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Between 2012 and 2016, Thinzar Shunlei Yi was politically active in executive positions of several youth organizations, and later became a television host on Under 30 Dialogue, a youth-oriented television programme
Famous Birthdays on November 14
229 people
1449 – 2000
November 14 has seen 229 notable people enter the world across recorded history — from 1449 – 2000. Below are the most significant names born on this date.
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1991 — Thinzar Shunlei Yi
Burmese activist
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Following the 2021 Burmese coup d'état, she helped organize mass protests against the Tatmadaw
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Born in Sagaing to a military family, she originally trained to become a high school teacher, graduating from the Yangon University of Education in 2013
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In 2018, she was charged for unlawful protest against the Rohingya genocide, and was convicted in 2020
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After organizing protests against the Tatmadaw in the wake of the 2021 coup d'état, she fled to the jungle and briefly joined an armed rebel group
daughter of King of Bohemia (died 1510)
Sidonie of Poděbrady was a duchess consort of Saxony, as the wife of Albert III. She was a daughter of George of Poděbrady, King of Bohemia, and his first wife Kunigunde of Sternberg. She was the twin sister of…
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1449
Bohemian land-owner, Governor of Moravia and Count of Kladsko (died 1548)
Jan IV of Pernštejn was a Moravian-Bohemian nobleman. He was high treasurer of Moravia in 1506–1516 and Landeshauptmann of Moravia in 1515–1519 and in 1526–1528 and governor of Moravia in 1530–1532. In 1537–1548, he was…
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1487
Regent of East Frisia (died 1575)
Anna of Oldenburg was a Countess consort of East Frisia as the spouse of Count Enno II of East Frisia. She was the Regent of East Frisia in 1542–1561 as the guardian for her minor sons, Johan II and Edzard II. Her reign…
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1501
English torturer (died 1604)
Richard Topcliffe was a priest hunter and practitioner of torture during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I of England and Ireland. A landowner and Member of Parliament, he became notorious as the government's chief…
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1531
French priest and missionary (died 1680)
John Eudes, CIM was a French Catholic priest and the founder of both the Order of Our Lady of Charity in 1641 and Congregation of Jesus and Mary, also known as the Eudists, in 1643. He was also a professed member of the…
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1601
Prince of Orange, King of England, Scotland and Ireland (died 1702)
William III and II, also known as William of Orange, was the sovereign Prince of Orange from birth, Stadtholder of Holland, Zeeland, Utrecht, Guelders, and Overijssel in the Dutch Republic from 1672, and King of…
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1650
German organist and composer (died 1712)
Friedrich Wilhelm Zachow or Zachau was a German musician and composer of vocal and keyboard music.
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1663
Austrian violinist, composer, and conductor (died 1787)
Johann Georg Leopold Mozart was a German composer, violinist, and music theorist. He is best known today as the father and teacher of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, and for his violin textbook Versuch einer gründlichen…
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1719
American engineer, early steamboat pioneer (died 1815)
Robert Fulton was an American engineer and inventor who is widely credited with developing the world's first commercially successful steamboat, the North River Steamboat. In 1807, that steamboat traveled on the Hudson…
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1765
French anatomist and physiologist (died 1802)
Marie François Xavier Bichat was a French anatomist and pathologist, known as the father of modern histology. Although he worked without a microscope, Bichat distinguished 21 types of elementary tissues from which the…
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1771
French physician, botanist, and physiologist (died 1847)
René Joachim Henri Dutrochet was a French medical doctor, botanist and physiologist. He is best known for his investigation into osmosis.
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1776
American farmer and politician (died 1859)
Nathaniel Herbert Claiborne was a nineteenth-century Virginia lawyer and planter, as well as an American politician who served in both houses of the Virginia General Assembly and in the United States House of…
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1777
Austrian pianist and composer (died 1837)
Johann Nepomuk Hummel was an Austrian composer and pianist. His music reflects the transition from the Classical to the Romantic musical era. He was a pupil of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Antonio Salieri, and Joseph Haydn.…
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1778
Danish poet and playwright (died 1850)
Adam Gottlob Oehlenschläger was a Danish poet and playwright. He introduced romanticism into Danish literature. He wrote the lyrics to the song Der er et yndigt land, which is one of the national anthems of Denmark.
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1779
Scottish geologist (died 1875)
Sir Charles Lyell, 1st Baronet was a Scottish geologist who demonstrated the power of known natural causes in explaining the earth's history. He is best known today for his association with Charles Darwin and as the…
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1797
American author (died 1879)
Jacob Abbott was an American writer of children's books and historical biographies.
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1803
German pianist and composer (died 1847)
Fanny Cäcilie Hensel née Mendelssohn was a German composer and pianist of the early Romantic era, also known as Fanny Mendelssohn Bartholdy. Her compositions number over 450, and include a string quartet, a piano trio,…
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1805
Italian poet (died 1878)
Aleardo Aleardi, born Gaetano Maria, was an Italian poet who belonged to the so-called Neo-romanticists.
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1812
Maria Cristina of Savoy was Queen of the Two Sicilies as the first wife of Ferdinand II of the Two Sicilies. She died as a result of childbirth. She is venerated in the Catholic Church, having been beatified by Pope…
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1812
English minister and educator (died 1880)
John Curwen was an English Congregationalist minister and diffuser of the tonic sol-fa system of music education created by Sarah Ann Glover. He was educated at Wymondley College in Hertfordshire, then Coward College…
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1816
American general (died 1864)
James Birdseye McPherson (/məkˈfərsən/) was a career United States Army officer who served as a general in the Union Army during the American Civil War. McPherson was on the general staff of Henry Halleck and later of…
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1828
English-Australian politician, 12th Premier of South Australia (died 1920)
Henry Bull Templer Strangways was an Australian politician and Premier of South Australia.
