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): Amedeo Calliari • Antonio da Sangallo the Younger • Brad Brach • David Cassidy • George Robertson, Baron Robertson of Port Ellen • Henri Désiré Landru • István Anhalt • Jean-Pierre Marielle • Jessie James Decker • John Lambton, 1st Earl of Durham • Miguel Ángel Ponce • Nils-Olav Johansen • Roman Hamrlík • Ryan Nugent-Hopkins • Valentin Stocker • Ádám Hanga
Born in the same month (April 1883): Aleksanteri Aava • Edvard Drabløs • Frank King (cartoonist) • Gino Severini • Henry Jameson • Imogen Cunningham • Julius Seljamaa • Laurette Taylor • Lon Chaney • Luigi Russolo • R. P. Keigwin • Stanley Bruce • Walter Huston