Born on Monday, 30th June – Famous Birthdays

30/06/1998

Tom Davies, English footballer

Thomas Davies is an English professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for EFL Championship club Sheffield United.

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30/06/1997

A. J. Brown, American football player

Arthur Juan Brown is an American professional football wide receiver for the Philadelphia Eagles of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Ole Miss Rebels, twice receiving first-team All-SEC honors, and was selected by the Tennessee Titans in the second round of the 2019 NFL draft. During his three seasons with the Titans, Brown was named to the Pro Bowl in 2020. Brown was traded to the Eagles in 2022, where he extended his Pro Bowl selections to three and was named to three second-team All-Pros. He was also a member of the team that won Super Bowl LIX.

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Reuben Garrick, Australian rugby league player

Reuben Garrick is an Australian professional rugby league footballer who plays as a centre for the Manly Warringah Sea Eagles in the National Rugby League.

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30/06/1995

bbno$, Canadian singer-songwriter

Alexander Leon Gumuchian, known professionally as bbno$, is a Canadian rapper, singer, and songwriter. He became widely known for his 2019 single "Lalala". He continued this success through collaborations with artists including Yung Gravy and his 2021 single "Edamame". In 2025 and 2026, he won the Juno Fan Choice Award.

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30/06/1993

Trea Turner, American baseball player

Trea Vance Turner is an American professional baseball shortstop for the Philadelphia Phillies of Major League Baseball (MLB). He has previously played for the Washington Nationals and Los Angeles Dodgers. At the international level, he plays for the United States national team.

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30/06/1989

Asbel Kiprop, Kenyan runner

Asbel Kipruto Kiprop is a Kenyan middle-distance runner, who specialises in the 1500 metres. He was awarded the 1500 m gold medal at the 2008 Summer Olympics after the original winner, Rashid Ramzi, tested positive for doping. Kiprop has won three World Championship titles in the event, in 2011, 2013 and 2015. Kiprop failed his own doping test in November 2017 and received a four-year doping ban.

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Steffen Liebig, German rugby player

Steffen Liebig is a German international rugby union player, playing for the Heidelberger RK in the Rugby-Bundesliga and the German national rugby union team.

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David Myers, Australian footballer

David Myers is a former professional Australian rules footballer who played for the Essendon Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL).

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30/06/1988

Jacksfilms, American YouTuber

John Patrick "Jack" Douglass, also known as his online pseudonym jacksfilms, is an American YouTuber, videographer, musician, and sketch comedian. He is best known for his series Yesterday I Asked You (YIAY) and the now discontinued Your Grammar Sucks (YGS), in which he comments on content sent by fans. Douglass' career on YouTube spans over 19 years.

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Joe Mazzulla, American basketball coach

Joseph Arthur Mazzulla is an American professional basketball coach who is the head coach for the Boston Celtics of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played college basketball for the West Virginia Mountaineers as a point guard.

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30/06/1987

Ryan Cook, American baseball player

Ryan William Cook, nicknamed "Cookie", is an American former professional baseball pitcher. He played for the Arizona Diamondbacks, Oakland Athletics, Boston Red Sox and Seattle Mariners of Major League Baseball (MLB) and for the Yomiuri Giants of Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB). He was an MLB All-Star in 2012.

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Andrew Hedgman, New Zealand runner

Andrew Hedgman is a New Zealand born ultramarathon runner who resides in Brisbane, Australia. He is also a licensed Skydiver and Scuba diver.

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30/06/1986

Alicia Fox, American wrestler, model, and actress

Victoria Elizabeth Crawford is an American professional wrestler. She is signed to Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA), where she performs under her real name, and also performs on the independent circuit under the ring name Vix Crow. She is best known for her seventeen-year tenure in WWE, where she performed under the ring name Alicia Fox.

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Fredy Guarín, Colombian footballer

Fredy Alejandro Guarín Vásquez is a Colombian former professional footballer. A versatile player, he was comfortable as a central, defensive or right midfielder.

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Nicola Pozzi, Italian footballer

Nicola Pozzi is an Italian football coach and former striker, currently in charge as a technical collaborator at Serie B club Sampdoria.

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Allegra Versace, Italian-American businesswoman

Allegra Versace Beck, commonly known as Allegra Versace, is an Italian-American heiress and socialite. Since 2011, Allegra has been a director of Gianni Versace S.p.A. and has worked in New York City as a theatrical dresser.

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30/06/1985

Trevor Ariza, American basketball player

Trevor Anthony Ariza is an American former professional basketball player who spent 18 seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA). A small forward, Ariza played college basketball for one season with the UCLA Bruins before being selected in the second round of the 2004 NBA draft by the New York Knicks. Ariza won an NBA championship with the Los Angeles Lakers in 2009. He also played for the Orlando Magic, Houston Rockets, New Orleans Hornets, Washington Wizards, Phoenix Suns, Sacramento Kings, Portland Trail Blazers, and Miami Heat.

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Michael Phelps, American swimmer

Michael Fred Phelps II is an American former competitive swimmer. He won more Olympic medals than any other athlete, a total of 28 medals across four Olympic Games. Phelps also holds the all-time records for Olympic gold medals (23), Olympic gold medals in individual events (13), and Olympic medals in individual events (16). At the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Phelps tied the record of eight medals of any color at a single Games, held by gymnast Alexander Dityatin, by winning six gold and two bronze medals. Four years later, when he won eight gold medals at the 2008 Beijing Games, he broke fellow American swimmer Mark Spitz's 1972 record of seven first-place finishes at any single Olympic Games. At the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, Phelps won four gold and two silver medals, and at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, he won five gold medals and one silver. This made him the most successful athlete of the Games for the fourth Olympics in a row.

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Cody Rhodes, American wrestler

Cody Garrett Runnels Rhodes is an American professional wrestler. As of April 2022, he is signed to WWE, where he performs on the SmackDown brand under his real name and is the current Undisputed WWE Champion in his third reign. Rhodes is also known for co-founding and serving as an executive vice president and wrestler with All Elite Wrestling (AEW) from 2019 until 2022.

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Fabiana Vallejos, Argentinian footballer

Fabiana Gisela Vallejos is an Argentine footballer who plays as a midfielder for San Luis FC.

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30/06/1984

Fantasia Barrino, American singer-songwriter and actress

Fantasia Monique Barrino-Taylor, also known mononymously as Fantasia, is an American singer and actress. She rose to prominence in 2004 with her performance of the Porgy and Bess standard "Summertime" during the third season of American Idol, becoming that season's winner. Following her victory, Barrino became the second artist after Lauryn Hill to have their first commercial single debut atop the Billboard Hot 100 with her 2004 song, "I Believe". It went on to become the best-selling single in the United States that year.

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Dax Harwood, American wrestler

David Michael Harwood is an American professional wrestler. He is signed to All Elite Wrestling (AEW), where he performs under the ring name Dax Harwood. He is also one-half of the current and record-tying three-time AEW World Tag Team Champions FTR with Cash Wheeler. He also makes appearances in their sister promotion Ring of Honor (ROH), as well as partner promotions Lucha Libre AAA Worldwide (AAA) and New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW), where he and Wheeler have won those promotions' respective tag team championships once each.

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Tunku Ismail Idris, Crown Prince of Johor, Malaysia

Tunku Ismail ibni Sultan Ibrahim, is the heir apparent to the Johor throne. He is the eldest son of Sultan Ibrahim Iskandar and Raja Zarith Sofiah.

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30/06/1983

Marcus Burghardt, German cyclist

Marcus Burghardt is a German former professional road bicycle racer, who rode professionally between 2005 and 2021 for the Team Columbia–HTC, BMC Racing Team and Bora–Hansgrohe teams. During his career, Burghardt took seven professional victories, including the 2007 Gent–Wevelgem, the German National Road Race Championships in 2017, and a stage win at the 2008 Tour de France.

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Katherine Ryan, UK-based Canadian comedian and presenter

Katherine Louisa Ryan is a Canadian comedian, writer, presenter, actress and singer. She has appeared on British TV and radio panel shows, including 8 Out of 10 Cats, Never Mind the Buzzcocks, A League of Their Own, Mock the Week, Would I Lie to You?, QI, Just a Minute, Safeword, and Have I Got News for You. In 2015 she replaced Steve Jones as the presenter of Hair on BBC Two. As an actress, Ryan has appeared on several television sitcoms in the UK, including Campus, Episodes, and her Netflix show The Duchess.

