Born on Saturday, 8th November – Famous Birthdays
On this day, 262 notable people were born on 8th November — spanning from 30 to 2004. From world leaders to artists and scientists, discover who shares this birthday.
Saturday, 8th November 2025 marks the birthday of numerous individuals across entertainment, sport and public life. Among those born on this date is Ilyas Ansah, the German footballer who was born in 2004 and represents the younger generation of athletes emerging in European football. The date also corresponds with the birth of Jasmine Thompson in 2000, the English singer who has built a career in the music industry. Earlier in history, 8th November 1935 saw the birth of Alain Delon, the French-Swiss actor and producer whose film career spanned decades and left a significant mark on European cinema until his death in 2024.
The list of notable births on this date extends across multiple sectors and generations. Gordon Ramsay, the British chef and television personality, was born on 8th November 1966 and has since become a prominent figure in culinary television. Historical figures also feature prominently, including Bram Stoker, born in 1847, the Irish novelist whose creation of Count Dracula established him as a foundational figure in gothic literature and who died in 1912. Other individuals born on this date have contributed to fields ranging from science and academia to sports and entertainment, reflecting the diverse accomplishments of those who share this birthday.
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08/11/2004
Ilyas Ansah, German footballer
Ilyas Ansah is a German professional football player who plays as a striker for Bundesliga club Union Berlin.
08/11/2000
Jade Pettyjohn, American actress
Jade Elizabeth Pettyjohn is an American actress. She is known for her roles as McKenna Brooks in An American Girl: McKenna Shoots for the Stars, as Summer on the Nickelodeon television series School of Rock, as Lexie Richardson on the Hulu drama television miniseries Little Fires Everywhere, and as Grace Sullivan on the ABC series Big Sky.
Jasmine Thompson, English singer
Jasmine Ying Thompson is an English singer and songwriter. She began her career at the age of ten by filming herself singing and uploading the videos to YouTube. In 2014, she was featured on German deep house producer Robin Schulz's song "Sun Goes Down", which charted within the top 10 in multiple countries including Australia, Germany, Austria, and Switzerland.
08/11/1999
Isaac Bonga, German basketball player
Isaac Evolue Etue Bofenda Bonga is a German professional basketball player for Partizan Belgrade of the Basketball League of Serbia (KLS), the ABA League and the EuroLeague. Standing 6 ft 8 in (2.03 m), he began his professional career with Skyliners Frankfurt of the Basketball Bundesliga. Bonga represents the Germany national team in international competitions. He was selected by the Philadelphia 76ers and immediately traded to the Los Angeles Lakers in the 2018 NBA draft.
Katherine Uchida, Canadian rhythmic gymnast
Katherine Uchida is a Canadian rhythmic gymnast.
08/11/1997
Leonardo Fernández, Uruguayan footballer
Leonardo "Leo" Cecilio Fernández López is a Uruguayan professional footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder for Uruguayan Primera División club Peñarol.
Akram Tawfik, Egyptian footballer
Akram Tawfik Mohamed Hassan Elhagrasi is an Egyptian professional footballer who plays as a right-back or a defensive midfielder for Qatar Stars League club Al-Shamal and the Egypt national team.
08/11/1996
Jens Stage, Danish footballer
Jens Dalsgaard Stage is a Danish professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Bundesliga side Werder Bremen and the Denmark national team.
08/11/1994
Lauren Alaina, American singer and songwriter
Lauren Alaina Kristine Suddeth is an American singer and songwriter from Rossville, Georgia. She was the runner-up on the tenth season of American Idol, losing to Scotty McCreery. Her debut studio album, Wildflower, was released on October 11, 2011. Her second album, Road Less Traveled, was released January 27, 2017. Alaina later achieved her first number one on the Country Airplay chart with the album's title track. Her second number one came later that year when she simultaneously topped five Billboard charts with her friend and former classmate Kane Brown on their Diamond certified duet "What Ifs". In addition to this song with Brown, Alaina became an in-demand duet vocalist throughout the next few years, appearing on number one collaborations with Hardy, Devin Dawson, and Dustin Lynch. Her third studio album, Sitting Pretty on Top of the World, was released on September 3, 2021.
08/11/1993
Przemek Karnowski, Polish basketball player
Przemysław Marcin "Przemek" Karnowski is the Arizona men’s basketball graduate assistant and a former professional basketball player.
Fraser Mullen, Scottish footballer
Fraser Mullen is a professional footballer, who plays as a right-back for Johnstone Burgh. Mullen has previously played for both Edinburgh derby rivals, Heart of Midlothian and Hibernian, as well as Raith Rovers and East Fife.
08/11/1992
Christophe Vincent, French footballer
Christophe Vincent is a French professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Ligue 2 club Bastia.
08/11/1991
Aaron Fotheringham, American wheelchair athlete
Aaron Fotheringham is an American extreme wheelchair athlete who performs tricks adapted from skateboarding and BMX. He competes in the Vegas Am Jam series in skate park competitions, usually against BMX riders.
Jack Littlejohn, Australian rugby league player
Jack Littlejohn is an Australian professional rugby league footballer who last played for the Salford Red Devils in the Super League. He previously played for the Wests Tigers and the Manly Warringah Sea Eagles in the National Rugby League. He plays as a halfback and five-eighth. He currently plays for the Mudgee Dragons in the Western Premiership
Riker Lynch, American actor and singer
Riker Anthony Lynch is an American singer and actor. He was previously cast as Jeff, one of the members of the Dalton Academy Warblers singing group, on Fox's television series Glee. He finished in second place on season 20 of Dancing with the Stars with Allison Holker as his dance partner.
DanTDM, English YouTube personality and pro gamer
Daniel Robert Middleton, better known as DanTDM, is an English YouTuber, gamer, and writer. He is primarily known for his Let's Play videos, particularly those featuring Minecraft, Roblox, Pokémon and Five Nights at Freddy's. Middleton's YouTube channel, which he started in 2012, has amassed over 29 million subscribers and 20 billion views as of 2025, making him one of the most popular content creators on the platform.
08/11/1990
Flavinha, Brazilian politician
Ana Flávia Rodrigues Ramiro, better known as Flavinha, is a Brazilian politician. From May to September 2023, she was a member of the Chamber of Deputies. In the 2024 municipal elections, she was a candidate for mayor of Colíder.
Ingrid Puusta, Estonian sailor
Ingrid Puusta is an Estonian Olympic windsurfer, who specializes in the Neil Pryde RS:X class. She represented Estonia at the 2012 and 2016 Summer Olympics, and trains at Noblessner Yacht Club in Tallinn under her personal coach Matthew Rickard. As of March 2017, Puusta is ranked no. 10 in the world for the RS:X class by the World Sailing.
08/11/1989
Morgan Schneiderlin, French footballer
Morgan Fernand Gérard Schneiderlin is a French former professional footballer who played as a defensive midfielder.
Giancarlo Stanton, American baseball player
Giancarlo Cruz-Michael Stanton, until 2012 known as Mike Stanton, is an American professional baseball designated hitter and outfielder for the New York Yankees of Major League Baseball (MLB). He has previously played in MLB for the Florida/Miami Marlins. Stanton stands 6 feet 6 inches (1.98 m) tall and weighs 245 pounds (111 kg). He bats and throws right handed. Stanton is the Marlins' all-time home run leader and the only active player with over 450 home runs. Internationally, Stanton represented the United States.
SZA, American singer-songwriter
Solána Imani Rowe, known professionally as SZA, is an American singer-songwriter. Known for her diaristic songwriting and genre explorations, she is regarded as a prominent figure in influencing contemporary R&B music and popularizing alternative R&B.
08/11/1988
Yasmani Grandal, Cuban-American baseball player
Yasmani Grandal is a Cuban-American professional baseball catcher who is a free agent. He has previously played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the San Diego Padres, Los Angeles Dodgers, Milwaukee Brewers, Chicago White Sox, and Pittsburgh Pirates. Grandal is a two-time MLB All-Star.
Jessica Lowndes, Canadian actress and singer
Jessica Suzanne Lowndes is a Canadian actress, director, singer, and songwriter. Born in Vancouver, British Columbia, Lowndes began her acting career at a young age, appearing in various television shows and films before landing her breakout role as drug-addicted teen Adrianna Tate-Duncan on The CW TV series 90210. Originally written as a 3-episode arc, the character became a series regular on 90210 for five seasons.
Lucia Slaničková, Slovak heptathlete
Lucia Slaničková-Vadlejch is a Slovak retired athlete who specialises in the heptathlon.
Malcolm Thomas, American basketball player
Malcolm Iseiah Thomas is an American professional basketball player for the Sagesse Club of the Lebanese Basketball League (LBL). He played college basketball for the San Diego State Aztecs, where he twice earned second-team All-Mountain West Conference (MWC) honors.
08/11/1987
Édgar Benítez, Paraguayan footballer
Édgar Milciades Benítez Santander, nicknamed Pájaro, is a Paraguayan footballer who plays as a midfielder. He also holds Mexican citizenship. A Paraguayan international on 56 occasions since 2008, he represented his country at the FIFA World Cup 2010 and two Copa América tournaments. In 2006, he won the Milk Cup with Paraguay's under-20 team.
Sam Bradford, American football player
Samuel Jacob Bradford is an American former professional football player who was a quarterback for nine seasons in the National Football League (NFL).
Mohd Faiz Subri, Malaysian footballer
Mohd Faiz bin Subri is a Malaysian professional footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder or forward for Malaysia Super League side Penang. He is best known for his free-kick goal which won him the 2016 FIFA Puskás Award.
08/11/1986
Patricia Mayr-Achleitner, Austrian tennis player
Patricia Mayr-Achleitner is a retired Austrian tennis player.
Jamie Roberts, Welsh rugby player
Jamie Huw Roberts is a Welsh former professional rugby union player who played as a centre.
Aaron Swartz, American computer programmer and activist (died 2013)
Aaron Hillel Swartz, also known as AaronSw, was an American computer programmer, entrepreneur, writer, political organizer, and Internet hacktivist. As a programmer, Swartz helped develop the web feed format RSS; the technical architecture for Creative Commons, an organization dedicated to creating copyright licenses; and the Python website framework web.py. Swartz helped define the syntax of the lightweight markup language format Markdown, and was a co-owner of the social news aggregation website Reddit and contributed to its development until he left the company in 2007. He is often credited as a martyr and a prodigy, and much of his work focused on civic awareness and progressive activism.
08/11/1985
Magda Apanowicz, Canadian actress
Magda Apanowicz is a Canadian actress. She is known for her roles as Andy Jensen in the ABC Family series Kyle XY, as Lacy Rand in the Syfy science fiction drama series Caprica, and as Emily in the science fiction series Continuum.
