Famous Birthdays on July 17

July 17 has 209 recorded notable births across history, from 1487 to 2005. This page lists every one of them, with the best-known people first.

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Major events on July 17

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  1. 1975 Apollo–Soyuz Test Project: An American Apollo and a Soviet Soyuz spacecraft dock with each other in orbit marking the first such link-up between spacecraft from the two nations. Source
  2. 1936 Spanish Civil War: An Armed Forces rebellion against the recently elected leftist Popular Front government of Spain starts the civil war. Source

Did you know about Billie Lourd

Billie Catherine Lourd is an American actress, best known for starring as Chanel #3 in the Fox horror comedy series Scream Queens (2015–2016) and for her roles in the FX horror anthology series American Horror Story (2017–present).

Did you know about Brett Goldstein

Known for his role as Roy Kent in the Apple TV+ sports comedy-drama series Ted Lasso (2020–present), he received the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series for each of the first two seasons.

Did you know about Donald Sutherland

Considered one of the best actors never nominated for an Academy Award, he received an Academy Honorary Award in 2017.

Did you know about Terence Tao

Terence Tao was awarded the Fields Medal in 2006 for his contributions to partial differential equations, combinatorics, harmonic analysis, and additive number theory.

Did you know about Angela Merkel

Angela Merkel is the only woman to have held the office and the only former East German.

More major people born on July 17

Notable people are ranked by substantive profile depth and public notability.

1980 Brett Goldstein

Brett Goldstein

British actor, comedian and writer
Brett Goldstein is an English actor, comedian, podcaster, producer, and writer. Known for his role as Roy Kent in the Apple TV+ sports comedy-drama series Ted Lasso (2020–present), he received the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series for each of the first two seasons. He is also the co-creator of the comedy-drama series Shrinking (2023–present).
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1935 Donald Sutherland

Donald Sutherland

Canadian actor and producer (died 2024)
Donald McNichol Sutherland was a Canadian actor. With a career spanning six decades, he received numerous accolades, including a Primetime Emmy Award and two Golden Globe Awards as well as a BAFTA Award nomination. Considered one of the best actors never nominated for an Academy Award, he received an Academy Honorary Award in 2017.
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1975 Terence Tao

Terence Tao

Australian-American mathematician
Terence Chi-Shen Tao is an Australian-American mathematician and professor of mathematics at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). He was awarded the Fields Medal in 2006 for his contributions to partial differential equations, combinatorics, harmonic analysis, and additive number theory. Among his best-known results is the Green–Tao theorem, proved with Ben Green, which states that the prime numbers contain arbitrarily long arithmetic progressions.
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1954 Angela Merkel

Angela Merkel

German chemist and politician, Chancellor of Germany from 2005 to 2021.
Angela Dorothea Merkel is a German stateswoman and retired politician who served as Chancellor of Germany from 2005 to 2021. She is the only woman to have held the office and the only former East German. She was Leader of the Opposition from 2002 to 2005 and Leader of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) from 2000 to 2018.
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1965 Alex Winter

Alex Winter

British-American actor
Alexander Ross Winter is a British-American actor and filmmaker. As an actor, he is best known for playing Bill S. Preston, Esq., in the 1989 film Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure and its sequels Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey (1991) and Bill & Ted Face the Music (2020). He is also known for his role as Vladimir in the 2026 Broadway revival of Waiting for Godot, and for playing Marko in the 1987 vampire film The Lost Boys.
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1976 Eric Winter

Eric Winter

American actor
Eric Barrett Winter is an American actor. He has appeared in the television roles as Sergeant Tim Bradford on the ABC show The Rookie (2018–present), Rex Brady on the NBC soap opera Days of Our Lives, FBI Special Agent Craig O'Laughlin on the CBS drama series The Mentalist (2010–2012), Dash Gardiner on the Lifetime fantasy-drama series Witches of East End (2013–2014), and The Good Doctor (2017–2018). His film appearances include Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay (2008), The Ugly Truth (2009), and Sundays at Tiffany's (2010).
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1952 David Hasselhoff

David Hasselhoff

American actor, singer, and producer
David Michael Hasselhoff, nicknamed "the Hoff", is an American actor, singer, and television personality. He first gained recognition on the soap opera The Young and the Restless (1975–1982), playing the role of Dr. Snapper Foster. His career continued with his leading role as Michael Knight on the crime drama series Knight Rider (1982–1986) and as L.A. County Lifeguard Mitch Buchannon in the drama series Baywatch (1989–2000). He also produced Baywatch from the 1990s until 2001 when the series ended with Baywatch Hawaii.
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1969 Jason Clarke

Jason Clarke

Australian actor
Jason Clarke is an Australian actor. He has appeared in many TV series, and is known for playing Tommy Caffee on the television series Brotherhood. He has also appeared in many films, often as an antagonist. His film roles include Death Race (2008), Zero Dark Thirty (2012), Lawless (2012), White House Down (2013), Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (2014), Terminator Genisys (2015), Everest (2015), All I See Is You (2016), Mudbound (2017), The Man with the Iron Heart (2017), Chappaquiddick (2017), First Man (2018), Pet Sematary (2019), The Devil All the Time (2020), and Oppenheimer (2023). In 2022, he starred in the HBO sports drama series Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty as former Los Angeles Lakers player turned coach Jerry West.
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1976 Luke Bryan

Luke Bryan

American singer-songwriter and guitarist
Thomas Luther "Luke" Bryan is an American country music singer. He is one of the world's best-selling music artists, with over 75 million records sold, and is a five-time "Entertainer of the Year", being awarded by both the Academy of Country Music Awards and the Country Music Association. In 2019, his 2013 album Crash My Party received the first Album of the Decade award from the Academy of Country Music. Since 2018, Bryan has been a judge on the singing competition television show American Idol.
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1975 Carey Hart

Carey Hart

American freestyle motorcycle racer
Carey Jason Phillip Hart is an American off-road truck racer, former professional freestyle motocross competitor, and former motorcycle racer. He was the first motorcyclist to attempt a backflip on a 250cc motorcycle during a competition, and founded Hart & Huntington Tattoo Co.
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1976 Dagmara Domińczyk

Dagmara Domińczyk

Polish-American actress
Dagmara Domińczyk is a Polish actress. She has appeared in the films Rock Star (2001), The Count of Monte Cristo (2002), Kinsey (2004), Trust the Man (2005), Lonely Hearts (2006), Running with Scissors (2006), Higher Ground (2011), The Letter (2012), The Immigrant (2013), Big Stone Gap (2014), A Woman, a Part (2016), The Assistant (2019), The Lost Daughter (2021), Bottoms (2023), and Priscilla (2023). Domińczyk also had a main role in the HBO comedy-drama television series Succession (2018–2023).
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1996 Grace Caroline Currey

Grace Caroline Currey

American actress
Grace Caroline Currey is an American actress and dancer. She is best known for playing Mary Bromfield in the DC Extended Universe films Shazam! (2019) and its sequel Shazam! Fury of the Gods (2023). She starred in The Conjuring Universe film Annabelle: Creation (2017) and the survival thriller film Fall (2022).
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1899 James Cagney

James Cagney

American actor and dancer (died 1986)
James Francis Cagney Jr. was an American actor and dancer. On stage and in film, he was known for his consistently energetic performances, distinctive vocal style, and deadpan comic timing. He won acclaim and major awards for a wide variety of performances.
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1985 Tom Cullen

Tom Cullen

Welsh actor and director
Thomas Cullen is a Welsh actor and director. He had roles in the independent film Weekend (2011), as Anthony Foyle, Viscount Gillingham in the television series Downton Abbey, Sir Landry in the historical drama series Knightfall, John Palmer in the BBC crime drama series The Gold, and Ser Luthor Largent in the HBO fantasy drama series House of the Dragon. He also played Thomas Seymour in Becoming Elizabeth.
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1997 OG Anunoby

OG Anunoby

British basketball player
Ogugua "OG" Anunoby Jr. is a British professional basketball player for the New York Knicks of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played college basketball for the Indiana Hoosiers and was selected by the Toronto Raptors in the first round of the 2017 NBA draft. With Toronto, Anunoby won an NBA championship in 2019, though he was injured and did not play in the finals. During the 2022–23 season, he led the league in steals while earning his first NBA All-Defensive Team selection. He also won a Championship with the Knicks in the 2025-26 season, ending the franchise's 53 year wait for a championship.
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1971 Cory Doctorow

Cory Doctorow

Canadian author and activist
Cory Efram Doctorow is a Canadian-British blogger, journalist, and science fiction author who served as co-editor of the blog Boing Boing. He is an activist in favour of liberalising copyright laws and a proponent of the Creative Commons organisation, using some of its licences for his books. Some common themes of his work include digital rights management, file sharing, and post-scarcity economics.
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1951 Lucie Arnaz

Lucie Arnaz

American actress and singer
Lucie Désirée Arnaz Luckinbill is an American actress and singer. She is the daughter of actors Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz, and the older sister of actor and musician Desi Arnaz, Jr.
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1994 Kali Uchis

Kali Uchis

American singer-songwriter
Karly Marina Loaiza, known professionally as Kali Uchis, is an American singer-songwriter. Her accolades include a Grammy Award, an American Music Award, two Billboard Music Awards, and five nominations for a Latin Grammy Award.
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1935 Diahann Carroll

Diahann Carroll

American actress and singer (died 2019)
Diahann Carroll was an American actress, singer, model, and activist. Carroll was the recipient of numerous nominations and awards for her stage and screen performances, including a Tony Award in 1962, Golden Globe Award in 1968, an Academy Award nomination in 1974, and five Emmy Award nominations between 1963 and 2008.
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1958 Wong Kar-wai

Wong Kar-wai

Chinese director, producer, and screenwriter
Wong Kar-wai is a Hong Kong filmmaker. His films are characterised by nonlinear narratives, atmospheric music, and vivid cinematography with bold, saturated colours. An auteur of Hong Kong cinema, Wong frequently appears at international film festivals.
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2005 Connor Bedard

