Did you know about Curry Barker
Barker directed, wrote, and acted in the horror films Milk & Serial (2024), Obsession (2025), and Anything but Ghosts (2027).
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Did you know about Tom Felton
Born and raised in Surrey, he began appearing in commercials and made his screen debut in the role of Peagreen Clock in The Borrowers (1997).
Did you know about Kim You-jung
Kim You-jung started out as a model for a confectionery brand at the age of four and after her acting debut in 2003, Kim became one of the most in-demand child actresses in South Korea leading her to be called "Nation's Little Sister".
Did you know about Billie Piper
Billie Piper initially gained recognition as a singer after releasing her debut single "Because We Want To" at the age of 15, which made her the youngest female singer to enter the UK Singles Chart at number one.
Did you know about Tatiana Maslany
Tatiana Maslany rose to prominence for playing multiple characters in the science-fiction thriller television series Orphan Black (2013–2017), which won her a Primetime Emmy Award (2016) and five Canadian Screen Awards (2014–2018).
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1987
Tom Felton
English actor
Thomas Andrew Felton is an English actor. Born and raised in Surrey, he began appearing in commercials and made his screen debut in the role of Peagreen Clock in The Borrowers (1997). Felton portrayed Louis T. Leonowens in Anna and the King (1999) before being cast as Draco Malfoy in the film adaptations of the fantasy novels Harry Potter, starting with Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (2001) and finishing with Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2 (2011). He also appeared in the science fiction film Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011). He was subsequently cast in the independent films From the Rough (2011) and The Apparition (2012).
1999
Kim You-jung
South Korean actress
Kim You-jung is a South Korean actress. She started out as a model for a confectionery brand at the age of four and after her acting debut in 2003, Kim became one of the most in-demand child actresses in South Korea leading her to be called "Nation's Little Sister". Kim had her first starring role in the historical romance Love in the Moonlight in 2016 which catapulted her to fame as a leading actress in television and film. She ranked 8th on the Forbes Korea Power Celebrity list in 2017, the youngest to be included in the Top 10 at the age of 17.
1982
Billie Piper
English actress and singer
Billie Paul Piper is an English actress and former singer. She initially gained recognition as a singer after releasing her debut single "Because We Want To" at the age of 15, which made her the youngest female singer to enter the UK Singles Chart at number one. Her follow-up single "Girlfriend" also entered at number one. In 1998, Piper released her debut studio album, Honey to the B, which was certified platinum by the British Phonographic Industry (BPI). Her second studio album, Walk of Life, was released in 2000 and spawned her third number-one single, "Day & Night". In 2003, Piper announced that she had ended her music career to focus on acting.
1985
Tatiana Maslany
Canadian actress
Tatiana Gabriele Maslany is a Canadian actress. She rose to prominence for playing multiple characters in the science-fiction thriller television series Orphan Black (2013–2017), which won her a Primetime Emmy Award (2016) and five Canadian Screen Awards (2014–2018). Maslany is the first Canadian to win an Emmy in a major dramatic category for acting in a Canadian series.
1515
Anne of Cleves
Queen consort of England (died 1557)
Anne of Cleves was a German princess who briefly became Queen of England in 1540 as the fourth wife of Henry VIII, from their marriage on 6 January until its annulment on 12 July.
1960
Scott Baio
American actor
Scott Vincent Baio is an American actor. He is known for playing Chachi Arcola on the sitcom Happy Days (1977–1984) and its spin-off Joanie Loves Chachi (1982–1983), the title character on the sitcom Charles in Charge (1984–1990), Dr. Jack Stewart in the medical-mystery-drama series Diagnosis: Murder (1993–1995), and the title role of the musical Bugsy Malone. Baio has guest-starred on various television programs, appeared in several independent films, and starred on the Nickelodeon sitcom See Dad Run (2012–2014).
1994
Jinyoung
South Korean singer, actor, songwriter
Park Jin-young, known mononymously as Jinyoung, and formerly as Jr. and Junior, is a South Korean singer, actor, and songwriter. He is a member of the South Korean boy band Got7 and duo JJ Project.
1906
Ilse Koch
German war criminal (died 1967)
Margarete Ilse Koch was a German war criminal who committed atrocities while her husband Karl-Otto Koch was the commandant at Buchenwald. Though Ilse Koch had no official position in Nazi Germany, she became one of the most infamous Nazi figures at the war's end and was referred to as the "Kommandeuse of Buchenwald".
1791
Michael Faraday
English physicist and chemist (died 1867)
Michael Faraday was an English chemist and physicist who contributed vastly to the study of electrochemistry and electromagnetism. His main discoveries include the principles underlying electromagnetic induction, diamagnetism, and electrolysis. Despite receiving little formal education, as an autodidact Faraday became one of the most influential scientists in history. It was by his research on the magnetic field around a conductor carrying a direct current that Faraday established the concept of the electromagnetic field in physics. Faraday also established that magnetism could affect rays of light and that there was an underlying relationship between the two phenomena. He similarly discovered the principles of electromagnetic induction, diamagnetism, and the laws of electrolysis. His inventions of electromagnetic rotary devices formed the foundation of electric motor technology, and it was largely due to his efforts that electricity became practical for use in technology. The SI unit of capacitance, the farad, is named after him.
1957
Nick Cave
Australian singer-songwriter, author, and actor
Nicholas Edward Cave is an Australian singer, musician and writer. He is the frontman of the rock band Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds. Known for his baritone voice, Cave's music is characterised by emotional intensity, a wide variety of influences and lyrical obsessions with death, religion, love, and violence.
1958
Andrea Bocelli
Italian singer-songwriter and producer
Andrea Bocelli is an Italian tenor. He rose to fame in 1994 after winning the newcomers' section of the 44th Sanremo Music Festival performing "Il mare calmo della sera".
1961
Bonnie Hunt
American actress, producer, and talk show host
Bonnie Hunt is an American actress and comedian. Beginning in the 1980s, she gained recognition for supporting roles in films including Rain Man (1988), Beethoven (1992), Beethoven's 2nd (1993), Jumanji (1995), Jerry Maguire (1996), and The Green Mile (1999). Hunt made her directorial debut with the romantic drama Return to Me (2000), in which she also starred.
1958
Joan Jett
American singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer, and actress
Joan Jett is an American singer, songwriter, guitarist, businesswoman, and actress. Often referred to as the "Godmother of Punk" and "Queen of Rock and Roll", she is regarded as a rock icon and an influential figure in popular rock music.
1969
Sue Perkins
English comedian, actress, and radio host
Susan Elizabeth Perkins is an English broadcaster, comedian, actress, singer and writer. Originally coming to prominence through her comedy partnership with Mel Giedroyc in Mel and Sue, she progressed into radio and television presenting, notably of The Great British Bake Off (2010–2016), Insert Name Here (2016–2019) and Just a Minute on BBC Radio 4.
1966
Ruth Jones
Welsh actress, producer, and screenwriter
Ruth Alexandra Elizabeth Jones is a Welsh comedian, actress, writer, producer and singer. She co-wrote and co-starred in the BBC sitcom Gavin & Stacey, for which she won the BAFTA Award for Best Female Comedy Performance in 2025. She also co-wrote and starred in the Sky One comedy-drama Stella (2012–2017), for which she was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Female Comedy Performance and the BAFTA Cymru Award for Best Screenwriter.
1987
Teyonah Parris
American actress
Teyonah Parris is an American actress. A graduate of Juilliard School, she began acting in 2010. Her first prominent roles were in the drama series Mad Men (2012–2015) and in the independent film Dear White People (2014). She then appeared in the drama series Empire (2014), Spike Lee's crime comedy Chi-Raq (2015), and the drama film If Beale Street Could Talk (2018).
1970
Rupert Penry-Jones
English actor
Rupert William Penry-Jones is an English actor from London. He is known for his performances as Adam Carter in Spooks, Clive Reader in Silk, DI Joseph Chandler in Whitechapel, and Mr. Quinlan in the American horror series The Strain.
1882
Wilhelm Keitel
German field marshal, head of the German armed forces (OKW), and convicted Nuremberg war criminal (died 1946)
Wilhelm Bodewin Johann Gustav Keitel was a German field marshal who held office as chief of the Oberkommando der Wehrmacht (OKW), the high command of Nazi Germany's armed forces, during World War II. He signed a number of criminal orders and directives that led to numerous war crimes.
1984
Thiago Silva
Brazilian footballer
Thiago Emiliano da Silva is a Brazilian professional footballer who plays as a centre-back for Campeonato Brasileiro Série A club Fluminense. Widely regarded as one of the best defenders of his generation, he is one of a select number of players who have amassed over 1,000 career appearances.
1970
Mystikal
American rapper and actor
Michael Lawrence Tyler, better known by his stage name Mystikal, is an American former rapper and actor from New Orleans, Louisiana. He is noted for his brash and explosive vocal delivery, characterized by a Southern rasp. He signed with the New Orleans-based record label Big Boy Records to release his self-titled debut studio album (1994), which was re-released by Jive Records the following year as his major label debut, Mind of Mystikal (1995). He then parted ways with the former label in favor of its local competitor, Master P's No Limit Records, through which he released his second and third albums, Unpredictable (1997) and Ghetto Fabulous (1998), and Goodfellas (1999) as a member of its flagship group, 504 Boyz.
1961
Catherine Oxenberg
American actress
Catherine Oxenberg is an American actress. She is best known for her role as Amanda Carrington on the 1980s prime time soap opera Dynasty. Oxenberg is the daughter of Princess Elizabeth of Yugoslavia and her first husband, Howard Oxenberg (1919–2010). She twice played Diana, Princess of Wales on screen, in The Royal Romance of Charles and Diana (1982) and Charles and Diana: Unhappily Ever After (1992), and has appeared in many other films.
1973
Bob Sapp
American wrestler, kickboxer, mixed martial artist, and actor
Robert Malcolm Sapp is an American bodybuilder and entertainer, and former martial artist, professional wrestler, actor, and football player. He is both primarily known for his mixed martial arts career, as well as his work as a gaijin tarento, or foreign-born entertainer, in Japan. Sapp has a combined fight record of 24–39–1, mostly fighting in Japan. He is well known in Japan, where he has appeared in numerous commercials, television programs, and various other media, and has released a music CD, Sapp Time (2003).
1920
Anders Lassen
Danish-English soldier, Victoria Cross recipient (died 1945)
Major Anders Frederik Emil Victor Schau Lassen,, was a Danish military officer who was the only non-Commonwealth recipient of the Victoria Cross during the Second World War. Serving in the British Army, he was posthumously awarded the award for his actions during Operation Roast on 8 April 1945 at Lake Comacchio in Italy in the final weeks of the Italian campaign.
