Born on Sunday, 6th April – Famous Birthdays

06/04/2009

Shaylee Mansfield, deaf American actress and YouTuber

Shaylee Ava Mansfield is an American actress. Mansfield, who is deaf, first gained recognition by making YouTube videos in which she told Christmas stories in American Sign Language. Mansfield appeared in an "Unforgettable Stories" video advertisement by Disney Parks, in which she met Minnie Mouse, who was learning sign language at Walt Disney World. The video quickly went viral and became one of Disney's most-watched advertisements.

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Valentina Tronel, French child singer

Valentina Tronel, known mononymously as Valentina, is a French singer. She rose to prominence after she won Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2020, becoming the first French entrant to win the contest. Previously, in 2017, she took part in the French version of The Voice Kids. Between 2018 and 2021, she was part of the child pop group Kids United Nouvelle Génération.

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06/04/2002

Andrea Botez, Canadian-American chess player, commentator, Twitch streamer and YouTuber

Andrea Cecilia Cristina Botez is a Canadian chess player, commentator, DJ and internet personality. She is mostly known as part of the BotezLive Twitch channel with her sister Alexandra Botez. She is also credited as one of the creators who popularized chess on Twitch.

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Leyre Romero Gormaz, Spanish tennis player

Leyre Romero Gormaz is a Spanish tennis player. She has a career-high singles ranking of No. 124 by the WTA, achieved on 7 April 2025, and a best doubles ranking of world No. 130, reached on 25 November 2024.

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06/04/2001

Oscar Piastri, Australian racing driver

Oscar Jack Piastri is an Australian racing driver who competes in Formula One for McLaren. Piastri has won nine Formula One Grands Prix across four seasons.

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Moritz Seider, German ice hockey player

Moritz Seider is a German professional ice hockey player who is a defenceman and alternate captain for the Detroit Red Wings of the National Hockey League (NHL). He was drafted sixth overall by the Red Wings in the 2019 NHL entry draft.

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06/04/2000

Shaheen Afridi, Pakistani cricketer

Shaheen Shah Afridi is a Pakistani international cricketer who plays for the Pakistan national team. He is the captain of the national ODI team and previously captained the T20I team. A left-arm fast bowler, he made his international debut in 2018 and was named the ICC Men's Cricketer of the Year in 2021, becoming the first Pakistani to win the Sir Garfield Sobers Trophy. He led Lahore Qalandars to Pakistan Super League titles in 2022, 2023, and 2025, becoming the first captain to win three championships.

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Maxence Lacroix, French footballer

Maxence Guy Lacroix is a French professional footballer who plays as a centre-back for Premier League club Crystal Palace and the France national team.

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06/04/1998

Nicolás González, Argentine footballer

Nicolás Iván González is an Argentine professional footballer who plays as a winger for La Liga club Atlético Madrid, on loan from Serie A club Juventus, and the Argentina national team.

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Peyton List, American actress and model

Peyton Roi List is an American actress. She began her career as a child model, and transitioned to acting with a minor role in the film 27 Dresses (2008) at the age of nine. She appeared in the films Remember Me and Bereavement, and achieved her breakout role as Holly Hills in the Diary of a Wimpy Kid film series (2011–2012). She gained further attention for portraying Emma Ross on the Disney Channel sitcom Jessie (2011–2015) and its spinoff Bunk'd.

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Spencer List, American actor

Spencer W. List is an American actor. List is best known from the Fox show Fringe. He has played Carter in The Fosters and its spin-off Good Trouble. He has also been on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit and Jack Ketchum's Offspring.

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Nahuel Molina, Argentine footballer

Nahuel Molina Lucero is an Argentine professional footballer who plays as a right-back for La Liga club Atlético Madrid and the Argentina national team.

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06/04/1997

Mingyu, South Korean singer and rapper

Kim Min-gyu, known mononymously as Mingyu (민규), is a South Korean rapper and singer. Managed by Pledis Entertainment, he is a member of the South Korean boy band Seventeen and its hip hop team, and in 2025, debuted in a sub-unit with S.Coups as CxM.

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06/04/1996

Al-Musrati, Libyan footballer

Al-Mu'attasim Billah Ali Mohamed Al-Musrati, known simply as Al-Musrati, is a Libyan professional footballer who plays as a defensive midfielder for Serie A club Hellas Verona, on loan from Beşiktaş.

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06/04/1995

Darya Lebesheva, Belarusian tennis player

Darya Vyacheslavovna Lebesheva is a Belarusian tennis player.

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06/04/1994

Adrián Alonso, Mexican actor

Adrián Alonso Barona is a Mexican actor. As a child actor, he was best known for the movie The Legend of Zorro.

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06/04/1992

Ken, South Korean singer

Lee Jae-hwan, known professionally as Ken (Korean: 켄), is a South Korean singer and actor, formerly signed under Jellyfish Entertainment. He is one of the members of the South Korean boy group VIXX, and has been widely praised for his unique, soulful, and husky vocal tone. Ken began his acting career in 2014 in MBC Every 1's comedy drama Boarding House No. 24 as Lee Jae-hwan.

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Julie Ertz, American soccer player

Julie Beth Ertz is an American former professional soccer player. From 2014 to 2021, she played for National Women's Soccer League club Chicago Red Stars, and in 2023 she played for Angel City FC. A member of the United States women's national team from 2013 to 2023, she first appeared for the United States national team during an international friendly against Scotland on February 9, 2013, eventually making 123 total appearances for the team.

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Huh Chan-mi, South Korean singer

Huh Chan-mi, also known mononymously as Chanmi, is a South Korean singer. Chanmi made her debut in 2010 as a member of a South Korean co-ed group Coed School and its female unit F-ve Dolls from 2011 until her departure from the group in February 2012. Chanmi briefly returned to training and appeared on the survival shows Produce 101 (2016) and Mix Nine (2017). Chanmi later signed FirstOne Entertainment in 2020 prior to release her debut solo single album, Highlight, later that year.

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06/04/1990

Lachlan Coote, Australian rugby league player

Lachlan Coote is a former professional rugby league footballer who last played for Hull Kingston Rovers in the Super League.

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Charlie McDermott, American actor

Charles Joseph McDermott Jr. is an American musician and actor. After making his film debut in The Village (2004), McDermott had his breakout with a starring role in the crime drama film Frozen River (2008), earning him a nomination for the Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Male.

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Andrei Veis, Estonian footballer

Andrei Veis is an Estonian retired international footballer who played as a defender and a midfielder.

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06/04/1988

Jucilei, Brazilian footballer

Jucilei da Silva, known simply as Jucilei, is a Brazilian former professional footballer who played as a central or defensive midfielder.

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Leigh Adams, Australian footballer

Leigh Adams is a former professional Australian rules footballer who played with the North Melbourne Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL).

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Daniele Gasparetto, Italian footballer

Daniele Gasparetto is an Italian footballer who plays as a defender for ASD Sant'Agostino.

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Carlton Mitchell, American football player

Carlton Lorange Mitchell is an American former professional football wide receiver. He was selected by the Cleveland Browns of the National Football League (NFL) in the sixth round of the 2010 NFL draft. He played college football at South Florida.

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Fabrice Muamba, Congolese-English footballer

Fabrice Ndala Muamba is a Congolese-born English former professional footballer who played for Arsenal, Birmingham City and Bolton Wanderers as a central midfielder. Born in Zaire, Muamba moved to England at the age of 11 and subsequently played for England up to under-21 level.

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Ivonne Orsini, Puerto Rican model and television host, Miss World Puerto Rico 2008

Ivonne Marie Orsini López is a Puerto Rican actress, model, tv host and beauty pageant titleholder. Her career began in the pageantry industry, but she has moved into other media. Orsini was one of the hosts of WAPA-TV show ¡Viva la tarde!. Currently, she is now the co-host of the Puerto Rican version of Hoy Día on Telemundo station WKAQ-TV.

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06/04/1987

Benjamin Corgnet, French footballer

Benjamin Corgnet is a French former professional footballer who plays as a midfielder.

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Heidi Mount, American model

Heidi Mount is an American fashion model, modeling for fashion houses such as Michael Kors, Bottega Veneta, Sonia Rykiel, Versace, and Valentino. She has appeared in campaigns for Chanel, Prada, and Bally.

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Levi Porter, English footballer

Levi Roger Porter is an English footballer who most recently played for Melton Town.

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Hilary Rhoda, American model

Hilary Rhoda Hollis is an American model. She is perhaps best known for her work with the brand Estée Lauder and her 2009, 2010 and 2011 appearances in the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue.

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06/04/1986

Nikolas Asprogenis, Cypriot footballer

Nikolas Asprogenous is a Cypriot former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper.

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Aaron Curry, American football player

Aaron Curry is an American professional football coach and former linebacker who most recently served as the linebackers coach for the New York Jets of the National Football League (NFL). Curry was selected by the Seattle Seahawks in the first round in the 2009 NFL draft out of Wake Forest. Curry also played for the Oakland Raiders in 2011 and 2012.

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Goeido Gotaro, Japanese sumo wrestler

Gōeidō Gōtarō is a former sumo wrestler from Osaka Prefecture, Japan. He made his professional debut in January 2005 and reached the top makuuchi division in September 2007. Long regarded as one of the most promising Japanese wrestlers in sumo, Gōeidō holds the modern record for the most consecutive appearances at sumo's third highest rank of sekiwake, at 14 tournaments. He was finally promoted to the rank of ōzeki following the July 2014 tournament, after scores of twelve wins against three losses in two of the previous three tournaments. However, he only managed to win ten or more bouts in a tournament as an ōzeki on six occasions, and was kadoban, or in danger of demotion, eight times. He won his only top division tournament in September 2016 with a perfect 15–0 record and was a runner-up seven times in his career. He retired in January 2020 after two consecutive losing records that would have seen him demoted, to become an elder of the Japan Sumo Association under the name of Takekuma.

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Ryota Moriwaki, Japanese footballer

Ryota Moriwaki is a Japanese football player who plays for Ehime FC.

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06/04/1985

Fatau Dauda, Ghanaian footballer

Abdul Fatawu Dauda, known as Fatau Dauda, is a Ghanaian former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper.

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Clarke MacArthur, Canadian ice hockey player

Clarke MacArthur is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player. He was a left winger in the National Hockey League (NHL) with the Ottawa Senators, Buffalo Sabres, Atlanta Thrashers and Toronto Maple Leafs. He was originally selected by Buffalo in the third round, 74th overall, at the 2003 NHL entry draft.

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Frank Ongfiang, Cameroonian footballer

Franck Olivier Ongfiang is a Cameroonian former professional footballer who played as a midfielder.

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Sinqua Walls, American basketball player and actor

Sinqua Walls is an American actor known for appearing in Friday Night Lights, The Secret Life of the American Teenager, American Soul, and White Men Can't Jump.

