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During his first full season, Albies was named to the 2018 MLB All-Star Game
Famous Birthdays on January 7
164 people
889 – 2012
January 7 has seen 164 notable people enter the world across recorded history — from 889 – 2012. Below are the most significant names born on this date.
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1997 — Ozzie Albies
Curaçaoan baseball player
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He won the National League Silver Slugger Award in 2019 and 2021
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In 2021, he also won the Heart & Hustle Award, and his team won the World Series.
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Albies signed with the Braves organization in 2013 and made his MLB debut with the team in 2017
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Albies was later named to the 2021 and 2023 All-Star games
889
Duke of Gloucester, English politician, Lord High Constable of England (died 1397)
Thomas of Woodstock, Duke of Gloucester was the fifth surviving son and youngest child of King Edward III of England and Philippa of Hainault. He led the rebellion of the Lords Appellant against his nephew, King Richard…
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1355
1414
Pope Gregory XIII was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 13 May 1572 to his death in April 1585. He is best known for commissioning and being the namesake for the Gregorian calendar, which…
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1502
German organist and composer (died 1666)
Adam Krieger was a German composer. Born in Driesen, Neumark, he studied organ with Samuel Scheidt in Halle. He succeeded Johann Rosenmüller as organist at Leipzig's Nikolaikirche (1655–57) and founded the city's…
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1634
Duke of Württemberg (died 1677)
William Louis was Duke of Württemberg from 1674 until his death in 1677.
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1647
Swedish agronomist and businessman (died 1761)
Jonas Alströmer was a pioneer of agriculture and industry in Sweden.
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1685
German publisher (died 1751)
Johann Heinrich Zedler was a bookseller and publisher. His most important achievement was the creation of a German encyclopedia, the Grosses Universal-Lexicon ,
the largest and most comprehensive German-language…
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1706
Italian opera director and manager (died 1785)
Giovanni Battista Locatelli was an Italian opera director, impresario and owner of a private opera company.
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1713
American general (died 1790)
Israel Putnam, popularly known as "Old Put", was an American military officer and landowner who served in the French and Indian War and American Revolutionary War. He was an officer in Rogers' Rangers during the French…
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1718
1st Viscount Keith, Scottish admiral and politician (died 1823)
Admiral George Keith Elphinstone, 1st Viscount Keith, was a Royal Navy officer and politician who served in the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars.
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1746
Italian king (died 1844)
Joseph Bonaparte, regnal name José I, was a French statesman, lawyer, diplomat and older brother of Napoleon Bonaparte. In 1806, Napoleon made him King of Naples, and then King of Spain and the Indies in 1808. After the…
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1768
Mexican general and 16th president (1845–1846) (died 1849)
José Mariano Epifanio Paredes y Arrillaga was a Mexican conservative general who served as president of Mexico between December 1845 and July 1846. He assumed office through a coup against the liberal administration led…
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1797
American politician, 13th President of the United States (died 1874)
Millard Fillmore was the 13th president of the United States, serving from 1850 to 1853. He was the last president to be a member of the Whig Party while in the White House, and the last to be neither a Democrat nor a…
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1800
Scottish poet (died 1837)
Robert Nicoll was a Scottish poet and lyricist whose life, although short, left a lasting impact.
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1814
American writer (died 1882)
Elizabeth Louisa Mather was an American writer from Connecticut. A relative of Miles Standish, she converted to Universalism after her marriage. She was a prolific writer for 40 years, contributing essays, stories, and…
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1815
Scottish-Canadian engineer, created Universal Standard Time (died 1915)
Sir Sandford Fleming was a Scottish Canadian engineer and inventor. Born and raised in Scotland, he immigrated to colonial Canada at the age of 18. He promoted worldwide standard time zones, a prime meridian, and use of…
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1827
American painter (died 1902)
Albert Bierstadt was a German American painter best known for his lavish, sweeping landscapes of the American West. He joined several journeys of the westward expansion to paint the scenes. He was not the first artist…
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1830
German postman, founded the Universal Postal Union (died 1897)
Ernst Heinrich Wilhelm von Stephan was a general post director for the German Empire who reorganized the German postal service. He was integral in the founding of the Universal Postal Union in 1874, and in 1877…
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1831
Scottish-Australian publisher and politician, 15th Premier of Victoria (died 1908)
James Munro was a Scottish born Australian businessman and colonial politician, and the 15th Premier of Victoria. He is best known as one of the leading figures in the land boom of the 1880s and especially the…
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1832
German physicist and academic, invented the Reis telephone (died 1874)
Johann Philipp Reis was a self-taught German scientist and inventor. In 1861, he constructed the first make-and-break telephone, today called the Reis telephone. It was the first device to transmit a voice via…
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1834
English businessman, founded the White Star Line Shipping Company (died 1899)
Thomas Henry Ismay was an owner of the White Star Line. His eldest son Joseph Bruce Ismay was managing director of the White Star Line and survived the sinking of its ocean liner RMS Titanic on her maiden voyage in 1912.
