What happened on 22nd June?

On this day, 253 notable people were born on 22nd June — spanning from 662 to 2006. From world leaders to artists and scientists, discover who shares this birthday.

22/06/2006

Zépiqueno Redmond, Dutch footballer

Zépiqueno Ponimin Charmant Redmond is a Dutch professional footballer who plays as a striker for Premier League club Aston Villa.

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22/06/2001

Luciano Gondou, Argentine footballer

Luciano Emilio Gondou Zanelli is an Argentine professional footballer who plays as an attacker for the Russian club CSKA Moscow.

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22/06/1999

Sam Retford, Australian-English actor

Sam Retford is an Australian actor, known for portraying the role of Cory Wilson on the Channel 4 drama Ackley Bridge (2017–2019). As well as starring in various stage productions, he has also made appearances in television series such as Casualty (2019) and Death in Paradise (2021). In 2021, he joined the cast of the ITV soap opera Coronation Street as Curtis Delamere.

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22/06/1996

Mikel Merino, Spanish footballer

Mikel Merino Zazón is a Spanish professional footballer who plays as a midfielder or striker for Premier League club Arsenal and the Spain national team.

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Rodri, Spanish footballer

Rodrigo Hernández Cascante, known as Rodri or Rodrigo, is a Spanish professional footballer who plays as a defensive midfielder for Premier League club Manchester City and captains the Spain national team. Known for his passing, composure, playmaking and physical attributes, he is widely regarded as one of the best defensive midfielders in the world.

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22/06/1994

Sébastien Haller, French-Ivorian footballer

Sébastien Romain Teddy Haller is a professional footballer who plays as a striker for Eredivisie club Utrecht. Born in France, he plays for the Ivory Coast national team.

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Marnus Labuschagne, South African-Australian cricketer

Marnus Labuschagne is an Australian international cricketer who captains Queensland and plays for Glamorgan in county cricket and for Brisbane Heat in the Big Bash League and is the captain of Pakistan Super League team Hyderabad Kingsmen. Labuschagne was once ranked as high as no.1 in the Test batting rankings. He was a member of the Australian team that won the 2023 WTC and the 2023 ODI World Cup.

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Carlos Vinícius Santos de Jesus, Brazilian footballer

Carlos Vinícius Santos de Jesus is a Brazilian professional footballer who plays as an attacking or central midfielder for Dibba, on loan from Portimonense.

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22/06/1993

Loris Karius, German footballer

Loris Sven Karius is a German professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Bundesliga club Schalke 04. He represented Germany at youth level.

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Danny Ward, Welsh footballer

Daniel Ward is a Welsh professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for EFL Championship club Wrexham and the Wales national team.

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22/06/1992

Ura Kazuki, Japanese sumo wrestler

Ura Kazuki is a Japanese professional sumo wrestler from Neyagawa, Osaka. After winning a gold medal in sumo at the 2013 World Combat Games, he made his professional debut in 2015, wrestling with the Kise stable and he won the jonokuchi division championship in his first tournament. He reached the top makuuchi division in March 2017, but a pair of serious injuries led to two extended layoffs, and his rank dropped to the lowest since his debut tournament, and it was three and a half years before he returned to top-level competition. He has two kinboshi, or gold stars, for defeating a yokozuna.

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Harry Reid, British actor

Harry Reid is an English actor. He is known for his role as Ben Mitchell in the BBC soap opera EastEnders, from 2014 until 2018.

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22/06/1991

Hugo Mallo, Spanish footballer

Hugo Mallo Novegil is a Spanish professional footballer who plays as a right-back.

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22/06/1990

Sebastian Jung, German footballer

Sebastian Alexander Jung is a German professional footballer who plays as a right back for Karlsruher SC in the 2. Bundesliga.

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22/06/1989

Cédric Mongongu, Congolese footballer

Cédric Mongongu is a Congolese professional footballer who plays as a centre back for the DR Congo national team.

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Jung Yong-hwa, South Korean singer-songwriter and actor

Jung Yong-hwa, also known mononymously as Yonghwa, is a South Korean singer, musician and actor. He is the leader, lead vocalist and rhythm guitarist of the rock band CNBLUE. Jung made his television debut in You're Beautiful (2009), and has since starred in television dramas Heartstrings (2011), Marry Him If You Dare (2013), The Three Musketeers (2014), The Package (2017) and Sell Your Haunted House (2021). On the music front, Jung also made his solo debut with the album One Fine Day in 2015.

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22/06/1988

Omri Casspi, Israeli basketball player

Omri Moshe Casspi is an Israeli former professional basketball player. He mainly played at the small forward position, but also played at the power forward position.

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22/06/1987

Danny Green, American basketball player

Daniel Richard Green Jr. is an American former professional basketball player. In his NBA career, Green played for six teams. As of 2025, Green is one of just four players in history to have won NBA championships with three different teams; he won titles with the San Antonio Spurs in 2014, the Toronto Raptors in 2019, and the Los Angeles Lakers in 2020.

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Lee Min-ho, South Korean actor, singer, model, creative director and businessman

Lee Min-ho is a South Korean actor and singer. He gained widespread fame with his role as Gu Jun-pyo in the television series Boys Over Flowers (2009), which also earned him the Baeksang Arts Award for Best New Actor. His other notable works are television series City Hunter (2011), The Heirs (2013), The Legend of the Blue Sea (2016), and The King: Eternal Monarch (2020), as well as the action thriller film Gangnam Blues (2015). In 2022, he starred in the Apple TV+ period drama Pachinko based on the novel of the same name.

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Nikita Rukavytsya, Ukrainian-Australian footballer

Nikita Vadymovych Rukavytsya is a retired professional soccer player. Born in Ukraine, he played for the Australia national team.

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22/06/1985

Thomas Leuluai, New Zealand rugby league player

Thomas James Leuluai is a New Zealand professional rugby league coach who is an assistant coach at the Wigan Warriors in the Super League and a former professional rugby league footballer who played for New Zealand at international level.

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22/06/1984

Dustin Johnson, American golfer

Dustin Hunter Johnson is an American professional golfer. He has won two major championships, the 2016 U.S. Open at Oakmont Country Club with a 4-under-par score of 276 and the 2020 Masters Tournament with a record score of 268, 20-under-par. He had previously finished in a tie for second at both the 2011 Open Championship and the 2015 U.S. Open. He has six World Golf Championships victories, second only to Tiger Woods's 18 wins, and was the first and only player to win each of the four World Golf Championship events. He has played in The LIV Golf League since 2022.

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Rubén Iván Martínez, Spanish footballer

Rubén Iván Martínez Andrade, known simply as Rubén, is a Spanish professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper.

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Jerome Taylor, Jamaican cricketer

Jerome Everton Taylor is a Jamaican former cricketer who played as a fast bowler for the West Indies. Taylor took over 100 wickets for the Windies in both Tests and One Day Internationals (ODI). During 2017 he reversed an initial decision to retire from international cricket. Taylor has also featured for Jamaica, English sides Somerset, Leicestershire and Sussex, CPL teams St Lucia Zouks and Jamaica Tallawahs and IPL side Pune Warriors in his cricketing career. Taylor was a member of the West Indies team that won the 2016 T20 World Cup. He is the only bowler to have ever taken a hat-trick in a Champions Trophy match, which he did in the 2006 tournament against Australia, and that was the first hat-trick taken by a West Indian bowler in the ODI format.

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Janko Tipsarević, Serbian tennis player

Janko Tipsarević is a Serbian tennis coach and former professional player. In tennis, his career-high singles ranking is world No. 8, achieved on 2 April 2012. In his career, he won 4 ATP World Tour titles, one ATP doubles title, three Futures, and 15 Challenger titles. Tipsarević also won the 2001 Australian Open junior title. He holds notable victories over former world No. 1 players Carlos Moyá, Marat Safin, Lleyton Hewitt, Juan Carlos Ferrero, Andy Roddick, his compatriot Novak Djokovic, and Andy Murray. His best results at a Grand Slam tournament were reaching the quarterfinals at the US Open in 2011 and 2012.

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22/06/1983

Allar Raja, Estonian rower

Allar Raja is an Estonian rower. He is a member of rowing club SK Kalev located in Pärnu.

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22/06/1982

Andoni Iraola, Spanish footballer and manager

Andoni Iraola Sagarna is a Spanish professional football manager and former player.

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Ian Kinsler, American baseball player

Ian Michael Kinsler is an American-Israeli former professional baseball second baseman. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for 14 seasons for the Texas Rangers, Detroit Tigers, Los Angeles Angels, Boston Red Sox, and San Diego Padres. Kinsler was a four-time All Star, two-time Gold Glove winner, and a member of the 2018 World Series champion Boston Red Sox.

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Soraia Chaves, Portuguese actress and model

Soraia Chaves is a Portuguese actress and model. She became famous with the role of Amélia in the film O Crime do Padre Amaro and the role of Maria in her next film, Call Girl. She also played the role of Raquel in Dancing Days, a 2012-13 soap opera broadcast on the Portuguese television network SIC. She also starred in the film Real Playing Game.

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22/06/1981

Sione Lauaki, New Zealand rugby player (died 2017)

Sione Tuitupu Lauaki was a Tongan-born New Zealand rugby union footballer who played for Bayonne. He previously played for the New Zealand national team, the All Blacks. His brother, Epalahame Lauaki, is a 2nd row rugby league footballer previously playing for Auckland Warriors in the NRL competition. He died on 12 February 2017.

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Aquivaldo Mosquera, Colombian footballer

Aquivaldo Mosquera Romaña is a Colombian former professional footballer who played as a defender. He also holds Mexican citizenship.

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22/06/1980

Ilya Bryzgalov, Russian ice hockey player

Ilya Nikolayevich Bryzgalov is a Russian former professional ice hockey goaltender who played in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the Anaheim Ducks, Phoenix Coyotes, Philadelphia Flyers, Edmonton Oilers and Minnesota Wild. He was drafted by Anaheim in the second round of the 2000 NHL entry draft, 44th overall.

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Stephanie Jacobsen, Hong Kong-Australian actress

Stephanie Chaves-Jacobsen, is a Hong Kong-born Australian actress.

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22/06/1979

Joey Cheek, American speed skater

William Joseph Cheek is an American former speed skater and inline speed skater. He specialized in the short and middle distances and won Olympic gold in 2006. As of 2024, he is the Executive Vice President of Entrepreneurship for the Greensboro Chamber of Commerce.

