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Famous Birthdays on April 27
187 people
85 BC – 2005
April 27 has seen 187 notable people enter the world across recorded history — from 85 BC – 2005. Below are the most significant names born on this date.
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1995 — Nick Kyrgios
Australian tennis player
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Kyrgios currently ranks 741 in the ATP and has been ranked as high as world No
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13 in singles by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP), achieved on 24 October 2016
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11, achieved on 7 November 2022, winning a major doubles title at the 2022 Australian Open while partnering with Thanasi Kokkinakis.
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Nicholas Hilmy Kyrgios, nicknamed "Kygs", is an Australian professional tennis player
Roman politician and general (died 43 BC)
Decimus Junius Brutus Albinus was a Roman general and politician of the late republican period and one of the leading instigators of Julius Caesar's assassination. He had previously been an important supporter of Caesar…
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Primate of Poland (died 1503)
Frederick Jagiellon was a prince of the Kingdom of Poland and of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, Archbishop of Gniezno, Bishop of Kraków, and Primate of Poland. He was the sixth son and ninth child of Casimir IV…
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1468
French writer (died 1626)
François Béroalde de Verville was a French Renaissance novelist, poet and intellectual. He was born in Paris, the son of Matthieu Brouard, called "Béroalde", a professor of Agrippa d'Aubigné and Pierre de l'Estoile and…
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1556
9th Earl of Northumberland (died 1632)
Henry Percy, 9th Earl of Northumberland, KG was an English nobleman. He was a grandee and one of the wealthiest peers of the court of Elizabeth I. Under James I, Northumberland was a long-term prisoner in the Tower of…
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1564
Mughal empress buried at the Taj Mahal (died 1631)
Mumtaz Mahal was the empress consort of Mughal Empire from 1628 to 1631 as the chief consort of the fifth Mughal emperor, Shah Jahan. The Taj Mahal in Agra, often cited as one of the Wonders of the World, was…
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1593
Queen Consort of Denmark (1670–1699) (died 1714)
Charlotte Amalie of Hesse-Kassel was Queen of Denmark and Norway by marriage to King Christian V. Although she did not have much political influence, she was a successful businesswoman in her many estates and protected…
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1650
English deist and philosopher (died 1693)
Charles Blount was an English deist and philosopher who published several anonymous essays critical of the existing English order.
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1654
King of Sardinia (died 1773)
Charles Emmanuel III was Duke of Savoy, King of Sardinia and ruler of the Savoyard states from his father's abdication on 3 September 1730 until his death in 1773. He was the paternal grandfather of the last three…
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1701
Irish-born American surveyor and lawyer (died 1790)
Thomas Lewis was an Irish-American surveyor, lawyer, politician and pioneer of early western Virginia. He was among the signers of the Fairfax Resolves, represented Augusta County at four of the five Virginia…
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1718
Greek-French philosopher and scholar (died 1833)
Adamantios Korais or Koraïs was a Greek scholar credited with laying the foundations of modern Greek literature and a major figure in the Greek Enlightenment. His activities paved the way for the Greek War of…
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1748
French mathematician and theorist (died 1836)
Marc-Antoine Parseval des Chênes was a French mathematician, most famous for what is now known as Parseval's theorem, which showed that the Fourier transform is unitary.
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1755
English philosopher, historian, and novelist (died 1797)
Mary Wollstonecraft was an English writer and philosopher best known for her advocacy of women's rights. Until the late twentieth century, Wollstonecraft's life, which encompassed several unconventional personal…
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1759
English architect, archaeologist, and writer (died 1863)
Charles Robert Cockerell was an English architect, archaeologist and writer. He studied architecture under Robert Smirke and embarked on an extended Grand Tour lasting seven years, mainly in Greece. After returning to…
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1788
American painter and inventor, co-invented the Morse code (died 1872)
Samuel Finley Breese Morse was an American inventor and painter. After establishing his reputation as a portrait painter, Morse, in his middle age, contributed to the invention of a single-wire telegraph system based on…
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1791
American lawyer and politician (died 1886)
William W. Snow was an American businessman and politician who served one term as a United States representative from New York from 1851 to 1853.
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1812
German composer (died 1883)
Friedrich Adolf Ferdinand, Freiherr von Flotow was a German composer. He is chiefly remembered for his opera Martha, which was popular in the 19th century and the early part of the 20th.
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1812
English biologist, anthropologist, sociologist, and philosopher (died 1903)
Herbert Spencer was an English polymath active as a philosopher, psychologist, biologist, sociologist, and anthropologist. Spencer originated the expression "survival of the fittest", which he coined in Principles of…
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1820
American general and politician, 18th President of the United States (died 1885)
Ulysses S. Grant was the 18th president of the United States, serving from 1869 to 1877. He previously led the Union Army to victory in the American Civil War in 1865 as commanding general.
