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At the World Equestrian Games, he won team gold and individual silver in 2010, and team silver and individual bronze in 2014
Famous Birthdays on January 2
151 people
869 – 2006
January 2 has seen 151 notable people enter the world across recorded history — from 869 – 2006. Below are the most significant names born on this date.
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1969 — William Fox-Pitt
English horse rider and journalist
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At the European Championships, he has won six team gold medals, as well as Individual silver in 1997 and 2005, and Individual bronze in 2013
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His career highlights include winning three Olympic medals in the team event, with silver in 2004 and 2012, and bronze in 2008
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A serious fall in 2015 left him in a coma for two weeks, but he came back to make the British eventing team and attend the 2016 Summer Olympics
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He was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2018 Birthday Honours.
869
Italian painter (died 1522)
Piero di Cosimo, also known as Piero di Lorenzo, was an Italian Renaissance painter, who continued to use an essentially Early Renaissance style into the 16th century.
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1462
1509
1642
English-American rebel leader (died 1676)
Nathaniel Bacon was an English merchant adventurer who immigrated to the Virginia Colony, where he sat on the Governor's Council. In early 1676 he led Bacon's Rebellion against the Virginia government. The rebellion…
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1647
1699
French actress (died 1803)
Marie Françoise Dumesnil, original name Marie-Françoise Marchand, was a French actress.
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1713
English general (died 1759)
Major-General James Wolfe was a British Army officer known for his training reforms and, as a major general, remembered chiefly for his victory in 1759 over the French at the Battle of the Plains of Abraham in Quebec,…
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1727
Czech organist and composer (died 1771)
František Xaver Brixi was a Czech classical composer. He was the son of composer Šimon Brixi.
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1732
German sculptor and educator (died 1857)
Christian Daniel Rauch was a German sculptor. He founded the Berlin school of sculpture, and was the foremost German sculptor of the 19th century.
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1777
Italian mathematician and academic (died 1869)
Guglielmo Libri Carucci dalla Sommaja was an Italian count and mathematician, who became known for his love and subsequent theft of ancient and precious manuscripts. After being appointed the Inspector of Libraries in…
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1803
Polish-German physicist and mathematician (died 1888)
Rudolf Julius Emanuel Clausius was a German physicist and mathematician and is considered one of the central founding fathers of the science of thermodynamics. By his restatement of Sadi Carnot's principle known as the…
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1822
Russian geographer and statistician (died 1914)
Pyotr Petrovich Semyonov or Semenov was a Russian geographer and statistician who managed the Russian Geographical Society for more than 40 years. He gained international fame for his pioneering exploration of the Tian…
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1827
American banker and politician (died 1893)
Frederick Avery Johnson was an American politician and banker who served a U.S. Representative from New York from 1883 to 1887. He was a member of the Republican Party and a resident of Glens Falls, New York.
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1833
Russian author (died 1917)
Mendele Mocher Sforim was a Belarusian Jewish author and one of the founders of modern Yiddish and Hebrew literature.
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1836
Emma Kalanikaumakaʻamano Kaleleonālani Naʻea Rooke was queen of Hawaii as the wife of King Kamehameha IV from 1856 to his death in 1863. She was later known for being a humanitarian, establishing a hospital, and was an…
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1836
Russian pianist and composer (died 1910)
Mily Alexeyevich Balakirev was a Russian composer, pianist, and conductor known today primarily for his work promoting musical nationalism and his encouragement of more famous Russian composers, notably Pyotr Ilyich…
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1837
American educator and activist (died 1935)
Martha Carey Thomas was an American educator, suffragist, and linguist. She was the second president of Bryn Mawr College, a women's liberal arts college in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania.
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1857
Canadian engineer (died 1931)
Dugald Campbell Patterson Sr., is recognized in Vancouver, Burnaby, and New Westminster, British Columbia as a significant pioneer. He arrived in Canada on July 1, 1884 and engaged in the building trade while living in…
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1860
American historian and curator (died 1928)
William Corless Mills was an American museum curator.
