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Famous Birthdays on September 26
259 people
932 – 2003
September 26 has seen 259 notable people enter the world across recorded history — from 932 – 2003. Below are the most significant names born on this date.
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1973 — Marty Casey
American singer-songwriter and guitarist
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After years of building a strong local following in Chicago and the Midwest, Casey achieved international fame on the first season of the reality show Rock Star: INXS
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Marty was a fan favorite on Rock Star: INXS, receiving the most viewer votes, and topping the download charts with his performances of both covers and original material.
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Martin Xavier "Marty" Casey is an American rock musician who is the lead singer, primary songwriter and second guitarist of Lovehammers
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Casey made it to the final two of the competition, finishing as the runner-up to winner J.D
Arab caliph (died 975)
Abu Tamim Ma'ad al-Mu'izz li-Din Allah was the fourth Fatimid caliph and the 14th Ismaili imam, reigning from 953 to 975. It was during his caliphate that the center of power of the Fatimid dynasty was moved from…
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932
German queen consort (died 1353)
Anne of Bavaria was Queen of Bohemia by marriage to Charles of Luxembourg. She was the daughter of Rudolf II, Count Palatine of the Rhine, and Anna, daughter of Otto III of Carinthia.
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1329
8th Baron de Ros, English soldier and politician (died 1430)
Thomas Ros or Roos, 8th Baron Ros of Helmsley was an English peer.
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1406
1462
1526
French painter (died 1714)
Sébastien Leclerc or Le Clerc was an artist from the French province of the Three Bishoprics. He specialized in subtle reproductive drawings, etchings, and engravings of paintings; and worked mostly in Paris, where he…
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1637
English plant anatomist and physiologist (died 1712)
Nehemiah Grew was an English plant anatomist and physiologist, known as the "Father of Plant Anatomy".
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1641
founder of Germantown, Philadelphia (died 1720)
Francis Daniel Pastorius was a German-born educator, lawyer, poet, and public official. He was the founder of Germantown, Pennsylvania, now part of Philadelphia, the first permanent German-American settlement and the…
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1651
Duke of Liegnitz (died 1675)
George William, also known as George IV William was the last Silesian duke of Legnica (Liegnitz) and Brzeg (Brieg) from 1672 until his death. He was the last male member of the Silesian Piast dynasty descending from…
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1660
3rd Duke of Devonshire (died 1755)
William Cavendish, 3rd Duke of Devonshire, was a British Whig politician who sat in the House of Commons of Great Britain from 1721 to 1729.
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1698
2nd Earl Temple, English politician, First Lord of the Admiralty (died 1779)
Richard Grenville-Temple, 2nd Earl Temple, KG, PC was a British politician and peer who served as Lord Privy Seal from 1757 to 1761. He is best known for his association with his brother-in-law William Pitt, serving…
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1711
1st Baron Collingwood, English admiral (died 1810)
Vice-Admiral Cuthbert Collingwood, 1st Baron Collingwood, was a Royal Navy officer. Collingwood was born in Newcastle upon Tyne and later lived in Morpeth, Northumberland. He entered the Royal Navy at a young age,…
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1750
Argentinian physician (died 1820)
Cosme Mariano Argerich was a pioneer of military medical practices in Argentina.
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1758
Austrian composer and conductor (died 1835)
Wenzel Müller was an Austrian composer and conductor. He is regarded as the most prolific opera composer of all time with his 166 operas.
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1767
American gardener and environmentalist (died 1845)
John Chapman, better known as Johnny Appleseed, was an American pioneer nurseryman who introduced trees grown with apple seeds to large parts of Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, and the Canadian province of…
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1774
3rd Baron Braybrooke, English politician and literary figure (died 1858)
Richard Griffin, 3rd Baron Braybrooke, known as Richard Neville until 1797 and as the Hon. Richard Griffin between 1797 and 1825, was a British Whig politician and literary figure.
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1783
French painter and lithographer (died 1824)
Jean-Louis André Théodore Géricault was a French painter and lithographer. His best-known painting is The Raft of the Medusa. Despite his short life, he was one of the pioneers of the Romantic movement.
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1791
Irish-New Zealand explorer and politician, 1st Governor of New Zealand (died 1842)
Captain William Hobson was a Royal Navy officer and colonial administrator who served as the first governor of New Zealand from 1841 to 1842. He was a co-author of the Treaty of Waitangi which he, as Crown…
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1792
Indian philosopher, painter, and academic (died 1891)
Ishwar Chandra Bandyopadhyay, popularly known as Ishwar Chandra 'Vidyasagar', was an Indian educator and social reformer of the 19th century.
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1820
Canadian lawyer and politician, 8th Premier of Quebec (died 1923)
Sir Louis-Olivier Taillon was a Canadian lawyer and politician. He was the eighth premier of Quebec, serving two separate terms.
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1840
Australian author and poet (died 1912)
Joseph Furphy was an Australian author and poet. He mostly wrote under the pseudonym Tom Collins and is best known for his novel Such Is Life (1903), regarded as an Australian classic.
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1843
American art collector and philanthropist (died 1931)
Henry Walters was noted as an art collector and philanthropist, a founder of the Walters Art Gallery in Baltimore, Maryland, which he donated to the city in his 1931 will for the benefit of the public. From the late…
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1848
Russian physiologist and physician, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1936)
Ivan Petrovich Pavlov was a Russian and Soviet experimental neurologist and physiologist known for his discovery of classical conditioning through his experiments with dogs. Pavlov also conducted significant research on…
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1849
Norwegian opera singer and music teacher (died 1935)
Anna Paaske was a Norwegian opera singer and music teacher. She often performed in Wagner roles in concerts in Scandinavia and Northern Europe.
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1856
United States Army Officer (died 1912)
Archibald Willingham DeGraffenreid Clarendon Butt was an American Army officer and aide to presidents Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard Taft. After a few years as a newspaper reporter, he served two years as the…
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1865
Duchess of Bedford (died 1937)
Mary Du Caurroy Russell, Duchess of Bedford, was a British aviator and ornithologist. She was honoured for her work in founding hospitals and working in them during the First World War. She later financed and took part…
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1865
1869
Christian X was King of Denmark from 1912 until his death in 1947, and the only King of Iceland as Kristján X, holding the title as a result of the personal union between Denmark and independent Iceland between 1918 and…
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1870
American poet and lawyer (died 1945)
Max Ehrmann was an American writer, poet, and attorney from Terre Haute, Indiana, widely known for his 1927 prose poem "Desiderata". He often wrote on spiritual themes.
