Born on Friday, 29th August – Famous Birthdays

29/08/2008

Rio Ngumoha, English footballer

Rio Chima Ngumoha is an English professional footballer who plays as a left winger or attacking midfielder for Premier League club Liverpool.

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29/08/1996

Daryll Neita, British sprinter

Daryll Saskia Neita is a British sprinter. She won a silver medal in the 200 metres at the 2024 European Championships along with bronze in the 100 metres at the 2022 European Championships, 2022 Commonwealth Games and in the 60 metres at the 2023 European Indoor Championships. She has also won several medals as part of Great Britain 4 × 100 m relay teams, including an Olympic silver medal in 2024 and bronze medals in 2016 and 2021, World Championships silver medals in 2017 and 2019 and European gold in 2018.

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29/08/1994

Ysaline Bonaventure, Belgian tennis player

Ysaline Bonaventure is a Belgian former professional tennis player. On 6 March 2023, she reached her best singles ranking of world No. 81. On 1 February 2016, she peaked at No. 57 in the doubles rankings. Bonaventure won two doubles titles on the WTA Tour, as well as 12 singles and 14 doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit.

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29/08/1993

Lucas Cruikshank, American YouTuber and actor

Lucas Alan Cruikshank is an American YouTuber and actor who created the character Fred Figglehorn and the associated Fred series for his channel on the video-hosting website YouTube in late 2006. These videos are centered on Fred Figglehorn, a fictional six-year-old who has a dysfunctional home life and "anger management issues".

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Liam Payne, English singer-songwriter from One Direction (died 2024)

Liam James Payne was an English singer and songwriter. He was a member of the pop band One Direction, one of the best-selling boy bands of all time, alongside Niall Horan, Zayn Malik, Harry Styles, and Louis Tomlinson. Payne twice auditioned as a solo artist on the British television series The X Factor in 2008 and 2010; in the latter, he was invited to join One Direction alongside fellow contestants, placing third and later achieving global success.

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29/08/1992

Noah Syndergaard, American baseball player

Noah Seth Syndergaard, nicknamed "Thor", is an American professional baseball pitcher who is a free agent. He has previously played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the New York Mets, Los Angeles Angels, Philadelphia Phillies, Los Angeles Dodgers, and Cleveland Guardians.

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29/08/1991

Néstor Araujo, Mexican footballer

Néstor Alejandro Araujo Razo is a Mexican professional footballer who plays as a centre-back for Liga MX club América. He is an Olympic gold medalist.

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Deshaun Thomas, American basketball player

Deshaun Leroy Thomas is an American former professional basketball player who last played for LDLC ASVEL of the French LNB Pro A and the EuroLeague. Standing at 6 ft 7 in (2.01 m), he played the small forward and power forward positions. Thomas played college basketball for the Ohio State Buckeyes and was selected 58th overall in the 2013 NBA draft by the San Antonio Spurs.

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29/08/1990

Jakub Kosecki, Polish footballer

Jakub Kosecki is a Polish professional footballer who plays as a winger for Klasa A club Kosa Konstancin.

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Chris Taylor, American baseball player

Christopher Armand Taylor Jr., nicknamed "CT3", is an American professional baseball utility player in the Los Angeles Angels organization. He has previously played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Seattle Mariners and Los Angeles Dodgers. He played college baseball for the Virginia Cavaliers. Taylor was selected in the fifth round of the 2012 MLB draft and made his MLB debut with the Mariners in 2014. Traded to the Dodgers, Taylor won the National League Championship Series Most Valuable Player Award in 2017, was a member of the World Series champions in 2020 and 2024, and was an All-Star in 2021.

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Patrick van Aanholt, Dutch footballer

Patrick John Miguel van Aanholt is a Dutch professional footballer who plays as a left-back for Eredivisie club Sparta Rotterdam.

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29/08/1989

Charlotte Ritchie, English actress

Charlotte Ritchie is an English actress. She is best known on television as Nurse Barbara Gilbert in Call the Midwife (2015–2018) and Alison Cooper in Ghosts (2019–2023).

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29/08/1987

Tony Kane, Northern Irish footballer

Anthony Michael Kane is a Northern Irish former footballer Kane was best known for his time at Ballymena United where he made over 250 appearances for the Sky Blues. As an international, Kane has represented both the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland at under-21 level.

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29/08/1986

Hajime Isayama, Japanese illustrator

Hajime Isayama is a Japanese manga artist. His first series, Attack on Titan (2009–2021), became one of the best-selling manga series of all time with 140 million copies in circulation as of November 2023. He was awarded the Kodansha Manga Award in 2011, a Harvey Award in 2014, and was honored with the Fauve Spécial award at the 50th Angoulême International Comics Festival in 2023.

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Lea Michele, American actress and singer

Lea Michele Sarfati is an American actress, singer, and songwriter. She began her career as a child actress on Broadway, appearing in productions of Les Misérables (1995–1996), Ragtime (1997–1999), Fiddler on the Roof (2004–2005), and Spring Awakening (2006–2008). She found prominence playing Rachel Berry on the Fox series Glee (2009–2015), receiving nominations for an Emmy Award and two Golden Globe Awards. She also contributed to music recorded for the series, which spawned multiple hits on the Billboard charts and earned her a Grammy Award nomination.

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29/08/1983

Jennifer Landon, American actress

Jennifer Landon is an American actress known for her role as Teeter on the Paramount Network series Yellowstone (2020–2024). She is also known for her role as Gwen Norbeck Munson in the CBS soap opera As the World Turns. For her part on the show, Landon won three consecutive Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Younger Actress in a Drama Series.

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Antti Niemi, Finnish ice hockey player

Antti Niemi is a Finnish former professional ice hockey goaltender. During the 2009–10 season as a member of the Chicago Blackhawks, he became the first Finnish goaltender to win the Stanley Cup, and has also played for the San Jose Sharks, Dallas Stars, Pittsburgh Penguins, Florida Panthers, and Montreal Canadiens.

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Anthony Recker, American baseball player

Anthony Vito Recker is an American broadcaster and former professional baseball catcher and first baseman. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Oakland Athletics, Chicago Cubs, New York Mets, and Atlanta Braves.

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29/08/1982

Ruhila Adatia-Sood, Kenyan journalist and radio host (died 2013)

Ruhila Adatia-Sood was a Kenyan television and radio presenter and journalist of Indian heritage.

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Carlos Delfino, Argentine–Italian basketball player

Carlos Francisco Delfino is an Argentine former professional basketball player. He played in the National Basketball Association (NBA) for the Detroit Pistons, Toronto Raptors, Milwaukee Bucks, and Houston Rockets. Standing at 1.98 m, he plays at the small forward and shooting guard positions. He is also noted for his defense and three point shooting skills.

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Yakhouba Diawara, French basketball player

Yakhouba Diawara is a French former professional basketball player. He played college basketball in the United States for the Pepperdine Waves.

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Vincent Enyeama, Nigerian footballer

Vincent Enyeama is a Nigerian former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper. He is regarded as one of the greatest African goalkeepers of all time.

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29/08/1981

Martin Erat, Czech ice hockey player

Martin Erat is a Czech former professional ice hockey player. He played in the National Hockey League for the Nashville Predators, Washington Capitals and the Phoenix/Arizona Coyotes.

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Geneviève Jeanson, Canadian cyclist

Geneviève Jeanson is a former professional bicycle racer from Quebec, Canada. She won the world junior road and time trial championships in 1999 and the Tour de Snowy in 2000. Later that year she won La Flèche Wallonne World Cup race. She joined the Canadian Olympic team that year. She acknowledged in a documentary on Radio-Canada on September 20, 2007, that she had been administered EPO more or less continuously since she was 16 years old.

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29/08/1980

Chris Simms, American football player

Christopher David Simms is an American sports analyst and former professional football player who was a quarterback in the National Football League (NFL). He was selected by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in the third round of the 2003 NFL draft after playing college football for the Texas Longhorns.

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David West, American basketball player

David Moorer West is an American former professional basketball player who played 15 seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA) for the New Orleans Hornets, Indiana Pacers, San Antonio Spurs and Golden State Warriors. He played college basketball for the Xavier Musketeers, earning national college player of the year honors from the Associated Press (AP) and United States Basketball Writers Association (USBWA) as a senior in 2003. West was a two-time NBA All-Star and a two-time NBA champion.

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29/08/1979

Stijn Devolder, Belgian cyclist

Stijn Devolder is a Belgian former professional road bicycle racer, who competed professionally for Vlaanderen–T Interim (2002–2003), Discovery Channel (2004–2007), Quick-Step (2008–2010), Vacansoleil–DCM (2011–2012), Trek–Segafredo (2013–2016), Vérandas Willems–Crelan (2017–2018) and Corendon–Circus (2019).

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Kristjan Rahnu, Estonian decathlete

Kristjan Rahnu is a retired Estonian decathlete. His personal best dates back to 2005 when he did 8526 points in France, Arles on June 4–5. After many injuries and other issues, Rahnu is trying to make a successful return to the sport in 2009 for the first time since the European World Championships in 2006.

