Famous Birthdays on September 30

September 30 has 224 recorded notable births across history, from 1207 to 2003. This page lists every one of them, with the best-known people first.

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Max Verstappen

1997 — Max Verstappen

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Major events on September 30

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  1. 1551 A coup by the military establishment of Japan's Ōuchi clan forces their lord to commit suicide, and their city is burned. Source
  2. 1939 World War II: General Władysław Sikorski becomes prime minister of the Polish government-in-exile. Source

Did you know about Max Verstappen

Verstappen has won four Formula One World Drivers' Championship titles, which he won consecutively from 2021 to 2024 with Red Bull, and has won 71 Grands Prix across 12 seasons.

Did you know about Monica Bellucci

In 2018, Forbes Italy included her in their list of the 100 most successful Italian women.

Did you know about Kieran Culkin

Known for portraying distasteful yet sympathetic characters across stage and screen, his accolades include an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, a Primetime Emmy Award, and two Golden Globe Awards.

Did you know about Ezra Miller

Ezra Miller's feature film debut was in Afterschool (2008), which they followed by starring in the dramas We Need to Talk About Kevin (2011) and The Perks of Being a Wallflower (2012).

Did you know about Lacey Chabert

One of her first roles as a child actress was the part of Bianca Montgomery, the daughter of Erica Kane, on All My Children from 1992 to 1993.


More major people born on September 30

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

1964 Monica Bellucci

Monica Bellucci

Italian actress and fashion model
Monica Anna Maria Bellucci is an Italian actress who began her career as a fashion model before working in Italian, American, British, and French films. She has filmography in a range of genres and languages, and her accolades include the David di Donatello, Globo d'oro, Nastro d'Argento and nominations at Saturn Awards and César Awards. In 2018, Forbes Italy included her in their list of the 100 most successful Italian women.
1982 Kieran Culkin

Kieran Culkin

American actor
Kieran Kyle Culkin is an American actor. Known for portraying distasteful yet sympathetic characters across stage and screen, his accolades include an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, a Primetime Emmy Award, and two Golden Globe Awards.
1992 Ezra Miller

Ezra Miller

American actor and singer
Ezra Matthew Miller is an American actor. Their feature film debut was in Afterschool (2008), which they followed by starring in the dramas We Need to Talk About Kevin (2011) and The Perks of Being a Wallflower (2012).
1982 Lacey Chabert

Lacey Chabert

American actress
Lacey Nicole Chabert is an American actress. One of her first roles as a child actress was the part of Bianca Montgomery, the daughter of Erica Kane, on All My Children from 1992 to 1993. She gained further prominence for her portrayal of Claudia Salinger in the Fox television drama Party of Five (1994–2000).
1971 Jenna Elfman

Jenna Elfman

American actress and producer
Jenna Elfman is an American actress. She is best known for her leading role as Dharma on the ABC sitcom Dharma & Greg (1997–2002), for which she received the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Television Series Musical or Comedy in 1999, and three nominations for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series. After making her film debut in Grosse Pointe Blank (1997), she appeared in Krippendorf's Tribe (1998), Dr. Dolittle (1998), EDtv (1999), Keeping the Faith (2000), Town & Country (2001), Looney Tunes: Back in Action (2003), Clifford's Really Big Movie (2004), and Big Stone Gap (2014).
1942 Frankie Lymon

Frankie Lymon

American singer-songwriter (died 1968)
Franklin Joseph Lymon was an American rock and roll/rhythm and blues singer and songwriter, dancer and composer best known as the boy soprano lead singer of the New York City-based early rock and roll doo-wop group the Teenagers. The group was composed of five boys, all in their early to mid-teens. The original lineup of the Teenagers, an integrated group, included three African-American members, Lymon, Jimmy Merchant, and Sherman Garnes; and two Puerto Rican members, Joe Negroni and Herman Santiago. The Teenagers' first single, 1956's "Why Do Fools Fall in Love", was also their biggest hit. After Lymon went solo in mid-1957, both his career and that of the Teenagers fell into decline. In 1968, Lymon was found dead at age 25 from a heroin overdose. He was posthumously inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1993 as a member of the Teenagers. Lymon's life was dramatized in the 1998 film Why Do Fools Fall in Love.
1961 Eric Stoltz

Eric Stoltz

American actor, director, and producer
Eric Cameron Stoltz is an American actor, director and producer. He played Rocky Dennis in the biographical drama film Mask (1985), which earned him the nomination for the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture. He was also nominated for the Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Male for his performance in Pulp Fiction (1994).
1957 Fran Drescher

Fran Drescher

American actress, producer, and screenwriter
Francine Joy Drescher is an American actress, writer, comedian, producer, and former trade union leader. She played Fran Fine in the television sitcom The Nanny (1993–1999), which she created and produced with her then-husband Peter Marc Jacobson.
1975 Marion Cotillard

Marion Cotillard

French actress and singer
Marion Cotillard is a French actress who has appeared in both mainstream and independent European and Hollywood productions. She is the recipient of various accolades, including an Academy Award, a British Academy Film Award, two César Awards, and a Golden Globe Award. She became a Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters in France in 2010 and was promoted to Officer in 2016, the same year she was named a Knight of the Legion of Honour.
2002 Maddie Ziegler

Maddie Ziegler

American dancer and actress
Madison Nicole Ziegler is an American actress and dancer. She appeared in Lifetime's reality show Dance Moms from 2011 at age 8 until 2016, and starred in a series of music videos by Sia, beginning with "Chandelier" and "Elastic Heart", which have in total attracted more than 6 billion views on YouTube. Ziegler has also appeared in films, television shows, concerts, advertisements and on magazine covers.
1931 Angie Dickinson

Angie Dickinson

American actress
Angeline Dickinson is an American retired actress. She began her career on television, appearing in many anthology series during the 1950s, before gaining her breakthrough role in Gun the Man Down (1956) with James Arness and the Western film Rio Bravo (1959) with John Wayne and Dean Martin, for which she received the Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year.
1947 Marc Bolan

Marc Bolan

English singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 1977)
Marc Bolan was an English guitarist, singer-songwriter and poet. He was a pioneer of the glam rock movement in the early 1970s with his band T. Rex. Bolan is an influence on artists in the genres of glam rock, punk, post-punk, new wave, indie rock, Britpop and alternative rock. He was posthumously inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2020 as a member of T. Rex.
1980 Martina Hingis

Martina Hingis

Swiss tennis player
Martina Hingis is a Swiss former professional tennis player. She was ranked as the world No. 1 in women's singles by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) for 209 weeks and as the world No. 1 in women's doubles for 90 weeks, holding both No. 1 rankings simultaneously for 29 weeks. Hingis won 43 WTA Tour-level singles titles and 64 doubles titles, including a total of 25 major titles: five in singles, 13 in women's doubles, and seven in mixed doubles. In addition, she won the season-ending Tour Finals two times in singles and three in doubles, an Olympic silver medal in doubles, and a record 17 Tier I singles titles.
1975 Christopher Jackson

Christopher Jackson

American actor, singer, musician, and composer
Christopher Neal Jackson is an American actor and singer. He began his career in 1995 starring in the Off-Broadway musical Time and the Wind by composer Galt MacDermot at the age of 20. He made his Broadway debut in 1997 as an ensemble member in the original Broadway cast of Disney's The Lion King. He remained with the show for several years, ultimately taking over the role of Simba. He went on to perform leading roles in several more Broadway musicals and plays, including After Midnight, Bronx Bombers, Holler If Ya Hear Me, and Memphis. He drew critical acclaim in several projects with Lin-Manuel Miranda: originating the roles of Benny in In the Heights and George Washington in the smash hit Hamilton. For the latter role he was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Musical. He also collaborated with Miranda on the Disney film Moana in which he provides the singing voice of Chief Tui. His other film work includes secondary roles in After.Life and Tracers.
1921 Deborah Kerr

Deborah Kerr

Scottish-English actress (died 2007)
Deborah Jane Trimmer, known professionally as Deborah Kerr, was a British actress. Kerr rose to fame for her portrayals of proper, ladylike women, who often navigated societal expectations and stereotypes. Kerr attracted wide praise for her work, earning six Academy Award nominations for Best Actress. She was regarded as one of the best actresses of her generation. From the 1940s to the 1960s, she was one of the most popular actresses in the world.
1918 Lewis Nixon

Lewis Nixon

U.S. Army captain (died 1995)
Lewis Nixon III was a United States Army officer who, during World War II, served at the company, battalion, and regimental level with the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division. Nixon was portrayed in the HBO miniseries Band of Brothers by Ron Livingston.
1939 Len Cariou

Len Cariou

Canadian actor
Leonard Joseph Cariou is a Canadian actor, singer, and theatre director. He gained prominence for his portrayal of Sweeney Todd in the original cast of Stephen Sondheim's musical Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (1979) alongside Angela Lansbury for which he won the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical. He also received Tony nominations for his roles in the Betty Comden and Adolph Green musical Applause (1970) and the Sondheim musical A Little Night Music (1973).
1970 Tony Hale

Tony Hale

American actor and producer
Tony Hale is an American actor and comedian. He had a leading role in the Fox series Arrested Development as Buster Bluth from 2003 to 2019, and portrayed Gary Walsh on the HBO series Veep from 2012 to 2019. For the latter, Hale won the 2013 and 2015 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series.
1984 T-Pain

T-Pain

American rapper, producer, and actor
Faheem Rashad Najm, known professionally as T-Pain, is an American singer, rapper, songwriter, and record producer. He is known for pioneering the creative use of Auto-Tune pitch correction, often used with extreme parameter settings to create electronic-styled vocal performances. Blending its use with R&B and hip-hop sensibilities, T-Pain played a key role in defining rap-singing throughout the 2000s.
1935 Johnny Mathis

