Born on Saturday, 16th August – Famous Birthdays
On this day, 214 notable people were born on 16th August — spanning from 1355 to 2001. From world leaders to artists and scientists, discover who shares this birthday.
Saturday, 16th August 2025 marks the birth of several notable figures across different fields and generations. Among those born on this date is Jannik Sinner, the Italian tennis player who was born in 2001 and has become one of the sport’s leading competitors. The date also saw the birth of Evanna Lynch in 1991, the Irish actress best known for her role in the Harry Potter film series. Looking further back, Pierre Richard, the French actor, director and screenwriter, was born on this date in 1934, establishing a career spanning decades in European cinema. Throughout history, 16th August has produced individuals who have made significant contributions to their respective disciplines, from entertainment to athletics.
The day falls under the zodiac sign of Leo, while the Moon is in its waning gibbous phase. On this particular Saturday, expect partly cloudy conditions with moderate temperatures typical for mid-August in the Northern Hemisphere.
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16/08/2001
Jannik Sinner, Italian tennis player
Jannik Sinner is an Italian professional tennis player. He is currently ranked world No.1 by Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP), including as the year-end No. 1 in 2024. Sinner has won 27 ATP Tour–level singles titles, including four majors, as well as eight Masters 1000 events and two ATP Finals titles. He also led Italy to back-to-back Davis Cup crowns in 2023 and 2024.
16/08/1999
Karen Chen, American figure skater
Karen Chen is an American figure skater. She is a 2022 Olympic Games team event gold medalist, two-time CS U.S. Classic bronze medalist, the 2015 CS Golden Spin of Zagreb bronze medalist, the 2017 U.S. national champion, 2022 U.S. national silver medalist, and a three-time U.S. national bronze medalist. She graduated from Cornell University in 2025.
16/08/1997
Greyson Chance, American musician
Greyson Michael Chance is an American singer-songwriter. He rose to national attention in 2010 as a child singer after his performance of Lady Gaga's "Paparazzi" went viral on YouTube and gained over 72 million views. Two of his original songs, "Stars" and "Broken Hearts", gained over six and eight million views, respectively, on his channel the following year. He signed a joint-venture recording contract with Ellen DeGeneres' eleveneleven – an imprint of Maverick, Streamline, and Geffen Records – to release his debut commercial single, "Waiting Outside the Lines", in October 2010. His debut studio album, Hold On 'til the Night (2011) was released the following year and peaked at number 29 on the Billboard 200, remaining his only charting release.
16/08/1996
Sophie Cunningham, American basketball player
Sophie Elizabeth Cunningham is an American professional basketball player for the Indiana Fever of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA). She played college basketball for the Missouri Tigers.
Caeleb Dressel, American swimmer
Caeleb Remel Dressel is an American competitive swimmer who specializes in freestyle, butterfly, and individual medley events. He swims representing the Cali Condors as part of the International Swimming League. He won a record seven gold medals at the 2017 World Aquatics Championships in Budapest, nine medals, six of which were gold, at the 2018 World Short Course Swimming Championships in Hangzhou, and eight medals, including six gold, at the 2019 World Aquatics Championships in Gwangju. Dressel is a nine-time Olympic gold medalist and holds world records in the 100 meter butterfly, and 100 meter individual medley.
16/08/1993
Cameron Monaghan, American actor and model
Cameron Riley Monaghan is an American actor and model. The accolades he has received include nominations for a BAFTA Award and a Critics' Choice Television Award.
16/08/1992
Diego Schwartzman, Argentinian tennis player
Diego Sebastián Schwartzman is an Argentine former professional tennis player. He won four ATP Tour singles titles and reached his career-high singles ranking of world No. 8 in October 2020. As a clay court specialist, his best results were on this surface. He was noted for his high-quality return game.
16/08/1991
José Eduardo de Araújo, Brazilian footballer
José Eduardo de Araújo, or simply Zé Eduardo, is a Brazilian professional footballer who plays as a defensive midfielder. He can also play at full-back or on either wing, but sees central midfield as his strongest position.
Evanna Lynch, Irish actress
Evanna Lynch is an Irish actress and activist. She is best known for portraying Luna Lovegood in the Harry Potter film series.
Young Thug, American rapper, singer and songwriter
Jeffery Lamar Williams II, known professionally as Young Thug, is an American rapper. Known for his eccentric vocal style and fashion, he is considered an influential figure in modern hip-hop and trap music, and a popularizer of the mumble rap microgenre. Williams began his musical career in 2011, releasing a series of mixtapes beginning with I Came from Nothing. In 2013, he signed with fellow Atlanta rapper Gucci Mane's 1017 Records and gained further attention and praise for his debut mixtape with the label, 1017 Thug, released in February of that year.
16/08/1990
Godfrey Oboabona, Nigerian footballer
Godfrey Itama Oboabona is a Nigerian former professional footballer who played as a centre-back.
16/08/1989
Cedric Alexander, American wrestler
Cedric Alexander Johnson is an American professional wrestler. He is signed to Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA), where he is a member of The System. He also performs on the independent circuit. He is also known for his tenures in WWE and Ring of Honor (ROH).
Wang Hao, Chinese race walker
Wang Hao is a Chinese race walker.
Moussa Sissoko, French footballer
Moussa Sissoko is a French professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Greek Super League club Panathinaikos. He is a box-to-box midfielder in the centre of the pitch, and is capable of playing as a defensive midfielder, or even as an attacking midfielder, right winger or right-back.
16/08/1988
Ismaïl Aissati, Moroccan footballer
Ismaïl Aissati is a Moroccan former professional footballer who played as a midfielder.
Ryan Kerrigan, American football player
Patrick Ryan Kerrigan is an American professional football coach and former player. He played college football for the Purdue Boilermakers, earning unanimous All-American honors as a senior before being selected by the Washington Redskins in the first round of the 2011 NFL draft.
Rumer Willis, American actress
Rumer Glenn Willis is an American actress. The eldest daughter of actors Bruce Willis and Demi Moore, she made her acting debut opposite her mother in the coming-of-age drama Now and Then (1995). She subsequently appeared in films such as Striptease (1996), Hostage (2005), The House Bunny (2008), Sorority Row (2009), and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019). She portrayed Gia Mannetti on The CW teen drama series 90210 (2009–2010) and Tory Ash on the FOX musical drama series Empire (2017–2018). Willis won season 20 of the ABC dance competition television series Dancing with the Stars, and made her Broadway debut as Roxie Hart in the musical Chicago on September 21, 2015.
16/08/1987
Carey Price, Canadian ice hockey player
Carey Price is a Canadian professional ice hockey player who is a goaltender under contract with the San Jose Sharks of the National Hockey League (NHL). Considered one of the best goaltenders in the world during his career, Price is the goaltender with the most wins in Canadiens franchise history as of the 2024–25 season, with 361 career wins.
Eri Kitamura, Japanese voice actress and singer.
Eri Kitamura is a Japanese voice-actress and singer. She was previously affiliated with Early Wing, but is now a freelancer. She is known for voicing prominent roles in anime and games such as Sayaka Miki in Puella Magi Madoka Magica, Saya Otonashi in Blood+, Keqing in Genshin Impact, Shizuku in New Game!, Darjeeling in Girls und Panzer, Uni/Black Sister in Hyperdimension Neptunia, Ranko Honjō in Hajimete no Gyaru, Yuka Mochida in Corpse Party, Bea in Pokémon: Twilight Wings, and Aono Miki/Cure Berry in Fresh Pretty Cure!. In addition, she provided the voice for the Vocaloid voicebank CUL. She is known to be an amateur manga artist in Japan in her spare time.
16/08/1986
Yu Darvish, Japanese baseball player
Farid Yu Darvish Sefat , more commonly known as Yu Darvish, is a Japanese professional baseball pitcher for the San Diego Padres of Major League Baseball (MLB). He has previously played in MLB for the Texas Rangers, Los Angeles Dodgers, and Chicago Cubs, and in Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) for the Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters. He also pitched for Japan in several international tournaments, including the 2008 Olympics, 2009 World Baseball Classic (WBC), and 2023 WBC.
Martín Maldonado, Puerto Rican baseball player
Martín Benjamín Maldonado is a Puerto Rican former professional baseball catcher. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for 15 seasons. During those 15 seasons, he played for the Milwaukee Brewers, Los Angeles Angels, Houston Astros, Kansas City Royals, Chicago Cubs, Chicago White Sox, and San Diego Padres.
Shawn Pyfrom, American actor
Shawn Caminiti Pyfrom is an American actor and singer who has appeared in several television series and films. He is best known for his portrayal of Andrew Van de Kamp on ABC's Desperate Housewives and as Lionel Griff in Playhouse Disney's Stanley.
16/08/1985
Cristin Milioti, American actress
Cristin Milioti is an American actress and musician. She is known for playing The Mother, Tracy McConnell, in the CBS sitcom How I Met Your Mother from 2013 to 2014, and Sofia Falcone in the HBO crime drama series The Penguin (2024). The latter earned her a Critics' Choice Television Award and a Primetime Emmy Award, along with a nomination for a Golden Globe Award. She appeared in theater productions such as That Face (2010) and the musical Once (2011–2013), for which she won a Grammy Award and was nominated for a Tony Award.