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1860
Australian-English playwright and scholar (died 1957)
George Gilbert Aimé Murray was an Australian-born British classical scholar and public intellectual, who served as Regius Professor of Greek at the University of Oxford from 1908 to 1936. He was an outstanding scholar…
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1866
German sculptor and playwright (died 1938)
Ernst Heinrich Barlach was a German expressionist sculptor, medallist, printmaker and writer. Although he was a supporter of the war in the years leading to World War I, his participation in the conflict made him change…
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1870
American boxing promoter and businessman (died 1929)
George Lewis "Tex" Rickard was an American businessman and boxing promoter who founded the New York Rangers of the National Hockey League (NHL), and built the third incarnation of Madison Square Garden in New York City.…
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1870
Dutch astronomer and theorist (died 1960)
Antonie "Anton" Pannekoek was a Dutch astronomer, historian,
philosopher, Marxist theorist, and socialist revolutionary. He was one of the main theorists of council communism.
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1873
French nun and saint (died 1897)
Thérèse of Lisieux, in religion Therese of the Child Jesus and the Holy Face, was a French Discalced Carmelite who is widely venerated in modern times. She is popularly known in English as the Little Flower of Jesus, or…
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1873
Finnish politician (died 1938)
Jaakko Mäki was a Finnish coppersmith, politician and member of the Parliament of Finland, the national legislature of Finland. A member of the Social Democratic Party, he represented Vaasa Province South between August…
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1878
Indian activist, founded the Nair Service Society (died 1970)
Mannathu Padmanabha Pillai, better known as Mannathu Padmanabhan was an Indian social reformer and agitator from the south-western state of Kerala. He is recognised as the founder of the Nair Service Society (NSS),…
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1878
Russian-Israeli historian and politician, 4th Israeli Minister of Education (died 1973)
Ben-Zion Dinur was a Ukrainian-born Israeli historian, educator, and politician. He held the position of professor of Jewish history at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and represented Mapai in the first Knesset,…
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1884
Canadian lieutenant, Victoria Cross recipient (died 1918)
Gordon Muriel Flowerdew was an English-born Canadian recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces,…
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1885
English explorer and author (died 1959)
Apsley George Benet Cherry-Garrard was an English explorer of Antarctica. He was a member of the Terra Nova expedition and is acclaimed for his 1922 account of this expedition, The Worst Journey in the World.
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1886
Australian accountant and politician, 25th Premier of New South Wales (died 1973)
Sir Bertram Sydney Barnsdale Stevens, also referred to as B. S. B. Stevens, was an Australian politician who served as the 25th Premier of New South Wales, in office from 1932 to 1939 as leader of the United Australia…
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1889
Italian architect and urban planner, designed the Firenze Santa Maria Novella railway station (died 1990)
Giovanni Michelucci was an Italian architect, urban planner, and designer. He is known for projects such as the Firenze Santa Maria Novella railway station and the San Giovanni Battista church on the Autostrada del Sole.
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1891
Japanese tennis player (died 1962)
Seiichiro Kashio was a tennis player from Japan, and with Ichiya Kumagae was one of the first Japanese Olympic medalists. He won the 1919 Canadian Open by defeating United States player Walter Wesbrook 3–6, 6–3, 6–1,…
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1892
Swedish diplomat (died 1948)
Folke Bernadotte, Count of Wisborg was a Swedish nobleman and diplomat. In World War II, he negotiated the release of about 450 Danish Jews and 30,550 non-Jewish prisoners of many nations from the Nazi German…
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1895
Polish-Russian director and screenwriter (died 1954)
Denis Arkadyevich Vertov, better known as Dziga Vertov, was a Soviet pioneer documentary film and newsreel director, as well as a cinema theorist. His filming practices and theories influenced the cinéma vérité style of…
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1896
Australian commander and engineer (died 1982)
Sir Lawrence James Wackett is widely regarded as "father of the Australian aircraft industry". He has been described as "one of the towering figures in the history of Australian aviation covering, as he did, virtually…
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1896
English legal historian (died 1965)
Theodore Frank Thomas Plucknett was a British legal historian who was the first chair of legal history at the London School of Economics.
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1897
British physician, known for research on diabetes in pregnancy (died 1965)
Una Christina Ledingham was a British physician known for her studies of diabetes in pregnancy. She worked at the Marie Curie Hospital and Hampstead General Hospital, and was on the board of governors of the Royal Free…
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1900
American activist, co-founded The Wilderness Society (died 1939)
Robert Marshall was an American forester, writer and wilderness activist who is best remembered as the person who spearheaded the 1935 founding of the Wilderness Society in the United States. Marshall developed a love…
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1901
Irish Republican Army volunteer (died 2007)
Daniel Keating was a lifelong Irish republican and former president of the Republican Sinn Féin. At the time of his death, he was Ireland's oldest man and the last surviving veteran of the Irish War of Independence.
