Born on Monday, 8th September – Famous Birthdays

On this day, 296 notable people were born on 8th September — spanning from 685 to 2004. From world leaders to artists and scientists, discover who shares this birthday.

Monday, 8th September 2025 marks a date of particular significance in sports and entertainment history. Among those born on this day is Tim Gajser, the Slovenian motocross racer who emerged as one of Europe’s most accomplished riders in his discipline. The date has seen numerous notable births across different fields, from football and cricket to music and broadcasting. Several individuals who entered the world on 8th September have gone on to achieve prominence in their respective professions, contributing significantly to their industries and gaining recognition on both continental and global stages.

The historical record for 8th September extends considerably further back in time. Avicii, the Swedish electronic musician born in 1989, became a transformative figure in dance music before his death in 2018, whilst Antonín Dvořák, the Czech composer born in 1841, established himself as one of the nineteenth century’s most significant musical voices. These individuals represent the breadth of human achievement that has occurred on this particular date throughout recorded history. The list encompasses artists, politicians, athletes and scholars whose contributions have shaped their respective fields and left lasting impressions on their contemporaries and successors.

The variety of professions and nationalities represented among those born on 8th September reflects the diversity of human talent and ambition. From professional footballers and cricketers to musicians, actors and business leaders, the date has produced individuals who have pursued excellence across virtually every domain of human endeavour. DayAtlas provides comprehensive information about famous births and deaths for any date and location, allowing users to explore historical patterns and discover connections between significant figures from different eras and backgrounds.

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08/09/2004

Lewis Hall, English footballer

Lewis Kieran Hall is an English professional footballer who plays as a left-back or midfielder for Premier League club Newcastle United and the England national team.

08/09/2003

Nicolas Cantu, American actor and internet personality

Nicolas Cantu, also known by his internet pseudonyms Junky Janker and TheCAN2Network, is a Mexican-born American actor and former YouTuber and animator.

08/09/2002

Gaten Matarazzo, American actor and singer

Gaetano John "Gaten" Matarazzo III is an American actor. He began his career on the Broadway stage as Benjamin in Priscilla, Queen of the Desert (2011–12), followed by Gavroche in Les Misérables (2014–15). Matarazzo gained international recognition for playing Dustin Henderson in the Netflix science-fiction-horror drama series Stranger Things (2016–2025). He also hosted the Netflix show Prank Encounters (2019–2021). In 2022, he co-starred in the coming-of-age comedy film Honor Society and voiced Boris the Dragon on the animated fantasy comedy film My Father's Dragon. In 2025, he starred in the animated film Animal Farm, in which he voiced the character Lucky. In 2026, he starred in and was the executive producer for the stoner comedy Pizza Movie.

08/09/2001

Bill Mamadou, Singaporean footballer

Bah Bill Abuzar Mamadou is a Singaporean professional footballer who plays as a defender for Thai League 1 club Nakhon Ratchasima and the Singapore under-23 national team.

08/09/2000

Zak Butters, Australian footballer

Zak James Butters is a professional Australian rules footballer playing for the Port Adelaide Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). Butters won the AFLCA champion player of the year award in 2023, and is a dual All-Australian, three-time John Cahill Medallist and dual Robert Rose Award winner.

Miles McBride, American basketball player

Miles James "Deuce" McBride is an American professional basketball player for the New York Knicks of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played college basketball for the West Virginia Mountaineers.

08/09/1999

Shubman Gill, Indian cricketer

Shubman Gill is an Indian international cricketer who plays for the India national team. Gill captains the Test and the ODI team. He has also captained the team in T20I. A right-handed batsman, Gill represents Punjab in domestic cricket and captains the Gujarat Titans in the Indian Premier League.

08/09/1998

Matheus Leist, Brazilian race car driver

Matheus Tobias Leist is a Brazilian racing driver who last raced for JDC-Miller MotorSports in the WeatherTech SportsCar Championship. He has previously competed in the IndyCar Series, the BRDC British Formula 3 Championship, and Indy Lights.

08/09/1997

Lars Nootbaar, American baseball player

Lars Taylor-Tatsuji Nootbaar is an American professional baseball outfielder for the St. Louis Cardinals of Major League Baseball (MLB). On the international level, he represents the Japan national baseball team.

08/09/1996

Tim Gajser, Slovenian motocross racer

Tim Gajser is a Slovenian professional motocross racer. He has competed in the FIM Motocross World Championships since 2012. Gajser is a four-time MXGP & a MX2 World Champion. Gajser ranks fifth on the all-time list of FIM Motocross World Championship Grand Prix wins.

08/09/1995

Ellie Black, Canadian gymnast

Elsabeth Ann Black is a Canadian artistic gymnast. She is a four-time Olympian, having represented her country at the 2012, 2016, 2020, and 2024 Olympic games. She is the 2017 World all-around silver medallist, making her the first Canadian gymnast to win a world all-around medal, and she led the Canadian women's gymnastics team to a bronze medal in the 2022 World Championships team final, the first world team medal won by a Canadian gymnastics team. She won a silver medal on the balance beam at the 2022 World Championships. She is also the 2018 Commonwealth Games all-around champion, a two-time Pan American Games all-around champion, and a six-time Canadian national all-around champion. At the 2020 Olympic Games, Black placed fourth in the balance beam final, the highest placement in the Olympics for a female Canadian gymnast.

08/09/1994

Marco Benassi, Italian footballer

Marco Benassi is an Italian professional footballer who plays as a midfielder.

Cameron Dallas, American internet personality

Cameron Alexander Dallas is an American social media personality, actor, and singer. He is best known for his prominence on the video applications Vine and YouTube. Dallas starred in two films in 2014 and 2015, Expelled and The Outfield. In 2016, Cameron starred on his Netflix reality show, Chasing Cameron, which followed him on his singing tour of Europe. In 2020, he assumed the role of Aaron Samuels in the musical adaptation of Mean Girls. In September 2020, he released Dear Scarlett, his first album.

Bruno Fernandes, Portuguese footballer

Bruno Miguel Borges Fernandes is a Portuguese professional footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder for Premier League club Manchester United, which he captains, and the Portugal national team. Known for his creative output, vision, goal scoring ability, and passing, he is widely regarded as one of the best attacking midfielders in the world.

Ćamila Mičijević, Croatian-Bosnian handball player

Ćamila Mičijević is a Croatian handball player who plays for SCM Craiova and the Croatian national team.

08/09/1993

Will Bosisto, Australian cricketer

William Giles Bosisto is an Australian cricketer. He captained Australia in the 2012 ICC Under-19 Cricket World Cup, where he was named the player of the tournament, and later played domestic cricket for Western Australia and South Australia cricket team. He also played franchise Twenty20 cricket for the Perth Scorchers in the Big Bash League in Australia and for the Khulna Tigers in the Bangladesh Premier League.

Yoshikazu Fujita, Japanese rugby union player

Yoshikazu Fujita is a Japanese international rugby union player.

08/09/1992

Nino Niederreiter, Swiss ice hockey player

Nino Niederreiter is a Swiss professional ice hockey player who is a winger for the Winnipeg Jets of the National Hockey League (NHL). He was selected fifth overall by the New York Islanders in the 2010 NHL entry draft, making him the highest-drafted Swiss hockey player in NHL history at the time. Niederreiter made his NHL debut with the Islanders early in the 2010–11 season before being returned to his junior club, the Portland Winterhawks of the Western Hockey League (WHL). Prior to coming to North America, Niederreiter had played in the junior system of the Swiss team HC Davos and appeared in three playoff games for the senior club in 2010.

Za'Darius Smith, American football player

Za'Darius Smith is an American former professional football player who was a linebacker and defensive end for 11 seasons in the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the East Mississippi Lions and Kentucky Wildcats. He was selected by the Baltimore Ravens in the fourth round of the 2015 NFL draft. He also played for the Green Bay Packers, Minnesota Vikings, Cleveland Browns, Detroit Lions and Philadelphia Eagles.

08/09/1991

Joe Sugg, British vlogger

Joseph Graham Sugg is an English YouTuber, vlogger, actor, author and businessman. In 2012, he began posting videos on the YouTube channel ThatcherJoe, which peaked at over 8 million subscribers. In 2018, he was a finalist on the sixteenth series of Strictly Come Dancing, and in 2019, he portrayed Ogie Anhorn in the West End production of Waitress. He is the younger brother of fellow YouTuber Zoe Sugg.

08/09/1990

Matt Barkley, American football player

Matthew Montgomery Barkley is an American former professional football quarterback who played in the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the USC Trojans, setting the Pac-12 Conference season record for touchdown passes as a junior. Due to suffering a shoulder injury as a senior, Barkley was not selected until the fourth round of the 2013 NFL draft by the Philadelphia Eagles. He has been a member of 11 different NFL teams, mostly as a backup. Barkley had his most notable stint with the Chicago Bears in 2016 where he served as the team's starter.

Jos Buttler, English cricketer

Joseph Charles Buttler is an English international cricketer and former captain of the national team. He plays for Lancashire in domestic cricket and played in multiple T20 leagues. He is known for his innovative and aggressive batting style. He was part of the England team that won the 2019 ODI World Cup and led the team to victory at the 2022 T20 World Cup.

Gerrit Cole, American baseball player

Gerrit Alan Cole is an American professional baseball pitcher for the New York Yankees of Major League Baseball (MLB). He has previously played in MLB for the Pittsburgh Pirates and Houston Astros. Cole played for the baseball team at Orange Lutheran High School and was selected by the Yankees in the first round of the 2008 MLB draft. Cole opted not to sign and instead attended the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), where he played college baseball for the UCLA Bruins.

Matthew Dellavedova, Australian basketball player

Matthew William "Delly" Dellavedova is an Australian professional basketball player for the Sydney Kings of the National Basketball League (NBL). He played college basketball for Saint Mary's College. In 2016, he won the NBA championship as a member of the Cleveland Cavaliers. As a member of the Australian national team, he won bronze at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics.

Dianne Doan, Canadian actress

Dianne Doan is a Canadian actress. She first came to attention in 2015, with her first of four appearances as Lonnie in the Descendants franchise, and is also known for her main role as Mai Ling, sister of the title character in the series Warrior (2021–2023).

Michal Kempný, Czech ice hockey player

Michal Kempný is a Czech professional ice hockey player who is a defenceman for Brynäs IF of the Swedish Hockey League (SHL). Kempný formerly played in the National Hockey League (NHL) and won the Stanley Cup as a member of the Washington Capitals in 2018.

Tokelo Rantie, South African footballer

Tokelo Anthony Rantie is a former South African professional soccer player who played as a striker for the South Africa national team.

08/09/1989

Gylfi Sigurðsson, Icelandic footballer

Gylfi Þór Sigurðsson is an Icelandic professional footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder for Besta deild karla club Víkingur Reykjavík and the Iceland national team.

Avicii, Swedish electronic musician (died 2018)

Tim Bergling, known professionally as Avicii, was a Swedish DJ, remixer, and record producer. His musical style was primarily pop-oriented house music, and he is an influence on many artists. Several music publications have credited Avicii as one of the DJs who took electronic music to Top 40 radio in the early 2010s. He is considered one of the most popular and successful electronic dance music (EDM) genre artists of all time.

08/09/1988

Arrelious Benn, American football player

Arrelious Markus Benn is an American former professional football player who was a wide receiver in the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Illinois Fighting Illini and was selected by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in the second round of the 2010 NFL draft.

Rie Kaneto, Japanese swimmer

Rie Kaneto is a Japanese competitive swimmer who specializes in breaststroke events. She won the gold medal in the 200 meter breaststroke at the 2016 Summer Olympics.

08/09/1987

Alexandre Bilodeau, Canadian skier

Alexandre Bilodeau is a Canadian retired freestyle skier from Rosemère, Quebec, who currently resides in Montreal.

