Born on Sunday, 13th April – Famous Birthdays

13/04/2002

Karl Hein, Estonian footballer

Karl Jakob Hein is an Estonian professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Bundesliga club Werder Bremen, on loan from Premier League club Arsenal, and the Estonia national team.

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13/04/2001

Neco Williams, Welsh footballer

Neco Shay Williams is a Welsh professional footballer who plays as a full-back for Premier League club Nottingham Forest and the Wales national team.

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13/04/2000

Rasmus Dahlin, Swedish ice hockey player

Rasmus Erik Dahlin is a Swedish professional ice hockey player who is a defenceman and captain for the Buffalo Sabres of the National Hockey League (NHL). Having been referred to as the most talented player available in the 2018 NHL entry draft class, Dahlin was selected first overall in the draft by the Sabres.

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Facundo Torres, Uruguayan footballer

Facundo Daniel Torres Pérez is a Uruguayan professional footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder or winger for Major League Soccer club Austin FC and the Uruguay national team.

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13/04/1999

Alessandro Bastoni, Italian footballer

Alessandro Bastoni is an Italian professional footballer who plays primarily as a centre-back for Serie A club Inter Milan and the Italy national team. Considered one of the best centre-backs in the world, he is best known for his tackling, strength, passing, speed and versatility.

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András Schäfer, Hungarian footballer

András Schäfer is a Hungarian professional footballer who plays as a central midfielder for Bundesliga club Union Berlin and the Hungary national team.

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13/04/1997

Mateo Cassierra, Colombian footballer

Zander Mateo Cassierra Cabezas is a Colombian professional footballer who plays as a forward for Campeonato Brasileiro Série A club Atlético Mineiro and the Colombia national team.

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Kyle Walker-Peters, English footballer

Kyle Leonardus Walker-Peters is an English professional footballer who plays as a full back for Premier League club West Ham United.

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13/04/1996

Marko Grujić, Serbian footballer

Marko Grujić is a Serbian professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Super League Greece club AEK Athens and the Serbia national team.

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13/04/1994

Kahraba, Egyptian footballer

Mahmoud Abdel Moneim Abdel Hamid Soliman, commonly known as Mahmoud Kahraba or simply Kahraba, is an Egyptian professional footballer who plays for Egyptian Premier League club ENPPI and the Egypt national team.

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13/04/1993

Melvin Gordon, American football player

Melvin Gordon III is an American former professional football player who was a running back in the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Wisconsin Badgers, earning unanimous All-American honors and winning the Doak Walker Award as the top college running back in 2014. Gordon was selected by the San Diego Chargers in the first round of the 2015 NFL draft with the 15th overall pick. He was also a member of the Denver Broncos, Kansas City Chiefs, and Baltimore Ravens.

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Darrun Hilliard, American basketball player

Darrun Cordell Hilliard II is an American professional basketball player for Bilbao Basket of the Liga ACB.

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13/04/1992

Jordan Silk, Australian cricketer

Jordan Christopher Silk is an Australian cricketer who plays for Tasmania. Silk was recruited from Sydney grade cricket, where he holds the record for being the youngest player to make a century on debut.

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13/04/1991

Josh Gordon, American football player

Joshua Caleb Gordon, nicknamed "Flash", is an American former professional football wide receiver who played in the National Football League (NFL) for eight seasons. He played college football for the Baylor Bears and was selected by the Cleveland Browns in the second round of the 2012 NFL Supplemental draft. Throughout his career, Gordon was lauded for his on-field production, but also faced several suspensions for violating the NFL's substance abuse policy.

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13/04/1989

Josh Reynolds, Australian rugby league player

Joshua Reynolds is a former Australian professional rugby league footballer who played as a five-eighth for Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs in the National Rugby League.

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13/04/1988

Allison Williams, American actress and singer

Allison Howell Williams is an American actress. She began her career in comedy and rose to prominence as a horror queen beginning in the late 2010s. Her accolades include a National Board of Review Award and nominations at the Critics' Choice, GMSA and SAG Awards.

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Anderson, Brazilian footballer

Anderson Luís de Abreu Oliveira, commonly known as Anderson, is a Brazilian former professional footballer who works as assistant manager of Adana Demirspor. He played as a midfielder and is best known for his tenure with Manchester United from 2007 to 2015.

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13/04/1987

Steven De Vuyst, Belgian politician

Steven De Vuyst is a Belgian politician and former member of the Chamber of Representatives. A member of the Workers' Party of Belgium, he represented East Flanders from June 2019 to May 2024.

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John-Allison Weiss, American singer-songwriter

John-Allison Weiss is an American singer-songwriter known for emotionally resonant songwriting, a strong DIY ethos, and blending indie pop, folk, and alt-country. Emerging in the late 2000s, Weiss built a following through crowdfunding, touring, and independent releases. In 2020, they launched the project Charlie Mtn., exploring country storytelling rooted in queer identity.

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13/04/1986

Lorenzo Cain, American baseball player

Lorenzo Lamar Cain is an American former professional baseball center fielder. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Milwaukee Brewers and the Kansas City Royals. The Brewers drafted him in the 17th round of the 2004 MLB draft from Tallahassee Community College in Florida. In 2010, Cain made his MLB debut, and, following the season, the Brewers traded him to Kansas City with three other players for pitcher Zack Greinke.

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13/04/1984

Anders Lindegaard, Danish footballer

Anders Rozenkrantz Lindegaard is a Danish former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper.

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13/04/1983

Claudio Bravo, Chilean footballer

Claudio Andrés Bravo Muñoz is a Chilean former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper.

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Hunter Pence, American baseball player

Hunter Andrew Pence, nicknamed "the Reverend," is an American former professional baseball right fielder and designated hitter. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Houston Astros, Philadelphia Phillies, San Francisco Giants, and Texas Rangers. In the 2004 Major League Baseball draft he was drafted in the second round by the Astros. Pence made his major league debut in 2007. He is a four time All-Star and was a member of the 2012 and 2014 World Series championship teams with the Giants.

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13/04/1982

Nellie McKay, British-American singer-songwriter, musician, and actress

Eleanora Marie McKay is an English–American singer and songwriter. She made her Broadway debut in The Threepenny Opera (2006).

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Ty Dolla Sign, American singer, songwriter, and musician

Tyrone William Griffin Jr., known professionally as Ty Dolla Sign, is an American rapper, singer, songwriter, and record producer. Born and raised in Los Angeles, California, Griffin gained initial recognition for his guest appearance on fellow California rapper YG's 2010 single "Toot It and Boot It", which entered the Billboard Hot 100. He signed with Atlantic Records in 2012, and Wiz Khalifa's Taylor Gang Entertainment the following year.

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13/04/1980

Kelli Giddish, American actress

Kelli Marie Giddish is an American television, stage, and film actress. She is best known as NYPD Detective/Sergeant Amanda Rollins in Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (2011–present). Giddish previously played Di Henry in All My Children (2005–2007), Dr. Kate McGinn in Past Life (2010), and Annie Nolan Frost in Chase (2010–2011).

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Quentin Richardson, American basketball player

Quentin Lamar Richardson is an American former professional basketball player who was formerly the director of player development for the Detroit Pistons of the National Basketball Association (NBA). Nicknamed "Q-Ball", he played professionally for 13 seasons for the Los Angeles Clippers, Phoenix Suns, New York Knicks, Miami Heat, and Orlando Magic. He won the NBA Three-Point Contest in 2005.

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13/04/1979

Baron Davis, American basketball player

Baron Walter Louis Davis is an American former professional basketball player who is a television host and sports analyst. He was a two-time NBA All-Star, made the All-NBA Third Team in 2004, and twice led the NBA in steals. He was drafted with the third overall pick in the 1999 NBA draft by the Charlotte Hornets. He also played in the NBA for the New Orleans Hornets, Golden State Warriors, Los Angeles Clippers, Cleveland Cavaliers and New York Knicks. Davis played college basketball for the UCLA Bruins, earning All-American honors before turning professional after his sophomore year. He was a star high school player while at Crossroads School. Davis holds the NBA's career playoff record for steals per game with an average of 2.28 over 50 games.

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13/04/1978

Carles Puyol, Spanish footballer

Carles Puyol Saforcada is a Spanish former professional footballer who played his entire career for Barcelona. Considered one of the best defenders ever and one of the sport's greatest captains, he mainly played as a centre-back, but could also play in either full-back position, mostly as a right-back.

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13/04/1977

Margus Tsahkna, Estonian lawyer and politician

Margus Tsahkna is an Estonian politician. He has been Minister of Foreign Affairs since the third cabinet of Kaja Kallas was sworn in on 17 April 2023 and continues in that role in Kristen Michal's cabinet. He is also the leader of the Estonia 200 party since 19 November 2023.

