Born on Sunday, 7th September – Famous Birthdays

07/09/2006

Ian Chen, American actor

Ian Chen is a Taiwanese-American actor. He is known for his roles as Evan Huang in the ABC sitcom Fresh Off the Boat (2015–2020) and Eugene Choi in the DC Extended Universe films Shazam! (2019) and Shazam! Fury of the Gods (2023).

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07/09/1999

Gracie Abrams, American singer-songwriter

Gracie Madigan Abrams is an American singer and songwriter. She signed with Interscope Records in 2019 and gained recognition after releasing her debut extended play, Minor (2020), and its follow-up, This Is What It Feels Like (2021), alongside various singles including "I Miss You, I'm Sorry". Abrams released her debut album, Good Riddance (2023), and was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best New Artist. She also performed as an opening act on Olivia Rodrigo's Sour Tour (2022) and Taylor Swift's Eras Tour (2023–2024).

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Laurie Jussaume, Canadian cyclist

Laurie Jussaume is a Canadian cyclist.

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07/09/1997

Dean-Charles Chapman, English actor

Dean-Charles Chapman is an English actor known for portraying Billy Elliot in the West End theatre production of Billy Elliot the Musical. His notable TV roles include Richard Grey in The White Queen (2013) and Tommen Baratheon in the HBO fantasy series Game of Thrones (2014–2016). He also portrayed Tom Blake in Sam Mendes's film 1917 (2019) and Thomas of Lancaster in David Michôd's The King (2019).

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07/09/1996

Donovan Mitchell, American basketball player

Donovan Vernell Mitchell Jr. is an American professional basketball player for the Cleveland Cavaliers of the National Basketball Association (NBA). Nicknamed "Spida", he was drafted in the first round of the 2017 NBA draft and acquired by the Utah Jazz, whom he played for from 2017 to 2022. He is a seven-time NBA All-Star and two-time All-NBA Team member.

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07/09/1994

Elinor Barker, Welsh track cyclist

Elinor Jane Barker is a Welsh road and track cyclist, who has ridden for UCI Women's Team Uno-X Mobility since 2022. As a track cyclist, she is an Olympic champion in the team pursuit and a world champion in the team pursuit, madison, points race, and scratch race disciplines. She has won four Olympic medals during her career. Her overall tally of four Olympic medals is a record for a Welsh woman.

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Herman Ese'ese, New Zealand rugby league player

Herman Ese'ese is a professional rugby league footballer who plays as a prop and loose forward for Hull FC in the Super League. He has also played for both New Zealand and Samoa at international level.

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Tom Opacic, Australian rugby league player

Thomas Opacic is an Australian professional rugby league footballer who plays as a centre for the Redcliffe Dolphins in the Hostplus Cup.

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Kento Yamazaki, Japanese actor

Kento Yamazaki is a Japanese actor and model. He is best known for starring in manga adaptations, including the films Another (film) (2012), Jinx!!! (2013), L DK (2014), Orange (2015), Your Lie in April (2016), JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Diamond Is Unbreakable Chapter I (2017), Psychic Kusuo: The Disastrous Life of Saiki K. (2017), Kingdom (2019), and television series Death Note (2015) and Alice in Borderland (2020–2025). His other notable works include Kiss That Kills (2018) and Good Doctor (2018). Yamazaki is under the Japanese talent agency Stardust Promotion.

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07/09/1992

Miniminter, English YouTuber

Simon Edward Minter, better known as Miniminter, is an English influencer and streamer. He is a member and co-founder of the British influencer group the Sidemen, as well as a co-owner of XIX Vodka, Sidemen Clothing, restaurant chain Sides, and cereal brand Best Breakfasts. He is also the co-founder of M7 Education, a non-profit organization.

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07/09/1991

Dale Finucane, Australian rugby league player

Dale Finucane is a former Australian professional rugby league footballer who played as a lock forward for the Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks in the National Rugby League (NRL). Finucane is a dual premiership winner 2017 and 2020 with the Melbourne Storm.

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Amar Garibović, Serbian skier (died 2010)

Amar Garibović was a Serbian cross-country skier who had competed since 2004. He finished 80th in the 15 km event at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver.

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07/09/1990

Libor Hudáček, Slovak ice hockey player

Libor Hudáček is a Slovak professional ice hockey player who is a forward for HC Oceláři Třinec of the Czech Extraliga (ELH). He is the younger brother of Július Hudáček, who is a goaltender.

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Fedor Klimov, Russian figure skater

Fedor Alexandrovich Klimov is a retired Russian pair skater. With partner Ksenia Stolbova, he is the 2014 Olympic silver medalist, the 2014 Olympic champion in the team event, the 2014 World silver medalist, a three-time European medalist, the 2015–16 Grand Prix Final champion, the 2013 Winter Universiade champion, a two-time World Junior medalist, and a three-time Russian national champion.

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07/09/1989

Jonathan Majors, American actor

Jonathan Michael Majors is an American actor. A graduate of the Yale School of Drama, Majors rose to prominence for starring in the drama films The Last Black Man in San Francisco (2019) and Da 5 Bloods (2020), and the HBO horror series Lovecraft Country (2020), for which he received a nomination from the Primetime Emmy Awards.

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07/09/1988

Alex Harvey, Canadian skier

Alex Harvey is a retired Canadian cross-country skier who competed between 2005 and 2019. Harvey is also a member of the Quebec Provincial Cycling Team.

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Kevin Love, American basketball player

Kevin Wesley Love is an American professional basketball player for the Utah Jazz of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He is a five-time All-Star and a two-time member of the All-NBA Second Team, winning an NBA championship with the Cleveland Cavaliers in 2016. He was also a member of the gold medal-winning United States national team at the 2010 FIBA World Championship and the 2012 Summer Olympics. In 2011, Love won the NBA Most Improved Player Award and led the league in rebounding.

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07/09/1987

Tommy Elphick, English footballer

Tommy Elphick is an English former professional footballer who played as a centre-back and currently an assistant manager at Premier League club AFC Bournemouth.

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Sammy Moore, English footballer

Samuel Leslie Moore is an English former professional footballer who was most recently the manager of Potters Bar Town.

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Danny North, English footballer

Daniel Jamie North is an English football coach and former professional footballer who is the assistant manager of Brigg Town

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Patrick Robinson, American football player

Patrick Robinson is an American former professional football player who was a cornerback in the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Florida State Seminoles, and was selected by the Saints in the first round of the 2010 NFL draft. Robinson has also played for the San Diego Chargers, Indianapolis Colts and Philadelphia Eagles.

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Evan Rachel Wood, American actress and singer

Evan Rachel Wood is an American actress. She is the recipient of a Critics' Choice Television Award as well as nominations for three Primetime Emmy Awards and three Golden Globe Awards.

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Aleksandra Wozniak, Canadian tennis player

Aleksandra Wozniak is a Canadian former tennis player. She turned professional in November 2005, and achieved a career-best ranking of No. 21 in June 2009, making her the fifth highest-ranked Canadian singles player of all time. She won one WTA and eleven ITF tournaments. At the Bank of the West Classic in Stanford in 2008, she became the first Canadian in 20 years to capture a WTA singles title and the first Quebecer in history to have accomplished such a feat. She reached a career-high ITF junior ranking of No. 3 on January 31, 2005. Wozniak was named Female Player of the Year by Tennis Canada five times.

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07/09/1986

Charlie Daniels, English footballer

Charles John Daniels is an English professional football coach and former player who is currently a first-team coach for EFL Championship club Watford.

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Colin Delaney, American wrestler

Colin Matthew Delaney is an American professional wrestler. He is best known for his time with WWE on its ECW brand. He is currently performs on the independent circuit. He is best known for his tenures with Squared Circle Wrestling, Chikara, NWA Upstate, Combat Zone Wrestling and International Wrestling Cartel (IWC).

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07/09/1985

Radhika Apte, Indian actress

Radhika Charudutt Apte is an Indian actress who works predominantly in Hindi films and television. She began acting in theatre and made her film debut with a brief role in the fantasy drama Vaah! Life Ho Toh Aisi! (2005). Her first lead role was in the 2009 Bengali drama Antaheen. She gained attention for her supporting roles in three of her 2015 Bollywood productions: the revenge drama Badlapur, the comedy Hunterrr, and the biographical film Manjhi - The Mountain Man. Her leading roles in the 2016 independent films Phobia and Parched earned her acclaim.

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Wade Davis, American baseball player

Wade Allen Davis is an American former professional baseball pitcher. He has played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Tampa Bay Rays, Kansas City Royals, Chicago Cubs, and Colorado Rockies. Davis is a three-time MLB All-Star. He was a member of the Royals' 2015 World Series-winning team, and earned the Babe Ruth Award for his performance in the 2015 MLB playoffs.

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Alyssa Diaz, American actress

Alyssa Elaine Diaz is an American actress. She is known for her roles on television, such as Celia Ortega on the CBS daytime soap opera As the World Turns, Jasmine on the ABC Family series The Nine Lives of Chloe King, Gloria Cruz on Lifetime's Army Wives, Teresa on Showtime's Ray Donovan, Dariela Marzan on the CBS series Zoo, and Detective Angela Lopez on the ABC series The Rookie.

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Adam Eckersley, English footballer

Adam James Eckersley is an English former professional footballer who played primarily as a full-back. He is the older brother of fellow professional footballer Richard Eckersley.

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Eric Fehr, Canadian ice hockey player

Eric Fehr is a Canadian former professional ice hockey centre. He most recently played under contract with Ak Bars Kazan in the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL). He was drafted in the first round, 18th overall, by the Washington Capitals in the 2003 NHL entry draft. In addition to two separate stints with Washington, Fehr has also played in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the Winnipeg Jets, Pittsburgh Penguins, Toronto Maple Leafs, San Jose Sharks and the Minnesota Wild. Fehr initially ended his professional career after having played two seasons with Genève-Servette HC of the National League (NL) before resuming to play in the KHL.

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Rafinha, Brazilian footballer

Márcio Rafael Ferreira de Souza, commonly known as Rafinha, is a Brazilian former professional footballer who played as a right-back. He was known as a skilled defender with good passing skills, quick pace, agility and a strong shot. He had earned four caps with the Brazil national team. Since 2015, he has had German citizenship.

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07/09/1984

Ben Hollingsworth, Canadian actor

Benjamin Hollingsworth is a Canadian actor. He is best known for his role on the CBS television series Code Black (2015–2018) and for his role as Daniel Brady in Netflix's Virgin River (2019–present).

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Farveez Maharoof, Sri Lankan cricketer

Mohamed Farveez Maharoof, or Farveez Maharoof, is a Sri Lankan former professional cricketer, who played Tests and ODIs. He first made his impression in the 2004 Under-19 Cricket World Cup in which he captained the Sri Lankan team. He enjoyed a prolific school career for Wesley College, with a highest score of 243 and best bowling figures of 8 for 20. An all-rounder, he made his Test debut in 2004. He was part of the Sri Lankan team which finished as runners-up at the 2007 Cricket World Cup.

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Miranda, Brazilian footballer

João Miranda de Souza Filho, known as Miranda, is a Brazilian former professional footballer who played as a centre-back.

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Vera Zvonareva, Russian tennis player

Vera Igorevna Zvonareva is a Russian professional tennis player. Her career-high singles ranking is world No. 2, and No. 7 in doubles by the WTA. Zvonareva has won twelve singles titles, including the 2009 Indian Wells Open, and reached the finals of the 2008 WTA Tour Championships, 2010 Wimbledon Championships, and 2010 US Open. She was also a bronze medalist at the 2008 Beijing Olympics.

