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869

Yōzei

Emperor Yozei took the Japanese throne at age nine and was deposed at seventeen. He reportedly beat a man to death with his own hands, among other acts of violence that alarmed the court. His removal was one of the few forced abdications in Japanese imperial history. He lived another sixty-five years in retirement.

876

Toda Aznárez de Pamplona, reina consorte de Pamplona (f.

Toda Aznárez de Pamplona, reina consorte de Pamplona (f. 958).

966

Beatriz da Suábia, rainha da Borgonha e Itália (m.

Beatriz da Suábia, rainha da Borgonha e Itália (m. 907).

1338

Jean d’Outremeuse, Lütticher Kleriker und Chronist

1403

Basílio Bessarion, patriarca latino de Constantinopla (m.

Basílio Bessarion, patriarca latino de Constantinopla (m. 1472).

1462

Piero di Cosimo

Piero di Cosimo was a Florentine painter of the Renaissance known for his mythological scenes and eccentric personality. Vasari described him as a recluse who ate only boiled eggs, cooked in batches of fifty to save time. His paintings of primitive humanity — forest fires, satyrs, and wild animals — were unlike anything his contemporaries produced.

1493

Louis de Bourbon-Vendôme, Bischof von Laon, Kardinal und päpstlicher Legat in Savoyen

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1509

Henry of Stolberg

Henry of Stolberg was a German nobleman who ruled the County of Stolberg in the Harz Mountains. He navigated the religious upheavals of the Reformation in a region where choosing the wrong side could cost a nobleman his lands.

1521

Hermann tom Ring, deutscher Maler

1533

Johann Major, deutscher lutherischer Theologe, Humanist und Poet

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1621

Ulrich Hipparchos von Promnitz, kurbrandenburgischer und kursächsischer Kabinettsminister

1642

Mehmed IV

Mehmed IV became Ottoman sultan at age six after his father Ibrahim was strangled by his own ministers. His mother ran the empire until he came of age. Mehmed presided over the failed siege of Vienna in 1683, the high-water mark of Ottoman expansion into Europe. After the loss, his own army deposed him. He spent his remaining years under house arrest.

1643

Rudolf Wilhelm von Stubenberg, ungarisch-österreichischer Barockdichter

1647

Nathaniel Bacon

Nathaniel Bacon led the first armed rebellion by English colonists in America in 1676. Frustrated by Virginia's governor and his unwillingness to fight Native Americans on the frontier, Bacon raised a militia, burned Jamestown to the ground, and briefly controlled the colony. He died of dysentery at twenty-nine, and the rebellion collapsed with him.

1670

Octavio Broggio, böhmischer Architekt und Baumeister des Hochbarock

1670

Heinrich Pipping, deutscher lutherischer Theologe und Oberhofprediger in Dresden

1676

Jean-Baptiste Anet, französischer Violinist und Komponist

1699

Osman III

Osman III spent most of his life as a prisoner in the Topkapi Palace kafes — the gilded cage where Ottoman princes were confined to prevent succession wars. By the time he became sultan in 1754 at age fifty-four, he'd been locked away for over fifty years. His reign lasted three years and was marked by distrust of everyone around him.

1700s 32

1700

Bernardus Estinghausen, deutscher Priester und Abt des Klosters Marienfeld

1713

Marie Dumesnil

Marie Dumesnil was a French actress who starred at the Comedie-Francaise for thirty years. She was celebrated for her natural, emotional acting style at a time when French theater demanded rigid formality. Voltaire praised her as the finest tragic actress of her generation.

1717

Michael Angstenberger, österreichischer Kirchenliedkomponist

1719

Jacques-Alexandre Laffon de Ladebat

Jacques-Alexandre Laffon de Ladebat was a French shipbuilder and politician who represented Bordeaux in the Estates-General of 1789. He supported the early Revolution but fell afoul of the Terror and was imprisoned. He survived and returned to public life under the Directory.

1719

Friedrich Christoph von Saldern, preußischer General und Kriegstheoretiker

1720

José de Gálvez y Gallardo, spanischer Adliger und Beamter, Kolonialminister

1723

David Ruhnken, niederländischer Gelehrter

1727

James Wolfe

James Wolfe captured Quebec for the British in 1759, scaling the cliffs at night and defeating the French on the Plains of Abraham. He died in the battle at age thirty-two. Both he and the French commander, Montcalm, were killed on the same day — two generals dead, one empire gained, one lost.

1729

Johann Daniel Titius, preußischer Astronom, Physiker und Biologe

1732

František Brixi

1760

Georg Ludwig Stecher, deutscher Jurist und Politiker

1761

August Heinrich Gruner, deutscher Lokalpolitiker und Mineraloge

1764

Genovefa Weber, deutsche Opernsängerin und Schauspielerin

1765

Richard Westall, pintor británico (f.

Richard Westall, pintor británico (f. 1836).

1765

Charles Hatchett, químico britânico (m.

Charles Hatchett, químico britânico (m. 1847).

1767

Bashir Shihab II, emir libanés (f.

Bashir Shihab II, emir libanés (f. 1850).

1775

Inácio Luís Madeira de Melo, militar português (m.

Inácio Luís Madeira de Melo, militar português (m. 1834).

1777

Christian Daniel Rauch

Christian Daniel Rauch was the foremost German sculptor of the Neoclassical period. His equestrian statue of Frederick the Great on Unter den Linden in Berlin is considered one of the finest monuments in Europe. He spent forty years as Prussia's unofficial sculptor-in-chief.

1778

Friedrich August Gotthold, deutscher Pädagoge und Schuldirektor

1779

Gerhard Friederich, deutscher evangelisch-lutherischer Pfarrer und Schriftsteller

1783

Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg, peintre danois († 22 juillet 1853).

1784

Ernst I., Herzog von Sachsen-Coburg-Saalfeld und preußischer General

1791

Emanuel Friedrich Zehender, Schweizer Schullehrer, Pomologe und Gutsbesitzer

1798

Désiré-Alexandre Batton, französischer Komponist

Isidoro de María, historiador y periodista uruguayo (f.

Rudolf Clausius

Rudolf Clausius formulated the second law of thermodynamics and introduced the concept of entropy. His work established that heat flows naturally from hot to cold, never the reverse — a principle that governs everything from car engines to the eventual heat death of the universe.

1822

William E. Simms, US-amerikanischer Politiker

1823

Théodore Deck, französischer Keramiker

1825

Hans von Specht, deutsch-US-amerikanischer Offizier, Farmer, Fuhrmann und Postmeister

1827

Pyotr Semyonov-Tyan-Shansky

Pyotr Semyonov-Tyan-Shansky was the first European to explore the Tian Shan mountain range in Central Asia. He earned the honorific suffix "Tyan-Shansky" from the tsar. He later led Russia's statistical bureau for forty-three years and organized the Russian census of 1897.

1827

Kraft zu Hohenlohe-Ingelfingen, preußischer General und Militärschriftsteller

1829

Carl Rosenberg, dänischer Publizist und Historiker

1830

Henry Morrison Flagler, US-amerikanischer Unternehmer

1830

Ernst Ludwig Dümmler, deutscher Historiker

1830

Balthasar Pröbstl, deutscher Orgelbauer

1831

Augustus Matthiessen, britischer Chemiker und Physiker

1833

Frederick A. Johnson

Frederick A. Johnson served as a U.S. Representative from New York during the Civil War era. He was a Republican who supported the Union cause and served on several congressional committees during one of the most turbulent periods in American legislative history.

1834

Wassili Grigorjewitsch Perow, russischer Maler

1834

Joseph Steiner von Steinstätten, österreichischer Offizier

1834

Friedrich Louis Dobermann, deutscher Hundezüchter

1836

Queen Emma of Hawaii

Queen Emma of Hawaii married King Kamehameha IV and co-founded Queen's Hospital — the first hospital in the Hawaiian Islands — to combat the diseases that were devastating the Native Hawaiian population. After her husband and son both died, she ran for the throne and lost to David Kalakaua. Her supporters rioted in the streets of Honolulu.

1836

Mendele Mocher Sforim

Mendele Mocher Sforim — the pen name of Sholem Yankev Abramovich — is called the grandfather of modern Yiddish literature. He wrote biting satires of Jewish shtetl life in the Russian Empire that established Yiddish as a literary language rather than just a spoken one. His work opened the door for Sholem Aleichem and I.L. Peretz.

1837

Mily Balakirev

Elisabeth Gnauck-Kühne, deutsche Frauenrechtlerin

1854

Theodor Kösser, deutscher Architekt

1855

Urbano Duarte de Oliveira, militar, jornalista, e dramaturgo brasileiro (m.

Urbano Duarte de Oliveira, militar, jornalista, e dramaturgo brasileiro (m. 1902).