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13/04/1976

Jonathan Brandis, American actor (died 2003)

Jonathan Gregory Brandis was an American actor. Beginning his career as a child model, Brandis moved on to acting in commercials and subsequently won television and film roles. Brandis made his acting debut in 1982 as Kevin Buchanan on the soap opera One Life to Live. In 1990, he portrayed Bill Denbrough in the television miniseries It, and starred as Bastian Bux in The NeverEnding Story II: The Next Chapter. In 1993, at the age of 17, he was cast in the role of teen prodigy Lucas Wolenczak on the NBC series seaQuest DSV. The character was popular among teenage viewers, and Brandis regularly appeared in teen magazines. He died by suicide in 2003.

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Dan Campbell, American football player and coach

Daniel Allen Campbell is an American professional football coach and former tight end who is the head coach for the Detroit Lions of the National Football League (NFL). He previously played in the NFL for 11 seasons. Campbell played college football for the Texas A&M Aggies and was selected by the New York Giants in the third round of the 1999 NFL draft. He was also a member of the Dallas Cowboys, New Orleans Saints, and Detroit Lions.

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Glenn Howerton, American actor

Glenn Franklin Howerton III is an American actor, writer, and producer. He is best known for playing Dennis Reynolds on the FX/FXX sitcom It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia (2005–present), which he co-developed and on which he serves as an executive producer and writer alongside the other main cast members.

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13/04/1975

Lou Bega, German singer

David Lubega Balemezi, known professionally as Lou Bega, is a German singer. His 1999 song "Mambo No. 5", a remake of Pérez Prado's 1949 instrumental piece, reached no. 1 in many European countries and was nominated for a Grammy Award. Bega added words to the song and sampled the original version extensively. Bega's signature musical sounds consist of combining musical elements of the 1940s and 1950s with modern beats and grooves.

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13/04/1973

Bokeem Woodbine, American actor

Bokeem Woodbine is an American actor. In 1994, he portrayed Joshua, the main character's troubled brother, in Jason's Lyric. He won a Black Reel Award and was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award and a Critics' Choice Television Award for his role as Kansas City mob enforcer Mike Milligan in the second season of Fargo. Woodbine also portrayed Daniel in season 2 of the WGN series Underground, Herman Schultz/Shocker in the film Spider-Man: Homecoming, and saxophonist David "Fathead" Newman in the Oscar-winning Ray Charles biopic Ray.

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13/04/1972

Aaron Lewis, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

Aaron Francis Lewis is an American singer, songwriter, and musician who is best known as the lead vocalist, rhythm guitarist, and founding member of the post-grunge/alternative metal band Staind, with whom he released eight studio albums. Since 2010, he has pursued a solo career in country music with his debut EP, Town Line, which was released in 2011. Lewis's first full-length solo release, The Road, was released by Blaster Records in 2012.

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13/04/1971

Franck Esposito, French swimmer

Franck Esposito is a former World Record holding, and four-time Olympic, butterfly swimmer from France. He swam for France at the 1996, 2000 and 2004 Olympics; and won the bronze medal in the 200 Butterfly at the 1992 Olympics. During his career, he set the short course World Record in the 200 fly four times.

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Danie Mellor, Australian painter and sculptor

Danie Mellor is an Australian artist who was the winner of 2009 National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award. Born in Mackay, Queensland, Mellor grew up in Scotland, Australia, and South Africa before undertaking tertiary studies at North Adelaide School of Art, the Australian National University (ANU) and Birmingham Institute of Art and Design. He then took up a post lecturing at Sydney College of the Arts. He works in different media including printmaking, drawing, painting, and sculpture. Considered a key figure in contemporary Indigenous Australian art, the dominant theme in Mellor's art is the relationship between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australian cultures.

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Bo Outlaw, American basketball player

Charles "Bo" Outlaw is an American former professional basketball player. He was born in San Antonio, Texas, and is a 1989 alumnus of John Jay High School.

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13/04/1970

Ricky Schroder, American actor

Richard Bartlett Schroder is an American actor and filmmaker. As a child actor billed as Ricky Schroder he debuted in the film The Champ (1979), for which he became the youngest Golden Globe award recipient, and went on to become a child star on the sitcom Silver Spoons (1982–87). He has continued acting as an adult, usually billed as Rick Schroder, notably in the Western miniseries Lonesome Dove (1989) and on the police drama series NYPD Blue (1998–2001). He made his directorial debut with the film Black Cloud (2004) and has produced several films and television series, including the anthology film Locker 13 and the war documentary The Fighting Season.

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13/04/1967

Dana Barros, American basketball player and coach

Dana Bruce Barros is an American former professional basketball player from the National Basketball Association (NBA). In college, he played at Boston College, finishing as one of the school's all-time leading scorers. He was the head men's basketball coach at Newbury College in Massachusetts. He is now the owner of AAU Basketball organization, the "Dana Barros Gladiators", based in Avon, Massachusetts, and now Stoughton, Massachusetts. He is of Cape Verdean descent.

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Michael Eisen, American biologist and academic

Michael Bruce Eisen is an American computational biologist and the former editor-in-chief of the journal eLife. He is a professor of genetics, genomics and development at University of California, Berkeley. He is a leading advocate of open access scientific publishing and is co-founder of Public Library of Science (PLOS). In 2018, Eisen announced his candidacy U.S. Senate from California as an Independent, though he failed to qualify for the ballot.

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Olga Tañón, Puerto Rican singer-songwriter

Olga Teresa Tañón Ortiz is a Puerto Rican singer. Over the course of her career, she has earned two Grammy Awards, three Latin Grammy Awards, and 29 Premio Lo Nuestro Awards. She has sold over five million copies of her albums.

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13/04/1966

Mando, Greek singer

Adamantia Stamatopoulou, known as Mando, is a Greek singer and songwriter. She was born and raised in Piraeus by her jazz pianist father, Nikos Stamatopoulos and a classical soprano mother, Mary Apergi.

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13/04/1965

Patricio Pouchulu, Argentinian architect and educator

Patricio Pouchulu is a contemporary organic architect.

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13/04/1964

Davis Love III, American golfer and sportscaster

Davis Milton Love III is an American professional golfer who has won 21 events on the PGA Tour, including one major championship: the 1997 PGA Championship. He won the Players Championship in 1992 and 2003. He was in the top 10 of the Official World Golf Ranking for over 450 weeks, reaching a high ranking of 2nd. He captained the U.S. Ryder Cup teams in 2012 and 2016. Love was inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame in 2017.

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13/04/1963

Garry Kasparov, Russian chess player and author

Garry Kimovich Kasparov is a Russian chess grandmaster, political activist and writer, who was the World Chess Champion from 1985 to 2000. His peak FIDE chess rating of 2851, achieved in 1999, was the highest recorded until being surpassed by Magnus Carlsen in 2013. From 1984 until his retirement from regular competitive chess in 2005, Kasparov was ranked the world's No. 1 player for a record 255 months overall. Kasparov also holds records for the most consecutive professional tournament victories (15) and Chess Oscars (11).

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13/04/1960

Rudi Völler, German footballer and manager

Rudolf "Rudi" Völler is a German professional football manager and former player, who is currently the director of the Germany national team. During his active years as a player he was sometimes nicknamed "Tante Käthe", a name bestowed upon him by Thomas Berthold in reference to his permed hairstyle, and in Italy, he is nicknamed "Il tedesco volante" by supporters of Roma.

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13/04/1959

John Middendorf, American mountain climber (died 2024)

John William Middendorf IV was an American big wall climber, mountaineering writer and designer of climbing equipment.

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13/04/1958

Jean-Marc Pilorget, French footballer and manager

Jean-Marc Pilorget is a French former professional football player and manager. He held the record of the most appearances for Paris Saint-Germain, with 435 matches, until 2024.

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13/04/1956

César, Brazilian footballer (died 2024)

César Martins de Oliveira, simply known as César, was a Brazilian football forward, who played in several Série A clubs. He was the top goalscorer of the Série A 1979.

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13/04/1955

Steve Camp, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

Steven J. Camp is an American contemporary Christian music artist and pastor. In the tradition of Martin Luther's Ninety-five Theses, Camp sent out his own 107 theses on Reformation Day, 1998, calling for a reformation in contemporary Christian music: calling Christian musicians to make direct, uncompromising music that confronts the world with the message of the scriptures.

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Muwenda Mutebi II, current King of Buganda Kingdom

Kabaka Ronald Edward Frederick Kimera Muwenda Mutebi II is the 36th Kabaka or king of the Kingdom of Buganda.

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Safet Sušić, Bosnian footballer and manager

Safet "Pape" Sušić is a Bosnian former professional football manager and player. A gifted midfielder known for his dribbling skills and technical ability, he is strongly reputed to have been one of the finest European players of his generation. Sušić played for Yugoslavia in two FIFA World Cups, 1982 and 1990, and at UEFA Euro 1984. As a manager, he qualified the Bosnia and Herzegovina national team to the 2014 FIFA World Cup.