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1832
Croatian author, poet, and critic (died 1881)
August Ivan Nepomuk Eduard Šenoa was a Croatian novelist, playwright, poet, and editor. Born to an ethnic German and Slovak family, Šenoa became a key figure in the development of an independent literary tradition in…
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1838
French painter (died 1926)
Oscar-Claude Monet was a French painter and founder of Impressionism who is seen as a key precursor to modernism, especially in his attempts to paint nature as he perceived it. During his long career, he was the most…
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1840
American activist (died 1945)
Madeleine Romaine Lemoyne, Mrs. Charles E. Ellicott was an American suffragist. She was the founder of the League of Women Voters of Maryland, serving as its president for 20 years, longer than anyone else.
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1856
American historian and author (died 1932)
Frederick Jackson Turner was an American historian during the early 20th century, based at the University of Wisconsin-Madison until 1910, and then Harvard University. He was known primarily for his frontier thesis. He…
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1861
Belgian-American chemist and engineer (died 1944)
Leo Hendrik Baekeland was a Belgian chemist. Educated in Belgium and Germany, he spent most of his career in the United States. He is best known for the inventions of Velox photographic paper in 1893, and Bakelite in…
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1863
Irish physician, founded the St. John Ambulance Brigade of Ireland (died 1944)
Sir John Lumsden was an Irish physician. He was famous for his role as Chief Medical Officer of Guinness Brewery, during which time he founded both St James's Gate F.C. and the St John Ambulance Brigade of Ireland.…
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1869
Bengali aristocrat and philanthropist (died 1936)
Wajed Ali Khan Panni, also known by his daak naam Chand Mian, was a Bengali politician, educationist and the zamindar of Karatia.
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1871
Filipino general and politician (died 1899)
Gregorio Hilario del Pilar y Sempio was a Filipino general of the Philippine Revolutionary Army during the Philippine–American War.
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1875
Swiss author and activist (died 1944)
Jakob Schaffner was a leading Swiss novelist who became a supporter of Nazism.
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1875
Australian tennis player (died 1968)
Sir Norman Everard Brookes was an Australian tennis player. During his career he won three Grand Slam singles titles; Wimbledon in 1907 and 1914 and the Australasian Championships in 1911. Brookes was part of the…
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1877
French painter and art collector (died 1966)
Eugénie Julie Manet was a French painter, model, diarist, and art collector.
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1878
Ukrainian-Polish poet and academic (died 1957)
Leopold Henryk Staff was a Polish poet; an artist of European modernism twice granted the Degree of Doctor honoris causa by universities in Warsaw and in Kraków. He was also nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature…
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1878
1883
Indian lawyer and politician, 1st Prime Minister of India (died 1964)
Jawaharlal Nehru was an Indian anti-colonial nationalist, secular humanist, social democrat, and statesman who was a central figure in India during the middle of the 20th century. Nehru was a principal leader of the…
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1889
Canadian physician and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1941)
Sir Frederick Grant Banting was a Canadian pharmacologist, orthopedist, and field surgeon. For his co-discovery of insulin and its therapeutic potential, Banting was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine…
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1891
American lawyer and trade commissioner (died 1975)
Addie Viola Smith, also known as Shi Fanglan, was an American attorney who served as the United States trade commissioner to Shanghai from 1928 to 1939. She was the first female Foreign Service officer in the United…
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1893
American physician and psychiatrist (died 1972)
Walter Jackson Freeman II was an American neurologist who claimed that he specialized in lobotomy. Wanting to simplify lobotomies so that it could be carried out by psychiatrists in psychiatric hospitals, where there…
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1895
American painter and academic (died 1946)
John Steuart Curry was an American painter whose career spanned the years from 1924 until his death. He was noted for his paintings depicting rural life in his home state, Kansas. Along with Thomas Hart Benton and Grant…
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1897
Romanian-French philosopher, poet, and critic (died 1944)
Benjamin Fondane or Benjamin Fundoianu was a Romanian and French poet, critic and existentialist philosopher, also noted for his work in film and theater. Known from his Romanian youth as a Symbolist poet and columnist,…
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1898
American composer, conductor, and educator (died 1990)
Aaron Copland was an American composer, critic, writer, teacher, pianist, and conductor of his own and other American music. Copland was referred to by his peers and critics as the "Dean of American Music". The open,…
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1900
American lawyer and judge (died 1970)
Harold Joseph Haley was an American judge. He was a Superior Court judge in Marin County, California. He was taken hostage in his courtroom, along with several others, during the course of a trial, and was killed…
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1904
English-Australian cricketer (died 1995)
Harold Larwood was a cricketer for Nottinghamshire County Cricket Club and the England cricket team between 1924 and 1938. A right-arm fast bowler who combined extreme speeds with great accuracy, he was considered by…
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1904
American actor, singer, director, and producer (died 1963)
Richard Ewing Powell was an American actor, singer, musician, producer, director, and studio head. Though he came to stardom as a musical comedy performer, he showed versatility and successfully transformed into a…
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1904
American singer and guitarist (died 1964)
John Henry Barbee was an American blues singer and guitarist. He was born in Henning, Tennessee. He claimed that he was born William George Tucker and that he changed his name with the commencement of his recording…
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1905
American actress and dancer (died 1985)
Mary Louise Brooks was an American film actress during the 1920s and 1930s. She is regarded today as an icon of the flapper culture, in part due to the bob hairstyle that she helped popularize during the prime of her…
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1906
American religious leader, 14th President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (died 1995)
Howard William Hunter was an American lawyer and the 14th president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from 1994 to 1995. His nine-month presidential tenure is the shortest in the church's history.…
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1907
Swedish author and screenwriter (died 2002)
Astrid Anna Emilia Lindgren was a Swedish writer of fiction and screenplays. She is most notable for several children's book series, featuring Pippi Longstocking, Emil of Lönneberga, Karlsson-on-the-Roof, and The Six…
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1907
American author, illustrator, and sculptor (died 2003)
William Steig was an American cartoonist, illustrator and writer of children's books, best known for the picture book Shrek!, which inspired the film series of the same name, as well as others that included Sylvester…
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1907
American captain, lawyer, and politician (died 1957)
Joseph Raymond McCarthy was an American politician who served as a Republican senator from Wisconsin from 1947 until his death in 1957. Beginning in 1950, McCarthy became the most visible public face of a period in the…
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1908
American actress and singer (died 2001)
Rosemary Shirley DeCamp was an American radio, film, and television actress.
