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He founded the Chinese record label Team Wang in 2017, serving as the creative director and lead designer for its subsidiary fashion brand Team Wang Design
Famous Birthdays on March 28
177 people
1472 – 2004
March 28 has seen 177 notable people enter the world across recorded history — from 1472 – 2004. Below are the most significant names born on this date.
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1994 — Jackson Wang
Hong Kong rapper
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Wang released his first solo album Mirrors in 2019, which peaked at number 32 on the US Billboard 200, followed by his second album Magic Man in 2022, which peaked at number 15
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After a career as a competitive fencer, he joined the South Korean boy band Got7, which debuted under JYP Entertainment in 2014
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His third album Magic Man 2 (2025) reached number 13.
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Jackson Wang is a Hong Kong rapper, singer, and songwriter
Italian painter (died 1517)
Fra Bartolomeo or Bartolommeo, also known as Bartolommeo di Pagholo, Bartolommeo di San Marco, Bartolomeo di Paolo di Jacopo del Fattorino, and his original nickname Baccio della Porta, was an Italian Renaissance…
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1472
Spanish nun and saint (died 1582)
Teresa of Ávila, also called Saint Teresa of Jesus, was a Carmelite nun and prominent Spanish mystic and religious reformer.
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1515
German prince (died 1557)
Albert II was the margrave of Brandenburg-Kulmbach (Brandenburg-Bayreuth) from 1527 to 1553. He was a member of the Franconian branch of the House of Hohenzollern. Because of his bellicose nature, Albert was given the…
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1522
Czech bishop and educator (died 1670)
John Amos Comenius was a Czech philosopher, pedagogue and theologian who is considered the father of modern education. He served as the last bishop of the Unity of the Brethren before becoming a religious refugee and…
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1592
Bumbutai, of the Khorchin Mongol Borjigit clan, was the consort of Hong Taiji. She was 21 years his junior. She was honoured as Empress Dowager Zhaosheng during the reign of her son, Fulin, the Shunzhi Emperor, and as…
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1613
Dutch botanist and anatomist (died 1731)
Frederik Ruysch was a Dutch botanist and anatomist. He is known for developing techniques for preserving anatomical specimens, which he used to create dioramas or scenes incorporating human parts. His anatomical…
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1638
English judge (died 1730)
Samuel Sewall was a judge, businessman, and printer in the Province of Massachusetts Bay, best known for his involvement in the Salem witch trials, for which he later apologized, and his essay The Selling of Joseph…
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1652
English minister and author (died 1795)
Andrew Kippis was an English nonconformist clergyman and biographer.
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1725
Elector of Bavaria, (died 1777)
Maximilian III Joseph, also known by his epithet "the much beloved" was a Prince-elector of the Holy Roman Empire and Duke of Bavaria from 1745 to 1777. He was the last of the Bavarian branch of the House of Wittelsbach…
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1727
Venezuelan general and politician (died 1816)
Sebastián Francisco de Miranda y Rodríguez de Espinoza, commonly known as Francisco de Miranda, was a Venezuelan military leader and revolutionary who fought in the American Revolutionary War, the French Revolution and…
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1750
English activist (died 1846)
Thomas Clarkson was an English abolitionist, and a leading campaigner against the slave trade in the British Empire. He helped found the Society for Effecting the Abolition of the Slave Trade and helped achieve passage…
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1760
American geographer, geologist, and ethnologist (died 1864)
Henry Rowe Schoolcraft was an American geographer, geologist, and ethnologist, noted for his early studies of Native American cultures, as well as for his 1832 expedition to the source of the Mississippi River. He is…
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1793
German historian and author (died 1876)
Georg Heinrich Pertz was a German historian and librarian.
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1795
English lawyer and political scientist (died 1891)
Thomas Hare was a British lawyer and supporter of electoral reform. He is credited with inventing the single transferable vote system of proportional representation which he was a proponent and defender, now used in…
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1806
Czech-American bishop and saint (died 1860)
John Nepomucene Neumann was a Bohemian-born American prelate of the Catholic Church.
