the coach of one team is an NFL record, along with his 20 consecutive winning seasons, which is considered to be his most impressive professional accomplishment.
1940 Theodore Olson

Theodore Olson

American lawyer (died 2024)
Theodore Bevry Olson was an American lawyer who served as the 42nd solicitor general of the United States from 2001 to 2004 in the administration of President George W. Bush. He previously served as the Assistant Attorney General of the Office of Legal Counsel of the U.S. Department of Justice from 1981 to 1984 under President Ronald Reagan, and he was also a longtime partner at the law firm Gibson Dunn.
1991 Jordan Ayew

Jordan Ayew

Ghanaian footballer
Jordan Pierre Ayew is a professional footballer who plays as a winger or forward for EFL Championship club Sheffield United. Born in France, he captains the Ghana national team.
2000 Zay Flowers

Zay Flowers

American football player
Xavien "Zay" Kevonn Flowers is an American professional football wide receiver for the Baltimore Ravens of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Boston College Eagles and was selected by the Ravens in the first round of the 2023 NFL draft.
1965 Moby

Moby

American singer-songwriter, musician, and DJ
Richard Melville Hall, known professionally as Moby, is an American musician, songwriter and animal rights activist. He has sold 20 million records worldwide. AllMusic considers him to be "among the most important dance music figures of the early 1990s, helping bring dance music to a mainstream audience both in the United States and the United Kingdom".
1945 Franz Beckenbauer

Franz Beckenbauer

German footballer and manager (died 2024)
Franz Anton Beckenbauer was a German professional football player, manager, and official. Nicknamed der Kaiser, he is widely regarded as one of the greatest and most influential players of all time. Beckenbauer was a versatile player who started out as a midfielder, but made his name as a centre-back. He is often credited as having invented the role of the modern sweeper.
1971 Richard Ashcroft

Richard Ashcroft

English singer-songwriter and musician
Richard Paul Ashcroft is an English musician, singer, and songwriter. He formed the alternative rock band the Verve in 1990 and served as the sole songwriter, lead singer and rhythm guitarist throughout the band's lifetime. In 2000, Ashcroft embarked on a solo career, releasing six UK top-three solo albums, including Alone with Everybody, Keys to the World and These People.
1979 Ariana Richards

Ariana Richards

American actress and artist
Ariana Clarice Richards is an American painter and actress. She is best known for her role as Lex Murphy in the 1993 film Jurassic Park. Richards won several Young Artist Awards for her acting as a child, but as an adult has focused primarily on her art career.
1956 Tony Gilroy

Tony Gilroy

American director, producer, and screenwriter
Anthony Joseph Gilroy is an American screenwriter, director, and producer. He wrote the screenplays of The Bourne Identity (2002), The Bourne Supremacy (2004), and The Bourne Ultimatum (2007), the first three films in the Bourne film franchise, and wrote and directed the fourth film of the franchise, The Bourne Legacy (2012), as well as Michael Clayton (2007) and Duplicity (2009).
1959 John Hawkes

John Hawkes

American actor
John Hawkes is an American actor. He is the recipient of two Independent Spirit Awards and has been nominated for an Academy Award, two Primetime Emmy Awards and a Golden Globe Award.
1980 Mike Comrie

Mike Comrie

Canadian ice hockey player
Michael William Comrie is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player. During his 13-year National Hockey League (NHL) career he played with the Edmonton Oilers, Philadelphia Flyers, Phoenix Coyotes, Ottawa Senators, New York Islanders, and the Pittsburgh Penguins. He retired in early 2012 after undergoing hip surgery for the third time.
1942 Lola Falana

Lola Falana

American actress, singer, and dancer
Loletha Elayne Falana or Loletha Elaine Falana, better known by her stage name Lola Falana, is an American singer, dancer, and actress. She was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical in 1975 for her performance as Edna Mae Sheridan in Doctor Jazz.
1903 Theodor Adorno

Theodor Adorno

German sociologist and philosopher (died 1969)
Theodor W. Adorno was a German philosopher, cultural, and music critic. He was a leading member of the Frankfurt School of critical theory, whose work has come to be associated with thinkers such as Ernst Bloch, Walter Benjamin, Max Horkheimer, Erich Fromm, and Herbert Marcuse, for whom the works of Sigmund Freud, Karl Marx, and G. W. F. Hegel were essential to a critique of modern society. As a critic of both fascism and what he called the culture industry, he authored numerous works—such as Dialectic of Enlightenment (1947), Minima Moralia (1951), and Negative Dialectics (1966)—that strongly influenced the European New Left.
1981 Charles Kelley

Charles Kelley

American singer and musician
Charles Burgess Kelley is an American country music singer who is the co-lead vocalist and founding member of the country music trio Lady A, which was formed in 2006 and are signed to Big Machine Records. He has also released two solo albums.
1862 O. Henry

O. Henry

American short story writer (died 1910)
William Sydney Porter, better known by his pen name O. Henry, was an American writer known primarily for his short stories, though he also wrote poetry and non-fiction. His works include "The Gift of the Magi", "The Caballero's Way", "The Duplicity of Hargraves", and "The Ransom of Red Chief", as well as the novel Cabbages and Kings. Porter's stories are known for their naturalist observations, witty narration, and surprise endings.
1948 John Martyn

John Martyn

English-Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2009)
Iain David McGeachy, known professionally as John Martyn, was a British singer-songwriter and guitarist. Over a 40-year career, he released 23 studio albums and received frequent critical acclaim. The Times described him as "an electrifying guitarist and singer whose music blurred the boundaries between folk, jazz, rock and blues".
1928 Earl Holliman

Earl Holliman

American actor (died 2024)
Henry Earl Holliman was an American actor, animal rights activist, and singer known for his many character roles in films, mostly Westerns and dramas, in the 1950s and 1960s. He won a Golden Globe Award for the film The Rainmaker (1956) and portrayed Sergeant Bill Crowley on the television police drama Police Woman throughout its 1974 to 1978 run.
1965 Paul Heyman

Paul Heyman

American wrestling promoter, manager, and journalist
Paul Heyman is an American professional wrestling manager, former executive, promoter, and commentator. He is signed to WWE, where he is a creative advisor and an on-screen talent.
1953 Tommy Shaw

Tommy Shaw

American singer-songwriter and guitarist
Tommy Roland Shaw is an American musician best known for his tenure in the rock band Styx as co-lead vocalist. In between his stints with Styx, he has played with other groups including Damn Yankees and Shaw Blades as well as releasing several solo albums.
1958 Roxann Dawson

Roxann Dawson

American actress and director
Roxann Dawson, also credited as Roxann Biggs and Roxann Biggs-Dawson, is an American actress and director. She is best known for her role as B'Elanna Torres on the television series Star Trek: Voyager (1995–2001). In the 2000s, she transitioned to a career primarily as a director, and has directed numerous episodes of television series including Star Trek: Enterprise, Crossing Jordan, Cold Case, Heroes, The Closer, The Mentalist, The Good Wife, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., Mercy Street, The Deuce, Foundation and Dark Matter.
1933 William Luther Pierce

William Luther Pierce

American author and activist (died 2002)
William Luther Pierce III was an American neo-Nazi political activist. For more than 30 years, he was one of the highest-profile individuals of the white nationalist movement. A physicist by profession, he authored the novels The Turner Diaries and Hunter under the pen name Andrew Macdonald. The first novel inspired multiple terrorist attacks, including the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing. Pierce founded the white nationalist National Alliance, an organization which he led for almost 30 years.
1917 Herbert Lom

