Friday, 10th April 2026 in Lisbon

On this day, 235 notable people were born on 10th April — spanning from 401 to 2004. From world leaders to artists and scientists, discover who shares this birthday.

10/04/2004

Ismaël Gharbi, French-Spanish footballer

Ismaël Seifallah Gharbi is a professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Bundesliga club FC Augsburg, on loan from Primeira Liga club Braga. Born in France and a former youth international for France and Spain, he plays for the Tunisia national team.

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Savinho, Brazilian footballer

Sávio Moreira de Oliveira, known as Savinho or simply Sávio, is a Brazilian professional footballer who plays as a winger for Premier League club Manchester City and the Brazil national team.

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10/04/2000

Fidias Panayiotou, Cypriot internet celebrity and politician

Fidias Panayiotou, known mononymously as Fidias, is a Greek-Cypriot politician, influencer, social media personality, and YouTuber who has served as a Member of the European Parliament for Cyprus since July 2024. Originally elected as an independent in the 2024 European Parliament election, Panayiotou founded the political party Direct Democracy Cyprus in October 2025.

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10/04/1997

Claire Wineland, American activist and author (died 2018)

Claire Lucia Wineland was an American activist, author, speaker and social media personality. Through her non-profit organization, Claire's Place Foundation, she provided support to children and families affected by cystic fibrosis (CF). She died from a blood clot one week after receiving a double lung transplant at the age of 21.

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10/04/1996

Andreas Christensen, Danish footballer

Andreas Bødtker Christensen is a Danish professional footballer who plays as a centre-back for La Liga club Barcelona and the Denmark national team.

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10/04/1994

Siobhan Hunter, Scottish footballer

Siobhan Hunter is a Scottish footballer who plays as a defender for Hibernian in the Scottish Women's Premier League.

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10/04/1992

Jack Buchanan, Australian rugby league player

Jack Buchanan is an Australian professional rugby league footballer who plays as a prop for the Burleigh Bears in the Queensland Cup.

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Chaz Mostert, Australian racing driver

Chaz Michael Mostert is an Australian professional racing driver competing in the Repco Supercars Championship. He currently drives the No. 1 Toyota GR Supra for Walkinshaw TWG Racing. Mostert won the 2025 Supercars Championship and the inaugural Supercars Finals Series driving for Walkinshaw Andretti United.

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Daisy Ridley, English actress

Daisy Jazz Isobel Ridley is an English actress. She rose to prominence for her role as Rey in the Star Wars sequel trilogy from 2015 until 2019. Following the Star Wars films, Ridley appeared in the mystery film Murder on the Orient Express (2017), and played Ophelia in the romantic drama Ophelia (2018). She had voice roles in the animated film Peter Rabbit (2018) and the video game Twelve Minutes (2021). She subsequently had leading roles in the science-fiction film Chaos Walking (2021), the independent drama Sometimes I Think About Dying (2023), and the psychological thriller The Marsh King's Daughter (2023). She also portrayed Gertrude Ederle in the biographical drama Young Woman and the Sea (2024).

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10/04/1990

Ben Amos, English footballer

Benjamin Paul Amos is an English professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for EFL League Two club Port Vale. He was capped by England up to under-21 level. He will become a free agent on 30 June 2026.

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Andile Jali, South African footballer

Andile Ernest Jali is a South African professional soccer player who once played for Orlando Pirates, Mamelodi Sundowns and is currently signed to Chippa United. He also plays for the South African national team.

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Alex Pettyfer, English actor

Alexander Richard Pettyfer is an English actor and model. He started acting in school plays and on television before his breakthrough portraying Alex Rider in the spy film Stormbreaker (2006), for which he received various accolades including nominations for a Young Artist Award and an Empire Award for his role. His career progressed with starring roles in the films Wild Child (2008), I Am Number Four (2011), in which he portrayed titular lead, and Beastly (2011).

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10/04/1989

Charlie Culberson, American baseball player

Charles Edward Culberson is an American former professional baseball infielder. The San Francisco Giants drafted Culberson in the first round in the 2007 MLB draft. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Giants, Colorado Rockies, Los Angeles Dodgers, Atlanta Braves, and Texas Rangers.

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10/04/1988

Chris Heston, American baseball pitcher

Christopher Lee Heston is an American former professional baseball pitcher. He played college baseball for East Carolina University and played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the San Francisco Giants, the Seattle Mariners and the Minnesota Twins. On June 9, 2015, he threw the 17th no-hitter in Giants franchise history.

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Kareem Jackson, American football player

Kareem Jackson is an American professional football executive and former defensive back and who is an area scout for the Denver Broncos of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Alabama Crimson Tide. Jackson was selected by the Houston Texans in the first round of the 2010 NFL draft. He has also played for the Broncos and Buffalo Bills.

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Haley Joel Osment, American actor

Haley Joel Osment is an American actor. Beginning his career as a child actor, Osment's role in the comedy-drama film Forrest Gump (1994) won him a Young Artist Award. His breakthrough came with the psychological thriller film The Sixth Sense (1999), for which he won a Saturn Award and was nominated for an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award, and a Screen Actors Guild Award. Osment achieved further success with the drama film Pay It Forward (2000), the science fiction film A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001), which won him a second Saturn Award, the comedy film Secondhand Lions (2003), which won him a Critics Choice Award, and the animated film The Jungle Book 2 (2003).

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Jan-Phillip Tadsen, German politician

Jan-Phillip Tadsen is a German politician serving as a member of the Landtag of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern since 2021. He has been a member of the Alternative for Germany since 2015.

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10/04/1987

Ahmed Adel Abdel Moneam, Egyptian footballer

Ahmed Adel Abdel Moneam is an Egyptian professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Egyptian League club Ismaily SC.

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Adam Friedland, American comedian

Adam Dean Friedland is an American stand-up comedian, talk-show host and podcaster. Described by GQ as a potential "Millennial Jon Stewart", he hosts the online comedy talk show The Adam Friedland Show, an offshoot of the comedy podcast Cum Town he co-hosted with Nick Mullen and Stavros Halkias.

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Hayley Westenra, New Zealand soprano

Hayley Dee Westenra is a New Zealand classical crossover singer. Her first internationally released album, Pure, reached number one on the UK classical charts in 2003 and has sold more than two million copies worldwide, making it one of the fastest selling albums in her country's history.

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10/04/1986

Olivia Borlée, Belgian sprinter

Olivia Borlée is a retired Belgian sprinter who specialized in the 200 metres. Her personal best time in the 200 is 22.98 seconds, achieved in July 2006 in Brussels. She has a personal best of 11.39 seconds in the 100 metres. She won a gold medal in the 4 × 100 m relay at the 2008 Summer Olympics with teammates Hanna Mariën, Élodie Ouédraogo, and Kim Gevaert in a time of 42.54 seconds, which set a new Belgian record.

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Fernando Gago, Argentine footballer and manager

Fernando Rubén Gago is an Argentine football manager and former player. He is the manager of Universidad de Chile.

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Corey Kluber, American baseball pitcher

Corey Scott Kluber is an American former professional baseball pitcher. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Cleveland Indians, Texas Rangers, New York Yankees, Tampa Bay Rays and Boston Red Sox. He made his MLB debut in 2011 as a member of the Indians. A power pitcher, Kluber achieved high strikeout rates through a two-seam sinker and a breaking ball that variously resembled a slider and a curveball.

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Vincent Kompany, Belgian footballer and manager

Vincent Jean Mpoy Kompany is a Belgian professional football manager and former player who played as a centre-back. He is the head coach of Bundesliga club Bayern Munich. As a player, he is best known for his eleven seasons at Manchester City, eight of which he served as captain. Kompany also represented the Belgium national team for fifteen years and served as its captain.

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Tore Reginiussen, Norwegian footballer

Tore Reginiussen is a Norwegian former professional footballer. Reginiussen has previously played for the clubs Tromsø, Schalke 04, Lecce, OB, Rosenborg, FC St. Pauli and Alta and has been capped playing for Norway. Reginiussen played as a centre back, but could also play as a central midfielder.

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10/04/1985

Barkhad Abdi, Somali-American actor and director

Barkhad Abdi is a Somali actor. He made his acting debut as the pirate Abduwali Muse in the biographical drama film Captain Phillips (2013), which earned him a British Academy Film Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role, along with Academy Award, Golden Globe Award, and Actor Award nominations.

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Willo Flood, Irish footballer

William Robert Flood is an Irish former professional footballer who played as a midfielder. He earned 15 caps for his country at under-20 and under-21 levels. He represented eight clubs in England and Scotland including Manchester City, Cardiff City, Dundee United, Celtic, Middlesbrough and Aberdeen.

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Jesús Gámez, Spanish footballer

Jesús Gámez Duarte is a Spanish former professional footballer who played mainly as a right-back.

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Dion Phaneuf, Canadian ice hockey player

Dion Phaneuf is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player who was a defenseman for the Calgary Flames, Toronto Maple Leafs, Ottawa Senators and Los Angeles Kings of the National Hockey League (NHL). He was drafted ninth overall in the 2003 NHL entry draft by Calgary and made his NHL debut in 2005 after a four-year junior career with the Red Deer Rebels of the Western Hockey League (WHL), in which he was twice named the Defenceman of the Year.

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10/04/1984

Faustina Agolley, Australian television host

Faustina "Fuzzy" Agolley is an Australian television presenter best known for her role as the host of long-running Australian music program Video Hits on Channel 10. She was also the host of late-night game and gadget review program Cybershack and is a graduate from the University of Melbourne and RMIT University. She previously co-hosted The Voice alongside Darren McMullen.

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Jeremy Barrett, American figure skater

Jeremy Barrett is an American former pair skater. With Caydee Denney, he became the 2010 U.S. national champion and competed at the 2010 Winter Olympics. During the pairs short program at the 2010 Olympics, Denney and Barrett became the first team to land a throw triple Lutz jump at any Winter Olympic competition.

