Born on Saturday, 24th January – Famous Birthdays

24/01/2012

Princess Athena of Denmark

Countess Athena of Monpezat is a member of the Danish royal family. She is the younger child and only daughter of Prince Joachim and Princess Marie of Denmark. She is the youngest grandchild of Queen Margrethe II and Prince Henrik, and the niece of King Frederik X. Athena is currently ninth in the line of succession to the Danish throne.

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24/01/2003

Johnny Orlando, Canadian singer and songwriter

John Vincent Orlando is a Canadian singer-songwriter, and actor. He first received attention on social media by posting covers of pop songs by artists such as Austin Mahone, Taylor Swift, Rihanna, Justin Bieber, and Shawn Mendes to his YouTube channel. In 2019, Orlando was nominated for the Juno Award for Breakthrough Artist of the Year. He has also won an MTV Europe Music Award for Best Canadian Act four times in 2019, 2020, 2021, and 2022.

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24/01/1999

Vitalie Damașcan, Moldovan footballer

Vitalie Damașcan is a Moldovan professional footballer who plays as a forward for Israeli Premier League club Maccabi Bnei Reineh and the Moldova national team.

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Niki, Indonesian singer and songwriter

Nicole Zefanya, known professionally as Niki, is an Indonesian singer-songwriter. Having garnered global recognition for her songwriting and musicianship, she is currently based in the United States and signed with the record label 88rising. She is best known from her global hit "Every Summertime", which was part of the soundtrack for the film Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings and later was certified gold by the RIAA for selling over 500,000 copies.

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Tristan Wirfs, American football player

Tristan Patrick Wirfs is an American professional football offensive tackle for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Iowa Hawkeyes, and was selected in the first round by Tampa Bay in the 2020 NFL draft. He has been selected to five consecutive Pro Bowls.

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24/01/1991

Zhan Beleniuk, Ukrainian Greco-Roman wrestler

Zhan Vensanovych Beleniuk is a Ukrainian politician and Greco-Roman wrestler. He is a three-time Olympic medalist and won the gold medal in the Greco-Roman 87 kg at the 2020 Summer Olympics, the silver medal in the Greco-Roman 85 kg at the 2016 Summer Olympics and a bronze medal in the Greco-Roman 87 kg at the 2024 Summer Olympics. Beleniuk is also a two-time world champion, a three-time European champion and a European Games champion. In 2019, he became the first black member of the Ukrainian Parliament.

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Tatiana Kashirina, Russian weightlifter

Tatiana Yuryevna Kashirina is a Russian Olympic weightlifter, Olympic silver medalist, five time World Champion and eight time European Champion competing in the +90 kg and +75 kg categories until 2018 and +87 kg starting in 2018 after the International Weightlifting Federation reorganized the categories. On 9 September 2023, the Court of Arbitration for Sport annulled over four years of her results due to drugs offenses, stating, "All the competitive results obtained by Tatiana Kashirina from 1 April 2013 until 19 June 2017 were disqualified, with all the resulting consequences, including the forfeiture of any titles, awards, medals, points and prize and appearance money."

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Zack Kassian, Canadian ice hockey player

Zack Adam Kassian is a Canadian former professional ice hockey winger. He most recently played for HC Sparta Praha in the Czech Extraliga. During his major junior career, he won a Memorial Cup with the Windsor Spitfires of the Ontario Hockey League (OHL) in 2010. Selected in the first round, 13th overall, by the Buffalo Sabres of the National Hockey League (NHL) in the 2009 NHL entry draft, Kassian began his career within the Sabres organization before being traded to the Vancouver Canucks in 2012. He played parts of four seasons with the Canucks before being dealt to the Montreal Canadiens in 2015. Kassian never played for the Canadiens, however, as he was suspended for substance abuse issues, and was moved to the Edmonton Oilers several months later. After seven seasons in Edmonton, Kassian was traded yet again to the Arizona Coyotes, spending one season there before retiring from NHL play during the 2023–24 season.

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24/01/1990

Mao Abe, Japanese singer-songwriter and guitarist

Mao Abe is a Japanese singer-songwriter.

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24/01/1989

Serdar Kesimal, Turkish footballer

Serdar Kesimal is a Turkish footballer who plays as a centre back. Kesimal is also a youth international, having been capped at the U-20 and U-21 levels.

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Gong Lijiao, Chinese shot putter

Gong Lijiao is a Chinese former Olympic shot putter and the 2020 Olympic champion in that event. A five-time Olympic player and a three-time Olympic medalist, she holds a record eight successive medals at the World Athletics Championships, including two world titles.

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Whit Merrifield, American baseball player

Whitley David Merrifield is an American former professional baseball second baseman and outfielder who played nine seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Kansas City Royals, Toronto Blue Jays, Philadelphia Phillies, and Atlanta Braves. Merrifield was a three-time All-Star and led the American League in stolen bases three times.

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José Quintana, Colombian baseball player

José Guillermo Quintana is a Colombian-American professional baseball pitcher for the Colorado Rockies of Major League Baseball (MLB). He has previously played in MLB for the Chicago White Sox, Chicago Cubs, Los Angeles Angels, San Francisco Giants, Pittsburgh Pirates, St. Louis Cardinals, New York Mets, and Milwaukee Brewers.

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Ki Sung-yueng, South Korean footballer

Ki Sung-yueng is a South Korean professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for K League 1 club Pohang Steelers.

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24/01/1988

Selina Jörg, German snowboarder

Selina Jörg is a German snowboarder.

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DaJuan Summers, American basketball player

DaJuan Michael Summers is an American professional basketball player for Piratas de La Guaira of the Superliga Profesional de Baloncesto (SPB). He played college basketball for the Georgetown Hoyas. In the 2009 NBA draft, he was drafted 35th overall by the Detroit Pistons.

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24/01/1987

Brian Cushing, American football player

Brian Patrick Cushing is an American former professional football player who was a linebacker for the Houston Texans of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the USC Trojans, and was selected by the Texans in the first round of the 2009 NFL draft. He played his entire nine-year career with Houston from 2009 to 2017 and became the team's all-time leading tackler.

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Luis Suárez, Uruguayan footballer

Luis Alberto Suárez Díaz is a Uruguayan professional footballer who plays as a striker for Major League Soccer club Inter Miami. He is regarded as one of the best players of his generation and one of the greatest strikers of all time. Nicknamed "El Pistolero", individually, he has won two European Golden Shoes, an Eredivisie Golden Boot, a Premier League Golden Boot and a Pichichi Trophy. He ranks fourth for the all-time South American men's top goalscorers in international football (69), only trailing Pelé (77), Neymar (79), and Lionel Messi (115). He has also scored over 600 career goals and provided over 300 assists for club and country.

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Kia Vaughn, American-Czech basketball player

Kia Vaughn is an American-born former professional basketball player. She last played for the Atlanta Dream of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) She attended high school at St. Michael's All Girls High School in New York, and later went on to star at Rutgers University.

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Guan Xin, Chinese basketball player

Guan Xin is a basketball player for the China women's national basketball team. She was part of the squad for the 2012 Summer Olympics.

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24/01/1986

Cristiano Araújo, Brazilian singer-songwriter (died 2015)

Cristiano de Melo Araújo was a Brazilian singer-songwriter.

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Mischa Barton, English-American actress

Mischa Anne Marsden Barton is a British and American film, television, and stage actress. She began her career on the stage, appearing in Tony Kushner's Slavs! and took the lead in James Lapine's Twelve Dreams at New York City's Lincoln Center. She made her screen debut with a guest appearance on the American soap opera All My Children (1995), and voicing Betty Ann Bongo on the Nickelodeon cartoon series KaBlam! (1996–97). Her first major film role was as the protagonist of Lawn Dogs (1997), a drama co-starring Sam Rockwell. She appeared in major pictures such as the romantic comedy Notting Hill (1999) and M. Night Shyamalan's psychological thriller The Sixth Sense (1999). She also starred in the indie crime drama Pups (1999).

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Tyler Flowers, American baseball player

Cole Tyler Flowers is an American former professional baseball catcher. Flowers was drafted by the Braves in the 33rd round of the 2005 MLB draft. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Chicago White Sox from 2009, when he made his MLB debut, to 2015 and for the Atlanta Braves from 2016 to 2020.

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Vladislav Ivanov, Russian footballer

Vladislav Ivanov is a Russian former professional footballer. He played the position of midfielder and forward.

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Michael Kightly, English footballer

Michael John Kightly is an English former professional footballer who played as a winger, most notably for Wolverhampton Wanderers and Burnley FC.

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Sean McVay, American football coach

Sean Patrick McVay is an American professional football coach who is the head coach for the Los Angeles Rams of the National Football League (NFL). He became the youngest NFL head coach in the modern era when he was hired by the Rams in 2017 at the age of 30 years and 353 days. McVay is also the youngest head coach to reach and win a Super Bowl as well as be named NFL Coach of the Year. Prior to his tenure in Los Angeles, McVay worked with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers as an offensive assistant, the Florida Tuskers as the wide receivers coach, and the Washington Redskins as an offensive assistant, the tight ends coach, and the offensive coordinator.