Míchel, Spanish footballer
Miguel Marcos Madera, commonly known as Míchel, is a Spanish former professional footballer who played as a central midfielder.
Jack Osbourne, English-American television personality
Jack Joseph Osbourne is a British media personality. He is the youngest child of Ozzy Osbourne and Sharon Osbourne. He starred on MTV's reality series The Osbournes (2002–2005), along with his father, mother Sharon, and sister Kelly. Osbourne has since pursued a career as a fitness and travel reporter, presenting shows such as Jack Osbourne: Adrenaline Junkie (2005–2009) and BBC's Saving Planet Earth (2007). In 2016, he and his father travelled the world in the History Channel reality series Ozzy & Jack's World Detour.
08/11/1984
Kuntal Chandra, Bangladeshi cricketer (died 2012)
Kuntal Chandra was a cricketer from Bangladesh.
Keith Lee, American wrestler
Keith Gerald Lee II is an American professional wrestler. He is signed to All Elite Wrestling (AEW), where he is a former AEW World Tag Team Champion. He is on hiatus due to an injury. He is also known for his time in WWE and Ring of Honor (ROH), as well as on the independent circuit, in promotions such as Evolve, All American Wrestling (AAW), and Pro Wrestling Guerrilla (PWG), where he held the PWG World Championship.
Yoko Mitsuya, Japanese model and actress
Yoko Mitsuya is a Japanese gravure idol and actress.
Steven Webb, English actor
Steven Michael Webb is an English actor in theatre, television and film.
08/11/1983
Danielle Valore Evans, American short story writer
Danielle Valore Evans is an American fiction writer. She is a graduate of Columbia University and the University of Iowa. In 2011, she was honored by the National Book Foundation as one of its "5 Under 35" fiction writers. Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self, her first short story collection, won the 2011 PEN/Robert Bingham Prize. The collection's title echoes a line from "The Bridge Poem," from Kate Rushin's collection The Black Back-Ups. Reviewing the book in The New York Times, Lydia Peelle observed that the stories "evoke the thrill of an all-night conversation with your hip, frank, funny college roommate."
Sinan Güler, Turkish basketball player
Sinan Güler is a Turkish former professional basketball player.
Katharina Molitor, German javelin thrower
Katharina Molitor is a German sportswoman who competes as a javelin thrower and volleyball player. As a javelin thrower, she is a World Champion, having won gold in 2015, and her personal best throw is 67.69 m. As a volleyball player, she represents Bayer Leverkusen in the Erste Volleyball-Bundesliga, the highest tier of German volleyball.
Remko Pasveer, Dutch footballer
Remko Jurian Pasveer is a Dutch professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Eredivisie club Heracles Almelo.
Pavel Pogrebnyak, Russian footballer
Pavel Viktorovich Pogrebnyak is a Russian former professional footballer who played as a forward.
Nikola Rachelle, English-New Zealand singer-songwriter and producer
Nikola Rachelle Bedingfield, also known as Nikola Rachelle or Nikola Bedingfield, is an English singer and songwriter. She is the younger sister of Daniel and Natasha Bedingfield. Nikola has created music for advertisements and television shows like General Hospital and Tough Love.
08/11/1982
Ted DiBiase, Jr., American wrestler and actor
Theodore Marvin DiBiase Jr. is an American retired professional wrestler and actor. He is best known for his tenure in WWE.
Mika Kallio, Finnish motorcycle racer
Mika Kallio is a Finnish Grand Prix motorcycle racer, currently serving as the lead test and development rider for the Red Bull KTM team in MotoGP. He debuted in the 125cc World Championship with the Finnish rookie team Ajo Motorsport in the 2001 German Grand Prix and was awarded the "Rookie of the Year" with the team in 2002. After moving to the Red Bull KTM Factory Racing team during the 2003 season, he finished runner-up in the 125cc class in both 2005 and 2006, and also finished runner-up in the 2014 Moto2 World Championship. Moving up to MotoGP full-time for 2009 and 2010, he obtained the "Rookie of the Year" award in his first season in the premier class.
Sam Sparro, Australian singer-songwriter and producer
Samuel Falson, better known by his stage name Sam Sparro, is an Australian singer, songwriter and record producer. He was signed to the British record label Island Records. Sparro is best known for his 2008 single "Black and Gold".
08/11/1981
Joe Cole, English footballer
Joseph John Cole is an English football coach and former professional footballer who played as an attacking midfielder or winger. He was long touted as a child prodigy and as the hottest prospect in English football, with Manchester United reportedly offering to pay £10 million for his services as a 16-year-old.
Yann Kermorgant, French footballer
Yann Alain Kermorgant is a French former professional footballer who played as a striker.
08/11/1980
Luís Fabiano, Brazilian footballer
Luís Fabiano Clemente, commonly known as Luís Fabiano, is a retired Brazilian professional footballer who played as a striker most notably for Sevilla, São Paulo, and the Brazil national team. He is a prolific goalscorer and was ranked the second-highest-scoring Brazilian of the 21st century, according to the International Federation of Football History & Statistics.
Laura Jane Grace, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
Laura Jane Grace is an American musician, singer, and songwriter, best known as the founder, lead singer, songwriter, and rhythm guitarist of the punk rock band Against Me!. In addition to Against Me!, Grace fronts the band Laura Jane Grace & the Devouring Mothers, a solo project she started in 2016. Grace is notable for being one of the first highly visible punk rock musicians to publicly come out as transgender, which she did in May 2012. She released her first solo studio album since transitioning, Stay Alive, in 2020, followed by Hole in My Head in 2024.
Holly Walsh, English radio and television host
Holly Dione Walsh is an English comedian and comedy writer.
08/11/1979
Andrea Benatti, Italian rugby player
Andrea Benatti is an Italian rugby union player who last played for Aironi in the Pro12 in Italy. Once considered a star prospect, Benatti sat out several games for the national team in reserve for Mauro Bergamasco. A strong tackler with good ball-carrying skills, he has won five caps for Italy.
Aaron Hughes, Irish footballer
Aaron William Hughes is a Northern Irish former professional footballer who played as a defender. Hughes played mainly at centre back, but was also used at right back or left back, as well as anywhere in midfield. He is renowned for his disciplined defending, having made 455 Premier League appearances without getting sent off, which is the second-most in the history of the league, behind only Ryan Giggs.
Dania Ramirez, Dominican actress
Dania Ramirez is a Dominican actress. Her credits include the roles of Maya Herrera in the NBC series Heroes, Alex in the HBO series Entourage, and Blanca during the last season of the HBO crime drama The Sopranos on television. Her film roles include Alex Guerrero in She Hate Me and Callisto in the feature film X-Men: The Last Stand. She portrayed Rosie Falta on Lifetime's Devious Maids from June 2013, until its cancellation in 2016. In July 2017, Ramirez joined the ABC series Once Upon a Time for its softly-rebooted seventh season in a starring role as Cinderella. In 2023, she began the starring role of Captain Nikki Batista in the Fox crime drama Alert: Missing Persons Unit.
Andrew Unger, Canadian writer
Andrew Unger is a Canadian novelist and satirist. He is the author of the satirical news website The Unger Review, as well as the novel Once Removed and the collection The Best of the Bonnet.
08/11/1978
Matthew Bulbeck, English cricketer
Matthew Paul Leonard Bulbeck is a former English First-class and List A cricketer who made appearances for Somerset during his senior career. He also made appearances at Youth Test and Youth One Day International level for England. He was primarily a bowler, but scored two First-class half centuries batting in the lower order. He won the NBC Denis Compton Award in both 1998 and 1999, but was forced to retire early from first-class cricket because of a back injury. He went on to work at the Somerset County Ground as an administrator.
Tim de Cler, Dutch footballer
Tim de Cler is a Dutch former professional footballer who played as a left-back for Ajax, AZ, Feyenoord and AEK Larnaca.
Maurice Evans, American basketball player
Maurice Eugene Evans is an American former professional basketball player who played in the National Basketball Association (NBA). He has served as a vice president of the NBA Players Association.
Ali Karimi, Iranian footballer and manager
Mohammad Ali Karimi Pashaki is an Iranian football coach and former professional player. During his professional football career, he has played as a playmaker in the Iran Pro League, UAE Pro League, Qatar Stars League and Bundesliga. Karimi has scored 38 goals in 127 matches for the Iran national team. In 2004, he was recognized as the best scorer of the AFC Asian Cup and received the Asian Footballer of the Year award in the same year. He announced his retirement at the end of the 2013–14 season and, on 11 April 2014, played the final game of his 18-year career.
Kensaku Kishida, Japanese actor and entertainer
Kensaku Kishida is a Japanese actor and entertainer who also works as a vocalist in his solo project, Ash Berry. He graduated from Tokyo Metropolitan Kōhoku High School. He has an exclusive contract with GF Enterprise.
Emma Lewell-Buck, English social worker and politician
Emma Louise Lewell is a Labour Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for South Shields since 2013.
Júlio Sérgio, Brazilian footballer and manager
Júlio Sérgio Bertagnoli is a Brazilian football manager and former player who played as a goalkeeper. He is the current assistant manager of Coritiba.
Shyne, Belizean rapper and politician
Moses Michael Levi Barrow, known professionally as Shyne, is a Belizean politician and former rapper. He served as Leader of the Opposition in the House of Representatives, and the leader of the Belize United Democratic Party.
08/11/1977
Jully Black, Canadian singer-songwriter, producer, and actress
Jullyann Inderia Gordon Black is a Canadian singer, songwriter, actress and wellness leader. She has released four studio albums, two mixtapes, two remix EPs and several singles and has collaborated with and written for artists including Nas, Saukrates, Choclair, Kardinal Offishall, Destiny's Child, and Sean Paul.
Bucky Covington, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
William Joel "Bucky" Covington III is an American country music singer. He placed eighth on the 5th season of the Fox Network's talent competition series American Idol. In December 2006, he signed a recording contract with Lyric Street Records. His self-titled debut album, produced by Dale Oliver and Mark Miller of the band Sawyer Brown, was released on April 17, 2007. The album debuted at number one on the Billboard Top Country Albums chart, and produced three hit singles on the Hot Country Songs charts: "A Different World" at number six, "It's Good to Be Us" at number eleven, and "I'll Walk" at number ten. Three more singles: "I Want My Life Back", "Gotta Be Somebody", and "A Father's Love ", were released for an unreleased second album, titled I'm Alright, and later included on his 2012 album, Good Guys.