Herbert Lom

Czech-born English actor (died 2012)
Herbert Charles Angelo Kuchačevič ze Schluderpacheru, known professionally as Herbert Lom, was a Czech-British actor with a career spanning over 60 years. His cool demeanour and precise, elegant elocution saw him cast as criminals or suave villains in his younger years, and professional men and nobles as he aged. Highly versatile, he was also known to legions of comedy fans as the beleaguered Chief Inspector Charles Dreyfus in the Pink Panther film series.
1877 Felix Dzerzhinsky

Felix Dzerzhinsky

Polish-Russian academic and politician (died 1926)
Felix Edmundovich Dzerzhinsky, nicknamed Iron Felix, was a Bolshevik revolutionary and politician of Polish origin. From 1917 until his death in 1926, he led the first three Soviet secret police organizations—the Cheka, the GPU and the OGPU—establishing state security organs for the new Soviet government.
1917 Jessica Mitford

Jessica Mitford

English-American journalist and author (died 1996)
Jessica Lucy "Decca" Treuhaft was an English-American author, communist activist and one of the Mitford sisters. Her 1960 memoir Hons and Rebels and her 1963 book of social commentary The American Way of Death both became classics.
1927 G. David Schine

G. David Schine

American soldier and businessman (died 1996)
Gerard David Schine, better known as G. David Schine or David Schine, was the wealthy heir to a hotel chain fortune who became a central figure in the Army–McCarthy hearings of 1954 in his role as the chief consultant to the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations. Later in life, he became a part of the film/television industry. He was the executive producer for the 1971 film The French Connection.
1991 Kygo

Kygo

Norwegian DJ
Kyrre Gørvell-Dahll, known professionally as Kygo, is a Singapore-born Norwegian DJ and record producer. He is regarded as one of the key figures that brought tropical house music to the commercial mainstream in the mid 2010s. He first received international attention with his December 2013 remix of the track "I See Fire" by Ed Sheeran and his December 2014 single "Firestone". In late 2015, he reached one billion streams on Spotify faster than any other artist, and by June 2016, he had reached two billion streams.
1935 Arvo Pärt

Arvo Pärt

Estonian composer
Arvo Pärt is an Estonian composer. Since the late 1970s, Pärt has worked in a minimalist style that employs tintinnabuli, a compositional technique he invented. Pärt's music is in part inspired by Gregorian chant. His most performed works include Fratres (1977), Spiegel im Spiegel (1978), and Für Alina (1976). From 2011 to 2018, and again in 2022 and 2025, Pärt was the most performed living composer in the world. The Arvo Pärt Centre, in Laulasmaa, was opened to the public in 2018.
1950 Barry Sheene

Barry Sheene

English motorcycle racer and sportscaster (died 2003)
Barry Steven Frank Sheene was a British professional motorcycle racer and television sports presenter. He competed in Grand Prix motorcycle racing between 1971 and 1984, most prominently as a member of the Suzuki factory racing team where he won two consecutive FIM World Championships in 1976 and 1977. Sheene remains the last British competitor to win the premier class of FIM road racing competitions.
1943 Mickey Hart

Mickey Hart

American musician
Mickey Hart is an American percussionist. He is best known as one of the two drummers of the rock band Grateful Dead. He was a member of the Grateful Dead from September 1967 until February 1971, and again from October 1974 until their final show in July 1995. He and fellow Dead drummer Bill Kreutzmann earned the nickname "the rhythm devils".
1937 Queen Paola of Belgium

Queen Paola of Belgium

Paola Margherita Maria-Antonia Consiglia dei Principi Ruffo di Calabria is a member of the Belgian royal family who was Queen of the Belgians during the reign of her husband, King Albert II, from 9 August 1993 to 21 July 2013.
1978 Dejan Stanković

Dejan Stanković

Serbian footballer and manager
Dejan Stanković is a Serbian professional football manager and former player. He last served as the head coach of Serbian Super League club Red Star Belgrade. He captained the Serbia national team from 2007 until 2011, when he announced his retirement from international football.
1982 Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya

Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya

Belarusian politician
Sviatlana Hieorhiyeuna Tsikhanouskaya is a Belarusian opposition leader and political activist. Since running in the 2020 presidential election against President Alexander Lukashenko, she has led dissidence to his authoritarian rule through an alternate government operating from Lithuania and Poland.
1977 Jonny Buckland

Jonny Buckland

Welsh guitarist
Jonathan Mark Buckland is a British musician and songwriter. He is best known as the lead guitarist and co-founder of the rock band Coldplay. Raised in Pantymwyn, Wales, he started to play guitar at an early age, taking inspiration from groups such as My Bloody Valentine, the Stone Roses and U2. His compositions are noted for being sparse and delicate, using delay pedals and slide bars with a timbre that led to comparisons to the Edge.
1862 Hawley Harvey Crippen

Hawley Harvey Crippen

American physician (died 1910)
Hawley Harvey Crippen, colloquially known as Dr. Crippen, was an American homeopath, ear and eye specialist and medicine dispenser who was hanged in Pentonville Prison, London, for the murder of his second wife, Cora Henrietta Crippen. He was the first criminal to be captured with the aid of wireless telegraphy.
2006 Oliver Peake

Oliver Peake

Australian cricketer
Oliver John Peake is a professional Australian cricketer who has represented Australia in One Day International cricket, and plays Australian domestic cricket for Victoria and the Melbourne Renegades. He is a left-handed batsman and right-arm off-break bowler.
1987 Elizabeth Henstridge

Elizabeth Henstridge

English actress
Elizabeth Frances Henstridge is an English actress, model and director. She is best known for her role as Jemma Simmons in the ABC superhero action drama series Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (2013–2020), set within the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
1964 Victor Wooten

Victor Wooten

American jazz-fusion, funk, and bluegrass bass guitarist and producer
Victor Lemonte Wooten is an American bassist, songwriter, and record producer. He has been the bassist for Béla Fleck and the Flecktones since the group's formation in 1988 and a member of the bass supergroup SMV (2008–2009) with two other bassists, Stanley Clarke and Marcus Miller. From 2017 to 2019, he recorded as the bassist for the metal band Nitro.
1895 Vinoba Bhave

Vinoba Bhave

Indian philosopher and Gandhian, Bharat Ratna Awardee (died 1982)
Vinayak Narahar Bhave, also known as Vinoba Bhave, was an Indian philosopher and an advocate of nonviolence and human rights. Often called Acharya, he is best known for the Bhoodan land reform movement, and is considered as the spiritual successor of Mahatma Gandhi.
1985 Shaun Livingston

Shaun Livingston

American basketball player
Shaun Livingston is an American professional basketball executive and former player. He entered the league directly out of high school and was selected fourth by the Los Angeles Clippers in the 2004 NBA draft. During his 15-year career, Livingston played 959 games for nine teams and won three NBA championships as a member of the Golden State Warriors—in 2015, 2017, and 2018.
1924 Rudolf Vrba

Rudolf Vrba

Czech-Canadian pharmacologist and educator (died 2006)
Rudolf Vrba was a Slovak-Jewish biochemist who, as a teenager in 1942, was deported to the Auschwitz concentration camp in German-occupied Poland. He escaped from the camp in April 1944, at the height of the Holocaust, and co-wrote the Vrba-Wetzler report, a detailed report about the mass murder taking place there. The report, distributed by George Mantello in Switzerland, is credited with having halted the mass deportation of Hungary's Jews to Auschwitz in July 1944, saving more than 200,000 lives. After the war, Vrba trained as a biochemist, working mostly in England and Canada.
1911 Lala Amarnath

