August 7

Births

776 births recorded on August 7 throughout history

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Antiquity 1

317

Constantius II

Constantius II spent his entire reign fighting. The Persians on one border, his own family on the other. He had his cousins killed to secure the succession, then spent years at war with the two who survived — his brothers. He became sole emperor only when both brothers died. He moved the capital east, backed Arian Christianity over Nicene Christianity in disputes that shook the entire church. Julian, the last cousin who survived, revolted in 360. Constantius died marching to fight him. Julian became emperor without a battle.

Medieval 8

594

Kōgyoku, 35.

Kōgyoku, 35. und 37. Kaiserin von Japan

980

Avicena (Abu Alí al-Husain ibn Abd Alá IBN SINA), médico y filósofo persa (f.

Avicena (Abu Alí al-Husain ibn Abd Alá IBN SINA), médico y filósofo persa (f. 1037).

1165

Muhyī d-Dīn Ibn ʿArabī, islamischer Mystiker/Sufi

1282

Elizabeth of Rhuddlan

Elizabeth of Rhuddlan was a daughter of Edward I of England and Eleanor of Castile — born in Wales during Edward's military campaigns there, which is where her place name came from. She had the typical fate of medieval royal daughters: political marriages, early widowhood, remarriage as diplomatic currency. She was married twice, widowed once by 16, remarried at 20. She died in 1316 at 33. Edward I used his daughters strategically in his web of alliances across England and the continent. Elizabeth was one instrument in that strategy.

1282

Princess Elizabeth of Rhuddlan

Princess Elizabeth of Rhuddlan was the daughter of Edward I of England and Eleanor of Castile, born in 1282 at Rhuddlan Castle in Wales during her father's Welsh campaigns. She married Count John I of Holland at 17, a diplomatic union meant to secure English continental allies. John died three years later. She was widowed at 20, returned to England, and died at 34. The daughters of medieval kings lived in the architecture of their fathers' ambitions. Elizabeth was married across the North Sea for reasons of English foreign policy.

1420

Margarida de Saboia, Duquesa de Anjou (m.

Margarida de Saboia, Duquesa de Anjou (m. 1479).

1465

Philibert I., Herzog von Savoyen

1488

Caspar Aquila, deutscher Theologe

1500s 10

1507

Erasmus Schenk von Limpurg, Bischof von Straßburg

1509

Joachim, Fürst von Anhalt-Dessau

1533

Alonso de Ercilla

Alonso de Ercilla sailed to Chile in the 1550s as a soldier and came back with an epic poem. La Araucana — published in three parts between 1569 and 1589 — described the Spanish conquest of Chile and the Mapuche resistance with unusual fairness to the indigenous fighters. Ercilla had fought against them and respected them. The poem made him famous in Spain. Born in Madrid in 1533, he spent years in the Americas fighting a war he later honored in verse. Cervantes called La Araucana one of the best epic poems in the Castilian language.

1533

Valentin Weigel, deutscher mystisch-theosophischer Schriftsteller

1560

Elizabeth Báthory

Elizabeth Báthory tortured and killed somewhere between 80 and 650 young women. The range is that wide because records from the 17th century are incomplete and Báthory's defenders later disputed the higher estimates. Born in 1560 to one of Hungary's most powerful noble families, she was accused of luring servant girls and lesser nobles to her castles and murdering them. Witnesses testified at trial. She was never formally tried — her status protected her from execution — but was walled up in a room of her castle until her death in 1614. The documented evidence is damning regardless of the precise number.

1571

Thomas Lupo

Thomas Lupo was one of the most important viol players and composers at the English court during the reigns of Elizabeth I and James I. His consort music for viols helped define the sound of early 17th-century English chamber music.

1574

Robert Dudley

Robert Dudley charted coastlines he'd never seen. Born in 1574, he made one voyage to the Americas and then spent decades producing Dell'Arcano del Mare — an atlas of the world's oceans that was, at the time of its publication in 1646-1647, the most comprehensive nautical atlas ever made. He did the work in exile in Florence, relying on logs, reports, and earlier cartographers. The maps were engraved in copper and hand-colored. They were also inaccurate in places. But the ambition was real, and so was the scholarship.

1582

Johann von den Birghden, deutscher Postmeister

1590

Karl von Österreich, Bischof von Brixen, Fürstbischof von Breslau

1598

Georg Stiernhielm

Georg Stiernhielm is called the father of Swedish poetry, which is a title you earn by writing the first significant long poem in the Swedish language. Born in 1598, he published Hercules in 1658 — an allegory about a hero choosing between virtue and pleasure, written in classical hexameters adapted to Swedish prosody. The poem established that Swedish could carry literary ambition. He was also a linguist, philosopher, and court official. Sweden's literary tradition begins with him in the same way that Dante's Italian or Chaucer's English marked their languages as fit for serious use.

1600s 9

1600

Eleonore Marie von Anhalt-Bernburg, Herzogin von Mecklenburg-Güstrow

1613

William Frederick

He governed five Dutch provinces simultaneously — yet he never held a single unified title to do it. William Frederick clawed his way to stadtholder of Friesland in 1640, then Groningen, then Drenthe, accumulating influence piece by piece while the House of Orange dominated the south. He kept a private diary, the *Journaal*, where he recorded ambitions most noblemen would never dare write down. He died in 1664 from an accidental gunshot wound. A man who built power quietly, undone in an instant by his own pistol.

1649

Karl Joseph von Österreich, Erzherzog von Österreich, Fürstbischof von Breslau und Hochmeister des deutschen Ordens

1650

Louis Joseph de Lorraine, duc de Guise, Herzog von Guise

1662

Andreas Dietrich Apel, deutscher Handelsherr und Seidenfabrikant

1676

Alberto de Churriguera, arquitecto español (f.

Alberto de Churriguera, arquitecto español (f. 1750).

1676

Friedrich II., Herzog von Sachsen-Gotha-Altenburg

1689

Henrik Benzelius, schwedischer lutherischer Theologe und Erzbischof von Uppsala

1695

August Budde, deutscher Mediziner

1700s 30

1702

Muhammad Shah

Muhammad Shah ruled the Mughal Empire from 1719 to 1748, a period of sustained deterioration in imperial power. During his reign, the Persian king Nadir Shah invaded and sacked Delhi in 1739, taking the Peacock Throne and the Koh-i-Noor diamond. The Mughal Empire technically continued but was never the same — the sack of Delhi made clear to every regional power that the center couldn't hold. Muhammad Shah kept the throne but not the authority it had once represented. He ruled for 29 years over a shrinking empire.

1702

Ehrenreich Gerhard Coldewey, deutscher Gelehrter, Jurist, Poet und Kenner der ostfriesischen Geschichte

1707

Carl Günther Ludovici, deutscher Philosoph und Lexikograf

1726

James Bowdoin

James Bowdoin was governor of Massachusetts from 1785 to 1787 and had the misfortune of governing during Shays' Rebellion — an uprising of indebted farmers who forced the closure of several courts and briefly threatened the federal arsenal at Springfield. Bowdoin called out the militia and suppressed the rebellion. It was over in months. But the spectacle of armed insurrection under the new republic alarmed enough people, including James Madison, that it became one of the arguments for a stronger federal constitution. The convention that wrote it met four months after Shays' defeat.

1729

Franz von Fürstenberg, deutscher Staatsmann und Theologe des Hochstifts Münster

1734

Maria Anna von Bayern, Markgräfin von Baden

1734

Duchess Maria Anna Josepha of Bavaria

Duchess Maria Anna Josepha of Bavaria married the Margrave of Baden-Baden, linking two of the most prominent families in the Holy Roman Empire through dynastic alliance. Her life reflected the era when aristocratic marriages were instruments of statecraft.

1737

Erich G. Laxmann, finnischer Pastor, Professor der Ökonomie, Naturwissenschaftler und Reisender

1742

Nathanael Greene

He walked with a limp and taught himself military strategy entirely from books — yet George Washington called him the most capable general in the Continental Army. Nathanael Greene was a Quaker blacksmith's son from Rhode Island who'd never seen a battle before 1775. He spent the Southern Campaign of 1780–81 retreating repeatedly, winning almost nothing. But those retreats bled Cornwallis dry. He didn't win the South by winning. He won it by refusing to lose.

1751

Wilhelmina of Prussia

She married William V at fifteen, then spent decades running the Netherlands while he dithered. When French-backed Patriots seized power in 1787, Wilhelmina personally tried to march troops back into Holland — and got arrested at a checkpoint. That humiliation is what pulled Prussia into war. Her brother Frederick William II sent 26,000 soldiers to restore her husband's throne within weeks. She'd essentially triggered an international military intervention through sheer stubbornness. The woman history calls "Princess of Orange" was the one actually holding the house together.

1757

Abbondio Bernasconi, Schweizer Politiker

1760

Anna Margaretha Zwanziger, deutsche Serienmörderin

1764

Georgiana Cholmondeley, Marquesa de Cholmondeley (m.

Georgiana Cholmondeley, Marquesa de Cholmondeley (m. 1838).

1764

Lucile de Chateaubriand, femme de lettres française, autrice de contes et de poèmes en prose († 1804).

1769

Karl Kajetan von Gaisruck, österreichischer Geistlicher, Weihbischof in Passau, Erzbischof von Mailand, Kardinal

1769

Johann Christian August Grohmann, deutscher Philosoph, Psychologe und Rhetoriker

1774

1783

John Heathcoat, inventor británico (f.

John Heathcoat, inventor británico (f. 1861).

1783

Princess Amelia of the United Kingdom

She was King George III's youngest child — and his favorite. When Amelia died at 27 from tuberculosis, her father clutched the lock of her hair she'd sent him from her deathbed. He never recovered. Doctors later believed her death triggered his final, permanent descent into madness. He spent his last decade blind and confused at Windsor, sometimes calling her name. One daughter's death effectively ended a king's mind. She didn't outlive him. But she broke him first.