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1837
French nun and saint (died 1879)
Bernadette Soubirous, SCN, also known as Bernadette of Lourdes, was a miller's daughter from Lourdes, in the department of Hautes-Pyrénées in France, and is best known for experiencing apparitions of a "young lady" who…
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1844
New Mexican Congressman and political ally of Conrad Hilton (died 1919)
Quianu Robinson (1852–1919) was a New Mexican politician who served as a Republican member of the New Mexico House of Representatives representing the second district of New Mexico from 1916 to 1918.
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1852
Finnish teacher, agronomist and banker (died 1926)
Evald Kristian Relander was a Finnish teacher and banker who received the title of agricultural councillor (maanviljelysneuvos). His son was Lauri Kristian Relander, the second President of the Republic of Finland.
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1856
Belarusian lexicographer and journalist (died 1922)
Eliezer Ben‑Yehuda was a Russian–Jewish linguist, lexicographer, and journalist who immigrated to Jerusalem in 1881, when the Ottoman Empire ruled it. He is renowned as the lexicographer of the first Hebrew dictionary…
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1858
American botanist and first librarian of the New York Botanical Garden (died 1955)
Anna Murray Vail was an American botanist and the first librarian of the New York Botanical Garden. She was a student and collaborator of botanist and geologist Nathaniel Lord Britton, with whom she helped to found the…
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1863
French mathematician and politician (died 1956)
Félix Édouard Justin Émile Borel was a French mathematician and politician. As a mathematician, he was known for his founding work in the areas of measure theory and probability.
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1871
French poet and journalist (died 1914)
Charles Pierre Péguy was a French poet, essayist, and editor. His two main philosophies were socialism and nationalism; by 1908 at the latest, after years of uneasy agnosticism, he had become a believing Catholic. From…
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1873
Hungarian-American film producer, co-founded Paramount Pictures (died 1976)
Adolph Zukor was a Hungarian-American film producer best known as one of the three founders of Paramount Pictures. He produced one of America's first feature-length films, The Prisoner of Zenda, in 1913.
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1873
German gymnast (died 1945)
Gustav Felix Flatow was a German gymnast. He competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens and at the 1900 Summer Olympics in Paris. Flatow was Jewish, and was born in Berent, West Prussia. In 1892, he moved to Berlin.
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1875
English pianist and composer (died 1906)
William Yeates Hurlstone was an English composer. Showing brilliant musical talent from an early age, he died young, before his full potential could be realized. Nevertheless, he left behind an exquisite, albeit…
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1876
American baseball player, coach, and lawyer (died 1928)
William Clarence Matthews was an early 20th-century African-American pioneer in athletics, politics and law. Born in Selma, Alabama, Matthews was enrolled at the Tuskegee Institute and, with the help of Booker T.…
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1877
Russian-American ballerina (died 1982)
Vera de Bosset Stravinsky was an American dancer and artist. She is better known as the second wife of composer Igor Stravinsky, whom she married in 1940 after having been in an adulterous affair with him since July…
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1889
American soldier, pulp magazine writer, and pioneer of the American comic book (died 1965)
Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson was an American pulp magazine writer, entrepreneur and military officer who pioneered the American comic book, publishing the first such periodical consisting solely of original material rather…
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1890
American novelist, short story writer, and folklorist (died 1960)
Zora Neale Hurston was an American writer, anthropologist, folklorist, and documentary filmmaker. She portrayed racial struggles in the early-20th-century American South and published research on Hoodoo and Caribbean…
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1891
Australian pilot and businessman, co-founded Qantas Airways Limited (died 1974)
Sir Wilmot Hudson Fysh was an Australian aviator and businessman. A founder of the Australian airline company Qantas, Fysh was born in Launceston, Tasmania. Serving in the Battle of Gallipoli and Palestine Campaign as a…
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1895
Mozambican-English singer-songwriter (disputed; (died 1941)
Albert Allick Bowlly was a British vocalist, crooner, and dance band guitarist who was Britain's most popular singer for most of the 1930s. He recorded upwards of 1,000 songs that were listened to by millions in Britain…
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1898
French pianist and composer (died 1963)
Francis Jean Marcel Poulenc was a French composer and pianist. His compositions include songs, solo piano works, chamber music, choral pieces, operas, ballets, and orchestral concert music. Among the best-known are the…
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1899
American magazine executive, writer, and magazine editor (Astounding Stories) (died 1956)
Frederick Orlin Tremaine was an American science fiction magazine editor, most notably of the influential Astounding Stories. He edited a number of other magazines, headed several publishing companies, and sporadically…
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1899
Australian actor and singer (died 1969)
John Donald Mackenzie Brownlee was an Australian operatic baritone. For most of his professional career he was based in Europe and then the United States.
