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Kohli has the most centuries in ODIs and the second-most centuries in international cricket with 85 tons across all formats
Famous Birthdays on November 5
225 people
1271 – 2002
November 5 has seen 225 notable people enter the world across recorded history — from 1271 – 2002. Below are the most significant names born on this date.
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1988 — Virat Kohli
Indian cricketer
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Kohli is the most successful Test captain of India with most wins and 3 consecutive Test mace retainments
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He is the only batter to earn 900+ rating points across all 3 formats.
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Virat Kohli is an Indian international cricketer and the former all-format captain of the Indian national cricket team
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Considered one of the greatest all-format batsmen in the history of cricket, he has been acclaimed for his batting skills, records and ability to lead his team to victory
1271
3rd Earl of Tankerville, Earl of Tankerville, 1450–1460 (died 1466)
Richard Grey, 3rd Earl of Tankerville, 8th Lord of Powys, fought on the side of the House of York in the War of the Roses.
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1436
German poet and playwright (died 1576)
Hans Sachs was a German Meistersinger ("mastersinger"), poet, playwright, and shoemaker.
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1494
French theologian and author (died 1623)
Philippe de Mornay, seigneur du Plessis Marly, usually known as Du-Plessis-Mornay or Mornay Du Plessis, was a French Protestant writer and member of the anti-monarchist Monarchomaques.
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1549
English-American pastor, theologian, and academic (died 1672)
Charles Chauncy was an Anglo-American Congregational clergyman, educator, and secondarily, a physician who served as the second president of Harvard College from 1654 to 1672.
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1592
Dutch painter (died 1678)
Anna Maria van Schurman was a Dutch painter, engraver, poet, classical scholar, philosopher, and feminist writer who is best known for her exceptional learning and her defence of female education. She was a highly…
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1607
1613
Ibrahim was the sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1640 until 1648.
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1615
Italian viola player and composer (died 1729)
Attilio Malachia Ariosti was a Servite Friar and Italian composer in the Baroque style. He produced more than 30 operas and oratorios, numerous cantatas and instrumental works.
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1666
German painter (died 1719)
Christoph Ludwig Agricola was a German landscape painter and etcher. He was born and died in Regensburg (Ratisbon).
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1667
French mathematician and philosopher (died 1757)
Louis Bertrand Castel was a French mathematician born in Montpellier, who entered the order of the Jesuits in 1703. Having studied literature, he afterwards devoted himself entirely to mathematics and natural…
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1688
Venetian painter and educator (died 1785)
Pietro Longhi was a Venetian painter of contemporary genre scenes of life.
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1701
French violinist and composer (died 1770)
Louis-Gabriel Guillemain was a French composer and violinist.
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1705
English author and playwright (died 1766)
John Brown was an English Anglican priest, playwright and essayist.
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1715
5th Baron Byron, English lieutenant and politician (died 1798)
William Byron, 5th Baron Byron, was a British nobleman, peer, politician, and great-uncle of the poet George Gordon Byron who succeeded him in the title. As a result of a number of stories that arose after a duel, and…
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1722
12th Earl of Eglinton, Scottish composer and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Ayrshire (died 1819)
Colonel Hugh Montgomerie, 12th Earl of Eglinton, KT, styled Lord Montgomerie from 1769 to 1796, was a British politician, military officer and composer.
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1739
English painter (died 1821)
Richard Cosway was a leading English portrait painter of the Georgian and Regency era, noted for his miniatures. He was a contemporary of John Smart, George Engleheart, William Wood, and Richard Crosse. He befriended…
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1742
Australian surgeon and politician (died 1868)
William Bland was a prominent public figure in the colony of New South Wales. A surgeon by profession, he arrived in Australia as a convict but played an important role in the early years of Australian healthcare,…
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1789
American general, lawyer, and politician, 33rd Governor of Massachusetts (died 1893)
Benjamin Franklin Butler was an American major general of the Union Army, politician, lawyer, and businessman from Massachusetts. Born in New Hampshire and raised in Lowell, Massachusetts, Butler was a political major…
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1818
Ukrainian-Austrian journalist and publisher (died 1902)
Moritz Szeps was an Austrian newspaper tycoon who founded and published the daily papers Neues Wiener Tagblatt (1867-1886), Wiener Tagblatt (1886-1894), and the first popular-science magazine Das Wissen für Alle (1900).
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1835
English soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross (died 1869)
Duncan Gordon Boyes VC was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces. The award was…
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1846
American author and poet (died 1919)
Ella Wheeler Wilcox was an American author and poet. Her works include the collection Poems of Passion and the poem "Solitude", which contains the lines "Laugh, and the world laughs with you; weep, and you weep alone."…
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1850
French academic and politician, 60th Prime Minister of France (died 1923)
Charles Alexandre Dupuy was a French statesman, three times prime minister.