Connor Bedard

Canadian ice hockey player
Connor Thomas Bedard is a Canadian professional ice hockey player who is a centre and captain for the Chicago Blackhawks of the National Hockey League (NHL). Considered one of the top ice hockey prospects of his generation, he was selected first overall by the Blackhawks in the 2023 NHL entry draft and made his NHL debut that year. Bedard would go on to win the Calder Memorial Trophy as rookie of the year in 2024.
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1979 Mike Vogel

Mike Vogel

American actor
Michael James Vogel is an American actor. Vogel began acting in 2001 and has appeared in several films and series, including The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, Grind, Poseidon, Blue Valentine, The Help, Bates Motel, Cloverfield, Under the Dome and The Case for Christ. He starred as the lead in the NBC military drama series The Brave for the 2017–18 season.
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1952 Nicolette Larson

Nicolette Larson

American singer-songwriter (died 1997)
Nicolette Larson was an American singer. She is best known for her work in the late 1970s with Neil Young and her 1978 hit single of Young's "Lotta Love", which hit No. 1 on the Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks chart and No. 8 on the pop singles chart. It was followed by four more adult contemporary hits, two of which were also minor pop hits.
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1945 Alexander

Alexander

Crown Prince of Yugoslavia
Alexander, Crown Prince of Yugoslavia, is the head of the House of Karađorđević, the former royal house of the defunct Kingdom of Yugoslavia and its predecessor the Kingdom of Serbia. Alexander is the only child of King Peter II and Princess Alexandra of Greece and Denmark. He held the position of crown prince in the Democratic Federal Yugoslavia for the first four-and-a-half months of his life, until the declaration of the Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia later in November 1945, when the monarchy was abolished. In public he claims the crowned royal title of "Alexander II Karadjordjevic" as a pretender to the throne.
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1972 Jaap Stam

Jaap Stam

Dutch footballer and manager
Jakob "Jaap" Stam is a Dutch professional football coach and former player. As a player, he played as a centre-back and is regarded as one of the best defenders of all time. He was part of the Manchester United team that won the Treble of the Premier League, FA Cup and UEFA Champions League in 1999.
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1917 Phyllis Diller

Phyllis Diller

American actress, comedian, and voice artist (died 2012)
Phyllis Ada Diller was an American stand-up comedian, actress, author, musician and visual artist, noted for her eccentric stage persona, characterized by her self-deprecating humor, wild hair and clothes, and exaggerated, cackling laugh.
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1763 John Jacob Astor

John Jacob Astor

German-American businessman and philanthropist (died 1848)
John Jacob Astor was a German-born American businessman, merchant, real estate mogul, and investor. Astor made his fortune mainly in a fur trade monopoly, by exporting opium into the Chinese Empire, and by investing in real estate in or around New York City during the late 18th and early 19th centuries. He was the first prominent member of the Astor family and the first multi-millionaire in the United States.
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1894 Georges Lemaître

Georges Lemaître

Belgian priest, astronomer, and cosmologist (died 1966)
Georges Henri Joseph Édouard Lemaître was a Belgian Catholic priest, theoretical physicist, and mathematician who made major contributions to cosmology and astrophysics. He was the first to argue that the recession of galaxies is evidence of an expanding universe and to connect the observational Hubble–Lemaître law with the solution to the Einstein field equations in the general theory of relativity for a homogenous and isotropic universe. That work led Lemaître to propose what he called the "hypothesis of the primeval atom", now regarded as the first formulation of the Big Bang theory of the origin of the universe.
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1976 Gino D'Acampo

Gino D'Acampo

Italian chef and author
Gennaro Sheffield "Gino" D'Acampo is an Italian celebrity chef, television personality and writer based in the United Kingdom. He first came to widespread public attention as the winner of the ninth series of the ITV reality show I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here! in 2009, and has since been a regular chef on ITV's This Morning and the presenter of several food and travel series, including There's No Taste Like Home and Gino's Italian Escape.
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1961 António Costa

António Costa

Portuguese politician, 119th Prime Minister of Portugal
António Luís Santos da Costa is a Portuguese lawyer and politician who has served as president of the European Council since 2024. He previously served as prime minister of Portugal from 2015 to 2024 and secretary-general of the Socialist Party from 2014 to 2024.
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1949 Geezer Butler

Geezer Butler

English bass player and songwriter
Terence Michael Joseph "Geezer" Butler is an English musician, best known as the bassist and primary lyricist of the pioneering heavy metal band Black Sabbath. He has also recorded and performed with Heaven & Hell, GZR, Ozzy Osbourne, and Deadland Ritual.
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1928 Vince Guaraldi

Vince Guaraldi

American singer-songwriter and pianist (died 1976)
Vincent Anthony Guaraldi was an American jazz pianist who composed music for animated television adaptations of the Peanuts comic strip. His compositions for this series included their signature melody "Linus and Lucy" and the holiday standard "Christmas Time Is Here". The soundtrack to A Charlie Brown Christmas, composed principally by Guaraldi, became the best-selling jazz album of all time. Guaraldi also performed on piano as a member of Cal Tjader's 1950s ensembles and for his own solo career. Guaraldi's 1962 composition "Cast Your Fate to the Wind" became a radio hit and won a Grammy Award in 1963 for Best Original Jazz Composition. He died of a ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysm on February 6, 1976, at age 47, moments after concluding the first half of a nightclub performance in Menlo Park, California.
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1487 Ismail I of Iran (died 1524)

Ismail I of Iran (died 1524)

Ismail I was the founder and first shah of Safavid Iran, ruling from 1501 until his death in 1524. His reign is one of the most vital in the history of Iran, and the Safavid era is often considered the beginning of modern Iranian history. Under Ismail, Iran was unified under native rule for the first time since the Islamic conquest of the country eight-and-a-half centuries earlier.
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1964 Heather Langenkamp

Heather Langenkamp

American actress and producer
Heather Elizabeth Langenkamp is an American actress and businesswoman. Langenkamp is best known for portraying the resourceful heroine Nancy Thompson in the A Nightmare on Elm Street films, a role that has led to her being an influential figure in horror films.
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1987 Darius Boyd

Darius Boyd

Australian rugby league player
Darius Boyd is an Australian professional rugby league coach and former player who is the current coach of Queensland in the State of Origin series. He last played as a fullback for the Brisbane Broncos in the National Rugby League (NRL) and represented Queensland and Australia. Boyd captained the Brisbane Broncos from 2017 to 2019.
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1954 J. Michael Straczynski

J. Michael Straczynski

American author, screenwriter, and producer
Joseph Michael Straczynski is an American entertainment creator, filmmaker, and motion picture producer. He is also a writer of numerous comic books. He was the founder of Synthetic Worlds Ltd. and Studio JMS. Straczynski was the creator of the science fiction television series Babylon 5 (1993–1998) and its spinoff Crusade (1999), as well as the series Jeremiah (2002–2004) and Sense8 (2015–2018). Straczynski is also the executor of the estate of Harlan Ellison.
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1831 Xianfeng Emperor of China (died 1861)

Xianfeng Emperor of China (died 1861)

The Xianfeng Emperor, also known by his temple name Emperor Wenzong of Qing, personal name Yizhu, was the eighth emperor of the Qing dynasty, and the seventh Qing emperor to rule over China proper. During his reign, the Qing dynasty experienced several wars and rebellions including the Taiping Rebellion, the Nian Rebellion, and the Second Opium War. He was the last Chinese emperor to exercise sole power.
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1975 Elena Anaya

Elena Anaya

Spanish actress
Elena Anaya Gutiérrez is a Spanish actress. She garnered public recognition in Spain for her performance in Sex and Lucia (2001), which also earned her a nomination to the Goya Award for Best Supporting Actress. She starred in The Skin I Live In (2011), for which she won the Goya Award for Best Actress. She is also known for her roles as one of Dracula's brides in Van Helsing (2004), the Spanish tourist in Room in Rome (2010) and Doctor Poison in Wonder Woman (2017).
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1975 Konnie Huq

Konnie Huq

English television presenter
Konnie Huq is a British television and radio presenter, screenwriter and children's author. She became the longest-serving female presenter of the British children's television programme Blue Peter, presenting it from 1997 to 2008. She has been a presenter and guest of shows including the 2010 series of The Xtra Factor on ITV2.
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1960 Mark Burnett

Mark Burnett

English-American screenwriter and producer
James Mark Burnett is a British-American television producer, best known for creating The Apprentice, and producing Survivor, Are You Smarter than a 5th Grader?, Shark Tank, and The Voice. He has produced more than 4000 hours worth of television programming, which have appeared on over 15 major television networks and aired in over 70 countries.
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1950 Phoebe Snow

Phoebe Snow

American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2011)
Phoebe Snow was an American roots music singer-songwriter and guitarist, known for her hit 1974 and 1975 songs "Poetry Man" and "Harpo's Blues", and her credited guest vocals on Paul Simon’s "Gone at Last". She was described by The New York Times as a "contralto grounded in a bluesy growl and capable of sweeping over four octaves". Snow also sang numerous commercial jingles for many American products during the 1980s and 1990s, including General Foods International Coffees, Salon Selectives, and Stouffer's. Snow experienced success in Australia in the late 1970s and early 1980s with five top 100 albums in that country. In 1995, she recorded a gospel album with Sisters of Glory.
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1889 Erle Stanley Gardner

Erle Stanley Gardner

American lawyer and author (died 1970)
Erle Stanley Gardner was an American author and lawyer, best known for the Perry Mason series of legal detective stories. Gardner also wrote numerous other novels and shorter pieces as well as a series of nonfiction books, mostly narrations of his travels through Baja California and other regions in Mexico.
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1910 Frank Olson

