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Famous Birthdays on September 30
223 people
1207 – 2003
September 30 has seen 223 notable people enter the world across recorded history — from 1207 – 2003. Below are the most significant names born on this date.
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1982 — Ryane Clowe
Canadian ice hockey player
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In 2018, he was named the head coach of the ECHL's Newfoundland Growlers, a position he resigned from in January 2019
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He was a hockey advisor for the New York Rangers from 2021-22 to the 2023-24 season
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On July 3, 2024 Clowe was named assistant general manager of the San Jose Sharks.Ryane Clowe resigned as San Jose Sharks assistant general manager on September 7, 2025, after just one season, citing family reasons
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The 42-year-old immediately rejoined the New York Rangers as an assistant general manager on September 8, 2025, returning to the East Coast.
1207
Pope Nicholas IV was head of the Catholic Church and leader of the Papal States from 22 February 1288 to his death, on 4 April 1292. He was the first Franciscan to be elected pope.
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1227
Italian philologist and physician (died 1606)
Girolamo Mercuriale or Mercuriali was an Italian philologist and physician, most famous for his work De Arte Gymnastica.
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1530
German astronomer and mathematician (died 1631)
Michael Maestlin was a German astronomer and mathematician, best known as the mentor of Johannes Kepler. A student of Philipp Apian, Maestlin is recognized as the teacher who had the greatest influence on Kepler. He is…
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1550
1622
French violinist and composer (died 1753)
Jacques Aubert, also known as Jacques Aubert le Vieux, was a French composer and violinist of the Baroque period. From 1727 to 1746, he was a member of the Vingt-quatre Violons du Roy; from 1728 to 1752, he was the…
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1689
Polish monk, poet, and playwright (died 1773)
Stanisław Konarski, Sch.P. was a Polish pedagogue, educational reformer, political writer, poet, dramatist, Piarist priest and precursor of the Enlightenment in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.
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1700
4th Duke of Bedford, English politician, Lord President of the Council (died 1771)
John Russell, 4th Duke of Bedford was a British Whig statesman and peer who served as the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland from 1757 to 1761. A leading member of the Whig party during the Seven Years' War, he negotiated the…
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1710
French epistemologist and philosopher (died 1780)
Étienne Bonnot de Condillac was a French philosopher and Catholic priest who focused on psychology and the philosophy of the mind.
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1714
Swiss-French politician, Prime Minister of France (died 1804)
Jacques Necker was a Genevan banker, financier and statesman who served as finance minister of France for Louis XVI. He was a reformer, but his innovations sometimes caused great discontent. Necker was a constitutional…
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1732
German cantor and composer (died 1813)
Christian Ehregott Weinlig was a German composer and cantor of Dresden's Kreuzkirche.
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1743
Mexican priest and general (died 1815)
José María Teclo Morelos Pérez y Pavón was a Mexican Catholic priest, statesman and military leader who led the Mexican War of Independence movement, assuming its leadership after the execution of Miguel Hidalgo y…
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1765
English architect, designed the Pharos Lighthouse (died 1881)
Decimus Burton was one of the foremost English architects and landscapers of the 19th century. He was the foremost Victorian architect in the Roman Revival, Greek Revival, Georgian neoclassical and Regency styles. He…
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1800
1813
American feminist, educator, and philanthropist (died 1900)
Lucinda Hinsdale Stone was an early American feminist, educator, traveler, writer, and philanthropist. Stone was the first woman in the United States to take classes of young women abroad to study, as a means to…
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1814
American journalist and politician, 20th Treasurer of the United States (died 1918)
Ellis Henry Roberts was an American politician who served as a Representative from New York and 20th Treasurer of the United States.
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1827
New York politician (died 1891)
Peter Ward was a New York businessman and politician. From 1851–1859, Ward was the superintendent of the Newburgh Branch of the Erie Railroad. He also worked for the New York, Ontario and Western Railway and the New…
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1827
American activist, co-founded Mother's Day (died 1905)
Ann Maria Reeves Jarvis was a social activist and community organizer during the American Civil War era. She is recognized as the mother who inspired Mother's Day and as a founder of Mother's Day movements, and her…
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1832
Peruvian politician, President of Peru (died 1894)
Remigio Morales Bermúdez served as the President of Peru from 1890 to 1894. He died while still in office. He served as the first vice president from 1886 to 1890.
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1836
Irish composer, conductor, and educator (died 1924)
Sir Charles Villiers Stanford was an Anglo-Irish composer, music teacher, and conductor of the late Romantic era. Born to a well-off and highly musical family in Dublin, Stanford was educated at the University of…
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1852
American businessman, founded Wrigley Company (died 1932)
William Mills Wrigley Jr. was an American chewing gum industrialist. He founded the Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company in 1891.
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1861
German admiral (died 1928)
Carl Friedrich Heinrich Reinhard Scheer was an admiral in the Imperial German Navy. Scheer joined the navy in 1879 as an officer cadet and progressed through the ranks, commanding cruisers and battleships, as well as…
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1863
American banker and philanthropist (died 1948)
Thomas William Lamont Jr. was an American banker.
