Born on Tuesday, 30th September – Famous Birthdays

30/09/2003

Alberto Moleiro, Spanish footballer

Alberto Moleiro González is a Spanish professional footballer who plays as a winger or an attacking midfielder for Villarreal CF.

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30/09/2002

Levi Miller, Australian actor and model

Levi Zane Miller is an Australian actor and model. He is known for playing Peter Pan in Pan (2015), Luke in Better Watch Out (2016), and Calvin in A Wrinkle in Time (2018).

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Maddie Ziegler, American dancer and actress

Madison Nicole Ziegler is an American actress and dancer. She appeared in Lifetime's reality show Dance Moms from 2011 at age 8 until 2016, and starred in a series of music videos by Sia, beginning with "Chandelier" and "Elastic Heart", which have in total attracted more than 6 billion views on YouTube. Ziegler has also appeared in films, television shows, concerts, advertisements and on magazine covers.

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30/09/1998

Landon Dickerson, American football player

Landon Marshall Dickerson is an American professional football guard for the Philadelphia Eagles of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football as a center for the Florida State Seminoles and the Alabama Crimson Tide, and was selected by the Eagles in the second round of the 2021 NFL draft.

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Yui Imaizumi, Japanese actress, singer, model, and television personality

Yui Imaizumi is a Japanese actress, singer, model, and television personality. She rose to prominence as a founding member of the girl group Keyakizaka46. Beyond her musical career, she entered the fashion industry, serving as a regular model for the fashion magazine Ar. After departing the group in 2018, she pursued acting and stage work, including lead roles in the series Million Joe (2019) and stage plays Azumi (2020) and Lady Snowblood (2021). She briefly stepped away from the spotlight in 2022 for health and personal reasons before returning to the entertainment industry in 2025.

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Trevi Moran, American YouTuber and singer

Trevi Michaela Moran is an American singer and YouTube personality. She rose to fame after participating in The X Factor in 2012 at the age of 13. As of April 2020, Moran's YouTube channel surpassed 1.4 million subscribers.

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30/09/1997

Yana Kudryavtseva, Russian gymnast

Yana Alexeyevna Kudryavtseva is a retired Russian individual rhythmic gymnast. She is the 2016 Olympic All-around silver medalist, three-time World Champion in the All-around (2013–2015), the 2015 European Games All-around champion, two-time European Championships All-around champion, the 2012 European Junior ball champion. In national level, she is a two-time Russian National All-around champion and three time Russian Junior National all-around champion.

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Max Verstappen, Dutch race car driver

Max Emilian Verstappen is a Dutch and Belgian racing driver who competes under the Dutch flag in Formula One for Red Bull Racing. Verstappen has won four Formula One World Drivers' Championship titles, which he won consecutively from 2021 to 2024 with Red Bull, and has won 71 Grands Prix across 12 seasons.

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30/09/1996

Aaron Holiday, American basketball player

Aaron Shawn Holiday is an American professional basketball player for the Houston Rockets of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played college basketball for the UCLA Bruins, where he earned All-American recognition. He was selected by the Indiana Pacers in the first round of the 2018 NBA draft with the 23rd overall pick.

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30/09/1994

Aliya Mustafina, Russian gymnast

Aliya Farkhatovna Mustafina is a Russian former artistic gymnast.

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30/09/1992

Bria Hartley, French-American basketball player

Bria Nicole Hartley is a French-American professional basketball player for the Connecticut Sun of the WNBA and Galatasaray of the Turkish Super League. She was drafted seventh overall by the Seattle Storm in the 2014 WNBA draft and was immediately traded to the Washington Mystics. Hartley played shooting guard for the UConn women's basketball team, and won back to back national championships in 2013 and 2014.

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Ezra Miller, American actor and singer

Ezra Matthew Miller is an American actor. Their feature film debut was in Afterschool (2008), which they followed by starring in the dramas We Need to Talk About Kevin (2011) and The Perks of Being a Wallflower (2012).

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30/09/1991

David Bakhtiari, American football player

David Afrasiab Assad Bakhtiari is an American former professional football offensive tackle. Selected by the Green Bay Packers of the National Football League (NFL) in the fourth round of the 2013 NFL draft, Bakhtiari played for the Packers for 11 seasons. He played college football for the Colorado Buffaloes from 2009 to 2012.

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Joffrey Lauvergne, French basketball player

Joffrey Lauvergne is a French professional basketball player for Partizan Mozzart Bet of the Serbian KLS, the ABA League and the EuroLeague. He was drafted 55th overall by the Memphis Grizzlies in the 2013 NBA draft, who then traded his rights to the Denver Nuggets.

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Thomas Röhler, German javelin thrower

Thomas Röhler is a German track and field athlete who competes in the javelin throw. He is the 2016 Olympic Champion and 2018 European Champion. His personal best of 93.90 m for the event ranks him third on the overall list.

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30/09/1989

Jasmine Thomas, American basketball player

Jasmine Thomas is an American former professional basketball player. She last played for the Los Angeles Sparks of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA).

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30/09/1988

Natalie Eggermont, Belgian politician

Natalie Eggermont is a Belgian physician, politician and member of the Chamber of Representatives. A member of the Workers' Party of Belgium, she has represented West Flanders since June 2024.

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30/09/1987

Aida Garifullina, Russian operatic soprano

Aida Emilevna Garifullina is a Russian lyric soprano of Tatar descent. She was the winner of the 2013 Operalia competition and has featured in a number of productions staged at the Mariinsky Theatre, St. Petersburg and the Vienna State Opera. She has a recording contract with Decca Records.

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Kenley Jansen, Curaçaoan baseball player

Kenley Geronimo Jansen is a Curaçaoan professional baseball pitcher for the Detroit Tigers of Major League Baseball (MLB). He has previously played in MLB for the Los Angeles Dodgers, Atlanta Braves, Boston Red Sox, and Los Angeles Angels. He has represented the Netherlands national baseball team in international competition.

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30/09/1986

Olivier Giroud, French footballer

Olivier Jonathan Giroud is a French professional footballer who plays as a striker for Ligue 1 club Lille. He is the all-time top goalscorer of the France national team.

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Martin Guptill, New Zealand cricketer

Martin James Guptill is a New Zealand cricketer who played for New Zealand as an opening batsman in all formats of the game. Guptill is the first cricketer from New Zealand and the fifth overall to have scored a double century in a One Day International match and holds the current record for the highest individual score in a Cricket World Cup match and the second highest score in One Day Internationals of 237 not out. In March 2021, Guptill played in his 100th Twenty20 International match. He was part of the New Zealand squads to finish as runners-up in two Cricket World Cup finals in 2015 and 2019.

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Ben Lovett, Welsh musician and songwriter

Benjamin Walter David Lovett is a British musician and producer, best known for being a member of the British folk rock band Mumford & Sons.

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Cristián Zapata, Colombian footballer

Cristián Eduardo Zapata Valencia is a Colombian professional footballer who plays as a centre-back. A quick and physically powerful defender, known for his hard marking of opponents and strength in the air, he usually plays as a centre back. Although naturally right footed, he can also play as a full-back on either side of the pitch, as he is comfortable with both feet.

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30/09/1985

Adam Cooney, Australian footballer

Adam Cooney is a former professional Australian rules footballer who played for the Western Bulldogs and Essendon Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). He won the Brownlow Medal in 2008, with 24 votes becoming the tenth Western Bulldogs player to win the award.

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Téa Obreht, Serbian-American author

Téa Obreht is an American novelist. She won the Orange Prize for Fiction in 2011 for The Tiger's Wife, her debut novel.

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Cristian Rodríguez, Uruguayan footballer

Cristian Gabriel Rodríguez Barrotti is a Uruguayan former professional footballer who played as a winger.

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30/09/1984

T-Pain, American rapper, producer, and actor

Faheem Rashad Najm, known professionally as T-Pain, is an American singer, rapper, songwriter, and record producer. He is known for pioneering the creative use of Auto-Tune pitch correction, often used with extreme parameter settings to create electronic-styled vocal performances. Blending its use with R&B and hip-hop sensibilities, T-Pain played a key role in defining rap-singing throughout the 2000s.

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30/09/1983

Adam Jones, American football player and analyst

Adam Bernard Jones is an American former professional football player who was a cornerback and return specialist in the National Football League (NFL) for 13 seasons. Nicknamed "Pacman", he played college football for the West Virginia Mountaineers and was selected by the Tennessee Titans, sixth pick overall in the 2005 NFL draft.

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Andreea Răducan, Romanian gymnast

Andreea Mădălina Răducan is a Romanian sports announcer, journalist, and retired gymnast.

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30/09/1982

Lacey Chabert, American actress

Lacey Nicole Chabert is an American actress. One of her first roles as a child actress was the part of Bianca Montgomery, the daughter of Erica Kane, on All My Children from 1992 to 1993. She gained further prominence for her portrayal of Claudia Salinger in the Fox television drama Party of Five (1994–2000).