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13/04/1952

Gabrielle Gourdeau, Canadian writer (died 2006)

Gabrielle Gourdeau was a writer in Quebec, Canada.

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Sam Bush, American mandolinist

Charles Samuel Bush is an American mandolinist who is considered an originator of progressive bluegrass music. In 2020, he was inducted into the International Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame as a member of New Grass Revival. He was inducted into the Hall of Fame a second time in 2023 as a solo artist.

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Jonjo O'Neill, Irish jockey and trainer

John Joseph "Jonjo" O'Neill is an Irish National Hunt racehorse trainer and former jockey.

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13/04/1951

Leszek Borysiewicz, Welsh immunologist and academic

Sir Leszek Krzysztof Borysiewicz is a British professor, immunologist and scientific administrator. He served as the 345th Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge, his term of office started on 1 October 2010 and ended on 1 October 2017. Borysiewicz also served as chief executive of the Medical Research Council of the UK from 2007-2010 and was the chairman of Cancer Research UK from 2016 to 2023.

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Peabo Bryson, American singer

Robert Peapo "Peabo" Bryson is an American singer and songwriter. He is known for singing soul ballads including the hit singles "Tonight, I Celebrate My Love", "You're Looking Like Love to Me" and "As Long as There's Christmas" with Roberta Flack, "A Whole New World" with Regina Belle, and "Beauty and the Beast" with Canadian singer Celine Dion, the latter two being contributions to Disney animated feature soundtracks. Bryson is a winner of two Grammy Awards.

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Peter Davison, English actor

Peter Malcolm Gordon Moffett, known professionally as Peter Davison, is an English actor. He is best known for playing the fifth incarnation of the Doctor in the BBC science fiction series Doctor Who (1981–1984) and Tristan Farnon in the BBC comedy drama series All Creatures Great and Small.

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Joachim Streich, German footballer (died 2022)

Joachim Streich was a German professional footballer who won the bronze medal with East Germany at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich.

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Max Weinberg, American musician and bandleader

Max Weinberg is an American drummer and television personality, most widely known as the longtime drummer for Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band and as the bandleader for Conan O'Brien on Late Night with Conan O'Brien and The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien. He is the father of former Slipknot and Suicidal Tendencies drummer Jay Weinberg.

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13/04/1950

Ron Perlman, American actor

Ronald N. Perlman is an American actor. His credits include the roles of Amoukar in Quest for Fire (1981), Salvatore in The Name of the Rose (1986), Vincent in the television series Beauty and the Beast (1987–1990), for which he won a Golden Globe Award, One in The City of Lost Children (1995), Johner in Alien Resurrection (1997), Koulikov in Enemy at the Gates (2001), Hellboy in both Hellboy (2004) and its sequel Hellboy II: The Golden Army (2008), Clay Morrow in the television series Sons of Anarchy (2008–2013), Nino in Drive (2011) and Benedict Drask in Don't Look Up (2021). As a frequent collaborator of Hellboy director Guillermo del Toro, he has had roles in the del Toro films Cronos (1992), Blade II (2002), Pacific Rim (2013), Nightmare Alley (2021), and del Toro's Pinocchio (2022).

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Tommy Raudonikis, Australian rugby league player and coach (died 2021)

Thomas Walter Raudonikis was an Australian rugby league footballer and coach. He played 40 International games and World Cup games as Australia representative halfback and captained his country in two matches of the 1973 Kangaroo tour.

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William Sadler, American actor

William Thomas Sadler is an American actor. He began his career in various Broadway productions including Neil Simon's Biloxi Blues (1985). Known as a character actor, his best known film roles include Die Hard 2 (1990), Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey (1991), The Shawshank Redemption (1994), The Green Mile (1999), The Mist (2007), and Bill & Ted Face the Music (2020). He portrayed President Matthew Ellis in various Marvel Cinematic Universe media including Iron Man 3 (2013) and Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (2015–2016), and he also portrayed Gino Fish in the Jesse Stone television films.

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13/04/1949

Len Cook, New Zealand-English mathematician and statistician

Leonard Warren Cook CBE CRSNZ is a professional statistician who was Government Statistician of New Zealand from 1992 to 2000, and National Statistician and Director of the United Kingdom Office for National Statistics, and Registrar General for England and Wales from 2000 to 2005. He served as Families Commissioner in New Zealand from 2015 to 2018.

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Frank Doran, Scottish lawyer and politician (died 2017)

Frank Doran was a Labour Party politician in the United Kingdom, who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Aberdeen South from 1987 to 1992, when he lost his seat. He was re-elected in 1997 to Aberdeen Central, and most recently represented Aberdeen North. He was the husband of former Labour MP Dame Joan Ruddock; it was the second marriage of both politicians.

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Christopher Hitchens, English-American essayist, literary critic, and journalist (died 2011)

Christopher Eric Hitchens was a British and American author and journalist. Known as one of the "Four Horsemen" of New Atheism, he gained prominence as a columnist and speaker. His epistemological razor, which states that "what can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence", is used in philosophy and law.

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13/04/1948

Nam Hae-il, South Korean admiral

Nam Hae-il is a former South Korean naval officer who served as the 25th Chief of Naval Operations of the Republic of Korea Navy, appointed in 2005. He attended the Republic of Korea Naval Academy in 1972 and Naval War college in 1978.

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Drago Jančar, Slovenian author and playwright

Drago Jančar is a Slovenian writer, playwright and essayist. Jančar is one of the best-known contemporary Slovene writers. In Slovenia, he is also known for his political commentaries and civic engagement. Jančar's novels, essays, and short stories have been translated into 21 languages and published in Europe, Asia, and the United States. The most numerous translations are into German, followed by Czech and Croatian.His plays have also been staged by a number of foreign theatres, and in Slovenia they are frequently considered the highlights of the theatrical season. He lives and works in Ljubljana.

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Mikhail Shufutinsky, Soviet and Russian singer, actor, TV presenter

Mikhail Zakharovich Shufutinsky is a Russian pop singer. He is currently the pre-eminent singer of Russian chanson music. He was awarded the title of Meritorious Artist of Russia in 2013.

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13/04/1947

Rae Armantrout, American poet and academic

Rae Armantrout is an American poet generally associated with the Language poets. She has published more than two dozen books, including both poetry and prose.

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Mike Chapman, Australian-English songwriter and producer

Michael Donald Chapman is an Australian record producer and songwriter who was a major force in the British pop music industry in the 1970s. He created a string of hit singles for artists including The Sweet, Suzi Quatro, Smokie, Mud and Racey with business partner Nicky Chinn, creating a sound that became identified with the "Chinnichap" brand. He later produced breakthrough albums for Blondie and the Knack. Chapman received a Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) in the 2014 Australia Day Honours.

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Jean-Jacques Laffont, French economist and academic (died 2004)

Jean-Jacques Marcel Laffont was a French economist specializing in public economics and information economics. Educated at the University of Toulouse and the Ecole Nationale de la Statistique et de l'Administration Economique (ENSAE) in Paris, he was awarded PhD in economics by Harvard University in 1975.

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Thanos Mikroutsikos, Greek composer and politician (died 2019)

Athanasios "Thanos" Mikroutsikos was a Greek composer and politician. He is considered one of the most important composers of the recent Greek musical scene.

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13/04/1946

Al Green, American singer-songwriter, producer, and pastor

Albert Leornes Greene, known professionally as Al Green, is an American singer, songwriter, pastor and record producer. He is best known for recording a series of soul hit singles in the early 1970s, including "Tired of Being Alone" (1971), "I'm Still in Love with You" (1972), "Love and Happiness" (1973), "Take Me to the River" (1974), and his signature song, "Let's Stay Together" (1972). Green became an ordained pastor and recorded gospel music during the 1980s.

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13/04/1945

Judy Nunn, Australian actress and author

Judith Anne Nunn (AM), , is an Australian former actress, and author of both adult and children's fiction titles. She has collaborated with writers Patricia Bernard and Fiona Waite.

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13/04/1944

Susan Davis, Russian-American social worker and politician

Susan Carol Davis is a former American politician who served as the U.S. representative for California's 49th congressional district for one term and California's 53rd congressional district for nine terms from 2001 to 2021. She is a member of the Democratic Party.

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13/04/1943

Alan Jones, Australian rugby coach and radio host

Alan Belford Jones is an Australian former talkback host, coach of the Australia national rugby union team, and rugby league coach and administrator. He has worked as a school teacher, a speech writer in the office of Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser, and in musical theatre. He has a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Queensland and completed a one-year teaching diploma at Worcester College, Oxford. He has received civil and industry awards.

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Tim Krabbé, Dutch journalist and author

Hans Maarten Timotheus "Tim" Krabbé is a Dutch journalist, novelist and chess player.