1783

John Heathcoat, inventeur anglais d'une machine à faire de la dentelle († 17 janvier 1861).

1790

Justin von Linde, deutscher Jurist und Politiker, MdL, Staatsminister im Großherzogtum Hessen, Mitglied der Frankfurt…

Justin von Linde, deutscher Jurist und Politiker, MdL, Staatsminister im Großherzogtum Hessen, Mitglied der Frankfurter Nationalversammlung und des Erfurter Unionsparlaments

1800s 100

1800

Josef Krasoslav Chmelenský, tschechischer Kritiker, Dichter, Librettist und Volksaufklärer

1801

Moritz Karl August Axt, deutscher Pädagoge und Altphilologe

1802

Germain Henri Hess, russischer Chemiker Schweizer Herkunft

1810

Karl Formes, deutscher Opernsänger

1811

Elias Loomis, US-amerikanischer Mathematiker, Meteorologe und Astronom

1816

Carit Etlar, dänischer Schriftsteller

1821

Cayetano Sanz, matador espagnol († 21 septembre 1891).

1824

Wilhelm von Schöning, preußischer Gutsbesitzer, Landrat und Politiker

1826

August Ahlqvist

August Ahlqvist codified the Finnish language and championed the use of Finnish in literature, elevating it from a peasant dialect to a formal academic medium. As a professor and poet, he dismantled the influence of Swedish-language dominance in Finnish intellectual life, ensuring that the national identity found its expression through its own distinct linguistic roots.

1829

Justo Pastor Dávila, militar peruano (f.

Justo Pastor Dávila, militar peruano (f. 1901).

1830

Antônio de Macedo Costa, bispo brasileiro (m.

Antônio de Macedo Costa, bispo brasileiro (m. 1891).

1831

Otto Stromer von Reichenbach, Bürgermeister der Stadt Nürnberg

1832

Julius Epstein, österreichisch-ungarischer Pianist

1832

Max Lange, deutscher Schachspieler

1835

1852

Philipp Forchheimer, österreichischer Hydrologe

1854

Hermione von Preuschen, deutsche Malerin und Schriftstellerin

1856

Eduard Hahn, deutscher Agrarethnologe, Geograph und Wirtschaftshistoriker

1857

Eduard Zarncke, deutscher Altphilologe

1858

1862

Henri Le Sidaner

Henri Le Sidaner painted intimate, twilight-lit scenes of gardens, tables set for dinner, and quiet village squares, creating a body of work that sits between Impressionism and Symbolism. His paintings of Gerberoy, the small Picardy village where he spent his later years restoring gardens, became some of the most atmospheric French paintings of the early twentieth century.

1863

1868

Ladislaus Bortkiewicz

Ladislaus Bortkiewicz is best known for a book almost no one has read: The Law of Small Numbers, published in 1898. In it, he demonstrated that rare events — like Prussian cavalry soldiers killed by horse kicks — follow what we now call the Poisson distribution. He counted the actual horse-kick deaths across 14 army corps over 20 years: 196 incidents, distributed in a pattern that fit the mathematical model almost perfectly. The example became famous in statistics textbooks. Born in Russia in 1868, he spent his career in Germany, arguing against quantity theory economics and getting into public fights with mathematical rivals.

1869

Mary Frances Winston

Mary Frances Winston was one of the first American women to earn a doctorate in mathematics, receiving her PhD from the University of Göttingen in 1897 — at a time when German universities were still debating whether women should attend lectures at all. She studied under Felix Klein, who supported her despite institutional resistance. She returned to the United States, taught at small colleges, married, had children, and largely disappeared from research. The structural obstacles facing women in academic mathematics in the early twentieth century were not subtle.

1870

Gustav Krupp, industrial y financiero alemán (f.

Gustav Krupp, industrial y financiero alemán (f. 1950)

1871

Abanîndranâth Tagore (অবণীনদরনাথ ঠাকুর), peintre et écrivain indien († 5 décembre 1951).

1872

Andries Cornelis Dirk de Graeff, político neerlandés (f.

Andries Cornelis Dirk de Graeff, político neerlandés (f. 1957).

1874

Johannes Andreas Jolles, niederländischer Literaturwissenschaftler

1876

Karl Fuchs, deutscher Politiker und Abgeordneter der deutschen Minderheit im Schlesischen Parlament

1876

John August Anderson, US-amerikanischer Astronom

1876

Mata Hari

Mata Hari danced in barely nothing at a time when that was shocking, which made her famous throughout Europe. Born Margaretha Zelle in the Netherlands in 1876, she invented an exotic persona — an Indian temple dancer — from scratch, spoke in fragments of Malay she'd picked up during years in the Dutch East Indies, and became one of the most talked-about performers in Paris. During World War I, she accepted money from both French and German intelligence agencies. Whether she passed anything useful to the Germans is debated by historians. France executed her in 1917 regardless. She refused a blindfold.

1877

Ulrich Salchow

Ulrich Salchow won the figure skating world championship ten times. Ten. He competed between 1896 and 1913 and dominated the sport so completely that one of figure skating's standard jumping elements — the Salchow jump — was named after him while he was still alive. Born in Sweden in 1877, he was also the president of the International Skating Union for 25 years. The jump named for him is now performed by skaters who have no idea who he was. That's a kind of immortality most people don't achieve.

1877

Ulrich Salchow, patinador sueco (f.

Ulrich Salchow, patinador sueco (f. 1949).

1878

Wilhelm Ruhland, deutscher Botaniker

1878

Maria Caspar-Filser, deutsche Malerin

1879

Johannes Kotze

Johannes Kotze was a South African cricketer who played three Tests for South Africa in 1902-03, in the early years of Test cricket. Born in the Cape Colony in 1879, he was a fast bowler who played during a period when South African cricket was finding its feet against the English sides that had taught them the game. His 14 Test wickets came in a career that lasted three matches across two seasons. Cricket of that era had none of the professional structure that followed. Players showed up when asked and went home when the tour ended.

1880

Polly Koss, österreichische Soubrette und Schauspielerin

1880

Walther Lietzmann, deutscher Mathematiker, Pädagoge und Mathematikdidaktiker

1881

François Darlan, almirante y político francés (f.

François Darlan, almirante y político francés (f. 1942).

1882

Hanns Ferdinand Josef Kropff, deutscher Wirtschaftswissenschaftler

1883

Joachim Ringelnatz, deutscher Schriftsteller, Kabarettist und Maler

1883

Arturo Gordon, chilenischer Maler

1884

Nikolai Triik

Nikolai Triik was one of the founders of modern Estonian art, painting portraits and illustrations that helped define an Estonian visual identity during the country's first independence movement. His work bridged Art Nouveau and Expressionism during a period when Estonian artists were establishing a national culture distinct from their Russian and German overlords.

1884

Billie Burke

Billie Burke played Glinda the Good Witch in *The Wizard of Oz* (1939), creating one of the most indelible characters in cinema history. In real life, she was also the wife of Florenz Ziegfeld and a major Broadway and film star long before Dorothy ever left Kansas.

Elizabeth Gurley Flynn

Elizabeth Gurley Flynn gave her first public speech at 16 and was arrested for the first time at 17, for speaking on a street corner in New York. She spent the next fifty years as one of the most relentless labor organizers in American history — the Bread and Roses strike, the IWW campaigns, defense work for Sacco and Vanzetti. She was expelled from the ACLU in 1940 for being a Communist. She joined the Communist Party officially, was imprisoned under the Smith Act in the 1950s, and died in Moscow in 1964 as a guest of the Soviet government.

1890

Randolph West, US-amerikanischer Hämatologe

1892

1898

1902

August Herold, deutscher Rebenzüchter (Kerner und Dornfelder)

1902

Douglas Lowe, athlète britannique spécialiste du demi-fond, double champion olympique († 30 mars 1981).

1903

Saburō Moroi, japanischer Komponist

1903

Louis Leakey

Louis Leakey spent his career in East Africa digging up human ancestors and persuading skeptical colleagues to accept that humanity's origins were African, not Asian. Born in Kenya in 1903 to British missionary parents, he spoke Kikuyu before he spoke English. He and his wife Mary made the discoveries at Olduvai Gorge that reshaped paleoanthropology — including the 1959 find of Australopithecus boisei, which proved that human-like creatures had lived in Africa 1.75 million years ago. He also sponsored Jane Goodall's chimpanzee research and Dian Fossey's gorilla research. He died in 1972. The field he built kept finding things.

1903

María Reining, soprano austriaca (f.

María Reining, soprano austriaca (f. 1991).

1904

Johanna Melzer, deutsche Widerstandskämpferin gegen den Nationalsozialismus

1904

Erwin Fischer, deutscher Jurist

1904

Ralph Bunche

1907

Albert Kotin

Albert Kotin left Minsk as a young man and arrived in New York in the 1920s, where he studied art and spent decades producing work that engaged with the social realist tradition while gradually moving toward abstraction. Born in 1907, he was part of a generation of Jewish immigrant artists who brought European training to American art and changed both. He died in 1980. His work is in museum collections but not often discussed outside them. That describes a large portion of serious American art from his era.

1907

Frank Fitzsimmons, US-amerikanischer Gewerkschaftsführer

1907

Abby Berlin, US-amerikanischer Filmregisseur

1908

Robert Bernardis, österreichischer Offizier, Widerstandskämpfer, Beteiligter am Attentat vom 20.

Robert Bernardis, österreichischer Offizier, Widerstandskämpfer, Beteiligter am Attentat vom 20. Juli 1944

1909

Dorothy Walton

Dorothy Walton dominated women's badminton in Canada, winning multiple national championships in the 1930s and 1940s. She was inducted into Canada's Sports Hall of Fame as one of the country's finest racquet sport athletes.

