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Famous Birthdays on October 2
162 people
1452 – 2005
October 2 has seen 162 notable people enter the world across recorded history — from 1452 – 2005. Below are the most significant names born on this date.
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1987 — Ricky Stenhouse Jr.
American race car driver
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47 Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 for Hyak Motorsports and part-time in the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series, driving the No
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4/45 Chevrolet Silverado RST for Niece Motorsports
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Richard III was King of England from 26 June 1483 until his death in 1485. He was the last king of the Plantagenet dynasty and its cadet branch the House of York. His defeat and death at the Battle of Bosworth Field…
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1452
Queen of Portugal, Daughter of Isabella I of Castile and Ferdinand II of Aragon (died 1498)
Isabella, Princess of Asturias, also known as Isabella of Aragon, was the eldest child and heiress presumptive of King Ferdinand II of Aragon and Queen Isabella I of Castile. She was Queen of Portugal as the wife of…
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1470
1527
Italian cardinal and saint (died 1584)
Charles Borromeo was an Italian Catholic prelate who served as Archbishop of Milan from 1564 to 1584. He was made a cardinal in 1560.
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1538
English author and critic (died 1800)
Elizabeth Montagu was a British social reformer, patron of the arts, salonnière, literary critic and writer, who helped to organize and lead the Blue Stockings Society. Her parents were both from wealthy families with…
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1718
1st Viscount Beresford, English general and politician (died 1854)
William Carr Beresford, 1st Viscount Beresford, was a British army officer and politician. A general in the British Army and a Marshal in the Portuguese Army, he fought alongside the Duke of Wellington in the Peninsular…
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1768
King of Sardinia (1831–49) (died 1849)
Charles Albert was the King of Sardinia and ruler of the Savoyard state from 27 April 1831 until his abdication in 1849. His name is bound up with the first Italian constitution, the Statuto Albertino, and with the…
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1798
American slave and uprising leader (died 1831)
Nat Turner was an enslaved Black carpenter and preacher who led a four-day rebellion of both enslaved and free Black people in Southampton County, Virginia, in August 1831.
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1800
Irish-Australian politician, Premier of Tasmania (died 1901)
Sir James Willson Agnew was an Irish-born Australian politician, who was Premier of Tasmania from 1886 to 1887.
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1815
American general (died 1908)
Alexander Peter Stewart was a Confederate military officer during the American Civil War and a college professor. He fought in many of the most significant battles in the Western Theater of the war and briefly took…
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1821
French lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of France (died 1896)
Charles Thomas Floquet was a French lawyer and statesman.
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1828
English anthropologist (died 1917)
Sir Edward Burnett Tylor was an English anthropologist, and professor of anthropology.
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1832
German field marshal and politician, 2nd President of Germany (died 1934)
Paul Ludwig Hans Anton von Beneckendorff und von Hindenburg was a German military officer and statesman who led the Imperial German Army during World War I and later became President of Germany from 1925 until his death…
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1847
French field marshal (died 1929)
Ferdinand Foch was a French general, Marshal of France and a member of the Académie Française and Académie des Sciences. He distinguished himself as Supreme Allied Commander on the Western Front during the First World…
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1851
Scottish chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1916)
Sir William Ramsay was a Scottish chemist who discovered the noble gases and received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1904 "in recognition of his services in the discovery of the inert gaseous elements in air" along…
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1852
Scottish biologist, sociologist, geographer, and philanthropist (died 1932)
Sir Patrick Geddes was a Scottish biologist, sociologist, Comtean positivist, geographer, philanthropist and pioneering town planner. He is known for his innovative thinking in the fields of urban planning and…
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1854
Indian mystic and philosopher (died 1939)
Swami Abhedananda, born Kaliprasad Chandra, was a direct disciple of the 19th century mystic Ramakrishna Paramahansa and the founder of Ramakrishna Vedanta Math. Swami Vivekananda sent him to the West to head the…
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1866
Indian freedom fighter, activist and philosopher (died 1948)
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was an Indian lawyer, anti-colonial nationalist and political ethicist who employed nonviolent resistance to lead the successful campaign for India's independence from British rule, and to…
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1869
American politician, United States Secretary of State, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1955)
Cordell Hull was an American politician and diplomat who served as the United States secretary of state for nearly twelve years under President Franklin D. Roosevelt, from 1933 to 1944. A member of the Democratic Party,…
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1871
American landscaper and author (died 1959)
Martha Brookes Hutcheson was an American landscape architect, lecturer, and author, active in New England, New York, and New Jersey.
