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With them he played in the final of the 2011 World Cup losing to New Zealand and won two Grand Slams in 2004 and 2010
Famous Birthdays on September 19
192 people
86 – 1999
September 19 has seen 192 notable people enter the world across recorded history — from 86 – 1999. Below are the most significant names born on this date.
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1980 — Dimitri Yachvili
French rugby player
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In club rugby, he won a European Cup in 2012 and played in two European Cup finals in 2006 and 2010 with Biarritz
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With this club, he also won two French championship titles in 2005 and 2006
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He played for France from 2002 to 2012, earning 61 caps and scoring 373 points
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With his previous club, Gloucester, he was champion of England in 2002
Roman emperor (died 161)
AD 86 (LXXXVI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Augustus and Petronianus. The denomination AD 86 for this year has been used since…
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86
Byzantine emperor (died 912)
Leo VI, also known as Leo the Wise, was Byzantine Emperor from 886 to 912. The second ruler of the Macedonian dynasty, he was very well read, leading to his epithet. During his reign, the renaissance of letters, begun…
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1377
Duchess of Orléans, French noble (died 1487)
Marie of Cleves was the third wife of Charles I, Duke of Orléans. She was born a German princess, the last child of Adolph I, Duke of Cleves and his second wife, Mary of Burgundy.
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1426
Ferrarese nobleman and condottiero (died 1540)
Ferrante d'Este was a Ferrarese nobleman and condottiero. He was the son of Ercole I d'Este and Eleonora d'Aragona - he was named after his mother's father Ferdinand I of Naples. His five siblings were Alfonso I d'Este,…
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1477
Henry III of France was King of France from 1574 until his assassination in 1589 and, as Henry of Valois, King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania from 1573 to 1575. Before he came to these thrones, he was known as…
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1551
English naval explorer, led the third expedition to circumnavigate the globe (died 1592)
Sir Thomas Cavendish was an English explorer and privateer known as "The Navigator" because he was the first to deliberately attempt to emulate Sir Francis Drake, raiding Spanish towns and ships in the Pacific and then…
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1560
Roman Catholic cardinal and archbishop (died 1679)
Alfonso Michele Litta was an Italian nobleman who was a Cardinal and Archbishop of Milan from 1652 to 1679.
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1608
English minister (died 1720)
Isaac Milles or Mills was an English cleric, often described as the model parish priest of that day.
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1638
French priest and man of letters (died 1743)
The Abbé Jean-Paul Bignon, Cong.Orat. was a French ecclesiastic, statesman, writer and preacher and librarian to King Louis XIV. His protégé, Joseph Pitton de Tournefort, named the genus Bignonia after him in 1694.
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1662
Scottish historian (died 1793)
William Robertson was a Scottish historian, cleric, and educator who served as Principal of the University of Edinburgh, Chaplain of Stirling Castle, and one of the King's Chaplains in Scotland.
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1721
French mathematician and astronomer (died 1822)
Jean Baptiste Joseph, chevalier Delambre was a French mathematician, astronomer, historian of astronomy, and geodesist. He was also director of the Paris Observatory, and author of well-known books on the history of…
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1749
American lieutenant, lawyer, and judge (died 1821)
John Ross Key was a lawyer, a commissioned officer in the Continental Army, a judge, and the father of writer Francis Scott Key.
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1754
English priest and entomologist (died 1850)
William Kirby was an English entomologist, an original member of the Linnean Society and a Fellow of the Royal Society, as well as a country rector, so that he was an eminent example of the "parson-naturalist". The…
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1759
1st Baron Brougham and Vaux, Scottish lawyer and politician, Lord Chancellor of Great Britain (died 1868)
Henry Peter Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux, was a British statesman who became Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain and played a prominent role in passing the Reform Act 1832 and Slavery Abolition Act 1833.
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1778
English poet and author (died 1849)
Hartley Coleridge, possibly David Hartley Coleridge, was an English poet, biographer, essayist, and teacher. He was the eldest son of the poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge. His sister Sara Coleridge was a poet and…
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1796
Hungarian journalist, lawyer, and politician, Governor-President of Hungary (died 1894)
Lajos Kossuth de Udvard et Kossuthfalva was a Hungarian nobleman, lawyer, journalist, politician, statesman, revolutionist and governor-president of the Hungarian State during the war of independence of 1848–1849.
