Born on Tuesday, 7th October – Famous Birthdays

07/10/2002

Joaquín Panichelli, Argentine footballer

Joaquín Panichelli is an Argentine professional footballer who plays as a forward for Ligue 1 club Strasbourg and the Argentina national team.

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07/10/2001

Princess Senate Seeiso, Princess of Lesotho

Princess Senate Mohato Seeiso is a princess of Lesotho, the eldest child of King Letsie III of Lesotho and his wife Queen 'Masenate Mohato Seeiso.

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07/10/1999

Ferdi Kadıoğlu, Turkish footballer

Ferdi Erenay Kadıoğlu is a professional footballer who plays as a full back, midfielder or winger for Premier League club Brighton & Hove Albion. Born in the Netherlands, he plays for the Turkey national team.

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07/10/1998

Trent Alexander-Arnold, English footballer

Trent John Alexander-Arnold, sometimes known mononymously as Trent, is an English professional footballer who plays as a right-back or midfielder for La Liga club Real Madrid and the England national team. Considered one of the best right-backs in the world, he is known for his range of passing, crossing and assists, as well as his set-piece taking ability. Owing to such capabilities, Alexander-Arnold has also occasionally been deployed as a midfielder for both club and country.

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Ryan Trahan, American YouTuber

Ryan Michael Trahan is an American YouTuber, vlogger, and businessman. He is best known for his "penny series", which he has done several times since 2017, where he has 30 days to travel using only a penny.

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07/10/1997

Kira Kosarin, American actress and singer

Kira Nicole Kosarin is an American actress and singer, known for her role as Phoebe Thunderman on the Nickelodeon series The Thundermans. She reprised the role in the film The Thundermans Return (2024) and in the spin-off series The Thundermans: Undercover (2025–present). On April 10, 2019, she independently released her debut album, Off Brand, later signing with Republic Records in 2022.

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Nicole Maines, American actress, writer, and activist

Nicole Amber Maines is an American actress, comic book writer and transgender rights activist. Prior to her acting career, she was the anonymous plaintiff in the Maine Supreme Judicial Court case Doe v. Regional School Unit 26, in which she argued her school district could not deny her access to the female bathroom for being transgender. The court ruled in 2014 that barring transgender students from the school bathroom consistent with their gender identity is unlawful, the first such ruling by a state court.

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07/10/1996

Lewis Capaldi, Scottish singer-songwriter

Lewis Marc Capaldi is a Scottish singer-songwriter and musician. In March 2019, his single "Someone You Loved" (2018) topped the UK Singles Chart where it remained for seven weeks, and in November 2019, it reached number one on the US Billboard Hot 100; it was nominated at the 62nd Annual Grammy Awards for Song of the Year and won the 2020 Brit Award for Song of the Year. "Someone You Loved" was the bestselling single of 2019 in the UK. He was nominated for the Critics' Choice Award at the 2019 Brit Awards. Capaldi also won the 2020 Brit Award for Best New Artist. In May 2020, it was announced that Capaldi's song "Someone You Loved" had become the longest-running top 10 UK single of all time by a British artist.

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Choi Jeong, South Korean Go player

Choi Jeong, or Choi Jung, is a South Korean professional Go player.

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Guglielmo Vicario, Italian footballer

Guglielmo Vicario is an Italian professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Premier League club Tottenham Hotspur and the Italy national team.

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07/10/1995

Lyndon Dykes, Australian professional footballer

Lyndon John Dykes is a professional footballer who plays as a striker for EFL Championship club Charlton Athletic. Born and raised in Australia to Scottish parents, he plays for the Scotland national team.

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Mathias Dyngeland, Norwegian footballer

Mathias Dyngeland is a Norwegian footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Brann in Eliteserien and the Norway national team. He has previously played for Fana and Sogndal.

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Lloyd Jones, English professional footballer

Lloyd Richard Jones is a professional footballer who plays as a defender for EFL Championship club Charlton Athletic.

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Bram van Vlerken, Dutch professional football player

Bram van Vlerken is a Dutch professional footballer who plays as a right-back.

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07/10/1993

Nic Stauskas, Canadian basketball player

Nikolas Tomas Stauskas is a Canadian former professional basketball player who played six seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA). A shooting guard, Stauskas played two seasons of college basketball for the Michigan Wolverines from 2012 to 2014. He was drafted eighth overall in the 2014 NBA draft by the Sacramento Kings. Stauskas, whose family is of Lithuanian heritage, is a member of the Canadian national team.

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07/10/1992

Mookie Betts, American baseball player

Markus Lynn "Mookie" Betts is an American professional baseball outfielder, shortstop, and second baseman for the Los Angeles Dodgers of Major League Baseball (MLB). He debuted in MLB for the Boston Red Sox. He is an eight-time All-Star, seven-time Silver Slugger Award winner, six-time Gold Glove Award recipient, four-time World Series champion, and was named the Most Valuable Player in the American League in 2018. He is among the top three active players in Wins Above Replacement (WAR). Internationally, Betts represents the United States.

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07/10/1991

Oscar Fantenberg, Swedish ice hockey player

Oscar Fantenberg is a Swedish professional ice hockey defenceman who is currently playing for Linköping HC in the Swedish Hockey League (SHL). Undrafted, he has previously played for the Vancouver Canucks, Los Angeles Kings and Calgary Flames in the National Hockey League (NHL), in addition to playing for HC Sochi and SKA Saint Petersburg in the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL).

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Mike Foltynewicz, American baseball player

Michael Gary Foltynewicz, nicknamed "Folty", is an American former professional baseball pitcher. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Houston Astros, Atlanta Braves, and Texas Rangers.

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Nicole Jung, American singer

Nicole Yongju Jung, referred to as Nicole, is an American singer. She is a member of South Korean girl group Kara. Her solo debut mini album, First Romance, was released on November 19, 2014.

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Lay Zhang, Chinese singer-songwriter and actor

Zhang Yixing, known professionally as Lay Zhang or simply Lay, is a Chinese rapper, singer and actor. After participating in the Chinese talent show Star Academy in 2005, he became a member of the South Korean-Chinese boy band Exo and its Chinese sub-unit Exo-M under SM Entertainment in 2012. In 2015, Zhang founded a studio under SM for his solo activities in China. From 2015 to 2018, he was a cast member of the Chinese reality show Go Fighting! In 2016, Zhang released his first extended play (EP), Lose Control. In 2020, Zhang founded the Chromosome Entertainment Group. Zhang's acting credits include films and television shows, notably The Mystic Nine (2016), Kung Fu Yoga (2017), The Island (2018), Winter Begonia (2020), and No More Bets (2023).

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07/10/1990

Sebastián Coates, Uruguayan footballer

Sebastián Coates Nion is a Uruguayan professional footballer who plays as a centre-back for Uruguayan club Nacional.

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07/10/1989

Trent Merrin, Australian rugby league player

Trent Merrin is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer who played as a lock, prop and second-row forward for most of his playing career in the NRL.

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07/10/1988

Diego da Silva Costa, Brazilian footballer

Diego da Silva Costa is a former professional footballer who played as a striker. Born in Brazil, he represented the Spain national team.

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07/10/1987

Jeremy Brockie, New Zealand footballer

Jeremy Russell Brockie is a New Zealand former professional footballer who played as a forward.

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Alex Cobb, American baseball player

Alexander Miller Cobb is an American professional baseball pitcher who is a free agent. He has previously played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Tampa Bay Rays, Baltimore Orioles, Los Angeles Angels, San Francisco Giants and Cleveland Guardians. Cobb was selected by the Rays in the fourth round of the 2006 MLB draft, and made his MLB debut with them in 2011.

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Aiden English, American wrestler

Matthew Thomas Rehwoldt is an American color commentator and professional wrestler. He is signed to Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) as a color commentator. He is also known for his time in WWE from 2012 to 2020, where he performed under the ring name Aiden English.

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Damion James, American basketball player

Damion Marquez Williams James is an American former professional basketball player who last played for Vaqueros de Bayamón of the Baloncesto Superior Nacional (BSN). He played college basketball for Texas.

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Sam Querrey, American tennis player

Samuel Austin Querrey is an American former pickleball player and former tennis player. He reached a career-high singles ranking of world No. 11 achieved on February 26, 2018, and won ten ATP singles titles. Known for his powerful serve, Querrey holds the record for consecutive service aces in a match with 10. He was also a capable doubles player, with five ATP doubles titles and a career-high doubles ranking of No. 23 achieved on May 17, 2010. His best performance in a Grand Slam singles event was at the 2017 Wimbledon Championships, where he reached the semifinals after defeating world No. 1 Andy Murray in the quarterfinals to become the first American man to reach the last four of a Grand Slam in eight years. At the same tournament the previous year, he defeated world No. 1 Novak Djokovic to reach the quarterfinals, ending his Grand Slam win streak of 4 in a row. Other career highlights for Querrey include defeating former world number one Rafael Nadal in the Acapulco final of 2017, reaching the quarterfinals at the 2017 US Open and the 2019 Wimbledon Championships, and, in the 2015 US Open, reaching the mixed doubles final with Bethanie Mattek-Sands and the men's doubles semifinals with Steve Johnson. He also reached the semifinals of the Davis Cup three times with the United States team, in 2008, 2012, and 2018.

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07/10/1986

Chase Daniel, American football player

William Chase Daniel is an American former professional football player who was a quarterback in the National Football League (NFL) for 14 seasons. He played college football for the Missouri Tigers, earning second-team All-American honors in 2007. He was signed by the Washington Redskins as an undrafted free agent in 2009. During his career, Daniel was also a member of the New Orleans Saints, Kansas City Chiefs, Philadelphia Eagles, Chicago Bears, Detroit Lions, and Los Angeles Chargers. Daniel is a Super Bowl champion, having been the backup quarterback on the Saints team that won Super Bowl XLIV.

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Lee Nguyen, American soccer player

Lee Nguyen is an American professional soccer coach and former player who is currently an assistant coach for Seattle Reign FC of the National Women's Soccer League.

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Gunnar Nielsen, Faroese footballer

Gunnar Nielsen is a Faroese retired professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper. Nielsen played for HB, Boldklubben Frem, Gøtu Ítróttarfelag, Blackburn Rovers, Manchester City, Wrexham, Tranmere Rovers, Silkeborg, Motherwell, Stjarnan and FH, and the Faroe Islands national football team at all age levels.

