Born on Thursday, 4th September – Famous Birthdays

04/09/2001

Talitha Bateman, American actress

Talitha Bateman is an American actress. After making her acting debut in a 2013 episode of the sitcom The Middle, she has starred in the independent drama film So B. It (2016), the science fiction film The 5th Wave (2016), the supernatural horror film Annabelle: Creation (2017), the disaster film Geostorm (2017), the thriller film Vengeance: A Love Story (2017), the romantic comedy film Love, Simon (2018), and the horror film Countdown (2019).

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04/09/2000

Sergio Gómez, Spanish footballer

Sergio Gómez Martín is a Spanish professional footballer who plays as a left wing-back or attacking midfielder for La Liga club Real Sociedad and the Spain national team.

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04/09/1998

Neru Nagahama, Japanese television personality

Neru Nagahama is a Japanese television personality, television presenter, and actress. She is a former member of the idol girl groups Keyakizaka46 and Hiragana Keyakizaka46.

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04/09/1996

Ashton Golding, English rugby league player

Ashton Golding is a Jamaica international rugby league footballer who plays as a utility for the Castleford Tigers in the Super League.

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Jordan Lilley, English rugby league player

Jordan Lilley is an English professional rugby league footballer who plays as a stand-off or scrum-half for the Sheffield Eagles in the Championship.

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04/09/1995

Jazz Tevaga, New Zealand rugby league player

Jazz Iosefa Tevaga is a Samoa international rugby league footballer who plays as a loose forward and hooker for Wakefield Trinity in the Super League.

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04/09/1994

Kenny McEvoy, Irish footballer

Kenneth McEvoy is an Irish retired professional footballer.

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Thomas Minns, English rugby player

Thomas "Tom" Minns is an English former rugby league and current rugby union player who plays as a centre for Hull RUFC in the National League 1.

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Sabina Sharipova, Uzbekistan tennis player

Sabina Sharipova is an Uzbeki former professional tennis player.

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04/09/1993

Emma Brownlie, Scottish footballer

Emma Brownlie is a Scottish footballer who plays as a defender for Glasgow City in the Scottish Women's Premier League. She has represented Scotland on the Scotland under-19 national team.

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Yannick Carrasco, Belgian footballer

Yannick Ferreira Carrasco is a Belgian professional footballer who plays for Saudi Pro League club Al-Shabab. A versatile player, he can be deployed as a left midfielder, left wing-back, left winger or left-back.

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Jody Fannin, English race car driver

Jody Fannin is a British auto racing driver. He competed in the European Le Mans Series in 2017, winning the GTE Championship with Rob Smith driving for JMW Motorsport in a Ferrari 488 GTE. He was the 2012 British GT GT4-class champion, along with Warren Hughes, driving for Team WFR in a Ginetta G50.

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Chantal Škamlová, Slovak tennis player

Chantal Škamlová is a Slovak former tennis player.

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Mark Tuan, American rapper

Mark Tuan, also known mononymously as Mark, is an American rapper and singer. He is a member of the South Korean boy band Got7.

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04/09/1992

Kevin Lee, American mixed martial artist

Kevin Jeese Lee Jr. is an American professional mixed martial artist. He is currently signed to the Professional Fighters League (PFL), where he competes in the Lightweight division. He formerly competed in the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) where he fought in the Lightweight and Welterweight divisions. He also once competed in Eagle Fighting Championship (EFC) as a Super Lightweight. In October 2017, he headlined the UFC 216 pay-per-view and competed for the interim UFC Lightweight Championship.

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Hanna Schwamborn, German actress

Hanna Schwamborn is a German actress who is best known for her role as Lavinia in the Dutch film De Brief voor de Koning which is based on the book of the same name from Dutch writer Tonke Dragt.

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Zerkaa, English YouTuber

Joshua Charlie Joseph Bradley, better known by his online alias Zerkaa and his stage name Josh Zerker, is an English YouTuber, Twitch streamer, influencer, and Internet personality. He is a member of the British YouTube group, the Sidemen. In 2019, he was listed as the ninth most influential online creator in the United Kingdom by The Sunday Times. In 2022, he was the most watched Twitch streamer in the United Kingdom, with 17.68 million hours watched.

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04/09/1991

Adrien Bart, French sprint canoeist

Adrien Bart is a French sprint canoeist. He competed in the men's C-1 1000 metres event at the 2016 Summer Olympics.

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Anders Zachariassen, Danish handball player

Anders Zachariassen is a Danish handball player for Bjerringbro-Silkeborg and the Danish national team.

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04/09/1990

James Bay, English singer-songwriter and guitarist

James Michael Bay is an English singer-songwriter and guitarist.

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Jonny Lomax, English rugby player

Jonathan Lomax is an English professional rugby league footballer who plays for St Helens in the Super League, and England and Great Britain at international level. A versatile player, Lomax is primarily a stand-off but is equally comfortable at both scrum-half and fullback, and featured more regularly on the wing in the early stages of his professional career.

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Danny Worsnop, English singer-songwriter

Danny Robert Worsnop is an English singer most prominently known as the lead vocalist of rock bands Asking Alexandria and We Are Harlot. He has worked with several artists including I See Stars, Papa Roach, With One Last Breath, Breathe Carolina, Memphis May Fire, The Word Alive, All That Remains, The Funeral Portrait and Testarossa, providing guest vocals on several songs.

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04/09/1989

Andrelton Simmons, Curaçaoan baseball player

Andrelton Alexander Simmons is a Curaçaoan professional baseball shortstop for the Dorados de Chihuahua of the Mexican League. He has previously played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Atlanta Braves, Los Angeles Angels, Minnesota Twins, and Chicago Cubs.

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Elliott Whitehead, English rugby league player

Elliott Whitehead is an English former professional rugby league footballer who last played as a second-row forward for the Catalans Dragons in the Super League, and also appeared for England and Great Britain at international level.

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04/09/1988

Adam Duvall, American baseball player

Adam Lynn Duvall is an American professional baseball outfielder who is a free agent. He has previously played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the San Francisco Giants, Cincinnati Reds, Atlanta Braves, Miami Marlins, and Boston Red Sox. Duvall played college baseball at the University of Louisville. Duvall was drafted by the San Francisco Giants in the 11th round of the 2010 MLB draft. He made his MLB debut in 2014. He was an All-Star in 2016.

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John Tyler Hammons, American politician

John Tyler Hammons is an American politician who served as the 47th mayor of Muskogee, Oklahoma, from 2008 to 2012. He gained national attention when he was elected on May 13, 2008, as a 19-year-old freshman at the University of Oklahoma, after winning 70 percent of the vote in a runoff election against 70-year-old, three-time former Muskogee mayor Herschel McBride. Hammons was reelected on April 6, 2010, in a four-way race.

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JJ Hickson, American basketball player

James Edward "JJ" Hickson Jr. is an American former professional basketball player. He played one season of college basketball for North Carolina State University before being drafted 19th overall by the Cleveland Cavaliers in the 2008 NBA draft. He played in the NBA for the Cavaliers, Denver Nuggets, Sacramento Kings, and Portland Trail Blazers, as well as in Israel for Bnei HaSharon during the 2011 NBA lockout.

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04/09/1987

Wesley Blake, American wrestler

Cory James Weston is an American professional wrestler. He is signed to WWE, where he works as a producer on the NXT brand and coach at the WWE Performance Center, having previously been an active competitor with the company, where he performed under the ring name Wesley Blake.

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Marisa Kabas, American journalist

Marisa Kabas is an American independent journalist, former political strategist, and creator of the newsletter The Handbasket.

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04/09/1986

Ayumi Kaihori, Japanese footballer

Ayumi Kaihori is a former Japanese footballer who played as a goalkeeper. She played for the Japan national team.

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Xavier Woods, American wrestler

Austin Watson is an American professional wrestler and YouTuber. He is signed to WWE, where he performs on the Raw brand under the ring name Xavier Woods and is a member of The New Day. Watson also makes public appearances outside of wrestling under the name Austin Creed.

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04/09/1985

Raúl Albiol, Spanish footballer

Raúl Albiol Tortajada is a Spanish professional footballer who plays as a central defender for Serie A club Pisa.

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Ri Kwang-chon, North Korean footballer

Ri Kwang-chon is a North Korean former footballer who played as a centre-back.

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Walid Mesloub, Algerian footballer

Walid Mesloub is an Algerian professional footballer who plays as a forward.

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04/09/1984

Jonathan Adam, Scottish race car driver

Jonathan Robert Adam is a British racing driver and a factory driver for Aston Martin Racing. He was the champion of the SEAT Cupra Championship in two of its six seasons – winning in 2007 and in 2008. He also won the 2005 Elf Renault Clio Cup. He competed in the British Touring Car Championship in 2009 and currently competes in the FIA World Endurance Championship, British GT Championship, winning the 2015, 2016, 2018 and 2019 championships. He also won the LMGTE Pro class at the 2017 24 Hours of Le Mans.

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Hamish McIntosh, Australian footballer

Hamish McIntosh is a former professional Australian rules footballer who played for the North Melbourne Football Club and Geelong Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL).

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Kyle Mooney, American comedian, actor, and screenwriter

Kyle James Kozub Mooney is an American comedian, actor, screenwriter, film director and musician. He is best known for his time as a cast member on the NBC sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live, which he was featured in from 2013 to 2022. In 2017, he co-wrote and starred in the comedy drama Brigsby Bear, which premiered at that year's Sundance Film Festival and went on to receive critical acclaim upon its theatrical release. In 2021, he co-created and starred in the Netflix animated series Saturday Morning All Star Hits! and directed his second feature, the horror-comedy Y2k in 2024.

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04/09/1983

Yuichi Nakamaru, Japanese singer-songwriter, actor, and radio host

Yūichi Nakamaru , is a Japanese singer-songwriter, actor, television personality and radio host under Starto Entertainment. He joined the talent agency Johnny & Associates in 1998 and then officially debuted as part of KAT-TUN in 2006, group to which he belonged until its disbandment in April 2025.

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Guy Pnini, Israeli basketball player

Guy Pnini is an Israeli former professional basketball player and basketball coach, currently serving as an assistant coach for Maccabi Playtika Tel Aviv of the Israeli Basketball Premier League and the EuroLeague. Standing at a height of 6 ft 7 in (2.01 m) tall, he played at the small forward position.

