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He became a coach during his final year, spent in the minor CHL and moved to the NHL in 1979 when he became an assistant coach for the Islanders
Famous Birthdays on March 7
145 people
189 – 2007
March 7 has seen 145 notable people enter the world across recorded history — from 189 – 2007. Below are the most significant names born on this date.
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1943 — Billy MacMillan
Canadian ice hockey player and coach (died 2023)
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After several years with the Canada national team, including playing at two World Championships and the 1968 Winter Olympics, winning a bronze medal, MacMillan made his NHL debut in 1970 with the Toronto Maple Leafs
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He played for Toronto, the Atlanta Flames, and New York Islanders between 1970 and 1977, and retired from playing in 1978
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He was named the head coach of the Colorado Rockies in 1980, also serving as general manager the next season
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MacMillan stayed with the team as they relocated in 1982 to become the New Jersey Devils, and was let go early in the 1983–84 season
Roman emperor (died 211)
Publius Septimius Geta was Roman emperor with his father Septimius Severus and older brother Caracalla from 209 to 211. Severus died in February 211 and intended for his sons to rule together, but proving incapable of…
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189
French lawyer and author (died 1621)
Guillaume du Vair was a French bishop, author, lawyer, Magistrate of the Parliament and Keeper of the Seals of France under French king Louis XIII.
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1556
Scottish outlaw (died 1734)
Robert Roy MacGregor was a Jacobite Scottish outlaw, who later became a Scottish and Jacobite folk hero.
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1671
Italian architect, designed the Basilica of Superga (died 1736)
Filippo Juvarra or Juvara was an Italian architect, scenographer, engraver and goldsmith. He was active in a late-Baroque architecture style, working primarily in Italy, Spain, and Portugal.
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1678
pope of the Catholic Church (died 1769)
Pope Clement XIII, born Carlo della Torre di Rezzonico, was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 6 July 1758 to his death in February 1769. He was installed on 16 July 1758.
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1693
German soldier and poet (died 1759)
Ewald Christian von Kleist was a German poet and cavalry officer. His vast family was well-established in Farther Pomerania; 58 male members of his family fought in Frederick the Great's army of the Seven Years' War. …
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1715
French soldier and politician (died 1807)
Louis Charles Auguste Le Tonnelier, Baron de Breteuil, Baron de Preuilly was a French aristocrat, diplomat and statesman. He was the last chief minister of the Bourbon Monarchy, appointed by King Louis XVI only one…
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1730
French inventor, invented photography (died 1833)
Joseph Nicéphore Niépce was a French inventor and one of the pioneers of photography. Niépce developed heliography, a technique he used to create the world's oldest surviving products of a photographic process. In the…
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1765
Italian author and poet (died 1873)
Alessandro Francesco Tommaso Antonio Manzoni was an Italian philosopher, poet, playwright, and novelist. He is best known for the novel The Betrothed, generally ranked among the masterpieces of world literature. The…
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1785
English mathematician and astronomer (died 1871)
Sir John Frederick William Herschel, 1st Baronet was an English polymath active as a mathematician, astronomer, chemist, inventor and experimental photographer who invented the blueprint and did botanical work.
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1792
American scientist (died 1875)
Increase Allen Lapham was an American writer, scientist, and naturalist, whose work focused primarily on the what is now the U.S. state of Wisconsin. He made maps of the area and published numerous books on the…
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1811
American physician and astronomer (died 1882)
Henry Draper was an American medical doctor and amateur astronomer. He is best known today as a pioneer of astrophotography.
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1837
German-born chemist and British industrialist who discovered the metal carbonyls (died 1909)
Ludwig Mond FRS was a German-born British chemist and industrialist. He discovered an important, previously unknown, class of compounds called metal carbonyls.
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1839
American businessman and publisher, founded The Kansas City Star (died 1915)
William Rockhill Nelson was an American real estate developer and businessman who co-founded The Kansas City Star in Kansas City, Missouri.