16/08/1984
Matteo Anesi, Italian speed skater
Matteo Anesi is an Italian speed skater who won a gold medal in the team pursuit at the 2006 Winter Olympics. He placed 29th in the 1500 m event. After his active career he became one of the coaches of the Italian speed skating team.
Candice Dupree, American basketball player
Candice Dupree is an American basketball coach and former player who is the head coach for the women's basketball team at Tennessee State University. She was selected sixth in the 2006 WNBA draft by the Chicago Sky. In 2014, Dupree won the WNBA Championship with the Phoenix Mercury. She has also played basketball professionally in Europe and Asia. She has won two FIBA World Cups with Team USA.
Konstantin Vassiljev, Estonian footballer
Konstantin Vassiljev is an Estonian professional football manager and former player who is the manager of Estonian Meistriliiga club Flora.
16/08/1983
Nikolaos Zisis, Greek basketball player
Nikolaos "Nikos" Zisis is a Greek basketball executive and former professional basketball player. During his pro club playing career, at a height of 1.97 m tall, he played at both the point guard and shooting guard positions. He was inducted into the Greek Basketball League Hall of Fame in 2022. He is currently the general manager of the senior Greek men's national basketball team and of the pro club Aris Thessaloniki of the GBL and the EuroCup.
16/08/1982
Cam Gigandet, American actor
Cameron Joslin Gigandet is an American actor whose credits include a recurring role on The O.C. and appearances in feature films Twilight, Pandorum, Never Back Down, Burlesque, Easy A, Priest, and The Magnificent Seven. He also starred in the CBS legal drama series Reckless. From 2016 to 2018, Gigandet starred in the Audience Network drama series Ice.
Joleon Lescott, English footballer
Joleon Patrick Lescott is an English former professional footballer, coach and sports pundit. He works as an interim coach with the England senior team and plays in the Baller League for Deportrio.
16/08/1981
Roque Santa Cruz, Paraguayan footballer
Roque Luis Santa Cruz Cantero is a Paraguayan professional footballer who plays as a striker for Paraguayan Primera División club Nacional. He is the record goal scorer and has earned over 100 caps for the Paraguay national team, thus he is regarded as one of the best players in the nation's history. Santa Cruz has scored goals at a professional level in each of the last four decades.
16/08/1980
Vanessa Carlton, American singer-songwriter
Vanessa Lee Carlton is an American singer-songwriter, pianist, and actress. Her 2002 debut single "A Thousand Miles" spent 41 weeks on the Billboard Hot 100 and earned three Grammy nominations, becoming her signature song. It preceded her debut album, Be Not Nobody, released by A&M Records that same year and reaching number five on the Billboard 200. It further produced the singles "Ordinary Day" and "Pretty Baby". Her next album, Harmonium (2004), experienced similar success; its troubled production led Carlton to depart A&M in 2005.
Bob Hardy, English bass player
Robert Byron Hardy is an English musician and the bassist in the band Franz Ferdinand.
Emerson Ramos Borges, Brazilian footballer
Emerson Ramos Borges, known as just Emerson, is a Brazilian footballer who plays as a defender for Italian Promozione Sardinia club Nuorese.
Piet Rooijakkers, Dutch cyclist
Piet Rooijakkers is a road bicycle racer from the Netherlands. He retired after the 2010 season after his previous team Skil–Shimano did not offer him a contract extension.
16/08/1979
Paul Gallacher, Scottish footballer
Paul James Gallacher is a Scottish former professional footballer who currently is the goalkeeping coach for Heart of Midlothian. Gallacher made eight appearances for the Scotland national team between 2002 and 2004. He started his career at Dundee United and made 127 appearances for them over a seven-year period, and has also played for Airdrieonians, Norwich City, Gillingham, Sheffield Wednesday, Dunfermline Athletic, St Mirren, Ross County and Partick Thistle.
Ian Moran, Australian cricketer
Ian Anthony Moran is an Australian cricketer who has played List A cricket for Scotland and Twenty20 cricket for New South Wales, the Sydney Sixers and the Sydney Thunder.
16/08/1975
Didier Agathe, French footballer
Didier Fernand Agathe is a French football manager and former professional footballer who most recently managed Chester-le-Street United. He is most known for his playing time at Celtic.
Jonatan Johansson, Finnish footballer, coach, and manager
Jonatan Lillebror Johansson is a Finnish football coach and former player. He is working as an academy coach for Rangers.
George Stults, American actor
George Stults is an American actor. Stults is best known for his role as Kevin Kinkirk on the long-running family drama series 7th Heaven.
Taika Waititi, New Zealand director, screenwriter and actor
Taika David Cohen, known professionally as Taika Waititi, is a New Zealand filmmaker, actor, and comedian. He has received various accolades including an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award and a Grammy Award. Time magazine named him one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2022.
16/08/1974
Shivnarine Chanderpaul, Guyanese cricketer
Shivnarine Chanderpaul CCH is a Guyanese cricket coach and former captain of the West Indies cricket team. Considered one of the greatest batsmen of his era, Chanderpaul is the 10th highest run scorer of all time in International cricket and the 9th highest in Test cricket. Chanderpaul was a member of the West Indies team that won the 2004 ICC Champions Trophy, and in the 2004 ICC Champions Trophy Final, he had the highest contribution for West Indies with the bat, scoring 47 runs.
Didier Cuche, Swiss skier
Didier Cuche is a former World Cup alpine ski racer from Switzerland.
Krisztina Egerszegi, Hungarian swimmer
Krisztina Egerszegi is a Hungarian former world record holding swimmer and one of the greatest Hungarian Olympic champions of the modern era. She is a three-time Olympian and five-time Olympic champion; and one of four individuals to have ever won the same swimming event at three consecutive Summer Olympics. She is the first female swimmer to win five individual Olympic gold medals.
Iván Hurtado, Ecuadorian footballer and politician
Iván Jacinto Hurtado Angulo is an Ecuadorian politician and former professional footballer who played as a centre back.
Ryan Longwell, American football player
Ryan Walker Longwell is an American former professional football player who was a placekicker in the National Football League (NFL). After playing college football for the California Golden Bears, he started his professional career with the San Francisco 49ers, but never played a game for the franchise. He then played for the Green Bay Packers from 1997 to 2005. He played for the Minnesota Vikings from 2006 to 2011. He also played briefly for the Seattle Seahawks during the 2012 playoffs.
16/08/1972
Stan Lazaridis, Australian footballer
Stan Lazaridis is an Australian former soccer player. He was predominantly a left winger though he was known to perform at left-back. He notably played for Birmingham City and West Ham United and made 58 official appearances for Australia and was in the Australian 2006 FIFA World Cup squad.
Emily Strayer, American singer and musician
Emily Burns Strayer is an American songwriter, singer, multi-instrumentalist, and a founding member of the country band the Chicks, formerly known as the Dixie Chicks. Strayer plays banjo, dobro, guitar, lap steel, bass, mandolin, accordion, fiddle, piano, and sitar. Initially in her career with the Chicks, she limited her singing to harmony with backing vocals, but within her role in the Court Yard Hounds, she took on the role of lead vocalist.
16/08/1971
Stefan Klos, German footballer
Stefan Klos is a German former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper.
16/08/1970
Bonnie Bernstein, American journalist and sportscaster
Bonnie Lynn Bernstein is an American sports journalist and media executive. She has been named one of the most accomplished female sportscasters in history by the American Sportscasters Association, spending nearly 20 years as a reporter and studio host at ESPN, ABC and CBS Sports, covering the NFL, NBA, MLB and college football and basketball. Bernstein is currently the founder and CEO of Walk Swiftly Productions, a multimedia production company specializing in non-scripted sports and entertainment content.
Manisha Koirala, Nepalese actress in Indian films
Manisha Koirala is a Nepalese actress who works in Indian films, predominantly in Hindi and some Tamil language films. Born to the politically prominent Koirala family, she is the daughter of Prakash Koirala and the granddaughter of Bishweshwar Prasad Koirala. One of the most popular and highest-paid actresses of her time, she is the recipient of several accolades, including three Filmfare Awards, one Filmfare Awards South and one Filmfare OTT Awards. In 2001, the Government of Nepal awarded her with the Order of Gorkha Dakshina Bahu.
Seth Peterson, American actor
Seth Peterson is an American actor, best known for his roles as Robbie Hansen from 1999 until 2002 on the television series Providence and Nate Westen on Burn Notice from 2007 through 2012.
16/08/1968
Arvind Kejriwal, Indian civil servant and politician, 7th Chief Minister of Delhi
Arvind Kejriwal is an Indian politician, activist and former bureaucrat, who served as the 7th Chief Minister of Delhi. He was the chief minister from 2013 to 2014 and from 2015 to 2024. He is also the national convener of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) since 2012. He represented the New Delhi constituency in the Delhi Legislative Assembly from 2015 to 2025, and previously from 2013 to 2014.