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Mandy Moore, American singer-songwriter and actress

Amanda Leigh Moore is an American singer-songwriter and actress. She rose to fame with her 1999 debut single "Candy", which peaked at number 41 on the Billboard Hot 100. Her debut studio album, So Real (1999), received platinum certification from the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). The title track from her reissue of So Real, I Wanna Be With You (2000), became Moore's first top 40 single, peaking at 24. Moore then released the albums Mandy Moore (2001), Coverage (2003), Wild Hope (2007), Amanda Leigh (2009), Silver Landings (2020), and In Real Life (2022).

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David Obua, Ugandan footballer

David Obua is a Ugandan football coach and former professional football player. He is the coach of URA FC in the Ugandan Premier League. He was appointed in November 2023. During his playing career, Obua played for Police FC, Raleigh Capital Express, Wilmington Hammerheads, Kaizer Chiefs and Heart of Midlothian in the Scottish Premier League. At international level, he represented Uganda national team and has a record of being the country's all-time goal scorer record in the Africa Nations Cup and World Cup qualifiers.

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Damien Perquis, French-Polish footballer

Damien Albert René Perquis is a former professional footballer and current assistant coach of Gazélec Ajaccio's B-team.

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Gonzalo Javier Rodríguez, Argentinian footballer

Gonzalo Javier Rodríguez Prado is an Argentine former professional footballer who played as a central defender.

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10/04/1983

Jamie Chung, American actress

Jamie Jilynn Chung is an American actress and former reality television personality. She began her career in 2004 as a cast member on the MTV reality series The Real World: San Diego and subsequently through her appearances on its spin-off series, Real World/Road Rules Challenge: The Inferno II. She is regarded by many as the Real World alumna with the most successful media career.

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Andrew Dost, American guitarist and songwriter

Andrew Paul Dost is an American musician and singer; he is a member of the indie bossa nova/jazz band Metal Bubble Trio, in which he is the lead singer. He was formerly a member of the indie rock band Anathallo from 2003 to 2007, as well as the indie rock band Fun. from 2008 to 2015.

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Ryan Merriman, American actor

Ryan Earl Merriman is an American actor. He began his career at the age of ten and has appeared in several feature films and television shows. He is best known for a handful of Disney Channel original movies and for portraying Jake Pierce in The Ring Two, Kevin Fischer in Final Destination 3, and Ian Thomas in Pretty Little Liars.

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Hannes Sigurðsson, Icelandic footballer

Hannes Þorsteinn Sigurðsson is an Icelandic football manager and former player who played as a forward. He is the manager of German club SV Wacker Burghausen.

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10/04/1982

Andre Ethier, American baseball player

Andre Everett Ethier is an American former professional baseball outfielder. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Los Angeles Dodgers from 2006 to 2017.

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10/04/1981

Laura Bell Bundy, American actress and singer

Laura Ashley Bell Bundy-Hinkle is an American actress and singer-songwriter. Her career started as a child, when her mother entered her in beauty pageants, where she would sing as a talent. After recognizing her singing ability, her mother took her to New York City, where she found success as a child actress and model, signing with Ford Modeling Agency in 1986. She was cast as the lead in Ruthless! at age 9 in 1991. She later gained wider recognition for her role as the young Sarah Whittle in 1995's Jumanji. Later she played Marah Lewis on the daytime soap Guiding Light from 1999 to 2001.

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Liz McClarnon, English singer and dancer

Elizabeth Margaret McClarnon-Cho is an English singer, songwriter and actress, who is the longest serving member of the girl group Atomic Kitten, with whom she has scored three number-one singles and two number-one albums. McClarnon co-wrote several Atomic Kitten songs, including the UK top 10 hits "See Ya", "I Want Your Love" and "Someone Like Me".

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Michael Pitt, American actor, model and musician

Michael Carmen Pitt is an American actor and model. In film, he has appeared in Hedwig and the Angry Inch (2001), Bully (2001), Murder by Numbers (2002), The Dreamers (2003), Last Days (2005), Silk (2007), Funny Games (2007), I Origins (2014), and Ghost in the Shell (2017). In television, he portrayed Henry Parker in the teen drama Dawson's Creek (1999–2000), Jimmy Darmody in the HBO series Boardwalk Empire (2010–2011), and Mason Verger in the second season of the NBC series Hannibal (2014).

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Alexei Semenov, Russian ice hockey player

Alexei Anatolevich Semenov is a Russian former professional ice hockey defenceman. He played in the National Hockey League (NHL) and the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL). Semenov was selected by the Edmonton Oilers in the second round of the 1999 NHL entry draft, 36th overall.

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10/04/1980

Sean Avery, Canadian ice hockey player and model

Sean Christopher Avery is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player and actor. During his career in the National Hockey League (NHL), he played left wing for the Detroit Red Wings, Los Angeles Kings, New York Rangers, and Dallas Stars, gaining recognition for controversial and disrespectful behaviour both on and off the ice. His agitating playing style led to multiple teams waiving him and to having a contract terminated. He led the league in penalty minutes twice, during the 2003–04 and 2005–06 NHL seasons.

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Charlie Hunnam, English actor

Charles Matthew Hunnam is an English actor. He portrayed Jax Teller in the FX drama series Sons of Anarchy (2008–2014), for which he was twice nominated for the Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Actor.

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Shao Jiayi, Chinese footballer

Shao Jiayi is a Chinese professional football manager and a former professional footballer who played as a midfielder. He is the head coach of the China national football team. He represented Beijing Guoan, TSV 1860 Munich, Energie Cottbus and MSV Duisburg as well as the China national team with which he participated in the 2000 AFC Asian Cup, 2002 FIFA World Cup and 2004 AFC Asian Cup.

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Kasey Kahne, American race car driver

Kasey Kenneth Kahne is an American professional dirt track racing and stock car racing driver. He last competed part-time in the NASCAR Xfinity Series, driving the No. 33 Chevrolet Camaro SS for Richard Childress Racing. Currently, Kahne competes in High Limit Racing, driving the No. 9 sprint car for his own team, Kasey Kahne Racing.

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Andy Ram, Israeli tennis player

Andreas "Andy" Ram is an Israeli retired professional tennis player. He was primarily a doubles player, and competed in three Olympics.

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Bryce Soderberg, American singer-songwriter and bass player

Bryce Dane Soderberg is a Canadian musician and songwriter, best known as the bassist and vocalist for American rock band Lifehouse.

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10/04/1979

Iván Alonso, Uruguayan footballer

Iván Daniel Alonso Vallejo is a Uruguayan former professional footballer who played as a striker. He is the sporting director of Liga MX club Cruz Azul.

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Kenyon Coleman, American football player

Kenyon Octavia Coleman is an American former professional football player who was a defensive end in the National Football League (NFL) for the Oakland Raiders, Dallas Cowboys, New York Jets, Cleveland Browns, and New Orleans Saints. He played college football for UCLA Bruins.

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Rachel Corrie, American activist (died 2003)

Rachel Aliene Corrie was an American nonviolence activist and diarist. She was a member of the pro-Palestinian International Solidarity Movement (ISM), and was active throughout the Israeli-occupied Palestinian territories. In 2003, she was in Rafah, a city in the Gaza Strip then under Israeli occupation, where the demolishment of Palestinian houses by Israeli forces was taking place at the height of the Second Intifada. While protesting the demolitions as they were being carried out, she was killed by an Israeli driving an armored bulldozer that crushed her.

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Tsuyoshi Domoto, Japanese singer-songwriter and actor

Tsuyoshi Domoto is a Japanese idol, singer, songwriter, actor, and television personality. Along with Koichi Domoto, he is a member of Domoto, which is a Japanese duo under the management of Starto Entertainment and the record holder of Guinness World Records for having the record of the most consecutive number-one singles since their debut single.

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Sophie Ellis-Bextor, English singer-songwriter

Sophie Michelle Ellis-Bextor is an English singer and songwriter. She first came to prominence in the late 1990s as the lead vocalist of the indie rock band theaudience. After the group disbanded, Ellis-Bextor went solo and achieved success beginning in the early 2000s. Her music is mainstream pop and dance with influences of disco, nu-disco, and 1980s electronic music.

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Pavlos Fyssas, Greek rapper (died 2013)

Pavlos Fyssas, also known by his stage name Killah P, was a Greek rapper, notable for his participation and performance in musical projects, as well as for his anti-fascist activism. He toured well-known venues in Athens and throughout Greece. He was murdered on 18 September 2013 by a member of the neo-fascist group Golden Dawn.

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Peter Kopteff, Finnish footballer

Peter Kopteff is a Finnish former professional footballer who played as a left winger.

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10/04/1978

Sir Christus, Finnish guitarist (died 2017)

Sir Christus was a Finnish guitarist, best known as the former rhythm guitarist of the glam rock band Negative. His father was Arwo Mikkonen, guitarist of the Finnish rock band Popeda. His father died in 1986, leaving eight-year-old Christus and his four-year-old brother Matthau without a father figure in their life.

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10/04/1977

Stephanie Sheh, Taiwanese-American voice actress, director, and producer

Stephanie Ru-Phan Sheh is an American voice actress, ADR director, writer, and producer who has worked for several major companies. She is often involved with work in English dubs of anime, cartoons, video games, and films. Her notable voice roles include Hinata Hyuga in the Naruto franchise, Orihime Inoue in Bleach, Usagi Tsukino/Sailor Moon in the Viz Media redub of Sailor Moon, Lotte Jansson in Little Witch Academia, Yui Hirasawa in K-On!, Eureka in Eureka Seven, Armor in X-Men, Katana in DC Super Hero Girls, Mikuru Asahina in The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya, Yui in Sword Art Online, Illyasviel von Einzbern in Fate/stay night, Mamimi Samejima in FLCL, Blanca in White Snake and Green Snake and Mitsuha Miyamizu in Your Name.