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1802
Maria Anna of Savoy was Empress of Austria and Queen of Hungary by marriage to Emperor Ferdinand I of Austria. Born into the House of Savoy, she was the penultimate child and daughter of King Victor Emmanuel I of…
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1803
American mathematician and religious leader (died 1881)
Orson Pratt Sr. was an American religious leader and mathematician who was an original member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of the Church of Christ. After the succession crisis Pratt continued in the Quorum of…
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1811
American engineer, inventor, and businessperson (died 1905)
William Sellers was a mechanical engineer, manufacturer, businessman, noted abolitionist, and inventor who filed more than 90 patents, most notably the design for the United States standard screw thread, the standard…
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1824
Swiss judge and politician, President of the Swiss National Council (died 1880)
Fridolin Anderwert was a Swiss politician.
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1828
Australian politician, 16th Premier of Queensland (died 1916)
Sir Arthur Morgan was an Australian politician who was Premier of Queensland from 1903 to 1906.
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1856
American-German photographer (died 1936)
Frank Eugene was an American-born photographer who was a founding member of the Photo-Secession and one of the first university-level professors of photography in the world.
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1865
English illustrator (died 1939)
Arthur Rackham was an English book illustrator. He is recognised as one of the leading figures during the Golden Age of British book illustration. His work is noted for its robust pen and ink drawings, which were…
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1867
American comedian and actor (died 1940)
Bernard "Ben" Turpin was an American comedian and actor, best remembered for his work in silent films. His trademarks were his cross-eyed appearance and adeptness at vigorous physical comedy. A sometime vaudeville…
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1869
Swiss-American painter (died 1938)
Frederick Ruple was a 20th-century Swiss-American painter, primarily of portraits. He was commissioned to paint Confederate Civil War battle scenes and murals. At times Ruple lived in Arkansas and Oklahoma where he…
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1871
English radio host (died 1965)
Christopher Reynolds Stone was a British radio broadcaster who in 1927 became the first disc jockey in the United Kingdom. He was co-founder of the music magazine The Gramophone. In addition to his reviews and articles…
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1882
American educator and activist (died 1975)
Mabel Vernon was an American suffragist, pacifist, and a national leader in the United States suffrage movement. She was a Quaker and a member of the National American Woman Suffrage Association. Vernon was inspired by…
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1883
American pianist, composer, and bandleader (died 1972)
Cora "Lovie" Austin was an American Chicago bandleader, session musician, composer, singer, and arranger during the 1920s classic blues era. She and Lil Hardin Armstrong are often ranked as two of the best female jazz…
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1887
American actor and singer (died 1943)
Lynne Overman was an American actor. In films he often played a sidekick.
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1887
American mathematician and topologist (died 1971)
James Waddell Alexander II was a mathematician of the pre-World War II era. He was part of an influential school of topology at Princeton University, along with Oswald Veblen, Solomon Lefschetz, and others. He was a…
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1888
American actor (died 1953)
Clifford Porter Hall was an American character actor known for appearing in a number of films in the 1930s and 1940s. Hall typically played villains or comedic incompetent characters.
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1888
American physician and author (died 1999)
Sarah Louise "Sadie" Delany was an American educator and civil rights pioneer. She was the subject, along with her younger sister Bessie, of the oral history biography, Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100…
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1889
American author and poet (died 1942)
Rachel Lyman Field was an American novelist, poet, and children's fiction writer. She is best known for her work Hitty, Her First Hundred Years. Field also won a National Book Award, a Newbery Honor award and two of her…
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1894
Italian lawyer and politician, 5th President of Italy (died 1988)
Giuseppe Saragat was an Italian politician and statesman who served as President of Italy from 1964 to 1971.
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1898
American actor (died 1977)
Ricardo Cortez was an American actor and film director. He was also credited as Jack Crane early in his acting career.
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1900
German World War II resistance fighter (died 1944)
Judith Auer was a Swiss resistance fighter against the Nazi régime in Germany.
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1905
French historian, author, and critic (died 2001)
Paul Bénichou was a French/Algerian writer, intellectual, critic, and literary historian.
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1908
French lawyer, judge, and politician, Lord Chancellor of France (died 2004)
Robert Lecourt was a French politician and lawyer, judge and the fourth President of the European Court of Justice.
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1908
Japanese martial artist, founded Isshin-ryū (died 1975)
Tatsuo Shimabuku was an Okinawan, Japanese martial artist. He is the founder of Isshin-ryū style of karate.
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1908
American actress (died 1981)
Margaret Lindsay was an American film actress. Her time as a Warner Bros. contract player during the 1930s was particularly productive. She was noted for her supporting work in successful films of the 1930s and 1940s…
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1910
Filipino diplomat and politician (died 2004)
Arturo "Ka Turing" Modesto Tolentino was a Filipino politician, lawyer, and diplomat who served as the Senate president and the Secretary of Foreign Affairs. He was the vice-presidential running mate of Ferdinand Marcos…
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1910
Indian veterinarian and zoo founder (died 1989)
Reuben David was a zoologist and the founder of the Kankaria Zoo in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India.