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06/04/1984

Max Bemis, American singer-songwriter

Maxim Adam Bemis is an American musician, best known as the lead singer and primary songwriter of the rock band Say Anything. He sang alongside Chris Conley in the supergroup Two Tongues. He plays alongside his former wife Sherri DuPree under the name Perma, and is a comic book writer, chiefly for Marvel Comics, creating X-Men: Worst X-Man Ever and Foolkiller: Psycho Therapy.

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Michaël Ciani, French footballer

Michaël Henry Ciani is a French former professional footballer who played as a centre back.

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Siboniso Gaxa, South African footballer

Siboniso "Pa" Gaxa is a former South African football defender who played for Ajax Cape Town, Kaizer Chiefs F.C., Mamelodi Sundowns F.C. and the South African national team.

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Diana Matheson, Canadian soccer player

Diana Beverly Matheson is a Canadian former professional soccer player who played for the Canada national team from 2003 to 2020 and multiple professional women's teams over the course of her career. She is best known for scoring the bronze medal-winning goal for Canada in the 92nd minute against France at the 2012 Summer Olympics. She also won a bronze medal at the 2016 Rio Olympics and gold medal at the 2011 Pan American Games with the senior national team. Matheson was inducted to the Canada Soccer Hall of Fame in 2025.

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06/04/1983

Mehdi Ballouchy, Moroccan footballer

Mehdi Ballouchy is a retired Moroccan professional footballer who played as a midfielder. He is currently one of the coaching staff for New York City FC.

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Jerome Kaino, New Zealand rugby player

Jerome Kaino is a former New Zealand rugby union player.

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Mitsuru Nagata, Japanese footballer

Mitsuru Nagata is a Japanese retired football player. He played for Japan national team.

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Remi Nicole, English singer-songwriter and actress

Remi Nicole Wilson, better known as Remi Nicole, is a British singer-songwriter and actress who was born in North London, but now resides in Los Angeles. She is best known for her single "Go Mr Sunshine", which was released in 2007. Her debut album, My Conscience and I, was released later that year and her second, Cupid Shoot Me, on 31 August 2009. As an actress she is credited as Remi Wilson.

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James Wade, English darts player

James Martin Wade is an English professional darts player who competes in Professional Darts Corporation (PDC) events, where he is ranked world number six; he reached a peak ranking of world number two in 2010. Widely regarded as one of the greatest ever darts players to have never won a world championship and the greatest left-hander in the history of the sport, Wade is a four-time PDC World Championship semi-finalist and eleven-time PDC major winner, placing him fourth in the all-time list behind Phil Taylor, Michael van Gerwen and Luke Littler.

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Katie Weatherston, Canadian ice hockey player

Katherine Marie "Katie" Weatherston is a Canadian retired ice hockey player and head coach of the Lebanese women’s national ice hockey team. As a member of the Canadian women's national ice hockey team, she won Olympic gold in the women's ice hockey tournament at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin and medalled at two IIHF Women's World Championships.

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06/04/1982

Travis Moen, Canadian ice hockey player

Travis Shawn Moen is a Canadian former professional ice hockey winger. He was selected in the fifth round, 155th overall, by the Calgary Flames of the National Hockey League (NHL) in the 2000 NHL entry draft and previously played for the Chicago Blackhawks, Anaheim Ducks, with whom he won the Stanley Cup in 2007, San Jose Sharks, Montreal Canadiens, and Dallas Stars.

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Miguel Ángel Silvestre, Spanish actor

Miguel Ángel Silvestre Rambla is a Spanish actor. He rose to prominence with his performance as El Duque in Sin tetas no hay paraíso.

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06/04/1981

Robert Earnshaw, Welsh footballer

Robert Earnshaw is a Welsh former international footballer who played as a forward. He is the only player to have scored a hat-trick in the Premier League, all three divisions of the English Football League, the League Cup, the FA Cup, and for his country in an international match.

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Jeff Faine, American football player

Jeffrey Kalei Faine is an American former professional football player who was a center in the National Football League (NFL). He was selected by the Cleveland Browns 21st overall in the 2003 NFL draft. He played college football for the Notre Dame Fighting Irish.

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Lucas Licht, Argentine footballer

Lucas Matías Licht is an Argentine former professional footballer who played as a left-back but also as a left winger.

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Alex Suarez, American bass player

Cobra Starship is an American dance-rock band from New York City, New York, formed in 2005 by Gabe Saporta. He recorded the first album as a solo project, While the City Sleeps, We Rule the Streets. Saporta later enlisted guitarist Ryland Blackinton, bassist Alex Suarez, drummer Nate Novarro, and keytarist Victoria Asher, all of whom provide backing vocals.

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06/04/1980

Tommi Evilä, Finnish long jumper

Jaakko Tommi Kristian Evilä is a Finnish former long jumper. He gained fame following his surprise bronze in the 2005 Helsinki World Championships, which was Finland's only medal in the championships.

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Tanja Poutiainen, Finnish skier

Tanja Tuulia Poutiainen is a retired World Cup alpine ski racer from Finland. She specialized in the technical events of slalom and giant slalom, and was the silver medalist in the women's giant slalom at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Torino.

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06/04/1979

Lord Frederick Windsor, English journalist and financier

Lord Frederick Michael George David Louis Windsor is a member of the British royal family. He is the only son of Prince and Princess Michael of Kent, and is 54th in the line of succession to the British throne. He is married to British actress Sophie Winkleman and is a financial analyst by profession. As a great-grandchild of King George V and Queen Mary, he is a second cousin of King Charles III.

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Clay Travis, American sports journalist, blogger, and broadcaster

Richard Clay Travis is an American writer, lawyer, radio host and television analyst, and founder of OutKick.

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06/04/1978

Imani Coppola, American singer-songwriter and violinist

Imani Francesca Coppola is an American singer-songwriter and violinist. Her debut single "Legend of a Cowgirl" reached the top 40 on the Billboard Hot 100 and the UK Singles Chart in 1997. Her debut album, Chupacabra, released by Columbia Records, was praised by critics and appeared on the US Heatseekers Albums chart. In 2001, Coppola appeared as a guest artist on the Baha Men single "You All Dat", which broke the top 10 in Australia and gave Coppola her second entry on the Billboard Hot 100 to date.

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Robert Glasper, American singer-songwriter, pianist, and producer

Robert Andre Glasper is an American pianist, record producer, songwriter, and musical arranger. His music embodies numerous musical genres, primarily centered around jazz. Glasper has won five Grammy Awards from 11 nominations.

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Tim Hasselbeck, American football player and sportscaster

Timothy Thomas Hasselbeck is an American sports journalist and former professional football player who is an analyst for ESPN. He played as a quarterback for eight seasons in the National Football League (NFL) with the New York Giants, Washington Redskins, Philadelphia Eagles, Buffalo Bills, Baltimore Ravens, and Arizona Cardinals as well as the Berlin Thunder of NFL Europe. He played college football for the Boston College Eagles. He is the younger brother of former NFL quarterback Matt Hasselbeck.

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Myleene Klass, Austrian/Filipino-English singer, pianist, and model

Myleene Angela Klass is a British musician, singer, television presenter, model, writer and designer. She was a member of the pop group Hear'Say, and later released a solo classical crossover album in 2003, followed by additional "lullaby" albums from 2022 onward. Klass then went into television and radio presenting, hosting series including Popstar to Operastar (2010–2011) and BBQ Champ (2015) on ITV and The One Show (2007) on BBC One. She was a regular panellist on the ITV lunchtime chat show Loose Women in 2014 and again from 2024 onwards. In 2006, Klass was runner-up on the sixth series of I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!, and returned in 2023 for the "all-stars" series I'm a Celebrity... South Africa, which she won.

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Martín Méndez, Uruguayan bass player and songwriter

Martín Méndez is a Uruguayan Swedish musician. He migrated to Sweden when he was 17 years old. He is the bassist of the progressive metal band Opeth and the second-longest-serving member of the band, behind frontman Mikael Åkerfeldt. He founded the band White Stones in Barcelona in 2019.

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Blaine Neal, American baseball player

Blaine Neal is an American former professional baseball relief pitcher. Neal played with the Florida Marlins (2001–2003), San Diego Padres (2004), Boston Red Sox (2005), and Colorado Rockies (2005) of Major League Baseball (MLB). He bats left-handed and throws right-handed.

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Igor Semshov, Russian footballer

Igor Petrovich Semshov is a Russian professional football coach and a former player.

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06/04/1977

Ville Nieminen, Finnish ice hockey player

Ville Juhani Nieminen is a Finnish former professional ice hockey forward who played over 400 games in the National Hockey League.

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Andy Phillips, American baseball player and coach

George Andrew Phillips is an American baseball coach and former infielder. He played college baseball at Alabama for coach Jim Wells from 1996 to 1999 and played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the New York Yankees, New York Mets, and Cincinnati Reds. Phillips was raised in Demopolis, Alabama, where he played baseball for the Demopolis Academy Generals. Phillips was an All-American for the Tide.

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06/04/1976

Candace Cameron Bure, American actress and talk show panelist

Candace Helaine Cameron Bure is an American actress, author and former talk show panelist best known as D.J. Tanner in Full House and Fuller House, Summer van Horne in Make It or Break It, and many Hallmark Channel original films—including the title character in their adaptations of the Aurora Teagarden novel series.

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James Fox, Welsh singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor

James Richard Mullett, known professionally as James Fox, is a Welsh pop singer and musician. He represented the United Kingdom in the Eurovision Song Contest 2004 in Istanbul. In 2008, he wrote and recorded the Cardiff City F.C. FA Cup Final song, "Bluebirds Flying High".

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Chris Hoke, American football player

Christopher L. Hoke is an American former professional football player. Hoke was a nose tackle for his entire career with the Pittsburgh Steelers of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the BYU Cougars.

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Georg Hólm, Icelandic bass player

Georg "Goggi" Hólm is the bassist of the Icelandic post-rock band Sigur Rós. He is the most prominent member of Sigur Rós in the English press, as he does significantly more press than the other members due to him being the most fluent English speaker in the band.

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Hirotada Ototake, Japanese author and educator

Hirotada Ototake is a Japanese writer from Tokyo, who has written in the memoir, fiction and sports journalism genres.

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06/04/1975

Zach Braff, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter

Zachary Israel Braff is an American actor and filmmaker. He is best known for his role as John Michael "J.D." Dorian on the NBC/ABC television series Scrubs, for which he was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series in 2005 as well as for three Golden Globe Awards from 2005 to 2007. He starred in The Broken Hearts Club: A Romantic Comedy (2000), The Last Kiss (2006), The Ex (2006), and In Dubious Battle (2016). He has done voice-work for Chicken Little (2005) and Oz the Great and Powerful (2013).

