Born on Tuesday, 30th December – Famous Birthdays

30/12/1995

Igor Shesterkin, Russian hockey goaltender

Igor Olegovich Shestyorkin is a Russian professional ice hockey player who is a goaltender for the New York Rangers of the National Hockey League (NHL). He was selected by the Rangers in the fourth round, 118th overall, of the 2014 NHL entry draft. In his first full NHL season in 2021–22, Shesterkin won the Vezina Trophy as the league's best goaltender.

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Joshua, American singer

Joshua Hong, known mononymously as Joshua (Korean: 조슈아), is an American singer based in South Korea. Managed by Pledis Entertainment, he is a member of the South Korean boy band Seventeen and its vocal team.

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Ollie Watkins, English footballer

Oliver George Arthur Watkins is an English professional footballer who plays as a forward for Premier League club Aston Villa and the England national team. Described as a complete forward, Watkins is known for his finishing ability and work ethic.

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V, South Korean singer

Kim Tae-hyung, known professionally as V (뷔), is a South Korean singer. In 2013, he made his debut as a member of the South Korean boy band BTS, under Big Hit Entertainment. V has performed three solo songs under BTS's name—"Stigma" in 2016, "Singularity" in 2018, and "Inner Child" in 2020—all of which charted on South Korea's Gaon Digital Chart. Outside of his music projects with BTS, V had his acting debut in the 2016 television series Hwarang: The Poet Warrior Youth and contributed the single "It's Definitely You" to its soundtrack. He released his first independent song, the self-composed "Scenery", in 2019. In 2023, V made his official debut as a solo artist with the release of the singles "Love Me Again" and "Rainy Days". His debut solo EP Layover was released on September 8, 2023, accompanied by a third single, "Slow Dancing".

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30/12/1992

Ryan Tunnicliffe, English footballer

Ryan Tunnicliffe is an English professional footballer who plays as a midfielder.

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Carson Wentz, American football player

Carson James Wentz is an American professional football quarterback for the Minnesota Vikings of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the North Dakota State Bison, winning two consecutive NCAA FCS national championships as the starter. Wentz was selected second overall by the Philadelphia Eagles in the 2016 NFL draft, making him the highest drafted FCS player.

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30/12/1991

Camila Giorgi, Italian tennis player

Camila Giorgi is an Italian former professional tennis player. She had a career-high singles ranking of world No. 26, which was achieved on 22 October 2018. Giorgi was known for her aggressive style of play and powerful flat groundstrokes, and she was considered one of the hardest hitters of the ball on the tour.

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30/12/1990

Bruno Henrique, Brazilian footballer

Bruno Henrique Pinto, known as Bruno Henrique, is a Brazilian footballer who plays as a winger for Campeonato Brasileiro Série A club Flamengo.

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Joe Root, English cricketer

Joseph Edward Root is an English international cricketer who plays for England in Tests and ODIs. He captained the Test team from 2017–2022. He plays for Yorkshire in English domestic cricket. Root is currently the leading run-scorer among active batsmen, the second highest run-scorer of all time in Test cricket and the highest run scorer for England. Root is regarded as one of the greatest batsmen of his era and among the finest England has produced. He was part of the England team that won the 2019 Cricket World Cup, where he top scored for England. As of March 2026, he has topped the ICC rankings for Test batsmen on ten occasions.

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C. J. Wilcox, American basketball player

Brian Craig "C. J." Wilcox is an American former professional basketball player. The 6 ft 5 in (1.96 m) shooting guard played high school basketball at Pleasant Grove High School before going on to complete four years at the University of Washington. He was selected by the Los Angeles Clippers with the 28th overall pick in the 2014 NBA draft.

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30/12/1989

Tyler Anderson, American baseball player

Tyler John Anderson is an American professional baseball pitcher who is a free agent. He has previously played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Colorado Rockies, San Francisco Giants, Pittsburgh Pirates, Seattle Mariners, Los Angeles Dodgers, and Los Angeles Angels. He played college baseball for the University of Oregon. The Rockies selected Anderson in the first round, with the 20th overall selection, of the 2011 MLB draft. He made his MLB debut in 2016. He is a two-time All-Star.

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Ryan Sheckler, American skateboarder and entrepreneur

Ryan Allen Sheckler is an American professional skateboarder and entrepreneur, and the star of the MTV-produced reality television series Life of Ryan, which ran from 2007 to 2009. He also starred in four seasons of the short-format video series Sheckler Sessions on Red Bull TV. Sheckler was listed in Fox Weekly's "15 Most Influential Skateboarders of All-Time" article.

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Kateřina Vaňková, Czech tennis player

Kateřina Vaňková is a Czech former professional tennis player.

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30/12/1987

Jakub Nakládal, Czech ice hockey player

Jakub Nakládal is a Czech former professional ice hockey defenseman who last played for HC Dynamo Pardubice of the Czech Extraliga (ELH).

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30/12/1986

Domenico Criscito, Italian footballer

Domenico "Mimmo" Criscito is an Italian former professional footballer who played as a left-back. A versatile player, Criscito was effective both offensively and defensively and was also capable of playing as a wing-back or centre-back, a position which he often occupied in his early career.

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Ellie Goulding, English singer-songwriter and producer

Elena Jane Goulding is an English singer-songwriter and activist. Born in Hereford and raised in Lyonshall, Goulding began writing songs at the age of 15. She released her debut single "Under the Sheets" through Neon Gold Records in 2009, and signed with Polydor Records that same year, releasing her debut extended play (EP) An Introduction to Ellie Goulding. Her debut studio album, Lights (2010), debuted at No. 1 on the UK Albums Chart, and was reissued as Bright Lights, spawning three successful singles: a cover of Elton John's "Your Song", "Starry Eyed" and "Lights".

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Caity Lotz, American actress

Caity Lotz is an American actress, dancer, and singer. She has portrayed Stephanie Horton in the AMC series Mad Men, Officer Kirsten Landry in the MTV mockumentary series Death Valley (2011), Annie Barlow in The Pact (2012), and Sara Lance/The Canary/White Canary in The CW's Arrowverse television franchise.

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Jeff Ward, American actor

Jeff Ward is an American actor and theatre director. He is best known for his role as Deke Shaw in Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (2017–2020) and Buggy the Clown in One Piece (2023–present). He also played Roy Hardaway in the Netflix miniseries Brand New Cherry Flavor (2021) and Seth Marlowe in Channel Zero: No-End House (2017).

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Gianni Zuiverloon, Dutch footballer

Gianni Michel Eugene Zuiverloon is a Dutch former footballer who played as a right-back or centre-back. He represented the Netherlands at youth level and also played abroad for football clubs in England, Spain and India.

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30/12/1985

Lars Boom, Dutch cyclist

Lars Anthonius Johannes Boom is a professional cyclo-cross and mountain bike racing cyclist from the Netherlands. He has also competed professionally in road racing, having raced between 2004 and 2019.

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Bryson Goodwin, Australian rugby league player

Bryson Goodwin is a former New Zealand international rugby league footballer who last played as a goal-kicking centre or winger for the Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks in the National Rugby League.

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Anna Wood, American actress

Anna Elizabeth Wood is an American film, stage, and television actress, known for her recurring role on the short-lived NBC television drama series Deception and starring as attorney Jamie Sawyer in the short-lived CBS legal drama series Reckless. She also played "The Woman in Red" in the USA supernatural drama series Falling Water.

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30/12/1984

Randall Azofeifa, Costa Rican footballer

Randall Azofeifa Corrales is a Costa Rican former footballer who played as a midfielder.

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Andra Day, American singer and songwriter

Cassandra Monique Batie, known professionally as Andra Day, is an American R&B and soul singer, songwriter, and actress. She is the recipient of various accolades, including a Grammy Award, a Children's and Family Emmy Award, and a Golden Globe Award, along with a nomination for an Academy Award.

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LeBron James, American basketball player, producer and businessman

LeBron Raymone James is an American professional basketball player for the Los Angeles Lakers of the National Basketball Association (NBA). Nicknamed "King James", he is the NBA's all-time leading scorer and has won four NBA championships from 10 NBA Finals appearances, including eight consecutive appearances between 2011 and 2018. He has also won three Olympic gold medals as a member of the U.S. national team. James is widely considered to be one of the greatest basketball players of all time.

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30/12/1983

Eddie Edwards, American professional wrestler

Eric Maher, better known by the ring name Eddie Edwards, is an American professional wrestler. He is signed to Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA), where he is the second and current leader of The System.

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Nick Symmonds, American runner

Nicholas Boone Symmonds is an American YouTube personality and retired middle-distance runner from Boise, Idaho, who specialized in the 800 meters and 1500 meters. At Willamette University, he won seven NCAA Division III titles outdoors. Symmonds is a 6-time US national 800 meters champion. He has competed in the 800m at two Olympic Games, reaching the semi-finals in Beijing 2008, and finishing fifth in the London 2012 final, running a personal best of 1:42.95 behind David Rudisha's world record of 1:40.91. The following year, he won a silver medal in the 800 meters at the 2013 World Championships, having previously finished sixth in the 2009 final and fifth in the 2011 final.

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Kevin Systrom, American computer programmer and businessman, co-founded Instagram

Kevin Systrom is an American computer programmer and entrepreneur. He co-founded Instagram, along with Mike Krieger.

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30/12/1982

Kristin Kreuk, Canadian actress

Kristin Laura Kreuk is a Canadian actress. Debuting on teen drama Edgemont, she became most known for her television roles as Lana Lang in the superhero television series Smallville (2001–2009), Catherine Chandler in The CW sci-fi series Beauty & the Beast (2012–2016) and as Joanna Hanley in the CBC legal drama series Burden of Truth (2018–2021). In 2009, she portrayed Chun-Li in the American martial arts film Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li.