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1912
1912
American actress (died 1970)
Frances Elena Farmer was an American actress. She appeared in over a dozen feature films and three significant Broadway plays over the course of her career. Farmer gained greater notoriety posthumously for having had a…
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1913
American singer (died 1998)
Helen Ward was an American jazz singer. She appeared on radio broadcasts with WOR and WNYC and worked as a staff musician at WNYC. She was most known for her hit cover of the Johnny Mercer song "Goody-Goody"
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1913
Mexican actor, singer, and producer (died 1973)
Germán Genaro Cipriano Teodoro Gómez Valdés y Castillo, known as Tin-Tan, was a Mexican actor, comedian and singer who was born in Mexico City, but was raised and began his career in Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua. He often…
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1915
Santa Clara Pueblo (Native American) painter (died 2006)
Pablita Velarde born Tse Tsan was an American Pueblo artist and painter.
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1918
French journalist and author (died 2017)
Roger Grenier was a French writer, journalist and radio animator. He was Regent of the Collège de ’Pataphysique.
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1919
Mexican choreographer and dancer (died 2000)
Amalia Hernández Navarro was a Mexican ballet choreographer and founder of the Ballet Folklórico de México.
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1919
U.S. Navy and Coast Guard veteran; last active U.S. servicemember to serve in World War II (died 2012)
Earl Russell H. Fox was an American Coast Guard and Navy veteran and doctor who is best known for, upon his retirement in November 1999, being the last active American service member who served during the Second World…
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1919
American journalist, author, and editor (died 2022)
Roger Angell was an American essayist known for his writing on sports, especially baseball. He was a regular contributor to The New Yorker and was its chief fiction editor for many years. He wrote numerous works of…
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1920
Brazilian philosopher, theorist, and academic (died 1997)
Paulo Reglus Neves Freire was a Brazilian educator and Marxist philosopher whose work revolutionized global thought on education. He is best known for Pedagogy of the Oppressed, in which he reimagines teaching as a…
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1921
American R&B singer-songwriter (died 2002)
Billy Ward and his Dominoes were an American R&B vocal group. One of the most successful R&B groups of the early 1950s, the Dominoes helped launch the singing careers of two notable members, Clyde McPhatter and Jackie…
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1921
American author and critic (died 2002)
Damon Francis Knight was an American science fiction author, editor, and critic. He wrote "To Serve Man", a 1950 short story adapted for The Twilight Zone. He was married to fellow writer Kate Wilhelm in 1963.
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1922
American boxer and referee (died 2006)
Guglielmo Papaleo, better known as Willie Pep, was an American professional boxer who held the World Featherweight Championship twice between the years of 1942 and 1950. Known for his speed, finesse, and elusiveness,…
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1922
Czech runner (died 2000)
Emil Zátopek was a Czech long-distance runner who won three gold medals at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki. He came first in the 5,000 metres and 10,000 metres runs before he decided at the last minute to compete…
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1922
American baseball player, coach, and manager (died 2014)
Vernon Adair Benson was an American infielder/outfielder, coach, scout and interim manager in Major League Baseball. During his playing career, he stood 5 ft 11 in (180 cm) tall, weighed 180 pounds (82 kg), batted…
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1924
Canadian actor and screenwriter (died 2015)
Donald Hugh Harron, was a Canadian comedian, actor, director, journalist, author, playwright, and composer. Harron is best remembered by American audiences as a member of the cast of the long-running country music…
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1924
American lawyer and academic (died 2013)
William Reece Smith Jr. was an American lawyer. Smith served as the interim president of the University of South Florida, and the president of the American Bar Association. He was born in 1925 in Athens, Tennessee.
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1925
Moldovan animated film director (died 2020)
Victoria Ivanovna Barbă was a Moldovan animated film director, focused on movies for children. Having been born in modern Russia, she studied in Saint Petersburg and then in Chișinău, today in Moldova. She had a…
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1926
Japanese physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2020)
Masatoshi Koshiba was a Japanese physicist and one of the founders of neutrino astronomy. His work with the neutrino detectors Kamiokande and Super-Kamiokande was instrumental in detecting solar neutrinos, providing…
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1926
American actor, producer, and screenwriter (died 2020)
Louis James Lipton was an American writer, actor, talk show host, and dean emeritus of the Actors Studio Drama School at Pace University in New York City. He was the executive producer, writer, and host of the Bravo…
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1926
American baseball player and sportscaster (died 2011)
Edwin Donald "Duke" Snider, nicknamed "the Duke of Flatbush", was an American professional baseball player. Primarily a center fielder, he spent most of his Major League Baseball (MLB) career playing for the Brooklyn /…
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1926
American singer (died 1998)
Helen Myrl Carter Jones was an American country music singer. The eldest daughter of Maybelle Carter, she performed with her mother and her younger sisters, June Carter and Anita Carter, as a member of The Carter…
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1927
American actor (died 1997)
William Edward Hickey was an American actor. He is best known for his Academy Award-nominated role as Don Corrado Prizzi in the John Huston film Prizzi's Honor (1985), as well as Uncle Lewis in National Lampoon's…
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1927
American singer and bass player (died 2000)
Nicholas E. Macioci was an American bass singer, songwriter, and bass guitarist. He is best known for his work as the bassist and bass vocalist for The Four Seasons, for whom he performed under the stage name Nick Massi.
