Born on Friday, 6th March – Famous Birthdays

06/03/2001

Milo Manheim, American actor

Milo Jacob Manheim is an American actor. He is best known for his starring role as Zed in the Disney television film franchise Zombies and as Joseph in the 2023 Christmas musical, Journey to Bethlehem. In 2018, he finished in second place on season 27 of Dancing with the Stars. Manheim currently stars in the Paramount+ original School Spirits. Manheim was announced to be playing Flynn Rider in Disney’s upcoming live-action adaptation of Tangled, joining Teagan Croft in the lead cast.

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06/03/2000

Armando Bacot, American basketball player

Armando Linwood Bacot Jr. is an American professional basketball player for Fenerbahçe of the Basketbol Süper Ligi (BSL) and the EuroLeague. He played college basketball for the North Carolina Tar Heels. He holds the program records for double-doubles and career rebounds. Over his 5-year career, Bacot played in a UNC-record 171 games.

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Jacob Bertrand, American actor

Jacob Scott Thomas Bertrand is an American actor. From 2018 to 2025, Bertrand played the series regular role of Eli "Hawk" Moskowitz in the YouTube Premium and Netflix series Cobra Kai. He is also known for the voice of Bam in Batwheels, portraying the titular character in Disney XD's Kirby Buckets and playing Jack Malloy in the 2016 Disney Channel Original Movie, The Swap.

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06/03/1999

Ylena In-Albon, Swiss tennis player

Ylena In-Albon is a Swiss tennis player.

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06/03/1998

Kyle Trask, American football player

Kyle Jacob Trask is an American professional football quarterback. He played college football for the Florida Gators and was selected by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in the second round of the 2021 NFL draft.

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06/03/1997

Lee Lu-da, South Korean singer and actress

Lee Lu-da, also known mononymously as Luda, is a South Korean singer and actress. She is a member of the South Korean girl group WJSN.

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06/03/1996

Christian Coleman, American sprinter

Christian Lee Coleman is an American professional track and field sprinter who competes in the 60 metres, 100 m, and 200 m. The 2019 world champion in the 100 meters, he also won gold as part of men's 4 × 100-meter relay. He holds personal bests of 9.76 seconds for the 100 m, which made him the 6th fastest all-time in the history of 100 metres event, and 19.85 for the 200 m. Coleman is the world record holder for the indoor 60 meters with 6.34 seconds. He was the Diamond League champion in 2018 and 2023 and the world number one ranked runner in the men's 100 m for the 2017, 2018 and 2019 seasons.

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Mohamed Magdy, Egyptian footballer

Mohamed Magdy Mohamed Morsy, known by his nickname Afsha, is an Egyptian professional footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder for Egyptian Premier League club Al Ahly.

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Timo Werner, German footballer

Timo Werner is a German professional footballer who plays as a forward for Major League Soccer club San Jose Earthquakes.

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06/03/1995

Josh Hart, American basketball player

Joshua Aaron Hart is an American professional basketball player for the New York Knicks of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He holds the Knicks franchise record for the most triple doubles in a single season.

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Georgi Kitanov, Bulgarian footballer

Georgi Georgiev Kitanov is a Bulgarian professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Dunav Ruse.

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06/03/1994

Marcus Smart, American basketball player

Marcus Osmond Smart is an American professional basketball player for the Los Angeles Lakers of the National Basketball Association (NBA). Widely regarded as one of the greatest and most versatile defenders of his generation, he has been selected to the NBA All-Defensive First Team thrice and was the NBA Defensive Player of the Year in 2022, becoming only the second point guard after Gary Payton to win the award. He played college basketball for the Oklahoma State Cowboys.

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06/03/1993

Nicklas Jensen, Danish ice hockey player

Nicklas Jensen is a Danish professional ice hockey player who is a winger for SC Rapperswil-Jona Lakers of the National League (NL).

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Andrés Rentería, Colombian footballer

Andrés Jair Rentería Morelo, commonly known as Andrés Rentería, is a Colombian footballer who plays as a forward for Jaguares de Córdoba.

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06/03/1991

John Jenkins, American basketball player

John Logan Jenkins III is an American professional basketball player for the Adelaide 36ers of the Australian National Basketball League (NBL). He played college basketball for the Vanderbilt Commodores before being selected by the Atlanta Hawks with the 23rd pick in the 2012 NBA draft. He played in the NBA for the Hawks, Dallas Mavericks, Phoenix Suns, Washington Wizards and New York Knicks from 2012 to 2019. Jenkins has also played professionally in Spain, China, Israel, France, Puerto Rico, Russia and Romania.

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06/03/1990

Derek Drouin, Canadian athlete

Derek Drouin is a Canadian retired track and field athlete who competes in the high jump. He won gold at the 2016 Summer Olympics, and was the 2015 World Champion. He also won gold at the 2014 Commonwealth Games and the 2015 Pan American Games, and won a silver medal at the 2012 Summer Olympics and a bronze medal at the 2013 World Championships. Drouin was originally awarded the bronze at the 2012 Olympics which was retroactively changed to silver when the original gold medallist Ivan Ukhov was stripped of his medal for doping violations. He was belatedly presented with the upgraded silver in a presentation during the 2024 Paris Summer Olympics, one of 10 Olympians who were presented with “reallocated” medals from previous Olympics. He holds both the world decathlon best and the world heptathlon best in the high jump with clearances of 2.28 m and 2.30 m, respectively.

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06/03/1989

Dwight Buycks, American basketball player

Dwight Buycks is an American professional basketball player for Kalleh Mazandaran of the Iranian Basketball Super League. He played college basketball for the Indian Hills Warriors and Marquette Golden Eagles.

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Ray Chen, Taiwanese-Australian violinist

Ray Chen is a Taiwanese-Australian violinist and YouTuber. He was the winner of the 2008 International Yehudi Menuhin Violin Competition and the 2009 Queen Elisabeth Competition. Since then, he has regularly collaborated with the world's foremost orchestras and appeared at renowned concert halls.

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Agnieszka Radwańska, Polish tennis player

Agnieszka Roma Radwańska is a Polish former professional tennis player and current coach. She was ranked world No. 2 in women's singles by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA), in July 2012. Radwańska won 20 WTA Tour singles titles, including the 2015 WTA Finals, and two doubles titles. She was also the runner-up at the 2012 Wimbledon Championships.

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06/03/1988

Agnes, Swedish singer

Agnes Emilia Carlsson, known mononymously as Agnes, is a Swedish singer. She rose to fame as the winner of Idol 2005, the second season of the Swedish Idol series. She was then signed to Sony Music, through which she released her self-titled debut album, Agnes, and follow-up, Stronger, both of which topped the Swedish Top 60 Albums Chart. In early 2008, it was announced that Agnes had parted ways with her record label, and was now signed to small independent label Roxy Recordings. Released on 28 October 2008, her third album, Dance Love Pop, reached number five in Sweden, 70 in Austria, 38 in France, 45 in Switzerland and 13 in the United Kingdom. With 200,000 albums sold worldwide this is her most successful album, 50,000 albums were sold in France, 40,000 in Sweden. Its first two singles, "On and On" and "Release Me" became international hits, reaching the top-ten in charts worldwide. "Release Me" topped the Billboard Hot Dance Club Songs and peaked at three in the United Kingdom, selling over 4 million copies worldwide.

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Marina Erakovic, New Zealand tennis player

Marina Erakovic is a former tennis player from New Zealand. She achieved career-high rankings of 39 in singles and 25 in doubles, and won a singles title and eight doubles titles on the WTA Tour.

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Leonys Martín, Cuban-American baseball player

Leonys Martín Tápanes, nicknamed "Ikadi", is a Cuban-American professional baseball center fielder for the Bravos de León of the Mexican League. He signed with the Texas Rangers in 2011, and made his MLB debut later that season. He has previously played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Rangers, Seattle Mariners, Chicago Cubs, Detroit Tigers, and Cleveland Indians, and in Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) for the Chiba Lotte Marines.