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Ricky Ullman, Israeli-American actor

Raviv Chanan "Ricky" Ullman is an Israeli actor. He is best known for playing Phil Diffy, the main character in the Disney Channel series Phil of the Future.

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24/01/1984

Justin Baldoni, American actor, director, and producer

Justin Louis Baldoni is an American actor and director. He is best known for playing Rafael Solano on the CW telenovela Jane the Virgin (2014–2019) and for starring in and directing the romantic drama film It Ends with Us (2024). He has also directed Five Feet Apart (2019) and Clouds (2020).

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Paulo Sérgio, Portuguese footballer

Paulo Sérgio Moreira Gonçalves, known as Paulo Sérgio, is a Portuguese former footballer who played as an attacking midfielder or right winger.

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24/01/1983

Davide Biondini, Italian footballer

Davide Biondini is an Italian former professional footballer who played as a midfielder.

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Wyatt Crockett, New Zealand rugby player

Wyatt William Vogels Crockett is a former New Zealand rugby union player. He played at prop for the Crusaders in Super Rugby, Canterbury and Tasman in the National Provincial Championship, and the New Zealand national team, the All Blacks. Crockett has played in 202 Super Rugby fixtures and is the second most-capped Super Rugby player of all time.

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Shaun Maloney, Scottish footballer

Shaun Richard Maloney is a football coach, and former player who is currently interim assistant manager at Scottish Premiership side Celtic.

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Scott Speed, American race car driver

Scott Andrew Speed is an American race car driver who has competed in numerous disciplines, including open-wheel, stock car, and rallycross racing.

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24/01/1981

Carrie Coon, American actress

Carrie Alexandra Coon is an American actress. She has received a Critics' Choice Television Award, as well as nominations for three Primetime Emmy Awards, a Golden Globe Award and a Tony Award.

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Mario Eggimann, Swiss footballer

Mario Eggimann is a Swiss former footballer who played as a defender. He also earned caps for the Swiss national team.

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Zaur Hashimov, Azerbaijani footballer and manager

Zaur Hashimov is an Azerbaijani football manager and former player who played as a defender.

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Elena Kolomina, Kazakhstani cross country skier

Elena Vladimirovna Kolomina is a Kazakhstani cross-country skier who has been competing since 1998. She finished fifth in the team sprint at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2007 in Sapporo and had her best individual finish of 21st in the sprint event at the 2001 championships in Lahti.

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24/01/1980

Jofre Mateu, Spanish footballer

Jofre Mateu González, known simply as Jofre, is a Spanish retired professional footballer who played as a left midfielder.

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Suzy, Portuguese singer

Susana Guerra, known professionally as Suzy Guerra and formerly Suzy, is a Portuguese singer. She represented Portugal in the Eurovision Song Contest 2014 in Copenhagen, Denmark with the song "Quero ser tua".

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24/01/1979

Tatyana Ali, American actress and singer

Tatyana Marisol Ali is an American actress and singer best known for her role as Ashley Banks on the NBC sitcom The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air from 1990 to 1996. She starred as Tyana Jones on the TV One original series Love That Girl!, and played a recurring role as Roxanne on the CBS soap opera The Young and the Restless from 2007 to 2013. In 2023, she starred in Giving Hope: The Ni'Cola Mitchell Story on Lifetime.

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Leandro Desábato, Argentinian footballer

Leandro Desábato, nicknamed Chavo, is an Argentine football manager and former player. He is the manager of Almagro.

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Busy Signal, Jamaican dancehall reggae artist

Reanno Devon Gordon, better known by his stage name Busy Signal, is a Jamaican dancehall reggae artist.

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Nik Wallenda, American acrobat

Nikolas Wallenda is an American acrobat, aerialist, daredevil, high wire artist, and author. He is known for his high-wire performances without a safety net. He holds 11 Guinness World Records for various acrobatic feats, and is best known as the first person to walk a tightrope stretched directly over Niagara Falls. Wallenda walked 1,800 feet (550 m) on a steel cable over Masaya Volcano in Nicaragua, his longest walk, on March 4, 2020.

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24/01/1978

Veerle Baetens, Belgian actress and singer

Veerle Baetens is a Belgian actress, filmmaker, and singer best known for her lead role as Elise / Alabama in the romantic drama film The Broken Circle Breakdown (2012), for which she won the Tribeca Film Festival Award for Best Actress. She is also known for her lead role as Detective Hannah Maes on the VTM crime drama series Code 37 (2009–12).

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Mark Hildreth, Canadian actor and musician

Mark Hildreth is a Canadian actor and singer, appearing in movie and television roles. A graduate of the National Theatre School of Canada, Mark Hildreth's theater credits include Hamlet , Bertram in All's Well that Ends Well , Richard of Gloucester in Richard III (NTSC) and Cale Blackwell in Fire . He also starred as Pastor Tom Hale in the ABC drama Resurrection.

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Kristen Schaal, American actress, voice artist, comedian and writer

Kristen Joy Schaal is an American actress, comedian, and writer. Known for her distinctive high-pitched, childlike voice, she voices Louise Belcher on Bob's Burgers and voiced Mabel Pines on Gravity Falls. She also played Mel on Flight of the Conchords, The Guide on What We Do in the Shadows, Hurshe Heartshe on The Heart, She Holler, and Carol Pilbasian on The Last Man on Earth. She provided several voices for BoJack Horseman; for the character of Sarah Lynn, she was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Character Voice-Over Performance. Other roles include Amanda Simmons on The Hotwives of Orlando, Hazel Wassername on 30 Rock, Victoria Best on WordGirl, Trixie in the Toy Story franchise, Bobbi in My Spy, Shannon in Despicable Me 2, Number Two in The Mysterious Benedict Society, Barb in Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 and Anne on Wilfred. She was an occasional commentator on The Daily Show from 2008 to 2016. She voiced Sayrna in the 2019 EA video game Anthem.

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24/01/1977

Andrija Gerić, Serbian volleyball player

Andrija Gerić is a retired Serbian volleyball player who played on middle blocker position. Both in the club and in the national team he wore number 12.

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Michelle Hunziker, Swiss-Dutch actress, model and singer

Michelle Yvonne Hunziker is a Swiss and Italian television presenter and former model. She hosted the final of the Eurovision Song Contest 2025 in Basel alongside Hazel Brugger and Sandra Studer.

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24/01/1976

Shae-Lynn Bourne, Canadian ice dancer, coach, and choreographer

Shae-Lynn Bourne is a Canadian ice dancer and choreographer. In 2003, she and partner Victor Kraatz became the first North American ice dancers to win a World Championship. They competed at three Winter Olympic Games, placing 10th at the 1994 Winter Olympics, 4th at the 1998 Winter Olympics, and 4th at the 2002 Winter Olympics.

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Cindy Pieters, Belgian cyclist

Cindy Pieters is a professional racing cyclist, who specialized in one day races She competed in the women's individual road race at the 2000 Summer Olympics.

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24/01/1975

Gianluca Basile, Italian former professional basketball player

Gianluca Basile is an Italian former professional basketball player. At a height of 1.92 m tall and a weight of 95 kg (210 lbs.), he mainly played at the shooting guard position. He is considered one of the best 1990s and 2000s era Italian basketball players. He won the silver medal at the 2004 Summer Olympic Games, and the gold medal at the 1999 EuroBasket. He was also the captain of the men's Italy national team.

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Rónald Gómez, Costa Rican footballer and manager

Rónald Gómez Gómez is a Costa Rican former football forward and manager. He is the current manager for Liga Nacional club Coatepeque Fútbol Club.

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Reto Hug, Swiss triathlete

Reto Hug is a former athlete from Switzerland, who competed in the triathlon.

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Henna Raita, Finnish alpine skier

Henna Raita is a former alpine skier.

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24/01/1974

Cyril Despres, French rally racer

Cyril Despres is a French rally racer and resident of Andorra. He won the Dakar Rally five times, in 2005, 2007, 2010, 2012 and 2013, riding a KTM motorcycle. He also won the Red Bull Romaniacs, an enduro event, three times, in 2004, 2005 and 2007, and the Erzberg Rodeo in 2002 and 2003. In the 2018 season he is one of the official drivers of the Team Peugeot Total.

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Ed Helms, American actor, producer, and screenwriter

Edward Parker Helms is an American actor and comedian. From 2002 to 2006, he was a correspondent on Comedy Central's The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. He played paper salesman Andy Bernard in the NBC sitcom The Office (2006–2013), and starred as Stuart "Stu" Price in The Hangover trilogy. He later starred in the comedy series Rutherford Falls (2021–2022), which he co-wrote.

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Melissa Tkautz, Australian actress and singer

Melissa Natalie Tkautz is an Australian actress, singer, model, and presenter. She played the role of Nikki Spencer on the popular Australian TV soap opera E Street, from September 1990 to May 1993. During the early 1990s she had a solo music career, performing mononymously as Melissa, and had top 20 hits on the ARIA Singles Chart with "Read My Lips", "Sexy " and "Skin to Skin". "Read My Lips" also became a Number One hit in Sweden. Her debut album, Fresh, was released in June 1992 and peaked at No. 15 on the ARIA Albums Chart.

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Rokia Traoré, Malian singer

Rokia Traoré is a Malian-born singer, songwriter and guitarist.

