Born on Wednesday, 30th July – Famous Birthdays

30/07/1999

Joey King, American actress

Joey Lynn King is an American actress. She starred as Ramona Quimby in the comedy film Ramona and Beezus (2010) and gained wider recognition for her lead role as a late-blooming teenager in the Kissing Booth film series (2018–2021). King received critical acclaim for playing Gypsy-Rose Blanchard in the crime drama series The Act (2019), for which she was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award and a Golden Globe Award.

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30/07/1996

Nina Stojanović, Serbian tennis player

Nina Stojanović is a Serbian professional tennis player. On 2 March 2020, Stojanović reached a career-high singles ranking of world No. 81. On 17 January 2022, she peaked at No. 37 in the WTA doubles rankings.

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Dylan Larkin, American hockey player

Dylan Larkin is an American professional ice hockey player who is a center and captain for the Detroit Red Wings of the National Hockey League (NHL). Larkin was drafted 15th overall by the Red Wings in the 2014 NHL entry draft.

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30/07/1995

Hirving Lozano, Mexican footballer

Hirving Rodrigo Lozano Bahena, also known by his nickname Chucky, is a Mexican professional footballer who plays as a winger for Major League Soccer club San Diego FC and the Mexico national team.

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30/07/1994

Nelydia Senrose, Malaysian actress

Datin Hajah Nik Zaris Nelydia Binti Nik Sen, better known by her stage name Nelydia Senrose, is a Malaysian actress. She debuted in 2007 and actively appeared in a few television dramas and popular in the drama Setia Hujung Nyawa as Ersalina, Bukan Kerana Aku Tak Cinta as Hannah Mastura dan Lafazkan Kalimah Cintamu as Tengku Aqilah.

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30/07/1993

Jacob Faria, American baseball player

Jacob Daniel Faria is an American professional baseball pitcher who is a free agent. He has previously played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Tampa Bay Rays, Milwaukee Brewers, Arizona Diamondbacks, and Boston Red Sox.

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André Gomes, Portuguese footballer

André Filipe Tavares Gomes is a Portuguese professional footballer who plays as a central midfielder for Major League Soccer club Columbus Crew.

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Margarida Moura, Portuguese tennis player

Margarida Moura is a former Portuguese tennis player.

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Miho Miyazaki, Japanese singer

Miho Miyazaki is a Japanese singer, actress and former member of the idol girl group AKB48 where she was active in Team A. She also participated in the Korean-Japanese show Produce 48.

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30/07/1992

Hannah Cockroft, English wheelchair racer

Hannah Lucy Cockroft is a British wheelchair racer, specialising in sprint distances in the T34 classification, and a TV presenter.

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30/07/1991

Diana Vickers, English singer-songwriter

Diana Vickers is an English singer, songwriter and actress. She was a semi-finalist on The X Factor in 2008, finishing in fourth place. Vickers signed a record deal with RCA Records and, after touring with her fellow contestants from The X Factor, played the title role in a West End revival of The Rise and Fall of Little Voice.

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30/07/1990

Chris Maxwell, Welsh footballer

Christopher Ethan Maxwell is a Welsh former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper.

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Tom Morris, Australian journalist

Tom Morris is an Australian sports journalist who specialises in Australian rules football and cricket. He is the chief football reporter at the seven Network and also appears on Sunday Footy Feast and Agenda Setters.

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30/07/1989

Aleix Espargaró, Spanish motorcycle racer

Aleix Espargaró Villà is a Former Spanish Grand Prix motorcycle racer. He was the Spanish 2004 FIM CEV 125cc International Champion and has competed since 2017 in the MotoGP class using Aprilia machines. He retired from Grand Prix racing at the end of the 2024 season and signed as a test rider for Honda Racing Corporation. He decided to become a cyclist with the United States team, Lidl-Trek, making his debut in the world of cycling at the 2025 Tour of Austria.

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Wayne Parnell, South African cricketer

Wayne Dillon Parnell is a South African professional cricketer who has played Test, One Day International and Twenty20 International cricket for the South Africa national cricket team. At domestic level he played for Cape Cobras, Warriors and Eastern Province in South Africa and for a range of teams in competitions around the world.

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30/07/1988

Wen Chean Lim, Malaysian rhythmic gymnast

Chrystal Lim Wen Chean is a Malaysian rhythmic gymnast.

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30/07/1987

Anton Fink, German footballer

Anton Fink is a German professional footballer who plays as a striker for Oberliga Baden-Württemberg club FC Nöttingen. He has scored the most 3. liga goals of all time (136).

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Sam Saunders, American golfer

Samuel Palmer Saunders is an American professional golfer and the grandson of Arnold Palmer.

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30/07/1986

Tiago Alencar, Brazilian footballer

Tiago Alencar dos Santos known as Tiago or Tiago Alencar is a Brazilian footballer who plays for Ipatinga on loan from Corinthians Paranaense.

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William Zillman, Australian rugby league player

William Gary "Zilly" Zillman is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer who played in the 2000s and 2010s, he played in the National Rugby League. His usual position is at fullback but can also play five-eighth. Zillman has previously played for the Canberra Raiders and Gold Coast Titans.

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30/07/1985

Chris Guccione, Australian tennis player

Christopher Luke Guccione is an inactive Australian professional tennis player from Greenvale, Victoria. He has won five ATP Tour doubles titles, and reached career-high rankings of singles world No. 67 in April 2008 and doubles world No. 38 in November 2014.

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Daniel Fredheim Holm, Norwegian footballer

Daniel Fredheim Holm is a Norwegian footballer who plays as a midfielder and works as an assistant coach for KFUM in the OBOS-ligaen. He is the half-brother of former Vålerenga colleague Thomas Holm, and the son of former footballer Paal Fredheim.

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Luca Lanotte, Italian ice dancer

Luca Lanotte is an Italian former ice dancer. With partner Anna Cappellini, he is the 2014 World champion, the 2014 European champion, the 2015 Cup of China champion and a thirteen-time medalist on the Grand Prix series, and a seven-time Italian national champion (2012–18).

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Matthew Scott, Australian rugby league player

Matthew Scott, also known by the nickname of "Thumper", is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer who played as a prop for the North Queensland Cowboys in the NRL and Australia at international level.

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30/07/1984

Marko Asmer, Estonian race car driver

Marko Asmer is an Estonian former racing driver, who won the British Formula 3 Championship title in 2007. Asmer is also the first Estonian to test a Formula One car, having tested for the Williams BMW team in 2003, after just half a season of car racing in British Formula Ford. Asmer's father is a former racing driver Toivo Asmer, who was Estonian Minister of Regional Affairs between 1999 and 2003.

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Gabrielle Christian, American actress and singer

Gabrielle Christian is an American actress and singer best known for her portrayal of Spencer Carlin in The N original series South of Nowhere, and her portrayal of Colby Robson in the web series Girltrash! and the film Girltrash: All Night Long. In addition, she has also guest starred on Drake & Josh, Windfall, Without a Trace and What Should You Do? along with several minor roles in a variety of other shows.

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Ása Berglind Hjálmarsdóttir, Icelandic politician

Ása Berglind Hjálmarsdóttir is an Icelandic politician and member of the Althing. A member of the Social Democratic Alliance, she has represented the South constituency since November 2024.

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Trudy McIntosh, Australian artistic gymnast

Trudy McIntosh is an Australian artistic gymnast.

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Kevin Pittsnogle, American basketball player

Kevin Lee Pittsnogle Jr. is an American former professional basketball player. He played for the Pittsburgh Xplosion of the CBA and the Austin Toros and the Albuquerque Thunderbirds of the NBA D-League. He is best known for his collegiate play at West Virginia University.

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Gina Rodriguez, American actress

Gina Alexis Rodriguez is an American actress. She is known for her leading role as Jane Villanueva in The CW satirical romantic dramedy series Jane the Virgin (2014–2019), for which she received a Golden Globe Award in 2015.

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30/07/1983

Seán Dillon, Irish footballer

Seán Dillon is an Irish professional footballer who plays as a defender for Scottish League One club Montrose, where he is a player-coach. He previously played for Dundee United and Irish teams Longford Town and Shelbourne in the League of Ireland prior to joining Dundee United in January 2007 then Montrose in June 2017. He has represented the Republic of Ireland at under-16, under-21 and B international level.