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Bree Olson, American actress, model, and former pornographic actress

Rachel Oberlin, known professionally as Bree Olson, is an American actress, model, and former pornographic actress. She performed in over 170 adult films from 2006 to 2011. Since retiring from pornography, she has been critical of the discrimination and social stigma directed at adult film performers.

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A. J. Price, American basketball player

Anthony Jordan Price is an American former professional basketball player. He was born in Orange, New Jersey and raised in East Massapequa, New York. He is the son of former NBA player Tony Price.

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Holland Roden, American actress

Holland Roden is an American actress. She is known for her roles as Lydia Martin in MTV's teen drama series Teen Wolf, Zoe Woods in Syfy's horror anthology series Channel Zero: Butcher's Block, Bridget Cleary in Amazon Prime Video's horror anthology documentary series Lore and as Erin Isaacs in the horror film No Escape.

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Amy Satterthwaite, New Zealand cricketer

Amy Ella Satterthwaite is a New Zealand former cricketer who played as an all-rounder, batting left-handed and bowling either right-arm medium or off break. She appeared in 145 One Day Internationals and 111 Twenty20 Internationals for New Zealand between 2007 and 2022. She played domestic cricket for Canterbury, Tasmania, Hobart Hurricanes, Melbourne Renegades, Lancashire Thunder, Lancashire and Manchester Originals.

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Amber Stevens West, American actress

Amber Dawn Stevens West is an American actress. She is best known for her roles as Ashleigh Howard in the ABC Family series Greek (2007–2011), Maxine in the NBC sitcom The Carmichael Show (2015–2017), and Claire Davis in the CBS comedy Happy Together (2018–2019). She has also appeared in films The Amazing Spider-Man (2012), 22 Jump Street (2014) and Jessabelle (2014). She played the lead role of Maya in the 2018 comedy film Love Jacked.

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07/10/1985

Evan Longoria, American baseball player

Evan Michael Longoria, nicknamed "Longo", is an American former professional baseball third baseman who played 16 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Tampa Bay Rays, San Francisco Giants, and Arizona Diamondbacks.

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07/10/1984

Salman Butt, Pakistani cricketer

Salman Butt is a former Pakistani cricketer and captain who played for Pakistan national cricket team between 2003 and 2010, before getting banned for five years for his involvement in a 2010 spot-fixing scandal. Butt was a member of the Pakistan team that won the 2009 ICC World Twenty20.

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Toma Ikuta, Japanese actor and singer

Toma Ikuta is a Japanese actor known for his roles in Hanazakari no Kimitachi e, Honey & Clover, Sensei!, Maō and Ouroboros. He also starred in feature films, notably Hanamizuki, Ningen Shikkaku and Brain Man.

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Simon Poulsen, Danish footballer

Simon Busk Poulsen is a Danish former professional footballer who played as a left-back.

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Zachary Wyatt, American soldier and politician

Zachary Wyatt is an American politician from the state of Missouri. A Republican, Wyatt was a one-term member of the Missouri House of Representatives from the 2nd district, encompassing Adair County, Putnam County, and part of Sullivan County. In May 2012, Wyatt became, at that time, the nation's only openly gay Republican legislator. He came out during a press conference in the Missouri Capitol, while opposing the "Don't Say Gay" bill.

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07/10/1983

Archie Bland, English journalist and author

James Franklin Archibald "Archie" Bland, is a British newspaper journalist who wrote The Guardian's daily morning newsletter First Edition from 2022 to 2025.

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Dwayne Bravo, Trinidadian cricketer

Dwayne John Bravo is a Trinidadian retired cricketer, former captain of the West Indies cricket team and the current mentor of Kolkata Knight Riders as well as the head coach of the other teams of the Knight Riders Group, including Trinbago Knight Riders. A right-arm seam bowling all-rounder, Bravo was well known for his aggressive lower-order batting and for his bowling in the final overs of a match. During his prime, he was regarded as one of the best death bowlers in T20 cricket. He also performs as a singer.

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Flying Lotus, American rapper, DJ, and producer

Steven Ellison, better known as Flying Lotus or sometimes FlyLo, is an American record producer, DJ, filmmaker, and rapper. He has released seven critically acclaimed albums: 1983 (2006), Los Angeles (2008), Cosmogramma (2010), Until the Quiet Comes (2012), You're Dead! (2014), Flamagra (2019), and Yasuke (2021). Flying Lotus' other work includes creating the record label Brainfeeder, producing much of Adult Swim's bumper music, releasing rap mixtapes such as Duality (2012) under his Captain Murphy alter ego, curating and hosting the in-game radio station FlyLo FM in Grand Theft Auto V (2013), and directing the sci-fi horror film Ash (2025).

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Scottie Upshall, Canadian ice hockey player

Scott Upshall is a Canadian former professional ice hockey left winger. He was selected in the 2002 NHL entry draft by the Nashville Predators in the first round, sixth overall.

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07/10/1982

Madjid Bougherra, Algerian footballer

Madjid Bougherra is a professional football manager and former player who is the head coach of the Lebanon national team. Born in France, he played as a centre-back for the Algeria national team.

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Jermain Defoe, English footballer

Jermain Colin Defoe is an English football coach and former professional player. He is currently the manager of National League club Woking.

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Robby Ginepri, American tennis player

Robert Louis Ginepri is an American tennis coach and a former professional player. He won three ATP singles titles in his career and achieved a career-high ranking of World No. 15 in December 2005. Ginepri's best Grand Slam result was the semifinals of the 2005 US Open.

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Jake McLaughlin, American actor

Jacob Adam McLaughlin is an American actor. Following his military service, including action in the Iraq War, he came to attention for his role as Specialist Gordon Bonner in the 2007 film In the Valley of Elah – based on actual events involving American soldiers who served in the Iraq War. He also portrayed Alex Karev’s brother Aaron on Grey's Anatomy.

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Lockett Pundt, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

Lockett James Pundt IV is an American musician and multi-instrumentalist. He is the guitarist and occasional lead vocalist of Atlanta-based indie rock group Deerhunter which he joined in 2005. Pundt also releases solo material under the name Lotus Plaza.

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Li Yundi, Chinese pianist

Yundi Li, also known simply as Yundi, is a Chinese classical concert pianist. Yundi is considered one of the greatest contemporary interpreters of Frédéric Chopin and is also especially known for his interpretations of Franz Liszt and Sergei Prokofiev.

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07/10/1979

Simona Amânar, Romanian gymnast

Simona Amânar is a Romanian former artistic gymnast. She is the 2000 Olympic all-around champion, and a seven-time Olympic and ten-time World Championship medalist. Amânar helped Romania win four consecutive world team titles (1994–1999), as well as the 2000 Olympic team title. She has a vault named after her, one of the most difficult in women's gymnastics, and was inducted into the International Gymnastics Hall of Fame in 2007.

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Aaron Ashmore, Canadian actor

Aaron Richard Ashmore is a Canadian actor. He is known for portraying Jimmy Olsen on Smallville (2006–2011), Steve Jinks on Warehouse 13 (2011–2014), and Johnny Jaqobis on Killjoys (2015–2019), the latter of which earned him a Canadian Screen Award nomination. He also portrayed Duncan Locke in Locke & Key (2020–2022) and has appeared in Veronica Mars, In Plain Sight, Ginny & Georgia (2023–present), and SkyMed (2022–present). In film, he starred in the thriller The Thaw (2009), earning a Leo Award nomination for Best Lead Performance.

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Shawn Ashmore, Canadian actor

Shawn Robert Ashmore is a Canadian actor known for roles in film, television, and interactive media. He is the identical twin brother of actor Aaron Ashmore. He began acting in his youth, notably portraying Jake Berenson in Nickelodeon's television series Animorphs (1998–1999), Tyler Connell in Disney Channel's television series In a Heartbeat (2000–2001), and Brad Rigby in the Disney Channel Original Movie Cadet Kelly (2002). At age 14, Ashmore received a Gemini nomination for Best Performance in a Children's/Youth Program for his starring role in the television film Guitarman (1994).

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07/10/1978

Alison Balsom, English trumpet player and educator

Alison Louise Balsom, Lady Mendes, is a retired English trumpet soloist. She is an arranger, producer, and music educator. Balsom was awarded Artist of the Year at the 2013 Gramophone Awards and has won three Classic BRIT Awards and three German Echo Awards, and was a soloist at the BBC Last Night of the Proms in 2009 and finally in 2025. She was the artistic director of the 2019 Cheltenham Music Festival.

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Alesha Dixon, English singer-songwriter and dancer

Alesha Anjanette Dixon is an English singer, rapper, dancer, and television personality. She gained recognition in the early 2000s as a member of the R&B and garage group Mis-Teeq, who had seven consecutive UK top 10 singles, two top 10 double platinum albums, and sold over 12 million records worldwide.

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Zaheer Khan, Indian cricketer

Zaheer Khan is an Indian former professional cricketer who played all formats of the game for the Indian national team from 2000 till 2014. A left-arm fast-medium bowler known for his ability to "move the ball both ways off the wicket and swing the old ball at some pace", he was known for reverse swing with the old ball. He is the second-most successful Indian pace bowler in Test cricket, behind Kapil Dev.

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Omar Benson Miller, American actor

Omar Benson Miller is an American actor. He is known for his work as Walter Simmons on CSI: Miami (2009–12), as Charles Greane on Ballers (2015–19), as the voice of Raphael on Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2018–20) and its 2022 film, the CBS comedy series The Unicorn (2019–21), and Cornbread in Sinners (2025).

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07/10/1977

Antoine Revoy, French comics writer and illustrator

Antoine Revoy is a French author and illustrator. He is the creator of the horror story graphic novels ANIMUS published by First Second Books, and The Harrowing Game,, published by 23rd St. Books. Revoy is married to illustrator Kelly Murphy.

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07/10/1976

Marc Coma, Spanish motorcycle racer

Marc Coma i Camps is a Spanish rally racing motorcycle rider. He won the Dakar Rally in 2006, 2009, 2011, 2014, and 2015 riding a KTM motorcycle, and is also a six-time winner of the FIM Cross-Country Rallies World Championship. He was the race director of the Dakar Rally from 2016 to 2018.

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Taylor Hicks, American singer-songwriter

Taylor Reuben Hicks is an American singer who won the fifth season of American Idol in May 2006. Hicks got his start as a professional musician in his late teens and performed around the Southeastern United States for well over the span of a decade, during which he also released two independent albums. Upon winning Idol, he was signed to Arista Records, under which his self-titled major label debut was released on December 12, 2006.