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1841
American senator (died 1901)
Marriott Henry Brosius was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.
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1843
American botanist (died 1926)
Luther Burbank was an American botanist, horticulturist, and pioneer in agricultural science who developed more than 800 strains and varieties of plants over his 55-year career. Burbank primarily worked with fruits,…
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1849
American lawyer and politician, Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (died 1921)
James Beauchamp Clark was an American politician and attorney who served as the 36th speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 1911 to 1919. He was the only Democrat to serve as speaker during the…
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1850
Austrian-Czech politician, 1st President of Czechoslovakia (died 1937)
Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk was a Czechoslovak statesman, political activist and philosopher who served as the first president of Czechoslovakia from 1918 to 1935. He is regarded as the founding father of Czechoslovakia.
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1850
Austrian physician and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1940)
Julius Wagner-Jauregg was an Austrian physician who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1927, and is the first psychiatrist to have done so. His Nobel award was "for his discovery of the therapeutic value…
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1857
Norwegian women's rights pioneer (died 1911)
Ida Cecilie Thoresen Krog was a Norwegian women's rights pioneer and Liberal Party politician, and the first female university student in Norway. She became famous when she was allowed to submit to examen artium in…
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1858
Dutch-American painter (died 1944)
Pieter Cornelis Mondriaan, known after 1911 as Piet Mondrian, was a Dutch painter and art theoretician, who is regarded as one of the greatest artists of the 20th century. He was one of the pioneers of 20th-century…
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1872
French pianist, composer, and conductor (died 1937)
Joseph Maurice Ravel was a French composer, pianist and conductor. He is often associated with Impressionism along with his elder contemporary Claude Debussy, although both composers rejected the term. In the 1920s and…
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1875
American painter (died 1965)
Milton Clark Avery was an American modern painter. Born in Altmar, New York, he moved to Connecticut in 1898 and later to New York City. He was the husband of artist Sally Michel Avery and the father of artist March…
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1885
1st Baron Tovey, English admiral (died 1971)
Admiral of the Fleet John Cronyn Tovey, 1st Baron Tovey,, sometimes known as Jack Tovey, was a Royal Navy officer. During the First World War he commanded the destroyer HMS Onslow at the Battle of Jutland and then…
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1885
American actress (died 1958)
Virginia Belle Pearson was an American stage and film actress. She made 51 films in a career which extended from 1910 until 1932.
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1886
English mathematician and physicist (died 1975)
Sir Geoffrey Ingram Taylor OM FRS FRSE was a British physicist, who made instrumental contributions to fluid dynamics and wave theory.
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1886
American anthropologist (died 1970)
Wilson Dallam Wallis was an American anthropologist. He is remembered for his studies of "primitive" or nature-based science and religions.
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1886
Lithuanian-American journalist (died 1977)
William Leonard Laurence was a Jewish American science journalist best known for his work at The New York Times. Born in the Russian Empire, he won two Pulitzer Prizes. As the official historian of the Manhattan…
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1888
English philanthropist and activist (died 1988)
Dorothy de Rothschild was an English philanthropist and activist for Jewish affairs who married into the wealthy Rothschild banking family.
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1895
German actor (died 1994)
Heinrich Wilhelm "Heinz" Rühmann was a German film actor who appeared in over 100 films between 1926 and 1993. He is one of the most famous and popular German actors of the 20th century, and is considered a German film…
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1902
Canadian folk artist (died 1970)
Maud Kathleen Lewis was a Canadian folk artist from Nova Scotia. She lived most of her life in poverty in a tiny house in Marshalltown, Nova Scotia. She achieved national recognition in 1964 and 1965 for her cheerful…
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1903
Norwegian speed skater (died 1969)
Ivar Eugen Ballangrud was a Norwegian speed skater, a four-time Olympic champion in speed skating. As the only triple gold medalist at the 1936 Winter Olympics, Ballangrud was the most successful athlete there.