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30/07/1982

Jehad Al-Hussain, Syrian footballer

Jehad Fadhil Al Hussain is a former Syrian footballer who played as a midfielder. He is now the head coach of the Syria U23 national team.

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James Anderson, English cricketer

Sir James Michael "Jimmy" Anderson is an English cricketer who played for England from 2002 to 2024. He was serving as the fast-bowling mentor of the England cricket team and continues to play for Lancashire. Widely regarded as one of the greatest bowlers in the history of the sport, he holds the record for the most wickets taken by a fast bowler in Test cricket (704) and third most wickets in international cricket (991).

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Martin Starr, American actor and comedian

Martin James Pflieger Schienle, known professionally as Martin Starr, is an American actor. He is known for the television roles of Bill Haverchuck on the comedy drama Freaks and Geeks (1999–2000), Roman DeBeers on the comedy series Party Down, Bertram Gilfoyle on the HBO series Silicon Valley (2014–2019), for his film roles in Knocked Up (2007) and Adventureland (2009), and as Roger Harrington in the Marvel Cinematic Universe films The Incredible Hulk (2008), Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017), Spider-Man: Far From Home (2019), and Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021).

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Yvonne Strahovski, Australian actress

Yvonne Jaqueline Strzechowski, known professionally as Yvonne Strahovski, is an Australian actress. She is known for her roles as Sarah Walker in the spy comedy drama series Chuck (2007–2012), Hannah McKay in the drama series Dexter (2012–2013) and Kate Morgan in the event series 24: Live Another Day (2014). Strahovski starred as Serena Joy Waterford in the drama series The Handmaid's Tale (2017–2025), for which she has received nominations for two Primetime Emmy Awards, three Screen Actors Guild Awards and a Golden Globe Award.

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30/07/1981

Nicky Hayden, American motorcycle racer (died 2017)

Nicholas Patrick Hayden, nicknamed "The Kentucky Kid", was an American professional motorcycle racer who won the MotoGP World Championship in 2006. Hayden began racing motorcycles at a young age. He began his road racing career in the CMRA before progressing to the AMA Supersport Championship and then to the AMA Superbike Championship. He won the AMA title in 2002 and was approached by the Repsol Honda team to race for them in MotoGP in 2003.

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Juan Smith, South African rugby union footballer

Juanne Hugo Smith is a South African former professional rugby union player who represented South Africa in international test rugby, the Cheetahs in the Super Rugby competition, and the Free State Cheetahs in the Currie Cup. He mainly played as a blindside flanker, although he has also played number eight.

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Hope Solo, American soccer player

Hope Amelia Stevens is an American former soccer goalkeeper. She was a goalkeeper for the United States women's national soccer team from 2000 to 2016, and is a World Cup champion and two-time Olympic gold medalist. After playing at the collegiate level for the University of Washington, she played professionally for the Philadelphia Charge in the Women's United Soccer Association (WUSA). When the WUSA folded after her first season, she traveled to Europe to play for the top division leagues in Sweden and France. From 2009 to 2011, she played in the Women's Professional Soccer (WPS) for Saint Louis Athletica, Atlanta Beat and magicJack. After the WPS ceased operations in early 2012, she played for the Seattle Sounders in the W-League. She most recently played for Seattle Reign FC in the National Women's Soccer League, the top division of women's soccer in the United States.

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Indrek Turi, Estonian decathlete

Indrek Turi is a retired Estonian decathlete. His coach is Andrei Nazarov.

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30/07/1980

Seth Avett, American folk-rock singer-songwriter and musician

Timothy Seth Avett is an American musician and one of the lead singers and founding members of the American folk-rock band The Avett Brothers. Avett sings and plays guitar, drums, bass, and piano for the band based out of Concord, North Carolina. In 2008, their album, The Second Gleam, reached the number ten spot on Billboard.com's Top Independent Albums chart, and stayed there for three weeks.

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Justin Rose, South African-English golfer

Justin Peter Rose is an English professional golfer who plays on the PGA Tour and the European Tour. He is a former world number one in the Official World Golf Ranking. He has won one major championship, the 2013 U.S. Open.

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30/07/1979

Carlos Arroyo, Puerto Rican basketball player and singer

Carlos Alberto Arroyo Bermúdez is a Puerto Rican former professional basketball player. He played in the National Basketball Association with the Toronto Raptors, Denver Nuggets, Utah Jazz, Detroit Pistons, Orlando Magic, Miami Heat, and Boston Celtics.

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Chad Keegan, South African cricketer and coach

Chad Blake Keegan is a South African former cricketer who played County Cricket for Middlesex and Sussex.

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Graeme McDowell, Northern Irish golfer

Graeme McDowell is a professional golfer from Northern Ireland. He has eleven tournament victories on the European Tour, and four on the PGA Tour, including one major championship, the 2010 U.S. Open at Pebble Beach. In 2022, he joined LIV Golf. McDowell has also represented Ireland at the World Cup and he has been a member of the European Ryder Cup team on four occasions. He has appeared in the top-10 in the Official World Golf Ranking, with a highest ranking position of 4th.

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Maya Nasser, Syrian journalist (died 2012)

Maya Nasser was a Syrian journalist and reporter who worked for Press TV, an Iranian English-language broadcasting service. Nasser reported from Syria during the Syrian Civil War. His reports from Aleppo are the most notable. Nasser also reported from the United States, Lebanon, Jordan, Egypt, and Bahrain.

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30/07/1977

Diana Bolocco, Chilean model and journalist;

Diana Catalina Bolocco Fonck is a Chilean journalist, known as sister of Cecilia Bolocco, Miss Universe 1987.

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Misty May-Treanor, American volleyball player and coach

Misty Elizabeth May-Treanor is an American retired professional beach volleyball player. She is a three-time Olympic gold medalist, and the second most successful female beach volleyball player as of January 2026, having won 112 tournaments in domestic and international competition.

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Jaime Pressly, American actress

Jaime Elizabeth Pressly is an American actress and model. Known for her role as Joy Turner on the NBC sitcom My Name Is Earl (2005–2009), she won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series and garnered nominations for a Golden Globe Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award. She has appeared in such films as Can't Hardly Wait (1998), Inferno (1999), Not Another Teen Movie (2001), The Karate Dog (2004), and I Love You, Man (2009). For her portrayal of Jill Kendall on the CBS sitcom Mom (2014–2021), she was nominated for the Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series.

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Bootsy Thornton, American basketball player

Marvis Linwood "Bootsy" Thornton III is an American former professional basketball player.

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Ian Watkins, Welsh former Lostprophets singer-songwriter and convicted child sex offender (died 2025)

Ian David Karslake Watkins was a Welsh singer, songwriter, and convicted child sex offender. He was the lead singer and frontman of the rock band Lostprophets from 1997 to 2012. Watkins founded Lostprophets with Lee Gaze in 1997, having previously been in a band called Fleshbind with him. Lostprophets released five studio albums, four of which made the top 10 of the UK Albums Chart, including Liberation Transmission which went to number 1 in 2006.

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30/07/1975

Graham Nicholls, English author and activist

Graham Nicholls is a British author, installation artist and specialist on out of body experiences. He speaks widely on parapsychology, ethics and art at institutions ranging from the London Science Museum, The Society for Psychical Research to the Cambridge Union Society.

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Kate Starbird, American basketball player and computer scientist

Catherine Evelyn Starbird is an American computer scientist and former women's professional basketball player.

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30/07/1974

Radostin Kishishev, Bulgarian footballer and manager

Radostin Prodanov Kishishev is a Bulgarian former professional footballer who works as director of youth/U19 coach of Chernomorets 1919.

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Jason Robinson, English rugby league footballer, and rugby union footballer and coach

Jason Thorpe Robinson is an English former rugby league and rugby union player who played in the 1990s and 2000s. A dual-code international, he represented Great Britain and England in rugby league, and England and the British & Irish Lions in rugby union.