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Tobias Kurbjuweit, German footballer

Tobias Kurbjuweit is a German former professional footballer who played as a midfielder or forward.

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Dawan Landry, American football player

Dawan Frank Landry is an American former professional football player who was a safety in the National Football League (NFL). He was selected by the Baltimore Ravens in the fifth round of the 2006 NFL draft. He played college football at Georgia Tech.

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30/12/1981

Ali Al-Habsi, Omani footballer

Ali Abdullah Harib Al-Habsi is an Omani retired professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper. He played for the Oman national team for nearly two decades, from 2001 to 2019.

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Cédric Carrasso, French footballer

Cédric Pascal Régis Carrasso is a French former professional footballer who spent most of his career with Bordeaux and Marseille playing as a goalkeeper. He was also capped once for the France national team.

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Michael Rodríguez, Costa Rican footballer

Michael Steven Rodríguez Gutiérrez is a Costa Rican former footballer who most recently played for the National Premier Soccer League club Puerto Rico Bayamón.

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Matt Ulrich, American football player

Matthew James Ulrich was an American professional football player who was an offensive guard for the Indianapolis Colts of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Northwestern Wildcats. He won Super Bowl XLI with the Colts during the 2006 season over the Chicago Bears.

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30/12/1980

Eliza Dushku, American former actress and producer

Eliza Patricia Dushku is an American and Albanian retired actress. Dushku starred as Faith in the supernatural drama series Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1998–2003) and its spin-off series Angel (2000–2003). She also had lead roles in the Fox supernatural drama series Tru Calling (2003–2005) and the Fox science fiction series Dollhouse (2009–2010), for which she was a producer.

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D. J. Mbenga, Congolese-Belgian basketball player

Didier "D. J." Ilunga-Mbenga is a Belgian-Congolese former professional basketball player. He has also played for the Belgian national basketball team as he is a dual citizen of both his native countries.

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Alison McGovern, British politician

Alison McGovern is a British Labour politician who has served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Birkenhead since 2024, and previously Wirral South since 2010. She served as Minister of State for Employment from 2024 to 2025 and currently serves as Minister of State for Local Government and Homelessness.

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30/12/1979

Michael Grimm, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

Michael Joseph Grimm is an American singer-songwriter and winner of the fifth season of America's Got Talent.

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30/12/1978

Devin Brown, American basketball player

Devin LaVell Brown is an American former professional basketball shooting guard who played 8 seasons in the National Basketball Association. Brown won an NBA championship as a member of the San Antonio Spurs in 2005.

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Tyrese Gibson, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actor

Tyrese Darnell Gibson is an American R&B singer and actor from Los Angeles, California. He signed with RCA Records in 1998, and released his debut single "Nobody Else" in August of that year. It peaked within the top 40 of the Billboard Hot 100 and preceded his self-titled debut album (1998), which received platinum certification by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and spawned his second top 40 single, "Sweet Lady".

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Phillips Idowu, English triple jumper

Phillips Olaosebikan Idowu, is a British athlete who specialised in the triple jump and was active at elite level between 2000 and 2014, with his greatest success coming between 2006 and 2011. He is a former World Outdoor (2009) and Indoor (2008), European Outdoor (2010) and Indoor (2007), Diamond League (2011) and Commonwealth Games (2006) triple jump champion. He was also a silver medalist at the 2008 Summer Olympics. Idowu is a member of the London-based Belgrave Harriers athletics club and has been for much of his career.

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Zbigniew Robert Promiński, Polish drummer

Zbigniew Robert Promiński, stage name Inferno, is a Polish heavy metal musician, best known as the drummer for extreme metal band Behemoth. He has also contributed to bands such as Azarath, Witchmaster, Damnation, Deus Mortem, Artrosis, Christ Agony, and Devilyn. Also, his endorsements include Paiste cymbals, Czarcie Kopyto pedals, Pearl drums, Evans Drumheads, and Vic Firth drumsticks.

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Rob Scuderi, American ice hockey player

Robert John Scuderi is an American former professional ice hockey defenseman, currently serving as an assistant coach for the National Hockey League's Nashville Predators.

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30/12/1977

Laila Ali, American boxer and actress

Laila Amaria Ali is an American television personality and retired professional boxer who competed from 1999 to 2007. During her career, from which she retired undefeated, she held the WBC, WIBA, IWBF and IBA female super middleweight titles, and the IWBF light heavyweight title. Ali is widely regarded by many within the sport as one of the greatest female professional boxers of all time. She is the daughter of boxer Muhammad Ali.

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Glory Alozie, Nigerian-Spanish sprinter and hurdler

Gloria “Glory” Alozie Oluchi is a former track and field athlete competing mostly in hurdling. Born in Nigeria, she represented her country of birth and Spain.

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Grant Balfour, Australian baseball player

Grant Robert Balfour is an Australian former professional baseball relief pitcher. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Minnesota Twins, Milwaukee Brewers, Tampa Bay Devil Rays / Rays, and Oakland Athletics. He is second all-time in saves and strikeouts among Australian MLB pitchers behind Liam Hendriks, and holds the Oakland Athletics consecutive save record at 44.

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Saša Ilić, Serbian footballer and manager

Saša Ilić is a Serbian professional football manager, who is the head coach of Azerbaijan Premier League side Sumgayit, and a former player.

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Kenyon Martin, American basketball player

Kenyon Lee Martin Sr. is an American former professional basketball player who played 15 seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA). As a power forward, he played for the New Jersey Nets, Denver Nuggets, Los Angeles Clippers, New York Knicks and Milwaukee Bucks of the NBA, and the Xinjiang Flying Tigers of China. He played college basketball for the Cincinnati Bearcats and was named the national college player of the year during his senior season. Martin was drafted with the first overall pick in the 2000 NBA draft by the New Jersey Nets. He was an NBA All-Star in 2004.

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Lucy Punch, English actress

Lucy Alice T. Punch is an English actress. She has appeared in the films Ella Enchanted (2004), Hot Fuzz (2007), You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger, Dinner for Schmucks, and Into the Woods (2014). She is also known for her roles as Amy in Bad Teacher (2011) and Amanda in the BBC sitcoms Motherland and its spin-off Amandaland. She also played Esmé Squalor in the Netflix dark comedy drama series A Series of Unfortunate Events.

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Kazuyuki Toda, Japanese footballer

Kazuyuki Toda is a Japanese professional football manager and former professional footballer who played as a midfielder or defender. He played for the Japan national team until 2002.

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30/12/1976

Kastro, American rapper

Katari Terrance Cox, better known by his stage name Kastro, is an American rapper. A cousin of Tupac Shakur, Kastro would perform alongside him in the former's rap group, the Outlawz, and is featured on many of the late rapper's songs such as "Made Niggaz", and "Hail Mary". When he was in elementary school, he introduced his friend, and future Outlawz rapper, Malcolm Greenidge, later named E.D.I. Mean, to Tupac.

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Patrick Kerney, American football player

Patrick Manning Kerney is an American former professional football player who was a defensive end for 11 seasons in the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Virginia Cavaliers in Charlottesville and was selected by the Atlanta Falcons in the first round of the 1999 NFL draft with the 30th overall pick.

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A. J. Pierzynski, American baseball player and sportscaster

Anthony John Pierzynski is an American former professional baseball player and current television sports presenter. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a catcher with the Minnesota Twins (1998–2003), San Francisco Giants (2004), Chicago White Sox (2005–2012), Texas Rangers (2013), Boston Red Sox (2014), St. Louis Cardinals (2014) and Atlanta Braves (2015–2016). Pierzynski is one of only thirteen catchers in Major League history to reach 2,000 hits in his career.

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30/12/1975

Scott Chipperfield, Australian footballer

Scott Kenneth Chipperfield is an Australian former soccer player who played as a midfielder for Wollongong Wolves, FC Basel, FC Aesch and the Australia national soccer team. His 2010 FIFA World Cup profile describes him "as a talented attacker with great physical ability and an eye for goal." He is also known for his versatility in playing in both right and left midfield and as a left sided defender.

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Tiger Woods, American golfer

Eldrick Tont "Tiger" Woods is an American professional golfer. He is tied for first in PGA Tour wins, ranks second in men's major championships, and holds numerous golf records. Woods is widely regarded as one of the greatest golfers of all time and as one of the most famous athletes in modern history. He is an inductee of the World Golf Hall of Fame.

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30/12/1974

Alexandro Alves do Nascimento, Brazilian footballer (died 2012)

Alexandro Alves do Nascimento was a Brazilian professional footballer who played as a striker. He played in Brazil for Vitória, Palmeiras, Juventude (RS), Portuguesa (SP), Cruzeiro, Atlético Mineiro, Vasco da Gama, Boavista (RJ), Fortaleza, Chinese side Shenyang Ginde, in Germany for Hertha BSC, and in Greece for Kavala.

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Dr. Jitheshji, Indian Speed Cartoonist and Pictorial Orator

S. Jithesh, popularly known as Dr. Jitheshji, is an Indian performing speed cartoonist and a former vice-chairman of the Kerala Cartoon Academy. He is considered the father of Speed Cartooning, having initiated and popularised concepts such as Speed Cartooning, Super-Speedy Cartooning, and Raptoon through his infotainment stage shows titled Varayarangu Raptoon Thriller.

