Born on Sunday, 11th January – Famous Birthdays
On this day, 247 notable people were born on 11th January — spanning from 347 to 2002. From world leaders to artists and scientists, discover who shares this birthday.
Sunday, 11 January 2026 marks a notable date in the calendar, drawing attention to numerous individuals born across different eras and fields of endeavour. From entertainment and sport to science and politics, this date has witnessed the births of people who have made significant contributions to their respective domains. The diversity of professions and nationalities among those born on this day reflects the global nature of achievement and recognition across multiple sectors.
Among those born on this date is Matteo Renzi, who served as the 56th Prime Minister of Italy and was born on 11 January 1975. His political career has spanned significant periods of Italian governance and reform. Additionally, the date marks the birth of Danuta Kozák on 11 January 1987, the Hungarian sprint canoer who has represented her country at the highest levels of international competition. These European figures exemplify the breadth of influence that individuals born on this particular day have exerted in their respective fields. Earlier, on 11 January 1923, Carroll Shelby was born, the American race car driver and engineer who founded Carroll Shelby International and left an enduring legacy in automotive engineering and motorsports.
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11/01/2002
Elly De La Cruz, Dominican baseball player
Elly Antonio De La Cruz is a Dominican professional baseball shortstop for the Cincinnati Reds of Major League Baseball (MLB). He signed with the Reds as an international free agent in 2018 and made his MLB debut in 2023. He was selected for the 2024 and 2025 MLB All-Star Game.
11/01/2000
Lee Chae-yeon, South Korean singer-songwriter
Lee Chae-yeon is a South Korean singer, dancer, and actress. She was a member of the South Korean-Japanese girl group Iz*One, and made her solo debut in 2022 with her first extended play (EP), Hush Rush.
11/01/1999
Jeanette Hegg Duestad, Norwegian sport shooter
Jeanette Hegg Duestad is a Norwegian sport shooter. Her achievements include winning individual gold medal in rifle shooting at both the 2022 and 2025 ISSF World Shooting Championships, as well as team gold medals in 2022 and 2023.
Lim Sung-jin, South Korean volleyball player
Lim Sung-jin is a South Korean indoor volleyball player. He plays as an outside hitter for Uijeongbu KB Insurance Stars in the V-League.
Brandon Wakeham, Australian-Fijian rugby league player
Brandon Wakeham is a Fiji international rugby league footballer who plays as a hooker or five-eighth for the Manly Sea Eagles in the NRL.
11/01/1998
Thomas Mikaele, New Zealand rugby league player
Thomas Mikaele is a professional rugby league footballer who plays as a prop for the North Queensland Cowboys in the National Rugby League (NRL).
11/01/1997
Cody Simpson, Australian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor
Cody Robert Simpson is an Australian singer, actor, and a former competitive swimmer. Since his debut as a recording artist, he has released four solo studio albums: Paradise (2012), Surfers Paradise (2013), Free (2015), and a self-titled album (2022), with another album currently in the works to be released in 2026. He portrayed the lead role of Dmitry in the Broadway musical Anastasia from November 2018 through April 2019. The same year, he won the first season of The Masked Singer Australia as "Robot".
11/01/1996
Leroy Sané, German footballer
Leroy Aziz Sané is a German professional footballer who plays as a winger for Süper Lig club Galatasaray and the Germany national team.
11/01/1995
Nick Solak, American baseball player
Nicholas Blake Solak is an American professional baseball second baseman and outfielder in the San Diego Padres organization. He has previously played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Texas Rangers, Atlanta Braves, Detroit Tigers, and Pittsburgh Pirates. Solak played college baseball for the Louisville Cardinals.
11/01/1993
Chris Boucher, Saint Lucian-Canadian basketball player
Christopher Boucher is a Saint Lucian-Canadian professional basketball player who last played for the Boston Celtics of the National Basketball Association (NBA). Born in Saint Lucia, he played college basketball for the Oregon Ducks.
Park Junghwan, South Korean Go player
Park Junghwan is a South Korean professional Go player of 9-dan rank.
Michael Keane, English footballer
Michael Vincent Keane is an English professional footballer who plays as a centre-back for Premier League club Everton.
Will Keane, Irish footballer
William David Keane is a professional footballer who plays as a forward or attacking midfielder for Reading, on loan from Preston North End, and the Republic of Ireland national team.
11/01/1992
Dani Carvajal, Spanish footballer
Daniel Carvajal Ramos is a Spanish professional footballer who plays as a right-back for La Liga club Real Madrid, which he captains, and the Spain national team.
Lee Seung-hoon, South Korean rapper and dancer
Lee Seung-hoon, also known by the mononym Hoony, is a South Korean rapper and dancer. His musical career began in 2011 as a contestant in the first installation of K-pop Star (2011–2012); where he caught the attention of YG Entertainment CEO Yang Hyun-suk and was signed under his agency. Lee debuted with Winner on August 17, 2014, after the band competed and were titled as the victors of WIN: Who is Next (2013), and as a soloist on July 15, 2024.
11/01/1991
Andrea Bertolacci, Italian footballer
Andrea Bertolacci is an Italian professional footballer who plays as a midfielder.
11/01/1990
Malik Jackson, American football player
Malik Barron Jackson is an American former professional football player who was a defensive tackle for 10 seasons in the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Tennessee Volunteers. Jackson was selected in the fifth round of the 2012 NFL draft by the Denver Broncos, with whom he won Super Bowl 50 in 2016, in which he scored the game's first touchdown on a fumble recovery. He also played for the Jacksonville Jaguars, Philadelphia Eagles, and Cleveland Browns.
11/01/1989
Demario Davis, American football player
Demario Davis is an American professional football linebacker for the New York Jets of the National Football League (NFL). He was selected by the Jets in the third round of the 2012 NFL draft. He played college football for the Arkansas State Red Wolves. Davis has also played for the Cleveland Browns and New Orleans Saints.
Kane Linnett, Australian rugby league player
Kane Linnett is a former Scotland international rugby league footballer, who plays as a centre or second-row forward for Sarina Crocodiles in the Mackay & District Rugby League.
11/01/1988
Epiphanny Prince, American-Russian basketball player
Epiphanny Prince is a Russian-American former professional basketball player.
11/01/1987
Scotty Cranmer, American BMX rider
Scotty Cranmer is an American BMX rider. He is tied with Dave Mirra for the most X Games BMX Park medals with nine, three each in gold, silver and bronze over fourteen appearances. He attended Jackson Memorial High School. Nicknamed "the Bulldozer", he is sponsored by Vans Shoes, Hyper Bike Co., Fox Clothing, Pro-tec Helmets, Monster Energy and Snafu. He owns a bike shop in Howell, NJ called SC Action Sports Bicycle Shop. He is also widely known for having a YouTube channel under the name Scotty Cranmer in which he makes videos with his friends riding skateparks, driving cars, and playing games while riding their bikes. His younger brother Matty is a regular guest on the channel. As of June 2021, the channel has accumulated over 1.71 million subscribers and 500 million total views since releasing his first video in September 2015.
Danuta Kozák, Hungarian sprint canoer
Danuta Kozák is a Hungarian sprint canoeist. She has won one silver, one bronze and six Olympic gold medals, three of which in Rio de Janeiro in 2016, making her the first female to win K1, K2 and K4 at the same Olympics. At the 2020 Summer Olympics, she won a gold medal in Women's K-4 500 metres, and bronze medal in Women's K-2 500 metres.
Daniel Semenzato, Italian footballer
Daniel Semenzato is an Italian footballer who plays as a defender for Serie D club Luparense.
Jamie Vardy, English footballer
Jamie Richard Vardy is an English professional footballer who plays as a striker for Serie A club Cremonese.
Kim Young-kwang, South Korean actor and model
Kim Young-kwang is a South Korean actor and model. Kim began his career as a model and has modeled for designers such as Alexander McQueen, Vivienne Westwood and Etro. In 2008, he was the first Asian model to model at Dior Homme's show. As an actor, Kim has starred in the films Hot Young Bloods (2014) and On Your Wedding Day (2018), as well as the television dramas Pinocchio (2014), The Guardians (2017), The Secret Life of My Secretary (2019), Call It Love (2023), and the most recent series Trigger (2025).
11/01/1985
Dennis Dixon, American football player
Dennis Lee Dixon Jr. is an American former professional football player who was a quarterback in the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Oregon Ducks. Dixon was selected by the Pittsburgh Steelers in the fifth round of the 2008 NFL draft and played with the team through 2011. He was a member of the Baltimore Ravens practice squad during the 2012 season in which they won a Super Bowl.
Newton Faulkner, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
Sam Newton Battenberg Faulkner is an English singer-songwriter and musician from Reigate, Surrey. He is known for his percussive style of guitar playing. In 2007 Faulkner's debut studio album Hand Built by Robots was certified double platinum in the United Kingdom. The album topped the UK Albums Chart in August 2007. It was promoted by three singles, "Dream Catch Me", "I Need Something" and "Teardrop". "Dream Catch Me" reached number seven on the UK Singles Charts.
Aja Naomi King, American actress
Aja Naomi King is an American actress. King began her career in guest-starring roles on television, and starred in the short-lived CW medical comedy-drama series Emily Owens, M.D. (2012–2013). She also has starred in the films Four (2012) and Reversion (2015). After her breakthrough as Michaela Pratt in the ABC legal drama series How to Get Away with Murder (2014–2020), she received praise for portraying Cherry Turner in the historical film The Birth of a Nation (2016).
11/01/1984
Kevin Boss, American football player
Kevin Michael Boss is an American former professional football player who was a tight end in the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Western Oregon Wolves and was selected in the fifth round of the 2007 NFL draft by the New York Giants. With the Giants, he won Super Bowl XLII over the New England Patriots.
Dario Krešić, Croatian footballer
Dario Krešić is a Croatian retired professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper.
Matt Mullenweg, American web developer and businessman, co-created WordPress
Matthew Charles Mullenweg is an American web developer and entrepreneur. He is known as a co-founder of the free and open-source web publishing software WordPress, and the founder of Automattic.
Stijn Schaars, Dutch footballer
Stephanus Johannes "Stijn" Schaars is a Dutch professional football coach and a former midfielder who is the manager of Eerste Divisie club Jong PSV.
Glenn Stewart, Australian rugby league player
Glenn Stewart is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer who last played for the Leigh Centurions in the Super League. An Australia international and New South Wales State of Origin representative second-row, he previously played for the Manly Sea Eagles and the South Sydney Rabbitohs in the NRL, winning the 2008 and 2011 premierships as well as the Clive Churchill Medal with the former.