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Ryane Clowe, Canadian ice hockey player

Ryane Clowe is a Canadian former professional ice hockey left winger who played in the National Hockey League (NHL) with the San Jose Sharks, New York Rangers and New Jersey Devils. He was drafted into the NHL by the San Jose Sharks in the sixth round, 175th overall, at the 2001 NHL entry draft. In 2018, he was named the head coach of the ECHL's Newfoundland Growlers, a position he resigned from in January 2019. He was a hockey advisor for the New York Rangers from 2021-22 to the 2023-24 season. On July 3, 2024 Clowe was named assistant general manager of the San Jose Sharks.Ryane Clowe resigned as San Jose Sharks assistant general manager on September 7, 2025, after just one season, citing family reasons. The 42-year-old immediately rejoined the New York Rangers as an assistant general manager on September 8, 2025, returning to the East Coast.

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Kieran Culkin, American actor

Kieran Culkin is an American actor. Known for portraying distasteful yet sympathetic characters across stage and screen, his accolades include an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, a Primetime Emmy Award, and two Golden Globe Awards.

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Andrew Hastie, Australian politician

Andrew William Hastie is an Australian politician and former military officer who has served as the deputy leader of the Opposition and the deputy leader of the Liberal Party in the House of Representatives since 2026. He has been the member of parliament (MP) for the Western Australian division of Canning since 2015.

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Seth Smith, American baseball player

Garry Seth Smith is an American former professional baseball outfielder. He played Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Colorado Rockies, Oakland Athletics, San Diego Padres, Seattle Mariners and Baltimore Orioles. He was the Rockies' 2nd round pick in the 2004 MLB draft.

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30/09/1981

Cecelia Ahern, Irish author

Cecelia Ahern is an Irish novelist, known for her works like PS, I Love You; Where Rainbows End; and If You Could See Me Now. Born in Dublin, Ahern is published in nearly fifty countries, and has sold over 25 million copies of her novels worldwide. Two of her books have been adapted as major motion films. The short story collection Roar has been adapted as a series for Apple TV+.

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Dominique Moceanu, American gymnast

Dominique Helena Moceanu is an American former artistic gymnast. She was a member of the gold medal-winning United States women's gymnastics team, the "Magnificent Seven", at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta. She won two medals at the 1995 World Championships and the all-around title at the 1998 Goodwill Games.

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30/09/1980

Martina Hingis, Swiss tennis player

Martina Hingis is a Swiss former professional tennis player. She was ranked as the world No. 1 in women's singles by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) for 209 weeks and as the world No. 1 in women's doubles for 90 weeks, holding both No. 1 rankings simultaneously for 29 weeks. Hingis won 43 WTA Tour-level singles titles and 64 doubles titles, including a total of 25 major titles: five in singles, 13 in women's doubles, and seven in mixed doubles. In addition, she won the season-ending Tour Finals two times in singles and three in doubles, an Olympic silver medal in doubles, and a record 17 Tier I singles titles.

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Milagros Sequera, Venezuelan tennis player

Milagros Sequera Huss is a Venezuelan former professional tennis player.

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Toni Trucks, American actress

Toni Trucks is an American actress, best known as Lisa Davis on SEAL Team (2017–2024).

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30/09/1979

Cameron Bruce, Australian footballer and coach

Cameron Bruce is a former professional Australian rules footballer who played for the Melbourne Football Club and Hawthorn Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). He is currently serving as an assistant coach for the Brisbane Lions. During his AFL career, he was known for his aerobic capacity and neat kicking skills.

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Andy van der Meyde, Dutch footballer

Andy van der Meijde, anglicised to van der Meyde, is a Dutch former professional footballer who played as a winger.

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30/09/1978

Małgorzata Glinka-Mogentale, Polish volleyball player

Małgorzata Glinka-Mogentale is a Polish retired volleyball player. She was a member of Poland women's national volleyball team in 1997–2014, a participant of the Olympic Games Beijing 2008, double European Champion, and a gold medalist of Polish, French, Spanish and Turkish national championships.

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Candice Michelle, American wrestler

Candice Michelle Beckman, better known as Candice Michelle, is an American model, actress and retired professional wrestler. She is signed to Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) as a producer. She is best known for her tenure in World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE).

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30/09/1977

Roy Carroll, Northern Irish goalkeeper and manager

Roy Eric Carroll is a Northern Irish professional football coach and former player who played as a goalkeeper. He is best known for his spells at English clubs Wigan Athletic and Manchester United as well as in Greece with OFI and Olympiacos. Carroll also represented Northern Ireland 45 times at full international level between 1997 and 2017, and was a part of their squad for UEFA Euro 2016.

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Nick Curran, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (died 2012)

Nick Curran was an American blues/rock and roll singer and guitarist. He has been likened to T-Bone Walker, Little Richard, The Sonics, Doug Sahm, Misfits Eddie Cochran

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30/09/1975

Jay Asher, American author

Jay Asher is an American writer and novelist. He is best known for writing the bestselling 2007 book Thirteen Reasons Why, which later became a very popular Netflix series.

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Ta-Nehisi Coates, American author and journalist

Ta-Nehisi Paul Coates is an American author, journalist, and activist. He gained a wide readership during his time as national correspondent at The Atlantic, where he wrote about cultural, social, and political issues, particularly regarding African Americans and white supremacy. He is politically progressive.

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Marion Cotillard, French actress and singer

Marion Cotillard is a French actress who has appeared in both European and Hollywood productions. She is the recipient of various accolades, including an Academy Award, a British Academy Film Award, two César Awards, and a Golden Globe Award. She became a Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters in France in 2010 and was promoted to Officer in 2016, the same year she was named a Knight of the Legion of Honour.

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Carlos Guillén, Venezuelan baseball player

Carlos Alfonso Guillén is a Venezuelan former professional baseball infielder. He played in Major League Baseball for the Seattle Mariners and Detroit Tigers.

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Laure Pequegnot, French skier

Laure Pequegnot is a French former Alpine skier.

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Christopher Jackson, American actor, singer, musician, and composer

Christopher Neal Jackson is an American actor and singer. He began his career in 1995 starring in the Off-Broadway musical Time and the Wind by composer Galt MacDermot at the age of 20. He made his Broadway debut in 1997 as an ensemble member in the original Broadway cast of Disney's The Lion King. He remained with the show for several years, ultimately taking over the role of Simba. He went on to perform leading roles in several more Broadway musicals and plays, including After Midnight, Bronx Bombers, Holler If Ya Hear Me, and Memphis. He drew critical acclaim in several projects with Lin-Manuel Miranda: originating the roles of Benny in In the Heights and George Washington in the smash hit Hamilton. For the latter role he was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Musical. He also collaborated with Miranda on the Disney film Moana in which he provides the singing voice of Chief Tui. His other film work includes secondary roles in After.Life and Tracers.

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30/09/1974

Jeremy Giambi, American baseball player (died 2022)

Jeremy Dean Giambi was an American outfielder and first baseman in Major League Baseball (MLB). He played for four teams from 1998 to 2003, primarily the Oakland Athletics, where he was a teammate of his older brother Jason Giambi during the club's division championship-winning season in 2000.

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Tom Greatrex, English politician

Thomas James Greatrex is a British Labour Co-op politician, who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Rutherglen and Hamilton West between 2010 and 2015 and the Shadow Energy Minister from 2011 to 2015.

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Daniel Wu, American–born Hong Kong actor, director, and producer

Daniel Neh-Tsu Wu is a Hong Kong-American actor. He is known as a "flexible and distinctive" leading actor in the Chinese-language film industry. Since his film debut in 1998, he has been featured in over 60 films. A three-time Golden Horse Award nominee, he also starred in the AMC martial arts drama series Into the Badlands and the Disney+ wuxia action comedy American Born Chinese.

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30/09/1973

Rubén Wolkowyski, Argentine basketball player

Rubén Oscar Wolkowyski is an Argentine former professional basketball player, who also holds Polish citizenship. At a height of 2.08 m tall, he played at the power forward and center positions.

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30/09/1972

Jamal Anderson, American football player and sportscaster

Jamal Sharif Anderson is an American former professional football player who was a running back for the Atlanta Falcons of the National Football League (NFL). He was selected by the Falcons in the seventh round of the 1994 NFL draft. He played high school football at El Camino Real High School, where he was named to the CIF Los Angeles City Section 4-A All-City first-team in 1989. He went on to play college football at Moorpark College for the Moorpark College Raiders before playing for the Utah Utes.

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Ari Behn, Danish-Norwegian author and playwright (died 2019)

Ari Mikael Behn was a Norwegian author, playwright, and visual artist, best known for his marriage to Princess Märtha Louise of Norway from 2002 to 2017. He held no title or special status, and he remained a private citizen during the marriage.

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Mayumi Kojima, Japanese singer-songwriter

Mayumi Kojima is a Japanese Shibuya-kei musician. As of 2015, she has released 10 studio albums, 3 extended plays and several singles. Her music has been featured in multiple movies and television commercials. In the west, she is best known for her songs "Hatsukoi" (はつ恋), which was featured in a North American Nintendo commercial for the Game Boy Advance and the video game Super Mario Advance 4: Super Mario Bros. 3, and "Poltergeist" , which was used as the opening theme song of the anime Ghost Hound.