Johnny Mathis

American singer and actor
John Royce Mathis is an American singer. Starting his career with singles of standard music, Mathis is one of the best-selling recording artists of the 20th century. He became highly popular as an album artist, with several of his albums achieving gold or platinum status and 73 making the Billboard charts.
1928 Elie Wiesel

Elie Wiesel

Romanian-American author, academic, and activist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2016)
Eliezer "Elie" Wiesel was a Romanian-born American writer, professor, political activist, Nobel laureate, and Holocaust survivor. He authored 57 books, written mostly in French and English, including Night, which is based on his experiences as a Jewish prisoner at Auschwitz and Buchenwald during the Holocaust.
1933 Cissy Houston

Cissy Houston

American singer (died 2024)
Emily "Cissy" Houston was an American soul and gospel singer and choir director. Nicknamed The Duchess of Gospel, she is best known as the mother of American singer and actress Whitney Houston and the aunt of American singers Dionne Warwick and Dee Dee Warwick.
1972 Ari Behn

Ari Behn

Danish-Norwegian author and playwright (died 2019)
Ari Mikael Behn was a Norwegian author, playwright, and visual artist, best known for his marriage to Princess Märtha Louise of Norway from 2002 to 2017. He held no title or special status, and he remained a private citizen during the marriage.
1969 Amy Landecker

Amy Landecker

American actress
Amy Lauren Landecker is an American actress. She is known for her role as Sarah Pfefferman on the Amazon comedy-drama series Transparent (2014–2019), as well as her supporting roles in the films Dan in Real Life (2007), A Serious Man (2009), All Is Bright (2013), Project Almanac (2015), and Beatriz at Dinner (2017), and the TV series Your Honor (2020–2023).
1961 Crystal Bernard

Crystal Bernard

American actress and singer-songwriter
Crystal Lynn Bernard is a retired American singer-songwriter and actress, best known for her roles as Helen Chappel-Hackett on the sitcom Wings (1990–1997), Amy on It's a Living (1985–1989), and K.C. Cunningham on Happy Days (1983–1984).
1954 Barry Williams

Barry Williams

American actor
Barry William Blenkhorn, better known by his stage name Barry Williams, is an American actor. He is known for his role as the eldest of the Brady sons, Greg Brady, on the ABC television series The Brady Bunch (1969–1974), a role he reprised in several sequels and spin-offs including the animated series The Brady Kids (1972–1973), the variety series The Brady Bunch Hour (1976–1977) and the television films The Brady Girls Get Married (1981) and A Very Brady Christmas (1988) and the reality television series A Very Brady Renovation (2019).
1950 Victoria Tennant

Victoria Tennant

English actress and dancer
Victoria Tennant is a British actress. She is known for her roles in the TV miniseries The Winds of War and War and Remembrance, in which she appeared as actor Robert Mitchum's on-screen love interest, Pamela Tudsbury, as well as her supporting roles in All of Me (1984), The Holcroft Covenant (1985), Flowers in the Attic (1987), The Handmaid's Tale (1990), and L.A. Story (1991).
1965 Omid Djalili

Omid Djalili

English comedian, actor, and producer
Omid Djalili is a British comedian, actor, and writer of Iranian descent. He began his career at the 1995 Edinburgh Festival Fringe and has gone on to become a touring comedian with a substantial list of film and television appearances.
1982 Andrew Hastie

Andrew Hastie

Australian politician
Andrew William Hastie is an Australian politician and former military officer who has served as Deputy Leader of the Opposition in the House of Representatives and Deputy Leader of the Liberal Party in the House of Representatives since 2026. He has been the member of parliament (MP) for the Western Australian division of Canning since 2015.
1934 Anna Kashfi

Anna Kashfi

Indian-American actress (died 2015)
Anna Kashfi was an Anglo-Indian actress who had a brief Hollywood career in the 1950s but was better known for her tumultuous marriage to film star Marlon Brando and the controversies surrounding their son.
1958 Marty Stuart

Marty Stuart

American singer-songwriter and guitarist
John Marty Stuart is an American country and bluegrass music singer, songwriter, and musician. Active since 1968, Stuart initially toured with Lester Flatt, and then in Johnny Cash's road band before beginning work as a solo artist in the early 1980s. He is known for his combination of rockabilly, country rock, and bluegrass music influences, his frequent collaborations and cover songs, and his distinctive stage dress.
1983 Adam Jones

Adam Jones

American football player and analyst
Adam Bernard Jones is an American former professional football player who was a cornerback and return specialist in the National Football League (NFL) for 13 seasons. Nicknamed "Pacman", he played college football for the West Virginia Mountaineers and was selected by the Tennessee Titans with the sixth overall pick in the 2005 NFL draft.
1998 Landon Dickerson

Landon Dickerson

American football player
Landon Marshall Dickerson is an American professional football guard for the Philadelphia Eagles of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football as a center for the Florida State Seminoles and the Alabama Crimson Tide, and was selected by the Eagles in the second round of the 2021 NFL draft.
1964 Trey Anastasio

Trey Anastasio

American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and composer
Ernest Joseph "Trey" Anastasio III is an American guitarist, composer, and singer-songwriter best known as the lead guitarist of the rock band Phish, which he co-founded in 1983. He is credited by name as composer of 152 Phish original songs, 141 of them as a solo credit, in addition to 41 credits attributed to the band as a whole.
1922 Hrishikesh Mukherjee

Hrishikesh Mukherjee

Indian director, producer, and screenwriter (died 2006)
Hrishikesh Mukherjee was an Indian film director, editor and writer. He is regarded as one of the greatest filmmakers of Indian cinema. Popularly known as Hrishi-da, he directed 42 films during his career spanning over four decades, and is named the pioneer of the 'middle cinema' of India. Renowned for his social films that reflected the changing middle-class ethos, Mukherjee "carved a middle path between the extravagance of mainstream cinema and the stark realism of art cinema".
1943 Marilyn McCoo

Marilyn McCoo

American singer
Marilyn McCoo is an American singer, actress, and television presenter, who is best known for being the lead female vocalist in the group the 5th Dimension as well as hosting the 1980s music television show Solid Gold.
1969 Silas Weir Mitchell

Silas Weir Mitchell

American actor
Silas Weir Mitchell is an American character actor. He is known for starring as Charles "Haywire" Patoshik in the Fox television series Prison Break (2005–2007), for the recurring role of Donny Jones in My Name Is Earl (2005–2009), and as Monroe in the NBC television series Grimm (2011–2017).
1975 Ta-Nehisi Coates

Ta-Nehisi Coates

American author and journalist
Ta-Nehisi Paul Coates is an American author, journalist, and activist. He gained a wide readership during his time as national correspondent at The Atlantic, where he wrote about cultural, social, and political issues, particularly regarding African Americans and white supremacy. He is politically progressive.
1947 Rula Lenska

Rula Lenska

English actress
Rula Lenska is a British actress. She mainly appears in British stage and television productions, but appeared in a series of television advertisements in the 1970s and 1980s in the United States. In the United Kingdom, she played Luce Habit in Queen Kong (1976) and Claudia Colby in the ITV soap opera Coronation Street.
1974 Daniel Wu

Daniel Wu

American–born Hong Kong actor, director, and producer
Daniel Neh-Tsu Wu is a Hong Kong-American actor. He is known as a "flexible and distinctive" leading actor in the Chinese-language film industry. Since his film debut in 1998, he has been featured in over 60 films. A three-time Golden Horse Award nominee, he also starred in the AMC martial arts drama series Into the Badlands and the Disney+ wuxia action comedy American Born Chinese.
1946 Héctor Lavoe

Héctor Lavoe

Puerto Rican-American singer-songwriter (died 1993)
Héctor Juan Pérez Martínez, better known as Héctor Lavoe, was a Puerto Rican salsa singer. Widely regarded as one of salsa's most important and influential vocalists, Lavoe played a pivotal role in popularizing the genre throughout the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s. His charismatic persona and artistic vision propelled him to become one of the most successful Latin music artists of all time.
1966 Angus Taylor

Angus Taylor

Australian politician
Angus James Taylor is an Australian politician who has served as the leader of the Opposition since 2026, holding office as the leader of the Liberal Party. He has been the member of Parliament (MP) for the New South Wales division of Hume since 2013, and previously served as a minister in the Turnbull and Morrison governments.
1974 Jeremy Giambi

Jeremy Giambi

American baseball player (died 2022)
Jeremy Dean Giambi was an American outfielder and first baseman who played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for six seasons from 1998 to 2003. Giambi was a member of four teams, most notably the Oakland Athletics. He also played for the Kansas City Royals, Philadelphia Phillies, and Boston Red Sox.
1987 Kenley Jansen

Kenley Jansen

Curaçaoan baseball player
Kenley Geronimo Jansen is a Curaçaoan professional baseball pitcher for the Detroit Tigers of Major League Baseball (MLB). He has previously played in MLB for the Los Angeles Dodgers, Atlanta Braves, Boston Red Sox, and Los Angeles Angels. He has represented the Netherlands national baseball team in international competition.
1991 David Bakhtiari

David Bakhtiari

American football player
David Afrasiab Assad Bakhtiari is an American former professional football offensive tackle. Selected by the Green Bay Packers of the National Football League (NFL) in the fourth round of the 2013 NFL draft, Bakhtiari played for the Packers for 11 seasons. He played college football for the Colorado Buffaloes from 2009 to 2012.
1967 Andrea Roth