11/01/1983
André Myhrer, Swedish skier
André Myhrer is a retired Swedish World Cup alpine ski racer and Olympic gold medalist. Born at Bergsjö in Gävleborg County, Myhrer competed in the technical events and specialised in slalom.
Ted Richards, Australian rules footballer
Ted Richards is a former professional Australian rules footballer who played for the Essendon Football Club and the Sydney Swans in the Australian Football League (AFL).
Adrian Sutil, German racing driver
Adrian Sutil is a German racing driver who competed in Formula One from 2007 to 2014.
11/01/1982
Tony Allen, American basketball player
Anthony Allen is an American former professional basketball player who played for 14 seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA), primarily for the Boston Celtics and Memphis Grizzlies. Nicknamed "the Grindfather", he is a six-time member on the NBA All-Defensive Team, including three first-team selections. Allen won an NBA championship with the Boston Celtics in 2008. Known for his suffocating on-ball pressure, he is widely regarded as one of the best defenders in NBA history.
Clint Greenshields, Australian-French rugby league player
Clint Greenshields is a former France international rugby league footballer who played as a fullback for the St George Illawarra Dragons and the North Queensland Cowboys in the NRL, and for the Catalans Dragons in the Super League.
Blake Heron, American actor (died 2017)
Blake Christopher Heron was an American actor. He was best known for his starring role as Marty Preston in the 1996 film Shiloh. He died of an accidental drug overdose, aged 35.
Son Ye-jin, South Korean actress
Son Eon-jin, better known by her stage name, Son Ye-jin (손예진), is a South Korean actress who rose to fame in 2003 in The Classic and Summer Scent, which were followed by the commercially successful A Moment to Remember (2004) and April Snow (2005). Her early romantic roles garnered her the title "Nation's First Love" in Korea.
11/01/1980
Josh Hannay, Australian rugby league player and coach
Josh Hannay is an Australian professional rugby league head coach for the Gold Coast Titans. Previously he was an assistant coach of the Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks in the NRL and assistant coach of the Queensland rugby league team. He is also a former professional rugby league footballer who played as a centre in the 1990s and 2000s.
Damien Wilkins, American basketball player
Damien Lamont Wilkins is an American former professional basketball player and basketball executive who played in the National Basketball Association for ten seasons. He is the son of retired 13-year NBA veteran Gerald Wilkins and nephew of nine-time NBA All-Star, Hall of famer Dominique Wilkins.
11/01/1979
Darren Lynn Bousman, American director and screenwriter
Darren Lynn Bousman is an American film director and screenwriter, best known for his work in horror films. He has directed four of the Saw films: Saw II, Saw III, Saw IV, and Spiral. He also directed the horror musicals Repo! The Genetic Opera and The Devil's Carnival movies. Bousman is co-creator and writer of alternate reality games (ARG) and immersive experiences, The Tension Experience (2016), The Lust Experience (2017), Theatre Macabre (2018), iConfidant (2020), and One Day Die (2020). As of July 2025, Bousman is the co-host of the filmmaking podcast Darren and Josh Make a Movie alongside Josh Stolberg.
Michael Lorenz, German footballer
Michael Lorenz is a German former footballer who played as a defender or midfielder. He is currently the assistant coach of Arminia Klosterhardt.
Terence Morris, American basketball player
Terence Darea Morris is an American former professional basketball player. He was twice the Israeli Basketball Premier League Defensive Player of the Year, in 2007 and 2008. He was an All-EuroLeague First Team selection in 2008.
Siti Nurhaliza, Malaysian singer-songwriter and businesswoman
Siti Nurhaliza binti Tarudin is a Malaysian singer, songwriter, and actress. Referred to as the "Voice of Asia", she is regarded as one of the most influential artists in the Malay world. She has recorded songs in multiple languages, including Malay, English, Arabic, Mandarin, Japanese, and Tamil.
Henry Shefflin, Irish hurler
Henry Shefflin is an Irish hurling manager and former player who was the manager of the Galway senior hurling team from 2021 to 2024. In his playing career he was nicknamed "King Henry" because of his directive style, dominance, competitive spirit, and leadership on the field. He is the only player to win 'hurler of the year' three times, in 2002, 2006, and 2012. A versatile forward who started out in the corner, Shefflin made his name in more commanding positions as a centre or full-forward. He is widely regarded to be one of the greatest players in the history of the sport, with many former players, commentators and fans rating him as the number one player of all time.
11/01/1978
Vallo Allingu, Estonian basketball player
Vallo Allingu is a retired Estonian professional basketballer who last played for Tartu Ülikool/Rock at the center position. Allingu started his senior club career with Korvpalli Meistriliiga teams like "Puuviljaparadiis" and KK Rakvere. In 2002 he joined with Tartu Ülikool/Rock and won the Estonian Championship titles in 2004, 2007, 2008 and 2010. Vallo Allingu was a member of the Estonia national basketball team. He made his national team debut in 2001 against Latvia national basketball team.
Holly Brisley, Australian actress
Holly Brisley is an Australian actress and television presenter. She began her career at the age of 16 on Agro's Cartoon Connection (1994–97) and more recently portrayed Amanda Vale-Baker on Home and Away (2005–09). Her most successful film roles include Garage Days (2001) and The Crop (2004).
Michael Duff, Irish footballer
Michael James Duff is a Northern Irish professional football manager and former player who is head coach of League One club Wycombe Wanderers.
Emile Heskey, English footballer
Emile William Ivanhoe Heskey is an English former professional footballer who currently serves as head of football development of Leicester City Women. Playing as a striker, he made more than 500 appearances in the Football League and Premier League over an 18-year career, and represented England in international football. He also had a spell in Australia, playing for the A-League club Newcastle Jets.
11/01/1977
Shamari Buchanan, American football player
Shamari Buchanan is an American football wide receiver. He played college football for the University of Alabama. and won a SEC Championship his senior year with the Alabama Crimson Tide. Professionally, he signed with and was a member of the 2000 Oakland Raiders, In 2002, he played for the Toronto Phantoms of the Arena Football League, The Wichita Stealth of af2 in 2003, and the Corpus Christi Hammerheads of the Intense Football League from 2004-2006.
Anni Friesinger-Postma, German speed skater
Anna ("Anni") Christine Friesinger-Postma is a German former speed skater. Her father Georg Friesinger, of Germany, and mother Janina ("Jana") Korowicka, of Poland, were both skaters; Jana was on the Polish team at the 1976 Winter Olympics. Her brother Jan is also a speed skater. Her sister Agnes is a former speed skater. In July 2010, Friesinger retired from her active sports career when she had to be treated for severe cartilage damage in her right knee joint.
Shane Kelly, Australian rugby league player
Shane Kelly is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer who played for the Canberra Raiders in the National Rugby League.
Olexiy Lukashevych, Ukrainian long jumper
Olexiy Lukashevych is a Ukrainian long jumper, best known for winning the 2002 European Championships. His personal best is 8.27 metres, achieved in June 2000 in Tartu.
11/01/1976
Efthimios Rentzias, Greek basketball player
Efthimios Rentzias is a retired Greek professional basketball player. During his pro club career, he was most notably a member of the Spanish League's FC Barcelona, and the NBA's Philadelphia 76ers. At a height of 2.12 m tall, he played at the center position. He was inducted into the Greek Basket League Hall of Fame in 2022.
11/01/1975
Rory Fitzpatrick, American ice hockey player
Rory Brian Fitzpatrick is an American politician and former professional ice hockey defenseman who played ten seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the Montreal Canadiens, St. Louis Blues, Nashville Predators, Buffalo Sabres, Vancouver Canucks and Philadelphia Flyers. He was known as a journeyman depth player at the NHL level. A Republican, Fitzpatrick served as Irondequoit town supervisor from 2021 to 2023.
Dan Luger, English rugby player and coach
Daniel Darko Luger MBE is a former English rugby union international who was a member of the squad that won the 2003 Rugby World Cup.
Matteo Renzi, Italian politician, 56th Prime Minister of Italy
Matteo Renzi is an Italian politician who served as prime minister of Italy from 2014 to 2016. He has been a senator for Florence since 2018. Renzi has served as the leader of Italia Viva (IV) since 2019, having been the secretary of the Democratic Party (PD) from 2013 to 2018, with a brief interruption in 2017.
11/01/1974
Roman Görtz, German footballer
Roman Görtz is a retired German footballer.
Cody McKay, Canadian baseball player
Cody Dean McKay is a Canadian former Major League Baseball catcher who played for the Oakland Athletics in 2002 and for the St. Louis Cardinals in 2004.
Jens Nowotny, German footballer
Jens Daniel Nowotny is a German former professional footballer who played as a centre-back or sweeper. He played in nearly 300 official games with Bayer Leverkusen in one full decade, helping them reach the 2002 Champions League final. Internationally, Nowotny appeared for Germany in one World Cup and two European Championships, gaining 48 caps.
11/01/1973
Rahul Dravid, Indian cricketer
Rahul Sharad Dravid is an Indian former cricket player, ex-captain and ex-head coach of the Indian national cricket team. Known for his outstanding batting technique, Dravid scored 24,177 runs in international cricket and is widely regarded as one of the greatest batsmen in the history of cricket. He is colloquially known as Mr. Dependable and often referred to as The Wall. He won the 2002 ICC Champions Trophy as a member of the Indian team and guided the Indian team to victory in the 2024 ICC Men's T20 World Cup as the head coach.
Rockmond Dunbar, American actor
Rockmond Dunbar is an American actor, best known for his roles as Baines on the NBC series Earth 2, Kenny Chadway on Showtime family drama Soul Food, and Benjamin Miles "C-Note" Franklin on the Fox crime drama Prison Break. He also played Sheriff Eli Roosevelt on the FX Drama series Sons of Anarchy, FBI Agent Dennis Abbott on The Mentalist, FBI Agent Abe Gaines in the Hulu series The Path, and Michael Grant on 9-1-1.
11/01/1972
Christian Jacobs, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actor
Christian Richards Jacobs is an American musician, television producer, and actor. He is perhaps most recognized as the co-creator of the award-winning Nick Jr. series Yo Gabba Gabba!, on which he additionally serves as a writer, director, composer, and voice actor.
Anthony Lledo, Danish composer
Anthony Lledo is a Danish composer.
Amanda Peet, American actress and playwright
Amanda Peet is an American actress. She began her career with small parts on television before making her feature film debut in Animal Room (1995). Her portrayal of Jill St. Claire in The Whole Nine Yards (2000) brought her wider recognition. Since then, she has appeared in Saving Silverman (2001), High Crimes, Changing Lanes, Igby Goes Down, Something's Gotta Give, Identity, Melinda and Melinda (2004), A Lot like Love, Syriana, The X-Files: I Want to Believe (2008), 2012 (2009), Gulliver's Travels (2010), Identity Thief, The Way, Way Back, and other films.
