Wednesday, 4th June 2025 in London

On this day, 224 notable people were born on 4th June — spanning from 590 to 2021. From world leaders to artists and scientists, discover who shares this birthday.

04/06/2021

Princess Lilibet of Sussex

Princess Lilibet of Sussex is an American-born member of the British royal family. She is the daughter of Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex, and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex. She is a granddaughter of King Charles III and is seventh in the line of succession to the British throne.

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04/06/2004

Mackenzie Ziegler, American child actress, dancer, and recording artist

Mackenzie Frances Ziegler is an American singer, actress, internet personality, and former dancer. She appeared as a child for six years on the Lifetime reality dance series Dance Moms together with her older sister, dancer and actress Maddie Ziegler.

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04/06/2001

Takefusa Kubo, Japanese footballer

Takefusa Kubo, commonly known as Take Kubo, is a Japanese professional footballer who plays as a right winger for La Liga club Real Sociedad and the Japan national team. He has been dubbed "Japanese Messi" by Japanese football fans because of his technical ability.

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04/06/1999

Kim So-hyun, South Korean actress

Kim So-hyun is a South Korean actress. She is known for her leading roles in the youth drama Who Are You: School 2015 (2015), historical melodramas The Emperor: Owner of the Mask (2017) and River Where the Moon Rises (2021), romantic drama Love Alarm (2019), and the action-comedy Good Boy (2025).

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Drew Pavlou, Australian activist

Drew Pavlou is an Australian political activist best known for his criticism of the Chinese government and the Chinese Communist Party, and their influence within Australia. Pavlou is also known for having organised protests on-campus in support of the 2019–2020 Hong Kong protests, and for later protest activity against the Chinese government.

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04/06/1998

Central Cee, British rapper and songwriter

Oakley Neil Caesar-Su, known professionally as Central Cee, is a British rapper from Shepherd's Bush, London. Regarded as a leading figure in UK rap, he rose to prominence in 2020 with the release of his drill singles "Day in the Life" and "Loading". His first mixtape, Wild West (2021), debuted at number two on the UK Albums Chart, while his second, 23 (2022), debuted atop the chart.

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04/06/1996

Oli McBurnie, Scottish footballer

Oliver Robert McBurnie is a professional footballer who plays as a striker for Premier League club Hull City.

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04/06/1993

Jonathan Huberdeau, Canadian ice hockey player

Jonathan Huberdeau is a Canadian professional ice hockey player who is a winger and alternate captain for the Calgary Flames of the National Hockey League (NHL). Huberdeau was selected third overall by the Florida Panthers in the 2011 NHL entry draft and made his NHL debut with the team in 2013. After playing with the Panthers for ten seasons and setting the franchise record for points scored in a single season, Huberdeau was included in a blockbuster trade with the Flames which sent Matthew Tkachuk to Florida.

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Juan Iturbe, Paraguayan footballer

Juan Manuel Iturbe Arévalo is a professional footballer who plays as a winger for Cerro Porteño.

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Aaron Nola, American baseball player

Aaron Michael Nola is an American professional baseball pitcher for the Philadelphia Phillies of Major League Baseball (MLB).

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Annika Taylor, British-American cross-country skier

Annika Taylor is a cross-country skier with joint British and American nationality.

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04/06/1992

Jordan Hugill, English footballer

Jordan Thomas Hugill is an English professional footballer who plays as a forward for EFL League Two club Rotherham United. He will become a free agent on 30 June 2026.

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04/06/1991

Lorenzo Insigne, Italian footballer

Lorenzo Insigne is an Italian professional footballer who plays as a left winger, attacking midfielder or forward for Serie C club Pescara. He is known in particular for his creativity, versatility, short height, speed and technical ability, as well as his accuracy from free kicks.

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Matt McIlwrick, New Zealand rugby league player

Matt McIlwrick is a New Zealand former professional rugby league footballer who played as a hooker and lock.

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Ben Stokes, New Zealand-English cricketer

Benjamin Andrew Stokes is an English international cricketer who is the captain of the England Test team. Stokes has played for England in all three formats. Stokes is regarded as one of England's greatest all-rounders in the history of the sport. In domestic cricket, he represents Durham and has played in multiple Twenty20 leagues around the world. He was part of the England team that won the 2019 Cricket World Cup and 2022 T20 World Cup.

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Rajiv van La Parra, Dutch footballer

Rajiv Ramon van La Parra is a Dutch professional footballer. A winger, he can also play as a striker for Beerschot. At the international level, he has represented the Netherlands U21.

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04/06/1990

Evan Spiegel, American Internet entrepreneur

Evan Thomas Spiegel is an American businessman who is the co-founder and CEO of Snap Inc. Spiegel was the youngest billionaire in the world in 2015. As of August 2025, he had a personal net worth of $2.5 billion according to Forbes.

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04/06/1989

Federico Erba, Italian footballer

Federico Maria Erba is an Italian footballer who plays for Roma.

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Paweł Fajdek, Polish hammer thrower

Paweł Fajdek is a Polish hammer thrower, a five-time World Champion, European Champion, Olympic bronze medal winner, multiple Polish Champion and Polish men's hammer throw record holder. In 2013, he became the youngest world champion in the event. His personal best throw of 83.93 metres was achieved on 9 August 2015 at the Janusz Kusociński Memorial in Szczecin.

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04/06/1988

Matt Bartkowski, American ice hockey defenseman

Matthew Richard Bartkowski is an American former professional ice hockey defenseman. He most recently played for the Rochester Americans of the American Hockey League (AHL).

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Kimberley Busteed, Australian model

Kimberley Busteed is an Australian TV host, model and beauty pageant titleholder who won Miss Universe Australia 2007 and represented Australia in the 2007 Miss Universe pageant. She is from Gladstone in Central Queensland, Australia and is a former teen swimming champion and surf lifesaving competitor. In 2006 she was the Fashion on the Field winner at the Doomben races in Brisbane, following that she won the Melbourne Cup Fashions on the Field. In 2012 Busteed resumed her competitive swimming by competing in the Noosa Tri, swimming the 1500m ocean stretch for her team.

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Tjaronn Chery, Dutch-born Surinamese footballer

Tjaronn Inteff Chefren Chery is a professional footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder for Eredivisie club NEC. Born in the Netherlands, he represents the Suriname national team.

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04/06/1987

Mollie King, English singer

Mollie Elizabeth King is an English radio presenter, singer and songwriter who rose to fame as a member of girl group the Saturdays.

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04/06/1985

Leon Botha, South African painter and DJ (died 2011)

Leon Botha was a South African painter and disk jockey. He was known for his close association with the hip hop group Die Antwoord, as well as for being the second of the world's longest-lived persons with progeria before Sammy Basso who was one of the oldest known survivors of the disease.

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Anna-Lena Grönefeld, German tennis player

Anna-Lena Grönefeld is a German former professional tennis player.

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Evan Lysacek, American figure skater

Evan Frank Lysacek is an American retired figure skater. He is the 2010 Olympic champion, the 2009 World champion, a two-time Four Continents champion, the 2009 Grand Prix Final champion, and a two-time U.S. national champion. Lysacek was the 2010 United States Olympic Committee's SportsMan of the Year, and the winner of the James E. Sullivan Award as the top U.S. amateur athlete of 2010. On January 22, 2016, he was inducted into the U.S. Figure Skating Hall of Fame.

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Lukas Podolski, German footballer

Lukas Josef Podolski is a former German professional footballer who played as a striker or left winger. He is the current owner of Ekstraklasa club Górnik Zabrze, for whom he played before his retirement in 2026. He was known for his powerful and accurate left foot, explosive shooting, technique and probing attacks from the left side.

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Bar Refaeli, Israeli model and actress

Bar Refaeli is an Israeli model. She is among the most internationally successful models to come from Israel, appearing on the cover of the 2009 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue, and being voted No. 1 on Maxim magazine's Hot 100 list of 2012. As a television host, Refaeli has hosted The X Factor Israel since 2013 and co-hosted the Eurovision Song Contest 2019 in Tel Aviv.

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Oddvar Reiakvam, Norwegian politician

Oddvar Hallset Reiakvam is a Norwegian politician as a member of the Progress Party.

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04/06/1984

Henri Bedimo, Cameroonian footballer

Henri Bedimo Nsamé is a Cameroonian former professional footballer who played as a left-back. He represented the Cameroon national team internationally from 2009 to 2016 making 51 appearances and scoring once.

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Kento Handa, Japanese actor and singer

Kento Handa is a Japanese actor and singer, best known for his role as Takumi Inui/Kamen Rider Faiz in Kamen Rider 555. He plays many musical instruments including the guitar, bass, drums and the piano. His album "HOMEMADE" was released in 2017, and his album Seikatsu was released in 2018.

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Stuart Kettlewell, Scottish football manager and former player

Stuart Kettlewell is a Scottish professional football manager and former player who is currently the manager of Ross County. He played as a midfielder for Queen's Park, Clyde, Ross County and Brora Rangers. Kettlewell has since managed Ross County, Motherwell and Kilmarnock.