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1900
English actor (died 1988)
Alan William Napier-Clavering, better known as Alan Napier, was an English actor. After a decade in West End theatre, he had a long film career in Britain and later on in Hollywood. Napier is best remembered for…
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1903
Canadian ice hockey player (died 1963)
Reginald Joseph "Hooley" Smith was a Canadian professional ice hockey forward who played for the Ottawa Senators, Montreal Maroons, Boston Bruins and New York Americans between 1924 and 1941. He won the Stanley Cup…
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1903
Irish Republican died while on hunger strike at Curragh Internment camp (died 1923)
Michael Joseph Whitty was an Irish militant and Republican activist who was the youngest of the 22 Irish republicans who died while on hunger strike in the 20th century. Whitty was one of four Irish Republicans to die…
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1904
1908
American soldier and politician, 36th Governor of Arkansas (died 1994)
Orval Eugene Faubus was an American politician who served as the 36th governor of Arkansas from 1955 to 1967, as a member of the Southern Democratic Party. He is best known for the 1957 Little Rock Crisis, when he…
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1910
American cartoonist, created The Addams Family (died 1988)
Charles Samuel Addams was an American cartoonist known for his darkly humorous and macabre characters. Some of his recurring characters became known as the Addams Family, and were popularized through various adaptations.
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1912
English actor (died 1984)
Baron Francis-Marie Arist de Wolff was an English character actor. Large, bearded, and beetle-browed, he was often cast as villains and foreigners in both film and television.
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1913
American baseball player, coach, and sportscaster (died 1993)
John Robert Mize, nicknamed "Big Jawn" and "the Big Cat", was an American professional baseball first baseman. He played 15 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the St. Louis Cardinals, New York Giants, and New…
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1913
Sri Lankan geographer and academic (died 1989)
William Luther "W.L." Jeyasingham was a Sri Lankan Tamil teacher, geographer, academic and dean of the Faculty of Arts, University of Jaffna.
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1916
Canadian ice hockey player (died 1988)
Walter Peter "Babe" Pratt was a Canadian professional ice hockey defenceman/left winger who played for the New York Rangers, Toronto Maple Leafs and the Boston Bruins in the National Hockey League between 1935 and 1947.…
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1916
Italian-American actor (died 1992)
Vincent Gardenia was an Italian American stage, film and television actor. He was nominated twice for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, first for Bang the Drum Slowly (1973) and again for Moonstruck (1987).…
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1920
Colombian politician (died 1997)
María Esmeralda Arboleda Cadavid was a Colombian politician, suffragist and the first woman elected to the Senate of Colombia, serving from 1958 to 1961.
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1921
American poet and translator (died 1975)
Chester Simon Kallman was an American poet, librettist, and translator, best known for collaborating with W. H. Auden on opera librettos for Igor Stravinsky and other composers.
