What happened on 6th December?

On this day, 250 notable people were born on 6th December — spanning from 846 to 2007. From world leaders to artists and scientists, discover who shares this birthday.

06/12/2007

Yoonchae Jeung, South Korean singer

Katseye is a girl group based in Los Angeles. The group is composed of six members: Daniela Avanzini, Lara Raj, Manon Bannerman, Megan Skiendiel, Sophia Laforteza, and Yoonchae Jeung. With members from the Philippines, South Korea, Switzerland, and the United States, Katseye is often described as a "global girl group".

---

06/12/1998

Angelīna Kučvaļska, Latvian figure skater

Angelīna Kučvaļska is a Latvian figure skater. She is the 2014 CS Volvo Open Cup champion, a two-time Toruń Cup champion, the 2014 Tallinn Trophy champion, and a five-time Latvian national champion. She has competed in the final segment at nine ISU Championships, achieving her best result, fourth, at the 2016 European Championships.

---

06/12/1997

Sabrina Ionescu, American basketball player

Sabrina Elaine Ionescu is an American professional basketball player for the New York Liberty of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA). She is widely considered one of the greatest three-point shooters in WNBA history.

---

06/12/1996

Davide Calabria, Italian footballer

Davide Calabria is an Italian professional footballer who plays as a right-back for Super League Greece club Panathinaikos.

---

Stefanie Scott, American actress and singer

Stefanie Noelle Scott is an American actress and singer. Scott began acting with the comedy film Beethoven's Big Break (2008), and thereafter released her debut extended play New Girl in Town (2009). This was followed by a supporting role in the romance film Flipped (2010), which won her a Young Artist Award. She played the role of Lexi Reed on Disney Channel's A.N.T. Farm (2011–2014), which won her a second Young Artist Award and introduced her to a wider audience. While on Disney, she recorded a number of Disney Channel promotional singles, which were released between 2008 and 2012.

---

06/12/1995

A Boogie wit da Hoodie, American rapper and singer-songwriter

Artist Julius Dubose, known professionally as A Boogie wit da Hoodie or simply A Boogie, is an American rapper and singer. He released his debut studio album, The Bigger Artist, via Atlantic Records in 2017. Led by the Billboard Hot 100-top 20 single "Drowning", the album was met with critical praise and peaked at number four on the Billboard 200.

---

06/12/1994

Giannis Antetokounmpo, Greek-Nigerian basketball player

Giannis Sina Ougko Antetokounmpo is a Nigerian-Greek professional basketball player for the Milwaukee Bucks of the National Basketball Association (NBA). His size, speed, and strength have earned him the nickname "Greek Freak". He is widely regarded as one of the greatest players and power forwards of all time.

---

Wakatakakage Atsushi, Japanese sumo wrestler

Wakatakakage Atsushi is a Japanese professional sumo wrestler from Fukushima. He made his debut in March 2017 and reached the top makuuchi division in November 2019. He wrestles for Arashio stable, where he is a stablemate of his older brothers Wakatakamoto and Wakamotoharu. His highest rank has been sekiwake. He won his first top division championship in March 2022 and his first kinboshi in March 2026, followed by a second makuuchi championship in May 2026. For his career Wakatakakage has collected one Outstanding Performance prize and seven Technique prizes.

---

Shreyas Iyer, Indian cricketer

Shreyas Santosh Iyer is an Indian international cricketer who plays for the India national team. Iyer captains India in T20Is and serves as the vice-captain in ODIs. A right-handed batter, he primarily plays as a top-order or middle-order batter across formats. Iyer also captains Mumbai in domestic cricket and captains the Punjab Kings in the Indian Premier League (IPL).

---

06/12/1993

Jasprit Bumrah, Indian cricketer

Jasprit Jasbirsingh Bumrah is an Indian International cricketer who plays for the Indian national cricket team in all formats of this game and has captained India in Tests and T20Is. He is widely regarded as the greatest all formats fast bowler of his generation. Bumrah became the first bowler to reach the No. 1 position in the ICC Men's Player Rankings across all three formats and the first Indian bowler to take 100 wickets in Tests, One Day Internationals, and Twenty20 Internationals. He represents Gujarat in domestic cricket and the Mumbai Indians in the Indian Premier League (IPL).

---

Elián González, Cuban technician, known for a child custody and immigration case held in 2000

Elián González Brotons is a Cuban engineer and politician. As a six-year-old child, he was at the center of a high-profile international custody dispute between members of his family that also involved Cuba and the United States.

---

Tautau Moga, Australian-Samoan rugby league player

Tautau Moga is a Samoa international rugby league footballer who plays as a centre and winger in the National Rugby League (NRL).

---

06/12/1992

Viktor Antipin, Russian ice hockey player

Victor Vladimirovich Antipin is a Kazakh-born Russian professional ice hockey defenceman who is currently under contract with Amur Khabarovsk in the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL). He has previously played in the National Hockey League (NHL) with the Buffalo Sabres. He is the son of Vladimir Antipin.

---

Britt Assombalonga, Congolese footballer

Britt Curtis Assombalonga is a Congolese professional footballer who plays as a forward for Barnet and the DR Congo national football team. He has played in the Football League for Watford, Southend United, Peterborough United, Nottingham Forest and Middlesbrough. He will become a free agent on 30 June 2026.

---

Johnny Manziel, American football player

Johnathan Paul Manziel, nicknamed "Johnny Football", is an American former football quarterback. He played college football for the Texas A&M Aggies and was the first freshman to win the Heisman Trophy. He played professionally for the Cleveland Browns of the National Football League (NFL) from 2014 to 2015, the Hamilton Tiger-Cats and Montreal Alouettes of the Canadian Football League (CFL) in 2018, the Memphis Express of the Alliance of American Football (AAF) in 2019, and in Fan Controlled Football from 2021 to 2022.

---

06/12/1991

Rachel Jarry, Australian basketball player

Rachel Jarry is an Australian professional basketball player for the Southside Flyers of the Women's National Basketball League (WNBL). She started playing basketball as a five-year-old and as a youngster in national competitions, she represented the state of Victoria. In Australia's WNBL, she has played for the Dandenong Rangers, the Australian Institute of Sport and the Melbourne Boomers. She was drafted by the WNBA's Atlanta Dream in 2011 and was traded to the Lynx on the same day. She has been a member of the Australia women's national basketball team at junior and senior level.

---

Milica Mandić, Serbian taekwondo athlete

Milica Mandić is a Serbian retired taekwondo athlete. She is a two-time Olympic champion in the Women's +67 kg category, having won gold medals at the 2012 and 2020 Summer Olympics. She was also the 2017 world champion in the 73 kg category.

---

Coco Vandeweghe, American tennis player

CoCo Vandeweghe is an American former professional tennis player. A former junior US Open champion and top 10 singles player, she won two WTA Tour titles, both at the Rosmalen Grass Court Championships. In doubles, Vandeweghe won one major title at the 2018 US Open with partner Ashleigh Barty.

---

06/12/1990

Tamira Paszek, Austrian tennis player

Tamira Shelah Paszek is an Austrian tennis player.

---

06/12/1989

Felix Schiller, German footballer

Felix Schiller is a German former professional footballer who played as a defender.

---

06/12/1988

Adam Eaton, American baseball player

Adam Cory Eaton is an American former professional baseball outfielder and current first base coach for the Los Angeles Angels of Major League Baseball (MLB). He played in MLB for the Arizona Diamondbacks, Chicago White Sox, Washington Nationals, and Angels.

---

Ravindra Jadeja, Indian cricketer

Ravindrasinh Anirudhsinh Jadeja is an Indian cricketer who represents the India national team currently in ODI and Test formats. He is an all-rounder, who bats left-handed and bowls left-arm orthodox spin. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest all-rounders and among the finest fielders of his generation. He represents Saurashtra in domestic cricket and Rajasthan Royals in the Indian Premier League. Jadeja was a crucial member of the Indian teams that won the 2013 and 2025 ICC Champions Trophy, becoming leading wicket-taker and player of the final in the former and hitting the winning boundary in the latter final. He was also a part of the Indian squad that won the 2024 ICC T20 World Cup, after which he announced his retirement from T20Is.

---

Sandra Nurmsalu, Estonian singer and violinist

Sandra Nurmsalu is an Estonian singer, songwriter, and violinist. Recognized within Estonia for her genre-bending style, Nurmsalu has garnered success as both the lead singer of Urban Symphony and as a solo artist.

---

Nils Petersen, German footballer

Nils Petersen is a German former professional footballer who played as a forward. He appeared in the 2016 Summer Olympics and remains the first and only German footballer who has scored five goals in a single game with the national team.

---

Nobunaga Shimazaki, Japanese voice actor

Nobunaga Shimazaki is a Japanese voice actor affiliated with Aoni Production. He won the Best Rookie Actor Award at the 7th Seiyu Awards and the Best Actors in Supporting Roles at the 15th Seiyu Awards.

---

06/12/1986

Sean Edwards, English race car driver (died 2013)

Sean Lawrence Guy Edwards was an English professional racing driver, whose career highlight was winning as co-driver the 2013 Nurburgring 24 Hours. He died as a passenger in a private testing incident in October 2013, at Queensland Raceway in Australia.

---

Matt Niskanen, American ice hockey player

Matthew Norman Niskanen is an American former professional ice hockey defenseman. He played 13 seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL) with the Dallas Stars, Pittsburgh Penguins, Washington Capitals, and Philadelphia Flyers from 2007 to 2020.

---

06/12/1985

Shannon Bobbitt, American basketball player

Shannon Denise Bobbitt is an American professional basketball player, most recently for the WNBA's Washington Mystics.

---

Aristeidis Grigoriadis, Greek swimmer

Aristeidis ("Aris") Grigoriadis is a Greek swimmer from Thessaloniki. He was named the 2005 Greek Male Athlete of the Year.

---

R. P. Singh, Indian cricketer

Rudra Pratap Singh, popularly known as R.P. Singh, is an Indian former cricketer, who played for the India national cricket team in Test, One Day International and Twenty20 International cricket as a left arm fast-medium bowler. He is current selector of senior men's Indian cricket team. In September 2018, he announced his retirement from all forms of cricket. He was a member of the Indian team that won the 2007 T20 World Cup. He pursued a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Lucknow.

---

06/12/1984

Syndric Steptoe, American football player

Syndric Marquis Steptoe is an American former professional football player who was a wide receiver in the National Football League (NFL). He was selected by the Cleveland Browns in the seventh round of the 2007 NFL draft. He played college football for the Arizona Wildcats.

---

Nora Kirkpatrick, American actress and musician

Nora Kirkpatrick is an American actress, director, writer and musician. Known for her roles as Katherine on the ABC Family TV series Greek, or for her recurring role as Esther Bruegger on the ninth season of The Office, Kirkpatrick has directed and written over 20 episodes for shows such as The Coop, The Goldbergs, and Daisy Jones & The Six.

---

Princess Sofia, Duchess of Värmland

Princess Sofia, Duchess of Värmland, is a member of the Swedish royal family. Before marrying Prince Carl Philip in 2015 and becoming a princess of Sweden, Sofia was a glamour model and reality television contestant. They have four children, Prince Alexander, Prince Gabriel, Prince Julian and Princess Ines, who are fifth, sixth, seventh, and eighth in the line of succession to the Swedish throne, respectively.