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1870
French-American physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1942)
Jean Baptiste Perrin was a French physicist who, in his studies of the Brownian motion of minute particles suspended in liquids, verified Albert Einstein's explanation of this phenomenon and thereby confirmed the atomic…
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1870
German physicist and academic (died 1945)
Johannes Wilhelm "Hans" Geiger was a German experimental physicist. He is known as the inventor of the Geiger counter, a device used to detect ionizing radiation, and for carrying out the Rutherford scattering…
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1882
German educator and politician (died 1945)
Bernhard Rust was Minister of Science, Education and National Culture (Reichserziehungsminister) in Nazi Germany. A combination of school administrator and zealous Nazi, he issued decrees, often bizarre, at every level…
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1883
American civil engineer, architect, and suffragist (died 1971)
Nora Stanton Barney was an English-born American civil engineer, and suffragist. Barney was among the first women to graduate with an engineering degree in the United States. Given an ultimatum to either stay a wife or…
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1883
Indonesian-German actress (died 1980)
Lil Dagover was a German actress whose film career spanned from 1913 to 1979. She was a popular film actress in the Weimar Republic.
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1887
American lieutenant, lawyer, and politician (died 1964)
Lansdale Ghiselin Sasscer was an American politician who served as the U.S. representative for Maryland's 5th congressional district for seven terms from 1939 to 1953. He was a member of the Democratic Party.
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1893
Moldovan-American director, producer, and screenwriter (died 1980)
Lewis Milestone was a Russian-American film director, screenwriter, and producer active during the Golden Age of Hollywood. He twice won the Academy Award for Best Director, for Two Arabian Knights (1927) and All Quiet…
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1895
Russian-English soldier and politician (died 1966)
Lieutenant Colonel Alfred Daniel Wintle MC, better known as A. D. Wintle, was a British Army officer who served in the First and Second World Wars. He was the first non-lawyer to achieve a unanimous verdict in his…
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1897
German-English physician and psychotherapist (died 1986)
Charlotte Wolff was a German-British physician who worked as a psychotherapist and wrote on sexology and hand analysis. Her writings on lesbianism and bisexuality were influential early works in the field.
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1897
French-American actress (died 1933)
Renée Adorée was a French stage and film actress who appeared in Hollywood silent movies during the 1920s. She is best known for portraying the role of Melisande, the love interest of John Gilbert in the melodramatic…
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1898
Duchess of Valentinois (died 1977)
Princess Charlotte, Duchess of Valentinois, styled Hereditary Princess of Monaco between 1922 and 1944, was the daughter of Louis II, Prince of Monaco, and mother of Prince Rainier III. From 1922 until 1944, she was the…
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1898
German-American author and illustrator (died 1986)
Ingri d'Aulaire and Edgar Parin d'Aulaire were writers and illustrators of children's books who worked primarily as a team, completing almost all of their well-known works together. The couple immigrated to the United…
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1898
American bassist and bandleader (died 1966)
Thelma Terry was an American bandleader and bassist during the 1920s and 1930s. She led Terry and Her Playboys and was the first American woman to lead a notable jazz orchestra as an instrumentalist.
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1901
Welsh poet and academic (died 1971)
Waldo Goronwy Williams was one of the leading Welsh-language poets of the 20th century. He was also a notable Christian pacifist, anti-war campaigner, and Welsh nationalist. He is often referred to by his first name…
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1904
English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1996)
Sir Nevill Francis Mott was a British theoretical physicist who won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1977 for his work on the electronic structure of magnetic and disordered systems, especially amorphous semiconductors.…
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1905
English director, producer, and screenwriter (died 1990)
Michael Latham Powell was an English filmmaker, celebrated for his partnership with Emeric Pressburger. Through their production company The Archers, they together wrote, produced and directed a series of classic…
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1905
French singer-songwriter and actress (died 1996)
Mireille Hartuch was a French singer, composer, and actress. She was generally known by the stage name "Mireille," it being a common practice of the time to use a single name for the stage.
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1906
Ukrainian-Russian violinist and educator (died 1974)
David Fyodorovich Oistrakh was a Soviet Russian violinist, violist, and conductor. He was also Professor at the Moscow Conservatory, People's Artist of the USSR (1953), and Laureate of the Lenin Prize (1960).
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1908
Finnish captain (died 1962)
Uuno Johannes (Jussi) Kekkonen was a Finnish major, CEO and the younger brother of President of Finland Urho Kekkonen. Jussi Kekkonen fought successfully in the Winter War in the direction of Kuhmo but lost his sight…
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1910
American psychologist (died 1977)
Gustave Mark Gilbert was an American psychologist best known for his writings containing observations of high-ranking Nazi leaders during the Nuremberg trials. His 1950 book The Psychology of Dictatorship was an attempt…
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1911
American singer and actor (died 1985)
Kenneth Laurence Baker was an American singer and actor who first gained notice as the featured singer on radio's The Jack Benny Program during the 1930s.
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1912
American screenwriter and producer (died 1975)
William Crozier Walsh was a film producer, screenwriter and comics writer who primarily worked on live-action films for Walt Disney Productions.
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1913
American businessman and politician, 75th Governor of Georgia (died 2003)
Lester Garfield Maddox Sr. was an American politician who served as the 75th governor of Georgia from 1967 to 1971.
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1915
Russian actor and director (died 2014)
Yuri Petrovich Lyubimov was a Soviet and Russian stage actor and director associated with the internationally renowned Taganka Theatre, which he founded in 1964. He was one of the leading names in the Russian theatre…
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1917
American drummer, bandleader, and actor (died 1987)
Bernard "Buddy" Rich was an American jazz drummer, songwriter, conductor, and bandleader. He is considered one of the most influential drummers of all time.
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1917
U.S. Army captain (died 1995)
Lewis Nixon III was a United States Army officer who, during World War II, served at the company, battalion, and regimental level with the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division. Nixon was portrayed…
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1918
French historian and economist (died 2007)
René Rémond was a French historian, political scientist and political economist.