Andy Milder, American actor
Andy Milder is an American actor.
Mateja Svet, Slovenian skier
Mateja Svet ; born 16 August 1968) is a Slovenian former alpine skier, who competed for Yugoslavia from 1984 to 1990.
Wolfgang Tillmans, German photographer
Wolfgang Tillmans is a German fine-art photographer. His diverse body of work is distinguished by observation of his surroundings and an ongoing investigation of the photographic medium's foundations.
16/08/1967
Mark Coyne, Australian rugby league player
Mark Coyne is an Australian former rugby league footballer, a state and international representative player and an Insurance Executive. His football club career was with the St George Dragons and the joint-venture of the St George Illawarra Dragons – he captained both sides. He played principally at centre but sometimes as a wing in his notable representative career. He was also the brother of another first grade footballer, Peter Coyne.
Ulrika Jonsson, Swedish journalist, actress, and author
Eva Ulrika Jonsson is a Swedish-British television presenter and model. She became known as a TV-am weather presenter, and moved on to present the ITV show Gladiators, and later featured as a team captain on the BBC Two show Shooting Stars.
16/08/1966
Eddie Olczyk, American ice hockey player, coach, and commentator
Edward Walter Olczyk Jr. is an American sportscaster and former professional ice hockey player and coach. He spent 16 seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL), playing as a center for the Chicago Blackhawks, Toronto Maple Leafs, Winnipeg Jets, New York Rangers, Los Angeles Kings, and Pittsburgh Penguins. He won the Stanley Cup with the Rangers in 1994. Olczyk was also the head coach of the Penguins from June 2003 to December 2005.
16/08/1964
Jimmy Arias, American tennis player and sportscaster
James Arias is a retired tennis touring professional player from the United States.
16/08/1963
Aloísio Pires Alves, Brazilian footballer and manager
Aloísio Pires Alves, known simply as Aloísio, is a Brazilian former professional footballer who played as a central defender.
Christine Cavanaugh, American voice artist (died 2014)
Christine Josephine Cavanaugh was an American actress, who had a distinctive speaking style and provided the voice for a large range of mostly cartoon characters. She was the original voices of Chuckie Finster in Nickelodeon's Rugrats and the titular protagonists of Cartoon Network's Dexter's Laboratory and Universal Pictures' live-action film Babe, respectively, as well as the voices of Gosalyn Mallard in Disney's Darkwing Duck, Bunnie Rabbot from DIC Entertainment's Sonic the Hedgehog television series, Marty Sherman in The Critic and Oblina in Nickelodeon's Aaahh!!! Real Monsters.
16/08/1962
Steve Carell, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
Steven John Carell is an American actor and comedian. He starred as Michael Scott in the NBC sitcom The Office, and also worked at several points as a producer, executive producer, writer, and director. Carell has received numerous accolades, including a Golden Globe Award for The Office. He was recognized as "America's Funniest Man" by Life.
16/08/1961
Christian Okoye, American football player
Christian Emeka Okoye is a Nigerian–American former professional football fullback who played for the Kansas City Chiefs of the National Football League (NFL) from 1987 to 1992. Nicknamed "the Nigerian Nightmare", he was known for his powerful running style and ability to break tackles. His six-season NFL career produced an NFL rushing champion title in 1989, first-team All-Pro honors in 1989, second-team All-Pro honors in 1991, two Pro Bowl appearances in 1989 and 1991, and three playoff appearances. He ended his NFL career due to multiple injuries.
16/08/1960
Rosita Baltazar, Belizean choreographer, dancer, and dance instructor (died 2015)
Rosita Baltazar was a Belizean choreographer, dancer, dance instructor and founding assistant director of the Belize National Dance Company. In 2004, she was awarded the Lord Rhaburn Music Award as a dance ambassador and in 2009 she received the Chatoyer Recognition Award from the National Garifuna Council of Belize for her efforts at preserving Garifuna culture.
Timothy Hutton, American actor, producer and director
Timothy Hutton is an American actor and film director. He is the youngest recipient of the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, which he won at age 20 for Ordinary People (1980). Hutton has since appeared regularly in feature films and on television, with notable roles including the drama Taps (1981), the spy film The Falcon and the Snowman (1985), and the horror film The Dark Half (1993), among others.
Franz Welser-Möst, Austrian-American conductor and director
Franz Leopold Maria Möst, known professionally as Franz Welser-Möst, is an Austrian conductor. He is currently music director of the Cleveland Orchestra.
16/08/1959
Marc Sergeant, Belgian cyclist and manager
Marc Sergeant is a Belgian former professional road bicycle racer. He competed in the team time trial event at the 1980 Summer Olympics. After Sergeant stopped his cycling career, he became team manager at Lotto–Soudal. He left his management role at the end of the 2021 season. Sergeant finished a total of 6 times in the top 10 of Tour of Flanders.
16/08/1958
Madonna, American singer-songwriter, producer, actress, and director
Madonna Louise Ciccone is an American singer, songwriter, record producer, and actress. Dubbed the "Queen of Pop", she is known for her continual reinvention and versatility in music production, songwriting, and visual presentation. Her works incorporate social, political, sexual, and religious themes and have generated both controversy and critical acclaim. Madonna has had a significant socio-cultural impact across both the 20th and 21st centuries and is often deemed one of the greatest musicians of all time.
Angela Bassett, American actress
Angela Evelyn Bassett is an American actress. Known for her work in film and television since the 1980s, she has received various accolades, including an Emmy Award and two Golden Globe Awards, as well as nominations for two Academy Awards. In 2023, Time magazine named her one of the 100 most influential people in the world, and she received an Academy Honorary Award.
Anne L'Huillier, French physicist
Anne Geneviève L'Huillier is a French physicist. She is a professor of atomic physics at Lund University in Sweden.
José Luis Clerc, Argentinian tennis player and coach
José Luis Clerc, also known by the nickname Batata, is a former professional tennis player from Argentina. He reached a career-high Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) world No. 4 singles ranking on 3 August 1981, following a run of 25 consecutive match wins after Wimbledon.
16/08/1957
Laura Innes, American actress and director
Laura Innes is an American actress and television director. She played Kerry Weaver in the medical drama ER (1995–2009), which earned her two Primetime Emmy Award nominations. In 2001, she received her third Primetime Emmy Award nomination for directing the episode "Shibboleth" of the political drama The West Wing. She also appeared in the thriller drama The Event (2010–2011) and How to Get Away with Murder (2018–2020).
R. R. Patil, Indian lawyer and politician, Deputy Chief Minister of Maharashtra (died 2015)
Raosaheb Ramrao Patil, better known as R. R. Patil, was an Indian politician from the state of Maharashtra. He was an MLA for Tasgaon vidhan sabha constituency from 1991 to 2015. He was an important leader of modern Maharashtra. He was a member of the Nationalist Congress Party. He became Home Minister of Maharashtra for the second time after the 2009 Maharashtra assembly election victory of the Congress-NCP alliance. He was also the former Deputy Chief Minister of Maharashtra.
16/08/1956
Vahan Hovhannisyan, Armenian soldier and politician (died 2014)
Vahan Hovhannisyan was an Armenian politician of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation (ARF). He was Vice-President of the National Assembly of Armenia from 2007 to 2008 and was a candidate in the February 2008 presidential election.
16/08/1955
Jeff Perry, American actor
Jeffrey Perry is an American actor of stage, television, and film. He is known for his role as Richard Katimski on the teen drama My So-Called Life, Terrance Steadman on Prison Break, Thatcher Grey on the medical drama series Grey's Anatomy, Cyrus Beene on the political drama series Scandal, all for ABC, and as Inspector Harvey Leek on the CBS crime drama Nash Bridges. He most recently starred on the ABC drama Alaska Daily, alongside Hilary Swank.
James Reilly, Irish surgeon and politician, Minister for Children and Youth Affairs
James Reilly is an Irish former Fine Gael politician, businessman and medical doctor who served as a Senator from May 2016 to March 2020. He previously served as Acting Minister for Children and Youth Affairs from February to May 2016, Minister for Health from March 2011 to July 2014 and deputy leader of Fine Gael from 2010 to 2017. He was a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Dublin North constituency from 2007 to 2016. He subsequently announced his retirement from politics after he lost his bid for election for his old seat at the 2020 general election.
16/08/1954
James Cameron, Canadian director, producer, and screenwriter
James Francis Cameron is a Canadian filmmaker and deep-sea explorer. His films combine cutting-edge film technology with classical filmmaking techniques and have grossed over $10 billion worldwide, making him the second-highest-grossing film director of all time. A major figure in the post-New Hollywood era, Cameron has received numerous accolades, including three Academy Awards, two Primetime Emmy Awards, and four Golden Globe Awards, as well as nominations for six British Academy Film Awards.
George Galloway, Scottish-English politician and broadcaster
George Galloway is a British politician, broadcaster, and writer. He has been leader of the Workers Party of Britain since he founded it in 2019, and is a former leader of the Respect Party. Until 2003, he was a member of the Labour Party. From 1987 to 2010, from 2012 to 2015, and briefly in 2024, Galloway served as Member of Parliament (MP) for five different constituencies.