---

06/12/1982

Ryan Carnes, American actor and producer

Ryan Gregg Carnes is an American actor. He is most known for playing the adult Lucas Jones on the ABC soap opera General Hospital.

---

Alberto Contador, Spanish cyclist

Alberto Contador Velasco is a Spanish former professional cyclist. He is one of the most successful riders of his era, winning the Tour de France twice, the Giro d'Italia twice, and the Vuelta a España three times. He is one of only eight riders to have won all three Grand Tours of cycling, and one of only two riders to have won all three more than once. He has also won the Vélo d'Or a record 4 times.

---

Sean Ervine, Zimbabwean cricketer

Sean Michael Ervine is a Zimbabwean former cricketer. Ervine played as an all-rounder who batted left-handed and bowled right-arm medium pace.

---

Robbie Gould, American football player

Robert Paul Gould III is an American former professional football player who was a placekicker for 18 seasons in the National Football League (NFL) with the Chicago Bears, New York Giants and San Francisco 49ers. He played college football for the Penn State Nittany Lions and was signed by the New England Patriots as an undrafted free agent in 2005. Gould played with the Bears from 2005 to 2015, earning first-team All-Pro and Pro Bowl honors in 2006, and became the franchise's all-time leading scorer.

---

Aaron Sandilands, Australian footballer

Aaron Wade Sandilands is a former professional Australian rules footballer who played for the Fremantle Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). At 211 cm tall, and with a peak weight of 120 kg (265 lb), he is the second heaviest and is the equal tallest player to ever play in the AFL and equal second tallest player to be on an AFL list.

---

Susie Wolff, Scottish race car driver

Suzanne Wolff is a Scottish former professional racing driver and current managing director of F1 Academy.

---

06/12/1981

Federico Balzaretti, Italian footballer

Federico Balzaretti is an Italian former professional footballer who played as a left-back. Currently is the Loan Manager of Roma.

---

06/12/1980

Danielle Downey, American golfer and coach (died 2014)

Danielle Elizabeth Downey was an American professional golfer. She won golf tournaments at the collegiate level, Sun Coast events and on the Futures Tour. She played on the LPGA Tour from 2006 to 2010.

---

Steve Lovell, English footballer

Stephen William Henry Lovell is an English former footballer who played as a striker. Lovell played the majority of his career in the Scottish Premier League, representing Dundee, Aberdeen and Falkirk, but also played in England for AFC Bournemouth, Portsmouth, Exeter City, Sheffield United and Queens Park Rangers. During his senior career Lovell made 261 appearances and scored 65 goals. He retired from professional soccer following an injury in 2011.

---

Carlos Takam, Cameroonian-French boxer

Armand Carlos Netsing Takam is a Cameroonian-French former professional boxer who competed from 2005 to 2023. He challenged once for the unified WBA (Super), IBF, and IBO heavyweight titles in 2017. At regional level, he held multiple heavyweight championships, and challenged once for the Commonwealth title in 2021. As an amateur, he represented Cameroon at the 2004 Olympics.

---

06/12/1979

Tim Cahill, Australian footballer

Timothy Filiga Cahill is an Australian former professional soccer player who played as an attacking midfielder but also played as a striker on many occasions. A box-to-box midfielder, Cahill became recognised for "his aggressive and powerful approach and his ability to head the ball in the penalty area". Cahill has scored 50 goals in 108 caps between 2004 and 2018 and is the all time top goalscorer for the Australia national team. He is regarded as one of the greatest Australian soccer players of all time. He currently works as a pundit for BBC Sport and Sky Sports.

---

06/12/1978

Chris Başak, American baseball player

Christopher Joseph Başak is an American former professional baseball infielder. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the New York Yankees in 2007. During his career, he played in the Yankees, New York Mets, and Minnesota Twins organizations. Başak made five appearances for the Yankees, receiving one at-bat.

---

Darrell Jackson, American football player

Darrell Lamont Jackson is an American former professional football player who was a wide receiver for nine seasons in the National Football League (NFL) during the 2000s. Jackson played college football for the Florida Gators, and thereafter, he played in the NFL for the Seattle Seahawks, the San Francisco 49ers and the Denver Broncos of the NFL.

---

Adriana Moisés Pinto, Brazilian basketball player

Adriana "Adrianinha" Moisés Pinto is a Brazilian female basketball player. She spent 17 years with the Brazil women's national basketball team, from 1997 to 2016.

---

Ramiro Pez, Argentine rugby player

Ramiro Pez is an Italian Argentine rugby union footballer who normally plays at fly-half. In 2008-09, he joined the newly promoted French Top 14 club Toulon, having been signed from Venezia Mestre in the Italian Super 10 competition.

---

06/12/1977

Kevin Cash, American baseball player and manager

Kevin Forrest Cash is an American professional baseball manager and former player who is the manager of the Tampa Bay Rays of Major League Baseball (MLB). Previously, Cash played catcher in MLB for the Toronto Blue Jays, Tampa Bay Devil Rays, Boston Red Sox, New York Yankees, and Houston Astros. As a player, Cash was listed at 6 feet 0 inches (1.83 m) and 200 pounds (91 kg); he batted and threw right-handed. He was the bullpen coach for the Cleveland Indians before being hired as the Rays' manager in December 2014. Cash was the American League Manager of the Year in 2020 and 2021, the first AL manager to win the award consecutively. He entered the 2024 season as the longest-tenured manager in MLB.

---

Andrew Flintoff, English cricketer, coach, and sportscaster

Andrew "Freddie" Flintoff, is an English television and radio presenter and former international cricketer. Flintoff played all forms of the game and was one of the sport's leading all-rounders, a fast bowler, middle-order batsman and slip fielder. He was consistently rated by the ICC as being among the top international all-rounders in both ODI and Test cricket.

---

Paul McVeigh, Irish footballer

Paul Francis McVeigh is a Northern Irish former footballer who played for Tottenham Hotspur, Norwich City, Burnley and Luton Town in the English leagues.

---

06/12/1976

Lindsay Price, American actress

Lindsay Jaylyn Price Stone is an American actress and singer. She is best known for her roles as Janet Sosna on Beverly Hills, 90210 and as Victory Ford on Lipstick Jungle. She is also known for her work on soap operas such as All My Children and The Bold and the Beautiful.

---

06/12/1975

Noel Clarke, English actor, director, and screenwriter

Noel Anthony Clarke is an English actor, writer, director, and producer. Rising to prominence for playing Mickey Smith in Doctor Who, he received critical acclaim for writing, directing, and starring in the teen crime drama films Kidulthood (2006), Adulthood (2008), and Brotherhood (2016). He has also either written, directed, produced or starred in the heist film 4.3.2.1. (2010), the sport drama Fast Girls (2012), and the sci-fi films Storage 24 (2012) and The Anomaly (2014). He co-created, co-wrote and starred alongside Ashley Walters in the Sky One action drama Bulletproof (2018–2021). His work in film and television has been praised for bringing the Black British working class experience to the mainstream.

---

Adrian García Arias, Mexican footballer

Adrián Israel García Arías is a Mexican former footballer and manager who last played as a defender for Celaya of Mexico, and managed Michoacán F.C., a team that plays in Liga TDP. He is the current manager for Liga Nacional club Zacapa.

---

06/12/1974

Jens Pulver, American mixed martial artist and boxer

Jens Johnnie Pulver is an American retired professional mixed martial artist and undefeated boxer and kickboxer. In 2023, Pulver was inducted into the UFC hall of fame. Pulver was the inaugural UFC Lightweight Champion in addition to serving as the head coach on The Ultimate Fighter 5 reality show against long-time rival B.J. Penn. In mixed martial arts, Pulver competed at the Lightweight, Featherweight, Bantamweight and Flyweight divisions in addition to competing at the Middleweight, Light Middleweight, and Welterweight divisions as a professional boxer. While perhaps best known for competing in the UFC, Pulver has also competed in Pride Fighting Championships, for the PRIDE 2005 Lightweight Grand Prix. He is to-date the youngest UFC Lightweight Champion in the UFC history, eventually relinquishing his title, after two defenses, due to a contract dispute. Pulver officially retired from combat sports in 2014.

---

Nick Stajduhar, Canadian ice hockey player

Nick Stajduhar is a Canadian former professional ice hockey defenceman. He was selected by the Edmonton Oilers in the first round of the 1993 NHL entry draft, 16th overall, a pick the Oilers received from the Los Angeles Kings in the Wayne Gretzky trade.

---

06/12/1972

Ewan Birney, English scientist

John Frederick William Birney is Director of European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI). He also serves as non-executive director of Genomics England, chair of the Global Alliance for Genomics and Health (GA4GH) and honorary professor of bioinformatics at the University of Cambridge. Birney has made significant contributions to genomics, through his development of innovative bioinformatics and computational biology tools. He previously served as an associate faculty member at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute.

---

Heather Mizeur, American lawyer and politician

Heather R. Mizeur is an American politician who served as a member of the Maryland House of Delegates from January 10, 2007 to January 14, 2015, representing the 20th district in Montgomery County, Maryland. She was a candidate for governor of Maryland in the 2014 election but lost the Democratic primary to Lieutenant Governor Anthony Brown. In 2022, she unsuccessfully ran for the United States House of Representatives in Maryland's 1st congressional district, challenging incumbent U.S. Representative Andy Harris. She lost the general election to Harris by 11 points.

---

06/12/1971

Craig Brewer, American director, producer, and screenwriter

Craig Houston Brewer is an American filmmaker. His 2005 movie Hustle & Flow won the Audience Award at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival and achieved commercial success, along with an Academy Award for Best Original Song, "It's Hard out Here for a Pimp". He is also known for directing the 2011 remake of Footloose, the 2019 film Dolemite Is My Name and the 2021 film Coming 2 America, the latter two films starring Academy Award nominee Eddie Murphy.

---

José Contreras, Cuban baseball player

José Ariel Contreras Camejo is a Cuban former professional baseball pitcher, who played in the Cuban National Series (CNS), Major League Baseball (MLB), and internationally for the Cuban national baseball team. He also played in the Chinese Professional Baseball League (CPBL) for the Chinatrust Brothers.

---

Richard Krajicek, Dutch tennis player

Richard Peter Stanislav Krajicek is a Dutch former professional tennis player and tournament director. Krajicek won 17 singles titles during his career, including the 1996 Wimbledon Championships, becoming the first Dutchman to win a major singles title. He reached a career high world No. 4 ranking in men's singles by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) in March 1999. Retiring from the sport in 2003, Krajicek has been the tournament director of the Rotterdam Open since 2004. He is also the author of various sports books.

---

Naozumi Takahashi, Japanese singer and voice actor

Naozumi Takahashi is a Japanese singer and voice actor who released the two popular singles "Soshite Omae ni Deaeta Dake De" and "Muteki na Smile". Naozumi's single "Ashita No Kioku" was used as an opening theme for Black Blood Brothers.

---

Carole Thate, Dutch field hockey player

Carole Helene Antoinette Thate is a Dutch former field hockey player, who played 168 international matches for the Netherlands, in which she scored forty goals. She made her debut on 20 November 1989 in a friendly match against England.