Lala Amarnath

Indian cricketer (died 2000)
Lala Amarnath Bhardwaj was an Indian cricketer. He is considered to be the father figure of Indian cricket. He scored the first ever century for India in Test Cricket in 1933. He was independent India's first cricket captain and captained India in their first Test series win against Pakistan in 1952.
1945 Leo Kottke

Leo Kottke

American singer-songwriter and guitarist
Leo Kottke is an American acoustic guitarist. He is known for a fingerpicking style that draws on blues, jazz, and folk music, and for syncopated, polyphonic melodies. He has overcome a series of personal obstacles, including partial loss of hearing and a nearly career-ending bout with tendon damage in his right hand, to emerge as a widely recognized master of his instrument. He resides in the Minneapolis area with his family.
1930 Cathryn Damon

Cathryn Damon

American actress and dancer (died 1987)
Cathryn Lee Damon was an American actress known for her roles in sitcoms in the 1970s and 1980s. She was best known as Mary Campbell in Soap, for which she was nominated three times for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series, winning in 1980.
1771 Mungo Park

Mungo Park

Scottish surgeon and explorer (died 1806)
Mungo Park was a Scottish explorer of West Africa. After an exploration of the upper Niger River around 1796, he wrote a popular and influential travel book titled Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa in which he theorised the Niger and Congo merged to become the same river, though it was later proven that they are different rivers. He was killed during a second expedition, having successfully travelled about two-thirds of the way down the Niger.
1899 Philipp Bouhler

Philipp Bouhler

German politician (died 1945)
Philipp Bouhler was a German senior Nazi Party functionary who was both a Reichsleiter and Chief of the Chancellery of the Führer of the NSDAP. He was also the SS official responsible for the Aktion T4 euthanasia program that killed more than 250,000 disabled adults and children in Nazi Germany, as well as co-initiator of Aktion 14f13, also called Sonderbehandlung, that killed 15,000–20,000 concentration camp prisoners.
1611 Henri de la Tour d'Auvergne

Henri de la Tour d'Auvergne

Vicomte de Turenne, French general (died 1675)
Henri de La Tour d'Auvergne, vicomte de Turenne, commonly known as Turenne, was a French general and one of only six marshals to have been promoted Marshal General of France. The most illustrious member of the La Tour d'Auvergne family, his military exploits over his five-decade career earned him a reputation as one of the greatest military commanders in history.
1899 Jimmie Davis

Jimmie Davis

American singer-songwriter and politician, 47th Governor of Louisiana (died 2000)
James Houston Davis was an American singer, songwriter, and Democratic Party politician. After achieving fame for releasing both sacred and country songs, Davis served as the 47th governor of Louisiana from 1944 to 1948 and again from 1960 to 1964.
1997 Harmony Tan

Harmony Tan

French tennis player
Harmony Tan Vilela is a French professional tennis player. Tan has career-high WTA rankings of 90 in singles and 302 in doubles. She has won 13 singles titles and one doubles title on the ITF Circuit.
2001

Nicholas Robertson

American ice hockey player
Nicholas Robertson is an American professional ice hockey player who is a left winger for the Pittsburgh Penguins of the National Hockey League (NHL). He was selected 53rd overall by the Toronto Maple Leafs in the 2019 NHL entry draft. He made his NHL debut with the Maple Leafs during the 2020 Stanley Cup playoffs, where he had one goal in four games. He is the younger brother of Jason Robertson of the Dallas Stars.
1816 Carl Zeiss

Carl Zeiss

German lens maker, created the Optical instrument (died 1888)
Carl Zeiss was a German scientific instrument maker, optician and businessman. In 1846 he founded his workshop, which is still in business as Zeiss. Zeiss gathered a group of gifted practical and theoretical opticians and glass makers to reshape most aspects of optical instrument production. His collaboration with Ernst Abbe revolutionized optical theory and practical design of microscopes. Their quest to extend these advances brought Otto Schott into the enterprises to revolutionize optical glass manufacture. The firm of Carl Zeiss grew to one of the largest and most respected optical firms in the world.
1979 David Pizarro

David Pizarro

Chilean footballer
David Marcelo Pizarro Cortez is a Chilean former professional footballer who played as a midfielder. He was usually deployed as a central midfielder, although he could also operate in a holding role in front of the back-line, in a more attacking position in the hole behind the strikers, or even as a deep-lying playmaker. An intelligent and technically gifted player, who possessed significant physical strength in spite of his diminutive stature, and an ability to dictate play in midfield, Pizarro was known in particular for his vision, range of passing, dribbling skills, and ability from set pieces.
1935 Gherman Titov

Gherman Titov

Russian general, pilot, and astronaut (died 2000)
Gherman Stepanovich Titov was a Soviet and Russian cosmonaut who, on 6 August 1961, became the second human to orbit the Earth, aboard Vostok 2, preceded by Yuri Gagarin on Vostok 1. He was the fourth person in space, counting suborbital voyages of US astronauts Alan Shepard and Gus Grissom. Born in Altai Krai in western Siberia, Titov was the first spacefarer born in Asia. At 25 years old at launch, he remains the youngest professional astronaut and the youngest person to fly in Earth orbit.
1953 Renée Geyer

Renée Geyer

Australian singer-songwriter (died 2023)
Renée Rebecca Geyer was an Australian singer who was an acclaimed jazz, soul and R&B musician. She released 15 studio albums with Moving Along (1977) and Tenderland (2003) both reaching number 11 on the Australian charts. Geyer's singles success as a solo artist in Australia were with "It's a Man's Man's World", "Heading in the Right Direction" and "Stares and Whispers" in the 1970s and "Say I Love You" in the 1980s. The latter also reached number one in New Zealand. The singer was an internationally respected and sought-after backing vocalist, whose session credits include work with Sting, Chaka Khan, Toni Childs, Joe Cocker, Neil Diamond, Men at Work and Trouble Funk.
1898 Gerald Templer

Gerald Templer

English field marshal and politician, British High Commissioner in Malaya (died 1979)
Field Marshal Sir Gerald Walter Robert Templer was a senior British Army officer. He fought in both the world wars and was involved in the British response to the 1936–1939 Arab revolt in Palestine. As Chief of the Imperial General Staff, the professional head of the British Army between 1955 and 1958, Templer was Prime Minister Anthony Eden's chief military adviser during the Suez Crisis. He is also credited as a founder of the United Kingdom's National Army Museum.
1476 Louise of Savoy

Louise of Savoy

French regent (died 1531)
Louise of Savoy was a French noble and regent, Duchess suo jure of Auvergne and Bourbon, Duchess of Nemours and the mother of King Francis I and Marguerite of Navarre. She was politically active and served as the regent of France in 1515, in 1525–1526 and in 1529, during the absence of her son.
1572 Daniyal

Daniyal

Imperial Prince of the Royal House of Timur (died 1604)
Daniyal Mirza was a prince of the Mughal Empire who served as the Viceroy of the Deccan. He was the third son of the emperor Akbar and a half-brother of the emperor Jahangir.
1825 Eduard Hanslick

Eduard Hanslick

Bohemian-Austrian musicologist and critic (died 1904)
Eduard Hanslick was an Austrian music critic, aesthetician and historian. Among the leading critics of his time, he was the chief music critic of the Neue Freie Presse from 1864 until the end of his life. His best known work, the 1854 treatise Vom Musikalisch-Schönen, was a landmark in the aesthetics of music and outlines much of his artistic and philosophical beliefs on music.
1924 Daniel Akaka

Daniel Akaka

American soldier, engineer, and politician (died 2018)
Daniel Kahikina Akaka was an American educator and politician who served as a United States Senator from Hawaii from 1990 to 2013. He was a member of the Democratic Party.
1937 Robert Crippen