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1910
English author (died 1996)
Eric Lawson Malpass was an English novelist noted for witty descriptions of rural family life, notably of his creation, the extended Pentecost family. He also wrote historical fiction ranging from the late Middle Ages…
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1910
American philanthropist (died 1979)
Barbara Woolworth Hutton was an American debutante, socialite, heiress and philanthropist. She was dubbed the "Poor Little Rich Girl"— first when she was given a lavish and expensive debutante ball in 1930 amid the…
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1912
Chinese-American engineer, designed the Guandu Bridge (died 2003)
Tung-Yen Lin was a Chinese-American structural engineer who was the pioneer of standardizing the use of prestressed concrete.
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1912
American Western singer (died 1994)
Hubert Paul Flatt, known professionally as Ken Carson or Hugh Carson, was an American singer, songwriter, musician, and film performer. As an early member in 22 Roy Rogers films, his voice was featured on their…
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1914
American figure skater and coach (died 2001)
Mabel Fairbanks was an American figure skater and coach. As an African American and Native American woman she paved the way for other minorities to compete in the sport of figure skating such as Tai Babilonia, Debi…
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1915
American singer and actress (died 2006)
Martha Tilton was an American popular singer during America's swing era and traditional pop period. She is best known for her 1939 recording of "And the Angels Sing" with Benny Goodman.
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1915
Greek-French mathematician and academic (died 1994)
Roger Apéry (French: [apeʁi]; 14 November 1916 – 18 December 1994) was a Greek-French mathematician most remembered for Apéry's theorem, which states that ζ(3) is an irrational number. Here, ζ(s) denotes the Riemann…
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1916
American screenwriter and producer (died 2011)
Sherwood Charles Schwartz was an American television screenwriter and producer. He worked on radio shows in the 1940s, but he now is best known for creating the 1960s television series Gilligan's Island on CBS and The…
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1916
South Korean general and politician, 3rd President of South Korea (died 1979)
Park Chung Hee was a South Korean politician and army officer who served as the third president of South Korea from 1962 after he seized power in the May 16 coup of 1961 until his assassination in 1979. His regime…
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1917
Australian tennis player (died 1999)
John Edward Bromwich was an Australian tennis player who, along with fellow countryman Vivian McGrath, was one of the first great players to use a two-handed backhand. He was a natural left-hander, though hit his serve…
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1918
American singer (died 1985)
Johnny Desmond was an American singer who was popular in the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s.
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1919
1919
the first First Nations woman to join the Canadian Armed Forces (died 2011)
Mary Greyeyes Reid was a Canadian World War II servicewoman. A Cree from the Muskeg Lake Cree Nation in Saskatchewan, she was the first First Nations woman to enlist in the Canadian Armed Forces. After joining the…
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1920
1921
American actor and director (died 1997)
Robert Alba Keith, known professionally as Brian Keith, was an American film, television, and stage actor who in his six-decade career gained recognition for his work in films such as the Disney family film The Parent…
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1921
Egyptian politician and diplomat, 6th Secretary General of the United Nations (died 2016)
Boutros Boutros-Ghali was an Egyptian politician and diplomat who served as the sixth secretary-general of the United Nations from 1992 to 1996. Prior to his appointment as secretary-general, Boutros-Ghali was the…
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1922
American actress and singer (died 1973)
Constance Frances Marie Ockelman, known professionally as Veronica Lake, was an American film, stage, and television actress. Lake was best known for her femme fatale roles in films noir with Alan Ladd during the 1940s,…
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1922
Ukrainian-Russian violinist and educator (died 1982)
Leonid Borisovich Kogan was a preeminent Soviet violinist during the 20th century. Many consider him to be among the greatest violinists of the 20th century. In particular, he is considered to have been one of the…
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1924
American physicist and academic (died 2013)
Stirling Auchincloss Colgate was an American nuclear physicist at the Los Alamos National Laboratory and a professor emeritus of physics at the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology from 1965 to 1974, of which…
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1925
English archaeologist and author (died 2012)
James Mellaart FBA was a British and Dutch archaeologist and author who is noted for his discovery of the Neolithic settlement of Çatalhöyük in Turkey. He was expelled from Turkey when he was suspected of involvement…
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1925
English businessman, founded Barratt Developments (died 2012)
Sir Lawrence Arthur Barratt was an English accountant and businessman who founded Barratt Developments, one of the largest housebuilders in the United Kingdom.
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1927
Australian horse trainer (died 2015)
James Bartholomew Cummings, also known by his initials J. B. Cummings, was one of the most successful Australian racehorse trainers. He was known as the Cups King, referring to the Melbourne Cup, as he won 'the race…
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1927
American actor and screenwriter (died 1996)
Edgar McLean Stevenson Jr. was an American actor and comedian. He is best known for his role as Lieutenant Colonel Henry Blake in the television series M*A*S*H, which earned him a Golden Globe Award in 1974. Stevenson…
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1927
Spanish guitarist and composer (died 1997)
Narciso Yepes was a Spanish guitarist. He is considered one of the finest virtuoso classical guitarists of the twentieth century.
