Born on Sunday, 21st September – Famous Birthdays
On this day, 287 notable people were born on 21st September — spanning from 580 to 2006. From world leaders to artists and scientists, discover who shares this birthday.
September 21st, 2025 marks the birth of Alisha Palmowski, a British female racing driver born in 2006 who has emerged as a notable talent in motorsport. On the same date, the Italian painter Cigoli entered the world in 1559, establishing a legacy that would influence artistic developments across generations. These births represent the diverse accomplishments that have occurred on this autumn date throughout history. Beyond individual achievements, September 21st has consistently produced individuals who have made significant contributions to their respective fields, whether in sport, art, or public service.
The day represents the autumn equinox period in the Northern Hemisphere, a time of seasonal transition. Under the zodiac sign of Virgo transitioning into Libra, September 21st falls during a phase of the lunar calendar that affects celestial observations worldwide. Weather conditions on this date typically reflect the shift towards cooler temperatures as summer gives way to autumn across much of Europe and North America. The waning crescent moon phase contributes to the celestial conditions characteristic of late September.
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21/09/2006
Alisha Palmowski, British female racing driver
Alisha Palmowski is a British racing driver who competes in F1 Academy for Campos Racing as part of the Red Bull Academy Programme.
21/09/1999
Wang Junkai, Chinese singer
Wang Junkai, also known as Karry Wang, is a Chinese singer and actor. He debuted as the leader of TFBoys in 2013.
Alexander Isak, Eritrean-Swedish professional footballer
Alexander Isak is a Swedish professional footballer who plays as a striker for Premier League club Liverpool and the Sweden national team.
21/09/1998
Máscara de Bronce, Mexican wrestler
Multibronce is a Mexican luchador enmascarado, or masked professional wrestler from Pachuca, Hidalgo, Mexico. He previously worked for Lucha Libre AAA Worldwide (AAA) as Máscara de Bronce as a tecnico. Multibronce has also previously worked for the International Wrestling League (IWL). Prior to October 2016 he worked as the masked Gotita de Plata character, first in the Mini-Estrella and then in the regular sized division.
Yainer Díaz, Dominican baseball player
Yainer Radhames Díaz is a Dominican professional baseball catcher for the Houston Astros of Major League Baseball (MLB).
21/09/1995
Bruno Caboclo, Brazilian basketball player
Bruno Correa Fernandes Caboclo is a Brazilian professional basketball player for Dubai Basketball of the ABA League and the EuroLeague. He plays at the power forward and center positions.
21/09/1994
Devin Williams, American baseball player
Devin Terran Williams is an American professional baseball pitcher for the New York Mets of Major League Baseball (MLB). He has previously played in MLB for the Milwaukee Brewers and New York Yankees. Internationally, Williams represents the United States.
21/09/1993
Kirsty Gilmour, Scottish badminton player
Kirsty Gilmour is a Scottish badminton player who represents both Scotland and Great Britain. She's Scotland's first ever European champion in badminton.
Kwon Mina, South Korean singer and actress
Kwon Mina, known mononymously as Mina, is a former South Korean singer and actress. She was a vocalist and rapper of the girl group AOA and bassist of the sub-unit AOA Black. Kwon has acted in television dramas, including Modern Farmer (2014) and All About My Mom (2015).
Ante Rebić, Croatian footballer
Ante Rebić is a Croatian professional footballer who plays as a left winger for HNL club Hajduk Split. Mainly a winger, he can be deployed at any forward position.
21/09/1992
Kim Jong-dae, South Korean singer-songwriter
Kim Jong-dae, known professionally as Chen (첸), is a South Korean singer and songwriter. He is a member of the South Korean boy band Exo, its subgroup Exo-M and its subunit Exo-CBX, and participated in SM's projects SM the Ballad. He is predominantly known for his role as the vocalist of Exo. Apart from his group's activities, Chen has also recorded songs for various television dramas, most notably "Best Luck" for It's Okay, That's Love (2014) and "Everytime" for Descendants of the Sun (2016).
Rodrigo Godínez, Mexican footballer
Rodrigo Godínez Orozco is a Mexican professional footballer who plays as a defender.
Devyn Marble, American basketball player
Roy Devyn Marble is an American professional basketball player for FC Porto of the Liga Portuguesa de Basquetebol (LPB). He played college basketball for the Iowa Hawkeyes, and was drafted by the Denver Nuggets in the second round of the 2014 NBA draft.
21/09/1991
Anastassia Kovalenko, Estonian motorcycle racer
Anastassia Kovalenko-Kõlvart is an Estonian motorcycle road racer and politician. She raced in the European Junior Cup and is the first female racer in Estonian road racing history to race on the international level. She currently holds the title of the best female motorcycle athlete of the year in Estonia. She has been a member of Tallinn city council and has been a member of the Riigikogu for the Estonian Centre Party since 2022.
Carlos Martínez, Dominican baseball player
Carlos Ernesto Martínez, nicknamed "Tsunami", is a Dominican former professional baseball pitcher. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the St. Louis Cardinals. Originally signed by the Boston Red Sox as an international free agent in 2009, MLB voided his contract due to discrepancies over his name and date of birth after the revelation that he was also known as Carlos Matias. However, he was eventually cleared of wrongdoing, as it was found that the inconsistencies arose from poor record keeping.
21/09/1990
Al-Farouq Aminu, American basketball player
Al-Farouq Ajadi Aminu is a Nigerian-American professional basketball player who last played for the Chicago Bulls of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He also represents the Nigeria national basketball team internationally. Aminu was selected by the Los Angeles Clippers in the 2010 NBA draft with the eighth overall pick, and has also played for the New Orleans Pelicans, Dallas Mavericks, Portland Trail Blazers, and Orlando Magic.
Danny Batth, English footballer
Daniel Tanveer Batth is an English professional footballer who plays as a centre-back for EFL Championship club Derby County.
Rob Cross, English darts player
Robert Stefan Eric Cross is an English professional darts player who competes in Professional Darts Corporation (PDC) events, where he is ranked world number twenty-two; he reached a peak ranking of world number two in 2018 and 2019. Nicknamed "Voltage", Cross is a former PDC World Champion, defeating Phil Taylor in the 2018 World Championship final after turning professional less than a year beforehand. He has won three other PDC major titles: the 2019 World Matchplay and the European Championship in 2019 and 2021. Cross has won a total of 21 PDC titles in his professional career, including five World Series of Darts titles.
Ivan Dorschner, American-Filipino model and actor
Ivan Anthony Dorschner is a Filipino-American actor, television host and model based in the Philippines. He is best known for being a former housemate of the Philippine reality television show Pinoy Big Brother: Teen Clash 2010. He is currently under contract to GMA Network, as well as the network's talent management arm GMA Artist Center along with Mika Dela Cruz and Addy Raj.
Sam Kasiano, New Zealand rugby league player
Sam Kasiano is a professional rugby league footballer who plays as a prop for the Souths Sharks in the Mackay & District Rugby League; he is player-coach. He is both a New Zealand and Samoan international.
Allison Scagliotti, American actress and musician
Allison Scagliotti is an American actress, musician and director. Her television roles include appearing in Drake & Josh, Warehouse 13, and Stitchers. She performs as a musician under the name La Femme Pendu.
Christian Serratos, American actress
Christian Marie Serratos is an American actress, who is best known for portraying Rosita Espinosa in AMC's The Walking Dead TV series, based on the comic book of the same name. She is also known for playing Suzie Crabgrass in the Nickelodeon series Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide and Angela Weber in The Twilight Saga. From 2020 to 2021, she portrayed the "Queen of Tejano" singer Selena in Netflix's Selena: The Series.
21/09/1989
Jason Derulo, American singer-songwriter
Jason Joel Desrouleaux, known professionally as Jason Derulo, is an American singer, songwriter and dancer. Since the start of his solo recording career in 2009, he has sold over 250 million singles worldwide and has achieved fourteen platinum singles in the US.
Sandor Earl, Australian rugby league player
Sandor Earl is a former New Zealand Māori international rugby league footballer who played on the wing for the Sydney Roosters, Penrith Panthers, Canberra Raiders and the Melbourne Storm in the National Rugby League (NRL). He was banned for four years for a doping violation in 2013.
Manny Harris, American basketball player
Corperryale Lādorable "Manny" Harris is an American former professional basketball player who last played for Al Riyadi Beirut of the Lebanese Basketball League. He has previously played for the Los Angeles Lakers, Cleveland Cavaliers, and Dallas Mavericks of the National Basketball Association (NBA), and is a former All-Big Ten Conference guard who played three seasons for the Michigan Wolverines.
Emma Watkins, Australian singer and actress
Emma Olivia Watkins is an Australian children's entertainer, dancer, singer, and actress. She is best known as the first female member of the children's group the Wiggles, which she was a member of from 2013 to 2021. Due to her popularity in the group, she starred in her own spinoff series as a solo Wiggles performer, titled Emma!. After departing the group, she debuted her own children's entertainment character, Emma Memma, in 2022. She released her first solo children's music album in September 2022, which received an ARIA Award for Best Children's Album in 2023.
21/09/1988
Doug Baldwin, American football player
Douglas Dewayne Baldwin Jr. is an American former professional football player who spent his entire eight-season career as a wide receiver with the Seattle Seahawks of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Stanford Cardinal and was signed by the Seahawks as an undrafted free agent in 2011. Baldwin is the Seahawks third all-time leader in team receptions and receiving yards, second in receiving touchdowns and was selected to the Pro Bowl twice and won Super Bowl XLVIII in 2014 with the team.
Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, Pakistani politician
Bilawal Bhutto Zardari is a Pakistani politician who served as the 37th Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2022 to 2023. He became the chairman of the Pakistan People's Party in 2007 following his mother's assassination.
21/09/1987
Jimmy Clausen, American football player
James Richard Clausen is an American former professional football player who was a quarterback in the National Football League (NFL) from 2010 to 2015. He played college football for the Notre Dame Fighting Irish and was selected by the Carolina Panthers in the second round of the 2010 NFL draft.
Anthony Don, Australian rugby league player
Anthony Don is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer who played on the wing for the Gold Coast Titans in the NRL.
Marcelo Estigarribia, Paraguayan footballer
Marcelo Alejandro Estigarribia Balmori is a Paraguayan professional footballer who plays as a left winger for Sportivo Ameliano in the Primera División Paraguaya.
Ryan Guzman, American actor and model
Ryan Anthony Guzman is an American actor and dancer. He is known for his lead roles as Sean Asa in Step Up Revolution and Step Up: All In, part of the Step Up film series, as Noah Sandborn in the psychological thriller The Boy Next Door and as Edmundo "Eddie" Diaz in the Fox/ABC procedural drama 9-1-1.
Murilo Maccari, Brazilian footballer
Murilo Maccari is a Brazilian professional footballer, who plays for Naxxar Lions F.C. in Malta.
Ashley Paris, American basketball player
Ashley Paris is an American basketball player. She is the twin sister of former WNBA center Courtney Paris, who last played for the Seattle Storm and is currently an assistant coach for the Dallas Wings. She has been nationally recognized for her basketball achievements at the University of Oklahoma. She was selected on April 9, 2009 with 22nd overall pick in the 2009 WNBA draft by the Los Angeles Sparks.
Courtney Paris, American basketball player
Courtney Paris is an American professional basketball coach and former player who is currently an assistant coach for the New York Liberty of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA). She is best known for her accomplishments during her college career at the University of Oklahoma, where she holds career averages of 21.4 points and 15.3 rebounds per game. She holds the NCAA record for most consecutive double-doubles at 112. During her senior season in 2009, Paris received considerable media attention when she announced that she would pay back her tuition to the University of Oklahoma if the Sooners did not win the 2009 NCAA Women's Division I Basketball Tournament. She would lead Oklahoma to the Final Four before falling short to eventual national runner-up Louisville.
Michał Pazdan, Polish footballer
Michał Pazdan is a Polish professional footballer who plays as a centre-back for and captains I liga club Wieczysta Kraków.
Ivelisse Vélez, Puerto Rican wrestler
Ivelisse Milagro Vélez, better known by her mononymous ring name Ivelisse, is a Puerto Rican professional wrestler. She is best known for her time in Lucha Underground, where she twice held the Lucha Underground Trios Championship. Vélez also wrestles extensively on the independent circuit, most notably for Shine Wrestling, where she was the Shine Champion four times, and also a former Shine Tag Team Champion. Vélez has also performed for WWE, Impact Wrestling, All Elite Wrestling (AEW), Lucha Libre AAA (Mexico) and CMLL (Mexico).