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José Lima, Dominican baseball player (died 2010)

José Desiderio Rodriguez Lima was a Dominican right-handed pitcher who spent 13 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) with the Detroit Tigers, Houston Astros (1997–2001), Kansas City Royals, Los Angeles Dodgers (2004) and New York Mets (2006). His best year in the majors was 1999, when he won 21 games for the Astros and pitched in his only All-Star Game.

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30/09/1971

Jenna Elfman, American actress and producer

Jenna Elfman is an American actress. She is best known for her leading role as Dharma on the ABC sitcom Dharma & Greg (1997–2002), for which she received the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Television Series Musical or Comedy in 1999, and three nominations for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series. After making her film debut in Grosse Pointe Blank (1997), she appeared in Krippendorf's Tribe (1998), Dr. Dolittle (1998), EDtv (1999), Keeping the Faith (2000), Town & Country (2001), Looney Tunes: Back in Action (2003), Clifford's Really Big Movie (2004), and Big Stone Gap (2014).

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30/09/1970

Tony Hale, American actor and producer

Anthony Russell Hale is an American actor and comedian. He had a leading role in the Fox series Arrested Development as Buster Bluth, from 2003 to 2019 and was Gary Walsh on the HBO series Veep from 2012 to 2019. For the latter, Hale won the 2013 and 2015 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series.

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Damian Mori, Australian footballer and manager

Damian Mori is an Australian former football player who is an assistant coach for Adelaide United. He won two Johnny Warren Medals, awarded to the best player in the Australian league and was top scorer on 5 occasions. He established a reputation as a pacy, poaching goalscorer, which is notable for a player who started his career as a defender.

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Eric Piatkowski, American basketball player

Eric Todd Piatkowski is an American former professional basketball player in the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played college basketball for the Nebraska Cornhuskers. He is the son of former ABA player Walt Piatkowski.

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30/09/1969

Gintaras Einikis, Lithuanian basketball player

Gintaras Einikis is a Lithuanian retired professional basketball player and current coach. He stands at 6 ft 10 in (208 cm), and is a former center for the senior Lithuanian national team. Einikis is the only player from the Lithuanian national team to have won all three consecutive bronze medals at the Summer Olympics, in Barcelona, Atlanta, and Sydney.

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Amy Landecker, American actress

Amy Lauren Landecker is an American actress. She is known for her role as Sarah Pfefferman on the Amazon comedy-drama series Transparent (2014–2019), as well as her supporting roles in the films Dan in Real Life (2007), A Serious Man (2009), All Is Bright (2013), Project Almanac (2015), and Beatriz at Dinner (2017), and the TV series Your Honor (2020–2023).

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Silas Weir Mitchell, American actor

Silas Weir Mitchell is an American character actor. He is known for starring as Charles "Haywire" Patoshik in the Fox television series Prison Break (2005–2007), for the recurring role of Donny Jones in My Name Is Earl (2005–2009), and as Monroe in the NBC television series Grimm (2011–2017).

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Chris von Erich, American wrestler (died 1991)

Christopher Barton Adkisson was an American professional wrestler, best known under the ring name Chris Von Erich of the Von Erich family.

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30/09/1967

Emmanuelle Houdart, Swiss-French author and illustrator

Emmanuelle Houdart is a Swiss artist and illustrator.

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Gibby Haynes, American musician, radio personality and painter

Gibson Jerome Haynes is an American musician, radio personality, painter, author and the lead singer of the band Butthole Surfers.

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Andrea Roth, Canadian actress

Andrea Roth is a Canadian actress. She is perhaps best known for her roles as Janet Gavin, the wife of main character Tommy Gavin, on the FX television series Rescue Me (2004–2011), as Victoria Chase in The Collector (2009), and before that, as Diana Powers / NeuroBrain on RoboCop: The Series (1994).

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30/09/1966

Gary Armstrong, Scottish rugby player

Gary Armstrong is a former Scotland international rugby union player. He played scrum-half for Jed-Forest RFC, Newcastle Falcons and the Border Reivers.

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Markus Burger, German pianist, composer, and educator

Markus Burger is a German pianist, composer, and music educator. Since 2001, he has lived in California, where he works at Fullerton College and San Diego University.

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Club Chalamet, American social media personality

Club Chalamet is a fan account on both Twitter and Instagram for the American and French actor Timothée Chalamet run by Simone Cromer. She created her Twitter account for him in 2018, following his success in Call Me by Your Name (2017), to create a space for older fans of his. She became viral in 2023 after several controversial comments she made about Chalamet's girlfriend, Kylie Jenner, which sparked discussions regarding parasocial relationships and Stan Twitter. Since then, her reaction to content involving the couple has become an internet meme.

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Angus Taylor, Australian politician

Angus James Taylor is an Australian politician who has served as the leader of the Opposition and the leader of the Liberal Party since 2026. He has been the member of parliament (MP) for the New South Wales division of Hume since 2013. Taylor previously held ministerial positions in the Turnbull and Morrison governments.

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30/09/1965

Omid Djalili, English comedian, actor, and producer

Omid Djalili is a British comedian, actor, and writer of Iranian descent. He began his career at the 1995 Edinburgh Festival Fringe and has gone on to become a touring comedian with a substantial list of film and television appearances.

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30/09/1964

Trey Anastasio, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and composer

Ernest Joseph "Trey" Anastasio III is an American guitarist, composer, and singer-songwriter best known as the lead guitarist of the rock band Phish, which he co-founded in 1983. He is credited by name as composer of 152 Phish original songs, 141 of them as a solo credit, in addition to 41 credits attributed to the band as a whole.

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Monica Bellucci, Italian actress and fashion model

Monica Anna Maria Bellucci is an Italian actress who began her career as a fashion model before working in Italian, American, and French films. She has an eclectic filmography in a range of genres and languages, and her accolades include the David di Donatello, Globo d'oro, Nastro d'Argento and nominations at Saturn Awards and César Awards. In 2018, Forbes Italy included her in their list of the 100 most successful Italian women.

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30/09/1963

David Barbe, American bass player and producer

David Barbe is an American musician and producer/engineer from Athens, Georgia, and director of the Music Business Certificate Program at the University of Georgia. He is chief of Chase Park Transduction studio in Athens. Barbe is known for his work as a songwriter, singer, guitarist, and bass guitarist in Sugar, Mercyland, and Buzz Hungry, as well as solo performances. He has produced nearly every album by the popular country rock band Drive-By Truckers, and has worked as producer and engineer with Son Volt. He has an all-star solo band in Athens called the Quick Hooks.

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30/09/1962

Marley Marl, American record producer and rapper

Marlon Lu'Ree Williams, better known by his stage name Marley Marl, is an American DJ, record producer, rapper and record label founder, primarily operating in hip-hop music. Marlon grew up in Queensbridge housing projects located in Queens, New York. He performed in local talent shows during the early days of rap music, further fueling his interest.

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30/09/1961

Crystal Bernard, American actress and singer-songwriter

Crystal Lynn Bernard is a retired American singer-songwriter and actress, best known for her roles as Helen Chappel-Hackett on the sitcom Wings (1990–1997), Amy on It's a Living (1985–1989), and K.C. Cunningham on Happy Days (1983–1984).

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Gary Coyne, Australian rugby league player

Gary Coyne is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1980s and 1990s. An Australia international and Queensland State of Origin representative forward, he played club football in the Brisbane Rugby League for the Wynnum-Manly Seagulls and in the New South Wales Rugby League for the Canberra Raiders.

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Eric Stoltz, American actor, director, and producer

Eric Cameron Stoltz is an American actor, director and producer. He played Rocky Dennis in the biographical drama film Mask (1985), which earned him the nomination for the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture. He was also nominated for the Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Male for his performance in Pulp Fiction (1994).

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Mel Stride, English politician

Sir Melvyn John Stride is a British politician who has served as Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer in Kemi Badenoch's Shadow Cabinet since November 2024. A member of the Conservative Party, he has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Central Devon since 2010.

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Eric van de Poele, Belgian race car driver

Eric Francis Edouard Ghislain Thérèse van de Poele is a Belgian racing driver and former Formula One driver. He participated in 29 Grands Prix, in 1991 and 1992. He is a three-times class winner at 24 Hours of Le Mans, and won three Formula 3000 races in 1990. Before his Formula One career, he won the Deutsche Tourenwagen Meisterschaft.

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30/09/1960

Julia Adamson, Canadian-English keyboard player, composer, and producer

Julia Adamson is a Canadian composer, musician and current label manager of Invisiblegirl Records. She came to prominence as a recording engineer, and was a member of the Fall between 1995 and 2001.