Frank Olson

American chemist and microbiologist (died 1953)
Frank Rudolph Emmanuel Olson was an American bacteriologist, biological warfare scientist, and an employee of the United States Army Biological Warfare Laboratories (USBWL) who worked at Camp Detrick in Maryland. At a meeting in rural Maryland, he was covertly dosed with LSD by his colleague Sidney Gottlieb and, nine days later, plunged to his death from the window of the Hotel Statler in New York. The U.S. government first described his death as a suicide, and then as misadventure, while others allege murder. The Rockefeller Commission report on the CIA in 1975 acknowledged their having conducted covert drug studies on fellow agents. Olson's death is one of the most mysterious outcomes of the CIA mind control project MKUltra.
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1831 Naser al-Din Shah of Qajar Iran (died 1896)

Naser al-Din Shah of Qajar Iran (died 1896)

Naser al-Din or Naseroddin Shah Qajar was the fourth Shah of Qajar Iran from 5 September 1848 to 1 May 1896 when he was assassinated. Initially seeking to modernise Iran, his style of governance became more dictatorial over the course of his reign. His reign saw the Second Herat War (1856), the subsequent Anglo-Persian War (1857) and internal unrest, Tobacco Protest (1890-1891).
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1980 Ryan Miller

Ryan Miller

American ice hockey player
Ryan Dean Miller is an American former professional ice hockey player. He played as a goaltender for 18 seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the Buffalo Sabres, St. Louis Blues, Vancouver Canucks, and Anaheim Ducks. Miller was drafted 138th overall by the Buffalo Sabres in the 1999 NHL entry draft. In 2010, he won the Vezina Trophy as the league's best goaltender. Miller was the winningest American-born goaltender in NHL history from February 2019 until March 2024, when he was passed by Jonathan Quick. In January 2023, Miller was inducted into the Buffalo Sabres Hall Of Fame, and his #30 was retired. In April 2025, Miller was also inducted into the Rochester Americans Hall of Fame.
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1912 Art Linkletter

Art Linkletter

Canadian-American radio and television host (died 2010)
Arthur Gordon Linkletter was a Canadian-born American radio and television personality. He was the host of House Party, which ran on CBS radio and television for 25 years, and People Are Funny, which aired on NBC radio and television for 19 years. He became a naturalized United States citizen in 1942.
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1928 Joe Morello

Joe Morello

American jazz drummer (Dave Brubeck Quartet - "Blue Rondo à la Turk") (died 2011)
Joseph Albert Morello was an American jazz drummer best known for serving as the drummer for pianist Dave Brubeck, as part of the Dave Brubeck Quartet, from 1957 to 1972, including during the quartet's "classic lineup" from 1958 to 1968, which also included alto saxophonist Paul Desmond and bassist Eugene Wright. Morello's facility for playing unusual time signatures and rhythms enabled that group to record a series of albums that explored them. The most notable of these was the first in the series, the 1959 album Time Out, which contained the hit songs "Take Five" and "Blue Rondo à la Turk". In fact, "Take Five", the album's biggest hit was specifically written by Desmond as a way to showcase Morello's ability to play in 54 time.
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1744 Elbridge Gerry

Elbridge Gerry

American merchant and politician, 5th Vice President of the United States (died 1814)
Elbridge Thomas Gerry was an American Founding Father, merchant, politician, and diplomat, who was a member of the Second Continental Congress, and signed the Declaration of Independence and Articles of Confederation. From 1813 until his death in 1814, he served as the fifth vice president of the United States under President James Madison. The political practice of gerrymandering is named after him.
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1960 Robin Shou

Robin Shou

Hong Kong martial artist and actor
Shou Wan-por, known professionally as Robin Shou, is a retired Hong Kong-American actor, martial artist and stuntman. He is known for roles such as Liu Kang in the Mortal Kombat film series, Gobei in Beverly Hills Ninja (1997), Gen in Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li (2009), and 14K in the Death Race films (2008-2013). Shou was also a Hong Kong action star in the late 1980s and early 1990s. He had appeared in about 40 movies during his Hong Kong career, before he entered Hollywood in 1994. Prior to his acting career, Shou won several championships as a martial artist.
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1958

Susan Silver

American music manager
Susan Jean Silver is an American music manager and businesswoman, best known for managing Seattle rock bands such as Soundgarden, Alice in Chains and Screaming Trees. Silver also owns the company Susan Silver Management, and co-owns the club The Crocodile in Seattle. Silver was named "the most powerful figure in local rock management" by The Seattle Times in 1991. In 2025, Variety called Silver "one of the most important female managers in music history".
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1975 Darude

Darude

Finnish DJ and producer
Toni-Ville Henrik Virtanen, better known by his stage name Darude, is a Finnish DJ and record producer from Eura, Satakunta. His music is characterised by its progressive/uplifting style. He started making music in 1995 and released the platinum-selling hit single "Sandstorm" in late 1999. His debut studio album, Before the Storm, was released on 18 September 2000, and sold 800,000 copies worldwide, earning Darude three Finnish Grammy Awards. It peaked at number one on Finland's Official List and number 6 on the Billboard Dance/Electronic Albums chart in the United States. Darude's second studio album, Rush, reached number 11 on the Billboard dance chart in 2003 and number 4 on weekly album chart in Finland.
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1944 Catherine Schell

Catherine Schell

Hungarian-English actress
Catherine Schell is a Hungarian-born British actress who came to prominence in British film and television productions from the 1960s. Her notable roles include the Bond girl Nancy in On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969), Lady Claudine Litton in The Return of the Pink Panther (1975), Countess Scarlioni in the Doctor Who serial City of Death (1979), and a regular role as Maya in Year Two of the television series Space: 1999 (1976–1977).
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1982 Stefania Spampinato

Stefania Spampinato

Italian actress
Stefania Spampinato is an Italian actress. She is best known for starring in the ABC's series Grey's Anatomy and its spinoff Station 19 as Carina DeLuca.
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1963 Letsie III of Lesotho

Letsie III of Lesotho

Letsie III is King of Lesotho. He succeeded his father, Bereng Seeiso Moshoeshoe II, who was forced into exile in 1990. His father was briefly restored in 1995 but died in a car crash in early 1996, so Letsie succeeded him again for a second reign. As a constitutional monarch, most of King Letsie's duties as monarch of Lesotho are ceremonial. In 2000, he declared HIV/AIDS in Lesotho to be a natural disaster, prompting immediate national and international response to the epidemic.
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1944 Carlos Alberto Torres

Carlos Alberto Torres

Brazilian footballer and manager (died 2016)
Carlos Alberto "Capita" Torres, also known as "o Capitão do Tri", was a Brazilian football player and manager who played as an attacking right-sided full-back or wing-back. A technically gifted defender with good ball skills and defensive capabilities, he is widely regarded as one of the greatest defenders of all time. He also stood out for his leadership, and was an excellent penalty taker. Nicknamed O Capitão, he captained the Brazil national team to victory in the 1970 World Cup, scoring the fourth goal in the final, considered one of the greatest goals in the history of the tournament.
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1963 Regina Belle

Regina Belle

American singer-songwriter, producer, and actress
Regina Belle is an American singer-songwriter who started her career in the mid-1980s. Known for her singles "Baby Come to Me" (1989) and "Make It Like It Was" (1990), Belle is most notable for three hit duets, all with Peabo Bryson: "Without You", the love theme from the comedy film Leonard Part 6, recorded in 1987; "A Whole New World", the main theme of the Disney's animated feature film Aladdin recorded in 1992, with which Belle and Bryson won a Grammy Award; and "I Just Can't Imagine". The theme song "Far Longer than Forever" from the animated movie The Swan Princess, performed with Jeffrey Osborne, was nominated for a Golden Globe in 1995 for Best Original Song.
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1976 Brian K. Vaughan

Brian K. Vaughan

American comic book and television writer
Brian K. Vaughan is an American writer and producer. He is best known for the comic book series Y: The Last Man, Ex Machina, Runaways, Pride of Baghdad, Saga, and Paper Girls.
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1948 Ron Asheton

Ron Asheton

American guitarist and songwriter (died 2009)
Ronald Franklin Asheton was an American musician, best known as the guitarist, bassist, and co-songwriter for the rock band the Stooges. He formed the band along with Iggy Pop and his brother, drummer Scott Asheton, and bassist Dave Alexander in 1967. The band is regarded as the seminal proto-punk band and a major influence on the punk rock genre with the albums The Stooges (1969), Fun House (1970) and Raw Power (1973). Following break-ups in 1971 and 1974, the Stooges reformed in 2003 and Asheton remained with the band until his death from a heart attack on January 6, 2009. Asheton was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2010 as a member of the Stooges, and ranked as number 29 and 60 on Rolling Stone's list of 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time in 2010 and 2015 respectively.
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1674 Isaac Watts

Isaac Watts

English hymnwriter and theologian (died 1748)
Isaac Watts was an English Congregational minister, hymn writer, theologian, and logician. He was a prolific and popular hymn writer and is credited with some 750 hymns. His works include "When I Survey the Wondrous Cross", "Joy to the World", and "O God, Our Help in Ages Past". He is recognised as the "Godfather of English Hymnody"; many of his hymns remain in use today and have been translated into numerous languages.
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1939 Spencer Davis

Spencer Davis

Welsh singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2020)
Spencer Davis was a Welsh musician. He founded the Spencer Davis Group, a band that had several hits in the 1960s including "Keep On Running", "Somebody Help Me", "Gimme Some Lovin'" and "I'm a Man", all sung by Steve Winwood. Davis subsequently enjoyed success as an A&R executive with Island Records.
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1917 Kenan Evren

Kenan Evren

Turkish general and politician, 7th President of Turkey (died 2015)
Ahmet Kenan Evren was a Turkish military officer who served as the 7th president of Turkey from 1982 to 1989. He assumed the post by leading the 1980 military coup.
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1942 Connie Hawkins