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Pelin Karahan, Turkish actress

Vildan Pelin Karahan Güntay is a Turkish actress and TV host, best known for her portrayal of Mihrimah Sultan, Sultan Süleyman's only daughter in Muhteşem Yüzyıl and in Kavak Yelleri.

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07/09/1983

Philip Deignan, Irish cyclist

Philip Deignan is an Irish former professional road racing cyclist, who rode professionally between 2005 and 2018 for the Ag2r–La Mondiale, Cervélo TestTeam, Team RadioShack, UnitedHealthcare and Team Sky squads. A former Olympian, Deignan won a stage in the 2009 Vuelta a España, and finished in the top ten in the general classification.

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Annette Dytrt, German figure skater

Annette Dytrt, also Dytrtová, is a German former competitive figure skater who also competed internationally for the Czech Republic. She is the 1999 Czech national champion and the 2003–06 German national champion.

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Pops Mensah-Bonsu, English-American basketball player

Nana Papa Yaw "Pops" Mensah-Bonsu is a British basketball executive and former player. He played college basketball for George Washington University and professionally for five National Basketball Association (NBA) teams as well as clubs in Spain, France, Turkey, Russia, Italy, Israel, and Greece. On an international level, he represented Great Britain and was a member of Team GB at the London 2012 Olympic Games. He also served as general manager of the Capital City Go-Go of the NBA G League from 2018 to 2020. Throughout his career, he was known for his saying "No Mercy" after blocking a shot. A documentary entitled "No Mercy", was released at the end of his career, documenting his ups and downs and him being known for being a "less heralded" player by the media.

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Piri Weepu, New Zealand rugby player

Piri Awahou Tihou Weepu is a New Zealand retired rugby union player. Weepu played most recently for Wairarapa Bush in the Heartland Championship. Generally Weepu played as a half-back but also played at first five-eighth on occasion. He has represented the New Zealand national side, the All Blacks, between 2004 and 2013. He first won national honours against Wales in 2004. In 2005 was called back into the All Blacks squad for the first Tri Nations test against South Africa, having missed selection for the 2005 British & Irish Lions tour. He represented the Hurricanes and Blues in Super Rugby, and Wellington and Auckland in the Mitre 10 Cup. He also had brief spells with several clubs in Europe. In October 2017, Weepu announced his retirement as a rugby player.

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07/09/1982

Andre Dirrell, American boxer

Andre Dirrell is an American professional boxer.

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George Bailey, Australian cricketer

George John Bailey is a former Australian cricketer, who played all formats for the national team and captained the team in limited-over formats. Domestically, Bailey played for the Tasmanian cricket team in all three domestic state competitions as well as the Hobart Hurricanes and Melbourne Stars in the Twenty20 Big Bash's successor, the KFC Big Bash League. He has also played in the Indian Premier League and T20 Blast, and in Scotland with Grange Cricket Club. Bailey was a member of the Australian team that won the 2015 Cricket World Cup.

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Emese Szász, Hungarian fencer

Emese Szász is a Hungarian left-handed épée fencer, three-time Olympian, and 2016 individual Olympic champion.

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07/09/1981

Gökhan Zan, Turkish footballer

Gökhan Zan is a Turkish former professional footballer who played as a centre-back.

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Vangelis, Mexican wrestler

Vangelis is the ring name of a Mexican luchador known for his work for the Mexican professional wrestling promotion Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL). He portrays a rudo wrestling character. He has formerly worked for AAA in Mexico, Dragon Gate in Japan and extensively on the Mexican independent circuit. Vangelis is the winner of the 2013 En Busca de un Ídolo tournament and a former holder of the Mexican National Light Heavyweight Championship.

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07/09/1980

Emre Belözoğlu, Turkish footballer

Emre Belözoğlu, simply known as Emre, is a Turkish football manager and former professional footballer who is currently head coach of Kasımpaşa.

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Sara Carrigan, Australian cyclist

Sara Carrigan is a professional cyclist from Australia, who commenced her cycling career in 1996 at the age of fifteen and is currently a member of the Belgian Lotto–Belisol Ladiesteam.

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Gabriel Milito, Argentine footballer

Gabriel Alejandro Milito is an Argentine professional football coach and former player who played as a centre-back. He is currently head coach of Liga MX club Guadalajara.

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Javad Nekounam, Iranian footballer

Javad Nekounam is an Iranian football manager and former player who played as a midfielder. He holds the record for the most appearances for the Iranian national team with 149 caps.

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J. D. Pardo, American actor

Jorge Daniel Pardo is an American actor. He is best known for playing the lead role of Ezekiel "EZ" Reyes in the television series Mayans M.C. (2018–2023), as well as a young Jack Toretto in F9 (2021).

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Mark Prior, American baseball player

Mark William Prior is an American former professional baseball pitcher and current coach. A onetime top prospect of the Chicago Cubs, he pitched for the team from 2002 to 2006 in a career that was marred by injuries. In his prime, his repertoire of pitches included a mid-90s mph fastball, a curveball, and a changeup. He is the pitching coach for the Los Angeles Dodgers.

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07/09/1979

Nathan Hindmarsh, Australian rugby league player and sportscaster

Nathan William Hindmarsh is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer who captained the Parramatta Eels in the NRL. A New South Wales State of Origin and Australian international representative second-row forward, he played his entire career at the Eels, in 2010 breaking the record for most games with the club. On 28 August 2018, Hindmarsh was inducted into the Parramatta Eels hall of fame.

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Paul Mara, American ice hockey player

Paul Richard Mara is an American former professional ice hockey defenceman, former head coach of the Boston Pride in the PHF, and current Assistant Coach of the Hartford WolfPack in the AHL. Additionally, he served temporarily as an Assistant to Player Development for the New York Rangers of the NHL in 2023-24.

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Owen Pallett, Canadian singer-songwriter and keyboard player

Owen Pallett is a Canadian composer, violinist, keyboardist, and vocalist. Under their former pseudonym Final Fantasy, Pallett won the 2006 Polaris Music Prize for the album He Poos Clouds. Pallett is also known for their contributions to Arcade Fire, having served as a string arranger and touring member of the band. In January 2014, Pallett and Arcade Fire member William Butler were nominated for Best Original Score at the 86th Academy Awards for their original score of the film Her (2013).

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Brian Stokes, American baseball player

Brian Alexander Stokes is an American former professional baseball pitcher. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Tampa Bay Devil Rays, New York Mets, and Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim.

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07/09/1978

Matt Cooke, Canadian ice hockey player

Matthew David Cooke is a Canadian professional ice hockey coach and former player who played sixteen seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL). Cooke won the Stanley Cup with the Pittsburgh Penguins in 2009 and was a member of the Team Canada team that won the gold medal at the 2004 World Championships. He also played for the Vancouver Canucks, Washington Capitals, and Minnesota Wild. Cooke was born in Belleville, Ontario, but grew up in Stirling, Ontario. He served as head coach of the Newfoundland Growlers for the 2023/24 season.

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Erwin Koen, Dutch footballer

Erwin Koen is a Dutch former footballer who played as a striker. Most of his career he played in the 2. Bundesliga.

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Ersin Güreler, Turkish footballer

Ersin Güreler is a retired Turkish footballer who primarily played as a left back. Known for his attacking style of play, he represented 12 different teams in Turkish football. However, his involvement in the Gülen movement came under scrutiny following the attempted coup d'etat in July 2016. Subsequently, in January 2020, Güreler was convicted and sentenced to 6 years and 3 months in prison for being a member of an armed terror organization due to his connections with the Gülen movement.

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Devon Sawa, Canadian actor

Devon Edward Sawa is a Canadian actor. Born and raised in Vancouver, Sawa began his career promoting children's action toys. He made his film debut with a supporting role in Little Giants (1994) and received wide recognition for playing the title role as a human boy in Casper (1995). Sawa also had starring roles in the films Wild America (1997), SLC Punk! (1998), Idle Hands (1999), and Final Destination (2000).

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07/09/1977

Mateen Cleaves, American basketball player

Mateen Ahmad Cleaves is an American former professional basketball player who currently serves as an assistant coach for the Phoenix Suns of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played parts of six seasons in the NBA. He was an All-American college player for Michigan State, where he led the Spartans to a national championship in 2000. He has also worked as a studio analyst for Fox Sports.

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Molly Holly, American wrestler and trainer

Nora Kristina Greenwald is an American retired professional wrestler. She is signed to WWE, under the ring name Molly Holly, as a producer. She is also known for her tenure in World Championship Wrestling (WCW) as Miss Madness and Mona from 1999 to 2000.

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Jon Macken, English-Irish footballer

Jonathan Paul Macken is a football manager and former professional player who played as a striker. He is manager of Stalybridge Celtic.

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07/09/1976

Wavell Hinds, Jamaican cricketer

Wavell Wayne Hinds is a Jamaican politician and former West Indian international cricketer. He was a left-handed batsman and occasional right-arm medium-pace bowler.

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Oliver Hudson, American actor

Oliver Rutledge Hudson is an American actor. He is known for his roles as Adam Rhodes in the CBS comedy series Rules of Engagement (2007–2013), Jeff Fordham on the ABC musical drama series Nashville (2013–2015) and Wes Gardner in the Fox horror comedy Scream Queens (2015–2016). He appeared as one of the main cast members of the ABC sitcom Splitting Up Together (2018–2019), produced by Ellen DeGeneres. In 2022, he played FBI agent Garrett Miller in Fox's The Cleaning Lady.

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07/09/1975

Norifumi Abe, Japanese motorcycle racer (died 2007)

Norifumi "Norick" Abe , or Norick Abe (ノリック・アベ) was a Japanese professional motorcycle road racer. He competed in the FIM Grand Prix motorcycle racing world championships from 1994 to 2004. Abe died in a road traffic crash in October 2007.

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Harold Wallace, Costa Rican footballer and manager

Harold Wallace McDonald is a Costa Rican former footballer who played as a right-back and central midfielder.

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07/09/1974

Mario Frick, Swiss-Liechtensteiner footballer

Mario Frick is a Liechtensteiner retired professional footballer who is currently a manager for Luzern. He has earned 125 caps and scored a national record 16 goals for his country from his international debut in 1993 until his retirement in 2015. Mainly a striker, Frick was also deployed as a centre-back on occasion.

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Antonio McDyess, American basketball player

Antonio Kitchen McDyess is an American former professional basketball player. Listed at 6 ft 9 in (2.06 m) and 240 pounds (110 kg), McDyess played as a power forward. He played college basketball for the Alabama Crimson Tide.

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07/09/1973

Shannon Elizabeth, American model and actress

Shannon Elizabeth Fadal is an American actress, activist, and poker player. Her roles in the Scary Movie (2000) and the American Pie film series solidified her status as a sex symbol of the 1990s and 2000s.

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Alex Kurtzman, American director, producer, and screenwriter

Alexander Hilary Kurtzman is an American filmmaker. He is best known for co-writing the scripts to Transformers (2007), Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009), Star Trek (2009), Star Trek Into Darkness (2013), and The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (2014) with his writing and producing partner Roberto Orci, and directing and co-writing The Mummy (2017). He made his directorial debut with People Like Us (2012), co-written alongside Orci and Jody Lambert.

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07/09/1972

Jason Isringhausen, American baseball player and coach

Jason Derik Isringhausen is an American former professional baseball pitcher. He played 16 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the New York Mets, Oakland Athletics, St. Louis Cardinals, Tampa Bay Rays, and Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim. Isringhausen was, with Bill Pulsipher and Paul Wilson, a member of "Generation K", a group of highly regarded Mets prospects. Isringhausen proceeded to have a successful career as a closer, recording exactly 300 career saves. He was a two-time All-Star and led the National League in saves in 2004.