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1851
Canadian journalist and businessman, co-founded Desjardins Group (died 1920)
Gabriel-Alphonse Desjardins, born in Levis, Canada East was the co-founder of the Caisses Populaires Desjardins, a forerunner of North American credit unions and community banks. For his contribution to the advancement…
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1854
French chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1941)
Paul Sabatier was a French chemist, born in Carcassonne. In 1912, Sabatier was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry along with Victor Grignard. Sabatier was honoured for his work improving the hydrogenation of organic…
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1854
American union leader and politician (died 1926)
Eugene Victor Debs was an American socialist activist and trade unionist. He was one of the founding members of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) and a five-time candidate of the Socialist Party of America for…
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1855
French meteorologist and climatologist (died 1913)
Léon Philippe Teisserenc de Bort was a French meteorologist and a pioneer in the field of aerology. Together with Richard Assmann (1845-1918), he is credited as co-discoverer of the stratosphere, as both men announced…
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1855
American journalist, author, reformer, and educator (died 1944)
Ida Minerva Tarbell was an American writer, investigative journalist, biographer, and lecturer. She was one of the leading muckrakers and reformers of the Progressive Era of the late 19th and early 20th centuries and…
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1857
Indian lawyer and politician (died 1925)
Chittaranjan Das, popularly called Deshbandhu, was a Bengali freedom fighter, political activist and lawyer during the Indian Independence Movement and mentor of Subhas Chandra Bose. He was the founder-leader of the…
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1870
Australian tennis player and runner (died 1935)
Edwin Harold Flack was an Australian athlete and tennis player. Also known as "Teddy", he was Australia's first Olympian, being its only representative in 1896, and the first Olympic champion in the 800 metres and the…
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1873
Austrian-American swimmer and coach (died 1963)
Otto Wahle was an Austrian-American swimmer who took part in two Summer Olympic Games and won a total of three medals. Wahle coached the men's US swim team at the 1912 Olympics, and the men's US water polo team at the…
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1879
American lawyer and jurist (died 1961)
George Arthur Malcolm was an American lawyer who emerged as an influential figure in the development of the practice of law in the Philippines in the 20th century. Constitutional scholar and academic Joaquin Bernas…
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1881
1883
English author, poet, and playwright (died 1915)
James Elroy Flecker was a British novelist, playwright, and poet, whose poetry was most influenced by the Parnassian poets.
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1884
American historian and philosopher (died 1981)
William James Durant was an American historian and philosopher, best known for his eleven-volume work, The Story of Civilization, which contains and details the history of Eastern and Western civilizations. It was…
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1885
Japanese general (died 1961)
Sadae Inoue was a general in the Imperial Japanese Army in World War II. He commanded the Japanese forces at the Battle of Peleliu and the Battle of Angaur.
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1886
Austrian-American pianist and educator (died 1961)
Paul Wittgenstein was an Austrian-American concert pianist notable for commissioning new piano concerti for the left hand alone, after his right arm was amputated during World War I. He devised novel techniques,…
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1887
Czech painter and illustrator (died 1977)
Jan Zrzavý was a Czech painter, graphic artist and illustrator.
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1890
English-Indian geneticist and biologist (died 1964)
John Burdon Sanderson Haldane, nicknamed "Jack" or "JBS", was a British-born scientist who later moved to India and acquired Indian citizenship. He worked in the fields of physiology, genetics, evolutionary biology, and…
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1892
captain in the Royal Navy and the Royal Air Force, copilot of the first non-stop trans-Atlantic flight (died 1919)
Captain Sir John William Alcock was a British Royal Navy and later Royal Air Force officer who, with navigator Lieutenant Arthur Whitten Brown, piloted the first non-stop transatlantic flight from St. John's,…
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1892
French-American engineer and designer (died 1986)
Raymond Loewy was a French-born American industrial designer who achieved fame for the magnitude of his design efforts across a variety of industries. He was recognized for this by Time magazine and featured on its…
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1893
American economist and statistician (died 1960)
Beardsley Ruml was an American statistician, economist, philanthropist, planner, businessman and man of affairs in the 1920s, 1930s and 1940s.
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1894
French-German pianist and composer (died 1956)
Walter Wilhelm Gieseking was a French-born German pianist and composer. Gieseking was renowned for his subtle touch, pedaling, and dynamic control—particularly in the music of Debussy and Ravel; he made complete…
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1895
American playwright and screenwriter (died 1956)
Charles Gordon MacArthur was an American playwright, screenwriter, and 1935 winner of the Academy Award for Best Story.
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1895
American historian and author (died 1991)
Margaret Atwood Judson was an American historian and writer.
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1899
American actress (died 1991)
Natalie Schafer was an American actress, best known today for her role as Lovey Howell on the sitcom Gilligan's Island (1964–1967).
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1900
British ichthyologist, over a dozen fish species named in her honor (died 1993)
Ethelwynn Trewavas was an ichthyologist at the British Museum. She was known for her work on the families Cichlidae and Sciaenidae. She worked with Charles Tate Regan, another ichthyologist and taxonomist.
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1900
American actress and singer (died 2004)
Etta Moten Barnett was an American actress and contralto vocalist, who was identified with her signature role of "Bess" in Porgy and Bess. She created new roles for African-American women on stage and screen. After her…
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1901
Jr., American lawyer, judge and politician (died 1972)
Martin Dies Jr., also known as Martin Dies Sr., was a Texas politician and a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives. He was elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-second and after that to the six…
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1901
English cricketer (died 1979)
Edward Paynter was an English cricketer: an attacking batsman and excellent fielder. Among batsmen with at least ten Test dismissals, his batting average of 59.23 is the eighth highest ever; among batsmen with at least…
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1901
Canadian ice hockey player and coach (died 1985)
Ralph "Cooney" Weiland was a Canadian ice hockey forward who played for the Boston Bruins, Ottawa Senators, and Detroit Red Wings of the National Hockey League (NHL). Weiland was part of the Bruins' 1928 "Dynamite Line"…
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1904
American actor (died 1990)
Joel Albert McCrea was an American actor whose career as a leading man spanned a wide variety of genres over almost five decades, including comedy, drama, romance, thrillers, adventures, and Westerns, for which he…
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1905
French racing driver (died 1956)
Louis Claude Rosier was a French racing driver and motorsport executive, who competed in Formula One from 1950 to 1956. In endurance racing, Rosier won the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 1950 in a privateer Talbot-Lago T26C-GS.
