You ever wonder when your favorite athletes were born? I have.
I started looking for a list of Athlete’s birthdays. Imagine my surprise when I came cross an interesting fact. Finding a full, good list of athlete’s birthdays is more difficult than you would think. Especially in the age of Google, Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram it should be an easier task, right?
When I googled “athlete birthdays” I usually found a top 10 or 15 list. That’s cool. Except, every list is practically the same. Boring.
So, we here at FANTOM are creating full list of athlete birthdays. You can see our other weeks of June: 1st-7th and 8th-15th to see who was born then.
Here is the list of athletes born during the third week of June.
June 16:
- 1947 – Al Cowlings, American ex-NFL player and close friend of O.J. Simpson and Nicole Brown Simpson
- 1959 – The Ultimate Warrior, American wrestler (d. 2014)
- 1962 – Wally Joyner, American baseball player and coach
- 1963 – The Sandman, American wrestler
- 1970 – Phil Mickelson, American golfer
- 1977 – Kerry Wood, American baseball player
June 17:
- 1861 – Pete Browning, American baseball player (d. 1905)
- 1940 – Bobby Bell, American football player
- 1944 – Randy Johnson, American football player (d. 2009)
- 1955 – Bob Sauvé, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
- 1970 – Popeye Jones, American basketball player and coach
- 1980 – Venus Williams, American tennis player
- 1994 – Amari Cooper, American football player
June 18:
- 1924 – George Mikan, American basketball player and coach (d. 2005)
- 1936 – Denny Hulme, New Zealand race car driver (d. 1992)
- 1937 – Del Harris, American basketball player and coach
- 1939 – Lou Brock, American baseball player and sportscaster
- 1961 – Andrés Galarraga, Venezuelan-American baseball player
- 1963 – Bruce Smith, American football player
- 1975 – Martin St. Louis, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1980 – Antonio Gates, American football player
June 19:
- 1903 – Lou Gehrig, American baseball player (d. 1941)
- 1938 – Wahoo McDaniel, American football player and wrestler (d. 2002)
- 1974 – Doug Mientkiewicz, American baseball player, coach, and manager
- 1978 – Dirk Nowitzki, German basketball player
- 1987 – Rashard Mendenhall, American football player
- 1988 – Jacob deGrom, American baseball player
- 1992 – C. J. Mosley, American football player
June 20:
- 1914 – Gordon Juckes, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1994)
- 1976 – Carlos Lee, Panamanian baseball player
- 1979 – Charles Howell III, American golfer
- 1983 – Darren Sproles, American football player
- 1985 – Matt Flynn, American football player
- 1989 – Terrelle Pryor, American football player
June 21:
- 1918 – Eddie Lopat, American baseball player, coach, and manager (d. 1992)
- 1930 – Mike McCormack, American football player and coach (d. 2013)
- 1947 – Wade Phillips, American football coach
- 1967 – Derrick Coleman, American basketball player and sportscaster
- 1980 – Richard Jefferson, American basketball player
- 1988 – Allyssa DeHaan, American basketball and volleyball player
- 1988 – Thaddeus Young, American basketball player
- 1997 – Derrius Guice, American football player
June 22:
- 1903 – Carl Hubbell, American baseball player (d. 1988)
- 1919 – Clifton McNeely, American basketball player and coach (d. 2003)
- 1947 – Pete Maravich, American basketball player (d. 1988)
- 1962 – Clyde Drexler, American basketball player and coach
- 1963 – Hokutoumi Nobuyoshi, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 61st Yokozuna
- 1971 – Kurt Warner, American football player and sportscaster
- 1978 – Champ Bailey, American football player
- 1982 – Ian Kinsler, American baseball player
- 1984 – Dustin Johnson, American golfer
- 1987 – Danny Green, American basketball player
