Did you know about Linda McCartney
Linda Louise, Lady McCartney was an American photographer, musician, cookbook author, and activist.
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September 24 has 238 recorded notable births across history, from 15 to 2003. This page lists every one of them, with the best-known people first.
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Did you know about Joe Locke
In 2024, he starred as Billy Maximoff / William Kaplan in the Marvel Cinematic Universe miniseries Agatha All Along and as Tobias Ragg in a Broadway revival of the musical Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street.
Did you know about F. Scott Fitzgerald
F. Scott Fitzgerald is most notable for his novels depicting the flamboyance and excess of the Jazz Age, a term that he popularized in his short story collection Tales of the Jazz Age.
Did you know about Phil Hartman
In 1975, Hartman joined the comedy group the Groundlings, where he helped Paul Reubens develop his character Pee-wee Herman.
Did you know about Harriet Walter
Harriet Walter is known for her role as Natalie Chandler in the ITV drama series Law & Order: UK from 2009 to 2014, and in the Hollywood blockbuster Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015), among other film and television roles.
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Notable people are ranked by substantive profile depth and public notability.
2003
Joe Locke
Manx actor
Joseph William Locke is a Manx actor. He is known for his lead role as high school student Charlie Spring in the Netflix teen series Heartstopper (2022–2024) and its series finale film Heartstopper Forever (2026), for which he received two Children's and Family Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Performance nominations, winning on the second nomination in 2025. In 2024, he starred as Billy Maximoff / William Kaplan in the Marvel Cinematic Universe miniseries Agatha All Along and as Tobias Ragg in a Broadway revival of the musical Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street.
1896
F. Scott Fitzgerald
American novelist and short story writer (died 1940)
Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald, widely known as F. Scott Fitzgerald or simply Scott Fitzgerald, was an American novelist, essayist, and short story writer. He is most notable for his novels depicting the flamboyance and excess of the Jazz Age, a term that he popularized in his short story collection Tales of the Jazz Age. He published four novels, four story collections, and 164 short stories. He achieved transient success and fortune in the 1920s, but did not receive critical acclaim until after his death. He is now widely regarded as one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century.
1948
Phil Hartman
Canadian-American actor and screenwriter (died 1998)
Philip Edward Hartman was a Canadian and American comedian, actor, screenwriter, and graphic designer. Hartman was born in Brantford, Ontario, and his family moved to the United States when he was ten years old. He completed a BA at California State University, Northridge, and designed album covers for bands including Poco and America. In 1975, Hartman joined the comedy group the Groundlings, where he helped Paul Reubens develop his character Pee-wee Herman. Hartman co-wrote the film Pee-wee's Big Adventure and made recurring appearances as Captain Carl on Reubens' show Pee-wee's Playhouse.
1950
Harriet Walter
English actress
Dame Harriet Mary Walter is an English actor of stage and screen. She is known for her role as Natalie Chandler in the ITV drama series Law & Order: UK from 2009 to 2014, and in the Hollywood blockbuster Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015), among other film and television roles.
1998
Nikolas Cruz
American mass murderer
Nikolas Jacob Cruz is an American mass shooter who perpetrated the Parkland high school shooting, one of the deadliest school shootings in the United States. On February 14, 2018, Cruz killed seventeen people, including fourteen students and three staff members, while injuring seventeen others, at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. In November 2022, Cruz was sentenced to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole. It remains the deadliest high school shooting by a lone shooter in the United States.
1936
Jim Henson
American puppeteer, director, producer, and screenwriter, created The Muppets (died 1990)
James Maury Henson was an American puppeteer and filmmaker who achieved worldwide notability as the creator of the Muppets. Henson was also well known for creating Fraggle Rock (1983–1987) and directing The Dark Crystal (1982) and Labyrinth (1986), as well as creating the Muppets for Sesame Street (1969–present).
1993
Ben Platt
American actor, singer, and songwriter
Benjamin Schiff Platt is an American actor and singer. The son of film and theater producer Marc Platt and philanthropist Julie Platt, he began his acting career in musical theater as a child and appeared in productions of The Sound of Music (2006) and The Book of Mormon (2012–2015), rising to prominence for originating the title role in the Broadway coming-of-age musical Dear Evan Hansen (2015–2017). His performance in the latter earned him multiple accolades, including the Tony Award for Best Leading Actor in a Musical, a Daytime Emmy, and a Grammy Award. Platt reprised the role of Evan Hansen in the 2021 film adaptation of the musical, produced by his father. His portrayal of Leo Frank in the 2023 Broadway revival of Parade earned him nominations for a Tony and a Grammy.
1970
Mario Cristobal
American college football coach
Mario Manuel Cristobal is an American college football coach who is the head football coach for the University of Miami. He previously served as the head football coach at Florida International University (FIU) from 2007 to 2012 and the University of Oregon from 2017 to 2021. He was an all-conference offensive tackle on the Miami Hurricanes football team that won national championships in 1989 and 1991.
1958
Kevin Sorbo
American actor and producer
Kevin David Sorbo is an American actor, director and producer. He has had starring roles in two television series: as Hercules in Hercules: The Legendary Journeys (1995–1999) and as Captain Dylan Hunt in Andromeda (2000–2005). Sorbo played his first leading film role in the 1997 fantasy film Kull the Conqueror. Sorbo is also known for acting in Christian films, such as God's Not Dead (2014) and Let There Be Light (2017).
1966
Rajesh Khattar
Indian voice actor
Rajesh Khattar is an Indian actor, voice artist and screenwriter who works in Hindi films. He was married to Neelima Azeem and is the father of actor Ishaan Khattar and step father of Shahid Kapoor.
1911
Konstantin Chernenko
Soviet politician, General Secretary of the Communist Party and de facto leader of the USSR (died 1985)
Konstantin Ustinovich Chernenko was a Soviet politician who served as the de jure leader of the Soviet Union from February 1984 until his death in March 1985.
1976
Stephanie McMahon
American wrestler and businesswoman
Stephanie Marie McMahon Levesque is an American businesswoman and retired professional wrestler. She is known for her various roles within WWE between 1998 and 2023.
1931
Anthony Newley
English singer and actor (died 1999)
Anthony Newley was an English actor, director, comedian, singer, and composer. A "latter-day British Al Jolson", he achieved widespread success in song, and on stage and screen. "One of Broadway's greatest leading men", from 1959 to 1962 he scored a dozen entries on the UK Singles Chart, including two number one hits. Newley won the 1963 Grammy Award for Song of the Year for "What Kind of Fool Am I?", sung by Sammy Davis Jr., and wrote "Feeling Good", which became a signature hit for Nina Simone. His songs have been sung by a wide variety of singers including Fiona Apple, Tony Bennett, Barbra Streisand, Michael Bublé, and Mariah Carey.
1987
Spencer Treat Clark
American actor
Spencer Treat Clark is an American actor. He rose to prominence for his roles in the 2000 films Gladiator and Unbreakable. He has since appeared in the films Mystic River (2003), The Last House on the Left (2009), Much Ado About Nothing (2012), and the Unbreakable sequel Glass (2019).
1973
Eddie George
American football player and sportscaster
Edward Nathan George Jr. is an American football coach and former running back who is currently the head coach at Bowling Green State University. He previously served as the head coach of the Tennessee State University from 2021 to 2024. George played college football for Ohio State University from 1992 to 1995. He played professionally in the National Football League (NFL) for nine seasons from 1996 to 2004, primarily for the Tennessee Titans franchise.
1625
Johan de Witt
Dutch mathematician and politician (died 1672)
Johan de Witt was a Dutch statesman and mathematician who was a major political figure during the First Stadtholderless Period, when flourishing global trade in a period of rapid European colonial expansion made the Dutch a leading trading and seafaring power in Europe, commonly referred to as the Dutch Golden Age. De Witt was elected Grand Pensionary of Holland, and together with his uncle Cornelis de Graeff, he controlled the Dutch political system from around 1650 until the Rampjaar of 1672. This progressive cooperation between the two statesmen, and the consequent support of Amsterdam under the rule of De Graeff, was an important political axis that organized the political system within the republic.
1990
Vontaze Burfict
American football player
Vontaze DeLeon Burfict Jr. is an American former professional football player who was a linebacker in the National Football League (NFL) for eight seasons, primarily with the Cincinnati Bengals. He played college football for the Arizona State Sun Devils, earning first-team All-American honors in 2010. Burfict was a projected top pick in the 2012 NFL draft until an unimpressive NFL Combine performance and character concerns led to him not being selected. He was signed as an undrafted free agent by the Bengals, where he spent his first seven seasons. In his final season, he was a member of the Oakland Raiders.
1969
Shawn Crahan
American drummer, songwriter, and producer
Michael Shawn Crahan, more commonly known by his stage persona "Clown", is an American musician. He is the co-founder and percussionist of the alternative metal band Slipknot, in which he is designated #6. He helped form Slipknot in 1995 alongside bassist Paul Gray and former vocalist Anders Colsefni. Crahan is the longest-serving member of the band, and also has extensive involvement with Slipknot's media production and music videos. Outside Slipknot, Crahan had two side project bands called To My Surprise and Dirty Little Rabbits. Aside from his musical activity, he also directed the 2016 action thriller film Officer Downe.
1755
John Marshall
American Continental Army officer, jurist, and politician, 4th Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court (died 1835)
John Marshall was an American statesman, jurist, and Founding Father who served as the fourth chief justice of the United States from 1801 until his death in 1835. He remains the longest-serving chief justice and fifth-longest-serving justice in the history of the U.S. Supreme Court, and he is widely regarded as one of the most influential justices ever to serve. Prior to joining the court, Marshall briefly served as both the U.S. secretary of state under President John Adams and a U.S. representative from Virginia, making him one of the few Americans to have held a constitutional office in each of the three branches of the United States federal government.
