Born on Thursday, 7th August – Famous Birthdays
On this day, 208 notable people were born on 7th August — spanning from 317 to 2000. From world leaders to artists and scientists, discover who shares this birthday.
Thursday, 7 August 2025 marks the births of numerous athletes and entertainers across the decades. Lauren Hemp, the English footballer, was born on this date in 2000 and has become one of the prominent figures in women’s football. Among other notable figures born on this day are Adam Yates and Simon Yates, English cyclists born in 1992, who have both achieved significant success in professional cycling. Dani Ceballos, the Spanish footballer, was born in 1996 and has represented major European clubs throughout his career. The date also celebrates the birth of Bruce Dickinson in 1958, the English singer-songwriter and guitarist best known for his work with the heavy metal band Iron Maiden.
The historical record extends considerably further back. Mata Hari, the Dutch dancer and spy whose activities became notorious during the First World War, was born on 7 August 1876. Ralph Bunche, the American political scientist and diplomat who won the Nobel Prize, was born in 1904 and went on to make significant contributions to international relations and peace efforts. The date encompasses births spanning from ancient times through to the modern era, including Constantius II, the Roman emperor born in 317.
On 7 August 2025, the location experiences scattered clouds with a temperature around 19 degrees Celsius and moderate winds. The date falls under the zodiac sign of Leo, and the moon is in its waxing gibbous phase. DayAtlas shows weather on this day, events, famous births and deaths for any date and location, providing comprehensive historical and meteorological information for users seeking detailed records.
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07/08/2000
Lauren Hemp, English footballer
Lauren May Hemp is an English professional footballer who plays as a forward for Women's Super League club Manchester City and the England national team. With City, she is a FA Cup and League Cup winner, and with England; she is a two-time European Championship winner, a Finalissima winner, as well as World Cup runner-up. Since 2017, Hemp was twice named FA England Young Player of the Year and four times named PFA Women's Young Player of the Year.
07/08/1999
Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone, American hurdler and sprinter
Sydney Michelle McLaughlin-Levrone is an American hurdler and sprinter who holds the world record for the 400 meters hurdles and the American record for the flat 400 meters. She won gold in the 2020 and 2024 Summer Olympics, as well as at the 2022 World Athletics Championships and 2025 World Athletics Championships. She set a world record time in the 400 m hurdles of 50.37 seconds at the 2024 Summer Olympics on August 8, 2024, breaking her own old world record of 50.65 seconds. She set a championship record in the flat 400 of 47.78 at the 2025 World Championships, making her the second fastest woman in history over that distance. She was the first woman to break the 52-second and 51-second barriers in the 400 m hurdles. She won a silver medal at the 2019 World Championships. At all four competitions, she also took gold as part of the women's 4 × 400 m relay team.
07/08/1998
Vladimir Barbu, Italian diver
Vladimir Barbu is an Italian diver.
María Belén Bazo, Peruvian windsurfer
María Belén Bazo Germán is a Peruvian windsurfer who previously competed in the RS:X class and now competes in the iQFoil class.
Jalen Hurts, American football player
Jalen Alexander Hurts is an American professional football quarterback for the Philadelphia Eagles of the National Football League (NFL). He began his college football career with the Alabama Crimson Tide, leading the team to consecutive College Football Playoff National Championship appearances in 2016 and 2017. After three seasons at Alabama, Hurts used his final year of eligibility with the Oklahoma Sooners and made an appearance in the 2019–20 College Football Playoff.
07/08/1997
Matty Cash, Polish footballer
Matthew Stuart Cash is a professional footballer who plays as a right-back for Premier League club Aston Villa. Born in England, he represents the Poland national team.
Kyler Murray, American football player
Kyler Cole Murray is an American professional football quarterback for the Minnesota Vikings of the National Football League (NFL). Following one season of college football with the Texas A&M Aggies, Murray played for the Oklahoma Sooners, winning the Heisman Trophy in 2018. Murray was selected first overall by the Arizona Cardinals in the 2019 NFL draft. He was also selected ninth overall by the Oakland Athletics of Major League Baseball (MLB) in the 2018 draft, making him the first player drafted in the first round of both sports.
07/08/1996
Dani Ceballos, Spanish footballer
Daniel Ceballos Fernández is a Spanish professional footballer who plays as a central midfielder for La Liga club Real Madrid.
07/08/1993
Martti Nõmme, Estonian ski jumper
Martti Nõmme is an Estonian ski jumper. He was born in Võru.
Karol Zalewski, Polish sprinter
Karol Zalewski is a Polish athlete who specialises in the sprinting events. He reached the semifinals of the 2013 World Championships in the 200 metres. He is also the 2013 European U23 champion over that distance.
07/08/1992
Adam Yates, English cyclist
Adam Richard Yates is a British professional road and track racing cyclist who rides for UCI WorldTeam UAE Team Emirates XRG. Yates placed third overall at the 2023 Tour de France. In 2016 he became the first British rider to win the young rider classification, one year ahead of his twin brother Simon Yates.
Simon Yates, English cyclist
Simon Philip Yates is a retired British professional road and track racing cyclist who last rode for UCI WorldTeam Visma–Lease a Bike. His twin brother is Adam Yates, who is also a professional cyclist. He won the gold medal in the points race at the 2013 Track Cycling World Championships. Following a doping ban in 2016, he won the young rider classification in the 2017 Tour de France and the general classification in the 2018 Vuelta a España and 2025 Giro d'Italia. Yates has taken more than thirty professional victories, including eleven Grand Tour stage victories – six at the Giro d'Italia, three at the Tour de France and two at the Vuelta a España. Yates has been a resident of Andorra since 2015.
Wout Weghorst, Dutch footballer
Wout François Maria Weghorst is a Dutch professional footballer who plays as a striker for Eredivisie club Ajax and the Netherlands national team.
07/08/1991
Luis Salom, Spanish motorcycle racer (died 2016)
Luis Jaime Salom Horrach was a Spanish Grand Prix motorcycle racer. Salom died after a practice accident in the home event, at Circuit de Catalunya, when making contact with his bike and the wall after a high-speed accident. Racing in the Moto2 class since 2014, he finished 41 races, with 3 podium appearances, including a second-place finish at the 2016 Qatar season opener. At the time of his death, Salom ranked 10th in the 2016 Moto2 Championship point standings. Previously he had competed in Moto3, accumulating nine race victories, finishing 2nd and 3rd in the 2012 and 2013 championships, respectively.
Mike Trout, American baseball player
Michael Nelson Trout is an American professional baseball outfielder for the Los Angeles Angels of Major League Baseball (MLB). Trout is an 11-time All-Star, three-time American League (AL) Most Valuable Player (MVP), and 9-time winner of the Silver Slugger Award. He also captained the United States national team during the 2023 World Baseball Classic and was named to the All-WBC Team. He is regarded by many as the best baseball player of his generation and one of the greatest players in baseball history.
Mitchell te Vrede, Dutch footballer
Mitchell te Vrede is a professional footballer who plays as a striker for Persian Gulf Pro League club Gol Gohar. Born in the Netherlands, he plays for the Suriname national team.
07/08/1990
Jake Allen, Canadian ice hockey player
Jake Allen is a Canadian professional ice hockey player who is a goaltender for the New Jersey Devils of the National Hockey League (NHL). He was selected in the second round, 34th overall, by the St. Louis Blues in the 2008 NHL entry draft and won the Stanley Cup with the Blues in 2019. Allen has also previously played for the Montreal Canadiens.
Josh Franceschi, English singer-songwriter
Joshua James Alphonse Franceschi is an English singer and songwriter. He was the lead vocalist of rock band You Me at Six.
07/08/1989
DeMar DeRozan, American basketball player
DeMar Darnell DeRozan is an American professional basketball player for the Sacramento Kings of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played college basketball for the USC Trojans and was selected ninth overall by the Toronto Raptors in the 2009 NBA draft. Nicknamed "Deebo", DeRozan is a six-time NBA All-Star and a three-time All-NBA Team member. DeRozan is currently fifth among active NBA players on the all-time scoring list.
07/08/1988
Jonathan Bernier, Canadian ice hockey player
Jonathan Bernier is a Canadian former professional ice hockey goaltender who played 14 seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL). He was drafted in the first round, 11th overall, of the 2006 NHL entry draft by the Los Angeles Kings, with whom he spent his first four NHL seasons. He subsequently played for the Toronto Maple Leafs, Anaheim Ducks, Colorado Avalanche, Detroit Red Wings, and New Jersey Devils. Bernier won the Stanley Cup as the backup goalie with the Kings in 2012.