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1822
English-French mountaineer, explorer, author, and illustrator (died 1911)
Edward Whymper FRSE was an English mountaineer, explorer, illustrator, and author best known for the first ascent of the Matterhorn in 1865. Four members of his climbing party were killed during the descent. Whymper…
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1840
German general and politician (died 1921)
Hans Hartwig von Beseler was a German colonel general.
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1850
French playwright and critic (died 1914)
François Élie Jules Lemaître was a French critic and dramatist.
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1853
Norwegian painter and illustrator (died 1914)
Theodor Severin Kittelsen was a Norwegian artist. He is one of the most popular artists in Norway. Kittelsen became famous for his nature paintings, as well as for his illustrations of fairy tales and legends,…
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1857
American composer and music historian (died 1948)
William Arms Fisher was an American composer, music historian and writer.
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1861
French polo player (died 1916)
Maurice Raoul-Duval was a French polo player who competed in the 1900 Summer Olympics.
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1866
Irish-born, English cricketer (died 1960)
Frederick Luther Fane, played cricket for the England cricket team in 14 Test matches. He also played for Essex, Oxford University and London County.
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1875
Estonian organist, composer, and conductor (died 1958)
Mihkel Lüdig was an Estonian composer, organist and choir conductor. As a composer, he particularly worked on a cappella choral songs. Lüdig is considered one of the major organisers of large-scale musical events in…
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1880
American author and poet (died 1961)
Jessie Redmon Fauset was an editor, poet, essayist, novelist, and educator. Her literary work helped sculpt African-American literature in the 1920s as she focused on portraying a true image of African-American life and…
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1882
American golfer (died 1926)
Warren Kenneth Wood was an American amateur golfer who competed in the 1904 Summer Olympics.
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1887
Canadian actress (died 1917)
Florence La Badie was an American-Canadian actress in the early days of the silent film era. She was a major star between 1911 and 1917. Her career was at its height when she died at age 29 from injuries sustained in an…
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1888
Russian pianist, composer, and conductor (died 1953)
Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev was a Russian composer, pianist, and conductor who later worked in the Soviet Union. As the creator of acknowledged masterpieces across numerous music genres, he is regarded as one of the…
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1891
Serbian general (died 1946)
Dragoljub "Draža" Mihailović was a Yugoslav Serb general during World War II. He was the leader of the Chetnik Detachments of the Yugoslav Army (Chetniks), a royalist and nationalist movement and guerrilla force…
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1893
American baseball player, coach, and manager (died 1939)
Allen Sutton Sothoron was an American professional baseball player, coach and manager. As a player, he was a spitball pitcher who spent 11 years in the major leagues playing for the St. Louis Browns, Boston Red Sox,…
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1893
American painter and illustrator (died 1975)
George Brown Petty IV was an American pin-up artist. His pin-up art appeared primarily in Esquire and Fawcett Publications's True but was also in calendars marketed by Esquire, True and Ridgid Tool Company. Petty's…
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1894
Russian pianist, composer, and conductor (died 1995)
Nicolas Slonimsky, born Nikolai Leonidovich Slonimskiy, was a Russian-American musicologist, conductor, pianist, lexicographer, and composer. Best known for his writing and musical reference work, he wrote the Thesaurus…
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1894
American baseball player, coach, and manager (died 1963)
Rogers Hornsby, nicknamed "the Rajah", was an American baseball player, manager, and coach who played 23 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB). He played for the St. Louis Cardinals, New York Giants (1927), Boston…
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1896
New Zealand-Australian engineer (died 1978)
Sir William Hudson was a New Zealand-born engineer who headed construction of the Snowy Mountains Scheme for hydroelectricity and irrigation in Australia from 1949 to 1967, when he reluctantly retired at 71. The scheme…
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1896
American chemist and inventor of nylon (died 1937)
Wallace Hume Carothers was an American chemist, inventor, and the leader of organic chemistry at DuPont, who was credited with the invention of nylon.
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1896
Italian-American author and illustrator (died 1962)
Ludwig Bemelmans was an Austrian-born American writer and illustrator known for his humorous memoirs about working in upscale hotels and restaurants of New York City and illustrations on the walls of Bemelmans Bar, as…
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1898
American animator, producer, screenwriter, and actor (died 1994)
Walter Benjamin Lantz was an American cartoonist, animator, producer and director best known for founding Walter Lantz Productions and creating Woody Woodpecker.
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1899
Estonian politician and diplomat, Estonian Minister of Foreign Affairs in exile (died 1989)
August Koern was an Estonian statesman and diplomat. He was Estonian foreign minister in exile from 1 March 1964 to 3 June 1982.
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1900
Malian educator and activist (died 1942)
Tiemoko Garan Kouyaté was a Malian teacher, journalist and political activist. He was a pioneer for African nationalism and one of the first Communists in Africa.