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Simon Mignolet, Belgian footballer

Simon Luc Hildebert Mignolet is a Belgian professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Belgian Pro League club Club Brugge.

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06/03/1987

Mário Bližňák, Slovak ice hockey player

Mário Bližňák is a Slovak former professional ice hockey center. He previously played for the Vancouver Canucks of the National Hockey League (NHL). After playing in the Slovak Extraliga, Bližňák was selected by the Canucks in the 2005 NHL Entry Draft, and moved to North America, joining the Vancouver Giants of the major junior Western Hockey League (WHL) in 2005. Bližňák played three seasons with the Giants, helping them win the Memorial Cup, the national championship for major junior hockey in Canada, in 2007, before joining the Moose in 2008. He is best known as a defensive forward.

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Kevin-Prince Boateng, Ghanaian-German footballer

Kevin-Prince Boateng is a football manager and former player who is the coach of the Australian national team in socca.

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Chico Flores, Spanish footballer

José Manuel Flores Moreno, commonly known as Chico Flores, is a Spanish former professional footballer who played as a central defender.

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06/03/1986

Jake Arrieta, American baseball player

Jacob Joseph Arrieta is an American former professional baseball pitcher. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Baltimore Orioles, Chicago Cubs, Philadelphia Phillies, and San Diego Padres.

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Francisco Cervelli, Venezuelan-Italian baseball player

Francisco Cervelli is an Italian-Venezuelan former professional baseball catcher and current manager. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) from 2008 to 2020 for the New York Yankees, Pittsburgh Pirates, Atlanta Braves, and Miami Marlins.

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Timothy DeLaGhetto, American Internet personality

Tim Chantarangsu, formerly known as Timothy DeLaGhetto, is an American internet and television personality and rapper. He is best known from the improv comedy show Wild 'N Out where he was a cast member from 2013 to 2018 and 2020 to 2021.

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Charlie Mulgrew, Scottish footballer

Charles Patrick Mulgrew is a Scottish professional football coach and former player who was most recently manager of Scottish League One side Kelty Hearts.

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06/03/1985

Pierre-Édouard Bellemare, French ice hockey player

Pierre-Édouard Bellemare is a French professional ice hockey player who is a forward for HC Ajoie of the National League (NL). He previously played in the National Hockey League (NHL) from 2014 to 2024 for the Philadelphia Flyers, Vegas Golden Knights, Colorado Avalanche, Tampa Bay Lightning and Seattle Kraken.

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Bakaye Traoré, French-Malian footballer

Bakaye Traoré is a former professional footballer who played as a central midfielder for Amiens SC and AS Nancy in France, for A.C. Milan in Italy, and for Kayseri Erciyesspor and Bursaspor in Turkey. Born in France, he was capped 24 times at international level by Mali national team scoring twice.

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Daniel Winnik, Canadian ice hockey player

Daniel Spencer Winnik is a Canadian former professional ice hockey winger. He played 11 seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL) and played his final six seasons in Switzerland for Genève-Servette HC.

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06/03/1984

Daniël de Ridder, Dutch footballer

Daniël Robin Frederick de Ridder is a Dutch former professional footballer. He played as a winger operating either on the right or left side but would occasionally play a more advanced role. He represented Ajax, Celta Vigo, Birmingham City, Wigan Athletic, Hapoel Tel Aviv, Grasshoppers, Heerenveen, RKC Waalwijk and Cambuur.

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Eskil Pedersen, Norwegian politician

Eskil Pedersen is a Norwegian politician and former leader of the Workers' Youth League (AUF) from 2010 to 2014, the youth organisation associated with Norway's leading Labour Party.

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06/03/1983

Andranik Teymourian, Armenian-Iranian footballer

Andranik "Ando" Timotian-Samarani, commonly known as Andranik Teymourian is a former Iranian professional footballer who played as a midfielder. He is notably the first Christian to captain the Iran national team.

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06/03/1981

Ellen Muth, American actress

Ellen Muth is a retired American actress best known for her role as Georgia "George" Lass in Showtime's series Dead Like Me.

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06/03/1980

Emílson Cribari, Brazilian footballer

Emílson Sánchez Cribari is a Brazilian footballer who played as a centre back.

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06/03/1979

David Flair, American wrestler

David Richard Fliehr, better known by the ring name David Flair, is an American retired professional wrestler. He is best known for his tenure in World Championship Wrestling (WCW), where he held the WCW United States Championship and WCW World Tag Team Championship. He is the son of professional wrestler Ric Flair, and the half-brother of professional wrestlers Charlotte Flair and Reid Flair.

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Tim Howard, American soccer player

Timothy Matthew Howard is an American former professional soccer player who played as a goalkeeper. Nicknamed the "Secretary of Defense", Howard is regarded as one of the greatest American players of all time.

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Garry Monk, English footballer and manager

Garry Alan Monk is an English football manager and former professional player who was most recently the head coach of EFL League Two club Cambridge United.

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06/03/1978

Sage Rosenfels, American football player

Sage Jamen Rosenfels is an American former professional football player who was a quarterback in the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Iowa State Cyclones and was selected by the Washington Redskins in the fourth round of the 2001 NFL draft. He also played in the NFL with the Miami Dolphins from 2002 to 2005, the Houston Texans from 2006 to 2008, the Minnesota Vikings in 2009, and the New York Giants in 2010. He spent portions of the 2011 season with the Vikings and Dolphins, after being released by the Giants during preseason.

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Chad Wicks, American wrestler

Charles Wicks is an American retired professional wrestler best known for his time with World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE), where he wrestled as Chad Toland in its Ohio Valley Wrestling affiliate and later as Chad Dick on its SmackDown! brand.

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06/03/1977

Nantie Hayward, South African cricketer

Mornantau "Nantie" Hayward is a South African former cricketer, who played in 16 Test matches and 21 One Day Internationals for the national team between 1998 and 2004.

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Giorgos Karagounis, Greek footballer

Georgios Karagkounis, known as Giorgos Karagounis, is a former Greek professional footballer who played as a midfielder.

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Shabani Nonda, Congolese footballer

Shabani Christophe Nonda is a former professional footballer who played as a striker. Born in Burundi, he played for the DR Congo national team, earning 36 caps and scoring 20 goals. He was selected for DR Congo's squad for the 2002 Africa Cup of Nations. He had a prominent Career with the East African giants Young Africans (Yanga), before joining Vaal professionals in South Africa.

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06/03/1976

Ken Anderson, American wrestler and actor

Kenneth Anthony Anderson is an American professional wrestler. He is known for his tenure in WWE from 2005 to 2009 under the ring name Mr. Kennedy, and his tenure in Total Nonstop Action Wrestling as Mr. Anderson from 2010 to 2016. He also works as an announcer for Top Rank Boxing.

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06/03/1975

Aracely Arámbula, Mexican actress and singer

Aracely Arámbula Jáquez, known professionally as Aracely Arámbula, is a Mexican actress, model, singer, television personality and entrepreneur.

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Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Canadian pianist and conductor

Yannick Nézet-Séguin, CC is a Canadian conductor and pianist. He is the music director of the Orchestre Métropolitain (Montréal), the Metropolitan Opera, and the Philadelphia Orchestra. He was the principal conductor of the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra from 2008 to 2018.

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06/03/1974

Guy Garvey, English singer-songwriter and guitarist

Guy Edward John Patrick Garvey is an English musician, singer, songwriter and radio presenter. He is the lead singer and lyricist of the rock band Elbow. He has a weekly show on BBC Radio 6 Music titled Guy Garvey's Finest Hour.

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Matthew Guy, Australian politician

Matthew Jason Guy is an Australian politician. He has been a Liberal Party member of the Parliament of Victoria since 2006, representing the Northern Metropolitan Region in the Legislative Council (2006–2014) and Bulleen in the Legislative Assembly (2014–present). He was Leader of the Opposition in Victoria and state leader of the Liberal Party from 2014 to 2018 and again from 2021 to 2022, having resigned following his respective losses in the 2018 and 2022 Victorian state elections.

