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was a United States Army officer and war criminal, convicted by court-martial of the murder of 22 unarmed South Vietnamese civilians in the My Lai massacre on March 16, 1968, during the Vietnam War
Famous Birthdays on June 8
135 people
862 – 2004
June 8 has seen 135 notable people enter the world across recorded history — from 862 – 2004. Below are the most significant names born on this date.
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1943 — William Calley
American military officer
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His initial life sentence having been modified to a term of 20 years and then further reduced to ten, Calley ultimately served three years of house arrest for the murders
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Calley was released to house arrest under orders by President Richard Nixon three days after his conviction
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The United States District Court for the Middle District of Georgia granted him a new trial, but that ruling was overturned by the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
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Public opinion at the time about Calley was divided
Emperor Xizong of Tang, né Li Yan, later name changed to Li Xuan, was an emperor of China's Tang dynasty. He reigned from 873 to 888. He was the fifth son of his predecessor Emperor Yizong and was the elder brother of…
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862
Slovenian Protestant reformer (died 1586)
Primož Trubar or Primus Truber was a Slovene Protestant Reformer of the Lutheran tradition, mostly known as the author of the first Slovene language printed book, the founder and the first superintendent of the…
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1508
prince of Transylvania (died 1648)
George I Rákóczi was Prince of Transylvania from 1630 until his death in 1648. Prior to that, he was a leader of the Protestant faction in Hungary and a faithful supporter of Gabriel Bethlen, his predecessor as Prince.…
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1593
Italian-French mathematician and astronomer (died 1712)
Giovanni Domenico Cassini was an Italian-French mathematician, astronomer, astrologer and engineer. Cassini was born in Perinaldo, near Imperia, at that time in the County of Nice, part of the Savoyard state. He…
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1625
Italian violinist and composer (died 1751)
Tomaso Giovanni Albinoni was an Italian composer of the Baroque era. His output includes operas, concertos, sonatas for one to six instruments, sinfonias, and solo cantatas. While famous in his day as an opera composer,…
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1671
American lawyer and politician, 3rd Governor of Rhode Island (died 1795)
John Collins, was an American politician and a Founding Father of the United States who, as a member of the Continental Congress, signed the Articles of Confederation. He was the third governor of the U.S. state of…
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1717
English engineer, designed the Coldstream Bridge and Perth Bridge (died 1794)
John Smeaton was an English civil engineer responsible for the design of bridges, canals, harbours and lighthouses. He was also a capable mechanical engineer and an eminent scholar, who introduced various scientific…
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1724
Norwegian-Danish mathematician and cartographer (died 1818)
Caspar Wessel was a Danish–Norwegian mathematician and cartographer. In 1799, Wessel was the first person to describe the geometrical interpretation of complex numbers as points in the complex plane and vectors.
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1745
Italian cardinal (died 1824)
Ercole Consalvi was a deacon and cardinal of the Catholic Church, who served twice as Cardinal Secretary of State for the Papal States and who played a crucial role in the post-Napoleonic reassertion of the legitimist…
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1757
English architect and architectural antiquary (died 1841)
Thomas Rickman was an English architect and architectural antiquary who was a major figure in the Gothic Revival. He is particularly remembered for his Attempt to Discriminate the Styles of English Architecture (1817),…
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1776
American politician, 14th Governor of Kentucky (died 1869)
Charles Anderson Wickliffe was an American politician who was the 11th U.S. postmaster general from 1841 to 1845. He served as the 14th governor of Kentucky from 1839 to 1840 and as a U.S. representative from Kentucky…
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1788
German composer and critic (died 1856)
Robert Schumann was a German composer, pianist, and music critic of the early Romantic era. He composed in all the main musical genres of the time, writing for solo piano, voice and piano, chamber groups, orchestra,…
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1810
English painter and illustrator (died 1896)
Sir John Everett Millais, 1st Baronet was an English painter and illustrator who was one of the founders of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. He was a child prodigy who, aged eleven, became the youngest student to enter…
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1829
Canadian-American sergeant, Medal of Honor recipient (died 1917)
Thomas J. Higgins was a Union Army soldier during the American Civil War who was a recipient of America's highest military decoration, the Medal of Honor, for his actions at the Battle of Vicksburg.