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Margit Rüütel, Estonian tennis player

Margit Rüütel is a former tennis player from Estonia.

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Armands Šķēle, Latvian basketball player

Armands Šķēle is a Latvian former professional basketball player who played as a shooting guard. Šķēle was a member of the Latvian National Team, representing Latvia in five EuroBasket tournaments and earning 99 caps. In 2008, he won the EuroCup with Barons LMT.

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04/09/1982

Whitney Cummings, American comedian, actress, producer, and screenwriter

Whitney Cummings is an American actress, comedian, writer, producer, director, and podcaster.

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Mark Lewis-Francis, English sprinter

Mark Anthony Lewis-Francis, MBE is a retired British track and field athlete, specifically a sprinter, who specialised in the 100 metres and was an accomplished regular of GB 4 × 100 m relay. A renowned junior, his greatest sporting achievement at senior level has been to anchor the Great Britain and Northern Ireland 4 × 100 metres relay team to a gold medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics. Individually, Lewis-Francis has won the silver medal in the 100 m at the 2010 European Athletics Championships and silver medal in the 2010 Commonwealth Games, men's 100 m final.

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04/09/1981

Beyoncé, American singer-songwriter

Beyoncé Giselle Knowles-Carter is an American singer, songwriter, actress, and businesswoman. Known for her vocal ability, artistic reinventions, and live performances, she is widely regarded as one of the most culturally significant figures of the 21st century. Credited with shaping popular music, Beyoncé is often deemed one of the greatest entertainers of all time.

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Richard Garcia, Australian footballer

Richard Garcia is an Australian association football manager and former player. He is currently an assistant coach for Australia's U23 team, having previously managed A-League Men's side Perth Glory.

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Lacey Sturm, American singer-songwriter

Lacey Nicole Sturm is an American singer, best known as the lead vocalist of the alternative rock band Flyleaf. In February 2016, Sturm became the first solo female artist to top the Billboard Hard Rock Albums chart with her debut release Life Screams.

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04/09/1980

Pat Neshek, American baseball player

Patrick John Neshek is an American former professional baseball pitcher. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Minnesota Twins, San Diego Padres, Oakland Athletics, St. Louis Cardinals, Houston Astros, Colorado Rockies and Philadelphia Phillies. The Twins selected him in the sixth round of the 2002 MLB draft, out of Butler University. Neshek made his MLB debut for the Twins in 2006, and played for them until 2010. He was selected to his first All-Star Game in 2014, and his second in 2017.

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04/09/1979

Maxim Afinogenov, Russian ice hockey player

Maxim Sergeyevich Afinogenov is a Russian former professional ice hockey player. Known for his skating speed, he was drafted by the National Hockey League (NHL)'s Buffalo Sabres in the third round, 69th overall, in 1997 and played nine seasons with the club. He then played one season with the Atlanta Thrashers before signing and finishing his career in the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL).

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Pedro Macedo Camacho, Portuguese pianist, composer, and producer

Pedro Macedo Camacho is a Portuguese composer of classical music as well as film and video game scores. He is best known for his scores to Star Citizen and World of Warcraft: Shadowlands.

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Max Greenfield, American actor

Max Greenfield is an American actor and author. He appeared in recurring roles in Veronica Mars and Ugly Betty. He co-starred as Schmidt in the Fox sitcom New Girl, for which he received nominations at the Primetime Emmy Awards, the Golden Globe Awards, and the Critics' Choice Television Awards. Since 2018, Greenfield has portrayed Dave Johnson in the CBS sitcom The Neighborhood.

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Kosuke Matsuura, Japanese race car driver

Kosuke Matsuura is a Japanese race car driver currently competing in the Super GT series. He previously competed in the Formula Nippon and IRL IndyCar Series.

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04/09/1978

Wes Bentley, American actor and producer

Wes Bentley is an American actor. He is best known for his roles as Ricky Fitts in American Beauty (1999), which earned him a nomination for the BAFTA Award for Supporting Actor, Seneca Crane in The Hunger Games (2012), Doyle in Interstellar (2014), Erik in Mission: Impossible – Fallout, and Jamie Dutton in Yellowstone. He was one of four subjects in the documentary My Big Break (2009), which covered his fame after American Beauty and his subsequent struggles with substance abuse. Rebuilding his career, he starred in the premiere of Venus in Fur by David Ives in the off-Broadway production in 2010. Other film roles include The Four Feathers (2002), Ghost Rider (2007), P2 (2007), and Pete's Dragon (2016).

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Terence Newman, American football player

Terence Newman is an American former professional football player who was a cornerback for 15 seasons in the National Football League (NFL) for the Dallas Cowboys, Cincinnati Bengals, and Minnesota Vikings. He played college football for the Kansas State Wildcats, earning unanimous All-American recognition. He was selected by the Cowboys with the fifth overall pick in the 2003 NFL draft.

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Frederik Veuchelen, Belgian cyclist

Frederik Veuchelen is a Belgian former professional road bicycle racer, who competed professionally between 2004 and 2017 for the Topsport Vlaanderen, Vacansoleil–DCM, and Wanty–Groupe Gobert teams.

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Christian Walz, Swedish singer-songwriter and producer

Christian Walz is a Swedish artist, songwriter, and producer. Walz's music is mainly pop/soul. When young Walz attended Adolf Fredrik's Music School in Stockholm. He released his self-titled debut album in 1999, aged 20.

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04/09/1977

Sun-woo Kim, South Korean baseball player

Sun-woo "Sunny" Kim is a retired South Korean professional baseball pitcher of the Korea Baseball Organization. He has previously played in Major League Baseball for the Boston Red Sox, Montreal Expos/Washington Nationals, Colorado Rockies, and Cincinnati Reds. He bats and throws right-handed.

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Lucie Silvas, English singer-songwriter and pianist

Lucie Joanne Silverman, known professionally as Lucie Silvas, is a British singer-songwriter best known for her 2004 debut single "What You're Made Of", drawn from her first album Breathe In—itself a hit in the Netherlands, Spain and the United Kingdom.

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Kia Stevens, American wrestler

Kia Michelle Stevens is an American actress and semi-retired professional wrestler. She is best known for her time with TNA Wrestling under the ring name Awesome Kong. She also worked with Ring of Honor (ROH), Shimmer Women Athletes, All Elite Wrestling (AEW), and with WWE under the ring name Kharma.

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04/09/1976

Denilson Martins Nascimento, Brazilian footballer

Denílson Martins Nascimento, simply known as Denílson, is a Brazilian former professional footballer.

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Mario-Ernesto Rodríguez, Uruguayan-Italian footballer

Mario-Ernesto Rodríguez Berrutti is a Uruguayan-born former Italian footballer.

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04/09/1975

Sergio Ballesteros, Spanish footballer

Sergio Martínez Ballesteros is a Spanish former professional footballer who played as a central defender.

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Mark Ronson, English DJ, producer, and songwriter, co-founded Allido Records

Mark Daniel Ronson is a British and American musician, record producer, songwriter, and DJ. He has won ten Grammy Awards, including Producer of the Year for Amy Winehouse's album Back to Black (2006), as well as two for Record of the Year with her 2006 single "Rehab" and his own 2014 single "Uptown Funk". Ronson has also won an Academy Award for Best Original Song, a Golden Globe and a Grammy Award for co-writing "Shallow" for the film A Star Is Born (2018).

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Dave Salmoni, Canadian zoologist, television host, and producer

Dave Salmoni is a Canadian animal trainer, entertainer and television producer. He has his own production company, Triosphere, which is based in South Africa and specializes in wildlife films. Dave has dedicated his life to animal conservation.

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04/09/1974

Mati Pari, Estonian footballer and coach

Mati Pari is a retired football (soccer) midfielder from Estonia. He played for several clubs, including FC Flora Tallinn, FC Levadia Tallinn and FC Flora Rakvere.

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Lincoln Roberts, Tobagonian cricketer

Lincoln Roberts is a former cricketer who played one Test match for West Indies and 51 first class games for Trinidad and Tobago.

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04/09/1973

Jason David Frank, American actor and mixed martial artist (died 2022)

Jason David Frank was an American actor and mixed martial artist, best known for his role as Tommy Oliver in the Power Rangers television franchise.

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Aaron Fultz, American baseball player and coach

Richard Aaron Fultz, is an American former professional baseball relief pitcher, who played in Major League Baseball (MLB), in all or parts of seven seasons, for five big league teams. He also spent the 2008 season with the Uni-President 7-Eleven Lions, of the Chinese Professional Baseball League (CPBL). Fultz was currently the pitching coach for the Minor League Baseball (MiLB) Clearwater Threshers, in the Phillies organization.

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Lazlow Jones, American radio presenter, producer and screenwriter

Jeffrey Crawford "Lazlow" Jones is an American writer, producer, director, voice actor, and radio personality. He is best known for his work with Rockstar Games, with which he has worked on the Grand Theft Auto, Max Payne, and Red Dead Redemption series and for his radio shows Technofile and The Lazlow Show.

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04/09/1972

Steve Leonard, Northern Irish veterinarian and television personality

Stephen Leonard is a Northern Irish veterinarian and television personality.

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04/09/1971

Craig Conroy, American ice hockey player and executive

Craig Michael Conroy is an American former professional ice hockey player and current executive. He serves as the general manager of the Calgary Flames of the National Hockey League (NHL), for whom he also played. A sixth-round selection of the Montreal Canadiens at the 1990 NHL entry draft, Conroy played 1,009 NHL games for the Canadiens, St. Louis Blues, Flames and Los Angeles Kings during a professional career that spanned from 1994 to 2011. Internationally, he twice played with the United States National Team – at the 2004 World Cup of Hockey and the 2006 Winter Olympics.

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Lance Klusener, South African cricketer and coach

Lance Klusener is a South African cricket coach and former international cricketer. He was known for his aggressive batting and fast-medium swing bowling. Klusener was one of the best all-rounders in the world during 1990s and early 2000s and one of the pioneers of power batting as a finisher. He was popular for his ferocious batting and ability to take wickets at crucial times, often breaking important partnerships.

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Maik Taylor, German-Irish footballer and coach

Maik Stefan Taylor is a former Northern Ireland international football goalkeeper and, since July 2022, goalkeeping coach at Birmingham City.

