Born on Monday, 11th August – Famous Birthdays

11/08/2002

Marvin Harrison Jr., American football player

Marvin Darnell Harrison Jr., nicknamed "Maserati Marv", is an American professional football wide receiver for the Arizona Cardinals of the NFL. He played college football for the Ohio State Buckeyes, where he was a two-time unanimous All-American, one of only eleven players in Big Ten Conference history, and the Fred Biletnikoff Award winner in 2023. Harrison was selected fourth overall by the Cardinals in the 2024 NFL draft. He is the son of Pro Football Hall of Fame wide receiver Marvin Harrison.

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11/08/2001

Moyuka Uchijima, Japanese tennis player

Moyuka Uchijima is a Japanese professional tennis player. She has a career-high WTA singles ranking of world No. 47, achieved on 5 May 2025, and a doubles No. 86, reached on 21 July 2025. She has won 13 titles in singles and 11 in doubles on the ITF Circuit. She is the current Japanese No. 2 player.

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11/08/1999

Gregoria Mariska Tunjung, Indonesian badminton player

Gregoria Mariska Tunjung Cahyaningsih is an Indonesian badminton player in women's singles and an Olympic medalist. She started her career at the badminton club PB Mutiara Cardinal in Bandung, West Java, and was called to the national team in 2013. She was the girls' singles champion at the 2017 World Junior Championships. Tunjung also captained the Indonesia women's team at the 2022 Asia Team Championships, where they emerged champions. Tunjung's best achievement is when she won the bronze medal at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris.

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Changbin, South Korean rapper

Seo Chang-bin known mononymously as Changbin, is a South Korean rapper, singer, songwriter, and record producer. He is a member of the South Korean boy group Stray Kids, formed by JYP Entertainment in 2017. He is also a member of 3Racha, an in-house production team and sub-unit of Stray Kids.

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11/08/1997

Sarah Clelland, Scottish footballer

Sarah Isabel Clelland is a Scottish football who plays for Spartans in the Scottish Women's Premier League (SWPL) as a full back. She has also played international handball for Scotland and Great Britain.

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11/08/1995

Brad Binder, South African motorcycle racer

Brad Binder is a South African Grand Prix motorcycle racer competing for Red Bull KTM Factory Racing. He is the 2016 Moto3 World Champion.

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11/08/1994

Storm Sanders, Australian tennis player

Storm Hunter is an Australian professional tennis player. She reached world No. 1 in doubles on 6 November 2023, becoming the third Australian woman to hold the top spot. She also has a career-high singles ranking of world No. 114 on 1 April 2024.

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Anton Cooper, New Zealand cross-country cyclist

Anton Cooper is a New Zealand cross-country cyclist who races for the Trek Factory Racing XC Team. He is the 2015 World Under 23 Cross-country Mountain bike champion and the 2012 World Junior Cross-country Mountain bike champion. One of the two contenders for the country's 2016 Summer Olympics quota spot, he developed chronic fatigue earlier in 2016 and the nomination went to Sam Gaze instead. Cooper represented New Zealand at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, finishing sixth in the Men's Cross-country Mountain Bike final.

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Joseph Barbato, French footballer

Joseph Barbato is a French professional footballer who plays as a forward for Furiani.

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Song I-han, South Korean singer

Song Byeong-hwa, known professionally as Song I-han (송이한), is a South Korean singer-songwriter. He competed in the blind audition program Blind Musician in 2018 and won the competition, immediately releasing his debut single "Reason". At the end of 2020, he released a special single entitled "I Will Be Your Shining Star" amidst the global COVID-19 pandemic. The ballad rose in prominence and was nicknamed "wedding song icon" upon the launch of a contest in which three soon-to-be-married couples would be selected for a free performance by Song at their wedding. Song received two award nominations at the 36th Golden Disc Awards.

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11/08/1993

Alyson Stoner, American actor, singer, and dancer

Alyson Rae Stoner is an American actor, singer, and dancer. Their film roles include the Cheaper by the Dozen films (2003–2005) and the Step Up franchise (2006–2014). On television, they have hosted Disney Channel's Mike's Super Short Show (2002–2007), played Max in The Suite Life of Zack & Cody (2005–2007), voiced Isabella Garcia-Shapiro in Phineas and Ferb, and portrayed Caitlyn in Camp Rock (2008) and Camp Rock 2: The Final Jam (2010).

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11/08/1992

Tomi Lahren, American conservative political commentator

Tomi Rae Augustus Lahren is an American conservative political commentator and television presenter. She hosted Tomi on TheBlaze, where she gained attention for her short video segments called "Final Thoughts", in which she frequently criticized liberal politics. Many of her videos went viral, with The New York Times describing her as "the Right's rising media star". Lahren was suspended from TheBlaze in March 2017 after saying in an interview on The View that she believed women should have legal access to abortion.

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11/08/1991

Cristian Tello, Spanish footballer

Cristian Tello Herrera is a Spanish professional footballer who plays as a forward or winger for UAE Second Division League side Palm City.

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11/08/1990

Lenka Juríková, Slovak tennis player

Lenka Juríková is a Slovak former tennis player.

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11/08/1989

Junior Heffernan, Irish cyclist and triathlete (died 2013)

Junior Heffernan was an Irish triathlete and then cyclist who at the end of his life was competing mostly in Great Britain. He attended Kelly College on the outskirts of Tavistock, Devon, where he competed under coach Rich Brady.

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Sebastian Huke, German footballer

Sebastian Huke is a German footballer who currently plays for Tennis Borussia Berlin.

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11/08/1988

Rabeh Al-Hussaini, Filipino basketball player

Rabeh Ahmed T. Al-Hussaini is a Filipino professional basketball previously player for the Basilan Viva Portmasters of the Maharlika Pilipinas Basketball League. A power forward/center, he played five seasons for the Ateneo de Manila Blue Eagles in the University Athletic Association of the Philippines from 2005 to 2009 and led the Eagles to back-to-back basketball championships in his last two seasons with them. He averaged 24.6 point per game, 13 rebounds per game, and 2 assists per game.

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Patty Mills, Australian basketball player

Patrick Sammie Mills is an Australian professional basketball player for La Laguna Tenerife of the Liga ACB and the Basketball Champions League (BCL). He is the general manager of the Hawaii Rainbow Warriors basketball program at the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa. Mills was born and raised in Canberra, and is of Torres Strait Islander and Aboriginal Australian descent. In 2007, he became the third Indigenous basketball player to play for the Australian national team. Mills was selected by the Portland Trail Blazers with the 55th overall pick in the 2009 NBA draft after playing two years of college basketball for the Saint Mary's Gaels.