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1831
American lawyer and politician, 36th Governor of Massachusetts (died 1918)
John Quincy Adams Brackett was an American lawyer and politician from Massachusetts. A Republican and temperance advocate, he served one term as the 36th governor of Massachusetts, from 1890 to 1891. Born in New…
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1842
French physician and physicist (died 1940)
Jacques-Arsène d'Arsonval was a French physician, physicist and inventor of the moving-coil d'Arsonval galvanometer and the thermocouple ammeter. D'Arsonval was an important contributor to the emerging field of…
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1851
Italian physician and pathologist (died 1925)
Guido Banti was an Italian physician and pathologist. He also performed innovative studies on the heart, infectious diseases and bacteriology, splenomegaly, nephrology, lung disease, leukaemia and motor aphasia. He gave…
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1852
Canadian politician, 8th Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba (died 1921)
Sir Douglas Colin Cameron KCMG was a Canadian politician. He served in the Ontario Legislature from 1902 to 1905, and was the eighth Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba from 1911 to 1916.
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1854
English painter and illustrator (died 1924)
George Charles Haité was an English designer, painter, illustrator and writer. His most famous work is the iconic cover design of the Strand Magazine, launched in 1891, which helped popularise the Sherlock Holmes…
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1855
English mathematician (died 1931)
Charlotte Angas Scott was a British mathematician who made her career in the United States; she was influential in the development of American mathematics, including the mathematical education of women. Scott played an…
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1858
Irish-English mathematician and theorist (died 1940)
Alicia Boole Stott was a British mathematician. She made a number of contributions to the field and was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Groningen. She grasped four-dimensional geometry from an early…
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1860
American architect, designed the Price Tower and Fallingwater (died 1959)
Frank Lloyd Wright Sr. was an American architect, designer, writer, and educator. He designed more than 1,000 structures over a creative period of 70 years. Wright played a key role in the architectural movements of the…
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1867
American architect (died 1942)
Robert Robinson Taylor was an American architect and educator. Taylor was the first African-American student enrolled at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and the first accredited African-American…
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1868
Belgian painter and illustrator (died 1949)
Jan Frans De Boever was a Belgian Symbolist painter, known for his paintings of voluptuous nude women in morbid contexts. Skeletons, death and eroticism flood his oeuvre. He made illustrations in gouache for Charles…
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1872
Greek-French triple jumper (died 1958)
Pierre Alexandre Tuffèri, also spelt Tuffère, was a French-Greek athlete, although he was born and lived in Athens, his father was French. He competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics and the 1900 Summer Olympics for France,…
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1876
Welsh Revivalist minister (died 1951)
Evan John Roberts was a Welsh preacher and a leading figure of the 1904–1905 Welsh revival.
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1878
German physician (died 1957)
Karl August Genzken was a Nazi physician who committed medical atrocities on prisoners of several concentration camps. He was an SS-Gruppenführer of the Waffen-SS and the Chief of the Medical Office of the Waffen-SS.…
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1885
Australian public servant (died 1962)
William Funnell ISO was a senior Australian public servant, best known for his time as head of the Department of Labour and National Service between 1946 and 1952.
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1891
German zoologist (died 1968)
Ernst Gustav Gotthelf Marcus was a German zoologist, occupant of the chair of zoology at the University of São Paulo from 1936 to 1963, and co-founder of the Oceanographic Institute of the University of São Paulo.