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Nicola Griffith, English-American author

Nicola Griffith is a British American novelist, essayist, and teacher. She has won the Washington State Book Award (twice), Nebula Award, James Tiptree, Jr. Award, World Fantasy Award, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and six Lambda Literary Awards. In 2024 she was inducted into the Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame. In 2025, the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association named her the 41st Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master in recognition of her significant contributions to the literature of science fiction and fantasy. In addition to her fiction, Griffith is known for her contributions to feminist and queer literature, her disability advocacy, and her role in founding the Literary Prize Database Project and the #CripLit community for disabled writers.

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Miki Howard, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actress

Alicia Michelle "Miki" Howard is an American R&B singer who had top 10 hit songs in the mid-1980s and early 1990s, including "Baby, Be Mine" (1987), "Come Share My Love" (1986) and "Love Under New Management" (1990). "Ain't Nobody Like You" (1992) and "Ain't Nuthin' in the World" (1989) both peaked at number one on the U.S. Billboard Top R&B Singles chart.

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Blanche Lincoln, American politician

Blanche Lambert Lincoln is an American politician who served as a United States senator from Arkansas from 1999 to 2011. A member of the Democratic Party, she was first elected to the Senate in 1998; she was the first woman elected to the Senate from Arkansas since Hattie Caraway in 1932 and youngest woman ever elected to the Senate at age 38. She previously served in the U.S. House of Representatives, representing Arkansas's 1st congressional district from 1993 to 1997.

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30/09/1959

Ettore Messina, Italian basketball player and coach

Ettore Messina is an Italian professional basketball executive and former coach who last coached Olimpia Milano of the Italian Lega Basket Serie A (LBA). He has won four EuroLeague championships as a head coach. Messina is regarded as one of the best European basketball coaches of all time, having been named one of the 50 Greatest EuroLeague Contributors in 2008.

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30/09/1958

Marty Stuart, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

John Marty Stuart is an American country and bluegrass music singer, songwriter, and musician. Active since 1968, Stuart initially toured with Lester Flatt, and then in Johnny Cash's road band before beginning work as a solo artist in the early 1980s. He is known for his combination of rockabilly, country rock, and bluegrass music influences, his frequent collaborations and cover songs, and his distinctive stage dress.

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30/09/1957

Fran Drescher, American actress, producer, and screenwriter

Francine Joy Drescher is an American actress, writer, comedian, producer, and former trade union leader. She played Fran Fine in the television sitcom The Nanny (1993–1999), which she created and produced with her then-husband Peter Marc Jacobson.

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30/09/1956

Trevor Morgan, English footballer and manager

Trevor James Morgan is an English football coach and former player.

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30/09/1955

Andy Bechtolsheim, German engineer, co-founded Sun Microsystems

Andreas Maria Maximilian Freiherr von Mauchenheim genannt Bechtolsheim is a German electrical engineer, entrepreneur and investor. He co-founded Sun Microsystems in 1982 and was its chief hardware designer. As of 2025, he's 68th wealthiest according to Bloomberg Billionaires Index and Forbes with an estimated net worth of US$28.9 billion.

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Frankie Kennedy, Northern Irish flute player (died 1994)

Frankie Kennedy was a flute and tin whistle player born in Belfast, Northern Ireland. He was also the co-founder of the band Altan, formed with his wife Mairéad Ní Mhaonaigh. The popular Frankie Kennedy Winter Music School was founded in 1994 in his honour.

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30/09/1954

Basia, Polish singer-songwriter and record producer

Barbara Stanisława "Basia" Trzetrzelewska, better known mononymously as Basia, is a Polish singer-songwriter and recording artist noted for her Latin-inspired jazz-pop music.

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John Drew, American basketball player (died 2022)

John Edward Drew was an American professional basketball player. A small forward from Gardner–Webb University, he played eleven seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA). Drew was a two-time NBA All-Star, and was the first player banned under the substance abuse policy instituted by league commissioner David Stern.

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Scott Fields, American guitarist and composer

Scott Fields is a guitarist, composer, and bandleader. He is best known for blending music that is composed with music that is written and for his modular pieces. He works primarily in avant-garde jazz, experimental music, and contemporary classical music.

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Patrice Rushen, American singer-songwriter and producer

Patrice Louise Rushen is an American jazz pianist, R&B singer, record producer, multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, and music director.

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Barry Williams, American actor

Barry William Blenkhorn, better known by his stage name Barry Williams, is an American actor. He is known for his role as the eldest of the Brady sons, Greg Brady, on the ABC television series The Brady Bunch (1969–1974), a role he reprised in several sequels and spin-offs including the animated series The Brady Kids (1972–1973), the variety series The Brady Bunch Hour (1976–1977) and the television films The Brady Girls Get Married (1981) and A Very Brady Christmas (1988) and the reality television series A Very Brady Renovation (2019).

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30/09/1953

Matt Abts, American drummer

Matt Abts is an American drummer, best known as one of the founding members of the rock band Gov't Mule.

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Deborah Allen, American country music singer-songwriter, author, and actress

Deborah Allen is an American country music singer and songwriter. Since 1976, Allen has issued 12 albums and charted 14 singles on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart. She recorded the 1983 crossover hit "Baby I Lied", which reached No. 4 on the country chart and No. 26 on the Billboard Hot 100. Allen has also written No. 1 singles for herself, Janie Fricke, and John Conlee; top 5 hits for Patty Loveless and Tanya Tucker; and a top 10 hit for the Whites.

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30/09/1952

John Finn, American actor

John Joseph Finn is an American character actor known as one of the leads of the television programs Cold Case and EZ Streets. Finn has also had supporting roles in the films The Hunted (2003), Analyze That (2002), Catch Me If You Can (2002), True Crime (1999), Turbulence (1997), Blown Away (1994), The Pelican Brief (1993), and Glory (1989).

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John Lombardo, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

John Lombardo is one of the founding members of the American alternative rock band 10,000 Maniacs and one of the band's most influential members, writing much of its early material, also being its oldest member in age. He is also a member of folk rock duo John & Mary.

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30/09/1951

John Lloyd, English screenwriter and producer

John Hardress Wilfred Lloyd is an English producer and writer of television and radio comedy. His television work includes Not the Nine O'Clock News, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Blackadder, Spitting Image and QI. He presents BBC Radio 4's The Museum of Curiosity.

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Barry Marshall, Australian physician and academic, Nobel Prize laureate

Barry James Marshall is an Australian physician, Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine, Professor of Clinical Microbiology and Co-Director of the Marshall Centre at the University of Western Australia. Marshall and Robin Warren showed that the bacterium Helicobacter pylori plays a major role in causing many peptic ulcers, challenging decades of medical doctrine holding that ulcers were caused primarily by stress, spicy foods, and too much acid. This discovery has allowed for a breakthrough in understanding a causative link between Helicobacter pylori infection and stomach cancer.

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Simon White, English astrophysicist and academic

Simon David Manton White, FRS, is a British-German astrophysicist. He was one of directors at the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics before his retirement in late 2019.

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30/09/1950

Laura Esquivel, Mexican author and screenwriter

Laura Beatriz Esquivel Valdés is a Mexican novelist, screenwriter and former politician. Her first novel Como agua para chocolate became a bestseller in Mexico and the United States, and was later developed into an award-winning film.

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Victoria Tennant, English actress and dancer

Victoria Tennant is a British actress. She is known for her roles in the TV miniseries The Winds of War and War and Remembrance, in which she appeared as actor Robert Mitchum's on-screen love interest, Pamela Tudsbury, as well as her supporting roles in All of Me (1984), The Holcroft Covenant (1985), Flowers in the Attic (1987), The Handmaid's Tale (1990), and L.A. Story (1991).

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30/09/1949

Michel Tognini, French pilot, engineer, military officer and astronaut

Michel Ange-Charles Tognini is a French test pilot, engineer, brigadier general in the French Air Force, and a former CNES and ESA astronaut who served from 1 January 2005 to 1 November 2011 as head of the European Astronaut Centre of the European Space Agency. A veteran of two space flights, Tognini has logged a total of 19 days in space. Tognini has 4000 flight hours on 80 types of aircraft. He is fluent in English and Russian.

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30/09/1948

Craig Kusick, American baseball player and coach (died 2006)

Craig Robert Kusick was an American professional baseball first baseman and designated hitter. He played in Major League Baseball for the Minnesota Twins and Toronto Blue Jays.

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30/09/1947

Marc Bolan, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 1977)

Marc Bolan was an English guitarist, singer-songwriter and poet. He was a pioneer of the glam rock movement in the early 1970s with his band T. Rex. Bolan is an influence on artists in the genres of glam rock, punk, post-punk, new wave, indie rock, Britpop and alternative rock. He was posthumously inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2020 as a member of T. Rex.

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Rula Lenska, English actress

Rula Lenska is a British actress. She mainly appears in British stage and television productions and is known in the United States for a series of television advertisements in the 1970s and 1980s. She is known for the films Queen Kong and Aura, and she portrayed Claudia Colby in the ITV soap opera Coronation Street.

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30/09/1946

Fran Brill, American actress, singer, and puppeteer

Fran Brill is an American actress and puppeteer, best known for her roles on Sesame Street, as well as playing Sally Hayes in the Hal Ashby film Being There (1979), Dana Mardukas in the Martin Brest film Midnight Run (1988) and Lily Marvin in the Frank Oz film What About Bob? (1991).