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1872
Polish author and translator (died 1940)
Wacław Berent was a Polish novelist, essayist and literary translator from the Art Nouveau period, publishing under the pen names S.A.M. and Wł. Rawicz. He studied Natural Science in Kraków and Zurich, and obtained a…
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1873
American photographer and activist (died 1940)
Lewis Wickes Hine was an American sociologist and muckraker photographer. His photographs taken during times such as the Progressive Era and the Great Depression captured young children working in harsh conditions,…
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1874
3rd Raj of Sarawak (died 1963)
Sir Charles Vyner de Windt Brooke was the third and last White Rajah of the Raj of Sarawak.
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1874
English-American actor (died 1959)
Edmund Gwenn was an English actor. On film, he is best remembered for his role as Kris Kringle in the Christmas film Miracle on 34th Street (1947), for which he won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, the…
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1875
American economist, social worker, and author (died 1957)
Edith Abbott was an American economist, statistician, social worker, educator, and author. Abbott was born in Grand Island, Nebraska. Abbott was a pioneer in the profession of social work with an educational background…
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1876
Indian poet, lawyer, and politician (died 1952)
Syed Ghulam Bhik Nairang was a distinguished lawyer, poet and Pakistan Movement leader. He was the Deputy Leader of the All-India Muslim League from 1938 to 1942, and was appointed to the Constituent Assembly of…
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1876
Italian neurologist and academic (died 1963)
Ugo Cerletti was an Italian neurologist who discovered the method of electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) used in psychiatry. Electroconvulsive therapy is a therapy in which electric current is used to provoke a seizure for…
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1877
Swiss pianist and conductor (died 1962)
Alfred Denis Cortot was a French pianist, conductor, and teacher who was one of the most renowned classical musicians of the 20th century. A pianist of massive repertory, he was especially valued for his poetic insight…
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1877
Belgian physician (died 1958)
Bertha De Vriese was a Belgian physician. When she earned her degree as a doctor of medicine at Ghent University, where she was the first woman to conduct research and the first woman physician to graduate from the…
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1877
1878
Canadian businessman and philanthropist (died 1951)
John Paris Bickell was a Canadian businessman, philanthropist, and sports team owner. He is best known for his long-time association with the Toronto Maple Leafs professional ice hockey team as the owner, president,…
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1884
English physiologist, academic, and politician, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1977)
Archibald Vivian Hill, better known to friends and colleagues as A. V. Hill, was a British physiologist, one of the founders of the diverse disciplines of biophysics and operations research. He shared the 1922 Nobel…
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1886
English author and poet (died 1958)
Edwin Keppel Bennett, noms de plume: Francis Bennett, Francis Keppel, was an English writer, poet, Germanist, and a prominent academic. He served as the president of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge between 1948…
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1887
Spanish-American actor and director (died 1967)
Antonio Garrido Monteagudo, better known as Antonio Moreno or Tony Moreno, was a Spanish-born American actor and film director of the silent film era and through the 1950s.
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1887
English scientist and engineer, invented the Bouncing bomb (died 1979)
Sir Barnes Neville Wallis was an English engineer and inventor. He is best known for having invented the bouncing bomb used by the Royal Air Force in Operation Chastise to attack the dams of the Ruhr Valley during World…
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1887
American journalist and author (died 1964)
James Frank Dobie was an American folklorist, writer, and newspaper columnist best known for his many books depicting the richness and traditions of life in rural Texas during the days of the open range. He was known in…
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1888
English poet, playwright, critic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1965)
Thomas Stearns Eliot was a poet, essayist and playwright. He was a leading figure of modernist poetry in the English language where he reinvigorated the art through his use of language, writing style, and verse…
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1888
Irish cartoonist (died 1946)
William Gordon Brewster was an Irish illustrator and editorial cartoonist.
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1889
German philosopher and academic (died 1976)
Martin Heidegger was a German philosopher whose work was central to the development of phenomenology, hermeneutics, and existentialism. He has had significant impact within subsequent philosophy, social sciences and…
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1889
English footballer and manager (died 1959)
John Tresadern was an English professional football player and manager. He played twice for the England national team.
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1890
Australian politician, 12th Governor General of Australia (died 1985)
Sir William John McKell was an Australian politician who served as the 12th governor-general of Australia, in office from 1947 to 1953. He had previously been the 27th premier of New South Wales from 1941 to 1947, as…
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1891
French violinist and conductor (died 1968)
Charles Munch was an Alsatian French symphonic conductor and violinist. Noted for his mastery of the French orchestral repertoire, he was best known as music director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra.
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1891
German philosopher from the Vienna Circle (died 1953)
Hans Reichenbach was a leading philosopher of science, educator, and proponent of logical empiricism. He founded the Gesellschaft für empirische Philosophie in Berlin in 1928, also known as the "Berlin Circle". Carl…
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1891
American sociologist and academic (died 1970)
Robert Staughton Lynd was an American sociologist and professor at Columbia University, New York City. He is best known for conducting the first Middletown studies of Muncie, Indiana, with his wife, Helen Lynd; as the…
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1892
American actress (died 1929)
Gladys Brockwell was an American actress whose career began during the silent film era.
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1894
German general (died 1952)
Jürgen Stroop was a German SS commander and perpetrator of the Holocaust during the Nazi era, who served as SS and Police Leader in occupied Poland and Greece from 1942–1943 and 1943–1944. He held the rank of…
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1895
Pope Paul VI was head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of Vatican City from 21 June 1963 until his death on 6 August 1978. Succeeding John XXIII, he continued the Second Vatican Council, which he closed in 1965,…
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1897
English lieutenant and pilot (died 1917)
Arthur Percival Foley Rhys-Davids, was an English flying ace of the First World War.