16/08/1953
Kathie Lee Gifford, American talk show host, singer, and actress
Kathryn Lee Gifford is an American television presenter, singer, songwriter, actress, and author. From 1985 to 2000, she and Regis Philbin hosted the talk show Live! with Regis and Kathie Lee. Gifford is also known for her 11-year run with Hoda Kotb, on the fourth hour of NBC's Today show (2008–2019). She has received 11 Daytime Emmy nominations and won her first Daytime Emmy in 2010 as part of the Today team.
James "J.T." Taylor, American R&B singer-songwriter
James "JT" Warren Taylor is an American singer who achieved fame as the lead singer of Kool & the Gang between 1979 and 1988.
16/08/1952
Reginald VelJohnson, American actor
Reginald VelJohnson is an American actor. He is best known for portraying police officers on screen, such as Sergeant Al Powell in the Die Hard franchise and Carl Winslow in the television sitcom Family Matters (1989–1998).
16/08/1951
Umaru Musa Yar'Adua, Nigerian businessman and politician, 13th President of Nigeria (died 2010)
Umaru Musa Yar'Adua was a Nigerian politician who served as the president of Nigeria from 2007 until his death in May 2010. He won the Nigerian presidential election held on 21 April 2007, and was sworn in on 29 May 2007.
16/08/1950
Hasely Crawford, Trinidadian runner
Hasely Joachim Crawford TC, OLY is a former track and field athlete from Trinidad and Tobago. In 1976, he became his country's first Olympic champion. Hasely Crawford Stadium, in Port of Spain, was renamed in his honour in 2001.
Marshall Manesh, Iranian-American actor
Marshall Manesh is an Iranian-American actor.
Jeff Thomson, Australian cricketer
Jeffrey Robert Thomson is a former Australian cricketer. Known as "Thommo", he is one of the fastest bowlers in the history of cricket; he bowled a delivery with a speed of 160.6 km/h against the West Indies in Perth in 1975, which was the fastest recorded delivery at the time and the fourth-fastest recorded delivery of all time. He was a part of the Australian squad which finished as runners-up at the 1975 Cricket World Cup.
16/08/1949
Scott Asheton, American drummer (died 2014)
Scott Randolph Asheton was an American musician, best known as the drummer for the rock band the Stooges.
Paul Pasqualoni, American football player and coach
Paul Lucian Pasqualoni is an American football coach who recently served as the linebackers coach for the Memphis Showboats of the United Football League (UFL). He most recently was the defensive line coach for the Carolina Panthers.
Bill Spooner, American guitarist and songwriter
William "Sputnik" Spooner is an American musician, guitarist, singer and songwriter, and the founder of The Tubes, a theatrical rock band. His songwriting is known for its use of humor and satire. He has released three solo albums: First Chud (1985), Mall to Mars (1997), and Demo-licious. He previously played in the San Francisco Bay area with the band The Folk Ups, and now plays as a solo artiste or in sessions with his son Boone. He is still recording.
16/08/1948
Earl Blumenauer, American politician, U.S. Representative from Oregon
Earl Francis Blumenauer is an American lawyer, author, and politician who served as the U.S. representative for Oregon's 3rd congressional district from 1996 to 2025. The district includes most of Portland east of the Willamette River.
Barry Hay, Indian-born Dutch rock musician
Barry Andrew Hay is a Dutch musician; he was the lead vocalist and frontman of Dutch rock band Golden Earring from 1967 until their disbandment in 2021. He has also released three solo albums.
Mike Jorgensen, American baseball player and manager
Michael Jorgensen is an American former professional baseball first baseman and outfielder who currently works in the St. Louis Cardinals' front office. The New York Mets drafted him in the fourth round of the 1966 Major League Baseball draft. In a 17-year Major League Baseball (MLB) playing career spanning from 1968 to 1985, he played primarily with the Mets and Montreal Expos and had brief stints with the Cardinals, Atlanta Braves, Texas Rangers and Oakland Athletics. He also has served as a manager for the Cardinals. Jorgensen is the only major league baseball player to have been born the day Babe Ruth died.
Pierre Reid, Canadian educator and politician (died 2021)
Pierre Reid was a Canadian politician and educator in the province of Quebec. He served in the National Assembly of Quebec from 2003 to 2018, representing Orford as a member of the Quebec Liberal Party. Reid was a former cabinet minister in Jean Charest's government.
Joey Spampinato, American singer-songwriter and bass player
Joseph Nicholas Spampinato is a multi-instrumentalist and was a founding member and bass player of NRBQ. He was also one of the band's lead singers and chief songwriters. Before NRBQ he played in several bands, including The Seven of Us, which in 1967 while in Miami, Florida, met another band, The Mersey-Beats USA. The bands merged to form NRBQ. On the group's first two albums, NRBQ and Boppin' the Blues Spampinato is credited as "Jody St. Nicholas".
16/08/1947
Carol Moseley Braun, American lawyer and politician, United States Ambassador to New Zealand
Carol Elizabeth Moseley Braun, also sometimes Moseley-Braun, is an American diplomat, politician, and lawyer who represented Illinois in the United States Senate from 1993 to 1999. Moseley Braun was the first African-American woman elected to the U.S. Senate, the first African-American U.S. senator from the Democratic Party and the first female U.S. senator from Illinois.
Katharine Hamnett, English fashion designer
Katharine Eleanor Hamnett CBE is an English fashion designer best known for her political T-shirts.
16/08/1946
Masoud Barzani, Iranian-Kurdish politician, President of Iraqi Kurdistan
Masoud Barzani is a Kurdish politician who has been leader of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) since 1979, and was President of the Kurdistan Region of Iraq from 2005 to 2017.
Lesley Ann Warren, American actress
Lesley Ann Warren is an American actress and singer.
16/08/1945
Bob Balaban, American actor, director, and producer
Robert Elmer Balaban is an American actor and filmmaker. Aside from his acting career, Balaban has directed three feature films, in addition to numerous television episodes and films, and was one of the producers nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture for Gosford Park (2001), in which he also appeared. He is also an author of children's novels.
Russell Brookes, English race car driver (died 2019)
Russell Brookes was a British rally driver. He won the British Rally Championship with a Ford Escort RS1800 in 1977 and with an Opel Manta 400 in 1985. In 1978, he won the Rally New Zealand, a round of the FIA Cup for Drivers, the predecessor to the World Championship for Drivers. In the World Rally Championship, he finished on the podium of his home event, the RAC Rally, three times in a row from 1977 to 1979.
Suzanne Farrell, American ballerina and educator
Suzanne Farrell is a former American ballerina and the founder of the Suzanne Farrell Ballet at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C.
Gary Loizzo, American guitarist, singer, recording engineer, and record producer (died 2016)
Gary Alexander Loizzo was an American guitarist, singer, recording engineer, and record producer. He is best known for being the lead singer with the American Breed.
Nigel Terry, British stage and film actor (died 2015)
Peter Nigel Terry was an English stage, film, and television actor, typically in historical and period roles. He played Prince John in Anthony Harvey's film The Lion in Winter (1968) and King Arthur in John Boorman's Excalibur (1981).
16/08/1944
Kevin Ayers, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2013)
Kevin Ayers was an English singer-songwriter who was active in the English psychedelic music movement. Ayers was a founding member of the psychedelic band Soft Machine in the mid-1960s, and was closely associated with the Canterbury scene. He recorded a series of albums as a solo artist and over the years worked with Brian Eno, Syd Barrett, Bridget St John, John Cale, Elton John, Robert Wyatt, Andy Summers, Mike Oldfield, Nico and Ollie Halsall, among others. After living for many years in Deià, Mallorca, he returned to the United Kingdom in the mid-1990s before moving to the south of France. His last album, The Unfairground, was released in 2007. The British rock journalist Nick Kent wrote: "Kevin Ayers and Syd Barrett were the two most important people in British pop music. Everything that came after came from them."
16/08/1943
Woody Peoples, American football player (died 2010)
Woodrow Peoples Jr. was an American professional football player who was an offensive lineman in the National Football League (NFL). Undrafted after playing college football for the Grambling Tigers, he was a two-time Pro Bowler with the San Francisco 49ers, and a member of the 1980 National Football Conference (NFC) champion Philadelphia Eagles during his 13-year NFL career.
16/08/1942
Lesley Turner Bowrey, Australian tennis player
Lesley Rosemary Turner Bowrey, AM is a retired professional tennis player from Australia. Her career spanned two decades from the late 1950s until the late 1970s. Turner Bowrey won the singles title at the French Championships, one of the four Grand Slam events, in 1963 and 1965. In addition she won 11 Grand Slam events in doubles and mixed doubles. Turner Bowrey achieved her highest singles ranking of No. 2 in 1964.
Barbara George, American R&B singer-songwriter (died 2006)
Barbara George was an American R&B singer and songwriter.
