Born on Friday, 7th November – Famous Birthdays
On this day, 270 notable people were born on 7th November — spanning from 630 to 2001. From world leaders to artists and scientists, discover who shares this birthday.
Amybeth McNulty, the Irish actress born on this date in 2001, represents a generation of performers who have risen to prominence through streaming platforms and international productions. McNulty gained widespread recognition for her role in the Netflix adaptation of Anne with an E, establishing herself as a versatile talent in both television and film. Her career trajectory reflects broader shifts in the entertainment industry toward digital distribution and global audience engagement.
On this day in history, significant figures and events have shaped various fields. Leon Trotsky, born in 1879, became a towering figure in Soviet history and revolutionary theory. The Russian theorist and politician founded the Red Army, leaving an indelible mark on twentieth-century geopolitics. Marie Curie, the pioneering Polish chemist and physicist born in 1867, broke barriers in scientific research and became the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, establishing herself as one of history’s most influential scientists.
Friday, 7th November 2025 falls under the zodiac sign of Scorpio, a period associated with transformation and intensity. The moon is in its waxing gibbous phase, approaching fullness. Weather conditions on this date show overcast skies with temperatures ranging between 8 and 12 degrees Celsius, typical of late autumn in the Northern Hemisphere.
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07/11/2001
Amybeth McNulty, Irish actress
Amybeth McNulty is an Irish and Canadian actress. She is known for her starring role as Anne Shirley in the CBC/Netflix drama series Anne with an E (2017–2019), based on the 1908 novel Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery, and for her role as Vickie in the Netflix Sci-Fi series Stranger Things (2022–2025).
07/11/2000
Callum Hudson-Odoi, English footballer
Callum James Hudson-Odoi is an English professional footballer who plays as a winger for Premier League club Nottingham Forest.
07/11/1999
Mink Nutcharut, Thai snooker player
Nutcharut Wongharuthai, better known as Mink Nutcharut, is a Thai snooker player who competes on both the professional World Snooker Tour and the World Women's Snooker Tour. She is the only woman known to have made a maximum break, having achieved the feat during a practice match in March 2019. She is, as of June 2025, number one in the world women's snooker rankings.
07/11/1998
Hongjoong, South Korean rapper, singer, producer, and songwriter
Kim Hong-joong, mononymously known as Hongjoong, is a South Korean rapper, singer, producer, and songwriter. He debuted as the leader of the South Korean boy band Ateez in 2018. As of March 2026, he has 178 songs credited under his name on the KOMCA.
Trevor Rainbolt, American social media personality
Trevor Rainbolt, known mononymously as Rainbolt, is an American social media personality and player of GeoGuessr, an online geography game. He initially gained popularity through posting GeoGuessr gameplay videos on TikTok, which often involved difficult challenges or self-imposed limitations, and often showed him making highly accurate guesses at high speeds. He posts videos on YouTube about the game and other geography-related topics.
07/11/1997
Erika Hendsel, Estonian tennis player
Erika Hendsel is a retired Estonian tennis player.
Nana Okada, Japanese singer
Nana Okada is a Japanese singer-songwriter and actor. She is a former member of the girl groups AKB48 and STU48. She was a fixture on AKB48's major single lineups from 2016 to 2022 and is considered one of the best singers to have been part of the group.
07/11/1996
Lorde, New Zealand singer-songwriter
Ella Marija Lani Yelich-O'Connor, known professionally as Lorde, is a New Zealand singer-songwriter. She is known for her unconventional style of pop music and introspective songwriting.
07/11/1994
Gervonta Davis, American boxer
Gervonta Bryant Davis, also known by his nickname "Tank", is an American professional boxer. He has held the International Boxing Federation (IBF) super featherweight title in 2017, the World Boxing Association (WBA) super featherweight title twice between 2018 and 2020, the WBA super lightweight title in 2021, the WBA lightweight title from 2023 to 2026, and regular version from 2019 to 2023.
Haruna Iikubo, Japanese singer and actress
Haruna Iikubo is a Japanese actress and former pop singer. She is a former tenth-generation member and sub-leader of the pop group Morning Musume and former model for the Japanese fashion magazine Love Berry.
Algee Smith, American actor and singer
Algee Smith IV is an American actor and singer. After appearing in several small television roles, Smith first rose to fame portraying Ralph Tresvant in BET's The New Edition Story miniseries. The same year, he garnered critical acclaim as Larry Reed in Kathryn Bigelow's film Detroit. He is also known for his role as football player Christopher "Chris" McKay in the HBO drama series Euphoria.
07/11/1992
Apisai Koroisau, Australian-Fijian rugby league player
Apisai Koroisau is an Australian-born Fijian international rugby league footballer who plays as a hooker and is the captain of the Wests Tigers in the National Rugby League (NRL).
07/11/1991
Felix Rosenqvist, Swedish race car driver
Karl Felix Helmer Rosenqvist is a Swedish professional racing driver who currently drives the No. 60 Honda for Meyer Shank Racing in the NTT IndyCar Series. He was named Rookie of the Year for the IndyCar Series in 2019.
07/11/1990
Daniel Ayala, Spanish footballer
Daniel Sánchez Ayala is a Spanish professional footballer who last played as a centre-back for Potters Bar Town. His first club was Premier League club Liverpool. He joined Norwich City in 2011, and joined Middlesbrough on loan in October 2013, before joining the club on a permanent deal in January 2014. He joined Blackburn Rovers soon after a few years.
Matt Corby, Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist
Matthew John Corby is an Australian singer-songwriter. He achieved his commercial breakthrough with his fourth EP, Into the Flame (2011), which peaked at No. 3 on the ARIA Singles Chart, and by April 2012, was certified 6× Platinum by ARIA. His 2011 single "Brother" and his 2013 single "Resolution" both won ARIA Music Awards for Song of the Year. Corby has released four studio albums, Telluric (2016), Rainbow Valley (2018), Everything's Fine (2023) and Tragic Magic (2026).
David de Gea, Spanish footballer
David de Gea Quintana is a Spanish professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for and captains Serie A club Fiorentina. He is regarded as one of the best goalkeepers of his generation.
Joelle Hadjia, Australian singer-songwriter
Joanne Hadjia, known professionally as Joey Djia, is an Australian singer. She is first known as a contestant in the fourth season of The X Factor Australia, where she performed as part of the duo Good Question, and later in the show's fifth season as a solo act.
07/11/1989
Sonny Gray, American baseball player
Sonny Douglas Gray is an American professional baseball pitcher for the Boston Red Sox of Major League Baseball (MLB). He has previously played in MLB for the Oakland Athletics, New York Yankees, Cincinnati Reds, Minnesota Twins, and St. Louis Cardinals.
Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, Russian singer and political activist
Nadezhda Andreyevna "Nadya" Tolokonnikova is a Russian musician, conceptual artist, and political activist. She is a founding member of the feminist group Pussy Riot, and has a history of political activism with the street art group Voina.
07/11/1988
Alexandr Dolgopolov, Ukrainian tennis player
Alexandr Dolgopolov, formerly known as Oleksandr Dolgopolov Jr., is a Ukrainian retired professional tennis player. He changed his forename spelling to the current form in May 2010. Dolgopolov reached the quarterfinals of the 2011 Australian Open and achieved a career-high singles ranking of World No. 13 in January 2012.
Simone Favaro, Italian rugby player
Simone Favaro is a retired Italian international rugby union player. He made his debut for Italy against Australia on 20 June 2009. He formerly played for Glasgow Warriors and Treviso in the Pro12. Favaro plays at flanker.
Gani Lawal, Nigerian-American basketball player
Gani Oladimeji Lawal Jr. is a Nigerian-American professional basketball player. He played college basketball for Georgia Tech.
Thomas Schneider, German sprinter
Thomas Schneider is a German sprint athlete.
Tinie Tempah, English rapper and producer
Patrick Chukwuemeka Okogwu, better known by his stage name Tinie Tempah, is an English rapper and singer. Born and raised in London, he created his own entertainment company Disturbing London in 2006, alongside Dumi Oburota. After signing with Parlophone in 2009 and releasing several mixtapes, he rose to fame with the UK number-one singles "Pass Out" and "Written in the Stars" in 2010.
07/11/1987
Mitch Brown, Australian rugby league player
Mitchell Ronald Edwin Brown is a former Australian professional footballer who played for the Warrington Wolves in the Super League. He previously played for the Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs, the Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks, the Leigh Centurions and the Wests Tigers.
Marek Semjan, Slovak tennis player
Marek Semjan is a Slovak tennis player playing on the ATP Challenger Tour. On 30 August 2010, he reached his highest ATP singles ranking of 218.
07/11/1986
Andy Hull, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
John Andrew Hull is an American singer, musician and songwriter. He serves as the lead vocalist, rhythm guitarist, and primary songwriter of the indie rock band Manchester Orchestra. He also has a side project, Right Away, Great Captain!, and co-founded another project with his friend and folk musician Kevin Devine by the name of Bad Books. Hull is also co-president of Manchester Orchestra's label, Favorite Gentlemen.
David Nelson, American football player
David Alan Nelson is an American former professional football player who was a wide receiver in the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Florida Gators, where he was a member of two BCS National Championship teams. He was signed by the Buffalo Bills as an undrafted free agent in 2010, and also played for the New York Jets.
Doukissa Nomikou, Greek model and television host
Doukissa Nomikou is a Greek TV host, model and beauty pageant titleholder. She was crowned Star Hellas 2007 and represented her country at the Miss Universe 2007 pageant in Mexico.
07/11/1985
Sebastian Aldén, Swedish motorcycle racer
Sebastian Carl Aldén is a triathlete and former motorcycle speedway rider from Sweden.
Darnell Jackson, American basketball player
Darnell Edred Jackson is an American former professional basketball player, who is currently an assistant coach for the San Diego Clippers of the NBA G League and plays in the Big 3 League for the Detroit Amplifiers. He played college basketball for the University of Kansas for four seasons, including the 2008 national championship team. He did not become a regular starter at Kansas until the 2007–08 season, when he replaced Sasha Kaun in the starting lineup.
Lucas Neff, American actor
Lucas Neff is an American actor. Known primarily for his work in television, Neff received mainstream recognition for his lead role as James "Jimmy" Chance on the Fox sitcom Raising Hope (2010–2014).
07/11/1984
Mihkel Aksalu, Estonian footballer
Mihkel Aksalu is a former Estonian professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper.
Jonathan Bornstein, American-Israeli soccer player
Jonathan Rey Bornstein is an American former professional soccer player who played as a left-back. He has captained and made 38 appearances for the United States national team. In addition to also playing for Chivas USA in Major League Soccer, he has played in Liga MX and in the Israeli Premier League. He won a silver medal with Team USA at the 2005 Maccabiah Games, in Israel.