Andrea Roth

Canadian actress
Andrea Roth is a Canadian former actress. She is perhaps best known for her roles as Janet Gavin, the wife of main character Tommy Gavin, on the FX television series Rescue Me (2004–2011), as Victoria Chase in The Collector (2009), and before that, as Diana Powers / NeuroBrain on RoboCop: The Series (1994). As of 2026, her last role was a June 2020 episode of the series 13 Reasons Why.
1981 Dominique Moceanu

Dominique Moceanu

American gymnast
Dominique Helena Moceanu is an American former artistic gymnast. She was a member of the gold medal-winning United States women's gymnastics team, the "Magnificent Seven", at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta. She won two medals at the 1995 World Championships and the all-around title at the 1998 Goodwill Games.
1905 Michael Powell

Michael Powell

English director, producer, and screenwriter (died 1990)
Michael Latham Powell was an English filmmaker. He is celebrated for his partnership with Emeric Pressburger and through their production company, The Archers, they together wrote, produced and directed a series of classic British films, notably The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943), A Canterbury Tale (1944), I Know Where I'm Going! (1945), A Matter of Life and Death, Black Narcissus (1947), The Red Shoes (1948), and The Tales of Hoffmann (1951).
1911 Gustave Gilbert

Gustave Gilbert

American psychologist (died 1977)
Gustave Mark Gilbert was an American psychologist best known for his writings containing observations of high-ranking Nazi leaders during the Nuremberg trials. His 1950 book The Psychology of Dictatorship was an attempt to profile the Nazi German dictator Adolf Hitler using as reference the testimonials of Hitler's closest generals and commanders. Gilbert's published work is still a subject of study in many universities and colleges, especially in the field of psychology.
2002 Levi Miller

Levi Miller

Australian actor and model
Levi Zane Miller is an Australian actor and model. He is known for playing Peter Pan in Pan (2015), Luke in Better Watch Out (2016), and Calvin in A Wrinkle in Time (2018).
1978 Candice Michelle

Candice Michelle

American wrestler
Candice Michelle Beckman, better known as Candice Michelle, is an American model, actress and retired professional wrestler. She is signed to Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) as a producer. She is best known for her tenure in World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE).
1946 Robert Gascoyne-Cecil

Robert Gascoyne-Cecil

7th Marquess of Salisbury, English academic and politician, Leader of the House of Lords
Robert Michael James Gascoyne-Cecil, 7th Marquess of Salisbury, Baron Gascoyne-Cecil is a British Conservative politician. From 1979 to 1987 he represented South Dorset in the House of Commons, and in the 1990s he was Leader of the House of Lords under his courtesy title of Viscount Cranborne. Lord Salisbury lives in one of England's largest historic houses, the 17th-century Hatfield House in Hertfordshire, and formerly served as Chancellor of the University of Hertfordshire.
1955 Andy Bechtolsheim

Andy Bechtolsheim

German engineer, co-founded Sun Microsystems
Andreas Maria Maximilian Freiherr von Mauchenheim genannt Bechtolsheim is a German electrical engineer, entrepreneur and investor. He co-founded Sun Microsystems in 1982 and was its chief hardware designer. As of 2025, he's 68th wealthiest according to Bloomberg Billionaires Index and Forbes with an estimated net worth of US$28.9 billion.
1981 Cecelia Ahern

Cecelia Ahern

Irish author
Cecelia Ahern is an Irish novelist, known for her works like Where Rainbows End, If You Could See Me Now, and PS, I Love You. Born in Dublin, Ahern is published in nearly fifty countries, and has sold over 25 million copies of her novels worldwide. Two of her books have been adapted as motion films. The short story collection Roar has been adapted as a series for Apple TV+.
1951 Barry Marshall

Barry Marshall

Australian physician and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
Barry James Marshall is an Australian physician, Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine, Professor of Clinical Microbiology and Co-Director of the Marshall Centre at the University of Western Australia. Marshall and Robin Warren showed that the bacterium Helicobacter pylori plays a major role in causing many peptic ulcers, challenging decades of medical doctrine holding that ulcers were caused primarily by stress, spicy foods, and too much acid. This discovery has allowed for a breakthrough in understanding a causative link between Helicobacter pylori infection and stomach cancer.
1986 Ben Lovett

Ben Lovett

Welsh musician and songwriter
Benjamin Walter David Lovett is a British musician and producer, best known for being a member of the British folk rock band Mumford & Sons.
1960 Miki Howard

Miki Howard

American singer-songwriter, producer, and actress
Alicia Michelle "Miki" Howard is an American R&B singer who had top 10 hit songs in the mid-1980s and early 1990s, including "Baby, Be Mine" (1987), "Come Share My Love" (1986) and "Love Under New Management" (1990). "Ain't Nobody Like You" (1992) and "Ain't Nuthin' in the World" (1989) both peaked at number one on the U.S. Billboard Top R&B Singles chart.
1960 Blanche Lincoln

Blanche Lincoln

American politician
Blanche Lambert Lincoln is an American politician who served as a United States senator from Arkansas from 1999 to 2011. A member of the Democratic Party, she was first elected to the Senate in 1998; she was the first woman elected to the Senate from Arkansas since Hattie Caraway in 1932 and youngest woman ever elected to the Senate at age 38. She previously served in the U.S. House of Representatives, representing Arkansas's 1st congressional district from 1993 to 1997.
1987 Aida Garifullina

Aida Garifullina

Russian operatic soprano
Aida Emilevna Garifullina is a Russian lyric soprano of Tatar descent. She was the winner of the 2013 Operalia competition and has featured in a number of productions staged at the Mariinsky Theatre, St. Petersburg and the Vienna State Opera. She has a recording contract with Decca Records.
1961 Mel Stride

Mel Stride

English politician
Sir Melvyn John Stride is a British politician who served as Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer in Kemi Badenoch's Shadow Cabinet from November 2024 to August 2026. A member of the Conservative Party, he has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Central Devon since 2010.
1952

John Finn

American actor
John Joseph Finn is an American character actor known as one of the leads of the television programs Cold Case and EZ Streets. Finn has also had supporting roles in the films The Hunted (2003), Analyze That (2002), Catch Me If You Can (2002), True Crime (1999), Turbulence (1997), Blown Away (1994), The Pelican Brief (1993), and Glory (1989).
1962 Marley Marl

Marley Marl

American record producer and rapper
Marlon Lu'Ree Williams, better known by his stage name Marley Marl, is an American DJ, record producer, rapper and record label founder, primarily operating in hip-hop music. Marlon grew up in Queensbridge housing projects located in Queens, New York. He performed in local talent shows during the early days of rap music, further fueling his interest.
1944 Jimmy Johnstone

Jimmy Johnstone

Scottish footballer (died 2006)
James Connolly Johnstone was a Scottish footballer who played as an outside right. Known as "Jinky" for his elusive dribbling style, Johnstone played for Celtic for 13 years and was one of the Lisbon Lions, the team that won the 1967 European Cup Final. Johnstone also won nine consecutive Scottish championships. He scored 129 goals for Celtic in 515 appearances and was voted the club's greatest-ever player by fans in 2002.
1986 Martin Guptill

Martin Guptill

New Zealand cricketer
Martin James Guptill is a New Zealand cricketer who played for New Zealand as an opening batsman in all formats of the game. Guptill is the first cricketer from New Zealand and the fifth overall to have scored a double century in a One Day International match and holds the current record for the highest individual score in a Cricket World Cup match and the second highest score in One Day Internationals of 237 not out. In March 2021, Guptill played in his 100th Twenty20 International match. He was part of the New Zealand squads to finish as runners-up in two Cricket World Cup finals in 2015 and 2019.
1977 Roy Carroll

Roy Carroll

Northern Irish goalkeeper and manager
Roy Eric Carroll is a Northern Irish professional football coach and former player who played as a goalkeeper. He is best known for his spells at English clubs Wigan Athletic and Manchester United as well as in Greece with OFI and Olympiacos. Carroll also represented Northern Ireland 45 times at full international level between 1997 and 2017, and was a part of their squad for UEFA Euro 2016.
1972 Jamal Anderson

Jamal Anderson

American football player and sportscaster
Jamal Sharif Anderson is an American former professional football player who was a running back for the Atlanta Falcons of the National Football League (NFL). He was selected by the Falcons in the seventh round of the 1994 NFL draft. He played high school football at El Camino Real High School, where he was named to the CIF Los Angeles City Section 4-A All-City first-team in 1989. He went on to play college football at Moorpark College for the Moorpark College Raiders before playing for the Utah Utes.
1998 Trevi Moran

Trevi Moran

American YouTuber and singer
Trevi Michaela Moran is an American singer and YouTube personality. She rose to fame after participating in The X Factor in 2012 at the age of 13. As of April 2020, Moran's YouTube channel surpassed 1.4 million subscribers.
1996 Aaron Holiday

Aaron Holiday

American basketball player
Aaron Shawn Holiday is an American professional basketball player for Maxima Roma of the Italian Lega Basket Serie A (LBA) and the EuroCup. He played college basketball for the UCLA Bruins, where he earned All-American recognition. He was selected by the Indiana Pacers in the first round of the 2018 NBA draft with the 23rd overall pick.
1979 Cameron Bruce

Cameron Bruce

Australian footballer and coach
Cameron Bruce is a former professional Australian rules footballer who played for the Melbourne Football Club and Hawthorn Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). He is currently serving as an assistant coach for the Brisbane Lions. During his AFL career, he was known for his aerobic capacity and neat kicking skills.
1991 Joffrey Lauvergne

Joffrey Lauvergne

French basketball player
Joffrey Stéphane Morgan Lauvergne is a French professional basketball player for Partizan Belgrade of the Serbian SuperLeague, the ABA League, and the EuroLeague. He was drafted 55th overall by the Memphis Grizzlies in the 2013 NBA draft, who then traded his rights to the Denver Nuggets.
1946 Jochen Mass