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Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 7th Marquess of Salisbury, English academic and politician, Leader of the House of Lords

Robert Michael James Gascoyne-Cecil, 7th Marquess of Salisbury, Baron Gascoyne-Cecil is a British Conservative politician. From 1979 to 1987 he represented South Dorset in the House of Commons, and in the 1990s he was Leader of the House of Lords under his courtesy title of Viscount Cranborne. Lord Salisbury lives in one of England's largest historic houses, the 17th-century Hatfield House in Hertfordshire, and currently serves as Chancellor of the University of Hertfordshire.

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Héctor Lavoe, Puerto Rican-American singer-songwriter (died 1993)

Héctor Juan Pérez Martínez, better known as Héctor Lavoe, was a Puerto Rican salsa singer. Widely regarded as one of salsa's most important and influential vocalists, Lavoe played a pivotal role in popularizing the genre throughout the 1960s, '70s, and '80s. His charismatic persona and artistic vision propelled him to become one of the most successful Latin music artists of all time.

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Jochen Mass, German race car driver (died 2025)

Jochen Richard Mass was a German racing driver and broadcaster, who competed in Formula One from 1973 to 1982. Mass won the 1975 Spanish Grand Prix with McLaren. In endurance racing, Mass won the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 1989 with Sauber.

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Paul Sheahan, Australian cricketer and educator

Andrew Paul Sheahan is a former Australian international cricketer who played 31 Test matches and three One Day Internationals as an opening and middle order batsman between 1967 and 1973.

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Claude Vorilhon, French journalist, founded Raëlism

Raël is a French journalist and religious leader who founded and leads the Raëlian Movement, an international UFO religion.

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30/09/1945

Richard Edwin Hills, English astronomer and academic (died 2022)

Richard Edwin Hills was a British astronomer who was emeritus professor of Radio Astronomy at the University of Cambridge.

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Ehud Olmert, Israeli lawyer and politician, 12th Prime Minister of Israel

Ehud Olmert is an Israeli politician and lawyer who served as the prime minister of Israel from 2006 to 2009.

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30/09/1944

Diane Dufresne, Canadian singer and painter

Diane Dufresne, is a French Canadian singer and painter, and is known for singing a large repertoire of popular Quebec songs.

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Jimmy Johnstone, Scottish footballer (died 2006)

James Connolly Johnstone was a Scottish footballer who played as an outside right. Known as "Jinky" for his elusive dribbling style, Johnstone played for Celtic for 13 years and was one of the Lisbon Lions, the team that won the 1967 European Cup Final. Johnstone also won nine consecutive Scottish championships. He scored 129 goals for Celtic in 515 appearances and was voted the club's greatest-ever player by fans in 2002.

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Red Robbins, American basketball player (died 2009)

Austin "Red" Robbins was an American basketball player.

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30/09/1943

Johann Deisenhofer, German-American biochemist and biophysicist, Nobel Prize laureate

Johann Deisenhofer is a German biochemist who, along with Hartmut Michel and Robert Huber, received the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1988 for their determination of the first crystal structure of an integral membrane protein, a membrane-bound complex of proteins and co-factors that is essential to photosynthesis.

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Marilyn McCoo, American singer

Marilyn McCoo is an American singer, actress, and television presenter, who is best known for being the lead female vocalist in the group the 5th Dimension as well as hosting the 1980s music television show Solid Gold.

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Philip Moore, English organist and composer

Philip John Moore is an English composer and organist.

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Ian Ogilvy, English-American actor, playwright, and author

Ian Raymond Ogilvy is an English actor, playwright and novelist.

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30/09/1942

Gus Dudgeon, English record producer (died 2002)

Angus Boyd "Gus" Dudgeon was an English record producer, who oversaw many of Elton John's most acclaimed recordings, including his commercial breakthrough, "Your Song". Their collaboration led to seven US No. 1 albums, and established John as one of the most successful singles artists of the 1970s.

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Frankie Lymon, American singer-songwriter (died 1968)

Franklin Joseph Lymon was an American rock and roll/rhythm and blues singer and songwriter, dancer and composer best known as the boy soprano lead singer of the New York City-based early rock and roll doo-wop group the Teenagers. The group was composed of five boys, all in their early to mid-teens. The original lineup of the Teenagers, an integrated group, included three African-American members, Lymon, Jimmy Merchant, and Sherman Garnes; and two Puerto Rican members, Joe Negroni and Herman Santiago. The Teenagers' first single, 1956's "Why Do Fools Fall in Love", was also their biggest hit. After Lymon went solo in mid-1957, both his career and that of the Teenagers fell into decline. In 1968, Lymon was found dead at age 25 from a heroin overdose. He was posthumously inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1993 as a member of the Teenagers. Lymon's life was dramatized in the 1998 film Why Do Fools Fall in Love.

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30/09/1941

Samuel F. Pickering Jr., American author and educator

Samuel F. "Sam" Pickering Jr. is a writer and professor emeritus of English at the University of Connecticut in Storrs. His unconventional teaching style was an inspiration for the character of Mr. Keating, played by Robin Williams in the film Dead Poets Society. Pickering specializes in the familiar essay, children's literature, nature writers, and 18th and 19th century English literature. Pickering has published many collections of non-fiction personal essays as well as over 200 articles.

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Kamalesh Sharma, Indian academic and diplomat, 5th Commonwealth Secretary General

Kamalesh Sharma is a retired Indian diplomat who served as the fifth secretary-general of the Commonwealth of Nations from 2008 to 2016. Previously, he was the High Commissioner of India to the United Kingdom from 2004 to 2008. In addition, he is the Chancellor Emeritus of Queen's University Belfast.

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Reine Wisell, Swedish race car driver (died 2022)

Reine Tore Leif Wisell was a Swedish racing driver. He participated in 23 Formula One World Championship Grands Prix, debuting on 4 October 1970. He achieved one podium, and scored a total of 13 championship points.

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30/09/1940

Claudia Card, American philosopher and academic (died 2015)

Claudia Falconer Card was the Emma Goldman (WARF) Professor of Philosophy at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, with teaching affiliations in Women's Studies, Jewish Studies, Environmental Studies, and LGBT Studies.

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Harry Jerome, Canadian sprinter (died 1982)

Harry Winston Jerome was a Canadian track and field sprinter and physical education teacher. He won a bronze medal at the 1964 Olympics in Tokyo and set a total of seven world records over the course of his career.

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Dewey Martin, Canadian-American drummer (died 2009)

Dewey Martin was a Canadian rock drummer, best known for his work with Buffalo Springfield, for which he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1997.

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30/09/1939

Len Cariou, Canadian actor

Leonard Joseph Cariou is a Canadian actor, singer, and theatre director. He gained prominence for his portrayal of Sweeney Todd in the original cast of Stephen Sondheim's musical Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (1979) alongside Angela Lansbury for which he won the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical. He also received Tony nominations for his roles in the Betty Comden and Adolph Green musical Applause (1970), and the Sondheim musical A Little Night Music (1973).

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Anthony Green, English painter and academic (died 2023)

Anthony Green was an English realist painter and printmaker best known for his paintings of his own middle-class domestic life. His works sometimes used compound perspectives and polygonal forms—particularly with large, irregularly shaped canvasses. As well as producing oil paintings, he also produced a number of works designed from the start as limited edition prints, which were typically giclée works.

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Jean-Marie Lehn, French chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate

Jean-Marie Lehn is a French chemist who received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry together with Donald Cram and Charles Pedersen in 1987 for his synthesis of cryptands. Lehn was an early innovator in the field of supramolecular chemistry, i.e., the chemistry of host–guest molecular assemblies created by intermolecular interactions, and continues to innovate in this field. He described the process by which molecules recognize each other. Drugs, for example, "know" which cell to destroy and which to let live. According to information provided by Lehn to the Nobel Foundation in January 2006, his group had published 790 peer-reviewed articles in chemistry literature by then.

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30/09/1938

Alan Hacker, English clarinet player and educator (died 2012)

Alan Ray Hacker was an English clarinettist, conductor, and music professor.

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30/09/1937

Jurek Becker, Polish-German author (died 1997)

Jurek Becker was a Polish-born German writer, screenwriter and East German dissident. His most famous novel is Jacob the Liar, which has been made into two films. He lived in Łódź during World War II for about two years and survived the Holocaust.

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Valentyn Sylvestrov, Ukrainian pianist and composer

Valentin Vasylyovych Silvestrov is a Ukrainian composer and pianist who plays and writes contemporary classical music. He is a laureate of Shevchenko National Prize.

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Gary Hocking, Rhodesian motorcycle racer (died 1962)

Gary Stuart Hocking MBE was a Rhodesian former professional motorcycle road and car racer. He competed in the FIM Grand Prix motorcycle racing world championships from 1958 to 1962, most prominently as a member of the MV Agusta factory racing team where he won the 1961 350cc and 500cc world championships.

