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When François, his childhood friend, ascended to the throne in 1515 he advanced as governor of the Bastille and Novara, then in 1522 was made a Marshal of France
Famous Birthdays on March 15
188 people
1493 – 2005
March 15 has seen 188 notable people enter the world across recorded history — from 1493 – 2005. Below are the most significant names born on this date.
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1493 — Anne de Montmorency
French captain and diplomat (died 1567)
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Quickly freed, he then worked to free first the king and then the king's sons
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In 1526, he was made Grand Maître, granting him authority over the king's household
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He aided in the marriage negotiations for the king's son, the duc d'Orléans to Catherine de' Medici in 1533
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In the mid 1530s he found himself opposed to the war party at court led by Admiral Chabot and therefore retired
Safavid prince (died 1550)
Abu'l Ghazi Sultan Alqas Mirza, better known as Alqas Mirza, was a Safavid prince and the second surviving son of king (shah) Ismail I. In early 1546, with Ottoman help, he staged a revolt against his brother Tahmasp I,…
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1516
English theologian and controversialist (died 1645)
Daniel Featley, also called Fairclough and sometimes called Richard Fairclough/Featley, was an English theologian and controversialist. He fell into difficulties with Parliament due to his loyalty to Charles I of…
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1582
French missionary (died 1660)
Alexandre de Rhodes, SJ, also Đắc Lộ, was an Avignonese Jesuit missionary and lexicographer who had a lasting impact on Christianity in Vietnam. He wrote the Dictionarium Annamiticum Lusitanum et Latinum, the first…
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1591
The Shunzhi Emperor, also known by his temple name Emperor Shizu of Qing, personal name Fulin, was the second emperor of the Qing dynasty, and the first Qing emperor to rule over China proper. Upon the death of his…
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1638
German architect, designed the Dresden Frauenkirche (died 1738)
George Bähr was a German architect.
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1666
Scottish surgeon and botanist (died 1842)
Archibald Menzies was a Scottish surgeon, botanist and naturalist. He spent many years at sea, serving with the Royal Navy, private merchants, and the Vancouver Expedition.
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1754
American general, judge, and politician, 7th President of the United States (died 1845)
Andrew Jackson was the seventh president of the United States from 1829 to 1837. He rose to fame as a U.S. Army general and served in both houses of the U.S. Congress. His political philosophy, which dominated his…
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1767
2nd Viscount Melbourne, English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (died 1848)
William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne, was a British Whig statesman who twice served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, first in 1834 and again from 1835 to 1841. He also held senior cabinet roles including Home…
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1779
French painter
Adélaïde Ducluzeau was a French porcelain painter, known for her work at the Manufacture nationale de Sèvres and for her master copies on porcelain. Active between 1818 and 1848, the artist also ran a small private art…
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1787
German mathematician and academic (died 1861)
Ludwig Immanuel Magnus was a German Jewish mathematician who, in 1831, published a paper about the inversion transformation, which leads to inversive geometry.
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1790
English author and publisher (died 1873)
Charles Knight was an English publisher, editor and author. He published and contributed to works such as The Penny Magazine, The Penny Cyclopaedia, and The English Cyclopaedia, and established the Local Government…
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1791
American-Liberian historian and politician, 1st President of Liberia (died 1876)
Joseph Jenkins Roberts was an African American merchant who emigrated to Liberia in 1829, where he became a politician. Elected as the first (1848–1856) and seventh (1872–1876) president of Liberia after independence,…
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1809
1813
Austrian physicist and chemist (died 1895)
Johann Josef Loschmidt, better known as Josef Loschmidt, was an Austrian scientist who performed ground-breaking work in chemistry, physics, and crystal forms.