Gervais Randrianarisoa, Malagasy footballer
Mamy Gervais Nirina Randrianarisoa is a Malagasy footballer who plays as a centre back for Réunionnais club JS Saint-Pierroise and the Madagascar national team.
Amelia Vega, Dominican actress and singer, Miss Universe 2003
Amelia Patricia Vega Polanco is a Dominican actress, model, author, singer and beauty queen. At the age of 18, she won the Miss Universe 2003 pageant, becoming the first ever Miss Universe from the Dominican Republic, as well as the youngest winner since 1994.
07/11/1983
Adam DeVine, American actor, comedian, screenwriter, producer, and singer
Adam Patrick DeVine is an American comedian, actor, producer and screenwriter. He is one of the stars and co-creators of the Comedy Central comedy television series Workaholics and Adam DeVine's House Party.
Forrest Kline, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
Forrest Scott Kline is an American musician, singer, songwriter, and guitarist. He is the lead vocalist of the power pop band Hellogoodbye.
Patrick Thoresen, Norwegian ice hockey player
Patrick Thoresen is a Norwegian former professional ice hockey left winger who last played for Djurgårdens IF of the Swedish Hockey League. He has a younger brother, Steffen who's also an ice hockey player. His father Petter was one of Norway's players who played at five Olympic Winter Games (1980–1994). Thoresen would follow in his father's footsteps and play in the Winter Olympics in Vancouver 2010 and Sochi 2014.
Esmerling Vásquez, Dominican baseball player
Esmerling de Jesús Vásquez is a Dominican former professional baseball pitcher. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Arizona Diamondbacks and Minnesota Twins and in Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) for the Saitama Seibu Lions.
07/11/1982
Pascal Leclaire, Canadian ice hockey player
Pascal Leclaire is a Canadian former professional ice hockey goaltender. Leclaire was selected in the first round of the 2001 NHL Entry Draft by the Columbus Blue Jackets and played in the Blue Jackets' organization for seven seasons. He was traded to the Ottawa Senators in 2009 and played in 48 regular season games with Ottawa over two seasons before retiring. Internationally, he has represented Canada on the national junior and men's teams.
07/11/1981
Muhammad Hassan, American wrestler and educator
Marc Julian Copani is an American retired professional wrestler and educator. He is best known for his appearances in World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) from 2004 to 2005, where he portrayed an Arab American under the ring name Muhammad Hassan. His career came to an abrupt end when a controversial terrorist angle coincided with the London bombings of July 7, 2005, leading the television network UPN to pressure WWE to remove Copani's character from television. Following his departure from WWE, he stopped wrestling, instead working as an educator. Copani returned to wrestling in 2018 at The Dynasty event King of Thrones.
Nana Katase, Japanese model, actress, and singer
Nana Katase is a Japanese actress, singer, and fashion model. She is known for acting in Death Note 2: The Last Name (2006), Arakawa Under the Bridge (2010) and 20th Century Boys 1: Beginning of the End (2008).
Anushka Shetty, Indian actress
Sweety Shetty, known professionally as Anushka Shetty, is an Indian actress known for her works in Telugu and Tamil cinema. With a career spanning over two decades as a lead actress in a variety of roles, Shetty is popularly referred to as "Queen of South Indian cinema" in the media. One of the highest-paid actresses in India, she is the recipient of three Filmfare Awards South, two Nandi Awards, two SIIMA Awards and one Tamil Nadu State Film Award. Shetty was honoured with Kalaimamani in 2010 by the Government of Tamil Nadu.
Rina Uchiyama, Japanese actress and model
Rina Uchiyama is a Japanese actress and idol.
07/11/1980
Sergio Almirón, Argentinian footballer
Sergio Bernardo Almirón is an Argentine former footballer who played as a central midfielder known for his passing and powerful shots.
Gervasio Deferr, Spanish gymnast
Gervasio Deferr Ángel is a Spanish former artistic gymnast who competed at three Olympic Games. He is a two-time Olympic champion on the vault and an Olympic silver medalist on the floor exercise (2008). He is also the 1999 and 2007 World silver medalist on the floor exercise.
James Franklin, New Zealand cricketer
James Edward Charles Franklin is a New Zealand cricket coach and former cricketer, who played all forms of the game internationally.
Karthik, Indian singer-songwriter
Karthik is an Indian playback singer and composer. Karthik started his professional singing career as a backing vocalist and has since been working as a playback singer. He has sung more than 8000 songs in 15+ Indian languages including Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, Odia, Bengali, Marathi and Hindi.
Luciana Salazar, Argentinian model, actress, and singer
Luciana Salazar is an Argentine model, actress, dancer and businesswoman.
07/11/1979
Mike Commodore, Canadian ice hockey player
Michael W. Commodore is a Canadian former professional ice hockey defenceman. Commodore played for several teams in the National Hockey League (NHL). In 2006, he won the Stanley Cup as part of the Carolina Hurricanes. Commodore was selected by the New Jersey Devils in the second round of the 1999 NHL entry draft.
Will Demps, American football player
William Henry Demps Jr. is an American former professional football player who was a safety in the National Football League (NFL). He played college football at San Diego State and was signed by the Baltimore Ravens as an undrafted free agent in 2002.
Danny Fonseca, Costa Rican footballer
Danny Alberto Fonseca Bravo is a Costa Rican professional football coach and a former midfielder. He is an assistant coach with Cartaginés.
Barney Harwood, English television host and actor
Barnaby John Harwood is an English actor and television presenter. He is known for his work with CBBC beginning in 2002.
Jon Peter Lewis, American singer-songwriter and actor
Jon Peter Lewis is an American singer and songwriter, and was one of the finalists on the third season of the reality/talent-search television series American Idol. He was frequently referred to by the judges and Ryan Seacrest as JPL.
Amy Purdy, American actress, model and snowboarder
Amy Michelle Purdy is an American actress, model, para-snowboarder, motivational speaker, fashion designer and author. Purdy is a 2014 Paralympic bronze medalist, 2018 Paralympics silver medalist, and co-founder of Adaptive Action Sports.
Joey Ryan, American wrestler
Joseph Ryan Meehan, is an American actor, writer, producer, former professional wrestler, and promoter.
Otep Shamaya, American singer-songwriter and actress
Otep Shamaya is an American former singer and rapper, best known as the lead vocalist and founder of the eponymous metal band Otep.
07/11/1978
Mohamed Aboutrika, Egyptian footballer
Mohamed Mohamed Mohamed Aboutrika and known as Mohamed Aboutrika is an Egyptian retired professional footballer who played as an attacking midfielder and a forward. He was voted first place in the African Footballer of the Year award in 2008, and was one of five nominees for the 2006 award, and one of the ten nominated for the 2013 award. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest African and Arab players of all time.
Elisabeth Bachman, American volleyball player and coach
Elisabeth Anne "Wiz" Bachman is an American retired volleyball player who represented the United States at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece. There she finished in fifth place with the USA National Team.
Rio Ferdinand, English footballer
Rio Gavin Ferdinand is an English former professional footballer who played as a centre-back, and was a television pundit for TNT Sports, for ten years. He played 81 times for the England national team between 1997 and 2011, and was a member of three FIFA World Cup squads. He is one of the most decorated English footballers of all time, regarded by many as one of England's greatest ever defenders.
Tomoya Nagase, Japanese singer-songwriter
Tomoya Nagase is a Japanese singer-songwriter, actor, and model. He was a member of Tokio, a Johnny & Associates musical group. He was the primary vocalist, in addition to playing the guitar alongside Tokio's leader, Shigeru Joshima.
Barry Robson, Scottish footballer
Barry Gordon George Robson is a Scottish professional football manager and former player. Robson played as a midfielder for several clubs in Scotland, England and Canada and represented Scotland internationally. He is currently the manager of League of Ireland First Division club Cork City.
Jan Vennegoor of Hesselink, Dutch footballer
Johannes "Jan" Vennegoor of Hesselink is a Dutch former professional footballer who played as a striker.
07/11/1977
Lindsay Czarniak, American journalist and sportscaster
Lindsay Ann Czarniak is an American sports anchor and reporter. She formerly worked for Fox Sports as a sideline reporter for NFL games. After spending six years with WRC-TV, the NBC owned-and-operated station in Washington, D.C., Czarniak joined ESPN as a SportsCenter anchor in August 2011 and left ESPN in 2017.
Andres Oper, Estonian footballer
Andres Oper is an Estonian football coach and former professional player. With 38 goals in 134 appearances, Oper is Estonia's all-time record goalscorer.
María Sánchez Lorenzo, Spanish tennis player
María Antonia Sánchez Lorenzo is a former professional tennis player from Spain.
Anthony Thomas, American football player and coach
Anthony "A-Train" Thomas is an American former professional football player who was a running back for seven seasons in the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Michigan Wolverines from 1997 to 2000, breaking their career rushing record at the time with a four-year total of 4,472 yards. As a senior he rushed for 1,733 yards with 18 touchdowns, and was selected as a first-team All-Big Ten running back.
07/11/1976
Rob Caggiano, American guitarist and producer
Robert Caggiano is an American guitarist and record producer. He was the lead guitarist of the Danish rock band Volbeat from 2013 to 2023 and of thrash metal band Anthrax from 2001 to 2005 and 2007 to 2013. He was also a member of nu metal band Boiler Room.
Mark Philippoussis, Australian tennis player and model
Mark Anthony Philippoussis is an Australian tennis coach, commentator and former professional tennis player of Greek and Italian descent. Philippoussis' greatest achievements are winning two Davis Cup titles with Australia in 1999 and 2003, winning the deciding rubber in the final of each. He also reached the final of the 1998 US Open and the 2003 Wimbledon singles tournaments. Philippoussis reached a career-high singles ranking of world No. 8.
07/11/1975
Venkat Prabhu, Indian actor, director, and screenwriter
Venkat Kumar Gangai Amaren, better known by his stage name Venkat Prabhu, is an Indian film director, actor and playback singer in Tamil cinema. After completing his education, he began pursuing an acting career, with his first three ventures featuring him in a starring role, failing to release, following which he began appearing in character roles.
07/11/1974
Kris Benson, American baseball player
Kristin James Benson is an American former Major League Baseball starting pitcher who played for several teams between 1999 and 2010.
Brigitte Foster-Hylton, Jamaican hurdler
Brigitte Ann Foster-Hylton, née Brigitte Ann Foster, is a Jamaican 100 m hurdler. She was the World Champion over 100 m hurdles in 2009.
Christian Gómez, Argentinian footballer
Christian Gómez is an Argentine former professional footballer who played as a midfielder.
Chris Summers, Norwegian drummer
Christer Engen, also known by his stage name Chris Summers, is a Norwegian musician best known as the drummer for rock bands Turbonegro, Bigbang and Euroboys. Engen was a founding member of Bigbang and played with the band from 1992 to 1997. He left Bigbang to join Turbonegro in 1997 and released four studio albums with the band until his departure in 2008. He is currently a member of the soft rock band Lady Friend.
