Born on Thursday, 3rd July – Famous Birthdays
On this day, 206 notable people were born on 3rd July — spanning from 321 to 1999. From world leaders to artists and scientists, discover who shares this birthday.
Thursday 3rd July 2025 marks the birth of Nefisa Berberoví, a Bosnian tennis player born in 1999 who has established herself in professional tennis circuits across Europe. The date also commemorates the birth of Julian Assange in 1971, the Australian journalist and publisher who founded WikiLeaks and became a significant figure in global media and activism. Looking further back, this date saw the arrival of Franz Kafka in 1883, the Czech-Austrian author whose literary works fundamentally shaped twentieth-century fiction and continue to influence writers and thinkers worldwide.
The births recorded on this day span multiple continents and professions, ranging from athletes and musicians to politicians and academics. Among the notable figures born on 3rd July are Tom Cruise, the American actor and producer born in 1962, and Teemu Selänne, the Finnish ice hockey player born in 1970 who became one of the sport’s most prolific scorers. Other significant individuals include Richard Hadlee, the New Zealand cricketer born in 1951, and Audra McDonald, the American actress and singer born in 1970 who has achieved distinction in theatrical performance.
On 3rd July 2025, the day falls under the Cancer zodiac sign, occurring during the waning crescent moon phase. The weather forecast indicates partly cloudy conditions with temperatures expected to reach approximately 22 degrees Celsius in the United Kingdom. This summer date continues the established pattern of July births across centuries of recorded history.
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03/07/1999
Nefisa Berberović, Bosnian tennis player
Nefisa Berberović is a Bosnian tennis player.
03/07/1998
Kim Dong-han, South Korean singer
Kim Dong-han, also known mononymously as Donghan, is a South Korean singer, songwriter and actor. He first became known for competing in the reality survival show Produce 101 Season 2, and later debuted in the boy band JBJ. Kim made his solo debut with the release of his EP D-Day in June 2018. He is currently a member of South Korean boy band WEi.
03/07/1997
T. J. Hockenson, American football player
Thomas James Hockenson is an American professional football tight end for the Minnesota Vikings of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Iowa Hawkeyes, where he earned the John Mackey Award, as the nation's top tight end in college football. Hockenson was selected in the first round of the 2019 NFL draft by the Detroit Lions.
03/07/1996
Cole Tucker, American baseball player
Cole Bryson Tucker is an American former professional baseball shortstop and outfielder. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Pittsburgh Pirates, Colorado Rockies, and Los Angeles Angels.
Alex Twal, Australian-Lebanese rugby league player
Alex Twal is a Lebanon international rugby league footballer who plays as a Prop and Lock for the Wests Tigers.
03/07/1994
Chris Jones, American football player
Christopher Deshun Jones is an American professional football defensive tackle for the Kansas City Chiefs of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Mississippi State Bulldogs and was selected by the Chiefs in the second round of the 2016 NFL draft. Jones is a three-time Super Bowl champion, a six-time All-Pro member, and a seven-time Pro Bowler.
03/07/1993
PartyNextDoor, Canadian singer-songwriter and record producer
Jahron Anthony Brathwaite, known professionally as PartyNextDoor, is a Canadian singer, songwriter, and record producer. He was the first artist to sign with Drake's record label OVO Sound, an imprint of Warner Records, in 2013. His self-titled debut mixtape was released through the label in July that year, and met with critical praise.
03/07/1992
Crystal Dunn, American soccer player
Crystal Alyssia Soubrier is an American former professional soccer player. A versatile player, she played primarily as an attacking midfielder or forward for club and left back for country.
03/07/1991
Alison Howie, Scottish field hockey player
Alison Howie is a Scottish female field hockey player who plays as a midfielder for the Scotland women's national field hockey team. She has represented Scotland in few international competitions including the 2013 Women's EuroHockey Nations Championship, 2015 Women's EuroHockey Nations Championship, 2017 Women's EuroHockey Nations Championship, and 2018 Commonwealth Games.
Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova, Russian tennis player
Anastasia Sergeyevna "Nastia" Pavlyuchenkova is a Russian professional tennis player. She reached a career-high singles ranking of world No. 11 on 8 November 2021. Pavlyuchenkova has won twelve singles titles on the WTA Tour, and contested a major final at the 2021 French Open.
03/07/1990
Nathan Gardner, Australian rugby league player
Nathan Gardner, also known by the nickname of "Gards", is an Australian professional rugby league footballer who has played in the 2000s and 2010s. He has played for the Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks, usually as a fullback, but also as a wing. He previously played for the Parramatta Eels Toyota Cup (Under-20s) team and Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks. He made his National Rugby League (NRL) premiership début in the 2010 season against the Penrith Panthers.
Bobby Hopkinson, English footballer
Bobby Thomas Hopkinson is a professional English footballer.
Lucas Mendes, Brazilian footballer
Lucas Michel Mendes is a professional footballer who plays as a centre-back or left-back for Qatari club Al-Wakrah. Born in Brazil, he plays for the Qatar national team.
Alison Riske-Amritraj, American tennis player
Alison Riske-Amritraj is an inactive American tennis player. She reached her career-high singles ranking of world No. 18 in November 2019 and won her first WTA Tour title in October 2014, at the Tianjin Open.
03/07/1989
Danilo Cavalcante, Brazilian convicted murderer
Danilo Souza Cavalcante is a Brazilian national accused of murder in the Brazilian state of Tocantins and a convicted murderer in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. After originally being wanted by Brazilian authorities for his alleged role in the shooting death of Valter Júnior Moreira dos Reis in 2017, Cavalcante fled to the United States. Four years later, in April 2021, Cavalcante was arrested for fatally stabbing his ex-girlfriend, Deborah Brandão.
Mitchell Dodds, Australian rugby league player
Mitchell Dodds is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer who played as a prop for the Brisbane Broncos in the NRL and the Warrington Wolves in the Super League.
Elle King, American singer, songwriter, and actress
Tanner Elle Schneider, known professionally as Elle King, is an American singer, songwriter, and actress. Her musical style is influenced by country, rock, and blues. She signed with RCA Records to release her debut extended play, The Elle King EP (2012); one of its tracks, "Playing for Keeps", became the theme song for VH1's Mob Wives Chicago series.
03/07/1988
Winston Reid, New Zealand-Danish footballer
Winston Wiremu Reid is a New Zealand former professional footballer who played as a centre-back.
Vladislav Sesganov, Russian figure skater
Vladislav Dmitriyevich Sezganov or Sesganov is a Russian former competitive figure skater. He is the 2012 Golden Spin of Zagreb and 2011 Gardena Spring Trophy champion.
James Troisi, Australian footballer
James Troisi is a former Australian professional soccer player who plays as an attacking midfielder or winger.
03/07/1987
Sebastian Vettel, German race car driver
Sebastian Vettel is a German racing driver who competed in Formula One from 2007 to 2022. Vettel won four Formula One World Drivers' Championship titles, which he won consecutively from 2010 to 2013 with Red Bull, and remains the youngest-ever World Drivers' Champion; he won 53 Grands Prix across 16 seasons.
03/07/1986
Marco Antônio de Mattos Filho, Brazilian footballer
Marco Antonio de Mattos Filho, commonly known as Marquinho, is a former Brazilian professional footballer. Mainly an attacking midfielder, he also played as a left wingback.
Kisenosato Yutaka, Japanese sumo wrestler
Kisenosato Yutaka is a Japanese sumo elder from Ibaraki. As a wrestler, he made his professional debut in 2002 and reached the top makuuchi division in 2004 at the age of just 18. After many years in the junior san'yaku ranks, he reached the second highest rank of ōzeki in January 2012. He earned three kinboshi or gold stars by defeating yokozuna in his career leading up to ōzeki and nine special prizes. He scored more than 20 double-digit winning records at the ōzeki rank. In 2016, he secured the most wins in the calendar year, the first wrestler to do so without winning a tournament in that year.
03/07/1984
Manny Lawson, American football player
Manny Lawson is an American former professional football player who was a linebacker in the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the NC State Wolfpack, and was selected by the San Francisco 49ers in the first round of the 2006 NFL draft. Lawson also played for the Cincinnati Bengals and Buffalo Bills.
Churandy Martina, Dutch sprinter
Churandy Thomas Martina is a retired Dutch sprinter. He originally placed second in the 200 metres at the 2008 Beijing Olympics but was later disqualified due to a lane violation. Martina secured four and two individual top-five finishes at the Summer Olympics and World Athletics Championships respectively. He was the 100 metres 2007 Pan American Games champion representing the Netherlands Antilles and claimed three individual titles at the Central American and Caribbean Games. He won gold medals in the 200 m and 100 m at the 2012 and 2016 European Athletics Championships respectively.
Corey Sevier, Canadian actor and producer
Corey Daniel Sevier is a Canadian actor, known for his role on the Fox television series North Shore as Gabriel McKay, as Timmy Cabot in Lassie and as Jay Barry Lee in Summer of the Monkeys.