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07/09/1971

Gene Pritsker, American composer

Gene Pritsker is a composer, guitarist, rapper and record producer living in New York City. He moved to the United States with his family in 1978 and lived in Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn. He attended the Manhattan School of Music from 1990 to 1994 where he studied composition with Giampaolo Bracali.

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Shane Mosley, American boxer and trainer

Shane Mosley, often known by his nickname "Sugar" Shane Mosley, is an American former professional boxer who competed from 1993 to 2016. He held multiple world championships in three weight classes, including the IBF lightweight title; the WBA (Super) and WBC welterweight titles; and the WBA (Super), WBC, and The Ring magazine light middleweight titles. He was also a lineal champion at welterweight (twice) and light middleweight.

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07/09/1970

Monique Gabriela Curnen, American actress

Monique Gabriela Curnen is an American actress.

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Gino Odjick, Canadian ice hockey player (died 2023)

Wayne Gino Odjick was a Canadian professional ice hockey left winger who played 12 seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL) from 1990 to 2002 for the Vancouver Canucks, New York Islanders, Philadelphia Flyers and Montreal Canadiens.

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Tom Everett Scott, American actor

Thomas Everett Scott is an American actor. His film work includes a starring role as drummer Guy Patterson in the film That Thing You Do!, the protagonist in An American Werewolf in Paris, and notable roles in Boiler Room, One True Thing, Dead Man on Campus, The Love Letter, Because I Said So, Danger One, La La Land, and Clouds.

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07/09/1969

Darren Bragg, American baseball player and coach

Darren William Bragg is an American former professional baseball outfielder and coach who played 11 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB). He played for the Seattle Mariners, Boston Red Sox, St. Louis Cardinals, Colorado Rockies, New York Mets, New York Yankees, Atlanta Braves, San Diego Padres, and Cincinnati Reds.

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Angie Everhart, American actress and model

Angela Kay Everhart is an American actress and former model who appeared in several Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issues in the 1990s and posed nude for Playboy in 2000.

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Diane Farr, American actress

Diane Farr is an American actress, producer, and author. Her television roles have included FBI agent Megan Reeves in Numb3rs, the firefighter Laura Miles in Rescue Me, and the division chief Sharon Leone in Fire Country.

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Rudy Galindo, American figure skater

Val Joe "Rudy" Galindo is an American former competitive figure skater who competed in both single skating and pair skating. As a single skater, he is the 1996 U.S. national champion, 1987 World Junior Champion, and 1996 World Bronze medalist. As a pairs skater, he competed with Kristi Yamaguchi and was the 1988 World Junior Champion and the 1989 and 1990 U.S. National Champion. He is the first openly gay skating champion in the United States, though US, World and Olympic champion Brian Boitano came out long after his career was over.

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07/09/1968

Marcel Desailly, Ghanaian-French footballer

Marcel David Desailly is a former professional footballer, who played as a centre-back or defensive midfielder. During a successful career at club level, lasting from 1986 to 2006, Desailly won several titles, including UEFA Champions League medals with both Marseille and AC Milan, and also played for Nantes and Chelsea, among other teams. At international level, he collected 116 caps between 1993 and 2004, scoring three goals, and was a member of the France international squads that won the 1998 World Cup and Euro 2000.

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Gennadi Krasnitski, Russian figure skater and coach

Gennadi Viacheslavovich Krasnitski (Vanisyan) (Russian: Геннадий Вячеславович Красницкий (Ванисян), 7 September 1968) is a former Soviet pair skater. He is a two-time (1986, 1987) World Junior champion with partner Elena Leonova.

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07/09/1967

Leslie Jones, American comedian and actress

Annette Leslie Jones is an American stand-up comedian and actress. She was a cast member and writer for the NBC sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live from 2014 to 2019, and hosted the ABC game show Supermarket Sweep. She has also been a featured performer at the Just for Laughs festival in Montreal and the Aspen Comedy Festival. In 2010, her one-hour comedy special, Problem Child, was broadcast on Showtime. Jones starred in Ghostbusters (2016) as Patty Tolan. In 2017 and 2018, Jones was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series for her work on Saturday Night Live.

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Alok Sharma, Indian-English accountant and politician

Alok Kumar Sharma, Baron Sharma, is a British politician. A member of the Conservative Party, he served as President for COP26 from 2021 to 2022, having previously served as Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy from 2020 to 2021 and Secretary of State for International Development from 2019 to 2020. He was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Reading West from 2010 to 2024 and has been a member of the House of Lords since 2024.

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07/09/1966

Vladimir Andreyev, Russian race walker

Vladimir Vasilyevich Andreyev was a Russian race walker. He died on 16 April 2024, at the age of 57.

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Lutz Heilmann, German politician

Lutz Heilmann is a German politician of the left-wing party Die Linke. He was elected to the Bundestag in the 2005 federal election as a member of the party list in Schleswig-Holstein. Shortly thereafter it was revealed that he had worked for the Stasi from 1985 to 1990. Heilmann drew national and international media attention when he caused the website www.wikipedia.de to be blocked by a preliminary injunction on 13 November 2008. His Bundestag term ended in 2009, and he failed to be nominated for a second term.

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Toby Jones, English actor

Toby Edward Heslewood Jones is an English actor. He is known for his extensive character actor roles on stage and screen. From 1989 to 1991, Jones trained at L'École Internationale de Théâtre Jacques Lecoq. He made his stage debut in 2001 in the comedy play The Play What I Wrote, which played in the West End and on Broadway, earning him a Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role. In 2020, he was nominated for his second Olivier Award, for Best Actor for his performance in a revival of Anton Chekov's Uncle Vanya.

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Gunda Niemann-Stirnemann, German speed skater

Gunda Niemann-Stirnemann is a German former speed skater. She is a three-time Olympic gold medallist, winning the 3000 metres in 1992 and 1998 and the 5000 metres in 1992. She won a total of eight Olympic medals.

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Andrew Voss, Australian sportscaster and author

Andrew Voss is an Australian rugby league commentator and radio and television personality who works for Fox League.

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07/09/1965

Angela Gheorghiu, Romanian soprano

Angela Gheorghiu is a Romanian soprano, especially known for her performances in the operas of Puccini and Verdi, widely recognised by critics and opera lovers as one of the greatest sopranos of all time.

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Darko Pančev, Macedonian footballer

Darko Pančev is a Macedonian former professional footballer who played as a forward. He most notably played for FK Vardar and Red Star Belgrade.

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Uta Pippig, German runner

Uta Pippig is a retired German long-distance runner, and the first woman to officially win the Boston Marathon three consecutive times (1994–1996). She also won the Berlin Marathon three times ; the 1993 New York City Marathon; represented Germany at the Olympic Games in 1992 and 1996, and won a bronze medal at the 1991 World 15km Road Race Championship. Her marathon best of 2:21:45 set in Boston in 1994, made her the third-fastest female marathon runner in history at that time.

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Tomáš Skuhravý, Czech footballer

Tomáš Skuhravý is a Czech former footballer who played as a striker. He scored five goals for Czechoslovakia in 1990 FIFA World Cup at international level.

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Andreas Thom, German footballer and manager

Andreas Thom is a German former professional footballer who played as a forward for BFC Dynamo, Bayer Leverkusen, Celtic and Hertha BSC. He played 51 times for East Germany throughout the 1980s and played ten times for the unified Germany national team in the early 1990s. He is now retired from playing and works as a youth coach at Hertha BSC.

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07/09/1964

Eazy-E, American rapper and producer (died 1995)

Eric Lynn Wright, known professionally as Eazy-E, was an American rapper who propelled West Coast rap and gangsta rap by leading the group N.W.A and its label, Ruthless Records. Wright is often referred to as the "Godfather of Gangsta Rap".

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07/09/1963

Neerja Bhanot, Indian flight purser

Neerja Bhanot was an Indian flight attendant. On 5 September 1986, she saved a large number of passengers on board Pan Am Flight 73, which had been hijacked by four terrorists from the Abu Nidal Organization after it made a stopover at Jinnah International Airport in Karachi, Pakistan. Around 17 hours into the standoff, after she opened an emergency exit door and began helping passengers escape from the plane, Neerja was shot and killed by the hijackers. Shortly afterward, Pakistan's Special Service Group stormed the aircraft and captured all of the hijackers.

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W. Earl Brown, American actor

William Earl Brown is an American actor, screenwriter, producer, musician, and songwriter. He is perhaps best known for his roles as Kenny, the cameraman in the film Scream (1996), Warren in the film There's Something About Mary (1998), Dan Dority on the HBO series Deadwood (2004–2006), and the voice and motion capture of Bill in the video game The Last of Us (2013). He has appeared in films such as Backdraft, The Master, Being John Malkovich, The Sessions, Vanilla Sky, The Lone Ranger, and Bloodworth, as well as series such as Seinfeld, NYPD Blue, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, CSI: Miami, The X-Files, Six Feet Under, Preacher, Bates Motel, True Detective, American Horror Story, Chicago Fire, Psych, and The Mandalorian.

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07/09/1962

Jennifer Egan, American novelist and short story writer

Jennifer Egan is an American novelist and short-story writer. Her novel, A Visit from the Goon Squad, won the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction. From 2018 to 2020, she served as the president of PEN America.

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George South, American wrestler

George South is an American professional wrestler. In the course of his career, South has wrestled for professional wrestling promotions such as Jim Crockett Promotions, the National Wrestling Alliance, Smoky Mountain Wrestling, Juggalo Championship Wrestling, World Championship Wrestling and the World Wrestling Federation.

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Hasan Vezir, Turkish footballer and manager

Hasan Vezir is a Turkish football manager and former player.

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07/09/1961

LeRoi Moore, American saxophonist and songwriter (died 2008)

LeRoi Holloway Moore was an American saxophonist. He was a founding member of the Dave Matthews Band. Moore often arranged music for songs written by Dave Matthews. Moore also co-wrote many of the band's songs, notably "Too Much" and "Stay ".

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Jean-Yves Thibaudet, French pianist

Jean-Yves Thibaudet is a French pianist.

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07/09/1960

Brad Houser, American bass player (died 2023)

John Bradley Houser was an American bass guitar, baritone saxophone and bass clarinet player, originally from Dallas, Texas. He was a co-founding member of the New Bohemians, later to become known as Edie Brickell & New Bohemians. He also co-founded Critters Buggin with fellow New Bohemian Matt Chamberlain, Mike Dillon, and Skerik.

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Ersin Tatar, Turkish Cypriot politician

Ersin Tatar is a Turkish Cypriot politician who served as the fifth President of Northern Cyprus from 2020 to 2025. He previously served as the fourth Prime Minister of Northern Cyprus following the collapse of Tufan Erhürman's coalition government in 2019, and remained so until his election as president. He was also the leader of the National Unity Party (UBP) and Leader of the Opposition from 2018 until his election.

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07/09/1958

Walter White, American fictional protagonist of television series Breaking Bad (died 2010)

Walter Hartwell White, also known by his alias Heisenberg, is a fictional character and the main protagonist of the American crime drama television series Breaking Bad. He is portrayed by Bryan Cranston.

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07/09/1957

Jermaine Stewart, American singer-songwriter and dancer (died 1997)

William Jermaine Stewart was an American R&B singer, best known for his 1986 hit single "We Don't Have to Take Our Clothes Off", which peaked at number five on the Billboard Hot 100. It also peaked within the top ten of the charts in Canada, Ireland, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom. His 1987 song "Say It Again" reached number seven in the United Kingdom.