Connie Hawkins

American basketball player (died 2017)
Cornelius Lance "Connie" Hawkins was an American professional basketball player. Hawkins was a legendary high school basketball player in New York City at Boys High School in Brooklyn and at Rucker Park. As the result of unjust actions taken against him as a teenager, Hawkins never played college basketball and only entered the National Basketball Association (NBA) when he was 27 years old, after years of litigation against the NBA. He had a winding and varied professional playing career in three different leagues and with the Harlem Globetrotters, during which Hawkins excelled at every level; and he was inducted into the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame in 1992.
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1987 Jeremih

Jeremih

American singer, songwriter, and record producer
Jeremy Phillip Felton, known professionally as Jeremih, is an American R&B singer. He embarked on a musical career after meeting record producer Mick Schultz in 2008, and signed a recording contract with Def Jam Recordings the following year.
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1978 Justine Triet

Justine Triet

French film director and screenwriter
Justine Triet is a French film director, screenwriter, and editor. She has received several awards including an Academy Award, BAFTA Award, a Palme d'Or, three César Awards, and two Golden Globe Awards.
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1955 Paul Stamets

Paul Stamets

American mycologist and author
Paul Edward Stamets is an American mycologist and entrepreneur who sells various mushroom products through his company. He is an author and an advocate of medicinal fungi and mycoremediation.
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1941 Daryle Lamonica

Daryle Lamonica

American football player (died 2022)
Daryle Pasquale Lamonica was an American professional football quarterback who played in the American Football League (AFL) and National Football League (NFL) for 12 seasons. Nicknamed "The Mad Bomber" due to almost always throwing long passes, he spent the majority of his career with the Oakland Raiders.
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1871 Lyonel Feininger

Lyonel Feininger

German-American painter and illustrator (died 1956)
Lyonel Charles Adrian Feininger was a German-American painter, and a leading exponent of Expressionism. He also worked as a caricaturist and comic strip artist. He was born and grew up in New York City. In 1887 he traveled to Europe and studied art in Hamburg, Berlin and Paris. He started his career as a cartoonist in 1894 and met with much success in this area. He also worked as a commercial caricaturist for 20 years. At the age of 36, he began to work as a fine artist. His work, characterized above all by prismatically broken, overlapping forms in translucent colors, with many references to architecture and the sea, made him one of the most important artists of classical modernism. Furthermore he produced a large body of photographic works and created several piano compositions and fugues for organ.
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1925 Jimmy Scott

Jimmy Scott

American singer and actor (died 2014)
James Victor Scott, also known as Little Jimmy Scott, was an American jazz vocalist known for his high natural contralto voice and his sensitivity on ballads and love songs.
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1961 Jeremy Hardy

Jeremy Hardy

English comedian and actor (died 2019)
Jeremy James Hardy was an English comedian. Born and raised in Hampshire, Hardy studied at the University of Southampton and began his stand-up career in the 1980s, going on to win the Perrier Comedy Award at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 1988. He is best known for his appearances on radio panel shows such as the News Quiz and I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue.
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1797 Paul Delaroche

Paul Delaroche

French painter and academic (died 1856)
Hippolyte-Paul Delaroche was a French painter known for his depiction of scenes from English and French history. The emotions emphasised in Delaroche's paintings appeal to Romanticism while the detail of his work along with the deglorified portrayal of historic figures follow the trends of Academicism and Neoclassicism. Delaroche aimed to depict his subjects and history with pragmatic realism. He did not consider popular ideals and norms in his creations, but rather painted all his subjects in the same light whether they were historical figures like Marie-Antoinette, figures of Christianity, or people of his time like Napoleon Bonaparte. Delaroche was a leading pupil of Antoine-Jean Gros and later mentored a number of notable artists such as Thomas Couture, Jean-Léon Gérôme, and Jean-François Millet.
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1996 Wonwoo

Wonwoo

South Korean rapper and singer
Jeon Won-woo, known mononymously as Wonwoo (원우), is a South Korean rapper and singer. Managed by Pledis Entertainment, he is a member of the South Korean boy band Seventeen, its hip hop team, and its second subunit, JxW.
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1921 Toni Stone

Toni Stone

American baseball player (died 1996)
Toni Stone, born as Marcenia Lyle Stone, was an American female professional baseball player who played in predominantly male leagues. In 1953, she became the first woman to play as a regular on an American major-level professional baseball team when she joined the Indianapolis Clowns in the previously all-male Negro leagues.. A baseball player from her early childhood, she also played for the San Francisco Sea Lions, the New Orleans Creoles, and the Kansas City Monarchs before retiring from baseball in 1954. Stone was taunted at times by teammates, once being told, "Go home and fix your husband some biscuits", but she was undeterred. It was reported that during an exhibition game in 1953, she hit a single off a fastball pitch delivered by legendary player Satchel Paige, although the claim has failed verification.
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1942 Gale Garnett

Gale Garnett

New Zealand–born Canadian singer
Gale Zoë Garnett is a Canadian singer best known in the United States for her self-penned, Grammy-winning folk hit "We'll Sing in the Sunshine". Garnett is also an author and actress.
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1991 Oliver Ekman-Larsson

Oliver Ekman-Larsson

Swedish ice hockey player
Oliver Oscar Emanuel Ekman-Larsson is a Swedish professional ice hockey player who is a defenceman for the Toronto Maple Leafs of the National Hockey League (NHL). Known by his initials "OEL", Ekman-Larsson was selected sixth overall by the Phoenix Coyotes in the 2009 NHL entry draft. Previously seen as one of the NHL's top offensive defencemen, Ekman-Larsson led the Coyotes in scoring in both the 2014–15 and 2015–16 seasons. After 11 seasons with Arizona, Ekman-Larsson was traded to the Vancouver Canucks in 2021, where he spent two seasons before signing with the Florida Panthers. In his only season with the Panthers, Ekman-Larsson won the Stanley Cup in 2024.
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1934 Lucio Tan

Lucio Tan

Chinese-Filipino billionaire businessman and educator
Lucio Chua Tan Sr. is a Filipino billionaire businessman and philanthropist. He presides over the Filipino conglomerate company LT Group, Inc., a company with extensive business interests in sports, banking, airline, liquor, tobacco, real estate, beverages, and education.
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1926 Willis Carto

Willis Carto

American activist and theorist (died 2015)
Willis Allison Carto was an American far-right political activist and publisher. He described himself as a Jeffersonian and a populist, but was primarily known for his promotion of antisemitic conspiracy theories and Holocaust denial. Throughout his life, Carto established and controlled a variety of right-wing periodicals and organizations, most significantly the Liberty Lobby.
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1935 Peter Schickele

Peter Schickele

American composer and educator (died 2024)
Johann Peter Schickele was an American composer, musical educator and parodist, best known for comedy albums featuring his music, which he presented as being composed by the fictional P. D. Q. Bach. He also hosted a long-running weekly radio program called Schickele Mix.
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1956 Julie Bishop

Julie Bishop

Australian lawyer and politician, 38th Australian Minister for Foreign Affairs
Julie Isabel Bishop is an Australian former politician who served as Minister for Foreign Affairs from 2013 to 2018 and deputy leader of the Liberal Party from 2007 to 2018. She was the member of parliament (MP) for Curtin from 1998 to 2019. She Served as the chancellor of the Australian National University from January 2020 to her early resignation in May 2026.
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1973 Eric Moulds

Eric Moulds

American football player
Eric Shannon Moulds is an American former professional football player who was a wide receiver for 12 seasons in the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for Mississippi State University and was selected by the Buffalo Bills 24th overall in the 1996 NFL draft. In 2009, Moulds was one of three receivers named to the Buffalo Bills 50th Anniversary All-Time Team.
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1917 Lou Boudreau

Lou Boudreau

American baseball player and manager (died 2001)
Louis Boudreau, nicknamed "Old Shufflefoot", "Handsome Lou", and "the Good Kid", was an American professional baseball player and manager. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for 15 seasons, primarily as a shortstop on the Cleveland Indians, and managed four teams for 15 seasons including 10 seasons as a player-manager. He was also a radio announcer for the Chicago Cubs and in college was a dual-sport athlete in baseball and basketball, earning All-American honors in basketball for the University of Illinois.
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1976 Marcos Senna

Marcos Senna

Brazilian-Spanish footballer
Marcos Antônio Senna da Silva, known as Marcos Senna, is a former professional footballer who played as a defensive midfielder. He was known for his passing range and long-range shooting and was also a penalty specialist.
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1925 Mohammad Hasan Sharq

Mohammad Hasan Sharq

Afghan politician
Mohammad Hasan Sharq is an Afghan former communist politician who was active in the communist government of Afghanistan. Sharq became Chairman of the Council of Ministers – the government of the Soviet-backed Democratic Republic of Afghanistan. He was selected as a compromise candidate after a loya jirga ratified a new constitution in 1987. However, the power of his office was relatively slight compared with the powers held by the presidency.
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1942 Zoot Money

Zoot Money

English singer-songwriter and keyboard player (died 2024)
George Bruno "Zoot" Money was an English vocalist, keyboardist and bandleader. A Hammond organ player, he was the leader of the Big Roll Band. Inspired by Jerry Lee Lewis and Ray Charles, Money was drawn to rock and roll music and became involved in the music scenes of Bournemouth and Soho during the 1960s. He took his stage name "Zoot" from Zoot Sims after seeing him perform in concert.
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1974 Claudio López

Claudio López

Argentine footballer
Claudio Javier López is an Argentine former professional footballer, who played as a forward. Nicknamed Piojo (louse), he is best known for his spells with Valencia in Spain and Lazio in Italy. López also had a notable impact in the Argentina national team, participating in two World Cups.
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1952