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1902
Anglo-Irish poet and author (died 1972)
Cecil Day-Lewis, often written as C. Day-Lewis, was an Anglo-Irish poet and Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom from 1968 until his death. He also wrote mystery stories under the pseudonym Nicholas Blake, most of which…
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1904
Greek politician (died 1973)
Nikos Zachariadis was the leader of the Communist Party of Greece (KKE) from 1931 to 1956.
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1904
1905
Greek author and playwright (died 1966)
Yiorgos Theotokas, formally Georgios Theotokas, was a Greek novelist.
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1906
Chinese businessman, resistance fighter of Force 136 and war hero of Singapore (died 1944)
Lim Bo Seng was a resistance fighter who played a crucial role in the anti-Japanese fund raising and movement in Singapore and Malaya during World War II. Born in Fujian, China, he moved to Singapore at a young age and…
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1909
Chinese politician, 3rd President of the Republic of China (died 1988)
Chiang Ching-kuo was a Chinese and Taiwanese statesman and diplomat who served as the president of the Republic of China from 1978 to 1988. A member of the Kuomintang (KMT), he was the party's chairman from 1975 until…
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1910
German anthropologist and ethnologist (died 2009)
Bruno Beger was a German racial anthropologist, ethnologist, and explorer who worked for the Ahnenerbe. In that role he participated in Ernst Schäfer's 1938–1939 expedition to Tibet, helped the SS Race and Settlement…
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1911
Dutch sprinter and footballer (died 1965)
Christiaan David "Chris" Berger was a Dutch athlete, competing in the sprints.
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1911
French author and politician (died 2001)
Jacques de Bourbon, Count of Busset was a French novelist, essayist and politician. He was elected to the Académie française on 4 June 1981. He was a senior member of the House of Bourbon-Busset.
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1912
Indian actress, dancer, and choreographer (died 2014)
Zohra Mumtaz Sehgal was an Indian actress, dancer, and choreographer. Having begun her career as a member of a contemporary dance troupe, she transitioned into acting roles beginning in the 1940s. Sehgal appeared in…
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1912
American physicist and author (died 2004)
Philip Hauge Abelson was an American physicist, scientific editor and science writer. Trained as a nuclear physicist, he co-discovered the element neptunium, worked on isotope separation in the Manhattan Project, and…
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1913
American mathematician, author, and academic (died 2012)
Irving Adler was an American author, mathematician, scientist, political activist, and educator. He was the author of 57 books about mathematics, science, and education, and the co-author of 30 more, for both children…
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1913
1913
Jr., American sergeant, lawyer, and judge (died 2013)
Robert Hugh McWilliams Jr. was a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit and a justice of the Colorado Supreme Court.
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1916
American baseball player and manager (died 2002)
Enos Bradsher Slaughter, nicknamed "Country", was an American professional baseball right fielder. He played 19 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the St. Louis Cardinals, New York Yankees, Kansas City…
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1916
Estonian violinist, pianist, and conductor (died 2001)
Roman Voldemarovich Matsov was a Soviet and Estonian violinist, pianist, and conductor.
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1917
Swedish lawyer and jurist (died 2008)
Sten John Gustaf Rudholm was a Swedish lawyer, member of the Swedish Academy, former Chancellor of Justice, Chief Justice of Appeal and Marshal of the Realm. Rudholm was prior to his death the only living Swedish…
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1918
Italian conductor (died 1956)
Guido Cantelli was an Italian orchestral conductor. Toscanini elected him his "spiritual heir" since the beginnings of his career. He was named music director of La Scala, Milan in November 1956, but his promising…
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1920
Ukrainian mathematician and academic (died 1997)
Mark Aleksandrovich Krasnoselsky or Mark Alexsandrovich Krasnoselskii was a Soviet and Russian mathematician renowned for his work on nonlinear functional analysis and its applications.
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1920
American colonel, lawyer, and politician (died 2010)
James Robert Mann was a World War II soldier, lawyer and Democratic United States Representative from South Carolina.
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1920
Scottish poet and translator (died 2010)
Edwin George Morgan was a Scottish poet and translator associated with the Scottish Renaissance. He is widely recognised as one of the foremost Scottish poets of the 20th century. In 1999, Morgan was made the first…
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1920
French actor, director, and screenwriter (died 2004)
Robert Dhéry was a French comedian, actor, director and screenwriter.
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1921
American actor (died 2012)
Jack Klugman was an American actor of stage, film and television.
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1922
English nurse and pilot (died 1988)
Sheila Christine Scott OBE was an English aviator who broke over 100 aviation records through her long-distance flight endeavours, which included a 34,000-mile (55,000 km) "world and a half" flight in 1971. On this…
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1922
Seminole chief (died 2011)
Betty Mae Tiger Jumper, also known as Potackee (Seminole), was the first and so far the only female chairperson of the Seminole Tribe of Florida. A nurse, she co-founded the tribe's first newspaper in 1956, the Seminole…
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1923
American lawyer and politician, 14th Attorney General of Utah (died 2013)
Vernon Bradford Romney was an American lawyer who served as the attorney general of Utah from 1969 to 1977, and the Republican candidate for Governor of Utah in 1976. He was a member of the Romney family and the Church…
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1924
English broadcaster (died 2015)
Charles Derek Chinnery was the controller of BBC Radio 1 from 1978 to 1985.