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Thomas Voeckler, French cyclist

Thomas Voeckler is a French former road racing cyclist, who competed professionally between 2001 and 2017, for the Direct Énergie team and its previous iterations.

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22/06/1978

Champ Bailey, American football player

Roland "Champ" Bailey Jr. is an American former professional football player who was a cornerback in the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Georgia Bulldogs, where he earned consensus All-American honors, and was selected by the Washington Redskins in the first round of the 1999 NFL draft.

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Dan Wheldon, English racing driver (died 2011)

Daniel Clive Wheldon was a British motor racing driver who won the 2005 IndyCar Series for Andretti Green Racing (AGR). He won the Indianapolis 500 in 2005 and 2011, and was co-winner of the 2006 24 Hours of Daytona with Chip Ganassi Racing (CGR).

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22/06/1975

Urmas Reinsalu, Estonian academic and politician, 28th Estonian Minister of Defence

Urmas Reinsalu is an Estonian politician who served as Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2022 to 2023 and previously from 2019 to 2021. Before that, Urmas has served as the Minister of Defence between 2012 and 2014, and Minister of Justice from 2015 to 2019. Reinsalu is a member and current leader of the Isamaa ("Fatherland") political party, and was the party leader from 2012 to 2015.

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22/06/1974

Jo Cox, British politician (died 2016)

Helen Joanne Cox was a British politician who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Batley and Spen from May 2015 until her murder in June 2016. She was a member of the Labour Party.

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Donald Faison, American actor

Donald Adeosun Faison is an American actor and comedian. He is known for his leading role as Dr. Chris Turk in the ABC/NBC comedy-drama Scrubs, and a supporting role as Murray in both the film Clueless (1995) and the subsequent television series of the same name. He also starred as Phil Chase in the TV Land sitcom The Exes (2011–2015). Faison has also co-starred in the films Waiting to Exhale (1995), Remember the Titans (2000), Uptown Girls (2003), Something New (2006), Next Day Air (2009), Skyline (2010), and Kick-Ass 2 (2013).

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Vijay, Indian actor

Chandrasekaran Joseph Vijay is an Indian politician and former actor who has served as the ninth Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu since May 2026. He is the founder and president of the political party Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam (TVK). Prior to entering politics, he was a leading actor in Tamil cinema and among the highest-paid actors in India, having won numerous accolades including multiple Tamil Nadu State Film Awards and South Indian International Movie Awards.

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22/06/1973

Eydís Ásbjörnsdóttir, Icelandic politician

Eydís Ásbjörnsdóttir is an Icelandic politician and member of the Althing. A member of the Social Democratic Alliance, she has represented the Northeast constituency since November 2024.

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Carson Daly, American radio and television host

Carson Jones Daly is an American television host, radio personality, producer, and television personality. From 1998 to 2003, Daly was a VJ on MTV's Total Request Live (TRL), and a DJ for the Southern California-based radio station 106.7 KROQ-FM. In 2002, Daly joined NBC, where he hosted and produced the late-night talk show Last Call with Carson Daly, and occasionally hosting special event programming for NBC, such as the Macy's 4th of July Fireworks show, and executive producing New Year's Eve with Carson Daly from Times Square beginning in 2003.

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22/06/1972

Damien Oliver, Australian jockey

Damien Oliver is an Australian retired thoroughbred racing jockey. Oliver comes from a racing family; his father Ray Oliver had a successful career until his death in a race fall during the 1975 Kalgoorlie Cup in Western Australia. In 2008, Oliver was inducted into the Australian Racing Hall of Fame. In August 2023 he announced that he would retire at the end of that year's spring carnival.

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22/06/1971

Gary Connolly, English rugby player

Gary John Connolly is an English former professional rugby league and rugby union footballer.

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Mary Lynn Rajskub, American actress and comedian

Mary Lynn Rajskub is an American actress and comedian who is best known for portraying Chloe O'Brian in the action thriller series 24 and Gail the Snail in It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia. She was a regular cast member on HBO's Mr. Show with Bob and David, appeared in The Larry Sanders Show, Brooklyn Nine-Nine, and Veronica's Closet, and acted in films including Dude, Where's My Car?, Firewall, Sweet Home Alabama, Punch-Drunk Love, Mysterious Skin, Little Miss Sunshine, Sunshine Cleaning, Safety Not Guaranteed, and The Kings of Summer, among others.

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Laila Rouass, British actress

Laila Rouass is an English actress. On television, she is known for her roles as in the ITV series Footballers' Wives (2004–2006) and Primeval (2009), the BBC One soap opera Holby City and series Spooks (2009), and the Netflix series Safe (2018). She was also a contestant on Strictly Come Dancing (2009), in which she finished fourth.

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Kurt Warner, American football player and sportscaster

Kurtis Eugene Warner is an American former professional football quarterback who played in the National Football League (NFL) for 12 seasons, primarily with the St. Louis Rams and Arizona Cardinals. His career, which saw him ascend from an undrafted free agent to a two-time Most Valuable Player and Super Bowl MVP, is widely regarded as one of the greatest Cinderella stories in NFL history.

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22/06/1968

Darrell Armstrong, American basketball player and coach

Darrell Eugene Armstrong is an American professional basketball coach and former player who last was an assistant coach for the Dallas Mavericks of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played 14 seasons in the NBA for the Orlando Magic, New Orleans Hornets, Dallas Mavericks, Indiana Pacers and New Jersey Nets. Armstrong was selected as the Most Improved Player and Sixth Man of the Year while playing for the Magic in 1999. He retired from playing in 2008 and joined the Mavericks as an assistant coach in 2009. He won his first NBA championship with the Mavericks in 2011.

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Miri Yu, Zainichi, Korean novelist

Miri Yu is a Zainichi Korean playwright, novelist, and essayist. Yu writes in Japanese, her native language, but is a citizen of South Korea.

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22/06/1966

Joanna Kołaczkowska, Polish cabaret performer (died 2025)

Joanna Dorota Kołaczkowska was a Polish cabaret performer, theatre actress, songwriter and radio presenter. She was widely recognized as one of the most prominent figures in Polish cabaret in the early 21st century, particularly through her long-standing involvement with the Hrabi Cabaret troupe, with which she performed from 2002 until 2025.

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Michael Park, English racing driver (died 2005)

Michael Steven Park was a rally co-driver from Newent in Gloucestershire. He worked with former world champions Richard Burns and Colin McRae as a gravel note expert while co-driving for both David Higgins and Mark Higgins in the British national series. His big break, however, came when he teamed up with the emerging Estonian talent Markko Märtin as a privateer pairing in a Toyota Corolla WRC for the 2000 World Rally Championship season.

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Emmanuelle Seigner, French actress

Emmanuelle Seigner is a French actress and singer. She is known for her roles in The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007), The Ninth Gate (1999) and Frantic (1988). She has been nominated for a César Award for Best Actress for Venus in Fur (2013), and for two César Awards for Best Supporting Actress in Place Vendôme (1998) and La Vie en Rose (2007). She has been married to Polish film director Roman Polanski since 1989.

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Dean Woods, Australian cyclist

Dean Anthony Woods OAM was an Australian racing cyclist from Wangaratta in Victoria known for his track cycling at the Olympic Games and Commonwealth Games. On Australia Day 1985 he was awarded the Order of Australia medal for service to cycling. He was an Australian Institute of Sport scholarship holder.

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22/06/1965

Uwe Boll, German director, producer, and screenwriter

Uwe Boll is a German filmmaker. He is best known for his video game adaptations from the 2000s. Released theatrically, the films were critical and commercial failures. His movies House of the Dead (2003), Alone in the Dark and BloodRayne are considered three of the worst films ever made. Boll's subsequent projects were mostly released direct-to-video.

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Ľubomír Moravčík, Czech footballer and manager

Ľubomír Moravčík is a Slovak football manager and former player. A creative midfielder renowned for his technical ability, he was capable of unleashing powerful, accurate shots, and pinpoint crosses with both feet. He played for teams in Czechoslovakia and Slovakia, France, Germany, Japan, and Scotland. During his time at Scottish club Celtic, Moravčík made 129 appearances, scoring 35 goals and winning two Scottish Premier League titles.

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22/06/1964

Cadillac Anderson, American basketball player

Gregory Wayne "Cadillac" Anderson is an American former professional basketball player.

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Amy Brenneman, American actress

Amy Frederica Brenneman is an American actress and producer. She first gained prominence as Detective Janice Licalsi in the ABC police drama series NYPD Blue (1993–1994). Brenneman later co-created and starred as Judge Amy Gray in the CBS drama series Judging Amy (1999–2005), earning multiple Primetime Emmy Award nominations for these roles.

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Dan Brown, American author and academic

Daniel Gerhard Brown is an American writer best known for his thriller novels, particularly the Robert Langdon series Angels & Demons (2000), The Da Vinci Code (2003), The Lost Symbol (2009), Inferno (2013), Origin (2017) and The Secret of Secrets (2025). His novels are treasure hunts that usually take place over a 24-hour period and center on recurring themes of cryptography, art, and conspiracy theories.

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Miroslav Kadlec, Czech footballer

Miroslav Kadlec is a Czech former professional footballer who played as a defender. Either side of an eight-year spell playing in Germany for Kaiserslautern, Kadlec played for four Czech clubs. In an international career spanning from 1987 to 1997, Kadlec made 64 international appearances split between Czechoslovakia and the Czech Republic.

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22/06/1963

Hokutoumi Nobuyoshi, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 61st Yokozuna

Hokutoumi Nobuyoshi is a Japanese former professional sumo wrestler from Hokkaidō. He was the sport's 61st yokozuna and won eight top division championships. He wrestled for Kokonoe stable. In 1989 he and Chiyonofuji were the first yokozuna stablemates to take part in a play-off for the championship. After a number of injury problems he retired in 1992, and is now the head coach of Hakkaku stable. In November 2015 he was appointed chairman of the Japan Sumo Association, following the death of Kitanoumi, initially to serve until the end of March 2016. He was then elected as head for a full term by his fellow board members in a vote held in March 2016. He was reappointed to a full term as chairman five times, most recently in 2026.

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John Tenta, Canadian-American wrestler (died 2006)

John Anthony Tenta Jr. was a Canadian professional wrestler and sumo wrestler (rikishi) best known for his work in the World Wrestling Federation as Earthquake.

