Famous Birthdays

Joe Alton Delaney was an American professional football player who was a running back for two seasons in the National Football League (NFL). In his two seasons with the Kansas City Chiefs, Delaney…

Pétur Karl Guðmundsson is an Icelandic former professional basketball player and coach. Standing 2.18 m, weighing 118 kg (260 lb) and playing the center position, Pétur was the first Icelander and…

Glenn Urban Andreotta was an American helicopter crew chief in the Vietnam War noted for being one of three who intervened in the Mỹ Lai massacre, in which 504 unarmed children, women and men were…

Robert Lee Gibson, , is a former American naval officer and aviator, test pilot, and aeronautical engineer. A retired NASA astronaut, he also served as Chief of the Astronaut Office from 1992 to 1997.

John Frank “Buck” Freeman was an American right fielder in Major League Baseball at the turn of the 20th century. Listed at 5 ft 9 in (1.75 m) and 169 lb (77 kg), he both batted and threw left-handed.

Paul Parlette Orndorff Jr., nicknamed “Mr. Wonderful”, was an American professional wrestler and football player, best known for his appearances with the World Wrestling Federation (WWF) and World…

John Shepherd was an English actor, playwright and theatre director. He was known for his television roles, most notably the title roles in Trevor Griffiths’ political drama Bill Brand (1976), and…

Niki de Saint Phalle was a French American sculptor, painter, filmmaker, and author of colorful hand-illustrated books. Widely noted as one of the few female monumental sculptors, Saint Phalle was…

Necmettin Erbakan was a Turkish politician and political theorist who served as the 23rd prime minister of Turkey from 1996 to 1997. He was pressured by the military to step down as prime minister…

Carl Djerassi was an Austrian-born Bulgarian-American pharmaceutical chemist, novelist, playwright and co-founder of Djerassi Resident Artists Program with Diane Wood Middlebrook. He is best known…