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Enrico Rossi Chauvenet, Italian footballer

Enrico Rossi Chauvenet is an Italian footballer who plays as a goalkeeper.

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Ian White, Canadian ice hockey player

Ian White is a Canadian former professional ice hockey defenceman who played over 500 games in the National Hockey League. In a career spanning parts of nine seasons, White suited up for the Toronto Maple Leafs, Calgary Flames, Carolina Hurricanes, San Jose Sharks and Detroit Red Wings. White was originally selected in the sixth round, 191st overall in the 2002 NHL Draft. He returned to professional hockey in 2022 with the Columbus River Dragons of the Federal Prospects Hockey League. On October 26, 2022, White was traded to the Motor City Rockers of the Federal Prospects Hockey League. On January 23, 2023, White was signed to a standard player contract with the Norfolk Admirals the ECHL. He was released on November 14, 2023.

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Rainie Yang, Taiwanese actress

Rainie Yang Cheng Lin is a Taiwanese singer, actress, and television host. Yang began her career in 2000 as a member of girl group 4 in Love. After the group disbanded in 2002, she began a successful solo career with her album, My Intuition, in 2005. In addition to singing, she is known for co-hosting the variety show Guess from 2002 to 2007, and for her acting roles in TV dramas Meteor Garden (2001), Devil Beside You (2005), Why Why Love (2007), and Hi My Sweetheart (2009), for which she received the Golden Bell Award for Best Actress.

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04/06/1983

Romaric, Ivorian footballer

Koffi Christian Romaric N'Dri, commonly known as Romaric, is an Ivorian former professional footballer and current manager of Ligue 1 club AFAD Djékanou. A versatile midfielder, he could play as either a defensive or central midfielder.

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Emmanuel Eboué, Ivorian footballer

Emmanuel Eboué is an Ivorian former professional footballer who played as a right back.

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Olha Saladuha, Ukrainian triple jumper

Olha Valeriivna Saladukha is a Ukrainian former triple jumper. Since the 2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election she is a member of the Ukrainian parliament.

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04/06/1982

Matt Gilks, Scottish footballer

Matthew Gilks is a former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper.

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Abel Kirui, Kenyan runner

Abel Kirui is a long-distance runner from Kenya who competes in marathons. He had back-to-back wins in the World Championship marathon in 2009 and 2011. Kirui won in 2009 with a time of 2:06:54, then defended his title with a winning margin of two minutes and 28 seconds – the largest ever margin at the World Championship event. He earned the silver medal in the 2012 London Olympic marathon.

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Ronnie Prude, American-Canadian football player

Ronnie Edward Prude Jr. is an American former professional football cornerback. He played college football at LSU and was signed by the Baltimore Ravens as an undrafted free agent in 2006.

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04/06/1981

Jennifer Carroll, Canadian swimmer

Jennifer Carroll is a Canadian former swimmer.

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T.J. Miller, American actor and comedian

Todd Joseph Miller is an American stand-up comedian, actor, producer, and screenwriter. He played Erlich Bachman in the HBO sitcom Silicon Valley (2014–2017) and the Marvel Comics character Weasel in the superhero comedy film Deadpool (2016) and its 2018 sequel.

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Giourkas Seitaridis, Greek footballer

Georgios "Giourkas" Seitaridis is a Greek former professional footballer who played as a right-back and occasionally as a centre-back. He has last played in 2013 for Super League Greece side Panathinaikos, having played previously at PAS Giannina, Porto, Dynamo Moscow and Atlético Madrid. He is a former member of the Greece national team, for which he made a total of 72 international appearances, scoring one goal. He was part of their team which won Euro 2004, for which he was voted into the Team of the Tournament.

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Gary Taylor-Fletcher, English footballer

Gary Taylor-Fletcher is an English football manager and former professional player who manages AFC Crewe. Prior to marrying his wife in June 2004 he was known as Gary Fletcher, adopting the surname Taylor-Fletcher in football terms from the beginning of the 2004–05 season.

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Natalia Vodopyanova, Russian basketball player

Natalia Andreyevna Vodopyanova is a Russian basketball player. She was part of the Russian teams that won bronze medals at the 2004 and 2008 Olympics and placed fourth in 2012; she also won the European title in 2007 and a silver medal at the 2006 World Championships.

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04/06/1980

François Beauchemin, Canadian ice hockey player

Joseph Jean-François Vinet Beauchemin is a Canadian former professional ice hockey defenceman who played in the National Hockey League (NHL). Drafted in the third round, 75th overall, by the Montreal Canadiens in the 1998 NHL entry draft, he spent most of his career playing for the Anaheim Ducks, winning a Stanley Cup in 2007.

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04/06/1979

Naohiro Takahara, Japanese footballer

Naohiro Takahara is a Japanese football manager and former player who played as a forward. He is currently the president of Japan Football League club Okinawa SV.

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Daniel Vickerman, South African-Australian rugby player (died 2017)

Daniel Joseph Vickerman was a professional rugby union player. The 204 cm, 119 kg lock played 63 Tests with the Wallabies, the national team of his adopted country of Australia. After seven seasons with the Wallabies, and having played Super Rugby for the New South Wales Waratahs and ACT Brumbies, Vickerman left his successful international rugby career in 2008. He attended the University of Cambridge, where he read a degree in Land Economy at Hughes Hall. While in England, he played rugby for Cambridge University and Northampton Saints. In 2011, he returned to Australia and played again for the Wallabies, including at the 2011 Rugby World Cup, before he retired from the game.

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04/06/1977

Dionisis Chiotis, Greek footballer

Dionysis Chiotis is a Greek former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper. Currently, he serves as a goalkeeping coach for AEK Athens Academy.

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Alex Manninger, Austrian footballer (died 2026)

Alexander Manninger was an Austrian footballer who played as a goalkeeper. He played internationally for the Austria national team on 33 occasions, including at UEFA Euro 2008, and represented football clubs in Italy, Germany, Austria and England.

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Roman Miroshnichenko, Ukrainian guitarist and composer

Roman Maksimovich Miroshnichenko is a Ukrainian jazz guitarist and composer. From 1994 to 1999, he was a member of his father's, Maxim Miroshnichenko, big band. He formed RMProject in 2003 and toured Europe and made many appearances at Jazz festivals. In 2009, he joined up with Herman Romero and together they toured Russia. Miroshnichenko also composes for film and worked as an actor.

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Roland G. Fryer Jr., American economist and professor

Roland Gerhard Fryer Jr. is an American economist and professor at Harvard University.

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04/06/1976

Kasey Chambers, Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist

Kasey Chambers is an Australian country singer-songwriter and musician born in Mount Gambier to musicians Diane and Bill Chambers. Her older brother is musician and producer Nash Chambers. All four were members of family country-music group Dead Ringer Band in Bowral, New South Wales, from 1992 to 1998. Chambers launched her solo career thereafter. Five of her 12 studio albums have reached No. 1 on the ARIA Albums Chart: Barricades & Brickwalls, Wayward Angel, Carnival, Rattlin' Bones and Dragonfly. In November 2018, she was inducted into the ARIA Hall of Fame and has won an additional 14 ARIA Music Awards with nine for Best Country Album. Her autobiography, A Little Bird Told Me..., co-authored with music journalist Jeff Apter, was released in 2011.

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Alexei Navalny, Russian lawyer and politician (died 2024)

Alexei Anatolyevich Navalny was a Russian opposition leader, anti-corruption activist and political prisoner. He founded the Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK) in 2011. He was recognised by Amnesty International as a prisoner of conscience and was awarded the Sakharov Prize for his work on human rights.

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Nenad Zimonjić, Serbian tennis player

Nenad Zimonjić is a Serbian former professional tennis player who was ranked world No. 1 in doubles.

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04/06/1975

Russell Brand, English comedian and actor

Russell Edward Brand is an English comedian, actor, podcaster, and media personality. Establishing himself as a stand-up comedian and radio and television presenter in the UK, Brand initially became well-known as the host of the television show Big Brother's Big Mouth, a spin-off from reality show Big Brother, broadcast on E4.

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Henry Burris, American football player

Henry Armand Burris Jr. is an American former professional football quarterback, and a member of the Canadian Football Hall of Fame. He is currently the co-offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach for Florida A&M. Burris played in the Canadian Football League (CFL) from 1998 to 2016. He won three Grey Cup championships, two with the Calgary Stampeders, in 1998 and 2008, having spent 10 years of his career with them, and one with the Ottawa Redblacks in 2016. He was also a sports broadcaster and football analyst at TSN, appearing as a panel member on the network's CFL on TSN broadcasts.

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Angelina Jolie, American actress, filmmaker, humanitarian, and activist

Angelina Jolie, DCMG, is an American actress, filmmaker, and humanitarian. She is the recipient of numerous accolades, including an Academy Award, a Tony Award and three Golden Globe Awards. Films in which she has appeared have grossed over $6.9 billion worldwide. She has been named Hollywood's highest-paid actress multiple times.