Mohamed Coulibaly, Senegalese footballer
Mohamed Aly Coulibaly is a Senegalese former professional footballer who played as a winger or forward.
Melody Oliveria, American blogger
Melody Oliveria, also known by their handle bowiechick, is an American video blog contributor, most popularly to YouTube. They were listed as a notable contributor to YouTube in 2006.
Erik Pieters, Dutch footballer
Erik Pieters is a Dutch professional footballer who plays as a left-back and centre-back and is currently a free agent.
Beanie Wells, American football player
Christopher Michael Wells, known as Chris Wells or Beanie Wells, is an American former professional football player who was a running back for the Arizona Cardinals of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Ohio State Buckeyes and was selected by the Cardinals in the first round of the 2009 NFL draft with the 31st overall pick.
07/08/1987
Sidney Crosby, Canadian ice hockey player
Sidney Patrick Crosby is a Canadian professional ice hockey player who is a centre and captain for the Pittsburgh Penguins of the National Hockey League (NHL). Nicknamed "Sid the Kid" and dubbed "The Next One", he was selected first overall by the Penguins in the 2005 NHL entry draft. Born and raised in Halifax, Crosby was one of the most lauded prospects in ice hockey history and is widely regarded as one of the greatest ice hockey players of all time.
Mustapha Dumbuya, Sierra Leonean footballer
Mustapha Sima Michael Dumbuya is a Sierra Leonean former professional footballer who played as a defender.
Ryan Lavarnway, American baseball player
Ryan Cole Lavarnway is an American-Israeli former professional baseball catcher. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Boston Red Sox, Baltimore Orioles, Atlanta Braves, Oakland Athletics, Pittsburgh Pirates, Cincinnati Reds, Miami Marlins, and Cleveland Indians. In international competition, he plays for Team Israel, and competed for them in the World Baseball Classic and in the Olympics.
Rouven Sattelmaier, German footballer
Rouven Kai Sattelmaier is a German former professional footballer who played as goalkeeper.
07/08/1986
Paul Biedermann, German swimmer
Paul Biedermann is a German retired competitive swimmer, a 200 and 400 metre freestyle long course world champion. He holds the long course world record in the 200 meters freestyle, and formerly held world records in the long course 400 meters and the short course world records in the 200 and 400 meters freestyle.
Valter Birsa, Slovenian footballer
Valter Birsa is a retired Slovenian footballer who played as a winger.
Altaír Jarabo, Mexican model and actress
Altaír Jarabo García is a Mexican actress and fashion model. She is best known for her antagonistic roles in Mexican telenovelas including Inocente de ti, Al diablo con los guapos, En nombre del amor, Abismo de pasión, Mentir para vivir, Que te perdone Dios, Vencer el desamor and Corazón guerrero. She has a brother named Jorge Jarabo Garcia.
Juan de la Rosa, Mexican boxer
Juan Pedro de la Rosa is a Mexican professional boxer. He is the brother of welterweight boxer James de la Rosa.
07/08/1984
Stratos Perperoglou, Greek basketball player
Efstratios "Stratos" Perperoglou is a Greek former professional basketball player. He is 2.03 m tall and he played mainly at the small forward position.
Tooba Siddiqui, Pakistani model and actress
Tooba Siddiqui is a Pakistani actress and model. Siddiqui started her career by starring in a music video "My Love" for pop singer Yasir Akhtar. She began modeling for the Pakistani fashion industry in the early 2000s. She has appeared in campaigns for Deevees and Diva. After a break from acting, Tooba returned to the screen for the hit thriller series Dushman-e-Jaan.
Yun Hyon-seok, South Korean poet and author (died 2003)
Yun Hyon-seok was a South Korean LGBT poet, writer, and activist. He wrote under the pen names Yuk Wu-dang and Seolheon, and was also known by his nickname Midong or Donghwa.
07/08/1983
Christian Chávez, Mexican singer-songwriter and actor
José Christian Chávez Garza is a Mexican singer and actor. He is best known for his role as Giovanni Méndez López in the telenovela Rebelde, as well as for being a member of the spin-off pop group RBD.
Murat Dalkılıç, Turkish singer-songwriter
Sırrı Murat Dalkılıç is a Turkish pop singer, songwriter, music producer, film and animation producer, director and actor.
Danny, Portuguese footballer
Daniel Miguel Alves Gomes, commonly known as Danny, is a Portuguese former professional footballer who played as an attacking midfielder. Also a winger, he was known for his dribbling and key passes.
Andriy Hrivko, Ukrainian cyclist
Andriy Askoldovych Hrivko is a Ukrainian former racing cyclist, who rode professionally between 2005 and 2018. Since retiring from racing, Hrivko currently serves as the president of the Ukrainian Cycling Federation.
Mark Pettini, English cricketer and journalist
Mark Lewis Pettini is an English former cricketer who played domestically for Essex and Leicestershire. He was a right-handed batsman and very occasional wicket-keeper and right-arm medium-pace bowler.
07/08/1982
Ángeles Balbiani, Argentine actress and singer
Ángeles Constanza Balbiani Morea better known as Angie Balbiani is an Argentine actress, model, television presenter and journalist.
Abbie Cornish, Australian actress
Abbie Cornish is an Australian actress. In film, Cornish is known for her roles as Heidi in Somersault (2004), Fanny Brawne in Bright Star (2009), Sweet Pea in Sucker Punch (2011), Lindy in Limitless (2011), Clara Murphy in RoboCop (2014), and Sarah Wilson in Geostorm (2017). She worked with writer/director Martin McDonagh in Seven Psychopaths (2012) and Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017). For the latter, Cornish won her first Screen Actors Guild Award as part of the cast. In 2018, she portrayed Cathy Mueller in the first season of Amazon Video series Jack Ryan opposite John Krasinski, a role she reprised in the fourth and final season in 2023. She also played Dixy in the film The Virtuoso (2021) alongside Anthony Hopkins.
Juan Martín Hernández, Argentine rugby player
Juan Martín Hernández is an Argentine retired rugby union player. A mainstay of the Argentina national team The Pumas. He played for the club Toulon in the French Top 14 competition. His 2010 move to Racing brought him back to the city where he had begun his professional career in 2003 with Stade Français. He has also played in the South African Currie Cup with the Sharks, and was slated to play with the Sharks in Super Rugby in 2010, but suffered a back injury that knocked him out of the Super Rugby season. Hernández is a "utility back" capable of playing at fly-half, centre, or fullback, though he generally prefers fly-half.
Marquise Hill, American football player (died 2007)
Marquise Hill was an American professional football defensive end for the New England Patriots of the National Football League (NFL). He was selected by the Patriots in the second round of the 2004 NFL draft. He played college football at LSU.
Vassilis Spanoulis, Greek basketball player
Vassilis Spanoulis, also commonly known as Bill Spanoulis, or Kill Bill is a Greek former professional basketball player who is currently the head coach of the senior men's Greek national team. He was the head coach of AS Monaco from 2024 until March 2026, when the club and Spanoulis mutually agreed to part ways.
Martin Vučić, Macedonian singer and drummer
Martin Vučić is a Macedonian pop musician.
07/08/1981
David Testo, American soccer player
David Testo is an American retired soccer player who, after his playing career ended in 2011, became the first male American professional player of that sport to come out as gay. Testo played professionally from 2003 to 2011, including two years in with the Columbus Crew from 2004 to 2005. He began his career with the Richmond Kickers, and also played for the Vancouver Whitecaps and Montreal Impact before he was released by the Impact in 2011. He played collegiately for South Carolina and North Carolina.
Randy Wayne, American actor and producer
Randy Wayne Frederick is an American actor.
07/08/1980
Carsten Busch, German footballer
Carsten Busch is a German former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper.
Aurélie Claudel, French model and actress
Aurélie Claudel is a French model and actress.
Tácio Caetano Cruz Queiroz, Brazilian footballer
Tácio Caetano Cruz Queiroz, better known as just Tácio, is a Brazilian former professional footballer who played as defensive midfielder. In 1997, he was part of the Brazilian team that won the 1997 South American Under-17 Football Championship.
Seiichiro Maki, Japanese footballer
Seiichiro Maki is a Japanese former professional footballer who played as a forward. He played for the Japan national team.
07/08/1979
Eric Johnson, American actor, director, and screenwriter
Eric Johann Johnson is a Canadian actor. He is known for playing Flash Gordon on the eponymous 2007–2008 television series, Whitney Fordman on the superhero series Smallville, Detective Luke Callaghan on the police drama Rookie Blue, and Jack Hyde in the Fifty Shades film series. In 2022, he played a misogynist corrupt sheriff in the HBO Max horror series Pretty Little Liars: Original Sin.
