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Medieval 4

1153

William IX

William IX of Poitiers was the posthumous son of Henry the Young King and grandson of Henry II of England, but died at age three, extinguishing a potential claim to the English throne. His brief life was a footnote in the complex Plantagenet succession struggles.

1443

Thilo von Trotha, Bischof von Merseburg, Rektor der Universität Leipzig

1465

Philibert I

Philibert I became Duke of Savoy at age 7 and died at 17, leaving a reign too brief to leave much mark on history. His short life was typical of the era's child rulers, whose reigns were largely managed by regents and court factions.

1473

Richard of Shrewsbury

Richard of Shrewsbury was born in 1473, the second son of Edward IV of England, and spent most of his short life as Duke of York. He was nine years old when his father died and his older brother became Edward V. Both boys were placed in the Tower of London for their protection. Neither was ever seen again. They became the Princes in the Tower — the most famous unsolved disappearance in English history. Richard III, their uncle, became king. Who ordered their deaths, or whether they were killed at all, has been argued for five centuries.

1500s 9

1501

Philipp II

Count Philipp II of Hanau-Münzenberg ruled a small territory in Hesse during the early Reformation period and navigated the religious upheaval that was reshaping German politics. His county lay in the heart of the region where Protestant and Catholic interests collided most intensely.

1556

Alexander Briant

Alexander Briant was an English Jesuit priest executed during the Protestant Reformation. He was arrested in 1581, tortured in the Tower of London, and hanged, drawn, and quartered alongside Edmund Campion. The Elizabethan government considered Catholic priests traitors by definition. Briant was canonized as one of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales.

1562

Hans Leo Hassler

He learned counterpoint from the same teacher as Orlando di Lasso — then blew past everyone by studying in Venice under Andrea Gabrieli, the first German composer to do so. Hassler carried Venetian polychoral thunder back to Augsburg, reshaping German sacred music from the inside. But his most durable work wasn't a grand motet. It was a simple secular love song, "Mein G'müt ist mir verwirret," whose melody Hassler couldn't have known would later carry the words of "O Sacred Head Now Wounded" straight into Bach's St. Matthew Passion.

1578

Francesco Albani

Francesco Albani was born in Bologna in 1578, studied under Annibale Carracci, and spent his career painting gentle, luminous scenes of classical mythology — Venuses and nymphs and cherubs in soft Arcadian landscapes. He was the opposite of dramatic. While contemporaries reached for Caravaggio's shadows and tension, Albani reached for sky and silk. He was enormously popular in his lifetime. Cardinal Pietro Aldobrandini collected his work. He outlived most of his contemporaries and painted into old age in Bologna, where he'd started, rarely leaving.

1578

Johann

Prince Johann of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen was the first ruler of this branch of the Hohenzollern dynasty after it split from the main line. His Catholic branch would eventually produce a King of Romania, while the Protestant Hohenzollerns of Brandenburg went on to become the Kings of Prussia and German Emperors.

1582

John Matthew Rispoli

Maltese philosopher John Matthew Rispoli contributed to intellectual life in early 17th-century Malta, where the Knights of St. John had created a uniquely cosmopolitan Mediterranean culture. His work reflected the island's position as a crossroads of European, North African, and Ottoman intellectual traditions.

1586

Johann Valentin Andrea

German theologian Johann Valentin Andreae is widely attributed as the author of the Rosicrucian manifestos, enigmatic texts published in 1614-1615 that described a secret brotherhood of enlightened scholars and sparked a pan-European intellectual sensation. Whether meant as satire or sincere utopian vision, the manifestos influenced Freemasonry and Western esotericism for centuries.

1590

Manuel de Moura, portugiesischer Adliger, Statthalter der habsburgischen Niederlanden

1592

Arnaud Oihenart, político y jurista francés (f.

Arnaud Oihenart, político y jurista francés (f. 1667).

1600s 15

1601

Pierre de Fermat, matemático francés (f.

Pierre de Fermat, matemático francés (f. 1665).

1601

Pierre de Fermat

He scribbled the most tormenting sentence in math history in the margin of a book — then died before explaining it. Fermat was a lawyer by trade, not a professor. Mathematics was his hobby. But that 1637 margin note — "I have a truly marvelous proof, which this margin is too narrow to contain" — kept mathematicians chasing their tails for 358 years. Andrew Wiles finally cracked Fermat's Last Theorem in 1995. An amateur's offhand scribble consumed centuries of professional genius.

1603

Lennart Torstensson

Swedish Field Marshal Lennart Torstensson was one of the most effective commanders of the Thirty Years' War, leading Swedish forces to decisive victories despite suffering from severe gout that often required him to command from a stretcher. His lightning campaigns in the 1640s helped secure Sweden's position as a major European power.

1612

Jeremi Wiśniowiecki, polnischer Magnat und Feldherr

1629

John III of Poland

John III Sobieski became King of Poland in 1674 and then fought the Ottoman Empire at Vienna in 1683, leading the cavalry charge that broke the siege and turned the battle. That decision — riding down from the hills with 18,000 hussars — is remembered as the largest cavalry charge in history. Born in 1629. He was 54 when he saved Vienna. He died in 1696, more famous than when he started.

1629

John III Sobieski

He learned Tatar and Turkish as a young man — not for diplomacy, but to read his enemies' battle plans himself. John III Sobieski grew into Poland's most celebrated military commander, winning a kingdom through sheer battlefield instinct. His 1683 charge at Vienna — leading 18,000 Polish winged hussars down a hillside — broke the Ottoman siege and stopped an empire's westward advance. He died king in 1696, but he left Europe something no treaty could have managed: time.

1633

Michael Bergmann, deutscher Autor von Nachschlagewerken

1636

Johann Caspar Horn, deutscher Komponist, Jurist und Arzt

1637

Johann Gerhard Arnold, deutscher Historiker, Konsistorialrat und Gymnasialrektor

1654

Hans Haubold von Einsiedel, kursächsischer Hofbeamter

1656

María Magdalena de Habsburgo, aristócrata austriaca (f.

María Magdalena de Habsburgo, aristócrata austriaca (f. 1669).

1671

Niklaus Tscheer, Schweizer Pietist und Schriftsteller

1675

Johann Adolph Wedel, deutscher Mediziner

1686

Nicola Porpora

He taught Haydn in exchange for boot-polishing. That was the deal — the young Haydn served as Porpora's valet, shining shoes and running errands, while absorbing everything the master knew about vocal composition. Porpora himself had trained the greatest castrati of the 18th century, including Farinelli, shaping the sound of opera seria across Europe. His own career eventually crumbled under financial ruin. But the techniques he traded for boot-black passed directly into Haydn's hands — and into the music that followed.

1699

Bernard de Jussieu, médico y botánico francés (f.

Bernard de Jussieu, médico y botánico francés (f. 1777).

1700s 47

1700

Johann Michael Beer von Bleichten, österreichischer Baumeister und Architekt

1710

Louis Coulon de Villiers, militar francés (f.

Louis Coulon de Villiers, militar francés (f. 1757).

1717

Darius Sessions, Vizegouverneur der Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations

1717

Heinrich Wilhelm von Huth, dänischer General der Artillerie

1718

Francis Willis, médico británico (f.

Francis Willis, médico británico (f. 1807).

1720

Charles Eisen, französischer Maler

1724

Gottlieb Friedrich Riedel, deutscher Maler und Kupferstecher

1732

François-Germain Le Rouvillois, député du clergé aux états généraux de 1789 († inconnue).

1735

Tobias Furneaux, britischer Entdecker, umsegelte als erster die Erde in beide Richtungen

1737

Antoine Parmentier, agrónomo francés (f.

Antoine Parmentier, agrónomo francés (f. 1813).

1738

Coelestin II.

Coelestin II. Steiglehner, letzter Fürstabt von Kloster St. Emmeram

1743

Julien Louis Geoffroy, écrivain et critique dramatique et littéraire français († 27 février 1814).

1743

Eberhard August Wilhelm von Zimmermann, zoólogo y filósofo alemán (f.

Eberhard August Wilhelm von Zimmermann, zoólogo y filósofo alemán (f. 1815).

1748

Scipione Breislak, geólogo italiano (m.

Scipione Breislak, geólogo italiano (m. 1826).

1753

Josef Dobrovský

Josef Dobrovský wrote the first systematic grammar of the Czech language in 1809, at a time when Czech was primarily spoken by peasants and dismissed by the educated class. Born in 1753, he was a Jesuit scholar who treated Czech as a subject worthy of serious linguistic analysis. The revival of Czech national literature ran through his work. Languages need someone to study them before anyone else will take them seriously.

1753

Matvéi Plátov, militar ruso (f.

Matvéi Plátov, militar ruso (f. 1818).

1754

Louis-Marie Stanislas Fréron, französischer Politiker

1755

Thomas Stothard, pintor británico (f.

Thomas Stothard, pintor británico (f. 1834).

1757

Adam von Bartsch, österreichischer Künstler und Kunstschriftsteller und Begründer der systematisch-kritischen Graphik…

Adam von Bartsch, österreichischer Künstler und Kunstschriftsteller und Begründer der systematisch-kritischen Graphikwissenschaft

1760

Luis Antonio Flores y Pereyra, marino español (f.

Luis Antonio Flores y Pereyra, marino español (f. 1816).

1761

William Carey, misionero británico (f.

William Carey, misionero británico (f. 1834).