Nick Punto, American baseball player
Nicholas Paul Punto is an American former professional baseball infielder and current coach for the San Diego Padres of Major League Baseball (MLB). He played in MLB for the Philadelphia Phillies, Minnesota Twins, St. Louis Cardinals, Boston Red Sox, Los Angeles Dodgers, and Oakland Athletics. With the Cardinals, he won the 2011 World Series over the Texas Rangers. He has also played for the Italian national baseball team in the World Baseball Classic.
08/11/1976
Jaroslav Bednář, Czech ice hockey player
Jaroslav Bednář is a Czech former professional ice hockey winger.
Brett Lee, Australian cricketer and sportscaster
Brett Lee is an Australian former international cricketer, who played all three formats of the game. During his international career, Lee was recognised as one of the fastest bowlers in the world.
Colin Strause, American director, producer, and visual effects designer
Greg and Colin Strause, known professionally as The Brothers Strause, are film directors, producers and special effects artists. They are known for directing the 2007 film Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem and the 2010 film Skyline. The brother duo are also founders of Hydraulx, a special effects company.
08/11/1975
Antony Hickling, English film maker, actor
Antony Hickling is an English independent filmmaker, actor, writer, voiceover artist, and professor.
Brevin Knight, American basketball player and sportscaster
Brevin Adon Knight is an American former professional basketball point guard who played with nine teams in the National Basketball Association (NBA) from 1997 to 2009. Knight played college basketball for the Stanford Cardinal and was selected by the Cleveland Cavaliers in the 1997 NBA draft. As of 2024, he is a color commentator for the Memphis Grizzlies on Bally Sports Southeast.
José Manuel Pinto, Spanish footballer
José Manuel Pinto Colorado is a Spanish former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper.
Tara Reid, American actress
Tara Donna Reid is an American actress. Her film roles established her status as a sex symbol in the late 1990s.
Alena Vašková, Czech tennis player
Alena Vašková is a retired Czech tennis player.
08/11/1974
Joshua Ferris, American author
Joshua Ferris is an American author best known for his debut novel Then We Came to the End (2007). The novel is a comedy about the American workplace, is narrated in the first-person plural, and is set in a fictitious Chicago ad agency facing challenges at the end of the 1990s Internet boom.
Penelope Heyns, South African swimmer
Penelope ("Penny") Heyns OIS is a South African former swimmer, who is best known for being the only woman in the history of the Olympic Games to have won both the 100 m and 200 m breaststroke events – at the 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games – making her South Africa's first post-apartheid Olympic gold medallist following South Africa's re-admission to the Games in 1992. Along with Australian champion Leisel Jones, Heyns is regarded as one of the greatest breaststroke swimmers.
Masashi Kishimoto, Japanese author and illustrator, created Naruto
Masashi Kishimoto is a Japanese manga artist. His manga series, Naruto, which was in serialization from 1999 to 2014, has sold over 250 million copies worldwide in 46 countries as of May 2019. The series has been adapted into two anime and multiple films, video games, and related media. Besides the Naruto manga, Kishimoto also personally supervised the three anime films, Road to Ninja: Naruto the Movie, The Last: Naruto the Movie and Boruto: Naruto the Movie, and has written several one-shot stories. In 2019, Kishimoto wrote Samurai 8: The Tale of Hachimaru which ended in March 2020. From May 2016 through October 2020 he supervised the Boruto: Naruto Next Generations manga written by Ukyō Kodachi and illustrated by Mikio Ikemoto. In November 2020 it was announced that he had taken over as writer on the series, replacing Kodachi.
Seishi Kishimoto, Japanese illustrator
Seishi Kishimoto is a Japanese manga artist. He is best known for O-Parts Hunter, which was serialized in Monthly Shōnen Gangan from 2001 to 2007. He has since completed four more manga series, Blazer Drive (2008–2011), Kurenai no Ōkami to Ashikase no Hitsuji (2011–2013), Sukedachi 09 (2014–2016), and Mad Chimera World (2017–2019).
Matthew Rhys, Welsh actor
Matthew Rhys Evans is a Welsh actor. He gained recognition for playing Kevin Walker in the family drama series Brothers & Sisters (2006–2011) and Philip Jennings in the spy drama series The Americans (2013–2018). For his performance in The Americans, he won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series in 2018 and the Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Actor in a Drama Series in 2019. He was also nominated for Primetime Emmy Awards for his guest role in Girls (2017) and for playing the title role in the period series Perry Mason (2020–2023). In 2025, he appeared as Nile Jarvis in the crime thriller series The Beast in Me.
08/11/1973
František Kaberle, Czech ice hockey player
František "Frank" Kaberle is a Czech former professional ice hockey defenceman. His playing career extended over 20 seasons, most notably in the National Hockey League with the Los Angeles Kings, Atlanta Thrashers, and the Carolina Hurricanes.
Jesse Marsch; American soccer player and manager
Jesse Alan Marsch is an American professional soccer coach and former player who is the head coach of the Canada men's national team. Marsch played 14 seasons as a midfielder in Major League Soccer (MLS) with D.C. United, Chicago Fire, and Chivas USA, winning three league titles and four U.S. Open Cup titles, as well as earning two caps for the United States national team.
Sven Mikser, Estonian politician, 22nd Estonian Minister of Defence
Sven Mikser is an Estonian politician. A member of the Social Democratic Party, he has served as a member of the European Parliament for Estonia since 2019. He previously served as minister of foreign affairs between 2016 and 2019 and minister of defence on two occasions. He also led his party between 2010 and 2015.
David Muir, American journalist
David Jason Muir is an American journalist and anchor for ABC World News Tonight and co-anchor of the ABC News magazine 20/20, part of the news department of the ABC broadcast-television network, based in New York City. Muir previously served as the weekend anchor and primary substitute anchor on ABC's World News Tonight with Diane Sawyer before succeeding her on September 1, 2014.
08/11/1972
Chris Fydler, Australian swimmer
Christopher John Fydler is a former competitive swimmer from Australia, who competed in three consecutive Summer Olympics for his native country, starting in 1992. Fydler represented Australia at an international level from 1989 to 2000. During his career he amassed over 20 national championships including five consecutive national 100-metre freestyle championships. At the Sydney 2000 Olympics, he was a member of the men's 4×100-metre freestyle relay team that defeated the Americans and won the gold medal with Michael Klim, Ian Thorpe and Ashley Callus. It was the first time in Olympic history that the US team had been beaten in that event.
Gretchen Mol, American model and actress
Gretchen Mol is an American actress. She is known for her role as Gillian Darmody in the HBO series Boardwalk Empire (2010–2014). She also appeared in the films Rounders (1998), Celebrity (1998), The Thirteenth Floor (1999), The Notorious Bettie Page (2005) – in which she played the title character – 3:10 to Yuma (2007), and Manchester by the Sea (2016).
Kylie Shadbolt, Australian artistic gymnast
Kylie Shadbolt is an Australian artistic gymnast.
08/11/1971
Carlos Atanes, Spanish director, producer, and screenwriter
Carlos Atanes is a Spanish film director, writer and playwright. He was born in Barcelona, and is a member of The Film-Makers' Cooperative, founded by Jonas Mekas, Shirley Clarke, Ken Jacobs, Andy Warhol, Jack Smith and others. His first finished feature-length movie was FAQ: Frequently Asked Questions, which he released in 2004. The movie won the Best Feature Film Award at the Athens Panorama of Independent Filmmakers in 2005 and was also nominated for the Méliès d'Argent at Fantasporto that same year.
Tech N9ne, American musician, record producer, and actor
Aaron Dontez Yates, better known by his stage name Tech N9ne, is an American rapper, songwriter, and singer. In 1999, he and business partner Travis O'Guin founded the record label Strange Music. He has sold over two million albums and his music has been featured in film, television, and interactive media. In 2009, he won the Left Field Woodie Award broadcast on mtvU.
08/11/1970
Tom Anderson, American businessman, co-founded Myspace
Thomas Anderson is an American technology entrepreneur and co-founder of the social networking website Myspace, which he founded in 2003 with Chris DeWolfe. He was later president of Myspace and a strategic adviser for the company. Anderson is popularly known as "Tom from Myspace", "Myspace Tom", or "My friend, Tom" because he would automatically be assigned as the first "friend" of new Myspace users upon the creation of their profiles.
David Hemp, Bermudian cricketer
David Lloyd Hemp is a Bermudian cricket coach and former cricketer. He is a left-handed batsman and a right-arm medium-pace bowler, who has played domestic cricket for Glamorgan, Free State, and Warwickshire. Hemp has also played List A and Twenty20 cricket. He is currently the batting coach of the Bangladesh cricket team.
Michael Jackson, Canadian actor
Michael Jackson is a Canadian actor, grip and gaffer. He is known for his acting role as "Trevor" in the comedy TV series Trailer Park Boys (2001–2018) and the later film Trailer Park Boys: The Movie (2006).
Diana King, Jamaican singer-songwriter
Diana King is a Jamaican singer and songwriter who performs a mixture and fusion of reggae, reggae fusion and dancehall. They are best known for their hit 1995 single "Shy Guy" and their remake of "I Say a Little Prayer" which was featured on the soundtrack to My Best Friend's Wedding.
José Porras, Costa Rican footballer and coach
José Francisco Porras Hidalgo is a Costa Rican retired footballer who last played for Carmelita in Costa Rica.
08/11/1968
Keith Jones, Canadian ice hockey player and sportscaster
Keith Jones is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player and current executive. He was a hockey studio analyst for NBC/NBCSN from 2005–2021 and TNT from 2021–2023. He currently works as the President of Hockey Operations for the Philadelphia Flyers. In 491 NHL games, Jones produced a total of 258 points between 1992 and 2000.
José Offerman, Dominican baseball player and manager
José Antonio Offerman Dono is a Dominican professional baseball manager and former infielder who most recently served as the manager for the Algodoneros de Unión Laguna of the Mexican League. He played professional baseball for nearly 20 years, including 15 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) and four seasons of independent and Mexican League baseball after leaving MLB.
Sergio Porrini, Italian footballer and manager
Sergio Porrini is an Italian football coach and former centre-back and right-back defender.
Parker Posey, American actress
Parker Christian Posey is an American actress. Known for playing eccentric characters in independent films, she was named "Queen of the Indies" by Time in 1997. She has received nominations for two Primetime Emmy Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, and two Independent Spirit Awards.
08/11/1967
Henry Rodriguez, Dominican baseball player
Henry Anderson Rodríguez Lorenzo is a Dominican former professional baseball outfielder, who played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Montreal Expos, Chicago Cubs, Los Angeles Dodgers, New York Yankees, and Florida Marlins from 1992 to 2002.