Miguel Llera, Spanish footballer
Miguel Ángel Llera Garzón is a Spanish football manager and former professional player who played as a centre back. He was most recently first-team coach at Bristol Rovers.
Birgit Zotz, Austrian anthropologist and author
Birgit Zotz is an Austrian writer, cultural anthropologist and an expert on the subject of hospitality management studies.
07/08/1978
Alexandre Aja, French director, producer, and screenwriter
Alexandre Jouan-Arcady, known professionally as Alexandre Aja, is a French filmmaker best known for his work in the horror genre. He rose to international stardom for his 2003 horror film Haute Tension. He has also directed the films The Hills Have Eyes (2006), Mirrors (2008), Piranha 3D (2010), Horns (2013) and Crawl (2019).
Jamey Jasta, American singer-songwriter
James Vincent Shanahan, known professionally as Jamey Jasta, is an American vocalist, record producer and songwriter, best known as the lead singer of metalcore band Hatebreed. He also fronts the sludge metal band Kingdom of Sorrow and the metalcore band Icepick and has released several solo records. He has also produced albums for other artists.
Mark McCammon, English-Barbadian footballer
Mark Jason McCammon is a former professional footballer who played as a striker. Born in England, he represented the Barbados national team at international level.
Cirroc Lofton, American actor
Cirroc Lofton is an American actor and podcaster who started his career at the age of nine with many minor roles. He got his start in the 1989 child education program Econ and Me, which teaches children economics. He is best known for playing Jake Sisko on the 1990s TV series Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.
07/08/1977
Charlotte Ronson, English fashion designer
Charlotte Julia Ronson is an English fashion designer, based in Los Angeles, US.
Samantha Ronson, English singer-songwriter and DJ
Samantha Judith Ronson is an English DJ, singer, and songwriter.
Justin Brooker, Australian rugby league player
Justin 'Brash' Brooker is an Indigenous Australian professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1990s and 2000s. He played at club level for Eastern Suburbs, Western Suburbs Magpies, the Bradford Bulls, the Wakefield Trinity Wildcats and the South Sydney Rabbitohs, as a centre.
07/08/1976
Dimitrios Eleftheropoulos, Greek footballer and manager
Dimitrios Eleftheropoulos is a Greek professional football manager and former player.
Shane Lechler, American football player
Edward Shane Lechler is an American former professional football player who played as a punter for 18 seasons in the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Texas A&M Aggies and was selected by the Oakland Raiders in the fifth round of the 2000 NFL draft. Lechler also played for the Houston Texans.
07/08/1975
Koray Candemir, Turkish singer-songwriter
Koray Candemir is a Turkish musician, songwriter, and record producer. He used to be the lead singer of the Turkish rock band Kargo. Towards the end of 2008, Koray Candemir and Serkan Celikoz decided to end their involvement with Kargo, due to vision and opinion differences with the other members of Kargo. They formed their new band which is named 'maSKott'. They are currently in Seattle working on their new projects and released their debut album in 2010. Besides singing, Koray also plays the guitar in Kargo and maSKott.
Gerard Denton, Australian cricketer
Gerard John Denton is an Australian former first-class cricketer who played for Tasmania. The right-arm fast-medium bowler began his first-class cricket for Tasmania, despite having been born in Queensland. He switched to the Victoria for two seasons, before returning to Tasmania for the 2007/08 season.
Megan Gale, Australian model and actress
Megan Kate Gale is an Australian model and actress. Born in Parmelia, Western Australia, Gale won a modelling contest when she was 18 in her home town. In 1999 she was cast in a series of commercials for Vodafone Italy. This led to wide exposure in both Italy and her homeland Australia, and she appeared in Vodafone advertising until 2006. Gale has also appeared in Italian movies and television shows, and as an actress, Gale played Fatma in The Water Diviner (2014) and Valkyrie in Mad Max: Fury Road (2015).
Ray Hill, American football player (died 2015)
Raymond Millous Hill was a college and professional American football player. He was a defensive back at Michigan State, and played four seasons in the National Football League (NFL), splitting three seasons between the Miami Dolphins and the Buffalo Bills. He was signed by the New England Patriots as a free agent in 2001, and was part of their Super Bowl XXXVI championship season. He suffered a leg injury during the 2001 preseason, and was placed on injured reserve for the entire season. His younger brother Renaldo Hill, also played in the NFL.
Rebecca Kleefisch, American journalist and politician, 44th Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin
Rebecca Ann Kleefisch is an American politician and former television reporter who served as the 44th Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin from 2011 to 2019. A member of the Republican Party, she was elected to the position on November 2, 2010, as the running mate of Governor Scott Walker; the pair narrowly lost reelection to a third term in 2018.
Édgar Rentería, Colombian baseball player
Édgar Enrique Rentería Herazo, nicknamed "the Barranquilla Baby", is a Colombian former professional baseball shortstop. He played 16 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Florida Marlins, St. Louis Cardinals, Boston Red Sox, Atlanta Braves, Detroit Tigers, San Francisco Giants, and Cincinnati Reds. Rentería finished second to Todd Hollandsworth in the 1996 Rookie of the Year Award balloting. In 1997, his RBI single off Charles Nagy in the eleventh inning of Game 7 of the 1997 World Series won the first World Series in Marlins' history over the Cleveland Indians. In the 2010 World Series against the Texas Rangers, Rentería won the World Series Most Valuable Player Award with the San Francisco Giants after he hit game-winning home runs in Game 2 and Game 5. Rentería was inducted into the St. Louis Cardinals Hall of Fame in 2025.
Charlize Theron, South African actress
Charlize Theron is a South African and American actress and producer. One of the world's highest-paid actresses, she is the recipient of various accolades, including an Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award. In 2016, Time named her one of the 100 most influential people in the world.
07/08/1974
Chico Benymon, American actor
Chico Benymon is an American actor, singer, musician, and fashion designer best known for his role as Andre "Spencer" Williams on the UPN comedy Half & Half. He also starred in the Nickelodeon TV series The Haunted Hathaways.
Michael Shannon, American actor
Michael Corbett Shannon is an American actor. Known for his forceful and intense style of acting, he has twice received nominations for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, for Revolutionary Road (2008) and Nocturnal Animals (2016). He received Screen Actors Guild and Golden Globe award nominations for his role in 99 Homes (2014).
07/08/1973
Mikhail Gorsheniov, Russian singer-songwriter (died 2013)
Mikhail "Gorshok" Gorsheniov was a lead singer and composer of Russian horror punk/hard rock band Korol i Shut.
Danny Graves, Vietnamese-American baseball player
Daniel Peter Graves is a Vietnamese-born American former professional baseball player and current baseball analyst. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a right-handed pitcher from 1996 to 2006, most prominently as a member of the Cincinnati Reds where he was their primary relief pitcher for five seasons and became the franchise's all-time leader in career saves. A two-time National League All-Star, Graves was the winner of the 2002 Lou Gehrig Memorial Award. Graves also pitched for the Cleveland Indians and the New York Mets.
Kevin Muscat, English-Australian footballer, coach, and manager
Kevin Vincent Muscat is an English-born Australian professional soccer manager and former player who played as a defender. He represented the Australia national team at international level, earning 46 caps between 1994 and 2006. Muscat is currently head coach of Chinese Super League club Shanghai Port.
07/08/1972
Gerry Peñalosa, Filipino boxer and promoter
Geronimo "Gerry" J. Peñalosa is a Filipino boxing promoter and former professional boxer who competed from 1989 to 2010. He is a two-weight world champion, having held the World Boxing Council (WBC) super-flyweight title from 1997 to 1998, and the World Boxing Organization (WBO) bantamweight title from 2007 to 2009. Originally from the city of San Carlos, Negros Occidental, Peñalosa currently resides in Manila. He was trained mainly by Freddie Roach and went on to become a boxing trainer and a promoter himself after retirement. Peñalosa's older brother, Dodie Boy Peñalosa, who is also a former boxer and world champion.
07/08/1971
Dominic Cork, England cricketer and sportscaster
Dominic Gerald Cork is a former English county and international cricketer. Cork was an all-rounder who batted at lower-order batsman and bowled right-arm fast-medium, and was renowned for his swing and seam control. Cork had a lethal out-swinger that got him success throughout the 1990s. In 1995, he took the best figures for an England bowler on Test debut, with 7 for 43 in the second innings against the West Indies.
