Dally Messenger
Herbert Henry Messenger, nicknamed "Dally" and sometimes "The Master" was one of Australasia's first professional rugby footballers, recognised as one of the greatest-ever players in either code. He played for New South Wales in the first match run by the newly created New South Wales Rugby Football League, which had just split away from the established New South Wales Rugby Football Union.
12 April 1883
Born on the same birth date (12 April 1883): Imogen Cunningham
Born on the same birth day (12 April): Dan Ahearn • Ioannis Metaxas • Martin Conway, 1st Baron Conway of Allington • Saoirse Ronan • Sarah Cracknell • William Cookworthy • Yuriy Borzakovskiy
Born in the same month (April 1883): Aleksanteri Aava • Edvard Drabløs • Frank King (cartoonist) • Gino Severini • Imogen Cunningham • Jaroslav Hašek • Julius Seljamaa • Lon Chaney • R. P. Keigwin • Richard von Mises • Stanley Bruce • Walter Huston