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1927
American actress (died 2025)
Kathleen Hughes was an American actress who appeared during the Golden Age of Hollywood.
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1928
English wrestler (died 1997)
Shirley Crabtree Jr., better known as Big Daddy, was an English professional wrestler. He worked for Joint Promotions and the original British Wrestling Federation. Initially appearing on television as a heel, he teamed…
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1929
American baseball player and sportscaster (died 2017)
James Anthony Piersall was an American baseball center fielder who played 17 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) for five teams, from 1950 through 1967. Piersall was best known for his well-publicized battle with…
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1929
English pianist and academic (died 2015)
Peter Roy Katin was a British classical pianist and teacher.
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1930
Canadian actress (died 2020)
Marie Lise Monique Émond, better known as Monique Mercure, was a Canadian stage and screen actress. She was one of the country's great actors of the classical and modern repertory. In 1977, Mercure won a Cannes Film…
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1930
English actor (died 1992)
Michael Anthony Robbins was an English actor best known for his role as Arthur Rudge in the television sitcom On the Buses (1969–1973) and its film spinoffs.
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1930
1930
German astrologer and photographer (died 2011)
Fritz Gunter Sachs, also known as Gunter Sachs von Opel, was a German and Swiss industrial heir, socialite, art collector, photographer, and author.
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1932
American pilot, engineer, and astronaut
Fred Wallace Haise Jr. is an American former NASA astronaut, engineer, fighter pilot with the U.S. Marine Corps and U.S. Air Force, and test pilot. He is one of the 24 Apollo astronauts to reach the Moon, having served…
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1933
Scottish-English footballer and manager (died 2015)
David Craig Mackay was a Scottish football player and manager. Mackay was best known for a highly successful playing career with Heart of Midlothian, the double-winning Tottenham Hotspur side of 1961 and winning the…
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1934
Jr., American pianist and educator (died 2020)
Ellis Louis Marsalis Jr. was an American jazz pianist and educator. Active since the late 1940s, Marsalis came to greater attention in the 1980s and 1990s as the patriarch of the Marsalis musical family, when sons…
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1934
Irish lawyer, judge, and politician
Catherine McGuinness is a retired Irish judge who served as a Judge of the Supreme Court from 2000 to 2006, a Judge of the High Court from 1996 to 2000, a Judge of the Circuit Court from 1994 to 1996 and a Senator for…
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1934
Hussein bin Talal was King of Jordan from 1952 until his death in 1999. A member of the Hashemite dynasty, he is regarded as a 40th-generation direct descendant of the Islamic prophet Muhammad.
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1935
Greek songwriter and journalist
Lefteris Papadopoulos is a Greek lyricist, writer and journalist.
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1935
American singer and harmonica player (died 2007)
Carey Bell Harrington was an American blues musician who played harmonica in the Chicago blues style. Bell played harmonica and bass guitar for other blues musicians from the late 1950s to the early 1970s before…
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1936
English singer and actor (died 2006)
Frederick Garrity was an English singer and actor. He was best known as the frontman of Freddie and the Dreamers from 1959 until his retirement in 2001.
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1936
American R&B singer (died 1990)
Cornell Gunter was an American rhythm and blues singer, most active in the 1950s and 1960s. He was born in Coffeyville, Kansas, and died in Las Vegas, Nevada, after being shot in his automobile. He was inducted into the…
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1936
English director and producer (died 2023)
Alan James William Bell was a British television producer and director.
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1937
Canadian ice hockey player and coach (died 2014)
Murray Clifford Oliver was a Canadian professional ice hockey centre, coach, and scout. Murray also played Minor League Baseball for the Batavia Indians, then an affiliate of the Cleveland Indians.
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1937
American keyboard player and composer
Wendy Carlos is an American musician and composer known for electronic music and film scores.
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1939
American painter and academic (died 2011)
Manon Cleary was an American artist based in Washington, D.C. Cleary specialized in photo-realistic paintings and drawings. Many of her works were inspired by events in her life and focused on the human form and lights.
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1942
Russian cellist and educator
Natalia Grigoryevna Gutman, PAU, is a Russian cellist. She began to study cello at the Moscow Music School with R. Sapozhnikov. She was later admitted to the Moscow Conservatory. She later studied with Mstislav…
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1942
American programmer and author
Peter Norton is an American programmer, software publisher, author, and philanthropist. He is best known for the computer programs and books that bear his name and portrait. Norton sold his software business to Symantec…
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1943
English author and academic
Karen Armstrong is a British author and commentator known for her books on comparative religion. A former Roman Catholic religious sister, she went from a conservative to a more liberal and mystical Christian faith. She…
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1944
1944
English academic and politician
Dame Louise Joyce Ellman is a British politician who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Liverpool Riverside from 1997 to 2019. She is a member of the Labour Party.
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1945
Indian actor and director (died 2022)
Vikram Gokhale was an Indian film, television and stage actor, noted for his roles in Marathi theatre, Hindi films and television. He was the son of the Veteran Marathi theatre and film actor, Chandrakant Gokhale.
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1945
1945
1946
Belgian businessman and politician
Roland Duchâtelet is a Belgian businessman and politician. He is owner of various football clubs. He is the founder of the social-liberal political party Vivant in Belgium.
