Giacomo Agostini

Giacomo Agostini is an Italian former Grand Prix motorcycle road racer. Nicknamed Ago, he amassed 122 Grand Prix wins and 15 World Championship titles. Of these, 68 wins and 8 titles came in the 500 cc class, the rest in the 350 cc class. For these achievements obtained over the course of a career spanning 17 years, the AMA described him as "...perhaps the greatest Grand Prix rider of all time". In 2000, Agostini was inducted into the MotoGP Hall of Fame as a MotoGP Legend, while in 2010, he was named an FIM Legend for his motorcycling achievements.

16 June 1942

Born on the same birth date (16 June 1942): Eddie Levert

Born on the same birth day (16 June): Charalambos Andreou • Efraín Ríos Montt • Francisco León de la Barra • Grete-Lilijane Küppas • Isabella, Countess of Bedford • Jermaine Gresham • Mark Crossley • Max Delbrück (chemist) • Ola Kvernberg • Phil Christophers • Roger Neilson • Steven Whittaker

Born in the same month (June 1942): Bert Sakmann • Charlotte Bingham • Curtis Mayfield • Danny Schechter • Doğu Perinçek • Eddie Levert • Flaviano Vicentini • Gordon Burns • Hans Vonk (conductor) • Henry S. Taylor • Ian Greenberg • J. J. Dillon • Louis Reichardt • Nick Tate • Norbert Brunner (bishop) • Parveen Kumar • Peter Norman • Richard Perry • Robert Ballard • Roger Steffens • Willis Reed