---

Ryan White, American activist (died 1990)

Ryan Wayne White was an American teenager from Kokomo, Indiana, who became a national poster child for HIV/AIDS in the United States after his school barred him from attending classes following a diagnosis of AIDS.

---

06/12/1970

Ulf Ekberg, Swedish singer-songwriter, keyboard player, and producer

Ulf Gunnar Ekberg, also known as Buddha, is a Swedish musician, producer and songwriter best known as a founding member of the pop group Ace of Base, along with siblings Jonas Berggren, Linn Berggren and Jenny Berggren.

---

Adrian Fenty, American lawyer and politician, 6th Mayor of the District of Columbia

Adrian Malik Fenty is an American politician, who served as the mayor of the District of Columbia from 2007 to 2011.

---

Mark Reckless, English politician

Mark John Reckless is a British politician and lawyer who served as a Member of the Senedd (MS) for South Wales East from 2016 until 2021, having previously served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Rochester and Strood from 2010 to 2015. Initially a member of the Conservative Party, he crossed the floor to join the UK Independence Party (UKIP) in September 2014. He has since changed parties a further four times. He is currently a member of Reform UK.

---

Jeff Rouse, American swimmer

Jeffrey Norman Rouse is an American former competition swimmer, three-time Olympic champion, and former world record-holder in three events.

---

06/12/1969

Mark Gardener, English rock musician

Mark Stephen Gardener is an English rock musician, best known for being one of two singer-guitarists for the shoegaze band Ride.

---

Torri Higginson, Canadian actress

Sarah Victoria Higginson is a Canadian actress. She is best known for portraying Elizabeth Weir in the science fiction series Stargate Atlantis (2004–2008). Her other roles include Beth Kittridge in TekWar, Commander Delaney Truffault in Dark Matter (2015–2017), and Natalie Lawson in This Life (2015–2016).

---

06/12/1968

Karl Ove Knausgård, Norwegian author

Karl Ove Knausgård is a Norwegian author. He became known worldwide for a series of six autobiographical novels titled My Struggle. The Wall Street Journal has described him as "one of the 21st century's greatest literary sensations".

---

Ali Latifiyan, Iranian writer and political theorist

Ali Latifiyan is an Iranian writer, researcher, political theorist, and historian. Most of his work is in enlightenment, intellectualism, liberalism and Iranian culture.

---

Akihiro Yano, Japanese baseball player

Akihiro Yano is a former Japanese baseball player in Japan's Nippon Professional Baseball. He started his career as the Number 2 Draft pick with the Chunichi Dragons in 1991, and played for the Hanshin Tigers from 1998 until his retirement in 2010.

---

06/12/1967

Judd Apatow, American director, producer, and screenwriter

Judd Apatow is an American director, producer and screenwriter known for his work in comedy films. Apatow is the founder of Apatow Productions, through which he wrote, produced, and directed his films The 40-Year-Old Virgin (2005), Knocked Up (2007), Funny People (2009), This Is 40 (2012), Trainwreck (2015), The King of Staten Island (2020), and The Bubble (2022).

---

Helen Greiner, American businesswoman and engineer

Helen Greiner is an American engineer and businesswoman who was a co-founder of iRobot and former CEO of CyPhy Work, Inc., a start-up company specializing in small multi-rotor drones for the consumer, commercial and military markets, and of Tertill Corporation.

---

Arnaldo Mesa, Cuban boxer (died 2012)

Arnaldo Mesa Bonell was an amateur boxer from Cuba, who won the silver medal for his native country at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, United States. In the final of the Bantamweight division he was defeated by Hungary's István Kovács. A year earlier, at the Pan American Games in Mar del Plata, he captured the gold medal in his division. In 1986 he already won the bronze medal at the 1986 World Amateur Boxing Championships in Reno.

---

06/12/1966

Natascha Badmann, Swiss triathlete

Natascha Badmann is a professional triathlete from Switzerland. She is a 6-time winner of the Ironman World Championships in Kailua-Kona, Hawaii in 1998, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2004, and 2005; in 1998 she became the first European woman to win the Ironman Triathlon World Championship.

---

Per-Ulrik Johansson, Swedish golfer

Per-Ulrik Johansson is a Swedish professional golfer, who won six times on the European Tour and played in two winning European Ryder Cup teams.

---

06/12/1965

Gordon Durie, Scottish footballer and manager

Gordon Scott Durie is a Scottish former professional football player and coach. He was a utility player who usually played as a striker for East Fife, Hibernian, Chelsea, Tottenham Hotspur, Rangers and Hearts. He was also capped 43 times by Scotland. After retiring as a player in 2001, in 2010, he became a coach and manager, working for East Fife and Rangers as an assistant.

---

06/12/1964

Mall Nukke, Estonian painter

Mall Nukke is an Estonian artist. A printmaker by training, she is primarily known for her paintings, collages and installations influenced by pop art. Mall Nukke emerged on the Estonian art scene in the early 1990s, her work at the period can be seen as commentary of nascent mass culture and consumer society in newly independent Estonia. Her early collages combined various cultural references and created new media characters based on real entertainers and public figures. Since the 2000s, Mall Nukke has concentrated on creating photo-manipulations and mixed media paintings inspired by Eastern Orthodox icon art.

---

06/12/1963

Ulrich Thomsen, Danish actor and producer

Ulrich Thomsen is a Danish actor and filmmaker, known for his role of Christian in the 1998 film The Celebration and for the role of Kai Proctor in the Cinemax original series Banshee (2013–2016).

---

06/12/1962

Janine Turner, American actress

Janine Turner is an American actress best known for her roles as Maggie O'Connell in the television series Northern Exposure, as Jessie Deighan in the feature film Cliffhanger, and as Katie McCoy in Friday Night Lights. She is an author, public speaker and founder and co-chair of Constituting America 2010.

---

Ben Watt, English singer-songwriter, musician, author, DJ, and radio presenter

Benjamin Brian Thomas Watt is a British musician, singer, songwriter, author, DJ, and radio presenter, best known as a member of the duo Everything but the Girl.

---

06/12/1961

David Lovering, American drummer

David Sullivan Lovering is an American musician and magician. He is best known as the drummer for the alternative rock band Pixies, which he joined in 1986. After the band's breakup in 1993, Lovering drummed with several other acts, including The Martinis, Cracker, Nitzer Ebb and Tanya Donelly. He also pursued a magic career as the Scientific Phenomenalist, performing scientific and physics-based experiments on stage. When the Pixies reunited in 2004, Lovering returned as the band's drummer.

---

Jonathan Melvoin, American musician (died 1996)

Jonathan David Melvoin was an American musician, active in the 1980s and 1990s.

---

Manuel Reuter, German race car driver

Manuel Carlos Nicki Reuter is a German former racing driver.

---

06/12/1960

Masahiko Katsuya, Japanese journalist and photographer (died 2018)

Masahiko Katsuya was a Japanese columnist, photographer, and pundit. After failing the entrance exams for the University of Tokyo and the University of Tsukuba, Katsuya entered Waseda University in 1980. He started working for an editor of Bungeishunjū after graduating from the university in 1985.

---

06/12/1959

Deborah Estrin, American computer scientist and academic

Deborah Estrin is a professor of Computer Science at Cornell Tech. She is co-founder of the non-profit Open mHealth and gave a TEDMED talk on small data in 2013.

---

Stephen Hepburn, English politician

Stephen Hepburn is a British politician, who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Jarrow from 1997 to 2019. Hepburn was a member of the Labour Party until 7 October 2019, when he was suspended from the party following an accusation of sexual harassment. He then sat as an independent and was barred by the party from standing as a Labour candidate.

---

Satoru Iwata, Japanese game programmer and businessman (died 2015)

Satoru Iwata was a Japanese businessman, video game programmer and producer. Beginning in 2002, Iwata served as the fourth president of Nintendo, as well as the chief executive officer (CEO) of Nintendo of America from 2013 until his death in 2015. Iwata was a major contributor in broadening the appeal of video games by focusing on novel and entertaining games rather than top-of-the-line hardware.

---

Stephen Muggleton, English computer scientist and engineer

Stephen H. Muggleton is Professor of Machine Learning and Head of the Computational Bioinformatics Laboratory at Imperial College London.

---

06/12/1958

Nick Park, English animator, director, producer, and screenwriter

Nicholas Wulstan Park is an English filmmaker and animator who created Wallace & Gromit, Creature Comforts, Chicken Run, Shaun the Sheep, and Early Man. Park has been nominated for an Academy Award seven times and won four with Creature Comforts (1989), The Wrong Trousers (1993), A Close Shave (1995) and Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005).

---

06/12/1957

Adrian Borland, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (died 1999)

Adrian Kelvin Borland was an English singer, songwriter, guitarist and record producer, best known as the frontman of post-punk band the Sound.

---

Andrew Cuomo, American politician, 56th Governor of New York

Andrew Mark Cuomo is an American lawyer and politician who served as the 56th governor of New York from 2011 until his resignation in 2021 following numerous sexual misconduct allegations. A member of the Democratic Party, he is a son of former governor Mario Cuomo, and ran as an independent for mayor of New York City in the 2025 mayoral election.

---

Bill Hanzlik, American basketball player and coach

William Henry Hanzlik is an American former professional basketball player and coach.

---

06/12/1956

Peter Buck, American guitarist, songwriter, and producer

Peter Lawrence Buck is an American musician and songwriter. He was a co-founder and the lead guitarist of the alternative rock band R.E.M.; he played the banjo and mandolin on several R.E.M. songs. Throughout his career with R.E.M. (1980–2011), as well as during his subsequent solo career, Buck has been at various times a member of numerous side project groups. These groups included Arthur Buck, Hindu Love Gods, The Minus 5, Tuatara, The Baseball Project, Robyn Hitchcock and the Venus 3, Tired Pony, The No-Ones, and Filthy Friends, each of which have released at least one full-length studio album. Additionally, the experimental combo Slow Music have released an official live concert CD. Another side project group called Full Time Men released an EP while Buck was a member. As well, ad hoc "supergroups" Bingo Hand Job, Musical Kings and Nigel & The Crosses have each commercially released one track. Buck's latest project as of 2025 is Drink The Sea, and the band has released a self-titled double album in Autumn 2025.

---

Hans Kammerlander, Italian mountaineer and guide

Hans Kammerlander is an Italian mountaineer, living in Ahornach, a hamlet nearby Sand in Taufers. He has climbed 11 of the 14 8000m peaks. In 1984, together with Reinhold Messner he was the first climber to traverse two 8000 m peaks before descending to base camp. On January 6, 2012, he falsely announced that he was the first person on the Second Seven Summits. No less than three of his "second" seven summits achievements turned out to be false. The false summit claims were revealed on Mount Logan, further on Mount Puncak Trikora, and on Mount Dyck Tau.

---

Randy Rhoads, American guitarist, songwriter, and producer (died 1982)

Randall William Rhoads was an American guitarist. He was the co-founder and original guitarist of the heavy metal band Quiet Riot, and the guitarist and co-songwriter for Ozzy Osbourne's first two solo albums Blizzard of Ozz (1980) and Diary of a Madman (1981). Rhoads was posthumously inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2021.