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1904
German SS officer and a principle architect of the Holocaust (died 1942)
Reinhard Tristan Eugen Heydrich was a high-ranking SS and police official in Nazi Germany as well as one of the principal architects of the Holocaust. He held the rank of SS-Obergruppenführer und General der Polizei.…
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1904
German-American historian and author (died 1993)
Kurt Weitzmann was a German turned American art historian who was a leading figure in the study of Late Antique and Byzantine art in particular.
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1904
Italian actress (died 1973)
Anna Maria Magnani was an Italian actress. She was the first Italian woman to win an Academy Award.
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1908
French general and politician, Prime Minister of France (died 2000)
Jacques Chaban-Delmas was a French Gaullist politician. He served as Prime Minister under Georges Pompidou from 1969 to 1972. He was the Mayor of Bordeaux from 1947 to 1995 and a deputy for the Gironde département…
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1915
American ballerina and choreographer (died 2003)
Janet Faye Collins, OblSB was an African American prima ballerina, choreographer, and teacher. She performed on Broadway, in films, and appeared frequently on television. She was among the pioneers of black ballet…
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1917
American engineer and programmer (died 2001)
Frances Elizabeth Holberton was an American computer scientist who was one of the six original programmers of the first general-purpose electronic digital computer, ENIAC. The other five ENIAC programmers were Jean…
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1917
Russian mathematician and academic (died 2004)
Olga Aleksandrovna Ladyzhenskaya was a Russian mathematician who worked on partial differential equations, fluid dynamics, and the finite-difference method for the Navier–Stokes equations. She received the Lomonosov…
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1922
English footballer (died 1975)
Peter Murphy, often referred to as Spud Murphy, was an English footballer who played as an inside left. He played professionally for three clubs, Coventry City, Tottenham Hotspur and Birmingham City. He is possibly best…
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1922
American basketball player and coach (died 2001)
Andrew Michael "Handy Andy" Phillip was an American professional basketball player. Born in Granite City, Illinois, Phillip had an 11-year career and played for the Chicago Stags of the Basketball Association of America…
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1922
British actor (died 1997)
Richard Evelyn Vernon was a British actor. He appeared in many feature films and television programmes, often in aristocratic or supercilious roles. For example as Colonel Loring, a misplaced idealist responsible for…
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1925
American actor and director (died 1982)
James Joseph Broderick III was an American actor. He is known for his role as Doug Lawrence in the television series Family, which ran from 1976 to 1980, and he played a pivotal role in the 1975 film Dog Day Afternoon.
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1927
South African-English author and critic (died 2014)
Dan Jacobson was a South African novelist, short story writer, critic and essayist of Lithuanian Jewish descent.
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1929
1st Earl of Snowdon, English photographer and politician (died 2017)
Antony Charles Robert Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon, was a British photographer. He was best known internationally for his portraits of prominent cultural and political figures, many of which were published in…
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1930
Scottish actor and photographer (died 2013)
Robert Trotter was a Scottish actor, director, and photographer.