Robert R. McCammon

American author
Robert Rick McCammon is an American novelist from Birmingham, Alabama. One of the influential names in the late 1970s–early 1990s American horror literature boom, by 1991 McCammon had three New York Times bestsellers and around 5 million books in print. Since 2002, he's written ten books in a historical mystery series featuring an 18th-century magistrate's clerk, Matthew Corbett, as he unravels mysteries in colonial America.
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1951 Mark Bowden

Mark Bowden

American journalist and author
Mark Bowden is an American journalist and writer. He is a former national correspondent and longtime contributor to The Atlantic. Bowden is best known for his book Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War (1999) about the 1993 U.S. military raid in Mogadishu, which was later adapted into a motion picture of the same name that received two Academy Awards.
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1950 Tengku Sulaiman Shah

Tengku Sulaiman Shah

Malaysian corporate figure
Tengku Sulaiman Shah is a Malaysian corporate figure and member of the Selangor royal family. He is the second son of the 8th Sultan, Sultan Salahuddin Abdul Aziz Shah Al-Haj and the brother of the 9th and current Sultan, Sultan Sharafuddin Idris Shah Al-Haj. Currently, he is second-in-line to throne of Selangor after his nephew, Tengku Amir Shah.
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1947 Wolfgang Flür

Wolfgang Flür

German musician (Kraftwerk)
Wolfgang Flür is a German musician, best known for playing percussion in the electronic group Kraftwerk from 1973 to 1987. Flür claims that he invented the electric drums the group used throughout the 1970s. However, patent records dispute this, citing Florian Schneider and Ralf Hütter as the creators.
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1888 Shmuel Yosef Agnon

Shmuel Yosef Agnon

Ukrainian-Israeli novelist, short story writer and poet, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1970)
Shmuel Yosef Agnon was an Austro-Hungarian-born Israeli novelist, poet, and short-story writer. He was one of the central figures of modern Hebrew literature. In Hebrew, he is known by the nom de plume Shai Agnon. In English, his works are published under the name S. Y. Agnon.
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1932 Wojciech Kilar

Wojciech Kilar

Polish pianist and composer (died 2013)
Wojciech Kilar was a Polish classical and film music composer. One of his greatest successes came with his score to Francis Ford Coppola's Bram Stoker's Dracula in 1992, which received the ASCAP Award and the nomination for the Saturn Award for Best Music. In 2003, he won the César Award for Best Film Music written for The Pianist, for which he also received a BAFTA nomination. In 2012, he became the recipient of Poland's highest distinction, the Order of the White Eagle.
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1956 Bryan Trottier

Bryan Trottier

Canadian-American ice hockey player and coach
Bryan John Trottier is a Canadian and American former professional ice hockey centre who played 18 seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the New York Islanders and Pittsburgh Penguins.
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1976 Anders Svensson

Anders Svensson

Swedish footballer and sportscaster
Anders Gunnar Svensson is a Swedish former professional footballer. He was a central midfielder, known for his passing, free kicks, and set piece-taking abilities, who usually operated in a playmaking role. He was capped 148 times for the Sweden national team, many times as a captain, before he retired from international football in 2013. He is the most capped male player for Sweden, beating Thomas Ravelli's previous record of 143 caps.
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1898 Berenice Abbott

Berenice Abbott

American photographer (died 1991)
Berenice Alice Abbott was an American photographer best known for her portraits of cultural figures of the interwar period, New York City photographs of architecture and urban design of the 1930s, and science interpretation of the 1940s to the 1960s.
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1920 Juan Antonio Samaranch

Juan Antonio Samaranch

Spanish businessman, 7th President of the International Olympic Committee (died 2010)
Juan Antonio Samaranch y Torelló, 1st Marquess of Samaranch was a Spanish sports administrator under the Franco regime (1973–1977) who served as the seventh president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) from 1980 to 2001.
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1963 Matti Nykänen

Matti Nykänen

Finnish ski jumper and singer (died 2019)
Matti Ensio Nykänen was a Finnish ski jumper who competed from 1981 to 1991. Known as "The Flying Finn", he is one of the most successful ski jumpers of all time, having won five Winter Olympic medals, nine World Championship medals, and 22 Finnish Championship medals. Most notably, he won three gold medals at the 1988 Winter Olympics, becoming, along with Yvonne van Gennip of the Netherlands, the most medaled athlete that winter.
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1905 William Gargan

William Gargan

American actor (died 1979)
William Dennis Gargan was an American film, television and radio actor. He was the 5th recipient of the Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award in 1967, and in 1941, was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role as Joe in They Knew What They Wanted. He acted in decades of movies including parts in Follow the Leader, Rain, Night Flight, Three Sons, Isle of Destiny and many others. The role he was best known for was that of a private detective Martin Kane in the 1949–1952 radio-television series Martin Kane, Private Eye. In television, he was also in 39 episodes of The New Adventures of Martin Kane.
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1932 Quino

Quino

Spanish-Argentinian cartoonist (died 2020)
Joaquín Salvador Lavado Tejón, better known by his pen name Quino, was an Argentine cartoonist. His comic strip Mafalda is popular in many parts of the Americas and Europe and has been praised for its use of social satire as a commentary on real-life issues.
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1882 James Somerville

James Somerville

English admiral and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Somerset (died 1949)
Admiral of the Fleet Sir James Fownes Somerville was a Royal Navy admiral. He served in the First World War as fleet wireless officer for the Mediterranean Fleet where he was involved in providing naval support for the Gallipoli Campaign. He also served in the Second World War as commander of the newly formed Force H: after the French armistice with Germany, Winston Churchill gave Somerville and Force H the task of neutralising the main element of the French battle fleet, then at Mers El Kébir in Algeria. After he had destroyed the French Battle fleet, Somerville played an important role in the pursuit and sinking of the German battleship Bismarck.
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1941 Bob Taylor

Bob Taylor

English cricketer
Robert William Taylor is an English former cricketer who played as wicket-keeper for Derbyshire between 1961 and 1984 and for England between 1971 and 1984. He made 57 Test and 639 first-class cricket appearances in total, taking 1,473 catches. The 2,069 victims across his entire career is the most of any wicket-keeper in first-class history. He is considered one of the world's most accomplished wicket-keepers. He made his first-class debut for Minor Counties against South Africa in 1960, having made his Staffordshire debut in 1958. He became Derbyshire's first choice wicket-keeper when George Dawkes sustained a career-ending injury. His final First Class appearance was at the Scarborough Festival in 1988. He remained first choice until his retirement except for a short period in 1964 when Laurie Johnson was tried as a batsman-wicketkeeper. He was a part of the English squad which finished as runners-up at the 1979 Cricket World Cup.
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1957 Bruce Crump

Bruce Crump

American drummer and songwriter (died 2015)
Bruce Hull Crump, Jr. was an American drummer. He is best known as a member of the rock band Molly Hatchet from 1976 to 1982 and from 1984 to 1991. He also played as a member of the Canadian band Streetheart in the early 1980s, appearing on their Live After Dark recording, and joined several of his former Molly Hatchet bandmates in the band Gator Country in the mid-2000s. At the time of his death, Crump was a member of the bands SMILEK, White Rhino and China Sky.
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1971 Calbert Cheaney

Calbert Cheaney

American basketball player and coach
Calbert Nathaniel Cheaney is an American basketball coach and former player who served as Director of player development for the Indiana Hoosiers men's basketball of the Big Ten. He starred as a player for the Indiana Hoosiers men's basketball from 1989 to 1993 under coach Bob Knight. Cheaney ended his career as a three-time All-American and remains the Big Ten's all-time leading scorer with 2,613 career points. He led Indiana to a 105–27 record and the NCAA Tournament all four years, including a Final Four appearance in 1992.
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1949 Charley Steiner

Charley Steiner

American journalist and sportscaster
Charles Harris Steiner is an American sportscaster and broadcast journalist. He is currently the radio play-by-play announcer for the Los Angeles Dodgers, paired with Rick Monday.
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1946 Ted Sampley

Ted Sampley

American POW/MIA activist (died 2009)
Theodore Lane Sampley was an American Vietnam War veteran and activist. He primarily advocated for those servicemen still considered missing in action or prisoners of war (POW-MIA) as of the end of hostilities in 1975. A staunch political conservative, he also ran for local political office several times. He is credited with the research that identified Air Force Lt. Michael Blassie as the Vietnam fatality buried at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, and for his role in organizing the annual Rolling Thunder motorcycle event in Washington. In Kinston, North Carolina, where he lived for much of his adult life, he was known for his local civic activism, most notably his effort to build a replica of the Confederate ironclad CSS Neuse, the only full-size replica of a Confederate ironclad, in the city's downtown.
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1917 Christiane Rochefort

Christiane Rochefort

French author (died 1998)
Christiane Rochefort was a French feminist writer. She was born into a left-wing working class Parisian family; her father joined the International Brigades during the Spanish Civil War. Rochefort worked as a journalist and spent fifteen years as a press attaché to the Cannes Film Festival before publishing her first novel, Le Repos du guerrier, in 1958. Like several of her later novels, Le Repos du guerrier was a bestseller; in 1962 it was adapted into a popular film directed by Roger Vadim and starring Brigitte Bardot. Her novels are divided between social realist satires set in present-day France and utopian or dystopian fantasies. She won the Prix Médicis in 1988. Rochefort's novels also have strong sexual elements.
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1921 George Barnes

George Barnes

American guitarist, producer, and songwriter (died 1977)
George Warren Barnes was an American jazz guitarist. He was also a conductor, composer, arranger, producer, author, and educator. He was hired by the NBC Orchestra at the age of 17, making him the youngest musician on staff. At 17, he was considered to be a great player by many musicians, including Tommy Dorsey, and Jimmy McPartland. Barnes was also proficient as a recording engineer. During his career, Barnes recorded with singers Mel Tormé, Ella Fitzgerald, Frank Sinatra, Bing Crosby, Patti Page, Dinah Washington, Lena Horne, Billy Eckstine and Johnny Mathis among many others. He was an inspiration to, and influenced guitarists Chet Atkins, Roy Clark, Herb Ellis and Merle Travis, among many others.
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1932 Red Kerr