Derrick Brown, American basketball player

Derrick Paul Brown is an American former professional basketball player. Standing at 6 ft 8 in (2.03 m), he played at the power forward position.

Danielle Frenkel, Israeli high jumper

Danielle Frenkel is an Israeli high jumper. She was the first female Israeli to clear 1.90 meters, and the only woman who cleared more than 1.90 meters in international competition.

Wiz Khalifa, American rapper and actor

Cameron Jibril Thomaz, known professionally as Wiz Khalifa, is an American rapper, singer-songwriter, entrepreneur, and actor. Raised in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, he signed with the local independent label Rostrum Records to release his debut studio album, Show and Prove (2006). His contract entered a short-lived joint venture with Warner Bros. Records the following year. His Eurodance-influenced 2008 single "Say Yeah" received urban radio airplay and entered both the Rhythmic Top 40 and Hot Rap Songs charts, becoming his first minor hit.

Illya Marchenko, Ukrainian tennis player

Illya Vasylovych Marchenko is a Ukrainian tennis player. He has a career high in singles of World No. 49 achieved on 26 September 2016 and of No. 268 in doubles achieved on 25 August 2014. On the ATP Tour, Marchenko reached the semifinals of Moscow in 2009, the 2010 St. Petersburg Open and Doha in 2016.

Marcel Nguyen, German gymnast

Marcel Van Minh Phuc Long Nguyen is a retired German artistic gymnast and three-time Olympian, having represented Germany at the 2008, 2012, and 2016 Olympic Games. He is the 2012 Olympic silver medalist in the all-around and on parallel bars as well as the 2011 and 2012 European Champion on the latter. He has been a soldier in the Bundeswehr since July 2007, beginning when he was training in the Bundeswehr Sports Development Group in Munich.

08/09/1986

Carlos Bacca, Colombian footballer

Carlos Arturo Bacca Ahumada is a Colombian professional footballer who plays as a striker for Categoría Primera A club Atlético Junior.

Matt Grothe, American football player

Matt Grothe is an American former football quarterback. He played college football at South Florida.

João Moutinho, Portuguese footballer

João Filipe Iria Santos Moutinho is a Portuguese footballer who plays as a central midfielder for Primeira Liga club Braga.

08/09/1984

Bobby Parnell, American baseball player

Robert Allen Parnell is an American former baseball pitcher. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the New York Mets and Detroit Tigers. He was drafted by the Mets in the ninth round of the 2005 Major League Baseball draft after attending Charleston Southern University.

Vitaly Petrov, Russian race car driver

Vitaly Aleksandrovich Petrov is a Russian racing driver, who currently competes in the 2025 Middle East Trophy for SMP Racing, He previously competed in Formula One from 2010 to 2012.

Tiago Treichel, Brazilian footballer

Tiago Treichel Moraes da Silva known as Tiago Treichel or just Tiago is a Brazilian footballer

Peter Whittingham, English footballer (died 2020)

Peter Michael Whittingham was an English professional footballer. His primary position was as a central midfielder, although he also sometimes operated as a wide midfielder on both the left and right.

08/09/1983

Kate Beaton, Canadian cartoonist

Kathryn Moira Beaton is a Canadian comics artist best known as the creator of the comic strip Hark! A Vagrant, which ran from 2007 to 2018. Her other major works include the children's books The Princess and the Pony and King Baby, published in 2015 and 2016 respectively, and Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands, published in 2022. Publishers Weekly named Ducks one of their top ten books of the year. Also in 2022, The Princess and the Pony was made into an Apple TV+ series called Pinecone & Pony, on which Beaton worked as an executive producer.

Diego Benaglio, Swiss footballer

Diego Orlando Benaglio is a Swiss former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper.

Will Blalock, American basketball player

William Anthony Blalock is an American former professional basketball player.

Nick Hundley, American baseball player

Nicholas John Hundley is an American former professional baseball catcher and current front office executive. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the San Diego Padres, Baltimore Orioles, Colorado Rockies, San Francisco Giants, and Oakland Athletics. He was drafted in 2005 by the Padres in the second round, and made his major-league debut in 2008.

Chris Judd, Australian footballer

Christopher Dylan Judd is a former professional Australian rules footballer and investment manager. He captained both the West Coast Eagles and Carlton Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL) and is regarded as one of the greatest players of all time.

Jason Mattera, American writer and conservative activist

Jason Joseph Mattera is an American writer, conservative activist, radio host, and Emmy-nominated journalist. Originally from New York City, Mattera started in conservative political activism as a student at Roger Williams University. In 2010, Mattera released his first New York Times bestseller, Obama Zombies. Mattera's second book, Hollywood Hypocrites, was published in 2012, and his third book, Crapitalism, was published in 2014, all by Simon & Schuster. Mattera was editor of Human Events magazine from 2010–12, and from 2010–13 hosted a weekend talk show on the New York City radio station 77 WABC.

Lewis Roberts-Thomson, Australian footballer

Lewis Roberts-Thomson is a former Australian Rules Football player, who played for the Sydney Swans in the Australian Football League. He has been colloquially known to fans and commentators as either "LRT" or the "Hyphenator".

Sarah Stup, American writer and autism activist

Sarah Stup is an American writer and advocate. She writes about community inclusion, education, and her experience in the world as an autistic woman. Her work includes the children's book Do-Si-Do with Autism, a set of gift books, the poetry and essay collection Are Your Eyes Listening? Collected Works, and the novel Paul and His Beast.

08/09/1982

Travis Daniels, American football player

Travis Antwon Daniels is an American former professional football player who was a cornerback in the National Football League (NFL). He was selected by the Miami Dolphins in the fourth round of the 2005 NFL draft. He played college football for the LSU Tigers.

08/09/1981

Kate Abdo, English journalist

Kate Scott is an English sports broadcaster who works primarily for CBS Sports. She is noted for her coverage of association football, and has anchored CBS's coverage of the UEFA Champions League since August 2020. Throughout her career, she has worked internationally in the United Kingdom, Spain, France, Germany, and the United States.

Selim Benachour, Tunisian footballer

Selim Benachour is a French born Tunisian football coach and former professional player who played as an attacking midfielder.

Morten Gamst Pedersen, Norwegian footballer

Morten Gamst Pedersen is a Norwegian former professional footballer who played as a midfielder. During his spell for Blackburn Rovers in the Premier League he was known for his skill and long range goals.

Jonathan Taylor Thomas, American actor

Jonathan Taylor Thomas is an American actor and director. He is known for portraying Randy Taylor on Home Improvement (1991–1998) and Pinocchio in the film The Adventures of Pinocchio (1996), and voicing young Simba in the animated film The Lion King (1994).

08/09/1980

Eric Hutchinson, American singer-songwriter

Eric Hutchinson is an American singer-songwriter best known for his songs "Rock & Roll", "OK, It's Alright with Me", "Not There Yet", "Watching You Watch Him", and "Tell the World". Hutchinson was named an AOL "About to Pop" artist, Yahoo! Who's Next Artist, MSN "One to Watch" Artist and a "VH1 You Oughta Know" Artist. Hutchinson also wrote and performed the theme song for ESPN's Fantasy Focus podcast.

08/09/1979

Pink, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actress

Alecia Beth Moore-Hart, known professionally as Pink, is an American singer and songwriter. She is known for her acrobatic stage presence and activism.

08/09/1978

Gerard Autet, Spanish footballer and manager

Gerard Autet Serrabasa is a Spanish former footballer who played as a central defender.

Emanuele Ferraro, Italian footballer

Emanuele Ferraro is an Italian football coach and former player.

Gil Meche, American baseball player

Gilbert Allen Meche is an American former right-handed Major League Baseball starting pitcher. Meche pitched for the Seattle Mariners for six seasons. With the Kansas City Royals, Meche made three straight Opening Day starts and was an All Star in 2007. Shoulder and back problems caused the former first-round pick to retire in 2011 at just 32 years old.

Angela Rawlings, Canadian-American author and poet

Angela Snæfellsjökuls Rawlings or Angela Marie Rawlings is a Canadian-Icelandic interdisciplinary artist-researcher who works with languages as dominant exploratory material. Their practice seeks and interrogates relationality between bodies—be they human, more-than-human, other-than, non.

Rebel, American wrestler

Tanea Brooks, better known by the ring name Rebel, is an American professional wrestler, professional wrestling manager, model, actress, dancer, and cosmetologist. As of 2019, she is signed to All Elite Wrestling. She is also known for her work in Impact Wrestling.

Marco Sturm, German ice hockey player and coach

Marco Johann Sturm is a German professional ice hockey coach and former player who is the head coach for the Boston Bruins of the National Hockey League (NHL). As a forward, he played in the National Hockey League and Deutsche Eishockey Liga from 1995 to 2013.

08/09/1977

Jason Collier, American basketball player (died 2005)

Jason Jeffrey Collier was an American professional basketball player in the National Basketball Association (NBA).

Nate Corddry, American actor and comedian

Nathan Harris Corddry is an American actor and comedian. He is best known for his roles as Adam Branch in the NBC drama series Harry's Law and for his role as Gabriel in the first two seasons of the CBS sitcom Mom. He has also guest starred on series such as Law & Order: Criminal Intent, The Daily Show, United States of Tara, 30 Rock, and New Girl. He also played Private First-Class Loudmouth in the HBO miniseries The Pacific and Tom Jeter in the NBC comedy-drama series Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip. In 2019, Corddry played engineer Larry Wilson in the Apple TV+ original science fiction space drama series For All Mankind. In 2021, Corddry had a recurring role in the TV adaptation of Paper Girls playing Larry Radakowski.

Jay McKee, Canadian ice hockey player and coach

Jay McKee is a Canadian coach and former professional ice hockey defenceman. He spent the majority of his career with the Buffalo Sabres of the National Hockey League (NHL), and has also played for the St. Louis Blues and Pittsburgh Penguins. Throughout his career, he has been noted among the NHL's best shot-blockers. McKee was born in Kingston, Ontario, but grew up in Loyalist, Ontario.

08/09/1976

Gerald Drummond, Costa Rican footballer

Gerald George Drummond Johnson is a Costa Rican former football player who played as a forward.

Jervis Drummond, Costa Rican footballer

Jervis Éarlson Drummond Johnson is a Costa Rican former footballer who played as a right-back.

Sjeng Schalken, Dutch tennis player

Sjeng Schalken is a coach and a former professional tennis player from the Netherlands.

08/09/1975

Lee Eul-yong, South Korean footballer and manager

Lee Eul-yong is a South Korean football manager and former professional player.

Richard Hughes, English drummer

Keane are an English alternative rock band from Battle, East Sussex, formed in 1995. The band comprises Tom Chaplin, Tim Rice-Oxley, Richard Hughes and Jesse Quin. Their original line-up included founder and guitarist Dominic Scott, who left in 2001.

Chris Latham, Australian rugby player

Chris Latham is an Australian rugby union coach and former player. He is currently head coach of Major League Rugby team the Chicago Hounds  and was previously head coach of the Utah Warriors.

Elena Likhovtseva, Russian tennis player

Elena Alexandrovna Likhovtseva is a Kazakhstani-born Russian former tennis player. She turned professional in January 1992, at the age of 16.

Larenz Tate, American actor, director, and producer

Larenz Tate is an American film and television actor. He is best known for his roles as O-Dog in Menace II Society (1993), Anthony Curtis in Dead Presidents (1995), Frankie Lymon in Why Do Fools Fall In Love, and as Councilman Rashad Tate in Power (2017–20) and Power Book II: Ghost (2020–24).

08/09/1974

Marios Agathokleous, Cypriot footballer

Marios Agathokleous is a retired Cypriot football striker.

Tanaz Eshaghian, Iranian-American director and producer

Tanaz Eshaghian is an Iranian-born American documentary filmmaker. She resides in New York City.