---

06/12/1955

Anne Begg, Scottish educator and politician

Dame Margaret Anne Begg DBE is a Scottish politician who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Aberdeen South from 1997 to 2015. A member of the Labour Party, she was Chair of the Work and Pensions Select Committee from 2010 to 2015.

---

Rick Buckler, English drummer, songwriter, and producer (died 2025)

Paul Richard Buckler was an English musician who was the drummer of the rock band the Jam.

---

Graeme Hughes, Australian cricketer, rugby league player, and sportscaster

Graeme Christopher Hughes is an Australian sportsman turned broadcaster. He is the last man to have played both rugby league and cricket for New South Wales. His father Noel Hughes played cricket for Worcestershire in the 1950s.

---

Tony Woodcock, English footballer

Anthony Stewart Woodcock is an English retired international footballer who played professionally in both England and Germany as a striker for Nottingham Forest, FC Köln and Arsenal. Woodcock won the European Cup in 1979 with Nottingham Forest.

---

Steven Wright, American actor, comedian, and screenwriter

Steven Alexander Wright is an American stand-up comedian, actor, writer and film producer. He is known for his distinctive lethargic voice and slow, deadpan delivery of ironic, philosophical and sometimes nonsensical jokes, paraprosdokians, non sequiturs, anti-humor, and one-liners with contrived situations.

---

06/12/1954

Nicola De Maria, Italian painter

Nicola De Maria is an Italian painter living and working in Turin, Italy. He is known for his abstract figurative works, which have been characterized as lyrical and colourful.

---

Chris Stamey, American singer-songwriter, musician, and music producer

Christopher Charles Stamey is an American musician, singer, songwriter, and record producer. After a brief time playing with Alex Chilton, as well as Mitch Easter under the name Sneakers, Stamey formed the dB's with Peter Holsapple.

---

06/12/1953

Sue Carroll, English journalist (died 2011)

Susan Elizabeth Carroll was an English journalist, best known for her time as a columnist at the Daily Mirror.

---

Gary Goodman, Australian cricketer and coach

Gary Weech Goodman is a former cricketer who played for Tasmania and South Australia. He was the chief executive of ACT Cricket for four years.

---

Geoff Hoon, English academic and politician, Minister of State for Europe

Geoffrey William Hoon is a British former politician who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Ashfield in Nottinghamshire from 1992 to 2010 for the Labour Party. He is a former Defence Secretary, Transport Secretary, Leader of the House of Commons and Government Chief Whip.

---

Tom Hulce, American actor

Thomas Edward Hulce is an American actor and theater producer. He is best known for his portrayal of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in the Academy Award-winning film Amadeus (1984), as well as the roles of Larry "Pinto" Kroger in Animal House (1978), Larry Buckman in Parenthood (1989), and Quasimodo in Disney's animated film The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996). Hulce's awards include an Emmy Award for The Heidi Chronicles, a 2007 Tony Award for Best Musical as a lead producer for Spring Awakening, an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor for Amadeus, and four Golden Globe nominations.

---

Masami Kurumada, Japanese author and illustrator

Masami Kurumada is a Japanese manga artist and writer, known for specializing in fighting manga featuring bishōnen and magical boys.

---

06/12/1952

Nicolas Bréhal, French author and critic (died 1999)

Nicolas Bréhal was a French novelist and literary critic.

---

Craig Newmark, American computer programmer and entrepreneur; founded Craigslist

Craig Alexander Newmark is an American internet entrepreneur and philanthropist best known as the founder of the classifieds website Craigslist. Before founding Craigslist, he worked as a computer programmer for IBM, Bank of America, and Charles Schwab. Newmark served as chief executive officer of Craigslist from its founding until 2000. He founded Craig Newmark Philanthropies in 2015.

---

Shio Satō, Japanese illustrator (died 2010)

Chiyoko "Shio" Satō was a Japanese manga artist. Satō is often regarded as a member of the Post Year 24 Group, a group of female manga artists considered influential in the development of shōjo manga. She wrote under the pen name Shio Satō – as her surname Satō had the same pronunciation as satō , she combined it with shio , with the kanji form modified as 史生. She made her professional debut in 1977 with the publication of "Koi wa Ajina Mono!?" in Bessatsu Shōjo Comic (Shogakukan). Her definitive works include Yumemiru Wakusei  and One Zero .

---

06/12/1951

Wendy Ellis Somes, English ballerina and producer

Wendy Ellis Somes is a former principal ballerina with the Royal Ballet in London, and is now a worldwide producer of the Sir Frederick Ashton ballets Cinderella and Symphonic Variations.

---

Maurice Hope, Caribbean-English boxer

Maurice Hope GCH OBE is a British former boxer, who was world junior middleweight champion. Born in Antigua, he grew up in Hackney, London. He represented Great Britain at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, West Germany.

---

06/12/1950

Guy Drut, French hurdler and politician

Guy Drut is an Olympic champion and politician who won gold at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal in the 110 m hurdles. In 1996, he became a member of the International Olympic Committee (IOC).

---

Joe Hisaishi, Japanese pianist, composer, and conductor

Mamoru Fujisawa , known professionally as Joe Hisaishi , is a Japanese composer, musical director, conductor and pianist, known for over 100 film scores and solo albums dating back to 1981. Hisaishi's music has been known to explore and incorporate different genres, including minimalist, experimental electronic, Western classical, and Japanese classical. He has also worked as a music engraver and arranger.

---

Helen Liddell, Baroness Liddell of Coatdyke, Scottish journalist and politician, Secretary of State for Scotland

Helen Lawrie Liddell, Baroness Liddell of Coatdyke PC is a British politician and life peer who served as Secretary of State for Scotland from 2001 to 2003 and British High Commissioner to Australia from 2005 to 2009. A member of the Labour Party, she was Member of Parliament (MP) for Airdrie and Shotts, previously Monklands East, from 1994 to 2005.

---

06/12/1949

Linda Barnes, American author, playwright, and educator

Linda Barnes is an American mystery writer.

---

Linda Creed, American singer-songwriter (died 1986)

Linda Diane Creed, also known by her married name Linda Epstein, was an American songwriter, lyricist, background singer and record producer who teamed up with Thom Bell to produce some of the most successful Philadelphia soul groups of the 1970s.

---

Doug Marlette, American author and cartoonist (died 2007)

Douglas Nigel Marlette was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American editorial cartoonist who, at the time of his death, had also published two novels and was "finding his voice in writing long-length fiction." His popular comic strip Kudzu, distributed by Tribune Media Services from 1981 to 2007, was adapted into a musical comedy.

---

Peter Willey, English cricketer and umpire

Peter Willey is a former English cricketer, who played as a right-handed batsman and right-arm offbreak bowler. In and out of the England team, he interrupted his international career for three years by taking part in the first of the England players' South African rebel tours in 1982. After his playing career ended, he became a Test umpire.

---

06/12/1948

Jean-Paul Ngoupandé, Central African politician, Prime Minister of the Central African Republic (died 2014)

Jean-Paul Ngoupandé was a Central African politician who was Prime Minister of the Central African Republic from 1996 to 1997. He stood as a presidential candidate in 1999 and 2005, and he served as Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2005 to 2006. He was President of the National Unity Party, an entity which he founded in the mid-1990s. He presented himself as an enemy of corruption and a defender of fair elections and democratic institutions.

---

Don Nickles, American businessman and politician

Donald Lee Nickles is an American politician and lobbyist who was a Republican United States senator from Oklahoma from 1981 to 2005. He was considered both a fiscal and social conservative. After retiring from the Senate as the longest-serving senator from Oklahoma up until that point, he founded the Nickles Group, a lobbying firm.

---

Keke Rosberg, Finnish racing driver

Keijo Erik "Keke" Rosberg is a Finnish former racing driver and motorsport executive, who competed in Formula One from 1978 to 1986. Rosberg won the Formula One World Drivers' Championship in 1982 with Williams, and won five Grands Prix across nine seasons.

---

JoBeth Williams, American actress

Margaret JoBeth Williams is an American actress. She rose to prominence appearing in such films as Kramer vs. Kramer (1979), Stir Crazy (1980), Poltergeist (1982), The Big Chill (1983), The Day After (1983), Teachers (1984), and Poltergeist II: The Other Side (1986). A three-time Emmy Award nominee, she was nominated for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie for her work in the TV movie Adam (1983) and the TV miniseries Baby M (1988). Her third nomination was for her guest role in the sitcom Frasier (1994). She also starred in the TV series The Client (1995–96) and had recurring roles in the TV series Dexter (2007) and Private Practice (2009–11).

---

06/12/1947

Lawrence Cannon, Canadian businessman and politician, 9th Canadian Minister of Foreign Affairs

Lawrence Cannon, is a Canadian politician from Quebec and Prime Minister Stephen Harper's former Quebec lieutenant. In early 2006, he was made the Minister of Transport. On October 30, 2008, he relinquished oversight of Transport and was sworn in as Minister of Foreign Affairs. He was defeated in the 2011 federal election by the NDP's Mathieu Ravignat. He was appointed as Canadian Ambassador to France in May 2012, and he served in that position until September 2017.

---

Geoffrey Hinton, British-Canadian computer scientist, cognitive scientist, and cognitive psychologist, Nobel Prize laureate

Geoffrey Everest Hinton is a British-Canadian computer scientist, cognitive scientist, cognitive psychologist and Nobel Prize laureate known for his work on artificial neural networks, which earned him the title "the Godfather of AI". He is University Professor Emeritus at the University of Toronto.

---

Henk van Woerden, Dutch-South African painter and author (died 2005)

Henk van Woerden was a Dutch painter and writer with close ties to South Africa.

---

Miroslav Vitouš, Czech-American bassist and songwriter

Miroslav Ladislav Vitouš is a Czech jazz bassist. He is known as a founding member of the ensemble Weather Report, and for working as a bandleader and alongside Chick Corea, Jack DeJohnette and others.

---

06/12/1946

Frankie Beverly, American soul/funk singer-songwriter, musician, and producer (died 2024)

Howard Stanley Beverly, known as Frankie Beverly, was an American singer, songwriter, and producer known primarily for his recordings with the soul and funk band Maze. He formed Maze, originally called Raw Soul, in his hometown of Philadelphia in 1970. After moving to San Francisco and an introduction to Marvin Gaye, Maze later released nine Gold albums and created a large and devoted following.

---

Willy van der Kuijlen, Dutch footballer and manager (died 2021)

Wilhelmus Martinus Leonardus Johannes "Willy" van der Kuijlen was a Dutch football player and a scout for PSV Eindhoven.

---

06/12/1945

Shekhar Kapur, Indian director, producer, and screenwriter

Shekhar Kulbhushan Kapur is an Indian filmmaker. Born into the Anand-Sahni family, Kapur is the recipient of several accolades, including a BAFTA Award, a National Film Award, a National Board of Review Award and three Filmfare Awards, in addition to nomination for a Golden Globe Award.

---

06/12/1944

Jonathan King, English singer-songwriter, record producer, music entrepreneur, television/radio presenter, and convicted sex offender

Jonathan King is an English singer, songwriter and record producer. He first came to prominence in 1965 when "Everyone's Gone to the Moon", a song that he wrote and sang while still an undergraduate, achieved chart success. King's career in the music industry was effectively ended in 2001 when he was convicted of sexually abusing five teenage boys.