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1925
American minister, activist, and author (died 2016)
Timothy Francis LaHaye was an American Baptist evangelical Christian minister and political activist who wrote more than 85 books, both non-fiction and fiction, including the Left Behind series of novels depicting…
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1926
American lawyer and politician, 59th Secretary of State of New York (died 2014)
Basil Alexander Paterson was an American labor lawyer and politician. He served in the New York State Senate from 1966 to 1971 and as secretary of state of New York under Governor Hugh Carey from 1979 to 1983. In 1970,…
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1926
1926
African-American activist and author (died 2006)
Coretta Scott King was an American author, activist, and civil rights leader who was the wife of Martin Luther King Jr. from 1953 until his assassination in 1968. As an advocate for African-American equality, she was a…
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1927
American soldier, lawyer, and politician (died 2001)
John Joseph Moakley was an American politician who served as the United States representative for Massachusetts's 9th congressional district from 1973 until his death in 2001. Moakley won the seat from incumbent Louise…
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1927
Russian discus thrower and coach (died 2016)
Nina Apollonovna Ponomaryova was a Russian discus thrower and the first Soviet Olympic champion.
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1929
Ukrainian violinist and educator (died 2021)
Igor Davidovich Oistrakh was a Soviet and Russian violinist. He was described by Encyclopædia Britannica as "noted for his lean, modernist interpretations".
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1931
French actress (died 2024)
Nicole Françoise Florence Dreyfus, known professionally as Anouk Aimée or Anouk, was a French film actress who appeared in 70 films from 1947 until 2019. Having begun her film career at age 14, she studied acting and…
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1932
South African lawyer, politician, and diplomat, 8th South African Ambassador to the United States (died 2018)
Roelof Frederik "Pik" Botha, was a South African politician who served as the country's foreign minister in the last years of the apartheid era, the longest-serving in South African history. Known as a liberal within…
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1932
American disc jockey, radio celebrity, and voice actor; co-created American Top 40 (died 2014)
Kemal Amin "Casey" Kasem was an American disc jockey, actor, and radio presenter who created and hosted several radio countdown programs, notably American Top 40, as well as the weekly syndicated television series…
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1932
American football coach (died 2018)
Charles Robert Knox was an American football coach at the high school, collegiate and professional levels. He served as head coach of three National Football League (NFL) teams, the Los Angeles Rams, Buffalo Bills…
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1932
English motorcycle racer (died 2015)
Derek Minter was an English Grand Prix motorcycle and short-circuit road racer. Born in Ickham, Kent, with education starting in nearby Littlebourne, he was versatile rider who rode a variety of machinery between 1955…
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1932
Italian-American mathematician and philosopher (died 1999)
Gian-Carlo Rota was an Italian-American mathematician and philosopher. He spent most of his career at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he worked in combinatorics, functional analysis, probability theory,…
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1932
Baron Imbert, English police officer and politician, Lord Lieutenant for Greater London (died 2017)
Peter Michael Imbert, Baron Imbert, was Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police Service from 1987 to 1993, and prior to that appointment Chief Constable of Thames Valley Police from 1979 to 1985.
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1933
Greek director, producer, and screenwriter (died 2012)
Theodoros "Theo" Angelopoulos was a Greek filmmaker, screenwriter and film producer. He dominated the Greek art film industry from 1975 on, and Angelopoulos was one of the most influential and widely respected…
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1935
American pole vaulter and coach (died 2024)
Ronald Hugh Morris was an American track and field athlete who won the national title in pole vault in 1958, 1961 and 1962. He placed fourth at the 1959 Pan American Games and second at the 1960 Summer Olympics. Morris…
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1935
English singer and illustrator (died 2016)
Geoffrey Richard Shovelton was an English singer, actor and illustrator best known for his performances in leading tenor roles with the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company in the 1970s.
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1936
American actress (died 1992)
Sandra Dale Dennis was an American actress. She made her film debut in the drama Splendor in the Grass (1961). For her performance in the comedy-drama film Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966), she received the…
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1937
Irish Anglican archbishop
Robert Henry Alexander Eames, Baron Eames is an Anglican bishop and life peer, who served as Primate of All Ireland and Archbishop of Armagh from 1986 to 2006.
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1937
English biologist and academic (died 2015)
Richard Nelson Perham, FRS, FMedSci, FRSA, was Professor of biochemistry at the University of Cambridge, and Master of St John's College, Cambridge 2004–07. He was also editor-in-chief of FEBS Journal from 1998 to 2013.