Jochen Mass

German race car driver (died 2025)
Jochen Richard Mass was a German racing driver and broadcaster, who competed in Formula One from 1973 to 1982. Mass won the 1975 Spanish Grand Prix with McLaren. In endurance racing, Mass won the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 1989 with Sauber.
1940 Dewey Martin

Dewey Martin

Canadian-American drummer (died 2009)
Dewey Martin was a Canadian rock drummer, best known for his work with Buffalo Springfield, for which he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1997.
1950 Laura Esquivel

Laura Esquivel

Mexican author and screenwriter
Laura Beatriz Esquivel Valdés is a Mexican novelist, screenwriter and former politician. Her first novel Como agua para chocolate became a bestseller in Mexico and the United States, and was later developed into an award-winning film.
1946 Fran Brill

Fran Brill

American actress, singer, and puppeteer
Fran Brill is an American actress and puppeteer, best known for her roles on Sesame Street, as well as playing Sally Hayes in the Hal Ashby film Being There (1979), Dana Mardukas in the Martin Brest film Midnight Run (1988) and Lily Marvin in the Frank Oz film What About Bob? (1991).
1942 Gus Dudgeon

Gus Dudgeon

English record producer (died 2002)
Angus Boyd "Gus" Dudgeon was an English record producer, who oversaw many of Elton John's most acclaimed recordings, including his commercial breakthrough, "Your Song". Their collaboration led to seven US No. 1 albums, and established John as one of the most successful singles artists of the 1970s.
1985 Adam Cooney

Adam Cooney

Australian footballer
Adam Cooney is a former professional Australian rules footballer who played for the Western Bulldogs and Essendon Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). He won the Brownlow Medal in 2008, with 24 votes becoming the tenth Western Bulldogs player to win the award.
1972 José Lima

José Lima

Dominican baseball player (died 2010)
José Desiderio Rodriguez Lima was a Dominican right-handed pitcher who spent 13 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) with the Detroit Tigers, Houston Astros (1997–2001), Kansas City Royals, Los Angeles Dodgers (2004) and New York Mets (2006). His best year in the majors was 1999, when he won 21 games for the Astros and pitched in his only All-Star Game.
1963 David Barbe

David Barbe

American bass player and producer
David Barbe is an American musician and producer/engineer from Athens, Georgia, and director of the Music Business Certificate Program at the University of Georgia. He is chief of Chase Park Transduction studio in Athens. Barbe is known for his work as a songwriter, singer, guitarist, and bass guitarist in Sugar, Mercyland, and Buzz Hungry, as well as solo performances. He has produced nearly every album by the popular country rock band Drive-By Truckers, and has worked as producer and engineer with Son Volt. He has an all-star solo band in Athens called the Quick Hooks.
1908 David Oistrakh

David Oistrakh

Ukrainian-Russian violinist and educator (died 1974)
David Fyodorovich Oistrakh was a Soviet Russian violinist, violist, and conductor. He was also Professor at the Moscow Conservatory, People's Artist of the USSR (1953), and Laureate of the Lenin Prize (1960).
1953 Deborah Allen

Deborah Allen

American country music singer-songwriter, author, and actress
Deborah Allen is an American country music singer and songwriter. Since 1976, she has released 12 albums and charted 14 singles on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart. She recorded the 1983 crossover hit "Baby I Lied", which reached No. 4 on the country chart and No. 26 on the Billboard Hot 100. Allen has also written No. 1 singles for herself, Janie Fricke, and John Conlee; top 5 hits for Patty Loveless and Tanya Tucker; and a top 10 hit for the Whites.
1936 Jim Sasser

Jim Sasser

American lawyer and politician, 6th United States Ambassador to China (died 2024)
James Ralph Sasser was an American politician, diplomat, and attorney from Tennessee. A member of the Democratic Party, he served three terms as a member of the United States Senate from 1977 to 1995, and was Chairman of the United States Senate Committee on the Budget. From 1996 to 1999, during the Clinton administration, he was the United States Ambassador to China. To date, he is the most recent Democratic U.S. senator from Tennessee.
1975 Jay Asher

Jay Asher

American author
Jay Asher is an American writer and novelist. He is best known for writing the bestselling 2007 book Thirteen Reasons Why, which later became a very popular Netflix series.
1951

John Lloyd

English screenwriter and producer
John Hardress Wilfred Lloyd is an English producer and writer of television and radio comedy. His television work includes Not the Nine O'Clock News, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Blackadder, Spitting Image and QI. He presents BBC Radio 4's The Museum of Curiosity.
1926 Robin Roberts

Robin Roberts

American baseball player, coach, and sportscaster (died 2010)
Robin Evan Roberts was an American Major League Baseball starting pitcher who pitched primarily for the Philadelphia Phillies (1948–1961). He spent the latter part of his career with the Baltimore Orioles (1962–1965), Houston Astros (1965–1966), and Chicago Cubs (1966). A workhorse pitcher, Roberts won over 15 games in seven of his first eight years in the league, which saw him lead the National League in wins in four straight seasons (1952–1955) along with games and innings pitched multiple times; he topped out in wins with 28 in 1952, where he finished second in the MVP voting. In the "Whiz Kids" year of 1950, he went 20–11 with a league-leading five shutouts while pitching ten innings in the final game of the season to clinch the pennant for the Phillies, which was their first since 1915. Roberts subsequently started Game 2 of the World Series in his only postseason appearance for his career as the team was swept. A seven-time All-Star from 1950 to 1956, he departed the Phillies in 1961 with franchise records of 234 wins, 1,871 strikeouts, 529 games played and 3739+1⁄3 innings pitched and had his jersey retired the following year as the first Phillie to receive the honor; he still holds the franchise record for innings pitched and games played. He signed with the Orioles in 1962 and pitched the better part of four years with the team before spending the 1956 and 1966 seasons with two different teams. He retired in 1966 with 286 victories, tenth most in MLB history at the time. He was also the leader in home runs given up by a pitcher (505) until he was passed by Jamie Moyer decades later.
1960 Nicola Griffith

Nicola Griffith

English-American author
Nicola Griffith is a British American novelist, essayist, and teacher. She has won the Washington State Book Award (twice), Nebula Award, James Tiptree, Jr. Award, World Fantasy Award, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and six Lambda Literary Awards. In 2024 she was inducted into the Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame. In 2025, the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association named her the 41st Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master in recognition of her significant contributions to the literature of science fiction and fantasy. In addition to her fiction, Griffith is known for her contributions to feminist and queer literature, her disability advocacy, and her role in founding the Literary Prize Database Project and the #CripLit community for disabled writers.
1982 Ryane Clowe

Ryane Clowe

Canadian ice hockey player
Ryane Clowe is a Canadian former professional ice hockey left winger who played in the National Hockey League (NHL) with the San Jose Sharks, New York Rangers and New Jersey Devils. He was drafted into the NHL by the San Jose Sharks in the sixth round, 175th overall, at the 2001 NHL entry draft. In 2018, he was named the head coach of the ECHL's Newfoundland Growlers, a position he resigned from in January 2019. He was a hockey advisor for the New York Rangers from 2021-22 to the 2023-24 season. On July 3, 2024 Clowe was named assistant general manager of the San Jose Sharks.Ryane Clowe resigned as San Jose Sharks assistant general manager on September 7, 2025, after just one season, citing family reasons. The 42-year-old immediately rejoined the New York Rangers as an assistant general manager on September 8, 2025, returning to the East Coast.
1912 Kenny Baker

Kenny Baker

American singer and actor (died 1985)
Kenneth Laurence Baker was an American singer and actor who first gained notice as the featured singer on radio's The Jack Benny Program during the 1930s.
1932 Johnny Podres

Johnny Podres

American baseball player and coach (died 2008)
John Joseph Podres was an American left-handed pitcher in Major League Baseball (MLB). He played in the majors from 1953 to 1969, spending most of his career with the Brooklyn/Los Angeles Dodgers. Podres won four World Series titles with the Dodgers. He is best known for pitching a shutout in game 7 of the 1955 World Series to give the Dodgers their first championship.
1959 Ettore Messina

Ettore Messina

Italian basketball player and coach
Ettore Messina is an Italian professional basketball coach who last coached Olimpia Milano of the Italian Lega Basket Serie A (LBA). He has won four EuroLeague championships as a head coach. Messina is regarded as one of the best European basketball coaches of all time, having been named one of the 50 Greatest EuroLeague Contributors in 2008.
1986 Cristián Zapata

Cristián Zapata

Colombian footballer
Cristián Eduardo Zapata Valencia is a Colombian former professional footballer who played as a centre-back. A quick and physically powerful defender, known for his hard marking of opponents and strength in the air, he usually played as a centre back. Although naturally right footed, he can also play as a full-back on either side of the pitch, as he is comfortable with both feet.
1863 Reinhard Scheer

Reinhard Scheer

German admiral (died 1928)
Carl Friedrich Heinrich Reinhard Scheer was an admiral in the Imperial German Navy. Scheer joined the navy in 1879 as an officer cadet and progressed through the ranks, commanding cruisers and battleships, as well as senior staff positions on land. At the outbreak of World War I, Scheer was the commander of the II Battle Squadron of the High Seas Fleet. He then took command of the III Battle Squadron, which consisted of the newest and most powerful battleships in the navy. In January 1916, he was promoted to admiral and given control of the High Seas Fleet. Scheer led the German fleet at the Battle of Jutland on 31 May – 1 June 1916, one of the largest naval battles in history.
1952 John Lombardo