Red Kerr

American basketball player and coach (died 2009)
John Graham Kerr, also known as Red Kerr, was an American basketball player, coach, executive and broadcaster who devoted six decades to the sport at all levels. In 2009, he was honored with the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame's John W. Bunn Lifetime Achievement Award for his contributions to basketball.
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1977 Marc Savard

Marc Savard

Canadian ice hockey player
Marc Savard is a Canadian former professional ice hockey centre, former assistant coach for the Toronto Maple Leafs, Calgary Flames, and St. Louis Blues of the National Hockey League (NHL), and former head coach of the Windsor Spitfires in the Ontario Hockey League. He was drafted by the New York Rangers with the 91st overall in the 1995 NHL entry draft. During his NHL career, Savard played for the Rangers, Calgary Flames, Atlanta Thrashers, and Boston Bruins. He was an assistant coach for the St. Louis Blues during the 2019–20 season.
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1499 Maria Salviati

Maria Salviati

Italian noblewoman (died 1543)
Maria Salviati was a Florentine noblewoman, the daughter of Lucrezia di Lorenzo de' Medici and Jacopo Salviati. She married Giovanni delle Bande Nere and was the mother of Cosimo I de Medici. Her husband died 30 November 1526, leaving her a widow at the age of 27. Salviati never remarried; after her husband's death she adopted the somber garb of a novice, which is how she is remembered today as numerous late portraits show her attired in black and white.
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1698 Pierre Louis Maupertuis

Pierre Louis Maupertuis

French mathematician and philosopher (died 1759)
Pierre Louis Moreau de Maupertuis was a French mathematician, philosopher and man of letters. He became the director of the Académie des Sciences and the first president of the Prussian Academy of Science, at the invitation of Frederick the Great.
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1916 Eleanor Hadley

Eleanor Hadley

American economist and policymaker (died 2007)
Eleanor Martha Hadley was an American economist and policymaker. Because of her relatively rare research specialization in Japanese economics, during World War II Hadley was recruited first into OSS and then the State Department to support the United States' war effort while she was a doctoral candidate in economics at Radcliffe College. Hadley helped draft the United States' plans for dissolving zaibatsu business conglomerates as part of a planned effort to democratize Japan after the war, and she participated in implementing this economic deconcentration program when the postwar occupation brought her to Japan to work for SCAP as an economist.
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1913 Bertrand Goldberg

Bertrand Goldberg

American architect, designed the Marina City Building (died 1997)
Bertrand Goldberg was an American architect and industrial designer, best known for the Marina City complex in Chicago, Illinois, the tallest reinforced concrete building in the world at the time of completion.
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1947 Joyce Anelay

Joyce Anelay

Baroness Anelay of St John's, English educator and politician
Joyce Anne Anelay, Baroness Anelay of St Johns,, is a British politician who has sat in the House of Lords since 1996 as a life peer. A member of the Conservative Party, she served as a Minister of State at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office from August 2014 to June 2017, when she was appointed a Minister of State at the Department for Exiting the European Union in the Second May ministry, after the 2017 reshuffle. She stood down from the role in October 2017 citing health reasons.
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1957 Wendy Freedman

Wendy Freedman

Canadian-American cosmologist and astronomer
Wendy Laurel Freedman is a Canadian-American astronomer, best known for her measurement of the Hubble constant, and as director of the Carnegie Observatories in Pasadena, California, and Las Campanas, Chile. She is now the John & Marion Sullivan University Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics at the University of Chicago. Her principal research interests are in observational cosmology, focusing on measuring both the current and past expansion rates of the universe, and on understanding if there is missing physics in the standard cosmological model.
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1942 Don Kessinger

Don Kessinger

American baseball player and manager
Donald Eulon Kessinger is an American former professional baseball player and manager. He played in Major League Baseball as a shortstop from 1964 to 1979, most prominently as a member of the Chicago Cubs, where he was a six-time All-Star and two-time Gold Glove Award winner. He ended his career playing for the St. Louis Cardinals and the Chicago White Sox.
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1901 Luigi Chinetti

Luigi Chinetti

Italian-American race car driver (died 1994)
Luigi Chinetti was an Italian-born racecar driver, who emigrated to the United States during World War II. He drove in 12 consecutive 24 Hours of Le Mans races, taking three outright wins there and taking two more at the Spa 24 Hours race. Chinetti owned the North American Racing Team, which successfully ran privateer Ferraris in sports car and Formula One races. For many years he was the exclusive American importer of Ferrari automobiles to the United States.
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1901 Bruno Jasieński

Bruno Jasieński

Polish poet and author (died 1938)
Bruno Jasieński was a Polish poet, novelist, playwright, Catastrophist, and leader of the Polish Futurist movement in the interwar period. Jasieński was also a communist activist in Poland, France and the Soviet Union, where he was executed during the Great Purge. He is acclaimed by members of the various modernist art groups as their patron. An annual literary festival Brunonalia is held in Klimontów, Poland, his birthplace, where one of the streets is also named after him.
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1932 Slick Leonard

Slick Leonard

American basketball player and coach (died 2021)
William Robert "Slick" Leonard was an American professional basketball player, coach and color commentator. He played college basketball for the Indiana Hoosiers, where he was a two-time All-American and a member of their national championship squad in 1953. After playing professionally in the National Basketball Association (NBA), Leonard coached the Indiana Pacers to three American Basketball Association (ABA) championships. He was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame as a coach in 2014.
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1914 Eleanor Steber

Eleanor Steber

American soprano and educator (died 1990)
Eleanor Steber was an American soprano and voice teacher. She was particularly celebrated for her performances in the operas of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Richard Strauss. A native of West Virginia, she was educated at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston where she began her performance career in the 1930s. She made her opera debut in 1936 at the Boston Opera House as Senta in Richard Wagner's The Flying Dutchman.
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1853 Alexius Meinong

Alexius Meinong

Ukrainian-Austrian philosopher and academic (died 1920)
Alexius Meinong von Handschuchsheim was an Austrian philosopher, a realist known for his unique ontology and theory of objects. He also made contributions to philosophy of mind and theory of value.
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1921 Mary Osborne

Mary Osborne

American guitarist (died 1992)
Mary Osborne was an American jazz guitarist. She began performing at a young age and was featured on a radio program in North Dakota, where she grew up. In New York City during the 1940s, she played with jazz musicians such as Dizzy Gillespie, Billie Holiday, Art Tatum, Coleman Hawkins, and Thelonious Monk. After moving to California in 1968, she and her husband founded the Osborne Guitar Company.
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1977 Leif Hoste

Leif Hoste

Belgian cyclist
Leif Hoste is a retired Belgian professional road racing cyclist, who last rode for UCI Professional Continental Team team Accent.jobs–Willems Veranda's. Born in Kortrijk, Hoste's career highlights included winning two stages and the overall title at the 2006 Three Days of De Panne, the 2001, 2006 and 2007 Belgian national time trial championships, and a second-place finish at the 2004, 2006 and 2007 one-day classic Tour of Flanders.
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1920 Gordon Gould

Gordon Gould

American physicist and academic, invented the laser (died 2005)
Richard Gordon Gould was an American physicist who is sometimes credited with the invention of the laser and the optical amplifier.. Gould is best known for his thirty-year fight with the United States Patent and Trademark Office to obtain patents for the laser and related technologies. He also fought with laser manufacturers in court battles to enforce the patents he subsequently did obtain.
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1910 James Coyne

James Coyne

Canadian lawyer and banker, 2nd Governor of the Bank of Canada (died 2012)
James Elliott Coyne was a Canadian economist who served as the second governor of the Bank of Canada, from 1955 to 1961, succeeding Graham Towers. During his time in office, he had a much-publicized debate with Prime Minister John Diefenbaker, a debate often referred to as the "Coyne Affair", which led to his resignation and, eventually, to greater central-bank independence in Canada.
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1992 Nick Bjugstad

Nick Bjugstad

American ice hockey player
Nicholas Jay Bjugstad is an American professional ice hockey player who is a forward for the New Jersey Devils of the National Hockey League (NHL). He was selected by the Florida Panthers in the first round of the 2010 NHL entry draft.
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1954 Edward Natapei

Edward Natapei

Vanuatuan politician, 6th Prime Minister of Vanuatu (died 2015)
Edward Nipake Natapei Tuta Fanua`araki was a Vanuatuan politician. He was the prime minister of Vanuatu on two occasions, and was previously the minister of Foreign Affairs briefly in 1991, the acting president of Vanuatu from 2 March 1999 to 24 March 1999 and the deputy prime minister. He was the president of the Vanua'aku Pati, a socialist, Anglophone political party.
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1982 Omari Banks

Omari Banks

Anguillan cricketer
Omari Ahmed Clement Banks is an Anguillan musician and former cricketer, who appeared in 10 Test matches for the West Indies, as well as domestic matches for the Leeward Islands. In 2011, Banks began to pursue his musical career professionally and has been less involved in playing regional cricket, and officially retired from cricket on 31 January 2012.
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1932 Ian Moir

Ian Moir

Australian rugby league player (died 1990)
Ian James Moir (1931–1990) was an Australian professional rugby league footballer, a champion wing three-quarter who played in the 1950s and 1960s for South Sydney and Western Suburbs. He made eight Test appearances for the Australian national representative side and represented in four World Cup matches in two World Cups and in 14 Kangaroo tour matches.
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1839 Ephraim Shay

Ephraim Shay

American engineer, invented the Shay locomotive (died 1916)
Ephraim Shay was an American merchant, entrepreneur and self-taught railroad engineer who worked in the state of Michigan. He designed the Shay locomotive and patented the type. He licensed it for manufacture through what became known as Lima Locomotive Works in Ohio; from 1882 to 1892 some 300 locomotives of this type were sold.
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1923