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Mustafa Pektemek, Turkish footballer

Mustafa Pektemek is a Turkish footballer who plays as a forward for TFF 2. Lig club Güzide Gebzespor.

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11/08/1987

Dany N'Guessan, French footballer

Djombo Dany-Gael N'Guessan is a French former professional footballer who played as a left winger or forward

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Drew Storen, American baseball player

Drew Patrick Storen is an American former professional baseball relief pitcher. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Washington Nationals, Toronto Blue Jays, Seattle Mariners, and Cincinnati Reds.

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11/08/1986

Mokhtar Benmoussa, Algerian footballer

Mokhtar Benmoussa is an Algerian former professional footballer. He played primarily as a left winger but was also used as a left midfielder and a left-back. Benmoussa is a former Algeria youth international and represented Algeria at the U17 and U23 levels. He also earned eight caps for the Algeria national team.

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Hélène Defrance, French sailor

Hélène Defrance is a French former sailor, who won a bronze medal in the women's 470 event at the 2016 Summer Olympics. She also won the 2010 470 European Championships race, and the 2016 470 World Championships. Defrance is a knight of the Ordre national du Mérite.

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Pablo Sandoval, Venezuelan baseball player

Pablo Emilio Sandoval Reyes is a Venezuelan-American professional baseball third baseman for the Staten Island FerryHawks of the Atlantic League of Professional Baseball. He has previously played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the San Francisco Giants, Boston Red Sox, and Atlanta Braves. He stands 5 feet 10 inches (1.78 m) tall, and weighs 268 pounds (122 kg). Nicknamed "Kung Fu Panda", Sandoval is a two-time All-Star and has won three World Series championships with the Giants. He hit three home runs in Game 1 of the 2012 World Series, becoming the fourth player to hit three home runs in a World Series game, leading to his being named that year's World Series Most Valuable Player (MVP). During the offseason, Sandoval plays for the Navegantes del Magallanes of the Venezuelan Professional Baseball League (VPBL).

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11/08/1985

Jacqueline Fernandez, Bahraini–Sri Lankan actress

Jacqueline Genevieve Fernandez is a Sri Lankan actress based in India. She has worked in Indian films, predominantly in Hindi, besides appearing in reality shows and music videos. Fernandez was born and raised in Bahrain. After graduating in mass communication from the University of Sydney and working as a television reporter in Sri Lanka, she joined the modelling industry. She was crowned Miss Universe Sri Lanka in 2006, and represented her country at Miss Universe 2006.

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Asher Roth, American rapper

Asher Paul Roth is an American rapper from Morrisville, Pennsylvania. He is best known for his 2009 debut single "I Love College," which peaked at number 12 on the Billboard Hot 100 and foresaw the birth of frat rap, a college-oriented subgenre of hip hop.

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11/08/1984

Mojtaba Abedini, Iranian Olympic fencer

Mojtaba Abedini Shourmasti is an Iranian 3-time Olympian sabre fencer. He won a bronze medal at the 2019 World Fencing Championships, becoming the first-ever Iranian fencer to win a medal at the World Fencing Championships.

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Melky Cabrera, Dominican baseball player

Melky Cabrera Astacio, nicknamed "the Melkman", is a Dominican former professional baseball outfielder. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the New York Yankees, Atlanta Braves, San Francisco Giants, Toronto Blue Jays, Chicago White Sox, Kansas City Royals, Cleveland Indians, and Pittsburgh Pirates. While primarily a left fielder throughout his career, Cabrera spent a significant amount of his playing time as a center fielder for the Royals and Yankees.

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Lucas di Grassi, Brazilian race car driver

Lucas Tucci di Grassi is a Brazilian racing driver, who competes in Formula E for Lola Yamaha ABT. In formula racing, di Grassi competed in Formula One in 2010, and won the 2016–17 Formula E Championship with Abt. In endurance racing, di Grassi was runner-up in the FIA World Endurance Championship in 2016 with Audi.

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11/08/1983

Chris Hemsworth, Australian actor

Christopher Hemsworth is an Australian actor and film producer. Born and raised in Melbourne, Victoria, and Bulman, Northern Territory, he rose to prominence playing Kim Hyde in the Australian television series Home and Away (2004–2007) before beginning a film career in Hollywood. In the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Hemsworth starred as Thor in the 2011 film of the same name and reprised the role in several subsequent installments, which established him among the world's highest-paid actors.

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Luke Lewis, Australian rugby league player

Luke Lewis is an Australian rugby league commentator and former professional rugby league footballer who played for the Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks and the Penrith Panthers in the National Rugby League (NRL) and Australia at international level.

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Pavel 183, Russian painter (died 2013)

Pavel 183, was a Russian street artist, known by some as the "Russian Banksy".

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11/08/1982

Andy Lee, American football player

Andrew Paul Lee is an American former professional football player who was a punter in the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Pittsburgh Panthers, and was selected by the San Francisco 49ers in the sixth round of the 2004 NFL draft. Lee also played for the Cleveland Browns, Carolina Panthers, and Arizona Cardinals. He was selected to the Pro Bowl following the 2007, 2009, and 2011 seasons.

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11/08/1981

Daniel Poohl, Swedish journalist

Daniel Poohl is a Swedish journalist and publicist who served as publisher and CEO of the Expo magazine.

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11/08/1980

Daniel Lloyd, English cyclist and sportscaster

Daniel William Llewellyn Lloyd is an English broadcaster, content creator and retired professional road racing cyclist from Christchurch, Dorset.

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Lee Suggs, American football player

Lee Ernest Suggs Jr. is an American former professional football player who was a running back in the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Virginia Tech Hokies and was selected by the Cleveland Browns in the fourth round of the 2003 NFL draft. He also played for the Miami Dolphins.

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11/08/1979

Walter Ayoví, Ecuadorian footballer

Walter Orlando Ayoví Corozo is a former Ecuadorian professional footballer who played as a midfielder. He previously played as a left winger for Club Deportivo El Nacional in the Ecuadorian league and in the Ecuador national team, primarily in left defense. He is the cousin of fellow footballer Jaime Ayoví, who also plays in the Ecuador national team. He also holds Mexican citizenship.

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11/08/1978

Spyros Gogolos, Greek footballer

Spyros Gogolos is a retired Greek footballer, who played as a defender.

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Charlotte Leslie, British politician

Charlotte Leslie is a British Conservative Party politician who is the current Director of the Conservative Middle East Council. She was the Member of Parliament (MP) for the Bristol North West constituency, losing her seat at the 2017 general election.

