22nd July — World Brain Day & Pi Approximation Day

On this day, 218 notable people were born on 22nd July — spanning from 1210 to 2013. From world leaders to artists and scientists, discover who shares this birthday.

22/07/2013

Prince George of Wales

Prince George of Wales is a member of the British royal family. He is the eldest child of William, Prince of Wales and Catherine, Princess of Wales, and the eldest grandchild of King Charles III and Diana, Princess of Wales. He is second in the line of succession to the British throne behind his father.

---

22/07/2006

Javon Walton, American actor and boxer

Javon Anthony Walton, also known by his ring name Wanna, is an American actor and professional boxer, who is best known for his portrayal of Ashtray in the HBO series Euphoria. After his work in Euphoria, he began working on the television series Utopia, The Umbrella Academy, and the film Samaritan.

---

22/07/2003

Solveig Vik, Norwegian politician

Solveig Gundersen Vik is a Norwegian politician and deputy member of the Storting. A member of the Labour Party, she has represented Rogaland since October 2025.

---

22/07/2002

Konstanse Marie Alvær, Norwegian politician

Konstanse Marie Alvær is a Norwegian politician and deputy member of the Storting. A member of the Labour Party, she has represented Telemark since October 2025.

---

Prince Felix of Denmark

Count Felix of Monpezat is a member of the Danish royal family. He is the younger son of Prince Joachim and his first wife, Alexandra, Countess of Frederiksborg. He is a grandson of Queen Margrethe II and Prince Henrik, and a nephew of King Frederik X. Felix is currently seventh in the line of succession to the Danish throne.

---

22/07/2000

Garrett Wilson, American football player

Garrett Wilson is an American professional football wide receiver for the New York Jets of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Ohio State Buckeyes and was selected 10th overall by the Jets in the 2022 NFL draft. Wilson was named the NFL Offensive Rookie of the Year.

---

22/07/1999

Sidney Chu, Hong Kong skater

Sidney K. Chu is a short track speed skater representing Hong Kong. Chu was Hong Kong's flag-bearer at the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, China. Chu is currently the executive director of the Hong Kong Speed Skating Academy

---

Jason Robertson, American ice hockey player

Jason Robertson is an American professional ice hockey player who is a left winger for the Dallas Stars of the National Hockey League (NHL). The Stars selected him in the second round, 39th overall, of the 2017 NHL entry draft.

---

22/07/1998

Marc Cucurella, Spanish footballer

Marc Cucurella Saseta is a Spanish professional footballer who plays as a left-back or left wing-back for Premier League club Chelsea and the Spain national team. He is considered one of the best left-backs in the world.

---

Larray, American YouTuber

Larri Merritt, professionally known as Larray, is an American media personality and YouTuber. He produces comedic video content on his YouTube channel, and was part of the collaborative TikTok collective known as The Hype House. After initially gaining prominence on Vine, he started uploading videos onto YouTube after the former became defunct.

---

Madison Pettis, American actress

Madison Michelle Pettis is an American actress. She is known for her roles as Sophie Martinez on the Disney Channel series Cory in the House, Janelle in Lab Rats, Allie Brooks in the YTV/TeenNick series Life with Boys, Peyton Kelly in the film The Game Plan, Alden Pierce in He's All That and Lexi Miller in The Wrong Paris.

---

Federico Valverde, Uruguayan footballer

Federico Santiago Valverde Dipetta is a Uruguayan professional footballer who plays as a central midfielder for La Liga club Real Madrid and the Uruguay national team. Known for his versatility, work rate, pace and shooting, he is considered as one of the best midfielders in the world. Valverde mainly plays as a central midfielder but is also able to play as a right-back.

---

Sahaphap Wongratch, Thai actor, model, and singer

Sahaphap Wongratch, nicknamed Mix, is a Thai actor, singer. He gained recognition for his leading role as Tian in the series A Tale of Thousand Stars (2021). He further gained further prominence roles as Wen in Moonlight Chicken (2023) and Momo in Ossan's Love Thailand (2025).

---

22/07/1996

Kevin Fiala, Swiss ice hockey player

Kevin Fiala is a Swiss professional ice hockey player who is a left winger for the Los Angeles Kings of the National Hockey League (NHL). He spent one season with the Malmö Redhawks junior team, then joined HV71, splitting a season between their junior team and their senior team in the Swedish Hockey League (SHL), being selected by the Nashville Predators 11th overall in the 2014 NHL entry draft. Fiala started the following season with HV71 before moving to North America halfway through, splitting two seasons between the Predators and their American Hockey League (AHL) affiliate, the Milwaukee Admirals.

---

Skyler Gisondo, American actor

Skyler Augustus Gisondo is an American actor. He is known for his roles in the films Licorice Pizza, Booksmart, Vacation and Superman, as well as the television programs Psych, The Righteous Gemstones, and Santa Clarita Diet.

---

22/07/1995

Ezekiel Elliott, American football player

Ezekiel Elijah Elliott, nicknamed "Zeke", is an American professional football running back. He played college football for the Ohio State Buckeyes, earning second-team All-American honors in 2015. Elliott was selected by the Dallas Cowboys fourth overall in the 2016 NFL draft. In his first seven NFL seasons, all with the Cowboys, he was a three-time Pro Bowl, two-time All-Pro selection, and led the league in rushing yards in 2016 and 2018. After being released by the Cowboys after the 2022 season, Elliott played the 2023 season for the New England Patriots. Elliott then re-signed and played for the Cowboys in the following 2024 season, before being released by the team before the final game of the season.

---

Armaan Malik, Indian playback singer, composer and songwriter

Armaan Malik is an Indian playback singer, songwriter, voice actor, and actor. He started his career in 2007 as a child vocalist in Bollywood, making his debut with the song "Bum Bum Bole" from the film Taare Zameen Par. Malik made his first on-screen appearance in the film Kaccha Limboo in 2011. He has been associated with Universal Music India and T-Series.

---

Jonathan Owens, American football player

Jonathan James Owens is an American professional football safety for the Indianapolis Colts of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Missouri Western Griffons, and signed with the Arizona Cardinals as an undrafted free agent in 2018. He has also played for the Houston Texans, Green Bay Packers, and Chicago Bears. He is married to American artistic gymnast Simone Biles.

---

22/07/1993

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, Kyrgyzstani-American terrorist

Dzhokhar Anzorovich Tsarnaev is an American domestic terrorist and mass murderer of Chechen and Avar descent. Along with his older brother Tamerlan Tsarnaev, he planted pressure cooker bombs near the finish line of the Boston Marathon on April 15, 2013. The bombs detonated, killing three people and injuring hundreds of others.

---

22/07/1992

Anja Aguilar, Filipino actress and singer

Angellie G. Urquico, better known by her stage name Anja Aguilar, is a Filipino actress and recording artist. She was the grand winner of the second season of Little Big Star in 2006. She is a former member of the group Pop Girls from VIVA Records.

---

Selena Gomez, American singer and actress

Selena Marie Gomez is an American actress, singer, songwriter, businesswoman, and producer. Gomez began her career as a child actress on the children's television series Barney & Friends (2002–2004), and emerged as a teen idol for her leading role as Alex Russo on the Disney Channel sitcom Wizards of Waverly Place (2007–2012). Gomez signed with Hollywood Records in 2008 and formed the band Selena Gomez & the Scene, which released three albums: Kiss & Tell (2009), A Year Without Rain (2010), and When the Sun Goes Down (2011).

---

Carolin Schnarre, German Paralympic equestrian

Carolin Schnarre is a German Paralympic equestrian.

---

22/07/1991

Taylor Lewan, American football player

Taylor Curtis Lewan is an American former professional football player who was a tackle for nine seasons with the Tennessee Titans of the National Football League (NFL).

---

Matty James, English footballer

Matthew Lee James is an English professional footballer who plays for EFL Championship club Wrexham. His regular position is in midfield, but he can play in defence when required. James began his career with Manchester United, where his brother Reece also came through the youth ranks, but left the club for a spell on loan at Preston North End before joining Leicester City on a permanent basis in 2012.

---

Tomi Juric, Australian footballer

Tomi Juric is an Australian professional soccer player who plays as a striker for Bosnian Premier League club Zrinjski Mostar.

---

22/07/1989

Israel Adesanya, New Zealand mixed martial artist and kickboxer

Israel Mobolaji Temitayo Odunayo Oluwafemi Owolabi Adesanya is a Nigerian-New Zealand professional mixed martial artist, former kickboxer, and boxer. As a mixed martial artist, he currently competes in the Middleweight division of the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC), where he is a former two-time UFC Middleweight Champion. In kickboxing, he is a former Glory Middleweight Championship title challenger. As of 31 March 2026, he is #9 in the UFC middleweight rankings.

---

Keegan Allen, American actor, photographer and musician

Keegan Phillip Allen is an American actor, photographer, author and musician known for his main role as Toby Cavanaugh on the Freeform series Pretty Little Liars.

---

22/07/1988

William Buick, Norwegian-British flat jockey

William Buick is a Norwegian-born British flat jockey. He shared the champion apprentice jockey title in 2008 with David Probert and won the Lester Award for Apprentice Jockey of the Year in 2007 and 2008. From 2010 to 2014 he was stable jockey to John Gosden. In 2015 he signed with Godolphin. Buick won his first Group 1 race in Canada in 2010 and since then has won Group 1 races in England, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Ireland, Italy, Japan, the United Arab Emirates and the United States. He has won five British Classic Races: the St Leger in 2010, 2011 and 2021, the Derby in 2018 and the 2000 Guineas in 2024. He was British flat racing Champion Jockey in 2022 and 2023.