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22/06/1962

Stephen Chow, Hong Kong actor, director, producer, and screenwriter

Stephen Chow Sing-chi is a Hong Kong filmmaker and former actor, known for his mo lei tau comedy, which has a significant influence on Chinese popular culture. His career began in television, where he gained recognition through variety shows and TV dramas. Chow's breakthrough came in 1989 with the comedy dramas The Final Combat and The Justice of Life, the latter marking the beginning of his on-screen collaboration with Ng Man-tat. He consecutively broke Hong Kong’s box office records in the next two years with films All for the Winner (1990) and Fight Back to School (1991), cementing his status as one of the region's most popular comedic actors.

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Bobby Gillespie, Scottish musician and singer-songwriter

Robert Gillespie is a Scottish musician, singer-songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist. He is the lead singer, founding member, primary lyricist, and sole continuous member of the alternative rock band Primal Scream. He was the drummer for The Jesus and Mary Chain in the mid-1980s, leaving after the release of the band's debut album Psychocandy, and was once the bassist for The Wake.

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Clyde Drexler, American basketball player and coach

Clyde Austin Drexler Sr. is an American former professional basketball player who currently works as the commissioner of the Big3 3-on-3 basketball league. Nicknamed "Clyde the Glide", he played 15 seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA), spending a majority of his career with the Portland Trail Blazers before finishing with the Houston Rockets. He was a ten-time NBA All-Star, five time All-NBA Selection, and was named to the NBA's 50th and 75th anniversary teams. Drexler led Portland to the NBA Finals in 1990 and 1992, won an NBA championship with Houston in 1995, and earned a gold medal on the 1992 United States Olympic team known as "The Dream Team". He was inducted twice into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, in 2004 for his individual career and in 2010 as a member of the "Dream Team". Drexler is often considered among the top basketball players and top shooting guards of all time.

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Gerald Hillringhaus, German footballer

Gerald "Gerry" Hillringhaus is a former German footballer.

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22/06/1961

Jimmy Somerville, Scottish singer-songwriter

James William Somerville is a Scottish singer. He rose to prominence in the 1980s as a member the synth-pop groups Bronski Beat and the Communards; with the former, Somerville achieved commercial success worldwide with the 1984 single "Smalltown Boy", which peaked at number three on the UK Singles Chart.

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22/06/1960

Erin Brockovich, American lawyer and environmentalist

Erin Brockovich is an American paralegal, consumer advocate, and environmental activist who was instrumental in building a case against Pacific Gas & Electric Company (PG&E) involving groundwater contamination in Hinkley, California, for attorney Ed Masry in 1993. Their successful lawsuit was the subject of the Oscar-winning film Erin Brockovich (2000), starring Julia Roberts as Brockovich and Albert Finney as Masry.

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Margrit Klinger, German runner

Margrit Klinger is a retired West German middle-distance runner who specialized in the 800 metres.

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Tracy Pollan, American actress

Tracy Jo Pollan Fox is an American actress. She is best known for playing Ellen Reed on the NBC sitcom Family Ties (1985–1987) and Harper Anderson on the crime drama series Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (2000), for which she received a Primetime Emmy Award nomination.

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22/06/1959

Michael Kinane, Irish jockey

Michael J. Kinane is an Irish former flat racing jockey. He had a 34-year career, retiring on 8 December 2009.

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Nicola Sirkis, French singer-songwriter and guitarist

Nicolas Henri Didier Sirchis, better known by his stage name Nicola Sirkis, is a French musician, primarily known for his work as the frontman and singer of the French rock band Indochine. He is the only remaining member of the original line-up of the band which he formed in 1981 with a friend, Dominique Nicolas, soon to be joined by his twin brother Stéphane and Dimitri Bodianski.

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Daniel Xuereb, French footballer

Daniel Xuereb is a French former professional footballer who played as a forward. He earned eight international caps for France during the 1980s, scoring one goal. As a player of RC Lens (1981–1986), he appeared for France in the 1986 FIFA World Cup, after France won the gold medal match at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California, scoring in the match himself, while also ending the competition's joint top-scorer.

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22/06/1958

Rocío Banquells, Mexican pop singer and actress

Rocío Banquells is a Mexican pop singer, politician, and actress, best known for her work on television, the stage and cinema of Mexico and Latin America. Her mezzo voice is one of the most versatile voices from Mexico. She sings operetta, ranchera, rock, and ballads.

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Jennifer Finney Boylan, American author

Jennifer Finney Boylan is an American author, transgender activist, professor at Barnard College, and a former contributing opinion writer for the New York Times. In December 2023, she became the president of PEN America, having previously been the vice president.

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Bruce Campbell, American actor, director, producer and writer

Bruce Lorne Campbell is an American actor and filmmaker. He starred as Ash Williams in Sam Raimi's Evil Dead horror series. He has also featured in many low-budget cult movies, such as Crimewave (1985), Maniac Cop (1988), Sundown: The Vampire in Retreat (1989), and Bubba Ho-Tep (2002).

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22/06/1957

Danny Baker, English journalist and screenwriter

Danny Baker is an English comedy writer, journalist, radio DJ and screenwriter. Throughout his career he has largely presented for London's regional radio and television.

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Garry Gary Beers, Australian bass player, songwriter, and producer

Garry William Beers, known as Garry Gary Beers, is an Australian musician and was the bass guitarist for the rock group INXS.

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Kevin Bond, English footballer and manager

Kevin John Bond is an English professional football manager and former footballer who played as a centre back.

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Michael Stratton, English geneticist and academic

Sir Michael Rudolf Stratton is a British clinical scientist and the third director of the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute. He currently heads the Cancer Genome Project and is a leader of the International Cancer Genome Consortium.

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22/06/1956

Darryl Brohman, Australian rugby league player and sportscaster

Darryl Gregory Brohman, also known by the nickname of "The Big Marn", is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1970s and 1980s, and coached in the 1980s, now best known as a commentator and media personality. Brohman played professional league for the Penrith Panthers, Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs and the Queensland rugby league team. At present, he is working for 2GB on its Continuous Call Team broadcasts, on The Footy Show and makes guest appearances on the Australian version of the ESPN show Pardon the Interruption. In the summer, he plays a small role in the nationally syndicated radio program entitled Summer Weekend Detention which broadcasts from the Sydney studios of 2GB on weekends during the summer months.

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Alfons De Wolf, Belgian cyclist

Alfons "Fons" De Wolf is a retired Belgian road race cyclist, a professional from 1979 to 1990. He represented his country at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Canada.

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Shah Mehmood Qureshi, Pakistani agriculturist and politician, 25th Pakistani Minister of Foreign Affairs

Makhdoom Shah Mahmood Hussain Qureshi is a Pakistani politician who served twice as the minister of foreign affairs from 2018 to 2022 and from 2008 to 2011. He had been a member of the National Assembly (MNA) from 2018 till 2023. He has been the vice-chairman of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf since 2011. Previously, he was a member of the National Assembly from 2002 to May 2018.

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Tim Russ, American actor, director, and screenwriter

Timothy Darrell Russ is an American actor, musician, screenwriter, director and amateur astronomer. He is best known for his roles as Lieutenant Commander Tuvok on Star Trek: Voyager; Robert Johnson in Crossroads (1986); Casey in East of Hope Street (1998); Frank on Samantha Who?; Principal Franklin on the Nickelodeon sitcom iCarly; D. C. Montana on The Highwaymen (1987–1988), and for his brief role in Spaceballs (1987). He appeared in The Rookie: Feds (2022) and reprised his role as Captain Tuvok on Season 3 of Star Trek: Picard.

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Markus Schatte, German footballer, manager, and coach

Markus Schatte is a German football coach.

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Derek Forbes, Scottish bass player and guitarist

Derek Forbes is a Scottish musician. He is mostly associated with the Scottish band Simple Minds, having joined in time to record their early demos in 1978 and stayed with the band during their rise to mainstream success and their first six albums, until leaving shortly after their 1985 hit "Don't You ". He has also played with Big Country, Propaganda, Oblivion Dust, Spear of Destiny, Kirk Brandon's 10:51 and The Alarm, as well as leading his own projects.

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22/06/1955

Green Gartside, Welsh singer-songwriter and guitarist

Green Gartside is a Welsh singer, songwriter and musician. He is the frontman of the band Scritti Politti.

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Christine Orengo, British academic and educator

Christine Anne Orengo is a Professor of Bioinformatics at University College London (UCL) known for her work on protein structure, particularly the CATH database. From 2021 to 2024, Orengo served as president of the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB), the first woman to do so in the history of the society.

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22/06/1954

Freddie Prinze, American comedian and actor (died 1977)

Freddie Prinze was an American stand-up comedian and actor, and the star of the NBC-TV sitcom Chico and the Man from 1974 until his death in 1977. He was described in a Vulture magazine article as "having blown up like no other comedian in history." Prinze is the father of actor Freddie Prinze Jr.

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22/06/1953

Wim Eijk, Dutch cardinal

Willem Jacobus "Wim" Eijk is a Dutch prelate of the Catholic Church, a cardinal since 2012. He has been the Metropolitan Archbishop of Utrecht since 2007. He was Bishop of Groningen-Leeuwarden from 1999 to 2007. Before his clerical career, he worked as a medical doctor; as a priest, he made medical ethics the focus of his academic studies. He has done his doctoral studies in medicine and philosophy, and also holds a licentiate in theology.

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Mauro Francaviglia, Italian mathematician and academic (died 2013)

Mauro Francaviglia was an Italian mathematician.

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Cyndi Lauper, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actress

Cynthia Ann Stephanie Lauper is an American singer, songwriter and actress. Lauper is known for her distinctive image, which features eccentric clothing and a variety of hair colors. She is also known for her powerful four-octave vocal range. Lauper has been dubbed the "Queen of Quirky Pop." She has sold over 50 million records worldwide. She has also been celebrated for her humanitarian work, particularly as an advocate for LGBTQ rights in the United States.

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Bruce McAvaney, Australian journalist and sportscaster

Bruce William McAvaney is an Australian sports broadcaster with the Seven Network. McAvaney has presented high-profile events including the AFL Grand Final, Melbourne Cup, Australian Open, Test cricket and both Winter and Summer Olympics, as well as annual special events such as the Brownlow Medal. McAvaney is well known for his commentary of AFL matches as well as covering every Summer Olympic Games from the Los Angeles 1984 Summer Olympic Games to the Paris 2024 Summer Olympic Games.

