Jan Lammers

Johannes Antonius "Jan" Lammers is a Dutch racecar driver, most notable for winning the 1988 24 Hours of Le Mans world endurance race, for Silk Cut Jaguar/TWR; after four seasons in Formula One racing, from 1979 through 1982, for the F1 teams of Shadow, ATS, Ensign and Theodore, respectively. After a world-record setting ten-year hiatus, Lammers made a brief Formula One comeback, for two races, with team March in 1992. Aside from racing in these two of the highest leagues of global auto-sports, Lammers has raced in an exceptionally wide number of racing series and competitions, domestic and abroad, over four decades.

2 June 1956

Born on the same birth day (2 June): Johnny Speight • Lasse Hallström • Lou Nanne • Thomas Hardy • Tomasz Wróblewski • Walter Egan (golfer) • Yi So-yeon

Born in the same month (June 1956): Alfons De Wolf • Berit Aunli • Björn Borg • Chris Isaak • Darryl Brohman • David Alan Grier • David B. Mattingly • Francine Raymond • George Burley • Iain Milne • Kenny G • Nick Fry • Nikolai Tsonev • Noel Mugavin • Pedro Guerrero (first baseman/outfielder) • Peter Reid • Petra Morsbach • Pyotr Vasilevsky • Shah Mahmood Qureshi • Terry Kennedy (baseball) • Tim Russ