Saturday, 7th February 2026 in Lisbon

On this day, 181 notable people were born on 6th February — spanning from 574 to 2007. From world leaders to artists and scientists, discover who shares this birthday.

07/02/2007

Diego Aguado, Spanish footballer

Diego Aguado Facio is a Spanish footballer who plays as a defender for Real Madrid Castilla.

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07/02/2003

Alessandro Fontanarosa, Italian footballer

Alessandro Fontanarosa is an Italian professional footballer who plays as a centre-back for Serie B club Avellino.

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07/02/2002

Shedeur Sanders, American football player

Shedeur Deion Sanders is an American professional football quarterback for the Cleveland Browns of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Jackson State Tigers and Colorado Buffaloes, winning the Jerry Rice Award, Deacon Jones Trophy, and Johnny Unitas Golden Arm Award before being selected by the Browns in the fifth round of the 2025 NFL draft. Sanders is the son of Pro Football Hall of Fame cornerback Deion Sanders and the younger brother of free agent safety Shilo Sanders.

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07/02/2001

R. J. Hampton, American basketball player

Roderick Deon Hampton Jr. is an American professional basketball player for the Changsha Yongsheng of the National Basketball League in China. He was a five-star recruit at Little Elm High School in Little Elm, Texas. He was drafted by the Milwaukee Bucks as the 24th overall pick in the 2020 NBA draft.

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07/02/2000

Jayden Campbell, Australian rugby league player

Jayden Campbell is an Australian professional rugby league footballer who plays as a halfback or fullback for the Gold Coast Titans in the National Rugby League.

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07/02/1999

Omar Marmoush, Egyptian footballer

Omar Khaled Mohamed Abdelsalam Marmoush is an Egyptian professional footballer who plays as a forward for Premier League club Manchester City and the Egypt national team.

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07/02/1997

Nicolò Barella, Italian footballer

Nicolò Barella is an Italian professional footballer who plays as a central midfielder for Serie A club Inter Milan and the Italy national team. Known for his technical ability, work rate, and creativity, he is often recognised as one of the best midfielders in the world.

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Anhelina Kalinina, Ukrainian tennis player

Anhelina Serhiyivna Kalinina is a Ukrainian professional tennis player. On 22 May 2023, she reached her career-high WTA singles ranking of No. 25. She peaked at No. 92 in the doubles rankings in January 2025. She has won four singles titles on the WTA Challenger Tour, as well as 15 titles in singles and three in doubles on the ITF Circuit.

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07/02/1996

Aaron Ekblad, Canadian ice hockey player

Aaron Ekblad is a Canadian professional ice hockey player who is a defenceman and alternate captain for the Florida Panthers in the National Hockey League (NHL). Ekblad was selected first overall in the 2011 Ontario Hockey League (OHL) draft, and he was selected first overall by the Panthers in the 2014 NHL entry draft and made his NHL debut that year. In his first NHL season, Ekblad was selected for the 2015 NHL All-Star Game and earned the Calder Memorial Trophy as the league's best rookie in the 2014–15. Ekblad won back-to-back Stanley Cup championships with the Panthers in 2024 and 2025.

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Pierre Gasly, French racing driver

Pierre Jean-Jacques Gasly is a French racing driver who competes in Formula One for Alpine. Gasly won the 2020 Italian Grand Prix with AlphaTauri.

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07/02/1995

Tom Glynn-Carney, English actor and musician

Tom Glynn-Carney is an English actor. He appeared in Christopher Nolan's war film Dunkirk (2017) and won a Drama Desk Award in 2019 for his performance in the play The Ferryman. He gained recognition for starring as Aegon II Targaryen in the fantasy drama series House of the Dragon (2022–present).

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Roberto Osuna, Mexican baseball player

Roberto Osuna Quintero Jr. is a Mexican professional baseball pitcher for the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks of Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB). He has previously played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Toronto Blue Jays and Houston Astros.

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07/02/1994

Riley Barber, American ice hockey player

Riley Barber is a Canadian-American professional ice hockey forward who is currently playing under contract with ERC Ingolstadt of the Deutsche Eishockey Liga (DEL). Barber was selected by the Washington Capitals in the sixth round of the 2012 NHL entry draft. He is the son of former NHL player Don Barber.

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Nathan Walker, Welsh-Australian ice hockey player

Nathan Walker is an Australian professional ice hockey player who is a forward for the St. Louis Blues of the National Hockey League (NHL). Walker, who was born in Wales, grew up in Australia and first played ice hockey there. He moved to the Czech Republic in 2007 in order to further his career, and joined the junior program of HC Vítkovice, a member of the Czech Extraliga. He first played for the senior team in 2011, becoming the first Australian ice hockey player to play for a professional senior team in Europe. Along with HC Vítkovice, Walker was loaned to several lower-level Czech teams.

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07/02/1993

Javon Hargrave, American football player

Javon DeAndre Hargrave is an American professional football nose tackle for the Green Bay Packers of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the South Carolina State Bulldogs and he was selected by the Pittsburgh Steelers in the third round of the 2016 NFL draft.

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Chris Mears, English diver

Christopher James Mears is a British diver and DJ/Producer from Burghfield Common, near Reading, Berkshire. He competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics in the synchronised 3m springboard event with Jack Laugher and won gold, the first Olympic gold medal for Britain in diving.

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07/02/1992

Sergi Roberto, Spanish footballer

Sergi Roberto Carnicer is a Spanish professional footballer who plays for Serie A club Como. Mainly a central midfielder, he can also operate as a defensive midfielder, full-back or winger.

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Ksenia Stolbova, Russian figure skater

Ksenia Andreyevna Stolbova is a retired Russian pair skater who skated with Andrei Novoselov and Fedor Klimov. She is the 2014 Olympic silver medalist, the 2014 Olympic champion in the team event, the 2014 World silver medalist, a three-time European medalist, the 2015–16 Grand Prix Final champion, the 2013 Winter Universiade champion, a two-time World Junior medalist, and a three-time Russian national champion. Stolbova announced her retirement from competitions on 12 February 2020.

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Maimi Yajima, Japanese singer and actress

Maimi Yajima is a Japanese singer and actress. She was a member and the leader of Cute, a girl idol group within Hello! Project.

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07/02/1991

Gabbie Hanna, American Internet personality and singer-songwriter

Gabrielle Jeannette Hanna Kroner is an American influencer, singer-songwriter, and former YouTuber. She rose to prominence on the video platforms Vine and YouTube. She released her debut single, "Out Loud", in 2017, followed by the EPs 2WayMirror (2019) and Bad Karma (2020). She later released her first two studio albums, Trauma Queen and This Time Next Year.

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Ryan O'Reilly, Canadian ice hockey player

Ryan O'Reilly is a Canadian professional ice hockey player who is a centre and alternate captain for the Nashville Predators of the National Hockey League (NHL). He has previously played for the Colorado Avalanche, Buffalo Sabres, St. Louis Blues and the Toronto Maple Leafs in the NHL. O'Reilly was drafted 33rd overall in the 2009 NHL entry draft by the Colorado Avalanche, with whom he spent the first six seasons of his NHL career and won the Lady Byng Memorial Trophy for sportsmanship. He is frequently referred to as one of the NHL's best two-way forwards, winning the Frank J. Selke Trophy in 2019.

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Richard Pánik, Slovak ice hockey player

Richard Pánik is a Slovak professional ice hockey right winger for Lokomotiv Yaroslavl of the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL). Pánik was drafted in the second round, 52nd overall, in the 2009 NHL entry draft by the Tampa Bay Lightning.

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07/02/1990

Morris Claiborne, American football player

Morris Lee Claiborne is an American former professional football cornerback who played in the National Football League (NFL) for eight seasons. He played college football for the LSU Tigers, winning the Jim Thorpe Award as the best defensive back in the country and was recognized as a unanimous All-American. He was selected by the Dallas Cowboys sixth overall in the 2012 NFL draft.

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Jacksepticeye, Irish YouTuber

Seán William "Jack" McLoughlin, better known by his online pseudonym jacksepticeye, is an Irish YouTuber whose videos focus on gaming, comedy, and vlogging.