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1811
French author and poet (died 1896)
Arsène Houssaye was a French novelist, poet and man of letters.
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1815
American general and politician, 77th Governor of South Carolina (died 1902)
Wade Hampton III was an American politician from South Carolina. He was a prominent member of one of the richest families in the antebellum Southern United States, owning thousands of acres of cotton land in South…
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1818
English architect and engineer (died 1891)
Sir Joseph William Bazalgette CB was a British civil engineer. As Chief Engineer of London's Metropolitan Board of Works, his major achievement was the creation of the London Main Drainage, the sewerage system for…
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1819
American politician and general (died 1871)
Henry Dana Washburn was a U.S. representative from Indiana and a colonel and was breveted twice as brigadier general and major general in the Union Army during the American Civil War.
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1832
French artist (died 1896)
Emmanuel Benner was a French Academic painter and draughtsman. The son of the painter Jean Benner-Fries, he was twin to fellow artist, Jean Benner, and the uncle of the painter Emmanuel Michel Benner, Jean's son. Like…
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1836
French artist (died 1906)
Jean Benner was a French artist. He was twin to fellow artist, Emmanuel Benner, and the father of Emmanuel M. Benner, another artist.
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1836
German-American brewer, founded the Pabst Brewing Company (died 1904)
Johann Gottlieb Friedrich "Frederick" Pabst was a German-American ship's captain and brewer and the namesake of the Pabst Brewing Company. Pabst was born in Prussia and emigrated to the United States with his parents…
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1836
German-Jewish Egyptian physician and politician (died 1892)
Mehmed Emin Pasha was an Ottoman physician of German Jewish origin, naturalist, and governor of the Egyptian province of Equatoria on the upper Nile. The Ottoman Empire conferred the title "Pasha" on him in 1886, and…
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1840
Hungarian mathematician and physicist (died 1930)
Gyula Farkas de Kisbarnak was a Hungarian mathematician and physicist.
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1847
French historian and author (died 1894)
James Darmesteter was a French author, orientalist, and antiquarian.
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1849
English theatre actor (died 1911)
Harold Kyrle Money Bellew was an English stage and silent film actor. He notably toured with Cora Brown-Potter in the 1880s and 1890s, and was cast as the leading man in many stage productions alongside her. He was also…
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1850
Portuguese academic and politician, 3rd President of Portugal (died 1944)
Bernardino Luíz Machado Guimarães was the president of Portugal, serving from 1915 to 1917 and again from 1925 to 1926.
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1851
French politician, Prime Minister of France, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1932)
Aristide Pierre Henri Briand was a French statesman who served eleven terms as Prime Minister of France during the French Third Republic. He is mainly remembered for his focus on international issues and reconciliation…
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1862
Russian novelist, short story writer, and playwright (died 1936)
Alexei Maximovich Peshkov, popularly known as Maxim Gorky, was a Russian and Soviet writer, journalist, and proponent of socialism. He was nominated five times for the Nobel Prize in Literature. Before his success as an…
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1868
American rower (died 1956)
John Francis Geiger was an American rower who competed in the 1900 Summer Olympics. He was part of the American boat Vesper Boat Club, which won the gold medal in the eights. He played American football for the Latrobe…
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1873
Irish republican politician and hunger striker; Lord Mayor of Cork (died 1920)
Terence James MacSwiney was an Irish playwright, author and politician. He was elected as Sinn Féin Lord Mayor of Cork during the Irish War of Independence in 1920. He was arrested by the British Government on charges…
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1879
Irish-American discus thrower and jumper (died 1918)
Martin John Sheridan was an Irish-American athlete and three time Olympic Games gold medallist in discus throw.
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1881
Greek poet and playwright (died 1951)
Angelos Sikelianos was a Greek lyric poet and playwright. His themes include Greek history, religious symbolism as well as universal harmony in poems such as The Moonstruck, Prologue to Life, Mother of God, and Delphic…
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1884
American actress (died 1945)
Beulah Dark Cloud was a Native American actress and performer who appeared in several silent films by D. W. Griffith.