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30/12/1973

Jason Behr, American actor

Jason Behr is an American film and television actor. He first starred in the American television series Roswell, for which he was twice nominated for a Saturn Award, followed by roles in the films The Shipping News and the American remake of the Japanese horror film The Grudge. Behr has also had a series of guest appearances in various television shows like Step by Step, The Profiler, 7th Heaven, Buffy the Vampire Slayer and JAG and had recurring roles in the American television series Dawson's Creek and Breakout Kings.

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Ato Boldon, Trinidadian runner, sportscaster, and politician

Ato Jabari Boldon is a Trinidadian former track and field athlete, politician, and four-time Olympic medal winner. He holds the Trinidad and Tobago national record in the 50, 60 and 200 metres events with times of 5.64, 6.49 and 19.77 seconds respectively, and also the Commonwealth Games record in the 100 m. He also held the 100 m national record at 9.86 s, having run it four times until Richard Thompson ran 9.85 s on 13 August 2011.

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30/12/1972

Daniel Amokachi, Nigerian footballer and manager

Daniel Owefin Amokachi is a Nigerian football manager and former professional player.

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Maureen Flannigan, American actress and producer

Maureen Flannigan is an American documentary filmmaker and former child actress. She is perhaps best known for her role as teenager Evie Ethel Garland on the fantasy sitcom Out of This World, which ran from 1987 to 1991.

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Paul Keegan, Irish footballer

Paul Keegan is an Irish former professional footballer. Keegan was the first Irishman to play in Major League Soccer in the United States.

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Dita Indah Sari, Indonesian trade union leader and activist

Dita Indah Sari is an Indonesian trade union and socialist activist. As a human rights campaigner during the Suharto regime, she was sentenced to five years' imprisonment in 1996 on the charge of sedition. During her imprisonment, she was named a prisoner of conscience by Amnesty International.

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30/12/1971

Sister Bliss, English keyboard player, songwriter, and producer

Ayalah Deborah Bentovim, better known by her stage name Sister Bliss, is a British keyboardist, record producer, DJ and songwriter. In the studio, she is best known for her work with Rollo Armstrong as a member of the production duo Rollo & Sister Bliss; and she is particularly known as part of Faithless.

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C. S. Lee, Korean-American actor

Charlie Seunghee Lee is an American actor and comedian. He is best known for playing forensics analyst Vince Masuka on the Showtime drama series Dexter.

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Ricardo, Spanish footballer and manager

Ricardo López Felipe, known simply as Ricardo, is a Spanish former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper.

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Daniel Sunjata, American actor

Daniel Sunjata Condon is an American actor. He is known for his role as Franco Rivera in the FX television series Rescue Me. Sunjata has received acclaim for his more recent role as Adam Karadec in the ABC television series High Potential.

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30/12/1969

Emmanuel Clérico, French race car driver

Emmanuel Clérico is a French racing driver. A French F3 runner-up and International Formula 3000 front-runner in the 1990s, he was test driver for the Larrousse and Ligier Formula One teams. A graduate of ACO's driving school, he went on to race in the 24 Hours of Le Mans and FIA GT Championship.

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Dave England, American snowboarder and stuntman

David Joseph England is an American stunt performer, television personality, and former professional snowboarder. He is best known as one of the stars of the reality stunt show Jackass.

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Jay Kay, English singer and songwriter

Jason "Jay" Kay is an English singer and songwriter. In 1992, he co-founded the acid jazz and funk band Jamiroquai, and he still serves as their lead vocalist. As of 2026, the band had sold more than 26 million albums internationally.

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Kersti Kaljulaid, President of Estonia

Kersti Kaljulaid is an Estonian politician who served as the fifth president of Estonia between 2016 and 2021, and was its first and only female head of state since the country declared independence in 1918. She was also the youngest president, aged 46 at the time of her election.

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Michelle McGann, American golfer

Michelle McGann is an American professional golfer who plays on the LPGA Tour.

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Meredith Monroe, American actress

Meredith Leigh Monroe is an American actress best known for portraying Andie McPhee on Dawson's Creek from 1998 to 2003, her recurring role as Haley Hotchner on Criminal Minds and Carolyn Standall on 13 Reasons Why.

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30/12/1968

Bryan Burk, American screenwriter and producer

Bryan Burk is an American film and television producer.

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Adam Dale, Australian cricketer

Adam Craig Dale is an Australian former cricketer who played in two Test matches and 30 One Day Internationals between 1997 and 2000. He played in first-class and List A cricket for Queensland Bulls and in club cricket for North Melbourne Cricket Club, Heidelberg Cricket Club, Northcote Cricket Club, Old Paradians Cricket Club and Research Cricket Club. Dale was a part of the Australian team that won the 1999 Cricket World Cup.

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Sandra Glover, American hurdler

Sandra Glover, née Cummings is an American former track and field athlete who competed in the 400-meter hurdles. She was a medalist in that event at the World Championships in Athletics in 2003 (silver) and 2005 (bronze). She also represented her country at the 2000 Summer Olympics. She was the national champion at the USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships for four consecutive years from 1999 to 2002. She had five victories on the IAAF Golden League circuit during her career.

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Albano Mucci, Australian activist

Albano Mucci, known as Al Mucci and Wildlife Al. Albano is a champion for environmental management and animal conservation and social justice for Australia's Indigenous Peoples.

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30/12/1967

Carl Ouellet, Canadian wrestler and sportscaster

Carl Ouellet is a Canadian professional wrestler better known by his ring name PCO. He is known for his appearances with the World Wrestling Federation and with World Championship Wrestling during the 1990s. Throughout the 1990s, he regularly teamed with Jacques Rougeau as the Quebecers and the Amazing French Canadians, winning the WWF Tag Team Championship on three occasions. After retiring in 2011, Ouellet returned to the ring in 2016, undergoing a career renaissance with the gimmick of PCO: "part beast-turned-man, part old-time strongman". From 2018 to 2021, Ouellet wrestled for Ring of Honor (ROH), where he was a ROH World Champion, ROH World Tag Team Champion, and ROH World Six-Man Tag Team Champion. He joined TNA in 2022, winning the TNA Digital Media Championship before departing at the end of 2024.

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30/12/1966

Gary Chartier, American philosopher, scholar, and academic

Gary William Chartier is an American legal scholar, philosopher, political theorist, and theologian. His work addresses anarchism and ethics. Chartier is a professor and serves as associate dean of La Sierra University's business school.

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Bennett Miller, American director and producer

Bennett Altman Miller is an American film director who is known for having directed the films Capote (2005), Moneyball (2011), and Foxcatcher (2014). He has been nominated twice for the Academy Award for Best Director.

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30/12/1965

Heidi Fleiss, American procurer

Heidi Lynne Fleiss is an American former madam, media personality, and entrepreneur. In the earlier 90s, Fleiss ran an upscale prostitution ring based in Los Angeles, and is often referred to as the "Hollywood Madam". Fleiss also formerly worked as a columnist and was a television personality regularly featured in the 1990s American media.

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30/12/1964

Almir Kayumov, Russian footballer and referee (died 2013)

Almir Izmailovich Kayumov was a Russian football player and referee.

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Sylvie Moreau, Canadian actress and screenwriter

Sylvie Moreau, is a Canadian actress.

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George Newbern, American actor

George Newbern is an American actor, best known for his roles as Charlie in the ABC show Scandal (2012–2018) and Bryan MacKenzie in Father of the Bride (1991) and its sequels Father of the Bride Part II (1995) and Father of the Bride Part 3 (ish) (2020). He guest starred as Danny in Friends and had a recurring role as Julia's son Payne in Designing Women.

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30/12/1963

Chandler Burr, American journalist and author

Chandler Burr is an American journalist, author, and museum curator.

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Mike Pompeo, American diplomat and politician; 70th United States Secretary of State

Michael Richard Pompeo is an American politician, attorney, diplomat, and former U.S. Army officer who served in the first administration of Donald Trump as the director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) from 2017 to 2018, and as the 70th United States secretary of state from 2018 to 2021. He served in the United States House of Representatives from 2011 to 2017.

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Johnny Rogers, American-Spanish basketball player

John Bernard Rogers Bakker is a Spanish-American former professional basketball player. Rogers played college basketball for the Stanford Cardinal and UC Irvine Anteaters. Listed at a height of 6'10" and 225 lbs., he played at the power forward position.

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Milan Šrejber, Czech tennis player

Milan Šrejber is a former tennis player from Czechoslovakia, who represented his native country at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul. There he reached the semi-finals of the men's doubles competition, partnering Miloslav Mečíř. The pair was defeated by America's eventual winners Ken Flach and Robert Seguso, but still won the bronze medal. The right-hander won one career singles title, and reached his highest ATP singles ranking of World No. 23 in October 1986.

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30/12/1961

Douglas Coupland, German-Canadian author and playwright

Douglas Coupland is a Canadian novelist, designer and visual artist. His first novel, the 1991 international bestseller Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture, popularized the terms Generation X and McJob. He has published 13 novels, two collections of short stories, seven non-fiction books and a number of dramatic works and screenplays for film and television. He is a columnist for the Financial Times, as well as a frequent contributor to The New York Times, e-flux journal, DIS Magazine, and Vice. His art exhibits include Everywhere Is Anywhere Is Anything Is Everything, which was exhibited at the Vancouver Art Gallery, and the Royal Ontario Museum and the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, now the Museum of Contemporary Art Toronto Canada, and Bit Rot at Rotterdam's Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, as well as the Villa Stuck.