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Cheryl, English singer and TV personality

Cheryl Ann Tweedy is an English singer and television personality. She rose to fame as a member of Girls Aloud, a pop girl group created through ITV's reality competition show Popstars: The Rivals in 2002. Named the United Kingdom's best-selling girl group of the 21st century in 2012, Girls Aloud amassed a string of 20 consecutive UK top ten singles, two UK number one albums, five consecutive platinum-selling studio albums, and five Brit Award nominations, winning Best Single for "The Promise" in 2009. The group went on hiatus in 2013, before reuniting for a tour in 2024.

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30/06/1982

Lizzy Caplan, American actress

Elizabeth Anne Caplan is an American actress. Her performances as Virginia E. Johnson in the Showtime series Masters of Sex (2013–2016) and as Libby Epstein in FX on Hulu's Fleishman Is in Trouble (2022) have earned her nominations at the Primetime Emmy Awards.

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Ignacio Carrasco, Mexican footballer

Oscar Ignacio Carrasco Sotelo is a Mexican footballer who last played as a midfielder for Venados F.C. in Ascenso MX. He had previously played for a number of teams in the Mexican second tier after having played for Monarcas Morelia in Liga MX.

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30/06/1981

Can Artam, Turkish race car driver

Can Artam is a Turkish race car driver born into a car racing family. He raced in the 2005 GP2 Series for the iSport team and was the 2001 US Barber Formula Dodge champion.

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Matt Kirk, Canadian football player

Matt Kirk is a Canadian former professional football defensive tackle who played in the Canadian Football League (CFL). He was selected by the Ottawa Renegades in the 2004 CFL draft. He played CIS Football at Queen's.

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Desi Lydic, American comedian and actress

Desi Lydic is an American comedian and actress who is a senior correspondent and rotating host on the late-night talk and news satire program The Daily Show. She has won three Emmy Awards: one as a host of The Daily Show, and two as the host and producer of the short form YouTube series The Daily Show: Desi Lydic Foxsplains From 2011 to 2016, she starred as guidance counselor Valerie Marks on the MTV comedy-drama series Awkward.

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Barbora Špotáková, Czech javelin thrower

Barbora Špotáková is a former Czech track and field athlete who competed in the javelin throw. She is a two-time Olympic Champion and three-time World Champion, as well as the current world record holder with a throw of 72.28 m.

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Ben Utecht, American football player

Benjamin Jeffrey Utecht is an American singer and former professional football player. He played football as a tight end for the Indianapolis Colts and Cincinnati Bengals of the National Football League (NFL). He was signed by the Colts as an undrafted free agent in 2004 after playing college football for the Minnesota Golden Gophers. He earned a Super Bowl ring with the Colts in Super Bowl XLI over the Chicago Bears.

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30/06/1980

Rade Prica, Swedish footballer

Rade Stanislav Prica is a Swedish former professional footballer who played as a striker. He is the only player who has won league championships in the three Scandinavian countries – Sweden, Denmark and Norway. He also played in the Bundesliga, the Premier League, and the Israeli Premier League during a career that spanned between 1995 and 2016. A full international between 2001 and 2008, he won 14 caps and scored two goals for the Sweden national team.

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Seyi Olofinjana, Nigerian footballer

Oluwaseyi George Olofinjana is a Nigerian former professional footballer who played as a midfielder.

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Ryan ten Doeschate, Dutch cricketer

Ryan Neil ten Doeschate is a Dutch cricket coach and former cricketer. He is currently one of the assistant coaches of Indian men’s cricket team. Born in South Africa, he played for the Netherlands national cricket team in One Day International (ODI) and Twenty20 International (T20I) cricket. Ten Doeschate was named ICC Associate Player of the Year on a record three occasions, in 2008, 2010, and 2011.

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30/06/1979

Sylvain Chavanel, French cyclist

Sylvain Chavanel is a French former professional road bicycle racer, who rode professionally between 2000 and 2018 for the Cofidis, Omega Pharma–Quick-Step, IAM Cycling and two spells with the Brioches La Boulangère/Direct Énergie team. His brother Sébastien Chavanel also rode as a professional cyclist. Sylvain Chavanel was noted as a strong all-rounder who won both sprints and time-trials, and was a good northern classics rider, taking 45 wins during his professional career.

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30/06/1978

Ben Cousins, Australian footballer

Benjamin Luke Cousins is a former professional Australian rules footballer and media personality who played for West Coast and Richmond in the Australian Football League (AFL). Cousins is listed by journalist Mike Sheahan as one of the fifty greatest players of all time. During his 12-year, 238-game career with West Coast, he won several of the league's highest individual awards, including a Brownlow Medal, Most Valuable Player and a premiership medallion. He was also selected six times in the All-Australian Team and represented Australia in the International Rules Series. He was West Coast's club champion for four seasons and captain for five seasons.

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Patrick Ivuti, Kenyan runner

Patrick Mukutu Ivuti is a Kenyan long distance athlete, who currently resides in Nairobi, Kenya. A two-time silver medallist at the IAAF World Cross Country Championships, he made his marathon debut in 2005 and had his first major victory at the Chicago Marathon in 2007. He had back-to-back wins at the Honolulu Marathon in 2008–2009 and was the 2009 winner of the Prague Marathon.

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Claudio Rivalta, Italian footballer

Claudio Rivalta is a retired Italian football defender. He represented Italy at the 2000 Summer Olympics.

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30/06/1975

James Bannatyne, New Zealand footballer

James Bannatyne is a New Zealand former association football goalkeeper. He last played for Team Wellington in the New Zealand Football Championship. He represented New Zealand at international level, generally as backup to Glen Moss and Mark Paston.

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Ralf Schumacher, German race car driver

Ralf Schumacher is a German former racing driver and broadcaster, who competed in Formula One from 1997 to 2007. Schumacher won six Formula One Grands Prix across 11 seasons.

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30/06/1974

Katrin Auer, Austrian politician

Katrin Auer is an Austrian politician and member of the National Council. A member of the Social Democratic Party, she has represented Traunviertel since October 2024.

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Hezekiél Sepeng, South African runner

Hezekiél Sello Sepeng, is a South African middle distance runner who won silver in the Olympic 800 metres final in Atlanta 1996, the 1998 Commonwealth Games and the World Championships' final in Seville 1999. He was banned from competition from May 2005 to May 2007 after a positive doping test for nandrolone.

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30/06/1973

Chan Ho Park, South Korean baseball player

Chan Ho Park is a South Korean former professional baseball pitcher. Park was the first South Korean-born player in MLB history, and the first South Korean player to be named an MLB All-Star. He played for the Los Angeles Dodgers, Texas Rangers, San Diego Padres, New York Mets, Philadelphia Phillies, New York Yankees, and Pittsburgh Pirates of Major League Baseball (MLB), the Orix Buffaloes of Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB), and the Hanwha Eagles of the KBO League. As of 2023, he has the most career wins of any Asia-born pitcher in history (124), having passed Hideo Nomo for that distinction in 2010. During his playing days, Park stood 6 feet 2 inches (188 cm) tall, weighing 210 pounds (95 kg).

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Frank Rost, German footballer and manager

Frank Rost is a German former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper.

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30/06/1972

Sandra Cam, Belgian swimmer

Sandra Cam is a Belgian retired freestyle swimmer who represented her country in two consecutive Summer Olympics, in Barcelona, Spain (1992) and Atlanta, United States (1996). She is best known for winning two medals at the 1993 Summer Universiade in Buffalo, United States.

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Molly Parker, Canadian actress

Molly Parker is a Canadian actress, writer, and director. She garnered critical attention for her portrayal of a necrophiliac medical student in the controversial drama Kissed (1996). She subsequently starred in the television thriller Intensity (1997) before landing her first major American film role in the drama Waking the Dead (2000). She gained further notice for her role as a Las Vegas escort in the drama The Center of the World (2001), for which she was nominated for the Independent Spirit Award for Best Female Lead.

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30/06/1971

Monica Potter, American actress

Monica Potter is an American actress. She is known for her starring roles in the films Con Air (1997), Patch Adams (1998), and Along Came a Spider (2001). She also appeared in the horror film, Saw (2004), and The Last House on the Left, a 2009 remake film.

