Rik Smits

Rik Smits, nicknamed "the Dunking Dutchman" is a Dutch former professional basketball player who spent his entire career with the Indiana Pacers of the National Basketball Association (NBA). The 7-foot-4-inch (2.24 m) center was drafted by the Pacers out of Marist College with the second overall pick in the 1988 NBA draft. An NBA All-Star in 1998, Smits reached the NBA Finals in 2000.

23 August 1966

Born on the same birth day (23 August): Andrei Pleșu • Arnold Toynbee (historian, born 1852) • Kobe Bryant • Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences • Peter Thomson (golfer) • Vicky Leandros

Born in the same month (August 1966): Charlie Dimmock • Colin Cunningham • Don Sweeney • Hansi Kürsch • Hossam Hassan • Jeroen Duyster • Karl Petter Løken • Liu Chunyan • Michael Michele • Shayne Corson • Shirley Manson • Takashi Iizuka • Terminator X