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Bill English, New Zealand farmer and politician, 39th Prime Minister of New Zealand

Sir Simon William English is a New Zealand former politician who served as the 39th prime minister of New Zealand from 2016 to 2017 and leader of the National Party from 2001 to 2003 and 2016 to 2018. He had previously served as the 17th deputy prime minister of New Zealand and minister of finance from 2008 to 2016 under John Key and the Fifth National Government.

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Sean Hannity, American radio and television host

Sean Patrick Hannity is an American conservative television presenter, broadcaster and writer. He hosts The Sean Hannity Show, a nationally syndicated talk radio show, has hosted a self-titled political commentary program on Fox News since 2009, and co-hosted the original Fox News debate show Hannity & Colmes with Alan Colmes from the network's founding in 1996 to 2009.

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Ben Johnson, Jamaican-Canadian sprinter

Benjamin Sinclair Johnson, is a Canadian former sprinter. During the 1987–88 season he held the title of the world's fastest man, breaking both the 100 m and the 60 m indoor World Records. He won the 100 metres at the 1987 World Championships in Athletics, and again at the 1988 Summer Olympics, but was disqualified for doping and stripped of the gold medals. He was the first to beat the 9.9 and 9.8 seconds barrier.

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Charlie Nicholas, Scottish footballer and sportscaster

Charles Nicholas is a Scottish former professional footballer. A striker, Nicholas is best known for his spells at Celtic and Arsenal. He won 20 international caps for Scotland, including playing at the 1986 FIFA World Cup.

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30/12/1960

Richard M. Durbin, English biologist and academic

Richard Michael Durbin is a British computational biologist and Al-Kindi Professor of Genetics at the University of Cambridge. He also serves as an associate faculty member at the Wellcome Sanger Institute where he was previously a senior group leader.

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30/12/1959

Antonio Pappano, English pianist and conductor

Sir Antonio Pappano is an English-Italian conductor and pianist. Between 2002 and 2024, he was the longest-serving music director of the Royal Opera House. Since 2024, he has served as chief conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra.

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Kåre Thomsen, Norwegian guitarist and graphic designer

Kåre Thomsen is a Norwegian Jazz musician (guitar) and graphic designer, known for a number of releases and is active on the Bergen jazz scene performing with musicians like Karl Seglem, Vigleik Storaas and Terje Isungset. He is the younger brother of the acclaimed Bergen guitarist Ole Thomsen.

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Tracey Ullman, English-American actress, singer, director, and screenwriter

Tracey Ullman is a British and American actress, comedian, singer, dancer, screenwriter, producer, director, and author. Despite being frequently referred to as a comedian, Ullman considers herself a character actress. Critics have lauded her ability to shift seamlessly in and out of character and accents, with many dubbing her the "female Peter Sellers".

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Josée Verner, Canadian politician, 8th Canadian Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs

Josée Verner, is a Canadian politician. She represented the electoral district of Louis-Saint-Laurent in the House of Commons of Canada from 2006 to 2011 as a member of the Conservative Party of Canada. She also served as a minister in the Cabinet of Prime Minister Stephen Harper serving as Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs, President of the Queen's Privy Council for Canada and Minister for La Francophonie. On May 18, 2011, it was announced that she would be appointed to the Senate of Canada following the loss of her Commons seat in the 2011 federal election. She was formally appointed on June 13, 2011.

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30/12/1958

Pedro Costa, Portuguese director, screenwriter, and cinematographer

Pedro Costa is a Portuguese film director. He is best known for his sequence of films set in Lisbon, which focuses on the lives of the impoverished residents of a slum in the Fontainhas neighbourhood.

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Steven Smith, American engineer and astronaut

Steven Lee Smith, is an American technology executive and a former NASA astronaut, being a veteran of four space flights covering 16 million miles and seven spacewalks, totaling 49 hours and 25 minutes. Smith's spacewalk time places him in 14th on the all-time American and World spacewalk duration lists.

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30/12/1957

Matt Lauer, American journalist and television host

Matthew Todd Lauer is an American television news personality, best known for his work with NBC News. After serving as a local news personality, in New York City, on WNBC, his first national exposure was as the news anchor for NBC's Today, from 1994 to 1997. In 1997, Lauer was moved from the news desk to the host's chair. He was co-anchor of Today, from 1997 to 2017. He was also a frequent contributor to the evening news magazine Dateline NBC. With NBC, Lauer hosted the annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade and co-hosted the opening ceremonies of several Olympic Games.

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Glenn Robbins, Australian comedian and actor

Glenn Maxwell Robbins is an Australian comedian, writer, actor, television and radio presenter. He is best known for The Comedy Company, portraying Kel Knight in Kath & Kim and adventurer Russell Coight in All Aussie Adventures. Robbins has appeared on The Panel, Thank God You're Here and Have You Been Paying Attention?.

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30/12/1956

Ingus Baušķenieks, Latvian singer-songwriter and producer

Ingus Baušķenieks is a Latvian musician known as a member of Dzeltenie Pastnieki and as a solo artist. He is a multi-instrumentalist, with the bass guitar being his primary instrument in band engagements. He is also known for his proficiency in home recording and tape editing.

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Suzy Bogguss, American country singer-songwriter and guitarist

Susan Kay Bogguss is an American country music singer and songwriter. She began her career in the 1980s as a solo singer. In the 1990s, six of her songs were Top 10 hits, three albums were certified gold, and one album received a platinum certification. She won Top New Female Vocalist from the Academy of Country Music and the Horizon Award from the Country Music Association. She was inducted into the Grand Ole Opry on January 16, 2026.

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Patricia Kalember, American actress

Patricia Kalember is an American actress, best known for her role as Georgiana "Georgie" Reed Whitsig in the NBC drama series Sisters (1991–1996). Kalember also had the leading roles in a number of television films, co-starred in the feature films, including Fletch Lives (1989), Jacob's Ladder (1990), A Far Off Place (1993), Signs (2002), The Company Men (2010), and Limitless (2011), and recurring roles in thirtysomething (1989–1991) and Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (2004–2010).

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Sheryl Lee Ralph, American actress and singer

Sheryl Lee Ralph is an American actress and singer. Known for her performances on stage and screen, she earned acclaim for her role as Deena Jones in the Broadway musical Dreamgirls (1981), for which she was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical. Since 2021, she has starred as Barbara Howard on the ABC mockumentary sitcom Abbott Elementary, for which she won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series in 2022, becoming the first Black woman in 35 years to win the award.

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30/12/1954

Barry Greenstein, American poker player and philanthropist

Barry Greenstein is an American professional poker player and former mathematics postgraduate student. He has won a number of major events, including three at the World Series of Poker and two on the World Poker Tour. Greenstein donates part of his profit from tournament winnings to charities, primarily Children Incorporated, earning him the nickname "the Robin Hood of poker". He was elected into the Poker Hall of Fame in 2011.

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30/12/1953

Daniel T. Barry, American engineer and astronaut

Daniel Thomas Barry is an American engineer, scientist, television personality, and a retired NASA astronaut. He was a contestant on the CBS reality television program Survivor: Panama, as well as on BattleBots on ABC. He was at Singularity University from 2009 to 2012, where he was co-chair of the Faculty of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics and the chair of the graduate summer program. He is also a co-founder of Fellow AI, a telepresence robotics company, and the founder and president of Denbar Robotics.

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Dana Key, American singer, guitarist, and producer (died 2010)

Dana Key was an American Christian rock guitarist, singer, and producer who was co-founder of the Christian rock group DeGarmo and Key with keyboardist Eddie DeGarmo, best friends since the first grade. Key grew up in Memphis, Tennessee, meeting DeGarmo in the 1st grade. The two grew up together in the same neighborhood. Key was a direct descendant of Francis Scott Key, the author of The Star-Spangled Banner.

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Graham Vick, English director and producer (died 2021)

Sir Graham Vick was an English opera director known for his experimental and revisionist stagings of traditional and modern operas. He worked in many of the world's leading opera houses and was artistic director of the Birmingham Opera Company.

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Meredith Vieira, American journalist and game show host

Meredith Louise Vieira is an American broadcast journalist and television personality. She is best known as the original moderator of the daytime talk show The View (1997–2006), the original host of the syndicated daytime version of the game show Who Wants to Be a Millionaire (2002–2013), and as co-host of the NBC morning news program Today (2006–2011). As of 2019, she hosts the syndicated weekday game show 25 Words or Less.

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30/12/1952

June Anderson, American soprano and actress

June Anderson is an American dramatic coloratura soprano. She is known for bel canto performances of Rossini, Donizetti, and Vincenzo Bellini.

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30/12/1951

Doug Allder, English footballer and coach

Douglas Stewart Allder is an English former professional footballer who made over 200 appearances in the Football League for Millwall as a left winger. He was capped by England at youth level and is a member of the Millwall Hall of Fame.

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Chris Jasper, American musician, singer-songwriter, and producer (died 2025)

Christopher Howard Jasper was an American singer, composer and producer. Jasper was a member of the Isley Brothers from 1973 to 1983, and Isley-Jasper-Isley from 1984 to 1987. He was also a successful solo musician and record producer, recording over 17 of his own solo albums, including four urban contemporary gospel albums, all written, produced and performed, both vocally and instrumentally, by Jasper.

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Nick Rose, English runner

Nicholas Henry Rose is a British former international track and field athlete. He competed in a variety of middle-distance and long-distance running events and participated in the 1980 Summer Olympics and the 1984 Summer Olympics. He set the world record in the half-marathon in 1979.

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30/12/1950

Timothy Mo, Chinese-English author

Timothy Peter Mo is a British Asian novelist. Born to a British mother and a Hong Kong father, Mo lived in Hong Kong until the age of 10, when he moved to Britain. Educated at Mill Hill School and St John's College, Oxford, Mo worked as a journalist before becoming a novelist.