John Lombardo

American singer-songwriter and guitarist
John Lombardo is one of the founding members of the American alternative rock band 10,000 Maniacs and one of the band's most influential members, writing much of its early material, also being its oldest member in age. He is also a member of folk rock duo John & Mary.
1922 Lamont Johnson

Lamont Johnson

American actor, director, and producer (died 2010)
Ernest Lamont Johnson Jr. was an American actor and film director who appeared in and directed many television shows and movies. He won two Emmy Awards.
1939 Jean-Marie Lehn

Jean-Marie Lehn

French chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
Jean-Marie Pierre Lehn is a French chemist who received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry together with Donald Cram and Charles Pedersen in 1987 for his synthesis of cryptands. Lehn was an early innovator in the field of supramolecular chemistry, i.e., the chemistry of host–guest molecular assemblies created by intermolecular interactions, and continues to innovate in this field. He described the process by which molecules recognize each other. Drugs, for example, "know" which cell to destroy and which to let live. According to information provided by Lehn to the Nobel Foundation in January 2006, his group had published 790 peer-reviewed articles in chemistry literature by then.
1925 Arkady Ostashev

Arkady Ostashev

Russian engineer and scientist in the former Soviet space program (died 1998)
Arkady Ilyich Ostashev was a Soviet and Russian scientist, engineer - mechanic in the former Soviet space program, working on as a designer many of rocket propulsion and control system of Soviet satellites. He was a participant in the launch of the first artificial satellite of the Earth and the first cosmonaut, candidate of technical sciences, docent, laureate of the Lenin (1960) and State (1979) prizes, one of the leading managers of work in the field of experimental development of rocket technology OKB-1, personal pensioner of republican significance, student and interpersonal relationship of Sergei Korolev.
1998 Yui Imaizumi

Yui Imaizumi

Japanese actress, singer, model, and television personality
Yui Imaizumi is a Japanese actress, singer, model, and television personality. She rose to prominence as a founding member of the girl group Keyakizaka46. Beyond her musical career, she entered the fashion industry, serving as a regular model for the fashion magazine Ar. After departing the group in 2018, she pursued acting and stage work, including lead roles in the series Million Joe (2019) and stage plays Azumi (2020) and Lady Snowblood (2021). She briefly stepped away from the spotlight in 2022 for health and personal reasons before returning to the entertainment industry in 2025.
1932 Shintaro Ishihara

Shintaro Ishihara

Japanese author, playwright, and politician, Governor of Tokyo (died 2022)
Shintaro Ishihara was a Japanese politician and writer, who served as the Governor of Tokyo from 1999 to 2012. Being the former leader of the radical right Sunrise Party, later merged with Toru Hashimoto's Japan Restoration Party out of which he split his faction into the Party for Japanese Kokoro, he was one of the most prominent ultranationalists in modern Japanese politics. Ishihara was criticized for his misogynistic comments, his xenophobic views and his racist remarks against Chinese and Koreans in Japan, including his use of the antiquated pejorative term "sangokujin".
1898 Edgar Parin d'Aulaire

Edgar Parin d'Aulaire

German-American author and illustrator (died 1986)
Ingri d'Aulaire and Edgar Parin d'Aulaire were writers and illustrators of children's books who worked primarily as a team, completing almost all of their well-known works together. The couple immigrated to the United States from Europe and worked on books that focused on history such as Abraham Lincoln, which won the 1940 Caldecott Medal. They were part of the group of immigrant artists composed of Feodor Rojankovsky, Roger Duvoisin, Ludwig Bemelmans, Miska Petersham and Tibor Gergely, who helped shape the Golden Age of picture books in mid-twentieth-century America.
1954 John Drew

John Drew

American basketball player (died 2022)
John Edward Drew was an American professional basketball player. A small forward from Gardner–Webb University, he played eleven seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA). Drew was a two-time NBA All-Star, and was the first player banned under the substance abuse policy instituted by league commissioner David Stern.
1992 Bria Hartley

Bria Hartley

French-American basketball player
Bria Nicole Hartley is a French-American professional basketball player for the Connecticut Sun of the WNBA and Galatasaray of the Turkish Super League. She was drafted seventh overall by the Seattle Storm in the 2014 WNBA draft and was immediately traded to the Washington Mystics. Hartley played shooting guard for the UConn women's basketball team, and won back to back national championships in 2013 and 2014.
1966

Club Chalamet

American social media personality
Club Chalamet is a fan account on both Twitter and Instagram for the American and French actor Timothée Chalamet run by Simone Cromer. She created the Twitter account in 2018 after Chalamet's success in Call Me by Your Name (2017), as a space for older fans. She became viral in 2023 after several controversial comments she made about Chalamet's girlfriend, Kylie Jenner, which sparked discussions regarding parasocial relationships and Stan Twitter. Since then, her reaction to content involving the couple has become an internet meme.
1800 Decimus Burton

Decimus Burton

English architect, designed the Pharos Lighthouse (died 1881)
Decimus Burton was one of the foremost English architects and landscapers of the 19th century. He was the foremost Victorian architect in the Roman Revival, Greek Revival, Georgian neoclassical and Regency styles. He was a founding fellow and vice-president of the Royal Institute of British Architects, and from 1840 architect to the Royal Botanic Society, and an early member of the Athenaeum Club, London, whose clubhouse he designed and which the company of his father, James Burton, the pre-eminent Georgian London property developer, built.
1949 Michel Tognini

Michel Tognini

French pilot, engineer, military officer and astronaut
Michel Ange-Charles Tognini is a French test pilot, engineer, brigadier general in the French Air Force, and a former CNES and ESA astronaut who served from 1 January 2005 to 1 November 2011 as head of the European Astronaut Centre of the European Space Agency. A veteran of two space flights, Tognini has logged a total of 19 days in space. Tognini has 4000 flight hours on 80 types of aircraft. He is fluent in English and Russian.
1927 W. S. Merwin

W. S. Merwin

American poet and translator (died 2019)
William Stanley Merwin was an American poet who wrote more than fifty books of poetry and prose and produced many works in translation. During the 1960s anti-war movement, Merwin's unique craft was thematically characterized by indirect, unpunctuated narration. In the 1980s and 1990s, his writing influence derived from an interest in Buddhist philosophy and deep ecology. Residing in a rural part of Maui, Hawaii, he wrote prolifically and was dedicated to the restoration of the island's rainforests.
1941 Samuel F. Pickering Jr.

Samuel F. Pickering Jr.

American author and educator
Samuel F. "Sam" Pickering Jr. is a writer and professor emeritus of English at the University of Connecticut in Storrs. His unconventional teaching style was an inspiration for the character of Mr. Keating, played by Robin Williams in the film Dead Poets Society. Pickering specializes in the familiar essay, children's literature, nature writers, and 18th and 19th century English literature. Pickering has published many collections of non-fiction personal essays as well as over 200 articles.
1924 Truman Capote

Truman Capote

American novelist, playwright, and screenwriter (died 1984)
Truman Garcia Capote was an American novelist, screenwriter, and playwright. Several of his short stories, novels, and plays have been praised as literary classics, and he is regarded as one of the founders of New Journalism, along with Gay Talese, Hunter S. Thompson, Norman Mailer, Joan Didion, and Tom Wolfe. His work and his life story have been adapted into and have been the subject of more than 20 films and television productions.
1710 John Russell

John Russell

4th Duke of Bedford, English politician, Lord President of the Council (died 1771)
John Russell, 4th Duke of Bedford was a British Whig statesman who served as the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland from 1757 to 1761. A leading member of the Whig party during the Seven Years' War, he negotiated the 1763 Treaty of Paris which ended the conflict. Bedford was also an early promoter of cricket and a patron of the arts who commissioned numerous works from prominent artists, most notably Canaletto.
1905 Nevill Francis Mott

Nevill Francis Mott

English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1996)
Sir Nevill Francis Mott was a British theoretical physicist who won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1977 for his work on the electronic structure of magnetic and disordered systems, especially amorphous semiconductors. The Prize was shared with Philip W. Anderson and John Van Vleck. The three had conducted loosely related research. Mott and Anderson clarified the reasons why magnetic or amorphous materials can sometimes be metallic and sometimes insulating.
1898 Renée Adorée

Renée Adorée

French-American actress (died 1933)
Renée Adorée was a French stage and film actress who appeared in Hollywood silent movies during the 1920s. She is best known for portraying the role of Melisande, the love interest of John Gilbert in the melodramatic romance and war epic The Big Parade. Adorée's career was cut short after she contracted tuberculosis in 1930. She died of the disease in 1933 at the age of 35.
1923 Donald Swann

Donald Swann

Welsh-English pianist and composer (died 1994)
Donald Ibrahim Swann was a British composer, musician, singer and entertainer. He was one half of Flanders and Swann, writing and performing comic songs with Michael Flanders.
1919 Roberto Bonomi

Roberto Bonomi

Argentinian race car driver (died 1992)
Roberto Wenceslao Bonomi Oliva was a racing driver who took part in one Formula One World Championship Grand Prix driving a Cooper for the Scuderia Centro Sud team. Before he participated in Formula One he was a sports car champion in 1952 and 1953, as well as a member of the Argentine team to race in Europe. Bonomi worked as a local politician and landowner.
1550 Michael Maestlin

Michael Maestlin

German astronomer and mathematician (died 1631)
Michael Maestlin was a German astronomer and mathematician, best known as the mentor of Johannes Kepler. A student of Philipp Apian, Maestlin is recognized as the teacher who had the greatest influence on Kepler. He is regarded as one of the most significant astronomers of the period between Copernicus and Kepler.He was the first to write a decimal approximation of the Golden ratio.
1919 Patricia Neway

