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Famous Birthdays on January 12
250 people
1483 – 2012
January 12 has seen 250 notable people enter the world across recorded history — from 1483 – 2012. Below are the most significant names born on this date.
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1981 — Niklas Kronwall
Swedish ice hockey player
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He is one of the 30 members in the Triple Gold Club
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He was inducted into the IIHF Hall of Fame in 2026.
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Hans Niklas Kronwall is a Swedish former professional ice hockey defenceman, who currently serves as an advisor to the general manager of the Detroit Red Wings
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Kronwall started his career in Järfälla HC in Sweden, and has played internationally for Sweden
Count Henry III of Nassau-Dillenburg-Dietz, Lord of Breda, Lord of the Lek, of Dietz, etc. was a count of the House of Nassau.
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1483
Duke of Savoy (died 1630)
Charles Emmanuel I, known as the Great and nicknamed Testa di Fuoco, was the 11th Duke of Savoy and ruler of the Savoyard states from 30 August 1580 until his death on 26 July 1630, nearly 50 years later. At the time of…
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1562
Dutch historian and scholar (died 1660)
Petrus Scriverius, the Latinised form of Peter Schrijver or Schryver, was a Dutch writer and scholar on the history of the Low Countries.
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1576
Flemish chemist and physician (died 1644)
Jan Baptist van Helmont was a chemist, physiologist, and physician from Brussels. He worked during the years just after Paracelsus and the rise of iatrochemistry, and is sometimes considered to be "the founder of…
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1577
English lawyer and politician, 2nd Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony (died 1649)
John Winthrop was an English Puritan lawyer and a leading figure in the founding of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, the second major settlement in New England following Plymouth Colony. Winthrop led the first large wave…
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1588
Spanish painter (died 1652)
Jusepe de Ribera was a Spanish painter and printmaker. Ribera, Francisco de Zurbarán, Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, and the singular Diego Velázquez, are regarded as the major artists of Spanish Baroque painting. Referring…
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1591
Flemish sculptor and educator (died 1643)
François Duquesnoy or Frans Duquesnoy was a Flemish Baroque sculptor who was active in Rome for most of his career, where he was known as Il Fiammingo. His idealized representations represented a quieter and more…
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1597
mother of Indian king Shivaji (died 1674)
Jijabai, was the mother of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj, founder of the Maratha Kingdom. She was a daughter of Lakhujirao Jadhav of Sindkhed Raja. He belonged to the lineage of Devagiri Yadavas.
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1598
French author and academic (died 1703)
Charles Perrault was a French author and member of the Académie Française. He laid the foundations for a new literary genre, the fairy tale, with his works derived from earlier folk tales, published in his 1697 book…
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1628
Italian painter (died 1757)
Rosalba Carriera was an Italian Rococo painter. In her younger years, she specialized in portrait miniatures. Carriera would later become known for her pastel portraits, helping popularize the medium in…
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1673
possibly last member of the Palaiologos dynasty (died ????)
Godscall Paleologue or Paleologus was the last recorded living member of the Paleologus family, and through them possibly the last surviving member of the Palaiologos dynasty, rulers of the Byzantine Empire from 1259 to…
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1694
Italian composer (died 1788)
Gaetano Latilla was an Italian opera composer, the most important of the period immediately preceding Niccolò Piccinni.
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1711
French organist and composer (died 1789)
Jacques Duphly was a French harpsichordist and composer.
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1715
Spanish general and politician, 1st Spanish Governor of Louisiana (died 1795)
Antonio de Ulloa y de la Torre-Guiral was a Spanish Navy officer. He spent much of his career in the Americas, where he carried out important scientific work that earned him a reputation as one of the major figures of…
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1716
Prussian field marshal (died 1792)
Duke Ferdinand of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel was a German military officer best known for his participation in the Seven Years' War. From 1757 to 1762, he led an Anglo-German army in western Germany which successfully…
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1721
American minister, theologian, and academic (died 1797)
Samuel Langdon was an American Congregational clergyman and educator. After serving as pastor in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, he was appointed president of Harvard College in 1774. He held that post until 1780.
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1723
English author and playwright (died 1789)
Frances Brooke was an English novelist, essayist, playwright and translator. Hers was the first English novel known to have been written in Canada.
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1724
Irish philosopher, academic, and politician (died 1797)
Edmund Burke was an Anglo-Irish writer, philosopher, and politician who is widely credited as the founder of the cultural and political philosophy of conservatism. Regarded as one of the most influential conservative…
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1729
Swiss philosopher and educator (died 1827)
Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi was a Swiss pedagogue and educational reformer who exemplified Romanticism in his approach.
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1746
Ferdinand I was King of the Two Sicilies from 1816 until his death. Before that he had been, since 1759, King of Naples as Ferdinand IV and King of Sicily as Ferdinand III. He was deposed twice from the throne of…
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1751
Russian academic and politician (died 1839)
Count Mikhail Mikhailovich Speransky was a Russian statesman and reformist during the reign of Alexander I of Russia, to whom he was a close advisor. Honorary member of the Free Economic Society (1801) and the St.…
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1772
2nd Baronet, English politician (died 1855)
Sir Robert Harry Inglis, 2nd Baronet, FRS was a British Conservative politician, noted for his staunch high church views.
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1786
Swedish chemist and academic (died 1841)
Johan August Arfwedson was a Swedish chemist who discovered the chemical element lithium in 1817 by isolating it as a salt.
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1792
Austrian physician and author (died 1873)
Gideon Brecher, also known by the pen name Gedaliah ben Eliezer (Hebrew: גדליה בן אליעזר, was an Austrian writer and physician. He was a central figure in the Moravian Haskalah.
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1797
British botanist (died 1872)
Priscilla Susan Bury, born Falkner, was an English botanist and illustrator.
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1799
Belgian engineer, designed the internal combustion engine (died 1900)
Jean Joseph Étienne Lenoir, also known as Jean J. Lenoir, was a Belgian-French engineer who invented the internal combustion engine in 1858. Prior designs for such engines were patented as early as 1807 and 1854.
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1822
German pianist and composer (died 1879)
Adolf Jensen was a German pianist, composer and music teacher.