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Hal Gill, American ice hockey player

Harold Priestley Gill III is an American former professional ice hockey defenseman who played 16 NHL seasons with six different teams, winning the Stanley Cup with the Pittsburgh Penguins in 2009.

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06/04/1973

Donnie Edwards, American football player

Donnie Lewis Edwards Jr. is an American former professional football player who was a linebacker for 13 seasons in the National Football League (NFL) for the Kansas City Chiefs and San Diego Chargers. He played college football for the UCLA Bruins, earning third-team All-American honors in 1994. He was selected by the Chiefs in the fourth round of the 1996 NFL draft.

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Randall Godfrey, American football player

Randall Euralentris Godfrey is an American former professional football player who was a linebacker in the National Football League (NFL). Godfrey played college football for the Georgia Bulldogs football and was selected in the 1996 NFL draft by the Dallas Cowboys with the 49th overall pick. He then played for the Tennessee Titans and the Seattle Seahawks.

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Rie Miyazawa, Japanese model and actress

Rie Miyazawa is a Japanese actress and former idol singer. She is regarded as one of Japan's top actresses, and her accolades include six Japan Academy Film Prizes and three Kinema Junpo Awards.

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Sun Wen, Chinese footballer

Sun Wen is a Chinese former professional footballer who played as a forward. She previously captained the China national team and the Atlanta Beat of the Women's United Soccer Association (WUSA).

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06/04/1972

Anders Thomas Jensen, Danish director and screenwriter

Anders Thomas Jensen is a Danish screenwriter and film director. His film Election Night won the 1998 Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film.

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Dickey Simpkins, American basketball player and sportscaster

LuBara Dixon "Dickey" Simpkins is an American former professional basketball player best known for his tenure with the Chicago Bulls in the late 1990s. He is currently a commentator for Fox Sports.

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06/04/1970

Olaf Kölzig, South African-German ice hockey player and coach

Olaf Kölzig is a South African-born German professional ice hockey goaltender and current goaltender coach and player development coach for the Washington Capitals of the National Hockey League (NHL). With the exception of eight games with the Tampa Bay Lightning, he played his entire 14-year NHL career with the Capitals.

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Roy Mayorga, American drummer, songwriter, and producer

Roy Mayorga is an American musician, best known as the drummer of heavy metal bands Soulfly, Hellyeah and Stone Sour and is currently the drummer for the industrial metal band Ministry.

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Huang Xiaomin, Chinese swimmer

Huang Xiaomin is a Chinese former breaststroke swimmer, whose best performance during her career was winning the silver medal in the 200 m breaststroke at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea. She was born in Qiqihar, Heilongjiang. She admitted to have used doping substances during her active career and is now publicly opposed to it.

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06/04/1969

Bret Boone, American baseball player and manager

Bret Robert Boone is an American former professional baseball second baseman who played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Seattle Mariners, Cincinnati Reds, Atlanta Braves, San Diego Padres, Seattle Mariners and Minnesota Twins. During his career, Boone was a three-time All-Star, four-time Gold Glove winner, and two-time Silver Slugger Award winner. He is a third-generation professional athlete. His brother is Aaron Boone, manager of the New York Yankees.

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Bison Dele, American basketball player (died 2002)

Bison Dele was an American professional basketball player who played center for the NBA's Orlando Magic, Denver Nuggets, Los Angeles Clippers, Chicago Bulls and Detroit Pistons. Dele played college basketball for the Maryland Terrapins from 1987–1988 and for the Arizona Wildcats from 1988–1991 before being selected by the Magic with the 10th overall pick in the 1991 NBA draft. He won a championship with the Bulls in 1997.

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Philipp Peter, Austrian race car driver

Philipp Peter is a race car driver from Austria.

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Paul Rudd, American actor

Paul Stephen Rudd is an American actor. Rudd studied theatre at the University of Kansas and the American Academy of Dramatic Arts before making his acting debut in 1991. He was included on the Forbes Celebrity 100 list in 2019, and was named People magazine's "Sexiest Man Alive" in 2021. The accolades he has received include a Critics' Choice Television Award, alongside nominations for a Golden Globe Award, two Primetime Emmy Awards, and two Screen Actors Guild Awards.

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Spencer Wells, American geneticist and anthropologist

Rush Spencer Wells is an American geneticist, anthropologist, author and entrepreneur. He co-hosts The Insight podcast with Razib Khan. Wells led The Genographic Project from 2005 to 2015, as an Explorer-in-Residence at the National Geographic Society.

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06/04/1968

Archon Fung, American political scientist, author, and academic

Archon Fung is the Winthrop Laflin McCormack Professor of Citizenship and Democracy at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government and co-founder of the Transparency Policy Project. Fung served as an assistant professor of public policy at the Kennedy School from July 1999–June 2004, then as an associate professor of public policy at the Kennedy School from July 2004–October 2007, and finally as a professor of public policy from October 2007–March 2009 before being named as the Ford Foundation Chair of Democracy and Citizenship in March 2009. In 2015, he was elected to the Common Cause National Governing Board.

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Affonso Giaffone, Brazilian race car driver

Affonso Giaffone Neto is a Brazilian former racing driver. He is one of several racing drivers in his family; he is a cousin of Felipe Giaffone, and a cousin-in-law of Rubens Barrichello. His father Affonso Giaffone Jr. was also a racing driver.

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06/04/1967

Julian Anderson, English composer and educator

Julian Anderson is a British composer and teacher of composition.

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Kathleen Barr, Canadian voice actress and singer

Kathleen Barr is a Canadian voice actress. She is best known for the voices of Marie Kanker and Kevin in Ed, Edd n Eddy, Dot Matrix in ReBoot, and Trixie Lulamoon and Queen Chrysalis in My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic. She also voiced Henri Richard Maurice Dutoit LeFevbre in Liberty's Kids, Kaiko Nekton in The Deep, Wheezie in Dragon Tales, and Gelorum in Hot Wheels: World Race and its 4-film sequel AcceleRacers.

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Tanya Byron, English psychologist and academic

Tanya Byron is a British psychologist, writer, and media personality, best known for her work as a child therapist on television shows Little Angels and The House of Tiny Tearaways. She also co-created the BBC Two sitcom The Life and Times of Vivienne Vyle with Jennifer Saunders, and still contributes articles to various newspapers.

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Jonathan Firth, English actor

Jonathan Stephen Firth is an English actor. He is best known for his roles in such British television productions as Middlemarch, Far from the Madding Crowd, and Victoria & Albert.

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06/04/1966

Vince Flynn, American author (died 2013)

Vincent Joseph Flynn was an American author of political thriller novels featuring the fictional assassin Mitch Rapp. He was a story consultant for the fifth season of the television series 24. He died of prostate cancer on June 19, 2013.

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Young Man Kang, South Korean-American director and producer

Young Man Kang is a South Korean filmmaker based in Los Angeles, California, United States. Kang directed and produced The Last Eve (2005), Soap Girl (2002), Cupid's Mistake (2001) and Kimchi Warrior (2009). He is the director and founder of Seoul Webfest.

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06/04/1965

Black Francis, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

Charles Michael Kittridge Thompson IV, known professionally as Black Francis and formerly Frank Black, is an American singer, songwriter, and guitarist who is the lead vocalist of the alternative rock band Pixies. Following the band's breakup in 1993, he embarked on a solo career releasing fifteen albums and forming his band, the Catholics. Pixies regrouped in 2004, and he declared his solo career to be over in 2013.

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Sterling Sharpe, American football player and sportscaster

Sterling Sharpe is an American former professional football player who was a wide receiver for the Green Bay Packers of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the South Carolina Gamecocks, and played in the NFL from 1988 to 1994 with the Packers in a career shortened by a neck injury. He became an analyst for the NFL Network. He is the older brother of Pro Football Hall of Fame tight end Shannon Sharpe. In 2025, Sterling Sharpe was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame.

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06/04/1964

Tim Walz, American politician, Governor of Minnesota & vice presidential candidate

Timothy James Walz is an American politician, former educator, and Army National Guard veteran serving since 2019 as the 41st governor of Minnesota. He was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from 2007 to 2019, representing Minnesota's 1st congressional district, and was the Democratic nominee for vice president in the 2024 U.S. presidential election.

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06/04/1963

Rafael Correa, Ecuadorian economist and politician, 54th President of Ecuador

Rafael Vicente Correa Delgado is an Ecuadorian politician and economist who served as the 45th president of Ecuador from 2007 to 2017. The leader of the PAIS Alliance political movement from its foundation until 2017, Correa is a democratic socialist and his administration focused on the implementation of left-wing policies. Internationally, he served as president pro tempore of the UNASUR. Since 2017, he has been living with his family in Belgium.

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06/04/1962

Iris Häussler, German sculptor and academic

Iris Haeussler is a conceptual and installation art artist of German origin. She lives in Toronto, Canada. Many of Iris Haeussler's works are detailed, hyperrealistic installations that visitors can decode as narrative stories. Recurring topics in her work include historic, cultural, social and geographic origins; family ties, relationships, memory, history, trauma and obsession.

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Marco Schällibaum, Swiss footballer, coach, and manager

Marco Schällibaum is a Swiss football manager and former player. He was most recently the manager of Swiss Super League side Grasshopper Club Zürich, whom he saved from relegation.

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06/04/1961

Rory Bremner, Scottish impressionist and comedian

Roderick Keith Ogilvy "Rory" Bremner, is a Scottish impressionist and comedian, noted for his work in political satire and impressions of British public figures. He is best known for co-starring with John Bird and John Fortune in the comedy sketch shows Rory Bremner...Who Else? and Bremner, Bird and Fortune, as well as being a team captain on the first two series of comedy panel show Mock the Week.

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Peter Jackson, English footballer and manager

Peter Allan Jackson is a football manager and former player. He has previously had two spells as Huddersfield Town manager, whom he helped win the Division Three play-off in 2004, and he has also managed Lincoln City, before taking charge at his former playing club Bradford City in 2011.

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06/04/1960

Warren Haynes, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

Warren Haynes is an American musician, singer and songwriter. He is best known for his work as longtime guitarist with the Allman Brothers Band and as founding member of the jam band Gov't Mule. Early in his career he was a guitarist for David Allan Coe and The Dickey Betts Band. Haynes is also known for his associations with the surviving members of the Grateful Dead, including touring with Phil Lesh and Friends and the Dead. In addition, Haynes founded and manages Evil Teen Records.

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Richard Loe, New Zealand rugby player

Richard Wyllie Loe is a New Zealand former rugby union player. He won 49 international caps for New Zealand, the All Blacks, as a prop forward. He is a sports broadcaster on BSport, Radio Live and SKY Sport.