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Lillian Nakate, Ugandan politician

Lillian Nakate Segujja commonly Lillian Nakate, is a Ugandan civil engineer and politician who served as the Member of Parliament representing the Luweero District Women' Constituency in the 10th Parliament of Uganda.

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Isy Suttie, English comedian, musician, actress, and writer

Isobel Jane Suttie is a British musical comedian, actress and writer. She played Dobby in the Channel 4 sitcom Peep Show, and in 2013 won the gold Radio Academy Award for her radio show Pearl and Dave.

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11/08/1977

Gemma Hayes, Irish singer-songwriter

Gemma Hayes is an Irish musician, singer-songwriter and composer. Primarily known as a vocalist and guitarist, she is also proficient with a wide range of instruments, including the piano and the harmonica. She is also a member of The Cake Sale, Printer Clips and Trio.

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Dênio Martins, Brazilian footballer

Dênio Pereira Martins, known as just Dênio, is a Brazilian footballer who plays for Cerâmica.

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11/08/1976

Iván Córdoba, Colombian footballer and manager

Iván Ramiro Córdoba Sepúlveda is a Colombian former professional footballer who played as a defender. He began his career in Colombia with Deportivo Rionegro and Atlético Nacional, before moving to Argentine club San Lorenzo. In 2000, he joined Italian side Inter Milan, where he spent most of his career, remaining with the club until his retirement in 2012. At international level, Córdoba played for the Colombia national team, and represented his nation at the 1998 FIFA World Cup, the 2003 FIFA Confederations Cup, and four editions of the Copa América, winning the tournament in 2001, where he scored the winning goal in the final. He was the vice-captain of Inter Milan and has also served as captain for his country's national team.

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Bubba Crosby, American baseball player

Richard Stephen "Bubba" Crosby is an American former professional baseball outfielder who played in Major League Baseball for the Los Angeles Dodgers and the New York Yankees from 2003 to 2006.

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Will Friedle, American actor and screenwriter

Will Friedle is an American actor and screenwriter. He is best known for his role as Eric Matthews in the ABC sitcom Boy Meets World (1993–2000).

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Ben Gibbard, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

Benjamin Gibbard is an American musician. He is best known as the lead vocalist and guitarist of the indie rock band Death Cab for Cutie, with whom he has recorded ten studio albums, and as a member of the indie pop supergroup The Postal Service. Gibbard released his debut solo album, Former Lives (2012), and a collaborative studio album, One Fast Move or I'm Gone (2009), with Jay Farrar.

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Ľubomír Višňovský, Slovak ice hockey player

Ľubomír Višňovský is a Slovak former professional ice hockey defenceman. He began and finished his professional career with HC Slovan Bratislava. He played 14 seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL) with the Los Angeles Kings, Edmonton Oilers, Anaheim Ducks, and New York Islanders.

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11/08/1975

Chris Cummings, Canadian singer-songwriter

Christopher Allen Thomas Cummings is a Canadian country music artist. In his career, he has released five studio albums, one compilation album, and one extended play. Several of his singles have charted on the Canadian country charts, including the Number One hits "Sure Enough" and "The Kind of Heart That Breaks".

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11/08/1974

Marie-France Dubreuil, Canadian figure skater

Marie-France Dubreuil is a Canadian ice dancing coach and former competitor. With her husband Patrice Lauzon, she is a two-time (2006–2007) World silver medallist.

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Hadiqa Kiani, Pakistani singer, songwriter and philanthropist

Hadiqa Kiani is a Pakistani singer, songwriter, guitarist, actress, and social worker. She has won many national and international awards. Hadiqa has also performed at venues such as the Royal Albert Hall in the UK and The Kennedy Center in the USA. Along with Urdu and Punjabi, she has also sung songs in various local and international languages.

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Audrey Mestre, French biologist and diver (died 2002)

Audrey Mestre was a French world record-setting freediver.

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Carolyn Murphy, American model and actress

Carolyn Murphy is an American model. Throughout her career, she has been on the cover of Vogue 73 times, making her one of the most featured models in the magazine's history.

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11/08/1973

Kristin Armstrong, American cyclist

Kristin Armstrong Savola is a former professional road bicycle racer and three-time Olympic gold medalist, the winner of the women's individual time trial in 2008, 2012, and 2016. Before temporarily retiring to start a family in 2009, she rode for Cervélo TestTeam in women's elite professional events on the National Racing Calendar (NRC) and UCI Women's World Cup. She announced a return to competitive cycling beginning in the 2011 season, competing for Peanut Butter & Co. TWENTY12 at the Redlands Classic.

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11/08/1971

Alejandra Barros, Mexican actress and screenwriter

Alejandra Barros is a Mexican actress. She is best known for her role in Televisa's telenovela Mariana de la Noche (2003).

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Tommy Mooney, English footballer

Thomas John Mooney is an English former professional footballer who played mainly as a striker. He made more than 600 appearances in the Football League and Premier League – with 250 for Watford and more than 100 for Scarborough – and scored in each of the top four divisions of the English football league system.

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11/08/1970

Andy Bell, British musician and songwriter

Andrew Piran Bell is a British musician and songwriter. He is known as the bass guitarist of Oasis and vocalist and guitarist of the shoegaze band Ride. Bell has also been a member of Hurricane #1 and Beady Eye, an offshoot of Oasis which released two studio albums between 2009 and 2014. With Ride, Bell helped pioneer shoegaze, an alternative rock subgenre which reached its peak popularity in the early 1990s.

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Dirk Hannemann, German footballer and manager

Dirk Hannemann is a German former professional footballer who played as a midfielder. He made 11 appearances in the Austrian Bundesliga and 12 appearances in the 2. Bundesliga during his playing career.

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Gianluca Pessotto, Italian footballer

Gianluca Pessotto is an Italian former professional footballer who played as a defender or midfielder. A former Italy international, he spent the majority of his club career with Juventus, where he won several domestic and international trophies, and is now head of its youth system. He represented his country at the 1998 FIFA World Cup, and at UEFA Euro 2000, reaching the final of the latter tournament.

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11/08/1968

Anna Gunn, American actress

Anna Kathryn Gunn is an American actress. She is known for portraying Skyler White on the AMC crime drama series Breaking Bad (2008–2013), for which she won two Primetime Emmy Awards and a Screen Actors Guild Award.

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Sophie Okonedo, British actress

Sophie Okonedo is a British actress and narrator. The recipient of a Tony Award, she has been nominated for an Academy Award, three BAFTA TV Awards, an Emmy Award, two Laurence Olivier Awards, and a Golden Globe Award. She was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2010 Birthday Honours and Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in 2019 New Year Honours, both for services to drama.

