Tuesday, 14th April 2026 in London

On this day, 237 notable people were born on 14th April — spanning from 1126 to 2001. From world leaders to artists and scientists, discover who shares this birthday.

14/04/2001

Jalen Williams, American basketball player

Jalen Devonn Williams, nicknamed J-Dub, is an American professional basketball player for the Oklahoma City Thunder of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played three seasons of college basketball for the Santa Clara Broncos before declaring for the 2022 NBA draft, where he was selected 12th overall by the Thunder. Williams was named to his first NBA All-Star Game and All-NBA Team in 2025, later winning an NBA championship that same year.

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14/04/2000

Patrick Surtain II, American football player

Patrick Frank Surtain II is an American professional football cornerback for the Denver Broncos of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Alabama Crimson Tide, with whom he won the 2020 National Championship, and was selected ninth overall by the Broncos in the 2021 NFL draft. Surtain has made four consecutive Pro Bowls and was named the Defensive Player of the Year in 2024. He is the son of former Pro Bowl cornerback Patrick Surtain.

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14/04/1999

Chase Young, American football player

Chase Young is an American professional football defensive end for the New Orleans Saints of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Ohio State Buckeyes, where he was a unanimous All-American and Heisman Trophy finalist in 2019 after breaking the school's single-season sack record with 16.5.

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14/04/1997

D. J. Moore, American football player

Denniston Oliver "D. J." Moore Jr. is an American professional football wide receiver for the Buffalo Bills of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Maryland Terrapins and was selected by the Carolina Panthers in the first round of the 2018 NFL draft.

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14/04/1996

Abigail Breslin, American actress

Abigail Breslin is an American actress. Following a string of film parts as a young child, she rose to prominence at age 10 after playing Olive Hoover in Little Miss Sunshine (2006), for which Breslin received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. She went on to establish herself as a mainstream actress with roles in films such as No Reservations (2007), Nim's Island (2008), Definitely, Maybe (2008), My Sister's Keeper, Zombieland, Rango (2011), The Call, August: Osage County, Ender's Game, Maggie (2015), Zombieland: Double Tap (2019) and Stillwater (2021). Breslin's other projects include the Fox series Scream Queens (2015–2016), where she portrayed Libby Putney, her first regular role on television.

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14/04/1995

Baker Mayfield, American football player

Baker Reagan Mayfield is an American professional football quarterback for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers of the National Football League (NFL). Following one season of college football with the Texas Tech Red Raiders, he played for the Oklahoma Sooners, becoming the first walk-on player to win the Heisman Trophy. He was selected first overall by the Cleveland Browns in the 2018 NFL draft.

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Georgie Friedrichs, Australian rugby sevens player

Georgina Friedrichs is an Australian rugby sevens and union player. She has represented Australia in sevens and fifteens internationally, and competed at the 2021 Rugby World Cup in New Zealand. She also plays for the NSW Waratahs in the Super W competition.

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14/04/1989

Joe Haden, American football player

Joseph Walter Haden III is an American former professional football player who was a cornerback for 12 seasons in the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Florida Gators, earning unanimous All-American honors and was a member of a BCS National Championship team. He was selected by the Cleveland Browns in the first round of the 2010 NFL draft and played for them for seven seasons. He also played for the Pittsburgh Steelers for five seasons.

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14/04/1988

Eric Gryba, Canadian ice hockey player

Eric David Gryba is a Canadian former professional ice hockey defenceman. Gryba was selected by the Ottawa Senators in the third round, 68th overall, of the 2006 NHL entry draft.

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Eliška Klučinová, Czech heptathlete

Eliška Klučinová is a Czech heptathlete. In 2007, she won a silver medal at the European Athletics Junior Championships in Hengelo.

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Brad Sinopoli, Canadian football player

Bradley Sinopoli is a Canadian former professional football wide receiver who played nine years in the Canadian Football League (CFL). He was originally a quarterback with the Calgary Stampeders before being converted to wide receiver in 2013. He then joined the Ottawa Redblacks where he was twice named the CFL's Most Outstanding Canadian, was named an East Division All-Star three times, and a CFL All-Star in 2018. He won two Grey Cup championships, after winning with the Stampeders in 2014 and with the Redblacks in 2016, the latter of which he was also named the game's Most Valuable Canadian.

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Anthony Modeste, French footballer

Anthony Stéphane Bernard Modeste is a French professional footballer who plays as a striker.

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14/04/1987

Michael Baze, American jockey (died 2011)

Michael Carl Baze was an American Thoroughbred horse racing jockey.

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Erwin Hoffer, Austrian footballer

Erwin "Jimmy" Hoffer is an Austrian former professional footballer who played as a striker. He represented the Austria national football team at UEFA Euro 2008, and his 17-year playing career spanned several clubs in Austria, Italy, Germany and Belgium.

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Wilson Kiprop, Kenyan runner

Wilson Kiprop is a Kenyan long-distance runner, who specialises in the 10,000 metres and half marathon. He was the world champion at the IAAF World Half Marathon Championships in 2010 and was the 10,000 m gold medalist at the 2010 African Championships in Athletics.

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14/04/1986

Matt Derbyshire, English footballer

Matthew Anthony Derbyshire is an English footballer who last played as a striker for Northern Premier League Premier Division club Matlock Town.

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14/04/1984

Blake Costanzo, American football player

Blake Costanzo is an American former professional football player who was a linebacker in the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Lafayette Leopards and was signed by the New York Jets as an undrafted free agent in 2006.

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Charles Hamelin, Canadian speed skater

Charles Hamelin is a Canadian retired short-track speed skater. In a competitive career that spanned nearly twenty years on the international circuit, Hamelin participated in five Winter Olympic Games and won six Olympic medals, including a national-best four gold medals. Competing in all distances, he won thirty-eight medals at the World Championships, including fourteen gold medals, and also led Canada to five world relay titles. Hamelin was also the 2014 Overall World Cup season winner and the 2018 Overall World Champion, giving him all the achievements available in the sport.

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Harumafuji Kōhei, Mongolian sumo wrestler, the 70th Yokozuna

Harumafuji Kōhei , previously known as Ama Kōhei , is a Mongolian former professional sumo wrestler. He was the sport's 70th yokozuna from 2012 to 2017, making him the third Mongolian and fifth overall non-Japanese wrestler to attain sumo's highest rank.

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Tyler Thigpen, American football player

Tyler Beckham Thigpen is an American former professional football player who was a quarterback in the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Coastal Carolina Chanticleers and was selected by the Minnesota Vikings in the seventh round of the 2007 NFL draft.

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14/04/1983

Simona La Mantia, Italian triple jumper

Simona La Mantia is an Italian triple jumper. Her best result at international senior level was a gold medal at the 2011 European Indoor Championships.

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James McFadden, Scottish footballer

James Henry McFadden is a Scottish former professional football player and coach who now works as a football pundit.

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William Obeng, Ghanaian-American football player

William Yaw Obeng is a Ghanaian former American football offensive lineman in the Arena Football League. He was signed by the Minnesota Vikings as an undrafted free agent in 2005. He played college football at San Jose State.

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Nikoloz Tskitishvili, Georgian basketball player

Nikoloz Tskitishvili is a Georgian former professional basketball player. At 7 feet tall, he played as power forward-center. Tskitishvili was selected fifth overall by the Denver Nuggets in the 2002 NBA draft. He also played for the senior Georgian national basketball team.

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14/04/1982

Uğur Boral, Turkish footballer

Uğur Boral is a Turkish retired footballer who last played for Beşiktaş in the Süper Lig.

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Larissa França, Brazilian volleyball player

Larissa França Maestrini is a Brazilian beach volleyball player. She is the all-time leader of beach volleyball titles, with 57 FIVB career gold medals, including the 2011 Beach Volleyball World Championships with Juliana Felisberta and the 2015 FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour with Talita Antunes.

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14/04/1981

Mustafa Güngör, German rugby player

Mustafa Güngör is a German international rugby union player, playing for the TV Pforzheim in the Rugby-Bundesliga and the German national rugby union team. He is a former captain of the German Sevens and German XV team. He made his debut for Germany in a game against Sweden in 2003.

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Amy Leach, English director and producer

Amy Leach is a British theatre director. She was first Associate Director (2017–2022) and then Deputy Artistic Director (2022–2025) of Leeds Playhouse. She is an Olivier Award-nominated and UK Theatre Award-winning director, recognized for her commitment to creatively accessible theatre.

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14/04/1980

Win Butler, American-Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist

Edwin Farnham Butler III is an American-Canadian singer, songwriter, musician, and multi-instrumentalist. He co-founded the Montreal-based indie rock band Arcade Fire with Josh Deu and Régine Chassagne.

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Jeremy Smith, New Zealand rugby league player

Jeremy Smith is a New Zealand former professional rugby league footballer who played in the 2000s and 2010s. A New Zealand international representative, he played as a second-row and lock. He played for the Melbourne Storm, the St. George Illawarra Dragons, with whom he won the 2010 NRL Grand Final with, the Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks and the Newcastle Knights, who he co-captained, in the NRL.

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14/04/1979

David Crisafulli, Australian politician, 41st Premier of Queensland

David Frank Crisafulli is an Australian politician who has served as the 41st premier of Queensland since 2024. He holds office as the leader of the Liberal National Party and has been the member of Parliament (MP) for the district of Broadwater since 2017. Crisafulli previously served as a minister in the Newman government and was the MP for the district of Mundingburra from 2012 to 2015.

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Rebecca DiPietro, American wrestler and model

Rebecca DiPietro, born April 14 1979, is an American model and WWE Diva. She is best known for her time with the World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) as a backstage interviewer on WWE's ECW brand and for taking part in the WWE 2006 Diva Search. She also posed for Playboy magazine in 2001.