1909

Dorothy Walton, kanadische Badmintonspielerin

1910

Freddie Slack

Freddie Slack was a boogie-woogie pianist and bandleader whose 1942 recording of "Cow-Cow Boogie" (sung by Ella Mae Morse) became Capitol Records' first hit single, helping launch the label that would later sign Frank Sinatra and the Beatles. His rhythmic, piano-driven swing kept dance floors packed through the war years.

1910

Lucien Hervé, photographe français d'origine hongroise († 28 juin 2007).

1911

István Bibó

István Bibó was one of Hungary's most important political thinkers, whose essays on democracy, nationalism, and the small states of Eastern Europe remain essential reading in the region. Imprisoned after the 1956 Hungarian Revolution, he became a symbol of intellectual resistance to authoritarian rule.

1911

Jan Pietraszko, évêque polonais, vénérable catholique († 2 mars 1988).

1911

Nicholas Ray

Before he made James Dean slouch and smolder in *Rebel Without a Cause*, Nicholas Ray was a folk music student under Frank Lloyd Wright's commune in Wisconsin. True. The architect took in young Ray at Taliesin, teaching him that space shapes human feeling — an idea Ray never forgot. He'd go on to build CinemaScope frames like rooms people couldn't escape. Jean-Luc Godard once wrote, "The cinema is Nicholas Ray." He died in 1979, mid-film, literally. *We Can't Go Home Again* stayed unfinished.

1912

Wiltraut Rupp-von Brünneck, deutsche Richterin des Bundesverfassungsgerichts

1913

George Van Eps

George Van Eps played guitar with seven strings. He had a seventh string added specifically to extend the instrument's bass range, which let him play melody, harmony, and bass lines simultaneously without another musician. Born in 1913, he was the son of a prominent banjo player and spent his career in studio work and jazz performance, recording with Benny Goodman and others. He died in 1998 at 85, having influenced virtually every serious jazz guitarist who followed him. Joe Pass called Van Eps the father of the chord-melody style. Van Eps just called it playing what he heard in his head.

1913

Alicia Penalba, argentinisch-französische Bildhauerin

1913

Hedwig Meermann, deutsche Politikerin, MdB

1914

Fernando Cerchio, italienischer Regisseur, Drehbuchautor und Filmproduzent

1914

Vojtěch Cach, tschechischer Autor und Dramatiker

1916

Kermit Love

Kermit Love designed and built costumes and puppets for *Sesame Street*, most famously constructing Big Bird and Mr. Snuffleupagus. His work helped create characters that have been part of American childhood for over 50 years.

1916

Anton Eric Scotoni, Schweizer Unternehmer

1916

Lawrence Trevor Picachy, cardinal indien, jésuite et archevêque de Calcutta († 30 novembre 1992).

1917

Andrea Mascagni, italienischer Komponist, antifaschistischer Widerstandskämpfer und Politiker

1917

Budd Lynch

Budd Lynch was the public address announcer for the Detroit Red Wings for over 50 years, his voice becoming as much a part of the arena experience as the ice itself. He called games from the 1949-50 season through the early 2000s, spanning the franchise's greatest dynasties.

1918

C. Buddingh'

C. Buddingh' was a Dutch poet and translator known for his light, witty verse and his translations of Shakespeare and Edward Lear into Dutch. He was one of the most popular and accessible Dutch-language poets of the 20th century.

1918

Gordon Zahn

He spent three years interviewing Nazi soldiers to understand why ordinary Catholics obeyed. Not to condemn them — to understand. Gordon Zahn, born in Milwaukee in 1918, became one of America's sharpest Catholic pacifist voices after that research produced *German Catholics and Hitler's Wars* in 1962. His later biography of Franz Jägerstätter — an Austrian farmer executed for refusing Nazi military service — helped get Jägerstätter beatified by the Catholic Church in 2007. Zahn died that same year. The man who documented obedience spent his whole life practicing refusal.

1918

Poni Adams

She was born Dorothy Adams, but Hollywood gave her a new name and mostly bit parts. Poni Adams spent decades as a working actress — the kind who showed up, did her job, and disappeared into the credits. She appeared in over 40 film and television productions across three decades. Not the star. Never the star. But she kept working long after flashier talents had vanished. She died in 2014 at 95, which means she outlasted nearly everyone who ever outranked her on a call sheet.

1919

Gerhard Becker, deutscher Komponist

1919

Kim Borg, finnischer Bassist und Gesangspädagoge

1919

Francisco Stockinger, escultor, gravurista e chargista austríaco (m.

Francisco Stockinger, escultor, gravurista e chargista austríaco (m. 2009).

1919

Rafael Campo Miranda, fue un músico, compositor y centenario colombiano de música popular costeña como porros, cumbia…

Rafael Campo Miranda, fue un músico, compositor y centenario colombiano de música popular costeña como porros, cumbias, y otros aires caribeños. (f. 2024).

Manitas de Plata

Manitas de Plata — 'little hands of silver' — was the stage name of Ricardo Baliardo, a French Romani guitarist who became one of the most celebrated flamenco players of the 20th century. Born in 1921 near Sète, he was essentially self-taught and illiterate, producing music from a tradition passed down entirely by ear. Miles Davis heard him perform in the 1960s and called him the greatest guitarist alive. Miles Davis had heard a lot of guitarists. That's not nothing.

1921

Maurice Tillieux, auteur de bande dessinée belge († 2 février 1978).

1921

Karel Husa

Karel Husa won the Pulitzer Prize for Music in 1969 for his String Quartet No. 3, a work that channeled the anguish of the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia into dissonant, emotionally devastating chamber music. A Czech expatriate who had fled to the United States, he also composed "Music for Prague 1968," which became an anthem of resistance and one of the most performed concert band works in the world.

1922

Pierre Trabaud, comédien et doubleur, l'une des voix françaises de Popeye en dessin animé, de Daffy Duck, Joe Dalton,…

Pierre Trabaud, comédien et doubleur, l'une des voix françaises de Popeye en dessin animé, de Daffy Duck, Joe Dalton, etc. († 26 février 2005).

Kenneth Kendall

Kenneth Kendall was the first person to read the news on BBC Television in vision — face to camera rather than voiceover — in 1955, making him one of the original TV newsreaders. He remained a familiar BBC presence for decades.

1924

Jean Dorst, naturaliste français académicien ès sciences († 8 août 2001).

1924

Wilhelm Vorndran, deutscher Politiker, MdL, bayerischer Landtagspräsident

1925

Armand Gaétan Razafindratandra, madagassischer Priester, Erzbischof von Antananarivo und Kardinal

1925

Felice Bryant

Felice Bryant wrote Bye Bye Love, Wake Up Little Susie, and All I Have to Do Is Dream — the Everly Brothers' biggest hits. Born in Milwaukee in 1925, she wrote with her husband Boudleaux Bryant, and together they produced hundreds of songs that shaped country and early rock and roll. The Bryants sold Bye Bye Love to the Everly Brothers after 30 other artists had turned it down. When the Everlys recorded it in 1957, it hit number 1. The catalog they built is still generating royalties. Felice died in 2003.

1925

M. S. Swaminathan

M.S. Swaminathan led the Indian Green Revolution. Born in Tamil Nadu in 1925, he helped introduce high-yielding wheat varieties to India in the 1960s, working alongside Norman Borlaug's research but adapting it to Indian conditions and Indian farmers. Wheat production in India more than doubled between 1965 and 1972. The famine that had seemed inevitable in the early 1960s didn't happen. Swaminathan was later critical of the revolution's overuse of pesticides and groundwater. He spent his later career arguing for a more sustainable second green revolution. He died in 2023 at 98.

1926

Géza Kádas

Géza Kádas competed as a swimmer for Hungary in the 1948 and 1952 Olympics, part of a Hungarian aquatic tradition that has produced some of the sport's greatest athletes. He contributed to Hungary's strong Olympic swimming legacy.

1926

Jean-Claude Touche, französischer Organist und Komponist

1926

Nelly Prono, actriz paraguaya (f.

Nelly Prono, actriz paraguaya (f. 1997).

1926

Stan Freberg

He sold more records by mocking records than most artists sold by making them. Stan Freberg's 1951 parody "John and Marsha" — just two names, delivered with melodramatic soap-opera breath — hit the Top 40 without a single other word. He later turned down a Disney contract because he refused to be told what was funny. His satirical ads for Chun King Chow Mein and Sunsweet Prunes proved comedy could actually sell things. Freberg didn't just poke fun at American culture. He convinced corporations to pay him for doing it.

1926

Edwin Edwards

Edwin Edwards dominated Louisiana politics for decades, serving four terms as governor while championing populist policies and the state’s legal gambling industry. His career defined the colorful, often controversial nature of Southern machine politics, ultimately ending in a federal corruption conviction that cemented his reputation as one of the most polarizing figures in American governance.

1928

Helen Vita, Schweizer Chansonnière, Schauspielerin und Kabarettistin

1928

Michel Roquebert, écrivain français († 15 juin 2020).

1928

Herb Reed, chanteur américain du groupe The Platters († 4 juin 2012).

1928

Betsy Byars

Betsy Byars won the Newbery Medal for *The Summer of the Swans* (1970), and wrote over 60 books for young readers across five decades. Her work captured the real emotions and awkward realities of growing up with a warmth that avoided sentimentality.

1928

James Randi

James Randi spent his career exposing frauds. Born in Canada in 1928, he was a stage magician who became convinced that psychics, faith healers, and Uri Geller were deceiving vulnerable people, and that someone with his skills could prove it. He offered a million-dollar prize to anyone who could demonstrate paranormal abilities under controlled conditions. No one ever claimed it. He infiltrated faith healing operations, replicated spoon-bending tricks on television, and funded skeptical education for decades. He died in 2020 at 92. The paranormal claims that preceded him are still circulating.