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1871
American lawyer and politician (died 1924)
Stephen Warfield Gambrill was an American politician.
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1873
English cricketer and manager (died 1963)
Sir Pelham Francis Warner,, affectionately and better known as Plum Warner or "the Grand Old Man" of English cricket, was a Test cricketer and cricket administrator.
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1873
American suffragist (died 1935)
Pattie Ruffner Jacobs was an American suffragist from Birmingham, Alabama. She was inducted into the Alabama Women's Hall of Fame in 1978.
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1875
American poet (died 1955)
Wallace Stevens was an American modernist poet. He was born in Reading, Pennsylvania, educated at Harvard and then New York Law School, and spent most of his life working as an executive for an insurance company in…
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1879
Russian colonel (died 1945)
Boris Mikhaylovich Shaposhnikov was a Soviet military officer, theoretician and Marshal of the Soviet Union. He served as the Chief of the General Staff of the Soviet Armed Forces from 1928 to 1931 and at the start of…
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1882
Austrian geologist and engineer (died 1963)
Karl von Terzaghi was an Austrian mechanical engineer, geotechnical engineer, and geologist known as the "father of soil mechanics and geotechnical engineering".
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1883
American comedian and actor (died 1977)
Julius Henry "Groucho" Marx was an American comedian, actor, comic vocalist and game show host who performed in vaudeville, Broadway, films, radio, and television. A master of the one-line retort, he is considered one…
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1890
American composer and conductor (died 1962)
Leroy Bernard Shield was an American film score and radio composer. He is best known for the themes and incidental music he wrote for the classic Hal Roach comedy short films of the 1930s, including the Our Gang and…
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1893
American colonel (died 1990)
Ruth Cheney Streeter was an American military officer who was the first director of the United States Marine Corps Women's Reserve (USMCWR). In 1943, she became the first woman to attain the rank of major in the United…
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1895
Indian freedom fighter, social reformer and politician (died 1970)
Leela Roy was an Indian woman politician and reformer, and a close associate of Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose. She was born in Goalpara, Assam, to Girish Chandra Nag, who was a deputy magistrate, and her mother was…
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1900
Austrian politician, Chancellor of Austria (died 1965)
Leopold Figl was an Austrian politician of the Austrian People's Party (ÖVP) and the first Chancellor after World War II. As foreign minister, he subsequently took part in the negotiations on the Austrian State Treaty,…
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1902
English novelist, playwright, and critic (died 1991)
Henry Graham Greene was an English writer and journalist regarded by many as one of the leading novelists of the 20th century.
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1904
Indian and politician, Prime Minister of India (died 1966)
Lal Bahadur Shastri was an Indian politician and statesman who served as the prime minister of India from 1964 to 1966. He previously served as home minister from 1961 to 1963.
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1904
Croatian cardinal (died 1981)
Franjo Šeper was a Croatian prelate of the Catholic Church. He served as prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith from 1968 to 1981, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1965. Before that, he served…
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1905
Australian politician, Premier of Victoria (died 1971)
Thomas Tuke Hollway was the 36th Premier of Victoria, and the first to be born in the 20th century. He held office from 1947 to 1950, and again for a short period in 1952. He was originally a member and the leader of…
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1906
Bolivian politician, President of Bolivia (died 2001)
Ángel Víctor Paz Estenssoro was a Bolivian politician who served as the 45th president of Bolivia for three nonconsecutive and four total terms from 1952 to 1956, 1960 to 1964 and 1985 to 1989. He ran for president…
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1907
Scottish biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1997)
Alexander Robertus Todd, Baron Todd was a British biochemist whose research on the structure and synthesis of nucleotides, nucleosides, and nucleotide coenzymes gained him the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1957.