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10/04/1976

Clare Buckfield, English actress

Clare Buckfield is an English actress, best known for playing the role of Jenny Porter in the BBC sitcom 2point4 Children for most of the nineties and Natasha Stevens in the CBBC series Grange Hill.

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Yoshino Kimura, Japanese actress and singer

Yoshino Kimura is a Japanese actress and singer. She appeared on an episode of the Showtime series Masters of Horror. Kimura won the "Rookie of the Year" prize at the 21st Japan Academy Awards for her appearance in Shitsurakuen.

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Sara Renner, Canadian skier

Sara Renner is a Canadian former cross-country skier who competed from 1994 to 2010. With Beckie Scott, she won the silver medal in the team sprint event at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin and earned her best individual finish of eight in the 10 km classical event in those same games. She was born in Golden, British Columbia.

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10/04/1975

Chris Carrabba, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

Christopher Andrew Carrabba is an American musician who is the primary songwriter, lead singer, and guitarist of the band Dashboard Confessional, lead singer of the band Further Seems Forever, and lead vocalist for the folk band Twin Forks.

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Terrence Lewis, Indian dancer and choreographer

Terence Lewis is an Indian dancer and choreographer. He is known for judging the reality dance shows Dance India Dance (2009–2012) and Nach Baliye (2012–2017).

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10/04/1974

Eric Greitens, American soldier, author and politician

Eric Robert Greitens is an American politician, humanitarian, and former United States Navy SEAL. A member of the Republican Party, he served as the 56th governor of Missouri from January 2017 until his resignation in June 2018. His resignation followed multiple investigations involving allegations related to an extramarital relationship, in which he was accused of blackmail and sexual assault, and improper campaign‑finance practices, although all the associated criminal charges were later dropped.

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Petros Passalis, Greek footballer

Petros Passalis is a Greek former professional footballer who played as a defensive midfielder. He started his career at Edessaikos and transferred as a great talent at Olympiakos in 1994 where he starred for some years before joining Aris FC in 2001. He retired in 2007.

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10/04/1973

Guillaume Canet, French actor and director

Guillaume Arthur Jean-Louis Canet is a French actor, film director and screenwriter, and show jumper.

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Roberto Carlos, Brazilian footballer and manager

Roberto Carlos da Silva Rocha, often recognized as Roberto Carlos and sometimes RC3, is a Brazilian former professional footballer. He has been described as the "most offensive-minded left-back in the history of the game", and one of the greatest full-backs in history. In 1997, he was runner-up in the FIFA World Player of the Year and in 2002, was runner-up for the Ballon d'Or. He is primarily known for his long career at Real Madrid and constant presence on the Brazilian national team.

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Aidan Moffat, Scottish singer-songwriter

Aidan John Moffat is a Scottish vocalist and musician, and a member of the band Arab Strap.

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Christopher Simmons, Canadian-American graphic designer, author, and academic

Christopher Simmons, is a Canadian-born American graphic designer, design leader, writer, and educator. He is based in San Francisco, California.

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10/04/1972

Ian Harvey, Australian cricketer

Ian Joseph Harvey is a former Australian cricketer. He was an all-rounder who played 73 One Day Internationals for Australia and was named as one of the five Wisden Cricketers of the Year for 2004 for his performances in county cricket. He was a part of the Australian squad which won the 2003 Cricket World Cup.

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Priit Kasesalu, Estonian computer programmer, co-created Skype

Priit Kasesalu is an Estonian programmer and software developer best known for his participation in the development of Kazaa, Skype and, most recently, Joost. He currently works for Ambient Sound Investments and lives in Tallinn, Estonia.

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10/04/1971

Indro Olumets, Estonian footballer and coach

Indro Olumets is a former Estonian footballer who played as an offensive-minded midfielder. His last years of playing professional football were in the Estonian Meistriliiga side Nõmme Kalju. After that he has played for amateur teams including JK Kaitseliit Kalev.

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Al Reyes, Dominican-American baseball player

Rafael Alberto "Al" Reyes is a Dominican former Major League Baseball pitcher. A right-handed pitcher and career reliever, he played for seven teams; debuting on April 27, 1995, with the Milwaukee Brewers and playing for the Baltimore Orioles, Los Angeles Dodgers, Pittsburgh Pirates, New York Yankees, St. Louis Cardinals, and Tampa Bay Devil Rays/Rays, over the years.

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10/04/1970

Enrico Ciccone, Canadian ice hockey player

Enrico Pasquale Ciccone is a Canadian politician and former professional ice hockey defenceman who played in the National Hockey League (NHL). He currently represents Marquette as a member of the Quebec Liberal Party.

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Leonard Doroftei, Romanian-Canadian boxer

Leonard Dorin Doroftei is a Romanian former boxer, the WBA Lightweight World Champion from 5 January 2002 to 24 October 2003.

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Kenny Lattimore, American singer-songwriter

Kenneth Lee Lattimore is an American R&B singer known for his smooth, soulful voice and romantic ballads. He rose to prominence in the mid-1990s with the release of his self-titled album, Kenny Lattimore. In 2024, Lattimore was inducted into the Rhythm and Blues Music Hall of Fame.

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Q-Tip, American rapper, producer, and actor

Kamaal Ibn John Fareed, better known by his stage name Q-Tip, is an American rapper and record producer. Nicknamed the Abstract, he is noted for his innovative jazz-influenced style of hip hop production and his philosophical, esoteric and introspective lyrical themes. He embarked on his music career in the late 1980s, as an MC and main producer of the influential alternative hip hop group A Tribe Called Quest. In the mid-1990s, he co-founded the production team The Ummah, followed by the release of his gold-certified solo debut Amplified in 1999. In the following decade, he released the Grammy Award-nominated album The Renaissance (2008) and the experimental album Kamaal the Abstract (2009).

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10/04/1969

Steve Glasson, Australian lawn bowler

Stephen John Glasson OAM is an Australian bowls player. He was number one in the world in 2004 and was ranked first in Australia between 1997 and 2005. He is currently the Australian national bowls coach.

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Ekaterini Koffa, Greek sprinter

Ekaterini "Katerina" Koffa is a retired Greek sprinter who won the 200 metres at the 1997 IAAF World Indoor Championships. Koffa still holds the indoor and outdoor Greek records in 200 metres.

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10/04/1968

Metin Göktepe, Turkish photographer and journalist (died 1996)

Metin Göktepe was a Kurdish photojournalist who was tortured and murdered in police custody in Istanbul on January 8, 1996.

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Orlando Jones, American actor, producer, and screenwriter

Orlando Jones is an American stand-up comedian and actor. He is known for being one of the original cast members of the sketch comedy series MADtv, for his role as the 7 Up spokesman from 1999 to 2002, and for his role as the African god Anansi on Starz's American Gods.

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10/04/1967

Donald Dufresne, Canadian ice hockey player and coach

Donald Alain Joseph Dufresne is a Canadian former professional ice hockey defenceman.

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David Rovics, American singer-songwriter

David Stefan Rovics is an American indie singer/songwriter. His music concerns both topical subjects such as the Iraq War, anti-globalization, anarchism, and social justice issues, and also labor history. Rovics has been an outspoken critic of former president George W. Bush, the Republican Party, John Kerry, and the Democratic Party.

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10/04/1965

Tim Alexander, American drummer and songwriter

Timothy Wayne "Herb" Alexander is an American retired musician, best known as the former drummer for the rock band Primus. Prior to Primus, Alexander was the drummer for Arizona's Major Lingo from 1985-1990. Alexander has been in Primus across three stints; he initially left the band in 1996 and rejoined in 2003 before leaving again in 2010 and re-joining in 2013, again departing in October 2024. Alexander has played in several projects with Tool frontman Maynard James Keenan including the bands Puscifer and A Perfect Circle. He earned the nickname "Herb" from his Primus bandmates after carrying a fanny pack full with herbs like ginseng that he would distribute.

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Anna-Leena Härkönen, Finnish author

Anna-Leena Mirjami Härkönen is a Finnish writer and actress.

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10/04/1963

Warren DeMartini, American guitarist and songwriter

Warren Justin DeMartini is an American musician best known as the lead guitarist for glam metal band Ratt, which achieved international stardom in the 1980s.

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Jeff Gray, American baseball player and coach

Jeffrey Edward Gray is a former professional baseball relief pitcher who played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Cincinnati Reds in 1988 and for the Boston Red Sox in 1990 and 1991. Listed at 6 feet 1 inch (1.85 m) and 175 pounds (79 kg), Gray batted and threw right-handed. He was signed by the Philadelphia Phillies in 1984 out of Florida State University.

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Doris Leuthard, Swiss lawyer and politician, 162nd President of the Swiss Confederation

Doris Leuthard is a Swiss politician and lawyer who served as a Member of the Swiss Federal Council from 2006 to 2018. A member of the Christian Democratic People's Party (CVP/PDC), she was elected as President of the Swiss Confederation for 2010 and 2017. Leuthard headed the Federal Department of Economic Affairs until 2010, when she became head of the Federal Department of Environment, Transport, Energy and Communications. As of 19 December 2019 she is a member of the board of the Kofi Annan Foundation and Stadler Rail.

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10/04/1962

Steve Tasker, American football player and sportscaster

Steven Jay Tasker is an American sports reporter and former professional football wide receiver in the National Football League (NFL). He spent the majority of his career with the Buffalo Bills but began his career with the Houston Oilers. He was a five-time first-team All-Pro and a seven-time Pro Bowl selection, primarily as a special teams player.