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Ryan Shealy, American baseball player

Ryan Nelson Shealy is an American former professional baseball player who played six seasons in Major League Baseball as a first baseman. Shealy played college baseball for the University of Florida, and thereafter, he played professionally for the Colorado Rockies, Kansas City Royals and Boston Red Sox.

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29/08/1978

Volkan Arslan, German-Turkish footballer

Volkan Arslan is a Turkish football coach and former player. Arslan played for Turkey at the U-16, U-17 and U-18 levels before he made his debut for the senior team in 2003.

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Celestine Babayaro, Nigerian footballer

Celestine Hycieth Babayaro is a Nigerian former professional footballer who played as a left-back or a midfielder.

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29/08/1977

Cayetano, Greek DJ and producer

Giorgos Bratanis, better known by his artistic name Cayetano is a Greek musician. He performs with his band — Cayetano Live Band — and as a DJ worldwide.

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Devean George, American basketball player

Devean Jamar George is an American former professional basketball player who played 11 seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA), mostly as a backup small forward. He won three NBA championships during his time with the Los Angeles Lakers. Since completing his basketball career George has become a real estate developer in his home state of Minnesota.

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John Hensley, American actor

John Carter Hensley is an American actor, best known for his role as Matt McNamara on Nip/Tuck.

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John Patrick O'Brien, American soccer player

Jonathan Patrick O'Brien is an American former soccer player. After retiring, he pursued a career in psychology.

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Roy Oswalt, American baseball player

Roy Edward Oswalt is an American former professional baseball pitcher. Oswalt played for the majority of his Major League Baseball (MLB) career with the Houston Astros. He also played for the Philadelphia Phillies, Texas Rangers, and Colorado Rockies.

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Charlie Pickering, Australian comedian and radio host

Charlie Pickering is an Australian comedian, television and radio presenter, author, and producer. As of 2025 Pickering hosts The Weekly with Charlie Pickering, a weekly news satire television show on the ABC, as well as its yearly spin-off special The Yearly with Charlie Pickering. He also co-hosts Tomorrow Tonight with Annabel Crabb and Adam Liaw.

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Aaron Rowand, American baseball player and sportscaster

Aaron Ryan Rowand is an American former professional baseball center fielder. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Chicago White Sox, Philadelphia Phillies, and San Francisco Giants, winning two World Series championships. During his playing days, Rowand stood 6 feet (1.8 m) tall and weighed 210 pounds (95 kg). He batted and threw right-handed.

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29/08/1976

Stephen Carr, Irish footballer

Stephen Carr is an Irish former professional footballer who played as a right-back, sometimes deputising at left-back or centre back. He started his career with Premier League team Tottenham Hotspur in 1993 and remained with the club until 2004. He had a spell with Newcastle United until 2008. From 2009 until 2013 he stayed with Birmingham City, also captaining the side. He is a former international player with the Republic of Ireland, having made 44 appearances.

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Phil Harvey, English manager

Philip Christopher Harvey is an English music manager and creative director. He contributes exclusively to the rock band Coldplay, who consider him their fifth member. After studying at Sherborne School and befriending Chris Martin, he continued his education at Trinity College, pursuing a degree in Greek and Latin. Harvey also organised student parties at the time, leading him to finance the group, manage their career and eventually drop out of his course.

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Kevin Kaesviharn, American football player

Kevin Robert Kaesviharn is an American former professional football player who was a safety in the National Football League (NFL). He was signed by the Iowa Barnstormers as a street free agent in 1998. He played college football for the Augustana Vikings.

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Georgios Kalaitzis, Greek basketball player

Georgios Kalaitzis is a Greek basketball coach and former professional player, who last served as the youth academy head coach for Panathinaikos of the Greek Basket League and the EuroLeague. During his playing career, at a height of 1.96 m tall, Kalaitzis played at the point guard, shooting guard and small forward positions.

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Pablo Mastroeni, Argentine-American soccer player and manager

Pablo Mastroeni is a professional soccer coach and former player who is currently the head coach of Major League Soccer club Real Salt Lake. Born in Argentina, he played for the United States national team.

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Jon Dahl Tomasson, Danish footballer and manager

Jon Dahl Tomasson is a Danish football manager and former player. He was most recently manager of the Sweden national team.

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29/08/1975

Dante Basco, American actor

Dante Roman Titus Basco is an American actor. He is known for his role as Rufio, the leader of the Lost Boys, in Steven Spielberg's Hook, Dolph in the cult film But I'm a Cheerleader, the lead character Ben Mercado in the independent film The Debut, and for voicing the titular protagonist of American Dragon: Jake Long and Prince Zuko in Avatar: The Last Airbender.

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Kyle Cook, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

David Kyle Cook is an American musician best known as a member of the band Matchbox Twenty, serving as the lead guitarist, banjo player, backing and occasional lead vocalist.

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29/08/1974

Kumi Tanioka, Japanese keyboard player and composer

Kumi Tanioka is a Japanese composer and pianist. Born in Hiroshima, Japan, she graduated from Kobe University with a degree in musical performance, and began working as a video game composer in 1998. She joined video game developer and publisher Square that same year, and worked on over 15 games for them before leaving to work as an independent composer in 2010.

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29/08/1973

Vincent Cavanagh, English singer and guitarist

Vincent Cavanagh is a British composer, vocalist, and producer, currently releasing music under the moniker The Radicant. His work spans electronic music, contemporary art, dance and immersive technology, with a focus on interdisciplinary collaboration and experimental sound design.

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Olivier Jacque, French motorcycle racer

Olivier Jacque is a French former professional Grand Prix motorcycle road racer.

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29/08/1972

Amanda Marshall, Canadian singer-songwriter

Amanda Meta Marshall is a Canadian Juno award winning pop-rock singer and songwriter. She has released four studio albums; the first was certified diamond in Canada, with the second and third certified 3× platinum and platinum respectively. She is best known for her 1996 single, "Birmingham", which reached number 3 in Canada and was her only song to reach the US charts.

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Bae Yong-joon, South Korean actor

Bae Yong-joon is a South Korean businessman and former actor. He has starred in numerous television dramas, including, notably, Winter Sonata (2002), which became a major part of the Korean Wave. Bae retired from acting after 2007, but remains active as the chairman of management agency KeyEast.

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29/08/1971

Henry Blanco, Venezuelan baseball player and coach

Henry Ramón Blanco is a Venezuelan former professional baseball catcher who currently serves as the manager for the Sultanes de Monterrey of the Mexican League. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) from 1997 to 2013, appearing for the Los Angeles Dodgers, Colorado Rockies, Milwaukee Brewers, Atlanta Braves, Minnesota Twins, Chicago Cubs, San Diego Padres, New York Mets, Arizona Diamondbacks, Toronto Blue Jays, and Seattle Mariners. He later served as quality assurance coach for the Cubs. Although a light-hitting player, he was regarded as one of the best defensive catchers of his era.

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Alex Griffin, English bass player

Ned's Atomic Dustbin is an English rock band formed in Stourbridge, West Midlands, in November 1987. The band took their name from an episode of radio comedy programme The Goon Show. The band is unusual for using two bass-players in their line-up.

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Carla Gugino, American actress

Carla Gugino is an American actress. After early roles in the films Troop Beverly Hills (1989), This Boy's Life (1993), Son in Law (1993), and Snake Eyes (1998), Gugino received wider recognition for her starring roles in the Spy Kids trilogy (2001–2003), Sin City (2005), Night at the Museum (2006), American Gangster (2007), Righteous Kill (2008), Race to Witch Mountain (2009), Sally Jupiter in Watchmen (2009), Sucker Punch (2011), Mr. Popper's Penguins (2011), San Andreas (2015), Gerald's Game (2017), Gunpowder Milkshake (2021), and Lisa Frankenstein (2024).

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29/08/1969

Joe Swail, Northern Irish snooker player

Joe Swail is a Northern Irish former professional snooker player from Belfast. He retired in May 2019 after being relegated from the tour. He has reached ten major ranking semi-finals, including the 2000 and 2001 World Championships but only one final. Swail is renowned for playing well at the Crucible Theatre, having reached the last 16 on four further occasions. He is also a former English amateur champion and Northern Ireland amateur runner-up, and has captained Northern Ireland internationally. He was Irish champion in 1992 and 2005.

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Jennifer Crittenden, American screenwriter and producer

Jennifer Crittenden is an American screenwriter and producer. She started her writing career on the animated television series The Simpsons, and has since written for several other television sitcoms including Everybody Loves Raymond, Seinfeld and Veep. Her work has earned her several Emmy Award nominations.

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Lucero, Mexican singer, songwriter, actress, and television host

Lucero Hogaza León is a Mexican singer, actress, and television personality. Dubbed "the Americas' Girlfriend", she is known for her influence in Latin music and Latin American television, with a career spanning over four decades. She started her career at age 10 as a child actress on Televisa shows like Alegrías de Mediodía, Chiquilladas, and later starred in Chispita. In 1982, she debuted as a singer with Él and soon became one of the most popular teen pop stars of the 1980s. Her albums from that time include Un Pedacito de Mí (1986), Ocho Quince (1988), and Cuéntame (1989).