Braulio Luna, Mexican footballer

Braulio Mauricio Luna Guzmán is a Mexican former professional footballer who played as a midfielder.

Rick Michaels, American wrestler

Rick Michaels is an American retired professional wrestler.

08/09/1973

Khamis Al-Dosari, Saudi Arabian footballer (died 2020)

Khamis Al-Owairan Al-Dossari was a Saudi Arabian footballer. He played most of his career for Al-Hilal and Al Ittihad.

Gabrial McNair, American saxophonist, keyboard player, and composer

Gabrial McNair is a musician and composer, most famous for his work in No Doubt since 1993 as a trombonist, keyboardist, and backing vocalist. He recorded and toured with Green Day during the Nimrod and Warning tours, playing trombone and tenor saxophone. In 2003, he was one of the co-founders of the California-based rock band Oslo where he plays the guitar.

Troy Sanders, American singer-songwriter and bass player

Troy Jayson Sanders is an American musician, best known as the bassist and one of the vocalists of heavy metal band Mastodon. He is also active in the supergroups Killer Be Killed and Gone Is Gone and is the current touring bassist for rock band Thin Lizzy.

Matteo Strukul, Italian writer and journalist

Matteo Strukul is an Italian writer and journalist.

08/09/1972

Markus Babbel, German footballer and manager

Markus Babbel is a German professional football coach and former player who most recently managed Western Sydney Wanderers FC. He played as a defender for clubs in Germany and England. Babbel won the UEFA Cup twice: in 1996 with Bayern Munich and in 2001 with Liverpool. He was also a member of the Germany squad that won UEFA Euro 96.

Os du Randt, South African rugby player and coach

Jacobus Petrus "Os" du Randt is a former South African rugby union loosehead prop who retired as the most-capped forward in the history of the Springboks. For most of his career, he played in the domestic Currie Cup for the Free State Cheetahs, though he spent one season with the Blue Bulls. In Super Rugby, he represented the Free State Cheetahs when South Africa sent its top Currie Cup teams to the competition instead of franchised sides, later represented the Cats franchise, spent one season with the Bulls before returning to the Cats, and still later played for the Cheetahs. He ended his career as one of the last remaining international-level players from the amateur era of the sport and the last active member of the 1995 World Cup-winning squad. His final match was the 2007 Rugby World Cup final, which the Springboks won, with Du Randt playing the entire 80 minutes. He is one of 43 players who have won the Rugby World Cup on multiple occasions, remarkably 24 of whom are South Africans.

Kennedy, American radio and television host

Lisa Kennedy Montgomery, referred to mononymously as Kennedy, is an American libertarian political commentator, radio personality, author, and former MTV VJ. She is a commentator on Fox News Channel, a primary guest host of Fox's Outnumbered and The Five, host of the podcast Kennedy Saves The World on Fox News Radio and a columnist for The Daily Mail. Kennedy was the host of MTV's now-defunct daily late-night alternative-rock program Alternative Nation throughout much of the 1990s. She hosted Kennedy on the Fox Business Network from 2015 to 2023.

08/09/1971

David Arquette, American actor, director, producer, screenwriter, and wrestler

David Arquette is an American actor, producer, and retired professional wrestler. He began his acting career with a main role as Keith "Two-Bit" Matthews on the Fox drama television series The Outsiders (1990), and he made his film debut with a supporting role in Where the Day Takes You (1992). Arquette continued acting in television during the early-to-mid 1990s, with main roles as Tod Hawks on the NBC sitcom Parenthood (1990–1991) and Hunter on the CBS sitcom Double Rush (1995), and had starring roles in the films Wild Bill (1995) and Johns (1996).

Brooke Burke, American actress and television personality

Brooke Lisa Burke is an American television and fitness personality, model, author, actress, and businesswoman. She is known for hosting the E! Network travel show Wild On! (1999–2002), CBS's Rock Star (2005–2006), and TV Land's She's Got the Look (2010). After winning the seventh season of Dancing with the Stars, Burke served as co-hostess of the show from season ten to season seventeen (2010–2013). In 2017, Burke launched "Brooke Burke Body," a fitness app with workout videos featuring her. Since 2023, Brooke has served as the host of Penn & Teller: Fool Us, joining the series in its 10th season.

Martin Freeman, English actor

Martin John Christopher Freeman is an English actor. Among other accolades, he has won two Emmy Awards, a BAFTA Award, and a Screen Actors Guild Award, and has been nominated for a Golden Globe Award. Freeman's most notable roles are that of Tim Canterbury in the mockumentary series The Office (2001–2003), Dr. John Watson in the British crime drama series Sherlock (2010–2017), young Bilbo Baggins in The Hobbit film trilogy (2012–2014), Lester Nygaard in the first season of the dark comedy-crime drama series Fargo (2014), and Chris Carson in The Responder (2022–present).

Lachlan Murdoch, English-Australian businessman

Lachlan Keith Murdoch is a businessman and mass media heir. He is the son of the media tycoon Rupert Murdoch. He is the executive chairman of Nova Entertainment, chairman of News Corp, executive chairman and CEO of Fox Corporation. In 2025, Murdoch's net worth was estimated at A$3.21 billion, as published in the Financial Review Rich List.

Dustin O'Halloran, American pianist and composer

Dustin O'Halloran is an American composer and pianist. Aside from releasing music as a recording artist, O'Halloran is a film and TV composer, as well as one half of ambient act A Winged Victory for the Sullen.

Daniel Petrov, Bulgarian boxer

Daniel Bozhilov Petrov is a Bulgarian former boxer. He won a silver medal at the Barcelona Olympics in 1992 and a gold medal at the Atlanta Olympics in 1996 in the Light Flyweight category.

Pierre Sévigny, Canadian ice hockey player and coach

Joseph Jean Pierre Sévigny is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player who played in the National Hockey League (NHL).

08/09/1970

Neko Case, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

Neko Richelle Case is an American singer-songwriter and member of the Canadian indie rock group the New Pornographers. Case's singing voice has been described by contemporaries and critics as a "flamethrower", her "powerhouse [voice] seems like it might level buildings," "a 120-mph fastball," and a "vocal tornado". Critics also note her idiosyncratic, "cryptic," "imagistic" lyrics, and credit her as a significant figure in the early 21st-century American revival of the tenor guitar. Case's body of work has spanned and drawn on a range of traditions including country, folk, art rock, indie rock, and pop and is frequently described as defying or avoiding easy generic classification.

Paul DiPietro, Canadian-Swiss ice hockey player

Paul Anthony DiPietro is a Canadian-born Swiss former professional ice hockey player. A Stanley Cup champion with the Montreal Canadiens, he played forward and made the roster for the Swiss national ice hockey team at the 2006 Winter Olympics.

Nidal Hasan, American soldier, psychiatrist, and mass murderer

Nidal Malik Hasan is an American former United States Army major, physician, and mass murderer convicted of killing 13 people and injuring 32 others in the Fort Hood mass shooting on November 5, 2009. Hasan, an Army Medical Corps psychiatrist, admitted to the shootings at his court-martial in August 2013.

Latrell Sprewell, American basketball player

Latrell Fontaine Sprewell is an American former professional basketball player who played for the Golden State Warriors, the New York Knicks, and the Minnesota Timberwolves during his 13-year National Basketball Association (NBA) career. During his career, Sprewell received four NBA All-Star selections, an All-NBA First Team selection, and an NBA All-Defensive Second Team selection. He helped the Knicks reach the 1999 NBA Finals and the Timberwolves to the 2004 Western Conference finals. Sprewell's career was overshadowed by a 1997 incident in which he choked and punched then-Warriors coach P. J. Carlesimo during practice, which resulted in a 68-game suspension.

Lodi, American wrestler

Bradley Cain is an American author, personal trainer and professional wrestler, better known by his ring name, Lodi. Cain is best known for his appearances with World Championship Wrestling between 1997 and 2000, where he was a member of Raven's Flock stable and the tag team The West Hollywood Blondes.

Andy Ward, Irish rugby player and coach

Andy Ward is a New Zealand-born former rugby union player, who played flanker professionally for Ulster and internationally for Ireland.

John Welborn, Australian rugby player

John Welborn is a former Australian rugby union player, who played at the lock position. He is a former Wallaby. He was the first Western Australian-born player to represent Australia in rugby union, and played six matches for the Wallabies.

08/09/1969

Lars Bohinen, Norwegian footballer and manager

Lars Roar Bohinen is a Norwegian football manager and former professional footballer. His last job was as the manager of Jerv.

Oswaldo Ibarra, Ecuadorian footballer

Oswaldo Johvani Ibarra Carabalí is an Ecuadorian former footballer who played as a goalkeeper.

Chris Powell, English footballer and manager

Christopher George Robin Powell is an English football coach and former player. He is currently assistant manager at Luton Town.

Gary Speed, Welsh footballer and manager (died 2011)

Gary Andrew Speed was a Welsh professional footballer and manager. As manager of Wales, he is often credited as being the catalyst for the change in fortunes of the national team and as setting the pathway to future successes.

08/09/1968

Wolfram Klein, German footballer

Wolfram Klein is a former German footballer.

Ray Wilson, Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist

Raymond Wilson is a Scottish singer and guitarist, vocalist in the post-grunge band Stiltskin and in Genesis from 1996 to approximately 1999.

08/09/1967

Eerik-Niiles Kross, Estonian politician and diplomat

Eerik-Niiles Kross is an Estonian politician, diplomat, former chief of intelligence and entrepreneur. He is a member of parliament (Riigikogu). During the 1980s, Kross was a prominent figure in the anti-Soviet non-violent resistance movement in Soviet Estonia. After re-independence, in 1991, he joined Estonia's Foreign Ministry. He served as the head of intelligence from 1995 to 2000; and as national security advisor to former President Lennart Meri in 2000 and 2001.

James Packer, Australian businessman

James Douglas Packer is an Australian billionaire businessman and investor. Packer is the son of Kerry Packer, a media mogul, and his wife, Roslyn Packer. He is the grandson of Frank Packer. He inherited control of the family company, Consolidated Press Holdings Limited, as well as investments in Crown Resorts and other companies. He is the former executive chairman of Publishing and Broadcasting Limited (PBL) and Consolidated Media Holdings, which predominantly owned media interests across a range of platforms, and a former executive chairman of Crown Resorts.

Kimberly Peirce, American director, producer, and screenwriter

Kimberly Ane Peirce is an American filmmaker, best known for her debut feature film, Boys Don't Cry (1999). Peirce's second feature, Stop-Loss, was released by Paramount Pictures in 2008. Her third film Carrie was released on October 18, 2013. In addition to directing and writing, she is a governor of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences and a National Board member of the Directors Guild of America.

08/09/1966

Peter Furler, Australian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer

Peter Andrew Furler is an Australian musician, songwriter, producer and record executive, best known as the co-founder and lead vocalist of the Christian rock band Newsboys from 1986 to 2009.

08/09/1965

Tutilo Burger, German Benedictine monk and abbot

Tutilo Burger OSB is a German Benedictine. He took as his monastic name Tutilo, after the saint, monk and composer Tuotilo. Since 2011 he has been the eleventh archabbot of Beuron Archabbey, whilst his elder brother Stephan Burger is Archbishop of Freiburg.

Darlene Zschech, Australian singer-songwriter and pastor

Darlene Joyce Zschech is an Australian Pentecostal Christian worship leader and singer who primarily writes praise and worship songs. Described as a pioneer of the modern worship movement, she is the former worship pastor of Hillsong Church. Zschech is currently a contributing songwriter with CompassionArt, a charity founded by Christian songwriter Martin Smith. Along with her husband, Zschech is the lead pastor of Hope Unlimited Church in New South Wales.

08/09/1964

Michael Johns, American businessman and political activist

Michael Johns is an American conservative commentator, policy analyst, writer, a former speechwriter for President George H. W. Bush. He is a leader and spokesman in the Tea Party movement. He was also a health care executive.