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13/04/1942

Bill Conti, American composer and conductor

William Conti is an American composer and conductor. He is best known for his film scores, including Rocky (1976), Rocky II (1979), Rocky III (1982), Rocky V (1990), Rocky Balboa (2006), The Karate Kid (1984), The Karate Kid Part II (1986), The Karate Kid Part III (1989), The Next Karate Kid (1994), For Your Eyes Only (1981), Dynasty and The Right Stuff (1983), which earned him an Academy Award for Best Original Score. He also received nominations in the Best Original Song category for "Gonna Fly Now" from Rocky and for the title song of For Your Eyes Only. He was the musical director at the Academy Awards a record nineteen times.

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13/04/1941

Michael Stuart Brown, American geneticist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate

Michael Stuart Brown ForMemRS NAS AAA&S APS is an American geneticist and Nobel laureate. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Joseph L. Goldstein in 1985 for describing the regulation of cholesterol metabolism.

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Jean-Marc Reiser, French author and illustrator (died 1983)

Jean-Marc Reiser was a French comics creator, notable for his black comedy and controversial contemporary satire.

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13/04/1940

Mike Beuttler, Egyptian-English racing driver (died 1988)

Michael Simon Brindley Bream Beuttler was a British Formula One driver who raced privately entered March cars. He was born in Cairo, Egypt, the son of Colonel Leslie Brindley Bream Beuttler, Duke of Wellington's Regiment, O.B.E., and a descendant on his mother's side of the Scottish ornithologist William Robert Ogilvie-Grant, grandson of the 6th Earl of Seafield.

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J. M. G. Le Clézio, Breton French-Mauritian author and academic, Nobel Prize laureate

Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio, usually identified as J. M. G. Le Clézio, of French, Mauritian, and British nationality, is a writer and professor. The author of over forty works, he was awarded the 1963 Prix Renaudot for his novel Le Procès-Verbal and the 2008 Nobel Prize in Literature for his life's work, as an "author of new departures, poetic adventure and sensual ecstasy, explorer of a humanity beyond and below the reigning civilization".

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Vladimir Cosma, French composer, conductor and violinist

Vladimir Cosma is a Romanian composer, conductor and violinist, who has made his career in France and the United States.

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Jim McNab, Scottish footballer (died 2006)

James McNab was a Scottish footballer who played as a left half for Sunderland, Preston North End and Stockport County.

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Max Mosley, English racing driver and engineer, co-founded March Engineering, former president of the FIA (died 2021)

Max Rufus Mosley was a British businessman, lawyer and racing driver. He served as president of the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA), the governing body for Formula One.

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Ruby Puryear Hearn, African-American biophysicist

Ruby Louise Puryear Hearn is an American biophysicist who has dedicated her career to health policy. Her work spans initiatives in maternal, infant, and child health; AIDS; substance abuse; and minority medical education.

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13/04/1939

Seamus Heaney, Irish poet and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2013)

Seamus Justin Heaney was an Irish poet, playwright and translator. He received the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature. Among his best-known works is Death of a Naturalist (1966), his first major published volume. American poet Robert Lowell described him as "the most important Irish poet since Yeats", and many others, including the academic John Sutherland, have said that he was "the greatest poet of our age". Robert Pinsky has stated that "with his wonderful gift of eye and ear Heaney has the gift of the story-teller." Upon his death in 2013, The Independent described him as "probably the best-known poet in the world".

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Paul Sorvino, American actor and singer (died 2022)

Paul Anthony Sorvino was an American actor. He often portrayed authority figures on both the criminal and the law enforcement sides of the law.

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13/04/1938

Klaus Lehnertz, German pole vaulter

Klaus Lehnertz is a retired West German pole vaulter. He competed for the United Team of Germany at the 1964 Olympics and won a bronze medal. He also won two medals at the European Cup in 1965-67, but placed only 13th and 9th at the European Championships in 1962 and 1966, respectively. Domestically he held West German outdoor and indoor titles.

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13/04/1937

Col Joye, Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist

Colin Frederick Jacobsen, better known by his stage name Col Joye, was an Australian pioneer rock and pop singer-songwriter, musician and entrepreneur with a career spanning almost sixty-seven years, starting from the late 1950s.

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Edward Fox, English actor

Edward Charles Morice Fox is an English actor and a member of the Fox family.

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Lanford Wilson, American playwright, co-founded the Circle Repertory Company (died 2011)

Lanford Wilson was an American playwright. His work, as described by The New York Times, was "earthy, realist, greatly admired [and] widely performed". Wilson helped to advance the off-off-Broadway theater movement with his earliest plays, which were first produced at the Caffe Cino beginning in 1964. He was one of the first playwrights to move from off-off-Broadway to off-Broadway, then Broadway and beyond.

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13/04/1934

John Muckler, Canadian ice hockey player, coach, and manager (died 2021)

John Muckler was a Canadian professional hockey coach and executive, who last served as the general manager of the Ottawa Senators of the National Hockey League (NHL). Muckler had over 50 years of professional hockey experience as a part owner, general manager, director of player personnel, director of hockey operations, head coach, assistant coach, and player. He had been a part of five Stanley Cup championships in various roles with the Edmonton Oilers.

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13/04/1932

Orlando Letelier, Chilean-American economist and politician, Chilean Minister of National Defense (died 1976)

Marcos Orlando Letelier del Solar was a Chilean Marxist and diplomat during the presidency of Salvador Allende. A member of the Socialist Party of Chile, he fled from the military dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet, Letelier accepted several academic positions in Washington D.C. after his exile from Chile. In 1976, agents of Dirección de Inteligencia Nacional (DINA), the Pinochet regime's secret police, killed him in Washington by a car bomb. The agents had been working in collaboration with members of the Coordination of United Revolutionary Organizations, an anti-Castro militant group.

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13/04/1931

Anita Cerquetti, Italian soprano (died 2014)

Anita Cerquetti was an Italian dramatic soprano who had a short but meteoric career in the 1950s. Her voice was very powerful and pleasing to audiences.

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Robert Enrico, French director and screenwriter (died 2001)

Robert Georgio Enrico was a French film director and scriptwriter best known for making the Oscar-winning short An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge (1961).

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Dan Gurney, American race car driver and engineer (died 2018)

Daniel Sexton Gurney was an American racing driver, engineer and motorsport executive, who competed in Formula One from 1959 to 1970. Widely regarded as one of the most influential figures in the history of motorsport, Gurney won four Formula One Grands Prix across 11 seasons. In endurance racing, Gurney won the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 1967 with Ford, as well as the 12 Hours of Sebring in 1959 with Ferrari.

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Jon Stone, American composer, producer, and screenwriter (died 1997)

Jon Arthur Stone was an American television screenwriter, director, producer and chlidren's author who was best known as an original crewmember on the children's television show Sesame Street and is credited with helping to develop characters such as Cookie Monster, Oscar the Grouch and Big Bird. Stone won 18 television Emmy Awards. Many regard him as among the best children's television writers.

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13/04/1929

Marilynn Smith, American golfer (died 2019)

Marilynn Louise Smith was an American professional golfer. She was one of the thirteen founders of the LPGA in 1950. She won two major championships and 21 LPGA Tour events in all. She is a member of the World Golf Hall of Fame.

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13/04/1928

Alan Clark, English historian and politician, Minister of State for Trade (died 1999)

Alan Kenneth Mackenzie Clark was a British Conservative Member of Parliament (MP), author and diarist. He served as a junior minister in Margaret Thatcher's governments at the Departments of Employment, Trade and Defence. He became a member of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom in 1991.

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Gianni Marzotto, Italian racing driver and businessman (died 2012)

Count Giannino Marzotto was an Italian racing driver and entrepreneur. Marzotto served as President of the Mille Miglia Club and won the Mille Miglia race in 1950 and 1953.

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13/04/1927

Rosemary Haughton, English philosopher, theologian, and author (died 2024)

Rosemary Elena Konradin Haughton was a British Catholic lay theologian, who lived in the United States over a period of thirty years.

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Maurice Ronet, French actor and director (died 1983)

Maurice Ronet was a French film actor, director, and writer.

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13/04/1926

Ellie Lambeti, Greek actress (died 1983)

Ellie Loukou, known professionally as Ellie Lambeti, was a Greek actress.

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John Spencer-Churchill, 11th Duke of Marlborough, English businessman (died 2014)

John George Vanderbilt Henry Spencer-Churchill, 11th Duke of Marlborough, was a British peer. He was the elder son of the 10th Duke of Marlborough and his wife, the Hon. Alexandra Mary Hilda Cadogan. He was known as "Sunny" after his courtesy title of Earl of Sunderland.

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13/04/1924

John T. Biggers, American painter (died 2001)

John Thomas Biggers was an African-American muralist who came to prominence after the Harlem Renaissance and toward the end of World War II. Biggers created works critical of racial and economic injustice. He also served as the founding chairman of the art department at Houston's Texas State University for Negroes, a historically black college.