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1927
American educator and politician (died 2014)
Margaret "Marge" Ellen Roukema was an American Republican Party politician who represented New Jersey in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1981 to 2003.
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1929
American pianist, composer, and educator (died 2017)
Muhal Richard Abrams was an American educator, administrator, composer, arranger, clarinetist, cellist, and jazz pianist in the free jazz medium. He recorded and toured the United States, Canada and Europe with his…
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1930
American photographer and journalist (died 2012)
Bettye Lane was an American photojournalist known for documenting major events within the feminist movement, the civil rights movement, and the gay rights movement in the United States. She joined CBS television in…
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1930
Italian director, producer, and screenwriter (died 2002)
Antonio Margheriti, also known under the pseudonyms Anthony M. Dawson and Antony Daisies, was an Italian filmmaker. Margheriti worked in many different genres in the Italian film industry, and was known for his…
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1930
American pop/R&B/rock & roll singer-songwriter (died 1988)
Benjamin Franklin Peay, known professionally as Brook Benton, was an American singer and songwriter whose music spanned rock and roll, rhythm and blues, and pop music genres in the 1950s and 1960s, with hits such as…
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1931
English engineer (died 2011)
Derek Gardner was a car designer known for designing advanced transmission systems. He was born in Warwick, and joined Formula One while employed by Harry Ferguson Research, developing four-wheel drive systems for Matra…
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1931
American journalist and author (died 1997)
Michael Royko Jr. was an American newspaper columnist from Chicago, Illinois. Over his 42-year career, he wrote more than 7,500 daily columns for the Chicago Daily News, the Chicago Sun-Times, and the Chicago Tribune. A…
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1932
German journalist and author (died 2014)
Stefanie Zweig was a German Jewish writer and journalist. She is best known for her autobiographical novel, Nirgendwo in Afrika (1995), which was a bestseller in Germany. The novel is based on her early life in Kenya,…
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1932
Canadian journalist and author
Gilles Archambault is a francophone novelist from Quebec, Canada.
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1933
English businessman, The Beatles manager (died 1967)
Brian Samuel Epstein was an English music entrepreneur who managed the Beatles from 1961 until his death in 1967.
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1934
English journalist, academic and politician (died 2021)
Austin Vernon Mitchell was a British academic, journalist and Labour Party politician who was the member of Parliament (MP) for Great Grimsby from a 1977 by-election to 2015. He was also the chair of the Labour…
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1934
American admiral (died 2003)
Rear Admiral Benjamin Thurman Hacker (1935–2003) was a U.S. Naval officer, who became the first Naval Flight Officer (NFO) to achieve Flag rank.
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1935
Irish fiddler (died 2012)
Martin Joseph Fay was an Irish fiddler and bones player, and a former member of The Chieftains.
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1936
Canadian ice hockey player (died 2014)
Milan Marcetta was a Canadian professional ice hockey player who played 54 games in the National Hockey League with the Toronto Maple Leafs and Minnesota North Stars between 1967 and 1969. The rest of his career, which…
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1936
1936
American football player (died 2024)
Abner Haynes was an American professional football player who was a halfback and return specialist in the American Football League (AFL). He played college football for the North Texas State Eagles and was selected by…
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1937
Hungarian-Australian director, producer, and screenwriter
Carl Schultz is a Hungarian-Australian film director.
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1939
English fashion designer, founded the Fashion and Textile Museum
Dame Zandra Lindsey Rhodes, is an English fashion and textile designer. Her early education in fashion set the foundation for a career in the industry creating textile prints. Rhodes has designed garments for Diana,…
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1940
Italian politician (died 2026)
Umberto Bossi was an Italian politician and leader of Lega Nord, a party seeking autonomy for Northern Italy or Padania.