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Dinanath Ramnarine, Trinidadian cricketer

Dinanath Ramnarine is a Trinidadian cricketer who retired in 2002.

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04/06/1974

Jacob Sahaya Kumar Aruni, Indian chef (died 2012)

Jacob Sahaya Kumar Aruni, popularly known as "Chef Jacob", was an Indian celebrity chef born in Uthamapalayam, Tamil Nadu. He was known for his authentic South Indian cuisines. Aruni was a visiting chef at several hotels, and a consultant chef. He was also a food historian, spice collector and promoter of South Indian cooking.

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Darin Erstad, American baseball player and coach

Darin Charles Erstad is an American former professional baseball player and former head coach of the Nebraska Cornhuskers. Erstad spent most of his playing career with the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim franchise (1996–2006) before signing with the Chicago White Sox in 2007. Erstad batted and threw left-handed. He was a two-time MLB All-Star and a three-time Gold Glove Award winner. He was the first overall pick in the 1995 Major League Baseball draft.

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Andrew Gwynne, English lawyer and politician

Andrew John Gwynne is a British politician who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Gorton and Denton, previously Denton and Reddish, from 2005 to 2026. A member of the Labour Party, he served as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Public Health and Prevention from 2024 to 2025.

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Janette Husárová, Slovak tennis player

Janette Husárová is a Slovak former tennis player.

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Buddy Wakefield, American poet and author

Buddy Wakefield is an American poet, three-time world champion spoken word artist, and the most toured performance poet in history. His latest works have been released by Righteous Babe Records (album) and Write Bloody Publishing (books). He has lived in Sanborn, New York, Baytown, Texas, Seattle, Washington, Los Angeles, California, and currently lives in Porto, Portugal.

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04/06/1973

Mikey Whipwreck, American wrestler and trainer

John Michael Watson, better known by his ring name Mikey Whipwreck, is an American semi-retired professional wrestler. He is best known for his career with Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW), where he was an ECW Triple Crown Champion. Whipwreck is a former world champion, winning the ECW World Heavyweight Championship once. He also became a two-time World Television Champion and a three-time World Tag Team Champion in ECW.

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04/06/1972

Derian Hatcher, American ice hockey defenseman

Derian John Hatcher is an American former professional ice hockey defenseman who played 16 seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL) with the Minnesota North Stars, Dallas Stars, Detroit Red Wings, and Philadelphia Flyers. He is the current owner of the Sarnia Sting of the Ontario Hockey League (OHL).

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Rob Huebel, American comedian, actor, producer, and screenwriter

Robert Anderson Huebel is an American comedian and actor. He is best known for his sketch comedy work on the MTV series Human Giant and for his role of Dr. Owen Maestro on the Adult Swim series Childrens Hospital. He also appeared as Russell on the FX/FXX series The League and as Len Novak on the Amazon Prime Video series Transparent. In December 2022, Entertainment Weekly called Huebel "the premier d-bag character actor of his generation".

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04/06/1971

Joseph Kabila, Congolese soldier and politician, President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Joseph Kabila Kabange is a Congolese politician and former military officer who was the fourth president of the Democratic Republic of the Congo from 2001 to 2019. He took office ten days after the assassination of his father, President Laurent-Désiré Kabila, in the context of the Second Congo War. He was allowed to remain in power as the president of the new transitional government after the 2002 peace agreements ended the war. Kabila founded the People's Party for Reconstruction and Democracy (PPRD) and was elected president in 2006. He was re-elected for a second term in 2011. Since stepping down after the 2018 election, Kabila, as a former president, is a senator for life. Kabila was the country's second-longest serving president.

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Mike Lee, American lawyer and politician

Michael Shumway Lee is an American lawyer and politician serving as the senior United States senator from Utah, a seat he has held since 2011. A member of the Republican Party, Lee has been Utah's senior senator since 2019 and the dean of Utah's congressional delegation since 2021.

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Shoji Meguro, Japanese director and composer

Shoji Meguro is a Japanese composer, guitarist, and video game designer. Formerly an employee of the game company Atlus, he is best known for his work in their Shin Megami Tensei and Persona series. His music spans several genres, such as rock, electronic, J-pop, jazz, and symphonic. Meguro has also designed indie games and was the creative director of the PlayStation Portable remakes of Persona and the Persona 2 duology.

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Noah Wyle, American actor and producer

Noah Strausser Speer Wyle is an American actor, television director, producer and writer. He rose to fame as Dr. John Carter in the NBC medical drama ER (1994–2005), receiving five consecutive Emmy Award nominations, three consecutive Golden Globe Award nominations, and four Screen Actors Guild Awards. He has won two Emmy Awards and a Golden Globe Award for his work on the HBO Max medical drama The Pitt, earning recognition both for his lead performance as Dr. Michael "Robby" Robinavitch and as an executive producer.

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04/06/1970

Deborah Compagnoni, Italian skier

Deborah Compagnoni Golden Collar of Sports Merit is an Italian former Alpine skier who won three gold medals at the 1992, 1994, and 1998 Winter Olympics.

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Richie Hawtin, English-Canadian DJ and producer

Richard "Richie" Hawtin is a British-Canadian electronic musician and DJ. He became involved with Detroit techno's second wave in the early 1990s, and has been a leading exponent of minimal techno since the mid-1990s. He became known for his recordings under the Plastikman and F.U.S.E. aliases. Under the latter, he released his debut album Dimension Intrusion (1993) as part of Warp's Artificial Intelligence series.

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Dave Pybus, English bass player and songwriter

Dave Pybus is an English extreme metal musician, best known as the former bass player of Cradle of Filth.

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Izabella Scorupco, Polish-Swedish actress and model

Izabella Scorupco is a Polish actress, singer and model. She is best known for having played a Bond girl, Natalya Simonova, in the 1995 James Bond film GoldenEye. She is also known for her cover of the Shirley & Company song "Shame, Shame, Shame" which was released in 1992 and became a European hit.

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04/06/1969

Horatio Sanz, Chilean-American actor and comedian

Horacio Sanz, better known by his stage name Horatio Sanz, is an American comedian and actor. Sanz was a cast member on the NBC sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live from 1998 to 2006.

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04/06/1968

Niurka Montalvo, Cuban-Spanish long jumper

Niurka Montalvo Amaro is a former Cuban and Spanish athlete who specialised in the long jump and triple jump events. Her greatest achievement came in 1999, when she became world champion with a personal best jump of 7.06 metres. She was the autonomous secretary of sport for the Autonomous government of Valencia.

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Al B. Sure!, American R&B singer-songwriter, keyboard player, and producer

Albert Joseph Brown III, known professionally as Al B. Sure!, is an American singer, songwriter, record producer, radio host and former record executive. He was born in Boston and raised in Mount Vernon, New York. During the late 1980s and early 1990s, Brown was one of new jack swing's most popular performers.

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Scott Wolf, American actor

Scott Richard Wolf is an American actor. In television, he is known for his roles as Bailey Salinger in Party of Five (1994–2000), as Jeremy Kates in The Nine (2006–2007), as Donnie Ryan in Perception (2013–2015) and as Carson Drew in Nancy Drew (2019–2023). In film, he is best known for starring in Go (1999) and voicing Scamp in Lady and the Tramp II: Scamp's Adventure (2001).

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04/06/1967

Michael Greyeyes, Canadian actor, dancer, choreographer, director, and educator

Michael Greyeyes is a Canadian First Nations actor, dancer, choreographer, director, and educator.

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Robert S. Kimbrough, American colonel and astronaut

Robert Shane Kimbrough is a retired United States Army officer and NASA astronaut. He was part of the first group of candidates selected for NASA astronaut training following the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster. Kimbrough is a veteran of three spaceflights, the first being a Space Shuttle flight, and the second being a six-month mission to the ISS on board a Russian Soyuz craft. He was the commander of the International Space Station for Expedition 50, and returned to Earth in April 2017. He is married to the former Robbie Lynn Nickels.

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04/06/1966

Cecilia Bartoli, Italian soprano and actress

Cecilia Bartoli OMRI is an Italian mezzo-soprano, widely known for her renditions of the music of Bellini, Handel, Mozart, Rossini, and Vivaldi, as well as lesser-known music of the Baroque and Classical periods. She has also sung soprano and alto repertory.

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Svetlana Jitomirskaya, American mathematician

Svetlana Yakovlevna Jitomirskaya is a mathematician working on dynamical systems and mathematical physics. She is a distinguished professor of mathematics at Georgia Tech and UC Irvine. She is best known for solving the ten martini problem along with mathematician Artur Avila.

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Vladimir Voevodsky, Russian mathematician and academic (died 2017)

Vladimir Alexandrovich Voevodsky was a Russian-American mathematician. His work in developing a homotopy theory for algebraic varieties and formulating motivic cohomology led to the award of a Fields Medal in 2002. He is also known for the proof of the Milnor conjecture and motivic Bloch–Kato conjectures and for the univalent foundations of mathematics and homotopy type theory.

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Bill Wiggin, English politician, Shadow Secretary of State for Wales

Sir William David Wiggin is a former British Conservative Party politician who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for North Herefordshire, previously Leominster, from 2001 to 2024.