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1918
Argentinian race car driver (died 1992)
Roberto Wenceslao Bonomi Oliva was a racing driver who took part in one Formula One World Championship Grand Prix driving a Cooper for the Scuderia Centro Sud team. Before he participated in Formula One he was a sports…
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1919
Ukrainian-Russian violinist and educator (died 2008)
Elizabeth Gilels was a Soviet and Russian violinist and professor.
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1919
American lieutenant and politician, 26th Governor of North Dakota (died 2013)
William Lewis Guy was an American politician who was the 26th governor of North Dakota from 1961 to 1973. Guy was North Dakota's longest-serving governor in state history, serving two consecutive two-year terms and two…
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1919
American soprano and actress (died 2012)
Patricia Neway was an American operatic soprano and musical theatre actress who had an active international career during the mid-1940s through the 1970s. One of the few performers of her day to enjoy equal success on…
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1919
Scottish-English actress (died 2007)
Deborah Jane Trimmer, known professionally as Deborah Kerr, was a Scottish actress. Kerr rose to fame for her portrayals of proper, ladylike women, who often navigated societal expectations and stereotypes. Kerr…
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1921
Brazilian-American cellist and educator (died 2018)
Aldo Simoes Parisot was a Brazilian-born American cellist and cello teacher. He was first a member of the Juilliard School faculty, and then went on to serve as a music professor at the Yale School of Music for sixty…
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1921
American actor, director, and producer (died 2010)
Ernest Lamont Johnson Jr. was an American actor and film director who appeared in and directed many television shows and movies. He won two Emmy Awards.
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1922
Indian director, producer, and screenwriter (died 2006)
Hrishikesh Mukherjee was an Indian film director, editor and writer. He is regarded as one of the greatest filmmakers of Indian cinema. Popularly known as Hrishi-da, he directed 42 films during his career spanning over…
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1922
Welsh-English pianist and composer (died 1994)
Donald Ibrahim Swann was a British composer, musician, singer and entertainer. He was one half of Flanders and Swann, writing and performing comic songs with Michael Flanders.
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1923
American novelist, playwright, and screenwriter (died 1984)
Truman Garcia Capote was an American novelist, screenwriter, playwright, and actor. Several of his short stories, novels, and plays have been praised as literary classics, and he is regarded as one of the founders of…
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1924
Russian engineer and scientist in the former Soviet space program (died 1998)
Arkady Ilyich Ostashev was a Soviet and Russian scientist, engineer - mechanic in the former Soviet space program, working on as a designer many of rocket propulsion and control system of Soviet satellites. He was a…
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1925
Estonian basketball player and coach (died 2012)
Heino Kruus was an Estonian basketball player (186 cm) who competed for the Soviet Union in the 1952 Summer Olympics. He trained at VSS Kalev in Tallinn
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1926
American baseball player, coach, and sportscaster (died 2010)
Robin Evan Roberts was an American Major League Baseball starting pitcher who pitched primarily for the Philadelphia Phillies (1948–1961). He spent the latter part of his career with the Baltimore Orioles (1962–1965),…
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1926
American poet and translator (died 2019)
William Stanley Merwin was an American poet who wrote more than fifty books of poetry and prose and produced many works in translation. During the 1960s anti-war movement, Merwin's unique craft was thematically…
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1927
Romanian-American author, academic, and activist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2016)
Eliezer "Elie" Wiesel was a Romanian-born American writer, professor, political activist, Nobel laureate, and Holocaust survivor. He authored 57 books, written mostly in French and English, including Night, which is…
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1928
Canadian-American football player and coach (died 2013)
Ray Willsey was an American gridiron football player and coach. He was the head football coach at the University of California, Berkeley from 1964 to 1971. During his tenure he compiled a 40–42–1 record. He was inducted…
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1928
American author and illustrator (died 2002)
Carol Elizabeth Fenner was an American children's writer.
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1929
Greek seismologist and academic (died 2022)
Vassilis Papazachos was a Greek seismologist and author of Earthquakes of Greece.
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1929
Filipino politician, diplomat and writer (died 2017)
Leticia Valdez Ramos-Shahani was a Filipino senator, diplomat, and writer.
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1929
German theologian and author (died 2003)
Dorothee Steffensky-Sölle, known as Dorothee Sölle, was a German Lutheran liberation theologian who coined the term "Christofascism".
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1929
American actress
Angie Dickinson is an American retired actress. She began her career on television, appearing in many anthology series during the 1950s, before gaining her breakthrough role in Gun the Man Down (1956) with James Arness…
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1931
English educator and politician (died 2015)
Teresa Ellen Gorman was a British politician. She was Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) for Billericay, in the county of Essex, from 1987 to 2001 when she stood down. She was a leading figure in the rebellions over…
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1931
Japanese author, playwright, and politician, Governor of Tokyo (died 2022)
Shintaro Ishihara was a Japanese politician and writer, who served as the Governor of Tokyo from 1999 to 2012. Being the former leader of the radical right Sunrise Party, later merged with Toru Hashimoto's Japan…
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1932
American baseball player and coach (died 2008)
John Joseph Podres was an American left-handed pitcher in Major League Baseball (MLB). He played in the majors from 1953 to 1969, spending most of his career with the Brooklyn/Los Angeles Dodgers. Podres won four World…
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1932
American singer (died 2024)
Emily "Cissy" Houston was an American soul and gospel singer. Born in Newark, New Jersey, Houston began singing with three of her siblings in a family gospel group, the Drinkard Singers. By the early 1960s, Houston had…
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1933
English footballer and manager (died 2009)
Alan A'Court was an English professional footballer who mostly played for Liverpool. He gained five caps for England and represented the nation at the 1958 FIFA World Cup.