---

06/12/1943

Mike Smith, English singer-songwriter, keyboard player, and producer (died 2008)

Michael George Smith was an English singer, songwriter and music producer.

---

Keith West, English rock singer-songwriter and music producer

Keith Hopkins, known by his stage name Keith West, is a British rock singer, songwriter and music producer. He is best known for his single "Excerpt from A Teenage Opera", which reached No. 2 on the UK Singles Chart.

---

06/12/1942

Peter Handke, Austrian author and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate

Peter Handke is an Austrian novelist, playwright, translator, poet, film director, and screenwriter. He was awarded the 2019 Nobel Prize in Literature "for an influential work that with linguistic ingenuity has explored the periphery and the specificity of human experience." Handke is considered to be one of the most influential and original German-language writers in the second half of the 20th century.

---

Robb Royer, American guitarist, keyboard player, and songwriter

Robert Wilson Royer is an American musician and songwriter, best known as a founding member of the soft rock band Bread from 1968 to 1971. While he was with the band, they had a UK #5/US #1 hit single with "Make It with You". He was replaced by Larry Knechtel in 1971.

---

06/12/1941

Helen Cornelius, American country singer-songwriter and actress (died 2025)

Helen Lorene Cornelius, was an American country singer-songwriter, best remembered for a series of hit duets with Jim Ed Brown, many of which reached the U.S. country singles top ten during the late 1970s and early 1980s.

---

Bruce Nauman, American sculptor and illustrator

Bruce Nauman is an American artist. His practice spans a broad range of media including sculpture, photography, neon, video, drawing, printmaking, and performance. Nauman lives near Galisteo, New Mexico.

---

Richard Speck, American murderer (died 1991)

Richard Benjamin Speck was an American mass murderer who killed eight student nurses in their South Deering, Chicago, residence by stabbing, strangling, slashing their throats, or a combination of the three on the night of July 13–14, 1966. Speck also raped one victim before killing her. A ninth potential victim, student nurse Corazon Amurao, survived by hiding beneath a bed.

---

Bill Thomas, American academic and politician

William Marshall Thomas is an American politician. He was a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from 1979 to 2007, finishing his tenure representing California's 22nd congressional district and as the chair of the House Ways and Means Committee.

---

06/12/1940

Lawrence Bergman, Canadian lawyer and politician

Lawrence S. Bergman is a Canadian politician in Quebec, Canada. He was a minister of the government of Quebec from 2003 to 2007, the Member of National Assembly of Quebec for the riding of D'Arcy-McGee in Montreal's west end from 1994 to 2014, and Chairperson of the Government Caucus in the parliamentary office of Quebec.

---

Richard Edlund, American visual effects designer and cinematographer

Richard Edlund, ASC is an American visual effects artist and inventor. He was a founding member of Industrial Light & Magic, having already founded Pignose amplifiers, and later co-founded Boss Film Studios and DuMonde VFX. He has won two Academy Awards for Best Visual Effects, as well as two Special Achievement Awards, two Scientific and Technical Awards, and the Medal of Commendation. He is also a BAFTA and Emmy Award recipient.

---

06/12/1939

Franco Carraro, Italian politician and sports administrator

Franco Carraro is an Italian sports manager and politician with a career spanning over five decades. During his career, Carraro came to hold a series of positions and roles within sports and finance industries, and in both private and public sectors. For decades, he was also a member of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and remains an honorary member after the approval of an age limit in 2019.

---

06/12/1938

Patrick Bauchau, Belgian-American actor

Patrick Nicolas Jean Sixte Ghislain Bauchau is a Belgian actor best known for his roles in the films A View to a Kill, The Rapture and Panic Room. On television, he was a main cast member in the NBC series The Pretender and the HBO drama Carnivàle, as well as making notable guest appearances in series such as Columbo and House, M.D..

---

06/12/1937

Alberto Spencer, Ecuadorian-American soccer player (died 2006)

Alberto Pedro Spencer Herrera was an Ecuadorian footballer who played as a forward, and is widely regarded as one of the best Ecuadorian men's footballers of all time. He is probably best known for his still-standing record for scoring the most goals in the Copa Libertadores, the premier club tournament in South America. He was elected the 20th best South American footballer of the 20th century in a poll by the IFFHS in 2004. He was known as "Cabeza Mágica".

---

06/12/1936

Bill Ashton, English saxophonist and composer (died 2025)

William Michael Allingham Ashton OBE was a British band leader, saxophonist and composer who was best known for co-founding NYJO - the British National Youth Jazz Orchestra, of which he was Musical Director from 1965 until his retirement in 2009 when he became Life President.

---

Kenneth Copeland, American evangelist and author

Kenneth Max Copeland is an American televangelist associated with the charismatic movement. He is the founder of Eagle Mountain International Church Inc. (EMIC), which is based in Tarrant County, Texas. Copeland has also written several books and other resources, and is known for his broadcast The Believer's Voice of Victory.

---

David Ossman, American writer and comedian

David Ossman is an American writer and comedian, best known as a member of the Firesign Theatre and screenwriter of such films as Zachariah.

---

06/12/1935

Jean Lapointe, Canadian actor, singer, and politician (died 2022)

Jean Lapointe, was a Canadian actor, comedian and singer, as well as a Canadian Senator.

---

06/12/1934

Nick Bockwinkel, American wrestler, sportscaster, and actor (died 2015)

Nicholas Warren Francis Bockwinkel was an American professional wrestler. He is best known for his tenure with the American Wrestling Association (AWA) between the 1970s and 1980s, where he was a four-time AWA World Heavyweight Champion.

---

06/12/1933

Henryk Górecki, Polish composer and academic (died 2010)

Henryk Mikołaj Górecki was a Polish composer of contemporary classical music. According to critic Alex Ross, no recent classical composer has had as much commercial success as Górecki. He became a leading figure of the Polish avant-garde during the post-Stalin cultural thaw. His Anton Webern-influenced serialist works of the 1950s and 1960s were characterized by adherence to dissonant modernism and influenced by Luigi Nono, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Krzysztof Penderecki and Kazimierz Serocki. He continued in this direction throughout the 1960s, but by the mid-1970s had changed to a less complex sacred minimalist sound, exemplified by the transitional Symphony No. 2 "Copernician" and the Symphony No. 3 "Symphony of Sorrowful Songs". This later style developed through several other distinct phases, from such works as his 1979 Beatus Vir, to the 1981 choral hymn Miserere, the 1993 Kleines Requiem für eine Polka and his requiem Good Night.

---

Donald J. Kutyna, American general

General Donald Joseph Kutyna is a retired United States Air Force officer. He was commander in chief of the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) and the United States Space Command from 1990 to 1992, and commander of Air Force Space Command at Peterson Air Force Base, Colorado from 1987 to 1990.

---

06/12/1932

Kamleshwar, Indian author, screenwriter, and critic (died 2007)

Kamleshwar Prasad Saxena, known mononymously as Kamleshwar, was a 20th-century Indian writer who wrote in Hindi. He also worked as a screenwriter for Indian films and television industry. Among his most well-known works are the films Aandhi, Mausam, Chhoti Si Baat and Rang Birangi. He was awarded the 2003 Sahitya Akademi Award for his Hindi novel Kitne Pakistan, and the Padma Bhushan in 2005.

---

06/12/1931

Zeki Müren, Turkish singer-songwriter and actor (died 1996)

Zeki Müren was a Turkish classical music artist, composer, songwriter, actor and poet. Known by the nicknames "The Sun of Art" and "Pasha", he was one of the prominent figures of Turkish classical music. Due to his contributions to the art industry, he was named a "State Artist" in 1991. He was the first singer to receive a gold certification in Turkey and throughout his career recorded and released hundreds of songs on cassettes and phonograph records.

---

06/12/1930

Daniel Lisulo, Zambian banker and politician, 3rd Prime Minister of Zambia (died 2000)

Daniel Muchiwa Lisulo was the 3rd Prime Minister of Zambia from June 1978 until February 1981.

---

06/12/1929

Philippe Bouvard, French journalist and radio host

Philippe Bouvard is a retired French television and radio presenter. From 1977 to 2014 he hosted the French radio program Les Grosses Têtes on RTL, from 1982 to 1986 he hosted the television program Le Petit Théâtre de Bouvard, and hosted the radio program Allô Bouvard on RTL from 2014 until his retirement in 2025 at age 95, after a career of more than 60 years in radio.

---

Nikolaus Harnoncourt, German-Austrian cellist and conductor (died 2016)

Johann Nikolaus Harnoncourt was an Austrian conductor, known for his historically informed performances. He specialized in music of the Baroque period, but later extended his repertoire to include Classical and early Romantic works. Among his best known recordings are those of Bach, whose 193 cantatas he recorded with Gustav Leonhardt.

---

Frank Springer, American comic book illustrator (died 2009)

Frank Springer was an American comics artist best known for Marvel Comics' Dazzler and Nick Fury, Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D.. As well, in collaboration with writer Michael O'Donoghue, Springer created one of the first adult-oriented comics features on American newsstands: "The Adventures of Phoebe Zeit-Geist" in the magazine Evergreen Review. A multiple winner of the National Cartoonists Society's Reuben Award, Springer was a president of the Society and a founding member of the Berndt Toast Gang, its Long Island chapter.

---

Alain Tanner, Swiss director, producer, and screenwriter (died 2022)

Alain Tanner was a Swiss film director.

---

06/12/1928

Bobby Van, American actor, dancer, and singer (died 1980)

Robert Jack Stein, known by his legalized stage name Bobby Van, was an actor and dancer, best known for his career on Broadway, in film musicals and television from the 1950s through the 1970s. He was also a game show host and panelist.

---

06/12/1927

Jim Fuchs, American shot putter and discus thrower (died 2010)

James Emanuel Fuchs was an American communications executive and athlete who competed in the discus throw and shot put. Track and Field News rated him the number one shotputter in the world in the 1949–50 seasons. He developed a new shot-putting technique to compensate for a leg injury, and then used what he called "the sideways glide" to set world records and dominate the sport over a two-year span in the early 1950s. He won bronze medals in shot put at both the 1948 Summer Olympics in London and the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki.

---

06/12/1924

Wally Cox, American actor (died 1973)

Wallace Maynard Cox was an American actor. He began his career as a stand-up comedian and played the title character of the early American television series Mister Peepers from 1952 to 1955. He also appeared as a character actor in over 20 films and dozens of television episodes. Cox was the voice of the animated canine superhero Underdog in the Underdog TV series.

---

06/12/1922

John Brunt, English captain, Victoria Cross recipient (died 1944)

Captain John Henry Cound Brunt, was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.

---

Benjamin A. Gilman, American soldier and politician (died 2016)

Benjamin Arthur Gilman was an American politician and Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from Middletown, New York, from January 3, 1973, to January 3, 2003.