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Gilberto Silva, Brazilian footballer

Gilberto Aparecido da Silva is a Brazilian former professional footballer who played as a defensive midfielder, most notably for Brazilian side Atlético Mineiro and for English Premier League club Arsenal, as well as for the Brazil national team. He currently serves as an ambassador for both Arsenal and FIFA.

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Santiago Solari, Argentinian footballer and manager

Santiago Hernán Solari Poggio is an Argentine professional football manager and former player who played as a left midfielder.

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Charles Woodson, American football player

Charles Cameron Woodson is an American former professional football player in the National Football League (NFL) for 18 seasons with the Oakland Raiders and Green Bay Packers. He spent his first 14 seasons as a cornerback and his final four as a safety. Woodson played college football for the Michigan Wolverines, twice earning All-American honors. As a junior in 1997, he was a national champion and the only defensive player in college football history to win the Heisman Trophy.

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07/10/1975

Giorgos Karadimos, Greek singer-songwriter and guitarist

Giorgos Karadimos is a musician from Greece. A composer and lyricist, he was nominated for the Eurovision Song Contest in 2010.

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Damian Kulash, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

Damian Joseph Kulash Jr. is an American musician. He is the lead singer and guitarist of the American rock band OK Go.

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Tim Minchin, English-Australian comedian, actor, and singer

Timothy David Minchin AM is an Australian comedian, actor, writer, musician, poet, composer, and songwriter.

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Rhyno, American wrestler

Terrance Guido Gerin is an American professional wrestler better known by the ring name Rhyno. He is a freelancer, appearing for various promotions such as All Elite Wrestling (AEW) and sister's promotion Ring of Honor (ROH), National Wrestling Alliance (NWA), and on the independent circuit. He is best known for his tenures in Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW), WWE, and Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA), where he is a 2024 TNA Hall of Fame inductee.

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07/10/1974

Rune Glifberg, Danish skateboarder

Rune Glifberg, nicknamed "The Danish Destroyer", is a Danish professional skateboarder. He is one of three skaters to have competed at every X Games. He has a total of 12 X Games medals. At 46, he became the oldest skateboarder to ever compete in the Olympic Games and the first male skateboarder to ever compete in a park event in the Olympic Games when he represented Denmark in the men's park event at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo.

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Allison Munn, American actress

Allison Munn is an American actress. She played Caroline Dupree in the Fox sitcom That '70s Show, Tina Haven in The WB sitcom What I Like About You, Lauren in The WB/CW drama One Tree Hill, and Anne Harper on the Nickelodeon series Nicky, Ricky, Dicky & Dawn.

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Ruslan Nigmatullin, Russian footballer

Ruslan Karimovich Nigmatullin is a retired association footballer of Volga Tatar ethnicity who played goalkeeper and is currently working as a DJ. He has appeared for the Russian national team 24 times and was their starting keeper at the 2002 World Cup. He was voted Russian Player of the Year 2001 and is considered the best Russian goalkeeper of his period.

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Charlotte Perrelli, Swedish singer

Anna Jenny Charlotte Perrelli, known until 2003 by her maiden name, is a Swedish singer and television host. Under her maiden name, she won the 1999 Melodifestivalen and subsequently that year's Eurovision Song Contest with the song "Take Me to Your Heaven".

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07/10/1973

Dida, Brazilian footballer

Nélson de Jesus Silva, better known simply as Dida, is a Brazilian former football goalkeeper and goalkeeping coach. He started his senior club career in Brazil in the early 1990s with Vitória before moving to Cruzeiro and Corinthians. He is perhaps best remembered for his ten-year stint with AC Milan from 2000 to 2010, where he established himself as one of the world's best goalkeepers and won multiple trophies and individual awards with the club, including one Serie A title (Scudetto) and twice the UEFA Champions League, with the first of those victories coming after he saved three penalties in the 2003 final against Serie A rivals Juventus, and is one of four Milan keepers with 300 career appearances. After a two-year absence from playing, he returned to Brazil in 2012, appearing for three teams—Portuguesa, Grêmio and Internacional—in as many seasons. He returned to Milan to serve as their goalkeeping coach from 2020 to 2022.

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Priest Holmes, American football player

Priest Anthony Holmes is an American former professional football player who was a running back for 11 seasons in the National Football League (NFL). He started his career with the Baltimore Ravens but experienced breakout success after signing with the Kansas City Chiefs as a free agent in 2001. During his seven-year stint with the Chiefs, Holmes was a three-time All-Pro, three-time Pro Bowl selection and was named NFL Offensive Player of the Year in 2002. Prior to playing for the Chiefs, Holmes earned a Super Bowl ring with the Ravens, who'd signed him as an undrafted free agent in 1997, in their 2000 Super Bowl XXXV victory over the New York Giants. He rushed for just over 2,000 yards in four seasons in Baltimore. Holmes sat out the 2006 season with a neck injury, and after a brief comeback attempt in 2007, he retired from the NFL.

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Sami Hyypiä, Finnish footballer and manager

Sami Tuomas Hyypiä is a Finnish professional football manager and a former player who played as a centre-back.

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Grigol Mgaloblishvili, Georgian politician and diplomat, 7th Prime Minister of Georgia

Grigol Mgaloblishvili is a Georgian politician and diplomat who has been Georgia's Permanent Representative to NATO from 26 June 2009 to 2013. He briefly served as the Prime Minister of Georgia from 1 November 2008 to 6 February 2009.

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07/10/1972

Marlou Aquino, Filipino basketball player

Marlou Bucao Aquino is a Filipino former professional basketball player who previously serves as the team consultant for the Pangasinan Heatwaves of the Maharlika Pilipinas Basketball League (MPBL). During his prime, he was known by fans as "The Skyscraper" and was, along with Edward Joseph Feihl, one-half of the so-called "Twin Towers" of the Ginebra San Miguel.

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Ben Younger, American director, producer, and screenwriter

Ben Younger is an American screenwriter and film director.

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07/10/1971

Daniel Boucher, Canadian singer and actor

Daniel Boucher is a Québécois musician.

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07/10/1970

Nicole Ari Parker, American actress

Nicole Ari Parker Kodjoe is an American actress and model. She made her screen debut with a leading role in the critically acclaimed independent film The Incredibly True Adventure of Two Girls in Love (1995) and went on to appear in Boogie Nights (1997), directed by Paul Thomas Anderson.

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07/10/1969

Bobbie Brown, American model and actress

Bobbie Jean Brown, sometimes credited as Bobbie Brown-Lane, is an American actress, model, and former beauty pageant contestant. She appeared in the 1989 videos for Great White's "Once Bitten, Twice Shy" and "House of Broken Love", and in the 1990 video for Warrant's song "Cherry Pie".

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Malia Hosaka, American wrestler

Malia Hosaka is an American professional wrestler. She is a former NWA World Women's Champion.

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07/10/1968

Thom Yorke, English singer-songwriter and guitarist

Thomas Edward Yorke is an English musician who is the singer and main songwriter of the rock band Radiohead. He plays guitar, bass, keyboards and other instruments, and is noted for his falsetto. Rolling Stone described Yorke as one of the greatest and most influential singers of his generation.

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07/10/1967

Michelle Alexander, American law professor, author and activist

Michelle Alexander is an American writer, attorney, and civil rights activist. She is best known for her 2010 book The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness. Since 2018, she has been an opinion columnist for the New York Times.

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Peter Baker, English golfer

Peter Alan Baker is an English professional golfer. He had three wins on the European Tour, one in 1988 and two in 1993. He represented Europe in the 1993 Ryder Cup.

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Toni Braxton, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actress

Toni Michele Braxton is an American singer, songwriter, actress and television personality. Braxton has won seven Grammy Awards, nine Billboard Music Awards, seven American Music Awards, and numerous other accolades. In 2011, Braxton was inducted into the Georgia Music Hall of Fame. In 2017, she was honored with the Legend Award at the Soul Train Music Awards.

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María Corina Machado, Venezuelan Nobel Prize Laureate

María Corina Machado Parisca is a Venezuelan politician, activist, and prominent leader of the opposition to the administrations of Hugo Chávez and Nicolás Maduro. She served as a member of the National Assembly of Venezuela from 2011 to 2014, and has run as a candidate in presidential elections. She was awarded the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize; she presented the medal to U.S. president Donald Trump after the 2026 U.S. strikes in Venezuela and capture of Maduro.

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07/10/1966

Sherman Alexie, American novelist, short story writer, poet, and filmmaker

Sherman Joseph Alexie Jr. is a Spokane novelist, short story writer, poet, screenwriter, and filmmaker. His writings draw on his experiences as an Indigenous American with ancestry from several tribes. Alexie grew up on the Spokane Indian Reservation and now lives in Seattle, Washington.

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Marco Beltrami, Italian-American composer and conductor

Marco Beltrami is an American composer of film and television scores. He has worked in a number of genres, including horror, action, science fiction, Western, and superhero.

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Janet Shaw, Australian cyclist and author (died 2012)

Janet Lucy Shaw was a visually-impaired Australian tandem cyclist and author. She became visually impaired due to congenital retinoblastoma and lost her sight completely at the age of 33. She first represented Australia in cycling at the 2002 IPC World Cycling Championships. She broke several world records with her pilot, Kelly McCombie.; they won two bronze medals at the 2004 Athens Paralympics. In 2008, Shaw was re-diagnosed with cancer; she died of the disease in 2012. She wrote two memoirs and several books for children and young adults.

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07/10/1965

Genji Hashimoto, Japanese race car driver

Genji Hashimoto is a Japanese businessman and racing driver. He is the CEO of Amprex International.

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Kumiko Watanabe, Japanese voice actress

Kumiko Watanabe is a Japanese voice actress.

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07/10/1964

Sam Brown, English singer-songwriter, musician, and record producer

Samantha Brown is an English singer, songwriter and musician.

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Dan Savage, American LGBT rights activist, journalist and television producer

Daniel Keenan Savage is an American author, media pundit, journalist, and LGBTQ community activist. He writes Savage Love, a relationship and sex advice column. In 2010, Savage and his husband, Terry Miller, began the It Gets Better Project to help prevent suicide among LGBTQ youth. He has also worked as a theater director, sometimes credited as Keenan Hollahan.

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Paul Stewart, English footballer

Paul Andrew Stewart is an English former professional footballer who played as a defensive midfielder and forward.

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07/10/1962

Dave Bronconnier, Canadian businessman and politician, 35th Mayor of Calgary

David Thomas Bronconnier is a Canadian politician who served as the 35th mayor of Calgary, Alberta.