---

Paul Coutts, Scottish footballer

Paul Alexander Coutts is a Scottish footballer who plays for Highland League club Inverurie Loco Works.

---

George Santos, American politician

George Anthony Devolder Santos is an American former politician and convicted felon. He served as the U.S. representative for New York's 3rd congressional district from January to December 2023, before he was expelled from Congress.

---

Thomas Kraft, German footballer

Thomas Kraft is a German former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper.

---

Sercan Temizyürek, Turkish footballer

Sercan Temizyürek is a Turkish professional footballer who currently plays as a left winger for Eyüpspor.

---

22/07/1987

Denis Gargaud Chanut, French slalom canoeist

Denis Gargaud Chanut is a French slalom canoeist who has competed at the international level in C1 since 2004. Between 2009 and 2011 he also competed in the C2 category alongside Fabien Lefèvre. He won a gold medal in the C1 event at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.

---

Charlotte Kalla, Swedish skier

Marina Charlotte Kalla is a Swedish Tornedalian retired cross-country skier. A four-time Olympian, Kalla won three golds and nine medals overall at the Olympics between 2004 and 2022. She holds the joint record as Sweden's most decorated Olympic competitor and is the all-time leader among Swedish female athletes. She is also a 13-time medalist at the World Championships, including a gold medal at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2015 10 km freestyle event in Falun. This made Kalla the first Swedish female cross-country skier to win individual golds in both the Olympics and World Championships. In 2008, Kalla won the Jerring Award for her Tour de Ski win.

---

22/07/1986

Colin de Grandhomme, Zimbabwean-New Zealand cricketer

Colin de Grandhomme is a Zimbabwean-born former New Zealand international cricketer. He was a member of the New Zealand team that won the 2019–2021 ICC World Test Championship. He was a part of the New Zealand squad to finish as runners-up at the 2019 Cricket World Cup. He was highly rated by New Zealand cricket for his explosive aggressive batting abilities who could swing the bat by batting lower down the order as he was tailor made for such role in his international career. He also cemented his place as a regular mainstay of the New Zealand team in across all three formats for his gentle disciplined medium pace bowling. He qualified to play for New Zealand through residency. His father Laurence de Grandhomme was also a cricketer who played first-class matches in Zimbabwe. His great-uncle Bunny de Grandhomme also played first-class cricket.

---

Stevie Johnson, American football player

Steven John Johnson Jr. is an American former professional football player who was a wide receiver in the National Football League (NFL). Johnson was selected by the Buffalo Bills in the seventh round of the 2008 NFL draft and also played for the San Francisco 49ers and San Diego Chargers. He played college football at Kentucky. Despite never making the Pro Bowl, Johnson was the first Bills receiver to post back-to-back seasons with over 1,000 yards receiving, and has been considered one of the best draft steals in franchise history.

---

22/07/1985

Jessica Abbott, Australian swimmer

Jessica Abbott is an Australian swimmer.

---

Takudzwa Ngwenya, Zimbabwean-American rugby player

Takudzwa Ngwenya is a former rugby union player who played on the wing for the United States national rugby union team and Biarritz Olympique in the Top 14. He made his mark in the 2007 Rugby World Cup with tries against South Africa and Samoa.

---

Akira Tozawa, Japanese wrestler

Akira Tozawa is a Japanese professional wrestler. As of 2016, he is signed to WWE, where he performs on the Raw brand and is a member of the Alpha Academy stable. He is a former one-time WWE Cruiserweight Champion and 16-time WWE 24/7 Champion.

---

22/07/1984

Stewart Downing, English footballer

Stewart Downing is an English former professional footballer. He played most of his career as a winger or left-back He is currently the assistant coach for Leeds United's U21 squad.

---

22/07/1983

Aldo de Nigris, Mexican footballer

Jesus Aldo de Nigris Guajardo is a Mexican former professional footballer who played as a forward.

---

Dries Devenyns, Belgian cyclist

Dries Devenyns is a Belgian retired road bicycle racer, who rode for UCI WorldTeam Soudal–Quick-Step. He retired at the end of 2023.

---

Steven Jackson, American football player

Steven Rashad Jackson is an American former professional football running back who played in the National Football League (NFL) for 12 seasons, primarily with the St. Louis Rams. He played college football for the Oregon State Beavers, twice receiving third-team All-American and first-team All-Pac-10 honors.

---

Andreas Ulvo, Norwegian pianist

Andreas Ulvo is a Norwegian jazz pianist, organist, keyboardist and composer, known from cooperations with Shining, Ingrid Olava, Mathias Eick Quartet, Solveig Slettahjell & Slow Motion Orchestra, Karl Seglem and Thom Hell.

---

22/07/1982

Nuwan Kulasekara, Sri Lankan cricketer

Kulasekara Mudiyanselage Dinesh Nuwan Kulasekara is a former Sri Lankan cricketer who played all formats of the game. He was educated at Bandaranayake College, Gampaha.

---

22/07/1980

Dirk Kuyt, Dutch footballer

Dirk Kuijt, anglicised to Kuyt, is a Dutch former professional footballer and the current manager of Eerste Divisie club FC Dordrecht. Originally starting out as a forward, he played much of his career as a right-winger.

---

Scott Dixon, New Zealand racing driver

Sir Scott Ronald Glyndwr Dixon is a New Zealand racing driver who races the No. 9 Chip Ganassi Racing (CGR) Dallara DW12-Honda car in the IndyCar Series. Dixon has won the IndyCar Series championship six times, in 2003, 2008, 2013, 2015, 2018 and 2020, and he won the 2008 Indianapolis 500 with CGR. He is a three-time winner of the 24 Hours of Daytona, with CGR in 2006 and 2015 and in 2020 with Wayne Taylor Racing. He has also won the Petit Le Mans twice.

---

Kate Ryan, Belgian singer-songwriter

Kate Ryan is a Belgian singer and songwriter, and the winner of a World Music Award. She began her singing career in 2001 and later found fame with a string of dance hits. These included covers, mostly of Mylène Farmer and France Gall, such as "Désenchantée", "Libertine", and "Ella, elle l'a", and Desireless' "Voyage Voyage", as well as new material. Ryan represented Belgium in the Eurovision Song Contest 2006 with "Je t'adore" coming in 12th place in the semi-final.

---

Tablo, South Korean-Canadian rapper

Daniel Seon Woong Lee, better known by his stage name Tablo (타블로), is a South Korean and Canadian rapper, songwriter and record producer. Tablo is best known as the leader and producer of South Korean hip-hop group Epik High, and the founder of independent music label Highgrnd, which housed bands Hyukoh and The Black Skirts.

---

22/07/1979

Lucas Luhr, German racing driver

Lucas Luhr is a German racing driver. He is a staple of the American Le Mans Series during the 2000s and early 2010s, winning the GT class with Porsche in 2002, the LMP2 category in 2006, and taking the overall LMP1 championship as part of the Audi Sport North America works outfit in 2008. He also won the P1 title in 2012 and 2013, driving for Honda-fielding Muscle Milk Pickett Racing.

---

Yadel Martí, Cuban baseball player

Yadel Martí Carrillo is a Cuban right-handed pitcher.

---

22/07/1978

Runako Morton, Nevisian cricketer (died 2012)

Runako Shakur Morton was a Nevisian cricketer who played for West Indies in all formats of the game. He was a right-handed batsman and a right-handed offbreak bowler.

---

Dennis Rommedahl, Danish footballer

Dennis Rommedahl is a Danish former professional footballer who played as a right winger. During his 19-year professional career, he won four Eredivisie titles with PSV Eindhoven, and also played for several other Dutch clubs in between stints in England and Greece.

---

22/07/1977

Ezio Galon, Italian rugby player

Ezio Galon is a former Italian rugby union player.

---

Ingo Hertzsch, German footballer

Ingo Hertzsch is a German former professional footballer who played as a defender.

---

Gustavo Nery, Brazilian footballer

Gustavo Nery de Sá da Silva is a Brazilian former professional footballer who played as a left-back.

---

22/07/1974

Franka Potente, German actress

Franka Potente is a German actress. She first appeared in the comedy film After Five in the Forest Primeval (1995), for which she won a Bavarian Film Award for Best Young Actress. Her breakthrough came in 1998, when she starred in the acclaimed action thriller Run Lola Run, for which she won a BAMBI Award for Best Actress. She received further critical acclaim and a Bavarian Television Award nomination for her performance in the television film Opernball.

---

22/07/1973

Brian Chippendale, American singer and drummer

Brian Chippendale is an American musician and artist, known as the drummer and vocalist for the experimental noise rock band Lightning Bolt and for his graphic art. Chippendale is based in Providence, Rhode Island.

---

Mike Sweeney, American baseball player and sportscaster

Michael John Sweeney is an American former Major League Baseball designated hitter and first baseman. Sweeney played his first 13 seasons in the majors with the Kansas City Royals, first as a catcher, then at first base and designated hitter. Sweeney also played for the Oakland Athletics, Seattle Mariners, and Philadelphia Phillies. In March 2011, Sweeney retired from baseball. He now works as a special assistant for the Royals. Sweeney was inducted into the Royals Hall of Fame in 2015.