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1893
1893
Czech composer and pianist (died 1942)
Erwin Schulhoff was an Austro-Czech composer and pianist. He was one of the figures in the generation of European musicians whose successful careers were prematurely terminated by the rise of the Nazi regime in Germany…
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1894
Spanish footballer and manager (died 1978)
Santiago Bernabéu de Yeste was a Spanish football player, coach, and administrator who played for Real Madrid as a forward, later serving as the club's manager and then president. He is widely regarded as one of the…
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1895
English mathematician and technologist (died 1974)
John Godolphin Bennett was a British academic and writer. He is best known for his books on psychology and spirituality, particularly on the teachings of G. I. Gurdjieff. Bennett met Gurdjieff in Istanbul in October…
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1897
Canadian organist, composer and arts administrator (died 1970)
Eugène Lapierre was a Canadian organist, composer, journalist, writer on music, arts administrator, and music educator. He was awarded the King George V Silver Jubilee Medal in 1935 and the King George VI Coronation…
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1899
German physician (died 1945)
Ernst-Robert Grawitz was a German physician and an SS functionary during the Nazi era. Grawitz funded Nazi programs involving experimentation on inmates in Nazi concentration camps and was part of the group in charge of…
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1899
African-American maid executed for capital murder, later pardoned posthumously (died 1945)
Lena Baker was an African American maid in Cuthbert, Georgia, United States, who was convicted of capital murder of a white man, Ernest Knight. She was executed by the state of Georgia in 1945. Baker was the only woman…
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1900
American lawyer and politician (died 1996)
Ralph Webster Yarborough was an American politician and lawyer. A member of the Democratic Party, he represented Texas in the United States Senate from 1957 to 1971 and was a leader of the progressive wing of his party.…
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1903
Belgian-French author and poet (died 1987)
Marguerite Yourcenar was a Belgian-born French novelist and essayist who became a US citizen in 1947. Winner of the Prix Femina and the Erasmus Prize, she was the first woman elected to the Académie Française, in 1980.…
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1903
American journalist and author (died 1971)
John Wood Campbell Jr. was an American science fiction writer and editor. He was editor of Astounding Science Fiction from late 1937 until his death and was part of the Golden Age of Science Fiction. Campbell wrote …
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1910
French-American photographer, sculptor, and painter (died 2003)
Fernand Fonssagrives, born Fernand Vigoureux near Paris, was a photographer known for his 'beauty photography' in the early 1940s, and as the first husband of the model Lisa Fonssagrives. He died in 2003 at Little Rock,…
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1910
Argentinian singer-songwriter (died 1986)
Leonel Edmundo Rivero was an Argentine tango singer, composer, and impresario.
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1911
British abstract painter (died 2004)
Wilhelmina Barns-Graham CBE was one of the foremost British abstract artists, a member of the influential Penwith Society of Arts.
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1912
Canadian lawyer and politician (died 1989)
Maurice Bellemare, was a politician in Quebec, Canada. He was known as Le Vieux Lion de la Politique Québécoise because of his colourful style and his many years of public office. Bellemare was one of the last survivors…
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1912
American painter (died 1987)
Harry Holtzman was an American artist and founding member of the American Abstract Artists group.
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1912
Irish Republican Army leader, died on hunger strike (died 1946)
Seán McCaughey was an Irish militant and Republican activist. He was an Irish Republican Army (IRA) leader in the 1930s and 1940s and hunger striker.
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1915
Indian journalist, author, and poet (died 2015)
Kayyara Kinhanna Rai was an Indian independence activist, author, poet, journalist, teacher and farmer.
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1915
English biologist, biophysicist, and neuroscientist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2004)
Francis Harry Compton Crick was an English molecular biologist, biophysicist, and neuroscientist. He, James Watson, Rosalind Franklin, and Maurice Wilkins played crucial roles in deciphering the helical structure of the…
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1916
Italian director and screenwriter (died 2007)
Luigi Comencini was an Italian film director. Together with Dino Risi, Ettore Scola, and Mario Monicelli, he was considered among the masters of the "commedia all'italiana" genre.
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1916
American painter and educator (died 1992)
Richard Warren Pousette-Dart was an American abstract expressionist artist most recognized as a founder of the New York School of painting. His artistic output also includes drawing, sculpture, and fine-art photography.
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1916
American football player, lawyer and judge (died 2002)
Byron Raymond "Whizzer" White was an American lawyer and professional football halfback who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1962 to 1993. At the time of his retirement, he…
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1917
Irish-New Zealand philosopher and logician (died 1994)
George Edward Hughes was an Irish-born New Zealand philosopher and logician whose principal scholarly works were concerned with modal logic and medieval philosophy.
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1918
American actor and singer (died 1987)
Robert Preston Meservey was an American stage and screen actor best-known for his role as Professor Harold Hill in the 1957 musical The Music Man, for which he received the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical. He…
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1918
American chemist and academic (died 2016)
John Dombrowski Roberts was an American chemist. He made contributions to the integration of physical chemistry, spectroscopy, and organic chemistry for the understanding of chemical reaction rates. Another…
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1918
Jr., American general (died 2013)
John Russell Deane Jr. was a highly decorated United States Army officer who rose to the rank of general and served as commander of the United States Army Materiel Command.