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1946
American political satirist and journalist (died 2022)
Patrick Jake O'Rourke was an American author, journalist, and political satirist who wrote twenty-two books on subjects as diverse as politics, cars, etiquette, and economics. His books Parliament of Whores and Give War…
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1947
1947
American accordion player (died 2016)
Buckwheat Zydeco, was an American accordionist and zydeco musician. He was one of the few zydeco artists to achieve mainstream success. His music group was formally billed as Buckwheat Zydeco and Ils Sont Partis Band,…
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1947
King of the United Kingdom and 14 other Commonwealth realms
Charles III is King of the United Kingdom and 14 other Commonwealth realms.
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1948
English journalist
Paul Michael Dacre is an English journalist and the former long-serving editor of the British tabloid the Daily Mail. He is also editor-in-chief of DMG Media, which publishes the Daily Mail, The Mail on Sunday, the free…
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1948
English author and politician
Michael John Dobbs, Baron Dobbs is a British Conservative politician, media commentator and author, best known for his House of Cards trilogy. He has been a television and radio presenter and a senior corporate…
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1948
American actor and producer (died 2009)
Robert Winthrop Ginty was an American actor, producer, screenwriter, and director. Born in Brooklyn, New York, Ginty took interest in the arts at a young age and went on to study acting at Yale University. Ginty worked…
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1948
Argentinian pianist, composer, and producer
Raúl Di Blasio is an Argentine composer, arranger and pianist.
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1949
1949
American actor
Jon Gary Grubbs is an American character actor who has appeared in 178 credited shows and films since the 1970s and is still working steadily. He is best known as Captain Steven Wiecek in For Love and Honor (1983-1984),…
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1949
Japanese actor
Ryo Hayami is a Japanese actor known for playing the hero Keisuke Jin in the tokusatsu superhero series Kamen Rider X. On December 18, 2019, he suffered a heart attack from a collapse. He has been recovering.
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1949
American singer-songwriter and guitarist
James Vincent Young is an American musician who is best known as a founding member, and one of the guitarists and occasional lead vocalists in the American rock band Styx.
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1949
American singer-songwriter and actor
Earl Stephen Bishop is an American retired singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor. His biggest hits include "On and On", "It Might Be You", and "Save It for a Rainy Day". He has also written songs for many other…
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1951
Polish mountaineer
Leszek Roman Cichy, is a Polish climber, financier, and entrepreneur. He was born in Pruszków, Poland on 14 November 1951. He achieved the first winter ascent of Mount Everest together with Krzysztof Wielicki in 1980…
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1951
Chinese actor, director, producer, and cinematographer
Zhang Yimou is a Chinese filmmaker. A leading figure of China's Fifth Generation directors, he is considered as one of the most successful filmmakers in the world.
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1951
1952
1952
American voice actress and singer
Maggie Roswell is an American actress, comedian, writer and producer from Los Angeles, California. She is well known for her voice work on the Fox network animated television series The Simpsons, in which she has played…
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1952
English children's author
Tim Bowler is an author of books for teenagers and young adults. He won the 1997 Carnegie Medal from the CILIP, recognising the year's best children's book by a British subject, for the novel River Boy.
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1953
Moroccan-French lawyer and politician, 167th Prime Minister of France
Dominique Marie François René Galouzeau de Villepin is a French politician who served as Prime Minister of France from 2005 to 2007 under President Jacques Chirac.
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1953
Puerto Rican baseball player (died 2023)
Guillermo "Willie" Hernández Villanueva was a Puerto Rican baseball relief pitcher in Major League Baseball. He won both the American League Cy Young Award and the American League Most Valuable Player Award in 1984…
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1954
French cyclist
Bernard Hinault is a French former professional road cyclist. With 147 professional victories, including five times the Tour de France, he is often named among the greatest cyclists of all time. In his career, Hinault…
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1954
American political scientist, academic, and politician, 66th United States Secretary of State
Condoleezza "Condi" Rice is an American diplomat and political scientist who served as the 66th United States secretary of state from 2005 to 2009 and as the 19th U.S. national security advisor from 2001 to 2005. Since…
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1954
Chilean race car driver
Eliseo Salazar Valenzuela is a Chilean former racing driver, who competed in Formula One from 1981 to 1983. Salazar remains the only Chilean driver to compete in Formula One.
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1954
1954
English bishop
Philip Anthony Egan is an English Catholic prelate who has served as the eighth Bishop of Portsmouth since 2012.
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1955
American basketball player and coach
Jack Wayne Sikma is an American former professional basketball center. He was a seven-time NBA All-Star with the Seattle SuperSonics, who drafted him in the first round with the eighth overall pick of the 1977 NBA…
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1955
American philosopher, author, and scholar
Babette Babich is an American philosopher who writes from a continental perspective on aesthetics, philosophy of science, especially Nietzsche's, and technology, especially Martin Heidegger's and Günther Anders, in…
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1956
1956
Dutch investigative journalist and crime reporter (died 2021)
Peter Rudolf de Vries was a Dutch investigative journalist and crime reporter. His television program Peter R. de Vries, misdaadverslaggever covered high-profile cases and set a Dutch television viewing record. For…
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1956
American government official
Valerie June Jarrett is an Iranian-American businesswoman and former government official who has been the chief executive officer of the Obama Foundation since 2021. She was the longest-serving senior advisor to U.S.…
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1956
American screenwriter and producer
Paul Albert Attanasio is an American screenwriter and producer. He has twice been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay, for Quiz Show (1994) and Donnie Brasco (1997).