---

Ece Temelkuran, Turkish journalist and author

Ece Temelkuran is a Turkish journalist and author.

---

Rufus Wainwright, American-Canadian singer-songwriter

Rufus McGarrigle Wainwright is a Canadian and American singer, songwriter, and composer. He has recorded eleven studio albums and numerous tracks on compilations and film soundtracks. He has also written two classical operas and set Shakespeare's sonnets to music for a theatre piece by Robert Wilson.

---

22/07/1972

Franco Battaini, Italian motorcycle racer

Franco Battaini is an Italian motorcycle road racer. His best years were in 2002 and 2003 when he finished sixth in the 250cc world championship. In 2005 Battaini competed in MotoGP aboard the Blata WCM. He had a very unsuccessful season taking a best finish of 11th in Japan – where many riders retired from the race. In 2006 Battaini competed in the Superbike World Championship.

---

Colin Ferguson, Canadian actor, director, and producer

Colin Ferguson is a Canadian actor, director and producer. He is known for playing Sheriff Jack Carter on the Syfy series Eureka, the Maytag Man, and Lewis on Then Came You.

---

Seth Fisher, American illustrator (died 2006)

Seth Fisher was an American comic book artist.

---

Keyshawn Johnson, American football player and sportscaster

Joseph Keyshawn Johnson is an American former professional football wide receiver who played in the National Football League (NFL) for 11 seasons.

---

22/07/1970

Jason Becker, American guitarist and songwriter

Jason Eli Becker is an American composer and former guitarist. At the age of 16, he became part of the Shrapnel Records-produced duo Cacophony with his friend Marty Friedman, and they released two albums, Speed Metal Symphony (1987) and Go Off! (1988). Since the dissolution of Cacophony in 1989, Becker has undertaken a solo career, releasing seven albums since his 1988 debut Perpetual Burn. He later joined David Lee Roth's solo band and recorded one album with him, A Little Ain't Enough.

---

Steve Carter, Australian rugby league player

Steve Carter is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1980s, 1990s and 2000s. A New South Wales State of Origin representative five-eighth, in Australia he played for and captained the Penrith Panthers, with whom he won the 1991 NSWRL Premiership. He ended his career with a season in England with the Widnes Vikings.

---

Sergei Zubov, Russian ice hockey player and coach

Sergei Alexandrovich Zubov is a Russian professional ice hockey coach and former defenceman. Zubov played for the Dallas Stars, New York Rangers and Pittsburgh Penguins of the National Hockey League as well as SKA Saint Petersburg of the KHL. He won the Stanley Cup twice: with the Rangers in 1994 and the Stars in 1999. He was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame as part of the class of 2019.

---

22/07/1969

Rebecca Kiessling, American attorney and anti-abortion activist

Rebecca Kiessling is an American anti-abortion activist and attorney. Her advocacy is focused on criminalizing abortion, including in the case of pregnancy from rape.

---

Despina Vandi, German-Greek singer and actress

Despina Malea, known as Despina Vandi, is a Greek singer. Born in Tübingen near Stuttgart, Germany, Vandi's family returned to Kavala, Greece when she was six years old.

---

22/07/1967

Lauren Booth, English journalist and activist

Lauren Booth is an English broadcaster, journalist and activist holding a VIP Palestinian passport as well as a British passport.

---

Rhys Ifans, Welsh actor

Rhys Owain Evans, known as Rhys Ifans, is a Welsh actor. He has portrayed roles in Twin Town (1997), Dancing at Lughnasa (1998), Notting Hill (1999), Kevin & Perry Go Large (2000), Enduring Love (2004), and The Boat That Rocked (2009), in addition to Xenophilius Lovegood in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1 (2010), Dr. Curt Connors / Lizard in The Amazing Spider-Man (2012) and Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021), and Grigori Rasputin in The King's Man (2021). His television roles include Hector DeJean in the Epix thriller series Berlin Station, Mycroft Holmes in the CBS series Elementary, and Otto Hightower in the HBO fantasy series House of the Dragon.

---

22/07/1966

Tim Brown, American football player and manager

Timothy Donell Brown is an American former professional football player who was a wide receiver in the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Notre Dame Fighting Irish, where he won the Heisman Trophy, becoming the first wide receiver to do so. He spent sixteen years with the Los Angeles / Oakland Raiders, during which he established himself as one of the NFL's greatest wide receivers of all time. Brown also played for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. In 2015, he was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame.

---

22/07/1965

Derrick Dalley, Canadian educator and politician

Derrick Dalley, is a former Canadian politician in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. He served as the Minister of Natural Resources in the provincial cabinet. Dalley has represented the district of The Isles of Notre Dame in the House of Assembly from 2007 until 2015. Before entering politics he worked as a guidance counselor and principal.

---

Shawn Michaels, American wrestler, trainer, and actor

Shawn Michaels is an American retired professional wrestler. He is signed to WWE, where he is the Senior Vice President of Talent Development, Creative, and oversees the creative aspects of the NXT brand, the promotion's developmental territory. Regarded as one of the greatest professional wrestlers of all time, he is known by the nicknames "the Heartbreak Kid", "the Showstopper", and "Mr. WrestleMania".

---

Richard B. Poore, New Zealand humanitarian

Richard Beresford Poore OAM in Christchurch, New Zealand, and his wife Gilana,, were awarded OAMs For service to Australia by providing assistance to the victims of the bombings which occurred in Bali on 12 October 2002, and to their families.

---

Doug Riesenberg, American football player and coach

Douglas John Riesenberg is an American former professional football player who was an offensive tackle in the National Football League (NFL) for the New York Giants and Tampa Bay Buccaneers, and started in Super Bowl XXV. He played college football for the California Golden Bears.

---

22/07/1964

Will Calhoun, American drummer

William Calhoun is an American drummer who is a member of the rock band Living Colour.

---

Bonnie Langford, English actress and dancer

Bonita Melody Lysette Langford is an English actress, dancer, singer, and television personality. She is often known for her TV role as Violet in Just William (1977-1978) and Melanie Bush in Doctor Who. Langford portrayed Carmel Kazemi on the BBC soap opera EastEnders from 2015 to 2018, receiving the 2016 British Soap Award for Best Newcomer.

---

David Spade, American actor, producer, and screenwriter

David Wayne Spade is an American stand-up comedian, actor and podcaster. His comedic style, in both his stand-up material and acting roles, relies heavily on sarcasm and self-deprecation. For his roles on television, Spade has received nominations for four Primetime Emmy Awards and two Golden Globe Awards. In 2003, he received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

---

22/07/1963

Emilio Butragueño, Spanish footballer

Emilio Butragueño Santos is a Spanish former professional footballer who played as a striker.

---

Emily Saliers, American singer-songwriter and musician

Emily Ann Saliers is an American singer-songwriter and member of the musical duo Indigo Girls. Saliers sings soprano and plays lead guitar as well as banjo, piano, mandolin, ukulele, bouzouki and many other instruments.

---

22/07/1962

Steve Albini, American record producer and musician (died 2024)

Steven Frank Albini was an American musician and audio engineer. He founded and fronted the influential post-hardcore and noise rock bands Big Black (1981–1987), Rapeman (1987–1989), and Shellac (1992–2024), and engineered acclaimed albums such as the Pixies' Surfer Rosa (1988), PJ Harvey's Rid of Me, Nirvana's In Utero, and Manic Street Preachers' Journal for Plague Lovers (2009).

---

Alvin Robertson, American basketball player

Alvin Cyrrale Robertson is an American former professional basketball player who played in the National Basketball Association (NBA) for 10 seasons with the San Antonio Spurs, Milwaukee Bucks, Detroit Pistons, and Toronto Raptors. Robertson holds the record for the most steals per game played, averaging 2.71 steals per game for his career and is the only player to ever have a season of 300 or more steals which he accomplished in the 1985–86 season. He is one of only four players and the only guard in NBA history to have recorded a quadruple-double.

---

Martine St. Clair, Canadian singer and actress

Martine St. Clair is a Canadian singer from the province of Quebec. She has released numerous albums in a career that has spanned over two decades.

---

22/07/1961

Calvin Fish, English racing driver and sportscaster

Calvin Fish is a British television commentator for NBC Sports and a former racing driver.

---

Keith Sweat, American singer-songwriter and producer

Keith Sweat is an American singer, producer and songwriter. An early figure in the new jack swing musical movement, he is known for his collection of hits including "I Want Her," "Make It Last Forever," "I'll Give All My Love to You," "Make You Sweat," "Get Up on It," "Twisted," "Nobody." He has released 13 solo albums and discovered the groups Silk and Kut Klose. Sweat's sound reportedly was influenced by Slave front man Steve Arrington and go-go music.

---

22/07/1960

Jon Oliva, American singer-songwriter and keyboard player

John Nicholas "Jon" Oliva is an American singer and musician. He is best known as the co-founder, keyboardist and lead vocalist of the heavy metal band Savatage, which he co-founded with his younger brother Criss Oliva. Since 1996 he has also been a songwriter, musician and vocalist in Trans-Siberian Orchestra. Producer Paul O'Neill referred to Oliva in numerous interviews as the single greatest vocalist/musician he has ever worked with.