Joachim Nielsen, Norwegian singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2000)

Joachim Nielsen, better known as Jokke, was a Norwegian rock musician and poet. He was the frontman of Norwegian rock band Jokke & Valentinerne, the brother of cartoonist Christopher Nielsen, and son of the artist John David Nielsen. He is considered to be one of the greatest songwriters in Norway.

Raven, American wrestler

Scott Levy, also known as Raven, is an American professional wrestler who historically competed for Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW). Besides ECW, he is best known for his appearances with other professional wrestling promotions such as World Championship Wrestling (WCW), the World Wrestling Federation (WWF) / World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) and NWA Total Nonstop Action (TNA).

08/09/1963

Alexandros Alexiou, Greek footballer

Alexandros "Alexis" Alexiou is a Greek former footballer and manager.

Daniel Wolpert, American scientist

Daniel Mark Wolpert FRS FMedSci is a British medical doctor, neuroscientist and engineer, who has made important contributions in computational biology. He was Professor of Engineering at the University of Cambridge from 2005, and also became the Royal Society Noreen Murray Research Professorship in Neurobiology from 2013. He is now Professor of Neurobiology at Columbia University.

08/09/1962

Thomas Kretschmann, German actor

Thomas Kretschmann is a German actor who has appeared in many European and American films. His notable roles include Lieutenant Hans von Witzland in Stalingrad (1993), Hauptmann Wilm Hosenfeld in The Pianist (2002), Hermann Fegelein in Downfall (2004), Captain Englehorn in King Kong (2005), Major Otto Remer in Valkyrie (2008), the voice of Professor Z in Cars 2 (2011), and the journalist Jürgen Hinzpeter in A Taxi Driver (2017). He also portrayed Baron Wolfgang von Strucker in the Marvel Cinematic Universe films Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014) and Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015).

08/09/1961

Timothy Well, American wrestler (died 2017)

Timothy Alan Smith was an American professional wrestler, better known by the ring names Rex King and Timothy Well. He wrestled in several promotions, including All Japan Pro Wrestling, World Championship Wrestling, and the World Wrestling Federation (WWF). Much of his career was spent wrestling as a tag team with Steve Doll throughout his career. While in WWF, they were known as Well Dunn.

08/09/1960

Aimee Mann, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actress

Aimee Elizabeth Mann is an American singer-songwriter. She is noted for her sardonic and literate lyrics about dark subjects, often describing underdog characters. She has released ten albums as a solo artist.

David Steele, English bass player and songwriter

David "Shuffle" Steele is a British musician who was a member of the Beat and Fine Young Cannibals.

Aguri Suzuki, Japanese race car driver

Aguri Suzuki is a Japanese former racing driver and motorsport executive who competed in Formula One from 1988 to 1995.

08/09/1958

Bart Batten, American wrestler

The Batten Twins were a professional wrestling tag team, consisting of twin brothers Bart and Brad Batten. They performed under the "Batten Twins" name in Central States Wrestling, Continental Wrestling Association, International Championship Wrestling, Jim Crockett Promotions, Southern Championship Wrestling, Texas All-Star Wrestling, World Championship Wrestling, and the World Wrestling Council, and the name U.S. Express in World Class Championship Wrestling. The team also appeared in various independent promotions during the 1990s including, most notably, Atlantic Coast Championship Wrestling, IWA Mid-South, Smoky Mountain Wrestling and Southern States Wrestling.

Brad Batten, American wrestler (died 2014)

The Batten Twins were a professional wrestling tag team, consisting of twin brothers Bart and Brad Batten. They performed under the "Batten Twins" name in Central States Wrestling, Continental Wrestling Association, International Championship Wrestling, Jim Crockett Promotions, Southern Championship Wrestling, Texas All-Star Wrestling, World Championship Wrestling, and the World Wrestling Council, and the name U.S. Express in World Class Championship Wrestling. The team also appeared in various independent promotions during the 1990s including, most notably, Atlantic Coast Championship Wrestling, IWA Mid-South, Smoky Mountain Wrestling and Southern States Wrestling.

Michael Lardie, American keyboard player, songwriter, and producer

Michael Lardie is an American musician and record producer known for his memberships in the rock bands Great White and Night Ranger.

08/09/1957

Walt Easley, American football player (died 2013)

Walter Edward Easley was a fullback in the NFL and USFL.

Heather Thomas, American actress and activist

Heather Thomas is an American actress. She is best known for her role as Jody Banks on The Fall Guy TV series opposite Lee Majors. She retired from acting in 1998 to avoid stalkers, to focus on her family, and to pursue writing. Since her retirement from acting, she has had some minor film appearances and has participated in political activism. She returned to acting in 2013.

08/09/1956

Mick Brown, American drummer

Michael J. Brown, also known as "Wild" Mick Brown, is an American retired drummer who played in the rock bands Dokken, Lynch Mob, The End Machine, and Xciter, as well as in Ted Nugent's band.

David Carr, American journalist and author (died 2015)

David Michael Carr was an American columnist, author, and newspaper editor. He wrote a column, Media Equation and covered culture for The New York Times.

Maurice Cheeks, American basketball player and coach

Maurice Edward Cheeks is an American professional basketball coach and former player who serves as an assistant coach for the New York Knicks of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He has also served as head coach of the Portland Trail Blazers, Philadelphia 76ers, and Detroit Pistons. Cheeks was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame as a player in 2018. He was the first player with 2,000 steals solely in the NBA.

Stefan Johansson, Swedish race car driver

Stefan Nils Edwin Johansson is a Swedish former racing driver and motorsport executive, who competed in Formula One between 1980 and 1991. In endurance racing, Johansson won the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 1997 with Joest.

08/09/1955

David O'Halloran, Australian footballer (died 2013)

David Neil O'Halloran was an Australian rules footballer who played with Hawthorn in the Victorian Football League (VFL).

Terry Tempest Williams, American environmentalist and author

Terry Tempest Williams is an American writer, educator, conservationist, and activist. Williams' writing is rooted in the American West and has been significantly influenced by the arid landscape of Utah. Her work focuses on social and environmental justice ranging from issues of ecology and the protection of public lands and wildness, to women's health, to exploring humanity's relationship to culture and nature. She writes in the genre of creative nonfiction and the lyrical essay.

08/09/1954

Mark Lindsay Chapman, English actor

Markus Lindsay Chapman is an English actor. He is known for his roles as Chief Officer Henry Wilde in the film Titanic (1997), as John Lennon in the film Chapter 27 (2007) and as Dr. Anton Arcane on the USA Network TV series Swamp Thing from 1990 to 1993.

Ruby Bridges, American civil rights activist

Ruby Nell Bridges Hall is an American civil rights activist. She was the first African American child to attend formerly whites-only William Frantz Elementary School in Louisiana during the New Orleans school desegregation crisis on November 14, 1960. She is the subject of a 1964 painting, The Problem We All Live With, by Norman Rockwell.

Johan Harmenberg, Swedish Olympic and world champion épée fencer

Johan Georg Harmenberg Åkerman is a Swedish former Olympic gold medalist and a World champion épée fencer.

Michael Shermer, American historian, author, and academic, founded The Skeptics Society

Michael Brant Shermer is an American science writer, historian of science, executive director of The Skeptics Society, and founding publisher of Skeptic magazine, a publication focused on investigating pseudoscientific and supernatural claims. The author of over a dozen books, Shermer is known for engaging in debates on pseudoscience and religion in which he emphasizes scientific skepticism.

08/09/1953

Pascal Greggory, French actor

Pascal Greggory is a French actor.

Stein-Erik Olsen, Norwegian guitarist

Stein-Erik Olsen is a Norwegian classical guitarist and professor of guitar at the University of Bergen, known from collaborations with such as Gro Sandvik, Roar Engelberg and St Martin in the Fields and a series of recordings.

08/09/1952

Will Lee, American bass player

Will Lee is an American jazz fusion bassist known for his work on the Late Show with David Letterman as part of the CBS Orchestra and Paul Shaffer and the World's Most Dangerous Band during Letterman’s tenure as host of NBC's Late Night with David Letterman.

Geoff Miller, English cricketer

Geoffrey Miller, is an English former cricketer, who played in 34 Test matches and 25 One Day Internationals for the England cricket team between 1976 and 1984. Nicknamed "Dusty", he played for Derbyshire from 1973 to 1986, captaining the team from 1979 to 1981, and returned in 1990 after playing for Essex between 1987 and 1989. He was an England selector from 2008 to 2013 and was appointed President of Derbyshire C.C.C. in March 2014. He was a part of the English squad which finished as runners-up at the 1979 Cricket World Cup.

Graham Mourie, New Zealand rugby player

Graham Neil Kenneth Mourie is a New Zealand former rugby union player and coach.

08/09/1951

Tim Gullikson, American tennis player and coach (died 1996)

Timothy Ernest Gullikson was a tennis player and coach who was born in La Crosse, Wisconsin and grew up in Onalaska, Wisconsin in the United States.

Tom Gullikson, American tennis player and coach

Tom Gullikson is a tennis coach and former professional tennis player born in La Crosse, Wisconsin and raised in Onalaska, Wisconsin in the United States.

John McDonnell, English politician

John Martin McDonnell is a British Labour Party politician who served as Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer from 2015 to 2020. He has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Hayes and Harlington since 1997.

Dezső Ránki, Hungarian pianist

Dezső Ránki is a Hungarian virtuoso concert pianist with a broad repertoire and a significant discography of solo, duo and concerto works.

08/09/1950

Ian Davidson, Scottish lawyer and politician

Ian Graham Davidson is a Scottish politician who served as chair of the Scottish Affairs Select Committee from 2010 to 2015. A member of the Scottish Labour Party and Co-operative Party, he was Member of Parliament (MP) for Glasgow South West, formerly Glasgow Pollok, from 1992 to 2015.

Zachary Richard, American singer-songwriter and poet

Ralph Zachary Richard is an American singer-songwriter and poet. His music is a combination of Cajun and Zydeco musical styles.

Mike Simpson, American dentist and politician

Michael Keith Simpson is an American politician serving as the U.S. representative for Idaho's 2nd congressional district since 1999. The district covers most of the eastern portion of the state, including Idaho Falls, Pocatello, Sun Valley, Twin Falls and the northern two-thirds of Boise. A member of the Republican Party, Simpson was first elected to public office in 1984, and was elected to the House in the 1998 elections, succeeding Mike Crapo. He served as Speaker of the Idaho House of Representatives from 1992 to 1998.

08/09/1949

Edward Hinds, English physicist and academic

Edward Allen Hinds FInstP FAPS FRS is a British physicist noted for his work with cold matter.

08/09/1948

Great Kabuki, Japanese wrestler

Akihisa Mera , better known as The Great Kabuki , is a Japanese retired professional wrestler. He is famous as the first to blow Asian mist in his opponents' faces.

Jean-Pierre Monseré, Belgian cyclist (died 1971)

Jean-Pierre "Jempi" Monseré was a Belgian road racing cyclist who died while champion of the world.

08/09/1947

Valery Afanassiev, Russian pianist and conductor

Valery Pavlovich Afanassiev is a Russian pianist, writer and conductor.

Halldór Ásgrímsson, Icelandic accountant and politician, 22nd Prime Minister of Iceland (died 2015)

Halldór Ásgrímsson was an Icelandic politician, who served as prime minister of Iceland from 15 September 2004 to 15 June 2006 and was the leader of the Progressive Party from 1994 to 2006.

Ann Beattie, American novelist and short story writer

Ann Beattie is an American novelist and short story writer. She has received an award for excellence from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters and the PEN/Malamud Award for excellence in the short story form.

Benjamin Orr, American singer-songwriter and bass player (died 2000)

Benjamin Orr was an American musician. He was best known as the bassist, co-lead vocalist, and co-founder of the band the Cars. He sang lead vocals on several of their hits, including "Just What I Needed", "Let's Go", "Moving in Stereo", and "Drive". He also had the solo hit "Stay the Night".