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1937
American bowler and sportscaster (died 2001)
Earl Roderick Anthony was an American professional bowler who amassed records of 43 titles and six Player of the Year awards on the Professional Bowlers Association (PBA) Tour. For over two decades, his career title…
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1938
Canadian ice hockey player (died 1986)
Joseph Paul Luc Alain Caron was a Canadian professional ice hockey player who played in various leagues from 1956 to 1976.
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1938
English actress and comedian (died 2015)
Joyce Audrey Botterill, known professionally as Judy Carne, was an English actress. She appeared on American television in the late 1960s in Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In, where she employed the catch phrase "Sock it to…
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1939
Polish cardinal
Stanisław Jan Dziwisz is a Polish Catholic prelate who served as Metropolitan Archbishop of Kraków from 2005 to 2016. He was created a cardinal in 2006. He was a long-time and influential aide to Pope John Paul II, a…
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1939
Turkish preacher and theologian (died 2024)
Muhammed Fethullah Gülen was a Turkish Muslim scholar, preacher, and leader of the Gülen movement, which as of 2010 had 8-10 million of followers globally and had established a network of over 2,000 STEM focused schools…
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1941
Indian archaeologist
Dilip Kumar Chakrabarti is an Indian archaeologist, Professor Emeritus of South Asian Archaeology at Cambridge University, and a Senior Fellow at the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Cambridge University.…
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1941
American football player
Lee Roy Jordan was an American professional football player who was a linebacker for 14 seasons with the Dallas Cowboys of the National Football League (NFL) from 1963 to 1976. He played college football for the Alabama…
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1941
American author
Ruth Glick is an American writer of cookbooks, romance and young adult novels. She has written novels under the pseudonym Rebecca York; until 1997 these were written in collaboration with Eileen Buckholtz.
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1942
American drummer
James Lee Keltner is an American drummer and percussionist known primarily for his session work. He was characterized by Bob Dylan biographer Howard Sounes as "the leading session drummer in America".
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1942
Austrian race car driver and manager
Helmut Marko is an Austrian former racing driver and motorsport executive who competed in Formula One at 10 Grands Prix from 1971 to 1972. In endurance racing, Marko won the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 1971 with Martini. He…
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1943
English meteorologist and journalist
Michael Fish is a British weather forecaster. From 1974 to 2004, he was a television presenter for BBC Weather.
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1944
American singer (died 2017)
Cuba Mark Gooding Sr. was an American singer. He was the most successful lead singer of the soul group The Main Ingredient, replacing former lead singer Donald McPherson who was diagnosed with leukemia in 1971.…
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1944
American singer-songwriter and guitarist
Herbert Joseph Pedersen is an American musician, guitarist, banjo player, and singer-songwriter who has played a variety of musical styles over the past fifty years including country, bluegrass, progressive bluegrass,…
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1944
English footballer and manager (died 2026)
Martin Harcourt Chivers was an English professional footballer who played as a forward. He began his career with his hometown club Southampton where he had a successful six years and in 1968 was bought by Tottenham…
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1945
Australian journalist and television host
Terence Joseph Willesee is an Australian retired journalist and television and radio presenter.
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1945
American author and playwright (died 2005)
August Wilson was an American playwright. He has been referred to as the "theater's poet of Black America". He is best known for a series of 10 plays, collectively called The Pittsburgh Cycle , which chronicle the…
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1945
German footballer
Franz "Bulle" Roth is a former German footballer. He earned four caps for the Germany national football team and was nicknamed "the Bull" due to his physical playing style.
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1946
African-American soldier, lawyer, and politician
George Kenneth Butterfield Jr. is an American lawyer, lobbyist, and retired politician who served as the U.S. representative for North Carolina's 1st congressional district from 2004 to 2022. A member of the Democratic…
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1947
Hungarian-Australian politician, 37th Premier of New South Wales
Nicholas Frank Hugo Greiner is an Australian politician who served as the 37th Premier of New South Wales from 1988 to 1992. Greiner was Leader of the New South Wales Division of the Liberal Party from 1983 to 1992 and…
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1947
1947
Canadian ice hockey player and coach (died 2003)
Keith Arlen Magnuson was a Canadian professional ice hockey defenceman from Wadena, Saskatchewan who played in the National Hockey League (NHL) between 1969 and 1979.
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1947
American soul singer-songwriter
Ann Lee Peebles is a retired American singer and songwriter who gained popularity for her Memphis soul albums of the 1970s while signed to Hi Records. Her most successful singles include "I Can't Stand the Rain," which…
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1947
American security consultant and criminal
Frank William Abagnale Jr. is an American-French security consultant, author, and convicted felon whose documented crimes consist primarily of check fraud and petty theft targeting individuals and small businesses.…
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1948
Austrian footballer, coach, and manager
Josef Hickersberger is a former professional football player and former coach of the Austria national football team and Austrian club side Rapid Wien.