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1907
American cartoonist, creator of Flash Gordon (died 1956)
Alexander Gillespie Raymond Jr. was an American cartoonist and illustrator who was best known for creating the Flash Gordon comic strip for King Features Syndicate in 1934. The strip was subsequently adapted into many…
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1909
American engineer and painter (died 1981)
Frank Joseph Malina was an American aeronautical engineer and painter, known for his pioneering work in early rocketry.
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1912
American chemist, occultist, and engineer (died 1952)
John Whiteside Parsons was an American rocket engineer, chemist, and Thelemite occultist. Parsons was one of the principal founders of both the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) and Aerojet. He invented the first rocket…
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1914
English organist, conductor, and historian (died 1998)
Bernarr Joseph George Rainbow was a historian of music education, organist, and choir master from the United Kingdom.
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1914
American author and businessman, founded Williams Sonoma (died 2015)
Charles Edward Williams was the American founder of Williams Sonoma and author and editor of more than 100 books on the subject of cooking. Williams is credited for playing a major role in introducing French cookware…
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1915
Belgian cytologist and biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2013)
Christian René Marie Joseph, Viscount de Duve was a Nobel Prize-winning Belgian cytologist and biochemist. He made serendipitous discoveries of two cell organelles, peroxisomes and lysosomes, for which he shared the…
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1917
1917
English guitarist and composer (died 2004)
John William Duarte was a British composer, guitarist and writer.
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1919
English writer and composer (died 1978)
Robert Bruce Montgomery was an English crime writer and composer. Known as a composer as Bruce Montgomery, he published his detective novels under the pseudonym Edmund Crispin.
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1921
American pilot and engineer (died 2006)
Albert Scott Crossfield was an American naval officer and test pilot. In 1953, he became the first pilot to fly at twice the speed of sound. Crossfield was the first of twelve pilots who flew the North American X-15, an…
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1921
English archbishop (died 2000)
Robert Alexander Kennedy Runcie, Baron Runcie, was an English Anglican bishop. He was the Archbishop of Canterbury from 1980 to 1991, having previously been Bishop of St Albans. He travelled the world widely to spread…
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1921
Canadian ice hockey player, coach, and manager (died 2013)
Wren Alvin Blair was a Canadian ice hockey coach, scout and executive in the National Hockey League.
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1925
Welsh historian and author (died 2020)
Catharine Jan Morris was a Welsh historian, author and travel writer. She was known particularly for the Pax Britannica trilogy (1968–1978), a history of the British Empire, and for portraits of cities, including…
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1926
American actor (died 1993)
George Robert Phillips McFarland was an American actor most famous for starring as a child as Spanky in Hal Roach's Our Gang series of short-subject comedies of the 1930s and 1940s. The Our Gang shorts were later…
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1928
Polish-German theologian and academic (died 2014)
Wolfhart Pannenberg was a German Lutheran theologian. He made a number of significant contributions to modern theology, including his concept of history as a form of revelation centered on the resurrection of Christ,…
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1928
Canadian businessman (died 1996)
Peter Frederick Bronfman OC was a Canadian businessman and entrepreneur, born in Montreal, and member of the Toronto branch of Canada's wealthy Bronfman family. He attended Selwyn House School in Montreal and the elite…
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1929
American actor (died 1993)
Moses Gunn was an American actor of stage and screen. An Obie Award-winning stage player, he is an alumnus of the Negro Ensemble Company (NEC).