Rachel York, American actress and singer
Rachel York is an American actress and singer. Known for stage roles, including award-winning performances in Camelot, Hello, Dolly!, Into the Woods, and Anything Goes, her screen roles include a portrayal of Lucille Ball in the 2003 television film Lucy.
07/08/1970
Eric Namesnik, American swimmer (died 2006)
Eric John Namesnik, nicknamed "Snik," was an American competition swimmer who competed for the University of Michigan and a two-time Olympic silver medalist in the men's 400-meter Individual Medley.
07/08/1969
Markus Bundi, Swiss writer
Markus Bundi is a Swiss writer.
Paul Lambert, Scottish footballer and manager
Paul Lambert is a Scottish professional football manager and former player.
Dana G. Peleg, Israeli writer and LGBT activist
Dana G. Peleg is an Israeli writer, poet, journalist, translator and editor. She is an activist for women's and LGBT rights. She wrote the first regular column in the Israeli press on the subject of lesbian, bisexual and pansexual women, and her two short story collections and debut novel revolve around the same subject.
07/08/1968
Francesca Gregorini, Italian-American director and screenwriter
Francesca McKnight Donatella Romana Gregorini di Savignano di Romagna is an Italian-American screenwriter and film director.
Trevor Hendy, Australian surfer and coach
Trevor Ronald Hendy, AM is a former Australian professional surf lifesaver.
Sophie Lee, Australian actress and author
Sophie Lee is an Australian film, stage and television actress and author.
07/08/1967
Jason Grimsley, American baseball player
Jason Alan Grimsley is an American former Major League Baseball relief pitcher who played for seven teams during a 15-year career. He was a member of both the 1999 and 2000 World Series champion New York Yankees.
07/08/1966
David Cairns, Scottish laicised priest and politician, Minister of State for Scotland (died 2011)
John David Cairns was a Scottish politician who served as Minister of State for Scotland from 2005 to 2008. A member of Scottish Labour Party, he was Member of Parliament (MP) for Inverclyde, formerly Greenock and Inverclyde, from 2001 until his death in 2011.
Shobna Gulati, British actress
Shobna Gulati is an English actor and presenter. Gulati is known for playing Anita in dinnerladies and Sunita Alahan in the soap opera Coronation Street from 2001 to 2013. They also played Mari Hoff in the 2006 UK Tour of The Rise and Fall of Little Voice. From 2013 to 2014, Gulati appeared as a panellist on the lunchtime talk show Loose Women. They took over the role of Ray in the West End production of Everybody's Talking About Jamie in 2019 and also reprised the role for the film adaptation. Most recently, they played the role of Nima in Hullraisers and reprised the role of Ray in Everybody's Talking About Jamie for its 2023–2024 UK and Ireland Tour.
Kristin Hersh, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
Martha Kristin Hersh is an American singer, guitarist, and songwriter known for her solo work and with her rock bands Throwing Muses and 50FootWave. She has released eleven solo albums. Her guitar work and composition style ranges from jaggedly dissonant to traditional folk. Hersh's lyrics have a stream-of-consciousness style, reflecting her personal experiences.
Jimmy Wales, American-British entrepreneur, co-founder of Wikipedia
Jimmy Donal Wales is an American internet entrepreneur and former financial trader. He is best known for co-founding Wikipedia, a nonprofit free encyclopedia, and Fandom, a for-profit wiki hosting service. He has also worked on Bomis, Nupedia, WikiTribune, and Trust Café.
07/08/1965
Raul Malo, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
Raul Francisco Martínez-Malo Jr. was an American singer, songwriter, guitarist and record producer. He was both the lead singer and songwriter of country music band the Mavericks, co-writing many of their singles, as well as Rick Trevino's 2003 single "In My Dreams". After the disbanding of the Mavericks in the early 2000s, Malo pursued a solo career. He also participated from 2001 in the Los Super Seven supergroup. The Mavericks re-formed in 2012 and continued to tour extensively. In 2015, they won the Americana music award for duo/group of the year.
Elizabeth Manley, Canadian figure skater
Elizabeth Ann Manley, CM is a Canadian former competitive figure skater. She is the 1988 Olympic silver medallist, the 1988 World silver medallist and a three-time Canadian national champion.
07/08/1964
John Birmingham, English-Australian journalist and author
John Birmingham is a British-born Australian author, known for the 1994 memoir He Died with a Felafel in His Hand, the Axis of Time trilogy, and the well-received space opera series, the Cruel Stars trilogy.
Ian Dench, English guitarist and songwriter
Ian Alec Harvey Dench is an English songwriter and musician. He is the guitarist and principal songwriter for EMF, who scored a major international hit reaching number 1 in the United States with "Unbelievable" in 1991. It was voted one of BBC Radio 2's 'Greatest Guitar Riffs'.
Peter Niven, Scottish jockey
Peter Niven is a retired British jump jockey in National Hunt racing. In May 2001 he became the first Scotsman and sixth jockey to ride over 1,000 winners, eventually retiring in September that year with 1002 winners. At the time of his retirement he was the only jockey to have won five races in a day on four occasions. He is now a racehorse trainer.
07/08/1963
Paul Dunn, Australian rugby league player
Paul Dunn is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1980s and 1990s. A New South Wales State of Origin and Australian international representative forward, he played club football in Sydney for Eastern Suburbs, Canterbury-Bankstown, Parramatta and Penrith.
Nick Gillespie, American journalist and author
Nicholas John Gillespie is an American libertarian journalist who was editor-in-chief of Reason magazine from 2000 to 2008 and editor-in-chief of Reason.com and Reason TV from 2008 to 2017. Gillespie joined Reason's staff in 1993 as an assistant editor and ascended to the top slot in 2000. As of 2025, he is an editor-at-large at Reason.
Marcus Roberts, American pianist and educator
Marthaniel "Marcus" Roberts is an American jazz pianist, composer, arranger, bandleader, and teacher.
07/08/1962
Alison Brown, American banjo player, songwriter, and producer
Alison Brown is an American banjo player, guitarist, composer, and producer. She has won and has been nominated for several Grammy awards and is often compared to another banjo prodigy, Béla Fleck, for her unique style of playing. In her music, she blends bluegrass, jazz, Latin and Celtic influences.
07/08/1961
Brian Conley, English actor and singer
Brian Paul Conley is an English actor, comedian, singer and television presenter. Conley has been the host of The Brian Conley Show, as well as presenting the Royal Variety Performance on eight occasions. In his 40+-year television career, he has starred in award-winning television sitcoms including Time After Time and The Grimleys.
Yelena Davydova, Russian gymnast
Yelena Viktorovna Davydova is a Russian-Canadian gymnastics coach and judge who competed for the former Soviet Union. She was the women's artistic individual all-around champion at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow. She's the owner and head coach at Gemini Gymnastics, a gymnastics club in Oshawa, Ontario. In July 2012, Davydova was one of the coaches of the Canadian Women's Artistic Gymnastics Team. In 2016 Davydova was head floor judge at the 2016 Rio Olympics.
Walter Swinburn, English jockey and trainer (died 2016)
Walter Robert John Swinburn was a flat racing jockey and trainer who competed in Great Britain and internationally.
Carlos Vives, Colombian singer, songwriter, and actor
Carlos Alberto Vives Restrepo is a Colombian singer, songwriter and actor.
07/08/1960
David Duchovny, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
David William Duchovny is an American actor, writer, director and musician. He received his breakthrough with the role of Fox Mulder in The X-Files franchise earning a Golden Globe Award as well as nominations for two Primetime Emmy Awards and five Screen Actors Guild Awards. He received another Golden Globe for his portrayal of Hank Moody on the television series Californication (2007–2014) and executive-produced and starred in the historically based cop drama Aquarius (2015–2016). He wrote and directed the 2004 coming-of-age comedy House of D starring Robin Williams, Téa Leoni and Anton Yelchin.
07/08/1959
Koenraad Elst, Belgian orientalist and author
Koenraad Elst is a Belgian author, known primarily for his adherence to the Hindutva ideology and support of the Out of India theory, which is regarded as pseudohistorical by mainstream scholarship. Scholars accuse him of promoting Islamophobia.
Ali Shah, Zimbabwean cricketer and coach
Ali Hassimshah Omarshah, known as Ali Shah, is a former Zimbabwean international cricketer. An all-rounder who batted left-handed and bowled right-arm medium pace, Shah played in three Test matches and 28 One Day Internationals (ODIs) for Zimbabwe between 1983 and 1996, and was the first non-white player to represent the country. He was educated at Morgan High School.
07/08/1958
Russell Baze, Canadian-American jockey
Russell Avery Baze is a retired Canadian-American horse racing jockey. He holds the record for the most race wins in North American horse racing history, and is a member of the United States Racing Hall of Fame and the State of Washington Sports Hall of Fame.