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07/09/1956

Michael Feinstein, American singer and pianist

Michael Jay Feinstein is an American singer, pianist, and music revivalist. He is an archivist and interpreter for the repertoire known as the Great American Songbook. In 1988, he won a Drama Desk Special Award for celebrating American musical theater songs. Feinstein is a five-time Grammy-nominated recording artist. He is the founder of the Great American Songbook Foundation and the artistic director for Allied Solutions Center for the Performing Arts in Carmel, Indiana.

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Byron Stevenson, Welsh footballer (died 2007)

William Byron Stevenson was a Welsh international footballer.

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Diane Warren, American songwriter

Diane Eve Warren is an American songwriter. She has won an Academy Honorary Award, a Grammy Award, an Emmy Award, two Golden Globe Awards, and three consecutive Billboard Music Awards for Songwriter of the Year from 1997 to 1999. She first gained recognition for her work on DeBarge's 1985 single "Rhythm of the Night". By the late 1980s, she joined the record label EMI, where she became the first songwriter in the history of Billboard magazine to have written seven hit songs, each recorded by different artists, on the charts at the same time, prompting EMI's UK Chairman Peter Reichardt to call her "the most important songwriter in the world". Warren has received 17 nominations for Academy Awards, the most of any individual without a win. She received an honorary Oscar at the Governors Awards in November 2022.

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07/09/1955

Mira Furlan, Croatian-American actress (died 2021)

Mira Furlan was a Croatian-American actress and singer. Internationally, she was best known for her roles as the Minbari Ambassador Delenn in the science fiction television series Babylon 5 (1993–1998), and as Danielle Rousseau in Lost (2004–2010), and also appeared in multiple award-winning films such as When Father Was Away on Business (1985) and The Abandoned (2010).

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07/09/1954

Corbin Bernsen, American actor

Corbin Dean Bernsen is an American actor and film director. He appeared as divorce attorney Arnold Becker on the NBC drama series L.A. Law, as Dr. Alan Feinstone in The Dentist, as retired police detective Henry Spencer on the USA Network comedy-drama series Psych, and as Roger Dorn in the films Major League, Major League II, and Major League: Back to the Minors. He also appeared regularly on The Resident, The Curse, General Hospital, and Cuts, and has had intermittent appearances on The Young and the Restless.

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Michael Emerson, American actor

Michael Emerson is an American actor. He is best known for his roles as Benjamin Linus on Lost (2006–2010) and as Harold Finch in the CBS series Person of Interest (2011–2016). Other prominent roles include Zep Hindle in the horror film Saw (2004) and as Dr. Leland Townsend in the Paramount+ thriller series Evil (2019–2024).

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Kerrie Holley, American software architect and academic

Kerrie Lamont Holley is an American software engineer, author, and technology executive who is known for his pioneering work in service-oriented architecture (SOA) and his contributions to IBM's software development methodologies

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07/09/1953

Marc Hunter, New Zealand-Australian singer-songwriter (died 1998)

Marc Alexander Hunter was a New Zealand rock and pop singer, songwriter and record producer. He was the lead vocalist of Dragon, a band formed by his older brother, Todd Hunter, in Auckland in January 1972. They relocated to Sydney in May 1975. He was also a member of the Party Boys in 1985. For his solo career he issued five studio albums, Fiji Bitter, Big City Talk, Communication, Night and Day and Talk to Strangers. During the 1970s Hunter developed heroin and alcohol addictions and was incarcerated at Mt Eden Prison in Auckland in 1978. He was recklessly outspoken and volatile on-stage. In November 1978, during the band's American tour, supporting Johnny Winter, they performed in Dallas, Texas, where "he made some general stage observations about redneck buddies, illegal oral sex and utility trucks" and called the audience members "faggots". Upon his return to Australia, in February 1979, he was fired from the group by his brother, Todd.

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Benmont Tench, American keyboardist and songwriter

Benjamin Montmorency "Benmont" Tench III is an American musician and singer, and a founding member of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers.

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07/09/1952

Ricardo Tormo, Spanish motorcycle racer (died 1998)

Ricardo Tormo Blaya was a Spanish professional motorcycle road racer. He competed in Grand Prix motorcycle racing from 1973 to 1984, most prominently as a two-time 50cc world champion riding Bultaco motorcycles. The Circuit de Valencia race track was renamed Circuit de la Comunitat Valenciana Ricardo Tormo in his honor.

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07/09/1951

Chrissie Hynde, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

Christine Ellen Hynde is an American-British singer, songwriter, and musician. She is a founding member of the rock band the Pretenders and is the band's lead vocalist, guitarist, and primary songwriter. Hynde is the band's only original member and is the only continuous member of the Pretenders, having appeared on every studio album released by the band.

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Morris Albert, Brazilian singer-songwriter

Maurício Alberto Kaisermann, better known by his stage name Morris Albert, is a Brazilian singer and songwriter. He became known in more than 50 countries for his 1974 hit "Feelings", followed by "She's My Girl", and sold more than 10 million copies in Brazil.

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Mark Isham, American trumpet player and composer

Mark Ware Isham is an American musician and composer. A trumpeter and keyboardist, Isham works in a variety of genres, including jazz and electronic. He is also a prolific and acclaimed composer of film scores, and has scored over 200 film and television productions since his debut in 1983.

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Mark McCumber, American golfer

Mark Randall McCumber is an American professional golfer who has played on the PGA Tour and Champions Tour.

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Mammootty, Indian actor and producer

Muhammad Kutty Panaparambil Ismail, known professionally as Mammootty, is an Indian actor and film producer who works predominantly in Malayalam-language films. With a career spanning over five decades, he has appeared in over 400 films, predominantly in lead roles, across Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Hindi, and English languages. He is the recipient of several accolades, including three National Film Awards, eleven Kerala State Film Awards, eleven Kerala Film Critics Awards and fifteen Filmfare Awards South. He received the Padma Bhushan, the third-highest civilian award, in 2026 for his contributions to cinema, and earlier the Padma Shri, the fourth-highest civilian award, from the Government of India in 1998. He was also honoured with the Kerala Prabha Award by the Government of Kerala in 2022. Mammootty was named as one of "the men who changed the face of the Indian Cinema" by CNN-News18.

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07/09/1950

David Cannadine, English historian and author

Sir David Nicholas Cannadine is a British author and historian who specialises in modern history, Britain and the history of business and philanthropy. He is currently the Dodge Professor of History at Princeton University, a visiting professor of history at Oxford University, and the editor of the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. He was president of the British Academy between 2017 and 2021, the UK's national academy for the humanities and social sciences. He also serves as the chairman of the trustees of the National Portrait Gallery in London and vice-chair of the editorial board of Past & Present.

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Johann Friedrich, German-Australian engineer (died 1991)

Johann Friedrich Hohenberger OAM, also known as John Friedrich, was executive director of the National Safety Council of Australia during the 1980s. He was the subject of Victoria's biggest fraud case and known as "Australia's greatest conman".

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Julie Kavner, American actress

Julie Deborah Kavner is an American actress. Before becoming well known for her voice role as Marge Simpson on the animated television series The Simpsons, Kavner attracted notice for her role as Brenda Morgenstern, the younger sister of Valerie Harper's title character in the sitcom Rhoda, for which she won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series. She also voices other characters for The Simpsons, including Marge's mother, Jacqueline Bouvier, sisters Patty and Selma Bouvier, and half-step-great-aunt Eunice Bouvier.

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Peggy Noonan, American author, journalist, speechwriter, and pundit

Margaret Ellen Noonan is an American weekly columnist for The Wall Street Journal and contributor to NBC News and ABC News. She was a primary speechwriter and Special Assistant to President Ronald Reagan from 1984 to 1986. Five of Noonan's books have been New York Times bestsellers. Noonan was nominated for an Emmy Award for her work on America: A Tribute to Heroes.

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07/09/1949

Dianne Hayter, German-English politician

Dianne Hayter, Baroness Hayter of Kentish Town is a British politician serving as a Member of the House of Lords since 2010. A member of the Labour and Co-operative Party, she was Shadow Deputy Leader of the House of Lords from 2017 to 2021.

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Barry Siegel, American journalist and academic

Barry Siegel is an American journalist. He is a former national correspondent for the Los Angeles Times who won the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing in 2002 for his piece "A Father's Pain, a Judge's Duty, and a Justice Beyond Their Reach." In 2003, University of California, Irvine recruited Siegel to chair the school's new undergraduate degree program in literary journalism.

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07/09/1948

Susan Blakely, American actress

Susan Blakely is an American actress. She is best known for her leading role in the 1976 ABC miniseries Rich Man, Poor Man, for which she received a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Television Series Drama and an Emmy nomination for Best Actress. Blakely also has appeared in films including The Towering Inferno (1974), Report to the Commissioner (1975), Capone (1975), The Concorde... Airport '79 (1979) and Over the Top (1987).

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07/09/1947

Sergio Della Pergola, Israeli demographer and statistician

Sergio Della Pergola is an Italian-born Israeli demographer, statistician, and professor. He is an expert in demography and statistics related to the global Jewish population.

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07/09/1946

Willie Crawford, American baseball player (died 2004)

Willie Murphy Crawford was an American professional baseball outfielder. He played in the major leagues with the Los Angeles Dodgers (1964–1975), St. Louis Cardinals (1976), Houston Astros (1977) and Oakland Athletics (1977). Crawford was born in Los Angeles, California. He batted and threw left-handed, and was the father of UCLA football player Willie Crawford who graduated from Beverly Hills High School in 1988.

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Joe Klein, American journalist and author

Joe Klein is an American political commentator and author. He is best known for his work as a columnist for Time magazine and his novel Primary Colors, an anonymously written roman à clef portraying Bill Clinton's 1992 presidential campaign. Klein was a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and is a former Guggenheim Fellow. In April 2006 he published Politics Lost, a book on what he calls the "pollster–consultant industrial complex." He has also written articles and book reviews for The New Republic, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Life, and Rolling Stone.

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Suzyn Waldman, American sportscaster

Suzyn Waldman is an American sportscaster and former musical theater actress. Since the 2005 season, she has been the color commentator for New York Yankees baseball, working with John Sterling, Justin Shackil and Dave Sims on radio broadcasts, first for WCBS-AM and currently for WFAN in New York City.

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07/09/1945

Jacques Lemaire, Canadian ice hockey player and coach

Jacques Gérard Lemaire is a Canadian former ice hockey forward and head coach who was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1984. He spent his entire twelve-year National Hockey League (NHL) playing career with the Montreal Canadiens (1967–1979) and was a part of eight Stanley Cup championship teams in 1968, 1969, 1971, 1973, 1976, 1977, 1978 and 1979. When he retired, he was the first player to have played at least ten seasons and recorded a 20-goal season each time. In 2017, Lemaire was named one of the 100 Greatest NHL Players.

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Vic Pollard, English-New Zealand rugby player and footballer

Victor Pollard is an English-born former Test and One-Day International cricketer and footballer who represented New Zealand at the international level in both sports.

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Curtis Price, American musicologist and academic

Curtis Alexander Price, KBE was Warden of New College, Oxford, from October 2009 to September 2016. He was previously principal of the Royal Academy of Music from 1995 to 2008 and Professor of Music in the University of London. He retired as Warden of New College in August 2016.

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Peter Storey, English footballer

Peter Edwin Storey is an English former footballer. Able to play at full-back or more commonly as a defensive midfielder, he picked up a reputation in the Football League as an aggressive player in the 1960s and 1970s.