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Jack T. Chick, American author, illustrator, and publisher (died 2016)

Jack Thomas Chick was an American cartoonist and publisher, best known for his fundamentalist Christian "Chick tracts". He expressed his perspective on a variety of issues through sequential-art morality plays.

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Stanley Donen, American film director and choreographer (died 2019)

Stanley Donen was an American film director and choreographer. He received the Honorary Academy Award in 1998, and the Career Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival in 2004. Four of his films have been inducted into the National Film Registry at the Library of Congress.

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13/04/1923

Don Adams, American actor and director (died 2005)

Donald James Yarmy, known professionally as Don Adams, was an American actor. In his five decades on television, he was best known as bumbling Maxwell Smart in the television situation comedy Get Smart, which he also sometimes directed and wrote. Adams won three consecutive Emmy Awards for his performance in the series (1967–1969). Adams also provided voices for the animated series Tennessee Tuxedo and His Tales (1963–1966) and Inspector Gadget (1983–1986) as well as several revivals and spinoffs of the latter in the 1990s.

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A. H. Halsey, English sociologist and academic (died 2014)

Albert Henry 'Chelly' Halsey was a British sociologist. He was emeritus Professor of Social and Administrative Studies at the Department of Social Policy and Intervention, University of Oxford, and a Fellow of Nuffield College, Oxford.

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13/04/1922

Heinz Baas, German footballer and manager (died 1994)

Heinrich "Heinz" Baas was a German football player and manager.

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John Braine, English librarian and author (died 1986)

John Gerard Braine was an English novelist. Braine is usually listed among the angry young men, a loosely defined group of English writers who emerged on the literary scene in the 1950s.

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Julius Nyerere, Tanzanian politician and teacher, 1st President of Tanzania (died 1999)

Julius Kambarage Nyerere was a Tanzanian politician, anti-colonial activist, and political theorist. He governed Tanganyika as prime minister from 1961 to 1962 and then as president from 1962 to 1964, after which he led its successor state, Tanzania, as president from 1964 to 1985. He was a founding member and chair of the Tanganyika African National Union (TANU) party and of its successor, Chama Cha Mapinduzi, from 1954 to 1990. Ideologically an African nationalist and African socialist, he promoted a political philosophy known as Ujamaa.

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Valve Pormeister, Estonian architect (died 2002)

Valve Pormeister née Ulm was an Estonian landscape architect who became an architect. She was one of the first women to influence the development of Estonian architecture, becoming one of the country's most inventive modernisers of rural architecture in the 1960s and 1970s. She is often known as the "Grand Old Lady" of Estonian architecture.

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13/04/1920

Roberto Calvi, Italian banker (died 1982)

Roberto Calvi was an Italian banker, dubbed "God's Banker" by the press because of his close business dealings with the Holy See. He was a native of Milan and was chairman of Banco Ambrosiano, which collapsed in one of Italy's biggest political scandals.

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Claude Cheysson, French lieutenant and politician, French Minister of Foreign Affairs (died 2012)

Claude Cheysson was a French Socialist politician who served as Foreign Minister in the government of Pierre Mauroy from 1981 to 1984.

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Liam Cosgrave, Irish lawyer and politician, 6th Taoiseach of Ireland (died 2017)

Liam Cosgrave was an Irish Fine Gael politician who served as Taoiseach from 1973 to 1977, Leader of Fine Gael from 1965 to 1977, Leader of the Opposition from 1965 to 1973, Minister for External Affairs from 1954 to 1957, and Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Industry and Commerce and Government Chief Whip from 1948 to 1951. He served as a Teachta Dála (TD) from 1943 to 1981.

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Theodore L. Thomas, American chemical engineer, Patent attorney and writer (died 2005)

Theodore Lockard Thomas was an American chemical engineer and patent attorney who wrote more than 50 science fiction short stories, published between 1952 and 1981. He also collaborated on two novels with Kate Wilhelm, as well as producing stories under the pseudonyms of Leonard Lockhard and Cogswell Thomas, and was nominated for the 1967 Nebula Award for Best Short Story and for a Hugo Award.

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13/04/1919

Roland Gaucher, French journalist and politician (died 2007)

Roland Gaucher was the pseudonym of Roland Goguillot, a former French far-left activist turned journalist and politician. He then becomes one of the main thinkers of the French far-right, he had participated in Marcel Déat's fascist party Rassemblement National Populaire (RNP) under the Vichy regime. Sentenced to five years of prison for Collaborationism after the war, he then engaged in a career of journalism, while continuing political activism. One of the co-founders of the National Front (FN) in October 1972, he became a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the FN in 1986.

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Howard Keel, American actor and singer (died 2004)

Harold Clifford Keel, professionally Howard Keel, was an American actor and singer known for his rich bass-baritone singing voice. He starred in a number of MGM musicals in the 1950s, including Show Boat (1951). He played the role of oil baron Clayton Farlow in the television series Dallas from 1981 to 1991.

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Madalyn Murray O'Hair, American activist, founded American Atheists (died 1995)

Madalyn Murray O'Hair was an American activist who supported atheism, separation of church and state, and feminism. In 1963, she founded American Atheists and served as its president until 1986, after which her son Jon Garth Murray succeeded her. She created the first issues of American Atheist Magazine and identified as a militant feminist.

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13/04/1917

Robert Orville Anderson, American businessman, founded Atlantic Richfield Oil Co. (died 2007)

Robert Orville Anderson was an American businessman, art collector, and philanthropist who founded Atlantic Richfield Company (ARCO). Anderson also supported several cultural organizations, from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art to Harper's Magazine. He died December 2, 2007, at his home in Roswell, New Mexico.

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Bill Clements, American soldier, engineer, and politician, 15th United States Deputy Secretary of Defense (died 2011)

William Perry Clements Jr. was an American businessman and Republican Party politician who served two nonconsecutive terms as the governor of Texas between 1979 and 1991. His terms bookended the sole term served by Mark Wells White, a Democrat who defeated Clements in the 1982 election only to lose his campaign for reelection in 1986.

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13/04/1916

Phyllis Fraser, Welsh-American actress, journalist, and publisher, co-founded Beginner Books (died 2006)

Phyllis Cerf Wagner, also known as Phyllis Fraser, was an American socialite, writer, publisher, and actress. She was a co-founder of Beginner Books.

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13/04/1914

Orhan Veli Kanık, Turkish poet and author (died 1950)

Orhan Veli Kanık or Orhan Veli was a Turkish poet. He was one of the founders of the Garip Movement together with Oktay Rıfat and Melih Cevdet.

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13/04/1913

Dave Albritton, American high jumper and coach (died 1994)

David Donald Albritton was an American athlete, teacher, coach, and state legislator. He had a long athletic career that spanned three decades and numerous titles and was one of the first high jumpers to use the straddle technique. He was born in Danville, Alabama.

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Kermit Tyler, American lieutenant and pilot (died 2010)

Kermit Arthur Tyler was an American Air Force officer. Tyler was assigned as a pilot in the 78th Pursuit Squadron at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, the day Japan attacked Pearl Harbor.

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13/04/1911

Ico Hitrec, Croatian footballer and manager (died 1946)

Ivan "Ico" Hitrec was a Yugoslav football player.

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Jean-Louis Lévesque, Canadian businessman and philanthropist (died 1994)

Jean-Louis Lévesque, was a Canadian entrepreneur, thoroughbred racehorse owner, and philanthropist.

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Nino Sanzogno, Italian conductor and composer (died 1983)

Nino Sanzogno was an Italian conductor and composer.

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13/04/1909

Eudora Welty, American short story writer and novelist (died 2001)

Eudora Alice Welty was an American short-story writer, novelist, and photographer who wrote about the American South. Her novel The Optimist's Daughter won the Pulitzer Prize in 1973. Welty received numerous awards, including the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the Order of the South. She was the first living author to have her works published by the Library of America. Her house in Jackson, Mississippi, has been designated as a National Historic Landmark and is open to the public as a house museum.

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13/04/1907

Harold Stassen, American lawyer and politician, 25th Governor of Minnesota (died 2001)

Harold Edward Stassen was an American Republican Party politician, military officer, and attorney who was the 25th governor of Minnesota from 1939 to 1943. He was a leading candidate for the Republican nomination for president of the United States in 1948. Though he was considered for a time to be the front-runner, he lost the nomination to New York governor Thomas E. Dewey. He thereafter regularly continued to run for the presidency and other offices, such that his name became most identified with his status as a perennial candidate.