21/09/1986
Faris Badwan, English singer-songwriter
Faris Adam Derar Badwan is an English musician, best known as the lead vocalist of the Horrors and as half of the duo Cat's Eyes.
Lindsey Stirling, American violinist and composer
Lindsey Stirling is an American violinist, songwriter and dancer. She presents choreographed violin performances, in live and music videos found on her official YouTube channel, which she created in 2007.
21/09/1985
Justin Durant, American football player
Justin Ryan Durant is an American former professional football player who was a linebacker in the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Hampton Pirates and was selected by the Jacksonville Jaguars in the second round of the 2007 NFL draft. He played in the NFL for the Jaguars, Detroit Lions, Dallas Cowboys and Atlanta Falcons.
21/09/1984
Dwayne Bowe, American football player
Dwayne Lorenzo Bowe is an American former professional football player who was a wide receiver for nine seasons in the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the LSU Tigers, and was selected by the Kansas City Chiefs in the first round of the 2007 NFL draft. He played for the Chiefs from 2007 to 2014. He led the NFL in receiving touchdowns with 15 in 2010, earning Pro Bowl and Second-team All-Pro honors. He also played for the Cleveland Browns in 2015.
Jason Citron, American businessman, co-founded Discord
Jason Citron is an American businessman who is the co-founder and former chief executive officer of the instant messaging social platform Discord. He is also a founder of OpenFeint, a social platform for mobile games.
Ahna O'Reilly, American actress
Ahna O'Reilly is an American actress. She is best known for her roles in the films The Help (2011) and Fruitvale Station (2013).
Ben Wildman-Tobriner, American swimmer
Benjamin Marshall Wildman-Tobriner is an American physician and former competition swimmer, Olympic gold medalist, and former world record-holder.
Wale, American rapper
Olubowale Victor Akintimehin, known professionally as Wale, is an American rapper. He first became known for his 2006 song "Dig Dug ", which became popular in his hometown of Germantown, Maryland and led Wale to gain further local recognition as he amassed a number of follow-up releases. He signed a recording contract with English DJ-producer Mark Ronson's Allido Records in 2007, which, after a three-label bidding war, entered a joint venture with Interscope Records for US$1.3 million the following year. During this time, Wale's mixtapes and singles saw numerous attention as he appeared on MTV and various Black America-focused magazines.
21/09/1983
Ndiss Kaba Badji, Senegalese athlete
Ndiss Kaba Badji is a Senegalese athlete who competes in the long jump and triple jump. He is the Senegalese record holder for triple jump, with 17.07 metres, which he achieved when he won the 2008 African Championships. He has a personal best long jump of 8.32 metres, achieved in October 2009 in Beirut, which won him the silver medal at the 2009 Jeux de la Francophonie.
Fernando Cavenaghi, Argentine footballer
Fernando Ezequiel Cavenaghi is a retired Argentine professional footballer. He played as a striker who was efficient in front of goal with either foot and from any range. More recently, in 2021, Cavenaghi was the co-owner, along with Alejandro Domínguez, of Uruguayan football club Racing Club de Montevideo, until 2023 when the club was sold to Bayern Munich.
Francesco Dracone, Italian race car driver
Francesco Dracone is an Italian racing driver who currently competes in the European Le Mans Series with BHK Motorsport.
Scott Evans, American actor
Scott Andrew Evans is an American actor. He is known for playing the role of police officer Oliver Fish on the ABC daytime soap opera One Life to Live, the recurring role of Oliver on the series Grace and Frankie, and one of the Kens in Barbie. He is the younger brother of actor Chris Evans.
Anna Favella, Italian actress
Anna Favella is an Italian stage, television and movie actress. She is best known for her role as Elena Marsili in the TV series Terra Ribelle, directed by Cinzia TH Torrini, and Terra Ribelle – Il nuovo mondo, directed by Ambrogio Lo Giudice.
Maggie Grace, American actress
Margaret Grace Denig is an American actress. She is known for playing Shannon Rutherford on the ABC television series Lost, Kim Mills in the Taken trilogy (2008–2014), Irina in The Twilight Saga (2011–2012), and Althea Szewczyk-Przygocki in Fear the Walking Dead (2018–2021).
Cristian Hidalgo, Spanish footballer
Cristian Hidalgo González, known simply as Cristian, is a Spanish former professional footballer who played for Andorran club FC Ordino as a winger.
Greg Jennings, American football player
Gregory Jennings Jr. is an American sports television personality and former professional football player who was a wide receiver for 10 seasons in the National Football League (NFL), primarily with the Green Bay Packers. He played college football for the Western Michigan Broncos and was selected by Green Bay in the second round of the 2006 NFL draft. Jennings was named to two Pro Bowls during his seven seasons with the Packers and was part of the team that won a Super Bowl title in Super Bowl XLV. In his final three seasons, he was a member of the Minnesota Vikings and Miami Dolphins. He was inducted into Green Bay Packers Hall of Fame in 2022.
Joseph Mazzello, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
Joseph Francis Mazzello III is an American actor. He began his career as a child actor and played Tim Murphy in Jurassic Park and Roarke Hartman in The River Wild. As an adult, Mazzello is best known for his portrayal of real-life figures Eugene Sledge in the HBO miniseries The Pacific, Dustin Moskovitz in The Social Network, and John Deacon in the biopic Bohemian Rhapsody.
Anna Meares, Australian track cyclist
Anna Maree Devenish Meares is an Australian retired track cyclist. As of early 2023, Meares and her family moved to New Zealand.
Reggie Nelson, American football player
Reggie Lee Nelson is an American former professional football player who was a safety in the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Florida Gators, winning a national championship and earning consensus All-American honors. He was selected by the Jacksonville Jaguars in the first round of the 2007 NFL draft and also played for the Cincinnati Bengals and Oakland Raiders.
Rafael Marques Pinto, Brazilian footballer
Rafael Marques Pinto, most commonly known as Rafael Marques, is a Brazilian former footballer.
21/09/1982
Eduardo Azevedo, Brazilian race car driver
Eduardo Azevedo is a race car driver. He was the 2001 Brazilian Formula Junior champion and the 2002 South American Formula Three Class-B champion. He raced in Brazilian Formula Renault in 2003.
Dominic Perrottet, Australian politician, 46th Premier of New South Wales
Dominic Francis Perrottet is an Australian politician who served as the 46th premier of New South Wales from 2021 to 2023. He held office as leader of the New South Wales division of the Liberal Party of Australia, and assumed the position following the resignation of Gladys Berejiklian.
Christos Tapoutos, Greek basketball player
Christos Tapoutos is a Greek former professional basketball player and current basketball executive. At a height of 2.06 m tall, he played at both the small forward and power forward positions, with power forward being his main position. During his early professional years, Tapoutos was considered to be one of the greatest scorers and talents in his age group in all of Europe.
Rowan Vine, English footballer
Rowan Lewis Vine is an English former professional footballer who played as a striker.
21/09/1981
Nicole Richie, American actress, fashion designer, and author
Nicole Camille Richie is an American media personality, fashion designer, and actress. She came to prominence after appearing on the reality television series The Simple Life (2003–2007), in which she starred alongside her friend and fellow socialite Paris Hilton. Richie's personal life attracted media attention during the series' five-year run and thereafter.
Sarah Whatmore, English singer-songwriter
Sarah Louise Whatmore is an English singer-songwriter, best known for appearing in the first series of the British TV series Pop Idol. Whatmore later went on to launch her own solo career.
21/09/1980
Nyree Kindred, Welsh swimmer
Nyree Elise Kindred MBE is a Welsh swimmer who has competed in the Paralympic Games on four occasions winning ten medals.
Tomas Scheckter, South African race car driver
Tomas Michael Scheckter is a South African former racing driver best known for his time in the IndyCar Series.
Autumn Reeser, American actress
Autumn Reeser is an American actress. She is known for her roles as Taylor Townsend on the Fox series The O.C., Lizzie Grant on HBO's Entourage, Katie Andrews on ABC's No Ordinary Family, and Leslie Bellcamp on E!'s The Arrangement. She has appeared in the films The Girl Next Door (2004), So Undercover (2012), Sully (2016), and in over a dozen Hallmark Channel television films in leading roles.
Kareena Kapoor, Indian actress
Kareena Kapoor Khan is an Indian actress. She has been known for her leading roles in Hindi cinema since 2000. Kapoor is the recipient of several awards, including six Filmfare Awards, and as of 2024, is one of Hindi cinema's highest-paid actresses.
21/09/1979
James Allan, Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist
James Allan is the lead singer and guitarist of the Scottish rock band Glasvegas, and a former footballer.
Richard Dunne, Irish footballer
Richard Patrick Dunne is an Irish former professional footballer and current television pundit for TNT Sports, who played as a centre-back. He made 432 Premier League appearances, including 253 for Manchester City.
Chris Gayle, Jamaican cricketer
Christopher Henry Gayle OD is a former Jamaican cricketer who played international cricket for the West Indies from 1999 to 2021. Gayle is widely regarded as the greatest Twenty20 batsman in the history of cricket. He played a crucial role in the West Indies teams that won the 2004 ICC Champions Trophy, 2012 ICC World Twenty20 and 2016 ICC World Twenty20.
Julian Gray, English footballer
Julian Raymond Marvin Gray is an English football coach and former professional player.
Monika Merl, German runner
Monika Merl is a German 800 metre runner and former champion in the 800 meters in Germany.
21/09/1978
Paulo Costanzo, Canadian actor, director, and producer
Paulo Costanzo is a Canadian actor. He is best known for playing Aximili-Esgarrouth-Isthill (Ax) in the TV series Animorphs, the roles of Rubin Carver in the comedy film Road Trip, Alexander Cabot in Josie and the Pussycats, Michael Tribbiani in the NBC sitcom Joey, Evan R. Lawson in the USA Network series Royal Pains, and Lyor Boone in the ABC political drama Designated Survivor.
Luke Godden, Australian footballer
Luke Godden is a former Australian rules footballer in the Australian Football League
Doug Howlett, New Zealand rugby player
Douglas Charles Howlett is a retired New Zealand professional rugby union player. He was primarily a wing, but he also sometimes played as a fullback.
21/09/1977
Kārlis Lācis, Latvian pianist and composer
Kārlis Lācis is a Latvian contemporary composer. Along with the scores for theatre productions, movies, and musical arrangements, a large part of his work is dedicated to vocal and choral music, symphonic, and instrumental compositions, including "Te Deum" (2014) with the State Choir Latvija, and double concerto for flute, oboe and orchestra "42.195" (2014) with Liepaja symphony orchestra. "Rorate coeli" (2014) for soprano, saxophone and organ and the first symphony "Via Crucis" premiered on April 3, 2015 with Latvian National symphony orchestra. Kārlis was one of the jury members for 2014 World choir games while Latvian capital Riga was the European capital of culture. His creative contribution includes musicals staged in Liepāja theatre and Dailes theatre "Pūt vējiņi" (2011) and "Oņēgins" (2013), both rewarded with the highest annual theater award for the best music author.
Andre Pärn, Estonian basketball player
Andre Pärn is an Estonian former basketball player.
Kohei Sato, Japanese wrestler
Kohei Sato is a Japanese professional wrestler contracted with Pro Wrestling Zero1. Sato is also a former mixed martial artist.
Brian Tallet, American baseball player
Brian Curtis Tallet is an American former professional baseball pitcher. Tallet played the majority of his career for the Toronto Blue Jays. He also played for the St. Louis Cardinals and the Cleveland Indians. He is 6' 6" in height. He pitched for the LSU Tigers and won a national championship in 2000.
21/09/1976
Jonas Bjerre, Danish singer-songwriter and guitarist
Jonas Bjerre Terkelsbøl is a Danish musician and visual artist from Copenhagen, best known as the lead singer of the alternative rock band Mew. Bjerre creates animated videos for Mew's live shows. He has an uncommon vocal range, above the average pitch, which has helped contribute to Mew's unique sound, and earned him a Danish Music Award for Danish Male Singer in 2006.