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1887
American violinist, composer, and bandleader (died 1967)
Paul Samuel Whiteman was an American Jazz bandleader, composer, orchestral director, and violinist.
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1890
Belgian physiologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1968)
Corneille Jean François Heymans was a Belgian physiologist. He studied at the Jesuit College of Saint Barbara and then at Ghent University, where he obtained a doctor's degree in 1920.
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1892
Irish republican General (died 1993)
Thomas Maguire was an Irish republican who held the rank of commandant-general in the Western Command of the Irish Republican Army (IRA) and led the South Mayo flying column.
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1892
Greek-American businessman (died 1971)
Spyros Panagiotis Skouras was a Greek-American motion picture pioneer and film executive who was the president of 20th Century-Fox from 1942 to 1962. He resigned June 27, 1962, but was chairman of the company for…
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1893
German captain (died 1941)
Otto Ernst Lindemann was a German Kapitän zur See. He was the only commander of the battleship Bismarck during its eight months of service in World War II.
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1894
American politician, United States Secretary of State (died 1966)
Christian Archibald Herter was an American diplomat and Republican politician who was the 59th governor of Massachusetts from 1953 to 1957 and United States Secretary of State from 1959 to 1961. He served as president…
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1895
American pastor and theologian (died 1960)
Donald Grey Barnhouse, was an American Christian preacher, pastor, theologian, radio pioneer, and writer. He was pastor of the Tenth Presbyterian Church in Philadelphia from 1927 to his death in 1960. The Bible Study…
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1895
American religious leader, 12th President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (died 1985)
Spencer Woolley Kimball was an American religious leader who was the twelfth president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
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1895
German footballer and manager (died 1977)
Josef "Sepp" Herberger was a German football player and manager. He is most famous for being the manager of the West Germany national team that won the 1954 FIFA World Cup final, a match later dubbed The Miracle of…
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1897
American businessman (died 1989)
August Anheuser "Gussie" Busch Jr. was an American brewing magnate who built the Anheuser-Busch into the largest brewery in the world by 1957; he served as company chairman from 1946 to 1975.
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1899
1899
American critic and educator (died 2004)
Edward (Charles) Wagenknecht was an American literary critic and teacher who specialized in 19th-century American literature. He wrote and edited many books on literature and movies, and taught for many years at various…
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1900
English actress (died 1984)
Dame Flora McKenzie Robson was an English actress and star of the theatrical stage and cinema, particularly renowned for her performances in plays demanding dramatic and emotional intensity. Her range extended from…
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1902
Czech-American pianist and educator (died 1991)
Rudolf Serkin was a Bohemian-born Austrian-American pianist. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest Beethoven interpreters of the 20th century.
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1903
Australian author and activist (died 1996)
Margaret Lilardia Tucker MBE was an Aboriginal Australian activist and writer who was among the first Aboriginal authors to publish an autobiography If Everyone Cared, in 1977; a new edition of this work was published…
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1904
American production manager and producer (died 1996)
Pandro Samuel Berman, also known as Pan Berman, was an American film producer.
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1905
American zoologist and television host (died 1986)
Richard Marlin Perkins was an American zoologist. He is best known as the host of the television program Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom from 1963 to 1985.
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1905
Canadian violinist, composer, and conductor (died 2002)
Murray Adaskin, was a Canadian violinist, teacher, and composer.
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1906
American actor (died 1998)
Robert Allen was an American actor in both feature films and B-movie westerns between 1935 and 1944.
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1906
South African-English author, fencer and academic (died 2010)
Dorothy Knowles was a British academic, known to her friends as Diana. She was an analyst of French drama who taught at Liverpool University from 1934 to 1967. She was also an accomplished fencer. Knowles is known to…
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1906
American lawyer and talent agent (died 1993)
Irving Paul "Swifty" Lazar was an American lawyer, talent agent and dealmaker, representing both movie stars and authors.
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1907
American novelist and short story writer (died 1981)
Nelson Algren was an American writer. His 1949 novel The Man with the Golden Arm won the National Book Award and was adapted as the 1955 film of the same name.