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04/06/1965

Mick Doohan, Australian motorcycle racer

Michael Sydney Doohan is an Australian former Grand Prix motorcycle road racing World Champion, who won five consecutive 500 cc World Championships.

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Andrea Jaeger, American tennis player and preacher

Andrea Jaeger is an American former professional tennis player. She started her professional tennis career at the age of 14 and went on to win pro tennis tournaments while still competing in other junior tennis events. By the age of 16, she was the second ranked female professional tennis player in the world. She reached the singles finals at the French Open in 1982 and at Wimbledon in 1983. She also reached the singles semifinals at the Australian Open and the U.S. Open. During her career, she won 10 singles titles. In mixed doubles, she won the French Open with Jimmy Arias in 1981. She reached a career-high singles ranking of world No. 2.

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04/06/1964

Sean Pertwee, English actor

Sean Carl Roland Pertwee is an English actor, narrator and producer. His credits include Chancer (1990), Leon the Pig Farmer (1992), Cadfael (1994), Bodyguards (1997), Event Horizon (1997), Stiff Upper Lips (1998), Soldier (1998), Cleopatra (1999), Love, Honour and Obey (2000), Dog Soldiers (2002), Julius Caesar (2003), Ancient Rome: The Rise And Fall of an Empire – Caesar (2006), Doomsday (2008), Honest (2008), Devil's Playground (2010), Four (2011), Wild Bill (2011), Elementary (2013–2014), Howl (2015), Gotham (2014–2019), Agatha Christie's The Pale Horse (2020), You (2023), Silent Witness (2024), and The Night Caller (2024).

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Kōji Yamamura, Japanese animator, producer, and screenwriter

Kōji Yamamura is a Japanese independent animator who, after leaving a career as a background artist at an animation studio, directs, writes, edits, animates, creates the model sheets and background art for and sometimes produces his own short films and has worked on many commissions such as music videos, television advertisements, title sequences and station idents, both on his own and under or with other directors. He is also a regular illustrator of children's literature and textbooks.

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04/06/1963

Sean Fitzpatrick, New Zealand rugby union player

Sean Brian Thomas Fitzpatrick is a New Zealand former rugby union player.

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Jim Lachey, American football player and sportscaster

James Michael Lachey is an American former professional football player who was an offensive tackle for 10 seasons in the National Football League (NFL) with the San Diego Chargers, Los Angeles Raiders, and Washington Redskins. He was selected by the Chargers in the first round of the 1985 NFL draft with the 12th overall pick.

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Xavier McDaniel, American basketball player and coach

Xavier Maurice McDaniel, nicknamed "X-Man", is an American former professional basketball player who, at 6 ft 7 in, played both small forward and power forward. He played college basketball for the Wichita State Shockers.

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04/06/1962

Krzysztof Hołowczyc, Polish race car driver

Krzysztof Wiesław Hołowczyc is a Polish rally driver. He won the Polish Rally Championship in 1995, 1996 and 1999 and the European Rally Championship in 1997. He was also member of European Parliament (2007–2009) from Civic Platform list.

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Zenon Jaskuła, Polish cyclist

Zenon Jaskuła is a Polish former professional racing cyclist from Śrem, who was active in the 1990s. He won stage 16 and finished third overall in the 1993 Tour de France. He competed in the team time trial at the 1988 Summer Olympics winning a silver medal.

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John P. Kee, American singer-songwriter and pastor

John Prince Kee is an American gospel singer and pastor.

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Junius Ho, Hong Kong solicitor and politician

Junius Ho Kwan-yiu is a Hong Kong lawyer and politician who currently serves as a member in the Hong Kong Legislative Council. A prominent radical pro-Beijing and anti-gay rights public figure in Hong Kong’s political landscape, he formerly served as president of the Law Society of Hong Kong, chairman of the Tuen Mun Rural Committee and as an elected member of the Tuen Mun District Council from 2015 to 2019.

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04/06/1961

El DeBarge, American singer-songwriter and producer

Eldra "El" Patrick DeBarge is an American singer, songwriter and musician. He was the focal point and primary lead singer of the family group DeBarge. Popular songs led by El DeBarge include "Time Will Reveal", "Who's Holding Donna Now", "Stay with Me", "All This Love", and "Rhythm of the Night". As a solo artist, he is best known for his unique high tenor register, strong falsetto and hits like "Who's Johnny" and "Love Always". He has also collaborated with artists such as Dionne Warwick, Al Green, Lalah Hathaway, Tone Loc, Babyface, Faith Evans, Quincy Jones, Fourplay, and DJ Quik.

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Ferenc Gyurcsány, Hungarian businessman and politician, 6th Prime Minister of Hungary

Ferenc Gyurcsány is a Hungarian entrepreneur and retired politician who served as Prime Minister of Hungary from 2004 to 2009. Prior to that, he held the position of Minister of Youth Affairs and Sports between 2003 and 2004.

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04/06/1960

Miloš Đelmaš, Serbian footballer and manager

Miloš Đelmaš is a Serbian retired professional footballer who played as a midfielder.

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Kristine Kathryn Rusch, American author

Kristine Kathryn Rusch is an American writer and editor. She writes under various pseudonyms in multiple genres, including science fiction, fantasy, mystery, romance, and mainstream.

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Paul Taylor, American guitarist and keyboard player

Paul Taylor, formerly credited as Paul Horowitz, is an American musician, who is best known as the keyboardist/guitarist for the hard rock band Winger. Although he is perhaps most frequently associated with Winger, Taylor has also played with numerous other prominent musicians, including future Sammy Hagar and Boston guitarist Gary Pihl, Eric Martin, Aldo Nova, Steve Perry of Journey, Alice Cooper and Tommy Shaw.

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Bradley Walsh, English television presenter, comedian, singer and former footballer

Bradley John Walsh is an English actor, television presenter, comedian, singer, and former professional footballer.

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04/06/1959

Juan Camacho, Bolivian runner

Juan Rodrigo Camacho is a retired male long-distance runner from Bolivia, who represented his native country in three consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 1984. He set his personal best (2:17.49) in the men's marathon on April 7, 1984 in Maassluis, Netherlands.

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Georgios Voulgarakis, Greek politician, 21st Greek Minister for Culture

Georgios Voulgarakis is a Greek politician and the former Minister for Mercantile Marine, Aegean Sea and Island Policy.

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Anil Ambani, Indian businessman and Chairman of Reliance Infrastructure

Anil Dhirajlal Ambani is an Indian businessman, chairman, and managing director of the Reliance Group. The Reliance Group was created in July 2006 following a demerger from Reliance Industries Limited. He led several listed corporations, including Reliance Capital, Reliance Infrastructure, Reliance Power, and Reliance Communications. Anil's net worth is estimated at $1 Billion as of 26 June 2025.

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04/06/1957

Neil McNab, Scottish footballer

Neil McNab is a Scottish former footballer who played as a midfielder.

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04/06/1956

Keith David, American actor

Keith David Williams is an American actor. He is mostly known for his bass voice and screen presence in over 400 roles across film, stage, television, voice work and interactive media.

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John Hockenberry, American journalist and author

John Charles Hockenberry is an American journalist and author. He has reported from all over the world, on a wide variety of stories in several mediums for more than three decades. He has written dozens of magazine and newspaper articles, a play, and two books, including the bestselling memoir Moving Violations: War Zones, Wheelchairs, and Declarations of Independence, which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the novel A River Out Of Eden. He has written for The New York Times, The New Yorker, Wired, The Columbia Journalism Review, Metropolis, The Washington Post, and Harper's Magazine.

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Terry Kennedy, American baseball player and manager

Terrence Edward Kennedy is an American former Major League Baseball catcher who played for the St. Louis Cardinals (1978–1980), San Diego Padres (1981–1986), Baltimore Orioles (1987–1988) and San Francisco Giants (1989–1991). He was a four-time All-Star, three times with the Padres and once with the Orioles. Kennedy batted left-handed and threw right-handed. He is the son of former major league player and manager Bob Kennedy.

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Joyce Sidman, American author and poet

Joyce Sidman is an American children's writer. She was a runner-up for the 2011 Newbery Medal, and won the Sibert Medal in 2019.

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04/06/1955

Val McDermid, Scottish author

Valarie McDermid is a Scottish crime writer of over 30 novels. Her work is considered part of a sub-genre known as Tartan Noir, and is known for uncompromising depictions of violence. Her books have received numerous awards, including the Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger Award and the Cartier Diamond Dagger Award.

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Mary Testa, American singer and actress

Mary Testa is an American stage and film actress. She is a three-time Tony Award nominee, for performances in revivals of Leonard Bernstein's On the Town (1998), 42nd Street (2001) and Oklahoma (2019).

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04/06/1954

Raphael Ravenscroft, English saxophonist and composer (died 2014)

Raphael Ravenscroft was a British musician, composer and author. He is best known for playing the saxophone riff on Gerry Rafferty's 1978 song "Baker Street".