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04/09/1970

Igor Cavalera, Brazilian drummer

Igor Graziano Cavalera is a Brazilian musician, best known as the former drummer for the heavy metal band Sepultura, which he co-founded with his brother Max in 1984. Max left the band in 1997, and Igor himself would depart nine years later, making him the last original member of Sepultura to leave the band. The brothers have since reunited in the band Cavalera Conspiracy.

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Deni Hines, Australian singer-songwriter

Dohnyale Sharon "Deni" Hines is an Australian singer who has been releasing music since the early 1980s, with chart success in Australia, New Zealand, Japan and Europe. She is the daughter of American-born Australian singer Marcia Hines.

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Ivan Iusco, Italian composer

Ivan Iusco is an Italian American award-winning composer and record producer based in Los Angeles, California, United States.

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Sven Meyer, German footballer

Sven Meyer is a German former professional footballer who played as a defender or midfielder.

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Ione Skye, English-American actress

Ione Skye Lee is a British-American actress. She made her film debut in River's Edge (1986) before finding mainstream exposure by starring in Cameron Crowe's Say Anything... (1989). She continued to appear in films throughout the 1990s, with notable parts in Gas Food Lodging (1992), Wayne's World (1992), and One Night Stand (1997). Her other credits include The Rachel Papers (1989), Guncrazy (1992), Four Rooms (1995), Fever Pitch (2005), and Zodiac (2007).

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04/09/1969

Sasha, Welsh DJ and producer

Alexander Paul Coe, known professionally as Sasha, is a Welsh DJ and record producer. He is best known for his live events and electronic music as a solo artist, as well as his collaborations with British DJ John Digweed as Sasha & John Digweed. He was voted as World No.⁠ ⁠1 DJ in 2000 in a poll conducted by DJ Magazine. He is a four-time International Dance Music Awards winner, four-time DJ Awards winner and Grammy Award nominee.

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Ramon Dekkers, Dutch kick-boxer and mixed martial artist (died 2013)

Ramon Dekkers was a Dutch professional Muay Thai fighter. He won multiple world and international titles in Muay Thai during the 1980s and 1990s. Nicknamed the "Turbine from Hell", he was a fan favorite due to his fast-paced, aggressive fighting style which resulted in many brutal fights and knockouts. He was also praised for his willingness to fight in Thailand, including challenging for the Lumpinee Stadium Lightweight title.

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Giorgi Margvelashvili, Georgian academic and politician, 4th President of Georgia

Giorgi Margvelashvili is a Georgian academic and politician who was the fourth president of Georgia, in office from 17 November 2013 to 16 December 2018.

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Richard Speight Jr., American actor and director

Richard Speight Jr. is an American actor and director who is known for a variety of roles including Jericho, The Agency, both CBS TV series, and the HBO miniseries Band of Brothers. In the WB/CW series Supernatural, he played a recurring role, the archangel Gabriel, originally thought to be a "Trickster" or Loki, as well as Loki whose identity Gabriel took on. More recently, he played Dugan in the 2021 film Old Henry.

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Noah Taylor, Australian actor

Noah George Taylor is an Australian actor. The accolades he has received include nominations for three Screen Actors Guild Awards, a Critics' Choice Award, and four AACTA Awards. Taylor is best known for his roles as teenage David Helfgott in Shine, Locke in the HBO series Game of Thrones, Darby Sabini in the BBC One series Peaky Blinders, Mr. Bucket in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Danny in the Australian cult film He Died with a Felafel in His Hand. Taylor also starred as Adolf Hitler in both the American television series Preacher and the 2002 film Max. In 2023, he starred as Dr. Friedrich "Fritz" Pfeffer in A Small Light.

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Inga Tuigamala, Samoan-New Zealand rugby player

Va'aiga Lealuga Tuigamala Pulelua Fesola'i, often known as Inga Tuigamala, was a professional rugby union and rugby league footballer. Born in Western Samoa, he represented New Zealand in rugby union, winning 19 caps, and later Samoa in both rugby league and rugby union. He played in one rugby league and two rugby union World Cups.

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04/09/1968

John DiMaggio, American voice actor

John William DiMaggio is an American actor. His various voice roles include Bender in Futurama, Jake the Dog in Adventure Time, Marcus Fenix in the Gears of War series, Dr. Drakken in Kim Possible, Hak Foo in Jackie Chan Adventures, The Scotsman in Samurai Jack, Brother Blood in Teen Titans and Teen Titans Go!, Shnitzel in Chowder, Rico in The Penguins of Madagascar, Fu Dog in American Dragon: Jake Long, Hammerhead and Sandman in The Spectacular Spider-Man, Aquaman in Batman: The Brave and the Bold, King Zøg on Disenchantment, Jocktopus in Fish Hooks, Niblet on Pound Puppies, Angus Ron Shackelton in Middlemost Post, Wakka and Kimahri in Final Fantasy X, Rath in the Ben 10 franchise, Crosshairs, Leadfoot, Nitro Zeus, Transit and Stratosphere in the Transformers film franchise, and Gonza in the English version of Princess Mononoke.

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Mike Piazza, American baseball player

Michael Joseph Piazza is an American former professional baseball catcher who played 16 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB), from 1992 to 2007, and is a member of the Major League Baseball Hall of Fame. He intended to serve as the manager of the Italian national baseball team in 2020 and 2021 championships, though was unable to do so because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Piazza finally got his chance to manage team Italy at the 2023 World Baseball Classic. Piazza played most notably for the New York Mets and Los Angeles Dodgers, while also having brief stints with the Florida Marlins, San Diego Padres, and Oakland Athletics. A 12-time All-Star and 10-time Silver Slugger Award winner at catcher, he produced strong offensive numbers at his position; in his career, he recorded 427 home runs—a record 396 of which were hit as catcher—along with a .308 batting average and 1,335 runs batted in (RBI).

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04/09/1967

Darrin Murray, New Zealand cricketer and accountant

Darrin James Murray is a former New Zealand international cricketer. He played eight Test matches and one One Day International for New Zealand, all in the 1994/95 season.

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Dezső Szabó, Hungarian decathlete

Dezső Szabó is a retired Hungarian decathlete. His son, also named Dezső Szabó, competed in pole vault at the 2006 World Junior Championships.

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04/09/1966

Yanka Dyagileva, Russian singer-songwriter (died 1991)

Yana Stanislavovna "Yanka" Dyagileva was a Russian poet and singer-songwriter, and one of the most popular figures of her time in the Siberian underground music scene. She both played solo and performed with others, including Yegor Letov and bands Grazhdanskaya Oborona and Velikie Oktyabri. Yanka was greatly influenced by her friends Letov and Alexander Bashlachev. Her songs explored themes of desperation and depression, punk-style nihilism, and folk-like lamentations. Her death in 1991 has been considered as a symbolic end to the Siberian punk scene.

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Jeff Tremaine, American director, producer, and screenwriter

Jeff Tremaine is an American film and television director, producer, and screenwriter. He is best known for co-creating the MTV reality stunt show Jackass with Spike Jonze and Johnny Knoxville.

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04/09/1965

Sergio Momesso, Canadian ice hockey player and sportscaster

Sergio Francesco Momesso is an Italian-Canadian former professional ice hockey player who spent 13 seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL) between 1983 and 1997.

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04/09/1964

Guy Boros, American golfer

Guy Donald Boros is an American professional golfer who currently plays on the PGA Tour Champions. He previously played on the PGA Tour and the Nationwide Tour. He is the son of Hall of Fame golfer Julius Boros.

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Tomas Sandström, Finnish-Swedish ice hockey player

Tomas Sandström is a Finnish-born Swedish former professional ice hockey right winger who played in the National Hockey League (NHL) from 1984 to 1999. Born in Finland, Sandström grew up in Fagersta, Sweden. A skilled power forward, he was effective when healthy but his career was marred by injuries due to his physical style of play.

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Aadesh Shrivastava, Indian singer-songwriter (died 2015)

Aadesh Shrivastava was a music composer and playback singer who worked in Indian films. Initially, he had worked as a drummer to music composers including R. D. Burman, Rajesh Roshan before working independently as a music director. Over the course of his career, he had composed music for over 100 Hindi films. Just a day after he turned 51, he died of cancer in Kokilaben Hospital.

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04/09/1963

Bobby Jarzombek, American drummer

Bobby Jarzombek is an American musician of Polish and German ancestry who is currently the drummer for country music singer George Strait. Bobby also has been a drummer for Sebastian Bach, and progressive metal band Fates Warning. Guitarist Ron Jarzombek is his younger brother.

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John Vanbiesbrouck, American ice hockey player, coach, and manager

John Vanbiesbrouck, nicknamed "the Beezer" and "JVB", is an American professional ice hockey executive and former player. As a goaltender, he was inducted into the United States Hockey Hall of Fame in 2007. Vanbiesbrouck played in the National Hockey League (NHL) from 1981 to 2002 for the New York Rangers, Florida Panthers, Philadelphia Flyers, New York Islanders, and New Jersey Devils. He began his career playing major junior hockey for the Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds of the Ontario Hockey League (OHL). Following a successful season with the Greyhounds, he was drafted by the New York Rangers in the fourth round, 72nd overall, in the 1981 NHL Draft. After his junior career ended, he played for the Rangers minor league affiliate, the Tulsa Oilers of the Central Hockey League. Despite the team's near collapses due to financial concerns, Vanbiesbrouck led the Oilers to a league championship and shared the league's MVP honors.

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Sami Yaffa, Finnish singer-songwriter and bass player

Sami Yaffa is a Finnish bass guitarist best known for his work in New York Dolls, Joan Jett & the Blackhearts, Pelle Miljoona Oy, Michael Monroe's bands, and Hanoi Rocks. He is currently the bassist for the Michael Monroe band and is also concentrating on his solo career.

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04/09/1962

Kiran More, Indian cricketer

Kiran Shankar More ) is an Indian former cricketer and wicket-keeper for the Indian cricket team from 1984 to 1993. He also took up the position Chairman of the Selection Committee of the BCCI till Dilip Vengsarkar took over the job in 2006. In July 2019, he was appointed in a senior consultancy role for the United States national cricket team. He was a part of the Indian squad which won the 1988 Asia Cup and the 1990–91 Asia Cup.