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Marios Elia, Cypriot footballer

Marios Elia is a retired Cypriot professional footballer and manager of the restaurant Ivory in Nicosia.

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Ross Filipo, New Zealand rugby player

Ross Ami Filipo is a retired New Zealand rugby union footballer. Filipo's career included long stints with Wellington in the Mitre 10 Cup, Crusaders in Super Rugby, and Bayonne in the Top 14 competition, and appearances for the All Blacks in 2007-2008.

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Noé Pamarot, French footballer

Noé Elias Pamarot is a French former professional footballer who played as a central defender. Before moving to Spain, Pamarot played for Portsmouth in the Premier League. He is a right-footed defender who is also known for his great strength. Pamarot has previously played for Martigues, Nice and Tottenham Hotspur and also had a brief loan spell at Portsmouth in the 1999–2000 season.

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Kerem Tunçeri, Turkish basketball player

Mehmet Kerem Tunçeri is a Turkish former professional basketball player who played at the point guard and shooting guard positions. He is 194 cm in height and 86 kg (190 lbs.) in weight.

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14/04/1978

Roland Lessing, Estonian biathlete

Roland Lessing is a former Estonian biathlete. His first World Cup podium was in Pokljuka Pursuit on 20 December 2009.

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14/04/1977

Nate Fox, American basketball player (died 2014)

Nate Fox was an American professional basketball player.

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Martin Kaalma, Estonian footballer

Martin Kaalma is a former Estonian professional football goalkeeper and current goalkeeping coach for Levadia Tallinn. He has been capped in the Estonia national football team 35 times. He played for multiple Estonian clubs, but longest for FC Flora Tallinn before joining Narva Trans for a 1-year spell in 2006. He then moved to Levadia Tallinn.

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Sarah Michelle Gellar, American actress

Sarah Michelle Prinze is an American actress. She is known for portraying strong female characters in film and television, and is regarded as a scream queen for her work in the horror genre.

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Rob McElhenney, American actor, producer, and screenwriter

Robert McElhenney III, also known professionally as Rob Mac, is an American actor, screenwriter, producer, director, and businessman. He is best known for his role as Mac on the FX/FXX comedy series It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia (2005–present), a show he created and co-developed with Charlie Day and Glenn Howerton and on which he continues to serve as an executive producer and writer. He is also known for playing Ian Grimm on the Apple TV+ comedy series Mythic Quest (2020–2025), which he co-created with Day and Megan Ganz as executive producers.

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Luke Priddis, Australian rugby league player

Luke Priddis is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer. An Australian international and New South Wales State of Origin representative hooker, he played club football in the National Rugby League for the Canberra Raiders, Brisbane Broncos and Penrith Panthers and, finally, the St. George Illawarra Dragons with who he won the 2010 NRL Premiership.

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14/04/1976

Christian Älvestam, Swedish singer-songwriter and guitarist

Christian Älvestam is a Swedish vocalist, guitarist, bassist and drummer for several bands from Sweden. He is, however, best known as the former vocalist for the Swedish melodic death metal band Scar Symmetry. He currently performs with several bands, including Solution .45, Miseration, Cipher System, Svavelvinter, Ill-Wisher, Pre-Human Vaults and has made several guest appearances for other music bands. He is most known in the metal community for possessing both an extreme clean singing range and an ability to make powerful growls.

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Georgina Chapman, English model, actress, and fashion designer, co-founded Marchesa

Georgina Rose Chapman is an English fashion designer and actress. She was a regular cast member on Project Runway All Stars (2012–2019) and, together with Keren Craig, is a co-founder of the fashion label Marchesa. Chapman was married to film producer Harvey Weinstein before leaving him in 2017 in the wake of allegations of sexual abuse against him.

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Anna DeForge, American basketball player

Anna Louise DeForge is an American-Montenegrin professional female basketball player who most recently played for the Detroit Shock in the WNBA. She was the first player from the University of Nebraska–Lincoln to play in the WNBA. After finding little success and playing time for several WNBA teams, she finally earned a spot on a WNBA All-Star team in 2004. She was one of the players selected to play in the historic WNBA vs. USA Basketball Game.

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Kyle Farnsworth, American baseball player

Kyle Lynn Farnsworth is an American former professional baseball pitcher. He played for the Chicago Cubs (1999–2004), Detroit Tigers, Atlanta Braves, New York Yankees (2006–2008), Kansas City Royals (2009–2010), Tampa Bay Rays (2011–2013), Pittsburgh Pirates (2013), New York Mets (2014), Houston Astros (2014) in Major League Baseball, and for the Pericos de Puebla (2015) and the Broncos de Reynosa (2016) of the Mexican League. In 2017, Farnsworth was the pitching coach for the Brookhaven Bucks of the Sunbelt Baseball League.

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Nadine Faustin-Parker, Haitian hurdler

Nadine Faustin-Parker is a Haitian hurdler born in Brussels, Belgium. She has represented Haiti at three Summer Olympics;.

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Jason Wiemer, Canadian ice hockey player

Jason Earl Wiemer is a Canadian former professional ice hockey forward. He played for 11 seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL).

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14/04/1975

Lita, American wrestler

Amy Christine Dumas is an American retired professional wrestler and singer. She is best known for her tenure in WWE, under the ring name Lita, where she performed full-time from 2000 to 2006.

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Luciano Almeida, Brazilian footballer

Luciano Silva Almeida is a Brazilian left back. He currently plays for Caxias.

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Avner Dorman, Israeli-American composer and academic

Avner Dorman is an Israeli-born composer, educator and conductor.

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Anderson Silva, Brazilian mixed martial artist and boxer

Anderson da Silva is a Brazilian mixed martial artist and professional boxer. He is a former UFC Middleweight Champion who unified the UFC Middleweight and Pride World Welterweight Championship, and holds the record for the longest title reign in UFC history at 2,457 days. This started in 2006 and ended in 2013 and included a UFC record 16 consecutive victories in that span. Silva left the UFC in November 2020 and returned to boxing. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest mixed martial artists of all time. Silva was inducted into the UFC Hall of Fame in July 2023.

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14/04/1974

Da Brat, American rapper

Shawntae Harris-Dupart, known professionally as Da Brat, is an American rapper. Born and raised in Chicago, Illinois, she began her career in 1992 and signed with Jermaine Dupri's So So Def Recordings two years later to release her debut studio album, Funkdafied (1994). Receiving platinum certification by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), it became the first album by a female hip hop solo act to do so.

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14/04/1973

Roberto Ayala, Argentinian footballer

Roberto Fabián Ayala, nicknamed El Ratón, is an Argentine former footballer who played as a centre back for the Argentina national football team, as well as Valencia and Real Zaragoza in Spain, Milan and Napoli in Italy, and Ferro Carril, River Plate and Racing Club in his native Argentina.

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Adrien Brody, American actor

Adrien Nicholas Brody is an American actor and visual artist. Prolific in both independent films and blockbusters, he has received various accolades including two Academy Awards, a British Academy Film Award and a Golden Globe Award with nominations for three Primetime Emmy Awards and a Laurence Olivier Award.

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Hidetaka Suehiro, Japanese video game director and writer

Hidetaka Suehiro , known as SWERY or Swery65, is a Japanese video game director and writer. He was one of the founding members of the game development studio Access Games which is based in Osaka. His roles in the company included director, designer, and writer. His best-known work include the games Spy Fiction, Deadly Premonition, and D4: Dark Dreams Don't Die. He then left Access Games in 2016 and founded his own studio, White Owls Inc.

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David Miller, American tenor

David Miller is an American tenor. Since 2004, he has been a member of the successful classical crossover group Il Divo, who have sold over 30 million copies worldwide. As well, Miller shared a Tony Award with the other members of the ensemble cast of Baz Luhrmann's 2002 revival of La bohème in 2003.

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14/04/1972

Paul Devlin, English-Scottish footballer and manager

Paul John Devlin is a former footballer who played as a midfielder or forward. He made more than 500 appearances in the Football League and Premier League, as well as playing in the League of Ireland for Bohemians and spending several years in non-league football. He was capped ten times for the Scotland national team.

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Roberto Mejía, Dominican baseball player

Roberto Antonio Mejía Díaz is a Dominican former professional baseball second baseman. He played all or part of four seasons in Major League Baseball between 1993 and 1997, and one season in the Korea Baseball Organization in 2003. He most recently played for the El Paso Diablos of the American Association of Independent Professional Baseball in 2009.

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Dean Potter, American rock climber and BASE jumper (died 2015)

Dean Spaulding Potter was an American rock climber, alpinist, BASE jumper, and highliner, who invented the extreme sport of FreeBASE. He completed many technically hard first free ascents, free solo ascents, speed ascents, and enchainments in Yosemite National Park and in Patagonia. He won the Laureus World Action Sportsperson of the Year award in 2003. In 2015, he died in a wingsuit flying accident at Yosemite National Park.

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14/04/1971

Miguel Calero, Colombian footballer and manager (died 2012)

Miguel Ángel Calero Rodríguez was a Colombian professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper. He played 50 times for the Colombia national team between 1995 and 2007.

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Carlos Pérez, Dominican-American baseball player

Carlos Gross Pérez is a Dominican former pitcher in Major League Baseball and the brother of former major league players Melido Pérez and Pascual Pérez.

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Gregg Zaun, American baseball player and sportscaster

Gregory Owen Zaun is an American baseball analyst, public speaker and a former professional baseball catcher. He played for nine teams over 16 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) from 1995 until 2010, winning a World Series Championship in 1997. From 2006 to 2017, he served as an on-air personality with Sportsnet in Canada.