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Lewis Shiner, American journalist and author

Lewis Shiner is an American writer.

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Bjarne Stroustrup, Danish computer scientist, created the C++ programming language

Bjarne Stroustrup is a Danish computer scientist, known for the development of the C++ programming language. He led the Large-scale Programming Research department at Bell Labs, served as a professor of computer science at Texas A&M University, and spent over a decade at Morgan Stanley while also being a visiting professor at Columbia University. Since 2022 he has been a full professor at Columbia.

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Martti Vainio, Finnish runner

Martti Olavi Vainio is a Finnish former long-distance runner. In Finland he is recognized as the last of the great runners of the famous "V-line", the previous ones being Juha Väätäinen, Lasse Virén, and Pekka Vasala. Each of them won at least one gold medal either at the Summer Olympics or the European Athletics Championships in the 1970s. Vainio's accomplishments are tarnished though, for testing positive for PEDs on at least two occasions. One of those events was the 1984 Olympic Games where he was disqualified and stripped of his medal and later suspended from sport.

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30/12/1949

David Bedford, English runner

David Colin Bedford OBE is an English former long-distance runner, whose athletic career spanned the early 1970s. Post-retirement, he served as race director of the London Marathon until 2012, and is the Chairman of the IAAF Road Running Commission, as well as sitting on the IAAF Cross Country Committee as the UK Athletics elected representative.

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Jerry Coyne, American biologist and author

Jerry Allen Coyne is an American biologist and skeptic known for his work on speciation and his commentary on intelligent design. A professor emeritus of ecology and evolution at the University of Chicago, he has published on the theory of evolution. His concentration is speciation and ecological and evolutionary genetics, particularly as they involve the fruit fly, Drosophila. In 2023 he became a fellow with the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry.

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Jim Flaherty, Canadian lawyer and politician, 37th Canadian Minister of Finance (died 2014)

James Michael Flaherty was a Canadian politician who served as the federal minister of finance from 2006 to 2014 under Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper.

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30/12/1948

Jed Johnson, American interior designer and director (died 1996)

Jed Johnson was an American interior designer and film director. He first came to prominence through his close association with Pop artist Andy Warhol before becoming recognized for his influential design work. The New York Times hailed him as "one of the most celebrated interior designers of our time."

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30/12/1947

James Kahn, American author, screenwriter, and producer

James Kahn is an American medical specialist and writer, best known for his novelization of Return of the Jedi. Born in Chicago, Kahn received a degree in medical studies from the University of Chicago. His post-graduate training, specializing in Emergency Medicine, was completed at USC–LA County Hospital and UCLA. His original work includes three novels in the New World series: World Enough, and Time (1980), Time's Dark Laughter (1982), and Timefall (1987). As well as Return of the Jedi, he wrote the novelizations of the films Poltergeist and Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. He has also written for well-known television series such as Melrose Place and Star Trek: The Next Generation. He was the producer of Melrose Place from 1996 to 1998.

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Jeff Lynne, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer

Jeffrey Lynne is an English musician, singer-songwriter, and record producer. He is the co-founder and only consistent member of the rock band Electric Light Orchestra (ELO), which was formed in 1970. He has written all of the band's music since 1972, including hits such as "Evil Woman", "Livin' Thing", "Telephone Line", "Mr. Blue Sky", "Don't Bring Me Down", and "Hold On Tight". He also has had a solo career, with two albums: Armchair Theatre (1990) and Long Wave (2012).

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Steve Mix, American basketball player and coach

Steven Charles Mix, nicknamed "the Mayor", is an American former professional basketball player and coach. Mix had a thirteen-year playing career, was an NBA All-Star and played in the NBA Finals on four occasions. He later had a lengthy career as a broadcaster for the Philadelphia 76ers.

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30/12/1946

Clive Bunker, English drummer and songwriter

Clive William Bunker is an English rock drummer. He is best known as the original drummer of Jethro Tull, playing in the band from 1967 until 1971. Never a self-professed technical drummer, Bunker engaged with the essence of blues and rock 'n' roll, influenced by Ginger Baker and Mitch Mitchell. He was also inspired by Buddy Rich and the Hollies' Bobby Elliott.

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Patti Smith, American singer-songwriter and poet

Patricia Lee Smith is an American singer, songwriter, poet, painter, author, and photographer. Her 1975 debut album Horses made her an influential member of the New York City–based punk rock movement. Smith has fused rock and poetry in her work. In 1978, her most widely known song, "Because the Night," co-written with Bruce Springsteen, reached number 13 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and number five on the UK Singles Chart.

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Berti Vogts, German footballer and coach

Hans-Hubert "Berti" Vogts is a German former professional footballer who played as a defender. He played for Borussia Mönchengladbach in the Bundesliga his whole professional club career and won the FIFA World Cup with West Germany in 1974. He later managed the national teams of Germany, Scotland, Nigeria and Azerbaijan.

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30/12/1945

Davy Jones, English singer-songwriter and actor (died 2012)

David Thomas Jones was an English musician and actor. Best known as a member of the American pop rock band the Monkees and a co-star of the TV series The Monkees (1966–1968), Jones was considered a teen idol.

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Lloyd Kaufman, American director, producer, and screenwriter, co-founded Troma Entertainment

Stanley Lloyd Kaufman Jr. is an American film director, screenwriter, producer and actor. Alongside producer Michael Herz, he is the co-founder of Troma Entertainment film studio, and the director of many of their feature films, such as The Toxic Avenger (1984) and Tromeo and Juliet (1996). Many of the strategies employed by him at Troma have been credited with making the film industry significantly more accessible and decentralized.

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Paola Pigni, Italian runner (died 2021)

Paola Pigni was an Italian middle- and long-distance runner. She was a three-time world champion in cross country and held the world record over five distance running events on the track, from 1,500m to 10,000m.

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Concetta Tomei, American actress

Concetta Tomei is an American actress. She is known for her roles as Major Lila Garreau on the ABC drama series China Beach (1988–1991) and as Lynda Hansen on the NBC medical drama series Providence (1999–2002).

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30/12/1944

William J. Fallon, American admiral

William Joseph Fallon is a retired United States Navy four-star admiral who retired after serving for over 41 years. His last military assignment was as Commander, U.S. Central Command from March 2007 to March 2008. ADM Fallon was the first Navy officer to hold that position. His other four-star assignments include Commander, U.S. Pacific Command from February 2005 to March 2007, Commander, U.S. Fleet Forces Command from October 2003 to February 2005, and 31st vice chief of Naval Operations from October 2000 to August 2003. On 11 March 2008, he announced his resignation from CENTCOM and retirement from active duty, citing administrative complications caused in part by an article in Esquire Magazine, which described him as the only thing standing between the Bush Administration and war with Iran.

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Joseph Hilbe, American mathematician and philosopher (died 2017)

Joseph Michael Hilbe was an American statistician and philosopher, founding President of the International Astrostatistics Association (IAA) and one of the most prolific authors of books on statistical modeling in the early twenty-first century. Hilbe was an elected Fellow of the American Statistical Association as well as an elected member of the International Statistical Institute (ISI), for which he founded the ISI astrostatistics committee in 2009. Hilbe was also a Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society and Full Member of the American Astronomical Society.

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30/12/1942

Vladimir Bukovsky, Russian author and activist (died 2019)

Vladimir Konstantinovich Bukovsky was a Soviet and Russian human rights activist and writer. From the late 1950s to the mid-1970s, he was a prominent figure in the Soviet dissident movement, well known at home and abroad. He spent a total of twelve years in the psychiatric prison-hospitals, labour camps, and prisons of the Soviet Union during Brezhnev's rule.

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Guy Edwards, English race car driver

Guy Richard Goronwy Edwards, QGM is a British former racing driver. Best known for his sportscar and British Formula One career, as well as for brokering sponsorship deals, Edwards participated in 17 World Championship Formula One Grands Prix, debuting on 13 January 1974. He scored no championship points.

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Michael Nesmith, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor (died 2021)

Robert Michael Nesmith was an American musician, songwriter, and actor. He was best known as a member of the Monkees and co-star of their TV series of the same name (1966–1968). His songwriting credits with the Monkees include "Mary, Mary", "The Girl I Knew Somewhere", "Tapioca Tundra", "Circle Sky" and "Listen to the Band". Additionally, his song "Different Drum" became a hit for the Stone Poneys featuring Linda Ronstadt.

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Janko Prunk, Slovenian historian, academic, and politician

Janko Prunk is a Slovenian historian of modern history. He has published articles and monographs on analytical politology, modern history, the genesis of modern political formations, and the history of social and political philosophy in Slovenia. He has also written on the history of political movements in Europe from the end of the 18th century until today, especially about Slovene Christian socialism and the history of Slovenian national questions.

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Robert Quine, American guitarist (died 2004)

Robert Wolfe Quine was an American guitarist. A native of Akron, Ohio, Quine worked with a wide range of musicians, though he himself remained relatively unknown. Critic Mark Deming wrote that "Quine's eclectic style embraced influences from jazz, rock, and blues players of all stripes, and his thoughtful technique and uncompromising approach led to rewarding collaborations with a number of visionary musicians."

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Toomas Savi, Estonian physician and politician

Toomas Savi is an Estonian politician and in 2004-2009 was a Member of the European Parliament for the Estonian Reform Party, part of the European Liberal Democrat and Reform Party.