Poul Hübertz, Danish footballer and manager
Poul Hübertz is a Danish former professional footballer who played as a forward. He previously played for a number of Danish clubs, including Farum BK, Herfølge BK, AaB, and FC Midtjylland in the Danish Superliga, and has also represented English football clubs Millwall and Northampton Town. With his long legs and unelegant style, he was known in Denmark as a somewhat atypical striker.
21/09/1975
Doug Davis, American baseball player
Douglas N. Davis is an American former professional baseball pitcher. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Texas Rangers, Toronto Blue Jays, Milwaukee Brewers, Arizona Diamondbacks, and Chicago Cubs.
Craig Thompson, American graphic novelist
Craig Matthew Thompson is an American graphic novelist best known for his books Good-bye, Chunky Rice (1999), Blankets (2003), Carnet de Voyage (2004), Habibi (2011), Space Dumplins (2015), and Ginseng Roots (2025). Thompson has received four Harvey Awards, three Eisner Awards, and two Ignatz Awards. In 2007, his cover design for the Menomena album Friend and Foe received a Grammy nomination for Best Recording Package.
21/09/1974
Bryce Drew, American basketball player and coach
Bryce Homer Drew is an American college basketball coach and former player who is the head coach at Grand Canyon University. Previously, he served as the head coach at Vanderbilt and in the same capacity at his alma mater, Valparaiso, having succeeded his father, Homer Drew. Drew has led his teams to the NCAA tournament on six occasions, including at least once at each of the three schools where he has been the head coach.
Andy Todd, English footballer and manager
Andrew John James Todd is an English football coach and former player.
21/09/1973
Vanessa Grigoriadis, American journalist and author
Vanessa Maia Grigoriadis is an American journalist. Her work has been featured in The New York Times, Vanity Fair, and Rolling Stone among other publications.
Virginia Ruano Pascual, Spanish tennis player
Virginia Ruano Pascual is a Spanish former professional tennis player. She had moderate success in singles, winning three WTA Tour titles as well as reaching two major quarterfinals and a top-30 ranking, but she had been far more successful in doubles.
Oswaldo Sánchez, Mexican footballer
Oswaldo Javier Sánchez Ibarra is a Mexican former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper and a sports analyst for TUDN. He is highly regarded as one of the best goalkeepers in Mexican footballing history.
21/09/1972
Olivia Bonamy, French actress
Olivia Bonamy is a French actress. She is best known for her appearances in the films Jefferson in Paris, Jacques Audiard's Read My Lips, the thriller Ils and Le ciel, les oiseaux et ta mère.
Liam Gallagher, English singer-songwriter
William John Paul Gallagher is an English singer and songwriter who is the lead singer and co-founder of the rock band Oasis. Gallagher fronted Beady Eye, an offshoot of Oasis, between 2009 and 2014, before starting a solo career in 2017. One of the most recognisable figures in British rock music, he is noted for his distinctive vocal style and outspoken personality.
Jon Kitna, American football player and coach
Jon Kelly Kitna is an American former professional football quarterback who played in the National Football League (NFL) for the Seattle Seahawks, Cincinnati Bengals, Detroit Lions, and Dallas Cowboys. He played college football for the Central Washington Wildcats and was signed by the Seahawks as an undrafted free agent in 1996. He is currently the head football coach at Lakota East High School in Ohio.
21/09/1971
John Crawley, English cricketer and academic
John Paul Crawley is a former English first-class cricketer who played at international level for England and county cricket for Hampshire and Lancashire. Crawley, one of three brothers who all played first-class cricket, was a right-handed batsman and occasional wicket-keeper.
James Lesure, Americana actor
James Lesure is an American film and television actor, best known for roles on the NBC/The WB sitcom For Your Love (1998–2002), and NBC comedy-drama Las Vegas (2003–2008), Girlfriends' Guide to Divorce (2017–2018) and Good Girls (2018–2020).
Alfonso Ribeiro, American actor, director, and comedian
Alfonso Lincoln Ribeiro is an American actor, comedian, and television host. In a career spanning over four decades, he is best known for his role as Carlton Banks on the NBC television sitcom The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air (1990–1996), as well as his performances on Silver Spoons (1984–1987) and In the House (1996–1999).
Luke Wilson, American actor, director, and screenwriter
Luke Cunningham Wilson is an American actor. He is best known for his work with filmmaker Wes Anderson, appearing in Anderson's Bottle Rocket (1996), Rushmore (1998) and The Royal Tenenbaums (2001). Wilson is also known as part of the Frat Pack, with whom he has starred in comedic films Bongwater (1997), Old School (2003), Brad's Status (2017) and The Wendell Baker Story (2005), which he also co-directed.
21/09/1970
Rob Benedict, American actor, screenwriter, and musician
Rob Benedict is an American actor, writer and musician. His near 30 year career includes more than 90 television and movie credits. He is best known for his work on the television series Supernatural, Threshold, Felicity and the comedy film Waiting.... He is also the lead singer/songwriter of the Los Angeles based band Louden Swain.
Melissa Ferrick, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
Melissa Ferrick is an American singer-songwriter. She is a music professor at Northeastern University and Berklee College of Music.
Samantha Power, Irish-American journalist, academic, and diplomat, 28th United States Ambassador to the United Nations
Samantha Jane Power is an Irish-American journalist, diplomat, and government official. She was the United States Ambassador to the United Nations from 2013 to 2017, and the Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development from 2021 to 2025. Power is a member of the Democratic Party.
21/09/1969
Anne Burrell, American chef and television host (died 2025)
Anne W. Burrell was an American chef, television personality, and instructor at the Institute of Culinary Education. She hosted the Food Network show Secrets of a Restaurant Chef and was co-host of Worst Cooks in America. She was also one of Mario Batali's sous chefs in the Iron Chef America series and appeared on other programs on the network such as The Best Thing I Ever Ate.
Jason Christiansen, American baseball player
Jason Samuel Christiansen is an American former Major League Baseball left-handed relief pitcher.
Curtis Leschyshyn, Canadian ice hockey player and sportscaster
Curtis Michael Leschyshyn is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player. Leschyshyn played 1,033 games in the National Hockey League. He is the only NHL player to have played for two relocated franchises, both before and after relocation, the Nordiques/Avalanche and the Whalers/Hurricanes. Since he was drafted and played for the Wild in their inaugural season, he is the only NHL player to have played for three new teams in their inaugural season in the league. In addition, he also played for the two national capital city franchises in the NHL, the Capitals and the Senators.
Billy Porter, American actor and singer
William Ellis Porter II is an American singer, actor, writer, director and businessperson. He gained notice performing on Broadway before starting a solo career as a singer and actor. For his role as Lola in Kinky Boots, he won the 2013 Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical, the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actor in a Musical and the Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Actor in a Musical. He credits the part for "cracking open" his feminine side to confront toxic masculinity. He also won the 2014 Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album for the musical's accompanying album.
21/09/1968
Kevin Buzzard, British mathematician
Kevin Mark Buzzard is a British mathematician and currently a professor of pure mathematics at Imperial College London. He specialises in arithmetic geometry and the Langlands program.
David Jude Jolicoeur, American rapper, songwriter, and producer (died 2023)
David Jude Jolicoeur, also known as Trugoy the Dove, Plug Two, and Dave, was an American rapper best known as one third of the hip hop group De La Soul.
Ricki Lake, American actress, producer, and talk show host
Ricki Pamela Lake is an American television host and actress. She is known for her lead role as Tracy Turnblad in the 1988 film Hairspray, for which she received a nomination for the Independent Spirit Award for Best Female Lead. She is also known for her talk show, Ricki Lake, which was broadcast internationally from September 1993 until May 2004. When the show debuted, Lake was 24 and credited as being the youngest person to host a syndicated talk show at the time. In late 2012, Lake began hosting a second syndicated talk show, The Ricki Lake Show. The series was canceled in 2013 after a single season, but Lake won her first Daytime Emmy Award for the project.
21/09/1967
Faith Hill, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actress
Audrey Faith McGraw, known professionally as Faith Hill, is an American singer. She is one of the most successful country music artists of all time, having sold almost 50 million albums worldwide.
Suman Pokhrel, Nepali poet, lyricist and playwright
Suman Pokhrel is a Nepali poet, lyricist, playwright, translator and artist. Universities in Nepal and India have included his poetry in their syllabi.
Tyler Stewart, Canadian drummer
Barenaked Ladies (BNL) is a Canadian rock band formed in 1988 in Scarborough. The band developed a following in Canada in the early 1990s with their cassette Barenaked Ladies (1991) and their debut album Gordon (1992). The band's popularity eventually spread to the United States following the release of versions of "Brian Wilson" and "The Old Apartment" from their 1996 live album, Rock Spectacle. In 1998, Barenaked Ladies released their fourth studio album, Stunt, which contains their highest-charting hit, "One Week", along with "It's All Been Done" and "Call and Answer". Their fifth album, Maroon, also charted well. The band is also known for creating and performing the theme song of the American sitcom The Big Bang Theory. Barenaked Ladies has continued to regularly tour and record new music, having released 14 primary studio albums of original material and three themed studio albums.
21/09/1966
Kerrin Lee-Gartner, Canadian skier and journalist
Kerrin Anne Lee-Gartner is a former World Cup alpine ski racer and Olympic gold medallist from Canada.
21/09/1965
Frédéric Beigbeder, French author and critic
Frédéric Beigbeder is a French writer, literary critic and television presenter. He won the Prix Interallié in 2003 for his novel Windows on the World and the Prix Renaudot in 2009 for his book A French Novel. He is also the creator of the Flore and Sade Awards. In addition, he is the executive director of Lui, a French adult entertainment magazine.
Cheryl Hines, American actress
Cheryl Ruth Hines is an American actress and comedian. She portrayed Cheryl David on HBO's Curb Your Enthusiasm (2000–2024), earning two Primetime Emmy Award nominations. She also starred as Dallas Royce on the ABC sitcom Suburgatory (2011–2014) and made her directorial debut with the 2009 film Serious Moonlight.
Johanna Vuoksenmaa, Finnish director and screenwriter
Johanna Vuoksenmaa is a Finnish television and film director and screenwriter who has also worked as a photographer, installation artist and a teacher. Her films have been shown at numerous film festivals around the world and she has won many Finnish film and television awards for directing and screenwriting. As a director and screenwriter, Vuoksenmaa prefers the comedy genre because to her comedy means relief, forgiveness and defense. She does not use casting agencies but prefers to cast actors to her films herself, since she thinks that it creates a level of trust between the actor and the director.
21/09/1964
Jorge Drexler, Uruguayan singer-songwriter
Jorge Abner Drexler Prada is a Uruguayan musician and actor. Drexler is known for winning the 2005 Academy Award for Best Original Song for "Al Otro Lado del Río" from The Motorcycle Diaries, becoming the first Uruguayan to win an Oscar and marking the first time a Spanish-language song received the award.
Lester Quitzau, Canadian guitarist
Lester Quitzau is a Canadian folk and blues guitarist from Edmonton, Alberta.
21/09/1963
Curtly Ambrose, Antiguan cricketer and bass player
Sir Curtly Elconn Lynwall Ambrose KCN is an Antiguan former cricketer who played 98 Test matches for the West Indies. Widely acknowledged as one of the greatest fast bowlers of all time, he took 405 Test wickets at an average of 20.99 and topped the ICC Player Rankings for much of his career to be rated the best bowler in the world. His great height—he is 6 feet 7 inches (2.01 m) tall—allowed him to make the ball bounce unusually high after he delivered it; allied to his pace and accuracy, it made him a very difficult bowler for batsmen to face. A man of few words during his career, he was notoriously reluctant to speak to journalists. He was chosen as one of the Wisden Cricketers of the Year in 1992; after he retired he was entered into the International Cricket Council Hall of Fame and selected as one of West Indies all-time XI by a panel of experts.
Cecil Fielder, American baseball player and manager
Cecil Grant Fielder is an American former professional baseball designated hitter and first baseman in Major League Baseball (MLB). Fielder was a power hitter in the 1980s and 1990s. He attended college at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV). He played in MLB for the Toronto Blue Jays (1985–1988), in Japan's Central League for the Hanshin Tigers (1989), and then in MLB for the Detroit Tigers (1990–1996), New York Yankees (1996–97), Anaheim Angels in 1998, and Cleveland Indians in 1998. With the Yankees, he won the 1996 World Series over the Atlanta Braves. In 1990, he became the first player to reach the 50–home run mark since George Foster hit 52 for the Cincinnati Reds in 1977 and the first American League player to do so since Mickey Mantle and Roger Maris famously hit 54 and 61 in 1961.