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Kazuhiro Yamaji, Japanese actor and voice actor

Kazuhiro Yamaji is a Japanese actor and voice actor affiliated with the Seinenza Theater Company. He has been married to Romi Park since 2020.

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04/06/1953

Linda Lingle, American journalist and politician, 6th Governor of Hawaii

Linda Lingle is an American politician and publisher who served as the sixth governor of Hawaii from 2002 to 2010. A member of the Republican Party, she was the first Republican elected governor of Hawaii since 1959, and was the state's first female and Jewish governor. Prior to serving as governor, Lingle served as mayor of Maui County from 1991 to 1999 and as chair of the Hawaii Republican Party from 1999 to 2002. As of 2025, Lingle and her lieutenant governor, Duke Aiona, are the last Republicans to have won or held statewide office in Hawaii.

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Jimmy McCulloch, Scottish musician and songwriter (died 1979)

James McCulloch was a Scottish musician best known for playing lead guitar and bass as a member of Paul McCartney's band Wings from 1974 to 1977. McCulloch was a member of the Glasgow psychedelic band One in a Million, Thunderclap Newman, and Stone the Crows. His brother is drummer Jack McCulloch.

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Susumu Ojima, Japanese businessman, founded Huser

Susumu Ojima is a Japanese entrepreneur who was a founder and chairman of Huser Co., Ltd.

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Paul Samson, English guitarist and producer (died 2002)

Paul Samson was an English guitarist, closely associated with the new wave of British heavy metal.

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04/06/1952

Bronisław Komorowski, Polish historian and politician, 5th President of Poland

Bronisław Maria Komorowski is a Polish politician and historian who served as the 5th president of Poland from 2010 to 2015. Komorowski previously served as Marshal of the Sejm from 2007 to 2010 and in this position Komorowski exercised the powers and duties of acting president following the death of President Lech Kaczyński in a plane crash on 10 April 2010. Earlier, from 2000 to 2001, he served as Minister of National Defence.

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Dambudzo Marechera, Zimbabwean author and poet (died 1987)

Dambudzo Marechera was a Zimbabwean novelist, short story writer, playwright, and poet. His short career produced a book of stories, two novels, a book of plays, prose, and poetry, and a collection of poetry. His first book, a fiction collection entitled The House of Hunger (1978), won the Guardian Fiction Prize in 1979. Marechera was best known for his abrasive, heavily detailed, and self-aware writing, which was considered a new frontier in African literature, and his unorthodox behaviour at the universities from which he was expelled despite excelling in his studies.

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04/06/1951

Leigh Kennedy, American author

Leigh Kennedy is an American science fiction writer who has lived in the United Kingdom since 1985.

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Bronisław Malinowski, Polish runner (died 1981)

Bronisław Malinowski was a Polish track and field athlete, who is best known for winning a gold medal in the 3000 m steeplechase race during the 1980 Summer Olympics held in Moscow, Soviet Union and the silver four years earlier in Montreal. One year after his last Olympic appearance, Malinowski was killed in a car accident in Grudziądz, at the age of 30.

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Melanie Phillips, English journalist and author

Melanie Phillips is an English public commentator. She began her career writing for The Guardian and New Statesman. She currently writes for The Times, The Jerusalem Post, the Jewish News Syndicate, and The Jewish Chronicle, covering political and social issues from a socially conservative Zionist perspective.

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Wendy Pini, American author and illustrator

Wendy Pini and Richard Pini are the husband-and-wife team responsible for creating the well-known Elfquest series of comics, graphic novels and prose works. They are also known as WaRP.

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David Yip, English actor and playwright

David Nicholas Yip is a British actor and playwright. He gained prominence through his role in the BBC series The Chinese Detective (1981–1982) as the first Chinese lead on British television.

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Lyle Stewart, Canadian politician, Saskatchewan MLA (1999–2023) (died 2024)

Lyle Eldon Stewart was a Canadian provincial politician. A member of the Saskatchewan Party, he served six terms in the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan.

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04/06/1950

Raymond Dumais, Canadian bishop (died 2012)

Raymond Dumais was the Roman Catholic bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Gaspé, Quebec, Canada.

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04/06/1949

Gabriel Arcand, Canadian actor

Gabriel Arcand is a Canadian actor. He is the brother of film director Denys Arcand.

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Mark B. Cohen, American lawyer and politician

Mark B. Cohen is a Democratic politician from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He represented District 202 in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives from June 10, 1974, until his defeat for reelection in the Democratic primary in 2016.

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04/06/1948

Bob Champion, English jockey

Robert Champion is an English former jump jockey, who won the 1981 Grand National on Aldaniti. His triumph, while recovering from cancer, was made into the 1984 film Champions, with John Hurt portraying Champion. The film is based on Champion's book Champion's Story, which he wrote with close friend, racing journalist and broadcaster Jonathan Powell.

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Sandra Post, Canadian golfer and sportscaster

Sandra Post, is a retired professional golfer, the first Canadian to play on the LPGA Tour. In 1968 at age 20 in her rookie professional year, she won a women's major – the LPGA Championship, and was the youngest player at the time to win a major.

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Jürgen Sparwasser, German footballer and manager

Jürgen Sparwasser is a retired German football player and, later, briefly a football manager.

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04/06/1947

Viktor Klima, Austrian businessman and politician, 25th Chancellor of Austria

Viktor Klima is a retired Austrian politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPÖ). He served as Chancellor of Austria from 1997 to 2000.

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04/06/1945

Anthony Braxton, American saxophonist, clarinet player, and composer

Anthony Braxton is an American experimental composer, educator, music theorist, improviser, and multi-instrumentalist who is best known for playing saxophones, particularly the alto sax. He grew up on the South Side of Chicago and was a key early member of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians. He received great acclaim for his 1969 double-LP record For Alto, the first full-length album of solo saxophone music.

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Daniel Topolski, English rower and coach (died 2015)

Daniel Topolski was a British writer, rower, rowing coach and commentator. He studied at the University of Oxford where he represented the Blue boat twice, in 1967 and 1968. In 1977, he won a gold medal at the World Rowing Championships. He coached the Oxford University Boat Club crew fifteen times, leading them to victory twelve times, including a ten-win streak. He also coached British squads at two Olympic Games. After retiring from coaching he commentated on rowing at the Olympic Games and Boat Races.

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Gordon Waller, Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2009)

Gordon Trueman Riviere Waller was a Scottish guitarist, singer-songwriter and actor, best known as Gordon of the 1960s pop music duo Peter and Gordon, whose biggest hit was the no. 1 million-selling single "A World Without Love".

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04/06/1944

Roger Ball, Scottish saxophonist and songwriter

Roger Ball is a Scottish saxophonist, keyboardist, songwriter and arranger. He was a founding member of the Average White Band (AWB).

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Michelle Phillips, American singer-songwriter and actress

Holly Michelle Phillips is an American singer, songwriter and actress. Described by Time magazine as the "purest soprano in pop music", she rose to fame in the mid-1960s with the folk rock vocal group the Mamas & the Papas. After their disbandment, she started a successful acting career in film and television in the 1970s.

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04/06/1943

John Burgess, Australian radio and television host

John Richard Burgess is an Australian radio and television personality and host. He is often referred to as "Burgo" and sometimes "Baby John Burgess" or "Baby John", nicknames deriving from his radio days when he was the youngest presenter at the station. He has worked in the industry since 1963. He is best known for his long-term hosting of the Australian version of game show Wheel of Fortune and as a breakfast radio host.

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Sandra Haynie, American golfer

Sandra Jane Haynie is an American former professional golfer on the LPGA Tour starting in 1961. She won four major championships, 42 LPGA Tour career events, and is a member of the World Golf Hall of Fame.

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Tom Jaine, English author

Tom Jaine is a former restaurateur, a food writer and former publisher of Prospect Books.

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04/06/1942

Louis Reichardt, American mountaineer

Louis French Reichardt is a noted American neuroscientist and mountaineer, the first American to summit both Everest and K2. He was also director of the Simons Foundation Autism Research Initiative, the largest non-federal supporter of scientific research into autism spectrum disorders and is an emeritus professor of physiology and biochemistry/biophysics at UCSF, where he studied neuroscience. The character of Harold Jameson, U.C.S.F. biophysicist and mountaineer in the film K2, is based on Reichardt, though the events of his actual 1978 K2 attempt with Jim Wickwire bear little resemblance to the plot of the film.

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Bill Rowe, Canadian lawyer and politician

William Neil Rowe, is a former politician, lawyer, broadcaster, and writer in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.

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04/06/1941

Kenneth G. Ross, Australian playwright and screenwriter

Kenneth Graham Ross is an Australian playwright, screenwriter, and lyricist best known for writing the 1978 stage play Breaker Morant, that was based on the life of Australian soldier Harry "Breaker" Morant.

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04/06/1940

Ludwig Schwarz, Slovak-Austrian bishop

Ludwig Schwarz, S.D.B. was the Catholic bishop of the Diocese of Linz, Austria from 2005–2015.