---

06/12/1921

Otto Graham, American football player and coach (died 2003)

Otto Everett Graham Jr. was an American professional football player who was a quarterback for the Cleveland Browns in the All-America Football Conference (AAFC) and National Football League (NFL) for 10 seasons. Graham is regarded by critics as one of the most dominant players of his era and one of the greatest quarterbacks of all time, having taken the Browns to league championship games every year between 1946 and 1955, making ten championship appearances, and winning seven of them. With Graham at quarterback, the Browns posted a record of 105 wins, 17 losses, and 4 ties, including a 9–3 win–loss record in the AAFC and NFL playoffs. Long-time New York Yankees owner George Steinbrenner, a friend of Graham's, once called him "as great of a quarterback as there ever was."

---

Piero Piccioni, Italian lawyer, pianist, and composer (died 2004)

Piero Piccioni was an Italian film score composer.

---

06/12/1920

Dave Brubeck, American pianist and composer (died 2012)

David Warren Brubeck was an American jazz pianist and composer. Often regarded as a foremost exponent of cool jazz, Brubeck's work is characterized by unusual time signatures and superimposing contrasting rhythms, meters, and tonalities, and combining different styles and genres, such as classical, jazz, and blues.

---

Peter Dimmock, English sportscaster and producer (died 2015)

Peter Harold Moss Dimmock was a British sports broadcaster, television producer and television executive for the BBC. He began his career as a racing correspondent for the Press Association before joining the BBC as a producer and commentator at their Outside Broadcasts television department, working on almost 2,000 outside broadcasts. Dimmock was the first host of the BBC's long-running Grandstand and of the BBC Sports Review of the Year awards and the weekly live sports programme Sportsview from 1954 to 1964. He was assistant head of outside broadcasts from 1949 before becoming its head in 1954 until 1972, securing broadcast agreements for boxing, cricket, ice hockey, rugby, swimming and tennis and major state events. Dimmock worked at the American network American Broadcasting Company (ABC) as the vice-president of Worldwide Syndication and Marketing for ABC Sports and later as the director of the cable and satellite sports channel ESPN from 1984 to 1990. He was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) and Commander of the Victorian Order (CVO).

---

George Porter, English chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2002)

George Porter, Baron Porter of Luddenham, was a British chemist. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1967.

---

06/12/1919

Skippy Baxter, Canadian-American figure skater and coach (died 2012)

Lloyd Valdemar "Skippy" Baxter was an American figure skater. Born in Saskatchewan, Canada, his family moved to Oakland, California when he was 1 year of age. Skippy started his skating career as a speed skater. Often winning awards as a youth Speed skater in Oakland, California. Then later, he won two medals at the 1940 United States Figure Skating Championships: a bronze in men's singles and a silver in pair skating with Hedy Stenuf. Baxter went on to skate professionally with the Ice Capades, working with Sonja Henie in her shows. Baxter was famous for the backflip that he regularly performed during shows.

---

Paul de Man, Belgian-born philosopher, literary critic and theorist (died 1983)

Paul de Man, born Paul Adolph Michel Deman, was a Belgian-born American literary critic and literary theorist. He was known particularly for his importation of German and French philosophical approaches into Anglo-American literary studies and critical theory. Along with Jacques Derrida, he was part of an influential critical movement that went beyond traditional interpretation of literary texts to reflect on the epistemological difficulties inherent in any textual, literary, or critical activity. This approach aroused considerable opposition, which de Man attributed to "resistance" inherent in the difficult enterprise of literary interpretation itself.

---

06/12/1918

Tauba Biterman, Polish Holocaust survivor (died 2019)

Tauba Biterman was a Holocaust survivor from Zamość, Poland. She dedicated her life to teaching and sharing memories of the Holocaust. Her speeches painted a realistic portrait of what a Jewish girl from Poland went through between 1939 and 1945.

---

06/12/1917

Dean Hess, American minister and colonel (died 2015)

Dean Elmer Hess was an American minister and United States Air Force Lieutenant Colonel who was involved in the so-called "Kiddy Car Airlift," the documented rescue of 950 orphans and 80 orphanage staff from the path of the Chinese advance during the Korean War on December 20, 1950. He is the subject of the autobiography Battle Hymn, published in 1956, which later served the basis for the 1957 film of the same name, where he was played by Rock Hudson.

---

Kamal Jumblatt, Lebanese lawyer and politician (died 1977)

Kamal Fouad Jumblatt was a prominent Lebanese politician, intellectual, and traditional za'im of the Lebanese Druze community. He was the founder of the Progressive Socialist Party (PSP) and served as the executive leader of the Lebanese National Movement (LNM) during the early phase of the Lebanese Civil War. A staunch pan-Arabist and supporter of the Palestinian national movement, he was a key ally of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) until his assassination in 1977.

---

Irv Robbins, Canadian-American businessman, co-founded Baskin-Robbins (died 2008)

Irvine "Irv" Isaac Robbins was a Canadian-born American businessman. He co-founded the Baskin-Robbins ice cream parlor chain in 1945 with his partner and brother-in-law Burt Baskin.

---

06/12/1916

Yekaterina Budanova, Russian captain and pilot (died 1943)

Yekaterina Vasilyevna Budanova, nicknamed Katya (Катя), was a fighter pilot in the Soviet Air Force during World War II. Usually credited with five or more aerial victories, along with Lydia Litvyak, she is often considered one of the world's two female fighter aces. She was shot down by either Luftwaffe ace Georg Schwientek of JG 52 or ace Emil Bitsch, of JG 3.

---

Kristján Eldjárn, Icelandic educator and politician, 3rd President of Iceland (died 1982)

Kristján Eldjárn was the third president of Iceland, serving from 1968 to 1980.

---

Hugo Peretti, American songwriter and producer (died 1986)

Hugo E. Peretti was an American songwriter, trumpeter, and record producer. He was known for producing hits including Jimmie Rodgers's Billboard #1 "Honeycomb" and the Grammy-winning musical theater album Bubbling Brown Sugar.

---

06/12/1914

Cyril Washbrook, English cricketer (died 1999)

Cyril Washbrook was an English cricketer, who played for Lancashire and England. He had a long career, split by World War II, and ending when he was aged 44. Washbrook, who is most famous for opening the batting for England with Len Hutton, which he did 51 times, played a total of 592 first-class cricket matches, of which 37 were Tests. Washbrook was named one of the five Wisden Cricketers of the Year in 1947.

---

06/12/1913

Karl Haas, German-American pianist, conductor, and radio host (died 2005)

Karl Haas was a German-American classical music radio host, known for his sonorous speaking voice, humanistic approach to music appreciation, and popularization of classical music. He was the host of the classical music radio program Adventures in Good Music, which was syndicated to commercial and public radio stations around the world. He also published the book Inside Music. He was a respected musicologist, as well as an accomplished pianist and conductor. In 1996, he received an honorary degree in Doctor of Letters from Oglethorpe University.

---

06/12/1912

Eleanor Holm, American swimmer and actress (died 2004)

Eleanor Grace Theresa Holm was an American competition swimmer and Olympic gold medalist. An Olympian in 1928 and 1932, Holm was expelled from the 1936 Summer Olympics team by Avery Brundage under controversial circumstances. Holm went on to have a high-profile career as a socialite and interior designer and co-starred in a Hollywood Tarzan movie, Tarzan's Revenge.

---

06/12/1910

David M. Potter, American historian, author, and academic (died 1971)

David Morris Potter was an American historian specializing in the study of the lead up to the American Civil War, especially the political factors involved. His best known book is The Impending Crisis, 1848–1861, which was completed and edited by Don E. Fehrenbacher and published posthumously in 1976; it won the 1977 Pulitzer Prize for History.

---

06/12/1909

Rulon Jeffs, American religious leader (died 2002)

Rulon Timpson Jeffs, known to followers as Uncle Rulon, was an American polygamist and cult leader who founded and was recognized as the 5th president of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, a Mormon fundamentalist cult based in Colorado City, Arizona, United States, from 1986 until his death in 2002. He was the father of later FLDS Church leader and convicted child sex offender Warren Jeffs.

---

Alan McGilvray, Australian cricketer and sportscaster (died 1996)

Alan David McGilvray was an Australian cricketer who played several first-class seasons for New South Wales in the mid-1930s before becoming the doyen of Australian cricket commentators. He became identified as the voice of Australian cricket through his ABC radio broadcasts.

---

06/12/1908

Herta Freitag, Austrian-American mathematician (died 2000)

Herta Freitag was an Austrian-American mathematician, a professor of mathematics at Hollins College, known for her work on the Fibonacci numbers.

---

Pierre Graber, Swiss lawyer and politician, 69th President of the Swiss Confederation (died 2003)

Pierre Graber was a Swiss politician and member of the Swiss Federal Council (1970–1978).

---

Baby Face Nelson, American gangster (died 1934)

Lester Joseph Gillis, also known as George Nelson and Baby Face Nelson, was an American bank robber who became a criminal partner of John Dillinger when he helped Dillinger escape from prison in Crown Point, Indiana. Later, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) announced that Nelson and the remaining gang of bank robbers were collectively "Public Enemy Number One".

---

Miklós Szabó, Hungarian runner (died 2000)

Miklós Szabó was a Hungarian middle distance runner who held world records over two distances.

---

06/12/1907

John Barkley Rosser Sr., American logician (died 1989)

John Barkley Rosser Sr. was an American logician, a student of Alonzo Church, and known for his part in the Church–Rosser theorem in lambda calculus. He also developed what is now called the "Rosser sieve" in number theory. He was part of the mathematics department at Cornell University from 1936 to 1963, chairing it several times. He was later director of the Army Mathematics Research Center at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and the first director of the Communications Research Division of IDA. Rosser also authored mathematical textbooks.

---

06/12/1905

Elizabeth Yates, American journalist and author (died 2001)

Elizabeth Yates McGreal was an American writer. She may have been known best for the biographical novel Amos Fortune, Free Man, winner of the 1951 Newbery Medal. She had been a Newbery runner-up in 1944 for Mountain Born. She began her writing career as a journalist, contributing travel articles to The Christian Science Monitor and The New York Times. Many of her books were illustrated by the British artist Nora S. Unwin.

---

06/12/1904

Ève Curie, French-American journalist and pianist (died 2007)

Ève Denise Curie Labouisse was a French and American writer, journalist and pianist. Ève Curie was the younger daughter of Marie Skłodowska-Curie and Pierre Curie. Her sister was Irène Joliot-Curie and her brother-in-law was Frédéric Joliot-Curie. She worked as a journalist and authored her mother's biography Madame Curie and a book of war reportage, Journey Among Warriors. From the 1960s she committed herself to work for UNICEF, providing help to children and mothers in developing countries. Ève was the only member of her family who did not choose a career as a scientist and did not win a Nobel Prize, although her husband, Henry Richardson Labouisse Jr., did collect the Nobel Peace Prize in 1965 on behalf of UNICEF, completing the Curie family legacy of five Nobel Prize winners.

---

06/12/1903

Tony Lazzeri, American baseball player and manager (died 1946)

Anthony Michael Lazzeri was an American professional baseball second baseman during the 1920s and 1930s, predominantly with the New York Yankees of Major League Baseball (MLB). He was part of the famed "Murderers' Row" Yankee batting lineup of the late 1920s, along with Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, and Bob Meusel.

---

06/12/1901

Eliot Porter, American photographer and academic (died 1990)

Eliot Furness Porter was an American photographer best known for his color photographs of nature.