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1897
American pianist and composer (died 1937)
George Gershwin was an American composer and pianist whose compositions spanned jazz, popular and classical music. Among his best-known works are the songs "Swanee" (1919) and "Fascinating Rhythm" (1924), the orchestral…
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1898
French jewelry designer (died 1983)
Suzanne Belperron, born in Saint-Claude, France, was an influential 20th-century jewellery designer based in Paris. She worked for the Boivin and Herz jewellery houses before the outbreak of World War II. Subsequently,…
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1900
American actor, singer, and dancer (died 1980)
George Raft was an American film actor and dancer identified with portrayals of gangsters in crime melodramas of the 1930s and the 1940s. A stylish leading man in dozens of movies, Raft is remembered for his gangster…
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1901
1901
Italian-American mobster (died 1957)
Umberto "Albert" Anastasia was an Italian-American mobster, hitman and crime boss. One of the founders of the modern American Mafia, and a co-founder and later boss of the Murder, Inc. organization, Anastasia eventually…
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1902
Puerto Rican baseball player (died 2011)
Emilio Navarro, better known as "Millito Navarro", was a Puerto Rican second baseman and shortstop. Navarro was the second Puerto Rican to play baseball in the American Negro leagues, two years after Gacho Torres played…
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1905
Austrian footballer and coach (died 1996)
Karl Rappan was an Austrian footballer and coach. He played and managed mostly in Switzerland, where he won multiple titles. He had four tenures as coach of the Switzerland national team, which he managed in three World…
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1905
English historian and spy (died 1983)
Anthony Frederick Blunt, styled Sir Anthony Blunt from 1956 until November 1979, was a leading British art historian and a Soviet spy.
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1907
American singer-songwriter, musician, actor, and comedian (died 1984)
Shug Fisher was an American character actor, singer, musician, and comedian. During his 50-year entertainment career, he performed in many Western films, often as a member of the Sons of the Pioneers in serials and in B…
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1907
Dutch boxer (died 1992)
Lambertus "Bep" van Klaveren was a Dutch boxer, who won the gold medal in the featherweight division at the 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam. Van Klaveren remains the only Dutch boxer to have won an Olympic gold medal.…
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1907
American race car driver, founded NASCAR (died 1992)
William Henry Getty France was an American businessman and racing driver. He was also known as Bill France Sr. or Big Bill. He is best known for founding and managing NASCAR, a sanctioning body of American-based stock…
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1909
American lieutenant, lawyer, and politician (died 1977)
Anthony P. "Dutch" Hamann was the city manager of San Jose, California, United States, from 1950 to 1969. During his tenure, San Jose grew from a small agriculture-based city of 95,000 residents to a large, economically…
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1909
1911
American ice hockey player (died 1998)
Francis Charles "Mr. Zero" Brimsek was an American professional ice hockey player. He was a goaltender for ten seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the Boston Bruins and Chicago Black Hawks. He won the Calder…
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1913
Italian skier and mountaineer (died 2009)
Achille Compagnoni was an Italian mountaineer and skier. Together with Lino Lacedelli on 31 July 1954 he was in the first party to reach the summit of K2.
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1914
American fitness expert (died 2011)
Francois Henri "Jack" LaLanne was an American fitness and nutrition guru and motivational speaker. He described himself as being a "sugarholic" and a "junk food junkie" until he was 15 years old. He also had behavioral…
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1914
Canadian journalist and politician (died 1976)
David Réal Caouette was a Canadian politician from Quebec. He was a Member of Parliament (MP) and leader of the Social Credit Party of Canada and founder of the Ralliement des créditistes. Outside politics he worked as…
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1917
Vietnamese-French philosopher and theorist (died 1993)
Trần Đức Thảo was a Vietnamese philosopher. His work attempted to unite phenomenology with Marxist philosophy. His work had some currency in France in the 1950s and 1960s, and was cited favorably by Jacques Derrida,…
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1917
English businessman and television host, founded the Miss World (died 2000)
Eric Douglas Morley was an English television host and the founder of the Miss World pageant and Come Dancing programme. His widow, Julia Morley, is now head of the pageant and his son, Steve Douglas, is one of its…
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1918
American actress (died 1980)
Barbara Britton was an American film and television actress. She is best known for her Western film roles opposite Randolph Scott, Joel McCrea, and Gene Autry and for her two-year tenure as inquisitive amateur sleuth…
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1919
Spanish poet and author (died 2012)
Aurora Matilde Gómez Camus was a Spanish poet from Cantabria who also wrote non-fiction.
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1919
Greek actor (died 1985)
Panagiotis "Takis" Miliadis was a Greek actor who is known for his comedic acting roles.
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1922
Prince of Russia (died 2014)
Nicholas Romanovich Romanov was a claimant to the headship of the House of Romanov and president of the Romanov Family Association. Although undoubtedly a descendant of Emperor Nicholas I of Russia, his claimed titles…
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1922
Indian actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (died 2011)
Dev Anand was an Indian actor, writer, director and producer known for his work in Hindi cinema. He is considered as one of the greatest and most successful actors in the history of Indian cinema. Through a career that…
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1923
Baron Griffiths, English cricketer, lawyer, and judge (died 2015)
William Hugh Griffiths, Baron Griffiths, MC, PC was a British soldier, cricketer, barrister, judge and life peer.
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1923
English businessman and diplomat (died 2024)
Sir James Patrick Ivan Hennessy was a British diplomat and public servant who was Her Majesty's Chief Inspector of Prisons from 1982 to 1987.
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1923
Swiss physicist, inventor and businessman (died 1997)
Jean Amédée Hoerni was a Swiss-born American engineer. He was a silicon transistor pioneer, and a member of the "traitorous eight". He developed the planar process, an important technology for reliably fabricating and…
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1924
American-Canadian ice hockey player (died 2012)
Joseph Normand Marcel "Ti-Nomme" Dussault was an American-born Canadian ice hockey player who played 206 games in the National Hockey League with the Montreal Canadiens from 1947 to 1951. The rest of his career lasted…
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1925
American singer-songwriter, guitarist, actor, and race car driver (died 1982)
Martin David Robinson, known professionally as Marty Robbins, was an American country and western singer and songwriter. He was one of the most popular and successful singers of his genre for most of his nearly…
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1925
American singer and actress (died 2000)
Julie London was an American singer and actress whose career spanned more than 40 years. A torch singer noted for her contralto voice, London recorded over thirty albums of pop and jazz standards between 1955 and 1969.…
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1926
Austrian philologist and academic (died 2011)
Manfred Mayrhofer was an Austrian Indo-Europeanist who specialized in Indo-Iranian languages. Mayrhofer served as professor emeritus at the University of Vienna. He is noted for his etymological dictionary of Sanskrit.
