Famous Birthdays

Wolf Isaac Blitzer is an American journalist, television news anchor, and author who has been a CNN reporter since 1990, and who currently serves as one of the principal anchors at the network. He…

Richard William Duncan Pound, better known as Dick Pound, is a Canadian swimming champion, lawyer, and spokesman for ethics in sport. He was the first president of the World Anti-Doping Agency and…

Haing Somnang Ngor was a Cambodian and American actor, physician, and activist. He made his acting debut in the biographical drama film The Killing Fields (1984) as journalist Dith Pran, for which…

John Joyce “Jack” Gilligan was an American World War II veteran, educator and Democratic politician from the state of Ohio who served as a U.S. representative and as the 62nd governor of Ohio from…

Werner Klemperer was an American actor. He was best known for playing Colonel Wilhelm Klink on the CBS television sitcom Hogan’s Heroes, for which he twice won the award for Outstanding Supporting…

Hideki Ishima is a Japanese musician, known primarily for his work with Flower Travellin’ Band and for creating the sitarla instrument. A guitarist and sitar player for nearly forty years, he now…

Michael Ray Dibdin Heseltine, Baron Heseltine, is a British politician. Having begun his career as a property developer, he became one of the founders of the publishing house Haymarket Media Group…

Catherine Gibson, later known by her married name Catherine Brown, was a Scottish swimmer. During a 16-year career she won three European Championships medals and a bronze medal at the 1948 Summer…

Marlies Göhr, née Marlies Oelsner, is a former East German track and field athlete, the winner of the 100 metres at the inaugural World Championships in 1983. She ranked in the top 10 of the 100 m…

Alvin Isaac Kallicharran is a Guyanese former cricketer who played Test cricket for the West Indies between 1972 and 1981 as a left-handed batsman and right-arm off spinner. He was a member of the…