1855

Rudolf Dittrich, deutscher Politiker

1857

Frederick Burr Opper, US-amerikanischer Comiczeichner und Illustrator

1857

M. Carey Thomas

M. Carey Thomas served as president of Bryn Mawr College for nearly thirty years and was one of the most influential figures in American women's education. She pushed for rigorous academic standards equal to men's institutions. Her legacy is complicated by her documented racism and elitism.

1858

Carl Cranz, deutscher Mathematiker, Physiker und Ballistiker

1858

Josef Kainz, österreichischer Schauspieler

1859

Anna Sacher, österreichische Hotelbesitzerin

1859

Fritz Riemann, deutscher Schachspieler

1860

William Corless Mills

William Corless Mills was an American archaeologist and historian who served as curator of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society. He excavated and documented numerous mound sites in Ohio, preserving records of ancient earthworks that have since been destroyed.

1860

Dugald Campbell Patterson

Dugald Campbell Patterson was a Canadian electrical engineer who helped develop early power systems in Canada. He was involved in the engineering of hydroelectric installations that powered the country's industrial growth in the early twentieth century.

1861

1869

Jakob Pazeller, österreichischer Komponist und Dirigent

1869

Karl Orth, deutscher Maler

1870

Camillo Müller, österreichischer Fechter und Sportfunktionär

1870

Ernst Barlach

Ernst Barlach was a German sculptor and playwright whose expressionist figures captured human suffering with stark power. The Nazis classified his work as "degenerate art" and removed his sculptures from public spaces. After the war, his memorials to the dead of World War I were restored across Germany.

1870

Tex Rickard

Tex Rickard was the boxing promoter who built Madison Square Garden and turned prizefighting into a mainstream American spectacle. He staged the first million-dollar gate — the Dempsey-Carpentier fight in 1921, attended by 80,000 people. He died in 1929.

1871

Johann Gottfried Bischoff, deutscher Geistlicher, Stammapostel der Neuapostolischen Kirche

1871

Nikolaus Welter, luxemburgischer Schriftsteller, Dramatiker, Lyriker, Professor, Literaturwissenschaftler und Staatsmann

1872

Albert C. Barnes, US-amerikanischer Arzt, Pharmazeut, Kunstsammler, Autor und Philanthrop, Stifter der Barnes Foundation

1873

Antonie Pannekoek

Antonie Pannekoek was a Dutch astronomer and Marxist theorist — an unusual combination. He made significant contributions to stellar astrophysics while also developing council communism as a political philosophy. The Pannekoek Institute for Astronomy at the University of Amsterdam is named after him.

1873

Thérèse of Lisieux

Thérèse Martin entered the Carmelite convent at Lisieux when she was fifteen. She died of tuberculosis at twenty-four. In between, she wrote an autobiography that sold millions of copies and articulated what she called "the Little Way" — holiness through small, everyday acts rather than grand gestures. Pope Pius X called her the greatest saint of modern times. She was canonized in 1925 and named a Doctor of the Church in 1997.

1877

Slava Raškaj

Slava Raskaj was a Croatian watercolor painter who was deaf from childhood. She studied at the Vienna school for the deaf and developed a delicate, luminous style. Her watercolors of Croatian countryside scenes are considered national treasures. She died in a mental institution at age twenty-eight.

1877

Walter Bertelsmann, deutscher Landschaftsmaler

1878

Paul Frankl, deutscher Kunsthistoriker

1878

Jaakko Mäki

Jaakko Maki was a Finnish politician who served in the Finnish Parliament during the country's early independence period. He was part of the generation that shaped Finland's democratic institutions after centuries of Swedish and Russian rule.

1878

Mannathu Padmanabha Pillai

Mannathu Padmanabha Pillai was an Indian social reformer who fought against caste discrimination in Kerala. He founded the Nair Service Society in 1914 and campaigned for temple entry rights and educational access for lower-caste Hindus. He's remembered as one of Kerala's great social revolutionaries.

1879

Rudolf Bauer, ungarischer Leichtathlet

1879

Adam Foßhag, deutscher Lehrer und Heimatforscher

1879

Rudolf Bauer

1885

Gordon Flowerdew

Gordon Flowerdew led one of the last great cavalry charges in military history at Moreuil Wood in 1918. His squadron of Lord Strathcona's Horse galloped straight at German machine guns. Flowerdew was mortally wounded but kept leading until the position was taken. He received the Victoria Cross posthumously.

1886

Florence Lawrence, inventora y actriz canadiense (f.

Florence Lawrence, inventora y actriz canadiense (f. 1938).

1886

Florence Lawrence

Florence Lawrence was the first movie star. Before her, studios didn't release actors' names. Carl Laemmle at IMP Films changed that, staging a publicity stunt that made Lawrence's identity public. She became the "Biograph Girl" and the first face audiences recognized. She died broke and forgotten in 1938.

1886

Jean Lacassagne, médecin français († janvier 1960).

1886

Apsley Cherry-Garrard

Apsley Cherry-Garrard marched with Scott's Antarctic expedition and wrote The Worst Journey in the World, widely regarded as the greatest polar exploration memoir ever written. He was twenty-four during the expedition. He survived. Scott didn't. Cherry-Garrard spent the rest of his life haunted by the question of whether he could have saved them.

1889

Roger Adams, US-amerikanischer Chemiker

1890

Henrik Visnapuu

Henrik Visnapuu was an Estonian poet and dramatist who was part of the literary movement that flourished during Estonia's first independence period. His lyric poetry captured the spirit of a young nation. He fled to Sweden during World War II and later settled in the United States, where he died in 1951.

1890

Henrik Visnapuu, estnischer Lyriker

1891

Giovanni Michelucci

Giovanni Michelucci designed the Florence Santa Maria Novella railway station in 1933, one of the masterworks of Italian Rationalist architecture. The station won a national competition and became the first major modernist building in Florence. Michelucci kept designing well into his nineties, dying in 1990 at age ninety-eight.

1891

Didier Daurat, aviateur français († 2 décembre 1969).

1892

Philipp Zoch, deutscher General

1892

Seiichiro Kashio

Seiichiro Kashio was one of Japan's first international tennis players. He competed in the early twentieth century when Japanese tennis was just beginning to gain global attention. His career helped lay the groundwork for Japan's later success in the sport.

Elmar Reimann

Elmar Reimann was an Estonian middle-distance runner who competed in the 1920s and 1930s. He represented Estonia at a time when the small Baltic nation was establishing itself in international athletics.

1894

Charlotte Eisler, österreichische Sängerin und Gesangslehrerin

1895

Wilhelm Techmeier, deutsch-brasilianischer Maler

1895

Folke Bernadotte

Folke Bernadotte negotiated the release of over 30,000 concentration camp prisoners during the final months of World War II, including 15,000 from Ravensbruck. After the war, he served as UN mediator in Palestine. He was assassinated in Jerusalem in 1948 by the Lehi militant group. He was fifty-four.

1899

Karl Wiechert, deutscher Politiker, Journalist und Verwaltungsbeamter

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1900

Leslie Copus Peltier, US-amerikanischer Astronom

1900

Gustav Fuchs, deutscher Politiker

1900

Una Ledingham

Una Ledingham was a British physician who specialized in diabetes and pregnancy at a time when the two together often meant death for mother and child. Her research at the London Hospital helped establish protocols for managing diabetic pregnancies that saved thousands of lives over the following decades. She died in 1965.

1900

William Haines

William Haines was the top box-office star in Hollywood in 1930. When MGM demanded he hide his homosexuality and enter a sham marriage, he refused and walked away from movies. He reinvented himself as an interior designer and became one of the most sought-after decorators in Hollywood, counting Joan Crawford among his loyal clients.

1900

Itami Mansaku, japanischer Regisseur und Drehbuchautor

1901

Bob Marshall

Bob Marshall co-founded the Wilderness Society in 1935 and was one of America's most passionate advocates for protecting wild lands. He hiked thirty miles a day for fun. The Bob Marshall Wilderness in Montana — over a million acres of roadless terrain — is named for him. He died of a heart attack at thirty-eight.

1902

Dan Keating

Dan Keating fought in the Irish War of Independence and the Civil War on the anti-Treaty side. He was the last surviving veteran of the Irish Republican Army's original campaign. When he died in 2007 at age 105, he was the oldest man in Ireland. He never stopped calling himself a republican.

1902

Lindolfo Monteverde, compositor brasileiro (m.

Lindolfo Monteverde, compositor brasileiro (m. 1970).

1903

Pjotr Michailowitsch Stefanowski, sowjetischer Testpilot

1903

Kane Tanaka

Kane Tanaka lived to be 119 years old, making her the second-oldest verified person in history. She survived two world wars, the Spanish flu, and a century of Japanese transformation. When asked the secret to her longevity, she said chocolate and soda. She died in 2022.