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30/06/1970

Brian Bloom, American actor and screenwriter

Brian Keith Bloom is an American actor and screenwriter. He co-wrote the screenplay and starred in The A-Team, produced by brothers Tony and Ridley Scott. Bloom is the voice of Captain America in The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes and multiple subsequent Marvel titles. He is the voice of Varric Tethras in BioWare's Dragon Age franchise, B.J. Blazkowicz in MachineGames' Wolfenstein series, as well as multiple Call of Duty performances including Nick Reyes in Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare, which he co-wrote. He was also a co-writer of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare. He starred as The Punisher in Avengers Confidential: Black Widow and Punisher.

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Antonio Chimenti, Italian footballer and manager

Antonio Chimenti is an Italian retired professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper, and current goalkeeping coach of Uzbekistan national team.

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Mark Grudzielanek, American baseball player and manager

Mark James Grudzielanek is an American former Major League Baseball second baseman and shortstop. Grudzielanek played for six different teams during his 15-season career. He batted and threw right-handed. He was most recently the 2019 manager of the Charlotte Knights, the Triple-A affiliate of the Chicago White Sox.

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30/06/1969

Sanath Jayasuriya, Sri Lankan cricketer and politician

Deshabandu Sanath Teran Jayasuriya, is a Sri Lankan former cricketer, captain, cricket administrator and coach. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest all rounders ever to play in ODI cricket. A left arm orthodox spinner, left-handed batter and a dynamic fielder, Jayasuriya and his opening batting partner Romesh Kaluwitharana are credited for revolutionizing one-day international cricket with explosive batting in the mid-1990s, which initiated the hard-hitting modern-day batting strategy of all nations. He was a key member of the Sri Lankan team that won the 1996 Cricket World Cup. Under his captaincy Sri Lanka became joint champions along with India in the 2002 Champions Trophy. He is the former head coach of the Sri Lanka national cricket team.

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Uta Rohländer, German sprinter

Uta Rohländer, nee Fromm is a retired German sprinter who specialised in the 400 metres.

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Sébastien Rose, Canadian director and screenwriter

Sébastien Rose is a Canadian film director and screenwriter. His debut film, How My Mother Gave Birth to Me During Menopause , won the Claude Jutra Award for the best Canadian film by a first-time director in 2003.

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30/06/1968

Phil Anselmo, American singer-songwriter and producer

Philip Hansen Anselmo is an American musician best known as the lead singer for groove metal band Pantera, and sludge metal / hardcore band Superjoint, amongst other musical projects. He is the founder and owner of Housecore Records.

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30/06/1967

Patrik Bodén, Swedish javelin thrower

Lars Patrik Bodén is a retired Swedish track and field athlete who competed in the javelin throw. He holds the Swedish national record at 89.10 m, which he set on 24 March 1990. He briefly held the world record with this throw until Steve Backley set a new record later the same year.

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David Busst, English footballer and manager

David John Busst is an English football manager and former professional player who played as a centre-back from 1992 until 1996.

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Victoria Kaspi, American-Canadian astrophysicist and academic

Victoria Michelle Kaspi is a Canadian astrophysicist and a professor at McGill University. Her research primarily concerns neutron stars and pulsars.

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30/06/1966

Mike Tyson, American boxer and actor

Michael Gerard Tyson is an American former professional boxer who competed from 1985 to 2005, and again in 2024. Nicknamed "Iron Mike" and "Kid Dynamite" in his early career, and later known as "the Baddest Man on the Planet", Tyson is widely regarded as one of the greatest heavyweight boxers of all time, and one of the most intimidating men in boxing history. He reigned as the undisputed world heavyweight champion from 1987 to 1990.

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30/06/1965

Steve Duchesne, Canadian-American ice hockey player and coach

Steve Duchesne is a Canadian former professional ice hockey defenceman who played in the National Hockey League with several teams from 1986 until 2002. He was a three-time NHL All-Star and was a member of the Stanley Cup champion Detroit Red Wings in 2002.

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Cho Jae-hyun, South Korean actor

Cho Jae-hyun is a South Korean film, stage, and TV actor. He is commonly dubbed "director Kim Ki-duk's persona" since Cho has starred as leading and supporting characters in a number of films directed by Kim.

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Anna Levandi, Russian figure skater and coach

Anna Levandi, née Kondrashova, is an Estonian former competitive figure skater and politician. Levandi, who is of Russian origin who represented the former Soviet Union in international competition. She was the 1984 World silver medalist and four-time European bronze medalist. She competed at two Winter Olympic Games.

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Gary Pallister, English footballer and sportscaster

Gary Andrew Pallister is an English former professional footballer and sports television pundit. As a player he was a defender from 1984 to 2001 and is most noted for his nine-year spell at Manchester United, where he formed a formidable defensive partnership with Steve Bruce and won 15 trophies including four Premier League titles, three FA Cups and the European Cup Winners Cup.

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Mitch Richmond, American basketball player

Mitchell James Richmond III is an American former professional basketball player. He played collegiately at Moberly Area Community College and Kansas State University. He was a six-time NBA All-Star, a five-time All-NBA Team member, and a former NBA Rookie of the Year. In 976 NBA games, Richmond averaged 21.0 points per game and 3.5 assists per game. Richmond was voted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 2014. His jersey No. 2 was retired in his honor by the Sacramento Kings, for whom he played seven seasons.

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30/06/1964

Alexandra, Countess of Frederiksborg

Alexandra, Countess of Frederiksborg,, formerly Princess Alexandra of Denmark, is the former wife of Prince Joachim of Denmark, the younger brother of King Frederik X of Denmark.

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Mark Waters, American director and producer

Mark Stephen Waters is an American director.

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30/06/1963

Olha Bryzhina, Ukrainian sprinter

Olha Bryzhina is a retired athlete who represented the Soviet Union and later Ukraine.

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Rupert Graves, English actor, director, and screenwriter

Rupert Graves is an English film, television, and theatre actor. He is known for his roles in A Room with a View, Maurice, The Madness of King George, and The Forsyte Saga. From 2010 to 2017 he starred as DI Lestrade in the BBC television series Sherlock.

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Yngwie Malmsteen, Swedish guitarist and songwriter

Yngwie Johan Malmsteen is a Swedish-American guitarist. He first became known in the 1980s for his neoclassical playing style in heavy metal, and has released 22 studio albums in a career spanning over 40 years.

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30/06/1962

Tony Fernández, Dominican baseball player (died 2020)

Octavio Antonio Fernández Castro, better known as Tony Fernández, was a Dominican baseball player who played as a shortstop in Major League Baseball (MLB) for seven teams from 1983 to 2001, most notably the Toronto Blue Jays. A five-time All-Star, Fernández was known for his defensive skills, winning four consecutive Gold Glove Awards (1986–1989). He batted over .300 four times, led the major leagues with 17 triples in 1990, collected 30 doubles six times and 20 stolen bases seven times. He also led American League shortstops in assists three times, and in putouts and fielding average twice each. After moving to the National League in a blockbuster trade following the 1990 season, he returned to the Blue Jays in a mid-season trade in 1993, and played a major role in helping the club repeat as World Series champions, batting .333 with nine runs batted in during the series.

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Julianne Regan, English singer-songwriter and guitarist

Julianne Regan is an English/Irish singer, songwriter, and musician. She was the lead singer and songwriter of the band All About Eve, which had four top-50 albums in the late 1980s and early 1990s. AllMusic describes Regan as "certainly one of the more talented singers of the late eighties British goth rock scene".

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30/06/1961

Lynne Jolitz, American computer scientist and programmer

Lynne Greer Jolitz is a figure in free software and founder of many startups in Silicon Valley. Together with her husband William, she created 386BSD, the first open-source Unix-based operating system for personal computers to be distributed over the Internet.

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Clive Nolan, English musician, composer and producer

Clive Nolan is a British musician, composer and producer who has played a prominent role in the development of progressive rock. He has been the regular keyboard player in Pendragon (1986–present), Shadowland (1992–present), Strangers on a Train (1993–1994) and Arena (1995–present), as well as writing lyrics for Arena and producing or co-producing several other bands' albums.

