Tom Hafey

Thomas Stanley Raymond Hafey was an Australian rules footballer who played for the Richmond Football Club in the Victorian Football League (VFL). He then became one of the VFL's longest-serving and most successful coaches, guiding Richmond to four VFL premierships before also having stints at Collingwood, Geelong and finally Sydney.Hafey was an inaugural inductee into the Australian Football Hall of Fame in 1996, named coach of Richmond's team of the century in 1998, and given the AFL Coaches Association "Coaching Legend Award" in 2011. He was renowned for his fitness and toughness even in his elderly years when he would still run rings around his juniors. He would do over 700 push-ups and crunches a day every day since he started playing in the VFL.

5 August 1931

Born on the same birth day (5 August): Airto Moreira • Brian G. Marsden • Bruno Coquatrix • Carola of Vasa • Erika Slezak • Jeri Southern • Marians Pahars • Mark Mulder • Michael Ballhaus • Michal Kováč • Yungblud

Born in the same month (August 1931): Barbara Eden • Bramwell Tillsley • Chalmers Johnson • Cristina Deutekom • Frederic Raphael • Grant Williams (actor) • Jean Béliveau • John Shirley-Quirk • Karl Miller • Lise Payette • Mário Zagallo • Ola L. Mize • Paula Kent Meehan • Regis Philbin • Roger Williams (hepatologist) • Tony Wrigley • William Goldman