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1926
American physician and educator, co-invented Gatorade (died 2007)
James Robert Cade was an American physician, university professor, research scientist and inventor. Cade, a native of Texas, earned his bachelor and medical degrees at the University of Texas, and became a professor of…
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1927
1927
Italian footballer and manager (died 2010)
Enzo Bearzot was an Italian professional football player and manager. A defender and midfielder in his playing career, he also coached the Italy national team to victory in the 1982 FIFA World Cup.
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1927
1928
American football player (died 2013)
Wilford Parley "Whizzer" White was an American professional football player who was a halfback for the Chicago Bears of the National Football League (NFL). He also was a member of the Toronto Argonauts in the Canadian…
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1928
American actor (died 2018)
Philip Michael Bosco was an American actor. He was known for his Tony Award-winning performance as Saunders in the 1989 Broadway production of Lend Me a Tenor and for his starring role in the 2007 film The Savages.…
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1930
1930
American sex offender (died 2008)
Kenneth Eugene Parnell was an American convicted sex offender, child rapist, and kidnapper infamously known for committing the abductions of 7-year-old Steven Stayner in Merced, California, in 1972 and 5-year-old…
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1931
American actress (died 2015)
Donna Douglas was an American actress and singer, known for her role as Elly May Clampett on The Beverly Hillbillies (1962–1971). Following her acting career, Douglas became a real estate agent, gospel singer,…
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1932
American actress (died 1987)
Joyce Jameson was an American actress, known for many television roles, including recurring guest appearances as Skippy, one of the "fun girls" in the 1960s television series The Andy Griffith Show as well as "the…
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1932
Indian economist and politician, 13th Prime Minister of India (died 2024)
Manmohan Singh was an Indian economist, bureaucrat, academician and statesman who served as the prime minister of India from 2004 to 2014. He was the fourth longest-serving prime minister after Jawaharlal Nehru, Indira…
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1932
Russian author and poet (died 2018)
Vladimir Nikolayevich Voinovich was a Russian writer and former Soviet dissident, and the "first genuine comic writer" produced by the Soviet system. Among his most well-known works are the satirical epic The Life and…
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1932
English golfer and architect
Neil Chapman Coles, MBE is an English professional golfer. Coles had a successful career in European golf, winning 29 important tournaments between 1956 and 1982. After reaching 50, he won a further 14 important Seniors…
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1934
English cricketer
Robert William "Bob" Barber is a former English cricketer who played first-class cricket for Cambridge University, Lancashire and Warwickshire from 1954 to 1969. He also played 28 Test matches for England. He was named…
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1935
1935
Irish politician (died 2007)
Joe Sherlock was an Irish Labour Party politician who served as a Teachta Dála (TD) from 2002 to 2007, 1987 to 1992 and 1981 to 1982. He was a Senator for the Labour Panel from 1993 to 1997.
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1935
American sailor and songwriter (died 2010)
Leroy Maxey Drumm was an American bluegrass and country songwriter whose work became part of the recorded repertoire of several prominent artists in the genre. He is best known as co-writer of "Colleen Malone,"…
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1936
South African academic and politician, 8th First Lady of South Africa (died 2018)
Nomzamo Winifred Zanyiwe Madikizela-Mandela, also known as Winnie Mandela, was a South African politician, anti-apartheid activist, and second wife of Nelson Mandela. During her political career, she served as a Member…
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1936
Russian banker and politician, 11th Premier of the Soviet Union (died 2003)
Valentin Sergeyevich Pavlov was a Soviet official who became a Russian banker following the dissolution of the Soviet Union. Born in the city of Moscow, then part of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic,…
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1937
American film producer and agent (died 2015)
Jerome Charles Weintraub was an American film producer, talent manager and actor whose television films won him three Emmys.
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1937
New Zealand-Australian ballerina and educator (died 2021)
Lucette Aldous was an Australian prima ballerina during her performing years. She was the resident principal dancer with The Australian Ballet, and well known for performing the role of Kitri in the film of Rudolf…
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1938
American actor
Jonathan Goldsmith is an American character actor. He began his career on the New York stage, then started a career in film and television. He appeared in several TV shows from the 1960s to the 1990s. He is best known…
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1938
Norwegian journalist (died 2010)
Lars-Jacob Krogh was a Norwegian anchorman and television presenter.
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1938
English actor and screenwriter
Eric Tomlinson is an English actor. He is best known for his television roles as Bobby Grant in the soap opera Brookside (1982–1988), DCI Charlie Wise in Cracker (1993–2006) and Jim Royle in The Royle Family…
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1939
Italian violinist and conductor
Salvatore Accardo is an Italian violinist and conductor, who is known for his performances of the works of Niccolò Paganini.
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1941
Jamaican-English model and actress
Mary Rose Penso Beswick is a Jamaican-born British actress and model perhaps best known for her roles in two James Bond films, From Russia with Love (1963) and Thunderball (1965), who went on to appear in several other…
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1941
American country music singer-songwriter and guitarist
David Frizzell is an American country music singer. He is the younger brother of country musician, Lefty Frizzell. His career started in the late 1950s, but he had his greatest success in the 1980s.