Robert Squirrel Lester, American soul singer (died 2010)
Robert Earl "Squirrel" Lester was the second tenor in the Chicago-based singing group The Chi-Lites.
16/08/1940
Bruce Beresford, Australian director and producer
Bruce Beresford is an Australian film director, opera director, screenwriter, and producer. He began his career during the Australian New Wave, and has made more than 30 feature films over a 50-year career, both locally and internationally in the United States. He is a two-time Academy Award nominee, and a four-time AACTA/AFI Awards winner out of 10 total nominations
16/08/1939
Seán Brady, Irish cardinal
Seán Brady is an Irish prelate who is a Cardinal of the Catholic Church. He was Roman Catholic Archbishop of Armagh and Roman Catholic Primate of All Ireland from 1996 until 2014. He was elevated to the rank of cardinal by Pope Benedict XVI in the consistory on 24 November 2007. He left office in 2014 and was succeeded by Eamon Martin, who had served as Coadjutor Archbishop of Armagh since 2013.
Trevor McDonald, Trinidadian-English journalist and academic
Sir Trevor Lawson McDonald is a Trinidadian-British newsreader and journalist, best known for his career as a news presenter with Independent Television News (ITN).
Billy Joe Shaver, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2020)
Billy Joe Shaver was an American singer and songwriter.
Eric Weissberg, American singer, banjo player, and multi-instrumentalist (died 2020)
Eric Weissberg was an American singer, banjo player, and multi-instrumentalist, whose most commercially successful recording was his banjo solo in "Dueling Banjos", featured as the theme of the film Deliverance (1972) and released as a single that reached number 2 in the United States and Canada in 1973.
16/08/1937
David Anderson, Canadian journalist, lawyer, and politician
David A. Anderson, is a silver medal rower, academic, politician and former Canadian cabinet minister.
David Behrman, American composer and producer
David Behrman is an American composer and a pioneer of computer music. In 1966, Behrman co-founded Sonic Arts Union with fellow composers Robert Ashley, Alvin Lucier and Gordon Mumma. He was also the producer of Columbia Records' late 1960s Music of Our Time series, which introduced recordings by Terry Riley, John Cage, Steve Reich, and Pauline Oliveros to a wider audience.
Ian Deans, Canadian politician (died 2016)
Ian Deans was a Scottish-Canadian politician. He was a New Democratic member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1967 to 1979 and was a member of the House of Commons of Canada from 1980 to 1986.
Boris Rõtov, Estonian chess player (died 1987)
Boris Rõtov was a Russian-Estonian chess player who won the Estonian Chess Championship (1978).
16/08/1936
Anita Gillette, American actress and singer
Anita Gillette is an American actress and singer. She has performed numerous roles on Broadway and American television, and in feature films.
Alan Hodgkinson, English footballer and coach (died 2015)
Alan Hodgkinson MBE was an English professional football goalkeeper and goalkeeping coach.
16/08/1935
Cliff Fletcher, Canadian businessman
George Clifford "Cliff" Fletcher is a National Hockey League executive and is a former general manager of the Atlanta Flames/Calgary Flames, Toronto Maple Leafs, and Phoenix Coyotes. He is currently a senior advisor to the Toronto Maple Leafs. Some of his nicknames are the "Silver Fox" and "Trader Cliff".
Andreas Stamatiadis, Greek footballer and coach
Andreas Stamatiadis was a Greek professional footballer who played as a forward for AEK Athens and a later manager. He was the longest serving captain of the club from 1960 to 1969.
16/08/1934
Angela Buxton, British tennis player (died 2020)
Angela Buxton was a British tennis player. She won the women's doubles title at both the French Championships and Wimbledon in 1956 with her playing partner, Althea Gibson.
Diana Wynne Jones, English author (died 2011)
Diana Wynne Jones was a British novelist, poet, academic, literary critic, and short story writer. She principally wrote fantasy and speculative fiction novels for children and young adults. Although usually described as fantasy, some of her work also incorporates science fiction themes and elements of realism. Jones's work often explores themes of time travel and parallel or multiple universes. Some of her better-known works are the Chrestomanci series, the Dalemark series, the three Moving Castle novels, Dark Lord of Derkholm, and The Tough Guide to Fantasyland.
Douglas Kirkland, Canadian-American photographer (died 2022)
Douglas Morley Kirkland was a Canadian-born American photographer. He was noted for his photographs of celebrities, especially the ones he took of Marilyn Monroe several months before her death.
Ketty Lester, American singer and actress
Ketty Lester is an American singer and actress known for her 1961 hit single "Love Letters", which reached the top 5 of the charts in the US and the UK. She is also known for her role as Hester-Sue Terhune on the American television series Little House on the Prairie. In 2022, she was inducted into the Arkansas Black Hall of Fame.
Pierre Richard, French actor, director, and screenwriter
Pierre Richard is a French actor, film director and screenwriter, best known for the roles of a clumsy daydreamer in comedy films. Richard is considered by some, such as Louis de Funès and Gérard Depardieu, to be one of the greatest French comedians of the last 50 years. He is also a film director and occasional singer.
John Standing, English actor
Sir John Ronald Leon, 4th Baronet, known professionally as John Standing, is an English actor.
Sam Trimble, Australian cricketer (died 2019)
Samuel Christy Trimble, was an Australian first-class cricketer who played for Queensland between 1959–60 and 1975–76.
16/08/1933
Reiner Kunze, German poet and translator
Reiner Kunze is a German writer and GDR dissident. He studied media and journalism at the University of Leipzig. In 1968, he left the GDR state party SED following the communist Warsaw Pact countries invasion of Czechoslovakia in response to the Prague Spring. He had to publish his work under various pseudonyms. In 1976, his most famous book The Lovely Years, which contained critical insights into the life, and the policies behind the Iron Curtain, was published in West Germany to great acclaim. In 1977, the GDR regime expatriated him, and he moved to West Germany (FRG). He now lives near Passau in Bavaria.
Tom Maschler, English author and publisher (died 2020)
Thomas Michael Maschler was a British publisher and writer. From 1960, he was influential as the head of publishing company Jonathan Cape over a period of more than three decades. Maschler was noted for instituting the Booker Prize for British, Irish and Commonwealth literature in 1969. He was involved in publishing the works of many notable authors, including Ernest Hemingway, Joseph Heller, Gabriel García Márquez, John Lennon, Ian McEwan, Bruce Chatwin and Salman Rushdie.
Julie Newmar, American actress
Julie Newmar is an American actress, dancer, and singer known for a variety of stage, screen, and television roles. She is also a writer, lingerie designer, and real estate mogul. She won the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play for her role as Katrin Sveg in the 1958 Broadway production of The Marriage-Go-Round, and reprised the role in the 1961 film version, earning Newmar a nomination for a Golden Globe Award for Most Promising Newcomer - Actress. In the 1960s, she starred for two seasons as Catwoman in the television series Batman (1966–1967). Her other stage credits include Ziegfeld Follies in 1956, Lola in Damn Yankees in 1961, and in 1965, as Irma in regional productions of Irma la Douce.
Stuart Roosa, American colonel, pilot, and astronaut (died 1994)
Stuart Allen Roosa was an American aeronautical engineer, smokejumper, United States Air Force pilot, test pilot, and NASA astronaut, who was the Command Module Pilot for the Apollo 14 mission. The mission lasted from January 31 to February 9, 1971, and was the third mission to land astronauts on the Moon. While Shepard and Mitchell spent two days on the lunar surface, Roosa conducted experiments from orbit in the Command Module Kitty Hawk. He was one of the 24 Apollo astronauts who reached the Moon, which he orbited 34 times.
16/08/1930
Robert Culp, American actor, director, and screenwriter (died 2010)
Robert Martin Culp was an American actor and screenwriter widely known for his work in television. Culp earned an international reputation for his role as Kelly Robinson on I Spy (1965–1968), the espionage television series in which he and co-star Bill Cosby played secret agents. Before this, he starred in the CBS/Four Star Western series Trackdown as Texas Ranger Hoby Gilman in 71 episodes from 1957 to 1959. The 1980s brought him back to television as FBI Agent Bill Maxwell on The Greatest American Hero. Later, he had a recurring role as Warren Whelan on Everybody Loves Raymond, and was a voice actor for various computer games, including Half-Life 2. Culp gave hundreds of performances in a career spanning more than 50 years.
Frank Gifford, American football player, sportscaster, and actor (died 2015)
Francis Newton Gifford was an American professional football player, actor, and television sports commentator. After a 12-year playing career as a halfback, flanker and safety for the New York Giants of the National Football League (NFL), he was a play-by-play announcer and commentator for 27 years on ABC's Monday Night Football.
Leslie Manigat, Haitian educator and politician, 43rd President of Haiti (died 2014)
Leslie François Saint Roc Manigat was a Haitian politician who was elected as President of Haiti in a tightly controlled military held election in January 1988. He served as President for only a few months, from February 1988 to June 1988, before being ousted by the military in a coup d'état.