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1921
American baseball player and manager (died 2014)
Alvin Ralph Dark, nicknamed "Blackie" and "the Swamp Fox", was an American professional baseball shortstop and manager. He played fourteen years in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Boston/Milwaukee Braves, the New…
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1922
French flute player (died 2000)
Jean-Pierre Louis Rampal was a French flautist and conductor. Rampal popularised the flute in the post–World War II years, recovering flute compositions from the Baroque era, and spurring contemporary composers, such as…
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1922
Canadian scholar and critic (died 2003)
William Hugh Kenner was a Canadian literary scholar, critic and professor. His studies on Modernist literature often analyzed the work of James Joyce, Ezra Pound, and Samuel Beckett. His major study of the period, The…
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1923
Bulgarian theologian, educator, public figure and lecturer (died 2013)
Vaklush Tolev, also known as Vaklush, The Teacher of Wisdom, was a theologian by education, a public figure, a university lecturer, and an author of a multitude of works of religious, philosophical, cultural and…
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1923
English actor (died 2017)
Albert Geoffrey Bayldon was an English actor. After playing roles in many stage productions, including the works of William Shakespeare, he became known for portraying the title role of the children's series Catweazle…
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1924
Indian-English zookeeper, conservationist and author, founded Durrell Wildlife Park (died 1995)
Gerald Malcolm Durrell was a British naturalist, writer, zookeeper, conservationist, and television presenter. He was born in Jamshedpur in British India, and moved to England when his father died in 1928. In 1935 the…
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1925
South Korean lieutenant and politician, 11th Prime Minister of South Korea (died 2018)
Kim Jong-pil, also known colloquially as JP, was a South Korean politician who was the founder and first director of the Korean Central Intelligence Agency. He served as the prime minister twice, from 1971 to 1975…
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1926
American author and screenwriter (died 2017)
William Peter Blatty was an American writer, director and producer. He is best known for his 1971 novel The Exorcist and for his screenplay for the 1973 film adaptation. Blatty won an Academy Award for Best Adapted…
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1928
Australian painter and sculptor (died 2012)
Robert Litchfield Juniper, AM was an Australian artist, art teacher, illustrator, painter, printmaker and sculptor.
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1929
American actress
Terry Moore is an American actress who began her career as a child actor. She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in Come Back, Little Sheba (1952).
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1929
Finnish skier (died 2013)
Mirja Kyllikki Hietamies-Eteläpää was a cross-country skier from Finland who competed at the 1952 and 1956 Winter Olympics. She won a gold medal in the 3 × 5 km relay in 1956 and a silver medal in the individual 10 km…
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1931
American-English film producer (died 2010)
Elliott Kastner was an American film producer, whose best known credits include Where Eagles Dare (1968), The Long Goodbye (1973), The Missouri Breaks (1976), and Angel Heart (1987).
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1933
Canadian lawyer and politician, 29th Canadian Minister of Labour (died 2002)
Jean Corbeil, was a Canadian politician.
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1934
Cypriot lawyer and politician, 5th President of Cyprus (died 2008)
Efstathios "Tassos" Nikolaou Papadopoulos was a Cypriot politician and barrister, who served as President of Cyprus from 2003 to 2008.
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1934
American clarinet player and saxophonist (died 2006)
John Kenneth Davern was an American jazz clarinetist.
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1935
Russian engineer and astronaut (died 2014)
Valery Nikolaevich Kubasov was a Soviet and Russian cosmonaut who flew on two missions in the Soyuz programme as a flight engineer: Soyuz 6 and Soyuz 19, and commanded Soyuz 36 in the Intercosmos programme. On 21 July…
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1935
Chinese diplomat and international jurist (died 2017)
Li Shengjiao was a senior Chinese diplomat, jurist, educator, scholar, bilingual author, former Nanjing sports star and an expert on the I Ching. Being recognized as an authority on international law and U.S.-China…
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1935
Scottish author and journalist
Edward Hunter Davies is a British author, journalist and broadcaster. His books include the only authorised biography of the Beatles.
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1936
Australian rugby league player and coach
Bob Boland nicknamed "Bolo" is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer and coach who played for the Balmain Tigers and Penrith Panthers.
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1938
American golfer
Louis Krebs Graham is an American professional golfer. Graham won six PGA Tour tournaments including the 1975 U.S. Open.
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1938
English singer-songwriter (died 1972)
Rory Storm was an English musician and vocalist. Born in Liverpool, Storm was the singer and leader of Rory Storm and the Hurricanes, a Liverpudlian band who featured drummer Ringo Starr before he joined The Beatles.
