Born on Sunday, 12th October – Famous Birthdays
On this day, 250 notable people were born on 12th October — spanning from 1008 to 2004. From world leaders to artists and scientists, discover who shares this birthday.
Sunday 12th October 2025 marks a date of considerable significance in entertainment and history. The day is particularly notable for the birth of Calum Scott in 1988, a British singer who would go on to achieve international recognition through talent competitions and musical recordings. Additionally, 12th October 1881 witnessed the birth of Ramsay MacDonald, a Scottish journalist and politician who would become Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, serving during a transformative period in British political history. The date has also seen the emergence of numerous athletes, performers, and professionals across diverse fields, from ice hockey players to theatrical performers and musical artists.
Among those born on this day, Josh Hutcherson represents contemporary cinema, having established himself as an accomplished American actor and producer. The list encompasses a broad spectrum of talent, including musicians, sports figures, and academics whose contributions have shaped their respective disciplines. From classical composers to modern entertainers, the individuals born on 12th October demonstrate the range of human achievement across generations and cultures.
On Sunday 12th October 2025, the atmospheric conditions show partly cloudy skies with a temperature of approximately 14 degrees Celsius and moderate winds. Those born on this date fall under the zodiac sign of Libra, characterised traditionally by traits associated with balance and diplomacy. The moon is in its waning gibbous phase, approaching the third quarter.
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12/10/2004
Darci Lynne, American ventriloquist
Darci Lynne Farmer is an American ventriloquist and singer. She has been credited with the revival of ventriloquism, earning praise and numerous accolades for her work.
12/10/2002
Iris Apatow, American actress
Iris Apatow is an American actress. She portrayed Arya Hopkins in the Netflix series Love and Krystal Kris in the 2022 Netflix film The Bubble.
12/10/2000
Jongho, South Korean singer and actor
Choi Jong-ho, known professionally as Jongho, is a South Korean singer and actor. He debuted as the main vocalist of the boy group Ateez in 2018. Jongho has also released multiple Korean drama soundtracks, including "Gravity" for the drama Reborn Rich and "A Day" for the drama Lovely Runner.
Mia Threapleton, British actress
Mia Honey Winslet Threapleton is an English actress. The daughter of actress Kate Winslet and painter-filmmaker Jim Threapleton, she made her film debut at the age of 13 with a non-speaking cameo in the period drama A Little Chaos (2014). On television, she co-starred with her mother in the episode "I Am Ruth" (2022) of the anthology series I Am..., and appeared in the period drama series Dangerous Liaisons (2022) and The Buccaneers (2023–present). She had her first lead role in a feature film in the black comedy The Phoenician Scheme (2025).
12/10/1999
Ferdia Walsh-Peelo, Irish actor and musician
Ferdia Walsh-Peelo is an Irish actor and musician. He made his film debut in the musical Sing Street (2016) and television debut in the History series Vikings (2017–2020). He has since appeared in the films Here Are the Young Men (2020) and CODA (2021).
12/10/1997
Curtis Scott, Australian rugby league player
Curtis Scott is an Australian professional boxer and former professional rugby league footballer who last played in 2021, as a centre for the Canberra Raiders in the NRL.
12/10/1996
James Graham, British singer
James Graham is a British singer from Chelmsford in Essex. In 2018, Graham participated and emerged as the winner of the second season of the Fox’s The Four: Battle for Stardom.
Owen Watkin, Welsh rugby player
Owen Paul Watkin is a Welsh professional rugby union player who plays as a centre for United Rugby Championship club Ospreys and the Wales national team. He started his amateur career at Valley club, Ogmore vale RFC..
12/10/1995
Jessica Hogg, Welsh artistic gymnast
Jessica Hogg is a Welsh artistic gymnast.
12/10/1994
Sean Monahan, Canadian ice hockey player
Sean Monahan is a Canadian professional ice hockey player who is a centre for the Columbus Blue Jackets of the National Hockey League (NHL).
Olivia Smoliga, American swimmer
Olivia Smoliga is a two-time Olympian and American competitive swimmer who specializes in backstroke and freestyle events. She won a record eight gold medals at the 2018 World Championships, becoming the first swimmer, male or female, to win eight or more gold medals in a single FINA World Swimming Championships or FINA World Aquatics Championships. She is the current Guinness World Record holder for "most gold medals won at a single FINA World Championships" by an individual swimmer. At the 2016 Summer Olympics held in Rio de Janeiro, she won a gold medal for swimming the backstroke leg in the preliminary heat of the 4x100-meter medley relay.
12/10/1993
Ketel Marte, Dominican baseball player
Ketel Ricardo Marte Valdez is a Dominican professional baseball second baseman for the Arizona Diamondbacks of Major League Baseball (MLB). He has previously played in MLB for the Seattle Mariners. Marte made his MLB debut with the Mariners in 2015, and was traded to the Diamondbacks during the 2016–17 offseason. Marte has been named the starting second baseman for the 2019, 2024 and 2025 All-Star Games. In 2023, he won NLCS MVP en route to Arizona's first pennant since 2001.
12/10/1992
Josh Hutcherson, American actor and producer
Joshua Ryan Hutcherson is an American actor. His accolades include four Teen Choice Awards, four Young Artist Awards, and three MTV Movie Awards, in addition to a nomination for a Screen Actors Guild Award.
12/10/1991
Nicolao Dumitru, Italian footballer
Nicolao Manuel Dumitru Cardoso is an Italian professional footballer who plays for Malaysia Super League club Kuala Lumpur City. Mainly a left winger, he can also play as a forward.
12/10/1990
Henri Lansbury, English footballer
Henri George Lansbury is an English former professional footballer who played as a midfielder. Throughout his career, he played for Arsenal, where he ascended from the club's academy, in addition to spells with sides Scunthorpe United, Watford, Norwich City, Aston Villa FC, West Ham United and Nottingham Forest, Bristol City and Luton Town. He achieved consecutive promotions to the Premier League in 2010–11 with Norwich and 2011–12 with West Ham. Lansbury also played for England as a youth international.
12/10/1989
Anna Ohmiya, Japanese curler
Anna Ohmiya is a Japanese curler from Sapporo, Hokkaido. She is the lead on the FORTIUS curling team, which won the Japan Curling Championships in 2015, 2021 and 2025. She also won the national championship in 2008, 2009 and 2010 as a member of Team Aomori. She competed for Japan at two Olympics; the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, Canada, and the 2026 Winter Olympics in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy. Also at the international level, she has represented Japan at five World Women's Curling Championship and six Pacific-Asia Curling Championships in 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2014 and 2021, winning the gold medal in 2021.
12/10/1988
Sam Whitelock, New Zealand rugby player
Samuel Lawrence Whitelock is a New Zealand former rugby union player.
Calum Scott, British singer
Calum Scott is an English singer and songwriter. He rose to prominence in April 2015 after competing on the ITV talent contest Britain's Got Talent, where he performed a cover of Robyn's hit "Dancing on My Own" and earned a Golden Buzzer from Simon Cowell. After placing sixth in the contest, he released his own version of the song as a single the following year, which peaked at number two on the UK singles chart and became Britain's best-selling single of summer 2016.
12/10/1987
Marvin Ogunjimi, Belgian footballer
Marvin Ogunjimi is a Belgian former professional footballer who played as a forward. Until 2011, he played for the Belgium national team earning seven caps.
12/10/1986
Ioannis Maniatis, Greek footballer
Giannis Maniatis is a Greek former professional footballer who played as a right back or a defensive midfielder.
Sergio Peter, German footballer
Sergio Mario Peter is a German former professional footballer who played as a winger.
Cristhian Stuani, Uruguayan footballer
Cristhian Ricardo Stuani Curbelo is a Uruguayan professional footballer who plays as a striker for and captains La Liga club Girona.
Tyler Blackburn, American actor
Tyler Jordon Blackburn is an American actor and singer. He is best known for playing Caleb Rivers on the hit Freeform series Pretty Little Liars and its spin-off, Ravenswood. He most recently starred as Alex Manes in The CW series Roswell, New Mexico (2019–2022).
12/10/1985
Michelle Carter, American shot putter
Michelle Denee Carter is an American retired track and field athlete who competed in shot put. She won a gold medal in the event at the 2016 Rio Olympics, making her the first American woman to win Olympic gold in shot put and only the second to medal in the event. Carter is the former American record holder in the event with a distance of 20.63 m set at the 2016 Olympic Games. She was inducted into the Texas Sports Hall of Fame in 2020.
Mike Green, Canadian hockey player
Michael David Green is a Canadian former professional ice hockey defenceman who played in the National Hockey League (NHL) with the Washington Capitals, Detroit Red Wings and Edmonton Oilers.
Anna Iljuštšenko, Estonian high jumper
Anna Iljuštšenko is an Estonian high jumper.
Greig Laidlaw, Scottish rugby player
Greig Laidlaw is a Scottish former professional rugby union player who played as a scrum-half and as a fly-half. Laidlaw holds the record for most caps as captain, 39, of the men's Scottish national team. He also represented the British & Irish Lions in 2017.
Carl Söderberg, Swedish ice hockey player
Carl Johan Söderberg is a Swedish former professional ice hockey forward. He was drafted by the St. Louis Blues in the second round, 49th overall, of the 2004 NHL Entry Draft, and has previously played with the Boston Bruins, Colorado Avalanche, Arizona Coyotes and Chicago Blackhawks in the National Hockey League (NHL).
12/10/1983
Alex Brosque, Australian footballer
Alex Jason Brosque is an Australian former professional soccer player who was the captain of A-League club Sydney FC. He played primarily as a striker but played predominantly as a midfielder in central midfield during his time in Japan.
Carlton Cole, English footballer
Carlton Michael George Cole is an English football coach and former professional footballer who played as a striker. He scored 52 goals in 288 Premier League appearances for four clubs.
Katie Piper, English philanthropist, broadcaster, and acid violence survivor
Kate Elizabeth Sutton is an English writer, activist, television presenter and model from Andover, Hampshire.