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John Pizzarelli, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

John Paul Pizzarelli Jr. is an American jazz guitarist and vocalist. He has recorded over twenty solo albums and has appeared on more than forty albums by other recording artists, including Paul McCartney, James Taylor, Rosemary Clooney; his father, jazz guitarist Bucky Pizzarelli; and his wife, singer Jessica Molaskey.

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06/04/1959

Gail Shea, Canadian politician

Anne Marie Gail Shea was a Canadian politician who served as the Member of Parliament for Egmont from 2008 to 2015. She had previously been a member of the Legislative Assembly of Prince Edward Island from 2000 to 2007, representing the electoral district of Tignish-DeBlois as a member of the Progressive Conservative Party.

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06/04/1958

Graeme Base, Australian author and illustrator

Graeme Rowland Base is a British-Australian author and artist of picture books. He is perhaps best known for his second book, Animalia published in 1986, and third book The Eleventh Hour which was released in 1989.

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06/04/1957

Giorgio Damilano, Italian race walker and coach

Giorgio Damilano is an Italian former race walker.

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Maurizio Damilano, Italian race walker and coach

Maurizio Damilano is an Italian former race walker. He won 15 individual medals, at senior level, at the International athletics competitions.

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Jaroslava Maxová, Czech soprano and educator

Jaroslava Maxová is a Czech mezzo-soprano opera singer and vocal coach.

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Paolo Nespoli, Italian soldier, engineer, and astronaut

Major Paolo Angelo Nespoli is an Italian astronaut and engineer of the European Space Agency (ESA). In 2007, he first traveled into space aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery as a mission specialist of STS-120. In December 2010 he again traveled into space aboard the Soyuz TMA-20 spacecraft as an Expedition 26/27 flight engineer. Nespoli's third spaceflight was on board Soyuz MS-05, which launched in July 2017 for Expedition 52/53. He was also the European Space Agency's oldest active astronaut prior to his retirement in 2019.

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06/04/1956

Michele Bachmann, American lawyer and politician

Michele Marie Bachmann is an American politician who was the U.S. representative for Minnesota's 6th congressional district from 2007 until 2015. A member of the Republican Party, she was a candidate for president of the United States in the 2012 election, but dropped out after the Iowa caucuses.

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Normand Corbeil, Canadian composer (died 2013)

Normand Corbeil was a Canadian composer known for his work on films, video games and television.

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Mudassar Nazar, Pakistani cricketer

Mudassar Nazar is a Pakistani cricket coach and former cricketer with a career in Test cricket for Pakistan and in league cricket in Pakistan and England. He was an all-rounder and opening batsman who played 76 test and 122 one-day matches for Pakistan. After retiring from professional cricket, he has had a number of administrative positions in the cricketing world, including two stints as coach for Pakistan in 1993 and 2001, for Kenya and for several other teams. He was born in Lahore, Punjab.

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Lee Scott, English politician

Lee Scott is a British Conservative Party politician. He was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Ilford North from 2005 until his defeat at the 2015 general election. Scott is an officer of the Conservative Friends of Israel. In the 2021 Essex County Council election he was elected to the ward of Chigwell & Loughton Broadway.

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Sebastian Spreng, Argentinian-American painter and journalist

Sebastian Spreng is an Argentine-born American visual artist and music journalist. He is a self-taught artist. He lives in Bay Harbor Islands, Florida.

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Dilip Vengsarkar, Indian cricketer and coach

Dilip Balwant Vengsarkar is a former Indian cricketer and a cricket administrator. He was considered to have a very good drive. Along with Sunil Gavaskar and Gundappa Viswanath, he was a key player in the Indian batting line up in the late 70s and early 80s. He was a member of the Indian team that won the 1983 Cricket World Cup. Vengsarkar also led the national side to 1988 Asia Cup victory. He was also a part of the Indian squad which won the 1985 World Championship of Cricket. He went on to play until 1992.

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06/04/1955

Rob Epstein, American director and producer

Robert P. Epstein, is an American director, producer, writer, and editor. He is known for directing numerous documentaries, several of them focusing on the LGBTQ community and has won two Academy Awards, two Emmy Awards, and a Grammy Award.

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Michael Rooker, American actor, director, and producer

Michael Rooker is an American actor and voice actor. He first rose to prominence for portraying the titular role in Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer (1986), and is best known for starring as Merle Dixon in the AMC series The Walking Dead (2010–2013) and as Yondu Udonta in Guardians of the Galaxy (2014), and its sequel Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017). He is a recurring collaborator of Guardians of the Galaxy director and co-CEO of DC Studios James Gunn, appearing in all of his films to date including Slither (2006), Super (2010) and The Suicide Squad (2021), along with the TV series Peacemaker.

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Cathy Jones, Canadian actress, comedian, and writer

Catherine Frederica "Cathy" Jones is a Canadian actress, comedian and writer. She is known for her work for 28 years on the Canadian television series This Hour Has 22 Minutes. Jones left the show in 2021.

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06/04/1953

Patrick Doyle, Scottish actor and composer

Patrick Doyle is a Scottish composer and occasional actor best known for his film scores. During his 50-year career in film, television and theatre, he has composed the scores for over 60 feature films. A longtime collaborator of actor-director Kenneth Branagh, Doyle is known for his work on films such as Henry V, Sense and Sensibility, Hamlet, Carlito's Way, Quest for Camelot, and Gosford Park, as well as Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Rise of the Planet of the Apes, Thor, Brave, Cinderella, Murder on the Orient Express and Death on the Nile.

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Christopher Franke, German-American drummer and songwriter

Christopher Franke, born 6 April, 1953, is best known as a German pioneer of electronic music and a Hollywood composer for film and television. He studied composition at Berlin Conservatory where his influences included Karlheinz Stockhausen and John Cage.

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06/04/1952

Udo Dirkschneider, German singer-songwriter

Udo Dirkschneider is a German singer who first rose to fame with the heavy metal band Accept. After leaving the band in 1987, he formed the band U.D.O., in which he has also enjoyed commercial success.

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Marilu Henner, Greek-Polish American actress and author

Marilu Henner is an American actress, singer, and author. She began her career appearing in the original production of the musical Grease in 1971, before making her screen debut in the 1977 comedy-drama film Between the Lines. In 1978, Henner was cast in her breakthrough role as Elaine O'Connor Nardo in the ABC/NBC sitcom Taxi, a role she played until 1983 and for which she received five Golden Globe Award nominations.

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Michel Larocque, Canadian ice hockey player and manager (died 1992)

Michel Raymond "Bunny" Larocque was a Canadian professional ice hockey goaltender who played for the Montreal Canadiens, Toronto Maple Leafs, Philadelphia Flyers and St. Louis Blues in the National Hockey League. He was a four-time Stanley Cup winner with the Montreal Canadiens.

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06/04/1951

Bert Blyleven, Dutch-American baseball player and sportscaster

Rik Aalbert Blyleven is a Dutch-American former professional baseball pitcher and color commentator. He played 22 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) from 1970 to 1992, primarily with the Minnesota Twins, and from 1996 to 2020 was a color commentator for Minnesota Twins television broadcasts. Blyleven recorded 3,701 career strikeouts, the fifth-most in MLB history. He won 287 games, 27th-most all-time, and pitched 4,970 innings, 14th-most all-time. A renowned curveball pitcher, Blyleven was a two-time All-Star and World Series champion. In 2011, Blyleven was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame.

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Jean-Marc Boivin, French skier, mountaineer, and pilot (died 1990)

Jean-Marc Boivin was a French mountaineer, extreme skier, hang glider and paraglider pilot, speleologist, BASE jumper, film maker and author. The holder of several altitude records for hang gliding and paragliding, the creator of numerous first ascents and first ski descents in the Alps, a member of the team that broke the record for a sub-glacial dive and the first person to paraglide from the summit of Mount Everest, Boivin was a pioneer of extreme sports. He died from injuries incurred after BASE jumping off Angel Falls in Venezuela, the highest waterfall in the world.

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Pascal Rogé, French pianist

Pascal Rogé is a French pianist.

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06/04/1950

Claire Morissette, Canadian cycling activist (died 2007)

Claire Morissette was a Canadian cycling advocate who fought for equal cyclists' rights in Montreal since 1976. She was a member of the group Le Monde à Bicyclette. Notable were the stunts they organized to raise consciousness of automobile transportation's negative impact on cities and their inhabitants, such as bringing snow skis and toboggans on subways to protest the exclusion of bicycles and a die-in on the corner of St. Catherine and University streets in which 100 people lay in the street adorned with fake blood and surrounded with wrecked bikes.

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Cleo Odzer, American anthropologist and author (died 2001)

Cleo Odzer was an American author and anthropologist renowned for her works exploring subcultures, including prostitution in Thailand, the hippie culture of Goa, and the emerging phenomenon of cybersex. Her works provided unique perspectives on subcultures often marginalized or misunderstood, blending personal experience with anthropological insight.

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06/04/1949

Alyson Bailes, English academic and diplomat (died 2016)

Alyson Judith Kirtley Bailes CMG was a British diplomat, political scientist, academic and polymath.

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Patrick Hernandez, French singer-songwriter

Patrick Pierre Hernandez is a French singer who had a worldwide hit with "Born to Be Alive" in 1979.

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Ng Ser Miang, Singaporean athlete, entrepreneur and diplomat

Ng Ser Miang, is a Singaporean entrepreneur, diplomat, retired sailor, and sports administrator. He founded Trans-Island Bus Services in 1982 and is a board member of Singapore Press Holdings. Ng has been the vice-president of the Singapore National Olympic Council since 1990, and served as the president of the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics organising committee. From 2009 to 2013, and again from 2020 to 2024, he served as a vice-president of the International Olympic Committee. In 2013, he was a candidate for the presidency of the International Olympic Committee, but lost to Thomas Bach. Domestically, Ng was a Nominated Member of Parliament (NMP) from 2002 to 2005, and served Singapore as the Ambassador to Norway and Hungary under prime ministers Goh Chok Tong and Lee Hsien Loong.

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Horst Ludwig Störmer, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate

Horst Ludwig Störmer is a German physicist, Nobel laureate and emeritus professor at Columbia University. He was awarded the 1998 Nobel Prize in Physics jointly with Daniel Tsui and Robert Laughlin "for their discovery of a new form of quantum fluid with fractionally charged excitations". He and Tsui were working at Bell Labs at the time of the experiment cited by the Nobel committee.

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06/04/1947

John Ratzenberger, American actor and director

John Ratzenberger is an American actor. He is best known for playing the character Cliff Clavin on the comedy series Cheers, for which he earned two Primetime Emmy nominations. Ratzenberger reprised the role in the short-lived spin-off The Tortellis, an episode of Wings, as well as in an episode of Frasier. He has voiced various characters in several Pixar animated feature films including Hamm in the Toy Story franchise, Yeti the Abominable Snowman in the Monsters, Inc. franchise, The Underminer in The Incredibles franchise, Mack in the Cars franchise, Fritz in the Inside Out franchise, and many others.