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30/09/1936

Jim Sasser, American lawyer and politician, 6th United States Ambassador to China (died 2024)

James Ralph Sasser was an American politician, diplomat, and attorney from Tennessee. A member of the Democratic Party, he served three terms as a member of the United States Senate from 1977 to 1995, and was Chairman of the United States Senate Committee on the Budget. From 1996 to 1999, during the Clinton administration, he was the United States Ambassador to China. To date, he is the most recent Democratic U.S. senator from Tennessee.

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Sevgi Soysal, Turkish author (died 1976)

Sevgi Soysal was a Turkish writer.

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30/09/1935

Johnny Mathis, American singer and actor

John Royce Mathis is an American singer. Starting his career with singles of standard music, Mathis is one of the best-selling recording artists of the 20th century. He became highly popular as an album artist, with several of his albums achieving gold or platinum status and 73 making the Billboard charts.

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30/09/1934

Alan A'Court, English footballer and manager (died 2009)

Alan A'Court was an English professional footballer who mostly played for Liverpool. He gained five caps for England and represented the nation at the 1958 FIFA World Cup.

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Udo Jürgens, Austrian-Swiss singer-songwriter and pianist (died 2014)

Udo Jürgens was an Austrian composer and singer of popular music whose career spanned over 50 years. He won the Eurovision Song Contest 1966 for Austria, composed close to 1,000 songs, and sold over 104 million records. In 2007, he additionally obtained Swiss citizenship.

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Anna Kashfi, Indian-American actress (died 2015)

Anna Kashfi was an Anglo-Indian actress who had a brief Hollywood career in the 1950s but was better known for her tumultuous marriage to film star Marlon Brando and the controversies surrounding their son.

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30/09/1933

Cissy Houston, American singer (died 2024)

Emily "Cissy" Houston was an American soul and gospel singer. Born in Newark, New Jersey, Houston began singing with three of her siblings in a family gospel group, the Drinkard Singers. By the early 1960s, Houston had begun a career as a session vocalist for several secular musicians in the rhythm and blues, soul, rock and roll, and pop genres. After joining her nieces' group the Gospelaires for a session with Ronnie Hawkins in 1961, Houston gradually took control of the group, which revamped into "the Group" with Houston, niece Sylvia Shemwell, Myrna Smith and teenager Estelle Brown. She eventually founded the girl group the Sweet Inspirations with Shemwell, Smith and Brown in 1967 and that year signed a contract with Atlantic Records. With Houston as lead singer, the Sweet Inspirations would record four albums before Houston departed for a solo career in 1970. Her best-known solo singles include the top 20 R&B chart single, "I'll Be There" and the top 5 dance single, "Think It Over". Her solo career culminated with two Grammy Award wins, both in the Traditional Gospel Album category.

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30/09/1932

Shintaro Ishihara, Japanese author, playwright, and politician, Governor of Tokyo (died 2022)

Shintaro Ishihara was a Japanese politician and writer, who served as the Governor of Tokyo from 1999 to 2012. Being the former leader of the radical right Sunrise Party, later merged with Toru Hashimoto's Japan Restoration Party out of which he split his faction into the Party for Japanese Kokoro, he was one of the most prominent ultranationalists in modern Japanese politics. Ishihara was criticized for his misogynistic comments, his xenophobic views and his racist remarks against Chinese and Koreans in Japan, including his use of the antiquated pejorative term "sangokujin".

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Johnny Podres, American baseball player and coach (died 2008)

John Joseph Podres was an American left-handed pitcher in Major League Baseball (MLB). He played in the majors from 1953 to 1969, spending most of his career with the Brooklyn/Los Angeles Dodgers. Podres won four World Series titles with the Dodgers. He is best known for pitching a shutout in game 7 of the 1955 World Series to give the Dodgers their first championship.

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30/09/1931

Angie Dickinson, American actress

Angie Dickinson is an American retired actress. She began her career on television, appearing in many anthology series during the 1950s, before gaining her breakthrough role in Gun the Man Down (1956) with James Arness and the Western film Rio Bravo (1959) with John Wayne and Dean Martin, for which she received the Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year.

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Teresa Gorman, English educator and politician (died 2015)

Teresa Ellen Gorman was a British politician. She was Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) for Billericay, in the county of Essex, from 1987 to 2001 when she stood down. She was a leading figure in the rebellions over the Maastricht Treaty that nearly brought down John Major's government. She worked in both education and business.

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30/09/1929

Carol Fenner, American author and illustrator (died 2002)

Carol Elizabeth Fenner was an American children's writer.

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Vassilis Papazachos, Greek seismologist and academic (died 2022)

Vassilis Papazachos was a Greek seismologist and author of Earthquakes of Greece.

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Leticia Ramos-Shahani, Filipino politician, diplomat and writer (died 2017)

Leticia Valdez Ramos-Shahani was a Filipino senator, diplomat, and writer.

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Dorothee Sölle, German theologian and author (died 2003)

Dorothee Steffensky-Sölle, known as Dorothee Sölle, was a German Lutheran liberation theologian who coined the term "Christofascism".

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30/09/1928

Elie Wiesel, Romanian-American author, academic, and activist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2016)

Eliezer "Elie" Wiesel was a Romanian-born American writer, professor, political activist, Nobel laureate, and Holocaust survivor. He authored 57 books, written mostly in French and English, including Night, which is based on his experiences as a Jewish prisoner at Auschwitz and Buchenwald during the Holocaust.

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Ray Willsey, Canadian-American football player and coach (died 2013)

Ray Willsey was an American gridiron football player and coach. He was the head football coach at the University of California, Berkeley from 1964 to 1971. During his tenure he compiled a 40–42–1 record. He was inducted into the Orange County Sports Hall of Fame in 1993.

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30/09/1927

W. S. Merwin, American poet and translator (died 2019)

William Stanley Merwin was an American poet who wrote more than fifty books of poetry and prose and produced many works in translation. During the 1960s anti-war movement, Merwin's unique craft was thematically characterized by indirect, unpunctuated narration. In the 1980s and 1990s, his writing influence derived from an interest in Buddhist philosophy and deep ecology. Residing in a rural part of Maui, Hawaii, he wrote prolifically and was dedicated to the restoration of the island's rainforests.

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30/09/1926

Heino Kruus, Estonian basketball player and coach (died 2012)

Heino Kruus was an Estonian basketball player (186 cm) who competed for the Soviet Union in the 1952 Summer Olympics. He trained at VSS Kalev in Tallinn

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Robin Roberts, American baseball player, coach, and sportscaster (died 2010)

Robin Evan Roberts was an American Major League Baseball starting pitcher who pitched primarily for the Philadelphia Phillies (1948–1961). He spent the latter part of his career with the Baltimore Orioles (1962–1965), Houston Astros (1965–66), and Chicago Cubs (1966). Roberts was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1976.

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30/09/1925

Arkady Ostashev, Russian engineer and scientist in the former Soviet space program (died 1998)

Arkady Ilyich Ostashev was a Soviet and Russian scientist, engineer - mechanic in the former Soviet space program, working on as a designer many of rocket propulsion and control system of Soviet satellites. He was a participant in the launch of the first artificial satellite of the Earth and the first cosmonaut, candidate of technical sciences, docent, laureate of the Lenin (1960) and State (1979) prizes, one of the leading managers of work in the field of experimental development of rocket technology OKB-1, personal pensioner of republican significance, student and interpersonal relationship of Sergei Korolev.

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30/09/1924

Truman Capote, American novelist, playwright, and screenwriter (died 1984)

Truman Garcia Capote was an American novelist, screenwriter, playwright, and actor. Several of his short stories, novels, and plays have been praised as literary classics, and he is regarded as one of the founders of New Journalism, along with Gay Talese, Hunter S. Thompson, Norman Mailer, Joan Didion, and Tom Wolfe. His work and his life story have been adapted into and have been the subject of more than 20 films and television productions.

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30/09/1923

Donald Swann, Welsh-English pianist and composer (died 1994)

Donald Ibrahim Swann was a British composer, musician, singer and entertainer. He was one half of Flanders and Swann, writing and performing comic songs with Michael Flanders.

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30/09/1922

Lamont Johnson, American actor, director, and producer (died 2010)

Ernest Lamont Johnson Jr. was an American actor and film director who appeared in and directed many television shows and movies. He won two Emmy Awards.

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Hrishikesh Mukherjee, Indian director, producer, and screenwriter (died 2006)

Hrishikesh Mukherjee was an Indian film director, editor and writer. He is regarded as one of the greatest filmmakers of Indian cinema. Popularly known as Hrishi-da, he directed 42 films during his career spanning over four decades, and is named the pioneer of the 'middle cinema' of India. Renowned for his social films that reflected the changing middle-class ethos, Mukherjee "carved a middle path between the extravagance of mainstream cinema and the stark realism of art cinema".

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30/09/1921

Deborah Kerr, Scottish-English actress (died 2007)

Deborah Jane Trimmer, known professionally as Deborah Kerr, was a Scottish actress. Kerr rose to fame for her portrayals of proper, ladylike women, who often navigated societal expectations and stereotypes. Kerr attracted wide praise for her work, earning six Academy Award nominations for Best Actress. She was regarded as one of the best actresses of her generation. From the 1940s to the late 1960s, she was one of the most popular actresses in the world.