Angus Macfadyen, Scottish actor and screenwriter
Angus Macfadyen is a Scottish actor. His roles include Robert the Bruce, both in Braveheart and Robert the Bruce, Komodo in Warriors of Virtue, Vice-Counsel Dupont in Equilibrium, Jeff Denlon in the Saw franchise, Robert Rogers in the AMC historical drama Turn: Washington's Spies, McCreedy in Cameron Crowe's We Bought a Zoo, and biologist James Murray in The Lost City of Z. He has made appearances on several television series such as Californication, Criminal Minds, Chuck, and Superman & Lois.
Mamoru Samuragochi, Japanese composer
Mamoru Samuragochi is a Japanese composer from Hiroshima Prefecture who falsely stated that he was totally deaf. He said throughout his career that he was deaf which led to foreign media dubbing him a "digital-age Beethoven". He was also the name credited for the video games Resident Evil: Director's Cut Dual Shock Ver. (1998) and Onimusha: Warlords (2001). In February 2014, it was revealed that not only was Samuragochi not fully deaf, most of the work attributed to him over the previous 18 years had been written by Takashi Niigaki.
Trevor Steven, English footballer
Trevor McGregor Steven is an English former professional footballer who played as a right-sided midfielder. He progressed through the ranks at Burnley, making his debut in 1981 regularly scoring over the next two seasons. Everton boss Howard Kendall, who was building a new team based on youth, decided to make a bid for him. He became known as a member of the successful Everton side of the 1980s and went on to be part of the Rangers '9-in-a-row' team. Steven was also successful with France's Marseille and gained 36 international caps for England. He works as a presenter for RTÉ Sport in Ireland.
David J. Wales, British academic and educator
David John Wales is a professor of chemical physics in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Cambridge..
21/09/1962
Rob Morrow, American actor
Robert Alan Morrow is an American actor. He is known for his portrayal of Dr. Joel Fleischman on Northern Exposure, a role that garnered him three Golden Globe and two Emmy nominations for Best Actor in a Dramatic Series, and later for his role as FBI agent Don Eppes on Numb3rs.
21/09/1961
Billy Collins, Jr., American boxer (died 1984)
William Ray Collins Jr. was an American professional boxer who competed from 1981 to 1983. He was undefeated before his career was cut short after his final fight when he sustained serious injuries against Luis Resto in their ten-round bout. Aided by his trainer Panama Lewis, Resto used illegal, tampered gloves with an ounce of the gloves' cushioning removed, along with hand wraps that had been soaked in plaster of Paris.
Dan Borislow, American businessman and inventor (died 2014)
Daniel Marc Borislow was an American entrepreneur, sports team owner, inventor, and thoroughbred horse breeder. Borislow was born and grew up in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and attended Widener University. In 1989, he founded Tel-Save, Inc. to resell access to AT&T long distance lines. Borislow took the company public in 1995, and two years later brokered a $100 million deal with AOL at the "Cafe L’Europe," Palm Beach. In early 1998, Tel-Save had sales of $300 million and was valued by Wall Street investors at $2 billion. However, due to the financial strain of paying off the AOL deal, Tel-Save lost $221 million in 1999, and Borislow sold his stock for approximately $300 million and retired.
Serena Scott Thomas, English actress and producer
Serena Harriet Scott Thomas is an English actress and documentary producer. Her television roles include Diana, Princess of Wales in Diana: Her True Story in 1993. Her film appearances include The World Is Not Enough (1999), Hostage (2005), Brothel (2008), and Inherent Vice (2014).
Nancy Travis, American actress and producer
Nancy Travis is an American actress. She began her career on Off-Broadway theater, before her first leading screen role in the ABC television miniseries Harem opposite Omar Sharif. Her breakthrough came in 1987, playing Sylvia Bennington in the comedy film Three Men and a Baby. She later starred in its sequel, Three Men and a Little Lady (1990).
21/09/1960
David James Elliott, Canadian-American actor and director
David William Smith, known professionally as David James Elliott, is a Canadian actor. He was the star of the series JAG, playing lead character Harmon Rabb Jr. from 1995 to 2005.
Masoumeh Ebtekar, Iranian journalist, politician and scientist, first woman Vice President of Iran
Masoumeh Ebtekar is an Iranian politician. A Reformist, she headed the country's Department of Environment from 1997 to 2005 and again from 2013 to 2017, after which she served as the Vice President for Women and Family Affairs from 2017 to 2021. Her appointment to the Cabinet of Iran in 1997 marked her as the institution's third female member overall and the first female member since the Islamic Revolution in 1979. She is currently a full-time professor in the Immunology Department of the School of Medical Sciences at Tarbiat Modares University in the city of Tehran.
Kelley Eskridge, American author and screenwriter
Kelley Eskridge is an American writer of fiction, non-fiction and screenplays. Her work is generally regarded as speculative fiction and is associated with the more literary edge of the category, as well as with the category of slipstream fiction.
Musalia Mudavadi, Kenyan politician and Former Deputy Prime Minister
Wycliffe Musalia Mudavadi is a Kenyan politician and land economist who is currently serving as Prime Cabinet Secretary of Kenya, and since 2023, in an expanded role of Foreign & Diaspora Affairs cabinet secretary of Kenya. As of 1 November 2024, he is also serving as the cabinet secretary in the ministry of interior, albeit in an acting capacity, succeeding Prof. Kithure Kindiki who was appointed Deputy president following the impeachment of Rigathi Gachagua. He is a former party leader of the Amani National Congress (ANC), one of the founding political parties, of the Kenya Kwanza alliance.
Graham Southern, English art dealer and gallery owner
Blain|Southern was a contemporary art gallery with branches in London, Berlin and New York. It was started in September 2010 by Harry Blain and Graham Southern, who had sold their previous gallery, Haunch of Venison, to Christie's. The gallery was originally at 21 Dering Street, but moved to 4 Hanover Square, London W1, in October 2012.
Maurizio Cattelan, Italian sculptor
Maurizio Cattelan is an Italian visual artist. Known primarily for his hyperrealistic sculptures and installations, Cattelan's practice also includes curating and publishing. His satirical approach to art has resulted in him being frequently labelled as a joker or prankster of the art world. Self-taught as an artist, Cattelan has exhibited internationally in museums and Biennials. Maurizio Cattelan created his most important works of art at Viale Bligny 42 in Milan, where he lived for many years.
21/09/1959
Crin Antonescu, Romanian educator and politician, former interim president of Romania
George Crin Laurențiu Antonescu is a Romanian politician and history teacher who served as Acting President of Romania in 2012. He was also candidate in the 2009 and 2025 presidential elections, finishing both in third place.
Andrzej Buncol, Polish footballer
Andrzej Bernard Buncol is a Polish former professional footballer who played as a midfielder.
Dave Coulier, American actor, comedian, producer, and screenwriter
David Alan Coulier is an American actor and comedian. He is best known for his roles as Joey Gladstone on the ABC sitcom Full House, Peter Venkman on The Real Ghostbusters, and Animal and Bunsen Honeydew on Muppet Babies. He was also in the 2007 Christmas movie The Family Holiday.
Danny Cox, English-American baseball player and coach
Daniel Bradford Cox is an English born American former professional baseball pitcher, who played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the St. Louis Cardinals (1983–1988), the Philadelphia Phillies (1991–1992), the Pittsburgh Pirates (1992), and the Toronto Blue Jays (1993–1995), after which he retired from active play.
Corinne Drewery, English singer-songwriter and fashion designer
Corinne Drewery is an English singer-songwriter and fashion designer, best known for being the lead vocalist of the band Swing Out Sister.
21/09/1958
Rick Mahorn, American basketball player and coach
Derrick Allen Mahorn is an American former professional basketball player who played power forward and center for the Washington Bullets, Detroit Pistons, Philadelphia 76ers, and the New Jersey Nets of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He is currently a radio analyst for the Detroit Pistons, works as a co-host/analyst on SiriusXM NBA Radio, and during the summer is the head coach of the Aliens of the BIG3.
Simon Mayo, English radio host
Simon Andrew Hicks Mayo is an English radio presenter and author who worked for BBC Radio from 1982 until 2022. Mayo has presented across three BBC stations for extended periods. From 1986 to 2001 he worked for Radio 1, including five years on the Radio 1 Breakfast Show. From 2001 he presented on BBC Radio 5 Live: from his debut until 2009 on a daily afternoon programme, and from 2009 until 2022 with Kermode and Mayo's Film Review on Fridays. Between January 2010 and December 2018 he was the presenter of Simon Mayo Drivetime on BBC Radio 2, for the final six months with co-host Jo Whiley. In addition to his programme on 5 Live, Mayo originally joined Radio 2 between October 2001 and April 2008 to host a weekly Album Chart Show, followed by the station's Music Club Weekly. Since March 2021, Simon Mayo Drivetime has returned on Greatest Hits Radio.
21/09/1957
Ethan Coen, American director, producer, and screenwriter
Ethan Jesse Coen is an American filmmaker. Working alongside his brother Joel, he has directed, written, edited and produced many feature films, the most acclaimed of which include Blood Simple (1984), Raising Arizona (1987), Miller's Crossing (1990), Barton Fink (1991), Fargo (1996), The Big Lebowski (1998), O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000), The Ladykillers (2004), No Country for Old Men (2007), Burn After Reading (2008), A Serious Man (2009), True Grit (2010), Inside Llewyn Davis (2013), Hail, Caesar! (2016) and The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018).
Mark Levin, American lawyer, radio host, and author
Mark Reed Levin is a conservative American broadcast news analyst, columnist, lawyer, political commentator, radio personality, and writer. He is the host of syndicated radio show The Mark Levin Show, as well as Life, Liberty & Levin on Fox News. Previously, Levin worked in the administration of President Ronald Reagan and was chief of staff for Attorney General Edwin Meese. He is the former president of the Landmark Legal Foundation, an author of seven books, and contributor to media outlets such as National Review Online. Since 2015, Levin has been editor-in-chief of the Conservative Review.
Sidney Moncrief, American basketball player and coach
Sidney Alvin Moncrief is an American former professional basketball player. As an NCAA college basketball player from 1975 to 1979, Moncrief played for the University of Arkansas Razorbacks, leading them to the 1978 Final Four and a win in the NCAA Consolation Game versus #6 Notre Dame. Nicknamed Sid the Squid, Sir Sid, and El Sid, Moncrief went on to play 11 seasons in the National Basketball Association, including ten seasons with the Milwaukee Bucks. He was a five-time NBA All-Star and won the first two NBA Defensive Player of the Year awards in 1983 and 1984. He was elected to the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 2019.
Kevin Rudd, Australian politician and diplomat, 26th Prime Minister of Australia
Kevin Michael Rudd is an Australian diplomat and former politician who served as the 26th prime minister of Australia from 2007 to 2010 and in 2013. He held office as the Leader of the Labor Party from 2006 to 2010, with a brief return to the leadership in 2013. From 2023 to 2026, Rudd was the Ambassador of Australia to the United States.
21/09/1956
Jack Givens, American basketball player and sportscaster
Jack "Goose" Givens is an American former professional basketball player. He played college basketball for the Kentucky Wildcats, earning consensus second-team All-American honors. He led the team to the 1978 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship and was named that year's Final Four Most Outstanding Player due in most part to his 41-point performance in Kentucky's 94–88 victory over Duke in the championship game. He was a 6-foot-5-inch (1.96 m), 205-pound (93 kg) forward. Givens played professionally for the Atlanta Hawks of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He also played overseas in Japan.
Marta Kauffman, American screenwriter and producer
Marta Fran Kauffman is an American television writer and producer. She is best known for co-creating the NBC sitcom Friends with her longtime friend, David Crane; Crane and Kauffman similarly were in a friend group with four other people. Crane and Kauffman were also executive producers of the show, along with Kevin S. Bright; and produced Veronica's Closet and Jesse. From 2005 to 2006 she was an executive producer on Related. Both writers were the creators of the HBO series Dream On. Without Crane, she co-created the Netflix series Grace and Frankie.