07/11/1973
Catê, Brazilian footballer and manager (died 2011)
Marco Antônio Lemos Tozzi, commonly known as Catê, was a Brazilian professional footballer who played for clubs of Brazil, Chile, Italy, the United States and Venezuela.
Yunjin Kim, South Korean-American actress
Yunjin Kim is a South Korean and American actress. She is best known for her role as North Korean spy Bang-Hee in the South Korean film Shiri (1999) and Sun-Hwa Kwon on the American television series Lost (2004–2010). Her other notable works include Seven Days (2007), Harmony (2010), and Ode to My Father (2014).
Martín Palermo, Argentinian footballer and manager
Martín Palermo is an Argentine football manager and former player who played as a striker.
07/11/1972
Danny Grewcock, English rugby player
Daniel Jonathan Grewcock MBE is an English former rugby union player who played as a lock. He played for Coventry, Saracens and Bath. He won 69 caps for England and five for the British & Irish Lions.
Jason London, American actor and producer
Jason Paul London is an American actor, known for his roles as Randall "Pink" Floyd in director Richard Linklater's film Dazed and Confused (1993), Bobby Ray in To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar (1995), Jesse in The Rage: Carrie 2 (1999), and Rick Rambis in Out Cold (2001).
Jeremy London, American actor and producer
Jeremy Michael London is an American actor. He is best known for his regular roles on Party of Five, 7th Heaven, and I'll Fly Away, a starring role in the 1995 comedy film Mallrats, as well as a notable supporting role in the Civil War epic Gods and Generals. London made his directorial debut with the 2013 horror film The Devil's Dozen, in which he also appeared.
Hasim Rahman, American boxer
Hasim Sharif Rahman is an American former professional boxer who competed from 1994 to 2014. He is a two-time world heavyweight champion, having held the unified WBC, IBF, IBO and lineal titles in 2001; and the WBC title again from 2005 to 2006. He was ranked as a top 10 heavyweight by BoxRec from 2000 to 2007, and reached his highest ranking of world No.6 in 2000.
Marcus Stewart, English footballer and coach
William Marcus Paul Stewart is an English former professional footballer who played as a forward from 1991 until 2011.
07/11/1971
Robin Finck, American guitarist and songwriter
Robert John "Robin" Finck is an American guitarist. Finck is the longest-serving touring musician for Nine Inch Nails, performing with the band from 1994 to 2000, and returning in 2008. With Nine Inch Nails, Finck contributed studio performances on The Slip (2008).
Matthew Ryan, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
Matthew Ryan is an American musician, singer and songwriter, born in Chester, Pennsylvania and inspired by such artists as U2, The Replacements, and Leonard Cohen. He logged several years in a series of bands before signing with A&M Records as a solo artist in 1996. No Depression magazine has described him as "Equal parts Springsteen, Westerberg and Ryan Adams, Ryan is a powerhouse of a storyteller for almost two decades. A forefather of the Alt-country scene, Ryan has yet to receive as much commercial success as some of his contemporaries." Ryan is known for his "hushed rasp, with words catching like vows destined to be broken – one of modern music's most potent whispers."
Trivikram Srinivas, Indian director and screenwriter
Trivikram Srinivas is an Indian film director and screenwriter known for his work in Telugu cinema. Recognised for his witty dialogues, humour, and philosophical themes, he is one of the highest-paid directors in Indian cinema. He has received six Nandi Awards for Best Dialogue Writer and two Filmfare Awards for Best Director. In 2015, he received the BN Reddy National Award for his contributions to Indian cinema.
07/11/1970
Andy Houston, American race car driver
Andrew Houston is an American stock car racing spotter and former driver. He is a veteran of the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series, scoring three wins.
Marc Rosset, Swiss-Monacan tennis player
Marc Rosset is a Swiss former professional tennis player. He is best known for winning the men's singles gold medal at the 1992 Summer Olympics. He also won a major doubles title, at the French Open in 1992 partnering compatriot Jakob Hlasek. Rosset's career-high ATP singles ranking was world No. 9, and his career-high doubles ranking was No. 8. He won a total of 15 top-level singles titles and eight doubles titles. He won at least one singles title on all surfaces: clay, grass, carpet, and hardcourt.
Morgan Spurlock, American director, producer, and screenwriter (died 2024)
Morgan Valentine Spurlock was an American documentary filmmaker, writer and television producer. He directed 23 films and was the producer of nearly 70 films throughout his career. Spurlock received acclaim for directing the documentary Super Size Me (2004), which was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature Film. He produced What Would Jesus Buy? (2007) and directed Where in the World Is Osama bin Laden? (2008), POM Wonderful Presents: The Greatest Movie Ever Sold (2011), Comic-Con Episode IV: A Fan's Hope (2011), and One Direction: This Is Us (2013).
Paul Ware, English footballer (died 2013)
Paul David Ware was an English footballer who played in the Football League for Cardiff City, Macclesfield Town, Nuneaton Borough, Rochdale, Stockport County and Stoke City.
07/11/1969
Michelle Clunie, American actress
Michelle Renee Clunie is an American actress and former ballet dancer. A native of Portland, Oregon, Clunie studied ballet from an early age, earning a scholarship at the Academy of Professional Ballet. In 1992, she starred in a Los Angeles–based production of A Comedy of Eros, for which she won a Drama-Logue Award for Best Actress, before making her film debut in the slasher film Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday (1993).
Hélène Grimaud, French pianist
Hélène Rose Paule Grimaud is a French classical pianist and the founder of the Wolf Conservation Center in South Salem, New York.
Michel Picard, Canadian ice hockey player and scout
Michel Daniel Picard is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player. Picard played in the National Hockey League with the Hartford Whalers, San Jose Sharks, Ottawa Senators, St. Louis Blues, Edmonton Oilers, and Philadelphia Flyers. As of 2018, he serves as an amateur scout for the Blues.
07/11/1968
Russ Springer, American baseball player
Russell Paul Springer is an American former Major League Baseball relief pitcher. Springer made his major league debut on April 17, 1992, with the New York Yankees. He also pitched for the California Angels, Philadelphia Phillies, Arizona Diamondbacks, Atlanta Braves, Houston Astros, St. Louis Cardinals, Oakland Athletics, and Cincinnati Reds. He was a member of the Arizona Diamondbacks when they won the 2001 World Series, and was a member of the Houston Astros when they went to the World Series in 2005.
07/11/1967
Steve Di Giorgio, American bass player
Steve Di Giorgio is an American bassist. He is known for his work with numerous heavy metal bands such as Sadus, Death, Testament, Megadeth, Sebastian Bach, Iced Earth, Autopsy, Obituary, Control Denied, Dragonlord and Charred Walls of the Damned, and he has performed on over 50 albums as a guest, session or full-time band musician.
David Guetta, French DJ, record producer, remixer, and songwriter
Pierre David Guetta is a French DJ and record producer. He has sold over 10 million albums and 65 million singles globally, with more than 30 billion streams on Spotify. Guetta was voted the number one DJ in the DJ Mag Top 100 DJs polls in 2011, 2020, 2021, 2023 and 2025. In 2013, Billboard ranked his song "When Love Takes Over" as the number one dance-pop collaboration of all time.
Hikaru Ijūin, Japanese radio host
Hikaru Ijūin , real name Ken Shinooka, formerly Ken Tanaka, born 7 November 1967, is a Japanese comedian, radio personality, computer game reviewer, and commentator. He was born in Kita, Tokyo. He is married to former idol Mika Shinooka.
Rafael Herbert Reyes, Dominican wrestler
Rafael Herbert Reyes is a Dominican born professional wrestler, who has worked most of his career as a Luchador in Mexico. Reyes has used many ring names during his career, most notably Kendo Star, El Salsero, Pierko el Boricua and currently wrestles as the enmascarado Hijo del Pierroth or El Limón. Reyes is a former holder of the Mexican National Welterweight Championship, having won it as "El Salsero" while working for the Asistencia Asesoría y Administración (AAA) promotion. Reyes changed his name from Hijo del Pierroth to Pierko el Boricua after Pierroth, Jr. withdrew his endorsement for the various Pierroths in wrestling.
Sharleen Spiteri, Scottish singer-songwriter and actress
Sharleen Eugene Spiteri is a Scottish singer–songwriter and guitarist who has a contralto vocal range, best known as the lead singer of the rock band Texas, who rose to prominence in 1989 with the release of their debut single "I Don't Want a Lover". Their debut album, Southside (1989) was a commercial success, selling over two million copies. Follow up albums were less successful; however, the release of their fourth album White on Blonde (1997) returned the band to prominence, spawning the internationally successful singles "Say What You Want", "Halo", "Black Eyed Boy" and "Put Your Arms Around Me". Their commercial success continued during the late 1990s and into the early 2000s, with singles "In Our Lifetime", "Summer Son", "In Demand" and "Inner Smile". Following the release of their seventh album Red Book (2005), the band began a hiatus. In 2013, Texas's worldwide album sales were counted at 40 million records.
07/11/1966
Calvin Borel, American jockey
Calvin H. Borel is an American jockey in thoroughbred horse racing and rode the victorious mount in the 2007 Kentucky Derby, the 2009 Kentucky Derby and the 2010 Kentucky Derby. His 2009 Derby win with Mine That Bird was the third biggest upset in Derby history,, and Borel's winning margin of 6+3⁄4 lengths was the greatest in Derby history since Assault won by 8 lengths in 1946. On May 1, 2009, Borel won the Kentucky Oaks aboard Rachel Alexandra, only the second time since 1993 that a jockey has won the Oaks-Derby combo, and just the seventh time overall a jockey has accomplished this feat in the same year. On May 16, 2009, Borel won the 2009 Preakness Stakes at Pimlico with thoroughbred filly Rachel Alexandra. In doing so, Borel became the first jockey to win the first two jewels of the Triple Crown on different mounts. Borel's nickname is "Bo'rail'" due to his penchant for riding close to the rail to save ground. Borel came out of retirement in September, 2025 https://www.cantonrep.com/embed/video/88904910/
07/11/1965
Steve Parkin, English footballer and manager
Stephen John Parkin is an English football manager and former player who played as a defender. As of 2021, he serves as the assistant manager at Wrexham. He played for Mansfield Town, Stoke City and West Bromwich Albion and has been manager of Barnsley, Mansfield Town and Rochdale.
Sigrun Wodars, German runner and physiotherapist
Sigrun Grau is a former East German middle distance athlete who was born in Neu Kaliß, Bezirk Schwerin.