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24/01/1972

Beth Hart, American singer-songwriter and musician

Beth Hart is an American musician from Los Angeles, California. She rose to fame with the release of her 1999 single "LA Song " from her second album Screamin' for My Supper. The single was a number one hit in New Zealand, as well as reaching the top five of the US Adult Contemporary and Top 10 on the Billboard Adult Top 40 charts.

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24/01/1971

José Carlos Fernandez, Bolivian footballer

José Carlos Fernández González is a Bolivian retired football goalkeeper who is currently active as director of football of Bolivian club Bolívar.

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24/01/1970

Roberto Bonano, Argentine footballer

Roberto Oscar Bonano is an Argentine retired footballer who played as a goalkeeper.

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Luke Egan, Australian surfer

Luke Egan is an Australian professional surfer who competed on the Association of Surfing Professionals Men's World Tour.

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Neil Johnson, Zimbabwean cricketer

Neil Clarkson Johnson is a former Zimbabwean international cricketer who played 13 Test matches and 48 One Day Internationals between 1998 and 2000. An all-rounder, he bowled right-arm fast-medium and played in the middle order in test matches as an aggressive left-handed batsman. He usually opened the batting in one-day cricket.

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Matthew Lillard, American actor

Matthew Lyn Lillard is an American actor, director, and producer. His early film roles include the black comedy Serial Mom (1994) and the crime thriller Hackers (1995). He achieved a career breakthrough for his portrayal of Stu Macher in the slasher film Scream (1996), which bolstered Lillard into the mainstream as a scream king. Afterwards, he starred in prominent roles in SLC Punk! (1998), She's All That (1999), Thirteen Ghosts (2001), and Without a Paddle (2004).

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24/01/1969

Yoo Ho-jeong, South Korean actress

You Ho-jeong is a South Korean actress. She made her acting debut in 1991 and has been starring in television and film since. Roles include a divorcee whose husband lives next door in daily drama Definitely Neighbors (2010), and the grown-up protagonist in box office hit Sunny (2011).

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Carlos Rômulo Gonçalves e Silva, Brazilian religious leader, Bishop of Montenegro

Carlos Rômulo Gonçalves e Silva is the bishop of Montenegro, a suffragan Latin diocese in the ecclesiastical province of its mother see, the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Porto Alegre in Rio Grande do Sul state, southernmost Brazil.

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24/01/1968

Fernando Escartín, Spanish cyclist

Fernando Escartín Coti is a Spanish former road racing cyclist. Between 1995 and 2000 he came in the top 10 of the Tour de France five times and in that same time period finished on the podium in 2nd place at the Vuelta a España, twice.

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Tymerlan Huseynov, Ukrainian footballer

Tymerlan Rustamovych Huseynov is a former Ukrainian footballer of Kumyk origin who is now sporting director of FC Dniester Ovidiopol. He was the Ukrainian Premier League's top goalscorer in the 1993–94 and 1995–96 seasons scoring 18 and 20 goals respectively, and scored 8 goals in 14 internationals.

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Antony Garrett Lisi, American theoretical physicist

Antony Garrett Lisi, known as Garrett Lisi, is an American theoretical physicist. Lisi works as an independent researcher without an academic position.

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Mary Lou Retton, American gymnast

Mary Lou Retton is an American retired gymnast. At the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, she won a gold medal in the individual all-around competition, as well as two silver medals and two bronze medals, which earned her the Sports Illustrated Sportswoman of the Year award.

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24/01/1967

Michael Kiske, German singer

Michael Kiske is a German singer who is the co-lead vocalist for the power metal band Helloween. Kiske has also released four solo albums, two albums with the hard rock band Unisonic, has participated on various metal and rock related projects such as Avantasia, Place Vendome and Kiske/Somerville, and has performed with numerous bands as a guest vocalist.

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Phil LaMarr, American actor and comedian

Phil LaMarr is an American actor and comedian. He was one of the original featured cast members on the sketch comedy television series Mad TV, where he stayed for five seasons. His voice acting roles in animated series include the title character of Samurai Jack, both John Stewart / Green Lantern and Virgil Hawkins / Static in the DC Animated Universe, Hermes Conrad in Futurama, Bolbi Stroganofsky in The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius, Carver Descartes in The Weekenders, Ollie Williams and Judge Dignified Q. Blackman in Family Guy, and Wilt in Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends. LaMarr has also provided voices for video game franchises including Metal Gear, Jak and Daxter, Darksiders, Final Fantasy, Infamous, Dead Island, Kingdom Hearts, and Mortal Kombat. He also voiced Browntooth the Goblin Rogue in the Critical Role episode "The Goblins".

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24/01/1966

Julie Dreyfus, French actress

Julie Dreyfus is a French actress. In Japan, she made her television debut on a French-language lesson program on NHK's educational channel in the late 1980s. She has appeared on the TV show Ryōri no Tetsujin as a guest and judge. She appeared in the Quentin Tarantino films Kill Bill: Volume 1 and Inglourious Basterds, portraying Sofie Fatale and Francesca Mondino respectively. Aside from her native French, she is fluent in English, German, and Japanese.

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Karin Viard, French actress

Karin Viard is a French actress. She made her film debut in Tatie Danielle in 1990. She has appeared in films such as Delicatessen, L'Emploi du temps, Adultère, mode d'emploi and La parenthèse enchantée.

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24/01/1965

Mike Awesome, American wrestler (died 2007)

Michael Lee Alfonso was an American professional wrestler. He was best known for his appearances with the American professional wrestling promotions Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW), World Championship Wrestling (WCW) and the World Wrestling Federation/World Wrestling Entertainment (WWF/WWE) under the ring name Mike Awesome and for his appearances in Japan with Frontier Martial-Arts Wrestling and All Japan Pro Wrestling as The Gladiator.

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Carlos Saldanha, Brazilian-American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter

Carlos Saldanha is a Brazilian animator, director, producer, and voice actor of animated films who collaborated with Blue Sky Studios until its closure in 2021. He was the director of Ice Age: The Meltdown (2006), Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (2009), Rio (2011), Rio 2 (2014), Ferdinand (2017), and Harold and the Purple Crayon (2024), and the co-director of Ice Age (2002) and Robots (2005). Saldanha was nominated in 2003 for an Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film for Gone Nutty and in 2018 for Best Animated Feature for Ferdinand.

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Margaret Urlich, New Zealand singer-songwriter (died 2022)

Margaret Mary Urlich was a New Zealand singer who lived in Australia for most of her career.

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Pagonis Vakalopoulos, Greek footballer and manager

Pagonis Vakalopoulos is a retired Greek footballer. He started his career in Polykastro, spent most of his career with Iraklis with which he won Balkans Cup and finished his playing career with Panionios. Currently he is the manager of Iraklis U20 team.

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24/01/1963

Arnold Vanderlyde, Dutch boxer

Arnold Petrus Maria Vanderlyde is a Dutch former amateur boxer, who participated in three Summer Olympics and won three bronze medals in the heavyweight division (≤91 kg). He started boxing at age fifteen. Although Vanderlyde was a three-time European champion and seven-time Dutch champion, he never turned professional. After ending his boxing career in 1992, he entered the corporate world as a motivational speaker.

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24/01/1961

Jorge Barrios, Uruguayan footballer

Jorge Wálter Barrios Balestrasse is a retired football midfielder from Uruguay, who was nicknamed "Chifle" during his professional career. Having made his official debut on July 18, 1980 against Peru (0-0), Barrios obtained a total number of 60 international caps for the Uruguay national football team.

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Guido Buchwald, German footballer and manager

Guido Ulrich Buchwald is a German former professional football player. Throughout his career he played as a defender. He is currently director of football of Stuttgarter Kickers.

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Christa Kinshofer, German ski racer

Christa Kinshofer-Rembeck is a German former alpine ski racer and businesswoman. In her career she won three Olympic medals, one World Championship medal and seven World Cup races.

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Nastassja Kinski, German-American actress and producer

Nastassja Aglaia Kinski is a German actress and former model who has appeared in more than 60 films in Europe and the United States. Her worldwide breakthrough was with Stay as You Are (1978). She then came to global prominence with her Golden Globe Award-winning performance as the title character in the Roman Polanski-directed film Tess (1979). Other films in which she acted include the Francis Ford Coppola musical romance film One from the Heart (1982), erotic horror film Cat People (1982) from Paul Schrader, and the Wim Wenders drama films Paris, Texas (1984) and Faraway, So Close! (1993). She also appeared in the biographical drama film An American Rhapsody (2001). She is the daughter of German actor Klaus Kinski.

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William Van Dijck, Belgian runner

William Van Dijck is a Belgian former athlete, primarily active on the 3000m steeplechase.

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24/01/1960

Jack Neo, Singaporean filmmaker, director and actor

Jack Neo Chee Keong is a Singaporean filmmaker, comedian and actor who was a full-time Mediacorp artiste from 1983 to 2003. In the 1990s and early 2000s, he was best known for his cross-dressing roles, as "Liang Po Po" and "Liang Xi Mei" in the long-running television comedy show Comedy Nite.