1956
Debby Boone
American singer, actress, and author
Deborah Anne Boone is an American singer, author, and actress. She is best known for her 1977 hit, "You Light Up My Life", which spent ten weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and led to her winning the Grammy Award for Best New Artist the following year. Boone later focused her music career on country music, resulting in the 1980 No. 1 country hit "Are You on the Road to Lovin' Me Again". In the 1980s, she recorded Christian music which garnered her four top 10 Contemporary Christian albums as well as two more Grammys. Throughout her career, Boone has appeared in several musical theater productions and has co-authored many children's books with her husband Gabriel Ferrer.
1948
Mark Phillips
English equestrian, trainer, and journalist
Mark Anthony Peter Phillips is an English Olympic gold medal-winning horseman who competed for Great Britain. He was the first husband of Anne, Princess Royal, with whom he has two children. Phillips is a leading figure in British equestrian circles, a noted eventing course designer and a columnist for Horse & Hound magazine.
1942
David Stern
American lawyer and businessman, 4th Commissioner of the NBA (died 2020)
David Joel Stern was an American lawyer and business executive who was the commissioner of the National Basketball Association (NBA) from 1984 to 2014. He oversaw NBA basketball's growth into one of the world's most popular sports during the 1990s and 2000s. Stern is credited with developing and broadening the NBA's audience, especially internationally by setting up training camps, playing exhibition games, and recruiting more international players. In addition, with his guidance, the NBA opened 12 offices in cities outside the United States, and broadcast to over 200 territories in over 40 languages. Stern also helped found the Women's National Basketball Association and the NBA G League, the NBA's development league. Under Stern, the NBA launched their digital presence with NBA.com, NBA TV, and NBA League Pass. He also established the NBA's social responsibility program, NBA Cares.
1902
John Houseman
Romanian-American actor and producer (died 1988)
John Houseman was a British-American theatre and film producer, actor, director, and teacher. He became known for his highly publicized collaboration with director Orson Welles from their days in the Federal Theatre Project through to the production of Citizen Kane. He enjoyed a distinguished career as an influential producer of both the stage and screen, and was the founding director of the drama department of the Juilliard School and co-founder of The Acting Company.
1970
Emmanuel Petit
French footballer
Emmanuel Laurent Petit is a French former professional footballer who played as a defensive midfielder at club level for Arsenal, Barcelona, Monaco, and Chelsea. He represented France at international level in two FIFA World Cups and two UEFA European Championships; he scored the third goal in France's 3–0 victory in the 1998 FIFA World Cup Final and was also a member of the French squad that won UEFA Euro 2000. He was known for his strong defensive abilities, including tackling, interceptions, and marking, as well as his passing range and ability to transition play from defense to attack. In his prime, he was one of the best left-footed players in European and world football.
1943
Toni Basil
American singer-songwriter, dancer, and actress
Antonia Christina Basilotta, better known by her stage name Toni Basil, is an American singer, choreographer, dancer, actress, and director. Her 1982 single, "Mickey", topped the charts in the US, Canada and Australia and entered the top 10 of several other international charts.
1927
Tommy Lasorda
American baseball player, coach, and manager (died 2021)
Thomas Charles Lasorda was an American professional baseball pitcher and manager. He managed the Los Angeles Dodgers of Major League Baseball (MLB) from 1976 through 1996. He was inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame as a manager in 1997.
1978
Daniella Alonso
American actress and model
Daniella Alonso is an American actress and former fashion model. She has appeared in a number of horror films, including The Hills Have Eyes 2 and Wrong Turn 2: Dead End. Alonso was a regular cast member in the NBC post-apocalyptic series Revolution from 2012 to 2013, and the medical drama The Night Shift in 2014. Alonso also appeared in the first season of the TNT crime drama Animal Kingdom in 2016, and in 2019 began starring as Cristal Flores in the third season of the prime time soap opera Dynasty, which aired on The CW.
1601
Anne of Austria
Queen and regent of France (died 1666)
Anne of Austria was Queen of France from 1615 to 1643 by marriage to King Louis XIII. She was also Queen of Navarre until the kingdom's annexation into the French crown in 1620. After her husband's death, Anne was regent to her son Louis XIV during his minority until 1651.
1982
Katie Lowes
American actress
Katie Quinn Lowes is an American actress and theater director. She is best known for her role as Quinn Perkins in the ABC political drama series Scandal (2012–2018) and her portrayal of Rachel DeLoache Williams in the Netflix drama series Inventing Anna (2022).
1955
John O. Brennan
Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (2013-2017) under President Barack Obama
John Owen Brennan is an American former intelligence officer who served as the director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) from March 2013 to January 2017. He served as chief counterterrorism advisor to U.S. president Barack Obama, with the title Deputy National Security Advisor for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism, and Assistant to the President. Previously, he advised Obama on foreign policy and intelligence issues during his 2008 presidential campaign and presidential transition.
2004
Jessie Murph
American singer and songwriter
Jessie Murph is an American singer and songwriter. She was discovered after uploading vlogs and covers to TikTok and YouTube. Her music style spans multiple genres, with critics describing Murph's sound as a mix of elements from country, pop, and trap genres, while rooted in hip-hop.
1940
Anna Karina
Danish-French actress, director, and screenwriter (died 2019)
Anna Karina was a Danish and French film actress, director, writer, model, and singer. She was an early collaborator of French New Wave director Jean-Luc Godard, her first husband, performing in several of his films, including The Little Soldier (1960), A Woman Is a Woman (1961), My Life to Live (1962), Bande à part, Pierrot le Fou (1965), and Alphaville (1965). For her performance in A Woman Is a Woman, Karina won the Silver Bear Award for Best Actress at the Berlin Film Festival.
1885
Erich von Stroheim
Austrian-American actor, director, and screenwriter (died 1957)
Erich Oswald Hans Carl Maria von Stroheim was an Austrian-American director, screenwriter, actor and producer, most noted as a film star and avant-garde, visionary director of the silent era. His 1924 film Greed, originally over nine hours long, was edited against his wishes to about two-and-a-half hours; despite initial negative reception, the theatrical release is considered one of the greatest films ever made. After clashes with Hollywood studio bosses over budget and workers' rights problems, Stroheim found it difficult to find work as a director and subsequently became a well-respected character actor, particularly in French cinema. As an actor, he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance as Max von Mayerling in Sunset Boulevard (1950).
1480
Tenali Rama
poet in the court of Krishnadevaraya of the Vijayanagara Empire (died 1528)
Tenali Ramakrishna, also known as Tenali Ramalinga and Tenali Rama, was a Telugu poet, scholar, and advisor in the court of Sri Krishnadevaraya of the Vijayanagara Empire. He was from Tenali, Andhra Pradesh. He was one of the Ashtadiggajas, a group of eight celebrated Telugu poets in Sri Krishnadevaraya's court, and became known for his sharp wit and humour. His literary contributions include Panduranga Mahatmyam, which is regarded as one of the five great Telugu Kāvyas. Often referred to by the title "Vikatakavi," meaning "jester poet", he continues to inspire adaptations in literature and media.
1969
Matt Sharp
American singer-songwriter and bass player
Matthew Kelly Sharp is an American musician. Between 1992 and 1998, he was the bassist for the rock band Weezer, which he co-founded. He appears on their first two albums, the Blue Album (1994) and Pinkerton (1996). In 1994, Sharp founded the Rentals, who have released five albums. Sharp has also released an EP and an album as a solo artist.
1995
Nayeon
South Korean singer
Im Na-yeon, known mononymously as Nayeon, is a South Korean singer. She rose to prominence as a member of the South Korean girl group Twice, created by JYP Entertainment through the reality television show Sixteen (2015).
1985
Jerma985
American internet personality
Jerma, or Jerma985, is the stage name of an American live streamer, YouTuber, performance artist and voice actor known for his elaborate Twitch live streams incorporating surreal comedy. He has been described as an online personality across multiple social media platforms.
1988
Sana Saeed
Indian actress and model
Sana Saeed is an Indian actress and model, who primarily appears in Bollywood films and Indian television. Her first appearance was as a child artist in Kuch Kuch Hota Hai (1998) and continued to do so in films like Har Dil Jo Pyar Karega (2000) and Badal (2000). She also appeared in television shows such as Babul Ka Aangann Chootey Na (2008) and Lo Ho Gayi Pooja Iss Ghar Ki (2008).
1895
Paul Muni
Ukrainian-born American actor (died 1967)
Paul Muni was an American stage and film actor from Chicago. He started his acting career in the Yiddish theater and during the 1930s, he was considered one of the most prestigious actors at the Warner Bros. studio and was given the rare privilege of choosing his own parts.
2000
Stephen Crichton
Samoan rugby league footballer
Stephen Crichton, nicknamed "Critta", is a Samoan professional rugby league footballer who captains and plays as a centre for the Canterbury Bankstown Bulldogs in the National Rugby League. He has represented New South Wales in the State of Origin series and Samoa at international level.
1989
Kim Hyo-yeon
South Korean singer, dancer, and actress
Kim Hyo-yeon, known professionally as Hyoyeon or DJ Hyo, is a South Korean singer, dancer, rapper, and DJ. She debuted as a member of the girl group Girls' Generation in August 2007, which went on to become one of the best-selling artists in South Korea and one of the most widely known K-pop groups worldwide. She has since participated in other SM Entertainment projects, including Girls' Generation-Oh!GG and Got the Beat. Hyoyeon also released the solo singles "Mystery" (2016) and "Wannabe" (2017) prior to making her solo debut as Hyo with the single "Sober" in 2018.
1945
Paul Le Mat
American actor
Paul Le Mat is an American actor. He first came to prominence with his role in American Graffiti (1973); his performance was met with critical acclaim and earned him the Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year – Actor.
1962
Martin Crowe
New Zealand cricketer and sportscaster (died 2016)
Martin David Crowe was a New Zealand cricketer, Test and ODI captain as well as a commentator. He played for the New Zealand national cricket team between 1982 and 1995, and is regarded as one of the country's greatest batsmen.
1912
Martha Scott
American actress (died 2003)
Martha Ellen Scott was an American actress. She was featured in major films such as Cecil B. DeMille’s The Ten Commandments (1956), and William Wyler's Ben-Hur (1959). Martha played the mother of Charlton Heston's character in both films. She originated the role of Emily Webb in Thornton Wilder's Our Town on Broadway in 1938, and later recreated the role in the 1940 film version, for which she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress.
1990
Denard Robinson
American football player
Denard Xavier Robinson is an American former professional football player. He played four seasons as a running back in the National Football League (NFL), and was a college football All-American for the Michigan Wolverines as a quarterback. Robinson was selected by the Jacksonville Jaguars in the 2013 NFL draft. After his playing career, he was also a staff member for the Jacksonville Jaguars, Jacksonville University and the University of Michigan.