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Hilary Swank, American actress and producer

Hilary Ann Swank is an American actress and film producer. She first became known in 1992 for her role on the television series Camp Wilder and made her film debut with a minor role in Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1992). Swank came to international recognition for her performances as Brandon Teena in Kimberly Peirce's Boys Don't Cry (1999) and as Maggie Fitzgerald in Clint Eastwood's Million Dollar Baby (2004). Both performances earned her widespread critical acclaim and numerous accolades, including two Academy Awards for Best Actress and two Golden Globe Awards for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama. She was named by Time as one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2005.

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30/07/1973

Kenton Cool, English mountaineer

Kenton Edward Cool is an English climber and mountain guide. He is one of Britain's leading alpine and high altitude climbers. He has reached the summit of Mount Everest 19 times—the most of any non-Nepali. His ascents of Everest include leading Ranulph Fiennes' 2008 and 2009 Expeditions.

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Ümit Davala, Turkish footballer and manager

Ümit Aydın Davala is a Turkish football coach and former player. During his stint at Galatasaray, he won four Süper Lig, three Turkish Cup, one UEFA Cup and one UEFA Super Cup title between 1996 and 2001. He won the 2003–04 Bundesliga with Werder Bremen. Davala represented Turkey with 41 caps in international competitions, scoring 4 goals. He was part of the Turkey squad which earned a bronze medal at 2002 FIFA World Cup.

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Anastasios Katsabis, Greek footballer

Anastasios "Tasos" Katsabis is a former Greek football player, who last played for Iraklis in Super League Greece as a centre back. Katsabis started his career as a midfielder but when he was played at PAOK, Angelos Anastasiadis tried him as a centre back because of his height. It was by playing his new position that he gained his first call-up to Greece.

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Markus Näslund, Swedish ice hockey player and manager

Markus Sten Näslund is a Swedish former professional ice hockey player and former general manager for Modo Hockey of the Swedish Hockey League. He played in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the Pittsburgh Penguins, Vancouver Canucks, and New York Rangers, as well as in the Elitserien with Modo Hockey from 1990 to 2010. Nicknamed "Nazzy" by Canucks fans and "Macke" or "Mackan" in his native Sweden, he was known for his offensive skills, particularly his wrist shot and stickhandling.

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Sonu Nigam, Indian playback singer and actor

Sonu Nigam is an Indian playback singer, music director, dubbing artist and actor. He is considered as one of the most versatile and most popular singers in India, boasting a very wide vocal range. His performances include a wide range of genres, like classical music, devotional music, ghazals, qawwali, rock and pop music, among others. Nigam is considered as one of the greatest and most successful singers of all time in the history of Indian music industry.

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Clementa C. Pinckney, American minister and politician (died 2015)

Clementa "Clem" Carlos Pinckney was an American politician and pastor who served as a Democratic member of the South Carolina Senate, representing the 45th District from 2000 until his assassination in 2015. He was previously a member of the South Carolina House of Representatives from 1997 through 2000.

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30/07/1972

Jim McIlvaine, American basketball player and sportscaster

James Michael McIlvaine is an American former professional basketball player who spent seven seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA) with the Washington Bullets, Seattle SuperSonics, and New Jersey Nets. The 7-foot-1 shot-blocking specialist is perhaps best remembered for the fall-out that occurred after he signed with the Seattle SuperSonics in 1996.

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30/07/1971

Elvis Crespo, American-Puerto Rican singer

Elvis Crespo Díaz is an American merengue singer. He has won multiple awards, including a Grammy and a Latin Grammy Award in merengue music.

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Tom Green, Canadian comedian and actor

Michael Thomas Green is a Canadian-American comedian, television personality, actor, podcaster, singer, songwriter, and rapper. After pursuing stand-up comedy and music as a young adult, Green created and hosted The Tom Green Show, which aired on Rogers TV and later on MTV from 1994 to 2000. The show became popular for its shock comedy, its absurd pranks, and Green's manic persona, and influenced later series such as Jackass, Punk'd and The Eric Andre Show. Green has appeared in the Hollywood films Road Trip (2000), Charlie's Angels (2000), Stealing Harvard (2002), and Shred (2008). Green directed, co-wrote, and starred in the cult film Freddy Got Fingered (2001). He was briefly married to actress Drew Barrymore (2001–2002), who co-starred with him in Charlie's Angels and Freddy Got Fingered.

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Christine Taylor, American actress

Christine Joan Taylor is an American actress. She has played Marcia Brady in The Brady Bunch Movie (1995) and A Very Brady Sequel (1996), and appeared in The Craft (1996), The Wedding Singer (1998), Zoolander (2001), and Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story (2004). In television, she has appeared in roles in Hey Dude, Arrested Development, and Search Party.

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30/07/1970

Alun Cairns, Welsh businessman and politician

Alun Hugh Cairns is a Welsh Conservative politician who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for the Vale of Glamorgan from 2010 to 2024. He served as Secretary of State for Wales from 2016 to 2019.

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Dean Edwards, American comedian, actor, and singer

Dean Edwards is an American stand-up comedian, actor, writer, and singer. His work as a voice actor includes Scottie Pippen and Spike Lee in Celebrity Deathmatch, a robot in Robotomy and Donkey in Scared Shrekless after Eddie Murphy was unable to reprise the role, along with a couple of other projects. He also appeared in Saturday Night Live Weekend Update Halftime Special as Savion Glover and Don Cheadle, in Tony n' Tina's Wedding as Father Mark, and The Sopranos.

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Christopher Nolan, English-American director, producer, and screenwriter

Sir Christopher Edward Nolan is a British and American filmmaker. A significant auteur of his generation, he has been a major figure in the 21st century Hollywood. Nolan's films have earned over $6 billion worldwide, making him the seventh-highest-grossing film director. His accolades include two Academy Awards, a Golden Globe Award and two British Academy Film Awards. Nolan was appointed as a CBE in 2019 and was knighted in 2024 for his contributions to film.

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30/07/1969

Simon Baker, Australian actor, director, and producer

Simon Lucas Baker is an Australian actor and director. He first gained prominence on the Australian soap opera E Street (1992–1993). He later starred in the CBS legal drama The Guardian (2001–2004), for which he received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actor in a Television Series – Drama in 2002. From 2008 to 2015, he portrayed Patrick Jane in the drama series The Mentalist, earning a Primetime Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series in 2009. Baker has also appeared in several films, including L.A. Confidential (1997), Restaurant (1998), The Devil Wears Prada (2006), and Margin Call (2011).

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Errol Stewart, South African cricketer and lawyer

Errol Leslie Rae Stewart is a former South African cricketer and rugby union player. He attended Westville Boys' High School in Westville, KwaZulu-Natal where he was selected for the SA schools cricket and rugby sides in 1987. He also was selected for Natal schools for Hockey and athletics. He studied law at the University of Natal and played as a wicket-keeper for the University of Natal and for the Natal Dolphins, captaining them in his final season in 2004.

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30/07/1968

Terry Crews, American actor and football player

Terry Alan Crews is an American actor, television host, and former professional football player. He played Julius Rock in the UPN/CW sitcom Everybody Hates Chris, which aired from 2005 to 2009, and portrayed Terry Jeffords in the Fox and NBC sitcom Brooklyn Nine-Nine (2013–2021). Crews starred in the BET reality series The Family Crews (2010–2011) and hosted the American version of the game show Who Wants to Be a Millionaire from 2014 to 2015. He has appeared in films, including Friday After Next (2002), White Chicks (2004), Idiocracy (2006), Blended (2014), The Expendables film series (2010–2014), and Rumble (2021). Crews began hosting America's Got Talent in 2019, following his involvement in the same role for the program's spin-off series America's Got Talent: The Champions.

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Robert Korzeniowski, Polish race walker and coach

Robert Marek Korzeniowski is a Polish former racewalker who won four gold medals at the Olympic Games and three gold medals at World Championships.

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Sean Moore, Welsh drummer and songwriter

Sean Anthony Moore is a Welsh musician and songwriter. He is best known for being the drummer and occasional trumpet-player of the Welsh alternative rock band Manic Street Preachers. He is cousin to bandmate James Dean Bradfield.