1962
Nia Vardalos
Canadian-American actress and screenwriter
Antonia Eugenia "Nia" Vardalos is a Canadian actress and screenwriter. She starred in and wrote the romantic comedy film My Big Fat Greek Wedding (2002), which garnered her nominations for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay and the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Comedy or Musical, and which went on to spawn a media franchise.
1997
Tosin Adarabioyo
English footballer
Abdul-Nasir Oluwatosin Oluwadoyinsolami Adarabioyo, sometimes known mononymously as Tosin, is an English professional footballer who plays as a centre-back for Premier League club Tottenham Hotspur.
1946
Joe Greene
American football player, coach, and actor
Charles Edward Greene, better known as "Mean" Joe Greene, is an American former professional football player who was a defensive tackle for the Pittsburgh Steelers of the National Football League (NFL) from 1969 to 1981. A recipient of two NFL Defensive Player of the Year awards, five first-team All-Pro selections, and ten Pro Bowl appearances, Greene is widely considered to be one of the greatest defensive linemen to play in the NFL. He was noted for his leadership, fierce competitiveness, and intimidating style of play for which he earned his nickname.
1952
Mark Sandman
American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (died 1999)
Mark Sandman was an American singer, songwriter, musical instrument inventor, multi-instrumentalist and comic writer. He was a longtime fixture in the Boston/Cambridge music scene, best known as the lead singer and slide bass player of the band Morphine. He was known for his distinctive, deep bass-baritone voice. Sandman was also a member of the blues-rock band Treat Her Right and founder of Hi-n-Dry, a recording studio and independent record label.
1564
William Adams
English sailor and navigator (died 1620)
William Adams, better known in Japan as Miura Anjin , was an English navigator who, in 1600, became the first Englishman to reach Japan. He was later granted hatamoto status, and was recognised as one of the most influential foreigners in Japan during the early 17th century.
1920
Richard Bong
American soldier and pilot, Medal of Honor recipient (died 1945)
Richard Ira "Dick" Bong was a United States Army Air Forces officer and Medal of Honor recipient in World War II. He was one of the most decorated American fighter pilots and the country's top flying ace in the war, credited with shooting down 40 Japanese aircraft, all with the Lockheed P-38 Lightning. He died in California while testing a Lockheed P-80 jet fighter shortly before the war ended. Bong was posthumously inducted into the National Aviation Hall of Fame in 1986 and has several commemorative monuments named in his honor around the world, including an airport, two bridges, a theater, a veterans historical center, a recreation area, a neighborhood terrace, and several avenues and streets, including the street leading to the National Museum of the United States Air Force in Dayton, Ohio.
1965
Robert Irvine
English chef and television host
Robert Paul Irvine is an English-American celebrity chef and talk show host who has appeared on and hosted a variety of Food Network programs including Dinner: Impossible, Worst Cooks in America, Restaurant: Impossible, A Hero's Welcome, Operation Restaurant, All-Star Academy, Guy's Grocery Games, Chopped: Impossible, and Restaurant Express. Irvine currently operates one restaurant, Fresh Kitchen by Robert Irvine, located within The Pentagon. He also operated Robert Irvine's Public House at the Tropicana resort in Las Vegas, Nevada from 2017 until the closure of the Tropicana in 2024. Irvine launched The Robert Irvine Show, a daytime talk show which aired weekdays on The CW between 12 September 2016 and 25 May 2018.
1918
Audra Lindley
American actress (died 1997)
Audra Lindley was an American actress, most famous for her role as landlady Helen Roper on the sitcom Three's Company and its spin-off The Ropers.
1976
Ian Bohen
American actor
Ian Stuart Bohen is an American actor known for his role as Peter Hale in MTV's Teen Wolf and as Ryan in Paramount Network's drama series Yellowstone. Bohen also appeared in a recurring role as Roy Hazelitt in AMC's series Mad Men.
1534
Guru Ram Das
fourth Sikh Guru (died 1581)
Guru Ram Das, sometimes spelled as Guru Ramdas, was the fourth of the ten Sikh gurus. He was born to a family based in Lahore. His birth name was Jetha, and he was orphaned at age seven; he thereafter grew up with his maternal grandmother in a village.
1725
Arthur Guinness
Irish brewer and founder of the Guinness brewery (died 1803)
Arthur Guinness was an Irish brewer, entrepreneur, and philanthropist. The inventor of Guinness stout, he founded the Guinness Brewery at St. James's Gate in 1759.
1972
Kate Fleetwood
English actress
Kate Fleetwood is an English actress. She was nominated for a Tony Award for her performance as Lady Macbeth in Macbeth, at Chichester Festival Theatre, the West End, and Broadway. Additionally, she received an Olivier Award nomination in 2012 for her performance as Julie in London Road at the National Theatre. Her film and television credits include Vanity Fair (2004), Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1 (2010), Macbeth (2010), Philomena (2013), London Road (2015), Harlots (2017–2019), and The Wheel of Time (2021–2025).
1920
Ovadia Yosef
Iraqi-Israeli rabbi and scholar (died 2013)
Ovadia Yosef, also known as Maran, was an Iraqi-born Talmudic scholar, hakham, posek, and the Sephardi Chief Rabbi of Israel from 1972 to 1983. Often called a Gadol Yisrael, Yosef is regarded as one of the most influential Sephardic religious authorities of all time. He was also a founder and longtime spiritual leader of Israel's religious Shas party. Yosef's responsa were highly regarded in Haredi circles, particularly among Mizrahi communities, which considered him "the most important living halakhic authority".
1989
Pia Wurtzbach
Filipina actress, model, and beauty queen, Miss Universe 2015
Pia Alonzo Wurtzbach-Jauncey, formerly professionally known as Pia Romero, is a Filipino-German model, actress, and beauty queen best known for winning the title of Miss Universe 2015. Previously, Wurtzbach won Binibining Pilipinas in 2015. She became the first Filipina to win in four decades.
1986
Eloise Mumford
American actress
Eloise Mumford is an American actress known for her roles on the television series Lone Star, The River, The Right Stuff, and Cross. She appeared as Katherine "Kate" Kavanagh in the Fifty Shades of Grey film series.
1961
John Logan
American screenwriter and producer
John David Logan is an American playwright, screenwriter, and producer. His film work includes Gladiator (2000), The Last Samurai (2003), Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007), The Aviator (2004), Hugo (2011), James Bond films Skyfall (2012) and Spectre (2015), and Michael (2026). He has won a Tony Award, a WGA award and has been nominated for three Academy Awards and three British Academy Film Awards.
1950
Mohinder Amarnath
Indian cricketer, coach, and sportscaster
Mohinder Amarnath Bhardwaj is a former Indian cricketer and cricket analyst. He is the son of Lala Amarnath, the first post-independence captain of India. Mohinder was the vice captain of the Indian team that won the 1983 Cricket World Cup, where he was the player of the final. He was also a part of the Indian squad which won the 1985 World Championship of Cricket.
1583
Albrecht von Wallenstein
Bohemian general (died 1634)
Albrecht Wenzel Eusebius von Wallenstein, Duke of Friedland, also von Waldstein, was a Bohemian military leader, statesman and a major figure of the Thirty Years' War, fighting on the Catholic side as supreme commander of the armies of Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand II. His successful martial career made him one of the richest and most influential men in the Holy Roman Empire by the time of his death. He is considered one of the most important military leaders produced by the early modern period.
1884
İsmet İnönü
Turkish general and politician, 2nd President of Turkey (died 1973)
Mustafa İsmet İnönü was a Turkish politician and military officer who served as the president of Turkey from 1938 to 1950, and as its prime minister three times: from 1923 to 1924, 1925 to 1937, and 1961 to 1965.
1880
Sarah Knauss
American super-centenarian, oldest verified American person ever (died 1999)
Sarah DeRemer Knauss was an American supercentenarian. She is the oldest person ever from the United States and, on April 16, 1998, became the world's oldest living person. She is the third-oldest verified person ever, living to the age of 119 years and 97 days. Her birthdate has been independently verified through numerous census and other records.
1993
Sonya Deville
American athlete
Daria Rae Berenato is an American former professional wrestler and mixed martial artist. She is signed to Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA), where she performs under the ring name Daria Rae and is the on-screen Director of Operations. She is best known for her ten-year tenure with WWE, where she performed under the ring name Sonya Deville is a former one-time WWE Women's Tag Team Champion.
1930
John W. Young
American captain, engineer, and astronaut (died 2018)
John Watts Young was an American astronaut, naval officer and aviator, test pilot, and aeronautical engineer. He became the ninth person to walk on the Moon as commander of the Apollo 16 mission in 1972.
1954
Ashton B. Carter
American military civilian official (Secretary of Defense, 2015-17), and academic administrator
Ashton Baldwin Carter was an American government official and academic who served as the 25th United States secretary of defense from February 2015 to January 2017. He later served as director of the Belfer Center for Science & International Affairs at Harvard Kennedy School.
1945
John Rutter
English composer, conductor, and producer
Sir John Milford Rutter is an English composer, conductor, editor, arranger, and record producer, mainly of choral music. He founded the Cambridge Singers who premiered and recorded many of his works for his own label Collegium Records. His compositions, extended pieces for choir and orchestra, such as Requiem and Magnificat, and many choral works including For the beauty of the earth, Christmas Carol and A Clare Benediction, are popular, especially in the UK and the United States. He is known for Christmas carols, in both arrangements of traditional melodies and new compositions, and Carols for Choirs anthology series compiled with David Willcocks.