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1909
American actor and singer-songwriter (died 1964)
James Wesley Dodd was an American actor, singer, and songwriter best known as the master of ceremonies for the popular 1950s Walt Disney television series The Mickey Mouse Club, as well as the writer of its well-known…
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1910
Queen of Denmark (died 2000)
Ingrid of Sweden was Queen of Denmark from 20 April 1947 to 14 January 1972 as the wife of King Frederik IX.
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1910
Italian race car driver (died 1998)
Consalvo Sanesi was best known as the Alfa Romeo works' test driver in the period following World War II, but he also competed in races with the Alfa Romeo Tipo 158/159 cars in the period before the Formula One World…
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1911
English-Australian author (died 1984)
Arthur Bertram Chandler was an Anglo-Australian merchant marine officer, sailing the world in everything from tramp steamers to troop ships, but who later turned his hand to a second career as a prolific author of pulp…
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1912
Russian pilot and navigator (died 1943)
Marina Mikhaylovna Raskova was the first woman in the Soviet Union to achieve the diploma of professional air navigator. Raskova went from a young woman with aspirations of becoming an opera singer to a military…
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1912
Japanese artist (died 2021)
Toko Shinoda was a Japanese artist. Shinoda is best known for her abstract sumi ink paintings and prints. Shinoda's oeuvre was predominantly executed using the traditional means and media of East Asian calligraphy, but…
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1913
American screenwriter and producer (died 2000)
Edward Anhalt was an American screenwriter, producer, and documentary filmmaker. After working as a journalist and documentary filmmaker for Pathé and CBS-TV, he teamed with his wife Edna Anhalt, one of his five wives,…
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1914
Czech author (died 1997)
Bohumil Hrabal was a Czech writer, often named among the best Czech writers of the 20th century.
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1914
American politician, 64th Governor of Maine, 58th United States Secretary of State (died 1996)
Edmund Sixtus Muskie was an American statesman and politician who served as the 58th United States Secretary of State under President Jimmy Carter from 1980 to 1981. A member of the Democratic Party, he previously…
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1914
American explorer, poet, and painter (died 1934)
Everett Ruess was an American artist, poet, and writer. He carried out solo explorations of the High Sierra, the California coast, and the deserts of the American Southwest. In 1934, he disappeared while traveling…
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1914
American singer-songwriter (died 2001)
Jay Livingston was an American composer best known as half of a composing-songwriting duo with Ray Evans, with whom he specialized in composing film scores and original soundtrack songs. Livingston composed the music…
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1915
Australian cricket umpire (died 2007)
Thomas Francis Brooks was an Australian former first-class cricketer and later an umpire. Born in Paddington, New South Wales, Brooks played first-class cricket for New South Wales.
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1919
British physician and author (died 2010)
Lady Eileen Crofton was a British physician and author. She was best known for her anti-smoking campaigns.
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1919
American baseball player and coach (died 1988)
Victor John Angelo Raschi was an American Major League Baseball pitcher. Nicknamed "the Springfield Rifle", he was one of the top pitchers for the New York Yankees in the late 1940s and early 1950s, forming the "Big…
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1919
American physicist and academic (died 2013)
Harold Melvin Agnew was an American physicist, best known for having flown as a scientific observer on the Hiroshima bombing mission and, later, as the third director of the Los Alamos National Laboratory.
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1921
English actor and author (died 1999)
Sir Dirk Bogarde was an English actor, novelist and screenwriter. Initially a matinée idol in films such as Doctor in the House (1954) for the Rank Organisation, he later acted in art house films, evolving from…
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1921
Australian politician (died 1999)
Neville Thomas Bonner was an Australian politician, and the first Aboriginal Australian to become a member of the Parliament of Australia. He was appointed by the Queensland Parliament to fill a casual vacancy in the…
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1922
American painter and educator (died 2008)
Grace Hartigan was an American abstract expressionist painter and a significant member of the vibrant New York School of the 1950s and 1960s. Her circle of friends, who frequently inspired one another in their artistic…
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1922
American boxer and actor (died 2001)
Giuseppe Antonio Berardinelli was an American professional boxer. He was the World Light Heavyweight Champion from 1950 to 1952. He took the ring-name Joey Maxim from the Maxim gun, the world's first self-acting machine…
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1922
American scientist and engineer (died 2014)
Paul Charles Donnelly was an American guided missile pioneer and a senior NASA manager during the Apollo Moon landing program at the Kennedy Space Center (KSC). Responsible for the checkout of all Apollo launch vehicles…
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1923
American trumpet player and composer (died 1986)
Thaddeus Joseph Jones was an American jazz trumpeter, composer and bandleader who has been called "one of the all-time greatest jazz trumpet soloists".
