Philip Douglas 'Phil' Taylor is an English professional darts player, nicknamed The Power. He is widely regarded as the best darts player of all time. He has won 207 professional tournaments which include an unprecedented 81 major titles and a record 16 World Championships. He won eight consecutive World Championships from 1995 to 2002 and reached 14 consecutive finals from 1994 to 2007. No darts player has a winning record in matches against him. He has won the PDC Player of the Year award six times and has twice been nominated for the BBC Sports Personality of the Year, in 2006 and 2010, finishing as runner-up in the latter. He was the first, and to date, the only person to hit two nine-dart finishes in one match, in the 2010 Premier League Darts final against James Wade. He has hit a record 10 televised nine-dart finishes and is ranked world number two in the PDC Order of Merit. Taylor played in competitions organised by the British Darts Organisation until 1993. Amidst growing disenchantment with the BDO, he was among 16 top players who broke away to form their own organisation, the World Darts Council, now known as the Professional Darts Corporation. 

August 13th, 1960 in Stoke-on-Trent (Age 64)