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1905
Indian author and poet (died 1973)
Syed Sajjad Zaheer was an Indian Urdu writer, Marxist ideologue, radical revolutionary and a member of the Communist Party of India. He established the All India Progressive Writers' Association after the short story…
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1905
Hungarian fencer (died 1944)
Endre Kabos was a Hungarian sabre fencer. He competed individually and with the team at the 1932 and 1936 Berlin Summer Olympics and won three gold and one bronze medals. In the fall of 1935, the Nazi regime in Germany…
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1906
American astronomer and academic (died 2004)
Fred Lawrence Whipple was an American astronomer, who worked at the Harvard College Observatory for more than 70 years. Among his achievements were asteroid and comet discoveries, the "dirty snowball" hypothesis of…
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1906
Australian-English general and academic (died 1997)
General Sir John Winthrop Hackett, was an Australian-born British soldier, painter, university administrator, author and in later life, a commentator.
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1910
American actress and costume designer (died 2010)
Marie Osborne Yeats, credited as Baby Marie between 1914 and 1919, was an American actress who was the first major child star of American silent films. She was one of the three major American child stars of the…
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1911
American singer, guitarist and actor (died 1998)
Roy Rogers, nicknamed the King of the Cowboys, was an American actor, singer, television host, and rodeo performer.
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1911
American economist and statistician (died 1998)
Wilson Allen Wallis was an American economist and statistician who served as president of the University of Rochester. He is best known for the Kruskal–Wallis one-way analysis of variance, which is named after him and…
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1912
English-American director, screenwriter and cinematographer (died 2005)
Guy Mervin Charles Green OBE BSC was an English film director, producer, screenwriter, and cinematographer. In 1948, he won an Oscar as cinematographer for the film Great Expectations. In 2002, Green was given a…
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1913
Indian-British actress (died 1967)
Vivian Mary Olivier, known professionally as Vivien Leigh and styled as Lady Olivier after 1947, was a British actress. After completing her drama school education, Leigh appeared in small roles in four films in 1935…
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1913
American actor (died 1975)
John Irwin McGiver was an American character actor who made more than a hundred appearances in television and motion pictures over a two-decade span from 1955 to 1975.
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1913
American painter and illustrator (died 2005)
Alton Stanley Tobey was an American painter, historical artist, muralist, portraitist, illustrator, and teacher of art.
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1914
French pilot (died 2000)
Jacqueline Marie-Thérèse Suzanne Auriol was a French aviator who set several world speed records.
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1917
Indian activist and politician, 4th Chief Minister of Haryana (died 2007)
Banarsi Das Gupta was an Indian politician who served as the 4th Chief Minister of Haryana state in India.
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1917
American brigadier general (died 2002)
James Lawton Collins Jr. was a brigadier general in the U.S. Army who served in World War II, the Korean War and the Vietnam War, a military historian, and a viticulturist. He was the son of Major General James Lawton…
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1917
1917
Pakistani linguist, scholar and critic (died 1978)
Muhammad Hasan Askari
(1919 – 18 January 1978) was a Pakistani scholar, literary critic, writer and linguist of modern Urdu language. Initially "Westernized", he translated western literary, philosophical and…
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1919
American accordionist and pianist (died 2005)
Myron Floren was an American musician best known as the accordionist on The Lawrence Welk Show between 1950 and 1982. Floren came to prominence primarily from his regular appearances on the weekly television series in…
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1919
American-English cyclist and coach (died 2012)
Thomas Charles Godwin was a British track cyclist, active during the 1940s and 1950s. He held national records and raced abroad. He later became a coach, manager, and administrator.
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1920
American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2015)
Douglass Cecil North was an American economist known for his work in economic history. Along with Robert Fogel, he received the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1993. In the words of the Nobel Committee,…
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1920
Hungarian pianist and composer (died 1994)
Christian Georges Cziffra was a Hungarian-French virtuoso pianist and composer. He is considered to be one of the greatest virtuoso pianists of the twentieth century. Among his teachers was Ernő Dohnányi, a pupil of…
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1921
Fawzia of Egypt, also known as Fawzia Pahlavi or Fawzia Chirine, was an Egyptian princess who became Shahbanu of Iran as the first wife of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, Shah of Iran. Fawzia was the daughter of Fuad I, seventh…
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1921
American illustrator (died 2010)
Violet A. Barclay, who also worked under the name Valerie Barclay and the married name Valerie Smith, was an American illustrator best known as one of the pioneering female comic-book artists, having started in the…
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1922
American-Israeli rabbi (died 2021)
Rabbi Yitzchok Scheiner was an Israeli–American rabbi who was the rosh yeshiva of the Kamenitz yeshiva of Jerusalem.
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1922
American educator and politician, 25th and 32nd Governor of West Virginia (died 2008)
Cecil Harland Underwood was an American politician who served as the 25th and 32nd governor of West Virginia from 1957 to 1961, and again from 1997 to 2001. A member of the Republican Party, he was the youngest governor…
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1922
German soldier and journalist, co-founder of Der Spiegel (died 2002)
Rudolf Karl Augstein was a German journalist, editor, publicist, and politician. He was one of the most influential German journalists, founder and part-owner of Der Spiegel magazine. As a politician, he was a member of…
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1923
English author, poet, painter and critic (died 2017)
John Peter Berger was an English art critic, novelist, painter and poet. His novel G. won the 1972 Booker Prize. His essay on art criticism Ways of Seeing, written as an accompaniment to the BBC series of the same name,…
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1926
Japanese statistician (died 2009)
Hirotugu Akaike was a Japanese statistician. In the early 1970s, he formulated the Akaike information criterion (AIC). AIC is now widely used for model selection, which is commonly the most difficult aspect of…
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1927
Dutch footballer and manager (died 2016)
Wim Bleijenberg was a Dutch international football player, who played for FC Wageningen, Rigtersbleek, AFC Ajax, Blauw-Wit Amsterdam, Go Ahead Eagles and AGOVV Apeldoorn during his career.