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1837
Russian-French painter and academic (died 1935)
Jean Béraud was a French painter renowned for his numerous paintings of life in Paris and especially its nightlife. His works depicting the Champs Elysees, cafés, Montmartre and the banks of the Seine are precisely…
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1849
Italian mathematician (died 1925)
Gregorio Ricci-Curbastro was an Italian mathematician. He is most famous as the discoverer of tensor calculus.
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1853
American painter and academic (died 1925)
John Singer Sargent was an American expatriate artist, considered the "leading portrait painter of his generation" for his evocations of Belle Époque and Edwardian-era luxury. He created roughly 900 oil paintings and…
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1856
Indian monk and philosopher (died 1902)
Swami Vivekananda, born Narendranath Datta, was an Indian Hindu monk, philosopher, author, religious teacher, and the chief disciple of the Indian mystic Ramakrishna. Vivekananda was a major figure in the introduction…
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1863
Indian philosopher, academic, and politician (died 1958)
Bhagwan Das was an Indian Theosophist and public figure. For a time he served in the Central Legislative Assembly of British India. He became allied with the Hindustani Culture Society and was active in opposing rioting…
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1869
Greek runner (died 1940)
Spyridon Louis, commonly known as Spyros Louis, was a Greek water carrier who won the first modern-day Olympic marathon at the 1896 Summer Olympics. Following his victory, he was celebrated as a national hero.
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1873
American author and photographer (died 1963)
Laura Adams Armer was an American artist and writer. In 1932, her novel Waterless Mountain won the Newbery Medal. She was also an early photographer in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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1874
Turkish field marshal and politician, Prime Minister of the Turkish Provisional Government (died 1950)
Mustafa Fevzi Çakmak was a Turkish field marshal (Mareşal) and politician. He served as the Chief of General Staff from 1918 and 1919 and later the Minister of War of the Ottoman Empire in 1920. He later joined the…
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1876
American novelist and journalist (died 1916)
John Griffith London, better known as Jack London, was an American novelist, journalist and activist. A pioneer of commercial fiction and American magazines, he was one of the first American authors to become an…
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1876
Italian composer and educator (died 1948)
Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari was an Italian composer and teacher. He is best known for his comic operas such as Il segreto di Susanna (1909). A number of his works were based on plays by Carlo Goldoni, including Le donne…
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1876
American lawyer and politician, 45th Mayor of Chicago (died 1934)
Frank J. Corr was an American politician. Corr served as the 45th mayor of Chicago, Illinois. Corr's term was as acting mayor from March 15, 1933, following the assassination of Anton Cermak until April 8, 1933. Corr…
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1877
Hungarian-American author and playwright (died 1952)
Ferenc Molnár, often anglicized as Franz Molnar, was a Hungarian-born author, stage director, dramatist, and poet. He is widely regarded as Hungary's most celebrated and controversial playwright.
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1878
American race car driver and engineer (died 1968)
Ray Wade Harroun was an American racing driver and pioneering race car constructor. He is most famous for winning the inaugural Indianapolis 500 in 1911.
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1879
Estonian engineer and politician, 17th Mayor of Tallinn (died 1942)
Anton Uesson was an Estonian politician and engineer.
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1879
American actor and screenwriter (died 1930)
Milton George Gustavus Sills was an American stage and film actor of the early twentieth century.
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1882
American entertainer and bootlegger (died 1933)
Mary Louise Cecilia "Texas" Guinan was an American actress, producer,
and entrepreneur. Born in Texas to Canadian immigrant parents, Guinan decided at an early age to become an entertainer. After becoming a star on the…
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1884
Irish Republican died while on Hunger Strike (died 1917)
Thomas Patrick Ashe was an Irish revolutionary and politician. He was a member of the Gaelic League, the Gaelic Athletic Association, the Irish Republican Brotherhood (IRB) and a founding member of the Irish Volunteers.
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1885
Indian-Pakistani spiritual leader (died 1965)
Mirza Basheer-ud-Din Mahmood Ahmad was the second caliph, leader of the worldwide Ahmadiyya Muslim Community and the eldest son of Mirza Ghulam Ahmad from his second wife, Nusrat Jahan Begum. He was elected as the…
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1889
Estonian poet, physician, and politician (died 1946)
Johannes Vares was an Estonian and Soviet poet, medical doctor, and politician.
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1890
Russian engineer and businessman, co-founded the Mikoyan-Gurevich Design Bureau (died 1976)
Mikhail Iosifovich Gurevich was a Soviet aircraft designer who co-founded the Mikoyan-Gurevich military aviation bureau along with Artem Mikoyan. The bureau is famous for its fighter aircraft, rapid interceptors and…
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1892
German commander, pilot, and politician, Minister President of Prussia (died 1946)
Hermann Wilhelm Göring was a German politician, aviator, military commander, and convicted war criminal. He was one of the most powerful figures in the Nazi Party, which controlled Germany from 1933 to 1945. He also…
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1893
Estonian-German architect and politician, Reich Minister for the Occupied Eastern Territories (died 1946)
Alfred Ernst Rosenberg was a Baltic German Nazi theorist, theologian, ideologue and convicted war criminal. Rosenberg was first introduced to Adolf Hitler by Dietrich Eckart, and he held several important posts in the…
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1893
French boxer and actor (died 1975)
Georges Carpentier was a French boxer, actor and World War I pilot.
A precocious pugilist, Carpentier fought in numerous categories. He fought mainly as a light heavyweight and heavyweight in a career lasting from 1908…
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1894
Polish-Israeli scholar and academic (died 1959)
Leo Aryeh Mayer OBE, was an Israeli scholar of Islamic art and rector of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
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1895
1896
Romanian-American psychologist and author (died 1981)
David "Weshy" Wechsler was a Romanian-American psychologist. He developed well-known intelligence scales, such as the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (WAIS) and the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children (WISC) to…
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1896
French opera singer and educator (died 1979)
Pierre Louis Bernac was a French singer, a baryton-martin, known as an interpreter of the French mélodie. He had a close artistic association with Francis Poulenc, with whom he performed in France and abroad. Poulenc…
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1899
Swiss chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1965)
Paul Hermann Müller, also known as Pauly Mueller, was a Swiss chemist who received the 1948 Nobel prize in Physiology or Medicine for his 1939 discovery of insecticidal qualities and use of DDT in the control of vector…
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1899
German SS officer (died 1945)
Karl Künstler was a German SS-Obersturmbannführer and commandant of Flossenbürg concentration camp.