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1930
Northern Irish footballer and accountant (died 1998)
John Blanchflower was a footballer from Northern Ireland. He graduated from Manchester United's youth system and played for the club on 117 occasions, winning one league title, before his career was cut short due to…
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1933
American baseball player (died 2013)
Edward Francis Bouchee was an American professional baseball first baseman. He appeared in Major League Baseball (MLB) for three National League (NL) ballclubs – the Philadelphia Phillies, Chicago Cubs, and New York…
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1933
Indian cricketer
Nariman Jamshedji "Nari" Contractor is a former Indian cricketer, who was a left-handed opening batsman. Contractor made his debut in 1955. A serious injury cut short his Test career in 1962, but he played first class…
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1934
American illustrator and comic book artist (died 2002)
Dwight Graydon "Gray" Morrow was an American illustrator of comics, magazine covers and paperback books. He was the co-creator of the Marvel Comics muck-monster the Man-Thing and of DC Comics Old West vigilante El…
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1934
American television personality and actor (died 2021)
Willard Herman Scott Jr. was an American weatherman, radio and television personality, actor, narrator, clown, comedian, and author, whose broadcast career spanned 68 years, 65 years with the NBC broadcast network.…
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1934
French author (died 1982)
Georges Perec was a French novelist, filmmaker, documentalist, and essayist. He was a member of the Oulipo group. His father died as a soldier early in the Second World War and his mother was killed in the Holocaust.…
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1936
American biologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2025)
David Baltimore was an American biologist, university administrator, and 1975 Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine. He was a professor of biology at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), where he served…
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1938
American race car driver
Janet Guthrie is an American former racing driver. She is the first female to qualify and race in either the Indianapolis 500, or the Daytona 500, both of which she competed in during 1977. She had first attempted to…
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1938
American actor
Daniel J. Travanti is an American actor. He is best known for playing police captain Frank Furillo in the television drama series Hill Street Blues (1981–1987) for which he received a Golden Globe Award from five…
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1940
American businessman
Michael Dammann Eisner is an American businessman and media proprietor who served as chairman and chief executive officer (CEO) of the Walt Disney Company from September 1984 to September 2005. Prior to Disney, Eisner…
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1942
American evangelist, television personality, and talk show host (died 2007)
Tamara Faye Messner was an American evangelist. She co-founded the televangelist program The PTL Club with her then-husband Jim Bakker in 1974. They had hosted their own puppet-show series for local programming in the…
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1942
English singer-songwriter and bass player
Christopher Taylor White is an English musician. He came to prominence in the mid-1960s as the bass guitarist and occasional lead vocalist of the rock band The Zombies. White is one of the main composers of the Zombies'…
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1943
English soldier and explorer
Sir Ranulph Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes, 3rd Baronet is an English explorer and writer, who holds several endurance records.
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1944
American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 1997)
John Townes Van Zandt was an American singer-songwriter. He wrote numerous songs, such as "Pancho and Lefty", "If I Needed You", "Snake Mountain Blues", "Our Mother the Mountain", "Waitin' Round to Die", and "To Live's…
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1944
American journalist
Robert Herbert is an American journalist and former op-ed columnist for The New York Times. His column was syndicated to other newspapers around the country. Herbert frequently writes on poverty, the Iraq War, racism…
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1945
American singer-songwriter and musician (died 2006)
Arthur Taylor Lee was an American musician, singer and songwriter who rose to fame as the leader of the Los Angeles rock band Love. Love's 1967 album Forever Changes was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame, and it is…
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1945
American author
Elizabeth Moon is an American science fiction and fantasy writer. Her other writing includes newspaper columns and opinion pieces. Her novel The Speed of Dark won the 2003 Nebula Award. Prior to her writing career, she…
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1945
English musician, songwriter, and producer
Matthew Charles Fisher is an English musician, songwriter and record producer. He is best known for his longtime association with the rock band Procol Harum, which included playing the Hammond organ on the 1967 single…
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1946
American actor and producer (died 2017)
John Matthew Heard Jr. was an American actor. He made his debut appearance in film with the ensemble Between the Lines (1977). He appeared in a number of successful films, including Heart Beat (1980), Cutter's Way…
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1946
American singer-songwriter and musician
Peter Wolf is an American musician best known as the lead vocalist of The J. Geils Band from 1967 to 1983 and as a solo artist.
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1946
Scottish politician (died 2013)
Helen Stirling Eadie was a Scottish Labour Co-operative politician who served as Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for Cowdenbeath, previously Dunfermline East, from 1999 until her death in 2013.
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1947
American football player
Billy Joe DuPree is an American former professional football player who was a tight end in the National Football League (NFL) for the Dallas Cowboys. He played college football at Michigan State University.