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1930
German historian and academic (died 2015)
Hans Mommsen was a German historian, known for his studies in German social history, for his functionalist interpretation of the Third Reich, and especially for arguing that Adolf Hitler was a weak dictator. Descended…
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1930
American immunologist, geneticist and academic (died 2013)
Leonard Arthur "Len" Herzenberg was an immunologist, geneticist and professor at Stanford University. His contributions to the development of cell biology made it possible to sort viable cells by their specific…
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1931
1931
Jamaican-English saxophonist and flute player (died 1971)
Harold McNair was a Jamaican-born saxophonist and flautist.
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1931
British book editor and novelist (died 2017)
Diane Pearson was a British book editor and romance novelist, who has been translated into several languages.
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1931
American singer-songwriter, guitarist and producer (died 2007)
Izear Luster "Ike" Turner Jr. was an American musician, bandleader, songwriter, record producer, and talent scout. An early pioneer of 1950s rock and roll, he is best known for his work in the 1960s and 1970s with his…
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1931
Lithuanian basketball player (died 2001)
Algirdas Teodoras Lauritėnas was a Lithuanian basketball player. He was a member of the Soviet team during the 1950s, and won a silver medal at the 1956 Summer Olympics. He was also part of the team that became European…
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1932
American actor (died 1996)
Herbert "Herb" Edelman was an American comedian, and actor of stage, film and television. He was twice nominated for an Emmy Award for his television work. His best-known role was as Stanley Zbornak, the ex-husband of…
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1933
American minister and civil servant (died 2014)
Jeb Stuart Magruder was an American businessman and high-level political operative in the Republican Party who served time in prison for his role in the Watergate scandal.
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1934
English flat racing jockey and trainer (died 2022)
Lester Keith Piggott was an English professional jockey and horse trainer. With 4,493 career flat racing wins in Britain, including a record nine Epsom Derby victories, he is widely regarded as one of the greatest flat…
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1935
English author and screenwriter (died 2015)
Christopher Hovelle Wood was an English screenwriter and novelist, best known for the Confessions series of novels and films which he wrote as Timothy Lea. Under his own name, he adapted two James Bond novels for the…
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1935
Greek-American computer scientist and academic (died 2001)
Michael Leonidas Dertouzos was a professor in the department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Director of the MIT Laboratory for Computer Science…
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1936
German footballer (died 2022)
Uwe Seeler was a German footballer and football official. As a striker, he was a prolific scorer for Hamburger SV and also made 72 appearances for the West Germany national team. Widely regarded as one of the greatest…
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1936
American record producer, songwriter and arranger (died 2015)
Billy Norris Sherrill was an American record producer, songwriter, and arranger associated with country artists, notably Tammy Wynette and George Jones. Sherrill and business partner Glenn Sutton are regarded as the…
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1936
Singaporean lawyer, judge and politician, 3rd Chief Justice of Singapore
Chan Sek Keong is a Malayan-born Singaporean jurist who served as chief justice of Singapore between 2006 and 2012 when he was appointed by President S. R. Nathan. He is the first Chief Justice to have previously served…
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1937
American actor (died 2025)
Harris Bart Goldberg, known professionally as Harris Yulin, was an American actor who appeared in over a hundred film and television series roles including Night Moves (1975), St. Ives (1976), Scarface (1983),…
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1937
American-French singer-songwriter (died 1980)
Joseph Ira Dassin was an American singer-songwriter. He sang in multiple languages but found his greatest successes in France and the French-speaking world. In total, he sold nearly 25 million records worldwide.
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1938
American author and illustrator
James F. Steranko is an American graphic artist, comic book writer/artist, comics historian, magician, publisher and film production illustrator.
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1938
Tibetan religious leader
Lobsang Tenzin, better known by the titles Professor Venerable Samdhong Rinpoche and to Tibetans as the 5th Samdhong Rinpoche, is a Tibetan Buddhist monk and politician who served as the Prime Minister of the cabinet of…
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1939
American soldier, lawyer and politician, 36th Governor of Oregon
Theodore Ralph Kulongoski is an American politician, judge, and lawyer who served as the 36th governor of Oregon from 2003 to 2011. A member of the Democratic Party, he served in both houses of the Oregon Legislative…
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1940
German actress
Elke Sommer is a German actress. She appeared in numerous films throughout the 1960s and 1970s, including roles in The Pink Panther sequel A Shot in the Dark (1964), the Bob Hope comedy Boy, Did I Get a Wrong Number!…
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1940
American singer-songwriter and guitarist
Arthur Ira Garfunkel is an American singer, actor and poet who is best known for his partnership with Paul Simon in the folk rock duo Simon & Garfunkel.
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1941
Japanese animator, director and screenwriter
Yoshiyuki Tomino is a Japanese anime director, screenwriter, songwriter and novelist best known for creating the Gundam anime franchise.
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1941
American baseball player (died 2023)
William Cordes "Rudy" Schlesinger was an American professional baseball player who had only one at bat in Major League Baseball as a pinch hitter for the 1965 Boston Red Sox.