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Brad Schumacher, American swimmer

Bradley Darrell Schumacher is an American former competition swimmer, water polo player, and Olympic gold medalist. Schumacher is a two-time, two-sport Olympian. He was a member of the winning relay teams at the 1996 Summer Olympics. Four years later, he was a member of the U.S. men's water polo team at the 2000 Summer Olympics.

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06/03/1973

Michael Finley, American basketball player

Michael Howard Finley is an American former professional basketball player who is an interim general manager and vice president of player personnel for the Dallas Mavericks of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played 15 seasons in the NBA, predominantly with the Mavericks, but also for the Phoenix Suns, the San Antonio Spurs, and the Boston Celtics. He was a two-time NBA All-Star and won an NBA championship with the Spurs in 2007.

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Peter Lindgren, Swedish guitarist and songwriter

Peter Lindgren is a Swedish musician and songwriter. He is best known as the former guitarist of Swedish progressive metal band Opeth.

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Greg Ostertag, American basketball player

Gregory Donovan Ostertag is an American former professional basketball player. A center, he spent most of his career with the Utah Jazz of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played college basketball for the Kansas Jayhawks.

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06/03/1971

Darrick Martin, American basketball player and coach

Darrick David Martin is an American former professional basketball player in the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played college basketball for the UCLA Bruins. Martin played professionally for over a decade, shuttling between NBA and the Continental Basketball Association (CBA), where he won the 2003 CBA Playoffs MVP. In 2003, he even played for the Harlem Globetrotters. He then went on to play for the Los Angeles Lightning of the Independent Basketball Association (IBL). He was named the head coach of the Reno Bighorns of the NBA G League in 2016.

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06/03/1968

Carla McGhee, American basketball player and coach

Carla Renee McGhee is an American former basketball player most notable for her career at the University of Tennessee. She was injured in a car crash in October 1987 and was in a coma for 47 hours, suffering brain injuries and breaking nearly every bone in her face. She was told she'd never play again. She was a member of the gold medal-winning 1996 Olympic Team.

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06/03/1967

Julio Bocca, Argentine ballet dancer and director

Julio Adrián Lojo Bocca is an Argentine ballet dancer. Bocca spent twenty years as a principal dancer with American Ballet Theatre. From 2010 to 2018, he served as artistic director of the National Ballet of Uruguay, administered by SODRE, the country's broadcasting and cultural authority.

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Glenn Greenwald, American journalist and author

Glenn Edward Greenwald is an American journalist, author, and former lawyer.

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06/03/1966

Alan Davies, English comedian, actor and screenwriter

Alan Roger Davies is an English actor, presenter, stand-up comedian, and writer. He is known for his portrayal of the title role in the BBC mystery drama series Jonathan Creek (1997–2016) and as the only permanent panellist on the BBC panel show QI since its premiere in 2003, outlasting its original host Stephen Fry. He began his career as a stand-up comic, and has undertaken several tours performing on stage, most recently in 2025.

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06/03/1964

Linda Pearson, Scottish sport shooter

Linda Pearson is a Scottish clay target shooter. She competed in the women's double trap event at the 2018 Commonwealth Games, winning the bronze medal. Linda has represented Great Britain in four different international clay target disciplines: Olympic Trap, Double Trap, Universal Trench and Compak Sporting.

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06/03/1963

D. L. Hughley, American actor, producer, and screenwriter[citation needed]

Darryl Lynn Hughley is an American actor and stand-up comedian. Hughley is best known as the original host of BET's ComicView from 1992 to 1993, the eponymous character on the ABC/UPN sitcom The Hughleys, and as one of the "Big Four" comedians in The Original Kings of Comedy. Additionally, he has been the host of CNN's D. L. Hughley Breaks the News, a correspondent for The Jay Leno Show on NBC, and a local radio personality and interviewer in New York City. In early 2013, D. L. Hughley landed in ninth place on Dancing with the Stars.

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06/03/1962

Alison Nicholas, British golfer

Alison Nicholas is an English professional golfer, who won the 1997 U.S. Women's Open.

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06/03/1960

Sleepy Floyd, American basketball player and coach

Eric Augustus "Sleepy" Floyd is an American former professional basketball player. An NBA All-Star in 1987 as a Warrior, he is perhaps best known for his tenures for Golden State and Houston.

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06/03/1956

Peter Roebuck, English cricketer, journalist, and sportcaster (died 2011)

Peter Michael Roebuck was an English cricketer who later became an Australian newspaper columnist and radio commentator.

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Steve Vizard, Australian television host, actor, and producer

Stephen William Vizard is an Australian television and radio presenter, producer, writer, lawyer and businessman. He is a research professor at Monash University and the University of Adelaide.

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06/03/1955

Cyprien Ntaryamira, Burundian politician, 5th President of Burundi (died 1994)

Cyprien Ntaryamira was a Burundian politician who served as President of Burundi from 5 February 1994 until his assassination two months later in the context of the Burundian Civil War.

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Alberta Watson, Canadian actress (died 2015)

Faith Susan Alberta Watson was a Canadian film and television actress. She was known for her roles as Dr. Rebecca Meyer on Buck James (1987-88), Madeline on La Femme Nikita (1997-2001) and Erin Driscoll on 24 (2004-05).

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06/03/1954

Jeff Greenwald, American author, photographer, and monologist

Jeff Greenwald is a best-selling author, photographer, and monologist. He now resides in Oakland, California.

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Harald Schumacher, German footballer and manager

Harald Anton "Toni" Schumacher is a German former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper. At club level, he won a Bundesliga title and three DFB-Pokal titles with 1. FC Köln. At international level, he represented West Germany. Schumacher won the 1980 European Championship and reached two World Cup finals, in 1982 and 1986, being on the losing side for both. In the 1982 FIFA World Cup semi-final, he controversially collided with and seriously injured French defender Patrick Battiston. Schumacher was voted German Footballer of the Year in 1984 and 1986. Since April 2012, he has served as vice president at 1. FC Köln.

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06/03/1953

Madhav Kumar Nepal, Nepali banker and politician, 34th Prime Minister of Nepal

Madhav Kumar Nepal, is a Nepalese politician and former Prime Minister of Nepal. He served as prime minister from 25 May 2009 to 6 February 2011.

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Carolyn Porco, American astronomer and academic

Carolyn C. Porco is an American planetary scientist who explores the outer Solar System, beginning with her imaging work on the Voyager missions to Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune in the 1980s. She led the imaging science team on the Cassini mission in orbit around Saturn. She is an expert on planetary rings and the Saturnian moon, Enceladus.

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06/03/1952

Denis Napthine, Australian politician, 47th Premier of Victoria

Denis Vincent Napthine is an Australian former politician and veterinarian who served as the 47th premier of Victoria from 2013 to 2014. He held office as the leader of the Victorian division of the Liberal Party of Australia (LPA) and was a member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly (MLA) for the district of Portland from 1988 to 2002, before transferring to that of South-West Coast from 2002 to 2015.

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06/03/1951

Gerrie Knetemann, Dutch cyclist (died 2004)

Gerard Friedrich Knetemann was a Dutch road bicycle racer who won the 1978 World Championship. He wore the Yellow Jersey early in each Tour de France for four consecutive years between 1977 and 1980.

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06/03/1950

Arthur Roche, English archbishop

Arthur Roche is a British bishop and cardinal of the Catholic Church. He has been prefect of the Dicastery for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments since 2021. He was previously secretary of the congregation from 2012 to 2021.

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06/03/1949

Shaukat Aziz, Pakistani economist and politician, 15th Prime Minister of Pakistan

Shaukat Aziz is a Pakistani-born British former banker who served as the 15th prime minister of Pakistan from 28 August 2004 to 15 November 2007. When his term as Prime Minister was over, he immediately left Pakistan and settled in the United Kingdom. Previously, he served as the finance minister of Pakistan from 6 November 1999 to 15 November 2007.