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1941
American actor
Kent Franklin McWhirter, known by his stage name Kent McCord, is an American retired actor, best known for his roles as Officer Jim Reed on the television series Adam-12, Captain "Boxey" Troy on Galactica 1980, and IASA…
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1942
American scholar of Chicana cultural theory (died 2004)
Gloria Evangelina Anzaldúa was an American philosopher and scholar of Chicana feminism, cultural theory, and queer theory. She loosely based her best-known book, Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza (1987), on her…
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1942
Australian cricketer and sportscaster
Ian Michael Chappell is an Australian commentator and former cricketer. Known as "Chappelli", he is considered as one of the greatest captains the game has seen. He captained Australia between 1971 and 1975 before…
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1943
Australian racing driver
Timothy Theodore Schenken is a former racing driver from Sydney, Australia. He participated in 36 Formula One World Championship Grands Prix, debuting on 16 August 1970. He achieved one career podium at the 1971…
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1943
American politician, 22nd Governor of Arizona
Janice Kay Brewer is an American politician who served as the 22nd governor of Arizona from 2009 to 2015, as a member of the Republican Party. Prior to this, Brewer was a member of the Arizona House of Representatives,…
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1944
English geologist and academic
Sir Robert Keith O'Nions, is a British scientist and ex-President & Rector of Imperial College London. He is the former Director General of the Research Councils UK as well as Professor of the Physics and Chemistry of…
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1944
English journalist and game show host
Anne Josephine Robinson is a British journalist and television presenter, best known as the host of BBC game show The Weakest Link from 2000 to 2012, and again in 2017 for a one-off celebrity special for Children in…
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1944
Canadian academic and politician
Louise Beaudoin is a Canadian politician who represented the electoral district of Rosemont in the National Assembly of Quebec until 2012, as a member of the Parti Québécois (PQ). She sat as an independent from June 6,…
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1945
1945
English singer-songwriter
Bryan Ferry is an English singer and musician. He became known as the frontman of the band Roxy Music and also launched a solo career.
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1945
American activist and author (died 2005)
Andrea Rita Dworkin was an American radical feminist writer and activist best known for her analysis of pornography. Her feminist writings, beginning in 1974, span 30 years. They are found in a dozen solo works: nine…
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1946
Canadian actor, playwright, and composer
John MacLachlan Gray, OC is a Canadian writer-composer-performer for stage, TV, film, radio and print. He is best known for his stage musicals and for his two seasons as a satirist on CBC TV's The Journal, as well as an…
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1946
American actress (died 2026)
Mary Beth Hurt was an American actress of stage and screen. She was a three-time Tony Award-nominated actress, as well as a BAFTA Award and Independent Spirit Award nominee. Hurt was also the recipient of an Obie Award…
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1946
Nepalese politician
Radha Krishna Mainali, better known as R. K. Mainali is a Nepalese politician. In the early 1970s he was one of the radical communists who led the Jhapa rebellion, inspired by the Naxalite movement in India.
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1946
American author
Louise Simonson is an American comic book writer and editor. She is best known for her work on comic book titles such as Conan the Barbarian, Power Pack, X-Factor, The New Mutants, Superman: The Man of Steel, and Steel.…
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1946
Haitian Prime Minister
Claudette Werleigh is a Haitian politician who served as the prime minister of Haiti from 1995 to 1996. She was Haiti's first female prime minister.
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1946
American basketball player
Lucius Oliver Allen Jr. is an American former professional basketball player. He is one of only a select few players to have won at least one high school state championship, collegiate national championship, and NBA…
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1947
American singer and actress (died 2015)
Lynn René Anderson was an American country singer and television personality. Her crossover signature recording, "Rose Garden", was a number one hit internationally. She also charted five number one and 18 top-ten…
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1947
French singer and actor
Philippe Lavil, pseudonym of Philippe Durand de La Villejégu du Fresnay, is a French singer. He remained particularly famous for his hits singles "Il tape sur des bambous", "Elle préfère l'amour en mer" and "Kolé séré",…
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1947
1947
English-Australian singer-songwriter and actress (died 2022)
Dame Olivia Newton-John was an English and Australian singer, songwriter and actress. With over 100 million records sold, Newton-John is one of the best-selling music artists of all time, as well as the highest-selling…
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1948
Czech politician, diplomat, cosmonaut and military pilot
Vladimír Remek is a Czech politician and diplomat, as well as a former cosmonaut and military pilot. He flew aboard Soyuz 28 from 2 to 10 March 1978, becoming the first and only Czechoslovak in space. As the first…
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1948
1949
Australian singer and journalist (died 2013)
Wendy June Saddington, also known as Gandharvika Dasi, was an Australian blues, soul and jazz singer, and was in the bands Chain, Copperwine and the Wendy Saddington Band. She wrote for teen pop newspaper Go-Set from…
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1949
American novelist
Jane Smiley is an American novelist. She won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1992 for her novel A Thousand Acres (1991).
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1949
1949
New Zealand rugby player (died 2020)
Andrew Maxwell Haden was a New Zealand rugby union player and All Black captain. He played at lock for Auckland and for New Zealand from 1972 until 1985. He also played club rugby for Ponsonby RFC in Auckland and for…
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1950
English footballer and manager
Thomas Frederick Taylor is an English football manager and former footballer. As a footballer, he played as a defender.
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1951
Scottish singer-songwriter and drummer
Stuart Mcbeath Tosh is a Scottish drummer, songwriter and vocalist. He recorded and toured with a succession of bands during the 1970s and 1980s, including Pilot, The Alan Parsons Project, 10cc, Camel, and Roger Daltrey.
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1951
Irish singer and actress
Dolores Keane was an Irish folk singer. She was a founding member of the group De Dannan and later pursued a solo recording and touring career.
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1953
American biologist and academic
Douglas A. Melton is an American medical researcher who is the Xander University Professor at Harvard University, and was an investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute until 2022. Melton is a co-director of the…
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1953
English police officer
Sir Paul Robert Stephenson is a British retired police officer who served as Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis from 2009 to 2011.
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1953
American guitarist
Craig Clinton Chaquico is an American guitarist, songwriter, and composer. From 1974 to 1990 he was lead guitarist for the rock bands Jefferson Starship and Starship. In 1993, he started a solo career as an acoustic…
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1954
American baseball player, manager, and sportscaster
Kevin Curtis Kennedy is an American former player, coach, and manager in professional baseball. Following an eight-season playing career in Minor League Baseball, he managed for 12 seasons in the minor leagues and four…
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1954
Mexican-American singer-songwriter and guitarist
Cesar J. Rosas is an American singer, songwriter and guitarist best known as a member of the rock and roll group Los Lobos. Rosas also participates in the Latin supergroup Los Super Seven. Rosas is known for his…
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1954
American singer-songwriter
Carlene Carter is an American country music singer and songwriter. She is the daughter of June Carter Cash and her first husband, Carl Smith.