Marianne Wiggins, American author

Marianne Wiggins is an American author. According to The Cambridge Guide to Women's Writing in English, Wiggins writes with "a bold intelligence and an ear for hidden comedy." She has won a Whiting Award, an National Endowment for the Arts award and the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize. She was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in fiction in 2004 for her novel Evidence of Things Unseen.

08/09/1946

L. C. Greenwood, American football player (died 2013)

L. C. Henderson Greenwood was an American professional football player who was a defensive end for the Pittsburgh Steelers of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Arkansas AM&N Golden Lions.

Aziz Sancar, Turkish-American biologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate

Aziz Sancar is a Turkish-American molecular biologist specializing in DNA repair, cell cycle checkpoints, and circadian clock. In 2015, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry along with Tomas Lindahl and Paul L. Modrich for their mechanistic studies of DNA repair. He has made contributions on photolyase and nucleotide excision repair in bacteria that have changed his field.

Wong Kan Seng, Singaporean business executive, former Deputy Prime Minister of Singapore

Wong Kan Seng is a Singaporean former politician who served as 5th Deputy Prime Minister of Singapore between 2005 and 2011 and currently is the chairman of UOB Bank and CapitaLand Group since 2017 and 2021 respectively.

08/09/1945

Lem Barney, American football player

Lemuel Jackson Barney is an American former professional football player who was a cornerback and return specialist for the Detroit Lions of the National Football League (NFL) from 1967 to 1977, playing occasionally as a punter as well. He played college football for the Jackson State Tigers from 1964 to 1966. He was selected by the Lions in the 1967 NFL/AFL draft. He was named the NFL Defensive Rookie of the Year in 1967, played in seven Pro Bowls, and was selected as a first-team All-Pro player in 1968 and 1969. He was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1992. He has also been inducted into the Detroit Lions Hall of Fame, the Jackson State Sports Hall of Fame, the Michigan Sports Hall of Fame, and the Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame.

Kelly Groucutt, English bass player (died 2009)

Kelly Groucutt was an English musician best known as the bassist and secondary vocalist for the rock band Electric Light Orchestra (ELO) between 1974 and 1982.

Ron "Pigpen" McKernan, American singer-songwriter and keyboard player (died 1973)

Ronald Charles McKernan, known as Pigpen, was an American musician. He was a founding member of the San Francisco band the Grateful Dead and played in the group from 1965 to 1972.

Vinko Puljić, Croatian cardinal

Vinko Puljić is a Bosnian Croat prelate of the Catholic Church who has been a cardinal since 1994. He was the archbishop of Vrhbosna from 1991 to 2022.

Rogie Vachon, Canadian ice hockey player and coach

Rogatien Rosaire "Rogie the Goalie" Vachon is a Canadian former professional ice hockey goaltender who played for the Montreal Canadiens, Los Angeles Kings, Detroit Red Wings and Boston Bruins in the National Hockey League between 1967 and 1982.

08/09/1944

Peter Bellamy, English singer-songwriter (died 1991)

Peter Franklyn Bellamy was an English folk singer. He was a founding member of The Young Tradition and also had a long solo career, recording numerous albums and touring folk clubs and concert halls. He is noted for his ballad-opera The Transports, and has been acknowledged as a major influence by performers of later generations including Damien Barber, Oli Steadman, and Jon Boden.

Margaret Hodge, English economist and politician

Margaret Eve Hodge, Baroness Hodge of Barking, is a British politician and life peer, who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Barking from 1994 to 2024. A member of the Labour Party, she was previously Leader of Islington London Borough Council from 1982 to 1992. She has held a number of ministerial roles and served as chair of the Public Accounts Committee from 2010 to 2015.

Terry Jenner, Australian cricketer and coach (died 2011)

Terrence James Jenner was an Australian cricketer who played nine Tests and one ODI from 1970 to 1975. He was primarily a leg-spin bowler and was known for his attacking, loopy style of bowling, but he was also a handy lower-order batsman. In his latter years he was a leg-spin coach to many players around the world, and a great influence on Shane Warne. He was also a radio cricket commentator for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.

08/09/1943

Adelaide C. Eckardt, American academic and politician

Adelaide C. Eckardt is an American politician who was a member of the Maryland Senate, representing District 37.

08/09/1942

Brian Cole, American bass player (died 1972)

Brian Leslie Cole was an American musician. He was the bass guitarist, bass vocalist and one of the founding members of the 1960s folk rock band the Association.

Judith Hann, English journalist and author

Judith Hann is a broadcaster and writer specialising in science, food and the environment.

Sal Valentino, American rock singer-songwriter and guitarist

Sal Valentino is an American rock musician, singer and songwriter, best known as lead singer of The Beau Brummels, subsequently becoming a songwriter as well. The band released a pair of top 20 U.S. hit singles in 1965, "Laugh, Laugh" and "Just a Little". He later fronted another band, Stoneground, which produced three albums in the early 1970s. After reuniting on numerous occasions with the Beau Brummels, Valentino began a solo career, releasing his latest album, Every Now and Then, in 2008.

08/09/1941

Bernie Sanders, American politician

Bernard Sanders is an American politician and activist serving as the senior United States senator from Vermont, a seat he has held since 2007. He is the longest-serving independent in U.S. congressional history, but maintains a close relationship with the Democratic Party, having caucused with House and Senate Democrats for most of his congressional career and sought the party's presidential nomination in 2016 and 2020. Ideologically a democratic socialist, Sanders is regarded as one of the main leaders of the modern American progressive movement.

08/09/1940

Quentin L. Cook, American religious leader

Quentin LaMar Cook is a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Currently, he is the fifth most senior apostle in the church. Prior to his calling as an Apostle, he worked as a lawyer and business executive.

Jerzy Robert Nowak, Polish historian and journalist

Jerzy Robert Nowak is a Polish historian, and former columnist in right-wing Catholic media outlets including Nasz Dziennik, Telewizja Trwam, Radio Maryja.

Jack Prelutsky, American author and poet

Jack Prelutsky is an American writer of children's poetry who has published over 50 poetry collections. He served as the first U.S. Children's Poet Laureate from 2006 to 2008 when the Poetry Foundation established the award.

08/09/1939

Carsten Keller, German field hockey player and coach

Carsten Keller is a former field hockey player from West-Germany, who won a gold medal for his native country at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich. He played 133 international matches for Germany, and retired after the Munich Games. Keller then became a hockey coach.

Guitar Shorty, American singer and guitarist (died 2022)

David William Kearney, known as Guitar Shorty, was an American blues guitarist, singer, and songwriter. He was known for his explosive guitar style and wild stage antics. Credited with influencing both Jimi Hendrix and Buddy Guy, Guitar Shorty recorded and toured from the 1950s until the 2020s. In 2017, Billboard magazine said, "his galvanizing guitar work defines modern, top-of-the-line blues-rock. His vocals remain as forceful as ever. Righteous shuffles...blistering, sinuous guitar solos."

08/09/1938

Adrian Cronauer, American sergeant and radio host (died 2018)

Adrian Joseph Cronauer was an American radio personality and United States Air Force Sergeant, whose experiences as an innovative disc jockey on American Forces Network during the Vietnam War inspired the 1987 film Good Morning, Vietnam starring Robin Williams as Cronauer.

Kenichi Horie, Japanese sailor

Kenichi Horie is a Japanese solo yachtsman. In 1962 he became the first person to sail solo and non-stop across the Pacific Ocean. He has made other significant solo voyages, usually involving boats exhibiting some sort of environmentally friendly theme, including his 2008 voyage across the Western Pacific Ocean in a wave-powered boat, the Suntory Mermaid II.

Sam Nunn, American lawyer and politician

Samuel Augustus Nunn Jr. is an American politician who served as a United States senator from Georgia (1972–1997) as a member of the Democratic Party.

08/09/1937

Edna Adan Ismail, Somaliland politician and activist

Edna Adan Ismail is a nurse midwife, activist, and was the first female Foreign Minister of Somaliland from 2003 to 2006. She previously served as Somalia’s Minister of Family Welfare and Social Development.

Barbara Frum, American-Canadian journalist (died 1992)

Barbara Frum, OC was an American-born Canadian radio and television journalist, acclaimed for her interviews for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.

Archie Goodwin, American author and illustrator (died 1998)

Archie Goodwin was an American comic book writer, editor, and artist. He worked on a number of comic strips in addition to comic books, and is known for his Warren and Marvel Comics work. For Warren he was chief writer and editor of landmark horror anthology titles Creepy and Eerie between 1964 and 1967. At Marvel, he served as the company's editor-in-chief from 1976 to the end of 1977. In the 1980s, he edited the publisher's anthology magazine Epic Illustrated and its Epic Comics imprint. He is also known for his work on Star Wars in both comic books and newspaper strips. He is regularly cited as the "best-loved comic book editor, ever."

08/09/1936

Roy Newman, English admiral

Vice-admiral Sir Roy Thomas Newman, is a former Royal Navy officer who became Flag Officer, Plymouth.

08/09/1934

Rodrigue Biron, Canadian politician (died 2025)

Rodrigue Biron was a Canadian politician in Quebec. He was leader of the Union Nationale political party from 1976 to 1980, when he joined the Parti Québécois (PQ). He served as Minister of Industry, Commerce and Tourism in the PQ government.

Ross Brown, New Zealand rugby player (died 2014)

Ross Handley Brown was a New Zealand rugby union footballer. He played 16 test matches, most frequently in the first-five back position, for New Zealand's national rugby team, the All Blacks, from 1955 until 1962.

Peter Maxwell Davies, English composer and conductor (died 2016)

Sir Peter Maxwell Davies was an English composer and conductor, who in 2004 was made Master of the Queen's Music.

Bernard Donoughue, Baron Donoughue, English academic and politician

Bernard Donoughue, Baron Donoughue is a British politician, academic, businessman and author. He is a member of the Labour Party.

08/09/1933

Asha Bhosle, Indian playback singer, businesswoman, actress and television personality (died 2026)

Asha Bhosle was an Indian playback singer, businesswoman, actress and television personality who predominantly worked in Indian cinema. Known for her versatility, she was described in the media as one of the greatest and most influential singers in Hindi cinema. In a career spanning over eight decades, she recorded songs for films and albums in various Indian languages and won several accolades including two National Film Awards, four BFJA Awards, eighteen Maharashtra State Film Awards, nine Filmfare Awards including a Lifetime Achievement Award and a record seven Filmfare Awards for Best Female Playback Singer, in addition to two Grammy nominations. In 2000, she was honoured with the Dadasaheb Phalke Award, India's highest award in the field of cinema. In 2008, she was honoured by the Government of India with the Padma Vibhushan, the second-highest civilian honour of the country. The Guinness Book of World Records acknowledged her in 2011 as the most recorded artist in music history.

Michael Frayn, English author and playwright

Michael Frayn, FRSL is an English playwright and novelist. He is best known as the author of the farce Noises Off  and the dramas Copenhagen, and Democracy.

Jeffrey Koo Sr., Taiwanese banker and businessman (died 2012)

Jeffrey Koo Sr. was a Taiwanese billionaire banker and the third-generation of the Koo Family who served as honorary chairman and governor of CTBC Financial Holding, and co-founded the Koos Group.

Eric Salzman, American composer, producer, and critic (died 2017)

Eric Salzman was an American composer, scholar, author, impresario, music critic, and record producer. He is best known for his contributions to 'New Music Theater,' a concept he advanced through both his compositions and writings. He established it as an independent art form, distinct from grand opera and popular musicals, both aesthetically and economically. He co-founded the American Music Theater Festival and was, at the time of his death in 2017, Composer-in-Residence at the Center for Contemporary Opera.