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30/06/1960

Jack McConnell, Scottish educator and politician, 3rd First Minister of Scotland

Jack Wilson McConnell, Baron McConnell of Glenscorrodale, is a Scottish politician who served as First Minister of Scotland and Leader of the Labour Party in Scotland from 2001 to 2007. McConnell served as the Minister for Finance from 1999 to 2000 and Minister for Education, Europe and External Affairs from 2000 to 2001. He has been a Labour life peer in the House of Lords since 2010 and previously served as a Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for Motherwell and Wishaw from 1999 to 2011. McConnell held the Presidency of the Conference of European Regions with Legislative Power (REGLEG) during November 2003 to November 2004.

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Murray Cook, Australian musician, actor, songwriter and producer

Murray James Cook, AM is an Australian musician, actor, and DJ. Cook was one of the founding members of the children's band the Wiggles from 1991 to 2012. Cook provided guitar, vocals, and songwriting in the group, and remained involved with its creative and production aspects after his retirement. In 2013, Cook served as the Wiggles' tour manager. He also remains active in many music projects, including, writing and performing with the Sydney soul-rock band The Soul Movers. He is the father of wheelchair basketball player Georgia Munro-Cook. In 2015, he was one of the members of the Australian jury for the Junior Eurovision Song Contest.

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30/06/1959

Vincent D'Onofrio, American actor

Vincent Philip D'Onofrio is an American actor and filmmaker. He is known for his supporting and leading roles in both film and television. He has been nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award.

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Daniel Goldhagen, American political scientist, author, and academic

Daniel Jonah Goldhagen is an American author, and former associate professor of government and social studies at Harvard University. Goldhagen received attention as the author of two controversial books about the Holocaust: Hitler's Willing Executioners (1996) and A Moral Reckoning (2002). He is also the author of Worse Than War (2009), which examines the phenomenon of genocide, and The Devil That Never Dies (2013), in which he traces a worldwide rise in virulent antisemitism.

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Brendan Perry, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer

Brendan Michael Perry is a British singer and multi-instrumentalist best known for his work as half of the duo Dead Can Dance with Lisa Gerrard.

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Sakis Tsiolis, Greek footballer and manager

Sakis Tsiolis is a Greek professional football manager and former player.

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Sandip Verma, Baroness Verma, Indian-English businesswoman and politician

Sandip K. Verma, Baroness Verma known until 1977 as Sandip K. Rana, is a British Indian politician in the United Kingdom. An appointed member of the House of Lords, she is Ministerial Champion for Tackling Violence Against Women and Girls Overseas, a role who chairs the UN Women's national committee. Verma was the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for International Development, from 2015 to 2016.

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30/06/1958

Pam Royle, British television presenter, journalist and voice coach

Pamela June Royle is a British television journalist and presenter.

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Esa-Pekka Salonen, Finnish conductor and composer

Esa-Pekka Salonen is a Finnish conductor and composer. He is the principal conductor designate of Orchestre de Paris and creative director designate of the Los Angeles Philharmonic. He is also conductor laureate of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Philharmonia Orchestra in London and the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra. He was music director of the San Francisco Symphony from 2020 to 2025.

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30/06/1957

Bud Black, American baseball player and manager

Harry Ralston "Bud" Black is an American professional baseball manager and pitcher who most recently served as manager for the Colorado Rockies of Major League Baseball (MLB). He played in MLB from 1981 through 1995, most notably for the Kansas City Royals and Cleveland Indians. He coached the Anaheim Angels / Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim from 2000 through 2006 and managed the San Diego Padres from 2007 through 2015. He was named the National League Manager of the Year in 2010.

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Sterling Marlin, American race car driver

Sterling Burton Marlin is an American former professional stock car racing driver. He last competed in the JEGS/CRA All-Stars Tour. He formerly competed in the NASCAR Cup Series, winning the Daytona 500 in 1994 and 1995. He is the son of late NASCAR driver Coo Coo Marlin. He is married to Paula and has a daughter, Sutherlin, a son, Steadman, a former NASCAR Xfinity Series driver, and a grandson Stirlin who races for Sterling in Sterling’s No. 114 Super Late Model. Marlin is a member of the NASCAR's 75 Greatest Drivers list.

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30/06/1956

Volker Beck, German hurdler and coach

Volker Beck is a former East German athlete, winner of 400 m hurdles at the 1980 Summer Olympics.

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David Lidington, English historian, academic, and politician, Minister of State for Europe

Sir David Roy Lidington is a British former politician who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Aylesbury from 1992 until 2019. A member of the Conservative Party, he served as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for the Cabinet Office from 2018 to 2019 and was frequently described as being Theresa May's de facto Deputy Prime Minister.

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David Alan Grier, American actor, singer, and comedian

David Alan Grier is an American actor and comedian. Known for his roles on stage and screen, Grier gained popularity playing multiple roles in the American sketch comedy television series In Living Color (1990–1994) and Reverend Leon Lonnie Love on the Fox comedy series Martin (1993–1997). In 2004, Grier was ranked no. 94 on Comedy Central's 100 Greatest Stand-Ups.

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30/06/1955

Brian Vollmer, Canadian singer

Brian Joseph Vollmer is the lead singer and only remaining original member of Canadian hard rock group Helix. Since the band's inception in 1974, Vollmer had gone from lead singer to de facto leader of the band, weathering numerous lineup changes. Vollmer was born in Listowel, Ontario before relocating to Kitchener.

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Egils Levits, Latvian judge, jurist, 10th President of Latvia

Egils Levits is a Latvian politician, lawyer, political scientist and jurist who served as the tenth president of Latvia from 2019 to 2023. He was a member of the European Court of Justice from 2004 to 2019.

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30/06/1954

Stephen Barlow, English organist, composer, and conductor

Dame Joanna Lamond Lumley is a British actress, presenter, author, television producer, activist and former model. She has won two BAFTA TV Awards for her role as Patsy Stone in the BBC sitcom Absolutely Fabulous (1992–2012) and was nominated for the 2011 Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play for the Broadway revival of La Bête. In 2013, she received the Special Recognition Award at the National Television Awards and in 2017 she was honoured with the BAFTA Fellowship award.

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Pierre Charles, Dominican educator and politician, 5th Prime Minister of Dominica (died 2004)

Pierre Charles was a Dominican politician who served as Prime Minister of Dominica from 2000 to his death in 2004. At the time of his death, he was also serving as Member of Parliament for Grand Bay since 1985.

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Serzh Sargsyan, Armenian politician, 3rd President of Armenia

Serzh Azati Sargsyan is an Armenian politician who served as the third President of Armenia from 2008 to 2018, and twice as the Prime Minister of Armenia from 2007 to 2008 and again from 17 to 23 April 2018, when he was forced to resign in the 2018 Armenian revolution.

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Wayne Swan, Australian academic and politician, 14th Deputy Prime Minister of Australia

Wayne Maxwell Swan is an Australian politician serving as the 25th and current National President of the Labor Party since 2018, previously serving as the 14th deputy prime minister of Australia and the deputy leader of the Labor Party from 2010 to 2013, and the treasurer of Australia from 2007 to 2013.

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30/06/1953

Hal Lindes, American-English guitarist and film score composer

Hal Lindes is an American guitarist and film score composer best known for his time as a member of Dire Straits from 1980 until late 1984.

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30/06/1952

Athanassios S. Fokas, Greek mathematician and academic

Athanassios Spyridon Fokas is a United Kingdom–based Greek academic, educator and scientist, with degrees in Aeronautical Engineering and Medicine. Since 2002, he is Professor of Nonlinear Mathematical Science in the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics (DAMTP) at the University of Cambridge.

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David Garrison, American actor and singer

David Earl Garrison is an American actor and singer. He is best known for playing Steve Rhoades on the television series Married... with Children. He has also appeared in numerous theatrical roles, particularly that of The Wizard on both Broadway and in many tours of the musical Wicked.

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30/06/1951

Stanley Clarke, American bass player and composer

Stanley Clarke is an American bassist, composer and founding member of Return to Forever, one of the first jazz fusion bands. Clarke gave the bass guitar a prominence it lacked in jazz-related music. He is the first jazz-fusion bassist to headline tours, sell out shows worldwide and have recordings reach gold status.