1967
Félix Savón
Cuban boxer
Félix Savón Fabre is a Cuban former amateur boxer who competed from 1980 to 2000. Considered one of the all-time greatest amateurs, he became three-time Olympic gold medalist, and the World Champion six times in a row, all in the heavyweight division. In 1988, when he was favored by many to win the gold medal at the 1988 Summer Olympics, the Cuban government boycotted the event. Savón is particularly known for having rejected numerous multimillion-dollar offers to defect and leave Cuba permanently to fight Mike Tyson as a professional.
2000
Seungmin
South Korean singer
Kim Seung-min, known mononymously as Seungmin, is a South Korean singer. He is a member of the South Korean boy band Stray Kids, formed by JYP Entertainment in 2017.
1979
Emilie Autumn
American singer-songwriter, violinist, and poet
Emilie Autumn Liddell is an American singer-songwriter, poet, author, and violinist. Autumn's musical style is described by her as "Fairy Pop", "Fantasy Rock" or "Victoriandustrial". It is influenced by glam rock and from plays, novels, and history, particularly the Victorian era. Performing with her all-female backup dancers The Bloody Crumpets, Autumn incorporates elements of classical music, cabaret, electronica, and glam rock with theatrics, and burlesque.
1949
Harold Carmichael
American football player
Lee Harold Carmichael is an American former professional football player who was a wide receiver in the National Football League (NFL) for thirteen seasons with the Philadelphia Eagles (1971–1983) and one year with the Dallas Cowboys (1984). He played college football for the Southern Jaguars. After his playing career, Carmichael was the director of player development and alumni for the Eagles from 1998 to 2014, and a fan engagement liaison from 2014 to 2015.
1941
Jeremiah Wright
American pastor and theologian
Jeremiah Alvesta Wright Jr. is an American Mainline Protestant minister who is pastor emeritus of Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago, a congregation he led for 36 years, during which its membership grew to over 8,000 parishioners. Following retirement, his beliefs and preaching were scrutinized when segments of his sermons about terrorist attacks on the United States and government dishonesty were publicized in connection with the 2008 presidential campaign of Barack Obama.
1880
Christabel Pankhurst
English activist, co-founded the Women's Social and Political Union (died 1958)
Dame Christabel Harriette Pankhurst was a British suffragette and Royalist born in Manchester, England. A co-founder of the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) and founder of The Suffragette newspaper, she directed militant actions from exile in France from 1912 to 1913. In 1914, she supported the war against Germany. After the war, she moved to the United States, where she worked as an evangelist for the Second Adventist movement.
1994
Haason Reddick
American football player
Haason Samir Reddick is an American professional football outside linebacker. He played college football for the Temple Owls, and was selected by the Arizona Cardinals in the first round of the 2017 NFL draft. He also played for the Carolina Panthers, Philadelphia Eagles, New York Jets, and Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
1965
Dan Bucatinsky
American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
Dan Bucatinsky is an American actor, writer and producer, best known for his role as James Novak in the Shonda Rhimes drama series Scandal, for which he won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series in 2013. In 2014, Bucatinsky starred on NBC's Marry Me, as well as the revived HBO series The Comeback, which he also executive produced.
1878
Shigeru Yoshida
Japanese politician and diplomat, 51st Prime Minister of Japan (died 1967)
Shigeru Yoshida was a Japanese diplomat and politician who served as prime minister of Japan from 1946 to 1947 and again from 1948 to 1954, serving through most of the country's occupation after World War II. Yoshida played a major role in determining the course of post-war Japan by forging a strong relationship with the United States and pursuing economic recovery.
1947
Norma McCorvey
American activist (died 2017)
Norma Leah Nelson McCorvey, also known by the pseudonym Jane Roe, was the plaintiff in the landmark 1973 American legal case Roe v. Wade in which the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that individual state laws banning abortion were unconstitutional.
1897
Frank O'Connor
American actor, rancher, and painter (died 1979)
Charles Francis O'Connor was an American actor, painter, and rancher and the husband of novelist Ayn Rand. Frank O'Connor performed in several films, typically as an extra, during the silent and early sound eras. While working on the set of the 1927 film The King of Kings, O'Connor met Rand, and they eventually dated each other steadily. They married in 1929. When O'Connor and Rand moved to California so Rand could work on the movie adaptation of her novel The Fountainhead, O'Connor purchased and managed a ranch in the San Fernando Valley for several years. In addition to raising numerous flora and fauna on the ranch, he there developed the Lipstick and Halloween hybrids of Delphinium and Gladiolus.
1967
Matt Besser
American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
Matthew Gregory Besser is an American actor, comedian, director, producer, writer, and one of the four founding members of the Upright Citizens Brigade sketch comedy troupe, who had their own show on Comedy Central from 1998 to 2000. He hosts the improvisation-based podcast Improv4humans, previously on the Earwolf network, but now solely operated by himself and Brett Morris.
1606
Li Zicheng
Chinese emperor (died 1645)
Li Zicheng, born Li Hongji, also known as the Dashing King, was a Chinese rebel leader who helped overthrow the Ming dynasty in April 1644. He claimed the imperial throne as the Yongchang Emperor of the Shun dynasty, which controlled much of North China for a short period. He died a year later.
1981
Ashley Eckstein
American actress
Ashley Eckstein is an American actress and fashion designer. She is the founder of the fashion label Her Universe. She is best known for voicing the role of Ahsoka Tano throughout the Star Wars franchise, beginning with Star Wars: The Clone Wars in 2008 as well as her recurring role as Muffy on That's So Raven.
1932
Ingemar Johansson
Swedish boxer (died 2009)
Jens Ingemar "Ingo" Johansson was a Swedish professional boxer who competed from 1952 to 1963. He held the world heavyweight title from 1959 to 1960 and was the fifth heavyweight champion born outside the United States. Johansson won the title by defeating Floyd Patterson via third-round stoppage, after flooring him seven times in that round. For this achievement, Johansson was awarded the Hickok Belt as top professional athlete of the year—the only non-American in its entire 27-year first run—and was named the Associated Press Male Athlete of the Year and Sports Illustrated Sportsman of the Year.
1939
Junko Tabei
Japanese mountaineer (died 2016)
Junko Tabei was a Japanese mountaineer, author and teacher. She was the first woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest and ascend the Seven Summits, climbing the highest peak on every continent.
1979
Michael Graziadei
American actor
Michael Graziadei is an American actor, known for his role as Daniel Romalotti on the CBS daytime soap opera The Young and the Restless, for which he received four Daytime Emmy Award nominations.
1958
Neil Cavuto
American journalist and author
Neil Patrick Cavuto is an American television news anchor, executive, commentator, and business journalist. He was the host of Your World with Neil Cavuto and Cavuto Live, both on Fox News, and Cavuto: Coast to Coast on sister channel Fox Business Network until he left the network on December 19, 2024.
1953
Richard Fairbrass
English singer-songwriter, musician and producer
Richard Peter John Fairbrass is an English singer and television presenter, best known as lead singer of the pop group Right Said Fred, who achieved hits in the early 1990s including the singles "I'm Too Sexy" and "Deeply Dippy". He and his band have won two Ivor Novello Awards.
1979
Swin Cash
American basketball player and executive
Swintayla Marie Cash Canal is an American former professional basketball player. She played in college for the University of Connecticut and professionally for 15 years in the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) and overseas leagues.
1994
Alexander Wennberg
Swedish ice hockey player
Alexander Wennberg is a Swedish professional ice hockey player who is a centre and alternate captain for the San Jose Sharks of the National Hockey League (NHL). He previously played for the Columbus Blue Jackets, Florida Panthers, Seattle Kraken, and New York Rangers. He was drafted by the Blue Jackets in the first round, 14th overall, of the 2013 NHL entry draft. Before joining the NHL, Wennberg played professionally in the Swedish Hockey League (SHL).
1989
Jon Bass
American actor
Jonathan Bass is an American actor, known for his roles in She-Hulk: Attorney at Law, Super Pumped, Baywatch, and the comedy series Big Time in Hollywood, FL and Miracle Workers.
1994
Carlos Correa
Puerto Rican-American baseball player
Carlos Javier Correa Oppenheimer Jr. is a Puerto Rican professional baseball shortstop and third baseman for the Houston Astros of Major League Baseball (MLB). He has previously played in MLB for the Minnesota Twins. The Astros selected him first overall in the 2012 MLB draft.
1918
Hans Scholl
German activist and co-founder of the anti-Nazi resistance group White Rose (died 1943)
Hans Fritz Scholl was, along with Alexander Schmorell, one of the two founding members of the White Rose resistance movement in Nazi Germany. The principal author of the resistance movement's literature, he was found guilty of high treason for distributing anti-Nazi material and was executed by the Nazi regime in 1943 during World War II.
1961
Liam Fox
Scottish physician and politician, Secretary of State for Defence
Sir Liam Fox is a British politician who served as Secretary of State for International Trade from 2016 to 2019 and Secretary of State for Defence from 2010 to 2011. A member of the Conservative Party, he was the Member of Parliament (MP) for North Somerset, formerly Woodspring, from 1992 to 2024.
1934
Lute Olson
American basketball player and coach (died 2020)
Robert Luther "Lute" Olson was an American basketball coach, who was inducted into both the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame and the National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame. He was the head coach of the Arizona Wildcats men's team for 24 years. He was also head coach for the Iowa Hawkeyes for nine years and Long Beach State 49ers for one season. Known for player development and great recruiting, many of his former players have gone on to have impressive careers in the NBA. On October 23, 2008, Olson announced his retirement from coaching. Olson died on August 27, 2020, in Tucson, Arizona. He was 85 years old.
1885
Ben Chifley
Australian engineer and politician, 16th Prime Minister of Australia (died 1951)
Joseph Benedict Chifley was the 16th prime minister of Australia, serving from 1945 to 1949. He held office as the leader of the Australian Labor Party (ALP), and was notable for defining Australia's post-war reconstruction efforts, enacting social and immigration reforms and advancing the nationalisation of critical industries.
1928
Johnny Valentine
American wrestler (died 2001)
John Theodore Wisniski, better known by his ring name Johnny Valentine, was an American professional wrestler with a career spanning almost three decades. He has been inducted into four halls of fame for his achievements in wrestling. Wisniski is the father of professional wrestler Greg "The Hammer" Valentine.
1970
Mike Matheny
American baseball player and manager
Michael Scott Matheny is an American former professional baseball catcher and manager. He played 13 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Milwaukee Brewers, Toronto Blue Jays, St. Louis Cardinals, and San Francisco Giants. He later spent seven seasons as the manager of the Cardinals, and three for the Kansas City Royals. One of the most accomplished defensive players of his era, he won four Gold Glove Awards. As manager of the Cardinals, his teams won one pennant and three NL Central division titles.