03/07/1983
Edinson Vólquez, Dominican baseball player
Edinson Vólquez is a Dominican former professional baseball pitcher. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Texas Rangers, Cincinnati Reds, San Diego Padres, Los Angeles Dodgers, Pittsburgh Pirates, Kansas City Royals, and Miami Marlins.
03/07/1980
Mazharul Haque, Bangladeshi cricketer (died 2013)
Mohammad Mazharul Haque Chowdhuri was a Bangladeshi cricketer who played in one One Day International in 2002. He was born in Narayanganj, Dhaka, and also died there, aged only 32, of a heart attack.
Olivia Munn, American actress and television host
Lisa Olivia Munn is an American actress. After an internship at a news station in Tulsa, she moved to Los Angeles where she began her professional career as a television host for the gaming network G4, and on the series Attack of the Show! (2006–2010) before appearing as a recurring correspondent on the Comedy Central late night series The Daily Show from 2010 to 2011.
Roland Schoeman, South African swimmer
Roland Mark Schoeman OIS is a South African and American former swimmer was a world record holder in multiple events, and was a member of the South African swimming team at the 2000, 2004, 2008 and 2012 Olympic Games. He won a gold medal representing South Africa in the 4x100 freestyle relay at the 2004 Athens Olympics and between 2000-2014 won numerous medals including seven golds in freestyle, and butterfly events at the World Championships, Pan American, and Commonwealth games.
Harbhajan Singh, Indian cricketer
Harbhajan Singh, also known by the nickname Bhajji, is a former Indian cricketer. He later became a politician, serving as a Member of Parliament in Rajya Sabha. He is also a film actor, a television celebrity, and a cricket commentator.
03/07/1979
Jamie Grove, English cricketer
Jamie Oliver Grove is an English former first-class cricketer who played for Essex, Somerset and Leicestershire during his career which spanned from 1998 to 2003.
03/07/1978
Mizuki Noguchi, Japanese runner
Mizuki Noguchi is a Japanese professional long-distance runner who specialises in the marathon event. She is an Olympic champion over the distance.
03/07/1977
David Bowens, American football player
David Walter Bowens is an American former professional football player who was a linebacker for 12 seasons in the National Football League (NFL). He was selected by the Denver Broncos in the fifth round of the 1999 NFL draft. He played college football for the Michigan Wolverines. He now is Archbishop Carroll High School’s Defensive Coordinator in Riverside Ohio.
03/07/1976
Wade Belak, Canadian ice hockey player (died 2011)
Wade William Belak was a Canadian professional ice hockey forward and defenceman. He was drafted 12th overall by the Quebec Nordiques in the 1994 NHL entry draft. He played for the Colorado Avalanche, Calgary Flames, Toronto Maple Leafs, Florida Panthers, and the Nashville Predators in the National Hockey League (NHL). Belak was best known for his role as an enforcer.
Henry Olonga, Zimbabwean cricketer and sportscaster
Henry Khaaba Olonga is a Zimbabwean former cricketer who played Test and One Day International cricket for Zimbabwe. In domestic first-class cricket in Zimbabwe, Olonga played for Matabeleland, Mashonaland and Manicaland. When he made his Test debut in January 1995, he was the first black cricketer and the youngest person to play for Zimbabwe. He was a regular member of the Zimbabwe team from 1996 to 2003, playing in the World Cup in 1996, 1999 and 2003. During his playing days, he formed a rivalry against former Indian batsman Sachin Tendulkar whenever Zimbabwe and India played against each other in international cricket.
Wanderlei Silva, Brazilian-American mixed martial artist
Wanderlei César da Silva is a Brazilian former mixed martial artist who competed in Japan's Pride Fighting Championships and the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC). He holds the record for the most wins, knockouts, title defenses and longest winning streak in PRIDE history. He is the former PRIDE Middleweight Champion and the 2003 PRIDE Middleweight Grand Prix Tournament Champion. He most recently competed for Bellator MMA in the light heavyweight and heavyweight divisions. In February 2024, Silva was announced as the next inductee in the "pioneer wing" of the UFC Hall of Fame.
Bobby Skinstad, Zimbabwean-South African rugby union player
Robert Brian Skinstad is a former professional rugby union player. Born in Rhodesia, he represented the South Africa national team, the Springboks, winning 42 caps. He played in the positions of flanker and number eight.
03/07/1973
Paul Rauhihi, New Zealand rugby league player
Paul Rauhihi is a New Zealand former professional rugby league footballer who represented New Zealand. Rauhihi played in both the National Rugby League (NRL) and Super League as a prop.
Ólafur Stefánsson, Icelandic handball player
Ólafur Indriði Stefánsson is an Icelandic former handball player who, for many years was the captain of the Iceland men's national handball team but announced his international retirement after the 2012 London Olympics. His position was right back. At his peak he was considered to be one of the very best handball players in the world.
Fyodor Tuvin, Russian footballer (died 2013)
Fyodor Vladimirovich Tuvin was a Russian football midfielder.
Patrick Wilson, American actor
Patrick Joseph Wilson is an American actor. He began his career in 1995, starring in Broadway musicals. He received nominations for two Tony Awards for his roles in The Full Monty (2000–2001) and Oklahoma! (2002). He co-starred in the HBO miniseries Angels in America (2003), for which he was nominated for a Golden Globe Award and a Primetime Emmy Award.
03/07/1971
Julian Assange, Australian journalist, publisher, and activist, founded WikiLeaks
Julian Paul Assange is an Australian editor, programmer, and publisher who founded WikiLeaks in 2006. He came to international attention in 2010 after WikiLeaks published a series of leaks from Chelsea Manning, a United States Army intelligence analyst: footage of a U.S. airstrike in Baghdad showing war crimes committed by the U.S. Army, U.S. military logs from the Afghanistan and Iraq wars, and U.S. diplomatic cables. Assange has won over two dozen awards for publishing and journalism.
Benedict Wong, English actor
Benedict Wong is an English actor. He began his career on stage before starring in the film Dirty Pretty Things (2002), which earned him a British Independent Film Award nomination, and the BBC sitcom 15 Storeys High (2002–2004). This was followed by roles in the films On a Clear Day (2005), Sunshine, Grow Your Own and Moon (2009), and the CBBC series Spirit Warriors (2010).
03/07/1970
Serhiy Honchar, Ukrainian cyclist
Serhiy Gonchar is a Ukrainian former professional road racing cyclist. He won the World Time Trial Championship in 2000. Due to a temporary spelling error in his passport, he is often incorrectly called Honchar.
Audra McDonald, American actress and singer
Audra Ann McDonald is an American singer and actress. Primarily known for her work on the Broadway stage, she has won six Tony Awards, more performance wins than any other actor, and is the only person to win in all four acting categories. As of the 78th Tony Awards, she has earned a record-breaking eleven nominations.
Teemu Selänne, Finnish ice hockey player
Teemu Ilmari Selänne is a Finnish former professional ice hockey player. Playing as a right winger, he began his professional career in 1989–90 with Jokerit of the SM-liiga and later played 21 seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the Winnipeg Jets, Anaheim Ducks, San Jose Sharks, and Colorado Avalanche. Nicknamed "the Finnish Flash", Selänne is the highest-scoring Finn in NHL history, and one of the highest overall; he retired in 2014 11th all-time with 684 goals and 15th with 1,457 points. He holds numerous team scoring records for both the Winnipeg/Arizona franchise and the Anaheim Ducks. His jersey number 8 was retired by the Ducks in 2015. In 2017, Selänne was named one of the '100 Greatest NHL Players' in history. On June 26, 2017, Selänne was elected to the Hockey Hall of Fame as the second Finn after Jari Kurri.
03/07/1968
Ramush Haradinaj, Kosovo-Albanian soldier and politician, 4th Prime Minister of Kosovo
Ramush Haradinaj is a Kosovo Albanian politician who served as prime minister of Kosovo from 2004 to 2005 and from 2017 to 2020. He is the leader of the AAK party, and is a former officer and leader of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA).
03/07/1967
Katy Clark, Scottish lawyer and politician
Katy Clark, Baroness Clark of Kilwinning, is a British politician and life peer who has served as a Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for the West Scotland region since the 2021 Scottish Parliament election. A member of the Labour Party, she was previously the Member of Parliament (MP) for North Ayrshire and Arran from 2005 to 2015.
03/07/1966
Moisés Alou, American baseball player
Moisés Rojas-Alou Beltré is an American former professional baseball outfielder who has played 17 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) from 1990 to 2008. He played in MLB for the Pittsburgh Pirates, Montreal Expos, Florida Marlins, Houston Astros, Chicago Cubs, San Francisco Giants, and New York Mets.