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Gianluca Lapadula, Italian footballer

Gianluca Lapadula Vargas is a professional footballer who plays as a striker for Serie C club Spezia. Born in Italy, he represents Peru at international level.

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Dalilah Muhammad, American hurdler

Dalilah Muhammad is an American track and field athlete who competes in the 400 meters hurdles. She is the 2016 Rio Olympic champion and 2020 Tokyo Olympics silver medalist, becoming at the latter the then-second-fastest woman of all time in the event with her personal best of 51.58 seconds.

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Steven Stamkos, Canadian ice hockey player

Steven Stamkos is a Canadian professional ice hockey player who is a forward and alternate captain for the Nashville Predators of the National Hockey League (NHL). Stamkos was selected first overall in the 2008 NHL entry draft by the Tampa Bay Lightning. Stamkos holds the Lightning franchise record for most goals and points scored and captained the Lightning to back-to-back Stanley Cup championships in 2020 and 2021 as well as appearances in the Stanley Cup Finals in 2015 and 2022.

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07/02/1989

Nick Calathes, American-Greek basketball player

Nicholas William Calathes is a Greek American professional basketball player for Partizan Belgrade of the Serbian League (KLS), the ABA League and the EuroLeague. He is widely considered as one of the best point guards in EuroLeague history.

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Isaiah Thomas, American basketball player

Isaiah Jamar Thomas is an American former professional basketball player who is working as a scout for the Boston Celtics of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He is best known for playing with the Celtics from 2015 through 2017, where he was a two-time NBA All-Star and named second-team All-NBA. The 5-foot-9-inch (1.75 m) point guard played three years of college basketball for the Washington Huskies and was a three-time all-conference selection in the Pac-10. After electing to forgo his senior year of college, Thomas was selected by the Sacramento Kings with the final pick in the 2011 NBA draft.

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Elia Viviani, Italian cyclist

Elia Viviani is an Italian former professional cyclist, who competed from 2010 to 2025 and last rode for UCI ProTeam Lotto. On 10 May 2015, Viviani won his first Grand Tour stage victory at the Giro d'Italia, winning stage 2 in a bunch sprint before Moreno Hofland and André Greipel.

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07/02/1988

Ai Kago, Japanese singer and actress

Ai Kago is a Japanese actress and singer. In 2000, Kago debuted as a 4th-generation member of the idol girl group Morning Musume. During her time in Morning Musume, she was also part of its sub-groups Tanpopo, Mini-Moni, and Morning Musume Sakuragumi, as well as several Hello! Project Shuffle Units. In 2004, Kago departed from Morning Musume and became part of the duo W with Nozomi Tsuji.

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Matthew Stafford, American football player

John Matthew Stafford is an American professional football quarterback for the Los Angeles Rams of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Georgia Bulldogs, receiving first-team All-American honors in 2008, and was selected first overall by the Detroit Lions in the 2009 NFL draft. Ranking in the top 10 of all time in pass attempts, pass completions, passing yards, and passing touchdowns, Stafford is currently sixth all time in passing yards per game and the fastest player in NFL history to have reached 40,000 career passing yards.

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07/02/1987

Joel Freeland, English basketball player

Joel Daniel Freeland is a British former professional basketball player who last played for CSKA Moscow of the VTB United League. Standing at 2.10 m, he played at the power forward and center positions. He also represented the Great Britain national basketball team.

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07/02/1985

Josh Hennessy, American ice hockey player

Joshua Hennessy is an American former professional ice hockey player. He most recently played for the Providence Bruins of the American Hockey League (AHL). Hennessy previously played in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the Ottawa Senators and Boston Bruins.

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Bernard James, American basketball player

Bernard Ronald James is an American former professional basketball player. He played college basketball for the Florida State Seminoles. James was selected in the 2012 NBA draft and spent three seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA) with the Dallas Mavericks.

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Tina Majorino, American actress

Albertina Marie Majorino is an American actress. She started her career as a child actress, starring in films such as When a Man Loves a Woman, Corrina, Corrina, Andre, Waterworld and Alice in Wonderland.

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Deborah Ann Woll, American actress

Deborah Ann Woll is an American actress. She played Jessica Hamby in the HBO drama series True Blood (2008–2014), which earned her a nomination for a Screen Actors Guild Award. She portrayed Karen Page in five projects within the Marvel Cinematic Universe, including Daredevil (2015–2018) and Daredevil: Born Again (2025–present). Her film roles include Mother's Day (2010), Seven Days in Utopia (2011), Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You (2011), Catch .44 (2011), Ruby Sparks (2012), Meet Me in Montenegro (2014), The Automatic Hate (2015), Escape Room (2019) and its sequel Escape Room: Tournament of Champions (2021), and Queen of the Ring (2024).

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07/02/1984

Trey Hardee, American decathlete

James Edward "Trey" Hardee III is a retired American track and field athlete who specialized in the combined events. He is a former NCAA Champion, a two-time World Outdoor Champion, a member of the United States 2008 Olympic team, and the silver medalist in the decathlon at the London 2012 Olympics.

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Jeremy Meeks, American model and actor

Jeremy Ray Meeks is an American fashion model, actor, and former gang member. A former member of the Crips street gang, Meeks was arrested in 2014 during a gang sweep called Operation Ceasefire in Stockton, California. Afterward, police posted his mugshot on Facebook, which went viral due to his physical attractiveness. He was convicted on federal charges of being a felon in possession of a firearm and grand theft. Meeks' mugshot was noticed by modeling agencies and, upon his release from Mendota Federal Correctional Institution in March 2016, he began a modeling career.

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07/02/1983

Scott Feldman, American baseball player

Scott Wynne Feldman is an American former professional baseball pitcher. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Texas Rangers, Chicago Cubs, Baltimore Orioles, Houston Astros, Toronto Blue Jays, and Cincinnati Reds.

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Federico Marchetti, Italian footballer

Federico Marchetti is an Italian former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper.

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07/02/1982

Mohammed Bijeh, Iranian serial killer (died 2006)

Mohammed Bijeh was an Iranian serial killer. He was convicted of raping and killing around 20 children, mostly boys, and was sentenced to 100 lashes followed by execution. All the boys were between 8 and 15 years old. The murder of children around Tehran was recognized as the largest criminal case in contemporary Iranian history and provoked national outrage. Bijeh's execution, which was witnessed by over 5,000 people, including children, sparked debates on whether public executions should continue within the country.

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Osamu Mukai, Japanese actor

Osamu Mukai is a Japanese actor. He was born in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. He graduated from Meiji University.

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Mickaël Piétrus, French basketball player

Mickaël Marvin Soriano Piétrus is a French former professional basketball player. Listed at 6 ft 6 in (1.98 m), 215 lb (98 kg), he played both the small forward and shooting guard positions. Piétrus was drafted by the Golden State Warriors with the 11th pick of the 2003 NBA draft, and is originally from Guadeloupe, a Caribbean island.

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07/02/1981

Neto, Brazilian footballer

Darcy Dolce Neto, or simply Neto, is a retired Brazilian football right-back.

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Lee Ok-sung, South Korean boxer

Lee Ok-Sung is a South Korean amateur boxer best known for winning the 2005 World Amateur Boxing Championships in the men's flyweight division.

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07/02/1980

Dalibor Bagarić, Croatian basketball player

Dalibor Bagarić is a Croatian former professional basketball player. He had a stint with the NBA's Chicago Bulls from 2000 to 2003.

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Mikey Erg, American drummer, guitarist, and vocalist

Mikey Erg is a punk rock drummer, guitarist, and vocalist, from New Jersey. He has played in numerous bands, most famously The Ergs!, but also Star Fucking Hipsters, The Dopamines, The Unlovables, Dirtbike Annie, Parasites, and The LLC. In 2016, he released his first solo album, Tentative Decisions.

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07/02/1979

Daniel Bierofka, German footballer and coach

Daniel Bierofka is a German football coach and former player. A former midfielder, his playing career was plagued by injuries which limited his chances of playing more matches for the Germany national team and forced him to retire after the 2013–14 season.