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1901
Russian physicist and academic (died 1960)
Igor Vasilyevich Kurchatov was a Soviet physicist who played a central role in organizing and directing the former Soviet program of nuclear weapons. He has been called the "father of the Russian atomic bomb".
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1903
American politician and attorney (Morissette v. United States) (died 1995)
Andrew Jackson Transue was an American politician and attorney from the U.S. state of Michigan. He served one term in the United States House of Representatives from 1937 to 1939.
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1903
American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 1972)
Fred McDowell, known by his stage name Mississippi Fred McDowell, was an American singer-songwriter and guitarist of hill country blues music.
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1904
Turkish author, poet, and philosopher (died 1975)
Hüseyin Nihâl Atsız was a prominent Turkish ultranationalist writer, novelist, and poet. Atsız self-identified as a racist, Pan-Turkist, Turanist, and was the ideologue of Atsızism. He was the author of over 30 books…
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1905
American archaeologist and academic (died 1997)
James Bennett Griffin was an American archaeologist. He is regarded as one of the most influential archaeologists in North America in the 20th century.
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1905
American actor and singer (died 1974)
Woodward Maurice "Tex" Ritter was an American country music singer and actor. He was the patriarch of the Ritter acting family. He is a member of the Country Music Hall of Fame.
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1905
Lithuanian-French historian, philosopher, and academic (died 1995)
Emmanuel Levinas was a French philosopher of Lithuanian Jewish ancestry who is known for his work within Jewish philosophy, existentialism, and phenomenology, focusing on the relationship of ethics to metaphysics and…
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1906
Russian colonel and engineer (died 1966)
Sergei Pavlovich Korolev was the lead Soviet rocket engineer and spacecraft designer during the Space Race between the United States and the Soviet Union in the 1950s and 1960s. He invented the R-7 Rocket, Sputnik 1,…
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1907
French actor, director, and screenwriter (died 2008)
Jean Delannoy was a French actor, film editor, screenwriter and film director.
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1908
American illustrator (died 1988)
Clement Gazzam Hurd was an American artist. He is known for illustrations of children's picture books, especially collaborations with writer Margaret Wise Brown, including Goodnight Moon (1947) and The Runaway Bunny…
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1908
American actress and comedian (died 1981)
Patsy Kelly was an American actress. She is known for her role as the brash, wisecracking sidekick to Thelma Todd in a series of comedy shorts produced by Hal Roach in the 1930s. Kelly continued to appear in similar…
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1910
German-English actress (died 2014)
Luise Rainer was a German-born film actress. She was the first thespian to win multiple Academy Awards, and the first to win back-to-back; at the time of her death, thirteen days shy of her 105th birthday, she was the…
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1910
Estonian footballer (died 1991)
Richard Kuremaa was an Estonian footballer – one of the most famous before World War II. He played 42 times for Estonia national football team, scoring 19 goals. Kuremaa was the Estonian top division's record goalscorer…
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1912
Japanese psychiatrist and psychologist (died 1979)
Mieko Kamiya was a Japanese psychiatrist who treated leprosy patients at Nagashima Aiseien Sanatorium. She was known for translating books on philosophy. She worked as a medical doctor in the Department of Psychiatry…
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1914
American screenwriter and producer (died 1997)
Paul Jarrico was an Oscar-nominated American screenwriter who was blacklisted by the Hollywood movie studios during the era of McCarthyism.
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1915
Canadian archbishop and academic (died 2013)
Joseph-Aurèle Plourde, was a Canadian Roman Catholic bishop. He was the archbishop of the Archdiocese of Ottawa from 1967 to 1989.
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1915
American chemist and inventor (died 2013)
Ruth Mary Rogan Benerito was an American physical chemist and inventor known for her impactful work related to the textile industry. She notably contributed to the development of wash-and-wear cotton fabrics using a…
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1916
South African politician, 8th Prime Minister of South Africa (died 2006)
Pieter Willem Botha, was a South African politician who served as the last Prime Minister of South Africa from 1978 to 1984 and as the first executive State President of South Africa from 1984 until his resignation in…
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1916
Baroness Wilson of Rievaulx, British poet and Spouse of the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (died 2018)
Gladys Mary Wilson, Baroness Wilson of Rievaulx was an English poet and the wife of Harold Wilson, who twice served as British prime minister. She was the first British prime minister's spouse to become a centenarian,…
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1916
American pianist, composer, and conductor (died 2007)
Walter Hendl was an American conductor, composer and pianist.
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1917
Canadian ice hockey player and coach (died 2007)
James Donald Skinner was the head coach, chief scout, and farm director, director of player personnel, director of hockey operations, assistant general manager, and general manager for the Detroit Red Wings of the…
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1917
American activist and politician, co-founded Congress of Racial Equality (died 1999)
James Leonard Farmer Jr. was an American civil rights activist and leader in the Civil Rights Movement "who pushed for nonviolent protest to dismantle segregation, and served alongside Martin Luther King Jr." In 1942 he…
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1920
Polish-Australian sociologist and academic (died 2009)
Jerzy "George" B. Zubrzycki AO CBE MBE (Military) was a Polish-born Australian sociologist, widely regarded as the "Father of Australian Multiculturalism".
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1920
Polish journalist and historian (died 1994)
Tadeusz Żychiewicz was a Polish journalist, art historian, religious publicist, theologist, Biblicist, feuilletonist and editor of Tygodnik Powszechny, soldier of Armia Krajowa.
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1922
American marine who raised the U.S. flag on Iwo Jima (died 1955)
Ira Hamilton Hayes was a United States Marine during World War II. Hayes was an enrolled member of the Gila River Indian Community, located in Pinal and Maricopa counties in Arizona. He enlisted in the United States…
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1923
Belgian racing driver and businessman (died 1998)
Olivier Jean Marie Fernand Gendebien was a Belgian racing driver, who competed in Formula One from 1955 to 1961. Widely regarded as one of the greatest drivers in the history of sportscar racing, Gendebien was a…
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1924
American television host, producer, and actor (died 1990)
William James Burrud was a child actor and a television host and producer best known for his travel programs.