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1919
Australian poet and playwright (died 1995)
Gwen Harwood was an Australian poet and librettist. Harwood is regarded as one of Australia's finest poets, publishing over 420 works, including 386 poems and 13 librettos. She won numerous poetry awards and prizes, and…
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1920
American broadcaster and businessman (died 1986)
Gordon Barton McLendon was an American radio broadcaster. Nicknamed "the Maverick of Radio", McLendon is widely credited for perfecting, during the 1950s and 1960s, the commercially successful Top 40 radio format…
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1921
American actress (died 2010)
Olga Nida Carmena Nardone was an American actress and one of the last surviving Munchkins from the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz, in which she played a member of the Lullaby League. She was known as "Little Olga" and…
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1921
American painter (died 2012)
LeRoy Neiman was an American artist known for his brilliantly colored, expressionist paintings and screenprints of athletes, musicians, and sporting events.
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1921
Canadian-born American actress and singer (died 1993)
Margaret Alexis Smith was an American actress, pin-up girl and singer. She appeared in several major Hollywood films in the 1940s and had a notable career on Broadway in the 1970s, winning a Tony Award in 1972 for the…
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1921
Indonesian soldier and politician, 2nd President of Indonesia (died 2008)
Suharto was an Indonesian military officer and politician who served as the second and longest-serving president of Indonesia from 1967 to 1998. Widely regarded as a military dictator by international observers, Suharto…
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1921
Canadian ice hockey player and manager (died 2013)
Billie Dawe was a Canadian amateur ice hockey player. He was a member of the 1950 World Champion team, the Edmonton Mercurys, and captained that team to a gold medal at the 1952 Winter Olympics.
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1924
American political scientist and academic (died 2013)
Kenneth Neal Waltz was an American political scientist who was a member of the faculty at both the University of California, Berkeley, and Columbia University and one of the most prominent scholars in the field of…
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1924
American wife of George H. W. Bush, 41st First Lady of the United States (died 2018)
Barbara Bush was the first lady of the United States from 1989 to 1993, as the wife of George H. W. Bush, the 41st president of the United States. She was previously second lady of the United States from 1981 to 1989,…
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1925
American actor, comedian and producer (died 2020)
Gerald Isaac Stiller was an American comedian and actor. He spent many years as part of the comedy duo Stiller and Meara with his wife, Anne Meara, to whom he was married for over 60 years until her death in 2015.…
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1927
Peruvian philosopher, theologian and priest (died 2024)
Gustavo Gutiérrez-Merino Díaz was a Peruvian Catholic philosopher, theologian, and Dominican priest who was one of the founders of Latin American liberation theology. His 1971 book A Theology of Liberation is considered…
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1928
Indonesian actress, model, and singer (died 1971)
Sumiarto Suharto, better known by the stage name Mimi Mariani, was an Indonesian actress, model and singer of the classical Indonesian cinema. Known as the first actress to portray the character Sri Asih, she was one of…
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1928
Sri Lankan politician (died 2025)
J. R. P. Suriyapperuma was a Sri Lankan politician who was a National List member of the Parliament of Sri Lanka.
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1928
Japanese psychiatrist and author (died 2013)
Nada Inada was the pen-name of a Japanese psychiatrist, writer and literary critic active in late Shōwa period and early Heisei period Japan. His pen name is from the Spanish language phrase "nada y nada".
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1929
German-American mathematician and economist, Nobel Prize laureate
Robert John Aumann is an Israeli-American mathematician, and a member of the United States National Academy of Sciences. He is a professor at the Center for the Study of Rationality in the Hebrew University of…
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1930
Canadian lawyer and politician (died 1993)
Marcel Léger was a Canadian politician, and a supporter of Quebec sovereignty. He also founded the Canadian polling firm that became Léger Marketing.
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1930
British actress (died 2011)
Dana Wynter was a German-born British actress who was raised in the United Kingdom and southern Africa. She appeared in film and television for more than 40 years, beginning in the 1950s. One of her best-known film…
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1931
English cricketer and sportscaster (died 2021)
Raymond Illingworth CBE was an English cricketer, cricket commentator and administrator. He is one of only nine players to have taken 2,000 wickets and made 20,000 runs in first-class cricket. He played for Yorkshire,…
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1932
Lord Kirkwood, Scottish lawyer and judge (died 2017)
Ian Candlish Kirkwood, Lord Kirkwood QC was a Senator of the College of Justice of the Supreme Courts of Scotland. He was appointed to the Inner House in 1987.