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10/04/1961

Nicky Campbell, Scottish broadcaster and journalist

Nicholas Andrew Argyll Campbell OBE is a Scottish broadcaster and journalist. He has worked in television and radio since 1981 and as a network presenter with BBC Radio since 1987.

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Carole Goble, English computer scientist and academic

Carole Anne Goble is a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Manchester. Goble co-founded the Software Sustainability Institute (SSI) in 2010, serves as joint head of node at the European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructure (ESFRI) ELIXIR project of the European Union and is a co-author of the influenential FAIR data principles. She previously served as principal investigator (PI) of the myGrid, BioCatalogue and myExperiment projects and co-lead the Information Management Group (IMG) with Norman Paton.

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Mark Jones, American basketball player

Mark Anthony Jones is an American former professional basketball player. He played point guard. Jones played college basketball for the St. Bonaventure Bonnies before being selected by the New York Knicks in the fourth round of the 1983 NBA draft with the 82nd overall pick. He never played for the Knicks and instead played six games in the NBA for the New Jersey Nets during the 1983–84 season.

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10/04/1960

Steve Bisciotti, American businessman, co-founded Allegis Group

Stephen J. Bisciotti is an American business executive and the current majority owner of the Baltimore Ravens of the National Football League (NFL). He founded Aerotek, the largest privately owned staffing and recruiting company in the U.S. based in Hanover, Maryland, and co-founded Allegis Group, an international talent management firm headquartered in Hanover, Maryland, that owns Aerotek; TEKsystems; Actalent; MarketSource; Major, Lindsey & Africa; Aston Carter; and Allegis Global Solutions.

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Katrina Leskanich, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

Katrina Elizabeth Leskanich is an American-born, UK-based singer and musician and the former lead singer of the British pop rock band Katrina and the Waves. Their song "Walking on Sunshine" was an international hit in 1985. In 1997, the band won the Eurovision Song Contest for the United Kingdom with the song "Love Shine a Light". Both songs were written by Leskanich's long-term bandmate Kimberley Rew.

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Terry Teagle, American basketball player

Terry Michael Teagle is an American former professional basketball player, whose National Basketball Association (NBA) career lasted from 1982 to 1993. During his playing career, at a height of 6 ft 5 in (1.96 m) tall, he played at the shooting guard position.

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10/04/1959

Babyface, American singer-songwriter and producer

Kenneth Brian Edmonds, better known by his stage name Babyface, is an American singer, songwriter, and record producer. He has written and produced 26 number-one R&B hit songs and won 13 Grammy Awards. He was ranked number 20 on NME's 50 of The Greatest Producers Ever list.

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Yvan Loubier, Canadian economist and politician

Yvan Loubier is a Canadian politician and one of the founders of the Bloc Québécois. He was a Bloc Québécois member of the House of Commons of Canada representing the district of Saint-Hyacinthe—Bagot, from the since he was first elected in the 1993 election, until his resignation on February 21, 2007.

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Brian Setzer, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

Brian Robert Setzer is an American guitarist, singer, and songwriter. He found widespread success in the early 1980s with the 1950s-style rockabilly group Stray Cats, and returned to the music scene in the early 1990s with his swing revival band, the Brian Setzer Orchestra. In 1987, he made a cameo appearance as Eddie Cochran in the film La Bamba.

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10/04/1958

Bob Bell, Northern Irish engineer

Robert Charles Bell is a Formula One engineer and technical director, best known for his work with the Renault Formula One team. He is currently the Executive Director - Technical for the Aston Martin F1 Team.

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Yefim Bronfman, Uzbek-American pianist

Yefim "Fima" Naumovich Bronfman is a Soviet-born Israeli-American pianist. He has performed as a soloist and with major symphony orchestras globally since 1975. He won a Grammy Award in 1997.

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Brigitte Holzapfel, German high jumper

Brigitte Elisabeth Holzapfel is a retired West German high jumper.

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10/04/1957

Aliko Dangote, Nigerian businessman, founded Dangote Group

Aliko Mohammad Dangote is a Nigerian businessman known for his key roles in Dangote Group and Dangote Refinery. In 2011, he was appointed as member of the economic management team by President Goodluck Jonathan. As of May 2026, Dangote is the 62nd wealthiest individual in the world, the wealthiest black individual and the wealthiest individual in Africa, with a net worth estimated at over US$36.8 billion per Bloomberg.

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John M. Ford, American author and poet (died 2006)

John Milo "Mike" Ford was an American science fiction and fantasy writer, game designer, and poet.

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Steve Gustafson, Spanish-American bass player

Steven E. Gustafson is the bass guitarist for the American alternative rock band 10,000 Maniacs. He, Dennis Drew and John Lombardo are the only remaining founding members of the group. Drummer Jerome Augustyniak has been with the band since 1982. Singer Mary Ramsey has been working with the band since 1992 and has been the band's lead singer since 1994. Guitarist Jeff Erickson, former tech for Robert Buck, has been playing lead guitar with the band since 2001.

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Rosemary Hill, English historian and author

Rosemary Hill FRSL, FSA is an English writer, historian and independent scholar who specialises on the cultural history of the 19th and 20th centuries.

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10/04/1956

Carol V. Robinson, English chemist and academic

Dame Carol Vivien Robinson is a British chemist and former president of the Royal Society of Chemistry (2018–2020). She was a Royal Society Research Professor and is the Dr Lee's Professor of Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, and a professorial fellow at Exeter College, University of Oxford. She is the founding director of the Kavli Institute for Nanoscience Discovery, University of Oxford, and she was previously professor of mass spectrometry at the chemistry department of the University of Cambridge.

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10/04/1955

Marit Breivik, Norwegian handball player and coach

Marit Breivik is a Norwegian former handball player and coach. She is one of the most decorated national team coaches in handball history and won thirteen championship medals with the Norwegian women's national handball team during a fifteen-year reign, including the gold medal at the 2008 Summer Olympics, the World Championship in 1999, and the European Championship in 1998, 2004, 2006 and 2008. Breivik won three Norwegian national championships and two league titles during her career as a player. She was capped 140 times and scored 286 goals for the Norwegian national team from 1975 to 1983.

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Lesley Garrett, English soprano and actress

Lesley Garrett is an English soprano singer, musician, broadcaster and media personality who is noted for being at home in opera and "crossover music".

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Mike Rinder, Australian-American former Scientologist, critic (died 2025)

Michael John Rinder was an Australian and American former senior executive of the Church of Scientology International (CSI) and Sea Org based in the United States. From 1982 to 2007, Rinder was on the board of directors of CSI and also held the post of executive director of its Office of Special Affairs, overseeing the corporate, legal and public relations matters of Scientology at the international level.

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10/04/1954

Paul Bearer, American wrestler and manager (died 2013)

William Alvin Moody was an American professional wrestling manager. He performed in the World Wrestling Federation under the ring name and gimmick of Paul Bearer, manager of The Undertaker and his storyline son/Undertaker's storyline half-brother, Kane.

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Anne Lamott, American author and educator

Anne Lamott is an American novelist and nonfiction writer.

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Peter MacNicol, American actor

Peter MacNicol is an American actor. He received a Theatre World Award for his 1981 Broadway debut in the play Crimes of the Heart. His film roles include Galen in Dragonslayer (1981), Stingo in Sophie's Choice (1982), Janosz Poha in Ghostbusters II (1989), Gary Granger in Addams Family Values (1993), Renfield in Dracula: Dead and Loving It (1995), and David Langley in Bean (1997).

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Juan Williams, Panamanian-American journalist and author

Juan Antonio Williams is a Panamanian-American journalist and political analyst for Fox News Channel. He writes for several newspapers, including The Washington Post, The New York Times, and The Wall Street Journal, and has been published in magazines such as The Atlantic and Time. Williams has worked as an editorial writer, an op-ed columnist, a White House correspondent, and a national correspondent. He is a registered Democrat.

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10/04/1953

David Moorcroft, English runner and businessman

David Robert Moorcroft is a former middle-distance and long-distance runner from England, and former world record holder for 5,000 metres. His athletic career spanned the late-1970s and 1980s. He subsequently served as the Chief Executive of UK Athletics from 1997 to 2007. He was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in 1983 and promoted to an Officer (OBE) in 1999, in both cases for services to athletics. In March 2023, he was appointed a Deputy lieutenant of the West Midlands.

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Pamela Wallin, Swedish-Canadian journalist, academic, and politician

Pamela Wallin is a Canadian politician, former journalist, and diplomat. Wallin was appointed to the Senate of Canada by Governor General Michaëlle Jean on January 2, 2009.

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Terre Roche, singer-songwriter, member of the sister group The Roches

The Roches were an American vocal trio of sisters Maggie, Terre and Suzzy Roche, from Park Ridge, New Jersey.

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10/04/1952

Narayan Rane, Indian politician, 16th Chief Minister of Maharashtra

Narayan Tatu Rane is an Indian politician and Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha from Ratnagiri-Sindhudurg. He was a Chief Minister of Maharashtra. He formerly served as Minister of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises in the Second Modi ministry. He has previously held Cabinet Ministry positions for Industry, Port, Employment and Self-employment; Revenue; and Industry in the Government of Maharashtra.

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Masashi Sada, Japanese singer, lyricist, composer, novelist, actor, and producer

Masashi Sada is a Japanese singer, lyricist, and composer.

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Steven Seagal, American actor, producer, and martial artist

Steven Frederic Seagal is an American actor, producer, screenwriter, martial artist, and musician. A 7th-dan black belt and shihan in Aikikai aikido, he began his adult life as a martial arts instructor in Japan, where he became the first non-Japanese and American to operate an aikido dojo. He later moved to Los Angeles, where he continued teaching aikido. In 1988, Seagal made his acting debut in Above the Law, which is regarded as the first American film to feature aikido in fight sequences.

