Famous Birthdays

William Morgan Cassidy is an American politician and physician who is the senior United States senator from Louisiana, a seat he has held since 2015. A member of the Republican Party, he served in…

Stephen Michael Largent is an American former professional football wide receiver and politician who played in the National Football League (NFL) for 14 seasons with the Seattle Seahawks. A member…

Jules Sedney was a Surinamese politician, and Prime Minister of Suriname from 20 November 1969 to 24 December 1973. In 1980, he became governor of the Central Bank of Suriname, but had to flee the…

Wee Chong Jin was a Malayan-born Singaporean jurist who served as a chief justice of Singapore for 27 years, from 1963 to 1990, where he was the first Asian lawyer appointed as a judge to head the…

William Samuel Paley was an American businessman, primarily involved in the media, and best known as the chief executive who built the Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) from a small radio network…

Raymond Morris Hadley is a retired Australian talkback radio broadcaster and a rugby league football commentator for Channel Nine. He presents 2GB Sydney’s Monday to Friday morning show, and leads…

James Charles Shooter was an American writer, editor and publisher in the comics industry. Beginning his career writing for DC Comics at the age of 14, he had a successful but controversial run as…

Benoni Beheyt is a Belgian former professional road bicycle racer who raced from 1962 to 1968. Beheyt won 22 races and is most famous for winning the 1963 World Cycling Championships Road Race and…

Earl Rudolph “Bud” Powell was an American jazz pianist and composer. A pioneer in the development of bebop and its associated contributions to jazz theory, Powell’s application of complex phrasing…

Irvine Welsh is a Scottish novelist, short story writer, screenwriter and filmmaker. His novels and short stories, which almost always take place in his native Scotland, are known for their gritty…