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24/01/1959

Akira Maeda, Japanese wrestler, mixed martial artist, and actor

Akira Maeda is a Japanese mixed martial arts promoter, writer and retired professional wrestler and mixed martial artist. Maeda was also known by the ring name Kwik-kik-Lee during his time on the British wrestling's slot on the sports show World of Sport (WoS). Maeda helped develop the shoot-style of professional wrestling during the late 1980s. He founded Fighting Network RINGS in 1991 which would become one of the top MMA promotions before it folded in 2002.

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Michel Preud'homme, Belgian footballer and manager

Michel Georges Jean Ghislain Preud'homme is a Belgian retired footballer and manager who played as a goalkeeper. Currently, he is vice-president and sports director at Standard Liège.

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24/01/1958

Kim Eui-kon, Korean wrestler (died 2014)

Kim Eui-kon was a Korean wrestler who competed in the 1984 Summer Olympics.

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Jools Holland, English singer-songwriter and pianist

Julian Miles Holland is an English pianist, bandleader, singer, composer and television presenter. He was an original member of the rock band Squeeze. From 1982 until 1987, he co-presented the Channel 4 music programme The Tube. Since 1992, he has hosted Later... with Jools Holland, a music show aired on BBC2, on which his annual show Hootenanny is based. Holland is a published author and appears on television shows besides his own. He regularly hosted the programme Jools Holland on BBC Radio 2.

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Frank Ullrich, German biathlete

Frank Ullrich is a German politician of the SPD and former biathlete and trainer of the German national team. Since 2021, he has been a member of the Bundestag.

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24/01/1957

Mark Eaton, American basketball player and sportscaster (died 2021)

Mark Edward Eaton was an American professional basketball player who spent his entire career (1982–1993) with the Utah Jazz of the National Basketball Association (NBA). Named an NBA All-Star in 1989, he was twice voted the NBA Defensive Player of the Year and was a five-time member of the NBA All-Defensive Team. The 7-foot-4-inch (2.24 m) Eaton became one of the best defensive centers in NBA history. He led the league in blocks four times and holds the NBA single-season records for blocks (456) and blocked shots per game average (5.6), as well as career blocked shots per game (3.5). His No. 53 was retired by the Jazz.

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Ade Edmondson, English comedian and musician

Adrian Charles Edmondson is an English actor, comedian, musician, writer and television presenter, who came to fame as part of the alternative comedy boom in the early 1980s. He and his comedy partner Rik Mayall starred in the television sitcoms The Young Ones (1982–1984), Filthy Rich & Catflap (1987) and Bottom (1991–1995), the last of which was written by Edmondson and Mayall, as well as the comedy feature film Guest House Paradiso (1999), which Edmondson directed and co-wrote. Edmondson and Mayall also appeared in The Comic Strip Presents... series of films throughout the 1980s and 1990s. For two episodes of this they created the spoof heavy metal band Bad News, and for another Edmondson played his nihilistic alter-ego Eddie Monsoon, an offensive South African television star.

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24/01/1956

Agus Martowardojo, governor of Bank Indonesia

Agus Dermawan Wintarto Martowardojo is an Indonesian economist and banker who served as Governor of Bank Indonesia, Indonesia's central bank, from 2013 to 2018. Previously, he served as Minister of Finance from 2010 to 2013 after succeeding former minister Sri Mulyani Indrawati, who resigned from the office and took position as Managing Director of the World Bank Group.

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24/01/1955

Jim Montgomery, American swimmer

James Paul Montgomery is an American former competition swimmer, four-time Olympic medalist, and former world record-holder. Montgomery was the first man to break the 50-second barrier (49.99) in the 100-meter freestyle, at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Quebec, where he won three gold medals and one bronze.

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Alan Sokal, American physicist and author

Alan David Sokal is an American professor of mathematics at University College London and professor emeritus of physics at New York University. He works with statistical mechanics and combinatorics.

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Lynda Weinman, American businesswoman and author

Lynda Susan Weinman is an artist, American business owner, computer instructor, and author, who founded an online software training website, lynda.com, with her husband, Bruce Heavin. Lynda.com was acquired by online business network LinkedIn in April 2015 for $1.5 billion.

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24/01/1954

Jo Gartner, Austrian race car driver (died 1986)

Josef Anton Gartner was a Formula One and sports car endurance driver from Austria. After a successful lower formula career, including a win in the Formula Two Pau Grand Prix, he participated in eight Formula One Grands Prix for Osella during the 1984 season, scoring no points. He was killed in an accident at the 1986 24 Hours of Le Mans.

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24/01/1953

Yuri Bashmet, Russian violinist, viola player, and conductor

Yuri Abramovich Bashmet is a Russian conductor, violinist, and violist.

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Moon Jae-in, South Korean politician, 19th President of South Korea

Moon Jae-in is a South Korean politician and lawyer who served as the 12th president of South Korea from 2017 to 2022. A member of the Democratic Party of Korea (DPK), he was the party's leader from 2015 to 2016, and represented Sasang in the National Assembly from 2012 to 2016. Moon previously served as the senior secretary for civil affairs and the chief of staff to President Roh Moo-hyun.

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24/01/1951

Yakov Smirnoff, Ukrainian-American comedian and actor

Yakov Naumovich Pokhis, better known as Yakov Smirnoff, is an American comedian, actor and writer. He began his career as a stand-up comedian in the Soviet Union, then immigrated to the United States in 1977 in order to pursue an American show business career, not yet knowing any English.

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24/01/1950

Daniel Auteuil, French actor, director, and screenwriter

Daniel Auteuil is a French actor and director who has appeared in a wide range of film genres, including period dramas, romantic comedies, and crime thrillers. In 1996 he won the Best Actor Award at the Cannes Film Festival together with Belgian actor Pascal Duquenne for their work in The Eighth Day. He is also the winner of two César Awards for Best Actor, one in 1987 as Ugolin Soubeyran in Jean de Florette and Manon des Sources and one for his role in Girl on the Bridge. For his role in Jean de Florette he also won the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role. Auteuil is considered one of France's most respected actors.

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24/01/1949

John Belushi, American actor and screenwriter (died 1982)

John Adam Belushi was an American actor, comedian, and musician. He was one of seven Saturday Night Live cast members of the first season. Belushi had a partnership with Dan Aykroyd; they had first met while at Chicago's the Second City comedy club, remaining together as cast members on Saturday Night Live.

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Bart Gordon, American lawyer

Barton Jennings Gordon is an American politician and former U.S. representative for Tennessee's 6th congressional district, serving from 1985 until 2011. The district includes several rural areas and fast-growing suburbs east of Nashville. He was Chairman of the House Committee on Science and Technology from 2007 until 2011. He is a member of the Democratic Party. He announced on December 14, 2009, that he would not seek re-election in 2010.

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Nadezhda Ilyina, Russian athlete and mother of Russian tennis player Nadia Petrova (died 2013)

Nadezhda Ilyina was a Russian athlete who competed mainly in the 400 metres.

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Rihoko Yoshida, Japanese voice actress

Rihoko Yoshida is a Japanese businesswoman and a former voice actress. Among her most noteworthy roles are Megu-chan in Majokko Megu-chan, Monsley in Future Boy Conan, Maria Grace Fleed in UFO Robo Grendizer, Michiru in Getter Robo, Klara in Heidi, Girl of the Alps, Rosalie Lamorliere in The Rose of Versailles, Miwa Uzuki in Steel Jeeg, Kurama in Urusei Yatsura, and Machiko in Maicchingu Machiko-sensei. She retired from voice acting in 1998.

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24/01/1948

Michael Des Barres, the 26th Marquis Des Barres, English musician, actor, and DJ

Michael Philip Des Barres, 26th Marquis Des Barres, is an English actor and rock singer. He appeared as Murdoc in the original MacGyver, Lenny Stoke in Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman, and Murdoc's mentor Nicholas Helman in MacGyver (2016). He replaced Robert Palmer in the band The Power Station, fronting the band at the 1985 Live Aid concert.

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24/01/1947

Giorgio Chinaglia, Italian footballer (died 2012)

Giorgio Chinaglia was an Italian footballer who played as a striker. He grew up and played his early football in Cardiff, Wales, and began his career with Swansea Town in 1964. He later returned to Italy to play for Massese, Internapoli and S.S. Lazio in 1969. Chinaglia led Lazio to the club's first league championship in the 1973–74 season, during which he was also the league's leading scorer. He played international football for Italy, making 14 appearances and scoring 4 goals between 1972 and 1975, including two appearances at the 1974 FIFA World Cup. Chinaglia was the first player in Italian football history to be called up internationally from the second division.

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Michio Kaku, American physicist and academic

Michio Kaku is an American theoretical physicist, science communicator, futurologist, and writer of popular science. He is a professor of theoretical physics at the City College of New York and the CUNY Graduate Center. Kaku is the author of several books about physics and related topics and has made frequent appearances on radio, television, and film. He is also a regular contributor to his own blog, as well as other popular media outlets. For his efforts to bridge science and science fiction, he is a 2021 Sir Arthur Clarke Lifetime Achievement Awardee.

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Masashi Ozaki, Japanese baseball player and golfer

Masashi Ozaki was a Japanese professional golfer. Ozaki is often known as Jumbo Ozaki on account of his height and length off the tee. He featured in the top ten of the Official World Golf Rankings for almost 200 weeks between 1989 and 1998. He is the most successful player of all time on the Japan Golf Tour, having led the money list a record 12 times and won 94 tournaments, over 40 more than the second highest player. Ozaki was inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame in 2011.