08/11/1966
Gordon Ramsay, British chef, restaurateur, and television host/personality
Gordon James Ramsay is a British celebrity chef, restaurateur, television presenter, and writer. His restaurant group, Gordon Ramsay Restaurants, was founded in 1997 and has been awarded 17 Michelin stars overall and currently holds eight. His signature restaurant, Restaurant Gordon Ramsay in Chelsea, London, which he founded, has held three Michelin stars since 2001 and is currently run by chef Matt Abé. After rising to fame on the British television miniseries Boiling Point in 1999, Ramsay became one of the best-known and most influential chefs in the world.
08/11/1965
Jeff Blauser, American baseball player and manager
Jeffrey Michael Blauser is an American former professional baseball shortstop. He played in Major League Baseball for the Atlanta Braves and Chicago Cubs from 1987 to 1999.
Craig Chester, American actor and screenwriter
Craig Chester is an American actor, writer, and screenwriter.
Mike Matarazzo, American bodybuilder and boxer (died 2014)
Michael Richard Matarazzo was an American IFBB professional bodybuilder.
Patricia Poleo, Venezuelan journalist
Patricia Poleo is a Venezuelan journalist and the winner of the King of Spain Journalism Award for her investigation into the whereabouts of Peruvian dictator Alberto Fujimori's right-hand man, Vladimiro Montesinos. She is the daughter of the journalist Rafael Poleo, wife of the former student leader Nixon Moreno, a political scientist graduated from the University of the Andes, and former director of her father's newspaper, El Nuevo País. She is known for her work and opposition to the current government in Venezuela.
08/11/1963
Paul McKenna, English hypnotist and author
Paul McKenna is a British hypnotist, behavioural scientist, television and radio broadcaster and author of self-help books.
08/11/1961
Micky Adams, English footballer and manager
Michael Richard Adams is an English former professional footballer and football manager. As a player, he was a full back, and made a total of 438 league appearances in a 19-year professional career in the English Football League, including five years with Southampton at the highest level. He began his managerial career as player-manager for Fulham in 1996 and has led several teams at varying levels with mixed success, being named Manager of the Season twice, and earning four promotions for the teams he has managed.
Leif Garrett, American singer, actor, and television personality
Leif Garrett is an American actor, singer, and television personality, who was a teen idol in the 1970s. He later received much publicity for his drug abuse and legal troubles.
08/11/1960
Oleg Menshikov, Russian actor, singer, and director
Oleg Evgenyevich Menshikov, PAR is a Russian actor, theatre director and occasional singer. He is the current artistic director of the Yermolova Theatre in Moscow.
Michael Nyqvist, Swedish actor and producer (died 2017)
Rolf Åke Mikael Nyqvist was a Swedish actor. Educated at the School of Drama in Malmö, he rose to prominence domestically for playing police officer John Banck in Beck (1997-1998) and for his leading role in the 2002 film Grabben i graven bredvid.
08/11/1959
Miroslav Janů, Czech footballer and manager (died 2013)
Miroslav Janů was a Czech football defender and later manager. As a player, he played a total of 240 matches in the Czechoslovak First League, scoring five times.
Chi Chi LaRue, American drag queen performer and director
Larry David Paciotti is an American director of pornographic films. He appears as the drag-diva persona Chi Chi LaRue, and has been credited as director under the names "Lawrence David" and "Taylor Hudson".
08/11/1958
Don Byron, American clarinet player and composer
Donald Byron is an American composer and multi-instrumentalist. He primarily plays clarinet but has also played bass clarinet and saxophone in a variety of genres that includes free jazz and klezmer.
Ken Lamberton, American author and educator
Kenneth J. Lamberton is an American writer and former teacher. Born in Duluth, Minnesota, Lamberton attended the University of Arizona, where he received a Bachelor of Science degree in biology and a Master of Fine Arts in creative writing. He was working as a science teacher in Mesa, Arizona in 1985 when he was awarded a Teacher of the Year award. A few months later, the then 28-year-old Lamberton was arrested for child molestation for statutory rape and kidnapping of a 14-year-old student. During his twelve-year prison term at the Santa Rita unit of the Arizona State Prison Complex at Tucson, he participated in a creative writing program run by Richard Shelton and became a writer, penning essays for the prison magazine La Roca. After his release on September 25, 2000, he began to publish non-fiction books and articles on natural history and crime and punishment in the Southwest.
Selçuk Yula, Turkish footballer and journalist (died 2013)
Selçuk Yula was a Turkish football player and topscorer.
08/11/1957
Alan Curbishley, English footballer and manager
Llewellyn Charles "Alan" Curbishley is an English former football player and manager. He played as a midfielder for West Ham United, Birmingham City, Aston Villa, Charlton Athletic and Brighton & Hove Albion. He became manager of Charlton Athletic in 1991 and held the role until 2006, becoming the second-longest-serving manager of the club. He also managed West Ham United from 2006 to 2008, and had spells as both a technical director and coach at Fulham.
Tim Shaw, American swimmer
Timothy Andrew Shaw is an American former Olympic medal-winning swimmer and water polo player. He swam at the 1976 Summer Olympics and played on the American team at the 1984 Summer Olympics. He is one of a handful of athletes to win Olympic medals in two different sports. Between 1974 and 1984, Shaw won two Olympic silver medals; three world championships; seven U.S. Amateur Athletic Union national titles; and three U.S. National Collegiate Athletic Association championships.
Porl Thompson, English guitarist and songwriter
Pearl Thompson is an English musician and artist. Thompson is best known as a member of the English alternative rock band the Cure from 1983 to 1993 and from 2005 to 2011, during which he was credited as Porl Thompson and played mainly guitar with occasional keyboards and saxophone. After leaving the Cure he focused on a successful career as a visual artist.
Hardi Volmer, Estonian singer and director
Hardi Volmer is an Estonian film director, puppet theatre set decorator and musician. Volmer is the singer in the Estonian punk rock band Singer Vinger.
08/11/1956
Mari Boine, Norwegian singer-songwriter and producer
Mari Boine is a Norwegian Sámi singer. She combined a form of Sámi joik singing with rock. In 2008, she became a professor of musicology at Nesna University College.
Richard Curtis, New Zealand-English screenwriter, film and television producer, and film director
Richard Whalley Anthony Curtis is a British screenwriter, producer and director. One of Britain's most successful comedy screenwriters, he is known for romantic comedy-drama films, including Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994), Notting Hill (1999), Bridget Jones's Diary (2001), Love Actually (2003), Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (2004), About Time (2013) and Yesterday (2019), as well as the war drama film War Horse (2011), and for having co-written the sitcoms Blackadder, Mr. Bean and The Vicar of Dibley. His early career saw him write material for the comedy sketch shows Not the Nine O'Clock News and Spitting Image.
Steven Miller, American record producer and engineer
Steven Miller is an American record producer and executive. He is best known for his association with Windham Hill Records, where his ambient sound helped create notable instrumental recordings such as Michael Hedges’ Aerial Boundaries, Mark Isham’s Vapor Drawings and George Winston’s December.
08/11/1955
Patricia Barber, American singer-songwriter and pianist
Patricia Barber is an American songwriter, composer, singer, and pianist.
Jeffrey Ford, American author and educator
Jeffrey Ford is an American writer in the fantastic genre tradition, although his works have spanned genres including fantasy, science fiction and mystery. His work is characterized by a sweeping imaginative power, humor, literary allusion, and a fascination with tales told within tales. He is a graduate of Binghamton University, where he studied with the novelist John Gardner.
08/11/1954
David Bret, French-English journalist and author
David Bret is a British author of show business biographies. He chiefly writes on the private life of film stars and singers.
Michael D. Brown, American lawyer and radio host
Michael DeWayne Brown is an American attorney, and former government official who served as the administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) from 2003 to 2005. He joined FEMA as general counsel in 2001 and became deputy director the same year. Appointed in January 2003 by President George W. Bush to lead FEMA, Brown resigned in September 2005 following his controversial handling of Hurricane Katrina. Brown currently hosts a radio talk show on 630 KHOW in Denver, Colorado.
Timothy Egan, American journalist and author
Timothy P. Egan is an American author, journalist, and former op-ed columnist for The New York Times. Egan has written ten books. Egan, a third-generation Westerner, lives in Seattle.
Kazuo Ishiguro, Japanese-British novelist, screenwriter, and short story writer
Sir Kazuo Ishiguro is a Japanese-born British novelist, screenwriter, musician, and short-story writer. He is one of the most critically acclaimed contemporary fiction authors writing in English, having been awarded several major literary prizes, including the 2017 Nobel Prize in Literature. In its citation, the Swedish Academy described Ishiguro as a writer "who, in novels of great emotional force, has uncovered the abyss beneath our illusory sense of connection with the world".
Rickie Lee Jones, American singer-songwriter and producer
Rickie Lee Jones is an American singer, musician, and songwriter. Over the course of a career that spans five decades and 15 studio albums, she has recorded in various musical styles including rock, R&B, pop, soul, and jazz. A two-time Grammy Award winner, Jones was listed at No. 30 on VH1's 100 Greatest Women in Rock & Roll in 1999. AllMusic stated: "Few singer/songwriters are as individual and eclectic as Rickie Lee Jones, a vocalist with an expressive and smoky instrument, and a composer who can weave jazz, folk, and R&B into songs with a distinct pop sensibility."
Thanasis Pafilis, Greek jurist and politician
Athanasios Pafilis is a Greek communist politician, member of the Hellenic Parliament and member of the central committee of the Communist Party of Greece. He is also the General Secretary of the World Peace Council and was briefly also a Member of the European Parliament (MEP).
08/11/1953
Giorgos Foiros, Greek footballer and manager
Georgios Firos is a Greek football manager and former football player.
John Musker, American animator, director, producer, and screenwriter
John Edward Musker is an American animator and filmmaker. He often collaborates with fellow director Ron Clements and is best known for writing and directing the Disney animated films The Great Mouse Detective (1986), The Little Mermaid (1989), Aladdin (1992), Hercules (1997), Treasure Planet (2002), The Princess and the Frog (2009), and Moana (2016).
Nand Kumar Patel, Indian politician (died 2013)
Nand Kumar Patel was an Indian National Congress politician from the province of Chhattisgarh. He was elected to the Kharsia Assembly Constituency five times in a row.
08/11/1952
John Denny, American baseball player and coach
John Allen Denny is an American former professional baseball right-handed pitcher who played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the St. Louis Cardinals, Cleveland Indians, Philadelphia Phillies, and Cincinnati Reds, from 1974 to 1986. Denny won the National League (NL) Cy Young Award, in 1983.