1904

Genia Nikolajewa, russische Schauspielerin

1904

Walter Hewel, deutscher Staatssekretär und Diplomat, Fahnenträger beim Hitlerputsch

1904

Hilde Broër, deutsche Bildhauerin und Medailleurin

1904

Sally Rand

Sally Rand made herself famous by dancing with ostrich feather fans at the 1933 Chicago World's Fair. She was arrested four times during the fair. Each arrest sold more tickets. She kept performing into her seventies, never quite escaping — or wanting to escape — the act that made her name.

1904

Walter Heitler

Walter Heitler was a German physicist who co-authored the Heitler-London theory in 1927 — the first quantum mechanical treatment of the chemical bond. The paper, written with Fritz London, explained why hydrogen atoms form molecules. It laid the foundation for all of quantum chemistry.

1904

Truus Klapwijk

Truus Klapwijk was a Dutch swimmer and diver who competed in the 1920s. She represented the Netherlands in international swimming competitions during the interwar period, when Dutch women's swimming was among the best in Europe.

1905

Michael Tippett

Michael Tippett composed five operas, four symphonies, and a body of choral work that established him alongside Benjamin Britten as a leading figure in twentieth-century British music. His oratorio A Child of Our Time, written during World War II, used African American spirituals as structural pillars. He was knighted in 1966.

1905

Louis Dorlet, militant anarchiste et pacifiste français († 18 mai 1989).

1905

Auguste Lechner, österreichische Schriftstellerin und Jugendbuchautorin

1905

Jainendra Kumar

1909

Riccardo Cassin

Riccardo Cassin climbed some of the most dangerous routes in the Alps and the Himalayas. His first ascent of the Walker Spur on the Grandes Jorasses in 1938 is still considered one of the great achievements in mountaineering history. He was still climbing at age eighty. He died in 2009 at one hundred.

1909

Barry Goldwater

Barry Goldwater ran for president in 1964 and lost in a landslide to Lyndon Johnson. But his campaign rewired the Republican Party. He shifted its base from the Northeast to the South and West, built a grassroots conservative movement, and launched the political career of Ronald Reagan, who gave a nationally televised speech on his behalf.

1910

Ulrich Becher, deutscher Schriftsteller und Stückeschreiber

1910

Srirangam Srinivasarao

Srirangam Srinivasarao was a Telugu poet whose modernist verse broke with classical traditions and introduced social realism into Telugu literature. Known by the pen name Sri Sri, he championed progressive causes and became one of the most influential writers in the Telugu language.

1910

Hans Wildberger, Schweizer Geistlicher, Hochschullehrer und Autor

1911

Marianne Rein, deutsche Lyrikerin, Opfer des Holocaust

1911

Peter Lohmeyer, deutscher Kap Hoornier, Marineoffizier, Kapitän, Pilot und Kommandant

1911

Javier Pulgar Vidal, geógrafo, filósofo e historiador peruano (f.

Javier Pulgar Vidal, geógrafo, filósofo e historiador peruano (f. 2003).

Anna Lee was an English actress who starred in films for John Ford, including How Green Was My Valley and The Horse Soldiers. After a car accident left her in a wheelchair, she continued acting on the soap opera General Hospital for twenty-five years. She died in 2004 at ninety-one.

1913

Johnny Simone, französischer Unternehmer und Automobilrennfahrer

1913

Luc Decaunes, écrivain français († 13 mars 2001).

1913

Juanita Jackson Mitchell

Juanita Jackson Mitchell was the first Black woman admitted to practice law in Maryland. She argued school desegregation cases before the Supreme Court and served as president of the Baltimore NAACP branch. Her entire family — mother, husband, and children — were civil rights activists.

1914

Violet Vivian Finlay Stuart Mann (aka Vivian Stuar

Vivian Stuart — born Violet Vivian Finlay Stuart Mann — wrote over seventy novels under at least seven pen names, including Barbara Allen, Fiona Finlay, and William Stuart Long. Her Donalds series chronicling Australian history spanned eleven volumes. A British expatriate, she wrote across genres from romance to historical fiction until her death in 1986.

1914

Noor Inayat Khan

Noor Inayat Khan was born in Moscow to an Indian father and an American mother, raised in Paris, and trained as a British spy. She was the first female radio operator sent into Nazi-occupied France by the Special Operations Executive. Betrayed by a French contact, she was captured by the Gestapo, held in chains at Pforzheim, and executed at Dachau in 1944. She was thirty years old.

1914

Vivian Stuart

Vivian Stuart was a Burmese-born British writer who produced dozens of historical novels under multiple pen names. Her Donalds series, written as William Stuart Long, traced Australian history across thirteen volumes. She was one of the most prolific historical novelists of the twentieth century.

1914

Max Aebischer, Schweizer Politiker

1914

Noor Inayat Khan, psicóloga y espía británica (f.

Noor Inayat Khan, psicóloga y espía británica (f. 1944), trabajó para la Resistencia francesa contra los alemanes, quienes la ejecutaron en el campo de concentración de Dachau.

1915

Peter Clark, britischer Automobilrennfahrer

1915

John Hope Franklin, US-amerikanischer Historiker

1915

Nick Fatool, musicien américain († 26 septembre 2000).

1916

Zypora Spaisman

Zypora Spaisman was a Polish-born actress who became the artistic director of the Yiddish Art Theatre in New York. She kept Yiddish theater alive in America during the decades when the language and culture were disappearing from daily life. She died in 2002.

1916

Josefina Manresa, ciudadana española (f.

Josefina Manresa, ciudadana española (f. 1987), esposa y musa del poeta español Miguel Hernández.

1916

Arturo Dominici, italienischer Schauspieler

1917

Vera Zorina

Vera Zorina was a German-Norwegian ballerina and actress who starred on Broadway and in Hollywood. She danced for Balanchine and appeared in films including The Goldwyn Follies and On Your Toes. She later married Goddard Lieberson, the president of Columbia Records.

1918

Willi Graf

Willi Graf was a medical student in Munich who joined the White Rose resistance group. He and his friends Hans and Sophie Scholl distributed anti-Nazi leaflets across Germany. The Gestapo caught them. Graf was executed by guillotine on October 12, 1943, at age twenty-five. He'd refused to name his contacts under interrogation.

1918

Gudrun Zapf-von Hesse, deutsche Typographin und Buchbinderin

1919

Josef Moser, österreichischer Politiker

1919

Beatrice Hicks

Beatrice Hicks was the first woman to receive an engineering degree from Stevens Institute of Technology and co-founded the Society of Women Engineers in 1950. She held patents for her work on environmental sensing devices used in space exploration. She died in 1979.

1919

Rachel Waterhouse

Rachel Waterhouse was an English historian and consumer rights advocate. She served as chair of the Consumers' Association and was a prominent voice in British public life on issues of product safety and consumer protection.

1923

Mário-Henrique Leiria, portugiesischer Schriftsteller und Maler

1923

Pierre Schwed, résistant français († 10 août 2006).

1923

Israel Cavazos Garza, historiador mexicano (f.

Israel Cavazos Garza, historiador mexicano (f. 2016)

1924

Evgenios Spatharis

Evgenios Spatharis was Greece's most famous shadow puppeteer. He performed Karagiozis — the traditional Greek shadow puppet theater — for over seventy years, preserving an art form that dates to the Ottoman era. He died in 2009.

1924

Horst Egon Kalinowski, deutscher Maler, Grafiker und Bildhauer

1925

Larry Harmon

Larry Harmon bought the rights to Bozo the Clown in 1956 and spent the next fifty years licensing the character to television stations across America. At its peak, Bozo was the most widely syndicated character in TV history. Harmon lived in character so completely that the line between Larry and Bozo essentially disappeared. He died in 2008.

1925

Andrzej Nikodemowicz, ukrainisch-polnischer Komponist, Pianist und Musikpädagoge

1925

Larry Harmon, acteur (l'un des interprètes de Bozo le clown), producteur, scénariste et réalisateur américain († 3 ju…

Larry Harmon, acteur (l'un des interprètes de Bozo le clown), producteur, scénariste et réalisateur américain († 3 juillet 2008).

1925

Francesco Colasuonno, prélat italien († 31 mai 2003).

1925

William J. Crowe

Admiral William J. Crowe Jr. served as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff under Reagan and later as U.S. Ambassador to the United Kingdom under Clinton. His endorsement of Clinton in 1992 — a sitting military leader backing a Democrat — sent shockwaves through the defense establishment.

1925

Irina Konstantinowna Archipowa, sowjetisch-russische Opernsängerin

1925

Cristino Nicolaides, militar («teniente general»), delincuente común, secuestrador, vendedor de bebés y asesino argen…

Cristino Nicolaides, militar («teniente general»), delincuente común, secuestrador, vendedor de bebés y asesino argentino (f. 2011); con los genocidas Jorge Isaac Anaya y Basilio Lami Dozo formó la Junta Militar de Gobierno entre 18 y 22 de junio de 1982.