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22/06/1952

Graham Greene, Canadian actor

Graham Greene was a Canadian First Nations (Oneida) actor and recording artist, active in film, television and theatre in a career spanning over 50 years. He achieved international fame for his role as Kicking Bird in Kevin Costner's Dances With Wolves (1990), which earned him an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor. His other notable films include Thunderheart (1992), Maverick (1994), Die Hard with a Vengeance (1995), The Green Mile (1999), Skins (2002), Transamerica (2005), Casino Jack (2010), Winter's Tale (2014), The Shack (2017), and Wind River (2017).

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Santokh Singh, Malaysian football player

Datuk Santokh Singh s/o Gurdial Singh is a retired Malaysian football player. His wife is Taljit Kaur and has 3 children, Kiranjeet Kaur, Sukhveer Singh and Rajveer Singh.

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22/06/1951

Brian Cookson, British cyclist and sports administrator

Michael Brian Cookson OBE is the former president of the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI), having been elected to the post in September 2013 at the 2013 UCI Road World Championships.

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Craig Gruber, American bass player (died 2015)

Craig M. Gruber was an American rock bassist, best known as the original bassist in Rainbow. He also played in Elf, consisting of vocalist Ronnie James Dio, keyboardist Mickey Lee Soule, drummer Gary Driscoll, and guitarist Steve Edwards.

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Humphrey Ocean, English painter and academic

Humphrey Ocean is a contemporary British painter.

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22/06/1950

Sharon Maughan, English actress

Sharon Patricia Maughan is a British actress. She became internationally recognised in the 1980s from the Gold Blend couple television advertisements for Nescafé instant coffee, alongside actor Anthony Head. Her credits include She's Out of My League, MacGyver, Inspector Morse, Hannay, and Murder, She Wrote. She made it to the semi-final of Celebrity MasterChef in 2011.

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Adrian Năstase, Romanian lawyer and politician, 59th Prime Minister of Romania

Adrian Năstase is a Romanian jurist, academic/professor, blogger, and former politician who served as the prime minister of Romania from December 2000 to December 2004.

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Greg Oliphant, Australian rugby league player

Greg Oliphant is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer, a state and national representative halfback who made one Kangaroo tour. Oliphant played in the New South Wales Rugby League for the two seasons of 1978–1979 with the Balmain Tigers. Prior to and after those years he played in the Brisbane Rugby League with Wests, Valleys and Redcliffe.

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John Perdue, former West Virginia State Treasurer

John D. Perdue is an American politician who served as the 24th West Virginia State Treasurer from 1997 to 2021. He is the latest Democratic candidate to receive more than 50% of the vote in the state.

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Zenonas Petrauskas, Lithuanian lawyer and politician (died 2009)

Zenonas Petrauskas was a Lithuanian lawyer and deputy foreign minister of Lithuania (2004–2006). He was as an associate professor of international law. He was born in Čekiškė.

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Tom Alter, Indian actor (died 2017)

Thomas Beach Alter was an Indian actor of American descent who worked in Indian cinema. He was best known for his works in Hindi cinema, and Indian theatre. In 2008, he was awarded the Padma Shri by the Government of India.

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22/06/1949

Larry Junstrom, American bass player (died 2019)

Lawrence Edward Junstrom was an American bassist who was a member of the rock band .38 Special from 1977 until 2014. He was also one of the founding members of the southern rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd.

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Brian Leveson, English lawyer and judge

Sir Brian Henry Leveson is an English retired senior judge who is the current Investigatory Powers Commissioner, having previously served as the President of the Queen's Bench Division and Head of Criminal Justice.

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Alan Osmond, American singer and producer

Alan Ralph Osmond was an American singer and musician. He was best known for being a member of the family musical group The Osmonds. Prior to that, Alan and his brothers were performing as the Osmond Brothers Boys' Quartet. He served as leader of the group.

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Meryl Streep, American actress

Mary Louise "Meryl" Streep is an American actress. Recognized as one of the most versatile performers of her era, Streep is noted for her technical precision, command of dialects, and professional longevity. She is an alumna of Vassar College and the Yale School of Drama, holding a Bachelor of Arts and a Master of Fine Arts. Her artistic process often includes refining her characters' dialogue so that their motivations possess a psychological depth and agency that transcend traditional archetypes. Beyond her creative work, she is a prominent advocate for gender parity, labor protections, and a challenge to the influence of the male gaze in film criticism and production.

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Luís Filipe Vieira, Portuguese businessman

Luís Filipe Ferreira Vieira is a Portuguese real estate businessman who was the 33rd president of sports club Benfica, from 31 October 2003 to 15 July 2021.

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Lindsay Wagner, American actress

Lindsay Jean Wagner is an American actress. Wagner is popular for her leading role in the American science fiction television series The Bionic Woman (1976–1978), in which she portrayed character Jaime Sommers. She first played the role on the series The Six Million Dollar Man. The character became a pop culture icon of the 1970s. For this role, Wagner won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Dramatic Role in 1977 – the first for an actor or actress in a science fiction series. Wagner began acting professionally in 1971 and has maintained a lengthy acting career in a variety of film and television productions to the present day.

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Elizabeth Warren, American academic and politician

Elizabeth Ann Warren is an American politician and former law professor serving as the senior United States senator from Massachusetts, a seat she has held since 2013. A member of the Democratic Party and regarded as a progressive, Warren has focused on consumer protection, equitable economic opportunity, and the social safety net while in the Senate. Warren was also a candidate in the 2020 Democratic Party presidential primaries, ultimately finishing third after Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders.

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22/06/1948

James Charteris, 13th Earl of Wemyss, Scottish businessman

James Donald Charteris, 13th Earl of Wemyss and 9th Earl of March,, also known as Jamie Neidpath, is a British peer and landowner.

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Todd Rundgren, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer

Todd Harry Rundgren is an American musician, singer, songwriter, and record producer who has performed a diverse range of styles as a solo artist and as a member of the bands Nazz and Utopia. He is known for his sophisticated and often unorthodox music, his occasionally lavish stage shows, and his later experiments with interactive art. He also produced music videos and was an early adopter and promoter of various computer technologies, such as using the Internet as a means of music distribution in the late 1990s.

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22/06/1947

Octavia E. Butler, American author (died 2006)

Octavia Estelle Butler was an American science fiction and speculative fiction author who won several awards for her works, including Hugo, Locus, and Nebula awards. In 1995, Butler became the first science-fiction writer to receive a MacArthur Fellowship.

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Howard Kaylan, American pop-rock singer-songwriter and musician

Howard Kaylan is an American retired musician and songwriter, who was a founding member and lead singer of the 1960s rock band The Turtles, and, with bandmate and friend Mark Volman, a member of the 1970s rock duo Flo & Eddie, where he used the pseudonym Eddie. He also was a member of Frank Zappa's band, The Mothers of Invention.

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Bruno Latour, French philosopher, anthropologist and sociologist (died 2022)

Bruno Latour was a French philosopher, anthropologist and sociologist. He was especially known for his work in the field of science and technology studies (STS). After teaching at the Centre de Sociologie de l'Innovation of the École des Mines de Paris from 1982 to 2006, he became a professor at Sciences Po Paris (2006–2017), where he was the scientific director of the Sciences Po Medialab. He retired from several university activities in 2017. He was also a Centennial Professor at the London School of Economics.

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Pete Maravich, American basketball player (died 1988)

Peter Press Maravich, also known by his nickname Pistol Pete, was an American professional basketball player.

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Jerry Rawlings, Ghanaian lieutenant and politician, President of Ghana (died 2020)

Jerry John Rawlings was a Ghanaian military officer, aviator, politician, and revolutionary who led the country briefly in 1979 and then from 1981 to 2001. He led a military regime until 1993 and then served two terms as the democratically elected president of Ghana. He was the longest-serving leader in Ghana's history, presiding over the country for 19 years.

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22/06/1946

Linda Bond, Canadian 19th General of The Salvation Army

Linda Bond served as the 19th General of the Salvation Army. She was born in Glace Bay, Nova Scotia, Canada.

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Sheila Hollins, Baroness Hollins, English psychiatrist and academic

Sheila Clare Hollins, Baroness Hollins, is Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry of Learning Disability at St George's, University of London, and was created a crossbench life peer in the House of Lords on 15 November 2010 taking the title Baroness Hollins, of Wimbledon in the London Borough of Merton and of Grenoside in the County of South Yorkshire.

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Eliades Ochoa, Cuban singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer

Eliades Ochoa Bustamante is a Cuban guitarist and singer from Loma de la Avispa, Songo La Maya in the east of the country near Santiago de Cuba.

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Józef Oleksy, Polish economist and politician, 7th Prime Minister of Poland (died 2015)

Józef Oleksy was a Polish left-wing politician who served as Prime Minister of Poland from 7 March 1995 to 7 February 1996, when he resigned due to espionage allegations. He was chairman of the Democratic Left Alliance.

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Stephen Waley-Cohen, English journalist and businessman

Sir Stephen Harry Waley-Cohen, 2nd Baronet is an English theatre owner-manager and producer, following a career as a businessman and financial journalist. He manages the St. Martin's Theatre in London's West End and is the current producer of the world's longest running play The Mousetrap. He was chairman of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) Council.

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22/06/1945

Rainer Brüderle, German economist and politician, German Minister of Economics and Technology

Rainer Brüderle is a German politician and member of the Free Democratic Party (FDP). He served as Minister of Economics and Transport of Rhineland-Palatinate from 1987–1998. On 28 October 2009, he was appointed Federal Minister for Economics and Technology in the second cabinet of Chancellor Angela Merkel. Following his election in May 2011 as chairman of his party's parliamentary group, Brüderle resigned as Federal Minister for Economic Affairs and Technology.

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22/06/1944

Peter Asher, English singer, guitarist, and producer

Peter Asher is an English guitarist, singer, manager and record producer. He came to prominence in the 1960s as a member of the pop music vocal duo Peter and Gordon before going on to a successful career as a manager and record producer, helping to foster the recording careers of James Taylor and Linda Ronstadt among others.

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Helmut Dietl, German director, producer, and screenwriter (died 2015)

Helmut Dietl was a German film director and author from Bad Wiessee.

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22/06/1943

Klaus Maria Brandauer, Austrian actor and director

Klaus Maria Brandauer is an Austrian actor and director. He is also a professor at the Max Reinhardt Seminar.

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Brit Hume, American journalist and author

Alexander Britton Hume, known professionally as Brit Hume, is an American journalist and political commentator. He had a 23-year career with ABC News, where he contributed to World News Tonight with Peter Jennings, Nightline, and This Week. Hume served as the ABC News chief White House correspondent from 1989 to 1996.