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29/08/1968

Meshell Ndegeocello, German-American singer-songwriter

Meshell Ndegeocello is an American singer-songwriter, poet, and bassist. She has gone by the name Meshell Suhaila Bashir-Shakur which is used as a writing credit on some of her mid-career work. Her music incorporates a wide variety of influences, including funk, soul, jazz, hip hop, reggae and rock. She has received significant critical acclaim throughout her career, being nominated for 13 Grammy Awards, and winning three. She also has been credited for helping to "spark the neo-soul movement".

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29/08/1967

Neil Gorsuch, American lawyer and jurist, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States

Neil McGill Gorsuch is an American jurist who serves as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. He was nominated by President Donald Trump on January 31, 2017, and has served since April 10, 2017.

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Anton Newcombe, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

Anton Alfred Newcombe is an American singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, producer, and founder of the music group The Brian Jonestown Massacre.

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29/08/1966

Jörn Großkopf, German footballer and manager

Jörn Großkopf (born 29 August 1966 is a German former football player and manager. He is currently in charge of Eintracht Norderstedt.

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29/08/1965

Will Perdue, American basketball player and sportscaster

William Edward Perdue III is an American former professional basketball player in the National Basketball Association (NBA). He was a member of four NBA championship teams, three with the Chicago Bulls (1991–1993) and one with the San Antonio Spurs (1999). Perdue was a Studio analyst for NBC Sports Chicago during its pre- and post-game Chicago Bulls broadcasts until the channel's closure in 2024.

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Geir-Inge Sivertsen, Norwegian politician and engineer, Norwegian Minister of Fisheries and Seafood

Geir-Inge Sivertsen is a Norwegian engineer and politician for the Conservative Party. He is currently the mayor of Senja since 2023. He served as minister of fisheries from January to March 2020, and previously served as mayor of Lenvik from 2011 to 2019.

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29/08/1964

Perri "Pebbles" Reid, American dance-pop and urban contemporary singer-songwriter

Perri Arlette Reid, known professionally as Pebbles, is an American singer, songwriter, businesswoman, pastor, record producer, and music executive. She is known for her hits during the late 1980s and early 1990s such as "Girlfriend" (1987), "Mercedes Boy" (1988), "Giving You the Benefit" (1990), "Love Makes Things Happen" (1990) and "Backyard" (1991). In addition to a recording career, Reid helped develop the contemporary R&B group TLC. She is now an Atlanta-based minister, known as Sister Perri.

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Zisis Tsekos, Greek footballer

Zisis Tsekos is a former Greek footballer.

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29/08/1963

Elizabeth Fraser, Scottish singer-songwriter

Elizabeth Davidson Fraser is a Scottish singer. She was the vocalist for the band Cocteau Twins, who achieved worldwide success from the mid-1980s to the late 1990s. Their studio albums Victorialand (1986) and Heaven or Las Vegas (1990) reached the top ten of the UK Album Charts, while other albums, including Blue Bell Knoll (1988), Four-Calendar Café (1993), and Milk & Kisses (1996), charted on the Billboard 200 album charts in the United States and the top 20 in the UK. She also performed as part of the 4AD group This Mortal Coil, including the successful 1983 single "Song to the Siren", and as a guest with Massive Attack on several tracks from their 1998 album Mezzanine, most notably the commercially successful single "Teardrop", and album tracks "Black Milk" and "Group Four". She later collaborated with the band again on the track "Silent Spring", released on their 2006 compilation Collected.

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29/08/1962

Carl Banks, American football player and sportscaster

Carl E. Banks is an American former professional football player who was a linebacker in the National Football League (NFL). He played from 1984 to 1995 for the New York Giants, Washington Redskins and Cleveland Browns. He played college football for the Michigan State Spartans.

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Hiroki Kikuta, Japanese game designer and composer

Hiroki Kikuta is a Japanese composer and game designer. His major works are Secret of Mana, Trials of Mana, Soukaigi, and Koudelka, for which he also acted as producer and concept designer. He has composed music for seven other games, and worked as a concept designer in addition to composer for the unreleased MMORPG Chou Bukyo Taisen. He became interested in music at an early age, but earned a degree in Religious Studies, Philosophy, and Cultural Anthropology from Kansai University. He spent the next few years working first as a manga illustrator, then as a composer for anime series, before coming to work for Square in 1991.

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Ian James Corlett, Canadian voice actor, writer, producer and author

Ian James Corlett is a Canadian voice actor and author. He is the creator of the animated series Being Ian and Yvon of the Yukon with Studio B Productions, with notable voice roles including Mega Man in Ruby-Spears' Mega Man series, Cheetor in Beast Wars: Transformers, and the first English voice of adult Goku in the Ocean dub of Dragon Ball Z from 1996 to 1997.

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Simon Thurley, English historian and academic

Simon John Thurley is an English academic and architectural historian. He served as Chief Executive of English Heritage from April 2002 to May 2015. In April 2021, he became Chair of the National Lottery Heritage Fund.

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Richard Angelo, American serial killer and poisoner

Richard Angelo is an American serial killer and former nurse who operated within Long Island and West Islip, New York. In 1989, he was convicted of murdering several of his patients and sentenced to 50-years-to-life in prison.

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29/08/1961

Carsten Fischer, German field hockey player

Carsten "Calle" Fischer is a former field hockey player from West Germany, who competed at four Summer Olympics for his native country. He won the golden medal with his team at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, after securing silver at the two previous Olympics in Los Angeles (1984) and Seoul (1988). At his fourth Olympic games, in Atlanta (1996), he came fourth.

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Rodney McCray, American basketball player

Rodney Earl McCray is an American former professional basketball player. A 6'7" small forward, he spent 10 seasons (1983–93) in the National Basketball Association (NBA), tallying 9,014 career points and 5,087 career rebounds.

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29/08/1960

Todd English, American chef and author

William Todd English is an American celebrity chef, restaurateur, author, and television personality, based in Boston, Massachusetts. He hosted the TV cooking show, Food Trip with Todd English, on PBS. In 2005 he was a judge on the PBS show Cooking Under Fire.

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Tony MacAlpine, American guitarist, songwriter, and producer

Tony MacAlpine is an American musician and composer. In a career spanning four decades, he has released twelve studio albums. MacAlpine is best known as an instrumental rock and heavy metal solo guitarist, although he has worked with many different bands and musicians in guest appearances and collaborations.

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29/08/1959

Rebecca De Mornay, American actress

Rebecca De Mornay is an American actress who has appeared in more than 60 films and television shows. Her breakthrough film role came in 1983, when she starred in Risky Business. De Mornay is also known for her roles in The Slugger's Wife (1985), Runaway Train (1985), The Trip to Bountiful (1985), Backdraft (1991), and The Hand That Rocks the Cradle (1992).

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Ramón Díaz, Argentine footballer and manager

Ramón Ángel Díaz is an Argentine football manager and former player. He is the most successful Argentine coach in history with 17 titles, the second most successful manager in River Plate's history after Marcelo Gallardo and the most successful in Argentine Primera Divison along with Ángel Labruna.

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Ray Elgaard, Canadian football player

Raymond Elgaard is a former Canadian Football League (CFL) slotback for the Saskatchewan Roughriders from 1983 through 1996, including winning the 77th Grey Cup in 1989. A big man, he was noted for his reliability as a receiver and his toughness on the field. He retired as the all-time leader in receptions and receiving yards in the Canadian Football League.

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Chris Hadfield, Canadian colonel, pilot, and astronaut

Chris Austin Hadfield is a Canadian retired astronaut, engineer, fighter pilot, musician, and writer. As the first Canadian to perform extravehicular activity in outer space, he has flown two Space Shuttle missions and also served as commander of the International Space Station (ISS). Prior to his career as an astronaut, he served in the Canadian Armed Forces for 25 years as an Air Command fighter pilot.

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Eddi Reader, Scottish singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer

Sadenia "Eddi" Reader MBE is a Scottish singer-songwriter, known for her work as the lead vocalist of the folk and soft rock band Fairground Attraction and for an enduring solo career. She is the recipient of three Brit Awards. In 2003, she showcased the works of Scotland's national poet, Robert Burns.

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Timothy Shriver, American businessman and activist

Timothy Perry Shriver is an American disability rights activist, film producer, and former educator who has been Chairman of Special Olympics since 1996 and is the founder of UNITE. He is a member of the prominent Shriver and Kennedy families, as the third child of Eunice Kennedy Shriver, and Sargent Shriver, who helped found the Peace Corps.

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Stephen Wolfram, English-American physicist and mathematician

Stephen Wolfram is a British-American computer scientist, physicist, and businessman. He is known for his work in computer algebra and theoretical physics. In 2012, he was named a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.