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1929
Canadian social worker and politician, 26th Premier of British Columbia (died 2018)
David Barrett was a Canadian politician and social worker in British Columbia. A member of the British Columbia New Democratic Party (BCNDP), he was the 26th premier of British Columbia from 1972 to 1975. He was the…
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1930
American baseball player and manager (died 2022)
Maurice Morning Wills was an American professional baseball player and manager. He played in Major League Baseball as a shortstop from 1959 to 1972, most prominently as an integral member of the Los Angeles Dodgers…
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1932
English biologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2025)
Sir John Bertrand Gurdon was a British developmental biologist, best known for his pioneering research in nuclear transplantation and cloning.
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1933
Canadian singer (died 2015)
David Troy Somerville was a Canadian singer best known as the co-founder, and original lead singer, of The Diamonds, one of the most popular vocal groups of the 1950s.
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1933
Baron Scott of Foscote, English lawyer and judge
Richard Rashleigh Folliott Scott, Baron Scott of Foscote, is a British judge, who formerly held the office of Lord of Appeal in Ordinary.
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1934
American baseball player (died 2005)
Robert Earl Wilson was an American professional baseball pitcher. He played all or part of eleven seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Boston Red Sox, Detroit Tigers (1966–1970) and San Diego Padres (1970),…
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1934
Italian-Argentine footballer and manager (died 2005)
Enrique Omar Sívori was an Argentine-Italian football player and manager who played as a forward. At club level, he is known for his successful time with Italian side Juventus during the late 1950s and early 1960s,…
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1935
American basketball player (died 2025)
Richard Barnett was an American professional basketball player who was a shooting guard in the National Basketball Association (NBA) for the Syracuse Nationals, Los Angeles Lakers, and New York Knicks. He won two NBA…
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1936
American basketball player (died 2013)
Conrad William Dierking was an American professional basketball player from 1958 to 1971.
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1936
American quilter and writer (died 2019)
Gwendolyn Joy Marston was an American quilter, quilt teacher, lecturer, and author who championed a style of quilting she called "liberated quiltmaking". She encouraged modern quilt makers to break away from using…
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1936
American lawyer (died 2005)
Johnnie Lee Cochran Jr. was an American attorney from California who was involved in numerous civil rights and police brutality cases throughout his 38-year career. Noted for his skill in the courtroom, he is best known…
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1937
American singer-songwriter (died 2024)
Nicholas George Gravenites was an American blues, rock and folk singer, songwriter, and guitarist, best known for his work with Electric Flag, Janis Joplin, Mike Bloomfield, and several influential bands and individuals…
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1938
Pakistani actor, producer, and screenwriter (died 1983)
Waheed Murad, also known as Chocolate Hero, was a Pakistani film actor, producer and script writer. Famous for his charming expressions, attractive personality, tender voice and unusual talent for acting, Murad was…
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1938
1938
Indian cricketer (died 2006)
Budhisagar Krishnappa Kunderan was an Indian cricketer. He played as a wicket keeper for the most of his career, and was an exciting but unorthodox right-handed batsman who competed for international selection with…
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1939
English poet and author
Diana Lois Hendry is an English poet, children's author and short story writer. She won a Whitbread Award in 1991 and was again shortlisted for the prize in 2012.
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1941
American rock bass player
Ron Meagher is an American musician, best known as the bassist of the rock band The Beau Brummels.
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1941
American director and producer, co-founded NFL Films (died 2012)
Stephen Douglas Sabol was an American filmmaker. He was the president and one of the founders of NFL Films, along with his father Ed. He was also a widely exhibited visual artist.