Robert Crippen

American captain, pilot, and astronaut
Robert Laurel Crippen is an American retired naval officer and aviator, test pilot, aerospace engineer, and astronaut. He traveled into space four times: as pilot of STS-1 in April 1981, the first Space Shuttle mission; and as commander of STS-7 in June 1983, STS-41-C in April 1984, and STS-41-G in October 1984. He was also a part of the Manned Orbiting Laboratory (MOL), Skylab Medical Experiment Altitude Test (SMEAT), ASTP support crew member, and the Approach and Landing Tests (ALT) for the Space Shuttle.
1928 Reubin Askew

Reubin Askew

American sergeant, lawyer, and politician, 37th Governor of Florida (died 2014)
Reubin O'Donovan Askew was an American politician, who served as the 37th governor of Florida from 1971 to 1979. A member of the Democratic Party, he served as the 7th U.S. trade representative from 1979 to 1980 under President Jimmy Carter. He led on tax reform, civil rights, and financial transparency for public officials, maintaining an outstanding reputation for personal integrity.
1723 Johann Bernhard Basedow

Johann Bernhard Basedow

German author and educator (died 1790)
Johann Bernhard Basedow was a German educational reformer, teacher and writer. He founded the Philanthropinum, a short-lived but influential progressive school in Dessau, and was the author of "Elementarwerk", a popular illustrated textbook for children.
1947 John Agrue

John Agrue

American serial killer (died 2009)
John William Agrue was an American murderer who was posthumously identified as a serial killer. He was convicted in 1966 of murdering his 15-year-old sister-in-law in Joliet, Illinois, and was later linked to a 1982 killing in Longmont, Colorado, after his parole from prison. He was arrested that year for an attempted kidnapping but was not charged in the Colorado homicide at the time due to a lack of evidence.
1970 Ted Leo

Ted Leo

American singer and musician
Theodore Francis Leo is an American singer and musician. He is the frontman and lead guitarist of the rock group Ted Leo and the Pharmacists, and in 2013, he and Aimee Mann formed the indie rock duo The Both.
1964 Ellis Burks

Ellis Burks

American baseball player
Ellis Rena Burks is an American former outfielder. Burks played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for 18 seasons from 1987 to 2004 with the Boston Red Sox, Chicago White Sox, Colorado Rockies, San Francisco Giants, and Cleveland Indians. Burks was a two-time MLB All-Star, two-time Silver Slugger Award winner, a Gold Glove Award winner, and a member of the 30–30 club. He is a member of the Boston Red Sox Hall of Fame.
1994 Teuvo Teräväinen

Teuvo Teräväinen

Finnish ice hockey player
Teuvo Henri Matias Teräväinen is a Finnish professional ice hockey player who is a forward for the Chicago Blackhawks of the National Hockey League (NHL). He was selected in the first round, 18th overall, of the 2012 NHL entry draft by the Blackhawks after playing several seasons with the Jokerit organization in Finland. Also being drafted by the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL)'s Lokomotiv Yaroslavl in the 2011 KHL Junior Draft, he is known for his offensive abilities and play-making skills. In 2015, Teräväinen won a Stanley Cup as a member of the Blackhawks.
1939 Charles Geschke

Charles Geschke

American businessman, co-founded Adobe Systems (died 2021)
Charles Matthew "Chuck" Geschke was an American businessman and computer scientist best known for founding the graphics and publishing software company Adobe Inc. with John Warnock in 1982, with whom he also co-created the PDF document format.
1977 Matthew Stevens

Matthew Stevens

Welsh snooker player
Matthew John Stevens is a Welsh professional snooker player. He has won two of the game's Triple Crown events—the Masters in 2000 and the UK Championship in 2003. He has also been a two-time runner-up in the other triple crown event, the World Snooker Championship, in 2000 and 2005. Stevens reached a career high ranking of No. 4 for the 2005/2006 season. Stevens has compiled more than 350 century breaks during his career.
1941 Minnijean Brown-Trickey

Minnijean Brown-Trickey

Civil Rights activist and Little Rock Nine member
Minnijean Brown-Trickey is an American political figure who was a member of the Little Rock Nine, a group of nine African American teenagers who integrated Little Rock Central High School. The integration followed the Brown v. Board of Education decision which required public schools to be desegregated.
1940 Nông Đức Mạnh

Nông Đức Mạnh

Vietnamese politician
Nông Đức Mạnh is a Vietnamese politician who served as General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam, the most powerful position in the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, from 2001 to 2011. His parents were Tày peasants. Nông Đức Mạnh was born in Cường Lợi, Na Rì district, Bắc Kạn province. His son Nông Quốc Tuấn is the party secretary for Bắc Giang province.
1983 Vivian Cheruiyot

Vivian Cheruiyot

Kenyan runner
Vivian Jepkemoi Cheruiyot is a Kenyan long-distance runner. She represented Kenya at the Summer Olympics in 2000, 2008, 2012, and 2016, winning the silver medal in the 5,000 metres and bronze in the 10,000 metres at the 2012 London Olympics as well as gold in the 5,000 m and silver in the 10,000 m at the 2016 Rio Olympics, setting a new Olympic record in the former. Cheruiyot won the silver medal in the 5,000 m at the 2007 World Championships in Athletics and became the world champion in the event at the 2009 edition, repeating this achievement in 2011, when she also won the 10,000 m. She added gold for the latter event at the 2015 World Championships in Athletics. After taking a silver in the 3,000 metres at the 2010 World Indoor Championships, Cheruiyot won a number of outdoor 5,000 m titles that year, becoming Commonwealth Games, African and Continental Cup champion, as well as winning the Diamond League title.
1916 Ed Sabol

Ed Sabol

American film producer, co-founded NFL Films (died 2015)
Edwin Milton Sabol was an American filmmaker and the founder of NFL Films. He was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2011 as a contributor, due to his works with NFL Films.
1524 Pierre de Ronsard

Pierre de Ronsard

French poet and author (died 1585)
Pierre de Ronsard was a French poet. His works include Les Amours de Cassandre (1552), Les Hymnes (1555-1556), Les Discours (1562-1563), La Franciade (1572), and Sonnets pour Hélène (1578).
1862 Julian Byng

Julian Byng

1st Viscount Byng of Vimy, English field marshal and politician, 12th Governor General of Canada (died 1935)
Field Marshal Julian Hedworth George Byng, 1st Viscount Byng of Vimy, was a British Army officer who served as Governor General of Canada, the 12th since the Canadian Confederation.
1994 Nicky Case

Nicky Case

Canadian game developer
Nicky Case is a Canadian indie game developer, web designer, and critical theorist. She has developed interactive websites and online video games such as Coming Out Simulator, Explorable Explanations, We Become What We Behold and Parable of the Polygons. Case's works are characterized by her recurring goal to "help people understand complex systems", presenting dilemmas and potential resolutions in a philosophical manner. Case has also collaborated with theorists and academics such as Stefano Gualeni, Vi Hart and Bret Victor.
2001 Joseph Fahnbulleh

Joseph Fahnbulleh

Liberian-American sprinter
Joseph Blowadeh Siafa Fahnbulleh is a Liberian-American sprinter. An Olympic finalist, Fahnbulleh is a double NCAA champion and finished fourth at the 2022 World Athletics Championships in the 200 meters race.
1700 James Thomson

James Thomson

Scottish poet and playwright (died 1748)
James Thomson was a Scottish poet and playwright, known for his poems The Seasons and The Castle of Indolence, and for the lyrics of "Rule, Britannia!"
1986 LaToya Sanders