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1941
1941
Italian actress (died 2013)
Mariangela Caterina Melato, sometimes billed as Maria Angela Melato, was an Italian actress. She is most remembered for her roles in films of director Lina Wertmüller, including The Seduction of Mimi (1972), Love and…
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1941
Canadian ice hockey player and coach (died 2019)
André Gerard Boudrias was a Canadian professional ice hockey centre who spent 12 seasons in the National Hockey League as well as two more years in the World Hockey Association between 1963 and 1978. He is best…
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1943
American baseball player (died 2020)
Joe Leonard Morgan was an American professional baseball second baseman who played 22 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Houston Colt .45s / Astros, Cincinnati Reds, San Francisco Giants, Philadelphia…
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1943
Swedish politician, 25th Swedish Minister of Defence
Anders Per-Arne Björck is a Swedish politician who was Minister for Defence from 1991 to 1994 and Governor of Uppsala County from 2003 to 2009.
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1944
Faroese politician, 9th Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands
Edmund Esbern Johannes Joensen is a Faroese politician, who was the Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands from 1994 to 1998. From 2015 to 2022 served as a member of the Danish Folketing, being one of two Faroese seats in…
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1944
1944
1945
American novelist and screenwriter (died 2013)
Alfred Henry Bromell was an American novelist, screenwriter, and director.
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1947
English author (died 2015)
Tanith Lee was a British science fiction and fantasy writer. She wrote more than 90 novels and 300 short stories, and was the winner of multiple World Fantasy Awards, the World Fantasy Lifetime Achievement Award and the…
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1947
1948
Ukrainian footballer and manager (died 2024)
Mykhaylo Ivanovych Fomenko was a Ukrainian football player and coach.
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1948
Mexican wrestler
Genaro Jacobo Contreras, better known by his ring name Ringo Mendoza, is a Mexican professional wrestling trainer and retired professional wrestler for Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL). Mendoza wrestled his last…
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1949
American lawyer, co-founded the Innocence Project
Barry Charles Scheck is an American attorney and legal scholar. He received national media attention while serving on O. J. Simpson's defense team, collectively dubbed the "Dream Team", helping to win an acquittal in…
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1949
American basketball player
Sidney Wicks is an American former professional basketball player in the National Basketball Association (NBA). A native of California, he played college basketball for the UCLA Bruins. Wicks was selected by the…
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1949
English physicist, mathematician, and academic
Michael Richard Edward Proctor is a British physicist, mathematician, and academic. He is Professor of Astrophysical Fluid Dynamics at the University of Cambridge and, until 2023, served as the Provost of King's…
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1950
Canadian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
Daniel Roland Lanois is a Canadian record producer and musician.
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1951
American trumpet player, guitarist, and composer
Rhys Chatham is an American composer, guitarist, trumpet player, and multi-instrumentalist, primarily active in avant-garde and minimalist music. He is best known for his "guitar orchestra" compositions. He has lived in…
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1952
American guitarist and composer
Henry Kaiser is an American guitarist and composer, known as an idiosyncratic soloist, a sideman, an ethnomusicologist, and a film score composer. Recording and performing prolifically in many styles of music, Kaiser is…
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1952
American businessman (died 2007)
George David Warrington was an American transportation official, who served New Jersey Transit for 28 years, latterly in the post of executive director.
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1952
Australian cricketer
Wayne Maxwell Clark is a former Australian cricketer who played in 10 Test matches and two One Day Internationals from 1977 to 1979.
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1953
American singer-songwriter and violinist
Sarana VerLin is an American violinist, singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. She was the vocalist/violinist of the bands Natasha and Dark Carnival, and violinist for numerous bands.
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1953
Welsh psychotherapist and author
Adam Phillips is a British psychoanalytic psychotherapist and essayist.
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1954
Greek singer-songwriter
Eleni Vitali is a Greek Romani popular singer and composer, active from the early 1970s.
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1954
American composer and engineer (died 2006)
Richard Steven Burmer was an American composer, engineer, sound designer, musician and ethnomusicologist. His work with electronic music combined with musical styles and instruments from around the world formed his own…
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1955
American football player
Daniel Oliver Hampton is an American former professional football player who was a defensive tackle for twelve seasons with the Chicago Bears from 1979 to 1990 in the National Football League (NFL). He was elected to…
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1957
American basketball player
Chris Roupas is an American former professional basketball player. A 6 ft 5 in, 220 pound shooting guard, he played for Aiolos in Athens, Greece during the 1982–83 season.
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1957
French aerodynamicist and engineer
Loïc Bigois is a French Formula One aerodynamicist. He is currently the Head of Aerodynamic Operations at Scuderia Ferrari.