John Cooper

English car designer, co-founded the Cooper Car Company (died 2000)
John Newton Cooper was a co-founder, with his father Charles Cooper, of the Cooper Car Company. Born in Surbiton, Surrey, United Kingdom, he became an auto racing legend with his rear-engined chassis design that would eventually change the face of the sport at its highest levels, from Formula One to the Indianapolis 500.
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1983 Adam Lind

Adam Lind

American baseball player
Adam Alan Lind is an American former professional baseball first baseman and designated hitter. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Toronto Blue Jays, Milwaukee Brewers, Seattle Mariners, and Washington Nationals. Lind has also appeared in left field. In 2009, Lind won the Silver Slugger Award and the Edgar Martínez Award.
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1955 Sylvie Léonard

Sylvie Léonard

Canadian actress and screenwriter
Sylvie Léonard is a French-Canadian actress. She has acted in theater, film and television for over 40 years. Her most notable roles include Mimi Jarry in Rue des Pignons, Annick Jacquemin in Terre Humaine, Julie Galarneau in L'Héritage, Sylvie in Un gars, une fille and most recently Madeleine in Lâcher prise.
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1960

Dawn Upshaw

American soprano
Dawn Upshaw is an American soprano. She is the recipient of several Grammy Awards and has released a number of Edison Award-winning discs. She performs both opera and art song, and her repertoire spans Baroque to contemporary. Many composers, including Henri Dutilleux, Osvaldo Golijov, John Harbison, Esa-Pekka Salonen, David Bruce, John Adams, and Kaija Saariaho, have written for her. In 2007, she was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship. In 2006, she founded the Graduate Vocal Arts Program at Bard College Conservatory of Music in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, serving as artistic director until 2019. She serves as head of the Vocal Arts Program at the Tanglewood Music Center in Lenox, Massachusetts.
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1902 Christina Stead

Christina Stead

Australian author and academic (died 1983)
Christina Stead was an Australian novelist and short-story writer acclaimed for her satirical wit and penetrating psychological characterisations. Christina Stead was a committed Marxist, although she was never a member of the Communist Party. She spent much of her life outside Australia, although she returned before her death.
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1901 Patrick Smith

Patrick Smith

Irish farmer and politician, Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (died 1982)
Patrick Smith was an Irish Fianna Fáil politician, who served as a Teachta Dála (TD) from 1923 until 1977, a tenure of 53 years, and the longest in the state. He held a number of ministerial positions within the governments of Éamon de Valera and Seán Lemass.
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1918 Carlos Manuel Arana Osorio

Carlos Manuel Arana Osorio

Guatemalan soldier and politician, President of Guatemala (died 2003)
Carlos Manuel Arana Osorio was a military officer and politician who served as the 35th president of Guatemala from 1970 to 1974. A member of the National Liberation Movement, his government enforced torture, disappearances, and killings against political and military adversaries, as well as common criminals.
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1944 Mark Burgess

Mark Burgess

New Zealand cricketer and footballer
Mark Gordon Burgess is a former cricketer who played Test cricket for New Zealand from 1968 to 1980, captaining the team from 1978 to 1980. A right-handed batsman, who bowled right-arm off-breaks, Burgess played in New Zealand's first One Day International (ODI) in 1973.
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1975 Andre Adams

Andre Adams

New Zealand cricketer
Andre Ryan Adams is a New Zealand cricket coach and former cricketer of Caribbean descent. He played international cricket for New Zealand and is noted for playing in New Zealand's first T20I against Australia in 2005 where he was awarded cap number 1.
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1978 Jason Jennings

Jason Jennings

American baseball player
Jason Ryan Jennings is an American former professional baseball pitcher. He pitched in Major League Baseball with the Colorado Rockies (2001-2006), Houston Astros (2007) and Texas Rangers (2008-2009). Jennings won the 2002 National League Rookie of the Year Award.
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1933 Mimi Hines

Mimi Hines

Canadian singer and comedian (died 2024)
Mimi Hines was a Canadian actress, singer, and comedian, best known for her appearances on The Ed Sullivan Show, The Tonight Show and her work on Broadway. She succeeded Barbra Streisand in the original production of Funny Girl.
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1969 Scott Johnson

Scott Johnson

American cartoonist
Scott Blaine Johnson is an American cartoonist, illustrator, game designer, and podcaster. He lives in South Jordan, Utah, with his wife and three children. In 2008, Johnson launched Frog Pants Studios, LLC, an illustration and audio production company.
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1966 Sten Tolgfors

Sten Tolgfors

Swedish lawyer and politician, 30th Swedish Minister of Defence
Sten Sture Tolgfors is a Swedish former politician, public affairs executive and government official who is serving as Governor of Västra Götaland County since 1 September 2022, having been appointed to the position on 9 June 2022.
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1972

Eric Williams

American basketball player
Eric C. Williams is an American former professional basketball player who played in the National Basketball Association (NBA) from 1995 to 2007. He played for seven teams during his career, including two stints with the Boston Celtics.
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1873 Many Benner

Many Benner

French painter (died 1965)
Emmanuel Michel Benner, known as Many Benner, was a French painter. The son of Jean Benner, Many was the nephew of his father's twin brother, also named Emmanuel Benner. All four Benners were painters.
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1946 Chris Crutcher

Chris Crutcher

American novelist and short story writer
Chris Crutcher is an American novelist and a family therapist. He received the Margaret A. Edwards Award from the American Library Association in 2000 for his lifetime contribution in writing for teens.
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1952 Thé Lau

Thé Lau

Dutch singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2015)
Matheus J. "Thé" Lau was a Dutch musician and writer. Besides his solo career, he was the lead singer of the Dutch band The Scene. He was born in Bergen, North Holland.
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1959 Pola Uddin

Pola Uddin

Baroness Uddin, Bangladeshi-English politician
Manzila Pola Uddin, Baroness Uddin is a British life peer-member of the House of Lords and community activist. In 2009 she was included on The Guardian's Muslim Women Power List for Britain.
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1938 Hermann Huppen

Hermann Huppen

Belgian author and illustrator (died 2026)
Hermann Huppen, better known by the pen-name Hermann, was a Belgian comic book creator. He was most famous for his post-apocalyptic comic Jeremiah which was made into a television series.
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1951 Andrew Robathan

Andrew Robathan

English soldier and politician, Minister of State for the Armed Forces
Andrew Robert George Robathan, Baron Robathan, is a British Conservative Party politician, who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for South Leicestershire in Leicestershire as well as a government minister.
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1911 Heinz Lehmann

Heinz Lehmann

German-Canadian psychiatrist and academic (died 1999)
Heinz Edgar Lehmann was a German-born Canadian psychiatrist best known for his use of chlorpromazine for the treatment of schizophrenia in 1950s and "truly the father of modern psychopharmacology."
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1926 Édouard Carpentier

Édouard Carpentier

French-Canadian wrestler (died 2010)
Édouard Ignacz Weiczorkiewicz, better known by his ring name Édouard Carpentier, was a French and Canadian professional wrestler, gymnast, and member of the French Resistance during World War II.
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1950 Sadhan Chandra Majumder

Sadhan Chandra Majumder

Bangladeshi politician
Sadhan Chandra Majumder is a Bangladeshi politician who served as the minister of food during 2019–2024 and a former member of Jatiya Sangsad representing the Naogaon-1 constituency during 2009–2024.
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1919 Albert Stubbins

Albert Stubbins

English footballer (died 2002)
Albert Stubbins was an English footballer who played as a centre forward. Beginning his career at Newcastle United, the onset of World War II limited his playing time.
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1823 Leander Clark

Leander Clark

American businessman, judge, and politician (died 1910)
Leander Clark was an American businessman, Iowa state legislator, Union Army officer during the Civil War, and Indian agent who was the namesake for Leander Clark College.
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1960 Jan Wouters

Jan Wouters

Dutch footballer and manager
Jan Jacobus Wouters is a Dutch professional football coach and former player. He played as a defensive midfielder and was Dutch Footballer of the Year in 1990.
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1921 Louis Lachenal

Louis Lachenal

French mountaineer (died 1955)
Louis Lachenal, a French climber born in Annecy, Haute-Savoie, was one of the first two mountaineers to climb a summit of more than 8,000 meters.
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1960 Nancy Giles

Nancy Giles

American journalist and actress
Nancy Giles is an American actress and commentator, perhaps best known for her appearances in the series China Beach and on CBS News Sunday Morning.
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1943

LaVyrle Spencer

American author and educator
LaVyrle Spencer is an American best-selling author of contemporary and historical romance novels. She has successfully published a number of books, with several of them made into movies. Twelve of her books have been New York Times bestsellers, and Spencer was inducted into the Romance Writers of America Hall of Fame in 1988. She retired from writing in 1997.
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1933 Tony Pithey

Tony Pithey

Zimbabwean-South African cricketer (died 2006)
Anthony John Pithey was a Rhodesian cricketer who played in seventeen Test matches for South Africa between 1957 and 1965. He also made 65 appearances for Rhodesia, captaining them 34 times.
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1923

Jeanne Block

American psychologist (died 1981)
Jeanne Lavonne Humphrey Block was an American psychologist and expert on child development. She conducted research on sex-role socialization and theories of personality. Block was a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and conducted her research with the National Institute of Mental Health and the University of California, Berkeley. She retired in 1981 after being diagnosed with cancer, and died in December of the same year.
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1921

František Zvarík

Slovak actor (died 2008)
František Zvarík was a Slovak actor. He played over 50 years in Slovak National Theatre and was a movie character actor. He has appeared in about two dozen Czechoslovak and Slovak films since the 1940s. Among his accomplishments is the key supporting role of the town commander Markuš Kolkotský in The Shop on Main Street, a film which won the 1965 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.
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1972