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1821
Scottish theologian and author (died 1892)
William Milligan was a renowned Scottish theologian. He studied at the University of Halle in Germany, and eventually became a professor at the University of Aberdeen. He is best known for his commentary on the…
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1821
French priest, founded the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart (died 1907)
Jules Chevalier, MSC was a French Catholic priest and founder of the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart, the Daughters of Our Lady of the Sacred Heart, the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart, along with their lay…
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1824
German author, poet, and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1914)
Paul Johann Ludwig von Heyse was a German writer and translator. A member of two important literary societies, the Tunnel über der Spree in Berlin and Die Krokodile in Munich, he wrote novels, poetry, 177 short stories,…
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1830
French geographer and anarchist (died 1905)
Jacques Élisée Reclus was a French geographer, writer, and anarchist. He produced his 19-volume masterwork, La Nouvelle Géographie universelle, la terre et les hommes , over a period of nearly 20 years (1875–1894). In…
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1830
Italian missionary and saint (died 1881)
Daniele Comboni, MCCJ was an Italian Catholic prelate who served as Vicar Apostolic of Central Africa from 1877 until his death in 1881. He worked in the missions in Africa and was the founder of both the Comboni…
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1831
Austrian composer and conductor (died 1916)
Eduard "Edi" Strauss was an Austrian composer who, together with his brothers Johann Strauss II and Josef Strauss made up the Strauss musical dynasty. He was the son of Johann Strauss I and Maria Anna Streim. The family…
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1835
Russian cellist, composer, and conductor (died 1889)
Karl Yulievich Davydov was a Russian cellist, described by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky as the "czar of cellists". He was also a composer, mainly for the cello. His name also appears in various different spellings: Davydov,…
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1838
African-American educator, writer and activist (died 1949)
Hallie Quinn Brown was an African-American educator and activist. She moved with her parents while relatively young to a farm near Chatham, Ontario, Canada, in 1864 and then to Ohio in 1870. In 1868, she began a course…
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1845
American lawyer and politician, Governor of Arkansas (died 1916)
John Sebastian Little was an American politician who served as a member of the United States House of Representatives and briefly as the 21st governor of Arkansas, before having a nervous breakdown and resigning.
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1851
Scottish archaeologist and scholar (died 1939)
Sir William Mitchell Ramsay was a British archaeologist and New Testament scholar. He was the foremost authority of his day on the history of Asia Minor, and a leading scholar in the study of the New Testament.
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1851
Lady Gregory, Anglo-Irish landowner, playwright, and translator (died 1932)
Isabella Augusta, Lady Gregory was an Anglo-Irish dramatist, folklorist and theatre manager. With William Butler Yeats and Edward Martyn, she co-founded the Irish Literary Theatre and the Abbey Theatre, and wrote…
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1852
German physiologist and physician, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1917)
Emil von Behring, was a German physiologist. In 1901, he received the first Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "for his work on serum therapy, especially its application against diphtheria, by which he has opened a…
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1854
Norwegian businessman and politician, 1st Prime Minister of Norway (died 1925)
Peter Christian Hersleb Kjerschow Michelsen, better known as Christian Michelsen, was a Norwegian shipping magnate and statesman. He was the first prime minister of independent Norway from 1905 to 1907. Michelsen is…
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1857
American botanist and academic, co-founded the American Society for Horticultural Science (died 1954)
Liberty Hyde Bailey was an American horticulturist and advocate for rural reform in the United States. He was cofounder of the American Society for Horticultural Science. During the Progressive Era, Bailey was…
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1858
Australian miner and politician (died 1948)
Matthew Charlton was an Australian politician who served as leader of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) and Leader of the Opposition from 1922 to 1928. He led the party to defeat at the 1922 and 1925 federal elections.
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1866
English mathematician (died 1944)
Grace Chisholm Young was an English mathematician. She was educated at Girton College, Cambridge, England and continued her studies at Göttingen University in Germany, where in 1895 she received a doctorate.
Her…
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1868
Polish scholar and politician, President of the Republic of Poland (died 1953)
Stanisław Wojciechowski was a Polish politician and scholar who served as President of Poland between 1922 and 1926, during the Second Polish Republic.