Christie Hefner, American publisher and businesswoman
Christie Ann Hefner is an American businesswoman. She was chairman and CEO of Playboy Enterprises from 1988 to 2009, and is the daughter of Playboy magazine founder Hugh Hefner.
Jan Raas, Dutch cyclist
Jan Raas is a Dutch former professional cyclist whose 115 wins include the 1979 World Road Race Championship in Valkenburg, the Tour of Flanders in 1979 and 1983, Paris–Roubaix in 1982 and Milan–San Remo in 1977. He won ten stages in the Tour de France. In six starts, Raas won the Amstel Gold Race five times. In his entire career he competed in 23 of the highly contested "Monument" Races and he finished on the podium in almost half of them: 1st place four times and 3rd place six times.
Jerry Remy, American baseball player and sportscaster (died 2021)
Gerald Peter Remy was an American professional baseball player and sports broadcaster. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a second baseman for ten seasons—three with the California Angels (1975–1977) and seven with the Boston Red Sox (1978–1984). After retiring from professional play, Remy was a color commentator for televised Red Sox games for 33 years until his death.
Alfre Woodard, American actress
Alfre Woodard is an American actress. Known for portraying strong-willed and dignified roles on stage and screen, she has received various accolades, including four Emmy Awards, a Golden Globe Award, and three Screen Actors Guild Awards as well as nominations for an Academy Award, BAFTA Award, and two Grammy Awards. In 2020, The New York Times ranked her as one of "The 25 Greatest Actors of the 21st Century". She is a board member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
08/11/1951
Gerald Alston, American R&B singer
Gerald Alston is an American soul/R&B singer, and the lead singer of the Manhattans. Between late 1970 and 1988, the group had 25 top 40 R&B and 12 Hot 100 hit singles. Alston was lead singer on their most successful 1976 platinum song "Kiss and Say Goodbye", which topped the U.S. Pop and R&B charts and was number one in four countries. Alston left the group in 1988 to pursue a solo career and recorded five albums and ten singles, including the hit singles "Take Me Where You Want To", "Slow Motion" and "Getting Back into Love". He also recorded a remake of Atlantic Starr's "Send for Me", most of which was for Motown Records.
Alfredo Astiz, Argentine military commander
Alfredo Ignacio Astiz is a convicted war criminal and former Argentine military commander, intelligence officer, and naval commando who served in the Argentine Navy during the military dictatorship of Jorge Rafael Videla during the Proceso de Reorganización Nacional (1976–1983). He was known as El Ángel Rubio de la Muerte, and had a reputation as a torturer. He was discharged from the military in 1998 after defending his actions in a press interview.
Larry Burnett, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
Larry Burnett is an American singer and guitarist who was one of the original members of the pop-rock group Firefall.
Laura Cox, English lawyer and judge
Dame Laura Mary Cox, styled The Hon. Mrs Justice Cox, is a former English High Court judge of the Queen's Bench Division, serving from 2002 until her retirement in 2016. Before serving on the bench, she was a barrister who specialised in employment law, discrimination and human rights.
Peter Suber, American philosopher and academic
Peter Dain Suber is an American philosopher specializing in the philosophy of law and open access to knowledge. He is a Senior Researcher at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, Director of the Harvard Office for Scholarly Communication, and Director of the Harvard Open Access Project (HOAP). Suber is known as a leading voice in the open access movement, and as the creator of the game Nomic.
08/11/1950
Mary Hart, American journalist and actress
Mary Hart is an American television personality. She was the host (1982–2011) of the syndicated gossip and entertainment round-up television program Entertainment Tonight. She was Miss South Dakota 1970.
08/11/1949
Wayne LaPierre, American businessman, author, and activist
Wayne Robert LaPierre Jr. is an American gun rights lobbyist who was the CEO and executive vice president of the National Rifle Association of America (NRA), a position he held between 1991 and 2024.
Bonnie Raitt, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
Bonnie Lynn Raitt is an American singer-songwriter. In 1971, Raitt released her self-titled debut album. Following this, she released a series of critically acclaimed roots-influenced albums that incorporated elements of rock, blues, country, and folk. She was also a frequent session player and collaborator with other artists, including Warren Zevon, Little Feat, Jackson Browne, the Pointer Sisters, John Prine, and Leon Russell.
08/11/1948
Dale Gardner, American captain and astronaut (died 2014)
Dale Allan Gardner was a NASA astronaut, and naval flight officer who flew two Space Shuttle missions during the mid 1980s.
08/11/1947
Michael Perham, English bishop (died 2017)
Michael Francis Perham was a British Anglican bishop. From 2004 to 2014, he served as the Bishop of Gloucester in the Church of England.
Minnie Riperton, American singer-songwriter (died 1979)
Minnie Julia Riperton was an American soul singer and songwriter best known for her 1974 single "Lovin' You", her five-octave vocal range, and her use of the whistle register.
Margaret Rhea Seddon, American physician and astronaut
Margaret Rhea Seddon is an American surgeon and retired NASA astronaut. After being selected as part of the first group of astronauts to include women in 1978, she flew on three Space Shuttle flights: as a mission specialist on STS-51-D and STS-40, and as a payload commander for STS-58, accumulating over 722 hours in space. On these flights, she built repair tools for a US Navy satellite and performed medical experiments.
Lewis Yocum, American physician and surgeon (died 2013)
Lewis Yocum was an American orthopedic surgeon.
08/11/1946
Guus Hiddink, Dutch footballer and manager
Guus Hiddink is a Dutch former football manager and professional player. He enjoyed a long career playing as a midfielder in his native Netherlands. After retiring as a player in 1982, Hiddink went into management, leading clubs and countries from across the globe to achieve various titles and feats. With PSV Eindhoven he won the European Champion Clubs' Cup, the predecessor of the UEFA Champions League. With Real Madrid he won the Intercontinental Cup.
Roy Wood, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
Roy Wood is an English musician, singer and songwriter. He was particularly successful in the 1960s and 1970s as member and co-founder of the Move, Electric Light Orchestra and Wizzard.
08/11/1945
Arduino Cantafora, Italian-Swiss architect, painter, and author
Arduino Cantafora is an Italian-Swiss architect, painter, and writer. He was a student of Aldo Rossi.
Joseph James DeAngelo, American serial killer
Joseph James DeAngelo Jr. is an American serial killer, serial rapist and former police officer known as the Golden State Killer, the Original Night Stalker, the East Area Rapist and the Visalia Ransacker, who committed thirteen murders and numerous rapes and burglaries across California between 1974 and 1986. DeAngelo's crimes began in Northern California, where he committed a minimum of 120 burglaries and one murder in the San Joaquin Valley, before moving to Sacramento County, where he committed at least 51 rapes and two more murders from 1976 to 1979. In Southern California, DeAngelo murdered at least ten people from 1979 until 1986 before going dormant.
John Farrar, Australian-born music producer, songwriter, arranger, singer, and guitarist
John Clifford Farrar is an Australian music producer, songwriter, arranger, singer, and guitarist. As a musician, Farrar is a former member of several rock and roll groups including The Mustangs (1963–1964), The Strangers (1964–1970), Marvin, Welch & Farrar (1970–1973), and The Shadows (1973–1976). In 1980, he released a solo eponymous album. As a songwriter and producer, he worked with Olivia Newton-John from 1971 to 1989. He wrote her U.S. number-one hit singles: "Have You Never Been Mellow" (1975), "You're the One That I Want", "Hopelessly Devoted to You" (1978), and "Magic" (1980). He also produced the majority of her recorded material during that time, including her number-one albums, If You Love Me, Let Me Know (1974), Have You Never Been Mellow (1975), and Olivia's Greatest Hits Vol. 2 (1982). He was a co-producer of the soundtrack for the film Grease (1978).
Don Murray, American drummer (died 1996)
Donald Ray Murray was an American drummer and Hanna-Barbera animator, best known for his work with the Turtles. After leaving the group, Murray played with Paul Williams's psychedelic folk group the Holy Mackerel. In the 1980s he went on to perform with the newly formed Surfaris.
Vincent Nichols, English cardinal
Vincent Gerard Nichols is an English Catholic prelate. A cardinal since 2014, he served as Archbishop of Westminster from 2009 to 2025. He was the Archbishop of Birmingham from 2000 to 2009 and is president of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of England and Wales.
Arnold Rosner, American composer (died 2013)
Arnold Rosner was an American composer of classical music.
08/11/1944
Bonnie Bramlett, American singer and actress
Bonnie Bramlett is an American singer and occasional actress known for performing with her husband, Delaney Bramlett, as Delaney & Bonnie. She continues to sing as a solo artist.
08/11/1943
Martin Peters, English footballer and manager (died 2019)
Martin Stanford Peters was an English footballer and manager. As a member of the England team which won the 1966 FIFA World Cup, he scored the second of England's four goals in the final against West Germany. He also played in the 1970 FIFA World Cup. Born in Plaistow, Essex, he played club football for West Ham United, Tottenham Hotspur, Norwich City and Sheffield United. He briefly managed Sheffield United before retiring from professional football in 1981.
08/11/1942
Angel Cordero Jr., Puerto Rican-American jockey
Ángel Tomás Cordero Jr. is a Puerto Rican jockey. He is known for being one of the winningest Thoroughbred horse racing jockeys of the late 20th-century and the first Puerto Rican to be inducted into the United States' Racing Hall of Fame. He led all jockeys in wins at Saratoga Race Course for thirteen years. Cordero rode three Kentucky Derby winners and won over 6000 races in his career.
Sandro Mazzola, Italian footballer and sportscaster
Alessandro "Sandro" Mazzola is an Italian former professional footballer, who played as a forward or attacking midfielder for Internazionale and the Italy national team. He has worked also as a football analyst and commentator on the Italian national television station RAI.
08/11/1941
Nerys Hughes, Welsh actress
Nerys Hughes is a Welsh actress and narrator, known primarily for her television roles, including her parts in the BBC TV series The Liver Birds (1971–1978) and The District Nurse (1984–1987).
08/11/1939
Meg Wynn Owen, British actress (died 2022)
Margaret Wright, better known as Meg Wynn Owen, was a British actress known for her role as Hazel Bellamy in Upstairs, Downstairs. She also appeared in Gosford Park, Love Actually, Pride & Prejudice, Irina Palm, The Duellists and A Woman of Substance.
08/11/1938
Driss Basri, Moroccan police officer and politician (died 2007)
Driss Basri was a Moroccan politician who served as interior minister from 1979 to 1999. His name has been associated with the Years of Lead in Morocco. During this time, he was known as the "King's Policeman".