11/01/1971
Mary J. Blige, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actress
Mary Jane Blige is an American singer, songwriter, actress, and entrepreneur. Often referred to by the honorifics "Queen of Hip-Hop Soul" and "Queen of R&B", her accolades include nine Grammy Awards, a Primetime Emmy Award, four American Music Awards, twelve NAACP Image Awards, and twelve Billboard Music Awards, including the Billboard Icon Award.
Jeff Orford, Australian rugby league player
Jeff Orford is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1990s. He played for Eastern Suburbs, St. George, Gold Coast Chargers and South Sydney in the New South Wales Rugby League premiership. Orford primarily played on the wing.
11/01/1970
Manfredi Beninati, Italian painter and sculptor
Manfredi Beninati is an Italian artist born in Palermo (Sicily) in 1970. A contemporary figurative painter, his oeuvre also covers installations, drawings, sculpture, collage and film.
Chris Jent, American basketball player and coach
Christopher Matthew Jent is an American basketball coach and former player who serves as the associate head coach for the New York Knicks of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He was formerly the head coach of the Bakersfield Jam of the NBA Development League, and had a stint as an assistant coach at the Los Angeles Lakers as well.
Malcolm D. Lee, American director, producer, screenwriter, and actor
Malcolm D. Lee is an American filmmaker. He is known for directing comedy films including The Best Man (1999), Undercover Brother (2002), Roll Bounce (2005), Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins (2008), Soul Men (2008), Scary Movie 5 (2013), The Best Man Holiday (2013), Girls Trip (2017), Night School (2018), and Space Jam: A New Legacy (2021), and the Peacock comedy-drama miniseries The Best Man: The Final Chapters (2022).
Ken Ueno, American composer
Ken Ueno is an American composer.
11/01/1969
Manny Acta, Dominican-American baseball player, coach, manager, and sportscaster
Manuel Elias Acta is a Dominican former professional baseball manager who is currently the bench coach for the Seattle Mariners of Major League Baseball (MLB). He has formerly served as a broadcast analyst for ESPN and ESPN Deportes. He has also served as manager for the Washington Nationals and the Cleveland Indians.
11/01/1968
Anders Borg, Swedish economist and politician, Swedish Minister for Finance
Anders Erik Borg is a Swedish politician who served as Minister for Finance in the Swedish government from 2006 to 2014. He is a member of the Swedish Moderate Party.
Tom Dumont, American guitarist and producer
Thomas Martin Dumont is an American musician and producer. Dumont is a member of third wave ska band No Doubt, and during the band's hiatus, he began Invincible Overlord as a side project and produced Matt Costa's Songs We Sing.
Steve Mavin, Australian rugby league player
Steve Mavin is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer. He played for the South Sydney Rabbitohs from 1987 until 1990. Mavin played in England for Trafford Borough in 1990, the Canterbury Bankstown Bulldogs in 1991 and then returned to the Rabbitohs in 1992.
11/01/1967
Michael Healy-Rae, Irish politician
Michael J. Healy-Rae is an Irish independent politician who has served as a Minister of State since January 2025. He has been a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Kerry constituency since 2016, and from 2011 to 2016 for the Kerry South constituency. He served as Chair of the Committee on European Union Affairs from 2016 to 2020.
11/01/1966
Marc Acito, American author and screenwriter
Marc Acito is an American playwright, novelist, and humorist.
11/01/1965
Mascarita Sagrada, Mexican wrestler
Mascarita Sagrada is a Mexican Mini Luchador enmascarado and one of the most well-known Mexican Minis of the modern era. He is the original Mascarita Sagrada although there have been several wrestlers who have used the same gimmick through the years. In Mexico, Mascarita Sagrada has worked for AAA, Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL) and a long list of independent promoters over the years. He has also worked for American wrestling promotions World Wrestling Federation/Entertainment (WWF/WWE), World Championship Wrestling (WCW), Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) and Lucha VaVOOM. In the late 1990s he worked for the WWF as Mini Nova. He has also been featured in several films and marketing campaigns, including an uncredited cameo in the film My Giant with Billy Crystal and an ad campaign for Virgin Mobile.
Aleksey Zhukov, Russian footballer and coach
Aleksey Zhukov is a former Russian professional football coach and a player.
11/01/1964
Albert Dupontel, French actor and director
Albert Dupontel is a French actor, film director and screenwriter. Following his father's path, he studied medicine but eventually switched to theater, disillusioned by hospital life. He started his career as a stand-up comedian. In February 1998, his film Bernie took the Grand Prize at the 9th Yubari International Fantastic Film Festival which was attended by Dupontel.
Ralph Recto, Filipino politician
Ralph Gonzalez Recto is a Filipino politician who has served as the executive secretary on an ad interim basis since 2025 under President Bongbong Marcos. He previously served as the 33rd secretary of finance from 2024 to 2025 under President Marcos, the representative for Batangas' 6th district from 1992 to 2001 and from 2022 to 2024, and as the House deputy speaker from 2022 to 2024.
11/01/1963
Tracy Caulkins, American-Australian swimmer
Tracy Anne Stockwell, OAM,, née Tracy Anne Caulkins, is an American former competition swimmer, three-time Olympic gold medalist, five-time world champion, and former world record-holder in three events.
Jason Connery, Italian-born British actor and director
Jason Joseph Connery is a British actor and director. He is the son of Sean Connery and Diane Cilento. On screen, he is best known for appearing in the third series of the ITV drama series Robin of Sherwood in 1986. He took over the main role after Michael Praed's character was killed off at the end of the second series.
Petra Schneider, German swimmer
Petra Schneider is a German retired medley and freestyle swimmer. She actively competed in the 1970s and 1980s.
11/01/1962
Chris Bryant, Welsh politician, Minister of State for Europe
Sir Chris John Bryant is a British politician and former Anglican priest who has served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Rhondda and Ogmore, and previously Rhondda, since 2001. A member of the Labour Party, he was the Minister of State for Data Protection and Telecoms and Minister of State for Creative Industries, Arts and Tourism from 2024 to 2025.
Kim Coles, American actress and comedian
Kimberly Coles is an American actress and comedian. She is known for her roles as an original cast member on the variety show In Living Color (1990–1991) and as Synclaire James-Jones on the sitcom Living Single (1993–1998), which both aired on Fox. She was the host of BET's game show Pay It Off in 2009. With Erika Alexander, Kim currently cohosts and coproduces the Reliving Single podcast on YouTube and other podcast sites.
Susan Lindauer, American journalist and activist
Susan Lindauer is an American journalist and former U.S. Congressional staffer who was charged with "acting as an unregistered agent of a foreign government" and violating U.S. financial sanctions during the run-up to the 2003 invasion of Iraq. She was incarcerated in 2005 and released the next year after two judges ruled her mentally unfit to stand trial. The government dropped the prosecution in 2009. In 2010, Lindauer published a book about her experiences. Since 2011 Lindauer has appeared frequently on television and in print as a U.S. government critic.
Brian Moore, English rugby player
Brian Christopher Moore is an English former rugby union footballer. He played as a hooker, and is a rugby presenter and pundit for BBC Sport, Talksport and Love Sport Radio. He qualified as a Rugby Football Union referee in 2010.
11/01/1961
Jasper Fforde, English author
Jasper Fforde is an English novelist whose first novel, The Eyre Affair, was published in 2001. He is known mainly for his Thursday Next novels, but has also published two books in the loosely connected Nursery Crime series, two in the Shades of Grey series and four in The Last Dragonslayer series. Fforde's books abound in literary allusions and wordplay, tightly scripted plots and playfulness with the conventional, traditional genres. They usually contain elements of metafiction, parody, and fantasy.
Lars-Erik Torph, Swedish racing driver (died 1989)
Lars-Erik Torph was a Swedish rally driver. He debuted in the World Rally Championship in 1980 and took his first points at his home event, the Swedish Rally, in 1984. Driving a Toyota Celica TCT, a Toyota Supra 3.0i and an Audi Coupé Quattro, he went on to finish on the podium four times. After just turning 28, Torph and his co-driver Bertil-Rune Rehnfeldt died while spectating the 1989 Monte Carlo Rally, after Lancia driver Alex Fiorio lost control of his Delta Integrale and crashed into them.
Karl von Habsburg, Austrian politician, Head of the House of Habsburg-Lorraine
Karl von Habsburg is an Austrian politician and the head of the House of Habsburg-Lorraine, the former royal house of the defunct Austro-Hungarian thrones. As a citizen of the Republic of Austria, his legal name is Karl Habsburg-Lothringen.
11/01/1959
Brett Bodine, American NASCAR driver
Brett Elias Bodine III is an American former stock car racing driver, former driver of the pace car in Cup Series events, and current NASCAR employee. He is the younger brother of 1986 Daytona 500 winner Geoff Bodine and the older brother of 2006 and 2010 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series champion Todd Bodine. He was born in Chemung, New York. Bodine has been named one of the 50 greatest NASCAR modified drivers of all time, was the runner-up for the 1986 Busch Series championship, and collected a total of five Xfinity Series wins and sixteen pole positions. Bodine made 480 Cup series starts with one win and five pole positions. He has led over one-thousand career laps in both the NASCAR Winston Cup Series and the NASCAR Busch Series.
Rob Ramage, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
George Robert Ramage is a Canadian former professional ice hockey defenceman who played 15 seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the Colorado Rockies, St. Louis Blues, Calgary Flames, Toronto Maple Leafs, Minnesota North Stars, Tampa Bay Lightning, Montreal Canadiens, and Philadelphia Flyers. He also played one season in the World Hockey Association (WHA) for the Birmingham Bulls. He was a two-time Stanley Cup winner in the NHL.
11/01/1958
Vicki Peterson, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
Victoria Anne Theresa Cowsill is an American rock musician and songwriter. She has been the lead guitarist for the Bangles since their founding in 1981. After their first disbandment in 1989, she has returned to the band for all subsequent reunions. In intervening years, she has performed with other artists, most extensively with the Continental Drifters.
11/01/1957
Darryl Dawkins, American basketball player and coach (died 2015)
Darryl R. Dawkins was an American professional basketball player and coach. A three-time NBA finalist center, he most notably played for the Philadelphia 76ers and New Jersey Nets with brief tenures at the Detroit Pistons and Utah Jazz later on. His powerful dunks, which shattered two backboards in 1979, led the NBA to adopt breakaway rims.
Peter Moore, Australian rules footballer and coach
Peter Moore is a former Australian rules footballer who played for Collingwood and Melbourne in the Victorian Football League (VFL).