Mariko Yamamoto, Japanese cricketer
Mariko Yamamoto is a Japanese former cricketer, who has played for the women's national cricket team. She was part of Japan's squad for the 2011 Women's Cricket World Cup Qualifier and the 2013 ICC Women's World Twenty20 Qualifier.
12/10/1981
Tom Guiry, American actor
Thomas John Guiry is an American actor. He is best known for his lead performance as Scott "Scotty" Smalls in the coming-of-age film The Sandlot, which was filmed when he was 12, and his role in NBC crime drama The Black Donnellys. Guiry has appeared in numerous high-profile films and television series, including U-571, Black Hawk Down, Mystic River, Black Irish, and The Revenant.
Marcel Hossa, Slovak ice hockey player
Marcel Hossa is a Slovak former professional ice hockey left winger. Hossa played in the National Hockey League (NHL) with the Montreal Canadiens, New York Rangers and Phoenix Coyotes, having been drafted by the Canadiens in the first round, 16th overall, in the 2000 NHL entry draft.
Brian Kerr, Scottish footballer and manager
Brian Kerr is a Scottish football coach and former player, who is currently assistant manager at Scottish Premiership club Aberdeen.
Giuseppe Lanzone, American rower
Giuseppe Lanzone is an American rower and 2005 graduate of the University of Washington. He attended and rowed for McLean High School, graduating in 2001, before going to the University of Washington. He was the 2004 and 2005 All Pac-10 Team Rower of the Year, and the 2010 US Rowing Male Athlete of the Year. Along with his teammates he finished 9th in the men's coxless four at the 2008 Summer Olympics. He was in the men's 8+ that finished fourth at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London. He worked at Sparks Consulting, a social business that is concerned with rowing community development during his national team and Olympic training. Was the former head lightweight coach at Georgetown University.
Brian J. Smith, American actor
Brian Jacob Smith is an American actor. Smith is known for portraying Will Gorski in the Netflix-produced series Sense8 and Lieutenant Matthew Scott in the military science fiction television series Stargate Universe. He is also known for his Tony Award-nominated role as Jim O'Connor in the 2013 Broadway revival of The Glass Menagerie.
Conrad Smith, New Zealand rugby player
Conrad Gerard Smith is a New Zealand rugby union coach and former player, who played predominantly at centre. He captained the Hurricanes in Super Rugby, and played for New Zealand from 2004 until 2015. He was a key member of New Zealand's 2011 and 2015 Rugby World Cup winning teams. Following the 2015 World Cup he retired from international rugby and took up a contract with Pau in France, before retiring in 2018.
Sun Tiantian, Chinese tennis player
Sun Tiantian is a Chinese tennis player. She won the gold medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics in women's doubles along with her partner Li Ting.
12/10/1980
Ledley King, English footballer
Ledley Brenton King is an English former professional footballer. A one-club man, he spent his entire career with Premier League club Tottenham Hotspur and played 323 competitive matches for them from 1999 to 2012. He is a club ambassador for Tottenham Hotspur.
Ann Wauters, Belgian basketball player
Ann Hilde Willy Wauters is a Belgian former professional basketball player and coach, most recently serving as an assistant coach for the Chicago Sky in the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA). She played for numerous American and European professional teams, including the Cleveland Rockers, US Valenciennes Olympic, and the San Antonio Silver Stars. She won four EuroLeague championships and one WNBA Finals during her career. Her primary position was center.
12/10/1979
Steven Agnew, Northern Irish politician
Steven Agnew is a Northern Irish Environmental Director and former politician who served as the leader of the Green Party in Northern Ireland between 2011 and 2018, and was a Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) for North Down from 2011 to 2019.
Steve Borthwick, English rugby player and coach
Stephen William Borthwick is an English rugby union coach and former player, who is currently the head coach of the England national team. As a player, he played as a lock for Bath and Saracens. At international level, he played for England 57 times from his debut in 2001; he served as captain from 2008, until he was dropped from the side in 2010.
Jordan Pundik, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
Jordan Izaak Pundik is an American singer. He is a founding member and the frontman of Floridian rock band New Found Glory, for whom he sings lead vocals and contributes lyrics. He was also the guitarist in the band's now-defunct side project International Superheroes of Hardcore, where he performed under the pseudonym of "Chugga Chugga".
12/10/1978
Stefan Binder, German footballer
Stefan Binder is a German former professional footballer who played as a defender.
Baden Cooke, Australian cyclist
Baden Cooke is an Australian retired professional racing cyclist, who competed professionally between 2000 and 2013.
Marko Jarić, Serbian basketball player
Marko Jarić is a Serbian former professional basketball player. Standing at 2.01 m, he mainly played the point guard position. He also represented the senior FR Yugoslavian national basketball team internationally. Jarić was an All-EuroLeague First Team member in 2002.
12/10/1977
Cristie Kerr, American golfer
Cristie Kerr is an American professional golfer who plays on the LPGA Tour. She has 20 wins on the LPGA Tour, including two major championships, and over $19 million in career earnings. Kerr was the number one-ranked golfer in the Women's World Golf Rankings for three time periods in 2010. She is naturally left handed but plays golf right handed.
Bode Miller, American skier
Samuel Bode Miller is an American former World Cup alpine ski racer. He is an Olympic and World Championship gold medalist, a two-time overall World Cup champion in 2005 and 2008, and the most successful male American alpine ski racer of all time. He is also considered one of the greatest World Cup racers of all time with 33 race victories and being one of five men to win World Cup events in all five disciplines. He is the only skier with five or more victories in each discipline. In 2008, Miller and Lindsey Vonn won the overall World Cup titles for the first U.S. sweep in 25 years.
Javier Toyo, Venezuelan footballer
Javier Eduardo Toyo Bárcenas is a Venezuelan football goalkeeper. He was a member of the Venezuela national football team.
12/10/1976
Simon Bridges, New Zealand politician
Simon Joseph Bridges is a New Zealand former politician, broadcaster and lawyer. He served as Leader of the National Party and Leader of the Opposition between 2018 and 2020, and as the Member of Parliament for Tauranga from the 2008 election to May 2022, when he resigned. Bridges is the first and currently the only Māori person to serve as leader of a major political party in New Zealand.
12/10/1975
Susana Félix, Portuguese singer-songwriter, producer, and actress
Susana Félix is a Portuguese singer, songwriter, musician, actress, producer.
Marion Jones, American basketball player and runner
Marion Lois Jones, married Marion Jones-Thompson, is an American former world champion track-and-field athlete and former professional basketball player. She won three gold medals and two bronze medals at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia, but was later stripped of her medals after admitting to lying to federal investigators about her use of performance-enhancing drugs.
Randy Robitaille, Canadian ice hockey player
Randy M. Robitaille is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player. He last played for HC Donbass of the Kontinental Hockey League. Robitaille has previously played for nine teams in the National Hockey League (NHL).
12/10/1974
Stephen Lee, English snooker player
Stephen Lee is an English former professional snooker player. He turned professional in 1992, reached a career-high of fifth in the snooker world rankings for the 2000–01 season, and won five ranking titles. His best performances in Triple Crown events were reaching the semi-finals of the 2003 World Championship, where he lost to eventual champion Mark Williams, and reaching the final of the 2008 Masters, where he was runner-up to Mark Selby. He compiled 184 century breaks in professional competition and was noted for his smooth cue action.
12/10/1973
Lesli Brea, Dominican baseball player
Lesli Guillermo Brea is a former Major League Baseball player. A right-handed relief pitcher, Brea is 5 feet 11 inches (1.80 m) tall, and he weighed 170 pounds during his playing career. Some records list his year of birth as 1978, but this figure was subsequently found to be inaccurate.
Martin Corry, English rugby player
Martin Edward Corry MBE is a retired English rugby union player who represented and captained England and Leicester Tigers in a career spanning 14 seasons. Corry played 64 times for England between 1997 and 2007, played 7 tests for the British & Irish Lions on tours in 2001 & 2005, and played 290 times for Leicester between 1997 and 2009. Earlier in his career he played top division rugby for Newcastle Gosforth and Bristol. A versatile player his principal positions were number eight and blindside flanker, he also played lock more as his career progressed.
12/10/1972
Juan Manuel Silva, Argentinian race car driver
Juan Manuel Silva, nicknamed el Pato is an Argentine racing driver. In 1999 he was the champion of the TC 2000 competition and in 2005 he was the champion of the Turismo Carretera competition.
Tom Van Mol, Belgian footballer
Tom Van Mol is a Belgian former professional footballer as a defender.
12/10/1971
Tony Fiore, American baseball player
Anthony James Fiore is an American former right-handed Major League Baseball pitcher. In his career, he pitched for the Tampa Bay Devil Rays (2000-2001) and the Minnesota Twins (2001-2003). He was originally drafted by the Philadelphia Phillies in 1992. His signature pitch was the palmball.
Steve Johnston, Australian motorcycle racer
Steven Paul Johnston is former international motorcycle speedway rider from Australia.
Bronzell Miller, American football player and actor (died 2013)
Bronzell LaJames Miller was an American professional football player and entertainer. As a football player he played for the University of Utah in college and then a series of professional teams after being selected by the St. Louis Rams in 1995. He spent a season with the Jacksonville Jaguars in 1996, the Calgary Stampeders from 1997 to 2001 and ending with the Los Angeles Avengers of the Arena Football League (AFL) in 2001. As an actor he appeared in feature films including Bringing Down the House, Mr. 3000, Slow, The Luck of the Irish, as well as television shows and commercials. He also worked as a print model for the YMCA of Greater New York and performed voice work for Milwaukee Radio Group.
12/10/1970
Kirk Cameron, American actor, screenwriter, and Christian evangelical/anti-evolution activist
Kirk Thomas Cameron is an American actor, author, evangelist, television host, documentarian and producer. He first gained fame as a teen actor playing Mike Seaver on the ABC sitcom Growing Pains (1985–1992), a role for which he was nominated for two Golden Globe Awards.
Patrick Musimu, Belgian diver and physiotherapist (died 2011)
Patrick Musimu was a Belgian freediver, sport business manager, marketing and event manager, and physiotherapist. He was born in Kinshasa, Zaire. On 30 June 2005, he beat the previous "No Limits" world record in freediving by almost 40 meters by diving to 209 meters. Following his request, this dive was done without the supervision of the International Association for Freediving agency, from which Musimu dissociated since 2002. According to him, extreme deep freediving should not be considered as a sport but as an adventure.