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Ulla Tørnæs, Danish politician, Danish Minister of Education

Ulla Pedersen Tørnæs is a Danish politician, who is a member of the Folketing for the Liberal Party. She previously sat in parliament from 1994 to 2014, and served as member of the European Parliament from 2014 to 2016. She served as Minister for Development Cooperation from 2016 to 2019, Minister of Higher Education and Science in 2016, Minister of Development Cooperation from 2005 to 2010 and Minister of Education from 2001 to 2005.

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Shinya Yamanaka, Japanese physician and biologist, Nobel Prize laureate

Shinya Yamanaka is a Japanese stem cell researcher and a Nobel Prize laureate. He is a professor and the director emeritus of Center for iPS Cell Research and Application, Kyoto University; as well as a senior investigator at the UCSF-affiliated Gladstone Institutes in San Francisco, California and a professor of anatomy at University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). Yamanaka is also a past president of the International Society for Stem Cell Research (ISSCR).

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04/09/1961

Nick Blinko, English singer-songwriter and guitarist

Nicholas John Blinko is a British musician and artist, best known as the lead singer, lyricist, and guitar player for the anarcho-punk band Rudimentary Peni. He is also known for being an "outsider" artist, whose pen-and-ink drawings and paintings have been shown in galleries worldwide. Blinko also creates all the drawings used by the band for its artwork.

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Lars Jönsson, Swedish film producer

Lars Jönsson is a Swedish film producer connected to Memfis Film and the "Trollywood" facilities. Since the early 1990s he has been the producer of several films in Sweden and Scandinavia, being the usual producer for among others Lukas Moodysson, Josef Fares and Maria Blom, while also having co-produced many films by Lars von Trier.

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04/09/1960

Kim Thayil, American guitarist and songwriter

Kim Anand Thayil is an American musician best known as the lead guitarist of the Seattle-based rock band Soundgarden, which he co-founded with singer Chris Cornell and bassist Hiro Yamamoto in 1984. Cornell and Thayil remained as the original members of the band until Cornell's death in 2017, and the band's subsequent split in 2018. Thayil was named the 100th greatest guitarist of all time by Rolling Stone in 2010, and the 67th greatest guitarist of all time by SPIN in 2012. Thayil has won two Grammy Awards as a member of Soundgarden.

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Shailesh Vara, Ugandan-English lawyer and politician

Shailesh Lakhman Vara is a British Conservative former politician who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for North West Cambridgeshire from 2005 until 2024. He was the UK's first Hindu MP. He also served as Secretary of State for Northern Ireland from July to September 2022.

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Damon Wayans, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter

Damon Kyle Wayans Sr. is an American stand-up comedian, actor, producer, and writer. A member of the Wayans family of entertainers, Damon performed as a comedian and actor throughout the 1980s, including a brief stint on the NBC sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live. He later joined his family on Fox's sketch comedy show In Living Color (1990–1992), and wrote and performed on his own animated series Waynehead (1996–1997) and live-action series Damon (1998). Since then, he has starred in a number of films and television shows, some of which he has co-produced or co-written, including Mo' Money, The Last Boy Scout, Major Payne, Bulletproof, and the sitcoms My Wife and Kids and Poppa's House, the latter featuring his son Damon Wayans Jr. From 2016 to 2019, he starred as Roger Murtaugh in the Fox television series Lethal Weapon.

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04/09/1959

Kevin Harrington, Australian actor

Kevin Harrington is an Australian stage, television and film actor and comedian, who is perhaps best known for his roles as Kevin Findlay on the Australian drama SeaChange in the 1990s and as David Bishop on the soap opera Neighbours.

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Armin Kogler, Austrian ski jumper

Armin Kogler is an Austrian former ski jumper.

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04/09/1958

Jacqueline Hewitt, American astrophysicist and astronomer

Jacqueline Nina Hewitt is an American astrophysicist. She was the first person to discover an Einstein ring. She is a Fellow of the American Astronomical Society.

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Marzio Innocenti, Italian rugby player and coach

Marzio Innocenti is a former Italian rugby union player and coach and current sports director. He played as a flanker and a number 8. Since 21 March 2021 he's the president of the Italian rugby federation. He works as physician.

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Drew Pinsky, American radio and television host

David Drew Pinsky, commonly known as Dr. Drew, is an American media personality, internist, and addiction medicine specialist. He hosted the nationally syndicated radio talk show Loveline from the show's inception in 1984 until its end in 2016. On television, he hosted the talk show Dr. Drew On Call on HLN and the daytime series Lifechangers on The CW. In addition, he served as producer and starred in the VH1 show Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew, and its spinoffs Sex Rehab with Dr. Drew, Celebrity Rehab Presents Sober House. Pinsky currently hosts several podcasts, including Ask Dr. Drew, The Dr. Drew Podcast on the PodcastOne Network, and The Adam and Drew Show with his former Loveline co-host Adam Carolla. From February 2019 - December 2023, he hosted Dr. Drew After Dark on the Your Mom's House network.

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04/09/1957

Khandi Alexander, American actress, dancer, and choreographer

Harriet Rene "Khandi" Alexander is an American dancer, choreographer, and actress. She began her career as a dancer in the 1980s, and was a choreographer for Whitney Houston's world tours from 1988 to 1992.

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04/09/1956

Blackie Lawless, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

Steven Edward Duren, better known by his stage name Blackie Lawless, is an American singer, songwriter and musician, best known as the lead singer and rhythm guitarist for heavy metal band W.A.S.P.

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04/09/1955

David Broza, Israeli singer-songwriter and guitarist

David Simon Berwick Broza is an Israeli singer-songwriter. His music mixes modern pop with Spanish music.

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Garth Le Roux, South African cricketer

Garth Stirling Le Roux is a former South African first class cricketer. He went to Wynberg Boys' High School, graduating in 1973.

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Brian Schweitzer, American politician, 23rd Governor of Montana

Brian David Schweitzer is an American farmer and politician who served as the 23rd governor of Montana from 2005 to 2013. Schweitzer served for a time as chair of the Western Governors Association as well as the Democratic Governors Association. He also served as president of the Council of State Governments.

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04/09/1953

Janet Biehl, American philosopher and author

Janet Biehl is an American author, copyeditor, translator, and artist. She authored several books and articles associated with social ecology, the body of ideas developed and publicized by Murray Bookchin. Formerly an advocate of his antistatist political program, she broke with it publicly in 2011 and now identifies as a progressive Democrat.

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Michael Stean, English chess player and author

Michael Francis Stean is an English chess grandmaster, an author of chess books and a tax accountant.

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Fatih Terim, Turkish footballer and manager

Fatih Terim is a Turkish professional football manager and former player.

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04/09/1952

Stephen Easley, American businessman and politician (died 2013)

Stephen Easley was an American businessman and politician.

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04/09/1951

Martin Chambers, English drummer and singer

Martin Dale Chambers is an English musician, best known as a founding member and drummer of the rock band the Pretenders. In addition to playing the drums with the group, Chambers sings backing vocals and plays percussion. He was part of the original band line-up, which also included Chrissie Hynde (vocals/guitar), James Honeyman-Scott (guitar/vocals/keyboards) and Pete Farndon. Hynde and Chambers are the only two surviving original members, and he has served two separate tenures with the group.

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Judith Ivey, American actress

Judith Lee Ivey is an American actress and theatre director. She twice won the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play: for Steaming (1981) and Hurlyburly (1984). She also received Best Actress In A Play nomination for Park Your Car in Harvard Yard (1992) and another Best Featured Actress in a Play nomination for The Heiress. Ivey made her big screen debut playing the female lead role in the 1984 romantic comedy film, The Lonely Guy. She later appeared in the comedy films The Woman in Red (1984), Compromising Positions (1985), Brighton Beach Memoirs (1986), Sister, Sister (1987), and the drama films The Devil's Advocate (1997) and Women Talking (2022), for which she received critical acclaim. On television, Ivey played the leading role in the NBC sitcom Down Home (1990-91), and played Bonnie Jean "BJ" Poteet during the final season of CBS sitcom Designing Women (1992-93). For her role in the television film What the Deaf Man Heard (1997), she was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Limited Series or Movie.

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Marita Ulvskog, Swedish politician, Deputy Prime Minister of Sweden

Marita Elisabet Ulvskog is a Swedish politician who served as Member of the European Parliament from 2009 until 2019. She is a member of the Social Democrats, part of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats.

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04/09/1950

Doyle Alexander, American baseball player

Doyle Lafayette Alexander is an American former pitcher in Major League Baseball (MLB) who played for the Los Angeles Dodgers, Baltimore Orioles, New York Yankees, Texas Rangers, Atlanta Braves, San Francisco Giants, Toronto Blue Jays, and Detroit Tigers.

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Frank White, American baseball player and politician

Frank White Jr. is an American politician and former professional baseball player, coach, and television sports commentator who is currently the first base coach for the Kansas City Monarchs of the American Association of Professional Baseball. He played his entire eighteen-year career in Major League Baseball as a second baseman for the Kansas City Royals from 1973 to 1990 and was an integral member of the 1985 World Series winning team.

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04/09/1949

Darryl Cotton, Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2012)

Darryl Grant Cotton was an Australian pop, rock singer-songwriter, television presenter and actor. He was a founding member of Australian rock group Zoot in 1965, with Beeb Birtles, and were later joined by Rick Brewer and Rick Springfield. As a solo artist Cotton released the albums, Best Seat in the House (1980), It's Rock 'n' Good Fun (1984) and Let the Children Sing (1994). In April 1980 his biggest solo hit, "Same Old Girl", which was co-written by Cotton, peaked at No. 6 on the Australian Kent Music Report Singles Chart. He acted in the TV soap opera, The Young Doctors (1979), and on stage as Joseph in the theatre production of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat (1983).

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Dean Pees, American football player and coach

Russell Dean Pees is an American football coach who is a senior advisor for the Baltimore Ravens of the National Football League (NFL). He was the defensive coordinator for the Ravens, New England Patriots, Tennessee Titans, and Atlanta Falcons. Pees was also the head coach at Kent State University from 1998 to 2003, compiling a record of 17–51.

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Tom Watson, American golfer and sportscaster

Thomas Sturges Watson is an American professional golfer. In the 1970s and 1980s, Watson was one of the leading golfers in the world, winning eight major championships and heading the PGA Tour money list five times. He was the number one player in the world according to McCormack's World Golf Rankings from 1978 until 1982; in both 1983 and 1984, he was ranked second behind Seve Ballesteros. He also spent 32 weeks in the top 10 of the successor Sony Rankings in their debut in 1986.

