Calvin Murphy

Calvin Jerome Murphy is an American former professional basketball player who after a prolific collegiate career at Niagara, where he averaged 33.1 points per game over his three years, played in the National Basketball Association as a guard for the San Diego/Houston Rockets from 1970 to 1983. He is a currently a member of the Houston Rockets' Space City Home Network broadcast team. Standing at a height of 5 feet 9 inches (1.75 m), Murphy has the distinction of being the shortest NBA player inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, and to play in an NBA All-Star Game.

9 May 1948

Born on the same birth day (9 May): Alan Bennett • Albert Finney • Billy Jurges • Candice Bergen • Harry Vardon • Henry J. Kaiser • John Corbett • José Ortega y Gasset • Jupp Heynckes • Louis Henry, Prince of Nassau-Dillenburg • Rosario Dawson • Tamia • Zita of Bourbon-Parma

Born in the same month (May 1948): Bill Ward (musician) • Bob Woolmer • Bülent Arınç • David Thorpe (footballer) • Denis Cosgrove • Dick Gaughan • Jesper Christensen • Joe Bonsall • Keith Gull • Leo Sayer • Marianne Elliott (historian) • Martin Hannett • Michael Berkeley • Michael Field (politician) • Morning Glory Zell-Ravenheart • Nedumudi Venu • Richard Dembo • Stevie Nicks • Tom Udall • Tomás Sánchez • Yutaka Enatsu