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Charlie Sexton, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

Charles Wayne Sexton is an American guitarist, singer and songwriter. Sexton is best known for his years as a guitarist in Bob Dylan's band, though also has become well known as a music producer. Sexton co-founded Arc Angels and created the Charlie Sexton Sextet. He was still a teenager when he gained fame for his 1985 hit, "Beat's So Lonely", from his debut studio album, Pictures for Pleasure.

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11/08/1967

Massimiliano Allegri, Italian footballer and manager

Massimiliano "Max" Allegri is an Italian professional football manager and former professional player. He is currently manager of Serie A club AC Milan.

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Enrique Bunbury, Spanish singer-songwriter and guitarist

Enrique Ortiz de Landázuri Izarduy, best known as Enrique Bunbury, is a Spanish singer and songwriter. He has been described as "by far the most international star of Spanish rock." He was propelled to fame as lead singer of Héroes del Silencio. After the band disbanded in 1996, Bunbury gradually developed a solo career. His "tessitura" singing style would be in the baritone range. The Latin Recording Academy would describe Bunbury as "not only one of the most visionary rock stars ever to emerge from Spain, but also a 21st century master when it comes to crafting transcendent songs in the Spanish language."

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Joe Rogan, American actor, comedian, and television host

Joseph James Rogan Jr. is an American podcaster, UFC color commentator, comedian, actor, and former television host. He hosts The Joe Rogan Experience, which is one of the most popular podcasts in the world and has been the most streamed podcast on Spotify since 2020.

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Petter Wettre, Norwegian saxophonist and composer

Petter Wettre is a Norwegian jazz musician (saxophone) and composer, known from a number of album recordings, accompanied by receiving the Spellemannprisen two times.

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11/08/1966

Nigel Martyn, English footballer and coach

Antony Nigel Martyn is an English football coach and former professional player who played as a goalkeeper. He is the goalkeeper coach of Mirandés.

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Juan María Solare, Argentinian pianist and composer

Juan María Solare is an Argentine composer and pianist.

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11/08/1965

Marc Bergevin, Canadian ice hockey player and manager

Marc Bergevin is a Canadian professional ice hockey executive and former player. He is currently associate general manager of the Buffalo Sabres. Bergevin played as a defenceman in the NHL.

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Embeth Davidtz, American actress

Embeth Jean Davidtz is an American and South African actress and director. She has appeared in movies such as Schindler's List, Matilda, Bridget Jones's Diary, and The Amazing Spider-Man, and in the television series In Treatment, Californication, and Mad Men.

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Viola Davis, American actress

Viola Davis is an American actress and film producer. Her accolades include both the Triple Crown of Acting and EGOT. Time named her one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2012 and 2017. The New York Times ranked her ninth on its list of the greatest actors of the 21st century (2020). Davis received the Cecil B. DeMille Award in 2025.

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11/08/1964

Jim Lee, South Korean-American author and illustrator

Jim Lee is a Korean-born American comic book artist, writer, editor, and publisher. As of 2023, he is the President, Publisher, and Chief Creative Officer of DC Comics. In recognition of his work, Lee has received a Harvey Award, Inkpot Award and three Wizard Fan Awards.

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Grant Waite, New Zealand golfer

Grant Osten Waite is a New Zealand professional golfer.

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11/08/1963

Hiromi Makihara, Japanese baseball player

Hiromi Makihara is a Japanese former Nippon Professional Baseball pitcher. He was a six-time Central League All-Star, won Rookie of the Year honors, and pitched a perfect game in a 19-year career with the Yomiuri Giants.

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11/08/1962

Brian Azzarello, American author

Brian Azzarello is an American comic book writer and screenwriter who first came to prominence with the hardboiled crime series 100 Bullets, published by DC Comics' mature-audience imprint Vertigo. Azzarello is best known for his numerous collaborations with artists Eduardo Risso and Lee Bermejo, his contributions to the Watchmen prequel project Before Watchmen and The Dark Knight Returns sequel series DK III: The Master Race, as well as for his stints on the long-running Vertigo series Hellblazer and The New 52 relaunch of the Wonder Woman title.

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Charles Cecil, English video game designer and co-founded Revolution Software

Charles Cecil is a British video game designer and co-founder of Revolution Software. His family lived in the Democratic Republic of the Congo when he was still very young, but was evacuated two years after Mobutu Sese Seko's coup d'état. He studied at Bedales School in Hampshire, England. In 1980 he began his studies in Engineering Manufacture and Management at the University of Manchester, where he met student Richard Turner who invited him to write text adventures for Artic Computing. After completing his degree in 1985 he decided to continue his career in game development and became director of Artic. The following year he established Paragon Programming, a game development company working with British publisher U.S. Gold. In 1987 he moved into publishing as a software development manager for U.S. Gold. A year later he was approached by Activision and was offered the position of manager of their European development studio.

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John Micklethwait, English journalist and author

Richard John Micklethwait is an English journalist who is the editor-in-chief of Bloomberg News, a position he has held since February 2015. He was previously the editor-in-chief of The Economist from 2006 to 2015.

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Rob Minkoff, American director and producer

Robert Ralph Minkoff is an American director, animator, and producer. He is best known for co-directing The Lion King, and live-action films including Stuart Little (1999), Stuart Little 2 (2002), The Haunted Mansion (2003), and The Forbidden Kingdom (2008). In recent decades, he returned to feature animation with Mr. Peabody & Sherman (2014) and Paws of Fury: The Legend of Hank (2022). His wife, Crystal Kung Minkoff, was a cast member on The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills.

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11/08/1961

David Brooks, American journalist and author

David Brooks is a Canadian-born American book author and political and cultural commentator. Though he describes himself as a "moderate Republican", others have characterised him as centrist, moderate conservative, or conservative, based on his record as contributor to the PBS NewsHour, and as opinion columnist for The New York Times. In addition to his shorter form writing, Brooks has authored seven non-fiction books since 2000, two appearing from Simon and Schuster, and five from Random House, the latter including The Social Animal: The Hidden Sources of Love, Character, and Achievement (2011), and The Road to Character (2015).

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Craig Ehlo, American basketball player and coach

Joel Craig Ehlo is an American former basketball player. He played fifteen seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA) with four teams, amassing career totals of 7,492 points, 2,456 assists and 3,139 rebounds.