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1941
Italian singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2002)
Pierangelo Bertoli was an Italian singer-songwriter and poet. Close to libertarian communist issues, his works were mainly about environment, laïcité, antimilitarism and social issues regarding marginalised and…
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1942
German-American chef and author (died 2007)
Friedman Paul Erhardt was a German American pioneering early television chef. He was known as "Chef Tell" to his 40 million fans. He is widely regarded as one of the first chefs to enjoy widespread popularity on…
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1943
Australian high jumper (died 2022)
Percy Francis Hobson was an Australian high jumper. He won the men's event at the 1962 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Perth, making him the first Indigenous Australian to earn a gold medal at the Commonwealth…
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1943
American playwright and actor (died 2017)
Samuel Shepard Rogers III was an American playwright, actor, director, screenwriter, author and musician whose career spanned half a century. He wrote 58 plays and several books of short stories, essays, and memoirs.…
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1943
American general
Peter Pace is a retired United States Marine Corps general who served as the 16th chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Pace was the first Marine officer appointed as chairman and the first Marine officer to be…
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1945
Greek accountant and politician
Alexandra "Aleka" Papariga is a Greek retired politician who served the Communist Party of Greece (KKE) as its General Secretary from 1991 to 2013. She is the first woman to be General Secretary of KKE, and thus the…
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1945
Russian fencer and coach
Svetlana Tširkova is a former Soviet fencer, two-time Olympic champion in foil team competitions and fencing coach in Estonia.
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1945
American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 1973)
Ingram Cecil Connor III, known professionally as Gram Parsons, was an American musician. He recorded with the International Submarine Band, the Byrds, and the Flying Burrito Brothers, popularizing what he called "Cosmic…
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1946
American director and producer
Quint Davis is an American festival producer and director based in New Orleans. He is best known as the producer of the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival founded by George Wein. Davis has been involved in the…
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1947
English singer-songwriter and guitarist
Peter Blair Denis Bernard Noone is an English singer-songwriter, musician, actor, and teen idol. He was the lead singer "Herman" in the 1960s pop group Herman's Hermits and continues to tour as the lead singer for…
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1947
Albanian folklorist and writer.
Tonin Çobani is an Albanian writer, folklorist and scholar from the city of Shkodër in Northern Albania. He is known for his works revolving Albanian mythology and Illyrian mythology, as well as works on Albanian…
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1947
1948
English singer-songwriter, guitarist and producer
Peter Joseph Andrew Hammill is an English musician and recording artist. He was a founder member of the progressive rock band Van der Graaf Generator. Best known as a singer-songwriter, he also plays guitar and piano…
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1948
French philosopher and author
Bernard-Henri Georges Lévy is a French public intellectual. Often referred to in France simply as BHL, he was one of the leaders of the "Nouveaux Philosophes" movement in 1976. His opinions, political activism, and…
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1948
American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
William Daniel Phillips is an American physicist. He shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1997 with Steven Chu and Claude Cohen-Tannoudji.
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1948
American actor
Armin Shimerman is an American actor who played Quark the Ferengi in the Star Trek franchise, appearing as the character in all seven seasons of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1993–1999). He also had a recurring role as…
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1949
American singer-songwriter (died 1984)
Jimmie Andrew Spheeris was an American singer-songwriter who released four albums in the 1970s on the Columbia Records and Epic Records labels. Spheeris died in 1984, at the age of 34, after a motorcycle accident.
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1949
Norwegian politician, 25th Prime Minister of Norway
Thorbjørn Jagland is a Norwegian politician from the Labour Party. He served as the prime minister of Norway from 1996 to 1997, as the minister of Foreign Affairs from 2000 to 2001, as the president of the Storting from…
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1950
American psychologist and author
James Kennedy is an American social psychologist, best known as an originator and researcher of particle swarm optimization.
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1950
Ukrainian footballer and manager
Oleh Volodymyrovych Blokhin or Oleg Vladimirovich Blokhin, is a Ukrainian former football player and manager. Regarded as one of the greatest footballers of his generation, Blokhin was a standout striker for Dynamo Kyiv…
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1952
Indian philosopher and author
Vandana Shiva is an Indian scholar, environmental activist, food sovereignty advocate, ecofeminist and anti-globalization author. Based in Delhi, Shiva has written more than 20 books. She is often referred to as "Gandhi…
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1952
American basketball player and sportscaster (died 2024)
William Theodore Walton III was an American basketball player and television sportscaster. He played collegiately for the UCLA Bruins and professionally in the National Basketball Association (NBA) for the Portland…
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1952
American journalist, author and academic
Joyce Maynard is an American novelist and journalist. She began her career in journalism in the 1970s, writing for several publications, most notably Seventeen magazine and The New York Times. Maynard contributed to…
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1953
Italian footballer (died 2023)
Vincenzo D'Amico was an Italian footballer who played as a midfielder or forward. In all, he played seventeen seasons in Italian professional football, mostly for S.S. Lazio.