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10/04/1951

David Helvarg, American journalist and activist

David Helvarg is an American journalist and environmental activist. He is the founder and president of the marine conservation lobbying organization Blue Frontier Campaign.He is associated with the 'Seaweed rebellion' marine environmentalist movement. He is an author; his writing is often related to marine environmental activism, such as his second book, Blue Frontier. His first book, The War against the Greens, argues that violent organized resistance is being orchestrated against the environmental movement.

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10/04/1950

Ken Griffey, Sr., American baseball player and manager

George Kenneth Griffey Sr. is an American former professional baseball outfielder. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) from 1973 through 1991, most notably as a member of the Cincinnati Reds team that won three division titles and two World Series championships between 1973 and 1976. He also played for the New York Yankees, Atlanta Braves, and Seattle Mariners.

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Eddie Hazel, American guitarist (died 1992)

Edward Earl Hazel was an American guitarist and singer in early funk music who played lead guitar with Parliament-Funkadelic. Hazel was a posthumous inductee to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, inducted in 1997 with fifteen other members of Parliament-Funkadelic. His ten-minute guitar solo in the Funkadelic song "Maggot Brain" is regarded as "one of the greatest solos of all time on any instrument". In 2023, Rolling Stone ranked Hazel at no. 29 in its list of 250 of the greatest guitarists of all time.

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10/04/1949

Daniel Mangeas, French banker and sportscaster

Daniel Mangeas, is a former baker who was the commentator of the Tour de France and other important cycle races in France and Belgium between 1974 and 2014. During his career he commentated on 200 events a year, and tried to never speak for the rest of the day after races, to preserve his voice.

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10/04/1948

Mel Blount, American football player

Melvin Cornell Blount is an American former professional football player who was a cornerback for the Pittsburgh Steelers of the National Football League (NFL) for fourteen seasons. A five-time Pro Bowler, he was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1989.

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Jim Burns, Welsh artist

Jim Burns is a Welsh artist born in Cardiff, Wales. He has been called one of the Grand Masters of the science fiction art world.

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10/04/1947

David A. Adler, American author and educator

David Abraham Adler is an American writer of 265 books for children and young adults, most notably the Cam Jansen mystery series, the Picture Book Of... series, and several acclaimed works about the Holocaust for young readers.

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Bunny Wailer, Jamaican singer-songwriter and drummer (died 2021)

Neville O'Riley Livingston, known professionally as Bunny Wailer, was a Jamaican singer-songwriter and percussionist. He was an original member of reggae group The Wailers along with Bob Marley and Peter Tosh. A three-time Grammy Award winner, he is considered one of the longtime standard-bearers of reggae music. He was also known as Jah B, Bunny O'Riley, and Bunny Livingston.

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10/04/1946

David Angell, American screenwriter and producer (died 2001)

David Lawrence Angell was an American screenwriter and television producer, known for his work in sitcoms. He won multiple Emmy Awards as a Cheers writer and as the creator and executive producer of the sitcoms Wings and Frasier with Peter Casey and David Lee. Heading home from their vacation on Cape Cod, Angell and his wife, Lynn, were killed aboard American Airlines Flight 11, the first plane to hit the World Trade Center during the September 11 attacks.

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Bob Watson, American baseball player and manager (died 2020)

Robert José Watson was an American professional baseball player, coach and general manager. He played in Major League Baseball as a first baseman and left fielder from 1966 to 1984, most prominently as a member of the Houston Astros where he was a two-time All-Star player. Watson had a .295 batting average over a career that also saw him play for the Boston Red Sox, New York Yankees, and the Atlanta Braves.

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Adolf Winkelmann, German director, producer, and screenwriter

Adolf Winkelmann is a German film director, film producer and screenwriter. He is also a professor of film design in the department of design at the Dortmund University of Applied Sciences and Arts.

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10/04/1945

Kevin Berry, Australian swimmer (died 2006)

Kevin John Berry OAM was an Australian butterfly swimmer of the 1960s who won the gold medal in the 200-metre butterfly at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. He set twelve world records in his career.

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10/04/1943

Andrzej Badeński, Polish-German sprinter (died 2008)

Andrzej Stanisław Badeński was a Polish sprinter who specialized in the 400 metres. He won a bronze medal in that event at the 1964 Summer Olympics, and won the gold medal in that event at the European Indoor Championships in 1968 and in 1971.

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Margaret Pemberton, English author

Margaret Pemberton is a British writer of women's fiction since 1975. Beside her married name Margaret Pemberton, her writings have been published under her maiden name Maggie Hudson and the pseudonyms Carris Carlisle, Christina Harland, and Rebecca Dean.

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10/04/1942

Nick Auf der Maur, Canadian journalist and politician (died 1998)

Nikolaus Erik Auf der Maur was a Canadian journalist and politician from Montreal, Quebec. He was the father of rock musician Melissa Auf der Maur.

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Ian Callaghan, English footballer

Ian Robert Callaghan is an English former professional footballer who played as a midfielder. He holds the record for most appearances for Liverpool and the FA Cup. He was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 1975 New Year Honours.

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Stuart Dybek, American novelist, short story writer, and poet

Stuart Dybek is an American writer of fiction and poetry.

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10/04/1941

Chrysostomos II of Cyprus, (died 2022)

Chrysostomos II, was the Archbishop of Cyprus from 2006 to 2022.

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Harold Long, Canadian politician (died 2013)

Harold Long was a politician in British Columbia (BC), Canada.

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Paul Theroux, American novelist, short story writer, and travel writer

Paul Edward Theroux is an American novelist and travel writer who has written numerous books, including the travelogue The Great Railway Bazaar (1975). Some of his works of fiction have been adapted as feature films. He was awarded the 1981 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for his novel The Mosquito Coast, which was adapted for the 1986 movie of the same name and the 2021 television series of the same name.

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10/04/1940

Gloria Hunniford, British radio and television host

Mary Winifred Gloria Hunniford is a television and radio presenter, broadcaster and singer from Northern Ireland. She is known for presenting programmes on the BBC and ITV, such as Rip Off Britain, and her regular appearances as a panellist on Loose Women. She has been a regular reporter on This Morning and The One Show. She also enjoyed a singing career from the 1960s to the 1980s.

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10/04/1939

Claudio Magris, Italian scholar, author, and translator

Claudio Magris is an Italian scholar, translator and writer. He was a senator for Friuli-Venezia Giulia from 1994 to 1996.

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10/04/1938

Don Meredith, American football player and sportscaster (died 2010)

Joseph Donald Meredith, nicknamed "Dandy Don", was an American football player, sports commentator, and actor. He was a quarterback for nine seasons with the Dallas Cowboys of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the SMU Mustangs, and was selected by the Chicago Bears in the third round of the 1960 NFL draft, which took place in November 1959. This draft occurred before the Dallas Cowboys were officially established in January 1960. The Cowboys later acquired Meredith's rights through a trade, allowing them to sign him. He was the second starting quarterback of the Dallas Cowboys, following Eddie LeBaron, and is the first major franchise quarterback in Cowboys history. Under the mentorship of head coach Tom Landry, Meredith led the Cowboys to three straight postseason appearances from the 1966 to 1968 seasons, including back-to-back NFL Championship Game appearances in the 1966 and 1967 seasons. He was selected a second-team All-Pro in 1966 and made three straight Pro Bowls from 1966 to 1968.

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10/04/1937

Bella Akhmadulina, Soviet and Russian poet, short story writer, and translator (died 2010)

Izabella Akhatovna Akhmadulina was a Soviet and Russian poet, short story writer, and translator, known for her apolitical writing stance. She was part of the Russian New Wave literary movement. She was cited by Joseph Brodsky as the best living poet in the Russian language. She is known in Russia as "the voice of the epoch".

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10/04/1936

John A. Bennett, American soldier (died 1961)

John Arthur Bennett was a U.S. Army soldier who remains the last person to be executed after a court-martial by the United States Armed Forces. The 18-year-old private was convicted of the rape and attempted murder of an 11-year-old girl in Austria. Despite last minute appeals for clemency and pleas to President John F. Kennedy by the victim and her family to spare his life, Kennedy refused. Bennett was hanged at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas in 1961.

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David A. Hardy, British artist

David A. Hardy is a British space artist.

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John Howell, English long jumper

John David Howell is a former British long jumper.

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John Madden, American football player, coach, and sportscaster (died 2021)

John Earl Madden was an American professional football coach and sports commentator in the National Football League (NFL). He served as the head coach of the Oakland Raiders from 1969 to 1978, leading them to eight playoff appearances, seven division titles, seven AFL/AFC Championship Game appearances, and the franchise's first Super Bowl title in Super Bowl XI. Never having a losing season, Madden holds the highest winning percentage among NFL head coaches who coached at least 100 games. He is considered one of the greatest coaches of all time.

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Bobby Smith, American singer (died 2013)

Robert Steel Smith, professionally known as Bobby Smith, also spelled Bobbie, was an American R&B singer notable as the principal lead singer of the classic Motown/Philly group, The Spinners, throughout its history. He was the principal lead singer from its formation in 1954 when he was eighteen, until his death in 2013.

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10/04/1935

Patrick Garland, English actor and director (died 2013)

Patrick Ewart Garland was a British director, writer and actor.

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Peter Hollingworth, Australian bishop, 23rd Governor General of Australia (died 2026)

Peter John Hollingworth was an Australian bishop who served as Governor-General of Australia from 2001 until his resignation in 2003. He had previously held the position of Anglican Archbishop of Brisbane from 1989 to 2001.

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Christos Yannaras, Greek philosopher, theologian and author (died 2024)

Christos Yannaras was a Greek philosopher, Eastern Orthodox theologian and author of more than 50 books which have been translated into many languages. He was a professor emeritus of philosophy at the Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences, Athens.