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Warren Zevon, American singer-songwriter (died 2003)

Warren William Zevon was an American rock singer and songwriter. His most famous compositions include "Werewolves of London", "Lawyers, Guns and Money" and "Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner". All three songs are featured on his third album, Excitable Boy (1978), the title track of which is also well-known. He also wrote major hits that were recorded by other artists, including "Poor Poor Pitiful Me", "Mohammed's Radio", "Carmelita" and "Hasten Down the Wind". Per The New York Times, "Mr. Zevon had a pulp-fiction imagination" which yielded "terse, action-packed, gallows-humored tales that could sketch an entire screenplay in four minutes and often had death as a punchline. But there was also vulnerability and longing in Mr. Zevon's ballads, like 'Mutineer,' 'Accidentally Like a Martyr' and 'Hasten Down the Wind'."

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24/01/1946

Michael Ontkean, Canadian actor

Michael Ontkean is a Canadian retired actor.

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24/01/1945

John Garamendi, American football player and politician, 1st United States Deputy Secretary of the Interior

John Raymond Garamendi is an American businessman, politician and member of the Democratic Party who has represented areas of Northern California between San Francisco and Sacramento, including the cities of Fairfield and Vacaville in the United States House of Representatives since 2009. Garamendi was the California insurance commissioner from 1991 to 1995 and 2003 to 2007, the U.S. Deputy Secretary of the Interior from 1995 to 1998, and the 46th lieutenant governor of California from 2007 until his election to Congress in late 2009.

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Subhash Ghai, Indian director, producer and screenwriter

Subhash Ghai is an Indian film director, producer, actor, lyricist, music director and screenwriter, primarily known for his work in Hindi cinema. He was one of the most prominent Hindi filmmakers in the 1980s and 1990s. His notable films include Kalicharan (1976), Vishwanath (1978), Karz (1980), Krodhi (1981), Hero (1983), Vidhaata (1982), Meri Jung (1985), Karma (1986), Ram Lakhan (1989), Saudagar (1991), Khalnayak (1993), Pardes (1997), and Taal (1999).

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Eva Janko, Austrian javelin thrower

Eva Janko, née Eva Egger, is a former javelin thrower from Austria.

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24/01/1944

David Gerrold, American science fiction screenwriter and author

David Gerrold is an American science fiction screenwriter and novelist. He wrote the script for the original Star Trek episode "The Trouble with Tribbles", created the Sleestak race on the TV series Land of the Lost, and wrote the novelette The Martian Child, which won both Hugo and Nebula Awards, and was adapted into a 2007 film starring John Cusack.

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Gian-Franco Kasper, Swiss ski official (died 2021)

Gian Franco Kasper was a Swiss ski official who was president of the International Ski Federation (FIS) from 1998 to 2021. He also served as a member of the International Olympic Committee from 2000 to 2018 and member of the World Anti-Doping Agency from 2003 to 2021.

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24/01/1943

Barry Mealand, English footballer (died 2013)

Kenneth Barry Mealand was an English professional footballer who played as a right back.

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Peter Struck, German lawyer and politician, 13th German Federal Minister of Defence (died 2012)

Peter Struck was the German Minister of Defence under chancellor Gerhard Schröder from 2002 to 2005. A lawyer, Struck was a member of the Social Democratic Party.

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Sharon Tate, American model and actress (died 1969)

Sharon Marie Tate Polanski was an American actress and model. During the 1960s, she appeared in advertisements and small television roles before appearing in films as well as working as a model. After receiving positive reviews for her comedic and dramatic acting performances, Tate was hailed as one of Hollywood's most promising newcomers, being compared favorably with Marilyn Monroe.

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Tony Trimmer, English race car driver

Anthony Hugh Leigh Trimmer is a British former racing driver from England, who won the Shell British Formula Three Championship and E.R. Hall Trophy in 1970.

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Manuel Velázquez, Spanish footballer (died 2016)

Manuel Velázquez Villaverde was a Spanish footballer who played as a central midfielder.

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24/01/1942

Ingo Friedrich, German Member of the European Parliament

Ingo Friedrich is a former German (Bavarian) Member of the European Parliament. He was elected on the CSU ticket and sits with the EPP-ED Group. Friedrich holds a University degree in Economics. He was a member of Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen district council (1972–1996) and was the head of the CSU delegation to the European Parliament between 1992 and 1999. He has been awarded the Bavarian Order of Merit, and the Federal Cross of Merit, first class.

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Gary Hart, American wrestler and manager (died 2008)

Gary Richard Williams was an American professional wrestling manager, as well as a professional wrestler in his early career, best known by his ring name Gary Hart. Hart was one of the pivotal driving forces behind what is considered to be World Class Championship Wrestling's "golden years" in the early 1980s.

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24/01/1941

Neil Diamond, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

Neil Leslie Diamond is an American singer-songwriter. He has sold more than 56.5 million records in the US alone, making him one of the best-selling musicians in history.

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Aaron Neville, American singer

Aaron Joseph Neville is an American singer renowned for his distinctively smooth, vibrato-heavy tenor and a genre-crossing career that spans R&B, soul, gospel, jazz, country, and pop. He gained national prominence with his 1966 single "Tell It Like It Is", which peaked at number two on the Billboard Hot 100 and was later inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame. 

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Dan Shechtman, Israeli chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate

Dan Shechtman is the Philip Tobias Professor of Materials Science at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, an Associate of the US Department of Energy's Ames National Laboratory, and Professor of Materials Science at Iowa State University. On April 8, 1982, while on sabbatical at the U.S. National Bureau of Standards in Washington, D.C., Shechtman discovered the icosahedral phase, which opened the new field of quasiperiodic crystals, also referred to as "quasicrystals." For this discovery, he was awarded the 2011 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, making him one of six Israelis who have won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

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24/01/1940

Joachim Gauck, German pastor and politician, 11th President of Germany

Joachim Wilhelm Gauck is a German politician who served as President of Germany from 2012 to 2017. A former Lutheran pastor, he came to prominence as an anti-communist civil rights activist in East Germany.

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24/01/1939

Renate Garisch-Culmberger, German shot putter (died 2023)

Renate Boy was a German shot putter, who in 1961 became the first German woman to throw over 17 meters. Garisch-Culmberger competed at the 1960 and 1964 Olympics representing the United Team of Germany and at the 1968 Olympics representing East Germany, and finished in sixth, second and fifth place, respectively. At the European Championships she won a silver medal in 1962, and finished fifth in 1969. In 1964, Garisch-Culmberger set a new indoor world record at 17.18m, and nationally she won East German titles in 1961 to 1965, and 1967.

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Ray Stevens, American singer-songwriter and actor

Harold Ray Ragsdale, known professionally as Ray Stevens, is an American country singer-songwriter and comedian. He is best known for his Grammy-winning recordings "Everything Is Beautiful" and "Misty", as well as novelty hits including "Ahab the Arab", Gitarzan" and "The Streak". Stevens has earned gold albums and has worked as a producer, music arranger, and television host. He was also inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame, the Georgia Music Hall of Fame, the Christian Music Hall of Fame, and the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum.

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24/01/1938

Julius Hemphill, American saxophonist and composer (died 1995)

Julius Arthur Hemphill was a jazz composer and saxophone player. He performed mainly on alto saxophone, less often on soprano and tenor saxophones and flute.

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24/01/1937

Trevor Edwards, Welsh footballer

Leonard Trevor Edwards was a Welsh footballer. A full-back, he played his club football for Charlton Athletic. He was part of the Wales squad for the 1958 FIFA World Cup in Sweden. In the sixties he emigrated to Australia, where he played for Sydney Hakoah, Melita Eagles and Marconi with whom he won the Australian Championship. After his football career, Edwards stayed in Australia, living in Queensland. He died in Queensland in 30 May 2024, aged 87.

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24/01/1936

Doug Kershaw, American fiddle player and singer

Douglas James Kershaw is an American fiddle player, singer, and songwriter from Louisiana. Active since 1948, he began his career as part of the duo Rusty and Doug, along with his brother, Rusty Kershaw. He had an extensive solo career that included 15 albums and singles that charted on the Hot Country Songs charts. He is also a member of the Louisiana Music Hall of Fame, being inducted in 2009.

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24/01/1935

Shivabalayogi, Indian religious leader (died 1994)

Shri Shivabalayogi Maharaj was an Indian yogi and spiritual teacher. Devotee and biographical accounts state that he undertook twelve years of tapas, meditating in samādhi for extended periods, and later led public meditation programs in India, Sri Lanka, the United Kingdom, and the United States.

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24/01/1934

Leonard Goldberg, American producer (died 2019)

Leonard J. Goldberg was an American film and television producer. He had his own production company, Panda Productions. He served as head of programming for ABC, and was president of 20th Century Fox. Goldberg was also the executive producer of the CBS series Blue Bloods.