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1942
1943
Australian actor (died 2025)
Henri Szeps, also spelt Henry Szeps, was an Australian character actor of theatre and television. He also featured in films and worked in voice roles, and worked in productions in the United Kingdom. He was best known…
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1943
American author (died 2024)
Vernor Steffen Vinge was an American science fiction author and professor. He taught mathematics and computer science at San Diego State University. He was the first wide-scale popularizer of the technological…
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1944
American cryptographer and academic
Martin Edward Hellman is an American cryptologist and mathematician, best known for his invention of public-key cryptography in cooperation with Whitfield Diffie and Ralph Merkle. Hellman is a longtime contributor to…
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1945
American singer-songwriter
Donald McLean III is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist. Known as the "American Troubadour" or "King of the Trail", he is best known for his 1971 hit "American Pie", an eight-and-a-half-minute folk rock song…
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1945
Thai general and politician
Sonthi Boonyaratglin is a Thai former general who was Commander-in-Chief of the Royal Thai Army and former head of the Council for Democratic Reform, the military junta that ruled the kingdom. He was the first Muslim in…
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1946
American author and activist
Ward LeRoy Churchill is an American activist, author, and former academic. He was a professor of ethnic studies at the University of Colorado Boulder from 1990 until 2007. Much of Churchill's work focuses on the…
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1947
English footballer and manager
Sir Trevor David Brooking is a former England international footballer, manager, pundit and football administrator; he now works as director of football development in England.
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1948
American actor
Avery Franklin Brooks is an American actor, director, singer, narrator and educator. He is best known for his television roles as Captain Benjamin Sisko on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, as Hawk on Spenser: For Hire and…
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1948
American fashion designer, founded DKNY
Donna Karan, also known as DK, is an American fashion designer and the creator of the Donna Karan New York and DKNY clothing labels.
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1948
Estonian politician, Prime Minister of Estonia
Siim Kallas is an Estonian former politician who served as Prime Minister of Estonia from 2002 to 2003 and as a European Commissioner from 2004 to 2014.
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1948
Indian model and actress, (died 1998)
Persis Khambatta was an Indian actress, model and beauty pageant titleholder best remembered for playing Lieutenant Ilia in the feature film Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979).
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1948
American singer-songwriter and bass player
Richard Lester Meyers, better known by his stage name Richard Hell, is an American singer, songwriter, bass guitarist and writer.
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1949
American photographer
Anna-Lou Leibovitz is an American portrait photographer best known for her portraits, particularly of celebrities, which often feature subjects in intimate settings and poses. Leibovitz's Polaroid photo of John Lennon…
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1949
English guitarist
Michael John Cloete Crawford Rutherford is an English guitarist, bassist and songwriter, best known as co-founder, lead guitarist and bassist of the rock band Genesis. He and keyboardist Tony Banks are the group's two…
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1950
1951
Polish classical pianist and actor (died 2024)
Janusz Olejniczak was a Polish classical pianist, academic teacher and actor. He made an international career as a pianist, especially with the piano music of Chopin which he played on modern and period instruments. He…
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1952
American actress
Robin Riker is an American actress and author. She made her big screen debut in the 1980 horror film Alligator and later went to star in the Showtime comedy series Brothers (1984–1989).
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1952
American singer
Vanessa Bell Armstrong is an American R&B and gospel singer who released her debut album Peace Be Still in 1983. She is a 7-time Grammy Award nominee, Stellar Award winner, and she won a Soul Train Award. She has worked…
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1953
American basketball player
Tommy G. Boswell is an American former professional basketball player.
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1953
American actress
Lorraine Bracco is an American actress best known for her performance as psychiatrist Jennifer Melfi on the HBO crime drama series The Sopranos (1999–2007) and for her breakthrough role portraying Karen Hill in the…
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1954
English singer-songwriter, keyboard player, and producer
Philip Oakey is an English singer-songwriter who is the frontman and co-founder of the synth-pop band the Human League. Aside from the Human League, he has enjoyed an extensive solo music career and has collaborated…
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1955
American soul singer
Frederick Anthony Jackson is an American R&B singer. Originally from New York, Jackson began his professional music career in the late 1970s with the California funk band Mystic Merlin. Among his well–known R&B/soul…
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1956
1957
English rugby player
Wade Dooley is an English former rugby union player who played lock forward. He played for England 55 times and was nicknamed the "Blackpool Tower", as a result of being 6 feet 8 inches tall and a police officer with…
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1957
American singer-songwriter
Robert S. Nevil is an American pop singer, songwriter, record producer, and guitarist who had five Billboard top 40 hits including his songs "C'est la Vie", "Dominoes", and "Wot's It to Ya".