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14/04/1970

Shizuka Kudo, Japanese singer and actress

Shizuka Kimura , known by her maiden name Shizuka Kudo , is a Japanese singer, actress and former idol, born in Hamura, Tokyo, Japan. She was a member of Onyanko Club between May 1986 and September 1987 and went on to have a successful solo career with 11 number-one hits.

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14/04/1969

Brad Ausmus, American baseball player and manager

Bradley David Ausmus is an American former professional baseball player, manager and current coach. He is the bench coach for the New York Yankees of Major League Baseball (MLB). In his 18-year MLB playing career, Ausmus played as a catcher for the San Diego Padres, Detroit Tigers, Houston Astros, and Los Angeles Dodgers. He also managed the Tigers, Los Angeles Angels, and Israeli national baseball team. He also was a coach for the Oakland Athletics.

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Martyn LeNoble, Dutch-American bass player

Martyn LeNoble is a Dutch bassist and a founding member of the alternative rock band Porno for Pyros.

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Vebjørn Selbekk, Norwegian journalist

Vebjørn Selbekk is a Norwegian newspaper editor and author. Selbekk became widely known in Norway and abroad after he in 2006 reprinted a facsimile of the Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons as editor of the Christian newspaper Magazinet, sparking a major incident and ensuing controversy. He has since been awarded by the free press organization Fritt Ord for his "firm defence of freedom of expression". Since 2015 he has been a member of the Broadcasting Council of the Norwegian public broadcaster NRK.

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14/04/1968

Anthony Michael Hall, American actor

Anthony Michael Hall is an American actor, producer and comedian. After his film debut in Six Pack (1982) and a supporting role as Russell "Rusty" Griswold in National Lampoon's Vacation (1983), Hall had his breakout with starring roles in three John Hughes-directed films: Sixteen Candles, The Breakfast Club, and Weird Science. Mainstream media associated Hall with a group of young actors known as the "Brat Pack" due to his roles in those films.

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14/04/1967

Nicola Berti, Italian international footballer

Nicola Berti is an Italian former footballer, who played as a midfielder. Berti's career spanned three decades, during which he played for several clubs: after beginning his career with Parma, he played with Fiorentina, and in particular Inter Milan, where he became an important figure in the club's midfield, winning a Serie A title and three UEFA Cups. After his time in Italy, he ended his career with spells in England, Spain, and Australia, at Tottenham, Alavés, and Northern Spirit respectively.

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Barrett Martin, American drummer, songwriter, and producer

Barrett Harrington Martin is an American drummer and record producer from Washington. He is perhaps best known for his work with the alternative rock bands Screaming Trees and Mad Season. He was also a member of Skin Yard, Tuatara, and Walking Papers, and has performed as a session musician for many artists in a variety of genres. As a producer, he has won one Latin Grammy and has been nominated in two other categories. As an ethnomusicologist, he has produced two albums for the Shipibo Shamans in the Peruvian Amazon Rainforest, and one album for the Neets'ai Gwich'in in the Alaskan Arctic.

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Julia Zemiro, French-Australian actress, comedian, singer and writer

Julia Zemiro is an Australian television presenter, radio host, actress, singer, writer, and comedian. She is best known as the host of the music quiz and live performance show RocKwiz. Zemiro, who was born in France, is a fluent English and French speaker and has acted in French.

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14/04/1966

André Boisclair, Canadian lawyer and politician

André Boisclair is a former Canadian politician in Quebec, Canada. He was the leader of the Parti Québécois, a social democratic and sovereigntist party in Quebec.

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Jan Boklöv, Swedish ski jumper

Jan Mauritz Boklöv is a Swedish former ski jumper who won the 1988–89 World Cup season. He also dominated the Swedish national championships during the late 1980s and early 1990s. He is best known for popularising the now-ubiquitous V-style in the late 1980s and early 1990s.

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David Justice, American baseball player and sportscaster

David Christopher Justice is an American former professional baseball outfielder and designated hitter who played 14 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB). He played for the Atlanta Braves, Cleveland Indians, New York Yankees, and Oakland Athletics from 1989 to 2002.

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Greg Maddux, American baseball player, coach, and manager

Gregory Alan Maddux, also known as "Mad Dog" and "the Professor," is an American former professional baseball pitcher who played 23 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB), primarily with the Atlanta Braves and Chicago Cubs. Maddux was the first pitcher in MLB history to win the Cy Young Award four consecutive years (1992–1995), matched by only one other pitcher, Randy Johnson. During those four seasons, Maddux had a 75–29 win–loss record with a 1.98 earned run average (ERA), while allowing fewer than one baserunner per inning. An eight-time All-Star, he won the 1995 World Series with the Braves over the Cleveland Indians.

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14/04/1965

Tom Dey, American director and producer

Thomas Ridgeway Dey is an American film director, screenwriter, and producer. His credits include Shanghai Noon (2000), Showtime (2002), Failure to Launch (2006), and Marmaduke (2010).

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Alexandre Jardin, French author

Alexandre Jardin is a French writer, film director and winner of the Prix Femina, 1988, for Le Zèbre.

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Craig McDermott, Australian cricketer and coach

Craig John McDermott is a former Australian cricketer. Between 1984 and 1996 he played 71 Tests for Australia, taking 291 wickets. Following the end of his playing career, he was the bowling coach for the Australian team for two spells between 2011 and 2016. McDermott was a part of the Australian team that won their first world title during the 1987 Cricket World Cup.

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14/04/1964

Brian Adams, American wrestler (died 2007)

Brian Keith Adams was an American professional wrestler. Adams is known for his time with the World Wrestling Federation (WWF), under the name Crush, and for World Championship Wrestling (WCW) under his real name Brian Adams. Trained in Japan by Antonio Inoki, he was a two-time WCW World Tag Team Champion, a one-time WWF Tag Team Champion and a one-time AJPW World Tag Team Champion, among other accomplishments. He was a challenger for various singles titles in the WWF and WCW, including the WWF Championship. In 2002, he briefly tried a career in boxing until retiring due to back and shoulder injuries.

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Jeff Andretti, American race car driver

Jeff Andretti is a former American professional race car driver. He competed in the Champ Car World Series and was the series' Rookie of the Year in 1991.

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Jim Grabb, American tennis player

Jim Grabb is an American former professional tennis player. In doubles, he won the 1989 French Open and the 1992 US Open. He was ranked the world No. 1 doubles player in both 1989 and 1993. His best singles ranking of world No. 24, he achieved in 1990.

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Jeff Hopkins, Welsh international footballer and manager

Jeffrey Hopkins is a former Welsh international football defender and current Melbourne Victory Women head coach, who most notably played club football for Fulham and Reading in the Football League.

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Gina McKee, English actress

Georgina McKee is an English actress. She won the 1997 BAFTA TV Award for Best Actress for Our Friends in the North (1996), and earned subsequent nominations for The Lost Prince (2003) and The Street (2007). She also starred on television in The Forsyte Saga (2002) and as Caterina Sforza in The Borgias (2011). Her film appearances include Notting Hill (1999), Phantom Thread (2017), and My Policeman (2022). On the stage, she has been nominated for the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for King Lear in 2011, Dear England in 2024, and The Years in 2025.

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14/04/1962

Guillaume Leblanc, Canadian athlete

Guillaume LeBlanc is a Canadian retired race walker. He specialised in the 20 km event.

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14/04/1961

Robert Carlyle, Scottish actor and director

Robert Carlyle is a Scottish actor. His film work includes: Trainspotting (1996), The Full Monty (1997), Ravenous and The World Is Not Enough, There's Only One Jimmy Grimble (2000), The Beach (2000), The 51st State (2001), Eragon (2006), 28 Weeks Later (2007) and The Legend of Barney Thomson (2015). He has starred in television series such as Hamish Macbeth (1995–1998), Stargate Universe (2009–2011), Once Upon a Time (2011–2018) and COBRA (2020–2023).

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14/04/1960

Brad Garrett, American actor and comedian

Brad H. Gerstenfeld, known professionally as Brad Garrett, is an American stand-up comedian and actor.

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Myoma Myint Kywe, Burmese historian and journalist (died 2021)

Myoma Myint Kywe was a Burmese writer and historian.

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Osamu Sato, Japanese graphic artist, programmer, and composer

Osamu Sato is a Japanese digital artist, video game developer, photographer, and composer. His first work was the ambient music album, Objectless (1983). His first work in the video game industry was Eastern Mind: The Lost Souls of Tong Nou, which first released in Japan for Classic Mac OS in 1994, and in North America for Microsoft Windows the following year. In 1998, he produced and composed the music for the video game LSD: Dream Emulator on the PlayStation, which later became his most recognizable work outside of Japan.

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Tina Rosenberg, American journalist and author

Tina Rosenberg is an American journalist and the author of three books. For one of them, The Haunted Land: Facing Europe's Ghosts After Communism (1995), she won the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction and the National Book Award for Nonfiction.

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Pat Symcox, South African cricketer

Patrick Leonard Symcox is a former South African international cricketer. He played 20 Test matches and 80 One Day Internationals in the 1990s. Symcox was a member of the South Africa team that won the 1998 ICC KnockOut Trophy.

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14/04/1959

Steve Byrnes, American sportscaster and producer (died 2015)

Steven Patrick Byrnes was an American television announcer and producer.

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Marie-Thérèse Fortin, Canadian actress

Marie-Thérèse Fortin is a Canadian actress. She has appeared in over twenty films since 1985.