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Stanisław Grochowiak, Polish poet and dramatist (died 1976)

Stanisław Antoni Grochowiak, pen-name "Kain" was a Polish poet and dramatist. His is often classified as a representative of turpism, because of his interest in the physical, ugly and brutal, but he also exhibits strong tendencies toward formal, rhymed poetry, reaching on many occasions the ornamental grace of a baroque style. Grochowiak was born in Leszno and died, aged 42, in Warsaw.

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24/01/1931

Lars Hörmander, Swedish mathematician and academic (died 2012)

Lars Valter Hörmander was a Swedish mathematician who has been called "the foremost contributor to the modern theory of linear partial differential equations". Hörmander was awarded the Fields Medal in 1962 and the Wolf Prize in 1988. In 2006 he was awarded the Steele Prize for Mathematical Exposition for his four-volume textbook Analysis of Linear Partial Differential Operators, which is considered a foundational work on the subject.

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24/01/1930

Terence Bayler, New Zealand actor (died 2016)

Terence Bayler was a New Zealand film, television, and stage actor. His most memorable roles were in Monty Python's Life of Brian (1979) and Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (2001).

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Mahmoud Farshchian, Iranian-Persian painter and academic (died 2025)

Mahmoud Farshchian was an Iranian painter and educator. He was a master of Persian miniature painting.

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John Romita Sr., American comic book artist (died 2023)

John Victor Romita was an American comic book artist best known for his work on Marvel Comics' The Amazing Spider-Man and for co-creating characters including Mary Jane Watson, the Punisher, Kingpin, Wolverine, and Luke Cage. Romita was the father of John Romita Jr., also a comic book artist, and the husband of Virginia Romita, who was for many years Marvel's traffic manager.

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24/01/1928

Desmond Morris, English zoologist, ethologist, and painter

Desmond John Morris FLS hon. caus. is an English zoologist, ethologist, and surrealist painter, as well as a popular author in human sociobiology. He is known for his 1967 book The Naked Ape, and for his television programmes such as Zoo Time.

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Michel Serrault, French actor (died 2007)

Michel Serrault was a French stage and film actor who appeared from 1954 until 2007 in more than 130 films.

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24/01/1927

Paula Hawkins, American politician (died 2009)

Paula Hawkins was an American politician and community activist who represented the state of Florida in the United States Senate from 1981 to 1987. A member of the Republican Party, she was Florida's first female U.S. senator and the only woman to be elected to the U.S. Senate from Florida, as of 2025. She was the first woman elected to a full Senate term without having a close family member who previously served in major public office, and the second woman ever elected to the Senate from the American South.

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24/01/1926

Ruth Asawa, American sculptor (died 2013)

Ruth Aiko Asawa was an American modernist artist primarily known for her abstract looped-wire sculptures inspired by natural and organic forms. In addition to her three-dimensional work, Asawa created figurative and abstract drawings and prints influenced by nature, particularly flowers and plants.

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Georges Lautner, French director and screenwriter (died 2013)

Georges Lautner (French: [lotnɛʁ]; 24 January 1926 – 22 November 2013 was a French film director and screenwriter, known primarily for his comedies created in collaboration with screenwriter Michel Audiard.

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24/01/1925

Gus Mortson, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (died 2015)

James Angus Gerald "Old Hardrock" Mortson was a Canadian ice hockey defenceman in the National Hockey League (NHL). He played for the Toronto Maple Leafs, Chicago Black Hawks, and Detroit Red Wings, winning four Stanley Cups with Toronto. He also played in eight NHL All-Star Games.

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Maria Tallchief, American ballerina and actress (died 2013)

Maria Tallchief, born Elizabeth Marie Tall Chief, was an Osage ballerina. She was America's first major prima ballerina and the first Native American to hold the rank. Together with Georgian-American choreographer George Balanchine, she is widely considered to have revolutionized American ballet.

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24/01/1924

Brian Bevan, Australian rugby league player (died 1991)

Brian Eyrl Bevan, also known by the nickname of "Wing Wizard", was an Australian professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s. He became the only player ever to be inducted into both the Australian Rugby League Hall of Fame and British Rugby League Hall of Fame. An Other Nationalities representative wing and the record try scorer in the history of the Rugby League European Championship, Bevan scored a world record 796 tries, mainly for Warrington. In 2008, the centenary year of rugby league in Australia, he was named on the wing of Australia's Team of the Century (1908–2007). Bevan was the only player chosen in the team who had never represented Australia in a test match.

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Karpoori Thakur, Indian politician, 11th Chief Minister of Bihar (died 1988)

Karpoori Thakur was an Indian politician who twice served as the 11th Chief Minister of Bihar, first from December 1970 to June 1971, and then from June 1977 to April 1979. He was popularly known as Jan Nayak. On 26 January 2024, he was posthumously awarded India's highest civilian honour, the Bharat Ratna, by the Government of India. This was announced by the President of India Draupadi Murmu on 23 January 2024.

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24/01/1922

Daniel Boulanger, French actor and screenwriter (died 2014)

Daniel Boulanger was a French novelist, playwright, poet and screenwriter.

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Neil Franklin, English footballer (died 1996)

Cornelius "Neil" Franklin was an English footballer who played for Crewe Alexandra, Hull City, Stockport County and Stoke City as well as the England national team.

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24/01/1920

Jimmy Forrest, American saxophonist (died 1980)

James Robert Forrest Jr. was an American jazz musician who played tenor saxophone throughout his career.

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Jerry Maren, American actor (died 2018)

Jerry Maren was an American actor who played a Munchkin member of the Lollipop Guild in the 1939 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film The Wizard of Oz. He became the last surviving adult Munchkin following the death of Ruth Duccini in 2014, and was also the last surviving cast member with a specifically identifiable speaking or singing role.

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24/01/1919

Coleman Francis, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (died 1973)

Coleman Chambers Francis was an American actor, writer, producer and director. He was best known for his film trilogy consisting of The Beast of Yucca Flats (1961), The Skydivers (1963) and Red Zone Cuba (1966), all three of which were filmed in the general vicinity of Santa Clarita, California.

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Leon Kirchner, American composer and educator (died 2009)

Leon Kirchner was an American composer of contemporary classical music. He was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and he won a Pulitzer Prize for his String Quartet No. 3.

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24/01/1918

Oral Roberts, American evangelist, founded Oral Roberts University and Oral Roberts Evangelistic Association (died 2009)

Granville Oral Roberts was an American Charismatic Christian televangelist, who was one of the first to propagate Prosperity Gospel Theology. He was ordained in the Pentecostal Holiness Church from 1936 until his transfer to the United Methodist church in 1968, a controversial relationship that ended in 1987 when his credentials were revoked. He is considered one of the forerunners of the charismatic movement, and at the height of his career was one of the most recognized preachers in the US. He founded the Oral Roberts Evangelistic Association and Oral Roberts University.

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Gottfried von Einem, Austrian pianist and composer (died 1996)

Gottfried von Einem was an Austrian composer. He is known chiefly for his operas influenced by the music of Stravinsky and Prokofiev, as well as by jazz. He also composed pieces for piano, violin and organ.

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24/01/1917

Ernest Borgnine, American actor (died 2012)

Ernest Borgnine was an American actor whose career spanned over six decades. He was noted for his gruff but relaxed voice and gap-toothed Cheshire Cat grin. A popular performer, he appeared as a guest on numerous talk shows and as a panelist on several game shows.

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Wilhelmus Demarteau, Dutch prelate of the Roman Catholic Church (died 2012)

Wilhelmus Demarteau, M.S.F. was a Dutch prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He was one of the oldest Roman Catholic bishops and Dutch bishops.

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24/01/1916

Rafael Caldera, Venezuelan lawyer and politician, 65th President of Venezuela (died 2009)

Rafael Antonio Caldera Rodríguez was a Venezuelan politician and academician who was the 46th and 51st president of Venezuela from 1969 to 1974 and again from 1994 to 1999, thus becoming the longest serving democratically elected politician to govern the country in the twentieth century.

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Gene Mako, Hungarian-American tennis player and actor (died 2013)

Constantine "Gene" Mako was an American tennis player and art gallery owner. He was born in Budapest, Hungary. He won four Grand Slam doubles titles in the 1930s. Mako was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in Newport, Rhode Island, in 1973.

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24/01/1915

Vítězslava Kaprálová, Czech composer and conductor (died 1940)

Vítězslava Kaprálová was a Czech composer and conductor of 20th-century classical music.

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Robert Motherwell, American painter and academic (died 1991)

Robert Motherwell was an American abstract expressionist painter, printmaker, and editor of The Dada Painters and Poets: an Anthology. He was one of the youngest of the New York School, which also included Willem de Kooning, Jackson Pollock, and Mark Rothko.

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24/01/1913

Norman Dello Joio, American organist and composer (died 2008)

Norman Dello Joio was an American composer active for over half a century. Best known for his choral music, he won a Pulitzer Prize for Music in 1957.

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Ray Stehr, Australian rugby league player and coach (died 1983)

Raymond Ernest Stehr was an Australian rugby league footballer, a state and national representative player whose club career was played at Sydney's Eastern Suburbs club. He has been named as one of the nation's finest footballers of the 20th century.

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24/01/1912

Frederick Ashworth, American admiral (died 2005)

Frederick Lincoln "Dick" Ashworth was a United States Navy officer who served as the weaponeer on the B-29 Bockscar that dropped a Fat Man atomic bomb on Nagasaki, Japan on 9 August 1945 during World War II.

