Johnny Giles

Michael John Giles is an Irish former association football player and manager best remembered for his time as a midfielder with Leeds United in the 1960s and 1970s. After retiring from management in 1985, Giles served as the senior analyst on RTÉ Sport's coverage of association football from 1986 until 2016. The FAI voted Giles as the greatest Irish player of the last 50 years at the UEFA Jubilee Awards in 2004.

6 November 1940

Born on the same birth day (6 November): Andrew Murray (ice hockey) • Ariel Henry • Ben Rector • Cho Ki-chon • Doug Sahm • Erik Cole • Frank Vandenbroucke (cyclist) • Graeme Wood (cricketer) • Ida Lou Anderson • James Naismith • Jozy Altidore • Lamar Odom • Lance Kerwin • Lori Singer • Lu Chao-Hsuan • Nicole Hosp • Peter DeLuise • Rebecca Allen (basketball) • Taryn Manning • Thandiwe Newton • Yura (South Korean singer) • Zig Ziglar

Born in the same month (November 1940): Amjad Khan (actor) • Andrzej Żuławski • Barry Sadler • Bruce Channel • Davey Graham • Delbert McClinton • Ediz Hun • Gary Gruber • Helma Sanders-Brahms • James Welch (writer) • Janet Smith (judge) • Karl Offmann • Marlène Jobert • Michel Audet • Percy Sledge • Ramesh Chandra Lahoti • Richard Cotton (geneticist) • Richard Marcinko • Roy Thomas • Sonny Rhodes • Terry Dischinger • Tony Mendez