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1948
American singer-songwriter and bass player
Catherine Elizabeth Pierson is an American singer, lyricist, and founding member of the B-52s. She plays guitar, bass, and various keyboard instruments. In the early years, as well as being a vocalist, Pierson was the…
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1948
Filipino politician
Jaime dela Rosa Fresnedi, also known as Jimmy Fresnedi, is a Filipino politician, lawyer, and businessman currently serving as a member of the Philippine House of Representatives representing the lone district of…
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1950
American television writer and producer (died 2025)
Warren David Duclon was an American television writer and producer, known for his work on Silver Spoons, Family Matters, Punky Brewster and the legacy sequel of the same name. Duclon was born in Rockford, Illinois, on…
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1950
American guitarist and songwriter (died 2025)
Paul Daniel "Ace" Frehley was an American musician who was the original lead guitarist, occasional vocalist, and a founding member of the rock band Kiss. He invented the persona of the Spaceman and originally played…
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1951
American lawyer and talk show host
Laurence Allen Elder is an American conservative political commentator and talk radio host. He hosts The Larry Elder Show, based in California. The show began as a local program on Los Angeles radio station KABC in 1994…
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1952
American basketball player
George Gervin, nicknamed "the Iceman", is an American former professional basketball player who played in both the American Basketball Association (ABA) and National Basketball Association (NBA) for the Virginia…
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1952
Finnish race car driver and politician
Ari Pieti Uolevi Vatanen is a Finnish former rally driver and politician and a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from 1999 to 2009. He won the World Rally Championship drivers' title in 1981 and the Paris Dakar…
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1952
French-American actress and model
Arielle Dombasle is an American-born French singer, actress, director and model. Her breakthrough roles were in Éric Rohmer's Pauline at the Beach (1983) and Alain Robbe-Grillet's The Blue Villa (1995). She has worked…
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1953
Fijian commander and politician, 8th Prime Minister of Fiji
Josaia Voreqe "Frank" Bainimarama is a Fijian former politician and naval officer who served as the prime minister of Fiji from 2007 until 2022. A member of the FijiFirst party, which he founded in 2014, he began his…
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1954
American football player, coach, and sportscaster
Herman Montmartre Edwards is an American football coach and former player. He played cornerback in the National Football League (NFL) for ten seasons, primarily with the Philadelphia Eagles. Edwards was also a head…
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1954
Australian singer, actor, and lawyer
Mark Ronald Holden is an Australian singer, actor, TV personality, record producer, songwriter, and barrister. He was a pop star in the 1970s and had four top 20 hit singles, "Never Gonna Fall in Love Again", "I Wanna…
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1954
American engineer and businessman
Eric Emerson Schmidt is an American businessman and former computer engineer who was the chief executive officer of Google from 2001 to 2011 and the company's executive chairman from 2011 to 2015. He also was the…
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1955
American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2006)
Bryan Taber Harvey was an American musician noted for his fronting role in House of Freaks.
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1956
Austrian politician
Dietmar Keck is an Austrian politician and member of the National Council. A member of the Social Democratic Party, he has represented Greater Linz since December 2002.
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1957
American baseball player and manager
Willie Clay Upshaw is an American former Major League Baseball player who played first base for the Toronto Blue Jays and Cleveland Indians (1988), both of the American League.
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1957
Scottish-American singer-songwriter, actress, and producer
Sheena Shirley Easton is a Scottish singer, songwriter and actress who rose to prominence in the reality television series The Big Time: Pop Singer (1980). Her record sales worldwide are estimated at 20 million copies,…
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1959
English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
Marco Francesco Andrea Pirroni frequently credited simply as Marco, is a British guitarist, songwriter and record producer. He has worked with Adam Ant, Sinéad O'Connor, Siouxsie and the Banshees and many others from…
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1959
Canadian ice hockey player and coach
Michael "Kruzer" Krushelnyski is a Canadian former professional ice hockey centre/left winger who played 14 years in the National Hockey League (NHL). While playing in the NHL, he won three Stanley Cups as a player with…
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1960
American lawyer and activist, founded Conservapedia
Andrew Layton Schlafly is an American lawyer and Christian conservative activist. He is the founder and owner of the wiki encyclopedia project Conservapedia. He is the son of the conservative activist and lawyer Phyllis…
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1961
Argentinian footballer and manager
Ángel David Comizzo Leiva is an Argentine football manager and former player who played as a goalkeeper.
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1962
Finnish javelin thrower and coach
Seppo Henrik Räty is a retired Finnish track and field athlete who competed in the javelin throw. He was a World Champion, having won gold in 1987. He was also an Olympic medalist. He was nicknamed Tohmajärven karhu and…
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1962
South Korean director and screenwriter
Im Sang-soo is a South Korean film director and screenwriter. He has twice been invited to compete for the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival: first for The Housemaid in 2010, and then The Taste of Money in 2012.