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1925
American composer and academic (died 1987)
Morton Feldman was an American composer. A major figure in 20th-century classical music, Feldman was an important exponent of indeterminacy in music, a development associated with the experimental New York School of…
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1926
1926
American R&B singer-songwriter and actress (died 2006)
Ruth Alston Brown was an American singer-songwriter and actress, sometimes referred to as the "Queen of R&B". She was noted for bringing a pop music style to R&B music in a series of hit songs for Atlantic Records in…
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1928
Finnish philosopher and logician (died 2015)
Kaarlo Jaakko Juhani Hintikka was a Finnish and American philosopher and logician. Hintikka is regarded as the founder of formal epistemic logic and of game semantics for logic. He was awarded the Rolf Schock Prize for…
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1929
Scottish-American philosopher and academic (died 2025)
Alasdair Chalmers MacIntyre was a Scottish-American philosopher who contributed to moral and political philosophy as well as history of philosophy and theology. MacIntyre's After Virtue (1981) is one of the most…
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1929
Canadian ice hockey player and businessman, founded Tim Hortons (died 1974)
Miles Gilbert "Tim" Horton was a Canadian professional ice hockey defenceman who played 24 seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL). He spent the majority of his career playing for the Toronto Maple Leafs, later…
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1930
Irish author and playwright (died 2025)
Jennifer Prudence Johnston was an Irish novelist. She won a number of awards, including the Whitbread Book Award for The Old Jest in 1979 and a Lifetime Achievement from the Irish Book Awards (2012). The Old Jest, a…
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1930
American singer and actor (died 2016)
Glenn Robertson Yarbrough was an American folk singer and guitarist. He was the tenor lead singer of the Limeliters from 1959 to 1963 and also had a prolific solo career. Yarbrough had a restless dissatisfaction with…
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1930
English entertainer, singer and TV presenter (died 2020)
Desmond Bernard O'Connor was an English comedian, singer and television presenter.
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1932
Greek author and playwright (died 2013)
Pavlos Matesis was a Greek novelist, playwright and translator. He was born in Divri, a village in the Peloponnese and had a peripatetic youth. He studied acting, music and languages, and taught drama at the Stavrakou…
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1933
Scottish-American author and screenwriter (died 2013)
Alan Sharp was a Scottish novelist and screenwriter. He published two novels in the 1960s, and subsequently wrote the screenplays for about twenty films, mostly produced in the United States.
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1934
English rugby player and coach (died 2016)
Michael Sullivan was an English professional rugby league footballer and coach who played as a wing. He started his playing career at Huddersfield before joining Wigan for a record transfer fee in 1957. He won two…
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1934
Mexican historian and critic (died 2017)
Teresa del Conde Pontones was a Mexican art critic and art historian.
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1935
1935
Baroness Hilton of Eggardon, English police officer and politician
Jennifer Hilton, Baroness Hilton of Eggardon, is a British Labour Party politician and former police officer with the Metropolitan Police. She was awarded the Queen's Police Medal in the 1989 Queen's Birthday Honours…
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1936
Latvian pianist and composer
Ojārs Raimonds Pauls is a Latvian composer and a pianist who is well known in the Baltic countries and Eastern Europe. He was the Minister of Culture of Latvia from 1988 to 1993.
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1936
Indian poet and activist (died 2014)
Brajanath Ratha was an Indian poet who wrote in Odia. Brajanath Ratha is internationally recognised and is the recipient of many prestigious awards like the Odisha Sahitya Academy Award, Vishuba Award, Gokarnika Award,…
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1936
Indian lawyer and politician, Indian Minister of Home Affairs (died 2016)
Mufti Mohammad Sayeed was an Indian politician who served as the chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir twice from November 2002 to November 2005 and from March 2015 until his death on January 7, 2016. He held various…
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1936
English actress
Shirley Jean Eaton is an English former actress and singer. Eaton appeared regularly in British films throughout the 1950s and 1960s, and gained her highest profile for her appearance as Bond Girl Jill Masterson in the…
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1937
Pakistani scholar and politician (died 2013)
Qazi Hussain Ahmad was an Islamic scholar, pro-Islamic democracy activist and former Emir of Jamaat-e-Islami, the social conservative Islamist political party in Pakistan.
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1938
1938
Australian-South African tennis player
Robert Anthony John Hewitt is a former professional tennis player from Australia. In 1967, after marrying a South African, he became a South African citizen. He has won 15 major titles and a career Grand Slam in both…
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1940
American drummer and composer (died 2013)
Ronald Shannon Jackson was an American jazz drummer from Fort Worth, Texas. A pioneer of avant-garde jazz, free funk, and jazz fusion, he appeared on over 50 albums as a bandleader, sideman, arranger, and producer.…
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1940
1940
English-Canadian singer-songwriter and voice actor (died 2005)
John William "Long John" Baldry was a British-Canadian musician and actor. In the 1960s, he was one of the first British vocalists to sing the blues in clubs and shared the stage with many British musicians including…
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1941
English psychiatrist and psychotherapist (died 2021)
Dame Fiona Caldicott was a Scottish psychiatrist and psychotherapist who also served as Principal of Somerville College, Oxford. She was the National Data Guardian for Health and Social Care in England until her death.
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1941
American swimmer and physician (died 2014)
Chester Andrew Jastremski was an American competition swimmer, who competed for Indiana University, and was both a 1964 Olympic bronze medalist in breaststroke and an American and world record-holder. Exceptional as a…
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1941
American domestic terrorist, political activist and academic
Bernardine Rae Dohrn is a retired American law professor and a former leader of the far-left militant organization Weather Underground in the United States. As a leader of the Weather Underground in the early 1970s,…
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1942
German author and theorist (died 2018)
Hans Henning Atrott, also Hans Atrott, was notable for his commitment in the German right-to-die movement.
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1944
American boxer (died 2011)
Joseph William Frazier was an American professional boxer who competed from 1965 to 1981. Nicknamed "Smokin'", he was known for his strength, durability, formidable left hand, and relentless pressure fighting style. In…
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1944
American R&B trumpet player and singer (died 2015)
Cynthia Robinson was an American musician, best known for being a founding member of Sly and the Family Stone, for which she was the trumpeter and a vocalist. Her voice and presence were featured in the hits "Dance to…
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1944
Scottish singer-songwriter
Margaret Bell is a Scottish vocalist. She came to fame as co-lead vocalist of the blues rock group Stone the Crows, and was described as the UK's closest counterpart to American singer Janis Joplin. Bell was also…
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1945
Lady Cosgrove, Scottish lawyer and judge
Hazel Josephine Cosgrove, Lady Cosgrove, CBE, is a Scottish lawyer and judge who served as a Senator of the College of Justice from 1996 to 2006. She was the first woman appointed to the College of Justice.