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1934
Austrian-Swiss singer-songwriter and pianist (died 2014)
Udo Jürgens was an Austrian composer and singer of popular music whose career spanned over 50 years. He won the Eurovision Song Contest 1966 for Austria, composed close to 1,000 songs, and sold over 104 million records.…
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1934
Indian-American actress (died 2015)
Anna Kashfi was an Anglo-Indian actress who had a brief Hollywood career in the 1950s but was better known for her tumultuous marriage to film star Marlon Brando and the controversies surrounding their son.
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1934
American singer and actor
John Royce Mathis is an American singer. Starting his career with singles of standard music, Mathis is one of the best-selling recording artists of the 20th century. He became highly popular as an album artist, with…
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1935
American lawyer and politician, 6th United States Ambassador to China (died 2024)
James Ralph Sasser was an American politician, diplomat, and attorney from Tennessee. A member of the Democratic Party, he served three terms as a member of the United States Senate from 1977 to 1995, and was Chairman…
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1936
1936
Polish-German author (died 1997)
Jurek Becker was a Polish-born German writer, screenwriter and East German dissident. His most famous novel is Jacob the Liar, which has been made into two films. He lived in Łódź during World War II for about two years…
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1937
Ukrainian pianist and composer
Valentin Vasylyovych Silvestrov is a Ukrainian composer and pianist who plays and writes contemporary classical music. He is a laureate of Shevchenko National Prize.
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1937
Rhodesian motorcycle racer (died 1962)
Gary Stuart Hocking MBE
was a Rhodesian former professional motorcycle road and car racer. He competed in the FIM Grand Prix motorcycle racing world championships from 1958 to 1962, most prominently as a member of the…
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1937
English clarinet player and educator (died 2012)
Alan Ray Hacker was an English clarinettist, conductor, and music professor.
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1938
Canadian actor
Leonard Joseph Cariou is a Canadian actor, singer, and theatre director. He gained prominence for his portrayal of Sweeney Todd in the original cast of Stephen Sondheim's musical Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet…
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1939
English painter and academic (died 2023)
Anthony Green was an English realist painter and printmaker best known for his paintings of his own middle-class domestic life. His works sometimes used compound perspectives and polygonal forms—particularly with large,…
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1939
French chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
Jean-Marie Lehn is a French chemist who received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry together with Donald Cram and Charles Pedersen in 1987 for his synthesis of cryptands. Lehn was an early innovator in the field of…
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1939
American philosopher and academic (died 2015)
Claudia Falconer Card was the Emma Goldman (WARF) Professor of Philosophy at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, with teaching affiliations in Women's Studies, Jewish Studies, Environmental Studies, and LGBT Studies.
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1940
Canadian sprinter (died 1982)
Harry Winston Jerome was a Canadian track and field sprinter and physical education teacher. He won a bronze medal at the 1964 Olympics in Tokyo and set a total of seven world records over the course of his career.
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1940
Canadian-American drummer (died 2009)
Dewey Martin was a Canadian rock drummer, best known for his work with Buffalo Springfield, for which he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1997.
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1940
American author and educator
Samuel F. "Sam" Pickering Jr. is a writer and professor emeritus of English at the University of Connecticut in Storrs. His unconventional teaching style was an inspiration for the character of Mr. Keating, played by…
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1941
Indian academic and diplomat, 5th Commonwealth Secretary General
Kamalesh Sharma is a retired Indian diplomat who served as the fifth secretary-general of the Commonwealth of Nations from 2008 to 2016. Previously, he was the High Commissioner of India to the United Kingdom from 2004…
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1941
Swedish race car driver (died 2022)
Reine Tore Leif Wisell was a Swedish racing driver. He participated in 23 Formula One World Championship Grands Prix, debuting on 4 October 1970. He achieved one podium, and scored a total of 13 championship points.
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1941
English record producer (died 2002)
Angus Boyd "Gus" Dudgeon was an English record producer, who oversaw many of Elton John's most acclaimed recordings, including his commercial breakthrough, "Your Song". Their collaboration led to seven US No. 1 albums,…
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1942
American singer-songwriter (died 1968)
Franklin Joseph Lymon was an American rock and roll/rhythm and blues singer and songwriter, dancer and composer best known as the boy soprano lead singer of the New York City-based early rock and roll doo-wop group the…
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1942
German-American biochemist and biophysicist, Nobel Prize laureate
Johann Deisenhofer is a German biochemist who, along with Hartmut Michel and Robert Huber, received the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1988 for their determination of the first crystal structure of an integral membrane…
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1943
American singer
Marilyn McCoo is an American singer, actress, and television presenter, who is best known for being the lead female vocalist in the group the 5th Dimension as well as hosting the 1980s music television show Solid Gold.
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1943
1943
English-American actor, playwright, and author
Ian Raymond Ogilvy is an English actor, playwright and novelist.
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1943
Canadian singer and painter
Diane Dufresne, is a French Canadian singer and painter, and is known for singing a large repertoire of popular Quebec songs.
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1944
Scottish footballer (died 2006)
James Connolly Johnstone was a Scottish footballer who played as an outside right. Known as "Jinky" for his elusive dribbling style, Johnstone played for Celtic for 13 years and was one of the Lisbon Lions, the team…
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1944
American basketball player (died 2009)
Austin "Red" Robbins was an American basketball player.