1764

Louis Desaix

He died winning. At Marengo in 1800, Desaix rode into a losing battle — Napoleon's forces crumbling, retreat nearly certain — and his single division reversed everything. But a musket ball caught him within minutes of his charge. He never saw the victory he'd just saved. Napoleon later said, "What a day if I could only have fought alongside Desaix tonight." Born in Auvergne in 1768, he'd spent years conquering Egypt before this. The general who rescued an emperor didn't live long enough to be thanked.

1769

Damián de la Santa, político español (f.

Damián de la Santa, político español (f. 1835).

1769

Peter Alois Gratz, katholischer Bibelwissenschaftler

1774

Augustin Andreas Geyer, katholischer Geistlicher und Fossiliensammler

1778

John Varley, pintor y astrólogo británico (f.

John Varley, pintor y astrólogo británico (f. 1842).

1778

Godofredo Engelmann, escritor francés (f.

Godofredo Engelmann, escritor francés (f. 1839).

1780

Ignaz Paul Vital Troxler, Schweizer Arzt, Politiker und Philosoph

1780

Georg von Wangenheim, hannoverscher Oberhofmarschall

1782

Manuel Varela Limia, militar español (f. 1853).

1798

Pawel Nikolajewitsch Demidow, russischer Offizier und Philanthrop

1798

Anton Delvig, poète, traducteur et journaliste russe († 26 janvier 1831).

1798

Thomas Hodgkin, médico británico (f.

Thomas Hodgkin, médico británico (f. 1866).

Fredrika Bremer

Swedish writer Fredrika Bremer pioneered the realistic domestic novel in Scandinavia and became an internationally celebrated advocate for women's rights. Her 1856 novel 'Hertha' was so influential in sparking debate about women's legal status that Sweden's subsequent reform legislation was nicknamed 'Lex Bremer.'

1803

Joseph Marchand, französischer Missionar, Heiliger und Märtyrer der römisch-katholischen Kirche

1803

Karl Alexander von Seckendorff-Aberdar, württembergischer Obersthofmeister

1804

Ludwig von Reinhard, deutscher Diplomat

1805

Wilhelm von Thüngen, bayerischer Gutsbesitzer und Politiker

1806

Karl von Schrenck, bayerischer Politiker

1806

Johann Kaspar Mertz, compositor y guitarrista austríaco (f.

Johann Kaspar Mertz, compositor y guitarrista austríaco (f. 1856).

1807

Eduard Süskind, deutscher Pfarrer, Landwirt und Politiker

1807

Andrés Ibarra, militar venezolano (f.

Andrés Ibarra, militar venezolano (f. 1875).

1808

Charles Derriey, französischer Stempelschneider, Typograf, Buchdrucker und Schriftgießer

1809

Julius Neuberth, deutscher Naturforscher und Magnetiseur

1809

Ludwig Weber, österreichischer Unternehmer und Politiker

1810

Mariano Saavedra, político argentino (f.

Mariano Saavedra, político argentino (f. 1883).

1810

1817

Manuel García Barzanallana, político español (f.

Manuel García Barzanallana, político español (f. 1892).

1818

Heinrich Hirzel, Schweizer evangelischer Geistlicher

1819

Louis Gast, deutscher Kaufmann, Ehrenbürger von Wittenberg

1821

Philetus Walter Norris, Zweiter Superintendent des Yellowstone-Nationalparkes

1827

Camille Raspail, médecin et homme politique français († 26 mai 1893).

1828

Jules Bernard Luys

He mapped the brain before anyone had the tools to truly understand it. Jules Bernard Luys, born in Paris in 1828, identified a tiny cluster of neurons deep in the midbrain — a structure so obscure it sat unnamed for decades. Now it's called the subthalamic nucleus, or Luys' body. Surgeons today target that exact spot with electrodes to treat Parkinson's tremors. One man's 19th-century dissection work became the precise coordinates for a 21st-century operation. He never saw a single patient benefit from it.

1828

Maria Deraismes, activista francesa (f.

Maria Deraismes, activista francesa (f. 1894).

1830

Richard Volkmann, cirujano y escritor alemán (f.

Richard Volkmann, cirujano y escritor alemán (f. 1889).

1833

Karl von Czyhlarz, böhmischer Jurist und Politiker

1833

Joaquín Eguía Lis, catedrático mexicano (f.

Joaquín Eguía Lis, catedrático mexicano (f. 1913).

1834

Peter Benoit, belgischer Komponist und Professor

1834

Adolf von Beckerath, deutscher Kunstsammler

1839

Abdyl Frashëri, albanischer Politiker

1840

Wilfrid Scawen Blunt

Wilfrid Scawen Blunt was an English poet and activist who campaigned against British imperialism at a time when that position was deeply unpopular among his class. He supported Egyptian, Indian, and Irish independence movements. He was imprisoned in Ireland for two months in 1888 for speaking at a banned meeting. His poetry was admired; his politics made him a social outcast in Victorian England.

1841

Fagundes Varella, poeta brasileiro (m.

Fagundes Varella, poeta brasileiro (m. 1875).

1842

Hugo Egmont Hørring, dänischer Jurist und Politiker, Ministerpräsident

1843

Mariano Rampolla del Tindaro, sacerdote italiano (f.

Mariano Rampolla del Tindaro, sacerdote italiano (f. 1913).

1844

Menelek II of Ethiopia

1851

Carl Hintze, deutscher Mineraloge und Kristallograph

1852

Harald Jerichau, pintor danés (f.

Harald Jerichau, pintor danés (f. 1878).

1855

Wilhelm Grube, deutscher Sinologe

1856

Maurice Hauriou, jurista francês (m.

Maurice Hauriou, jurista francês (m. 1929).

1858

Robert von Diessbach, Schweizer Jurist, Heimatforscher und Tierschützer

1859

Helene Anton, deutsche Schriftstellerin

1861

Ludwig von Hofmann, pintor alemán (f.

1865

Otto Pflanzl, österreichischer Heimatdichter

1866

Mahbub Ali Khan

Mahbub Ali Khan transformed Hyderabad into a modern administrative state by establishing the first railway system and a comprehensive telegraph network across his vast princely domain. As the sixth Nizam, he modernized the region’s education and legal systems, turning his capital into a hub of intellectual and industrial progress in colonial India.

1866

Julia Marlowe

She was born Sarah Frances Frost in a tiny Cumberland cottage, but America would know her as Julia Marlowe — a name she borrowed, reinvented, and made legendary on Broadway. She debuted at fourteen, barely trained, in a touring children's company. By thirty, critics called her the finest Shakespearean actress in America. She'd eventually share the stage — and a marriage — with E.H. Sothern, and their Shakespearean tours redefined how Americans experienced classical theater for decades.

1868

Edward Józef Abramowski, polnischer Philosoph, Psychologe, Soziologe und Anarchist

1870

Liberato Marcial Rojas, presidente paraguayo (f.

Liberato Marcial Rojas, presidente paraguayo (f. 1922).

1871

Wilhelm Appun, deutscher Politiker

1872

Traian Vuia, inventor romeno (m.

Traian Vuia, inventor romeno (m. 1950).

1872

Joaquín Xaudaró, historietista español (f.

Joaquín Xaudaró, historietista español (f. 1933).

1873

John A. Sampson

American gynecologist John A. Sampson first described the theory that endometriosis is caused by retrograde menstruation — menstrual tissue flowing backward through the fallopian tubes. Published in 1927, his theory dominated the field for nearly a century.

1874

Raimund Nimführ, österreichischer Luftfahrttheoretiker und Flugzeugpionier

1875

Alejandro Vega Matus, compositor nicaragüense (f.

Alejandro Vega Matus, compositor nicaragüense (f. 1937).

1875

Knud Zimsen, Bürgermeister von Reykjavík

1875

Karl Roth, deutscher Architekt

1876

Theodor Däubler, deutscher Schriftsteller, Epiker, Lyriker, Erzähler, und Kunstkritiker

1876

Henri Winkelman, militar neerlandés (f.

1880

Leo Ascher, österreichischer Komponist und Jurist

1880

Percy Sherwell

Percy Sherwell captained South Africa in their early Test cricket years, leading the team on their 1907 tour of England. A wicketkeeper-batsman, he was part of the generation that established South African cricket as an international force.

1880

Paul Kammerer, österreichischer Zoologe

1881

Piet Kramer, arquitecto neerlandés (f.

Piet Kramer, arquitecto neerlandés (f. 1961).

1882

Paul Andres, Schweizer Arzt und Politiker

1882

Samuel Goldwyn

Samuel Goldwyn was born Schmuel Gelbfisz in Warsaw, arrived in the United States with essentially nothing, and became one of the founders of the Hollywood studio system. He co-founded what became MGM and later ran his own independent production company, producing films including Wuthering Heights, The Best Years of Our Lives, and Guys and Dolls. He was famous for malapropisms attributed to him — Include me out, A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's written on — many of which he probably never said. He said them anyway.

1883

Friedrich Muckermann, deutscher katholischer Publizist und Jesuit, Gegner des Nationalsozialismus

1884

Rudolf Gercke, deutscher General

1884

Dario Resta, italienisch-britischer Automobilrennfahrer

1885

1888

Pieter van der Hoog

Dutch physician Pieter van der Hoog combined careers in bacteriology, dermatology, and Islamic studies — an unusual interdisciplinary range even by early 20th-century standards. His medical work and scholarly interest in Islam reflected the intellectual breadth characteristic of Dutch colonial-era academics.