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04/06/1939

Jeremy Browne, 11th Marquess of Sligo, Anglo-Irish peer (died 2014)

Jeremy Ulick Browne, 11th Marquess of Sligo, styled Earl of Altamont until 1991, was an Irish hereditary peer and businessman. On the death of his father, he was entitled to sit in the House of Lords by virtue of the subsidiary title Baron Mounteagle, in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. He never took his seat and lost the right with the passage of the House of Lords Act 1999.

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Denis de Belleval, Canadian civil servant and politician

Denis de Belleval is a former politician and administrator in the Canadian province of Quebec. He was a Parti Québécois member of the National Assembly of Quebec from 1976 to 1982 and was a cabinet minister in the government of René Lévesque. He has also held several administrative positions, including a two-year tenure as the president of Via Rail.

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Henri Pachard, American director and producer (died 2008)

Henri Pachard, Jackson St. Louis and Crystal Blue were the pseudonyms of the American film director Ron Sullivan .

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George Reid, Scottish journalist and politician, 2nd Presiding Officer of the Scottish Parliament

Sir George Newlands Reid was a Scottish politician and journalist who served as Presiding Officer of the Scottish Parliament from 2003 to 2007. A member of the Scottish National Party (SNP), he was a Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for the Mid Scotland and Fife region from 1999 to 2003 and then for the Ochil constituency from 2003 to 2007. Reid was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Clackmannan and Eastern Stirlingshire from February 1974 to 1979.

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04/06/1938

John Harvard, Canadian journalist and politician, 23rd Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba (died 2016)

John Harvard was a Canadian journalist and politician. He served as a federal Member of Parliament (MP) from 1988 to 2004, and was appointed the 23rd Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba just before Canada's 2004 federal election.

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Art Mahaffey, American baseball player

Arthur Mahaffey Jr. is an American former professional baseball starting pitcher, who played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the National League (NL) Philadelphia Phillies (1960–1965) and St. Louis Cardinals (1966). He batted and threw right-handed. In a seven-season MLB career, Mahaffey posted a 59–64 record, with 639 strikeouts, and a 4.17 earned run average (ERA), in 999.0 innings pitched.

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04/06/1937

Freddy Fender, American singer and guitarist (died 2006)

Freddy Fender was an American Country and Tejano singer, known for his work as a solo artist and in the groups Los Super Seven and the Texas Tornados. His signature sound fused country, rock, rockabilly, swamp pop and Tex-Mex styles.

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Gorilla Monsoon, American wrestler (died 1999)

Robert James "Gino" Marella, better known by his ring name of Gorilla Monsoon, was an American professional wrestler, play-by-play commentator, and booker.

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Mortimer Zuckerman, Canadian-American businessman and publisher, founded Boston Properties

Mortimer Benjamin Zuckerman is a Canadian—American billionaire media proprietor, magazine editor, and investor. He is the co-founder, executive chairman and former CEO of Boston Properties, one of the largest real estate investment trusts in the US. Zuckerman is also the owner and publisher of U.S. News & World Report, and its editor-in-chief. He formerly owned the New York Daily News, The Atlantic, and Fast Company. As of August 2024, his net worth is estimated at US$2.6 billion.

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04/06/1936

Vince Camuto, American fashion designer and businessman, co-founded Nine West (died 2015)

John Vincent "Vince" Camuto was an American women's footwear designer and shoe industry executive, best known for co-founding the women's fashion brand Nine West. Following the 1999 sale of Nine West to Jones Apparel Group for $900 million, Camuto became CEO and Chief Creative Officer of a new fashion company, Camuto Group, maker of the Jessica Simpson brand. On October 10, 2018, Vince Camuto was acquired by Authentic Brands Group, as part of the company's definitive agreement to purchase a majority stake in the intellectual property of the Camuto Group's proprietary brands in partnership with DSW Inc.

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Bruce Dern, American actor

Bruce MacLeish Dern is an American actor. He has received several accolades, including the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actor for Nebraska (2013), which also earned him a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actor, and won the Silver Bear for Best Actor for That Championship Season (1982). He was also Oscar nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for Coming Home (1978). He is also a BAFTA Award, two-time Genie Award, and three-time Golden Globe Award nominee.

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04/06/1935

Colette Boky, Canadian soprano and actress

Colette Boky , is a French-Canadian operatic soprano, particularly associated with lyric roles in the French, Italian, and German repertories.

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Berhanu Dinka, Ethiopian economist and diplomat (died 2013)

Berhanu Dinka was an Ethiopian diplomat. His distinguished diplomatic career spanned more than five decades, during which he held a number of senior portfolios in the Ethiopian Foreign Service, including as the first Ethiopian ambassador to Djibouti and as the permanent representative to the United Nations for Ethiopia, and as an official of the United Nations, including as Under-Secretary-General, Special Envoy for Sierra Leone, and Special Representative for the Great Lakes region and for Burundi.

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04/06/1934

Monica Dacon, Vincentian educator and politician, 6th Governor-General of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

Dame Monica Jessie Dacon is a Saint Vincent and the Grenadines former schoolteacher, educator and politician. She is the widow of parliamentarian St. Clair Dacon.

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Daphne Sheldrick, Kenyan-British conservationist and author (died 2018)

Dame Daphne Marjorie Sheldrick, was a Kenyan author, conservationist and expert in animal husbandry, particularly the raising and reintegrating of orphaned elephants into the wild for over 30 years. She was the founder of the Sheldrick Wildlife Trust.

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04/06/1932

John Drew Barrymore, American actor (died 2004)

John Drew Barrymore was an American film actor and member of the Barrymore family of actors, which included his father, John Barrymore, and his father's siblings, Lionel and Ethel. He was the father of four children, including the actor John Blyth Barrymore III and the actress Drew Barrymore. Diana Barrymore was his half-sister from his father's second marriage.

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Oliver Nelson, American saxophonist and composer (died 1975)

Oliver Edward Nelson was an American jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, arranger, composer, and bandleader. His 1961 Impulse! album The Blues and the Abstract Truth (1961) is regarded as one of the most significant recordings of its era. The centerpiece of the album is the definitive version of Nelson's composition, "Stolen Moments". Other important recordings from the 1960s are the albums More Blues and the Abstract Truth (1964) and Sound Pieces (1966), both also on Impulse!.

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Maurice Shadbolt, New Zealand author and playwright (died 2004)

Maurice Francis Richard Shadbolt was a New Zealand writer and occasional playwright.

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04/06/1931

Gustav Nossal, Austrian-Australian biologist and academic

Sir Gustav Victor Joseph Nossal is an Austrian-born Australian research biologist. He is famous for his contributions to the fields of antibody formation and immunological tolerance.

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04/06/1930

George Chesworth, English air marshal and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Moray (died 2017)

Air Vice Marshal George Arthur Chesworth was a senior Royal Air Force officer and Lord Lieutenant of Moray.

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Morgana King, American singer and actress (died 2018)

Maria Grazia Morgana Messina, better known as Morgana King, was an American jazz singer and actress. She began a professional singing career at sixteen years old. In her twenties, she was singing at a Greenwich Village nightclub when she was recognized for her unique phrasing and vocal range, described as a four-octave contralto range. She was signed to a label and began recording solo albums. She recorded dozens of albums well into the late 1990s.

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Viktor Tikhonov, Russian ice hockey player and coach (died 2014)

Viktor Vasilyevich Tikhonov was a Russian ice hockey player and coach. Tikhonov was a defenceman with VVS Moscow and Dynamo Moscow from 1949 to 1963, winning four national championships. He was the coach of the Soviet team when it was the dominant team in international play, winning eight World Championship gold medals, as well as Olympic gold medals in 1984, 1988 and 1992. Tikhonov also led CSKA Moscow to twelve consecutive league championships. He was named to the IIHF Hall of Fame as a builder in 1998.

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04/06/1929

Karolos Papoulias, Greek lawyer and politician, 5th President of Greece (died 2021)

Karolos Papoulias was a Greek politician who served as the president of Greece from 2005 to 2015.

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04/06/1928

Ruth Westheimer, German-American sex therapist, talk show host, professor, author, and Holocaust survivor (died 2024)

Karola Ruth Westheimer, better known as Dr. Ruth, was a German and American sex therapist and talk show host.

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04/06/1927

Henning Carlsen, Danish director, producer, and screenwriter (died 2014)

Henning Carlsen was a Danish film director, screenwriter, and producer most noted for his documentaries and his contributions to the style of cinéma vérité. Carlsen's 1966 social-realistic drama Hunger (Sult) was nominated for the Palme d'Or and won the Bodil Award for Best Danish Film. Carlsen also won the Bodil Award the following year for the comedy People Meet and Sweet Music Fills the Heart. Acting as his own producer since 1960, Carlsen has directed more than 25 films, 19 for which he wrote the screenplay. In 2006, he received the Golden Swan Lifetime Achievement Award at the Copenhagen International Film Festival.

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Geoffrey Palmer, English actor (died 2020)

Geoffrey Dyson Palmer was an English actor. His roles in British television sitcoms include Jimmy Anderson in The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin (1976–79), Ben Parkinson in Butterflies (1978–1983) and Lionel Hardcastle in As Time Goes By (1992–2005).