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1946
American keyboard player, composer, and educator (died 2013)
George Martin Duke was an American keyboardist, composer, singer-songwriter and record producer. He worked with numerous artists as arranger, music director, writer and co-writer, record producer and as a professor of…
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1946
English historian and academic
Richard John Carwardine is a Welsh historian and academic. He specialises in American politics and religion in the era of the American Civil War.
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1947
American football player and educator (died 2020)
Thomas John Dempsey was an American professional football player who was a placekicker in the National Football League (NFL) for the New Orleans Saints, Philadelphia Eagles, Los Angeles Rams, Houston Oilers and Buffalo…
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1947
Baroness Hamwee, English politician
Sally Rachel Hamwee, Baroness Hamwee is a Liberal Democrat politician and their Lead Home Affairs Spokesperson in the House of Lords. She is a Life Peer and former chair of the London Assembly.
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1947
English footballer
Kenneth Richard Allen is an English retired professional football goalkeeper.
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1948
English actor and producer
Anthony Colin Gerald Andrews is an English actor. He played Lord Sebastian Flyte in the ITV miniseries Brideshead Revisited (1981), for which he won Golden Globe and BAFTA television awards and was nominated for an…
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1948
Canadian educator and politician, 34th Premier of British Columbia
Gordon Muir Campbell, is a retired Canadian diplomat and politician who was the 35th mayor of Vancouver from 1986 to 1993 and the 34th premier of British Columbia from 2001 to 2011.
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1948
English runner and sportscaster
Sir Brendan Foster is a British former long-distance runner, athletics commentator and road race organiser. He founded the Great North Run, one of the sport's most high profile half-marathon races. As an athlete, he won…
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1948
English author and screenwriter
William Benedict Nicholson is a British screenwriter, playwright, and novelist who has been nominated twice for an Oscar.
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1948
Japanese pianist and composer (died 2007)
Kentarō Haneda was a Japanese pianist, composer and arranger. He composed for popular anime series, movies and video games. His popular name was Haneken.
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1949
German footballer and manager
Ottmar Hitzfeld is a German former professional football player and a former manager. He accumulated a total of 18 major titles, mostly in his tenures with Grasshoppers, Borussia Dortmund and Bayern Munich.
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1949
Tunisian engineer, journalist, and politician, 19th Prime Minister of Tunisia
Hamadi Jebali is a Tunisian engineer, politician, and journalist who was Prime Minister of Tunisia from December 2011 to March 2013. He was the Secretary-General of the Ennahda Movement, a moderate Islamic party in…
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1949
Japanese novelist, short-story writer, and essayist
Haruki Murakami is a Japanese writer. His novels, essays, and short stories have been best-sellers in Japan and internationally, with his work translated into 50 languages and having sold millions of copies outside…
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1949
American baseball player (died 2025)
Randall Leo Jones, nicknamed "Junkman", was an American professional baseball player who was a left-handed pitcher. He was a starting pitcher in Major League Baseball (MLB), primarily with the San Diego Padres. A…
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1950
American lawyer, judge, and politician (died 2024)
Sheila Jackson Lee was an American lawyer and politician who was the U.S. representative for Texas's 18th congressional district, from 1995 until she died in 2024. The district includes most of central Houston. She was…
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1950
Swedish dentist and politician
Lars Göran Axel Lindblad is a Swedish politician and member of the Moderate Party. He served as a member of the Swedish parliament 1997–2010, representing the constituency of Gothenburg. He served as a replacement…
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1950
American businessman and politician
Robert D. McEwen is an American lobbyist and former Republican Party politician. He was a member of the United States House of Representatives from southern Ohio's Sixth District, from January 3, 1981, to January 3,…
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1950
Israeli-Icelandic jewelry designer and businesswoman, 5th First Lady of Iceland
Dorrit Moussaieff is an Israeli jewellery designer, editor, and businesswoman who was the First Lady of Iceland from 2003 to 2016. Born in Israel, she was raised in the United Kingdom from the age of 13.
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1950
American actress and producer (died 2022)
Kirstie Louise Alley was an American actress. Her breakthrough role was as Rebecca Howe in the NBC sitcom Cheers (1987–1993), for which she received an Emmy Award and a Golden Globe in 1991. From 1997 to 2000, Alley…
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1951
American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 1978)
Christopher Branford Bell was an American musician and singer-songwriter. Along with Alex Chilton, he led the power pop band Big Star through its first album #1 Record (1972). He also pursued a solo career throughout…
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1951
American talk show host and author (died 2021)
Rush Hudson Limbaugh III was an American conservative political commentator who was the host of The Rush Limbaugh Show, which first aired in 1984 and was nationally syndicated on AM and FM radio stations from 1988 until…
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1951
American football player and sportscaster
Drew Pearson is an American former professional football player who was a wide receiver for 11 seasons with the Dallas Cowboys of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Tulsa Golden…
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1951
1952
American novelist
Walter Ellis Mosley is an American novelist, most widely recognized for his crime fiction. He has written a series of best-selling historical mysteries featuring the hardboiled detective Easy Rawlins, a private…
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1952
American singer-songwriter and producer
Philip Eugene Perry is an American R&B singer, songwriter, musician and a former member of the soul group, The Montclairs, from 1971 to 1975. He was also known for performing the opening song to Disney’s sitcom, Goof…
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1952
American basketball player
Michael Campanella "Campy" Russell is an American former professional basketball player. He played the small forward position in the National Basketball Association (NBA) for the Cleveland Cavaliers and New York Knicks…
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1952
American country singer-songwriter and guitarist
Ricky Van Shelton is an American retired country music singer. Active between 1986 and 2006, he charted more than 20 singles on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts. This figure includes 10 number-one hits: "Somebody…
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1952
New Zealand runner and politician
Sir John George Walker is a former middle-distance runner from New Zealand who won the gold medal in the men's 1500 m event at the 1976 Olympics. He was also the first person to run the mile in under 3:50. After his…
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1952
Canadian director and screenwriter
Mary Harron is a Canadian film director and screenwriter. She is best known for directing and co-writing American Psycho, The Notorious Bettie Page and I Shot Andy Warhol.