---

06/12/1900

Agnes Moorehead, American actress (died 1974)

Agnes Moorehead was an American actress. In a career spanning five decades, her credits included work in radio, stage, film, and television. Moorehead was the recipient of such accolades as a Primetime Emmy Award and two Golden Globe Awards, in addition to nominations for four Academy Awards.

---

06/12/1898

Alfred Eisenstaedt, German-American photographer and journalist (died 1995)

Alfred Eisenstaedt was a German-born American photographer and photojournalist. He began his career in Germany prior to World War II but achieved prominence as a staff photographer for Life magazine after moving to the U.S. Life featured more than 90 of his pictures on its covers, and more than 2,500 of his photo stories were published.

---

John McDonald, Scottish-Australian politician, 37th Premier of Victoria (died 1977)

Sir John Gladstone Black McDonald was an Australian politician who served as the 37th Premier of Victoria, leading a Country Party government from 1950 to 1952. McDonald first attained high office as a minister in the wartime coalition governments led by Albert Dunstan and Thomas Hollway. McDonald became leader of the Country Party and Leader of the Opposition in 1945. Following the 1947 election, he became Deputy Premier in a coalition government led by Hollway, who was the leader of the Liberal Party and served as Acting Premier for much of the term. His tenure as Deputy Premier under Hollway ended in 1948 when the Country Party withdrew from the coalition, accusing the premier of betrayal over the handling of a tramway strike, returning McDonald to the position of Opposition leader.

---

Gunnar Myrdal, Swedish sociologist and economist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1987)

Karl Gunnar Myrdal was a Swedish economist and sociologist. In 1974, he received the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences along with Friedrich Hayek for "their pioneering work in the theory of money and economic fluctuations and for their penetrating analysis of the interdependence of economic, social and institutional phenomena." When his wife, Alva Myrdal, received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1982, they became the fourth ever married couple to have won Nobel Prizes, and the first and only to win independent of each other.

---

Winifred Lenihan, American actress, writer, and director (died 1964)

Winifred Lenihan was an American actress, writer, and director. She studied at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts before making her debut in 1918. Although she portrayed the would-be eloper Anne in The Dover Road (1921), Anne Hathaway in Will Shakespeare (1923), and the resourceful Mary Todd in White Wings (1926), she is recalled mostly as Joan of Arc in the original American production of Saint Joan (1923).

---

06/12/1896

Ira Gershwin, American songwriter (died 1983)

Ira Gershwin was an American lyricist who collaborated with his younger brother, composer George Gershwin, to create some of the most memorable English-language songs of the 20th century. With George, he wrote more than a dozen Broadway shows, featuring songs such as "I Got Rhythm", "Embraceable You", "The Man I Love", and "Someone to Watch Over Me". He was also responsible, along with DuBose Heyward, for the libretto to George's opera Porgy and Bess.

---

06/12/1893

Homer N. Wallin, American admiral (died 1984)

Homer Norman Wallin was a vice admiral in the United States Navy, best known for his salvage of ships sunk in the attack on Pearl Harbor.

---

Sylvia Townsend Warner, English author and poet (died 1978)

Sylvia Nora Townsend Warner was an English novelist, poet and musicologist, known for works such as the novels Lolly Willowes (1926) and The Corner That Held Them (1948), and the short story collection Kingdoms of Elfin (1977). She spent most of her adult life in partnership with the poet Valentine Ackland.

---

06/12/1892

Osbert Sitwell, English-Italian captain, poet, and author (died 1969)

Sir Francis Osbert Sacheverell Sitwell, 5th Baronet CH CBE was an English writer. His elder sister was Edith Sitwell and his younger brother was Sacheverell Sitwell. Like them, he devoted his life to art and literature.

---

06/12/1890

Dion Fortune, Welsh occultist, psychologist, and author (died 1946)

Dion Fortune was a British occultist, ceremonial magician, and writer. She was a co-founder of the Fraternity of the Inner Light, an occult organisation that promoted philosophies which she claimed had been taught to her by spiritual entities known as the Ascended Masters. A prolific writer, she produced a large number of articles and books on her occult ideas and also authored seven novels, several of which expound occult themes.

---

Yoshio Nishina, Japanese physicist and academic (died 1951)

Yoshio Nishina was a Japanese physicist who was called "the founding father of modern physics research in Japan". He led the efforts of Japan to develop an atomic bomb during World War II.

---

Rudolf Schlichter, German painter and illustrator (died 1955)

Rudolf Schlichter was a German painter, engraver and writer. He was one of the most important representatives of the critical-realistic style of verism within the New Objectivity movement. He also wrote some autobiographical books.

---

06/12/1888

Will Hay, English actor, director, and screenwriter (died 1949)

William Thomson Hay was an English comedian best known for playing authority figures with comic failings in several films, most notably as a schoolmaster. His film Oh, Mr Porter! (1937), made by Gainsborough Pictures, is often cited as the supreme British-produced film-comedy, and in 1938 he was the third highest-grossing star in the UK. Many comedians have acknowledged him as a major influence. Hay was also a keen amateur astronomer.

---

06/12/1887

Lynn Fontanne, British actress (died 1983)

Lynn Fontanne was an English actress. After early success in supporting roles in the West End and United States, she married the American actor Alfred Lunt in 1922, with whom she co-starred in Broadway and West End productions over the next four decades. They became known as "The Lunts", and were celebrated on both sides of the Atlantic.

---

Joseph Lamb, American pianist and composer (died 1960)

Joseph Francis Lamb was an American composer of ragtime music. Lamb, of Irish descent, was the only non-African American of the "Big Three" composers of classical ragtime, the other two being Scott Joplin and James Scott. The ragtime of Joseph Lamb ranges from standard popular fare to complex and highly engaging. His use of long phrases was influenced by classical works he had learned from his sister and others while growing up, but his sense of structure was potentially derived from his study of Joplin's piano rags. By the time he added some polish to his later works in the 1950s, Lamb had mastered the classic rag genre in a way that almost no other composer was able to approach at that time, and continued to play it passably as well, as evidenced by at least two separate recordings done in his home, as well as a few recorded interviews.

---

06/12/1886

Joyce Kilmer, American soldier, author, and poet (died 1918)

Alfred Joyce Kilmer was an American writer and poet mainly remembered for a short poem titled "Trees" (1913), which was published in the collection Trees and Other Poems in 1914. Though a prolific poet whose works celebrated the common beauty of the natural world as well as his Catholic faith, Kilmer was also a journalist, literary critic, lecturer, and editor. At the time of his deployment to Europe during World War I, Kilmer was considered the leading American Catholic poet and lecturer of his generation, whom critics often compared to British contemporaries G. K. Chesterton (1874–1936) and Hilaire Belloc (1870–1953). He enlisted in the New York National Guard and was deployed to France with the 69th Infantry Regiment in 1917. He was killed by a sniper's bullet at the Second Battle of the Marne in 1918 at the age of 31. He was married to Aline Murray, also an accomplished poet and author, with whom he had five children.

---

06/12/1884

Cornelia Meigs, American author, playwright, and academic (died 1973)

Cornelia Lynde Meigs (1884–1973) was an American writer of fiction and biography for children, teacher of English and writing, historian and critic of children's literature. She won the Newbery Medal for her 1933 biography of Louisa May Alcott, entitled Invincible Louisa. She also wrote three Newbery Honor Books.

---

06/12/1882

Warren Bardsley, Australian cricketer (died 1954)

Warren "Curly" Bardsley was an Australian Test cricketer. An opening batsman, Bardsley played 41 Tests between 1909 and 1926 and over 200 first-class games for New South Wales. He was Wisden's Cricketer of the Year in 1910.

---

06/12/1878

Elvia Carrillo Puerto, Mexican politician (died 1968)

Elvia Carrillo Puerto was a Mexican socialist politician and feminist activist. She is known for her work with various feminist organizations and for her attempts to run for office in Yucatán and San Luis Potosí. Some refer to her as "The Red Nun of the Mayab".

---

06/12/1876

Fred Duesenberg, German-American businessman, co-founded the Duesenberg Automobile & Motors Company (died 1932)

Frederick Samuel Duesenberg was a German-born American automobile and engine designer, manufacturer and sportsman who was internationally known as a designer of racecars and racing engines. Duesenberg's engineering expertise influenced the development of the automobile, especially during the 1910s and 1920s. He is credited with introducing an eight-cylinder engine, also known as the Duesenberg Straight-8 engine, and four-wheel hydraulic brakes, a first for American cars, in addition to other mechanical innovations. Duesenberg was also patentholder of his designs for a four-wheel hydraulic brake, an early automatic transmission, and a cooling system, among others. Fred and his younger brother, August "Augie" Duesenberg, shared the patents, filed in 1913 and renewed in 1918, for their "walking beam" four-cylinder engine and the Duesenberg Straight 8.

---

06/12/1875

Albert Bond Lambert, American golfer and pilot (died 1946)

Albert Bond Lambert was an American businessman. He was the president of Lambert Pharmacal Company, marketer of Listerine, for over 25 years. Lambert was also a keen amateur golfer and prominent St. Louis aviator and benefactor of aviation.

---

Evelyn Underhill, English mystic and author (died 1941)

Evelyn Underhill was an English Anglo-Catholic writer and pacifist known for her numerous works on religion and spiritual practice, in particular Christian mysticism. Her best-known work is Mysticism, published in 1911.

---

06/12/1864

William S. Hart, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (died 1946)

William Surrey Hart was an American silent film actor, screenwriter, director and producer. He is remembered as a foremost Western star of the silent era who "imbued all of his characters with honor and integrity". During the late 1910s and early 1920s, he was one of the most consistently popular movie stars, frequently ranking high among male actors in popularity contests held by movie fan magazines.

---

06/12/1863

Charles Martin Hall, American chemist and engineer (died 1914)

Charles Martin Hall was an American inventor, businessman, and chemist. He is best known for his invention in 1886 of an inexpensive method for producing aluminium, which became the first metal to attain widespread use since the prehistoric discovery of iron. He was one of the founders of Alcoa, along with Alfred E. Hunt; Hunt's partner at the Pittsburgh Testing Laboratory, George Hubbard Clapp; Hunt's chief chemist, W. S. Sample; Howard Lash, head of the Carbon Steel Company; Millard Hunsiker, sales manager for the Carbon Steel Company; and Robert Scott, a mill superintendent for the Carnegie Steel Company. Together they raised $20,000 to launch the Pittsburgh Reduction Company, which was later renamed Aluminum Company of America and then shortened to Alcoa.

---

06/12/1853

Hans Molisch, Czech-Austrian botanist and academic (died 1937)

Hans Molisch was a Czech-Austrian botanist.

---

Haraprasad Shastri, Indian historian and scholar (died 1931)

Hara Prasad Shastri, also known as Hara Prasad Bhattacharya, was an Indian academic, Sanskrit scholar, archivist, and historian of Bengali literature. He is most known for discovering the Charyapada, the earliest known examples of Bengali literature.