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Aldo Parisot, Brazilian-American cellist and educator (died 2018)

Aldo Simoes Parisot was a Brazilian-born American cellist and cello teacher. He was first a member of the Juilliard School faculty, and then went on to serve as a music professor at the Yale School of Music for sixty years, the longest-serving member of that school's faculty ever.

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30/09/1919

Roberto Bonomi, Argentinian race car driver (died 1992)

Roberto Wenceslao Bonomi Oliva was a racing driver who took part in one Formula One World Championship Grand Prix driving a Cooper for the Scuderia Centro Sud team. Before he participated in Formula One he was a sports car champion in 1952 and 1953, as well as a member of the Argentine team to race in Europe. Bonomi worked as a local politician and landowner.

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Elizabeth Gilels, Ukrainian-Russian violinist and educator (died 2008)

Elizabeth Gilels was a Soviet and Russian violinist and professor.

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William L. Guy, American lieutenant and politician, 26th Governor of North Dakota (died 2013)

William Lewis Guy was an American politician who was the 26th governor of North Dakota from 1961 to 1973. Guy was North Dakota's longest-serving governor in state history, serving two consecutive two-year terms and two four-year terms in office.

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Patricia Neway, American soprano and actress (died 2012)

Patricia Neway was an American operatic soprano and musical theatre actress who had an active international career during the mid-1940s through the 1970s. One of the few performers of her day to enjoy equal success on both the opera and musical theatre stages, she was a regular performer on both Broadway and at the New York City Opera during the 1950s and 1960s.

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30/09/1918

Lewis Nixon, U.S. Army captain (died 1995)

Lewis Nixon III was a United States Army officer who, during World War II, served at the company, battalion, and regimental level with the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division. Nixon was portrayed in the HBO miniseries Band of Brothers by Ron Livingston.

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René Rémond, French historian and economist (died 2007)

René Rémond was a French historian, political scientist and political economist.

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30/09/1917

Yuri Lyubimov, Russian actor and director (died 2014)

Yuri Petrovich Lyubimov was a Soviet and Russian stage actor and director associated with the internationally renowned Taganka Theatre, which he founded in 1964. He was one of the leading names in the Russian theatre world.

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Buddy Rich, American drummer, bandleader, and actor (died 1987)

Bernard "Buddy" Rich was an American jazz drummer, songwriter, conductor, and bandleader. He is considered one of the most influential drummers of all time.

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30/09/1915

Lester Maddox, American businessman and politician, 75th Governor of Georgia (died 2003)

Lester Garfield Maddox Sr. was an American politician who served as the 75th governor of Georgia from 1967 to 1971.

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30/09/1913

Bill Walsh, American screenwriter and producer (died 1975)

William Crozier Walsh was a film producer, screenwriter and comics writer who primarily worked on live-action films for Walt Disney Productions. He was born in New York City. For his work on Mary Poppins, he shared Academy Award nominations for Best Picture with Walt Disney, and for Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium with Don DaGradi. He also wrote the Mickey Mouse comic strip for more than two decades.

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30/09/1912

Kenny Baker, American singer and actor (died 1985)

Kenneth Laurence Baker was an American singer and actor who first gained notice as the featured singer on radio's The Jack Benny Program during the 1930s.

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30/09/1911

Gustave Gilbert, American psychologist (died 1977)

Gustave Mark Gilbert was an American psychologist best known for his writings containing observations of high-ranking Nazi leaders during the Nuremberg trials. His 1950 book The Psychology of Dictatorship was an attempt to profile the Nazi German dictator Adolf Hitler using as reference the testimonials of Hitler's closest generals and commanders. Gilbert's published work is still a subject of study in many universities and colleges, especially in the field of psychology.

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30/09/1910

Jussi Kekkonen, Finnish captain (died 1962)

Uuno Johannes (Jussi) Kekkonen was a Finnish major, CEO and the younger brother of President of Finland Urho Kekkonen. Jussi Kekkonen fought successfully in the Winter War in the direction of Kuhmo but lost his sight when he was wounded in the early stages of the Continuation War.

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30/09/1908

David Oistrakh, Ukrainian-Russian violinist and educator (died 1974)

David Fyodorovich Oistrakh was a Soviet Russian violinist, violist, and conductor. He was also Professor at the Moscow Conservatory, People's Artist of the USSR (1953), and Laureate of the Lenin Prize (1960).

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30/09/1906

Mireille Hartuch, French singer-songwriter and actress (died 1996)

Mireille Hartuch was a French singer, composer, and actress. She was generally known by the stage name "Mireille," it being a common practice of the time to use a single name for the stage.

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30/09/1905

Nevill Francis Mott, English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1996)

Sir Nevill Francis Mott was a British theoretical physicist who won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1977 for his work on the electronic structure of magnetic and disordered systems, especially amorphous semiconductors. The Prize was shared with Philip W. Anderson and John Van Vleck. The three had conducted loosely related research. Mott and Anderson clarified the reasons why magnetic or amorphous materials can sometimes be metallic and sometimes insulating.

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Michael Powell, English director, producer, and screenwriter (died 1990)

Michael Latham Powell was an English filmmaker, celebrated for his partnership with Emeric Pressburger. Through their production company The Archers, they together wrote, produced and directed a series of classic British films, notably The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943), A Canterbury Tale (1944), I Know Where I'm Going! (1945), A Matter of Life and Death, Black Narcissus (1947), The Red Shoes (1948) and The Tales of Hoffmann (1951).

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30/09/1904

Waldo Williams, Welsh poet and academic (died 1971)

Waldo Goronwy Williams was one of the leading Welsh-language poets of the 20th century. He was also a notable Christian pacifist, anti-war campaigner, and Welsh nationalist. He is often referred to by his first name only.

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30/09/1901

Thelma Terry, American bassist and bandleader (died 1966)

Thelma Terry was an American bandleader and bassist during the 1920s and 1930s. She led Terry and Her Playboys and was the first American woman to lead a notable jazz orchestra as an instrumentalist.

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30/09/1898

Renée Adorée, French-American actress (died 1933)

Renée Adorée was a French stage and film actress who appeared in Hollywood silent movies during the 1920s. She is best known for portraying the role of Melisande, the love interest of John Gilbert in the melodramatic romance and war epic The Big Parade. Adorée's career was cut short after she contracted tuberculosis in 1930. She died of the disease in 1933 at the age of 35.

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Princess Charlotte, Duchess of Valentinois (died 1977)

Princess Charlotte, Duchess of Valentinois, styled Hereditary Princess of Monaco between 1922 and 1944, was the daughter of Louis II, Prince of Monaco, and mother of Prince Rainier III. From 1922 until 1944, she was the Hereditary Princess of Monaco, heiress presumptive to the throne.

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Edgar Parin d'Aulaire, German-American author and illustrator (died 1986)

Ingri d'Aulaire and Edgar Parin d'Aulaire were writers and illustrators of children's books who worked primarily as a team, completing almost all of their well-known works together. The couple immigrated to the United States from Europe and worked on books that focused on history such as Abraham Lincoln, which won the 1940 Caldecott Medal. They were part of the group of immigrant artists composed of Feodor Rojankovsky, Roger Duvoisin, Ludwig Bemelmans, Miska Petersham and Tibor Gergely, who helped shape the Golden Age of picture books in mid-twentieth-century America.

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30/09/1897

Alfred Wintle, Russian-English soldier and politician (died 1966)

Lieutenant Colonel Alfred Daniel Wintle MC, better known as A. D. Wintle, was a British Army officer who served in the First and Second World Wars. He was the first non-lawyer to achieve a unanimous verdict in his favour in the House of Lords, and is considered one of London's greatest eccentrics.

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Charlotte Wolff, German-English physician and psychotherapist (died 1986)

Charlotte Wolff was a German-British physician who worked as a psychotherapist and wrote on sexology and hand analysis. Her writings on lesbianism and bisexuality were influential early works in the field.

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30/09/1895

Lewis Milestone, Moldovan-American director, producer, and screenwriter (died 1980)

Lewis Milestone was a Russian-American film director, screenwriter, and producer active during the Golden Age of Hollywood. He twice won the Academy Award for Best Director, for Two Arabian Knights (1927) and All Quiet on the Western Front (1930), with a third nomination for The Front Page (1931).

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30/09/1893

Lansdale Ghiselin Sasscer, American lieutenant, lawyer, and politician (died 1964)

Lansdale Ghiselin Sasscer was an American politician who served as the U.S. representative for Maryland's 5th congressional district for seven terms from 1939 to 1953. He was a member of the Democratic Party.

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30/09/1887

Lil Dagover, Indonesian-German actress (died 1980)

Lil Dagover was a German actress whose film career spanned from 1913 to 1979. She was a popular film actress in the Weimar Republic.