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Martin Buchan, Scottish footballer and manager

Martin McLean Buchan is a Scottish former professional footballer who played as a centre back. Born in Aberdeen, he played for Aberdeen, Manchester United and Oldham Athletic. He also played in 34 international matches for Scotland between 1971 and 1978 including at two World Cups. Buchan later managed Burnley.

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06/03/1948

Stephen Schwartz, American composer and producer

Stephen Lawrence Schwartz is an American musical theatre composer and lyricist. In a career spanning over five decades, Schwartz has written hit musicals including Godspell (1971), Pippin (1972), and Wicked (2003). He has contributed lyrics to successful films including Pocahontas (1995), The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996), The Prince of Egypt, Enchanted (2007), Disenchanted (2022), and the two-part adaptation of Wicked.

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06/03/1947

Rob Reiner, American actor, director, producer, and activist (died 2025)

Robert Reiner was an American filmmaker, film producer, screenwriter, actor, and activist. He directed a series of acclaimed studio films in a career that spanned comedy, drama, romance, and documentary. Reiner received numerous accolades, including winning two Primetime Emmy Awards and a Hugo Award, as well as nominations for an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, and nine Golden Globe Awards. He was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1999 and received the Chaplin Gala Tribute at the Film at Lincoln Center in 2014. Three of his films have been inducted into the National Film Registry.

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Jean Seaton, English historian and academic

Jean Seaton is Professor of Media History at the University of Westminster and the Official Historian of the BBC. She is the Director of the Orwell Prize and on the editorial board of Political Quarterly. She is the widow of Ben Pimlott, the British historian.

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06/03/1946

Patrick Baudry, French military officer and astronaut

Patrick Pierre Roger Baudry is a retired colonel in the French Air Force and a former CNES astronaut. In 1985, he became the second French citizen in space, after Jean-Loup Chrétien, when he flew aboard NASA's Space Shuttle mission STS-51-G.

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Martin Kove, American actor

Martin Kove is an American actor and a martial artist. He is best known for his role as John Kreese, the main antagonist of The Karate Kid (1984). Kove reprised the role in The Karate Kid Part II (1986), The Karate Kid Part III (1989), and the television series Cobra Kai (2018–2025). He was a regular on the television series Cagney & Lacey (1982–1988), portraying Police Detective Victor Isbecki. Kove also appeared in Rambo: First Blood Part II (1985) and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019).

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Richard Noble, Scottish race car driver and businessman

Richard James Anthony Noble, OBE is a Scottish entrepreneur who was holder of the land speed record between 1983 and 1997. He was also the project director of ThrustSSC, the vehicle which holds the current land speed record, set at Black Rock Desert, Nevada in 1997.

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06/03/1945

Angelo Castro Jr., Filipino actor and journalist (died 2012)

Angelo Ylagan Castro Jr. was a Filipino broadcast journalist and actor. He was a news anchor for The World Tonight, the flagship news program of ABS-CBN and ANC. He anchored several ABS-CBN and ANC news and current events programs for the past 25 years. Castro is a recipient of the Ka Doroy Broadcaster of the Year award from the Kapisanan ng mga Brodkaster ng Pilipinas.

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06/03/1944

Richard Corliss, American journalist and critic (died 2015)

Richard Nelson Corliss was an American film critic and magazine editor for Time. He focused on movies, with occasional articles on other subjects.

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Kiri Te Kanawa, New Zealand soprano and actress

Dame Kiri Jeanette Claire Te Kanawa is a New Zealand opera singer. She has a full lyric soprano voice, which has been described as "mellow yet vibrant, warm, ample and unforced". On 1 December 1971 she was recognised internationally when she appeared as the Countess in Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro at the Royal Opera House in London.

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Mary Wilson, American singer (died 2021)

Mary Wilson was an American singer. She gained worldwide recognition as a founding member of the Supremes, the most successful Motown act of the 1960s and the best-charting female group in U.S. chart history, as well as one of the best-selling girl groups of all-time. The trio reached number one on Billboard's Hot 100 with 12 of their singles, ten of which feature Wilson on backing vocals.

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06/03/1941

Peter Brötzmann, German saxophonist and clarinet player (died 2023)

Peter Brötzmann was a German jazz saxophonist and clarinetist regarded as a central and pioneering figure in European free jazz. Throughout his career, he released over fifty albums as a bandleader. Amongst his many collaborators were key figures in free jazz, including Derek Bailey, Anthony Braxton and Cecil Taylor, as well as experimental musicians such as Keiji Haino and Charles Hayward. His 1968 Machine Gun became "one of the landmark albums of 20th-century free jazz".

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Marilyn Strathern, Welsh anthropologist and academic

Dame Ann Marilyn Strathern is a British anthropologist, who has worked largely with the Mount Hagen people of Papua New Guinea and dealt with issues in the UK of reproductive technologies. She was William Wyse Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Cambridge from 1993 to 2008, and Mistress of Girton College, Cambridge from 1998 to 2009.

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06/03/1940

Ken Danby, Canadian painter (died 2007)

Ken Danby, D.F.A. was a Canadian painter who created highly realistic paintings that study everyday life. His 1972 painting At the Crease, portraying a masked hockey goalie defending his net, is widely recognized and reproduced in Canada.

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R. H. Sikes, American golfer (died 2023)

Richard Horace Sikes was an American professional golfer who played on the PGA Tour in the 1960s and 1970s.

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Willie Stargell, American baseball player and coach (died 2001)[citation needed]

Wilver Dornell Stargell, nicknamed "Pops" later in his career, was an American professional baseball left fielder and first baseman who spent all of his 21 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) (1962–1982) with the Pittsburgh Pirates. Among the most feared power hitters in baseball history, Stargell had the most home runs (296) of any player in the 1970s decade. During his career, he batted .282 with 2,232 hits, 1,194 runs, 423 doubles, 475 home runs, and 1,540 runs batted in, helping his team win six National League (NL) East division titles, two NL pennants, and two World Series championships in 1971 and 1979, both over the Baltimore Orioles. Stargell was a seven-time All-Star and two-time NL home run leader. In 1979, at the age of 39, he became the first and currently only player to win the NL Most Valuable Player (MVP) Award, the NL Championship Series MVP Award and the World Series MVP Award in one season. In 1982, the Pirates retired his uniform number 8. He was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1988 in his first year of eligibility.

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Jeff Wooller, English accountant and banker

Herbert Jeffrey Wooller is an English accountant and educationalist. He is noted for his accountancy tuition initiatives, and for campaigning for reform of his professional institute, the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales. The institute eventually excluded him from its membership because of his association with the Irish International University, Irish University Business School and International University Business School. Wooller has founded several educational institutions such as the Jeff Wooller College, Institute of Professional Financial Managers and Irish University Business School.

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06/03/1939

Kit Bond, American lawyer and politician, 47th Governor of Missouri (died 2025)

Christopher Samuel Bond was an American attorney and politician from Missouri. A member of the Republican Party, he served as a U.S. senator from 1987 to 2011, following two non-consecutive terms as the governor of Missouri from 1973 to 1977 and 1981 to 1985, and two years as State Auditor of Missouri from 1971 to 1973. His first election as governor ended a 28-year Democratic streak in that office.

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Adam Osborne, Thai-Indian engineer and businessman, founded the Osborne Computer Corporation (died 2003)

Adam Osborne was a British author, software publisher, and computer designer who founded several companies in the United States and elsewhere. He introduced the Osborne 1, the first commercially successful portable computer.

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06/03/1938

Keishu Tanaka, Japanese politician, 17th Japanese Minister of Justice (died 2022)

Keishu Tanaka was a Japanese politician, who served in the House of Representatives in the Diet as a member of the Democratic Party. He was Minister of Justice under Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda from 1 to 23 October 2012 before resigning due to scandals over financial donations and links to organized crime.

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06/03/1937

Ivan Boesky, American businessman (died 2024)

Ivan Frederick Boesky was a convicted criminal and an American stock trader who was infamous for his prominent role in an insider trading scandal in the mid-1980s. After getting caught he became a government informant and then pleaded guilty, and was fined a record $100 million, and served twenty months in prison.