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1959
English actor
Paul John McGann is an English actor. He came to prominence for portraying Percy Toplis in the television serial The Monocled Mutineer (1986), then starred in the dark comedy Withnail and I (1987), which was a critical…
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1959
American actor
Daniel Bernard Sweeney is an American actor. He is known for his roles as Jackie Willow in Francis Ford Coppola's Gardens of Stone (1987), Lt. Phil Lowenthal in Memphis Belle (1990), and Travis Walton in Fire in the Sky…
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1961
American actress
Laura San Giacomo is an American actress. She played Cynthia in the film Sex, Lies, and Videotape (1989) for which she won the Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Female, Kit De Luca in the film Pretty Woman…
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1962
Canadian-American actor and screenwriter
Harland Reesor Williams is a Canadian and American comedian and actor. After several years of performing stand-up comedy in Toronto and Los Angeles, he made his film debut in Dumb and Dumber (1994) before playing…
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1962
French journalist, radio and television presenter
Stéphane Bern is a French-Luxembourgish journalist, radio host and television presenter. He is known as a specialist in nobility and royalty. He has been awarded honours by several nations, including the Ordre des Arts…
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1963
American journalist
William G. Hemmer is an American journalist, currently the co-anchor of America's Newsroom on the Fox News Channel, based in New York City.
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1964
American hip-hop artist
Joseph Ward Simmons, better known by the stage name Run, Rev. Run or DJ Run, is an American rapper, producer, DJ, and television personality. Simmons is one of the founding members of the influential hip hop group…
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1964
American actor and comedian
Patrick Warburton is an American actor and comedian. His live-action TV roles include David Puddy on Seinfeld, the title character on The Tick, Jeb Denton on Less than Perfect, Jeff Bingham on Rules of Engagement, and…
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1964
English conductor
Charles Matthew Egerton Hazlewood is a British conductor. After winning the European Broadcasting Union conducting competition in 1995 whilst still in his twenties, Hazlewood has had a career as an international…
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1966
German cyclist
Petra Rossner is a German cyclist, who won the gold medal in 3 km pursuit track cycling at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona. In the same event, she won the 1991 World Championships and finished second in 1989.
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1966
American singer-songwriter
Nina Rachel Gordon Shapiro, known as Nina Gordon, is an American singer, songwriter, and guitarist. She co-founded the alternative rock band Veruca Salt and played on their first two studio albums, American Thighs…
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1967
American basketball player
Lionel James "L-Train" Simmons is an American former professional basketball player. Simmons played seven seasons for the Sacramento Kings of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He was a highly-decorated college…
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1968
American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
Bradley Glenn Walker is an American singer-songwriter, musician, and record producer. He is the current lead guitarist for Train since 2025. He was lead guitarist for the glam metal band, SouthGang from the late 1980s…
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1969
American football player
Dana William Stubblefield is an American former professional football player who was a defensive tackle in the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Kansas Jayhawks.
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1970
Australian cricketer and sportscaster
Adam Craig Gilchrist is an Australian cricket commentator and former international cricketer and captain of the Australia national cricket team. He was an attacking left-handed batsman and record-breaking wicket-keeper,…
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1971
Indian chef and author
Vikas Khanna is an Indian-American celebrity chef, restaurateur, cookbook writer, and filmmaker. He has been one of the judges on MasterChef India since the show began.
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1971
Australian-Italian actor
Marco Leonardi is an Australian-born Italian film and television actor. He has been nominated twice for the Nastro d'Argento for Best Actor.
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1971
American wrestler, trainer, and sportscaster
Matthew Jason Bloom is an American retired professional wrestler. He is signed to WWE, where he is the head trainer at the WWE Performance Center in Orlando, Florida.
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1972
American model and actor
Joshua David Duhamel is an American actor. After working as a model, he made his acting debut as Leo du Pres on the ABC daytime soap opera All My Children, for which he won a Daytime Emmy Award, and later starred as…
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1972
Papua New Guinean-Australian politician, 44th Premier of Tasmania
Larissa Tahireh "Lara" Giddings is an Australian former politician who was the 44th Premier of Tasmania from 24 January 2011 until 31 March 2014, the first woman to hold the position. Born in Goroka, Papua New Guinea,…
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1972
Polish singer
Edyta Anna Górniak is a Polish pop singer. She started her career as a musical theatre actress in 1990, and performed in the Tony Award-nominated Metro, the most successful Polish musical of all time, which was also…
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1972
Scottish bass player
Douglas Payne is a Scottish musician who is the bassist and backing vocalist of the rock band Travis.
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1972
Australian footballer and coach
Martin Pike is a former professional Australian rules footballer, who played in four Australian Football League (AFL) premiership sides. A tough, versatile wingman, Pike has been described as a "natural player" of the…
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1972
American football player and sportscaster
Aaron Matthew Taylor is an American former professional football player who was a guard for six seasons in the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Notre Dame Fighting Irish and was a…
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1972
Polish footballer and manager
Dariusz Żuraw is a Polish professional football manager and former player who was most recently in charge of Wisła Płock. Besides Poland, he has played in Germany.
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1972
American football player
Lawyer Marzell Milloy is an American former professional football player who was a safety in the National Football League (NFL) for 15 seasons. He played college football for the Washington Huskies, and earned unanimous…
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1973
Panamanian baseball player
Rubén Rivera Moreno is a Panamanian former professional baseball outfielder who currently serves as the first base coach for the Piratas de Campeche of the Mexican League. He played Major League Baseball (MLB) from 1995…
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1973
Irish singer and actor
Andrew Strong is an Irish singer and the son of Irish musician and singing coach Robert (Rob) Strong. He grew up in Shandon Park, Omagh, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland,, and later Blessington, County Wicklow. He…
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1973
American singer-songwriter and chef
Adina Marie Howard is an American singer and songwriter. She rose to fame during the mid-1990s with her debut album, Do You Wanna Ride? and her debut single, "Freak like Me". Some of her other minor hits include "What's…
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1974
Belgian politician
Sofie J. E. Merckx is a Belgian physician, politician and member of the Chamber of Representatives. A member of the Workers' Party of Belgium, she has represented Hainaut since June 2019.