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1950
American football player and businessman (died 2022)
Franco Harris was an American professional football player who was a fullback for 13 seasons in the National Football League (NFL), primarily with the Pittsburgh Steelers. He played college football for the Penn State…
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1950
American baseball player and minister (died 2021)
James Rodney Richard was an American professional baseball player. He played his entire career in Major League Baseball as a right-handed starting pitcher for the Houston Astros from 1971 to 1980. Richard led the…
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1950
British author and screenwriter
William Andrew Murray Boyd is a British novelist, short story writer screenwriter and film director. He is best known for his novels, which include A Good Man in Africa (1981), Any Human Heart (2002), and Restless…
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1952
American guitarist and songwriter
Ernest Isley is an American musician best known as a member of the musical ensemble The Isley Brothers, and also the splinter group Isley-Jasper-Isley.
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1952
Antiguan cricketer
Sir Isaac Vivian Alexander Richards is a retired Antiguan cricketer who represented the West Indies cricket team between 1974 and 1991. Usually batting at number three in a dominant West Indies team, Richards is widely…
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1952
American football player, sportscaster, and politician
Lynn Curtis Swann is an American former professional football player, broadcaster, politician, and athletic director, best known for his association with the University of Southern California and the Pittsburgh…
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1952
Swedish bishop
Gerd Eva Cecilia Brunne is a bishop in the Church of Sweden. She served as the Bishop of Stockholm from 2009 till 2019. She is the first openly lesbian bishop of a mainstream church in the world and the first bishop of…
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1954
American actor, director, and producer
Bryan Lee Cranston is an American actor. He established himself as a leading actor in both comedic and dramatic works on stage and screen. His accolades include seven Primetime Emmy Awards, two Tony Awards, a Laurence…
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1956
English author (died 2019)
Andrea Levy was an English author best known for the novels Small Island (2004) and The Long Song (2010). She was born in London to Jamaican parents, and her work explores topics related to British Jamaicans and how…
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1956
English journalist and author
Robert Dennis Harris CBE is a British novelist and former journalist. Although he began his career in journalism and non-fiction, he is best known for his works of historical fiction. Beginning with the best-seller…
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1957
Australian surfer
Mark Richards, known as MR, is an Australian surfer who became a four-time world champion (1979–1982).
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1957
1958
English comedian, actor, and screenwriter (died 2014)
Richard Michael Mayall was an English comedian, actor and writer. He formed a close partnership with Adrian Edmondson while they were students at Manchester University, and was a pioneer of alternative comedy in the…
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1958
Australian footballer and coach (died 2012)
Mervyn Neagle was an Australian rules footballer who represented Essendon and Sydney in the Australian Football League (AFL) during the 1970s and 1980s.
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1958
American golfer
Thomas Edward Lehman is an American professional golfer. A former #1 ranked golfer, his tournament wins include one major title, the 1996 Open Championship. He is also the only golfer in history to have been awarded the…
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1959
American actress and singer
Donna Murphy is an American actress and singer, best known for her work in musical theater. A five-time Tony Award nominee, she has twice won the Tony for Best Actress in a Musical: for her role as Fosca in Passion…
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1959
American actor
Nicholas Alan Searcy is an American character actor best known for portraying Chief Deputy United States Marshal Art Mullen on FX's Justified. He also had a major role in the Tom Hanks–produced miniseries From the Earth…
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1959
American baseball player
Joseph Chris Carter is an American former professional baseball player. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) as an outfielder and first baseman for the Chicago Cubs, Cleveland Indians, San Diego Padres, Toronto Blue…
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1960
Czech tennis player and coach
Ivan Lendl is a Czech–American former professional tennis player and coach. Widely regarded as one of the greatest tennis players of all time, he was ranked as the world No. 1 in men's singles by the Association of…
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1960
American runner and coach
James Calvin Spivey is a former American middle-distance runner and Olympian. Spivey took up competitive running in Illinois where he became one of the best high school runners from his state. He was the 1982 NCAA DI…
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1960
American actress
Mary Beth Evans is an American television actress, known for her role as Kayla Brady on the NBC daytime soap Days of Our Lives, and her role as Sierra Estaban on the CBS daytime soap As the World Turns.