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1923
American actor (died 1992)
Frederick Cecil Bartholomew, known for his acting work as Freddie Bartholomew, was an English-American child actor who was very popular in 1930s Hollywood films. His most famous starring roles are in Captains Courageous…
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1924
Russian actor (died 1994)
Innokenty Mikhailovich Smoktunovsky was a Soviet and Russian stage and film actor. He was named a People's Artist of the USSR in 1974 and a Hero of Socialist Labour in 1990.
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1925
American child actress (died 2010)
Dorothy Adele DeBorba was an American child actress of Portuguese descent who was a regular in the Our Gang series of short subjects as the leading lady from 1930 to 1933.
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1925
18th Duchess of Alba (died 2014)
María del Rosario Cayetana Fitz-James Stuart y Silva, 18th Duchess of Alba GE was a Spanish aristocrat.
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1926
Indian cricketer (died 2006)
Pahlan Ratanji "Polly" Umrigar was an Indian cricketer. He played in the Indian cricket team and played first-class cricket for Bombay and Gujarat. Umrigar played mainly as a middle-order batsman but also bowled…
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1926
Polish-American political activist and analyst; United States National Security Advisor (died 2017)
Zbigniew "Zbig" Kazimierz Brzeziński was a Polish-American diplomat and political scientist. He served as a counselor to Lyndon B. Johnson from 1966 to 1968 and was Jimmy Carter's National Security Advisor from 1977 to…
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1928
German-French mathematician and theorist (died 2014)
Alexander Grothendieck, later Alexandre Grothendieck in French, was a German-born French mathematician who became the leading figure in the creation of modern algebraic geometry. His research extended the scope of the…
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1928
American composer (died 2014)
Robert Reynolds Ashley was an American composer, who was best known for his television operas and other theatrical works, many of which incorporate electronics and extended techniques. His works often involve…
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1930
American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
Jerome Isaac Friedman is an American physicist. He is institute professor and professor of physics, emeritus, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He won the 1990 Nobel Prize in Physics along with Henry Kendall…
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1930
American soldier, banker, and politician, 8th Governor of Alaska
Frank Hughes Murkowski is an American politician. A member of the Republican Party, he served as a United States senator representing Alaska from 1981 to 2002 and as the eighth governor of Alaska from 2002 to 2006.
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1933
Guyanese-English hurdler (died 2006)
John Lawrence Taitt was a British sprint hurdler. He was born in Georgetown, Demerara-Mahaica, British Guiana and competed at the 1964 Summer Olympics.
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1934
English journalist and author (died 2023)
Sir Michael Parkinson was an English television presenter, broadcaster, journalist and author. He presented his television talk show Parkinson from 1971 to 1982 and from 1998 to 2007, as well as other talk shows and…
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1935
Polish triple jumper (died 2024)
Józef Szmidt was a German and Polish Olympic athlete and the first triple jumper to reach 17 metres.
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1935
Peruvian writer and politician, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2025)
Jorge Mario Pedro Vargas Llosa, 1st Marquess of Vargas Llosa was a Peruvian novelist, journalist, essayist, and politician. Vargas Llosa was one of the most significant Latin American novelists and essayists and one of…
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1936
English-Australian television host
Anthony Ferraro Louis Barber is a British Australian Gold Logie award-winning television game show host, radio announcer, singer and media personality, who has been active in the industry since the early 1960s.