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Micky Flanagan, English comedian

Michael John Flanagan is an English comedian. Flanagan has performed at the Edinburgh Fringe and toured Britain with stand-up shows. He presented Micky Flanagan: What Chance Change? for Radio 4 and has appeared on various TV shows including Mock the Week, A League of Their Own, 8 Out of 10 Cats, Was It Something I Said?, Michael McIntyre's Comedy Roadshow and I Love My Country.

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William Johnson, German-English cricketer

William Robert Johnson is a former English cricketer. Johnson was a right-handed batsman who played primarily as a wicketkeeper. He was born at Iserlohn, West Germany.

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07/10/1961

Brian Mannix, Australian singer-songwriter

Brian Mannix is an Australian rock music singer and actor. He is best known as the lead singer of 1980s band Uncanny X-Men. He was a regular on television quiz show Spicks and Specks.

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Tony Sparano, American football player and coach (died 2018)

Anthony Joseph Sparano III was an American football coach. He served as the head coach of the Miami Dolphins and Oakland Raiders of the National Football League (NFL) and is the only NFL head coach to have led a team to the playoffs the year following a one-win season, and only the second to conduct a 10-game turnaround, both of which Sparano accomplished in his first season with the Dolphins. Sparano was fired by the Dolphins in December 2011 after a 4–9 start to the season, his worst start in his four-year tenure with the team.

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07/10/1960

Kevin Boyle, American historian and author

Kevin Boyle is an American author and the William Smith Mason Professor of American History at Northwestern University. His 2004 book, Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age, won the National Book Award.

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07/10/1959

Dylan Baker, American actor

Dylan Baker is an American actor. He gained recognition for his roles in films such as Planes, Trains and Automobiles (1987), Happiness (1998), Thirteen Days (2000), Road to Perdition (2002), Spider-Man 2 (2004), Spider-Man 3 (2007), Trick 'r Treat (2007), Revolutionary Road (2008), Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues (2013), and Selma (2014). On television he has had prominent roles in series such as Murder One (1995–1996), The Good Wife (2010–2015), Damages (2011), The Americans (2016), and Homeland (2018). For The Good Wife he earned three Primetime Emmy Award nominations.

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Simon Cowell, English businessman and record producer

Simon Phillip Cowell is an English television personality, record executive, and entrepreneur. He has judged on the British television talent competition shows Pop Idol (2001–2003), The X Factor, and Britain's Got Talent (2007–present), as well as the American television talent competition shows American Idol (2002–2010), The X Factor (2011–2013), and America's Got Talent (2016–present). Cowell founded the British entertainment company Syco Entertainment in 2005, as well as its defunct predecessor, Syco Music in 2002.

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Lourdes Flores, Peruvian lawyer and politician

Lourdes Celmira Rosario Flores Nano is a Peruvian lawyer and politician who served as a councilwoman of Lima, Deputy from Lima from 1990 to 1992, Democratic Constituent Congresswoman from 1992 to 1995, Congresswoman from 1995 to 2000. She was the Christian People's Party candidate for President of Peru in the 2001 and 2006 elections in which she ran under the National Unity coalition.

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Jean-Marc Fournier, Canadian lawyer and politician

Jean-Marc Fournier is a Quebec politician and a lawyer. He represented the riding of Saint-Laurent in the National Assembly of Quebec from 2010 to 2018, and previously represented the riding of Châteauguay from 1994 to 2008. He served as the Minister of Revenue, Government House Leader, Minister of Education, Minister of Municipal Affairs, and Attorney General in the Government of Jean Charest and was the interim leader of the Quebec Liberal Party from 2012 to 2013

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Brazo de Oro, Mexican wrestler (died 2017)

Jesús Alvarado Nieves was a Mexican professional wrestler, who worked under the ring name Brazo de Oro. He was a part of the Alvarado wrestling family, the son of Shadito Cruz and brother of Brazo de Plata, El Brazo, Brazo Cibernético, Super Brazo and Brazo de Platino. His son Felipe de Jesús Alvarado Mendoza currently works as La Máscara for Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre. His nephews, Máximo Sexy and Psycho Clown are featured wrestlers for CMLL and Lucha Libre AAA Worldwide respectively.

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07/10/1957

Joey Marquez, Filipino basketball player, actor, and politician

Joselito Perez Marquez better known as Joey Marquez, is a Filipino actor, comedian, politician, and former professional basketball player in the Philippine Basketball Association (PBA).

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Michael W. Smith, American singer-songwriter and actor

Michael Whitaker Smith is an American musician who has charted in both contemporary Christian and mainstream charts. His biggest success in mainstream music was in 1991 when "Place in This World" hit No. 6 on the Billboard Hot 100. Over the course of his career, he has sold more than 18 million albums.

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Jayne Torvill, English figure skater

Dame Jayne Christensen is a British professional ice dancer and former competitor. She and her skating partner Christopher Dean are considered amongst the greatest ice dancers of all time. The pair won a gold medal at the 1984 Winter Olympics, as well as a bronze medal at the 1994 Winter Olympics, becoming one of the oldest figure skating Olympic medalists. They were also four-time world and European champions and seven-time British champions.

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07/10/1956

Steve Bainbridge, English rugby player

Stephen Bainbridge is a former England international rugby union player. In 1983 he toured with the British and Irish Lions on their tour to New Zealand and in the 1987 Rugby World Cup. He played amongst other teams for club rugby for Fylde, Gosforth, Blaydon and Orrell R.U.F.C.

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Mike Shipley, Australian-English sound engineer and producer (died 2013)

Michael Shipley was an Australian mixing engineer, audio engineer, and record producer. He mostly worked in Los Angeles during his career of more than 30 years. At the Grammy Awards of 2012 he won the Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical for working on Paper Airplane by Alison Krauss and Union Station. Shipley died in July 2013, aged 56, of an apparent suicide.

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Brian Sutter, Canadian ice hockey player and coach

Brian Louis Allen Sutter is a Canadian former ice hockey forward and former head coach in the National Hockey League (NHL). Brian is the second oldest of the famous Sutter brothers and the oldest of the six that played in the NHL. He is also the only one to have his number retired by an NHL team.

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07/10/1955

Ralph Johnson, American computer scientist and author

Ralph E. Johnson is a Research Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is a co-author of the influential computer science textbook Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software, for which he won the 2010 ACM SIGSOFT Outstanding Research Award. In 2006 he was awarded the Dahl–Nygaard Prize for his contributions to the state of the art embodied in that book as well.

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Bill Henson, Australian photographer

Bill Henson is an Australian contemporary art photographer.

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Yo-Yo Ma, French-American cellist and educator

Yo-Yo Ma is an American cellist. Born to Chinese parents in Paris, he was regarded as a child prodigy, and began to study the cello with his father at age four. Ma moved with his family to Boston at age seven and later to New York City, where he continued his cello studies at the Juilliard School before pursuing a liberal arts education at Harvard University. He has performed as a soloist with orchestras around the world, recorded more than 92 albums, and received 20 Grammy Awards.

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07/10/1953

Linda Griffiths, Canadian actress and playwright (died 2014)

Linda Pauline Griffiths was a Canadian actress and playwright best known for writing and starring in the one woman play Maggie and Pierre, in which she portrayed both Pierre Trudeau and his then-estranged wife, Margaret. Among her cinematic work, she is best known for her acclaimed, starring role in Lianna.

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Margus Lepa, Estonian journalist and actor

Margus Lepa is an Estonian radio journalist and former actor.

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Tico Torres, American drummer

Hector Samuel Juan "Tico" Torres is an American musician, best known as the drummer and one of the founding members of the rock band Bon Jovi. In 2018, he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Bon Jovi.

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07/10/1952

Mary Badham, American actress

Mary Badham is an American actress who portrayed Jean Louise "Scout" Finch in To Kill a Mockingbird (1962), for which she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. At the time, Badham was the youngest actress ever nominated in this category.

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Vladimir Putin, Russian colonel and politician, 4th President of Russia

Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin is a Russian politician and former intelligence officer who has served as President of Russia since 2012, having previously served from 2000 to 2008. Putin also served as Prime Minister of Russia from 1999 to 2000 and again from 2008 to 2012. He has been described as the de facto leader of Russia since 2000.

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Jacques Richard, Canadian ice hockey player (died 2002)

Joseph Alfred Gilles Jacques Richard was a Canadian professional ice hockey player who played in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the Atlanta Flames, Buffalo Sabres, and Quebec Nordiques. After an impressive junior career, Richard was considered a potential NHL superstar, but, except for a single season late in his career, he failed to live up to the promise. He led a troubled life both in hockey and after. Six years after retiring, in 1989, he was arrested for attempting to smuggle cocaine and then in 2002, Richard died in a car accident driving back from a party celebrating his 50th birthday.

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Graham Yallop, Australian cricketer

Graham Neil Yallop is a former Australian international cricketer. Yallop played Test and One Day International cricket for the Australia national cricket team between 1976 and 1984, captaining the team briefly during the World Series Cricket era in the late 1970s. A technically correct left-handed batsman, Yallop played domestically for Victoria, invariably batting near the top of the order and led Victoria to two Sheffield Shield titles. He was the first player to wear a full helmet in a Test match.

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07/10/1951

Enki Bilal, French comic book creator, comics artist and film director

Enki Bilal is a French comic book creator and film director.

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John Mellencamp, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor

John J. Mellencamp, previously known as Johnny Cougar, John Cougar, and John Cougar Mellencamp, is an American singer-songwriter. He is known for his brand of heartland rock, which emphasizes traditional instrumentation. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2008, followed by an induction into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2018.

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07/10/1950

Dick Jauron, American football player and coach (died 2025)

Richard Manual Jauron was an American professional football player and coach in the National Football League (NFL). He played eight seasons in the NFL as a safety, five with the Detroit Lions and three with the Cincinnati Bengals. Jauron served as the head coach of the Chicago Bears from 1999 to 2003 and the Buffalo Bills from 2006 until November 2009. He was also the interim head coach for the Lions for the final five games of the 2005 season. He was named the AP Coach of the Year in 2001 after leading the Bears to a 13–3 record.

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Jakaya Kikwete, Tanzanian colonel, economist, and politician, 4th President of Tanzania

Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete is a Tanzanian politician who was the fourth president of Tanzania, in office from 2005 to 2015.

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07/10/1949

Dave Hope, American bass player and priest

Dave Hope is an American bass guitarist who played with the American progressive rock band Kansas from 1970 until the band's first split in 1983. When he was in high school, he played the tuba and trumpet in his high school band. In the 1970s, while he was in Kansas, he was known for his heavy drug use. However, in 1980, Hope became a born-again Christian and adopted a much cleaner lifestyle than before.