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1974
American actor
David Raphael Moscow is an American actor, producer and activist. He is best known for his role as young Josh Baskin in the 1988 film Big and as David Jacobs in the 1992 musical film Newsies.
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1974
American singer and bass player
Joseph Daniel Principe is an American musician. He is the bassist, backing vocalist, and co-founder of the punk rock band Rise Against.
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1974
American drummer, songwriter, and producer
Travis Landon Barker is an American musician, songwriter, and music producer who is the drummer for the rock band Blink-182. He has collaborated with hip-hop artists, is a member of the rap rock group Transplants,…
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1975
American actor
Stephen Guarino is an American actor and comedian, known as Sully Patterson on the Jim Carrey-produced Showtime series I'm Dying Up Here (2017–2018) and for his recurring role as Derrick in the ABC comedy series Happy…
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1975
Russian-American businessman and critic
Gary Vaynerchuk is an American businessman, author, speaker, and internet personality. He is a co-founder of the restaurant reservation software company, Resy, and Empathy Wines. First known as a wine critic who…
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1975
American actor
Brian Dietzen is an American television actor who has played the supporting role of Dr. Jimmy Palmer on NCIS since 2004. In 2012, he was promoted to a series regular at the beginning of the show's tenth season.
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1977
American rapper and producer
Obie Trice III is an American rapper. He signed with fellow Detroit rapper Eminem's Shady Records, an imprint of Interscope Records in 2000 to release his first two albums, Cheers (2003) and Second Round's on Me (2006).…
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1977
American ice hockey player
Robert Paul Allen is an American former professional ice hockey defenseman who played in the National Hockey League for the Edmonton Oilers and the Boston Bruins.
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1978
New Zealand actress and singer
Michala Elizabeth Laurinda Banas is a New Zealand television actress and singer. She is best known for her roles as Marissa Taylor in Always Greener and as Kate Manfredi in McLeod's Daughters.
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1978
French model and actress
Delphine Chanéac is a French model, actress, and disc jockey. She was born in Valence, France.
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1978
American baseball player and coach
Xavier Clifford Nady VI is an American former professional baseball outfielder and first baseman. Nady played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the New York Mets, Pittsburgh Pirates, New York Yankees, Chicago Cubs,…
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1978
New Zealand rugby player
Carl Joseph Hayman is a retired New Zealand rugby union footballer who played at tighthead prop.
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1979
German-Austrian actress
Mavie Hörbiger is a German-Austrian actress. Since 2009, she belongs to the ensemble of Vienna's Burgtheater.
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1979
Ukrainian-French model and actress
Olga Kostyantynivna Kurylenko is a Ukrainian and French actress and former model. She rose to prominence by playing the Bond girl Camille Montes in the James Bond film Quantum of Solace (2008).
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1979
1979
Lesothan footballer
Moitheri Ngwenya Ntobo is a Mosotho former professional footballer who last played for Lesotho Correctional Services.
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1979
Mexican footballer
Miguel Sabah Rodríguez is a Mexican former professional footballer who played as a striker.
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1979
American actor and businessman
Brock Jeffrey Pierce is an American entrepreneur in the cryptocurrency industry who co-founded Tether. As a child actor, he starred in the Disney films The Mighty Ducks (1992), D2: The Mighty Ducks (1994), and First Kid…
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1980
Australian model and actress
Brooke Kerith Satchwell is an Australian actress and former model. She is known for playing Anne Wilkinson in the soap opera Neighbours from 1995 until 2000. She won the Logie Award for Most Popular New Talent in 1998.…
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1980
American actress
Vanessa Bayer is an American actress and comedian. She was a cast member on the NBC sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live from 2010 to 2017, for which she was nominated for an Emmy. She co-created, co-executive…
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1981
English race car driver
Tom Ferrier is a British racing driver. He had a long running karting career, a milestone was winning the 1998 British Championship. He also won the Star Cup of the Formula Renault Championship the following year,…
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1981
English actor
Russell George Tovey is a English actor. He is best known for playing the role of werewolf George Sands in the BBC's supernatural comedy-drama Being Human, Rudge in both the stage and film versions of The History Boys,…
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1981
American rapper
Torence Ivy Hatch Jr., better known by his stage name Boosie BadAzz or simply Boosie, is an American rapper. Hatch began rapping in the 1990s as a member of the Southern hip hop collective Concentration Camp, eventually…
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1982
Crown Prince of Dubai
Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum is an Emirati royal and politician who has been the Crown Prince of Dubai since 2008. He is the Minister of Defence of the UAE since 14 July 2024. He served as deputy…
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1982
American football player
Kyle Raymond Orton is an American former professional football player who was a quarterback in the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for Purdue, where he started four straight bowl games. He was…
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1982
American singer-songwriter
Joy Elizabeth Williams is an American singer-songwriter. The winner of four Grammy Awards, Williams has released five solo albums and four EPs since her self-titled debut in 2001. She was half of The Civil Wars duo from…
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1982
American baseball player
Guillermo Alejandro Moscoso is a Venezuelan former professional baseball pitcher. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Texas Rangers, Oakland Athletics, Colorado Rockies, and San Francisco Giants, and in…
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1983
English cricketer
Naqaash Sarosh Tahir is an English cricketer. He is a right-arm fast-medium bowler who has played for Lancashire and Warwickshire. He made his first-class debut for Warwickshire in 2004.
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1983
American singer-songwriter
Chelsea Joy Wolfe is an American singer-songwriter and musician. Her work blends elements of gothic rock, doom metal, and folk.