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Norman Coburn, Australian actor

Norman Coburn is an Australian former actor, playwright and writer best known for his television serial and soap opera roles. He started his early career in theatre, film and television in the United Kingdom in the mid-1950s.

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Valentina Tereshkova, Russian general, pilot, and astronaut[citation needed]

Valentina Vladimirovna Tereshkova is a Russian engineer, politician, and former Soviet cosmonaut. She was the first woman in space, having flown a solo mission on Vostok 6 on 16 June 1963. She orbited the Earth 48 times, spent almost three days in space, is the only woman to have been on a solo space mission and is the last surviving Vostok programme cosmonaut. Twenty-six years old at the time of her spaceflight, she remains the youngest woman to have flown in space under the international definition of 100 km altitude, and the youngest woman to fly in Earth orbit.

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06/03/1936

Bob Akin, American race car driver and journalist (died 2002)

Robert Macomber Akin, III was an American business executive, journalist, television commentator and champion sports car racing driver.

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Marion Barry, American lawyer and politician, 2nd Mayor of the District of Columbia (died 2014)

Marion Shepilov Barry was an American politician who served as mayor of the District of Columbia from 1979 to 1991 and 1995 to 1999. A Democrat, Barry had served three tenures on the Council of the District of Columbia, representing as an at-large member from 1975 to 1979, in Ward 8 from 1993 to 1995, and again from 2005 to 2014.

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Choummaly Sayasone, Laotian politician, 5th President of Laos

Lieutenant General Choummaly Sayasone is a Laotian politician who was General Secretary of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party (LPRP) and President of Laos from 2006 to 2016.

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06/03/1935

Ron Delany, Irish runner and coach (died 2026)

Ronald Michael Delany was an Irish athlete who specialised in middle-distance running. He won a gold medal in the 1500 metres at the 1956 Summer Olympics. He later earned a bronze medal in the 1500 metres event at the 1958 European Athletics Championships in Stockholm.

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Derek Kevan, English footballer (died 2013)

Derek Tennyson Kevan was an English footballer. He spent the majority of his club career playing as a centre-forward for West Bromwich Albion, where he earned the nickname "The Tank". In 1961–62 he was the joint leading scorer in Division One – alongside Ray Crawford of Ipswich Town – with 33 goals. He also won 14 caps for the England national team, scoring a total of eight goals, including two in the 1958 FIFA World Cup Finals.

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06/03/1933

Ted Abernathy, American baseball player (died 2004)

Ted Wade Abernathy was an American professional baseball player and right-handed pitcher. He appeared in 681 games in Major League Baseball (MLB), 647 as a relief pitcher, for seven different clubs over all or parts of 14 seasons between 1955 and 1972, amassed 148 saves, and twice led the National League (NL) in that category. He batted and threw right-handed, stood 6 feet 4 inches (1.93 m) tall, and weighed 215 pounds (98 kg).

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06/03/1932

Marc Bazin, Haitian lawyer and politician, 49th President of Haiti (died 2010)

Marc Louis Bazin was a World Bank official, former United Nations functionary, and Haitian Minister of Finance and Economy under the dictatorship of Jean-Claude Duvalier. He was the prime minister of Haiti, appointed on June 4, 1992, by the military government that had seized power on September 30, 1991.

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Jean Boht, English actress (died 2023)

Jean Boht was an English actress, most famous for the role of Nellie Boswell in Carla Lane's sitcom Bread, one of several actors to remain with the show for its entire seven-series tenure from 1986 to 1991.

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Bronisław Geremek, Polish historian and politician, Polish Minister of Foreign Affairs (died 2008)

Bronisław Geremek was a Polish social historian and politician. He was an opposition activist in the Polish People's Republic and participated in the Polish Round Table Agreement.

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Timofei Moșneaga, Moldovan physician and politician, Moldovan Minister of Health (died 2014)

Timofei Moșneaga was a Moldovan and Soviet physician and politician who served as Minister of Health of Moldova from 1994 to 1997. He was the Director of the Republican Clinical Hospital for over forty years (1960–2003). As of 2017, the hospital is named after him.

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06/03/1930

Lorin Maazel, French-American violinist, composer, and conductor (died 2014)

Lorin Varencove Maazel was an American conductor, violinist and composer. He began conducting at the age of eight and by 1953 had decided to pursue a career in music. He had established a reputation in the concert halls of Europe by 1960 but his career in the U.S. progressed far more slowly. He served as music director of The Cleveland Orchestra, Orchestre National de France, Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, and the New York Philharmonic, among other posts. Maazel was well regarded in baton technique and had a photographic memory for scores. Described as mercurial and forbidding in rehearsal, he mellowed in old age.

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06/03/1929

Tom Foley, American lawyer and politician, 57th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (died 2013)

Thomas Stephen Foley was an American lawyer, diplomat, and politician who served as the 49th speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 1989 to 1995. A member of the Democratic Party, Foley represented Washington's 5th congressional district for 30 years (1965–1995). He was the first Speaker of the House in over a century since Galusha Grow in 1862 to be defeated in a re-election campaign.

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David Sheppard, English cricketer and bishop (died 2005)

David Stuart Sheppard, Baron Sheppard of Liverpool was a Church of England bishop who played cricket for Sussex and England in his youth, before serving as Bishop of Liverpool from 1975 to 1997. Sheppard remains the only ordained minister to have played Test cricket, though others such as Tom Killick were ordained after playing Tests.

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06/03/1927

Gordon Cooper, American engineer, pilot, and astronaut (died 2004)[citation needed]

Leroy Gordon Cooper Jr. was an American aerospace engineer, test pilot, United States Air Force pilot, and the youngest of the seven original astronauts in Project Mercury, the first human space program of the United States. Cooper learned to fly as a child, and after service in the United States Marine Corps during World War II, he was commissioned into the United States Air Force in 1949. After service as a fighter pilot, he qualified as a test pilot in 1956, and was selected as an astronaut in 1959.

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Gabriel García Márquez, Colombian journalist and author, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2014)

Gabriel José García Márquez was a Colombian writer and journalist, known affectionately as Gabo or Gabito throughout Latin America. Considered one of the most significant authors of the 20th century, particularly in the Spanish language, he was awarded the 1972 Neustadt International Prize for Literature and the 1982 Nobel Prize in Literature. He pursued a self-directed education that resulted in leaving law school for a career in journalism. From early on he showed no inhibitions in his criticism of Colombian and foreign politics. In 1958, he married Mercedes Barcha Pardo; they had two sons, Rodrigo and Gonzalo.

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06/03/1926

Ann Curtis, American swimmer (died 2012)

Ann Elizabeth Curtis, known after 1949 by her married name Ann Elisabeth Cuneo was an American competition swimmer and two-time Olympic champion at the 1948 London games. She would later have a career as a swim coach opening the Ann Curtis Swim Club and School of Swimming in Terra Linda, California.

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Alan Greenspan, American economist and politician[citation needed]

Alan Greenspan is an American economist who served as the 13th chairman of the Federal Reserve from 1987 to 2006. He worked as a private adviser and provided consulting for firms through his company, Greenspan Associates LLC.

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Ray O'Connor, Australian politician, 22nd Premier of Western Australia (died 2013)

Raymond James O'Connor was an Australian politician who served as the premier of Western Australia from 25 January 1982 to 25 February 1983. He was a member of the Parliament of Western Australia from 1959 to 1984, and a minister in the governments of David Brand and Charles Court. O'Connor was born in Perth and attended schools in the Wheatbelt towns of Narrogin and York as well as St Patrick's Boys' School in Perth, leaving school at the age of 14. He competed in athletics and played Australian rules football as a teenager and young adult, including playing 14 matches for East Perth in the Western Australian National Football League. During World War II, he served in the Second Australian Imperial Force in New Britain and Bougainville.

