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The Army Appropriation Bill created by an act of Congress on 2 March 1899 authorized the creation of the first body of native troops in Puerto Rico
Famous Birthdays on July 8
172 people
1478 – 1999
July 8 has seen 172 notable people enter the world across recorded history — from 1478 – 1999. Below are the most significant names born on this date.
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1910 — Carlos Betances Ramírez
Puerto Rican general (died 2001)
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The 65th Infantry Regiment, nicknamed "The Borinqueneers" during the Korean War for the original Arawak Native Taino name for Puerto Rico (Borinquen), is a Puerto Rican regiment of the United States Army
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On 30 June 1901, the "Porto Rico Provisional Regiment of Infantry" was organized
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On 1 July 1908, Congress incorporated the regiment into the Regular Army as the Puerto Rico Regiment of Infantry, United States Army
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On 14 May 1917, the regiment was activated and additional men were assigned, with the unit being sent to serve at Panama
Italian linguist, poet, and playwright (died 1550)
Gian Giorgio Trissino, also called Giovan Giorgio Trissino and self-styled as Giovan Giꞷrgio Trissino, was a Venetian Renaissance humanist, poet, dramatist, diplomat, grammarian, linguist, and philosopher. He first…
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1478
Duke of Savoy (died 1580)
Emmanuel Philibert, known as Testa di ferro, was the 10th Duke of Savoy and ruler of the Savoyard states from 17 August 1553 until his death in 1580. He is notably remembered for restoring the Savoyard state, which had…
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1528
Roman Catholic cardinal (died 1585)
Alberto Bolognetti (1538–1585) was an Italian law professor, bishop, diplomat, and cardinal. He was appointed by Pope Gregory XIII as a papal nuncio to Florence, Venice, and the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. In that…
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1538
1545
Italian painter (died 1653)
Artemisia Lomi Gentileschi was an Italian Baroque painter. Gentileschi is considered among the most accomplished 17th-century artists, initially working in the style of Caravaggio. She was producing professional work by…
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1593
French author and poet (died 1695)
Jean de La Fontaine was a French fabulist and one of the most widely read French poets of the 17th century. He is known above all for his Fables, which provided a model for subsequent fabulists across Europe and…
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1621
French mathematician and academic (died 1826)
Christian Kramp was a French mathematician, who worked primarily with factorials.
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1760
French surgeon (died 1842)
Dominique Jean, Baron Larrey was a French surgeon and soldier best known for his service in the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. An important innovator in battlefield medicine and triage, Larrey invented the…
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1766
Maltese painter and architect (died 1851)
Giorgio Pullicino was a Maltese painter, architect, and professor of drawing and architecture at the University of Malta. He is known for his harbour views painted in a number of media, and he is also considered to be…
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1779
Irish admiral and explorer (died 1907)
Admiral Sir Francis Leopold McClintock was an Irish explorer in the British Royal Navy, known for his discoveries in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago. He confirmed explorer John Rae's controversial report gathered from…
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1819
American lawyer and politician, 6th United States Assistant Secretary of State (died 1915)
Frederick William Seward was an American politician and member of the Republican Party who served twice as the Assistant Secretary of State. He served as Assistant Secretary from 1861 to 1869 when his father, William H.…
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1830
American chemist and pharmacist, invented Coca-Cola (died 1888)
John Stith Pemberton was an American pharmacist, chemist, and Confederate States Army officer who is best known as the inventor of Coca-Cola. On May 8, 1886, he developed an early version of a beverage that would later…
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1831
English businessman and politician, Secretary of State for the Colonies (died 1914)
Joseph Chamberlain was a British statesman who was first a radical Liberal, then a Liberal Unionist after opposing home rule for Ireland, and eventually was a leading imperialist in coalition with the Conservatives. He…
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1836
1838
German general and businessman, founded the Zeppelin Airship Company (died 1917)
Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin was a German general and later inventor of the Zeppelin rigid airships. His name became synonymous with airships and dominated long-distance flight until the 1930s. He founded the company…
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1838
American businessman and philanthropist, founded the Standard Oil Company (died 1937)
John Davison Rockefeller Sr. was an American businessman and philanthropist. He was one of the wealthiest Americans of all time and one of the richest people in modern history. Rockefeller was born into a large family…
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1839
English archaeologist and academic (died 1941)
Sir Arthur John Evans was a British archaeologist and pioneer in the study of Aegean civilization in the Bronze Age.
