2015 Event New Zealand professional golfer Lydia Ko, age 17, becomes the youngest No. 1 ranked golfer in the world, beating the record set by Tiger Woods in 1997 at age 21 2014 Event Larry Ellison of Oracle Corp. is ranked the highest-paid U.S. executive for the second year in a row; Ellison's 2013 compensation of $78.4 million is more than twice that of runner-up Robert Iger of Walt Disney Corp, with $34.3 million 2014 Event Chinese automaker Dongfeng and the French government have each invested in PSA Peugeot Citroen, which ranked as the European car company with the lowest sales of new vehicles last year 2010 Event The Paris Masters final is won by Sweden's Robin Soderling, a first major win for the player, now ranked fourth in the world of tennis 1995 Death Nancy LaMott, singer, cabaret genre, album 'Ask Me Again' ranked 12th in Billboard Magazine's Top Jazz Albums chart, performed twice for President Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton, dies at 43 1992 Event 193rd ranked Andrei Olhovsky defeats #1 seed Jim Courier at Wimbledon 1991 Event Monica Seles ends Steffi Graf's streak of 186 weeks ranked first 1986 Event Pat Davis, ranked 412th among world tennis competitors wins Davis Cup 1983 Event Vitas Gerulatis bets his house that Martina Navratilova can't beat 100th ranked male tennis player 1983 Birthday Kim Clijsters, born in Bilzen, Belgium, professional tennis player, ranked number one in the World for singles and doubles, winner of 36 WTA singles and 11 WTA doubles titles 1982 Event Chaminade, with a student body of only 850 students, beats #1 ranked Virginia 77-72 in a Honolulu holiday basketball classic 1982 Birthday Andy Roddick, born in Omaha, Nebraska, professional tennis player, ranked number one in the World for singles in November 2003 1981 Birthday Roger Federer, born in Wollerau, Switzerland, professional tennis player, ranked number one in the World in March 2010, many consider him the greatest tennis player of all time 1981 Birthday Adriana Lima, born in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, model, appeared on covers of 'ELLE', 'GQ', 'Vogue' magazines, ranked world's 4th highest paid supermodel in 2008 1981 Birthday Lleyton Hewitt, born in Adelaide, South Australia, professional tennis player, youngest male ever ranked number one in the World, at age 20 1976 Birthday Carlos Moya, born in Geneva, Spain, professional tennis player, ranked 1st in the World for singles, won over 500 ATP-level matches, won French Open singles, 1998 1973 Birthday Karim Alami, born in Casablanca, Morocco, professional tennis player, ranked 25th in the World for singles in February, 2000 1969 Birthday Helen Kelesi, born in Victoria, Canada, professional tennis player, dubbed 'Hurricane Helen', ranked 13th in the World, November 1989 1968 Event Arthur Ashe becomes 1st black to be ranked #1 in tennis 1968 Birthday Horst Skoff, born in Klagenfurt, Austria, professional tennis player, won top-level singles title in Athens in 1989, ranked 18th in world rankings for singles, 70th for doubles 1968 Birthday Omar Camporese, born in Bologna, Italy, professional tennis player, won two top-level singles and five tour doubles titles, ranked 18th in the World in singles, 27th for doubles, 1992 1967 Birthday Laura Garrone, born in Milan, Italy, professional tennis player, won five doubles titles on the WTA Tour, ranked 32nd in the World, January 1987 1967 Birthday Jaime Yzaga, born in Lima, Peru, professional tennis player, ranked 18th in the World for singles and 54th in the World in doubles 1966 Birthday Stefan Edberg, born in Vastervik, Sweden, professional tennis player, ranked number one in the World in singles and doubles tennis 1965 Birthday Amos Mansdorf, born in Tel Aviv, lsrael, professional tennis player, ranked 67th in the World for doubles, May, 1986 1964 Birthday Trey Anastasio, born in Fort Worth, Texas, singer, multi-instrumentalist, member of Phish rock band, ranked 73rd on 'Rolling Stone' 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time 1964 Birthday Sara Gomer, born in Torquay, England, professional tennis player, ranked 46th in the World, September, 1988 1963 Birthday Kate Gompert, born in Ames lowa, professional tennis player, career record 77 - 78, ranked 18th in the World for singles in July, 1987 1960 Birthday Jo Durie, born in Bristol, England, professional tennis player, tennis commentator, ranked 5th in the World, winner of two Grand Slam titles 1960 Birthday Paul Azinger, born in Holyoke, Massachusetts, Paul William Azinger, professional golfer, ranked in the top 10 Official World Golf Rankings for 300 weeks between 1988 and 1994, won 11 tournaments on the PGA Tour in 7 seasons, won 1993 PGA Championship 1958 Birthday Hal Sutton, born in Shreveport, Louisiana, professional golfer, 1980 College Player of the Year by 'Golf Magazine', ranked in top-10 Official World Golf Rankings 1986 - 1987 1958 Birthday Ricardo Acuna, born in Santiago, Chile, former tennis player, ranked was 47th in the world, won three doubles titles during his career 1957 Birthday Bernhard Langer, born in Anhausen, West Germany, professional golfer, two-time Masters champion, ranked as the world's first official number one player in 1986 1955 Birthday Chiyonofuji Mitsugu, born in Hokkaido, Japan, sumo wrestler, 58th yokozuna, greatest, highest ranked sumo in recent times, won 31 tournament championships, coming in second to Taiho, noted as lightest yokozuna since Tochinoumi in the 1960's, head coach for Kokonoe stable 1955 Birthday Buster Mottram, born in Kingston upon Thames, in south-west London, English tennis player, ranked 15th best tennis player in the world, represented Great Britain in Davis Cup eight times 1955 Birthday John Nunn, born in London, England, champion chess player, chess writer, publisher, mathematician, once ranked among the world's top ten, two-time champion in chess problem solving 1953 Birthday Raul Ramirez, born in Ensenada, Baja California, professional Mexican tennis player, in 1976, ranked No. 4 in the world, in 1983, ranked No. 6 in the world in doubles, won 60 doubles titles, 19 singles titles, married former Miss Universe, Venezuelan-born Maritza Sayalero 1953 Birthday Jules Shear, born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, musician, singer, performed with The Funky Kings, Raisins in the Sun, created, hosted, first 13 episodes of MTV series, Unplugged, song, All Through the Night, recorded by Cyndi Lauper, ranked number 5 on the Billboard Hot 100, co-wrote title track for Everything's Different Now album, with Matthew Sweet 1951 Birthday Nancy LaMott, born in New York City, New York, singer, cabaret genre, album 'Ask Me Again' ranked 12th in Billboard Magazine's Top Jazz Albums chart, performed twice for President Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton