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Andrzej Wajda, Polish director, producer, and screenwriter (died 2016)

Andrzej Witold Wajda was a Polish film and theatre director. Recipient of an Honorary Oscar, the Palme d'Or, as well as Honorary Golden Lion and Honorary Golden Bear Awards, he was a prominent member of the "Polish Film School". He was known especially for his trilogy of war films consisting of A Generation (1955), Kanał (1957) and Ashes and Diamonds (1958).

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06/03/1924

Sarah Caldwell, American opera director, impresario, and stage director (died 2006)

Sarah Caldwell was an American opera conductor, impresario, and stage director.

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Ottmar Walter, German footballer (died 2013)

Ottmar Kurt Herrmann Walter was a German footballer who played as a forward.

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William H. Webster, American lawyer and jurist, Director of Central Intelligence (died 2025)

William Hedgcock Webster was an American attorney and jurist who served as chair of the Homeland Security Advisory Council from 2005 until 2020. He was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri and a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit before serving as director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) from 1978 to 1987 and director of Central Intelligence (CIA) from 1987 to 1991. He is the only person to have held both positions.

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06/03/1923

Ed McMahon, American comedian, game show host, and announcer (died 2009)

Edward Leo Peter McMahon Jr. was an American announcer, game show host, comedian, actor, singer, and combat aviator. McMahon and Johnny Carson began their association in their first TV series, the ABC game show Who Do You Trust?, appearing from 1958 to 1962. McMahon then made his famous thirty-year mark as Carson's sidekick and announcer on NBC's The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson from 1962 to 1992.

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Wes Montgomery, American guitarist and songwriter (died 1968)

John Leslie "Wes" Montgomery was an American jazz guitarist. Montgomery was known for his unusual technique of plucking the strings with the side of his thumb and for his extensive use of octaves, which gave him a distinctive sound.

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06/03/1920

Lewis Gilbert, English director, producer, and screenwriter (died 2018)

Lewis Gilbert was an English film director, producer and screenwriter who directed more than 40 films during six decades; among them such varied titles as Cast a Dark Shadow (1955), Reach for the Sky (1956), Carve Her Name with Pride (1958), Sink the Bismarck! (1960), Alfie (1966), Educating Rita (1983) and Shirley Valentine (1989), as well as three James Bond films: You Only Live Twice (1967), The Spy Who Loved Me (1977) and Moonraker (1979).

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06/03/1918

Howard McGhee, American trumpeter (died 1987)

Howard McGhee was one of the first American bebop jazz trumpeters, alongside Dizzy Gillespie, Fats Navarro, and Idrees Sulieman. He was known for his fast fingering and high notes. He had an influence on younger bebop trumpeters such as Navarro.

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06/03/1917

Donald Davidson, American philosopher and academic (died 2003)

Donald Herbert Davidson was an American philosopher. He served as Slusser Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley, from 1981 to 2003 after having also held teaching appointments at Stanford University, Rockefeller University, Princeton University, and the University of Chicago. Davidson was known for his charismatic personality and difficult writing style, as well as the systematic nature of his philosophy. His work exerted considerable influence in many areas of philosophy from the 1960s onward, particularly in philosophy of mind, philosophy of language, and action theory. While Davidson was an analytic philosopher, with most of his influence lying in that tradition, his work has attracted attention in continental philosophy as well, particularly in literary theory and related areas.

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Will Eisner, American illustrator and publisher (died 2005)

William Erwin Eisner was an American cartoonist, writer, and entrepreneur. He was one of the earliest cartoonists to work in the American comic book industry, and his series The Spirit (1940–1952) was noted for its experiments in content and form. In 1978, he popularized the term "graphic novel" with the publication of his book A Contract with God. He was an early contributor to formal comics studies with his book Comics and Sequential Art (1985). The Eisner Award was named in his honor and is given to recognize achievements each year in the comics medium; he was one of the three inaugural inductees to the Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame.

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Frankie Howerd, English comedian (died 1992)

Francis Alick Howard, better known by his stage-name Frankie Howerd, was an English actor and comedian.

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06/03/1913

Ella Logan, Scottish-American singer and actress (died 1969)

Ella Logan was a Scottish-American actress and singer who appeared on Broadway, recorded and had a nightclub career in the United States and internationally.

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06/03/1912

Mohammed Burhanuddin, Indian spiritual leader, 52nd Da'i al-Mutlaq (died 2014)

Mohammed Burhanuddin was the 52nd Da'i al-Mutlaq of Dawoodi Bohras from 1965 to 2014. He led the community for 49 years in a period of social, economic, and educational prosperity; strengthened and re-institutionalized the fundamental core of the community's faith; revived its culture, tradition, and heritage. In successfully achieving coexistence of traditional Islamic values and modern Western practices within the community, Burhanuddin completed the work his predecessor Taher Saifuddin had started.

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06/03/1910

Emma Bailey, American auctioneer and author (died 1999)

Emma Bailey was an American auctioneer and author, credited with being the first American woman auctioneer. She held her first auction in Brattleboro, Vermont, on May 12, 1950, as a way to supplement her family's income. In 1952 she became the first woman admitted to the National Auctioneers Association. She continued auctioneering for nearly 20 years and wrote a book about her experiences, entitled Sold to the Lady in the Green Hat (1962), before retiring in the late 1960s.

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06/03/1909

Obafemi Awolowo, Nigerian lawyer and politician (died 1987)

Obafemi Jeremiah Oyeniyi Awolowo was a Nigerian politician and statesman who served as the first Premier of the Western region of Nigeria. He was known as one of the key figure towards Nigeria's independence movement from 1957 to 1960. Awolowo founded the Yoruba nationalist group Egbe Omo Oduduwa as well as the Premier of the Western Region under Nigeria's parliamentary system from 1952 to 1959. He was the official opposition leader in the federal parliament to the Balewa government from 1959 to 1963.

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Stanisław Jerzy Lec, Polish poet and author (died 1966)

Stanisław Jerzy Lec, born Baron Stanisław Jerzy de Tusch-Letz, was a Polish aphorist and poet. Often mentioned among the greatest writers of post-war Poland, he was one of the most influential aphorists of the 20th century, known for lyric poetry and ironic philosophical-moral aphorisms, often with a political subtext.

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06/03/1906

Lou Costello, American actor and comedian (died 1959)

Louis Francis Cristillo, better known as Lou Costello, was an American comedian, actor and producer. He was best known for his double act with Bud Abbott and their routine "Who's on First?".

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06/03/1905

Bob Wills, American Western swing musician, songwriter, and bandleader (died 1975)

James Robert Wills was an American musician, songwriter, and bandleader. Considered by music authorities as the founder of Western swing, he was known widely as the King of Western Swing. He was also noted for punctuating his music with his trademark "ah-haa" calls.

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06/03/1904

José Antonio Aguirre, Spanish lawyer and politician, 1st President of the Basque Country (died 1960)

José Antonio Aguirre y Lecube was a Basque politician and activist in the Basque Nationalist Party. He was the first president of the Provisional Government of the Basque Country and the executive defense advisor during the Spanish Civil War. Under his mandate, the Provisional Government formed the Basque Army and fought for the Second Spanish Republic.

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06/03/1903

Empress Nagako of Japan (died 2000)

Nagako , posthumously honoured as Empress Kōjun , was a member of the Imperial House of Japan, the wife of Emperor Hirohito and the mother of Emperor Emeritus Akihito. She served as Empress of Japan from 1926 until her husband's death in 1989, making her the longest-serving empress consort in Japanese history.

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06/03/1900

Gina Cigna, French-Italian soprano and actress (died 2001)

Gina Cigna was a French-Italian dramatic soprano.