Maigonis Valdmanis, Latvian basketball player and coach (died 1999)

Maigonis Valdmanis was a Soviet and Latvian basketball player and coach. He was born in Riga.

08/09/1932

Patsy Cline, American singer-songwriter and pianist (died 1963)

Patsy Cline was an American singer. One of the most influential vocalists of the 20th century, she was known as one of the first country music artists to successfully cross over into pop music. Cline had several major hits during her eight-year recording career, including two number-one hits on the Billboard Hot Country and Western Sides chart.

08/09/1931

Marion Brown, American saxophonist and composer (died 2010)

Marion Brown was an American jazz alto saxophonist, composer, writer, visual artist, and ethnomusicologist. He was a member of the avant-garde jazz scene in New York City during the 1960s, playing alongside musicians such as John Coltrane, Archie Shepp, and John Tchicai. He performed on Coltrane's landmark 1965 album Ascension. AllMusic reviewer Scott Yanow described him as "one of the brightest and most lyrical voices of the 1960s avant-garde."

John Garrett, English politician (died 2007)

John Laurence Garrett was a British management consultant and Labour Party politician. He was Member of Parliament for Norwich South for 19 years in two non-consecutive terms, from 1974 to 1983, and later from 1987 to 1997.

08/09/1930

Nguyễn Cao Kỳ, Vietnamese general and politician, 16th Prime Minister of the Republic of Vietnam (died 2011)

Nguyễn Cao Kỳ was a South Vietnamese military officer and politician who served as the chief of the Republic of Vietnam Air Force in the 1960s, before leading the nation as the prime minister of South Vietnam in a military junta from 1965 to 1967. Then, until his retirement from politics in 1971, he served as vice president to bitter rival General Nguyễn Văn Thiệu, in a nominally civilian administration.

08/09/1929

Christoph von Dohnányi, German conductor (died 2025)

Christoph von Dohnányi was a German conductor. He was both music director and later artistic director at the Oper Frankfurt until 1977, establishing innovative opera. He was music director of The Cleveland Orchestra from 1984 to 2002, leading the orchestra in recordings with various labels and on international tours to Europe and Asia. He was principal conductor of London's Philharmonia Orchestra from 1997 to 2008, touring Europe including a series of opera performances at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris. He was chief conductor of the NDR Symphony Orchestra from 2004 to 2010.

08/09/1927

Harlan Howard, American songwriter (died 2002)

Harlan Perry Howard was an American songwriter, principally in country music. In a career spanning six decades, Howard is credited with writing more than 4,000 songs, over 100 of which reached country music's Top 10.

Robert L. Rock, American politician, 42nd Lieutenant Governor of Indiana (died 2013)

Robert Lee Rock was an American politician who served as the Lieutenant Governor of Indiana from 1965 to 1969 and as the Mayor of Anderson, Indiana, from 1972 to 1980. He was the Democratic nominee for Governor of Indiana in 1968, but lost to Republican Edgar Whitcomb.

Marguerite Frank, American-French mathematician (died 2024)

Marguerite Straus Frank was a French-American mathematician who was a pioneer in convex optimization theory and mathematical programming.

08/09/1926

Bhupen Hazarika, Indian singer-songwriter, poet, and director (died 2011)

Bhupen Hazarika BR, widely known as Sudha Kantha, was an Indian singer, songwriter, writer, filmmaker and politician from Assam. He wrote songs mainly in the Assamese language, which are marked by humanity and universal brotherhood. His songs have been translated into many languages, most notably in Bengali and Hindi.

08/09/1925

Jacqueline Ceballos, American activist, founded the Veteran Feminists of America

Jacqueline Michot Ceballos is an American feminist and activist. Ceballos is the former president of New York Chapter of the National Organization for Women and founder of the Veteran Feminists of America organization which documents the history of Second wave feminism and pioneer feminists. Ceballos' 1971 debate on sexual politics with Norman Mailer and Germaine Greer is recorded in the 1979 film Town Bloody Hall. Ceballos is also featured in the feminist history film She's Beautiful When She's Angry.

Peter Sellers, English actor and comedian (died 1980)

Peter Sellers was an English actor and comedian. He first came to prominence with his performances on the BBC Radio comedy series The Goon Show. Sellers was featured on a number of hit comic songs and became internationally acclaimed for his film roles, most notably as Chief Inspector Clouseau in The Pink Panther series.

08/09/1924

Wendell H. Ford, American politician, 53rd Governor of Kentucky (died 2015)

Wendell Hampton Ford was an American politician from Kentucky. A member of the Democratic Party, he served as the 53rd governor of Kentucky from 1971 to 1974, and as a member of the United States Senate from 1974 to 1999. He was the first person to be successively elected lieutenant governor of Kentucky, governor, and United States Senate member in Kentucky history. He was the Senate Democratic whip from 1991 to 1999, and was considered the leader of the state's Democratic Party from his election as governor in 1971 until he retired from the Senate in 1999. At the time of his retirement he was the longest-serving senator in Kentucky's history, a mark which was then surpassed by Mitch McConnell, in 2009. Ford is the last Democrat to have served as a U.S. Senate member from the state of Kentucky.

Marie-Claire Kirkland, American-Canadian lawyer, judge, and politician (died 2016)

Marie-Claire Kirkland-Casgrain, was a Quebec lawyer, judge and politician. She was the first woman elected to the Legislative Assembly of Quebec, the first woman appointed a Cabinet minister in Quebec, the first woman appointed acting premier, and the first woman judge to serve in the Quebec Provincial Court.

Grace Metalious, American author (died 1964)

Marie Grace Metalious was an American author known for her novel Peyton Place, one of the best selling works in publishing history.

Mimi Parent, Canadian-Swiss painter (died 2005)

Mimi Parent was a Canadian surrealist artist. For many years she lived and worked in Paris, France. Her art is known for its symbolism, and the metaphorical use of existing objects, including human hair.

08/09/1923

Rasul Gamzatov, Russian poet (died 2003)

Rasul Gamzatovich Gamzatov was a Soviet and Russian poet who wrote in Avar. Among his poems was Zhuravli, which became a well-known Soviet song.

Wilbur Ware, American double-bassist (died 1979)

Wilbur Bernard Ware was an American jazz double bassist. He was a regular bassist for the Riverside record label in the 1950s, and recorded regularly in that decade with Johnny Griffin, Kenny Dorham, Kenny Drew, and Thelonious Monk. He also appeared on records released by J.R. Monterose, Toots Thielemans, Sonny Clark, Tina Brooks, Zoot Sims, Archie Shepp and Grant Green, among others.

08/09/1922

Sid Caesar, American comic actor and writer (died 2014)

Isaac Sidney Caesar was an American comic actor and comedian. With a career spanning 60 years, he was best known for two pioneering 1950s live television series: Your Show of Shows (1950–1954), which was a 90-minute weekly show watched by 60 million people, and its successor, Caesar's Hour (1954–1957), both of which influenced later generations of comedians. Your Show of Shows and its cast received seven Emmy nominations between 1953 and 1954 and tallied two wins. He also acted in films; he played Coach Calhoun in Grease (1978) and its sequel Grease 2 (1982) and appeared in the films It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963), Silent Movie (1976), History of the World, Part I (1981), Cannonball Run II (1984), and Vegas Vacation (1997).

Lyndon LaRouche, American politician and activist, founded the LaRouche movement (died 2019)

Lyndon Hermyle LaRouche Jr. was an American political activist who founded the LaRouche movement and its main organization, the National Caucus of Labor Committees (NCLC). He was a prominent conspiracy theorist and perennial presidential candidate. He began in far-left politics in the 1940s and later supported the civil rights movement; however, in the 1970s, he moved to the far-right. His movement is sometimes described as, or likened to, a cult. Convicted of fraud, he served five years in prison from 1989 to 1994.

08/09/1921

Harry Secombe, Welsh-English actor (died 2001)

Sir Harry Donald Secombe was a Welsh actor, comedian, singer and television presenter. Secombe was a member of the British radio comedy programme The Goon Show (1951–1960), playing many characters, most notably Neddie Seagoon. An accomplished tenor, he also appeared in musicals and films – notably as Mr Bumble in Oliver! (1968) – and, in his later years, was a presenter of television shows incorporating hymns and other devotional songs.

Dinko Šakić, Croatian concentration camp commander (died 2008)

Dinko Šakić was a Croatian Ustaše official, and convicted war criminal, who commanded the Jasenovac concentration camp in the Independent State of Croatia (NDH) from April to November 1944, during World War II.

08/09/1919

Gianni Brera, Italian journalist and author (died 1992)

Giovanni Luigi "Gianni" Brera was an Italian sports journalist and novelist.

Maria Lassnig, Austrian painter and academic (died 2014)

Maria Lassnig was an Austrian artist known for her painted self-portraits and her theory of "body awareness". In 1980, she became a professor for Painting at the University of Applied Arts Vienna, where she taught until her death. She was the first female artist to win the Grand Austrian State Prize in 1988 and was awarded the Austrian Decoration for Science and Art in 2005.

08/09/1918

Derek Barton, English-American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1998)

Sir Derek Harold Richard Barton was an English organic chemist and Nobel Prize laureate for 1969.

08/09/1917

Jan Sedivka, Czech-Australian violinist and educator (died 2009)

Jan Boleslav Sedivka, Czech-born, was one of Australia's foremost violinists and teachers.

08/09/1915

N. V. M. Gonzalez, Filipino novelist, poet, and writer (died 1999)

Néstor Vicente Madali González was a Filipino novelist, short story writer, essayist and poet. Conferred as the National Artist of the Philippines for Literature in 1997.

08/09/1914

Patriarch Demetrios I of Constantinople (died 1991)

Demetrios I of Constantinople, also Dimitrios I or Demetrius I, born Demetrios Papadopoulos, was the 269th Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople from 16 July 1972 to 2 October 1991, serving as the spiritual leader of 300 million Eastern Orthodox Christians. Before his election as patriarch, he served as the metropolitan bishop of Imvros. He was born in Constantinople, where he also died.

Denys Lasdun, English architect, designed the Royal National Theatre (died 2001)

Sir Denys Louis Lasdun, was an English architect. Hailed as "the greatest English architect of the early heroic modern period", his most known work is the Royal National Theatre, on London's South Bank of the Thames, which is a Grade II* listed building and one of the most notable examples of Brutalist design in the United Kingdom.

08/09/1910

Jean-Louis Barrault, French actor and director (died 1994)

Jean-Louis Bernard Barrault was a French actor, director and mime artist who worked on both screen and stage.

08/09/1909

Józef Noji, Polish runner (died 1943)

Józef Noji was a Polish long-distance runner who competed at the 1936 Summer Olympics.

08/09/1907

William Wentworth, Australian economist and politician, 11th Australian Minister for Human Services (died 2003)

William Charles Wentworth, usually known as Bill Wentworth and sometimes referred to as William Charles Wentworth IV, was an Australian politician. He was a member of the Liberal Party for most of his career and held ministerial office in the governments of John Gorton and William McMahon, serving as Minister for Social Services (1968–1972) and Minister in charge of Aboriginal Affairs (1968–1971). Wentworth served in the House of Representatives from 1949 to 1977, representing the New South Wales seat of Mackellar. He frequently crossed the floor and served his final months in parliament as an independent.

08/09/1906

Andrei Kirilenko, Russian engineer and politician (died 1990)

Andrei Pavlovich Kirilenko was a Soviet politician, and a member of the Secretariat of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. He was one of the most loyal politicians to Leonid Brezhnev.

08/09/1905

Eino Tainio, Finnish politician (died 1970)

Eino Alfred Tainio was a Finnish printer, politician and member of the Parliament of Finland, the national legislature of Finland. A member of the Communist Party of Finland (SKP) and the Finnish People's Democratic League (SKDL), he represented Lapland Province between April 1945 and March 1970. Prior to being elected, he was imprisoned for twelve years for political reasons.

08/09/1903

Jane Arbor, English author (died 1994)

Eileen Norah Owbridge was a British writer who under the pseudonym Jane Arbor wrote 57 romances for Mills & Boon from 1948 to 1985.

08/09/1901

Hendrik Verwoerd, Dutch-South African journalist and politician, 7th Prime Minister of South Africa (died 1966)

Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd, also known as H. F. Verwoerd, was a Dutch-born South African politician, academic, and newspaper editor who served as Prime Minister of South Africa from 1958 until his assassination in 1966.

08/09/1900

Tilly Devine, English-Australian organised crime boss (died 1970)

Matilda Mary Devine, also known as Tilly Devine, was an English Australian organised crime boss. She was involved in a wide range of activities, including sly-grog, razor gangs, and prostitution, and became a famous folk figure in Sydney during the interwar years.

Claude Pepper, American lawyer and politician (died 1989)

Claude Denson Pepper was an American politician of the Democratic Party. He represented Florida in the United States Senate from 1936 to 1951, and the Miami area in the United States House of Representatives from 1963 until his death in 1989. He was considered a spokesman for left-liberalism and the elderly.

08/09/1897

Jimmie Rodgers, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 1933)

James Charles Rodgers was an American singer, songwriter, and musician who rose to popularity in the late 1920s. Widely regarded as the "Father of Country Music", he is best known for his distinctive yodeling. Rodgers was known as "The Singing Brakeman" and "America's Blue Yodeler". He has been cited as an inspiration by many artists, and he has been inducted into multiple halls of fame.

08/09/1896

Howard Dietz, American publicist and songwriter (died 1983)

Howard Dietz was an American publicist, lyricist, and librettist, best remembered for his songwriting collaboration with Arthur Schwartz. According to historian Stanley Green, Dietz and Schwartz were "most closely identified with the revue form of musical theatre."

08/09/1894

John Samuel Bourque, Canadian soldier and politician (died 1974)

John Samuel Bourque was a Quebec politician, Cabinet Minister, military member and businessman. He was the Member of Legislative Assembly of Quebec for the riding of Sherbrooke for 25 years.

Willem Pijper, Dutch composer and critic (died 1947)

Willem Frederik Johannes Pijper was a Dutch composer, music critic and music teacher. Pijper is considered to be among the most important Dutch composers of the first half of the 20th century.

08/09/1889

Robert A. Taft, American lawyer and politician (died 1953)

Robert Alphonso Taft Sr. was an American politician, lawyer, and scion of the Republican Party's Taft family. Taft represented Ohio in the United States Senate, briefly served as Senate majority leader, and was a leader of the conservative coalition of Republicans and conservative Democrats who blocked expansion of the New Deal. Often referred to as "Mr. Republican", he co-sponsored the Taft–Hartley Act of 1947, which banned closed shops, created the framework of right-to-work states, and tightened other regulations on labor unions and practices.

08/09/1888

Ida McNeil, American broadcaster and designer of the flag of South Dakota (died 1974)

Ida McNeil was an American broadcaster and the designer of the first state flag of South Dakota. She and her husband, Dana McNeil, founded KGFX, in Pierre, South Dakota, one of the first radio stations in South Dakota, in 1927. She continued to run the station after his death in 1936 until her retirement in 1962. She has been nicknamed "Mrs. Pierre" for her work in broadcasting and "the Betsy Ross of South Dakota" for her state flag design.

08/09/1887

Sivananda Saraswati, Hindu monk, spiritual leader, physician, proponent of Vedanta, etc. (died 1963)

Swami Sivananda Saraswati, also called Swami Sivananda, was a yoga guru, a Hindu spiritual teacher, and a proponent of Vedanta. Sivananda was born in Pattamadai, in the Tirunelveli district of modern Tamil Nadu, and was named Kuppuswami. He studied medicine and served in British Malaya as a physician for several years before taking up monasticism.

08/09/1886

Siegfried Sassoon, English captain, journalist, and poet (died 1967)

Siegfried Loraine Sassoon was an English war poet, writer, and soldier. Decorated for bravery on the Western Front, he became one of the leading poets of the First World War. His poetry both described the horrors of the trenches and satirized the patriotic pretensions of those who, in Sassoon's view, were responsible for a jingoism-fuelled war. Sassoon became a focal point for dissent within the armed forces when he made a lone protest against the continuation of the war with his "Soldier's Declaration" of July 1917, which resulted in his being sent to the Craiglockhart War Hospital. During this period, Sassoon met and formed a friendship with Wilfred Owen, who was greatly influenced by him. Sassoon later won acclaim for his prose work, notably his three-volume, fictionalised autobiography, collectively known as the Sherston trilogy.

Ninon Vallin, French soprano and actress (died 1961)

Eugénie "Ninon" Vallin was a French lyric soprano who achieved considerable popularity in opera, operetta and classical song recitals during an international career that lasted for more than four decades.

08/09/1884

Théodore Pilette, Belgian race car driver (died 1921)

Théodore Eugène Pilette was a Belgian racing driver and businessman. He started racing in 1903.

08/09/1881

Harry Hillman, American runner and hurdler (died 1945)

Harry Livingston Hillman Jr. was one of the longest serving Dartmouth Track and Field Coaches from 1910–45, and an American track and field athlete who won three gold medals at the 1904 Summer Olympics and a silver at the 1908 Summer Olympics.

Refik Saydam, Turkish physician and politician, 5th Prime Minister of Turkey (died 1942)

İbrahim Refik Saydam was a Turkish physician, politician and the fourth Prime Minister of Turkey, serving from 25 January 1939 until his death on 8 July 1942.

08/09/1876

Inez Knight Allen, Mormon missionary and Utah politician (died 1937)

Amanda Inez Knight Allen was a Mormon missionary and a Utah politician. In 1898, she became one of the first two single women to be missionaries for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

08/09/1873

Alfred Jarry, French author and playwright (died 1907)

Alfred Jarry was a French symbolist writer who is best known for his play Ubu Roi (1896), often cited as a forerunner of the Dada, Surrealist, and Futurist movements of the 1920s and 1930s and later the theatre of the absurd in the 1950s and 1960s. He also coined the term and philosophical concept of 'pataphysics.

David O. McKay, American religious leader, 9th President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (died 1970)

David Oman McKay was an American religious leader and educator who served as the ninth president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from 1951 until his death in 1970. Ordained an apostle and member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles in 1906, McKay was an active general authority for nearly 64 years, longer than anyone else in LDS Church history.

08/09/1872

James William McCarthy, American judge (died 1939)

James William McCarthy was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey.

08/09/1871

Samuel McLaughlin, Canadian businessman and philanthropist, founded the McLaughlin Carriage Company (died 1972)

Colonel Robert Samuel McLaughlin, was a Canadian businessman and philanthropist. He started the McLaughlin Motor Car Company in 1907, one of the first major automobile manufacturers in Canada, which evolved into General Motors of Canada. McLaughlin lived to the age of 100.

08/09/1869

José María Pino Suárez, Mexican politician, Vice President of Mexico, murdered in a military coup (died 1913)

José María Pino Suárez was a Mexican lawyer, statesman, politician and journalist who served as the 7th and last Vice President of Mexico from 1911 until his assassination during the Ten Tragic Days coup in 1913. A close ally of President Francisco I. Madero and a prominent figure of the Mexican Revolution, he is considered a national hero for championing democratic reforms and advocating social justice. Between 1910 and 1913, he also served as President of the Senate, Secretary of Education, Governor of Yucatán, and Secretary of Justice in Madero’s provisional government. He was the great-grandson of Pedro Sáinz de Baranda y Borreyro, the naval commander who founded the Mexican Navy and expelled the last Spanish forces from national territory during the Mexican War of Independence.

08/09/1868

Seth Weeks, American mandolin player, composer, and bandleader (died 1953)

Silas Seth Weeks was an American composer who played mandolin, violin, banjo and guitar. Although he played many instruments he concentrated professionally on the mandolin. He is considered to be the first African American to play mandolin during its golden period and was considered instrumental in bringing the mandolin to the prominent national standing that it had in the early 1900s. He was the first American known to write a mandolin concerto and led a mandolin and guitar orchestra in Tacoma, Washington.

08/09/1867

Alexander Parvus, Belarusian-German theoretician and activist (died 1924)

Alexander Israel Helphand, better known as Alexander Parvus, was a Russian-born Marxist theorist, journalist, and activist who became a prominent figure in the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD).

08/09/1863

Mary of the Divine Heart, German nun and saint (died 1899)

Mary of the Divine Heart, born Maria Droste zu Vischering, was a German noblewoman and religious sister of the Catholic Congregation of Our Lady of Charity of the Good Shepherd. She is best known for having influenced Pope Leo XIII to consecrate the world to the Sacred Heart of Jesus. Pope Leo XIII called the solemn consecration "the greatest act of my pontificate".

W.W. Jacobs, English novelist and short story writer (died 1943)

William Wymark Jacobs was an English author of short fiction and drama. He is best known for his story "The Monkey's Paw".

08/09/1857

Georg Michaelis, German academic and politician, 6th Chancellor of Germany (died 1936)

Georg Michaelis was the imperial chancellor of the German Empire for a few months in 1917 during the First World War. He was the first commoner to hold the post, though the Supreme Army Command under Paul von Hindenburg had de facto control over the country.

08/09/1852

Gojong of Korea, 26th Emperor of the Joseon Kingdom and first emperor of Korea (died 1919)

Gojong, personal name Yi Myeongbok, later Yi Hui, also known as the Gwangmu Emperor, was the penultimate Korean monarch. He ruled Korea for 43 years, from 1864 to 1907, first as the last King of Joseon, and then as the first emperor of the Korean Empire from 1897 until his forced abdication in 1907. His wife, Queen Min, played an active role in politics until her assassination carried out by the Japanese.

08/09/1851

John Jenkins, American-Australian businessman and politician, 22nd Premier of South Australia (died 1923)

John Greeley Jenkins was an American-Australian politician. He was Premier of South Australia from 1901 to 1905. He had previously served as Minister for Education and the Northern Territory and Commissioner for Public Works under Thomas Playford II, Commissioner of Public Works under Charles Kingston and Chief Secretary under Frederick Holder. He was subsequently Agent-General for South Australia from 1905 to 1908. He also played a major role in an agreement between the States about the River Murray, and in continuing attempts to develop the Northern Territory.

08/09/1846

Paul Chater, Indian-Hong Kong businessman and politician (died 1926)

Sir Catchick Paul Chater was a prominent British businessman of Armenian descent in colonial Hong Kong, whose family roots were in Calcutta, India.

08/09/1841

Antonín Dvořák, Czech composer and academic (died 1904)

Antonín Leopold Dvořák was a Czech composer. He frequently employed rhythms and other aspects of the folk music of Moravia and his native Bohemia, following the Romantic era nationalist example of his predecessor Bedřich Smetana. Dvořák's style has been described as "the fullest recreation of a national idiom with that of the symphonic tradition, absorbing folk influences and finding effective ways of using them", and Dvořák has been described as "arguably the most versatile... composer of his time".

Charles J. Guiteau, American assassin of president James A. Garfield (died 1882)

Charles Julius Guiteau was an American office seeker who assassinated 20th United States president James A. Garfield in 1881. A failed lawyer suffering from mental illness, Guiteau delusionally believed he had played a major role in Garfield's election victory, for which he should have been rewarded with a consulship. Guiteau felt frustrated and offended by the Garfield administration's rejections of his applications to serve in Vienna or Paris to such a degree that he shot Garfield in Washington, D.C. on July 2, 1881. Garfield died on September 19 from infections related to the wounds. Caught immediately after shooting Garfield, Guiteau was tried, convicted, and publicly executed by hanging on June 30, 1882.