Patricia Neway

American soprano and actress (died 2012)
Patricia Neway was an American operatic soprano and musical theatre actress who had an active international career during the mid-1940s through the 1970s. One of the few performers of her day to enjoy equal success on both the opera and musical theatre stages, she was a regular performer on both Broadway and at the New York City Opera during the 1950s and 1960s.
1207 Rumi

Rumi

Persian mystic and poet (died 1273)
Jalāl al-Dīn Muḥammad Rūmī, commonly known as Rumi, was a Sufi mystic, poet, and founder of the Islamic brotherhood known as the Mevlevi Order. His family hailed from Balkh. Rumi is an influential figure in Sufism, and his thought and works loom large both in Persian literature and mystic poetry in general. Today, his translated works are enjoyed all over the world.
1852 Charles Villiers Stanford

Charles Villiers Stanford

Irish composer, conductor, and educator (died 1924)
Sir Charles Villiers Stanford was an Anglo-Irish composer, music teacher, and conductor of the late Romantic era. Born to a well-off and highly musical family in Dublin, Stanford was educated at the University of Cambridge before studying music in Leipzig and Berlin. He was instrumental in raising the status of the Cambridge University Musical Society, attracting international stars to perform with it.
1997 Yana Kudryavtseva

Yana Kudryavtseva

Russian gymnast
Yana Alexeyevna Kudryavtseva is a retired Russian individual rhythmic gymnast. She is the 2016 Olympic All-around silver medalist, three-time World Champion in the All-around (2013–2015), the 2015 European Games All-around champion, two-time European Championships All-around champion, the 2012 European Junior ball champion. In national level, she is a two-time Russian National All-around champion and three time Russian Junior National all-around champion.
1939 Anthony Green

Anthony Green

English painter and academic (died 2023)
Anthony Green was an English realist painter and printmaker best known for his paintings of his own middle-class domestic life. His works sometimes used compound perspectives and polygonal forms—particularly with large, irregularly shaped canvasses. As well as producing oil paintings, he also produced a number of works designed from the start as limited edition prints, which were typically giclée works.
1882 Hans Geiger

Hans Geiger

German physicist and academic (died 1945)
Johannes "Hans" Wilhelm Geiger was a German experimental physicist. He is known as the inventor of the Geiger counter, a device used to detect ionizing radiation, and for carrying out the Rutherford scattering experiments, which led to the discovery of the atomic nucleus. He also performed the Bothe–Geiger coincidence experiment, which confirmed the conservation of energy in light-particle interactions.
1940 Harry Jerome

Harry Jerome

Canadian sprinter (died 1982)
Harry Winston Jerome was a Canadian track and field sprinter and physical education teacher. He won a bronze medal at the 1964 Olympics in Tokyo and set a total of seven world records over the course of his career.
1961 Eric van de Poele

Eric van de Poele

Belgian race car driver
Eric Francis Edouard Ghislain Thérèse van de Poele is a Belgian racing driver and former Formula One driver. He participated in 29 Grands Prix, in 1991 and 1992. He is a three-times class winner at 24 Hours of Le Mans, and won three Formula 3000 races in 1990. Before his Formula One career, he won the Deutsche Tourenwagen Meisterschaft.
1986 Jarron Gilbert

Jarron Gilbert

American footballer
Jarron Kendrick Gilbert is an American former professional football player who was a defensive end in the National Football League (NFL). He was selected by the Chicago Bears in the third round of the 2009 NFL draft. He played college football at San Jose State. Gilbert was also a member of the New York Jets and Buffalo Bills.
1883 Bernhard Rust

Bernhard Rust

German educator and politician (died 1945)
Bernhard Rust was Minister of Science, Education and National Culture (Reichserziehungsminister) in Nazi Germany. A combination of school administrator and zealous Nazi, he issued decrees, often bizarre, at every level of the German educational system to immerse German youth in Nazi ideology. He also served as the party Gauleiter in Hanover and Brunswick from 1925 to 1940.
1832 Ann Jarvis

Ann Jarvis

American activist, co-founded Mother's Day (died 1905)
Ann Maria Reeves Jarvis was a social activist and community organizer during the American Civil War era. She is recognized as the mother who inspired Mother's Day and as a founder of Mother's Day movements, and her daughter, Anna Marie Jarvis (1864–1948), is recognized as the founder of the Mother's Day holiday in the United States.
1732 Jacques Necker

Jacques Necker

Swiss-French politician, Prime Minister of France (died 1804)
Jacques Necker was a Genevan banker, financier and statesman who served as finance minister of France for Louis XVI. He was a reformer, but his innovations sometimes caused great discontent. Necker was a constitutional monarchist, a political economist, and a moralist, who wrote a severe critique of the new principle of equality before the law.
1931 Teresa Gorman

Teresa Gorman

English educator and politician (died 2015)
Teresa Ellen Gorman was a British politician. She was Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) for Billericay, in the county of Essex, from 1987 to 2001 when she stood down. She was a leading figure in the rebellions over the Maastricht Treaty that nearly brought down John Major's government. She worked in both education and business.
1827

Peter Ward

New York politician (died 1891)
Peter Ward was a New York businessman and politician. From 1851–1859, Ward was the superintendent of the Newburgh Branch of the Erie Railroad. He also worked for the New York, Ontario and Western Railway and the New Jersey Southern Railroad. A member of the Democratic Party, he served as the mayor of Newburgh, New York, from March 13, 1882, to March 11, 1884. In 1889, Ward was elected in a special election to represent the 13th district in the New York State Senate following the death of Senator Henry R. Low. He was sworn in on February 11, 1889, and served until the completion of the 112th New York State Legislature on December 31, 1889. Ward died on May 10, 1891, aged 63, just months after having his tongue removed in surgery.
1937 Gary Hocking

Gary Hocking

Rhodesian motorcycle racer (died 1962)
Gary Stuart Hocking MBE was a Rhodesian professional motorcycle road and car racer. He competed in the FIM Grand Prix motorcycle racing world championships from 1958 to 1962, most prominently as a member of the MV Agusta factory racing team where he won the 1961 350cc and 500cc world championships.
1941 Kamalesh Sharma

Kamalesh Sharma

Indian academic and diplomat, 5th Commonwealth Secretary General
Kamalesh Sharma, GCVO is a retired Indian diplomat who served as the fifth secretary-general of the Commonwealth of Nations from 2008 to 2016. Previously, he was the High Commissioner of India to the United Kingdom from 2004 to 2008. In addition, he is the Chancellor Emeritus of Queen's University Belfast.
1870 Jean Baptiste Perrin

Jean Baptiste Perrin

French-American physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1942)
Jean Baptiste Perrin was a French physicist who, in his studies of the Brownian motion of minute particles suspended in liquids, verified Albert Einstein's explanation of this phenomenon and thereby confirmed the atomic nature of matter. For this work, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1926.
1883 Nora Stanton Blatch Barney

Nora Stanton Blatch Barney

American civil engineer, architect, and suffragist (died 1971)
Nora Stanton Barney was an English-born American civil engineer, and suffragist. Barney was among the first women to graduate with an engineering degree in the United States. Given an ultimatum to either stay a wife or practice engineering she chose engineering. She was the granddaughter of Elizabeth Cady Stanton.
1895 Lewis Milestone

Lewis Milestone

Moldovan-American director, producer, and screenwriter (died 1980)
Lewis Milestone was a Russian-American film director, screenwriter, and producer active during the Golden Age of Hollywood. He twice won the Academy Award for Best Director, for Two Arabian Knights (1927) and All Quiet on the Western Front (1930), with a third nomination for The Front Page (1931).
1910 Jussi Kekkonen

Jussi Kekkonen

Finnish captain (died 1962)
Uuno Johannes (Jussi) Kekkonen was a Finnish major, CEO and the younger brother of President of Finland Urho Kekkonen. Jussi Kekkonen fought successfully in the Winter War in the direction of Kuhmo but lost his sight when he was wounded in the early stages of the Continuation War.
1921 Aldo Parisot

Aldo Parisot

Brazilian-American cellist and educator (died 2018)
Aldo Simoes Parisot was a Brazilian-born American cellist and cello teacher. He was first a member of the Juilliard School faculty, and then went on to serve as a music professor at the Yale School of Music for sixty years, the longest-serving member of that school's faculty ever.
1928 Ray Willsey

Ray Willsey

Canadian-American football player and coach (died 2013)
Ray Willsey was an American gridiron football player and coach. He was the head football coach at the University of California, Berkeley from 1964 to 1971. During his tenure he compiled a 40–42–1 record. He was inducted into the Orange County Sports Hall of Fame in 1993.
1943 Johann Deisenhofer

Johann Deisenhofer

German-American biochemist and biophysicist, Nobel Prize laureate
Johann Deisenhofer is a German biochemist who, along with Hartmut Michel and Robert Huber, received the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1988 for their determination of the first crystal structure of an integral membrane protein, a membrane-bound complex of proteins and co-factors that is essential to photosynthesis.
1898 Princess Charlotte

Princess Charlotte

Duchess of Valentinois (died 1977)
Princess Charlotte, Duchess of Valentinois, styled Hereditary Princess of Monaco between 1922 and 1944, was the daughter of Louis II, Prince of Monaco, and mother of Prince Rainier III. From 1922 until 1944, she was the Hereditary Princess of Monaco, heiress presumptive to the throne.
1934 Udo Jürgens

Udo Jürgens

Austrian-Swiss singer-songwriter and pianist (died 2014)
Udo Jürgens was an Austrian composer and singer of popular music whose career spanned over 50 years. He won the Eurovision Song Contest 1966 for Austria, composed close to 1,000 songs, and sold over 104 million records. In 2007, he additionally obtained Swiss citizenship.
1955 Frankie Kennedy