Satch Sanders, American basketball player
Thomas Ernest "Satch" Sanders is an American former professional basketball player and coach who played as a power forward in the National Basketball Association (NBA) for 13 seasons with the Boston Celtics. Sanders won eight NBA championships and is tied for third for the most NBA championships. He is also one of three NBA players with an unsurpassed 8–0 record in NBA Finals series. After his playing retirement, he served as a head coach for the Harvard Crimson men's basketball team and the Boston Celtics. Sanders was inducted into the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame as a contributor in 2011.
Richard Stoker, English composer, author, and poet (died 2021)
Richard Stoker was a British composer, writer, actor and artist.
08/11/1936
Virna Lisi, Italian actress (died 2014)
Virna Lisa Pieralisi, known as just Virna Lisi, was an Italian actress. Her international film appearances included How to Murder Your Wife (1965), Not with My Wife, You Don't! (1966), The Secret of Santa Vittoria (1969), Beyond Good and Evil (1977), and Follow Your Heart (1996). For the 1994 film La Reine Margot, she won Best Actress at Cannes and the César Award for Best Supporting Actress.
08/11/1935
Alain Delon, French-Swiss actor, producer, screenwriter (died 2024)
Alain Fabien Maurice Marcel Delon was a French actor, film producer, screenwriter, singer, and businessman. Acknowledged as a cultural and cinematic leading man of the 20th century, Delon emerged as one of the foremost European actors of the late 1950s to the late 1980s, and became an international sex symbol. He is regarded as one of the most well-known figures in French cinema. His style, looks, and roles, which made him an international icon, earned him enduring popularity.
Stratos Dionysiou, Greek singer-songwriter (died 1990)
Stratos Dionysiou, nicknamed "To Geraki tis Pistas", was a Greek singer, composer and lyricist.
Alfonso López Trujillo, Colombian cardinal (died 2008)
Alfonso López Trujillo was a Colombian Cardinal Bishop of the Roman Catholic Church and president of the Pontifical Council for the Family.
08/11/1933
Peter Arundell, English race car driver (died 2009)
Peter John Arundell was a British racing driver, who competed in Formula One at 13 Grands Prix between 1963 and 1966.
08/11/1932
Stéphane Audran, French actress (died 2018)
Stéphane Audran was a French film actress. She was known for her performances in the films of her husband Claude Chabrol, including Les Biches (1968) and Le Boucher (1970), Luis Buñuel's The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972), and Gabriel Axel's Babette's Feast (1987). The role she was mostly associated with was that of the haughty bourgeois woman.
Ben Bova, American journalist and author (died 2020)
Benjamin William Bova was an American writer and editor. During a writing career of 60 years, he was the author of more than 120 works of science fact and fiction, an editor of Analog Science Fiction and Fact, for which he won a Hugo Award six times, and an editorial director of Omni; he was also president of both the National Space Society and the Science Fiction Writers of America.
08/11/1931
Jim Redman, English-Rhodesian motorcycle racer
James Albert Redman, is a Rhodesian former professional motorcycle racer. He competed in Grand Prix motorcycle racing from 1959 to 1966. Redman is notable for being a six-time Grand Prix road racing world champion. In 2012, the F.I.M. inducted Redman into the MotoGP Hall of Fame.
Morley Safer, Canadian-American journalist and author (died 2016)
Morley Safer was a Canadian-American broadcast journalist, reporter, and correspondent for CBS News. He was best known for his long tenure on the news magazine 60 Minutes, whose cast he joined in 1970 after its second year on television. He was the longest-serving reporter on 60 Minutes.
Paolo Taviani, Italian film director and screenwriter (died 2024)
Paolo Taviani and Vittorio Taviani, collectively referred to as the Taviani brothers, were Italian film directors and screenwriters who collaborated on numerous film productions.
08/11/1929
Bobby Bowden, American football player and coach (died 2021)
Robert Cleckler Bowden was an American college football coach. Bowden coached the Florida State Seminoles of Florida State University (FSU) from 1976 to 2009 and is considered one of the greatest college football coaches of all time for his accomplishments with the team.
António Castanheira Neves, Portuguese philosopher and academic
António Castanheira Neves is a Portuguese legal philosopher and a professor emeritus at the law faculty of the University of Coimbra.
08/11/1928
Des Corcoran, Australian politician, 37th Premier of South Australia (died 2004)
James Desmond Corcoran was an Australian politician who served as the 37th premier of South Australia between February and September 1979, following the resignation of Don Dunstan. During his brief premiership Corcoran also served as state treasurer. Born at Millicent in the southeast of the state, he served in the Australian Army in the Korean War and Malayan Emergency, reaching the rank of captain, and being twice mentioned in despatches. Following his discharge in 1961, Corcoran was elected to the House of Assembly, succeeding his father Jim Corcoran – who retired at the 1962 election – as the member for the electoral district of Millicent representing the Australian Labor Party.
08/11/1927
L. K. Advani, Indian lawyer and politician, 7th Deputy Prime Minister of India
Lal Krishna Advani is an Indian politician and statesman who served as the 7th Deputy Prime Minister of India from 2002 to 2004. He is one of the co-founders of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and a member of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), a right-wing Hindutva [[]] organisation. He was the longest serving Minister of Home Affairs serving for 6 years and 64 days from 1998 to 2004, until his protége Amit Shah overtook him in 2025. He is also the longest serving Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha, as well as the longest serving President of the BJP, the current ruling party of India. He was the party's prime ministerial candidate during the 1989, 1991, and 2009 general elections.
Chris Connor, American singer (died 2009)
Mary Jean Loutsenhizer, known professionally as Chris Connor, was an American jazz singer.
Ken Dodd, English singer and comedian (died 2018)
Sir Kenneth Arthur Dodd was an English comedian, actor and singer. He was described as "the last great music hall entertainer" and was primarily known for his live stand-up performances. As a singer he sold more than 100 million records.
Nguyễn Khánh, Vietnamese general and politician, 4th President of the Republic of Vietnam (died 2013)
Nguyễn Khánh was a Vietnamese military officer and politician. A general of the Army of the Republic of Vietnam, he was the leader of South Vietnam from January 1964 until February 1965 while at the head of a military junta, serving during that time in various capacities, alternatively as head of state and as prime minister. He was involved in or against many coup attempts, failed and successful, from 1960 until his defeat and exile from South Vietnam in 1965. Khánh lived out his later years with his family in exile in the United States. He died in 2013 in San Jose, California, at age 85.
Patti Page, American singer and actress (died 2013)
Clara Ann Fowler, better known by her stage name Patti Page, was an American singer. Primarily known for pop and country music, she was the top-charting female vocalist and best-selling female artist of the 1950s, selling over 100 million records during a six-decade-long career. She was often introduced as "the Singin' Rage, Miss Patti Page". New York WNEW disc-jockey William B. Williams introduced her as "A Page in my life called Patti".
08/11/1926
Darleane C. Hoffman, American nuclear chemist (died 2025)
Darleane Christian Hoffman was an American nuclear chemist who was among the researchers who confirmed the existence of seaborgium, element 106. She was a faculty senior scientist in the Nuclear Science Division of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and a professor in the graduate school at UC Berkeley. In acknowledgment of her many achievements, Discover magazine recognized her in 2002 as one of the 50 most important women in science.
08/11/1924
Johnny Bower, Canadian ice hockey player and soldier (died 2017)
John William Bower nicknamed "The China Wall", was a Canadian ice hockey goaltender and inductee to the Hockey Hall of Fame, who won four Stanley Cups during his career with the Toronto Maple Leafs. In 2017 he was named one of the "100 Greatest NHL Players" in history. His song "Honky Goose" reached #29 on the CHUM Charts in December 1965.
Joe Flynn, American actor (died 1974)
Joseph Anthony Flynn III was an American actor. He was known for playing Captain Wallace Binghamton in the 1960s ABC television situation comedy McHale's Navy. Flynn was also a frequent guest star on 1960s TV shows, such as Batman, and appeared in several Walt Disney film comedies.
Robert V. Hogg, American statistician and academic (died 2014)
Robert Vincent Hogg was an American statistician and professor of statistics of the University of Iowa. Hogg is known for his widely used textbooks on statistics and on mathematical statistics. Hogg has received recognition for his research on robust and adaptive nonparametric statistics and for his scholarship on total quality management and statistics education.
Victorinus Youn Kong-hi, South Korean archbishop
Victorinus Youn Kong-hi was the third Archbishop, and current Archbishop Emeritus, of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Kwangju. Born in Nampho, South Pyongan, North Korea, he was ordained a priest of the Archdiocese of Seoul on March 20, 1950.
Dmitry Yazov, Marshal of the Soviet Union (died 2020)
Dmitry Timofeyevich Yazov was a Marshal of the Soviet Union. A veteran of the Great Patriotic War, Yazov served as Minister of Defence from 1987 until he was arrested for his part in the 1991 August coup, four months before the fall of the Soviet Union. Yazov was the last person to be appointed to the rank of Marshal of the Soviet Union on 28 April 1990 and the only Marshal born in Siberia. At the time of his death on 25 February 2020, he was the last living Marshal of the Soviet Union.
08/11/1923
Yisrael Friedman, Romanian-born Israeli rabbi (died 2017)
Yisrael Friedman, also known as the "Pashkaner Rebbe", was a historian, Rabbi, and Rosh Yeshiva. "Ben-Shalom", a man of peace, was appended to the surname in reference to his forebear Sholom Shachne of Prohobisht.
Jack Kilby, American physicist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2005)
Jack St. Clair Kilby was an American electronics engineer who took part, along with Robert Noyce of Fairchild Semiconductor, in the realization of the first integrated circuit while working at Texas Instruments in 1958. For this invention, Kilby shared the 2000 Nobel Prize in Physics.
08/11/1922
Christiaan Barnard, South African surgeon and academic (died 2001)
Christiaan Neethling Barnard was a South African cardiac surgeon who performed the world's first human-to-human heart transplant operation. On 3 December 1967, Barnard transplanted the heart of accident victim Denise Darvall into the chest of 54-year-old Louis Washkansky, who regained full consciousness and was able to talk easily with his wife, before dying 18 days later of pneumonia, largely brought on by the anti-rejection drugs that suppressed his immune system. Barnard had told Mr. and Mrs. Washkansky that the operation had an 80% chance of success, an assessment which has been criticised as misleading. Barnard's second transplant patient, Philip Blaiberg, whose operation was performed at the beginning of 1968, returned home from the hospital and lived for a year and a half.