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Nagarjuna, Indian film actor, Producer and Businessman

Akkineni Nagarjuna is an Indian actor best known for his works primarily in Telugu cinema, as well as in a few Hindi and Tamil films. He has appeared in over 90 films and is a recipient of two National Film Awards for Ninne Pelladata (1996) and Annamayya (1997). Nagarjuna has also won ten Nandi Awards and three Filmfare Awards South. In 2013, he represented the Cinema of South India at the Delhi Film Festival's 100 Years of Indian Cinema's celebration. In 1995, he ventured into film production, with a production unit operating in Seychelles, and was a co-director of an Emmy Award-winning film animation company called Heart Animation. Nagarjuna is the co-owner of Annapurna Studios and is also the president of the non-profit film school Annapurna College of Film and Media based in Hyderabad.

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29/08/1958

Lenny Henry, English comedian, actor, and screenwriter

Sir Lenworth George Henry is a British-Jamaican comedian, actor, presenter and writer. He gained success as a stand-up comedian and impressionist in the late 1970s and early 1980s, becoming a regular cast member of the children's entertainment show Tiswas and the sketch comedy show Three of a Kind. In 1984, he began The Lenny Henry Show, which ran until 2005 and varied between sketch show and sitcom during its run. He was the most prominent black British comedian of the late 1970s and 1980s, and much of his material served to celebrate and parody his African-Caribbean roots.

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Michael Jackson, American singer-songwriter, producer, dancer, and actor (died 2009)

Michael Joseph Jackson was an American singer, songwriter, dancer, and philanthropist. Dubbed the "King of Pop", he is widely regarded as one of the most culturally significant figures of the 20th century. Over a four-decade career, his musical achievements broke American racial barriers and made him a dominant figure worldwide. Through his songs, concerts, and fashion, he proliferated visual performance for artists in popular music, popularizing street dance moves such as the moonwalk, the robot, and the anti-gravity lean. Jackson is often deemed the greatest entertainer of all time.

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29/08/1957

Jerry D. Bailey, American jockey and sportscaster

Jerry D. Bailey is a retired American Hall of Fame jockey and current NBC Sports thoroughbred racing analyst. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest jockeys of all time.

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Grzegorz Ciechowski, Polish singer-songwriter, film music composer (died 2001)

Grzegorz Zbigniew Ciechowski was a Polish rock musician and film music composer.

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29/08/1956

Mark Morris, American dancer and choreographer

Mark William Morris is an American dancer, choreographer and director.

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Eddie Murray, American football player

Edward Peter Murray is a Canadian former professional football player who was a kicker in the National Football League (NFL) for the Detroit Lions, Kansas City Chiefs, Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Dallas Cowboys, Philadelphia Eagles, Minnesota Vikings and Washington Redskins. He played college football at Tulane University.

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Charalambos Xanthopoulos, Greek footballer

Charalampos "Babis" Xanthopoulos is a former Greek footballer.

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Steve Yarbrough, American novelist and short story writer

Steve Yarbrough is an American author and academic, who teaches at Emerson College.

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29/08/1955

Diamanda Galás, American singer-songwriter and pianist

Diamanda Galás is an American musician, singer-songwriter, visual artist, and activist. Galás has attracted the attention of the press particularly for her voice — a soprano sfogato — and written accounts that describe her work as original and thought-provoking refer to her as "capable of the most unnerving vocal terror", an "aesthetic revolutionary", "a mourner for the world's victims" and "an envoy of risk, honesty and commitment".

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Jack Lew, American lawyer and politician, 25th White House Chief of Staff

Jacob Joseph Lew is an American attorney and diplomat who served as the 28th United States ambassador to Israel from 2023 to 2025. He was the 76th United States secretary of the treasury from 2013 to 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, he also served as the 25th White House chief of staff from 2012 to 2013 and as director of the Office of Management and Budget in both the Clinton administration and Obama administration.

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29/08/1954

Michael P. Kube-McDowell, American journalist, author, and academic

Michael Paul Kube-McDowell, also known as Michael McDowell or Michael P. McDowell, is an American author of science fiction and non-fiction.

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29/08/1953

David Boaz, American businessman and author

David Douglas Boaz was a libertarian author, philosopher and editor. He was a distinguished senior fellow and the executive vice president of the Cato Institute, an American libertarian think tank. Boaz was a prominent advocate for individual liberty, limited government, free markets, and non-interventionist foreign policy.

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Richard Harding, English rugby union player

Richard Mark Harding is a former rugby union international who played for England, and on his last test captained them. He also played club rugby for his home city of Bristol and was part of Bristol RFC's cup winning side of 1983. After his sporting career he has concentrated on his profession as an estate agent and chartered surveyor.

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James Quesada, Nicaraguan-American anthropologist and academic

James Quesada is a Nicaraguan American Anthropologist and professor at San Francisco State University's Department of Anthropology.. His work focuses on cultural and medical anthropology, the ethnography of structural and political violence, social Suffering, critical medical anthropology, urban anthropology, culture change, transnational migration and refugee migration, North America, Central America, and the inner city.

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29/08/1952

Karen Hesse, American author and poet

Karen S. Hesse is an American author of children's literature and literature for young adults, often with historical settings. She received the Newbery Medal for Out of the Dust (1997).

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Dave Malone, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

The Radiators, also known as The New Orleans Radiators, are an American swamp rock band from New Orleans, Louisiana, United States. The band's musical style, which draws from blues, rock, rhythm and blues, funk and soul music, has attracted a dedicated fanbase who the band calls "fish heads". Described by OffBeat magazine as "New Orleans' longest-running and most successful rock band", The Radiators had only limited commercial success, with only a handful of chart appearances, but, as a party band from a party town, their enthusiastic live performances, danceable beats and relentless touring earned the band a dedicated following and the admiration of many of their peers.

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Don Schlitz, American Hall of Fame country music songwriter (died 2026)

Donald Allen Schlitz Jr. was an American songwriter who wrote more than twenty number-one hits on the country music charts. He was best known for his song "The Gambler", and as the co-writer of "Forever and Ever, Amen", and "When You Say Nothing at All". For his songwriting efforts, Schlitz earned two Grammy Awards, and four ASCAP Country Songwriter of the Year awards.

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Deborah Van Valkenburgh, American actress

Deborah Van Valkenburgh is an American actress best known for her screen debut as Mercy in the 1979 cult film The Warriors, and her role as Jackie Rush for five seasons (1980–1985) on the television situation comedy Too Close for Comfort. In 2012, she won the Best Supporting Actress in a Fantasy Film award at the PollyGrind Underground Film Festival for the film Road to Hell.

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29/08/1951

Geoff Whitehorn, English singer-songwriter and guitarist

Geoffrey Charles Whitehorn is a guitarist and singer-songwriter, who has played as a member of If, Crawler and Procol Harum.

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29/08/1950

Doug DeCinces, American baseball player

Douglas Vernon DeCinces is an American former professional baseball player. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a third baseman from 1973 to 1987 for the Baltimore Orioles, California Angels and St. Louis Cardinals. He also played for one season in the Nippon Professional Baseball league for the Yakult Swallows in 1988.

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Frank Henenlotter, American director and screenwriter

Frank Henenlotter is an American film director, screenwriter and film historian. He is known primarily for directing horror comedies, especially Basket Case (1982), Brain Damage (1988), and Frankenhooker (1990).

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Dave Reichert, American soldier and politician

David George Reichert is an American retired police officer and politician who served as the U.S. representative for Washington's 8th congressional district from 2005 to 2019. A moderate member of the Republican Party, he served as the sheriff of King County, Washington from 1997 to 2005.

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Aki Yashiro, Japanese singer (died 2023)

Aki Yashiro , real name Akiyo Masuda , née Hashimoto , was a Japanese enka singer and painter. Her stage name "Yashiro" was adopted from her hometown Yatsushiro.

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29/08/1949

Stan Hansen, American wrestler and actor

John Stanley Hansen II, best known as Stan "the Lariat" Hansen, is an American retired professional wrestler.

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Darnell Hillman, American basketball player

Darnell Hillman is an American former professional basketball player who spent nine seasons in the American Basketball Association and National Basketball Association with the Indiana Pacers, New Jersey Nets, Denver Nuggets, Kansas City Kings and Golden State Warriors.

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29/08/1948

Robert S. Langer, American chemical engineer, entrepreneur, and academic

Robert Samuel Langer Jr. FREng is an American biotechnologist, businessman, chemical engineer, chemist, and inventor. He is one of the nine Institute Professors at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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29/08/1947

Temple Grandin, American ethologist, academic, and author

Mary Temple Grandin is an American academic, inventor, and ethologist. She is a prominent proponent of the humane treatment of livestock for slaughter and the author of more than 60 scientific papers on animal behavior. Grandin is a consultant to the livestock industry, where she offers advice on animal behavior.

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James Hunt, English race car driver and sportscaster (died 1993)

James Simon Wallis Hunt was a British racing driver and broadcaster who competed in Formula One from 1973 to 1979. Nicknamed "the Shunt", Hunt won the Formula One World Drivers' Championship in 1976 with McLaren, and won 10 Grands Prix across seven seasons.