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Fred Ward, American actor (died 2022)

Freddie Joe Ward was an American character actor. Starting with a role in an Italian television movie in 1973, he appeared in such diverse films as Escape from Alcatraz (1979), The Right Stuff (1983), Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins (1985), Tremors (1990) and Tremors 2: Aftershocks (1996), Miami Blues (1990), The Player (1992), Short Cuts (1993), Road Trip (2000), and 30 Minutes or Less (2011).

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30/12/1941

Mel Renfro, American football player and coach

Melvin Lacy Renfro is an American former professional football player who spent his entire 14-year career as a cornerback for the Dallas Cowboys of the National Football League (NFL). He is a member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame.

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30/12/1940

James Burrows, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter

James Burrows, sometimes known as Jim Burrows or Jimmy Burrows, is an American television director. He has received numerous accolades including 11 Primetime Emmy Awards and five Directors Guild of America Awards. He was honored with the Directors Guild of America Lifetime Achievement Award in 2015 and NBC special Must See TV: An All-Star Tribute to James Burrows in 2016.

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30/12/1939

Glenda Adams, Australian author and academic (died 2007)

Glenda Emilie Adams was an Australian novelist and short story writer, probably best known as the winner of the 1987 Miles Franklin Award for Dancing on Coral. She was a teacher of creative writing, and helped develop writing programs.

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Felix Pappalardi, American singer-songwriter, bass player, and producer (died 1983)

Felix Albert Pappalardi Jr. was an American music producer, songwriter, vocalist, and bassist. He is best known as the bassist and co-lead vocalist of the band Mountain, whose song "Mississippi Queen" peaked at number 21 on the Billboard Hot 100 and became a classic rock radio staple.

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30/12/1938

Ron Wolf, American Football Hall of Fame General Manager

Ronald Wolf is an American former professional football executive who was a general manager (GM) of the National Football League (NFL)'s Green Bay Packers. Wolf is widely credited with bringing success to a Packers franchise that had rarely won during the two decades prior to Wolf joining the organization. He also played a significant role in personnel operations with the Oakland and Los Angeles Raiders from 1963 to 1975 and again from 1978 to 1990. He joined Green Bay's front office in November 1991 from a personnel director's job with the New York Jets. He was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in August 2015.

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30/12/1937

Gordon Banks, English footballer and manager (died 2019)

Gordon Banks was an English professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper. Widely regarded as one of the greatest goalkeepers of all time, he made 679 appearances during a 20-year professional career, and won 73 caps for England, highlighted by starting every game of the nation's 1966 World Cup victory.

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John Hartford, American singer-songwriter and fiddler (died 2001)

John Cowan Hartford was an American folk, country, and bluegrass composer and musician known for his mastery of the fiddle and banjo, as well as for his witty lyrics, unique vocal style, and extensive knowledge of Mississippi River lore. His most successful song is "Gentle on My Mind", which won three Grammy Awards and was listed in "BMI's Top 100 Songs of the Century". Hartford performed with a variety of ensembles throughout his career, and is perhaps best known for his solo performances where he would interchange the guitar, banjo, and fiddle from song to song. He also invented his own shuffle tap dance move, and clogged on an amplified piece of plywood while he played and sang.

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Jim Marshall, American football player (died 2025)

James Lawrence Marshall was an American professional football player who was a defensive end in the National Football League (NFL) for 20 seasons, primarily with the Minnesota Vikings. He recovered an NFL career-record 29 opponents' fumbles. He also holds the league career marks for most consecutive starts (270) and most games played (282) by a defensive player. The Vikings retired his No. 70, and he was inducted into the Vikings Ring of Honor.

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Paul Stookey, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

Noel Paul Stookey is an American singer-songwriter and activist who is known for being a member of the 1960s folk trio Peter, Paul and Mary along with Peter Yarrow and Mary Travers. Following the deaths of Travers in 2009 and Yarrow in 2025, Stookey is the sole surviving member of the group. He continues to work as a solo artist and an activist.

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30/12/1935

Omar Bongo, Gabonese lieutenant and politician, President of Gabon (died 2009)

Omar Bongo Ondimba was a Gabonese politician who was the second president of Gabon from 1967 until his death in 2009. A member of the Gabonese Democratic Party (PDG), Bongo was promoted to key positions as a young official under Gabon's first President Léon M'ba in the 1960s, before being elected the second vice president in his own right in 1966. In 1967, after M'ba's death, he became the country's president.

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Sandy Koufax, American baseball player and sportscaster

Sanford Koufax, nicknamed "the Left Arm of God", is an American former baseball player. Widely regarded as one of the greatest pitchers of all time, he played 12 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Brooklyn / Los Angeles Dodgers from 1955 to 1966. Koufax was the first three-time winner of the Cy Young Award, each time winning unanimously and the only pitcher to do so when a single award was given for both leagues; he was also named the National League Most Valuable Player in 1963. Retiring at age 30 due to chronic pain in his pitching elbow, Koufax was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1972 at age 36, the youngest player ever elected.

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Jack Riley, American actor (died 2016)

John Albert Riley Jr. was an American actor, comedian and writer, best known for his comedic roles. He is known for playing Elliot Carlin, a chronic psychology client of Bob Newhart's character on The Bob Newhart Show, and for voicing Stu Pickles, one of the parents in the animated Rugrats franchise.

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30/12/1934

John N. Bahcall, American astrophysicist and astronomer, co-developed the Hubble Space Telescope (died 2005)

John Norris Bahcall was an American astrophysicist and the Richard Black Professor for Astrophysics at the Institute for Advanced Study. He was known for a wide range of contributions to solar, galactic and extragalactic astrophysics, including the solar neutrino problem, the development of the Hubble Space Telescope, and his leadership and development of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton.

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Joseph Bologna, American actor, director, playwright and screenwriter (died 2017)

Joseph Bologna was an American actor, playwright and screenwriter notable for his roles in the comedy films My Favorite Year, Blame It on Rio, Big Daddy, and Transylvania 6-5000.

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Barry Briggs, New Zealand motorcycle racer and sportscaster

Barry Briggs is a New Zealand former speedway rider.

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Joseph P. Hoar, American general (died 2022)

Joseph Paul Hoar was a United States Marine Corps four-star general. He served as Commander in Chief of United States Central Command from 1991 to 1994, retiring from the Marine Corps on September 1, 1994.

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Tony Serra, American criminal defense and civil rights attorney, political activist and tax resister

Joseph Tony Serra is an American criminal defense and civil rights attorney, political activist and tax resister from San Francisco.

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Del Shannon, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 1990)

Charles Weedon Westover, known professionally as Del Shannon, was an American musician, singer, and songwriter, best known for his 1961 number-one Billboard hit "Runaway", which was covered later by various major artists, including Elvis Presley and the Traveling Wilburys. In 1999, he was posthumously inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. In addition to his music career, he had minor acting roles.

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Russ Tamblyn, American actor

Russell Irving Tamblyn, also known as Rusty Tamblyn, is an American film and television actor and dancer.

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30/12/1933

Timité Bassori, Ivorian filmmaker, actor, and writer

Timité Bassori is an Ivorian filmmaker, actor, and writer. His only feature-length film, The Woman with the Knife (1969), is considered a classic of African cinema.

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30/12/1931

Skeeter Davis, American singer-songwriter (died 2004)

Skeeter Davis was an American country music singer and songwriter who sang crossover pop music songs including 1962's "The End of the World". She started out as part of the Davis Sisters as a teenager in the late 1940s, eventually recording for RCA Victor. In the late 1950s, she became a solo star.

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John T. Houghton, Welsh physicist and author (died 2020)

Sir John Theodore Houghton was a Welsh atmospheric physicist who was the co-chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's (IPCC) scientific assessment working group which shared the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007 with Al Gore. He was lead editor of the first three IPCC reports. He was professor in atmospheric physics at the University of Oxford, former Director General at the Met Office and founder of the Hadley Centre.

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Frank Torre, American baseball player and manager (died 2014)

Frank Joseph Torre was an American professional baseball player. He played in Major League Baseball as a first baseman. Torre, who batted and threw left-handed, played for the Milwaukee Braves (1956–60) and Philadelphia Phillies (1962–63). He was the older brother of Baseball Hall of Fame member Joe Torre, himself a former Major League Baseball player and longtime manager. Torre attended James Madison High School in his native Brooklyn, New York.

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30/12/1930

Roy Yorke Calne, English surgeon and academic (died 2024)

Sir Roy Yorke Calne was a British surgeon and pioneer in organ transplantation. He was part of the team that performed the first liver transplantation operation in Europe in 1968, the world's first liver, heart and lung transplantation in 1987, the first intestinal transplant in the UK in 1992 and the first successful combined stomach, intestine, pancreas, liver and kidney cluster transplantation in 1994.

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Elmira Minita Gordon, Belizean educator, 1st Governor-General of Belize (died 2021)

Dame Elmira Minita Gordon was a Belizean educator, psychologist and politician; she served as the first governor general of Belize from its independence in 1981 until 1993. She was the first Belizean to receive a doctorate in psychology. She is one of the few "double dames", having received damehoods in two separate orders: the Order of St Michael and St George and the Royal Victorian Order.

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Red Rhodes, American pedal steel guitarist (died 1995)

Orville J. Rhodes, better known as Red Rhodes or O. J. Rhodes, was an American pedal steel guitarist.

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Tu Youyou, Chinese chemist and pharmacist, Nobel Prize laureate

Tu Youyou is a Nobel Prize-winning Chinese malariologist and pharmaceutical chemist. She discovered artemisinin and dihydroartemisinin, used to treat malaria, a breakthrough in twentieth-century tropical medicine, saving millions of lives in South China, Southeast Asia, Africa, and South America.