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Lefty Grove, American baseball player (died 1975)

Robert Moses "Lefty" Grove was an American professional baseball pitcher. After having success in the minor leagues during the early 1920s, Grove became a star in Major League Baseball (MLB) with the American League's Philadelphia Athletics and Boston Red Sox. One of the greatest pitchers in history, Grove led the American League in wins in four separate seasons, in strikeouts seven consecutive seasons, and had the league's lowest earned run average a record nine times. Over the course of the three years from 1929 to 1931, he twice won the pitcher's Triple Crown, leading the league in wins, strikeouts, and ERA, while amassing a 79–15 record and leading the Athletics to three straight AL championships. Overall, Grove won 300 games in his 17-year MLB career. He was elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1947.

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Henri Jeanson, French journalist and author (died 1970)

Henri Jules Louis Jeanson was a French writer and journalist. He was a "satrap" in the "College of 'Pataphysics".

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06/03/1895

Albert Tessier, Canadian priest and historian (died 1976)

Albert Tessier was a French-speaking Canadian priest, historian and a film maker.

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06/03/1893

Furry Lewis, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 1981)

Walter E. "Furry" Lewis was an American country blues guitarist and songwriter from Memphis, Tennessee. He was one of the earliest of the blues musicians active in the 1920s to be brought out of retirement and given new opportunities to record during the folk blues revival of the 1960s.

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Ella P. Stewart, pioneering Black American pharmacist (died 1987)

Ella P. Stewart was an American pharmacist who was one of the first African American female pharmacists in the United States.

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06/03/1892

Bert Smith, English international footballer (died 1969)

Bertram "Bert" Smith was a professional footballer, who played for Huddersfield Town, Tottenham Hotspur and played international football for England.

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06/03/1885

Ring Lardner, American journalist and author (died 1933)

Ringgold Wilmer Lardner was an American sports columnist and short story writer best known for his satirical writings on sports, marriage, and the theatre. His contemporaries—Ernest Hemingway, Virginia Woolf, and F. Scott Fitzgerald—all professed strong admiration for his writing, and author John O'Hara directly attributed his understanding of dialogue to him.

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06/03/1884

Molla Mallory, Norwegian-American tennis player (died 1959)

Anna Margrethe "Molla" Bjurstedt Mallory was a Norwegian-American tennis player, at one time ranked number 2 in the world. She won a record eight singles titles at the U.S. National Championships. She was the first woman to represent Norway at the Olympics.

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María Collazo, Uruguayan journalist and activist (died 1942)

María Collazo was a Uruguayan educator and journalist. She was active in Buenos Aires and she was repatriated to Uruguay in 1907.

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06/03/1882

F. Burrall Hoffman, American architect, co-designed Villa Vizcaya (died 1980)

F. Burrall Hoffman, Jr. was an American architect, best known for his work for James Deering at Villa Vizcaya in Miami, Florida.

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Guy Kibbee, American actor and singer (died 1956)

Guy Bridges Kibbee was an American stage and film actor.

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06/03/1877

Rose Fyleman, English writer and poet (died 1957)

Rose Amy Fyleman was an English writer and poet, noted for her works on fairies for children. Her 1917 poem "There are fairies at the bottom of our garden" was set to music by English composer Liza Lehmann.

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06/03/1876

A. A. Kannisto, Finnish politician (died 1930)

Anders Anshelm Kannisto was a Finnish trade unionist and politician who was a member of the Parliament of Finland from 1907 to 1911. A member of the Social Democratic Party, he represented Mikkeli Province. A member of the Red Guard, he was taken prisoner by the White Guard at the start of the Finnish Civil War in 1918. After the war Kannisto was sentenced to eight years in prison for treason, but was released in 1921.

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06/03/1872

Ben Harney, American pianist and composer (died 1938)

Benjamin Robertson Harney was an American songwriter, entertainer, and pioneer of ragtime music. His 1895 composition "You've Been a Good Old Wagon but You Done Broke Down" is known as the second ragtime composition to be published and the first ragtime hit to reach the mainstream. The first Ragtime composition published was La Pas Ma La written by Ernest Hogan in 1895. The copyright for "You've Been a Good Old Wagon but You Done Broke Down" was registered in January 1895 source, a few months prior to La Pas Ma La source, suggesting it was in fact the first of the two. During the early years of Harney's career, he falsely promoted himself as being the inventor of ragtime and never acknowledged the genre's black origin. Many contemporary musicians criticized him for it. Although ragtime is now probably more associated with Scott Joplin, in 1924 The New York Times wrote that Ben Harney "Probably did more to popularize ragtime than any other person." Time magazine called him "Ragtime's Father" in 1938.

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Sarah Roberts, subject of a vampire legend (died 1913)

Sarah Ellen Roberts was an Englishwoman who died and was buried in Pisco, Peru. After her death, a legend evolved that she was a vampire and bride of Dracula. On 9 June 1993, the 80th anniversary of her death, locals in Pisco feared she would come back to life and take her revenge.

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06/03/1871

Afonso Costa, Portuguese lawyer and politician, 59th Prime Minister of Portugal (died 1937)

Afonso Augusto da Costa, GCTE, GCL was a Portuguese lawyer, professor and republican politician.

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06/03/1870

Oscar Straus, Viennese composer and conductor (died 1954)

Oscar Nathan Straus was a Viennese composer of operettas, film scores, and songs. He also wrote about 500 cabaret songs, chamber music, and orchestral and choral works. His original name was actually Strauss, but for professional purposes he deliberately omitted the final 's'. He wished not to be associated with the musical Strauss family of Vienna. However, he did follow the advice of Johann Strauss II in 1898 about abandoning the prospective lure of writing waltzes for the more lucrative business of writing for the theatre.

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06/03/1865

Duan Qirui, Chinese warlord and politician (died 1936)

Duan Qirui was a Chinese statesman and general who controlled the Beijing Government during the late 1910s. He was the Premier of China on four occasions between 1913 and 1918, and from 1924 to 1926 he served as acting Chief Executive of China in Beijing. As the last leader of the Beiyang Army, Duan was highly respected among the warlords and people of China, and was the founder of the Anhui Clique.

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06/03/1864

Richard Rushall, British businessman (died 1953)

Captain Richard Boswell Rushall was a British sea captain and businessman who served as mayor of Rangoon, Burma, during the 1930s. He was the first Englishman to hold this position. Born in Braunston, Northamptonshire, Rushall was the eldest of eight children. After finishing school he left for sea, joined the UK's Merchant Navy, and became a ship's captain. He spent 20 years with the Irrawaddy Flotilla Company, of which 17 were in command of steamships belonging to the company. He settled in Rangoon with his family, resigned from the Irrawaddy Flotilla Company and founded Rushall & Co. Ltd., a stevedoring and contracting business that employed between 3,000 and 4,000 men.

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06/03/1849

Georg Luger, Austrian gun designer, designed the Luger pistol (died 1923)

Georg Johann Luger was an Austrian designer of the famous Luger pistol and the 9×19mm Parabellum cartridge.

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06/03/1841

Viktor Burenin, Russian author, poet, playwright, and critic (died 1926)

Viktor Petrovich Burenin was a Russian literary and theatre critic, publicist, novelist, dramatist, translator and satirical poet notorious for his confrontational articles and satirical poems, mostly targeting leftist writers. He was the author of several popular plays, novels and opera librettos.

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06/03/1834

George du Maurier, French-English author and illustrator (died 1896)

George Louis Palmella Busson du Maurier was a French-British cartoonist, illustrator, and novelist. He was known for his work in Punch and his 1894 Gothic novel Trilby, featuring the character Svengali.

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06/03/1831

Philip Sheridan, Irish-American general (died 1888)

Philip Henry Sheridan was a career United States Army officer and a Union general in the American Civil War. His career was noted for his rapid rise to major general and his close association with General-in-chief Ulysses S. Grant, who transferred Sheridan from command of an infantry division in the Western Theater to lead the Cavalry Corps of the Army of the Potomac in the East. In 1864, he defeated Confederate forces under General Jubal Early in the Shenandoah Valley and his destruction of the economic infrastructure of the Valley, called "The Burning" by residents, was one of the first uses of scorched-earth tactics in the war. In 1865, his cavalry pursued Gen. Robert E. Lee and was instrumental in forcing his surrender at Appomattox Courthouse.