Francis Takirwa, Ugandan general (died 2026)
Major General Francis Takirwa was a Ugandan military officer who, at the time of his death, served as the deputy commander of the UPDF Land Forces. He had previously served as the commanding officer of the Second Division of the Uganda People's Defence Forces, based in the city of Mbarara in the Western Region of Uganda.
07/11/1964
Troy Beyer, American actress, director, and screenwriter
Troy Byer is an American psychologist, author, director, screenwriter, and actress. For most of her acting career she was credited as Troy Beyer.
Philip Hollobone, English politician
Philip Thomas Hollobone is a former British Conservative Party politician and former investment banker. He was the Member of Parliament for Kettering from the 2005 general election to the 2024 general election.
Liam Ó Maonlaí, Irish keyboard player and songwriter
Liam Ó Maonlaí is an Irish musician best known as a member of Hothouse Flowers. Ó Maonlaí formed the band in 1985 with his schoolmate Fiachna Ó Braonáin.
Dana Plato, American actress (died 1999)
Dana Michelle Plato was an American actress. She rose to fame for playing Kimberly Drummond on the sitcom Diff'rent Strokes (1978–1986), which established her as a teen idol of the late 1970s and early 1980s.
Bonnie St. John, American skier and scholar
Bonnie St. John is an American former Paralympic skier, author, and public speaker. St. John had her right leg amputated below the knee when she was 5 years old. Despite these challenges, she went on to excel as an athlete, a scholar, a mother and a businesswoman. She is the first African-American to win medals in Winter Paralympic competition as a ski racer, and the first African-American to medal in any paralympic event. St. John earned bronze and silver medals in several alpine skiing events during the 1984 Winter Paralympics. After graduating from Harvard and earning a Rhodes Scholarship, St. John went on to successful corporate career, first in sales with IBM, then as a corporate consultant. She has also written six books, including one each with her daughter Darcy, and her husband, Allen P. Haines.
07/11/1963
John Barnes, Jamaican-English footballer and manager
John Charles Bryan Barnes is a former professional football player and manager. Often considered one of the greatest England players of all time and one of Liverpool's greatest ever players, Barnes works as an author, as well as a commentator and pundit for ESPN and SuperSport. Initially he was a quick and skilful left winger, then he moved to central midfield later in his career. Barnes won two League titles and two FA Cups with Liverpool. He also earned 79 international caps for England.
Sam Graves, American farmer and politician
Samuel Bruce Graves Jr. is an American politician who is currently serving in the U.S. House of Representatives for Missouri's 6th congressional district, with him being the dean of Missouri's congressional delegation upon the retirement of Senator Roy Blunt in 2023, and having held office since 2001. The aforementioned district stretches across most of the northern third of the state, with it including territory from the Kansas border to the Illinois border. The bulk of its population lives in the northern part of the Kansas City metropolitan area.
07/11/1962
Tracie Savage, American actress and journalist
Tracie Savage is an American actress and journalist. She has starred in movies and on television.
Dirk Shafer, American model, actor, and director (died 2015)
Dirk Alan Shafer was an American model, actor, screenwriter and director. Born in Carbondale, Illinois, he was most noted in the modeling world for having been Playgirl magazine's 1992 "Man of the Year". Shafer related that he did Playgirl for "validation" as a model because he never believed himself to be attractive. Shafer wrote, directed and starred in Man of the Year, a 1995 mockumentary about his time as a semi-closeted gay man in the role of a heterosexual sex symbol. Shafer's next directorial project was Circuit, a fictional look at the world of gay male circuit parties.
07/11/1961
Orlando Mercado, American baseball player and coach
Orlando Mercado Rodríguez is a Puerto Rican former professional baseball player. He played all or parts of eight seasons in Major League Baseball with the Seattle Mariners, Texas Rangers, Detroit Tigers, Los Angeles Dodgers, Oakland Athletics, Minnesota Twins, New York Mets, and Montreal Expos. From 2003 to 2010, he was the bullpen coach for the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim. After the 2010 season, Mercado moved to the position of roving catching instructor for the Angels.
07/11/1960
Tommy Thayer, American guitarist and songwriter
Thomas Cunningham Thayer is an American musician. Thayer was the lead guitarist and vocalist for the hard rock band Kiss from 2002 to 2023. He was also the lead guitarist for the band Black 'n Blue.
Shyamaprasad, Indian filmmaker
Shyamaprasad is an Indian filmmaker, screenwriter and actor who works in Malayalam films.
07/11/1959
Billy Gillispie, American basketball player and coach
Billy Clyde Gillispie, also known by his initials BCG and Billy Clyde, is an American college basketball who was most recently the men's basketball coach at Tarleton State. Gillispie has previously been head coach at UTEP, Texas A&M, Kentucky, and Texas Tech.
Alexandre Guimarães, Brazilian-Costa Rican footballer and manager
Alexandre Henrique Borges Guimarães is a football manager and former player who played as a midfielder. Born in Brazil, he played for the Costa Rica national team.
07/11/1958
Dmitry Kozak, Russian politician; Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation
Dmitry Nikolayevich Kozak is a Russian politician who served as the Deputy Kremlin Chief of Staff from January 2020 to September 2025. He previously served as the Vice Prime Minister from 2008 to 2020. He has the federal state civilian service rank of 1st class Active State Councillor of the Russian Federation.
07/11/1957
John Benitez, American DJ, songwriter, and producer
John Benitez, also known as Jellybean, is an American musician, songwriter, DJ, remixer, and music producer. He has produced and remixed artists such as Madonna, Whitney Houston, Michael Jackson, and the Pointer Sisters. He was later the executive producer of Studio 54 Radio. In December 2016, Billboard magazine ranked him as the 99th most successful dance artist of all-time.
King Kong Bundy, American wrestler (died 2019)
Christopher Alan Pallies was an American professional wrestler, stand-up comedian and actor better known by the ring name, King Kong Bundy. Under this gimmick, he portrayed a pugnacious, trash-talking villain character.
Christopher Knight, American actor
Christopher Anton Knight is an American actor and businessman. He is best known for playing Peter Brady in the 1970s series The Brady Bunch. He has since gone on to become a businessman and enjoyed a semi-resurgence in the public eye with television appearances in the 2000s.
07/11/1956
Mikhail Alperin, Ukrainian pianist and composer (died 2018)
Michail Jefimowitsch Alperin, usually credited as Misha Alperin, was a Soviet-Norwegian jazz pianist, known as a key member of the Moscow Art Trio.
Jonathan Palmer, English race car driver and businessman
Jonathan Charles Palmer is a British former racing driver, motorsport executive, and broadcaster, who competed in Formula One from 1983 to 1989.
Judy Tenuta, American comedian, actress, and comedy musician (died 2022)
Judy Lynn Tenuta was an American comedian, actress, and comedy musician. She was known for her whimsical and brash persona of "The Love Goddess", mixing insult comedy, observational humor, self-promotion, and bawdy onstage antics. Throughout her career, Tenuta built a niche but devoted following, particularly among members of the LGBTQ community. Tenuta wrote two comedy books, and received two nominations for the Grammy Award for Best Comedy Album.
07/11/1954
James Gray, Scottish politician
James Gray, CStJ is a British politician who served as the Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) for North Wiltshire from 1997 to 2024.
Kamal Haasan, Tamil actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
Kamal Haasan is an Indian filmmaker and politician, currently serving as a Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha for Tamil Nadu. He is an actor, director, producer, screenwriter, playback singer and lyricist who works primarily in Tamil cinema. He has also worked as an assistant director, choreographer, editor, make-up artist, narrator, television host, and a distributor of films. He founded a magazine, Maiam, which he edited, and has written over 100 poems and some books. He has made over 250 films in Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Hindi, Kannada and Bengali. He was given the Kalaimamani in 1978, the Padma Shri in 1990, the Padma Bhushan in 2014, and the Order of Arts and Letters (Chevalier) by the Government of France in 2016. He was invited by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in 2025 to become a member of its actors' branch."
Guy Gavriel Kay, Canadian lawyer and author
Guy Gavriel Kay is a Canadian writer of fantasy fiction. The majority of his novels take place in fictional settings that resemble real places during real historical periods, such as Constantinople during the reign of Justinian I or Spain during the time of El Cid. Kay has expressed a preference to avoid genre categorization of these works as historical fantasy. As of 2025, Kay has published 16 novels and a book of poetry. As of 2018, his fiction has been translated into at least 22 languages. Kay is also a qualified lawyer in Canada.
Gil Junger, American director, producer, and screenwriter
Gil Junger is an American film and television director. He is best known for directing 10 Things I Hate About You (1999), his directorial film debut. He is a 1972 graduate of the Trinity-Pawling School in Pawling, New York.
07/11/1953
Maire Aunaste, Estonian journalist and author
Maire Aunaste is an Estonian journalist and politician. In 2015, she was elected to the 13th Riigikogu, representing the Pro Patria and Res Publica Union party.
Erik Balke, Norwegian saxophonist and composer
Erik Balke is a Norwegian jazz musician (saxophone), known as leader of the "Lille Frøen Saksofonkvartett" with Vidar Johansen, Arne Frang and Odd Riisnæs/Tore Brunborg/Olav Dale, as member of his younger brother Jon Balke's early orchestras, and for cooperations with Don Cherry, Ed Blackwell, Per Jørgensen, Audun Kleive, Nils Petter Molvær, Torbjørn Sunde, Tore Brunborg, Paolo Vinaccia, and Bugge Wesseltoft.
Christopher Foster, English bishop
Christopher Richard James Foster is a retired Anglican bishop who served as Bishop of Portsmouth in the Church of England from 2010 to 2021.
Lucinda Green, English equestrian and journalist
Lucinda Jane Green is a British equestrian and journalist who competed in eventing. She is the 1982 World Champion and twice European Champion (1975–77). She also won World team Gold (1982), three European team golds and an Olympic silver medal in the team event in 1984. Between 1973 and 1984, she won a record six times at the Badminton Horse Trials. She also won the Burghley Horse Trials in 1977 and 1981. She was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 1978 Birthday Honours for services to Horse Riding.
07/11/1952
David Petraeus, American general, Director of the Central Intelligence Agency
David Howell Petraeus is a retired United States Army general who served as the fourth director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) from September 2011 until his resignation in November 2012. Prior to his assuming the directorship of the CIA, Petraeus served 37 years in the United States Army. His last assignments in the Army were as commander of the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) and commander, U.S. Forces – Afghanistan (USFOR-A) from July 2010 to July 2011. His other four-star assignments include serving as the 10th commander, U.S. Central Command (USCENTCOM) from October 2008 to June 2010, and as commanding general, Multi-National Force – Iraq (MNF-I) from February 2007 to September 2008. As commander of MNF-I, Petraeus oversaw all coalition forces in Iraq.
Modibo Sidibé, Sudanese–Malian police officer and politician, Prime Minister of Mali
Modibo Sidibé is a Malian politician who was Prime Minister of Mali from September 2007 to April 2011.