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04/06/1926

Robert Earl Hughes, American who was the heaviest human being recorded in the history of the world during his lifetime (died 1958)

Robert Earl Hughes was an American man who was, during his lifetime, the heaviest human being recorded, weighing 1,071 pounds (486 kg). He remains the heaviest human in the world able to walk without the need of assistance.

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Ain Kaalep, Estonian poet, playwright, and critic (died 2020)

Ain Kaalep was an Estonian poet, playwright, literary critic and translator.

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Judith Malina, German-American actress and director, co-founded The Living Theatre (died 2015)

Judith Malina was an American actress, director and writer. With her husband Julian Beck, Malina co-founded The Living Theatre, a radical political theatre troupe that rose to prominence in New York City and Paris during the 1950s and 1960s.

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04/06/1925

Antonio Puchades, Spanish footballer (died 2013)

Antonio Puchades Casanova was a Spanish footballer who played as a defensive midfielder.

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04/06/1924

Tofilau Eti Alesana, Samoan politician, 5th Prime Minister of Samoa (died 1999)

Tofilau Eti Alesana was a Samoan politician who served as the fifth prime minister of Samoa from 1982 to 1985, and again from 1988 until his resignation in 1998.

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Dennis Weaver, American actor and director (died 2006)

Billy Dennis Weaver was an American actor and president of the Screen Actors Guild, best known for his work in television and films from the early 1950s until just before his death in 2006. Weaver's two most famous roles were as Marshal Matt Dillon's deputy Chester Goode on the western Gunsmoke and as Deputy Marshal Sam McCloud on the police drama McCloud. He starred in the 1971 television film Duel, the first film of director Steven Spielberg. He is also remembered for his role as the twitchy motel attendant in Orson Welles's film Touch of Evil (1958).

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04/06/1923

Elizabeth Jolley, English-Australian author and academic (died 2007)

Monica Elizabeth Jolley was an English-born Australian writer who settled in Western Australia in the late 1950s and forged an illustrious literary career there. She was 53 when her first book was published, and she went on to publish fifteen novels, four short story collections and three non-fiction books, publishing well into her 70s and achieving significant critical acclaim. She was also a pioneer of creative writing teaching in Australia, counting many well-known writers such as Tim Winton among her students at Curtin University.

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Masutatsu Ōyama, Korean-Japanese karateka (died 1994)

Masutatsu Ōyama, commonly known outside Japan as Mas Oyama, was a Korean-Japanese karateka. He was the founder of Kyokushin Karate, considered the first and most influential style of full contact karate.

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Yuriko, Princess Mikasa, Japanese princess (died 2024)

Yuriko, Princess Mikasa was a member of the Imperial House of Japan as the wife of Takahito, Prince Mikasa, the fourth son of Emperor Taishō and Empress Teimei. The Princess was the last surviving paternal great-aunt by marriage of Emperor Naruhito and, before her death, was the oldest member of the imperial family, and the final living member who was born in the Taishō era.

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04/06/1921

Milan Komar, Slovenian-Argentinian philosopher and academic (died 2006)

Milan Komar, also known as Emilio Komar was a Slovene Argentine Catholic philosopher and essayist.

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Bobby Wanzer, American basketball player and coach (died 2016)

Robert Francis Wanzer was an American professional basketball player and coach. A five time NBA All-Star and three time All-NBA Second Team selection, Wanzer played his entire professional career for the Rochester Royals of the Basketball Association of America (BAA) and National Basketball Association (NBA). He won an NBA championship with the Royals in 1951. During his final two years as a player, he served as the team's player-coach. After he retired from playing in 1957, he remained as a coach with the Royals for one season, before he became the head coach of the St. John Fisher Cardinals college basketball team in 1963. He stayed in the role with the college for 24 years until his retirement in 1987. Wanzer was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 1987 and into the newly formed New York City Basketball Hall of Fame in 1991.

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04/06/1917

Robert Merrill, American actor and singer (died 2004)

Robert Merrill was an American operatic baritone and actor, who was also active in the musical theatre circuit. He received the National Medal of Arts in 1993.

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04/06/1916

Robert F. Furchgott, American biochemist and pharmacologist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2009)

Robert Francis Furchgott was an American Nobel Prize winning biochemist who contributed to the discovery of nitric oxide as a transient cellular signal in mammalian systems.

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Gaylord Nelson, American politician and environmentalist, 35th Governor of Wisconsin (died 2005)

Gaylord Anton Nelson was an American politician and environmentalist from Wisconsin who served as a United States senator and governor. He was a member of the Democratic Party and the founder of Earth Day, which launched a new wave of environmental activism.

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Fernand Leduc, Canadian painter (died 2014)

Fernand Leduc was a Canadian abstract expressionist painter and a major figure in the Quebec contemporary art scene in the 1940s and 1950s. During his 50-year career, Leduc participated in many exhibitions in Canada and France. He was born in Viauville, Montreal, Quebec.

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04/06/1915

Walter Hadlee, New Zealand cricketer (died 2006)

Walter Arnold Hadlee was a New Zealand cricketer and Test match captain. He played domestic first-class cricket for Canterbury and Otago. Three of his five sons, Sir Richard, Dayle and Barry played cricket for New Zealand. The Chappell–Hadlee Trophy, which is competed for by ODI teams from New Zealand and Australia is named in honour of the Hadlee family and the Australian Chappell family.

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Modibo Keïta, Malian educator and politician, 1st President of Mali (died 1977)

Modibo Keïta was a Malian politician who served as the first President of Mali from 1960 to 1968. He espoused a form of African socialism. He was deposed in a coup d'état in 1968 by Moussa Traoré.

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Nils Kihlberg, Swedish actor, singer, and director (died 1965)

Nils Kihlberg was a Swedish actor, singer and director known for En trallande jänta (1942), Bröderna Östermans huskors (1945) and Det är min musik (1942). He died on 2 April 1965 in Stockholm. Nils appeared in approximately 40 films and He was married to actress Mimi Nelson.

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04/06/1912

Robert Jacobsen, Danish sculptor and painter (died 1993)

Robert Julius Tommy Jacobsen was a Danish sculptor and painter. The Danish Robert Award is named in his honor.

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04/06/1910

Christopher Cockerell, English engineer, invented the hovercraft (died 1999)

Sir Christopher Sydney Cockerell was an English engineer, best known as the inventor of the hovercraft.

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04/06/1907

Jacques Roumain, Haitian journalist and politician (died 1944)

Jacques Roumain Encarnación was a Haitian writer, politician, and Marxist. He is considered one of the most prominent figures in Haitian literature. Langston Hughes translated some of Roumain's works, including Gouverneurs de la Rosée, which was also adapted to film.

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Rosalind Russell, American actress (died 1976)

Catherine Rosalind Russell was an American actress, model, comedian, screenwriter, and singer, known for her role as fast-talking newspaper reporter Hildy Johnson in the Howard Hawks screwball comedy His Girl Friday (1940), opposite Cary Grant, as well as for her role of catty Sylvia Fowler in George Cukor's The Women (1939), opposite Joan Crawford and Norma Shearer, and for her portrayals of Mame Dennis in the 1956 stage and 1958 film adaptations of Auntie Mame, and Rose in Gypsy (1962). A noted comedienne, she received various accolades, including five Golden Globe Awards and a Tony Award, in addition to nominations for four Academy Awards and a BAFTA Award. Russell has been honored with a Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award in 1973 and Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award in 1975.

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Patience Strong, English poet and journalist (died 1990)

Winifred Emma May was a poet from the United Kingdom, best known for her work under the pen name Patience Strong. Her poems were usually short, simple and imbued with sentimentality, the beauty of nature and inner strength. She was also a successful lyricist, composing English words for the tango "Jealousy" and "The Dream of Olwen", and an author of several books dealing with Christianity and practical psychology.

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04/06/1904

Bhagat Puran Singh, Indian publisher, environmentalist, and philanthropist (died 1992)

Bhagat Puran Singh was an Indian writer, environmentalist, and philanthropist. As a young man he decided to dedicate his life to humanitarian work, and in 1947, he established Pingalwara, a home for the sick and disabled in Amritsar. He was also an environmental campaigner, raising awareness of pollution and soil erosion and writing many books about environmental topics.

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04/06/1903

Yevgeny Mravinsky, Russian conductor (died 1988)

Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Mravinsky was a Soviet and Russian conductor, pianist, and music pedagogue; he was a professor at Leningrad State Conservatory.

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04/06/1889

Beno Gutenberg, German-American seismologist (died 1960)

Beno Gutenberg was a German-American seismologist who made several important contributions to the science. He was a colleague and mentor of Charles Francis Richter at the California Institute of Technology and Richter's collaborator in developing the Richter scale for measuring an earthquake's magnitude.

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04/06/1885

Arturo Rawson, Argentinian general and politician, 26th President of Argentina (died 1952)

Arturo Rawson was the provisional President of Argentina from June 4, 1943, to June 7, 1943.