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29/08/1946

Bob Beamon, American long jumper

Robert Beamon is an American former track and field athlete, best known for his world record in the long jump at the Mexico City Olympics in 1968. By jumping 8.90 m, he broke the existing record by a margin of 55 cm and his world record stood for almost 23 years until it was broken in 1991 by Mike Powell. The jump is still the Olympic record and the second-longest in history unassisted by wind.

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Francine D. Blau, American economist and academic

Francine Dee Blau is an American economist and professor of economics as well as Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell University. In 2010, Blau was the first woman to receive the IZA Prize in Labor Economics for her "seminal contributions to the economic analysis of labor market inequality." She was awarded the 2017 Jacob Mincer Award by the Society of Labor Economists in recognition of lifetime of contributions to the field of labor economics.

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Demetris Christofias, Cypriot businessman and politician, 6th President of Cyprus (died 2019)

Demetris Christofias was a Cypriot politician, who served as President of Cyprus from 2008 to 2013. He was previously President of the House of Representatives from 2001 to 2008 and General Secretary of the Progressive Party of Working People from 1988 to 2009.

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Warren Jabali, American basketball player (died 2012)

Warren Jabali was an American basketball player. He played professionally in the American Basketball Association (ABA) from 1968 to 1975.

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Giorgio Orsoni, Italian lawyer and politician, 17th Mayor of Venice

Giorgio Orsoni is an Italian lawyer, politician and a former mayor of Venice.

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29/08/1945

Chris Copping, English singer-songwriter and guitarist

Chris Copping is a musician and singer-songwriter who was a member of Procol Harum in the 1970s, and has also composed for TV and film. He predominantly plays organ, piano and bass guitar.

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Wyomia Tyus, American sprinter

Wyomia Tyus is a retired American track and field sprinter, and the first person to retain the Olympic title in the 100 m.

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29/08/1943

Mohamed Amin, Kenyan photographer and journalist (died 1996)

Mohamed Amin was a Kenyan photojournalist.

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Dick Halligan, American pianist and composer (died 2022)

Richard Bernard Halligan was an American musician and composer, best known as a founding member of the jazz-rock band Blood, Sweat & Tears.

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Arthur B. McDonald, Canadian astrophysicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate

Arthur Bruce McDonald P.Eng is a Canadian astrophysicist. McDonald is the director of the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory Collaboration and held the Gordon and Patricia Gray Chair in Particle Astrophysics at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario from 2006 to 2013. He was awarded the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physics jointly with Japanese physicist Takaaki Kajita.

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29/08/1942

James Glennon, American cinematographer (died 2006)

James "Jim" Glennon was an American cinematographer.

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Gottfried John, German actor (died 2014)

Gottfried John was a German stage, screen, and voice actor. A longtime collaborator of Rainer Werner Fassbinder, John appeared in nine of his films between 1975 and 1981, the year before Fassbinder's death, including Eight Hours Don't Make a Day, Mother Küsters' Trip to Heaven, Despair, The Marriage of Maria Braun, and Berlin Alexanderplatz. His distinctive, gaunt appearance saw him frequently cast as villains, and he is best known to audiences for his role as the corrupt General Arkady Ourumov in the 1995 James Bond film GoldenEye and his comedic turn as Julius Caesar in Asterix and Obelix vs. Caesar (1999), for the latter of which he won the Bavarian Film Award for Best Supporting Actor.

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Sterling Morrison, American singer and guitarist (died 1995)

Holmes Sterling Morrison Jr. was an American guitarist, best known as one of the founding members of the rock band the Velvet Underground, usually playing electric guitar, occasionally bass guitar, and singing backing vocals.

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29/08/1941

Robin Leach, English journalist and television host (died 2018)

Robin Douglas Leach was a British-American entertainment reporter and writer from London. After beginning his career as a print journalist, first in Britain and then in the United States, he became best known for hosting the television series Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous from 1984 to 1995. The show focused on profiling well-known celebrities and their lavish homes, cars and other materialistic details.

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29/08/1940

James Brady, American politician and activist, 15th White House Press Secretary (died 2014)

James Scott Brady was an American journalist, politician, activist and American public official who served as assistant to the U.S. president and the 17th White House Press Secretary, serving under President Ronald Reagan. On March 30, 1981, John Hinckley Jr. shot and wounded Brady during Hinckley’s attempted assassination of Ronald Reagan, which occurred two months and 10 days after Reagan's inauguration.

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Gary Gabelich, American race car driver (died 1984)

Gary Michael Gabelich was an American motorsport driver who set the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA) Land Speed Record (LSR) on October 23, 1970, driving the rocket car Blue Flame at Bonneville Salt Flats near Wendover, Utah.

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29/08/1939

Jolán Kleiber-Kontsek, Hungarian discus thrower and shot putter (died 2022)

Jolán Kleiber-Kontsek was a Hungarian athlete who mainly competed in the discus throw event during her career.

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Joel Schumacher, American director, producer, and screenwriter (died 2020)

Joel T. Schumacher was an American film director, producer and screenwriter. Raised in New York City by his mother, Schumacher graduated from Parsons School of Design and originally became a fashion designer. He first entered filmmaking as a production and costume designer before gaining writing credits on Car Wash, Sparkle, and The Wiz.

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29/08/1938

Elliott Gould, American actor and producer

Elliott Gould is an American actor.

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Angela Huth, English journalist and author

Angela Huth is an English novelist and journalist.

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Christian Müller, German footballer and manager

Christian Müller is a German former professional footballer. A forward, he made 131 appearances and scored 71 goals in the Bundesliga for 1. FC Köln and Karlsruher SC during his playing career.

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Robert Rubin, American lawyer and politician, 70th United States Secretary of the Treasury

Robert Edward Rubin is an American retired banking executive, lawyer, and former government official. He served as the 70th United States secretary of the treasury during the Clinton administration. Before his government service, he spent 26 years at Goldman Sachs, eventually serving as a member of the board and co-chairman from 1990 to 1992.

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29/08/1937

James Florio, American commander, lawyer, and politician, 49th Governor of New Jersey (died 2022)

James Joseph Florio was an American lawyer and politician who served as the 49th governor of New Jersey from 1990 to 1994. He was previously the U.S. representative for New Jersey's 1st congressional district from 1975 to 1990 and served in the New Jersey General Assembly from 1970 to 1975. He was a member of the Democratic Party.

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29/08/1936

John McCain, American captain and politician (died 2018)

John Sidney McCain III was an American politician and naval officer who represented Arizona in the United States Congress for over 35 years, first as a U.S. representative from 1983 to 1987, then as a U.S. senator from 1987 until his death in 2018. A member of the Republican Party, he was the party's nominee in the 2008 presidential election.

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29/08/1935

Hugo Brandt Corstius, Dutch linguist and author (died 2014)

Hugo Brandt Corstius was a Dutch author, known for his achievements in both literature and science.

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William Friedkin, American director, producer, and screenwriter (died 2023)

William David Friedkin was an American film, television and opera director, producer, and screenwriter who was closely identified with the New Hollywood movement of the 1970s. Beginning his career in documentaries in the early 1960s, he is best known for his crime thriller film The French Connection (1971), which won five Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director, and the horror film The Exorcist (1973), which earned him another Academy Award nomination for Best Director.

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László Garai, Hungarian psychologist and scholar (died 2019)

László Garai was a Hungarian scholar of psychology, specialising in the fields of theoretical psychology, social psychology and economic psychology.

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29/08/1934

Dimitris Papamichael, Greek actor and director (died 2004)

Dimitris Papamichael was a popular Greek actor and director. In 1965, he married Aliki Vougiouklaki, the so-called "national star" of Greece, whom he met at the National Theatre of Greece Drama School. The star couple remained married for a decade, co-starring in several films that marked the "golden era" of Greek cinema.

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29/08/1933

Sorel Etrog, Romanian-Canadian sculptor, painter, and illustrator (died 2014)

Sorel Etrog, was a Romanian-born Israeli-Canadian artist, writer, and primarily, a sculptor. He specialized in modern art works and contemporary sculpture. Etrog's works explore his first-hand experience of the Second World War, the renewal of sculptural traditions in modern art, such as the use of bronze as a medium, and the opposition between the mechanical and the organic. One of Canada's leading artists in the 1960s, Etrog contributed to the country's growing interest in sculpture.

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Arnold Koller, Swiss politician

Arnold Koller is a Swiss professor and politician. He served as a member of the Federal Council from 1987 to 1999 for the Christian Democratic People's Party (CVP). Koller previously served as a member of the National Council from 1971 to 1986. He did also serve two terms of the as President of the Swiss Confederation in 1990 and 1997. He is primarily known for Lex Koller, a Swiss Federal Act on Acquisitions of Real Estate by Persons Abroad, which he initiated.

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29/08/1931

Stelios Kazantzidis, Greek singer and guitarist (died 2001)

Stelios Kazantzidis was one of the most prominent Greek singers. His roots were from Pontus and Asia Minor. A top artist of Greek music, or Laïkó, he collaborated with many of Greece's foremost composers.