Flor Silvestre, Mexican singer and actress (died 2020)
Guillermina Jiménez Chabolla known professionally as Flor Silvestre, was a Mexican singer and actress. She was one of the most prominent and successful performers of Mexican and Latin American music, and was a star of classic Mexican films during the Golden Age of Mexican cinema. Her more than 70-year career included stage productions, radio programs, records, films, television programs, comics and rodeo shows.
16/08/1929
Bill Evans, American pianist and composer (died 1980)
William John Evans was an American jazz pianist and composer who worked primarily as the leader of his trio. His extensive use of impressionist harmony, block chords, innovative chord voicings, and trademark rhythmically independent "singing" melodic lines continue to influence jazz pianists today.
Helmut Rahn, German footballer (died 2003)
Helmut Rahn, known as Der Boss, was a German footballer who played as a forward. He became a legend for having scored the winning goal in the final of the 1954 FIFA World Cup. Rahn, along with the German team, were decorated by the President of the Federal Republic of Germany in 1972.
Fritz Von Erich, American wrestler and trainer (died 1997)
Jack Barton Adkisson Sr., better known by his ring name Fritz Von Erich, was an American professional wrestler, wrestling promoter, and the patriarch of the Von Erich family. He was a 3-time world champion and a 20-time NWA United States Champion. He was the owner of World Class Championship Wrestling.
16/08/1928
Ann Blyth, American actress and singer
Ann Blyth is an American retired actress and singer. She began her career in radio as a child before transitioning to Broadway, where she appeared in Lillian Hellman's Watch on the Rhine (1941–42). Blyth signed with Universal Studios in the 1940s and made her film debut in Chip Off the Old Block (1944), followed by a series of musical comedies. Her breakout role came in Mildred Pierce (1945), where she played the scheming Veda Pierce, earning a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.
Eydie Gormé, American singer (died 2013)
Eydie Gormé was an American singer who achieved notable success in pop, Latin, and jazz genres. She sang solo and in the duo Steve and Eydie with her husband, Steve Lawrence, on albums and television. She also performed on Broadway and in Las Vegas and was an occasional actress.
Ara Güler, Turkish photographer and journalist (died 2018)
Ara Güler was a Turkish photojournalist of Armenian descent, nicknamed "the Eye of Istanbul" or "the Photographer of Istanbul". He was "one of Turkey's few internationally known photographers".
Eddie Kirkland, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2011)
Eddie Kirkland was an American electric blues guitarist, harmonicist, singer, and songwriter.
Wyatt Tee Walker, American pastor, theologian, and activist (died 2018)
Wyatt Tee Walker was an African-American pastor, national civil rights leader, theologian, and cultural historian. He was a chief of staff for Martin Luther King Jr., and in 1958 became an early board member of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC). He helped found a Congress for Racial Equality (CORE) chapter in 1958. As executive director of the SCLC from 1960 to 1964, Walker helped to bring the group to national prominence. Walker sat at the feet of his mentor, BG Crawley, who was a Baptist Minister in Brooklyn, NY and New York State Judge.
16/08/1927
Lois Nettleton, American actress (died 2008)
Lois June Nettleton was an American film, stage, radio and television actress. She received three Primetime Emmy Award nominations and won two Daytime Emmy Awards.
16/08/1925
Willie Jones, American baseball player (died 1983)
Willie Edward Jones, nicknamed "Puddin' Head", was an American professional baseball third baseman who played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Philadelphia Phillies (1947–1959), Cleveland Indians (1959), and Cincinnati Reds (1959–1961). He batted and threw right-handed.
Mal Waldron, American pianist and composer (died 2002)
Malcolm Earl "Mal" Waldron was an American jazz pianist, composer, and arranger. He started playing professionally in New York in 1950, after graduating from college. In the following dozen years or so Waldron led his own bands and played for those led by Charles Mingus, Jackie McLean, John Coltrane, and Eric Dolphy, among others. During Waldron's period as house pianist for Prestige Records in the late 1950s, he appeared on dozens of albums and composed for many of them, including writing his most famous song, "Soul Eyes", for Coltrane. Waldron was often an accompanist for vocalists, and was Billie Holiday's regular accompanist from April 1957 until her death in July 1959.
16/08/1924
Fess Parker, American actor (died 2010)
Fess Elisha Parker Jr. was an American film and television actor best known for his portrayals of the title characters in Walt Disney Productions' television miniseries Davy Crockett and the television series Daniel Boone.
Inez Voyce, American baseball player (died 2022)
Inez Ferne Voyce, nicknamed Lefty, was a first basewoman who played from 1946 through 1953 in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League (AAGPBL). Listed at 5' 6", 148 lb., she batted and threw left-handed.
16/08/1923
Millôr Fernandes, Brazilian journalist and playwright (died 2012)
Millôr Fernandes was a Brazilian writer, journalist, cartoonist, humorist and playwright. Born Milton Viola Fernandes, his birth was registered on May 27, 1924; the handwriting on his birth certificate rendered the name "Millôr", which he adopted as his official name.
16/08/1922
James Casey, English comedian, radio scriptwriter and producer (died 2011)
James Casey, known professionally as Jim Casey, was at various times during his long career a Variety comedian on the English music-halls, a scriptwriter for BBC Radio's variety shows and situation comedies, and a senior BBC Radio Light Entertainment producer.
Ernie Freeman, American pianist and bandleader (died 2001)
Ernest Aaron Freeman was an American pianist, organist, bandleader, and arranger. He was responsible for arranging many successful rhythm and blues and pop records from the 1950s to the 1970s.
16/08/1920
Charles Bukowski, German-American poet, novelist, and short story writer (died 1994)
Henry Charles Bukowski was a German-American poet, novelist, and short story writer. His writing was influenced by the social, cultural, and economic ambience of his adopted home city of Los Angeles. Bukowski's work addresses the ordinary lives of poor Americans, the act of writing, alcohol, relationships with women, and the drudgery of work.
16/08/1919
Karl-Heinz Euling, German captain (died 2014)
The Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross and its variants were the highest awards in the military and paramilitary forces of Nazi Germany during World War II. The Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross was awarded for a wide range of reasons and across all ranks, from a senior commander for skilled leadership of his troops in battle to a low-ranking soldier for a single act of extreme gallantry. A total of 7,321 awards were made between its first presentation on 30 September 1939 and its last bestowal on 17 June 1945. This number is based on the analysis and acceptance of the order commission of the Association of Knight's Cross Recipients (AKCR). Presentations were made to members of the three military branches of the Wehrmacht—the Heer (Army), Kriegsmarine (Navy) and Luftwaffe —as well as the Waffen-SS, the Reichsarbeitsdienst and the Volkssturm. There were also 43 recipients in the military forces of allies of the Third Reich.
16/08/1917
Matt Christopher, American author (died 1997)
Matthew Frederick Christopher was an American writer of children's books. He wrote more than 100 novels and 300 short stories, mainly featuring sports. After Christopher's death, his family oversaw production of books under Christopher's name created by various writers and illustrators, treating his name as a trademark.
Roque Cordero, Panamanian composer and educator (died 2008)
Roque Cordero was a Panamanian composer.
16/08/1916
Iggy Katona, American race car driver (died 2003)
Egnatius "Iggy" Katona was an American stock car racing driver from Willis, Michigan. He is most famous for his performance in the ARCA series in the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s, where he won six championships and 79 races, both of which stood as series records until Frank Kimmel surpassed both; first in 2005 for championships and then in 2013 for wins. Other ARCA records held by Katona include most starts (630), oldest race winner and most consecutive seasons with a win
16/08/1915
Al Hibbler, American baritone singer (died 2001)
Albert George Hibbler was an American baritone vocalist, who sang with Duke Ellington's orchestra before having several pop hits as a solo artist. Some of Hibbler's singing is classified as rhythm and blues, but he is best seen as a bridge between R&B and traditional pop music. According to one authority, "Hibbler cannot be regarded as a jazz singer but as an exceptionally good interpreter of twentieth-century popular songs who happened to work with some of the best jazz musicians of the time."
16/08/1913
Menachem Begin, Belarusian-Israeli politician, Prime Minister of Israel, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1992)
Menachem Begin was an Israeli politician who founded Herut and Likud and served as prime minister of Israel from 1977 to 1983.
16/08/1912
Ted Drake, English footballer and manager (died 1995)
Edward Joseph Drake was an English football player and manager. As a player, he first played for Southampton but made his name playing for Arsenal in the 1930s, winning two league titles and an FA Cup, as well as five caps for England. Drake is Arsenal's joint fifth highest goalscorer of all time. He also holds the record for the most goals scored in a top flight game in English football, with seven against Aston Villa in December 1935. A former centre forward, Drake has been described as a "classic number 9" and as a "strong, powerful, brave and almost entirely unthinking" player who "typified the English view."
16/08/1911
E. F. Schumacher, German economist and statistician (died 1977)
Ernst Friedrich Schumacher was a German-born British statistician and economist who is best known for his proposals for human-scale, decentralised and appropriate technologies. He served as Chief Economic Advisor to the British National Coal Board from 1950 to 1970, and founded the Intermediate Technology Development Group in 1966.