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André Weinfeld, French-American director, producer, and screenwriter

André Weinfeld is a French and American film and television producer, director, screenwriter, cinematographer, photographer, and journalist.

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Mike Worboys, English mathematician and computer scientist

Michael Worboys is a British mathematician, computer scientist and composer.

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06/04/1946

Paul Beresford, New Zealand-English dentist and politician

Sir Alexander Paul Beresford is a British–New Zealander politician who served as the Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) for Mole Valley in Surrey from 1997 to 2024. He previously served as MP for Croydon Central from 1992 to 1997.

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06/04/1945

Rodney Bickerstaffe, English trade union leader (died 2017)

Rodney Kevan Bickerstaffe was a British trade unionist. He was General Secretary of the National Union of Public Employees (1982–1993) and UNISON (1996–2001), Britain's largest trade union at the time. He later became president of the UK National Pensioners Convention (2001–2005).

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Peter Hill, English journalist

Peter Hill is a British journalist and a former editor of the Daily Express.

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06/04/1944

Felicity Palmer, English operatic soprano

Dame Felicity Joan Palmer,, is an English mezzo-soprano and music professor. She sang soprano roles until 1983.

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Charles Sobhraj, French serial killer

Charles Sobhraj is a French serial killer, fraudster, and thief whose victims were mainly Western tourists travelling on the hippie trail of South Asia during the 1970s. He is of Indian and Vietnamese origin. He was known as the Bikini Killer because of the attire of several of his victims, as well as the Splitting Killer and the Serpent for "his snake-like ability to avoid detection by authorities".

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06/04/1943

Max Clifford, English journalist and publicist (died 2017)

Maxwell Frank Clifford was an English publicist and convicted sex offender who was particularly associated with promoting "kiss and tell" stories in tabloid newspapers.

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Roger Cook, New Zealand-English journalist and academic

Roger Cook is a New Zealand-born British investigative journalist and television broadcaster. In 1997, he won a British Academy of Film & Television Arts special award "for 25 years of outstanding quality investigative reporting", for his show The Cook Report.

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Ian MacRae, New Zealand rugby player

Ian Robert MacRae is a former New Zealand rugby union player. A second five-eighth and centre, MacRae represented West Coast, Bay of Plenty and Hawke's Bay at a provincial level, and was a member of the New Zealand national side, the All Blacks, from 1963 to 1970. He played 28 matches for the All Blacks—three as captain—including 17 internationals.

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Mitchell Melton, American lawyer and politician (died 2013)

Mitchell Wesley Melton was a former Democratic member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives. He was the founder, organizer and original spokesman of the Pennsylvania Legislative Black Caucus, founded in 1969.

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06/04/1942

Barry Levinson, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter

Barry Lee Levinson is an American film director, producer and screenwriter. Levinson won the Academy Award for Best Director for Rain Man (1988). His other best-known works are Diner (1982), The Natural (1984), Good Morning, Vietnam (1987), Bugsy (1991), and Wag the Dog (1997). In 2021, he co-executive produced the Hulu miniseries Dopesick and directed the first two episodes.

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Anita Pallenberg, Italian-English model, actress, and fashion designer (died 2017)

Anita Pallenberg was an Italian-German film actress, artist, and model. A style icon and "It girl" of the 1960s and 1970s, Pallenberg was credited as the muse of the Rolling Stones: she was the romantic partner of the Stones multi-instrumentalist Brian Jones and later, from 1967 to 1980, the partner of Stones guitarist Keith Richards, with whom she had three children.

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06/04/1941

Christopher Allsopp, English economist and academic

Christopher Allsopp was a British economist. He was Director of the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies from 2006 to 2013, was emeritus Fellow of New College, Oxford, and a Reader in Economic Policy at the University of Oxford.

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Phil Austin, American comedian, actor, and screenwriter (died 2015)

Philip Baine Austin was an American comedian and writer, best known as a member of the Firesign Theatre.

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Hans W. Geißendörfer, German director and producer

Hans W. Geißendörfer is a German film director and producer.

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Angeliki Laiou, Greek-American Byzantinist and politician (died 2008)

Angeliki E. Laiou was a Greek-American Byzantinist and politician. She taught at the University of Louisiana, Harvard University, Brandeis University, and Rutgers University. She was the Dumbarton Oaks Professor of Byzantine Studies at Harvard University from 1981 until her death. From 2000 to 2002, she was also a member of the Hellenic Parliament for the Panhellenic Socialist Movement (PASOK): she served as Deputy Secretary of Foreign Affairs for six months in 2000.

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Don Prudhomme, American race car driver and manager

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Gheorghe Zamfir, Romanian flute player and composer

Gheorghe Zamfir is a Romanian nai musician.

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06/04/1940

Homero Aridjis, Mexican journalist, author, and poet

Homero Aridjis is a Mexican poet, novelist, environmental activist, journalist, and former ambassador and ex-president of PEN International.

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Pedro Armendáriz, Jr., Mexican-American actor and producer (died 2011)

Pedro Armendáriz Bohr, better known by his stage name Pedro Armendáriz Jr., was a Mexican actor.

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06/04/1939

André Ouellet, Canadian lawyer and politician, 1st Canadian Minister of Foreign Affairs

André Ouellet, is a former longtime Liberal federal politician and Cabinet member in Canada. Following his political career, he served as chairman of Canada Post.

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John Sculley, American businessman, co-founded Zeta Interactive

John Sculley III is an American businessman, entrepreneur, and investor in high-tech startups. Sculley was vice-president (1970–1977) and president of PepsiCo (1977–1983), until he became chief executive officer (CEO) of Apple Inc. on April 8, 1983, a position he held until leaving on October 15, 1993. In 1987, Sculley was named Silicon Valley's top-paid executive, with an annual salary of US$10.2 million.

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06/04/1938

Paul Daniels, English magician and television host (died 2016)

Newton Edward Daniels, known professionally as Paul Daniels, was an English magician and television presenter. He achieved international fame through his television series The Paul Daniels Magic Show, which ran on the BBC from 1979 to 1994.

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Roy Thinnes, American television and film actor

Roy Thinnes is an American former television and film actor best known for his portrayal of lonely hero David Vincent in the ABC 1967–68 television series The Invaders.

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06/04/1937

Merle Haggard, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2016)

Merle Ronald Haggard was an American country music singer, songwriter, guitarist, and fiddler. Widely regarded as one of the greatest and most influential figures in country music, he was a central pioneer of the Bakersfield sound. With a career spanning over five decades, Haggard had 38 number-one hits on the US country charts, several of which also made the Billboard all-genre singles chart.

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Tom Veivers, Australian cricketer and politician

Thomas Robert Veivers is an Australian former cricketer, teacher, politician and public administrator who played in 21 cricket Test matches between 1963 and 1967. He is the great-uncle of Jack Wildermuth.

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Billy Dee Williams, American actor, singer, and writer

William December Williams Jr. is an American actor, novelist and painter. He has appeared in over 100 films and television roles over six decades. He is best known for portraying Lando Calrissian in the Star Wars franchise and has also appeared in critically acclaimed and popular titles such as Mahogany (1975), Scott Joplin (1977), and Nighthawks (1981), as Harvey Dent in Batman (1989) and The Lego Batman Movie (2017), The Last Angry Man (1959), Carter's Army, The Out-of-Towners (1969), The Final Comedown and Lady Sings the Blues, Hit! (1973), Fear City and Terror in the Aisles, Alien Intruder (1993) and The Visit (2000).

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06/04/1936

Helen Berman, Dutch-Israeli painter and illustrator

Helen Berman is a Dutch-Israeli visual artist. She was a textile designer in the 1960s and has been a painter and occasionally an art educator since the 1970s. She is well known in Israel and has exhibited also in Germany and the Netherlands. She created modern and postmodern art and has engaged in realistic impressionism and lyrical abstract expressionism.

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Jean-Pierre Changeux, French neuroscientist, biologist, and academic

Jean-Pierre Changeux is a French neuroscientist known for his research in several fields of biology, from the structure and function of proteins, to the early development of the nervous system up to cognitive functions. Although being famous in biological sciences for the MWC model, the identification and purification of the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor, the theory of epigenesis by synapse selection and the global neuronal workspace theory for conscious processing are also notable scientific achievements. Changeux is known by the non-scientific public for his ideas regarding the connection between mind and physical brain. As put forth in his book, Conversations on Mind, Matter and Mathematics, Changeux strongly supports the view that the nervous system functions in a projective rather than reactive style and that interaction with the environment, rather than being instructive, results in the selection amongst a diversity of preexisting internal representations.

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06/04/1935

Douglas Hill, Canadian author and critic (died 2007)

Douglas Arthur Hill was a Canadian science fiction author, editor and reviewer. He was born in Brandon, Manitoba, the son of a railroad engineer, and was raised in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan. An avid science fiction reader from an early age, he studied English at the University of Saskatchewan and at the University of Toronto. He married fellow writer and U. of S. alumna Gail Robinson in 1958; they moved to Britain in 1959, where he worked as a freelance writer and editor for Aldus Books. In 1967–1968 he served as assistant editor of the controversial New Worlds science fiction magazine under Michael Moorcock.

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06/04/1934

Enrique Álvarez Félix, Mexican actor (died 1996)

Enrique Álvarez Félix was a Mexican actor.

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Anton Geesink, Dutch martial artist and wrestler (died 2010)

Antonius Johannes Geesink was a Dutch 10th dan judoka. He was the first non-Japanese judoka to win gold at the World Judo Championships, a feat he accomplished in 1961 and 1965. He was also an Olympic Champion, having won gold at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Japan, and won a record 21 European Judo Championships during his career.

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Guy Peellaert, Belgian painter, illustrator, and photographer (died 2008)

Guy Peellaert was a Belgian artist, painter, illustrator, comic artist and photographer, most famous for the book Rock Dreams, and his album covers for rock artists like David Bowie and the Rolling Stones. He also designed film posters for films like Taxi Driver (1976), Paris, Texas (1984), and Short Cuts (1993). The band Frankie Goes to Hollywood took their name from Peellaert's painting, titled Frank Sinatra, which featured the headline "Frankie Goes Hollywood".

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06/04/1933

Roy Goode, English lawyer and academic

Sir Royston Miles "Roy" Goode is an academic commercial lawyer in the United Kingdom. He founded the Centre for Commercial Law Studies at Queen Mary, University of London. He was awarded the OBE in 1972 followed by the CBE in 1994 before being knighted for services to academic law in 2000.