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Suniel Shetty, Indian actor and film producer

Suniel Veerappa Shetty is an Indian actor, film producer, television host, and entrepreneur, primarily known for his work in Hindi cinema. Nicknamed as Anna, Shetty has appeared in over 100 films, in a career spanning over three decades. Rising to prominence in the 1990s as a leading action hero with films like Balwaan (1992), Mohra (1994), Dilwale (1994), and Border (1997), Shetty later showcased his versatility in comedies such as Hera Pheri (2000), Phir Hera Pheri (2006) and antagonistic roles, notably winning a Filmfare Award for Best Villain for Dhadkan (2000). Beyond acting, he has produced films under Popcorn Motion Pictures, co-founded the online casting platform F...the Couch (FTC), and hosted reality shows.

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11/08/1959

Gustavo Cerati, Argentinian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (died 2014)

Gustavo Adrián Cerati Clark was an Argentine musician and singer-songwriter who gained international recognition for being the leader, vocalist, composer, and guitarist of the rock band Soda Stereo. He is widely considered by critics and musicians as one of the most important and influential artists of Latin rock.

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Yoshiaki Murakami, Japanese businessman

Yoshiaki Murakami is a Japanese investor, bull, former bureaucrat of the MITI, co-founder of "Murakami Fund", and founder of the Murakami Family Foundation (村上財団).

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Taraki Sivaram, Sri Lankan journalist and author (died 2005)

Taraki Sivaram or Dharmeratnam Sivaram was a popular Tamil journalist of Sri Lanka. He was kidnapped by four men in a white van on 28 April 2005, in front of the Bambalapitya police station. His body was found the next day in the district of Himbulala, near the Parliament of Sri Lanka. He had been beaten and shot in the head.

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Richard Scudamore, English businessman

Richard Craig Scudamore CBE is an English sports executive.

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László Szlávics, Jr., Hungarian sculptor

László Szlávics is a Hungarian sculptor and medallic artist. He publishes his works under the names László, ifj. Szlávics or Laszlo Szlavics Jr.László Szlávics jr. has set several new norms in Hungarian medallic art. It was presumably not his express aim, but he was merely following the dictates of his innovative mind to do something new not yet found in the trade. He is heading in this direction, with the sure – and literally tangible – conviction that at the extremes, on the limits of the art form there is still a lot to be searched – and found out.

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11/08/1958

Steven Pokere, New Zealand rugby player

Steven Tahurata Pokere is a former New Zealand rugby union player. A second five-eighth and centre, Pokere represented Southland, Auckland and Wellington at a provincial level, and was a member of the New Zealand national side, the All Blacks, from 1981 to 1985. He played 39 matches for the All Blacks including 18 internationals.

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Jah Wobble, English singer-songwriter and bass player

John Joseph Wardle is an English bass guitarist and singer. He became known to a wider audience as the original bass player in Public Image Ltd (PiL) in the late 1970s and early 1980s; he left the band after two albums.

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11/08/1957

Ian Stuart Donaldson, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 1993)

Ian Stuart Donaldson, more commonly known as Ian Stuart, was an English neo-Nazi musician. He was best known as the front-man of Skrewdriver, originally a punk band which, from 1983 onwards, he rebranded as a Rock Against Communism white power skinhead band. He raised money through white power concerts with his Blood & Honour network.

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Masayoshi Son, Japanese technology entrepreneur and investor

Masayoshi Son is a Japanese entrepreneur, investor, and philanthropist. A Zainichi Korean, he is the founder, representative director, corporate officer, chairman and chief executive of SoftBank Group (SBG), a technology-focused investment holding company, as well as chairman of UK-based Arm Holdings and US-based Stargate LLC.

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11/08/1956

Pierre-Louis Lions, French mathematician and academic

Pierre-Louis Lions is a French mathematician. He is known for a number of contributions to the fields of partial differential equations and the calculus of variations. He was a recipient of the 1994 Fields Medal.

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11/08/1955

Marc Bureau, Canadian politician, 16th Mayor of Gatineau

Marc Bureau is a Canadian politician, who was the mayor of the city of Gatineau, Quebec from 2005 to 2013.

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Sylvia Hermon, Northern Irish academic and politician

Sylvia Eileen, Lady Hermon is a retired Unionist politician from Northern Ireland. She served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for the constituency of North Down from 2001 to 2019.

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11/08/1954

Bryan Bassett, American guitarist

Bryan Bassett is an American guitarist who has played with several notable bands, but is best known as a member of Wild Cherry in the 1970s who had a hit with "Play That Funky Music".

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Vance Heafner, American golfer and coach (died 2012)

Clayton Vance Heafner Jr. was an American professional golfer who played on the PGA Tour, the Nationwide Tour and the Champions Tour.

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Joe Jackson, English singer-songwriter and musician

Joe Jackson is a British musician, singer and songwriter. Having spent years studying music and playing clubs, he found early success with his hit new wave singles "Is She Really Going Out with Him?" and "It's Different for Girls". After he moved to more jazz-inflected pop music, Jackson achieved a worldwide hit with "Steppin' Out". Jackson is associated with the 1980s Second British Invasion of the US. He has also composed classical music. He has recorded 21 studio albums and has received five Grammy Award nominations.

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Tarmo Rüütli, Estonian footballer, coach, and manager

Tarmo Rüütli is an Estonian football manager and former football player.

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Yashpal Sharma, Indian cricketer and umpire (died 2021)

Yashpal Sharma was an Indian international cricketer. He was a middle order batsman who played during the 1970s and 80s. He was a member of the Indian team that won the 1983 Cricket World Cup. He represented India in 37 Tests and 42 One Day Internationals (ODIs) between 1978 and 1985. His nephew Chetan Sharma was also a cricketer. He was fondly nicknamed by Sunil Gavaskar as the Crisis Man for India.

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11/08/1953

Hulk Hogan, American professional wrestler (died 2025)

Terry Gene Bollea, better known by his ring name Hulk Hogan, was an American professional wrestler and media personality. Widely regarded as one of the greatest and most recognized wrestlers of all time, Hogan won multiple championships worldwide, most notably being a six-time WWF/WWE Champion. He is best known for his work in the World Wrestling Federation and World Championship Wrestling (WCW). Hogan also competed in promotions such as Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA), the American Wrestling Association (AWA), and New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW).

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Wijda Mazereeuw, Dutch swimmer

Wijda Mazereeuw is a retired swimmer from the Netherlands. Individually she competed in the 200 m and 400 m medley event at the 1972 Summer Olympics and in the 100 m and 200 m breaststroke at the 1976 Summer Olympics, but was eliminated in the heats on all occasions; in 1976 she also placed fifth with the Dutch 4 × 100 m medley relay team. At the 1975 World Aquatics Championships in Cali, Colombia, she won silver medals in the 100 m (1:14.29) and 200 m (2:37.50) breaststroke; she was also part of the Dutch 4 × 100 m medley relay team that won the bronze medal with a time of 4:21.45.