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14/04/1958

Peter Capaldi, Scottish actor

Peter Dougan Capaldi is a Scottish actor, director, singer and guitarist. He portrayed the twelfth incarnation of the Doctor in the science fiction series Doctor Who (2013–2017) and Malcolm Tucker in The Thick of It (2005–2012), for which he received four British Academy Television Award nominations, winning Best Male Comedy Performance in 2010.

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Jim Smith, English musician

James A. Smith is an English musician, best known as the bassist for the rock band Cardiacs which he formed with his brother Tim Smith, the band's frontman and leader. Jim is highly regarded for his distinctive bass playing.

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14/04/1957

Lothaire Bluteau, Canadian actor

Lothaire Bluteau is a Canadian actor, active in film, theatre, and television. He won the Genie Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role for his portrayal of the title character in Denys Arcand's Jesus of Montreal (1989), with a second nomination for his work in Robert Lepage's The Confessional (1995).

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Bobbi Brown, American make-up artist and author

Bobbi Brown is an American professional make-up artist, author, and the founder of Bobbi Brown Cosmetics. She created ten natural-shade lipsticks, which, according to Entrepreneur "revolutionized the beauty industry". She has written ten books about beauty and wellness. In 2025, Time magazine listed her as one of the world's 100 most influential people.

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Marc Platt, American producer

Marc Evan Platt is an American producer. He has worked in film, theatre, and television, and has received numerous accolades including four Tony Awards, two Primetime Emmy Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, and a BAFTA Award, as well as nominations for four Academy Awards.

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Mikhail Pletnev, Russian pianist, composer, and conductor

Mikhail Vasilievich Pletnev is a Russian pianist, conductor and composer.

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14/04/1956

Boris Šprem, Croatian lawyer and politician, 8th President of Croatian Parliament (died 2012)

Boris Šprem was a Croatian politician who was the speaker of the Croatian Parliament from 2011 to 2012. He was the first and to date only speaker to die in office since country's independence in 1991.

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14/04/1954

Katsuhiro Otomo, Japanese director, screenwriter, and illustrator

Katsuhiro Otomo is a Japanese manga artist, screenwriter, animator, and film director. He first rose to prominence as a pioneer founder of the New Wave in the 1970s. He is best known as the creator of Akira, both the original 1982 manga series and the 1988 animated film adaptation. In 2005, Otomo was decorated a Chevalier of the French Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, promoted to Officier of the order in 2014, and became the fourth manga artist ever inducted into the American Eisner Award Hall of Fame in 2012. Celebrated in Japan, he was also awarded the Purple Medal of Honor from the national government in 2013.

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14/04/1952

Kenny Aaronson, American bass player

Kenny Aaronson is an American bass guitarist. He has recorded or performed with many notable artists such as Bob Dylan, Rick Derringer, Billy Idol, Joan Jett and the Blackhearts, Foghat, Sammy Hagar, Billy Squier, New York Dolls, and Hall and Oates. Since 2015, he has been the bass player for The Yardbirds.

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Mickey O'Sullivan, Irish footballer and manager

Mickey "Ned" O'Sullivan is an Irish former Gaelic football manager, selector and former player. His league and championship career at senior level with the Kerry county team spanned ten seasons from 1971 to 1980.

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David Urquhart, Scottish bishop

David Andrew Urquhart is a retired Scottish bishop. He served as the ninth Bishop of Birmingham in the Church of England.

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14/04/1951

Milija Aleksic, English footballer (died 2012)

Milija Anthony Aleksic was an English professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper, making 138 appearances in the Football League.

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José Eduardo González Navas, Spanish politician

José Eduardo González Navas known as Pepe Gonzalez is a Spanish politician, established in Catalonia since 1965. In 1972 he won the poetry prize of Olot City. He graduated in economics from the Autonomous University of Barcelona, and now is socialist councilor at Castellar del Vallès.

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Julian Lloyd Webber, English cellist, conductor, and educator

Julian Lloyd Webber is a British solo cellist, conductor and broadcaster, a former principal of Royal Birmingham Conservatoire and the founder of the In Harmony music education programme.

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Elizabeth Symons, Baroness Symons of Vernham Dean, English politician

Elizabeth Conway Symons, Baroness Symons of Vernham Dean is a British politician and trade unionist. A member of the Labour Party, she was Minister of State for the Middle East from 2001 to 2005. She is former General Secretary of the FDA Trade Union and has served as the Chair of the Arab British Chamber of Commerce (ABCC) since 2010.

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14/04/1950

Francis Collins, American physician and geneticist

Francis Sellers Collins is an American physician-scientist who discovered the genes associated with a number of diseases and led the Human Genome Project. He served as director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, Maryland, from 17 August 2009 to 19 December 2021, serving under three presidents. Collins announced his retirement publicly from the NIH on March 1, 2025, after 32 years of service.

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Péter Esterházy, Hungarian author (died 2016)

Péter Esterházy was a Hungarian writer. He was one of the best known Hungarian and Central European writers of his era. He was called a "leading figure of 20th century Hungarian literature", and his books were considered to be significant contributions to post-war literature.

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14/04/1949

Dave Gibbons, English author and illustrator

David Chester Gibbons is an English comics artist, writer and sometimes letterer. He is best known for his collaborations with writer Alan Moore, which include the miniseries Watchmen and the Superman story "For the Man Who Has Everything". He was an artist for 2000 AD, for which he contributed a large body of work from its first issue in 1977.

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DeAnne Julius, American-British economist and academic

Dame DeAnne Shirley Julius, is a Distinguished Fellow at Chatham House. An American–British economist, Julius is noted as a founder member of the Monetary Policy Committee of the Bank of England.

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Chris Langham, English actor and screenwriter

Christopher Langham is an English writer, actor, and comedian. He is known for playing the cabinet minister Hugh Abbot in the BBC sitcom The Thick of It, and as presenter Roy Mallard in People Like Us, first on BBC Radio 4 and later on its transfer to television on BBC Two, where Mallard is almost entirely an unseen character. He is also known for his roles in the television series Not the Nine O'Clock News, Help, and Kiss Me Kate, and as the gatehouse guard in Chelmsford 123. In 2006, he won BAFTA awards for The Thick of It and Help.

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Chas Mortimer, English motorcycle racer

Charles Summers Mortimer is an English former professional motorcycle short-circuit road racer and race-school instructor. He competed in the Grand Prix motorcycle road racing world championships from 1969 to 1979. He remains the only competitor to have won FIM Grand Prix races in the 125, 250, 350, 500 and 750 world championship classes.

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John Shea, American actor and director

John Victor Shea III is an American actor, director, producer and screenwriter. His career began on Broadway where he starred in Yentl, subsequently winning his first major award, the 1975 Theatre World Award. Shortly after his Off-Broadway career began, Lee Strasberg invited Shea to join the Actors Studio where he spent several years studying method acting.

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14/04/1948

Berry Berenson, American model, actress, and photographer (died 2001)

Berinthia "Berry" Berenson-Perkins was an American actress, model and photographer. She was the wife of actor Anthony Perkins.

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Anastasios Papaligouras, Greek lawyer and politician, Greek Minister of Justice

Anastasios Papaligouras was a Greek lawyer and New Democracy politician and was Minister for Mercantile Marine and Island Policy.

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14/04/1947

Dominique Baudis, French journalist and politician (died 2014)

Dominique Baudis was the French Defender of Rights (ombudsman). Formerly a journalist, politician and mayor of Toulouse, he had been a member of Liberal Democracy and later of the leading centre-right Union for a Popular Movement.

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Bob Massie, Australian cricketer

Robert Arnold Lockyer Massie is a former Australian cricketer who played in six Test matches and three One Day Internationals (ODIs) in 1972 and 1973.

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14/04/1946

Mireille Guiliano, French-American author

Mireille Guiliano is a French-American author, painter, and former corporate executive at LVMH.

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Michael Sarris, Cypriot economist and politician, Cypriot Minister of Finance

Michael Sarris is a Greek Cypriot economist and politician. He earned his B.Sc. in Economics at the London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE). He later continued his studies in the United States where he obtained his Doctorate in Economics at Wayne State University.

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Knut Kristiansen, Norwegian pianist and orchestra leader

Knut Johan Bratland Kristiansen is a Norwegian composer and jazz musician (piano), known from Bergen jazz life primarily for his many interpretations of the music of Thelonious Monk as orchestra leader his own bands with various number of musicians involved.

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14/04/1945

Ritchie Blackmore, English guitarist and songwriter

Richard Hugh Blackmore is an English guitarist, who was a co-founding member of Deep Purple, Rainbow and Blackmore's Night. In the 1960s, he began his professional career in bands such as the Outlaws and Screaming Lord Sutch & the Savages, and worked as a session guitarist for singers such as Glenda Collins, Heinz, Neil Christian and others.

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Roger Frappier, Canadian producer, director and screenwriter

Roger Frappier is a Canadian producer, director, editor, actor, and screenwriter.

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14/04/1944

John Sergeant, English journalist

John James Sergeant is an English television and radio journalist and broadcaster. He was the BBC's chief political correspondent from 1992 to 2000 and the political editor of ITN from 2000 until 2002.

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14/04/1942

Valeriy Brumel, Soviet high jumper (died 2003)

Valeriy Nikolayevich Brumel was a Soviet-Russian high jumper. The 1964 Olympic champion and multiple world record holder, he is regarded as one of the greatest athletes ever to compete in the high jump. His international career was ended by a motorcycle crash in 1965.

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Valentin Lebedev, Russian engineer and astronaut

Valentin Vitalyevich Lebedev is a former Soviet cosmonaut who made two flights into space. His stay aboard the Space Station Salyut 7 with Anatoly Berezovoy in 1982, which lasted 211 days, was recorded in the Guinness Book of Records.