Tanyon Sturtze, American baseball player
Tanyon James Sturtze is an American former Major League Baseball pitcher.
Charlie Ward, American basketball player and coach
Charlie Ward Jr. is an American former professional basketball player in the National Basketball Association (NBA) and current head coach for the Florida A&M Rattlers. Ward was an exceptional college football player as well, winning the Heisman Trophy, Davey O'Brien Award, and College Football National Championship as a quarterback for the Florida State Seminoles.
12/10/1969
Martie Maguire, American singer-songwriter, violinist, and producer
Martha Elenor Maguire is an American musician who is a founding member of the country band the Chicks and the country bluegrass duo Court Yard Hounds. She won awards in national fiddle championships while still a teenager. Maguire is accomplished on several other instruments, including the mandolin, viola, double bass and guitar. She has written and co-written a number of the band's songs, some of which have become chart-topping hits. She also contributes her skills in vocal harmony and backing vocals, as well as orchestrating string arrangements for the band.
Željko Milinovič, Slovenian footballer
Željko Milinovič is a Slovenian former professional footballer who played as a defender. He represented his country at the two major tournaments for which they qualified, the Euro 2000 and the World Cup 2002.
Dwayne Roloson, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
Albert Dwayne Roloson is a Canadian former professional ice hockey goaltender and former goaltending coach of the Anaheim Ducks of the National Hockey League (NHL). He is currently the Goaltending Coach and Director of Player Development for Lake Superior State University Men's Ice Hockey of the Central Collegiate Hockey Association (CCHA).
José Valentín, American baseball player, coach, and manager
José Antonio Valentín is a Puerto Rican former professional baseball infielder. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Milwaukee Brewers (1992–1999), Chicago White Sox (2000–2004), Los Angeles Dodgers (2005), and New York Mets (2006–2007).
12/10/1968
Bill Auberlen, American race car driver
William Anthony Auberlen is an American factory race car driver known for his affiliation with BMW, driving cars made and run by the famous German marque for a number of years. Auberlen currently competes for Turner Motorsport in the IMSA SportsCar Championship and Michelin Pilot Challenge.
Paul Harragon, Australian rugby league player and sportscaster
Paul William Harragon OAM, nicknamed Chief or Chief Harragon, is an Australian rugby league football identity. A former Australian international and New South Wales State of Origin representative forward, he played rugby for the Newcastle Knights whom he captained to the 1997 ARL premiership. Harragon was a regular presenter of The Footy Show and as of 2013 is the Chairman of the Newcastle Knights Advisory Board.
Hugh Jackman, Australian actor, singer, and producer
Hugh Michael Jackman is an Australian actor, singer, and producer. Starting his career in theatre and television, Jackman landed his breakthrough role as Wolverine, playing him across the X-Men film franchise and in the Marvel Cinematic Universe from X-Men (2000) to Deadpool & Wolverine (2024). Prominent on both screen and stage, he has received various accolades, including a Primetime Emmy Award, a Grammy Award and two Tony Awards, along with nominations for an Academy Award and a British Academy Film Award. Jackman was appointed a Companion of the Order of Australia in 2019.
Leon Lett, American football player
Leon Lett Jr. is an American former professional football defensive tackle who played in the National Football League (NFL) for 11 seasons, primarily with the Dallas Cowboys. Lett played college football for the Emporia State Hornets and was selected in the seventh round of the 1991 NFL draft by the Cowboys, where he spent 10 seasons. During his final season in 2001, he played for the Denver Broncos.
Adam Rich, American actor (died 2023)
Adam Rich was an American actor. He was best known for his portrayal of Nicholas Bradford, the youngest son on the television series Eight Is Enough, which ran for five seasons (1977–1981). Known for his pageboy haircut, Rich's character on the show led him to be known as "America's little brother".
12/10/1967
Becky Iverson, American golfer
Becky Iverson is an American professional golfer who played on the LPGA Tour. She currently works as the director of golf at The Bridges Golf Club in Madison, Wisconsin
12/10/1966
Jonathan Crombie, Canadian actor and voice over artist (died 2015)
Jonathan Crombie was a Canadian actor and voice-over artist, best known for playing Gilbert Blythe in CBC Television's 1985 telefilm Anne of Green Gables and its two sequels.
Wim Jonk, Dutch footballer
Wilhelmus Maria "Wim" Jonk is a Dutch professional football manager and former player, who is the current technical manager of Eredivisie club Volendam.
Brian Kennedy, Northern Irish singer-songwriter and guitarist
Brian Edward Patrick Kennedy is a singer, songwriter, and author from Northern Ireland. He had a number of hit singles and albums in the UK and Ireland during the 1990s and 2000s. He represented Ireland in the Eurovision Song Contest 2006 with his song "Every Song is a Cry for Love" and finished in 10th place, with his performance notably marking the 1,000th song to be performed in Eurovision history.
Brenda Romero, American game designer
Brenda Louise Romero, previously known as Brenda Brathwaite, is an American game designer and developer. She was born in Ogdensburg, New York and is a graduate of Clarkson University. Romero is best known for her work on the Wizardry series of role-playing video games and, more recently, the non-digital series The Mechanic is the Message. She has worked in game development since 1981 and has credits on 49 game titles.
12/10/1965
Dan Abnett, English author
Daniel P. Abnett is an English comic book writer and novelist. He has been a frequent collaborator with fellow writer Andy Lanning, and has worked on books for both Marvel Comics, and their UK imprint, Marvel UK, since the 1990s, and also 2000 AD. He has also contributed to DC Comics titles, and his Warhammer Fantasy and Warhammer 40,000 novels and graphic novels for Games Workshop's Black Library now run to several dozen titles and have sold over two million copies. In 2009 he released his first original fiction novels through Angry Robot books.
Chris Chandler, American football player
Christopher Mark Chandler is an American former professional football player who was a quarterback in the National Football League (NFL) for 17 seasons. He played college football for the Washington Huskies. Chandler played for seven teams in eight cities during his NFL career, and is known for leading the Atlanta Falcons to a 14–2 season in 1998 followed by an appearance in Super Bowl XXXIII.
J. J. Daigneault, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
Jean-Jacques Daigneault is a Canadian former professional ice hockey defenceman who played in the National Hockey League from 1984 to 2000. He was the head coach of the Halifax Mooseheads of the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League from 2019 to 2021. He also served as an assistant coach for the Montreal Canadiens of the NHL from 2012 until the end of the 2017–18 NHL season.
Scott O'Grady, American captain and pilot
Scott Francis O'Grady is a former United States Air Force (USAF) fighter pilot. On June 2, 1995, he was shot down over Bosnia and Herzegovina by a 2K12 Kub mobile surface-to-air missile (SAM) and forced to eject from his F-16C into hostile territory. US Marines from heavy-helicopter squadron HMH-464 and the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit eventually rescued O'Grady after six days of evading the Bosnian Serbs. In February 1994 he had unsuccessfully engaged Serb ground attack aircraft that had violated the NATO-enforced Operation Deny Flight no-fly zone over Bosnia and Herzegovina. The 2001 film Behind Enemy Lines is loosely based on his experience of being shot down and rescued.
12/10/1963
Raimond Aumann, German footballer
Raimond Aumann is a German former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper.
Hideki Fujisawa, Japanese composer
Hideki Fujisawa is a Japanese musician, better known by the stage name Dance Man . Dance☆Man calls himself an alien from "Mirror Ball Planet". He is always seen wearing a huge afro wig and sideburns, matched with sunglasses. He is very secretive about his identity to the public, and does not release any personal information in his CDs or his official website.
Satoshi Kon, Japanese animator and screenwriter (died 2010)
Satoshi Kon was a Japanese film director, animator, screenwriter and manga artist from Sapporo, Hokkaido, and a member of the Japanese Animation Creators Association (JAniCA). He was a graduate of the Graphic Design department of the Musashino Art University. He is best known for his acclaimed anime films Perfect Blue (1997), Millennium Actress (2001), Tokyo Godfathers (2003), and Paprika (2006), and the TV series Paranoia Agent (2004). In 2010, Kon died of pancreatic cancer at age 46.
Dave Legeno, English actor and mixed martial artist (died 2014)
Dave Legeno was a British actor, mixed martial artist, and professional wrestler.
Alan McDonald, Irish footballer and manager (died 2012)
Alan McDonald was a Northern Irish football manager and former professional footballer.
Luis Polonia, Dominican baseball player
Luis Andrew Polonia Almonte is a Dominican former professional baseball outfielder and designated hitter. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Oakland Athletics, New York Yankees, California Angels, Atlanta Braves, Baltimore Orioles, and Detroit Tigers.
12/10/1962
Carlos Bernard, American actor and director
Carlos Bernard Papierski is an American actor and director, best known for his role as Tony Almeida in 24, which he played from 2001 to 2006, and then reprised again in 2009, 2014 in 24: Solitary and 2017 in 24: Legacy. He received a fine arts degree from American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco after receiving an undergraduate degree from Illinois State University.
Michelle Botes, South African actress (died 2024)
Michélle Botes was a South African actress, language instructor, designer and aromatherapist. She is best known for her roles in the television soapies Legacy (2020), Isidingo (1998) and Arende (1994).
Chris Botti, American trumpet player and composer
Christopher Stephen Botti is an American trumpeter and composer.
John Coleman, English footballer and manager
John Coleman is an English football manager and former player. He is currently manager of National League club Aldershot Town.
Branko Crvenkovski, Macedonian engineer and politician, 3rd President of the Republic of Macedonia
Branko Crvenkovski is a Macedonian politician who served as the President of Macedonia from 2004 to 2009. He previously served as Prime Minister of Macedonia from 1992 to 1998 and from 2002 to 2004.