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13/04/1906

Samuel Beckett, Irish novelist, poet, and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1989)

Samuel Barclay Beckett was an Irish playwright, poet, novelist, and literary critic. Writing in both English and French, his literary and theatrical works feature bleak, impersonal, and tragicomic episodes of life, coupled with black comedy and literary nonsense. Beckett is widely regarded as one of the most influential and important writers of the 20th century, credited with transforming modern theatre. As a major figure of Irish literature, he is best known for his tragicomedy play Waiting for Godot (1953). For his foundational contribution to both literature and theatre, Beckett received the 1969 Nobel Prize in Literature, "for his writing, which—in new forms for the novel and drama—in the destitution of modern man acquires its elevation."

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Bud Freeman, American saxophonist, composer, and bandleader (died 1991)

Lawrence "Bud" Freeman was an American jazz musician, bandleader, and composer, known mainly for playing tenor saxophone, but also the clarinet.

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13/04/1905

Rae Johnstone, Australian jockey (died 1964)

William Raphael "Rae" Johnstone, was an Australian flat-race jockey. After enjoying considerable success in his native country, he relocated to Europe in 1932 and spent most of the rest of his life in France. He won twelve British Classic Races and two Prix de l'Arc de Triomphes. On his retirement in 1957 he was described as "one of the greatest international jockeys of modern times". He died of a heart attack in 1964.

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13/04/1904

David Robinson, English businessman and philanthropist (died 1987)

Sir David Robinson was a British entrepreneur and philanthropist.

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13/04/1902

Philippe de Rothschild, French Grand Prix driver, playwright, and producer (died 1988)

Philippe, Baron de Rothschild was a member of the Rothschild banking family who became a Grand Prix motor racing driver, a screenwriter and playwright, a theatrical producer, a film producer, a poet, and a wine grower.

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Marguerite Henry, American author (died 1997)

Marguerite Henry was an American writer of children's books, writing fifty-nine books based on true stories of horses and other animals. She won the Newbery Medal for King of the Wind, a 1948 book about horses, and she was a runner-up for two others. One of the latter, Misty of Chincoteague (1947), was the basis for several related titles and the 1961 movie Misty.

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13/04/1901

Jacques Lacan, French psychiatrist and psychoanalyst (died 1981)

Jacques Marie Émile Lacan was a French psychoanalyst and psychiatrist. Described as "the most controversial psycho-analyst since Freud", Lacan gave annual seminars in Paris from 1952 to 1980 and published papers that were later collected in the book Écrits. Transcriptions of the seminars 1953–1980 were published. His work made a significant impact on continental philosophy and cultural theory in areas such as post-structuralism, critical theory, feminist theory and film theory, as well as on the practice of psychoanalysis itself.

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Alan Watt, Australian public servant and diplomat, Australian Ambassador to Japan (died 1988)

Sir Alan Stewart Watt was an Australian diplomat.

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13/04/1900

Sorcha Boru, American potter and ceramic sculptor (died 2006)

Sorcha Boru was the studio name of Claire Everett Stewart, an American potter and ceramic sculptor. Most of her works include small items such as figurines, vases, planters, and salt and pepper shakers, mostly done in the art deco style. One of her pieces includes an "Alice in Wonderland" chess set (1932).

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Pierre Molinier, French painter and photographer (died 1976)

Pierre Molinier was a French painter, photographer and "maker of objects". Integrated into the Surrealist movement in 1955 through André Breton, he became known for erotic imagery that merged sexuality, fetishism, and religious ritual. In the final decade of his life, he created photomontages in which he appeared as a transvestite figure, combining his body with mannequins to produce provocative works that challenged social taboos.

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13/04/1899

Alfred Mosher Butts, American architect and game designer, created Scrabble (died 1993)

Alfred Mosher Butts was an American architect, famous for inventing the board game Scrabble in 1931.

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Harold Osborn, American high jumper and decathlete (died 1975)

Harold Marion Osborn D.O. was an American track athlete. He won a gold medal in Olympic decathlon and high jump in 1924 and was the first athlete to win a gold medal in both the decathlon and an individual event.

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13/04/1897

Werner Voss, German lieutenant and pilot (died 1917)

Werner Voss was a World War I German flying ace credited with 48 aerial victories. A dyer's son from Krefeld, he was a patriotic young man while still in school. He began his military career in November 1914 as a 17‑year‑old Hussar. After turning to aviation, he proved to be a natural pilot. After flight school and six months in a bomber unit, he joined a newly formed fighter squadron, Jagdstaffel 2 on 21 November 1916. There he befriended Manfred von Richthofen.

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13/04/1896

Fred Barnett, English footballer (died 1982)

Fred Barnett was an English professional footballer who played for Hawley, Northfleet United, Tottenham Hotspur, Southend United, Watford and Dartford.

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13/04/1894

Arthur Fadden, Australian accountant and politician, 13th Prime Minister of Australia (died 1973)

Sir Arthur William Fadden was an Australian politician and accountant who served as the 13th prime minister of Australia from 29 August to 7 October 1941. He held office as the leader of the Country Party from 1940 to 1958 and served as treasurer of Australia from 1940 to 1941 and 1949 to 1958.

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May Brodney, Australian labour activist (died 1973)

(Maria) May Brodney previously known as May Francis was an Australian labour activist and a founder member of the Communist Party of Australia in Melbourne.

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13/04/1892

Sir Arthur Harris, 1st Baronet, English air marshal (died 1984)

Marshal of the Royal Air Force Sir Arthur Travers Harris, 1st Baronet,, commonly known as "Bomber" Harris by the press and often within the RAF as "Butcher" or "Butch" Harris, was Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief (AOC-in-C) RAF Bomber Command during the height of the Anglo-American strategic bombing campaign against Nazi Germany in the Second World War.

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Robert Watson-Watt, Scottish engineer, invented Radar (died 1973)

Sir Robert Alexander Watson-Watt was a Scottish radio engineer and pioneer of radio direction finding and radar technology.

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13/04/1891

Maurice Buckley, Australian sergeant, Victoria Cross recipient (died 1921)

Maurice Vincent Buckley, was an Australian soldier serving under the pseudonym Gerald Sexton who was awarded the Victoria Cross during the First World War. This is the highest award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.

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Nella Larsen, Danish/African-American nurse, librarian, and author (died 1964)

Nellallitea "Nella" Larsen was an American novelist. Working as a nurse and a librarian, she published two novels, Quicksand (1928) and Passing (1929), and a few short stories. Though her literary output was scant, she earned recognition by her contemporaries.

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Robert Scholl, German accountant and politician (died 1973)

Robert Scholl was a Württembergian politician and father of Hans and Sophie Scholl. Robert Scholl was a critic of the Nazi Party before, during and after the Nazi regime, and was twice sent to prison for his criticism of Nazism. He was mayor of Ingersheim 1917–1920, mayor of Forchtenberg 1920–1930 and lord mayor of Ulm 1945–1948, and co-founded the All-German People's Party in 1952.

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13/04/1890

Frank Murphy, American jurist and politician, 56th United States Attorney General (died 1949)

William Francis Murphy was an American politician, lawyer, and jurist from Michigan. He was a Democrat who was named to the Supreme Court of the United States in 1940 after a political career that included serving as United States Attorney General, 35th governor of Michigan, and Mayor of Detroit. He also served as the last Governor-General of the Philippines and the first High Commissioner to the Philippines.

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Dadasaheb Torne, Indian director and producer (died 1960)

Ramchandra Gopal Torne, also known as Dadasaheb Torne, was an Indian director and producer, best known for making the first feature film in India, Shree Pundalik. This historic record is well established by an advertisement in The Times of India published on 25 May 1912. Several leading reference books on cinema including The Guinness Book of Movie Facts & Feats, A Pictorial History of Indian Cinema and Marathi Cinema : In Restrospect amply substantiate this milestone achievement of the pioneer Indian feature-filmmaker.

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13/04/1889

Herbert Yardley, American cryptologist and author (died 1958)

Herbert Osborn Yardley was an American cryptologist. He founded and led the cryptographic organization the Black Chamber. Under Yardley, the cryptanalysts of The American Black Chamber broke Japanese diplomatic codes and were able to furnish American negotiators with significant information during the Washington Naval Conference of 1921–1922. Recipient of the Distinguished Service Medal. He wrote The American Black Chamber (1931) about his experiences there. He later helped the Nationalists in China (1938–1940) to break Japanese codes. Following his work in China, Yardley worked briefly for the Canadian government, helping it set up a cryptological section of the National Research Council of Canada from June to December 1941. Yardley was reportedly let go due to pressure either from the Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson or from the British.

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13/04/1887

Gordon S. Fahrni, Canadian physician and golfer (died 1995)

Gordon Samuel Fahrni, a recipient of the Order of Canada, was a Canadian physician and a leader in the Canadian Medical community. He served as president of the Canadian Medical Association from 1941 to 1942. An expert on goitre surgery, he was a founder of the American Goitre Association. He was a medical practitioner for 54 years, dying at age 108.