Frankie Kennedy

Northern Irish flute player (died 1994)
Frankie Kennedy was a flute and tin whistle player born in Belfast, Northern Ireland. He was also the co-founder of the band Altan, formed with his wife Mairéad Ní Mhaonaigh. The popular Frankie Kennedy Winter Music School was founded in 1994 in his honour.
1937 Jurek Becker

Jurek Becker

Polish-German author (died 1997)
Jurek Becker was a Polish-born German writer, screenwriter and East German dissident. His most famous novel is Jacob the Liar, which has been made into two films. He lived in Łódź during World War II for about two years and survived the Holocaust.
1978 Małgorzata Glinka-Mogentale

Małgorzata Glinka-Mogentale

Polish volleyball player
Małgorzata Glinka-Mogentale is a Polish retired volleyball player. She was a member of Poland women's national volleyball team in 1997–2014, a participant of the Olympic Games Beijing 2008, double European Champion, and a gold medalist of Polish, French, Spanish and Turkish national championships.
1982 Seth Smith

Seth Smith

American baseball player
Garry Seth Smith is an American former professional baseball outfielder. He played Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Colorado Rockies, Oakland Athletics, San Diego Padres, Seattle Mariners and Baltimore Orioles. He was the Rockies' 2nd round pick in the 2004 MLB draft.
1991 Thomas Röhler

Thomas Röhler

German javelin thrower
Thomas Röhler is a German track and field athlete who competes in the javelin throw. He is the 2016 Olympic Champion and 2018 European Champion. His personal best of 93.90 m for the event ranks him third on the overall list.
1954 Scott Fields

Scott Fields

American guitarist and composer
Scott Fields is a guitarist, composer, and bandleader. He is best known for blending music that is composed with music that is written and for his modular pieces. He works primarily in avant-garde jazz, experimental music, and contemporary classical music.
1814 Lucinda Hinsdale Stone

Lucinda Hinsdale Stone

American feminist, educator, and philanthropist (died 1900)
Lucinda Hinsdale Stone was an early American feminist, educator, traveler, writer, and philanthropist. Stone was the first woman in the United States to take classes of young women abroad to study, as a means to illustrate history and literature.
1919 William L. Guy

William L. Guy

American lieutenant and politician, 26th Governor of North Dakota (died 2013)
William Lewis Guy was an American politician who was the 26th governor of North Dakota from 1961 to 1973. Guy was North Dakota's longest-serving governor in state history, serving two consecutive two-year terms and two four-year terms in office.
1951 Simon White

Simon White

English astrophysicist and academic
Simon David Manton White, FRS, is a British-German astrophysicist. He was one of directors at the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics before his retirement in late 2019. The Navarro–Frenk–White profile to describe dark matter is named after him.
1765 José María Morelos

José María Morelos

Mexican priest and general (died 1815)
José María Teclo Morelos Pérez y Pavón was a Mexican Catholic priest, statesman and military leader who led the Mexican War of Independence movement, assuming its leadership after the execution of Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla in 1811.
1904 Waldo Williams

Waldo Williams

Welsh poet and academic (died 1971)
Waldo Goronwy Williams was one of the leading Welsh-language poets of the 20th century. He was also a notable Christian pacifist, anti-war campaigner, and Welsh nationalist. He is often referred to by his first name only.
1917 Yuri Lyubimov

Yuri Lyubimov

Russian actor and director (died 2014)
Yuri Petrovich Lyubimov was a Soviet and Russian stage actor and director associated with the internationally renowned Taganka Theatre, which he founded in 1964. He was one of the leading names in the Russian theatre world.
1941 Reine Wisell

Reine Wisell

Swedish race car driver (died 2022)
Reine Tore Leif Wisell was a Swedish racing driver. He participated in 23 Formula One World Championship Grands Prix, debuting on 4 October 1970. He achieved one podium, and scored a total of 13 championship points.
1227 Pope Nicholas IV (died 1292)

Pope Nicholas IV (died 1292)

Pope Nicholas IV was head of the Catholic Church and leader of the Papal States from 22 February 1288 to his death, on 4 April 1292. He was the first Franciscan to be elected pope.
1901 Thelma Terry

Thelma Terry

American bassist and bandleader (died 1966)
Thelma Terry was an American bandleader and bassist during the 1920s and 1930s. She led Terry and Her Playboys and was the first American woman to lead a notable jazz orchestra as an instrumentalist.
1940 Claudia Card

Claudia Card

American philosopher and academic (died 2015)
Claudia Falconer Card was an American philosopher who was the Emma Goldman (WARF) Professor of Philosophy at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, with teaching affiliations in Women's Studies, Jewish Studies, Environmental Studies, and LGBT Studies.
1970 Eric Piatkowski

Eric Piatkowski

American basketball player
Eric Todd Piatkowski is an American former professional basketball player in the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played college basketball for the Nebraska Cornhuskers. He is the son of former ABA player Walt Piatkowski.
1974 Tom Greatrex

Tom Greatrex

English politician
Thomas James Greatrex is a British Labour Co-op politician, who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Rutherglen and Hamilton West between 2010 and 2015 and the Shadow Energy Minister from 2011 to 2015.
1893 Lansdale Ghiselin Sasscer

Lansdale Ghiselin Sasscer

American lieutenant, lawyer, and politician (died 1964)
Lansdale Ghiselin Sasscer was an American politician who served as the U.S. representative for Maryland's 5th congressional district for seven terms from 1939 to 1953. He was a member of the Democratic Party.
1836 Remigio Morales Bermúdez

Remigio Morales Bermúdez

Peruvian politician, President of Peru (died 1894)
Remigio Morales Bermúdez served as the President of Peru from 1890 to 1894. He died while still in office. He served as the first vice president from 1886 to 1890.
1988 Natalie Eggermont

Natalie Eggermont

Belgian politician
Natalie Eggermont is a Belgian physician, politician and member of the Chamber of Representatives. A member of the Workers' Party of Belgium, she has represented West Flanders since June 2024.
1948 Craig Kusick

Craig Kusick

American baseball player and coach (died 2006)
Craig Robert Kusick was an American professional baseball first baseman and designated hitter. He played in Major League Baseball for the Minnesota Twins and Toronto Blue Jays.
1977 Nick Curran

Nick Curran

American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (died 2012)
Nick Curran was an American blues/rock and roll singer and guitarist. He has been likened to T-Bone Walker, Little Richard, The Sonics, Doug Sahm, Misfits Eddie Cochran.
1937 Valentyn Sylvestrov

Valentyn Sylvestrov

Ukrainian pianist and composer
Valentin Vasylyovych Silvestrov is a Ukrainian composer and pianist who plays and writes contemporary classical music. He is a laureate of the Shevchenko National Prize.
1972

Mayumi Kojima

Japanese singer-songwriter
Mayumi Kojima is a Japanese Shibuya-kei musician. As of 2015, she has released 10 studio albums, 3 extended plays and several singles. Her music has been featured in multiple movies and television commercials. In the west, she is best known for her songs "Hatsukoi" (はつ恋), which was featured in a North American Nintendo commercial for the Game Boy Advance and the video game Super Mario Advance 4: Super Mario Bros. 3, and "Poltergeist" , which was used as the opening theme song of the anime Ghost Hound.
1689

Jacques Aubert

French violinist and composer (died 1753)
Jacques Aubert, also known as Jacques Aubert le Vieux, was a French composer and violinist of the Baroque period. From 1727 to 1746, he was a member of the Vingt-quatre Violons du Roy; from 1728 to 1752, he was the first violinist with the Paris Opera orchestra; and from 1729 to 1740, he frequently and successfully appeared as a soloist with the Concert Spirituel, performing, among other works, concertos for violin and orchestra of his own composition.
1970

Damian Mori

Australian footballer and manager
Damian Mori is an Australian former soccer player who is an assistant coach for Adelaide United. He won two Johnny Warren Medals, awarded to the best player in the Australian league and was top scorer on 5 occasions. He established a reputation as a pacy, poaching goalscorer, which is notable for a player who started his career as a defender.
1969

Gintaras Einikis

Lithuanian basketball player
Gintaras Einikis is a Lithuanian retired professional basketball player and current coach. He stands at 6 ft 10 in (208 cm), and is a former center for the senior Lithuanian national team. Einikis is the only player from the Lithuanian national team to have won all three consecutive bronze medals at the Summer Olympics, in Barcelona, Atlanta, and Sydney.
1897

Alfred Wintle

Russian-English soldier and politician (died 1966)
Lieutenant Colonel Alfred Daniel Wintle MC, better known as A. D. Wintle, was a British Army officer who served in the First and Second World Wars. He was the first non-lawyer to achieve a unanimous verdict in his favour in the House of Lords, and is considered one of London's greatest eccentrics.
1961

Gary Coyne

Australian rugby league player
Gary Coyne is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1980s and 1990s. An Australia international and Queensland State of Origin representative forward, he played club football in the Brisbane Rugby League for the Wynnum-Manly Seagulls and in the New South Wales Rugby League for the Canberra Raiders.
1906

Mireille Hartuch

French singer-songwriter and actress (died 1996)
Mireille Hartuch was a French singer, composer, and actress. She was generally known by the stage name "Mireille," it being a common practice of the time to use a single name for the stage.
1960

Julia Adamson

Canadian-English keyboard player, composer, and producer
Julia Adamson is a Canadian composer, musician and current label manager of Invisiblegirl Records. She came to prominence as a recording engineer, and was a member of the Fall between 1995 and 2001.
1897

Charlotte Wolff

German-English physician and psychotherapist (died 1986)
Charlotte Wolff was a German-British physician who worked as a psychotherapist and wrote on sexology and hand analysis. Her writings on lesbianism and bisexuality were influential early works in the field.
1973