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11/08/1952

Reid Blackburn, American photographer (died 1980)

Reid Turner Blackburn was an American photographer killed in the 1980 volcanic eruption of Mount St. Helens. A photojournalist covering the eruption for a local newspaper—the Vancouver, Washington The Columbian—as well as National Geographic magazine and the United States Geological Survey, he was caught at Coldwater Camp in the blast.

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Bob Mothersbaugh, American singer, guitarist, and producer

Robert Leroy Mothersbaugh Jr., also known by his stage name Bob 1, is an American musician, singer, songwriter and composer.

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11/08/1950

Erik Brann, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2003)

Erik Keith Brann, also known as Erik Braunn, was an American guitarist with the 1960s acid rock band Iron Butterfly. He was featured on the band's greatest hit, the 17-minute "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida" (1968), recorded when he was 17.

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Gennadiy Nikonov, Russian engineer, designed the AN-94 rifle (died 2003)

Gennadiy Nikolaevich Nikonov was a Russian firearm engineer. Some of his accomplishments were as the designer of the AN-94 assault rifle, and the "straight-back bolt." Nikonov held 44 Copyright Certificates, and was awarded the titles of "The Best Designer of the Company" and "The Best Designer of the Ministry." In his memory there is a memorial plaque on the building design and weapons center of "Izhmash".

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Steve Wozniak, American computer scientist and programmer, co-founded Apple Inc.

Stephen Gary Wozniak, also known by his nickname Woz, is an American technology entrepreneur, electrical engineer, computer programmer, and inventor. In 1976, he co-founded Apple Computer with his early business partner Steve Jobs. Through his work at Apple in the 1970s and 1980s, he is widely recognized as one of the most prominent pioneers of the personal computer revolution.

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11/08/1949

Eric Carmen, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2024)

Eric Howard Carmen was an American singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. He was the lead vocalist of the Raspberries, with whom he recorded the hit "Go All the Way" and four albums. He embarked on a solo career in 1975 and had global success with "All by Myself", "Never Gonna Fall in Love Again", "She Did It", "Hungry Eyes", and "Make Me Lose Control". In later years, he toured with Ringo Starr & His All-Starr Band before reforming the Raspberries in 2004.

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Tim Hutchinson, American lawyer and politician

Young Timothy Hutchinson is an American politician, lobbyist, and former United States senator from the U.S. state of Arkansas. A member of the Republican Party, he was the first Republican U.S. senator to represent Arkansas since the Reconstruction era.

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Ian Charleson, Scottish-English actor and singer (died 1990)

Ian Charleson was a Scottish stage and film actor. He is best known internationally for his starring role as Olympic athlete and missionary Eric Liddell in the Oscar-winning 1981 film Chariots of Fire. He is also well known for his portrayal of Rev. Charlie Andrews in the 1982 Oscar-winning film Gandhi.

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11/08/1948

Don Boyd, Scottish director, producer, and screenwriter

Donald William Robertson Boyd is a Scottish film director, producer, screenwriter and novelist. He was a Governor of the London Film School until 2016 and in 2017 was made an Honorary Professor in the College of Humanities at Exeter University.

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11/08/1947

Theo de Jong, Dutch footballer, coach, and manager

Theodorus Jacob de Jong is a Dutch former professional footballer and former football coach.

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Georgios Karatzaferis, Greek journalist and politician

Georgios Karatzaferis is a Greek politician, a former member of the Hellenic Parliament and the former president of the Popular Orthodox Rally. Previously, Karatzaferis was a member of parliament of the liberal-conservative New Democracy party. He is a former Member of the European Parliament and former vice-president of the Independence and Democracy group. The Popular Orthodox Rally's views, ideas, and electoral campaigns were often broadcast and promoted by the relatively minor private Greek TV channel TeleAsty and the party's weekly newspaper, A1, both which he founded. In 2023, he praised Kyriakos Mitsotakis and endorsed New Democracy for the 2023 elections, campaigning for the party, without officially rejoining it.

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Wilma van den Berg, Dutch sprinter

Wilhelmina Catharina Maria Martina "Wilma" van den Berg,, married name van Gool, is a Dutch former sprinter, two-time Olympian, silver medalist in the European Championships and Universiade, Dutch national champion, and 1969 Dutch Female Athlete of the Year.

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11/08/1946

John Conlee, American singer-songwriter

John Wayne Conlee is an American country music singer.

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Marilyn vos Savant, American journalist and author

Marilyn vos Savant is an American magazine columnist who has the highest recorded intelligence quotient (IQ) in the Guinness Book of Records, a competitive category the publication has since retired. Since 1986, she has written "Ask Marilyn", a Parade magazine Sunday column wherein she solves puzzles and answers questions on various subjects, and which popularized the Monty Hall problem in 1990.

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11/08/1944

Martin Linton, Swedish-English journalist and politician

John Martin Linton is a British Labour Party politician, who was the Member of Parliament for Battersea from 1997 to 2010.

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Frederick W. Smith, American businessman, founded FedEx (died 2025)

Frederick Wallace Smith was an American business magnate and investor. He was the founder and chairman of FedEx Corporation, the world's largest express transportation company. Smith stepped down as CEO in June 2022 and was succeeded by Raj Subramaniam. Considered one of the most successful transportation entrepreneurs in the world, Smith had an estimated net worth of $5.3 billion at the time of his death according to Forbes.

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Ian McDiarmid, Scottish actor

Ian McDiarmid is a Scottish actor and director of stage and screen. Making his stage debut in Hamlet in 1972, McDiarmid joined the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1974, and has since starred in a number of William Shakespeare's plays. He has received an Olivier Award for Best Actor for Insignificance (1982) and a Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play for Faith Healer (2006).

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11/08/1943

Jim Kale, Canadian bass player

Michael James Kale is a Canadian retired musician, best known as the original bassist for the rock band The Guess Who. He was also a member of the band Scrubbaloe Caine. In 1987, he was inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame as a member of The Guess Who.

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Pervez Musharraf, Pakistani general and politician, 10th President of Pakistan (died 2023)

Pervez Musharraf was a Pakistani politician and a military officer who served as the tenth president of Pakistan from 2001 to 2008. Against the background of immense pressure from civil society, the aggrieved public, the business community, and diplomats of friendly countries to address the economic mismanagement and bad governance, the Pakistan Armed Forces had finally overthrown Nawaz Sharif's government and proclaimed him the chief executive of Pakistan once Nawaz Sharif targeted Musharraf's life by directing the hijacking of his plane.