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1940
Uruguayan footballer and coach (died 2013)
Luis Alberto Cubilla Almeida was a Uruguayan professional footballer and manager. He had a successful playing career winning 16 major titles. He then went on to become one of the most successful managers in South…
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1940
American equestrian
John Michael Plumb is an American equestrian and Olympic champion who competes in the sport of three-day eventing. He holds the title of the US Olympic competitor who has competed in the greatest number of Olympics,…
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1940
American philosopher and academic (died 2024)
Daniel Clement Dennett III was an American philosopher and cognitive scientist. His research centered on philosophy of mind, philosophy of science, and philosophy of biology, particularly as those fields relate to…
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1942
Welsh politician, Vice-President of the European Commission
Neil Gordon Kinnock, Baron Kinnock is a Welsh politician who was Leader of the Opposition and Leader of the Labour Party from 1983 to 1992. He was a Member of Parliament (MP) from 1970 to 1995, first for Bedwellty and…
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1942
English director and producer
Michael Cormac Newell is an English film and television director and producer. He won the BAFTA for Best Direction for Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994), which also won the BAFTA Award for Best Film, and directed the…
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1942
American opera singer
Samuel Ramey is an American operatic bass. At the height of his career, he was greatly admired for his range and versatility, having possessed a sufficiently accomplished bel canto technique which enabled him to sing…
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1942
American basketball player and coach (died 2020)
Gerald Eugene Sloan was an American professional basketball player and coach. He played 11 seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA) before beginning a 30-year coaching career, 23 of which were spent as head…
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1942
English director, producer, and screenwriter
Sir Richard Charles Hastings Eyre is an English film, theatre, television and opera director. Eyre has received numerous accolades including three Laurence Olivier Awards as well as nominations for six BAFTA Awards and…
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1943
American actress (died 2020)
Conchata Galen Ferrell was an American actress. She played Berta the housekeeper on the sitcom Two and a Half Men from 2003 to 2015, and she received two nominations for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding…
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1943
American basketball player
Richard Francis Dennis Barry III is an American former professional basketball player. Barry ranks among the most prolific scorers and all-around players in basketball history. He is the only player to lead the National…
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1944
American actor (died 2016)
Kenneth Joseph Howard Jr. was an American actor. He was known for his roles as Thomas Jefferson in 1776 (1972) and as high school basketball coach and former Chicago Bulls player Ken Reeves in the television show The…
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1944
Filipino politician, 16th President of the Philippines
Rodrigo Roa Duterte is a Filipino lawyer and politician who served as the 16th president of the Philippines from 2016 to 2022. He had served as the mayor of Davao City in the past. Duterte is the first Philippine…
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1945
Dutch physicist and astronaut (died 2014)
Wubbo Johannes Ockels was a Dutch physicist and astronaut with the European Space Agency who, in 1985, became the first Dutch citizen in space when he flew on STS-61-A as a payload specialist. He later became professor…
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1946
American banker and politician, 74th United States Secretary of the Treasury
Henry Merritt "Hank" Paulson Jr. is an American investment banker and financier who served as the 74th United States secretary of the treasury from 2006 to 2009. Prior to his role in the Department of the Treasury,…
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1946
Peruvian economist and politician, President of Peru
Alejandro Celestino Toledo Manrique is a Peruvian former politician who served as President of Peru, from 2001 to 2006. He gained international prominence after leading the opposition against president Alberto Fujimori,…
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1946
American politician (died 2026)
David Bennett McKinley was an American businessman and politician who served as the U.S. representative for West Virginia's 1st congressional district from 2011 to 2023. A member of the Republican Party, McKinley was a…
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1947
1948
American actress
Dianne Evelyn Wiest is an American actress. She has won two Academy Awards for Best Supporting Actress for 1986's Hannah and Her Sisters and 1994's Bullets Over Broadway, one Golden Globe Award for Bullets Over…
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1948
American keyboard player (died 2006)
Milan B. Williams was an American keyboardist and a founding member of The Commodores.