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1902
Japanese Supercentenarian, Oldest Japanese person ever, Second oldest verified person in world history (died 2022)
Kane Tanaka was a Japanese supercentenarian who, until her death at the age of 119 years, 107 days, was the world's oldest verified living person, following the death of Chiyo Miyako on 22 July 2018. She is the oldest…
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1903
German physicist and chemist (died 1981)
Walter Heinrich Heitler was a German–Irish theoretical physicist who made contributions to quantum electrodynamics and quantum field theory. He brought chemistry under quantum mechanics through his theory of valence…
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1904
English composer and conductor (died 1998)
Sir Michael Kemp Tippett was an English composer who rose to prominence during and immediately after the Second World War. In his lifetime he was sometimes ranked with his contemporary Benjamin Britten as one of the…
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1905
1905
Italian mountaineer and author (died 2009)
Riccardo Cassin was an Italian mountaineer, developer of mountaineering equipment and author, and an important figure in the history of rock climbing, alpine climbing and big wall climbing.
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1909
American politician, businessman, and author (died 1998)
Barry Morris Goldwater was an American politician and major general in the Air Force Reserve who served as a United States senator from 1953 to 1965 and 1969 to 1987, and was the Republican Party's nominee for president…
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1909
American lawyer and activist (died 1992)
Juanita Elizabeth Jackson Mitchell was the first African-American woman to practice law in Maryland, and was a civil rights activist and organizer with the NAACP.
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1913
1913
German-Norwegian actress and dancer (died 2003)
Eva Brigitta Hartwig, known professionally as Vera Zorina, was a German-Norwegian ballerina, theatre and film actress, and choreographer, chiefly remembered for her films choreographed by her husband George Balanchine.…
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1917
German physician and activist (died 1943)
Wilhelm "Willi" Graf was a German member of the White Rose resistance group in Nazi Germany. The Catholic Church in Germany included Graf in their list of martyrs of the 20th century. In 2017, his cause for…
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1918
American Indologist (died 1996)
Ernest Bender was a Professor of Indo-Aryan languages and literature at the University of Pennsylvania.
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1919
American engineer (died 1979)
Beatrice Alice Hicks was an American engineer and the owner of Newark Controls Company. Hicks developed a gas density switch that has been used in the U.S. space program, including the Apollo Moon landing missions, in…
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1919
American basketball player and coach (died 1976)
Robert Joseph Feerick was an American professional basketball player, coach and general manager. He was born in San Francisco, California at the old French Hospital, attended Star of the Sea Catholic school and old…
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1920
Canadian ice hockey player (died 2007)
David Glen Harmon was a Canadian ice hockey defenceman who played for the Montreal Canadiens from 1942 to 1951. He was born in Holland, Manitoba and died in Mississauga, Ontario.
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1921
American football player (died 2019)
Gino John Marchetti (Pronounced: Mar-KETT-i) was an American professional football player who was a defensive end and offensive tackle in the National Football League (NFL). He played in 1952 for the Dallas Texans and…
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1926
American politician (died 2010)
Daniel David Rostenkowski was an American politician and convicted felon, most known for his 36 year tenure as a U.S. representative, from 1959 to 1995. He became one of the most powerful legislators in Congress,…
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1928
screenwriter and American author of speculative fiction (died 1967)
Charles Beaumont was an American author of speculative fiction, including short stories in the horror and science fiction subgenres. He is remembered as a writer of classic Twilight Zone episodes, such as "The Howling…
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1929
Finnish politician, former First Lady of Finland
Taimi Tellervo Koivisto is a Finnish politician and the former First Lady of Finland from 1982 to 1994. Koivisto is the widow of the 9th President of Finland Mauno Koivisto and a former member of the Finnish parliament,…
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1929
Japanese lawyer and politician, 76th Prime Minister of Japan (died 2022)
Toshiki Kaifu was a Japanese politician who served as prime minister of Japan from 1989 to 1991.
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1931
English footballer, goalkeeper (died 2007)
John Frederick Hollowbread was an English football goalkeeper who played for Tottenham Hotspur and Southampton.