LaToya Sanders

American basketball player
LaToya Antoinette Sanders, also known as Lara Sanders in Turkey, is an American-Turkish professional basketball coach and former player. She currently serves as an assistant coach for the Atlanta Dream of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA). Sanders played college basketball at the University of North Carolina before getting drafted by the Phoenix Mercury in the 2008 WNBA draft. Sanders played for seven seasons in the WNBA with the Mercury, Minnesota Lynx, Los Angeles Sparks, and Washington Mystics. In 2019, her final season in the league, she won the championship with the Mystics. Sanders also played overseas in Israel, Turkey, Russia, and Italy. In 2012, she received Turkish citizenship and represented the Turkey women's national basketball team, including an appearance at the 2016 Summer Olympics.
1960 Hiroshi Amano

Hiroshi Amano

Japanese physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
Hiroshi Amano is a Japanese materials scientist specializing in the field of semiconductor technology. He is a co-inventor of the blue LED, for which he was awarded the 2014 Nobel Prize in Physics along with Isamu Akasaki and Shuji Nakamura.
1786 Friedrich Kuhlau

Friedrich Kuhlau

German-Danish pianist and composer (died 1832)
Friedrich Daniel Rudolf Kuhlau, sometimes written as Frederick Kulav, was a Danish pianist and composer during the late Classical and early Romantic periods. He was a central figure of the Danish Golden Age and is immortalized in Danish cultural history through his music for Elves' Hill, the first true work of Danish National Romanticism and a concealed tribute to the absolute monarchy.
1963 Dave Bidini

Dave Bidini

Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist
Dave Bidini is a Canadian musician and writer. Originally from Etobicoke, Ontario, he is a founding member of the rock band Rheostatics, and leads the intermittently active Bidiniband. In addition, he has published several books about music, travel and sports, and has written feature journalism pieces and columns for numerous Canadian magazines and newspapers. He is the only Canadian to have been nominated for all three of Canada's main entertainment awards, the Gemini Award for television work, the Genie Awards for film work and the Juno Awards for music, as well as being nominated on Canada's national book awards program, Canada Reads.
1182 Minamoto no Yoriie

Minamoto no Yoriie

Japanese shōgun (died 1204)
Minamoto no Yoriie was a Japanese samurai, daimyo and the second shōgun (1202–1203) of the Kamakura shogunate and the first son of its founder, Minamoto no Yoritomo. His Dharma name was Hokke-in-dono Kingo Da’i Zengo (法華院殿金吾大禅閤).
1557 Joseph Calasanz

Joseph Calasanz

Spanish priest and founder of Piarists (died 1648)
Joseph Calasanz, also known as Joseph Calasanctius and Josephus a Matre Dei, was a Spanish Catholic priest, educator and the founder of the Pious Schools, which provided free education to poor boys. For this purpose he founded the religious order that ran them, commonly known as the Piarists. He became a close friend of the renowned astronomer Galileo Galilei. Joseph is honored as a saint by the Catholic Church, following his 1767 papal canonisation.
1976 Tomáš Enge

Tomáš Enge

Czech racing driver
Tomáš Enge is a Czech former professional racing driver who has competed in many classes of motorsport, including three races in Formula One and nine appearances at the 24 Hours of Le Mans.
2000 Leandro Bolmaro

Leandro Bolmaro

Argentine-Italian basketball player
Leandro Nicolás Bolmaro is an Argentine-Italian professional basketball player for Olimpia Milano of the Italian Lega Basket Serie A (LBA) and the EuroLeague. He also represents the senior Argentina national team.
1917 Donald Blakeslee

Donald Blakeslee

American colonel and pilot (died 2008)
Donald James Matthew Blakeslee was an American pilot and officer in the United States Air Force, whose aviation career began as a pilot in the Royal Canadian Air Force flying Spitfire fighter aircraft during World War II. He then became a member of the Royal Air Force Eagle Squadrons, before transferring to the United States Army Air Forces in 1942. He flew more combat missions against the Luftwaffe than any other American fighter pilot, and by the end of the war was a flying ace credited with 15.5 aerial victories.
1838 John Ireland

John Ireland

Irish-American archbishop (died 1918)
John Ireland was an Irish-American prelate who was the third Catholic bishop and first archbishop of Saint Paul, Minnesota (1888–1918). He became both a religious as well as civic leader in Saint Paul during the turn of the 20th century. Ireland was known for his progressive stance on education, immigration and relations between church and state, as well as his opposition to saloons, alcoholism, political machines, and political corruption.
1923 Vasilije Mokranjac

Vasilije Mokranjac

Serbian composer and academic (died 1984)
Vasilije Mokranjac was a Serbian composer, professor of composition at the Faculty of Music in Belgrade and a member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts. He was one of the most prominent Serbian composers in the second half of the 20th century. Although famed for his symphonies, he also wrote piano music, as well as music for radio, film and theatre. He won the most prestigious awards in former Yugoslavia, including the October Prize, the award of the Yugoslav Radio-Diffusion, as well as the Lifetime Achievement Award.
1913 Jacinto Convit

Jacinto Convit

Venezuelan physician and academic (died 2014)
Jacinto Convit García was a Venezuelan physician and scientist, known for developing a vaccine to prevent leprosy and his studies to treat cancer. He played a role in founding Venezuela's National Institute of Biomedicine and held many leprosy-related positions. Among Convit's many honors for his work on leprosy and tropical diseases was Spain's Prince of Asturias Award in the Scientific and Technical Research category and France's Legion of Honor. In 1988, Convit was nominated for a Nobel Prize in Medicine for his experimental anti-leprosy vaccine.
1981 Michael Sukkar

Michael Sukkar

Australian politician
Michael Sven Sukkar is an Australian former politician who was the Assistant Treasurer and Minister for Housing and as the Minister for Homelessness, Social and Community Housing in the Abbott-Turnbull-Morrison Liberal government. From 2022 to 2025, Sukkar was the Shadow Minister for Housing, NDIS, and Social Services from 2022 to 2025. He was a member of the House of Representatives from his first election in September 2013 to his defeat in May 2025, representing the Division of Deakin in Victoria for the Liberal Party.
1927 Keith Holman

Keith Holman

Australian rugby league player and coach (died 2011)
Keith Victor Holman, MBE was an Australian Rugby League footballer, a national and state representative Halfback whose club career was played with Western Suburbs between 1949 and 1961. He has since been named as one of Australia’s finest rugby league players of the 20th century. After retiring as player, Holman was coach of Wests and later became one of the game's top-level referees. He was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in 1977.
1950

Anne Dell

Australian biochemist and academic
Anne Dell is an Australian biochemist specialising in the study of glycomics and the carbohydrate structures that modify proteins. Anne's work could be used to figure out how pathogens such as HIV are able to evade termination by the immune system which could be applied toward understanding how this occurs in fetuses. Her research has also led to the development of higher sensitivity mass spectroscopy techniques which have allowed for the better studying of the structure of carbohydrates. Anne also established GlycoTRIC at Imperial College London, a research centre that allows for glycobiology to be better understood in biomedical applications. She is currently Professor of Carbohydrate Biochemistry and Head of the Department of Life Sciences at Imperial College London. Dell's other contributions to the study of Glycobiology are the additions she has made to the textbook "Essentials of Glycobiology" Dell was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2009 Birthday Honours.
1959 David Frost