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04/09/1947

Bob Jenkins, American sportscaster (died 2021)

Robert Francis Jenkins was an American television and radio sports announcer, primarily calling Indy car and NASCAR telecasts for ESPN/ABC and later Versus/NBCSN. Jenkins was the radio "Voice of the Indianapolis 500" on the IMS Radio Network from 1990 to 1998, then held the same role on ABC Sports television from 1999 to 2001.

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Paul Sait, Australian rugby league player (died 2023)

Paul Joseph Sait was an Australian rugby league footballer and coach. A versatile centre or running forward who played in the 1960s and 1970s for South Sydney. He made seven Test appearances for the Australian national representative side and represented in nine World Cup matches in two World Cups and in ten Kangaroo tour matches.

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04/09/1946

Gary Duncan, American guitarist (died 2019)

Gary Duncan was an American guitarist, singer and songwriter. He was guitarist with The Brogues, then most notably with Quicksilver Messenger Service, where the complex interplay between himself and fellow-guitarist John Cipollina did much to define the unique sound of that San Francisco based band.

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Dave Liebman, American saxophonist, flute player, and composer

David Liebman is an American saxophonist, flautist, bandleader, composer, and jazz educator. Best known for his work on soprano saxophone, he toured and recorded with Miles Davis during the trumpeter's electric period, appearing on On The Corner. He has appeared on more than 500 recordings, including about 200 as a leader or co-leader, and was named a NEA Jazz Master in 2011. He founded and serves as artistic director of the International Association of Schools of Jazz (IASJ).

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Bryan Mauricette, Saint Lucian-Canadian cricketer

Bryan Michael Mauricette is a Canadian former cricketer: a right-handed wicketkeeper-batsman who played a handful of first-class matches for the Windward Islands between 1966–67 and 1972–73 without ever passing 20.

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04/09/1945

Danny Gatton, American guitarist (died 1994)

Daniel Wood Gatton Jr. was an American virtuoso guitarist who combined blues, rockabilly, jazz, and country to create a musical style he called "redneck jazz", a term which he took from fellow DC-born guitarist Evan Johns, who had composed a song by that name.

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Bill Kenwright, English actor, singer, and producer (died 2023)

William Kenwright was an English theatre and film producer. He was also the chairman of Everton Football Club for nearly two decades, from 2004 until his death in 2023.

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04/09/1944

Tony Atkinson, English economist and academic (died 2017)

Sir Anthony Barnes Atkinson was a British economist, Centennial Professor at the London School of Economics, and senior research fellow of Nuffield College, Oxford.

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Dave Bassett, English footballer and manager

David Thomas Bassett is an English football manager and a former player. Bassett won a total of seven promotions and is one of a select number of managers who took charge of over 1,000 matches.

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Gene Parsons, American singer-songwriter, drummer, guitarist, and banjo player

Gene Victor Parsons is an American drummer, banjo player, guitarist, singer-songwriter, and engineer, best known for his work with the Byrds from 1968 to 1972. Parsons has also released solo albums and played in bands including Nashville West, the Flying Burrito Brothers, and Parsons Green. Along with guitarist Clarence White, he is credited with inventing the B-Bender —a device which allows a guitarist to emulate the sound of a pedal steel guitar. The device is often referred to as the Parsons/White B-Bender, a trademarked name.

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Jerry Relph, American politician and member of the Minnesota Senate (died 2020)

Jerry O. Relph was an American politician and member of the Minnesota Senate. A Republican, he represented District 14 in central Minnesota from 2017 until his death from COVID-19 complications in 2020. Six weeks before his death, he attended a superspreader event, along with several other Minnesota Republicans, where attendees did not comply with public health recommendations, such as wearing protective face masks.

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Jennifer Salt, American actress, screenwriter, and producer

Jennifer Salt is an American producer, screenwriter, and former actress known for playing Eunice Tate on Soap (1977–1981).

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04/09/1942

Raymond Floyd, American golfer

Raymond Loran Floyd is an American retired professional golfer who has won numerous tournaments on both the PGA Tour and Senior PGA Tour, including four majors and four senior majors. He was inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame in 1989.

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Jerry Jarrett, American wrestler and promoter (died 2023)

Jerry Winston Jarrett was an American businessman, professional wrestling promoter, and professional wrestler. Along with his long-term business partner Jerry Lawler, he was a key figure in the history of professional wrestling in the Mid-Southern United States. Described as a "wrestling genius", he was inducted into the National Wrestling Alliance Hall of Fame in 2009.

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Merald "Bubba" Knight, American singer

Merald Woodlow "Bubba" Knight, Jr. is an American R&B/soul singer, best known as a member of Gladys Knight & the Pips. The older brother of lead singer Gladys Knight, Bubba Knight served as the unofficial leader of the family group, and was instrumental in handling the Pips' business matters. "Gladys Knight & The Pips" evolved out of the Pips.

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04/09/1941

Marilena de Souza Chaui, Brazilian philosopher and academic

Marilena de Souza Chaui is a Brazilian philosopher and Professor of Modern Philosophy in the University of São Paulo. She is a scholar of Baruch Spinoza and Maurice Merleau-Ponty. Chaui is one of the founding members of Workers' Party and an assiduous critic of the capitalist model.

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Ken Harrelson, American baseball player and sportscaster

Kenneth Smith Harrelson, nicknamed "the Hawk" due to his distinctive profile, is an American former professional baseball player and television announcer. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) from 1963 to 1971 as a first baseman and outfielder, and he subsequently spent 33 years as a play-by-play broadcast announcer for the Chicago White Sox. In December 2019, Harrelson was named the 2020 recipient of the Ford C. Frick Award, presented annually to one broadcaster for "major contributions to baseball".

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Ramesh Sethi, Kenyan cricketer and coach

Ramesh Kumar Sethi is a former Kenyan cricketer who represented East Africa in one first-class match and three One-Day Internationals in the 1975 World Cup.

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Sushilkumar Shinde, Indian lawyer and politician, 19th Governor of Andhra Pradesh

Sushilkumar Sambhaji Shinde is an Indian former police officer and politician from the state of Maharashtra. He was the Minister of Home Affairs, Minister of Power in the Manmohan Singh government, and the Leader of the House in Lok Sabha. He previously served as the Chief Minister of Maharashtra from 18 January 2003 to 4 November 2004. He also served as Governor of Andhra Pradesh prior to serving as central minister.

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04/09/1939

Denis Lindsay, South African cricketer and referee (died 2005)

Denis Thomson Lindsay was a South African cricketer who played 19 Test matches for South Africa between 1963 and 1970. His outstanding series was against Australia in 1966–67, when he scored 606 runs in seven innings, including three centuries, took 24 catches as wicketkeeper and conceded only six byes.

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04/09/1937

Dawn Fraser, Australian swimmer and politician

Dawn Fraser is an Australian freestyle champion swimmer, eight-time olympic medallist, a 15-year world record holder in the 100-metre freestyle, and former politician. Controversial, yet the winner of countless honours, she has enjoyed national prominence and sparked national pride in Australia. She is one of only four swimmers to have won the same Olympic individual event three times – in her case the women's 100-metre freestyle.

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Gene Ludwig, American organist and composer (died 2010)

Gene Ludwig was an American jazz and rhythm and blues organist, who recorded as a leader as well as a sideman for Sonny Stitt, Arthur Prysock, Scott Hamilton, Bob DeVos, and Leslie West, and others. Ludwig received international acclaim as a Hammond organ player and was a prominent figure in the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania jazz scene.

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Virgil A. Richard, American general (died 2013)

Brigadier General Virgil Almos Richard was a US Army General who served 32 years of active military service of which 30 were devoted to Financial Management. Richard became an outspoken critic of the "Don't ask, don't tell" policy of the U.S. Armed Forces and gained national media attention as a part of a small group of high-ranking military officers who came out as gay after retirement.

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Les Allen, English footballer and manager

Leslie William Allen is an English former football player and manager who played as an inside forward.

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04/09/1935

Charles A. Hines, American general and academic (died 2013)

Charles Alfonso Hines was an American Army Major General, university administrator, and sociology professor.

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Dallas Willard, American philosopher and academic (died 2013)

Dallas Albert Willard was an American philosopher also known for his writings on Christian spiritual formation. Much of his work in philosophy was related to phenomenology, particularly the work of Edmund Husserl, many of whose writings he translated into English for the first time.

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04/09/1934

Clive Granger, Welsh-American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2009)

Sir Clive William John Granger was a British econometrician known for his contributions to nonlinear time series analysis. He taught in Britain, at the University of Nottingham and in the United States, at the University of California, San Diego. Granger was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 2003 in recognition of the contributions that he and his co-winner, Robert F. Engle, had made to the analysis of time series data. This work fundamentally changed the way in which economists analyse financial and macroeconomic data.

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Antoine Redin, French footballer and manager (died 2012)

Antoine Redin was a French football player and manager. He played for FC Nancy, Toulouse and AS Nancy. He coached AS Nancy and Bastia.

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Eduard Khil, Russian baritone singer (died 2012)

Eduard Anatolyevich Khil, often anglicized as Edward Hill, was a Russian baritone singer.

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Jan Švankmajer, Czech filmmaker and artist

Jan Švankmajer is a Czech retired filmmaker, animator, writer, playwright and artist. He draws and makes free graphics, collage, ceramics, tactile objects and assemblages. In the early 1960s, he explored informel, which later became an important part of the visual form of his animated films. He is a leading representative of late Czech surrealism. In his film work, he created an unmistakable and quite specific style, determined primarily by a compulsively unorthodox combination of externally disparate elements. The anti-artistic nature of this process, based on collage or assemblage, functions as a meaning-making factor. The author himself claims that the intersubjective communication between him and the viewer works only through evoked associations, and his films fulfil their subversive mission only when, even in the most fantastic moments, they look like a record of reality. Some of the works he created together with his wife Eva Švankmajerová.

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04/09/1932

Carlos Romero Barceló, Puerto Rican lawyer and politician, 5th Governor of Puerto Rico (died 2021)

Carlos Antonio Romero Barceló was a Puerto Rican politician who served as the governor of Puerto Rico from 1977 to 1985. He was the second governor to be elected from the New Progressive Party (PNP). He also served on several other political positions including Mayor of San Juan from 1969 to 1977 and Resident Commissioner of Puerto Rico in United States Congress from 1993 to 2001.