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1954
Argentine footballer and manager (died 2020)
Alejandro Javier Sabella was an Argentine football player and manager. Born in Buenos Aires, he began his playing career with River Plate in his home country before moving to England in 1978 to play for Sheffield…
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1954
American economist and academic
Jeffrey David Sachs is an American economist and public policy analyst. He is a professor at Columbia University, at which he was formerly director of The Earth Institute and currently director of the Center for…
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1954
French computer scientist and academic
Bernard Chazelle is a French computer scientist. He is the Eugene Higgins Professor of Computer Science at Princeton University. Much of his work is in computational geometry, where he is known for his study of…
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1955
American talent manager and businesswoman
Kristen Mary Jenner is an American media personality, socialite, and businesswoman. She rose to fame starring in the reality television series Keeping Up with the Kardashians (2007–2021) with her family. The success of…
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1955
American actor
Nestor Serrano is an American film and television actor. He is known for playing Detective Sanchez in Bad Boys and Navi Araz in the fourth season of 24. He also appeared as Emilio Loera in the fourth season of the…
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1955
Indian journalist and author
Karan Thapar is an Indian journalist, news presenter and interviewer working with The Wire. Thapar was associated with CNN-IBN and hosted The Devil's Advocate and The Last Word. Some of the celebrities he has…
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1955
English keyboard player and songwriter (died 1999)
Rob Fisher was an English keyboardist and songwriter from Cheltenham, England, who achieved chart success as a member of the new wave band Naked Eyes and, later, Climie Fisher. He attended Lord Wandsworth College in…
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1956
American journalist
John Harwood is an American journalist. He was the White House Correspondent for CNN from February 2021 until September 2022, after working as an editor-at-large for CNBC. He was the chief Washington Correspondent for…
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1956
Greek singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2019)
Lavrentis Machairitsas was a Greek rock musician from Volos, Thessaly, Greece.
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1956
Australian rugby league player
Michel Sorridimi is an Australian former rugby league footballer who played in the 1970s and 1980s.
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1956
American guitarist and songwriter
Jeffrey Victor Watson is an American guitarist originally known as one of the founding members and lead guitarist of the hard rock band Night Ranger, in which he has played as co-guitarist with guitarist Brad Gillis.…
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1956
English singer-songwriter and keyboard player
Michael Gordon Score is an English singer, songwriter and musician who achieved fame as the founder, lead vocalist, and keyboardist of the new wave band A Flock of Seagulls. He released a solo album on 1 March 2014…
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1957
American keyboard player, songwriter and producer
Don Falcone is an American producer and multi-instrumentalist, and the guiding light behind the Spirits Burning space-rock collective. In Spirits Burning and other offshoot bands and projects, his primary collaborations…
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1958
1958
American actor
Robert Hammond Patrick is an American actor. Known for portraying villains and authority figures, Patrick is a Saturn Award winner with four other nominations.
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1958
Canadian singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer and actor
Bryan Guy Adams is a Canadian singer-songwriter, musician, record producer, and photographer. He is estimated to have sold between 75 million and more than 100 million records and singles worldwide, placing him among…
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1959
Slovenian mountaineer
Tomislav "Tomo" Česen is a Slovenian mountaineer who specializes in solo climbing ascents in the Alps and the Himalayas.
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1959
1960
English actress
Katherine Matilda "Tilda" Swinton is a British actress. Known for her physically transformative performances of eccentric and enigmatic characters on stage and screen, she has received various accolades, including an…
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1960
1960
American captain, pilot and astronaut (died 2012)
Alan Goodwin Poindexter was an American naval officer and a NASA astronaut. Poindexter was selected in the 1998 NASA Group (G17) and went into orbit aboard Space Shuttle missions STS-122 and STS-131.
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1961
Norwegian businesswoman and politician, Norwegian Minister of Culture (died 2015)
Turid Birkeland was a Norwegian cultural executive and politician for the Labour Party. She was Minister of Culture in 1996–97. She was an author and also worked in television, including being chief of cultural…
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1962
American actor
Michael Gaston is an American film and television actor. He played agent Quinn on the show Prison Break, Gray Anderson on the CBS drama series Jericho, and appeared in the first episode of The Sopranos as Alex Mahaffey,…
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1962
Ghanaian footballer and manager
Abedi Ayew, known professionally as Abedi Pele, is a Ghanaian former professional footballer who played as an attacking midfielder and served as captain of the Ghana national team. He is regarded as one of the greatest…
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1962
American computer scientist and author
Marcus J. Ranum is an American computer and network security researcher. He is credited with a number of innovations in firewalls, including building the first Internet email server for the whitehouse.gov domain, and…
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1962
Dutch footballer and scout
Johannes "Hans" Paulus Gillhaus is a Dutch retired professional footballer who played primarily as a left-sided forward.
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1963
American actress and singer
Andrea McArdle is an American singer and actress best known for originating the role of Annie in the Broadway musical Annie.
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1963
American actress and author
Tatum Beatrice O'Neal is an American actress. At the age of 10, she became the youngest person ever to win a competitive Academy Award, for her performance as Addie Loggins in Paper Moon co-starring her father, Ryan…
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1963
French footballer and manager
Jean-Pierre Roger Guillaume Papin is a French football manager and former professional player who played as a forward. He was most recently the head coach of the reserve team of Olympique de Marseille. He won the Ballon…
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1963
American bass player and songwriter
Tesla is an American hard rock band from Sacramento, California. In late 1981, bassist Brian Wheat and guitarist Frank Hannon formed a band named City Kidd, which evolved into Tesla. By 1984, vocalist Jeff Keith,…
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1963
American surgeon and journalist
Atul Atmaram Gawande is an American surgeon, writer, and public health researcher. He practices general and endocrine surgery at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts. He is a professor in the Department…
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1965
American singer and musician
Angelo Christopher Moore is an American musician, best known for his work as lead singer and saxophonist for the Los Angeles ska and funk metal band Fishbone. Moore also performs and records under the stage name Dr.…
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1965
English journalist and sportscaster
James Allen is a British former TV commentator and journalist who is the president, Autosport Business, and F1 of Motorsport Network. He worked as Formula One commentator for ITV from 2000 to 2008, and subsequently as…
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1966
1966
Estonian footballer and manager
Urmas Kirs is an Estonian football manager and a retired footballer. He lastly coached the Estonian Meistriliiga club Tarvas. He played in the position of defender. Kirs spent the most of his career in Flora.