Rubén Wolkowyski

Argentine basketball player
Rubén Oscar Wolkowyski is an Argentine former professional basketball player, who also holds Polish citizenship. At a height of 2.08 m tall, he played at the power forward and center positions.
1946

Paul Sheahan

Australian cricketer and educator
Andrew Paul Sheahan is a former Australian international cricketer who played 31 Test matches and three One Day Internationals as an opening and middle order batsman between 1967 and 1973.
1934

Alan A'Court

English footballer and manager (died 2009)
Alan A'Court was an English professional footballer who mostly played for Liverpool. He gained five caps for England and represented the nation at the 1958 FIFA World Cup.
1926

Heino Kruus

Estonian basketball player and coach (died 2012)
Heino Kruus was an Estonian basketball player (186 cm) who competed for the Soviet Union in the 1952 Summer Olympics. He trained at VSS Kalev in Tallinn
1966

Markus Burger

German pianist, composer, and educator
Markus Burger is a German pianist, composer, and music educator. Since 2001, he has lived in California, where he works at Fullerton College and San Diego University.
1530 Girolamo Mercuriale

Girolamo Mercuriale

Italian philologist and physician (died 1606)
Girolamo Mercuriale or Mercuriali was an Italian philologist and physician, most famous for his work De Arte Gymnastica.
1622

Johann Sebastiani

German composer (died 1683)
Johann Sebastiani was a German baroque composer.
1700 Stanisław Konarski

Stanisław Konarski

Polish monk, poet, and playwright (died 1773)
Stanisław Konarski, Sch.P. was a Polish pedagogue, educational reformer, political writer, poet, dramatist, Piarist priest and precursor of the Enlightenment in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.
1714 Étienne Bonnot de Condillac

Étienne Bonnot de Condillac

French epistemologist and philosopher (died 1780)
Étienne Bonnot de Condillac was a French philosopher and Catholic priest who focused on psychology and the philosophy of the mind.
1743 Christian Ehregott Weinlig

Christian Ehregott Weinlig

German cantor and composer (died 1813)
Christian Ehregott Weinlig was a German composer and cantor of Dresden's Kreuzkirche.
1813 John Rae

John Rae

Scottish physician and explorer (died 1893)
John Rae was a Scottish surgeon who explored parts of northern Canada. He was a pioneer explorer of the Northwest Passage.
1827 Ellis H. Roberts

Ellis H. Roberts

American journalist and politician, 20th Treasurer of the United States (died 1918)
Ellis Henry Roberts was an American politician who served as a Representative from New York and 20th Treasurer of the United States.
1861 William Wrigley Jr.

William Wrigley Jr.

American businessman, founded Wrigley Company (died 1932)
William Mills Wrigley Jr. was an American chewing gum industrialist. He founded the Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company in 1891.
1870 Thomas W. Lamont

Thomas W. Lamont

American banker and philanthropist (died 1948)
Thomas William Lamont Jr. was an American banker.
1887 Lil Dagover

Lil Dagover

Indonesian-German actress (died 1980)
Lil Dagover was a German actress whose film career spanned from 1913 to 1979. She was a popular film actress in the Weimar Republic.
1913 Bill Walsh

Bill Walsh

American screenwriter and producer (died 1975)
William Crozier Walsh was a film producer, screenwriter and comics writer who primarily worked on live-action films for Walt Disney Productions.
1915 Lester Maddox

Lester Maddox

American businessman and politician, 75th Governor of Georgia (died 2003)
Lester Garfield Maddox Sr. was an American politician who served as the 75th governor of Georgia from 1967 to 1971.
1917 Buddy Rich

Buddy Rich

American drummer, bandleader, and actor (died 1987)
Bernard "Buddy" Rich was an American jazz drummer, songwriter, conductor, and bandleader. He is considered one of the most influential drummers of all time.
1918

René Rémond

French historian and economist (died 2007)
René Rémond was a French historian, political scientist and political economist.
1919 Elizabeth Gilels

Elizabeth Gilels

Ukrainian-Russian violinist and educator (died 2008)
Elizabeth Gilels was a Soviet and Russian violinist and professor.
1929

Carol Fenner

American author and illustrator (died 2002)
Carol Elizabeth Fenner was an American children's writer.
1929 Dorothee Sölle

Dorothee Sölle

German theologian and author (died 2003)
Dorothee Steffensky-Sölle, known as Dorothee Sölle, was a German Lutheran liberation theologian who coined the term "Christofascism".
1929 Leticia Ramos-Shahani

Leticia Ramos-Shahani

Filipino politician, diplomat and writer (died 2017)
Leticia Valdez Ramos-Shahani was a Filipino senator, diplomat, and writer.
1929

Vassilis Papazachos

Greek seismologist and academic (died 2022)
Vassilis Papazachos was a Greek seismologist and author of Earthquakes of Greece.
1936

Sevgi Soysal

Turkish author (died 1976)
Sevgi Soysal was a Turkish writer.
1938

Alan Hacker

English clarinet player and educator (died 2012)
Alan Ray Hacker was an English clarinettist, conductor, and music professor.
1943 Ian Ogilvy

Ian Ogilvy

English-American actor, playwright, and author
Ian Raymond Ogilvy is an English actor, playwright and novelist.
1943

Philip Moore

English organist and composer
Philip John Moore is an English composer and organist.
1944 Diane Dufresne

Diane Dufresne

Canadian singer and painter
Diane Dufresne, is a French Canadian singer and painter, and is known for singing a large repertoire of popular Quebec songs.
1944 Red Robbins

Red Robbins

American basketball player (died 2009)
Austin "Red" Robbins was an American basketball player.
1945 Ehud Olmert

Ehud Olmert

Israeli lawyer and politician, 12th Prime Minister of Israel
Ehud Olmert is an Israeli politician and lawyer who served as the prime minister of Israel from 2006 to 2009.
1945 Richard Edwin Hills

Richard Edwin Hills

English astronomer and academic (died 2022)
Richard Edwin Hills was a British astronomer who was emeritus professor of Radio Astronomy at the University of Cambridge.
1946

Claude Vorilhon

French journalist, founded Raëlism
Raël is a French journalist and religious leader who founded and leads the Raëlian Movement, an international UFO religion.
1953 Matt Abts

Matt Abts

American drummer
Matt Abts is an American drummer, best known as one of the founding members of the rock band Gov't Mule.
1954 Basia

Basia

Polish singer-songwriter and record producer
Barbara Stanisława "Basia" Trzetrzelewska, better known mononymously as Basia, is a Polish singer-songwriter and recording artist noted for her Latin-inspired jazz-pop music.
1954 Patrice Rushen

Patrice Rushen

American singer-songwriter and producer
Patrice Louise Rushen is an American jazz pianist, R&B singer, record producer, multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, and music director.
1956 Trevor Morgan

Trevor Morgan

English footballer and manager
Trevor James Morgan is an English football coach and former player.
1966

Gary Armstrong

Scottish rugby player
Gary Armstrong is a former Scotland international rugby union player. He played scrum-half for Jed-Forest RFC, Newcastle Falcons and the Border Reivers.
1967 Emmanuelle Houdart

Emmanuelle Houdart

Swiss-French author and illustrator
Emmanuelle Houdart is a Swiss artist and illustrator.
1967 Gibby Haynes

Gibby Haynes

American musician, radio personality and painter
Gibson Jerome Haynes is an American musician, radio personality, painter, author and the lead singer of the band Butthole Surfers.
1969 Chris von Erich

Chris von Erich

American wrestler (died 1991)
Christopher Barton Adkisson was an American professional wrestler, best known under the ring name Chris Von Erich of the Von Erich family.
1975 Carlos Guillén

Carlos Guillén

Venezuelan baseball player
Carlos Alfonso Guillén is a Venezuelan former professional baseball infielder. He played in Major League Baseball for the Seattle Mariners and Detroit Tigers.
1975

Laure Pequegnot

French skier
Laure Pequegnot is a French former Alpine skier.
1979 Andy van der Meyde

Andy van der Meyde

Dutch footballer
Andy van der Meijde, anglicised to van der Meyde, is a Dutch former professional footballer who played as a winger.
1980 Milagros Sequera

Milagros Sequera

Venezuelan tennis player
Milagros Sequera Huss is a Venezuelan former professional tennis player.
1980 Toni Trucks

Toni Trucks

American actress
Toni Trucks is an American actress, best known as Lieutenant Lisa Davis on SEAL Team (2017–2024).
1983 Andreea Răducan

Andreea Răducan

Romanian gymnast
Andreea Mădălina Răducan is a Romanian sports announcer, journalist, and retired gymnast.
1985 Cristian Rodríguez

Cristian Rodríguez

Uruguayan footballer
Cristian Gabriel Rodríguez Barrotti is a Uruguayan former professional footballer who played as a winger.
1985 Téa Obreht

Téa Obreht

Serbian-American author
Téa Obreht is an American novelist. She won the Orange Prize for Fiction in 2011 for The Tiger's Wife, her debut novel.
1986 Olivier Giroud

Olivier Giroud

French footballer
Olivier Jonathan Giroud is a French professional footballer who plays as a striker for Ligue 1 club Lille.
1989 Jasmine Thomas

Jasmine Thomas

American basketball player
Jasmine Thomas is an American former professional basketball player. She last played for the Los Angeles Sparks of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA).
1994 Aliya Mustafina

Aliya Mustafina

Russian gymnast
Aliya Farkhatovna Mustafina is a Russian former artistic gymnast.
2003

Alberto Moleiro

Spanish footballer
Alberto Moleiro González is a Spanish professional footballer who plays as a winger or an attacking midfielder for Villarreal CF.

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