Ricky Morton, American wrestler
Richard Wendell Morton is an American professional wrestler who currently performs on the independent circuit. For most of his career, Morton has teamed with Robert Gibson as part of the Rock 'n' Roll Express, widely regarded as "the consummate babyface tag team". Morton has competed for numerous promotions in the United States including the Continental Wrestling Association, Mid-South Wrestling, Jim Crockett Promotions/World Championship Wrestling, Smoky Mountain Wrestling, the World Wrestling Federation, and Extreme Championship Wrestling, as well as the Japanese promotions All Japan Pro Wrestling, New Japan Pro-Wrestling, and Wrestle Association R.
21/09/1955
Richard Hieb, American engineer and astronaut
Richard James Hieb is a former NASA astronaut and a veteran of three Space Shuttle missions. He was a mission specialist on STS-39 and STS-49, and was a payload commander on STS-65. After leaving NASA he worked at AlliedSignal and Orbital before spending 14 years as an executive at Lockheed Martin. He is currently a faculty member in the University of Colorado Boulder Smead Aerospace Engineering Sciences Department.
Israel Katz, Israeli politician
Israel Katz is an Israeli politician and member of the Knesset for Likud currently serving as Minister of Defense and a member of the Security Cabinet of Israel. Katz has been recognized for his role in modernizing Israel's transportation infrastructure, including the expansion of highways, the development of high-speed rail, and reforms to Israel's ports that increased competition and reduced shipping costs. Katz has previously served as Minister of Agriculture, Minister of Transport, Minister of Intelligence, Minister of Energy, Minister of Finance, and twice as Minister of Foreign Affairs. On 5 November 2024, it was announced that he would be nominated by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as Defense Minister after Yoav Gallant was dismissed.
Mika Kaurismäki, Finnish director, producer, and screenwriter
Mika Juhani Kaurismäki is a Finnish film director.
21/09/1954
Shinzo Abe, Japanese lawyer and politician, 90th Prime Minister of Japan (died 2022)
Shinzo Abe was a Japanese statesman and politician who served as Prime Minister of Japan and President of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) from 2006 to 2007 and again from 2012 to 2020. He was the longest-serving prime minister in Japanese history, serving for nearly nine years.
Julia Grant, British transgender activist (died 2019)
Julia Grant was the first transgender person to have her transition chronicled on a mainstream UK television documentary in A Change of Sex.
Thomas S. Ray, American ecologist and academic
Thomas S. Ray is an American evolutionary biologist known for his research in tropical biology, digital evolution, and the human mind.
Phil "Philthy Animal" Taylor, English rock drummer (died 2015)
Philip John Taylor, better known as "Philthy Animal", was an English drummer. He was a member of the rock band Motörhead from 1975 to 1984 and 1987 to 1992, recording eleven studio albums and four live albums with the band. The Motörhead line-up consisting of Taylor, Lemmy and "Fast" Eddie Clarke is generally regarded as the 'classic' line-up of the band.
21/09/1953
Arie Luyendyk, Dutch race car driver and sportscaster
Arie Luijendijk, nicknamed "The Flying Dutchman," is a Dutch former auto racing driver, and winner of the 1990 and 1997 Indianapolis 500 races. He was inducted into the Indianapolis Motor Speedway Hall of Fame in 2009, and the Motorsports Hall of Fame of America in 2014.
Reinhard Marx, German cardinal
Reinhard Marx is a German Catholic prelate who has served as Archbishop of Munich and Freising since 2008. Pope Benedict XVI made him a cardinal in 2010. He is a former member of the Council of Cardinals established by Pope Francis, serving from 2013 to 2023 and is a former president of the Commission of the Bishops' Conferences of the European Union. Marx is the Grand Prior of the German Lieutenancy of the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem.
21/09/1952
Dave Gregory, English guitarist and keyboard player
David Charles Gregory is an English guitarist from Swindon, best known for his work with the rock band XTC. He was a member of the group between the single "Life Begins at the Hop" (1979) and early sessions for the album Apple Venus Volume 1 (1999), contributing guitar, keyboards, and occasional string arrangements.
John Taylor, Baron Taylor of Warwick, English lawyer and politician
John David Beckett Taylor, Baron Taylor of Warwick is a member of the House of Lords in the Parliament of the United Kingdom. In 1996, at the age of 44, he became one of the youngest people in the upper house.
21/09/1951
Bruce Arena, American soccer player and manager
Bruce Arena is an American soccer coach who currently serves as the head coach and sporting director of the San Jose Earthquakes.
Aslan Maskhadov, Chechen general and politician, 3rd President of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria (died 2005)
Aslan Aliyevich Maskhadov was a Soviet and Chechen politician and military commander who also served as the third president of the unrecognized Chechen Republic of Ichkeria.
21/09/1950
Charles Clarke, English economist and politician, Secretary of State for Education
Charles Rodway Clarke is a British Labour Party politician who held various Cabinet positions under Prime Minister Tony Blair from 2001 to 2006, lastly as Home Secretary from December 2004 to May 2006. Clarke was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Norwich South from 1997 to 2010.
Bill Murray, American actor, comedian, producer, and screenwriter
William James Murray is an American actor and comedian, known for his deadpan delivery in roles ranging from studio comedies to independent dramas. He has received several accolades including a BAFTA Award, a Golden Globe Award, and two Primetime Emmy Awards as well as a nomination for an Academy Award. Murray was awarded the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor in 2016.
21/09/1949
Henry Butler, American pianist and photographer (died 2018)
Henry Butler was an American jazz and blues pianist. He learned piano, drums, and saxophone in school. He received a college degree and graduate degree and taught at the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts. He worked as a soloist and in groups in Los Angeles and New York City. Despite his blindness, he spent time as a photographer and had his work exhibited in galleries.
Artis Gilmore, American basketball player and radio host
Artis Gilmore Sr. is an American former professional basketball player who played in the American Basketball Association (ABA) and National Basketball Association (NBA). Gilmore was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 2011.
Odilo Scherer, Brazilian cardinal
Odilo Pedro Scherer is a Brazilian cardinal of the Catholic Church. Since 2007 he has been the Archbishop of São Paulo, where he was auxiliary bishop from 2001 to 2007. From 1994 to 2001 he worked in the Roman Curia at the Congregation for Bishops.
21/09/1948
Jack Dromey, English union leader and politician (died 2022)
John Eugene Joseph Dromey was a British politician and trade unionist who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Birmingham Erdington from 2010 to 2022. A member of the Labour Party, he served as Deputy General Secretary of the Transport and General Workers' Union and later Unite from 2003 to 2010.
Mitsuo Momota, Japanese wrestler
Mitsuo Momota is a semi-retired Japanese professional wrestler and executive, known for his work in the Japanese promotions All Japan Pro Wrestling and later in Pro Wrestling NOAH. He is the son of wrestler Rikidōzan.
John B. O'Reilly Jr., American politician (died 2025)
John Bernard "Jack" O'Reilly Jr. was an American politician who served as the 6th mayor of Dearborn, Michigan, from 2007 to 2022. A member of the Democratic Party, he previously served on the Dearborn City Council from 1990 to 2007.
21/09/1947
Don Felder, American musician and songwriter
Donald William Felder is an American musician who was the lead guitarist of the rock band Eagles from 1974 to 2001. He is known for co-writing several of the band's songs, most notably "Hotel California". Felder was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1998 with Eagles and was inducted into the Musicians Hall of Fame and Museum in 2016.
Keith Harris, English ventriloquist and singer (died 2015)
Keith Shenton Harris was an English ventriloquist, best known for his television show The Keith Harris Show (1982–86), audio recordings, and club appearances with his puppets Orville the Duck and Cuddles the Monkey. He had a UK Top 10 hit single in 1982 with "Orville's Song" which reached number 4 in the charts.
Rupert Hine, English musician, songwriter, and record producer (died 2020)
Rupert Neville Hine was an English record producer and musician. He produced albums for artists including Rush, Kevin Ayers, Tina Turner, Howard Jones, Saga, the Fixx, Bob Geldof, Thompson Twins, Stevie Nicks, Chris de Burgh, Suzanne Vega, Underworld, Duncan Sheik, Formula and Eleanor McEvoy. Additionally, Hine recorded eleven albums, including those billed under his own name, the pseudo-band name Thinkman, and as a member of the band Quantum Jump; with the latter, he achieved a number 5 hit on the UK Singles Chart in 1979, "The Lone Ranger". Additionally, he composed for film and television soundtracks, including the 1989 Ian Fleming biopic Goldeneye and the black comedy Better Off Dead.
Stephen King, American author and screenwriter
Stephen Edwin King is an American author. Dubbed the "King of Horror", he is widely known for his horror fiction and has also explored other genres, among them suspense, crime, science-fiction, fantasy, and mystery. He has written approximately 200 short stories, most of which have been published in collections.
Ed Nimmervoll, Austrian-Australian journalist, historian, and author (died 2014)
Edward Charles Nimmervoll né Eduard Nimmervoll was an Australian music journalist, author and historian. He worked on rock and pop magazines Go-Set (1966–1974) and Juke Magazine (1975–1992) both as a journalist and as an editor. From 2000, Nimmervoll was editor of HowlSpace, a website detailing Australian rock/pop music history, providing artist profiles, news and video interviews. He was an author of books on the same subject and co-authored books with musicians including Brian Cadd and Renée Geyer.
Marsha Norman, American playwright and author
Marsha Norman is an American playwright, screenwriter, and novelist. She received the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for her play 'night, Mother. She wrote the book and lyrics for such Broadway musicals as The Secret Garden, for which she won a Tony Award and the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Book of a Musical, and The Red Shoes, as well as the libretto for the musical The Color Purple and the book for the musical The Bridges of Madison County. She was co-chair of the playwriting program at The Juilliard School until stepping down in 2020.
21/09/1946
Rose Garrard, English sculptor and author
Rose Garrard is an installation, video and performance artist, sculptor and author. Garrard's works have been exhibited at the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Tate Gallery, the British Council maintained Great Britain pavilion at the 1984 Venice Biennale, and national galleries in Austria and Canada.
Moritz Leuenberger, Swiss lawyer and politician, 87th President of the Swiss Confederation
Moritz Leuenberger is a Swiss politician and lawyer who served as a Member of the Swiss Federal Council from 1995 to 2010. A member of the Social Democratic Party (SP/PS), he was President of the Swiss Confederation in 2001 and 2006. Leuenberger headed the Federal Department of Environment, Transport, Energy and Communications for the whole of his tenure as a Federal Councillor.
Mart Siimann, Estonian psychologist and politician, 12th Prime Minister of Estonia
Mart Siimann is an Estonian politician. He was Prime Minister of Estonia from 1997 to 1999 as a member of the Estonian Coalition Party, and President of the Estonian Olympic Committee from 2001 to 2012.
21/09/1945
Richard Childress, American race car driver and businessman
Richard Reed Childress is an American former race car driver in NASCAR. Childress is the owner of Richard Childress Racing (RCR). In 2004, he opened a vineyard in the Yadkin Valley AVA near Lexington, North Carolina. Childress sat on the board of directors at the National Rifle Association until 2019. Childress has been a co-owner of the Professional Bull Riders' Carolina Cowboys team since 2022.
Shaw Clifton, Northern Irish 18th General of The Salvation Army (died 2023)
Shaw Clifton was a Salvation Army Officer born to Salvation Army officer parents stationed in Northern Ireland, who served as the 18th General of the Salvation Army. He succeeded John Larsson on 2 April 2006.
Kay Ryan, American poet and educator
Kay Ryan is an American poet and educator. She has published seven volumes of poetry and an anthology of selected and new poems. From 2008 to 2010 she was the sixteenth United States Poet Laureate. In 2011 she was named a MacArthur Fellow and she won the Pulitzer Prize.
21/09/1944
Steve Beshear, American lawyer and politician, 61st Governor of Kentucky
Steven Lynn Beshear is an American attorney and politician. A member of the Democratic Party, he served as the 61st governor of Kentucky from 2007 to 2015. He served in the Kentucky House of Representatives from 1974 to 1980, was the state's 44th attorney general from 1980 to 1983, and was the 49th lieutenant governor from 1983 to 1987.