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1983
American sprinter and hurdler
Miriam Barnes is an American former hurdler and sprinter specializing in the 400 metres and the 2008 World Athletics Indoor Championships bronze medalist in the 4 × 400 m relay. Before she turned professional with Nike,…
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1983
Australian footballer
Lisa Marie De Vanna is an Australian former professional soccer player who played as a forward. She played for Adelaide Sensation, Western Waves, Doncaster Rovers Belles, AIK, Perth Glory, Washington Freedom, Brisbane…
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1984
Australian footballer
Courtney Johns is a former professional Australian rules football player who played for the Essendon Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL).
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1984
Serbian singer
Marija Šerifović is a Serbian singer. Born in Kragujevac, she is best known for winning the Eurovision Song Contest 2007 in Helsinki, Finland with "Molitva", becoming Serbia's first and to date only winning entry.
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1984
Belgian footballer
Thomas Vermaelen is a Belgian former professional footballer who played as a defender. Being left-footed, he usually played as a left-sided centre-back and could play at left-back as well. His key attributes included…
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1985
1986
American-Serbian basketball player and coach
Danielle Nicole Page is an American-Serbian women's basketball coach and former player. Standing at 1.88 m, she played at the small forward position. She also represented the Serbian national basketball team.
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1986
American actor
Cory Michael Smith is an American actor and producer. He appeared in 2013 in Breakfast at Tiffany's on Broadway, which starred Emilia Clarke. Smith is most well known for his role as The Riddler in the Fox series Gotham…
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1986
Greek footballer
Georgios Georgiadis is a Greek former professional footballer and manager.
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1987
Japanese sumo wrestler
Chiyotairyū Hidemasa is a Japanese former professional sumo wrestler from Arakawa, Tokyo, Japan. A former amateur champion at university, he made his professional debut in May 2011, as a makushita tsukedashi recruit…
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1988
Japanese singer and actress
Yuma Hoshino , better known as Nanase Hoshii , is a Japanese singer, entertainer, and actress who is represented by the talent agency, Fitone. She was born in Tochigi Prefecture, Japan.
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1988
Romanian footballer
Vlad Iulian Chiricheș is a Romanian professional footballer who plays for Liga I club FCSB. Primarily a centre-back, he can also be deployed as a right-back or a defensive midfielder.
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1989
American football player
Eugene Marquis "T. Y." Hilton is an American former professional football player who was a wide receiver in the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the FIU Panthers and was selected by the…
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1989
English footballer
Jake Cyril Leonard Livermore is an English former professional footballer who played as a defensive midfielder.
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1989
American actress
Stella Maeve is an American film and television actress. Highlights include a starring role in The Runaways (2010), a two-season recurring role in NBC television's Chicago P.D., and a main role in SyFy television's The…
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1989
Swiss footballer
Roman Bürki is a Swiss professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Major League Soccer club St. Louis City SC. From 2014 to 2018, he played for the Switzerland national team.
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1990
Australian actress and singer (died 2008)
Jessica Madison Jacobs was an Australian actress and singer. She was best known for her role as Melanie Atwood in the second series of The Saddle Club.
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1990
1991
Canadian ice hockey player
Taylor Hall is a Canadian professional ice hockey player who is a left winger for the Carolina Hurricanes of the National Hockey League (NHL). He was the first overall pick in the 2010 NHL entry draft selected by the…
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1991
American actor
Graham Patrick Martin is an American actor. He is best known for his recurring role as Eldridge on Two and a Half Men (2010–2012) and former teen hustler Rusty Beck on the series finale of The Closer and in its spinoff…
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1991
Puerto Rican baseball player
Francisco Miguel Lindor Serrano, nicknamed "Mr. Smile", is a Puerto Rican professional baseball shortstop for the New York Mets of Major League Baseball (MLB). He has previously played in MLB for the Cleveland Indians.…
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1993
Japanese actor
Shūhei Nomura is a Japanese actor. He was born in Kobe, Hyogo Prefecture, and is of one-quarter Chinese descent and speaks fluent Chinese. In 2009, he was selected from about 30,000 applicants as the winner of the…
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1993
French footballer
Samuel Yves Umtiti is a former professional footballer who played as a centre-back. Born in Cameroon, he played for the France national team.
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1993
Croatian tennis player
Borna Ćorić is a Croatian professional tennis player. He reached a career-high singles ranking of world No. 12 in November 2018. Coric has won three ATP Tour titles, including the 2022 Cincinnati Masters.
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1996
American football player
Dawson Alan Knox is an American professional football tight end for the Buffalo Bills of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Ole Miss Rebels and was selected by the Bills in the third…
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1996
Moroccan footballer
Noussair Mazraoui is a professional footballer who plays as a defender for Premier League club Manchester United and the Morocco national team. As a versatile player, primarily a right-back, Mazraoui has featured at…
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1997
French footballer
Christopher Alan Nkunku is a French professional footballer who plays as a forward, attacking midfielder and winger for Serie A club AC Milan and the France national team.
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1997
English-Congolese footballer
Axel Tuanzebe is a Congolese professional footballer who plays as a defender for Premier League club Burnley and the DR Congo national team.
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1997
American tennis player
Sofia Anna "Sonya" Kenin is a Russian-born American professional tennis player. She has been ranked as high as world No. 4 in singles by the WTA, and No. 21 in doubles. Kenin was named the 2020 WTA Player of the Year,…
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1998
American football player
DeVonta Versean Smith is an American professional football wide receiver for the Philadelphia Eagles of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Alabama Crimson Tide, where he recorded…
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1998
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2019
A mass shooting occurs at Saugus High School in Santa Clarita, California, resulting in three deaths, including that of the perpetrator, and three injuries. Wikipedia →
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