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24/01/1910

Doris Haddock, American political activist (died 2010)

Doris "Granny D" Haddock was an American political activist from New Hampshire. Haddock achieved national fame when, between the ages of 88 and 90, starting on January 1, 1999, and culminating on February 29, 2000, she walked over 3,200 miles (5,100 km) across the continental United States to advocate for campaign finance reform. In 2004, she ran unsuccessfully as a Democratic challenger to incumbent Republican Judd Gregg in the U.S. Senate election in New Hampshire. At age 94 at the time, Haddock was the oldest congressional candidate in U.S. history.

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24/01/1909

Martin Lings, English author and scholar (died 2005)

Martin Lings, also known as Abū Bakr Sirāj ad-Dīn, was an English writer, Islamic scholar, and philosopher. A student of the Swiss metaphysician Frithjof Schuon and an authority on the work of William Shakespeare, he is best known as the author of Muhammad: His Life Based on the Earliest Sources.

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Ester Šimerová-Martinčeková, Slovak painter (died 2005)

Ester Šimerová-Martinčeková was a Slovak painter, scenic designer and journalist.

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24/01/1907

Maurice Couve de Murville, French soldier and politician, Prime Minister of France (died 1999)

Jacques-Maurice Couve de Murville was a French diplomat and politician who was Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1958 to 1968 and Prime Minister from 1968 to 1969 under the presidency of General de Gaulle. As foreign minister he played the leading role in the critical Franco-German treaty of cooperation in 1963, he laid the foundation for the Paris-Bonn axis that was central in building a united Europe.

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Jean Daetwyler, Swiss composer and musician (died 1994)

Jean Daetwyler was a Swiss composer and musician. He is barely remembered, mostly for his largely forgotten works for alphorn inspired by Jozsef Molnar beginning in 1970. Also inspired by trombonist Branimir Slokar and other aspects of Swiss culture.

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Ismail Nasiruddin of Terengganu, fourth Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia (died 1979)

Ismail Nasiruddin Shah ibni Almarhum Sultan Haji Zainal Abidin III Mu’azzam Shah was the Sultan of Terengganu from 1945 until his death in 1979, and the fourth Yang di-Pertuan Agong, from 1965 to 1970.

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24/01/1906

Wilfred Jackson, American animator and composer (died 1988)

Wilfred Emmons Jackson was an American animator, musical arranger and director best known for his work with Walt Disney Productions.

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24/01/1905

J. Howard Marshall, American lawyer and businessman (died 1995)

James Howard Marshall II was an American businessman, government official, lawyer, and legal scholar. He was involved with and invested in the petroleum industry via his academic, government and commercial endeavors. He owned 16 percent of Koch Industries and was married to American model Anna Nicole Smith during the last 14 months of his life. His estate became the subject of protracted litigation, which was reviewed by the Supreme Court in Marshall v. Marshall and Stern v. Marshall.

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24/01/1901

Harry Calder, South African cricketer (died 1995)

Harry Lawton Calder was named as a Wisden Cricketer of the Year in 1918, then a 17 year old schoolboy. Calder is the youngest person to receive this accolade, one of the game's top honours, and the only Wisden Cricketer of the Year that never played first-class cricket.

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Cassandre, French painter (died 1968)

Cassandre, pseudonym of Adolphe Jean-Marie Mouron, was a French painter, commercial poster artist, and typeface designer.

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Edward Turner, English engineer (died 1973)

Edward Turner was an English motorcycle designer. He was born in Camberwell in the London Borough of Southwark, on the day King Edward VII was proclaimed King. In 1915, Turner had his first ride on a motorcycle, a Light Tourist New Imperial.

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24/01/1900

René Guillot, French writer (died 1969)

René Paul Guillot was a French writer of children's books who lived, worked and travelled in French West Africa.

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24/01/1899

Hoyt Vandenberg, U.S. Air Force general (died 1954)

Hoyt Sanford Vandenberg was a United States Air Force general. He served as the second Chief of Staff of the Air Force, and the second Director of Central Intelligence.

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24/01/1897

Paul Fejos, Hungarian-born American director (died 1963)

Pál Fejős, known professionally as Paul Fejos, was a Hungarian-American director of feature films and documentaries who worked in a number of countries including the United States. He also studied medicine in his youth and became a prominent anthropologist later in life. During World War I, Fejos worked as a medical orderly for the Imperial Austrian Army on the Italian front lines and also managed a theater that performed for troops. After the war, he returned to Budapest and eventually worked for the Orient-Film production company. He began to direct films in 1919 or 1920 for Mobil Studios in Hungary until he escaped in 1923 to flee the White Terror and the Horthy regime. He made his way to New York City and then eventually to Hollywood where he began production on his first American feature film, The Last Moment, in October 1927. The film proved to be popular, which allowed him to sign with Universal Studios. After a number of other successful films, Fejos left America in 1931 to direct sound films in France. In 1941, he stopped making films altogether and became the director of research and the acting head of the Viking Fund.

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24/01/1895

Eugen Roth, German poet and songwriter (died 1976)

Eugen Roth was a Bavarian poet who wrote mostly humorous verse.

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24/01/1892

Franz Aigner, Austrian weightlifter (died 1970)

Franz Aigner was an Austrian weightlifter who competed in the 1924 Summer Olympics. He won a silver medal in the heavyweight class.

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24/01/1891

Walter Model, German field marshal (died 1945)

Otto Moritz Walter Model was a German Generalfeldmarschall during World War II. Although he was a hard-driving, aggressive panzer commander early in the war, Model became best known as a practitioner of defensive warfare. His relative success as commander of the Ninth Army in the battles of 1941–1942 determined his future career path.

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24/01/1889

Victor Eftimiu, Romanian poet and playwright (died 1972)

Victor Eftimiu was a Romanian poet and playwright. He was a contributor to Sburătorul, a Romanian literary magazine. His works have been performed in the State Jewish Theater of Romania.

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Charles Hawes, American historian and author (died 1923)

Charles Boardman Hawes was an American writer of fiction and nonfiction sea stories, best known for three historical novels. He died suddenly at age 34, after only two of his five books had been published. He was the first U.S.-born winner of the annual Newbery Medal, recognizing his third novel The Dark Frigate (1923) as the year's best American children's book. Reviewing the Hawes Memorial Prize Contest in 1925, The New York Times observed that "his adventure stories of the sea caused him to be compared with Stevenson, Dana and Melville".

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Hermann-Bernhard Ramcke, German general of paratroop forces during World War II (died 1968)

Hermann-Bernhard Ramcke was a German general of paratroop forces during World War II. He led units in Crete, North Africa, Italy, the Soviet Union and France, and was captured by American forces at the conclusion of the Battle for Brest in September 1944. He was a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves, Swords and Diamonds, one of only 27 people in the German military so decorated. Ramcke's career was unusual in that he served in all three branches of the German Wehrmacht.

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24/01/1888

Vicki Baum, Austrian author and screenwriter (died 1960)

Hedwig "Vicki" Baum was an Austrian writer. She is known for the novel Menschen im Hotel, one of her first international successes. It was made into a 1932 film and a 1989 Broadway musical.

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Ernst Heinkel, German engineer and businessman, founded the Heinkel Aircraft Manufacturing Company (died 1958)

Dr. Ernst Heinkel was a German aircraft designer, manufacturer, Wehrwirtschaftsführer in Nazi Germany, and member of the Nazi Party. His company Heinkel Flugzeugwerke produced the Heinkel He 178, the world's first turbojet-powered aircraft, and the Heinkel He 176, the first rocket aircraft.

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24/01/1887

Jean-Henri Humbert, French botanist (died 1967)

Jean-Henri Humbert was a French botanist born in Paris.

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24/01/1886

Henry King, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (died 1982)

Henry King was an American actor and film director. Widely considered one of the finest and most successful filmmakers of his era, King was nominated for two Academy Awards for Best Director and directed seven films nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture.

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24/01/1885

Marjory Stephenson, British biochemist (died 1948)

Marjory Stephenson was a British biochemist. In 1945, she was one of the first two women elected a Fellow of the Royal Society, the other being Kathleen Lonsdale.

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24/01/1869

Helena Maud Brown Cobb, American educator and missionary (died 1922)

Helena B. Cobb was an American educator and missionary from Georgia. Born in Monroe County, Georgia, she attended Atlanta University and served as an educator and principal at many schools for African Americans in the state. She was also active in organizing and pushing for greater missionary opportunities for women within the Colored Methodist Episcopal Church. In the early 1900s she founded Helena B. Cobb Institute in Barnesville, Georgia.

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24/01/1866

Jaan Poska, Estonian lawyer and politician, 1st Estonian Minister of Foreign Affairs (died 1920)

Jaan Poska VR III/1 was a lawyer, politician and the foreign minister of Estonia in 1918–1919.

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24/01/1864

Marguerite Durand, French actress, journalist, and activist (died 1936)

Marguerite Durand was a French stage actress, journalist, and a leading suffragette. She founded her own newspaper, and ran for election. She is also known for having a pet lion. The Bibliothèque Marguerite Durand was named in her honour for her contributions to the women's suffrage movement in France.