Valeriy Zuyev, Ukrainian footballer and manager (died 2016)
Valeriy Zuyev was a Ukrainian football player and coach.
07/11/1951
Gerard F. Gilmore, New Zealand astronomer and academic
Gerard Francis Gilmore FRS FRAS FInstP is Emeritus Professor of Experimental Philosophy, in the Institute of Astronomy, at the University of Cambridge. His research has centred on studying stars in the Galaxy to understand its structure and evolutionary history.
Kevin MacMichael, Canadian guitarist, songwriter, and record producer (died 2002)
Kevin Scott Macmichael was a Canadian guitarist, songwriter and record producer, best known for being a member of the 1980s UK-based pop-rock band, Cutting Crew, who had a number-one hit in 1986 with "(I Just) Died in Your Arms". Cutting Crew was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best New Artist in 1988.
Lawrence O'Donnell, American journalist and talk show host
Lawrence Francis O'Donnell Jr. is an American television anchor, actor, author, screenwriter, liberal political commentator, and host of The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell, an MS NOW opinion and news program that airs on weeknights.
John Tamargo, American baseball player and coach
John Felix Tamargo is an American former professional baseball catcher, coach, and long-time minor league manager. He played all or part of five seasons in the majors from 1976 until 1980. He currently serves as the Latin America Field Coordinator for the Seattle Mariners organization.
07/11/1950
Lindsay Duncan, Scottish actress
Lindsay Vere Duncan is a Scottish actress. She is the recipient of three BAFTA nominations and one Scottish BAFTA nomination, as well as two Olivier Awards and a Tony Award for her work on stage.
John Lang, Australian rugby league player and coach
John Lang is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s, and coached in the 1980s through to the 2010s. A Queensland State of Origin and Australian international representative hooker, he played his club football in Brisbane with the Eastern Suburbs Tigers and in Sydney with the Eastern Suburbs Roosters. After playing, Lang became a first-grade coach in Brisbane with Easts, then in Sydney with the Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks, Penrith Panthers and South Sydney Rabbitohs. Lang also coached the Australian Super League test team in 1997.
07/11/1949
Stephen Bruton, American guitarist, songwriter, and producer (died 2009)
Turner Stephen Bruton was an American actor and musician.
Steven Stucky, American composer and academic (died 2016)
Steven Edward Stucky was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American composer.
David S. Ware, American saxophonist, composer, and bandleader (died 2012)
David Spencer Ware was an American jazz saxophonist, composer, and bandleader.
07/11/1948
Stephen Green, Baron Green of Hurstpierpoint, English businessman and politician
Stephen Keith Green, Baron Green of Hurstpierpoint, is a British politician, former Conservative Minister of State for Trade and Investment, former group chairman of HSBC Holdings plc, and Anglican priest.
Buck Martinez, American baseball player and manager
John Albert "Buck" Martinez is an American former professional baseball catcher and manager, and was the television color commentator for the Toronto Blue Jays until his retirement in 2026. He played 17 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) with the Kansas City Royals, the Milwaukee Brewers, and the Toronto Blue Jays. Since the end of his playing career, he has been a broadcaster, working on the Blue Jays and Baltimore Orioles radio and television broadcasts, and nationally for TBS and MLB Network. Martinez managed the Toronto Blue Jays from 2001 to May 2002 and Team USA at the inaugural World Baseball Classic in 2006.
Alex Ribeiro, Brazilian race car driver
Alex Dias Ribeiro is a former racing driver from Brazil. He entered in 20 Formula One World Championship Grands Prix but scored no World Championship points.
07/11/1947
Bob Anderson, English darts player
Robert Charles Anderson is an English former professional darts player who competed in British Darts Organisation and Professional Darts Corporation events. He won the 1988 BDO World Darts Championship. Nicknamed the Limestone Cowboy, he was ranked world number one for over three years in the late 1980s.
Rebecca Eaton, American television producer
Rebecca Eaton is an American television producer and film producer best known for introducing American audiences to British costume and countryside dramas as executive producer of the PBS Masterpiece series.
Yutaka Fukumoto, Japanese baseball player and coach
Yutaka Fukumoto is a retired Japanese professional baseball player in Nippon Professional Baseball. An aggressive lead-off man and superior defensive centerfielder, he holds the Japanese career records in triples and stolen bases. He also hit more lead-off home runs than anyone in Japanese history, with 43. In 2002, Fukumoto was inducted into the Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame.
Ron Leavitt, American screenwriter and producer (died 2008)
Ronald Leavitt was an American television writer and producer. He was the co-creator of the American television show Married... with Children. The show's 259 episodes over 11 seasons made it the second-longest lasting sitcom on the Fox network.
Sondhi Limthongkul, Thai journalist and politician
Sondhi Limthongkul is a Thai media proprietor, conspiracy theorist, pro-Beijing anti-democracy reactionary activist, demagogue, and leader of the People's Alliance for Democracy (PAD). In 2009, he was elected leader of the New Politics Party (NPP).
07/11/1946
Chrystos, American writer and activist
Chrystos is a two-spirit writer and activist whose work explores Native American civil rights, social justice, and feminism. They are of mixed Menominee–Lithuanian/Alsace–Lorraine heritage. Chrystos is also a lecturer, writing teacher, and artist.
07/11/1945
Joe Niekro, American baseball player (died 2006)
Joseph Franklin Niekro was an American professional baseball pitcher. During a 22-year baseball career, he pitched from 1967 to 1988 for seven different teams, primarily for the Houston Astros.
07/11/1944
Gigi Riva, Italian footballer and manager (died 2024)
Luigi "Gigi" Riva was an Italian professional footballer who played as a striker.
Peter Wilby, English journalist
Peter John Wilby is a British journalist and convicted sex offender. He is a former editor of The Independent on Sunday and the New Statesman.
Pekka Vennamo, Finnish politician (died 2026)
Pekka Veikko Vennamo was a Finnish politician and corporate executive. He was the leader of the Finnish Rural Party from 1979 to 1989. He was also member of the Parliament of Finland from 1972 to 1975 representing the constituency of Helsinki and again from 1979 to 1989 representing the southern constituency of Turku Province. In addition, Vennamo served as the Deputy Minister of Finance in Kalevi Sorsa's fourth cabinet from 1983 to 1987 and as the Minister of Transport in Harri Holkeri's cabinet from 1987 to 1989.
07/11/1943
Silvia Cartwright, New Zealand lawyer, judge, and politician, 18th Governor-General of New Zealand
Dame Silvia Rose Cartwright is a New Zealand jurist who served as the 18th governor-general of New Zealand, from 2001 to 2006. She was the second woman to hold the office, after Dame Catherine Tizard.
Stephen Greenblatt, American theorist, scholar, and critic
Stephen Jay Greenblatt is an American literary historian and author. He has served as the John Cogan University Professor of the Humanities at Harvard University since 2000. Greenblatt is the general editor of The Norton Shakespeare (2015) and the general editor and a contributor to The Norton Anthology of English Literature.
Boris Gromov, Russian general and politician, Governor of Moscow Oblast
Boris Vsevolodovich Gromov is a Russian politician and former military officer. He was the Governor of Moscow Oblast between January 2000 and May 2012. Deployed thrice to fight in the Soviet–Afghan War, Gromov was the last Soviet soldier in Afghanistan on 15 February 1989; he commanded the 40th Army and oversaw the Soviet withdrawal as the last personnel retreated.
Joni Mitchell, Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist
Roberta Joan "Joni" Mitchell is a Canadian singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and painter. As one of the most influential singer-songwriters to emerge from the 1960s folk music circuit, Mitchell became known for her personal lyrics and unconventional compositions, which grew to incorporate elements of pop, jazz, rock, and other genres. Among her accolades are eleven Grammy Awards, and induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1997. Rolling Stone, in 2002, named her "one of the greatest songwriters ever", and AllMusic, in a 2011 biography, stated "Joni Mitchell may stand as the most important and influential female recording artist of the late 20th century."
Michael Spence, American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
Andrew Michael Spence is a Canadian-American economist and Nobel laureate.
07/11/1942
Tom Peters, American businessman and author
Thomas J. Peters, an American writer on business-management practices, became best-known for his 1982 book In Search of Excellence
Johnny Rivers, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
Johnny Rivers is an American musician. He achieved commercial success and popularity throughout the 1960s and 1970s as a singer and guitarist, characterized as a versatile and influential artist. Rivers is best known for his 1960s output, having popularized the mid-1960s discotheque scene through his live rock and roll recordings at the Los Angeles nightclub Whisky a Go Go, and later shifting to a more orchestral, soul-oriented sound during the latter half of the decade. These developments were reflected by his most notable string of hit singles between 1964 and 1968, many of them covers. They include "Memphis", "Mountain of Love", "The Seventh Son", "Secret Agent Man", "Poor Side of Town", "Baby I Need Your Lovin'", and "Summer Rain". Rivers had a total of nine top-ten hits and 17 top-forty hits on the US charts from 1964 to 1977.
Jean Shrimpton, English model and actress
Jean Rosemary Shrimpton is an English model and actress. She was an icon of Swinging London and is considered to be one of the world's first supermodels. She appeared on numerous magazine covers including Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, Vanity Fair, Glamour, Elle, Ladies' Home Journal, Newsweek, and Time. In 2009, Harper's Bazaar named Shrimpton one of the 26 best models of all time, and in 2012, Time named her one of the 100 most influential fashion icons since 1923. She starred alongside Paul Jones in the film Privilege (1967).
07/11/1941
Madeline Gins, American poet and architect (died 2014)
Madeline Helen Arakawa Gins was an American artist, architect, and poet.
Angelo Scola, Italian cardinal and philosopher
Angelo Scola is an Italian Cardinal of the Catholic Church, a prominent philosopher, and theologian. He served as Archbishop of Milan from 2011 to 2017, overseeing one of the largest dioceses in the world, and previously as Patriarch of Venice from 2002 to 2011. Elevated to the cardinalate in 2003 by Pope John Paul II, Scola has been a key figure in contemporary Catholic theology, particularly in areas of anthropological theology, marriage and family, and ecumenical dialogue.
07/11/1940
Dakin Matthews, American actor, director, and playwright
Melvin Richard "Dakin" Matthews is an American actor, playwright, theatre director, and theatrical scholar. He is best known as Herb Kelcher in My Two Dads (1987–1989), Hanlin Charleston in Gilmore Girls (2000–2007), Joe Heffernan in The King of Queens (1998-2007), and as Reverend Sikes in Desperate Housewives (2004–2012).
Antonio Skármeta, Chilean author and academic
Esteban Antonio Skármeta Vranicic was a Chilean writer, screenwriter, and director. His novel Ardiente paciencia was the basis for the film Il Postino. In Chile, he was popularly known for hosting a television show on literature and the arts. He served as Chile's ambassador to Germany from 2000 to 2003. In 2014, he was awarded the Chilean National Literature Prize.