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Tawakkol Karman, Yemeni journalist and activist, Nobel Prize laureate

Tawakkol Abdel-Salam Khalid Karman is a Yemeni journalist, politician, and human rights activist. She co-founded and leads 'Women Journalists Without Chains', a group established in 2005 to advocate for press freedom and human rights. She became the international public face of the 2011 Yemeni uprising that was part of the Arab Spring movement. She was often referred as the 'Iron Woman' and the 'Mother of the Revolution" in Yemen. She is a co-recipient of the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize for "non-violent struggle for the safety of women and for women's rights to full participation in peace-building work". She became the first Yemeni, the first Arab woman, and the second Muslim woman to win a Nobel Prize.

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Sam J. Miller, American author

Sam J. Miller is an American science fiction, fantasy, and horror author. His stories have appeared in magazines such as Clarkesworld, Asimov's Science Fiction, Lightspeed, and more. They've been reprinted in over 15 "Year's Best" collections. He has been a finalist for the Nebula Award, World Fantasy Award, and Theodore Sturgeon Award. His short story "57 Reasons for the Slate Quarry Suicides" won the 2013 Shirley Jackson Award.

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07/02/1978

David Aebischer, Swiss ice hockey player

David Aebischer is a Swiss former professional ice hockey goaltender who played in the National Hockey League with the Colorado Avalanche, Montreal Canadiens and the Phoenix Coyotes. He was a member of the 2001 Stanley Cup champion Avalanche team, becoming the first Swiss native to achieve the feat. Aebischer also played several seasons in his native Switzerland with HC Fribourg-Gottéron, HC Lugano and the Rapperswil-Jona Lakers of the National League (NL).

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Endy Chávez, Venezuelan baseball player

Endy de Jesus Chávez Meza is a Venezuelan former professional baseball outfielder. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Kansas City Royals, Montreal Expos / Washington Nationals, Philadelphia Phillies, New York Mets, Seattle Mariners, Texas Rangers, and Baltimore Orioles. Chávez is the older brother of Ender Chávez.

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Ashton Kutcher, American model, actor, producer, and entrepreneur

Christopher Ashton Kutcher is an American actor, film producer and businessman. His accolades include a People's Choice Award and fifteen Teen Choice Awards, in addition to a nomination for a Screen Actors Guild Award.

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Milt Palacio, American-Belizean basketball player and coach

Milton Sigmund Palacio is a Belizean-American professional basketball coach and former player.

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Daniel Van Buyten, Belgian footballer

Daniel Van Buyten is a Belgian former footballer who played as a centre back. Nicknamed "Big Dan", Van Buyten was known for his uncompromising style of play, exploiting both his physical strength and aerial ability.

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07/02/1977

Tsuneyasu Miyamoto, Japanese footballer

Tsuneyasu Miyamoto is a former Japanese football coach and former player who last coached Gamba Osaka. He played for Japan national team and is the current president of the Japan Football Association.

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07/02/1976

Chito Miranda, Filipino singer-songwriter

Alfonso "Chito" Yanga Miranda Jr. is a Filipino singer and songwriter, best known as one of the founding members and lead singer for the band Parokya ni Edgar.

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07/02/1975

Wes Borland, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

Wesley Louden Borland is an American rock musician, singer, and songwriter. He is the guitarist and backing vocalist of the nu metal band Limp Bizkit, the lead vocalist and guitarist of the alternative and industrial rock band Black Light Burns, and the co-founder of the experimental metal band Big Dumb Face.

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Miriam Corowa, Australian journalist, television presenter and producer

Miriam Corowa is an Australian journalist, presenter, producer, and director.

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Alexandre Daigle, Canadian ice hockey player

Alexandre Daigle is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player. A highly touted junior prospect, Daigle was drafted first overall in the 1993 NHL entry draft by the Ottawa Senators. After recording a modest career high of 51 points in three separate National Hockey League (NHL) regular seasons, Daigle briefly retired from hockey at age 25 but returned to the NHL two years later. Although he played ten seasons in the NHL and four in the Swiss NL, he failed to live up to the high expectations put forth when he was drafted first overall and is therefore regarded by many to have been a draft bust.

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Rémi Gaillard, French comedian and actor

Rémi Gaillard is a French prankster, YouTuber and animal rights activist. Well known for his videos on YouTube, his channel is the 100th most subscribed comedy channel on YouTube with more than 7.4 million subscribers as of August 2024.

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07/02/1974

J Dilla, American rapper and producer (died 2006)

James Dewitt Yancey, better known by the stage names J Dilla and Jay Dee, was an American record producer, rapper, and composer. He emerged from the mid-1990s underground hip-hop scene in Detroit, Michigan, as a member of the group Slum Village. He was a founding member of the Soulquarians, a musical collective active during the late 1990s and early 2000s. Yancey and Madlib collaborated as the duo Jaylib, releasing the album Champion Sound. Yancey's final album, Donuts, was released three days before his death. He was also known for producing the Pharcyde album Labcabincalifornia.

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Steve Nash, South African-Canadian basketball player

Stephen John Nash is a Canadian former professional basketball player and coach. He played 18 seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA), where he was an eight-time All-Star, a seven-time All-NBA selection, and a two-time NBA Most Valuable Player. He ranks as one of the top players in NBA history in career three-point shooting, free-throw shooting, total assists, and assists per game. In 2018, he was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame.

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Nujabes, Japanese record producer, DJ, composer and arranger (died 2010)

Jun Seba , born Jun Yamada , better known by his stage name Nujabes, was a Japanese music producer best known for his atmospheric instrumental mixes sampling from hip-hop, soul, and jazz, as well as incorporating elements of trip hop, breakbeat, downtempo, and ambient music.

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07/02/1973

Juwan Howard, American basketball player and coach

Juwan Antonio Howard is an American professional basketball coach and former player, currently an assistant coach for the Brooklyn Nets of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He was previously the head coach at the University of Michigan from 2019 until 2024. Howard played college basketball for the Michigan Wolverines as a member of the Fab Five, and was selected with the fifth overall pick in the 1994 NBA draft by the Washington Bullets. Howard had a 19-year NBA career with eight different teams, winning two NBA championships with the Miami Heat, as well as earned All-Star and All-NBA honors with the Bullets in 1996.

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07/02/1972

Essence Atkins, American actress

Essence Uhura Atkins is an American actress. She began her career appearing on television sitcoms, before her regular role on the African-American prime-time drama Under One Roof.

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Robyn Lively, American actress

Robyn Elaine Lively Johnson is an American actress. She is known for her roles in the 1989 films Teen Witch and The Karate Kid Part III, as well as the TV shows Doogie Howser, M.D., Twin Peaks, Savannah, and Saving Grace.

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07/02/1971

Anita Tsoy, Russian singer-songwriter

Anna Sergeyevna "Anita" Tsoy is a Russian singer-songwriter of Korean descent. She is a People's Artist of Russia (2021).

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07/02/1969

Franz Jantscher, Austrian politician

Franz Jantscher is an Austrian politician and member of the National Council. A member of the Social Democratic Party, he has represented Styria since October 2024.

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Andrew Micallef, Maltese painter and musician

Andrew Micallef is a Maltese painter and musician. He is known for his highly detailed paintings of Maltese flora and fauna, landscapes, seascapes and architecture. He has held numerous solo exhibitions, and has also illustrated books and designed stamps. He is also a professional chromatic button accordion player.

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07/02/1968

Peter Bondra, Ukrainian-Slovak ice hockey player and manager

Peter Bondra is a Ukrainian-born Slovak former professional ice hockey player who played 16 seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the Washington Capitals, Ottawa Senators, Atlanta Thrashers, and Chicago Blackhawks.

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Christian Drobits, Austrian politician

Christian Drobits is an Austrian politician and member of the National Council. A member of the Social Democratic Party, he has represented Burgenland since October 2019. He was a member of the Landtag Burgenland from July 2015 to October 2019.