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10/04/1934

David Halberstam, American journalist and author (died 2007)

David Halberstam was an American writer, journalist, and historian, known for his work on the Vietnam War, politics, history, the Civil Rights Movement, business, media, American culture, Korean War, and later, sports journalism. He won a Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting in 1964. Halberstam was killed in a car crash in 2007 while doing research for a book.

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10/04/1933

Rokusuke Ei, Japanese composer and author (died 2016)

Rokusuke Ei was a Japanese lyricist, composer, author, essayist, and television personality of Chinese descent.

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Helen McElhone, Scottish politician (died 2013)

Helen Margaret McElhone was a Scottish politician. She worked together with her husband, Frank McElhone, during his time as a Member of Parliament (MP) representing Glasgow from 1969. After his sudden death, McElhone was elected as his successor; but within six months her Glasgow Queen's Park constituency was abolished in boundary changes and she lost out to a neighbouring MP in the selection for a new seat. She continued her political activity after leaving Parliament.

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10/04/1932

Delphine Seyrig, Swiss/Alsatian French actress (died 1990)

Delphine Claire Beltiane Seyrig was a Lebanese-born French actress and film director. She came to prominence in Alain Resnais's 1961 film Last Year at Marienbad, and later acted in films by Chantal Akerman, Luis Buñuel, Jacques Demy, Marguerite Duras, Ulrike Ottinger, François Truffaut, and Fred Zinneman. She directed three films, including the documentary Sois belle et tais-toi (1981).

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Omar Sharif, Egyptian actor and screenwriter (died 2015)

Omar Sharif was an Egyptian actor, generally regarded as his country's greatest male film star. He began his career in Egypt in the early 1950s. He is best known for his appearances in American, British, French, and Italian productions, and has been described as "the first Egyptian and Arab to conquer Hollywood". His career encompassed over 100 films spanning 50 years, and brought him many accolades including three Golden Globe Awards and a César Award for Best Actor.

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10/04/1930

Claude Bolling, French pianist, composer, and actor (died 2020)

Claude Bolling was a French jazz pianist, composer, arranger, and occasional actor.

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Dolores Huerta, American activist, co-founded the United Farm Workers

Dolores Huerta is an American labor leader and feminist activist. After working for several years with the Community Service Organization (CSO), she co-founded the National Farm Workers Association (NFWA) with fellow activists Cesar Chavez and Gilbert Padilla, which eventually merged with the Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee (AWOC) to become the United Farm Workers (UFW). Huerta joined Filipino leader Larry Itliong in the Delano grape strike in 1965, managing boycott campaigns on the east coast and negotiating with the grape companies to end the strike. Some credit her with inventing the UFW slogan "sí se puede".

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Spede Pasanen, Finnish film director and producer, comedian, and inventor (died 2001)

Pertti Olavi "Spede" Pasanen was a Finnish film director and producer, comedian, and inventor, who has been called an "all-around entertainer". During his career he directed, wrote, produced or acted in about 50 movies and participated in numerous TV productions, including the comedy Spede Show and the game-show Speden Spelit. Much of his more commercial work was in collaboration with Vesa-Matti Loiri and Simo Salminen. Pasanen's films and TV shows, often made quickly and on a low budget, usually received little critical recognition but were popular among Finnish audiences from the 1960s onwards. He was the owner of his own film production company, Filmituotanto Spede Pasanen Ky. Pasanen was ranked 17th at the Suuret suomalaiset competition show broadcast by Yleisradio.

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10/04/1929

Mike Hawthorn, English racing driver (died 1959)

John Michael Hawthorn was a British racing driver who competed in Formula One from 1952 to 1958. Hawthorn won the Formula One World Drivers' Championship in 1958 with Ferrari, and won three Grands Prix across seven seasons. In endurance racing, Hawthorn won both the 24 Hours of Le Mans and the 12 Hours of Sebring in 1955 with Jaguar.

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Liz Sheridan, American actress (died 2022)

Elizabeth Ann Sheridan was an American actress. While best known for her roles as the nosy neighbor, Mrs. Ochmonek, on the sitcom ALF (1986–1990), and Jerry's mother, Helen, in Seinfeld (1990–1998), her decades-long career was extensive and included work on the stage and on large and small screens.

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Max von Sydow, Swedish-French actor (died 2020)

Max von Sydow was a Swedish and French actor. He had a 70-year career in European and American cinema, television, and theatre, appearing in more than 150 films and several television series in multiple languages. Capable in roles ranging from stolid, contemplative protagonists to sardonic artists and menacing, often gleeful villains, von Sydow received numerous accolades including honors from the Cannes Film Festival and the Venice Film Festival. He was nominated for two Academy Awards: for Best Actor for Pelle the Conqueror (1987) and for Best Supporting Actor for Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (2011).

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10/04/1927

Norma Candal, Puerto Rican actress (died 2006)

Norma Daniela Candal Penedo, was a Puerto Rican actress and comedian who was best known for her role as Petunia on La criada malcriada.

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Marshall Warren Nirenberg, American biochemist and geneticist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2010)

Marshall Warren Nirenberg was an American biochemist and geneticist. He shared a Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1968 with Har Gobind Khorana and Robert W. Holley for "breaking the genetic code" and describing how it operates in protein synthesis. In the same year, together with Har Gobind Khorana, he was awarded the Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize from Columbia University.

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10/04/1926

Jacques Castérède, French pianist and composer (died 2014)

Jacques Castérède was a French composer and pianist.

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Junior Samples, American comedian (died 1983)

Alvin Monroe Samples Jr., better known as Junior Samples, was an American comedian best known for his 14-year run as a cast member of the television show Hee Haw.

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10/04/1925

Angelo Poffo, American wrestler and promoter (died 2010)

Angelo John Poffo was an American professional wrestler and wrestling promoter. He ran International Championship Wrestling for a number of years, holding cards in Tennessee, Kentucky, and Arkansas. He is the father of "Macho Man" Randy Savage and "The Genius" Lanny Poffo and the father-in-law of Miss Elizabeth.

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10/04/1924

Kenneth Noland, American soldier and painter (died 2010)

Kenneth Noland was an American painter. He was one of the best-known American color field painters, although in the 1950s he was thought of as an abstract expressionist and in the early 1960s as a minimalist painter. Noland helped establish the Washington Color School movement. In 1977, he was honored with a major retrospective at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York that then traveled to the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C., and Ohio's Toledo Museum of Art in 1978. In 2006, Noland's Stripe Paintings were exhibited at the Tate in London.

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10/04/1923

Roger Gaillard, Haitian historian and author (died 2000)

Roger Gaillard was a Haitian historian and novelist. Born in Port-au-Prince, Gaillard earned a philosophy degree at the University of Paris in France. He is best known for his multiple-volume chronicle of the United States' occupation of Haiti.

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Jane Kean, American actress and singer (died 2013)

Jane Kean was an American actress and singer whose career in show business spanned seven decades and included appearing in nightclubs, on recordings, and in radio, television, Broadway and films. Among her most famous roles were as Trixie Norton on The Jackie Gleason Show, and as the voice of Belle in the perennial favorite Mister Magoo's Christmas Carol.

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Floyd Simmons, American decathlete and actor (died 2008)

Floyd Macon Simmons was an American athlete and actor who competed mainly in the Olympics decathlon in 1948 and 1952 winning bronze at both Olympic Games. He was born in Charlotte, North Carolina.

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Sid Tickridge, English footballer (died 1997)

Sidney Tickridge was a professional footballer who played for Tottenham Hotspur, Chelsea, Brentford and represented England at schoolboy level.

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John Watkins, South African cricketer (died 2021)

John Cecil Watkins was a South African cricketer who played in 15 Test matches for South Africa between 1949 and 1957. At the time of his death aged 98, Watkins was the oldest living Test cricketer and the last surviving member of the side that toured Australasia in 1952–53.

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10/04/1921

Chuck Connors, American baseball player and actor (died 1992)

Kevin Joseph "Chuck" Connors was an American actor and professional basketball and baseball player. He is one of only 13 athletes in the history of American professional sports to have played in both the National Basketball Association and Major League Baseball. With a 40-year film and television career, he is best known for his role as Lucas McCain on the ABC series The Rifleman (1958–1963).

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Jake Warren, Canadian soldier and diplomat, Canadian Ambassador to the United States (died 2008)

Jack Hamilton (Jake) Warren was a diplomat, civil servant and banker. Jake Warren began his career at the Department of External Affairs in 1945 after serving in the Royal Canadian Navy during World War II, but served in civil service posts from the late 1950s to early 1970s:Deputy Minister, Department of Trade and Commerce Canadian representative to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (1960–1964)

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Sheb Wooley, American singer-songwriter and actor (died 2003)

Shelby Fredrick Wooley was an American singer, songwriter, and actor. He recorded a series of novelty songs, including the 1958 hit rock-and-roll comedy single "The Purple People Eater", and under the name Ben Colder, the country hit "Almost Persuaded No. 2". As an actor, he portrayed Cletus Summers, the principal of Hickory High School and assistant coach in the 1986 film Hoosiers; Ben Miller, brother of Frank Miller in the film High Noon; Travis Cobb in The Outlaw Josey Wales; and scout Pete Nolan in the television series Rawhide. Wooley is also credited as the voice actor who provided the Wilhelm scream and all of the other stock sound effects for Thomas J. Valentino's Major record label during the 1940s.

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10/04/1919

John Houbolt, American engineer and academic (died 2014)

John Cornelius Houbolt was an aerospace engineer credited with leading the team behind the lunar orbit rendezvous (LOR) mission mode, a concept that was used to successfully land humans on the Moon and return them to Earth. This flight path was chosen for the Apollo program in July 1962. The critical decision to use LOR was viewed as vital to ensuring that man reached the Moon by the end of the decade as proposed by President John F. Kennedy. In the process, LOR saved time and billions of dollars by efficiently using the available rocket and spacecraft technologies.