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1932
American comedian, actress, and television host (died 2014)
Joan Alexandra Molinsky, known professionally as Joan Rivers, was an American comedian, actress, producer, writer and television host. She was noted for her blunt, often controversial comedic persona that was heavily…
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1933
English actress and singer
Millicent Mary Lillian Martin is an English actress, singer, and comedian. She was the singer of topical songs on the weekly BBC Television satirical show That Was the Week That Was, and won a BAFTA TV Award in 1964.…
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1934
Nigerian businessman and philanthropist (died 2015)
Chief Molade Alexander Okoya-Thomas FCNA, MFR, OFR, KSS was a Nigerian businessman and philanthropist.
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1935
American actor (died 2024)
James William Ercolani, known by his stage name James Darren, was an American actor, singer, and television director. During the late 1950s and early 1960s, he had notable starring and supporting roles in films…
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1936
American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2013)
Kenneth Geddes "Ken" Wilson was an American theoretical physicist and a pioneer in using computers for studying particle physics. He was awarded the 1982 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on phase…
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1936
Welsh poet and playwright
Gillian Clarke is a Welsh poet and playwright, who also edits, broadcasts, lectures and translates from Welsh into English. She co-founded Tŷ Newydd, a writers' centre in North Wales.
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1937
Italian cardinal
Angelo Amato, S.D.B. was an Italian cardinal of the Catholic Church who served as the Prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints between 2008 and 2018. He served as Secretary of the Congregation for the…
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1938
American football player (died 2020)
Herbert Anthony Adderley was an American professional football cornerback who played for the Green Bay Packers and the Dallas Cowboys of the National Football League (NFL). In 1980, he was enshrined in the Pro Football…
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1939
American singer and actress
Nancy Sandra Sinatra is an American singer, actress, film producer, and author. She is the elder daughter of Frank Sinatra and Nancy Sinatra and is known for her 1966 signature hit "These Boots Are Made for Walkin'".
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1940
Northern Irish politician and activist (died 1981)
Robert Jonathan Bradford was a Methodist Minister and a Vanguard Unionist and Ulster Unionist Member of Parliament for the Belfast South constituency in Northern Ireland until his murder by the Provisional Irish…
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1941
Australian cardinal (died 2023)
George Pell was an Australian cardinal of the Catholic Church.
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1941
Welsh snooker player (died 2021)
Douglas James Mountjoy was a Welsh snooker player. He was a member of the professional snooker circuit from the late 1970s and throughout the 1980s, and remained within the top 16 of the world rankings for 11…
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1942
English actor
Colin Charles Baker is an English actor. He is known for playing the sixth incarnation of the Doctor in the BBC science fiction series Doctor Who (1984–1986) and Paul Merroney in the BBC drama series The Brothers…
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1943
1943
Canadian archbishop and cardinal
Marc Armand Ouellet is a Canadian Catholic prelate who served as prefect of the Dicastery for Bishops and president of the Pontifical Commission for Latin America from 2010 to 2023. He is a member of the Sulpicians.
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1944
American singer-songwriter and guitarist
William Royce "Boz" Scaggs is an American singer, songwriter, and guitarist. He was a bandmate of Steve Miller in the Ardells in the early 1960s and a member of the Steve Miller Band from 1967 to 1968.
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1944
American singer-songwriter, producer, and poet (died 2014)
Steven John Fromholz was an American singer-songwriter who was selected as the Poet Laureate of Texas for 2007.
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1945
English cricketer (died 2024)
Derek Leslie Underwood was an English international cricketer. In retirement he became president of the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) in 2008.
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1945
New Zealand rugby player and coach
Sir Graham William Henry is a New Zealand rugby union coach, and former head coach of the country's national team, the All Blacks. Nicknamed 'Ted', he led New Zealand to win the 2011 World Cup.
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1946
English singer-songwriter and painter
Annie Haslam is an English vocalist, songwriter and painter. She is best known as the lead singer of progressive rock band Renaissance since 1971, and for her long and diverse solo singing career. She has a five-octave…
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1947
American author
Sara Paretsky is an American author of detective fiction, best known for her novels focused on the protagonist V. I. Warshawski.
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1947
American biologist, geneticist, and academic Nobel Prize laureate
Eric Francis Wieschaus is an American evolutionary developmental biologist and 1995 Nobel Prize-winner.
