Dirk Shafer

Dirk Alan Shafer was an American model, actor, screenwriter and director. Born in Carbondale, Illinois, he was most noted in the modeling world for having been Playgirl magazine's 1992 "Man of the Year". Shafer related that he did Playgirl for "validation" as a model because he never believed himself to be attractive. Shafer wrote, directed and starred in Man of the Year, a 1995 mockumentary about his time as a semi-closeted gay man in the role of a heterosexual sex symbol. Shafer's next directorial project was Circuit, a fictional look at the world of gay male circuit parties.

7 November 1962

Born on the same birth date (7 November 1962): Tracie Savage

Born on the same birth day (7 November): Antonio Skármeta • Christopher Foster (bishop) • Dana Plato • Darnell Jackson • Dmitry Kozak • Kris Benson • Michelle Clunie • Norah McGuinness • Russ Springer • Silvia Cartwright • Simone Favaro • Stephen Bruton • Susanne Hirzel • William Plankinton

Born in the same month (November 1962): Anthony Kiedis • Daniel Waters (screenwriter) • Davey Boy Smith • Dodie Boy Peñalosa • Gabe Newell • Gilbert Delorme • James Morrison (jazz musician) • Jimmy Del Ray • Jimon Terakado • Mario Fenech • Mark Acres • Rajkumar Hirani • Sean Parnell • Sharron Davies • Tracie Savage • Turid Birkeland • Victor Pelevin