David Frost

South African golfer
David Laurence Frost is a South African professional golfer who was ranked in the top 10 of the Official World Golf Ranking in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Frost has 29 professional tournament wins to his name, spread across four continents, including the World Series of Golf, South African Open, Nedbank Million Dollar Challenge and Canadian Open. He has also been on the winning Alfred Dunhill Cup team and played in the Presidents Cup.
1885 Herbert Stothart

Herbert Stothart

American composer and conductor (died 1949)
Herbert Pope Stothart was an American songwriter, arranger, conductor, and composer. He was nominated for ten Academy Awards and won Best Original Score for The Wizard of Oz. Stothart was widely acknowledged as a prominent member of the top tier of Hollywood composers during the 1930s and 1940s.
1865 Rainis

Rainis

Latvian poet and playwright (died 1929)
Jānis Pliekšāns, known by his pseudonym Rainis, was a Latvian poet, playwright, translator, and politician. Rainis' works include the classic plays Uguns un nakts and Indulis un Ārija, and a highly regarded translation of Goethe's Faust. His works had a profound influence on the literary Latvian language, and the ethnic symbolism he employed in his major works has been central to Latvian nationalism.
1877 James Hopwood Jeans

James Hopwood Jeans

English physicist, astronomer, and mathematician (died 1946)
Sir James Hopwood Jeans was an English physicist, mathematician and an astronomer. He served as a secretary of the Royal Society from 1919 to 1929, and was the president of the Royal Astronomical Society from 1925 to 1927, and won its Gold Medal.
1951 Hugo Porta

Hugo Porta

Argentinian rugby player
Hugo Porta is an Argentine retired rugby union player. Considered one of the best fly-halves the sport has seen, he is an inductee of both the International Rugby Hall of Fame and IRB Hall of Fame. During the 1970s and 1980s, he played 58 times for Argentina, captaining them on 34 occasions, including leading them during the first World Cup in 1987.
1908 Alvar Lidell

Alvar Lidell

English journalist (died 1981)
Tord Alvar Quan Lidell was an English radio announcer and newsreader for the BBC and compere. He joined BBC Birmingham as chief announcer in 1932 before moving to London the following year. Lidell was made deputy chief announcer of the BBC in 1937 and announced important events such as Edward VIII's abdication and Britain's declaration of war with Germany in 1939.
1967 Sung Jae-gi

Sung Jae-gi

South Korean activist, founded Man of Korea (died 2013)
Sung Jae-gi was a South Korean men's rights activist. Sung was the leader of various masculinist and anti-feminist organizations, including the Association of Anti-Feminism and Male Liberation, Association for the Abolition of the Ministry of Women, and Man of Korea. Sung also ran a shelter for homeless men, male victims of violent crime, teenage runaways, and gay and transgender men.
1798 Franz Ernst Neumann

Franz Ernst Neumann

German mineralogist and physicist (died 1895)
Franz Ernst Neumann was a German mineralogist and physicist. He devised the first formulas to calculate inductance. He also formulated Neumann's law for molecular heat. In electromagnetism, he is credited for introducing the magnetic vector potential. In A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism of 1873, James Clerk Maxwell attributes the mathematical formulation of Faraday's law of induction to Neumann.
1917

Daniel Wildenstein

French art dealer and horse breeder (died 2001)
Daniel Leopold Wildenstein was a French art dealer, historian and owner-breeder of thoroughbred and standardbred race horses. He was the third member of the family to preside over Wildenstein & Co., one of the most successful and influential art-dealerships of the 20th century. He was once described as "probably the richest and most powerful art dealer on earth."
1522 Ulisse Aldrovandi

Ulisse Aldrovandi

Italian ornithologist and botanist (died 1605)
Ulisse Aldrovandi was an Italian naturalist, the moving force behind Bologna's botanical garden, one of the first in Europe. Carl Linnaeus and the comte de Buffon reckoned him the father of natural history studies. He is usually referred to, especially in older scientific literature in Latin, as Aldrovandus; his name in Italian is equally given as Aldroandi.
1860 James Allan

James Allan

New Zealand rugby player (died 1934)
James Allan ) was a New Zealand rugby union player who played eight games for the New Zealand national rugby union team, and was nicknamed the Taieri Giant. Allan played in the first match contested by the New Zealand team, and the New Zealand Rugby Union regard him as the first ever All Black.
1884 Sudhamoy Pramanick

Sudhamoy Pramanick

Indian activist and politician (died 1974)
Sudhamoy Pramanick was an Indian advocate from Shantipur. He was the lifetime secretary of the Tili Samaj, a societal benefit organisation. He was a social activist - member of the executive committee of the Indian National Congress and involved with the Satyagraha movement to campaign for Indian independence.
1986 Ben Scrivens

Ben Scrivens

Canadian ice hockey player
Benjamin John Scrivens is a Canadian professional ice hockey executive and former player. He is the current team manager of the University of Denver Pioneers. Scrivens has played in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the Toronto Maple Leafs, Los Angeles Kings, Edmonton Oilers, and Montreal Canadiens.
1578 Vincenzo Maculani

Vincenzo Maculani

Catholic cardinal (died 1667)
Vincenzo Maculani was an Italian Catholic Cardinal, inquisitor and military architect. He was known as a severe man, harsh and without compassion, who preferred the black cappa of his order to the brighter red he was later entitled to wear as a cardinal.
1944 Everaldo

Everaldo

Brazilian footballer (died 1974)
Everaldo Marques da Silva, nicknamed Everaldo, was a Brazilian footballer who played as a left back for Grêmio and the Brazil national team. He won the 1970 FIFA World Cup. The golden star in Grêmio's flag was added in 1970 in his homage.
1970

Antonio Gómez Medina

Mexican wrestler
Antonio Gómez Medina is a Mexican professional wrestler and professional wrestling trainer based out of Arena Coliseo Guadalajara in Guadalajara. Gómez is best known under the ring name Máscara Mágica; he is the second person to use the "Máscara Mágica" name, taking it over after Eddie Guerrero abandoned the name in the early 1990s. As Máscara Mágica, he was part of the Los Nuevo Infernales group; as part of a Los Nuevo Inferales vs. Los Infernales storyline, and lost his mask as a result of a Luchas de Apuestas match loss to Los Infernales leader El Satánico. In recent years Gómez has focused more on his training position at Arena Coliseo Guadalajara, where he also works as a booker and part-time wrestler.
1982 Elvan Abeylegesse

Elvan Abeylegesse

Ethiopian-Turkish runner
Elvan Abeylegesse is an Ethiopian former middle and long-distance running athlete who represented Turkey. She competed over distances from 1500 metres up to the marathon, and also in cross country. She is a former world record-holder for the 5000 metres, at 14:24.68.
1751 Princess Charlotte of Saxe-Meiningen (died 1827)

Princess Charlotte of Saxe-Meiningen (died 1827)

Princess Charlotte of Saxe-Meiningen was a member of the House of Saxe-Meiningen and a Princess of Saxe-Meiningen by birth and a member of the House of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg and Duchess consort of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg through her marriage to Ernest II, Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg.
1974 DeLisha Milton-Jones

DeLisha Milton-Jones

American basketball player and coach
DeLisha Lachell Milton-Jones is an American former professional basketball player and the head coach of Old Dominion. Milton-Jones played college basketball for the University of Florida. She was a first-team All-American and SEC Player of the Year her senior season.
1711 William Boyce

William Boyce

English organist and composer (died 1779)
William Boyce was an English composer and organist. Like Beethoven later on, he became deaf but continued to compose. He knew Handel, Arne, Gluck, J. C. Bach, Abel, and a very young Mozart, all of whom respected his work.
1990 Jo Inge Berget