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1961
American singer-songwriter and actress
Taylor Dayne is an American singer who rose to fame after her first two albums were both certified 2× Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). Dayne achieved seven US Top 10 singles, including…
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1962
Canadian ice hockey player and coach
Michael Bryant Eagles is a Canadian former professional ice hockey forward who played sixteen seasons in the National Hockey League. He is also the former Athletic Director of St. Thomas University in Fredericton, New…
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1963
English author
Erika Mitchell, known by her pen name E. L. James, is a British author. She wrote the best-selling Fifty Shades series of erotic romance novels, which spawned a multimedia franchise including a film trilogy of the same…
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1963
American author and screenwriter
Bret Easton Ellis is an American author and screenwriter. Ellis was one of the Literary Brat Pack and is a self-proclaimed satirist whose trademark technique as a writer is the expression of extreme acts and opinions in…
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1964
American comedian, actress, and screenwriter
Wanda Yvette Sykes is an American stand-up comedian, actress, and writer. She was first recognized for her work as a writer on The Chris Rock Show, for which she won a Primetime Emmy Award in 1999. In 2004,…
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1964
Swedish golfer
Jesper Bo Parnevik is a Swedish professional golfer. He spent 38 weeks in the top 10 of the Official World Golf Ranking in 2000 and 2001.
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1965
Canadian ice hockey player and coach
Terry Kenneth Carkner is a Canadian former professional ice hockey defenceman who played 13 seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL) with the New York Rangers, Quebec Nordiques, Philadelphia Flyers, Detroit Red Wings…
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1966
American football player
Jeffrey Allan Feagles is an American former professional football player who was a punter for 22 seasons in the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Miami Hurricanes. He was originally…
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1966
Chinese basketball player and coach
Zheng Haixia is a Chinese retired professional women's basketball player for the China women's national basketball team and the Women's National Basketball Association.
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1967
English actress, singer, and dancer
Valentine Ruth Henshall, known professionally as Ruthie Henshall, is an English actress, singer and dancer, known for her work in musical theatre. She began her professional stage career in 1986, before making her West…
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1967
1968
1969
English actress
Rachel Hannah Weisz is a British actress. Known for her roles in independent films and blockbusters, she has received several awards, including an Academy Award, a British Academy Film Award, a Golden Globe Award, a…
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1970
1971
American actor
John Peter Sarsgaard is an American actor. He studied at the Actors Studio, before rising to prominence playing atypical and sometimes villainous roles in film and television.
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1971
English director and producer
Sir Matthew Allard de Vere Drummond, also known as Sir Matthew Vaughn, is an English filmmaker. He has produced films including Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998) and Snatch (2000), and directed Layer Cake…
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1971
Australian rugby league player
Craig Polla-Mounter is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1990s and 2000s for the Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs. He primarily played at halfback.
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1972
Australian race car driver
Jason Paul Bright is a retired Australian racing driver who competed in the Virgin Australia Supercars Championship. He drove the No. 56 Ford FG X Falcon for Britek Motorsport, a satellite team of Prodrive Racing…
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1973
American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
Lawrence Jay Duplass Jr. is an American filmmaker, actor, producer and author widely known for his films The Puffy Chair (2005), Cyrus (2010), and Jeff, Who Lives at Home (2011), made in collaboration with his younger…
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1973
French tenor and producer
Sébastien Izambard is a French singer, composer and record producer. His vocal range is classified as popular melody or vox populi with a tenor tessitura.
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1973
American actress
Regina Marie Kirk, known professionally as Jenna Fischer, is an American actress. She is best known for her role as Pam Beesly on the NBC sitcom The Office (2005–2013), for which she was nominated for the Primetime Emmy…
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1974
English actor
Tobias Simpson Menzies is an English actor. He is known for playing Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, in the third and fourth seasons of the series The Crown, for which he won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding…
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1974
Argentine footballer and manager
Facundo Sava is an Argentine football manager and former player who played as a centre forward. He is the current manager of Sarmiento.