Thea D. Hodge, American computer scientist and academic (died 2008)
Thea Drell Hodge was a member of the Association for Computing Machinery and a cofounder of the Minneapolis chapter of the Association for Women in Computing. Hodge was a pioneer for women in computer science and mentored many women in the field.
Ademir Marques de Menezes, Brazilian footballer, coach, and sportscaster (died 1996)
Ademir Marques de Menezes was a Brazilian footballer, regarded as one of the best forwards in the country's history. His prominent underbite earned him the nickname Queixada. He was also the top goalscorer of the 1950 FIFA World Cup.
08/11/1921
Douglas Townsend, American composer, musicologist, and academic (died 2012)
Douglas Townsend was an American composer and musicologist. Born in Manhattan, Townsend became interested in composition while a student at the Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts, in New York City. He taught himself composition, counterpoint and orchestration. In 1941, he began studying composition privately, with Tibor Serly, Stefan Wolpe, Aaron Copland, Otto Luening and Felix Greissle, among others.
08/11/1920
Sitara Devi, Indian actress, dancer, and choreographer (died 2014)
Sitara Devi was an Indian dancer of the classical Kathak style of dancing, a singer, and an actress. She was the recipient of several awards and accolades, and performed at several prestigious venues in India and abroad; including the Royal Albert Hall, London (1967) and at the Carnegie Hall, New York (1976).
Esther Rolle, American actress (died 1998)
Esther Elizabeth Rolle was an American actress. She is best known for her role as Florida Evans, on the CBS television sitcom Maude, for two seasons (1972–1974), and its spin-off series Good Times, for which she was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Television Series Musical or Comedy in 1976. In 1979, Rolle became the first Black actress to win the Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Limited Series or Special for the television film Summer of My German Soldier.
Eugênio Sales, Brazilian cardinal (died 2012)
Eugênio de Araújo Sales was a cardinal in the Roman Catholic Church, having been elevated by Pope Paul VI on 28 April 1969. He served as archbishop of São Sebastião do Rio de Janeiro for thirty years until his resignation was accepted in 2001, when he had already passed the maximum age for voting in a papal conclave. He was the Cardinal Protopriest of the Holy Roman Church and also the longest-serving living Cardinal of the Catholic Church from 16 February 2009 until his death.
08/11/1919
James S. Ackerman, American historian and academic (died 2016)
James Sloss Ackerman was an American architectural historian, a major scholar of Michelangelo's architecture, of Palladio and of Italian Renaissance architectural theory.
08/11/1918
Kazuo Sakamaki, Japanese soldier (died 1999)
Kazuo Sakamaki was a Japanese naval officer who became the first prisoner of war of World War II to be captured by U.S. forces.
Hermann Zapf, German typographer and calligrapher (died 2015)
Hermann Zapf was a German type designer and calligrapher who lived in Darmstadt, Germany. He was married to the calligrapher and typeface designer Gudrun Zapf-von Hesse. Typefaces he designed include Palatino, Optima, and Zapfino. He is considered one of the greatest type designers of all time.
08/11/1916
Clinton Jones, American Episcopal priest and gay rights activist (died 2006)
Canon Clinton Robert Jones Jr. was an Episcopal priest and gay rights activist based in Hartford, Connecticut.
08/11/1914
Norman Lloyd, American actor, director, and producer (died 2021)
Norman Nathan Lloyd was an American actor, producer, director, and centenarian with a career in entertainment spanning nearly a century. He worked in every major facet of the industry, including theatre, radio, television, and film, with a career that started in 1923. Lloyd's final film, Trainwreck, was released in 2015, after he turned 100. Lloyd remained the oldest-living male actor from Classic Hollywood until his death in 2021.
08/11/1913
Lou Ambers, American boxer (died 1995)
Luigi Giuseppe d'Ambrosio, also known as Lou Ambers, was an American two-time Undisputed World Lightweight boxing champion who fought from 1932 to 1941. Ambers fought many other boxing greats, such as Henry Armstrong and Tony Canzoneri.
08/11/1912
June Havoc, American actress, singer and dancer (died 2010)
June Havoc was a Canadian-born American actress, dancer, stage director and memoirist.
Stylianos Pattakos, Greek general and politician, Deputy Prime Minister of Greece (died 2016)
Stylianos G. Pattakos was a Greek military officer. Pattakos was one of the principals of the Greek military junta of 1967–1974 that overthrew the government of Panagiotis Kanellopoulos in a coup d'état on 21 April 1967.
08/11/1911
Al Brosch, American golfer (died 1975)
Albert Wenzel "Red" Brosch was an American professional golfer.
Robert Jackson, Australian public servant and diplomat (died 1991)
Sir Robert Gillman Allen Jackson was an Australian naval officer, public servant and United Nations administrator who specialised in technical and logistical assistance to the developing world.
08/11/1910
James McCormack, American general (died 1975)
James McCormack Jr. was a United States Army officer who served in World War II, and was later the first Director of Military Applications of the United States Atomic Energy Commission.
08/11/1908
Martha Gellhorn, American journalist and author (died 1998)
Martha Ellis Gellhorn was an American novelist, travel writer and journalist who is considered one of the great war correspondents of the 20th century. She reported on virtually every major world conflict that took place during her 60-year career.
08/11/1904
Cedric Belfrage, English-American journalist and author, co-founded the National Guardian (died 1990)
Cedric Henning Belfrage was an English film critic, journalist, writer and political activist. He is best remembered as a co-founder of the radical US weekly National Guardian. Later Belfrage was referenced as a Soviet agent in the US intelligence Venona project, although it appears he had been working for British Security Co-ordination as a double agent.
08/11/1902
A. J. M. Smith, Canadian poet and anthologist (died 1980)
Arthur James Marshall Smith was a Canadian poet and anthologist. He "was a prominent member of a group of Montreal poets" – the Montreal Group, which included Leon Edel, Leo Kennedy, A. M. Klein, and F. R. Scott — "who distinguished themselves by their modernism in a culture still rigidly rooted in Victorianism."
08/11/1900
Margaret Mitchell, American journalist and author (died 1949)
Margaret Munnerlyn Mitchell was an American novelist and journalist. Mitchell wrote only one novel that was published during her lifetime, the American Civil War-era novel Gone with the Wind, for which she won the National Book Award for Fiction for Most Distinguished Novel of 1936 and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1937. Long after her death, a collection of Mitchell's girlhood writings and a novella she wrote as a teenager, titled Lost Laysen, were published. A collection of newspaper articles written by Mitchell for The Atlanta Journal was republished in book form.
08/11/1897
Dorothy Day, American journalist and activist (died 1980)
Dorothy Day was an American journalist, social activist and anarchist who, after a bohemian youth, became a Catholic without abandoning her social activism. She was perhaps the best-known political radical among American Catholics.
08/11/1896
Erika Abels d'Albert, Austrian painter and graphic artist (died 1975)
Erika Abels d'Albert (1896–1975) was an Austrian painter and graphic artist.
Bucky Harris, American baseball player and manager (died 1977)
Stanley Raymond "Bucky" Harris was an American professional baseball second baseman, manager and executive. While Harris played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Washington Senators and Detroit Tigers, it was his long managerial career that led to his enshrinement in the Baseball Hall of Fame by the Veterans Committee in 1975.
Marie Prevost, Canadian-American actress and singer (died 1937)
Marie Prevost was a Canadian film actress. During her 20-year career, she made 121 silent and sound films.
08/11/1893
Prajadhipok, Thai king (died 1941)
Prajadhipok, also known as Rama VII was the seventh monarch of the Chakri dynasty and the last king of Siam under the absolute monarchy. He ascended the throne in 1925 and reigned until his abdication in 1935 during his self-imposed exile following his fallout with the new democratic government after the 1932 Siamese Revolution, which brought an end to the country’s absolute monarchy.
08/11/1888
David Monrad Johansen, Norwegian pianist and composer (died 1974)
David Monrad Johansen was a Norwegian composer.
08/11/1885
George Bouzianis, Greek painter (died 1959)
George Bouzianis was a major Greek expressionist painter.
Hans Cloos, German geologist and academic (died 1951)
Hans Cloos was a prominent German structural geologist.
Emil Fahrenkamp, German architect and academic (died 1966)
Emil Fahrenkamp was a German architect and professor. One of the most prominent architects of the period between the first and second World Wars, he is best known for his 1931 Shell-Haus in Berlin.
Tomoyuki Yamashita, Japanese general and politician, 4th Japanese Military Governors of the Philippines (died 1946)
Tomoyuki Yamashita was a general in the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II. Yamashita led Japanese forces during the invasion of Malaya and Battle of Singapore. His conquest of Malaya and Singapore in 70 days earned him the sobriquet "The Tiger of Malaya". He was assigned to defend the Philippines from the advancing Allies later in the war. Although he was unable to prevent the superior Allied forces from advancing, despite dwindling supplies and Allied guerrilla action, he was able to hold on to part of Luzon until after the formal surrender of Japan in August 1945.
08/11/1884
Hermann Rorschach, Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst (died 1922)
Hermann Rorschach was a Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst. His education in art helped to spur the development of a set of inkblots that were used experimentally to measure various unconscious parts of the subject's personality. His method has come to be referred to as the Rorschach test, iterations of which have continued to be used over the years to help identify personality, psychotic, and neurological disorders. Rorschach continued to refine the test until his premature death at age 37.
08/11/1883
Arnold Bax, English composer and poet (died 1953)
Sir Arnold Edward Trevor Bax was an English composer, poet, and author. His prolific output includes songs, choral music, chamber pieces, and solo piano works, but he is best known for his orchestral music. In addition to a series of symphonic poems, he wrote seven symphonies and was for a time widely regarded as the leading British symphonist.
Charles Demuth, American painter (died 1935)
Charles Henry Buckius Demuth was an American painter who specialized in watercolors and turned to oils late in his career, developing a style of painting known as Precisionism.
08/11/1881
Clarence Gagnon, Canadian painter and illustrator (died 1942)
Clarence Alphonse Gagnon, LL. D. was a French Canadian painter, draughtsman, engraver and illustrator. He is known for his landscape paintings of the Laurentians and the Charlevoix region of eastern Quebec.
08/11/1878
Dorothea Bate, English palaeontologist and archaeozoologist (died 1951)
Dorothea Minola Alice Bate, also known as Dorothy Bate, was a Welsh palaeontologist and pioneer of archaeozoology. Her life's work was to find fossils of recently extinct mammals with a view to understanding how and why giant and dwarf forms evolved.
08/11/1868
Felix Hausdorff, German mathematician and academic (died 1942)
Felix Hausdorff was a German mathematician, pseudonym Paul Mongré, who is considered to be one of the founders of modern topology and who contributed significantly to set theory, descriptive set theory, measure theory, and functional analysis.