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1944
English astronomer and academic (died 2022)
Richard Edwin Hills was a British astronomer who was emeritus professor of Radio Astronomy at the University of Cambridge.
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1945
Israeli lawyer and politician, 12th Prime Minister of Israel
Ehud Olmert is an Israeli politician and lawyer who served as the prime minister of Israel from 2006 to 2009.
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1945
American actress, singer, and puppeteer
Fran Brill is an American actress and puppeteer, best known for her roles on Sesame Street, as well as playing Sally Hayes in the Hal Ashby film Being There (1979), Dana Mardukas in the Martin Brest film Midnight Run…
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1946
7th Marquess of Salisbury, English academic and politician, Leader of the House of Lords
Robert Michael James Gascoyne-Cecil, 7th Marquess of Salisbury, Baron Gascoyne-Cecil is a British Conservative politician. From 1979 to 1987 he represented South Dorset in the House of Commons, and in the 1990s he was…
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1946
Puerto Rican-American singer-songwriter (died 1993)
Héctor Juan Pérez Martínez, better known as Héctor Lavoe, was a Puerto Rican salsa singer. Widely regarded as one of salsa's most important and influential vocalists, Lavoe played a pivotal role in popularizing the…
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1946
German race car driver (died 2025)
Jochen Richard Mass was a German racing driver and broadcaster, who competed in Formula One from 1973 to 1982. Mass won the 1975 Spanish Grand Prix with McLaren. In endurance racing, Mass won the 24 Hours of Le Mans in…
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1946
Australian cricketer and educator
Andrew Paul Sheahan is a former Australian international cricketer who played 31 Test matches and three One Day Internationals as an opening and middle order batsman between 1967 and 1973.
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1946
French journalist, founded Raëlism
Raël is a French journalist and religious leader who founded and leads the Raëlian Movement, an international UFO religion.
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1946
English singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 1977)
Marc Bolan was an English guitarist, singer-songwriter and poet. He was a pioneer of the glam rock movement in the early 1970s with his band T. Rex. Bolan is an influence on artists in the genres of glam rock, punk,…
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1947
English actress
Rula Lenska is a British actress. She mainly appears in British stage and television productions, but reached notoriety in the United States for a series of television advertisements in the 1970s and 1980s; in the…
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1947
American baseball player and coach (died 2006)
Craig Robert Kusick was an American professional baseball first baseman and designated hitter. He played in Major League Baseball for the Minnesota Twins and Toronto Blue Jays.
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1948
French pilot, engineer, military officer and astronaut
Michel Ange-Charles Tognini is a French test pilot, engineer, brigadier general in the French Air Force, and a former CNES and ESA astronaut who served from 1 January 2005 to 1 November 2011 as head of the European…
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1949
Mexican author and screenwriter
Laura Beatriz Esquivel Valdés is a Mexican novelist, screenwriter and former politician. Her first novel Como agua para chocolate became a bestseller in Mexico and the United States, and was later developed into an…
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1950
English actress and dancer
Victoria Tennant is a British actress. She is known for her roles in the TV miniseries The Winds of War and War and Remembrance, in which she appeared as actor Robert Mitchum's on-screen love interest, Pamela Tudsbury,…
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1950
English screenwriter and producer
John Hardress Wilfred Lloyd is an English producer and writer of television and radio comedy. His television work includes Not the Nine O'Clock News, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Blackadder, Spitting Image and…
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1951
Australian physician and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
Barry James Marshall is an Australian physician, Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine, Professor of Clinical Microbiology and Co-Director of the Marshall Centre at the University of Western Australia. Marshall and…
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1951
English astrophysicist and academic
Simon David Manton White, FRS, is a British-German astrophysicist. He was one of directors at the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics before his retirement in late 2019.
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1951
1952
American singer-songwriter and guitarist
John Lombardo is one of the founding members of the American alternative rock band 10,000 Maniacs and one of the band's most influential members, writing much of its early material, also being its oldest member in age.…
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1952
1953
American country music singer-songwriter, author, and actress
Deborah Allen is an American country music singer and songwriter. Since 1976, Allen has issued 12 albums and charted 14 singles on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart. She recorded the 1983 crossover hit "Baby I…
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1953
1954
1954
American guitarist and composer
Scott Fields is a guitarist, composer, and bandleader. He is best known for blending music that is composed with music that is written and for his modular pieces. He works primarily in avant-garde jazz, experimental…
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1954
American singer-songwriter and producer
Patrice Louise Rushen is an American jazz pianist, R&B singer, record producer, multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, and music director.
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1954
American actor
Barry William Blenkhorn, better known by his stage name Barry Williams, is an American actor. He is known for his role as the eldest of the Brady sons, Greg Brady, on the ABC television series The Brady Bunch…
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1954
German engineer, co-founded Sun Microsystems
Andreas Maria Maximilian Freiherr von Mauchenheim genannt Bechtolsheim is a German electrical engineer, entrepreneur and investor. He co-founded Sun Microsystems in 1982 and was its chief hardware designer. As of 2025,…
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1955
Northern Irish flute player (died 1994)
Frankie Kennedy was a flute and tin whistle player born in Belfast, Northern Ireland. He was also the co-founder of the band Altan, formed with his wife Mairéad Ní Mhaonaigh. The popular Frankie Kennedy Winter Music…
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1955
English footballer and manager
Trevor James Morgan is an English football coach and former player.