Deborah Foreman, American actress and photographer
Deborah Lynn Foreman is an American photographer and actress. She is perhaps best known for her starring role in the 1983 film Valley Girl opposite Nicolas Cage. She is also regarded as a scream queen and known for playing in various horror films of the 1980s, such as April Fool's Day, Waxwork, Destroyer and Sundown: The Vampire in Retreat.
Mads Eriksen, Norwegian guitarist and composer
Mads Eriksen is a Norwegian guitarist and composer, known as solo artist and for his collaboration with Chris Thompson among others.
12/10/1961
Chendo, Spanish footballer
Miguel Porlán Noguera, known as Chendo, is a Spanish former footballer who played as a right-back. He spent his entire professional career with Real Madrid, making 497 official appearances and winning several titles.
12/10/1960
Steve Lowery, American golfer
Stephen Brent Lowery is an American professional golfer.
Carlo Perrone, Italian footballer and manager
Carlo Perrone is an Italian footballer and manager.
Hiroyuki Sanada, Japanese actor and martial artist
Hiroyuki Sanada is a Japanese actor. He has received numerous accolades, including a Golden Globe Award, two Primetime Emmy Awards, a British Academy Television Award, a Japan Academy Film Prize, two Hochi Film Awards, a Mainichi Film Award, three Blue Ribbon Awards for Best Actor, four Kinema Junpo Awards, and honors from the Yokohama Film Festival. In 2018, he received the Medal of Honor with Purple Ribbon from the Japanese government for his "artistic developments, improvements, and accomplishments", and in 2025, Time named him one of the 100 most influential people in the world.
Dorothee Vieth, German Paralympic cyclist
Dorothee Vieth is a German Paralympic cyclist.
12/10/1959
Anna Escobedo Cabral, American lawyer and politician, 42nd Treasurer of the United States
Anna Escobedo Cabral is a Mexican-American politician who served as the Unit Chief for Strategic Communications in the External Relations Division of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) from 2009 to 2018. Today, she and her husband serve as partners of the Cabral Group, a consulting and public policy firm. She also serves as an independent director for Navient, a member of the Comcast NBCU diversity council, and as an advisor to the Libra Group, and Valaurum. Her current nonprofit commitments include serving as chair of the BBVA Microfinance Foundation, chair of the Jessie Ball duPont Fund, Treasurer of Lideramos, a national Latino organization focused on providing leadership training to grassroots community advocates, and member of the board of governors of Orange County Community Foundation. Prior to joining the IDB, Cabral served as the 42nd Treasurer of the United States from January 19, 2005, to January 20, 2009. She became the highest-ranking Latina in the George W. Bush administration after the resignation of Rosario Marin.
12/10/1958
Steve Austria, American lawyer and politician
Stephen Clement Austria is an American politician who served as a U.S. representative for Ohio's 7th congressional district from 2009 to 2013. He is a member of the Republican Party. In December 2011, Austria announced his intention to not run for re-election for the 113th Congress in the 2012 elections. During his 14 years in elected office, Austria never lost an election.
Maria de Fátima Silva de Sequeira Dias, Portuguese historian, author, and academic (died 2013)
Maria de Fátima Silva de Sequeira Dias was an Azorean historian, author, and academic. A professor in the Department of Management and Economics at the University of the Azores, she specialized in the history of the Azores, an autonomous region of Portugal.
Jeff Keith, American rock singer-songwriter
Tesla is an American hard rock band from Sacramento, California. In late 1981, bassist Brian Wheat and guitarist Frank Hannon formed a band named City Kidd, which evolved into Tesla. By 1984, vocalist Jeff Keith, guitarist Tommy Skeoch, and drummer Troy Luccketta had joined the band, forming their classic lineup that appeared on all of the albums and live shows during their initial run. The band adopted the Tesla moniker shortly before recording their first album, as another band with a name similar to City Kidd already existed.
Bryn Merrick, Welsh bass player (died 2015)
Bryn Merrick was a bassist who was a member of Cardiff-based punk band Victimize and then heavy-metal band Stormqueen. He later joined the Damned between 1983 and 1989, replacing Paul Gray, who had left for UFO. Merrick's first release with the Damned was the single "Thanks for the Night" b/w "Nasty". He was the Damned's bassist on the albums Phantasmagoria (1985) and Anything (1986).
12/10/1957
Clémentine Célarié, French actress, singer, and director
Clémentine Célarié is a French actress, writer, director and singer.
Serge Clerc, French comic book artist and illustrator
Serge Clerc is a French comic book artist and illustrator. Serge Clerc began his professional career in 1975 in the monthly magazine Métal Hurlant, after having created his own fanzine, Absolutely Live. Initially a science-fiction artist, his story Captain Futur appeared in book form in 1979 by Les Humanoïdes Associés.
Mike Dowler, Welsh football goalkeeper
Mike Dowler is a Welsh retired professional football goalkeeper. He spent most of his career in the U.S. indoor leagues where he was named the 1995 Continental Indoor Soccer League Goalkeeper of the Year.
Annik Honoré, Belgian journalist and music promoter (died 2014)
Annik Honoré was a Belgian journalist and music promoter best known for her association with Ian Curtis, the former lead singer and lyricist of Joy Division. She co-founded record labels Les Disques du Crépuscule and Factory Benelux.
William F. Laurance, Australian biologist
William F. Laurance, also known as Bill Laurance, is Distinguished Research Professor at James Cook University, Australia and has been elected as a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the British Royal Society. He has received an Australian Laureate Fellowship from the Australian Research Council. He held the Prince Bernhard Chair for International Nature Conservation at Utrecht University, Netherlands from 2010 to 2014.
12/10/1956
Rafael Ábalos, Spanish author
Rafael Ábalos is a Spanish author of the bestseller book Grimpow: The Invisible Road (ISBN 0385733747) published in 2007. The children's fantasy novel was about a boy finding a mysterious amulet in France who becomes a focus of a "centuries-old mission" to enlighten humanity. According to a review in Publishers Weekly, Ábalos "blends the grand-scale storytelling prowess and epic quest element of Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings with the cryptographic intrigue of Dan Brown’s The Da Vinci Code", and gave it a positive review. The book was published by Random House.
Allan Evans, Scottish footballer
Allan James Evans is a Scottish former footballer who played for Dunfermline Athletic (1973–77), Aston Villa (1977–89), Leicester City (1989–90) and Darlington (1990–91).
Lutz Haueisen, German cyclist
Lutz Haueisen is a retired German amateur cyclist. He won two world titles in track events, in 1979 and 1981. His best achievement on the road was second place in the prologue of Tour de Pologne in 1986. His son Dennis is a professional road cyclist.
Catherine Holmes, Australian judge
Catherine Ena "Cate" Holmes is a retired Australian jurist who served as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Queensland, the highest ranking court in the Australian state of Queensland. She was appointed to the Supreme Court of Queensland in 2000, to the Queensland Court of Appeal in 2006 and appointed chief justice on 11 September 2015. She retired on 19 March 2022.
Gerti Schanderl, German figure skater
Gerti Schanderl is a German former figure skater who represented West Germany. She is the 1973 Prize of Moscow News champion, the 1973 Nebelhorn Trophy bronze medalist, and a four-time German national champion.
David Vanian, English singer-songwriter
David Vanian is an English rock musician, and lead singer of the punk rock band the Damned. Formed in 1976 in London, the Damned were the first British punk band to release a single, release an album, have a record hit the UK charts, and tour the United States. With a fluid line-up since their founding, Vanian has been the only ever-present member. Vanian's baritone singing voice, dark lyrics and vampire-themed costumes, were a major influence on the goth subculture.
12/10/1955
Einar Jan Aas, Norwegian footballer
Einar Jan Aas is a Norwegian former footballer who played as a centre-back. He was the first Norwegian to play professionally in England and Germany.
Pat DiNizio, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2017)
Patrick Michael DiNizio was an American musician. He was best known for being the lead singer, songwriter and founding member of the band The Smithereens, which he formed in 1980 with Jim Babjak, Dennis Diken and Mike Mesaros from Carteret, New Jersey.
Ante Gotovina, Croatian general
Ante Gotovina is a Croatian retired lieutenant general and former French senior corporal who served in the Croatian War for Independence. He is noted for his primary role in the 1995 Operation Storm. In 2001, the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) indicted him on war crimes and crimes against humanity charges in connection with that operation and its aftermath. After spending four years in hiding, he was captured in the Canary Islands in December 2005.
Jane Siberry, Canadian singer-songwriter and producer
Jane Siberry is a Canadian singer-songwriter, known for such hits as "Mimi on the Beach", "I Muse Aloud", "One More Colour" and "Calling All Angels". She performed the theme song to the television series Maniac Mansion. She has released material under the name "Issa" – an identity which she used formally between 2006 and 2009.
12/10/1954
Evalie A. Bradley, Anguillian politician and member of the House of Assembly of Anguilla
Evalie Bradley nee Hughes is an Anguillian politician who served as Member of the House of Assembly of Anguilla between 2015 and 2020.
Massimo Ghini, Italian actor
Massimo Ghini is an Italian actor.
Michael Roe, American singer, songwriter, and record producer
Michael Roe is an American, singer, songwriter, and record producer. He is a founding member of the band the 77s and the Lost Dogs and has recorded several solo albums.
Linval Thompson, Jamaican singer and producer
Leval Alphonso Thompson, also known as Linval Thompson, is a Jamaican conscious roots reggae vocalist, dub musician and record producer.
12/10/1953
Les Dennis, English comedian and actor
Leslie Dennis Heseltine is an English television presenter, actor and comedian. He presented Family Fortunes from 1987 to 2002.
David Threlfall, English actor and director
David John Threlfall is an English stage, film and television actor and director. He is best known for playing Frank Gallagher in Channel 4's series Shameless. He has also directed several episodes of the show. In April 2014, he portrayed comedian Tommy Cooper in a television film entitled Tommy Cooper: Not Like That, Like This. In 2014, he starred alongside Jude Law in the thriller Black Sea. In 2024 he played Paul Peveril in the six-part BBC drama Nightsleeper.