1891
Alma Thomas
American painter and educator (died 1978)
Alma Woodsey Thomas was an American artist and art teacher who lived and worked in Washington, D.C., and is now recognized as a major American painter of the 20th century. She is the first African-American woman to be included in the White House's permanent art collection. Thomas is best known for the "exuberant", colorful, abstract paintings that she created after she retired from a 35-year career teaching art at Washington's Shaw Junior High School.
1833
John Quincy Adams II
American politician and grandson of President John Quincy Adams (died 1894)
John Quincy Adams II was an American politician who represented Quincy in the Massachusetts House of Representatives from 1866 to 1867, 1868 to 1869, 1871 to 1872, and from 1874 to 1875.
1920
Bob Lemon
American baseball player and manager (died 2000)
Robert Granville Lemon was an American right-handed pitcher and manager in Major League Baseball (MLB). He was elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1976.
1970
Gladys Berejiklian
Australian politician, 45th Premier of New South Wales
Gladys Berejiklian is an Australian businesswoman and former politician who served as the 45th premier of New South Wales and the leader of the New South Wales division of the Liberal Party from 2017 to 2021. Berejiklian currently works as an executive for the telecommunications company Optus.
1957
Mark Johnson
American ice hockey player and coach
Mark Einar Johnson is an American ice hockey coach for the University of Wisconsin–Madison women's ice hockey team. He is a former National Hockey League (NHL) player who appeared in 669 NHL regular season games between 1980 and 1990. He also played for the gold medal-winning 1980 U.S. Olympic team, leading the team in points with 11. As head coach of Wisconsin, he has led them to nine National Championships, the most for all NCAA Division I hockey teams. He is the son of legendary Wisconsin coach Bob Johnson, under whom he played while winning a national championship at the University of Wisconsin in 1977.
1966
Mike Richter
American ice hockey player
Michael Thomas Richter is an American former professional ice hockey goaltender in the National Hockey League (NHL). He played all 14 seasons of his career with the New York Rangers.
1999
Kim Yo-han
South Korean singer and actor
Kim Yo-han, also known by the mononym Yohan (요한), is a South Korean singer and actor. He is a member of the boy group WEi and a former member of boy group X1, finishing first on Produce X 101. He made his solo debut with the digital single "No More" on August 25, 2020. He made his acting debut in the romantic comedy A Love So Beautiful.
1959
Saul Perlmutter
American astrophysicist, astronomer, and academic, Nobel Prize Laureate
Saul Perlmutter is an American astrophysicist who is a professor of physics at the University of California, Berkeley, where he holds the Franklin W. and Karen Weber Dabby Chair, and is head of the International Supernova Cosmology Project at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. He is a member of both the American Academy of Arts & Sciences and the American Philosophical Society, and was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2003. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences. Perlmutter shared the 2006 Shaw Prize in Astronomy, the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics, and the 2015 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics with Brian P. Schmidt and Adam Riess for providing evidence that the expansion of the universe is accelerating. Since 2021, he has been a member of the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST).
1959
Wally Backman
American baseball player
Walter Wayne Backman is an American former Major League Baseball second baseman. He is best known for his time with the New York Mets from 1980–1988 and was a member of their 1986 World Series-winning team. He was also the former manager for the Las Vegas 51s, the Mets' Triple-A team, from 2013 to 2016. He served as the bench coach for the Pericos de Puebla of the Mexican Baseball League in 2017. Backman was the manager of the Long Island Ducks of the Atlantic League of Professional Baseball, until October 2, 2023, when it was announced that the Ducks and Backman had parted ways.
1959
Tai Babilonia
American figure skater and talk show host
Tai Reina Babilonia is an American pair skater. Together with Randy Gardner, she won the 1979 World Figure Skating Championships and five U.S. Figure Skating Championships (1976–1980). The pair qualified for the 1976 and 1980 Winter Olympics.
1933
T. Cullen Davis
American businessman
Thomas Cullen Davis is an American former oil tycoon who is best known for being acquitted of murder and attempted murder in two high-profile trials during the 1970s. At the time of his first trial, Davis was believed to be the wealthiest man to have stood trial for murder in the United States.
1961
Vince Coleman
American baseball player
Vincent Maurice Coleman is an American former professional baseball left fielder. He played 13 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the St. Louis Cardinals, New York Mets, Kansas City Royals, Seattle Mariners, Cincinnati Reds, and Detroit Tigers. A two-time MLB All-Star, Coleman set a number of stolen base records.
1971
Elizabeth Bear
American author and poet
Elizabeth Bear is an American author who works primarily in the speculative and science fiction genres. She is one of a small number of writers who have gone on, after winning Astounding Science Fiction's John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer, to win multiple Hugo Awards for their fiction writing. She won the John W. Campbell Award in 2005, going on to receive, for instance, the 2008 Hugo Award for Best Short Story for "Tideline", and the 2009 Hugo Award for Best Novelette for "Shoggoths in Bloom".
1939
Marlena Shaw
American jazz singer (died 2024)
Marlina Burgess, professionally known by her stage name Marlena Shaw, was an American singer. Shaw began her singing career in the 1960s and continued to perform until her death. Her music has often been sampled in hip hop music, and used in television commercials.
1924
Rosamunde Pilcher
English author (died 2019)
Rosamunde Evelina Montague Laurence Pilcher was a British novelist, best known for her sweeping novels set in Cornwall. Her books have sold over 60 million copies worldwide. Early in her career her work was published under the pen name of Jane Fraser.
1907
Maurice Blanchot
French philosopher and author (died 2003)
Maurice Blanchot was a French writer, philosopher and literary theorist. His work, exploring a philosophy of death alongside poetic theories of meaning and sense, bore significant influence on post-structuralist philosophers such as Gilles Deleuze, Michel Foucault, Jacques Derrida and Jean-Luc Nancy.
1925
Virginia Capers
American actress and singer (died 2004)
Virginia Capers was an American actress. She won the Tony Award for Best Lead Actress in a Musical in 1974 for her performance as Lena Younger in Raisin, a musical version of Lorraine Hansberry's play A Raisin in the Sun.
1741
Peter Simon Pallas
German zoologist and botanist (died 1811)
Peter Simon Pallas FRS FRSE was a Prussian zoologist, botanist, ethnographer, explorer, geographer, geologist, natural historian, and taxonomist. He studied natural sciences at various universities in early modern Germany and worked primarily in the Russian Empire between 1767 and 1810.
1956
Doug Wimbish
American singer-songwriter and bass player
Douglas Arthur Wimbish is an American bassist, primarily known for being a member of rock band Living Colour and funk/dub/hip hop collective Tackhead, and as a session musician with artists such as Sugarhill Gang, Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, The Rolling Stones, Mick Jagger, Depeche Mode, James Brown, Annie Lennox, Tarja Turunen, and Barrington Levy.
1971
Luther Reigns
American actor and wrestler
Matthew Robert Wiese is an American retired professional wrestler and actor. He is best known for his tenure in WWE, where he performed on its SmackDown brand under the ring name Luther Reigns.
1909
Allan Lane
American actor (died 1973)
Allan "Rocky" Lane was an American actor. He was the star of many cowboy B-movies in the 1940s and 1950s. He appeared in more than 125 films and TV shows in a career lasting from 1929 to 1966. He is best known for his portrayal of Red Ryder and for being the voice of the talking horse on the television series Mister Ed from 1961 to 1966.
1946
King Sunny Adé
Nigerian singer-songwriter and guitarist
Chief Sunday Adeniyi Adegeye, known professionally as King Sunny Adé, is a Nigerian jùjú singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist. He is regarded as one of the first African pop musicians to gain international success and has been called one of the most influential musicians of all time.
1942
Candida Lycett Green
Anglo-Irish journalist and author (died 2014)
Candida Rose Lycett Green was a British author who wrote sixteen books including English Cottages, Goodbye London, The Perfect English House, Over the Hills and Far Away and The Dangerous Edge of Things. Her television documentaries included The Englishwoman and the Horse, and The Front Garden. Unwrecked England, based on a regular column of the same name she wrote for The Oldie from 1992, was published in 2009.
1901
Charles Brenton Huggins
Canadian-American physician and physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1997)
Charles Brenton Huggins was a Canadian-American surgeon and physiologist known for his work on prostate function, prostate cancer, and breast cancer. Born in Halifax in 1901, Huggins moved to the United States for medical school. He was one of the founding staff members of the University of Chicago Medical School, where he remained for the duration of his professional research career. Huggins's work on how sex hormones influence prostate function ultimately led to his discovery of hormone therapies to treat prostate cancer. For this finding, he was awarded the 1966 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine. In addition to his work on prostate cancer, Huggins explored the relationship between hormones and breast cancer, developed an animal model for breast cancer, and developed chromogenic substrates that are widely used for biochemical analyses. Huggins continued to perform research into his 90s; he died in Chicago in 1997.
1928
James Lawson
American activist, author, and academic (died 2024)
James Morris Lawson Jr. was an American activist and university professor. He was a leading theoretician and tactician of nonviolence within the Civil Rights Movement. During the 1960s, he served as a mentor to the Nashville Student Movement and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. He was expelled from Vanderbilt University for his civil rights activism in 1960, and later served as a pastor in Los Angeles for 25 years.
1930
T. S. Sinnathuray
Judge of the High Court of Singapore (died 2016)
Thirugnana Sampanthar Sinnathuray, known professionally as T. S. Sinnathuray and to his friends as Sam Sinnathuray, was a judge of the High Court of Singapore. Educated at University College London and called to the bar at Lincoln's Inn, he practised for a few years in a law firm before beginning a career with the Singapore Legal Service, serving with the Attorney-General's Chambers as Crown Counsel and deputy public prosecutor (1960–1963), and senior state counsel (1966–1967); with the Subordinate Courts as a magistrate (1956–1959), first district judge (1967–1970), and senior district judge (1971–1978); and with the Supreme Court as deputy registrar and sheriff (1959–1960), and registrar (1963–1966). In 1978 he was elevated to the office of Judge of the High Court of Singapore, and served until his retirement in 1997.