---

John Leguizamo, Colombian-American actor, producer, and screenwriter

John Alberto Leguizamo Peláez is an American stand-up comedian, actor, and film producer. He has appeared in more than 100 films, produced more than 20 films and documentaries, made more than 30 television appearances, and has produced various television projects. He has also written and performed for the Broadway stage, receiving four Tony Award nominations for Freak in 1998, Sexaholix in 2002, and Latin History for Morons in 2018. He received a Special Tony Award in 2018.

---

22/07/1958

Tatsunori Hara, Japanese baseball player and coach

Tatsunori Hara is a Japanese former professional baseball infielder and manager. He played 15 seasons in Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) for the Yomiuri Giants, and also spent 17 seasons as the club's manager.

---

David Von Erich, American wrestler (died 1984)

David Alan Adkisson was an American professional wrestler, better known by the ring name David Von Erich. A member of the Von Erich family, he is best known for his appearances with World Class Championship Wrestling, the professional wrestling promotion in Dallas owned by his father, Fritz Von Erich, a professional wrestler.

---

22/07/1957

Dave Stieb, American baseball player

David Andrew Stieb is an American former Major League Baseball (MLB) starting pitcher who spent the majority of his career with the Toronto Blue Jays. A seven-time All-Star, he won The Sporting News' Pitcher of the Year Award in 1982. His 56.9 career wins above replacement are the highest of any Blue Jays player, and he also holds the franchise records for complete games (103), strikeouts (1,658), and innings pitched (2,873).

---

22/07/1956

Mick Pointer, English neo-progressive rock drummer

Michael Pointer is an English drummer. He is known for his work in the neo-prog bands Marillion and Arena.

---

Scott Sanderson, American baseball player and sportscaster (died 2019)

Scott Douglas Sanderson was an American professional baseball pitcher. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Montreal Expos, Chicago Cubs, Oakland Athletics, New York Yankees, California Angels, San Francisco Giants, and Chicago White Sox. Following his retirement from playing professional baseball he worked as a sports agent and radio broadcaster.

---

22/07/1955

Richard J. Corman, American businessman, founded the R.J. Corman Railroad Group (died 2013)

Richard Jay Corman was the founder and owner of R. J. Corman Railroad Group, a Nicholasville, Kentucky-based railroad services and short line operating company.

---

Willem Dafoe, American actor

William James "Willem" Dafoe is an American actor. Known for his prolific career portraying diverse roles in both mainstream and arthouse films, he is the recipient of various accolades including a Volpi Cup Award for Best Actor, with nominations for four Academy Awards, a British Academy Film Award, and four Golden Globe Awards. He received an Honorary Golden Bear in 2018.

---

22/07/1954

Al Di Meola, American guitarist, songwriter, and producer

Albert Laurence Di Meola is an American guitarist. Known for his work in jazz fusion and world music, he had his breakthrough after joining Chick Corea's Return to Forever group in 1974. He launched, from 1976 afterwards, a successful and critically acclaimed solo career, noted for his technical mastery, complex compositions and explorations of Latin music. Highlights of his work are Elegant Gypsy, his Friday Night in San Francisco collaboration and the World Sinfonia trilogy.

---

Steve LaTourette, American lawyer and politician (died 2016)

Steven Clare LaTourette was an American politician who served as the U.S. representative for Ohio's 19th congressional district and then Ohio's 14th congressional district from 1995 to 2013. He was a member of the Republican Party. On July 30, 2012, it was reported that he would retire at the end of his term and not seek re-election. He subsequently co-founded a lobbying firm.

---

Lonette McKee, American actress and singer

Lonette Rita McKee is an American actress and singer. She made her big screen debut starring as Sister Williams in the original 1976 musical-drama film Sparkle. McKee later appeared in films Which Way Is Up? (1977), The Cotton Club (1984), Brewster's Millions (1985), Round Midnight (1986), Gardens of Stone (1987), Jungle Fever (1991), Malcolm X (1992), Men of Honor (2000), Honey (2003) and ATL (2006).

---

22/07/1953

Brian Howe, English singer-songwriter (died 2020)

Brian Anthony Howe was an English rock singer, best known for replacing Paul Rodgers as the lead vocalist of Bad Company. Howe's career was jump-started in 1983 when Ted Nugent recruited him to handle lead vocals for his Penetrator album and front its subsequent world tour.

---

22/07/1951

Richard Bennett, American guitarist and producer

Richard Bennett is an American guitarist and record producer. As a touring sideman, he performed with Neil Diamond for seventeen years and Mark Knopfler since 1994. As a session musician, he has worked with Billy Joel, Barbra Streisand, Rodney Crowell, and Vince Gill. He has produced albums for Steve Earle, Emmylou Harris, Marty Stuart, and Kim Richey.

---

J. V. Cain, American football player (died 1979)

James Victor Cain, Jr. was an American football tight end who played for the St. Louis Cardinals of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Colorado Buffaloes and was selected by the Cardinals seventh overall in the 1974 NFL draft.

---

Patriarch Daniel of Romania

Daniel is the Patriarch of the Romanian Orthodox Church. The elections took place on 12 September 2007. Daniel won with a majority of 95 votes out of 161 against Bartolomeu Anania. He was officially enthroned on 30 September 2007 in the Patriarchal Cathedral in Bucharest. As such, his official title is "Archbishop of Bucharest, Metropolitan of Muntenia and Dobrogea, Locum tenens of the throne of Caesarea of Cappadocia, Patriarch of All Romania".

---

Tisa Farrow, American actress and model (died 2024)

Theresa Magdalena "Tisa" Farrow was an American actress and model.

---

Slick Watts, American basketball player (died 2025)

Donald Earl "Slick" Watts was an American professional basketball player in the National Basketball Association (NBA). Playing with the Seattle SuperSonics in 1976, he became the first player to lead the league in both assists and steals. He remained a favorite of Sonics fans after his basketball career.

---

22/07/1949

Alan Menken, American pianist and composer

Alan Irwin Menken is an American composer and conductor. Over his career he has received numerous accolades including winning eight Academy Awards, a Tony Award, eleven Grammy Awards, seven Golden Globe Awards, a Daytime Emmy Award, and a Golden Raspberry for worst original song. He is one of 28 recipients to have won the competitive EGOT.

---

Lasse Virén, Finnish runner and police officer

Lasse Artturi Virén is a Finnish former long-distance runner, winner of four gold medals at the 1972 and 1976 Summer Olympics. Virén recaptured the image of the "Flying Finns" promoted by runners like Hannes Kolehmainen, Paavo Nurmi and Ville Ritola in the 1920s. He was elected Finnish Sportsman of the Year in 1972 and 1976 and later became a politician and a member of Finland's parliament in 1999–2007 and 2010–2011.

---

22/07/1948

Neil Hardwick, British–Finnish theatre and television director

Robert Neil Hardwick is a British-born Finnish theatre and TV director and writer. He was raised in Teversal, near Nottingham. His father was a teacher, and Neil Hardwick has described himself as "a second generation non-miner".

---

S. E. Hinton, American author

Susan Eloise Hinton is an American writer best known for her young-adult novels (YA) set in Oklahoma, especially The Outsiders (1967), which she wrote during high school. Hinton is credited with introducing the YA genre. She graduated from the University of Tulsa.

---

22/07/1947

Albert Brooks, American actor, comedian, director, and screenwriter

Albert Lawrence Einstein, known professionally as Albert Brooks, is an American actor, comedian, director, and screenwriter. He received an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in the comedy-drama Broadcast News (1987) and was widely praised for his performance in the action drama Drive (2011). Brooks has acted in films such as Taxi Driver (1976), Private Benjamin (1980), Unfaithfully Yours (1984), Out of Sight (1998), My First Mister (2001), and Concussion (2015). He has written, directed, and starred in a number of comedies, including Modern Romance (1981), Lost in America (1985), and Defending Your Life (1991). He is the author of 2030: The Real Story of What Happens to America (2011).

---

Gilles Duceppe, Canadian politician

Gilles Duceppe is a Canadian retired politician, proponent of the Quebec sovereignty movement and former leader of the federal political party, Bloc Québécois. He was a Member of Parliament in the House of Commons of Canada for over 20 years and was the leader of the sovereigntist Bloc Québécois for 15 years in three stints: 1996, 1997–2011 and in 2015. He was Leader of the Official Opposition in the Parliament of Canada from March 17, 1997, to June 1, 1997. He resigned as party leader after the 2011 election, in which he lost his own seat to New Democratic Party (NDP) candidate Hélène Laverdière and his party suffered a heavy defeat; however, he returned four years later to lead the party into the 2015 election. After being defeated in his own riding by Laverdière again, he resigned once more.

---

Don Henley, American singer-songwriter and drummer

Donald Hugh Henley is an American singer, songwriter and musician. Henley is a founding member of the Eagles, serving as a songwriter, drummer, and vocalist for the band. He sang lead vocals on Eagles songs such as "Witchy Woman", "Desperado", "Best of My Love", "One of These Nights", "Hotel California", "Life in the Fast Lane", and "The Long Run". The Eagles disbanded in 1980, but reunited in 1994. Following the death of co-founder Glenn Frey in 2016, Henley became the Eagles' only remaining consistent founding member.

---

22/07/1946

Jim Edgar, American politician, 38th Governor of Illinois (died 2025)

James Robert Edgar was an American politician who served as the 38th governor of Illinois from 1991 to 1999. A moderate Republican, he previously served in the Illinois House of Representatives from 1977 to 1979 and as the 35th Secretary of State of Illinois from 1981 to 1991.