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07/09/1944

Forrest Blue, American football player (died 2011)

Forrest Murrell Blue Jr. was an American professional football center who spent eleven seasons in the National Football League (NFL) with the San Francisco 49ers from 1968 to 1974 and the Baltimore Colts from 1975 to 1978.

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Bertel Haarder, Danish lawyer and politician, Education Minister of Denmark

Bertel Geismar Haarder is a Danish writer, teacher and politician, who was a member of the Folketing for the Venstre political party. He has served as minister several times, including Minister of Education from 1982 to 1993 and again in 2005 to 2010, and most recently as Minister for Culture and Ecclesiastical Affairs from 2015 to 2016 in the L. L. Rasmussen II Cabinet. He is a former member of European Parliament, serving from 1994 to 2001. He has also served as president of the Nordic Council on two occasions, first in 2011 and latest from 2020 to 2021.

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Peter Larter, English rugby player

Peter John Larter is a former England international rugby union player.

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Earl Manigault, American basketball player and coach (died 1998)

Earl Manigault was an American street basketball player who was nicknamed "the Goat" or "the Lip". He is widely regarded as one of the greatest basketball players never to have played in the National Basketball Association (NBA).

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Bora Milutinović, Serbian footballer and manager

Velibor "Bora" Milutinović is a Serbian former professional footballer and manager.

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Houshang Moradi Kermani, Iranian author

Houshang Moradi Kermani is an Iranian writer best known for children's and young adult fiction. He was a finalist in 2014 for the Hans Christian Andersen Award.

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07/09/1943

Gloria Gaynor, American singer-songwriter

Gloria Fowles, known professionally as Gloria Gaynor, is an American singer, best known for the disco era hits "I Will Survive" (1978) which is one of the best-selling singles in history to date, having sold over 15 million copies worldwide, and "Let Me Know " (1979), "I Am What I Am" (1983), and her version of "Never Can Say Goodbye" (1974). She received the Kennedy Center Honor in 2025.

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Beverley McLachlin, Canadian lawyer and jurist, 17th Chief Justice of Canada

Beverley Marian McLachlin is a Canadian jurist and author who served as the 17th chief justice of Canada from 2000 to 2017. She is the longest-serving chief justice in Canadian history and the first woman to hold the position.

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07/09/1942

Billy Best, Scottish footballer

William James Blaikley Best is a former professional footballer who played football for Northampton Town and Southend United as a forward/winger. During his second spell with Northampton, he mainly performed in midfield and finally defence, as a centre back playing alongside the centre-half.

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Alan Oakes, English footballer and manager

Alan Arthur Oakes is an English former footballer who holds Manchester City's all-time record for appearances. Oakes is a midfielder who, in total, played 776 matches in the Football League – the tenth-most in history. He is a cousin of former teammate Glyn Pardoe, an uncle of defender Chris Blackburn, and the father of former goalkeeper Michael Oakes.

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Andrew Stone, Baron Stone of Blackheath, English businessman and politician

Andrew Zelig Stone, Baron Stone of Blackheath is a non-affiliated, and former Labour, member of the House of Lords.

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Jonathan H. Turner, American sociologist

Jonathan H. Turner, is a professor of sociology at University of California, Riverside.

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07/09/1940

Dario Argento, Italian director, producer, and screenwriter

Dario Argento is an Italian filmmaker. His influential work in the horror and giallo genres during the 1970s and 1980s has led him to being referred to as the "Master of the Thrill" and the "Master of Horror".

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Abdurrahman Wahid, Indonesian journalist and politician, 4th President of Indonesia (died 2009)

Abdurrahman Wahid, more colloquially known as Gus Dur, was an Indonesian politician and Islamic religious leader who served as the fourth president of Indonesia, from his election in 1999 until he was removed from office in 2001. A long time leader within the Nahdlatul Ulama organization, he was the founder of the National Awakening Party (PKB). He was the son of former Minister of Religious Affairs Wahid Hasyim, and the grandson of Nahdatul Ulama founder Hasyim Asy'ari. Due to a visual impairment caused by glaucoma, he was blind in the left eye and partially blind in his right eye. He was the first president of Indonesia to have had physical disabilities. He is also the first president to be almost fully blind.

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07/09/1939

Latimore, American singer-songwriter and pianist

Benjamin William Lattimore, known professionally as Latimore, is an American blues and R&B singer, songwriter and pianist. In 2017, Latimore was inducted in to the Blues Hall of Fame.

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Peter Gill, Welsh actor, director, and playwright

Peter Gill is a Welsh theatre director, playwright, and actor. He was born in Cardiff to George John and Margaret Mary Gill, and educated at St Illtyd's College, Cardiff.

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07/09/1937

John Phillip Law, American actor (died 2008)

John Phillip Law was an American actor.

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Oleg Lobov, Russian politician, Premier of the Russian SFSR (died 2018)

Oleg Ivanovich Lobov was a Russian politician who served as acting First Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic from 19 April 1991 to 15 November 1991 and also was acting Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Russian SFSR from 26 September 1991 to 15 November 1991, shortly before the dissolution of the Soviet Union.

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07/09/1936

George Cassidy, Northern Ireland jazz musician (died 2023)[citation needed]

George Cassidy was a Northern Irish jazz musician and music teacher from Bloomfield, Belfast, Northern Ireland, specializing in the tenor saxophone. He was also noted for teaching fellow Belfast musician Van Morrison music reading and notation and giving him saxophone lessons. Cassidy also played the clarinet, hurdy-gurdy and Hawaiian Guitar. Following a stint in a local beat band, Cassidy toured in Ireland playing saxophone behind Dusty Springfield with The Springfields. Cassidy was lead saxophonist with the Regal Accordion & Saxophone Band.

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Brian Hart, English race car driver and engineer, founded Brian Hart Ltd. (died 2014)

Brian Roger Hart was a British racing driver and engineer with a background in the aviation industry. He founded Brian Hart Limited, a company that developed and built engines for motorsport use.

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Buddy Holly, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 1959)

Charles Hardin Holley, known professionally by his stage name Buddy Holly, was an American singer, songwriter, and musician who was a central and pioneering figure of rock and roll. He was born to a musical family in Lubbock, Texas, during the Great Depression, and learned to play guitar and sing alongside his two siblings.

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Apostolos Kaklamanis, Greek lawyer and politician, Greek Minister of Justice

Apostolos Kaklamanis is a Greek politician and member of the Greek Parliament for the Panhellenic Socialist Movement (PASOK) for the Athens B constituency.

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07/09/1935

Abdou Diouf, Senegalese lawyer and politician, 2nd President of Senegal

Abdou Diouf is a Senegalese politician who was the second president of Senegal from 1981 to 2000.

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Dick O'Neal, American basketball player and dentist (died 2013)

Richard O'Neal was an American basketball player. He was an All-American college player at Texas Christian University (TCU) and a second round draft pick of the Boston Celtics in the 1957 NBA draft.

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07/09/1934

Mary Bauermeister, German painter and illustrator (died 2023)

Mary Hildegard Ruth Bauermeister was a German artist who worked in sculpture, drawing, installation, performance, and music. Influenced by Fluxus artists and Nouveau Réalisme, her work addresses esoteric issues of how information is transferable through society. "I only followed an inner drive to express what was not yet there, in reality or thought", she said of her practice. "To make art was more a finding, searching process than a knowing." Beginning in the 1970s, her work concentrated on the themes surrounding New Age spirituality, specifically geomancy, the divine interpretation of lines on the ground.

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Waldo de los Ríos, Argentine composer and conductor (died 1977)

Osvaldo Nicolás Ferraro Gutiérrez, better known as Waldo de los Ríos, was an Argentine composer, conductor and arranger.

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Sunil Gangopadhyay, Indian author and poet (died 2012)

Sunil Gangopadhyay or Sunil Ganguly was an Indian poet, novelist, short story writer, and critic. He played a key role in modernizing Bengali poetry and co-founded the 1953 avant-garde poetry magazine Krittibas. He has been called the most popular and prolific Bengali writer since Rabindranath Tagore, and "the man who carried the modern consciousness of Bengal."

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Omar Karami, Lebanese lawyer and politician, 58th Prime Minister of Lebanon (died 2015)

Omar Abdul Hamid Karami was the 39th prime minister of Lebanon for two non-consecutive terms. He was Prime Minister for the first time from 24 December 1990, when Selim al-Hoss gave up power, until May 1992, when he resigned due to economic instability. He was again Prime Minister from October 2004 to April 2005 as the 44th Prime Minister.

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Little Milton, American singer and guitarist (died 2005)

James Milton Campbell Jr., better known as Little Milton, was an American blues singer and guitarist, best known for his number-one R&B single "We're Gonna Make It". His other hits include "Baby, I Love You", "Who's Cheating Who?", and "Grits Ain't Groceries ".

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Hilpas Sulin, Finnish ice hockey player and coach (died 2025)

Hilpas Sulin was a Finnish ice-hockey player and coach. He played 87 matches and scored 50 points for HPK between the years 1952–1960. He also coached HPK from 1968 to 1975, and again from 1978 to 1981. Sulin died on 13 January 2025, at the age of 90.

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07/09/1932

Malcolm Bradbury, English author and academic (died 2000)

Sir Malcolm Stanley Bradbury, was an English author and academic.

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John Paul Getty Jr., American-English philanthropist and book collector (died 2003)

Sir John Paul Getty, known widely as John Paul Getty Jr., was a British-American businessman, philanthropist, and book collector. He was the third son of the American-born British oil tycoon J. Paul Getty (1892–1976), who was once the richest man in the world. His mother was J. Paul Getty's fourth wife, Ann Rork. The Getty family's wealth was the result of the oil business founded by George Franklin Getty. One of his sons, Mark Getty, co-founded the visual media company Getty Images.

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07/09/1931

Charles Camilleri, Maltese composer and conductor (died 2009)

Charles Camilleri was a Maltese composer.

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07/09/1930

Baudouin of Belgium (died 1993)

Baudouin was King of the Belgians from 17 July 1951 until his death in 1993. He was the last Belgian king to be sovereign of the Congo, before it became independent in 1960 and became the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

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Sonny Rollins, American saxophonist and composer

Walter Theodore "Sonny" Rollins is a retired American jazz tenor saxophonist who is widely recognized as one of the most important and influential jazz musicians.

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S. Sivanayagam, Sri Lankan journalist and author (died 2010)

Subramaniam Sivanayagam was a Sri Lankan journalist, author and editor of the Saturday Review, Tamil Nation and Hot Spring.

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Yuan Longping, Academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and an expert in hybrid rice (died 2021)

Yuan Longping was a Chinese agronomist and inventor. He was a member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering known for developing the first hybrid rice varieties in the 1970s, part of the Green Revolution in agriculture. For his contributions, Yuan is known as the "Father of Hybrid Rice". Yuan was bestowed the Medal of the Republic, the highest honorary medal of the People's Republic of China, in September 2019.

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07/09/1929

Clyde Lovellette, American basketball player (died 2016)

Clyde Edward Lovellette was an American professional basketball player. Lovellette was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 1988. He was the first basketball player in history to achieve the Triple Crown – playing on an NCAA championship team, Olympics gold medal basketball team, and NBA championship squad.

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07/09/1928

Kathleen Gorham, Australian ballerina (died 1983)

Kathleen Ann "Kathy" Gorham was an Australian ballerina.

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Al McGuire, American basketball player, coach, and commentator (died 2001)

Alfred James McGuire was an American college basketball coach and broadcaster, the head coach at Marquette University from 1964 to 1977. He won a national championship in his final season at Marquette, and was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 1992. He was also well known as a longtime national television basketball broadcaster and for his colorful personality.