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1938
English violinist and conductor (died 2004)
Iona Brown, OBE, was a British violinist and conductor.
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1941
English actor (died 2022)
John Steiner was an English actor. Tall and gaunt, he attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and performed on-stage for the Royal Shakespeare Company, but was best known to audiences for his roles in Italian films,…
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1941
English chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
Sir John Ernest Walker is a British chemist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1997. As of 2015 Walker is Emeritus Director and Professor at the MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit in Cambridge, and a Fellow of Sidney…
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1941
Russian-German weightlifter and coach (died 2011)
Vasily Ivanovich Alekseyev was a Soviet weightlifter. He set 80 world records and 81 Soviet national records in weightlifting and won Olympic gold medals at the 1972 and 1976 games.
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1942
Japanese survivor of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, known for one thousand origami cranes (died 1955)
Sadako Sasaki was a Japanese girl who became a victim of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima by the United States. She was two years of age when the bombs were dropped and was severely irradiated. She survived for another…
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1943
British performing artist and rock photographer
Peter Michael McCartney, also known professionally as Mike McGear, is an English musician and photographer who was a member of the groups the Scaffold and Grimms. He is the younger brother of former Beatle Paul…
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1944
Japanese economist and academic (died 2020)
Kotaro Suzumura was a Japanese economist and professor emeritus of Hitotsubashi University and Waseda University. He graduated from Hitotsubashi University in 1966. His research interests were in social choice theory…
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1944
American baseball player (died 1990)
Anthony Richard Conigliaro, nicknamed "Tony C" and "Conig", was an American Major League Baseball outfielder and right-handed batter who played for the Boston Red Sox and California Angels (1971). Born in Revere,…
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1945
Kenyan engineer and politician, 2nd Prime Minister of Kenya (died 2025)
Raila Amolo Odinga was a Kenyan politician who served as Prime Minister from 2008 to 2013. He was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Langata Constituency from 1992 to 2013. He was also the leader of Azimio la Umoja–One…
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1945
German politician (died 2022)
Peter Georg Schowtka was a German politician who served as a member of the Landtag of Saxony from 1991 to 2014. Schowtka was an ethnic Sorb.
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1945
author, psychologist and founder of child protection charity Kidscape
Michele Irmiter Elliott OBE is an author, psychologist, teacher and the founder and director of child protection charity Kidscape. She has chaired World Health Organization and Home Office working groups and is a…
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1946
American publisher, co-founded Rolling Stone
Jann Simon Wenner is an American businessman who co-founded the popular culture magazine Rolling Stone with Ralph J. Gleason and is the former owner of Men's Journal magazine. He participated in the Free Speech Movement…
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1946
English publisher, founded Time Out (died 2020)
Anthony Michael Manton Elliott, CBE was an English publisher, and the founder and owner of Time Out Group, based in London. He was educated at Stowe School and Keele University.
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1947
American singer-songwriter
Kenneth Clark Loggins is an American singer, songwriter, and guitarist. His early songs were recorded with the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band in 1970, which led to seven albums recorded with Jim Messina as Loggins and Messina…
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1948
Mexican singer-songwriter (died 2016)
Alberto Aguilera Valadez, known professionally as Juan Gabriel, was a Mexican singer-songwriter. Colloquially nicknamed Juanga and El Divo de Juárez, Juan Gabriel was known for his flamboyant style, which broke norms…
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1950
Hong Kong actor, director, producer, and martial artist
Samuel "Sammo" Hung Kam-bo is a Hong Kong actor, martial artist, and filmmaker, known for his work in martial arts films, Hong Kong action cinema, and as a fight choreographer for other actors such as Kim Tai-chung,…
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1952
American painter and sculptor
Robert Longo is an American artist, filmmaker, photographer and musician. Longo became first well known in the 1980s for his Men in the Cities drawing and print series, which depict sharply dressed men and women…
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1953
English cricketer and coach
Alan Raymond Butcher is a former English cricketer who is part of a family known for its strong cricketing connections. Although only selected to play for England on one occasion, he was lauded for his skills in…
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1954
Indian-Bengali actress