---

Danny Glover, American actor, director, and producer

Daniel Leburn Glover is an American actor, producer, and political activist. Over his career he has received numerous accolades including the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the NAACP's President's Award, as well as nominations for five Emmy Awards and four Grammy Awards.

---

Paul Schrader, American director and screenwriter

Paul Joseph Schrader is an American screenwriter, film director, and film critic. He first became known for writing the screenplay of Martin Scorsese's Taxi Driver (1976). He later continued his collaboration with Scorsese, writing or co-writing Raging Bull (1980), The Last Temptation of Christ (1988), and Bringing Out the Dead (1999). Schrader has also worked extensively as a director: his 23 films include Blue Collar (1978), Hardcore (1979), American Gigolo (1980), Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters (1985), Light Sleeper (1992), Affliction (1997), and First Reformed (2017), with the last of these earning him his first Academy Award nomination. Schrader's work frequently depicts "man in a room" stories which feature isolated, troubled men confronting an existential crisis.

---

Rolando Joven Tria Tirona, Filipino archbishop

Rolando Octavus Joven Tria Tirona, OCD, is a prelate of the Catholic Church in the Philippines. He is the Metropolitan Archbishop Emeritus of Cáceres in Naga, Philippines, serving from 2012 to 2024. Appointed to succeed the retiring Archbishop Leonardo Legaspi, Tirona resigned on May 2, 2024, and made Rex Andrew Alarcón, then Bishop of Daet, as his successor. Until Alarcón's installation, Tirona continued to serve as the archdiocese's archbishop as Apostolic Administrator.

---

Johnson Toribiong, Palauan lawyer and politician, 7th President of Palau

Johnson Toribiong is a Palauan attorney and politician who served as president of Palau from 2009 to 2013. He has run for president five times – in 1992, 1996, 2008, 2012, and 2020.

---

22/07/1945

Philip Cohen, English biochemist and academic

Sir Philip Cohen is a British biochemist known for his extensive contributions to the field of biochemistry, especially to the understanding of the role of reversible protein phosphorylation in cell regulation.

---

22/07/1944

Rick Davies, English singer-songwriter and keyboard player (died 2025)

Richard Davies was an English musician best known as founder, vocalist and keyboardist of the rock band Supertramp. Davies was the band's only constant member and wrote or co-wrote songs including "Bloody Well Right", "Goodbye Stranger", "My Kind of Lady", "Cannonball", and "I'm Beggin' You". He was known for his rhythmic blues piano solos, jazz-tinged progressive rock compositions and cynical lyrics.

---

Peter Jason, American actor (died 2025)

Peter Edward Ostling, known professionally as Peter Jason, was an American character actor. He appeared in over 250 film and television roles from his debut in 1967 through the mid-2020's, and was notably a regular in the films of directors Walter Hill and John Carpenter. He often played military personnel, law enforcement agents, and authority figures, as well as his portrayal as Con Stapleton on the television series Deadwood.

---

Sparky Lyle, American baseball player and manager

Albert Walter "Sparky" Lyle is an American former professional baseball pitcher who spent sixteen seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) from 1967 through 1982. He was a relief pitcher for the Boston Red Sox, New York Yankees, Texas Rangers, Philadelphia Phillies, and Chicago White Sox.

---

Anand Satyanand, New Zealand lawyer, judge, and politician, 19th Governor-General of New Zealand

Sir Anand Satyanand is a New Zealand lawyer, judge, and ombudsman who served as the 19th Governor-General of New Zealand from 2006 to 2011.

---

22/07/1943

Masaru Emoto, Japanese author and activist (died 2014)

Masaru Emoto was a Japanese businessman, author and pseudoscientist who claimed that human consciousness could affect the molecular structure of water. His 2004 book The Hidden Messages in Water was a New York Times best seller. His ideas had evolved over the years, and his early work revolved around pseudoscientific hypotheses that water could react to positive thoughts and words and that polluted water could be cleaned through prayer and positive visualization.

---

Kay Bailey Hutchison, American lawyer and politician

Kay Bailey Hutchison is an American attorney, television correspondent, politician, and diplomat who served as the 22nd U.S. permanent representative to NATO from 2017 until 2021. A member of the Republican Party, she was a United States senator from Texas from 1993 to 2013.

---

Bobby Sherman, American singer-songwriter and actor (died 2025)

Robert Cabot Sherman Jr. was an American singer and actor who was a teen idol in the late 1960s and early 1970s. He had a series of successful singles, notably the million-seller "Little Woman" (1969). Sherman left show business in the 1970s for a career as a paramedic and a deputy sheriff, but performed occasionally into the 1990s.

---

22/07/1942

Michael Abney-Hastings, 14th Earl of Loudoun, English-Australian politician (died 2012)

Michael Edward Abney-Hastings, 14th Earl of Loudoun, was a British-Australian farmer, who is most noted because of the 2004 documentary Britain's Real Monarch, which alleged he was the rightful monarch of England instead of Queen Elizabeth II. From February 1960 until November 2002, he held the courtesy title Lord Mauchline.

---

Peter Habeler, Austrian mountaineer and skier

Peter Habeler is an Austrian mountaineer. He was born in Mayrhofen, Austria. He developed an interest in mountain climbing at age six.

---

Les Johns, Australian rugby league player and coach

Leslie Howard Johns is a former Australian professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1960s and early 1970s.

---

22/07/1941

Estelle Bennett, American singer (died 2009)

Estelle Bennett was an American singer. She was a member of the girl group the Ronettes, along with her sister Ronnie and cousin Nedra Talley.

---

Vaughn Bodē, American illustrator (died 1975)

Vaughn Bodē was an American underground cartoonist and illustrator known for his character Cheech Wizard and his artwork depicting voluptuous women. A contemporary of Ralph Bakshi, Bodē has been credited as an influence on Bakshi's animated films Wizards and The Lord of the Rings. Bodē has a huge following among graffiti artists, with his characters remaining a popular subject.

---

George Clinton, American singer-songwriter and producer

George Edward Clinton is an American singer, songwriter, record producer, and bandleader. His Parliament-Funkadelic collective developed an influential and eclectic form of funk music during the 1970s that drew on Afrofuturism, outlandish fashion, psychedelia, and surreal humor. He launched his solo career with the 1982 album Computer Games and went on to influence 1990s hip-hop and G-funk.

---

David M. Kennedy, American historian and author

David Michael Kennedy is an American historian specializing in American history. He is the Donald J. McLachlan Professor of History Emeritus at Stanford University and the former director of the Bill Lane Center for the American West. Kennedy's scholarship is notable for its integration of economic analysis and cultural analysis with social history and political history.

---

22/07/1940

Judith Walzer Leavitt, American historian and academic

Judith Walzer Leavitt is an American historian.

---

Alex Trebek, Canadian-American game show host and producer (died 2020)

George Alexander Trebek was a Canadian and American game show host and television personality. Regarded as a pop culture icon, he was best known for hosting the syndicated quiz show Jeopardy! for 37 seasons from its revival in 1984 until his death in 2020. Trebek also hosted a number of other game shows, including The Wizard of Odds, Double Dare, High Rollers, Battlestars, Classic Concentration, and To Tell the Truth. He made appearances, usually as himself, in numerous films and television series.

---

22/07/1938

Terence Stamp, English actor (died 2025)

Terence Henry Stamp was a British actor. His filmography included a mix of cult and mainstream performances, particularly sophisticated villain roles. He received various accolades including a Golden Globe Award, a Cannes Film Festival Award as well as nominations for an Academy Award and two BAFTA Awards. He was named by Empire as one of the 100 Sexiest Film Stars of All Time in 1995.

---

22/07/1937

Chuck Jackson, American R&B singer and songwriter (died 2023)

Charles Benjamin Jackson was an American R&B singer who was one of the first artists to record material by Burt Bacharach and Hal David successfully. Between 1957 and 1959, he was a member of The Del-Vikings. He performed with moderate success starting in 1961. His hits include "I Can't Break Away", "I Don't Want to Cry!" "Any Day Now", "I Keep Forgettin'", and "All Over the World".

---

Yasuhiro Kojima, Japanese-American wrestler and manager (died 1999)

Yasuhiro Kojima , best known by his ring name Hiro Matsuda , was a Japanese professional wrestler, trainer, and booker.

---

John Price, English cricketer

John Sidney Ernest Price is an English former cricketer, who played in 15 Tests for England from 1964 to 1972. He played first-class cricket for Middlesex from 1961 to 1975.

---

Vasant Ranjane, Indian cricketer (died 2011)

Vasant Baburao Ranjane was an Indian cricketer who played in seven Test matches between 1958 and 1964.

---

22/07/1936

Don Patterson, American organist (died 1988)

Don Patterson was an American jazz organist.

---

Harold Rhodes, English cricketer

Harold James Rhodes is an English former international cricketer who played two Test matches for England in 1959. He played domestically for Derbyshire between 1953 and 1975 and played one day matches for Nottinghamshire between 1970 and 1973.

---

Geraldine Claudette Darden, American mathematician

Geraldine Claudette Darden is an American mathematician. She was the fourteenth African American woman to earn a Ph.D. in mathematics.