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Vince Dooley, American football player and coach (died 2022)

Vincent Joseph Dooley was an American college football coach. He was the head coach of the Georgia Bulldogs from 1964 to 1988, as well as the University of Georgia's (UGA) athletic director from 1979 to 2004. During his 25-year head coaching career, Dooley compiled a 201–77–10 record. His teams won six Southeastern Conference (SEC) titles and the 1980 national championship. After the 1980 season, Dooley was recognized as college football's "Coach of the Year" by several organizations. He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1994.

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04/09/1931

Mitzi Gaynor, American actress, singer, and dancer (died 2024)

Francesca Marlene de Czanyi von Gerber, known professionally as Mitzi Gaynor, was an American actress, singer, and dancer. Her notable films included We're Not Married! (1952), There's No Business Like Show Business (1954), The Birds and the Bees (1956), and South Pacific (1958) – for which she was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Comedy or Musical at the 1959 awards.

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Antonios Trakatellis, Greek biochemist and politician

Antonios Trakatellis is a Greek Member of the European Parliament (MEP), and an academic biochemist. He was elected on the New Democracy ticket and sits with the European People's Party group. He has been leader of the ND parliamentary group since 2000.

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04/09/1930

Robert Arneson, American sculptor and academic (died 1992)

Robert Carston Arneson was an American sculptor and professor of ceramics in the Art department at University of California, Davis for nearly three decades.

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William Maxson, American general (died 2013)

William B. Maxson was an American Air Force Major General and vice commander, 15th Air Force, Strategic Air Command, March Air Force Base, Calif.

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04/09/1929

Thomas Eagleton, American lawyer and politician, 38th Lieutenant Governor of Missouri (died 2007)

Thomas Francis Eagleton was an American lawyer who served as a United States senator from Missouri from 1968 to 1987. He was briefly the Democratic vice presidential nominee under George McGovern in 1972. He suffered from bouts of depression throughout his life, resulting in several hospitalizations, which were kept secret from the public. When they were revealed, the McGovern campaign was humiliated, and Eagleton was forced to quit the race. He later became adjunct professor of public affairs at Washington University in St. Louis.

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Robert V. Keeley, Lebanese-American soldier and diplomat, United States Ambassador to Greece (died 2015)

Robert Vossler Keeley had a 34-year career in the Foreign Service of the United States, from 1956 to 1989. He served three times as Ambassador: to Greece (1985–89), Zimbabwe (1980–84), and Mauritius (1976–78). In 1978–80 he was Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs, in charge of southern and eastern Africa.

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04/09/1928

Dick York, American actor (died 1992)

Richard Allen York was an American actor. He was the first actor to play Darrin Stephens on the ABC fantasy sitcom Bewitched. He played teacher Bertram Cates in the film Inherit the Wind (1960).

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04/09/1927

John McCarthy, American computer scientist and academic (died 2011)

John McCarthy was an American computer scientist and cognitive scientist. He was one of the founders of the discipline of artificial intelligence, and part of just a small group of artificial intelligence researchers in the 1950s and 1960s. He co-authored the proposal for the Dartmouth workshop which coined the term "artificial intelligence" (AI), led the development of the symbolic programming language family Lisp and had a large influence in the language ALGOL, popularized time-sharing, and created garbage collection.

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Ferenc Sánta, Hungarian author and screenwriter (died 2008)

Ferenc Sánta was a Hungarian novelist and film screenwriter. He was awarded the József Attila Prize in 1956 and 1964, and the prestigious Kossuth Prize in 1973. He was born in Braṣov and died in Budapest.

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04/09/1926

George William Gray, British chemist, developer of stable liquid crystals (died 2013)

George William Gray was a Professor of Organic Chemistry at the University of Hull who was instrumental in developing the long-lasting materials which made liquid crystal displays possible. He created and systematically developed liquid crystal materials science, and established a method of practical molecular design. Gray was recipient of the 1995 Kyoto Prize in Advanced Technology.

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Ivan Illich, Austrian priest and philosopher (died 2002)

Ivan Dominic Illich was an Austrian Catholic priest, theologian, philosopher, and social critic. His 1971 book Deschooling Society criticises modern society's institutional approach to education, an approach that he argued demotivates and alienates individuals from the process of learning. His 1975 book Medical Nemesis, importing to the sociology of medicine the concept of medical harm, in which he argues that industrialised society impairs quality of life through processes such as overmedicalisation, the pathologisation of normal conditions, and increased dependency on medical institutions. Illich called himself "an errant pilgrim."

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Bert Olmstead, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (died 2015)

Murray Albert Olmstead was a Canadian professional ice hockey player who was a left winger for the Montreal Canadiens, Chicago Black Hawks and Toronto Maple Leafs in the National Hockey League (NHL) for 13 seasons. He was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1985. Olmstead began his career with the Black Hawks in 1949. In December 1950, he was traded to the Montreal Canadiens via Detroit. Olmstead had his best statistical years playing for Montreal, leading the league in assists in 1954–55 with 48, and setting a league record for assists with 56 the following season. During this time he frequently played on Montreal's top line with Jean Beliveau and Bernie Geoffrion. Olmstead was claimed in the 1958 NHL Intra-League Draft by the Toronto Maple Leafs, and played there until his retirement in 1962.

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04/09/1925

Asa Earl Carter, American Ku Klux Klan leader and author (died 1979)

Asa Earl Carter was an American segregationist and Ku Klux Klan organizer who was prominent in the 1950s for his activism and later as a Western fiction novelist, known as a co-writer of George Wallace's well-known pro-segregation line of 1963, "Segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever." He ran in the Democratic primary for governor of Alabama as a white supremacist. Later, under the pseudonym of supposedly Cherokee writer Forrest Carter, he wrote The Rebel Outlaw: Josey Wales (1972), a Western novel that was adapted into a 1976 film featuring Clint Eastwood that was added to the National Film Registry, and The Education of Little Tree (1976), a best-selling, award-winning book which was marketed as a memoir but which turned out to be fiction.

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04/09/1924

Joan Aiken, English author (died 2004)

Joan Delano Aiken was an English writer specialising in supernatural fiction and children's alternative history novels. In 1999 she was awarded an MBE for her services to children's literature. For The Whispering Mountain, published by Jonathan Cape in 1968, she won the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize, a book award judged by a panel of British children's writers, and she was a commended runner-up for the Carnegie Medal from the Library Association, recognising the year's best children's book by a British writer. She won an Edgar Allan Poe Award (1972) for Night Fall.

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Justinas Lagunavičius, Lithuanian basketball player (died 1997)

Justinas Lagunavičius was a Lithuanian basketball player who competed for the Soviet Union in the 1952 Summer Olympics. He trained at VSS Žalgiris in Kaunas.

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04/09/1923

Ram Kishore Shukla, Indian lawyer and politician (died 2003)

Pandit Ram Kishore Shukla was an Indian politician and an activist for Indian independence.

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04/09/1922

Per Olof Sundman, Swedish author and politician (died 1992)

Per Olof Sundman was a Swedish writer and politician.

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04/09/1920

Clemar Bucci, Argentine race car driver (died 2011)

Clemar Bucci was an Argentine racing driver. He participated in five World Championship Formula One Grands Prix, debuting on 17 July 1954 and several non-Championship Formula One races. He scored no championship points. He was born in Zenón Pereyra and died in Buenos Aires.

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Craig Claiborne, American journalist, author, and critic (died 2000)

Craig Claiborne was an American restaurant critic, food journalist, and book author. A long-time food editor and restaurant critic for The New York Times, he was also the author of numerous cookbooks and an autobiography. He made many contributions to gastronomy and food writing in the United States.

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Konstantin Kalser, German-American film producer and advertising executive (died 1994)

Konstantin Kalser was a German-American film producer and advertising executive. He won the Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film in 1957 with Crashing the Water Barrier.

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04/09/1919

Émile Bouchard, Canadian ice hockey player (died 2012)

Joseph Émile Alcide "Butch" Bouchard was a Canadian ice hockey player who played defence with the Montreal Canadiens in the National Hockey League from 1941 to 1956. He is a member of the Hockey Hall of Fame, won four Stanley Cups, was captain of the Canadiens for eight years, and was voted to the NHL All-Star team four times. Although having a reputation as a clean player, he was also one of the strongest players and best body-checkers of his era. He excelled as a defensive defenceman, had superior passing skills, and was known for his leadership and mentoring of younger players. In his early years in the NHL, Bouchard, among other players, made a major contribution to reinvigorating what was at the time an ailing Canadien franchise.

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Howard Morris, American actor, director, and screenwriter (died 2005)

Howard Jerome Morris was an American actor, comedian, and director. He was best known for his role in The Andy Griffith Show as Ernest T. Bass, and as "Uncle Goopy" in a celebrated comedy sketch on Sid Caesar's Your Show of Shows (1954). He did voices for television shows such as The Flintstones (1962–1965), The Jetsons (1962–1987), The Atom Ant Show (1965–1966), Garfield and Friends (1988–1994), and Cow and Chicken (1997–1999).

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Kurnianingrat, Indonesian educator (died 1993)

Raden Ajeng Kurnianingrat Sastrawinata, more commonly known mononymously as Kurnianingrat, was an Indonesian educator and pioneer of the country's curriculum for teaching English as a foreign language. She was deputy director of Indonesia's English Language Inspectorate, a branch of the Ministry of Education, Instruction, and Culture, from 1953 to 1956. Later, she served as the head of the English studies department at the University of Indonesia.

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04/09/1918

Paul Harvey, American radio host (died 2009)

Paul Harvey Aurandt was an American radio broadcaster for ABC News Radio. He broadcast News and Comment on mornings and mid-days on weekdays and at noon on Saturdays and also his famous The Rest of the Story segments. From 1951 to 2008, his programs reached as many as 24 million people per week. Paul Harvey News was carried on 1,200 radio stations, on 400 American Forces Network stations, and in 300 newspapers.

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Gerald Wilson, American trumpet player and composer (died 2014)

Gerald Stanley Wilson was an American jazz trumpeter, big band bandleader, composer, arranger, and educator. Born in Mississippi, he was based in Los Angeles from the early 1940s. He arranged music for Duke Ellington, Sarah Vaughan, Ray Charles, Julie London, Dizzy Gillespie, Ella Fitzgerald, Benny Carter, Lionel Hampton, Billie Holiday, Dinah Washington, and Nancy Wilson.