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Sully Erna, American singer-songwriter and musician

Salvatore Paul Erna Jr. is an American singer, musician, and songwriter, best known as the vocalist and rhythm guitarist for rock band Godsmack. He is also a harmonica player, drummer, and percussionist, performing these on albums and at live shows. He was ranked 47th in the Top 100 Heavy Metal Vocalists by Hit Parader.

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Mark Tewksbury, Canadian swimmer and sportscaster

Mark Roger Tewksbury, is a Canadian former competitive swimmer. He is best known for winning the gold medal in the 100-metre backstroke at the 1992 Summer Olympics. He also hosted the first season of How It's Made, a Canadian documentary series, in 2001.

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07/02/1966

Kristin Otto, German swimmer

Kristin Otto is a former East German swimmer, becoming Olympic, World and European champion, multiple times. She is most famous for being the first woman to win six gold medals at a single Olympic Games, doing so at the 1988 Seoul Olympic Games. In long course, she held the world records in the 100 meter and 200 meter freestyle events. Otto was also the first woman to swim the short course 100 meter backstroke in under a minute, doing so at an international short course meet at Indiana University in 1983.

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07/02/1965

Chris Rock, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter

Christopher Julius Rock is an American comedian, actor and filmmaker. He first gained prominence for his stand-up routines in the 1980s in which he tackled subjects including race relations, human sexuality, and observational comedy. His success branched off into productions in film, television, and on-stage, having received multiple accolades including three Grammy Awards for Best Comedy Album, four Primetime Emmy Awards, and a Golden Globe Award nomination. Rock was ranked No. 5 on Comedy Central's list of the 100 Greatest Stand-ups of All Time. He also ranked No. 5 on Rolling Stone's list of the 50 Best Stand-Up Comics of All Time.

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07/02/1964

Ashok Banker, Indian journalist, author, and screenwriter

Ashok Kumar Banker is an author and screenwriter. His writing spans crime thrillers, essays, literary criticism, fiction and Indian mythology. The author of several well-received novels including a trilogy billed as "India's first crime novels in English", he became widely known for his retellings of Indian mythological epics, starting with the internationally acclaimed and best-selling eight-volume Ramayana series. His books have sold over 2 million copies and have been published in 16 languages in 58 countries. His Epic India Library is an attempt at retelling all the myths, legends and itihasa of the Indian sub-continent in one story cycle comprising over 70 volumes.

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07/02/1963

Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper, American Naval officer and astronaut

Heidemarie Martha Stefanyshyn-Piper is an American Naval officer and former NASA astronaut. She has achieved the rank of Captain in the United States Navy. She is also a qualified and experienced salvage officer. Her major salvage projects include de-stranding the tanker Exxon Houston off the coast of Barbers Point, on the island of Oahu, Hawaii, and developing the plan for the Peruvian Navy salvage of the Peruvian submarine Pacocha.

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07/02/1962

Garth Brooks, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

Troyal Garth Brooks is an American country singer and songwriter. His musical style blends traditional country with pop and rock elements, which has earned him his immense popularity, particularly in the United States, with success on the country music single and album charts, multi-platinum recordings and record-breaking live performances, while also crossing over into the mainstream pop arena.

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David Bryan, American keyboard player and songwriter

David Bryan Rashbaum is an American musician and songwriter, best known as the keyboardist and one of the founding members of the rock band Bon Jovi, in which he also co-wrote songs and performs backing vocals. In 2018, he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Bon Jovi. He is also known for writing the music and co-writing the lyrics with Joe DiPietro for the musical Memphis, for which he won the Tony Award for Best Original Score.

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Eddie Izzard, English comedian, actor, and producer

Suzy Eddie Izzard is a British stand-up comedian, actor and activist. Her comedic style takes the form of what appears to the audience as rambling whimsical monologues.

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07/02/1960

Robert Smigel, American actor, producer, and screenwriter

Robert Smigel is an American actor, comedian, writer, director, producer, and puppeteer, known for his Saturday Night Live "TV Funhouse" cartoon shorts and as the puppeteer and voice behind Triumph the Insult Comic Dog. He also co-wrote the first two Hotel Transylvania films, You Don't Mess with the Zohan, and Leo, all starring Adam Sandler.

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James Spader, American actor and producer

James Todd Spader is an American actor. He is known for often portraying morally ambiguous and eccentric characters. His accolades include three Primetime Emmy Awards, a Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actor, and nominations for three Golden Globe Awards and ten Screen Actors Guild Awards.

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07/02/1959

Mick McCarthy, English footballer, manager, and sportscaster

Michael Joseph McCarthy is a professional football manager, pundit and former footballer. He was most recently the head coach of Blackpool.

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07/02/1958

Giuseppe Baresi, Italian footballer and manager

Giuseppe Baresi is an Italian football manager and former player, who played as a defender or as a defensive midfielder. He currently works as a technical assistant at Inter Milan. Baresi spent the majority of his 18-year career with Inter, before retiring in 1994 after two seasons with Modena. With Inter, he won two Serie A titles and the UEFA Cup, among other trophies, and also served as the team's captain. At international level, he represented the Italy national team on 18 occasions between 1979 and 1986, taking part at UEFA Euro 1980, where they finished in fourth place, and at the 1986 FIFA World Cup. His younger brother, Franco Baresi, also a defender, served as captain for city rivals A.C. Milan and the Italy national side.

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Terry Marsh, English boxer and politician

Terry Marsh is an English former professional boxer who was an undefeated world champion in the light welterweight division.

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Matt Ridley, English journalist, author, and politician

Matthew White Ridley, 5th Viscount Ridley, commonly known as Matt Ridley, is a British science writer, journalist and businessman. He writes on science, the environment and economics, and has been a regular contributor to The Times newspaper. Ridley was chairman of the UK bank Northern Rock from 2004 to 2007, during which period it experienced the first run on a British bank in 130 years. He resigned, and the bank was bailed out by the UK government; this led to its nationalisation.

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07/02/1957

Dámaso García, Dominican baseball player and footballer (died 2020)

Dámaso Domingo García Sánchez was a Dominican professional baseball second baseman, best known for his time spent with the Toronto Blue Jays of Major League Baseball (MLB), in the 1980s.

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07/02/1956

John Nielsen, Danish racing driver

John Nielsen is a Danish former racing driver. He won the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 1990. Nielsen also won the 1996 All Japan Grand Touring Car Championship in the GT500 class.

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Mark St. John, American guitarist (died 2007)

Mark Leslie Norton, better known as Mark St. John, was an American guitarist best known for his brief stint with the hard rock band Kiss from April to November 1984. His work can be heard on the band's 1984 album Animalize and their 2023 live album Off the Soundboard: Poughkeepsie, NY. After leaving Kiss, he co-founded the band White Tiger.

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07/02/1955

Rolf Benirschke, American football player and game show host

Rolf Joachim Benirschke is an American former professional football player who was a placekicker in the National Football League (NFL). He played for the San Diego Chargers from 1977 until 1986. He is probably most known for missing a potential 27-yard game-winning field goal in overtime of the playoff game known as the "Epic in Miami” but then getting a second chance and connecting from 29 yards fourteen minutes into overtime to win the game on January 2, 1982.

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Miguel Ferrer, American actor and director (died 2017)

Miguel José Ferrer was an American actor. His breakthrough role was as Bob Morton in the 1987 film RoboCop. Other film roles include Harbinger in Hot Shots! Part Deux (1993), Quigley in Blank Check, Eduardo Ruiz in Traffic (2000) and Vice President Rodriguez in Iron Man 3 (2013). Ferrer's notable television roles include FBI Agent Albert Rosenfield on Twin Peaks, Dr. Garret Macy on Crossing Jordan (2001–2007) and NCIS Assistant Director Owen Granger on NCIS: Los Angeles (2012–2017).

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07/02/1954

Dieter Bohlen, German singer-songwriter and producer

Dieter Günter Bohlen is a German songwriter, producer, singer and television personality. He first achieved fame as a member of the pop duo Modern Talking in the 1980s, and has since produced numerous German and international artists. He is also a judge on casting shows Deutschland sucht den Superstar and Das Supertalent.