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J. Michael Kosterlitz, British-American physicist

John Michael Kosterlitz is a British-American physicist. He is a professor of physics at Brown University and the son of biochemist Hans Kosterlitz. He was awarded the 2016 Nobel Prize in physics along with David Thouless and Duncan Haldane for work on condensed matter physics.

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22/06/1941

Ed Bradley, American journalist (died 2006)

Edward Rudolph Bradley Jr. was an American broadcast journalist and news anchor who is best known for reporting with 60 Minutes and CBS News.

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Terttu Savola, Finnish journalist and politician

Terttu Savola is a Finnish politician. She is the chairperson of the For the Poor party, a member of the council of the city of Espoo, the ambassador for human rights and children's rights in the Finnish United Nations alliance, and a lecturer in the Finnish Refugee Help Association.

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22/06/1940

Joan Busfield, English sociologist, psychologist, and academic

Joan Busfield, is a British sociologist and psychologist, Professor of Sociology at the University of Essex and former President of the British Sociological Association (2003–2005). Her research focuses on psychiatry and mental disorder.

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Hubert Chesshyre, English historian and author (died 2020)

David Hubert Boothby Chesshyre was a British officer of arms.

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Abbas Kiarostami, Iranian director, producer, and screenwriter (died 2016)

Abbas Kiarostami was an Iranian film director, screenwriter, poet, photographer, and film producer. An active filmmaker from 1970, Kiarostami had been involved in the production of over forty films, including shorts and documentaries. Kiarostami attained critical acclaim for directing the Koker trilogy (1987–1994), Close-Up (1990), The Wind Will Carry Us (1999), and Taste of Cherry (1997), which was awarded the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival that year. In later works, Certified Copy (2010) and Like Someone in Love (2012), he filmed for the first time outside Iran: in Italy and Japan, respectively. His films Where Is the Friend's House? (1987), Close-Up, and The Wind Will Carry Us were ranked among the 100 best foreign films in a 2018 critics' poll by BBC Culture. Close-Up was also ranked one of the 50 greatest movies of all time in the famous decennial Sight & Sound poll conducted in 2012. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest and most influential filmmakers of Iran, and of all time.

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Esther Rantzen, English journalist

Dame Esther Louise Rantzen is an English journalist and television presenter who presented the BBC television series That's Life! for 21 years, from 1973 until 1994. She works with various charitable causes and founded the charities Childline, a helpline for children, which she set up in 1986, and The Silver Line, designed to combat loneliness in older people's lives, which she set up in November 2012.

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22/06/1939

Don Matthews, American-Canadian football player and coach (died 2017)

Donald J. Matthews, a.k.a. "the Don", was a head coach of several professional football teams, mostly in the Canadian Football League (CFL). He won 231 games in the CFL, the second highest win total by a head coach in the league's history while the first and so far only coach to lead four teams to Grey Cup victories. He was inducted into the Canadian Football Hall of Fame in September 2011.

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Ed Paschke, Polish-American painter and academic (died 2004)

Edward Francis Paschke was an American painter. His childhood interest in animation and cartoons, as well as his father's creativity in wood carving and construction, led him toward a career in art. As a student at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago he was influenced by many artists featured in the museum's special exhibitions, in particular the work of Gauguin, Picasso and Seurat.

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22/06/1937

Chris Blackwell, English record producer, co-founded Island Records

Christopher Percy Gordon Blackwell OJ is a Jamaican-British former record producer and the founder of Island Records, which has been called "one of Britain's great independent labels". According to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, to which Blackwell was inducted in 2001, he is "the single person most responsible for turning the world on to reggae music." Variety describes him as "indisputably one of the greatest record executives in history."

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Bernie McGann, Australian saxophonist and composer (died 2013)

Bernard Francis McGann was an Australian jazz alto saxophone player. He began his career in the late 1950s and remained active as a performer, composer and recording artist until near the end of his life. McGann won four ARIA Music Awards between 1993 and 2001.

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22/06/1936

Kris Kristofferson, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor (died 2024)

Kristoffer Kristofferson was an American musician, songwriter, and actor. He was a pioneering figure in the outlaw country movement of the 1970s, moving away from the polished Nashville sound and toward a more raw, introspective style. Some of his most famous songs include "Me and Bobby McGee" (1970), "For the Good Times" (1968), "Sunday Mornin' Comin' Down" (1969), and "Help Me Make It Through the Night" (1970), which were also recorded by and became hits for other artists.

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Ferran Olivella, Spanish footballer (died 2023)

Ferran Olivella Pons was a Spanish footballer who played as a defender.

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Hermeto Pascoal, Brazilian accordion player and composer

Hermeto Pascoal was a Brazilian composer and multi-instrumentalist. Pascoal was best known in Brazilian music for his orchestration and improvisation, as well as for being a record producer and contributor to many Brazilian and international albums.

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22/06/1934

James Bjorken, American physicist, author, and academic (died 2024)

James Daniel "BJ" Bjorken was an American theoretical physicist. He was a Putnam Fellow in 1954, received a BS in physics from MIT in 1956, and obtained his PhD from Stanford University in 1959. Bjorken was a visiting scholar at the Institute for Advanced Study in the fall of 1962. He was also emeritus professor in the SLAC Theory Group at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, and was a member of the Theory Department of the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (1979–1989).

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22/06/1933

Dianne Feinstein, American politician (died 2023)

Dianne Emiel Feinstein was an American politician who served as a United States senator from California from 1992 until her death in 2023. A member of the Democratic Party, she previously served as the 38th mayor of San Francisco from 1978 to 1988.

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22/06/1932

Soraya Esfandiary-Bakhtiari, Princess of Iran (died 2001)

Soraya Esfandiary-Bakhtiary was the second wife of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi and Queen of Iran from 1951 to 1958. Their marriage suffered many pressures, particularly when it became clear that she was infertile. In March 1958, their divorce was announced. After a brief career as an actress, and a liaison with Italian film director Franco Indovina, Soraya lived with her brother in Paris until her death.

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Yevgeny Kychanov, Russian orientalist, historian, and academic (died 2013)

Evgenij Ivanovich Kychanov was a Soviet-Russian orientalist, an expert on the Tangut people and their mediaeval Xi Xia Empire. From 1997 to 2003 he served as the director of the Saint Petersburg Branch of the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

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Amrish Puri, Indian actor (died 2005)

Amrish Puri was an Indian actor, who was one of the most notable and important figures in Indian cinema and theatre. He acted in more than 450 films, and established himself as one of the greatest and iconic actors in Indian cinema. Puri was known for his acting versatility but his villainous roles earned him more recognition. His dominating screen presence and distinctive deep voice made him stand out amongst other actors of his generation. Puri also worked in art cinema. He won three Filmfare Awards for Best Supporting Actor in eight nominations. He also holds most Filmfare Award for Best Villain nominations.

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June Salter, Australian actress (died 2001)

June Marie Salter was an Australian actress and author prominent in theatre and television. She is best known for her character roles, in particular as schoolteacher Elizabeth McKenzie in the soap opera The Restless Years and for her regular guest appearances in A Country Practice as Matron Hilda Arrowsmith.

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Prunella Scales, English actress (died 2025)

Prunella Margaret Rumney West, known professionally as Prunella Scales, was an English actress. She is best known for her portrayal of Sybil Fawlty in the BBC television sitcom Fawlty Towers (1975–1979) and her performance as Queen Elizabeth II in Alan Bennett's A Question of Attribution (1991), which earned her a BAFTA nomination. She later appeared in the TV documentary series Great Canal Journeys (2014–2019), travelling waterways in the UK and abroad with her husband, the actor Timothy West.

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John Wakeham, Baron Wakeham, English businessman and politician, Leader of the House of Lords

John Wakeham, Baron Wakeham, is a British businessman and Conservative Party politician. He was chancellor of Brunel University between 1998 and 2012, and since then has been its chancellor emeritus.

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22/06/1931

Ruby Garrard Woodson, American educator and cultural historian (died 2008)

Ruby Garrard Woodson was an educator and chemistry teacher who founded Cromwell Academy in Washington, D. C. and Florida Academy of African American Culture in Sarasota, Florida.

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22/06/1930

Yuri Artyukhin, Russian colonel, engineer, and astronaut (died 1998)

Yuri Petrovich Artyukhin was a Soviet Russian cosmonaut and engineer who made a single flight into space.

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Walter Bonatti, Italian journalist and mountaineer (died 2011)

Walter Bonatti was an Italian mountaineer, alpinist, explorer and journalist. He was noted for many climbing achievements, including a solo climb of a new alpine climbing route on the south-west pillar of the Aiguille du Dru in August 1955, the first ascent of Gasherbrum IV in 1958, and, in 1965, the first solo climb in winter of the North face of the Matterhorn on the mountain's centenary year of its first ascent. Immediately after his solo climb on the Matterhorn, Bonatti announced his retirement from professional climbing at the age of 35, and after 17 years of climbing activity. He authored many mountaineering books and spent the remainder of his career travelling off the beaten track as a reporter for the Italian magazine Epoca. He died on 13 September 2011 of pancreatic cancer in Rome aged 81, and was survived by his life partner, the actress Rossana Podestà.

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22/06/1929

Bruce Kent, English activist and laicised Roman Catholic priest (died 2022)

Bruce Kent was an English Catholic former priest who became a political activist in the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND), holding various leadership positions in the organisation.

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22/06/1928

Ralph Waite, American actor and director (died 2014)

Ralph Waite was an American actor, best known for his lead role as John Walton Sr. on The Waltons (1972–1981), which he occasionally directed. He later had recurring roles as two other heroic fathers; in NCIS as Jackson Gibbs, the father of Leroy Jethro Gibbs, and in Bones, as Seeley Booth's grandfather.

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22/06/1927

Anthony Low, Indian-English historian and academic (died 2015)

Donald Anthony Low, known as Anthony Low or D. A. Low, was a historian of modern South Asia, Africa, the British Commonwealth, and, especially, decolonization. He was the emeritus Smuts Professor of History of the British Commonwealth at the University of Cambridge, former Vice-Chancellor of the Australian National University, Canberra, and President of Clare Hall, Cambridge.

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22/06/1926

George Englund, American film editor, director, producer and actor (died 2017)

George Englund was an American film editor, director, producer, and actor.

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Rachid Solh, Lebanese politician, 48th Prime Minister of Lebanon (died 2014)

Rachid Solh was a Lebanese politician and Prime Minister, kin of one of the most eminent Sunni Muslim families in the country several of whose members became prime ministers, and that was originally from Sidon but later moved its civil-records to Beirut.