1959
Steve Whitmire
American puppeteer
Steven Lawrence Whitmire is an American puppeteer, known primarily for his work with the Jim Henson Company, Sesame Workshop, and the Muppets Studio. Beginning his involvement with the Muppets in 1978, Whitmire originated the roles of Rizzo the Rat, Lips, Wembley Fraggle, and Bean Bunny. He also inherited the roles of Kermit the Frog and Ernie after Jim Henson's death in 1990; he performed the characters until 2016 and 2014, respectively. In later years, he also performed Statler and Beaker.
1971
Kevin Millar
American baseball player and sportscaster
Kevin Charles Millar is an American former professional baseball first baseman and outfielder who played in Major League Baseball (MLB) and is a current analyst for MLB Network and NESN. He played in MLB for the Florida Marlins, Boston Red Sox, Baltimore Orioles, and Toronto Blue Jays from 1998 through 2009. He is currently a host along with Siera Santos and Ryan Dempster on the MLB Network show Intentional Talk, and the show's companion audio podcast Intentional Talk: Caught Listening.
1981
Drew Gooden
American basketball player
Andrew Melvin Gooden III is an American former professional basketball player who is currently a broadcaster for Monumental Sports Network. The power forward played 14 seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA). Gooden played college basketball for the Kansas Jayhawks, where he was a consensus first-team All-American in 2002. He earned NBA All-Rookie First Team honors with the Memphis Grizzlies after they selected him in the first round of the 2002 NBA draft with the fourth overall pick.
1969
Megan Ward
American actress
Megan Ward is an American actress. She is best known for her numerous credits in science fiction and horror movies and television series. In 2007, she joined the cast of the American daytime drama General Hospital as Kate Howard. She also appeared in the 1990s comedies Encino Man, Freaked, PCU, The Brady Bunch Movie, and Joe's Apartment.
1942
Gerry Marsden
English singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2021)
Gerard Marsden MBE was an English singer-songwriter, musician and television personality, best known for being leader of the Merseybeat band Gerry and the Pacemakers. He was the younger brother of fellow band member Freddie Marsden.
1927
Arthur Malet
English-American actor and singer (died 2013)
Vivian Arthur Rivers Malet was an English actor. He was known for his films Mary Poppins (1964), Halloween (1978), The Secret of NIMH (1982), and Hook (1991). His last film role was The Secret of NIMH 2: Timmy to the Rescue (1998), in which he voiced Mr. Ages.
1987
Grey Damon
American actor
Grey Damon is an American actor, known for his roles in Friday Night Lights, The Nine Lives of Chloe King and Station 19. He resides in Los Angeles. Beginning with its premiere in May 2015, Damon co-starred with David Duchovny on the NBC series Aquarius.
1941
John Mackey
American football player (died 2011)
John Mackey was an American professional football player who was a tight end for the Baltimore Colts and the San Diego Chargers. He was born in Roosevelt, New York, and attended Syracuse University. He was the first president of the National Football League Players Association (NFLPA) following the AFL-NFL merger, serving from 1970 to 1973. Mackey was also a major reason the NFLPA created the "88 Plan", which financially supports ex-players who required living assistance in later years.
1959
Theo Paphitis
Cypriot-English businessman
Theodoros Paphitis is a Greek-Cypriot British retail magnate and entrepreneur. He is best known for his appearances on the BBC business programme Dragons' Den and as former chairman of Millwall Football Club.
1939
Jacques Vallée
French ufologist
Jacques Fabrice Vallée is a French Internet pioneer, computer scientist, venture capitalist, author, ufologist and astronomer currently residing in San Francisco, California and Paris, France.
1980
Victoria Pendleton
English cyclist
Victoria Louise Pendleton is a British former track cyclist who specialised in the sprint, team sprint and keirin disciplines. She is a former Olympic, World, European and Commonwealth champion. She won three Olympic medals—two golds and one silver—during her career.
1964
Rafael Palmeiro
Cuban-American baseball player
Rafael Palmeiro Corrales is a Cuban-American former professional baseball first baseman and left fielder. He played 20 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) for three teams. Palmeiro was an All-American at Mississippi State University before being drafted by the Chicago Cubs in 1985. He played for the Cubs (1986–1988), Texas Rangers, and the Baltimore Orioles.
1966
Stefan Molyneux
Irish-Canadian philosopher, author, and blogger
Stefan Basil Molyneux is an Irish-born Canadian white nationalist vlogger and proponent of conspiracy theories, white supremacy, scientific racism, and the men's rights movement. He is the founder of the Freedomain Radio website. Multiple sources describe the Freedomain internet community as a cult, referring to the indoctrination techniques Molyneux has used as its leader.
1944
Victoria Vetri
Playboy's 1967 Miss September and 1968 Playmate of the Year.
Victoria Cecilia Vetri is an American model and actress, she was named as Playmate of the Month for September 1967 and was later named 1968's Playmate of the Year.
1883
Franklin Clarence Mars
American businessman, founded Mars, Incorporated (died 1934)
Franklin Clarence Mars was an American business magnate who founded the food company Mars Inc., which mostly makes chocolate candy. Mars' son Forrest Mars developed M&M's and the Mars bar and founded the Ethel M Chocolate Factory.
1970
Marc Guggenheim
American screenwriter, television producer, comic book writer, and novelist
Marc Guggenheim is an American screenwriter, television producer, comic book writer, and novelist. He is best known as the creator of the television series Eli Stone (2008–2009), Arrow (2012–2020), and Legends of Tomorrow (2016–2022), executive producer of the animated series Tales of Arcadia (2016–2021), as well as the writer of the feature films Green Lantern (2011) and Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters (2013).
1922
Theresa Merritt
American actress and singer (died 1998)
Theresa Merritt Hines, known professionally as Theresa Merritt, was an American actress. She is known for her role in That's My Mama (1974–1975) and for her film roles in The Wiz (1978) and Billy Madison (1995).
1965
Janet Weiss
American drummer
Janet Lee Weiss is an American rock drummer, a member of Quasi and former member of Sleater-Kinney. She was the drummer for Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks, leaving after the album Mirror Traffic, and contributed to the Shins' fourth studio album, Port of Morrow (2012). She was also the drummer for the supergroup Wild Flag.
2002
Gaeul
South Korean singer, rapper, and dancer
Kim Ga-eul, known mononymously as Gaeul, is a South Korean singer, rapper, and dancer. She is a member of the South Korean girl group Ive under Starship Entertainment.
1945
Lou Dobbs
American journalist and author (died 2024)
Louis Carl Dobbs was an American conservative political commentator, author, and television host who presented Moneyline from 1980 to 2009 and 2011 to 2021. From 2021 until his death, he hosted The Great America Show on iHeartRadio and loudobbs.com.
1893
Blind Lemon Jefferson
American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 1929)
Lemon Henry "Blind Lemon" Jefferson was an American blues and gospel singer-songwriter and musician. He was one of the most popular and successful blues singers of the 1920s and has been called the "Father of the Texas blues".
1954
Marco Tardelli
Italian footballer and coach
Marco Tardelli is an Italian former football player and manager. At club level, he played as a midfielder for several Italian clubs; he began his career with Pisa, and later played for Como, Juventus, and Inter Milan, before retiring with Swiss club St. Gallen. He enjoyed a highly successful career with Juventus, winning five league titles, as well as multiple Coppa Italia titles, and four major UEFA competitions, becoming one of the first three players ever to win all three major UEFA club competitions, along with Italy and Juventus teammates Antonio Cabrini and Gaetano Scirea.
1963
Michael Potter
Australian rugby player and coach
Michael Potter is an Australian professional rugby league football coach who is the head coach of Fiji at international level, and a former professional rugby league footballer. He was previously head coach of Super League clubs, the Catalans Dragons, St Helens, the Bradford Bulls and NRL club the Wests Tigers. As a player, he was a New South Wales State of Origin representative fullback, playing his club football for the Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs, the St George Dragons and the Western Reds. He currently works as an assistant coach for the Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs.
1501
Gerolamo Cardano
Italian mathematician, physician, and astrologer (died 1576)
Gerolamo Cardano was an Italian polymath whose interests and proficiencies ranged through those of mathematician, physician, biologist, physicist, chemist, astrologer, astronomer, philosopher, music theorist, writer, and gambler. He became one of the most influential mathematicians of the Renaissance and one of the key figures in the foundation of probability; he introduced the binomial coefficients and the binomial theorem in the Western world. He wrote more than 200 works on science.
1894
Billy Bletcher
American actor, singer, and screenwriter (died 1979)
William "Billy" Bletcher was an American actor. He was known for his prolific voice acting career for cartoons during the golden age of American animation, most notably Pete in Walt Disney Productions' Mickey Mouse short films and the Big Bad Wolf in Three Little Pigs. He also voiced various miscellaneous characters in cartoons from other studios, as well as Spike in various Tom and Jerry shorts.
1962
Mike Phelan
English footballer, coach, and manager
Michael Christopher Phelan is an English professional football coach and former player who was most recently assistant head coach for EFL Championship club Plymouth Argyle.
1861
Bhikaiji Cama
Indian activist (died 1936)
Bhikhaiji Rustom Cama, also known as Madam Cama, was one of the prominent figures in the Indian independence movement. She unfurled one of the earliest versions of the flag of independent India on August 22, 1907, and she was the first person to hoist an Indian flag in a foreign nation, at the International Socialist Conference at Stuttgart.
1898
Howard Florey
Australian pharmacologist and pathologist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1968)
Howard Walter Florey, Baron Florey of Adelaide and Marston was an Australian pharmacologist and pathologist who shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1945 with Ernst Chain and Sir Alexander Fleming "for the discovery of penicillin and its curative effect in various infectious diseases".