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1869
American journalist and politician, United States Secretary of the Interior (died 1952)
Harold LeClair Ickes was an American administrator, politician and lawyer. He served as United States Secretary of the Interior for nearly 13 years from 1933 to 1946, the longest tenure of anyone to hold the office, and…
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1874
1878
American biochemist (died 1963)
Benjamin Ricardo Jacobs was born at the American Consulate in Lima, Peru, to Rosa Mulet Jacobs of Valparaíso, Chile, a French-Chilean, and Washington Michael Jacobs of South Carolina in the United States. Originally…
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1879
Danish artist (died 1940)
Gerda Marie Fredrikke Wegener was a Danish illustrator and painter. Wegener is known for her fashion illustrations and later her paintings that pushed the boundaries of her time concerning gender and love. These works…
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1886
American runner (died 1986)
Jackson Volney Scholz was an American sprint runner. In the 1920s, he became the first person to appear in an Olympic sprint final in three different Olympic Games. After his athletic career, he also gained fame as a…
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1897
Brazilian sociologist, anthropologist, historian and writer (died 1987)
Gilberto de Mello Freyre was a Brazilian sociologist, anthropologist, historian, writer, painter, journalist and congressman born in Recife. Considered one of the most important sociologists of the 20th century, his…
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1900
Irish-American actor (died 1979)
George Brent was an Irish-American stage, film, and television actor. He is best remembered for the eleven films he made with Bette Davis, which included Jezebel and Dark Victory.
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1904
English-American actor (died 1985)
James Rudolph O'Malley was an English actor and singer who appeared in many American films and television programmes from the 1940s to 1982, using the stage name J. Pat O'Malley. He also appeared on the Broadway stage…
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1904
German lawyer and judge (died 1944)
Berthold Alfred Maria Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg was a German aristocrat and lawyer who was a key conspirator in the plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler on 20 July 1944, alongside his younger brother, Colonel Claus…
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1905
Swedish actress and singer (died 1981)
Zarah Leander was a Swedish singer and actress whose greatest success was in Nazi Germany between 1936 and 1943, when she was contracted to work for the state-owned Universum Film AG (UFA). Although no exact record…
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1907
Flemish journalist and author (died 1979)
Lodewijk Paul Aalbrecht Boon was a Belgian writer of novels, poetry, pornography, columns and art criticism in Flemish. He was also a painter. He is best known for the novels My Little War (1947), the diptych Chapel…
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1912
American blues singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 1982)
Samuel John "Lightnin'" Hopkins was an American country blues singer, songwriter, guitarist and occasional pianist from Centerville, Texas. In 2010, Rolling Stone magazine ranked him No. 71 on its list of the 100…
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1912
American actor (died 1994)
Edward Macdonald Carey was an American actor. He first made his career starring in various B-movies from the 1940s through the 1960s,, and was known in many Hollywood circles as "King of the Bs". Beginning in 1965, he…
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1913
English race car driver (died 2002)
John Eric George "Jack" Fairman was a British racing driver from England. He participated in 13 Formula One Grands Prix, making his debut on 18 July 1953. He scored a total of five championship points, all of which came…
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1913
Jr., American actor and pilot (died 2009)
Frank Coghlan Jr., also known as Junior Coghlan, was an American actor who later became a career officer in the United States Navy and a naval aviator. He appeared in approximately 129 films and television programs…
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1916
Kosovar commander and politician, President of Kosovo (died 2001)
Fadil Hoxha was a Yugoslavian ethnic-Albanian communist revolutionary and politician from Kosovo. He was a member of the Communist Party and fought in the Yugoslav Partisans during World War II. After the war, he was…
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1916
American trumpet player, bandleader, and actor (died 1983)
Harry Haag James was an American musician who is best known as a trumpet-playing band leader who led a big band to great commercial success from 1939 to 1946. He broke up his band for a short period in 1947, but shortly…
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1916
American author and critic (died 1987)
Richard David Ellmann, FBA, was an American literary critic and biographer of the Irish writers James Joyce, Oscar Wilde, and William Butler Yeats. He won the U.S. National Book Award for Nonfiction for James Joyce…
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1918
Canadian ice hockey player, coach, and manager (died 1987)
George "Punch" Imlach was a Canadian ice hockey coach and general manager best known for his association with the Toronto Maple Leafs, whom he was with from 1958 to 1969, and again from 1979 to 1981, and the Buffalo…
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1918
American actor (died 2002)
Lawrence James Tierney was an American film and television actor who is best known for his many screen portrayals of mobsters and "tough guys" in a career that spanned over fifty years. His roles mirrored his own…
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1919
American physician and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2012)
Edward Donnall "Don" Thomas was an American physician, professor emeritus at the University of Washington, and director emeritus of the clinical research division at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. In 1990…
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1920
American television writer and producer (died 2011)
Madelyn Pugh, sometimes credited as Madelyn Pugh Davis, Madelyn Davis, or Madelyn Martin, was an American television writer who became known in the 1950s for her work on the I Love Lucy television series.