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1956
American actress, producer, and screenwriter
Francine Joy Drescher is an American actress, writer, comedian, producer, and former trade union leader. She played Fran Fine in the television sitcom The Nanny (1993–1999), which she created and produced with her…
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1957
American singer-songwriter and guitarist
John Marty Stuart is an American country and bluegrass music singer, songwriter, and musician. Active since 1968, Stuart initially toured with Lester Flatt, and then in Johnny Cash's road band before beginning work as a…
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1958
Italian basketball player and coach
Ettore Messina is an Italian professional basketball executive and former coach who last coached Olimpia Milano of the Italian Lega Basket Serie A (LBA). He has won four EuroLeague championships as a head coach. Messina…
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1959
Canadian-English keyboard player, composer, and producer
Julia Adamson is a Canadian composer, musician and current label manager of Invisiblegirl Records. She came to prominence as a recording engineer, and was a member of the Fall between 1995 and 2001.
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1960
English-American author
Nicola Griffith is a British American novelist, essayist, and teacher. She has won the Washington State Book Award (twice), Nebula Award, James Tiptree, Jr. Award, World Fantasy Award, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and…
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1960
American singer-songwriter, producer, and actress
Alicia Michelle "Miki" Howard is an American R&B singer who had top 10 hit songs in the mid-1980s and early 1990s, including "Baby, Be Mine" (1987), "Come Share My Love" (1986) and "Love Under New Management" (1990).…
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1960
American politician
Blanche Lambert Lincoln is an American politician who served as a United States senator from Arkansas from 1999 to 2011. A member of the Democratic Party, she was first elected to the Senate in 1998; she was the first…
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1960
American actress and singer-songwriter
Crystal Lynn Bernard is a retired American singer-songwriter and actress, best known for her roles as Helen Chappel-Hackett on the sitcom Wings (1990–1997), Amy on It's a Living (1985–1989), and K.C. Cunningham on Happy…
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1961
Australian rugby league player
Gary Coyne is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1980s and 1990s. An Australia international and Queensland State of Origin representative forward, he played club football in the…
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1961
American actor, director, and producer
Eric Cameron Stoltz is an American actor, director and producer. He played Rocky Dennis in the biographical drama film Mask (1985), which earned him the nomination for the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor in…
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1961
English politician
Sir Melvyn John Stride is a British politician who has served as Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer in Kemi Badenoch's Shadow Cabinet since November 2024. A member of the Conservative Party, he has been the Member of…
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1961
Belgian race car driver
Eric Francis Edouard Ghislain Thérèse van de Poele is a Belgian racing driver and former Formula One driver. He participated in 29 Grands Prix, in 1991 and 1992. He is a three-times class winner at 24 Hours of Le Mans,…
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1961
American record producer and rapper
Marlon Lu'Ree Williams, better known by his stage name Marley Marl, is an American DJ, record producer, rapper and record label founder, primarily operating in hip-hop music. Marlon grew up in Queensbridge housing…
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1962
American bass player and producer
David Barbe is an American musician and producer/engineer from Athens, Georgia, and director of the Music Business Certificate Program at the University of Georgia. He is chief of Chase Park Transduction studio in…
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1963
American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and composer
Ernest Joseph "Trey" Anastasio III is an American guitarist, composer, and singer-songwriter best known as the lead guitarist of the rock band Phish, which he co-founded in 1983. He is credited by name as composer of…
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1964
Italian actress and fashion model
Monica Anna Maria Bellucci is an Italian actress who began her career as a fashion model before working in Italian, American, and French films. She has an eclectic filmography in a range of genres and languages, and her…
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1964
English comedian, actor, and producer
Omid Djalili is a British comedian, actor, and writer of Iranian descent. He began his career at the 1995 Edinburgh Festival Fringe and has gone on to become a touring comedian with a substantial list of film and…
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1965
Scottish rugby player
Gary Armstrong is a former Scotland international rugby union player. He played scrum-half for Jed-Forest RFC, Newcastle Falcons and the Border Reivers.
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1966
German pianist, composer, and educator
Markus Burger is a German pianist, composer, and music educator. Since 2001, he has lived in California, where he works at Fullerton College and San Diego University.
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1966
American social media personality
Club Chalamet is a fan account on both Twitter and Instagram for the American and French actor Timothée Chalamet run by Simone Cromer. She created her Twitter account for him in 2018, following his success in Call Me by…
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1966
Australian politician
Angus James Taylor is an Australian politician who has served as the leader of the Opposition and the leader of the Liberal Party since 2026. He has been the member of parliament (MP) for the New South Wales division of…
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1966
1967
American musician, radio personality and painter
Gibson Jerome Haynes is an American musician, radio personality, painter, author and the lead singer of the band Butthole Surfers.
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1967
Canadian actress
Andrea Roth is a Canadian actress. She is perhaps best known for her roles as Janet Gavin, the wife of main character Tommy Gavin, on the FX television series Rescue Me (2004–2011), as Victoria Chase in The Collector…
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1967
Lithuanian basketball player
Gintaras Einikis is a Lithuanian retired professional basketball player and current coach. He stands at 6 ft 10 in (208 cm), and is a former center for the senior Lithuanian national team. Einikis is the only player…
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1969
American actress
Amy Lauren Landecker is an American actress. She is known for her role as Sarah Pfefferman on the Amazon comedy-drama series Transparent (2014–2019), as well as her supporting roles in the films Dan in Real Life (2007),…
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1969
American actor
Silas Weir Mitchell is an American character actor. He is known for starring as Charles "Haywire" Patoshik in the Fox television series Prison Break (2005–2007), for the recurring role of Donny Jones in My Name Is Earl…
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1969
American wrestler (died 1991)
Christopher Barton Adkisson was an American professional wrestler, best known under the ring name Chris Von Erich of the Von Erich family.