Mamata Shankar is an Indian actress and dancer. She is known for her work in Bengali cinema. She has acted in films by directors including Satyajit Ray, Mrinal Sen, Rituparno Ghosh, Buddhadeb Dasgupta and Gautam Ghosh.…
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1955
American actor
David Stephen Caruso is a retired American actor and producer, best known for his roles as Detective John Kelly on the ABC crime drama NYPD Blue (1993–1994) and Lieutenant Horatio Caine on the CBS series CSI: Miami…
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1956
American novelist and essayist
Nicholson Baker is an American novelist and essayist. His fiction generally de-emphasizes narrative in favor of careful description and characterization. His early novels such as The Mezzanine and Room Temperature were…
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1957
American television journalist, anchor, and author
Katherine Anne Couric is an American journalist and presenter. She is founder of Katie Couric Media, a multimedia news and production company. She also publishes a daily newsletter, Wake Up Call. Since 2016, she has…
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1957
Baroness Smith of Basildon, English accountant and politician
Angela Evans Smith, Baroness Smith of Basildon, is a British politician and life peer serving as Leader of the House of Lords and Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal since 2024. A member of the Labour and Co-operative…
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1959
American bass player and songwriter
Kathryn Valentine is an American musician who is the bassist for the rock band the Go-Go's. She has maintained a career in music through songwriting, recording, performing and touring as well as additional academic and…
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1959
American politician
Loretta Lorna Sanchez is an American politician who served in the United States House of Representatives from 1997 to 2017, representing parts of central Orange County, California. A member of the Democratic Party, she…
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1960
American lawyer and politician
John Randolph Thune is an American politician serving as the senior United States senator from South Dakota, a seat he has held since 2005. Previously, Thune served as the U.S. representative for South Dakota's at-large…
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1961
Russian political analyst and strategist known for his fascist views
Aleksandr Gelyevich Dugin is a Russian political philosopher who is the leading theorist of Russian neo-Eurasianism.
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1962
American football player and coach
Ronald Eugene Rivera is an American professional football executive and former linebacker and coach who is the general manager for the University of California–Berkeley, his alma mater. He played nine seasons in the…
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1962
1963
American actor
Nicolas Kim Coppola, known professionally as Nicolas Cage, is an American actor and film producer. He is the recipient of various accolades, including an Academy Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award, and a Golden Globe…
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1964
American singer-songwriter and pianist
Vladimir John Ondrasik III, known professionally as Five for Fighting, is an American singer-songwriter and pianist. He is best known for his piano-based soft rock, such as the top 40 hits "Superman " (2001), "100…
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1965
Italian runner
Alessandro Lambruschini is an Italian former long-distance runner who specialized in the 3000 metres steeplechase.
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1965
English academic and politician, Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Sir Nicholas William Peter Clegg is a British retired politician and media executive who served as Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 2010 to 2015 and as Leader of the Liberal Democrats from 2007 to 2015.…
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1967
Australian rugby league player, coach, and sportscaster
Ricky John "Sticky" Stuart is an Australian professional rugby league football coach who is the head coach of Canberra in the National Rugby League (NRL) and a former rugby league footballer who played as a halfback in…
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1967
Italian footballer and manager
Marco Simone is an Italian professional football manager and former player. As a player, he was a striker and winger.
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1969
English politician[page needed]
Andrew Murray Burnham is a British politician who has served as Mayor of Greater Manchester since 2017. He previously served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Leigh from 2001 to 2017, during which time he was Secretary…
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1970
American actor
Kevin Rahm is an American actor. He is known for his television roles as Kyle McCarty on Judging Amy, Lee McDermott on Desperate Housewives, and Ted Chaough on Mad Men.
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1971
American actor
Jeremy Lee Renner is an American actor. He began his career by appearing in independent films such as Dahmer (2002) and Neo Ned (2005), then supporting roles in bigger films, such as S.W.A.T. (2003) and 28 Weeks Later…
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1971
American-Canadian ice hockey player and mixed martial artist
Donald Brashear is an American-born Canadian former professional hockey player. He played for five organizations in the National Hockey League (NHL) over a 16-year career, in which he played the role of an enforcer.