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1960
American convicted murderer
Yolanda Saldívar is an American former nurse who murdered singer Selena in Corpus Christi, Texas, on March 31, 1995. Saldívar had been the president of Selena's fan club and the manager of her boutiques, but she lost…
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1960
Polish-British physicist and academic
Artur Konrad Ekert is a professor of quantum physics at the Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford, professorial fellow in quantum physics and cryptography at Merton College, Oxford, Lee Kong Chian Centennial…
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1961
American baseball player
Randall Kirk Myers is an American former professional baseball pitcher who played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the New York Mets, Cincinnati Reds, San Diego Padres, Chicago Cubs, Baltimore Orioles, and Toronto…
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1962
American sportscaster
Ken Rosenthal is an American sportswriter and reporter. He has served as a field reporter for Fox Major League Baseball since 2005, and was an in-studio reporter for MLB Network from 2009 to 2022. Since August 2017, he…
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1962
English singer-songwriter and guitarist
Jarvis Branson Cocker is an English singer and musician. As the founder, frontman, lyricist and only consistent member of the band Pulp, he became a reluctant figurehead of the Britpop genre of the mid-1990s. Cocker has…
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1963
English footballer
David Andrew Seaman is an English former footballer who played as a goalkeeper. In a career lasting from 1981 to 2004, he is best known for his time playing for Arsenal. He won 75 caps for England, and is the country's…
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1963
Estonian biologist and photographer
Urmas Tartes is an Estonian biologist and nature photographer.
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1963
English actor, director, and screenwriter
Patrick Albert Crispin Marber is an English comedian, playwright, director, actor, and screenwriter. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2002.
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1964
Australian rugby player and coach
Andrew Leeds is an Australian former rugby union and professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1980s and 1990s. He played for the Western Suburbs Magpies, Parramatta Eels, Penrith Panthers and Wakefield…
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1965
Japanese wrestler and mixed martial artist
Yoshihiro Takayama is a Japanese former professional wrestler and mixed martial artist. Debuting for UWF International (UWFI) in the 1990s, Takayama joined All Japan Pro Wrestling (AJPW) in 1997 after UWF-i folded. In…
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1966
American baseball player
James Anthony Abbott is an American former professional baseball pitcher. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the California Angels, New York Yankees, Chicago White Sox, and Milwaukee Brewers from 1989 to 1999.…
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1967
Russian wrestler and politician
Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Karelin is a Russian politician and retired athlete.
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1967
Dutch saxophonist
Candy Dulfer is a Dutch jazz and pop saxophonist. She is the daughter of jazz saxophonist Hans Dulfer. She began playing at age six and founded her band Funky Stuff when she was fourteen. Her breakthrough came with her…
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1969
Polish footballer
Jacek Frąckiewicz is a Polish former professional footballer who played as a striker.
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1969
Cypriot singer-songwriter and guitarist
Alkinoos Ioannidis is a Greek Cypriot composer, lyricist, singer, and orchestrator.
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1969
Russian-Australian boxer
Konstantin Borisovich "Kostya" Tszyu is a Russian-Australian former professional boxer who competed from 1992 to 2005. He held multiple world championships in the light-welterweight division, including the undisputed…
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1969
Finnish singer-songwriter
Tapio Wilska is the main vocalist of the heavy metal band Sethian. He is also the ex-lead vocalist for the band Finntroll and is the current vocalist of Canadian band Obscene Eulogy. He gets his inspiration from bands…
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1969
Canadian ice hockey player
Gilbert Dionne is a Canadian former professional ice hockey left winger who played six seasons in the National Hockey League from 1990–91 until 1995–96. He is the younger brother of Hockey Hall of Famer Marcel Dionne,…
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1970
German footballer and manager
Antoine Hey is a German football coach and former professional player.
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1970
1971
Australian rugby league player
Ryan Girdler is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1990s and 2000s. A New South Wales State of Origin and Australia international representative goal-kicking centre, he played…
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1972
Armenian chess player and coach
Ashot Nadanian is an Armenian chess International Master (1997), chess theoretician and chess coach.
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1972
Australian politician, 49th Premier of Victoria
Jacinta Marie Allan is an Australian politician who has served as the 49th premier of Victoria and the leader of the Victorian Labor Party since 2023. She has been the member of the Legislative Assembly (MP) for the…
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1973
Irish footballer and coach
Nicholas Vincent Colgan is an Irish football coach and former professional footballer who is goalkeeping coach at EFL League One side Stockport County.
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1973
Brazilian racing driver
Cristiano Monteiro da Matta is a Brazilian former professional racing driver. He won the CART Championship in 2002, and drove in Formula One with the Toyota team from 2003 to 2004.