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07/09/1927

Eric Hill, English-American author and illustrator (died 2014)

Eric Hill was an English author and illustrator of children's picture books. He was best known for his puppy character named Spot. His works have been widely praised for their contributions to child literacy.

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Claire L'Heureux-Dubé, Canadian lawyer and jurist

Claire L'Heureux-Dubé is a retired Canadian judge who served as a puisne justice on the Supreme Court of Canada from 1987 to 2002. She was the first woman from Quebec and the second woman appointed to this position, after Bertha Wilson. Previously, she had been one of the first female lawyers to handle divorce cases, and was the first woman appointed as a judge to the Quebec Superior Court and the Quebec Court of Appeal.

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07/09/1926

Samuel Goldwyn Jr., American director and producer (died 2015)

Samuel John Goldwyn Jr. was an American film producer.

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Donald J. Irwin, American lawyer and politician, 32nd Mayor of Norwalk (died 2013)

Donald Jay Irwin was a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Connecticut's 4th district, Connecticut State Treasurer and mayor of Norwalk, Connecticut.

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Patrick Jenkin, Baron Jenkin of Roding, English lawyer and politician, Secretary of State for the Environment (died 2016)

Charles Patrick Fleeming Jenkin, Baron Jenkin of Roding, was a British Conservative Party politician who served as a cabinet minister in Margaret Thatcher's first government.

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Erich Juskowiak, German footballer (died 1983)

Erich Juskowiak was a German footballer who played as a left-back. He earned 31 caps and 4 goals for the West Germany national team between 1951 and 1959. He played in the World Cup Finals in 1958 where West Germany reached the semi-final.

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Don Messick, American voice actor (died 1997)

Donald Earle Messick was an American voice actor, known for his performances in Hanna-Barbera cartoons. His best-remembered voice roles include Scooby-Doo; Bamm-Bamm Rubble and Hoppy in The Flintstones; Astro in The Jetsons; Muttley in Wacky Races and Dastardly and Muttley in Their Flying Machines; Boo-Boo Bear and Ranger Smith in The Yogi Bear Show; Sebastian the Cat in Josie and the Pussycats; Gears, Ratchet, and Scavenger in The Transformers; Papa Smurf and Azrael in The Smurfs; Hamton J. Pig in Tiny Toon Adventures; and Dr. Benton Quest in Jonny Quest.

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Ed Warren, American paranormal investigator and author (died 2006)

Edward Warren Miney and Lorraine Rita Warren were American paranormal investigators and authors associated with prominent cases of alleged hauntings. Edward was a self-taught and self-professed demonologist, author, lecturer and artist. Lorraine professed to be clairvoyant and a light trance medium who worked closely with her husband.

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07/09/1925

Laura Ashley, Welsh-English fashion designer, founded Laura Ashley plc (died 1985)

Laura Ashley was a Welsh fashion designer and businesswoman, who founded the eponymous fashion retailer. She originally made furnishing materials in the 1950s, expanding the business into clothing design and manufacture in the 1960s. The Laura Ashley style is characterised by Romantic designs – often with a 19th-century rural feel – and the use of natural fabrics.

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Allan Blakeney, Canadian lawyer and politician, 10th Premier of Saskatchewan (died 2011)

Allan Emrys Blakeney was a Canadian politician who served as the tenth premier of Saskatchewan from 1971 to 1982. Originally from Bridgewater, Nova Scotia, Blakeney moved to Regina, Saskatchewan, and worked in the province's civil service before running for office with the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF) under Tommy Douglas. Blakeney became leader of the Saskatchewan New Democratic Party (NDP) in 1970. Altogether, he was a member of the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan from 1960 to 1988.

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Bhanumathi Ramakrishna, Indian actress, singer, director, and producer (died 2005)

P. Bhanumathi Ramakrishna was an Indian actress, singer, film producer, director, music composer, writer, editor, studio owner and novelist. She is regarded as the first female superstar of Telugu cinema, and the first female director of Telugu cinema with her debut directorial Chandirani (1953). Bhanumathi appeared in over 100 films, predominantly in Telugu and Tamil languages. She also acted in a few Hindi and Kannada films. She was awarded the Padma Bhushan in 2001 for her contribution to the Indian cinema. She was honored among "Women in Cinema" at the 30th International Film Festival of India.

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07/09/1924

Daniel Inouye, American captain and politician, Medal of Honor recipient (died 2012)

Daniel Ken Inouye was an American attorney, soldier, and statesman from the state of Hawaii. A member of the Democratic Party, he represented Hawaii in the United States Senate from 1963 until his death. Prior to his Senate service, he served in the Hawaii Territorial Legislature and the United States House of Representatives. Inouye is a Medal of Honor recipient for his heroism during World War II, in which he lost his right arm while serving with the 442nd Infantry Regiment.

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Leonard Rosenman, American composer and conductor (died 2008)

Leonard Rosenman was an American film, television and concert composer with credits in over 130 works, including East of Eden, Rebel Without a Cause, Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, Beneath the Planet of the Apes, Battle for the Planet of the Apes, Barry Lyndon, Race with the Devil, and the animated The Lord of the Rings.

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07/09/1923

Nancy Keesing, Australian author and poet (died 1993)

Nancy Keesing was an Australian poet, writer, editor and promoter of Australian literature.

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Peter Lawford, English-American actor (died 1984)

Peter Sydney Ernest Lawford was an English-American actor.

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Louise Suggs, American golfer, co-founded LPGA (died 2015)

Mae Louise Suggs was an American professional golfer, one of the founders of the LPGA Tour and thus modern ladies' golf.

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07/09/1922

Lucien Jarraud, French-Canadian journalist and radio host (died 2007)

Lucien "Frenchie" Jarraud was a Quebec radio host for nearly 50 years. He was best known as being the host that started the open talk radio format in Quebec in the 1950s.

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07/09/1921

Peter A. Peyser, American soldier and politician (died 2014)

Peter A. Peyser was a United States representative from New York, serving from 1971 to 1977 as a Republican and from 1979 to 1983 as a Democrat.

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07/09/1920

Harri Webb, Welsh journalist and poet (died 1994)

Harri Webb was a Welsh poet, Welsh nationalist, journalist and librarian.

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07/09/1919

Briek Schotte, Belgian cyclist and coach (died 2004)

Alberic "Briek" Schotte was a Belgian professional road racing cyclist, one of the champions of the 1940s and 1950s. His stamina earned him the nickname "Iron Briek".

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07/09/1918

Harold Amos, American microbiologist and academic (died 2003)

Harold Amos was an American microbiologist. He taught at Harvard Medical School for nearly fifty years and was the first African American department chair of the school.

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07/09/1917

Leonard Cheshire, English captain, pilot, and humanitarian (died 1992)

Geoffrey Leonard Cheshire, Baron Cheshire,, was a British Royal Air Force pilot, officer and philanthropist.

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John Cornforth, Australian-English chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2013)

Sir John Warcup Cornforth Jr., was an Australian–British chemist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1975 for his work on the stereochemistry of enzyme-catalysed reactions, becoming the only Nobel laureate born in New South Wales.

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Jacob Lawrence, American painter and educator (died 2000)

Jacob Armstead Lawrence was an American painter known for his portrayal of African-American historical subjects and contemporary life. Lawrence referred to his style as "dynamic cubism", an art form popularized in Europe which drew great inspiration from West African and Meso-American art. For his compositions, Lawrence found inspiration in everyday life in Harlem. He brought the African-American experience to life using blacks and browns juxtaposed with vivid colors. He also taught and spent 16 years as a professor at the University of Washington.

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07/09/1915

Pedro Reginaldo Lira, Argentine bishop (died 2012)

Pedro Reginaldo Lira, was an Argentine Bishop of the Roman Catholic Church.

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Kiyosi Itô, Japanese mathematician and academic (died 2008)

Kiyosi Itô was a Japanese mathematician who made fundamental contributions to probability theory, in particular, the theory of stochastic processes. He invented the concept of stochastic integral and stochastic differential equation, and is known as the founder of so-called Itô calculus. He also pioneered the connections between stochastic calculus and differential geometry, known as stochastic differential geometry. He was invited for the International Congress of Mathematicians in Stockholm in 1962. So much were Itô's results useful to financial mathematics that he was sometimes called "the most famous Japanese in Wall Street".

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07/09/1914

Lída Baarová, Czech-Austrian actress (died 2000)

Lída Baarová was a Czech actress.

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Graeme Bell, Australian pianist and composer (died 2012)

Graeme Emerson Bell, AO, MBE was an Australian Dixieland and classical jazz pianist, composer and band leader. According to The Age, his "band's music was hailed for its distinctive Australian edge, which he describes as 'nice larrikinism' and 'a happy Aussie outdoor feel'".

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James Van Allen, American physicist and philosopher (died 2006)

James Alfred Van Allen was an American space physicist at the University of Iowa who was instrumental in establishing the field of magnetospheric research in space. His discovery of the Van Allen radiation belts in 1958, zones of energetic charged particles trapped by Earth's magnetic field, was the first major scientific finding of the Space Age. As principal investigator for scientific instruments on 24 Earth satellites and planetary missions, Van Allen provided the first in situ measurements of the magnetospheres of Jupiter and Saturn, pioneered the use of energetic particle absorption signatures to detect planetary rings and satellites, and carried out a multi-decade program of cosmic ray observations that established the radial gradient of galactic cosmic ray intensity from 1 AU to beyond 65 AU in the heliosphere.

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07/09/1913

Martin Charteris, Baron Charteris of Amisfield, English soldier and courtier (died 1999)

Lieutenant-Colonel Martin Michael Charles Charteris, Baron Charteris of Amisfield, was a British Army officer and courtier of Queen Elizabeth II. Charteris was the longest-serving Assistant Private Secretary to the Sovereign, having served for over 18 years in that position. Later, he became Private Secretary to the Sovereign.

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Anthony Quayle, English actor (died 1989)

Sir John Anthony Quayle was a British actor. He was nominated for an Oscar and a Golden Globe for his supporting role as Thomas Wolsey in the film Anne of the Thousand Days (1969). He also played important roles in such major studio productions as The Guns of Navarone (1961), Lawrence of Arabia (1962), The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964), Operation Crossbow (1965), QB VII (1974) and The Eagle Has Landed (1976). Quayle was knighted in the 1985 New Year Honours.

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07/09/1912

David Packard, American engineer and businessman, co-founded Hewlett-Packard (died 1996)

David Packard was an American electrical engineer and co-founder, with Bill Hewlett, of Hewlett-Packard (1939), serving as president (1947–64), CEO (1964–68), and chairman of the board of HP. He served as U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense from 1969 to 1971 during the Nixon administration. Packard served as president of the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USU) from 1976 to 1981 and chairman of its board of regents from 1973 to 1982. He was a member of the Trilateral Commission. Packard was the recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1988 and is noted for many technological innovations and philanthropic endeavors.

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07/09/1911

Todor Zhivkov, Bulgarian police officer and politician, Head of State of Bulgaria (died 1998)

Todor Hristov Zhivkov was a Bulgarian communist politician who served as the de facto leader of the People's Republic of Bulgaria (PRB) from 1956 until 1989 as General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Bulgarian Communist Party. He was the second longest-serving leader in the Eastern Bloc, the longest-serving leader within the Warsaw Pact and the longest-serving non-royal ruler in Bulgarian history.

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07/09/1909

Elia Kazan, Greek-American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (died 2003)

Elias Kazantzoglou, known as Elia Kazan, was a Greek-American film and theatre director, producer, screenwriter and actor, described by The New York Times as "one of the most honored and influential directors in Broadway and Hollywood history".