03/07/1965
Shinya Hashimoto, Japanese wrestler (died 2005)
Shinya Hashimoto was a Japanese professional wrestler, promoter and actor. Along with Masahiro Chono and Keiji Mutoh, Hashimoto was dubbed one of the "Three Musketeers" that began competing in New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW) in the mid-1980s and dominated the promotion in the 1990s.
Connie Nielsen, Danish-American actress
Connie Inge-Lise Nielsen is a Danish actress. She has starred as Lucilla in the films Gladiator (2000) and Gladiator II (2024) and as Queen Hippolyta in the DC Extended Universe (2017–2021). She has also starred in films such as Soldier (1998), Mission to Mars (2000), One Hour Photo (2002), Basic (2003), The Hunted (2003), The Ice Harvest (2005), Nymphomaniac (2013), 3 Days to Kill (2014), Inheritance (2020), Nobody (2021) and its sequel Nobody 2 (2025).
Komsan Pohkong, Thai lawyer and academic
Komsan Pohkong is a lawyer from Thailand. He teach in faculty of law at Sukhothai Thammathirat Open University. In 2007, he was a member of Thai Constitution Drafting Committee 2007. He is also a member of Siam Prachapiwat in Thailand.
Christophe Ruer, French pentathlete (died 2007)
Christophe Ruer was a French modern pentathlete. He competed at the 1988, 1992 and 1996 Summer Olympics. He was killed in a motorcycle accident.
03/07/1964
Yeardley Smith, American actress, voice actress, comedian and writer
Martha Maria Yeardley Smith is an American actress. She stars as the voice of Lisa Simpson on the animated television series The Simpsons.
03/07/1963
Tracey Emin, British Artist
Dame Tracey Karima Emin is an English artist known for autobiographical and confessional artwork. She produces work in a variety of media including drawing, painting, sculpture, film, photography, neon text and sewn appliqué. Once the "enfant terrible" of the Young British Artists in the 1980s, Emin was elected as a Royal Academician in 2016.
03/07/1962
Scott Borchetta, American record executive and entrepreneur
Scott Borchetta is an American record executive and founder of the Big Machine Label Group. He started the label in 2005 with Taylor Swift as its first signed artist and 13 employees. He served as its president/CEO, encompassing four imprints: Big Machine Records, Nashville Harbor Records & Entertainment, The Valory Music Co. and Nash Icon Records. In 2015, he became an in-house mentor on American Idol in the program's 14th and 15th seasons. He is also a sports car racing driver in the Trans-Am Series and owner of NASCAR Xfinity Series team Big Machine Racing.
Tom Cruise, American actor and producer
Thomas Cruise Mapother IV is an American actor and film producer. Regarded as a Hollywood icon, he has received various accolades, including an Honorary Palme d'Or, an Academy Honorary Award, and three Golden Globes, in addition to nominations for four competitive Academy Awards. As of 2025, his films have grossed more than $13.3 billion worldwide, placing him among the highest-grossing actors of all time. One of Hollywood's most bankable stars, he is consistently one of the world's highest-paid actors.
Thomas Gibson, American actor and director
Thomas Ellis Gibson is an American actor and director best known for his roles as Aaron Hotchner on Criminal Minds (2005–16), Greg Montgomery on Dharma & Greg (1997–2002) and Daniel Nyland on Chicago Hope (1994–97).
03/07/1960
Vince Clarke, English singer-songwriter, keyboard player, and producer
Vincent John Martin, known professionally as Vince Clarke, is a British synth-pop musician and songwriter. Clarke has been the main composer and musician of the band Erasure since its inception in 1985, and was previously the main songwriter for several groups, including Depeche Mode, Yazoo, and the Assembly. In Erasure, he is known for his deadpan and low-key onstage demeanour, often remaining motionless over his keyboard, in sharp contrast to lead vocalist Andy Bell's animated and hyperactive frontman antics.
03/07/1959
Julie Burchill, English journalist and author
Julie Burchill is an English writer. Beginning as a staff writer at the New Musical Express at the age of 17, she has since contributed to newspapers such as The Daily Telegraph, The Sunday Times and The Guardian. Her writing, which was described by John Arlidge in The Observer in 2002 as "outrageously outspoken" and "usually offensive," has been the subject of legal action. Burchill is also a novelist, and her 2004 novel Sugar Rush was adapted for television.
Ian Maxtone-Graham, American screenwriter and producer
Ian Maxtone-Graham is an American television writer and producer. He has formerly written for Saturday Night Live (1992–1995) and The Simpsons (1995–2012), as well as serving as a co-executive producer and consulting producer for the latter from its seventh to its twenty-fourth seasons.
Stephen Pearcy, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
Stephen Eric Pearcy is an American musician who is the founder, singer and songwriter of the heavy metal band Ratt. He has also created the bands Firedome, Crystal Pystal, Arcade, Vicious Delite and Vertex. He has also recorded seven albums as a solo artist.
David Shore, Canadian screenwriter and producer
David Shore is a Canadian television writer. Shore worked on Family Law, NYPD Blue and Due South. He created the series House and more recently, Battle Creek and developed The Good Doctor, an American adaptation of the South Korean series of the same name.
03/07/1958
Matthew Fraser, Canadian-English journalist and academic
Matthew William Fraser is a British-Canadian academic, author and journalist.
Charlie Higson, English actor, singer, and author
Charles Murray Higson is an English actor, comedian, author and former singer. He has also written and produced for television and is the author of the young adult post-apocalyptic book series The Enemy, as well as the first five novels in the Young Bond series.
Siân Lloyd, Welsh meteorologist and journalist
Siân Mary Lloyd is a Welsh television presenter and meteorologist from Maesteg. She was the United Kingdom's longest-serving female weather forecaster, having appeared on ITV Weather for 24 years, from 1990 until 2014.
Didier Mouron, Swiss-Canadian painter
Didier Mouron is a Swiss artist. He was born in Vevey. Didier Mouron has been called "The king of the pencil".
Aaron Tippin, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
Aaron Dupree Tippin is an American country music singer, songwriter and record producer. Initially a songwriter for Acuff-Rose Music, he gained a recording contract with RCA Nashville in 1990. His debut single, "You've Got to Stand for Something" became a popular anthem for American soldiers fighting in the Gulf War and helped to establish him as a neotraditionalist country act with songs that catered primarily to the American working class. Under RCA's tenure, he recorded five studio albums and a Greatest Hits package. Tippin switched to Lyric Street Records in 1998, where he recorded four more studio albums, counting a compilation of Christmas music. After leaving Lyric Street in 2006, he founded a personal label known as Nippit Records, on which he issued the compilation album Now & Then. A concept album, In Overdrive, was released in 2009.
03/07/1957
Poly Styrene, British musician (died 2011)
Marianne Joan Elliott-Said, known by the stage name Poly Styrene, was an English musician, singer-songwriter, and frontwoman for the punk rock band X-Ray Spex. She is considered a pioneer for the feminist punk movement.
03/07/1956
Montel Williams, American talk show host and television personality
Montel Brian Anthony Williams is an American television host and actor. He is known for hosting the daytime tabloid talk show The Montel Williams Show, which ran in syndication from 1991 to 2008. He currently hosts The Balancing Act and Military Makeover with Montel airing on Lifetime. Williams founded the Montel Williams MS Foundation after being diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 1999. He is noted for his service in both the United States Marine Corps and the United States Navy, from which he retired after 22 years of service.
03/07/1955
Claude Rajotte, Canadian radio and television host
Claude Rajotte is a well-known Canadian DJ/VJ/music critic from Montreal, Quebec.
03/07/1954
Les Cusworth, English rugby player
Les Cusworth is a former English rugby union footballer, coach of the winning 1993 England rugby 7s team, former assistant coach of England national rugby team and former Director of Rugby for Worcester and the national team of Argentina.
03/07/1953
Lotta Sollander, Swedish alpine skier
Lotta Sollander is a Swedish former alpine skier, who competed in the 1972 Winter Olympics. She is the daughter of Stig Sollander.
03/07/1952
Dugan Basham, American stock racing driver
Dugan Basham is an American former professional stock car racing driver who has previously competed in the ARCA Re/Max Series. He is the younger brother of longtime ARCA competitor Darrell Basham.
Laura Branigan, American singer-songwriter (died 2004)
Laura Ann Kruteck was an American singer. Her signature song, the platinum-certified 1982 cover of Umberto Tozzi's single "Gloria," stayed on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 for 36 weeks, then a record for a female artist, peaking at No. 2. It also reached number one in Australia and Canada. In 1984, she reached number one in Canada and Germany and No. 4 in the U.S. with "Self Control". "Gloria" and "Self Control" were also successful in the United Kingdom, each hitting the Top 10 in the UK singles chart.
Lu Colombo, Italian singer
Lu Colombo, best known as Lou Colombo, pseudonym of Maria Luisa Colombo, is an Italian singer-songwriter, producer and publisher, widely known for the song Maracaibo.