Marcus Binney, English historian and author
Marcus Hugh Crofton Binney is a British architectural historian and author. He is best known for his conservation work regarding Britain's heritage.
Fannie Flagg, American actress, comedian, and author
Fannie Flagg is an American actress, comedian, and author. She is most notable as a frequent panelist on the 1973–1982 versions of the game show Match Game and for her 1987 novel Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe, which she adapted into the script for the 1991 motion picture Fried Green Tomatoes. She was nominated for an Academy Award for the screenplay adaptation. Flagg lives in California and Alabama.
Hamilton Jordan, American politician, 8th White House Chief of Staff (died 2008)
William Hamilton McWhorter Jordan was an American politician who served as Chief of Staff to President of the United States Jimmy Carter.
Bobby Tench, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2024)
Robert Tench was a British singer, guitarist, sideman, songwriter and arranger.
21/09/1943
David Hood, American session bassist and trombone player
David Hood is an American musician, hailing from Muscle Shoals, Alabama, He is known for playing the bass guitar and trombone, and is a member of the Alabama Music Hall of Fame.
Jerry Bruckheimer, American film and television producer
Jerome Leonard Bruckheimer is an American film and television producer. He has been active in the genres of action, drama, comedy, fantasy, horror and science fiction. After working in advertising out of college, Bruckheimer moved into film production in the 1970s. In the 1980s and 1990s, he partnered with fellow producer Don Simpson. Bruckheimer and Simpson's partnership continued until Simpson's death in 1996. Bruckheimer has produced films including Flashdance, Days of Thunder, The Rock, Crimson Tide, Dangerous Minds, Con Air, Armageddon, Enemy of the State, Pearl Harbor, Black Hawk Down, as well as the Beverly Hills Cop, Top Gun, Bad Boys, Pirates of the Caribbean and National Treasure franchises.
21/09/1942
Sam McDowell, American baseball player
Samuel Edward Thomas McDowell is an American former professional baseball player. He played in Major League Baseball as a starting pitcher from 1961 to 1975, most notably for the Cleveland Indians. A six-time All-Star, McDowell led the American League in strikeouts five times. Tall and powerful, his left-handed fastball was delivered with an unusually calm pitching motion which led to his memorable nickname, "Sudden Sam".
21/09/1941
Jack Brisco, American wrestler and manager (died 2010)
Freddie Joe "Jack" Brisco was an American amateur wrestler and professional wrestler. As an amateur for Oklahoma State, Brisco was two-time All-American and won the NCAA Division I national championship. He turned pro shortly after and performed for various territories of the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA), becoming a two-time NWA World Heavyweight Champion, and multi-time NWA World Tag Team Champion with his brother Gerald Brisco.
R. James Woolsey, Jr., American scholar and diplomat, 16th Director of Central Intelligence
Robert James Woolsey Jr. is an American lawyer who has served in various senior positions. He headed the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) as Director of Central Intelligence from February 5, 1993 until January 10, 1995. He held a variety of government positions in the 1970s and 1980s, including as United States Under Secretary of the Navy from 1977 to 1979, and was involved in treaty negotiations with the Soviet Union for five years in the 1980s. His career also included time as a professional lawyer, venture capitalist and investor in the private sector.
21/09/1940
Ron Fenton, English footballer, coach, and manager (died 2013)
Ronald Fenton was an English football player, coach and manager. He played as an inside forward and made nearly 200 appearances in the Football League.
Hermann Knoflacher, Austrian engineer and academic
Hermann Knoflacher is an Austrian civil engineer. He was the head of the Institute for Transport Planning and Technology at the Vienna University of Technology.
Bill Kurtis, American journalist and producer
Bill Kurtis is a retired American television journalist, television producer, narrator, and news anchor.
21/09/1939
Agnivesh, Indian philosopher, academic, and politician (died 2020)
Swami Agnivesh, was an Indian social activist and the founder of Arya Sabha, a political party based on the principles of Arya Samaj. He also served as a cabinet minister in the state of Haryana. He is best known for his work against bonded labour through the Bonded Labour Liberation Front, which he founded in 1981.
21/09/1938
Doug Moe, American basketball player and coach (died 2026)
Douglas Edwin Moe was an American professional basketball player and coach. A star small forward playing college basketball for the North Carolina Tar Heels, Moe was a two-time All-American but was accused of point shaving. He was cleared of fixing games, but was kicked out of school and blackballed from the National Basketball Association (NBA). Moe played professionally in the Italian league Lega Basket Serie A in 1965 before signing on with the upstart American Basketball Association (ABA) with the New Orleans Buccaneers in 1967, where he played with his former college teammate Larry Brown. Moe played five seasons for four teams while being named an ABA All-Star three times and winning the ABA championship in 1969 with the Oakland Oaks.
Olu Falae, Nigerian politician and government official
Chief Samuel Oluyemisi Falae, is a Nigerian banker, administrator and politician who was secretary to the military government of Ibrahim Babangida from January 1986 to December 1990, and briefly the Finance Minister in 1990. He ran for president in Nigeria's Third and Fourth Republics
21/09/1937
John D'Amico, Canadian ice hockey player and referee (died 2005)
John David D'Amico was a Canadian National Hockey League (NHL) linesman and later supervisor of officials.
21/09/1936
Ian Albery, English manager and producer
Ian Bronson Albery is an English theatre consultant, manager, and producer. He is a former chief executive of Sadler's Wells Theatre (1994-2002), and was in charge of the Donmar Warehouse from 1961 to 1989.
Dickey Lee, American pop-country singer-songwriter and guitarist
Royden Dickey Lipscomb, known professionally as Dickey Lee, is an American pop/country singer and songwriter, best known for the 1960s teenage tragedy songs "Patches" and "Laurie ". He also has a number of hit songs on the country charts in the 1970s, including "Rocky" and "9,999,999 Tears", and has written or co-written songs recorded by other singers, such as "She Thinks I Still Care", "The Door Is Always Open" and "The Keeper of the Stars".
Yury Luzhkov, Russian soldier and politician, 2nd Mayor of Moscow (died 2019)
Yury Mikhailovich Luzhkov was a Russian politician who served as mayor of Moscow from 1992 to 2010. Before the election of Gavriil Popov as the first mayor of Moscow, he also headed the capital in 1990–1991 as chairman of the Mosgorispolkom. He was the vice-chairman and one of the founders of the ruling United Russia party. During Luzhkov's time, Moscow's economy expanded and he presided over large construction projects in the city, including the building of a new financial district. At the same time, he was accused of corruption, bulldozing historic buildings, and poor handling of traffic, as well as the city's smog crisis during the 2010 Russian wildfires. On 28 September 2010, Luzhkov was fired from his post by a decree issued by then-President Dmitry Medvedev.
Diane Rehm, American journalist and radio host
Diane Rehm is an American journalist and the host of Diane Rehm: On My Mind podcast, produced at WAMU, which is licensed to American University in Washington, D.C.. She also hosts a monthly book club series, Diane Rehm Book Club, at WAMU. Rehm is the former American public radio talk show host of The Diane Rehm Show, which was distributed nationally and internationally by National Public Radio. The show was produced at WAMU.
21/09/1935
Jimmy Armfield, English footballer and manager (died 2018)
James Christopher Armfield was an English professional football player and manager. He played the whole of his Football League career at Blackpool, usually at right-back. Between 1954 and 1971, he played 627 games in all competitions, scored six goals, and spent a decade as the club's captain. He also represented the England national team 43 times between 1959 and 1966, and captained them in fifteen games. He was a member of England's 1966 World Cup-winning squad. After retiring from playing, Armfield managed Bolton Wanderers and Leeds United, leading the latter to the 1975 European Cup final.
Henry Gibson, American actor (died 2009)
James Bateman, known professionally as Henry Gibson, was an American actor, comedian and poet. He played roles in the television sketch-comedy series Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In from 1968 to 1971, was the voice of the protagonist Wilbur in the animated feature Charlotte's Web (1973), portrayed country star Haven Hamilton in Robert Altman's film Nashville (1975), the Illinois Nazi leader in The Blues Brothers (1980), and appeared in The 'Burbs (1989). His later film roles included starring in The Luck of the Irish (2001) and smaller parts as Thurston Howell in Magnolia (1999) and as Father O'Neil in Wedding Crashers (2005). His final major acting role was as Judge Clark Brown on the television show Boston Legal, from 2004 to 2008.
21/09/1934
Leonard Cohen, Canadian singer-songwriter and poet (died 2016)
Leonard Norman Cohen was a Canadian songwriter, singer, poet, and novelist. Themes commonly explored throughout his work include faith and mortality, isolation and depression, betrayal and redemption, social and political conflict, sexual and romantic love, desire, regret, and loss. He was inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame, the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame, and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. He was invested as a Companion of the Order of Canada, the nation's highest civilian honour. In 2011, he received one of the Prince of Asturias Awards for literature and the ninth Glenn Gould Prize. In 2023, Rolling Stone named Cohen the 103rd-greatest singer of all time.
María Rubio, Mexican actress (died 2018)
María Rubio was a Mexican actress. She worked with Televisa on many telenovelas. She appeared as the villain Catalina Creel in the 1986–87 telenovela, Cuna de lobos.
21/09/1933
Allan Jeans, Australian footballer and coach (died 2011)
Allan Lindsay Jeans was an Australian rules footballer and coach. He was inducted into the Australian Football Hall of Fame at its inception in 1996. Jeans was known for his oratory and motivation skills as a coach and led St Kilda and Hawthorn to a total of four premierships.
Dick Simon, American race car driver
Richard Raymond Simon is an American former auto racing driver and racing team owner. Simon drove Indy cars in USAC and CART, and made 17 starts at the Indianapolis 500. At the 1988 Indianapolis 500, Simon set a record as the oldest driver in Indy 500 history, a record that was later broken by A. J. Foyt.
21/09/1932
Shirley Conran, English journalist and author (died 2024)
Dame Shirley Ida Conran was an English author, designer, journalist, and social entrepreneur.
Marjorie Fletcher, English Director of the Women's Royal Naval Service (died 2008)
Commandant Marjorie Fletcher CBE served as Director of the Women's Royal Naval Service (WRNS) between 1986 and 1988.
Don Preston, American keyboard player and composer
Donald Ward Preston is an American jazz and rock keyboardist. He is best known for being a member of the original version of Frank Zappa's band The Mothers of Invention during the late 1960s. He continued to work with Zappa during the early 1970s following the band's split.
21/09/1931
Larry Hagman, American actor, director, and producer (died 2012)
Larry Martin Hagman was an American actor, best known for playing ruthless oil baron J. R. Ewing in the 1978–1991 primetime television soap opera Dallas, and the handsome astronaut Major Anthony Nelson in the 1965–1970 sitcom I Dream of Jeannie. Hagman had supporting roles in numerous films, including Fail-Safe, Harry and Tonto, S.O.B., Nixon, and Primary Colors. His television appearances also included guest roles on dozens of shows spanning from the late 1950s until his death, and a reprise of his signature role on the 2012 revival of Dallas. Hagman also worked as a television producer and director. He was the son of actress Mary Martin. Hagman underwent a life-saving liver transplant in 1995. He died on November 23, 2012, from complications of acute myeloid leukemia.
21/09/1930
John Morgan, Welsh-Canadian actor and screenwriter (died 2004)
John Morgan was a Welsh-born Canadian comedian.
Bob Stokoe, English footballer and manager (died 2004)
Robert Stokoe was an English footballer and manager who was able, almost uniquely, to transcend the traditional north-east animosity between the region's footballing rivals, Newcastle United and Sunderland. As a player, he won an FA Cup winner's medal with Newcastle in 1955. As a manager, he guided Blackpool to victory in the 1971 Anglo-Italian Cup final. Two years later, he led Sunderland to success in the 1973 FA Cup final, and followed it up with promotion from the Second Division in 1975–76.
21/09/1929
Sándor Kocsis, Hungarian footballer and manager (died 1979)
Sándor Péter Kocsis was a Hungarian footballer who played for Ferencvárosi TC, Budapest Honvéd, Young Fellows Zürich, FC Barcelona and Hungary as a striker. During the 1950s, along with Ferenc Puskás, Zoltán Czibor, József Bozsik and Nándor Hidegkuti, he was a member of the Mighty Magyars. After the 1956 Hungarian Revolution, he moved to Spain where he became a member of the FC Barcelona team of the late 1950s.