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22/06/1924

Christopher Booth, English clinician and historian (died 2012)

Sir Christopher Charles Booth was an English clinician and medical historian, characterised as "one of the great characters of British medicine".

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Larkin Kerwin, Canadian physicist and academic (died 2004)

John Larkin Kerwin was a Canadian physicist.

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22/06/1923

José Giovanni, French-Swiss director and screenwriter (died 2004)

Joseph Damiani, known by the pen name José Giovanni, was a French-Swiss writer, filmmaker, and a convicted criminal. He was known for his realistic, gritty crime novels which drew upon his own personal experiences and knowledge of the French underworld.

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22/06/1922

Bill Blass, American fashion designer, founded Bill Blass Group (died 2002)

William Ralph Blass was an American fashion designer. He was the recipient of many fashion awards, including seven Coty Awards and the Fashion Institute of Technology's Lifetime Achievement Award (1999).

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Clair Cameron Patterson, American scientist (died 1995)

Clair Cameron Patterson was an American geochemist. Born in Mitchellville, Iowa, Patterson graduated from Grinnell College. He later received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago and spent his entire professional career at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech).

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22/06/1921

Joseph Papp, American director and producer (died 1991)

Joseph Papp was an American theatrical producer and director. Papp is a pioneering figure in American theater, known for creating Shakespeare in the Park, which aimed to make classical theater accessible to all people by producing free-of-charge performances. He was a known advocate for non-traditional and diverse casting practices. He established The Public Theater in what had been the Astor Library Building in Lower Manhattan. There Papp created a year-round producing home to focus on new plays and musicals. Eventually, one of the six performance spaces inside the Public Theater was renamed Joe's Pub in honor of Joseph Papp. It continues to host live performances across a wide range of art forms. Among numerous examples of these were the works of David Rabe, Ntozake Shange's For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf, Charles Gordone's No Place to Be Somebody, and Papp's production of Michael Bennett's Pulitzer Prize–winning musical A Chorus Line. Papp also helped to develop other off-Broadway theatres and worked to preserve the historic Broadway Theatre District.

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Barbara Vucanovich, American lawyer and politician (died 2013)

Barbara Farrell Vucanovich was an American Republican politician from Nevada. She was the first woman from Nevada elected to the United States House of Representatives, in which she served seven terms representing Nevada from 1983 to 1997.

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Radovan Ivšić, Croatian writer (died 2009)

Radovan Ivšić was a Croatian writer, best known for his drama Kralj Gordogan and book of poems Crno. Ivšić spent his life uncompromisingly in the spirit of liberty. Such values brought him close to the surrealist movement. He was a friend of André Breton and Toyen and was one of the signers of the last Manifeste du surréalisme, 1955. His best-known statements are “Never give up your dreams” and paraphrase “We are our dreams”.

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Barbara Perry, American actress (died 2019)

Barbara Perry was an American actress, singer and dancer who worked for 84 years in Hollywood and on Broadway.

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22/06/1920

James H. Pomerene, American computer scientist and engineer (died 2008)

James Herbert Pomerene was an electrical engineer and computer pioneer.

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Jovito Salonga, Filipino lawyer and politician, 14th President of the Senate of the Philippines (died 2016)

Jovito Reyes Salonga, KGCR also called "Ka Jovy," was a Filipino lawyer and politician, as well as a leading opposition leader during the regime of Ferdinand Marcos from the declaration of martial law in 1972 until the People Power Revolution in 1986, which removed Marcos from power. Salonga was then elected as the 14th president of the Senate of the Philippines and the first one after the new Constitution was just ratified, serving from 1987 up to his retirement from politics in 1992.

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22/06/1919

Gower Champion, American dancer and choreographer (died 1980)

Gower Carlyle Champion was an American actor, theatre director, choreographer, and dancer.

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Henri Tajfel, Polish social psychologist (died 1982)

Henri Tajfel was a Polish social psychologist, best known for his pioneering work on the cognitive aspects of prejudice and social identity theory, as well as being one of the founders of the European Association of Experimental Social Psychology.

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Clifton McNeely, American basketball player and coach (died 2003)

Clyde Clifton McNeely was an American basketball player and coach. A 5 ft 10 in (1.78 m) forward, he played college basketball for the Texas Wesleyan Rams for three seasons and led the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) in scoring during his senior season in 1946–47. McNeely was the first player ever drafted in the National Basketball Association (NBA) when he was selected by the Pittsburgh Ironmen as the first pick of the league's inaugural 1947 draft. He never played professional basketball and instead pursued a coaching career at Pampa High School in Texas.

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22/06/1918

Cicely Saunders, English nurse, social worker, physician and writer (died 2005)

Dame Cicely Mary Strode Saunders was an English nurse, social worker, physician and writer. She is noted for her work in terminal care research and her role in the birth of the hospice movement, emphasising the importance of palliative care in modern medicine, and opposing the legalisation of voluntary euthanasia.

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Yeoh Ghim Seng, Singaporean politician, acting President of Singapore (died 1993)

Yeoh Ghim Seng was a Singaporean politician who served as Speaker of the Parliament of Singapore between 1970 and 1988.

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22/06/1916

Johnny Jacobs, American television announcer (died 1982)

John Byron Jacobs was an American television announcer, often for Chuck Barris productions—namely, The Newlywed Game and The Dating Game.

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Richard Eastham, American actor (died 2005)

Richard Eastham was an American actor of stage, film, and television, a concert singer known for his deep baritone voice, and an inventor.

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Emil Fackenheim, German Jewish philosopher and Reform rabbi (died 2003)

Emil Ludwig Fackenheim was a Jewish philosopher and Reform rabbi.

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22/06/1915

Dolf van der Linden, Dutch conductor and composer (died 1999)

David Gijsbert van der Linden, known as Dolf van der Linden, was a Dutch conductor of popular music. HIs reputation extended beyond the Netherlands. He was a three-time Eurovision Song Contest winning conductor.

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Cornelius Warmerdam, American pole vaulter and coach (died 2001)

Cornelius "Dutch" Warmerdam was an American pole vaulter who held the world record between 1940 and 1957. He missed the Olympics due to World War II, and retired from senior competitions in 1944, though he continued to vault into his sixties. He was inducted into the International Association of Athletics Federations Hall of Fame in 1974.

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Randolph Hokanson, American pianist (died 2018)

Randolph Henning Hokanson was an American pianist and professor emeritus at the University of Washington in Seattle. He was noted for his recordings of Bach, Schubert, Beethoven, Chopin, Liszt and Mendelssohn, and gave over 100 performances, including the complete cycle of Beethoven sonatas.

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Thomas Quinn Curtiss, American writer, and film and theatre critic (died 2000)

Thomas Quinn Curtiss was an American writer, and film and theater critic. He is also known for his relationship with author Klaus Mann.

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22/06/1914

Mei Zhi, Chinese author and essayist (died 2004)

Mei Zhi was a Chinese children's author and essayist.

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22/06/1913

Sándor Weöres, Hungarian poet and author (died 1989)

Sándor Weöres was a Hungarian poet and author.

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22/06/1912

Princess Caroline Mathilde of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (died 1983)

Charles Edward was at various points in his life a British prince and royal duke, a German duke, and a Nazi politician. He was the last ruling Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, a state of the German Empire, from 30 July 1900 to 14 November 1918. He later held multiple positions in the Nazi regime, including leader of the German Red Cross, and acted as an unofficial diplomat for the German government.

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Raymonde Allain, French model and actress (died 2008)

Raymonde Allain was a French model and actress. She was Miss France in 1928. Her participation in the Miss Universe contest drew international media attention, and her controversial loss to American Ella Van Hueson prompted critical dispute over what counted as "real beauty". Allain later wrote an autobiography titled Histoire vraie d'un prix de beauté.

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22/06/1911

Vernon Kirby, South African tennis player (died 1994)

Vernon Gordon 'Bob' Kirby was a South African tennis player.

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22/06/1910

John Hunt, Baron Hunt, Indian-English lieutenant and mountaineer (died 1998)

Henry Cecil John Hunt, Baron Hunt was a British Army officer who is best known as the leader of the successful 1953 British expedition to Mount Everest.

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Anne Ziegler, English singer (died 2003)

Anne Ziegler was an English singer, known for her light operatic duets with her husband Webster Booth. The pair were known as the "Sweethearts in Song" and were among the most famous and popular British musical acts of the 1940s.

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Konrad Zuse, German computer scientist and engineer, invented the Z3 computer (died 1995)

Konrad Ernst Otto Zuse was a German civil engineer, pioneering computer scientist, inventor and businessman. His greatest achievement was the world's first programmable computer; the functional program-controlled Turing-complete Z3 became operational in May 1941. Thanks to this machine and its predecessors, Zuse is regarded by some as the inventor and father of the modern computer.

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22/06/1909

Katherine Dunham, American dancer and choreographer (died 2006)

Katherine Mary Dunham was an American dancer, choreographer, anthropologist, and social activist. One of the most renowned modern dance artists of the 20th century, she has been called the "matriarch and queen mother of black dance."

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Infanta Beatriz of Spain, Spanish princess and aristocrat (died 2002)

Infanta Beatriz of Spain, Princess of Civitella-Cesi was a daughter of King Alfonso XIII of Spain and Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg and the wife of Alessandro Torlonia, 5th Prince di Civitella-Cesi. She was a paternal aunt of King Juan Carlos I.

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Mike Todd, American producer and manager (died 1958)

Michael Todd was an American theater and film producer, celebrated for his 1956 Around the World in 80 Days, which won an Academy Award for Best Picture. Actress Elizabeth Taylor was his third wife. Todd was the third of Taylor's seven husbands, and the only one Taylor did not divorce. He died in a private plane accident a year after they married. He was the driving force behind the development of the eponymous Todd-AO widescreen film format.

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22/06/1907

Eriks Ādamsons, Latvian writer, poet, and novelist (died 1946)

Eriks Ādamsons was a Latvian writer, poet and novelist.

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22/06/1906

William Kneale, English logician and philosopher (died 1990)

William Calvert Kneale was an English logician best known for his 1962 book The Development of Logic, a history of logic from its beginnings in Ancient Greece written with his wife Martha. Kneale was also known as a philosopher of science and the author of a book on probability and induction. Educated at the Liverpool Institute High School for boys, he later became a fellow of Exeter College, Oxford, and in 1960 succeeded to the White's Professor of Moral Philosophy previously occupied by the linguistic philosopher J. L. Austin. He retired in 1966.