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1947
Polish-American pianist and educator
Emanuel "Manny" Ax is a Polish-American classical pianist. He is known for his chamber music collaborations with cellist Yo-Yo Ma and violinists Isaac Stern and Young Uck Kim, as well as his piano recitals and…
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1949
German runner
Hildegard Falck is a retired West German runner. At the 1972 Olympics she won a gold medal in the 800 m and a bronze medal in the 4 × 400 m relay with West German team. In the 800 m final she finished 0.1 seconds ahead…
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1949
American actress
Katherine Whitton Baker is an American actress. Baker began her career in theater and made her screen debut in the 1983 drama film The Right Stuff. She received the National Society of Film Critics Award for Best…
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1950
Brazilian actress and producer
Sônia Maria Campos Braga is a Brazilian actress. She is known in the English-speaking world for her Golden Globe Award–nominated performances in Kiss of the Spider Woman (1985) and Moon over Parador (1988). She also…
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1950
Welsh singer-songwriter
Gaynor Sullivan, known professionally as Bonnie Tyler, is a Welsh singer. Known for her distinctive husky voice, Tyler came to prominence with the release of her 1977 album The World Starts Tonight and its singles "Lost…
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1951
1951
Croatian historian and politician, 8th Prime Minister of Croatia
Ivo Sanader is a Croatian former politician who served as Prime Minister of Croatia from 2003 to 2009. He was president of the Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) from 2000 to 2009.
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1953
Bulgarian metropolitan (died 2013)
Metropolitan Kiril ; June 8, 1954 – July 9, 2013), was the Bulgarian Orthodox metropolitan of Varna and Veliki Preslav, Bulgaria.
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1954
Ukrainian-Russian politician
Sergei Anatolievich Storchak is a Ukrainian-born Russian politician who had former served as the a Deputy Finance Minister of Russia. Storchak was born in Olevsk, Zhytomyr Oblast, Ukraine SSR, and became one of Russia's…
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1954
English computer scientist, invented the World Wide Web
Sir Timothy John Berners-Lee, also known as TimBL, is an English computer scientist best known as the inventor of the World Wide Web, HTML, the URL system, and HTTP. He is a professorial research fellow at the…
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1955
Spanish footballer and manager
José Antonio Camacho Alfaro is a Spanish former football left-back and a former manager.
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1955
American author and illustrator (died 2026)
Scott Adams was an American cartoonist, author, and conservative commentator. He was best known for the creator of the Dilbert comic strip and nonfiction works of business, self-improvement, commentary, and satire.
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1957
Irish political scientist and academic
Dame Louise Mary Richardson is an Irish political scientist whose specialist field is the study of terrorism. In January 2023, she became president of the philanthropic foundation, Carnegie Corporation of New York. In…
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1958
Iranian philosopher
Mohsen Kadivar is a mujtahid, Islamic theologian, philosopher, writer, leading intellectual reformist, and research professor of Islamic Studies at Duke University. A political Iranian dissident, Kadivar has been a…
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1959
Australian rugby league player
Neil Baker is a former professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1980s. Baker played mostly at fullback and five-eighth for Canterbury, Salford, South Sydney Rabbitohs and Penrith.
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1960
English singer-songwriter
Michael James Hucknall is an English singer and songwriter. Hucknall achieved international fame in the 1980s as the lead singer and songwriter of the soul-influenced pop band Simply Red, with whom he had a 25-year…
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1960
Swedish ice hockey player and coach
Anders Thomas Steen is a Swedish former professional ice hockey player and coach. Steen is the former city councillor for the Winnipeg ward of Elmwood-East Kildonan. Steen played professional ice hockey in the…
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1960
American lawyer and gay rights activist
Mary L. Bonauto is an American lawyer and civil rights advocate who has worked to eradicate discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity, and has been referred to by US Representative Barney Frank as…
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1961
American runner and coach
Harry Lee "Butch" Reynolds Jr. is an American former track and field athlete who competed in the 400 meter dash. He held the world record for the event for 11 years 9 days with his personal best time of 43.29 seconds…
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1964
American screenwriter
Kevin Prindiville Farley is an American actor. He is best known for playing the lead role in David Zucker’s comedy film An American Carol (2008) and voiced several characters in F Is for Family (2015–2021). He is the…
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1965
American actress
Julianna Margulies is an American actress. After several small television roles, Margulies received wide recognition for her starring role as Carol Hathaway in the NBC medical drama series ER, for which she received a…
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1966
Welsh chemist and academic
Russell Edward Morris is a British chemist and Bishop Wardlaw Professor of Chemistry at the University of St Andrews since 2016. He played first-class cricket while he was a student at the University of Oxford, and also…
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1967
American actress and director
Kelli Renee Williams is an American actress and director. She is known for her roles as lawyer Lindsay Dole on the ABC legal drama The Practice, psychologist and deception expert Dr. Gillian Foster on the Fox series Lie…
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1970
Maltese lawyer and politician
Bernard Grech is a Maltese politician and lawyer who was the leader of the Nationalist Party and the Leader of the Opposition from 2020 until 2025.