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1851
Australian politician, 23rd Premier of Victoria (died 1916)
John (Jack) Murray was an Australian politician who was the 23rd premier of Victoria from 1909 to 1912.
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1851
French psychologist and graphologist (died 1911)
Alfred Binet, born Alfredo Binetti, was a French psychologist who together with Théodore Simon invented the first practical intelligence test, the Binet–Simon test. In 1904, Binet took part in a commission set up by the…
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1857
German painter and sculptor (died 1945)
Käthe Kollwitz was a German artist who worked with painting, printmaking and sculpture. Her most famous art cycles, including The Weavers and The Peasant War, depict the effects of poverty, hunger and war on the working…
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1867
Greek sociologist and politician, Prime Minister of Greece (died 1936)
Alexandros Papanastasiou was a Greek lawyer, sociologist and politician who served twice as the prime minister of Greece during the interwar period. He was a pioneer in the establishment of the Second Hellenic Republic.
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1876
Australian-American pianist and composer (died 1961)
Percy Aldridge Grainger was an Australian-born composer, arranger and pianist who moved to the United States in 1914 and became an American citizen in 1918. In the course of a long and innovative career he played a…
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1882
German philosopher, author, and academic (died 1977)
Ernst Simon Bloch was a German Marxist philosopher. Bloch was influenced by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel and Karl Marx, as well as by apocalyptic and religious thinkers such as Thomas Müntzer, Paracelsus, and Jacob…
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1885
1885
American painter (died 1973)
Stanton Macdonald-Wright, was a modern American artist. He was a co-founder of Synchromism, an early abstract, color-based mode of painting, which was the first American avant-garde art movement to receive international…
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1890
English author and poet (died 1962)
Richard Aldington was an English writer and poet. He was an early associate of the Imagist movement. His 50-year writing career produced "143 separate titles, including poetry, literary criticism, fiction, essays,…
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1892
Russian painter (died 1967)
Pavel Dmitriyevich Korin was a Russian painter and art restorer. He is famous for his preparational work for the unimplemented painting Farewell to Rus.
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1892
American historian and author (died 1968)
Roscoe Carlyle Buley was an American historian and educator.
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1893
Russian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1984)
Pyotr Leonidovich Kapitsa or Peter Kapitza was a leading Soviet Russian physicist and Nobel laureate, whose research focused on low-temperature physics.
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1894
Russian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1971)
Igor Yevgenyevich Tamm was a Soviet physicist who received the 1958 Nobel Prize in Physics, jointly with Pavel Alekseyevich Cherenkov and Ilya Mikhailovich Frank, for their 1934 discovery and demonstration of Cherenkov…
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1895
1898
American pianist, composer, and author (died 1959)
George Johann Carl Antheil was an American avant-garde composer, pianist, author, and inventor whose modernist musical compositions explored the sounds – musical, industrial, and mechanical – of the early 20th century.…
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1900
French mathematician and academic (died 2008)
Henri Paul Cartan was a French mathematician who made substantial contributions to algebraic topology.
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1904
Russian animator and director (died 1997)
Leonid Alekseyevich Amalrik was a Soviet animator and animation director. He was named Honoured Artist of the RSFSR in 1965.
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1905
American architect, designed the IDS Center and PPG Place (died 2005)
Philip Cortelyou Johnson was an American architect who designed modern and postmodern architecture. Among his best-known designs are his modernist Glass House in New Canaan, Connecticut; the postmodern 550 Madison…
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1906
American businessman and politician, 43rd Governor of Michigan (died 1995)
George Wilcken Romney was an American businessman and politician. A member of the Republican Party, he served as chairman and president of American Motors Corporation from 1954 to 1962, the 43rd governor of Michigan…
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1907
American singer-songwriter, saxophonist, and actor (died 1975)
Louis Thomas Jordan was an American jazz, blues and jump blues saxophonist, vocalist, songwriter and bandleader who was popular from the late 1930s to the early 1950s. Known as "the King of the Jukebox", he earned his…
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1908
American businessman and politician, 41st Vice President of the United States (died 1979)
Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller was the 41st vice president of the United States, serving from 1974 to 1977 under President Gerald Ford. A member of the Republican Party and the wealthy Rockefeller family, he was the 49th…
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1908
Indian economist, politician, professor and educator (died 1991)
Vijayendra Kasturi Ranga Varadaraja Rao was an Indian economist, politician and educator.