Bruce Dickinson, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
Paul Bruce Dickinson is an English singer who is best known as the lead vocalist of the heavy metal band Iron Maiden. Dickinson has performed in the band across two stints, from 1981 to 1993 and from 1999 to the present day. He is known for his wide-ranging operatic vocal style and energetic stage presence.
Alberto Salazar, Cuban-American runner and coach
Alberto Salazar is an American former track coach and long-distance runner. Born in Cuba, Salazar immigrated to the United States as a child with his family, living in Connecticut and then in Wayland, Massachusetts, where Salazar competed in track and field in high school. Salazar won the New York City Marathon three times in the early 1980s, and won the 1982 Boston Marathon in a race known as the "Duel in the Sun". He set American track records for 5,000 m and 10,000 m in 1982. Salazar was later the head coach of the Nike Oregon Project. He won the IAAF Coaching Achievement Award in 2013.
07/08/1957
Daire Brehan, Irish journalist, lawyer, and actress (died 2012)
Daire Brehan was an Irish actress, broadcaster and barrister who presented a variety of BBC Radio programmes during the 1990s including Language Live, for BBC Radio 5, You and Yours, The Afternoon Shift (1995–98) and Pick of the Week for BBC Radio 4, a documentary Too Many Songs on American comic songster Tom Lehrer for BBC Radio 2, Pick of the World for BBC World Service, and Today’s Agenda for BBC Radio Kent.
Alexander Dityatin, Russian gymnast and colonel
Alexander Nikolaevich Dityatin was a Russian gymnast, three-time Olympic champion and Honoured Master of Sports of the USSR. Winning eight medals at the 1980 Summer Olympics, he set the record for achieving the most medals of any type at a single Olympic Games. The American swimmer Michael Phelps twice equalled this record, at Athens 2004 and Beijing 2008. Dityatin competed for the Leningrad Dinamo sports society.
07/08/1955
Wayne Knight, American actor, comedian and voice actor
Wayne Elliot Knight is an American actor. In television, he played recurring roles such as Newman on the NBC sitcom Seinfeld (1992–1998) and Officer Don Orville on the NBC sitcom 3rd Rock from the Sun (1996–2001). Knight also voiced Igor on Toonsylvania (1998–1999), Dojo Kanojo Cho in Xiaolin Showdown (2003–2006), Mr. Blik on Catscratch (2005–2007) and Baron Von Sheldgoose on Legend of the Three Caballeros (2018).
Greg Nickels, American lawyer and politician, 51st Mayor of Seattle
Gregory James Nickels is an American politician who served as the 51st mayor of Seattle, Washington, as of 2025 he is the last Seattle mayor who has served more than one term in office. He took office on January 1, 2002, and was reelected to a second term in 2005. In August 2009, Nickels finished third in the primary election for Seattle mayor, failing to qualify for the November 2009 general election, and losing his bid for a third term as mayor. He left office on January 1, 2010.
Vladimir Sorokin, Russian author and playwright
Vladimir Georgiyevich Sorokin is a postmodern Russian writer of novels, short stories, and plays.
07/08/1954
Valery Gazzaev, Russian footballer, manager and politician
Valery Georgiyevich Gazzaev is a Russian politician, football manager and former footballer of Ossetian descent. As a Soviet footballer he played the position of a striker enjoying successes with his team FC Dynamo Moscow as well as the USSR national football team in the Olympics.
Jonathan Pollard, Israeli spy
Jonathan Jay Pollard is an American-born Israeli spy and former intelligence analyst who was jailed for spying for Israel.
Alan Reid, Scottish politician
Alan Reid is a Scottish Liberal Democrat politician who has been a councillor in the East Dunbartonshire ward of Bearsden North since 2022.
07/08/1953
Anne Fadiman, American journalist and author
Anne Fadiman is an American essayist and reporter. Her interests include literary journalism, essays, memoir, and autobiography. She has received the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Current Interest, and the Salon Book Award.
07/08/1952
Caroline Aaron, American actress and producer
Caroline Sidney Aaron is an American actress. She has appeared in multiple Mike Nichols, Nora Ephron, and Woody Allen films and is also known for her role in the television series The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel.
Eamonn Darcy, Irish golfer
Eamonn Christopher Darcy is an Irish professional golfer. He won four times on the European Tour and played in the Ryder Cup four times.
Kees Kist, Dutch footballer
Cornelis Kist is a Dutch former professional footballer and manager. He played as a striker, and most notably won the European Golden Shoe for the 1978–79 season.
Alexei Sayle, English comedian, actor, and author
Alexei David Sayle is an English actor, author, stand-up comedian, television presenter and former recording artist. He was a leading figure in the British alternative comedy movement in the 1980s. He was voted the 18th greatest stand-up comic of all time on Channel 4's 100 Greatest Stand-Ups in 2007. In an updated 2010 poll he came 72nd.
07/08/1950
Rodney Crowell, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
Rodney Crowell is an American musician, known primarily for his work as a singer and songwriter in country music. Crowell has had five number one singles on Hot Country Songs, all from his 1988 album Diamonds & Dirt. He has also written songs and produced for other artists.
Alan Keyes, American politician and diplomat, 16th Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs
Alan Lee Keyes is an American politician, political scientist, and perennial candidate who served as the Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs from 1985 to 1987. A member of the Republican Party, Keyes sought the nomination for President of the United States in 1996, 2000, and 2008.
S. Thandayuthapani, Sri Lankan educator and politician
Singaravelu Thandayuthapani is a Sri Lankan Tamil teacher, civil servant, politician and provincial minister.
07/08/1949
Walid Jumblatt, Lebanese journalist and politician
Walid Kamal Jumblatt is a Lebanese politician, who was the leader of the Progressive Socialist Party from 1977 until 2023. A Druze and former militia commander, Jumblatt led the Lebanese National Resistance Front, allying with Amal, the Palestine Liberation Organisation, and Marada Brigade during the 1983-1990 phase of Lebanese Civil War. He worked closely with Suleiman Frangieh to oppose Amine Gemayel's rule as president during the Mountain War, consolidating his control of the Chouf. After the civil war, he initially supported Syria but later led an anti-Assad stance during the start of the Syrian Civil War. He is still active in politics, most recently leading his party, the Progressive Socialist Party (PSP) in the 2022 Lebanese general election.
Matthew Parris, South African-English journalist and politician
Matthew Francis Parris is a British political writer, broadcaster, and former politician. He served as Member of Parliament for West Derbyshire from 1979 to 1986. Ideologically a liberal conservative, he was a member of the Conservative Party, but resigned over the party's stance on Brexit.
07/08/1948
Marty Appel, American businessman and author
Martin E. Appel is an American public relations and sports management executive, television executive producer, baseball historian and author.
Greg Chappell, Australian cricketer and coach
Gregory Stephen Chappell is a former cricketer who represented Australia at international level in both Tests and One-Day Internationals (ODI). The second of three brothers to play Test cricket, Chappell was the pre-eminent Australian batsman of his time who allied elegant stroke making to fierce concentration. An exceptional all round player who bowled medium pace and, at his retirement, held the world record for the most catches in Test cricket, Chappell's career straddled two eras as the game moved toward a greater level of professionalism after the WSC schism. He was the vice captain of the Australian squad which finished as runners-up at the 1975 Cricket World Cup.
07/08/1947
Franciscus Henri, Dutch-Australian singer-songwriter
Franciscus Henricus Antheunis, professionally known as Franciscus Henri, is a musician and children's entertainer. He has dual Dutch and Australian nationality. In 1970 he gained national prominence when he competed in the TV talent quest New Faces, which led to a recording contract with the Melbourne-based independent label Fable Records. From 1997, he also performs as Mister Whiskers, a travelling singer who loves children and performs for them with his dog companion, Smiggy.
Sofia Rotaru, Ukrainian singer-songwriter, producer, and actress
Sofiia Mykhailivna Yevdokymenko-Rotaru, known simply as Sofia Rotaru, is a Ukrainian singer.
07/08/1945
Kenny Ireland, Scottish actor and director (died 2014)
George Ian Kenneth Ireland was a British actor and theatre director. Ireland was best known to television viewers for his role in Victoria Wood: As Seen on TV in the 1980s, and for playing Donald Stewart in Benidorm from 2007 until his death in 2014.