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06/03/1826

Annie Feray Mutrie, British painter (died 1893)

Annie Feray Mutrie was a British still-life painter. She exhibited regularly and she and her sister Martha were considered the best flower painters in oils.

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06/03/1823

Charles I of Württemberg (died 1891)

Charles was the third King of Württemberg from 25 June 1864 until his death in 1891.

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06/03/1818

William Claflin, American businessman and politician, 27th Governor of Massachusetts (died 1905)

William Claflin was an American politician, industrialist, and philanthropist from Massachusetts. He served as the 27th governor of Massachusetts from 1869 to 1872 and as a member of the United States Congress from 1877 to 1881. He also served as chairman of the Republican National Committee from 1868 to 1872, serving as a moderating force between the Radical and moderate wings of the Republican Party. His name is given to Claflin University in South Carolina, a historically black college founded with funding from him and his father.

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06/03/1806

Elizabeth Barrett Browning, English-Italian poet and translator (died 1861)

Elizabeth Barrett Browning was an English poet of the Victorian era, popular in Britain and the United States during her lifetime and frequently anthologised after her death. Her work received renewed attention following the feminist scholarship of the 1970s and 1980s, and greater recognition of women writers in English. Born in County Durham, the eldest of 12 children, Elizabeth Barrett wrote poetry from the age of eleven. Her mother's collection of her poems forms one of the largest extant collections of juvenilia by any English writer. At 15, she became ill, suffering intense head and spinal pain for the rest of her life. Later in life, she also developed lung problems, possibly tuberculosis. She took laudanum for the pain from an early age, which is likely to have contributed to her frail health.

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06/03/1787

Joseph von Fraunhofer, German physicist and astronomer (died 1826)

Joseph Ritter von Fraunhofer was a German physicist and optical lens manufacturer. He made optical glass, an achromatic telescope, and objective lenses. He developed diffraction grating and also invented the spectroscope. In 1814, he discovered and studied the dark absorption lines in the spectrum of the sun now known as Fraunhofer lines.

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06/03/1785

Karol Kurpiński, Polish composer and conductor (died 1857)

Karol Kazimierz Kurpiński was a Polish composer, conductor and pedagogue. He was a representative of late classicism and a member of the Warsaw Society of Friends of Learning. He is also known for having composed the music to the 1831 patriotic song La Varsovienne with lyrics by Casimir Delavigne. He was also a mentor and an influence on young Chopin.

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06/03/1780

Lucy Barnes, American writer (died 1809)

Lucy Barnes was an 18th-century American writer. Her book The Female Christian may have been the first written by a woman in defense of Universalism.

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06/03/1779

Antoine-Henri Jomini, Swiss-French general (died 1869)

Baron Antoine-Henri Jomini was a Swiss-French military officer who served as a general in French and later in Russian service, and one of the most celebrated writers on the Napoleonic art of war. Jomini was largely self-taught in military strategy, and his ideas are a staple at military academies, the United States Military Academy at West Point being a prominent example; his theories were thought to have affected many officers who later served in the American Civil War. He may have coined the term logistics in his Summary of the Art of War (1838).

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06/03/1761

Antoine-François Andréossy, French general and diplomat (died 1828)

Antoine-François, comte Andréossy was a Franco-Italian nobleman, who served as a French Army artillery general, diplomat and parliamentarian.

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06/03/1724

Henry Laurens, English-American merchant and politician, 5th President of the Continental Congress (died 1792)

Henry Laurens was an American Founding Father, merchant, slave trader, and rice planter from South Carolina who became a political leader during the Revolutionary War. A delegate to the Second Continental Congress, Laurens succeeded John Hancock as its president. He was a signatory to the Articles of Confederation and, as president, presided over its passage.

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06/03/1716

Pehr Kalm, Swedish-Finnish botanist and explorer (died 1779)

Pehr Kalm, also known as Peter Kalm, was a Swedish-Finnish explorer, botanist, naturalist, and agricultural economist. He was one of the most important apostles of Carl Linnaeus.

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06/03/1663

Francis Atterbury, English bishop and poet (died 1732)

Francis Atterbury was an English man of letters, politician and bishop. A High Church Tory and Jacobite, he gained patronage under Queen Anne, but was mistrusted by the Hanoverian Whig ministries, and banished for communicating with the Old Pretender in the Atterbury Plot. He was a noted wit and a gifted preacher.

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06/03/1619

Cyrano de Bergerac, French author and playwright (died 1655)

Savinien de Cyrano de Bergerac was a French novelist, playwright, epistolarian, and duelist.

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06/03/1536

Santi di Tito, Italian painter (died 1603)

Santi di Tito was one of the most influential and leading Italian painters of the proto-Baroque style – what is sometimes referred to as "Counter-Maniera" or Counter-Mannerism.

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06/03/1495

Luigi Alamanni, Italian poet and diplomat (died 1556)

Luigi Alamanni was an Italian poet and statesman. He was regarded as a prolific and versatile poet. He was credited with introducing the epigram into Italian poetry.

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06/03/1493

Juan Luis Vives, Spanish scholar and humanist (died 1540)

Juan Luis Vives y March was a Spanish (Valencian) scholar and Renaissance humanist who spent most of his adult life in the southern Habsburg Netherlands. His beliefs on the soul, insight into early medical practice, and perspective on emotions, memory and learning earned him the title of the "father" of modern psychology. Vives was the first to shed light on some key ideas that established how psychology is perceived today.

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06/03/1483

Francesco Guicciardini, Italian historian and politician (died 1540)

Francesco Guicciardini was an Italian historian and statesman. A friend and critic of Niccolò Machiavelli, he is considered one of the major political writers of the Italian Renaissance. In his masterpiece, The History of Italy, Guicciardini paved the way for a new style in historiography with his use of government sources to support arguments and the realistic analysis of the people and events of his time.

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06/03/1475

Michelangelo, Italian painter and sculptor (died 1564)

Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni, known mononymously as Michelangelo, was an Italian sculptor, painter, architect, and poet of the High Renaissance. He was born in the Republic of Florence but was mostly active in Rome from his 30s onwards. His work was inspired by models from classical antiquity and had a lasting influence on Western art. Michelangelo's creative abilities and mastery in a range of artistic arenas define him as an archetypal Renaissance man, along with his rival and elder contemporary, Leonardo da Vinci. Given the sheer volume of surviving correspondence, sketches, and reminiscences, Michelangelo is one of the best-documented artists of the 16th century. He was lauded by contemporary biographers as the most accomplished artist of his era.

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06/03/1459

Jakob Fugger, German merchant and banker (died 1525)

Jakob Fugger of the Lily, also known as Jakob Fugger the Rich or sometimes Jakob II, was a major German merchant, mining entrepreneur, and banker. He was a descendant of the Fugger merchant family located in the Free Imperial City of Augsburg. He was born and later also elevated through marriage to Grand Burgher of Augsburg. Within a few decades, he expanded the family firm to a business operating in all of Europe. He began his education at the age of 14 in Venice, which also remained his main residence until 1487. At the same time, he was a cleric and held several prebends. American journalist Greg Steinmetz has estimated his overall wealth to be around 2% of the GDP of Europe at that time, the equivalent of around $400 billion adjusted to 2015.

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06/03/1405

John II of Castile (died 1454)

John II of Castile was King of Castile and León from 1406 to 1454. He succeeded his older sister, Maria of Castile, Queen of Aragon, as Prince of Asturias in 1405.

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06/03/1340

John of Gaunt (probable; d. 1399)

John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster, was an English prince, military leader and statesman. He was the fourth son of King Edward III, and the father of King Henry IV. Because of Gaunt's royal origin, advantageous marriages and some generous land grants, he was one of the richest men of his era and an influential figure during the reigns of both his father and his nephew, Richard II. As Duke of Lancaster, he is the founder of the royal House of Lancaster, whose members would ascend the throne after his death. His birthplace, Ghent in Flanders, then known in English as Gaunt, was the origin of his name.

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