1925

Heinz te Laake, deutscher Künstler der Malerei, Kinetik und Skulptur

1925

Wolfgang Köllmann, deutscher Historiker, Hochschullehrer und Kommunalpolitiker

1926

Gino Marchetti

Gino Marchetti was named the greatest defensive end in NFL history in the league's 50th anniversary vote in 1969. He played for the Baltimore Colts and was a key member of the team that won the 1958 NFL Championship — "The Greatest Game Ever Played." He later co-founded the Gino's restaurant chain.

1926

Howard Caine

Howard Caine was an American actor best known for playing Major Hochstetter on the television series Hogan's Heroes. His catchphrase — shouting demands and accusations — made him one of the show's most memorable recurring characters. He died in 1993.

1926

Ihor Sonewytskyj, ukrainischer Komponist, Dirigent und Musikwissenschaftler

1926

Howard Caine, US-amerikanischer Schauspieler

1927

Herbert Sczepan, deutscher Baptistenpastor und Evangelist

1927

Grigoris Varfis

Grigoris Varfis was a Greek politician who served in the European Parliament and held ministerial positions in the Greek government. He was active in the Panhellenic Socialist Movement (PASOK) during the party's years in power.

1928

Zé Béttio, radialista brasileiro (m.

Chacho Muller, compositor e intérprete folclórico argentino (f.

Chacho Muller, compositor e intérprete folclórico argentino (f. 2000).

1930

Julius La Rosa

Julius La Rosa was a singer who became famous for getting fired on live television. Arthur Godfrey dismissed him on air in 1953 for "lacking humility." The firing made La Rosa a celebrity overnight. His recording of "Eh, Cumpari" had already reached number two on the charts. The scandal gave him more publicity than Godfrey ever did.

1930

Donat Chiasson, évêque catholique québécois († 8 octobre 2003).

1930

Manuel Marino Miniño, dominikanischer Komponist, Dirigent und Musikpädagoge

1931

Angelo Scalzone, tireur sportif italien champion olympique († 29 avril 1987).

1931

Constantino Kochifas, armador y empresario chileno (f.

Constantino Kochifas, armador y empresario chileno (f. 2010).

1931

Toshiki Kaifu

Toshiki Kaifu served as Japan's 76th Prime Minister from 1989 to 1991. He was seen as a compromise candidate — mild-mannered and untouched by the scandals that had toppled his predecessors. He navigated Japan's response to the Gulf War but couldn't push through political reform. His party replaced him after two years.

1931

František Šafránek, tschechoslowakischer Fußballspieler

1931

Janina Altman, polnisch-israelische Chemikerin und Holocaustüberlebende

1932

Marcello Agnoletto, italienischer Fußballspieler

1932

Edward Malefakis, historiador e hispanista estadounidense (f.

Edward Malefakis, historiador e hispanista estadounidense (f. 2016).

1932

Hugo Argüelles, dramaturgo mexicano (f.

Hugo Argüelles, dramaturgo mexicano (f. 2003).

1932

Peter Redgrove

Peter Redgrove was an English poet whose work explored the body, nature, and sexuality with scientific precision and wild imagination. He published over thirty poetry collections and several novels. He died in 2003.

1932

Richard Thorp

Richard Thorp played Alan Turner on the ITV soap opera Emmerdale for thirty-one years — one of the longest-running roles in British television history. He appeared in over 3,000 episodes before retiring in 2013 shortly before his death.

1932

Albert « Bobby » Hachey, chanteur de musique country québécois († 18 octobre 2006).

1933

Ulrich Wolf, deutscher Humangenetiker

1933

Ed Casey

Ed Casey served in the New South Wales Parliament for decades and held multiple cabinet positions. He represented rural constituencies in the Labor Party at a time when rural Australia was overwhelmingly conservative. He died in 2006.

1933

Morimura Seiichi

John Hollowbread

John Hollowbread was an English footballer who played goalkeeper for Tottenham Hotspur. He was part of the Spurs squad in the 1950s and 1960s but spent much of his career as understudy to the first-choice keeper. He died in 2007.

1934

Víctor García de la Concha, filólogo español.

1935

Lolo Soetoro

Lolo Soetoro was an Indonesian geographer and geologist who became internationally known for a different reason: he was the stepfather of Barack Obama. He married Obama's mother Ann Dunham in 1965 and raised the future president in Jakarta for several years. He died in 1987.

1935

K. Navaratnam

K. Navaratnam was a Sri Lankan Tamil politician who represented the Tamil community in parliament during the early decades of the ethnic conflict. He navigated an increasingly dangerous environment where Tamil politicians faced threats from both the government and militant groups.

1935

David McKee

David McKee was the English author and illustrator who created Elmer the Patchwork Elephant and Mr Benn. His books have been translated into over forty languages and sold millions of copies. His simple, colorful style made him one of Britain's most beloved children's book creators.

Roger Miller wrote "King of the Road" — one of the most recognizable songs in country music history — and won eleven Grammy Awards, more than any country artist before him. He later wrote the music for the Broadway musical Big River, which won a Tony. He died in 1992 at fifty-six.

1936

Claus T. Helmig, deutscher Baseballspieler

1937

Martin Lauer, deutscher Leichtathlet

1937

David Bailey

David Bailey photographed the 1960s. His portraits of the Beatles, Mick Jagger, and the Kray twins defined Swinging London's visual identity. A working-class kid from East London, he became one of the most influential fashion and portrait photographers of the twentieth century. Antonioni's film Blow-Up was partly inspired by his life.

1937

Anders Andersson, schwedischer Eishockeyspieler

1937

Sergio Giral, director de cine cubano.

1937

1938

Norman Briski, actor argentino.

1938

Ferreira Neto, jornalista brasileiro (m.

Ferreira Neto, jornalista brasileiro (m. 2002).

1938

مصطفى عيسى، سياسي فلسطيني.

1938

Hans Herbjørnsrud

Hans Herbjornsrud is a Norwegian author known for short stories that explore rural life in Norway with psychological depth and darkly humorous prose. He published his first collection at age fifty-two and won the Norwegian Critics Prize for Literature.

1938

Ian Brady

Ian Brady, along with Myra Hindley, committed the Moors Murders — killing five children in Manchester between 1963 and 1965. The case horrified Britain and became one of the most notorious criminal partnerships in history. Brady was convicted in 1966 and spent the rest of his life in custody, dying in 2017.

Hans Werner Schmöle, deutscher Politiker

1942

Jake McCoy, US-amerikanischer Eishockeyspieler

1942

Dennis Hastert

Dennis Hastert served as Speaker of the House for eight years — the longest-serving Republican Speaker in U.S. history. In 2015, he was indicted for illegally structuring bank withdrawals to conceal hush money paid to cover up sexual abuse of students during his years as a high school wrestling coach. He pleaded guilty and served thirteen months in prison.

1943

Janet Akyüz Mattei

Janet Akyuz Mattei was a Turkish-American astronomer who directed the American Association of Variable Star Observers (AAVSO) for over thirty years. She coordinated observations from amateur astronomers worldwide, turning citizen science into real data for professional research. She died in 2004.

1944

Péter Eötvös

Peter Eotvos composed operas, symphonies, and chamber works that drew from both the Hungarian tradition and the European avant-garde. He studied under Stockhausen and conducted major orchestras worldwide. His operas Three Sisters and Angels in America brought literary adaptations to the contemporary classical stage.

1944

Arpat Avanesjan, armenischer Politiker

1944

Mohamed Ali Yusuf

Mohamed Ali Yusuf was a Somali politician who served in various capacities during Somalia's turbulent post-independence period. He navigated the country's clan-based politics through decades of instability. He died in 2024.

1944

Norodom Ranariddh

Norodom Ranariddh was the son of King Sihanouk and served as Cambodia's First Prime Minister after the UN-supervised elections in 1993. He shared power uneasily with Hun Sen until a 1997 coup removed him. He later returned to Cambodian politics in a diminished role and died in 2021.

1944

Charlie Davis

1946

Sonny Ruberto

Sonny Ruberto played and coached in minor league baseball across multiple decades. He was a catcher and later managed teams in the farm systems of several major league organizations. He died in 2014.

Calvin Hill

Calvin Hill played running back for the Dallas Cowboys and was the first Ivy League player selected in the first round of the NFL draft. He was the 1969 Offensive Rookie of the Year. His son Grant Hill became an NBA All-Star — one of the most accomplished father-son combinations in American professional sports.

1947

David Shapiro

David Shapiro is an American poet, art critic, and historian who published his first poetry collection at age eighteen. He has written extensively on art, architecture, and the New York School of poets. His criticism has appeared in major art journals for over five decades.