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1908
English soldier (died 1971)
Brigadier Alan Ward Brown was a British Army tank officer of the Second World War.
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1909
American football player (died 1995)
Kenneth Anthony "Ike" Petersen was an American professional football back who played two seasons in the National Football League (NFL) with the Chicago Cardinals and Detroit Lions. He played college football at Gonzaga…
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1909
English cricketer (died 1941)
Kenneth Farnes was an English cricketer. He played in fifteen Tests from 1934 to 1939.
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1911
Spanish politician (died 2017)
Alejandra Soler Gilabert was a Spanish politician and schoolteacher. She also worked for the Diplomatic Academy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation.
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1913
Indian politician, 6th Chief Minister of West Bengal (died 2010)
Jyoti Basu was an Indian Marxist theorist, communist activist, and politician. He was one of the most prominent leaders of Communist movement in India. He served as the 6th and longest serving Chief Minister of West…
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1914
American singer and trumpet player (died 1993)
William Clarence Eckstine was an American jazz and pop singer and a bandleader during the swing and bebop eras. He was noted for his rich, almost operatic bass-baritone voice. In 2019, Eckstine was posthumously awarded…
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1914
American Air Force major general (died 2019)
Neil David Van Sickle was an American Air Force major general who was the deputy inspector general at Headquarters, United States Air Force, Washington, D.C.
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1915
United States Marine Corps general (died 2005)
Lowell Edward English was a highly decorated officer in the United States Marine Corps who served in World War II, Korea, and Vietnam. He is most noted for his service as assistant division commander of 3rd Marine…
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1915
American author, actress and screenwriter (died 2017)
Jean Rouverol was an American actress, screenwriter and author who was blacklisted by the Hollywood movie studios in the 1950s.
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1916
English actress (died 1975)
Pamela Mary Brown was a British actress. For her portrayal of Queen Victoria's mother Princess Victoria, Duchess of Kent in Victoria Regina (1961) she was awarded the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting…
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1917
American actress (died 1983)
Faye Margaret Emerson was an American film and stage actress and television interviewer who gained fame as a film actress in the 1940s before transitioning to television in the 1950s and hosting her own talk show.
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1917
American novelist and short story writer (died 1999)
James Farl Powers was an American novelist and short story writer who often drew his inspiration from developments in the Catholic Church, and was known for his studies of Catholic priests in the Midwest. Although not a…
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1917
American businessman, soldier, and diplomat, 12th United States Secretary of the Navy (died 2009)
Paul Burgess Fay Jr. was the Acting United States Secretary of the Navy in November 1963, and a close confidant of President John F. Kennedy.
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1918
American illustrator (died 2015)
Irwin Hasen was an American cartoonist best known as the creator of the Dondi comic strip. He also had a significant run on DC Comics' original Green Lantern, Alan Scott, in the 1940s as well as creating Wildcat for the…
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1918
Norwegian resistance member and pilot (died 2002)
Oluf Bernhard Reed-Olsen was a Norwegian resistance member and pilot during World War II. As a resistance member he is best known for the Lysaker Bridge sabotage as well as operating illegal radio transmitters. After…
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1918
British spy working for MI5 (died 2008)
Elizabeth Mary Julia Pirie is best known as a British spy who worked for MI5 from the 1950s through her retirement in the 1990s. She was known to her family as Elizabeth, but as Julia by her MI5 colleagues. She was…
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1918
American Air Force major general (died 2017)
Edward Bonfoy Giller was a United States Air Force (USAF) major general who served as the assistant general manager for military application, United States Atomic Energy Commission, Germantown, Maryland. Giller was…
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1918
American actor (died 2000)
Craig Stevens was an American film and television actor, best known for his starring role on television as private detective Peter Gunn from 1958 to 1961.
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1918
German soldier and politician, 4th President of West Germany (died 2016)
Walter Scheel was a German statesman. A former member of the Nazi Party who joined the Free Democratic Party of Germany (FDP) in 1946, he first served in government as the Federal Minister of Economic Cooperation and…
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1919
Danish businessman (died 1995)
Godtfred Kirk Christiansen was a Danish businessman who was the managing director of the Lego Group from 1957 to 1973. He was the third son of company founder Ole Kirk Christiansen and took over as managing director in…
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1920
New Zealand psychologist and sexologist, known for his research on gender identity, and responsible for controversial involuntary sex reassignment of David Reimer (died 2006)
John William Money was a New Zealand American psychologist, sexologist and professor at Johns Hopkins University known for his research on human sexual behavior and gender.