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10/04/1917

Jagjit Singh Lyallpuri, Indian politician (died 2013)

Jagjit Singh Lyallpuri was an Indian politician. He was the oldest surviving member of the founding Central Committee of the Communist Party of India (Marxist).

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Robert Burns Woodward, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1979)

Robert Burns Woodward was an American organic chemist. He is considered by many to be the preeminent synthetic organic chemist of the twentieth century, having made many key contributions to the subject, especially in the synthesis of complex natural products and the determination of their molecular structure. He worked closely with Roald Hoffmann on theoretical studies of chemical reactions. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1965.

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10/04/1916

Lee Jung-seob, Korean painter (died 1956)

Lee Jung-seob was a Korean artist most known for his oil paintings, such as White Ox.

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10/04/1915

Harry Morgan, American actor and director (died 2011)

Harry Morgan was an American actor whose television and film career spanned six decades. Morgan's major roles included Pete Porter in both December Bride (1954–1959) and Pete and Gladys (1960–1962); Officer Bill Gannon on Dragnet (1967–1970); Amos Coogan on Hec Ramsey (1972–1974); and his starring role as Colonel Sherman T. Potter in M*A*S*H (1975–1983) and AfterMASH (1983–1985). Morgan also appeared as a supporting player in more than 100 films.

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Leo Vroman, Dutch-American hematologist, poet, and illustrator (died 2014)

Leo Vroman was a Dutch-American hematologist, a prolific poet mainly in Dutch and an illustrator.

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10/04/1914

Jack Badcock, Australian cricketer (died 1982)

Clayvel Lindsay "Jack" Badcock was an Australian cricketer who played in seven Tests from 1936 to 1938.

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10/04/1913

Stefan Heym, German-American soldier and author (died 2001)

Helmut Flieg was a German writer, known by his pseudonym Stefan Heym. He lived in the United States and trained at Camp Ritchie in 1943, making him one of the Ritchie Boys of World War II. In 1952, he returned to his home to the part of his native Germany which was, from 1949 to 1990, the German Democratic Republic, or East Germany. He published works in English and German at home and abroad, and despite longstanding criticism of the GDR remained a committed socialist. He was awarded the 1953 Heinrich Mann Prize, the 1959 National Prize of East Germany, and the 1993 Jerusalem Prize.

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10/04/1912

Boris Kidrič, Austrian-Slovenian politician, 1st Prime Minister of Slovenia (died 1953)

Boris Kidrič was a Slovene and Yugoslav politician and revolutionary who was one of the chief organizers of the Slovene Partisans, the Slovene resistance against occupation by Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy after Operation Barbarossa in June 1941. He became the de facto leader of the Liberation Front of the Slovenian People. As such, he had a crucial role in the anti-Fascist liberation struggle in Slovenia between 1941 and 1945. After World War II he was, together with Edvard Kardelj, a leading Slovenian politician in communist Yugoslavia.

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10/04/1911

Martin Denny, American pianist and composer (died 2005)

Martin Denny was an American pianist, composer, and arranger. Known as the "father of exotica", he was a multi-instrumentalist and could play a number of percussion instruments. In a long career that saw him performing up to 3 weeks prior to his death, he toured the world popularizing his brand of lounge music which included exotic percussion, imaginative rearrangements of popular songs, and original songs that celebrated Tiki culture.

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Maurice Schumann, French journalist and politician, Minister of Foreign and European Affairs for France (died 1998)

Maurice Schumann was a French politician, journalist, writer, and hero of the Second World War who served as Minister of Foreign Affairs under Georges Pompidou from 22 June 1969 to 15 March 1973. Schumann was a member of the Christian democratic Popular Republican Movement.

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10/04/1910

Margaret Clapp, American scholar and academic (died 1974)

Margaret Antoinette Clapp was an American scholar, educator and Pulitzer Prize winner. She was the president of Wellesley College from 1949 to 1966.

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Helenio Herrera, Argentinian footballer and manager (died 1997)

Helenio Herrera Gavilán was an Argentine and naturalised French football player and manager. He is best remembered for his success with the Inter Milan team known as Grande Inter in the 1960s.

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10/04/1906

Steve Anderson, American hurdler (died 1988)

Stephen Eugene Anderson was an American track and field athlete who competed mainly in the 110 meter hurdles.

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10/04/1903

Patroklos Karantinos, Greek architect (died 1976)

Patroklos Karantinos was a Greek architect of early modernism in Greece. He was born in Constantinople and died in Athens.

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Clare Turlay Newberry, American author and illustrator (died 1970)

Clare Turlay Newberry was an American writer and illustrator of 17 published children's books, who achieved fame for her drawings of cats, the subject of all but three of her books. Four of her works were named Caldecott Honor Books.

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10/04/1901

Dhananjay Ramchandra Gadgil, Indian economist (died 1971)

Dhananjay Ramchandra Gadgil, also known as D. R. Gadgil, was an Indian economist, institution builder and the vice-chairman of the Planning Commission of India. He was the founder Director of the Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics, Pune and the author of the Gadgil formula, which served as the base for the allocation of central assistance to states during the Fourth and Fifth Five Year Plans of India. He is credited with contributions towards the development of Farmers' Cooperative movement in Maharashtra. The Government of India recognised his services by issuing a commemorative postage stamp in his honour in 2008.

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10/04/1900

Arnold Orville Beckman, American chemist, inventor, and philanthropist (died 2004)

Arnold Orville Beckman was an American chemist, inventor, investor, and philanthropist. While a professor at California Institute of Technology, he founded Beckman Instruments based on his 1934 invention of the pH meter, a device for measuring acidity, later considered to have "revolutionized the study of chemistry and biology". He also developed the DU spectrophotometer, "probably the most important instrument ever developed towards the advancement of bioscience". Beckman funded the Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory, the first silicon transistor company in California, thus giving rise to Silicon Valley. In 1965, he retired as president of Beckman Instruments, instead becoming the chairman of its board of directors. On November 23, 1981, he agreed to sell the company, which was then merged with SmithKline to form SmithKline Beckman. After retirement, he and his wife Mabel (1900–1989) were numbered among the top philanthropists in the United States.

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10/04/1897

Prafulla Chandra Sen, Indian accountant and politician, 3rd Chief Minister of West Bengal (died 1990)

Prafulla Chandra Sen was an Indian politician and independence activist who was Chief Minister of West Bengal from 1962 to 1967.

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10/04/1894

Ben Nicholson, British painter (died 1982)

Benjamin Lauder Nicholson, OM was an English painter of abstract compositions, landscapes, and still-life. He was one of the leading promoters of abstract art in England.

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10/04/1893

Otto Steinböck, Austrian zoologist (died 1969)

Otto Steinböck was an Austrian zoologist.

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10/04/1891

Frank Barson, English footballer and coach (died 1968)

Frank Barson was an English footballer from Grimesthorpe who played for several English football clubs including Barnsley, Manchester United, Aston Villa and Watford. He had a reputation for aggressive play, and is regarded as one of the "hard men" of English football.

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10/04/1889

Louis Rougier, French philosopher from the Vienna Circle (died 1982)

Louis Auguste Paul Rougier was a French philosopher who introduced the idea of neoliberalism to France in the 1930s. Rougier made many important contributions to epistemology, philosophy of science, political philosophy and the history of Christianity.

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10/04/1887

Bernardo Houssay, Argentinian physiologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1971)

Bernardo Alberto Houssay was an Argentine physiologist. Houssay was a co-recipient of the 1947 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for discovering the role played by pituitary hormones in regulating the amount of glucose in animals, sharing the prize with Carl Ferdinand Cori and Gerty Cori. He is the first Latin American Nobel laureate in the sciences.

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10/04/1886

Johnny Hayes, American runner and trainer (died 1965)

John Joseph Hayes was an American athlete, a member of the Irish American Athletic Club, and winner of the marathon race at the 1908 Summer Olympics. Hayes' Olympic victory contributed to the early growth of long-distance running and marathoning in the United States. He was also the first man to win a marathon at the now official standard distance of 26 miles 385 yards when Olympic officials lengthened the distance to put the finish line in front of the Royal Box.

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10/04/1880

Frances Perkins, American sociologist, academic, and politician, United States Secretary of Labor (died 1965)

Frances Perkins was an American workers-rights advocate who served as the fourth United States secretary of labor from 1933 to 1945, the longest serving in that position. A member of the Democratic Party, Perkins was the first woman ever to serve in a presidential cabinet. As a loyal supporter of her longtime friend, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, she helped make labor issues important in the emerging New Deal coalition. She advocated for immigrants’ rights as well. She was one of two Roosevelt cabinet members to remain in office for his entire presidency.

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Montague Summers, English clergyman and author (died 1948)

Augustus Montague Summers was an English author, clergyman, and teacher. As an independent scholar, he published many works on the English drama of the Stuart Restoration (1660–1688) and helped to organise and to promote the performance of plays from that period. He also wrote extensively on the occult and has been characterized as "arguably the most seminal twentieth-century purveyor of pop culture occultism."

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10/04/1879

Coenraad Hiebendaal, Dutch rower and physician (died 1921)

Coenraad Christiaan Hiebendaal was a Dutch rower who competed in the 1900 Summer Olympics. He was part of the Dutch boat Minerva Amsterdam, which won the silver medal in the coxed fours final B. Coenraad Hiebendaal studied at the University of Amsterdam. Later in his life he became a physician.

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10/04/1877

Alfred Kubin, Austrian author and illustrator (died 1959)

Alfred Leopold Isidor Kubin was an Austrian artist, printmaker, illustrator, and writer of a single novel, The Other Side. Kubin is considered an important exponent of Symbolism and Expressionism.

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10/04/1875

George Clawley, English footballer (died 1920)

George Clawley was an English professional goalkeeper who played for Stoke, Southampton and Tottenham Hotspur in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He was the goalkeeper for the Spurs side that won the 1901 FA Cup final.