1947

Valery Shary

Tony Judt, britisch-amerikanischer Historiker

1948

Tony Woodley

Tony Woodley served as joint general secretary of Unite the Union, Britain's largest trade union. He led the Transport and General Workers' Union before its merger with Amicus. He was one of the most prominent labor leaders in Britain during the 2000s.

1948

1949

David Shifrin is an American clarinetist who won the Avery Fisher Recital Award and has performed as soloist with major orchestras worldwide. He served as artistic director of Chamber Music Northwest in Portland, Oregon for decades, building one of America's premier chamber music festivals.

1950

Débora Duarte

Debora Duarte is a Brazilian actress who has appeared in dozens of telenovelas and films since the 1970s. She is the daughter of Lima Duarte, one of Brazil's most famous actors, making her part of a performing dynasty that has shaped Brazilian television for half a century.

Stipe Božić

Stipe Bozic was a Croatian mountaineer and filmmaker who reached the summit of Everest in 1979 as part of the first Yugoslav expedition. He went on to climb most of the world's highest peaks and produced documentary films about his expeditions.

1951

William « Bill » Madlock, joueur de baseball américain.

1951

Alexander Pogrebinsky

Alexander Pogrebinsky is a Russian painter whose work blends realism with symbolic imagery. He has exhibited in galleries across Russia and Europe, working in a tradition that connects Soviet-era figurative painting with contemporary art.

Graeme "Shirley" Strachan fronted Skyhooks, the Australian glam rock band that outsold every international act in Australia in 1975. Their debut album, Living in the 70's, went platinum five times. Strachan later became a TV presenter and carpenter before dying in a helicopter crash in 2001 at age forty-nine.

1952

Wendy Phillips

Wendy Phillips is an American actress who appeared in the film Bugsy, the television series Big Love, and numerous theater productions. She earned an Emmy nomination for her work in the ABC series Homefront.

1952

Christine Lavin

Christine Lavin built a career in the New York City folk scene as a singer-songwriter with a sharp sense of humor. She co-founded Four Bitchin' Babes, a touring folk supergroup, and released over twenty albums. Her songs mixed confessional storytelling with comedy in a way that made her a club favorite for decades.

1952

Robert Brian « Robbie » Ftorek, joueur et entraîneur américain de hockey sur glace.

1952

Elvira Saadi, gymnaste tatare soviétique double championne olympique.

1952

Robbie Ftorek

Robbie Ftorek played professional ice hockey in the WHA and NHL. He later coached the New Jersey Devils and Boston Bruins. He was known for his intense competitiveness — as a coach, he once threw a player's bench over the boards during a game.

1952

Jimmy Santiago Baca

Jimmy Santiago Baca taught himself to read and write while serving a prison sentence. He went on to publish poetry and memoirs that drew from his experience as a Chicano man in the American Southwest. His autobiography, A Place to Stand, became required reading in creative writing programs.

1953

Vincent Racaniello American virologist

Agathonas Iakovidis

Agathonas Iakovidis is a Greek singer known for rebetiko — the Greek urban folk music that originated in port cities and underworld subcultures. He represented Greece at the Eurovision Song Contest in 2013, introducing rebetiko to a pan-European audience.

Lynda Barry

Lynda Barry is an American cartoonist and author whose strip Ernie Pook's Comeek ran for decades in alternative newspapers. Her graphic novel One! Hundred! Demons! and her teaching guides on creativity have influenced a generation of artists. She holds a MacArthur Fellowship.

1956

Jishu Dasgupta

1960

Naoki Urasawa (浦沢直樹), mangaka japonais.

1960

Raman Lamba

Raman Lamba was an Indian cricketer who scored centuries in Test matches and domestic cricket. He died in 1998 at age thirty-eight after being struck in the head by a ball while fielding in a club match in Dhaka. He wasn't wearing a helmet.

1960

José Antonio Álvarez Álvarez, economista español.

1961

Hitoshi Saitō, judoka japonais double champion olympique († 20 janvier 2015).

1961

Craig James

Craig James was an NFL running back for the New England Patriots and a prominent college football analyst on ESPN. He ran for the U.S. Senate in Texas in 2012 and finished fifth in the Republican primary.

1961

Mokhzani Mahathir, fils de l'ancien Premier ministre malaisien Mahathir Mohamad et de son épouse Siti Hasmah Mohamad Ali.

1961

Gabrielle Carteris

Gabrielle Carteris played Andrea Zuckerman on Beverly Hills, 90210 for six seasons and later served as president of SAG-AFTRA, the actors' union. She led the union through negotiations that shaped how performers are compensated in the streaming era.

1961

Paula Hamilton

Paula Hamilton was an English model best known for a 1987 Volkswagen television commercial that became one of the most famous adverts in British history. The ad showed her throwing away a man's possessions but keeping the car keys.

1961

Robert Wexler

David Cone pitched a perfect game for the Yankees on July 18, 1999, retiring all 27 Montreal Expos batters in order. He won five World Series rings across a career that spanned sixteen seasons. His arm was rebuilt after an aneurysm scare, and he pitched some of his best years afterward.

1963

Xesús Constela, écrivain espagnol.

1963

Jelena Alexandrowna Walowa, russische Eiskunstläuferin und Eiskunstlauftrainerin

1963

Harry Nuttall, 4.

Harry Nuttall, 4. Baronet, britischer Motorsportfunktionär und Automobilrennfahrer

1964

Pernell Whitaker

He was 17-0 in amateur competition before turning professional. Pernell Whitaker was the most elusive defensive boxer of his generation — a southpaw whose opponents couldn't figure out angles, who made world champions look like they were shadowboxing. He won gold at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics and went on to hold world titles in four weight classes. His 1993 fight with Julio Cesar Chavez, widely seen as a Whitaker victory, was declared a draw. Most observers disagreed with the judges.

Chris Welp was a German-born basketball player who played center at the University of Washington and in the NBA. He was one of the tallest European players to compete in American college basketball in the 1980s. He died in 2015 at age fifty-one.

Tia Carrere

Tia Carrere starred in Wayne's World, where she played the rock singer Cassandra, and voiced Nani in Lilo & Stitch. She also won two Grammy Awards for her Hawaiian music albums, connecting her Filipino and Hawaiian heritage through music.

1967

Francois Pienaar

He lifted the World Cup in 1995. Francois Pienaar captained the South African Springboks in their first Rugby World Cup appearance after the end of apartheid, and received the trophy from Nelson Mandela, who was wearing a Springbok jersey with Pienaar's number 6. The image — a Black president in a White sporting team's jersey, handing a trophy to a White captain — became one of the defining photographs of post-apartheid South Africa. The moment was later dramatized in the film Invictus.

1968

DJ Deep, deutscher DJ und Remixer

1968

Ali-Rıza Yılmaz, türkischer Fußballspieler

1968

Oliver Strohmaier, österreichischer Skispringer

1968

Anky van Grunsven

She won Olympic gold in dressage at Sydney in 2000 and Athens in 2004, making her and her horse Bonfire — then Salinero — among the most decorated combinations in the sport's history. Anky van Grunsven's riding style was controversial: her horses' necks were often hyperflexed in a position called rollkur, which critics argued caused the horses distress. She defended it as a training method, not a competition posture. The FEI eventually prohibited extreme flexion. She remains the most successful dressage rider in Olympic history.

1968

Cuba Gooding

Cuba Gooding Jr. won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for Jerry Maguire in 1997. His acceptance speech — shouting "Show me the money!" while the orchestra tried to play him off — is one of the most memorable Oscar moments. His father, Cuba Gooding Sr., sang lead for The Main Ingredient.

1968

Goichi Suda

Goichi Suda — known as Suda51 — is the Japanese video game designer behind No More Heroes, Killer7, and other cult favorites. His games are deliberately strange, violent, and self-referential. He founded Grasshopper Manufacture and built a loyal following among players who wanted something weirder than the mainstream.

1968

Evan Parke

Evan Parke is a Jamaican-American actor who has appeared in films including King Kong and Cursed. He's built a career as a character actor in Hollywood, bringing quiet intensity to supporting roles across multiple genres.

1968

Alfonso de Orleans-Borbón, spanischer Adeliger und Rennstallbesitzer

1969

Lorenz Funk jr., deutscher Eishockeyspieler

1969

István Bagyula

Istvan Bagyula was a Hungarian pole vaulter who competed in two Olympic Games. He represented Hungary in an era when the country's track and field program was producing world-class athletes across multiple events.

1969

Tommy Morrison, boxeador estadounidense (f.

Tommy Morrison, boxeador estadounidense (f. 2013).

William Fox-Pitt is one of the most successful event riders in British equestrian history. He's won medals at the Olympics and World Championships and competed at the highest level for over two decades. He's been ranked world number one multiple times.