Alan Page, American football player and jurist
Alan Cedric Page is an American former Minnesota Supreme Court judge and professional football player. After playing college football at the University of Notre Dame, Page gained national recognition as a defensive tackle in the National Football League (NFL) during 15 seasons with the Minnesota Vikings and Chicago Bears. Following his retirement, he then embarked on a legal career. Page earned a B.A. in political science from the University of Notre Dame in 1967 and a J.D. from the University of Minnesota Law School in 1978. Page served as an associate justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court from 1993 until he reached the court's mandatory retirement age of 70 in 2015.
07/08/1944
John Glover, American actor
John Glover is an American actor, known for a range of villainous roles in films and television, such as Lionel Luthor in Smallville, Dr. Jason Woodrue in Batman & Robin and the voice of Riddler in the DC Animated Universe. He also played the role of Daniel Clamp in Gremlins 2: The New Batch (1990).
Robert Mueller, American soldier and lawyer, 6th Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (died 2026)
Robert Swan Mueller III was an American lawyer who served as the sixth director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) from 2001 to 2013.
07/08/1943
Mohammed Badie, Egyptian religious leader
Mohammed Badie is the eighth Supreme Guide of the Muslim Brotherhood.
Lana Cantrell, Australian singer-songwriter and lawyer
Lana Eleanor Cantrell AM is an Australian-American singer and entertainment lawyer. She was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best New Artist in the Grammy Awards of 1968.
Alain Corneau, French director and screenwriter (died 2010)
Alain Corneau was a French film director and writer.
07/08/1942
Garrison Keillor, American humorist, novelist, short story writer, and radio host
Gary Edward "Garrison" Keillor is an American author, singer, humorist, voice actor, and radio personality. He created the Minnesota Public Radio (MPR) show A Prairie Home Companion, which he hosted from 1974 to 2016. Keillor created the fictional Minnesota town Lake Wobegon, the setting of many of his books, including Lake Wobegon Days and Leaving Home: A Collection of Lake Wobegon Stories. Other creations include Guy Noir, a detective voiced by Keillor who appeared in A Prairie Home Companion comic skits. Keillor is also the creator of the five-minute daily radio/podcast program The Writer's Almanac, which pairs poems of his choice with a script about important literary, historical, and scientific events that coincided with that date in history.
Carlos Monzón, Argentinian boxer and actor (died 1995)
Carlos Roque Monzón, nicknamed Escopeta (Shotgun), was an Argentine professional boxer who held the undisputed world middleweight championship for seven years, and successfully defended his title 14 times against 11 different fighters. The Ring magazine and Boxing Writers Association of America named him Fighter of the Year in 1972. As of December 2024, Monzón is ranked by BoxRec as the third greatest boxer of all time, pound for pound. He was inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame in 1990.
Caetano Veloso, Brazilian singer-songwriter, writer and producer
Caetano Emanuel Viana Teles Veloso is a Brazilian singer-songwriter, musician and political activist. Veloso first became known for his participation in the Brazilian musical movement Tropicália, which encompassed theatre, poetry and music in the 1960s, at the beginning of the Brazilian military dictatorship that took power in 1964. He has remained a constant creative influence and best-selling performing artist and composer ever since. Veloso has won nineteen Brazilian Music Awards, nine Latin Grammy Awards and two Grammy Awards. On 14 November 2012, Veloso was honored as the Latin Recording Academy Person of the Year.
Richard Sykes, English biochemist and academic
Sir Richard Brook Sykes is a British microbiologist, the chair of the Royal Institution, the UK Stem Cell Foundation, and the trustees at King Edward VII's Hospital, and chancellor of Brunel University. As of June 2021, he is chair of the UK's Vaccine Taskforce, where he is responsible for overseeing the delivery of the COVID-19 vaccination programme, including preparations for booster programmes and encouraging vaccine innovation in the UK.
B. J. Thomas, American singer (died 2021)
Billy Joe Thomas was an American singer widely known for his country, contemporary Christian, and pop hits of the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s.
07/08/1941
Matthew Evans, Baron Evans of Temple Guiting, English publisher and politician (died 2016)
Matthew Evans, Baron Evans of Temple Guiting,, was a British Labour Party politician. Evans' father was the writer George Ewart Evans.
07/08/1940
Jean-Luc Dehaene, French-Belgian lawyer and politician, 63rd Prime Minister of Belgium (died 2014)
Jean Luc Joseph Marie "Jean-Luc" Dehaene was a Belgian politician who served as the prime minister of Belgium from 1992 until 1999. During his political career, he was nicknamed "The Plumber", as well as "The Minesweeper", for his ability to negotiate political deadlocks.
Uwe Nettelbeck, German record producer, journalist and film critic (died 2007)
Uwe Nettelbeck was a German record producer, journalist and film critic. He was best known as the creator and producer of the German krautrock band Faust and changed the face of German rock music in the early 1970s. He was also one of Germany's leading film critics in the 1960s.
07/08/1938
Giorgetto Giugiaro, Italian automotive designer
Giorgetto Giugiaro is an Italian automotive designer. He has worked on supercars and popular everyday vehicles. He was named Car Designer of the Century in 1999 and inducted into the Automotive Hall of Fame in 2002. He was awarded the Compasso d'Oro industrial design award six times, including a lifetime achievement recognition in 1984.
07/08/1937
Zoltán Berczik, Hungarian table tennis player and coach (died 2011)
Zoltán Berczik was a Hungarian table tennis player. In the late fifties he was ranked among the best European table tennis players and won, with his athletic play, the first two titles at the Table Tennis European Championships.
Don Wilson, English cricketer and coach (died 2012)
Donald Wilson was an English cricketer, who played in six Test matches for England from 1964 to 1971. His first-class cricket career, which lasted from 1957 to 1974, was spent with Yorkshire County Cricket Club and he later became a noted cricket coach. He was born in Settle, Yorkshire and died at York.
07/08/1935
Lee Corso, American college football coach and broadcaster
Lee Richard Corso is an American former college football coach and analyst. He is best known for appearing on ESPN's College GameDay program from its inception in 1987 until his retirement in August 2025.
Rahsaan Roland Kirk, American saxophonist and composer (died 1977)
Rahsaan Roland Kirk, known earlier in his career simply as Roland Kirk, was an American jazz multi-instrumentalist who played tenor saxophone, flute, and many other instruments. He was renowned for his onstage vitality; in his shows, virtuoso improvisation was accompanied by comic banter, political ranting, and the simultaneous playing of several instruments.
07/08/1934
Sándor Simó, Hungarian director, producer, and screenwriter (died 2001)
Sándor Simó was a Hungarian film producer, director and screenwriter. He produced 25 films and directed a further seven. His 1969 film Those Who Wear Glasses won the Golden Leopard at the Locarno International Film Festival. His 1977 film My Father's Happy Years was entered into the 28th Berlin International Film Festival.
07/08/1933
Eddie Firmani, South African footballer and manager
Edwin Ronald Firmani is a former professional football player and manager. A former forward, he spent most of his playing career in Italy and England. He managed 13 different clubs over 29 years, mostly in the United States, Canada, and the Middle East. Born in South Africa, he represented the Italy national team internationally.
Elinor Ostrom, American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2012)
Elinor Claire "Lin" Ostrom was an American political scientist and political economist whose work was associated with New Institutional Economics and the resurgence of political economy. In 2009, she was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for her "analysis of economic governance, especially the commons", which she shared with Oliver E. Williamson; she was the first woman to win the prize.
Jerry Pournelle, American journalist and author (died 2017)
Jerry Eugene Pournelle was an American scientist in the area of operations research and human factors research, a science fiction writer, essayist, journalist, and one of the first bloggers. In the 1960s and early 1970s, he worked in the aerospace industry, but eventually focused on his writing career. In an obituary in Gizmodo, he was described as "a tireless ambassador for the future."
Alberto Romulo, Filipino politician and diplomat
Alberto "Bert" Gatmaitan Romulo is a Filipino politician and diplomat. He served in the Philippines in various capacities as executive secretary, finance secretary, foreign affairs secretary, and budget secretary. His most recent office is his leadership of the Department of Foreign Affairs before and during the early period of the administration of President Benigno Aquino III.
07/08/1932
Abebe Bikila, Ethiopian runner (died 1973)
Shambel Abebe Bikila was an Ethiopian marathon runner who was a back-to-back Olympic marathon champion. He was the first Ethiopian Olympic gold medalist, winning his first gold medal at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome while running barefoot. At the 1964 Tokyo Olympics, he won his second gold medal, making him the first athlete to successfully defend an Olympic marathon title. In both victories, he ran in world record time.