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30/07/1966

Kerry Fox, New Zealand actress and screenwriter

Kerry Lauren Fox is a New Zealand actress. She came to prominence playing author Janet Frame in the movie An Angel at My Table directed by Jane Campion, which gained her a Best Actress Award from the New Zealand Film and Television Awards.

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Craig Gannon, English guitarist and songwriter

Craig Gannon is an English guitarist, best known as the second guitarist in the Smiths (1986). He is now a composer for film and television.

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Allan Langer, Australian rugby league player and coach

Allan Jeffrey "Alfie" Langer AM is an Australian former rugby league footballer who played in the 1980s, 1990s and 2000s and worked as an assistant coach for the Australian national team, the Queensland Maroons and the Brisbane Broncos.

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Sean Patrick Maloney, American politician

Sean Patrick Maloney is an American attorney and politician who served as the U.S. ambassador to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development from 2024 to 2025. He previously served five terms as the U.S. representative from New York's 18th congressional district from 2013 to 2023.

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Louise Wener, English author and singer-songwriter

Louise Jane Wener is an English writer, singer, songwriter and guitarist of the band Sleeper.

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30/07/1965

Tim Munton, English cricketer

Timothy Alan Munton is an English cricketer. He had a long career in county cricket, playing over 500 games combined between first-class and List A, primarily with Warwickshire before ending his career at Derbyshire. He also played two Test matches for England in the 1992 series against Pakistan, and went on a number of England A tours. A medium pace bowler and lower order batsman, cricket writer Colin Bateman stated, "at 6ft 6in, with an ability to make the ball swing, Munton is at his best in English conditions". His time at Warwickshire was a particularly successful one for the club, winning 6 trophies between 1993 and 1995; as a crucial part of that side, Munton was honoured as one of the five Wisden Cricketers of the Year in 1995.

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30/07/1964

Ron Block, American singer-songwriter and banjo player

Ronald Franklin Block is an American banjo player, guitarist, and singer-songwriter, best known as a member of the bluegrass band Alison Krauss & Union Station. He has won 14 Grammy Awards, 6 International Bluegrass Music Awards, a Country Music Association Award, and a Gospel Music Association Dove Award.

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Vivica A. Fox, American actress

Vivica Anjanetta Fox is an American actress and producer. She began her career on Soul Train (1982–1983) and played roles on the daytime television soap operas Days of Our Lives (1988) and Generations (1989–1991). In prime time, she starred opposite Patti LaBelle in the NBC sitcom Out All Night (1992–1993). Fox's breakthrough came in 1996, with roles in two box-office hit films, Roland Emmerich's Independence Day and F. Gary Gray's Set It Off.

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Alek Keshishian, Lebanese-American director, producer, and screenwriter

Alek Keshishian is an Armenian-American film and commercial director, writer, producer and music video director. His 1991 documentary, Madonna: Truth or Dare was the highest-grossing documentary of all time until 2002; it "changed the way filmmakers explored the world of celebrity" and had a "profound impact on LGBTQ representation in film".

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Jürgen Klinsmann, German footballer and manager

Jürgen Klinsmann is a German professional football manager and former player. He played for several prominent clubs in Europe including VfB Stuttgart, Inter Milan, Monaco, Tottenham Hotspur, and Bayern Munich. He was part of the West German team that won the 1990 FIFA World Cup and the unified German team that won the UEFA Euro 1996.

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Laine Randjärv, Estonian lawyer and politician, 6th Estonian Minister of Culture

Laine Randjärv is an Estonian politician from the Reform Party. She was the mayor of Tartu from 23 September 2004 to 2007, and previously she was deputy mayor from 2002 to 2004. From 2007 to 2011, she served as the Minister of Culture in Andrus Ansip's second government.

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30/07/1963

Peter Bowler, English-Australian cricketer

Peter Duncan Bowler is a former English-born Australian cricketer who played for Leicestershire in 1986, Tasmania in 1986/87, Derbyshire from 1988 to 1994 and for Somerset from 1995 to 2004.

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Lisa Kudrow, American actress and producer

Lisa Valerie Kudrow is an American actress and writer. She rose to international fame for her role as Phoebe Buffay in the American television sitcom Friends, which aired from 1994 to 2004. The series earned her Primetime Emmy, Screen Actors Guild, Satellite, American Comedy and TV Guide awards. Phoebe has since been named one of the greatest television characters of all time and is considered to be Kudrow's breakout role, spawning her successful film career.

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Antoni Martí, Andorran architect and politician

Antoni Martí Petit was an Andorran architect and politician who served as the prime minister of Andorra between 2011 and 2019, when he was elected on the ticket of the Democrats for Andorra.

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Chris Mullin, American basketball player, coach, and executive

Christopher Paul Mullin is an American former professional basketball player, executive and coach. He is a five time NBA All-Star and four time All-NBA Team member. He is also two-time Olympic Gold medalist and a two-time Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame inductee.

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30/07/1962

Alton Brown, American chef, author, and producer

Alton Crawford Brown Jr. is an American television personality, food show presenter, author, voice actor, and cinematographer. He is the creator and host of the Food Network television show Good Eats that ran for 16 seasons, host of the miniseries Feasting on Asphalt and Feasting on Waves, and host and main commentator on Iron Chef America and Cutthroat Kitchen. Brown is a best-selling author of several books on food and cooking. A recap series titled Good Eats Reloaded aired on Cooking Channel, and a true sequel series, Good Eats: The Return, ran from 2019 to 2021 on Food Network.

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Jay Feaster, American ice hockey player and manager

Jay Harry Feaster is a National Hockey League (NHL) executive currently serving as the Executive Director of Community Hockey Development for the Tampa Bay Lightning. He is the former general manager of the Calgary Flames, having served from May 16, 2011 to December 12, 2013, after serving as acting general manager since December 28, 2010, following Darryl Sutter's resignation. He was the general manager of the Tampa Bay Lightning for six years, during which he was named the NHL's executive of the year by The Sporting News in 2004 after guiding the Lightning to their first Stanley Cup championship.

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Yakub Memon, Indian accountant and terrorist (died 2015)

Yakub Abdul Razzaq Memon was an Indian gangster apprehended over his financial involvements in the 1993 Bombay bombings, and the brother of one of the prime suspects in the bombings, Tiger Memon. After his appeals and petitions for clemency were all rejected, he was executed at Nagpur Central Jail on 30 July 2015. Memon financially assisted his brother Tiger Memon and Dawood Ibrahim in planning and executing the bombings. Memon handled Tiger's funds, funded the training of 15 youths who were sent to a secret location to learn handling arms and ammunition, purchased the vehicles used in the bombings, and stockpiled weapons.

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30/07/1961

Laurence Fishburne, American actor and producer

Laurence John Fishburne III is an American actor. Throughout his career, he has gained recognition for his roles on stage and screen as militant and authoritative characters. Fishburne first came to prominence appearing in Apocalypse Now (1979) and achieved further recognition for his supporting role in Boyz n the Hood (1991). Later, he became known for portraying Morpheus in The Matrix trilogy (1999–2003) and the Bowery King in the John Wick film series (2017–).

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30/07/1960

Jennifer Barnes, American-English musicologist and academic

Jennifer Chase Barnes is a musicologist and former university administrator. She was a Pro-Vice-Chancellor and Deputy Vice-Chancellor in the University of Cambridge, and the 4th President of Murray Edwards College, Cambridge in the United Kingdom.

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Richard Linklater, American director and screenwriter

Richard Linklater is an American filmmaker. He is known for making films which deal thematically with suburban culture and the effects of the passage of time. His accolades include a Golden Globe Award, a Silver Bear, a César Award, and five Academy Award nominations.

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Brillante Mendoza, Filipino independent film director

Brillante Mendoza, also known as Dante Mendoza, is a Filipino independent filmmaker. Mendoza is known one of the key members associated with the Philippine New Wave.

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30/07/1958

Kate Bush, English singer-songwriter and producer

Catherine Bush is an English singer, songwriter, musician, dancer and record producer. She is noted for her eclectic musical style and unconventional lyrics, as well as her innovative dance performances. Her sound and choreography have influenced a range of artists.