1943
Paul Hoffert
American keyboard player, composer, and academic
Paul Matthew Hoffert, LLD, CM is a recording artist, performer, media music composer, author, academic, and corporate executive. He studied mathematics and physics at the University of Toronto. He later studied music composition with Gordon Delamont. In 1969, the 26-year-old Hoffert co-founded Lighthouse, a rock group that sold millions of records and earned three Juno Awards as one of Canada's leading pop bands. His film music earned him a San Francisco Film Festival and three SOCAN Film Composer of the Year awards and included films such as The Proud Rider (1971), The Groundstar Conspiracy (1972), Outrageous! (1977), High-Ballin' (1978), The Shape of Things to Come (1979), Wild Horse Hank (1979), Mr. Patman (1980), Deadly Companion (1981), Paradise (1982), Fanny Hill (1983), Bedroom Eyes (1984), and Mr. Nice Guy (1987).
1939
Gilbert E. Patterson
American bishop (died 2007)
Gilbert Earl Patterson was an American Holiness Pentecostal leader and pastor. He served as the founding pastor of the Temple of Deliverance COGIC Cathedral of Bountiful Blessings, one of the largest COGIC churches in the Eastern United States, from 1975 to 2007. He also served as the Presiding Bishop the Church of God in Christ (COGIC), a 6 million-member Holiness Pentecostal denomination from 2000 to 2007.
1932
Algirdas Brazauskas
Lithuanian politician, 2nd President of Lithuania (died 2010)
Algirdas Mykolas Brazauskas was the fourth president of Lithuania, in office from 1993 to 1998. He also served as Prime Minister of Lithuania from 2001 to 2006. Brazauskas was the first democratically elected president of post-Soviet Lithuania.
1889
Hooks Dauss
American baseball player (died 1963)
George August "Hooks" Dauss was an American professional baseball player from 1909 to 1926. He played 15 seasons of Major League Baseball as a right-handed pitcher for the Detroit Tigers from 1912 to 1926. He was given the nickname "Hooks", because his curveball was hard to hit. He compiled a career record of 223–182 with a 3.30 earned run average (ERA). His best years were 1915 when he had a 24–13 record, 1919 with a 21–9 record, and 1923 with a 21–13 record. Dauss's 223 wins are still the most for a pitcher in Tigers franchise history, and he is one of only 14 pitchers to record at least 200 wins all with one team.
1983
Glenn Loovens
Dutch professional footballer
Glenn Loovens is a Dutch former professional footballer who played as a centre-back. He represented his national team twice at senior level, and also played abroad for football clubs in England, Wales, Scotland and Spain.
1939
Tim Wirth
American politician (representing Colorado 1975-87), President of United Nations Foundation
Timothy Endicott Wirth is an American politician from Colorado who served as a Democrat in both the United States Senate (1987–1993) and the United States House of Representatives (1975–1987). He also served in several appointed roles in government, including as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Education during the Nixon Administration and Under Secretary of State for Global Affairs for the U.S. State Department during the Clinton administration. From 1998 to 2013, he served as the president of the United Nations Foundation, and currently sits on the Foundation's board.
1985
Jamie Mackie
Scottish footballer
James Charles Mackie is a former Scotland international footballer who played as a striker or winger, most notably for Queens Park Rangers, Plymouth Argyle, and Oxford United.
1892
Billy West
American actor, director, and producer (died 1975)
Billy West was a silent film actor, producer, and director. Active during the silent film era, he is best known as the premier Charlie Chaplin impersonator. He was a star in his own right, appearing in more than 100 films for nine different companies. Beyond acting, he also directed short comedies in the 1910s and '20s, and produced films. West retired as an actor in 1935, when he was working in small roles for Columbia Pictures. In 1940 he resumed his career as a director, making three features for Monogram Pictures. He remained in Columbia's employ, behind the scenes, into the 1950s.
1948
Denis Burke
Australian soldier and politician, 6th Chief Minister of the Northern Territory
Denis Gabriel Burke is a former Australian politician. A former Australian Army officer, he served as a Country Liberal Party member of the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly from 1994 to 2005. He spent two years as Chief Minister after succeeding Shane Stone, but oversaw the CLP's defeat at the 2001 election, ending 27 years of continuous CLP government in the Northern Territory. Burke later served as Opposition Leader from 2001 to 2003 before being toppled, but was re-elected as leader in 2005. He subsequently took the party to defeat at the 2005 election, culminating in the shock loss of his own seat.
1949
James Cartwright
American general
James Edward "Hoss" Cartwright is a retired United States Marine Corps general who last served as the eighth vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff from August 31, 2007, to August 3, 2011. He previously served as the Commander, U.S. Strategic Command, from September 1, 2004, to August 10, 2007, and as Acting Commander, U.S. Strategic Command from July 9, 2004, to September 1, 2004. He retired from the Marine Corps on August 3, 2011, after nearly 40 years of service.
1885
Gunnar Asplund
Swedish architect and academic, designed the Stockholm Public Library (died 1940)
Erik Gunnar Asplund was a Swedish architect, mostly known as a key representative of Nordic Classicism of the 1920s during the last decade of his life. At this time, he was a major proponent of the modernist style which made its breakthrough in Sweden at the Stockholm International Exhibition (1930). Asplund was professor of architecture at the Royal Institute of Technology from 1931. His appointment was marked by a lecture, later published under the title "Our architectonic concept of space." The Woodland Crematorium at Stockholm South Cemetery (1935–1940) is considered his finest work and one of the masterpieces of modern architecture.
1887
Bhaurao Patil
Indian educator and activist (died 1959)
Bhaurao Patil, was a social activist and educator in Maharashtra, India. A strong advocate of mass education, he founded the Rayat Education Society. Bhaurao played an important role in educating backward castes and low income people by coining the philosophy earn and learn. He was a prominent member of Satyashodhak Samaj, founded by Mahatma Jyotirao Phule. The people of Maharashtra honoured him with the sobriquet Karmaveer and the Government of India awarded him with Padma Bhushan in 1959 in India.
1929
Serge Garant
Canadian composer and conductor (died 1986)
Albert Antonio Serge Garant, was a Canadian composer, conductor, music critic, professor of music at the University of Montreal and radio host of Musique de notre siècle on Radio-Canada. In 1966, with Jean Papineau-Couture, Maryvonne Kendergi, Wilfrid Pelletier and Hugh Davidson, he co-founded the Société de musique contemporaine du Québec. In 1979, he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada. The Prix Serge-Garant award was created in his honor by the Fondation Émile Nelligan. Among his notable pupils were Walter Boudreau, Marcelle Deschênes, Denis Gougeon, Richard Grégoire, Anne Lauber, Michel Longtin, Nicole Rodrigue, and Myke Roy.
1987
Derick Brassard
Canadian ice hockey player
Derick Brassard is a Canadian former professional ice hockey centre who played 16 seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the Columbus Blue Jackets, New York Rangers, Ottawa Senators, Pittsburgh Penguins, Florida Panthers, Colorado Avalanche, New York Islanders, Arizona Coyotes, Philadelphia Flyers and Edmonton Oilers, as well as a brief stint in the Swiss National League (NL) with Genève-Servette HC. The Blue Jackets selected him in the first round, sixth overall, of the 2006 NHL entry draft.
1829
Tự Đức
Vietnamese emperor (died 1883)
Tự Đức was the fourth emperor of the Nguyễn dynasty of Vietnam, and the country's last pre-colonial monarch. Ruling for about 36 years from 1847 to 1883, this made him the longest reigning Nguyễn emperor.
1868
Louise McKinney
Canadian educator and politician (died 1931)
Louise McKinney was a Canadian politician, temperance advocate, and women's rights activist. She was the first woman elected into the Legislative Assembly of Alberta and the first woman to serve in a legislature in the British Empire. She served in the Alberta legislature from 1917 to 1921 as a member of the Non-Partisan League. Later, she was one of the Famous Five who successfully campaigned for the right of Canadian women to be appointed to the Senate. A former schoolteacher and temperance organizer, she came to Alberta in 1903 as a homesteader.
1894
Elisabeth Rethberg
German soprano (died 1976)
Elisabeth Rethberg was a German operatic spinto soprano singer who was active from the period of the First World War through the early 1940s. After Richard Strauss assigned the role of the Empress in his Die Frau ohne Schatten to her at the Dresden Opera in 1919, she went on to perform as Verdi's Aida at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City and La Scala in Milan, among others. She returned to Dresden often, including to appear in title role of Die ägyptische Helena in the world premiere.
1896
Henry Segrave
American-English race car driver (died 1930)
Sir Henry O'Neal de Hane Segrave was an early British pioneer in land speed and water speed records. Segrave, who set three land and one water record, was the first person to hold both titles simultaneously and the first person to travel at over 200 miles per hour (320 km/h) in a land vehicle. He died in an accident in 1930 shortly after setting a new world water speed record on Windermere in the Lake District, England. The Segrave Trophy was established to commemorate his life.
1905
Haakon Lie
Norwegian lawyer and politician (died 2009)
Haakon Steen Lie was a Norwegian politician who served as party secretary for the Norwegian Labour Party from 1945 to 1969. Coming from humble origins, he became involved in the labour movement at an early age, and quickly rose in the party system. After actively working for the resistance movement and the exiled government during World War II, he was elected to the second-highest position in the party after the war, and his years in office were the most successful in the party's history.
1979
Phil Waugh
Australian rugby player
Phillip Waugh is the chief executive of Rugby Australia (RA) and a former rugby union footballer who played 136 matches in the Super Rugby for the New South Wales Waratahs, and in 79 Test matches for the Wallabies. His usual position was openside flanker.
1900
Paul Hugh Emmett
American chemist and engineer (died 1985)
Paul Hugh Emmett was an American chemist best known for his pioneering work in the field of catalysis and for his work on the Manhattan Project during World War II. He spearheaded the research to separate isotopes of uranium and to develop a corrosive uranium gas. Emmett also made significant contributions to BET Theory which explains the relationship between surface area and gas adsorption. He served on the faculty of Johns Hopkins University for 23 years throughout his scientific career.
1975
Ethan Moreau
Canadian ice hockey player and scout
Ethan Byron Moreau is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player. Moreau was selected in the first round of the 1994 NHL entry draft, 14th overall, by the Chicago Blackhawks of the National Hockey League (NHL). He also played with the Edmonton Oilers, Columbus Blue Jackets, and the Los Angeles Kings of the NHL. He recently served as an assistant coach for Niagara University. Currently, Moreau is the owner of Ethan Moreau Hockey in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan.
1981
Alexei Ramírez
Cuban baseball player
Alexei Fernando Ramírez Rodriguez is a Cuban professional baseball shortstop for Vegueros de Pinar del Río of the Cuban National Series. He previously played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Chicago White Sox, San Diego Padres and Tampa Bay Rays. His nickname, given to him by former White Sox manager Ozzie Guillén, is "the Cuban Missile" due to his tall, slim physique and combination of speed, power, and strong throwing arm. Ramírez batted and threw right-handed.