1928

Romeo Muller

He wrote the words Hermey the misfit elf spoke to Rudolph — but Romeo Muller never considered himself a children's writer. Born in New York in 1928, he crafted the scripts for nearly every Rankin/Bass holiday special, including *Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer* and *Frosty the Snowman*, shaping how millions of Americans remember Christmas childhood. He won two Emmy Awards for those teleplays. Muller died in 1992. But every December, his dialogue still plays in living rooms that didn't exist when he wrote it.

1928

Herb Reed

Veljo Tormis

Veljo Tormis is considered the greatest Estonian choral composer, having written over 500 choral works that draw deeply on the ancient runic songs (regilaulud) of Estonian folk tradition. His compositions are performed by choirs worldwide and have been essential to preserving Estonian cultural identity.

He taught the same constitutional law course at Notre Dame for over four decades — and never stopped arguing that the Constitution couldn't stand without natural law beneath it. Charles Rice built a legal philosophy that made secular colleagues uncomfortable and religious ones rethink easy answers. He wrote 11 books, advised presidential campaigns, and kept office hours until he was in his eighties. Students called him relentless. He'd call it honest. What looked like stubbornness was really just a man who'd decided consistency wasn't optional.

1932

Maurice Rabb

Maurice Rabb Jr. was an ophthalmologist at the University of Illinois who specialized in how retinal diseases present differently in Black patients — a field that had been largely overlooked because most medical research used white patients as the default. Born in 1932, he co-founded the National Eye Institute's study of sickle cell retinopathy and trained generations of ophthalmologists. He died in 2005. The work he did on differential presentation contributed to diagnostic standards that affect millions of patients who never knew his name.

1932

Rien Poortvliet

Rien Poortvliet's illustrated book *Gnomes* (1976) became an international bestseller, introducing millions to his extraordinarily detailed nature art. The Dutch painter and illustrator spent a lifetime documenting rural life, wildlife, and the Dutch countryside with a precision that approached scientific illustration.

1932

Edward Hardwicke

Hardwicke inherited his father's Sherlock Holmes. Jeremy Brett had defined the role for a generation on British television, and when Brett died in 1995, the producers cast Edward Hardwicke, who had played Dr. Watson opposite Brett for eight years. Edward knew Holmes from the inside out. He'd watched every gesture, every deduction, every exit. He got the role and played it until the series ended. His father was also an actor. These things run in families sometimes, and sometimes the inheritance is specifically the role you watched someone else perform for a decade.

1932

Abebe Bikila

Abebe Bikila ran the 1960 Olympic marathon barefoot through the streets of Rome at night, along the Appian Way, and won. Born in Ethiopia in 1932, he was a soldier in Haile Selassie's Imperial Guard and had never competed internationally before Rome. He ran the course in 2:15:16 — a world record. Four years later, in Tokyo, he ran with shoes this time and broke his own world record again. In 1969, a car accident left him paralyzed from the waist down. He died in 1973, at 41. The barefoot run through Rome remained what it had been: one of the most extraordinary athletic performances in Olympic history.

1933

Sándor Simó was a Hungarian film director whose work explored personal and political themes during the Communist era. His films contributed to Hungary's rich tradition of art cinema.

1934

Steve Ihnat, US-amerikanischer Schauspieler, Drehbuchautor und Regisseur

1934

Dieter Schlesak, deutscher Schriftsteller, Mitglied des deutschen P.E.N.-Zentrums

1935

Moritz Amherd, Schweizer Theologe und Ökonom

1935

Rahsaan Roland Kirk

Rahsaan Roland Kirk played three saxophones simultaneously — a feat most musicians considered impossible — while also playing flute, nose flute, and an arsenal of unusual instruments, all in service of a musical vision that fused jazz, R&B, and avant-garde improvisation. Blind from early childhood, he developed one of the most original and physically demanding approaches to performance in jazz history.

1935

Lee Corso

Lee Corso has been putting on mascot heads to pick college football games on ESPN's "College GameDay" since 1996, turning a pregame show into appointment television for millions of fans every Saturday in autumn. Before becoming television's most exuberant prognosticator, he coached at Indiana, Louisville, and Northern Illinois — a head coaching career that was solid but unremarkable compared to his second act.

1935

Yoná Magalhães, atriz brasileira (m.

Yoná Magalhães, atriz brasileira (m. 2015).

1936

Rahsaan Roland Kirk

Rahsaan Roland Kirk was born blind and taught himself to play three saxophones simultaneously. Not as a trick — as a musical choice. He played tenor, manzello, and stritch at the same time, using circular breathing to sustain notes indefinitely. Born in Columbus, Ohio, in 1936, he called his music 'Black classical music' and refused to be categorized by jazz critics who hadn't caught up with him. In 1975, a stroke paralyzed his right side. He taught himself to play one-handed. He died in 1977 at 41, mid-sentence practically. He left behind recordings that make most other music sound timid.

1937

Magic Slim, US-amerikanischer Blues-Musiker

1937

Don Wilson

Don Wilson played slow left-arm spin for Yorkshire and England during a career that straddled the amateur and professional eras. Born in 1937, he took 1,189 first-class wickets across 18 seasons for Yorkshire — a number that places him among the county's great slow bowlers. He later became head coach at MCC's cricket school at Lord's and influenced generations of young players. He died in 2012. Yorkshire cricket has a particular culture: meritocratic, hard, proud of its history. Wilson was part of that culture for half a century.

1937

Zoltán Berczik

Zoltán Berczik was a Hungarian table tennis champion who won multiple European medals and competed in world championships during the 1950s and 1960s. He was part of Hungary's dominant table tennis program of the era.

Helen Caldicott, médica australiana, activista antinuclear.

1938

1941

Celso Lafer, advogado, jurista, professor brasileiro.

1941

Matthew Evans

Matthew Evans served in the House of Lords as Baron Evans of Temple Guiting and was an influential figure in British publishing as head of Faber and Faber. Under his leadership, Faber published some of the most important literary works of the late 20th century.

1941

Franco Columbu, italienisch-US-amerikanischer Bodybuilder, Chiropraktiker, Autor und Filmschauspieler

1941

1942

Caetano Veloso

He was arrested by Brazil's military dictatorship in 1968 and held in solitary confinement for months — for writing a song. Caetano Veloso, born in Santo Amaro da Purificação, Bahia, had helped ignite Tropicália, blending electric guitars with traditional Brazilian sounds in ways that made both left and right furious. After his release, he fled to London and recorded in near-total obscurity. He came home in 1972 to eventually reshape Brazilian pop music for decades. The government that tried to silence him only made him louder.

1942

B. J. Thomas

He recorded "Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head" in one take — then hated it. Thomas thought the Burt Bacharach track was too lightweight, too silly, nothing like the gritty soul he preferred. But it sold three million copies and won the 1970 Academy Award for Best Original Song. He'd battled cocaine addiction so severe he once performed in a fur coat to hide track marks. He survived it. Went on to record five Grammy-winning gospel albums. The lightweight song outlasted everything he thought mattered more.

1942

Carlos Monzón

Carlos Monzón held the middleweight world championship for seven years, from 1970 to 1977, and defended it 14 times. Born in Argentina in 1942, he was considered by many observers the best middleweight in history. He was also convicted of murdering his wife Alicia Muñiz in 1988 — throwing her from a balcony during a fight. He served six years of a sentence before dying in a car accident in 1995. Boxing's relationship with its champions' violence outside the ring has always been complicated. With Monzón, there was nothing to complicate: the record shows both the ring and the balcony.

Lana Cantrell was an Australian singer who became a star on American television in the 1960s, performing on shows hosted by Johnny Carson, Ed Sullivan, and Dean Martin. She later earned a law degree from Pace University, transitioning from entertainment to legal practice.

1943

Mohammed Badie

Mohammed Badie became Supreme Guide of the Muslim Brotherhood in 2010, one year before the Arab Spring. Egypt's revolution made his organization the most powerful political force in the country almost overnight. He saw the Brotherhood's candidate Mohamed Morsi become president in 2012. Then the military removed Morsi in 2013 and arrested the entire Brotherhood leadership. Badie was sentenced to death, then life imprisonment, then death again through multiple retrials. As of his 80s, he remained imprisoned.

1943

Vera Dedanwala, deutsche Politikerin (SPD)

1944

David Rasche

He played a trigger-happy detective who literally shot first and asked questions never — and audiences loved him for it. David Rasche's Sledge Hammer!, the 1986 ABC parody where his character slept with a .44 Magnum under his pillow, ran two seasons and built a cult following that still quotes it today. Born in St. Louis in 1944, Rasche studied theology before pivoting to theater. But the man who once prepped for the pulpit ended up perfecting the absurd.

1944

Robert Mueller

1946

John C. Mather, astrofísico y cosmólogo estadounidense, premio nobel de física.

1947

Sofia Rotaru

Sofia Rotaru has been the most popular female singer in Ukraine and across the former Soviet Union for over four decades, with a career spanning pop, folk, and dance music. She has sold over 100 million records and remains a cultural institution whose concerts fill stadiums across Eastern Europe.

1947

Jess Ingerslev, dänischer Schauspieler, Musiker und Synchronsprecher

1947

Sabine Hering, deutsche Sozialwissenschaftlerin

1947

Kerry Reid, joueuse de tennis australienne.

1947

Franciscus Henri

He went by one name: Henri. Born in the Netherlands in 1947, he'd crossed hemispheres before crossing into pop stardom — trading Dutch tulip fields for Australian recording studios. His 1973 hit "Jealousy" climbed the Australian charts while most listeners had no idea he'd grown up speaking a completely different language. He built an entire career singing in English as his second tongue. Not a footnote. Not a curiosity. The accent nobody detected became the instrument nobody knew was borrowed.

1947

Luis Mariñas, periodista español (f.

Luis Mariñas, periodista español (f. 2010).