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Liz Kershaw, English radio broadcaster

Elizabeth Marguerita Mary Kershaw is an English radio broadcaster. She is one of the longest serving female national radio DJs in the UK, celebrating 30 years on national BBC Radio in 2017.

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Daley Thompson, English decathlete and trainer

Francis Morgan Ayodélé Thompson, is an English former decathlete. He won the decathlon gold medal at the Olympic Games in 1980 and 1984, and broke the world record for the event four times. He was unbeaten in competition for nine years.

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30/07/1957

Antonio Adamo, Italian director and cinematographer

Antonio Adamo is an Italian pornographic film director. He won the 2003 AVN Award for "Best Director, Foreign Release" for the film Gladiator I.

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Bill Cartwright, American basketball player and coach

James William Cartwright is an American former professional basketball player and a former coach. A 7-foot-1-inch (2.16 m) center, he played 16 seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA) for the New York Knicks, Chicago Bulls and Seattle SuperSonics, helping the Bulls capture consecutive championships in the 1991, 1992 and 1993 seasons. He attended Elk Grove High School in Elk Grove, California, and played college basketball for the San Francisco Dons. Following his playing career, he served as the head coach of the Chicago Bulls, the Osaka Evessa of the bj League and the Mexico men's national basketball team as well as an assistant coach for several years in the NBA.

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Clint Hurdle, American baseball player and manager

Clinton Merrick Hurdle is an American former professional baseball outfielder and manager. Hurdle played for the Kansas City Royals, Cincinnati Reds, New York Mets, and St. Louis Cardinals, and previously managed the Rockies and the Pittsburgh Pirates.

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Nery Pumpido, Argentinian footballer, coach, and manager

Nery Alberto Pumpido is an Argentine football coach and former goalkeeper who played for Argentina in two World Cups. After retirement, Pumpido moved into club management. His nephew Facundo Pumpido is also a professional footballer.

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30/07/1956

Delta Burke, American actress

Delta Burke McRaney is an American actress, producer and author. From 1986 to 1991, she starred as Suzanne Sugarbaker in the CBS sitcom Designing Women, for which she received two Emmy Award nominations for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series.

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Réal Cloutier, Canadian ice hockey player

Réal Cloutier is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player. Cloutier spent five prolific seasons as a winger in the World Hockey Association (WHA) with the Quebec Nordiques. In his rookie season as a professional, he scored 26 goals in 63 games. He proceeded to reach his prime over the next couple of seasons, which started with scoring 60 goals in his sophomore season in 1975. The next season saw him score 66 goals with 75 assists to record a career-high 114 total points as the Nordiques advanced all the way to the Avco Cup Finals. In 17 postseason games that year, he scored 14 goals and had 27 total points as Quebec won their only championship. Cloutier recorded two further 100-point seasons prior to the team being absorbed into the National Hockey League (NHL) in 1979; in 369 total games in the WHA, he had 566 total points. He scored 42 goals in 67 games in the first season in the NHL in 1979-80 before injuries hindered him in his next two seasons with the team that saw him score 80 combined goals in his last three seasons with Quebec. He was traded to the Buffalo Sabres in 1983, but troubles with ice time saw him score 24 total goals in 81 games over two years.

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Georg Gänswein, German prelate, Prefect of the Pontifical Household, and former personal secretary to Pope Benedict XVI

Georg Gänswein is a German prelate of the Catholic Church who was named Apostolic Nuncio to Lithuania, Estonia, and Latvia on 24 June 2024. He served as Prefect of the Papal Household from 2012 to 2023 and was the Personal Secretary of Pope Benedict XVI. He was a Professor of Canon Law at the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross for about a decade and has been an archbishop since 2012. He is also an Honorary Canon of Freiburg Cathedral.

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Anita Hill, American lawyer and academic

Anita Faye Hill is an American lawyer, educator and author. She is a professor of social policy, law, and women's studies at Brandeis University and a faculty member of the university's Heller School for Social Policy and Management. She became a national figure in 1991 when she accused U.S. Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas, her supervisor at the United States Department of Education and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, of sexual harassment.

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Soraida Martinez, American painter and educator

Soraida Martinez is an American visual artist of Puerto Rican descent known for her contemporary abstract expressionist paintings and social commentary. She is the creator of the art movement, Verdadism.

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30/07/1955

Rat Scabies, English drummer and producer

Christopher John Millar, known by his stage name Rat Scabies, is a musician and the drummer for English punk rock band the Damned.

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Christopher Warren-Green, English violinist and conductor

Christopher Warren-Green is a British violinist and conductor.

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30/07/1954

Ken Olin, American actor, director, and producer

Kenneth Edward Olin is an American actor, television director, and producer. As an actor, Olin is known for his role as Michael Steadman in the ABC drama series Thirtysomething (1987–1991), for which he received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actor – Television Series Drama in 1990. Olin later began working behind the scenes, as a director and producer. His credits as a producer include Alias (2001–2006), Brothers & Sisters (2006–2011), and This Is Us (2016–2022). Olin is married to actress Patricia Wettig.

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30/07/1952

Stephen Blackmore, English botanist and author

Stephen Blackmore CBE FRSE FRSB FLS is a British botanist, who was educated at St. George's School, Hong Kong and the University of Reading where he completed his PhD in 1976 on the "Palynology and Systematics of the Cichorieae". He was elected a fellow of the Linnean Society of London in 1976. He then worked at the Royal Society of London’s Research Station on Aldabra Atoll in the Indian Ocean before being appointed Lecturer in Biology and Head of the National Herbarium and Botanic Garden at the University of Malawi. In 1980, he was appointed Head of Palynology at Natural History Museum in London and from 1990 to 1999 served there as Keeper of Botany. In 1985 he organized, together with Keith Ferguson, the Linnean Society symposium "Pollen and Spores: Form and Function" and in 1990, together with Susan Barnes, "Pollen and Spores: Patterns of Diversification". He was the 15th Regius Keeper of the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh from 1999 until 20 December 2013, and was appointed His Majesty's Botanist in Scotland in 2010.

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30/07/1951

Alan Kourie, South African cricketer

Alan John Kourie is a former South African first class cricketer, who played for Transvaal, from 1970–71 to 1988–89. Educated at Jeppe Boys High, he played for Transvaal in the Nuffield week, and for South African schools in 1970.

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Gerry Judah, Indian-English painter and sculptor

Gerald David Judah FRSS is a British artist and designer who has created settings for theatre, film, television, museums and public spaces.

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30/07/1950

Harriet Harman, English lawyer and politician

Harriet Ruth Harman, Baroness Harman is a British politician and solicitor who served as Deputy Leader of the Labour Party and Chair of the Labour Party from 2007 to 2015 and Leader of the House of Commons and Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal from 2007 to 2010. She also briefly served as Leader of the Opposition in 2010 and 2015 following the resignations of Gordon Brown and Ed Miliband respectively. She was Member of Parliament (MP) for Camberwell and Peckham from 1982 to 2024, during which time she held various Cabinet and Shadow Cabinet positions, and was appointed to the House of Lords as a life peer in 2024.

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Frank Stallone, American singer-songwriter and actor

Francesco Stallone Jr. is an American actor and musician. He is the younger brother of actor and filmmaker Sylvester Stallone and has written music for Sylvester's movies. His song "Far from Over" appeared in the 1983 film Staying Alive and was included in the film's soundtrack album. The song reached number ten on the US Billboard Hot 100 and received a Golden Globe nomination for Stallone, while the album itself, consisting of Stallone and various other artists, received a Grammy nomination.

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30/07/1949

Duck Baker, American guitarist

Richard Royall "Duck" Baker IV is an American acoustic fingerstyle guitarist who plays in a variety of styles: jazz, blues, gospel, ragtime, folk, and Irish and Scottish music. He has written many instruction books for guitar.

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Sonia Proudman, English lawyer and judge (died 2023)

Dame Sonia Rosemary Susan Proudman, DBE, styled The Hon. Mrs Justice Proudman, was a judge of the High Court of England and Wales.