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Lise Payette, Canadian journalist and politician (died 2018)

Lise Payette was a Canadian politician, journalist, writer, and businesswoman. She was a Parti Québécois (PQ) minister under the leadership of Premier René Lévesque and National Assembly of Quebec member for the riding of Dorion. Originally a journalist, Payette became a television host in the 1960s. She left politics in 1981 and returned to a successful career in television production and writing.

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29/08/1930

Jacques Bouchard, Canadian businessman (died 2006)

Jacques Bouchard, was a Canadian advertising executive and author. He was one of the founders of Quebec's first French creative advertising agency, BCP, and a pioneer in French-language advertising.

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Carlos Loyzaga, Filipino basketball player and coach (died 2016)

Carlos "Caloy" Loyzaga y Matute was a Filipino basketball player, coach and politician. He was the most dominant basketball player of his era in the Philippines and is considered as the greatest Filipino basketball player of all time. As a member of the Philippine national team, Loyzaga was a two-time Olympian and led the Philippines to bronze at the 1954 FIBA World Championship, where he was named to the All-Tournament second team.

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29/08/1929

Thom Gunn, English-American poet and academic (died 2004)

Thomson William "Thom" Gunn was an English poet who was praised for his early verses in England, where he was associated with The Movement, and his later poetry in America, where he adopted a looser, free-verse style. He wrote about his experience moving to San Francisco from England. He received numerous literary honours. His poems are reputed to possess a restrained elegance of philosophy.

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29/08/1928

Herbert Meier, Swiss author and translator (died 2018)

Herbert Meier was a Swiss writer and translator.

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29/08/1927

Jimmy C. Newman, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2014)

Jimmy Yves Newman, better known as Jimmy C. Newman, was an American country music and Cajun singer-songwriter and long-time star of the Grand Ole Opry.

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29/08/1926

Hélène Ahrweiler, Greek historian and academic (died 2026)

Hélène Glykatzi-Ahrweiler was a Greek-French academic Byzantinologist. She was also a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador for Greece.

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René Depestre, Haitian writer

René Depestre is a Haitian-French poet and former communist activist. He is considered to be one of the most prominent figures in Haitian literature. He lived in Cuba as an exile from the Duvalier regime for many years and was a founder of the Casa de las Américas publishing house. He is best known for his poetry.

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Donn Fendler, American author and speaker (died 2016)

Donn Charles Fendler was an American author and public speaker. Born in Rye, New York, Fendler, at the age of 12, became separated from his family and was lost on Maine's Mount Katahdin in July 1939. His disappearance launched a search party, which became headline news throughout the United States. Donn survived for nine days without food or proper clothing, before following a stream and telephone line out of the woods near Stacyville, Maine. Fendler was dehydrated, covered with insect bites, and 16 pounds lighter than at the beginning of his odyssey, but otherwise unharmed. He credited his experience as a Boy Scout in helping him survive the ordeal.

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Betty Lynn, American actress (died 2021)

Elizabeth Ann Theresa Lynn was an American actress. She played Thelma Lou, Deputy Barney Fife's girlfriend, on The Andy Griffith Show. During the 1940s and 1950s, she appeared in many films, including Sitting Pretty (1948), June Bride (1948), the original Cheaper by the Dozen (1950), and Meet Me in Las Vegas (1956). She also played a major role in an episode of the television series Little House on the Prairie.

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29/08/1924

Dinah Washington, American singer and pianist (died 1963)

Dinah Washington was an American singer and pianist, one of the most popular Black female recording artists of the 1950s. Primarily a jazz vocalist, she performed and recorded in a wide variety of styles including blues, R&B, and traditional pop music, and gave herself the title of "Queen of the Blues". She was also known as "Queen of the Jukeboxes". She was a 1986 inductee of the Alabama Jazz Hall of Fame, and was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1993.

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29/08/1923

Richard Attenborough, English actor, director, and producer (died 2014)

Richard Samuel Attenborough, Baron Attenborough was an English actor, film director and producer.

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29/08/1922

Arthur Anderson, American actor (died 2016)

Arthur John Miles Anderson was an American actor of radio, film, television, and stage.

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Richard Blackwell, American actor, fashion designer, and critic (died 2008)

Richard Blackwell, also known as Mr. Blackwell, was an American fashion critic, journalist, television and radio personality, artist, former child actor, and former fashion designer. He was the creator of the "Ten Worst Dressed Women List", an annual awards presentation he unveiled in January of each year. He published the "Fabulous Fashion Independents" list and an annual Academy Awards fashion review, both of which receive somewhat less media attention. His partner of 60 years, Beverly Hills hairdresser Robert L. Spencer, was also his manager. He wrote two books, Mr. Blackwell: 30 Years of Fashion Fiascos and an autobiography, From Rags to Bitches.

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John Edward Williams, American author and educator (died 1994)

John Edward Williams was an American author, editor and professor. He was best known for his novels Butcher's Crossing (1960), Stoner (1965), and Augustus (1972), which won a U.S. National Book Award.

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29/08/1921

Iris Apfel, American businesswoman, interior designer, and philanthropist (died 2024)

Iris Apfel was an American businesswoman, interior designer, and fashion designer, known for her flamboyant style, outspoken personality and oversized eyeglasses. In business with her husband, Carl, from 1950 to 1992, Apfel had a career in textiles, including a contract with the White House that spanned nine presidencies. In retirement, she drew acclaim for a 2005 show at the Costume Institute at The Metropolitan Museum of Art featuring her collection of costume jewelry and styled with clothes on mannequins as she would wear them. She became a fashion icon, was the focus of the 2014 Albert Maysles documentary Iris, then signed to IMG in 2019 as a model at age 97.

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29/08/1920

Otis Boykin, American inventor and engineer (died 1982)

Otis Frank Boykin was an American inventor and engineer. His inventions include electrical resistors used in computing, missile guidance, and pacemakers.

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Charlie Parker, American saxophonist and composer (died 1955)

Charles Parker Jr., nicknamed "Bird" or "Yardbird", was an American jazz saxophonist, bandleader, and composer. Parker was a highly influential soloist and leading figure in the development of bebop, a form of jazz characterized by fast tempos, virtuosic technique, and advanced harmonies. He was a virtuoso and introduced revolutionary rhythmic and harmonic ideas into jazz, including rapid passing chords, new variants of altered chords, and chord substitutions. Parker primarily played the alto saxophone.

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Herb Simpson, American baseball player (died 2015)

Herbert Harold Simpson was an American baseball player in the Negro leagues. He played for the Seattle Steelheads in the West Coast Negro Baseball League. He also played for the Birmingham Black Barons and the Chicago American Giants. In the Minor Leagues, he played for the Spokane Indians and the Albuquerque Dukes.

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29/08/1917

Isabel Sanford, American actress (died 2004)

Eloise Gwendolyn "Isabel" Sanford was an American stage, film, and television actress and comedian best known for her role as Louise "Weezy" Mills Jefferson on the CBS sitcoms All in the Family (1971–1975) and The Jeffersons (1975–1985). In 1981, she became the second African-American actress to win a Primetime Emmy Award after Gail Fisher and the first African-American actress to win for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series.

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29/08/1916

Luther Davis, American playwright and screenwriter (died 2008)

Luther Berryhill Davis was an American playwright and screenwriter. Over a span of 45 years, Davis worked extensively in theater, television and film, but is probably best remembered for his Tony Award winning book for the 1953 musical Kismet and the screenplay for the 1955 film adaptation.

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29/08/1915

Ingrid Bergman, Swedish actress (died 1982)

Ingrid Bergman was a Swedish actress. With a career spanning five decades, Bergman is often regarded as one of the most influential actresses in the history of cinema. She won numerous accolades, including three Academy Awards, two Primetime Emmy Awards, and a Tony Award; these accolades made her the youngest performer to achieve the Triple Crown of Acting and one of only four actresses to have received at least three acting Academy Awards.

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Nathan Pritikin, American nutritionist and author (died 1985)

Nathan Pritikin was an American inventor, engineer, nutritionist and longevity researcher. He promoted the Pritikin diet, a high-carbohydrate low-fat plant-based diet combined with regular aerobic exercise to prevent cardiovascular disease. The Pritikin diet emphasizes the consumption of legumes, whole grains, fresh fruit and vegetables, and non-fat dairy products with small amounts of lean meat, fowl, and fish.

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29/08/1913

Len Butterfield, New Zealand cricketer (died 1999)

Leonard Arthur Butterfield was a New Zealand cricketer who played in one Test in 1946. He later served as New Zealand's chief harness racing stipendiary steward.

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Jackie Mitchell, American baseball pitcher (died 1987)

Virne Beatrice "Jackie" Mitchell Gilbert was one of the first female American pitchers in professional baseball history. She was 17 years old when she pitched for the Chattanooga Lookouts Class AA minor league baseball team in an exhibition game against the New York Yankees, and struck out Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig in succession.