Donny Marshall

American basketball player and sportscaster
Donald Evert Canaday Marshall is an American former professional basketball player who played five seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA) for the Cleveland Cavaliers and New Jersey Nets. He is currently a college basketball television analyst for Fox Sports 1, NBC Sports, Westwood One National Radio and CBSSN.
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1986

DeAngelo Smith

American football player
DeAngelo Lamar Smith is an American former professional football player who was a safety in the National Football League (NFL) for the Detroit Lions. He played college football for the Cincinnati Bearcats and was selected by the Dallas Cowboys in the fifth round of the 2009 NFL draft.
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1981

Hely Ollarves

Venezuelan runner
Hely Domingo Ollarves Arias is a male track and field athlete from Venezuela. He competed in the men's 4 × 100 metres relay at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia, where he was eliminated in the first round alongside José Carabalí, Juan Morillo, and José Peña.
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1941

Achim Warmbold

German race car driver and manager
Achim Warmbold is a German former rally driver. He won the West German Rally Championship in 1971 and 1980, and scored two outright victories during the inaugural World Rally Championship season in 1973 at the Rally of Poland and Austrian Alpine Rally events.
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1992

Tatu Sinisalo

Finnish actor
Tatu Johannes Sinisalo is a Finnish actor. He is known for his first film role as the singer Toni Wirtanen in the 2016 film Born in Heinola. He also played the young Kari Tapio in the 2019 biographical film King of Hearts.
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1870

Charles Davidson Dunbar

Scottish soldier and bagpipe player (died 1939)
Charles Davidson Dunbar, DCM was the first pipe major to be commissioned as a pipe officer in Britain and the British Empire. He emigrated from Scotland to Canada, where he came to be called "Canada's greatest military piper".
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1774

John Wilbur

American minister and theologian (died 1856)
John Wilbur was a prominent American Quaker minister and religious thinker who was at the forefront of a controversy that led to "the second split" in the Religious Society of Friends in the United States.
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1945

John Patten

Baron Patten, English politician, Secretary of State for Education
John Haggitt Charles Patten, Baron Patten, is a British politician. He was formerly Conservative Member of Parliament for Oxford and subsequently for Oxford West and Abingdon.
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1531 Antoine de Créqui Canaples

Antoine de Créqui Canaples

Roman Catholic cardinal (died 1574)
Antoine de Créqui Canaples (1531–1574) was a French Roman Catholic bishop and cardinal.
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1695 Christian Karl Reinhard of Leiningen-Dachsburg-Falkenburg-Heidesheim (died 1766)

Christian Karl Reinhard of Leiningen-Dachsburg-Falkenburg-Heidesheim (died 1766)

Count Christian Karl Reinhard of Leiningen-Dagsburg-Falkenburg was a German nobleman.
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1708 Frederick Christian

Frederick Christian

Margrave of Brandenburg-Bayreuth (died 1769)
Frederick Christian of Brandenburg-Bayreuth, was a member of the House of Hohenzollern and Margrave of Brandenburg-Bayreuth.
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1714

Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten

German philosopher and academic (died 1762)
Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten was a German philosopher. He established aesthetics as a philosophical discipline.
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1837 Joseph-Alfred Mousseau

Joseph-Alfred Mousseau

Canadian lawyer, judge, and politician, 7th Secretary of State for Canada (died 1886)
Joseph-Alfred Mousseau, was a Canadian lawyer and politician, who served in the federal Cabinet and also as the sixth premier of Quebec.
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1868 Henri Nathansen

Henri Nathansen

Danish director and playwright (died 1944)
Henri Nathansen was a Danish writer and stage director, today best known for the play Indenfor Murene.
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1896

Rupert Atkinson

English RAF officer (died 1919)
Captain Rupert Norman Gould Atkinson was a British World War I flying ace credited with five aerial victories.
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1898 Osmond Borradaile

Osmond Borradaile

Canadian soldier and cinematographer (died 1999)
Osmond Hudson Borradaile was a Canadian cameraman, cinematographer, and veteran of World War I and World War II.
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1911 Lionel Ferbos

Lionel Ferbos

American trumpet player (died 2014)
Lionel Charles Ferbos was an American jazz trumpeter. He was from New Orleans, Louisiana.
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1912

Erwin Bauer

German race car driver (died 1958)
Erwin Erich Bauer was a German Formula One driver who raced a privately entered Veritas in his one World Championship Grand Prix.
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1915 Arthur Rothstein

Arthur Rothstein

American photographer and educator (died 1985)
Arthur Rothstein was an American photographer. His career spanned five decades, and he received recognition as one of America's premier photojournalists.
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1915 Bijon Bhattacharya

Bijon Bhattacharya

Indian actor, singer, and screenwriter (died 1978)
Bijon Bhattacharya was an Indian actor from West Bengal associated with Bengali theatre and films. He was an eminent playwright and dramatist.
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1924 Garde Gardom

Garde Gardom

Canadian lawyer and politician, 26th Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia (died 2013)
Garde Basil Gardom, was a Canadian politician, lawyer, and the 26th Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia.
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1929 Arthur Frommer

Arthur Frommer

American travel writer (died 2024)
Arthur Bernard Frommer was an American travel writer known for founding the Frommer's brand of travel guides.
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1929 Sergei K. Godunov

Sergei K. Godunov

Russian mathematician and academic (died 2023)
Sergei Konstantinovich Godunov was a Soviet and Russian professor at the Sobolev Institute of Mathematics of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Novosibirsk, Russia.
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1932 Hal Riney

Hal Riney

American businessman, founded Publicis & Hal Riney (died 2008)
Hal Patrick Riney was an American advertising executive.
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1932

Karla Kuskin

American author and illustrator (died 2009)
Karla Kuskin was a prolific American author, poet, illustrator, and reviewer of children's literature. Kuskin was known for her poetic, alliterative style.
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1932

Niccolò Castiglioni

Italian composer (died 1996)
Niccolò Castiglioni was an Italian composer, pianist, and writer on music.
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1933 Karmenu Mifsud Bonnici

Karmenu Mifsud Bonnici

Maltese politician, 9th Prime Minister of Malta (died 2022)
Karmenu Mifsud Bonnici, was a Maltese politician who served as Prime Minister of Malta from December 1984 to May 1987.
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1933 Keiko Awaji

Keiko Awaji

Japanese actress (died 2014)
Keiko Awaji was a Japanese stage and film actress.
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1939

Andrée Champagne

Canadian actress and politician (died 2020)
Andrée Champagne was a Canadian actress, pianist and politician.
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1940 Tim Brooke-Taylor

Tim Brooke-Taylor

English actor and screenwriter (died 2020)
Timothy Julian Brooke-Taylor was an English actor and comedian. He was best known as a member of The Goodies.
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1940 Verne Lundquist

Verne Lundquist

American sportscaster
Merton Laverne Lundquist Jr. is an American former sportscaster known for his long career with CBS Sports.
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1947 Mick Tucker

Mick Tucker

English rock drummer (Sweet) (died 2002)
Michael Thomas Tucker was an English musician, best known as the drummer of the glam rock and hard rock band Sweet.
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1947 Queen Camilla

Queen Camilla

Queen Consort of King Charles III of the United Kingdom
Camilla is Queen of the United Kingdom and the 14 other Commonwealth realms as the wife of King Charles III.
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1947

Robert Begerau

German footballer and manager
Robert Begerau is a former German footballer.
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1948 Luc Bondy

Luc Bondy

Swiss director and producer (died 2015)
Luc Bondy was a Swiss theatre and film director.
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1958 Suzanne Moore

Suzanne Moore

English journalist
Suzanne Lynn Moore is an English journalist.
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1958 Thérèse Rein

Thérèse Rein

Australian businesswoman, founded Ingeus
Thérèse Virginia Rein is an Australian entrepreneur who is the founder of Ingeus, an international employment and business psychology services company.
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1960

Kim Barnett

English cricketer and coach
Kim John Barnett is an English former cricketer. Barnett was a batsman who played internationally for England between 1988 and 1989.
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1969 Jaan Kirsipuu

Jaan Kirsipuu

Estonian cyclist
Jaan Kirsipuu is an Estonian former road bicycle racer, who currently works as a directeur sportif for UCI Continental team Voltas–Tartu 2024 by CCN.
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1971 Nico Mattan

Nico Mattan

Belgian cyclist
Nico Mattan is a Belgian former road racing cyclist. His greatest achievement in cycling was winning the Gent–Wevelgem classic in 2005.
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1975

Loretta Harrop

Australian triathlete
Loretta "Loz" Harrop is an Australian triathlete.
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1977

Andrew Downton

Australian cricketer
Andrew Graham Downton is an Australian cricketer, who played for the Tasmanian Tigers. He plays club cricket for South Hobart/Sandy Bay Cricket Club.
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1978

Ricardo Arona

Brazilian mixed martial artist
Ricardo Arona is a Brazilian former professional mixed martial artist, submission grappler and 4th degree Brazilian jiu-jitsu (BJJ) black belt practitioner.
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1980

Javier Camuñas

Spanish footballer
Javier Camuñas Gallego is a Spanish former professional footballer. A versatile midfielder, he could also operate as a second striker.
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1985 Loui Eriksson

Loui Eriksson

Swedish ice hockey player
Loui William Eriksson is a Swedish former professional ice hockey forward.
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1985 Neil McGregor

Neil McGregor

Scottish footballer
Neil McGregor is a Scottish former football defender who has previously played in the Scottish Premier League for Dundee.
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1998

Rosana Serrano

Cuban rower
Rosana Serrano is a Cuban rower.
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2002 Jordan Lawlar

Jordan Lawlar

American baseball player
Jordan Jeffrey-Joseph Lawlar is an American professional baseball outfielder for the Arizona Diamondbacks of Major League Baseball (MLB).
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