Bryan Robson, English footballer and manager
Bryan Robson is an English former football manager and player. He began his career with West Bromwich Albion in 1972, where he amassed over 200 appearances and was club captain, before moving to Manchester United in 1981, where he became the longest-serving captain in the club's history. He won two Premier Leagues, three FA Cups, one Football League Cup, two FA Charity Shields and a European Cup Winners' Cup during his time there. Nicknamed "Captain Marvel", Robson was voted the greatest ever Manchester United player in August 2011 in a poll of the club's former players.
11/01/1956
David Grant, Australian rugby league player (died 1994)
David "Nana" Grant (1956–1994) was an Australian rugby league footballer originally from [Trangie], New South Wales. He played as a prop/back-rower in the 1970s and 1980s for a number of teams in the New South Wales Rugby Football League competition.
Big Bank Hank, American rapper (died 2014)
Henry Lee Jackson, known by his stage name Big Bank Hank, was an American hip hop recording artist and manager. Also known as Imp the Dimp, he was a member of the trio the Sugarhill Gang, the first hip hop act to have a hit with the cross-over single "Rapper's Delight" on the pop charts in 1979. He contributed to many documentaries based on the rap music industry. Lyrics to his verse from "Rapper's Delight" were allegedly plagiarized from rhymes written by Grandmaster Caz.
Robert Earl Keen, American singer-songwriter
Robert Earl Keen is an American country singer and songwriter from Houston, Texas.
Phyllis Logan, Scottish actress
Phyllis Logan is a Scottish actress, widely known for her roles as Lady Jane Felsham in Lovejoy (1986–1993) and Mrs Hughes in Downton Abbey (2010–2015). She won the BAFTA Award for Most Promising Newcomer for the 1983 film Another Time, Another Place and was nominated for BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role for the same film. Her other film appearances include Secrets & Lies (1996), Shooting Fish (1997), Downton Abbey (2019) and Misbehaviour (2020).
11/01/1954
Jaak Aaviksoo, Estonian physicist and politician, 26th Estonian Minister of Defence
Jaak Aaviksoo is an Estonian politician and physicist, a former rector of the University of Tartu and Tallinn University of Technology (TalTech).
Kailash Satyarthi, Indian engineer, academic, and activist, Nobel Prize laureate
Kailash Satyarthi is an Indian social reformer who campaigned against child labor in India and advocated for the universal right to education and right to life for children.
11/01/1953
Graham Allen, English politician, Vice-Chamberlain of the Household
Graham William Allen is a British Labour Party politician, who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Nottingham North from 1987 to 2017. He stood down at the 2017 general election.
Kostas Skandalidis, Greek engineer and politician, Greek Minister of Agricultural Development and Food
Kostas Skandalidis is a Greek politician and member of the Greek Parliament for the Panhellenic Socialist Movement (PASOK) for the Athens A constituency.
11/01/1952
Bille Brown, Australian actor and playwright (died 2013)
William Gerald Brown AM professionally known as Bille Brown was an Australian stage, film and television actor, director and acclaimed playwright.
Ben Crenshaw, American golfer and architect
Ben Daniel Crenshaw is an American retired professional golfer who has won 19 events on the PGA Tour, including two major championships: the Masters Tournament in 1984 and 1995. Nicknamed Gentle Ben, Crenshaw is widely regarded as one of the best putters in golf history.
Michael Forshaw, Australian lawyer and politician
Michael George Forshaw is an Australian politician who served as a member of the Australian Senate for the state of New South Wales from May 1994 to June 2011, representing the Australian Labor Party.
Diana Gabaldon, American author
Diana J. Gabaldon is an American author and television writer. She is best known for the book series Outlander. Her books merge multiple genres, featuring elements of historical fiction, romance, mystery, adventure and science fiction/fantasy. A television adaptation of the Outlander novels premiered on Starz in 2014.
Lee Ritenour, American guitarist, composer, and producer
Lee Mack Ritenour is an American jazz, jazz fusion guitarist who has been active since the late 1960s.
11/01/1951
Charlie Huhn, American rock singer and guitarist
Charles Hartley Huhn is an American rock singer, songwriter, guitarist and keyboard player. He got his start in Grand Rapids, Michigan, playing with local groups Cirrus, Tanglewood, and Vic Amato & Co before joining Ted Nugent in January, 1978. While recording 1 Platinum and 3 Gold Records with Nugent, including 3 world headliner tours, he followed up recording the LPs Dirty Fingers and Do You Want Some Moore with Gary Moore, and toured in the U.K in 81 & 82. In 1983, he joined Victory and recorded 4 albums and performed 4 European and American tours. In 1988 he joined Humble Pie and recorded the CD Live At The Agora, and performed live with the band until 2000 when Huhn joined Foghat after the untimely death of singer Dave Peverett, and recorded and performed steadily until retiring in 2022.
Willie Maddren, English footballer and manager (died 2000)
William Dixon Maddren was an English professional football player and manager. A one-club man, he made all his professional club appearances for Middlesbrough between 1968 and 1979, and went on to manage the club from 1984 to 1986.
Philip Tartaglia, Scottish archbishop (died 2021)
Filippo "Philip" Tartaglia was a Scottish prelate who served as a bishop of the Catholic Church. He served as Metropolitan Archbishop of Glasgow from 2012 until 2021. He previously served as Bishop of Paisley. Prior to his appointment as bishop, he was a professor at seminaries, as well as an assistant pastor and parish priest in the Archdiocese of Glasgow.
11/01/1949
Daryl Braithwaite, Australian singer-songwriter
Daryl Braithwaite is an Australian singer. He was the lead vocalist of Sherbet. Braithwaite also has a solo career, placing 15 singles in the Australian top 40, including two number-one hits: "You're My World" and "The Horses". His second studio album, Edge, reached No. 1 on the ARIA Albums Chart, No. 14 in Norway and No. 24 in Sweden.
Chris Ford, American basketball player and coach (died 2023)
Christopher Joseph Ford was an American professional basketball player and head coach in the National Basketball Association (NBA). Nicknamed "the Mad Bomber", Ford played most of his NBA career with the Detroit Pistons before finishing his career as a member of the Boston Celtics. In the Celtics' season opener in 1979, he was credited with making the first official three-point shot in NBA history. He won an NBA championship with the Celtics in 1981.
Mohammad Reza Rahimi, Iranian lawyer and politician, 2nd Vice President of Iran
Mohammad Reza Rahimi is an Iranian politician who served as the fifth first vice president from 13 September 2009 until 3 August 2013. His previous posts included governor of the Kurdistan province and vice president for parliamentary affairs.
11/01/1948
Fritz Bohla, German footballer and manager
Fritz Bohla is a former German football player and manager.
Joe Harper, Scottish footballer and manager
Joseph Montgomery Harper is a Scottish former footballer, mainly remembered for his two spells with Aberdeen, during which he won the three main domestic trophies once each and became the club's record goalscorer with 199 goals in major competitions. He also played for Morton and Hibernian in Scotland, and for Huddersfield Town and Everton in England. He finished his career in the Highland League.
Wajima Hiroshi, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 54th Yokozuna (died 2018)
Wajima Hiroshi was a Japanese professional sumo wrestler from Nanao, Ishikawa. He was the sport's 54th yokozuna and is the first wrestler with a collegiate background to reach its highest rank. Entering professional sumo in January 1970, he won a total of 14 tournament championships or yūshō during his career before retiring in March 1981. He was nicknamed "Golden Left" in reference to his trademark gold mawashi and his preferred technique of a left-handed underarm throw. He was later head coach of Hanakago stable, but after several controversies, Wajima was forced to leave the sumo world and turned to professional wrestling.
Madeline Manning, American runner and coach
Madeline Manning-Mims, née Madeline Manning, is a former American runner and Olympic champion. Between 1967 and 1981 she won ten national titles and set a number of American records. She participated in the 1968, 1972, and 1976 Summer Olympics. She likely also would have participated in the 1980 Games in Moscow, had they not been boycotted by the United States. At the 1968 Olympics she won a gold medal in the 800 m, one of only two American women to win this event. Until 2008, she was the youngest winner of the event. At the 1972 Games in Munich she won a silver medal in the 4 × 400 m relay with teammates Mable Fergerson, Kathy Hammond, and Cheryl Toussaint. When she was three years old, she was diagnosed with spinal meningitis and not expected to live. She recovered, but was consistently sick until she was a teen.
Terry Williams, Welsh drummer
Terrence Williams is a retired Welsh rock drummer. During the 1970s and early 1980s Williams was drummer with Dave Edmunds / Rockpile and Man. Rockpile split in 1981 and Williams joined Dire Straits from 1982 until 1988.
11/01/1947
Hamish Macdonald, New Zealand rugby player
Hamish Hugh Macdonald is a former New Zealand rugby union player. A lock, Macdonald represented Poverty Bay, Canterbury, and North Auckland at a provincial level, and was a member of the New Zealand national side, the All Blacks, from 1972 to 1976. He played 48 matches for the All Blacks including 12 internationals.
11/01/1946
Naomi Judd, American singer-songwriter and actress (died 2022)
Naomi Judd was an American country music singer and actress. In 1980, she and her daughter Wynonna formed the duo known as The Judds, who became a successful country music act, winning five Grammy Awards and nine Country Music Association awards. The Judds ceased performing in 1991 after Naomi was diagnosed with hepatitis; while Wynonna continued to perform as a solo artist, she occasionally reunited with her mother for tours as The Judds. Naomi died by suicide in 2022, the day before she and Wynonna were inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame.
Tony Kaye, English progressive rock keyboard player and songwriter
Anthony John Selvidge, known professionally as Tony Kaye, is an English keyboardist, best known as a founding member of the progressive rock band Yes. Born into a musical family, Kaye was classically trained and intended to become a concert pianist before he developed an interest in jazz and contemporary rock and pop music. He joined several groups throughout the 1960s, including the Federals, Johnny Taylor's Star Combo, Jimmy Winston & His Reflections, and Bittersweet.
John Piper, American theologian and author
John Stephen Piper is a Reformed Baptist theologian and retired pastor. Specializing in New Testament studies, he is chancellor of Bethlehem College and Seminary in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Piper taught biblical studies at Bethel University for six years (1974–1980), before serving as pastor for preaching and vision of Bethlehem Baptist Church (Converge) in Minneapolis for 33 years (1980–2013).
11/01/1945
Christine Kaufmann, German actress, author, and businesswoman (died 2017)
Christine Maria Kaufmann was a German-Austrian actress, author, and businesswoman. The daughter of a German father and a French mother, she won the Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year – Actress for Town Without Pity in 1961, the first German to be so honoured.