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1969
1970
Australian footballer and manager
Damian Mori is an Australian former football player who is an assistant coach for Adelaide United. He won two Johnny Warren Medals, awarded to the best player in the Australian league and was top scorer on 5 occasions.…
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1970
American basketball player
Eric Todd Piatkowski is an American former professional basketball player in the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played college basketball for the Nebraska Cornhuskers. He is the son of former ABA player Walt…
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1970
American actress and producer
Jenna Elfman is an American actress. She is best known for her leading role as Dharma on the ABC sitcom Dharma & Greg (1997–2002), for which she received the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Television Series…
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1971
American football player and sportscaster
Jamal Sharif Anderson is an American former professional football player who was a running back for the Atlanta Falcons of the National Football League (NFL). He was selected by the Falcons in the seventh round of the…
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1972
1972
Japanese singer-songwriter
Mayumi Kojima is a Japanese Shibuya-kei musician. As of 2015, she has released 10 studio albums, 3 extended plays and several singles. Her music has been featured in multiple movies and television commercials. In the…
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1972
1972
Argentine basketball player
Rubén Oscar Wolkowyski is an Argentine former professional basketball player, who also holds Polish citizenship. At a height of 2.08 m tall, he played at the power forward and center positions.
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1973
American baseball player (died 2022)
Jeremy Dean Giambi was an American outfielder and first baseman in Major League Baseball (MLB). He played for four teams from 1998 to 2003, primarily the Oakland Athletics, where he was a teammate of his older brother…
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1974
English politician
Thomas James Greatrex is a British Labour Co-op politician, who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Rutherglen and Hamilton West between 2010 and 2015 and the Shadow Energy Minister from 2011 to 2015.
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1974
1974
1975
American author and journalist
Ta-Nehisi Paul Coates is an American author, journalist, and activist. He gained a wide readership during his time as national correspondent at The Atlantic, where he wrote about cultural, social, and political issues,…
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1975
French actress and singer
Marion Cotillard is a French actress who has appeared in both European and Hollywood productions. She is the recipient of various accolades, including an Academy Award, a British Academy Film Award, two César Awards,…
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1975
Venezuelan baseball player
Carlos Alfonso Guillén is a Venezuelan former professional baseball infielder. He played in Major League Baseball for the Seattle Mariners and Detroit Tigers.
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1975
1975
American actor, singer, musician, and composer
Christopher Neal Jackson is an American actor and singer. He began his career in 1995 starring in the Off-Broadway musical Time and the Wind by composer Galt MacDermot at the age of 20. He made his Broadway debut in…
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1975
Northern Irish goalkeeper and manager
Roy Eric Carroll is a Northern Irish professional football coach and former player who played as a goalkeeper. He is best known for his spells at English clubs Wigan Athletic and Manchester United as well as in Greece…
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1977
American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (died 2012)
Nick Curran was an American blues/rock and roll singer and guitarist. He has been likened to T-Bone Walker, Little Richard, The Sonics, Doug Sahm, Misfits Eddie Cochran
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1977
Polish volleyball player
Małgorzata Glinka-Mogentale is a Polish retired volleyball player. She was a member of Poland women's national volleyball team in 1997–2014, a participant of the Olympic Games Beijing 2008, double European Champion, and…
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1978
American wrestler
Candice Michelle Beckman, better known as Candice Michelle, is an American model, actress and retired professional wrestler. She is signed to Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) as a producer. She is best known for her…
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1978
Australian footballer and coach
Cameron Bruce is a former professional Australian rules footballer who played for the Melbourne Football Club and Hawthorn Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). He is currently serving as an assistant…
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1979
Dutch footballer
Andy van der Meijde, anglicised to van der Meyde, is a Dutch former professional footballer who played as a winger.
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1979
Swiss tennis player
Martina Hingis is a Swiss former professional tennis player. She was ranked as the world No. 1 in women's singles by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) for 209 weeks and as the world No. 1 in women's doubles for 90…
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1980
Venezuelan tennis player
Milagros Sequera Huss is a Venezuelan former professional tennis player.
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1980
American actress
Toni Trucks is an American actress, best known as Lisa Davis on SEAL Team (2017–2024).
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1980
Irish author
Cecelia Ahern is an Irish novelist, known for her works like PS, I Love You; Where Rainbows End; and If You Could See Me Now. Born in Dublin, Ahern is published in nearly fifty countries, and has sold over 25 million…
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1981
American gymnast
Dominique Helena Moceanu is an American former artistic gymnast. She was a member of the gold medal-winning United States women's gymnastics team, the "Magnificent Seven", at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta. She won…
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1981
American actress
Lacey Nicole Chabert is an American actress. One of her first roles as a child actress was the part of Bianca Montgomery, the daughter of Erica Kane, on All My Children from 1992 to 1993. She gained further prominence…
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1982
American actor
Kieran Culkin is an American actor. Known for portraying distasteful yet sympathetic characters across stage and screen, his accolades include an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, a Primetime Emmy Award, and two Golden…
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1982
Australian politician
Andrew William Hastie is an Australian politician and former military officer who has served as the deputy leader of the Opposition and the deputy leader of the Liberal Party in the House of Representatives since 2026.…
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1982
American baseball player
Garry Seth Smith is an American former professional baseball outfielder. He played Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Colorado Rockies, Oakland Athletics, San Diego Padres, Seattle Mariners and Baltimore Orioles. He…
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1982
American football player and analyst
Adam Bernard Jones is an American former professional football player who was a cornerback and return specialist in the National Football League (NFL) for 13 seasons. Nicknamed "Pacman", he played college football for…
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1983
Romanian gymnast
Andreea Mădălina Răducan is a Romanian sports announcer, journalist, and retired gymnast.