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Björn Rosengren, Swedish politician, Swedish Minister of Enterprise and Innovation

Björn Folke Rosengren is a Swedish politician and advisor to the Stenbeck family.

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14/04/1941

Pete Rose, American baseball player and manager (died 2024)

Peter Edward Rose Sr., nicknamed "Charlie Hustle", was an American professional baseball player and manager. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) from 1963 to 1986, most prominently as a member of the Cincinnati Reds lineup known as the Big Red Machine for their dominance of the National League in the 1970s. He also played for the Philadelphia Phillies, where he won his third World Series championship in 1980, and had a brief stint with the Montreal Expos. He managed the Reds from 1984 to 1989.

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14/04/1940

Julie Christie, Indian-English actress and activist

Julie Frances Christie is a British actress. Christie's accolades include an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, a Golden Globe, and a Screen Actors Guild Award. She has appeared in six films ranked in the British Film Institute's BFI Top 100 British films of the 20th century, and in 1997, she received the BAFTA Fellowship for lifetime achievement.

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David Hope, Baron Hope of Thornes, English archbishop and academic

David Michael Hope, Baron Hope of Thornes, is a retired Anglican bishop. He was the Bishop of Wakefield between 1985 and 1991 and the Bishop of London between 1991 and 1995. From 1995 to 2005, he was the Archbishop of York in the Church of England. In March 2005, he was made a life peer and therefore a member of the House of Lords; he had already sat in the house as a Lord Spiritual when he was a bishop. He retired from the Lords in April 2015. He was closeted about his sexuality for much of his ministry and even after a press conference when he outed himself, changed that story afterwards.

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Richard Thompson, English physician and academic

Sir Richard Paul Hepworth Thompson, is a British physician and past president of the Royal College of Physicians in London.

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14/04/1938

Mahmud Esad Coşan, Turkish author and academic (died 2001)

Mahmud Esad Coşan was a Turkish academic author, preacher, professor of Islam and Naqshbandi leader.

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Ralph Willis, Australian politician

Ralph Willis AO is an Australian former politician who served as a Cabinet Minister during the entirety of the Hawke-Keating government from 1983 to 1996, most notably as Treasurer of Australia from 1993 to 1996 and briefly in 1991. He also served as Minister for Industrial Relations, Minister for Transport and Communications and Minister for Finance. He represented the Victorian seat of Gellibrand in the House of Representatives from 1972 to 1998.

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14/04/1937

Efi Arazi, Israeli businessman, founded the Scailex Corporation (died 2013)

Efraim R. "Efi" Arazi was an Israeli technology pioneer and businessman.

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Sepp Mayerl, Austrian mountaineer (died 2012)

Sepp Mayerl, also known as Blasl-Sepp was an Austrian mountaineer.

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14/04/1936

Arlene Martel, American actress and singer (died 2014)

Arlene Martel was an American actress. Before 1964, she was frequently billed as Arline Sax or Arlene Sax. Casting directors, among other Hollywood insiders, called Martel the Chameleon because her appearance and her proficiency with accents and dialects enabled her to portray characters of a wide range of races and ethnicities.

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Bobby Nichols, American golfer

Robert Herman Nichols is an American professional golfer, best known for winning the PGA Championship in 1964.

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Frank Serpico, American-Italian soldier, police officer and lecturer

Francesco Vincent "Frank" Serpico is an American retired detective with the New York City Police Department (NYPD), best known for whistleblowing on police corruption. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, Serpico was a plainclothes officer working in Brooklyn, the Bronx and Manhattan to expose vice racketeering. In 1967, he reported credible evidence of widespread corruption in the NYPD, to no effect. In 1970 he contributed to a front-page story in The New York Times on the department's corruption, which drew national attention to the problem. Mayor John V. Lindsay appointed a five-member panel to investigate accusations of corruption, which became the Knapp Commission.

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14/04/1935

Susan Cunliffe-Lister, Baroness Masham of Ilton, English table tennis player, swimmer, and politician (died 2023)

Susan Lilian Primrose Cunliffe-Lister, Countess of Swinton, Lady Masham of Ilton, was a British crossbench member of the House of Lords, disability campaigner and Paralympic athlete. She was the founder and life-long president of the Spinal Injuries Association. She was Vice President of the Snowdon Trust, founded by the Earl of Snowdon, which provides grants and scholarships for students with disabilities. Her 53 years' membership of the House of Lords was the longest of any female peer.

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John Oliver, English bishop

John Keith Oliver is a British retired Anglican bishop. He was the 103rd Bishop of Hereford from 1990 to 2003.

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Erich von Däniken, Swiss pseudohistorian and author (died 2026)

Erich Anton Paul von Däniken was a Swiss author of several pseudoscientific books which made claims about extraterrestrial influences on early human culture, including the best-selling Chariots of the Gods?, published in 1968. Däniken was one of the main figures responsible for popularizing the "paleo-contact" and ancient astronauts hypotheses.

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14/04/1934

Fredric Jameson, American philosopher and theorist (died 2024)

Fredric Ruff Jameson was an American literary critic, philosopher and Marxist political theorist. He was best known for his analysis of contemporary cultural trends, particularly his analysis of postmodernity and capitalism. Jameson's best-known books include Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism (1991) and The Political Unconscious (1981).

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14/04/1933

Paddy Hopkirk, Northern Irish racing driver (died 2022)

Patrick Barron Hopkirk was a rally driver from Northern Ireland, he was considered to be one of the finest rally drivers that Ireland ever produced. Following his retirement from competing he became well known for his charity work and for running his successful automotive accessories business and driving school.

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Boris Strugatsky, Russian author (died 2012)

The brothers Arkady Strugatsky and Boris Strugatsky were Soviet and Russian science-fiction authors who collaborated through most of their careers.

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Yuri Oganessian, Armenian-Russian nuclear physicist

Yuri Tsolakovich Oganessian is a Russian and Armenian nuclear physicist who is best known as a researcher of superheavy elements. He has led the discovery of multiple chemical elements. He succeeded Georgy Flyorov as director of the Flyorov Laboratory of Nuclear Reactions at the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research in 1989 and is now its scientific director. The heaviest known element, oganesson, is named after him, only the second time that an element was named after a living person.

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14/04/1932

Bill Bennett, Canadian lawyer and politician, 27th Premier of British Columbia (died 2015)

William Richards Bennett, was a Canadian politician who was the 27th premier of British Columbia from 1975 to 1986.

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Atef Ebeid, Egyptian academic and politician, 47th Prime Minister of Egypt (died 2014)

Atef Muhammad Ebeid was an Egyptian politician who served in various capacities in the governments of Egypt. He was the 47th prime minister of Egypt from 1999 to 2004.

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Loretta Lynn, American singer-songwriter and musician (died 2022)

Loretta Lynn was an American country music singer and songwriter. In a career spanning six decades, Lynn released multiple gold albums. She had numerous hits such as "Hey Loretta", "The Pill", "Blue Kentucky Girl", "Love Is the Foundation", "You're Lookin' at Country", "You Ain't Woman Enough", "I'm a Honky Tonk Girl", "Don't Come Home A-Drinkin' ", "One's on the Way", "Fist City", and "Coal Miner's Daughter". The 1980 musical film Coal Miner's Daughter was based on her life, in which actress Sissy Spacek portrayed Lynn.

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Cameron Parker, Scottish businessman and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Renfrewshire

Cameron Holdsworth Parker is a former Scottish businessman and a former Lord Lieutenant of Renfrewshire. Parker has been chairman and served on the board of engineering companies, including British Shipbuilders and was a Liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Shipwrights in the 1980s.

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14/04/1931

Geoffrey Dalton, English admiral (died 2020)

Vice-Admiral Sir Geoffrey Thomas James Oliver Dalton was a Royal Navy officer who became Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Atlantic.

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Paul Masnick, Canadian ice hockey player (died 2024)

Paul Andrew Masnick was a Canadian professional ice hockey player. He played as centre in the National Hockey League (NHL) between 1950 and 1958.

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14/04/1930

Martin Adolf Bormann, German priest and theologian (died 2013)

Martin Adolf Bormann was a German theologian and laicized Catholic priest. He was the eldest of the ten children of Martin Bormann.

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Arnold Burns, American lawyer and politician, 21st United States Deputy Attorney General (died 2013)

Arnold Irwin Burns was an American lawyer. He served as the United States Deputy Attorney General from 1986 to 1988 under President Ronald Reagan and U.S. Attorney General Edwin Meese. In March 1988, Burns, together with the head of the U.S. Justice Department's criminal division William Weld and four aides, resigned from office in protest of what they viewed as improper conduct by Attorney General Meese, including personal financial indiscretions. In July 1988, Burns and Weld jointly testified before the U.S. Congress in support of a potential prosecution of Meese following an investigation by a special prosecutor, who had declined to file charges. Meese resigned from office later in July 1988, shortly after Burns and Weld appeared before Congress.

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René Desmaison, French mountaineer (died 2007)

René Desmaison was a veteran French mountaineer, climber and alpinist.

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Bradford Dillman, American actor and author (died 2018)

Bradford Dillman was an American actor and author, who appeared in over 140 film, television, and stage productions between 1953 and 1995. He originated the role of Edmund Tyrone in Eugene O'Neill's Long Day's Journey into Night, earning a Theatre World Award, and won the 1959 Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actor for his performance in the film Compulsion. He was also a Golden Globe Award winner and a Primetime Emmy Award nominee.

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14/04/1929

Gerry Anderson, English director, producer, and screenwriter (died 2012)

Gerald Alexander Anderson was an English television and film producer, director, writer and occasional voice artist, who is known for his futuristic TV series, especially his 1960s productions filmed with "Supermarionation".