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1934
American singer-songwriter, musician, and actor (died 1992)
Roger Dean Miller Sr. was an American singer-songwriter, widely known for his honky-tonk-influenced novelty songs and his chart-topping country hits "King of the Road", "Dang Me", and "England Swings".
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1936
English photographer and painter
David Royston Bailey is an English photographer and director, most known for his fashion photography and portraiture, and role in shaping the image of the Swinging Sixties. Bailey has also directed several television…
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1938
American computer scientist and electrical engineer (died 2024)
Lynn Ann Conway was an American computer scientist, electrical engineer, and transgender rights activist.
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1938
American sculptor and photographer (died 1973)
Robert Smithson was an American artist known for sculpture and land art who often used drawing and photography in relation to the spatial arts. His work has been internationally exhibited in galleries and museums and is…
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1938
American televangelist
James Orsen Bakker is an American televangelist and convicted felon. Between 1974 and 1987, Bakker hosted the television program The PTL Club and its cable television platform, the PTL Satellite Network, with his then…
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1940
Saudi Arabian economist and politician, Saudi Arabian Minister of Foreign Affairs (died 2015)
Saud bin Faisal Al Saud, also known as Saud Al Faisal, was a Saudi Arabian statesman and diplomat who served as the foreign minister of Saudi Arabia from 1975 to 2015. He was a member of the Saudi royal family, a son of…
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1940
Swedish lawyer and diplomat
Thomas Hammarberg is a Swedish diplomat and human rights defender.
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1942
American educator and politician, 59th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives
John Dennis Hastert is an American former politician and convicted felon who served as the 51st speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 1999 to 2007.
A member of the Republican Party, he represented…
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1942
Turkish-American astronomer (died 2004)
Janet Hanula Mattei was a Turkish-American astronomer who was the director of the American Association of Variable Star Observers (AAVSO) from 1973 to 2004.
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1943
Trinidadian cricketer
Charles Allan Davis is a former West Indian cricketer who played in fifteen Test matches between 1968 and 1973. Davis started his first-class cricket career at the age of 17, playing for Trinidad and Tobago. After a…
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1944
Hungarian composer and conductor (died 2024)
Péter Eötvös was a Hungarian composer, conductor and academic teacher.
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1944
Cambodian field marshal and politician, 1st Prime Minister of Cambodia (died 2021)
Norodom Ranariddh was a Cambodian politician and law academic. He was the second son of King Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia and a half-brother of King Norodom Sihamoni. Ranariddh was the president of FUNCINPEC, a…
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1944
Somali politician (died 2024)
Mohamed Ali Yusuf Gaagaab was a Somali politician. He served as acting Vice President of Puntland from 10 October 2004 to 8 January 2005, and later he was appointed Minister of Finance of Puntland beginning on 25…
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1944
American zoologist and author
Jack Bushnell Hanna is an American retired zookeeper and director emeritus of the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium in Ohio. Commonly nicknamed "Jungle Jack", he was director of the zoo from 1978 to 1992, and is viewed as…
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1947
American football player
Calvin G. Hill is an American former professional football player who was a running back in the National Football League (NFL). He played for the Dallas Cowboys, Washington Redskins, and Cleveland Browns. He also played…
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1947
American poet, historian, and critic (died 2024)
David Shapiro was an American poet, literary critic, and art historian. He wrote some twenty volumes of poetry, literary, and art criticism. He was first published at the age of thirteen, and his first book was…
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1947
American journalist
Judith Miller is an American journalist and commentator who is known for writing about Iraq's alleged weapons of mass destruction (WMD) program both before and after the 2003 invasion, but her writings were later…
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1948
English actress (died 2017)
Deborah Patricia Watling was an English actress who played the role of Victoria Waterfield, a companion of the Second Doctor in the BBC television series Doctor Who from 1967 to 1968. She began her career as a child…
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1948
American playwright and screenwriter (died 2024)
Christopher Ferdinand Durang was an American playwright known for works of outrageous and often absurd comedy. His work was especially popular in the 1980s, though his career seemed to get a second wind in the late…
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1949
American political scientist and academic (died 2006)
Iris Marion Young was an American political theorist and socialist feminist who focused on the nature of justice and social difference. She served as Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago and was…
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1949
Latvian biologist and politician, 9th Prime Minister of Latvia
Indulis Emsis is a Latvian biologist and politician. He was Prime Minister of Latvia for ten months in 2004, the first Green politician to lead a country in the history of the world. He was Speaker of the Saeima, the…
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1952
American actress
Wendy Phillips is an American actress, known for her roles on television series including Falcon Crest, Homefront and Promised Land.