07/11/1939
Barbara Liskov, American computer scientist and academic
Barbara Liskov is an American computer scientist who has made pioneering contributions to programming languages and distributed computing. Her notable work includes the introduction of abstract data types and the accompanying principle of data abstraction, along with the Liskov substitution principle, which applies these ideas to object-oriented programming, subtyping, and inheritance. Her work was recognized with the 2008 Turing Award, the highest distinction in computer science.
07/11/1938
Dee Clark, American singer-songwriter (died 1990)
Dee Clark was an American soul singer and songwriter best known for a string of R&B and pop hits in the late 1950s and early 1960s, including the song "Raindrops", which became a million-seller in the United States in 1961.
Jake Gibbs, American baseball player and coach
Jerry Dean "Jake" Gibbs is an American former Major League Baseball player who played for the New York Yankees as a platoon catcher from 1962 to 1971. Although Gibbs was the regular starting catcher for New York in 1967 and 1968, he was primarily a back-up for Elston Howard and then Thurman Munson at the tail-end of his career.
Jim Kaat, American baseball player, coach, and sportscaster
James Lee Kaat, nicknamed "Kitty", is an American former professional baseball player and television sports commentator. A left-handed pitcher, he played Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Washington Senators / Minnesota Twins (1959–1973), Chicago White Sox (1973–1975), Philadelphia Phillies (1976–1979), New York Yankees (1979–1980), and St. Louis Cardinals (1980–1983) for a then-record 25 years.
Barry Newman, American actor (died 2023)
Barry Foster Newman was an American actor of stage, screen, and television known for his portrayal of Kowalski in Vanishing Point, and for his title role in the 1970s television series Petrocelli. He was nominated for Golden Globe and Emmy awards.
07/11/1937
Mary Daheim, American journalist and author (died 2022)
Mary Rene Richardson Daheim was an American writer of romance and mystery novels.
07/11/1936
Al Attles, American basketball player and coach (died 2024)
Alvin Austin Attles Jr. was an American professional basketball player, coach, and executive who spent his entire career with the Golden State Warriors of the National Basketball Association (NBA). Nicknamed the "Destroyer", he played the point guard position.
Gwyneth Jones, Welsh soprano
Dame Gwyneth Jones is a Welsh dramatic soprano, widely regarded as one of the greatest Wagnerian sopranos of the second half of the 20th century. The possessor of a large-scaled, powerful dramatic soprano voice, joined to a vivid stage presence and finely developed acting ability, Jones enjoyed an extensive international career that took her to all the world's major opera houses. Her talent was cultivated through a long relationship with the Bayreuther Festspiele, through which she developed a more human, vulnerable, and womanly image for Richard Wagner's main female characters. She is best known for her rendition of Brünnhilde in the 1976 Jahrhundertring at Bayreuth, staged to commemorate the theater's centenary anniversary.
07/11/1935
Lubomír Beneš, Czech animator, producer and author (died 1995)
Lubomír Beneš was a Czech animator, director, and author, best known as the co-creator of Pat & Mat, an animated series about two highly inventive, yet incredibly clumsy handymen neighbours.
W. S. Rendra, Indonesian poet and playwright (died 2009)
Willibrordus Surendra Broto Narendra, widely known as Rendra or W. S. Rendra, was an Indonesian dramatist, poet, activist, performer, actor and director.
07/11/1931
G. Edward Griffin, American director, producer, and author
George Edward Griffin is an American author, filmmaker, lecturer, and a conspiracy theorist. Griffin's writings promote a number of right-wing views and conspiracy theories regarding politics, defense and health care. In his book World Without Cancer, he argued in favor of a pseudo-scientific theory that asserted cancer to be a nutritional deficiency curable by consuming amygdalin. He is the author of The Creature from Jekyll Island (1994), which advances debunked conspiracy theories about the Federal Reserve System. He is an HIV/AIDS denialist, supports the 9/11 Truth movement, and supports the specific John F. Kennedy assassination conspiracy theory that Oswald was not the assassin. He also believes that the Biblical Noah's Ark is located at the Durupınar site in Turkey.
07/11/1930
Rudy Boschwitz, German-American politician
Rudolph Ely Boschwitz is an American politician and businessman from Minnesota. A member of the Republican Party, he served as a member of the United States Senate from 1978 to 1991. From 1987 to 1989, Boschwitz served as the chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee.
07/11/1929
Jesús de Polanco, Spanish publisher and businessman (died 2007)
Jesús Polanco Gutiérrez, also known as Jesús de Polanco, was a businessman from Spain who built one of the largest media empires in the world. In 2005, he was ranked 3rd richest person in Spain and at number 210 in Forbes World's Richest People list, and was number 258 in 2006.
Eric Kandel, Austrian-American neuroscientist and psychiatrist, Nobel Prize laureate
Eric Richard Kandel is an Austrian-born American medical doctor who specialized in psychiatry. He was also a neuroscientist and a professor of biochemistry and biophysics at the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Columbia University. He was a recipient of the 2000 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his research on the physiological basis of memory storage in neurons. He shared the prize with Arvid Carlsson and Paul Greengard.
Lila Kaye, English actress (died 2012)
Lila Kaye was an English actress. She spent a number of years working in the United States, on Broadway and in television, before returning to England.
07/11/1928
Richard G. Scott, American engineer and religious leader (died 2015)
Richard Gordon Scott was an American scientist and religious leader who served as a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
07/11/1927
Herbert Flam, American tennis player (died 1980)
Herbert Flam was an American tennis player who was ranked by Lance Tingay as the World No. 4 amateur in 1957.
Hiroshi Yamauchi, Japanese businessman (died 2013)
Hiroshi Yamauchi was the third president of Nintendo, serving in the role from 25 April 1949 to 24 May 2002, and principal owner of the Seattle Mariners from 1992 until his death. Before joining Nintendo, he had strong familial connections; his great-grandfather, Fusajiro Yamauchi, founded the company, and was its first president, and his grandfather, Sekiryo Kaneda, was its second president. During his tenure, Nintendo was transformed from a Japanese manufacturer of hanafuda into a global conglomerate largely focused on manufacturing video game consoles and publishing video games. On the basis of this success, and his ownership of most of Nintendo's shares, he became considerably wealthy. In 2008, he was Japan's wealthiest person, with an estimated net worth of $7.8 billion. Even in 2013, with this figure having declined to $2.1 billion, he was the 13th richest person in Japan and the 491st richest in the world.
07/11/1926
Joan Sutherland, Australian soprano (died 2010)
Dame Joan Alston Sutherland was an Australian dramatic coloratura soprano known for her contribution to the renaissance of the bel canto repertoire from the late 1950s to the 1980s.
07/11/1923
Gene Callahan, American art director and production designer (died 1990)
Gene Callahan was an American art director as well as set and production designer who contributed to over fifty films and more than a thousand TV episodes. He received nominations for the British Academy Film Award and four Oscars, including two wins.
07/11/1922
Ghulam Azam, Bangladeshi politician (died 2014)
Ghulam Azam was a Bangladeshi writer and politician who headed the Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami (BJI).
Al Hirt, American trumpet player and bandleader (died 1999)
Alois Maxwell "Al" Hirt was an American trumpeter and bandleader. He is best remembered for his million-selling recordings of "Java" and the accompanying album Honey in the Horn (1963), and for the theme music to The Green Hornet. His nicknames included "Jumbo" and "The Round Mound of Sound". Colin Escott, an author of musician biographies, wrote that RCA Victor, for which Hirt had recorded most of his best-selling recordings and for which he had spent most of his professional recording career, had simply dubbed him "The King." Hirt was inducted into The Louisiana Music Hall of Fame in November 2009. He received eight Grammy nominations during his lifetime, including winning the Grammy award in 1964 for his version of "Java".
07/11/1921
Lisa Ben, American singer-songwriter and journalist (died 2015)
Edythe D. Eyde better known by her pen name Lisa Ben, was an American editor, author, active fantasy-fiction fan and fanzine contributor, and songwriter. She created the first known lesbian publication in North America, Vice Versa. Ben produced the magazine for a year and distributed it locally in Los Angeles, California, in the late 1940s. She was also active in lesbian bars as a musician in the years following her involvement with Vice Versa. Eyde has been recognized as a pioneer in the LGBT movement and the foremother of the women in print movement during second-wave feminism.
Jack Fleck, American golfer (died 2014)
Jackson Donald Fleck was an American professional golfer, best known for winning the U.S. Open in 1955 in a playoff over Ben Hogan.
Susanne Hirzel, member of the White Rose (died 2012)
Susanne Zeller was a German resistance member who was part of the White Rose.
07/11/1920
Max Kampelman, American lawyer and diplomat (died 2013)
Max Kampelman was an American diplomat.
Elaine Morgan, Welsh writer, aquatic ape hypothesis (died 2013)
Elaine Morgan OBE, FRSL, was a Welsh writer for television and the author of several books on evolutionary anthropology. She advocated the aquatic ape hypothesis, which advocated as a corrective to what she saw as theories that purveyed gendered stereotypes and failed to account for women's role in human evolution adequately. The Descent of Woman, published in 1972, became an international bestseller, translated into ten languages. In 2016, she was named one of "the 50 greatest Welsh men and women of all time" in a press survey.
07/11/1919
Ellen Stewart, American director and producer (died 2011)
Ellen Stewart was an American theatre director and producer and the founder of La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club. During the 1950s, she worked as a fashion designer for Saks Fifth Avenue, Bergdorf Goodman, Lord & Taylor, and Henri Bendel.
07/11/1918
Paul Aussaresses, French general (died 2013)
Paul Aussaresses was a French Army general, who fought during World War II, the First Indochina War and Algerian War. His actions during the Algerian War—and later defense of those actions—caused considerable controversy.
Billy Graham, American minister and author (died 2018)
William Franklin Graham Jr. was an American evangelist, ordained Southern Baptist minister, and civil rights advocate, whose broadcasts and world tours featuring live sermons became well known in the mid-to-late 20th century. Throughout his career, spanning over six decades, Graham rose to prominence as an evangelical Christian figure in the United States and abroad.
Maria Teresa de Noronha, Portuguese singer (died 1993)
D. Maria Teresa do Carmo de Noronha, was a Portuguese aristocrat and a fado singer. As a granddaughter of the Counts of Paraty and Belmonte, she belonged to a family of the most ancient Nobility in the Iberian Peninsula, tracing her roots to the Royal Houses of both Portugal and Castile from the mid-14th century. Her artistic career spanned over 30 years and hers is considered one of the most unusual and beautiful fado voices. Her status as a fidalga meant, in the context of a conservative early 20th century Portugal, that she faced severe restrictions in having a professional artistic career. As such, she did not enjoy the projection of other great fadistas of her time.