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10/04/1873

Kyösti Kallio, Finnish farmer, banker, and politician, 4th President of Finland (died 1940)

Kyösti Kallio was a Finnish politician who served as the president of Finland from 1937 to 1940. His presidency included leading the country through the Winter War; while he relinquished the post of commander-in-chief to Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim, he played a role as a spiritual leader. After the war, he became both the first president of Finland to resign and the only one to die in office, dying of a heart attack while returning home after submitting his resignation.

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10/04/1868

George Arliss, English actor and playwright (died 1946)

George Arliss was an English actor, author, playwright, and filmmaker who found success in the United States. He was the first British actor to win an Academy Award – which he won in the Best Actor category for his performance as Victorian-era British prime minister Benjamin Disraeli in Disraeli (1929) – as well as the earliest-born actor of any category to win the honour. He specialized in successful biopics, such as Disraeli, Voltaire (1933), and Cardinal Richelieu (1935), as well as light comedies, which included The Millionaire (1931) and A Successful Calamity (1932).

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Asriel Günzig, Moravian rabbi (died 1931)

Asriel Günzig (also known as Azriel Günzig, Ezriel Günzig, Israel Günzig, Izrael Günzig, or J. Günzig; 10 April 1868, Kraków – 1931, Antwerp) was a rabbi, scholar, bookseller, editor and writer. He served as the rabbi of Loštice, Moravia, from 1899 until 1920.

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10/04/1867

George William Russell, Irish author, poet, and painter (died 1935)

George William Russell, who wrote with the pseudonym Æ, was an Irish writer, editor, critic, poet, painter and Irish nationalist. He was also a writer on mysticism, and a central figure in the group of devotees of theosophy which met in Dublin for many years.

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10/04/1865

Jack Miner, American-Canadian farmer, hunter, and environmentalist (died 1944)

John Thomas Miner, OBE, or "Wild Goose Jack," was a Canadian conservationist called by some the "father" of North American conservationism.

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10/04/1864

Eugen d'Albert, Scottish-German pianist and composer (died 1932)

Eugen Francis Charles d'Albert was a Scottish-born pianist and composer who immigrated to Germany.

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10/04/1847

Joseph Pulitzer, Hungarian-American journalist, publisher, and politician, founded Pulitzer, Inc. (died 1911)

Joseph Pulitzer was a Hungarian-American politician and a newspaper publisher of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and the New York World. He became a leading national figure in the U.S. Democratic Party and served one term representing New York's 9th congressional district.

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10/04/1829

William Booth, English minister, founded The Salvation Army (died 1912)

William Booth was an English Methodist preacher who, along with his wife, Catherine, founded the Salvation Army and became its first General (1878–1912). This Christian movement, founded in 1865, has a quasi-military structure and government and has spread from London to many parts of the world. It is one of the largest distributors of humanitarian aid.

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10/04/1827

Lew Wallace, American general, lawyer, author and politician, 11th Governor of New Mexico Territory (died 1905)

Lewis Wallace was an American lawyer, Union general in the American Civil War, governor of New Mexico Territory, politician, diplomat, artist, inventor, and author from Indiana. Among his novels and biographies, Wallace is best known for his historical adventure story, Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1880), a bestselling novel that has been called "the most influential Christian book of the nineteenth century."

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10/04/1806

Juliette Drouet, French actress (died 1883)

Juliette Drouet was a French actress. She abandoned her career on the stage after becoming the mistress of Victor Hugo, to whom she acted as a secretary and travelling companion. Juliette accompanied Hugo in his exile to the Channel Islands, and wrote thousands of letters to him throughout her life.

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Leonidas Polk, Scottish-American general and bishop (died 1884)

Leonidas Polk was a Confederate general, a bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Louisiana and founder of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the Confederate States of America, which separated from the Episcopal Church of the United States. He was a planter in Maury County, Tennessee, and a second cousin of President James K. Polk. He resigned his ecclesiastical position to become a major-general in the Confederate States Army, when he was called "Sewanee's Fighting Bishop". His official portrait at the University of the South depicts him as a bishop with his army uniform hanging nearby. He is often erroneously referred to as "Leonidas K. Polk" but he had no middle name and never signed any documents as such.

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10/04/1794

Matthew C. Perry, English-Scottish American commander (died 1858)

Matthew Calbraith Perry was a United States Navy officer who commanded ships in several wars, including the War of 1812 and the Mexican–American War. He led the Perry Expedition that ended Japan's isolationism and signed the Convention of Kanagawa between Japan and the United States in 1854.

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10/04/1778

William Hazlitt, English essayist and critic (died 1830)

William Hazlitt was an English essayist, drama and literary critic, painter, social commentator, and philosopher. He is now considered one of the greatest critics and essayists in the history of the English language, placed in the company of Samuel Johnson and George Orwell. He is also acknowledged as the finest art critic of his age. Despite his high standing among historians of literature and art, his work is currently little read and mostly out of print.

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10/04/1769

Jean Lannes, French marshal (died 1809)

Jean Lannes, 1st Duke of Montebello, Prince of Siewierz, was a French military commander and a Marshal of the Empire who served during both the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars.

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10/04/1762

Giovanni Aldini, Italian physicist and academic (died 1834)

Giovanni Aldini was an Italian medical doctor and physicist born in Bologna. He is considered a pioneer in the field of electrophysiology. His work on Galvanism – the electrical stimulation of muscles – significantly advanced 19th-century understanding of physiology, electrotherapy, and the nature of bioelectricity.

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10/04/1755

Samuel Hahnemann, German-French physician and academic (died 1843)

Christian Friedrich Samuel Hahnemann was a German medical doctor, best known for creating the pseudoscientific system of alternative medicine called homeopathy.

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10/04/1713

John Whitehurst, English geologist and clockmaker (died 1788)

John Whitehurst FRS, born in Cheshire, England, was a clockmaker and scientist, and made significant early contributions to geology. He was an influential member of the Lunar Society.

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10/04/1707

Michel Corrette, French organist, composer, and author (died 1795)

Michel Corrette was a French composer, organist and author of musical method books.

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10/04/1704

Benjamin Heath, English scholar and author (died 1766)

Benjamin Heath, D.C.L.[a] was an English classical scholar and bibliophile.

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10/04/1656

René Lepage de Sainte-Claire, French-Canadian settler, founded Rimouski (died 1718)

Rene Lepage de Sainte-Claire is the lord-founder of the town of Rimouski, Quebec, Canada.

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10/04/1651

Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus, German mathematician, physicist, and physician (died 1708)

Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus or Tschirnhauß was a German mathematician, physicist, physician, and philosopher. He introduced the Tschirnhaus transformation and is considered by some to have been the inventor of European porcelain, an invention long accredited to Johann Friedrich Böttger, while others claim porcelain had been made by English manufacturers at an even earlier date.

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10/04/1583

Hugo Grotius, Dutch philosopher and jurist (died 1645)

Hugo Grotius, also known as Hugo de Groot or Huig de Groot, was a Dutch humanist, diplomat, lawyer, theologian, jurist, statesman, poet and playwright. A teenage prodigy, he was born in Delft and studied at Leiden University. He was imprisoned in Loevestein Castle for his involvement in the controversies over religious policy of the Dutch Republic, but escaped hidden in a chest of books that was regularly brought to him and was transported to Gorinchem. Grotius wrote most of his major works in exile in France.

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10/04/1512

James V, king of Scotland (died 1542)

James V was King of Scotland from 9 September 1513 until his death in 1542. He was crowned on 21 September 1513 at the age of seventeen months. James was the son of King James IV and Margaret Tudor, daughter of Henry VII of England. During his childhood, Scotland was governed by regents, firstly by his mother until she remarried, and then by his first cousin once removed, John Stewart, Duke of Albany. James's personal rule began in 1528, when he finally escaped the custody of his stepfather, Archibald Douglas, 6th Earl of Angus. His first action was to exile Angus and confiscate the lands of the Douglases.

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10/04/1487

William I, count of Nassau-Siegen (died 1559)

William I of Nassau-Siegen, nicknamed the Elder or the Rich, was Count of Nassau-Siegen and half of Diez from 1516 to 1559. He was a descendant of the Ottonian Line of the House of Nassau.

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10/04/1480

Philibert II, duke of Savoy (died 1504)

Philibert II, nicknamed the Handsome or the Good, was the Duke of Savoy from 1497 until his death.

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10/04/1472

Margaret of York, English princess (died 1472)

Margaret of York was a namesake niece of Margaret of York, Duchess of Burgundy. She was the fifth child and fourth daughter of Edward IV of England and Elizabeth Woodville.

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10/04/1018

Nizam al-Mulk, Persian scholar and vizier (died 1092)

Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAlī Ṭūsī, better known by his honorific title of Niẓām al-Mulk, was a Persian Sunni scholar, jurist, and vizier of the Seljuk Empire. Rising from a low position within the empire, he became the de facto ruler of the realm for 20 years after the assassination of Sultan Alp Arslan in 1072, and is often portrayed in Persianate historical traditions as the archetypal "good vizier". Widely regarded as one of the most influential statesmen in medieval Islamic history, the administrative policies and bureaucratic frameworks formalized by Nizam al-Mulk deeply influenced Perso-Islamic statecraft for centuries.

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10/04/0401

Theodosius II, Roman emperor (died 450)

Theodosius II, called "the Calligrapher", was Roman emperor from 402 to 450. He was proclaimed Augustus as an infant and ruled as the Eastern Empire's sole emperor after the death of his father Arcadius in 408. His reign was marked by the promulgation of the Theodosian law code and the construction of the Theodosian walls of Constantinople. He also presided over the outbreak of two great Christological controversies, Nestorianism and Eutychianism.

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