08/11/1866
Herbert Austin, 1st Baron Austin, English businessman, founded the Austin Motor Company (died 1941)
Herbert Austin, 1st Baron Austin was an English automobile designer and builder who founded the Austin Motor Company. For the majority of his career he was known as Sir Herbert Austin, and the Northfield bypass is called "Sir Herbert Austin Way" after him.
08/11/1855
Nikolaos Triantafyllakos, Greek politician, Prime Minister of Greece (died 1939)
Nikolaos Triantafyllakos was a Prime Minister of Greece during a tumultuous time in Greek history from August to September 1922.
08/11/1854
Johannes Rydberg, Swedish physicist and academic (died 1919)
Johannes (Janne) Robert Rydberg was a Swedish physicist known for devising the Rydberg formula, in 1888, which is used to describe the wavelengths of photons emitted by changes in the energy level of an electron in a hydrogen atom.
08/11/1848
Gottlob Frege, German mathematician and philosopher (died 1925)
Friedrich Ludwig Gottlob Frege was a German philosopher, logician, and mathematician. He was a mathematics professor at the University of Jena, and is understood by many to be the father of analytic philosophy, concentrating on the philosophy of language, logic, and mathematics. Though he was largely ignored during his lifetime, Giuseppe Peano (1858–1932), Bertrand Russell (1872–1970), and, to some extent, Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951) introduced his work to later generations of philosophers. Frege is widely considered to be one of the greatest logicians since Aristotle, and one of the most profound philosophers of mathematics ever.
08/11/1847
Jean Casimir-Perier, French politician, 6th President of France (died 1907)
Jean Paul Pierre Casimir-Perier was a French politician who served as President of France from June 1894 to January 1895.
Bram Stoker, Irish novelist and critic, created Count Dracula (died 1912)
Abraham Stoker was an Irish writer, barrister, and theatre manager. He was the author of Dracula (1897) and the creator of the fictional character Count Dracula. The novel and its antagonist are milestones in the fields of Gothic and vampire literature.
08/11/1837
Ilia Chavchavadze, Georgian journalist, lawyer, and politician (died 1907)
Tavadi (Prince) Ilia Chavchavadze was a Georgian journalist, publisher, writer and poet who spearheaded the revival of Georgian nationalism during the second half of the 19th century in the period of Tsarist rule. He has been called Georgia's "most universally revered hero" and the "Father of the Nation."
08/11/1836
Milton Bradley, American businessman, founded the Milton Bradley Company (died 1911)
Milton Bradley was an American business magnate, game pioneer and publisher, credited by many with launching the board game industry, with his eponymous enterprise, which was purchased by Hasbro in 1984, and folded in 1998.
08/11/1831
Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton, English poet and diplomat, 30th Governor-General of India (died 1880)
Edward Robert Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton,, was a British statesman, Conservative politician and poet who used the pseudonym Owen Meredith. During his tenure as Viceroy of India between 1876 and 1880, Queen Victoria was proclaimed Empress of India. He served as British Ambassador to France from 1887 to 1891.
08/11/1788
Mihály Bertalanits, Slovene poet and educator (died 1853)
Mihály Bertalanits was a Slovene cantor, teacher, and poet in Hungary.
08/11/1772
William Wirt, American lawyer and politician, 9th United States Attorney General (died 1834)
William Wirt was an American lawyer, politician and author who is credited with turning the position of United States Attorney General into one of influence. The longest-serving attorney general in U.S. history, Wirt also served in the Virginia House of Delegates and was the Anti-Masonic nominee for president in the 1832 election.
08/11/1768
Princess Augusta Sophia of the United Kingdom (died 1840)
Princess Augusta Sophia was the sixth child and second daughter of King George III and Queen Charlotte.
08/11/1763
Otto Wilhelm Masing, German-Estonian linguist and author (died 1832)
Otto Wilhelm Masing was a clergyman, writer, journalist, linguist, notable early Estophile and a major advocate of Estonian commoners' rights, especially regarding education.
08/11/1739
Henrik Gabriel Porthan, Finnish professor and historian (died 1804)
Henrik Gabriel Porthan was a professor and rector at the Royal Academy of Turku, Finland, which was then part of the Kingdom of Sweden. He was a scholar sometimes known as The Father of Finnish History. Porthan's legacy greatly influenced the rise of the Finnish national culture and romanticism of the early 19th century.
08/11/1738
Barbara Catharina Mjödh, Finnish poet (died 1776)
Barbara Catharina Mjödh was a Finnish poet. She was born to the vicar and politician Abraham Mjödh and Magdalena Ross. Mjödh wrote of great occasions in peoples' lives, such as weddings and funerals. In 1754, she published her funeral poem of Anna Gerdzlovia. She was praised for her talent, but her career is regarded to have been severely subdued because of her marriage.
08/11/1725
Johann George Tromlitz, German flute player and composer (died 1805)
Johann George Tromlitz, born at Reinsdorf, near Artern, Germany, was a flautist, flute maker and composer. He wrote three books on the art of flute playing.
08/11/1723
John Byron, English admiral and politician, 24th Commodore Governor of Newfoundland (died 1786)
Vice-Admiral of the White John Byron was a Royal Navy officer, explorer, and colonial administrator. He earned the nickname "Foul-Weather Jack" in the British press due to his frequent encounters with bad weather at sea. As a midshipman, Byron sailed in a squadron under George Anson on his voyage around the world. However, Byron's ship, HMS Wager, made it only to southern Chile, where it was wrecked. He returned to England with the captain of the ship.
08/11/1715
Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel-Bevern (died 1797)
Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel-Bevern was Queen of Prussia and Electress of Brandenburg as the wife of Frederick the Great. She was the longest-serving Prussian queen, with a tenure of more than 46 years. She was praised for her charity work during the Seven Years' War.
08/11/1710
Sarah Fielding, English author (died 1768)
Sarah Fielding was an English writer and sister of the playwright, novelist and magistrate Henry Fielding. She wrote The Governess, or The Little Female Academy (1749), thought to be the first novel in English aimed expressly at children. Earlier she had success with her novel The Adventures of David Simple (1744-53).
08/11/1706
Johann Ulrich von Cramer, German philosopher and judge (died 1772)
Johann Ulrich von Cramer was an eminent German judge, legal scholar, and Enlightenment philosopher.
08/11/1656
Edmond Halley, English astronomer and mathematician (died 1742)
Edmond Halley was an English astronomer, mathematician and physicist. He was the second Astronomer Royal in Britain, succeeding John Flamsteed in 1720.
08/11/1622
Charles X Gustav of Sweden (died 1660)
Charles X Gustav, also Carl X Gustav, was King of Sweden from 1654 until his death in 1660. He was the son of John Casimir, Count Palatine (Pfalzgraf) of Zweibrücken-Kleeburg, and Catherine of Sweden. After his father's death, he also succeeded him as Pfalzgraf. He was married to Hedwig Eleonora of Holstein-Gottorp, who bore his son and successor, Charles XI. Charles X Gustav was the second Wittelsbach king of Sweden after the childless king Christopher of Bavaria (1441–1448) and he was the first king of the Swedish Caroline era, which had its peak during the end of the reign of his son, Charles XI. He led Sweden during the Second Northern War, enlarging the Swedish Empire. By his predecessor Christina, he was considered de facto Duke of Eyland (Öland), before ascending to the Swedish throne. From 1655 to 1657, he also claimed the title of Grand Duke of Lithuania.
08/11/1572
John Sigismund, Elector of Brandenburg (died 1619)
John Sigismund was a Prince-elector of the Margraviate of Brandenburg from the House of Hohenzollern. He became the Duke of Prussia through his marriage to Duchess Anna, the eldest daughter of Duke Albert Frederick of Prussia who died without sons. Their marriage resulted in the potential creation of Brandenburg-Prussia, which became a reality after Poland's leader appointed John Sigismund in charge of Prussia in regency and, shortly thereafter, Albert Frederick died without an able, direct male heir.
08/11/1563
Henry II, Duke of Lorraine (died 1624)
Henry II, known as "the Good ", was Duke of Lorraine from 1608 until his death. Leaving no sons, both of his daughters became Duchesses of Lorraine by marriage. He was a brother-in-law of Henry IV of France.
08/11/1555
Nyaungyan Min, King of Burma (died 1605)
Nyaung-yan Min or Neow-ram Min, personal name Shin Thissah (ရှင်သစ္စာ), courtesy name Min-Yeh Nandamate (မင်းရဲနန္ဒိမိတ်), was king of the Toungoo dynasty of Burma (Myanmar) from 1599 to 1605. He is also referred to as the founder of the restored Toungoo dynasty or Nyaungyan dynasty for starting the reunification process following the collapse of the First Toungoo Empire.
08/11/1543
Lettice Knollys, English noblewoman (died 1634)
Lettice Knollys was an English noblewoman and mother to the courtiers Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, and Penelope, Lady Rich. She was Countess of Essex during her first marriage to Walter Devereux, 1st Earl of Essex and became Countess of Leicester after her second marriage to Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester. With her marriage to Elizabeth I's favourite, she incurred the Queen's unrelenting displeasure.
08/11/1491
Teofilo Folengo, Italian monk and poet (died 1544)
Teofilo Folengo, who wrote under the pseudonym of Merlino Coccajo or Merlinus Cocaius in Latin, was one of the principal Italian macaronic poets.
08/11/1456
Queen Gonghye, Korean royal consort (died 1474)
Queen Gonghye, of the Cheongju Han clan, was the first wife of King Seongjong, 9th monarch of Joseon. She was the Queen of Joseon from 1469 until her death in 1474.
08/11/1417
Philipp I, Count of Hanau-Lichtenberg (1458–1480) (died 1480)
Philipp I, Count of Hanau-Lichtenberg was Count of Hanau. The county was divided between him and his nephew, Count Philipp I "the Younger". Philipp the Elder's part of the county was later called Hanau-Lichtenberg; Philipp the Younger's part is known as Hanau-Münzenberg.
08/11/1407
Alain de Coëtivy, French cardinal (died 1474)
Alain (II) de Coëtivy was a prelate from a Breton noble family. He was bishop of Avignon, Nîmes and of Dol, cardinal of the titular church of Santa Prassede, then cardinal-bishop of Palestrina and cardinal-bishop of Sabina. Sources often refer to him as the Cardinal of Avignon, his diocese when he became a cardinal.
08/11/0030
Nerva, Roman emperor (died 98)
AD 30 (XXX) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Vinicius and Longinus. The denomination AD 30 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.