1947

Suthivelu

Suthivelu was a Tamil character actor who appeared in hundreds of South Indian films, typically in comic roles. His distinctive appearance and timing made him a reliable scene-stealer in Tamil cinema for decades.

1948

Hans-Jürg Fehr, Schweizer Politiker, Nationalrat

1948

César Hildebrandt, periodista peruano.

1948

Pau Riba, músico y artista español (f.

Pau Riba, músico y artista español (f. 2022).

Marty Appel

He started as a teenager who literally mailed a letter to the Yankees asking for a job. They wrote back. By 24, Marty Appel was the team's public relations director — youngest ever — managing the chaos of the early Steinbrenner era firsthand. He'd go on to write over 20 books, including a sweeping biography of Babe Ruth and *Pinstripe Empire*, his definitive history of the franchise. The kid who sent a cold letter ended up shaping how baseball tells its own story.

Matthew Parris served as a Conservative MP before becoming one of Britain's most admired political columnists at *The Times* and a regular BBC broadcaster. His prose combines sharp political analysis with literary elegance, and his coming out as gay in 1984 made him one of the first British politicians to do so publicly.

1949

Tim Renwick, britischer Musiker

1950

S. Thandayuthapani

S. Thandayuthapani was a Sri Lankan Tamil educator and politician who served his community through both teaching and political advocacy. He worked in the Northern Province of Sri Lanka during a period of intense ethnic conflict.

Pete Way, músico británico (f. 2020).

1952

Brigitte Maier, actrice pornographique américaine.

1952

Kees Kist

Kees Kist was a prolific Dutch striker who won the European Golden Boot in 1979 while playing for AZ Alkmaar, scoring 34 league goals in a single season. He also earned caps for the Netherlands national team.

1952

Eamonn Darcy

Eamonn Darcy represented Europe in the Ryder Cup three times, sinking the clinching putt in Europe's victory at Muirfield Village in 1987 — the first time Europe had won on American soil. An Irish golfer with a famously unorthodox swing, he proved that results matter more than aesthetics.

1952

Caroline Aaron

Caroline Aaron is an American character actress who has appeared in dozens of films and television shows, including recurring roles in "The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel" and Woody Allen's "Crimes and Misdemeanors." She brings a sharp, comedic presence to ensemble casts across both comedy and drama.

1952

Alexei Sayle

Sayle was part of the Alternative Comedy movement that cracked British television open in the early 1980s. He didn't tell mother-in-law jokes. He talked about capitalism and class and Merseyside with a delivery so fast and so dense that audiences spent half the set figuring out what he'd just said. He was the compere at The Comedy Store in London's first incarnation. He gave Rik Mayall and Adrian Edmondson their first audiences. He wrote novels. Three of them, well-reviewed. He kept performing and remained impossible to categorize.

Guy de Kerimel, évêque catholique français, archevêque de Toulouse.

1954

Osman Pepe, türkischer Umweltminister

1954

Jonathan Pollard

Jonathan Pollard passed classified US intelligence to Israel for 18 months before his 1985 arrest — reportedly enough material to fill ten large suitcases when printed. Born in 1954, he was a US Navy intelligence analyst who believed Israel needed the information for its security. He was sentenced to life in prison. Israel denied running him as an agent for years, then acknowledged it and formally asked for his release. He was released in 2015 after 30 years and emigrated to Israel in 2020. The documents he handed over are still classified.

1954

Alan Reid

Greg Nickels

He lost his 2009 re-election bid by just 1,000 votes — roughly one percent — ending a tenure that reshaped the city block by block. Greg Nickels, born in 1955, wasn't a Seattle native; he grew up in Renton, Washington, and got his political start as a King County staffer before muscling onto the city council. His 2003 snowstorm response became a campaign issue six years later. But he'd already signed the U.S. Mayors Climate Protection Agreement, eventually pulling 1,000 cities into a nationwide emissions pledge Washington D.C. wouldn't touch.

1957

Mareta Espinosa, artista española.

1957

Alexander Dityatin

Alexander Dityatin won eight Olympic medals at the 1980 Moscow Games — three gold, four silver, one bronze — in a single competition. No gymnast had ever won eight medals at a single Olympics. Born in Leningrad in 1957, he was the first gymnast to receive a perfect 10 from all judges in the horse vault. The Moscow Games were boycotted by the United States and many Western nations following the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. Dityatin's records were set against a depleted field. He has said the medals are real regardless. The argument is still had.

1957

Harald Effenberg, deutscher Schauspieler

1957

Caroline Aaron

Caroline Aaron is an American character actress with a prolific career spanning stage, film, and television. She is known for scene-stealing supporting roles in films like *Crimes and Misdemeanors* and *Edward Scissorhands*, and more recently in *The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel*.

1957

Daire Brehan

Daire Brehan was an Irish journalist, barrister, and actress who worked across multiple careers with remarkable versatility. Her early death in 2012 was widely mourned in Irish media circles.

1958

Tilman Rossmy, deutscher Liedermacher

1958

Russell Baze

Russell Baze rode 12,844 winners in North American horse racing — the most of any jockey in history at the time of his retirement. He dominated Bay Meadows and Golden Gate Fields in Northern California for decades, riding multiple races a day, every day, compiling wins at a rate that could only be achieved through consistency rather than high-profile race selection. The Kentucky Derby crowd barely knew his name. The horses he rode in California races knew his hands.

1958

Bruce Dickinson

Bruce Dickinson redefined the boundaries of heavy metal by blending operatic vocal range with Iron Maiden’s intricate, galloping compositions. His arrival in 1981 transformed the band into a global stadium act, selling millions of albums and establishing the blueprint for the New Wave of British Heavy Metal that continues to influence rock vocalists today.

1958

Alberto Salazar

Alberto Salazar won the New York City Marathon three consecutive times — 1980, 1981, 1982 — and set a world record in 1981. Born in Cuba in 1958 and raised in the United States, he was the dominant road racer of his era. Then he collapsed at the 1982 Boston Marathon finish line, suffering heat stroke so severe that he was administered last rites. He survived. His career was never the same. He later became one of the most successful running coaches in the world — then was banned from the sport in 2019 for doping violations. Two careers, two very different legacies.

1958

Larissa Karlova, joueuse de handball ukrainienne, double championne olympique.

1958

Julian Wadham, britischer Schauspieler

1959

Koenraad Elst

Koenraad Elst is a Belgian Indologist and author who has written extensively on Hindu nationalism, the Ayodhya dispute, and Indo-European origins. His work, which often challenges mainstream academic consensus, has made him a polarizing figure in South Asian studies.

Ali Shah played two One Day Internationals for Zimbabwe in 1996, at the very beginning of Zimbabwe's serious engagement with international cricket. Born in 1959, he was part of the club cricket structure that supported Zimbabwe's national program during the years when the country was still proving it could compete at the top level. Two ODIs is a career that most people who ever bowled or batted on a cricket pitch would envy. It's also a career that lasted, by any measure, about one afternoon.

Michael Roes, deutscher Schriftsteller

1960

Jacquie O'Sullivan

Jacquie O'Sullivan brought a sharp, punk-inflected edge to the pop charts as a member of Bananarama during their commercial peak in the late 1980s. Her arrival helped the trio sustain their global success with hits like I Want You Back, proving that the group could evolve its sound while maintaining its signature vocal harmonies.

1960

Alison Brown won a Grammy for Best Country Instrumental Performance and helped bring the banjo into bluegrass, jazz, and Celtic fusion contexts. She also founded Compass Records, one of the most respected independent roots music labels in America.

1963

Marcus Roberts

Marcus Roberts is a blind jazz pianist whose interpretations of Thelonious Monk, Duke Ellington, and George Gershwin have earned widespread critical acclaim. A protégé of Wynton Marsalis, he has been at the center of the jazz traditionalist movement since the late 1980s.

1963

Bahne Rabe, deutscher Ruderer

1963

Paul Dunn

Paul Dunn played rugby league in Australia, part of the vast network of players who compete in the NRL and feeder leagues that sustain the sport's presence across eastern Australia and the Pacific Islands.

1963

Harold Perrineau

He played Michael on *Lost*, screaming "WAAALT!" across a beach so many times it became a punchline — but Perrineau was the one who called out the show's writers publicly for killing off his character in ways he felt disrespected Black storytelling. Born in Brooklyn in 1963, he'd trained seriously in dance before theater pulled him sideways. His Augustus Hill in *Oz* — wheelchair-bound narrator, Greek chorus in a prison hellhole — remains one of TV drama's most formally strange performances. That role came first. Most people forgot.

1963

Patrick Bouvier Kennedy

Patrick Bouvier Kennedy arrived five weeks premature, triggering a national outpouring of grief when he died just two days later. His brief life prompted President John F. Kennedy to prioritize federal funding for neonatal research, directly accelerating the development of modern respiratory distress syndrome treatments that now save thousands of infants annually.

1963

Nicandro Díaz González, productor de televisión mexicano (f.

Nicandro Díaz González, productor de televisión mexicano (f. 2024).

1963

Harold Perrineau, actor estadounidense.

1963

Osvaldo Bazán, periodista argentino.

1963

Nick Gillespie

Nick Gillespie edited *Reason* magazine from 2000 to 2008 and continues as editor-at-large, making him one of the most visible voices of American libertarianism in media. He has shaped libertarian thought for a mainstream audience through print, video, and podcasting.

Michael Weishan hosted The Victory Garden on PBS for six seasons, bringing the show's long history of horticultural instruction to a new generation of home gardeners. Born in 1964, he was also a landscape designer and garden writer, which gave his television work a practical credibility — he wasn't performing gardening, he was doing it. PBS gardening shows occupy a specific niche in American public broadcasting: instructional, calm, slightly evangelical about the superiority of growing your own. Weishan fit that niche precisely.