1948
Gordon Clapp
American actor
Gordon Clapp is an American actor best known for playing Det. Greg Medavoy for all 12 seasons of the television series NYPD Blue, winning an Emmy Award in 1998.
1977
Kabeer Gbaja-Biamila
American football player
Muhammed-Kabeer Olarewaju Gbajabiamila Sr., nicknamed "KGB", is a Nigerian-American former professional football player who spent his entire nine-year career as a defensive end for the Green Bay Packers of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the San Diego State Aztecs. He was selected by Green Bay in the fifth round of the 2000 NFL draft. He was a Pro Bowl selection in 2003.
1988
Kyle Sullivan
American actor
Kyle Sullivan is an American former child actor, known for appearing on the Nickelodeon TV series All That and the Fox sitcom The War at Home.
1979
Fábio Aurélio
Brazilian footballer
Fábio Aurélio Rodrigues is a Brazilian former professional footballer who played for São Paulo, Valencia, Liverpool and Grěmio. He played as either a left-back or left-winger and represented Brazil at under-17 and under-20 levels and at the 2000 Sydney Olympics.
1983
Liam Finn
Australian-New Zealand singer-songwriter and guitarist
Liam Mullane Finn is a New Zealand singer-songwriter. Born in Melbourne, Australia, he moved to New Zealand as a child. He is the son of musicians Sharon (Johnson) and Neil Finn. In 2020, he joined his father's band, Crowded House.
1979
Kim Jong-min
South Korean singer
Kim Jong-min is a South Korean singer, dancer and television personality. He has been a member of the co-ed vocal group Koyote since 2000 and a cast member of the variety show 2 Days & 1 Night since 2007.
1914
John Kerr
Australian politician, 18th Governor-General of Australia (died 1991)
Sir John Robert Kerr was an Australian barrister and judge who served as the 18th governor-general of Australia, in office from 1974 to 1977. He is primarily known for his involvement in the 1975 Australian constitutional crisis, which culminated in the dismissal of Prime Minister Gough Whitlam and the appointment of Malcolm Fraser as caretaker prime minister.
1982
Paul Hamm
American gymnast
Paul Elbert Hamm is an American retired artistic gymnast and member of the United States men's national artistic gymnastics team. He is the 2004 Olympic all-around champion, a three-time Olympic medalist, and the 2003 World all-around champion. Hamm is the most decorated U.S. male gymnast in history, one of only two American gymnasts to win the all-around title at both the Olympics and the World Championships, and the only male American gymnast to do so.
1969
Paul Ray Smith
American sergeant, Medal of Honor recipient (died 2003)
Paul Ray Smith was a United States Army soldier who was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for his actions during the 2003 invasion of Iraq. While serving with B Company, 11th Engineer Battalion, 3rd Infantry Division in Baghdad, his team was attacked by a group of Iraqi soldiers and after a firefight he was killed by Iraqi fire. For his actions during this battle he was awarded the Medal of Honor. Two years later, the medal, along with the newly approved Medal of Honor flag, were presented to his family on behalf of him; specifically to his eleven-year-old son, at a White House ceremony by President George W. Bush.
1473
Georg von Frundsberg
German Knight and landowner (died 1528)
Georg von Frundsberg was a German Knight, military, and Landsknecht leader in the service of the Holy Roman Empire and Imperial House of Habsburg. An early modern proponent of infantry tactics, he established his reputation in active service during the Italian Wars under Emperor Maximilian I and his successor Charles V. Even in his lifetime, he was referred to as "Vater der Landsknechte" and legends about him as the patriarchal figure of the Landsknechte or his incredible physical strength surfaced. He achieved great prestige and fame for his role in the Habsburg victory at Pavia against France and during the war of the League of Cognac.
1961
Christopher L. Eisgruber
American lawyer and academic
Christopher Ludwig Eisgruber is an American academic and legal scholar and the 20th president of Princeton University, where he is also the Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Public Affairs in the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs and the University Center for Human Values. He is also an expert on constitutional law, with an emphasis on separation of church and state and federal judicial appointments.
1923
Fats Navarro
American trumpet player and composer (died 1950)
Theodore "Fats" Navarro was an American jazz trumpet player and a pioneer of the bebop style of jazz improvisation in the 1940s. A native of Key West, Florida, he toured with big bands before achieving fame as a bebop trumpeter in New York. Following a series of studio sessions with leading bebop figures including Tadd Dameron, Bud Powell, and Kenny Clarke, he became ill with tuberculosis and died at the age of 26. Despite the short duration of his career, he had a strong stylistic influence on trumpet players who rose to fame in later decades, including Miles Davis, Clifford Brown and Lee Morgan.
1922
John Moffatt
English actor and playwright (died 2012)
Albert John Moffatt was an English character actor and playwright, known for his portrayal of Hercule Poirot on BBC Radio in twenty-five productions and for a wide range of stage roles in the West End from the 1950s to the 1980s.
1934
John Brunner
English-Scottish author and screenwriter (died 1995)
John Kilian Houston Brunner was a British author of science fiction novels and stories. His 1968 novel Stand on Zanzibar, about an overpopulated world, won the 1969 Hugo Award for best science fiction novel and the BSFA Award the same year. The Jagged Orbit won the BSFA Award in 1970. His first novel, Galactic Storm, was written under the pen-name Gill Hunt when he was seventeen. He did not start writing full-time until 1958, some years after his military service.
1905
Severo Ochoa
Spanish–American physician and biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1993)
Severo Ochoa de Albornoz was a Spanish-American physician and biochemist, and winner of the 1959 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine together with Arthur Kornberg for their discovery of "the mechanisms in the biological synthesis of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA)".
1899
Bessie Braddock
British politician (died 1970)
Elizabeth Margaret Braddock was a British Labour Party politician who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for the Liverpool Exchange division from 1945 to 1970. She was a member of Liverpool County Borough Council from 1930 to 1961. Although she never held office in government, she won a national reputation for her forthright campaigns in connection with housing, public health and other social issues.
1870
Georges Claude
French chemist and engineer, invented Neon lighting (died 1960)
Georges Claude was a French engineer and inventor. He is noted for his early work on the industrial liquefaction of air, for the invention and commercialization of neon lighting, and for a large experiment on generating energy by pumping cold seawater up from the depths. He has been considered by some to be "the Edison of France". The Claude process for manufacturing ammonia was named for him.
1922
Bert I. Gordon
American director, producer, and screenwriter (died 2023)
Bert Ira Gordon was an American film director, producer, screenwriter, and visual effects artist. He is best known for screenwriting and producing and/or directing science fiction and horror B-movies such as King Dinosaur (1955), The Amazing Colossal Man (1957), Earth vs. the Spider (1958), Village of the Giants (1965), The Food of the Gods (1976), and Empire of the Ants (1977).
1969
Christopher Pincher
English politician
Christopher John Pincher is a British former politician who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Tamworth from 2010 until his resignation in 2023. Pincher served as Government Deputy Chief Whip, and Treasurer of the Household from 2018 to 2019 and from February to June 2022.
1962
Ilgvars Zalāns
Latvian painter
Ilgvars Zalāns is a Latvian painter. He is generally identified as an Expressionist and is one of the most influential contemporary expressionist painters in northern Europe. In the course of his career he was influenced by Gutai group, Fluxus movement, and other modern art activists and has turned more to the scene of action-painting. He has stated that his artistic approach is guided by a focus on "images and motifs that are fundamental, archetypal, and universal in human experience, as opposed to those that are socially determined." Since 2007 Ilgvars Zalans had a 33-country world tour with his action-painting performances. In the past years he has actively taken the opportunities offered by artist residences, thereby traveling almost half of the world.
1946
Jerry Donahue
American guitarist and producer
Jerry Donahue is an American guitarist and producer primarily known for his work in the British folk rock scene as a member of Fotheringay and Fairport Convention as well as being a member of the rock guitar trio The Hellecasters.
1923
Raoul Bott
Hungarian-American mathematician (died 2005)
Raoul Bott was a Hungarian-American mathematician known for numerous foundational contributions to geometry in its broad sense. He is best known for his Bott periodicity theorem, the Morse–Bott functions which he used in this context, and the Borel–Bott–Weil theorem.
1931
Cardiss Collins
American lawyer and politician (died 2013)
Cardiss Hortense Collins was an American politician from Illinois who served in the United States House of Representatives from 1973 to 1997. A member of the Democratic Party, she was the fourth African-American woman in Congress and the first to represent the Midwest. Collins was elected to Congress in the June 5, 1973 special election to replace her husband, George, who had died in the December 8, 1972 United Airlines Flight 553 plane crash a month after being elected to a second term. The seat had been renumbered and combined from the 6th district to the 7th, and had been redrawn to include the Loop. She had previously worked as an accountant in various state government positions.
1936
Sivanthi Adithan
Indian businessman (died 2013)
Sivanthi Adityan was an Indian media proprietor who ran Tamil newspapers Daily Thanthi and Maalaimalar. Sivanthi started the first evening Tamil daily Maalai Murasu at Tirunelveli in 1959. He was an educationist, an industrialist and a philanthropist.
1983
Randy Foye
American basketball player
Randy Foye is an American former professional basketball player. He played collegiately at Villanova University. He was selected seventh overall in the 2006 NBA draft by the Boston Celtics, but was immediately traded to the Portland Trail Blazers, and later traded to the Minnesota Timberwolves where he began his career.