1969

Tommy Morrison

Tommy Morrison won the WBO heavyweight championship in 1993 and appeared in Rocky V as Tommy Gunn. He tested positive for HIV in 1996, which ended his boxing career. He later denied the diagnosis and attempted comebacks. He died in 2013 at forty-four.

1969

Elena Gorolová

Elena Gorolova is a Czech Romani activist who campaigns for justice for Romani women who were coercively sterilized under Communist-era policies. Her personal story — she was sterilized without informed consent — became central to the movement demanding recognition and reparations.

1969

Patrick Huard, humoriste, acteur, réalisateur et producteur québécois.

1969

Domingos Paciência, portugiesischer Fußballspieler und -trainer

1969

Karl-Heinz Grasser, österreichischer Politiker

1969

Robby Gordon

Robby Gordon raced in NASCAR, IndyCar, and the Dakar Rally — one of the few drivers to compete at the top level in all three disciplines. He won the Baja 1000 multiple times and founded his own off-road racing series. He never stayed in one lane.

1969

Christy Turlington

Christy Turlington was one of the original supermodels of the 1990s, appearing on over 500 magazine covers. She later pivoted to public health advocacy, founding Every Mother Counts, a nonprofit focused on making pregnancy and childbirth safe for all women.

1969

Róbert Švehla

Robert Svehla was a Slovak ice hockey defenseman who played twelve seasons in the NHL, mostly with the Florida Panthers. He was a reliable two-way player who also represented Slovakia in international competition, including multiple World Championships and the Olympics.

1970

Andreas Wecker, gymnaste allemand champion olympique.

1970

Oksana Omelianchik, ex-ginasta russa.

1970

Sanda Ladoşi, cantante rumana.

1970

Royce Clayton

Royce Clayton played shortstop in the major leagues for seventeen seasons, appearing for nine different teams. He was a steady defensive player who accumulated over 1,500 hits across a career that spanned from 1991 to 2007.

1970

Robert Fertitta

Robert Fertitta is an American opera singer who has performed baritone roles with companies across the United States. He specializes in the Italian and French repertoire and has built a career in a field that demands both vocal power and theatrical presence.

1970

Sanda Ladoși

Sanda Ladosi is a Romanian pop singer who became popular in the 1990s with a string of dance-oriented hits. She was part of the post-Communist wave of Romanian pop artists who brought Western-influenced music to a newly opened market.

1970

Eric Whitacre

Eric Whitacre is an American composer and conductor whose choral works have been performed by ensembles worldwide. His Virtual Choir project, which assembled thousands of singers recording from home, pioneered online collaborative performance years before the pandemic made it commonplace.

Pascal Amoyel, pianiste et compositeur français.

1971

Taye Diggs

Taye Diggs starred in Rent on Broadway, the film How Stella Got Her Groove Back, and the television series Private Practice. He's worked across stage, film, and TV for three decades and authored children's books about identity and self-acceptance.

1971

Lisa Harrison

Lisa Harrison played professional basketball in the WNBA and overseas. She was a versatile guard-forward who competed for multiple WNBA franchises during the league's formative years in the late 1990s and early 2000s.

1971

Renée Elise Goldsberry

She originated the role of Angelica Schuyler in Hamilton on Broadway and won a Tony Award for it in 2016. Renee Elise Goldsberry was forty-four years old at the ceremony — old enough to have had a long career before Hamilton found her. She'd been in Ally McBeal, The Good Wife, Kinky Boots. The Schuyler Sisters number, "The Room Where It Happens," and her final appearances in the show are what people remember. She was in the original cast recording that millions memorized before they ever saw the show.

1971

Yutaka Takenouchi

Yutaka Takenouchi is a Japanese actor and model who has appeared in numerous television dramas and films. He became one of Japan's most recognizable leading men in the 1990s and has maintained a steady career across Japanese media.

1971

Markus Hoffmann, deutscher Schauspieler

1971

Slobodan Komljenović, deutscher Fußballspieler

1971

Vasile Sănduleac, moldauischer Schachspieler

1972

Shiraz Minwalla

Shiraz Minwalla is an Indian theoretical physicist whose work on the fluid-gravity correspondence — linking black hole physics to fluid dynamics — opened new research directions in string theory. He became a fellow of the Royal Society at age forty-three. His research at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research has earned him multiple national science awards.

1972

Mattias Norström

Mattias Norstrom played defense in the NHL for fourteen seasons, most notably with the Los Angeles Kings and the Dallas Stars. He captained the Kings from 2001 to 2007 and was known as a reliable, physical defenseman who rarely made the highlight reel but rarely made mistakes either.

1972

Rodney MacDonald

Rodney MacDonald became the 26th Premier of Nova Scotia in 2006 at age thirty-four, making him one of the youngest premiers in Canadian history. A former step dancer and Gaelic speaker, he represented the cultural revival of Cape Breton. He served three years before losing to the NDP in 2009.

Adam Elliot

Adam Elliot won the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film for Harvie Krumpet in 2003. His feature film Mary and Max, a claymation story about pen pals, earned cult status. He works in stop-motion, producing films that take years to complete — one painstaking frame at a time.

1972

Christopher Lennertz

Christopher Lennertz is an American composer who has scored films, television shows, and video games. His credits include the Alvin and the Chipmunks franchise and the Medal of Honor video game series. He works across genres at a pace that keeps him among Hollywood's busiest composers.

Lucy Davis played Dawn Tinsley in the original British version of The Office, one of the most influential comedies of the 21st century. She later appeared in Wonder Woman and The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, building an international career from her BBC beginnings.

1973

Will Kirby

Will Kirby won the second season of Big Brother in the United States in 2001, becoming one of the show's most memorable players. He later built a career as a dermatologist in Los Angeles, combining reality TV fame with medical practice in a way only Hollywood could produce.

1974

Anika Ziercke, deutsche Handballspielerin

1974

Deborah Sengl, österreichische Künstlerin

1974

Ludmila Formanová

Ludmila Formanova won the gold medal in the 800 meters at the 1998 European Championships and the 1999 World Indoor Championships. She was one of the Czech Republic's most successful middle-distance runners of the late 1990s.

Jason de Vos captained the Canadian national soccer team and played professionally in both North America and Europe. He scored the goal that qualified Canada for the 2000 Gold Cup final, one of the most celebrated moments in Canadian soccer history.

1974

Tomáš Řepka

Tomas Repka was a Czech international defender known equally for his fierce tackling and his off-field controversies. He played for Fiorentina and West Ham United and earned 46 caps for the Czech Republic. Tabloids called him "the most hated man in football."

1974

Deborah Sengl

Deborah Sengl is an Austrian artist known for taxidermy-based sculptures and installations that blur the line between natural history and contemporary art. Her work has been exhibited across Europe and provokes debate about the boundaries of art and ethics.

1974

Paz Vega starred in the 2001 Spanish film Sex and Lucia, which launched her international career. She went on to appear in Hollywood films including Spanglish and Rambo: Last Blood. She was named one of the most beautiful women in the world by multiple magazines.

1976

Zafer Biryol, türkischer Fußballspieler

1976

Eva Brenner, deutsche Fernsehmoderatorin

1976

Phil Radford

Phil Radford served as executive director of Greenpeace USA, leading the organization's campaigns on climate change and environmental justice. He later co-founded the Climate Cabinet Action Fund to support pro-climate candidates at the state and local level.

1976

Hrysopiyi Devetzi

Hrysopiyi Devetzi won silver medals in the triple jump at both the 2004 and 2008 Olympics. Her 2004 medal, won on home soil in Athens, made her a Greek national hero. She was later retroactively disqualified from the 2008 result due to a doping violation.

1976

Chrysopigí Devetzí, griechische Leichtathletin

1976

Danilo Di Luca, cycliste italien.

1976

Danilo Di Luca

Danilo Di Luca won the 2007 Giro d'Italia, cycling's second-most prestigious stage race. He was stripped of later results after multiple doping violations and received a lifetime ban in 2013. His career arc mirrored professional cycling's long and painful reckoning with performance-enhancing drugs.

1976

Cletidus Hunt

Cletidus Hunt played defensive tackle for the Green Bay Packers in the NFL. A third-round draft pick in 1999, he spent his entire professional career in Green Bay before injuries cut it short. He was part of the defensive line during Brett Favre's later years with the team.

1976

Mahée Paiement

Mahee Paiement is a Canadian actress best known for her role in the Quebec television series 2 frères. She has worked primarily in French-Canadian film and television, building a career in one of North America's most distinctive entertainment markets.

Aleš Píša

Ales Pisa played professional ice hockey in the Czech Extraliga. He represented the Czech Republic's hockey development system, which has produced some of the NHL's most skilled players over the past three decades.

Stefan Koubek

Stefan Koubek was an Austrian tennis player who reached the world top 30 and won two ATP tour titles. He represented Austria in Davis Cup competition and was known for his aggressive baseline game.