Jo Inge Berget

Norwegian footballer
Jo Inge Berget is a Norwegian professional footballer who plays as a forward. He has played professionally in his homeland, Italy, Wales, Scotland, Sweden and the United States, and made his debut for the Norway national team in 2012.
1926 Eddie Miksis

Eddie Miksis

American baseball player (died 2005)
Edward Thomas Miksis was an American professional baseball infielder and outfielder. He played fourteen seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) between 1944 and 1958 for the Brooklyn Dodgers, Chicago Cubs, St. Louis Cardinals, Baltimore Orioles, and Cincinnati Reds.
1829 Thomas Hill

Thomas Hill

American painter (died 1908)
Thomas Hill was an American artist of the 19th century. He produced many fine paintings of the Californian landscape, in particular of the Yosemite Valley, as well as the White Mountains of New Hampshire.
1893 Douglas Hawkes

Douglas Hawkes

English-Greek racing driver and engineer (died 1974)
Wallace Douglas Hawkes was a British motor car designer, businessman and racing driver. He was born in Barton, Gloucestershire, married Gwenda Stewart in 1937, and died, aged 80, in Athens, Greece.
1979 Frank Francisco

Frank Francisco

Dominican baseball player
Franklin Thomas Francisco is a Dominican former professional baseball pitcher. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Texas Rangers, Toronto Blue Jays, New York Mets, and Chicago White Sox.
1871 Scipione Borghese

Scipione Borghese

10th Prince of Sulmona, Italian racing driver, mountaineer, and politician (died 1927)
Prince Luigi Marcantonio Francesco Rodolfo Scipione Borghese, commonly known as Scipione Borghese, was an Italian aristocrat, industrialist, politician, explorer, mountain climber and racing driver belonging to the House of Borghese.
1933 Nicola Pietrangeli

Nicola Pietrangeli

Italian tennis player (died 2025)
Nicola Chirinsky Pietrangeli was an Italian tennis player. He won two singles titles at the French Championships and is considered by many to be one of Italy's greatest tennis champions.
1962 Filip Dewinter

Filip Dewinter

Belgian politician
Philip Michel Frans "Filip" Dewinter is a Belgian politician, journalist and commentator. He is one of the leading members of Vlaams Belang, a right-wing Flemish nationalist and secessionist political party.
1980 Greet Daems

Greet Daems

Belgian politician
Greet Daems is a Belgian trade unionist, politician and member of the Chamber of Representatives. A member of the Workers' Party of Belgium, she has represented Antwerp since June 2019.
600 Yuknoom Ch'een II

Yuknoom Ch'een II

Mayan ruler
Yuknoom Chʼeen II, known as Yuknoom the Great, was a Maya ruler of the Kaan kingdom, which had its capital at Calakmul during the Classic Period of Mesoamerican chronology.
1929 Luis García

Luis García

Venezuelan baseball player and manager (died 2014)
Luis García Beltrán was a Venezuelan professional baseball player and manager. Listed at 5 ft 11 in (1.80 m), 189 lb (86 kg), he batted and threw right handed.
1951 Johnny Neumann

Johnny Neumann

American basketball player and coach (died 2019)
Carl John Neumann, nicknamed "Johnny Reb", was an American professional basketball player and coach. At 6'6" and 200 pounds, he played at the shooting guard and small forward positions.
1847 Mary Watson Whitney

Mary Watson Whitney

American astronomer and academic (died 1921)
Mary Watson Whitney was an American astronomer and was the head of the Vassar College Observatory for 22 years, where 102 scientific papers were published under her guidance.
1929 David S. Broder

David S. Broder

American political journalist and pundit (died 2011)
David Salzer Broder was an American journalist, writing for The Washington Post for over 40 years. He was also an author, television news show pundit, and university lecturer.
1944 Freddy Thielemans

Freddy Thielemans

Belgian educator and politician, Mayor of Brussels (died 2022)
Freddy Thielemans was a Belgian socialist politician who was the mayor of the City of Brussels from 2001 to 2013, and previously also for a period in 1994.
1987 Robert Acquafresca

Robert Acquafresca

Italian footballer
Robert Acquafresca is an Italian former professional footballer who played as a striker. He is a former Italy under-21 international and represented Italy at the 2008 Summer Olympics.
1931 Hans-Ulrich Wehler

Hans-Ulrich Wehler

German historian and academic (died 2014)
Hans-Ulrich Wehler was a German left-liberal historian known for his role in promoting social history through the "Bielefeld School", and for his critical studies of 19th-century Germany.
1949 Bill Whittington

Bill Whittington

American racing driver (died 2021)
William Marvin Whittington was an American racing driver from Lubbock, Texas, who won the 24 Hours of Le Mans and competed five times in the Indianapolis 500.
1907 Lev Oborin

Lev Oborin

Russian pianist and educator (died 1974)
Lev Nikolayevich Oborin ; was a Soviet and Russian pianist, composer and pedagogue. He was the winner of the first International Chopin Piano Competition in 1927.
1986 Chiliboy Ralepelle

Chiliboy Ralepelle

South African rugby player
Mahlatse Chiliboy Ralepelle is a former rugby union player for the Sharks in Super Rugby and in the Currie Cup. His usual position is at hooker.
1836 Fitz Hugh Ludlow

Fitz Hugh Ludlow

American journalist, author, and explorer (died 1870)
Fitz Hugh Ludlow, sometimes seen as Fitzhugh Ludlow, was an American author, journalist, and explorer; best known for his autobiographical book The Hasheesh Eater (1857).
1891

William Thomas Walsh

American historian, author, and educator (died 1949)
William Thomas Walsh was an American Catholic historian, author, educator, and violinist. He is best known for popular biographies of Spanish Catholic historical figures and for his 1947 book Our Lady of Fatima, which significantly increased awareness of the Fatima apparitions among American Catholics. He received the Laetare Medal from the University of Notre Dame in 1941. Walsh wrote from a strongly Catholic perspective; his interpretations of Spanish history, particularly regarding the Inquisition and the expulsion of the Jews, have been both praised in Catholic circles and criticized by some historians for alleged antisemitic bias.
1879 Louis Coatalen

Louis Coatalen

French engineer (died 1962)
Louis Hervé Coatalen was an automobile engineer and racing driver born in Brittany who spent much of his adult life in Britain and took British nationality. He was a pioneer of the design and development of internal combustion engines for cars and aircraft.
1929

Primož Kozak

Slovenian playwright (died 1981)
Primož Kozak was a Slovenian playwright and essayist. Together with Dominik Smole, Dane Zajc and Taras Kermauner, he was the most visible representative of the so-called Critical generation, a group of Slovenian authors and intellectuals that reflected on the paradoxes of the communist regime, and the relation between power and individual existence in general.
1903

Stephen Etnier

American lieutenant and painter (died 1984)
Stephen Morgan Etnier was an American realist painter, and an active painter for six decades. His work is distinguished by a mixture of realism and luminism, favoring industrial and working scenes, but always imbued with atmospheric light. Geographically, his career spanned the length of the eastern Atlantic and beyond.
1961

Samina Raja

Pakistani poet and educator (died 2012)
Samina Raja was a Pakistani Urdu poet, writer, editor, translator, educationist and broadcaster. She lived in Islamabad, Pakistan, and worked in the National Language Authority and National Book Foundation as a subject specialist.
1876

Stan Rowley

Australian sprinter (died 1924)
Stanley Rupert Rowley was an Australian sprinter who won four medals at the 1900 Summer Olympics. He was born in Young, New South Wales and died in Manly, New South Wales.
1938

