John Peel
John Robert Parker Ravenscroft, better known as John Peel, was an English radio presenter and journalist. He was the longest-serving of the original disc jockeys on BBC Radio 1, broadcasting regularly from 1967 until his death in 2004.
30 August 1939
Born on the same birth date (30 August 1939): Elizabeth Ashley
Born on the same birth day (30 August): Agoston Haraszthy • Allan Rock • Anna Politkovskaya • Ben Bradshaw • Gustavo Eberto • Ignaz Sowinski • J. Alden Weir • Joan Blondell • Karen Buck • Kenny Dorham • Leon Lopez • Leonor Fini • Michael Michele • Nigel Hall (sculptor) • Olga Taussky-Todd • Pervez Sajjad • Peter Tunks • Radhi Jaïdi • Theo van Doesburg • Trevor Jackson (performer) • Warren Buffett
Born in the same month (August 1939): Bill White (ice hockey) • Billy Henderson (American singer) • Bob Frankford • Bulle Ogier • Clarence Williams III • Fernando Poe Jr. • George Hamilton (actor) • Jack Cunningham, Baron Cunningham of Felling • James Burton • John Badham • Pinchas Goldstein • Robert Horton (businessman) • Seán Brady (cardinal)