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1921
American sprinter and hurdler (died 2019)
William Harrison "Bones" Dillard was an American track and field athlete, who is the only male in the history of the Olympic Games to win gold in both the 100 meter (sprints) and the 110 meter hurdles, making him the…
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1923
American actor (died 2021)
Valentine John Bettin was an American actor, known for using an English accent in all of his roles. He is perhaps best known for voicing Dr. David Q. Dawson in the 1986 Disney animated film The Great Mouse Detective and…
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1923
American pianist and songwriter (died 2005)
Johnnie Clyde Johnson was an American pianist who played jazz, blues, and rock and roll. His work with Chuck Berry led to his induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. He was posthumously awarded the Congressional…
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1924
American politician (died 2025)
Charles Clinton Droz was an American politician from Miller, South Dakota. He was a member of the South Dakota House of Representatives. He was an alumnus of South Dakota State University and a veteran of World War II…
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1924
1925
Italian-American businessman (died 2020)
Arthur Edward Imperatore Sr. was an American businessman and sports owner from New Jersey. He was best known as being the founder and president of the NY Waterway, a ferry service. After serving in the United States…
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1925
American football quarterback (died 2019)
William Mackrides was an American professional football quarterback for the Philadelphia Eagles of the National Football League (NFL). He helped the Eagles win the 1948 and 1949 NFL Championships.
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1925
French actor, screenwriter and director (died 2017)
Dominique Nohain was a French actor, dramatist, screenwriter and theatre director. He was the son of Jean Nohain and thus cousin with Jean-Claude Dauphin.
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1925
Australian philosopher and author (died 2014)
David Malet Armstrong, often D. M. Armstrong, was an Australian philosopher. He is well known for his work on metaphysics and the philosophy of mind, and for his defence of a factualist ontology, a functionalist theory…
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1926
American lieutenant and politician (died 2019)
John David Dingell Jr. was an American politician from the state of Michigan who served as a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1955 until 2015. A member of the Democratic Party, Dingell holds the…
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1926
Swiss professional ice hockey goaltender (died 2003)
Martin Riesen was a Swiss ice hockey goaltender who represented the Swiss national team at the 1956 Winter Olympics.
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1926
Swiss-American psychiatrist and author (died 2004)
Elisabeth Kübler-Ross was a Swiss and American psychiatrist, a pioneer in near-death studies, author, and developer of the five stages of grief, also known as the "Kübler-Ross model".
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1926
Irish educator and politician (died 2017)
Maurice Hayes was an Irish public servant and, late in life, an independent member of both the 21st and 22nd Seanad. Hayes was nominated by the Taoiseach, Bertie Ahern, in 1997 and re-nominated in 2002. He also served,…
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1927
Tibetan religious leader
Trisur Rinpoche Jetsun Lungrik Namgyal, also known as Khensur Lungri Namgyel, was a Tibetan Buddhist leader who was the 101st Gaden Tripa, the leader of the Gelug sect of Tibetan Buddhism.
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1927
American country singer (died 2013)
Robert Joseph Beckham was an American country music publisher based in Nashville, who mentored generations of songwriters as head of Combine Music Publishing from 1964 to 1989. He played a pivotal role in the career of…
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1927
former prime minister of Pakistan (died 2022)
Sardar Mir Balakh Sher Mazari was a Pakistani politician who served as Caretaker Prime Minister of Pakistan for five weeks in 1993. He was the tumandar and the paramount sardar of the Mazari tribe which is situated on…
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1928
American singer (died 2014)
Jerry Vale was an American traditional pop singer. During the 1950s and 1960s, he reached the top of the pop charts with his interpretations of romantic ballads, including a cover of Eddy Arnold hit "You Don't Know Me"…
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1930
Canadian lawyer and politician, 16th Chief Justice of Canada (died 2007)
Joseph Antonio Charles Lamer was a Canadian lawyer and jurist who served as the 16th Chief Justice of Canada from 1990 to 2000.