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1952
American broadcaster and politician
Henry Bonilla is an American politician and former congressman who represented Texas's 23rd congressional district in the United States House of Representatives. He was defeated in his bid for re-election by Ciro…
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1954
Haitian playwright and author
Évelyne Trouillot is a Haitian author, writing in French and Creole.
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1954
American actress
Gabrielle Carteris is an American actress and trade union leader. She is best known for her role as Andrea Zuckerman in Beverly Hills, 90210.
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1961
English model
Paula Hamilton is an English model. She is best known for her appearance in the 1987 Mk II Volkswagen Golf TV advert Changes. In 2006, she returned to public recognition as a judge on Britain's Next Top Model, for two…
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1961
American film director, screenwriter, and producer
Todd Haynes is an American film director, screenwriter, and producer whose work is known for its engagement with melodrama, historical pastiche, and queer cinema. Across four decades, his films frequently explore the…
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1961
American football player and sportscaster
Jesse Craig James is an American former professional football player and sports commentator. He was a running back for the New England Patriots of the National Football League (NFL) and for the Washington Federals of…
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1961
American lawyer and politician
Robert Ira Wexler is an American politician and lawyer from Florida. He is the president of the Washington-based S. Daniel Abraham Center for Middle East Peace. Wexler was a Democratic member of the U.S. House of…
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1961
American baseball player and sportscaster
David Brian Cone is an American former Major League Baseball (MLB) pitcher, and current color commentator for the New York Yankees on the YES Network and Amazon Prime as well as for ESPN on Sunday Night Baseball. A…
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1963
American baseball player
Edgar Martínez, nicknamed "Gar" and "Papi", is a Puerto Rican former professional baseball player who is currently the senior director of hitting strategy coach for the Seattle Mariners of Major League Baseball (MLB).…
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1963
German-American basketball player (died 2015)
Christian Ansgar Welp was a German professional basketball player. During his playing career, he was a 213 cm, 111 kg (245 lb) center. He played three seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA). He was the MVP…
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1964
American boxer (died 2019)
Pernell Whitaker Sr. was an American professional boxer who competed from 1984 to 2001, and subsequently worked as a boxing trainer. He was a four-weight world champion, having won titles at lightweight, light…
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1964
South African rugby player
Jacobus Francois Pienaar is a retired South African rugby union player. He played flanker for South Africa from 1993 until 1996, winning 29 international caps, all of them as captain. He is best known for leading South…
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1967
American actress
Althea Rae Duhinio Janairo, known professionally as Tia Carrere, is a Hawaiian-born American actress and singer who got her first big break as a regular on the daytime soap opera General Hospital.
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1967
1967
Jr., American actor and producer
Cuba Mark Gooding Jr. is an American actor. After his breakthrough role as Tre Styles in Boyz n the Hood (1991), he won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor playing a football star in Jerry Maguire (1996). His…
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1968
Dutch dressage champion
Theodora Elisabeth Gerarda "Anky" van Grunsven is a Dutch dressage champion who is the only rider to record three successive Olympic wins in the same event. Along with her Olympic successes, she has won numerous medals…
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1968
1969
Czech Romani activist
Elena Gorolová is a Czech Romani human rights defender and women's reproductive rights activist. After being forcefully sterilized at the age of 21, Gorolová began campaigning for Romani women's rights to bodily…
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1969
Slovak ice hockey player
Róbert Švehla is a Slovak former professional ice hockey defenceman who played in the NHL for 9 seasons from 1995 until 2003 for the Florida Panthers and Toronto Maple Leafs.
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1969
American model
Christy Nicole Turlington Burns is an American fashion model. She initially attracted fame in the late 1980s and early 1990s as a supermodel. She represented Calvin Klein's Eternity campaign in 1989 and again in 2014,…
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1969
American composer and conductor
Eric Edward Whitacre is an American composer, conductor, and speaker best known for his choral music.