07/11/1917
Titos Vandis, Greek actor (died 2003)
Titos Vandis was a Greek actor.
07/11/1915
Philip Morrison, American astrophysicist and academic (died 2005)
Philip Morrison was a professor of physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He is known for his work on the Manhattan Project during World War II, and for his later work in quantum physics, nuclear physics, high energy astrophysics, and SETI.
M. Athalie Range, American activist and politician (died 2006)
M. Athalie Range was a Bahamian American civil rights activist and politician who was the first African-American to serve on the Miami, Florida City Commission, and the first African-American since Reconstruction and the first woman to head a Florida state agency, the Department of Community Affairs.
07/11/1914
Archie Campbell, American actor, singer, and screenwriter (died 1987)
Archie Campbell was an American comedian, writer, and star of Hee Haw, a country-flavored network television variety show. He was also a recording artist with several hits for RCA Victor in the 1960s.
R. A. Lafferty, American author (died 2002)
Raphael Aloysius Lafferty was an American science fiction, fantasy and historical fiction writer best known for his imaginative and eccentric short stories and novels from the 1960s and 1970s.
07/11/1913
Albert Camus, French novelist, philosopher, and journalist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1960)
Albert Camus was a French philosopher, novelist, author, dramatist, journalist, world federalist, and political activist. He was the recipient of the 1957 Nobel Prize in Literature at the age of 44, the second-youngest recipient in history, and the first laureate in literature born in Africa. His works include The Stranger, The Plague, The Myth of Sisyphus, The Fall and The Rebel.
Alekos Sakellarios, Greek director and screenwriter (died 1991)
Alekos Sakellarios was a Greek writer and a director.
Mikhail Solomentsev, Soviet politician, member of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (died 2008)
Mikhail Sergeyevich Solomentsev was a Soviet politician and bureaucrat.
07/11/1912
Victor Beaumont, German-English actor (died 1977)
Victor Beaumont was a German-born British film and television actor.
07/11/1909
Ruby Hurley, American civil rights activist (died 1980)
Ruby Hurley was an American civil rights activist. She was a leader in the Civil Rights Movement and administrator for the NAACP, and was known as the "queen of civil rights".
Norman Krasna, American director, producer, screenwriter, and playwright (died 1984)
Norman Krasna was an American screenwriter, playwright, producer, and film director who penned screwball comedies centered on a case of mistaken identity. Krasna directed three films during a forty-year career in Hollywood. He garnered four Academy Award screenwriting nominations, winning once for 1943's Princess O'Rourke, which he also directed. Krasna wrote a number of successful Broadway plays, including Dear Ruth and John Loves Mary.
07/11/1908
Marijac, French author and illustrator (died 1994)
Jacques Dumas, better known as Marijac, was a French comics writer, artist, and editor.
07/11/1906
Eugene Carson Blake, American minister and educator (died 1985)
Eugene Carson Blake was an American Presbyterian Church leader.
07/11/1905
William Alwyn, English composer, conductor, and educator (died 1985)
William Alwyn, was an English composer, conductor, and music teacher who composed over 200 cinematic scores, of which some 70 were for full-length features, as well as number of operas, concertos and symphonies.
07/11/1903
Ary Barroso, Brazilian pianist and composer (died 1964)
Ary Evangelista de Resende Barroso was a Brazilian composer, pianist, soccer commentator, and talent-show host on radio and TV. He was one of Brazil's most successful songwriters in the first half of the 20th century. Barroso also composed many songs for Carmen Miranda during her career.
Dean Jagger, American actor (died 1991)
Dean Jagger was an American film, stage, and television actor who won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in Henry King's Twelve O'Clock High (1949).
Konrad Lorenz, Austrian zoologist, ethologist, and ornithologist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1989)
Konrad Zacharias Lorenz was an Austrian zoologist, ethologist, and ornithologist. He shared the 1973 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Nikolaas Tinbergen and Karl von Frisch. He is often regarded as one of the founders of modern ethology, the study of animal behavior. He developed an approach that began with an earlier generation, including his teacher Oskar Heinroth.
07/11/1901
Norah McGuinness, Irish painter and illustrator (died 1980)
Norah Allison McGuinness was an Irish painter and illustrator.
07/11/1900
Nellie Campobello, Mexican writer who chronicled the Mexican Revolution (died 1986)
Nellie Francisca Ernestina Campobello Luna was a Mexican writer, notable for having written one of the few chronicles of the Mexican Revolution from a woman's perspective: Cartucho, which chronicles her experience as a young girl in Northern Mexico at the height of the struggle between forces loyal to Pancho Villa and those who followed Venustiano Carranza. She moved to Mexico City in 1923, where she spent the rest of her life and associated with many of the most famous Mexican intellectuals and artists of the epoch. Like her half-sister Gloria, a well-known ballet dancer, she was also known as a dancer and choreographer. She was the director of the Mexican National School of Dance.
07/11/1899
Yitzhak Lamdan, Russian-Israeli journalist and poet (died 1954)
Yitzhak Lamdan was a Russian-born Israeli Hebrew-language poet, translator, editor and columnist.
07/11/1898
Margaret Morris, American actress (died 1968)
Margaret Morris was an American Broadway stage and film actress.
Raphaël Salem, Greek-French mathematician and academic (died 1963)
Raphaël Salem was a Greek mathematician after whom the Salem numbers and Salem–Spencer sets are named, and whose widow founded the Salem Prize.
07/11/1897
Herman J. Mankiewicz, American director, producer, and screenwriter (died 1953)
Herman Jacob Mankiewicz was an American screenwriter who, with Orson Welles, wrote the screenplay for Citizen Kane (1941). Both Mankiewicz and Welles went on to receive the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for the film. Mankiewicz was previously a Berlin correspondent for Women’s Wear Daily, assistant theater editor at The New York Times, and the first regular drama critic at The New Yorker. Alexander Woollcott said that Mankiewicz was the "funniest man in New York".
Armstrong Sperry, American author and illustrator (died 1976)
Armstrong Wells Sperry was an American writer and illustrator of children's literature. His books include historical fiction and biography, often set on sailing ships, and stories of boys from Polynesia, Asia and indigenous American cultures. He is best known for his 1941 Newbery Medal-winning book Call It Courage.
07/11/1896
Esdras Minville, Canadian economist and sociologist (died 1975)
Esdras Minville was a Canadian writer, economist and sociologist. He served as the Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences at the Université de Montréal, and was the first French-Canadian to serve as head of HEC Montréal. A staunch defender of Catholic social doctrine, Minville helped to found several co-operatives in the province.
07/11/1893
Leatrice Joy, American actress (died 1985)
Leatrice Joy was an American actress most prolific during the silent film era.
Margaret Leech, American historian and author (died 1974)
Margaret Kernochan Leech, also known as Margaret Pulitzer, was an American historian and fiction writer. She won the Pulitzer Prize for History both in 1942 and in 1960.
07/11/1891
Genrikh Yagoda, director of the NKVD (died 1938)
Genrikh Grigoryevich Yagoda was a Soviet secret police official who served as director of the NKVD, the Soviet Union's security and intelligence agency, from 1934 to 1936. Appointed by Joseph Stalin, Yagoda supervised arrests, show trials, and executions of the Old Bolsheviks Lev Kamenev and Grigory Zinoviev, climactic events of the Great Purge. Yagoda also supervised the construction of the White Sea–Baltic Canal with Naftaly Frenkel, using penal labor from the gulag system, during which 12,000–25,000 laborers died.
07/11/1890
Jan Matulka, Czech-American painter and illustrator (died 1972)
Jan Matulka was a Czech-American modern artist originally from Bohemia. Matulka's style ranged from Abstract expressionism to landscapes, sometimes in the same day. He has directly influenced artists like Dorothy Dehner, Francis Criss, Burgoyne Diller, I. Rice Pereira, and David Smith.
07/11/1888
C. V. Raman, Indian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1970)
Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman was an Indian physicist known for his work in the field of light scattering. Using a spectrograph that he developed, he and his student K. S. Krishnan discovered that when light traverses a transparent material, the deflected light changes its wavelength. This phenomenon, a hitherto unknown type of scattering of light, which they called modified scattering was subsequently termed the Raman effect or Raman scattering. In 1930, Raman received the Nobel Prize in Physics "for his work on the scattering of light and for the discovery of the effect named after him" discovery and was the first Asian and non-White person to receive a Nobel Prize in Physics.
Nestor Makhno, Ukrainian anarchist revolutionary (died 1934)
Nestor Ivanovych Makhno, also known as Bat'ko Makhno, was a Ukrainian anarchist revolutionary and the commander of the Revolutionary Insurgent Army of Ukraine during the Ukrainian War of Independence. He established the Makhnovshchina, a mass movement by the Ukrainian peasantry to establish anarchist communism in the country between 1918 and 1921. Initially centered around Makhno's home province of Katerynoslav and hometown of Huliaipole, it came to exert a strong influence over large areas of southern Ukraine, specifically in what is now the Zaporizhzhia Oblast of Ukraine. Anarchists have cited him as an inspiration during his life and into today.
07/11/1886
Aron Nimzowitsch, Russian-Danish chess player and theoretician (died 1935)
Aron Nimzowitsch was a Danish chess player and writer. In the late 1920s, Nimzowitsch was one of the best chess players in the world. He was the foremost figure amongst the hypermoderns and wrote a very influential book on chess theory: My System (1925–1927). Nimzowitsch's seminal work Chess Praxis, originally published in Germany, in 1929, was purchased by a pre-teen and future World Champion Tigran Petrosian and was to have a great influence on his development as a chess player.
07/11/1879
King Baggot, American actor, director, and screenwriter (died 1948)
William King Baggot was an American actor, film director, and screenwriter. He was an internationally famous movie star of the silent film era. The first individually publicized leading man in America, Baggot was referred to as "King of the Movies," "The Most Photographed Man in the World" and "The Man Whose Face Is as Familiar as the Man in the Moon."
Leon Trotsky, Russian theorist and politician, founded the Red Army (died 1940)
Lev Davidovich Trotsky, better known as Leon Trotsky, was a Russian revolutionary, Soviet politician and political theorist. He was a key figure in the 1905 Revolution, the October Revolution of 1917, the Russian Civil War, and the establishment of the Soviet Union, from which he was exiled in 1929 before his assassination in 1940. Trotsky and Vladimir Lenin were widely considered the two most prominent figures in the Soviet state from 1917 until Lenin's death in 1924. Ideologically a Marxist and a Leninist, Trotsky's ideas and beliefs inspired a school of Marxism known as Trotskyism.
07/11/1878
Lise Meitner, Austrian-Swedish physicist and academic (died 1968)
Elise "Lise" Meitner was an Austrian and Swedish nuclear physicist who was instrumental in the discovery of nuclear fission.