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1933
Chilean journalist (died 2012)
Raquel Teresa Correa was a Chilean journalist who spent the main part of her career with the newspaper El Mercurio. She was well known for her interviews and reporting, and was the recipient of Chile's National Prize…
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1934
American politician, 70th Governor of Rhode Island (died 2025)
Edward Daniel DiPrete was an American politician. He served as the 70th Governor of Rhode Island for three two-year terms, serving from 1985 to 1991. Convicted of numerous corruption charges, he was the only Rhode…
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1934
English actor and screenwriter (died 1982)
Martin Alan Feldman was a British actor, comedian and writer. He was known for his prominent, misaligned eyes.
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1934
American football player and coach (died 2015)
John David Crow Sr. was an American professional football player, coach, and college athletics administrator. He won the Heisman Trophy in 1957 as a halfback playing for the Texas A&M Aggies. After college, he played in…
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1935
American actor and singer (died 2024)
Steve Lawrence was an American singer, comedian, and actor. He was best known as a member of the pop duo Steve and Eydie, with his wife Eydie Gormé. Lawrence also played the featured role of Maury Sline, the booking…
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1935
Russian engineer and cosmonaut (died 2010)
Vitaly Ivanovich Sevastyanov was a Soviet cosmonaut and an engineer who flew on the Soyuz 9 and Soyuz 18 missions.
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1935
1938
1939
American bass player and songwriter (died 2015)
Joseph Benson Mauldin Jr. was an American bassist, songwriter, and audio engineer who was best known as the bassist for the early rock and roll group the Crickets. Mauldin initially played a double (standup) bass, then…
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1940
Italian-English footballer, coach, and manager
Dario Gradi is an Italian-English former football player, coach and manager. He was associated for more than 36 years with Crewe Alexandra, where he was variously manager, director of football and director of the…
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1941
American economist and politician
William Philip Gramm is an American economist and politician who represented Texas in both chambers of Congress. Though he began his political career as a Democrat, Gramm switched to the Republican Party in 1983. Gramm…
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1942
1944
American actor and singer
Jeffrey Michael Tambor is an American actor. He is known for his television roles such as Jeffrey Brookes, the uptight neighbor of Stanley and Helen Roper in the television sitcom The Ropers (1979–1980), as Hank…
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1944
Swiss politician, 91st President of the Swiss Confederation
Micheline Anne-Marie Calmy-Rey is a Swiss politician who served as a Member of the Swiss Federal Council from 2003 to 2011. A member of the Social Democratic Party (SP/PS), she was the head of the Federal Department of…
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1945
1947
English author and screenwriter (died 2016)
Jenny Diski FRSL was an English novelist, non-fiction writer and memoirist. She was a regular contributor to the London Review of Books; articles and essays she wrote for the publication are in the collections Don't and…
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1947
Peruvian religious leader, founded the Sodalitium Christianae Vitae
Luis Fernando Figari Rodrigo is a Peruvian Catholic layman who is the founder and former superior general of Sodalitium Christianae Vitae. He also founded the Christian Life Movement and several other religious…
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1947
1948
American civil-rights activist
Ruby Nell Sales is an African-American social justice activist, scholar, and public theologian. She has been described as a "legendary civil rights activist" by the PBS program Religion and Ethics Weekly, and is one of…
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1948
Austrian-American chef, restaurateur and entrepreneur
Wolfgang Johannes Puck is an Austrian-born American chef and restaurateur.
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1949
Indian politician, 14th Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh (died 2009)
Yeduguri Sandinti Rajasekhara Reddy, popularly known as YSR, was an Indian politician. He served as the 14th chief minister of Andhra Pradesh from 2004 to 2009. Reddy was elected four terms to the Lok Sabha from Kadapa.…
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1949
American baseball player, manager, and sportscaster
Alan Dean Ashby is an American former professional baseball catcher in Major League Baseball (MLB) and former radio and television sports commentator. A switch hitter, he played for the Cleveland Indians, Toronto Blue…
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1951
American actress and director
Anjelica Huston is an American actress, director and model. Known for often portraying eccentric and distinctive characters, she has received multiple accolades, including an Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award, as…
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1951
American singer-songwriter and guitarist
Larry Garner is a Louisiana blues musician best known for his 1994 album Too Blues.