1888

Monty Woolley

Monty Woolley was born in New York City in 1888, spent years as a Yale drama professor, and arrived on Broadway at 50 playing the irascible invalid Sheridan Whiteside in The Man Who Came to Dinner. He was imperious, funny, and terrifying in the role. Hollywood bought the film rights and kept him. He received two Oscar nominations. He had the face and bearing of a man who had never once in his life wondered whether he was in the right room.

1889

Agustín Nieto Caballero, escritor y psicólogo colombiano (f.

Agustín Nieto Caballero, escritor y psicólogo colombiano (f. 1975).

1889

Edmond Privat, jornalista e historiador suíço (m.

Edmond Privat, jornalista e historiador suíço (m. 1962).

1889

Lalla Carlsen

Norwegian singer and actress Lalla Carlsen performed in Scandinavian theater and music for decades, becoming a familiar figure in Norwegian entertainment. Her career spanned the transition from stage to broadcast media in early 20th-century Norway.

1890

Stefan Bastyr

Polish aviator Stefan Bastyr was among the first military pilots in newly independent Poland after World War I. He died in a crash in 1920 at age 30, during the Polish-Soviet War — one of many early aviation pioneers killed by the primitive aircraft of the era.

1890

Harry Hopkins

He never held elected office, yet Harry Hopkins ran America's largest relief program from a hospital bed. Diagnosed with stomach cancer in 1937, doctors gave him months. He lived eight more years — spending much of World War II as FDR's closest personal envoy, negotiating directly with Churchill and Stalin. Hopkins distributed over $3 billion through the New Deal's Federal Emergency Relief Administration, reaching 15 million unemployed Americans. He died broke. A man who moved billions never accumulated a dollar of his own.

1891

دولسي ماري بيلرز، رسامة توضيحية إنجليزية متخصصة في الرسوم الطبية.

1891

Arthur Gütt, deutscher Arzt und Eugeniker, SS-General und Hauptvertreter der NS-Rassenhygiene

1891

Moritz Mitzenheim, Bischof der evangelischen Landeskirche von Thüringen

1891

Oliverio Girondo, poeta argentino (f.

Oliverio Girondo, poeta argentino (f. 1967).

1893

Walter Noddack, químico alemán (f.

Walter Noddack, químico alemán (f. 1960).

1893

John Brahm

Crescencia Pérez, monja argentina (f. 1932).

1897

Camille Royer, französischer Automobilrennfahrer

1897

Jean Vaurez, französischer Automobilrennfahrer

1898

Matvéi Zajárov, militar soviético (f.

Matvéi Zajárov, militar soviético (f. 1972).

1899

1901

Henri Tomasi, französischer Komponist und Dirigent

1902

Ángel J. Battistessa, catedrático y filólogo (f.

Ángel J. Battistessa, catedrático y filólogo (f. 1993).

1902

Margaret Leahy, actriz británica (f.

Margaret Leahy, actriz británica (f. 1967).

Leopold Nowak was born in Vienna in 1904 and spent the central decades of his career doing something unglamorous but essential: editing the complete critical edition of Anton Bruckner's symphonies. Bruckner had revised his work obsessively, and previous editors had further altered the scores. Nowak worked from original manuscripts, trying to establish what Bruckner actually wrote versus what others had changed. The Nowak editions became standard performance texts. He died in 1991 at 87, having devoted half a century to another man's music. That kind of work doesn't get statues. It gets performances that sound the way the composer intended.

1904

Mary Cain

Mary Cain became one of Mississippi's most outspoken newspaper editors, running the Summit Sun and using her platform to champion conservative causes and states' rights from the 1930s through the 1970s. She ran unsuccessfully for governor in 1951.

1904

Franz Reuss, deutscher Generalmajor

1904

Louis Cattiaux, pintor e poeta francês (m.

Louis Cattiaux, pintor e poeta francês (m. 1953).

1905

Ada Falcón, cantante de tango argentina (f.

1910

Roberto Kinsky, director de orquesta y pianista húngaro-argentino (f.

Roberto Kinsky, director de orquesta y pianista húngaro-argentino (f. 1977).

1911

Mikhail Botvinnik

Mikhail Botvinnik was world chess champion three separate times, a record of persistence that required winning the title, losing it, and winning it back twice. Born in 1911, he dominated Soviet chess from the 1930s through the 1960s and trained the players who followed him — Karpov, Kasparov. He treated chess as an engineering problem and brought an engineer's discipline to it. The notebooks he kept were meticulous.

1911

Martin Sandberger

Martin Sandberger commanded an SS Einsatzkommando unit that murdered thousands of Jews, Roma, and Soviet officials in the Baltic states during World War II. He was sentenced to death at the Nuremberg subsequent proceedings, but the sentence was commuted and he was released in 1958. He lived quietly in Stuttgart until 2010, dying at 98 — one of the last surviving Einsatzgruppe commanders.

1912

Francesco Imberti, futbolista italiano (f.

Francesco Imberti, futbolista italiano (f. 2008).

1912

Margaret Scriven, britische Tennisspielerin

1912

Martinus Lambillion, niederländischer Boxer

1913

Rudy York

Rudy York was born in Ragland, Alabama in 1913 and hit home runs at a rate that embarrassed people who'd been playing longer. In August 1937 — his first full month as a starter for the Detroit Tigers — he hit 18 home runs. One calendar month. That record stood for 63 years until Barry Bonds broke it in 2001. York was a first baseman who hit like a cleanup hitter because he was a cleanup hitter. He helped carry the Tigers to the 1945 World Series championship. He died in 1970, a figure in baseball history most people have forgotten who set a record most players never approached.

1913

Pancho Córdova, actor y cineasta mexicano (f. 1990).

1916

Urban Thiersch, deutscher Bildhauer

1916

Michael John Wise

Michael John Wise was an English geographer who specialized in urban and economic geography. His academic career centered on understanding how cities grow, why industries cluster, and what happens to regions when their economic base shifts. He worked during a period when British geography was evolving from descriptive mapping into a rigorous social science.

1919

Rafael Alfonzo Ravard, militar y empresario venezolano (f.

Rafael Alfonzo Ravard, militar y empresario venezolano (f. 2006).

1919

Georgia Gibbs

She was born in an orphanage. Georgia Gibbs — real name Frieda Lipschitz — lost her parents young and grew up in a series of institutions before teaching herself to sing her way out. She'd eventually earn the nickname "Her Nibs, Miss Gibbs" from comedian Bob Hope. Her 1955 cover of "Tweedle Dee" hit No. 1 while LaVern Baker's original barely cracked the charts — sparking a fierce debate about who radio actually belonged to. An orphan became the face of a music industry's uncomfortable question.

1919

1922

Susana Guízar, actriz mexicana (f.

Susana Guízar, actriz mexicana (f. 1997).

1923

Chaleo Yoovidhya, thailändischer Geschäftsmann

1923

Larry Rivers

Larry Rivers challenged the dominance of Abstract Expressionism with figurative paintings like 'Washington Crossing the Delaware' (1953) that reinterpreted American historical imagery with gestural, irreverent energy. His work anticipated Pop Art and he also performed as a jazz saxophonist — a restless creative who defied easy classification.

Stanley L. Jaki, sacerdote húngaro (f. 2009).

1924

Alfredo de Prusia Sajonia Altenburgo, aristócrata alemán (f.

Alfredo de Prusia Sajonia Altenburgo, aristócrata alemán (f. 2013).

1924

Jim Finney, britischer Fußball-Schiedsrichter

1925

1926

Jean Poiret, actor y cineasta francés (f.

Jean Poiret, actor y cineasta francés (f. 1992).

1926

George Melly, cantante británico (f.

George Melly, cantante británico (f. 2007).

1927

Tomás Polanco Alcántara, historiador, escritor y político venezolano (f.

Tomás Polanco Alcántara, historiador, escritor y político venezolano (f. 2002).

1927

Keith Whinnom, historiador británico (f.

Keith Whinnom, historiador británico (f. 1986).

1927

Jacques Herlin, acteur français († 7 juin 2014).

1927

Arnold Maury, deutscher Komponist

1927

Sam Butera

Sam Butera played saxophone for Louis Prima's band, providing the raw, honking sound that made Prima's Las Vegas act one of the hottest shows in town during the late 1950s. Butera's solo on 'Just a Gigolo/I Ain't Got Nobody' is one of the most recognizable saxophone performances in American popular music. He kept playing into his seventies, outlasting the era that made him famous.

1927

F. Ray Keyser Jr.

F. Ray Keyser Jr. served as Governor of Vermont from 1961 to 1963, a single-term Republican in a state that was then solidly conservative. His post-political career in law continued for decades in the state.

1928

Tito García, actor español (f.

Tito García, actor español (f. 2003).

1931

Tony Wrigley

He counted the dead to understand the living. Tony Wrigley spent decades combing through 404 English parish registers — baptisms, burials, marriages — to reconstruct how ordinary people lived before modern record-keeping existed. His 1981 book with Roger Schofield put hard numbers on England's population for the first time, stretching back to 1541. That work revealed something nobody expected: English fertility rates responded to wages, not famine. People weren't just dying less. They were choosing differently. Economics, it turns out, shaped families long before economists noticed.

1931

Antonio Enríquez Savignac, político mexicano (f.

Antonio Enríquez Savignac, político mexicano (f. 2007).