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1921
Pakistani pilot and former Deputy Chief of Air Staff of the PAF (died 2007)
Mohammad Khyber Khan was a Pakistani former two-star rank air officer and among the pioneer officers of the Pakistan Air Force, a fighter pilot, aerobatic pilot and diplomat.
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1924
American composer and academic (died 2019)
Benjamin Burwell Johnston Jr. was an American contemporary music composer, known for his use of just intonation. He was called "one of the foremost composers of microtonal music" by Philip Bush and "one of the best…
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1926
American football player and coach (died 1983)
Norman Mack Van Brocklin, was an American professional football quarterback and coach who played in the National Football League (NFL) for 12 seasons. Nicknamed "the Dutchman", he spent his first nine seasons with the…
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1926
French actor, director, and screenwriter (died 2000)
Christian Henri Marquand was a French actor.
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1927
American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2010)
Carl Milton Smith was an American country singer. Known as "Mister Country", he was one of the genre's most successful male artists during the 1950s, scoring 30 top-10 Billboard hits. Smith's success continued well into…
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1927
American clarinetist and saxophonist (died 2019)
Robert Sage Wilber was an American jazz clarinetist, saxophonist, and band leader. Although his scope covers a wide range of jazz, Wilber was a dedicated advocate of classic styles, working throughout his career to…
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1928
Belarusian-Russian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2019)
Zhores Ivanovich Alferov was a Russian applied physicist who contributed significantly to the creation of modern heterostructure physics and electronics. In 2000, Alferov shared the Nobel Prize in Physics for the…
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1930
1932
Turkish-American record producer (died 2006)
Mehmet Arif Mardin was a Turkish-American music producer, who worked with hundreds of artists across many different styles of music, including jazz, rock, soul, disco and country. He worked at Atlantic Records for over…
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1932
American lawyer and judge (died 2020)
Joan Ruth Bader Ginsburg was an American lawyer and jurist who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1993 until her death in 2020. She was nominated by President Bill Clinton to…
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1933
French actor, director, and screenwriter (died 2004)
Philippe Claude Alex de Broca de Ferrussac was a French film director.
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1933
Indian politician (died 2006)
Kanshi Ram, also known as Bahujan Nayak or Manyavar, Sahab Kanshiram was an Indian politician and social reformer who worked for the upliftment and political mobilisation of the Bahujans, the backward or lower caste…
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1934
American actor
Judd Seymore Hirsch is an American actor. He is known for playing Alex Rieger on the television comedy series Taxi (1978–1983), John Lacey on the NBC series Dear John (1988–1992), and Alan Eppes on the CBS series…
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1935
American pastor and television host (died 2025)
Jimmy Lee Swaggart was an American Pentecostal televangelist, pastor, media mogul, author and gospel music artist.