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1966
American actress and producer
Judy Reyes is an American actress, model, and producer, best known for her roles as Carla Espinosa on the NBC/ABC medical comedy series Scrubs, as Zoila Diaz in the Lifetime comedy-drama Devious Maids (2013–2016), as…
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1967
Argentinian actor, director and businessman (died 2013)
Ricardo Aníbal Fort Campa was an Argentine socialite, entrepreneur and television director. Although his career lasted four years, Fort was one of the most popular personalities in his country.
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1968
American actor
Seth Gilliam is an American actor. He is best known for his portrayals of Ellis Carver on The Wire, Clayton Hughes on Oz, Dr. Alan Deaton on Teen Wolf, and Father Gabriel Stokes on The Walking Dead.
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1968
American actor
Samuel Rockwell is an American actor known for his quirky and charismatic character roles in independent films.
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1968
American actor, comedian, director and screenwriter
Patrick F. Kilbane is an American actor, comedian, and screenwriter best known for his three seasons as a cast member on MADtv (1997–2000), as well his memorable appearance in the 1996 "The Bizarro Jerry" episode of…
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1969
Puerto Rican-American baseball player
Javier "Javy" López Torres is a Puerto Rican former catcher in Major League Baseball who played for the Atlanta Braves (1992–2003), Baltimore Orioles (2004–2006) and Boston Red Sox (2006). He batted and threw…
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1970
Russian ice hockey player
Sergei Yevgenyevich Berezin was a Russian professional ice hockey player who played in the National Hockey League (NHL) from 1996–97 through 2002–03. Berezin, who played left wing in the NHL, was selected by the Toronto…
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1971
English guitarist and songwriter
Jonathan Richard Guy Greenwood is an English musician who is the lead guitarist of the rock band Radiohead. He has also composed numerous film scores. He has been named one of the greatest guitarists by multiple…
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1971
1971
American actor, producer and screenwriter
Joseph Charles Nemec IV, known professionally as Corin Nemec, is an American actor, producer, screenwriter and graffiti artist. He was billed as Corin "Corky" Nemec or Corky Nemec until 1990. His most prominent roles…
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1971
1971
American baseball player
Johnny David Damon is an American former professional baseball outfielder who played in Major League Baseball (MLB) from 1995 to 2012. During his MLB career, Damon played for the Kansas City Royals (1995–2000), Oakland…
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1973
Russian ice hockey player and manager
Alexei Valeryevich Yashin is a Russian former professional ice hockey centre who played 12 seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the Ottawa Senators and New York Islanders, serving as captain of both teams. He…
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1973
American singer-songwriter and guitarist
David Ryan Adams is an American rock and country singer-songwriter. He has released 30 studio albums and three as a member of Whiskeytown.
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1974
German singer-songwriter
Angela Nathalie Gossow is a German vocalist, best known as the former lead singer for the Swedish melodic death metal band Arch Enemy. Her other previous bands include Asmodina and Mistress.
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1974
1974
New Zealand rugby player
Taine Randell is a retired New Zealand rugby union player. He played as a versatile loose forward and captained the All Blacks between 1996 and 1999.
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1974
American basketball player and sportscaster
Jerry Darnell Stackhouse is an American basketball coach and former player who is an assistant coach for the Golden State Warriors of the National Basketball Association. Stackhouse played college basketball for the…
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1974
Welsh singer-songwriter
Lisa Scott-Lee is a Welsh singer from St Asaph, Wales. She is a member of the pop group Steps, formed in 1997. Scott-Lee signed a record deal with Mercury Records and launched a solo career in 2003, achieving only minor…
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1975
American actor
Sebastian Arcelus is an American actor, best known for his roles as Lucas Goodwin on the Netflix thriller series House of Cards (2013–2016) and Jay Whitman on the CBS political drama series Madam Secretary (2014–2019).…
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1976
Dutch cyclist
Maarten Pieter Tjallingii is a Dutch former professional racing cyclist, who rode professionally between 2003 and 2016.
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1977
English footballer and coach
Richard Ian Wright is an English football coach and former professional player who is a goalkeeping coach for Premier League club Manchester City.
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1977
Spanish cyclist (died 2011)
Xavier Tondo Volpini was a Spanish professional road racing cyclist who specialized in mountain stages of bicycle races.
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1978
American golfer
Gerry Lester "Bubba" Watson Jr. is an American professional golfer. He has two major championships, with victories at the Masters Tournament in 2012 and 2014, and a total of 12 PGA Tour wins. In February 2015, Watson…
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1978
1979
Cypriot singer-songwriter and producer
Michalis Hatzigiannis is a Greek Cypriot singer. He served as the Deputy Minister of Culture for Cyprus under President Christodoulides, from March 1, 2023 until July 11, 2023.