1944
Eavan Boland
Irish poet and academic (died 2020)
Eavan Aisling Boland was an Irish poet, author, and professor. She was a professor at Stanford University, where she had taught from 1996. Her work deals with the Irish national identity, and the role of women in Irish history. A number of poems from Boland's poetry career are studied by Irish students who take the Leaving Certificate. She was a recipient of the Lannan Literary Award for Poetry.
1930
Angelo Muscat
Maltese-English actor (died 1977)
Angelo Muscat was a Maltese-born British character actor. He is primarily remembered for his role as the silent butler in the 1967 television series The Prisoner.
1883
Lawson Robertson
Scottish-American high jumper and coach (died 1951)
Lawson N. "Robbie" Robertson was considered one of the more accomplished American track coaches of the first half of the twentieth century. From 1904 to 1936, he was with the American team at every Olympics with the exception of 1916 when the Olympics were cancelled due to WWI. He coached Track and Field for the Irish-American Athletic Club in Queens, New York from 1909–16, and then for the University of Pennsylvania from 1916-47. He was U.S. Olympic Assistant Track coach in 1912 and 1920 and was head coach for the American Track and Field Team in four Olympics from 1924-36.
1974
John McDonald
American baseball player
John Joseph McDonald is an American former professional baseball infielder. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Cleveland Indians, Toronto Blue Jays, Detroit Tigers, Arizona Diamondbacks, Pittsburgh Pirates, Philadelphia Phillies, Boston Red Sox, and Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim between 1999 and 2014. Primarily a shortstop, he was also a utility infielder, with the ability to also play second base, third base and left field. He also appeared in one extra inning game in 2013 as an emergency pitcher. Known for his defensive ability, he posted a career fielding percentage of .974 in over 6,450 innings.
1933
Mel Taylor
American drummer (died 1996)
Mel Taylor was an American musician who was the drummer for the Ventures from 1962 to 1996. He was born in Brownsville, Brooklyn, New York, and was the older brother of Canned Heat bassist Larry Taylor.
1972
Conor Burns
British politician
Sir Conor Burns is a British politician who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Bournemouth West from 2010 to 2024. A member of the Conservative Party, he served as Minister of State for Trade Policy from 2019 to 2020 and again in 2022 and Minister of State for Northern Ireland from 2021 to 2022.
1951
Douglas Kmiec
American scholar and diplomat, United States Ambassador to Malta
Douglas William Kmiec is an American legal scholar, author, and former U.S. ambassador. He is the Caruso Family Chair and Professor of Constitutional Law at Pepperdine University School of Law. Kmiec came to prominence during the 2008 United States presidential election when, although a Republican, he endorsed Democrat Barack Obama. In July 2009, he was nominated by President Obama to serve as U.S. Ambassador to Malta. He was confirmed by the Senate and served for close to two years as ambassador to Malta. He resigned his post effective May 31, 2011.
1980
Petri Pasanen
Finnish footballer
Petri Pasanen is a Finnish football coach, TV studio presenter and a former professional footballer who played as a defender. He was most comfortable as centre-back, but also played right-back and left-back as well. Pasanen began his senior career in his native Finland before moving to Ajax. He spent most of his career at Bundesliga club Werder Bremen which he represented in the UEFA Champions League in multiple seasons, and in the 2009 UEFA Cup Final. At international level, he made 76 appearances for the Finland national team scoring one goal.
1932
Miguel Montuori
Argentinian-Italian footballer and manager (died 1998)
Miguel Ángel Montuori was an Argentine and Italian footballer who played as a forward or attacking midfielder. He is regarded as one of Fiorentina's greatest players of all time, due to his technique, creativity, eye for goal, and playmaking ability. Despite his talent and success, he was also regarded as an "unfortunate" player, due to his many runner-up medals, and his injuries, which forced him to retire during the prime of his career. Born in Argentina, he played for the Italy national team at international level.
1956
Hubie Brooks
American baseball player
Hubert Brooks is an American former professional baseball right fielder, third baseman, and shortstop. He played 15 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) from 1980 to 1994 for the New York Mets, Montreal Expos, Los Angeles Dodgers, California Angels, and Kansas City Royals. Brooks was selected third overall in the 1978 Major League Baseball draft by the New York Mets and went on to play for five different teams over a 15-year career, and was twice named an All-Star. MLB pitcher Donnie Moore was Brooks' cousin.
1949
Baleka Mbete
South African politician, Speaker of the National Assembly of South Africa
Baleka Mbete is a South African politician who served as the 5th deputy president of South Africa from September 2008 to May 2009. She was also the Speaker of the National Assembly for two non-consecutive terms from 2004 to 2008 and from 2014 to 2019. She also served as Deputy Speaker between 1996 and 2004. A member of the African National Congress (ANC), she was first elected to the National Assembly in 1994 and stepped down from her seat in 2019.
1934
Manfred Wörner
German politician and diplomat, 7th Secretary General of NATO (died 1994)
Manfred Hermann Wörner was a German politician and diplomat. He served as the defence minister of West Germany between 1982 and 1988. He then served as the seventh secretary general of NATO from 1988 to 1994. His term as Secretary General saw the end of the Cold War and the German reunification. Whilst serving in that position, he was diagnosed with cancer, but, in spite of his illness, continued serving until his final days.
936
'Adud al-Dawla
Buyid king (died 983)
Fannā Khusraw, better known by his laqab of ʿAḍud al-Dawla was an emir of the Buyid dynasty, ruling from 949 to 983. At the height of his power, he ruled an empire stretching from Makran to Yemen and the shores of the Mediterranean Sea. He is widely regarded as the greatest monarch of the Buyid dynasty, and by the end of his reign he was the most powerful ruler in the Middle East.
1859
Julius Klengel
German cellist and composer (died 1933)
Julius Klengel was a German cellist who is most famous for his études and solo pieces written for the instrument. He was the brother of Paul Klengel. A member of the Gewandhausorchester of Leipzig at fifteen, he toured extensively throughout Europe as cellist and soloist of the Gewandhaus Quartet. His pupils include Guilhermina Suggia, Emanuel Feuermann, Gregor Piatigorsky and Alexandre Barjansky. See: List of music students by teacher: K to M#Julius Klengel.
1873
María de las Mercedes Adam de Aróstegui
Cuban pianist and composer (died 1957)
María Emma de las Mercedes Adam de Aróstegui was a Cuban pianist and composer who lived and worked in Spain. She was born in Camagüey, Cuba, and moved to Spain with her family when she was nine years old. She studied with Joaquin Zuazagoitia in Santiago de Compostela and continued her studies in the Conservatorio Real in Madrid. She studied with Louis Diemer and Jules Massenet in Paris and with Vincent d'Indy.
1946
César Pedroso
Cuban pianist and songwriter (died 2022)
César "Pupy" Pedroso was a Cuban pianist who became famous with Orquesta Revé and then as a founding member of Los Van Van. For many years, Pedroso wrote some of Van Van's most important songs such as "Calla Calla", "Tranquilo, Mota", "Seis Semanas", "El buenagente" and many others. In 2001, he founded his own band Pupy y Los que Son, Son. In 2006, he recorded four albums with his band.
1950
John Kessel
American author, poet, and playwright
John Joseph Vincent Kessel is an American author of science fiction and fantasy. He is a prolific short story writer, and the author of four solo novels, Good News From Outer Space (1989), Corrupting Dr. Nice (1997), The Moon and the Other (2017), and Pride and Prometheus (2018), and one novel, Freedom Beach (1985) in collaboration with his friend James Patrick Kelly. Kessel is married to author Therese Anne Fowler.
1949
Anders Arborelius
Swedish cardinal
Lars Anders Arborelius is a senior-ranking Swedish Catholic prelate who has served as Bishop of Stockholm since 1998. Pope Francis made him a cardinal, the first ever from Scandinavia, in 2017. He is a member of the Discalced Carmelites and was considered a candidate in the 2025 papal conclave.
1988
Steven Kampfer
American ice hockey player
Steven Allan Kampfer is an American former professional ice hockey defenseman. He was selected by the Anaheim Ducks of the National Hockey League (NHL) in the fourth round, 93rd overall, of the 2007 NHL entry draft. He played for the Boston Bruins, Minnesota Wild, Florida Panthers, and New York Rangers in the National Hockey League (NHL). Kampfer was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan, but grew up in Jackson, Michigan.
1982
Morgan Hamm
American gymnast
Morgan Carl Hamm is an American retired artistic gymnast and former member of the United States men's national artistic gymnastics team. He is an Olympic silver medalist in the team competition at the 2004 Olympics and a two-time Olympian. He was a member of the silver medal-winning team at the 2003 World Championships. Hamm was named to the 2008 Olympic team but withdrew from it due to injury.
1980
Dean Canto
Australian race car driver
Dean Justin Canto is a multiple-championship winning Australian motor racing driver. Best noted as a Supercars driver, Canto was the inaugural winner of the second-tier V8 Supercar development series in 2000, and the first to become a multiple-champion five years later. Canto has been a regular in the main Supercars Championship for a variety of teams racing both full-time and as a part-time endurance race co-driver.
1966
Christophe Bouchut
French race car driver
Christophe Joseph Marie Bouchut is a French professional racing driver. He currently competes in the NASCAR Whelen Euro Series, driving for Dexwet-df1 Racing and Alex Caffi Motorsport in a part-time effort. He won the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 1993. He was named as the first driver for the F1 Larrousse team for the 1995 season, but the team withdrew before the first race.
1885
Artur Lemba
Estonian pianist, composer, and educator (died 1963)
Artur Lemba was an Estonian composer and piano teacher, and one of the most important figures in Estonian classical music. Artur and his older brother Theodor (1876–1962) were the first professional pianists in Estonia to give concerts abroad. Artur's 1905 opera Sabina was the first opera composed by an Estonian. His Symphony No. 1 in 1908 was the first symphony composed by an Estonian.