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1935
American songwriter (died 1986)
Howard Greenfield was an American lyricist and songwriter, who for several years in the 1960s worked out of the famous Brill Building. He is best known for his successful songwriting collaborations, including one with…
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1936
Russian environmentalist and author (died 2015)
Valentin Grigoryevich Rasputin was a Soviet and Russian writer. He was born and lived much of his life in the Irkutsk Oblast in Eastern Siberia. Rasputin's works depict rootless urban characters and the fight for…
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1937
American politician
Edward Emmett Kaufman is a retired American politician and businessman who served as a United States senator from Delaware from 2009 to 2010. He chaired the Congressional Oversight Panel for the Oversight of the…
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1939
English author, poet, and playwright (died 2016)
Robert Nye FRSL was an English poet and author. His bestselling novel Falstaff, published in 1976, was described by Michael Ratcliffe as "one of the most ambitious and seductive novels of the decade", and went on to win…
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1939
English mountaineer (died 1986)
Julie Tullis was a British climber and filmmaker who died while descending from K2's summit during a storm, along with four other climbers from several expeditions, in what was later termed the 1986 K2 disaster or the…
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1939
English politician, Secretary of State for Health (died 2019)
Frank Gordon Dobson was a British politician who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Holborn and St Pancras from 1979 to 2015. A member of the Labour Party he served in the First Blair ministry as Secretary of…
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1940
1940
1941
child internee and revolutionary martyr (died 1949)
Song Zhenzhong, popularly known as Little Radish Head, was the son of Chinese Communist Party members Song Qiyun and Xu Linxia. Held by the Kuomintang for the majority of his life, he was killed together with his…
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1941
Canadian actor, director, and screenwriter
David Paul Cronenberg is a Canadian film director, screenwriter, producer and actor. He is a principal originator of the body horror genre, with his films exploring visceral bodily transformation, infectious diseases,…
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1943
English actress, screenwriter, and author
Lynda Joy La Plante, CBE is an English author, screenwriter and former actress. She created and wrote the police procedural television series Prime Suspect. In 2024 she was honoured with the Crime Writers' Association…
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1943
English bishop (died 2014)
Michael Charles Scott-Joynt was an English bishop and a Prelate of the Order of the Garter. He was appointed Bishop of Winchester, one of the five senior bishoprics in the Church of England, in 1995. He had previously…
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1943
1943
1944
French director and screenwriter
Jacques Doillon is a French film director and screenwriter.
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1944
Canadian director, producer, and screenwriter (died 1993)
Francis Mankiewicz was a Canadian film director, screenwriter and producer. In 1945, his family moved to Montreal, where Francis spent all his childhood. His father was a second cousin to the famous Hollywood brothers,…
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1944
American baseball player and coach (died 2003)
Bobby Lee Bonds was an American right fielder in Major League Baseball from 1968 to 1981. He played for the San Francisco Giants, New York Yankees, California Angels, Chicago White Sox, Texas Rangers, Cleveland Indians,…
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1946
English-Irish footballer and manager (died 2024)
John Dempsey was a professional footballer who played as a centre back. He played for Fulham and Chelsea in the 1960s and 1970s before moving to the United States to join Philadelphia Fury. He ended his career after a…
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1946
1947
American author and activist
Katherine Vandam Bornstein is an American author, playwright, performance artist, actor, and gender theorist. As a transgender pioneer since the 1980s, Bornstein's reflections on sex and gender nonconformity have…
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1948
Brazilian diplomat (died 2003)
Sérgio Vieira de Mello was a Brazilian United Nations diplomat who worked on several UN humanitarian and political programs for over 34 years. The Government of Brazil posthumously awarded the Sergio Vieira de Mello…
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1948
Baron Alton of Liverpool, English politician
David Patrick Paul Alton, Baron Alton of Liverpool, KCSG, KCMCO is a British-Irish politician. A former Member of Parliament for the Liberal Party, and later the Liberal Democrats, he has sat as a Crossbench member of…
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1951
American actress
Frances Hardman Conroy is an American actress. She is best known for playing Ruth Fisher on the television series Six Feet Under (2001–2005), for which she won a Golden Globe and three Screen Actors Guild Awards, and…
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1953
1954
American runner and businessman
Henry Dinwoodey Marsh is a retired runner from the United States, who made four U.S. Olympic teams and represented his native country in the men's 3,000 meter Steeplechase in three Summer Olympics, from 1976 through…
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1954
American actor
Craig Wasson is an American actor. He made his film debut in Rollercoaster (1977). He is best known for his roles as Jake Scully in Brian DePalma's Body Double (1984), and Neil Gordon in Chuck Russell's A Nightmare on…
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1954
American baseball player and coach
Michael Vaughn Hatcher is an American former professional baseball player and coach. He played in Major League Baseball as an outfielder, third baseman and first baseman from 1979 through 1990, most notably as a member…
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1955
Pakistani cricketer
Mohsin Hasan Khan is a Pakistani cricket coach, former actor and former cricketer who played in 48 Test matches and 75 One Day Internationals between 1977 and 1986 mainly as an opening batsman.