1931

Topsy Küppers, österreichische Schauspielerin und Sängerin

1932

V. S. Naipaul

He arrived in Oxford on a scholarship with almost no money and spent his early years writing in the bathroom of his student lodgings — the only quiet place he could find. V. S. Naipaul built a career from that displacement, publishing 30 books across five decades. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2001. But his sharpest tool was always honesty so brutal his own homeland felt indicted by it. Trinidad gave him his first wound. He spent a lifetime turning it into prose.

1932

Vincent Batbedat, escultor francés (f.

Vincent Batbedat, escultor francés (f. 2010).

1932

Jean-Jacques Sempé

French cartoonist Jean-Jacques Sempé created the illustrations for 'Le Petit Nicolas,' one of France's most beloved children's book series, in collaboration with writer René Goscinny. His gentle, wistful drawings also graced over 100 New Yorker covers, making him one of the most recognized illustrators in the world.

1932

Duke Pearson

1938

Hubert Markl, deutscher Zoologe, Verhaltensforscher und Wissenschaftsmanager, Präsident der Deutschen Forschungsgemei…

Hubert Markl, deutscher Zoologe, Verhaltensforscher und Wissenschaftsmanager, Präsident der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft, Präsident der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft

1938

Theodoros Pangalos

He shares a name with his great-uncle — a Greek general who crowned himself dictator in 1926, lasted exactly seventeen months, then got overthrown by the same army that backed him. Theodoros Pangalos the younger took a different path, navigating post-junta Greek democracy as a politician rather than a strongman. He served as Deputy Prime Minister under PASOK, the socialist party that reshaped modern Greece after military rule ended in 1974. Carrying that surname into democratic politics wasn't a burden. It was a rebuttal.

1939

Anthony Valentine

Anthony Valentine specialized in villains — cool, well-dressed, slightly amused by the violence they were about to cause. Born in 1939, he played Toby Meres in the British spy series Callan and created a character so memorably cold that casting directors kept wanting the same temperature in different clothes. British television of the 1970s produced a specific kind of menace. He was its most reliable source.

1939

Ronald «Chico» Maki, joueur de hockey sur glace canadien († 24 août 2015).

1939

Ed Sanders, escritor, cantante y activista estadounidense.

1939

Luther Allison

Luther Allison was born in Wideman, Arkansas in 1939 and grew up to become one of the most electrifying live performers in Chicago blues. He moved there at 17, started sitting in with Muddy Waters, and spent decades building a reputation built almost entirely on what happened when he stepped on a stage. He'd play for three hours without stopping. French audiences loved him so much he relocated to Paris for years. He returned to American success late in life — critically acclaimed records in the 1990s, growing recognition, a Grammy nomination. He was diagnosed with cancer in 1997. He died that August at 57.

Eduardo Mignogna

Argentine filmmaker Eduardo Mignogna directed "El faro" and "La fuga," working across genres in Argentine cinema during the 1990s and early 2000s. He died in 2006, leaving behind a body of work rooted in Argentine storytelling traditions.

Ian McAllister

Ian McAllister built a business career in Scotland, working in the corporate sector during a period when Scottish business was navigating deindustrialization, North Sea oil wealth, and the political question of Scotland's relationship with the United Kingdom. Scottish businessmen of his generation operated in an economy undergoing fundamental transformation.

1943

John Humphrys

He failed his eleven-plus exam. John Humphrys, born in Cardiff in 1943 to a French-polisher father, left school at fifteen with no qualifications — yet he'd go on to grill prime ministers for nearly three decades on BBC Radio 4's *Today* programme. He once conducted 14 ministerial interviews in a single morning. Colleagues called him a "Rottweiler." He never disputed it. His books attacking the erosion of plain English sold hundreds of thousands of copies. The boy who couldn't pass a school exam became the man who corrected everybody else's.

1943

Nikolái Shmatko, escultor ucraniano.

1943

Juan María Medina Ayllón, escultor español.

1943

Robert De Niro

Robert De Niro gained 60 pounds to play Jake LaMotta in Raging Bull. That's the detail people remember. Born in 1943, he also learned to box well enough that LaMotta said he could have gone professional, learned to play saxophone for New York, New York, and spent four years understanding Travis Bickle before filming Taxi Driver. The preparation always matched the performance. That ratio defined the career.

1943

Christian Kluttig, deutscher Dirigent, Pianist und Hochschullehrer

1943

Panajotis Kondylis, griechischer Philosoph

1943

Marion Maerz, deutsche Schlagersängerin

1943

Dave "Snaker" Ray

Dave Ray revitalized the raw, acoustic blues of the 1920s and 30s for a new generation of folk enthusiasts. As a founding member of the influential trio Koerner, Ray & Glover, he helped define the Minneapolis folk scene and inspired artists like Bob Dylan to embrace the gritty, unpolished sound of traditional American roots music.

1944

Bobby Murdoch, futbolista y entrenador escocés (f.

Bobby Murdoch, futbolista y entrenador escocés (f. 2001).

1944

Rachel Pollack

Rachel Pollack was an American author best known for her work on the Rider-Waite tarot and for writing the DC Comics series Doom Patrol. She was one of the first openly transgender writers to work in mainstream comics. Her fiction blended mythology, magic, and gender identity in ways that anticipated conversations the broader culture wouldn't have for decades.

1945

Norbert Wendelin Mtega, tansanischer Geistlicher

1945

Padre Antônio Maria, sacerdote católico e cantor brasileiro.

1945

Paulinho Tapajós, compositor, cantor, produtor musical, escritor e arquiteto brasileiro (m.

Paulinho Tapajós, compositor, cantor, produtor musical, escritor e arquiteto brasileiro (m. 2013).

1946

Patrick Manning

Patrick Manning reshaped Trinidad and Tobago’s economy by aggressively pivoting the nation toward natural gas exports during his four terms as Prime Minister. His leadership stabilized the country’s fiscal foundation, though his tenure also sparked intense debates over executive power and constitutional reform. He remains the longest-serving member of parliament in the nation's history.

1946

Sylvia Nasar

Sylvia Nasar wrote A Beautiful Mind, the biography of John Nash that became the basis for the 2001 film. Born in Germany in 1947, she was a journalist and economist who found in Nash's story — schizophrenia, genius, recovery, the Nobel Prize — a narrative about the mind that required understanding both the mathematics and the illness. The biography was reported. The film was dramatized. The distinction matters.

1947

Gary Talley

Gary Talley defined the blue-eyed soul sound of the late 1960s as the lead guitarist for The Box Tops. His distinctive, gritty riffs on hits like The Letter propelled the Memphis group to international stardom and helped bridge the gap between traditional rhythm and blues and the burgeoning pop-rock charts of the era.

1947

Sylvia Nasar, economista germano-estadounidense.

1948

Enrique Accorsi, político y médico chileno.

1948

Alexander Ivashkin

Alexander Ivashkin was a Russian-English cellist and conductor who championed contemporary music, particularly the works of Alfred Schnittke. He premiered several Schnittke compositions and wrote the definitive biography of the composer. Performers who dedicate themselves to a single composer's legacy serve as essential bridges between creation and audience.

1948

Allain Bougrain-Dubourg, journaliste, producteur, réalisateur de télévision et militant français.

1948

Marco Antonio Vargas Díaz, economista y político costarricense.

1948

José María Araquistáin, futbolista español.

1948

Rod MacDonald

Rod MacDonald has been writing and performing political folk music since the 1970s, in the tradition that connects Woody Guthrie to Phil Ochs to every singer who believes a song can carry an argument further than a speech. Born in 1948, he built a loyal audience without major label backing, the kind of career that survives on belief in the work. New York's folk scene gave him a home and he stayed.

1949

Julian Fellowes

Julian Fellowes was born in Cairo, educated in England, and built a career as an actor before finding his real calling as a writer. He won an Academy Award for the Gosford Park screenplay, then created Downton Abbey — a show that became a global phenomenon and the most successful British period drama since Brideshead Revisited. His specialty is the dying world of the English class system.

1949

Frank Siebeck, deutscher Leichtathlet

1949

1950

Geraint Jarman

Welsh musician Geraint Jarman pioneered Welsh-language rock and reggae, proving that the language could carry punk energy and dancehall rhythms just as well as English. His band Geraint Jarman a'r Cynganeddwyr became one of the most important acts in the Welsh music scene from the 1970s onward.

1950

Antônio Carlos Vendramini, treinador de basquete brasileiro (m.

Antônio Carlos Vendramini, treinador de basquete brasileiro (m. 2025).

1950

Christian Kohlund, Schweizer Schauspieler

1950

Luis Eduardo Arango, actor colombiano.

1951

1952

Nelson Piquet

Nelson Piquet was born in Rio de Janeiro in 1952 and won three Formula One World Championships — 1981, 1983, and 1987 — making him one of the handful of drivers in the sport's history to reach that number. He was technically precise, strategically smart, and relentlessly competitive. He raced in an era of genuine danger: ground effect cars, tire failures, circuits that killed drivers regularly. He survived all of it. His son Nelson Piquet Jr. also raced in Formula One. The name carries weight in the sport regardless.

1952

Mario Theissen

Mario Theissen steered BMW back into Formula One as a team owner, overseeing the development of the high-performance engines that powered the company’s return to the grid. His leadership transformed the manufacturer from a mere engine supplier into a competitive constructor, securing a one-two finish at the 2008 Canadian Grand Prix.