---

22/07/1935

Tom Cartwright, English-Welsh cricketer and coach (died 2007)

Thomas William Cartwright was an English cricketer. Playing largely for Somerset and Warwickshire, he took over 1,600 wickets as a medium-pace bowler, though he began his career as a top-order batsman, and was capable enough with the bat to score seven hundreds including a double-century. He played in five Tests for England in 1964 and 1965. His withdrawal from the 1968–69 tour to South Africa led to his replacement in the touring team by Basil D'Oliveira, whose inclusion precipitated the sporting isolation of South Africa until apartheid was abolished.

---

22/07/1934

Junior Cook, American saxophonist (died 1992)

Herman "Junior" Cook was an American hard bop tenor saxophone player.

---

Louise Fletcher, American actress (died 2022)

Estelle Louise Fletcher was an American actress. She is best known for her portrayal of the antagonist Nurse Ratched in the film One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975), which earned her numerous accolades, including the Academy Award, BAFTA Award, and Golden Globe Award for Best Actress.

---

Leon Rotman, Romanian canoeist

Leon Rotman is a retired Romanian sprint canoeist. He won two individual gold medals at the 1956 Olympics and a bronze medal in 1960.

---

22/07/1932

Oscar de la Renta, Dominican-American fashion designer (died 2014)

Óscar Arístides de la Renta y Fiallo, known professionally as Óscar de la Renta, was a Dominican fashion designer. Born in Santo Domingo, he was trained by Cristóbal Balenciaga and Antonio del Castillo. De la Renta became internationally known in the 1960s as one of the couturiers who dressed Jacqueline Kennedy. He worked for Lanvin and Balmain. His eponymous fashion house has boutiques around the world, and is headquartered on Madison Avenue in Manhattan.

---

Tom Robbins, American novelist (died 2025)

Thomas Eugene Robbins was an American novelist. His most notable works are "seriocomedies". His 1976 novel Even Cowgirls Get the Blues was adapted into the 1993 film version by Gus Van Sant. His last work, published in 2014, was Tibetan Peach Pie, a self-declared "un-memoir". From 1970, Robbins lived in La Conner, Washington, where he wrote nine of his books.

---

22/07/1931

Leo Labine, Canadian ice hockey player (died 2005)

Leonard Gerald "Leo The Lion" Labine was a Canadian professional ice hockey player. A native of Haileybury, Ontario, Labine played for teams in the NHL, WHL, EPHL, and the AHL. At 5'10", and 178 lbs, Labine had a long and varied career.

---

22/07/1929

John Barber, English racing driver (died 2015)

John David Barber was a racing driver from England. Before his racing career he was a fish merchant in London.

---

Leonid Stolovich, Russian-Estonian philosopher and academic (died 2013)

Leonid Naumovich Stolovich was a Russian-Estonian philosopher, Doctor of Philosophy (1966) and professor (1967). Stolovich graduated from the Leningrad University in 1952, from 1953 on he worked at Tartu University, Estonia, from 1994 on as a professor emeritus. Above all, Stolovich studied esthetics: its history, theories of esthetics and axiology. He is the author of more than forty books and 400 publications in 20 languages.

---

Neil Welliver, American painter (died 2005)

Neil Gavin Welliver was an American modern artist, best known for his large-scale landscape paintings inspired by the deep woods near his home in Maine. One of his sons, Titus Welliver became a successful actor as well as also being a painter.

---

Baselios Thomas I, Indian bishop (died 2024)

Mor Baselios Thomas I (Syr: ܡܳܪܝ̱ ܒܰܣܺܝܠܺܝܳܘܣ ܬܐܳܘܡܰܐ ܩܰܕ݂ܡܳܝܳܐ; Mal: മോർ ബസേലിയോസ് തോമസ് പ്രഥമൻ; Born Cheruvillil Mathai Thomas was the 80th Maphrian of the Syriac Orthodox Church, 3rd Catholicos of East and 25th Malankara Metropolitan of the Jacobite Syrian Christian Church. He also served as the Metropolitan of the Angamali Diocese. He was the first head of the Jacobite Syrian Christian Church to use the title "Catholicos of India".

---

22/07/1928

Orson Bean, American actor (died 2020)

Orson Bean was an American film, television, and stage actor and comedian and a "mainstay of Los Angeles’ small theater scene." He appeared frequently on several televised game shows from the 1960s through the 1980s and was a longtime panelist on the television game show To Tell the Truth. "A storyteller par excellence", he was a favorite of Johnny Carson, appearing on The Tonight Show more than 200 times.

---

Jimmy Hill, English footballer, manager, and sportscaster (died 2015)

James William Thomas Hill, OBE was an English footballer and later a television personality. His career included almost every role in the sport, including player, trade union leader, coach, manager, director, chairman, television executive, presenter, pundit, analyst and assistant referee.

---

Per Højholt, Danish poet (died 2004)

Per Højholt was a Danish poet. Højholt had his debut in 1948 when he published "De nøgne", a series of poems which appeared in the magazine Heretica. His first collection was Hesten og solen, featuring religiously inspired poems. A major work came with Poetens hoved which appeared in 1963. This collection took a Modernist stance and meant a break with late Symbolism. Although a highly experimental and unorthodox writer, he became a popular poet. This is not least due to Gittes monologer. He toured the country with his recitals of these monologues which received considerable attention.

---

22/07/1927

Johan Ferner, Norwegian sailor (died 2015)

Johan Martin Ferner was a Norwegian sailor and Olympic medalist. He won a silver medal in the 6 metre class with the boat Elisabeth X at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki, together with Finn Ferner, Erik Heiberg, Tor Arneberg and Carl Mortensen. He was married to Princess Astrid, the sister of King Harald V of Norway and Princess Ragnhild.

---

22/07/1926

Bryan Forbes, English actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (died 2013)

Bryan Forbes was an English film director, screenwriter, film producer, actor and novelist described as a "Renaissance man" and "one of the most important figures in the British film industry".

---

Wolfgang Iser, German scholar, literary theorist (died 2007)

Wolfgang Iser was a German literary scholar.

---

22/07/1925

Jack Matthews, American author, playwright, and academic (died 2013)

John Harold "Jack" Matthews was an American novelist, short story writer, essayist, playwright and former professor. He published 7 novels, 11 story collections, a novella, and 8 volumes of essays. He was an avid book collector, and many of his book finds served as a basis for his essays and the historical topics he explored in his fiction. His 1972 novel The Charisma Campaigns was nominated by Walker Percy for the National Book Award. He has often made 19th century America and the Civil War period the setting for his fiction, starting with his 1981 novel Sassafras and most recently with the 2011 novel Gambler's Nephew and a 2015 story collection Soldier Boys: Tales of the Civil War. His plays have been performed at multiple theaters around the country.

---

Joseph Sargent, American actor, director, and producer (died 2014)

Joseph Sargent was an American director, producer, and actor of film and television. His directing career spanned nearly 50 years, between 1959 and 2008, and over 90 productions. He was a four-time Primetime Emmy Award and Directors Guild of America Award recipient.

---

22/07/1924

Margaret Whiting, American singer (died 2011)

Margaret Eleanor Whiting was an American singer of popular music who gained popularity in the 1940s and 1950s.

---

22/07/1923

Bob Dole, American soldier, lawyer, and politician (died 2021)

Robert Joseph Dole was an American politician, attorney, and U.S. Army officer who represented Kansas in the United States Senate from 1969 to 1996. He was the Republican leader of the U.S. Senate during the final 11 years of his tenure, including three non-consecutive years as Majority Leader of the U.S. Senate. Prior to his 27 years in the Senate, he served in the United States House of Representatives from 1961 to 1969. Dole was also the Republican presidential nominee in the 1996 presidential election and the vice presidential nominee in the 1976 presidential election.

---

César Fernández Ardavín, Spanish director, producer, and screenwriter (died 2012)

César Fernández Ardavín was a Spanish film director and screenwriter. He directed more than 40 films between 1952 and 1979. His 1959 film El Lazarillo de Tormes won the Golden Bear at the 10th Berlin International Film Festival. His 1969 film The Wanton of Spain was entered into the 6th Moscow International Film Festival.

---

The Fabulous Moolah, American wrestler (died 2007)

Mary Lillian Ellison was an American professional wrestler, promoter and trainer better known by her ring name The Fabulous Moolah.

---

22/07/1921

William Roth, American lawyer and politician (died 2003)

William Victor Roth Jr. was an American lawyer and politician from Wilmington, Delaware. He was a veteran of World War II and a member of the Republican Party. He served from 1967 to 1970 as the lone U.S. representative from Delaware and from 1971 to 2001 as a U.S. senator from Delaware. He is the last Republican to serve as and/or be elected a U.S. senator from Delaware.

---

22/07/1916

Gino Bianco, Brazilian racing driver (died 1984)

Luigi Emilio Rodolfo Bertetti Bianco, better known as Gino Bianco was a racing driver from Brazil. Born in Milan, Italy, he emigrated to Brazil as a child and started racing there. He raced a Maserati A6GCM for the Escuderia Bandeirantes team and took part in four Formula One World Championship Grands Prix, with a best result of 18th at the 1952 British Grand Prix. Bianco later raced in hillclimbs and died in Rio de Janeiro, aged 67, after suffering from breathing problems.

---

Marcel Cerdan, French boxer (died 1949)

Marcellin "Marcel" Cerdan was a French professional boxer and world middleweight champion in 1948-1949. He was considered by many boxing experts and fans to be France's greatest boxer, and beyond to be one of the best to have learned his craft in Africa. Nicknamed "the Moroccan bomber" or "the man with hands of clay", his talent led him to France in 1938 where he became French champion three times and then European champion in the welterweight category. His life was marked by his sporting achievements, social lifestyle and, ultimately, tragedy, being killed in an airplane crash.

---

22/07/1915

Shaista Suhrawardy Ikramullah, Indian-Pakistani politician and diplomat (died 2000)

Begum Shaista Suhrawardy Ikramullah was a Pakistani politician, diplomat and author. She joined the Pakistani foreign service in 1948, and was the country's first female civil servant, as well as the first Muslim woman to earn a PhD from the University of London. She was Pakistan's ambassador to Morocco from 1964 to 1967, and a delegate to the United Nations, calling for a more gender-inclusive language in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

---

22/07/1913

Gorni Kramer, Italian bassist, songwriter, and bandleader (died 1995)

Francesco Kramer Gorni, known as Gorni Kramer, was an Italian songwriter, musician and band leader.

---

22/07/1910

Ruthie Tompson, American animator and artist (died 2021)

Ruth Irene Tompson was an American camera technician, animation checker and supercentenarian. She was known for her work on animated features at The Walt Disney Company and was declared a Disney Legend in 2000.

---

22/07/1909

Licia Albanese, Italian-American soprano and actress (died 2014)

Licia Albanese was an Italian-born American operatic soprano. Noted especially for her portrayals of the lyric heroines of Verdi and Puccini, Albanese was a leading artist with the Metropolitan Opera from 1940 to 1966. She also made many recordings and was chairwoman of The Licia Albanese-Puccini Foundation, which is dedicated to assisting young artists and singers.

---

Dorino Serafini, Italian racing driver (died 2000)

Teodoro "Dorino" Serafini was an Italian racing driver and motorcycle road racer who most notably finished second in his only Formula One World Championship race for Ferrari, the 1950 Italian Grand Prix.

---

22/07/1908

Amy Vanderbilt, American author (died 1974)

Amy Osborne Vanderbilt was an American authority on etiquette. In 1952 she published the best-selling book Amy Vanderbilt's Complete Book of Etiquette. The book, later retitled Amy Vanderbilt's Etiquette, has been updated and is still in circulation. Its longtime popularity has led to it being considered a standard of etiquette writing.

---

22/07/1899

Sobhuza II of Swaziland (died 1982)

Sobhuza II was Ngwenyama (King) of Swaziland for 82 years and 254 days, the longest verifiable reign of any monarch in recorded history.

---

22/07/1898

Stephen Vincent Benét, American poet, short story writer, and novelist (died 1943)

Stephen Vincent Benét was an American poet, short story writer, and novelist. He wrote a book-length narrative poem of the American Civil War, John Brown's Body, published in 1928, for which he received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, and the short stories "The Devil and Daniel Webster", published in 1936, and "By the Waters of Babylon", published in 1937.

---

22/07/1895

León de Greiff, Colombian poet, journalist, and diplomat (died 1976)

Francisco de Asís León Bogislao de Greiff Haeusler, was a Colombian poet known for his stylistic innovations and deliberately eclectic use of obscure lexicon. Best known simply as León de Greiff, he often used different pen names. The most popular were Leo le Gris and Gaspar Von Der Nacht. De Greiff was one of the founders of Los Panidas, a literary and artistic group established in 1915 in the city of Medellín.

---

22/07/1893

Jesse Haines, American baseball player and coach (died 1978)

Jesse Joseph Haines, nicknamed "Pop", was an American professional baseball pitcher for the Cincinnati Reds and St. Louis Cardinals of Major League Baseball (MLB). After a lengthy stint in minor league baseball, he played briefly in 1918, then from 1920 to 1937. He spent nearly his entire major league career with the Cardinals. Haines pitched on three World Series championship teams. Though he had a kind personality off the field, Haines was known as a fiery competitor during games.

---

Karl Menninger, American psychiatrist and author (died 1990)

Karl Augustus Menninger was an American psychiatrist, author, and activist. He was a member of the Menninger family of psychiatrists who founded the Menninger Foundation and the Menninger Clinic in Topeka, Kansas.

---

22/07/1892

Jack MacBryan, English cricketer and field hockey player (died 1983)

John Crawford William MacBryan was an English cricketer who played for Cambridge University and Somerset and made one almost imperceptible appearance in a Test match for England. MacBryan was also a field hockey international and won a gold medal at the 1920 Olympic Games.

---

22/07/1890

Rose Kennedy, American philanthropist and Kennedy family matriarch (died 1995)

Rose Elizabeth Fitzgerald Kennedy was an American philanthropist, socialite, and matriarch of the Kennedy family. She was deeply embedded in the "lace curtain" Irish-American community in Boston. Her father, John F. Fitzgerald, served in the Massachusetts State Senate (1892–1894), in the U.S. House of Representatives, and as Mayor of Boston. Her husband, Joseph P. Kennedy Sr., chaired the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (1934–1935) and the U.S. Maritime Commission (1937–1938), and served as United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom (1938–1940). Their nine children included United States president John F. Kennedy, U.S. senator Robert F. Kennedy of New York, U.S. senator Ted Kennedy of Massachusetts, Special Olympics founder Eunice Kennedy Shriver, and U.S. Ambassador to Ireland Jean Kennedy Smith. In 1951, Rose Kennedy was ennobled by Pope Pius XII, becoming the sixth American woman to be granted the rank of papal countess.

---

22/07/1889

James Whale, English director (died 1957)

James Whale was an English film director, theatre director and actor, who spent the greater part of his career in Hollywood. He is best remembered for several horror films: Frankenstein (1931), The Old Dark House (1932), The Invisible Man (1933) and Bride of Frankenstein (1935), all considered classics. Whale also directed films in other genres, including the 1936 film version of the musical Show Boat.

---

22/07/1888

Kirk Bryan, American geologist and academic (died 1950)

Kirk Bryan was an American geologist on the faculty of Harvard University from 1925 until his death in 1950.

---

Selman Waksman, Jewish-American biochemist and microbiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1973)

Selman Abraham Waksman was a Russian-born American inventor, biochemist and microbiologist, whose research into the decomposition of organisms that live in soil enabled the discovery of streptomycin and several other antibiotics. For his work he won the 1952 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

---

22/07/1887

Gustav Ludwig Hertz, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1975)

Gustav Ludwig Hertz was a German experimental physicist who shared the 1925 Nobel Prize in Physics with James Franck "for their discovery of the laws governing the impact of an electron upon an atom."

---

22/07/1886

Hella Wuolijoki, Estonian-Finnish author (died 1954)

Hella Maria Wuolijoki, known by the pen name Juhani Tervapää, was an Estonian-born Finnish writer, playwright, parliamentarian, businessperson and farmer. She is best known as a dramatist, particularly for the Niskavuori series of plays and for her collaboration with Bertolt Brecht on Mr Puntila and his Man Matti. Wuolijoki served as the Director General of Yle from April 1945 to June 1949 and was a member of the Parliament of Finland from 1946 to 1948. She also played a private role in the peace negotiations during the Winter War through her friendship with Alexandra Kollontai.

---

22/07/1884

Odell Shepard, American poet and politician, 66th Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut (died 1967)

Odell Shepard was an American professor, poet, and politician who was the 86th Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut from 1941 to 1943. He won a Pulitzer Prize in 1938.

---

22/07/1882

Edward Hopper, American painter and etcher (died 1967)

Edward Hopper was an American realist painter and printmaker. He is one of America's most renowned artists and known for his skill in depicting modern American life and landscapes.

---

22/07/1881

Augusta Fox Bronner, American psychologist, specialist in juvenile psychology (died 1966)

Augusta Fox Bronner was an American psychologist and criminologist, best known for her work in juvenile psychology. She co-directed the first child guidance clinic, and her research shaped psychological theories about the causes behind child delinquency, emphasizing the need to focus on social and environmental factors over inherited traits.

---

22/07/1878

Janusz Korczak, Polish pediatrician and author (died 1942)

Janusz Korczak, the pen name of Henryk Goldszmit, was a Polish Jewish pediatrician, educator, children's author and pedagogue known as Pan Doktor or Stary Doktor. He was an early children's rights advocate, in 1919 drafting a children's constitution.

---

22/07/1863

Alec Hearne, English cricketer (died 1952)

Alec Hearne was a member of the famous cricketing Hearne family. He played as a professional for Kent County Cricket Club between 1884 and 1906 and made one Test match appearance for England. He was an all-rounder who was named as one of Wisden's five Cricketers of the Year in 1894. His father, George played cricket for Middlesex during the 1860s and brothers George and Frank also played Test cricket, as did his cousin, John Thomas Hearne.

---

22/07/1862

Cosmo Duff-Gordon, Scottish fencer (died 1931)

Sir Cosmo Edmund Duff-Gordon, 5th Baronet, DL was a prominent British aristocrat and sportsman who owned land in Scotland, best known for the controversy surrounding his escape from the sinking of the RMS Titanic.

---

22/07/1856

Octave Hamelin, French philosopher (died 1907)

Octave Hamelin was a French philosopher.

