Diana Nyad
Diana Nyad is an American author, journalist, motivational speaker, and long-distance swimmer. Nyad gained national attention in 1975 when she swam around Manhattan in record time, and in 1979 when she swam from Bimini, The Bahamas, to Juno Beach, Florida.
22 August 1949
Born on the same birth date (22 August 1949): Joop Donkervoort
Born on the same birth day (22 August): Apollo Crews • Bill Woodfull • Chiranjeevi • Claude Debussy • Collin Raye • Denton Cooley • Ernest H. Volwiler • Gerald Carr (astronaut) • Heiðar Helguson • Melville Elijah Stone • Robbie Rochow • Rudolf von Jhering • Stephen Ireland • Tokushōryū Makoto • Ulrich Wegener • Valerie Harper
Born in the same month (August 1949): Dino Bravo • Jim Carroll • Joe Regalbuto • Loretta Devine • Mark Knopfler • Matthew Parris • Michael Nazir-Ali • Norm Coleman • Ray Nettles • Richard Gere