Raul Malo

Raul Malo fronts The Mavericks, the country-Latin-rock hybrid band that produced "Dance the Night Away" and "All You Ever Do Is Bring Me Down." His booming baritone and willingness to blend Cuban son, Tex-Mex, and classic country made The Mavericks one of the most genre-defying acts in Nashville history.

1965

Jocelyn Angloma, futbolista francés.

1965

Lisa Roberts Gillan, US-amerikanische Filmschauspielerin

1965

Elizabeth Manley

Elizabeth Manley delivered the performance of her life at the 1988 Calgary Winter Olympics, winning the silver medal in figure skating with a free skate that brought the home crowd to its feet. A Canadian athlete who had struggled publicly with anxiety and depression, her Olympic moment became one of the most celebrated in Canadian sporting history.

1966

Markus H. Eberhard, deutscher Schauspieler und Sänger

1966

Kristin Hersh

Kristin Hersh redefined alternative rock by blending jagged, dissonant guitar tunings with raw, stream-of-consciousness lyrics. Through her work with Throwing Muses and 50 Foot Wave, she pioneered a visceral, uncompromising sound that influenced the indie rock landscape of the nineties. Her career remains a masterclass in artistic independence and the power of unfiltered personal expression.

1966

Jimmy Wales

Jimmy Wales co-founded Wikipedia in 2001. Born in Alabama in 1966, he'd been running a web portal called Nupedia — articles written by credentialed experts, heavily edited — when software developer Larry Sanger suggested adding a wiki so anyone could contribute drafts. Wales added it as a feeder system for Nupedia. Within months, Wikipedia had more articles than the project it was supposed to support. Nupedia was shut down. Wikipedia now has 62 million articles in 300+ languages. The encyclopedia that let anyone edit anything became the reference source for a planet.

1966

Carla Andrino, atriz portuguesa.

1966

David Cairns

David Cairns served as Labour MP for Inverclyde and was appointed Minister of State for Scotland, becoming the first openly gay Catholic MP in Westminster. His death from acute pancreatitis in 2011 at age 44 cut short one of Scottish Labour's most promising political careers.

1966

Shobna Gulati

Shobna Gulati is an English actress best known for playing Sunita Alahan on *Coronation Street* and Anita on *Dinnerladies*. She has been one of the most recognizable South Asian actresses on British television.

1966

Patrick Aduma, actor nigeriano-argentino (f.

Patrick Aduma, actor nigeriano-argentino (f. 2010)

1968

Pepe Aguilar, cantante mexicano.

1968

Vicente Potolicchio, venezolanischer Automobilrennfahrer

1968

Lynn Strait

He named his band after his dog. Snot — the actual dog, a pit bull mix — became the unofficial mascot of the Long Beach metal scene Lynn Strait was building from scratch in the early '90s. Their debut album *Get Some* dropped in 1997 and critics couldn't ignore it. Then a car crash in December 1998 killed both Lynn and the dog. Together. Snot's bandmates finished a tribute album using guest vocalists rather than replace him. They never did replace him.

1968

Trevor Hendy

Trevor Hendy won five consecutive Australian Ironman titles in surf lifesaving during the 1990s, dominating a grueling multi-discipline event that combines ocean swimming, board paddling, and beach sprinting. He was one of Australia's most recognized athletes during the decade and helped popularize competitive surf lifesaving as a spectator sport.

1968

Sophie Lee

Sophie Lee is an Australian actress and author who appeared in "Muriel's Wedding" and "The Castle," two of the most beloved Australian comedies of the 1990s. She later transitioned to writing children's books and lifestyle publications.

1969

Günter Krings, deutscher Politiker, MdB

1969

Dana G. Peleg

Dana G. Peleg is an Israeli writer and LGBTQ activist whose work addresses queer identity in the context of Israeli society and politics. She has used both fiction and public advocacy to push for greater acceptance in a country where LGBTQ rights have advanced faster than in much of the Middle East but still face cultural resistance.

1969

Markus Bundi

Markus Bundi is a Swiss writer whose work explores language, identity, and the Swiss literary tradition in both German and the multilingual context of Swiss culture. His writing contributes to the small but vibrant world of contemporary Swiss-German literature.

1969

Paul Lambert

Paul Lambert won the UEFA Champions League with Borussia Dortmund in 1997, becoming the first Scottish player to win the competition since 1983. He played a quiet, disciplined holding role — the kind of player whose absence is noticed more than his presence. He moved into management after retiring and took Aston Villa from relegation candidates to European competition. His managerial career had more turbulence than his playing one. The Champions League medal stayed.

1970

Andy Ludyk, deutscher Musikproduzent und Musikmanager

1970

Marlies Askamp, deutsche Basketballspielerin

1970

Hans De Meester, ciclista belga.

1970

Eric Namesnik

Eric Namesnik was a two-time Olympic silver medalist in the 400m individual medley (1992 and 1996), one of the finest American swimmers of the 1990s. His death in a car accident in 2006 at age 35 was a devastating loss to the swimming community.

1970

Bento Hinoto, guitarrista brasileiro (m.

Bento Hinoto, guitarrista brasileiro (m. 1996).

Sebastian Padotzke, deutscher Keyboarder

1971

Rachel York

York appeared in Will and Grace as recurring character Gillian and has worked in American musical theater and television throughout her career. She has performed on Broadway multiple times. Her musical theater work is more substantial than her television career suggests, a common situation for trained performers who work primarily on stage.

Goran Vlaović, futbolista croata.

1972

Greg Serano

Serano appeared in Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel in recurring and guest roles and has worked in American television drama consistently. He is the kind of working actor whose face is familiar to genre television audiences without becoming a recognizable name to the broader public.

Mikhail Gorsheniov

He built a punk-fairy-tale empire out of wolves, demons, and village fools — and Russian teenagers couldn't get enough. Mikhail "Gorshok" Gorsheniov co-founded Korol i Shut in Leningrad in 1988 with childhood friend Andrei Knyazev, turning folklore horror into stadium anthems. The band sold out Russian arenas for two decades. He died in his sleep at 39, cause never officially confirmed. But the songs stayed. Fans still leave hand-drawn jesters at his grave in St. Petersburg every single week.

1973

Danny Graves

Danny Graves was born in Saigon in 1973 — his Vietnamese mother, his American father stationed there before the fall. He was adopted as a young child and grew up in Florida. He pitched for the Cincinnati Reds for seven seasons, most prominently as their closer in the early 2000s, saving 182 games in his career. He's one of the few players born in Vietnam to play in the major leagues — a fact that sits alongside his baseball statistics as an equally improbable piece of biography.

1973

Kevin Muscat

Kevin Muscat was, by several accounts, the most feared tackler in Australian football — not feared as in respected, feared as in genuinely apprehended. Born in England in 1973 and raised in Australia, he played for Crystal Palace, Wolverhampton, Rangers, and Millwall before returning to the A-League with Melbourne Victory. He received multiple lengthy bans for violent challenges. He also scored from the penalty spot, captained Australia, and later managed Melbourne Victory to multiple championships. The biography contains multitudes. Some of them resulted in suspensions.

1973

Boden Hanson, remero australiano.

1973

Kimmo Rintanen, finnischer Eishockeyspieler

1974

Chico Benymon

Benymon appeared in Half and Half on UPN, a cable drama targeted at Black women audiences that ran from 2002 to 2006. He has worked in American television and film in supporting roles. His career spans the transition between the UPN/WB era of targeted Black programming and the streaming era that followed.

Hans Matheson

Hans Matheson earned critical acclaim for lead roles in *Jude* (1996), *Doctor Zhivago* (2002), and *The Phantom of the Opera* (2004). The Scottish actor brought intense physicality to his performances, carving a niche in literary adaptations and period drama.

1975

Gaahl

Gaahl is the enigmatic frontman of Norwegian black metal, known for his work with Gorgoroth, God Seed, and Trelldom, as well as his involvement in the neofolk project Wardruna. His public coming out as gay in 2008 challenged the hyper-masculine norms of extreme metal and made international headlines.

1975

1975

Rebecca Kleefisch

Rebecca Kleefisch transitioned from a career in television journalism to become the 44th Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin. During her two terms, she spearheaded the state’s economic development initiatives and focused heavily on workforce training programs, directly influencing how Wisconsin businesses recruited and retained skilled labor across the manufacturing and technology sectors.

1975

Ray Hill

Ray Hill played in the NFL as a defensive back, part of the revolving roster of players who compete in the league's most physically punishing positions. He died in 2015 at age 40, tragically young.

1975

Megan Gale

Megan Gale became one of Australia's most recognizable models after starring in a series of Omnitel (later Vodafone) television commercials in Italy that made her a household name across Europe. She later moved into acting, appearing in "Mad Max: Fury Road," though her scenes were ultimately cut from the final film.

1975

Gerard Denton

Gerard Denton played cricket for Australia at the domestic level, competing in the Sheffield Shield — the first-class competition that has produced nearly every Australian Test cricketer since 1892.

1975

Gaahl, chanteur norvégien.

1975

Hans Matheson, acteur britannique.

1976

Shane Lechler

Shane Lechler punted in the NFL for 15 seasons, spending most of them with the Oakland Raiders. Born in Texas in 1976, he was eight times a Pro Bowl selection and widely considered the best punter of his generation. Punters occupy an odd position in football: essential in a way that isn't fully acknowledged, celebrated only when something goes wrong or spectacularly right. Lechler's punts averaged 47.6 yards over his career. Many of them pinned opponents deep in their own territory in moments that changed games. The scoreboards didn't record it.

1976

Hamed Attarbashi, deutscher Basketballtrainer

1976

Samantha Ronson

She was spinning records at New York clubs before most people knew her name — not as a celebrity, but as the DJ other DJs actually watched. Samantha Ronson built her reputation track by track, earning residencies and tour slots through craft rather than connections, despite her family name opening zero doors she didn't push herself. Her brother Mark produced some of pop's biggest albums. She chose the booth. That choice made her one of the few DJs who crossed from underground credibility into mainstream fame without losing either.