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1958
Canadian ice hockey player
Glenn Chris Anderson is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player who played 16 seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the Edmonton Oilers, Toronto Maple Leafs, New York Rangers and St. Louis Blues.…
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1960
English musician and composer
Django Bates is a British jazz musician, composer, multi-instrumentalist, band leader and educator. He plays the piano, keyboards and the tenor horn. Bates has been described as "one of the most talented musicians…
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1960
1960
American basketball player and coach
Dereck Whittenburg is an American basketball coach and former collegiate basketball player who played for North Carolina State University, where he was a member of the 1982–83 team that won the 1983 NCAA National…
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1960
Canadian-American football player
Mark Robert Rypien is a Canadian-born former professional football quarterback who played in the National Football League (NFL) for 14 seasons. He played college football for the Washington State Cougars and was…
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1962
Australian cricketer
Keith Bradshaw was an Australian cricketer, accountant and administrator.
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1963
Filipino-American journalist
Maria Angelita Ressa is a Filipino and American journalist and Nobel Peace Prize laureate. She is the co-founder and CEO of Rappler. She previously spent nearly two decades working as a lead investigative reporter in…
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1963
German field hockey player
Dirk Brinkmann is a former West German field hockey player who competed at two Summer Olympics. On both occasions he won the silver medal with his team at the 1984 Summer Olympics and 1988 Summer Olympics. He was born…
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1964
Australian tennis player
Darren Cahill is an Australian tennis coach and former professional tennis player. In addition, Cahill is a tennis analyst for the Grand Slam events on the US sports network ESPN and a coach with the Adidas Player…
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1965
1965
Turkish-Austrian pianists
The twin sisters Ferhan & Ferzan Önder are Turkish-Austrian identical twin pianists who perform mostly as a piano duo.
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1965
1966
Namibian sprinter
Frank "Frankie" Fredericks is a former track and field athlete from Namibia. Running in the 100 metres and 200 metres, he won four silver medals at the Olympic Games, making him Namibia's only Olympic medalist until…
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1967
1967
Austrian tennis player
Thomas Muster is an Austrian former professional tennis player. He was ranked as the world No. 1 in men's singles by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP). Muster won 44 ATP Tour-level singles titles, including…
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1967
American singer-songwriter and guitarist
Gillian Howard Welch is an American singer-songwriter who performs with guitarist David Rawlings. Their spare, often dark sound, which The New Yorker calls "at once innovative and obliquely reminiscent of past rural…
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1967
Czech tennis player and sportscaster (died 2017)
Jana Novotná was a Czech professional tennis player. She was ranked world No. 2 in women's singles by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA), achieved in July 1997, and as the world No. 1 in women's doubles for 67 weeks.…
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1968
American actor
Joseph Slotnick is an American actor. He is known for roles in Twister (1996), Hollow Man (2000), Elevator (2011), The Single Guy (1995–1997), and Nip/Tuck (2003–2006).
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1968
Canadian ice hockey player
Glen Edwin Wesley is a Canadian former ice hockey defenceman. Wesley played 13 seasons for the Hartford Whalers/Carolina Hurricanes of the National Hockey League. He began his career with the Boston Bruins, and briefly…
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1968
American country music singer-songwriter
Kelly Diane Willis is an American country music singer-songwriter. Her music has been described as being new traditionalist and alternative country.
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1968
English musician
Damon Michael Gough, known by the stage name Badly Drawn Boy, is an English indie singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist.