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Anne Morrow Lindbergh, American pilot and author (died 2001)

Anne Spencer Morrow Lindbergh was an American writer and aviator. She was the wife of decorated pioneer aviator Charles Lindbergh, with whom she made many exploratory flights.

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Billy Wilder, Austrian-born American director, producer, and screenwriter (died 2002)

Billy Wilder was an Austrian and American film director and screenwriter. His career in Hollywood spanned five decades, and he is regarded as one of the most versatile filmmakers of classical Hollywood cinema. He received seven Academy Awards, a BAFTA Award, the Cannes Film Festival's Palme d'Or, and two Golden Globe Awards.

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22/06/1903

John Dillinger, American criminal (died 1934)

John Herbert Dillinger was an American gangster during the Great Depression. He commanded the Dillinger Gang, which was accused of robbing twenty-four banks and four police stations. Dillinger was imprisoned several times and escaped twice. He was charged with but not convicted of the murder of East Chicago, Indiana, police officer William O'Malley, who shot Dillinger in his bulletproof vest during a shootout; it was the only time Dillinger was charged with homicide.

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Carl Hubbell, American baseball player (died 1988)

Carl Owen Hubbell, nicknamed "the Meal Ticket" and "King Carl", was an American Major League Baseball (MLB) player. He was a pitcher for the New York Giants of the National League (NL) from 1928 to 1943, and remained on the team's payroll for the rest of his life, long after their move to San Francisco.

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22/06/1902

Marguerite De La Motte, American actress (died 1950)

Marguerite De La Motte was an American film actress, most notably of the silent film era.

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22/06/1901

Elias Katz, Finnish runner and coach (died 1947)

Elias Katz was a Finnish track and field athlete, who competed mainly in the 3000 metres steeplechase in the 1920s. In 1933, he immigrated to Mandatory Palestine, where he lived for the rest of his life.

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22/06/1900

Oskar Fischinger, German-American abstract artist, filmmaker, and painter (died 1967)

Oskar Wilhelm Fischinger was a German-American abstract animator, filmmaker, and painter, notable for creating abstract musical animation many decades before the appearance of computer graphics and music videos. He created special effects for Fritz Lang's 1929 Woman in the Moon, one of the first sci-fi rocket films, and influenced Disney's Fantasia. He made over 50 short films and painted around 800 canvases, many of which are in museums, galleries, and collections worldwide. Among his film works is Motion Painting No. 1 (1947), which is now listed on the National Film Registry of the U.S. Library of Congress.

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22/06/1899

Richard Gurley Drew, American engineer, invented Masking tape (died 1980)

Richard Gurley Drew was an American inventor who worked for Johnson and Johnson, Permacel Co., and 3M in St. Paul, Minnesota, where he invented masking tape and cellophane tape.

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Michał Kalecki, Polish economist and academic (died 1970)

Michał Kalecki was a Polish Marxian economist. Over the course of his life, Kalecki worked at the London School of Economics, University of Cambridge, University of Oxford, and Warsaw School of Economics, and was an economic advisor to the governments of Poland, France, Cuba, Israel, Mexico, and India. He also served as the deputy director of the United Nations Economic Department in New York City.

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22/06/1898

Erich Maria Remarque, German-Swiss soldier and author (died 1970)

Erich Maria Remarque was a German novelist. His landmark novel All Quiet on the Western Front (1928), based on his experience in the Imperial German Army during World War I, was an international bestseller which created a new literary genre of veterans writing about conflict. The book was adapted to film several times. Remarque's anti-war themes led to his condemnation by Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels as "unpatriotic". He was able to use his literary success and fame to relocate to Switzerland as a refugee, and to the United States, where he became a naturalized citizen.

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22/06/1897

Edmund A. Chester, American journalist and broadcaster (died 1973)

Edmund Albert Chester Sr. was an American television executive and journalist. He served as a vice president and executive at the CBS radio and television networks during the 1940s. As Director of Latin American Relations he collaborated with the Department of State to develop CBS's La Cadena de las Americas radio network in support of Pan-Americanism during World War II. He also served as a highly respected journalist and Bureau Chief for Latin America at Associated Press and Vice President at La Prensa Asociada in the 1930s. He was awarded the Carlos Manuel de Cespedes National Order of Merit by the government of Cuba in recognition of his efforts to foster greater understanding between the peoples of Cuba and the United States of America.

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Norbert Elias, German-Dutch sociologist and philosopher (died 1990)

Norbert Elias was a German sociologist who later became a British citizen. He is especially famous for his theory of civilizing/decivilizing processes.

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22/06/1896

Leonard W. Murray, Canadian admiral (died 1971)

Rear Admiral Leonard Warren Murray, CB, CBE was an officer in the Royal Canadian Navy who played a central role in the Battle of the Atlantic, and was the only Canadian to command an Allied theatre of operations during World War II.

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22/06/1894

Bernard Ashmole, English archaeologist and art historian (died 1988)

Bernard Ashmole was a British archaeologist and art historian, who specialized in ancient Greek sculpture. He held a number of professorships during his lifetime; Yates Professor of Classical Art and Archaeology at the University of London from 1929 to 1948, Lincoln Professor of Classical Archaeology and Art at University of Oxford from 1956 to 1961, and Greek Art and Archaeology at the University of Aberdeen from 1961 to 1963. He was also Keeper of Greek and Roman Antiquities at the British Museum from 1939 to 1956.

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22/06/1892

Robert Ritter von Greim, German general and pilot (died 1945)

Robert Ritter von Greim was a German Generalfeldmarschall and First World War flying ace. In April 1945, in the last days of World War II in Europe, Adolf Hitler appointed Greim commander-in-chief of the Luftwaffe after Hermann Göring had been dismissed for treason. He was the last person to have been promoted to field marshal in the German armed forces. After the surrender of Nazi Germany in May 1945, Greim was captured by the Allies. He committed suicide in an American-controlled prison on 24 May 1945.

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22/06/1891

Franz Alexander, Hungarian psychoanalyst and physician (died 1964)

Franz Gabriel Alexander was a Hungarian-American psychoanalyst and physician, who is considered one of the founders of psychosomatic medicine and psychoanalytic criminology.

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22/06/1890

Aleksander Warma, Estonian commander and politician, 4th Prime Minister of Estonia in exile (died 1970)

Aleksander Warma VR I/3 was an Estonian navy officer, diplomat, and painter.

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22/06/1889

Joseph Cohen, British solicitor, property developer, cinema magnate and Jewish community leader (died 1980)

Joseph Cohen (1889–1980) was a solicitor and property developer in Birmingham, England, and was chairman and managing director of the Jacey Cinemas chain. He was also a prominent figure in Birmingham's Jewish community.

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22/06/1888

Harold Hitz Burton, American lawyer and politician, 45th Mayor of Cleveland (died 1964)

Harold Hitz Burton was an American politician and lawyer. He served as the 45th mayor of Cleveland, Ohio, as a U.S. senator from Ohio, and as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.

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22/06/1887

Julian Huxley, English biologist and academic (died 1975)

Sir Julian Sorell Huxley was an English evolutionary biologist, eugenicist and internationalist. He was a proponent of natural selection, and a leading figure in the mid-twentieth-century modern synthesis. He was secretary of the Zoological Society of London (1935–1942), the first director of UNESCO, a founding member of the World Wildlife Fund, the president of the British Eugenics Society (1959–1962), and the first president of the British Humanist Association.

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22/06/1885

Milan Vidmar, Slovenian engineer and chess player (died 1962)

Milan Vidmar was a Slovenian electrical engineer, chess player, chess theorist, and writer. He was among the top dozen chess players in the world from 1910 to 1930 and in 1950, was among the inaugural recipients of the title International Grandmaster from FIDE. Vidmar was a specialist in power transformers and transmission of electric current.

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22/06/1884

James Rector, American sprinter and lawyer (died 1949)

John "James" Alcorn Rector was an American athlete. He was the first Arkansas-born athlete to compete in the Olympic Games. While competing he was a University of Virginia student and went there to train with Pop Lannigan.

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22/06/1880

Johannes Drost, Dutch swimmer (died 1954)

Johannes Drost was a Dutch backstroke swimmer and diver who competed in the 1900 Summer Olympics.

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22/06/1879

Thibaudeau Rinfret, Canadian lawyer and jurist, 9th Chief Justice of Canada (died 1962)

Thibaudeau Rinfret was a Canadian jurist who served as the ninth Chief Justice of Canada from 1944 to 1954 and briefly as Administrator of Canada from January to February 1952. He also served as a puisne justice of the Supreme Court of Canada from 1924 to 1944.

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22/06/1876

Pascual Díaz y Barreto, Mexican archbishop (died 1936)

The Most Reverend Pascual Díaz y Barreto, SJ was a Mexican prelate of the Catholic Church, who served as Archbishop of Mexico City from June 22, 1929 until his death in 1936. Throughout his tenure, he frequently came into conflict with the anti-Catholic Mexican government.

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22/06/1874

Walter Friedrich Otto, German philologist and scholar (died 1958)

Walter Friedrich Gustav Hermann Otto was a German classical philologist particularly known for his work on the meaning and legacy of Greek religion and mythology, especially as represented in his seminal 1929 work The Homeric Gods.

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22/06/1873

Filippo Silvestri, Italian entomologist and academic (died 1949)

Filippo Silvestri was an Italian entomologist. He specialised in world Protura, Thysanura, Diplura and Isoptera, but also worked on Hymenoptera, Myriapoda, Italian Diptera and South American ground pearls, scale insects from the family Margarodidae. He is also noted for describing and naming the previously unknown order Zoraptera. In 1938 he was nominated to the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, the scientific academy of the Vatican.

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22/06/1871

William McDougall, English psychologist and polymath (died 1938)

William McDougall was an early 20th century psychologist who was a professor at University College London, University of Oxford, Harvard University and Duke University. He wrote a number of influential textbooks, and was important in the development of the theory of instinct and of social psychology in the English-speaking world.

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22/06/1869

Hendrikus Colijn, Dutch Politician and Prime Minister of the Netherlands (died 1944)

Hendrikus "Hendrik" Colijn was a Dutch politician of the Anti-Revolutionary Party. He served as Prime Minister of the Netherlands from 4 August 1925 until 8 March 1926, and from 26 May 1933 until 10 August 1939.