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30/07/1948

Billy Paultz, American basketball player

William Edward Paultz is an American former professional basketball player who played in the National Basketball Association (NBA) and in the now defunct American Basketball Association (ABA). Nicknamed "the Whopper", He was a 4-time ABA All-Star and led the ABA in blocks in 1976.

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Jean Reno, Spanish-French actor

Juan Moreno y Herrera-Jiménez, commonly known as Jean Reno, is a French and Spanish actor. He established himself as a leading man of French cinema through his collaborations with director Luc Besson, and has worked in numerous international productions. He is a three-time César Award nominee - Best Actor for Les Visiteurs (1993) and Léon: The Professional (1994), and Best Supporting Actor for The Big Blue (1988).

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Otis Taylor, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

Otis Taylor is an American blues musician. He is a multi-instrumentalist whose talents include the guitar, banjo, mandolin, harmonica, and vocals. In 2001, he was awarded a fellowship to the Sundance Film Composers Laboratory.

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Julia Tsenova, Bulgarian pianist and composer (died 2010)

Julia Tsenova was a Bulgarian composer, pianist and musical pedagogue.

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30/07/1947

William Atherton, American actor and producer

William Atherton is an American actor. He had starring roles in The Sugarland Express (1974), The Day of the Locust (1975), The Hindenburg (1975) and Looking for Mr. Goodbar (1977), but is most recognized for what have become iconic roles in the Ghostbusters and Die Hard film series.

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Françoise Barré-Sinoussi, French virologist and biologist, Nobel Prize laureate

Françoise Barré-Sinoussi is a French virologist and Director of the Regulation of Retroviral Infections Division and Professor at the Institut Pasteur in Paris. Born in Paris, Barré-Sinoussi performed some of the fundamental work in the identification of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) as the cause of AIDS. In 2008, Barré-Sinoussi was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, together with her former mentor, Luc Montagnier, for their discovery of HIV. She mandatorily retired from active research on 31 August 2015, and fully retired by some time in 2017.

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Jonathan Mann, American physician and author (died 1998)

Jonathan Max Mann was an American physician who was an administrator for the World Health Organization, and spearheaded early AIDS research in the 1980s.

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Arnold Schwarzenegger, Austrian-American bodybuilder, actor, and politician, 38th Governor of California

Arnold Alois Schwarzenegger is an Austrian and American actor, businessman, politician, and former professional bodybuilder who served as the 38th governor of California from 2003 to 2011.

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30/07/1946

Neil Bonnett, American race car driver and sportscaster (died 1994)

Lawrence Neil Bonnett was an American NASCAR driver who compiled 18 victories and 20 poles over his 18-year career. Bonnett was a member of the Alabama Gang, and started his career with the help of Bobby and Donnie Allison. He rose to prominence in the late 1970s with his performances in cars owned by Jim Stacy and Wood Brothers Racing, becoming one of the top competitors in the 1980s. The Alabama native currently ranks 47th in all-time NASCAR Cup victories. He appeared in the 1983 film Stroker Ace and the 1990 film Days of Thunder. Bonnett hosted the TV show Winners for TNN from 1991 to 1994, and was a color commentator for CBS, TBS, and TNN in the years until his death. Bonnett's racing career was interrupted in 1990 when he suffered a severe brain injury in a crash that left him with amnesia and chronic dizziness. While working towards a much-anticipated comeback to the NASCAR circuit, Bonnett died as a result of injuries he sustained in a crash during a practice run for the 1994 Daytona 500. He lost control of his vehicle and collided with the outside wall in turn four, resulting in massive head injuries that proved fatal.

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Jeffrey Hammond, English bass player

Jeffrey Hammond, also known by his former stage name Jeffrey Hammond-Hammond, is an English artist and musician who was the bassist of progressive rock band Jethro Tull from 1971 to 1975. Hammond played on some of the band's most successful albums, including Aqualung (1971) and Thick as a Brick (1972).

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30/07/1945

Patrick Modiano, French novelist and screenwriter, Nobel Prize laureate

Jean Patrick Modiano, generally known as Patrick Modiano, is a French novelist and recipient of the 2014 Nobel Prize in Literature. He is a noted writer of autofiction, the blend of autobiography and historical fiction.

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David Sanborn, American saxophonist and composer (died 2024)

David William Sanborn was an American alto saxophonist. He worked in many musical genres; his solo recordings typically blended jazz with instrumental pop and R&B. He began playing the saxophone at the age of 11 and released his first solo album, Taking Off, in 1975. He was active as a session musician and played on numerous albums by artists including Stevie Wonder, Bruce Springsteen, Aretha Franklin, Sting, the Eagles, Rickie Lee Jones, James Brown, George Benson, Carly Simon, Elton John, Bryan Ferry, Ween, and The Rolling Stones. Sanborn released more than 20 albums and won six Grammy awards.

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30/07/1944

Gerry Birrell, Scottish race car driver (died 1973)

Gerald Hussey Buchanan Birrell was a British racing driver from Scotland, who was killed in a wreck during practice for a Formula Two race at Rouen-Les-Essarts.

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Peter Bottomley, English politician

Sir Peter James Bottomley is a British Conservative Party politician who served as a Member of Parliament (MP) from 1975 until 2024, last representing Worthing West.

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Frances de la Tour, English actress

Frances J. de Lautour, better known as Frances de la Tour, is a British actress. A Tony Award winner and three-time Olivier Award winner, she is also known for her roles in the television sitcom Rising Damp and Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.

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30/07/1943

Henri-François Gautrin, Canadian physicist and politician

Henri-François Gautrin is a Quebec politician, professor and physicist. He was the Member of National Assembly of Quebec for the riding of Verdun in the Montreal region. He represented the Quebec Liberal Party and was the former Minister of Governmental Services from February 2006 to February 2007.

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30/07/1942

Pollyanna Pickering, English environmentalist and painter (died 2018)

Pollyanna Pickering was an English wildlife artist and environmentalist.

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30/07/1941

Paul Anka, Canadian singer-songwriter and actor

Paul Albert Anka is a Canadian and American singer, songwriter, and actor. His songs include "Diana", "You Are My Destiny", "Lonely Boy", "Put Your Head on My Shoulder", "(You're) Having My Baby" and "My Way".

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30/07/1940

Patricia Schroeder, American lawyer and politician (died 2023)

Patricia Nell Scott Schroeder was an American politician who represented Colorado's 1st congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 1973 to 1997. A member of the Democratic Party, Schroeder was the first female U.S. Representative elected from Colorado and ran for president in 1988.

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Clive Sinclair, English businessman, founded Sinclair Radionics and Sinclair Research (died 2021)

Sir Clive Marles Sinclair was an English entrepreneur and inventor, best known for being a pioneer in the computing industry and also as the founder of several companies that developed consumer electronics in the 1970s and early 1980s.

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30/07/1939

Peter Bogdanovich, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (died 2022)

Peter Bogdanovich was an American director, writer, actor, producer, critic, and film historian. He started out his career as a young actor studying under Stella Adler before working as a film critic for Film Culture and Esquire and finally becoming a prominent filmmaker of the New Hollywood movement. He received accolades including a BAFTA Award and Grammy Award, as well as nominations for two Academy Awards and two Golden Globe Awards.

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Eleanor Smeal, American activist, founded the Feminist Majority Foundation

Eleanor Marie Smeal is an American women's rights activist. She is the president and a cofounder of the Feminist Majority Foundation and has served as president of the National Organization for Women for three terms, in addition to her work as an activist, grassroots organizer, lobbyist, and political analyst.

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30/07/1938

Hervé de Charette, French politician, French Minister of Foreign Affairs

Hervé de Charette is a French centrist politician. He is a descendant of the royalist military leader François de Charette and of king Charles X of France.

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Terry O'Neill, English photographer (died 2019)

Terence Patrick O'Neill was a British photographer, known for documenting the fashions, styles, and celebrities of the 1960s. O'Neill's photographs capture his subjects candidly or in unconventional settings.