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07/02/1953

Robert Brazile, American football player

Robert Lorenzo Brazile Jr., nicknamed "Dr. Doom", is an American former professional football player who was a linebacker in the National Football League (NFL). Brazile played from 1975 to 1984 for the Houston Oilers and was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2018.

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07/02/1950

Karen Joy Fowler, American author

Karen Joy Fowler is an American author of science fiction, fantasy, and literary fiction. Her work often centers on the nineteenth century, the lives of women, and social alienation.

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07/02/1949

Jacques Duchesneau, Canadian police officer and politician

Jacques Duchesneau, is a Canadian politician, civil servant, former chief of police, and former president and chief executive officer of the Canadian Air Transport Security Authority. Duchesneau was a member of the Quebec National Assembly for the riding of Saint-Jérôme from 2012 to 2014, elected under the Coalition Avenir Québec banner.

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Alan Lancaster, English-Australian bass player singer and songwriter Status Quo (died 2022)

Alan Charles "Nuff" Lancaster was an English musician, best known as a founding member and bassist of the rock band Status Quo, playing with the band from 1967 to 1985, with brief reunions in 2013 and 2014. As well as contributing to songwriting, he was also one of the lead vocalists on albums and live concerts, taking the lead on tracks such as "Backwater", "Is There a Better Way", "Bye Bye Johnny", "High Flyer" and "Roadhouse Blues".

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07/02/1946

Héctor Babenco, Argentinian-Brazilian director, producer, and screenwriter (died 2016)

Héctor Eduardo Babenco was an Argentine-born Brazilian film director, screenwriter, producer and actor who worked in several countries including Brazil, Argentina, and the United States. He was one of the first Brazilian filmmakers to gain international critical acclaim, through his films which often dealt with social outcasts on the fringes of society. His best-known works include Pixote (1980), Kiss of the Spider Woman (1985), Ironweed (1987), At Play in the Fields of the Lord (1990) and Carandiru (2003).

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Gérard Jean-Juste, Haitian priest and activist (died 2009)

Gérard Jean-Juste was a Haitian Catholic priest who served as rector of Saint Claire's Church for the Poor in Port-au-Prince. He was also a liberation theologian and a supporter of the Fanmi Lavalas political party, as well as heading the Miami, Florida-based Haitian Refugee Center from 1977 to 1990.

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Pete Postlethwaite, English actor (died 2011)

Peter William Postlethwaite was an English character actor. After various stage and minor television appearances, Postlethwaite's first major success arose through the film Distant Voices, Still Lives (1988), directed by Terence Davies. He had a breakthrough in Hollywood when he portrayed David in Alien 3 (1992), and his international reputation was further solidified when he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role as Giuseppe Conlon, father of Gerry Conlon, in In the Name of the Father (1993).

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07/02/1945

Gerald Davies, Welsh rugby player and journalist

Sir Thomas Gerald Reames Davies is a Welsh former rugby union wing who played international rugby for Wales between 1966 and 1978 and was selected for two British Lions tours. He is one of a small group of Welsh players to have won three Grand Slams.

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07/02/1943

Eric Foner, American historian, author, and academic

Eric Foner is an American historian. He writes extensively on American political history, the history of freedom, the early history of the Republican Party, African American biography, the American Civil War, Reconstruction, and historiography, and has been a member of the faculty at the Columbia University Department of History since 1982. He is the author of several popular textbooks, such as the Give Me Liberty! series for high school classrooms. According to the Open Syllabus Project, Foner is the most frequently cited author on college syllabi for history courses.

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07/02/1942

Gareth Hunt, English actor (died 2007)

Alan Leonard Hunt, known as Gareth Hunt, was a British television actor best remembered for playing footman Frederick Norton in Upstairs, Downstairs and Mike Gambit in The New Avengers.

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07/02/1940

Tony Tan, Singaporean academic and politician, 7th President of Singapore

Tony Tan Keng Yam is a Singaporean banker and politician who served as the seventh president of Singapore between 2011 and 2017 after winning the 2011 presidential election.

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07/02/1937

Peter Jay, English economist, journalist, and diplomat, British Ambassador to the United States (died 2024)

Peter Jay was an English journalist, broadcaster, and economist. He served as the British Ambassador to the United States from 1977 to 1979 during the prime-ministership of his father-in-law, James Callaghan.

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Juan Pizarro, Puerto Rican baseball player (died 2021)

Juan Ramón Pizarro a.k.a. "Terín" was a Puerto Rican Major League Baseball (MLB) pitcher. He played for 18 seasons on 9 teams, from 1957 through 1974. In 1964, he won 19 games (19–9) and pitched 4 shutouts for the Chicago White Sox. He was selected for the Major League All-Star Baseball game in 1963 and 1964. After his run in MLB, Pizarro played in the Dominican Republic and Mexico.

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07/02/1936

Jas Gawronski, Italian journalist and politician

Jas Gawronski is an Italian journalist and politician. He was a member of the European Parliament for North-West with Forza Italia, member of the Bureau of the European People's Party, and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Foreign Affairs.

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07/02/1935

Cliff Jones, Welsh international footballer

Clifford William Jones is a Welsh former footballer. During his career, he played as a winger and was a crucial member of Tottenham Hotspur's 1960–61 double-winning side. He is now the last surviving player from the Welsh team in the 1958 World Cup.

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Herb Kohl, American businessman and politician (died 2023)

Herbert Hiken Kohl was an American businessman, philanthropist, and Democratic politician from Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He served 24 years as a U.S. senator from Wisconsin, from 1989 to 2013, and earlier served as chairman of the Wisconsin Democratic Party.

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Jörg Schneider, Swiss actor and author (died 2015)

Jörg Schneider was a Swiss stage and film actor starring usually in Swiss German-language cinema and television and stage productions. He gained great renownedness in the German-speaking area by numerous Kasperle, Pumuckl and fairytale-radio plays records and also adapted plays for the Swiss German language.

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07/02/1934

Eddie Fenech Adami, Maltese lawyer and politician, 7th President of Malta

Edoardo "Eddie" Fenech Adami is a Maltese and Nationalist politician who served as the prime minister of Malta from 1987 until 1996, and again from 1998 until 2004. Subsequently, he was the seventh president of Malta from 2004 to 2009. He led his party to win four general elections, in 1987, 1992, 1998 and 2003, as well as the majority of votes in 1981. Staunchly pro-European, Fenech Adami was fundamental for Malta's accession to the European Union.

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King Curtis, American saxophonist and producer (died 1971)

Curtis Ousley, known professionally as King Curtis, was an American saxophonist who played rhythm and blues, jazz, and rock and roll. A bandleader, band member, and session musician, he was also a musical director and record producer. A master of the instrument, he played tenor, alto, and soprano saxophone. He played riffs and solos on hit singles such as "Respect" by Aretha Franklin (1967), and "Yakety Yak" by the Coasters (1958) and his own "Soul Twist" (1962), "Soul Serenade" (1964), and "Memphis Soul Stew" (1967).

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Earl King, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (died 2003)

Earl Silas Johnson IV, known as Earl King, was an American singer, guitarist, and songwriter, most active in blues music. A composer of blues standards such as "Come On" and "Big Chief", he was an important figure in New Orleans R&B.

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07/02/1933

K. N. Choksy, Sri Lankan lawyer and politician, Sri Lankan Minister of Finance (died 2015)

Kairshasp Nariman Choksy, PC, MP was a Sri Lankan lawyer, politician and a former member of the Parliament of Sri Lanka. He was Cabinet Minister of Finance under Prime Minister Ranil Wickremasinghe. He had also served as Cabinet Minister of Constitutional & State Affairs from 1993 to 1994 under President D. B. Wijetunga and was a member of parliament from 1989 to 2010 continuously.

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07/02/1932

Gay Talese, American journalist and memoirist

Gaetano "Gay" Talese is an American writer. As a journalist for The New York Times and Esquire magazine during the 1960s, he helped to define contemporary literary journalism and is considered, along with Joan Didion, Truman Capote, Norman Mailer, Hunter S. Thompson and Tom Wolfe, one of the pioneers of New Journalism. Talese's most famous articles are about Joe DiMaggio and Frank Sinatra.