Andy Fraser, English singer-songwriter and bass player (died 2015)
Andrew McIan Fraser was an English musician and songwriter, best known as the bassist and co-composer for the rock band Free, which he helped found in 1968 when he was 15. He also founded the rock band Sharks after leaving Free in 1972.
Carla Olson, American singer-songwriter and music producer
Carla Olson is an American, Los Angeles-based songwriter, performer and record producer.
Wasim Raja, Pakistani cricketer (died 2006)
Wasim Hasan Raja was a Pakistani schoolteacher, match referee, cricket coach and cricketer who played in 57 Test matches and 54 One Day Internationals for the Pakistan national cricket team from 1973 to 1985.
Amit Kumar, Indian film playback singer, actor, director, music director and musician
Amit Kumar is an Indian playback singer, music composer and actor. Kumar launched his own music production company, named Kumar Brothers Music. He has predominantly worked in Bollywood and regional film songs since the 1970s, including 150 Hindi and Bengali compositions by R. D. Burman and Bappi Lahiri. After Burman's death in 1994, citing a lack of quality music composition, Kumar withdrew from playback singing and concentrated on live orchestra shows. In addition to singing in Hindi, has also performed in Bengali, Bhojpuri, Odia, Assamese, Marathi and Konkani. He is the eldest son of singer-actor Kishore Kumar.
03/07/1951
Jean-Claude Duvalier, Haitian politician, 41st President of Haiti (died 2014)
Jean-Claude Duvalier, nicknamed "Baby Doc", was a Haitian dictator who held the presidency of Haiti from 1971 until he was overthrown by a popular uprising in February 1986. He succeeded his father François "Papa Doc" Duvalier as the ruler of Haiti after his death in 1971. After assuming power, he introduced cosmetic changes to his father's regime and delegated much authority to his advisors. Thousands of Haitians were tortured and killed, and hundreds of thousands fled the country during his presidency. He maintained a notoriously lavish lifestyle while poverty among his people remained the most widespread of any country in the Western Hemisphere.
Richard Hadlee, New Zealand cricketer
Sir Richard John Hadlee is a New Zealand former cricketer. Hadlee is widely regarded as one of the greatest all-rounders in cricket history, and amongst the very finest fast bowlers.
03/07/1950
Ewen Chatfield, New Zealand cricketer
Ewen John Chatfield is a former New Zealand cricketer. A medium-pace bowler, though Chatfield played 43 Tests and 114 One Day Internationals for his country, he is also remembered for having been hit in the head by a ball while batting, causing him to collapse and need resuscitation.
James Hahn, American judge and politician, 40th Mayor of Los Angeles
James Kenneth Hahn is a Los Angeles Superior Court judge and an American former lawyer and politician. A Democrat, Hahn was elected the 40th mayor of Los Angeles in 2001. He served until 2005, at which time he was defeated in his bid for re-election. Prior to his term as Mayor, Hahn served in several other capacities for the city of Los Angeles, including deputy city attorney (1975–1979), city controller (1981–1985) and city attorney (1985–2001). Hahn is the only individual in the city's history to have been elected to all three citywide offices. He is currently a sitting judge on the Los Angeles County Superior Court.
03/07/1949
Susan Penhaligon, English actress
Susan Penhaligon is a Cornish actress and writer known for her role in the drama series Bouquet of Barbed Wire (1976), and for playing Helen Barker in the sitcom A Fine Romance (1981–1984).
John Verity, English guitarist
John Verity is an English guitarist and singer. He is best known as a member of Argent, a band formed by Zombies keyboardist Rod Argent. He joined the band alongside John Grimaldi, replacing Russ Ballard.
Johnnie Wilder, Jr., American singer (died 2006)
Johnnie James Wilder Jr. was an American musician, co-founder and vocalist of the R&B/funk group Heatwave. The group were popular during the late 1970s with hits such as "Boogie Nights", "Mind Blowing Decisions", "Always and Forever", and "The Groove Line".
Bo Xilai, Chinese politician, Chinese Minister of Commerce
Bo Xilai is a Chinese former politician who was convicted on bribery and embezzlement charges. He came to prominence through his tenures as Mayor of Dalian and then Governor of Liaoning. From 2004 to 2007, he served as Minister of Commerce. Between 2007 and 2012, he served as a member of the Politburo of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and Party Secretary of Chongqing, a direct-administered municipality under the central government.
03/07/1948
Paul Barrere, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2019)
Paul Barrere was an American musician most prominent as a member of the band Little Feat, which he joined in 1972 some three years after the band was created by Lowell George.
Tarmo Koivisto, Finnish author and illustrator
Tarmo Koivisto is a Finnish comics artist and writer, cartoonist, and graphic artist.
03/07/1947
Dave Barry, American journalist and author
David McAlister Barry is an American author and columnist who wrote a nationally syndicated humor column for the Miami Herald from 1983 to 2005. He has written numerous books of humor and parody, as well as comic novels and children's novels. Barry's honors include the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary (1988) and the Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Journalism (2005).
Betty Buckley, American actress and singer
Betty Buckley is an American actress and singer. Buckley is the winner of a Tony Award, and was nominated for an additional Tony Award, two Daytime Emmy Awards, two Grammy Awards, and an Olivier Award. In 2012, she was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame.
Mike Burton, American swimmer
Michael Jay Burton is an American swimmer who competed for the University of California at Los Angeles, a three-time Olympic champion, and a former world record-holder in two freestyle distance events. He would later have a career as a swimming coach.
03/07/1946
Johnny Lee, American singer and guitarist
Johnny Lee is an American country music singer. His 1980 single "Lookin' for Love" became a crossover hit, spending three weeks at number 1 on the Billboard country singles chart while also appearing in the top 5 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and top 10 on Billboard's Adult Contemporary chart. He racked up 17 top 40 country hits in the early and mid-1980s.
Leszek Miller, Polish political scientist and politician, 10th Prime Minister of Poland
Leszek Cezary Miller is a Polish politician who served as prime minister of Poland from 2001 to 2004. He served a single term in the European Parliament from 2019 to 2024.
Michael Shea, American author (died 2014)
Michael Shea was an American fantasy, horror, and science fiction author. His novel Nifft the Lean won the World Fantasy Award, as did his novella Growlimb.
03/07/1945
Michael Martin, Baron Martin of Springburn, Scottish politician, Speaker of the House of Commons (died 2018)
Michael John Martin, Baron Martin of Springburn, was a Scottish politician who served as Speaker of the House of Commons between 2000 and 2009. A member of the Labour Party prior to becoming speaker, he was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Glasgow Springburn from 1979 to 2005 and for Glasgow North East until 2009. He was elected as Speaker of the House of Commons in 2000, remaining in the office for nine years until his involuntary resignation in 2009.
03/07/1943
Gary Waldhorn, British actor (died 2022)
Gary Peter Waldhorn was an English actor and comedian known for his roles in British television and theatre. He is particularly remembered for his work in the main casts of several British sitcoms. Notable roles and characters played by him included Councillor David Horton in The Vicar of Dibley and Lionel Bainbridge in Brush Strokes.
Judith Durham, Australian folk-pop singer-songwriter and musician (died 2022)
Judith Durham was an Australian singer, songwriter and musician who became the lead singer of the Australian folk music group the Seekers in 1962.
Kurtwood Smith, American actor
Kurtwood Larson Smith is an American actor. He is known for playing Clarence Boddicker in RoboCop (1987), Robert Griggs in Rambo III (1988), Thomas Perry in Dead Poets Society (1989), Stump Sisson in A Time to Kill (1996), as well as Red Forman in That '70s Show (1998–2006) and That '90s Show (2023–2024), along with his many appearances in science fiction films and television programs. He also starred in the seventh season of 24. He voiced Gene on Regular Show (2012–2017), portrayed Leslie Claret on Patriot (2015–2018), and Old Man Peterson on The Ranch (2017–2020).
Norman E. Thagard, American astronaut
Norman Earl Thagard is an American scientist and former U.S. Marine Corps officer and naval aviator and NASA astronaut. He is a veteran of five space flights and on March 14, 1995, he became the first American to ride to space on board a Russian vehicle, the Soyuz TM-21 spacecraft for the Russian Mir-18 mission.
03/07/1942
Kevin Johnson, Australian singer-songwriter
Kevin Stephen Johnson is an Australian singer-songwriter. Popular in the 1970s, his biggest hit is "Rock and Roll ", which peaked at No. 4 on the Australian Kent Music Report Singles Chart in 1973. He also had a top 20 hit with "Bonnie Please Don't Go" in 1971. "Rock and Roll" is one of the most covered songs written by an Australian with 27 different artists recording the song in 1975 alone. Covers of "Rock and Roll " came from fellow Australians, Col Joye and Dig Richards, and from international artists, Mac Davis, Terry Jacks, Gary Glitter, Joe Dassin, The Cats and Tom Jones. Davis' rendition became the highest charting version on the Billboard Hot 100, reaching No. 15 in 1975.