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07/09/1908

Paul Brown, American football player and coach (died 1991)

Paul Eugene Brown was an American football coach and executive in the All-America Football Conference (AAFC), the National Football League (NFL), and the American Football League (AFL). Brown was both the co-founder and first coach of the Cleveland Browns, a team named after him, and later co-founded the Cincinnati Bengals. His teams won seven league championships in a professional coaching career spanning 25 seasons.

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Michael E. DeBakey, American surgeon and educator (died 2008)

Michael Ellis DeBakey was an American general and cardiovascular surgeon, scientist and medical educator who became Chairman of the Department of Surgery, President, and Chancellor of Baylor College of Medicine at the Texas Medical Center in Houston, Texas. His career spanned nearly eight decades.

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Max Kaminsky, American trumpet player and bandleader (died 1994)

Max Kaminsky was an American jazz trumpeter and bandleader.

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07/09/1907

Ahmed Adnan Saygun, Turkish composer and musicologist (died 1991)

Ahmed Adnan Saygun was a Turkish composer and musicologist.

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07/09/1904

C. B. Colby, American author (died 1977)

Carroll Burleigh Colby was an American writer, primarily of nonfiction children's books. He wrote more than 100 books that were widely circulated in public and school libraries in the United States. He is best known for Strangely Enough! (1959).

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07/09/1903

Margaret Landon, American missionary and author (died 1993)

Margaret Landon was an American writer known for Anna and the King of Siam, her best-selling 1944 novel of the life of Anna Leonowens which eventually sold over a million copies and was translated into more than twenty languages. In 1950, Landon sold the musical play rights to Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, who created the musical The King and I from her book. A later work, Never Dies the Dream, appeared in 1949.

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Dorothy Marie Donnelly, American poet and author (died 1994)

Dorothy Marie Donnelly was a poet and essayist, the author of six books of poetry and prose and numerous articles published in Europe and the United States.

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07/09/1900

Taylor Caldwell, English-American author (died 1985)

Janet Miriam Caldwell was a British-born American novelist and prolific author of popular fiction under the pen names Taylor Caldwell, Marcus Holland and Max Reiner. She was also known by a variation of her married name, J. Miriam Reback.

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Giuseppe Zangara, Italian-American assassin of Anton Cermak (died 1933)

Giuseppe Zangara was an Italian-born American man who attempted to assassinate the President-elect of the United States, Franklin D. Roosevelt, on February 15, 1933, 17 days before Roosevelt's inauguration. During a night speech by Roosevelt in Miami, Florida, Zangara fired five shots with a handgun he had purchased a couple of days before. He missed his target and instead killed Anton Cermak, the Mayor of Chicago, and injured four bystanders.

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07/09/1897

Al Sherman, Tin Pan Alley era songwriter (died 1973)

Avrum Sherman, pen name Al Sherman, was an American songwriter and composer active during the Tin Pan Alley era in American music history. Some of his most recognizable song titles include "You Gotta Be a Football Hero", "Now's the Time to Fall in Love" and "Lindbergh ". Sherman is one link in a long chain of family members who were musical. Most notably, his sons Robert and Richard were to join the ranks of America's most highly regarded songwriters. Pairing up and mentoring the Sherman Brothers team has often been referred to as Al Sherman's greatest songwriting achievement.

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07/09/1895

Jacques Vaché, French author and poet (died 1919)

Jacques Vaché was a friend of André Breton, the founder of surrealism. Vaché was one of the chief inspirations behind the Surrealist movement. As Breton said:"En littérature, je me suis successivement épris de Rimbaud, de Jarry, d'Apollinaire, de Nouveau, de Lautréamont, mais c'est à Jacques Vaché que je dois le plus"("In literature, I was successively taken with Rimbaud, with Jarry, with Apollinaire, with Nouveau, with Lautréamont, but it is Jacques Vaché to whom I owe the most")

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07/09/1894

Vic Richardson, Australian cricketer, footballer, and sportscaster (died 1969)

Victor York "Yorker" Richardson, nicknamed The Guardsman, was a leading Australian sportsman of the 1920s and 1930s, captaining the Australia cricket team and the South Australia Australian rules football team, representing Australia in baseball and South Australia in golf, winning the South Australian state tennis title and also being a leading local player in lacrosse, basketball and swimming.

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George Waggner, American actor, director, and producer (died 1984)

George Waggner was an American actor, director, producer and writer. He is best known for producing and directing the 1941 film The Wolf Man. For some unknown reason, Waggner sometimes configured his name in mostly lowercase letters but with his surname's two Gs capitalized ("waGGner"), including in the credits of some of the productions he directed.

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07/09/1893

Leslie Hore-Belisha, English politician, Secretary of State for War (died 1957)

Isaac Leslie Hore-Belisha, 1st Baron Hore-Belisha was a British politician who was a member of the Liberal, then Liberal National Member of Parliament (MP) and Cabinet Minister. He later joined the Conservative Party. He proved highly successful in modernising the British road system in 1934–1937 as Minister of Transport.

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07/09/1892

Eric Harrison, Australian soldier and politician, 27th Australian Minister for Defence (died 1974)

Sir Eric John Harrison, was an Australian politician and diplomat. He was the inaugural deputy leader of the Liberal Party (1945–1956), and a government minister under four prime ministers. He was later High Commissioner to the United Kingdom from 1956 to 1964.

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Oscar O'Brien, Canadian priest, pianist, and composer (died 1958)

Oscar O'Brien was a Canadian folklorist, composer, pianist, organist, music educator, and Roman Catholic priest. A large portion of his compositions were based in folklore and he also arranged and harmonized roughly 400 French and Canadian folksongs; many of which were written for his collaborations with Charles Marchand and the Alouette Vocal Quartet. He worked as an arranger or accompanist on numerous 78 rpm recordings for such labels as Bluebird, Brunswick, Columbia, Starr, and Victor. He contributed numerous articles on folklore to publications like Le Canada français and was a frequent lecturer on folklore subjects. In 1978 CBC Radio recognized O'Brien in a series of six broadcasts featuring his harmonizations.

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07/09/1887

Edith Sitwell, English poet and critic (died 1964)

Dame Edith Louisa Sitwell was a British poet and critic and the eldest of the three literary Sitwells. She reacted badly to her eccentric, unloving parents and lived much of her life with her governess. She never married but became passionately attached to Russian painter Pavel Tchelitchew, and her home was always open to London's poetic circle, to whom she was generous and helpful.

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07/09/1885

Elinor Wylie, American author and poet (died 1928)

Elinor Morton Wylie was an American poet and novelist popular in the 1920s and 1930s. "She was famous during her life almost as much for her ethereal beauty and personality as for her melodious, sensuous poetry."

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07/09/1883

Theophrastos Sakellaridis, Greek composer and conductor (died 1950)

Theophrastos Sakellaridis, was a Greek composer, conductor, and basic creator of Greek operetta.

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07/09/1879

Francisco José of Bragança, exiled member of the Miguelist branch of the House of Bragança and officer in the Austro-Hungarian army (died 1919)

Prince Francis Joseph of Braganza was a member of the exiled branch of House of Braganza and an officer in the Austro-Hungarian Army. During his life he was involved in a number of incidents ranging from sex scandals to swindles.

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07/09/1876

Francesco Buhagiar, Maltese politician, 2nd Prime Minister of Malta (died 1934)

Francesco Buhagiar was the second Prime Minister of Malta (1923–1924). He was elected from the Maltese Political Union.

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C. J. Dennis, Australian poet and author (died 1938)

Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis, better known as C. J. Dennis, was an Australian poet and journalist known for his best-selling verse novel The Songs of a Sentimental Bloke (1915). Alongside his contemporaries and occasional collaborators Henry Lawson and Banjo Paterson, Dennis helped popularise Australian slang in literature, earning him the title "the laureate of the larrikin".

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07/09/1875

Edward Francis Hutton, American businessman and financier, co-founded E. F. Hutton & Co. (died 1962)

Edward Francis Hutton was an American financier and co-founder of E. F. Hutton & Co., once one of the largest financial firms in the United States.

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07/09/1874

Samuel Rocke, Australian politician who served as an independent member of the Legislative Assembly of Western Australia (died 1963)

Samuel Matthew Rocke was an Australian politician who served as an independent member of the Legislative Assembly of Western Australia from 1917 to 1921, representing the seat of South Fremantle.

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07/09/1871

George Hirst, English cricketer and coach (died 1954)

George Herbert Hirst was a professional English cricketer who played first-class cricket for Yorkshire County Cricket Club between 1891 and 1921, with a further appearance in 1929. One of the best all-rounders of his time, Hirst was a left arm medium-fast bowler and right-handed batsman. He played in 24 Test matches for England between 1897 and 1909, touring Australia twice. He completed the double of 1,000 runs and 100 wickets in an English cricket season 14 times, the second most of any cricketer after his contemporary and team-mate Wilfred Rhodes. One of the Wisden Cricketers of the Year for 1901, Hirst scored 36,356 runs and took 2,742 wickets in first-class cricket. In Tests, he made 790 runs and captured 59 wickets.

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07/09/1870

Aleksandr Kuprin, Russian pilot, explorer, and author (died 1938)

Aleksandr Ivanovich Kuprin was a Russian writer best known for his novels The Duel (1905) and Yama: The Pit (1915), as well as Moloch (1896), Olesya (1898), "Captain Ribnikov" (1906), "Emerald" (1907), and The Garnet Bracelet (1911) – the latter made into a 1965 movie.

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07/09/1869

Ben Viljoen, South African general (died 1917)

Benjamin Johannes "Ben" Viljoen was an Afrikaner-American consul, soldier, farmer, Maderista, and Boer general.

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07/09/1867

Albert Bassermann, German-Swiss actor (died 1952)

Albert Bassermann was a German stage and screen actor. He was considered to be one of the greatest German-speaking actors of his generation and received the famous Iffland-Ring. Bassermann was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in Foreign Correspondent (1940). He was married to Elsa Schiff with whom he frequently performed.

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J. P. Morgan Jr., American banker and philanthropist (died 1943)

John Pierpont Morgan Jr. was an American banker and finance executive. He inherited the family fortune and took over the business interests including J.P. Morgan & Co. after his father, J. P. Morgan, died in 1913.

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07/09/1866

Tristan Bernard, French author and playwright (died 1947)

Tristan Bernard was a French playwright, novelist, journalist and lawyer.

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07/09/1862

Edgar Speyer, American-English financier and philanthropist (died 1932)

Sir Edgar Speyer, 1st Baronet was an American-born financier and philanthropist. He became a British subject in 1892 and was chairman of Speyer Brothers, the British branch of the Speyer family's international finance house, and a partner in the German and American branches. He was chairman of the Underground Electric Railways Company of London from 1906 to 1915, a period during which the company opened three underground railway lines, electrified a fourth and took over two more.

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07/09/1860

Grandma Moses, American painter (died 1961)

Anna Mary Robertson Moses, popularly known as Grandma Moses, was an American folk artist. She began painting in earnest at the age of 78 and is a prominent example of a newly successful art career at an advanced age. Moses gained popularity during the 1950s, having been featured on a cover of Time Magazine in 1953. She was a subject of numerous television programs and of a 1950 Oscar-nominated biographical documentary. Her autobiography, titled My Life's History, was published in 1952. She was also awarded two honorary doctoral degrees.