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Alfred Worden, American colonel, pilot, and astronaut (died 2020)

Alfred Merrill Worden was an American test pilot, engineer and NASA astronaut who was command module pilot for the Apollo 15 lunar mission in 1971. One of the 24 Apollo astronauts to reach the Moon, he orbited it 74 times in the command module (CM) Endeavour.

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07/02/1929

Jim Langley, English international footballer and manager (died 2007)

Ernest James Langley was an English footballer noted for his pacey, rampaging runs from the left full-back position and his long throw-ins. He is remembered particularly fondly by supporters of Fulham for his long service with the club during which he helped them achieve promotion to the First Division during the 1958–59 season; by Queens Park Rangers fans for featuring in the side which won the Third Division title and sensationally beat First Division West Bromwich Albion in the League Cup Final in the 1966–67 season and by non-league side Guildford City where he remains one of their most successful former players. Langley also enjoyed a short spell as an England international, playing three games for his country in 1958.

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07/02/1928

Lincoln D. Faurer, American general (died 2014)

Lieutenant General Lincoln D. Faurer was United States Air Force officer who served as director of the National Security Agency and chief of the Central Security Service from 1981 to 1985.

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07/02/1927

Juliette Gréco, French singer and actress (died 2020)

Juliette Gréco was a French singer and actress. Her best-known songs are "Paris Canaille", "La Javanaise" and "Déshabillez-moi" (1967). She often sang tracks with lyrics written by French poets such as Jacques Prévert and Boris Vian, as well as singers like Jacques Brel and Charles Aznavour. Her 60-year career concluded with her final worldwide tour titled "Merci", which began in 2015.

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Vladimir Kuts, Ukrainian-Russian runner and coach (died 1975)

Volodymyr Petrovych Kuts was a Soviet long-distance runner. He won the 5000 and 10000 m races at the 1956 Olympics, setting Olympic records in both events.

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Lalo Ríos, Mexican actor (died 1973)

Lalo Ríos was a Mexican-born American actor best known for his lead role in The Ring (1952) as Tommy.

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07/02/1926

Konstantin Feoktistov, Russian engineer and astronaut (died 2009)

Konstantin Petrovich Feoktistov, was Russian engineer and a cosmonaut in the former Soviet space program.

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07/02/1925

Hans Schmidt, Canadian wrestler (died 2012)

Guy Larose, better known by his ring name Hans Schmidt, was a Canadian professional wrestler famous in the 1950s and 1960s. His gimmick that of a German pseudo-Nazi heel, gained him considerable notoriety and popularized the proliferation of similar gimmicks through Canadian and American wrestling.

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07/02/1923

Dora Bryan, English actress and restaurateur (died 2014)

Dora May Broadbent, known as Dora Bryan, was an English actress of stage, film and television. She won the BAFTA Award for Best British Actress for A Taste of Honey (1961) and the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role in 1995 for The Birthday Party.

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07/02/1922

Hattie Jacques, English actress (died 1980)

Hattie Jacques was an English comedy actress of stage, radio and screen. She is best known as a regular of the Carry On films, in which she typically played strict, no-nonsense characters, but was also a prolific television and radio performer.

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07/02/1921

Athol Rowan, South African cricketer (died 1998)

Athol Matthew Burchell Rowan was a South African international cricketer who played in 15 Test matches between 1947 and 1951.

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07/02/1920

Oscar Brand, Canadian-American singer-songwriter and author (died 2016)

Oscar Brand was a Canadian-born American folk singer-songwriter, radio and TV host, and author. In his career, spanning 70 years, he composed at least 300 songs and released nearly 100 albums, among them Canadian and American patriotic songs. Brand's music ran the gamut from novelty songs to serious social commentary and spanned a number of genres. Brand also wrote a number of short stories.

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An Wang, Chinese-American engineer and businessman, founded Wang Laboratories (died 1990)

An Wang was a Chinese-American computer engineer and inventor, and cofounder of computer company Wang Laboratories, which was known primarily for its dedicated word processing machines. An Wang was an important contributor to the development of magnetic-core memory.

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07/02/1919

Desmond Doss, American army corporal and combat medic, Medal of Honor recipient (died 2006)

Desmond Thomas Doss was a United States Army corporal who served as a combat medic with an infantry company in World War II. Due to his religious beliefs, he refused to carry a weapon.

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Jock Mahoney, American actor and stuntman (died 1989)

Jacques Joseph O'Mahoney, known professionally as Jock Mahoney, was an American actor and stuntman. He starred in two action/adventure television series, The Range Rider and Yancy Derringer. He played Tarzan in two feature films and was associated in various capacities with several other Tarzan productions. He was credited variously as Jacques O'Mahoney, Jock O'Mahoney, Jack Mahoney, and finally Jock Mahoney.

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07/02/1916

Frank Hyde, Australian rugby league player, coach, and sportscaster (died 2007)

Francis Patrick Aloysius Hyde was an Australian rugby league footballer, coach and radio caller. A New South Wales representative three-quarter, Hyde played his club football in Sydney for NSWRFL Premiership clubs Newtown, Balmain and North Sydney. Following his playing career, Hyde enjoyed even greater success as a commentator, earning him membership in the Order of the British Empire and a place in the Sport Australia Hall of Fame and the Australian Commercial Radio Industry Hall of Fame. Hyde's contribution to Rugby League is celebrated each year with the Frank Hyde Shield, a three match tournament played between the Newtown Jets and North Sydney Bears.

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07/02/1915

Teoctist Arăpașu, Romanian patriarch (died 2007)

Teoctist was the Patriarch of the Romanian Orthodox Church from 1986 to 2007.

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Eddie Bracken, American actor and singer (died 2002)

Edward Vincent Bracken was an American actor. Bracken came to Hollywood prominence for his comedic lead performances in the films Hail the Conquering Hero and The Miracle of Morgan's Creek both from 1944, both of which have been preserved by the National Film Registry. During this era, he also had success on Broadway, with performances in plays like Too Many Girls (1940).

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07/02/1912

Russell Drysdale, English-Australian painter (died 1981)

Sir George Russell Drysdale, also known as Tass Drysdale, was an Australian artist. He won the prestigious Wynne Prize for Sofala in 1947, and represented Australia at the Venice Biennale in 1954. He was influenced by abstract and surrealist art, and "created a new vision of the Australian scene as revolutionary and influential as that of Tom Roberts".

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Roberta McCain, American socialite and oil heiress (died 2020)

Roberta Wright McCain was an American socialite and oil heiress. She was the wife of Admiral John S. McCain Jr., with whom she had three children including U.S. Senator John S. McCain III and stage actor and journalist Joe McCain. McCain was active in the Navy Wives Clubs and her Capitol Hill home was a popular salon for lawmakers and politicians. In 2007 and 2008, she actively campaigned in support of her son John during his presidential bid.

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07/02/1909

Hélder Câmara, Brazilian archbishop (died 1999)

Hélder Pessoa Câmara was a Brazilian Catholic prelate who served as Archbishop of Olinda and Recife from 1964 to 1985 during the military dictatorship in Brazil. He was declared a Servant of God in 2015.

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Amedeo Guillet, Italian soldier (died 2010)

Baron Amedeo Guillet was an officer of the Italian Army and an Italian Diplomat. Dying at the age of 101, he was one of the last men to have commanded cavalry in war. He was nicknamed Devil Commander and was famous during the Italian guerrilla war in Ethiopia in 1941, 1942 and 1943 because of his courage.

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07/02/1908

Buster Crabbe, American swimmer and actor (died 1983)

Clarence Linden "Buster" Crabbe II was an American two-time Olympic swimmer and film and television actor. He won the 1932 Olympic gold medal for 400-metre freestyle swimming event, which launched his career on the silver screen and later television. He starred in a variety of popular feature films and movie serials released between 1933 and the 1950s, portraying the top three syndicated comic-strip heroes of the 1930s: Tarzan, Flash Gordon, and Buck Rogers.