12/10/1952
Trevor Chappell, Australian cricketer and coach
Trevor Martin Chappell is a former Australian cricketer, a member of the South Australian Chappell family which excelled at cricket. He played 3 tests and 20 One Day Internationals for Australia. He won the Sheffield Shield with New South Wales twice, and scored a century for Australia against India in the 1983 World Cup. His career was overshadowed, however, by an incident in 1981 in which he controversially bowled an underarm delivery to New Zealand cricketer Brian McKechnie to prevent the batsman from hitting a six.
Béla Csécsei, Hungarian educator and politician (died 2012)
Béla Csécsei was a Hungarian educator and politician, who served as Mayor of Józsefváros from 2 February 1993 to 2 September 2009.
Roger Heath-Brown, English mathematician and theorist
David Rodney "Roger" Heath-Brown is a British mathematician working in the field of analytic number theory.
12/10/1951
Sally Little, South African-American golfer
Sally Little is a South African-born professional golfer. She became a member of the LPGA Tour in 1971 and won 15 LPGA Tour events, including two major championships, during her career. In 2016, she became the first female golfer from South Africa inducted into the South African Hall of Fame.
Ed Royce, American businessman and politician
Edward Randall Royce is an American retired politician and lobbyist. He served as a member of the United States House of Representatives from California from 1993 to 2019. A member of the Republican Party, Royce served as Chairman of the United States House Committee on Foreign Affairs from 2013 to 2019. He previously served as a member of the California Senate from 1982 to 1993.
Norio Suzuki, Japanese golfer
Norio Suzuki is a Japanese professional golfer.
12/10/1950
Susan Anton, American actress and model
Susan Anton is an American actress and singer. Her debut film, Goldengirl, earned her a Golden Globe nomination, leading to a contract with NBC for her variety show, Presenting Susan Anton. Later, NBC signed her for the drama series Cliffhangers.
Dave Freudenthal, American economist and politician, 31st Governor of Wyoming
David Duane Freudenthal is an American politician, attorney and economist who served as the 31st governor of Wyoming from 2003 to 2011. A member of the Democratic Party, he previously served from 1994 to 2001 as the United States Attorney for the District of Wyoming. As of 2026, he is the most recent Democrat to have won or held statewide office in Wyoming.
12/10/1949
Dave Lloyd, English cyclist and coach
Dave Lloyd is an English former professional cyclist.
Carlos the Jackal, Venezuelan terrorist
Ilich Ramírez Sánchez, also known as Carlos the Jackal or simply Carlos, is a Venezuelan convict who conducted a series of assassinations and terrorist bombings from 1973 to 1985. A committed Marxist–Leninist, he was one of the most notorious political terrorists of his era, protected and supported by the Stasi and the KGB. After several bungled bombings, Carlos led the 1975 raid on the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) headquarters in Vienna, during which three people were killed. He and five others demanded a plane and flew with a number of hostages to Libya.
Barclay Shaw, American artist
Barclay Shaw is an American professional artist best known for his fantasy and science fiction artwork. He has been nominated five times for the Hugo Award for Best Professional Artist and has earned a top ten ranking six times in the annual Locus Award for Best Artist. In 1995, his work "Wonderland (wood)" won the Chesley Award for Best Three-Dimensional Art.
Paul Went, English footballer and manager (died 2017)
Paul Frank Went was an English footballer who played professionally for five clubs over a fifteen-year period. He was one of that generation who bridged the gap between terminological eras, beginning his career as a centre-half and ending it as a central defender despite playing a similar role throughout.
12/10/1948
John Engler, American businessman and politician, 46th Governor of Michigan
John Mathias Engler is an American politician, lawyer, businessman, and lobbyist who served as the 46th governor of Michigan from 1991 to 2003. Considered one of the country's top lobbyists, he is a member of the Republican Party.
Rick Parfitt, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2016)
Richard John Parfitt, was an English musician, best known as a rhythm guitarist, singer and songwriter with rock band Status Quo.
12/10/1947
Chris Wallace, American journalist
Christopher Wallace is an American broadcast journalist. He is known for his tough and wide-ranging interviews, for which he is often compared to his father, 60 Minutes journalist Mike Wallace. Over his 60-year career in journalism he has been a correspondent, moderator, or anchor on CBS, ABC, NBC, Fox News, and CNN. In 2018, he was ranked one of America's most trusted television news anchors. He has won three Emmy Awards, a Peabody Award, a George Polk Award, the duPont-Columbia University Silver Baton Award.
12/10/1946
Drew Edmondson, American politician
William Andrew Edmondson is an American lawyer and politician from the state of Oklahoma. A member of the Democratic Party, Edmondson served as the 16th Attorney General of Oklahoma from 1995 to 2011. Prior to his election as state attorney general, he served as district attorney for Muskogee County, Oklahoma, from 1983 to 1992. He was defeated twice in campaigns for U.S. Congress in Oklahoma's 2nd congressional district, where his father Ed Edmondson served from 1953 to 1973.
Ashok Mankad, Indian cricketer (died 2008)
Ashok Mulvantrai Mankad was an Indian cricketer. A right-handed batsman, he played for India in 22 Test matches.
Daryl Runswick, English bassist and composer
Daryl Runswick is a classically trained English composer, arranger, jazz musician, producer and educationalist.
12/10/1945
Aurore Clément, French actress
Aurore Clément is a French actress who has appeared in French and English language movies and television productions.
Dusty Rhodes, American wrestler (died 2015)
Virgil Riley Runnels Jr., better known as "The American Dream" Dusty Rhodes, was an American professional wrestler, booker, and trainer who worked for the National Wrestling Alliance and the World Wrestling Federation, later known as WWE. Rhodes was considered a star wrestler and presented the persona of an American everyman, the American Dream personified. Rhodes is widely regarded as one of the greatest professional wrestlers of all time.
12/10/1944
Angela Rippon, English journalist and author
Angela May Rippon is an English broadcaster, former newsreader, writer and journalist.
12/10/1943
Kostas Tsakonas, Greek actor (died 2015)
Kostas Tsakonas was a Greek actor.
12/10/1942
Melvin Franklin, American soul bass singer (died 1995)
David Melvin English, better known by the stage name Melvin Franklin or his nickname "Blue", was an American bass singer. Franklin was best known for his role as a founding member of Motown singing group The Temptations from 1960 to 1995.
12/10/1941
Michael Mansfield, English lawyer, academic, and republican
Michael Mansfield is an English barrister and head of chambers at Nexus Chambers. He was recently described as "The king of human rights work" by The Legal 500 and as a leading Silk in civil liberties and human rights.
12/10/1937
Paul Hawkins, Australian race car driver (died 1969)
Robert Paul Hawkins was an Australian motor racing driver. The son of a racing motorcyclist-turned-church minister, Hawkins was a capable single-seater driver but really made his mark as an outstanding sports car competitor driving Ford GT40s and Lola T70s. In 1969 Hawkins was included in the FIA list of graded drivers, an elite group of 27 drivers who by their achievements were rated the best in the world.
Robert Mangold, American painter
Robert Mangold is an American minimalist artist. His son is the film director, producer and screenwriter James Mangold.
12/10/1935
Don Howe, English footballer and manager (died 2015)
Donald Howe was an English football player, coach, manager and pundit. As a right back Howe featured for clubs West Bromwich Albion and Arsenal together with the England national football team in his playing career. He also went on to manage sides West Brom, Arsenal, Galatasaray, Queens Park Rangers and Coventry City. Howe was also a successful coach and has been described as one of the most influential figures of the English footballing game.
Tony Kubek, American baseball player and sportscaster
Anthony Christopher Kubek is an American former professional baseball player and television broadcaster. During his nine-year playing career with the New York Yankees, Kubek played in six World Series in the late 1950s and early 1960s, starting in 37 World Series games. For NBC television, he later broadcast twelve World Series between 1968 and 1982, and fourteen League Championship Series between 1969 and 1989. Kubek received the Ford C. Frick Award in 2009.
Sam Moore, American soul singer-songwriter (died 2025)
Samuel David Moore was an American singer who was best known as a member of the soul and R&B duo Sam & Dave from 1961 to 1981. He was a member of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, the Grammy Hall of Fame, the Vocal Group Hall of Fame, and the National Rhythm & Blues Hall of Fame.
Shivraj Patil, Indian lawyer and politician, Indian Minister of Defence
Shivraj Vishwanath Patil was an Indian politician. He was the Minister of Home Affairs of India, from 2004 to 2008 and 10th Speaker of the Lok Sabha from 1991 to 1996. Patil was Governor of the state of Punjab and Administrator of the Union Territory of Chandigarh from 2010 to 2015. Previously, he served in the Indira Gandhi and Rajiv Gandhi cabinets as Minister of Defence during the 1980s.
Luciano Pavarotti, Italian tenor and actor (died 2007)
Luciano Pavarotti was an Italian operatic tenor who during the late part of his career crossed over into popular music, eventually becoming one of the most acclaimed tenors of all time. He made numerous recordings of complete operas and individual arias, gaining worldwide fame for his tone and the nickname "King of the High Cs".
12/10/1934
James "Sugar Boy" Crawford, American singer-songwriter and pianist (died 2012)
James "Sugar Boy" Crawford, Jr. was an American R&B musician based in New Orleans. He was the author of "Jock-A-Mo" (1954), which was later rerecorded as "Iko Iko" by the Dixie Cups, and became a huge hit. The song was recorded by many other artists, including Dr. John, Belle Stars, the Grateful Dead, Cyndi Lauper, and by Glass Candy.
Richard Meier, American architect, designed the Getty Center and City Tower
Richard Meier is an American abstract artist and architect, whose geometric designs make prominent use of the color white. A winner of the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 1984, Meier has designed several iconic buildings including the Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art, the Getty Center in Los Angeles, the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, and San Jose City Hall. In 2018, some of Meier's employees accused him of sexual assault, which led to him resigning from his firm in 2021.
Albert Shiryaev, Russian mathematician and academic
Albert Nikolayevich Shiryaev is a Soviet and Russian mathematician. He is known for his work in probability theory, statistics and financial mathematics.