11/01/1944
Mohammed Abdul-Hayy, Sudanese poet and academic (died 1989)
Mohammed Abdul-Hayy or Muhammad Abd al-Hayy was a member of the first generation of post-colonial Sudanese writers and academics. Together with Ali El-Mak and Salah Ahmed Ibrahim, he is regarded as a pioneer of modern poetry in Sudan.
Shibu Soren, Indian politician, 3rd Chief Minister of Jharkhand (died 2025)
Shibu Soren, popularly known as the Dishom Guru, was an Indian social reformer and politician who was a founder and longtime president of the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM). He played a crucial role in the formation of the separate state of Jharkhand from Bihar and later served as the 3rd Chief Minister of Jharkhand, first for 10 days in March 2005, then from 2008 to 2009, and again from 2009 to 2010.
11/01/1942
Bud Acton, American basketball player
Charles R. "Bud" Acton is an American former professional basketball player. He played college basketball for the Alma Scots and Hillsdale Chargers. Acton was the Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association (MIAA) Player of the Year with the Scots in 1964. He played in the National Basketball Association (NBA) for the San Diego Rockets during the 1967–68 NBA season.
Clarence Clemons, American saxophonist and actor (died 2011)
Clarence Anicholas Clemons Jr., also known as The Big Man, was an American saxophonist. From 1972 until his death in 2011, he was the saxophonist for Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band.
11/01/1941
Abdullah the Butcher, Canadian professional wrestler
Lawrence Robert Shreve, better known by the ring name Abdullah the Butcher, is a Canadian retired professional wrestler. He has a reputation for being involved in some of the most violent and bloody hardcore wrestling matches of all time. Over his time in wrestling he was given the moniker of "Madman from Sudan".
Gérson, Brazilian footballer
Gérson de Oliveira Nunes, generally known as Gérson, is a Brazilian former association footballer who played as a midfielder. He won numerous national trophies with the club sides of Flamengo, Botafogo, São Paulo and Fluminense. He is widely known as "the brain" behind the Brazil Football Team that won the 1970 FIFA World Cup in Mexico.
11/01/1940
Andres Tarand, Estonian geographer and politician, 10th Prime Minister of Estonia
Andres Tarand is an Estonian geographer, climatologist and politician who served as the Prime Minister of Estonia from 1994 to 1995. He was also a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the Social Democratic Party, part of the Party of European Socialists, between 2004 and 2009.
11/01/1939
Anne Heggtveit, Canadian alpine skier
Anne Heggtveit, is a former alpine ski racer from Canada. She was an Olympic gold medallist and double world champion in 1960.
11/01/1938
Arthur Scargill, English miner, activist, and politician
Arthur Scargill is a British trade unionist who was President of the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) from 1982 to 2002. He is best known for leading the 1984–1985 UK miners' strike, a major event in the history of the British labour movement.
11/01/1937
Felix Silla, Italian character actor, circus performer, voice artist, and stuntman (died 2021)
Felix Anthony Silla, also credited as Felix Cilla, was an Italian character actor, circus performer, voice artist and movie stuntman, best known for his career in Hollywood in TV and film.
11/01/1936
Eva Hesse, German-American sculptor and educator (died 1970)
Eva Hesse was a German-born American sculptor known for her pioneering work in materials such as latex, fiberglass, and plastics. She is one of the artists who ushered in the postminimal art movement in the 1960s.
11/01/1934
Jean Chrétien, Canadian lawyer and politician, 20th Prime Minister of Canada
Joseph Jacques Jean Chrétien is a Canadian lawyer and former politician who served as the 20th prime minister of Canada from 1993 to 2003. He served as leader of the Liberal Party from 1990 to 2003 and as leader of the Official Opposition from 1990 to 1993.
Mitchell Ryan, American actor (died 2022)
Mitchell Ryan was an American actor and comedian. With six decades of television credits, he is best known for playing Burke Devlin in the 1960s gothic soap opera Dark Shadows, and later for his co-starring role as Greg Montgomery 's father Edward Montgomery on Dharma & Greg. He also played the villainous General Peter McAllister in the 1987 buddy cop action film Lethal Weapon.
11/01/1933
Goldie Hill, American country singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2005)
Argolda Voncile "Goldie" Hill was an American country music singer. She was one of the first women in country music and became one of the first women to reach the top of the country music charts with her number-one 1953 hit, "I Let the Stars Get in My Eyes". Along with Kitty Wells and Jean Shepard, she helped set the standard for later women in country music.
11/01/1932
Alfonso Arau, Mexican actor and director
Alfonso Arau Incháustegui is a Mexican filmmaker and actor. He worked as an actor and director in both Mexican and Hollywood productions for over 40 years, before his international breakthrough with the 1992 film Like Water for Chocolate, based on his wife Laura Esquivel's novel of the same name. His other films include A Walk in the Clouds (1995), Picking Up the Pieces (2000), The Magnificent Ambersons (2002) and Zapata: El sueño del héroe (2004). He is a five-time Ariel Award winner, including Best Director for Like Water for Chocolate, and a BAFTA nominee.
11/01/1931
Betty Churcher, Australian painter, historian, and curator (died 2015)
Elizabeth Ann Dewar Churcher was an Australian arts administrator, best known as director of the National Gallery of Australia from 1990 to 1997. She was also a painter in her own right earlier in her life.
Mary Rodgers, American composer and author (died 2014)
Mary Rodgers was an American composer, screenwriter, and author. She wrote the 1972 novel Freaky Friday, which served as the basis of a 1976 film starring Jodie Foster, for which she wrote the screenplay, as well as three other versions. Her best-known musicals were Once Upon a Mattress and The Mad Show, and she contributed songs to Marlo Thomas' successful 1972 children's album Free to Be... You and Me.
11/01/1930
Ron Mulock, Australian lawyer and politician, 10th Deputy Premier of New South Wales (died 2014)
Ronald Joseph Mulock AO KCSG was an Australian politician. A former City of Penrith mayor, he was an Australian Labor Party member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1971 to 1988. He was Deputy Premier of New South Wales under Neville Wran and Barrie Unsworth from 1984 to 1988.
Rod Taylor, Australian-American actor and screenwriter (died 2015)
Rodney Sturt Taylor was an Australian actor. He appeared in more than 50 feature films, including Young Cassidy (1965), Nobody Runs Forever (1968), The Train Robbers (1973), and A Matter of Wife... and Death (1975).
11/01/1929
Dmitri Bruns, Estonian architect and theorist (died 2020)
Dmitri Bruns was a Latvia-born Soviet and Estonian architect and architecture theorist of Russian origin.
11/01/1928
David L. Wolper, American director and producer (died 2010)
David Lloyd Wolper was an American television and film producer, responsible for shows such as Roots, The Thorn Birds, and North and South, and the theatrically-released films Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971) and L.A. Confidential (1997). He was awarded the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award at the 57th Academy Awards in 1985 for his work producing the opening and closing ceremonies of the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, as well as helping to bring the games there. His 1971 film about the study of insects, The Hellstrom Chronicle, won an Academy Award.
11/01/1926
Lev Dyomin, Russian colonel, pilot, and astronaut (died 1998)
Lev Stepanovich Dyomin was a Soviet cosmonaut who flew on the Soyuz 15 spaceflight in 1974. This spaceflight was intended to dock with the space station Salyut 3, but the docking failed.
11/01/1925
Grant Tinker, American television producer, co-founded MTM Enterprises (died 2016)
Grant Almerin Tinker was an American television executive who was chairman and CEO of NBC from 1981 to 1986. Additionally, he was a co-founder of MTM Enterprises and a television producer.
11/01/1924
Roger Guillemin, French-American physician and endocrinologist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2024)
Roger Charles Louis Guillemin was a French-American neuroscientist. He received the National Medal of Science in 1976, and the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1977 for his work on neurohormones, sharing the prize that year with Andrew Schally and Rosalyn Sussman Yalow.
Sam B. Hall, Jr., American lawyer, judge, and politician (died 1994)
Samuel Blakeley Hall Jr. was an American lawyer, politician, and judge. He was a member of the United States House of Representatives from Texas's 1st congressional district from 1976 to 1985 and a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas from 1985 until his death in 1994.
Slim Harpo, American blues singer-songwriter and musician (died 1970)
Slim Harpo was an American blues musician, a leading exponent of the swamp blues style, and "one of the most commercially successful blues artists of his day". He played guitar and was a master of the blues harmonica, known in blues circles as a "harp". His most successful and influential recordings included "I'm a King Bee" (1957), "Rainin' in My Heart" (1961), and "Baby Scratch My Back" (1966), which reached number one on Billboard's R&B chart and number 16 on its broader Hot 100 singles chart.
11/01/1923
Jerome Bixby, American author and screenwriter (died 1998)
Drexel Jerome Lewis Bixby was an American short story writer and scriptwriter. He wrote the 1953 story "It's a Good Life", which was included in The Science Fiction Hall of Fame.
Ernst Nolte, German historian and philosopher (died 2016)
Ernst Nolte was a German historian and philosopher. Nolte's major interest was the comparative studies of fascism and communism. Originally trained in philosophy, he was professor emeritus of modern history at the Free University of Berlin, where he taught from 1973 until his 1991 retirement. He was previously a professor at the University of Marburg from 1965 to 1973. He was best known for his seminal work Fascism in Its Epoch, which received widespread acclaim when it was published in 1963. Nolte was a prominent conservative academic from the early 1960s and was involved in many controversies related to the interpretation of the history of fascism and communism, including the Historikerstreit in the late 1980s. In later years, Nolte focused on Islamism and "Islamic fascism".
Carroll Shelby, American race car driver, engineer, and businessman, founded Carroll Shelby International (died 2012)
Carroll Hall Shelby was an American automotive designer, racing driver, and entrepreneur.
11/01/1921
Gory Guerrero, American wrestler and trainer (died 1990)
Salvador Guerrero Quesada, better known as Gory Guerrero, was an American and Mexican professional wrestler, promoter, and booker. He was a major star of Lucha Libre during his time, and worked primarily in Empresa Mexicana de la Lucha Libre (EMLL) between the 1940s and 1960s, as well as for the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA) in the United States. He was the patriarch of the Guerrero wrestling family.
Juanita M. Kreps, American economist and politician, 24th United States Secretary of Commerce (died 2010)
Clara Juanita Morris Kreps was an American economist, educator and businesswoman who served as the 24th United States secretary of commerce under President Jimmy Carter from 1977 to 1979. A member of the Democratic Party, Kreps was the first woman to hold that post and the fourth female ever to serve in a presidential cabinet.