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29/08/1912

Sohn Kee-chung, South Korean runner (died 2002)

Sohn Kee-chung was a Korean Olympic athlete and long-distance runner. He became the first Korean to win a medal at the Olympic Games, winning gold in the marathon at the 1936 Berlin Olympics. He was born in the Korean Peninsula, but he was forced to compete as a member of the Japanese delegation because Korea was under Japanese rule at the time. Sohn set an Olympic record of 2 hours 29 minutes 19.2 seconds.

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Barry Sullivan, American actor (died 1994)

Patrick Barry Sullivan was an American actor of film, television, theatre, and radio. In a career that spanned over 40 years, Sullivan appeared in over 100 movies from the 1930s to the 1980s, primarily as a leading actor after establishing himself in the industry, and later as a character actor.

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Wolfgang Suschitzky, Austrian-English cinematographer and photographer (died 2016)

Wolfgang Suschitzky, BSC, was an Austrian-born British documentary photographer, as well as a cinematographer perhaps best known for his collaboration with Paul Rotha in the 1940s and his work on Mike Hodges' 1971 film Get Carter.

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29/08/1911

John Charnley, British orthopedic surgeon (died 1982)

Sir John Charnley, was an English orthopaedic surgeon. He pioneered the hip replacement operation, which is now one of the most common operations both in the UK and elsewhere in the world, and created the "Wrightington centre for hip surgery". He also demonstrated the fundamental importance of bony compression in operations to arthrodese (fuse) joints, in particular the knee, ankle and shoulder.

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29/08/1910

Vivien Thomas, American surgeon and academic (died 1985)

Vivien Theodore Thomas was an American laboratory supervisor who, in the 1940s, played a major role in developing a procedure now called the Blalock–Thomas–Taussig shunt used to treat blue baby syndrome along with surgeon Alfred Blalock and cardiologist Helen B. Taussig. He was the assistant to Blalock in Blalock's experimental animal laboratory at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, and later at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland. Thomas was unique in that he did not have any professional education or experience in a research laboratory; however, he served as supervisor of the surgical laboratories at Johns Hopkins for 35 years. In 1976, Johns Hopkins awarded him an honorary doctorate and named him an Instructor of Surgery for the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. Without any education past high school, Thomas rose above poverty to become a cardiac surgery pioneer and a teacher of operative techniques to many of the country's most prominent surgeons.

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29/08/1905

Dhyan Chand, Indian field hockey player (died 1979)

Major Dhyan Chand was an Indian field hockey player. He is widely regarded as the greatest field hockey player in history. He was known for his extraordinary ball control and goal-scoring feats, in addition to earning three Olympic gold medals, in 1928, 1932 and 1936, during an era where India dominated field hockey. Dhyan Chand's influence extended beyond these victories, as India won the field hockey event in seven out of eight Olympics from 1928 to 1964.

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Arndt Pekurinen, Finnish activist (died 1941)

Arndt Juho Pekurinen was a Finnish pacifist and conscientious objector.

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29/08/1904

Werner Forssmann, German physician and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1979)

Werner Theodor Otto Forßmann was a German researcher and physician from Germany who shared the 1956 Nobel Prize in Medicine for developing a procedure that allowed cardiac catheterization. In 1929, he put himself under local anesthesia and inserted a catheter into a vein of his arm. Not knowing if the catheter might pierce a vein, he put his life at risk. Forssmann was nevertheless successful; he safely passed the catheter into his heart.

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29/08/1901

Aurèle Joliat, Canadian ice hockey player and referee (died 1986)

Aurèle Émile Joliat, nicknamed the "Mighty Atom" and "Little Giant", was a Canadian professional ice hockey left winger who played 16 seasons in the National Hockey League for the Montreal Canadiens.

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29/08/1898

Preston Sturges, American director and producer (died 1959)

Preston Sturges was an American playwright, inventor, screenwriter, and film director.

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29/08/1891

Marquis James, American journalist and author (died 1955)

Marquis James was an American author and journalist, twice awarded the Pulitzer Prize for his works The Raven: A Biography of Sam Houston and The Life of Andrew Jackson.

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29/08/1890

Peder Furubotn, Norwegian Communist and anti-Nazi Resistance leader (died 1975)

Peder Furubotn was a Norwegian cabinetmaker, politician for the Communist Party and resistance member during World War II.

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29/08/1888

Salme Dutt, Estonian-English politician (died 1964)

Salme Pekkala-Dutt was an Estonian-British communist politician, wife of Rajani Palme Dutt.

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29/08/1887

Jivraj Narayan Mehta, Indian physicians and politician, 1st Chief Minister of Gujarat (died 1978)

Jivraj Narayan Mehta was an Indian politician and the first Chief Minister of Gujarat. He also served as the first "Dewan" of the erstwhile Baroda state, and Indian high commissioner to the United Kingdom from 1963 to 1966.

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29/08/1879

Han Yong-un, Korean independence activist, reformer, and poet (died 1944)

Han Yong-un was a twentieth century Korean Buddhist reformer, poet, and independence activist against colonial rule. This name was his religious name, given by his meditation instructor in 1905, and Manhae (만해) was his art name; his birth name was Han Yu-cheon.

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29/08/1876

Charles F. Kettering, American engineer and businessman, founded Delco Electronics (died 1958)

Charles Franklin Kettering sometimes known as Charles Fredrick Kettering was an American inventor, engineer, businessman, and the holder of 186 patents. He was a founder of Delco, and was head of research at General Motors from 1920 to 1947. Among his most widely used automotive developments were the electrical starting motor and leaded gasoline. In association with the DuPont Chemical Company, he was also responsible for the invention of Freon refrigerant for refrigeration and air conditioning systems. At DuPont he also was responsible for the development of Duco lacquers and enamels, the first practical colored paints for mass-produced automobiles. While working with the Dayton-Wright Company he developed the "Bug" aerial torpedo, considered the world's first aerial missile. He led the advancement of practical, lightweight two-stroke diesel engines, revolutionizing the locomotive and heavy equipment industries. In 1927, he founded the Kettering Foundation, a non-partisan research foundation, and was featured on the cover of Time magazine in January 1933.

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Kim Koo, South Korean politician, 6th President of The Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea (died 1949)

Kim Ku, also known by his art name Paekpŏm, was a Korean independence activist and statesman. He was a leader of the Korean independence movement against the Empire of Japan, head of the Korean Provisional Government from 1926 to 1927 and from 1940 to 1945, and a Korean reunification activist after 1945. Kim is revered in South Korea, where he is considered one of the greatest figures in Korean history; his legacy is also somewhat less enthusiastically celebrated in North Korea, due to his anti-communist views.

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29/08/1875

Leonardo De Lorenzo, Italian flute player and educator (died 1962)

Leonardo De Lorenzo was an Italian virtuoso flautist and music educator.

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29/08/1871

Albert François Lebrun, French engineer and politician, 15th President of France (died 1950)

Albert François Lebrun was a French politician who served as President of France from 1932 to 1940. He was the last president of the Third Republic. He was a member of the centre-right Democratic Republican Alliance (ARD).

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29/08/1862

Andrew Fisher, Scottish-Australian politician and diplomat, 5th Prime Minister of Australia (died 1928)

Andrew Fisher was an Australian politician and trade unionist who served as the fifth prime minister of Australia from 1908 to 1909, 1910 to 1913 and 1914 to 1915. He held office as the leader of the Australian Labor Party (ALP), and was particularly notable for leading the party to its first federal election victory and first majority government at the 1910 federal election.

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Maurice Maeterlinck, Belgian poet and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1949)

Maurice Polydore Marie Bernard Maeterlinck, also known as Count/Comte Maeterlinck from 1932, was a Belgian playwright, poet, and essayist who was Flemish but wrote in French. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1911 "in appreciation of his many-sided literary activities, and especially of his dramatic works, which are distinguished by a wealth of imagination and by a poetic fancy, which reveals, sometimes in the guise of a fairy tale, a deep inspiration, while in a mysterious way they appeal to the readers' own feelings and stimulate their imaginations". The main themes in his work are death and the meaning of life. He was a leading member of the group La Jeune Belgique, and his plays form an important part of the Symbolist movement. In later life, Maeterlinck faced credible accusations of plagiarism.

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29/08/1861

Byron G. Harlan, American singer (died 1936)

Byron George Harlan was an American singer from Kansas, a comic minstrel singer and balladeer who often recorded with Arthur Collins. The two together were often billed as "Collins & Harlan".

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29/08/1857

Sandford Schultz, English cricketer (died 1937)

Sandford Spence Schultz, known in later life as Sandford Spence Storey, was an English cricketer, who played for Uppingham Rovers, Cambridge University, and Lancashire and played in the third-ever Test match. He was also prominent in the golfing world.

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29/08/1854

William C. White, American Seventh-day Adventist Church minister (died 1937)

William Clarence "Willie" White, was a son of Ellen G. White and James Springer White, two of the founders of the Seventh-day Adventist Church. He became a well-known Seventh-day Adventist minister and church leader. W.C.'s son Arthur L. White worked closely with him and succeeded his father as Secretary of the White Estate.