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30/06/1949

Uwe Kliemann, German footballer, coach, and manager

Uwe Kliemann is a German former professional footballer who played as a central defender. and coach. As a player, he spent 11 seasons in the Bundesliga with Rot-Weiß Oberhausen, Eintracht Frankfurt, Hertha BSC and Arminia Bielefeld. He represented Germany once, in a friendly against Netherlands.

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Andy Scott, Welsh singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer

Andrew David Scott is a Welsh musician and songwriter. He is best known for being the lead guitarist and a backing vocalist in the glam rock band Sweet. Following bassist Steve Priest's death in June 2020, Scott is the last surviving member of the band's classic lineup.

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Bùi Thanh Liêm, Vietnamese cosmonaut (died 1981)

Bùi Thanh Liêm was a Vietnamese cosmonaut.

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30/06/1944

Terry Funk, American wrestler (died 2023)

Terrance Dee Funk was an American professional wrestler and actor. Funk is known for the length of his career, which spanned more than 50 years and included multiple short-lived retirements. He is also known for his influential hardcore wrestling style he pioneered in the latter part of his career.

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Raymond Moody, American parapsychologist and author

Raymond A. Moody Jr. is an American philosopher, psychiatrist, physician, and author, most widely known for his books about afterlife and near-death experiences (NDE), a term that he coined in 1975 in his best-selling book Life After Life. His research explores personal accounts of subjective phenomena encountered in near-death experiences, particularly those of people who have apparently died but been resuscitated. He has widely published his views on what he terms near-death-experience psychology.

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Glenn Shorrock, English-Australian singer-songwriter

Glenn Barrie Shorrock is an Australian singer and songwriter. He was a founding member of rock bands the Twilights, Axiom, Little River Band and post LRB spin-off trio Birtles Shorrock Goble, as well as being a solo performer.

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Ron Swoboda, American baseball player and sportscaster

Ronald Alan Swoboda is an American former professional baseball player and television sports color commentator. He played in Major League Baseball as an outfielder from 1965 through 1973, most notably as a member of the New York Mets team that became known as the Miracle Mets when they rose from being perennial losers to defeat the favored Baltimore Orioles in the 1969 World Series for one of the most improbable upsets in World Series history. Swoboda executed one of the most impressive defensive plays of the series in the ninth inning of Game 4 to help preserve a Mets victory. He also played for the Montreal Expos and the New York Yankees.

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30/06/1943

Florence Ballard, American pop/soul singer (died 1976)

Florence Glenda Chapman was an American singer and a founding member of the Motown vocal female group the Supremes. She sang on 16 top 40 singles with the group, including nine number-one hits. After being removed from the Supremes in 1967, Ballard tried an unsuccessful solo career with ABC Records, before she was dropped from the label at the end of the decade. After struggling with alcoholism, depression and poverty for several years, she was in the midst of a musical comeback when she died of a heart attack in February 1976 at the age of 32. Ballard's death was considered by one critic as "one of rock's greatest tragedies". Ballard was the first woman posthumously inducted to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of the Supremes in 1988.

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Saeed Akhtar Mirza, Indian director and screenwriter

Saeed Akhtar Mirza is an Indian screenwriter and director in Hindi films and television. He is the maker of notable parallel films such as Mohan Joshi Hazir Ho! (1984), Albert Pinto Ko Gussa Kyoon Aata Hai (1980), Salim Langde Pe Mat Ro (1989) and Naseem (1995), which won two National Film Awards in 1996.

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30/06/1942

Robert Ballard, American lieutenant and oceanographer

Robert Duane Ballard is an American retired Navy officer and a professor of oceanography at the University of Rhode Island who is noted for his work in underwater archaeology and marine geology. He is best known by the general public for the discoveries of the wrecks of the RMS Titanic in 1985, the battleship Bismarck in 1989, and the aircraft carrier USS Yorktown in 1998. He discovered the wreck of John F. Kennedy's PT-109 in 2002 and visited Biuku Gasa and Eroni Kumana, who saved its crew.

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Ron Harris, Canadian ice hockey player and coach

Ronald Thomas Harris is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player who played 476 games in the National Hockey League. He played for the Detroit Red Wings, Oakland Seals, Atlanta Flames, and New York Rangers.

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30/06/1941

Peter Pollock, South African cricketer and author

Peter Maclean Pollock is a retired South African cricketer. He has played a continuing role in the South Africa cricket team as a player and selector. He was voted a Wisden Cricketer of the Year in 1966. He was primarily a fast bowler, but was also a useful late-order batsman.

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30/06/1940

Mark Spoelstra, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2007)

Mark Warren Spoelstra was an American singer-songwriter and folk and blues guitarist.

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30/06/1939

Tony Hatch, English pianist, composer, and producer

Anthony Peter Hatch is an English composer for musical theatre and television. He is also a songwriter, pianist, arranger and producer.

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Barry Hines, English author and screenwriter (died 2016)

Melvin Barry Hines, FRSL was an English author, playwright and screenwriter. His novels and screenplays explore the political and economic struggles of working-class Northern England, particularly in his native West Riding/South Yorkshire.

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José Emilio Pacheco, Mexican poet and author (died 2014)

José Emilio Pacheco Berny was a Mexican poet, essayist, novelist and short story writer. He is regarded as one of the major Mexican poets of the second half of the 20th century. The Berlin International Literature Festival has praised him as "one of the most significant contemporary Latin American poets". In 2009 he was awarded the Cervantes Prize for his literary oeuvre.

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30/06/1938

Billy Mills, American distance runner

William Mervin Mills, also known by his Oglala Lakota name Tamakhóčhe Theȟíla, is an American Oglala Lakota former track and field athlete who won a gold medal in the 10,000 metre run (6.2 mi) at the 1964 Tokyo Olympics. His 1964 victory is considered one of the greatest Olympic upsets because he was a virtual unknown going into the event. He was the first non-European to win the Olympic event and remains the only winner from the Americas. He was also a United States Marine officer.

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Jeri Taylor, American screenwriter (died 2024)

Jeri Cecile Suer, known professionally as Jeri Taylor, was an American television scriptwriter and producer who wrote many episodes of the Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Trek: Voyager series.

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30/06/1937

Larry Henley, American singer-songwriter (died 2014)

Larry Joel Henley was an American singer and songwriter, best known for co-writing the 1989 hit record "Wind Beneath My Wings". He is also known for his distinctive falsetto singing voice, which he used prominently when in the Newbeats, a pop trio best known for their hit song "Bread and Butter".

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30/06/1936

Assia Djebar, Algerian-French author and translator (died 2015)

Fatima-Zohra Imalayen, known by her pen name Assia Djebar, was an Algerian novelist, translator and filmmaker. Most of her works deal with obstacles faced by women, and she is noted for her feminist stance. She is "frequently associated with women's writing movements, her novels are clearly focused on the creation of a genealogy of Algerian women, and her political stance is virulently anti-patriarchal as much as it is anti-colonial." Djebar is considered to be one of North Africa's pre-eminent and most influential writers. She was elected to the Académie Française on 16 June 2005, the first writer from the Maghreb to achieve such recognition. For the entire body of her work she was awarded the 1996 Neustadt International Prize for Literature. She was often named as a contender for the Nobel Prize for Literature.

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Nancy Dussault, American actress and singer

Nancy Dussault is an American actress and singer.

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Tony Musante, American actor and screenwriter (died 2013)

Anthony Peter Musante Jr. was an American actor, best known for the TV series Toma as Detective David Toma, Nino Schibetta in Oz (1997), and Joe D'Angelo in As the World Turns (2000–2003). In movies, he achieved fame relatively early in his career, starring or having significant roles in such films as Once a Thief (1965), The Incident (1967), The Detective (1968) and The Last Run (1971), and also in a number of Italian productions, including The Mercenary (1968), Metti, una sera a cena (1969) and The Bird with the Crystal Plumage (1970).

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Dave Van Ronk, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2002)

David Kenneth Ritz Van Ronk was an American folk singer. An important figure in the American folk music revival and New York City's Greenwich Village scene in the 1960s, he was nicknamed the "Mayor of MacDougal Street".

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30/06/1935

John Harlin, American pilot and mountaineer (died 1966)

John Elvis Harlin II was an American alpinist and US Air Force pilot who was killed while making an ascent of the north face of the Eiger at age 30.