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1953
American radio host, actor, and author
Howard Allan Stern is an American broadcaster, comedian, and media personality. He is best known for The Howard Stern Show, which rose to prominence through national syndication on terrestrial radio from 1986 to 2005;…
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1954
American rock drummer (died 2012)
Thomas Robert Ardolino was an American rock drummer best known as a member of NRBQ.
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1955
Azerbaijani author, historian, and human rights activist.
Arif Seyfulla oghlu Yunusov,, also known as Arif Yunus, is an Azerbaijani author, historian, and human rights activist. He is the head of the Department of Conflict and Migration of the Institute of Peace and Democracy,…
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1955
Russian rock singer and singer-songwriter
Nikolai Ivanovich Noskov is a Russian singer and former vocalist of the hard rock band Gorky Park. He is a five-time winner of the Golden Gramophone Award. He was also a member of the Москва (Moscow) ensemble in the…
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1956
American animator, director, and producer
John Alan Lasseter is an American film director, producer, screenwriter, and animator. He was previously the chief creative officer of Pixar Animation Studios, Walt Disney Animation Studios, and Disneytoon Studios, as…
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1957
English director, playwright, and composer
Jeremy Sams is a British theatre director, composer, and lyricist.
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1957
English-Iranian journalist
Christiane Maria Heideh Amanpour is a British-Iranian journalist and television host. Amanpour is the Chief International Anchor for CNN and host of CNN International's nightly interview program Amanpour, CNN's The…
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1958
American-Canadian ice hockey player and coach
Curtis Martin Fraser is an American former professional ice hockey player who played for the Vancouver Canucks, Chicago Blackhawks and the Minnesota North Stars of the National Hockey League (NHL) between 1978-79 and…
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1958
American wrestler and politician
Brian Leslie Blair is an American former professional wrestler. He is best known for his appearances with the World Wrestling Federation (WWF) under the ring name B. Brian Blair as one half of the tag team The Killer…
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1959
Swedish singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
Per Håkan Gessle is a Swedish singer, songwriter and guitarist. He is best known as the male half and primary songwriter of the pop rock duo Roxette, which he formed with Marie Fredriksson in 1986 and which was…
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1959
Russian economist and politician (died 2024)
Sergey Viktorovich Ivanenko was a Russian economist and politician. A member of Yabloko, he served in the State Duma from 1993 to 2003.
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1959
Canadian-American actor
Oliver Platt is an American actor known for his work on stage and screen. He has been nominated for five Primetime Emmys, a Golden Globe Award, two Screen Actors Guild Awards, and one Tony Award.
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1960
French-American basketball player
Jacques Dominique Wilkins is an American former professional basketball player who primarily played for the Atlanta Hawks of the National Basketball Association (NBA). Wilkins is a nine-time NBA All-Star, a seven-time…
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1960
Malaysia-born English actor and historian
Sir Simon Russell Beale is an English actor. Once described by The Independent as "the greatest stage actor of his generation", he has received various accolades, including a Tony Award, three Laurence Olivier Awards,…
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1961
American author and illustrator
Joseph Quesada is an American comic book artist, writer, editor, and television producer. He became known in the 1990s for his work on various Valiant Comics books, such as Ninjak and Solar, Man of the Atom. He also…
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1962
Antiguan cricketer
Sir Richard Benjamin Richardson, KCN GCM is a former Antiguan international cricketer and a former captain of the West Indies cricket team. He was a flamboyant batsman and superb player of fast bowling. He was named, in…
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1962
American-Canadian wrestler and manager (died 2010)
Gertrude Elizabeth Vachon was an American-Canadian professional wrestler, better known as Luna Vachon. Over the course of her 22-year career, she wrestled for promotions such as the World Wrestling Federation, Extreme…
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1962
Canadian director and screenwriter
François Girard is a French Canadian director and screenwriter from Montreal. Born in Saint-Félicien, Quebec, Girard's career began on the Montreal art video circuit. In 1990, he produced his first feature film, Cargo;…
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1963
Brazilian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
Nando Reis is a Brazilian musician and producer, best known as the former bassist and one of the lead singers of Brazilian rock band Titãs and for his successful solo career, with his own band called Nando Reis & Os…
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1963
American computer scientist and businessman
Jeffrey Preston Bezos is an American businessman, the founder, executive chairman, and former president and CEO of Amazon, the world's largest e-commerce and cloud computing company. According to Forbes, as of December…
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1964
Russian ice hockey player
Nikolai Konstantinovich Borschevsky is a Russian former professional ice hockey player and the current head coach of the Atlant Moscow Oblast of the KHL. Nicknamed "Stick" due to his diminutive frame, he was a star in…
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1965
American singer-songwriter, producer, actor, and director
Robert Bartleh Cummings, known professionally as Rob Zombie, is an American singer, songwriter, record producer, filmmaker, and actor. His music and lyrics are notable for their horror and sci-fi themes, and his live…
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1965
French actor
Olivier Martinez
is a French actor. He became well known after roles in several French films such as Un, deux, trois, soleil (1993), which garnered him the César Award for "Most Promising Actor", The Horseman on the…
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1966
Australian golfer
Craig David Parry is an Australian professional golfer. He has been one of Australia's premier golfers since turning professional in 1985, and has 23 career victories, two of those wins being events on the PGA Tour; the…
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1966
Norwegian-Swedish model and actress
Vendela Maria Kirsebom is a Norwegian-Swedish model, television host, and actress.
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1967
American actress (died 2022)
Farrah Rachael Forke was an American actress best known for her roles as Alex Lambert on the NBC sitcom Wings and Mayson Drake on Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman. She also voiced the character Big Barda…
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1968
American actress and comedian
Rachael Harris is an American actress and comedian. The accolades she has received include nominations for an Independent Spirit Award and a Saturn Award.