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1973
Mexican politician
Javier Duarte de Ochoa is a Mexican politician and kleptocrat, formerly affiliated with the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), who served as Governor of Veracruz from 2010 to 2016. He also served as congressman…
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1973
Mexican actor, model and singer
David Zepeda is a Mexican actor, model and singer. He is best known for his roles in soap operas such as Acorralada, Abismo de pasión and Por amar sin ley. In 2019, Zepeda made his Telemundo debut in the soap opera La…
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1973
Japanese video game designer and executive
Hidetaka Miyazaki is a Japanese video game director, designer, writer, and president of the game developer FromSoftware. He joined the company in 2004 and was a designer for the Armored Core series before receiving…
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1974
American director and screenwriter
Marcus Dunstan is an American screenwriter and director who, along with frequent collaborator Patrick Melton, wrote screenplay for the film Feast, which was the winner of Season Three of the filmmaking competition…
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1975
1976
Czech ice hockey player
Jan Hlaváč is a Czech former professional ice hockey player who last played for HC Stadion Vrchlabí in CZE.3.
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1976
Belarusian footballer and referee
Sergey Tsinkevich is a Belarusian professional football referee and former player. He has officiated matches of the Belarusian Premier League since 2008.
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1976
Hong Kong footballer and coach
Poon Yiu Cheuk is a Hong Kong football manager and former professional footballer who played as a left-back.
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1977
Indian cricketer
Aakash Chopra is a cricket commentator, YouTuber and former cricketer who briefly played for the Indian cricket team from late 2003 to late 2004.
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1977
American musician and record producer
Maroon 5 is an American pop rock band formed in Los Angeles, California. It consists of lead vocalist and guitarist Adam Levine, rhythm guitarist and keyboardist Jesse Carmichael, lead guitarist James Valentine, drummer…
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1977
Italian footballer
Tommaso Rocchi is an Italian former professional footballer who played as striker. He spent a large part of his career with Lazio and is the club's sixth highest goalscorer of all time, three behind Bruno Giordano. At…
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1977
American baseball player
Michael Anthony Smith is an American former professional baseball pitcher who played for the Toronto Blue Jays and Minnesota Twins of Major League Baseball (MLB), and the Brother Elephants of the Chinese Professional…
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1977
Israeli chess player
Emil Davidovich Sutovsky is an Israeli chess player. He was awarded the title Grandmaster by FIDE in 1996. Sutovsky has been the FIDE CEO since 2022. Previously, he served as FIDE Director-General (2018-22). He was the…
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1977
American baseball player
Nicholas Robert Johnson is an American former professional baseball first baseman and designated hitter. During his career Johnson played for the New York Yankees, Montreal Expos/Washington Nationals (2004–2009),…
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1978
American football player
Brett Keisel is an American former professional football player who was a defensive end for 13 seasons with the Pittsburgh Steelers of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the BYU Cougars.…
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1978
Spanish footballer
Jorge López Montaña is a Spanish former professional footballer who played as a right midfielder.
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1978
Swedish ice hockey player
Mikael Karl Tellqvist is a Swedish former professional ice hockey goaltender who last played for Djurgårdens IF of the Swedish Hockey League, his second tenure with the club.
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1979
American-Bosnian basketball player
Ernest Lenell "J. R." Bremer is an American former professional basketball player who last played for Limoges CSP of the LNB Pro A. Bremer has also played in the NBA and was an NBA All-Rookie second team member.…
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1980
English motorcycle racer
James Desmond Ellison is an English motorcycle racer. After two seasons on a Yamaha R1, Ellison expected to retire at the end of 2018, but in 2019 again competed in the British Superbike Championship series aboard a BMW…
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1980
Italian cyclist
Damiano Cunego is an Italian former professional road racing cyclist, who rode professionally between 2002 and 2018 for the Saeco, Lampre–Merida and Nippo–Vini Fantini–Europa Ovini teams.
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1981
Portuguese footballer
Eduardo dos Reis Carvalho, known simply as Eduardo, is a Portuguese former footballer who played as a goalkeeper.
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1982
Greek tennis player
Eleni Daniilidou is a Greek former tennis player from the island of Crete.
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1982
Austrian politician
Katharina Kucharowits is an Austrian politician and member of the National Council. A member of the Social Democratic Party, she has represented Lower Austria East since October 2019. She was a Federal List member of…
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1983
American basketball player
Carl Christopher Landry is an American former professional basketball player. The 6-foot-9-inch (2.06 m), all-conference power forward played college basketball for the Purdue Boilermakers from 2004 to 2007. He is the…
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1983
Finnish ice hockey player
Joni Pitkänen is a Finnish former professional ice hockey defenceman who played in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the Philadelphia Flyers, Edmonton Oilers, and Carolina Hurricanes.