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Tom C. Korologos, American journalist and diplomat, United States Ambassador to Belgium (died 2024)

Tom Chris Korologos was an American lobbyist, political advisor, and diplomat who served as the United States ambassador to Belgium.

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Eduardo Malapit, American lawyer and politician, Mayor of Kauai (died 2007)

Eduardo Enabore Malapit was an American Democratic politician who served as Mayor of Kauaʻi, Hawaii. Elected for four consecutive two-year terms as mayor of Kauaʻi beginning in 1974, he was the first Filipino American mayor of any United States municipality. He was widely respected in Kauaʻi and throughout Hawaii for his belief in community service, and was known as "Mala" by friends and constituents.

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06/04/1932

Connie Broden, Canadian ice hockey player (died 2013)

Thomas Connell Broden was a Canadian ice hockey forward. Broden is the only player to have won the International Ice Hockey Federation's World Championships and the Stanley Cup in the same year (1958).

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Helmut Griem, German actor and director (died 2004)

Helmut Griem was a German film, television and stage actor, and director.

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06/04/1931

Ram Dass, American author and educator (died 2019)

Ram Dass, also known as Baba Ram Dass, was an American spiritual teacher, guru of modern yoga, psychologist, and writer. His best-selling 1971 book Be Here Now, which has been described by multiple reviewers as "seminal", helped popularize Eastern spirituality and yoga in the West. He authored or co-authored twelve more books on spirituality over the next four decades, including Grist for the Mill (1977), How Can I Help? (1985), and Polishing the Mirror (2013).

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Ivan Dixon, American actor, director, and producer (died 2008)

Ivan Nathaniel Dixon III was an American actor, director, and producer best known for his series role in the 1960s sitcom Hogan's Heroes, and for his starring roles in the 1964 independent drama Nothing But a Man and the 1967 television film The Final War of Olly Winter. In addition, he directed many episodes of television series.

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06/04/1930

Qiu Dahong, Chinese coastal and offshore engineer, member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (died 2025)

Qiu Dahong was a Chinese coastal and offshore engineer. He served as chief engineer of the Dalian Fishing Port, the New Dalian Port, the Qinhuangdao Petroleum Port, and many other projects. He was a professor of the Dalian University of Technology and directed the State Key Laboratory of Coastal and Offshore Engineering. He was elected an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1991.

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06/04/1929

Willis Hall, English playwright and author (died 2005)

Willis Edward Hall was an English playwright and radio, television and film writer who drew on his working-class roots in Leeds for much of his writing. Willis formed an extremely prolific partnership with his life-long friend Keith Waterhouse producing over 250 works. He wrote plays such as Billy Liar, The Long and the Short and the Tall, and Celebration; the screenplays for Whistle Down the Wind, A Kind of Loving and Alfred Hitchcock's Torn Curtain; and television programmes including Budgie, Worzel Gummidge and Minder. His passion for musical theatre led to a string of hits, including Wind in the Willows, The Card, and George Stiles' and Anthony Drewe's Peter Pan: A Musical Adventure.

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Joi Lansing, American model, actress and nightclub singer (died 1972)

Joi Lansing was an American model, film and television actress, and nightclub singer. She was noted for her pin-up photos and roles in B-movies, as well as a prominent role in the famous opening "tracking shot" in Orson Welles' 1958 crime drama Touch of Evil.

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André Previn, American pianist, composer, and conductor (died 2019)

André George Previn was a German and American conductor, composer, and pianist. His career had three major genres: Hollywood films, jazz, and classical music. In each he achieved success, and the latter two were part of his life until the end. In movies, he arranged and composed music. In jazz, he was a celebrated pianist, accompanist to singers, and interpreter of songs from the "Great American Songbook". In classical music, he also performed as a pianist but gained television fame as a conductor, and during his last thirty years created his legacy as a composer.

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Christos Sartzetakis, Greek jurist, supreme justice and President of Greece (died 2022)

Christos Sartzetakis was a Greek jurist and a supreme justice of the Court of Cassation, who served as the president of Greece from 1985 to 1990.

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06/04/1928

James Watson, American biologist, geneticist, and zoologist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2025)

James Dewey Watson was an American molecular biologist, geneticist, and zoologist. In 1953, he and Francis Crick co-authored an academic paper in Nature proposing the double helix structure of the DNA molecule, building on research by Rosalind Franklin and Raymond Gosling. In 1962, Watson, Crick, and Maurice Wilkins were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "for their discoveries concerning the molecular structure of nucleic acids and its significance for information transfer in living material".

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06/04/1927

Gerry Mulligan, American saxophonist, clarinet player, and composer (died 1996)

Gerald Joseph Mulligan, also known as Jeru, was an American jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, pianist, composer and arranger. Though primarily known as one of the leading jazz baritone saxophonists—playing the instrument with a light and airy tone in the era of cool jazz—Mulligan was also a significant arranger working with Claude Thornhill, Miles Davis, Stan Kenton, and others. His piano-less quartet of the early 1950s with trumpeter Chet Baker is still regarded as one of the best cool jazz ensembles. Mulligan was also a skilled pianist and played several other reed instruments. Several of his compositions, including "Walkin' Shoes" and "Five Brothers", have become standards.

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06/04/1926

Sergio Franchi, Italian-American singer and actor (died 1990)

Sergio Franchi was an Italian-American tenor and actor who enjoyed success in the United States and internationally after gaining notice in Britain in the early 1960s. In 1962, RCA Victor signed him to a seven-year contract and in October of that year Franchi appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show and performed at Carnegie Hall. Sol Hurok managed Franchi's initial American concert tour.

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Gil Kane, Latvian-American author and illustrator (died 2000)

Gil Kane was a Latvian-born American comics artist whose career spanned the 1940s to the 1990s and virtually every major comics company and character.

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Ian Paisley, Northern Irish evangelical minister and politician, 2nd First Minister of Northern Ireland (died 2014)

Ian Richard Kyle Paisley, Baron Bannside, was a loyalist politician and Protestant religious leader from Northern Ireland who served as leader of the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) from 1971 to 2008 and First Minister of Northern Ireland from 2007 to 2008.

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Randy Weston, American jazz pianist and composer (died 2018)

Randolph Edward "Randy" Weston was an American jazz pianist and composer whose creativity was inspired by his ancestral African connection.

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06/04/1923

Herb Thomas, American race car driver (died 2000)

Herbert Watson Thomas was a stock car racer who was one of NASCAR's most successful drivers in the 1950s. Thomas was NASCAR's first multi-time Cup Champion.

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06/04/1922

Gordon Chater, English-Australian comedian and actor (died 1999)

Gordon Maitland Chater AM was an English Australian comedian and actor, and recipient of the Gold Logie, he appeared in revue, theatre, radio, television and film, with a career spanning almost 50 years.

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06/04/1921

Wilbur Thompson, American shot putter (died 2013)

Wilbur Marvin "Moose" Thompson was an American shot putter who won a gold medal at the 1948 Summer Olympics, leading an American sweep of the medals.

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06/04/1920

Jack Cover, American pilot and physicist, invented the Taser gun (died 2009)

John Higson Cover Jr. was an American aerospace scientist who invented the taser stun gun.

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Edmond H. Fischer, Swiss-American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2021)

Edmond Henri Fischer was a Swiss-American biochemist. He and his collaborator Edwin G. Krebs were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1992 for describing how reversible phosphorylation works as a switch to activate proteins and regulate various cellular processes. From 2007 until 2014, he was the Honorary President of the World Cultural Council. At the time of his death at age 101 in 2021, he was the oldest living Nobel Prize laureate.

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06/04/1919

Georgios Mylonas, Greek politician, 11th Greek Minister of Culture (died 1998)

Georgios Mylonas was a Greek Center Union politician and government minister. He was a close aide to Greek statesman and premier Georgios Papandreou, and was repeatedly elected deputy for the Ioannina seat with the Center Union. Mylonas had served as an undersecretary to the premier's office and education undersecretary from 1963 to 1965. He assumed the transport ministry in the first post-junta government in 1974 and was Minister for Culture from 1989 to 1990. Mylonas was the author of the book Escape From Amorgos, detailing his escape from the island, where he was exiled during the 1967-1974 military dictatorship. The escape was organized by his then, son-in-law Elias B.M. Kulukundis and his daughter Eleni Mylonas with the help of Maria Becket.

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06/04/1918

Alfredo Ovando Candía, Bolivian general and politician, 56th President of Bolivia (died 1982)

Alfredo Ovando Candia was a Bolivian military officer and political leader who served as the 48th president of Bolivia from 1965 to 1966 and 1969 to 1970. During his first term, he shared power with René Barrientos as co-president of a military junta.

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06/04/1917

Leonora Carrington, English-Mexican painter and author (died 2011)

Mary Leonora Carrington was a British and Mexican Surrealist painter and novelist. She lived most of her adult life in Mexico City and was one of the last surviving participants in the Surrealist movement of the 1930s. Carrington was also a founding member of the women's liberation movement in Mexico during the 1970s.

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06/04/1916

Phil Leeds, American actor (died 1998)

Phil Leeds was an American character actor. He appeared in many movies and television series, including guest appearances on The Dick Van Dyke Show, Maude, The Monkees, Friends, Barney Miller, The Golden Girls, Everybody Loves Raymond, Boy Meets World and more.

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Vincent Ellis McKelvey, American geologist and author (died 1987)

Vincent Ellis McKelvey was an American geologist and earth scientist. Recognized as an international authority on deep-sea mineral deposits, he spent 46 years with the United States Geological Survey. From 1968 to 1982, he served as scientific adviser and senior deputy to the United States delegation to the Law of the Sea Conference of the United Nations, where fellow delegates often depended on his ability to render complex scientific issues into plain English.

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06/04/1915

Tadeusz Kantor, Polish director, painter, and set designer (died 1990)

Tadeusz Kantor was a Polish painter, assemblage and Happenings artist, set designer and theatre director. Kantor is renowned for his revolutionary theatrical performances in Poland and abroad. Laureate of Witkacy Prize – Critics' Circle Award (1989).

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06/04/1913

Shannon Boyd-Bailey McCune, American geographer and academic (died 1993)

Shannon Boyd-Bailey McCune was an American geographer who was the civil administrator of the Ryukyu Islands from 1962 to 1964, the first civilian to hold that office. He was president of the University of Vermont from 1964 to 1966.

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06/04/1911

Feodor Felix Konrad Lynen, German biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1979)

Feodor Felix Konrad Lynen was a German biochemist. In 1964 he won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine together with Konrad Bloch for their discoveries concerning the mechanism and regulation of cholesterol and fatty acid metabolism while he was director of the Max-Planck Institute for Cellular Chemistry in Munich.

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06/04/1910

Barys Kit, Belarusian-American rocket scientist (died 2018)

Barys Kit was a Belarusian-American rocket scientist.