1977

Brian Boucher

Brian Boucher played goalie in the NHL for fourteen seasons, mostly with the Phoenix Coyotes and Philadelphia Flyers. He set a modern NHL record with five consecutive shutouts in 2003. After retiring, he became a hockey analyst for NBC and ESPN.

Froylán Ledezma, costa-ricanischer Fußballspieler

1978

Karina Smirnoff

Karina Smirnoff is a Ukrainian-American ballroom dancer who became a household name through Dancing with the Stars. She appeared on the show for multiple seasons and won the mirrorball trophy. Before television, she was a five-time U.S. National Latin Dance Champion.

1978

Kjartan Sveinsson

Kjartan Sveinsson played keyboards for Sigur Ros, the Icelandic post-rock band whose soundscapes made critics reach for words like "ethereal" and "glacial." He shaped the band's orchestral arrangements across four albums before leaving in 2013 to compose for film and theater. His work with the band helped put Icelandic music on the global map.

1980

Mac Danzig

Mac Danzig won Season 6 of The Ultimate Fighter reality show and competed in the UFC's lightweight division. He was one of the first prominent vegan athletes in mixed martial arts, proving that plant-based nutrition could fuel elite fighting.

1980

Catherine Bailey, britische Schauspielerin

1980

Jérôme Pineau, cycliste français.

1980

Rebekah Teasdale, modelo y periodista británica.

1980

David Gyasi

David Gyasi is a British actor who appeared in Interstellar, Cloud Atlas, and the television series Carnival Row. He's built a growing career in both British and American film and television productions.

1980

Annie Bellemare

Annie Bellemare competed as a pairs figure skater for Canada. She represented her country in international competition during the 2000s, skating with various partners on the ISU circuit.

1980

Jérôme Pineau

Jerome Pineau was a French professional cyclist who rode in ten Tours de France over a sixteen-year career. He won stages at the Vuelta a Espana and was known as a reliable domestique — the unheralded teammate who does the work so the team leader can win.

1980

Sarah Winkenstette, deutsche Regisseurin und Drehbuchautorin

1980

Ariane Matiakh, französische Dirigentin

1981

Kirk Hinrich

Kirk Hinrich played thirteen seasons in the NBA, spending most of his career with the Chicago Bulls. He was the seventh overall pick in the 2003 draft and became known for his tough defense and dependable shooting. Bulls fans nicknamed him "Captain Kirk."

Danielle Souza, modelo, empresária e youtuber brasileira.

1981

Maxi Rodríguez

Maxi Rodriguez scored one of the greatest goals in World Cup history — a left-footed volley against Mexico in the 2006 quarterfinals that still circulates on highlight reels. He played for Atletico Madrid, Liverpool, and Newell's Old Boys, where he's treated like a local saint in Rosario.

1981

Ryan Garko

Ryan Garko played first base for the Cleveland Indians and other MLB teams. He was a solid hitter who provided middle-of-the-order power during Cleveland's competitive seasons in the mid-2000s.

Juan Carlos Mariño, futebolista peruano.

1982

Ozéia, futebolista brasileiro.

1983

Fuad Aslanov, aserbaidschanischer Boxer und Ringrichter

1983

David Prieto, futbolista español.

1983

Kate Bosworth

Kate Bosworth broke through with the surfer film Blue Crush in 2002 and went on to star in Superman Returns and Still Alice. She's known for heterochromia — one eye is blue, the other hazel — which became her signature in the fashion and film worlds.

1983

Andrew Ebbett

Andrew Ebbett played professional ice hockey in the NHL and internationally for Canada. He appeared for multiple NHL teams including the Anaheim Ducks, Minnesota Wild, and Pittsburgh Penguins, as well as spending time in the AHL and European leagues.

1983

Anthony Carrigan

Anthony Carrigan plays NoHo Hank on the HBO series Barry — a Chechen mobster so charming and polite that audiences root for him. He also played Victor Zsasz on Gotham. Carrigan has alopecia, which he's discussed publicly, helping normalize the condition in Hollywood.

1983

Jefferson, ex-futebolista brasileiro.

1984

Otacilio Jales

Otacilio Jales was a Brazilian footballer who played in Brazil's domestic leagues. He was part of the country's vast professional football system, which produces more players than any other nation on Earth.

Heather O'Reilly

Heather O'Reilly played 231 times for the U.S. Women's National Soccer Team and won three Olympic gold medals. She scored the goal that beat Brazil in the 2004 Olympic gold medal match. A career that spanned fifteen years at the international level made her one of American soccer's most reliable performers.

1985

Ivan Dodig

Ivan Dodig is a Croatian tennis player who has won multiple Grand Slam doubles titles, including the French Open. He's one of Croatia's most successful tennis players and has been ranked among the top doubles players in the world.

Ediz Bahtiyaroglu was a Turkish-Bosnian footballer who played as a midfielder in the Turkish Super Lig. He died in 2012 at age twenty-six, cutting short a career that had shown promise in Turkey's competitive football system.

Nathan Cohen

Nathan Cohen won the Olympic gold medal in double sculls rowing at the 2012 London Olympics, partnering with Joseph Sullivan. It was New Zealand's first rowing gold in twenty-eight years. Cohen retired due to a back injury shortly after.

1986

Nicolás Bertolo

Nicolas Bertolo was an Argentine midfielder who played for River Plate, earning a reputation as a tough, technically gifted player in one of South America's most demanding leagues. He also represented Argentina at youth international level.

1986

Per Karlsson, futbolista sueco.

1987

Daniel Stuart « Danny » Care, joueur de rugby anglais.

1987

Robert Milsom

Robert Milsom was an English footballer who played in the lower divisions of English football. He was a midfielder who worked his way through the English football league system.

1987

Shelley Hennig

1987

Loïc Rémy

Loic Remy is a French striker who played in the Premier League for Chelsea, Newcastle United, and Queens Park Rangers. He also scored nine goals in thirty-one appearances for the French national team.

1988

Jonny Evans

Jonny Evans has played over 500 professional matches as a central defender in the Premier League, representing Manchester United, West Brom, Leicester City, and other clubs. He won a Premier League title with Leicester in 2016 — one of sport's greatest underdog stories.

1988

Luke Harangody

Luke Harangody played basketball at Notre Dame, where he was named Big East Player of the Year. He had a brief NBA career with the Cleveland Cavaliers and Boston Celtics before playing professionally overseas.

1988

Damien Tussac

Damien Tussac is a French-German rugby player who has competed in European rugby union. He represents the cross-border talent flow between French and German rugby programs.

Mikhail Gabyshev, futbolista kazajo.

1990

Maurício Alves Peruchi

Mauricio Alves Peruchi was a Brazilian footballer who played as a striker in Brazil's lower divisions. He died in 2014 at age twenty-four, one of too many young Brazilian players whose careers ended before they truly began.

1990

Maricet Espinosa González, judoca cubana (m.

Maricet Espinosa González, judoca cubana (m. 2024).

1990

Géraldine Raths, deutsche Schauspielerin

1990

Elisabeth Aßmann, deutsche Agrarökonomin und Politikerin

1990

Jiří Mazoch, tschechischer Skispringer

1990

Maurício Alves, futebolista brasileiro (m.

Maurício Alves, futebolista brasileiro (m. 2014).

1991

Davide Santon

1991

Katrin Loo

Katrin Loo is an Estonian women's footballer who has represented her country in international competition. She plays in a growing women's football scene in the Baltic states.

1992

Viktor Claesson, futbolista sueco.

1992

Bárbara Muñoz Bustamante, futbolista chilena.

1992

Korbin Sims

Korbin Sims is an Australian-Fijian rugby league player who has represented Fiji in international competition and played in the NRL for the Brisbane Broncos, Newcastle Knights, and St George Illawarra Dragons.

1992

Bienvenue Basala-Mazana, deutscher Fußballspieler

1992

Paulo Gazzaniga

Paulo Gazzaniga is an Argentine goalkeeper who has played in the Premier League for Tottenham Hotspur and in La Liga for Girona. He was part of Girona's remarkable 2023-24 season that earned the club a Champions League spot.

1992

Anna Arina Marenko

Anna Arina Marenko is a Russian tennis player who competed on the WTA and ITF circuits. She was part of the wave of Russian women's tennis players that produced multiple Grand Slam champions in the 2000s and 2010s.

1992

Alexey Marchenko

Alexey Marchenko is a Russian ice hockey defenseman who played in the NHL for the Detroit Red Wings and Toronto Maple Leafs. He also represented Russia in international competition and has played in the KHL.

1992

Teemu Pulkkinen

Teemu Pulkkinen is a Finnish ice hockey player who played for the Detroit Red Wings in the NHL and in multiple European leagues. His powerful shot made him a regular on the power play.