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1970
American actor and singer
Scott Leo "Taye" Diggs is an American actor and singer. He is known for his roles in the Broadway musicals Rent and Hedwig and the Angry Inch, the TV series Private Practice (2007–2013), Murder in the First (2014–2016),…
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1971
American actress
Renée Elise Goldsberry is an American actress and singer. Known for her roles on stage and screen she has received a Tony Award, a Drama Desk Award, and a Grammy Award as well as a nomination for a Primetime Emmy Award.
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1971
Canadian educator and politician, 26th Premier of Nova Scotia
Rodney Joseph MacDonald is a Canadian politician, educator and musician who served as the 26th premier of Nova Scotia from 2006 to 2009 and as MLA for the riding of Inverness in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly from…
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1972
Indian theoretical physicist and string theorist
Shiraz Naval Minwalla is an Indian theoretical physicist and string theorist. He is a faculty member in the Department of Theoretical Physics at Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai. Prior to his present…
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1972
Swedish ice hockey player and manager
Erik Johan Mattias "Notan" Norström is a Swedish former professional ice hockey defenceman, currently working for the AIK organization. Norström began his National Hockey League career with the New York Rangers.…
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1972
Czech runner
Ludmila Formanová is a former Czech middle-distance runner who specialized in the 800 metres. She was born in Čáslav.
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1974
1974
Czech footballer
Tomáš Řepka is a Czech former professional footballer who played as a centre-back for Baník Ostrava, Sparta Prague, Fiorentina, West Ham United and České Budějovice, and the Czech national team. Currently, Řepka is…
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1974
American actor
Dax Randall Shepard is an American actor, comedian, and filmmaker. Since 2018, he has hosted Armchair Expert, a podcast in which he interviews celebrities, journalists, and academics about their lives.
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1975
American baseball player
Jeffrey Scot Suppan is an American former professional baseball pitcher and current professional baseball coach who played 17 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB). He played for the Boston Red Sox, Arizona…
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1975
New Zealand rugby player
Reuben David Thorne is a New Zealand rugby union player, and former captain of the national team, the All Blacks. Now involved with Big Brother Big Sister and is the Christ College first XV coach.
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1975
1976
American ice hockey player and sportscaster
Brian Boucher is a former professional American ice hockey goaltender and current game analyst, appearing on both national TNT games and also Philadelphia Flyers games on NBC Sports Philadelphia. During his 13 seasons…
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1977
Austrian tennis player
Stefan Koubek is a retired tennis player from Austria. Koubek played left-handed with a double-handed backhand. His idol when growing up was Thomas Muster. Koubek won three titles, two of which came on hardcourts;…
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1977
English footballer
Jonathan Greening is an English professional football coach and former player who is the manager of Scarborough Athletic of the National League North.
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1979
British actor
David Kwaku Asamoah Gyasi is an English actor. His films include Cloud Atlas (2012) and Interstellar (2014). On television, he is known for his roles in the BBC series White Heat (2012) and Troy: Fall of a City (2018),…
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1980
American basketball player
Kirk James Hinrich is an American former professional basketball player. A point guard, he played in the NBA from 2003 to 2016 and was also a member of the U.S. national team.
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1981
Argentine footballer
Maximiliano Rubén Rodríguez, is an Argentine former professional footballer. Nicknamed La Fiera, he was commonly used as a winger on both flanks but could also operate as an attacking midfielder.
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1981
American actress
Catherine Anne Bosworth is an American actress. Following minor roles in the films The Horse Whisperer (1998) and Remember the Titans (2000), she had a leading role in the movie Blue Crush (2002).
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1983
American actor
Anthony Carrigan is an American actor. He is best known for playing Chechen mobster NoHo Hank in the HBO series Barry (2018–2023), for which he was nominated three times for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding…
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1983
American actress and model
Shelley Hennig is an American actress, model and beauty queen. She is the recipient of several accolades, including a Teen Choice Award and two Daytime Emmy Award nominations.
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1987
English footballer
Robert Steven Milsom is an English footballer who plays as a midfielder for National League South club Dorking Wanderers.
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1987
1987
Argentine footballer
Germán Ezequiel Cano Recalde is an Argentine professional footballer who plays as a striker for Campeonato Brasileiro Série A club Fluminense.