11/01/1920
Mick McManus, English wrestler (died 2013)
Mick McManus was an English professional wrestler. The role he played was noted as a heel European wrestler and often went by the nicknames "The Man You Love to Hate", "Rugged South London Tough Guy" and "The Dulwich Destroyer".
11/01/1918
Robert C. O'Brien, American author and journalist (died 1973)
Robert Leslie Carroll Conly, better known by his pen name Robert C. O'Brien, was an American novelist and a journalist for National Geographic magazine. He is best known for his children's novel Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH (1971), which won the 1972 Newbery Medal. His novel was later adapted to Don Bluth's animated film The Secret of NIMH (1982).
Spencer Walklate, Australian rugby league player and soldier (died 1945)
Spencer Walklate was an Australian rugby league footballer who played in the 1940s and served as a special operations serviceman who was killed in action in World War II.
11/01/1917
John Robarts, Canadian lawyer and politician, 17th Premier of Ontario (died 1982)
John Parmenter Robarts was a Canadian lawyer and politician who served as the 17th premier of Ontario from 1961 to 1971. He was a member of the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario.
11/01/1916
Bernard Blier, Argentinian-French actor (died 1989)
Bernard Blier was a French character actor.
11/01/1915
Luise Krüger, German javelin thrower (died 2001)
Luise Krüger was a female, German athlete, who competed mainly in the javelin. She won the bronze medal for her native country at the 1934 Women's World Games in London and the silver medal at the 1936 Summer Olympics held in Berlin, Germany, behind teammate Tilly Fleischer. She was born and died in Dresden.
Paddy Mayne, British colonel and lawyer (died 1955)
Lieutenant-Colonel Robert Blair Mayne,, best known as Paddy Mayne or familiarly as Blair, was a British Army officer from Newtownards. He was an amateur boxing champion, qualified as a solicitor and played rugby union for Ireland and the British Lions before becoming a founding member of the Special Air Service (SAS).
11/01/1913
Karl Stegger, Danish actor (died 1980)
Karl Stegger was a Danish actor, who appeared in 158 films which makes him the most used Danish film actor..
11/01/1912
Don "Red" Barry, American actor, producer, and screenwriter (died 1980)
Don Barry, also known as Red Barry, was an American film and television actor. He was nicknamed "Red" after appearing as the first Red Ryder in the highly successful 1940 film Adventures of Red Ryder with Noah Beery Sr.; the character was played in later films by "Wild Bill" Elliott and Allan Lane. Barry went on to bigger budget films following Red Ryder, but none reached his previous level of success. He played Red Doyle in the 1964 Perry Mason episode "The Case of the Simple Simon".
11/01/1911
Tommy Duncan, American singer-songwriter (died 1967)
Thomas Elmer Duncan, was an American Western swing vocalist and songwriter who gained fame in the 1930s as a founding member of The Texas Playboys. He recorded and toured with bandleader Bob Wills on and off into the early 1960s.
Nora Heysen, Australian painter (died 2003)
Nora Heysen, was an Australian artist, the first woman to win the Archibald Prize in 1938 for portraiture and the first Australian woman appointed as an official war artist.
Zenkō Suzuki, Japanese politician, 70th Prime Minister of Japan (died 2004)
Zenkō Suzuki was a Japanese politician who served as prime minister of Japan from 1980 to 1982.
11/01/1910
Arthur Lambourn, New Zealand rugby player (died 1999)
Arthur Lambourn was a New Zealand rugby union player. A front rower, Lambourn represented Wellington at a provincial level, and was a member of the New Zealand national side, the All Blacks, from 1932 to 1938. He played 40 matches for the All Blacks including 10 internationals.
Shane Paltridge, Australian soldier and politician (died 1966)
Sir Shane Dunne Paltridge was an Australian politician. He was a member of the Liberal Party and served in the Menzies Government as Minister for Shipping and Transport (1955–1960), Civil Aviation (1956–1964), and Defence (1964–1966). He was a Senator for Western Australia from 1951 until his death in 1966. Prior to entering politics he worked as a bank clerk, hotel manager and soldier.
11/01/1908
Lionel Stander, American actor and activist (died 1994)
Lionel Jay Stander was an American actor, activist, and a founding member of the Screen Actors Guild. He had an extensive career in theatre, film, radio, and television that spanned nearly 70 years, from 1928 until 1994. He was known for his distinctive raspy voice and tough-guy demeanor, as well as for his vocal left-wing political stances. One of the first Hollywood actors to be subpoenaed before the House Un-American Activities Committee, he was blacklisted from the late 1940s until the mid-1960s.
11/01/1907
Pierre Mendès France, French lawyer and politician, 142nd Prime Minister of France (died 1982)
Pierre Isaac Isidore Mendès France was a French politician who served as prime minister of France for eight months from 1954 to 1955. As a member of the Radical Party, he headed a government supported by a coalition of Gaullists (RPF), moderate socialists (UDSR), Christian democrats (MRP) and liberal-conservatives (CNIP). Pierre-Mendès France is primarily remembered as the French Prime Minister who was in office at the outbreak of the Algerian independence war in 1954. During his tenure, France initiated close military cooperation with Israel, selling arms and aircraft to the young state. Mendès-France laid the groundwork for France’s military nuclear program and the early transfer of nuclear technology to Israel.
Abraham Joshua Heschel, Polish-American rabbi, theologian, and philosopher (died 1972)
Abraham Joshua Heschel was a Polish-American rabbi and one of the leading Jewish theologians and Jewish philosophers of the 20th century. Heschel, a professor of Jewish mysticism at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, authored a number of widely read books on Jewish philosophy and was a leader in the U.S. civil rights movement.
11/01/1906
Albert Hofmann, Swiss chemist and academic, discoverer of LSD (died 2008)
Albert Hofmann was a Swiss chemist known for being the first to synthesize, ingest, and learn of the psychedelic effects of lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD). Hofmann's team also isolated, named and synthesized the principal psychedelic mushroom compounds psilocybin and psilocin. Hofmann discovered the structure of chitin in 1929. He authored more than 100 scientific articles and numerous books, including LSD: Mein Sorgenkind. In 2007, he shared first place with Tim Berners-Lee on a list of the 100 greatest living geniuses published by The Daily Telegraph.
11/01/1905
Clyde Kluckhohn, American anthropologist and theorist (died 1960)
Clyde Kay Maben Kluckhohn, was an American anthropologist and social theorist, best known for his long-term ethnographic work among the Navajo and his contributions to the development of theory of culture within American anthropology. During his lifetime, Kluckhohn was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1944), the United States National Academy of Sciences (1952), and the American Philosophical Society (1952).
11/01/1903
Alan Paton, South African author and activist (died 1988)
Alan Stewart Paton was a South African writer and anti-apartheid activist. His works include the novels Cry, the Beloved Country (1948), Too Late the Phalarope (1953), and the short story The Waste Land.
11/01/1902
Maurice Duruflé, French organist and composer (died 1986)
Maurice Gustave Duruflé was a French composer, organist, musicologist, and teacher. He is particularly well known for his Requiem (1947).
11/01/1901
Kwon Ki-ok, Korean pilot (died 1988)
Kwon Ki-ok was the first Korean female aviator, as well as one of the first female pilots in China. Her name in Chinese is Quan Jiyu. Kwon went into exile in China during the Japanese occupation of Korea and became a lieutenant colonel in the Republic of China's air force. She returned home after the liberation of Korea and became a founding member of the Republic of Korea Air Force.
11/01/1899
Eva Le Gallienne, English-American actress, director, and producer (died 1991)
Eva Le Gallienne was a British-American stage actress, producer, director, translator, and author. A Broadway star by age 21, in 1926 she left Broadway behind to found the Civic Repertory Theatre, where she served as director, producer, and lead actress. Noted for her boldness and idealism, she was a pioneering figure in the American theater, setting the stage for the Off-Broadway and regional theater movements that swept the country later in the 20th century. She had significant success with her stage adaptation of Alice in Wonderland which was staged multiple times on Broadway.
11/01/1897
Bernard DeVoto, American historian and author (died 1955)
Bernard Augustine DeVoto was an American historian, conservationist, essayist, columnist, teacher, editor, and reviewer. He was the author of a series of Pulitzer-Prize-winning popular histories of the American West and for many years wrote The Easy Chair, an influential column in Harper's Magazine. DeVoto also wrote several well-regarded novels and during the 1950s served as a speech-writer for Adlai Stevenson. His friend and biographer, Wallace Stegner described DeVoto as "flawed, brilliant, provocative, outrageous, ... often wrong, often spectacularly right, always stimulating, sometimes infuriating, and never, never dull."
August Heissmeyer, German SS officer (died 1979)
August Friedrich Heissmeyer or Heißmeyer, was a German member of the Nazi Party who rose to become an SS-Obergruppenführer in the Schutzstaffel (SS). He held several major commands, including as the chief of the SS Main Office from 1935 to 1939 and as the Higher SS and Police Leader of the Berlin district from 1939 to 1945. He was also headed the National Political Institutes of Education, a network of elite secondary boarding schools established to train future leaders of the Nazi state. He was the husband of Gertrud Scholtz-Klink, the head of the National Socialist Women's League. After the Second World War, Heissmeyer underwent denazification, was convicted as a major offender and served three years in prison.
11/01/1895
Laurens Hammond, American engineer and businessman, founded the Hammond Clock Company (died 1973)
Laurens Hammond was an American engineer and inventor. His inventions include the Hammond organ, the Hammond clock, and the world's first polyphonic musical synthesizer, the Novachord.
11/01/1893
Ellinor Aiki, Estonian painter (died 1969)
Ellinor Aiki was an Estonian painter who is possibly best recalled for her works in later life of vibrant and colorful, heavily textured portraits, landscapes and compositions interspersed with whimsical motifs.
Charles Fraser, Australian rugby league player and coach (died 1981)
Charles "Chook" Fraser (1893–1981) was an Australian rugby league footballer and later coach. He was a versatile three-quarter for the Australian national team. He played in 11 Tests between 1911 and 1920 as captain on 3 occasions. He is considered one of the nation's finest footballers of the 20th century
Anthony M. Rud, American journalist and author (died 1942)
Anthony Melville Rud was an American writer and pulp magazine editor. Some of his works were published under the pen names R. Anthony, Ray McGillivary, and Anson Piper.
11/01/1891
Andrew Sockalexis, American runner (died 1919)
Andrew Sockalexis was an American track and field athlete who competed in the 1912 Summer Olympics.