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Manmath Nath Gupta, Indian journalist and author (died 2000)

Manmath Nath Gupta was an Indian Marxist revolutionary writer and author of autobiographical, historical and fictional books in Hindi, English and Bengali. He joined the Indian independence movement at the age of 13 and was an active member of the Hindustan Republican Association. He participated in the famous Kakori train robbery in 1925 and was imprisoned for 14 years. On release from jail in 1937, he started writing against the British government. He was sentenced again in 1939 and was released in 1946 just a year before India's independence in 1947. He has written several books on the history of the Indian struggle for independence from a revolutionary's point of view, including They Lived Dangerously – Reminiscences of a Revolutionary. He was also the editor of the Hindi literary magazine Aajkal.

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07/02/1906

Oleg Antonov, Soviet engineer, founded the Antonov Design Bureau (died 1984)

Oleg Konstantinovich Antonov was a Soviet aeroplane designer. He founded the Research and Design Bureau No. 153 (OKB-153) in Novosibirsk, which was moved to Ukraine in 1952 and is now called Antonov in his honor. Antonov designed a number of Soviet aeroplanes and numerous gliders for both civilian and military use.

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Puyi, Chinese emperor (died 1967)

Puyi was the last emperor of China, having reigned as the Xuantong Emperor of the Qing dynasty and later as the Kangde Emperor of Manchukuo, a Japanese puppet state during World War II. After the war, he was held as a war criminal in the Soviet Union and China until 1959, when the Chinese Communist Party granted him amnesty and presented him as a model of successful reeducation.

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07/02/1905

Paul Nizan, French philosopher and author (died 1940)

Paul-Yves Nizan was a French philosopher and writer.

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Ulf von Euler, Swedish physiologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1983)

Ulf Svante von Euler was a Swedish physiologist and pharmacologist. He shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1970 for his work on neurotransmitters.

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07/02/1904

Ernest E. Debs, American politician (died 2002)

Ernest Eugene Debs was an American politician. He was a California State Assembly member from 1942 to 1947, a Los Angeles city councilman from 1947 to 1958 and a member of the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors from 1958 to 1974.

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07/02/1901

Arnold Nordmeyer, New Zealand minister and politician, 30th New Zealand Minister of Finance (died 1989)

Sir Arnold Henry Nordmeyer was a New Zealand politician and Presbyterian minister. As a member of Parliament (MP) he played a crucial role in the Labour Party, serving from 1935 to 1969. He served as minister of finance (1957–1960) and later as leader of the Labour Party and leader of the Opposition (1963–1965). Although he was a prominent statesman, Nordmeyer never ascended to the role of prime minister.

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07/02/1895

Anita Stewart, American actress (died 1961)

Anita Stewart was an American actress and film producer of the early silent film era.

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07/02/1893

Joseph Algernon Pearce, Canadian astrophysicist and astronomer (died 1988)

Joseph Algernon Pearce was a Canadian astrophysicist, who was notable for studies on the structure of Milky Way and O-type stars.

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Nicanor Abelardo, Filipino pianist, composer and teacher (died 1934)

Nicanor Santa Ana Abelardo was a Filipino composer known for his kundiman songs.

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07/02/1889

Harry Nyquist, Swedish-American engineer and theorist (died 1976)

Harry Theodor Nyquist was a Swedish-American physicist and electronic engineer who made important contributions to communication theory.

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07/02/1887

Eubie Blake, American pianist and composer (died 1983)

James Hubert "Eubie" Blake was an American pianist and composer of ragtime, jazz, and popular music. Blake began his career in 1912, and during World War I he worked in partnership with the singer, drummer, and comedian Broadway Jones. After the war he began a collaboration with Noble Sissle with whom he wrote Shuffle Along (1921), one of the first Broadway musicals written and directed by African Americans. When his collaboration with Sissle ended in 1927, he resumed a partnership with Jones which lasted until either 1932 or 1933. He reunited with Sissle briefly for Shuffle Along of 1933, and later the pair worked together in the United Service Organizations during World War II. Blake's compositions included such hits as "Bandana Days", "Charleston Rag", "Love Will Find a Way", "Memories of You" and "I'm Just Wild About Harry". The 1978 Broadway musical Eubie! showcased his works, and in 1981, President Ronald Reagan awarded Blake the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

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07/02/1885

Sinclair Lewis, American novelist, short-story writer, and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1951)

Harry Sinclair Lewis was an American novelist, short-story writer, and playwright. In 1930, he became the first author from the United States to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature, which was awarded "for his vigorous and graphic art of description and his ability to create, with wit and humor, new types of characters." Lewis wrote six popular novels: Main Street (1920), Babbitt (1922), Arrowsmith (1925), Elmer Gantry (1927), Dodsworth (1929), and It Can't Happen Here (1935).

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Hugo Sperrle, German field marshal (died 1953)

Hugo Wilhelm Sperrle was a German military aviator in World War I and a Generalfeldmarschall in the Luftwaffe during World War II.

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07/02/1878

Ossip Gabrilowitsch, Russian-American pianist and conductor (died 1936)

Ossip Salomonovich Gabrilowitsch was a Russian-American pianist, conductor and composer.

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07/02/1877

G. H. Hardy, English mathematician and geneticist (died 1947)

Godfrey Harold Hardy was an English mathematician, known for his achievements in number theory and mathematical analysis. In biology, he is known for the Hardy–Weinberg principle, a basic principle of population genetics.

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07/02/1875

Erkki Melartin, Finnish composer (died 1937)

Erkki Gustaf Melartin was a Finnish composer, conductor, and teacher of the late-Romantic and early-modern periods. Melartin is generally considered to be one of Finland's most significant national Romantic composers, although his music—then and now—largely has been overshadowed by that of his contemporary, Jean Sibelius, the country's most famous composer. The core of Melartin's oeuvre consists of a set of six (completed) symphonies, as well as is his opera, Aino, based on a story from the Kalevala, Finland's national epic, but nevertheless in the style of Richard Wagner.

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07/02/1873

Thomas Andrews, Irish shipbuilder and businessman, designed the RMS Titanic (died 1912)

Thomas Andrews Jr. was a British businessman and shipbuilder, who was managing director and head of the drafting department of the shipbuilding company Harland and Wolff in Belfast, Ireland.

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07/02/1871

Wilhelm Stenhammar, Swedish pianist, composer, and conductor (died 1927)

Carl Wilhelm Eugen Stenhammar was a Swedish composer, conductor and pianist. He is considered to be one of Sweden's most important composers at the turn of the 20th century, and one of the finest Swedish pianists of his time, with a reputation as a fine interpreter of the piano music of Beethoven.

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07/02/1870

Alfred Adler, Austrian-Scottish psychologist and therapist (died 1937)

Alfred Adler was an Austrian medical doctor, psychotherapist, and founder of the school of individual psychology. His emphasis on the importance of feelings of belonging, relationships within the family, and birth order set him apart from Freud and others in their common circle. He proposed that contributing to others was how the individual feels a sense of worth and belonging in the family and society. His earlier work focused on inferiority, coining the term "inferiority complex", an isolating element which he argued plays a key role in personality development. Adler considered a human being as an individual whole, and therefore he called his school of psychology Individual Psychology.

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07/02/1867

Laura Ingalls Wilder, American author (died 1957)

Laura Elizabeth Ingalls Wilder was an American writer, teacher, and journalist. She is best known as the author of the children's book series Little House on the Prairie, published between 1932 and 1943, which was based on her childhood in a settler and pioneer family.

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07/02/1864

Arthur Collins, American baritone singer (died 1933)

Arthur Francis Collins was an American baritone and actor. One of the pioneer recording artists, regarded in his day as "king of the Ragtime Singers", Collins was popular from the late 1880s to the late 1910s.

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07/02/1837

James Murray, Scottish lexicographer and philologist (died 1915)

Sir James Augustus Henry Murray, FBA was a British lexicographer and philologist. He was the primary editor of the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) from 1879 until his death.