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04/09/1917

Henry Ford II, American businessman (died 1987)

Henry Ford II, commonly known as "Hank the Deuce," was an American businessman in the automotive industry. He was the oldest son of Edsel Ford I and oldest grandson of Henry Ford. He served as president of the Ford Motor Company from 1945 to 1960, chief executive officer (CEO) from 1947 to 1979, and chairman of the board of directors from 1960 to 1980. Under his leadership, Ford Motor Company became a publicly traded corporation in 1956. From 1943 to 1950, he also served as president of the Ford Foundation.

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04/09/1914

Rudolf Leiding, German businessman (died 2003)

Rudolf Leiding was the third post-war chairman of the Volkswagen automobile company, succeeding Kurt Lotz in 1971.

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04/09/1913

Mickey Cohen, American mob boss (died 1976)

Meyer Harris "Mickey" Cohen was an American mobster based in Los Angeles and boss of the Cohen crime family during the mid-20th century.

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Victor Kiernan, English historian and academic (died 2009)

Edward Victor Gordon Kiernan was a British historian and a member of the Communist Party Historians Group. Kiernan's work was prominent in the field of Marxist historiography in Britain, analyzing historical events from a Marxist point of view. Belonging to a group of prominent British Marxist historians active in the 20th century, Kiernan was a member of the Communist Party of Great Britain from 1934 until 1959, when he left in protest over the party's response to the Hungarian Revolution of 1956. He was also involved in promoting Urdu poetry among Western audiences.

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Stanford Moore, American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1982)

Stanford Moore was an American biochemist. He shared a Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1972, with Christian B. Anfinsen and William Howard Stein, for work done at Rockefeller University on the structure of the enzyme ribonuclease and for contributing to the understanding of the connection between the chemical structure and catalytic activity of the ribonuclease molecule.

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Kenzō Tange, Japanese architect (died 2005)

Kenzō Tange was a Japanese architect. Born in Sakai and raised in China and southern Japan, Tange was inspired from an early age by the work of Le Corbusier and designed his first buildings under Imperial Japan. He first achieved recognition for his projects to reconstruct the destroyed cities of postwar Japan, particularly Hiroshima, where he designed the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park. His engagement with the Congres Internationaux d'Architecture Moderne in the 1950s made him one of the first Japanese architects to achieve international recognition.

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Shmuel Wosner, Austrian-Israeli rabbi and author (died 2015)

Shmuel HaLevi Wosner was a prominent Ashkenazi rabbi and posek living in Bnei Brak, Israel. He was known as the Shevet HaLevi after his major work.

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04/09/1912

Syd Hoff, American author and illustrator (died 2004)

Syd Hoff was an American cartoonist and children's book author, best known for his classic early reader Danny and the Dinosaur. His cartoons appeared in a multitude of genres, including advertising commissions for such companies as Eveready Batteries, Jell-O, OK Used Cars, S.O.S Pads, Rambler, Ralston Cereal, and more.

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Alexander Liberman, Russian-American publisher, painter, photographer, and sculptor (died 1999)

Alexander Semeonovitch Liberman was a Ukrainian-American magazine editor, publisher, painter, photographer, and sculptor. He held senior artistic positions during his 32 years at Condé Nast Publications.

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04/09/1910

Denis Tomlinson, Zimbabwean-South African cricketer (died 1993)

Denis Stanley Tomlinson was a Rhodesian cricketer who played in one Test match for South Africa in 1935. He was the first Rhodesian-born cricketer to represent South Africa.

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04/09/1909

Eduard Wirths, German physician (died 1945)

Eduard Wirths was the chief SS doctor at the Auschwitz concentration camp from September 1942 to January 1945. Thus, Wirths had formal responsibility for everything undertaken by the nearly twenty SS doctors who worked in the medical sections of Auschwitz between 1942 and 1945.

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04/09/1908

Edward Dmytryk, Canadian-American director and producer (died 1999)

Edward Dmytryk was a Canadian-born American film director and editor. He was known for his 1940s noir films and received an Oscar nomination for Best Director for Crossfire (1947). In 1947, he was named as one of the Hollywood Ten, a group of blacklisted film industry professionals who refused to testify to the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) in their investigations during the Red Scare of the McCarthy era. They all served time in prison for contempt of Congress. In 1951, Dmytryk testified to the HUAC and named individuals, including Arnold Manoff, whose careers were then destroyed for many years, to rehabilitate his own career. First hired again by independent producer Stanley Kramer in 1952, Dmytryk is likely best known for directing The Caine Mutiny (1954), a critical and commercial success. The second-highest-grossing film of the year, it was nominated for Best Picture and several other awards at the 1955 Oscars. Dmytryk was nominated for a Directors Guild Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures.

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Richard Wright, American novelist, short story writer, essayist, and poet (died 1960)

Richard Nathaniel Wright (1908–1960) was an American author of novels, short stories, poems, and non-fiction. Much of his literature concerns racial themes, especially related to the plight of African Americans during the late 19th to mid 20th centuries suffering discrimination and violence. His best known works include the novella collection Uncle Tom's Children (1938), the novel Native Son (1940), and the memoir Black Boy (1945). Literary critics believe his work helped change race relations in the United States in the mid-20th century.

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04/09/1907

Reggie Nalder, Austrian-American actor (died 1991)

Reggie Nalder was a prolific Austrian film and television character actor from the late 1940s to the early 1990s. His distinctive features—partially the result of disfiguring burns—together with a haunting style and demeanor led to his being called "The Face That Launched a Thousand Trips".

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04/09/1906

Ruben Oskar Auervaara, Finnish fraudster (died 1964)

Ruben Oskar Auervaara was a notorious Finnish conman and thief. He became famous by cheating money from women he met through newspaper announcements, by pretending to intend to marry them. His surname has become an archetypal name in the Finnish language, meaning a deceptive charming trickster.

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Max Delbrück, German-American biophysicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1981)

Max Ludwig Henning Delbrück was a German–American biophysicist who participated in launching the molecular biology research program in the late 1930s. He stimulated physical scientists' interest into biology, especially as to basic research to physically explain genes, mysterious at the time. Formed in 1945 and led by Delbrück along with Salvador Luria and Alfred Hershey, the Phage Group made substantial headway unraveling important aspects of genetics. The three shared the 1969 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "for their discoveries concerning the replication mechanism and the genetic structure of viruses". He was the first physicist to predict what is now called Delbrück scattering.

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04/09/1905

Mary Renault, English-South African author (died 1983)

Eileen Mary Challans, known by her pen name Mary Renault, was a British writer best known for her historical novels set in ancient Greece.

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Walter Zapp, Latvian-Estonian inventor, invented the Minox (died 2003)

Walter Zapp was a Baltic German inventor. His best-known creation was the Minox subminiature camera. Over the course of his life, he was granted over 60 patents.

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04/09/1902

Tommy Mitchell, English cricketer (died 1996)

Thomas Bignall Mitchell was an English first-class cricketer who played for Derbyshire between 1928 and 1939.

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04/09/1901

William Lyons, English businessman, co-founded Jaguar Cars (died 1985)

Sir William Lyons, known as "Mr. Jaguar", was with fellow motorcycle enthusiast William Walmsley, the co-founder in 1922 of the Swallow Sidecar Company, which became Jaguar Cars Limited after the Second World War.

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04/09/1896

Antonin Artaud, French actor, director, and playwright (died 1948)

Antoine Maria Joseph Paul Artaud, better known as Antonin Artaud, was a French artist who worked across a variety of media. He is best known for his writings, as well as his work in the theatre and cinema. Widely recognized as a major figure of the European avant-garde, he had a particularly strong influence on twentieth-century theatre through his conceptualization of the Theatre of Cruelty. Known for his raw, surreal and transgressive work, his texts explored themes from the cosmologies of ancient cultures, philosophy, the occult, mysticism and indigenous Mexican and Balinese practices.

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04/09/1894

Daniel van der Meulen, Dutch diplomat (died 1989)

Daniel van der Meulen was a Dutch civil servant who served as the consul to Jeddah from 1926 through 1931. Born in Laren, van der Meulen entered the civil service and was assigned to the Dutch East Indies in 1915. He was chosen by the Islamicist Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje to serve as the Netherlands' consul in Jeddah, focusing mainly on facilitating the hajj pilgrimage for residents of the Dutch East Indies. After his time as consul ended, van der Meulen returned to the Indies, though he made several further trips to the Arabian Peninsula. He maintained diplomatic roles in Jeddah during the Second World War and in Jakarta during the Indonesian National Revolution.

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04/09/1892

Darius Milhaud, French composer and educator (died 1974)

Darius Milhaud was a French composer, conductor, and teacher. He was a member of Les Six—The Group of Six—and one of the most prolific composers of the 20th century. His compositions are influenced by jazz and Brazilian music and make extensive use of polytonality. Milhaud is considered one of the key modernist composers. He taught many future jazz and classical composers, including Burt Bacharach, Dave Brubeck, Philip Glass, Steve Reich, György Kurtág, Karlheinz Stockhausen and Iannis Xenakis among others.

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04/09/1891

Fritz Todt, German engineer, politician, and senior Nazi official (died 1942)

Fritz Todt was a German construction engineer and senior political figure of the Nazi Party. In 1938, he founded Organisation Todt (OT), a military-engineering organisation that supplied German industry with forced labour, and he served as Reich Minister for Armaments and Ammunition in Nazi Germany early in World War II, directing the entire German wartime military economy from that position.

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04/09/1890

Gunnar Sommerfeldt, Danish actor, director, and screenwriter (died 1947)

Gunnar Sommerfeldt was a Danish actor and film maker.

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04/09/1888

Oskar Schlemmer, German painter, sculptor, designer and choreographer (died 1943)

Oskar Schlemmer was a German painter, sculptor, designer and choreographer associated with the Bauhaus school.

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04/09/1887

Roy William Neill, Irish-English director, producer, and screenwriter (died 1946)

Roy William Neill was an Irish-born American film director best known for producing and directing almost all of the Sherlock Holmes films starring Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce, made between 1943 and 1946 and released by Universal Pictures.