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24/01/1862

Edith Wharton, American novelist and short story writer (died 1937)

Edith Newbold Wharton was an American writer and designer. Wharton drew upon her insider's knowledge of upper-class New York society to portray, realistically, the lives and morals of the Gilded Age. In 1921, she became the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for her novel The Age of Innocence. She was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame in 1996. Her other well-known works are The House of Mirth, the novella Ethan Frome, and several notable ghost stories.

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24/01/1858

Constance Naden, English poet and philosopher (died 1889)

Constance Caroline Woodhill Naden was an English writer, poet and philosopher. She studied, wrote and lectured on philosophy and science, alongside publishing two volumes of poetry. Several collected works were published following her death at the young age of 31. In her honour, Robert Lewins established the Constance Naden Medal and had a bust of her installed at Mason Science College. William Ewart Gladstone considered her one of the nineteenth century's foremost female poets.

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24/01/1848

Vasily Surikov, Russian painter (died 1916)

Vasily Ivanovich Surikov was a Russian realist history painter. Many of his works have become familiar to the general public through their use as illustrations.

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24/01/1843

Josip Stadler, Croatian archbishop (died 1918)

Josip Stadler was a Bosnian prelate of the Catholic Church who served as the first archbishop of Vrhbosna, from 1881 to his death in 1918. He was the founder of the religious order of the Servants of the Infant Jesus.

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24/01/1776

E. T. A. Hoffmann, German jurist, author, and composer (died 1822)

Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann was a German Romantic author of fantasy and gothic horror, a jurist, composer, music critic and artist. His short story "The Sandman" is seen as a pioneering work of horror fiction, while his novella Mademoiselle de Scuderi is regarded as one of the earliest examples of crime fiction.

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24/01/1763

Louis Alexandre Andrault de Langeron, French-Ukrainian general and politician (died 1831)

Count Louis Alexandre Andrault de Langeron was a French military figure in the service of, first, the Kingdom of France, and later the Russian Empire.

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24/01/1754

Andrew Ellicott, American soldier and surveyor (died 1820)

Andrew Ellicott was an American land surveyor who helped map many of the territories west of the Appalachians, surveyed the boundaries of the District of Columbia, continued and completed Pierre (Peter) Charles L'Enfant's work on the plan for Washington, D.C., and served as a teacher in survey methods for Meriwether Lewis.

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24/01/1749

Charles James Fox, English businessman and politician, Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (died 1806)

Charles James Fox, styled The Honourable from 1762, was an English Whig politician and statesman whose parliamentary career spanned 38 years of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. He was the arch-rival of the Tory politician William Pitt the Younger; his father Henry Fox, 1st Baron Holland, a leading Whig of his day, had similarly been the great rival of Pitt's famous father, William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham.

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24/01/1746

Gustav III of Sweden (died 1792)

Gustav III, also called Gustavus III, was King of Sweden from 1771 until his assassination in 1792. He was the eldest son of King Adolf Frederick and Queen Louisa Ulrika of Sweden.

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24/01/1739

Jean Nicolas Houchard, French General of the French Revolution (died 1793)

Jean Nicolas Houchard (24 January 1739 – 17 November 1793) was a French Army officer who served in the French Revolutionary Wars.

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24/01/1732

Pierre Beaumarchais, French playwright and financier (died 1799)

Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais was a French playwright and diplomat of the Age of Enlightenment. Best known for his three Figaro plays, at various times in his life he was also a watchmaker, inventor, musician, spy, publisher, arms dealer, and revolutionary.

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24/01/1712

Frederick the Great, Prussian king (died 1786)

Frederick II was the monarch of Prussia from 1740 until his death in 1786. He was the last Hohenzollern monarch titled King in Prussia, declaring himself King of Prussia after annexing Royal Prussia from the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth in 1772. His most significant accomplishments include military successes in the Silesian wars, reorganisation of the Prussian Army, the First Partition of Poland, and patronage of the arts and the Enlightenment. Prussia greatly increased its territories and became a major military power in Europe under his rule. He became known as Frederick the Great and was nicknamed "Old Fritz".

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24/01/1709

Dom Bédos de Celles, French monk and organist (died 1779)

François-Lamathe Dom Bédos de Celles de Salelles was a French Benedictine monk best known for being a master pipe organ builder.

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24/01/1705

Farinelli, Italian castrato singer (died 1782)

Farinelli was the stage name of Carlo Maria Michelangelo Nicola Broschi, a celebrated Italian castrato singer of the 18th century and one of the greatest singers in the history of opera, composer, and musician. Farinelli was a soprano castrato, with a range from approximately F3-D6.

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24/01/1684

Charles Alexander, Duke of Württemberg, German noble (died 1737)

Charles Alexander of Württemberg first became a Württemberg Duke in 1698 after his father's death and then went on to govern the Kingdom of Serbia as regent from 1720 until 1733, and then assumed the position of Duke of Württemberg, which he held until his death.

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24/01/1679

Christian Wolff, German philosopher and academic (died 1754)

Christian Wolff was a German philosopher. Wolff is characterized as one of the most eminent German philosophers between Leibniz and Kant. His life work spanned almost every scholarly subject of his time, displayed and unfolded according to his demonstrative-deductive, mathematical method, which some deem the peak of Enlightenment rationality in Germany.

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24/01/1674

Thomas Tanner, English bishop (died 1735)

Thomas Tanner was an English antiquary and prelate. He was Bishop of St Asaph from 1732 to 1735.

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24/01/1672

Margrave Albert Frederick of Brandenburg-Schwedt, German Lieutenant General (died 1731)

Albert Frederick, Prince of Prussia, Margrave of Brandenburg-Schwedt, was a Lieutenant General in the army of the Electorate of Brandenburg-Prussia and Grand Master of the Order of Saint John. In his lifetime he held the courtesy title of Margrave of Brandenburg. His elder brother Philip William held the town and lands of Schwedt.

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24/01/1670

William Congreve, English playwright and poet (died 1729)

William Congreve was an English playwright and poet. He played a major role in shaping English comedy, and is regarded by literary critics as one of the greatest playwrights of the Restoration period. The popularity of his plays in the late 17th and early 18th centuries was central to the development of satirical comedy of manners, and he became recognised as a seminal figure of Restoration literature. Although he wrote several commercially successful works, Congreve is best remembered today for his quotes, such as, "O fie, miss, you must not kiss and tell", and "Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned".

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24/01/1664

John Vanbrugh, English architect and dramatist (died 1726)

Sir John Vanbrugh was an English architect, dramatist and herald, perhaps best known as the designer of Blenheim Palace and Castle Howard. He wrote two argumentative and outspoken Restoration comedies, The Relapse (1696) and The Provoked Wife (1697), which have become enduring stage favourites but originally occasioned much controversy. He was knighted in 1714.

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24/01/1643

Charles Sackville, 6th Earl of Dorset, English poet and politician, Lord Chamberlain of Great Britain (died 1706)

Charles Sackville, 6th Earl of Dorset was an English politician, courtier and poet.

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24/01/1619

Yamazaki Ansai, Japanese philosopher (died 1682)

Yamazaki Ansai was a Japanese philosopher and scholar. He began his career as a Buddhist monk, but eventually came to follow the teachings of Neo-Confucian Zhu Xi. He combined Neo-Confucian ideas with Shinto to create Suika Shinto.

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24/01/1602

Mildmay Fane, 2nd Earl of Westmorland, English politician (died 1666)

Mildmay Fane, 2nd Earl of Westmorland, styled Lord le Despenser between 1624 and 1628, was an English nobleman, politician and writer.

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24/01/1547

Joanna of Austria, Grand Duchess of Tuscany, Austrian Archduchess (died 1578)

Joanna of Austria was an Archduchess of Austria. By marriage to Francesco I de' Medici, she was the Grand Princess of Tuscany and later the Grand Duchess of Tuscany. One of her daughters was Marie de' Medici, second wife of King Henry IV of France.

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24/01/1444

Galeazzo Maria Sforza, Duke of Milan (died 1476)

Galeazzo Maria Sforza was the fifth Duke of Milan from 1466 until 1476. He was born to Francesco Sforza, a popular condottiero and ally of Cosimo de' Medici who would gain the Duchy of Milan in 1450, and Bianca Maria Visconti, Duchess of Milan on her own right. Sforza was betrothed into the Gonzaga family; after the engagement with Dorotea Gonzaga was called off, he married Bona of Savoy.

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24/01/1287

Richard de Bury, English bishop and politician, Lord Chancellor of Great Britain (died 1345)

Richard de Bury, also known as Richard Aungerville or Aungervyle, was an English priest, teacher, bishop, writer, and bibliophile. He was a patron of learning and one of the first English collectors of books. He is chiefly remembered for his Philobiblon, written to inculcate in the clergy the pursuit of learning and the love of books. The Philobiblon is considered one of the earliest books to discuss librarianship in-depth. Completed shortly before de Bury's death in 1345, the book wasn't published until 1473, and this "little treatise" as he described it, has been regularly reprinted in every century following.

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24/01/0076

Hadrian, Roman emperor (died 138)

AD 76 (LXXVI) was a leap year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Titus and Vespasianus. The denomination AD 76 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.

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