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1972
Slovenian sprinter and politician
Alenka Bikar is a retired female sprinter from Slovenia, born in Ljubljana. She specialised in the 200 metres, competing in three Olympic games from 1996 to 2004. She was also named Slovenian Sportswoman of the Year in…
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1974
Armenian-Australian boxer
Vakhtang "Vic" Darchinyan is an Armenian former professional boxer who competed from 2000 to 2017. He held multiple world championships in two weight classes, including the International Boxing Federation (IBF)…
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1976
Canadian baseball player
Éric Serge Gagné is a Canadian former professional baseball pitcher who played 10 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB), most notably for the Los Angeles Dodgers. After signing with the Dodgers as a free agent in 1995,…
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1976
Dominican baseball player
Alfonso Guilleard Soriano is a Dominican-American former professional baseball left fielder and second baseman. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the New York Yankees, Texas Rangers, Washington Nationals, and…
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1976
American actor and comedian (died 2021)
Dustin Neil Diamond was an American actor and stand-up comedian. He is best known for portraying Samuel "Screech" Powers throughout the Saved by the Bell franchise, appearing from the first episodes of Good Morning,…
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1977
Finnish author and playwright
Sofi-Elina Oksanen is a Finnish writer and playwright. Oksanen has published six novels, of which "Purge" has gained the widest recognition. She has received several international and domestic awards for her literary…
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1977
Canadian ice hockey player
Brent Bernard Sopel is a Canadian former professional ice hockey defenceman who played the majority of his career in the National Hockey League (NHL). Sopel was originally selected 144th overall at the 1995 NHL entry…
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1977
English cricketer and umpire
Dean Andrew Cosker is an English cricket referee and former cricketer. He is a right-handed batsman and a left-arm slow bowler who played for Glamorgan. He has played in first-class, List A and Twenty20 cricket. He…
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1978
American serial killer (died 2012)
Israel Keyes was an American serial killer, rapist, bank robber, burglar, arsonist, and kidnapper.
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1978
American actor
Reggie Austin is an American actor. He is best known for his recurring roles on the Notes from the Underbelly as Dr. Greg Wise, The Starter Wife as Devon Marsh, Desperate Housewives as Renee Perry's ex-husband Doug…
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1979
American musician, singer, songwriter, record producer, actor, businessman and philanthropist
Egbert Nathaniel Dawkins III, known professionally as Aloe Blacc, is an American singer, songwriter, rapper, and record producer. He is known for his guest performance on Avicii's 2013 single "Wake Me Up", which topped…
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1979
Australian rugby league player
Reece Simmonds is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer who played in the 2000s and 2010s. He was born in Sydney, and played in the National Rugby League (NRL) for the St George Illawarra Dragons and…
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1980
1981
American basketball player
Marquis Antwane Daniels is an American former professional basketball player in the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played college basketball for the Auburn Tigers before going undrafted in the 2003 NBA draft.…
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1981
Zimbabwean cricketer
Travis John Friend is a former Zimbabwean international cricketer and commercial pilot.
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1981
American-English actress
Lauren Cohan is a British-American actress known for her role as Maggie Rhee in the AMC post-apocalyptic horror television series The Walking Dead, a role she reprises in The Walking Dead: Dead City (2023–present). Her…
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1982
Venezuelan baseball player
Francisco José Rodríguez Sr., nicknamed "K-Rod", is a Venezuelan former professional baseball pitcher. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Anaheim Angels / Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim, New York Mets,…
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1982
German swimmer
Hannah Stockbauer is a World Champion, Olympic and national-record holding swimmer from Germany. In 2003, she was named the female World Swimmer of the Year by Swimming World Magazine, following her winning the 400, 800…
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1982
American actor
Brett Patrick Dalton is an American actor. He is best known for playing Grant Ward and therefore Hive in ABC's series Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., as well as Detective Mark Trent in the NBC procedural drama series Found, and…
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1983
Dominican baseball player
Edwin Elpidio Encarnación Rivera is a Dominican former professional baseball designated hitter, third baseman and first baseman. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Cincinnati Reds, Toronto Blue Jays,…
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1983
American basketball player
Cappie Marie Pondexter is an American former professional basketball player. She was born in Oceanside, California and raised in Chicago, Illinois. Pondexter is known for her scrappy play, quick crossovers and midrange…
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1983
American baseball player
Jonathan Tyler Lester is an American former professional baseball pitcher. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Boston Red Sox, Oakland Athletics, Chicago Cubs, Washington Nationals, and St. Louis Cardinals.…
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1984
English racing driver
Sir Lewis Carl Davidson Hamilton is a British racing driver who competes in Formula One for Ferrari. Hamilton has won a joint-record seven Formula One World Drivers' Championship titles—tied with Michael Schumacher—and…
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1985
English footballer
Wayne Neville Anthony Routledge is an English former professional footballer who played as a winger. He represented England at under-16, under-19 and under-21 level.
