Bill Foster (basketball, born 1929)

William Edwin Foster was the head men's basketball coach at Rutgers University, University of Utah, Duke University, University of South Carolina, and Northwestern University. He is best known for guiding Duke to the NCAA championship game in 1978, and that year he was named national Coach of the Year by the National Association of Basketball Coaches. Foster was inducted into the Rutgers Basketball Hall of Fame and was the first NCAA coach to guide four teams to 20-win seasons. Foster was a graduate of Elizabethtown College.

19 August 1929

Born on the same birth date (19 August 1929): Ion N. Petrovici

Born on the same birth day (19 August): Adam Arkin • Anthony Muñoz • Catherine of Bohemia • Colleen Moore • Frank McCourt • Gustave Caillebotte • Iban Mayo • Lothar Meyer • Nico Hülkenberg • Thomas Flegler

Born in the same month (August 1929): Abdi İpekçi • Betty Dodson • Bill Evans • David Waddington • Dick Tiger • Don Larsen • Don Matheson • Hafizullah Amin • Helmut Rahn • Ion N. Petrovici • Kevin Heffernan (Gaelic footballer) • Luis García Meza • Mike Elliott (saxophonist) • Peter Thomson (golfer) • Roch La Salle • Roxie Roker • Vidya Charan Shukla • Vladimir Beekman • X. J. Kennedy