11/01/1890
Max Carey, American baseball player and manager (died 1976)
Maximillian George Carnarius, also known as Max George Carey, was an American professional baseball center fielder and manager. Carey played in Major League Baseball for the Pittsburgh Pirates from 1910 through 1926 and for the Brooklyn Robins from 1926 through 1929. He managed the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1932 and 1933.
Oswald de Andrade, Brazilian poet and critic (died 1954)
José Oswald de Souza Andrade was a Brazilian poet, novelist and cultural critic. He was born in, spent most of his life in, and died in São Paulo.
11/01/1889
Calvin Bridges, American geneticist and academic (died 1938)
Calvin Blackman Bridges was an American scientist known for his contributions to the field of genetics. Along with Alfred Sturtevant and Hermann Joseph Muller, Bridges was part of Thomas Hunt Morgan's famous "Fly Room" at Columbia University.
11/01/1888
Joseph B. Keenan, American jurist and politician (died 1954)
Joseph Berry Keenan was an American lawyer best known for serving as Chief Prosecutor for the International Military Tribunal for the Far East. He previously served as Assistant Attorney General in the administration of President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
11/01/1887
Aldo Leopold, American ecologist and author (died 1948)
Aldo Leopold was an American writer, philosopher, naturalist, scientist, ecologist, forester, professor, conservationist, and environmentalist. He taught at the University of Wisconsin and is best known for his book A Sand County Almanac (1949), which has been translated into fifteen languages and has sold more than two million copies.
11/01/1886
George Zucco, British actor (died 1960)
George Zucco was a British character actor who appeared in plays and 96 films, mostly American-made, during a career spanning over two decades, from the 1920s to 1951. In his films, he often played a suave villain, a member of nobility, or a mad doctor.
11/01/1885
Alice Paul, American activist and suffragist (died 1977)
Alice Stokes Paul was an American Quaker, suffragette, suffragist, feminist, and women's rights activist, and one of the foremost leaders and strategists of the campaign for the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which prohibits sex discrimination in the right to vote. Paul initiated, and along with Lucy Burns and others, strategized events such as the Woman Suffrage Procession and the Silent Sentinels, which were part of the successful campaign that resulted in the amendment's passage in August 1920.
11/01/1878
Theodoros Pangalos, Greek general and politician, President of Greece (died 1952)
Theodoros Pangalos was a Greek general, politician and dictator, who ruled Greece from 24 June 1925 to 22 August 1926. A distinguished staff officer and an ardent Venizelist and anti-royalist, Pangalos participated in the Goudi coup in 1909, served with distinction in the Balkan Wars, Macedonian front of World War I, and the Greco-Turkish War (1919–1922), and played a leading role in the September 1922 revolt that deposed King Constantine I and in the establishment of the Second Hellenic Republic. In June 1925, Pangalos staged a bloodless coup d'État, and his assumption of power was recognised by the National Assembly, which named him prime minister. As a "constitutional dictator", he ruled the country until his overthrow in August 1926. From April 1926 until his deposition, he had also occupied the office of President of the Republic.
11/01/1876
Elmer Flick, American baseball player (died 1971)
Elmer Harrison Flick was an American professional baseball outfielder who played in Major League Baseball from 1898 to 1910 for the Philadelphia Phillies, Philadelphia Athletics, and Cleveland Bronchos/Naps. In 1,483 career games, Flick recorded a .313 batting average while accumulating 164 triples, 1,752 hits, 330 stolen bases, and 756 runs batted in (RBIs). He was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1963.
Thomas Hicks, American runner (died 1952)
Thomas John Hicks was an American track and field athlete. He won the marathon at the 1904 Summer Olympics.
11/01/1875
Reinhold Glière, Russian composer and academic (died 1956)
Reinhold Moritzevich Glière was a Russian and Soviet composer of German and Polish descent. He was awarded the title of People's Artist of RSFSR (1935) and People's Artist of USSR (1938).
11/01/1874
Alfonso Quiñónez Molina, Salvadoran politician, physician, and three-time president of El Salvador (died 1950)
Alfonso Quiñónez Molina was a Salvadoran politician and physician who served as President of El Salvador on three occasions during the 1910s and 1920s. He also twice served as Vice President of El Salvador under his brothers-in-law Carlos and Jorge Meléndez. The presidencies of Quiñónez and the Meléndez brothers from 1913 to 1927 are collectively known as the Meléndez–Quiñónez dynasty.
11/01/1873
John Callan O'Laughlin, American soldier and journalist (died 1949)
John Callan O'Laughlin was a journalist and longtime publisher of the Army and Navy Journal.
11/01/1872
G. W. Pierce, American physicist and academic (died 1956)
George Washington Pierce was an American physicist. He was a professor of physics at Harvard University and inventor in the development of electronic telecommunications.
11/01/1870
Alexander Stirling Calder, American sculptor and educator (died 1945)
Alexander Stirling Calder was an American sculptor and art teacher. He won a silver medal at the World's Fair of 1904 for his statue of Philip François Renault and led the sculpture program for the 1915 Panama-Pacific Exposition after the death of Karl Bitter. His notable works include the Samuel Gross statue, George Washington on the Washington Square Arch in New York City, the Swann Memorial Fountain in Philadelphia, the Depew Memorial Fountain in Indianapolis, and the Leif Erikson Memorial in Reykjavík, Iceland.
11/01/1868
Cai Yuanpei, Chinese philosopher, academic, and politician (died 1940)
Cai Yuanpei, spelt Ts'ai Yuan-p'ei during his lifetime, was a Chinese philosopher and politician who was an influential figure in the history of Chinese modern education. He made contributions to education reform with his own education ideology. He was the president of Peking University, and founder of the Academia Sinica. He was known for his critical evaluation of Chinese culture and synthesis of Chinese and Western thinking, including anarchism. He got involved in the New Culture, May Fourth Movements, and the feminist movement. His works involve aesthetic education, politics, and education reform.
11/01/1867
John Ernest Adamson, English educationalist and Director of Education of the Colony of Transvaal (died 1950)
Sir John Ernest Adamson CMG was an English educationalist. He was director of education in Transvaal, modern day South Africa from 1905 to 1924 and played an important role in developing that territory's education system.
Edward B. Titchener, English psychologist and academic (died 1927)
Edward Bradford Titchener was an English psychologist who studied under Wilhelm Wundt for several years. Titchener is best known for creating his version of psychology that described the structure of the mind: structuralism. After becoming a professor at Cornell University, he created the largest doctoral program at that time in the United States. His first graduate student, Margaret Floy Washburn, became the first woman to be granted a PhD in psychology (1894).
11/01/1864
Thomas Dixon, Jr., American minister, lawyer, and politician (died 1946)
Thomas Frederick Dixon Jr. was an American white supremacist and polymath: a Baptist minister, politician, lawyer, lecturer, writer, and filmmaker. Dixon wrote two best-selling novels, The Leopard's Spots: A Romance of the White Man's Burden—1865–1900 (1902) and The Clansman: A Historical Romance of the Ku Klux Klan (1905), that romanticized Southern white supremacy, endorsed the Lost Cause of the Confederacy, opposed equal rights for black people, and glorified the Ku Klux Klan as heroic vigilantes. Film director D. W. Griffith adapted The Clansman for the screen in The Birth of a Nation (1915). The film inspired the creators of the 20th-century rebirth of the Klan.
11/01/1859
George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston, English politician, 35th Governor-General of India (died 1925)
George Nathaniel Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston, known as Lord Curzon, was a British statesman, Conservative politician, explorer and writer who served as Viceroy of India from 1899 to 1905 and Foreign Secretary from 1919 to 1924.
11/01/1858
Harry Gordon Selfridge, American-English businessman, founded Selfridges (died 1947)
Harry Gordon Selfridge, Sr. was an American retail magnate who founded the London-based department store Selfridges. The early years of his leadership led to his becoming one of the wealthiest and most respected retail magnates in the United Kingdom. He was known as "the Earl of Oxford Street".
11/01/1857
Fred Archer, English jockey (died 1886)
Frederick James Archer, also known by the nickname The Tin Man, was an English flat race jockey of the Victorian era, described as "the best all-round jockey that the turf has ever seen".
11/01/1856
Christian Sinding, Norwegian pianist and composer (died 1941)
Christian August Sinding was a Norwegian composer. He is best known for his lyrical work for piano Frühlingsrauschen. He was often compared to Edvard Grieg and regarded as his successor.
11/01/1853
Georgios Jakobides, Greek painter and sculptor (died 1932)
Georgios Jakobides was a Greek painter and medallist, one of the main representatives of the Greek artistic movement of the Munich School. He founded and was the first curator of the National Gallery of Greece in Athens.
11/01/1852
Constantin Fehrenbach, German lawyer and politician, 4th Chancellor of Weimar Germany (died 1926)
Constantin Fehrenbach, sometimes erroneously Konstantin Fehrenbach,, was a German politician who was one of the major leaders of the Catholic Centre Party. He served as president of the Reichstag in 1918 and then as president of the Weimar National Assembly from 1919 to 1920. In June 1920, Fehrenbach became Chancellor of Germany. During his time in office, the central issue he had to face was German compliance with the terms of the Treaty of Versailles. He resigned in May 1921 when his cabinet was unable to reach a consensus on war reparations payments to the Allies. Fehrenbach remained in the Reichstag and headed the Centre Party's contingent there from 1923 until his death in 1926.
11/01/1850
Joseph Charles Arthur, American pathologist and mycologist (died 1942)
Joseph Charles Arthur was a pioneer American plant pathologist and mycologist best known for his work with the parasitic rust fungi (Pucciniales). He was a charter member of the Botanical Society of America, the Mycological Society of America, and the American Phytopathological Society. He was an elected member of both the American Philosophical Society and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He was a recipient of the first Doctorate in Sciences awarded by Cornell University. The standard author abbreviation Arthur is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.
11/01/1845
Albert Victor Bäcklund, Swedish mathematician and physicist (died 1912)
Albert Victor Bäcklund was a Swedish mathematician and physicist. He was a professor at Lund University and its rector from 1907 to 1909.
11/01/1843
Adolf Eberle, German painter (died 1914)
Adolf Eberle was a German painter who specialised in genre painting, particularly of Bavarian and Tyrolean farmers and huntsmen.
11/01/1842
William James, American psychologist and philosopher (died 1910)
William James was an American philosopher and psychologist. The first educator to offer a psychology course in the United States, he is considered to be one of the leading thinkers of the late 19th century, one of the most influential philosophers and is often dubbed the "father of American psychology". A Review of General Psychology analysis, published in 2002, ranked James as the 14th most eminent psychologist of the 20th century. A survey published in American Psychologist in 1991 ranked James's reputation in second place, after Wilhelm Wundt, who is widely regarded as the founder of experimental psychology.