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07/02/1834

Alfred-Philibert Aldrophe, French architect (died 1895)

Alfred-Philibert Aldrophe was a French architect.

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07/02/1825

Karl Möbius, German zoologist and ecologist (died 1908)

Karl August Möbius was a German zoologist who was a pioneer in the field of marine ecology, founder of the Hamburg zoo and aquarium, the zoological institute at Kiel, and served as an influential director of the Natural History Museum in Berlin. He introduced the idea of a separation of research collections from the public natural history museum.

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07/02/1812

Charles Dickens, English novelist and critic (died 1870)

Charles John Huffam Dickens was an English writer and journalist. He created some of literature's best-known fictional characters, and is regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. His works enjoyed unprecedented popularity during his lifetime and, by the 20th century, critics and scholars had recognised him as a literary genius. His novels and short stories are widely read today.

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07/02/1804

John Deere, American blacksmith and businessman, founded Deere & Company (died 1886)

John Deere was an American blacksmith, businessman, inventor and politician. He founded Deere & Company, one of the largest and leading agricultural and construction-equipment manufacturers in the world. Born in Rutland, Vermont, Deere moved to Illinois and invented the first commercially successful steel plow in 1837.

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07/02/1802

Louisa Jane Hall, American poet, essayist, and literary critic (died 1892)

Louisa Jane Hall was an American poet, essayist, and literary critic of the Romantic era. None of her poems appeared in print until after she was twenty; they were then published anonymously in the Literary Gazette, and other periodicals. Miriam, a Dramatic Sketch, her most notable work, was begun in the summer of 1826, finished the following summer, and published ten years later. Her other principal work is in prose, Joanna of Naples, an Historical Tale, published in 1838. Hannah, the Mother of Samuel the Prophet and Judge of Israel (1839) was, like Miriam, a verse play. She and her father moved to Worcester, Massachusetts, in 1831, and they lived together until October 1840, when she married the Rev. E. B. Hall, of Providence, Rhode Island.

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07/02/1796

Thomas Gregson, English-Australian lawyer and politician, 2nd Premier of Tasmania (baptism date; (died 1874)

Thomas George Gregson was the second Premier of Tasmania, serving from 26 February 1857 until 25 April 1857.

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07/02/1758

Benedikt Schack, Czech tenor and composer (died 1826)

Benedikt Emanuel Schack was a composer and tenor of the Classical era, a close friend of Mozart and the first performer of the role of Tamino in Mozart's opera The Magic Flute.

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07/02/1741

Henry Fuseli, Swiss-English painter and academic (died 1825)

Henry Fuseli was a Swiss painter, draughtsman, and writer on art who spent much of his career in Britain.

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07/02/1726

Margaret Fownes-Luttrell, English painter (died 1766)

Margaret Fownes-Luttrell was a British heiress, the wife of Henry Fownes Luttrell. She was the heiress of Dunster Castle, under the stipulation in her father's will that her husband should take the additional surname of Luttrell. Four portraits of her exist in Dunster castle and a fifth at Bathealton Court.

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07/02/1722

Azar Bigdeli, Iranian anthologist and poet (died 1781)

Hajji Lotf-Ali Beg Azar Bigdeli, better known as Azar Bigdeli, was an Iranian anthologist and poet. He is principally known for his biographical anthology of some 850 Persian-writing poets, the Atashkadeh-ye Azar, which he dedicated to Iranian ruler Karim Khan Zand. Written in Persian, the Persian studies academic J.T.P. de Bruijn considers it "the most important Persian anthology of the eighteenth century". Azar was a leading figure of the bazgasht-e adabi movement, which sought to return the stylistic standards of early Persian poetry.

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07/02/1693

Empress Anna of Russia (died 1740)

Anna Ioannovna, also russified as Anna Ivanovna and sometimes anglicized as Anne, served as regent of the Duchy of Courland and Semigallia from 1711 until 1730 and then ruled as Empress of Russia from 1730 to 1740. Much of her administration was defined or heavily influenced by actions set in motion by her uncle, Peter the Great, such as the lavish building projects in St. Petersburg, funding the Russian Academy of Science, and measures which generally favored the nobility, such as the repeal of a primogeniture law in 1730. In the West, Anna's reign was traditionally viewed as a continuation of the transition from the old Muscovy ways to the European court envisioned by Peter the Great. Within Russia, Anna's reign is often referred to as a "dark era".

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07/02/1622

Vittoria della Rovere, Italian noble (died 1694)

Vittoria della Rovere was Grand Duchess of Tuscany as the wife of Grand Duke Ferdinando II. She had four children with her husband, two of whom would survive infancy: the future Cosimo III, Tuscany's longest-reigning monarch, and Francesco Maria, a prince of the Church. At the death of her grandfather Francesco Maria della Rovere, she inherited the Duchies of Rovere and Montefeltro, which reverted to her second son, Francesco Maria, at her death. She was later entrusted with the care of her three grandchildren. Her marriage brought a wealth of treasures to the House of Medici, which can today be seen in the Palazzo Pitti and the Uffizi Gallery in Florence.

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07/02/1612

Thomas Killigrew, English playwright and manager (died 1683)

Thomas Killigrew was an English dramatist and theatre manager. He was a witty, dissolute figure at the court of King Charles II of England.

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07/02/1500

João de Castro, viceroy of Portuguese India (died 1548)

Dom João de Castro was a Portuguese nobleman, scientist, writer and colonial administrator, who served as the fourth Portuguese Viceroy of India from 1545 to 1548. He was called Strong Castro by the poet Luís de Camões. De Castro was the second son of Álvaro de Castro, the civil governor of Lisbon. His wife was Leonor Coutinho.

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07/02/1487

Queen Dangyeong, Korean royal consort (died 1557)

Queen Tan'gyŏng, of the Geochang Shin clan, was a posthumous name bestowed to the wife and first queen consort of Yi Yeok, King Jungjong, the 11th Joseon monarch. She was queen consort of Joseon for seven days in September 1506, after which she was known as Deposed Queen Sin.

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07/02/1478

Thomas More, English lawyer and politician, Lord Chancellor of England (died 1535)

Sir Thomas More, venerated in the Catholic Church as a martyr and saint, was an English lawyer, judge, social philosopher, author, statesman, theologian and Renaissance humanist. He also served Henry VIII as Lord Chancellor from October 1529 to May 1532. He wrote Utopia, published in 1516, which describes the political system of an imaginary island state.

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07/02/1449

Adriana of Nassau-Siegen, German countess (died 1477)

Countess Adriana of Nassau-Siegen, German: Adriana Gräfin von Nassau-Siegen, official titles: Gräfin zu Nassau, Vianden und Diez, Frau zu Breda, was a countess from the House of Nassau-Siegen, a cadet branch of the Ottonian Line of the House of Nassau, and through marriage Countess of Hanau-Münzenberg.

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07/02/1102

Empress Matilda, Holy Roman Empress and claimant to the English throne (probable; (died 1167)

Empress Matilda, also known as Empress Maud, was Holy Roman Empress as the consort of Emperor Henry V from 1110 until his death in 1125, and was subsequently a claimant to the English throne, and Lady of the English, during the civil war known as the Anarchy. Following the death of her father, King Henry I of England, as his only surviving child and nominated heir, she asserted her right to the English throne. However, her cousin Stephen of Blois usurped the crown.

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07/02/0574

Prince Shōtoku of Japan (died 622)

Prince Shōtoku , also known as Prince Umayado or Prince Kamitsumiya , was a semi-legendary regent and a politician of the Asuka period in Japan who served under Empress Suiko. He was the son of Emperor Yōmei and his consort, Princess Hashihito no Anahobe, who was also Yōmei's younger half-sister. But later, he was adopted by Prince Shōtoken. His parents were relatives of the ruling Soga clan and also he was involved in the defeat of the rival Mononobe clan. The primary source of the life and accomplishments of Prince Shōtoku comes from the Nihon Shoki. The Prince is renowned for modernizing the government administration and for promoting Buddhism in Japan. He also had two different families that fought over his custody.

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