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30/12/1929

Rosalinde Hurley, English physician, microbiologist, and academic (died 2004)

Dame Rosalinde Hurley, Mrs Gortvai, DBE, FRCPath, FRCOG, was a British physician, microbiologist, pathologist, public health and medical administrator, ethicist and barrister. She was knighted in 1988 for her services to medicine and public health.

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30/12/1928

Bo Diddley, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2008)

Ellas Otha Bates, known professionally as Bo Diddley, was an American guitarist, singer and songwriter who played a key role in the transition from the blues to rock and roll. He influenced many artists, including Buddy Holly, the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, the Animals, George Thorogood, Syd Barrett, Tom Petty, and the Clash.

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30/12/1927

Jan Kubíček, Czech painter and sculptor (died 2013)

Jan Kubíček was a Czech painter and printmaker, and one of the most radical Central European exponents of constructivist and concrete art. He also spent more than a decade illustrating children's books for Czechoslovakia's main publishing house Albatros and designed iconic film posters and book covers throughout the 1960s. Moreover, having passed through a significant Lettrism phase during the early 1960s, he left behind an impressive body of photographs, illustrations and graphic art for which he received the 1999 Vladimír Boudník Award.

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30/12/1926

Stan Tracey, English pianist and composer (died 2013)

Stanley William Tracey was a British jazz pianist and composer, whose most important influences were Duke Ellington and Thelonious Monk. Tracey's best known recording is the 1965 album Jazz Suite Inspired by Dylan Thomas's "Under Milk Wood", which is based on the BBC radio drama Under Milk Wood by Dylan Thomas.

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30/12/1925

Ian MacNaughton, Scottish actor, producer, and director (died 2002)

Edward Ian MacNaughton was a Scottish actor, television producer and director, best known for his work with the Monty Python team.

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30/12/1924

Yvonne Brill, Canadian-American propulsion engineer (died 2013)

Yvonne Madelaine Brill was a Canadian American rocket and jet propulsion engineer. She is responsible for inventing the Electrothermal Hydrazine Thruster (EHT/Resistojet), a fuel-efficient rocket thruster that keeps today’s satellites in orbit, and holds a patent for its invention. During her career she was involved in a broad range of national space programs in the United States, including NASA and the International Maritime Satellite Organization.

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30/12/1923

Prakash Vir Shastri, Indian academic and politician (died 1977)

Prakash Vir Shastri was a Member of the Parliament of India (Sansad) and was also a leader in the Arya Samaj movement.

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30/12/1922

Jane Langton, American author and illustrator (died 2018)

Jane Gillson Langton was an American author of children's literature and mystery novels. She also illustrated her novels.

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30/12/1921

Rashid Karami, Lebanese lawyer and politician, 32nd Prime Minister of Lebanon (died 1987)

Rashid Karami was a Lebanese statesman. He is considered one of the most important political figures in Lebanon for more than 30 years, including during much of the Lebanese Civil War (1975–1990), and served as prime minister eight times, according to the Guinness Book of World Records this would make him the most elected democratic prime minister in history. He was assassinated in 1987.

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30/12/1919

Dick Spooner, English cricketer (died 1997)

Richard Thompson Spooner was an English cricketer who played for Warwickshire and England.

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David Willcocks, English organist, composer, and conductor (died 2015)

Sir David Valentine Willcocks, was a British choral conductor, organist, composer and music administrator. He was particularly well known for his association with the Choir of King's College, Cambridge, which he directed from 1957 to 1974, making frequent broadcasts and recordings. Several of the descants and carol arrangements he wrote for the annual service of Nine Lessons and Carols were published in the series of books Carols for Choirs which he edited along with Reginald Jacques and John Rutter. He was also director of the Royal College of Music in London.

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30/12/1917

Seymour Melman, American engineer and author (died 2004)

Seymour Melman was an American professor emeritus of industrial engineering and operations research at Columbia University's Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science.

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30/12/1914

Bert Parks, American actor, singer, television personality, and beauty pageant host (died 1992)

Bert Parks was an American actor, singer, and radio and television announcer, best known for hosting the annual Miss America telecast from 1955 to 1979.

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30/12/1913

Lucio Agostini, Italian-Canadian conductor and composer (died 1996)

Lucio Agostini was an Italian-born composer, arranger, and conductor who established his career in Canada.

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Elyne Mitchell, Australian author (died 2002)

Elyne Mitchell, OAM was an Australian author noted for the Silver Brumby series of children's novels. Her nonfiction works draw on family history and culture.

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30/12/1911

Jeanette Nolan, American actress (died 1998)

Jeanette Nolan was an American actress. Nominated for four Emmy Awards, she had roles in the television series The Virginian (1962–1971) and Dirty Sally (1974) and in films such as Macbeth (1948).

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30/12/1910

Paul Bowles, American composer and author (died 1999)

Paul Frederic Bowles was an American composer, author, and translator. He became associated with the Moroccan city of Tangier, where he settled in 1947 and lived for 52 years to the end of his life.

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30/12/1906

Alziro Bergonzo, Italian architect and painter (died 1997)

Alziro Bergonzo was an Italian architect and painter. His primary style was the rationalized Stile Littorio.

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Carol Reed, English director and producer (died 1976)

Sir Carol Reed was an English film director and producer, best known for Odd Man Out (1947), The Fallen Idol (1948), The Third Man (1949), and Oliver! (1968), for which he was awarded the Academy Award for Best Director.

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30/12/1905

Daniil Kharms, Russian poet, author, and playwright (died 1942)

Daniil Ivanovich Kharms was a Russian avant-gardist and absurdist poet, writer and dramatist in the early Soviet era.

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30/12/1904

Dmitry Kabalevsky, Russian composer and academic (died 1987)

Dmitry Borisovich Kabalevsky was a Soviet composer, conductor, pianist and pedagogue of Russian gentry descent.

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30/12/1899

Helge Ingstad, Norwegian explorer, lawyer, and politician, 2nd Governor of Svalbard (died 2001)

Helge Marcus Ingstad was a Norwegian explorer. In 1960, after mapping some Norse settlements, Ingstad and his wife archaeologist Anne Stine Ingstad found remnants of a Viking settlement in L'Anse aux Meadows in the province of Newfoundland in Canada. They were thus the first to prove conclusively that the Icelandic/Greenlandic Norsemen such as Leif Erickson had found a way across the Atlantic Ocean to North America, roughly 500 years before Christopher Columbus and John Cabot. He also thought that the mysterious disappearance of the Greenland Norse Settlements in the 14th and 15th centuries could be explained by their emigration to North America.

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30/12/1897

Alfredo Bracchi, Italian songwriter and screenwriter (died 1976)

Alfredo Bracchi was a versatile Italian writer, whose production ranged from song lyrics to movie scripts.

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30/12/1890

Adolfo Ruiz Cortines, Mexican soldier and politician, 47th President of Mexico (died 1973)

Adolfo Tomás Ruiz Cortines was a Mexican politician who served as President of Mexico from 1952 to 1958. A member of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), he previously served as Governor of Veracruz and Secretary of the Interior. During his presidency, which constituted the Mexican Miracle, women gained the right to vote, and he instituted numerous public health, education, infrastructure, and works projects.

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30/12/1887

William Kolehmainen, Finnish-American runner and coach (died 1967)

August William Kolehmainen, known in Finland as Viljami Kolehmainen, was a Finnish-American long-distance runner and track and field coach. The brother of fellow runners Hannes and Tatu, William Kolehmainen moved to the United States in 1910 and became a professional runner there, setting a long-standing marathon world best in 1912.

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K. M. Munshi, Indian politician, writer and educationist, founder of Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan (died 1971)

Kanaiyalal Maneklal Munshi, popularly known by his pen name Ghanshyam Vyas, was an Indian independence movement activist, politician, writer from Gujarat state. A lawyer by profession, he later turned to author and politician. He is a well-known name in Gujarati literature. He founded Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, an educational trust, in 1938.

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30/12/1886

Austin Osman Spare, English artist and occultist (died 1956)

Austin Osman Spare was an English artist and occultist who worked as a draughtsman, writer and painter. Influenced by symbolism and Art Nouveau, his art was known for its clear use of line and its depiction of monstrous and sexual imagery. In an occult capacity, he developed magical techniques including automatic writing, automatic drawing and sigilization based on his theories of the relationship between the conscious and unconscious self.

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30/12/1884

Hideki Tōjō, Japanese general and politician, 40th Prime Minister of Japan (died 1948)

Hideki Tojo was a Japanese military officer and politician who served as Prime Minister of Japan from 1941 to 1944 during World War II. His leadership was marked by widespread state violence and mass killings perpetrated in the name of Japanese nationalism.

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30/12/1883

Archer Baldwin, American-English farmer and politician (died 1966)

Sir Archer Ernest Baldwin MC was a farmer and British Conservative Party Member of Parliament (MP).

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Lester Patrick, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (died 1960)

Curtis Lester Patrick was a Canadian professional ice hockey player and coach associated with the Victoria Aristocrats/Cougars of the Pacific Coast Hockey Association, and the New York Rangers of the National Hockey League (NHL). Along with his brother Frank Patrick and father Joseph Patrick, he founded the PCHA and helped develop several rules for the game of hockey. Patrick won the Stanley Cup six times as a player, coach and manager.

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30/12/1879

Ramana Maharshi, Indian guru and philosopher (died 1950)

Ramana Maharshi was an Indian Hindu sage and jivanmukta. He was born Venkataraman Iyer, but is mostly known by the name Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi.