16/08/1910
Gloria Blondell, American actress (died 1986)
Gloria Blondell was a stage, film, and television actress who was the younger sister of actress Joan Blondell.
Mae Clarke, American actress (died 1992)
Mae Clarke was an American actress. She is widely remembered for playing Henry Frankenstein's bride Elizabeth, who is chased by Boris Karloff in Frankenstein, and for being on the receiving end of James Cagney's halved grapefruit in The Public Enemy. Both films were released in 1931.
16/08/1909
Paul Callaway, American organist and conductor (died 1995)
Paul Smith Callaway, was a prominent American organist and choral conductor, particularly well known for his thirty-eight years at the Washington National Cathedral, Washington, D.C., between 1939–1977. A friend of Leonard Bernstein and Ned Rorem, he was also active in opera and a frequent guest conductor of the Lake George Opera Company and was the founding musical director of the Opera Society of Washington in 1956, now the renowned Washington National Opera. By the time of his death in 1995, he was acclaimed for his great influence on the musical life of the nation's capital. In 1977, Callaway was appointed an Honorary Officer of The Order of the British Empire (OBE) and invested by Ambassador Peter Jay on behalf of Queen Elizabeth II.
16/08/1908
Orlando Cole, American cellist and educator (died 2010)
Orlando Cole was an American cello teacher who taught two generations of soloists, chamber musicians, and first cellists in a dozen leading orchestras, including David Cole, Lynn Harrell, Jonah Kim, Ronald Leonard, Lorne Munroe, Peter Stumpf and Marcy Rosen.
William Keepers Maxwell, Jr., American editor, novelist, short story writer, and essayist (died 2000)
William Keepers Maxwell Jr. was an American editor, novelist, short story writer, essayist, children's author, and memoirist. He served as a fiction editor at The New Yorker from 1936 to 1975. An editor devoted to his writers, Maxwell became a mentor and confidant to many authors.
16/08/1904
Minoru Genda, Japanese general, pilot, and politician (died 1989)
General Minoru Genda was an Imperial Japanese Navy flight officer, JASDF general and politician. He is best known for helping to plan the attack on Pearl Harbor. After the war he became the third Chief of Staff of the Japan Air Self-Defense Force.
Wendell Meredith Stanley, American biochemist and virologist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1971)
Wendell Meredith Stanley was an American biochemist, virologist and Nobel laureate. Stanley's work contributed to lepracidal compounds, diphenyl stereochemistry, and the chemistry of the sterols. His research on the virus causing the mosaic disease in tobacco plants led to the isolation of a nucleoprotein which displayed tobacco mosaic virus activity.
16/08/1902
Georgette Heyer, English author (died 1974)
Georgette Heyer was an English novelist and short-story writer, in both the Regency romance and detective fiction genres. Her writing career began in 1921, when she turned a story conceived for her ailing younger brother into the novel The Black Moth. In 1925 Heyer married George Ronald Rougier, a mining engineer. The couple spent several years living in Tanganyika Territory and Macedonia before returning to England in 1929. After her novel These Old Shades became popular despite its release during the General Strike, Heyer determined that publicity was not necessary for good sales. For the rest of her life she refused to grant interviews, telling a friend: "My private life concerns no one but myself and my family."
Wallace Thurman, American author and playwright (died 1934)
Wallace Henry Thurman was an American novelist and screenwriter active during the Harlem Renaissance. He also wrote essays, worked as an editor, and was a publisher of short-lived newspapers and literary journals. He is best known for his first novel The Blacker the Berry: A Novel of Negro Life (1929), which explores discrimination based on skin tone within the black community, with lighter skin being more highly valued.
16/08/1900
Ida Browne, Australian geologist and palaeontologist (died 1976)
Ida Alison Browne was an Australian geologist, petrologist and paleontologist at the University of Sydney.
16/08/1895
Albert Cohen, Greek-Swiss author and playwright (died 1981)
Abraham Albert Cohen was a Greek-born Romaniote Jewish Swiss novelist who wrote in French. He worked as a civil servant for various international organizations, such as the International Labour Organization. He became a Swiss citizen in 1919.
Liane Haid, Austrian-Swiss actress and singer (died 2000)
Juliane "Liane" Haid was an Austrian actress and singer. She has often been referred to as Austria's first movie star.
Arthur Rose Eldred, First Eagle Scout in the Boy Scouts of America (died 1951)
Arthur Rose Eldred was an American agricultural and railroad industry executive, civic leader, and the first Eagle Scout in the Boy Scouts of America (BSA). As a 16-year-old candidate for the highest rank bestowed by the BSA, he was personally interviewed by a panel composed of the youth organization's founders, including Ernest Thompson Seton and Daniel Carter Beard. Eldred was presented the coveted distinction of Eagle Scout on September 2, 1912, becoming the first of more than two million scouts in the U.S. since then to earn Scouting's most vaunted rank. Eldred also received the Bronze Honor Medal for lifesaving, and was the first of four generations of Eagle Scouts in his family.
16/08/1894
George Meany, American plumber and labor leader (died 1980)
William George Meany was an American labor union administrator for 57 years. He was a vital figure in the creation of the AFL–CIO and served as its first president, from 1955 to 1979.
16/08/1892
Hal Foster, Canadian-American author and illustrator (died 1982)
Harold Rudolf Foster, FRSA was a Canadian-American comic strip artist and writer best known as the creator of the comic strip Prince Valiant. His drawing style is noted for its high level of draftsmanship and attention to detail.
Otto Messmer, American cartoonist and animator, co-created Felix the Cat (died 1983)
Otto James Messmer was an American animator known for his work on the Felix the Cat cartoons and comic strip produced by the Pat Sullivan studio.
16/08/1888
T. E. Lawrence, British colonel, diplomat, writer and archaeologist (died 1935)
Thomas Edward Lawrence was a British Army officer, archaeologist, diplomat and writer known for his role during the Arab Revolt and Sinai and Palestine campaign against the Ottoman Empire in the First World War. The breadth and variety of his activities and associations, and Lawrence's ability to describe them vividly in writing, earned him international fame as Lawrence of Arabia, a title used for the 1962 film based on his wartime activities.
Armand J. Piron, American violinist, composer, and bandleader (died 1943)
Armand John "A.J." Piron was an American jazz violinist who led dance bands during the 1910s thru the 1930s.
16/08/1884
Hugo Gernsback, Luxembourger-American author and publisher (died 1967)
Hugo Gernsback was a Luxembourgish American editor and magazine publisher whose publications included the first science fiction magazine, Amazing Stories. His contributions to the genre as publisher were so significant that, along with the novelists Jules Verne and H. G. Wells, he is sometimes called "The Father of Science Fiction". In his honor, annual awards presented at the World Science Fiction Convention are named the "Hugos".
16/08/1882
Désiré Mérchez, French swimmer and water polo player (died 1968)
Désiré Alfred Mérchez was a male French swimmer and water polo player who competed in the 1900 Summer Olympics. He was born in Lille and died in Nice.
16/08/1877
Roque Ruaño, Spanish priest and engineer (died 1935)
Roque Ruaño Garrido, O.P. was a Spanish priest and civil engineer. He was known after he drew up plans for University of Santo Tomas (UST) Main Building, the first earthquake-shock resistant building in Asia, which was constructed at the Sulucan property of the Dominican order in city of Manila.
16/08/1876
Ivan Bilibin, Russian illustrator and stage designer (died 1942)
Ivan Yakovlevich Bilibin was a Russian illustrator and stage designer who took part in the Mir iskusstva, contributed to the Ballets Russes, co-founded the Union of Russian Artists, and from 1937 was a member of the Artists' Union of the USSR. Ivan Bilibin gained popularity with his illustrations of Russian folk tales and Slavic folklore. Throughout his career he was inspired by the art and culture of medieval Russia.
16/08/1868
Bernarr Macfadden, American bodybuilder and publisher, founded Macfadden Publications (died 1955)
Bernarr Macfadden was an American proponent of physical culture, a combination of bodybuilding with nutritional and health theories. He founded the long-running magazine publishing company Macfadden Publications.
16/08/1865
Mary Gilmore, Australian socialist, poet and journalist (died 1962)
Dame Mary Jean Gilmore was an Australian writer and journalist known for her prolific contributions to Australian literature and the broader national discourse. She wrote both prose and poetry.
16/08/1864
Elsie Inglis, Scottish surgeon and suffragette (died 1917)
Eliza Maud "Elsie" Inglis was a Scottish medical doctor, surgeon, teacher, suffragist, and founder of the Scottish Women's Hospitals. She was the first woman to hold the Serbian Order of the White Eagle.
16/08/1862
Amos Alonzo Stagg, American baseball player and coach (died 1965)
Amos Alonzo Stagg was an American athlete and college coach in multiple sports, primarily American football. He introduced many innovations to American football. Stagg served as the head football coach at the International YMCA Training School (1890–1891), the University of Chicago (1892–1932), and the College of the Pacific (1933–1946), compiling a career college football record of 314–199–35 (.605). His undefeated Chicago Maroons teams of 1905 and 1913 were recognized as national champions. He was also the head basketball coach for one season at Chicago (1920–1921), and the Maroons' head baseball coach for twenty seasons.