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1962
English soldier and politician
Andrew Edmund Armstrong Selous is a British politician who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for South West Bedfordshire from 2001 until 2024, when the constituency was abolished. Selous stood for the new…
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1962
Welsh screenwriter and producer
Stephen Russell Davies, known professionally as Russell T Davies, is a Welsh screenwriter and television producer. He is best known for being the original showrunner and head writer of the revival of the BBC sci-fi…
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1963
English actress
Anna Theodora Chancellor is an English actress who has appeared widely on TV, film and in the theatre. She received a nomination for BAFTA TV Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role as Lix Storm in The Hour…
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1965
English actress
Siobhan Margaret Finneran is a British actress. She made her screen debut in the independent film Rita, Sue and Bob Too (1987) and subsequently worked consistently in television drama including roles in Coronation…
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1966
Australian cricketer
Peter Edward McIntyre is a former Australian cricketer who played in two Test matches in the 1990s.
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1966
Japanese illustrator
Yoshihiro Togashi is a Japanese manga artist. He began drawing manga at an early age and was recognized for his talent by the publishing company Shueisha while attending college. Togashi has authored several different…
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1966
King of the Netherlands
Willem-Alexander is the current King of the Netherlands, having reigned since 30 April 2013.
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1967
Scottish saxophonist, composer, and educator
Thomas William Ellis Smith is a Scottish jazz saxophonist, composer, and educator.
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1967
Scottish-New Zealand actor
Erik Thomson is a New Zealand-Australian actor. He played Hades in the television series Hercules: The Legendary Journeys, Xena Warrior Princess and Young Hercules, Dr. Mitch Stevens in All Saints and Dave Rafter in…
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1967
American football player and journalist
Jason Lee Whitlock is an American former sports columnist who currently hosts a program for the conservative media company Blaze Media titled Fearless with Jason Whitlock. Whitlock was a sports columnist at The Kansas…
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1967
American journalist and author
Dana Timothy Milbank is an American author and columnist for The Washington Post. He has written books about Al Gore, George W. Bush, Glenn Beck, American politics, and the Republican Party. He has appeared as a pundit…
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1968
African-American lawyer and politician
Cory Anthony Booker is an American politician and lawyer serving as a United States senator from New Jersey, a seat he has held since 2013. A member of the Democratic Party, Booker is the first African-American U.S.…
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1969
English ballerina
Dame Darcey Andrea Bussell is a retired English ballerina and a former judge on the BBC television dance contest Strictly Come Dancing.
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1969
English photographer and author
Nigel Barker is an English reality TV show personality, fashion photographer, author, spokesperson, filmmaker, and former model. He is best known for his participation as a judge and photographer on the reality show…
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1972
Swedish bass player and songwriter
Sharlee D'Angelo is a Swedish musician. He is the bassist for the melodic death metal band Arch Enemy, as well as the classic rock/AOR band the Night Flight Orchestra and the stoner metal band Spiritual Beggars.
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1973
Canadian tennis player
Sébastien Lareau is a former professional tennis player. He became the first Canadian to win a Grand Slam title by winning the 1999 US Open men's doubles with his American partner Alex O'Brien. He also won his nation's…
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1973
American baseball player
Frank John Catalanotto is an American baseball coach and former infielder and left fielder, who is the current head baseball coach of the Hofstra Pride. Catalanotto played professional baseball for the Detroit Tigers…
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1974
American baseball player
Christopher John Carpenter is an American former professional baseball pitcher. He played 15 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Toronto Blue Jays and St. Louis Cardinals from 1997 to 2012. A Cy Young Award…
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1975
Dominican baseball player
Pedro Julio Feliz, is a Dominican former professional baseball third baseman, who played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the San Francisco Giants, Philadelphia Phillies, Houston Astros, and St. Louis Cardinals.
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1975
Japanese ski jumper
Kazuyoshi Funaki is a Japanese former ski jumper. He ranked among the most successful sportsmen of its discipline, particularly in the 1990s. Funaki is known for his special variant of the V-style, in which the body…
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1975
Scottish singer-songwriter and cellist
Isobel Campbell is a Scottish singer, songwriter and cellist. She rose to prominence at age nineteen as a member of the indie pop band Belle & Sebastian, but left the group to pursue a solo career, first as the Gentle…
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1976
English actress
Sally Cecilia Hawkins is an English actress of stage and screen. She began her career on stage and then moved into film, for which she has received several accolades including a Golden Globe Award, in addition to…
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1976
Uruguayan footballer
Walter Gerardo Pandiani Urquiza is a Uruguayan football manager and former player who played as a striker. He is the current manager of Tercera Federación club Palencia.
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1976
Ukrainian actor and wrestler
Oleg Aleksandrovich Prudius better known by his ring name Vladimir Kozlov, is a Ukrainian-American actor and professional wrestler. He is best known for his time in WWE, where he won the WWE Tag Team Championship once…
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1979
Austrian tennis player
Sybille Bammer is a former professional tennis player from Austria. Her career-high ranking is No. 19, which she achieved on 17 December 2007.