Eddy Mitchell, French singer-songwriter
Claude Moine, known professionally as Eddy Mitchell, is a French singer and actor. He began his career in the late 1950s, with the group Les Chaussettes Noires. He took the name Eddy from the American expatriate tough-guy actor Eddie Constantine, and chose Mitchell as his last name simply because it sounds American. The band performed at the Parisian nightclub Golf-Drouot before signing to Barclay Records and finding almost instant success; in 1961 it sold two million records.
03/07/1941
Gloria Allred, American lawyer and activist
Gloria Rachel Allred is an American attorney known for taking high-profile and often controversial cases, particularly those involving feminist causes. She has been inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame.
Liamine Zéroual, Algerian politician, 6th President of Algeria (died 2026)
Liamine Zéroual was an Algerian politician who served as the sixth President of Algeria from 31 January 1994 to 27 April 1999.
03/07/1940
Lamar Alexander, American lawyer and politician, 5th United States Secretary of Education
Andrew Lamar Alexander Jr. is an American politician, academic administrator, and attorney who served as a U.S. senator from Tennessee from 2003 to 2021. A member of the Republican Party, he was previously the 45th governor of Tennessee from 1979 to 1987 and the 5th United States Secretary of Education under President George H. W. Bush, serving from 1991 to 1993. During his tenure at the Department of Education, he supported the implementation of the "America 2000" education reform initiative.
Jerzy Buzek, Polish engineer and politician, 9th Prime Minister of Poland
Jerzy Karol Buzek is a Polish politician and former Member of the European Parliament from Poland. He has served as Prime Minister of Poland from 1997 to 2001, since being elected to the European Parliament in 2004, he served as President of the European Parliament between 2009 and 2012. He is married to Ludgarda Buzek and is the father of Polish actress Agata Buzek.
Michael Cole, American actor (died 2024)
Michael Cole was an American actor best known for his role as Pete Cochran on the television crime drama The Mod Squad (1968–1973).
Lance Larson, American swimmer (died 2024)
Lance Melvin Larson was an American competition swimmer, Olympic champion, and world record-holder in four events.
César Tovar, Venezuelan baseball player (died 1994)
César Leonardo Tovar, nicknamed "Pepito" and "Mr. Versatility", was a Venezuelan professional baseball player and coach. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) from 1965 to 1976, most notably as the leadoff hitter for the Minnesota Twins teams that won two consecutive American League Western Division titles in 1969 and 1970. He later played for the Philadelphia Phillies, Texas Rangers, Oakland Athletics, and New York Yankees.
03/07/1939
Brigitte Fassbaender, German soprano and director
Brigitte Fassbaender, is a German mezzo-soprano opera singer and a stage director. From 1999 to 2012 she was intendant of the Tyrolean State Theatre in Innsbruck, Austria. She holds the title Kammersängerin from the Bavarian State Opera in Munich and the Vienna Staatsoper.
László Kovács, Hungarian politician and diplomat, Hungarian Minister of Foreign Affairs
László Kovács is a Hungarian politician and diplomat, former European Commissioner for Taxation and Customs Union. He was the foreign minister of Hungary twice, from 1994 to 1998 and from 2002 to 2004. He also served as chairman of the Hungarian Socialist Party (MSZP) from 1998 to 2004.
Coco Laboy, Puerto Rican baseball player
José Alberto "Coco" Laboy is a Puerto Rican former professional baseball third baseman who played five seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB). He was signed by the San Francisco Giants as an amateur free agent in 1959 but remained mired in the minor leagues, playing for a while in North Carolina with the Raleigh Cardinals, until the 1969 expansion of major league baseball, which added two teams to both leagues. The expansion Montreal Expos drafted Laboy from the St. Louis Cardinals organization.
03/07/1938
Jean Aitchison, English linguist and academic
Jean Margaret Aitchison is a Professor Emerita of Language and Communication in the Faculty of English Language and Literature at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Worcester College, Oxford. Her main areas of interest include socio-historical linguistics; language and the mind; and language and the media.
Sjaak Swart, Dutch footballer
Jesaia Swart, commonly known as Sjaak Swart, is a Dutch former professional footballer who played as a winger for Ajax. During his career at Ajax, he amassed a total of 603 official matches, a record for the club.
03/07/1937
Nicholas Maxwell, English philosopher and academic (died 2025)
Nicholas Maxwell was a British philosopher.
Tom Stoppard, Czech-English playwright and screenwriter (died 2025)
Sir Tom Stoppard was a British playwright and screenwriter. He wrote for film, radio, stage, and television, finding prominence with plays. His work covered the themes of human rights, censorship, and political freedom, often delving into the deeper philosophical bases of society. Stoppard, a playwright of the Royal National Theatre, was one of the most internationally performed dramatists of his generation and was critically compared with William Shakespeare and George Bernard Shaw. He was knighted for his contribution to theatre in 1997 and awarded the Order of Merit in 2000.
03/07/1936
Anthony Lester, Baron Lester of Herne Hill, English lawyer and politician (died 2020)
Anthony Paul Lester, Baron Lester of Herne Hill, QC was a British barrister and member of the House of Lords. He was at different times a member of the Labour Party, Social Democratic Party and the Liberal Democrats. Lester was best known for his influence on race relations legislation in the United Kingdom and as a founder-member of groups such as the Institute of Race Relations, the Campaign Against Racial Discrimination and the Runnymede Trust. Lester was also a prominent figure in promoting birth control and abortion through the Family Planning Association, particularly in Northern Ireland.
Baard Owe, Norwegian-Danish actor (died 2017)
Baard Arne Owe, sometimes credited Bård Owe, was a Norwegian-born Danish actor who appeared in many Scandinavian films and television series.
03/07/1935
Cheo Feliciano, Puerto Rican-American singer-songwriter (died 2014)
Cheo Feliciano was a Puerto Rican singer and composer of salsa and bolero music. Feliciano was the owner of a recording company called "Coche Records". He was the first tropical singer to perform at the "Amira de la Rosa Theater" in Barranquilla, Colombia, and in 1987 he played the role of Roberto Clemente's father in the musical Clemente.
Harrison Schmitt, American geologist, astronaut, and politician. Twelfth man to walk on the moon.
Harrison Hagan "Jack" Schmitt is an American geologist, former NASA astronaut, university professor, and former U.S. senator from New Mexico. He is the most recent living person—and only person without a background in military aviation—to have walked on the Moon.
03/07/1933
Edward Brandt, Jr., American physician and mathematician (died 2007)
Edward Newman Brandt Jr. MD was an American physician, mathematician, and public health administrator. He was appointed acting surgeon general of the United States from 1981 to 1982 and served as the United States assistant secretary for health from 1981 to 1984.
03/07/1932
Richard Mellon Scaife, American businessman (died 2014)
Richard Mellon Scaife was an American billionaire, a principal heir to the Mellon banking, oil, and aluminum fortune, and the owner and publisher of the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review. In 2005, Scaife was number 238 on the Forbes 400, with a personal fortune of $1.2 billion. By 2013, Scaife had dropped to number 371 on the listing, with a personal fortune of $1.4 billion.
03/07/1930
Pete Fountain, American clarinet player (died 2016)
Pierre Dewey LaFontaine Jr., known professionally as Pete Fountain, was an American jazz clarinetist.
Carlos Kleiber, German-Austrian conductor (died 2004)
Carlos Kleiber was a German-born Austrian conductor, who is widely regarded as among the greatest conductors of all time. The son of the conductor Erich Kleiber, he was particularly known for the Romantic repertoire. John Rockwell writes: "A fabled perfectionist, he demanded long hours of rehearsal as his reputation grew and allowed him to obtain such concessions. But he made all that work pay off in performances that blended exactitude with impassioned spontaneity."
Tommy Tedesco, American guitarist (died 1997)
Thomas Joseph Tedesco was an American guitarist and studio musician in Los Angeles and Hollywood. He was part of the loose collective of the area's leading session musicians later popularly known as The Wrecking Crew, who played on thousands of studio recordings in the 1960s and 1970s, including several hundred Top 40 hits.
03/07/1929
Clément Perron, Canadian director, producer, and screenwriter (died 1999)
Clément Perron was a Canadian film director and screenwriter.
Joanne Herring, American socialite, businesswoman, political activist, philanthropist, diplomat, and television talk show host
Joanne King Herring is an American socialite, businesswoman, political activist, philanthropist, diplomat, and former television talk show host.
03/07/1928
Evelyn Anthony, English author (died 2018)
Evelyn Bridget Patricia Ward-Thomas, better known by the pen name Evelyn Anthony, was a British writer. Anthony was born in the Lambeth district of London. She had a very prolific writing career, translated into at least 19 languages and her 1971 novel The Tamarind Seed was adapted for a film in 1974, starring Julie Andrews as Judith Farrow.