16/08/1860
Martin Hawke, 7th Baron Hawke, English-Scottish cricketer (died 1938)
Martin Bladen Hawke, 7th Baron Hawke, generally known as Lord Hawke, was an English amateur cricketer active from 1881 to 1911 who played for Yorkshire and England. He was born in Willingham by Stow, near Gainsborough, Lincolnshire, and died in Edinburgh. He appeared in 633 first-class matches, including five Test matches, as a righthanded batsman, scoring 16,749 runs with a highest score of 166 and held 209 catches. He scored 13 centuries and 69 half-centuries.
Jules Laforgue, Uruguayan-French poet and author (died 1887)
Jules Laforgue was a Franco-Uruguayan poet, often referred to as a Symbolist poet. Critics and commentators have also pointed to Impressionism as a direct influence and his poetry has been called "part-symbolist, part-impressionist". Laforgue was a model for Pierre-Auguste Renoir, including for Renoir's 1881 painting Luncheon of the Boating Party.
16/08/1858
Arthur Achleitner, German author (died 1927)
Arthur Achleitner was a German writer. His works are noteworthy because he describes local customs and peculiarities of the people in the Austrian and Bavarian Alps, and the Mediterranean regions of the former Austro-Hungarian Empire.
16/08/1856
Aparicio Saravia, Uruguayan general and politician (died 1904)
Aparicio Saravia da Rosa was a Uruguayan politician and military leader. He was a member of the Uruguayan National Party and was a revolutionary leader against the Uruguayan government.
16/08/1855
James McGowen, Australian politician, 18th Premier of New South Wales (died 1922)
James Sinclair Taylor McGowen was an Australian politician. He served as premier of New South Wales from 1910 to 1913, the first member of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) to hold the position, and was a key figure in the party's early history in New South Wales.
16/08/1848
Vladimir Sukhomlinov, Russian general (died 1926)
Vladimir Aleksandrovich Sukhomlinov was a Russian general in the Imperial Russian Army who served as the Chief of the General Staff from 1908 to 1909 and the Minister of War from 1909 to 1915.
16/08/1845
Gabriel Lippmann, Luxembourger-French physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1921)
Gabriel Lippmann was a French applied physicist who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1908 for his invention of the Lippmann plate, a method of photographically reproducing colours based on the interference phenomenon.
16/08/1842
Jakob Rosanes, Ukrainian-German mathematician, chess player, and academic (died 1922)
Jakob Rosanes was a German mathematician who worked on algebraic geometry and invariant theory. He was also a chess master.
16/08/1832
Wilhelm Wundt, German physician, psychologist, and physiologist (died 1920)
Wilhelm Maximilian Wundt was a German physiologist, philosopher, professor, and one of the fathers of modern psychology. Wundt, who distinguished psychology as a science from philosophy and biology, was the first person to call himself a psychologist.
16/08/1831
John Jones Ross, Canadian lawyer and politician, 7th Premier of Quebec (died 1901)
John Jones Ross was a Canadian politician. Ross served as the seventh premier of Quebec and later as a member of the Senate of Canada.
16/08/1824
John Chisum, American cattle baron (died 1884)
John Simpson Chisum was a wealthy cattle baron on the frontier in the American West in the mid-to-late 19th century. He was born in Hardeman County, Tennessee, and moved with his family southwest across the Mississippi River to the newly independent Republic of Texas the year after the Texas Revolution in 1837, later finding work as a building contractor. He also served as a county clerk in Lamar County, Texas. He was of Scottish, English, and Welsh descent.
16/08/1821
Arthur Cayley, English mathematician and academic (died 1895)
Arthur Cayley was an English mathematician who worked mostly on algebra. He helped found the modern British school of pure mathematics, and was a professor at Trinity College, Cambridge for 35 years.
16/08/1820
Andrew Rainsford Wetmore, Canadian lawyer and politician, 1st Premier of New Brunswick (died 1892)
Andrew Rainsford Wetmore was a New Brunswick politician, jurist, and a member of a prominent United Empire Loyalist family.
16/08/1816
Octavia Taylor, daughter of Zachary Taylor (died 1820)
Zachary Taylor was an American military officer and politician who was the 12th president of the United States, serving from 1849 until his death in 1850. Taylor was a career officer in the United States Army, rising to the rank of major general and becoming a national hero for his victories in the Mexican–American War. As a result, he won election to the White House despite his vague political beliefs. His top priority as president was to preserve the Union. He died 16 months into his term from a stomach disease. Taylor had the third-shortest presidential term in U.S. history.
Sara Prinsep, British salon organiser (died 1887)
Sara Monckton Prinsep born Sara Monckton Pattle was the leader of the Little Holland House salon in Kensington. She was a patron of George Frederick Watts.
16/08/1815
John Bosco, Italian priest and educator (died 1888)
John Melchior Bosco, SDB, popularly known as Don Bosco, was an Italian Catholic priest, educator and writer. While working in Turin, where the population suffered many of the ill effects of industrialization and urbanization, he dedicated his life to the betterment and education of street children, juvenile delinquents, and other disadvantaged youth. He developed teaching methods based on love rather than punishment, a method that became known as the Salesian Preventive System.
16/08/1761
Yevstigney Fomin, Russian pianist and composer (died 1800)
Yevstigney Ipat'yevich Fomin was a Russian opera composer of the 18th century
16/08/1744
Pierre Méchain, French astronomer and surveyor (died 1804)
Pierre François André Méchain was a French astronomer and surveyor who, with Charles Messier, was a major contributor to the early study of deep-sky objects and comets.
16/08/1682
Louis, Duke of Burgundy (died 1712)
Louis, Dauphin of France, Duke of Burgundy, was the eldest son of Louis, Grand Dauphin, and Maria Anna Victoria of Bavaria and grandson of the reigning French king, Louis XIV. He is commonly known as le Petit Dauphin to distinguish him from his father. When his father died in April 1711, the Duke of Burgundy became the official Dauphin of France. Described by his contemporaries as a pious, intellectual, gentle and shy man who was faithful and loving to his wife, he never reigned, as he died in 1712 while his grandfather was still on the throne. Upon the death of Louis XIV in 1715, the Duke of Burgundy's third son became Louis XV.
16/08/1650
Vincenzo Coronelli, Italian monk, cosmographer, and cartographer (died 1718)
Vincenzo Maria Coronelli was an Italian Franciscan friar, cosmographer, cartographer, publisher, and encyclopedist known in particular for his atlases and globes. He is considered one of the leading geographers and cartographers of the Baroque period.
16/08/1645
Jean de La Bruyère, French philosopher and author (died 1696)
Jean de La Bruyère was a French philosopher and moralist, who was noted for his satire.
16/08/1637
Countess Emilie Juliane of Barby-Mühlingen (died 1706)
Emilie Juliane was a German countess and hymn writer.
16/08/1573
Anne of Austria, Queen of Poland (died 1598)
Anne of Austria was Queen of Poland and Sweden and a Grand Duchess of Lithuania as the first consort of King Sigismund III Vasa.
16/08/1565
Christina, Grand Duchess of Tuscany (died 1637)
Christina of Lorraine was a noblewoman of the House of Lorraine who became a Grand Duchess of Tuscany by marriage. She served as Regent of Tuscany jointly with her daughter-in-law during the minority of her grandson from 1621 to 1628.
16/08/1557
Agostino Carracci, Italian painter and etcher (died 1602)
Agostino Carracci was an Italian painter, printmaker, tapestry designer, and art teacher. He was, together with his brother, Annibale Carracci, and cousin, Ludovico Carracci, one of the founders of the Accademia degli Incamminati in Bologna. Intended to devise alternatives to the Mannerist style favoured in the preceding decades, this teaching academy helped propel painters of the School of Bologna to prominence.
16/08/1401
Jacqueline, Countess of Hainaut (died 1436)
Jacqueline, of the House of Wittelsbach, was a noblewoman who ruled the counties of Holland, Zeeland and Hainaut in the Low Countries from 1417 to 1433. She was also Dauphine of France for a short time between 1415 and 1417 and Duchess of Gloucester in the 1420s, if her marriage to Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester, is accepted as valid.
16/08/1378
Hongxi Emperor of China (died 1425)
The Hongxi Emperor, personal name Zhu Gaochi, was the fourth emperor of the Ming dynasty, reigning from 1424 to 1425. He was the eldest son of the Yongle Emperor and Empress Renxiaowen and the grandson of both the Hongwu Emperor and Xu Da, Prince of Zhongshan. He ascended the throne after the death of his father, but his reign lasted less than a year.
16/08/1355
Philippa, 5th Countess of Ulster (died 1382)
Philippa of Clarence also known as Philippa Plantagenet or Philippa de Burgh or Philippa of Eltham was a medieval English princess and the suo jure Countess of Ulster.