Edgar Valter, Estonian author and illustrator (died 2006)
Edgar Valter was an Estonian graphic artist, caricaturist, writer and illustrator of children's books, with over 250 books to his name, through 55 years of activity (1950–2005). His most famous work is Pokuraamat.
Bernard Williams, English-Italian philosopher and academic (died 2003)
Sir Bernard Arthur Owen Williams was an English philosopher. His publications include Problems of the Self (1973), Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy (1985), Shame and Necessity (1993), and Truth and Truthfulness (2002). He was knighted in 1999.
21/09/1926
Don Dunstan, Fijian-Australian lawyer and politician, 35th Premier of South Australia (died 1999)
Donald Allan Dunstan was an Australian politician who served as the 35th premier of South Australia from 1967 to 1968, and again from 1970 to 1979. He was a member of the House of Assembly (MHA) for the division of Norwood from 1953 to 1979, and leader of the South Australian Branch of the Australian Labor Party from 1967 to 1979. Before becoming premier, Dunstan served as the 38th attorney-general of South Australia and the treasurer of South Australia. He is the fourth longest serving premier in South Australian history.
Donald A. Glaser, American physicist and neurobiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2013)
Donald Arthur Glaser was an American physicist and biologist who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1960 for his invention of the bubble chamber.
Fereydoon Moshiri, Iranian poet and critic (died 2000)
Fereydoon Moshiri was one of the prominent contemporary Persian poets who wrote poems in both modern and classic styles of the Persian poem.
21/09/1924
Hermann Buhl, Austrian mountaineer (died 1957)
Hermann Buhl was an Austrian mountaineer. His accomplishments include the first ascents of Nanga Parbat in 1953 and Broad Peak in 1957. He is one of the pioneers of the alpine style. Buhl was the father of Austrian-German writer, publisher, and freelance journalist, Kriemhild "Krimi" Buhl.
21/09/1923
Fred Hunt, British jazz pianist (died 1986)
Herbert Frederick Hunt was an English jazz pianist.
21/09/1921
John McHale, American baseball player and manager (died 2008)
John Joseph McHale was an American professional baseball player and executive. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a first baseman for the Detroit Tigers during the 1940s, and later served as the general manager of the Tigers, Milwaukee / Atlanta Braves, and Montreal Expos. He was the first president and executive director of the Expos during their maiden years in the National League, and owned ten percent of the team. His son John McHale Jr. became an MLB executive vice president.
21/09/1920
Kenneth McAlpine, British race car driver (died 2023)
Kenneth McAlpine was a British racing driver from England.
21/09/1919
Mario Bunge, Argentinian-Canadian physicist and philosopher (died 2020)
Mario Augusto Bunge was an Argentine-Canadian philosopher and physicist. His philosophical writings combined scientific realism, systemism, materialism, emergentism, and other principles.
Herman Fowlkes, Jr., American trumpet player and educator (died 1993)
Herman Fowlkes Jr. was an American jazz musician and educator from Chicago, Illinois.
Fazlur Rahman Malik, Pakistani philosopher and scholar (died 1988)
Fazlur Rahman Malik, commonly known as Fazlur Rahman, was a modernist scholar and Islamic philosopher from present-day Pakistan. Recognized as a leading liberal reformer within Islam, he focused on educational reform and promoting independent reasoning (ijtihad). His work has attracted both significant interest and criticism in Muslim-majority countries. His reformist ideas led to protests by over a thousand clerics, faqihs, muftis, and teachers in Pakistan, ultimately resulting in his exile.
21/09/1918
John Gofman, American physicist, chemist, and biologist (died 2007)
John William Gofman was an American scientist and advocate. He was professor emeritus of Molecular and Cell Biology at the University of California at Berkeley.
Karl Slover, American actor (died 2011)
Karl Slover was a Slovakian-born American actor best known as one of the Munchkins in The Wizard of Oz (1939). Only three other adult Munchkin performers remained alive at the time of Slover's death.
Juan José Arreola, Mexican writer and academic (died 2001)
Juan José Arreola Zúñiga was a Mexican writer, academic, and actor. He is considered Mexico's premier experimental short story writer of the 20th century. Arreola is recognized as one of the first Latin American writers to abandon realism; he used elements of fantasy to underscore existentialist and absurdist ideas in his work. Although he is little known outside Mexico, Arreola has served as the literary inspiration for a legion of Mexican writers who have sought to transform their country's realistic literary tradition by introducing elements of magical realism, satire, and allegory. Alongside Jorge Luis Borges, he is considered one of the masters of the hybrid subgenre of the essay-story. Arreola is primarily known for his short stories and he only published one novel, La feria.
21/09/1917
Phyllis Nicolson, English mathematician and academic (died 1968)
Phyllis Nicolson was a British mathematician and physicist best known for her work on the Crank–Nicolson method together with John Crank.
21/09/1916
Françoise Giroud, Swiss-French journalist and politician, French Minister of Culture (died 2003)
Françoise Giroud was a French journalist, screenwriter, writer, and politician.
21/09/1912
Chuck Jones, American animator, producer, and screenwriter (died 2002)
Charles Martin Jones was an American animator, filmmaker, painter, and voice actor, best known for his work with Warner Bros. Cartoons on the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series of shorts. He wrote, produced, and/or directed many classic animated cartoon shorts starring Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner, Pepé Le Pew, Marvin the Martian, and Porky Pig, among others.
György Sándor, Hungarian pianist and composer (died 2005)
György Sándor was a Hungarian pianist and writer.
21/09/1910
Meinrad Schütter, Swiss composer (died 2006)
Meinrad Schütter was a Swiss composer.
21/09/1909
Kwame Nkrumah, Ghanaian educator and politician, 1st President of Ghana (died 1972)
Kwame Kofi Nkrumah, baptised Francis, was a Ghanaian politician, political theorist, and revolutionary. He served as Prime Minister of the Gold Coast from 1952 until 1957, when it gained independence from the United Kingdom. He was then the first prime minister and then the president of Ghana, from 1957 until 1966. An influential advocate of Pan-Africanism, Nkrumah was a founding member of the Organisation of African Unity (OAU) and winner of the Lenin Peace Prize from the Soviet Union in 1962.
21/09/1906
Henry Beachell, American biologist and botanist (died 2006)
Henry Monroe "Hank" Beachell was an American plant breeder. His research led to the development of hybrid rice cultivars that saved millions of people around the world from starvation.
21/09/1905
Robert Lebel, Canadian businessman and politician (died 1999)
Robert Lebel or LeBel was a Canadian ice hockey administrator, who served as president of the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association (CAHA), and the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF). Lebel founded a senior ice hockey league during World War II, and then became president of the Quebec Amateur Hockey Association (QAHA). He was a mayor of Chambly, Quebec, before joining the CAHA as an executive member and later its president. He was president of the IIHF during the early Cold War era, the last Canadian to lead the federation. He later founded the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League for junior ice hockey players. He received the 125th Anniversary of the Confederation of Canada Medal, was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame, the IIHF Hall of Fame, three halls of fame in his native Quebec, and is the namesake of the Robert Lebel Trophy.
21/09/1904
Hans Hartung, German-French painter (died 1989)
Hans Hartung was a German-French painter, known for his gestural abstract style. He was also a decorated World War II veteran of the Legion d'honneur.
21/09/1903
Preston Tucker, American engineer and businessman, designed the Tucker Sedan (died 1956)
Preston Thomas Tucker was an American automobile entrepreneur who developed the innovative Tucker 48 sedan, initially nicknamed the "Tucker Torpedo", an automobile which introduced many features that have since become widely used in modern cars.
21/09/1902
Luis Cernuda, Spanish poet and critic (died 1963)
Luis Cernuda Bidón was a Spanish poet, a member of the Generation of '27. During the Spanish Civil War, in early 1938, he went to the UK to deliver some lectures and this became the start of an exile that lasted till the end of his life. He taught in the universities of Glasgow and Cambridge before moving in 1947 to the US. In the 1950s he moved to Mexico. While he continued to write poetry, he also published wide-ranging books of critical essays, covering French, English and German as well as Spanish literature. He was frank about his homosexuality at a time when this was problematic and became something of a role model for this in Spain. His collected poems were published under the title La realidad y el deseo.
Allen Lane, English publisher, founded Penguin Books (died 1970)
Sir Allen Lane was a British publisher who together with his brothers Richard and John Lane founded Penguin Books in 1935, bringing high-quality paperback fiction and non-fiction to the mass market.
Howie Morenz, Canadian ice hockey player (died 1937)
Howard William Morenz was a Canadian professional ice hockey player. Beginning in 1923, he played centre for three National Hockey League (NHL) teams: the Montreal Canadiens, the Chicago Black Hawks, and the New York Rangers. Before joining the NHL, Morenz excelled in the junior Ontario Hockey Association, where his team played for the Memorial Cup, the championship for junior ice hockey in Canada. In the NHL, he was one of the most dominant players in the league and set several league scoring records. A strong skater, Morenz was referred to as the "Stratford Streak" and "Mitchell Meteor" in reference to his speed on the ice.
21/09/1899
Frederick Coutts, Scottish 8th General of The Salvation Army (died 1986)
Frederick Coutts, CBE was the eighth General of The Salvation Army (1963–1969).
21/09/1898
Frances Mary Albrier, American civil rights activist (died 1987)
Frances Mary Albrier was an American civil rights activist and community leader.
21/09/1894
Anton Piëch, Austrian lawyer and businessman (died 1952)
Anton Piëch was an Austrian-German lawyer and the son-in-law of Ferdinand Porsche. He headed Volkswagenwerk GmbH between 1941 and 1945, which produced the Volkswagen vehicles (KdF-Wagen) at the factory in Wolfsburg, Germany.
21/09/1893
Erna Scheffler, German lawyer and justice of the Federal Constitutional Court (died 1983)
Erna Scheffler was a German senior judge.
21/09/1890
Max Immelmann, German lieutenant and pilot (died 1916)
Max Immelmann PLM was a German World War I flying ace. He was a pioneer in fighter aviation and is often mistakenly credited with the first aerial victory using a synchronized gun, which was in fact achieved on 1 July 1915 by the German ace Kurt Wintgens. Immelmann was the first aviator to receive the Pour le Mérite, colloquially known as the "Blue Max" in his honour, being awarded it at the same time as Oswald Boelcke. His name has become attached to a common flying tactic, the Immelmann turn, and remains a byword in aviation. He is credited with 15 aerial victories.
Charles William Train, English sergeant, Victoria Cross recipient (died 1965)
Sergeant Charles William Train VC was a British Army soldier and an English-born recipient of the Victoria Cross (VC), the highest British honour awarded for gallantry in the presence of the enemy. It was awarded in the First World War to British and Dominion forces and the Indian Army.
21/09/1884
Dénes Kőnig, Hungarian mathematician and theorist (died 1944)
Dénes Kőnig was a Hungarian mathematician of Hungarian Jewish heritage who worked in and wrote the first textbook on the field of graph theory.
21/09/1882
Geevarghese Ivanios, Indian metropolitan (died 1953)
Panikkervettil Thomas Panicker Geevarghese, known formally as Geevarghese Mar Ivanios, was a prominent Indian bishop and the first metropolitan archbishop and the founder of the Syro-Malankara Catholic Church. He was a key figure in the Malankara Reunion Movement, which sought to reunite the Malankara Church with the Catholic Church, culminating in his joining the Roman Catholic Church in 1930 along with a small group of followers.
21/09/1878
Peter McWilliam, Scottish-English footballer and manager (died 1951)
Peter McWilliam was a Scottish footballer who played at left-half for Inverness Thistle, Newcastle United and Scotland. He won every domestic trophy during his nine years with Newcastle United.
21/09/1874
Gustav Holst, English composer and educator (died 1934)
Gustav Holst was an English composer, arranger and teacher. Best known for his orchestral suite The Planets, he composed many other works across a range of genres, although none achieved comparable success. His distinctive compositional style was the product of many influences, Richard Wagner and Richard Strauss being most crucial early in his development. The subsequent inspiration of the English folksong revival of the early 20th century, and the example of such rising modern composers as Maurice Ravel, led Holst to develop and refine an individual style.