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04/09/1886

Albert Orsborn, English 6th General of The Salvation Army (died 1967)

Albert William Thomas Orsborn was the sixth General of The Salvation Army (1946–1954). He became an Officer of The Salvation Army in 1905. Albert served as a Corps Officer and in divisional work in the British Territory of the Army. In 1909, he married his first wife, Captain Evalina Barker.

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04/09/1885

Antonio Bacci, Italian cardinal (died 1971)

Antonio Bacci was an Italian cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Secretary of Briefs to Princes from 1931 to 1960, when he was elevated to the cardinalate by Pope John XXIII. He is perhaps best known for his role in the Ottaviani Intervention.

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04/09/1877

Kārlis Ulmanis, Latvian prime minister and president (died 1942)

Kārlis Augusts Vilhelms Ulmanis was a Latvian politician and dictator. He was one of the most prominent Latvian politicians of pre-World War II Latvia during the Interwar period of independence from November 1918 to June 1940 and served as the country's first prime minister.

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04/09/1862

Franjo Krežma, Croatian violinist and composer (died 1881)

Franjo Krežma, also known as Franz Krezma in German-speaking countries, was a Croatian violinist and composer.

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04/09/1851

John Dillon, Irish poet and politician (died 1927)

John Dillon was an Irish politician from Dublin, who served as a Member of Parliament (MP) for over 35 years and was the last leader of the Irish Parliamentary Party. By political disposition, Dillon was an advocate of Irish nationalism, originally a follower of Charles Stewart Parnell, supporting land reform and Irish Home Rule.

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04/09/1850

Luigi Cadorna, Italian field marshal (died 1928)

Luigi Cadorna, was an Italian general, Marshal of Italy and Count, most famous for being the Chief of Staff of the Italian Army from 1914 until late 1917 during World War I. He commanded the Italian army on the Italian front, a theatre marked by trench warfare and attrition on the Eastern Alps and Isonzo river. Cadorna launched multiple offensives across the Isonzo front during which the Italian army made gains, most notably capturing Gorizia and Bainsizza, but it ultimately suffered a major defeat when German-Austrian forces attacked the Italian troops at Caporetto and forced them to retreat to the Piave river. He was relieved as Chief of Staff and replaced by Armando Diaz.

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04/09/1848

Lewis Howard Latimer, American inventor (died 1928)

Lewis Howard Latimer was an American inventor and patent draftsman. His inventions included an evaporative air conditioner, an improved process for manufacturing carbon filaments for electric light bulbs, and an improved toilet system for railroad cars. In 1884, he joined the Edison Electric Light Company where he worked as a draftsman. The Lewis H. Latimer House, his landmarked former residence, is located near the Latimer Projects at 34–41 137th Street in Flushing, Queens, New York City.

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Jennie Lee, American actress (died 1925)

Mary Jane Lee was an American actress of the stage and screen.

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04/09/1846

Daniel Burnham, American architect, designed the World's Columbian Exposition (died 1912)

Daniel Hudson Burnham was an American architect and urban designer. A proponent of the Beaux-Arts movement, he may have been "the most successful power broker the American architectural profession has ever produced".

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04/09/1832

Antonio Agliardi, Italian cardinal (died 1915)

Antonio Agliardi was an Italian Roman Catholic Cardinal, archbishop, and papal diplomat.

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04/09/1826

Martin Wiberg, Swedish philosopher and engineer (died 1905)

Martin Wiberg was a Swedish inventor. He enrolled at Lund University in 1845 and became a Doctor of Philosophy in 1850.

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04/09/1825

Dadabhai Naoroji, Indian academic and politician, President of the Indian National Congress (died 1917)

Dadabhai Naoroji was an Indian political leader, merchant, scholar, and writer who played a role in both Indian and British public life. He was among the founding members of the Indian National Congress and served as its President on three occasions, from 1886 to 1887, 1893 to 1894 and 1906 to 1907. Naoroji's early career included serving as the Diwan of Baroda in 1874. Subsequently, he moved to England, where he continued to advocate for Indian interests. In 1892, he was elected to the House of Commons as a Liberal Party Member of Parliament, representing Finsbury Central until 1895. He was the second person of Asian descent to become a British MP following David Ochterlony Dyce Sombre, who was an Anglo Indian MP.

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04/09/1824

Anton Bruckner, Austrian organist and composer (died 1896)

Joseph Anton Bruckner was an Austrian composer and organist best known for his symphonies and sacred music, which includes Masses, Te Deum and motets. The symphonies are considered emblematic of the final stage of Austro-German Romanticism because of their rich harmonic language, strongly polyphonic character, and considerable length. Bruckner's compositions helped to define contemporary musical radicalism, owing to their dissonances, unprepared modulations, and roving harmonies.

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04/09/1809

Manuel Montt, Chilean scholar and politician, 6th President of Chile (died 1880)

Manuel Francisco Antonio Julián Montt Torres was a Chilean statesman and scholar who was twice elected President of Chile between 1851 and 1861. He was the first civilian to serve a full term as President of Chile.

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Juliusz Słowacki, Polish poet and playwright (died 1849)

Juliusz Słowacki was a Polish Romantic poet. He is considered one of the "Three Bards" of Polish literature — a major figure in the Polish Romantic period, and the father of modern Polish drama. His works often feature elements of Slavic paganism, Polish history, mysticism and orientalism. His style includes the employment of neologisms and irony. His primary genre was the drama, but he also wrote lyric poetry. His most popular works include the dramas Kordian and Balladyna and the poems Beniowski, Testament mój and Anhelli.

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04/09/1803

Sarah Childress Polk, First Lady of the United States (died 1891)

Sarah Childress Polk was the first lady of the United States from 1845 to 1849. She was the wife of the 11th president of the United States, James K. Polk.

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04/09/1776

Stephen Whitney, American businessman (died 1860)

Stephen Whitney was an American merchant. He was one of the wealthiest merchants in New York City in the first half of the 19th century. His fortune was considered second only to that of John Jacob Astor. As a prominent citizen of the rapidly growing city, he helped to build some of its institutions, including the Merchants' Exchange Building, the first permanent home of the New York Stock Exchange.

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04/09/1768

François-René de Chateaubriand, French historian and politician, Minister of Foreign Affairs for France (died 1848)

François-René, vicomte de Chateaubriand was a French writer, politician, diplomat and historian who influenced French literature of the 19th century. Descended from an old aristocratic family from Brittany, Chateaubriand was a royalist by political disposition. He served as Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1822 to 1824 and as the French ambassador to Sweden, Prussia, the United Kingdom, and the Papal States.

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04/09/1755

Axel von Fersen the Younger, Swedish general and politician (died 1810)

Hans Axel von Fersen, also known as Axel von Fersen the Younger and as Axel de Fersen in France, was a Swedish count, military officer, courtier, ambassador, Marshal and Lord of the Realm. He gained international renown for his close association with Queen Marie Antoinette of France and his prominent involvement in the French Revolution.

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04/09/1745

Shneur Zalman, Russian rabbi, author and founder of Chabad (died 1812)

Shneur Zalman of Liadi, commonly known as the Alter Rebbe or Baal Hatanya, was a rabbi and the founder and first Rebbe of Chabad, a branch of Hasidic Judaism. He wrote many works and is best known for Shulchan Aruch HaRav, Tanya, and his Siddur Torah Ohr, compiled according to the Nusach Ari.

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04/09/1717

Job Orton, English minister and author (died 1783)

Job Orton was an English dissenting minister.

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04/09/1681

Carl Heinrich Biber, Austrian violinist and composer (died 1749)

Carl Heinrich Biber was a late Baroque violinist and composer.

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04/09/1596

Constantijn Huygens, Dutch poet and composer (died 1687)

Sir Constantijn Huygens, Lord of Zuilichem, was a Dutch Golden Age poet and composer. He was also secretary to two Princes of Orange: Frederick Henry and William II, and the father of the scientist Christiaan Huygens.

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04/09/1580

George Percy, English explorer (died 1632)

The Honourable George Percy was an English explorer, writer, and early Colonial Governor of Virginia.

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04/09/1563

Wanli, Chinese emperor (died 1620)

The Wanli Emperor, personal name Zhu Yijun, was the 14th emperor of the Ming dynasty, reigning from 1572 to 1620. He succeeded his father, the Longqing Emperor. His reign of 48 years was the longest of the Ming dynasty.

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04/09/1557

Sophie of Mecklenburg-Güstrow, queen consort of Denmark and Norway (died 1631)

Sophie of Mecklenburg-Güstrow was Queen of Denmark and Norway from 1572 to 1588 as the wife of Frederick II. She was the mother of Christian IV and Anne of Denmark, and served as regent of the duchies of Schleswig and Holstein from 1590 to 1594. Especially noted for her effective management of her extensive dower lands and a large credit operation, which made her one of the wealthiest landowners and financiers of her time, she was an influential political figure in Northern Europe.

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04/09/1454

Henry Stafford, 2nd Duke of Buckingham, English politician, Lord High Constable of England (died 1483)

Henry Stafford, 2nd Duke of Buckingham, was an English nobleman known as the namesake of Buckingham's rebellion, a failed but significant collection of uprisings in England and parts of Wales against Richard III of England in October 1483. He was executed without trial for his role in the uprisings. Stafford is also one of the primary suspects in the disappearance of Richard's nephews, the Princes in the Tower.

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04/09/1383

Felix V, antipope of Rome (died 1451)

Amadeus VIII, nicknamed the Peaceful, was Count of Savoy from 1391 to 1416 and Duke of Savoy from 1416 to 1440. He was the first to hold the ducal title, granted by Emperor Sigismund. Known for his diplomatic temperament and administrative reforms, he strengthened the state's institutions and fostered internal peace.

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04/09/1241

Alexander III, king of Scotland (died 1286)

Alexander III was King of Alba (Scotland) from 6 July 1249 until his death. He concluded the Treaty of Perth, by which Scotland acquired sovereignty over the Western Isles and the Isle of Man. His heir and only grandchild, Margaret, Maid of Norway, died before she could be crowned.

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04/09/0973

Al-Biruni, Persian physician and polymath (died 1048)

Abu Rayhan Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Biruni, known as al-Biruni was a Khwarazmian Iranic scholar and polymath during the Islamic Golden Age. He has been called variously "Father of Comparative Religion", "Father of modern geodesy", Founder of Indology and the first anthropologist.

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