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1948
American sprinter (died 2013)
Ronald Ray Smith was an American athlete, winner of the gold medal in the 4 × 100 m relay at the 1968 Summer Olympics. He attended San Jose State College during the "Speed City" era, coached by Lloyd (Bud) Winter and…
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1949
Burundian banker and politician, 4th President of Burundi (died 1993)
Melchior Ndadaye was a Burundian banker and politician who became the first democratically elected and first Hutu president of Burundi after winning the landmark 1993 election. Though he attempted to smooth the…
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1953
1954
American singer-songwriter and actress
Reba Nell McEntire, or simply Reba, is an American country singer and actress. Dubbed "The Queen of Country", she has sold more than 75 million records worldwide. Since the 1970s, she has placed over 100 singles on the…
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1955
American sprinter (died 2023)
Harvey Edward Glance was an American sprint runner. He won gold medals in tandem with his teammates at the 4 × 100 m relay at the 1976 Summer Olympics, 1979 and 1987 Pan American Games, and 1987 World Championships.
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1957
Cuban composer (died 2025)
Edesio Alejandro Rodríguez Salvá was a Cuban and Spanish guitarist, singer and composer of electronic music. He wrote incidental music, music for television and more than 50 film scores such as Clandestinos and Hello…
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1958
American wrestler (died 2003)
Curtis Michael Hennig, better known by the ring name Mr. Perfect, was an American professional wrestler. He performed under his real name for promotions including the American Wrestling Association (AWA), the World…
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1958
Costa Rican politician, 46th President of Costa Rica
Laura Chinchilla Miranda is a Costa Rican political scientist and politician who served as President of Costa Rica from 2010 to 2014. She was one of Óscar Arias Sánchez's two Vice-Presidents and his administration's…
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1959
Cape Verdeian politician, 4th Prime Minister of Cape Verde
José Maria Pereira Neves is a Cape Verdean politician who is currently the president of Cape Verde, having previously served as the Prime Minister of Cape Verde from 2001 to 2016. He is a member of the African Party for…
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1960
American basketball player and coach
Byron Antom Scott is an American former professional basketball player and coach in the National Basketball Association (NBA). As a role player, Scott won three NBA championships with the Los Angeles Lakers during their…
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1961
Slovenian skier
Jure Franko is a Slovenian-Yugoslav former alpine skier, best known for winning a giant slalom silver medal at the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo.
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1962
English businessman
Simon Bazalgette is a business leader, advisor and investor in the sports, leisure, media and entertainment industries.
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1962
English politician (died 2023)
Karen Elizabeth Lumley was a British Conservative politician and the Member of Parliament (MP) for Redditch in Worcestershire from 2010 to 2017.
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1964
Chinese-American journalist and author (died 2004)
Iris Shun-Ru Chang was an American journalist, historian, and political activist. She is best known for her best-selling 1997 account of the Nanjing Massacre, The Rape of Nanking, and in 2003, The Chinese in America: A…
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1968
Indian-English cricketer and sportscaster
Nasser Hussain is an English cricket commentator and former player who captained the England cricket team between 1999 and 2003, with his overall international career extending from 1990 to 2004. A pugnacious…
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1968
American director and producer
Brett Ratner is an American film director and producer. He directed the Rush Hour film series, The Family Man, Red Dragon, X-Men: The Last Stand, Tower Heist, and Hercules. He is a producer or executive producer of…
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1969
American actor
Vincent Anthony Vaughn is an American actor. He is known for starring as a leading man in numerous comedy films during the late 1990s and 2000s. He has been nominated for a Screen Actors Guild Award and a Saturn Award.