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Denis Payton, English saxophonist (died 2006)

The Dave Clark Five, also known as the DC5, were an English rock and roll band formed in 1958 in Tottenham, London. Drummer Dave Clark was the group's leader, producer and co-songwriter. In January 1964, they had their first UK top-ten single, "Glad All Over", which knocked the Beatles' "I Want to Hold Your Hand" off the top of the UK Singles Chart. It peaked at No. 6 in the United States in April 1964. Although this was their only UK No. 1, they topped the US chart in December 1965, with their cover of Bobby Day's "Over and Over". Their other UK top-ten hits include "Bits and Pieces", "Can't You See That She's Mine", "Catch Us If You Can", "Everybody Knows", "The Red Balloon", "Good Old Rock 'n' Roll", and a version of Chet Powers' "Get Together".

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11/08/1942

Mike Hugg, English drummer and keyboard player

Michael John Hugg is a British musician who was a founding member of the 1960s group Manfred Mann, and co-founder of the psychedelic jazz-fusion group, Manfred Mann Chapter Three. He is known for his creativity in his music, and made jingles for advertisements.

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Otis Taylor, American football player (died 2023)

Otis Taylor Jr. was an American professional football wide receiver who played in the American Football League (AFL). He played college football for the Prairie View A&M Panthers and was selected by the Kansas City Chiefs in the fourth round of the 1965 AFL draft. He was also selected in the 15th round of the 1965 NFL draft by the Philadelphia Eagles, but he chose to play in the AFL for the Chiefs where he would spend his entire career.

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11/08/1941

John Ellison, American-Canadian musician and songwriter

John Ellison is an American/Canadian musician, best known for writing the song "Some Kind of Wonderful." He was born in Montgomery, West Virginia, and was raised in Landgraff, West Virginia, a small, poverty-stricken coal mining village near Welch, West Virginia, and is a dual citizen of the United States and Canada, receiving his Canadian citizenship in 2006.

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11/08/1940

Glenys Page, New Zealand cricketer (died 2012)

Glenys Lynne Page was a New Zealand cricketer who played as a slow left-arm orthodox bowler. She appeared in two One Day Internationals for New Zealand, both at the 1973 World Cup. She played domestic cricket for Auckland.

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11/08/1939

James Mancham, first President of Seychelles (died 2017)

Sir James Richard Marie Mancham KBE was a Seychellois politician who founded the Seychelles Democratic Party and was the first President of Seychelles from 1976 to 1977.

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Ronnie Dawson, American singer and guitarist (died 2003)

Ronald Monroe Dawson was an American rockabilly singer, guitarist and drummer, nicknamed The Blond Bomber. Although he achieved regional success in the 1950s, his popularity peaked internationally with tours in the 1980s and 1990s.

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11/08/1937

Anna Massey, English actress (died 2011)

Anna Raymond Massey was an English actress. She won a BAFTA Best Actress Award for the role of Edith Hope in the 1986 TV adaptation of Anita Brookner's novel Hotel du Lac, a role that one of her co-stars, Julia McKenzie, has said "could have been written for her". Massey is also well known for her roles in Michael Powell's Peeping Tom (1960) and Alfred Hitchcock's Frenzy (1972), each as a woman who becomes involved with a suspected killer. She performed over one hundred character roles in British film and television. On the stage, in 1982, Massey won the Laurence Olivier Award for Actress of the Year in a Supporting Role for The Importance of Being Earnest and was nominated for the Award for Actress of the Year in a New Play for Summer.

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Patrick Joseph McGovern, American businessman, founded International Data Group (died 2014)

Patrick Joseph McGovern Jr. was an American businessman, and chairman and founder of International Data Group (IDG), a company with subsidiaries in technology publishing, research, event management and venture capital.

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11/08/1936

Andre Dubus, American short story writer, essayist, and memoirist (died 1999)

Andre Jules Dubus II was an American writer of short stories, novels, and essays.

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Bill Monbouquette, American baseball player and coach (died 2015)

William Charles Monbouquette was an American professional baseball player and coach. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a right-handed pitcher for the Boston Red Sox (1958–65), Detroit Tigers (1966–67), New York Yankees (1967–68), and the San Francisco Giants (1968). A four-time All-Star player, Monbouquette was notable for pitching a no-hitter in 1962 as a member of the Red Sox. He was inducted into the Boston Red Sox Hall of Fame in 2000.

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Jonathan Spence, English-American historian and academic (died 2021)

Jonathan Dermot Spence was a British-American historian, sinologist, and author specialised in Chinese history. He was Sterling Professor of History at Yale University from 1993 to 2008. His most widely read book is The Search for Modern China, a survey of the last several hundred years of Chinese history based on his popular course at Yale. A prolific author, reviewer, and essayist, he published over a dozen books on China. Spence's major interest was modern China, especially the Qing dynasty, and relations between China and the West. Spence frequently used biographies to examine cultural and political history. Another common theme is the efforts of both Westerners and Chinese "to change China", and how such efforts were frustrated.

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11/08/1934

Bob Hepple, South African lawyer and academic (died 2015)

Sir Bob Alexander Hepple OLG was a South African-born legal academic and leader in the fields of labour law, equality and human rights.

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11/08/1933

Jerry Falwell, American minister and television host (died 2007)

Jerry Laymon Falwell was an American Baptist pastor, televangelist, and conservative activist. He was the founding pastor of the Thomas Road Baptist Church, a megachurch in Lynchburg, Virginia. He founded Lynchburg Christian Academy, later renamed Liberty Christian Academy, in 1967, founded Liberty University in 1971, and co-founded the Moral Majority in 1979.

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Jerzy Grotowski, Polish director and producer (died 1999)

Jerzy Marian Grotowski was a Polish theatre director and dramatic theorist whose innovative approaches to acting, training and theatrical production have significantly influenced theatre today. He is considered one of the most influential theatre practitioners of the 20th century as well as one of the founders of experimental theatre.

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Tamás Vásáry, Hungarian pianist and conductor (died 2026)

Tamás Vásáry was a Hungarian concert pianist and conductor who made an international career, living in Switzerland from 1956 and later in London from 1970. He was known for interpreting music of the Romantic era, especially by Chopin, Liszt and Schumann.

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11/08/1932

Fernando Arrabal, Spanish actor, director, and playwright

Fernando Arrabal Terán is a Spanish playwright, screenwriter, film director, novelist, and poet. He was born in Melilla and settled in France in 1955. Regarding his nationality, Arrabal describes himself as "desterrado", or "half-expatriate, half-exiled".