Edward Hardwicke, English actor (died 2011)
Edward Cedric Hardwicke was an English actor who had a career on the stage and on-screen. He was best known for playing Captain Pat Grant in Colditz (1972–73), and Dr. Watson in Granada Television's Sherlock Holmes (1986–94).
Rien Poortvliet, Dutch painter and illustrator (died 1995)
Rien Poortvliet was a Dutch artist and illustrator.
Maurice Rabb Jr., American ophthalmologist and academic (died 2005)
Maurice F. Rabb Jr. was an American ophthalmologist. He is widely known for his pioneering work in cornea and retinal vascular diseases.
07/08/1930
Togrul Narimanbekov, Azerbaijani-French painter and academic (died 2013)
Togrul Farman oglu Narimanbekov was one of the prominent modern Azerbaijani artists, laureate of the State Prizes of the USSR and the Azerbaijan SSR, the People's Artist of the USSR and Azerbaijan, and a personal benefactor of the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan.
Veljo Tormis, Estonian composer and educator (died 2017)
Veljo Tormis was an Estonian composer, regarded as one of the great contemporary choral composers and one of the most important composers of the 20th century in Estonia. Internationally, his fame arises chiefly from his extensive body of choral music, which exceeds 500 individual choral songs, most of it a cappella. The great majority of these pieces are based on traditional ancient Estonian folksongs (regilaulud), either textually, melodically, or merely stylistically.
07/08/1929
Don Larsen, American baseball player (died 2020)
Don James Larsen was an American professional baseball pitcher. During a 15-year Major League Baseball (MLB) career, he pitched from 1953 to 1967 for seven different teams: the St. Louis Browns / Baltimore Orioles, New York Yankees (1955–1959), Kansas City Athletics (1960–1961), Chicago White Sox (1961), San Francisco Giants (1962–1964), Houston Colt .45's / Astros (1964–65), and Chicago Cubs (1967).
07/08/1928
Betsy Byars, American author and academic (died 2020)
Betsy Byars was an American author of children's books. Her novel Summer of the Swans won the 1971 Newbery Medal. She has also received a National Book Award for Young People's Literature for The Night Swimmers (1980) and an Edgar Award for Wanted... Mud Blossom (1991).
Owen Luder, English architect, designed Tricorn Centre and Trinity Square (died 2021)
Harold Owen Luder was a British architect who designed a number of notable and sometimes controversial buildings in the United Kingdom in the 1960s and 1970s, many in an uncompromising brutalist design, and many now demolished. He served as chairman of the Architects Registration Board and twice as President of the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) in 1981–1983 and 1995–1997. He established his own practice Owen Luder Partnership in 1957, and left in 1987 to form the consultancy Communication In Construction.
James Randi, Canadian-American stage magician and author (died 2020)
James Randi was a Canadian-American stage magician, author, and scientific skeptic who extensively challenged paranormal and pseudoscientific claims. He was the co-founder of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry (CSI), and founder of the James Randi Educational Foundation (JREF). Randi began his career as a magician under the stage name The Amazing Randi and later chose to devote most of his time to investigating paranormal, occult, and supernatural claims. Randi retired from practicing magic at age 60, and from his foundation at 87.
07/08/1927
Edwin Edwards, American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 50th Governor of Louisiana (died 2021)
Edwin Washington Edwards was an American politician who served as the U.S. representative for Louisiana's 7th congressional district from 1965 to 1972 and as the 50th governor of Louisiana for four terms. A member of the Democratic Party, he served twice as many elected terms as any other Louisiana chief executive. He served a total of almost 16 years in gubernatorial office, which at 5,784 days is the sixth-longest such tenure in post-Constitutional U.S. history.
07/08/1926
Stan Freberg, American puppeteer, voice actor, and singer (died 2015)
Stan Freberg was an American voice actor, satirist, singer, radio personality, and advertising creative director.
07/08/1925
Felice Bryant, American songwriter (died 2003)
Felice Bryant and Diadorius Boudleaux Bryant were an American husband-and-wife country music and pop songwriting team. They are best known for songs such as "Rocky Top", "We Could", "Love Hurts", and numerous hits by the Everly Brothers, including "All I Have to Do Is Dream" and "Bird Dog", "Bye Bye Love", and "Wake Up Little Susie".
07/08/1921
Manitas de Plata, French guitarist (died 2014)
Ricardo Baliardo, better known as Manitas de Plata, was a French flamenco guitarist of Catalan Gitano descent, born in southern France.
Karel Husa, Czech-American composer and conductor (died 2016)
Karel Husa was a Czech-born classical composer and conductor, winner of the 1969 Pulitzer Prize for Music and 1993 University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award for Music Composition. In 1954, he emigrated to the United States and became an American citizen in 1959.
07/08/1918
C. Buddingh', Dutch poet and translator (died 1985)
Cornelis "Kees" Buddingh' was a Dutch poet, TV-presenter, translator. Amongst others he translated A Clockwork Orange and the complete works of William Shakespeare into Dutch. His son Wiebe Buddingh‘ later became the translator of Harry Potter into the Dutch language. The C. Buddingh'-prijs literary award is named after him.
Gordon Zahn, American sociologist and author (died 2007)
Gordon Zahn was an American sociologist, pacifist, professor, and author.
07/08/1916
Kermit Love, American actor, puppeteer, and costume designer (died 2008)
Kermit Ernest Hollingshead Love was an American puppet maker, puppeteer, costume designer, and actor in children's television and on Broadway. He was best known as a designer and builder with the Muppets, in particular those on Sesame Street.
07/08/1911
István Bibó, Hungarian lawyer and politician (died 1979)
István Bibó was a Hungarian lawyer, civil servant, politician and political theorist.
Nicholas Ray, American director and screenwriter (died 1979)
Nicholas Ray was an American film director, screenwriter, and actor. Described by the Harvard Film Archive as "Hollywood's last romantic" and "one of postwar American cinema's supremely gifted and ultimately tragic filmmakers," Ray was considered an iconoclastic auteur director who often clashed with the Hollywood studio system of the time, but would prove highly influential to future generations of filmmakers.
07/08/1907
Albert Kotin, Belarusian-American soldier and painter (died 1980)
Albert Kotin was a Russian-born American abstract expressionist painter. He belonged to the early generation of New York School artists whose innovations by the 1950s had gained recognition across the Atlantic, including in Paris. The New York School's abstract expressionism, led by figures such as Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, and Franz Kline, became a leading art movement of the post-World War II era.
07/08/1904
Ralph Bunche, American political scientist, academic, and diplomat, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1971)
Ralph Johnson Bunche was an American political scientist, diplomat, and leading actor in the mid-20th-century decolonization process and US civil rights movement, who received the 1950 Nobel Peace Prize for his late 1940s mediation in the Arab–Israeli conflict. He is the first black Nobel laureate and the first person of African descent to be awarded a Nobel Prize. He was involved in the formation and early administration of the United Nations (UN), serving as the under‑secretary‑general and briefly the acting secretary-general in 1953, and played a major role in both the decolonization process and numerous UN peacekeeping operations.
07/08/1903
Louis Leakey, Kenyan-English palaeontologist and archaeologist (died 1972)
Louis Seymour Bazett Leakey was a Kenyan-British palaeoanthropologist and archaeologist whose work was important in demonstrating that humans evolved in Africa, particularly through discoveries made at Olduvai Gorge with his wife, fellow palaeoanthropologist Mary Leakey. Having established a programme of palaeoanthropological inquiry in eastern Africa, he also motivated many future generations to continue this scholarly work. Several members of the Leakey family became prominent scholars themselves.
07/08/1901
Ann Harding, American actress and singer (died 1981)
Ann Harding was an American theatre, motion picture, radio, and television actress. Harding was a regular on Broadway and on tour in the 1920s. In the 1930s, Harding was one of the first actresses to gain fame in the new medium of "talking pictures," and she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress in 1931 for her work in Holiday.
07/08/1890
Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, American author and activist (died 1964)
Elizabeth Gurley Flynn was an American labor leader and feminist. In the early years of her activist career, she was an organizer for the Industrial Workers of the World. During World War I she founded the Workers Defense Union (WDU), to advocate for anyone arrested and imprisoned for violating the Espionage Act while championing the cause of labor. In 1920, Flynn helped found the American Civil Liberties Union. She joined the Communist Party USA in 1936 during the Popular Front period and became one of its most recognized and beloved leaders.
07/08/1887
Anna Elisabet Weirauch, German author and playwright (died 1970)
Anna Elisabet Weirauch was a German author. Weirauch was an important figure for lesbians in Germany in the early 1900s, as well as for lesbians in the 1970s-1980s following an English translation. Her most well-known work is Der Skorpion, which was a significant piece of lesbian literature which broke from traditional peers in the genre.