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1955
American race car driver and engineer
Steve Butler is an American former auto racing driver. He won six national driving championships in USAC Sprint Car and Silver Crown open-wheel racing. Butler was highly regarded for his technical skills and performed…
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1956
American actress
Linda Carroll Hamilton is an American actress. Known for portraying tough, resilient characters, she made her film debut in 1979 before achieving fame with her starring role as Sarah Connor in The Terminator (1984) and…
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1956
American author and illustrator
Bob Staake STAK is an American illustrator, cartoonist, children's book author and designer. He lives and works in Chatham, Massachusetts on the elbow of Cape Cod.
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1957
German footballer and manager
Klaus "Auge" Augenthaler is a German former professional football player and manager. A defender, he won seven Bundesliga titles in his 15-year club career with Bayern Munich. He also represented the West Germany…
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1957
American photographer and director
Michael Dweck is an American visual artist and filmmaker. Best known for his narrative photography, Dweck's work "explores ongoing struggles between identity and adaptation in endangered societal enclaves." In 2003, he…
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1957
Brazilian politician (died 2026)
Oscar Ilton de Andrade was a Brazilian politician. A member of the Liberal Front Party, he served in the Chamber of Deputies from 1996 to 2003.
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1957
German figure skater and journalist
Rudi Cerne is a German TV presenter and former figure skater. He is the 1984 European silver medalist and a two-time West German national champion. He competed at two Winter Olympics, finishing fourth in 1984.
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1958
American singer-songwriter (died 1980)
Jan Paul Beahm was an American singer who, along with longtime friend Pat Smear, co-founded the punk rock band the Germs and was best known as their lead vocalist. In 1980, he committed suicide by deliberately…
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1958
Greek-American historian and author
Robert Kagan is an American columnist. He is a neoconservative scholar. He is a critic of US foreign policy and a leading advocate of liberal internationalism.
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1958
English footballer
Kenneth Graham Sansom is a former professional footballer who played as a left-back. An England international, he played for clubs such as Crystal Palace, Arsenal, Newcastle United, Coventry City, Queens Park Rangers,…
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1958
American sailor and politician
Richard Weldon was a member of the Maryland House of Delegates representing Maryland District 3B, which then included parts of Frederick and Washington County, Maryland. He defeated Lisa Baugher in 2002 for the new 3B…
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1958
Australian journalist
Andrew Bolt is an Australian conservative social and political commentator. He has worked at the News Corp-owned newspaper company The Herald and Weekly Times (HWT) for many years, for both The Herald and its successor,…
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1959
Namibian golfer
Trevor George Dodds is a Namibian professional golfer who formerly played on the PGA Tour. He is known for winning the 1998 edition of Greater Greensboro Chrysler Classic.
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1959
American baseball player and coach
Richard Leo Gedman is an American professional baseball hitting adviser with the Boston Red Sox, and a former coach and player. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a catcher for the Red Sox (1980–1990), Houston…
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1959
Russian poet and translator (died 2007)
Ilya Valeryevich Kormiltsev was a Russian poet, translator, and publisher. Kormiltsev is most famous for working during the 1980s and the 1990s as a songwriter in Nautilus Pompilius, one of the most popular rock bands…
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1959
1960
Dutch academic and politician
Jouke de Vries is a Dutch political scientist, university administrator, and politician. He is chairman of the Executive Board of the University of Groningen (RUG) in the Netherlands. Before that he was Dean of the…
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1960
American country music singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2020)
Douglas Anderson Supernaw was an American country music artist. After several years performing as a local musician throughout the state of Texas, he signed with BNA Records in 1993.
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1960
American sports executive
Jeanie Marie Buss is an American sports executive who is the governor and minority owner of the Los Angeles Lakers of the National Basketball Association (NBA) and co-owner and promoter of the U.S. women's professional…
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1961
American singer-songwriter and actress
Cynthia Ann Herron, professionally known as Cindy Herron and sometimes credited as Cindy Herron–Braggs, is an American singer and actress. Herron is best known as a founding member of the R&B/pop group En Vogue, one of…
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1961
Estonian journalist and politician
Marianne Mikko is an Estonian politician and former Member of the European Parliament and former Member of the Parliament of Estonia for the Social Democratic Party, part of the Party of European Socialists. Mikko was…
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1961
1961
American-Canadian actress
Melissa Sue Anderson is an American-Canadian actress. She began her career as a child actress after appearing in several commercials in Los Angeles. Anderson is known for her role as Mary Ingalls in the NBC drama series…
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1962
Swedish ice hockey player
Jonas Pär Bergqvist is a Swedish former professional ice hockey right winger, who twice won an Olympic medal in his career.
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1962
English author and poet
Mark Haddon is an English novelist, best known for The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (2003). He won the Whitbread Award, the Dolly Gray Children's Literature Award, the Guardian Prize, and a Commonwealth…
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1962
Australian runner
Stephen James Moneghetti,, is an Australian long-distance runner and physical health consultant who has represented Australia on many occasions. He is a personal development consultant with the Ministry of Education and…
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1962
American guitarist and songwriter
Al Pitrelli is an American guitarist, best known for his work with the Trans-Siberian Orchestra, Megadeth, Alice Cooper and Savatage. He has performed with various acts as a band member, session musician and touring…
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1962
English singer-songwriter and writer
Tracey Thorn is an English singer, songwriter, and author. She is best known as a member of the duo Everything but the Girl, active from 1982 to 2000, and again from 2022. She was in the band Marine Girls from 1980 to…
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1962
1962
English actress and producer
Lysette Anne Chodzko, known professionally as Lysette Anthony, is an English actress and model. She is known for her roles in the film Husbands and Wives (1992), as Princess Lyssa in the 1983 fantasy epic Krull, Christa…
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1963
American race car driver
Joseph Frank Nemechek III is an American professional stock car racing driver. The 1992 NASCAR Busch Series champion, he has the second most national series starts in NASCAR history.