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13/04/1885

Vean Gregg, American baseball player (died 1964)

Sylveanus Augustus "Vean" Gregg was an American professional baseball player. A pitcher, Gregg played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Cleveland Naps, Boston Red Sox, Philadelphia Athletics, and Washington Senators from 1911 through 1925.

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Juhan Kukk, Estonian politician, Head of State of Estonia (died 1942)

Juhan (Johann) Kukk was an Estonian politician.

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György Lukács, Hungarian philosopher and critic (died 1971)

György Lukács was a Hungarian Marxist philosopher, literary historian, literary critic, and aesthetician. He was one of the founders of Western Marxism, an interpretive tradition that departed from the Soviet Marxist ideological orthodoxy. He developed the theory of reification, and contributed to Marxist theory with developments of Karl Marx's theory of class consciousness. He was also a philosopher of Leninism. He ideologically developed and organised Vladimir Lenin's pragmatic revolutionary practices into the formal philosophy of vanguard-party revolution.

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Pieter Sjoerds Gerbrandy, Dutch politician (died 1961)

Pieter Sjoerds Gerbrandy was a Dutch politician and jurist who served as Prime Minister of the Netherlands from 3 September 1940 until 25 June 1945. He oversaw the government-in-exile based in London under Queen Wilhelmina during the German occupation of the Netherlands. He was a member of the Anti-Revolutionary Party (ARP).

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13/04/1880

Charles Christie, Canadian-American businessman, co-founded the Christie Film Company (died 1955)

Charles Herbert Christie and Alfred Ernest Christie were Canadian motion picture entrepreneurs.

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13/04/1879

Edward Bruce, American lawyer and painter (died 1943)

Edward Bright Bruce was the administrator of the New Deal art projects of the United States Department of the Treasury: the Public Works of Art Project (1933–1934), the Section of Painting and Sculpture (1934–1943), and the Treasury Relief Art Project (1935–1938). Ned Bruce was a successful lawyer and entrepreneur before giving up his business career altogether at the age of 43 to become an artist. However, like most artists during the Depression, he found it impossible to make a living making art, and he grudgingly returned to business as a lobbyist in Washington, D.C. In 1932 he joined the Treasury Department, where his expertise in monetary policy and art guided federal efforts to employ workers in the visual arts during the Great Depression in the United States.

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Oswald Bruce Cooper, American type designer, lettering artist, graphic designer, and educator (died 1940)

Oswald Bruce Cooper was an American type designer, lettering artist, graphic designer, and teacher of these trades. He is best known as the designer and namesake of the Cooper Black typeface.

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13/04/1875

Ray Lyman Wilbur, American physician, academic, and politician, 31st United States Secretary of the Interior (died 1949)

Ray Lyman Wilbur was an American medical doctor who served as the third president of Stanford University and as the 31st United States Secretary of the Interior under President Herbert Hoover, also a Stanford alum.

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13/04/1873

John W. Davis, American lawyer and politician, 14th United States Solicitor General (died 1955)

John William Davis was an American politician, diplomat and lawyer. He served under President Woodrow Wilson as the Solicitor General of the United States and the United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom. He was the Democratic nominee for president in 1924, losing to Republican incumbent Calvin Coolidge.

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13/04/1872

John Cameron, Scottish international footballer and manager (died 1935)

John Cameron was a Scottish footballer and manager. He played as a forward for Queen's Park, Everton and Scotland and was noted as an effective goal-maker and goalscorer. In 1899 he became player-manager at Tottenham Hotspur and guided them to victory in the 1901 FA Cup. As a result, they became the only club outside the English Football League to win the competition. In 1898 he became the first secretary of the Association Footballers' Union, which was the ill-fated fore-runner of the Professional Footballers' Association. He later coached Dresdner SC and during the First World War he was interned at Ruhleben, a civilian detention camp in Germany. After the war he coached Ayr United for one season and then became a football journalist, author and publisher. He had previously worked as a columnist for various newspapers before the war.

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Alexander Roda Roda, Austrian-Croatian journalist and author (died 1945)

Alexander Friedrich Ladislaus Roda Roda was an Austrian writer and satirist.

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13/04/1866

Butch Cassidy, American criminal (died 1908)

Robert LeRoy Parker, better known as Butch Cassidy, was an American train and bank robber and the leader of a gang of criminal outlaws known as the "Wild Bunch" in the Old West.

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13/04/1865

Lucie Lagerbielke, Swedish writer and painter (died 1931).

Lucie Lagerbielke was a Swedish author, painter and baroness who was known for her works on Western esotericism.

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13/04/1860

James Ensor, English-Belgian painter, an important influence on expressionism and surrealism (died 1949)

James Sidney Edouard, Baron Ensor was a Belgian painter and printmaker, an important influence on expressionism and surrealism who lived in Ostend for most of his life. He was associated with the artistic group Les XX.

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13/04/1857

Fanny Ingvoldstad, Norwegian painter (died 1935)

Fanny Hulda Marie Ingvoldstad was a Norwegian painter.

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13/04/1856

Urania Marquard Olsen, Danish-Norwegian actress and theatre director (died 1932)

Urania Charlotte Amalie Marquard Olsen was a Danish-Norwegian actress and theatre director.

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13/04/1854

Lucy Craft Laney, American founder of the Haines Normal and Industrial School, Augusta, Georgia (died 1933)

Lucy Craft Laney was an American educator who in 1883 founded the first school for black children in Augusta, Georgia. She was principal for 50 years of the Haines Institute for Industrial and Normal Education.

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13/04/1852

Frank Winfield Woolworth, American businessman, founded the F. W. Woolworth Company (died 1919)

Frank Winfield Woolworth was an American entrepreneur, the founder of F. W. Woolworth Company, and the operator of variety stores known as "Five-and-Dimes" which featured a selection of low-priced merchandise. He pioneered the now-common practices of buying merchandise directly from manufacturers and fixing the selling prices on items, rather than haggling. He was also the first to use self-service display cases, so that customers could examine what they wanted to buy without the help of a sales clerk.

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13/04/1851

Robert Abbe, American surgeon and radiologist (died 1928)

Robert Abbe was an American surgeon and pioneer radiologist in New York City. He was born in New York City and educated at the College of the City of New York and Columbia University.

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William Quan Judge, Irish occultist and theosophist (died 1896)

William Quan Judge was an American mystic, esotericist, and occultist, and one of the founders of the original Theosophical Society.

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13/04/1850

Arthur Matthew Weld Downing, Irish astronomer (died 1917)

Arthur Matthew Weld Downing was an Anglo-Irish mathematician and astronomer. Downing's major contribution to astronomy is in the calculation of the positions and movements of astronomical bodies, as well as being a founder of the British Astronomical Association.

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13/04/1841

Louis-Ernest Barrias, French sculptor and academic (died 1905)

Louis-Ernest Barrias was a French sculptor of the Beaux-Arts school. In 1865 Barrias won the Prix de Rome for study at the French Academy in Rome.

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13/04/1832

Juan Montalvo, Ecuadorian author and diplomat (died 1889)

Juan María Montalvo Fiallos was an Ecuadorian essayist and novelist. His writing was strongly marked by anti-clericalism and opposition to presidents Gabriel García Moreno and Ignacio de Veintemilla. He was the publisher of the magazine El Cosmopolita. One of his best-known books is Las Catilinarias, published in 1880. His essays include Siete tratados (1882) and Geometría Moral. He also wrote a sequel to Don Quixote de la Mancha, called Capítulos que se le olvidaron a Cervantes. He was admired by writers, essayists, intellectuals such as Jorge Luis Borges and Miguel de Unamuno. He died in Paris in 1889. His body was embalmed and is exhibited in a mausoleum in his hometown of Ambato.

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13/04/1828

Josephine Butler, English feminist and social reformer (died 1906)

Josephine Elizabeth Butler was an English feminist and social reformer in the Victorian era. She campaigned for women's suffrage, the right of women to better education, the end of coverture in British law, the repeal of the Contagious Diseases Acts, the abolition of child prostitution and an end to human trafficking of young women and children into European prostitution.

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Joseph Lightfoot, English bishop and theologian (died 1889)

Joseph Barber Lightfoot, known as J. B. Lightfoot, was an English theologian and Bishop of Durham.

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13/04/1825

Thomas D'Arcy McGee, Irish-Canadian journalist and politician (died 1868)

Thomas D'Arcy McGee was an Irish-Canadian politician, Catholic spokesman, journalist, poet, and a Father of Canadian Confederation. The young McGee was an Irish Catholic who opposed British rule in Ireland, and was part of the Young Ireland attempts to overthrow British rule and create an independent Irish Republic. He escaped arrest and fled to the United States in 1848, after which some of his political positions reversed. He remained ardently Catholic, but his Irish nationalism moderated. He became disgusted with American republicanism, Anti-Catholicism, and classical liberalism. McGee became intensely monarchistic in his political beliefs and in his religious support for the embattled Pope Pius IX.