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30/07/1936

Buddy Guy, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

George "Buddy" Guy is an American blues guitarist and singer-songwriter. He is an exponent of Chicago blues who has influenced generations of guitarists including Eric Clapton, Jimi Hendrix, Jimmy Page, Keith Richards, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Jeff Beck, Gary Clark Jr., and John Mayer. In the 1960s, Guy played with Muddy Waters as a session guitarist at Chess Records and began a musical partnership with blues harp virtuoso Junior Wells.

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Infanta Pilar, Duchess of Badajoz (died 2020)

Infanta Pilar, Duchess of Badajoz, Viscountess of La Torre, sometimes known more simply as Pilar de Borbón, was the elder daughter of Infante Juan, Count of Barcelona and Princess María Mercedes of the Two Sicilies, and older sister of King Juan Carlos I.

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30/07/1934

Bud Selig, 9th Major League Baseball Commissioner

Allan Huber "Bud" Selig is an American baseball executive who currently serves as the commissioner emeritus of baseball. Previously, he served as the ninth commissioner of baseball from 1998 to 2015. He initially served as de facto acting commissioner beginning in 1992 in his capacity as chairman of the Major League Baseball (MLB) Executive Committee before being named the official commissioner in 1998. Selig oversaw baseball through the 1994 strike, the introduction of the wild card, interleague play, and the de facto merging of the National and American leagues under the Office of the Commissioner. He was instrumental in organizing the World Baseball Classic in 2006. Selig also introduced revenue sharing. He is credited for the financial turnaround of baseball during his tenure with a 400 percent increase in the revenue of MLB and annual record-breaking attendance.

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30/07/1931

Dominique Lapierre, French historian and author (died 2022)

Dominique Lapierre was a French author.

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Marina Popovich, Soviet pilot, engineer and military officer (died 2017)

Marina Lavrentyevna Zhikhoreva was a Soviet Air Forces colonel, engineer, and decorated Soviet test pilot. In 1964, she became the third woman and the first Soviet woman to break the sound barrier. Known as "Madame MiG", for her work in the Soviet fighter, she set more than one hundred aviation world records on over 40 types of aircraft over her career.

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30/07/1929

Sid Krofft, Canadian-American puppeteer and producer

Sid Krofft and Marty Krofft, known as The Krofft Brothers and born as Cydus and Moshopopoulos Yolas, were a Canadian sibling team of television creators, writers and puppeteers. Through their production company, Sid & Marty Krofft Pictures, they made numerous children's television and variety show programs in the U.S., particularly in the 1970s, including H.R. Pufnstuf, Land of the Lost, and Sigmund and the Sea Monsters. Their fantasy programs often featured large-headed puppets, high-concept plots, and extensive use of low-budget special effects.

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30/07/1928

Sulochana Latkar, Indian actress (died 2023)

Sulochana Latkar, better known by her screen name Sulochana, was an Indian actress of Marathi and Hindi cinema, who acted in 50 films in Marathi and around 250 films in Hindi. She was most known for her performances in Marathi films such as Sasurvas (1946), Meeth Bhakar (1949), Vahinichya Bangdya (1953), Dhakti Jaoo (1958) and Sangte Aika (1959) in the lead roles, as well as for the mother roles she played in Hindi cinema right from 1959 film Dil Deke Dekho to the year 1995. She and Nirupa Roy epitomized the "mother" roles right from 1959 until the early 1990s.

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Joe Nuxhall, American baseball player and sportscaster (died 2007)

Joseph Henry Nuxhall was an American left-handed pitcher in Major League Baseball, best remembered for having been the youngest player ever to appear in a Major League game and for spending 40 years as a Cincinnati Reds broadcaster.

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30/07/1927

Richard Johnson, English actor, producer, and screenwriter (died 2015)

Richard Keith Johnson was an English stage and screen actor, writer and producer. Described by Michael Coveney as "a very 'still' actor – authoritative, calm and compelling," he was a staple performer in British films and television from the 1960s until the 2010s, often playing urbane sophisticates and authoritative characters. He had a distinguished theatrical career, notably as a cornerstone member of the Royal Shakespeare Company, and was once acclaimed as "the finest romantic actor of his generation."

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Pete Schoening, American mountaineer (died 2004)

Peter Kittilsby Schoening was an American mountaineer. Schoening was one of two Americans to first successfully climb the Pakistani peak Gasherbrum I in 1958, along with Andrew Kauffman, and was one of the first to summit Mount Vinson in Antarctica in 1966.

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Victor Wong, American actor (died 2001)

Victor Gee Keung Wong was an American actor, artist, and journalist of Chinese descent.

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30/07/1926

Betye Saar, American artist

Betye Irene Saar is an American artist known for her work in the medium of assemblage. Saar is a visual storyteller and an accomplished printmaker. Saar was a part of the Black Arts Movement in the 1970s, which engaged myths and stereotypes about race and femininity. Her work is considered highly political, as she challenged negative ideas about African Americans throughout her career; Saar is best known for her artwork that critiques anti-Black racism in the United States.

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George Shanard, American politician and businessman (died 2012)

George Harris Shanard was an American politician and agribusinessman who served as a member of the South Dakota Senate from 1975 to 1992 and served as majority leader for the Republican Party from 1989 to 1992. He was inducted into the South Dakota Hall of Fame in 1999.

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30/07/1925

Stan Stennett, Welsh actor and trumpet player (died 2013)

Stanley Llewelyn Stennett was a Welsh comedian, actor and jazz musician.

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Alexander Trocchi, Scottish author and poet (died 1984)

Alexander Whitelaw Robertson Trocchi was a Scottish novelist.

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30/07/1924

C. T. Vivian, American minister, author, and activist (died 2020)

Cordy Tindell Vivian was an American minister, author, and close friend and lieutenant of Martin Luther King Jr. during the civil rights movement. He resided in Atlanta, Georgia, and founded the C. T. Vivian Leadership Institute, Inc. He was a member of the Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity.

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30/07/1922

Henry W. Bloch, American banker and businessman, co-founded H&R Block (died 2019)

Henry Wollman Bloch was an American businessman and philanthropist who was the co-founder and the chairman emeritus of the American tax-preparation company H&R Block. He and his brother, Richard Bloch, founded H&R Block in 1955 in Kansas City, Missouri.

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30/07/1921

Grant Johannesen, American pianist and educator (died 2005)

Grant Johannesen was an American pianist.

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30/07/1920

Walter Schuck, German lieutenant and pilot (died 2015)

Walter Schuck was a German military aviator who served in the Luftwaffe from 1937 until the end of World War II. As a fighter ace, he claimed 206 enemy aircraft shot down in over 500 combat missions, eight of which while flying the Messerschmitt Me 262 jet fighter. Schuck was a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves.

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30/07/1914

Michael Morris, 3rd Baron Killanin, Irish journalist and author, 6th President of the International Olympic Committee (died 1999)

Michael Morris, 3rd Baron Killanin, was an Irish journalist, author, sports official, and the sixth president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), serving from 1972 to 1980. He succeeded his uncle as Baron Killanin in the Peerage of the United Kingdom in 1927, when he was 12, which allowed him to sit in the House of Lords at the Palace of Westminster as Lord Killanin upon turning 21.

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30/07/1913

Lou Darvas, American soldier and cartoonist (died 1987)

Louis F. Darvas was an American artist and sports cartoonist. He received the National Cartoonist Society Sports Cartoon Award for 1963 and 1967 for his work.

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30/07/1910

Edgar de Evia, Mexican-American photographer (died 2003)

Edgar Domingo Evia y Joutard, known professionally as Edgar de Evia, was a Mexican-born American interiors photographer.

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30/07/1909

C. Northcote Parkinson, English historian and author (died 1993)

Cyril Northcote Parkinson was a British naval historian and author of some 60 books, the most famous of which was his best-seller Parkinson's Law (1957), in which Parkinson named the satirical Law stating that "work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion" after himself. The Law came to be taken seriously and led to his being regarded as an important scholar in public administration and management.

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30/07/1904

Salvador Novo, Mexican poet and playwright (died 1974)

Salvador Novo López was a Mexican writer, poet, playwright, translator, television presenter, entrepreneur, and the official chronicler of Mexico City. As a noted intellectual, he influenced popular perceptions of politics, media, the arts, and Mexican society in general. He was a member of the Mexican modernist writers' group Los Contemporáneos, as well as of the Academia Mexicana de la Lengua.