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1983
1984
Mexican footballer
Ángel Eduardo Reyna Martínez is a Mexican former professional footballer who played as an attacking midfielder.
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1984
Welsh rugby player
Alun Wyn Jones is a Welsh former rugby union player who played as a lock. He played most of his career for the Ospreys and for the Wales national team. He is the world's most-capped rugby union player, with 158 caps for…
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1985
South Korean actor
Song Joong-ki is a South Korean actor who primarily works in television. He rose to fame in the historical coming-of-age drama Sungkyunkwan Scandal (2010) and the variety show Running Man (2010–2011). Since then, he has…
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1985
German politician
Nathanael Liminski is a German politician from the Christian Democratic Union (CDU). Since 30 June 2017, he has been Head of the State Chancellery of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) and since June 29, 2022 Minister for…
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1985
Canadian-American television personality
Renee Jane Paquette is a Canadian and American television personality. She is signed to All Elite Wrestling (AEW) as a backstage interviewer and pre-show panelist. She was previously known for her time in WWE between…
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1985
1986
Australian athlete and hurdler
Sally Pearson, OAM is a retired Australian athlete who competed in the 100 metre hurdles. She is the 2011 and 2017 World champion and 2012 Olympic champion in the 100 metres hurdles. She also won a silver medal in the…
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1986
Colombian footballer
Carlos Darwin Quintero Villalba is a Colombian professional footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder for Categoría Primera A club Millonarios. Quintero is also known by his nickname of El Científico del Gol. He…
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1987
1990
Greek footballer
Savvas Gentsoglou is a Greek former professional footballer who played as a defensive midfielder.
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1990
American football player
Stephon Stiles Gilmore is an American former professional football cornerback who played in the National Football League (NFL) for 13 seasons. He played college football for the South Carolina Gamecocks, receiving…
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1990
English footballer
Kieran John Trippier is an English professional footballer who plays as a right-back for Premier League club Newcastle United.
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1990
American basketball player
Christian James McCollum is an American professional basketball player for the Atlanta Hawks of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played college basketball for the Lehigh Mountain Hawks and was named the…
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1991
Japanese wrestler
Sōjirō Higuchi , best known as Jiro "Ikemen" Kuroshio and currently performing as Kuroshio Tokyo Japan , is a Japanese professional wrestler and Internet personality.
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1992
American entrepreneur
Palmer Freeman Luckey is an American entrepreneur best known as the founder of Oculus VR and designer of the Oculus Rift, a virtual reality headset that is widely credited with reviving the virtual reality industry.
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1992
Mexican footballer
Diego Antonio Reyes Rosales is a Mexican professional footballer who plays as a centre-back for Liga MX club Querétaro. He is an Olympic gold medalist.
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1992
American record producer and rapper
Jordan Timothy Jenks, known professionally as Pi'erre Bourne, is an American record producer, rapper, singer, songwriter, and audio engineer. He is known for producing the 2017 singles "Magnolia" for Playboi Carti and…
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1993
American singer
Christopher Brent Wood, known professionally as Brent Faiyaz, is an American singer, songwriter, rapper, and record producer. Faiyaz rose to prominence with his guest performance alongside Shy Glizzy on GoldLink's 2016…
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1995
American actress
Rachel Anne Sennott is an American actress, screenwriter and comedian. After training at the New York University Tisch School of the Arts and the Stella Adler Studio of Acting, she began her career on the New York City…
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1995
Canadian-American basketball player
Brandon Clarke is a Canadian-American professional basketball player for the Memphis Grizzlies of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played college basketball for the Gonzaga Bulldogs and San José State…
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1996
American basketball player
Dejounte Dashaun Murray is an American professional basketball player for the New Orleans Pelicans of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played one season of college basketball for the Washington Huskies,…
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1996
Gabonese basketball player
Chris Silva Obame Correia Silva is a Gabonese professional basketball player for Fenerbahçe of the Turkish Basketbol Süper Ligi (BSL) and the EuroLeague. He played college basketball for the South Carolina Gamecocks.
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1996
Canadian ice hockey player
Nolan James Patrick is a Canadian professional ice hockey player who is an unrestricted free agent. He was drafted second overall by the Philadelphia Flyers in the 2017 NHL entry draft and played four seasons with the…
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1998
American basketball player
Rayford Trae Young is an American professional basketball player for the Washington Wizards of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played college basketball for the Oklahoma Sooners, where in his one season in…
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1998
Nigerian basketball player
Precious Ezinna Achiuwa is a Nigerian professional basketball player for the Sacramento Kings of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He attended high school in the United States, where he was a consensus…
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1999
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Birth year1980
Known forHe played for France from 2002 to 2012, earning 61 caps and scoring 373 points
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