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07/10/1948

Diane Ackerman, American poet and essayist

Diane Ackerman is an American poet, essayist, and naturalist known for her books and films.

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John F. B. Mitchell, English climatologist and author

John Francis Brake Mitchell OBE FRS is a British climatologist and climate modeller.

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Stephen Rucker, American composer

Stephen Donald Rucker is an American composer. Rucker studied piano with M. Mendelsohn of the Paris Conservatory. He has composed and conducted for the London Symphony Orchestra in the animated film, Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland, with Thomas Chase. He has worked on film scores for animated series including Dexter's Laboratory, The Powerpuff Girls, and Jonny Quest. He also composed the score for another Cartoon Network series, Codename: Kids Next Door, with Thomas Chase. Rucker and Chase also provided musical score for Alvin and the Chipmunks.

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07/10/1947

Chris Bambridge, Australian footballer and referee

Christopher Francis Bambridge is an Australian retired football referee. Born in Kettering, England he came to Australia from Britain in 1974.

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Jill Larson, American actress

Jill Larson is an American actress. She is best known for her role as Opal Cortlandt on the ABC daytime soap opera, All My Children, and as titular character in the 2014 supernatural horror film The Taking of Deborah Logan.

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07/10/1946

John Brass, Australian rugby player and coach

John Brass is an Australian former rugby union and rugby league footballer – a dual-code international. He made twelve international representative rugby union appearances with the Wallabies from 1966 to 1968 and six representative rugby league appearances for the Kangaroos in 1970 and 1975, as national captain on one occasion.

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Catharine MacKinnon, American lawyer, activist, and author

Catharine Alice MacKinnon is an American feminist legal scholar, activist, and author. She is the Elizabeth A. Long Professor of Law at the University of Michigan Law School, where she has been tenured since 1990, and the James Barr Ames Visiting Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. From 2008 to 2012, she was the special gender adviser to the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court.

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07/10/1945

Kevin Godley, English singer-songwriter and director

Kevin Michael Godley is an English singer-songwriter, drummer and music video director. He was a singer and drummer of the art rock band 10cc and later was part of collaboration duo Godley & Creme with Lol Creme.

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David Wallace, Scottish physicist and academic

Sir David James Wallace is a British physicist and academic. He served as Vice-Chancellor of Loughborough University from 1994 to 2005, and as Master of Churchill College, Cambridge from 2006 to 2014.

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07/10/1944

Judee Sill, American singer-songwriter and musician (died 1979)

Judith Lynne Sill was an American singer-songwriter and composer. She was influenced by Bach, and wrote lyrics drawing on Christian themes of rapture and redemption.

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Donald Tsang, Chinese civil servant and politician, 2nd Chief Executive of Hong Kong

Sir Donald Tsang Yam-kuen is a former Hong Kong civil servant who served as the second Chief Executive of Hong Kong from 2005 to 2012.

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07/10/1943

José Cardenal, Cuban baseball player and coach

José Rosario Domec Cardenal is a Cuban American former professional baseball player and coach. He played in Major League Baseball as an outfielder from 1963 to 1980, most prominently as a member of the Chicago Cubs, with whom he established himself as a fan favorite for his powerful hitting and his strong throwing arm. He had the best seasons of his career in Chicago, posting career highs in home runs and batting average as a member of the Cubs.

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Oliver North, American colonel, journalist, and author

Oliver Laurence North is an American political commentator, television host, military historian, author, and retired United States Marine Corps lieutenant colonel.

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07/10/1942

Joy Behar, American talk show host, comedian and television personality

Josephine Victoria "Joy" Behar is an American comedian, television host, actress, and playwright. She co-hosts the ABC talk show The View, on which she has appeared since the beginning of the series. For her work on The View, Behar won a Daytime Emmy Award in 2009. She hosted The Joy Behar Show on HLN from 2009 to 2011 and Joy Behar: Say Anything! on Current TV, from 2012 until the channel switched formats in August 2013. Behar's latest weekly late-night talk show, Late Night Joy, aired on TLC in 2015. She also wrote The Great Gasbag: An A–Z Study Guide to Surviving Trump World.

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07/10/1939

John Hopcroft, American computer scientist and author

John Edward Hopcroft is an American theoretical computer scientist. His textbooks on theory of computation and data structures are regarded as standards in their fields. He is a professor emeritus at Cornell University, co-director of the Center on Frontiers of Computing Studies at Peking University, the director of the John Hopcroft Center for Computer Science at Shanghai Jiao Tong University and Hopcroft Center on Computer Science at Huazhong University of Science and Technology. He and Robert Tarjan won the 1986 ACM Turing Award.

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Clive James, Australian television host, author, and critic (died 2019)

Clive James was an Australian critic, journalist, broadcaster, writer and lyricist who lived and worked in the United Kingdom from 1962 until his death in 2019. He began his career specialising in literary criticism before becoming television critic for The Observer in 1972, where he made his name for his wry, deadpan humour.

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Harry Kroto, English chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2016)

Sir Harold Walter Kroto was an English chemist. He shared the 1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Robert Curl and Richard Smalley for their discovery of fullerenes. He was the recipient of many other honors and awards.

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Laurent Monsengwo Pasinya, Congolese cardinal (died 2021)

Laurent Monsengwo Pasinya was a Congolese prelate of the Catholic Church. He was the Archbishop of Kinshasa from 2007 to 2018. He became a cardinal in 2010. He was widely recognized as a champion of peace, dialogue, and human rights.

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Bill Snyder, American football player and coach

William D. Snyder is an American retired college football coach and former player. He served as the head football coach at Kansas State University from 1989 to 2005 and again from 2009 to 2018. Snyder initially retired from the position from 2006 to 2008 before being rehired. Snyder retired for the second time on December 2, 2018, and is serving as a special ambassador for the athletics department.

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07/10/1938

Yvonne Brewster, Jamaican actress and theatre director

Elsie Yvonne Brewster was a Jamaican actress, theatre director, producer and writer working across film, theatre, radio and television. She has been described as a "cultural visionary who helped shape modern Caribbean theatre". In 1956, she went to England to study drama at Rose Bruford College, as the UK's first Black woman drama student. On returning to Jamaica in 1965, she co-founded with Trevor Rhone Jamaica's first professional theatre company, the Barn, before returning in the early 1970s to the UK, where she co-founded Talawa Theatre Company, the first production of which was The Black Jacobins by C. L. R. James.

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Ann Jones, English tennis player and sportscaster

Ann Shirley Jones, also known as Ann Haydon-Jones, is an English former tennis and table tennis champion. She won eight Grand Slam tennis championships in her career: three in singles, three in women's doubles and two in mixed doubles. In 2023, she served as a vice president of the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club.

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07/10/1937

Christopher Booker, English journalist and author (died 2019)

Christopher John Penrice Booker was an English journalist and author. He was a founder and first editor of the satirical magazine Private Eye in 1961. From 1990 onwards, he was a columnist for The Sunday Telegraph. In 2009, he published The Real Global Warming Disaster. He also disputed the link between passive smoking and cancer, and the dangers posed by asbestos. In his Sunday Telegraph section, he frequently commented on the UK Family Courts and Social Services.

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Chet Powers, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 1994)

Chester William Powers, Jr. was an American singer-songwriter, and under the stage names Dino Valenti or Dino Valente, one of the lead singers of the rock group Quicksilver Messenger Service. As a songwriter, he was known as Jesse Oris Farrow. He is best known for having written the quintessential 1960s love-and-peace anthem "Get Together", and for writing and singing on Quicksilver Messenger Service's two best-known songs, "Fresh Air" and "What About Me?"

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Maria Szyszkowska, Polish academic and politician

Maria Szyszkowska is a Polish academic, writer and former senator. Szyszkowska was a member of the Democratic Left Alliance and chaired that Party's Ethics Committee. She is currently a leader of Reason of the Polish Left.

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07/10/1936

Michael Hurll, English director, producer, and screenwriter (died 2012)

Michael Hurll was a British television producer who specialized in the comedy and light entertainment genres. He produced many British TV shows including The Two Ronnies, Top of the Pops, and Blind Date. He was for many years a producer for the BBC, and later worked for LWT and as an independent producer. He also had a long association with television hosts Cilla Black and Noel Edmonds. At the BBC, he was the producer of The Eurovision Song Contest twice, taking charge of the 1974 contest in Brighton and again in 1982 in Harrogate.

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07/10/1935

Thomas Keneally, Australian novelist, playwright, and essayist

Thomas Michael Keneally is an Australian novelist, playwright, essayist, and actor. He is best known for his historical fiction novel Schindler's Ark, the story of Oskar Schindler's rescue of Jews during the Holocaust, which won the Booker Prize in 1982. The book would later be adapted into Steven Spielberg's 1993 film Schindler's List, which won seven Academy Awards, including Best Picture.

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07/10/1934

Amiri Baraka, American poet, playwright, and academic (died 2014)

Amiri Baraka, previously known as LeRoi Jones and Imamu Amear Baraka, was an American writer of poetry, drama, fiction, essays, and music criticism. He was the author of numerous books of poetry and taught at several universities, including the University at Buffalo and Stony Brook University. He received the PEN/Beyond Margins Award in 2008 for Tales of the Out and the Gone. Baraka's plays, poetry, and essays have been described by scholars as constituting defining texts for African-American culture.

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Ulrike Meinhof, German left-wing militant, co-founder of the Red Army Faction, journalist (died 1976)

Ulrike Marie Meinhof was a German left-wing militant, journalist and founding member of the Red Army Faction (RAF) in West Germany, commonly referred to in the press as the "Baader-Meinhof gang". She is the reputed author of The Urban Guerilla Concept (1971). The manifesto acknowledges the RAF's "roots in the history of the student movement"; condemns "reformism" as "a brake on the anti-capitalist struggle"; and invokes Mao Zedong to define "armed struggle" as "the highest form of Marxism-Leninism".

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Willie Naulls, American basketball player (died 2018)

William Dean Naulls was an American professional basketball player for 10 years in the National Basketball Association (NBA). He was a four-time NBA All-Star with the New York Knicks and won three NBA championships with the Boston Celtics.

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Julian Thompson, English general and historian

Major-General Julian Howard Atherden Thompson, is a military historian and former Royal Marines officer who commanded 3 Commando Brigade during the Falklands War.