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30/07/1901

Alfred Lépine, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (died 1955)

Joseph Alfred Pierre Hormisdas "Pit" Lépine was a Canadian ice hockey forward and coach. He was born in Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue, Quebec.

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30/07/1899

Gerald Moore, English pianist (died 1987)

Gerald Moore was an English classical pianist best known for his career as a collaborative pianist for many distinguished musicians. Among those with whom he was closely associated were Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Kathleen Ferrier, Elisabeth Schumann, Hans Hotter, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Victoria de los Ángeles and Pablo Casals.

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30/07/1898

Henry Moore, English sculptor and illustrator (died 1986)

Henry Spencer Moore was an English visual artist. He is best known for his semi-abstract monumental bronze sculptures which are located around the world as public works of art. Moore also produced many drawings, including a series depicting Londoners sheltering from the Blitz during the Second World War, along with other graphic works on paper.

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30/07/1890

Casey Stengel, American baseball player and manager (died 1975)

Charles Dillon "Casey" Stengel was an American Major League Baseball (MLB) right fielder and manager, best known as the manager of the championship New York Yankees of the 1950s and later, the expansion New York Mets. Nicknamed "the Ol' Perfessor", he was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1966.

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30/07/1881

Smedley Butler, American general, Medal of Honor recipient (died 1940)

Smedley Darlington Butler was an American major general in the United States Marine Corps. During his 34-year military career, he fought in the Philippine–American War, the Boxer Rebellion, the Mexican Revolution, World War I, and the Banana Wars. At the time of his death, Butler was the most decorated Marine in U.S. military history. By the end of his career, Butler had received sixteen medals, including five for heroism; he was awarded the Marine Corps Brevet Medal as well as two Medals of Honor, all for separate actions.

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30/07/1872

Princess Clémentine of Belgium (died 1955)

Princess Clémentine of Belgium, was by birth a Princess of Belgium and member of the House of Wettin in the branch of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. In 1910, she became Princess Napoléon and claimant to be Empress consort of the French as the wife of Napoléon Victor Jérôme Frédéric Bonaparte, Bonapartist pretender to the Imperial throne of France.

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30/07/1863

Henry Ford, American engineer and businessman, founded the Ford Motor Company (died 1947)

Henry Ford was an American industrialist and business magnate. As the founder of the Ford Motor Company, he is credited as a pioneer in making automobiles affordable for middle-class Americans through the system that came to be known as Fordism. In 1911, he was awarded a patent for the transmission mechanism that would be used in the Ford Model T and other automobiles.

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30/07/1862

Nikolai Yudenich, Russian general (died 1933)

Nikolai Nikolayevich Yudenich was a commander of the Russian Imperial Army during World War I. He was a leader of the anti-communist White movement in northwestern Russia during the Civil War.

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30/07/1859

Henry Simpson Lunn, English minister and humanitarian, founded Lunn Poly (died 1939)

Sir Henry Simpson Lunn was an English humanitarian and religious figure, and also founder of Lunn Poly, one of the UK's largest travel companies.

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30/07/1857

Thorstein Veblen, American economist and sociologist (died 1929)

Thorstein Bunde Veblen was an American economist and sociologist who, during his lifetime, emerged as a well-known critic of capitalism.

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30/07/1855

Georg Wilhelm von Siemens, German-Swiss businessman (died 1919)

Georg Wilhelm von Siemens was a German telecommunications industrialist of the Siemens family.

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30/07/1832

George Lemuel Woods, American lawyer, judge, and politician, 3rd Governor of Oregon (died 1890)

George Lemuel Woods was an American lawyer, judge, and politician. A member of the Republican Party, Woods served as the third governor of Oregon from 1866 to 1870. Failing to win renomination, Woods was then appointed Territorial Governor of Utah by President Ulysses S. Grant, serving in that position from 1871 to 1875.

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30/07/1825

Chaim Aronson, Lithuanian engineer and author (died 1893)

Chaim Aronson was a Lithuanian Jewish inventor and memoirist.

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30/07/1818

Emily Brontë, English novelist and poet (died 1848)

Emily Jane Brontë was an English writer best known for her 1847 novel Wuthering Heights. She also co-authored a book of poetry with her sisters Charlotte and Anne entitled Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell.

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Jan Heemskerk, Dutch lawyer and politician, 16th and 19th Prime Minister of the Netherlands (died 1897)

Jan Heemskerk Abrahamszoon was a Dutch politician who served as Chairman of the Council of Ministers from 1874 to 1877, and again from 1883 to 1888. His son, Theo Heemskerk also served as Chairman of the Council of Ministers.

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30/07/1809

Charles Chiniquy, Canadian-American priest and theologian (died 1899)

Charles Paschal Telesphore Chiniquy was a Canadian socio-political activist and former Catholic priest who left the Catholic Church and converted to Protestant Christianity, becoming a Presbyterian minister. He later rode the lecture circuit in the United States, denouncing the Catholic Church. His themes were that Catholicism was pagan, that Catholics worship the Virgin Mary, and that its theology was anti-Christian.

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30/07/1781

Maria Aletta Hulshoff, Dutch feminist and pamphleteer (died 1846)

Maria Aletta Hulshoff was a Dutch Patriot, feminist and pamphleteer.

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30/07/1763

Samuel Rogers, English poet and art collector (died 1855)

Samuel Rogers was an English poet, during his lifetime one of the most celebrated, although his fame has long since been eclipsed by his Romantic colleagues and friends Wordsworth, Coleridge and Byron. His recollections of these and other friends such as Charles James Fox are key sources for information about London artistic and literary life, with which he was intimate, and which he used his wealth to support. He made his money as a banker and was also a discriminating art collector.

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30/07/1751

Maria Anna Mozart, Austrian pianist (died 1829)

Maria Anna Walburga Ignatia "Marianne" Mozart, nicknamed Nannerl, was a distinguished musician from Salzburg. In her childhood, she developed into an outstanding keyboard player under the tutelage of her father Leopold. She became a celebrated child prodigy and went on concert tours through much of Europe with her parents and her younger brother Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. At age 17, her career as a touring musician came to an end, though she continued to work at home teaching piano and performing on occasion. At age 33 she married, moved to a village six hours by carriage from Salzburg, and there raised her own and her husband's children. On her widowhood in 1801, she returned to Salzburg and resumed teaching and performance. She is known to have composed works of music, though no manuscripts survive. In her later years she contributed to the biographical study of her late brother.

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30/07/1641

Regnier de Graaf, Dutch physician and anatomist (died 1673)

Regnier de Graaf, original Dutch spelling Reinier de Graaf, or Latinized Reijnerus de Graeff, was a Dutch physician, physiologist and anatomist who made key discoveries in reproductive biology. He specialized in iatrochemistry and iatrogenesis, and was the first to develop a syringe to inject dye into human reproductive organs so that he could understand their structure and function.

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30/07/1549

Ferdinando I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (died 1609)

Ferdinando I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany was Grand Duke of Tuscany from 1587 to 1609, having succeeded his older brother Francesco I. He expanded the culture of Tuscany, which included presenting the opera Euridice by Jacopo Peri. Ferdinando supported Henry IV of France following the assassination of Henry III of France and provided him with financial support. He expanded the Naviglio canal and started an irrigation project in the Val di Chiana. Ferdinando died on 17 February 1609.

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30/07/1511

Giorgio Vasari, Italian painter, historian, and architect (died 1574)

Giorgio Vasari was an Italian Renaissance painter, architect, art historian, and biographer known for his work Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, considered the ideological foundation of Western art-historical writing, and still much cited in modern biographies of the many Italian Renaissance artists he covers, including Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo, although he is since regarded as including many factual errors, especially when covering artists from before he was born.

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30/07/1470

Hongzhi, emperor of the Ming dynasty (died 1505)

The Hongzhi Emperor, personal name Zhu Youcheng, was the tenth emperor of the Ming dynasty, reigning from 1487 to 1505. He succeeded his father, the Chenghua Emperor.

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