Sam Morris (cricketer)

Samuel Morris was an Australian cricketer who played in one Test in 1885. He was the first black man to play Test cricket, as well as the first person of West Indian heritage and the first Tasmanian-born player to play Tests. He and Andrew Symonds are the only people of West Indian heritage to play for Australia.

22 June 1855

Born on the same birth day (22 June): Billy Wilder • Brit Hume • J. Michael Kosterlitz • Katherine Dunham • Klaus Maria Brandauer • Lee Min-ho • Linda Bond • Robert Ritter von Greim • Sir John Gell, 1st Baronet

Born in the same month (June 1855): George Charles Haité • George F. Roesch • Richard Lodge • Robert M. La Follette