21/09/1873
Papa Jack Laine, American drummer and bandleader (died 1966)
George Vitelle "Papa Jack" Laine was an American musician and a pioneering band leader in New Orleans in the years from the Spanish–American War to World War I. He was often credited for training many musicians who would later become successful in jazz music.
21/09/1872
Henry Tingle Wilde, English chief officer on the RMS Titanic (died 1912)
Lieutenant Henry Tingle Wilde was a British Merchant Navy officer who was the chief officer of the RMS Titanic during her ill-fated maiden voyage. Wilde died during the sinking, alongside 1,500 others.
21/09/1867
Charles Bathurst, 1st Viscount Bledisloe, English politician, 4th Governor-General of New Zealand (died 1958)
Charles Bathurst, 1st Viscount Bledisloe, was a British Conservative politician and colonial governor. He was Governor-General of New Zealand from 1930 to 1935.
Henry L. Stimson, American colonel, lawyer, and politician, 46th United States Secretary of State (died 1950)
Henry Lewis Stimson was an American statesman, lawyer, and politician. Over his long career, he emerged as a leading figure in U.S. foreign policy by serving in both Republican and Democratic administrations. He served as Secretary of War (1911–1913) under President William Howard Taft, Secretary of State (1929–1933) under President Herbert Hoover, and again Secretary of War (1940–1945) under Presidents Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman, overseeing American military efforts during World War II.
21/09/1866
Charles Nicolle, French-Tunisian microbiologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1936)
Charles Jules Henri Nicolle was a French bacteriologist who received the Nobel Prize in Medicine for his identification of lice as the transmitter of epidemic typhus.
H. G. Wells, English novelist, historian, and critic (died 1946)
Herbert George Wells was an English writer, prolific in many genres. He wrote more than forty novels and dozens of short stories. His non-fiction output included works of social commentary, politics, history, popular science, satire, biography, and autobiography. Wells is most known today for his groundbreaking science fiction novels; he has sometimes been called the "father of science fiction", a title that has also been given to Jules Verne and Hugo Gernsback.
21/09/1863
John Bunny, American actor (died 1915)
John Bunny was an American actor. Bunny began his career as a stage actor, but transitioned to a film career after joining Vitagraph Studios around 1910. At Vitagraph, Bunny made over 150 short films – many of them domestic comedies with the comedian Flora Finch – and became one of the most well-known actors of his era.
21/09/1862
James E. Talmage, English-American religious leader and author (died 1933)
James Edward Talmage was an English chemist, geologist, and religious leader who served as a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from 1911 until his death.
21/09/1859
Francesc Macià, Catalan colonel and politician, 122nd President of Catalonia (died 1933)
Francesc Macià i Llussà was a Catalan politician who served as the 122nd president of the Generalitat of Catalonia, and formerly an officer in the Spanish Army.
21/09/1853
Heike Kamerlingh Onnes, Dutch physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1926)
Heike Kamerlingh Onnes was a Dutch experimental physicist who became the first to liquefy helium, cooling it to near 1.5 kelvin (K). For this work, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1913.
21/09/1851
Fanny Searls, American biologist (died 1939)
Fanny Searls, also known by her married name Fanny Gradle, was an American physician and botanical collector. Dalea searlsiae, Searls' prairie clover, is named after her. Born in Waukegan, Illinois, she attended Northwestern University and the University of Michigan, gaining her medical degree in 1877. She then worked at Bellevue Hospital as a student nurse as there were few opportunities for women to gain medical internships at the time. In the meantime, she had developed skills as a concert pianist and a collector of botanical and geological specimens. In the last capacity, she donated a collection of 215 specimens gathered in Nevada to Northwestern University, including the first subsequently named Searls' prairie clover. She moved to Santa Barbara, dying there in 1939.
21/09/1849
Maurice Barrymore, American actor (died 1905)
Herbert Arthur Chamberlayne Blyth, known professionally by his stage name Maurice Barrymore, was an Indian-born British stage actor. He is the patriarch of the Barrymore acting family, and the father of John, Lionel, and Ethel.
21/09/1846
Mihály Kolossa, Hungarian-Slovene author and poet (died 1906)
Mihály Kolossa was a Slovene ploughman and writer in Hungary.
21/09/1842
Abdul Hamid II, 34th Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (died 1918)
Abdülhamid II or Abdul Hamid II was the 34th sultan of the Ottoman Empire, from 1876 to 1909, and the last sultan to exert effective control over the fracturing state. He oversaw a period of decline with rebellions, and presided over an unsuccessful war with the Russian Empire (1877–78), the loss of Egypt, Cyprus, Bulgaria, Serbia, Montenegro, Tunisia, and Thessaly from Ottoman control (1877–1882), followed by a successful war against Greece in 1897, though Ottoman gains were tempered by subsequent Western European intervention.
21/09/1840
Murad V, Ottoman sultan (died 1904)
Murad V was the sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 30 May to 31 August 1876. The son of Abdulmejid I, he supported the conversion of the government to a constitutional monarchy. His uncle Abdulaziz had succeeded Abdulmejid to the throne and had attempted to name his own son as heir to the throne, which spurred Murad to participate in Abdulaziz's overthrow. But his own frail physical and mental health made his reign unstable, and Murad V was deposed in favor of his half-brother Abdul Hamid II after only 93 days.
21/09/1819
Princess Louise Marie Thérèse of Artois (died 1864)
Louise Marie Thérèse d'Artois was a duchess and later a regent of Parma. She was the eldest daughter of Charles Ferdinand, Duke of Berry, younger son of King Charles X of France, and Princess Caroline of Naples and Sicily. She served as regent of Parma during the minority of her son from 1854 until 1859.
21/09/1776
John Fitchett, English poet (died 1838)
John Fitchett was an English poet.
21/09/1761
Antoine Barnave, French politician and orator (died 1793)
Antoine Pierre Joseph Marie Barnave was a French politician, and, together with Honoré Mirabeau, one of the most influential orators of the early part of the French Revolution. He is most notable for correspondence with Marie Antoinette in an attempt to set up a constitutional monarchy and for being one of the founding members of the Feuillants.
21/09/1760
Ivan Dmitriev, Russian poet and politician, Minister of Justice for Imperial Russia (died 1837)
Ivan Ivanovich Dmitriev was a Russian statesman. He was also a poet associated with the sentimentalist movement in Russian literature.
21/09/1758
Christopher Gore, American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 8th Governor of Massachusetts (died 1827)
Christopher Gore was a prominent Massachusetts lawyer, Federalist politician, and U.S. diplomat. Born into a family divided by the American Revolution, Gore sided with the victorious Patriots, established a successful law practice in Boston, and built a fortune by purchasing Revolutionary government debts at a discount and receiving full value for them from the government.
21/09/1706
Polyxena of Hesse-Rotenburg (died 1735)
Princess Polyxena of Hesse-Rheinfels-Rotenburg was the second wife of Charles Emmanuel, Prince of Piedmont whom she married in 1724. The mother of the future Victor Amadeus III, she was Queen of Sardinia from 1730 until her death in 1735.
21/09/1645
Louis Jolliet, Canadian explorer (died 1700)
Louis Jolliet was a French-Canadian explorer known for his discoveries in North America. In 1673, Jolliet and Jacques Marquette, a Jesuit Catholic priest and missionary, were the first non-Natives to explore and map the Upper Mississippi River.
21/09/1640
Philippe I, Duke of Orléans, younger son of Louis XIII of France and his wife (died 1701)
Monsieur Philippe I, Duke of Orléans was the younger son of King Louis XIII of France and Anne of Austria, and the younger brother of King Louis XIV. He was the founder of the House of Orléans, a cadet branch of the ruling House of Bourbon.
21/09/1629
Philip Howard, English cardinal (died 1694)
Philip Howard was an English Roman Catholic cardinal.
21/09/1559
Cigoli, Italian painter and architect (died 1613)
Lodovico or Ludovico Cardi, also known as Cigoli, was an Italian painter and architect of the late Mannerist and early Baroque period, trained and active in his early career in Florence, and spending the last nine years of his life in Rome.
21/09/1552
Barbara Longhi, Italian painter (died 1638)
Barbara Longhi was an Italian painter. She was much admired in her lifetime as a portraitist, although most of her portraits are now lost or unattributed. Her work, such as her many Madonna and Child paintings, earned her a fine reputation as an artist.
21/09/1457
Hedwig Jagiellon, Duchess of Bavaria, Polish princess (died 1502)
Hedwig Jagiellon, baptized as Hedwigis, was a princess of the Kingdom of Poland and of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, and member of the Jagiellonian dynasty. She was Duchess of Bavaria by marriage to George, Duke of Bavaria.
21/09/1452
Girolamo Savonarola, Italian priest and philosopher (died 1498)
Girolamo Savonarola, OP, also referred to as Jerome Savonarola, was an ascetic Dominican friar from Ferrara and a preacher active in Renaissance Florence. He became known for his prophecies of civic glory, his advocacy of the destruction of secular art and culture, and his calls for Christian renewal. He denounced clerical corruption, despotic rule, and the exploitation of the poor.
21/09/1433
Guillaume Fichet, French scholar and academic (died 1480)
Guillaume Fichet was a French scholar, who cooperated with Johann Heynlin to establish the first printing press in France (Paris) in 1470.
21/09/1428
Jingtai Emperor of China (died 1457)
The Jingtai Emperor, personal name Zhu Qiyu, was the seventh emperor of the Ming dynasty, reigning from 1449 to 1457. He succeeded his elder brother, Emperor Yingzong.
21/09/1415
Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor (died 1493)
Frederick III was Holy Roman emperor from 1452 until his death in 1493. He was the penultimate emperor to be crowned by the pope, and the last to be crowned in Rome. He was the fourth king of the Romans and the first Holy Roman emperor from the House of Habsburg, which was to retain the title with one gap until it was declared at an end by Emperor Francis II, in 1806.
21/09/1411
Richard of York, 3rd Duke of York, English politician, Lord Protector of England (died 1460)
Richard of York, 3rd Duke of York, also named Richard Plantagenet, was a leading English magnate and claimant to the throne during the Wars of the Roses. He was a member of the ruling House of Plantagenet by virtue of being a direct male-line descendant of Edmund of Langley, King Edward III's fourth surviving son. However, it was through his mother, Anne Mortimer, a descendant of Edward III's second surviving son, Lionel of Antwerp, that Richard inherited his strongest claim to the throne, as the opposing House of Lancaster was descended from John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster, the third surviving son of Edward III. He also inherited vast estates and served in various offices of state in Ireland, France and England, a country he ultimately governed as Lord Protector due to the mental instability of King Henry VI.
21/09/1407
Leonello d'Este, Marquis of Ferrara, Italian noble (died 1450)
Leonello d'Este was Marquess of Ferrara, Modena, and Reggio Emilia from 1441 to 1450. Despite the presence of legitimate children, Leonello was favoured by his father as his successor. In addition, his virtuous qualities, high level of education, and popularity among the common people as well as his formal papal recognition ultimately made him the most suitable heir.
21/09/1371
Frederick I, Elector of Brandenburg (died 1440)
Frederick was the last Burgrave of Nuremberg from 1397 to 1427, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach from 1398, Margrave of Brandenburg-Kulmbach from 1420, and Elector of Brandenburg from 1415 until his death. He became the first member of the House of Hohenzollern to rule the Margraviate of Brandenburg.
21/09/1051
Bertha of Savoy (died 1087)
Bertha of Savoy, also called Bertha of Turin, was Queen of Germany from 1066 and Holy Roman Empress from 1084 until 1087 as the first wife of Emperor Henry IV.
21/09/0953
Abu Ishaq Ibrahim, Buyid prince
Abu Ishaq Ibrahim, also known by his honorific title of Umdat al-Dawla, was a Buyid prince, who was the youngest son of the Buyid ruler Mu'izz al-Dawla.
21/09/0580
Pope Vitalian (died 672)
Pope Vitalian was the bishop of Rome from 30 July 657 to his death in 672. His pontificate was marked by the dispute between the papacy and the imperial government in Constantinople over Monothelitism, which Rome condemned. Vitalian tried to resolve the dispute and had a conciliatory relationship with Emperor Constans II, who visited him in Rome and gave him gifts. Vitalian's pontificate also saw the secession of the Archbishopric of Ravenna from the papal authority.