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06/04/1909

William M. Branham, American minister and theologian (died 1965)

William Marrion Branham was an American Christian minister and faith healer who initiated the post-World War II healing revival, and claimed to be a prophet with the anointing of Elijah, who had come to prelude Christ's second coming; He is credited as "a principal architect of restorationist thought" for charismatics by some Christian historians, and has been called the "leading individual in the second wave of Pentecostalism." He made a lasting influence on televangelism and the modern charismatic movement, and his "stage presence remains a legend unparalleled in the history of the Charismatic movement". At the time they were held, Branham's inter-denominational meetings were the largest religious meetings ever held in some American cities. Branham was the first American deliverance minister to successfully campaign in Europe; his ministry reached global audiences with major campaigns held in North America, Europe, Africa, and India.

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Hermann Lang, German race car driver (died 1987)

Hermann Albert Lang was a German racing driver who raced motorcycles, Grand Prix cars, and sports cars.

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06/04/1908

Marcel-Marie Desmarais, Canadian preacher, missionary, and author (died 1994)

Marcel-Marie Desmarais,, was a Quebec writer, preacher and broadcaster. A member of the Roman Catholic Dominican Order, he became a personality through his popular books and radio and TV programs in Quebec. He was also sent as missionary to Brazil during the 1940s.

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Ernie Lombardi, American baseball player (died 1977)

Ernesto Natali Lombardi was an American professional baseball player. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a catcher for the Brooklyn Robins, Cincinnati Reds, Boston Braves, and New York Giants during a career that spanned 17 years, from 1931 through 1947. He had several nicknames, including "Schnozz", "Lumbago", "Bocci", "the Cyrano of the Iron Mask", and "Lom". He was inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1986.

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06/04/1906

Virginia Hall, American who was a spy in France for the UK and US during WWII (died 1982)

Virginia Hall Goillot DSC, Croix de Guerre,, code name Bookworm, was an American who worked with the United Kingdom's clandestine Special Operations Executive (SOE) and the American Office of Strategic Services (OSS) in France during World War II.

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06/04/1904

Kurt Georg Kiesinger, German lawyer, politician and Chancellor of Germany (died 1988)

Kurt Georg Kiesinger was a German politician and lawyer who served as the chancellor of West Germany from 1 December 1966 to 21 October 1969. Before he became chancellor, he served as Minister-President of Baden-Württemberg from 1958 to 1966 and as President of the Bundesrat from 1962 to 1963. He was chairman of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) from 1967 to 1971.

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Erwin Komenda, Austrian car designer and engineer (died 1966)

Erwin Komenda was an Austrian automobile designer and Porsche employee, and a lead contributor to the design of the bodies for the VW Beetle and various Porsche sports cars.

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06/04/1903

Mickey Cochrane, American baseball player and manager (died 1962)

Gordon Stanley "Mickey" Cochrane, nicknamed "Black Mike", was an American professional baseball player, manager and coach. He played in Major League Baseball as a catcher for the Philadelphia Athletics and Detroit Tigers. Cochrane was considered one of the best catchers in baseball history and is a member of the Baseball Hall of Fame. In his first season as manager, he led the Tigers to 101 wins, which was the most for a rookie manager for 27 years.

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Harold Eugene Edgerton, American engineer and academic (died 1990)

Harold Eugene Edgerton, also known as Papa Flash, was an American scientist and researcher, a professor of electrical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is largely credited with transforming the stroboscope from an obscure laboratory instrument into a common device. He also was deeply involved with the development of sonar and deep-sea photography, and his equipment was used in collaboration with Jacques Cousteau in searches for shipwrecks and even the Loch Ness Monster.

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06/04/1902

Julien Torma, French author, poet, and playwright (died 1933)

Julien Torma was credited as a French writer, playwright and poet who was part of the Dadaist movement.

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06/04/1901

Pier Giorgio Frassati, Italian activist (died 1925)

Pier Giorgio Frassati was an Italian Catholic activist and a member of the Third Order of Saint Dominic. He was dedicated to social justice issues and joined several charitable organizations, including Catholic Action and the Society of Saint Vincent de Paul, to better aid the poor and less fortunate living in his hometown of Turin.

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06/04/1900

Leo Robin, American composer and songwriter (died 1984)

Leo Robin was an American composer, lyricist and songwriter. He is probably best known for collaborating with Ralph Rainger on the 1938 Oscar-winning song "Thanks for the Memory," sung by Bob Hope and Shirley Ross in the film The Big Broadcast of 1938, and with Jule Styne on "Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend".

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06/04/1898

Jeanne Hébuterne, French painter and author (died 1920)

Jeanne Hébuterne was a French painter and art model best known as the frequent subject and common-law wife of the artist Amedeo Modigliani. She died by suicide two days after Modigliani's death, and is now buried beside him.

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06/04/1895

Dudley Nichols, American director, producer, and screenwriter (died 1960)

Dudley Nichols was an American screenwriter and film director. He was the first person to decline an Academy Award, as part of a boycott to gain recognition for the Screen Writers Guild; he would later accept his Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay in 1938.

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06/04/1892

Donald Wills Douglas, Sr., American businessman, founded the Douglas Aircraft Company (died 1981)

Donald Wills Douglas Sr. was an American aircraft industrialist and engineer.

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Lowell Thomas, American journalist and author (died 1981)

Lowell Jackson Thomas was an American writer, broadcaster, and documentary filmmaker, known as a world traveler. He authored more than fifty non-fiction books, mostly travel narratives and popular biographies of explorers and military men. Between 1930 and the mid-1970s, Thomas appeared regularly on radio and occasionally on television as a travel and news commentator. Until the 1950s, he was a narrator of Movietone newsreels shown in cinemas.

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06/04/1890

Anthony Fokker, Dutch engineer and businessman, founded Fokker Aircraft Manufacturer (died 1939)

Anton Herman Gerard "Anthony" Fokker was a Dutch aviation pioneer, aviation entrepreneur, aircraft designer, and aircraft manufacturer. He produced fighter aircraft in Germany during the First World War such as the Eindecker monoplanes, the Dr.1 triplane and the D.VII biplane.

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06/04/1888

Hans Richter, Swiss painter, illustrator, and director (died 1976)

Hans Johannes Siegfried Richter was a German Dada painter, graphic artist, avant-garde film producer, and art historian. In 1965 he authored the book Dadaism about the history of the Dada movement. He was born in Berlin into a well-to-do family and died in Minusio, near Locarno, Switzerland.

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Gerhard Ritter, German historian and academic (died 1967)

Gerhard Georg Bernhard Ritter was a German historian who served as a professor of history at the University of Freiburg from 1925 to 1956. He studied under Professor Hermann Oncken. A Lutheran, he first became well known for his 1925 biography of Martin Luther and hagiographic portrayal of Prussia. A member of the German People's Party during the Weimar Republic, he was a lifelong monarchist and remained sympathetic to the political system of the defunct German Empire.

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06/04/1886

Athenagoras I of Constantinople (died 1972)

Athenagoras I of Constantinople, born Aristocles Matthaiou Spyrou, was Greek Orthodox Archbishop of North and South America from 1930 to 1948 and the 268th Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople from 1948 to 1972.

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Walter Dandy, American physician and neurosurgeon (died 1946)

Walter Edward Dandy was an American neurosurgeon and scientist. He is considered one of the founding fathers of neurosurgery, along with Victor Horsley and Harvey Cushing. Dandy is credited with numerous neurosurgical discoveries and innovations, including the description of the circulation of cerebrospinal fluid in the brain, surgical treatment of hydrocephalus, the invention of air ventriculography and pneumoencephalography, the description of brain endoscopy, the establishment of the first intensive care unit, and the first clipping of an intracranial aneurysm, which marked the birth of cerebrovascular neurosurgery.

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Osman Ali Khan, Asaf Jah VII, Indian ruler (died 1967)

Mir Osman Ali Khan, Asaf Jah VII was the last Nizam (ruler) of Hyderabad State, the largest state in the erstwhile Indian Empire. He ascended the throne on 29 August 1911, at the age of 25 and ruled the State of Hyderabad until 1948, when the Indian Union annexed it. He was styled as His Exalted Highness (H.E.H) the Nizam of Hyderabad, and was widely considered one of the world's wealthiest people of all time. With some estimates placing his wealth at 2% of U.S. GDP, his portrait was on the cover of Time magazine in 1937. As a semi-autonomous monarch, he had his mint, printing his currency, the Hyderabadi rupee, and had a private treasury that was said to contain £100 million in gold and silver bullion, and a further £400 million of jewels. The major source of his wealth was the Golconda mines, the only supplier of diamonds in the world at that time. Among them was the Jacob Diamond, valued at some £50 million, and used by the Nizam as a paperweight.

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06/04/1884

J. G. Parry-Thomas, Welsh race car driver and engineer (died 1927)

John Godfrey Parry Thomas was a Welsh engineer and motor-racing driver who at one time held the land speed record. He was the first driver to be killed in pursuit of the land speed record.

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06/04/1881

Karl Staaf, Swedish pole vaulter and hammer thrower (died 1953)

Karl Gustaf Vilhelm Staaf was a Swedish track and field athlete and tug of war competitor who competed at the 1900 Summer Olympics. He was born in Stockholm and died in Motala.

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06/04/1878

Erich Mühsam, German author, poet, and playwright (died 1934)

Erich Mühsam was a German antimilitarist anarchist essayist, poet and playwright. He emerged at the end of World War I as one of the leading agitators for a federated Bavarian Soviet Republic, for which he served five years in prison.

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06/04/1869

Levon Shant, Armenian author, poet, and playwright (died 1951)

Levon Shant was an Armenian playwright, novelist, poet and founder of the Hamazkayin Armenian Educational and Cultural Society.

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06/04/1866

Felix-Raymond-Marie Rouleau, Canadian cardinal (died 1931)

Félix-Raymond-Marie Rouleau was a Canadian Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Archbishop of Quebec from 1926 until his death, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1927.

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06/04/1864

William Bate Hardy, English biologist and academic (died 1934)

Sir William Bate Hardy, FRS was a British biologist and food scientist. The William Bate Hardy Prize is named in his honour.

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06/04/1861

Stanislas de Guaita, French poet and author (died 1897)

Stanislas de Guaita was a French poet based in Paris, an expert on esotericism and European mysticism, and an active member of the Rosicrucian Order. He was very celebrated and successful in his time. He had many disputes with other people who were involved with occultism and magic. Occultism and magic were part of his novels.

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06/04/1860

René Lalique, French sculptor and jewellery designer (died 1945)

René Jules Lalique was a French jeweller, medallist, and glass designer known for his creations of glass art, perfume bottles, vases, jewellery, chandeliers, clocks, and automobile hood ornaments.