---

06/12/1849

August von Mackensen, German field marshal (died 1945)

Anton Ludwig Friedrich August Mackensen, was a German field marshal. He commanded Army Group Mackensen during World War I (1914–1918) and became one of the German Empire's most prominent and competent military leaders. After the armistice of 11 November 1918, the victorious Allies interned Mackensen in Serbia for a year. In 1920, he retired from the army. In 1933 Hermann Göring made him a Prussian state councillor. During the Nazi era (1933–1945), Mackensen remained a committed monarchist and sometimes appeared at official functions in his World War I uniform. Senior Nazi Party members suspected him of disloyalty, but nothing was proven against him.

---

06/12/1848

Johann Palisa, Austrian astronomer (died 1925)

Johann Palisa was an Austrian astronomer. He was a prolific discoverer of asteroids, discovering 122 in all, from 136 Austria in 1874 to 1073 Gellivara in 1923. Some of his notable discoveries include 153 Hilda, 216 Kleopatra, 243 Ida, 253 Mathilde, 324 Bamberga, and the near-Earth asteroid 719 Albert. Palisa made his discoveries without the aid of photography, and he remains the most successful visual (non-photographic) asteroid discoverer of all time. He was awarded the Valz Prize from the French Academy of Sciences in 1906. The asteroid 914 Palisana, discovered by Max Wolf in 1919, and the lunar crater Palisa were named in his honour.

---

06/12/1841

Frédéric Bazille, French painter and soldier (died 1870)

Jean Frédéric Bazille was a French Impressionist painter. Many of Bazille's major works are examples of figure painting in which he placed the subject figure within a landscape painted en plein air.

---

06/12/1835

Wilhelm Rudolph Fittig, German chemist (died 1910)

Wilhelm Rudolph Fittig was a German chemist. He discovered the pinacol coupling reaction, mesitylene, diacetyl and biphenyl. Fittig studied the action of sodium on ketones and hydrocarbons. He discovered the Fittig reaction or Wurtz–Fittig reaction for the synthesis of alkylbenzenes, he proposed a diketone structure for benzoquinone and isolated phenanthrene from coal tar. He discovered and synthesized the first lactones and investigated structures of piperine, naphthalene, and fluorene.

---

06/12/1833

John S. Mosby, American colonel (died 1916)

John Singleton Mosby, also known by his nickname "Gray Ghost", was an American military officer who was a Confederate cavalry commander in the American Civil War. His command, the 43rd Battalion, Virginia Cavalry was a partisan ranger unit noted for its lightning-quick raids and its ability to elude Union Army pursuers and blend in with local farmers and townsmen. The area of northern central Virginia in which Mosby operated with impunity became known as Mosby's Confederacy.

---

06/12/1827

William Arnott, Australian biscuit manufacturer and founder of Arnott's Biscuits (died 1901)

William Arnott was a Scottish-born Australian baker and businessman. After emigrating to New South Wales in 1848, he worked as a baker and later founded a biscuit-making business in Newcastle, which became the basis of Arnott's Biscuits Holdings.

---

06/12/1823

Max Müller, German-English philologist and orientalist (died 1900)

Friedrich Max Müller was a German-born British comparative philologist and Orientalist. He was one of the founders of the Western academic disciplines of Indology and religious studies. Müller wrote both scholarly and popular works on the subject of Indology. He directed the preparation of the Sacred Books of the East, a 50-volume set of English translations which continued after his death.

---

06/12/1812

Robert Spear Hudson, English businessman and philanthropist (died 1884)

Robert Spear Hudson was an English businessman who popularised dry soap powder. His company was very successful thanks to both an increasing demand for soap and his unprecedented levels of advertising. After his death, the company was taken over by his son, and was later purchased by Lever Brothers.

---

06/12/1805

Richard Hanson, English-Australian politician, 4th Premier of South Australia (died 1876)

Sir Richard Davies Hanson, was the fourth premier of South Australia, from 30 September 1857 until 8 May 1860, and was a chief judge from 20 November 1861 until 4 March 1876 on the Supreme Court of South Australia.

---

06/12/1803

Maria Josepha Amalia of Saxony (died 1829)

Maria Josepha Amalia of Saxony was Queen of Spain as the third wife of King Ferdinand VII of Spain. She was the youngest daughter of Prince Maximilian of Saxony (1759–1838) and his first wife, Princess Carolina of Parma (1770–1804), daughter of Ferdinand I, Duke of Parma. She was a member of the house of Wettin.

---

06/12/1792

William II of the Netherlands (died 1849)

William II was King of the Netherlands, Grand Duke of Luxembourg, and Duke of Limburg. He reigned for just under nine years, making him the shortest-reigning monarch in Dutch history.

---

06/12/1778

Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac, French physicist and chemist (died 1850)

Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac was a French chemist and physicist. He is known mostly for his discovery that water is made of two parts hydrogen and one part oxygen by volume, for two laws related to gases, and for his work on alcohol–water mixtures, which led to the degrees Gay-Lussac used to measure alcoholic beverages in many countries.

---

06/12/1752

Gabriel Duvall, American jurist and politician (died 1844)

Gabriel Duvall was an American politician and jurist. Duvall was an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1811 to 1835, during the Marshall Court. Previously, Duvall was the Comptroller of the Treasury, a Maryland state court judge, a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Maryland, and a Maryland state legislator.

---

06/12/1732

Warren Hastings, British colonial administrator of India (died 1818)

Warren Hastings was a British colonial administrator, who served as the first governor of the Presidency of Fort William (Bengal), the head of the Supreme Council of Bengal, and so the first governor-general of Bengal in 1772–1785. He and Robert Clive are credited with laying the foundation of the British Empire in India. He was an energetic organizer and reformer. In 1779–1784, he led forces of the East India Company against a coalition of native states and the French. In the end, the well-organised British side held its own, while France lost influence in India. In 1787, he was accused of corruption and impeached, but he was eventually acquitted in 1795 after a long trial. He was made a privy councillor in 1814.

---

06/12/1721

Guillaume-Chrétien de Lamoignon de Malesherbes, French minister and politician (died 1794)

Guillaume-Chrétien de Lamoignon de Malesherbes, often referred to as Malesherbes or Lamoignon-Malesherbes, was a French statesman and minister in the Ancien Régime, and later counsel for the defense of Louis XVI. He is known for his vigorous criticism of royal abuses as President of the Cour des aides and his role, as director of censorship, in helping with the publication of the Encyclopédie. Despite his committed monarchism, his writings contributed to the development of liberalism during the French Age of Enlightenment.

---

James Elphinston, Scottish philologist and linguist (died 1809)

James Elphinston was a well noted 18th-century Scottish educator, orthographer, phonologist and linguistics expert.

---

06/12/1685

Marie Adélaïde of Savoy (died 1712)

Princess Marie Adélaïde of Savoy was the wife of Louis, Duke of Burgundy, Dauphin of France. She was the eldest daughter of Victor Amadeus II, Duke of Savoy, and of Anne Marie d'Orléans. Her betrothal to the Duke of Burgundy in June 1696 was part of the Treaty of Turin, signed on 29 August 1696. She was the mother of the future King Louis XV. Styled as Duchess of Burgundy after her marriage, she became Dauphine of France upon the death of her father-in-law, Louis, Grand Dauphin, in 1711. She died of measles in 1712, followed by her husband a week later.

---

06/12/1645

Maria de Dominici, Maltese sculptor and painter (died 1703)

Suor Maria de Dominici was a Maltese painter, sculptor, and Carmelite tertiary nun. Born into a family of artists based in the city of Birgu (Vittoriosa), she was the daughter of a goldsmith and appraiser for the Knights of Malta. Two of her brothers, Raimondo de Dominici and Francesco de Dominici, were painters. Raimondo's son Bernardo would write a contemporary art history book that included references to his aunt Maria.

---

06/12/1640

Claude Fleury, French historian and author (died 1723)

Claude Fleury, was a French priest, jurist, and ecclesiastical historian.

---

06/12/1637

Edmund Andros, English courtier and politician, 4th Colonial Governor of New York (died 1714)

Sir Edmund Andros was an English army officer and colonial administrator. He was the governor of the Dominion of New England during most of its three-year existence. At other times, Andros served as governor of the provinces of New York, East and West Jersey, Virginia, and Maryland.

---

06/12/1608

George Monck, 1st Duke of Albemarle, English general and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (died 1670)

George Monck, 1st Duke of Albemarle was a professional soldier from Devon who fought on both sides during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms. A prominent military figure under the Commonwealth, his support was crucial to the 1660 Stuart Restoration of Charles II.

---

06/12/1592

William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Newcastle (died 1676)

William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Newcastle upon Tyne, was an English courtier and supporter of the arts. He was a renowned horse breeder, as well as being patron of the playwright Ben Jonson and the intellectual group known as the Welbeck Circle.

---

06/12/1586

Niccolò Zucchi, Italian astronomer and physicist (died 1670)

Niccolò Zucchi was an Italian Jesuit, astronomer, and physicist.

---

06/12/1545

Janus Dousa, Dutch historian and noble (died 1604)

Janus Dousa, Lord of Noordwyck, was a Dutch statesman, jurist, historian, poet and philologist, and the first Librarian of Leiden University Library.

---

06/12/1520

Barbara Radziwiłł, queen of Poland (died 1551)

Barbara Radziwiłł was Queen of Poland and Grand Duchess of Lithuania as the second wife of Sigismund II Augustus, the last male monarch of the Jagiellon dynasty. Barbara, already widowed and considered a great beauty, became a royal mistress most likely in 1543 and married Sigismund in secret in July or August 1547. The marriage caused a scandal and was vehemently opposed by Polish nobles, including the queen mother, Bona Sforza.

---

06/12/1478

Baldassare Castiglione, Italian courtier, diplomat, and author (died 1529)

Baldassare Castiglione, Count of Casatico, was an Italian courtier, diplomat, soldier and a prominent Renaissance author.

---

06/12/1421

Henry VI of England (died 1471)

Henry VI was King of England from 1422 to 1461 and again from 1470 to 1471, and claimant to the French throne from 1422 to 1453 under the terms of the Treaty of Troyes. He became king of England at the age of nine months following the death of his father, Henry V, and inherited the French claim upon the death of his maternal grandfather, Charles VI of France.

---

06/12/1285

Ferdinand IV of Castile (died 1312)

Ferdinand IV called the Summoned, was King of Castile and León from 1295 until his death.

---

06/12/0846

Hasan al-Askari, Arabian 11th of the Twelve Imams (died 874)

Hasan al-Askari was a descendant of the Islamic prophet Muhammad. He is regarded as the eleventh of the Twelve Imams, succeeding his father, Ali al-Hadi. Hasan Al-Askari was born in Medina in 844 and brought with his father to the garrison town of Samarra in 848, where the Abbasid caliphs held them under close surveillance until their deaths, even though neither were politically active. After the death of al-Hadi in 868, the majority of his following acknowledged his son, al-Askari, as their next Imam. Al-Askari's contact with the Shia population was restricted by the caliphs and instead, he communicated with his followers through a network of representatives. He died in Samarra in 873–874 at the age of about twenty-eight and was buried in the family home next to his father, which later developed into al-Askari shrine, a major center for Shia pilgrimage. Shia sources commonly hold the Abbasids responsible for the death of al-Askari and his father. A well-known early Shia commentary of the Quran is attributed to al-Askari.

---