Shirley Yeung

Shirley Yeung was a prominent figure in Hong Kong entertainment in the 2000s, acting in TVB dramas and recording Cantopop. Born in 1978, she had the kind of career that Hong Kong's entertainment industry produces in large numbers — intense visibility, devoted local audiences, almost total invisibility outside the region. Cantopop at its peak in the 1990s and early 2000s was one of the most commercially successful popular music traditions in Asia. Yeung worked in that industry at the height of its influence.

1978

Vanness Wu

Vanness Wu rose to pan-Asian stardom as a member of the boy band F4, spearheading the massive popularity of Taiwanese idol dramas across the continent. His breakout role in Meteor Garden helped launch the regional craze for Mandopop and East Asian television, bridging entertainment markets between Taiwan, Japan, and mainland China.

1978

Alexandre Aja

Alexandre Aja directed Haute Tension in 2003, a French horror film so relentlessly brutal that its American distributor required cuts before releasing it. Born in Paris in 1978 to a filmmaker father, he moved to Hollywood and made The Hills Have Eyes remake in 2006, then Mirrors, Piranha 3D, Crawl, and others. He has spent his career in a genre that critics routinely dismiss and audiences never tire of. The best of his films work because he takes the mechanics of dread seriously, not as a joke to be winked at. Crawl is about an alligator and a flooded house. It is genuinely tense.

1978

Jamey Jasta

Jamey Jasta defined the sound of modern hardcore by fronting Hatebreed, blending aggressive metal riffs with anthemic, shout-along vocals. His work bridged the gap between underground punk and mainstream metal, earning the band a Grammy nomination and establishing a blueprint for the metalcore genre that dominated the early 2000s.

1978

Loan Laure, actrice française.

1978

Cirroc Lofton

Lofton played Jake Sisko, the son of the station commander, on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine for seven seasons. He was the only major child character on any Star Trek series to age in real time across a series run. He started at 14 and finished at 21. The character grew up on screen. He has worked in television and film since.

Eric Johnson

Johnson played Kyle Valenti on Roswell for three seasons on the WB, the young sheriff's son tangled in the alien mythology of the show. He has continued working in film and television. Roswell retained a devoted fan base after cancellation that has kept interest in its cast active longer than the broadcast run might have predicted.

1979

Gangsta Boo, US-amerikanische Rapperin

1979

Tobias Thalhammer, deutscher Schlagersänger und Politiker, MdL

1979

Birgit Zotz

Anomie Belle

Campbell performs as Anomie Belle in the Seattle music scene, combining electronic production with acoustic instrumentation in a style that resists easy genre classification. Independent music in the 2000s and 2010s created space for this kind of work that the major label system would not have accommodated.

1980

Christian Schreiber, deutscher Ruderer

1980

Josiel, futebolista brasileiro.

1980

Seiichiro Maki

Seiichiro Maki played professional football in Japan's J-League system. He was part of the generation of players who competed during the league's growth period in the early 2000s.

1980

Aurélie Claudel

Aurélie Claudel modeled internationally throughout the 1990s and early 2000s and later moved into acting in French film and television. Born near Lyon in 1980, she was a fashion model at a time when the industry had different standards than it does today — longer careers, more varied aesthetics, campaigns that ran in print rather than on screens. She transitioned into performance without abandoning her first career entirely. The two lines of work informed each other in ways that aren't always acknowledged.

1980

Rupert Wagner, deutscher Kanute

1981

Abbie Cornish

Abbie Cornish broke through with her raw performance in *Somersault* (2004), which swept the Australian Film Institute Awards, winning all 13 categories it was nominated in. She went on to Hollywood roles in *Bright Star*, *Limitless*, and *Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri*.

1982

Ángeles Balbiani

Ángeles Balbiani has worked in Argentine television, appearing in telenovelas and entertainment programs. She is part of the vibrant Buenos Aires television production scene.

1982

Edwin Dewees

Edwin Dewees competed in American mixed martial arts. He fought in various promotions during the sport's growth period in the 2000s.

Marquise Hill was a New England Patriots defensive end, drafted in the first round in 2004 out of LSU. His promising NFL career ended tragically when he drowned in a jet ski accident on Lake Pontchartrain in 2007 at age 24.

1983

Diana Aguavil, política cubana.

1983

Mario Camacho, futbolista costarricense.

1983

Murat Dalkılıç

Murat Dalkilic is a Turkish pop singer-songwriter whose albums have made him one of the country's most commercially successful male artists. His blend of Turkish pop with contemporary production styles has kept him on the charts across multiple albums.

1983

Danny

Danny — born Daniel Miguel Alves Gomes — was a Portuguese midfielder who played most of his professional career in Russia with Zenit Saint Petersburg, where he became one of the Russian Premier League's best foreign imports. He won multiple league titles with Zenit and earned caps for the Portuguese national team.

1983

Mark Pettini

Mark Pettini captained Essex County Cricket Club and played as an opening batsman in English county cricket. After retiring from professional cricket, he moved into sports journalism, covering the game from the other side of the boundary rope.

1983

Andriy Hryvko

Andriy Hryvko competed as a professional road cyclist from Ukraine, racing for several continental and ProTour teams in European cycling. He represented Ukraine in international competition.

1983

Tina O'Brien, actriz inglesa.

1983

Tina O'Brien

O'Brien has played Sarah Platt in Coronation Street since 1999, a role she began at age 15. She has now spent over 25 years in the same long-running British soap opera, an unusual kind of career continuity. Coronation Street has aired since 1960. It is the longest-running dramatic serial in British television history. O'Brien has been in it for more than a quarter of its run.

1983

Christian Chávez

Christian Chávez was part of RBD, the Mexican pop group that emerged from the telenovela Rebelde in 2004 and sold 15 million records over five years. Born in Guadalajara in 1983, he played the brooding rebel character Miguel — a role written for telenovela formula that he made specific enough to be memorable. When RBD disbanded in 2008, he continued acting and recording. In 2023, RBD reunited for a world tour that sold more than a million tickets. The audience that had grown up with them came back. They were ready.

Tooba Siddiqui

Tooba Siddiqui became one of Pakistan's most recognized supermodels in the early 2000s, later transitioning to acting in Pakistani television dramas. She won the Lux Style Award for Best Model multiple times.

1984

Stratos Perperoglou

Stratos Perperoglou played professional basketball across Europe, including stints with Olympiacos and other top clubs. He was a regular member of the Greek national basketball team.

Paul Biedermann beat Michael Phelps's world record in the 200-meter freestyle at the 2009 World Championships in Rome, finishing in 1:42.00. He also broke Ian Thorpe's 400-meter freestyle world record the same week. Both races were swum in the full-body polyurethane suits that were banned the following year. The records he set in Rome still stand. He won legitimate German championship titles and competed at multiple Olympics, but the records that define his career exist because of a suit technology that no longer exists.

1986

Valter Birsa

Valter Birsa was a Slovenian midfielder who played in Serie A for AC Chievo, Torino, and AC Milan, as well as earning over 60 caps for the Slovenian national team. His left foot and set-piece ability made him one of Slovenia's most accomplished exports to top-flight European football.

1986

Juan de la Rosa

Juan de la Rosa competed as a professional boxer from Mexico, fighting in the lighter weight classes. He was part of Mexico's deep tradition of producing world-class fighters.

1986

Altair Jarabo

Altair Jarabo became one of Mexico's most recognized telenovela actresses, starring in productions like *Al Diablo con los Guapos* and *En Nombre del Amor*. Her striking looks and versatility made her a staple of Televisa's prime-time lineup.

1986

Francisco Paz, futbolista nicaragüense.

1987

شيماء سيف، ممثلة مصرية.

1987

Sidney Crosby

Sidney Crosby was 18 years old when he played his first NHL game. Born in Cole Harbour, Nova Scotia, in 1987, he'd been called the Next One since he was a teenager — the heir to Gretzky, the franchise-saving pick the Pittsburgh Penguins won by losing badly enough to get. He exceeded it. By 25, he had a Stanley Cup, an Olympic gold medal, and a Hart Trophy. By 35, he had three Cups and was still playing at an elite level. The weight of the expectations placed on him at 18 would have crushed most athletes. He treated it as a baseline.

Mustapha Dumbuya played professional football for several clubs and represented Sierra Leone at international level. He was part of a generation of West African players who competed across multiple leagues.

1987

Ryan Lavarnway

Ryan Lavarnway was a journeyman catcher in Major League Baseball, debuting with the Boston Red Sox in 2011 and later playing for several other organizations. He also represented Israel in the World Baseball Classic, helping the team make a surprise run in 2017.

1987

Mimi Paley

Mimi Paley appeared as the young version of Margot Tenenbaum in Wes Anderson's *The Royal Tenenbaums* (2001). Her brief but memorable screen appearance came at the start of one of the most celebrated American comedies of the 2000s.

1987

Rouven Sattelmaier

Rouven Sattelmaier played as a goalkeeper in the German football league system. He competed for several clubs in the lower divisions of German professional football.

1988

Zoran Kvržić, futbolista bosnio.

1988

Beanie Wells

Beanie Wells was a powerful running back who starred at Ohio State before being drafted by the Arizona Cardinals in 2009. Injuries limited his NFL career, but his combination of size and speed made him one of college football's most exciting runners.

1988

Mohamed Coulibaly

Mohamed Coulibaly is a Senegalese footballer who has played professionally in Europe and Africa, part of the pipeline of West African talent that feeds leagues across the continent and beyond. Senegal has become one of Africa's most prolific exporters of football talent.

Liz Cochran was crowned Miss Alabama in 2009, competing in the Miss America pageant system. She represented her state on the national stage of American beauty pageants.