1952

Herta Müller grew up in the German-speaking minority of communist Romania, was interrogated repeatedly by the Securitate, had her manuscripts confiscated, and was denied work. Her writing was compressed and strange — the vocabulary of fairy tales used to describe state terror. She emigrated to West Germany in 1987. The Nobel Committee gave her the Literature prize in 2009, citing 'the landscape of the dispossessed.' She was 56. Many German readers had barely heard of her.

1953

Joseph Kamga, ex-futebolista camaronês.

1953

Robert Brent Thirsk, astronaute canadien.

1953

Mick Malthouse

Mick Malthouse coached more VFL/AFL games than any other coach in Australian football history. He led three different clubs — West Coast, Collingwood, and Carlton — and won two premierships. His coaching style was defensive and tactical in a sport that celebrates attacking flair. He proved that structure and discipline could win titles, even in a game that prizes spontaneity.

Andrés Pastrana Arango

He was kidnapped before he ever became president. In 1988, while running for mayor of Bogotá, Pablo Escobar's cartel snatched Pastrana off the street and held him for eight days. He survived. Won the mayorship anyway. Then, in 1998, he did something almost no one thought possible — he flew into FARC-controlled jungle and shook hands with guerrilla commander Manuel Marulanda to negotiate peace. The deal collapsed. But Pastrana's gamble forced Colombia to finally reckon with a war it'd been pretending wasn't happening.

1954

Ingrid Daubechies, matemática belga.

1955

Roberto Sepúlveda, médico chileno.

1955

Richard Hilton

Richard Hilton is an American businessman from the Hilton hotel family and father of Paris and Nicky Hilton. He runs a real estate brokerage in Los Angeles, operating in the shadow of the family name his daughters made tabloid-famous.

1955

Colin Moulding

Colin Moulding co-founded XTC and wrote some of the band's most beloved songs, including 'Making Plans for Nigel' and 'Grass' — angular, clever pop songs that earned critical adoration but modest commercial success. XTC's refusal to tour after 1982 made them one of rock's most celebrated studio-only bands.

Gail Berman served as president of entertainment at Fox Broadcasting, greenlighting shows like "American Idol" and "24." She later co-founded BermanBraun, a digital media company, and served as president of Paramount Pictures.

1956

Álvaro Pino

Spanish cyclist Álvaro Pino won the 1986 Vuelta a España, outdueling Robert Millar in a closely fought race through the Spanish mountains. He later managed professional cycling teams.

1957

Laurence Overmire

Laurence Overmire is an American poet, author, and actor who has worked across multiple creative disciplines. He has published poetry collections and genealogical research alongside his performance work. The combination of writing and acting is more common than it appears — both require the ability to inhabit different perspectives and communicate them to an audience.

Ken Kwapis

Ken Kwapis directed The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, He's Just Not That Into You, and episodes of The Office during its best seasons. He works primarily in comedy and romantic drama — genres that rarely receive critical prestige but require precise tonal control. The wrong directorial touch turns comedy into farce and romance into melodrama.

1958

Kirk Stevens

Kirk Stevens was a snooker prodigy from Toronto who turned professional at 18 and reached the World Championship final in 1985. Born in 1958, he played with an attacking style that crowds loved and that left him vulnerable to losses that more defensive players avoided. He made the first televised maximum 147 break in a ranking event in 1982. The break was extraordinary. His career afterward was complicated.

1958

Sergueï Krikaliov (Сергей Константинович Крикалёв), cosmonaute russe.

1959

Kate McNeil, actriz estadounidense.

1959

Jacek Kazimierski

Polish footballer Jacek Kazimierski played professionally in Poland's domestic leagues during the 1980s, a period when Polish football produced world-class talents despite operating under the constraints of the communist system.

1959

Chika Sakamoto, atriz japonesa.

1959

David Koresh

He taught himself guitar as a dyslexic kid who'd been held back repeatedly in school, then memorized the entire New Testament by his twenties. Vernon Howell legally changed his name to David Koresh in 1990 — "Koresh" being the Hebrew name for Cyrus the Great. Three years later, a 51-day standoff at his compound near Waco, Texas ended in fire that killed 76 Branch Davidians, including him. The ATF agents who initiated the raid never found the illegal weapons cache they'd used to justify it.

1959

Jonathan Franzen

Jonathan Franzen wrote The Corrections in 2001 and Oprah's Book Club selected it, and then he expressed reservations about the selection, and for several months the American literary world talked about almost nothing else. Born in 1959, he'd been working seriously for years before that. The controversy made him famous faster than the work alone would have. The book was very good. The controversy was useful. He'd probably argue otherwise.

1959

Rafael Menjívar Ochoa, escritor salvadoreño (f.

1961

1962

Kajo Wasserhövel, deutscher Politiker

1962

Dan Dakich

Dan Dakich played guard at Indiana under Bob Knight, famously drawing the defensive assignment against Steve Alford in practice. He later coached at Bowling Green and became a polarizing sports radio and TV commentator known for his blunt, unfiltered opinions.

1962

Pierre Sanoussi-Bliss

He was born in Göttingen to a Senegalese father and a German mother, and that hyphenated identity would define every role he chased. German TV kept casting him as the outsider — then he flipped it, stepping behind the camera to direct. His work pushed Afro-German stories into mainstream broadcasting at a time when those stories barely existed on screen. Not a footnote. A door-opener. Today, younger Afro-German actors walk through a space he helped crack open, one stubborn casting at a time.

1962

John Marshall Jones

John Marshall Jones has appeared in dozens of television shows over three decades, best known as Floyd Henderson on Smart Guy. He combines acting with teaching, holding a position at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. Working actors who also teach pass practical industry knowledge to the next generation — the kind of education that can't be learned from textbooks.

1962

Gilby Clarke

Gilby Clarke defined the gritty, blues-infused rhythm guitar sound of Guns N' Roses during their massive Use Your Illusion era. Beyond his tenure with the band, he established a prolific career as a solo artist and producer, bridging the gap between classic hard rock and modern alternative production.

1963

Jens-Peter Berndt, deutscher Schwimmer

1963

Jackie Walorski

Jackie Walorski represented Indiana's 2nd congressional district in the U.S. House from 2013 until her death in a car accident in 2022. A former television journalist turned politician, she served on the House Ways and Means Committee and was known for conservative fiscal and social positions.

1963

Maritza Martén, atleta cubana.

1963

Yevgeniy Yarovenko, ex-futebolista cazaque.

1963

Jan Heintze, futbolista danés.

1963

Shankar

Indian filmmaker Shankar directs some of Tamil cinema's most expensive and commercially successful productions, including "Enthiran" (Robot) and the vigilante franchise "Indian." His films blend spectacle with social messaging on a Bollywood-dwarfing scale.

1963

Jon Gruden

Jon Gruden was born in Sandusky, Ohio in 1963 and coached the Oakland Raiders to Super Bowl XXXVII — where he faced his former team and beat them 48-21, one of the most lopsided Super Bowl outcomes in history. He was 39. He became a broadcaster for ESPN after leaving Tampa Bay, spent nine years in the Monday Night Football booth, then returned to coach the Raiders in 2018. He resigned in 2021 after emails containing racist, homophobic, and misogynist language became public. His second act ended faster than his first.

1963

Christian Ehler, deutscher Politiker

1964

Christian Immler, deutscher Sachbuchautor

1964

Colin James

Colin James was 20 when he toured with Stevie Ray Vaughan, learning the blues guitar vocabulary from someone who was already redefining it. Born in Regina in 1964, he released his first album in 1988 and had a series of Canadian hits through the 1990s that put him in a small category of Canadian artists who made the blues feel domestic rather than imported. The guitar playing was always the argument.

Dave Penney

He played over 600 professional matches but never once appeared in the top flight. Dave Penney, born in Wakefield in 1964, spent his career grinding through the lower English divisions — Birmingham, Oxford, Portsmouth, Derby — before reinventing himself as a manager. He led Doncaster Rovers from the Conference back to the Football League in 2003, a genuine turnaround built on discipline and limited budgets. Not glamour. Just results. The lower leagues have always run on men like him.

1965

Steve Gorman

Steve Gorman anchored the driving, blues-infused rhythm section of The Black Crowes for over two decades. His steady, soulful percussion defined the band’s multi-platinum sound on hits like Hard to Handle, helping bridge the gap between classic rock revivalism and the alternative scene of the 1990s.

1965

Felix Weber, deutscher Künstler

1965

Anton Pfeffer, österreichischer Fußballspieler

1965

Sergio Vargas Buscalia, futbolista chileno.

1965

Dottie Pepper

Dottie Pepper won 17 LPGA Tour events, including two major championships — the 1992 and 1999 Nabisco Dinah Shore — and was known for her fiery competitiveness on the course. She later became one of golf's most respected television analysts, covering major championships for CBS and NBC.

1966

Franziska Rochat-Moser, Schweizer Leichtathletin

1966

Don Sweeney

Don Sweeney played 14 NHL seasons as a steady defenseman for the Boston Bruins, then transitioned into the front office. He became the Bruins' general manager in 2015, building the roster that reached the 2019 Stanley Cup Final.

1966

Rodney Mullen

Rodney Mullen was born in Gainesville, Florida in 1966 and invented most of what modern skateboarding is. The flatground ollie. The kickflip. The heelflip. The 360-flip. The hardflip. The impossible. He developed these tricks in a garage in the early 1980s, competing in freestyle events no one much cared about, and what he discovered there became the foundation of street skating. Every skateboarder alive owes something to him. He's given lectures at MIT and Google on creativity and failure. When people talk about flow states and invention, they're describing what Mullen was doing on a driveway in Florida before anyone was watching.