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1988
American basketball player
Luke Cameron Harangody is an American former professional basketball player who last played for Divina Seguros Joventut of the Spanish Liga ACB. He completed his college career at the University of Notre Dame in 2010.…
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1988
French-German rugby player
Damien Tussac is a rugby union player for Castres Olympique in the Top 14 and the German national rugby union team. He is a French citizen but qualifies to play for Germany because of a German grandmother.
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1988
1991
Argentine footballer
Paulo Dino Gazzaniga Farías is an Argentine professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for La Liga club Girona.
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1992
Russian ice hockey player
Alexey Igorevich Marchenko is a Russian professional ice hockey defenceman who is currently playing for Ak Bars Kazan in the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL). Marchenko was drafted 205th overall by the Detroit Red Wings…
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1992
Finnish ice hockey player
Teemu Pulkkinen is a Finnish professional ice hockey right winger for Starbulls Rosenheim in the second German league, DEL2. He previously played for the club of his hometown, Kiekko-Vantaa who plays in Mestis.…
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1992
Australian-Fijian rugby league player
Korbin Sims is a former Fiji international rugby league footballer who last played as a prop, loose forward and second-row forward for Hull Kingston Rovers in the Super League.
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1992
American singer and rapper
Bryson Tiller is an American R&B singer and rapper. He began his career in 2011 with his debut mixtape, Killer Instinct Vol. 1. He gained mainstream recognition following the release of his 2015 single "Don't", which…
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1993
American football player
Ronald Darby is an American former professional football player who was a cornerback for 10 seasons in the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Florida State Seminoles and was selected by…
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1994
Australian-American basketball player
Jonah Anthony Bolden is an Australian-American professional basketball player who last played for the Illawarra Hawks of the National Basketball League (NBL). He started his professional career with FMP in Serbia, where…
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1996
Pakistani javelin thrower
Arshad Nadeem is a Pakistani javelin thrower. He is the reigning Olympic, Asian and Commonwealth Games champion. His 92.97 metres (305.0 ft) throw at the 2024 Paris Olympics is an Olympic and Asian record, and it's also…
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1997
Spanish footballer
Carlos Soler Barragán is a Spanish professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for La Liga club Real Sociedad and the Spain national team.
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1997
1998
Dutch footballer
Evans Timothy Fosu Fosu-Mensah is a Dutch professional footballer who plays as a defensive midfielder, centre-back or full-back. He is currently a free agent.
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1998
Greek basketball player
Georgios Kalaitzakis is a Greek professional basketball player for Maroussi of the Greek Basketball League. He is a 2.01 m tall small forward. As a teenager, Kalaitzakis used to be regarded as one of the top young…
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1999
Dominican baseball player
Fernando Gabriel Tatís Medina Jr., nicknamed "El Niño" and "Bebo", is a Dominican professional baseball right fielder and shortstop for the San Diego Padres of Major League Baseball (MLB). He is the son of former MLB…
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1999
American professional basketball player
Aaron Daniel Wiggins is an American professional basketball player for the Oklahoma City Thunder of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played college basketball for the Maryland Terrapins and was selected by…
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1999
American baseball player
Spencer Zane Arrighetti is an American professional baseball pitcher for the Houston Astros of Major League Baseball (MLB). He made his MLB debut in 2024.
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2000
American ice hockey player
Cole Caufield is a Canadian-American professional ice hockey player who is a winger for the Montreal Canadiens of the National Hockey League (NHL). He was selected in the first round, 15th overall, by the Canadiens in…
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2001
Brazilian footballer
Luiz Henrique André Rosa da Silva, is a Brazilian professional footballer who plays as a right winger for Russian Premier League club Zenit Saint Petersburg and the Brazil national team.
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2001
English footballer
Conrad Jaden Egan-Riley is an English professional footballer who plays for Ligue 1 club Marseille and the England under-21 national team. A versatile player, he can be deployed as a centre-back, a right-back or a…
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2003
2003
Argentine footballer
Claudio Jeremías Echeverri is an Argentine professional footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder or winger for La Liga club Girona, on loan from Premier League club Manchester City. He also plays for the…
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2006
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William Fox-Pitt — British equestrian
FeaturedWilliam Fox-Pitt
Birth year1969
Known forHis career highlights include winning three Olympic medals in the team event, with silver in 2004 and 2012, and bronze in 2008
Birthdays on this date151 (869 – 2006)
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