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06/04/1857

Arthur Wesley Dow, American painter and photographer (died 1922)

Arthur Wesley Dow was an American painter, printmaker, photographer and an arts educator.

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06/04/1855

Charles Huot, Canadian painter and illustrator (died 1930)

Charles Édouard Masson Huot was a French-Canadian painter and illustrator based in Quebec City.

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06/04/1852

Will Crooks, English trade unionist and politician (died 1921)

William Crooks was a noted trade unionist and politician from Poplar, London, and a member of the Fabian Society. He is particularly remembered for his campaigning work against poverty and inequality.

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06/04/1851

Guillaume Bigourdan, French astronomer and academic (died 1932)

Camille Guillaume Bigourdan was a French astronomer.

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06/04/1844

William Lyne, Australian politician, 13th Premier of New South Wales (died 1913)

Sir William John Lyne KCMG was an Australian politician who served as Premier of New South Wales from 1899 to 1901, and later as a federal cabinet minister under Edmund Barton and Alfred Deakin. He is best known as the subject of the so called "Hopetoun Blunder", unexpectedly being asked to serve as the first Prime Minister of Australia but proving unable to form a government.

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06/04/1826

Gustave Moreau, French painter and academic (died 1898)

Gustave Moreau was a French artist and an important figure in the Symbolist movement. Jean Cassou called him "the Symbolist painter par excellence". He was an influential forerunner of symbolism in the visual arts in the 1860s, and at the height of the symbolist movement in the 1890s, he was among the most significant painters. Art historian Robert Delevoy wrote that Moreau "brought symbolist polyvalence to its highest point in Jupiter and Semele." He was a prolific artist who produced over 15,000 paintings, watercolors, and drawings. Moreau painted allegories and traditional biblical and mythological subjects favored by the fine art academies. J. K. Huysmans wrote, "Gustave Moreau has given new freshness to dreary old subjects by a talent both subtle and ample: he has taken myths worn out by the repetitions of centuries and expressed them in a language that is persuasive and lofty, mysterious and new." The female characters from the Bible and mythology that he so frequently depicted came to be regarded by many as the archetypical symbolist woman. His art fell from favor and received little attention in the early 20th century but, beginning in the 1960s and 70s, he has come to be considered among the most paramount of symbolist painters.

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06/04/1824

George Waterhouse, English-New Zealand politician, 7th Prime Minister of New Zealand (died 1906)

George Marsden Waterhouse was a Premier of South Australia from 8 October 1861 until 3 July 1863 and the seventh premier of New Zealand from 11 October 1872 to 3 March 1873.

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06/04/1823

Joseph Medill, Canadian-American publisher and politician, 26th Mayor of Chicago (died 1899)

Joseph Medill was a Canadian-American newspaper editor, publisher, and Republican Party politician. He was co-owner and managing editor of the Chicago Tribune, and he was Mayor of Chicago from after the Great Chicago Fire of 1871 until 1873.

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06/04/1820

Nadar, French photographer, journalist, and author (died 1910)

Gaspard-Félix Tournachon, known by the pseudonym Nadar or Félix Nadar, was a French photographer, caricaturist, journalist, novelist and balloonist who was a proponent of heavier-than-air flight. In 1858, he became the first person to take aerial photographs. Photographic portraits by Nadar are held by many of the great national collections of photographs. His son, Paul Nadar, continued the studio after his death.

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06/04/1818

Aasmund Olavsson Vinje, Norwegian journalist and poet (died 1870)

Aasmund Olavsson Vinje was a Norwegian poet and journalist who is remembered for poetry, travel writing, and his pioneering use of Landsmål.

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06/04/1815

Robert Volkmann, German organist, composer, and conductor (died 1883)

Friedrich Robert Volkmann was a German composer.

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06/04/1812

Alexander Herzen, Russian philosopher and author (died 1870)

Alexander Ivanovich Herzen was a Russian writer and thinker known as the precursor of Russian socialism and one of the main precursors of agrarian populism. With his writings, many composed while exiled in London, he attempted to influence the situation in Russia, contributing to a political climate that led to the emancipation of the serfs in 1861. He published the important social novel Who is to Blame? (1845–46). His autobiography, My Past and Thoughts, is often considered one of the best examples of that genre in Russian literature.

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06/04/1810

Philip Henry Gosse, English biologist and academic (died 1888)

Philip Henry Gosse, known to his friends as Henry, was an English naturalist and populariser of natural science, prolific author, "Father of the Aquarium", scientific illustrator, lecturer, entrepreneur, and pioneer in the study of marine biology and ornithology. Gosse created and stocked the world's first public marine aquarium at London Zoo in 1853, and coined the term "aquarium". His 1854 work The Aquarium: An Unveiling of the Wonders of the Deep Sea was the catalyst for the aquarium craze in mid-Victorian England. Over thirty years later, Gosse co-authored a three-volume work on Rotifera considered at the time "the most complete and exhaustive history of the Rotifera in any language", with drawings of "extreme minuteness, accuracy, and beauty".

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06/04/1787

Celestina Cordero, Puerto Rican educator (died 1862)

Celestina Cordero, was an educator who in 1802 founded a school for girls "escuela de amigas" in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

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06/04/1773

James Mill, Scottish historian, economist, and philosopher (died 1836)

James Mill was a Scottish historian, economist, political theorist and philosopher. He is counted among the founders of the Ricardian school of economics. He also wrote The History of British India (1817) and was one of the prominent historians to take a colonial approach. He was the first writer to divide Indian history into three parts: Hindu, Muslim and British, a classification which has proved surpassingly influential in the field of Indian historical studies.

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06/04/1766

Wilhelm von Kobell, German painter and educator (died 1853)

Wilhelm von Kobell was a German painter, printmaker and teacher.

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06/04/1741

Nicolas Chamfort, French author and playwright (died 1794)

Sébastien-Roch Nicolas, known in his adult life as Nicolas Chamfort and as Sébastien Nicolas de Chamfort, was a French writer, best known for his epigrams and aphorisms. He was secretary to Louis XVI's sister Madame Élisabeth, and of the Jacobin club.

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06/04/1726

Gerard Majella, Italian saint (died 1755)

Gerard Majella was an Italian lay brother of the Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer, better known as the Redemptorists, who is honored as a saint by the Catholic Church.

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06/04/1725

Pasquale Paoli, French soldier and politician (died 1807)

Filippo Antonio Pasquale de' Paoli was a Corsican patriot, statesman, and military leader who was at the forefront of resistance movements against the Genoese and later French rule over the island. He became the President of the Executive Council of the General Diet of the People of Corsica and wrote the Constitution of the state.

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06/04/1708

Johann Georg Reutter, Austrian organist and composer (died 1772)

Johann Adam Joseph Karl Georg Reutter, during his life known as Georg Reutter the Younger was an Austrian composer. According to David Wyn Jones, in his prime he was "the single most influential musician in Vienna".

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06/04/1706

Louis de Cahusac, French playwright and composer (died 1759)

Louis de Cahusac was an 18th-century French playwright, librettist, and Freemason. He is most famous for his work with the composer Jean-Philippe Rameau. He provided the libretti for several of Rameau's operas, namely Les fêtes de l'Hymen et de l'Amour (1747), Zaïs (1748), Naïs (1749), Zoroastre, La naissance d'Osiris (1754), and Anacréon. He is also credited with writing the libretto of Rameau's final work, Les Boréades. Cahusac contributed to the Encyclopédie and was the lover of Marie Fel.

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06/04/1672

André Cardinal Destouches, French composer (died 1749)

André Cardinal Destouches was a French composer best known for the opéra-ballet Les élémens.

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06/04/1671

Jean-Baptiste Rousseau, French poet and playwright (died 1741)

Jean-Baptiste Rousseau was a French playwright and poet, particularly noted for his cynical epigrams.

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06/04/1664

Arvid Horn, Swedish general and politician, Governor of Västerbotten County (died 1742)

Count Arvid Bernhard Horn af Ekebyholm was a Swedish general, diplomat and politician, a member of the noble Horn family. He served twice as president of the privy council chancellery and was one of the leading figures of the Swedish Age of Liberty.

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06/04/1660

Johann Kuhnau, German organist and composer (died 1722)

Johann Kuhnau was a German polymath, known primarily as a composer today. He was also active as a novelist, translator, lawyer, and music theorist, and was able to combine these activities with his duties in his official post as Thomaskantor in Leipzig, which he occupied for 21 years. Much of his music, including operas, masses, and other large-scale vocal works, is lost. His reputation today rests on his Biblical Sonatas, a set of programmatic keyboard sonatas published in 1700, in which each sonata depicted in detail a particular story from the Bible. After his death, Kuhnau was succeeded as Thomaskantor by Johann Sebastian Bach.

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06/04/1651

André Dacier, French scholar and academic (died 1722)

André Dacier was a French classical scholar and editor of texts. He began his career with an edition and commentary of Festus's De verborum significatione, and was the first to produce a "readable" text of the 20-book work. His wife was the influential classical scholar and translator, Anne Dacier.

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06/04/1632

Maria Leopoldine of Austria (died 1649)

Maria Leopoldine of Austria-Tyrol was by birth Archduchess of Austria and member of the Tyrolese branch of the House of Habsburg and by marriage the second spouse of her first cousin, Ferdinand III, Holy Roman Emperor. As such, she was Empress of the Holy Roman Empire, German queen and queen consort of Hungary and Bohemia. She died in childbirth, aged 17.

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06/04/1573

Margaret of Brunswick-Lüneburg, German noble (died 1643)

Margaret of Brunswick-Lüneburg, was a German member of the House of Welf and the Duchess of Saxe-Coburg by marriage.

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06/04/1342

Infanta Maria, Marchioness of Tortosa

Maria of Portugal was a Portuguese infanta (princess) member of the House of Burgundy and by marriage marchioness of Tortosa and lady of Albarracín.

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06/04/1135

Maimonides, Jewish philosopher, Torah scholar, physician and astronomer (March 30 also proposed, died 1204)

Moses ben Maimon, commonly known as Maimonides and also referred to by the Hebrew acronym Rambam, was a Sephardic Jewish rabbi who is widely acknowledged as one of the most prolific and influential Torah scholars of the Middle Ages. Originally from Córdoba, where he was born on Passover Eve of 1135 or 1138, his family was exiled from Muslim-ruled Spain when they refused to convert to Islam shortly after the Almohad Caliphate conquered the Almoravid dynasty in 1148. Over the course of the next two decades, Maimonides resided in Fez, Acre, Jerusalem, Alexandria, and Cairo before finally settling in Fustat between 1168 and 1171. During this period, he advanced his vocations and became renowned for his achievements as an astronomer, philosopher, and physician—even being appointed to serve as personal physician to Saladin of the Ayyubid Sultanate.

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