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1955
American singer-songwriter
Daniel "Dee" Snider is an American retired singer, songwriter, actor, and media personality. He is best known as the former lead singer and songwriter of the heavy metal band Twisted Sister. The band's 1984 song "We're…
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1955
Portuguese-American actor
Joaquim António Portugal Baptista de Almeida is a Portuguese actor. He began his film career playing a role in the 1982 action film The Soldier, and later achieved recognition for playing Andrea Bonanno in the 1987…
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1957
American actress and activist
Park Overall is an American actress, political activist, and former U.S. Senate candidate, known for her trademark heavy Southern accent. Her best-known role was as nurse Laverne Todd in the sitcom Empty Nest, though…
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1957
American real estate investor, former lawyer, and diplomat
Steven Charles Witkoff is an American real estate developer, investor, former attorney, and founder of the Witkoff Group. Since 2025, Witkoff has served as the United States special envoy to the Middle East and special…
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1957
American baseball player
Harold Douglas Baines is an American former designated hitter and right fielder in Major League Baseball who played for five American League (AL) teams from 1980 to 2001, and is best known for his three stints with the…
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1959
Finnish director and producer
Renny Harlin is a Finnish filmmaker who has worked in America, Europe, and Asia. He is known for directing films such as Cliffhanger, Cutthroat Island, and Deep Blue Sea the latter of which has the distinction of being…
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1959
Italian-American model and actor
Fabio Lanzoni, known mononymously as Fabio, is an Italian-American actor, fashion model, and spokesman. Lanzoni is known for his wide-ranging career including work as a romance novel cover model throughout the late…
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1959
1959
American tennis player
Eliot Teltscher is a retired professional American tennis player. He won the 1983 French Open Mixed Doubles. His highest ranking in singles was No. 6 in the world and in doubles was No. 38 in the world.
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1959
American baseball player
Michael Timothy Pagliarulo, a.k.a. "Pags", is an American former professional baseball third baseman and later the hitting coach of the Miami Marlins. He played in Major League Baseball for the New York Yankees, San…
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1960
American basketball player
Robert Terrell “Terry” Cummings is an American former professional basketball player who played 18 seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA). Cummings was voted Rookie of the Year and was a two-time All-Star,…
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1961
American singer-songwriter
Sananda Francesco Maitreya, who started his career with the stage name Terence Trent D'Arby, is an American singer and songwriter who came to fame with his debut studio album, Introducing the Hardline According to…
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1962
American singer-songwriter, musician, and television personality
Bret Michael Sychak, known professionally as Bret Michaels, is an American rock musician. He is the frontman of Poison, which has sold over 65 million albums worldwide and 30 million records in the United States. The…
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1963
1964
Belgian politician
Marco G. Van Hees is a Belgian tax specialist, politician and former member of the Chamber of Representatives. A member of the Workers' Party of Belgium, he represented Hainaut from June 2014 to May 2024.
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1964
Indian epidemiologist, author, and academic
Sunetra Gupta is an Indian-born British infectious disease epidemiologist and a professor of theoretical epidemiology at the Department of Zoology, University of Oxford. She has performed research on the transmission…
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1965
American actor
Chris Bruno is an American film and television actor, director, and producer, as well as a former Pro-MMA fighter and a commercial helicopter pilot. He is best known for his role as Sheriff Walt Bannerman on the…
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1966
Japanese manga artist and creator of Sailor Moon
Naoko Takeuchi is a Japanese manga artist. She is best known as the author of Sailor Moon, one of the most popular manga series of all time. She has won several awards, including the 1993 Kodansha Manga Award for…
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1967
Japanese singer
Mari Hiki , better known by her stage name Kahimi Karie , is a Japanese retired singer, songwriter and photographer. Her music is closely associated with the Shibuya-kei aesthetic. Karie sings in English, French and…
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1968
American singer-songwriter
Mark Sayers McGrath is an American singer who is the lead vocalist of the rock band Sugar Ray. McGrath is also known for his work as a co-host of Extra, and he was the host of Don't Forget the Lyrics! in 2010. McGrath…
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1968
Italian singer-songwriter
Sabrina Debora Salerno, known mononymously as Sabrina, is an Italian singer, songwriter, model, actress and television presenter.