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30/09/1883

Bernhard Rust, German educator and politician (died 1945)

Bernhard Rust was Minister of Science, Education and National Culture (Reichserziehungsminister) in Nazi Germany. A combination of school administrator and zealous Nazi, he issued decrees, often bizarre, at every level of the German educational system to immerse German youth in Nazi ideology. He also served as the party Gauleiter in Hanover and Brunswick from 1925 to 1940.

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Nora Stanton Blatch Barney, American civil engineer, architect, and suffragist (died 1971)

Nora Stanton Barney was an English-born American civil engineer, and suffragist. Barney was among the first women to graduate with an engineering degree in the United States. Given an ultimatum to either stay a wife or practice engineering she chose engineering. She was the granddaughter of Elizabeth Cady Stanton.

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30/09/1882

Hans Geiger, German physicist and academic (died 1945)

Johannes Wilhelm "Hans" Geiger was a German experimental physicist. He is known as the inventor of the Geiger counter, a device used to detect ionizing radiation, and for carrying out the Rutherford scattering experiments, which led to the discovery of the atomic nucleus. He also performed the Bothe–Geiger coincidence experiment, which confirmed the conservation of energy in light-particle interactions.

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30/09/1870

Thomas W. Lamont, American banker and philanthropist (died 1948)

Thomas William Lamont Jr. was an American banker.

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Jean Baptiste Perrin, French-American physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1942)

Jean Baptiste Perrin was a French physicist who, in his studies of the Brownian motion of minute particles suspended in liquids, verified Albert Einstein's explanation of this phenomenon and thereby confirmed the atomic nature of matter. For this work, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1926.

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30/09/1863

Reinhard Scheer, German admiral (died 1928)

Carl Friedrich Heinrich Reinhard Scheer was an admiral in the Imperial German Navy. Scheer joined the navy in 1879 as an officer cadet and progressed through the ranks, commanding cruisers and battleships, as well as senior staff positions on land. At the outbreak of World War I, Scheer was the commander of the II Battle Squadron of the High Seas Fleet. He then took command of the III Battle Squadron, which consisted of the newest and most powerful battleships in the navy. In January 1916, he was promoted to admiral and given control of the High Seas Fleet. Scheer led the German fleet at the Battle of Jutland on 31 May – 1 June 1916, one of the largest naval battles in history.

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30/09/1861

William Wrigley Jr., American businessman, founded Wrigley Company (died 1932)

William Mills Wrigley Jr. was an American chewing gum industrialist. He founded the Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company in 1891.

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30/09/1852

Charles Villiers Stanford, Irish composer, conductor, and educator (died 1924)

Sir Charles Villiers Stanford was an Anglo-Irish composer, music teacher, and conductor of the late Romantic era. Born to a well-off and highly musical family in Dublin, Stanford was educated at the University of Cambridge before studying music in Leipzig and Berlin. He was instrumental in raising the status of the Cambridge University Musical Society, attracting international stars to perform with it.

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30/09/1836

Remigio Morales Bermúdez, Peruvian politician, President of Peru (died 1894)

Remigio Morales Bermúdez served as the President of Peru from 1890 to 1894. He died while still in office. He served as the first vice president from 1886 to 1890.

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30/09/1832

Ann Jarvis, American activist, co-founded Mother's Day (died 1905)

 Ann Maria Reeves Jarvis was a social activist and community organizer during the American Civil War era. She is recognized as the mother who inspired Mother's Day and as a founder of Mother's Day movements, and her daughter, Anna Marie Jarvis (1864–1948), is recognized as the founder of the Mother's Day holiday in the United States.

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30/09/1827

Ellis H. Roberts, American journalist and politician, 20th Treasurer of the United States (died 1918)

Ellis Henry Roberts was an American politician who served as a Representative from New York and 20th Treasurer of the United States.

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Peter Ward, New York politician (died 1891)

Peter Ward was a New York businessman and politician. From 1851–1859, Ward was the superintendent of the Newburgh Branch of the Erie Railroad. He also worked for the New York, Ontario and Western Railway and the New Jersey Southern Railroad. A member of the Democratic Party, he served as the mayor of Newburgh, New York, from March 13, 1882, to March 11, 1884. In 1889, Ward was elected in a special election to represent the 13th district in the New York State Senate following the death of Senator Henry R. Low. He was sworn in on February 11, 1889, and served until the completion of the 112th New York State Legislature on December 31, 1889. Ward died on May 10, 1891, aged 63, just months after having his tongue removed in surgery.

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30/09/1814

Lucinda Hinsdale Stone, American feminist, educator, and philanthropist (died 1900)

Lucinda Hinsdale Stone was an early American feminist, educator, traveler, writer, and philanthropist. Stone was the first woman in the United States to take classes of young women abroad to study, as a means to illustrate history and literature.

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30/09/1813

John Rae, Scottish physician and explorer (died 1893)

John Rae was a Scottish surgeon who explored parts of northern Canada. He was a pioneer explorer of the Northwest Passage.

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30/09/1800

Decimus Burton, English architect, designed the Pharos Lighthouse (died 1881)

Decimus Burton was one of the foremost English architects and landscapers of the 19th century. He was the foremost Victorian architect in the Roman Revival, Greek Revival, Georgian neoclassical and Regency styles. He was a founding fellow and vice-president of the Royal Institute of British Architects, and from 1840 architect to the Royal Botanic Society, and an early member of the Athenaeum Club, London, whose clubhouse he designed and which the company of his father, James Burton, the pre-eminent Georgian London property developer, built.

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30/09/1765

José María Morelos, Mexican priest and general (died 1815)

José María Teclo Morelos Pérez y Pavón was a Mexican Catholic priest, statesman and military leader who led the Mexican War of Independence movement, assuming its leadership after the execution of Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla in 1811.

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30/09/1743

Christian Ehregott Weinlig, German cantor and composer (died 1813)

Christian Ehregott Weinlig was a German composer and cantor of Dresden's Kreuzkirche.

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30/09/1732

Jacques Necker, Swiss-French politician, Prime Minister of France (died 1804)

Jacques Necker was a Genevan banker, financier and statesman who served as finance minister for Louis XVI. He was a reformer, but his innovations sometimes caused great discontent. Necker was a constitutional monarchist, a political economist, and a moralist, who wrote a severe critique of the new principle of equality before the law.

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30/09/1714

Étienne Bonnot de Condillac, French epistemologist and philosopher (died 1780)

Étienne Bonnot de Condillac was a French philosopher and Catholic priest who focused on psychology and the philosophy of the mind.

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30/09/1710

John Russell, 4th Duke of Bedford, English politician, Lord President of the Council (died 1771)

John Russell, 4th Duke of Bedford was a British Whig statesman and peer who served as the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland from 1757 to 1761. A leading member of the Whig party during the Seven Years' War, he negotiated the 1763 Treaty of Paris which ended the conflict. Bedford was also an early promoter of cricket and a patron of the arts who commissioned numerous works from prominent artists, most notably Canaletto.

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30/09/1700

Stanisław Konarski, Polish monk, poet, and playwright (died 1773)

Stanisław Konarski, Sch.P. was a Polish pedagogue, educational reformer, political writer, poet, dramatist, Piarist priest and precursor of the Enlightenment in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.

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30/09/1689

Jacques Aubert, French violinist and composer (died 1753)

Jacques Aubert, also known as Jacques Aubert le Vieux, was a French composer and violinist of the Baroque period. From 1727 to 1746, he was a member of the Vingt-quatre Violons du Roy; from 1728 to 1752, he was the first violinist with the Paris Opera orchestra; and from 1729 to 1740, he frequently and successfully appeared as a soloist with the Concert Spirituel, performing, among other works, concertos for violin and orchestra of his own composition.

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30/09/1622

Johann Sebastiani, German composer (died 1683)

Johann Sebastiani was a German baroque composer.

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30/09/1550

Michael Maestlin, German astronomer and mathematician (died 1631)

Michael Maestlin was a German astronomer and mathematician, best known as the mentor of Johannes Kepler. A student of Philipp Apian, Maestlin is recognized as the teacher who had the greatest influence on Kepler. He is regarded as one of the most significant astronomers of the period between Copernicus and Kepler.He was the first to write a decimal approximation of the Golden ratio.

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30/09/1530

Girolamo Mercuriale, Italian philologist and physician (died 1606)

Girolamo Mercuriale or Mercuriali was an Italian philologist and physician, most famous for his work De Arte Gymnastica.

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30/09/1227

Pope Nicholas IV (died 1292)

Pope Nicholas IV was head of the Catholic Church and leader of the Papal States from 22 February 1288 to his death, on 4 April 1292. He was the first Franciscan to be elected pope.

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30/09/1207

Rumi, Persian mystic and poet (died 1273)

Jalāl al-Dīn Muḥammad Rūmī, commonly known as Rumi, was a Sufi mystic, poet, and founder of the Islamic brotherhood known as the Mevlevi Order. His family hailed from Balkh. Rumi is an influential figure in Sufism, and his thought and works loom large both in Persian literature and mystic poetry in general. Today, his translated works are enjoyed all over the world.

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