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1970
American journalist and author
Jennifer Weiner is an American writer, television producer, and journalist. She is based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Her debut novel, published in 2001, was Good in Bed. Her novel In Her Shoes (2002) was made into a…
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1970
American ice hockey player
Keith Matthew Tkachuk is an American former professional ice hockey player who played in the National Hockey League (NHL) in an 18-year career with the Winnipeg Jets, Phoenix Coyotes, St. Louis Blues and Atlanta…
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1972
Dutch footballer and referee
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1973
1973
American television personality
Katie Irene "Kate" Gosselin is a former television personality. She appeared on the American reality TV show Jon & Kate Plus 8, in which she and Jon Gosselin were profiled as they raised their atypical family of…
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1975
1975
Australian-New Zealand rugby league player and coach
Nathan Frederick Cayless is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1990s, 2000s and 2010s, and has coached in the 2010s. He played at representative level for New Zealand (captain),…
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1978
Bangladeshi film actor, producer, singer and media personality
Masud Rana Sheikh, better known by the stage name Shakib Khan, is a Bangladeshi actor and filmmaker who works in Bengali films. He is widely regarded as one of the most popular figures of all time in Bengali cinema with…
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1979
1980
American basketball player
Luke Theodore Walton is an American professional basketball coach and former player who is the lead assistant coach for the Detroit Pistons of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played 10 seasons in the NBA…
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1980
American baseball player
Edwar Emilio Ramírez is a Dominican former professional baseball pitcher. Ramírez appeared in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a relief pitcher for the New York Yankees (2007–2009) and Oakland Athletics (2010). After…
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1981
American actress
Julia O'Hara Stiles is an American actress and director. Stiles began acting at the age of 11 as part of New York's La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club. Her film debut was a small role at age 15 in I Love You, I Love You…
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1981
1983
Congolese footballer
Veijeany Christopher Samba is a former professional footballer who played as a defender. Born in France, he played for the Congo national team.
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1984
Italian footballer
Stefano Ferrario is an Italian former footballer who played for Serie D club Cattolica.
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1985
French footballer
Steve Mandanda Mpidi is a former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper.
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1985
Swiss tennis player
Stanislas "Stan" Wawrinka is a Swiss professional tennis player. He has been ranked as high as world No. 3 in singles by the ATP. Wawrinka has won 16 ATP Tour-level singles titles, including three majors at the 2014…
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1985
1985
American wrestler
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1986
American sergeant
Beaudry Robert "Bowe" Bergdahl is a former United States Army soldier who was held captive from 2009 to 2014 by the Taliban-aligned Haqqani network in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
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1986
1986
1986
Czech tennis player
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1986
French-Tunisian footballer
Yohan Ben Alouane is a Tunisian former professional footballer who played as a defender.
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1987
Canadian soccer player
Simeon Alexander Jackson is a Canadian semi-professional soccer player who plays as a forward for A.F.C. Sudbury.
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1987
American hairdresser and television personality
Jonathan McDonald Van Ness, also commonly referred to by his initials J.V.N., is an American hairstylist, podcast host and television personality. He is best known as the grooming expert on the Netflix series Queer Eye,…
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1987
American football player
Gene Reynard Atkins Jr. is an American former professional football player who was a defensive tackle in the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Georgia Bulldogs, and was selected by the…
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1988
American baseball player
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1988
Canadian ice hockey player
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1989
English footballer
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1989
Canadian figure skater
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1989
American musician
Brandon Avery Perlman, known professionally as Delroy Edwards, is an American electronic music producer and DJ based in Los Angeles. According to AllMusic's Paul Simpson, he produces "gritty, lo-fi house tracks in…
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1990
American actress and model
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1990
American football player
Derek Dallas Carr is an American former professional football quarterback who played 11 seasons in the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Fresno State Bulldogs, receiving first-team…
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1991
American basketball player
Jordan Tyler McRae is an American professional basketball player for Hapoel Holon of the Israeli Basketball Premier League. He played college basketball for the Tennessee Volunteers, and was drafted 58th overall in the…
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1991
1991
Canadian ice hockey player
Marie-Philip Poulin is a Canadian professional ice hockey centre and captain for the Montreal Victoire of the Professional Women's Hockey League (PWHL). She is also the captain of the Canada women's national ice hockey…
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1991
Czech ice hockey player
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1991
American baseball player
Christian Dickson Walker is an American professional baseball first baseman for the Houston Astros of Major League Baseball (MLB). He has previously played in MLB for the Baltimore Orioles and Arizona Diamondbacks.…
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1991
1991
Spanish footballer
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1992
Canadian ice hockey player
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1995
American baseball player
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1995
English-Australian cricketer
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1996
1996
Australian cricketer
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1998
2001
Russian figure skater
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2004
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