Bryson Tiller broke through with the 2015 single "Don't," which he uploaded to SoundCloud without a record deal. The song went viral. His debut album TRAPSOUL blended R&B, hip-hop, and trap production in a way that defined the mid-2010s sound and influenced a wave of artists who followed.

1994

Sophie Fasold, US-amerikanische Handballspielerin

1994

Adam Masina, futbolista marroquí.

1994

Mona Ameziane, deutsche Moderatorin

1994

Ronald Darby

Ronald Darby played cornerback in the NFL for the Buffalo Bills, Philadelphia Eagles, and Washington Commanders. He was part of the Eagles' secondary that helped the team win Super Bowl LII in 2018.

1994

Valentina Giacinti, italienische Fußballspielerin

1994

Gonzalo Melero, futbolista español.

1995

Antonio José, cantante español.

1995

Renata Notni, actriz y modelo mexicana.

1995

Giorgi Aburjania, futbolista georgiano.

1996

Cristina Martínez, ciclista española.

1996

Jonah Bolden

Jonah Bolden is an Australian-American basketball player who competed in the NBA with the Philadelphia 76ers and in Australian and European leagues. His dual nationality reflects the increasingly global talent pool in professional basketball.

1996

1997

Gijs Blom, actor neerlandés.

1997

Arshad Nadeem

Arshad Nadeem won the Olympic gold medal in javelin at the 2024 Paris Games, setting an Olympic record of 92.97 meters. He became Pakistan's first individual Olympic gold medalist. The throw was longer than anyone had managed in Olympic history.

Tfue — Turner Tenney — became one of the most-watched Fortnite streamers in the world, attracting millions of viewers on Twitch and YouTube. His legal dispute with FaZe Clan over contract terms helped reshape how esports organizations structure player contracts.

1998

Timothy Fosu-Mensah

Timothy Fosu-Mensah is a Dutch footballer of Ghanaian descent who played for Manchester United, Fulham, and Bayer Leverkusen. He came through United's academy system and earned his first-team debut at age eighteen.

Aaron Wiggins is an American basketball player who has played in the NBA for the Oklahoma City Thunder and other teams. He was drafted in the second round of the 2021 draft out of the University of Maryland.

Fernando Tatís Jr.

Fernando Tatis Jr. is a Dominican shortstop and outfielder for the San Diego Padres. He hit .282 with 42 home runs in 2021 at age twenty-two, became one of baseball's most electric players, then missed the entire 2022 season after a motorcycle accident and a performance-enhancing drug suspension. His career has been defined by brilliance interrupted by controversy.

1999

Alegna González, atleta mexicana.

1999

Khalifah Al-Dawsari, futbolista saudí.

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2002

Fany Bertrand, französische Biathletin

2003

Elye Wahi

Elye Wahi is a French striker who has played for Montpellier and other clubs in Ligue 1. He scored on his professional debut at age seventeen and is part of the next wave of French attacking talent.

2003

Adrien Boichis, ciclista francés.

2003

Kai Meriluoto, futbolista finlandés.

2003

CJ Egan-Riley

CJ Egan-Riley is an English footballer who came through Manchester City's academy. He's a young defender working to break into senior professional football in one of the world's most competitive leagues.

2005

Jone Amezaga, futbolista española.

2006

Claudio Echeverri

Claudio Echeverri is an Argentine footballer who emerged as a teenage prodigy at River Plate. His technical skill and creativity drew attention from European clubs while he was still a minor. He represents the latest in Argentina's seemingly endless production line of gifted young players.

2006

Births

Yōzei

Toda Aznárez de Pamplona, reina consorte de Pamplona (f.

Beatriz da Suábia, rainha da Borgonha e Itália (m.

Jean d’Outremeuse, Lütticher Kleriker und Chronist

Basílio Bessarion, patriarca latino de Constantinopla (m.

Piero di Cosimo

Louis de Bourbon-Vendôme, Bischof von Laon, Kardinal und päpstlicher Legat in Savoyen

Henry of Stolberg

Hermann tom Ring, deutscher Maler

Johann Major, deutscher lutherischer Theologe, Humanist und Poet

Kaspar Unternährer, Schweizer Bauernführer

Peter Appelmann, schwedischer Amtshauptmann und Gutspächter

Christian Scriver, deutscher Theologe und Kirchenliederdichter

Wilhelmus à Brakel, niederländischer Prediger

Ulrich Hipparchos von Promnitz, kurbrandenburgischer und kursächsischer Kabinettsminister

Mehmed IV

Rudolf Wilhelm von Stubenberg, ungarisch-österreichischer Barockdichter

Nathaniel Bacon

Octavio Broggio, böhmischer Architekt und Baumeister des Hochbarock

Heinrich Pipping, deutscher lutherischer Theologe und Oberhofprediger in Dresden

Jean-Baptiste Anet, französischer Violinist und Komponist

Osman III

Bernardus Estinghausen, deutscher Priester und Abt des Klosters Marienfeld

Marie Dumesnil

Michael Angstenberger, österreichischer Kirchenliedkomponist

Jacques-Alexandre Laffon de Ladebat

Friedrich Christoph von Saldern, preußischer General und Kriegstheoretiker

José de Gálvez y Gallardo, spanischer Adliger und Beamter, Kolonialminister

David Ruhnken, niederländischer Gelehrter

James Wolfe

Johann Daniel Titius, preußischer Astronom, Physiker und Biologe

František Brixi

Paul Revere (Taufdatum), US-amerikanischer Offizier und Freiheitskämpfer

Leopold von Clary und Aldringen, böhmisch-österreichischer Jurist und Politiker

Jean-Baptiste Treilhard, juriste et homme politique français († 5 décembre 1810).

Philip Freneau, US-amerikanischer Dichter

Jean Joseph Tranchot, französischer Geograph

Charlotte Christine Wilhelmine von Gilsa, Äbtissin des Stiftes Wallenstein zu Homberg

Jean Noël Hallé, französischer Arzt, Hygieniker und Epidemiologe

Juan José Paso, político argentino, secretario de la Primera Junta (f.

Georg Ludwig Stecher, deutscher Jurist und Politiker

August Heinrich Gruner, deutscher Lokalpolitiker und Mineraloge

Genovefa Weber, deutsche Opernsängerin und Schauspielerin

Richard Westall, pintor británico (f.

Charles Hatchett, químico britânico (m.

Bashir Shihab II, emir libanés (f.

Inácio Luís Madeira de Melo, militar português (m.

Christian Daniel Rauch

Friedrich August Gotthold, deutscher Pädagoge und Schuldirektor

Gerhard Friederich, deutscher evangelisch-lutherischer Pfarrer und Schriftsteller

Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg, peintre danois († 22 juillet 1853).

Ernst I., Herzog von Sachsen-Coburg-Saalfeld und preußischer General

Emanuel Friedrich Zehender, Schweizer Schullehrer, Pomologe und Gutsbesitzer

Désiré-Alexandre Batton, französischer Komponist

Carl Friedrich Plattner, deutscher Hüttenkundler und Chemiker

Karl Josef Grysar, deutscher Klassischer Philologe

Carl Friedrich Adolph Lorentzen, deutscher Landschaftsmaler

Ferdinand Laeisz, deutscher Kaufmann und Reeder

August von Kirchfeldt, preußischer Generalmajor

Peter Carl Geissler, deutscher Aquarell-Maler, Kupferstecher und Verleger

Wilhelm Dindorf, Klassischer Philologe

Guglielmo Libri Carucci dalla Sommaja

Giovanni Battista Velluti, italienischer Opernsänger

James G. Clinton, US-amerikanischer Jurist, Offizier und Politiker

Karl Friedrich von Holleuffer, preußischer Generalleutnant

Donat Müller, deutscher Organist, Musiklehrer, Musikdirektor, Komponist, Redakteur und Herausgeber

John Hogan, US-amerikanischer Politiker

Teofil Wiśniowski, polnischer Aufständischer

Henri Herz, österreichischer Pianist und Komponist, Klavierpädagoge und Klavierbauer

László Szőgyény-Marich, ungarischer Politiker, Hofbeamter und Landesrichter

Wilhelm Zimmermann, deutscher Theologe, Dichter und Historiker

Tomasz Napoleon Nidecki, polnischer Komponist

Moses Simson, deutscher Unternehmer

Woldemar Friedrich Krüger, deutschbaltischer Maler und Lithograf

Friedrich Wilhelm Jähns, deutscher Gesangslehrer, Komponist und Musikschriftsteller

Ernst August Hörning, deutscher Schauspieler und Politiker

Pierre Louis Omer Charlet, französischer Genre-, Allegorien-, Kirchen- und Historienmaler

Amos E. Wood, US-amerikanischer Politiker

Hugo Haniel, deutscher Unternehmer