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1952
American football player and sportscaster
John Harold Lambert is an American former professional football player who was a linebacker for his entire 11-year career for Pittsburgh Steelers of the National Football League (NFL). Recognized by the Pro Football…
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1952
American author and activist
Marianne Deborah Williamson is an American author, speaker, and political activist. She began her professional career as a spiritual leader of the Church of Today, a Unity Church in Warren, Michigan. Williamson has…
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1952
Canadian baseball player and coach
Terry Stephen Puhl is a Canadian former professional baseball player and coach. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) as an outfielder from 1977 to 1991, most prominently as a member of the Houston Astros, where he…
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1956
Mexican-American guitarist and songwriter
Carlos Cavazo is an American musician best known as the guitarist for heavy metal band Quiet Riot during their commercial peak. He has also played with Snow, 3 Legged Dogg, Hollywood Allstarz, and Ratt.
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1957
Russian journalist and author
Aleksandr Gurnov, full name Aleksandr Borisovich Gurnov, is a Russian TV persona.
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1957
American actor and musician
Kevin Norwood Bacon is an American actor. Known for various roles, including leading man characters, Bacon has received numerous accolades such as a Golden Globe Award and a Actor Award.
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1958
Swedish educator and politician, 8th Swedish Minister for the Environment
Hemming Andreas Carlgren is a Swedish Centre Party politician, and a former Minister for the Environment in the Swedish government.
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1958
Israeli lawyer and politician, 18th Justice Minister of Israel
Tziporah Malka "Tzipi" Livni is an Israeli politician, diplomat and lawyer. A former member of the Knesset and leader in the center-left political camp, Livni is a former foreign minister, vice prime minister, minister…
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1958
English actress
Pauline Perpetua Sheen is a retired English actress. She began her career with roles on various television series, before fronting her own comedy sketch show, Pauline's Quirkes, in 1976. She later starred as Vicky Smith…
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1959
Australian rugby league player and coach
Malcolm Norman Meninga is an Australian professional rugby league coach and a former professional rugby league footballer. Meninga is widely regarded as one of the finest players in the game's history. He enjoyed a long…
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1960
Filipino journalist
Cecilia "Ces" Victoria Oreña-Drilon is a Filipino broadcast journalist. She anchored news and public affairs programs for the News and Current Affairs division of ABS-CBN Corporation from 1989 to 2020. From 2018 to…
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1961
English keyboard player (died 2022)
Andrew John Fletcher, also known as Fletch, was an English keyboardist and founding member of the electronic band Depeche Mode. In 2020, he and the band were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
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1961
American singer-songwriter, producer, and actor (died 2024)
Toby Keith Covel was an American country music singer, songwriter, record producer, actor, and businessman. He began using the stage name Toby Keith early in his music career.
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1961
Norwegian saxophonist and record producer
Karl Seglem is a Norwegian Jazz musician, composer and producer, known from a series of combined jazz and traditional music releases, as well as leading his own record label NorCD from 1991.
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1961
American singer-songwriter and guitarist
Joan Elizabeth Osborne is an American singer, songwriter, and interpreter of music, having recorded and performed in various popular American musical genres including rock, pop, soul, R&B, blues, and country. She is…
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1962
American director and screenwriter
Mark Christopher is a screenwriter and director best known for directing and writing 54 (1998).
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1963
Russian ice hockey player and manager
Alexei Vasilievich Gusarov is a Russian former ice hockey defenceman. He played for the Quebec Nordiques, Colorado Avalanche, New York Rangers and St. Louis Blues. Gusarov and Valeri Kamensky were the first Russian-born…
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1964
American clarinet player, saxophonist, and bandleader
Daniel A. Levinson is an American jazz clarinetist, saxophonist, and bandleader. He is best known for his mastery of the jazz styles of the 1910s, 1920s, and 1930s.
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1965
German-Chinese virologist and academic
Ralf M. Altmeyer is a German virologist who leads the Institut Pasteur of Shanghai, a joint institute of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institut Pasteur and Shanghai Municipal Government, founded in 2004.
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1966
Nauruan politician
Shadlog Armait Bernicke is a Nauruan politician representing the Buada constituency in the Parliament of Nauru.
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1966
Hong Kong actor and singer
Jordan Chan Siu-chun is a Hong Kong actor, singer and dancer, known for starring in the Young and Dangerous film series and for his role in the 1998 TV adaptation of Louis Cha's novel, The Duke of Mount Deer. In recent…
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1967
Colombian singer
Charlie Cardona is a Colombian singer. In 1990, he became the lead singer of the musical ensemble Grupo Niche and at the 11th Lo Nuestro Awards he was nominated for Tropical New Artist of the Year.