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29/08/1844

Edward Carpenter, English anthologist and poet (died 1929)

Edward Carpenter was an English utopian socialist, poet, philosopher, anthologist, an early activist for gay rights and prison reform whilst advocating vegetarianism and taking a stance against vivisection. As a philosopher, he was particularly known for his publication of Civilisation: Its Cause and Cure. Here, he described civilisation as a form of disease through which human societies pass.

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29/08/1843

David B. Hill, American lawyer and politician, 29th Governor of New York (died 1910)

David Bennett Hill was an American politician from New York who was the 29th governor of New York from 1885 to 1891 and represented New York in the United States Senate from 1892 to 1897.

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29/08/1842

Alfred Shaw, English cricketer, rugby player, and umpire (died 1907)

Alfred Shaw was a Victorian cricketer and rugby footballer, who bowled the first ball in Test cricket and was the first to take five wickets in a Test innings (5/35). He made two trips to North America and four to Australia, captaining the English cricket team in four Test matches on the all-professional tour of Australia in 1881/82, where his team lost and drew two each. He was also, along with James Lillywhite and Arthur Shrewsbury, co-promoter of the tour. He also organised the first British Isles rugby tour to Australasia in 1888.

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29/08/1813

Henry Bergh, American activist, founded the ASPCA (died 1888)

Henry Bergh founded the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) in April, 1866, three days after the first effective legislation against animal cruelty in the United States was passed into law by the New York State Legislature. Bergh also prompted the formation, in 1874, of the New York Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NYSPCC).

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29/08/1810

Juan Bautista Alberdi, Argentine theorist and diplomat (died 1884)

Juan Bautista Alberdi was an Argentine political theorist and diplomat. Although he lived most of his life in exile in Montevideo, Uruguay and in Chile, he influenced the content of the Constitution of Argentina of 1853.

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29/08/1809

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., American physician and author (died 1894)

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. was an American physician, poet, and polymath based in Boston. Grouped among the fireside poets, he was acclaimed by his peers as one of the best writers of the day. His most famous prose works are the "Breakfast-Table" series, which began with The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table (1858). He was also an important medical reformer. In addition to being an author and a poet, Holmes was also a physician, professor, lecturer, and inventor.

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29/08/1805

Frederick Denison Maurice, English priest, theologian, and author (died 1872)

John Frederick Denison Maurice, commonly known as F. D. Maurice, was an English Anglican priest and theologian. He was a prolific author and one of the founders of Christian socialism. Since the Second World War, interest in Maurice has expanded.

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29/08/1792

Charles Grandison Finney, American minister and author (died 1875)

Charles Grandison Finney was an American Presbyterian minister and leader in the Second Great Awakening in the United States. He has been called the "Father of Old Revivalism". Finney was a member of the New School Presbyterians and a part of the Holiness Movement.

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29/08/1780

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, French painter and illustrator (died 1867)

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres was a French Neoclassical painter. Ingres was profoundly influenced by past artistic traditions and aspired to become the guardian of academic orthodoxy against the ascendant Romantic style. Although he considered himself a painter of history in the tradition of Nicolas Poussin and Jacques-Louis David, it is his portraits, both painted and drawn, that are recognized as his greatest legacy. His expressive distortions of form and space made him an important precursor of modern art, influencing Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, and other modernists.

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29/08/1777

Hyacinth, Russian religious leader, founded Sinology (died 1853)

Nikita Yakovlevich Bichurin, better known under his archimandrite monastic name Hyacinth, sometimes known as Joacinth or Iakinf, was one of the founding fathers of Russian Sinology. He translated many works from Chinese into Russian, which were then translated into other European languages.

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29/08/1772

James Finlayson, Scottish Quaker (died 1852)

James Finlayson was a Scottish Quaker who, in effect, brought the Industrial Revolution to Tampere, Finland, founding in 1820 the Finlayson company.

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29/08/1756

Jan Śniadecki, Polish mathematician and astronomer (died 1830)

Jan Śniadecki was a Polish mathematician, philosopher, and astronomer at the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries.

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Count Heinrich von Bellegarde, Austrian general and politician (died 1845)

Count Heinrich von Bellegarde, Viceroy of Lombardy-Venetia, of a noble Savoyard family, was born in Saxony, joined the Saxon army and later entered Habsburg military service, where he became a general officer serving in the Habsburg border wars, the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars. He became a Generalfeldmarschall and statesman.

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29/08/1728

Maria Anna Sophia of Saxony, electress of Bavaria (died 1797)

Maria Anna Sophia of Saxony was a daughter of King Augustus III of Poland and his wife Maria Josepha of Austria who became Electress of Bavaria by marriage to Maximilian III Joseph, Elector of Bavaria.

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29/08/1725

Charles Townshend, English politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer (died 1767)

Charles Townshend was a British politician who held various titles in the Parliament of Great Britain. His establishment of the controversial Townshend Acts is considered one of the key causes of the American Revolution.

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29/08/1724

Giovanni Battista Casti, Italian poet and author (died 1803)

Giovanni Battista Casti was an Italian poet, satirist, and author of comic opera librettos.

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29/08/1632

John Locke, English physician and philosopher (died 1704)

John Locke was an English philosopher and physician, widely regarded as one of the most influential of the Enlightenment thinkers and commonly known as the "father of liberalism". His important works include A Letter Concerning Toleration (1689), Two Treatises of Government (1689/90), both published anonymously, and An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1689/90). His writing on toleration contends that religion is a matter for the individual and that the churches are voluntary associations, ruling out religious coercion and uniformity; these lead to the idea of separation of church and state. His Two Treatises on Government argues for government based on the consent of the governed and the right to revolt against tyrannous government which has lost consent. The Two Treatises are believed to have influenced the language that Thomas Jefferson chose in his drafting the July 1776 Declaration of Independence during the American Revolution.

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29/08/1628

John Granville, 1st Earl of Bath, English soldier and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (died 1701)

John Granville, 1st Earl of Bath PC was an English landowner who served in the Royalist army during the First English Civil War and was rewarded for his services after the 1660 Stuart Restoration with a title and various appointments.

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29/08/1619

Jean-Baptiste Colbert, French economist and politician, Controller-General of Finances (died 1683)

Jean-Baptiste Colbert was a French statesman who served as First Minister of State from 1661 until his death in 1683 under the rule of King Louis XIV. His lasting impact on the organization of the country's politics and markets, known as Colbertism, a doctrine often characterized as a variant of mercantilism, earned him the nickname le Grand Colbert.

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29/08/1597

Henry Gage, Royalist officer in the English Civil War (died 1645)

Sir Henry Gage was a Royalist officer in the English Civil War.

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29/08/1534

Nicholas Pieck, Dutch Franciscan friar and martyr (died 1572)

Nicholas Pieck, O.F.M., "Nicolaas" or "Claes Pieck" in Dutch, was a Franciscan friar who was one of a group of Catholic clergy and lay brothers, the Martyrs of Gorkum, who were executed for refusal to renounce their faith in 1572.

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29/08/1514

García Álvarez de Toledo, 4th Marquis of Villafranca, Spanish noble and admiral (died 1577)

García Álvarez de Toledo y Osorio, 4th Marquess of Villafranca del Bierzo, was a Spanish general and politician.

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29/08/1434

Janus Pannonius, Hungarian bishop and poet (died 1472)

Janus Pannonius was an influential intellectual in the Kingdom of Hungary, a Latinist, poet, diplomat and Bishop of Pécs. He was the most significant poet of the Renaissance in the Kingdom of Hungary and one of the better-known figures of humanist poetry in Europe.

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29/08/1347

John Hastings, 2nd Earl of Pembroke, English nobleman and soldier (died 1375)

John Hastings, 2nd Earl of Pembroke, was a fourteenth-century English nobleman and soldier. He also held the titles of Baron Abergavenny and Lord of Wexford. He was born in Sutton Valence, the son of Laurence Hastings, 1st Earl of Pembroke, and Agnes Mortimer, Countess of Pembroke. His father died when John Hastings was around one year old, and he became a ward of King Edward III while remaining in his mother's care. The King arranged for John to marry Edward's daughter Margaret in 1359, which drew John into the royal family. However, Margaret died two years later. John Hastings inherited his father's earldom, subsidiary titles and estates in 1368. The same year, he made a second marriage, to Anne, daughter of Walter, Lord Mauny. The following year, Pembroke began the career in royal service that continued for the rest of his life.

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29/08/1321

John of Artois, French nobleman (died 1387)

John of Artois, called "sans Terre" (Landless), was the son of Robert III of Artois and Joan of Valois. The confiscation of his father's lands, titles, and goods for attempted fraud in 1331 had left him without an inheritance.

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29/08/0979

Otto (or Eudes), French nobleman (died 1045)

Otto of Vermandois, Count of Vermandois, was the son of Herbert III, Count of Vermandois and Ermengarde of Bar-sur-Seine. He succeeded his brother, Adalbert II as count of Vermandois in 1015. Otto donated property to Notre-Dame de Homblières by charter.

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