1966

Maysa Leak

Maysa Leak's smoky, jazz-inflected voice anchored the British acid jazz group Incognito from 2000 onward. Based in London but born in Baltimore, she bridged American soul and British club music traditions.

1966

Jüri Luik

Juri Luik served as Estonia's Minister of Defense, a position that carries particular weight in a country that shares a border with Russia. Estonian defense policy after independence focused on NATO membership and building a credible deterrent force. Luik helped navigate that strategy during a period when the security environment in the Baltic states was growing more volatile.

1967

Carlos Moisés, advogado, bombeiro militar e político brasileiro.

1967

David Conrad

He played a ghost whisperer's husband for five seasons, but David Conrad almost never made it to Hollywood at all. Born August 1, 1967, in Pittsburgh, he studied at Brown University and then trained at the prestigious Juilliard School — the kind of classical theater foundation that shaped everything from his stillness to his timing. Ghost Whisperer ran from 2005 to 2010, drawing nearly 7 million viewers weekly. Conrad later returned to theater work, which was always where he'd felt most himself.

1967

Michael Preetz

German striker Michael Preetz scored 72 Bundesliga goals for Hertha BSC during the late 1990s and early 2000s, becoming the club's most prolific scorer in its modern era. He later served as Hertha's general manager, overseeing the club's operations for over a decade.

Wayne Mills

Wayne Mills was a country singer-songwriter from Alabama who played Nashville honky-tonks and small venues across the South. He was shot and killed in a Nashville bar in 2013 during an argument. His death highlighted the tensions in Nashville's Lower Broadway scene, where country music's working-class roots collide with the city's rapid gentrification.

1969

Christian Laettner

Christian Laettner was born in Angola, New York in 1969 and became the only college player selected for the 1992 US Olympic Dream Team — a group that otherwise consisted entirely of NBA stars including Michael Jordan, Magic Johnson, and Larry Bird. That decision was controversial. NBA players lobbied for a different choice. Laettner had just completed what many consider the greatest college basketball career at Duke, capped by a buzzer-beater against Kentucky that's been called the greatest college basketball shot ever made. He turned professional but never dominated in the NBA the way he had at Duke. The gap between college greatness and NBA greatness is real.

1969

Jim Courier was born in Sanford, Florida in 1970 and became the top-ranked player in the world in 1992 and 1993. He won four Grand Slam singles titles — two at the French Open, two at the Australian Open. He was the first American man since John McEnroe to reach number one. His game was built on relentless groundstrokes and fitness that outlasted opponents. He beat Andre Agassi and Pete Sampras. He retired in 2000 and has since worked extensively as a television tennis commentator and Davis Cup captain.

1970

Andrus Kivirähk

Andrus Kivirahk is one of Estonia's most popular contemporary authors, known for novels and plays that blend Estonian folklore with dark humor. His novel The Man Who Spoke Snakish became an international bestseller, telling the story of Estonia's pre-Christian past through the eyes of the last person who can communicate with animals. The book resonated far beyond Estonia as a fable about modernization and lost worlds.

1970

István Kovács, boxeur hongrois, champion olympique.

1970

Ian White, englischer Dartspieler

1970

Maru Botana, cocinera y presentadora de televisión argentina.

1970

Rupert Degas

English actor Rupert Degas is one of the most prolific voice artists in the UK, lending his voice to audiobooks, video games, and animated series. He has narrated over 200 audiobooks across multiple genres.

1970

Øyvind Leonhardsen

Norwegian midfielder Øyvind Leonhardsen played for Rosenborg, Wimbledon, Liverpool, Tottenham, and Aston Villa across a career that spanned the 1990s. He won eight consecutive Norwegian league titles with Rosenborg before moving to England.

Gonzalo Inzunza Inzunza

Gonzalo Inzunza Inzunza was a high-ranking lieutenant in the Sinaloa Cartel, serving as security chief for Ismael 'El Mayo' Zambada. He was killed during a military operation in 2013. The Mexican drug war has produced hundreds of figures like Inzunza — cartel operatives who wielded enormous local power and died violently, replaced almost immediately by successors.

1971

Ed Motta, músico brasileño.

1971

Filippo Simeoni, ciclista italiano.

1971

Jenny Sjöwall, schwedische Bogenschützin

1971

Shaun Rehn

Shaun Rehn played 238 games for the Adelaide Crows in the AFL, then moved into coaching. His career spanned the Crows' early years as an expansion franchise through their rise to premiership contention in the late 1990s.

1971

Jorge Posada

Jorge Posada was born in Santurce, Puerto Rico in 1971 and spent 17 seasons behind the plate for the New York Yankees. Five World Series rings. Five All-Star selections. Part of the Core Four — Posada, Derek Jeter, Mariano Rivera, Andy Pettitte — who defined the Yankees dynasty from the late 1990s through the 2000s. He hit .299 career with 275 home runs, extraordinary numbers for a catcher. He was known as emotional, occasionally volatile, deeply competitive. When the Yankees were good, Posada was behind the plate calling pitches and making the machine work.

1971

Uhm Jung-hwa

Uhm Jung-hwa became one of South Korea's biggest pop stars in the 1990s while simultaneously building an acting career. She was a K-pop pioneer before the term existed, blending dance music with a screen presence that made her a dual-threat entertainer.

1971

Dragan Terzić, bosnischer Fußballspieler

1971

Ed Motta

Ed Motta is a Brazilian singer and keyboard player who has built a cult following among jazz, soul, and funk enthusiasts worldwide. His uncle is Tim Maia, one of Brazil's greatest soul singers. Motta's music draws from 1970s jazz-funk, bossa nova, and progressive rock — a combination too eclectic for mainstream radio but precisely calibrated for vinyl collectors and crate diggers.

1972

Chiquinquirá Delgado, presentadora venezolana.

1972

Ty, britischer Rapper und Musikproduzent

1972

Andreas Schlütter, deutscher Skilangläufer

1972

Habibul Bashar

Habibul Bashar captained Bangladesh during a critical growth period for the national cricket team, leading them through their early years as a Test nation after gaining full ICC membership in 2000.

Giuliana Rancic hosted E! News for over a decade and co-starred with her husband Bill on the reality series 'Giuliana and Bill.' Her public battle with breast cancer in 2011, documented on the show, raised awareness and prompted discussions about cancer screening among younger women.

1974

Christian Akselman, futbolista argentino.

1974

Reki Kawahara, escritor japonês.

1974

Joel Sánchez Ramos, futbolista mexicano.

1974

Nicola Kraus

Nicola Kraus co-wrote The Nanny Diaries with Emma McLaughlin, a novel about the domestic labor of wealthy Manhattan families that came out in 2002 and spent more than a year on bestseller lists. Born in 1974, she and McLaughlin drew on their own experience working as nannies. The families in the book recognized themselves. That recognition generated more press than the publisher expected.

1974

Samuel Koejoe, niederländischer Fußballspieler

1974

Niclas Jensen, futbolista danés.

1974

Silvia Vives, nadadora española.

1974

Tony Hajjar

Tony Hajjar redefined post-hardcore percussion by anchoring the frantic, jagged rhythms of At the Drive-In with surgical precision. His relentless energy helped propel the band’s landmark album Relationship of Command into the mainstream, bridging the gap between underground punk intensity and accessible alternative rock.

1974

Mohamed Alek, atleta argelino (f.

Mohamed Alek, atleta argelino (f. 2016).

1974

Johannes Maria Staud

Austrian composer Johannes Maria Staud writes contemporary classical music commissioned by major European orchestras and festivals, including the Vienna Philharmonic and Salzburg Festival. His works explore the boundaries between acoustic instruments and electronic sound.

1975

İlhan Mansız

A dynamic Turkish forward who became a national hero at the 2002 World Cup, where Turkey finished third — the country's best-ever result. Mansız scored crucial goals against Senegal and South Korea, earning cult status across Turkish football.

Nicola Kraus co-wrote The Nanny Diaries with Emma McLaughlin in 2002. It became a bestseller, a film, and a reference point for a certain kind of Upper East Side Manhattan satire. She and McLaughlin drew on their own experience working as nannies for wealthy New York families. Born in 1974.

1976

Scott Halberstadt

Mike Lewis defined the aggressive, melodic sound of early 2000s Welsh rock as the guitarist for Lostprophets. His work helped propel the band to international chart success and platinum record status before he transitioned into the post-hardcore project No Devotion, continuing his influence on the alternative music scene.

1977

Tarja Turunen

She trained as an opera soprano while her bandmates were writing metal riffs — and somehow that collision produced Nightwish's debut album for just 8,000 Finnish marks in 1997. Tarja Turunen didn't set out to front a metal band; she answered a friend's casual invitation to sing over demos. Her classical range, spanning nearly three octaves, gave songs like "Sleeping Sun" a gravity no traditional metal vocalist could replicate. Nightwish fired her via open letter in 2005. She'd sold millions of records with them before reading it onstage.

1977

William Gallas

William Gallas was born in Villeneuve-la-Garenne in 1977 and became one of the most traveled central defenders in English football — Chelsea, Arsenal, Tottenham Hotspur, and back to France. He was technically excellent, occasionally controversial. At Chelsea he won two Premier League titles under Jose Mourinho. At Arsenal he became captain but resigned the armband after public comments that embarrassed the club. Playing for both Arsenal and Spurs, in that order, he became one of the few players to do so in modern times — not welcomed warmly by either set of supporters.