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07/09/1855

William Friese-Greene, English photographer, director, and cinematographer (died 1921)

William Friese-Greene was a prolific English inventor and professional photographer. He was known as a pioneer in the field of motion pictures, having devised a series of cameras between 1888–1891 and shot moving pictures with them in London. He went on to patent an early two-colour filming process in 1905. Wealth came with inventions in printing, including phototypesetting and a method of printing without ink, and from a chain of photographic studios. However, Friese-Greene spent all his money on inventing, went bankrupt three times, was jailed once, and died in poverty.

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07/09/1851

Edward Asahel Birge, American zoologist and academic (died 1950)

Edward Asahel Birge was an American professor and administrator at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He was one of the pioneers of the study of limnology, and served as acting president of the university from 1900 to 1903 and as president from 1918 to 1925.

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07/09/1842

Johannes Zukertort, Polish-English chess player, linguist, and journalist (died 1888)

Johannes Hermann Zukertort was a Polish-born British-German chess master. He was one of the leading world players for most of the 1870s and 1880s, but lost to Wilhelm Steinitz in the World Chess Championship 1886, which is generally regarded as the first World Chess Championship match. He was also defeated by Steinitz in 1872 in an unofficial championship.

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07/09/1836

Henry Campbell-Bannerman, Scottish merchant and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (died 1908)

Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman was a British statesman and Liberal Party politician who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1905 to 1908 and Leader of the Liberal Party from 1899 to 1908. He also was Secretary of State for War twice, in the cabinets of Gladstone and Rosebery. He was the first First Lord of the Treasury to be officially called the "Prime Minister", the term only coming into official usage five days after he took office. He remains the only person to date to hold the positions of Prime Minister and Father of the House at the same time, and the last Liberal leader to gain a UK parliamentary majority.

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August Toepler, German physicist and academic (died 1912)

August Joseph Ignaz Toepler was a German chemist and physicist known for his experiments in electrostatics.

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07/09/1831

Alexandre Falguière, French sculptor and painter (died 1900)

Jean Alexandre Joseph Falguière was a French sculptor and painter.

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07/09/1829

August Kekulé, German chemist and academic (died 1896)

Friedrich August Kekulé, later Friedrich August Kekule von Stradonitz, was a German organic chemist. From the 1850s until his death, Kekulé was one of the most prominent chemists in Europe, especially in the field of theoretical chemistry. He was the principal founder of the theory of chemical structure and in particular the Kekulé structure of benzene.

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07/09/1819

Thomas A. Hendricks, American lawyer and politician, 21st Vice President of the United States (died 1885)

Thomas Andrews Hendricks was an American politician and lawyer from Indiana who served as the 16th governor of Indiana from 1873 to 1877 and the 21st vice president of the United States from March 1885 until his death in November of that year. Hendricks represented Indiana in the U.S. House of Representatives (1851–1855) and the U.S. Senate (1863–1869). He also represented Shelby County, Indiana, in the Indiana General Assembly (1848–1850) and as a delegate to the 1851 Indiana constitutional convention. In addition, Hendricks served as commissioner of the United States General Land Office (1855–1859). Hendricks, a popular member of the Democratic Party, was a fiscal conservative. He defended the Democratic position in the U.S. Senate during the American Civil War and Reconstruction era and voted against the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution. He also opposed Radical Reconstruction and President Andrew Johnson's removal from office following Johnson's impeachment in the U.S. House.

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07/09/1818

Thomas Talbot, American businessman and politician, 31st Governor of Massachusetts (died 1886)

Thomas Talbot was an American textile mill owner and politician from Massachusetts, United States. Talbot ran a major textile business, involving chemical dyeworks and the weaving of fabric, in Billerica that was a major local employer. As a Republican, he served in the state legislature, on the Massachusetts Governor's Council, and as the 29th lieutenant governor before serving for one partial term as acting governor of Massachusetts, and later for one full term as the 31st governor.

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07/09/1815

John McDouall Stuart, Scottish explorer and surveyor (died 1866)

John McDouall Stuart, often referred to as simply "McDouall Stuart", was a Scottish explorer and one of the most accomplished of all Australia's inland explorers.

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07/09/1813

Emil Korytko, Polish activist and translator (died 1839)

Emil Antoni Korytko was a Polish political activist in the period of the Great Emigration, who was exiled to Ljubljana, Carniola and became an important ethnographer, philologist and translator there. His legacy are collections of Slovene folk songs and vivid descriptions of Carniolan folk customs. He significantly contributed to the mutual dialogue between Polish and Slovene authors and readers.

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07/09/1810

Hermann Heinrich Gossen, Prussian economist and academic (died 1858)

Hermann Heinrich Gossen was a German economist who is often regarded as the first to elaborate, in detail, a general theory of marginal utility.

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07/09/1807

Henry Sewell, English lawyer and politician, 1st Prime Minister of New Zealand (died 1879)

Henry Sewell was a New Zealand politician. He was a notable campaigner for New Zealand self-government, and is generally regarded as having been the country's first premier, having led the Sewell Ministry in 1856. He later served as Colonial Treasurer (1856–1859), as Attorney-General (1861–1862), and twice as Minister of Justice.

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07/09/1803

William Knibb, English Baptist minister and Jamaican missionary (died 1845)

William Knibb, OM was an English Baptist minister and missionary to Jamaica. He is chiefly known today for his work to free enslaved Africans.

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07/09/1801

Sarel Cilliers, South African preacher and activist (died 1871)

Charl (Sarel) Arnoldus Cilliers was a Voortrekker leader and a preacher. With Andries Pretorius, he led the Boers to a huge victory over the Zulus at the Battle of Blood River in 1838. In particular, Cilliers led the Voortrekkers in a vow which promised that if God would protect them and deliver the enemy into their hands, they would build a church and commemorate the day of their victory as if it were an annual Sabbath day, which their descendants would also be instructed to honour.

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07/09/1795

John William Polidori, English physician and author (died 1821)

John William Polidori was an English writer and medical doctor. He is known for his associations with the Romantic movement and credited by some as the creator of the vampire genre of fantasy fiction.

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07/09/1791

Giuseppe Gioachino Belli, Italian poet and author (died 1863)

Giuseppe Francesco Antonio Maria Gioachino Raimondo Belli was an Italian poet, famous for his sonnets in Romanesco, the dialect of Rome.

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07/09/1777

Heinrich Stölzel, German horn player and composer (died 1844)

Heinrich David Stölzel was a German horn player who developed some of the first valves for brass instruments. He developed the first valve for a brass musical instrument, the Stölzel valve, in 1818, and went on to develop various other designs, some jointly with other inventor musicians.

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07/09/1740

Johan Tobias Sergel, Swedish sculptor and illustrator (died 1814)

Johan Tobias Sergel was a Swedish neoclassical sculptor. Sergels torg, the largest square in the centre of Stockholm and near where his workshop stood, is named after him.

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07/09/1726

François-André Danican Philidor, French chess player and composer (died 1795)

François-André Danican Philidor, often referred to as André Danican Philidor during his lifetime, was a French composer and chess master. He contributed to the early development of the opéra comique. He is widely regarded as the best chess player of his age; his book Analyse du jeu des Échecs was considered a standard chess manual for at least a century. A chess opening, an endgame position, and a checkmate method are all named after him.

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07/09/1707

Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, French mathematician, cosmologist, and author (died 1788)

Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon was a French naturalist, mathematician, and cosmologist. He held the position of intendant (director) at the Jardin du Roi, now called the Jardin des plantes.

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07/09/1705

Matthäus Günther, German painter (died 1788)

Matthäus Günther was an important German painter and artist of the Baroque and Rococo era.

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07/09/1694

Johan Ludvig Holstein-Ledreborg, Danish Minister of State (died 1763)

Johan Ludvig Holstein, Lensgreve til Ledreborg was a Danish Minister of state from 1735 to 1751.

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07/09/1683

Maria Anna of Austria (died 1754)

Maria Anna of Austria was Queen of Portugal as the wife of King John V of Portugal. She served as the regent of Portugal from 1742 until 1750 during the illness of her husband. She was born an Archduchess of Austria as the daughter of Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor and Eleonore Magdalene of Neuburg.

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07/09/1650

Juan Manuel María de la Aurora, 8th duke of Escalona (died 1725)

Juan Manuel Fernández Pacheco y Zúñiga, Duke of Escalona and Marquess of Villena, was a Spanish aristocrat, politician, and academic who founded the Royal Spanish Academy.

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07/09/1641

Tokugawa Ietsuna, Japanese shōgun (died 1680)

Tokugawa Ietsuna was a Japanese samurai, daimyo and the fourth shōgun of the Tokugawa dynasty of Japan who was in office from 1651 to 1680. He is considered the eldest son of Tokugawa Iemitsu, which makes him the grandson of Tokugawa Hidetada and the great-grandson of Tokugawa Ieyasu.

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07/09/1635

Paul I, Prince Esterházy, Hungarian prince (died 1713)

Paul I, 1st Prince Esterházy of Galántha, was the first Prince Esterházy of Galántha from 1687 to 1713, Palatine of the Kingdom of Hungary from 1681 to 1713, and an Imperial Field Marshal. Paul was also an accomplished poet, harpsichordist, and composer. He actively participated in various battles against the Ottoman Turks during the Fourth Austro-Turkish War (1663–1664) and the Great Turkish War (1683–1699). Paul is credited with establishing the wealth, power, and influence of the Princely House of Esterházy.

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07/09/1629

Sir John Perceval, 1st Baronet, Irish nobleman (died 1665)

Sir John Perceval, 1st Baronet was an Irish nobleman and landowner. He was knighted by Henry Cromwell for his services to the Commonwealth government of Ireland during the Interregnum. Shortly before the Restoration, he held the offices of Chief Prothonotary of the Common Pleas and Clerk of the Crown. After the Restoration, he was granted a baronetcy and given a full pardon for his activities during the Interregnum. He was appointed Privy Councillor to King Charles II, a Knight of the Shire for County Cork, and was a member of the Council of Trade.

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07/09/1533

Elizabeth I of England (died 1603)

Elizabeth I was Queen of England and Ireland from 17 November 1558 until her death in 1603. She was the last and longest reigning monarch of the House of Tudor. Her eventful reign, and its effect on history and culture, gave name to the Elizabethan era.

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07/09/1524

Thomas Erastus, Swiss physician and theologian (died 1583)

Thomas Erastus was a Swiss physician and Calvinist theologian. He wrote 100 theses in which he argued that the sins committed by Christians should be punished by the State, and that the Church should not withhold sacraments as a form of punishment. They were published in 1589, after his death, with the title Explicatio gravissimae quaestionis. His name was later applied to Erastianism.

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07/09/1500

Sebastian Newdigate, Carthusian monk and martyr (died 1535)

Sebastian Newdigate, O.Cart was the seventh child of John Newdigate, Sergeant-at-law. He spent his early life at court, and later became a Carthusian monk. He was executed for treason on 19 June 1535 for his refusal to accept Henry VIII's assumption of supremacy over the Church in England. His death was considered a martyrdom, and he was beatified by the Catholic Church.

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07/09/1448

Henry, Count of Württemberg-Montbéliard (1473–1482) (died 1519)

Henry of Württemberg was, from 1473 to 1482, count of Montbéliard.

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07/09/1438

Louis II, Landgrave of Lower Hesse (died 1471)

Louis II of Hesse, called Louis the Frank, was the Landgrave of Lower Hesse from 1458 - 1471.

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07/09/1395

Reginald West, 6th Baron De La Warr, English politician (died 1427)

Reginald West, 6th Baron De La Warr and 3rd Baron West was an English nobleman and politician.

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07/09/0923

Suzaku, emperor of Japan (died 952)

Emperor Suzaku was the 61st emperor of Japan, according to the traditional order of succession.

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