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1963
American baseball player and coach
David Martinez is a former American professional baseball manager and outfielder who most recently managed the Washington Nationals of Major League Baseball (MLB). He previously served as the bench coach for the Tampa…
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1964
Serbian-Israeli basketball player
Radisav Ćurčić is a Serbian-Israeli former professional basketball player. Standing at 6 ft 10 in (2.08 m) and weighing 275 pounds (125 kg), he played the center position. He represented the Yugoslavia national…
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1965
Ukrainian businessman and politician, 5th President of Ukraine
Petro Oleksiiovych Poroshenko is a Ukrainian politician and oligarch who served as the fifth president of Ukraine from 2014 to 2019. He served as the Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2009 to 2010, and as the Minister of…
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1965
Canadian actress and sportscaster
Jillian Marie Barberie is a Canadian television hostess, sportscaster, radio personality and actress. From 1995 to 2012, she was a co-host on the Los Angeles television morning news and entertainment program Good Day…
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1966
Greek singer-songwriter and producer
Christos Dantis, is a Greek multi-instrumentalist, singer, songwriter, lyricist, and record producer best known for his hits such as "To Palio Mou Palto" and "Ena Tragoudi Akoma" and later for co-writing the song "My…
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1966
1966
American football player (died 2006)
Craig William Heyward, nicknamed "Ironhead", was an American professional football player who was a fullback in the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Pittsburgh Panthers. He then played…
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1966
Bosnian footballer and manager
Bruno Akrapović is a Bosnian professional football manager and former player.
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1967
American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 1995)
Richard Shannon Hoon was an American singer-songwriter and musician. He was the lead singer of the band Blind Melon from 1990 until his death in 1995.
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1967
American ice hockey player
Craig Harlan Janney is an American former professional ice hockey center who played twelve seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL) from 1987–88 until 1998–99, when blood clots ended his career prematurely.
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1967
American actor
James Patrick Caviezel Jr. is an American actor. He played Jesus in The Passion of the Christ (2004), Tim Ballard in Sound of Freedom (2023), and starred as John Reese on the CBS series Person of Interest (2011–2016).…
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1968
American actor
Ben Shenkman is an American actor. He is known for his roles in the comedy-drama series Royal Pains and the acclaimed HBO miniseries Angels in America, which earned him both Primetime Emmy Award and Golden Globe Award…
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1968
Australian footballer and coach
Andrew Keith Petterson is an Australian former soccer player and coach who is a goalkeeping coach for East Bengal.
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1969
English director and producer
David Aldrin Slade is an English film and television director and actor. His works include the films Hard Candy, 30 Days of Night and The Twilight Saga: Eclipse. Slade is also a director for television, directing…
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1969
German footballer and manager
Holger Stanislawski is a German football manager and former player.
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1969
English footballer and manager
Paul Warhurst is an English former professional footballer who played as a defender, midfielder or striker.
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1969
Australian motorcycle racer
Daryl Glen Beattie is a former Grand Prix solo motorcycle road racer.
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1970
American actress and fashion designer
Sheri Moon Zombie is an American actress, model, dancer, and fashion designer.
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1970
Swedish guitarist (died 2013)
David Vincent Parland, also known by his stage name Blackmoon, was a Swedish metal guitarist noted for his work the bands Dark Funeral, Necrophobic and Infernal, all of which he co-founded.
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1970
1972
American politician
Robert Francis "Beto" O'Rourke is an American politician who served as the U.S. representative for Texas's 16th congressional district from 2013 to 2019. A member of the Democratic Party, O'Rourke was the party's…
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1972
American singer
Shawn Patrick Stockman is an American singer, songwriter and record producer. He is best known as a member of the vocal group Boyz II Men.
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1972
American actress, producer, and screenwriter
Julienne Davis is an American actress, singer, and model.
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1973
1973
Scottish snooker player and coach
Christopher Small is a retired Scottish professional snooker player and now a qualified snooker coach. His playing career was ended by the spinal condition ankylosing spondylitis.
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1973
1973
German-Ecuadorian pianist and diplomat
Boris Cepeda is a German-Ecuadorian Pianist and Diplomat.
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1974
American swimmer
Gary Wayne Hall Jr. is an American former competition swimmer who represented the United States at the 1996, 2000, and 2004 Olympics and won ten Olympic medals. He is a former world record-holder in two relay events.…
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1974
Estonian basketball player and coach
Martin Müürsepp is an Estonian professional basketball coach and former player, who is the head coach of Haljala NGU of the I liiga. Widely regarded as one of Estonia's greatest basketball players of all time, he is the…
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1974
Swedish singer and violinist
Emma Härdelin is a Swedish musician. She is a violinist and lead singer in folk-rock band Garmarna, which she joined in 1993 for their first album, and also lead singer for the folk band Triakel.
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1975
American director and screenwriter
Jake Paltrow is an American film director, screenwriter and actor. Coming from a family of actors, he is the younger brother of Gwyneth Paltrow and the son of Bruce Paltrow and Blythe Danner.
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1975
1975
German footballer
Michael Ballack is a German former professional footballer who is now a football agent. He was selected by Pelé as one of FIFA's 100 Greatest Living Players, and as the UEFA Club Midfielder of the Year in 2002. He won…
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1976
Finnish bass player
Sami Vänskä is the former bassist of Finnish symphonic metal band Nightwish.
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1976
Turkish singer-songwriter and guitarist
Mor ve Ötesi is a Turkish alternative rock band from Istanbul. Its four current members are Harun Tekin, Kerem Kabadayı (drums), Burak Güven (bass) and Kerem Özyeğen. Former members include Alper Tekin and Derin Esmer.…
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1977
1977
Kenyan runner
Robert "Mwafrika" Kipkoech Cheruiyot, sometimes known as Omar Ahmed, is a Kenyan marathon runner and is the former record holder and four-time winner of the Boston Marathon.
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1978
Canadian ice hockey player
Christopher Kunitz is a Canadian former professional ice hockey winger who played in the National Hockey League (NHL). He played for the Anaheim Ducks, Atlanta Thrashers, the Pittsburgh Penguins, Tampa Bay Lightning and…
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1979
Japanese wrestler
Naomichi Marufuji is a Japanese professional wrestler, wrestling executive, and restaurateur. He is signed to Pro Wrestling Noah, and is the vice-president of CyberFight, the parent company of Noah. Known as the Genius…
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1979
Tongan-New Zealand rugby league player
Fuifui Moana Moimoi is a rugby league footballer who plays as a prop.
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1979
Australian footballer
Cameron Mooney is a former Australian rules footballer who played with the North Melbourne and Geelong Football Clubs in the Australian Football League (AFL). A forward, standing at 197 cm Mooney is renowned for his…
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1979
American gymnast
Jaycie Lynn Phelps is an American retired Olympic gymnast and member of the 1996 Olympic gold medal U.S. women's gymnastics team, the Magnificent Seven. She is known for her consistency and clean lines in her gymnastics.
