Athletes Born on April 11

  • 1854 Hugh Massie, Australian cricket batsman and captain (9 Tests; NSW), born in Port Fairy, Australia (d. 1938)
  • 1856 Arthur Shrewsbury, English cricket batsman (23 Tests [7 captain]; 1277 runs @ 35 47; Nottinghamshire), born in New Lenton, England (d. 1903)
  • 1916 Dan Fortmann, American College/Pro Football HOF guard (3 × NFL C'ship 1940, 41, 43 Chicago Bears; 6 × First-team All-Pro; 3 × Pro Bowl), born in Pearl River, New York (d. 1995)
  • 1917 Danny Gallivan, Canadian radio and television sportscaster (Hockey Night in Canada), born in Sydney, Nova Scotia (d. 1993)
  • 1921 Jeff Stollmeyer, West Indian cricket batsman (32 Tests 4 x 100, HS 160; Trinidad & Tobago) and executive (President WI Board of Control 1974-81), born in Santa Cruz, Trinidad (d. 1989)
  • 1921 Jim Hearn, American baseball pitcher (World Series 1954 NY Giants; MLB All Star 1952), born in Atlanta, Georgia (d. 1998)
  • 1931 Lewis Jones, Welsh rugby union outside back (10 Tests Wales, 3 British Lions; Neath, Llanelli) and rugby league utility (2 Tests Wales, 17 Great Britain; Leeds, Wentworthville), born in Gorseinon, Wales (d. 2024)
  • 1933 Futoshi Nakanishi, Japanese Baseball HOF infielder (Nishitetsu Lions; Pacific League MVP 1956; 7×Best Nine Award) and manager (Nishitetsu Lions), born in Takamatsu, Japan (d. 2023)
  • 1940 Wladyslaw Komar, Polish athlete (Olympic gold shot put 1972) and actor, born in Kaunas, Lithuania (d. 1998)
  • 1948 Georgi Yartsev, Russian soccer forward (5 caps USSR; FC Spartak Moscow) and manager (Russia; Spartak, Dynamo, Torpedo Moscow), born in Nikolskoye, Russia (d. 2022)
  • 1949 Jean-Pierre Bastiat, French rugby union lock (32 Tests; US Dax), born in Pouillon, France (d. 2021)
  • 1950 Ferenc Mészáros, Hungarian soccer goalkeeper (29 caps; Vasas SC 252 games), born in Budapest, Hungary (d. 2023)
  • 1951 Glyn Shaw, Welsh rugby union prop (12 caps; Neath RFC), and rugby league prop (7 caps Wales, 1 GB; Widnes RLFC, Wigan RLFC), born in Rhigos, Wales (d. 2022)
  • 1951 Jim Holton, Scottish soccer defender (15 caps; Manchester United, Coventry City), born in Lesmahagow, Scotland (d. 1993)
  • 1952 Peter Windsor, English motor racing journalist and reporter, born in Reigate, Surrey, England
  • 1957 Everton Mattis, West Indian cricket batsman (4 Tests, 1 x 50; Jamaica), born in Kingston, Jamaica
  • 1958 Sally Clark, New Zealand equestrian (World C'ship gold team eventing 1998; Olympic silver individual 1996), born in Palmerston North, New Zealand
  • 1960 Marko Elsner, Slovenian soccer defender (14 caps Yugoslavia, 2 Slovenia; Red Star Belgrade), born in Ljubljana, Slovenia (d. 2020)
  • 1962 Terry Hoage, American College Football HOF wide receiver (NCAA C'ship 1980 Uni of Georgia; New Orleans Saints, Philadelphia Eagles, Washington Redskins, Arizona Cardinals), born in Ames, Iowa
  • 1963 Billy Bowden, New Zealand cricket umpire (84 Tests, 200 ODIs, 24 T20Is), born in Auckland, New Zealand
  • 1963 Elizabeth Smylie, Australian tennis player (Wimbledon doubles [Kathy Jordan] 1985; Wimbledon mixed doubles 1991; US Open mixed doubles 1983, 90) and broadcaster (7 Network), born in Perth, Australia
  • 1964 Bret Saberhagen, American baseball pitcher (World Series MVP 1985 Kansas City Royals; Cy Young Award 1985, 89; 3 x MLB All Star), born in Chicago Heights, Illinois
  • 1967 Jimmy Kim, American taekwondo practitioner (Olympic gold heavyweight 1988; World Cup gold 1987), born in Cerritos, California (d. 2023)
  • 1967 Lachlan Dreher, Australian field hockey goal keeper (Champions Trophy gold 1999; Olympic silver 1992, bronze 2000), born in Melbourne, Australia
  • 1967 Wendel Suckow, American luger (World C'ship gold men's singles 1993), born in Marquette, Michigan
  • 1969 Gavin Briant, Zimbabwean cricket wicketkeeper (1 Test, 5 ODIs; Mashonaland), born in Harare, Zimbabwe
  • 1969 Janeth Arcain, Brazilian basketball guard (WNBA C'ship 1997–2000; WNBA All-Star & All-WNBA First Team 2001 Houston Comets; Olympic silver 1996, bronze 2000), born in São Paulo, Brazil
  • 1970 Trevor Linden, Canadian ice hockey right wing (Vancouver Canucks, NY Islanders) and executive (President NHLPA 1998-2005; president hockey operations Vancouver Canucks 2014-18), born in Medicine Hat, Alberta
  • 1974 Alex Corretja, Spanish tennis player (Tour Finals 1998; Davis Cup 2000), born in Barcelona, Spain
  • 1978 Victor Sikora, Dutch soccer midfielder (6 caps; Go Ahead Eagles, Vitesse, Ajax), born in Deventer, Netherlands
  • 1980 Keiji Tamada, Japanese football forward (72 caps; Kashiwa Reysol, Nagoya Grampus 233 games), born in Urayasu, Chiba Prefecture, Japan
  • 1980 Mark Teixeira, American baseball first baseman (World Series 2009 NY Yankees; 3 × MLB All-Star; 5 × Gold Glove Award; Texas Rangers), born in Annapolis, Maryland
  • 1981 Alex Burrows, Canadian ice hockey left wing (Vancouver Canucks) and ball hockey player (International Player of the Year 2005; World C'ship gold 2003, 05), born in Pincourt, Quebec
  • 1982 Ian Bell, English cricket batsman (118 Tests, 22 x 100, HS 235; Warwickshire CCC), born in Coventry, Warwickshire
  • 1983 Nicky Pastorelli, Dutch auto racer (Euro Formula 3000 champion 2004), born in The Hague, Netherlands
  • 1989 Scott Boland, Australian cricket fast bowler (only second male Aboriginal player to play Test Cricket for Australia; BB 6/7), born in Melbourne, Australia
  • 2013 Arrogate, American thoroughbred racehorse (Breeders' Cup Classic, World's Best Racehorse 2016; Pegasus World Cup, Dubai World Cup 2017), born in Clearsky Farms, Kentucky (d. 2020)