Rod Laver

Rodney George Laver is an Australian former tennis player. Laver was ranked the world number 1 professional player indisputably for five years from 1965 to 1969 and by some sources also in 1964 and 1970. He was also ranked as the number 1 amateur in 1961 and 1962. Laver won 198 singles titles which is the most won by a player in history.

9 August 1938

Born on the same birth date (9 August 1938): Leonid Kuchma • Otto Rehhagel

Born on the same birth day (9 August): Daniel Preussner • Ernest Angley • Filippo Inzaghi • Francesco Barozzi • Henry of Nassau-Siegen (1611–1652) • Hoda Kotb • Jay Leggett • Leonid Kuchma • Prince Augustus William of Prussia • Rinus Gerritsen • Wilbur Norman Christiansen

Born in the same month (August 1938): Bert Yancey • Bill Masterton • Dave "Baby" Cortez • David Freiberg • Diana Muldaur • Giorgetto Giugiaro • Jack Baldwin (chemist) • Otto Rehhagel • Paul Bartel • Peter Day (chemist) • Stephen Breyer