1433
Shekha of Amarsar
Rajput chieftain (died 1488)
Maharao Shekha (1433–1488) was a 15th-century Rajput chieftain and the founder of the Shekhawati region in present-day Rajasthan, India. A member of the Kachhwaha dynasty of Amber, Shekha asserted his independence and established a principality centered at Amarsar around the mid-15th century. His descendants came to be known as the Shekhawats, one of the most prominent and influential sub-clans of the Kachhwahas.
1894
Tommy Armour
Scottish-American golfer and sportscaster (died 1968)
Thomas Dickson Armour was a Scottish-born golfer who played primarily in the United States. He was nicknamed The Silver Scot. He was the winner of three of golf's major championships: 1927 U.S. Open, 1930 PGA, and 1931 Open Championship. Armour popularized the term yips, the colloquial term for a sudden and unexplained loss of skills in experienced athletes.
1940
Yves Navarre
French author (died 1994)
Yves Navarre was a French writer. A gay man, most of his work concerned homosexuality and associated issues, such as AIDS. In his romantic works, Navarre was noted for his tendency to emphasize sensuality and "the mystical qualities of love" rather than sexuality or sensationalism. He was awarded the 1980 Prix Goncourt for his novel Le Jardin d'acclimatation.
1946
María Teresa Ruiz
Chilean astronomer
María Teresa Ruiz is a Chilean astronomer who was the first woman to receive Chile's National Prize for Exact Sciences, the first female recipient of a doctorate in astrophysics at Princeton University, and the first woman president of the Chilean Academy of Sciences. She is also known for the discovery of the brown dwarf Kelu-1.
1973
Gillian Lindsay
Scottish rower
Gillian Lindsay is a former Team GB Scottish rower. She won silver in the quadruple sculls at the 2000 Summer Olympics silver medalist, and two-time medal winner in the World Championships, taking silver in the double sculls in 1997 and gold in 1998. Since her retirement in 2001, she has focused on coaching and commentating.
1964
Marko Pomerants
Estonian lawyer and politician, Estonian Minister of the Interior
Marko Pomerants is an Estonian politician. He was the Minister of the Environment from 2015 to 2017. Previously, Pomerants served as the Minister of Social Affairs from 2003 to 2005 and as the Minister of the Interior from 2009 to 2012. Pomerants is a member of the Pro Patria and Res Publica Union.
1977
Casey Rabach
American football player
Casey Edward Rabach is an American former professional football player who was a center in the National Football League (NFL). He was selected by the Baltimore Ravens in the third round of the 2001 NFL draft, and also played professionally for the Washington Redskins. He played college football for the Wisconsin Badgers.
1914
Andrzej Panufnik
Polish pianist, composer, and conductor (died 1991)
Sir Andrzej Panufnik was a Polish and British composer and conductor. He became established as one of the leading Polish composers, and as a conductor he was instrumental in the re-establishment of the Warsaw Philharmonic orchestra after World War II. He also served as Principal Conductor of the Kraków Philharmonic Orchestra.
1801
Mikhail Ostrogradsky
Ukrainian-Russian mathematician and physicist (died 1862)
Mikhail Vasilyevich Ostrogradsky, also known as Mykhailo Vasyliovych Ostrohradskyi, was a Russian Imperial mathematician, mechanician, and physicist of Ukrainian Cossack ancestry. Ostrogradsky was a student of Timofei Osipovsky and is considered to be a disciple of Leonhard Euler, who was known as one of the leading mathematicians of Imperial Russia.
1890
Mike González
Cuban baseball player, coach, and manager (died 1977)
Miguel Ángel González Cordero was a Cuban catcher, coach and interim manager in Major League Baseball (MLB) during the first half of the 20th century. Along with Adolfo Luque, González was one of the first Cubans or Latin Americans to have a long career in the American major leagues.
1914
Esther Eng
Chinese-American film director (died 1970)
Esther Eng was an American film director and the first female director to direct Chinese-language films in the United States. Eng made four feature films in America, and five in Hong Kong. She was recognized as a female pioneer who crossed the boundaries of race, language, culture and gender.
1882
Max Decugis
French tennis player (died 1978)
Maxime Omer Mathieu Décugis, sometimes spellt Decugis was a French tennis player. He won the French Championships eight times. He also won three Olympic medals at the 1900 Paris Olympics and the 1920 Antwerp Olympics, with a gold medal in the mixed doubles partnering Suzanne Lenglen.
1884
Gustave Garrigou
French cyclist (died 1963)
Cyprien Gustave Garrigou was one of the best professional racing cyclists of his era. He rode the Tour de France eight times and won once. Of 117 stages, he won eight, came in the top ten 96 times and finished 65 times in the first five.
1939
Wayne Henderson
American trombonist and producer (died 2014)
Wayne Maurice Henderson was an American jazz fusion and soul jazz trombonist and record producer. In 1961, he co-founded the soul jazz/jazz fusion group The Jazz Crusaders. Henderson left the group in 1976 to pursue a career in producing, but revived The Jazz Crusaders in 1995.
1901
Alexandra Adler
Austrian neurologist and psychologist (died 2001)
Alexandra Adler was an Austrian-born neurologist and the daughter of psychoanalyst Alfred Adler and Raissa Adler. She has been described as one of the "leading systematizers and interpreters" of Adlerian psychology. Her sister was socialist activist Valentine Adler. Alexandra Adler's husband was Halfdan Gregersen.
1966
Bernard Gilkey
American baseball player
Otis Bernard Gilkey is an American former professional baseball left fielder. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the St. Louis Cardinals, New York Mets, Arizona Diamondbacks, Boston Red Sox, and Atlanta Braves. He is currently a coach for the Palm Beach Cardinals.
1986
Max Lercher
Austrian politician
Maximilian Lercher is an Austrian politician and former member of the National Council. A member of the Social Democratic Party, he represented Upper Styria from October 2019 to October 2024. He was a member of the Landtag Styria from October 2010 to September 2018.
1988
Karl Alzner
Canadian ice hockey player
Karl Alexander Alzner is a Canadian former professional ice hockey defenceman. He was selected in the first round, fifth overall, by the Washington Capitals of the National Hockey League (NHL) in the 2007 NHL entry draft, and has also played for the Montreal Canadiens.
1900
Ham Fisher
American cartoonist (died 1955)
Hammond Edward "Ham" Fisher was an American comic strip writer and cartoonist. He is best known for his long, popular run on Joe Palooka, which was launched in 1930 and ranked as one of the top five newspaper comics strips for several years.
1871
Lottie Dod
English tennis player, golfer, and archer (died 1960)
Charlotte Dod was an English multi-sport athlete, best known as a tennis player. She won the Wimbledon Ladies' Singles Championship five times, the first one when she was only 15 in the summer of 1887. She remains the youngest ladies' singles champion.
1933
Raffaele Farina
Italian cardinal
Raffaele Farina SDB is an Italian cardinal of the Catholic Church. He was Archivist of the Vatican Secret Archives, Librarian of the Vatican Library, and president of Scuola Vaticana di Paleografia, Diplomatica e Archivistica. Farina was elevated to the cardinalate in 2007.
1971
Mike Michalowicz
American businessman and author
Michael Michalowicz is an American business author and entrepreneur. He is the author of nine business books published by Penguin Random House, including All In (2023), Get Different (2021), Profit First (2017), The Pumpkin Plan (2012) and Clockwork Revised & Expanded (2022).
1705
Count Leopold Joseph von Daun
Austrian field marshal (died 1766)
Count Leopold Joseph von Daun, later Prince of Thiano, was an Austrian field marshal of the Imperial Army in the War of the Austrian Succession and Seven Years' War. Daun is considered one of the outstanding military leaders from his time.
1967
Noreena Hertz
English economist, author, and academic
Noreena Hertz is an English academic, economist and bestselling author, who sits on the boards of Mattel, Warner Music Group and Workhuman. She has been Honorary Professor at University College London since 2014 and is based at The UCL Policy Lab.
1892
Adélard Godbout
Canadian agronomist and politician, 15th Premier of Québec (died 1956)
Joseph-Adélard Godbout was a Canadian agronomist and politician. He served briefly as the 15th premier of Quebec in 1936 and again from 1939 to 1944. He was also leader of the Parti Libéral du Québec (PLQ) from 1936 to 1949.
1984
Bobby Brown
American basketball player
Robert Douglas Brown is an American former professional basketball player who is the director of player development for the Cal State Fullerton Titans men's basketball team. Standing at 6 ft 2 in (1.88 m), he played the point guard position.
1931
Mike Parkes
English race car driver (died 1977)
Michael Johnson Parkes was a British racing driver and engineer, who competed in Formula One at six Grands Prix from 1966 to 1967. In endurance racing, Parkes won the 12 Hours of Sebring in 1964 with Ferrari.
1418
Anne of Cyprus
Duchess of Savoy (probable; (died 1462)
Anne of Cyprus was a Duchess of Savoy by marriage to Louis, Duke of Savoy. She was the daughter of King Janus of Cyprus, and Charlotte of Bourbon; and a member of the Poitiers-Lusignan crusader dynasty.
1899
William Dobell
Australian painter (died 1970)
Sir William Dobell was an Australian portrait and landscape artist of the 20th century. Dobell won the Archibald Prize, Australia's premier award for portrait artists, on three occasions. The Dobell Prize is named in his honour.