DeMar DeRozan has been one of the NBA's most prolific scorers since entering the league in 2009, earning multiple All-Star selections with the Toronto Raptors and later the San Antonio Spurs and Chicago Bulls. His midrange game — considered a dying art — remained devastatingly effective across eras of three-point dominance.

1990

Hermann Pernsteiner, österreichischer Radrennfahrer

1990

Maximilian Schirmer, deutscher Politiker

1990

Josh Franceschi

Josh Franceschi fronts You Me at Six, the English rock band that has been a mainstay of the British alternative scene since the late 2000s. Their albums have charted consistently in the UK, and they've headlined major festivals while navigating the shifting landscape of guitar music in the streaming era.

1990

Jake Allen

Jake Allen has been a steady NHL goaltender for the St. Louis Blues and Montreal Canadiens, serving as both a starter and a high-quality backup across his career. He was part of the Blues' system during their 2019 Stanley Cup championship run.

Erika Tymrak, futbolista estadounidense.

1991

Dolores Silva, futbolista portuguesa.

1991

Robin Frijns, piloto de automovilismo neerlandés.

1991

Mike Trout

Mike Trout is widely regarded as the best baseball player of his generation, winning three American League MVP awards and making the All-Star team in each of his first 10 full seasons with the Los Angeles Angels. Chronic injuries in his 30s have been the only thing standing between him and a statistical case as one of the greatest players in history.

1991

Ana González Martín, futbolista española.

1991

Mitchell te Vrede

Mitchell te Vrede played professional football in the Netherlands, primarily as a forward in the Eredivisie and lower divisions. He was part of the Dutch football development system.

1991

Luis Salom

Luis Salom was a rising star in MotoGP's feeder series, winning multiple Moto3 races and consistently contending in Moto2. His death in a crash during practice at the 2016 Catalan Grand Prix at age 24 shook the paddock and renewed safety debates in motorcycle racing.

1991

Rodrigo Viega, futbolista uruguayo.

1992

Wout Weghorst

Wout Weghorst became a folk hero during the 2022 World Cup when he scored twice as a substitute for the Netherlands against Argentina in the quarterfinals, including a last-minute equalizer that sent the match to penalties. A target striker who has played for Wolfsburg, Burnley, and Besiktas, he turned a journeyman's career into an unforgettable World Cup moment.

Adam Yates is an English professional cyclist who has competed in all three Grand Tours and won stages at the Tour de France and Vuelta a Espana. His twin brother Simon is also a professional cyclist — together they represent one of the strongest sibling pairings in the history of the sport.

1993

Karol Zalewski

Karol Zalewski is a Polish sprinter who has competed in the 400 meters and relay events at European and World Championships. He has been a key member of Poland's 4x400m relay teams.

1993

Francesca Eastwood

Francesca Eastwood is the daughter of Clint Eastwood and Frances Fisher, and has appeared in reality television and independent films. She navigates a career in entertainment under one of Hollywood's most famous surnames.

1993

Zaur Sizo

Zaur Sizo competed as a professional footballer in the Russian football league system. He played for clubs in the lower tiers of Russian football.

Liam James is a Canadian actor who appeared in *The Way Way Back* (2013) and the TV series *Psych*, starting his career as a child actor. He has built a steady body of work in both film and television.

1996

Aaron Boupendza, futbolista gabonés (f.

Aaron Boupendza, futbolista gabonés (f. 2025).

Tessa Allen, US-amerikanische Schauspielerin

1996

Tessa Allen

Allen played a child role in Enough alongside Jennifer Lopez and continued working in American film and television. Child actors who appear in studio films face a specific challenge — the visibility comes before the experience that would allow them to use it. A small number navigate this successfully.

Josh Smith, beisbolista estadounidense.

1997

Jordan Torunarigha, deutscher Fußballspieler

1997

Nicholas Matveev, piragüista canadiense.

1997

Kyler Murray

Kyler Murray was the first overall pick in the 2019 NFL Draft after winning the Heisman Trophy at Oklahoma, and he was also drafted ninth overall by the Oakland A's in the 2018 MLB Draft — forcing him to choose between two professional sports. He chose football and became the Arizona Cardinals' franchise quarterback, though injuries have disrupted his ability to establish himself among the league's elite.

1998

Tabinas Jefferson, futbolista japonés.

1998

Jalen Hurts

Jalen Hurts transferred from Alabama to Oklahoma after losing his starting job to Tua Tagovailoa, finished second in the Heisman Trophy voting at Oklahoma, then was drafted by the Philadelphia Eagles and became their franchise quarterback. He led the Eagles to Super Bowl LVII and signed a $255 million contract extension, completing one of the most remarkable second-act stories in recent football history.

1999

Bryan Mbeumo, futbolista francés.

1999

Mariah Angeliq, cantante estadounidense.

1999

Kristal Awuah, atleta británica.

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Births

Constantius II

Kōgyoku, 35.

Avicena (Abu Alí al-Husain ibn Abd Alá IBN SINA), médico y filósofo persa (f.

Muhyī d-Dīn Ibn ʿArabī, islamischer Mystiker/Sufi

Elizabeth of Rhuddlan

Princess Elizabeth of Rhuddlan

Margarida de Saboia, Duquesa de Anjou (m.

Philibert I., Herzog von Savoyen

Caspar Aquila, deutscher Theologe

Erasmus Schenk von Limpurg, Bischof von Straßburg

Joachim, Fürst von Anhalt-Dessau

Alonso de Ercilla

Valentin Weigel, deutscher mystisch-theosophischer Schriftsteller

Elizabeth Báthory

Thomas Lupo

Robert Dudley

Johann von den Birghden, deutscher Postmeister

Karl von Österreich, Bischof von Brixen, Fürstbischof von Breslau

Georg Stiernhielm

Eleonore Marie von Anhalt-Bernburg, Herzogin von Mecklenburg-Güstrow

William Frederick

Karl Joseph von Österreich, Erzherzog von Österreich, Fürstbischof von Breslau und Hochmeister des deutschen Ordens

Louis Joseph de Lorraine, duc de Guise, Herzog von Guise

Andreas Dietrich Apel, deutscher Handelsherr und Seidenfabrikant

Alberto de Churriguera, arquitecto español (f.

Friedrich II., Herzog von Sachsen-Gotha-Altenburg

Henrik Benzelius, schwedischer lutherischer Theologe und Erzbischof von Uppsala

August Budde, deutscher Mediziner

Muhammad Shah

Ehrenreich Gerhard Coldewey, deutscher Gelehrter, Jurist, Poet und Kenner der ostfriesischen Geschichte

Carl Günther Ludovici, deutscher Philosoph und Lexikograf

James Bowdoin

Franz von Fürstenberg, deutscher Staatsmann und Theologe des Hochstifts Münster

Maria Anna von Bayern, Markgräfin von Baden

Duchess Maria Anna Josepha of Bavaria

Erich G. Laxmann, finnischer Pastor, Professor der Ökonomie, Naturwissenschaftler und Reisender

Nathanael Greene

Wilhelmina of Prussia

Abbondio Bernasconi, Schweizer Politiker

Anna Margaretha Zwanziger, deutsche Serienmörderin

Georgiana Cholmondeley, Marquesa de Cholmondeley (m.

Lucile de Chateaubriand, femme de lettres française, autrice de contes et de poèmes en prose († 1804).

Karl Kajetan von Gaisruck, österreichischer Geistlicher, Weihbischof in Passau, Erzbischof von Mailand, Kardinal

Johann Christian August Grohmann, deutscher Philosoph, Psychologe und Rhetoriker

Cayetano Carreño, venezolanischer Komponist

Amalie von Nassau-Weilburg, Fürstin von Anhalt-Bernburg-Schaumburg-Hoym

Carl Ritter

Louis de Freycinet, französischer Entdecker

Louis de Freycinet

Georg Friedrich von Falcke, deutscher Jurist

Amalia von Großbritannien, Irland und Hannover, Mitglied der britischen Königlichen Familie aus dem Haus Hannover

John Heathcoat, inventor británico (f.

Princess Amelia of the United Kingdom

John Heathcoat, inventeur anglais d'une machine à faire de la dentelle († 17 janvier 1861).

Jean-Claude Colin, französischer Priester, Gründer der Maristenpatres

Adolf Ivar Arwidsson, finnischer Journalist, Schriftsteller und Historiker

Joseph Rodman Drake, US-amerikanischer Dichter

Justin von Linde, deutscher Jurist und Politiker, MdL, Staatsminister im Großherzogtum Hessen, Mitglied der Frankfurt…

Josef Krasoslav Chmelenský, tschechischer Kritiker, Dichter, Librettist und Volksaufklärer

Moritz Karl August Axt, deutscher Pädagoge und Altphilologe

Germain Henri Hess, russischer Chemiker Schweizer Herkunft

Karl Formes, deutscher Opernsänger

Elias Loomis, US-amerikanischer Mathematiker, Meteorologe und Astronom

Carit Etlar, dänischer Schriftsteller

Cayetano Sanz, matador espagnol († 21 septembre 1891).

Wilhelm von Schöning, preußischer Gutsbesitzer, Landrat und Politiker

August Ahlqvist

Justo Pastor Dávila, militar peruano (f.

Antônio de Macedo Costa, bispo brasileiro (m.

Otto Stromer von Reichenbach, Bürgermeister der Stadt Nürnberg

Julius Epstein, österreichisch-ungarischer Pianist

Max Lange, deutscher Schachspieler

Allan James Foley, irischer Opernsänger (Bass)

Eduard Ebel, deutscher evangelischer Pfarrer und Dichter

Edward Henry Palmer, britischer Orientalist

Alberto Aguilera, político español (f.

Maximilian von Soden-Fraunhofen, bayerischer Gutsbesitzer und Politiker

Hugo Kauffmann, deutscher Maler

Auguste Michel-Lévy