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13/04/1824

William Alexander, Irish archbishop, poet, and theologian (died 1911)

William Alexander was an Irish cleric in the Church of Ireland.

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13/04/1810

Félicien David, French composer (died 1876)

Félicien-César David was a French composer.

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13/04/1808

Antonio Meucci, Italian-American engineer (died 1889)

Antonio Santi Giuseppe Meucci was an Italian inventor and an associate of Giuseppe Garibaldi, a major political figure in the history of Italy. Meucci is best known for developing a voice-communication apparatus that several sources credit as the first telephone.

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13/04/1802

Leopold Fitzinger, Austrian zoologist and herpetologist (died 1884)

Leopold Joseph Franz Johann Fitzinger was an Austrian zoologist.

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13/04/1794

Jean Pierre Flourens, French physiologist and academic (died 1867)

Marie Jean Pierre Flourens, father of Gustave Flourens, was a French physiologist, the founder of experimental brain science, and a pioneer in anesthesia.

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13/04/1787

John Robertson, American lawyer and politician (died 1873)

John Robertson was a nineteenth-century politician and lawyer from the U.S. state of Virginia. He was the brother of Thomas B. Robertson and Wyndham Robertson.

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13/04/1784

Friedrich Graf von Wrangel, Prussian field marshal (died 1877)

Friedrich Heinrich Ernst Graf von Wrangel was a Generalfeldmarschall of the Prussian Army.

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13/04/1780

Alexander Mitchell, Irish engineer, invented the Screw-pile lighthouse (died 1868)

Alexander Mitchell was an Irish engineer who from 1802 was blind. He is known as the inventor of the screw-pile lighthouse.

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13/04/1771

Richard Trevithick, Cornish-English engineer and explorer (died 1833)

Richard Trevithick was a British inventor and mining engineer. The son of a mining captain, and born in the mining heartland of Cornwall, Trevithick was immersed in mining and engineering from an early age. He was an early pioneer of steam-powered road and rail transport, and his most significant contributions were the development of the first high-pressure steam engine and the first working railway steam locomotive. The world's first locomotive-hauled railway journey took place on 21 February 1804, when Trevithick's unnamed steam locomotive hauled a train along the tramway of the Penydarren Ironworks, in Merthyr Tydfil, Wales.

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13/04/1769

Thomas Lawrence, English painter and educator (died 1830)

Sir Thomas Lawrence was an English painter who served as the fourth president of the Royal Academy. A child prodigy, he was born in Bristol and began drawing in Devizes, where his father was an innkeeper at the Bear Hotel in the Market Square. At age ten, having moved to Bath, he was supporting his family with his pastel portraits.

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13/04/1764

Laurent de Gouvion Saint-Cyr, French general and politician, French Minister of War (died 1830)

Laurent de Gouvion Saint-Cyr, 1st Marquis of Gouvion-Saint-Cyr was a French military leader of the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars. He was a made a Marshal of the Empire in 1812 by Emperor Napoleon, who regarded him as his finest general in defensive warfare.

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13/04/1747

Louis Philippe II, Duke of Orléans (died 1793)

Louis Philippe II, Duke of Orléans, was a French Prince of the Blood who supported the French Revolution.

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13/04/1743

Thomas Jefferson, American lawyer and politician, 3rd President of the United States (died 1826)

Thomas Jefferson was an American Founding Father and the third president of the United States from 1801 to 1809. He was the primary author of the Declaration of Independence. Jefferson was a leading proponent of democracy, republicanism, and natural rights, and he produced formative documents and decisions at the state, national, and international levels.

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13/04/1735

Isaac Low, American merchant and politician, founded the New York Chamber of Commerce (died 1791)

Isaac Low was an American merchant in New York City who served as a member of the Continental Congress, where he signed the Continental Association. He later served as a delegate to the New York Provincial Congress. Though originally a Patriot, he later joined the Loyalist cause in the American Revolution.

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13/04/1732

Frederick North, Lord North, English politician, Prime Minister of Great Britain (died 1792)

Frederick North, 2nd Earl of Guilford, better known by his courtesy title Lord North, which he used from 1752 to 1790, was Prime Minister of Great Britain from 1770 to 1782. He led the Kingdom of Great Britain through most of the American Revolutionary War. He also held a number of other cabinet posts, including Home Secretary and Chancellor of the Exchequer.

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13/04/1729

Thomas Percy, Irish bishop and poet (died 1811)

Thomas Percy was Bishop of Dromore, County Down, Ireland. Before being made bishop, he was chaplain to George III of the United Kingdom. Percy's greatest contribution is considered to be his Reliques of Ancient English Poetry (1765), the first of the great ballad collections, which was the one work most responsible for the ballad revival in English poetry that was a significant part of the Romantic movement.

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13/04/1713

Pierre Jélyotte, French tenor (died 1797)

Pierre Jélyotte was a French operatic tenor, particularly associated with works by Rameau, Lully, Campra, Mondonville and Destouches.

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13/04/1648

Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon, French mystic (died 1717)

Jeanne-Marie Bouvier de La Motte Guyon was a French Christian accused of advocating Quietism, which was considered heretical by the Roman Catholic Church. Madame Guyon was imprisoned from 1695 to 1703 after publishing the book A Short and Very Easy Method of Prayer.

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13/04/1636

Hendrik van Rheede, Dutch botanist (died 1691)

Hendrik Adriaan van Rheede tot Drakenstein was a Dutch military officer and colonial administrator of the Dutch East India Company. Between 1669 and 1676 he served as a governor of Dutch Malabar at Kochi and employed twenty-five people on his book Hortus Malabaricus, describing 740 plants in the region. As Lord of Mydrecht, he also played a role in the governance of the Cape colonies. Many plants such as the vine Entada rheedei are named for him. The standard author abbreviation Rheede is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.

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13/04/1618

Roger de Rabutin, Comte de Bussy, French author (died 1693)

Roger de Rabutin, comte de Bussy, commonly known as Bussy-Rabutin, was a French memoirist. He was the cousin and frequent correspondent of Madame de Sévigné.

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13/04/1593

Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford, English soldier and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (died 1641)

Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford, was an English statesman and a major figure in the period leading up to the English Civil War. He served in Parliament and was a supporter of King Charles I. From 1632 to 1640 he was Lord Deputy of Ireland, where he established a strong authoritarian rule. Recalled to England, he became a leading advisor to the King, attempting to strengthen the royal position against Parliament. When Parliament condemned Lord Strafford to death, Charles reluctantly signed the death warrant and Strafford was executed. He had been advanced several times in the Peerage of England during his career, being created 1st Baron Wentworth in 1628, 1st Viscount Wentworth in late 1628 or early 1629, and, finally, 1st Earl of Strafford in January 1640. He was known as Sir Thomas Wentworth, 2nd Baronet, between 1614 and 1628.

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13/04/1573

Christina of Holstein-Gottorp (died 1625)

Christina of Holstein-Gottorp was Queen of Sweden as the second wife of King Charles IX. She served as regent in 1605, during the absence of her spouse, and in 1611, during the minority of her son, King Gustav II Adolph.

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13/04/1570

Guy Fawkes, English soldier, member of the Gunpowder Plot (probable; died 1606)

Guy Fawkes, also known as Guido Fawkes while fighting for the Spanish, was a member of a group of provincial English Catholics involved in the failed Gunpowder Plot of 1605. He was born and educated in York; his father died when Fawkes was eight years old, after which his mother married a recusant Catholic.

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13/04/1519

Catherine de' Medici, Italian-French wife of Henry II of France (died 1589)

Catherine de' Medici was an Italian Florentine noblewoman of the Medici family and Queen of France from 1547 to 1559 by marriage to King Henry II. She was the mother of French kings Francis II, Charles IX, and Henry III, and a cousin to Pope Clement VII. The years during which her sons reigned have been called "the age of Catherine de' Medici" since she had extensive, albeit at times varying, influence on the political life of France.

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13/04/1506

Peter Faber, French priest and theologian, co-founded the Society of Jesus (died 1546)

Peter Faber, SJ was a Savoyard Catholic priest, theologian and co-founder of the Society of Jesus, along with Ignatius of Loyola and Francis Xavier. Pope Francis announced his canonization in 2013.

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13/04/1350

Margaret III, Countess of Flanders (died 1405)

Margaret III was a ruling Countess of Flanders, Countess of Artois, and Countess of Auvergne and Boulogne between 1384 and 1405. She was the last ruler of Flanders of the House of Dampierre.

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13/04/1229

Louis II, Duke of Bavaria (died 1294)

Louis the Strict was Duke of Upper Bavaria and Count Palatine of the Rhine from 1253. He is known as Louis II or Louis VI following an alternative numbering. Born in Heidelberg, he was a son of Otto II Wittelsbach, Duke of Bavaria and Agnes of the Palatinate.

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