11/01/1839
Eugenio María de Hostos, Puerto Rican lawyer, philosopher, and sociologist (died 1903)
Eugenio María de Hostos y de Bonilla, known as El Gran Ciudadano de las Américas, was a Puerto Rican educator, philosopher, intellectual, lawyer, sociologist, novelist, and Puerto Rican independence advocate.
11/01/1825
Bayard Taylor, American poet, author, and critic (died 1878)
Bayard Taylor was an American poet, literary critic, translator, travel author, and diplomat. As a poet, he was very popular, with a crowd of more than 4,000 attending a poetry reading once, which was a record that stood for 85 years. His travelogues were popular in both the United States and Great Britain. He served in diplomatic posts in Russia and Prussia.
11/01/1815
John A. Macdonald, Scottish-Canadian lawyer and politician, 1st Prime Minister of Canada (died 1891)
Sir John Alexander Macdonald was the first prime minister of Canada, serving from 1867 to 1873 and from 1878 until his death in 1891. He was the dominant figure of Canadian Confederation, and had a political career that spanned almost half a century.
11/01/1814
James Paget, English surgeon and pathologist (died 1899)
Sir James Paget, 1st Baronet FRS HFRSE was an English surgeon and pathologist who is best remembered for first describing Paget's disease and who is considered, together with Rudolf Virchow, as one of the founders of scientific medical pathology. His famous works included Lectures on Tumours (1851) and Lectures on Surgical Pathology (1853). There are several medical conditions which were described by, and later named after, Paget:Paget's disease of bone Paget's disease of the nipple Extramammary Paget's disease refers to a group of similar, more rare skin lesions discovered by Radcliffe Crocker in 1889 which affect the male and female genitalia. Paget–Schroetter disease Paget's abscess, an abscess that recurs at the site of a former abscess which had resolved.
Socrates Nelson, American businessman and politician (died 1867)
Socrates Nelson was an American businessman, politician, and pioneer who served one term as a Minnesota State Senator from 1859 to 1861. He was a general store owner, lumberman, and real estate speculator associated with numerous companies in the insurance and rail industries. He was involved in the establishment of the community of Stillwater, Minnesota, and was an early member of the first Independent Order of Odd Fellows lodge in Minnesota. He served on the University of Minnesota's first board of regents before being elected to the Minnesota Senate.
11/01/1807
Ezra Cornell, American businessman and philanthropist, founded Western Union and Cornell University (died 1874)
Ezra Cornell was an American businessman, politician, academic, and philanthropist. He was involved in the founding of Western Union and a co-founder of Cornell University. He also served as president of the New York Agriculture Society and as a New York State Senator.
11/01/1800
Ányos Jedlik, Hungarian physicist and engineer (died 1895)
Ányos István Jedlik was a Hungarian inventor, engineer, physicist, and Benedictine priest. He was also a member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, and author of several books. He is considered by Hungarians and Slovaks to be the unsung father of the dynamo and electric motor.
11/01/1788
William Thomas Brande, English chemist and academic (died 1866)
William Thomas Brande FRS FRSE was an English chemist.
11/01/1786
Joseph Jackson Lister, English physicist (died 1869)
Joseph Jackson Lister FRS FRMS was an English opticist and physicist best known for being the father of Joseph Lister, 1st Baron Lister.
11/01/1777
Vincenzo Borg, Maltese merchant and rebel leader (died 1837)
Vincenzo Maria Borg, also known by his nickname Brared, was a Maltese merchant who was one of the main insurgent leaders during the French blockade of 1798–1800. He was a lieutenant from 1801 until he was deposed in January 1804.
11/01/1760
Oliver Wolcott Jr., American lawyer and politician, 2nd United States Secretary of the Treasury, 24th Governor of Connecticut (died 1833)
Oliver Wolcott Jr. was an American politician and judge. He was the second United States Secretary of the Treasury, a judge of the United States Circuit Court for the Second Circuit, and the 24th Governor of Connecticut. His adult life began with working in Connecticut, followed by participating in the U.S. federal government in the Department of Treasury, before returning to Connecticut, where he spent his life before his death. Throughout his time in politics, Wolcott's political views shifted from Federalist, to Toleration, and finally Jacksonian. Oliver Wolcott Jr. is the son to Oliver Wolcott Sr., part of the Griswold-Wolcott family.
11/01/1757
Samuel Bentham, English engineer and architect (died 1831)
Brigadier-General Sir Samuel Bentham was an English mechanical engineer and naval architect credited with numerous innovations, particularly related to naval architecture, including weapons. He was the only surviving sibling of philosopher Jeremy Bentham, with whom he had a close bond.
11/01/1755
Alexander Hamilton, Nevisian-American general, economist and politician, 1st United States Secretary of the Treasury (died 1804)
Alexander Hamilton was an American military officer, statesman, and Founding Father who served as the first U.S. secretary of the treasury from 1789 to 1795 under the presidency of George Washington. He also founded America's first political party, the Federalist Party, in 1791.
11/01/1671
François-Marie, 1st duc de Broglie, French general and diplomat (died 1745)
François Marie de Broglie, 1st Duke of Broglie was a French Royal Army officer and diplomat.
11/01/1650
Diana Glauber, Dutch-German painter (died 1721)
Diana Glauber, was a Dutch Golden Age painter.
11/01/1642
Johann Friedrich Alberti, German organist and composer (died 1710)
Johann Friedrich Alberti was a German composer and organist.
11/01/1638
Nicolas Steno, Danish bishop and anatomist (died 1686)
Niels Steensen was a Danish scientist, a pioneer in both anatomy and geology who became a Catholic bishop in his later years. He has been beatified by the Catholic Church.
11/01/1630
John Rogers, English-American minister, physician, and academic (died 1684)
John Rogers was an English Puritan minister, and academic who served as the fifth president of Harvard College from 1682 to 1684.
11/01/1624
Bastiaan Govertsz van der Leeuw, Dutch painter (died 1680)
Bastiaan Govertsz van der Leeuw was a Dutch Golden Age landscape painter.
11/01/1591
Robert Devereux, 3rd Earl of Essex, English general and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Staffordshire (died 1646)
Robert Devereux, 3rd Earl of Essex, KB, PC was an English Parliamentarian and soldier during the first half of the 17th century. With the start of the Civil War in 1642, he became the first Captain-General and Chief Commander of the Parliamentarian army, also known as the Roundheads. However, he was unable and unwilling to score a decisive blow against the Royalist army of King Charles I. He was eventually overshadowed by the ascendancy of Oliver Cromwell and Thomas Fairfax, and resigned his commission in 1646.
11/01/1589
William Strode, English politician (died 1666)
Colonel William Strode, Jr — called William Strode of Barrington to distinguish him from contemporaries of the same name, principally the Strodes of Newnham in Devon — was an English Parliamentarian officer and Member of Parliament. A wealthy cloth merchant, he acquired several estates in his native county of Somerset. He was noted for his local philanthropy as well as his political and military opposition to King Charles I and Charles II.
11/01/1503
Parmigianino, Italian artist (died 1540)
Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola, also known as Francesco Mazzola or, more commonly, as Parmigianino, was an Italian Mannerist painter and printmaker active in Florence, Rome, Bologna, and his native city of Parma. His work is characterized by a "refined sensuality" and often elongation of forms and includes Vision of Saint Jerome (1527) and the iconic if somewhat anomalous Madonna with the Long Neck (1534), and he remains the best known artist of the first generation whose whole careers fall into the Mannerist period.
11/01/1395
Michele of Valois, daughter of Charles VI of France (died 1422)
Michelle of France, also called Michelle of Valois, was Duchess consort of Burgundy as the first wife of Philip III, Duke of Burgundy, called "Philip the Good". She was born a princess of France as the daughter of Charles VI, King of France and Isabeau of Bavaria.
11/01/1359
Emperor Go-En'yū of Japan (died 1393)
Emperor Go-En'yū was the 5th of the Emperors of Northern Court during the period of two courts in Japan. According to pre-Meiji scholars, his reign spanned the years from 1371 through 1382.
11/01/1322
Emperor Kōmyō of Japan (died 1380)
Emperor Kōmyō was the second of the Emperors of Northern Court, although he was the first to be supported by the Ashikaga Bakufu. According to pre-Meiji scholars, his reign spanned the years from 1336 through 1348.
11/01/1209
Möngke Khan, Mongolian emperor (died 1259)
Möngke Khan was the fourth khagan of the Mongol Empire, ruling from 1 July 1251 to 11 August 1259. He was the first Khagan from the Toluid line, and made significant reforms to improve the administration of the Empire during his reign. Under Möngke, the Mongols conquered Iraq and Syria as well as the kingdom of Dali.
11/01/1113
Wang Chongyang, Chinese religious leader and poet (died 1170)
Wang Chongyang is the founder of the Quanzhen school of Taoism. In his life he had many devotees and followers, but formally accepted seven major disciples which are known as the Seven Perfected or the Seven Masters of Quanzhen: Ma Danyang, Qiu Chuji, Tan Chuduan, Liu Chuxuan, Hao Datong, Wang Chuyi, and Sun Bu’er. Wang Chongyang is one of the Five Northern Patriarchs of Quanzhen, which in order they are: Wang Xuanfu 王玄甫, Zhongli Quan 钟离权, Lü Dongbin 吕洞宾, Liu Haichan 刘海蟾, Wang Chongyang 王重阳. He is also one of the Eight Immortals of Taoism.
11/01/0889
Abd-ar-Rahman III, first Caliph of Córdoba (died 961)
ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn al-Ḥakam al-Rabdī ibn Hishām ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Dākhil al-Marwānī al-Umawī al-Qurashī, or simply ʿAbd al-Raḥmān III, was the Umayyad Emir of Córdoba from 912 to 929, at which point he founded the Caliphate of Córdoba, serving as its first caliph until his death. Abd al-Rahman won the laqab (sobriquet) al-Nāṣir li-Dīn Allāh in his early 20s when he supported the Maghrawa Berbers in North Africa against Fatimid expansion and later claimed the title of Caliph for himself. His half-century reign was known for its religious tolerance.
11/01/0347
Theodosius I, Roman emperor (died 395)
Theodosius I, also known as Theodosius the Great, was Roman emperor from 379 to 395. He won two civil wars and was instrumental in establishing the Nicene Creed as the orthodox doctrine for Nicene Christianity. Theodosius was the last emperor to rule the entire Roman Empire before its administration was permanently split between the Western Roman Empire and the Eastern Roman Empire. He ended the Gothic War (376–382), but did so on terms disadvantageous to the empire, with the Goths remaining politically autonomous within Roman territory, albeit as nominal allies.