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1980
Ecuadorian footballer
Christian Rolando Lara Anangonó, nicknamed Diablito, is an Ecuadorian former footballer who played as a left winger. His last club was Sociedad Atlética Sancor, a team competing in Ecuador’s Segunda Categoría, the third…
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1980
American actress and producer
Ariel Geltman Graynor is an American actress. She is best known for her roles in the television series The Sopranos (2001), Fringe (2009–2010), Bad Teacher (2014), I'm Dying Up Here (2017), and Monsters: The Lyle and…
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1983
Canadian ice hockey player
Pierre-Marc Bouchard is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player. Bouchard played his junior hockey with the Chicoutimi Saguenéens in the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League (QMJHL), and is the older brother of…
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1984
Australian rugby league player
Daniel Holdsworth is an Australian former professional rugby league five-eighth who played in the 2000s and 2010s.
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1984
American musician, singer, and songwriter
Patrick Martin Stumph, known professionally as Patrick Vaughn Stump, is an American singer, songwriter, musician, and record producer. He is the lead vocalist and guitarist of the rock band Fall Out Boy, originally from…
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1984
Ethiopian runner
Meselech Melkamu is an Ethiopian long-distance runner. She defeated Meseret Defar to win the 5000 metres gold medal at the 2008 African Athletics Championships, but she is better known for her 29:53.80 run over 10,000…
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1985
English actress
Jenna-Louise Coleman is a British actress who is best known as Jasmine Thomas in Emmerdale (2005–2009), Clara Oswald in Doctor Who and Queen Victoria in Victoria (2016–2019). She has received various accolades,…
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1986
Russian tennis player
Dinara Mubinovna Safina is a Russian former professional tennis player. She was ranked as the world No. 1 in women's singles by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) for 26 weeks, and world No. 8 in doubles. Safina won…
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1986
American ice hockey player
Taylor Chorney is a Canadian-born American former professional ice hockey player. A defenceman, he played parts of eight seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the Edmonton Oilers, St. Louis Blues, Pittsburgh…
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1987
English actor
William Peter Moseley is an English actor. He is known for his portrayal of Peter Pevensie in The Chronicles of Narnia (2005–2010) trilogy, which won him a Kids' Choice Award, in addition to nominations for a Saturn…
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1987
Chinese singer and actress
Wang Feifei, known professionally as Fei, is a Chinese singer and actress. She was a member of the South Korean girl group miss A from the group's debut in 2010 until its disbandment in 2017. She debuted as a solo…
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1987
1988
Russian ice hockey player
Semyon Aleksandrovich Varlamov is a Russian professional ice hockey player who is a goaltender for the New York Islanders of the National Hockey League (NHL).
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1988
German footballer
Lars Bender is a German professional football coach and former player who played as a right-back or defensive midfielder. He is currently the manager of Regionalliga Bayern club Wacker Burghausen. He is the twin brother…
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1989
German footballer
Sven Bender is a German former professional footballer who played as a centre-back or defensive midfielder. He is currently the manager of Regionalliga club SpVgg Unterhaching. He is the twin brother of fellow coach and…
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1989
American race car driver
Austin Reed Dillon is an American professional stock car racing driver. He competes full-time in the NASCAR Cup Series, driving the No. 3 Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 for Richard Childress Racing. He is the grandson of RCR team…
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1990
1991
American football player
Keenan Alexander Allen is an American professional football wide receiver. He played college football for the California Golden Bears before leaving after his junior year. He was selected by the then San Diego Chargers…
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1992
American baseball player
Corey Drew Seager is an American professional baseball shortstop for the Texas Rangers of Major League Baseball (MLB). He has previously played in MLB for the Los Angeles Dodgers. He is often regarded as one of the best…
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1994
Australian rugby league player
Jesse Ramien is an Australian professional rugby league footballer who plays as a centre for the Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks in the National Rugby League (NRL).
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1997
Argentine footballer
Cristian Gabriel Romero is an Argentine professional footballer who plays as a centre-back for Premier League club Tottenham Hotspur, which he captains, and the Argentina national team.
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1998
Australian rugby league player
Peter Hola is a professional rugby league footballer who plays as a prop for the Newcastle Knights in the National Rugby League (NRL) and the Norths Devils in the Queensland Cup.
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1999
Swedish footballer
Anthony David Junior Elanga is a Swedish professional footballer who plays as a forward or winger for Premier League club Newcastle United and the Sweden national team.
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2002
American football player
Xavier Worthy is an American professional football wide receiver for the Kansas City Chiefs of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Texas Longhorns, earning three All-Big 12 honors.…
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2003
American football player
Archibald Charles Manning is an American college football quarterback for the Texas Longhorns. He is a member of the Manning family of football players.
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2004
French footballer
Mathys Henri Tel is a French professional footballer who plays as a left midfielder or forward for Premier League club Tottenham Hotspur.
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2005
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