1977

Nathan Deakes

An Australian race walker who held the 50 km world record and won Commonwealth Games gold in 2006. Deakes dominated the discipline for nearly a decade before chronic injuries forced his retirement.

1977

Daniel Pancu, footballeur roumain.

1977

Edu del Prado, acteur et musicien espagnol († 23 juin 2018).

1978

Roger Flores, ex-futebolista e comentarista esportivo brasileiro.

1978

Karena Lam

Born in Canada and raised in Hong Kong, Karena Lam won the Hong Kong Film Award for Best Actress twice before turning 30. Her bilingual range made her one of the most versatile performers in Cantonese cinema.

1978

Jelena Karleuša

Jelena Karleusa is a Serbian pop star whose provocative performances and public persona have made her the most polarizing celebrity in the Balkans. She sells out arenas across the former Yugoslavia while generating constant tabloid coverage. Karleusa operates in turbo-folk — a genre that blends pop, electronic music, and Balkan folk — that is commercially dominant and critically despised in equal measure.

1978

Ebon Moss-Bachrach

Ebon Moss-Bachrach spent years in supporting television roles before The Bear made him famous. His Richie Jerimovich — loud, defensive, loyal, slowly becoming something better than he was — gave him an Emmy and a degree of cultural saturation that hadn't been there before. He'd been working steadily since the early 2000s. The character arrived at exactly the right moment for what television was doing with ensemble dramas about work and grief.

The soprano voice behind Norwegian gothic metal band Tristania, Vibeke Stene helped define the symphonic metal genre through the late 1990s. Her operatic vocals on albums like 'Beyond the Veil' bridged classical training with heavy music.

1979

Antwaan Randle El

Antwaan Randle El was born in Riverdale, Illinois in 1979, played quarterback at Indiana University, and arrived in the NFL as a wide receiver — one of those conversions that occasionally works better than the original position. He threw a 43-yard touchdown pass on a reverse in Super Bowl XL and won a ring with the Pittsburgh Steelers in 2006. He later said he regretted playing football, that he has trouble remembering things, that the concussions left marks that don't show on a resume.

1979

Simon Taylor, joueur de rugby écossais.

1979

Nicole Sunitsch

Austrian politician Nicole Sunitsch has been active in regional politics in Carinthia, southern Austria. Her work in Austrian public life reflects the country's system of regional governance and proportional representation.

An English actor who gained recognition through British television, including roles on long-running soaps and drama series. Patric built his career primarily in UK-based productions.

1979

Tarō Hasegawa, futbolista japonés.

1980

Doris Golpashin, österreichische Schauspielerin sowie Fernseh- und Radiomoderatorin

1980

Lene Marlin wrote 'Sitting Down Here' at 15 and recorded it at 17. It went to number one across Europe in 1999. Born in Tromsø, Norway in 1980 — north of the Arctic Circle — she became one of the best-selling Norwegian artists internationally before she was old enough to vote in most countries. The follow-up album sold less. She kept writing. The songs stayed honest.

She grew up in Georgia dreaming of cameras, not knowing she'd eventually stand inside some of television's biggest live moments. Kristin Adams built her career hosting on-air segments and red carpet coverage, becoming a recognizable face across entertainment and lifestyle television through the 2000s and beyond. She worked across multiple networks, adapting constantly as the industry shifted from cable dominance to streaming chaos. What she built wasn't a single breakout moment — it was a career made of thousands of smaller ones.

Hassan Abdel-Fattah, futbolista jordano.

1982

Karim Ziani, futbolista francés.

1982

Hugo Lusardi, futbolista paraguayo.

1982

Phil Jagielka

Phil Jagielka was born in Manchester in 1982 and had a career at Everton that lasted 12 years — which in football terms is a marriage. He made over 380 appearances for the club, won 40 caps for England, and was the kind of center-back who didn't make headlines by being spectacular but made teams better by being reliable. He scored against Portugal in a Euro 2012 penalty shootout. When Everton fans talk about their best defenders of the 2000s, his name is always in the conversation.

1982

Mark Salling

Mark Salling appeared on Glee as Noah 'Puck' Puckerman, a role that made him famous. In 2015, he was arrested for possession of child sexual abuse material, pleaded guilty, and died by suicide in 2018 before sentencing. His case was one of several that forced Hollywood to confront how fame and celebrity culture can shield predatory behavior.

1982

Sébastien Briat, französischer Atomkraftgegner

1983

Dustin Pedroia

Dustin Pedroia was born in Woodland, California in 1983 and spent his entire 14-year career with the Boston Red Sox, winning a Rookie of the Year award, an MVP award, four Gold Gloves, and two World Series rings. He stood 5'8" and weighed 165 pounds, which made him undersized for a second baseman by most scouts' calculations. He didn't care. He hit .299 career and played defense like a man with something to prove to everyone who'd measured him and found him lacking. He's one of the most beloved players in Red Sox history.

1983

1984

Dee Brown

An American basketball player who starred at the University of Illinois before joining the NBA's Utah Jazz. Not to be confused with the 1991 Slam Dunk Contest champion of the same name.

1984

Liam Heath

British sprint canoeist Liam Heath won Olympic gold in the K-1 200m at the 2016 Rio Games, dominating the shortest and most explosive event in flatwater kayaking. He added a bronze at Tokyo 2020 and is Great Britain's most decorated sprint kayaker.

1985

Brock Kelly

Brock Kelly worked as an American actor in television and film, appearing in shows like Supernatural and One Tree Hill. Television acting in supporting and guest roles sustains thousands of working performers who move between series without building the name recognition of lead actors.

Artus, humoriste et comédien français.

1987

Marc Wilson, nordirischer Fußballspieler

1988

José San Román, futbolista argentino.

1988

Joyner Lucas

Joyner Lucas gained viral fame with 'I'm Not Racist' (2017), a music video depicting a raw, uncomfortable dialogue between a Trump supporter and a Black man. His technical rapping ability and willingness to tackle divisive social topics have made him one of hip-hop's most provocative independent artists.

1988

Natalie Sandtorv

Norwegian singer-songwriter Natalie Sandtorv blends jazz, electronic, and experimental music, pushing the boundaries of the Scandinavian jazz vocal tradition. Her work reflects Norway's reputation as one of the world's most adventurous jazz scenes.

1988

Sho Hatsuyama, ciclista japonés.

1988

Johanna Larsson, tenista sueca.

1988

Brady Corbet

An American actor who transitioned from teenage roles in 'Thirteen' and 'Mysterious Skin' to directing ambitious films like 'The Childhood of a Leader' and 'Vox Lux.' Corbet's work behind the camera earned recognition at major European film festivals.

1988

Erika Toda

A Japanese actress best known for playing Misa Amane in the live-action 'Death Note' films, which grossed over $100 million worldwide. Toda became one of Japan's most recognizable faces through a string of hit dramas and movies.

1988

Nichole Cordova

A member of the pop group Girlicious, formed through the Pussycat Dolls reality competition series. The group had moderate success in Canada before disbanding in 2011.

1988

Jihadi John

He grew up in Queens Park, west London, earned a computer programming degree from the University of Westminster, and his former classmates described him as quiet, even kind. Mohammed Emwazi became the masked executioner in orange-jumpsuit videos that circulated to millions, beheading journalists James Foley and Steven Sotloff on camera. British intelligence had monitored him for years before he slipped into Syria. A U.S. drone strike near Raqqa killed him in November 2015. The degree certificate and the black mask came from the same person.

1988

Ad Achkar, libanesischer Fotograf

1988

João Miguel Coimbra Aurélio, portugiesischer Fußballspieler

1988

Frida Fredrikke Waaler Wærvågen, norwegische Cellistin

1988

Bianca Collins

Bianca Collins worked as an American actress in television. The vast majority of professional actors work steadily in small roles across multiple productions, building careers that are invisible to audiences but essential to the industry. Television production requires hundreds of performers for each show that reaches air.

1988

Aidan Coleman

Aidan Coleman is an Irish jockey who has ridden competitively in National Hunt racing, where the jumps are bigger and the risks are higher than on the flat. Jump racing in Ireland and Britain is deeply embedded in rural culture — a sport where broken bones are routine and retirement is often involuntary.

1989

Lil B

Lil B, the Based God, has released thousands of songs — literally thousands — across mixtapes, albums, and social media platforms, pioneering a quantity-over-quality approach that anticipated the streaming era. He coined the term 'based' as a philosophy of positivity and self-expression. His influence on internet culture and hip-hop production far exceeds his commercial success.

Rachel Corsie

Scottish defender Rachel Corsie has captained Scotland's women's national team and played professionally in the NWSL with the Utah Royals and Kansas City Current. She has earned over 130 caps for Scotland, making her one of the most experienced players in Scottish women's football history.

1989

Frederick Lau

Frederick Lau is a German actor who won the Silver Bear at the Berlin Film Festival for his performance in Victoria — a film shot in a single continuous take across Berlin. German cinema has produced some of the most formally adventurous films in European cinema, and Lau has been at the center of that tradition since his breakthrough as a teenager.

1989

Kazuki Oiwa, futbolista japonés.

1990

Lauren Diewold

Lauren Diewold worked as a Canadian actress in television and film. Canadian screen production exists in a constant tension between serving its domestic audience and competing with the American entertainment industry next door. Many Canadian performers work in both markets, while others build careers entirely within Canada's own production ecosystem.