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Inez Andrews, African-American singer-songwriter (died 2012)

Sister Inez Andrews, born Inez McConico and better known as Inez Andrews, was an American gospel singer, who was noted for her powerful, wide-ranging voice. The Chicago Tribune stated that "Andrews' throaty contralto made her low notes thunder, while the enormous range of her instrument enabled her to reach stratospheric pitches without falsetto". Her dramatic delivery made her a charismatic presence in church and on stage."

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14/04/1927

Alan MacDiarmid, New Zealand chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2007)

Alan Graham MacDiarmid, ONZ FRS was a New Zealand-American chemist, and one of three recipients of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 2000.

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Dany Robin, French actress and singer (died 1995)

Dany Robin was a French actress of the 1950s and the 1960s. Nicknamed ‘la petite fiancée de la France’ in the post-war years, she became one of the leading female stars of the 1950s, moving from the role of ‘ingénue’ to that of saucy Parisienne. She played the leading lady in Topaz (1969), and is regarded as the last ‘Hitchcock blonde’.

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14/04/1926

Barbara Anderson, New Zealand author (died 2013)

Barbara Lillias Romaine Anderson, Lady Anderson was a New Zealand fiction writer who became internationally recognised and a best-selling author after her first book was published in her sixties.

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Frank Daniel, Czech director, producer, and screenwriter (died 1996)

František "Frank" Daniel was a Czech-American screenwriter, film director and teacher. He is known for developing the sequence paradigm of screenwriting, in which a classically constructed movie can be broken down into three acts, and a total of eight specific sequences. He served as co-chair of the Columbia University film program, and as a dean of FAMU, the American Film Institute and the USC School of Cinema-Television. He was also an artistic director of the Sundance Institute.

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Gloria Jean, American actress and singer (died 2018)

Gloria Jean was an American actress and singer who starred in 26 feature films from 1939 to 1959 and made numerous radio, television, stage and nightclub appearances. She may be best remembered for her appearance with W. C. Fields in the film Never Give a Sucker an Even Break (1941).

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Liz Renay, American actress and author (died 2007)

Pearl Elizabeth Dobbins, known professionally as Liz Renay, was an American stripper, author, and actress who appeared in John Waters' film Desperate Living (1977).

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14/04/1925

Abel Muzorewa, Zimbabwean minister and politician, 1st Prime Minister of Zimbabwe Rhodesia (died 2010)

Abel Tendekayi Muzorewa, also commonly referred to as Bishop Muzorewa, was a Zimbabwean bishop and politician who served as the first and only Prime Minister of Zimbabwe Rhodesia from the Internal Settlement to the Lancaster House Agreement in 1979. A United Methodist Church bishop and nationalist leader, he held office for less than a year.

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Gene Ammons, American tenor saxophonist (died 1974)

Eugene "Jug" Ammons, also known as "The Boss", was an American jazz tenor saxophonist. The son of boogie-woogie pianist Albert Ammons, Gene Ammons is remembered for his accessible music, steeped in soul and R&B.

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Rod Steiger, American soldier and actor (died 2002)

Rodney Stephen Steiger was an American actor, noted for his portrayal of offbeat, often volatile and crazed characters. Ranked as "one of Hollywood's most charismatic and dynamic stars", he is closely associated with the art of method acting, embodying the characters he played, which at times led to clashes with directors and co-stars. He starred as Marlon Brando's mobster brother Charley in On the Waterfront (1954), the title character Sol Nazerman in The Pawnbroker (1964) which won him the Silver Bear for Best Actor, and as police chief Bill Gillespie opposite Sidney Poitier in the film In the Heat of the Night (1967) which won him the Academy Award for Best Actor.

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14/04/1924

Shorty Rogers, American trumpet player and composer (died 1994)

Milton "Shorty" Rogers was an American jazz musician, one of the principal creators of West Coast jazz. He played trumpet and flugelhorn and was in demand for his skills as an arranger.

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Joseph Ruskin, American actor and producer (died 2013)

Joseph Ruskin was an American character actor.

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Mary Warnock, Baroness Warnock, English philosopher, and academic (died 2019)

Helen Mary Warnock, Baroness Warnock, was an English philosopher of morality, education, and mind, and a writer on existentialism. She is best known for chairing an inquiry whose report formed the basis of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 1990. She served as Mistress of Girton College, Cambridge from 1984 to 1991.

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14/04/1923

Roberto De Vicenzo, Argentinian golfer (died 2017)

Roberto De Vicenzo was a professional golfer from Argentina. He won a record 229 professional tournaments worldwide during his career, including seven on the PGA Tour and most famously the 1967 Open Championship. He is also remembered for signing an incorrect scorecard that kept him out of a playoff for the 1968 Masters Tournament.

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14/04/1922

Audrey Long, American actress (died 2014)

Audrey Gwendoline Long was an American stage and screen actress of English descent, who performed mainly in low-budget films in the 1940s and early 1950s. Some of her more notable film performances are in Tall in the Saddle (1944) with John Wayne, Wanderer of the Wasteland (1945), Born to Kill (1947), and Desperate (1947).

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Ali Akbar Khan, Hindustani musician (died 2009)

Ali Akbar Khan was an Indian Hindustani classical musician of the Maihar gharana, known for his virtuosity in playing the sarod. Trained as a classical musician and instrumentalist by his father, Allauddin Khan, he also composed numerous classical ragas and film scores. He established a music school in Calcutta in 1956, and the Ali Akbar College of Music in 1967, which moved with him to the United States and is now based in San Rafael, California, with a branch in Basel, Switzerland.

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14/04/1921

Thomas Schelling, American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2016)

Thomas Crombie Schelling was an American economist and professor of foreign policy, national security, nuclear strategy, and arms control at the School of Public Policy at the University of Maryland, College Park. He was also co-faculty at the New England Complex Systems Institute.

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14/04/1920

Ivor Forbes Guest, English lawyer, historian, and author (died 2018)

Ivor Forbes Guest DUniv MA FRAD was a British historian and writer, best known for his study of ballet. He was chairman of the Royal Academy of Dance for twenty three years (1970–93) and has been a Vice-President since 1993 and Secretary then Trustee of the Radcliffe Trust. In 1997 he was made a Doctor of the University by the University of Surrey, its highest honorary doctorate.

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Eleonore Schönborn, Austrian politician (died 2022)

Eleonore Gräfin von Schönborn was an Austrian politician and member of the House of Schönborn. Being ethnic Germans, she and her family were expelled from Czechoslovakia in 1945, settling in Austria. She became the first woman to hold a procuriate in Vorarlberg, and to be elected to the Schruns municipal council.

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14/04/1919

Shamshad Begum, Pakistani-Indian singer (died 2013)

Shamshad Begum was an Indian singer who was one of the first playback singers in the Hindi film industry. Begum is regarded as one of the best and most popular female playback singers, and a pioneering figure in Hindi film music and was also one of the most influential playback singers during the "Golden Age" of Bollywood (1940s–1960s). Notable for her distinctive voice and range, she sang over 6,000 songs in Hindustani, Bengali, Marathi, Gujarati, Tamil, and Punjabi languages, among which 1287 were Hindi film songs. She worked with renowned composers of the time, such as Ghulam Haider who first discovered her. She also worked with Naushad Ali and O. P. Nayyar, for whom she was one of their favorites. Her songs from the 1940s to the early 1970s remain popular and continue to be remixed.

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K. Saraswathi Amma, Indian author and playwright (died 1975)

K. Saraswathi Amma was a Malayalam feminist writer whose short stories have been anthologised in translation in several American texts. According to critic Jancy James, "In the entire history of women's writing in Kerala, Saraswathi Amma's is the most tragic case of the deliberate neglect of female genius."

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14/04/1918

Mary Healy, American actress and singer (died 2015)

Mary Sarah Healy was an American actress, singer, and variety entertainer.

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14/04/1917

Valerie Hobson, English actress (died 1998)

Babette Louisa Valerie Hobson was a British actress whose film career spanned the 1930s to the early 1950s. Her second husband was John Profumo, a British government minister who became the subject of the Profumo affair in 1963.

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Marvin Miller, American baseball executive (died 2012)

Marvin Julian Miller was an American labor union leader and baseball executive who served as the first executive director of the Major League Baseball Players Association (MLBPA) from 1966 to 1982. Miller led MLBPA during three strikes and two lockouts. Under Miller's direction, the players' union was transformed into one of the strongest unions in the United States.

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14/04/1916

Don Willesee, Australian telegraphist and politician, 29th Australian Minister for Foreign Affairs (died 2003)

Donald Robert Willesee was an Australian politician. He was a member of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) and served as a Senator for Western Australia from 1950 to 1975. He held ministerial office in the Whitlam government as Special Minister of State (1972–1973) and Minister for Foreign Affairs (1973–1975). He also served as Leader of the Opposition in the Senate from 1966 to 1967.

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14/04/1913

Jean Fournet, French conductor (died 2008)

Jean Fournet was a French flautist and conductor.

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14/04/1912

Robert Doisneau, French photographer and journalist (died 1994)

Robert Doisneau was a French photographer. From the 1930s, he photographed the streets of Paris. He was a champion of humanist photography and, with Henri Cartier-Bresson, a pioneer of photojournalism.

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Georg Siimenson, Estonian footballer (died 1978)

Georg Siimenson was an Estonian international footballer who scored 13 goals in 42 games for the Estonian national side.

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14/04/1907

François Duvalier, Haitian physician and politician, 40th President of Haiti (died 1971)

François Duvalier, also known as Papa Doc, was a Haitian politician and physician who served as president of Haiti from 1957 until his death in 1971.