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1968
Japanese director, producer, and composer
Junichi Masuda is a Japanese video game composer, director, designer, producer, singer, programmer and trombonist, best known for his work in the Pokémon franchise. He was a member of Game Freak where he was an…
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1968
English businesswoman, activist and model
Heather Anne Mills is an English former model, businesswoman and animal rights activist.
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1968
Brazilian footballer
Mauro da Silva Gomes, known as Mauro Silva, is a Brazilian former professional footballer who played as a defensive midfielder.
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1968
English novelist
David Stephen Mitchell is an English novelist, screenwriter, and translator.
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1969
American screenwriter and producer
Margaret Nagle is a screenwriter, producer, and activist. She has been nominated for three Emmy Awards and won three Writers Guild of America Awards.
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1969
American singer-songwriter
Zacharias Manuel de la Rocha is an American musician, rapper, singer, songwriter, and political activist. He is best known as the vocalist and lyricist of the rock band Rage Against the Machine. Through both Rage…
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1970
1970
Iranian-Finnish tailor and television presenter
Arman Alizad is an Iranian-Finnish master tailor, fashion columnist, keynote speaker and TV personality. He is best known for the martial arts series Kill Arman, which has aired in over 100 countries around the world.…
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1971
American basketball player and coach
Scott David Burrell is an American basketball coach and former player who is currently the men's basketball head coach at Southern Connecticut State University. He has played internationally and was also a professional…
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1971
Danish engineer, entrepreneur, and convicted murderer
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1971
Indian politician
Priyanka Gandhi Vadra is an Indian politician who is serving as the member of the Lok Sabha for Wayanad, Kerala, since November 2024. A member of the Indian National Congress, she is also serving as a general secretary…
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1972
American actress
Zabryna Guevara is an American actress. She is known for playing the role of Melania Ortiz in 3 lbs and Sarah Essen in Gotham. Guevara is also a theatrical actress and in 2013 held the role of Yazmin in the…
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1972
Norwegian ice hockey player and coach
Espen Knutsen is a Norwegian former professional ice hockey player and manager. He played five seasons in the North American-based National Hockey League (NHL), and is to date the only Norwegian to have played in the…
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1972
Australian cricketer and umpire
Paul Wilson is an Australian cricket umpire and former cricketer who played one Test match and 11 One Day Internationals (ODIs) for the Australian national cricket team, as well as domestically represented South…
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1972
Austrian investor
Torger Christian "Toto" Wolff is an Austrian motorsport executive, investor and former racing driver. Since 2013, Wolff has served as team principal, CEO and co-owner of Mercedes in Formula One, winning eight…
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1972
American pianist and producer
Brian Culbertson is an American smooth jazz/R&B/funk musician and producer. His instruments include the synthesizer, piano and trombone.
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1973
Turkish singer-songwriter, producer, and actress
Makbule Hande Özyener, known professionally as Hande Yener, is a Turkish singer and songwriter. She made her debut in the early 2000s, and since then has become a prominent figure of Turkish pop music with numerous…
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1973
1974
Norwegian skier
Tor Arne Hetland is a Norwegian cross-country skiing coach and a former professional cross-country skier.
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1974
American saxophonist, songwriter, and producer
Jason Jeremy Freese is an American musician and multi-instrumentalist. Since 2004, he has been the touring keyboard and saxophone player for the punk rock band Green Day. Freese has performed on over 50 albums, mainly…
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1975
Canadian ice hockey player and coach
Joseph Régis Jocelyn Thibault is a Canadian former professional ice hockey goaltender who played 14 seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the Quebec Nordiques, Colorado Avalanche, Montreal Canadiens, Chicago…
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1975
Cuban baseball player (died 2023)
Yoandy Garlobo Romay was a Cuban baseball player who starred for the national team at the 2006 World Baseball Classic. Garlobo was the designated hitter for Cuba at the tournament, where he had a .480 batting…
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1977
Mexican baseball player
Luis Ignacio Ayala Hernández is a Mexican former professional baseball pitcher. He played in Major League Baseball for the Montreal Expos/Washington Nationals, New York Mets, Minnesota Twins, Florida Marlins, New York…
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1978
American singer-songwriter and musician
Jeremy Thomas Camp is an American contemporary Christian singer and songwriter from Lafayette, Indiana. He has released eleven albums, four of them RIAA-certified as Gold, and two live albums. Camp's original music is a…
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1978
Italian rugby player
Maurizio Zaffiri is an Italian rugby union flanker. He started playing with L'Aquila Rugby. He later moved to Gran Parma Rugby and then to Rugby Calvisano. He currently plays for L'Aquila Rugby. Zaffiri has been capped…
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1978
South Korean actress and model
Lee Bo-young is a South Korean actress, model and beauty pageant titleholder. She is best known for starring in the television dramas Seoyoung, My Daughter (2012–2013), I Can Hear Your Voice (2013), Whisper (2017),…
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1979
Slovak ice hockey player
Marián Hossa is a Slovak former professional ice hockey right winger. Hossa was drafted by the Ottawa Senators in the first round, 12th overall, of the 1997 NHL entry draft. After spending his first seven NHL seasons…
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1979
Polish footballer
Grzegorz Rasiak is a Polish former professional footballer who played as a striker.
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1979
American cyclist
David Zabriskie is a retired professional road bicycle racer from the United States, who competed as a professional between 1999 and 2013. His main strength is individual time trials and his career highlights include…
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1979
1980
American baseball player
Robert Edward Crosby is an American former professional baseball infielder and current third base coach for the Athletics of Major League Baseball (MLB). He played in MLB for the Athletics, Pittsburgh Pirates, and…
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1980
New Zealand rugby player
Angus James Macdonald is a retired New Zealand rugby union footballer. Macdonald has played for Auckland, the Blues, Toyota Verblitz, Coca-Cola Redsparks, Glasgow Warriors, New Zealand Maori and the All Blacks in a…
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1981
Brazilian footballer
João Paulo Daniel is a Brazilian former professional footballer who played as a forward.
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1981
Mexican footballer and manager
Luis Ernesto Pérez Gómez is a Mexican former professional footballer and current manager.
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1981
French tennis player
Paul-Henri Mathieu is a French former professional tennis player. He won four singles titles on the ATP Tour. His best singles performance in an ATP World Tour Masters 1000 tournament was reaching the semifinals of the…
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1982
1982
1982
English footballer
Dean Whitehead is an English football coach and former professional footballer. A midfielder who occasionally played as a right-back, he made 622 league and cup appearances in a 19-year playing career, scoring 29 goals.