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1967
American actor
William Gaither Crudup is an American actor. He was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award for Best Male Lead for his performance in Jesus' Son (1999). He went on to star in high-profile films, including Almost…
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1968
New Zealand rugby player and coach
Shane Paul Howarth is a former international rugby union player who gained four caps and scored 54 points for the All Blacks before later switching allegiance to Wales, attaining 19 Welsh caps.
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1968
1969
1970
Australian politician
Mark Christopher Butler is an Australian politician. He is a member of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) and has served in the House of Representatives since 2007. He was a minister in the Gillard and Rudd governments…
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1970
Canadian educator and politician
Sylvain Gaudreault is a Canadian politician and teacher. He was the Member of National Assembly of Quebec for the riding of Jonquière in the city of Saguenay from 2007 to 2022. He represented the Parti Québécois. On May…
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1970
American tennis player and coach
Todd Martin is an American retired tennis player. He reached the men's singles final at the 1994 Australian Open and the 1999 US Open and achieved a career-high singles ranking of world No. 4.
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1970
Welsh rugby player and coach
Neil Jenkins, is a Welsh former rugby union player and current coach. He played fly-half, centre, or full back for Pontypridd, Cardiff, Celtic Warriors, Wales and the British & Irish Lions. Jenkins is Wales' highest…
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1971
Canadian ice hockey player
Karl Sebastien Dykhuis is a Canadian former professional ice hockey defenceman who played 12 seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the Chicago Blackhawks, Philadelphia Flyers, Tampa Bay Lightning and Montreal…
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1972
Indian cricketer
Sourav Chandidas Ganguly, also known as Dada, is an Indian cricket administrator and former cricketer and captain of the Indian national cricket team. He is popularly called the Maharaja of Indian Cricket. He is…
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1972
Japanese actor
Shōsuke Tanihara is a Japanese actor probably best known outside Japan for his portrayal of Riki Fudoh in Fudoh: The New Generation and Hajime Kudo in Godzilla vs. Megaguirus.
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1972
Canadian actress and writer
Kathleen Robertson is a Canadian actress. She has starred in a number of films, and from 2011 to 2012 played the role of Kitty O'Neill in the Starz political drama series Boss. From 2014 to 2016, Robertson starred as…
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1973
1974
Moroccan footballer
Talal El Karkouri is a Moroccan former professional footballer and former coach of Qatar Stars League club Umm Salal SC. He played top-flight football in Morocco, France, Greece, England and Qatar before retiring in…
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1976
English sailor
Dame Ellen Patricia MacArthur is an English retired sailor and charity founder. On 7 February 2005, she broke the world record for the fastest solo circumnavigation of the globe, a feat which gained her international…
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1976
Italian footballer
Christian Abbiati is an Italian former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper.
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1977
Italian cyclist
Paolo Tiralongo is an Italian former professional road bicycle racer, who rode professionally between 2000 and 2017 for the Fassa Bortolo, Ceramica Panaria–Navigare, Lampre–NGC and Astana teams.
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1977
American actor, director, and producer
Milo Anthony Ventimiglia is an American actor. Making his screen acting debut on The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air in 1995, he portrayed the lead role on the short-lived series Opposite Sex in 2000 before landing his…
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1977
Chinese basketball player
Wang Zhizhi is a Chinese former professional basketball player who was the head coach of the Bayi Rockets, the team with which he spent his domestic career in the Chinese Basketball Association (CBA). He also played in…
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1977
Estonian footballer
Urmas Rooba is a retired Estonian footballer, who last played for Paide Linnameeskond in Meistriliiga. He played the position of defender.
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1978
American football player
Mat McBriar is an Australian former professional player of American football who was a punter in the National Football League (NFL) for the Dallas Cowboys, Philadelphia Eagles, Pittsburgh Steelers and San Diego…
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1979
1979
American-Canadian ice hockey player
Eric Guy Chouinard is an American-born Canadian former professional ice hockey player who played in the National Hockey League (NHL) with the Montreal Canadiens, Philadelphia Flyers and Minnesota Wild.
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1980
Irish footballer
Robert David Keane is an Irish professional football coach and former player, currently the head coach of NB I club Ferencváros. Widely considered one of Ireland's greatest ever footballers, Keane played as a striker,…
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1980
German runner
Wolfram Müller is a German middle-distance runner who specialises in the 1500 metres.