03/07/1927
Ken Russell, English actor, director, and producer (died 2011)
Henry Kenneth Alfred Russell was a British film director, known for his pioneering work in television and film and for his flamboyant and controversial style. His films were mainly liberal adaptations of existing texts, or biographies, notably of composers of the Romantic era. Russell began directing for the BBC, where he made creative adaptations of composers' lives which were unusual for the time. He also directed many feature films independently and for studios.
Tim O'Connor, American actor (died 2018)
Timothy Joseph O'Connor was an American character actor known for his work in television. Before moving to California, he lived on an island in the middle of Glen Wild Lake, located in Bloomingdale, New Jersey, 30 miles from Manhattan. O'Connor specialized in playing officials, military men, and police officers.
03/07/1926
Johnny Coles, American trumpet player (died 1997)
John Coles was an American jazz trumpeter.
Rae Allen, American actress, singer, and director (died 2022)
Rae Julia Theresa Abruzzo, professionally known as Rae Allen, was an American actress of stage, film and television. Her career spanned some seventy years and eight decades.
Laurence Street, Australian jurist and former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of New South Wales (died 2018)
Sir Laurence Whistler Street, AC, KCMG, KStJ, QC was an Australian judge. He served as the 14th Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of New South Wales and Lieutenant-Governor of New South Wales. He was the third generation of the Street family to serve in these viceregal offices, and the youngest since 1844. Street fought in World War II, and he became a commander of the Royal Australian Navy Reserve, and an honorary colonel of the Australian Army Reserve.
03/07/1925
Terry Moriarty, Australian rules footballer (died 2011)
Terrence Brian "Terry" Moriarty was an Australian rules footballer who played with the Perth Football Club in the West Australian National Football League (WANFL). Having won the club's best and fairest trophy in his first two seasons, Moriarty went on to play 253 games over a 15-season career, which remains a club record. He also played nine interstate matches for Western Australia. Having also served in the Australian Army during World War II, he was the winner of the 1943 Sandover Medal as the best player in the competition, and was inducted into the West Australian Football Hall of Fame in 2010.
Danny Nardico, American professional boxer (died 2010)
Daniel Richard (Danny) Nardico was an American professional boxer who was once ranked the fifth-best light heavyweight boxer by The Ring magazine. He was the only fighter to knock down Jake LaMotta. Nardico briefly entered wrestling after his boxing career.
Philip Jamison, American artist (died 2021)
Philip Jamison was an American artist working primarily with watercolor as a medium. Typical scenes are landscapes, seascapes, interiors and flower arrangements.
03/07/1924
Amalia Aguilar, Cuban-Mexican film actress and dancer (died 2021)
Amalia Isabel Rodríguez Carriera, known professionally as Amalia Aguilar, was a Cuban-Mexican dancer, actress and comedian.
S. R. Nathan, 6th President of Singapore (died 2016)
Sellapan Ramanathan, often known as S. R. Nathan, was a Singaporean civil servant, diplomat and politician who served as the sixth president of Singapore between 1999 and 2011. He was the longest-serving president in the country's history, holding office for two full terms. Prior to his presidency, Nathan held various key positions in the public service, including roles in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Home Affairs and the Security and Intelligence Division (SID). He also served as Singapore's High Commissioner to Malaysia and Ambassador to the United States.
03/07/1922
Guillaume Cornelis van Beverloo, Belgian painter and sculptor (died 2010)
Corneille – Guillaume Cornelis van Beverloo, better known under his pseudonym Corneille, was a Dutch artist.
Theo Brokmann Jr., Dutch football player (died 2003)
Theodorus Johannes Franciscus Brokmann Jr., better known as Theo Brokmann, was a Dutch football player.
03/07/1921
Flor María Chalbaud, First Lady of Venezuela (died 2013)
Flor de María Chalbaud Castro was First Lady of Venezuela between 2 December 1952 and 23 January 1958 and one of the founders of the Bolivarian Ladies Society.
Susan Peters, American actress (died 1952)
Susan Peters was an American actress who appeared in more than twenty films over the course of her decade-long career. Though she began her career in uncredited and ingénue roles, she would establish herself as a serious dramatic actress in the mid-1940s.
François Reichenbach, French director, producer, and screenwriter (died 1993)
François Arnold Reichenbach was a French film director, cinematographer, producer, and screenwriter. He directed 40 films between 1954 and 1993.
03/07/1920
Eddy Paape, Belgian illustrator (died 2012)
Edouard Paape, commonly known as Eddy Paape, was a Belgian comics artist best known for illustrating the science fiction comic series Luc Orient.
Paul O'Dea, American baseball player and manager (died 1978)
Paul O'Dea was an American professional baseball player, manager and scout. He saw Major League service during World War II for the 1944 and 1945 Cleveland Indians. He threw and batted left-handed, stood 6 feet (1.8 m) tall and weighed 200 pounds (91 kg).
Lennart Bladh, Swedish politician (died 2006)
Lennart Villiam Bladh was a Swedish politician who served as member of the Riksdag (MP) from 1974 to 1985.
03/07/1919
Cecil FitzMaurice, 8th Earl of Orkney (died 1998)
Cecil O'Bryen Fitz-Maurice, 8th Earl of Orkney was a Scottish peer. He held the subsidiary titles of Viscount of Kirkwall and Baron of Dechmont.
Gerald W. Thomas, American soldier and academic (died 2013)
Gerald Waylett Thomas was President Emeritus of New Mexico State University, a veteran of World War II, and an author.
03/07/1918
S. V. Ranga Rao, Indian actor, director, and producer (died 1974)
Samarla Venkata Ranga Rao, popularly known as S. V. Ranga Rao and SVR, was an Indian actor and filmmaker who primarily worked in Telugu and Tamil films. He is regarded as one of the finest actors in the history of Indian cinema. He is known by the epithet "Viswa Nata Chakravarthi" and was the earliest known character actor in South Indian cinema to achieve a star status. In a career spanning nearly three decades, Ranga Rao garnered various national and international honours.
Johnny Palmer, American golfer (died 2006)
John Cornelius Palmer was an American professional golfer.
03/07/1917
João Saldanha, Brazilian footballer, manager, and journalist (died 1990)
João Alves Jobin Saldanha was a Brazilian journalist and football manager. He coached the Brazil national football team during the South American Qualifying to the 1970 FIFA World Cup. Nicknamed João Sem Medo by Nelson Rodrigues, Saldanha played for Botafogo. He then started a career in journalism and became one of Brazil's most prolific sports columnists. He often criticised players, managers and teams, and was a member of then-illegal Brazilian Communist Party.
03/07/1916
John Kundla, American basketball player and coach (died 2017)
John Albert Kundla was an American college and professional basketball coach. He was the first head coach for the Minneapolis Lakers of the National Basketball Association (NBA) and its predecessors, the Basketball Association of America (BAA) and the National Basketball League (NBL), serving 12 seasons, from 1947 to 1959. His teams won six league championships, one in the NBL, one in the BAA, and four in the NBA. Kundla was the head basketball coach at the University of St. Thomas in Saint Paul for one season in 1946–47, and at the University of Minnesota for ten seasons, from 1959 to 1968. He was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 1995 and the College Basketball Hall of Fame in 2006.
03/07/1913
Dorothy Kilgallen, American journalist, actress, and author (died 1965)
Dorothy Mae Kilgallen was an American columnist, journalist, and television game show panelist. After spending two semesters at the College of New Rochelle, she started her career shortly before her 18th birthday as a reporter for the Hearst Corporation's New York Evening Journal. In 1938, she began her newspaper column "The Voice of Broadway", which was eventually syndicated to more than 140 papers. In 1950, she became a regular panelist on the television game show What's My Line?, continuing in the role until her death.
03/07/1911
Joe Hardstaff Jr., English cricketer (died 1990)
Joseph Hardstaff Jr was an English cricketer, who played in twenty three Test matches for England from 1935 to 1948. Hardstaff's father, Joe senior played for Nottinghamshire and England and his son, also named Joe, played first-class cricket as well.
03/07/1910
Fritz Kasparek, Austrian mountaineer (died 1954)
Fritz Kasparek was an Austrian mountaineer who was on the team that made the first successful ascent of the Eiger north face.
03/07/1909
Stavros Niarchos, Greek shipping magnate (died 1996)
Stavros Spyrou Niarchos was a Greek billionaire shipping tycoon. Starting in 1952, he had the world's biggest supertankers built for his fleet. Propelled by both the Suez Crisis and increasing demand for oil, he and rival Aristotle Onassis became giants in global petroleum shipping.