Oğuz Atay, Turkish engineer and author (died 1977)
Oğuz Atay was a Turkish novelist. His first novel, Tutunamayanlar, appeared in 1971–72. Never reprinted in his lifetime and controversial among critics, it has become a best-seller since a new edition came out in 1984. It has been described as "probably the most eminent novel of twentieth-century Turkish literature": this reference is due to a UNESCO survey, which goes on: "it poses an earnest challenge to even the most skilled translator with its kaleidoscope of colloquialisms and sheer size."
Constantine Manos, Greek-born American photographer (died 2025)
Constantine "Costa" Manos was an American photographer known for his images of Boston and Greece. His work has been published in Esquire, Life, and Look. He was a member of Magnum Photos.
12/10/1933
Guido Molinari, Canadian painter and art collector (died 2004)
Guido Molinari L.L. D. was a Canadian artist, known nationally and internationally for his serial abstract paintings and their dynamic interplay of colours and focus on modular shapes. His Stripe series is especially celebrated. Molinari himself described their effect - and the effect of all his paintings - as creating a new kind of fictional space "because it happens in the mind and yet also involves the totality of perception".
12/10/1932
Dick Gregory, American comedian, actor, and author (died 2017)
Richard Claxton Gregory was an American comedian, actor, writer, activist and social critic. Gregory became popular among the African-American communities in the southern United States with his "no-holds-barred" sets, poking fun at the bigotry and racism in the United States. In 1961 he became a staple in the comedy clubs, appeared on television, and released comedy record albums.
Ned Jarrett, American race car driver and sportscaster
Ned Jarrett is an American former race car driver and broadcaster. He is a two-time NASCAR Grand National Series champion. Because of his calm demeanor, he became known as "Gentleman Ned Jarrett". He is the father of former drivers Glenn Jarrett and Dale Jarrett.
12/10/1931
Ole-Johan Dahl, Norwegian computer scientist and academic, co-developed Simula (died 2002)
Ole-Johan Dahl was a Norwegian computer scientist. Dahl was a professor of computer science at the University of Oslo and is considered to be one of the fathers of Simula and object-oriented programming along with Kristen Nygaard. In 2001, Dahl and Nygaard won the ACM Turing Award.
12/10/1930
Denis Brodeur, Canadian ice hockey player and photographer (died 2013)
Denis Joseph Germain Stanislaus Brodeur was a Canadian photographer, acknowledged as one of hockey's finest photographers and was the father of New Jersey Devils goaltender Martin Brodeur, the National Hockey League's winningest goaltender. He was the official photographer for the Montreal Canadiens for many years, and co-published a book entitled Goalies: Guardians of the Net in 1996, which features his son Martin on the front cover.
Milica Kacin Wohinz, Slovenian historian and author (died 2021)
Milica Kacin Wohinz was a Slovenian historian best known for her seminal study on the history of the forceful Italianization of the Slovene minority in Italy (1920–1947) that took place between 1918 and 1943.
12/10/1929
Nappy Brown, American R&B singer-songwriter (died 2008)
Napoleon Brown Goodson Culp better known by his stage name Nappy Brown, was an American R&B singer. His hits include the 1955 Billboard chart No. 2 "Don't Be Angry", "Little By Little", and "Night Time Is the Right Time". His style was recognizable; Brown used a wide vibrato, melisma, and distinctive extra syllables, in particular, "li-li-li-li-li."
Robert Coles, American psychologist, author, and academic
Robert Coles is an American author, child psychiatrist, and professor emeritus at Harvard University.
Magnus Magnusson, Icelandic journalist and academic (died 2007)
Magnus Magnusson was an Icelandic-born Scottish journalist, translator, writer and television presenter. Born in Reykjavík, he lived in Scotland for almost all his life, although he never took British citizenship. He came to prominence as a BBC television journalist and was the presenter of the BBC television quiz programme Mastermind for 25 years.
12/10/1928
Al Held, American painter and academic (died 2005)
Al Held was an American Abstract expressionist painter. He was particularly well known for his large scale Hard-edge paintings. As an artist, multiple stylistic changes occurred throughout his career, however, none of these occurred at the same time as any popular emerging style or acted against a particular art form. In the 1950s his style reflected the abstract expressionist tone and then transitioned to a geometric style in the 1960s. During the 1980s, there was a shift into painting that emphasized bright geometric space the deepness of which reflected infinity. From 1963 to 1980 he was a professor of art at Yale University.
Domna Samiou, Greek singer and musicologist (died 2012)
Domna Samiou was a prominent Greek researcher and performer of Greek folk music. She received her first formal musical training from Simon Karas. For over half a century she collected, recorded, and performed traditional songs of Greece, around the world, appealing not only to the Greek diaspora, but also introducing non-Greek audiences to traditional Greek folk music.
12/10/1926
Eliška Misáková, Czech gymnast (died 1948)
Eliška Misáková was a Czech gymnast who was selected to attend the 1948 Summer Olympics.
12/10/1925
Denis Lazure, Canadian psychiatrist and politician (died 2008)
Denis Lazure was a Canadian psychiatrist and politician. Lazure was a Member of the National Assembly of Quebec (MNA) from 1976 to 1984 and from 1989 to 1996. He is the father of actress Gabrielle Lazure.
12/10/1924
Leonidas Kyrkos, Greek politician (died 2011)
Leonidas Kyrkos was a Greek leftist politician and member of the Hellenic Parliament and the European Parliament.
12/10/1923
Jean Nidetch, American businesswoman, co-founded Weight Watchers (died 2015)
Jean Evelyn Nidetch was an American businessperson and the founder of Weight Watchers.
Goody Petronelli, American boxer, trainer, and manager (died 2012)
Guerino "Goody" Petronelli was an American boxing trainer and co-manager.
12/10/1922
William H. Sullivan, American soldier and diplomat, United States Ambassador to the Philippines (died 2013)
William Healy Sullivan was an American Foreign Service career officer who served as ambassador to Laos from 1964 to 1969, the Philippines from 1973 to 1977, and Iran from 1977 to 1979.
12/10/1921
Art Clokey, American animator, producer, screenwriter, and voice actor, created Gumby (died 2010)
Arthur Charles Clokey was an American animator, director, producer, screenwriter and voice actor. He was a pioneer in the popularization of stop-motion clay animation, best known as the creator of the character Gumby and the original voice of Gumby's sidekick, Pokey. Clokey's career began in 1953 with a film experiment called Gumbasia, which was influenced by his professor, Slavko Vorkapich, at the University of Southern California. Clokey and his wife Ruth subsequently came up with the clay character Gumby and his horse Pokey, who first appeared in the Howdy Doody Show and later got their own series The Adventures of Gumby, from which they became a familiar presence on American television. The characters enjoyed a renewal of interest in the 1980s when American actor and comedian Eddie Murphy parodied Gumby in a skit on Saturday Night Live.
Jaroslav Drobný, Czech-English tennis player and ice hockey player (died 2001)
Jaroslav Drobný was a world No. 1 amateur tennis and ice hockey champion. He left Czechoslovakia in 1949 and travelled as an Egyptian citizen before becoming a citizen of the United Kingdom in 1959, where he died in 2001. In 1951, he became the first and, to date, only Egyptian to win the French Open, while doing likewise at the Wimbledon Championships in 1954. He was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 1983. He played internationally for the Czechoslovakia men's national ice hockey team, and was inducted in the International Ice Hockey Federation Hall of Fame.
Logie Bruce Lockhart, Scottish rugby player and journalist (died 2020)
Logie Bruce Lockhart was a Scottish schoolmaster, writer, and journalist, in his youth a Scottish international rugby union footballer and for most of his teaching career headmaster of Gresham's School.
12/10/1920
Christopher Soames, English politician and diplomat, Governor of Southern Rhodesia (died 1987)
Arthur Christopher John Soames, Baron Soames, was a British Conservative politician who served as a European Commissioner and the last Governor of Southern Rhodesia. He was previously Member of Parliament (MP) for Bedford from 1950 to 1966. He held several government posts and attained Cabinet rank.
Steve Conway, British singer (died 1952)
Steve Conway was a British singer who rose to fame in the 1940s, following the end of the Second World War. Known for romantic ballads, he made dozens of recordings for EMI's Columbia label, appeared regularly on BBC Radio and toured the UK, before his career was cut short by his early death, aged 31, resulting from a heart condition. He has been described as "Britain's first post-war male heart-throb, a masculine equivalent of Vera Lynn in his sincerity and clear diction."
12/10/1919
Gilles Beaudoin, Canadian politician, 34th Mayor of Trois-Rivières (died 2007)
Gilles Beaudoin was a Canadian politician who served as the mayor of Trois-Rivières from 1970 to 1990.
Doris Miller, American cook and soldier (died 1943)
Doris "Dorie" Miller was a U.S. Navy sailor who was the first black recipient of the Navy Cross and a nominee for the Medal of Honor. As a mess attendant second class aboard the battleship USS West Virginia, Miller helped carry wounded sailors to safety during the attack on Pearl Harbor. He then manned an anti-aircraft gun and, despite no prior training in gunnery, officially shot down one plane, but Miller and other eyewitnesses claimed a range of four to six.
12/10/1917
Roque Máspoli, Uruguayan footballer and manager (died 2004)
Roque Gastón Máspoli Arbelvide was a Uruguayan football player and coach. He was the goalkeeper for the Uruguay national team that won the 1950 World Cup. He was also the head coach for the Uruguayan team that won the 1980 Mundialito.
James Phillip McAuley, Australian Poet (died 1976)
James Phillip McAuley was an Australian academic, poet, journalist, literary critic, and a prominent convert to Roman Catholicism. He was involved in the Ern Malley poetry hoax.
12/10/1916
Alice Childress, American actress and playwright (died 1994)
Alice Childress was an American novelist, playwright, and actress, acknowledged as "the only African-American woman to have written, produced, and published plays for four decades." Childress described her work as trying to portray the have-nots in a have society, saying: "My writing attempts to interpret the 'ordinary' because they are not ordinary. Each human is uniquely different. Like snowflakes, the human pattern is never cast twice. We are uncommonly and marvellously intricate in thought and action, our problems are most complex and, too often, silently borne." Childress became involved in social causes, and formed an off-Broadway union for actors.