1992
Philip Hindes
English track cyclist
Philip Hindes MBE is a British former track cyclist, specialising in sprints. He holds dual nationality, having been born in Germany to a British father. Having initially competed for Germany at a junior level, in 2010 he switched to the British Cycling programme. At the 2012 Summer Olympics he won the gold medal in the Men's team sprint, and again at the 2016 Summer Olympics he won the gold medal in the Men's team sprint.
1929
Carlo Ubbiali
Italian motorcycle racer (died 2020)
Carlo Ubbiali was an Italian professional motorcycle road racer. He competed in the FIM Grand Prix motorcycle racing world championships from 1949 to 1960, most prominently as a member of the MV Agusta factory racing team. In the 1950s, he was a dominant force in the smaller classes of Grand Prix motorcycle racing, winning six 125cc and three 250cc world titles. In 2001, the F.I.M. inducted Ubbiali into the MotoGP Hall of Fame.
1952
Sukhumbhand Paribatra
Thai political scientist and politician, 15th Governor of Bangkok
Mom Rajawongse Sukhumbhand Paribatra is a Thai politician belonging to the Democrat Party. From 2009 to 2016 he was the Governor of Bangkok. He was removed from the post in October 2016 by Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha who used Section 44 of the interim charter to remove the elected official. The reason given for his ouster was "...because he was involved in many legal cases." He was replaced by Police General Aswin Kwanmuang.
1966
Michael Shank
American racing team owner
Michael Shank is an American race car team owner and former race car driver born in Columbus, Ohio. Before leaving driving to concentrate on car ownership, he ran one race in the 1996–97 Indy Racing League season, the 1997 Las Vegas 500K at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. He started racing in 1989, winning SCCA Ohio Valley Region's Novice Driver of the Year. Shank also won the 1996 Player's/Toyota Atlantic C2 championship.
1952
Bob Goodlatte
American lawyer and politician
Robert William Goodlatte is an American politician, attorney, and lobbyist who served as the U.S. representative for Virginia's 6th congressional district from 1993 to 2019. A Republican, he was also the Chair of the House Judiciary Committee, which has jurisdiction over legislation affecting the federal courts, administrative agencies, and federal law enforcement entities. Based in the Shenandoah Valley, Goodlatte's district covered the cities of Harrisonburg, Lexington, Lynchburg, Roanoke, and Staunton.
1931
George Younger
4th Viscount Younger of Leckie, Scottish banker and politician, Secretary of State for Defence (died 2003)
George Kenneth Hotson Younger, 4th Viscount Younger of Leckie, Baron Younger of Prestwick, was a British Conservative Party politician and banker. He was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Ayr from 1964 to 1992. During the premiership of Margaret Thatcher, Younger served as Secretary of State for Scotland from 1979 to 1986, and as Secretary of State for Defence from 1986 to 1989.
1957
Giuseppe Saronni
Italian cyclist and manager
Giuseppe Saronni, also known as Beppe Saronni, is an Italian former racing cyclist. He had remarkable success riding in the Giro d'Italia. In 1980 he won 7 stages and finished 7th overall; in 1981 he won 3 stages and finished 3rd overall. In 1979 and 1983 he won the Giro d'Italia and all total for his career win 24 stages in this race.
1806
Bernardino António Gomes
Portuguese physician and naturalist (died 1877)
Bernardino António Gomes was a Portuguese medical doctor and scientist. He is perhaps most widely remembered for his pioneering work in Portugal in the field of anaesthesiology, as the first physician in the country to use chloroform in a surgical procedure ; he is also credited with the popularization of the use of creosote and of the first ether inhalers.
1833
Stephen D. Lee
American general and academic (died 1908)
Stephen Dill Lee was a Confederate general, politician, and first president of Mississippi State University from 1880 to 1899. He served as lieutenant general of the Confederate States Army in the Eastern and Western theaters of the American Civil War.
1862
Anastasios Charalambis
Greek lieutenant and politician, Prime Minister of Greece (died 1949)
Anastasios Charalambis was a Greek Lieutenant General and interim Prime Minister of Greece for one day in 1922. Before retiring from the Army in 1918, Charalambis commanded the II Army Corps. He was previously an officer in the 6th and 1st Infantry Division serving during the Balkan Wars of 1912–1913, the Second Balkan War, and the Greco-Turkish War of 1897.
1908
Esphyr Slobodkina
Russian-American author and illustrator (died 2002)
Esphyr Solomonovna Slobodkina was a Russian-born American artist, author, and illustrator, best known for her classic children's picture book Caps for Sale. Slobodkina was a celebrated avant garde artist and feminist in the middle part of the 20th century.
1946
Larry Dierker
American baseball player and manager
Lawrence Edward Dierker is an American former Major League Baseball (MLB) pitcher, manager, and broadcaster. During a 14-year baseball career as a pitcher, he pitched from 1964 to 1977 for the Houston Colt .45s/Astros and the St. Louis Cardinals.
1987
Stefan Denifl
Austrian cyclist
Stefan Denifl is an Austrian former professional cyclist, who rode professionally between 2006 and 2018 for seven different professional teams. In 2019, Denifl confessed to doping during a five-year period in his career, and was given a four-year ban from the sport; as a consequence of this, Denifl received a two-year sentence in 2021 for serious commercial fraud.
1912
Herbert Mataré
German physicist and academic (died 2011)
Herbert Franz Mataré was a German physicist. The focus of his research was the field of semiconductor research. His best-known work is the first functional European transistor, which he developed and patented together with Heinrich Welker in the vicinity of Paris in 1948, independent from the Bell Labs engineers who had developed the first transistor shortly before.
1924
Charles Waterhouse
American painter, sculptor, and illustrator (died 2013)
Charles H. Waterhouse was an American painter, illustrator and sculptor renowned for using United States Marine Corps historical themes as the motif for his works. His art spans subjects from Tun Tavern, the birthplace of the U. S. Marines to present day topics. Throughout his career, he created over 500 pieces for the Marine Corps art collection.
1870
Arthur Pryor
American trombonist, composer, and bandleader (died 1942)
Arthur Willard Pryor was a trombone virtuoso, bandleader, and soloist with the Sousa Band. He was a prolific composer of band music, his best-known composition being "The Whistler and His Dog". In later life, he became a Democratic Party politician from New Jersey, who served on the Monmouth County Board of Chosen Freeholders during the 1930s.
1841
Andrejs Pumpurs
Latvian soldier and poet (died 1902)
Andrejs Pumpurs was a poet who penned the Latvian epic Lāčplēsis and a prominent figure in the Young Latvia movement. Working in the land before volunteering to fight in Serbia against the Ottoman Empire in 1876, he became a loyal officer in the Russian army and also a staunch promoter of the Latvian culture.
1788
Theodore Hook
English composer and educator (died 1841)
Theodore Edward Hook was an English writer, intellectual, prankster and civil servant. One of the first writers of the English fashionable novel, he is best known for his practical jokes, particularly the Berners Street hoax in 1810. The world's first postcard was received by Hook in 1840; he likely posted it to himself.
1870
Charlotte Cooper
English-Scottish tennis player (died 1966)
Charlotte "Chattie" Reinagle Cooper Sterry was an English female tennis player who won five singles titles at the Wimbledon Championships and in 1900 became Olympic champion. In winning in Paris on 11 July 1900, she became the first female Olympic tennis champion as well as the first individual female Olympic champion.
1951
Doug Somers
American wrestler (died 2017)
Douglas Duane Somerson was an American professional wrestler known by his ring name "Pretty Boy" Doug Somers. He worked in the American Wrestling Association (AWA) in the mid-1980s as part of a tag team with "Playboy" Buddy Rose, managed by Sherri Martel, and twice held the AWA World Tag Team Championship.
1883
Frank George Woollard
English engineer (died 1957)
Frank George Woollard was a British mechanical engineer who worked for nearly three decades in the British motor industry in various roles in design, production, and management. He was a pioneer in flow production, what is better known as the "Toyota Production System", but whose work has been forgotten.
1899
Elsie Allen
Native American Pomo basket weaver (died 1990)
Elsie Comanche Allen was a Native American Pomo basket weaver from the Cloverdale Rancheria of Pomo Indians of California in Northern California. She is notable for historically categorizing and teaching Californian Indian basket patterns and techniques, as well as for sustaining traditional Pomo basketry as an art form.
1950
Kirka
Finnish musician (died 2007)
Kirill "Kirka" Babitzin was a Finnish vocalist and musician. One of the most commercially successful artists from Finland, his career lasted from the late 1960s until his death in 2007. Sales of Kirka's records have exceeded one million copies. During his career, Kirka was awarded five Emma prizes.
1965
Robert Satcher
American physician, engineer, and astronaut
Robert Lee Satcher Jr. is an American orthopedic surgeon, chemical engineer, and former NASA astronaut. He participated in two spacewalks during STS-129, accumulating 12 hours and 19 minutes of extravehicular activity. Satcher holds two doctorates and has received numerous awards and honors as a surgeon and engineer.
1977
Antti-Jussi Niemi
Finnish ice hockey player
Antti-Jussi Jormanpoika Niemi is a Finnish former professional ice hockey player. Niemi played for Jokerit of the SM-liiga, the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim in the National Hockey League, HC Lada Togliatti in the Kontinental Hockey League, and Västra Frölunda HC and Leksands IF of the Swedish Elitserien.
1876
André Tardieu
French journalist and politician, 67th Prime Minister of France (died 1945)
André Pierre Gabriel Amédée Tardieu was three times Prime Minister of France and a dominant figure of French political life in 1929–1932. He was a moderate conservative with a strong intellectual reputation, but became a weak prime minister at the start of the worldwide Great Depression.
1943
Barry Cable
Australian footballer and coach
Barry Thomas Cable MBE is a former Australian rules footballer and coach. Considered one of the greatest rovers in the sport's history, he played 379 premiership games in the Western Australian Football League (WAFL) and the Victorian Football League (VFL), and later coached in both competitions.
1924
Charles Keeping
English author and illustrator (died 1988)
Charles William James Keeping was an English illustrator, children's book author and lithographer. He made the illustrations for Rosemary Sutcliff's historical novels for children, and he created more than twenty picture books. He also illustrated the complete works of Charles Dickens for the Folio Society.
1938
Gene Mingo
American football player
Eugene L. Mingo is an American former professional football player who played in the American Football League (AFL) and National Football League (NFL). He played several positions including halfback, placekicker, and return specialist. He is widely recognized as the first African American placekicker in football.
1924
J. William Middendorf
American soldier and politician, 14th United States Secretary of the Navy (died 2025)
John William Middendorf II was an American diplomat who was the 62nd Secretary of the Navy from 1974 to 1977 and the United States Ambassador to the European Communities from 1985 to 1987. He wrote books and articles on politics, security, and history.