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07/10/1933

Harold Dunaway, American race car driver and pilot (died 2012)

Harold Glenn Dunaway was an American stock car and sprint car driver. He made one start in the NASCAR Grand National Series.

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07/10/1932

Joannes Gijsen, Dutch bishop (died 2013)

Joannes Baptist Matthijs Gijsen was a Dutch bishop of the Roman Catholic Church. After being Bishop (emeritus) of Roermond, Limburg, the Netherlands, he became Bishop (emeritus) of the Diocese of Reykjavík (Iceland). His episcopal motto was Parate viam Domini.

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07/10/1931

Cotton Fitzsimmons, American basketball player and coach (died 2004)

Lowell Gibbs "Cotton" Fitzsimmons was an American college and NBA basketball coach. A native of Bowling Green, Missouri, he attended and played basketball at Hannibal-LaGrange Junior College in Hannibal, Missouri and Midwestern State University in Wichita Falls, Texas. He coached the Phoenix Suns three times, was named the NBA Coach of the Year twice, and is often credited as the architect of the Suns' success of the late 1980s and early to middle 1990s. Fitzsimmons won 1,089 games in his coaching career: 223 games at the junior college level, 34 at the Division I college level and 832 in the NBA.

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Tommy Lewis, American football player and coach (died 2014)

Thomas Edison Lewis was an American gridiron football player. He played fullback for the Alabama Crimson Tide.

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R. Sivagurunathan, Sri Lankan journalist, lawyer, and academic (died 2003)

Kalasuri Ratnadurai Sivagurunathan was a Sri Lankan journalist, lawyer, academic and editor of Thinakaran.

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Desmond Tutu, South African archbishop and activist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2021)

Desmond Mpilo Tutu was a South African Anglican bishop and theologian, known for his work as an anti-apartheid and human rights activist. He was Bishop of Johannesburg from 1985 to 1986 and then Archbishop of Cape Town from 1986 to 1996, in both cases being the first Black African to hold the position. Theologically, he sought to fuse ideas from Black theology with African theology.

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07/10/1930

Curtis Crider, American race car driver (died 2012)

Curtis "Crawfish" Crider was an American stock car racing driver, and a pioneer in the early years of NASCAR.

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07/10/1929

Graeme Ferguson, Canadian director and producer, co-founded the IMAX Corporation (died 2021)

Ivan Graeme Ferguson was a Canadian filmmaker and inventor who co-invented the IMAX film format. He was appointed to the Order of Canada in 1992.

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Mariano Gagnon, American Catholic priest and author (died 2017)

Mariano Gagnon was an American Franciscan friar and Catholic priest, who served as a missionary in Peru. Gagnon founded the Cutivereni mission in Peru's Ene River valley to assist the indigenous Asháninka people who were being forced out of their homes in the jungle by settlers. He would later become known for his work helping arm the Asháninka and eventually helping some Asháninka flee Cutivereni when it was facing attack from Shining Path guerrillas during the internal conflict in Peru. He later wrote about his experiences during the conflict in the book Warriors in Eden.

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Robert Westall, English journalist and author (died 1993)

Robert Atkinson Westall was an English author and teacher known for fiction aimed at children and young people. Some of the latter cover complex, dark, and adult themes. He has been called "the dean of British war novelists". His first book, The Machine Gunners, won the 1975 Carnegie Medal for the year's outstanding children's book by a British subject. It was named among the top ten Medal-winners at the 70th anniversary celebration in 2007. Westall also won a second Carnegie, a Smarties Prize, and the once-in-a-lifetime Guardian Prize.

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07/10/1928

José Messias, Brazilian composer, singer, writer, host and critic (died 2015)

José Messias da Cunha or simply José Messias was a Brazilian composer, singer, writer, musician, radio broadcaster, host and producer of radio and television, and journalist, music critic and music juror in television talent programs.

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Ali Kafi, Algerian politician (died 2013)

Ali Kafi was an Algerian politician who was Chairman of the High Council of State and acting President from 1992 to 1994.

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Lorna Wing, English autism researcher (died 2014)

Lorna Gladys Wing was a British psychiatrist who conducted research into autism. She coined the term Asperger's syndrome and helped found the National Autistic Society.

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07/10/1927

Al Martino, American singer and actor (died 2009)

Jasper Cini, known professionally as Al Martino, was an American traditional pop and standards singer. He had his greatest success as a singer between the early 1950s and mid-1970s, being described as "one of the great Italian American pop crooners", and became known as an actor, particularly for his role as singer Johnny Fontane in The Godfather.

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R. D. Laing, Scottish psychiatrist and author (died 1989)

Ronald David Laing, usually cited as R. D. Laing, was a Scottish psychiatrist who wrote extensively on mental illness, particularly psychosis and schizophrenia. Politically, Laing was regarded as a thinker of the New Left. He has been theatrically portrayed by Mike Maran, Alan Cox, Billy Mack, and David Tennant in the 2017 film Mad to Be Normal.

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Demetrio González, Spanish-Mexican film actor and singer (died 2015)

Demetrio González was a Spanish-born Mexican film actor and singer of ranchera music. Born in Asturias, Spain, he is sometimes called El Charro Español. He has starred in ranchera-music films from 1955 to 1968. Dos Corazones y un Cielo (1959), in which he co-starred with Rosa de Castilla and Eulalio González, is one of his most notable films. He died after a stroke in Tepoztlán, Morelos, Mexico in 2015. aged 87.

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07/10/1926

Alex Groza, American basketball player (died 1995)

Alex John Groza was an American professional basketball player from Martins Ferry, Ohio. Resulting from the 1951 college basketball point-shaving scandal, Groza was banned from the National Basketball Association (NBA) for life in 1951. In college, he won two NCAA championships as captain of the University of Kentucky Wildcats, and was a two-time All-NBA player for the Indianapolis Olympians before his career abruptly ended.

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07/10/1923

Irma Grese, German SS officer (died 1945)

Irma Ilse Ida Grese was a Nazi concentration camp guard at Ravensbrück, Auschwitz II-Birkenau, and Bergen-Belsen. She has been widely known as the "Hyena of Auschwitz" and the "Beast of Belsen" for the atrocities she committed in Birkenau.

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Břetislav Pojar, Czech animator and director (died 2012)

Břetislav Pojar was a Czech puppeteer, animator and director of short and feature films.

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Jean-Paul Riopelle, Canadian painter and sculptor (died 2002)

Jean-Paul Riopelle, was a Canadian painter and sculptor from Quebec. He had one of the longest and most important international careers of the sixteen signatories of the Refus Global, the 1948 manifesto that announced the Quebecois artistic community's refusal of clericalism and provincialism. He is best known for his abstract painting style, in particular his "mosaic" works of the 1950s when he famously abandoned the paintbrush, using only a palette knife to apply paint to canvas, giving his works a distinctive sculptural quality. He became the first Canadian painter since James Wilson Morrice to attain widespread international recognition and high praise, both during his career and after his death. He was a leading artist of French Lyrical Abstraction.

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07/10/1922

Grady Hatton, American baseball player, coach, and manager (died 2013)

Grady Edgebert Hatton Jr. was an American professional baseball second baseman, third baseman, coach and manager. He played in Major League Baseball for the Cincinnati Reds / Redlegs, Chicago White Sox, Boston Red Sox, St. Louis Cardinals, Baltimore Orioles and Chicago Cubs. Hatton is most identified with his native Texas: he was born in Beaumont, attended the University of Texas at Austin, managed minor league teams in Houston and San Antonio, and was an important contributor to the early years of Major League Baseball's Houston Astros.

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William Zinsser, American journalist and critic (died 2015)

William Knowlton Zinsser was an American writer, editor, literary critic, and teacher. He began his career as a journalist for the New York Herald Tribune, where he worked as a feature writer, drama editor, film critic and editorial writer. He was a longtime contributor to leading magazines.

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07/10/1921

Raymond Goethals, Belgian footballer and coach (died 2004)

Raymond Goethals was a Belgian football coach who led Marseille to victory in the UEFA Champions League final in 1993, becoming the first coach to win a European trophy with a French club.

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07/10/1920

Georg Leber, German soldier and politician, German Federal Minister of Defence (died 2012)

Georg Leber was a German Trades Union leader and a politician in the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD).

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Jack Rowley, English footballer and manager (died 1998)

John Frederick Rowley was an English footballer who played as a forward from the 1930s to the 1950s, mainly remembered for a 17-year spell with Manchester United. He was nicknamed "The Gunner" because of his prolific goalscoring and explosive shooting, scoring 211 goals in 424 appearances for United. His younger brother, Arthur, still holds the record for the highest number of career goals scored in the Football League with 434.

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07/10/1919

Henriette Avram, American computer scientist and academic (died 2006)

Henriette Davidson Avram was a computer programmer and systems analyst who developed the MARC format, the international data standard for bibliographic and holdings information in libraries. Avram's development of the MARC format in the late 1960s and early 1970s, at the Library of Congress had a revolutionizing effect on the practice of librarianship, making possible the automation of many library functions and the sharing of bibliographic information electronically between libraries using pre-existing cataloging standards.

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Zelman Cowen, Australian academic and politician, 19th Governor-General of Australia (died 2011)

Sir Zelman Cowen was an Australian legal scholar and university administrator who served as the 19th governor-general of Australia, in office from 1977 to 1982.

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Georges Duby, French historian and author (died 1996)

Georges Duby was a French historian who specialised in the social and economic history of the Middle Ages. He ranks among the most influential medieval historians of the twentieth century and was one of France's most prominent public intellectuals from the 1970s to his death. In 2019, his work was published in the Bibliothèque de la Pléiade.

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07/10/1918

Harry V. Jaffa, American historian, philosopher, and academic (died 2015)

Harry Victor Jaffa was an American political philosopher, historian, columnist, and professor. He was a professor emeritus at Claremont McKenna College, Claremont Graduate University, and was a distinguished fellow of the Claremont Institute. Robert P. Kraynak says his "life work was to develop an American application of Leo Strauss's revival of natural-right philosophy against the relativism and nihilism of our times".

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07/10/1917

June Allyson, American actress (died 2006)

June Allyson was an American stage, film, and television actress.

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07/10/1914

Begum Akhtar, Indian actress (died 1974)

Akhtari Bai Faizabadi, also known as Begum Akhtar, was an Indian singer and actress. Dubbed "Mallika-e-Ghazal", she is regarded as one of the greatest singers of ghazal, dadra, and thumri genres of Hindustani classical music.

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Sarah Churchill, English actress (died 1982)

Sarah Millicent Hermione Touchet-Jesson, Baroness Audley, was an English actress and dancer and a daughter of Winston Churchill.