Lock Martin, American actor (died 1959)
Joseph Lockard "Lock" Martin Jr. was an American performer afflicted with gigantism. Martin and a twin brother were born in South Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; his brother died in childbirth.
12/10/1914
John E. Hodge, African-American chemist (died 1996)
John Edward Hodge was an American chemist, born in Kansas City, Kansas, best known for establishing the mechanisms in the Maillard reaction pathway.
12/10/1913
Alice Chetwynd Ley, English author and educator (died 2004)
Alice Chetwynd Ley, née Humphrey was a British writer of romance novels from 1959 to 1989.
12/10/1912
Muhammad Shamsul Huq, Bangladeshi academic and former Minister of Foreign Affairs (died 2006)
Muhammad Shamsul Huq was a Bangladeshi politician and educator. He served as an education minister in erstwhile East Pakistan, and became the minister of foreign affairs six years after the independence of Bangladesh. Shamsul Huq also served as vice-chancellor in both the University of Dhaka and University of Rajshahi. He was awarded the Ekushey Padak in 2003 by the government of Bangladesh.
12/10/1911
Vijay Merchant, Indian cricketer (died 1987)
Vijay Singh Madhavji Merchant, was an Indian cricketer. A right-hand batsman and occasional right-arm medium pace bowler, Merchant played first-class cricket for Bombay cricket team as well as 10 Test matches for India between 1929 and 1951. Behind his limited Test appearances, he dominated Indian domestic cricket – his batting average of 71.64 is the second highest first-class average in history, behind only that of Don Bradman. He is regarded as the founder of the Bombay School of Batsmanship, that placed more importance on right technique, steely temperament, and conservative approach rather than free flow of the bat.
12/10/1910
Robert Fitzgerald, American poet, critic, and translator (died 1985)
Robert Stuart Fitzgerald was an American poet, literary critic and translator whose renderings of the Greek classics "became standard works for a generation of scholars and students". He was best known as a translator of ancient Greek and Latin. He also composed several books of his own poetry.
Malcolm Renfrew, American chemist and academic (died 2013)
Malcolm MacKenzie Renfrew was an American polymer chemist, inventor, and professor emeritus at the University of Idaho in Moscow, Idaho. Renfrew Hall, the university's chemistry building, was named for him in 1985.
12/10/1909
Dorothy Livesay, Canadian poet (died 1996)
Dorothy Kathleen May Livesay, was a Canadian poet who twice won the Governor General's Award in the 1940s, and was "senior woman writer in Canada" during the 1970s and 1980s.
12/10/1908
Paul Engle, American novelist, poet, playwright, and critic (died 1991)
Paul Hamilton Engle, was an American poet, editor, teacher, literary critic, novelist, and playwright. He is remembered as the long-time director of the Iowa Writers' Workshop and as co-founder of the International Writing Program (IWP), both at the University of Iowa.
Ann Petry, American novelist (died 1997)
Ann Petry was an American writer of novels, short stories, children's books and journalism. Her 1946 debut novel The Street became the first novel by an African-American woman to sell more than a million copies.
12/10/1906
Joe Cronin, American baseball player and manager (died 1984)
Joseph Edward Cronin was an American professional baseball player, manager and executive. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a shortstop, most notably as a member of the Boston Red Sox. Cronin spent over 48 years in baseball, culminating with 14 years as president of the American League (AL).
John Murray, American playwright and producer (died 1984)
John Murray was an American playwright best known for writing the 1937 play Room Service with Allen Boretz.
Piero Taruffi, Italian race car driver and motorcycle racer (died 1988)
Pierino Antonio Alberto Taruffi was an Italian racing driver, motorcycle road racer, motorsport executive and engineer, who competed in Formula One from 1950 to 1956. Taruffi won the 1952 Swiss Grand Prix with Ferrari. In endurance racing, Taruffi won the Mille Miglia in 1957, also with Ferrari. In Grand Prix motorcycle racing, Taruffi won the 1932 European Championship in the premier 500cc class with Norton.
12/10/1904
Lester Dent, American journalist and author (died 1959)
Lester Dent was an American pulp-fiction writer, best known as the creator and main writer of the series of novels about the scientist and adventurer Doc Savage. The 159 Doc Savage novels that Dent wrote over 16 years were credited to the house name Kenneth Robeson.
Anthony F. DePalma, American orthopedic surgeon and professor (died 2005)
Anthony F. DePalma was an American orthopedic surgeon and professor at Thomas Jefferson University, as well as the founder of the orthopedic department at University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey. DePalma was a commander in the US Navy during World War II, an author of numerous medical manuscripts and textbooks, and the creator and first editor-in-chief of the medical journal Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research.
Ding Ling, Chinese author and educator (died 1986)
Ding Ling, formerly romanized as Ting Ling, was the pen name of Jiang Bingzhi, also known as Bin Zhi, one of the most celebrated Chinese women authors of the 20th century. She is known for her feminist and socialist realist literature.
12/10/1903
Josephine Hutchinson, American actress (died 1998)
Josephine Hutchinson was an American actress. She acted in dozens of theater plays and dozens of films, including The Story of Louis Pasteur (1936), Son of Frankenstein (1939), Somewhere in the Night (1946), Ruby Gentry (1952), and North by Northwest (1959), as well as numerous television appearances as guest star in various series including The Twilight Zone.
12/10/1896
Eugenio Montale, Italian poet and translator, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1981)
Eugenio Montale was an Italian poet, prose writer, editor and translator. In 1975, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature "for his distinctive poetry which, with great artistic sensitivity, has interpreted human values under the sign of an outlook on life with no illusions."
12/10/1894
Elisabeth of Romania, queen consort of Greece (died 1956)
Elisabeth of Romania was the second child and eldest daughter of King Ferdinand I and Queen Marie of Romania. She was Queen of the Hellenes from 27 September 1922 until 25 March 1924 as the wife of King George II.
12/10/1893
Velvalee Dickinson, American spy (died 1980)
Velvalee Dickinson was an American seller of collectable dolls who became a spy for Imperial Japan during World War II. She was caught by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, but concerns over reasonable doubt led to conviction on lesser charges.
12/10/1892
Gilda dalla Rizza, Italian soprano and actress (died 1975)
Gilda Dalla Rizza was an important Italian soprano.
12/10/1891
Edith Stein, Polish nun and martyr; later canonized (died 1942)
Edith Stein was a German philosopher who converted to Catholicism and became a Discalced Carmelite nun. She was murdered in the gas chamber at the Auschwitz II-Birkenau concentration camp on 9 August 1942, and is canonized as a martyr and saint of the Catholic Church; she is also one of six patron saints of Europe.
Fumimaro Konoe, Japanese soldier and politician, 39th Prime Minister of Japan (died 1945)
Prince Fumimaro Konoe was a Japanese politician who served as Prime Minister of Japan from 1937 to 1939 and from 1940 to 1941. He presided over the Japanese invasion of China in 1937 and breakdown in relations with the United States which eventually culminated in the Second World War's expansion to the Asia-Pacific theater. Konoe also played a central role in transforming Japan into a totalitarian state by pushing through the State General Mobilization Law and establishing the Imperial Rule Assistance Association.
12/10/1889
Dietrich von Hildebrand, German Catholic philosopher and author (died 1977)
Dietrich Richard Alfred von Hildebrand was a German Catholic philosopher and religious writer.
12/10/1880
Louis Hémon, French-Canadian author (died 1913)
Louis Hémon, was a French writer, best known for his novel Maria Chapdelaine.
Kullervo Manner, Finnish Speaker of the Parliament, the Prime Minister of the FSWR and the Supreme Commander of the Red Guards (died 1939)
Kullervo Achilles Manner was a Finnish and Soviet politician. He was one of the leaders of the Finnish Socialist Workers' Republic.
12/10/1878
Truxtun Hare, American football player and hammer thrower (died 1956)
Thomas Truxtun Hare was an American Olympic medalist who competed in track and field and the hammer throw. He also played football with the University of Pennsylvania and was selected first-team All-American all four years. Sports Illustrated wrote, "Few early 20th Century players were as revered as Hare, who played every minute of every game." He was selected as a charter member of the College Football Hall of Fame in 1951.
12/10/1875
Aleister Crowley, English magician and author (died 1947)
Aleister Crowley was an English occultist, ceremonial magician, poet, novelist, mountaineer, and painter. He founded the religion of Thelema, identifying himself as the prophet entrusted with guiding humanity into the Æon of Horus in the early 20th century. A prolific writer, he published widely over the course of his life.
12/10/1874
Jimmy Burke, American baseball player and manager (died 1942)
James Timothy Burke was an American Major League Baseball third baseman, coach, and manager. He played for the Cleveland Spiders, St. Louis Perfectos, Milwaukee Brewers, Chicago White Stockings, Pittsburgh Pirates, and St. Louis Cardinals.
12/10/1872
Ralph Vaughan Williams, English composer and educator (died 1958)
Ralph Vaughan Williams was an English composer. His works include operas, ballets, chamber music, secular and religious vocal pieces and orchestral compositions including nine symphonies, written over sixty years. Strongly influenced by Tudor music and English folk-song, his output marked a decisive break in British music from its German-dominated style of the 19th century.
12/10/1868
August Horch, German engineer and businessman, founded Audi (died 1951)
August Horch was a German engineer and automobile pioneer, the founder of the manufacturing giant that eventually became Audi.
Mariano Trías, Filipino general and politician, 1st Vice President of the Philippines (died 1914)
Mariano Trías y Closas is considered to be the first de facto Philippine Vice President of that revolutionary government established at the Tejeros Convention - an assembly of Philippine revolutionary leaders that elected officials of the revolutionary movement against the colonial government of Spain. When that assembly broke into factions, a truce known as the Pact of Biak-na-Bato was signed by the group and also recognized the elected officials and Trias as the vice president of Emilio Aguinaldo, who is also considered to be the first President of the Philippines. With the promulgation of the Malolos Constitution by the Malolos Convention, the First Philippine Republic was born. Under the Aguinaldo administration, Trias served in the cabinet initially as Secretary of Finance and, later, as Secretary of War.