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14/04/1906

Faisal of Saudi Arabia, Saudi Arabian king (died 1975)

Faisal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud was King of Saudi Arabia from 1964 until his assassination in 1975. Before his ascension, he served as Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia from 1953 to 1964, and he was briefly regent to his half-brother King Saud in 1964. He was prime minister from 1954 to 1960 and from 1962 to 1975. Faisal was the third son of King Abdulaziz, the founder of modern Saudi Arabia.

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14/04/1905

Elizabeth Huckaby, American author and educator (died 1999)

Elizabeth Paisley Huckaby was an educator.

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Georg Lammers, German sprinter (died 1987)

Georg Lammers was a German sprinter who competed at the 1928 Summer Olympics. He won a silver medal in the 4 × 100 m relay, together with Richard Corts, Hubert Houben and Helmut Körnig, and a bronze in the individual 100 m event.

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Jean Pierre-Bloch, French author and activist (died 1999)

Jean Pierre-Bloch was a French Resistant of the Second World War as an activist, being a former president of the International League against Racism and Anti-Semitism.

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14/04/1904

John Gielgud, English actor, director, and producer (died 2000)

Sir Arthur John Gielgud was an English actor and theatre director whose career spanned eight decades. With Ralph Richardson and Laurence Olivier, he was one of the trinity of actors who dominated the British stage for much of the 20th century. A member of the Terry family theatrical dynasty, he gained his first paid acting work as a junior member of his cousin Phyllis Neilson-Terry's company in 1922. After studying at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA), he worked in repertory theatre and in the West End before establishing himself at the Old Vic as an exponent of Shakespeare in 1929–31.

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14/04/1903

Henry Corbin, French philosopher and academic (died 1978)

Henry Corbin was a French philosopher, theologian, and Iranologist, professor of Islamic studies at the École pratique des hautes études. He was influential in extending the modern study of traditional Islamic philosophy from early falsafa to later and "mystical" figures such as Suhrawardi, Ibn Arabi, and Mulla Sadra Shirazi. With works such as Histoire de la philosophie islamique (1964), he challenged the common European view that philosophy in the Islamic world declined after Averroes and Avicenna.

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Ruth Svedberg, Swedish discus thrower and triathlete (died 2002)

Ruth Augusta Svedberg was a Swedish track and field athlete. She competed at the 1928 Summer Olympics in the 100 m, 4 × 100 m relay and discus throw events and won a bronze medal in the discus, failing to reach the finals in sprint events. Two years later she won the bronze medal in the triathlon at the third Women's World Games.

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14/04/1902

Sylvio Mantha, Canadian ice hockey player, coach, and referee (died 1974)

Joseph Sylvio Theobald Mantha was a Canadian professional ice hockey defenceman who played fourteen seasons in the National Hockey League for the Montreal Canadiens and Boston Bruins. Elected to the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1960, he was regarded as one of the best two-way defencemen of his day.

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14/04/1900

Shivrampant Damle, Indian educationist (died 1977)

Captain Shivrampant Damle was an Indian educationist. He is best remembered for founding the Maharashtriya Mandal in 1924.

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14/04/1892

Juan Belmonte, Spanish bullfighter (died 1962)

Juan Belmonte García was a Spanish bullfighter. He fought in a record number of bull fights and was responsible for changing the art of bullfighting. He had minor deformities in his legs which forced him to design new techniques and styles of bullfighting.

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V. Gordon Childe, Australian archaeologist and philologist (died 1957)

Vere Gordon Childe was an Australian archaeologist who specialised in the study of European prehistory. He spent most of his life in the United Kingdom, working as an academic for the University of Edinburgh and then the Institute of Archaeology, London. He wrote twenty-six books during his career. Initially an early proponent of culture-historical archaeology, he later became the first exponent of Marxist archaeology in the Western world.

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Claire Windsor, American actress (died 1972)

Claire Windsor was an American film actress of the silent screen era.

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14/04/1891

B. R. Ambedkar, Indian economist, jurist, and politician, 1st Indian Minister of Law and Justice (died 1956)

Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar was an Indian jurist, economist, social reformer and politician who chaired the committee that drafted the Constitution of India based on the debates of the Constituent Assembly of India and the first draft of Sir Benegal Narsing Rau. Ambedkar served as Law and Justice minister in the first cabinet of Jawaharlal Nehru. He later renounced Hinduism and converted to Buddhism, inspiring the Dalit Buddhist movement. He was also a member of the Simon Commission in British India.

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Otto Lasanen, Finnish wrestler (died 1958)

Otto Abraham Lasanen was a featherweight Greco-Roman wrestler from Finland. He won a bronze medal at the 1912 Summer Olympics and placed fourth at the 1914 unofficial European Championships. In 1917 he won a Russian title, as Finland was part of Russia then. Lasanen was a car driver by profession.

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14/04/1889

Arnold J. Toynbee, English historian and academic (died 1975)

Arnold Joseph Toynbee was an English historian, a philosopher of history, an author of numerous books and a research professor of international history at the London School of Economics and King's College London. From 1918 to 1950, Toynbee was considered a leading specialist on international affairs; from 1929 to 1956 he was the Director of Studies at Chatham House, in which position he also produced 34 volumes of the Survey of International Affairs, a "bible" for international specialists in Britain.

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Efim Bogoljubow, Russian-German chess grandmaster (1889–1952)

Efim Dimitrijewitsch Bogoljubow was a Russian-born German chess grandmaster.

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14/04/1886

Ernst Robert Curtius, German philologist and scholar (died 1956)

Ernst Robert Curtius was a German literary scholar, philologist, and Romance languages literary critic, best known for his 1948 study Europäische Literatur und Lateinisches Mittelalter, translated in English as European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages.

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Edward C. Tolman, American psychologist (died 1959)

Edward Chace Tolman was an American psychologist and a professor of psychology at the University of California, Berkeley. Through Tolman's theories and works, he founded what is now a branch of psychology known as purposive behaviorism. Tolman also promoted the concept known as latent learning first coined by Blodgett (1929). A Review of General Psychology survey, published in 2002, ranked Tolman as the 45th most cited psychologist of the 20th century.

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Árpád Tóth, Hungarian poet and translator (died 1928)

Árpád Tóth was a Hungarian poet and translator.

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14/04/1882

Moritz Schlick, German-Austrian physicist and philosopher (died 1936)

Friedrich Albert Moritz Schlick was a German philosopher, physicist, and the founding father of logical positivism and the Vienna Circle. He was murdered by a former student, Johann Nelböck, in 1936.

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14/04/1881

Husain Salaahuddin, Maldivian poet and scholar (died 1948)

Hussain Salahuddin, was an influential Maldivian writer, poet, essayist and scholar.

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14/04/1876

Cecil Chubb, English barrister and one time owner of Stonehenge (died 1934)

Sir Cecil Herbert Edward Chubb, 1st Baronet, was the last private owner of Stonehenge prehistoric monument, Wiltshire, which he donated to the British government in 1918.

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14/04/1874

Matti Lonkainen, Finnish politician (died 1918)

Matti Pekanpoika Lonkainen was a Finnish smallholder, politician and member of the Parliament of Finland, the national legislature of Finland. A member of the Social Democratic Party, he represented Kuopio Province East between June 1909 and May 1918. He died in captivity following the Finnish Civil War.

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14/04/1872

Abdullah Yusuf Ali, Indian-English scholar and translator (died 1953)

Abdullah Yusuf Ali was an Indian-British barrister who wrote a number of books about Islam, including an exegesis of the Qur'an. A supporter of the British war effort during World War I, Ali received the CBE in 1917 for his services to that cause. He died in London in 1953.

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14/04/1870

Victor Borisov-Musatov, Russian painter and educator (died 1905)

Victor Elpidiforovich Borisov-Musatov was a Russian painter, prominent for his unique Post-Impressionistic style that mixed Symbolism, pure decorative style and realism. Together with Mikhail Vrubel he is often referred as the creator of Russian Symbolism style.

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Syd Gregory, Australian cricketer and coach (died 1929)

Sydney Edward Gregory, sometimes known as Edward Sydney Gregory, was a cricketer who played for New South Wales and Australia. At the time of his retirement, he had played a world-record 58 Test matches during a career spanning 1890 to 1912. A right-handed batsman, he was also a renowned fielder, particularly at cover point.

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14/04/1868

Peter Behrens, German architect, designed the AEG turbine factory (died 1940)

Peter Behrens was a leading German architect, graphic and industrial designer, best known for his early pioneering AEG Turbine Hall in Berlin in 1909. He had a long career, designing objects, typefaces, and important buildings in a range of styles from the 1900s to the 1930s. He was a founding member of the German Werkbund in 1907, when he also began designing for AEG, pioneered corporate design, graphic design, producing typefaces, objects, and buildings for the company. In the next few years, he became a successful architect, a leader of the rationalist / classical German Reform Movement of the 1910s. After the First World War, he turned to Brick Expressionism, designing the remarkable Hoechst Administration Building outside Frankfurt, and from the mid-1920s increasingly to New Objectivity. He was also an educator, heading the architecture school at Academy of Fine Arts Vienna from 1922 to 1936. As a well known architect he produced design across Germany, in other European countries, Russia and England. Several of the leading names of European modernism worked for him when they were starting out in the 1910s, including Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Le Corbusier and Walter Gropius.

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14/04/1866

Anne Sullivan, American educator (died 1936)

Anne Sullivan Macy was an American teacher best known for being the instructor and lifelong companion of Helen Keller. At age five, Sullivan contracted trachoma which left her partially blind and without reading or writing skills. Sullivan received her education as a student of the Perkins School for the Blind. Soon after graduation at age 20, she became a teacher to Keller.