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Alfred Drake, American actor and singer (died 1992)

Alfred Drake was an American actor and singer.

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Herman Keiser, American golfer (died 2003)

Herman Walter Keiser was an American professional golfer on the PGA Tour, best known for winning the Masters Tournament in 1946, his only major title.

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07/10/1913

Simon Carmiggelt, Dutch journalist and author (died 1987)

Simon Carmiggelt was a Dutch writer, journalist, and poet who became a well known public figure in the Netherlands because of his daily newspaper columns and his television appearances.

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Raimond Valgre, Estonian pianist, guitarist, and composer (died 1949)

Raimond Valgre was an Estonian composer and musician, whose songs have become some of the most well known in Estonia. During World War II, Valgre was conscripted into the Red Army and was a member of the orchestra for the 8th Estonian Rifle Corps. It is believed that as a result of his service on the Eastern Front Valgre suffered from alcoholism. His music was banned in 1948 by the Soviet authorities. Raimond Valgre died in an accident on 31 December 1949.

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07/10/1912

Fernando Belaúnde Terry, Peruvian architect and politician, President of Peru (died 2002)

Fernando Sergio Marcelo Marcos Belaúnde Terry was a Peruvian politician who twice served as President of Peru. Deposed by a military coup in 1968, he was re-elected in 1980 after twelve years of military rule.

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Peter Walker, English race car driver (died 1984)

Peter Douglas Conyers Walker was an English racing driver. He was born in Huby, Yorkshire and died in Newtown, Worcestershire. He proved a strong driver in most disciplines, but was most adept in sports cars, winning the 1951 24 Hours of Le Mans race, and the Goodwood Nine-Hours in 1955. He effectively retired after a crash in 1956 left him with serious injuries.

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07/10/1911

Vaughn Monroe, American singer, trumpet player, and bandleader (died 1973)

Vaughn Wilton Monroe was an American baritone singer, trumpeter and big band leader who was most popular in the 1940s and 1950s. He has two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, one for recording and another for radio performance.

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07/10/1910

Henry Plumer McIlhenny, American art collector and philanthropist (died 1986)

Henry Plumer McIlhenny was an American connoisseur of art and antiques, world traveler, socialite, philanthropist, curator, and chairman of the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

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07/10/1909

Anni Blomqvist, Finnish author (died 1990)

Anni Viktoria Blomqvist was a Finland-Swedish novelist.

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Shura Cherkassky, Ukrainian-American pianist and educator (died 1995)

Shura Cherkassky was a Russian-American concert pianist known for his performances of the romantic repertoire. His playing was characterized by a virtuoso technique and singing piano tone. For much of his later life, Cherkassky resided in London.

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Erastus Corning 2nd, American soldier and politician, 72nd Mayor of Albany (died 1983)

Erastus Corning 2nd was an American businessman and Democratic Party politician who served as the 72nd mayor of Albany, New York from 1942 to 1983, when Albany County was controlled by one of the last classic urban political machines in the United States.

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07/10/1907

Helen MacInnes, Scottish-American librarian and author (died 1985)

Helen Clark MacInnes was a Scottish-American writer of espionage novels.

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07/10/1905

Andy Devine, American actor (died 1977)

Andrew Vabre Devine was an American character actor known for his distinctive raspy, crackly voice and roles in Western films, including his role as Cookie, the sidekick of Roy Rogers in 10 feature films. He also appeared alongside John Wayne in films such as Stagecoach (1939), The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, and How the West Was Won. He is also remembered as Jingles on the TV series The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok from 1951 to 1958, as Danny McGuire in A Star Is Born (1937), and as the voice of Friar Tuck in the Disney Animation Studio film Robin Hood (1973).

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07/10/1904

Armando Castellazzi, Italian footballer and coach (died 1968)

Armando Castellazzi was an Italian professional footballer and manager who played as a midfielder.

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Chuck Klein, American baseball player (died 1958)

Charles Herbert Klein, nicknamed "the Hoosier Hammer" because of his Indiana roots, was an American professional baseball outfielder. Klein played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Philadelphia Phillies, Chicago Cubs (1934–1936), and Pittsburgh Pirates (1939).

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07/10/1901

Frank Boucher, Canadian ice hockey player and executive (died 1977)

François Xavier Boucher was a Canadian professional ice hockey player and executive. Boucher played the forward position for the Ottawa Senators and New York Rangers in the National Hockey League (NHL) and the Vancouver Maroons in the Pacific Coast Hockey Association (PCHA) between 1921 and 1938, and again from 1943 to 1944. Boucher later became coach and the general manager of the New York Rangers between 1939 and 1955. He won the Stanley Cup three times, all with the Rangers: in 1928 and 1933 as a player, and in 1940 as the coach. Boucher was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1958. Three of his brothers also played in the NHL, including Georges, who was also inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame.

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07/10/1900

Heinrich Himmler, Nazi politician, head of the SS and senior official responsible for the Holocaust (died 1945)

Heinrich Luitpold Himmler was a German Nazi politician and military leader. He was the 4th Reichsführer of the Schutzstaffel from 1929 to 1945. He was a leading member of the Nazi Party, and one of the most powerful figures in Nazi Germany. He was also one of the main architects of the Holocaust, the genocide of Europe's Jewish population.

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07/10/1897

Elijah Muhammad, American religious leader (died 1975)

Elijah Muhammad was an American religious leader who led the Nation of Islam from 1933 until his death in 1975. Under his leadership, the Nation of Islam grew from a small Detroit-based movement into a nationwide organization with tens of thousands of members in the United States during the civil rights movement, promoting black nationalism and a distinctive theology that white people are a race of "devils" created by an evil black Meccan scientist named Yakub, and that there are multiple gods, each a black man named Allah, whom he is the messenger of.

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Thakin Mya, Burmese lawyer and politician (died 1947)

Thakin Mya was a Burmese lawyer and politician.

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07/10/1896

Paulino Alcántara, Spanish Filipino football player and manager (died 1964)

Paulino Alcántara Riestrá was a Spanish and Filipino professional footballer and manager who played as a forward. Born in the Philippines, he played for Catalonia, Philippines and Spain national teams.

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07/10/1895

Maurice Grevisse, Belgian linguist and author (died 1980)

Maurice Grevisse was a Belgian grammarian.

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07/10/1893

Alice Dalgliesh, Trinidadian-American author and publisher (died 1979)

Alice Dalgliesh was a naturalized American writer and publisher who wrote more than 40 fiction and non-fiction books, mainly for children. She has been called "a pioneer in the field of children's historical fiction". Three of her books were runners-up for the annual Newbery Medal, the partly autobiographical The Silver Pencil, The Bears on Hemlock Mountain, and The Courage of Sarah Noble, which was also named to the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award list.

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07/10/1892

Dwain Esper, American director and producer (died 1982)

Dwain Atkins Esper was an American director and producer of exploitation films.

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07/10/1889

Robert Z. Leonard, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (died 1968)

Robert Zigler Leonard was an American film director, actor, producer, and screenwriter.

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07/10/1888

Henry A. Wallace, American agronomist and politician, 33rd Vice President of the United States (died 1965)

Henry Agard Wallace was the 33rd vice president of the United States, serving from 1941 to 1945, under President Franklin D. Roosevelt. He served as the 11th U.S. secretary of agriculture and the 10th U.S. secretary of commerce. He was the nominee of the new Progressive Party in the 1948 presidential election.

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Edna Meade Colson, American educator and activist (died 1985)

Edna Meade Colson was an American educator, known for her contributions to improving access to education to Virginian African Americans.

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07/10/1887

Jack Russell, English cricketer and coach (died 1961)

Charles Albert George "Jack" Russell was one of the leading batsmen in county cricket during the period after World War I. Right-handed with both bat and with ball as a medium-slow bowler, Russell's main strength was his leg-side play with the bat. He was a sound batsmen whose watchfulness made him effective on very difficult pitches.

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07/10/1885

Niels Bohr, Danish physicist and philosopher, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1962)

Niels Henrik David Bohr was a Danish theoretical physicist who made foundational contributions to understanding atomic structure and quantum theory, for which he received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1922. He was also a philosopher and a promoter of scientific research.

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Claud Ashton Jones, American admiral, Medal of Honor recipient (died 1948)

Claud Ashton Jones was a Rear Admiral in the United States Navy, and a Medal of Honor recipient.

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07/10/1884

Harold Geiger, American lieutenant and pilot (died 1927)

Major Harold Geiger was an American military officer and pioneer U.S. Army aviator, who was killed in an airplane crash in 1927. He was U.S. military aviator number 6. He was also a balloonist. Spokane International Airport is designated with the International Air Transport Association airport code GEG in his memory.

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07/10/1881

Mikhail Drozdovsky, Ukrainian-Russian general (died 1918)

Mikhail Gordeevich Drozdovsky was a Russian army general and one of the military leaders of the anti-Bolshevik White movement during the Russian Civil War. In early 1918 he led a regiment of volunteers from the Romanian Front on a march to southern Russia, where they joined the Volunteer Army of the White movement.

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07/10/1879

Joe Hill, Swedish-born American labor activist and poet (died 1915)

Joe Hill was a Swedish-American labor activist, songwriter, and member of the Industrial Workers of the World. A native Swedish speaker, he learned English during the early 1900s, while working various jobs from New York to San Francisco. Hill, an immigrant worker frequently facing unemployment and underemployment, became a popular songwriter and cartoonist for the union. His songs include "The Preacher and the Slave", "The Tramp", "There Is Power in a Union", "The Rebel Girl", and "Casey Jones—the Union Scab", which express the harsh and combative life of itinerant workers, and call for workers to organize their efforts to improve working conditions.

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07/10/1876

Louis Tancred, South African cricketer (died 1934)

Louis Joseph Tancred was a South African cricketer who played in 14 Test matches from 1902 to 1913, including three as captain.

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07/10/1870

Uncle Dave Macon, American old-time country banjo player, singer-songwriter, and comedian (died 1952)

David Harrison Macon, known professionally as Uncle Dave Macon, was an American old-time banjo player, singer, songwriter, and comedian. Known as "The Dixie Dewdrop", Macon was known for his chin whiskers, plug hat, gold teeth, and gates-ajar collar; he gained regional fame as a vaudeville performer in the early 1920s before becoming the first star of the Grand Ole Opry in the latter half of the decade.

