Lou Gehrig

Henry Louis Gehrig was an American professional baseball first baseman who played 17 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the New York Yankees (1923–1939). Gehrig was renowned for his prowess as a hitter and for his durability, which earned him his nickname "the Iron Horse". He is widely regarded as one of the greatest baseball players of all time. He was an All-Star seven consecutive times, a Triple Crown winner once, an American League (AL) Most Valuable Player twice, and a member of six World Series champion teams. He had a career .340 batting average, .632 slugging average, and a .447 on-base average. He hit 493 home runs and had 1,995 runs batted in (RBI). He still has the highest ratio of runs scored plus runs batted in per 100 plate appearances (35.08) and per 100 games (156.7) among Hall of Fame players. In 1939, he was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame and was the first MLB player to have his uniform number (4) retired by a team.

19 June 1903

Born on the same birth date (19 June 1903): Hans Litten • Mary Callery • Wally Hammond

Born on the same birth day (19 June): Alexander Frolov • Andrew Dilnot • Andri Eleftheriou • Anita Wilson • Blaise Pascal • Charles Spurgeon • Gérard Latortue • Helene Madison • Ilya Markov • Jean Carroll (cricketer) • Johnny Gray • Louis Jourdan • Marisa Galvany • Marvin Williams • Nancy Marchand • Nigel Gresley • Nuno Santos (footballer, born 1980) • Paul Flory • Pauline Kael • Sadie Frost • Viktor Patsayev • Václav Klaus • Wahoo McDaniel • Xavier Rhodes

Born in the same month (June 1903): Al Hirschfeld • Alonzo Church • Aram Khachaturian • Big Bill Broonzy • Eddie Acuff • Hans Litten • Hans Vogt (linguist) • Marcia Davenport • Rose Rand • Ruth Graves Wakefield • Samuel Rabin (artist) • Vasyl Velychkovsky • Wally Hammond • Yevgeny Mravinsky