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30/06/1934

Harry Blackstone Jr., American magician and author (died 1997)

Harry Bouton Blackstone Jr. was an American stage magician, author, and television performer. He is estimated to have pulled 80,000 rabbits from his sleeves and hats.

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30/06/1933

Tomislav Ivić, Croatian football coach and manager (died 2011)

Tomislav Ivić was a Croatian professional football player and manager. Often described as a brilliant strategist, Ivić is credited with helping develop the modern style of the game. In April 2007, Italian sports daily La Gazzetta dello Sport proclaimed him as the most successful football manager in history, due to his seven league titles won in five countries.

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Joan Murrell Owens, American educator and marine biologist (died 2011)

Joan Murrell Owens was an American educator and marine biologist specializing in corals. She received degrees in Geology, Fine Art, and Guidance Counseling. She described a new genus, Rhombopsammia, and three new species of button corals, R. niphada, R. squiresi, and Letepsammia franki.

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M. J. K. Smith, English cricketer and rugby player

Michael John Knight Smith, known as M. J. K. Smith or Mike Smith is an English former cricketer and rugby union player. Smith was educated at Stamford School and St. Edmund Hall, Oxford, where he read geography. He was President of Vincent's Club in 1956. He played for Leicestershire from 1951 until 1955, and for Warwickshire between 1956 and 1975. Smith played in fifty Tests for England between 1958 and 1972.

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Orval Tessier, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (died 2022)

Orval Roy Tessier was a Canadian professional ice hockey centre and coach who played parts of three seasons in the National Hockey League for the Montreal Canadiens and Boston Bruins between 1954 and 1960, appearing in a total of 59 regular season games. The rest of his career, which lasted from 1953 to 1965, was spent in the minor leagues, where he was a solid offensive player. He won two scoring titles with the Eastern Professional Hockey League's Kingston Frontenacs, and was voted the league's most valuable player and most sportsmanlike player in the 1961–62 season.

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Cookie, Australian Major Mitchell's cockatoo, oldest recorded parrot (died 2016)

Cookie was a male pink cockatoo residing at Brookfield Zoo, near Chicago, Illinois, United States. He was believed to be the oldest member of his species alive in captivity, at the age of 82 in June 2015, having significantly exceeded the average lifespan for his kind. He was one of the longest-lived birds on record and was recognised by the Guinness World Records as the oldest living parrot in the world.

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30/06/1931

Yo-Yo Davalillo, Venezuelan baseball player and manager (died 2013)

Pompeyo Antonio Davalillo Romero [da-va-LEE-yo] was a Venezuelan professional baseball player and minor league manager. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a shortstop for the Washington Senators.

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Andrew Hill, American pianist and composer (died 2007)

Andrew Hill was an American jazz pianist and composer.

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Ronald Rene Lagueux, American judge (died 2023)

Ronald Rene Lagueux was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Rhode Island.

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Kaye Vaughan, American football player (died 2023)

Charles Kaye Vaughan was an American-born Canadian professional football player, a lineman with the Ottawa Rough Riders of the Canadian Football League (CFL) for twelve seasons. He won the CFL's Outstanding Lineman Award in 1956 and 1957 and is a member of the Canadian Football Hall of Fame.

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30/06/1930

Ben Atchley, American politician (died 2018)

Curtis Bentley Atchley Jr., known as Ben Atchley, was an American politician in the state of Tennessee. He served in the Tennessee House of Representatives from 1972 to 1976 and the Tennessee State Senate from 1977 to 2005, as a Republican. He was a majority leader and caucus chairman in the senate. He was an alumnus of the University of Tennessee, Knoxville and veteran of the United States Naval Reserve. He was married with two children.

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Ahmed Zaki Yamani, Saudi Arabian politician (died 2021)

Ahmed Zaki Yamani was a Saudi Arabian politician who served as Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Resources under four Saudi monarchs from 1962 to 1986, and a minister in the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) for 25 years.

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Ignatius Peter VIII Abdalahad, Syrian bishop (died 2018)

Ignatius Peter VIII Abdalahad was patriarch of Antioch and all the East of the Syriac Catholic Church. He served as patriarch from 2001 to 2008, when he resigned and retired.

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30/06/1929

Yang Ti-liang, Chinese judge (died 2023)

Sir Ti-liang Yang, was a Hong Kong-Chinese jurist. He was the Chief Justice of Hong Kong from 1988 to 1996, the only ethnic Chinese person to hold this office during British colonial rule.

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30/06/1928

Hassan Hassanzadeh Amoli, Islamic philosopher, theologian, mathematician and mystic (died 2021)

Hasan Hasanzade Amoli was an Iranian Shi'ite theologian known for his mystical tendencies and Islamic philosophy. He was among clerics who overcame the traditional opposition to teaching philosophy courses at Shi'ite seminaries. He wrote many books in philosophy, mysticism, mathematics, astronomy, Persian and Arabic literature. He interpreted the Islamic philosophical tradition in a similar way to Mulla Sadra, which is a reconciliation of religion, reason and mysticism. His books include Sharh fusus al-hikam, Tashih nahj al-balagha, Insan dar 'urf-i 'irfan, Tashih kalila wa dimna.

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Nathaniel Tarn, American poet, essayist, anthropologist, and translator (died 2024)

Nathaniel Tarn was a French-American poet, essayist, anthropologist, and translator. He was born Edward Michael Mendelson in Paris, France, to a French-Romanian mother and a British-Lithuanian father.

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30/06/1927

Shirley Fry Irvin, American tennis player (died 2021)

Shirley June Fry Irvin was an American tennis player. During her career, which lasted from the early 1940s until the mid-1950s, she won the singles title at all four Grand Slam events, as well as 13 doubles titles, and was ranked No. 1 in the world in 1956.

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James Goldman, American screenwriter and playwright (died 1998)

James Goldman was an American playwright and screenwriter. He won an Academy Award for his screenplay The Lion in Winter (1968). His younger brother was novelist and screenwriter William Goldman.

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Mario Lanfranchi, Italian director, screenwriter, producer, collector and actor (died 2022)

Mario Lanfranchi was an Italian film, theatre, and television director, screenwriter, producer, collector, and actor.

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Frank McCabe, American basketball player (died 2021)

Frank Reilly McCabe was an American basketball player who competed in the 1952 Summer Olympics. Born in Grand Rapids, Michigan, McCabe played collegiately at Marquette University. He was part of the American basketball team, which won the gold medal. He played six matches.

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30/06/1926

Paul Berg, American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2023)

Paul Berg was an American biochemist and professor at Stanford University. He received the 1980 Nobel Prize in Chemistry "for his fundamental studies of the biochemistry of nucleic acids, with particular regard to recombinant-DNA".

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30/06/1925

Fred Schaus, American basketball player and coach (died 2010)

Frederick Appleton Schaus was an American basketball player, head coach and athletic director for the West Virginia University Mountaineers, player for the National Basketball Association's Fort Wayne Pistons and New York Knicks, general manager and head coach for the Los Angeles Lakers, head coach of Purdue University basketball, and a member of the NCAA Basketball Committee. He was born in Newark, Ohio.

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Ebrahim Amini, Iranian politician (died 2020)

Ebrahim Haj Amini Najafabadi was an Iranian principlist politician who was a member of the Assembly of Experts. He was also a member of the Expediency Discernment Council, and was previously identified as a possible candidate to become the next Iranian Supreme Leader. Ayatollah Amini was a jurist and a moderate supporter of jurisprudential Islam. He was a member of the Council for the Revision of the Second Constitution in 1989 and was a supporter of the maximum ruling term of a Supreme Leader being ten years.

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30/06/1924

Max Trepp, Swiss sprinter (died 1990)

Max Trepp was a Swiss sprinter. He competed in the men's 400 metres at the 1948 Summer Olympics.

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30/06/1921

Washington SyCip, American-Filipino accountant (died 2017)

Washington Z. SyCip, PLH BOLk RNO1kl was a Chinese-Filipino-American accountant. He was the founder of the accounting firm EY SGV & Company and the Asian Institute of Management.