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07/10/1866

Wlodimir Ledóchowski, Polish-Austrian religious leader, 26th Superior General of the Society of Jesus (died 1942)

Włodzimierz Halka Ledóchowski was a Polish Catholic priest who served as the 26th superior general of the Society of Jesus from 11 February 1915 until his death. Prior to taking holy orders, he was briefly a page to Empress Elizabeth.

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07/10/1860

Leonidas Paraskevopoulos, Greek general and politician (died 1936)

Leonidas Paraskevopoulos was a Greek military officer and politician. He played a major role in Greece's war effort during the First World War, and was the commander-in-chief of the Army of Asia Minor during the Greco-Turkish War (1919–1922). In his later life, he was a member of the Greek Senate and served as its speaker in 1930–32.

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07/10/1849

James Whitcomb Riley, American poet and author (died 1916)

James Whitcomb Riley was an American writer, poet, and best-selling author. During his lifetime he was known as the "Hoosier Poet" and "Childrens' Poet" for his dialect works and his poetry for children. His poems tend to be humorous or sentimental. Of the approximately 1,000 poems Riley wrote, the majority are in dialect. His famous works include "Little Orphant Annie" and "The Raggedy Man".

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07/10/1841

Nicholas I of Montenegro (died 1921)

Nikola I Petrović-Njegoš was the last monarch of Montenegro from 1860 to 1918, reigning as prince from 1860 to 1910 and as the country's first and only king from 1910 to 1918. His grandsons were kings Alexander I of Yugoslavia and Umberto II of Italy, among others.

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07/10/1836

Henri Elzéar Taschereau, Canadian scholar and jurist, 4th Chief Justice of Canada (died 1911)

Sir Henri-Elzéar Taschereau, was a Canadian jurist and the fourth Chief Justice of Canada.

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07/10/1835

Felix Draeseke, German composer and educator (died 1913)

Felix August Bernhard Draeseke was a composer of the "New German School" admiring Franz Liszt and Richard Wagner. He wrote compositions in most forms including eight operas and stage works, four symphonies, and much vocal and chamber music.

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07/10/1832

Charles Crozat Converse, American lawyer and composer (died 1918)

Charles Crozat Converse was an American attorney who also worked as a composer of church songs. He is notable for setting to music the words of Joseph Scriven to become the hymn "What a Friend We Have in Jesus". Converse published an arrangement of "The Death of Minnehaha", with words by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

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07/10/1821

Richard H. Anderson, American general (died 1879)

Richard Heron Anderson was a career U.S. Army officer, fighting with distinction in the Mexican–American War. He also served as a Confederate general during the American Civil War, fighting in the Eastern Theater of the conflict and most notably during the 1864 Battle of Spotsylvania Court House. Anderson was also noted for his humility.

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07/10/1819

Ann Eliza Smith, American author and patriot (died 1905)

Ann Eliza Smith was an American author. She was president of the board of managers for the Vermont woman's exhibit at the Centennial Exposition of 1876, at Philadelphia, and was frequently chosen in similar capacities as a representative of Vermont women. During the Civil War, she coordinated a response to the Confederate raid on St. Albans on October 19, 1864. In 1870, Governor Peter T. Washburn, who had served as adjutant general of the Vermont Militia during the war, recognized her efforts and presented her with an honorary commission as a lieutenant colonel on his military staff.

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07/10/1799

Mills Darden, one of the largest men ever in human history (died 1857)

Mills Darden was an American who became famous as one of the largest men ever in human history. His enormous size both in terms of his body weight and height made him one of the biggest humans to have ever lived. It was said his resting blood pressure averaged 237/138. He was officially confirmed to have stood at a height of 7 ft 6 in (229 cm) tall and weighed more than 1,000 lb (450 kg), with a shoulder-to-shoulder width measurement of about 6 ft (1.8 m). These figures would have given him a body mass index of 74.6–92.9.

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07/10/1798

Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume, French instrument maker and businessman (died 1875)

Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume was a French luthier, businessman, inventor and winner of many awards.

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07/10/1786

Louis-Joseph Papineau, Canadian lawyer and politician (died 1871)

Louis-Joseph Papineau, born in Montreal, Quebec, was a politician, lawyer, and the landlord of the seigneurie de la Petite-Nation. He led the reformist Patriote movement, organized boycotts against British imports, and then led the unsuccessful Lower Canada Rebellion of 1837–1838. He later served two terms as member of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada. His father was Joseph Papineau, also a Quebec politician. Papineau was the grandfather of the journalist Henri Bourassa, founder of the newspaper Le Devoir.

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07/10/1769

Solomon Sibley, American lawyer, jurist, and politician, 1st Mayor of Detroit (died 1846)

Solomon Sibley was an American politician and jurist in the Michigan Territory who became the first mayor of Detroit.

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07/10/1748

Charles XIII of Sweden (died 1818)

Charles XIII or Carl XIII was King of Sweden from 1809 and King of Norway from 1814 to his death. He was the second son of King Adolf Frederick of Sweden and Louisa Ulrika of Prussia, sister of Frederick the Great.

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07/10/1746

William Billings, American composer and educator (died 1800)

William Billings was an American composer and is regarded as the first American choral composer and leading member of the First New England School.

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07/10/1744

Sergey Vyazmitinov, Russian general and politician, War Governor of Saint Petersburg (died 1819)

Count Sergey Kuzmich Vyazmitinov was a Russian general and statesman.

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07/10/1728

Caesar Rodney, American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 4th Governor of Delaware (died 1784)

Caesar Rodney was an American Founding Father, lawyer, and politician from St. Jones Neck in Dover Hundred, Kent County, Delaware. He was an officer of the Delaware militia during the French and Indian War and the American Revolutionary War, a Continental Congressman from Delaware, a signer of the Continental Association and Declaration of Independence, and president of Delaware during most of the American Revolution.

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07/10/1713

Granville Elliott, English general (died 1759)

Major-General Granville Elliott, 1st Count Elliott was a British military officer who served with distinction in several other European armies and subsequently in the British Army. He fought at the Battle of Minden where he was wounded, dying of his injuries several weeks later.

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07/10/1635

Roger de Piles, French painter (died 1709)

Roger de Piles was a French painter, engraver, art critic and diplomat.

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07/10/1597

Captain John Underhill, English settler and soldier (died 1672)

John Underhill was an early English settler and soldier in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, the Province of New Hampshire, where he also served as governor; the New Haven Colony, New Netherland, and later the Province of New York, settling on Long Island. Hired to train militia in New England, he is most noted for leading colonial militia in the Pequot War (1636–1637) and Kieft's War which the colonists mounted against two different groups of Native Americans. He also published an account of the Pequot War.

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07/10/1591

Pierre Le Muet, French architect (died 1669)

Pierre Le Muet was a French architect, military engineer, and writer, famous for his book Manière de bâtir pour toutes sortes de personnes, and for the châteaux he constructed, most notably Tanlay in Burgundy, as well as some modest houses in Paris, the grandest of which, the Hôtel d'Avaux (1644–1650) survives and has recently been restored to a semblance of its seventeenth-century condition.

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07/10/1589

Archduchess Maria Maddalena of Austria (died 1631)

Maria Maddalena of Austria was Grand Duchess of Tuscany by her marriage to Cosimo II in 1609 until his death in 1621. With him, she had eight children, including a duchess of Parma, a grand duke of Tuscany, and an archduchess of Further Austria. Born in Graz, Maria Magdalena was the youngest daughter of Charles II, Archduke of Inner Austria, and his wife Maria Anna of Bavaria. During the minority of her son, Grand Duke Ferdinando, she and her mother-in-law acted as regents from 1621 to 1628. She died on 1 November 1631 in Passau.

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07/10/1586

Isaac Massa, Dutch diplomat (died 1643)

Isaac Abrahamszoon Massa was a Dutch grain trader, traveller and envoy to Russia. He wrote memoirs related to the Time of Troubles and created some of the earliest maps of Eastern Europe and Siberia. Due to Massa's experience in and knowledge of Russia, he was valued by the Dutch States-General as a counterweight to growing English influence in Russia in the early seventeenth century. The Isaac Massa Foundation was established in his honor in Groningen. It aims to stimulate scientific and cultural contacts between Russia and the Netherlands.

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07/10/1576

John Marston, English poet and playwright (died 1634)

John Marston was an English playwright, poet and satirist during the late Elizabethan and early Jacobean periods. His career as a writer lasted only a decade. His work is remembered for its energetic and often obscure style, its contributions to the development of a distinctively Jacobean style in poetry, and its idiosyncratic vocabulary.

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07/10/1573

William Laud, English archbishop and academic (died 1645)

William Laud was a bishop in the Church of England. Appointed Archbishop of Canterbury by Charles I in 1633, Laud was a key advocate of Charles I's religious reforms; he was arrested by Parliament in 1640 and executed towards the end of the First English Civil War in January 1645.

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07/10/1482

Ernest, Margrave of Baden-Durlach (died 1553)

Margrave Ernest I of Baden-Durlach was the founder of the so-called "Ernestine" line of the House of Baden, the line from which the later Grand Dukes descended. He was the ruling Margrave of Baden-Pforzheim from 1533 and resided in Pforzheim from 1537. In 1565, his son Charles II moved the capital to Durlach and thereby changed the name of his country to Baden-Durlach. He had to deal with the upcoming Reformation and the frequent Ottoman wars in Europe. In this turbulent time, he tried to maintain a neutral position between the Protestants and Catholics. He did not participate in the Schmalkaldic War.

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07/10/1474

Bernhard III, Margrave of Baden-Baden (died 1536)

Bernhard III, Margrave of Baden-Baden inherited in 1515 part of his father's margraviate of Baden. He ruled his part from 1515 until 1536.

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07/10/1471

Frederick I of Denmark (died 1533)

Frederick I was King of Denmark and Norway from 1523 and 1524, respectively, until his death in 1533, and earlier co-duke Duke of Schleswig and Holstein.

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07/10/1409

Elizabeth of Luxembourg (died 1442)

Elizabeth of Luxembourg was queen consort of Hungary, queen consort of Germany and Bohemia.

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07/10/1301

Grand Prince Aleksandr Mikhailovich of Tver (died 1339)

Aleksandr Mikhailovich was Prince of Tver and Grand Prince of Vladimir from 1326 to 1327 and Grand Prince of Tver from 1338 until his death in 1339.

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01/01/1970

Drusus Julius Caesar, Roman politician (died 23 AD)

Drusus Julius Caesar, also called Drusus the Younger, was the son of Emperor Tiberius, and heir to the Roman Empire following the death of his adoptive brother Germanicus in AD 19.

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