08/09/1831

Wilhelm Raabe, German author and painter (died 1910)

Wilhelm Raabe was a German novelist. His early works were published under the pseudonym of Jakob Corvinus.

08/09/1830

Frédéric Mistral, French poet and lexicographer, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1914)

Joseph Étienne Frédéric Mistral was an Occitan writer and lexicographer of the Provençal form of the language. He received the 1904 Nobel Prize in Literature "in recognition of the fresh originality and true inspiration of his poetic production, which faithfully reflects the natural scenery and native spirit of his people, and, in addition, his significant work as a Provençal philologist". Mistral was a founding member of the Félibrige and member of the Académie de Marseille.

08/09/1828

Joshua Chamberlain, American general and politician, 32nd Governor of Maine (died 1914)

Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain was an American college professor and politician from Maine who volunteered during the American Civil War to join the Union Army. He became a highly respected and decorated Union officer, reaching the rank of brigadier general. He is best known for his gallantry at the Battle of Gettysburg, leading a bayonet charge, for which he was awarded the Medal of Honor.

Clarence Cook, American author and critic (died 1900)

Clarence Chatham Cook was a 19th-century American author and art critic.

08/09/1824

Jaime Nunó, Spanish-American composer, conductor, and director (died 1908)

Jaime Nunó Roca was a Spanish composer from Catalonia who composed the music for the Mexican national anthem.

08/09/1822

Karl von Ditmar, German geologist and explorer (died 1892)

Karl Bernhard Woldemar Ferdinand von Ditmar was a Baltic German geologist and explorer, who travelled in and contributed to the scientific understanding of Kamchatka.

08/09/1815

Giuseppina Strepponi, Italian soprano and educator (died 1897)

Clelia Maria Giuseppa (Giuseppina) Strepponi was a nineteenth-century Italian operatic soprano of great renown and the second wife of composer Giuseppe Verdi.

08/09/1814

Charles Étienne Brasseur de Bourbourg, French archaeologist, ethnographer, and historian (died 1874)

Abbé Charles-Étienne Brasseur de Bourbourg was a noted French writer, ethnographer, historian, archaeologist, and Catholic priest. He became a specialist in Mesoamerican studies, travelling extensively in the region. His writings, publications, and recovery of historical documents contributed much to knowledge of the region's languages, writing, history and culture, particularly those of the Maya and Aztec civilizations. However, his speculations concerning relationships between the ancient Maya and the lost continent of Atlantis inspired Ignatius L. Donnelly and encouraged the pseudo-science of Mayanism.

08/09/1804

Eduard Mörike, German pastor, poet, and academic (died 1875)

Eduard Friedrich Mörike was a German Lutheran pastor who was also a Romantic poet and writer of novellas and novels. Many of his poems were set to music and became established folk songs, while others were used by composers Hugo Wolf and Ignaz Lachner in their symphonic works.

08/09/1783

N. F. S. Grundtvig, Danish pastor, philosopher, and author (died 1872)

Nikolaj Frederik Severin Grundtvig, most often referred to as N. F. S. Grundtvig, was a Danish pastor, author, poet, philosopher, historian, teacher and politician. He was one of the most influential people in Danish history, as his philosophy gave rise to a new form of nationalism in the last half of the 19th century. It was steeped in the national literature and supported by deep spirituality.

08/09/1779

Mustafa IV, Ottoman sultan (died 1808)

Mustafa IV was the sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1807 to 1808.

08/09/1774

Anne Catherine Emmerich, German nun and mystic (died 1824)

Anne Catherine Emmerich, CRV was a Roman Catholic Augustinian canoness of the Congregation of Windesheim. During her lifetime, she was a mystic, Marian visionary and stigmatist.

08/09/1767

August Wilhelm Schlegel, German poet and critic (died 1845)

August Wilhelm von Schlegel was a German scholar, critic, Orientalist, Indologist, translator and poet. With his brother Friedrich Schlegel, he was a leading influence within Jena Romanticism. His translations of Shakespeare turned the English dramatist's works into German classics.

08/09/1752

Carl Stenborg, Swedish opera singer, actor, and director (died 1813)

Carl Stenborg was a Swedish opera singer, composer and theatre director. He belonged to the pioneer generation of the Royal Swedish Opera and was regarded as one of the leading opera singers of the Gustavian era. He was a hovsångare and a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music.

08/09/1750

Tanikaze Kajinosuke, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 4th Yokozuna (died 1795)

Tanikaze Kajinosuke was a Japanese sumo wrestler from the Edo period. Officially recognized as the fourth yokozuna, he was however effectively the first, as he was the first to be awarded the title during his lifetime. He achieved great fame and, though championships from this period are unofficial, he achieved the equivalent of 21 tournament championships. He was also the coach of Raiden Tameemon.

08/09/1749

Yolande de Polastron, French educator (died 1793)

Yolande de Polastron, Duchess of Polignac was the favourite of Marie Antoinette, whom she met when she was presented at the Palace of Versailles in 1775, the year after Marie Antoinette became the Queen of France. She was considered one of the great beauties of pre-Revolutionary society, but her extravagance and exclusivity earned her many enemies.

08/09/1742

Ozias Humphry, English painter and academic (died 1810)

Ozias Humphry was an English painter who specialised in portrait painting, including portrait miniatures. Humphry was elected to the Royal Academy in 1791, and in 1792 he was appointed Portrait Painter in Crayons to the King.

08/09/1698

François Francoeur, French violinist and composer (died 1787)

François Francœur was a French composer and violinist from the late Baroque era and the Classical era.

08/09/1672

Nicolas de Grigny, French organist and composer (died 1703)

Nicolas de Grigny was a French organist and composer. He died young and left behind a single collection of organ music, and an Ouverture for harpsichord.

08/09/1633

Ferdinand IV, King of the Romans (died 1654)

Ferdinand IV was made and crowned King of Bohemia in 1646, King of Hungary and Croatia in 1647, and King of the Romans on 31 May 1653. He also served as Duke of Cieszyn.

08/09/1621

Louis, Grand Condé, French general (died 1686)

Louis II de Bourbon, Prince of Condé, known as le Grand Condé, was a French military commander. A tactician and strategist, he is regarded as one of France's greatest generals, particularly celebrated for his triumphs in the Thirty Years' War and his campaigns during the Franco-Dutch War.

08/09/1611

Johann Friedrich Gronovius, German scholar and critic (died 1671)

Johann Friedrich Gronovius was a German classical scholar, librarian and critic.

08/09/1593

Toyotomi Hideyori, Japanese nobleman (died 1615)

Toyotomi Hideyori was the son and designated successor of Toyotomi Hideyoshi, the general who united all of Japan toward the end of the Sengoku period. His mother, Yodo-dono, was the niece of Oda Nobunaga.

08/09/1588

Marin Mersenne, French mathematician, philosopher, and theologian (died 1648)

Marin Mersenne, OM was a French polymath whose works touched a wide variety of fields. He is perhaps best known today among mathematicians for Mersenne prime numbers, those written in the form Mn = 2n − 1 for some integer n. He also developed Mersenne's laws, which describe the harmonics of a vibrating string, and his seminal work on music theory, Harmonie universelle, for which he is referred to as the "father of acoustics".

08/09/1515

Alfonso Salmeron, Spanish priest and scholar (died 1585)

Alfonso (Alphonsus) Salmerón, SJ was a Spanish biblical scholar, a Catholic priest, and one of the first Jesuits.

08/09/1474

Ludovico Ariosto, Italian playwright and poet (died 1533)

Ludovico Ariosto was an Italian poet. He is best known as the author of the romance epic Orlando Furioso (1516-1532). The poem, a continuation of Matteo Maria Boiardo's Orlando Innamorato, describes the adventures of Charlemagne, Orlando, and the Franks as they battle against the Saracens with diversions into many sideplots. The poem is transformed into a satire of the chivalric tradition. Ariosto composed the poem in the ottava rima rhyme scheme and introduced narrative commentary throughout the work.

08/09/1462

Henry Medwall, first known English vernacular dramatist (died 1501)

Henry Medwall was the first known English vernacular dramatist. Fulgens and Lucrece (c.1497), whose heroine must choose between two suitors, is the earliest known secular English play. The other play of Medwall is titled Nature. He stayed at the court of Cardinal Morton, Chancellor in the time of Henry VII.

08/09/1442

John de Vere, 13th Earl of Oxford, English commander and politician, Lord Great Chamberlain of England (died 1513)

John de Vere, 13th Earl of Oxford,, the second son of John de Vere, 12th Earl of Oxford, and Elizabeth Howard, a first cousin of John Howard, 1st Duke of Norfolk, was one of the principal Lancastrian commanders during the English Wars of the Roses.

08/09/1413

Catherine of Bologna, Italian nun and saint (died 1463)

Catherine of Bologna was an Italian Poor Clare, writer, teacher, mystic, artist, and saint. The patron saint of artists and against temptations, she was venerated for nearly three centuries in her native Bologna before being formally canonized in 1712 by Pope Clement XI. Her feast day is 9 March.

08/09/1380

Bernardino of Siena, Italian priest, missionary, and saint (died 1444)

Bernardino of Siena, OFM, was an Italian Catholic priest and Franciscan missionary preacher in the Republic of Siena. He was a systematizer of scholastic economics.

08/09/1271

Charles Martel of Anjou (died 1295)

Charles Martel of the Capetian dynasty was the eldest son of king Charles II of Naples and Mary of Hungary, the daughter of King Stephen V of Hungary.

08/09/1209

Sancho II of Portugal (died 1248)

Sancho II, nicknamed Sancho the Cowled or Sancho the Capuched, alternatively, Sancho the Pious, was King of Portugal from 1223 to 1248.

08/09/1157

Richard I of England (died 1199)

Richard I, known as Richard the Lionheart or Richard Cœur de Lion because of his reputation as a great military leader and warrior, was King of England from 1189 until his death in 1199. He also ruled as Duke of Normandy, Aquitaine, and Gascony; Lord of Cyprus; Count of Poitiers, Anjou, Maine, and Nantes; and was overlord of Brittany at various times during the same period. He was the third of five sons of Henry II of England and Eleanor of Aquitaine and was therefore not expected to become king, but his two elder brothers predeceased their father.

08/09/0828

Ali al-Hadi, Hijazi (Western Arabian), 10th of the Twelve Imams (died 868)

Ali ibn Muhammad al-Hadi was a descendant of the Islamic prophet Muhammad and the tenth Imam in Twelver Shia, succeeding his father, Muhammad al-Jawad. Born in Medina in 828, Ali is known with the titles al-Hādī and al-Naqī. After the death of his father in 835, most followers of al-Jawad readily accepted the imamate of Ali, who was still a child at the time. Drawing parallels with the story of young Jesus in the Quran, Twelver sources attribute an exceptional innate knowledge to Ali which qualified him for the imamate despite his young age.

08/09/0801

Ansgar, German archbishop and saint (died 865)

Ansgar, also known as Anskar, Saint Ansgar, Saint Anschar or Oscar, was Archbishop of Hamburg-Bremen in the northern part of the Kingdom of the East Franks. Ansgar became known as the "Apostle of the North" because of his travels and the See of Hamburg received the missionary mandate to bring Christianity to Northern Europe.

08/09/0685

Emperor Xuanzong of Tang (died 762)

Emperor Xuanzong of Tang, personal name Li Longji, was an emperor of the Tang dynasty of China, reigning from 712 to 756. His reign of 44 years was the longest during the Tang dynasty. Through two palace coups, he seized the throne and inherited an empire still in its golden age. He was initially assisted by capable chancellors like Yao Chong, Song Jing and Zhang Yue who were already serving as government officials before Xuanzong ascended the throne. Under Emperor Xuanzong, the empire reached its turning point and went into sharp decline and near collapse, due to political missteps, such as over-trusting chancellors Li Linfu, Yang Guozhong and general An Lushan, with Tang's golden age ending in the An Lushan rebellion.