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1979
Estonian politician, 16th Prime Minister of Estonia
Taavi Rõivas is an Estonian politician, former Prime Minister of Estonia from 2014 to 2016 and former leader of the Reform Party. Before his term as the Prime Minister, Rõivas was the Minister of Social Affairs from…
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1979
Canadian actor, director, and screenwriter
Jacob Daniel Tierney is a Canadian actor, director, screenwriter, and producer of film and television. He is the co-creator, co-writer, director, and executive producer of the Canadian sitcom Letterkenny (2016–2023),…
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1979
Austrian racing driver
Patrick Friesacher is an Austrian racing driver. He is the longest-serving Red Bull driver, and also drove for the Minardi Formula One team during the first half of the 2005 season.
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1980
American ice hockey player
Richard Brooks Orpik is an American former professional ice hockey player. A defenseman, he played for the Pittsburgh Penguins and the Washington Capitals of the National Hockey League (NHL). A stay-at-home defenseman…
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1980
Swedish ice hockey player
Daniel Hans Sedin is a Swedish ice hockey executive and former winger who played his entire 17-season National Hockey League (NHL) career with the Vancouver Canucks from 2000 to 2018. Born and raised in Örnsköldsvik,…
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1980
Swedish ice hockey player
Henrik Lars Sedin is a Swedish ice hockey executive and former centre who played his entire 17-season National Hockey League (NHL) career with the Vancouver Canucks from 2000 to 2018. He additionally served as the…
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1980
1981
1981
American singer-songwriter, dancer, and actress
Christina Milian is an American singer, songwriter, and actress. Following a number of minor television and film roles in the late 1990s, Milian made her recording debut on American rapper Ja Rule's 2000 single "Between…
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1981
1981
American tennis player
Serena Jameka Williams is an American former professional tennis player. She was ranked as the world No. 1 in women's singles by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) for 319 weeks, and finished as the year-end No. 1…
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1981
English rugby player (died 2024)
Robert Geoffrey Burrow was an English professional rugby league footballer who played as a scrum-half or hooker. Burrow spent his entire professional career with the Leeds Rhinos, making nearly 500 appearances as well…
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1982
Canadian ice hockey player
John Howard Scott is a Canadian former professional ice hockey defenceman and winger. A professional player for nearly 10 seasons, Scott saw National Hockey League (NHL) action with the Minnesota Wild, Chicago…
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1982
1982
Portuguese footballer
Ricardo Andrade Quaresma Bernardo is a Portuguese former professional footballer who played as a winger.
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1983
American photographer, television host, and producer
Yaniv "Nev" Schulman is an American TV host and producer. He is best known for the 2010 documentary film Catfish and the follow-up TV series Catfish: The TV Show on MTV of which he is the host and executive producer.
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1984
English actress
Talulah Jane Riley-Milburn is an English actress. She has appeared in films, including Pride & Prejudice (2005), St Trinian's (2007) and its sequel St Trinian's 2: The Legend of Fritton's Gold (2009), The Boat That…
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1985
American baseball player
Sean Robert Doolittle is an American former professional baseball pitcher and current coach for the Washington Nationals of Major League Baseball (MLB). He played in MLB for the Oakland Athletics, Nationals, Cincinnati…
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1986
Swedish singer-songwriter
Rosanna Bella Victoria Eriksdotter Munter is an actress and recording artist from Sweden. She is best known as a member of the Swedish girl group Play, and she was in a collaborative project with White Lies bassist…
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1987
American baseball player
Christopher Alan Archer is an American former professional baseball pitcher. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Tampa Bay Rays, Pittsburgh Pirates and Minnesota Twins.
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1988
English singer-songwriter and producer
James Blake Litherland is an English singer, songwriter, and record producer. Known for his emotive, soulful light head voice and use of falsetto, he first gained recognition following the release of three extended…
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1988
Finnish figure skater
Kiira Linda Katriina Korpi is a Finnish figure skater. She is a three-time European medalist, the 2010 Trophée Eric Bompard champion, the 2012 Rostelecom Cup champion, a two-time Cup of China medalist, and a five-time…
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1988
Australian wrestler
Matthew Adams is an Australian professional wrestler. He is signed to All Elite Wrestling (AEW), where he performs under the ring name Buddy Matthews and is a former AEW World Trios Champion. He also makes appearances…
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1988
English cricketer
Jonathan Marc Bairstow is an English cricketer who played internationally for England in all formats as a right-handed wicket-keeper-batter. He represents Yorkshire in domestic cricket and Welsh Fire in The Hundred.…
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1989
French actress, fashion model and singer
Alma Jodorowsky is a French actress, singer, and fashion model.
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1991
English footballer
Daniel Sean Preston is an English footballer who plays as a defender for Northern Premier League Division One Midlands club Bedworth United.
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1991
1992
American basketball player
Michael Anthony Edward Kidd-Gilchrist Jr. is an American former professional basketball player. Kidd-Gilchrist was drafted second overall by the Charlotte Bobcats in the 2012 NBA draft. He played for the University of…
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1993
American swimmer
John Peet Conger is a retired American competition swimmer who specializes in butterfly and freestyle events. He is an Olympic gold medalist in the 4 × 200 m freestyle relay from the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de…
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1994
Serbian footballer
Miloš Veljković is a professional footballer who plays as a centre-back for Red Star Belgrade. Born in Switzerland, he represents Serbia national team.
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1995
American soccer player
Franuel "Frankie" Amaya is an American professional soccer player who plays as a midfielder for Major League Soccer club CF Montréal, on loan from Liga MX club Toluca.
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2000
Jordanian princess
Princess Salma bint Abdullah is the second daughter and third child of King Abdullah II and Queen Rania of Jordan.
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2000
Chinese tennis player
Wang Xinyu is a Chinese professional tennis player. Wang reached a career-high singles ranking of world No. 30 on 23 February 2026, and set a doubles ranking of No. 16 on 20 May 2024. Partnering with Hsieh Su-wei, she…
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2001
American musician
Jane Remover is an American rapper, producer, and singer-songwriter. They made their debut with Teen Week in 2021, a progressive pop and digicore EP with themes of adolescence. The same year, they released their debut…
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2003
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