1990

Rachel Hurd-Wood

Rachel Hurd-Wood was born in London in 1990 and became known to audiences worldwide as Wendy Darling in the 2003 film Peter Pan, opposite Jeremy Sumpter. She was 12. The film received better reviews than most live-action Peter Pan adaptations. She's continued working in film and television since, including The Phantom of the Opera and Dorian Gray, building a career on the far side of the child star trajectory — which is to say, quietly and steadily, without the complications that derail many who start that young.

An American triple-threat performer who worked across musical theater and television, combining acting, singing, and dance in productions spanning stage and screen.

1991

Richardson Fernandes dos Santos, futbolista brasileño.

1991

Michael Hepburn, ciclista australiano.

1991

Qory Sandioriva

Qory Sandioriva won Puteri Indonesia in 2009, representing the country at Miss Universe. Indonesian beauty pageants operate in a society where modesty and global glamour standards exist in tension. Contestants navigate Islamic cultural expectations alongside Western-influenced competition formats — a balancing act unique to Southeast Asian pageantry.

1991

Austin Butler

Austin Butler played Elvis Presley in Baz Luhrmann's 2022 biopic, earning an Oscar nomination for a performance so physically committed that his voice reportedly changed for months afterward. He built his career through Disney Channel and CW shows before the Elvis role transformed his profile. The jump from teen television to prestige film is one that very few young actors successfully make.

Chanel Mata'utia

Australian rugby league player Chanel Mata'utia is one of five Mata'utia brothers who all played in the NRL — an unprecedented feat in Australian professional sport. He played primarily for the Newcastle Knights before competing in the English Super League.

1992

Saraya Bevis

Saraya Bevis — known as Paige in WWE — became the youngest Divas Champion in WWE history at age 21 and was the subject of the 2019 film 'Fighting with My Family,' starring Florence Pugh. A career-ending neck injury in 2018 was followed by a return to wrestling with AEW in 2022.

1992

Alex Elisala

1993

Sarah Sjöström

Sarah Sjostrom is one of the most dominant sprint swimmers in history, holding world records in the 50-meter and 100-meter butterfly. She won Olympic gold in the 100 butterfly at Rio 2016 with a world record time. Swedish swimming had never produced a sprinter of her caliber. Her combination of power, technique, and race intelligence has made her virtually unbeatable at her peak.

1993

Cinta Laura

Cinta Laura is a German-Indonesian actress and singer who has built a career across two entertainment markets. She performs in Indonesian television and film while maintaining a presence in European media. Dual-nationality performers who work across Asian and European industries are rare, and the cultural code-switching required is substantial.

1993

Ederson Moraes

Brazilian goalkeeper Ederson transformed Manchester City's playing style with his extraordinary passing range, acting as an extra outfield player under Pep Guardiola's system. His ability to launch accurate 70-yard passes has made him arguably the most technically skilled goalkeeper in world football.

Andy Baquero, futbolista cubano.

1994

Jack Conklin

Offensive tackle Jack Conklin was drafted 8th overall by the Tennessee Titans in 2016 and named First-Team All-Pro as a rookie — the first offensive lineman to earn that honor in his debut season since 2007. He later signed with the Cleveland Browns and has been one of the NFL's most consistent right tackles.

1994

Taissa Farmiga

Taissa Farmiga broke into acting alongside her sister Vera Farmiga in the horror genre, appearing in American Horror Story and The Nun. The Farmiga sisters — born 21 years apart — have both built careers in horror, a genre that provides consistent work for actors willing to commit to material that prestige actors avoid.

Gracie Gold won back-to-back U.S. Figure Skating Championships in 2014 and 2016 and was the favorite for an Olympic medal before her career was derailed by an eating disorder and depression. She stepped away from competition, sought treatment, and attempted a comeback. Her public struggle highlighted the mental health crisis in figure skating, where aesthetic pressure and athletic demand collide.

1995

Dallin Watene-Zelezniak

New Zealand rugby league fullback Dallin Watene-Zelezniak debuted for the Kiwis at age 18, making him one of the youngest players to represent New Zealand in international rugby league. He has played NRL for the Penrith Panthers, Canterbury Bulldogs, and Warriors.

1995

Adam Schriemer, joueur canadien de volley-ball.

1996

Ella Cruz

A Filipino actress and dancer who rose to fame through GMA Network's variety shows and drama series. Cruz became known for her dance skills before transitioning into mainstream television and film roles.

Yoshinobu Yamamoto

Japanese pitcher Yoshinobu Yamamoto dominated Nippon Professional Baseball before signing with the Los Angeles Dodgers in a historic $325 million contract in 2023. His devastating splitter and pinpoint command made him the most coveted international free agent in baseball history.

Nastasja Schunk

German tennis player Nastasja Schunk has competed on the ITF and WTA circuits as part of the emerging generation of German women's tennis players. She represents the continued depth of talent in German tennis development programs.

2004

Tina Clayton, atleta jamaicana.

2004

Demir Ege Tıknaz, footballeur turc.

2004

Ognjen Mimović, futbolista serbio.

2007

Gabriel Carvalho, futbolista brasileño.

2009

Births

William IX

Thilo von Trotha, Bischof von Merseburg, Rektor der Universität Leipzig

Philibert I

Richard of Shrewsbury

Philipp II

Alexander Briant

Hans Leo Hassler

Francesco Albani

Johann

John Matthew Rispoli

Johann Valentin Andrea

Manuel de Moura, portugiesischer Adliger, Statthalter der habsburgischen Niederlanden

Arnaud Oihenart, político y jurista francés (f.

Pierre de Fermat, matemático francés (f.

Pierre de Fermat

Lennart Torstensson

Jeremi Wiśniowiecki, polnischer Magnat und Feldherr

John III of Poland

John III Sobieski

Michael Bergmann, deutscher Autor von Nachschlagewerken

Johann Caspar Horn, deutscher Komponist, Jurist und Arzt

Johann Gerhard Arnold, deutscher Historiker, Konsistorialrat und Gymnasialrektor

Hans Haubold von Einsiedel, kursächsischer Hofbeamter

María Magdalena de Habsburgo, aristócrata austriaca (f.

Niklaus Tscheer, Schweizer Pietist und Schriftsteller

Johann Adolph Wedel, deutscher Mediziner

Nicola Porpora

Bernard de Jussieu, médico y botánico francés (f.

Johann Michael Beer von Bleichten, österreichischer Baumeister und Architekt

Louis Coulon de Villiers, militar francés (f.

Darius Sessions, Vizegouverneur der Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations

Heinrich Wilhelm von Huth, dänischer General der Artillerie

Francis Willis, médico británico (f.

Charles Eisen, französischer Maler

Gottlieb Friedrich Riedel, deutscher Maler und Kupferstecher

François-Germain Le Rouvillois, député du clergé aux états généraux de 1789 († inconnue).

Tobias Furneaux, britischer Entdecker, umsegelte als erster die Erde in beide Richtungen

Antoine Parmentier, agrónomo francés (f.

Coelestin II.

Julien Louis Geoffroy, écrivain et critique dramatique et littéraire français († 27 février 1814).

Eberhard August Wilhelm von Zimmermann, zoólogo y filósofo alemán (f.

Scipione Breislak, geólogo italiano (m.

Josef Dobrovský

Matvéi Plátov, militar ruso (f.

Louis-Marie Stanislas Fréron, französischer Politiker

Thomas Stothard, pintor británico (f.

Adam von Bartsch, österreichischer Künstler und Kunstschriftsteller und Begründer der systematisch-kritischen Graphik…

Luis Antonio Flores y Pereyra, marino español (f.

William Carey, misionero británico (f.

Karl Friedrich von Holtzendorff, preußischer General

Bernhard Mitterbacher, böhmischer Mediziner

Éloi Charlemagne Taupin, militaire français († 10 avril 1814).

Louis Desaix

Damián de la Santa, político español (f.

Peter Alois Gratz, katholischer Bibelwissenschaftler

Augustin Andreas Geyer, katholischer Geistlicher und Fossiliensammler

John Varley, pintor y astrólogo británico (f.

Godofredo Engelmann, escritor francés (f.

Ignaz Paul Vital Troxler, Schweizer Arzt, Politiker und Philosoph

Georg von Wangenheim, hannoverscher Oberhofmarschall

Pierre-Luc-Charles Ciceri, peintre et décorateur de théâtre français († 22 août 1868).

Diogo Antônio Feijó, padre e político brasileiro (m.

Davy Crockett

Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld (d. 1861

Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld

Prince Alexander of Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schilling

Manuel Varela Limia, militar español (f.

Pawel Nikolajewitsch Demidow, russischer Offizier und Philanthrop

Anton Delvig, poète, traducteur et journaliste russe († 26 janvier 1831).

Thomas Hodgkin, médico británico (f.

Barbu Dimitrie Știrbei, Fürst der Walachei

Robert von Mohl, deutscher Staatswissenschaftler

Franz Josef Greith, Schweizer Musikpädagoge und Komponist

Karlmann Tangl, österreichischer Altphilologe und Historiker

José Luis Gómez Sánchez, jurista y político peruano (f.

Charles Rogier, periodista y político belga (f.

Fredrika Bremer

Joseph Marchand, französischer Missionar, Heiliger und Märtyrer der römisch-katholischen Kirche

Karl Alexander von Seckendorff-Aberdar, württembergischer Obersthofmeister