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1979
American basketball player
Keith McLeod is an American former professional basketball player and current varsity boys basketball head coach at East Canton High School in Canton, Ohio. He is 6 ft 2 in (1.88 m) tall. He has also played in the NBA…
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1979
Honduran footballer and coach
Óscar David Suazo Velázquez “La pantera” or “El Rey David” is a Honduran retired professional footballer turned coach who played as a striker. Suazo played more than 300 league games and scored over 90 league goals in…
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1979
Australian actor
Luke Hemsworth is an Australian actor. He is known for his roles as Nathan Tyson in the TV series Neighbours and as Ashley Stubbs in the HBO sci-fi series Westworld. His latest role is as Jason Wade in series 2 of the…
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1980
Estonian computer programmer, businessman and politician
Andrei Korobeinik is an Estonian computer programmer and entrepreneur, founder and CEO of Rate Solutions and Serenda Invest. He is better known as creator of Estonian social networking site, Rate.ee. Between 2011 and…
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1980
Australian footballer
Paul Chapman is a former professional Australian rules footballer who played for the Geelong Football Club and Essendon Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL).
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1981
1982
English model and television host
Alexa Chung is an English model and television personality. Chung pursued a modelling career as a teenager after being scouted by a modeling agency at the Reading Festival. She has walked for brands such as Vivienne…
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1983
Canadian football player
Jonathan Michael Cornish is a Canadian former professional football running back who played nine seasons with the Calgary Stampeders of the Canadian Football League (CFL). He was selected 13th overall in the 2006 CFL…
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1984
Swedish ice hockey player
Ulf Tobias Enström is a Swedish former professional ice hockey defenceman who played in the National Hockey League with the Atlanta Thrashers and Winnipeg Jets. He left the NHL after 11 seasons to return and captain…
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1984
Estonian sumo wrestler
Kaido Höövelson, known professionally as Baruto Kaito , is an Estonian politician and former professional sumo wrestler. He made his wrestling debut in May 2004 and in two years, reached the top division in May 2006.…
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1984
Kenyan long-distance runner
Eliud Kipchoge is a Kenyan long-distance runner who competes in the marathon and formerly specialized in the 5000 metres. Kipchoge is the 2016 and 2020 Olympic marathon champion, and was the world record holder in the…
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1984
Australian rugby league player
John Sutton is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer who played as a five-eighth and second-rower for the South Sydney Rabbitohs in the NRL.
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1984
English racing driver
Nicholas Tandy is a British racing driver who competes in the IMSA SportsCar Championship as a factory driver for Porsche. Tandy is the only person to have completed the Grand Slam of overall victories in major 24-hour…
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1984
Ukrainian-Russian ice hockey player
Mykola Olehovych "Nikolai" Zherdev is a Ukrainian-Russian professional ice hockey right winger.
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1984
Australian singer-songwriter
Katherine Jenna DeAraugo is an Australian singer-songwriter who in 2005 was the third winner of Australian Idol. After Idol, DeAraugo signed to Sony BMG and released her debut single, "Maybe Tonight", in November 2005.…
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1985
American actress
Anita Devi "Annet" Mahendru is an American actress. She is known for playing Nina Sergeevna Krilova on the FX period drama series The Americans (2013–2016), for which she garnered a nomination for the Critics' Choice…
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1985
1986
American basketball player
Ian Mahinmi is a French former professional basketball player. He played the center position and was selected with the 28th overall pick in the 2005 NBA draft by the San Antonio Spurs.
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1986
Danish footballer
Kasper Peter Schmeichel is a Danish professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Scottish Premiership club Celtic and the Denmark national team.
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1986
1986
American singer-songwriter, guitarist and actor
Paul Kevin Jonas II is an American singer, musician, and actor. He rose to fame as the lead guitarist of the pop rock band Jonas Brothers alongside his younger brothers, singer-songwriters Joe and Nick Jonas. The three…
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1987
American football player
Jason Daniel Kelce is an American former professional football center who spent his entire 13-year career with the Philadelphia Eagles of the National Football League (NFL). Kelce played college football for the…
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1987
American basketball player
Ovinton J'Anthony "O.J." Mayo is an American former professional basketball player who played for eight seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA), most notably with the Memphis Grizzlies and Milwaukee Bucks.…
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1987
1988
American basketball player
David John Kennedy is an American professional basketball player for the Trotamundos de Carabobo of the Superliga Profesional de Baloncesto (SPB). He played college basketball for St. John's University.
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1989
1991
1991
Japanese sumo wrestler
Shōdai Naoya is a Japanese professional sumo wrestler from Uto, Kumamoto. He is in the Tokitsukaze stable. He is a right hand inside-type wrestler. His highest rank is ōzeki. He has two gold stars for defeating a…
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1991
American football player
Odell Cornelious Beckham Jr., commonly known by his initials OBJ, is an American professional football wide receiver. He played college football for the LSU Tigers and was selected by the New York Giants in the first…
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1992
Italian footballer
Marco Verratti is an Italian professional footballer who plays as a central midfielder for Qatar Stars League club Al Duhail.
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1992
Senegalese-Spanish basketball player
Astou Ndour-Fall is a Spanish professional basketball player for Emlak Konut of the Turkish Women's Basketball League. Born in Senegal, she represents Spain internationally. She previously played for the Chicago Sky,…
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1994
Canadian basketball player
Trey Anthony Lyles is a Canadian-American professional basketball player for Real Madrid of the Liga ACB and the EuroLeague. He was drafted by the Utah Jazz following his freshman season at the University of Kentucky.…
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1995
Japanese footballer
Takehiro Tomiyasu is a Japanese professional footballer who plays as a defender for Eredivisie club Ajax and the Japan national team. Mainly a full back, he can also be deployed as a centre-back.
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1998
American ice hockey player
Matthew Beniers is an American professional ice hockey player who is a center and alternate captain for the Seattle Kraken of the National Hockey League (NHL). The Kraken drafted Beniers second overall in the 2021 NHL…
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2002
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