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1985
Italian footballer (died 2018)
Davide Astori was an Italian professional footballer who played as a central defender.
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1987
Serbian footballer
Stefan Babović is a Serbian former professional footballer who played as a deep-lying playmaker. He is the current (CEO) of Fashion Company.
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1987
American actress
Lyndsy Marie Fonseca is an American actress. She began her career by appearing as Colleen Carlton on the CBS daytime soap opera The Young and the Restless, on which she starred between 2001 and 2005. Thereafter, she had…
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1987
American actress and singer
Haley Loraine Keeling, known professionally as Haley Bennett, is an American actress. She made her film debut in the romantic comedy Music and Lyrics (2007) and has since appeared in films such as The Equalizer (2014),…
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1988
Australian footballer
Scott Pendlebury is a professional Australian rules footballer playing for the Collingwood Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). He served as Collingwood captain from 2014 to 2022. Pendlebury is a dual…
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1988
American actor
Liam Pádraic Aiken is an American actor. He has starred in films such as Stepmom (1998), Road to Perdition (2002), and Good Boy! (2003), and played Klaus Baudelaire in Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events…
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1990
English mixed martial artist and wrestler
Oliver Westfield Claffey, better known by the ring name Jack Gallagher and most recently Jack Claffey, is an English mixed martial artist and a former professional wrestler. He is best known for his time in WWE, where…
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1990
Austrian ski jumper
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1990
American baseball player
Tucker Jackson Barnhart is an American former professional baseball catcher. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Cincinnati Reds, Detroit Tigers, Chicago Cubs, Arizona Diamondbacks, and Texas Rangers.…
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1991
Belgian footballer
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1991
South African sprinter
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1991
Australian footballer
Michael Walters is a former Australian rules footballer who played for the Fremantle Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). Having spent most of his career playing as a small forward, Walters was a…
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1991
Canadian ice hockey player
Erik Donald Stanley Gudbranson is a Canadian professional ice hockey player who is a defenceman and alternate captain for the Columbus Blue Jackets of the National Hockey League (NHL). He was selected third overall by…
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1992
New Zealand rugby league player
Tohu Harris is a New Zealand former professional rugby league footballer who played as a lock forward and captained the New Zealand Warriors in the National Rugby League (NRL).
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1992
American basketball player
Jarnell D'Marcus Stokes is an American former professional basketball player. He played college basketball for the Tennessee Volunteers. He was one of the top rated high school players in the class of 2011. He was…
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1994
South Korean actress and singer
Lee Jin-kyung, known professionally as Lee Sun-bin (이선빈), is a South Korean actress and singer. She is a former member of the South Korean girl group JQT, and is known for starring in Squad 38 (2016), Work Later, Drink…
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1994
Canadian ice hockey player
MacKenzie Weegar is a Canadian professional ice hockey player who is a defenseman for the Utah Mammoth of the National Hockey League (NHL). Weegar was drafted by the Florida Panthers with the 206th overall pick in the…
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1994
American basketball player
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1995
Kazakhstani tennis player
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1995
American ice hockey player
Alexander Nedeljkovic (Serbian Cyrillic: Александар Недељковић, romanized: Aleksandar Nedeljković is an American professional ice hockey player who is a goaltender for the San Jose Sharks of the National Hockey League.…
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1996
American football player
Lamar Demeatrice Jackson Jr. is an American professional football quarterback for the Baltimore Ravens of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Louisville Cardinals, winning the Heisman…
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1997
American actor
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2000
2003
Singaporean violinist, 2018 joint 1st prize winner of the Yehudi Menuhin International Competition for Young Violinists
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2007
American singer and actress
Blue Ivy Carter is an American singer, actress, and dancer. She is the first-born daughter of singer Beyoncé and rapper Jay-Z. Two days after her birth, Time dubbed Carter "the most famous baby in the world." That same…
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2012
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