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1983
1984
Australian footballer
Adam Cooney is a former professional Australian rules footballer who played for the Western Bulldogs and Essendon Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). He won the Brownlow Medal in 2008, with 24 votes…
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1985
Serbian-American author
Téa Obreht is an American novelist. She won the Orange Prize for Fiction in 2011 for The Tiger's Wife, her debut novel.
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1985
Uruguayan footballer
Cristian Gabriel Rodríguez Barrotti is a Uruguayan former professional footballer who played as a winger.
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1985
French footballer
Olivier Jonathan Giroud is a French professional footballer who plays as a striker for Ligue 1 club Lille. He is the all-time top goalscorer of the France national team.
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1986
New Zealand cricketer
Martin James Guptill is a New Zealand cricketer who played for New Zealand as an opening batsman in all formats of the game. Guptill is the first cricketer from New Zealand and the fifth overall to have scored a double…
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1986
Welsh musician and songwriter
Benjamin Walter David Lovett is a British musician and producer, best known for being a member of the British folk rock band Mumford & Sons.
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1986
Colombian footballer
Cristián Eduardo Zapata Valencia is a Colombian professional footballer who plays as a centre-back. A quick and physically powerful defender, known for his hard marking of opponents and strength in the air, he usually…
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1986
Russian operatic soprano
Aida Emilevna Garifullina is a Russian lyric soprano of Tatar descent. She was the winner of the 2013 Operalia competition and has featured in a number of productions staged at the Mariinsky Theatre, St. Petersburg and…
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1987
Curaçaoan baseball player
Kenley Geronimo Jansen is a Curaçaoan professional baseball pitcher for the Detroit Tigers of Major League Baseball (MLB). He has previously played in MLB for the Los Angeles Dodgers, Atlanta Braves, Boston Red Sox, and…
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1987
Belgian politician
Natalie Eggermont is a Belgian physician, politician and member of the Chamber of Representatives. A member of the Workers' Party of Belgium, she has represented West Flanders since June 2024.
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1988
American basketball player
Jasmine Thomas is an American former professional basketball player. She last played for the Los Angeles Sparks of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA).
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1989
American football player
David Afrasiab Assad Bakhtiari is an American former professional football offensive tackle. Selected by the Green Bay Packers of the National Football League (NFL) in the fourth round of the 2013 NFL draft, Bakhtiari…
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1991
French basketball player
Joffrey Lauvergne is a French professional basketball player for Partizan Mozzart Bet of the Serbian KLS, the ABA League and the EuroLeague. He was drafted 55th overall by the Memphis Grizzlies in the 2013 NBA draft,…
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1991
German javelin thrower
Thomas Röhler is a German track and field athlete who competes in the javelin throw. He is the 2016 Olympic Champion and 2018 European Champion. His personal best of 93.90 m for the event ranks him third on the overall…
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1991
French-American basketball player
Bria Nicole Hartley is a French-American professional basketball player for the Connecticut Sun of the WNBA and Galatasaray of the Turkish Super League. She was drafted seventh overall by the Seattle Storm in the 2014…
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1992
American actor and singer
Ezra Matthew Miller is an American actor. Their feature film debut was in Afterschool (2008), which they followed by starring in the dramas We Need to Talk About Kevin (2011) and The Perks of Being a Wallflower (2012).
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1992
1994
American basketball player
Aaron Shawn Holiday is an American professional basketball player for the Houston Rockets of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played college basketball for the UCLA Bruins, where he earned All-American…
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1996
Russian gymnast
Yana Alexeyevna Kudryavtseva is a retired Russian individual rhythmic gymnast. She is the 2016 Olympic All-around silver medalist, three-time World Champion in the All-around (2013–2015), the 2015 European Games…
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1997
Dutch race car driver
Max Emilian Verstappen is a Dutch and Belgian racing driver who competes under the Dutch flag in Formula One for Red Bull Racing. Verstappen has won four Formula One World Drivers' Championship titles, which he won…
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1997
American football player
Landon Marshall Dickerson is an American professional football guard for the Philadelphia Eagles of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football as a center for the Florida State Seminoles and the…
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1998
Japanese actress, singer, model, and television personality
Yui Imaizumi is a Japanese actress, singer, model, and television personality. She rose to prominence as a founding member of the girl group Keyakizaka46. Beyond her musical career, she entered the fashion industry,…
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1998
American YouTuber and singer
Trevi Michaela Moran is an American singer and YouTube personality. She rose to fame after participating in The X Factor in 2012 at the age of 13. As of April 2020, Moran's YouTube channel surpassed 1.4 million…
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1998
Australian actor and model
Levi Zane Miller is an Australian actor and model. He is known for playing Peter Pan in Pan (2015), Luke in Better Watch Out (2016), and Calvin in A Wrinkle in Time (2018).
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2002
American dancer and actress
Madison Nicole Ziegler is an American actress and dancer. She appeared in Lifetime's reality show Dance Moms from 2011 at age 8 until 2016, and starred in a series of music videos by Sia, beginning with "Chandelier" and…
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2002
Spanish footballer
Alberto Moleiro González is a Spanish professional footballer who plays as a winger or an attacking midfielder for Villarreal CF.
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2003
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