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1968
Italian footballer
Gianluca Festa is an Italian professional football manager and former player. Festa played as a defender for clubs such as Internazionale and Roma, and is best known playing for Middlesbrough and Cagliari. He is the…
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1969
1969
Japanese jockey
Yutaka Take is a Japanese jockey. Take made his riding debut in 1987 and currently holds seven all-time records in Japan. He has won at least one Grade 1 race for 23 straight years until 2010, and a graded stakes race…
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1969
Finnish musician and lead singer of the power metal band Stratovarius
Timo Antero Kotipelto is a Finnish musician best known as the lead singer of the power metal band Stratovarius, whom he joined in 1994, as well as fronting his own band Kotipelto.
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1969
American speed skater
Derek Parra is an American inline skater and speed skater from San Bernardino, California, who graduated from Eisenhower High School in Rialto, California, in 1988. Parra won two medals at the 2002 Winter Olympics, held…
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1970
English long jumper
Joanne Wise is a female former British track and field athlete who competed in the long jump. In 1998, she won the Commonwealth Games gold medal in Kuala Lumpur. She also competed at the Barcelona Olympic Games in 1992…
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1971
American singer-songwriter and musician
Mark Allan Hoppus is an American musician and record producer. He is the co-lead vocalist, co-founder, and bassist for the rock band Blink-182 and the only member to appear on every album.
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1972
German chef
Holger Stromberg, is a German celebrity chef. At the age of 23 in 1994, he gained his first Michelin star whilst head chef at the restaurant Goldschmieding in Castrop-Rauxel, making him Germany's youngest Michelin…
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1972
American football player and coach
Michael Pettaway Tomlin is an American former professional football coach. He is known for having served as the head coach for the Pittsburgh Steelers of the National Football League (NFL) from 2007 to 2025. During his…
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1972
American baseball player
Robert Charles Fick is an American former professional baseball first baseman. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Detroit Tigers, Atlanta Braves, Tampa Bay Devil Rays, San Diego Padres, and Washington…
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1974
American actress
Eva Jacqueline Longoria Bastón is an American actress, producer, director, and businesswoman. After several guest roles on television, she gained popularity for her portrayal of Isabella Braña on the CBS daytime soap…
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1975
Canadian ice hockey player
Darcy Tucker is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player. He played most of his National Hockey League (NHL) career with the Toronto Maple Leafs. A sixth round draft choice, Tucker began his NHL career with the…
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1975
1975
Canadian actress
Cara Pifko is a Canadian actress known primarily for her work on television shows produced by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.
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1976
1977
1977
Indian military officer (died 2008)
Major Sandeep Unnikrishnan, AC was an Indian Army officer, who was serving in the 51 Special Action Group of the National Security Guard on deputation. He was killed in action during the 2008 Mumbai attacks and was…
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1977
Japanese competitive eater
Takeru "Tsunami" Kobayashi is a Japanese former competitive eater. Described as "the godfather of competitive eating", he is a six-time Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest champion and widely credited with popularizing the…
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1978
New Zealand cricketer
Kyle David Mills is a New Zealand cricket coach and former international cricketer who is the former bowling coach of the Kolkata Knight Riders. He was also a former captain of the New Zealand cricket team in…
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1979
American baseball player
Kevin Edmund Youkilis, nicknamed "Youk", is an American former professional baseball first baseman and third baseman, who primarily played for the Boston Red Sox. A native of Cincinnati, Ohio, he was drafted by the Red…
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1979
American baseball player
Freddie Lee Bynum Jr. is an American former professional baseball shortstop and outfielder. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Chicago Cubs, Oakland Athletics, and Baltimore Orioles. Bynum also played in…
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1980
American rapper
David Darnell Brown, better known by his stage name Young Buck, is an American rapper. He was affiliated with Birdman's Cash Money Records in 1997, formed the hip hop collective UTP with Juvenile and Soulja Slim in…
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1981
German-Finnish footballer
Mikael Kaj Forssell is a Finnish former professional footballer who played as a striker. He is currently working as an assistant coach of HJK Helsinki, having previously worked as a youth coach for the club.
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1981
Estonian skier
Jens Salumäe is an Estonian former ski jumper and nordic combined skier who has been competing since 2002. He finished 23rd in the individual large hill event at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin.