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30/06/1920

Eleanor Ross Taylor, American poet and educator (died 2011)

Eleanor Ross Taylor was an American poet who published six collections of verse from 1960 to 2009. Her work received little recognition until 1998, but thereafter received several major poetry prizes. Describing her most recent poetry collection, Kevin Prufer writes, "I cannot imagine the serious reader — poet or not — who could leave Captive Voices unmoved by the work of this supremely gifted poet who skips so nimbly around our sadnesses and fears, never directly addressing them, suggesting, instead, their complex resistance to summary."

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30/06/1919

Ed Yost, American inventor of the modern hot air balloon (died 2007)

Paul Edward Yost was the American inventor of the modern hot air balloon and is referred to as the "Father of the Modern Day Hot-Air Balloon." He worked for a high-altitude research division of General Mills in the early 1950s until he left to establish Raven Industries in 1956, along with several colleagues from General Mills.

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30/06/1917

Susan Hayward, American actress (died 1975)

Susan Hayward was an American actress best known for her film portrayals of women that were based on true stories.

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Lena Horne, American actress, singer, and activist (died 2010)

Lena Mary Calhoun Horne was an American singer, actress, dancer and civil rights activist. Horne's career spanned more than seventy years and covered film, television and theater.

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Willa Kim, American costume designer (died 2016)

Wullah Mei Ok Kim, known as Willa Kim, was an American costume designer for stage, dance, and film.

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30/06/1914

Francisco da Costa Gomes, Portuguese general and politician, 15th President of Portugal (died 2001)

Francisco da Costa Gomes, ComTE GOA was a Portuguese military officer and politician who was the president of Portugal from 1974 to 1976. Earlier on, he had been deployed to Angola as part of the Portuguese Colonial War.

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Allan Houser, American sculptor and painter (died 1994)

Allan Capron Houser or Haozous was a Chiricahua Apache sculptor, painter, and book illustrator born in Oklahoma. He was one of the most renowned Native American painters and Modernist sculptors of the 20th century.

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30/06/1913

Alfonso López Michelsen, Colombian lawyer and politician, 24th President of Colombia (died 2007)

Alfonso López Michelsen was a Colombian politician and lawyer who served as the 25th President of Colombia from 1974 to 1978. He was nicknamed "El Pollo", a popular Colombian idiom for people with precocious careers.

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Harry Wismer, American sportscaster (died 1967)

Harry Wismer was an American sports broadcaster and the founder of the Titans of New York franchise in the American Football League (AFL).

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30/06/1912

Ludwig Bölkow, German engineer (died 2003)

Ludwig Bölkow was a German aeronautical engineer.

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Dan Reeves, American businessman and philanthropist (died 1971)

Daniel Farrell Reeves was an American sports entrepreneur, best known as the owner of the Los Angeles Rams of the National Football League (NFL). He owned the franchise when it was operating in Cleveland, Ohio in 1941, and he would own the team until his death in 1971.

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María Luisa Dehesa Gómez Farías, Mexican architect (died 2009)

María Luisa Dehesa Gómez Farías was a Mexican architect who worked for close to 50 years in the Federal District of Mexico City, primarily designing single-family homes and apartment buildings. She was the first Mexican woman to graduate with a degree in architecture.

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30/06/1911

Czesław Miłosz, Polish novelist, essayist, and poet, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2004)

Czesław Miłosz was a Polish-American poet, prose writer, translator, and diplomat. He primarily wrote his poetry in Polish. Regarded as one of the great poets of the 20th century, he won the 1980 Nobel Prize in Literature. In its citation, the Swedish Academy called Miłosz a writer who "voices man's exposed condition in a world of severe conflicts".

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Nagarjun, Indian poet (died 1998)

Vaidyanath Mishra, better known by his pen name Nagarjun, was a Hindi and Maithili poet who has also penned a number of novels, short stories, literary biographies and travelogues, and was known as Janakavi- the People's Poet. He is regarded as the most prominent protagonist of modernity in Maithili.

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30/06/1909

Juan Bosch, 43rd President of the Dominican Republic (died 2001)

Juan Emilio Bosch y Gaviño, also known as El Profesor, was a Dominican politician, historian, writer, essayist, educator, and the first democratically elected president of the Dominican Republic for seven months in 1963.

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30/06/1908

Winston Graham, English author (died 2003)

Winston Mawdsley Graham OBE, born Winston Grime, was an English novelist best known for the Poldark series of historical novels set in Cornwall, though he also wrote numerous other works, including contemporary thrillers, period novels, short stories, non-fiction and plays. Graham was the author's pseudonym until he changed his name by deed poll from Grime to Graham on 7 May 1947.

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Luigi Rovere, Italian film producer (died 1996)

Luigi Rovere was an Italian film producer.

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Rob Nieuwenhuys, Dutch writer (died 1999)

Robert Nieuwenhuys was a Dutch writer of Indo descent. The son of a 'Totok' Dutchman and an Indo-European mother, he and his younger brother Roelof, grew up in Batavia, where his father was the managing director of the renowned Hotel des Indes.

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30/06/1907

Roman Shukhevych, Ukrainian general and politician (died 1950)

Roman-Taras Osypovych Shukhevych was a Ukrainian nationalist and a military leader of the nationalist Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA), which during the Second World War fought against the Soviet Union and to a lesser extent against Nazi Germany for Ukrainian independence. He collaborated with the Nazis from February 1941 to December 1942 as commanding officer of the Nachtigall Battalion in early 1941, and as a Hauptmann of the German Schutzmannschaft 201 auxiliary police battalion in late 1941 and 1942.

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30/06/1906

Anthony Mann, American actor and director (died 1967)

Anthony Mann was an American film director and stage actor. He came to prominence as a skilled director of film noir and Westerns, and for his historical epics.

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30/06/1905

John Van Ryn, American tennis player (died 1999)

John Van Ryn was an American tennis champion of the 1930s. He was primarily known as the doubles partner of Wilmer Allison.

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30/06/1904

Marianne Angermann, German–Spanish–New Zealand biochemist (died 1977)

Mathilde Marianne Bielschowsky was a German-born Spanish–New Zealand biochemist and anti-fascist. Trained at the universities of Greifswald, Freiburg, Cologne, and Bonn, she earned a doctorate in chemistry in 1928 and later studied medicine. After leaving Germany in 1935 in opposition to the Nazi regime, she worked at the Instituto de investigaciónes médicas in Madrid, where she collaborated with fellow German emigrant Franz Bielschowsky. During the Spanish Civil War, Angermann volunteered as a medical laboratory chemist for the Republican forces while Bielschowsky served as a physician.

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30/06/1899

Madge Bellamy, American actress (died 1990)

Madge Bellamy was an American stage and film actress. She was a popular leading lady in the 1920s and early 1930s. Bellamy's career declined in the sound era and ended following a romantic scandal in the 1940s.

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30/06/1895

Heinz Warneke, German-American sculptor and educator (died 1983)

Heinrich Johann Dietrich "Heinz" Warneke was a German-born American sculptor, best remembered as an animalier, or sculptor of animals. His role in the direct carving movement "assured him a place in the annals of 20th-century American sculpture."

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30/06/1893

Nellah Massey Bailey, American politician and librarian (died 1956)

Nellah Izora Massey Bailey was an American politician and librarian. She was the first lady of Mississippi from 1944 to 1946 and the Mississippi state tax collector from 1948 to 1956. A member of the Democratic Party, she was the first woman elected to statewide office in Mississippi.

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Walter Ulbricht, German soldier and politician, chief decision maker and head of state of the GDR (East Germany) (died 1973)

Walter Ernst Paul Ulbricht was a German communist politician. Ulbricht played a leading role in the creation of the Weimar-era Communist Party of Germany (KPD) and later in the early development and establishment of the German Democratic Republic. As the First Secretary of the Communist Socialist Unity Party from 1950 to 1971, he was the chief decision-maker in East Germany. From President Wilhelm Pieck's death in 1960, he was also the East German head of state until his own death in 1973. As the leader of a significant Communist satellite, Ulbricht had a degree of bargaining power with the Kremlin that he used effectively. For example, he demanded the building of the Berlin Wall in 1961 when the Kremlin was reluctant.

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30/06/1892

Pierre Blanchar, Algerian-French actor and director (died 1963)

Pierre Blanchar was a French actor. He appeared in more than 50 films between 1922 and 1961. Blanchar was married to actress Marthe Vinot, with whom he had a daughter, actress Dominique Blanchar. He played Napoleon in the 1938 British film A Royal Divorce alongside Ruth Chatterton as Josephine. He later appeared alongside Michèle Morgan in the 1946 film Pastoral Symphony.

