John Wooden

John Robert Wooden was an American basketball coach and player. Nicknamed the "Wizard of Westwood", he won ten National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) national championships in a 12-year period as head coach for the UCLA Bruins, including a record seven in a row. No other team has won more than four in a row in Division I college men's or women's basketball. Within this period, his teams won an NCAA men's basketball record 88 consecutive games. Wooden won the prestigious Henry Iba Award as national coach of the year a record seven times and won the Associated Press award five times.

14 October 1910

Born on the same birth day (14 October): Alesso Baldovinetti • Arca (musician) • Charlie Joiner • Damian Lau • Dan McCafferty • Dwayne Schintzius • François Bozizé • François Sébastien Charles Joseph de Croix, Count of Clerfayt • Hans Kraay Sr. • Hassan al-Banna • J. C. Snead • Jay Ferguson (Canadian musician) • Jessica Drake • Joey Travolta • Jorge Costa • Joseph Duveen, 1st Baron Duveen • Karyn White • Katherine Mansfield • Kazumi Watanabe • Nikolai Volkoff • Steve Coogan • Éamon de Valera

Born in the same month (October 1910): Cahit Arf • Cahit Sıtkı Tarancı • Ester Wier • Gunter d'Alquen • Helmut Kallmeyer • James K. Woolnough • Julius Shulman • Kirk Alyn • Luciano Sgrizzi • Marina Núñez del Prado • Robert Fitzgerald • Stella Brooks • Tyrus Wong