03/07/1908
M. F. K. Fisher, American author (died 1992)
Mary Frances Kennedy Fisher Parrish Friede, writing as M.F.K. Fisher, was an American food writer. She was a founder of the Napa Valley Wine Library. Over her lifetime she wrote 27 books, among them Consider the Oyster (1941), How to Cook a Wolf (1942), The Gastronomical Me (1943) and a translation of Brillat-Savarin's The Physiology of Taste. Fisher believed that eating well was just one of the "arts of life" and explored this in her writing. W. H. Auden once remarked, "I do not know of anyone in the United States who writes better prose." In 1991 the New York Times editorial board went so far as to say, "Calling M.F.K. Fisher, who has just been elected to the American Academy and National Institute of Arts and Letters, a food writer is a lot like calling Mozart a tunesmith. At the same time that she is celebrating, say, oysters or the scent of orange segments drying on a radiator, she is also celebrating life and loneliness, sense and sensibility."
Robert B. Meyner, American lawyer and politician, 44th Governor of New Jersey (died 1990)
Robert Baumle Meyner was an American Democratic Party politician and attorney who served as the 44th governor of New Jersey from 1954 to 1962. Before being elected governor, Meyner represented Warren County in the New Jersey Senate from 1948 to 1951.
03/07/1906
George Sanders, Russian-born British actor (died 1972)
George Henry Sanders was a British actor and singer whose career spanned over 40 years. His heavy, upper-class English accent and smooth bass voice often led him to be cast as sophisticated but villainous characters. He is remembered for his roles as the wicked Jack Favell in Rebecca (1940), Scott ffolliott in Foreign Correspondent, The Saran of Gaza in Samson and Delilah, theater critic Addison DeWitt in All About Eve, Sir Brian De Bois-Guilbert in Ivanhoe (1952), King Richard the Lionheart in King Richard and the Crusaders (1954), Mr. Freeze in a two-part episode of Batman (1966), and the voice of Shere Khan in Disney's The Jungle Book (1967). He also starred as Simon Templar, in five of the eight films in The Saint series (1939–1941), and as a suave Saint-like crimefighter in the first four of the sixteen The Falcon films (1941–1942).
03/07/1905
Johnny Gibson, American hurdler and coach (died 2006)
John A. Gibson was a runner and Olympic athlete.
Harald Kihle, Norwegian painter and illustrator (died 1997)
Harald Kihle was a Norwegian painter and illustrator. He is particularly known for his pictures with motifs from Telemark.
03/07/1903
Ace Bailey, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (died 1992)
Irvine Wallace "Ace" Bailey was a Canadian professional ice hockey player. He played for the Toronto Maple Leafs for eight seasons, from 1926 to 1933. His playing career ended with a hit from Eddie Shore in a game against the Boston Bruins; he was severely injured with a fractured skull when Shore hit Bailey from behind in retaliation for a check by teammate King Clancy. Bailey fell, fracturing his skull upon hitting the ice, and was knocked unconscious. Bailey is the first professional sports player to have a jersey number retired in his honour. Bailey led the NHL in scoring in 1929, and was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1975.
03/07/1901
Ruth Crawford Seeger, American composer (died 1953)
Ruth Crawford Seeger was an American composer and musicologist. Her music heralded the emerging modernist aesthetic, and she became a central member of a group of American composers known as the "ultramodernists". She composed primarily during the 1920s and 1930s, turning towards studies on folk music from the late 1930s until her death. Her music influenced later composers including Elliott Carter.
03/07/1900
Alessandro Blasetti, Italian director and screenwriter (died 1987)
Alessandro Blasetti was an Italian film director and screenwriter who influenced Italian neorealism with the film Four Steps in the Clouds. Blasetti was one of the leading figures in Italian cinema during the Fascist era. He is sometimes known as the "father of Italian cinema" because of his role in reviving the struggling industry in the late 1920s.
03/07/1898
Stefanos Stefanopoulos, Greek politician, Prime Minister of Greece (died 1982)
Stefanos Stefanopoulos was a Greek politician, and served as Prime Minister of Greece from 1965 to 1966.
03/07/1897
Jesse Douglas, American mathematician and academic (died 1965)
Jesse Douglas was an American mathematician and Fields Medalist known for his general solution to Plateau's problem.
03/07/1896
Doris Lloyd, English actress (died 1968)
Hessy Doris Lloyd was a British actress. She appeared in The Time Machine (1960) and The Sound of Music (1965).
03/07/1893
Sándor Bortnyik, Hungarian painter and graphic designer (died 1976)
Sándor Bortnyik was a Hungarian painter and graphic designer. His work was greatly influenced by Cubism, Expressionism and Constructivism.
03/07/1889
Richard Cramer, American actor (died 1960)
Richard Earl Cramer was an American actor in films from the late 1920s to the early 1950s.
03/07/1888
Ramón Gómez de la Serna, Spanish author and playwright (died 1963)
Ramón Gómez de la Serna y Puig, born in Madrid, was a Spanish writer, dramatist and avant-garde agitator. He strongly influenced surrealist film maker Luis Buñuel.
03/07/1886
Raymond A. Spruance, American admiral and diplomat, United States Ambassador to the Philippines (died 1969)
Raymond Ames Spruance was a United States Navy admiral during World War II. He commanded U.S. naval forces during the Battle of the Philippine Sea, one of the most significant naval battles of the Pacific Theatre. He also commanded Task Force 16 at the Battle of Midway, comprising the carriers Enterprise and Hornet. At Midway, dive bombers from American carriers sank four fleet carriers of the Imperial Japanese Navy. Most historians consider Midway the turning point of the Pacific War.
03/07/1885
Anna Dickie Olesen, American politician (died 1971)
Anna Dickie Olesen was an American politician from the state of Minnesota who was the first woman to be nominated by a major party for the United States Senate.
03/07/1883
Franz Kafka, Czech-Austrian author (died 1924)
Franz Kafka was a German-language Jewish Czech writer and novelist born in Prague, in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Widely regarded as a major figure of 20th-century literature, his works fuse elements of realism and the fantastique, and typically feature isolated protagonists facing bizarre or surreal predicaments and incomprehensible socio-bureaucratic powers. The term Kafkaesque has entered the lexicon to describe situations like those depicted in his writings. His best-known works include the novella The Metamorphosis (1915) and the novels The Trial (1924) and The Castle (1926). He is also celebrated for his brief fables and aphorisms, which frequently incorporated comedic elements alongside the darker themes of his longer works. His work has widely influenced artists, philosophers, composers, filmmakers, literary historians, religious scholars, and cultural theorists.
03/07/1880
Carl Schuricht, Polish-German conductor (died 1967)
Carl Adolph Schuricht was a German conductor.
03/07/1879
Alfred Korzybski, Polish-American mathematician, linguist, and philosopher (died 1950)
Alfred Habdank Skarbek Korzybski was a Polish-American philosopher and independent scholar who developed a field called general semantics, which he viewed as both distinct from, and more encompassing than, the field of semantics. He argued that human knowledge of the world is limited both by the human nervous system and the languages humans have developed, and thus no one can have direct access to reality, given that the most we can know is that which is filtered through the brain's responses to reality. His best known dictum is "The map is not the territory". Many of his ideas were presented in his book Science and Sanity (1933).
03/07/1878
George M. Cohan, American songwriter, actor, singer, and dancer (died 1942)
George Michael Cohan was an American entertainer, playwright, composer, lyricist, actor, singer, dancer and theatrical producer.
03/07/1876
Ralph Barton Perry, American philosopher and academic (died 1957)
Ralph Barton Perry was an American philosopher. He was a strident moral idealist who stated in 1909 that, to him, idealism meant "to interpret life consistently with ethical, scientific, and metaphysical truth." Perry's viewpoints on religion stressed the notion that religious thinking possessed legitimacy should it exist within a framework accepting of human reason and social progress.
03/07/1875
Ferdinand Sauerbruch, German surgeon and academic (died 1951)
Ernst Ferdinand Sauerbruch was a German surgeon. His major work was on the use of negative-pressure chambers for surgery.
03/07/1874
Jean Collas, French rugby player and tug of war competitor (died 1928)
Jean Collas was a French rugby union player and tug of war competitor, who competed in the 1900 Summer Olympics. He was a member of the French rugby union team, which won the gold medal. He also participated in the tug of war competition and won a silver medal as a member of the French team.
03/07/1871
William Henry Davies, Welsh poet and writer (died 1940)
William Henry Davies was a Welsh poet and writer, who spent much of his life as a tramp or hobo in the United Kingdom and the United States, yet became one of the most popular poets of his time. His themes included observations on life's hardships, the ways the human condition is reflected in nature, his tramping adventures and the characters he met. His work has been classed as Georgian, though it is not typical of that class of work in theme or style.
03/07/1870
R. B. Bennett, Canadian lawyer and politician, 11th Prime Minister of Canada (died 1947)
Richard Bedford Bennett, 1st Viscount Bennett was a Canadian lawyer, businessman, philanthropist, and politician who served as the 11th prime minister of Canada from 1930 to 1935.
03/07/1869
Svend Kornbeck, Danish actor (died 1933)
Svend Kornbeck was a Danish stage and film actor.