1898
Charlotte Moore Sitterly
American astronomer (died 1990)
Charlotte Emma Moore Sitterly was an American astronomer. She is known for her extensive spectroscopic studies of the Sun and chemical elements. Her data tables are known for their reliability and are still used regularly.
1301
Ralph de Stafford
1st Earl of Stafford, English soldier (died 1372)
Ralph de Stafford, 1st Earl of Stafford, 2nd Baron Stafford, KG, of Stafford Castle and Madeley Castle in Staffordshire, was an English nobleman and a notable soldier during the Hundred Years' War against France.
1929
John Carter
American clarinet player, saxophonist, and flute player (died 1991)
John Wallace Carter was an American jazz clarinet, saxophone, and flute player. He is noted for the acclaimed Roots and Folklore series, a five-album concept album set inspired by African American life and experiences.
1932
Walter Wallmann
German politician, Minister-President of Hesse (died 2013)
Walter Wallmann was a German lawyer and politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU). He served as the Mayor of Frankfurt between 1977 and 1986, and as Minister-president of Hesse from 1987 to 1991.
1982
Jeff Karstens
American baseball player
Jeffrey Wayne Karstens is an American former right-handed starting pitcher in Major League Baseball (MLB). Karstens pitched for the New York Yankees in 2006 and 2007 and the Pittsburgh Pirates from 2008 to 2012.
1930
Józef Krupiński
Polish poet and author (died 1998)
Józef Krupiński was a Polish poet. He spent the last days of his life in Orzesze, Poland. Prizewinner of the Edward Stachura Award and member of the Association of Polish Writers in Katowice.
1980
Daniele Bennati
Italian cyclist
Daniele Bennati is an Italian former road racing cyclist, who rode professionally between 2002 and 2019 for the Acqua & Sapone–Cantina Tollo, De Nardi–Colpack, Phonak, Lampre–Fondital, Liquigas–Doimo, RadioShack–Nissan, Tinkoff and Movistar Team squads.
1931
Elizabeth Blackadder
Scottish painter and printmaker (died 2021)
Dame Elizabeth Violet Blackadder, Mrs Houston, was a Scottish painter and printmaker. She was the first woman to be elected to both the Royal Scottish Academy and the Royal Academy of Arts.
1965
Sean McNabb
American singer and bass player
Sean McNabb is an American actor and bassist. In 2015, he released his first solo music as a lead singer, "Fresh Air" and "America". Both are also featured in the film Rockstory.
1858
Eugene Foss
American businessman and politician, 45th Governor of Massachusetts (died 1939)
Eugene Noble Foss was an American politician and manufacturer from Massachusetts. He was a member of the United States House of Representatives and served as a three-term governor of Massachusetts.
1930
Jack Gaughan
American illustrator (died 1985)
John Brian Francis "Jack" Gaughan, pronounced like 'gone', was an American science fiction artist and illustrator and multiple winner of the Hugo Award in the category of Best Professional Artist.
1930
Benjamin Romualdez
Filipino politician and diplomat (died 2012)
Carlos Benjamin Orestes "Kokoy" Trinidad Romualdez was a Filipino politician who served as Governor of Leyte and later appointed as ambassador to the United States, China and Saudi Arabia.
1993
Liu Shiying
Chinese athlete
Liu Shiying is a Chinese athlete who competes in the javelin throw. She is the first Asian athlete to win an Olympic gold medal in women's javelin throw.
1796
Antoine-Louis Barye
French sculptor and educator (died 1875)
Antoine-Louis Barye was a Romantic French sculptor known for his work as an animalier, a sculptor of animals. His son and student was the sculptor Alfred Barye.
1890
A. P. Herbert
English author and playwright (died 1971)
Sir Alan Patrick Herbert CH, was an English humorist, novelist, playwright, law reformist, and, from 1935 to 1950, an independent Member of Parliament for Oxford University.
1960
Amy Sky
Canadian singer-songwriter, producer, and actress
Amy Sky is a Canadian singer-songwriter, record producer, theatre actress, and television host. Sky started classical music lessons at the age of five, and plays piano, guitar, cello and recorder. She has a degree from the University of Toronto in music theory and composition. In 1983, Sky was signed as a staff songwriter to MCA Music Nashville, and subsequently to Warner-Chappell Music in Los Angeles, EMI Music Los Angeles, and Warner-Chappell Music Germany. As a writer she has penned songs for many artists including Diana Ross, Anne Murray, Olivia Newton-John, Reba McEntire, Belinda Carlisle, Aaron Neville, Heart, Cyndi Lauper, Mark Masri, Roch Voisine, and Sheena Easton.
1993
Narelle Kheng
Singaporean singer, actress, and former national swimmer
Narelle Kheng Song Yi is a Singaporean singer, actress, and former national swimmer. She made her debut in the Singaporean band The Sam Willows in 2012.
1910
Jean Servais
Belgian-French actor (died 1976)
Jean Servais was a Belgian film and stage actor. He acted in many 20th century French cinema productions, from the 1930s through the early 1970s.
1983
Ben Harris
Australian rugby league player
Ben Harris is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer who played in the 2000s. He became the first player in the history of the sport to have won grand finals in each hemisphere in consecutive seasons. Harris played in the National Rugby League (NRL) for the Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs, with whom he won the 2004 premiership, and the North Queensland Cowboys. He also played in England for the Bradford Bulls, with whom he won 2005's Super League X. He played primarily as a centre.
1969
Shamim Sarif
English author, director, and screenwriter
Shamim Sarif is a British novelist, screenwriter, and film director of Indian South African heritage. Sarif is best known for her work in writing and directing films with themes that often explore issues of identity and cultural diversity.
1971
Michael S. Engel
American paleontologist and entomologist
Michael S. Engel, FLS, FRES is an American paleontologist and entomologist, notable for contributions to insect evolutionary biology and classification. In connection with his studies he has undertaken field expeditions in Central Asia, Asia Minor, the Levant, Arabia, eastern Africa, the high Arctic, and South and North America, and has published more than 925 papers in scientific journals. Some of Engel's research images were included in exhibitions on the aesthetic value of scientific imagery.
1976
Carlos Almeida
Angolan basketball player
Carlos Domingues Bendinha de Almeida is an Angolan professional basketball shooting guard and a member of the Angola national basketball team. He is 6 ft 4 in (1.93 m) in height and 91 kg in weight. Almeida played for Angola at the 2000 and the 2004 Summer Olympics, the 2002 and 2006 basketball world championship as well as the 2005, 2007 Africa championships and 2009 Africa championship.
1812
Mary Ann Browne
British poet and writer of musical scores (died 1845)
Mary Ann Browne was a prolific 19th-century English poet and writer of musical scores. She began publishing her verses at the age of fifteen, and her works include collections such as The Coronal and Sacred Poetry. In 1842, she married James Gray, a nephew of James Hogg. She was remembered for her piety and charitable nature.
1916
Ruth Leach Amonette
American businesswoman and author (died 2004)
Ruth Leach Amonette was an American businesswoman, author, and educator. She was appointed as the first female executive and vice president at IBM in 1943, becoming one of only a few women in high-ranking corporate positions in the US at the time. She was renowned nationally for her work in business and as an educator.
1906
Józef Nawrot
Polish footballer (died 1982)
Józef Nawrot was a Polish footballer who played as a striker. He was one of the top scorers in the Polish top division with over 100 goals. During his career, he played for WKS 1 PP Leg Wilno, Cracovia, Legia Warsaw and Polonia Warsaw. He appeared 19 times for his country, scoring 16 goals.
1948
Garth Porter
New Zealand-Australian singer-songwriter and producer
Garth Ivan Richard Porter is a New Zealand-born Australian multi-instrumental musician, songwriter and record producer. He was a member, on keyboards and backing vocals, of the pop group, Sherbet (1970–84), and co-wrote both of their number-one singles, "Summer Love" and "Howzat". Porter is a co-writer and producer for country music singer Lee Kernaghan.
1938
Steve Douglas
American saxophonist, flute player, and producer (died 1993)
Steven Douglas Kreisman was an American saxophonist and flautist. He was a member of the famed Los Angeles session musicians known as the Wrecking Crew. As a Los Angeles session musician, he worked with Phil Spector, Bob Dylan, Brian Wilson, The Beach Boys and Ry Cooder.
1966
Michael O. Varhola
American journalist and author
Michael O. Varhola is an author, publisher, and lecturer. He has written numerous books, games, and articles, and founded game development company and manufacturer Skirmisher Publishing LLC. He also served as the assistant editor of The Hilltop Reporter, a weekly newspaper located in Texas Hill Country.
1931
Brian Glanville
English journalist and author (died 2025)
Brian Lester Glanville was an English football writer and novelist. He was described by The Times as "the doyen of football writers—arguably the finest football writer of his—or any other—generation", and by American journalist Paul Zimmerman as "the greatest football writer of all time."
1907
Ben Oakland
American pianist, composer, and songwriter (died 1979)
Ben Oakland was an American composer, lyricist, and pianist, most active from the 1920s through the 1940s. He composed mainly for Broadway and vaudeville, though he also worked on several Hollywood scores including the score for the film My Little Chickadee.
1924
Voula Zouboulaki
Egyptian-Greek actress (died 2015)
Paraskevi "Voula" Zouboulaki was an Egyptian-born Greek actress. She was the wife of actor Dimitris Myrat. She attended the Dramatic School of the National Theatre, the School of the National Odeon and the Law School of the University of Athens.
1925
Autar Singh Paintal
Indian physiologist and academic (died 2004)
Autar Singh Paintal was an Indian medical scientist who made pioneering discoveries in the area of neurosciences and respiratory sciences. He is the first Indian Physiologist to become the Fellow of the Royal Society, London.