1765
Paolo Ruffini
Italian mathematician and philosopher (died 1822)
Paolo Ruffini was an Italian mathematician and philosopher. Remembered chiefly for what is now known as the Abel–Ruffini theorem, Ruffini also made a major contribution to the theory of equations, developing the so-called theory of substitutions, the forerunner of modern group theory.
1835
Alexander Potebnja
Ukrainian linguist and philosopher (died 1891)
Alexander Afanasyevich Potebnja was a Russian Imperial and Ukrainian linguist, philosopher and pan-Slavist of Ukrainian Cossack descent, who was a professor of linguistics at the Imperial Kharkov University. He is well known as a specialist in the evolution of Russian phonetics.
1942
Rubén Salazar Gómez
Colombian cardinal
Jesús Rubén Darío Salazar Gómez is a Colombian prelate of the Catholic Church who was Metropolitan Archbishop of Bogotá from 2010 to 2020. He was made a cardinal in 2012. He was Metropolitan Archbishop of Barranquilla from 1999 to 2010.
1955
Jeffrey Leonard
American baseball player and coach
Jeffrey N. Leonard is an American former professional baseball left fielder. He played 14 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) from 1977 to 1990 for the Los Angeles Dodgers, Houston Astros, San Francisco Giants, Milwaukee Brewers, and Seattle Mariners.
1921
Will Elder
American illustrator (died 2008)
William Elder was an American illustrator and comic book artist who worked in numerous areas of commercial art but is best known for a frantically funny cartoon style that helped launch Harvey Kurtzman's Mad comic book in 1952.
1593
Matthäus Merian
Swiss-German engraver and cartographer (died 1650)
Matthäus Merian der Ältere was a Swiss-born engraver who worked in Frankfurt, Germany for most of his career, where he also ran a publishing house. He was a member of the patrician Basel Merian family.
1967
Rickard Rydell
Swedish race car driver
John Rickard Rydell is a Swedish retired racing driver. He won the 1998 British Touring Car Championship, the 2011 Scandinavian Touring Car Championship, and has also been a frontrunner in the European/World Touring Car Championship.
1762
Elizabeth Simcoe
English-Canadian painter and author (died 1850)
Dame Elizabeth Posthuma Simcoe was an English artist and diarist in colonial Canada. Her husband, John Graves Simcoe, was the first Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada. Her diary gives an account of Canadian life.
1991
Kenny Bromwich
New Zealand rugby league player
Kenneath Bromwich is a former New Zealand professional rugby league footballer who last played as a second-row forward for the Dolphins in the National Rugby League (NRL), and represented New Zealand at international level.
1933
Carmelo Simeone
Italian-Argentinian footballer (died 2014)
Carmelo "Cholo" Simeone, was an Argentine football defender who won three league championships with Boca Juniors and played for the Argentina national team. Nicknamed "Cholo", he was known for his energetic playing style.
1965
Mark Guthrie
American baseball player
Mark Andrew Guthrie is an American former Major League Baseball relief pitcher who played for several teams between 1989 and 2003, and was a member of the 1991 World Series Champion Minnesota Twins.
1987
Zdravko Kuzmanović
Serbian footballer
Zdravko Kuzmanović is a Serbian former footballer who played as a defensive or central midfielder. He last played for FC Basel. He represented Serbia in the 2010 FIFA World Cup.
1923
Dannie Abse
Welsh physician, poet, and author (died 2014)
Daniel Abse CBE FRSL was a Welsh poet and physician. His poetry won him many awards. As a medic, he worked in a chest clinic for over 30 years.
1967
Super Delfin
Japanese wrestler
Hiroto Wakita is a Japanese professional wrestler and politician who currently runs and wrestles for Kaisen Puroresu. He is better known by his stage name Super Delfin .
1547
Philipp Nicodemus Frischlin
German philologist, mathematician, astronomer, and poet (died 1590)
Philipp Nicodemus Frischlin was a German philologist, poet, playwright, mathematician, and astronomer, born at Erzingen, today part of Balingen in Württemberg, where his father was parish minister.
1922
David Sive
American environmentalist and lawyer (died 2014)
David Sive was an American attorney, environmentalist, and professor of environmental law, who has been recognized as a pioneer in the field of United States environmental law.
1373
Thomas le Despenser
1st Earl of Gloucester (died 1400)
Thomas Despenser, 2nd Baron Despenser, 1st Earl of Gloucester was the son of Edward le Despenser, 1st Baron le Despencer, whom he succeeded in 1375.
1961
Diane Lemieux
Canadian lawyer and politician
Diane Lemieux is a Canadian politician and administrator who serves as the president and chief executive officer of the Commission de la construction du Québec.
1985
Faris Haroun
Belgian footballer
Faris Dominguere Jenny Haroun is a Belgian former professional footballer who played as a defensive midfielder. He has also played for the Belgium national team.
1967
Ian Mortimer
English historian and novelist
Ian James Forrester Mortimer is a British historian and writer of historical fiction. He is best known for his book The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England, which became a Sunday Times bestseller in paperback in 2010.
1967
Brian Keene
American novelist
Brian Keene is an American author, podcaster, and film producer, primarily known for his work in horror, dark fantasy, crime fiction, and comic books. He has won the 2014 World Horror Grandmaster Award and two Bram Stoker Awards. In addition to his own original work, Keene has written for media properties such as Doctor Who, Thor, Hellboy, Alien, Masters of the Universe, and The X-Files.
1952
Américo Rocca
Mexican wrestler
Javier Hernández Padilla is a semi-retired Mexican professional wrestler best known under the ring name Américo Rocca. Hernández also worked as the enmascarado (masked) Ponzoña from 1990 until 1994, and as Ninja Samurai for a brief time in 1994. Hernández is a former holder of the Mexican National Lightweight Championship and a three-time holder of both the Mexican National Welterweight Championship and the NWA World Welterweight Championship all promoted by the professional wrestling promotion Empresa Mexicana de Lucha Libre (EMLL).
1934
Jack McGregor
American captain, lawyer, and politician
Jack Edwin McGregor was an American politician and lawyer who was a member of the Pennsylvania State Senate and the founder of the National Hockey League's Pittsburgh Penguins. He later resided in Bridgeport, Connecticut, where he served as counsel to Cohen and Wolf, P.C., and as an advisor to companies looking to create business opportunities in the Bridgeport region. McGregor also served as a consultant to other companies seeking to expand their market share in the area.
1976
Mo Collins
American football player and coach (died 2014)
Damon Jamal "Mo" Collins, was an American professional football player who was an offensive lineman in the National Football League (NFL) for six seasons during the 1990s and early 2000s. Collins played college football for the University of Florida, and was a member of a national championship team. The Oakland Raiders selected him in the first round of the 1998 NFL draft, and he played his entire professional career for the Raiders.
1928
Eric Broadley
English engineer and businessman, founded Lola Cars (died 2017)
Eric Harrison Broadley MBE was a British entrepreneur, engineer, and founder and chief designer of Lola Cars, the motor racing manufacturer and engineering company. He was arguably one of the most influential automobile designers of the post-war period, and over the years Lola was involved with many high-profile projects in Formula One, Indy car, and sports car racing. Broadley sold Lola to Martin Birrane in 1997.
1969
Tuomas Kantelinen
Finnish composer and conductor
Tuomas Kantelinen is a Finnish composer. He was born in Kankaanpää and studied composition at the Sibelius Academy with Eero Hämeenniemi. He is best known for his scores for films such as Rukajärven tie, Äideistä parhain, Mindhunters and Mongol. He has also composed the opera Paavo the Great. Great Race. Great Dream, chamber music and orchestral works as well as music for television shows and commercials.
1211
Ibn Khallikan
Iraqi scholar and judge (died 1282)
Shams al-Din Aḥmad bin Muḥammad bin Ibrāhīm bin Abū Bakr ibn Khallikān, better known as Ibn Khallikān, was a renowned Islamic historian who compiled the celebrated biographical encyclopedia of Muslim scholars and important men in Muslim history, Deaths of Eminent Men and the Sons of the Epoch. Due to this achievement, he is regarded as the most eminent writer of biographies in Islamic history.
1949
Jim McGinty
Australian lawyer and politician, Attorney-General of Western Australia
James Andrew McGinty is an Australian former politician. He was a Labor member of the Western Australian Legislative Assembly from 1990 to 2009, representing the district of Fremantle. He was Labor Party leader and Leader of the Opposition from 1994 to 1996. He served as a minister, most notably as Attorney-General, in the governments of Carmen Lawrence, Geoff Gallop and Alan Carpenter.
1926
Bill Smith
American clarinet player and composer (died 2020)
William Overton Smith was an American clarinetist and composer. He worked extensively in modern classical music, third stream and jazz, and was perhaps best known for having played with pianist Dave Brubeck intermittently from the 1940s to the early 2000s. Smith frequently recorded jazz under the name Bill Smith, but his classical compositions are credited under the name William O. Smith.
1947
David Drewry
English glaciologist and geophysicist
David John Drewry is a glaciologist and geophysicist who was described in the conferring of an honorary degree by Anglia Ruskin University in 1998 as having an "outstanding reputation as an eminent scientist of international repute". Drewry has also received several awards for his work. Since 1 July 2015 he is the vice-president of the European University Association.
1981
Subaru Shibutani
Japanese singer-songwriter
Subaru Shibutani is a Japanese singer, actor, and lyricist. He began his career as a member of Kansai Johnny's Jr. and later served as the main vocalist of the Japanese boy band Kanjani Eight, which originally debuted as an enka group. He left the group in 2018. His first solo album, Nisai, was released in October 2019.
1958
Beth Catlin
American autistic savant
Elizabeth "Beth" Catlin is an American autistic savant who sends birthday cards to people whom she has met. Using only her memory, Catlin can recall the names, birthdates, and addresses of the people she has met. As of July 2009, Catlin sends birthday cards each year to 3,834 people.
1971
Toomas Krõm
Estonian footballer
Toomas Krõm is a former professional footballer from Estonia, playing as a forward. Born in Tallinn, he twice became topscorer of the Premier Estonian League, named Meistriliiga: in 1999 and 2000. Krõm obtained a total number of 11 caps for the Estonia national football team during his career.
1927
Gordon Astall
English footballer and coach (died 2020)
Gordon Astall was an English professional footballer. He played as an outside right, and represented the Football League, the England B team and the full England side. At club level he made 456 appearances in the Football League and scored 112 goals.
1937
Don Rutherford
English rugby player (died 2016)
Donald Rutherford was an England international rugby union player and administrator. He was the first ever Technical Director of the Rugby Football Union at Twickenham, becoming Director of Rugby where he served with distinction from 1969 – 1999.