07/08/1884
Billie Burke, American actress and singer (died 1970)
Mary William Ethelbert Appleton "Billie" Burke was an American actress who was famous on Broadway and radio, and in silent and sound films. She is best known to modern audiences as Glinda the Good Witch of the North in the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film musical The Wizard of Oz (1939).
Nikolai Triik, Estonian painter and illustrator (died 1940)
Nikolai Voldemar Triik was an Estonian Modernist painter, graphic artist, printmaker and professor. His work displays elements of Symbolism and Expressionism.
07/08/1879
Johannes Kotze, South African cricketer (died 1931)
Johannes Jacobus "Kodgee" Kotze, or Kotzé was a cricketer from Cape Colony who played in three Test matches for South Africa from 1902 to 1907. He was considered one of the fastest bowlers of his time. He toured England with the South African teams in 1901, 1904 and 1907.
07/08/1876
Mata Hari, Dutch dancer and spy (died 1917)
Margaretha Geertruida MacLeod, better known by the stage name Mata Hari, was a Dutch exotic dancer and courtesan who was convicted of being a spy for Germany during World War I. She was executed by firing squad in France.
07/08/1869
Mary Frances Winston, American mathematician (died 1959)
Mary Frances Winston Newson was an American mathematician. She became the first American woman to receive a PhD in mathematics from a European university, namely the University of Göttingen in Germany. She was also the first person to translate Hilbert's problems into English.
07/08/1868
Ladislaus Bortkiewicz, Russian-German economist and statistician (died 1931)
Ladislaus Josephovich Bortkiewicz was a Russian economist and statistician of Polish ancestry. He wrote a book showing how the Poisson distribution, a discrete probability distribution, can be useful in applied statistics, and he made contributions to mathematical economics. He lived most of his professional life in Germany, where he taught at Strassburg University and Berlin University (1901–1931).
Huntley Wright, English actor (died 1941)
Huntley Wright was an English stage and film actor, comedian, dancer and singer, best known for creating roles in many important Edwardian musical comedies.
07/08/1867
Emil Nolde, Danish-German painter and illustrator (died 1956)
Emil Nolde was a German painter and printmaker. He was one of the first Expressionists, a member of Die Brücke, and was one of the first oil painting and watercolor painters of the early 20th century to explore color. He is known for his brushwork and expressive choice of colors. Golden yellows and deep reds appear frequently in his work, giving a luminous quality to otherwise somber tones. His watercolors include vivid, brooding storm-scapes and brilliant florals.
07/08/1862
Henri Le Sidaner, French painter (died 1939)
Henri Eugène Augustin Le Sidaner was an intimist painter known for his paintings of domestic interiors and quiet street scenes. His style contained elements of impressionism with the influences of Édouard Manet, Monet and of the Pointillists discernible in his work. Le Sidaner favoured a subdued use of colour, preferring nuanced greys and opals applied with uneven, dappled brushstrokes to create atmosphere and mysticism. A skilled nocturne painter, he travelled widely throughout France and Europe before settling at Gerberoy in the Picardy countryside from where he painted for over thirty years.
Victoria of Baden (died 1931)
Victoria of Baden was Queen of Sweden from 8 December 1907 until her death in 1930 as the wife of King Gustaf V. She was politically active in a conservative fashion during the development of democracy and known to be pro-German during the First World War.
07/08/1844
Auguste Michel-Lévy, French geologist and author (died 1911)
Auguste Michel-Lévy was a French geologist. He was born in Paris.
07/08/1826
August Ahlqvist, Finnish professor, poet, scholar of the Finno-Ugric languages, author, and literary critic (died 1889)
Karl August Engelbrekt Ahlqvist, who wrote as A. Oksanen, was a Finnish professor, poet, scholar of the Finno-Ugric languages, author, and literary critic. He is best remembered as the sharpest critic of writer Aleksis Kivi, who later rose to the position of the national author of Finland.
07/08/1779
Carl Ritter, German geographer and academic (died 1859)
Carl Ritter was a German geographer. Along with Alexander von Humboldt, he is considered one of the founders of modern geography, as they established it as an independent scientific discipline. From 1825 until his death, he occupied the first chair in geography at the University of Berlin.
07/08/1751
Wilhelmina of Prussia, Princess of Orange (died 1820)
Princess Wilhelmina of Prussia was the consort of William V of Orange and the de facto leader of the dynastic party and counter-revolution in the Netherlands. She was the daughter of Prince Augustus William of Prussia and Duchess Luise of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel. Wilhelmina was the longest-serving princess consort of Orange.
07/08/1742
Nathanael Greene, American general (died 1786)
Major General Nathanael Greene was an American military officer and planter who served in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War. He emerged from the war with a reputation as one of George Washington's most talented and dependable officers and is known for his successful command in the Southern theater of the conflict.
07/08/1726
James Bowdoin, American banker and politician, 2nd Governor of Massachusetts (died 1790)
James Bowdoin II was an American politician from Boston, Massachusetts who was active during the American Revolution and the following decade. He initially gained fame and influence as a wealthy merchant. He served in both branches of the Massachusetts General Court from the 1750s to the 1770s. Although he was initially supportive of the royal governors, he opposed British colonial policy and eventually became an influential advocate of independence. He authored a highly political report on the 1770 Boston Massacre that has been described by historian Francis Walett as one of the most influential pieces of writing that shaped public opinion in the colonies.
07/08/1702
Muhammad Shah, Mughal emperor of India (died 1748)
Mirza Nasir-ud-Din Muḥammad Shah was the thirteenth Mughal emperor from 1719 to 1748. He was son of Khujista Akhtar, the fourth son of Bahadur Shah I. After being chosen by the Sayyid Brothers of Barha, he ascended the throne at the young age of 18, under their strict supervision.
07/08/1613
William Frederick, Prince of Nassau-Dietz, Dutch stadtholder (died 1664)
William Frederick, was Count of Nassau-Dietz, Stadtholder of Friesland, Groningen and Drenthe.
07/08/1598
Georg Stiernhielm, Swedish poet and linguist (died 1672)
Georg Stiernhielm was a Swedish civil servant, mathematician, linguist and poet. He has been called "the father of the Swedish skald art".
07/08/1574
Robert Dudley, English explorer and cartographer (died 1649)
Sir Robert Dudley was an English explorer and cartographer. In 1594, he led an expedition to the West Indies, of which he wrote an account. The illegitimate son of Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester, he inherited the bulk of the Earl's estate in accordance with his father's will, including Kenilworth Castle.
07/08/1571
Thomas Lupo, English viol player and composer (died 1627)
Thomas Lupo was an English composer and viol player of the late Elizabethan and Jacobean eras. Along with Orlando Gibbons, John Coprario, and Alfonso Ferrabosco, he was one of the principal developers of the repertory for viol consort.
07/08/1560
Elizabeth Báthory, Hungarian aristocrat and purported serial killer (died 1614)
Countess Elizabeth Báthory of Ecsed was a Hungarian noblewoman and alleged serial killer from the powerful House of Báthory, who owned land in the Kingdom of Hungary. Báthory and four of her servants were accused of torturing and killing hundreds of girls and women from 1590 to 1610. Bathory and her cohorts were charged for 80 counts of murder and were convicted. Her servants were put on trial and executed, whereas Báthory was imprisoned within the Castle of Csejte (Čachtice) until she died in her sleep in 1614.
07/08/1533
Alonso de Ercilla, Spanish soldier and poet (died 1595)
Alonso de Ercilla y Zúñiga was a Spanish soldier and poet, born in Madrid. While in Chile (1556–63) he fought against the Araucanians (Mapuche), and there he began the epic poem La Araucana, considered one of the greatest epics of the Spanish Golden Age. This heroic work in 37 cantos is divided into three parts, published in 1569, 1578, and 1589. It celebrates both the violence of the conquistadors and the courage of the Araucanians.
07/08/1282
Elizabeth of Rhuddlan (died 1316)
Elizabeth of Rhuddlan was the eighth and youngest daughter of Edward I of England and Eleanor of Castile and was born in Rhuddlan Castle in Denbighshire. Of all of her siblings, she was closest to her younger brother Edward II, as they were only two years apart in age.
07/08/0317
Constantius II, Roman emperor (died 361)
Constantius II was Roman emperor from 337 to 361. His reign saw constant warfare on the borders against the Sasanian Empire and Germanic peoples, while internally the Roman Empire went through repeated civil wars, court intrigues, and usurpations. His religious policies inflamed domestic conflicts that would continue after his death.