1829
Charles S. West
American jurist and politician, Secretary of State of Texas (died 1885)
Charles Shannon West was an American jurist and politician in the state of Texas, serving as a state representative, the Texas Secretary of State, and an Associate Justice of the Texas Supreme Court.
1912
Robert Lewis Taylor
American author (died 1998)
Robert Lewis Taylor was an American writer who won the 1959 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters. His writing has been adapted into a television series, film, and musical.
1978
Wietse van Alten
Dutch archer
Wietse Cornelis van Alten is a retired archer from the Netherlands. Van Alten was born in Zaandam, in the municipality of Zaanstad. He has competed in archery since the age of seven.
1920
Jan Carew
Guyanese-American author, poet, and playwright (died 2012)
Jan Rynveld Carew was a Guyana-born novelist, playwright, poet and educator, who lived at various times in The Netherlands, Mexico, the UK, France, Spain, Ghana, Jamaica, Canada and the United States.
1946
Lars Emil Johansen
Greenlandic educator and politician, 2nd Prime Minister of Greenland
Lars-Emil Johansen is a Greenlandic politician who served as the second prime minister of Greenland from 1991 to 1997, and Speaker of the Inatsisartut from 2013 to 2018.
1946
Pat Pocock
Welsh-English cricketer
Patrick Ian Pocock is a Welsh former cricketer, who played in 25 Test matches and one One Day International for the England cricket team between 1968 and 1985.
1924
Nina Bocharova
Ukrainian gymnast (died 2020)
Nina Antonovna Bocharova was a Soviet/Ukrainian gymnast, who won four medals at the 1952 Summer Olympics. She was born in Suprunivka, Poltava Oblast, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union.
1934
Bernard Nevill
English painter, designer, and academic (died 2019)
Bernard Nevill FRSA FCSD was a British designer and academic, formerly a professor at Saint Martin's School of Art and design director for Liberty of London.
1973
Rodrick Rhodes
American basketball player and coach
Rodrick Rhodes is an American former professional basketball player who was selected by the Houston Rockets in the first round of the 1997 NBA draft.
15
Vitellius
Roman emperor (died 69)
The 10s decade ran from January 1, AD 10, to December 31, AD 19.
1667
Jean-Louis Lully
French composer (died 1688)
Jean-Louis Lully was a French musician and composer. He was born in Paris, the youngest son of Jean-Baptiste Lully.
1717
Horace Walpole
English historian, author, and politician (died 1797)
Horatio Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford, better known as Horace Walpole, was a British Whig politician, writer, historian and antiquarian.
1761
F.L.Æ. Kunzen
German-Danish composer and conductor (died 1817)
Friedrich Ludwig Æmilius Kunzen was a German composer and conductor who lived and worked for much of his life in Denmark.
1802
Adolphe d'Archiac
French paleontologist and geologist (died 1868)
Étienne Jules Adolphe Desmier de Saint-Simon, Vicomte d'Archiac was a French geologist and paleontologist.
1817
Ramón de Campoamor y Campoosorio
Spanish poet and philosopher (died 1901)
Ramón María de las Mercedes Pérez de Campoamor y Campoosorio, known as Ramón de Campoamor, was a Spanish realist poet and philosopher.
1845
Nikolai Anderson
Estonian philologist and author (died 1905)
Nikolai Karl Adolf Anderson was a Baltic German philologist who lived in the Russian Empire. He specialized in comparative linguistics of Finno-Ugric languages.
1872
Jaan Teemant
Estonian lawyer and politician, 7th State Elder of Estonia (died 1941)
Jaan Teemant was an Estonian lawyer and politician.
1878
Charles-Ferdinand Ramuz
Swiss author and poet (died 1947)
Charles Ferdinand Ramuz was a French-speaking Swiss writer.
1884
Hugo Schmeisser
German weapons designer and engineer (died 1953)
Hugo Schmeisser was a German firearm developer.
1895
André Frédéric Cournand
French physician and physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1988)
André Frédéric Cournand was a French-American physician and physiologist.
1906
Leonard Marsh
Canadian sociologist and academic (died 1982)
Leonard Charles Marsh was a Canadian social scientist and professor.
1909
Gerard Antoni Ciołek
Polish historian and architect (died 1966)
Gerard Ciołek was a Polish architect, as well as a leading historian of parks and gardens.
1913
Herb Jeffries
American singer (died 2014)
Herb Jeffries was an American actor of film and television and popular music and jazz singer-songwriter, known for his baritone voice.
1918
Michael J. S. Dewar
Indian-born American theoretical chemist who developed the Dewar–Chatt–Duncanson model (died 1997)
Michael James Steuart Dewar was an American theoretical chemist.
1921
Jim McKay
American sportscaster and journalist (died 2008)
James Kenneth McManus, better known professionally as Jim McKay, was an American television sports journalist.
1921
Sheila MacRae
English-American actress, singer, and dancer (died 2014)
Sheila Margaret MacRae was an English-born American actress, singer, and dancer.
1922
Ettore Bastianini
Italian actor and singer (died 1967)
Ettore Bastianini was an Italian operatic baritone who was particularly associated with the operas of the bel canto tradition.
1923
Louis Edmonds
American actor (died 2001)
Louis Stirling Edmonds was an American actor. He was best known for his roles in Dark Shadows and All My Children.
1934
Chick Willis
American singer and guitarist (died 2013)
Robert Lee "Chick" Willis was an American blues singer and guitarist, who performed and recorded from the 1950s to the 2000s.
1934
Donald Wrye
American director, screenwriter, and producer (died 2015)
Donald Wrye was an American director, screenwriter and producer.
1934
John Kasmin
English art dealer
John Kasmin is a British art dealer and collector, also known as "Kas".
1934
Tommy Anderson
Scottish footballer and manager (died 2018)
Thomas Cowan Anderson was a Scottish professional footballer. He played as a forward, and was noted for his extremely fast pace.
1939
Moti Kirschenbaum
Israeli journalist (died 2015)
Mordechai (Moti) Kirschenbaum was an Israeli media personality and documentarian.
1944
Sven-Ole Thorsen
Danish bodybuilder and stuntman
Sven-Ole Thorsen is a Danish former actor, stuntman, bodybuilder and strongman competitor. Thorsen won Denmark's Strongest Man in 1983.
1945
Carson Van Osten
American comics creator and musician (died 2015)
Carson Van Osten was an American comics creator and musician.
1947
Stephen Mueller
American painter (died 2011)
Stephen Mueller was an American painter whose color field and Lyrical Abstraction canvases took a turn towards pop.
1952
Dieter Hochheimer
German footballer and manager
Dieter Hochheimer is a former German football player and manager.
1955
Riccardo Illy
Italian businessman and politician, President of Friuli Venezia Giulia
Riccardo Illy is an Italian businessman and former politician.
1957
Wolfgang Wolf
German footballer and manager
Wolfgang Wolf is a German football coach and a former player.
1961
Luc Picard
Canadian actor, director, and screenwriter
Luc Picard is a French Canadian actor, director and comedian.
1962
Ally McCoist
Scottish footballer and manager
Alistair Murdoch McCoist is a Scottish former footballer who has since worked as a manager and TV pundit.
1962
Tim Supple
English director and producer
Timothy Supple is a British born, award-winning international theatre director. He is the son of the academic Barry Supple.
1963
Ben Preston
English journalist
James Ben Preston is a British journalist. He is an executive editor of The Sunday Times and a former editor of the Radio Times.
1964
Ronald van der Kemp
Dutch fashion designer
Ronald van der Kemp is a Dutch fashion designer and founder of demi-couture fashion house RVDK Ronald van der Kemp, his namesake label.
1965
Njål Ølnes
Norwegian saxophonist and composer
Njål Ølnes is a Norwegian jazz musician, composer and jazz educator currently residing in Nesodden Municipality.
1971
Peter Salisbury
English drummer
Peter Anthony Salisbury is an English rock drummer, best known as the drummer for The Verve, whom he co-founded in 1990.
1976
Vahur Vahtramäe
Estonian footballer
Vahur Vahtramäe is an Estonian retired football midfielder, who last played for Paide Linnameeskond in the Meistriliiga, the highest division in Estonian football.
1976
Yakkun Sakurazuka
Japanese voice actor and singer (died 2013)
Yasuo Saitō , also known by the stage name Yakkun Sakurazuka , was a Japanese comedian, singer, and voice actor.
1977
Frank Fahrenhorst
German footballer and manager
Frank Fahrenhorst is a German former professional footballer, who played as a defender and is currently manager of VfB Stuttgart II.
1980
John Arne Riise
Norwegian footballer
John Arne Semundseth Riise is a Norwegian former professional footballer and coach.
1981
Ryan Briscoe
Australian race car driver
Ryan John Briscoe is an Australian-American professional racing driver from Sydney who has predominantly raced open-wheel and sports cars in Europe and America.
1985
Jonathan Soriano
Spanish footballer
Jonathan Soriano Casas is a Spanish former professional footballer who played as a striker.
1987
Matthew Connolly
English footballer
Matthew Thomas Martin Connolly is an English former professional footballer who played as a defender.
1991
Oriol Romeu
Spanish footballer
Oriol Romeu Vidal is a Spanish professional footballer who plays as a defensive midfielder for J1 League club Avispa Fukuoka.
1993
1993
Jenna Blasman
Canadian snowboarder
Jenna Blasman is a Canadian snowboarder. She competes in slopestyle and represented Canada in this event at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi.
1993
Kateryna Derun
Ukrainian athlete
Kateryna Oleksandrivna Derun is a Ukrainian athlete specialising in the javelin throw.