1913
Lillian Chestney
American painter and illustrator (died 2000)
Lillian Chestney was an American illustrator and painter. She studied in New York City and illustrated children's books, comic books, and magazine and book covers at a time when few women held artist positions in the industry.
1920
Eric Baker
English activist, co-founded Amnesty International (died 1976)
Eric Baker was a British activist and one of the founders of the human rights group Amnesty International, and the second Secretary-General of the organization. He was also a founder of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND).
1970
Hitro Okesene
New Zealand rugby player and coach
John Haitrosene "Hitro" Okesene, also known by the nickname "Nitro", is a former professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1990s and 2000s and represented three countries; Western Samoa, American Samoa and New Zealand.
1909
John Engstead
American photographer and journalist (died 1983)
John Engstead was an American photographer. Engstead was born in California, and began his career in 1926, when he was hired as an office boy by Paramount Pictures' head of studio publicity, Harold Harley.
1920
William H. Riker
American political scientist and academic (died 1993)
William Harrison Riker was an American political scientist known for applying game theory and mathematics to political science. He helped establish University of Rochester as a center of the behavioral revolution in political science.
1956
Ibrahim Shema
Nigerian lawyer, politician
Ibrahim Shehu Shema ); born 22 September 1957) is a Nigerian lawyer and politician who was elected as a Governor of the north western State of Katsina during the 2007 general elections.
1939
Bogdan Baltazar
Romanian economist and engineer (died 2012)
Bogdan Baltazar was a leading Romanian banker and the first spokesman of the Romanian government following the fall of the communist regime. He was also a significant financial and banking advisor.
1957
Steve Carney
English footballer (died 2013)
Stephen Carney was an English professional footballer who played in the Football League as a defender for Newcastle United, Carlisle United, Darlington, Rochdale and Hartlepool United.
1013
Richeza of Poland
Queen of Hungary (died 1075)
Richeza of Poland was Queen of Hungary by marriage to Béla I, King of Hungary.
1680
Barthold Heinrich Brockes
German poet (died 1747)
Barthold Heinrich Brockes was a German poet.
1694
Philip Stanhope
4th Earl of Chesterfield, English politician, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (died 1773)
Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield was a British politician, diplomat and writer.
1715
Jean-Étienne Guettard
French mineralogist and botanist (died 1786)
Jean-Étienne Guettard, was a French naturalist and mineralogist. He was born at Étampes, near Paris.
1743
Quintin Craufurd
Scottish author (died 1819)
Quintin Craufurd was a British author born at Kilwinning, Scotland.
1819
Wilhelm Wattenbach
German historian and academic (died 1897)
Wilhelm Wattenbach, was a German historian.
1875
Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis
Lithuanian painter and composer (died 1911)
Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis was a Lithuanian composer, painter, choirmaster, cultural figure, and writer in Polish.
1883
Ferenc Oslay
Hungarian-Slovene historian and author (died 1932)
Ferenc Oslay was a Hungarian-Slovene historian, writer, Trianon irredentist, and propagandist.
1896
Uri Zvi Greenberg
Ukrainian-Israeli poet and journalist (died 1981)
Uri Zvi Greenberg was an Israeli poet, journalist and politician who wrote in Yiddish and Hebrew.
1900
William Spratling
American-Mexican silversmith and educator (died 1967)
William Spratling was an American-born silver designer and artist, best known for his influence on 20th century Mexican silver design.
1901
Nadezhda Alliluyeva
second wife of Joseph Stalin (died 1932)
Nadezhda Sergeyevna Alliluyeva was the second wife of Joseph Stalin.
1905
Eugen Sänger
Czech-Austrian engineer (died 1964)
Eugen Sänger was an Austrian aerospace engineer best known for his contributions to lifting body and ramjet technology.
1907
Hermann Schlichting
German engineer and academic (died 1982)
Hermann Schlichting was a German fluid dynamics engineer.
1907
Philip Fotheringham-Parker
English race car driver (died 1981)
Philip Fotheringham-Parker was a racing driver from England.
1910
György Faludy
Hungarian poet and author (died 2006)
György Faludy, sometimes anglicized as George Faludy, was a Hungarian poet, writer and translator.
1915
Grigory Frid
Russian pianist and composer (died 2012)
Grigory Samuilovich Frid, also known as Grigori Fried, was a Russian composer of music written in many different genres, including chamber opera.
1918
Henryk Szeryng
Mexican violinist and educator (died 1988)
Henryk Bolesław Szeryng was a Polish-Mexican violinist.
1924
Bernard Gauthier
French cyclist (died 2018)
Bernard Gauthier was a French road racing cyclist, who was professional from 1947 to 1961. He won the Bordeaux–Paris road race on four occasions.
1924
Ray Wetzel
American trumpet player and composer (died 1951)
Ray Wetzel was an American jazz trumpeter. Critic Scott Yanow described him as "greatly admired by his fellow trumpeters".
1925
Leila Hadley
American author (died 2009)
Leila Hadley was an American travel writer and socialite. Her books include Give Me the World (1958) and A Journey with Elsa Cloud (1997).
1928
Eugene Roche
American actor (died 2004)
Eugene Harrison Roche was an American actor and the original "Ajax Man" in 1970s television commercials.
1928
Vitthalrao Gadgil
Indian politician (died 2001)
Vitthalrao Gadgil was a leader of Indian National Congress. He served as union minister of information and broadcasting during Rajeev Gandhi era.
1930
Joni James
American singer (died 2022)
Giovanna Carmella Babbo, known professionally as Joni James, was an American singer of traditional pop.
1931
Fay Weldon
English author and playwright (died 2023)
Fay Weldon was a British author, essayist and playwright.
1933
Jesco von Puttkamer
German-American engineer (died 2012)
Jesco Hans Heinrich Max Freiherr von Puttkamer was a German-American aerospace engineer, senior manager at NASA, and a pulp science fiction writer.
1933
Leonardo Balada
Spanish-American composer and educator
Leonardo Balada Ibáñez is a Spanish-American classical composer, who is noted for his operas and orchestral works.
1934
T. Somasekaram
Sri Lankan geographer and politician, 37th Surveyor General of Sri Lanka (died 2010)
Sri Lanka Sikhamani Thamotharam Somasekaram was a leading Sri Lankan Tamil geographer and Surveyor General.
1936
Maurice Evans
English footballer and manager (died 2000)
Maurice George Evans was a football player with Reading, and later manager of Shrewsbury Town, Reading and Oxford United.
1936
Robin Gammell
Canadian actor
Robin Gammell is a Canadian film, television and stage actor.
1939
Deborah Lavin
South African-English historian and academic
Deborah Margaret Lavin, FRSA, is a South African academic and historian, resident in the United Kingdom for most of her career.
1942
Ole Anderson
American wrestler (died 2024)
Alan Robert Rogowski, better known by the ring name Ole Anderson, was an American professional wrestler, booker, and promoter.
1944
Brian Gibson
English director, producer, and screenwriter (died 2004)
Brian Gibson was an English film and television director.
1947
Jo Beverley
English-Canadian author (died 2016)
Mary Josephine Beverley was a prolific English-Canadian writer of historical and contemporary romance novels from 1988 to 2016.
1947
1951
David Coverdale
English singer-songwriter
David Coverdale is a retired English singer and songwriter best known as the founder and lead singer of the hard rock band Whitesnake.
1951
Mike Graham
American wrestler and promoter (died 2012)
Edward Michael Gossett, better known as Mike Graham, was an American professional wrestler who was the son of Eddie Graham.
1952
Oliver Mtukudzi
Zimbabwean Afro-Jazz and 'tuku' singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2019)
Oliver "Tuku" Mtukudzi was a Zimbabwean musician, businessman, philanthropist, human rights activist and UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador for the Southern Africa Region.
1953
Ségolène Royal
French politician
Ségolène Royal is a French politician and member of the Socialist Party.
1957
Johnette Napolitano
American singer-songwriter and bass player
Johnette Napolitano is an American musician best known as the lead vocalist, songwriter, and bassist for the rock band Concrete Blonde.
1961
Michael Torke
American composer
Michael Torke is an American composer who writes music influenced by jazz and minimalism.
1964
Juha Turunen
Finnish lawyer and politician
The kidnapping of Minna Nurminen took place in Helsinki, Finland on 27 May 2009.
1964
Ken Vandermark
American saxophonist and composer
Ken Vandermark is an American composer and reedist.
1965
Andrii Deshchytsia
Ukrainian politician and diplomat, Ukrainian Minister of Foreign Affairs
Andrii Bohdanovych Deshchytsia is a Ukrainian diplomat and politician.
1969
Nicole Bradtke
Australian tennis player and sportscaster
Nicole Bradtke is a retired professional tennis player from Australia.
1973
Stéfan Louw
South African tenor and producer
Stéfan Louw is a South African operatic tenor, regarded as one of South Africa's leading tenors. He has been performing opera since 1995.
1973
Yoo Chae-yeong
South Korean singer-songwriter and actress (died 2014)
Yoo Chae-yeong was a South Korean singer, actress, and radio host.
1974
Jenn Colella
American actress and singer
Jennifer Lin Colella is an American actress and singer. She is best known for her work in musical theatre.
1974
Kostas Kaiafas
Cypriot footballer and manager
Kostas Kaiafas is a Cypriot former football player and manager.
1975
Mireille Enos
American actress
Mireille Enos is an American actress known for the lead role as homicide detective Sarah Linden in the drama series The Killing.
1976
David Berkeley
American singer-songwriter and guitarist
David Berkeley is an American singer and songwriter.
1978
Harry Kewell
Australian footballer and coach
Harry Kewell is an Australian soccer manager and former professional player who is currently the head coach of V.League 1 club Hanoi FC.
1981
1981
Janne Niskala
Finnish ice hockey player
Janne Juhani Niskala is a Finnish former professional ice hockey defenceman. He last played for Lukko of the Finnish Liiga.
1982
Maarten Stekelenburg
Dutch footballer
Maarten Stekelenburg is a Dutch former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper.
1985
Ibragim Todashev
Russian-American mixed martial artist (died 2013)
Ibragim Abdulbakievich Todashev was a Chechen-born former mixed martial artist, former amateur boxer and friend of Boston Marathon bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev.
1989
Sabine Lisicki
German tennis player
Sabine Katharina Lisicki is a German inactive professional tennis player.
2000
Louise Christie
British rhythm gymnast
Louise Christie is a British retired rhythmic gymnast. She is the 2022 Commonwealth Games silver medalist with ribbon.
2009
Coco Yoshizawa
Japanese skateboarder
Coco Yoshizawa is a Japanese skateboarder. She competed at the 2024 Summer Olympics and won the gold medal in the women's street event.