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1974
American actress and model
Audrey Marie Anderson is an American actress and model. She is best known for her role as Kim Brown in the CBS action-drama series The Unit (2006–2009) and her recurring roles as DC character Lyla Michaels / Harbinger…
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1975
American actor
Thomas Joseph Thyne is an American actor, best known for his role as Dr. Jack Hodgins in the television series Bones from 2005 to 2017.
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1975
English singer and actor (died 2023)
Paul Gerald Cattermole was an English singer and actor. He was a member of the pop group S Club 7 from 1998 until his departure in 2002. Cattermole returned to the line-up in 2014 for their reunion tour and was…
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1977
Irish rugby player and coach
Ronan John Ross O'Gara is an Irish rugby union coach and former player. O'Gara played as a fly-half and is Ireland's third most-capped player and second highest points scorer. He is currently head coach of La Rochelle…
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1977
Argentine footballer
Rodrigo Braña is an Argentine former professional footballer who played as a midfielder.
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1979
Canadian ice hockey player
Eric Godard is a Canadian former professional ice hockey right winger who played in the National Hockey League (NHL) with the New York Islanders, Calgary Flames and the Pittsburgh Penguins. He was known as an enforcer…
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1980
American actress
Laura Prepon is an American actress and television director. She rose to fame with her role as Donna Pinciotti in the Fox sitcom That '70s Show (1998–2006). She is also known for portraying Alex Vause in the Netflix…
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1980
1983
American-Ukrainian basketball player
Steven Dwayne Burtt Jr. is an American-born naturalized Ukrainian professional basketball player.
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1984
French footballer
Mathieu Pierre Flamini is a French entrepreneur and former professional footballer. A midfielder, he played for French side Marseille, English sides Arsenal and Crystal Palace, Italian side Milan and Spanish side…
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1984
Australian rugby league player
Jacob Lillyman is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer. Throughout his career, he played for the North Queensland Cowboys, New Zealand Warriors and Newcastle Knights in the National Rugby League,…
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1984
American actor and comedian
Brandon Timothy Jackson is an American actor and stand-up comedian. He is known for his roles in the films Roll Bounce (2005), Tropic Thunder (2008), Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief (2010), Lottery…
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1984
1985
American bowler
Ryan Ciminelli is a left-handed ten-pin bowler originally from Cheektowaga, New York. Since 2007, he has competed on the Professional Bowlers Association (PBA) Tour. Ciminelli has won eight PBA Tour titles, including…
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1986
Swedish ice hockey player
Niclas Bergfors is a Swedish professional ice hockey right winger currently an unrestricted free agent. He most recently played for Djurgårdens IF then of the Swedish Hockey League (SHL). He was drafted by the National…
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1987
American basketball player
Jeffree David Withey is an American professional basketball player for the Pelita Jaya Jakarta of the Indonesian Basketball League (IBL). He played college basketball for the University of Kansas where he became known…
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1990
1991
English actress
Isobel Dorothy Powley Booth is an English actress. Born and raised in London, Powley was educated at Holland Park School. She began acting as a teenager on television, starring on the CBBC action television series M.I.…
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1992
American swimmer
Chase Tyler Kalisz is an American swimmer who specializes in individual medley events. He is an Olympic gold medalist in the 400-meter individual medley at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, an Olympic silver medalist…
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1994
American basketball player
Jake Douglas Layman is an American professional basketball player for SeaHorses Mikawa of the Japanese B.League. He played college basketball for the Maryland Terrapins.
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1994
English footballer
Jordan Lee Pickford is an English professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Premier League club Everton and the England national team.
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1994
English footballer
Jerome Craig Binnom-Williams is an English footballer who plays as a defender for Isthmian League South East Division club AFC Croydon Athletic.
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1995
French footballer
Aboubakar Kamara is a professional footballer who plays as a forward for Thai League 1 club Kanchanaburi Power. Born in France, he represents the Mauritania national team.
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1995
American actress
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1995
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1997
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1998
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2000
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