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04/06/1880

Clara Blandick, American actress (died 1962)

Clara Blandick was an American character actress of the film, stage and theater. Today's audiences may recognize her as Aunt Em in the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer classic film adaptation of The Wizard of Oz (1939). As a character actress, she often played eccentric elderly matriarchs.

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04/06/1879

Mabel Lucie Attwell, English author and illustrator (died 1964)

Mabel Lucie Attwell was a British illustrator and comics artist. She was known for her cute, nostalgic drawings of children. Her drawings are featured on many postcards, advertisements, posters, books and figurines.

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04/06/1877

Heinrich Otto Wieland, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1957)

Heinrich Otto Wieland was a German chemist. He won the 1927 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his research into the bile acids.

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04/06/1873

Nictzin Dyalhis, American author (died 1942)

Nictzin Wilstone Dyalhis was an American chemist and short story writer who specialized in the genres of science fiction and fantasy. He wrote as Nictzin Dyalhis. During his lifetime he attained a measure of celebrity as a writer for the pulp fiction magazine Weird Tales.

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04/06/1867

Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim, Finnish general and politician, 6th President of Finland (died 1951)

Baron Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim was a Finnish military commander and statesman. He served as the military leader of the Whites in the Finnish Civil War (1918), as regent of Finland (1918–1919), as commander-in-chief of the Finnish Defence Forces during World War II (1939–1945), and as the president of Finland (1944–1946). He became Finland's only field marshal in 1933 and was appointed honorary Marshal of Finland in 1942.

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04/06/1866

Miina Sillanpää, Finnish journalist and politician (died 1952)

Miina Sillanpää was a Finnish politician. She served as Deputy Minister of Social Affairs in 1926–1927. She was Finland's first female minister and a key figure in the workers' movement. In 2016, the Finnish government made 1 October an official flag flying day in honour of Sillanpää. She was involved in the preparation of Finland's first Municipal Homemaking Act.

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04/06/1861

William Propsting, Australian politician, 20th Premier of Tasmania (died 1937)

William Bispham Propsting, CMG was an Australian lawyer and politician. He served as premier of Tasmania from 1903 to 1904. He was a member of the parliament of Tasmania for over 35 years and also served terms as Attorney-General of Tasmania and president of the Tasmanian Legislative Council.

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04/06/1860

Alexis Lapointe, Canadian runner (died 1924)

Alexis Lapointe, known as Alexis le Trotteur was a Quebec athlete in the early 20th century who has become a legendary character of québécois folklore.

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04/06/1854

Solko van den Bergh, Dutch target shooter (died 1916)

Solko Johannes van den Bergh was a Dutch sport shooter.

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04/06/1829

Jinmaku Kyūgorō, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 12th Yokozuna (died 1903)

Jinmaku Kyūgorō was a Japanese professional sumo wrestler from Itō, Izumo Province. He was the sport's 12th yokozuna and one of its most important record keepers and historians.

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04/06/1821

Apollon Maykov, Russian poet and playwright (died 1897)

Apollon Nikolayevich Maykov was a Russian poet, best known for his lyric verse showcasing images of Russian villages, nature, and history. His love for ancient Greece and Rome, which he studied for much of his life, is also reflected in his works. Maykov spent four years translating the epic The Tale of Igor's Campaign (1870) into modern Russian. He translated the folklore of Belarus, Greece, Serbia and Spain, as well as works by Heine, Adam Mickiewicz and Goethe, among others. Several of Maykov's poems were set to music by Russian composers, among them Rimsky-Korsakov and Tchaikovsky.

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04/06/1801

James Pennethorne, English architect, designed Victoria Park (died 1871)

Sir James Pennethorne was a British architect and planner, particularly associated with buildings and parks in central London.

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04/06/1787

Constant Prévost, French geologist and academic (died 1856)

Louis-Constant Prévost was a French geologist.

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04/06/1754

Miguel de Azcuénaga, Argentinian soldier (died 1833)

Brigadier Miguel de Azcuénaga was an Argentine army officer and politician. Educated in Spain, at the University of Seville, Azcuénaga began his military career in the Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata and became a member of the Primera Junta, the first autonomous government of modern Argentina. He was shortly exiled because of his support to the minister Mariano Moreno, and returned to Buenos Aires when the First Triumvirate replaced the Junta. He held several offices since then, most notably being the first Governor intendant of Buenos Aires after the May Revolution. He died at his country house in 1833.

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Franz Xaver von Zach, Slovak astronomer and academic (died 1832)

Baron Franz Xaver von Zach was an Austrian astronomer born in Pest, Hungary.

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04/06/1744

Patrick Ferguson, Scottish soldier, designed the Ferguson rifle (died 1780)

Major Patrick Ferguson was a British Army officer who designed the Ferguson rifle. He is best known for his service in the 1780 military campaign of Charles Cornwallis during the American Revolutionary War in the Carolinas, in which he played a great effort in recruiting American Loyalists to serve in his militia against the Patriots.

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04/06/1738

George III of the United Kingdom (died 1820)

George III was King of Great Britain and Ireland from 25 October 1760 until his death in 1820. The Acts of Union 1800 unified Great Britain and Ireland into the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, with George as its king. He was concurrently duke and prince-elector of Hanover in the Holy Roman Empire before becoming King of Hanover on 12 October 1814. He was the first monarch of the House of Hanover who was born in Great Britain, spoke English as his first language, and never visited Hanover.

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04/06/1704

Benjamin Huntsman, English inventor and businessman (died 1776)

Benjamin Huntsman was an English inventor and manufacturer of cast or crucible steel.

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04/06/1694

François Quesnay, French economist and physician (died 1774)

François Quesnay was a French economist and physician of the Physiocratic school. He is known for publishing the "Tableau économique" in 1758, which provided the foundations of the ideas of the Physiocrats. This was perhaps the first work attempting to describe the workings of the economy in an analytical way, and as such can be viewed as one of the first important contributions to economic thought. His Le Despotisme de la Chine, written in 1767, describes Chinese politics and society, and his own political support for enlightened despotism.

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04/06/1665

Zacharie Robutel de La Noue, Canadian captain (died 1733)

Zacharie Robutel de La Noue was a French lieutenant and captain in the colonial regular troops, and seigneur of Châteauguay. Robutel de La Noue was born in Montreal, New France. He was the son of Claude Robutel de La Noue, seigneur of Île Saint-Paul, and Suzanne de Gabrielle. As a soldier he escorted various expeditions - to Hudson Bay in 1686 with Pierre de Troyes, Chevalier de Troyes and up the Ottawa River in 1692. He also led military attacks on Mohawk villages in 1692–93. He was sent by governor Vaudreuil in July 1717 to establish a chain of three posts from Lake Superior to Lake of the Woods, but he was only able to re-establish a fur trading post, Fort Kaministiquia, on the Kaministiquia River. He remained there as commandant until 1721.

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04/06/1604

Claudia de' Medici, Italian daughter of Christina of Lorraine (died 1648)

Claudia de' Medici was by birth a Tuscan princess and by her marriage to Leopold V an archduchess of Austria and from 1632 until 1646 regent of the Austrian County of Tyrol during the minority of her son Ferdinand Charles.

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04/06/1563

George Heriot, Scottish goldsmith (died 1624)

George Heriot was a Scottish goldsmith and philanthropist. He is chiefly remembered today as the founder of George Heriot's School, a large independent school in Edinburgh; his name has also been given to Heriot-Watt University, as well as several streets in the same city.

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04/06/1489

Antoine, Duke of Lorraine (died 1544)

Antoine, known as the Good, was Duke of Lorraine from 1508 until his death in 1544. Raised at the French court, Antoine would campaign in Italy twice: once under Louis XII and the other with Francis I. During the German Peasants' War, he would defeat two armies while retaking Saverne and Sélestat. Antoine succeeded in freeing Lorraine from the Holy Roman Empire with the Treaty of Nuremberg of 1542. In 1544, while Antoine suffered from an illness, the Duchy of Lorraine was invaded by Emperor Charles V's army on their way to attack France. Fleeing the Imperial armies, Antoine was taken to Bar-le-Duc where he died.

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04/06/1394

Philippa of England, Queen of Denmark, Norway and Sweden (died 1430)

Philippa of England, also known as Philippa of Lancaster, was Queen of Denmark, Norway and Sweden from 1406 to 1430 by marriage to King Eric of the Kalmar Union. She was the daughter of King Henry IV of England by his first spouse Mary de Bohun and the younger sister of King Henry V of England. Queen Philippa participated significantly in state affairs during the reign of her spouse and served as regent of Denmark from 1423 to 1425.

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04/06/0590

Harsha, Maharajadhiraja of Kannauj (died 647)

Harshavardhana was the emperor of Kannauj from April 606 until his death in 647. He was the king of Thanesar who had defeated the Alchon Huns, and the younger brother of Rajyavardhana, son of Prabhakaravardhana and last king of Thanesar. He was one of the greatest kings of the Kingdom of Kannauj, which under him expanded into a vast realm in northern India.

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