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30/12/1878

William Aberhart, Canadian evangelist and politician, seventh Premier of Alberta (died 1943)

William Aberhart, also known as "Bible Bill" for his radio sermons about the Bible, was a Canadian politician and the seventh premier of Alberta from 1935 to his death in 1943. He was the founder and first leader of the Alberta Social Credit Party, which believed the Great Depression was caused by ordinary people not having enough to spend. Therefore, Aberhart argued that the government should give each Albertan $25 per month to spend to stimulate the economy, by providing needed purchasing power to allow needy customers to buy from waiting businesses.

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30/12/1873

Al Smith, American lawyer and politician, 42nd Governor of New York (died 1944)

Alfred Emanuel Smith was an American politician who served as the 42nd governor of New York from 1919 to 1920 and again from 1923 to 1928. A member of the Democratic Party, he was the party's presidential nominee in the 1928 presidential election, losing to Republican nominee Herbert Hoover in a landslide.

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30/12/1869

Stephen Leacock, English-Canadian political scientist and author (died 1944)

Stephen Butler Leacock was a Canadian teacher, political scientist, writer, and humourist. From 1915 to 1925, he was the best-known English-speaking humourist in the world.

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Ōzutsu Man'emon, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 18th Yokozuna (died 1918)

Ōzutsu Man'emon was a Japanese professional sumo wrestler from Shiroishi, Miyagi Prefecture. He was the sport's 18th yokozuna.

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30/12/1865

Rudyard Kipling, Indian-English author and poet, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1936)

Joseph Rudyard Kipling was an English journalist, novelist, poet and short-story writer. He was born in British India, which inspired much of his work.

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30/12/1857

Sylvio Lazzari, French-Austrian composer (died 1944)

Sylvio Lazzari was a French composer of Austrian and Italian origin.

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30/12/1853

André Messager, French pianist, composer, and conductor (died 1929)

André Charles Prosper Messager was a French composer, organist, pianist and conductor. His compositions include eight ballets and thirty opéras comiques, opérettes and other stage works, among which his ballet Les Deux Pigeons (1886) and opéra comique Véronique (1898) have had lasting success; Les p'tites Michu (1897) and Monsieur Beaucaire (1919) were also popular internationally.

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30/12/1851

Asa Griggs Candler, American businessman and politician, 44th Mayor of Atlanta (died 1929)

Asa Griggs Candler Sr. was an American business magnate and politician who in 1888 purchased the Coca-Cola recipe for $2300 from chemist John Stith Pemberton in Atlanta, Georgia. Candler founded the Coca-Cola Company in 1892 and developed it as a major company.

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30/12/1849

John Milne, English seismologist and geologist (died 1913)

John Milne was a British geologist and mining engineer who worked on a horizontal seismograph.

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30/12/1842

Osman Hamdi Bey, Ottoman administrator, intellectual, art expert and painter (died 1910)

Osman Hamdi Bey was an Ottoman Turkish administrator, intellectual, art expert and also a prominent and pioneering painter. He was the Ottoman Empire's first modern archaeologist, and is regarded as the founding father of both archaeology and the museum curator's professions in Turkey. He was the founder of Istanbul Archaeology Museums and of the Istanbul Academy of Fine Arts known today as the Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University. He was also the first mayor of Kadıköy.

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30/12/1825

Samuel Newitt Wood, American lawyer and politician (died 1891)

Samuel Newitt Wood was an American attorney, newspaper editor, and member of the Kansas House of Representatives. He was also a Free State advocate in Kansas and an early supporter of Women's Suffrage. Wood was a speaker at the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Convention in 1856 that established the Republican party. He was assassinated in 1891 in a bitter fight over the naming of a new county seat in the state's southwestern corner.

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30/12/1819

Theodor Fontane, German author and poet (died 1898)

Theodor Fontane was a German novelist and poet, regarded by many as the most important 19th-century German-language realist author. He published the first of his novels, for which he is best known today, only at age 58 after a career as a journalist. Many of his novels delve into topics that were more or less taboo for discussion in the polite society of Fontane's day, including marital infidelity, class differences, urban vs. rural differences, abandonment of children, and suicide. His novels sold well during his lifetime and several have been adapted for film or audio works.

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John W. Geary, American lawyer and politician, 16th Governor of Pennsylvania (died 1873)

John White Geary was an American lawyer, politician, Freemason, and a Union general in the American Civil War. He was the final alcalde and first mayor of San Francisco, a governor of the Kansas Territory, and the 16th governor of Pennsylvania.

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30/12/1792

Sylvester Jordan, German lawyer and politician (died 1861)

Franz Sylvester Jordan (1792–1861) was a German politician and lawyer.

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30/12/1760

Charles Sapinaud de La Rairie, French general (died 1829)

Charles Henri Félicité Sapinaud de la Rairie was a French soldier and Vendéen general during the war in the Vendée.

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30/12/1757

Sebastián Kindelán y O'Regan, colonial governor of East Florida, Santo Domingo and Cuba (died 1826)

Sebastian Kindelán y O'Regan, also called Sebastián de Kindelán y Oregón, was a colonel in the Spanish Army who served as governor of East Florida and of Santo Domingo during the Second Spanish period (1818–1821), as well as provisional governor of Cuba (1822–1823).

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30/12/1724

Louis-Jean-François Lagrenée, French painter and educator (died 1805)

Louis-Jean-François Lagrenée was a French rococo painter and student of Carle van Loo. He won the Grand Prix de Rome for painting in 1749 and was elected a member of the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture in 1755. His younger brother Jean-Jacques Lagrenée was also a painter.

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30/12/1722

Charles Yorke, English lawyer and politician, Lord Chancellor of Great Britain (died 1770)

Charles Yorke PC was a British lawyer and politician who briefly served as Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain. His father was also Lord Chancellor, and he began his career as a Member of Parliament. He served successively as Solicitor-General and Attorney-General for several governments, during which he was best known for writing what became the Quebec Act. He was appointed Lord Chancellor over his objections, but he committed suicide only three days after taking the post.

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30/12/1678

William Croft, English organist and composer (died 1727)

William Croft was an English composer and organist.

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30/12/1673

Ahmed III, Ottoman sultan (died 1736)

Ahmed III was sultan of the Ottoman Empire and a son of sultan Mehmed IV. His mother was Gülnuş Sultan, originally named Evmania Voria, who was an ethnic Greek. He was born at Hacıoğlu Pazarcık, in Dobruja. He succeeded to the throne in 1703 on the abdication of his brother Mustafa II (1695–1703). Nevşehirli Damat İbrahim Pasha and the Sultan's daughter, Fatma Sultan directed the government from 1718 to 1730, a period referred to as the Tulip Era.

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30/12/1642

Vincenzo da Filicaja, Italian poet (died 1707)

Vincenzo da Filicaja was a poet and politician, citizen of Grand Duchy of Tuscany. His poetry was compared to that of Petrarch, and his association with the Accademia della Crusca gave him access to royal patronage. He served as governor of Volterra and Pisa, successively, and finally in the Tuscan Senate.

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30/12/1578

Ulrik of Denmark, Danish prince-bishop (died 1624)

Prince Ulrik John of Denmark, was a son of King Frederick II of Denmark and his consort, Sophie of Mecklenburg-Güstrow. As the second-born son he bore the merely titular rank of Duke of Holstein and Schleswig, Stormarn and Ditmarsh and had no share in the royal-ducal condominial rule of Holstein and Schleswig, wielded by the heads of the houses of Oldenburg (royal) and its cadet branch Holstein-Gottorp (ducal). Since 1602 he held the religiously defunct position of Bishop of Schleswig, enjoying the revenues of the implied estates and manor. The year after he succeeded his grandfather as Administrator of the Prince-Bishopric of Schwerin, holding both posts until his death.

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30/12/1548

David Pareus, German theologian (died 1622)

David Pareus was a German Reformed Protestant theologian and reformer.

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30/12/1490

Ebussuud Efendi, Ottoman lawyer and jurist (died 1574)

Ebussuud Efendi, was a Hanafi Maturidi Ottoman jurist and Quran exegete, served as the Qadi (judge) of Istanbul from 1533 to 1537, and the Shaykh al-Islām of the Ottoman Empire from 1545 to 1574. He was also called "El-İmâdî" because his family hailed from Imâd, a village near İskilip.

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30/12/1371

Vasily I of Moscow (died 1425)

Vasily I Dmitriyevich was Grand Prince of Vladimir and Moscow from 1389. He was the heir of Dmitry Donskoy, who reigned from 1359 to 1389.

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30/12/1204

Abû 'Uthmân Sa'îd ibn Hakam al Qurashi, ruler of Minorca (died 1282)

Abû ‘Uthman Sa’îd ibn Hakam al-Qurashi was the first Ra’îs of Manûrqa from 1234 to 1282.

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30/12/0159

Empress Dowager Bian, second wife of Cao Cao, mother of Cao Wei's first emperor, Cao Pi (died 230)

Lady Bian, also known as Empress Dowager Bian or Grand Empress Dowager Bian, formally known as Empress Wuxuan, was an empress dowager and later grand empress dowager of the state of Cao Wei during the Three Kingdoms period of China. She was the wife of Cao Cao, a warlord who rose to power in the late Eastern Han dynasty and laid the foundation of Wei. She bore Cao Cao's successor, Cao Pi, who ended the Han dynasty and founded Wei in 220 after his father's death.

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30/12/0039

Titus, Roman emperor (probable) (died 81)

AD 39 (XXXIX) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Augustus and Caesianus. The denomination AD 39 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.

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