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1971
Australian taekwondo practitioner
Lauren Chantel Burns is an Australian taekwondo practitioner and Olympic champion. She won Australia's first Olympic gold medal in taekwondo at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, competing in the women's under 49 kg…
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1974
Australian footballer and sportcaster
Mark Anthony Ricciuto is a former Australian rules footballer who played for the Adelaide Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). From Ramco, South Australia, Ricciuto started as a junior with the local…
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1975
American tennis player
Lindsay Ann Davenport Leach is an American former professional tennis player. She was ranked as the world No. 1 in women's singles by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) for 98 weeks, and as the world No. 1 in women's…
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1976
American rapper, producer, director, and fashion designer
Ye is an American rapper, songwriter, and record producer. He has been listed among the greatest rappers of all time and referred to as one of the most prominent figures in hip-hop. His music, characterized by frequent…
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1977
American television personality, professional wrestler, author, and actress
Maria Menounos is an American television host. She has hosted Extra and E! News; she was a TV correspondent for Today, Access Hollywood, and co-hosted the Eurovision Song Contest 2006 in Athens, Greece. She also…
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1978
American Christian author (died 2019)
Rachel Held Evans was an American columnist and author. Her book A Year of Biblical Womanhood was a New York Times bestseller in e-book non-fiction, and Searching for Sunday was a New York Times bestseller nonfiction…
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1981
Russian tennis player
Nadezhda Viktorovna "Nadia" Petrova is a Russian former professional tennis player. A former top-five player in both singles and doubles, she reached a career-high ranking of No. 3 in the world in both disciplines.…
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1982
Belgian tennis player; winner of six Grand Slam tournament titles.
Kim Antonie Lode Clijsters is a Belgian former professional tennis player. She was ranked as the world No. 1 in women's singles by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) for 20 weeks, and as the world No. 1 in women's…
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1983
Argentinian footballer and manager
Javier Alejandro Mascherano is an Argentine football manager and former player who was most recently the head coach of Major League Soccer club Inter Miami. As a player, he played as a centre-back or defensive…
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1984
American financial analyst and investor
Keith Patrick Gill is an American financial marketer, educator, and individual investor known for his posts on the subreddits r/wallstreetbets and r/SuperStonk. His analyses of GameStop stock and details of his…
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1986
Swiss tennis player
Timea Bacsinszky is a Swiss former professional tennis player. A former top ten singles player, Bacsinszky reached a career-high singles ranking of world No. 9, on 16 May 2016. She won four singles and five doubles…
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1989
American professional wrestler
Gionna Jene Daddio is an American professional wrestler and actress. She has been signed to WWE since October 2014, where she performs on the Raw brand under the ring name Liv Morgan. She is the current Women's World…
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1994
French footballer
Ferland Sinna Mendy is a French professional footballer who plays as a left-back for La Liga club Real Madrid and the France national team.
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1995
Latvian tennis player
Jeļena "Aļona" Ostapenko is a Latvian professional tennis player. She has been ranked by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) as high as world No. 5 in singles, which she achieved on 19 March 2018, and No. 3 in doubles,…
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1997
American actress
Francesca Angelucci Capaldi is an American actress. She is best known for her roles as Chloe James in the Disney Channel sitcom Dog with a Blog (2012–15) and Nellie Chambers in the Brat web series Crown Lake (2019–20).
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2004
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William Calley — US Army officer convicted for massacre at My Lai, Vietnam (1943–2024)
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Birth year1943
Known forwas a United States Army officer and war criminal, convicted by court-martial of the murder of 22 unarmed South Vietnamese civilians in the My Lai massacre on March 16, 1968, during the Vietnam War
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Former US President Donald Trump is indicted on federal charges of misusing classified information. Wikipedia →
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