12/10/1866
Ramsay MacDonald, Scottish journalist and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (died 1937)
James Ramsay MacDonald was a British statesman and politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. The first two of his governments belonged to the Labour Party, where he led a minority Labour government for nine months in 1924 and again between 1929 and 1931. In 1931, MacDonald was expelled from the Labour Party, after he formed a National Government dominated by the Conservative Party and supported by only a few Labour members, his premiership of which lasted until 1935.
12/10/1865
Arthur Harden, English biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1940)
Sir Arthur Harden, FRS was a British biochemist. He shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1929 with Hans Karl August Simon von Euler-Chelpin for their investigations into the fermentation of sugar and fermentative enzymes. He was a founding member of the Biochemical Society and editor of the Biochemical Journal for 25 years.
12/10/1864
Kamini Roy, British India's first female graduate, Bengali poet, social activist, and feminist writer (died 1933)
Kamini Roy was a Bengali poet, social worker and feminist in British India. She was the first woman honours graduate in British India.
12/10/1860
Elmer Ambrose Sperry, American engineer and businessman, co-invented the gyrocompass (died 1930)
Elmer Ambrose Sperry Sr. was an American inventor and entrepreneur, most famous for construction, two years after Hermann Anschütz-Kaempfe, of the gyrocompass and as founder of the Sperry Gyroscope Company. He was known as the "father of modern navigation technology".
12/10/1855
Arthur Nikisch, Hungarian conductor and academic (died 1922)
Arthur Nikisch was a Hungarian conductor who performed internationally, holding posts in Boston, London, Leipzig and—most importantly—Berlin. He was considered an outstanding interpreter of the music of Bruckner, Tchaikovsky, Beethoven and Liszt. Johannes Brahms praised Nikisch's performance of his Fourth Symphony as "quite exemplary, it's impossible to hear it any better."
12/10/1840
Helena Modjeska, Polish-American actress (died 1909)
Helena Modrzejewska, known professionally in the United States as Helena Modjeska, was a Polish-American actress who specialized in Shakespearean and tragic roles. She was also a philanthropist and a socialite.
12/10/1838
George Thorn, Australian politician, 6th Premier of Queensland (died 1905)
George Henry Thorn (junior) was a Member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly and a Premier of Queensland, Australia.
12/10/1826
Kathinka Kraft, Norwegian memoirist (died 1895)
Kathinka Kraft was a Norwegian memoirist best known for her sole work Et og andet fra min Tid. Erindringer about her experiences growing up in Christiania and living in the countryside.
12/10/1815
William J. Hardee, American general (died 1873)
Lieutenant-General William Joseph Hardee was an American military officer. He served in the United States Army in both the Second Seminole War and in the Mexican–American War. He was later commissioned as a general in the Confederate States Army in 1861. Hardee saw combat in the Western Theater of the American Civil War and was known to quarrel sharply with two of his commanding officers, Braxton Bragg and John Bell Hood. He later served in the Atlanta campaign of 1864 and the Carolinas campaign of 1865, where he surrendered with Joseph E. Johnston to the Union side led by William Tecumseh Sherman in April. Hardee's writings about military tactics were widely used on both sides in the conflict.
12/10/1801
Friedrich Frey-Herosé, Swiss lawyer and politician, 5th President of the Swiss Confederation (died 1873)
Friedrich Frey-Herosé was a Swiss politician.
12/10/1798
Pedro I, emperor of Brazil (died 1834)
Dom Pedro I, known in Brazil and in Portugal as "the Liberator" or "the Soldier King" in Portugal, was the founder and first ruler of the Empire of Brazil from 1822 to 1831 and King of Portugal in 1826.
12/10/1792
Christian Gmelin, German chemist and pharmacist (died 1860)
Christian Gottlob Gmelin was a German chemist. He was born in Tübingen, Holy Roman Empire, and was a grandson of Johann Konrad Gmelin and a great-grandson of Johann Georg Gmelin.
12/10/1725
Étienne Louis Geoffroy, French pharmacist and entomologist (died 1810)
Étienne Louis Geoffroy was a French entomologist and pharmacist. He was born in Paris and died in Soissons. He followed the binomial nomenclature of Carl von Linné and devoted himself mainly to beetles.
12/10/1710
Jonathan Trumbull, American colonel and politician, 16th Governor of Connecticut (died 1785)
Jonathan Trumbull Sr. was an American politician who served as the governor of Connecticut during the American Revolution. Trumbull and Nicholas Cooke of Rhode Island were the only men to serve as governor of both a British colony and a U.S. state, and he was the only governor to take up the Patriot cause at the start of the Revolutionary War. Trumbull College at Yale University, the town of Trumbull, Connecticut, Trumbull County, Ohio, and Jonathan the Husky the UConn mascot are all named for him. Trumbull was the father of John Trumbull, the noted artist, and Jonathan Trumbull Jr., Governor of Connecticut and Speaker of the United States House of Representatives.
12/10/1687
Sylvius Leopold Weiss, German lute player and composer (died 1750)
Silvius Leopold Weiss was a German composer and lutenist. He was born in Silesia as the son of the lutenist Johann Jacob Weiss, who taught the lute to his children. Weiss was a child prodigy and played for Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor c. 1694. He was employed by nobility including Charles III Philip of Palatinate-Neuburg and Alexander Sobieski, travelling with them to various courts and cities in Europe.
12/10/1614
Henry More, English philosopher (died 1687)
Henry More was an English philosopher, theologian, and poet, associated with the Cambridge Platonists. He sought to reconcile Platonism with Christian theology and responded critically to Cartesian philosophy. His metaphysical writings addressed the nature of spirit, matter, divine providence, and the soul, and he was a prominent voice in seventeenth-century religious and philosophical debates.
12/10/1602
William Chillingworth, English scholar and theologian (died 1644)
William Chillingworth was a controversial English churchman.
12/10/1576
Thomas Dudley, English-American soldier and politician, 3rd Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony (died 1653)
Thomas Dudley was a New England colonial magistrate who served several terms as governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Dudley was the chief founder of Newtowne, later Cambridge, Massachusetts, and built the town's first home. He provided land and funds to establish the Roxbury Latin School and signed Harvard College's new charter during his 1650 term as governor. Dudley was a devout Puritan who opposed religious views not conforming with his. In this, he was more rigid than other early Massachusetts leaders like John Winthrop, but less confrontational than John Endecott.
12/10/1559
Jacques Sirmond, French scholar and Jesuit (died 1651)
Jacques Sirmond, pseudonym Jacobus Cosmas Fabricius, was a French scholar and Jesuit.
12/10/1558
Maximilian III, archduke of Austria (died 1618)
Maximilian III of Austria, was a member of the House of Habsburg and the Archduke of Further Austria from 1612 until his death. He was also briefly known as Maximilian of Poland during his claim for the Polish throne. After trying and failing to be elected as King of Poland, he launched the War of the Polish Succession and was defeated by the winner, Sigismund III Vasa. He was also Grand Master of the Teutonic Order.
12/10/1555
Peregrine Bertie, 13th Baron Willoughby de Eresby, English diplomat (died 1601)
Peregrine Bertie, 13th Baron Willoughby de Eresby was the son of Katherine Willoughby, 12th Baroness Willoughby de Eresby, and Richard Bertie. His first marriage was to Mary de Vere, daughter of John de Vere, 16th Earl of Oxford. Bertie was Lady Willoughby de Eresby's second husband, the first being Charles Brandon, Duke of Suffolk. Peregrine Bertie's half-brothers, Henry and Charles Brandon, died as teenagers four years before his birth. His sister Susan married the Earl of Kent and then the nephew of Bess of Hardwick. Owing to religious politics, his parents had to move outside England and the boy was born at Wesel on the River Rhine.
12/10/1537
Edward VI, king of England (died 1553)
Edward VI was King of England and Ireland from 28 January 1547 until his death in 1553. He was crowned on 20 February 1547 at the age of nine. The only surviving son of Henry VIII by his third wife, Jane Seymour, Edward was the first English monarch to be raised as a Protestant. During his reign, the realm was governed by a regency council because Edward never reached maturity. The council was first led by his uncle Edward Seymour, Duke of Somerset (1547–1549), and then by John Dudley, Duke of Northumberland (1550–1553).
12/10/1533
Asakura Yoshikage, Japanese ruler (died 1573)
Asakura Yoshikage was a Japanese daimyō of the Sengoku period (1467–1603) who ruled a part of Echizen Province in present-day Fukui Prefecture. He was a regent of Ashikaga Shogunate. Yoshikage's conflicts with Oda Nobunaga (1534–1582) resulted in his death and the destruction of the Asakura clan and its castle, Ichijōdani Castle.
12/10/1490
Bernardo Pisano, Italian composer and priest (died 1548)
Bernardo Pisano was an Italian composer, priest, singer, and scholar of the Renaissance. He was one of the first madrigalists, and the first composer anywhere to have a printed collection of secular music devoted entirely to himself.
12/10/1350
Dmitri Donskoi, Grand Duke of Moscow (died 1389)
Dmitry Ivanovich Donskoy was Prince of Moscow from 1359 and Grand Prince of Vladimir from 1363 until his death. He was the heir of Ivan II.
12/10/1240
Trần Thánh Tông, emperor of Vietnam (then Đại Việt) (died 1290)
Trần Thánh Tông, personal name Trần Hoảng (陳晃), was the second emperor of the Trần dynasty, reigning over Đại Việt from 1258 to 1278. After ceding the throne to his son Trần Nhân Tông, Thánh Tông held the title of retired emperor from 1279 until his death in 1290. During the second and the third Mongol invasions of Đại Việt, Retired Emperor Thánh Tông and Emperor Nhân Tông were credited as the supreme commanders who led the nation to the final victories and, as a result, established a long period of peace and prosperity over the country. With his successful rulings in both military and civil matters, Trần Thánh Tông was considered one of the greatest emperors of not only the Trần dynasty but also the whole dynastic era in the history of Vietnam.
12/10/1008
Go-Ichijō, emperor of Japan (died 1036)
Emperor Go-Ichijō was the 68th emperor of Japan, according to the traditional order of succession.