---

22/07/1849

Emma Lazarus, American poet and educator (died 1887)

Emma Lazarus was an American author of poetry, prose, and translations, as well as an activist for Jewish and Georgist causes. She is remembered for writing the sonnet "The New Colossus", which was inspired by the Statue of Liberty, in 1883. Its lines appear inscribed on a bronze plaque, installed in 1903, on the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty. Lazarus was involved in aiding refugees to New York who had fled antisemitic pogroms in eastern Europe, and she saw a way to express her empathy for these refugees in terms of the statue. The last lines of the sonnet were set to music by Irving Berlin as the song "Give Me Your Tired, Your Poor" for the 1949 musical Miss Liberty, which was based on the sculpting of the Statue of Liberty. The latter part of the sonnet was also set by Lee Hoiby in his song "The Lady of the Harbor" written in 1985 as part of his song cycle "Three Women".

---

22/07/1848

Adolphus Frederick V, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (died 1914)

Adolphus Frederick V was reigning grand duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz from 1904 to 1914.

---

22/07/1844

William Archibald Spooner, English priest and scholar (died 1930)

William Archibald Spooner was a British clergyman and long-serving Oxford don. He was most notable for his absent-mindedness, and for supposedly mixing up the syllables in a spoken phrase, with unintentionally comic effect. Such phrases became known as spoonerisms, and are often used humorously. Many spoonerisms have been invented and attributed to Spooner.

---

22/07/1839

Jakob Hurt, Estonian theologist and linguist (died 1907)

Jakob Hurt was an Estonian folklorist, nationalist, and theologian. He was a major figure in the Estonian national awakening and worked as a pastor in Otepää and Saint Petersburg. While he was president of the Society of Estonian Literati, he oversaw a project to collect hundreds of thousands of works of poetry and folklore in the Estonian language. Hurt was featured on the 10 krooni note from 1991 to 2012.

---

22/07/1820

Oliver Mowat, Canadian politician, 3rd Premier of Ontario, 8th Lieutenant Governor of Ontario (died 1903)

Sir Oliver Mowat was a Canadian lawyer, politician, and Ontario Liberal Party leader. He served for nearly 24 years as the third premier of Ontario. He was the eighth lieutenant governor of Ontario and one of the Fathers of Confederation. He is best known for defending successfully the constitutional rights of the provinces in the face of the centralizing tendency of the national government as represented by his longtime Conservative adversary, John A. Macdonald. This longevity and power was due to his manoeuvring to build a political base around Liberals, Catholics, trade unions, and anti-French-Canadian sentiment.

---

22/07/1784

Friedrich Bessel, German mathematician and astronomer (died 1846)

Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel was a German astronomer, mathematician, physicist, and geodesist. He was the first astronomer who determined reliable values for the distance from the Sun to another star by the method of parallax. Certain important mathematical functions were first studied systematically by Bessel and were named Bessel functions in his honour.

---

22/07/1755

Gaspard de Prony, French mathematician and engineer (died 1839)

Baron Gaspard Clair François Marie Riche de Prony was a French mathematician and engineer, who worked on hydraulics. He was born at Chamelet, Beaujolais, France and died in Asnières-sur-Seine, France.

---

22/07/1733

Mikhail Shcherbatov, Russian philosopher and historian (died 1790)

Prince Mikhail Mikhailovich Shcherbatov was a leading ideologue and exponent of the Russian Enlightenment, on the par with Mikhail Lomonosov and Nikolay Novikov. His view of human nature and social progress is kindred to Swift's pessimism. He was known as a statesman, historian, writer and philosopher, and was one of the most visible representatives of the nascent Russian conservatism during the second half of the 18th century.

---

22/07/1713

Jacques-Germain Soufflot, French architect, designed the Panthéon (died 1780)

Jacques-Germain Soufflot was a French architect in the international circle that introduced neoclassicism. His most famous works are the Panthéon in Paris, built from 1755 onwards, originally as a church dedicated to Saint Genevieve, and the Hôtel-Dieu de Lyon in Lyon.

---

22/07/1711

Georg Wilhelm Richmann, German-Russian physicist and academic (died 1753)

Georg Wilhelm Richmann was a Russian physicist of Baltic German origin who did pioneering work on electricity, atmospheric electricity, and calorimetry. He died by electrocution in St. Petersburg when struck by apparent ball lightning produced by an experiment attempting to ground the electrical discharge from a storm.

---

22/07/1651

Ferdinand Tobias Richter, Austrian organist and composer (died 1711)

Ferdinand Tobias Richter was a Baroque composer and organist from the Holy Roman Empire.

---

22/07/1647

Margaret Mary Alacoque, French nun, mystic and saint (died 1690)

Margaret Mary Alacoque was a French Visitation nun and mystic who promoted devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus in its modern form.

---

22/07/1630

Madame de Brinvilliers, French aristocrat (died 1676)

Marie-Madeleine d'Aubray, Marquise de Brinvilliers was a French aristocrat who was convicted of murdering her father and two of her brothers in order to inherit their estates. After her death, there was speculation that she tested her poisons on upwards of 30 sick people in hospitals and street dogs, but these rumours were never confirmed. Her crimes were discovered after the death of her lover and co-conspirator, Captain Godin de Sainte-Croix, who saved letters detailing dealings of poisonings between the two. After being arrested, she was tortured, forced to confess, and finally executed. Her trial and death spawned the onset of the Affair of the Poisons, a major scandal during the reign of Louis XIV accusing aristocrats of practising witchcraft and poisoning people. Components of her life have been adapted into various media including short stories, poems, and songs to name a few.

---

22/07/1621

Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury, English politician, Lord Chancellor of the United Kingdom (died 1683)

Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury, was an English statesman. He held senior political office under both the Commonwealth of England and Charles II, serving as Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1661 to 1672 and Lord Chancellor from 1672 to 1673. During the Exclusion Crisis (1679–1681), Shaftesbury headed the movement to bar the Catholic heir, James II, from the royal succession, which is often seen as the origin of the Whig party. He was the first patron of John Locke, who, when they met was a quiet Oxford don and practising physician; as part of Shaftesbury's household and retinue for 15 years, Locke became a major political philosopher.

---

22/07/1618

Johan Nieuhof, Dutch traveler (died 1672)

Johan Nieuhof was a Dutch traveler who wrote about his journeys to Brazil, China and India. The most famous of these was a trip of 2,400 kilometers (1,500 mi) from Canton to Peking in 1655–1657, which enabled him to become an authoritative Western writer on China. He wrote An Embassy from the East-India Company about the journey.

---

22/07/1615

Marguerite of Lorraine, princess of Lorraine, duchess of Orléans (died 1672)

Marguerite of Lorraine, Duchess of Orléans, was the wife of Gaston, younger brother of Louis XIII. As Gaston had married her in secret in defiance of the King, Louis had their marriage nullified when it became known. On his deathbed, Louis permitted them to marry. After their remarriage, Marguerite and Gaston had five children. She was the stepmother of La Grande Mademoiselle.

---

22/07/1559

Lawrence of Brindisi, Italian priest and saint (died 1619)

Lawrence of Brindisi, OFM Cap., born Giulio Cesare Russo, was an Italian Catholic priest, theologian and member of the Order of Friars Minor Capuchin. An accomplished linguist, in addition to his native Italian, Lawrence could read and speak Latin, Hebrew, Greek, German, Czech, Spanish, and French fluently. Lawrence was ordained a priest at the age of 23. Lawrence was beatified on 1 June 1783 and canonized as a saint on 8 December 1881.

---

22/07/1552

Anthony Browne, Sheriff of Surrey and Kent (died 1592)

Anthony Browne was Sheriff of Surrey and of Kent in 1580. The heir to a great estate in Sussex, he predeceased his father by four months. Aside from his own progeny, his sister Mary married Henry Wriothesley, 2nd Earl of Southampton who gave birth to Henry Wriothesley, 3rd Earl of Southampton.

---

Mary Wriothesley, Countess of Southampton, Lady of English peer and others (died 1607)

Mary Wriothesley, Countess of Southampton, previously Mary Browne, became the wife of Henry Wriothesley, 2nd Earl of Southampton, at the age of thirteen and the mother of Henry Wriothesley, 3rd Earl of Southampton. Widowed in 1581, she was Dowager Countess of Southampton until 1595, when for a few months until his death she was married to the courtier Sir Thomas Heneage. In 1598 she married lastly Sir William Hervey.

---

22/07/1535

Katarina Stenbock, queen of Gustav I of Sweden (died 1621)

Catherine Stenbock was Queen of Sweden from 1552 to 1560 as the third and last wife of King Gustav I.

---

22/07/1531

Leonhard Thurneysser, scholar at the court of the Elector of Brandenburg (died 1595)

Leonard Thurneysser was a Swiss-German scholar and miracle doctor at the court of Elector John George of Brandenburg.

---

22/07/1478

Philip I of Castile (died 1506)

Philip the Handsome, also called Philip the Fair, was ruler of the Habsburg Netherlands from 1482, including the counties of Artois, Burgundy and Charolais from 1493, and the first king of Castile from the House of Habsburg in 1506.

---

22/07/1476

Zhu Youyuan, Ming Dynasty politician (died 1519)

Zhu Youyuan was a prince of the Ming dynasty of China. He was the fourth son of the Chenghua Emperor and the father of the Jiajing Emperor.

---

22/07/1437

John Scrope, 5th Baron Scrope of Bolton, English Baron (died 1498)

John Scrope, 5th Baron Scrope of Bolton, KG was an English Yorkist nobleman.

---

22/07/1210

Joan of England, Queen of Scotland (died 1238)

Joan of England, was Queen of Alba (Scotland) from 1221 until her death as the wife of Alexander II. She was the third child of John, King of England, and Isabella of Angoulême.

---