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22/06/1864

Hermann Minkowski, German mathematician and academic (died 1909)

Hermann Minkowski was a mathematician and professor at the University of Königsberg, ETH Zürich, and the University of Göttingen, described variously as German, Polish, Lithuanian-German, or Russian. He created and developed the geometry of numbers and elements of convex geometry, and used geometrical methods to solve problems in number theory, mathematical physics, and the theory of relativity.

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22/06/1861

Maximilian von Spee, Danish-German admiral (died 1914)

Maximilian Johannes Maria Hubert Reichsgraf von Spee was a German naval officer in the Imperial German Navy, who commanded the East Asia Squadron during World War I. Spee entered the navy in 1878 and served in a variety of roles and locations, including on a colonial gunboat in German West Africa in the 1880s, the East Africa Squadron in the late 1890s, and as commander of several warships in the main German fleet in the early 1900s. During his time in Germany in the late 1880s and early 1890s, he married his wife, Margareta, and had three children, his sons Heinrich and Otto and his daughter Huberta. By 1912, he had returned to the East Asia Squadron as its commander, and was promoted to the rank of Vizeadmiral the following year.

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22/06/1856

Henry Rider Haggard, English novelist (died 1925).

Sir Henry Rider Haggard was an English writer of adventure fiction romances set in exotic locations, predominantly Africa, and a pioneer of the lost world literary genre. He was also involved in land reform throughout the British Empire. His stories, situated at the lighter end of Victorian literature and including the eighteen Allan Quatermain stories beginning with King Solomon's Mines, continue to be popular and influential.

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22/06/1855

Samuel Morris, Australian cricketer (died 1931)

Samuel Morris was an Australian cricketer who played in one Test in 1885. He was the first black man to play Test cricket, as well as the first person of West Indian heritage and the first Tasmanian-born player to play Tests. He and Andrew Symonds are the only people of West Indian heritage to play for Australia.

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22/06/1850

Ignác Goldziher, Hungarian scholar of Islam (died 1921)

Ignác Goldziher, often credited as Ignaz Goldziher, was a Hungarian scholar of Islam. Alongside Joseph Schacht and G.H.A. Juynboll, he is considered one of the pioneers of modern academic hadith studies.

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22/06/1845

Tom Dula, American soldier (died 1868)

Thomas C. Dula was a former Confederate soldier who was convicted of murdering Laura Foster. National publicity from newspapers such as The New York Times turned Dula's story into a folk legend. Although Laura was murdered in Wilkes County, North Carolina, Dula was tried, convicted, and hanged in Statesville. Considerable controversy surrounded the case. In subsequent years, a folk song was written, and many oral traditions were passed down about the circumstances surrounding Foster's murder and Dula's subsequent execution. The Kingston Trio recorded a hit version of the murder ballad in 1958.

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Richard Seddon, English-New Zealand politician, 15th Prime Minister of New Zealand (died 1906)

Richard John Seddon was a New Zealand politician who served as the 15th premier of New Zealand from 1893 until his death in 1906. In office for thirteen years, he is to date New Zealand's longest-serving head of government.

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22/06/1844

Oscar von Gebhardt, German theologian and academic (died 1906)

Oscar Leopold von Gebhardt was a German Lutheran theologian, born in the Baltic German settlement of Wesenberg in the Russian Empire.

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22/06/1837

Paul Morphy, American chess player (died 1884)

Paul Charles Morphy was an American chess player. During his brief career in the late 1850s, Morphy was acknowledged as the world's greatest chess master. Later commentators have concluded that he was far ahead of his time.

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Ernst Ziller, German-Greek architect, designed the Presidential Mansion (died 1923)

Ernst Moritz Theodor Ziller was a German-born university teacher and architect who later became a Greek national. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, he was a major designer of royal and municipal buildings in Athens, Patras, and other Greek cities.

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22/06/1834

William Chester Minor, American surgeon and linguist (died 1920)

William Chester Minor was an American army surgeon, psychiatric hospital patient, and lexicographical researcher.

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22/06/1820

James Hutchison Stirling, Scottish physician and philosopher (died 1909).

James Hutchison Stirling was a Scottish idealist philosopher and physician. His work The Secret of Hegel gave great impetus to the study of Hegelian philosophy both in Britain and in the United States, and it was also accepted as an authoritative work on Hegel's philosophy in Germany and Italy. The book helped to create the philosophical movement known as British idealism.

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22/06/1805

Giuseppe Mazzini, Italian journalist and politician (died 1872).

Giuseppe Mazzini was an Italian politician, lawyer, journalist, philosopher, and political activist who worked for the unification of Italy (Risorgimento) and was a major leader of the Italian revolutionary movement. His efforts helped bring about the independent and unified Italy in place of the several separate states, many dominated by foreign powers, that existed until the 19th century. An Italian nationalist in the historical radical tradition and a proponent of a republicanism of social-democratic inspiration, Mazzini "helped define the European movement for popular democracy in a republican state." He is widely known as the “Prophet of Italian Nationalism”.

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22/06/1792

James Beaumont Neilson, Scottish engineer and businessman (died 1865)

James Beaumont Neilson was a Scottish inventor whose hot-blast process greatly increased the efficiency of smelting iron.

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22/06/1767

Wilhelm von Humboldt, German philosopher, academic, and politician, Interior Minister of Prussia (died 1835).

Friedrich Wilhelm Christian Karl Ferdinand von Humboldt was a Prussian philosopher, linguist, government functionary, diplomat, and founder of the Humboldt University of Berlin. In 1949, the university was named after him and his younger brother, Alexander von Humboldt, a naturalist.

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22/06/1763

Étienne Méhul, French pianist and composer (died 1817).

Étienne Nicolas Méhul was a French composer of the late classical and early romantic periods. He was known as "the most important opera composer in France during the Revolution". He was also the first composer to be called a "Romantic". He is known particularly for his operas, written in keeping with the reforms introduced by Christoph Willibald Gluck and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

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22/06/1757

George Vancouver, English lieutenant and explorer (died 1798).

Captain George Vancouver 22 June 1757 – 10 May 1798) was a Royal Navy officer and explorer best known for leading the Vancouver Expedition, which explored and charted North America's northwestern Pacific Coast regions, including the coasts of what became the Canadian province of British Columbia and the U.S. states of Alaska, Washington, Oregon and California. The expedition also explored the Hawaiian Islands and the southwest coast of Australia.

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22/06/1738

Jacques Delille, French poet and translator (died 1813).

Jacques Delille was a French poet who came to national prominence with his translation of Virgil’s Georgics and made an international reputation with his didactic poem on gardening. He barely survived the slaughter of the French Revolution and lived for some years outside France, including three years in England. The poems on abstract themes that he published after his return were less well received.

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22/06/1713

John Sackville, English cricketer and politician (died 1765)

Lord John Philip Sackville was the second son of Lionel Sackville, 1st Duke of Dorset. He was a keen cricketer who was closely connected with the sport in Kent.

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22/06/1704

John Taylor, English author and scholar (died 1766)

John Taylor, English classical scholar, was born at Shrewsbury in Shropshire, England.

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22/06/1684

Francesco Manfredini, Italian violinist and composer (died 1762)

Francesco Onofrio Manfredini was an Italian Baroque composer, violinist, and church musician.

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22/06/1680

Ebenezer Erskine, Scottish minister and theologian (died 1754).

Ebenezer Erskine was a Scottish minister whose actions led to the establishment of the Secession Church.

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22/06/1593

Sir John Gell, 1st Baronet, English landowner and Parliamentarian commander (died 1671)

Sir John Gell was an English military officer who acted as local Parliamentarian commander for most of the First English Civil War from 1643 to his resignation in 1646. He was notorious for parading the body of his Royalist opponent through Derby after the Battle of Hopton Heath in March 1643.

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22/06/1477

Thomas Grey, 2nd Marquess of Dorset, English nobleman (died 1530)

Thomas Grey, 2nd Marquess of Dorset was an English peer, courtier, soldier and landowner of the House of Grey.

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22/06/1450

Eleanor of Naples, duchess of Ferrara (died 1493)

Eleanor of Naples was Duchess of Ferrara by marriage to Ercole I d'Este. She was the first duchess of Ferrara, and mother of many famous Renaissance figures. She was a well known political figure, and served as regent of Ferrara during the absence of her spouse.

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22/06/1427

Lucrezia Tornabuoni, Italian writer and wife of Piero di Cosimo de' Medici (died 1482)

Lucrezia Tornabuoni was an Italian noblewoman and writer, wife of Piero di Cosimo de' Medici, de facto Lord of Florence and his political adviser. Lucrezia had significant political influence during the rule of her husband and then of her son Lorenzo the Magnificent, investing in several institutions and improving relationships to support the needs of the poor. She was also a patroness of the arts who wrote several poems and plays.

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22/06/1373

Elizabeth Bonifacia, heiress of Poland (died 1399)

Jadwiga, also known as Hedwig, was the first female monarch of the Kingdom of Poland, as well as its last hereditary ruler. She reigned from 16 October 1384 until her death. Born in Buda, she was the youngest daughter of Louis I of Hungary and his wife, Elizabeth of Bosnia. Jadwiga was a member of the Capetian House of Anjou and had forebears among the Polish Piasts.

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22/06/1000

Robert I, duke of Normandy (died 1035)

1000 (M) was a leap year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar, the 1000th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 1000th and last year of the 1st millennium, the 100th and last year of the 10th century, and the 1st year of the 1000s decade. As of the start of 1000, the Gregorian calendar was 5 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which was the dominant calendar of the time.

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22/06/0916

Sayf al-Dawla, founder of the Emirate of Aleppo (died 967)

ʿAlī ibn ʾAbū'l-Hayjāʾ ʿAbdallāh ibn Ḥamdān ibn Ḥamdūn ibn al-Ḥārith al-Taghlibī, more commonly known simply by his honorific of Sayf al-Dawla, was the founder of the Emirate of Aleppo, encompassing most of northern Syria and parts of the western Jazira.

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22/06/0662

Rui Zong, emperor of the Tang Dynasty (died 716)

Emperor Ruizong of Tang, personal name Li Dan, also known at times during his life as Li Xulun, Li Lun, Wu Lun, and Wu Dan, was the fifth and ninth emperor of the Chinese Tang dynasty. He was the eighth son of Emperor Gaozong and the fourth son of Emperor Gaozong's second wife Empress Wu. He was wholly a figurehead during his first reign (684–690), when he was controlled by his mother. During his second reign after his mother's death, significant power and influence was exercised by his sister Princess Taiping.

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