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1982
American baseball player
Dontrelle Wayne Willis, nicknamed "the D-Train", is an American former professional baseball pitcher. A left-hander, he played in Major League Baseball for the Florida Marlins, Detroit Tigers, Arizona Diamondbacks, and…
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1982
French footballer
Jonathan Zydko is a French former footballer. During his career, he played for FC Metz, VfR Aalen, 1. FC Saarbrücken, UN Käerjéng 97, Jeunesse Esch and Mondercange.
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1984
English-American actress
Cynthia Addai-Robinson is an American actress. She is known for her roles as Naevia in the Starz television series Spartacus, DC Comics character Amanda Waller in The CW TV series Arrow, and Nadine Memphis on the USA…
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1985
Ukrainian footballer
Artem Volodymyrovych Milevskyi is a Ukrainian former professional footballer who played as a second striker.
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1985
American actress, writer, director, producer and web series creator
Jo-Issa Rae Diop, known professionally as Issa Rae, is an American actress, writer, and producer. She achieved recognition as the co-creator, co-writer, and star of the HBO comedy series Insecure (2016–2021), for which…
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1985
Spanish footballer
Borja Valero Iglesias is a Spanish former professional footballer who played as a midfielder.
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1985
German rugby player
Kehoma Brenner is a German international rugby union player, playing for the Heidelberger RK in the Rugby-Bundesliga and the German national rugby union team.
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1986
Spanish footballer
Miguel Ángel Nieto de la Calle is a Spanish former professional footballer who played as a right winger.
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1986
Italian-Argentinian footballer
Pablo Daniel "Dani" Osvaldo is a former professional footballer who played as a striker. Born and raised in Argentina, Osvaldo represented the Italy national team internationally.
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1986
1987
American actress and singer (died 2020)
Naya Marie Rivera was an American actress, singer, and model recognized for her work on the popular musical comedy-drama series Glee. She began her career as a child actress and model, first appearing in national…
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1987
Italian footballer
Salvatore Sirigu is an Italian professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper.
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1987
Canadian ice hockey player
Claude Giroux is a Canadian professional ice hockey player who is a forward and alternate captain for the Ottawa Senators of the National Hockey League (NHL). He has previously played for the Philadelphia Flyers and the…
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1988
South Korean baseball player
Hyun-soo Kim is a South Korean professional baseball outfielder for the KT Wiz of the KBO League. He has previously played in the KBO League for the LG Twins and Doosan Bears, and in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the…
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1988
German footballer
Thiemo-Jérôme Kialka is a German former professional footballer who played as a forward. He made his professional debut with Jahn Regensburg on 31 January 2012 in a 3. Liga match against VfB Stuttgart II.
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1989
Belgian footballer
Axel Laurent Angel Lambert Witsel is a Belgian professional footballer who plays as a defensive midfielder or centre-back for La Liga club Girona and the Belgium national team.
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1989
English singer-songwriter, dancer, and actress
Victoria Louise "Pixie" Lott is an English singer, songwriter, and actress. Her debut studio album, Turn It Up (2009), reached number six on the UK Albums Chart and sold over 1.5 million copies. It also spawned six…
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1991
American wrestler
Victoria González is an American professional wrestler. She has been signed to WWE since October 2016, where she performs on the Raw brand under the ring name Raquel Rodriguez. She is a member of The Judgment Day…
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1991
Australian rugby league player
Matthew "Matt" Srama is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer who played for the Gold Coast Titans in the National Rugby League. A Philippines international representative, he played at hooker. Srama…
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1991
1991
Algerian footballer
Ishak Lazreg Cherif Belfodil is an Algerian professional footballer who plays as a striker.
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1992
Italian footballer
Samuele Longo is an Italian professional footballer who plays as a striker for Spanish Segunda Federación club Xerez Deportivo.
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1992
American basketball player
Jamel Gurley Artis is an American professional basketball player for Al Wahda. A native of Baltimore, he played college basketball for University of Pittsburgh.
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1993
1993
English singer
Zain Javadd Malik, known professionally as Zayn Malik or simply Zayn, is an English singer. He auditioned as a solo contestant for the British music competition television series The X Factor in 2010, where he ended up…
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1993
Italian footballer
Simone Pecorini is an Italian footballer who plays for Serie D club Sant'Angelo.
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1993
1994
American basketball player
Allisha Gray is an American professional basketball player for the Atlanta Dream of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) and for the Mist of Unrivaled. She won a gold medal in women's 3x3 basketball at the…
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1995
American football player
Michael Sean McGlinchey is an American professional football offensive tackle for the Denver Broncos of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Notre Dame Fighting Irish.
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1995
English singer and songwriter
Gabriella Michelle Henderson, known professionally as Ella Henderson, is an English singer and songwriter. She rose to prominence after competing in the ninth series of The X Factor UK in 2012 finishing in sixth place.…
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1996
American football player
Darius Slayton is an American professional football wide receiver for the New York Giants of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Auburn Tigers and was selected by the Giants in the…
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1997
Argentinian footballer
Juan Marcos Foyth is an Argentine professional footballer who plays as centre-back or right-back for La Liga club Villarreal and the Argentina national team.
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1998
American basketball player
Xavier Justis Tillman Sr. is an American professional basketball player for the Charlotte Hornets of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played college basketball for the Michigan State Spartans. Tillman was…
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1999
Welsh footballer
Tyler D'Whyte Roberts is a professional footballer who plays as a forward or attacking midfielder for EFL League One club Mansfield Town and the Wales national team.
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1999
Dutch footballer
Sven Adriaan Botman is a Dutch professional footballer who plays primarily as a centre-back for Premier League club Newcastle United. He has represented the Netherlands at youth levels under-15 through under-21.
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2000
American football player
Samuel Joseph LaPorta is an American professional football tight end for the Detroit Lions of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Iowa Hawkeyes and was named the Big Ten Tight End of…
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2001
2002
2005
Ukrainian singer
Artem Vitaliyovych Kotenko is a Ukrainian child singer. He represented Ukraine in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2024 with the song "Hear Me Now", finishing 3rd overall with 203 points.
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2012
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