07/11/1876
Charlie Townsend, English cricketer and lawyer (died 1958)
Charles Lucas Townsend was a Gloucestershire cricketer. An all-round cricketer, Townsend was classically stylish, left-handed batsman, who was able to hit well despite his slender build. His off-side strokes were particularly effective, and his driving allowed him to score at a consistent pace throughout his major innings. In his younger days Townsend was also a spin bowler, who relied chiefly on a big break from leg but could also turn the ball the other way. He was often extremely difficult on sticky wickets but very rarely effective on good ones.
07/11/1872
Lucille La Verne, American actress (died 1945)
Lucille La Verne Mitchum was an American actress known for her appearances in early sound films, as well as for her triumphs on the American stage. She is most widely remembered to modern audiences as the voice of the first Disney villain, the Evil Queen in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937), Walt Disney's first full-length animated feature film, serving as her final film role.
Leonora Speyer, American poet and violinist (died 1956)
Leonora Speyer, Lady Speyer, was an American poet and violinist.
07/11/1867
Marie Curie, Polish chemist and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1934)
Maria Salomea Skłodowska Curie, better known as Marie Curie, was a Polish and naturalised-French physicist and chemist. She shared the 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics with her husband Pierre Curie "for their joint researches on the radioactivity phenomena discovered by Professor Henri Becquerel". She won the 1911 Nobel Prize in Chemistry "[for] the discovery of the elements radium and polonium, by the isolation of radium and the study of the nature and compounds of this remarkable element".
07/11/1861
Jeff Milton, American police officer (died 1947)
Jefferson Davis Milton was an American lawman in the Old West and a son of Confederate Governor of Florida John Milton. He was the first officer appointed to the U.S. Immigration Service Border Patrol in 1924.
Lesser Ury, German painter (died 1931)
Leo Lesser Ury was a German impressionist painter and printmaker, associated with the Düsseldorf school of painting.
07/11/1860
Jean Baptiste Eugène Estienne, French general and engineer (died 1936)
Jean Baptiste Eugène Estienne was a general of artillery and a specialist in military engineering, one of the founders of modern French artillery and French military aviation, and the creator of the French tank arm. He is considered by many in France to be the Père des Chars.
Paul Peel, Canadian painter and academic (died 1892)
Paul Peel was a Canadian figure painter. Having won a medal at the 1890 Paris Salon, he became one of the first Canadian artists to receive international recognition in his lifetime.
07/11/1858
Bipin Chandra Pal, Indian academic and activist (died 1932)
Bipin Chandra Pal was an Indian nationalist, writer, orator, social reformer, and freedom fighter. He was one third of the "Lal Bal Pal" triumvirate. He was one of the main architects of the Swadeshi movement. He is known as the Father of Revolutionary Thoughts in India. He also opposed the partition of Bengal by the British colonial government.
07/11/1851
Chris von der Ahe, German-American businessman (died 1913)
Christian Friedrich Wilhelm von der Ahe was a German-American entrepreneur, best known as the owner of the St. Louis Brown Stockings of the American Association, now known as the St. Louis Cardinals.
07/11/1846
Ignaz Brüll, Austrian pianist and composer (died 1907)
Ignaz Brüll was a pianist and composer from Austria-Hungary. Born in Moravia, he lived and worked in Vienna.
07/11/1843
William Plankinton, American businessman, industrialist and banker (died 1905)
William Plankinton was an American businessman, manufacturer, and industrialist. He followed in his father's footsteps in the meat packing and meat processing industry.
07/11/1838
Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam, French author and playwright (died 1889)
Jean-Marie-Mathias-Philippe-Auguste, comte de Villiers de l'Isle-Adam was a French symbolist writer. His family called him Mathias while his friends called him Villiers; he would also use the name Auguste when publishing some of his books.
07/11/1832
Andrew Dickson White, American historian, academic, and diplomat, co-founded Cornell University (died 1918)
Andrew Dickson White was an American historian and educator who co-founded Cornell University, one of eight Ivy League universities in the United States, and served as its first president for nearly two decades. He was known for expanding the scope of college curricula. A politician, he had served as New York state senator and was later appointed as U.S. ambassador to Germany and Russia.
07/11/1830
Emanuele Luigi Galizia, Maltese architect and civil engineer (died 1907)
Emanuele Luigi Galizia was a Maltese architect and civil engineer, who designed many public buildings and several churches. He is regarded as "the principal Maltese architect throughout the second half of the nineteenth century".
07/11/1821
Andrea Debono, Maltese trader and explorer (died 1871)
Andrea Debono, also known as Latif Effendi, was a Maltese trader and explorer who was one of the first Europeans to explore the area around the White Nile in the mid-19th century.
07/11/1818
Emil du Bois-Reymond, German physician and physiologist (died 1896)
Emil Heinrich du Bois-Reymond was a German physiologist, the co-discoverer of nerve action potential, and the developer of experimental electrophysiology. His lectures on science and culture earned him great esteem during the latter half of the 19th century.
07/11/1805
Thomas Brassey, English engineer and businessman (died 1870)
Thomas Brassey was an English civil engineering contractor and manufacturer of building materials who was responsible for building much of the world's railways in the 19th century. By 1847, he had built about one-third of the railways in Britain, and by time of his death in 1870 he had built one in every twenty miles of railway in the world. This included three-quarters of the lines in France, major lines in many other European countries and in Canada, Australia, South America and India. He also built the structures associated with those railways, including docks, bridges, viaducts, stations, tunnels and drainage works.
07/11/1800
Platt Rogers Spencer, American calligrapher and educator (died 1864)
Platt Rogers Spencer was the originator of Spencerian penmanship, a popular system of cursive handwriting. He was a teacher and active in the business school movement.
07/11/1789
Alfred Kelley, American legislator, canal builder, and railroad magnate (died 1859)
Alfred Kelley was a banker, canal builder, lawyer, railroad executive, and state legislator in the state of Ohio in the United States. He is considered by historians to be one of the most prominent commercial, financial, and political Ohioans of the first half of the 19th century.
07/11/1787
Carl Carl, Polish-born actor and theatre director (died 1854)
Karl Andreas Bernbrunn (1787–1854), known by the stage name Carl Carl, was a Kraków-born actor and theatre director.
07/11/1750
Friedrich Leopold zu Stolberg-Stolberg, German poet and lawyer (died 1819)
Friedrich Leopold Graf zu Stolberg-Stolberg, was a German lawyer, and translator. He was also a poet of the Sturm und Drang and early Romantic periods.
07/11/1728
James Cook, English captain, navigator, and cartographer (died 1779)
Captain James Cook was a British Royal Navy officer, explorer, and cartographer who led three voyages of exploration to the Pacific and Southern Oceans between 1768 and 1779. He completed the first recorded circumnavigation of the main islands of New Zealand, and led the first recorded visit by Europeans to the east coast of Australia and the Hawaiian Islands.
07/11/1706
Carlo Cecere, Italian violinist and composer (died 1761)
Carlo Cecere was an Italian composer of operas, concertos and instrumental duets including, for example, some mandolin duets and a concerto for mandolin. Cecere worked in the transitional period between the Baroque and Classical eras.
07/11/1687
William Stukeley, English archaeologist and physician (died 1765)
William Stukeley was an English antiquarian, physician and Anglican clergyman. A significant influence on the later development of archaeology, he pioneered the scholarly investigation of the prehistoric monuments of Stonehenge and Avebury in Wiltshire. He published over twenty books on archaeology and other subjects during his lifetime. Born in Holbeach, Lincolnshire, as the son of a lawyer, Stukeley worked in his father's law business before attending Saint Benet's College, Cambridge. In 1709, he began studying medicine at St Thomas' Hospital, Southwark, before working as a general practitioner in Boston, Lincolnshire.
07/11/1683
Anton thor Helle, German-Estonian clergyman, author, and translator (died 1748)
Anton Thor Helle was a Baltic German Lutheran clergyman, linguist and Bible translator in Estonia. He led the initiative and served as chief editor of the first complete translation of the Bible into Estonian (1739), translating some parts and collating the whole text.
07/11/1650
John Robinson, English bishop and diplomat (died 1723)
John Robinson was an English diplomat and prelate. He became the Bishop of London and Dean of Windsor, succeeding to Henry Compton.
07/11/1619
Gédéon Tallemant des Réaux, French author and poet (died 1692)
Gédéon Tallemant, Sieur des Réaux was a French writer known for his Historiettes, a collection of short biographies.
07/11/1598
Francisco de Zurbarán, Spanish painter (died 1664)
Francisco de Zurbarán was a Spanish Baroque painter. He is known primarily for his religious paintings depicting monks, nuns, and martyrs, and for his still-lifes. Zurbarán gained the nickname "Spanish Caravaggio", owing to the forceful use of chiaroscuro in which he excelled.
07/11/1525
Georg Cracow, German lawyer and politician (died 1575)
Georg Cracow, Kraków, Cracov, Cracau or Cracovius was a German lawyer and statesman.
07/11/1456
Margaret of Bavaria, Electress Palatine, Princess of Bavaria-Landshut by birth (died 1501)
Margaret of Bavaria was a princess of Bavaria-Landshut and by marriage Princess of the Palatinate.
07/11/1316
Simeon of Russia (died 1353)
Simeon Ivanovich, also known as Semyon Ivanovich, nicknamed the Proud, was Prince of Moscow and Grand Prince of Vladimir from 1340 to 1353.
07/11/1186
Ögedei Khan, Mongol ruler, 2nd Great Khan of the Mongol Empire (died 1241)
Ögedei Khan was the second khan of the Mongol Empire. The third son of Genghis Khan, he continued the expansion of the empire that his father had begun.
07/11/0994
Ibn Hazm, Arabian philosopher and scholar (died 1069)
Ibn Hazm was an Andalusian Muslim polymath, historian, traditionist, jurist, philosopher, and theologian, born in the Córdoban Caliphate, present-day Spain. Described as one of the strictest hadith interpreters, Ibn Hazm was a leading proponent and codifier of the Zahiri school of Islamic jurisprudence, and produced a reported 400 works, of which only 40 still survive.
07/11/0630
Constans II, Byzantine emperor (died 668)
Constans II, also called "the Bearded", was the Byzantine emperor from 641 to 668. Constans was the last attested emperor to serve as consul, in 642, although the office continued to exist until the reign of Leo VI the Wise. His religious policy saw him steering a middle line in disputes between the Orthodox and Monothelites by refusing to persecute either and prohibited discussion of the natures of Jesus Christ under the Typos of Constans in 648. His reign coincided with Arab invasions under Umar, Uthman, and Mu'awiya I in the late 640s to 660s. Constans was the first emperor to visit Rome since the fall of the Western Roman Empire in 476, and the last one to visit Rome while the Empire still held it.