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): Billy Vaughn • Elspet Gray • Ginka Zagorcheva • Helen Forrest • Henri Désiré Landru • Herbie Hancock • Ioannis Metaxas • John Landy • Jörn Lenz • Kennedy Simmonds • Miguel Ángel Ponce • Nils-Olav Johansen • Raymond Barre • Robin Anderson (tennis) • Tenby Davies
Born in the same month (April 1883): Aleksanteri Aava • Edvard Drabløs • Frank King (cartoonist) • Gino Severini • Henry Jameson • Ikki Kita • Imogen Cunningham • Jaroslav Hašek • Julius Seljamaa • Laurette Taylor • Lon Chaney • Luigi Russolo • R. P. Keigwin • Richard von Mises • Stanley Bruce • Walter Huston