Brian F. G. Johnson

English chemist and academic
Brian Frederick Gilbert Johnson is a British scientist and emeritus professor of chemistry at the University of Cambridge. He was also Master of Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge from 1999 to 2005.
1915

Dajikaka Gadgil

Indian jeweller (died 2014)
Anant "Dajikaka" Gadgil was an Indian jeweller, industrialist and writer. He is best known for founding the P. N. Gadgil Jewellers & Company in Pune in 1958.
1975

Juan Cobián

Argentinian footballer
Juan Manuel Cobián is a former Argentine footballer who played mostly as a right-back for clubs including Sheffield Wednesday, Swindon Town, Aberdeen and Boca Juniors.
1975

Pierre Issa

South African footballer
Pierre Sanharib Issa is a South African former professional soccer player who played as a defender. He is the sporting director of Greek side Olympiacos.
1318 Eleanor of Lancaster

Eleanor of Lancaster

countess of Arundel (died 1372)
Eleanor of Lancaster, Countess of Arundel was the fifth daughter of Henry, 3rd Earl of Lancaster and Maud Chaworth.
1465 Bernardo Accolti

Bernardo Accolti

Italian poet (died 1536)
Bernardo Accolti was an Italian poet.
1494

Elisabeth of Brunswick-Lüneburg

Duchess of Guelders (1518–1538) (died 1572)
Elisabeth of Brunswick-Lüneburg was a Duchess of Brunswick-Lüneburg by birth and by marriage Duchess of Guelders.
1525 John George

John George

Elector of Brandenburg (died 1598)
John George of Brandenburg was a prince-elector of the Margraviate of Brandenburg (1571–1598).
1681 Johann Gottlieb Heineccius

Johann Gottlieb Heineccius

German academic and jurist (died 1741)
Johann Gottlieb Heineccius was a German jurist from Eisenberg, Thuringia.
1764 Valentino Fioravanti

Valentino Fioravanti

Italian organist and composer (died 1837)
Valentino Fioravanti was an Italian composer of opera buffas.
1800 Daniel S. Dickinson

Daniel S. Dickinson

American lawyer and politician, 13th Lieutenant Governor of New York (died 1866)
Daniel Stevens Dickinson was an American politician and lawyer, most notable as a United States senator from 1844 to 1851.
1859 Vjenceslav Novak

Vjenceslav Novak

Croatian author and playwright (died 1905)
Vjenceslav Novak was a Croatian Realist writer, dramatist, and music historian.
1861 Juhani Aho

Juhani Aho

Finnish author and journalist (died 1921)
Juhani Aho, originally Johannes Brofeldt, was a Finnish author and journalist. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature sixteen times.
1899 Anton Koolmann

Anton Koolmann

Estonian wrestler and coach (died 1953)
Anton Koolmann was a wrestler and coach from Kuusalu Parish, Estonia who took part at the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris, France.
1901

D. W. Brooks

American farmer and businessman, founded Gold Kist (died 1999)
David William Brooks was an American farmer and businessman.
1904

Karl Plutus

Estonian lawyer and jurist (died 2010)
Karl Plutus was an Estonian jurist and the oldest verified living man in Estonia from 2006 to 2010.
1907 Cécile Chabot

Cécile Chabot

Canadian poet and illustrator (died 1990)
Cécile Chabot was a Canadian poet and illustrator.
1911 Bola de Nieve

Bola de Nieve

Cuban singer-songwriter and pianist (died 1971)
Bola de Nieve, born Ignacio Jacinto Villa Fernández, was a Cuban singer-pianist and songwriter. His name originates from his round, black face.
1914 Serbian Patriarch Pavle II (died 2009)

Serbian Patriarch Pavle II (died 2009)

Pavle was the 44th Patriarch of the Serbian Orthodox Church, serving from 1990 to 2009.
1921

Leaford Bearskin

American tribal leader and colonel (died 2012)
Leaford Bearskin was a Native American tribal leader and US Air Force officer. He was Chief of the Wyandotte Nation from 1983 to 2011.
1923 Alan Badel

Alan Badel

English actor (died 1982)
Alan Fernand Badel was an English actor who appeared frequently on stage, in film, on radio and on television.
1923 Betsy Drake

Betsy Drake

American actress (died 2015)
Betsy Drake was an American actress, writer, and psychotherapist. She was the third wife of actor Cary Grant.
1925 Harry Somers

Harry Somers

Canadian soldier and composer (died 1999)
Harry Stewart Somers, CC was a contemporary Canadian composer.
1929 Patrick Mayhew

Patrick Mayhew

English lawyer and politician, Secretary of State for Northern Ireland (died 2016)
Patrick Barnabas Burke Mayhew, Baron Mayhew of Twysden, was a British barrister and politician.
1930 Jean-Claude Forest

Jean-Claude Forest

French author and illustrator (died 1998)
Jean-Claude Forest was a French writer and illustrator of comics and the creator of character Barbarella.
1930 Saleh Selim

Saleh Selim

Egyptian footballer, manager, and actor (died 2002)
Mohamed Saleh Mohamed Selim was an Egyptian football executive, former football player and an actor. He was the 13th president of Al Ahly SC.
1933

Margaret Booth

English lawyer and judge (died 2021)
Dame Margaret Myfanwy Wood Booth, DBE was a British judge.
1934 Oliver Jones

Oliver Jones

Canadian jazz pianist and composer (died 2026)
Oliver Theophilus Jones was a Canadian jazz pianist, organist, composer and arranger.
1936 Pavel Landovský

Pavel Landovský

Czech actor, director, and playwright (died 2014)
Pavel Landovský, nicknamed Lanďák, was a Czech actor, playwright, and director. He was a prominent dissident under the communist regime of former Czechoslovakia.
1943

André Caillé

Canadian chemist and businessman
André Caillé is a Canadian electricity company executive.
1943

Brian Perkins

New Zealand-English journalist and actor
Brian Perkins is a former senior newsreader on BBC Radio 4.
1945 Gianluigi Gelmetti

Gianluigi Gelmetti

Italian composer and conductor (died 2021)
Gianluigi Gelmetti was an Italian-Monégasque conductor and composer.
1949

Roger Uttley

English rugby player and coach
Roger Miles Uttley OBE is a former English rugby union player.
1950

Bruce Doull

Australian footballer
Alexander Bruce Doull is a former Australian rules footballer who played for the Carlton Football Club in the Victorian Football League (VFL).
1952

Catherine Bott

English soprano
Catherine Bott is a British singer and broadcaster.
1953

Sarita Francis

Former Montserrat Deputy Governor
Sarita Violeta Francis is the Director of the Montserrat National Trust.
1960 Anne Ramsay

Anne Ramsay

American actress
Anne Ramsay is an American actress best known for her role as Lisa Stemple on Mad About You.
1962 Julio Salinas

Julio Salinas

Spanish footballer
Julio Salinas Fernández is a Spanish former professional footballer who played during the 1980s and 1990s.
1962 Victoria Poleva

Victoria Poleva

Ukrainian pianist and composer
Victoria Vita Polyova is a Ukrainian composer. She was the Shevchenko National Prize laureate of 2018.
1968

Allan Alaküla

Estonian journalist
Allan Alaküla is an Estonian journalist.
1977

Tobias Zellner

German footballer
Tobias Zellner is a former German footballer.
1979 Eric Abidal

Eric Abidal

French footballer
Eric Sylvain Abidal is a French former professional footballer who played as a left-back or centre-back.
1996 Ross Colton

Ross Colton

American professional ice hockey player
Ross Colton is an American professional ice hockey player who is a center for the Nashville Predators of the National Hockey League (NHL).

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