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30/06/1891

Man Mountain Dean, American wrestler and sergeant (died 1953)

Frank Simmons Leavitt was an American professional wrestler of the early 20th century, known by the ring name Man Mountain Dean.

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Ed Lewis, American wrestler and manager (died 1966)

Robert Herman Julius Friedrich, better known by the ring name Ed "Strangler" Lewis, was an American professional wrestler and trainer. During his wrestling career, which spanned four decades, Lewis was a four-time World Heavyweight Wrestling Champion and overall recognized officially as a five-time world champion. Considered to be one of the most iconic and recognizable sports stars of the 1920s, often alongside boxer Jack Dempsey and baseball player Babe Ruth, Lewis notably wrestled in over 6,000 matches and lost only 32 of them.

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Stanley Spencer, English painter (died 1959)

Sir Stanley Spencer was an English painter. Shortly after leaving the Slade School of Art, Spencer became well known for his paintings depicting Biblical scenes occurring as if in Cookham, Berkshire, the small village beside the River Thames where he was born and spent much of his life. Spencer referred to Cookham as "a village in Heaven" and in his biblical scenes, fellow-villagers are shown as their Gospel counterparts. Spencer was skilled at organising multi-figure compositions such as in his large paintings for the Sandham Memorial Chapel and the Shipbuilding on the Clyde series, the former being a First World War memorial while the latter was a commission for the War Artists' Advisory Committee during the Second World War.

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30/06/1890

Paul Boffa, Maltese physician and politician, 5th Prime Minister of Malta (died 1962)

Sir Paul Boffa, OBE, was a Maltese politician and medical doctor who served as prime minister in the Colony of Malta after self-rule was reinstated by the British colonial authorities, following the end of the Second World War. He was created a Knight Bachelor by Queen Elizabeth II in 1956.

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30/06/1889

Archibald Frazer-Nash, English motor car designer, engineer and founder of Frazer Nash (died 1965)

Archibald Goodman Frazer Nash, was an early English motor car designer, engineer, and inventor who specialised in manufacturer of light "cycle cars" and sports cars in England.

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30/06/1884

Georges Duhamel, French author and critic (died 1966)

Georges Duhamel was a French author, born in Paris. Duhamel trained as a doctor, and during World War I was attached to the French Army. In 1920, he published Confession de minuit, the first of a series featuring the anti-hero Salavin. In 1935, he was elected as a member of the Académie française. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature twenty-seven times. He was also the father of the musicologist and composer Antoine Duhamel.

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30/06/1864

Frederick Bligh Bond, English architect and archaeologist (died 1945)

Frederick Bligh Bond, was an English architect, illustrator, archaeologist, psychical researcher and member of the Societas Rosicruciana in Anglia.

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30/06/1843

Ernest Mason Satow, English orientalist and diplomat (died 1929)

Sir Ernest Mason Satow, was a British diplomat, scholar and Japanologist. He is better known in Japan, where he was known as Satō Ainosuke , than in Britain or the other countries in which he served as a diplomat. He was a key figure in late 19th-century Anglo-Japanese relations.

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30/06/1817

Joseph Dalton Hooker, English botanist and explorer (died 1911)

Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker was a British botanist and explorer in the 19th century. He was a founder of geographical botany and Charles Darwin's closest friend. For 20 years he served as director of the Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew, succeeding his father, William Jackson Hooker, and was awarded the highest honours of British science.

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30/06/1807

Friedrich Theodor Vischer, German author, poet, and playwright (died 1887)

Friedrich Theodor Vischer was a German novelist, poet, playwright, and writer on the philosophy of art. Today, he is mainly remembered as the author of the novel Auch Einer, in which he developed the concept of Die Tücke des Objekts, a comic theory that inanimate objects conspire against humans.

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30/06/1803

Thomas Lovell Beddoes, English poet, playwright, and physician (died 1849)

Thomas Lovell Beddoes was an English poet, dramatist and physician.

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30/06/1791

Félix Savart, French physicist and psychologist (died 1841)

Félix Savart was a French physicist and mathematician who is primarily known for the Biot–Savart law of electromagnetism, which he discovered together with his colleague Jean-Baptiste Biot. His main interest was in acoustics and the study of vibrating bodies. A particular interest in the violin led him to create an experimental trapezoidal model. He gave his name to the savart, a unit of measurement for musical intervals, and to Savart's wheel—a device he used while investigating the range of human hearing.

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30/06/1789

Horace Vernet, French painter and academic (died 1863)

Émile Jean-Horace Vernet, better known as Horace Vernet, was a French painter of battles, portraits, and Orientalist subjects.

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30/06/1755

Paul Barras, French soldier and politician (died 1829)

Paul François Jean Nicolas, Vicomte de Barras, commonly known as Paul Barras, was a French politician of the French Revolution, and the main executive leader of the Directory regime of 1795–1799.

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30/06/1722

Jiří Antonín Benda, Czech composer, violinist and Kapellmeister (died 1795)

Georg Anton Benda was a Bohemian composer, violinist and Kapellmeister of the classical period.

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30/06/1688

Abu l-Hasan Ali I, ruler of Tunisia (died 1756)

Abu l-Hasan Ali I, commonly referred to as Ali I Bey ) was the second leader of the Husainid Dynasty and the ruler of Tunisia from 1735 to 1756.

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30/06/1685

John Gay, English poet and playwright (died 1732)

John Gay was an English poet and dramatist and member of the Scriblerus Club. He is best remembered for The Beggar's Opera (1728), a ballad opera. The characters, including Captain Macheath and Polly Peachum, became household names.

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30/06/1641

Meinhardt Schomberg, 3rd Duke of Schomberg, German-English general (died 1719)

General Meinhardt Schomberg, 3rd Duke of Schomberg, 1st Duke of Leinster, KG, was a German-born military officer and peer who served as Commander-in-Chief of the Forces in 1691. He spent the majority of his military career in service to William III of England, fighting in the Portuguese Restoration War, Franco-Dutch War, Williamite War in Ireland and the War of the Spanish Succession.

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30/06/1588

Giovanni Maria Sabino, Italian organist, composer, and educator (died 1649)

Giovanni Maria Sabino was an Italian composer, organist and teacher.

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30/06/1533

Martín de Rada, Spanish missionary (died 1578)

Martín de Rada was one of the first members of the Order of Saint Augustine (OSA) to spread the Christian doctrine in the Philippines, as well as one of the first Christian missionaries to visit Ming China.

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30/06/1503

John Frederick I, Elector of Saxony (died 1554)

John Frederick I was the Prince-Elector and Arch-Marshal of the Holy Roman Empire (1532–1547) from the Ernestine branch of the Saxon ruling House of Wettin, who initially governed over the Ernestine Electorate of Saxony, centred on Saxe-Wittenberg, until he was deprived of his electoral titles and most domains by the Capitulation of Wittenberg (1547). He was left with the Saxon ducal title, and Ernestine possessions in Thuringia. Previously, he was leading the Schmalkaldic League, a military alliance of Lutheran principalities.

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30/06/1478

John, Prince of Asturias, Son of Ferdinand II of Aragon and Isabella I of Castile (died 1497)

John, Prince of Asturias and Girona was the only son of King Ferdinand II of Aragon and Queen Isabella I of Castile, and heir apparent to both their thrones for nearly his entire life.

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30/06/1470

Charles VIII of France (died 1498)

Charles VIII, called the Affable, was King of France from 1483 to his death in 1498. He succeeded his father Louis XI at the age of 13. His elder sister Anne acted as regent jointly with her husband Peter II, Duke of Bourbon until 1491, when the young king turned 21 years of age. During Anne's regency, the great lords rebelled against royal centralisation efforts in a conflict known as the Mad War (1485–1488), which resulted in a victory for the royal government.

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30/06/1468

John, Elector of Saxony (died 1532)

John, known as John the Steadfast or John the Constant, was Elector of Saxony from 1525 until 1532. He belonged to the House of Wettin.

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30/06/1286

John de Warenne, 7th Earl of Surrey, English magnate (died 1347)

John de Warenne, 7th Earl of Surrey, was the last Warenne Earl of Surrey.

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