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1981
Kenyan runner
Wilson Kipsang Kiprotich is a Kenyan long-distance runner who competes primarily in the marathon. He won the bronze medal in the event at the 2012 Summer Olympics and held the world record from 2013 to 2014. In 2020,…
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1982
Turkish footballer
Umut Bulut is a Turkish former professional footballer. Between 2007 and 2018, he made 39 appearances and scored ten goals for the Turkey national team. On 24th June 2024, Umut Bulut ended his football career at the age…
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1983
Australian cricketer
Benjamin William Hilfenhaus is an Australian former professional cricketer who played for Tasmania in Australian domestic cricket and for the Australia national cricket team. He is right-arm fast-medium bowler known for…
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1983
Greek basketball player
Konstantinos "Kostas" Kaimakoglou is a Greek former professional basketball player who last played for UNICS Kazan of the VTB United League and the EuroCup. He is 2.05 m tall, and his main position is power forward, but…
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1983
Salvadoran swimmer
Golda Lee Marcus is a two-time Olympic swimmer from El Salvador. She swam at the 2004 and 2008 Olympics. As of June 2009, she holds the Salvadoran records in the 400, 800, and 1500 meter freestyles.
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1983
Irish footballer
Daryl Michael Murphy is an Irish former professional footballer who played as a striker.
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1983
Indian rapper, producer, and actor
Hirdesh Singh, known professionally as Yo Yo Honey Singh, is an Indian singer, music producer and actor. He commenced his career as a hip-hop music producer in 2003, working as a session and recording artist within the…
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1983
French-Algerian footballer
Badradine Belloumou is a French former footballer who played as a defender. He previously played for FC Martigues, CS Sedan, Roye, SO Cassis Carnoux, and Marignane. He also had a spell in Algeria with ASO Chlef.
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1984
Canadian speed skater
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1984
Greek basketball player
Konstantinos "Kostas" Vasileiadis is a Greek former professional basketball player who last played for Cáceres Ciudad del Baloncesto of LEB Oro. He is a 2.01 m tall swingman.
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1984
1985
1985
American actor and model
Kellan Christopher Lutz is an American actor and model. He made his film debut in Stick It (2006), and is best known for playing Emmett Cullen in The Twilight Saga film series (2008–2012). He has since played Poseidon…
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1985
Australian actor
Jai Stephen Courtney is an Australian actor. Courtney started his career as a teenager with small roles in film and television, and studied acting at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts. After early…
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1986
Danish ice hockey player
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1986
American football player
Eric Thomas Decker is an American former professional football player who was a wide receiver for eight seasons in the National Football League (NFL). He played college football and college baseball for the Minnesota…
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1987
1988
Mexican footballer
Éver Arsenio Guzmán Zavala is a Mexican former footballer who last played as a forward for Guatemalan team Antigua.
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1988
Canadian ice hockey player
James Reimer is a Canadian professional ice hockey player who is a goaltender for the Ottawa Senators of the National Hockey League (NHL). Reimer has previously played for the Toronto Maple Leafs, Florida Panthers, San…
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1988
English footballer
Samuel Edward Thomas Baldock is an English former professional footballer who last played as a striker for Oxford United. He also played for Milton Keynes Dons, West Ham United, Bristol City, Brighton & Hove Albion,…
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1989
American sprinter
Gil Roberts is an American athlete who specializes in the 200 m and 400 m. He is an Olympic gold medallist and World Championship silver medallist in the men's 4 × 400 metres relay.
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1989
1989
Portuguese footballer
Adrien Sébastien Perruchet da Silva is a former professional footballer who played as a midfielder.
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1989
American actress
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1989
American baseball player
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1990
American football player
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1990
Irish professional wrestler
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1990
American basketball player
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1991
American baseball player
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1991
American football player
Devonta Cornellius Freeman is an American former professional football player who was a running back in the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Florida State Seminoles and was selected by…
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1992
British actress
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1993
American baseball player
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1993
American football player
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1993
Serbian tennis player
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1993
French footballer
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1993
Canadian ice hockey player
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1993
1994
American comedian
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1994
American basketball player
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1995
American professional wrestler
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1996
Scottish sports shooter
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1996
1996
Russian-Bulgarian singer-songwriter
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2000
English actress
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2001
American football player
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2003
American football player
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2004
Spanish footballer
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2005
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