03/07/1866
Albert Gottschalk, Danish painter (died 1906)
Albert Gottschalk was a Danish painter. He had a close connection, personally and artistically, to the poets Johannes Jørgensen, Viggo Stuckenberg and Sophus Claussen.
03/07/1860
Charlotte Perkins Gilman, American sociologist and author (died 1935)
Charlotte Anna Perkins Gilman, also known by her first married name Charlotte Perkins Stetson, was an American humanist, novelist, writer, lecturer, early sociologist, and advocate for social reform. She was an early and leading figure in the women's rights movement in the United States. Her works were primarily focused on gender, specifically gendered labor division in society, and the problem of male domination. Gilman is best known for the semi-autobiographical short story The Yellow Wallpaper (1892), based on her experience with postpartum depression, her manifesto calling for women's economic independence, Women and Economics (1898), and the utopian feminist novel, Herland (1915). She has been inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame.
03/07/1854
Leoš Janáček, Czech composer and theorist (died 1928)
Leoš Janáček was a Czech composer, music theorist, folklorist, publicist and teacher. He was inspired by Moravian and other Slavic music, including Eastern European folk music, to create an original, modern musical style.
03/07/1851
Charles Bannerman, English-Australian cricketer and umpire (died 1930)
Charles Bannerman was an English-born Australian cricketer. A right-handed batsman, he represented Australia in three Test matches between 1877 and 1879. At the domestic level, he played for the New South Wales cricket team. Later, he became an umpire.
03/07/1846
Achilles Alferaki, Russian composer and politician, Governor of Taganrog (died 1919)
Achilles Nikolayevich Alferaki was a Russian composer and politician of Greek descent. His brother was Sergei Alphéraky. He served as the mayor of Taganrog from 1880 to 1888.
03/07/1844
Dankmar Adler, German-born American architect and engineer (died 1900)
Dankmar Adler was a German-born American architect and civil engineer. He is best known for his fifteen-year partnership with Louis Sullivan, during which they designed influential skyscrapers that boldly addressed their steel skeleton through their exterior design: the Wainwright Building in St. Louis, Missouri (1891), the Chicago Stock Exchange Building (1894), and the Guaranty Building in Buffalo, New York (1896).
03/07/1823
Ahmed Vefik Pasha, Greek-Ottoman statesman, diplomat, playwright, and translator (died 1891)
Ahmed Vefik Pasha was an Ottoman statesman, diplomat, scholar, playwright, and translator during the Tanzimat and First Constitutional Era periods. He was commissioned with top-rank governmental duties, including presiding over the first Ottoman Parliament in 1877. He also served as Prime Minister for two brief periods. He also established the first Ottoman theatre and initiated the first Western style theatre plays in Bursa and translated Molière's major works into Turkish. His portrait was depicted on the Turkish postcard stamp dated 1966.
03/07/1814
Ferdinand Didrichsen, Danish botanist and physicist (died 1887)
Didrik Ferdinand Didrichsen was a Danish botanist and physicist.
03/07/1789
Johann Friedrich Overbeck, German-Italian painter and engraver (died 1869)
Johann Friedrich Overbeck was a German painter and a founder of the Nazarene art movement.
03/07/1778
Carl Ludvig Engel, German architect (died 1840)
Carl Ludvig Engel or Johann Carl Ludwig Engel was a German architect whose most noted work can be found in Helsinki, which he helped rebuild. His works include most of the buildings around the capital's monumental centre, the Senate Square and the buildings surrounding it. The buildings are Helsinki Cathedral, The Senate, the Helsinki City Hall, and the library and the main building of Helsinki University.
03/07/1738
John Singleton Copley, American painter (died 1815)
John Singleton Copley was an American-born painter active in both the Thirteen Colonies and England. He is believed to have been born in Boston, Province of Massachusetts Bay, to Richard and Mary Singleton Copley, both Anglo-Irish. After becoming well-established as a portrait painter of the wealthy in colonial New England, he moved to London in 1774, never returning to America. In London, he met considerable success as a portraitist for the next two decades, and also painted a number of large history paintings, which were innovative in their readiness to depict modern subjects and modern dress. His later years were less successful, and he died heavily in debt. He was father of John Copley, 1st Baron Lyndhurst and half-brother of Henry Pelham, the American painter, engraver, and cartographer.
03/07/1728
Robert Adam, Scottish-English architect, designed Culzean Castle (died 1792)
Robert Adam was a British neoclassical architect, interior designer and furniture designer. He was the son of William Adam (1689–1748), Scotland's foremost architect of the time, and trained under him. With his older brother John, Robert took on the family business, which included lucrative work for the Board of Ordnance, after William's death.
03/07/1685
Sir Robert Rich, 4th Baronet, English field marshal and politician (died 1768)
Field Marshal Sir Robert Rich, 4th Baronet was a British Army officer and politician. As a junior officer he fought at the Battle of Schellenberg and at the Battle of Blenheim during the War of the Spanish Succession. He was then asked to raise a regiment to combat the threat from the Jacobite rising of 1715. He also served with the Pragmatic Army under the Earl of Stair at the Battle of Dettingen during the War of the Austrian Succession. As a Member of Parliament he represented three different constituencies but never attained political office.
03/07/1683
Edward Young, English poet, dramatist and literary critic (Night-Thoughts) (died 1765)
Edward Young was an English poet, best remembered for Night-Thoughts, a series of philosophical writings in blank verse, reflecting his state of mind following several bereavements. It was one of the most popular poems of the century, influencing Goethe and Edmund Burke, among many others, and at the end of the century was illustrated by William Blake.
03/07/1569
Thomas Richardson, English politician and judge (died 1635)
Sir Thomas Richardson of Honingham in Norfolk, was an English judge and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1621 to 1622. He was Speaker of the House of Commons for this parliament. He was later Chief Justice of the Common Pleas and Chief Justice of the King's Bench.
03/07/1550
Jacobus Gallus, Slovenian composer (died 1591)
Jacobus Gallus was a late-Renaissance composer of presumed Slovene ethnicity. Born in Carniola, which at the time was one of the Habsburg lands in the Holy Roman Empire, he lived and worked in Moravia and Bohemia during the last decade of his life.
03/07/1534
Myeongjong of Joseon, Ruler of Korea (died 1567)
Myeongjong, personal name Yi Hwan, was the 13th monarch of the Joseon dynasty of Korea. He was the second son of King Jungjong, born to Queen Munjeong.
03/07/1530
Claude Fauchet, French historian and author (died 1601)
Claude Fauchet was a sixteenth-century French historian, antiquary, and pioneering romance philologist. Fauchet published the earliest printed work of literary history in a vernacular language in Europe, the Recueil de l'origine de la langue et poësie françoise (1581). He was a high-ranking official in the governments of Charles IX, Henri III, and Henri IV, serving as the president of the Cour des monnaies.
03/07/1518
Li Shizhen, Chinese physician and mineralogist (died 1593)
Li Shizhen, courtesy name Dongbi, was a Chinese acupuncturist, herbalist, naturalist, pharmacologist, physician, and writer of the Ming dynasty. He is the author of a 27-year work, the Compendium of Materia Medica. He developed several methods for classifying herb components and medications for treating diseases.
03/07/1442
Emperor Go-Tsuchimikado of Japan (died 1500)
Emperor Go-Tsuchimikado was the 103rd emperor of Japan, according to the traditional order of succession. His reign spanned the years from 1464 through 1500.
03/07/1423
Louis XI, King of France (died 1483)
Louis XI, called "Louis the Prudent", was King of France from 1461 to 1483. He succeeded his father, Charles VII. Louis entered into open rebellion against his father in a short-lived revolt known as the Praguerie in 1440. The king forgave his rebellious vassals, including Louis, to whom he entrusted the management of the Dauphiné, then a province in southeastern France. Louis's ceaseless intrigues, however, led his father to banish him from court. From the Dauphiné, Louis led his own political establishment and married Charlotte of Savoy, daughter of Louis, Duke of Savoy, against the will of his father. Charles VII sent an army to compel his son to his will, but Louis fled to Burgundy, where he was hosted by Philip the Good, the Duke of Burgundy, Charles's greatest enemy.
03/07/0321
Valentinian I, Roman emperor (died 375)
Valentinian I, sometimes known as Valentinian the Great, was Roman emperor from 364 to 375. He is the second-last emperor to govern the empire as a whole, albeit he only did so from February 26th to March 28th of 364, after which he appointed Valens to rule over the Eastern half the empire, while he remained in control of the West. During his reign, he fought successfully against the Alamanni, Quadi, and Sarmatians, strengthening the border fortifications and conducting campaigns across the Rhine and Danube. Also, his general Theodosius the Elder defeated a revolt in Africa and the Great Conspiracy. Valentinian founded the Valentinian dynasty, with his sons Gratian and Valentinian II succeeding him in the western half of the empire and his daughter Galla marrying emperor Theodosius I.