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1969
American baseball player
Edward Adrian Guardado is an American former Major League Baseball relief pitcher and current bullpen coach. Guardado played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Minnesota Twins, Seattle Mariners (2004–2006),…
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1970
Canadian soprano
Patricia Mary O'Callaghan is a classically trained Canadian singer. She is a soprano who has built an international reputation as a performer of contemporary opera, early 20th-century cabaret music and the songs of…
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1970
American actress and talk show host
Kelly Maria Ripa is an American actress and talk show host. Since 2001, she has been the co-host of the syndicated morning talk show Live! with Kelly and Mark in various formats. Her co-hosts have included Regis…
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1970
Spanish actress
María Isabel Verdú Rollán, better known as Maribel Verdú, is a Spanish actress. She is the recipient of numerous accolades throughout her career spanning nearly four decades, including two Goya Awards for Best Actress,…
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1970
American singer-songwriter
Tiffany Renee Darwish, known mononymously as Tiffany, is an American pop singer. Her 1987 cover of the Tommy James and the Shondells song "I Think We're Alone Now" spent two weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100…
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1971
1971
American comic book artist, writer, animator and creator of The Loud House
Christopher Mason Savino is an American comic book artist and former animator, best known for creating the animated series The Loud House for Nickelodeon. Prior, Savino worked as a storyboard artist or writer on…
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1971
American basketball player
Aaron Fitzgerald McKie is an American basketball coach and former professional basketball player who played 14 seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA). He is currently the special advisor for athletics at…
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1972
American journalist, author, and educator
Melissa Victoria Harris-Perry, formerly known as Melissa Victoria Harris-Lacewell, is an American writer, professor, television host, and political commentator with a focus on African-American politics. Harris-Perry…
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1973
Norwegian singer, songwriter, and musician
Lene Grawford Nystrøm is a Norwegian musician, singer-songwriter and actress who is the female lead vocalist of the Danish-Norwegian Eurodance group Aqua.
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1973
American actor
Efren Antonio Ramírez is an American actor. He is best known for playing Pedro Sánchez in the 2004 indie film Napoleon Dynamite. He later reprised his role in the 2012 animated series of the same name.
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1973
American baseball player
Scott David Schoeneweis is an American former professional baseball left-handed relief pitcher. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) from 1999 to 2010 for the Anaheim Angels, Chicago White Sox, Toronto Blue Jays,…
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1973
Danish architect
Bjarke Bundgaard Ingels is a Danish architect, founder and creative partner of Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG).
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1974
Canadian singer-songwriter and musician
Sam Roberts is a Canadian rock singer-songwriter who has released seven
albums. His debut EP The Inhuman Condition, reached the Canadian charts in 2002. He and his bandmates have released three albums as Sam Roberts…
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1974
American motorcycle designer, co-founded Orange County Choppers
Paul Michael Teutul is one of the stars of the American reality television series American Chopper, also starring his father. Paul was the chief designer and fabricator. Prior to this, he was head of the rail shop at…
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1974
English cricketer
Mark James Chilton is an English first-class cricketer. Chilton was educated at Manchester Grammar School and Durham University where he won the British Universities tournament in 1997. The same year he made his debut…
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1976
1977
Japanese singer, songwriter, actress
Ayumi Hamasaki is a Japanese singer-songwriter and producer. Nicknamed the "Empress of Pop" on account of her influence throughout Asia, she is widely recognized for her versatile music production, songwriting, and…
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1978
Australian footballer
Luke Wilkshire is an Australian football coach and a former player who is currently head coach of Australian Championship side Wollongong Wolves.
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1981
American basketball player
Tyson Cleotis Chandler is an American former professional basketball player and coach. A 7'0" center, Chandler played for seven teams in an NBA career that spanned from 2001 to 2020.
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1982
Turkish volleyball player
Esra Gümüş Kirici is a former Turkish volleyball player. She is 181 cm and plays as an outside hitter. She is a former team captain of the Turkey women's national volleyball team. She started her career with VakıfBank…
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1982
French tennis player
Marion Bartoli is a French former professional tennis player. Bartoli won the 2013 Wimbledon Championships singles title, after previously being runner-up in 2007, and was a semifinalist at the 2011 French Open. She…
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1984
Turkish footballer
Çağlar Birinci is a Turkish former footballer who played as a central defender.
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1985
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1986
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1987
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1987
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1988
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1989
Canadian ice hockey player
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1989
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1989
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1989
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1990
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1991
Brazilian footballer
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1992
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1992
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1993
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American social media personality and singer
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2002
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