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1981
Russian tennis player
Anastasia Andreyevna Myskina is a Russian former professional tennis player. Myskina won the 2004 French Open singles title, becoming the first Russian woman to win a major singles title. Due to this victory, she rose…
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1981
Barbadian netball player
Shonette Azore-Bruce also simply known as Shonette Azore is a Barbadian netball player who represents Barbados internationally and plays in the positions of goal defense and goal keeper. She competed at the Netball…
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1982
American actress and director
Sophia Anna Bush is an American actress. She starred as Brooke Davis in The WB/CW drama series One Tree Hill (2003–2012), and as Erin Lindsay in the NBC police procedural drama series Chicago P.D. (2014–2017). She was a…
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1982
American basketball player
Hakim Hanif Warrick is an American former professional basketball player. He played college basketball for the Syracuse Orange from 2001 to 2005. Warrick won an NCAA championship in 2003 and blocked a potential…
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1982
American baseball player
John Brite Bowker is an American former professional baseball player. An outfielder and first baseman, he played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the San Francisco Giants, Pittsburgh Pirates, and Philadelphia Phillies…
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1983
Canadian ice hockey player
John Richard Peverley is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player. He spent four years with the St. Lawrence University hockey team before turning professional, then playing three years for several teams in both…
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1983
Brazilian footballer
Renata Aparecida da Costa, commonly known as Renata Costa or Kóki, is a Brazilian football coach and former player, most recently an assistant coach with Iranduba. She represented the Brazil women's national football…
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1986
American baseball player
Joshua Isaiah Harrison is an American former professional baseball utility player. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Pittsburgh Pirates, Detroit Tigers, Washington Nationals, Oakland Athletics, Chicago…
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1987
Spanish footballer (died 2012)
Miguel "Miki" Roqué Farrero was a Spanish professional footballer who played as a central defender.
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1988
New Zealand cyclist
Jesse Sergent is a retired New Zealand racing cyclist who rode professionally between 2011 and 2016 for Team RadioShack, Trek Factory Racing and AG2R La Mondiale.
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1988
Israeli Judo champion
Yarden Gerbi is an Israeli former judoka world champion. She won an Olympic bronze medal competing for Israel at the 2016 Summer Olympics, in women's 63 kg judo.
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1989
Norwegian footballer (died 2012)
Tor Marius Gromstad was a Norwegian footballer who played as a defender for Stabæk and FK Arendal.
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1989
German footballer
Kevin Christian Trapp is a German professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Ligue 1 club Paris FC.
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1990
Dutch footballer
Virgil van Dijk is a Dutch professional footballer who plays as a centre-back for and captains both Premier League club Liverpool and the Netherlands national team. Widely regarded as one of the best defenders of his…
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1991
Mexican singer-songwriter (died 2015)
José Ariel Camacho Barraza was a Mexican musician and singer-songwriter. He predominantly performed regional Mexican music, mainly corridos. He was the lead singer and lead guitarist of his group, Ariel Camacho y Los…
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1992
Korean footballer
Son Heung-min is a South Korean professional footballer who plays as a left winger for Major League Soccer club Los Angeles FC and captains the South Korea national team. Known for his speed, finishing, two-footedness,…
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1992
American actor
David Packard Corenswet is an American actor. After graduating from The Juilliard School in 2016, he began guest-starring in television series, including House of Cards in 2018. He played lead roles in the Netflix…
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1993
American football player
Marlon N. Humphrey is an American professional football cornerback for the Baltimore Ravens of the National Football League (NFL). He attended Hoover High School, where he was named to the USA Today All-USA high school…
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1996
American football player
Jonathan Bryce Love is an American former football running back. He played college football for the Stanford Cardinal and was selected by the Washington Redskins in the fourth round of the 2019 NFL draft, although he…
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1997
American actress
Maya Ray Thurman Hawke is an American actress and singer-songwriter. The daughter of Ethan Hawke and Uma Thurman, she began her career in modeling, and subsequently made her screen debut as Jo March in the 2017 BBC…
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1998
American actor and rapper
Jaden Christopher Syre Smith is an American rapper, singer, songwriter, and actor. The son of Jada Pinkett-Smith and Will Smith, he has received various accolades, including a Teen Choice Award, an MTV Movie Award, a…
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1998
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