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14/04/1865

Alfred Hoare Powell, English architect, and designer and painter of pottery (died 1960)

Alfred Hoare Powell (1865–1960) was an English Arts and Crafts architect, and designer and painter of pottery.

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14/04/1857

Princess Beatrice of the United Kingdom (died 1944)

Princess Beatrice, later known as Princess Henry of Battenberg, was the fifth daughter and youngest child of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert. She was also the last surviving child of Queen Victoria, dying 43 years after her and nearly 66 years after the first child to die, her elder sister Princess Alice.

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14/04/1854

Martin Lipp, Estonian pastor and poet (died 1923)

Martin Lipp was an Estonian poet. He is best known as the author of the poem The Estonian Flag, which was set to the music of the then young composer Enn Võrk. That song became as popular to the Estonian people as the Marseillaise was to the French in the times of the French Revolution and also played an important role during the time of the Estonian "Singing Revolution" in the late 1980s.

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14/04/1852

Alexander Greenlaw Hamilton, Australian biologist (died 1941)

Alexander Greenlaw Hamilton was an Australian naturalist and teacher born in Ireland. A former president of the Linnean Society of New South Wales, he was known for his studies of desert plants and pollination as well as birds and terrestrial worms.

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14/04/1827

Augustus Pitt Rivers, English general, ethnologist, and archaeologist (died 1900)

Lieutenant-General Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt Rivers was an English officer in the British Army, ethnologist, and archaeologist. He was noted for innovations in archaeological methodology, and in the museum display of archaeological and ethnological collections. His international collection of about 22,000 objects was the founding collection of the Pitt Rivers Museum at the University of Oxford, while his collection of English archaeology from the area around Stonehenge forms the basis of the collection at The Salisbury Museum in Wiltshire.

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14/04/1819

Harriett Ellen Grannis Arey, American educator, author, editor, and publisher (died 1901)

Harriett Ellen Arey was a 19th-century American educator, author, editor, and publisher. Raised in New England, she was one of the first women in the United States to study in a co-educational environment. In Cleveland, Ohio, she became a contributor to The Daily Cleveland Herald and taught at a girls' school. After marrying, she moved to Wisconsin, and served as "Preceptress and Teacher of English Literature, French, and Drawing" at State Normal School in Whitewater, Wisconsin. After returning to Cleveland, she edited a monthly publication devoted to charitable work, and served on the board of the Woman's Christian Association. Arey was a co-founder and first president of the Ohio Woman's Press Association. Her principal writings were Household Songs and Other Poems and Home and School Training. Arey died in 1901.

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14/04/1814

Dimitri Kipiani, Georgian publicist and author (died 1887)

Prince Dimitri Ivanes dze Kipiani was a Georgian statesman, publicist, writer and translator. A leader of Georgia's liberal nobility, he was known for his work in support of the Georgian culture and society, a cause that led to his 1886 exile and murder at the hands of Russian Imperial authorities. In 2007 he was canonized by the Georgian Orthodox Church as a saint.

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14/04/1812

George Grey, Portuguese-New Zealand soldier, explorer, and politician, 11th Prime Minister of New Zealand (died 1898)

Sir George Grey was a British soldier, explorer, colonial administrator and writer. He served in a succession of governing positions: Governor of South Australia, twice Governor of New Zealand, Governor of Cape Colony, and the 11th premier of New Zealand. He played a key role in the colonisation of New Zealand, and both the purchase and annexation of Māori land.

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14/04/1800

John Appold, English engineer (died 1865)

John George Appold, FRS was a British fur dyer and engineer.

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14/04/1788

David G. Burnet, American politician, 2nd Vice-president of Texas (died 1870)

David Gouverneur Burnet was an early politician within the Republic of Texas, serving as the interim president of Texas in 1836, the second vice president of the Republic of Texas (1839–1841), and the secretary of state (1846) for the new state of Texas after it was annexed to the United States. Burnet was born in Newark, New Jersey, and attended law school in Cincinnati, Ohio. As a young man, he lived with a Comanche tribe for two years before he returned to Ohio.

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14/04/1773

Jean-Baptiste de Villèle, French politician, Prime Minister of France (died 1854)

Jean-Baptiste Guillaume Joseph Marie Anne Séraphin, 1st Count of Villèle, better known simply as Joseph de Villèle, was a French statesman who served as the Prime Minister of France from 1821 to 1828. He was a leader of the Ultra-royalist faction during the Bourbon Restoration.

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14/04/1769

Barthélemy Catherine Joubert, French general (died 1799)

Barthélemy Catherine Joubert was a French general who served during the French Revolutionary Wars. Recognizing his talents, Napoleon Bonaparte gave him increased responsibilities. Joubert was killed while commanding the French army at the Battle of Novi in 1799.

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14/04/1738

William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland, English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (died 1809)

William Henry Cavendish Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland was a British Whig and then a Tory politician during the late Georgian era. He served as chancellor of the University of Oxford (1792–1809) and as Prime Minister of Great Britain (1783) and then of the United Kingdom (1807–1809). The gap of 23 years between his two terms as prime minister is the longest of any British prime minister. He is also an ancestor of Queen Elizabeth II, and therefore King Charles III through his great-granddaughter Cecilia Bowes-Lyon, Countess of Strathmore and Kinghorne.

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14/04/1714

Adam Gib, Scottish minister and author (died 1788)

Adam Gib was a Scottish religious leader, head of the Antiburgher section of the Scottish Secession Church. He reportedly wrote his first covenant with God in the blood of his own veins. Gib was born in the parish of Muckhart, in southern Perthshire on 15 April 1714.

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14/04/1709

Charles Collé, French playwright and songwriter (died 1783)

Charles Collé was a French dramatist and songwriter.

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14/04/1678

Abraham Darby I, English iron master (died 1717)

Abraham Darby, in his later life called Abraham Darby the Elder, now sometimes known for convenience as Abraham Darby I, was an English ironmaster and foundryman. Born into an English Quaker family that played an important role in the Industrial Revolution, Darby developed a method of producing pig iron in a blast furnace fuelled by coke rather than charcoal. This was a major step forward in the production of iron as a raw material for the Industrial Revolution.

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14/04/1669

Magnus Julius De la Gardie, Swedish general and politician (died 1741)

Magnus Julius De la Gardie, son of Axel Julius De la Gardie, was a Swedish general and statesman, member of the Swedish Hats Party.

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14/04/1629

Christiaan Huygens, Dutch mathematician, astronomer, and physicist (died 1695)

Christiaan Huygens, Lord of Zeelhem was a Dutch mathematician, physicist, engineer, astronomer, and inventor who is regarded as a key figure in the Scientific Revolution. In physics, Huygens made seminal contributions to optics and mechanics, while as an astronomer he studied the rings of Saturn and discovered its largest moon, Titan. As an engineer and inventor, he improved the design of telescopes and invented the pendulum clock, the most accurate timekeeper for almost 300 years. A talented mathematician and physicist, Huygens authored the first modern treatise where a physical problem was idealized using mathematical parameters, while his work on light contains the first mathematical and mechanistic explanation of an unobservable physical phenomenon.

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14/04/1578

Philip III of Spain (died 1621)

Philip III was King of Spain and Portugal during the period known as the Iberian Union, reigning from 1598 until his death in 1621. He was also King of Naples and Sicily, Duke of Milan, and Lord of the Seventeen Provinces. A member of the House of Habsburg, he was born in Madrid to King Philip II of Spain and his fourth wife, Anna of Austria. The family was heavily inbred; Philip II and Anna were uncle and niece, as well as cousins.

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14/04/1572

Adam Tanner, Austrian mathematician, philosopher, and academic (died 1632)

Adam Tanner was an Austrian Jesuit theologian.

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14/04/1527

Abraham Ortelius, Flemish cartographer and geographer (died 1598)

Abraham Ortelius was a cartographer, geographer, and cosmographer from Antwerp in the Spanish Netherlands. He is recognized as the creator of the first modern atlas, the Theatrum Orbis Terrarum. Along with Gemma Frisius and Gerardus Mercator, Ortelius is generally considered one of the founders of the Netherlandish school of cartography and geography. He was a notable figure of this school in its golden age and an important geographer of Spain during the age of discovery. The publication of his atlas in 1570 is often considered as the official beginning of the Golden Age of Netherlandish cartography. He was the first person proposing that the continents were joined before drifting to their present positions.

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14/04/1331

Jeanne-Marie de Maille, French Roman Catholic saint (died 1414)

Jeanne-Marie de Maille was a French Roman Catholic anchoress and a member of the Third Order of Saint Francis. Maille was born to nobles and married a nobleman herself though remained childless since she decided to remain chaste with spousal permission. The pair lived together until her husband died during a conflict. Subsequently, Maille became an anchoress at a church where she was characterised by humility and holiness. Pope Pius IX confirmed her beatification on 27 April 1871.

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14/04/1204

Henry I, king of Castile (died 1217)

Henry I was the king of Castile from 1214 until 1217. Throughout his short reign, the boy king was a puppet monarch torn between his sister and heir, Queen Berengaria, and guardian, Count Álvaro Núñez de Lara.

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14/04/1126

Averroes, Andalusian Arab physician and philosopher (died 1198)

Ibn Rushd, Latinized as Averroes, was an Andalusian polymath and jurist who was proficient in a variety of intellectual fields, including philosophy, theology, medicine, astronomy, physics, psychology, mathematics, neurology, Islamic jurisprudence and law, and linguistics. The author of more than 100 books and treatises, his philosophical works include numerous commentaries on Aristotle, for which he was known in the Western world as "The Commentator" and "Father of Rationalism".

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