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Izzy Asper, Canadian lawyer, businessman, and politician, founded Canwest (died 2003)

Israel Harold "Izzy" Asper was a Canadian tax lawyer and media magnate. He was the founder and owner of the now-defunct TV and media company CanWest Global Communications Corp and father to its former CEO and President Leonard Asper, former director and corporate secretary Gail Asper, and former Executive Vice President David Asper. He was also the leader of the Manitoba Liberal Party from 1970 to 1975 and is credited with the idea and vision to establish the Canadian Museum for Human Rights.

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Geoffrey Cass, English businessman

Sir Geoffrey Arthur Cass MA (Oxford), MA (Cambridge), CCMI, HonFInstD. Chairman of the Royal Theatrical Support Trust. Spent twenty years as chief executive of Cambridge University Press and has also been chairman of the Royal Shakespeare Company and president of the Lawn Tennis Association.

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Peter Eisenman, American architect, designed the City of Culture of Galicia

Peter David Eisenman is an American architect. Considered one of the New York Five, Eisenman is known for his high modernist and deconstructive designs, as well as for his authorship of several architectural books. His work has won him several awards, including the Wolf Prize in Arts.

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John Gorrie, English director and screenwriter

John Summer Gorrie is an English director and screenwriter. He began his career as an actor, but in early 1963 he completed the BBC's directors' course. His first assignments as a director were for the soap opera Compact and the anthology series Suspense. He directed the Doctor Who serial The Keys of Marinus.

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11/08/1929

Manabendra Mukhopadhyay, Indian singer (died 1992)

Manabendra Mukhopadhyay was an Indian singer and music composer in Bengali films. Coming to limelight in the early 1950s Manabendra was an innovative and stylish singer who had a strong foundation in Indian classical music. With his distinctive voice, Manabendra was an instant hit with the audience. demonstrating great talent also as a composer, using the lyrics and melody of a song with good effect. At that time Bengali modern song world had the presence of some outstanding performers like Dhananjay Bhattacharya, Manna Dey, Satinath Mukherjee, Akhilbandhu Ghosh, Kishore Kumar, Shyamal Mitra, Hemanta Mukhopadhyay to name a few.

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11/08/1927

Raymond Leppard, English harpsichord player and conductor (died 2019)

Raymond John Leppard was a British-American conductor, harpsichordist, composer and editor. In the 1960s, he played a prime role in the rebirth of interest in Baroque music; in particular, he was one of the first major conductors to perform Baroque opera, reviving works by Claudio Monteverdi, Francesco Cavalli and Jean-Philippe Rameau. He conducted operas at major international opera houses and festivals, including the Glyndebourne Festival where he led the world premiere of Nicholas Maw's The Rising of the Moon, the Metropolitan Opera and the Royal Opera House. He composed film scores such as Lord of the Flies and Alfred the Great.

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Stuart Rosenberg, American director and producer (died 2007)

Stuart Rosenberg was an American film and television director. He was most noted for his collaborations with actor Paul Newman, whom he directed in Cool Hand Luke (1967), WUSA (1970), Pocket Money (1972), and The Drowning Pool (1975). He was a five-time Directors Guild of America Award nominee, and a Primetime Emmy Award winner.

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11/08/1926

Aaron Klug, Lithuanian-English chemist and biophysicist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2018)

Sir Aaron Klug was a British biophysicist and chemist. He was a winner of the 1982 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his development of crystallographic electron microscopy and his structural elucidation of biologically important nucleic acid-protein complexes.

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11/08/1925

Floyd Curry, Canadian ice hockey player and manager (died 2006)

Floyd James "Busher" Curry was a Canadian ice hockey right winger.

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Arlene Dahl, American actress, businesswoman and writer (died 2021)

Arlene Carol Dahl was an American actress active in films from the late 1940s. Born in Minnesota to parents of Norwegian descent, Dahl started her acting career in musicals before transitioning to film, where she gained significant roles in MGM productions such as My Wild Irish Rose (1947) and The Bride Goes Wild (1948). She also starred in the adventure films Caribbean Gold (1952) and Desert Legion (1953).

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11/08/1923

Stan Chambers, American journalist and actor (died 2015)

Stanley Holroyd "Stan" Chambers was an American television reporter who worked for KTLA in Los Angeles from 1947 to 2010.

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11/08/1922

John "Mule" Miles, American baseball player (died 2013)

John "Mule" Miles was an American professional baseball player who played with the Chicago American Giants of the Negro leagues from 1946 to 1949. Nicknamed "the Mule" by his manager Candy Jim Taylor after hitting two home runs in one ball game. Taylor commented that Miles "hit like a mule kicks". Miles is legendary for hitting 11 home runs in 11 straight games. John Miles played alongside baseball stars Jackie Robinson, Hank Aaron, Ernie Banks, Josh Gibson, Satchel Paige and Monte Irvin. He performed at Yankee Stadium, the Polo Grounds, Comiskey Park, and Griffith Stadium among others.

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11/08/1921

Alex Haley, American historian and author (died 1992)

Alexander Murray Palmer Haley was an American writer and the author of the 1976 book Roots: The Saga of an American Family. ABC adapted the book as a television miniseries of the same name and aired it in 1977 to a record-breaking audience of 130 million viewers. In the United States, the book and miniseries raised the public awareness of black American history and inspired a broad interest in genealogy and family history.

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11/08/1920

Mike Douglas, American singer and talk show host (died 2006)

Michael Delaney Dowd Jr., known as Mike Douglas, was an American big band singer, entertainer, television talk show host of The Mike Douglas Show, and actor.

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Chuck Rayner, Canadian ice hockey player (died 2002)

Claude Earl "Chuck" Rayner, nicknamed "Bonnie Prince Charlie", was a Canadian professional hockey goaltender who played nine seasons in the National Hockey League for the New York Americans and New York Rangers. He is a member of the Hockey Hall of Fame.

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11/08/1919

Luis Olmo, Puerto Rican-American baseball player and manager (died 2017)

Luis Francisco Rodríguez Olmo was a Puerto Rican Major League Baseball outfielder and right-handed batter. Olmo played in the majors with the Brooklyn Dodgers and Boston Braves (1950–51). Olmo was both the first Puerto Rican to play and to hit a home run in the World Series. Known as "El Pelotero de América", Olmo also played in Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Venezuela and Mexico.

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11/08/1916

Johnny Claes, English-Belgian race car driver and trumpet player (died 1956)

Octave John Claes was a British-born racing driver who competed for Belgium. Before his fame as a racing driver, Claes was also a jazz trumpeter and successful bandleader in Britain.

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11/08/1915

Morris Weiss, American author and illustrator (died 2014)

Morris S. Weiss was an American comic book and comic strip artist and writer. Active from the 1930s through the mid-1970s, he created the teen-comedy character Margie for Timely Comics, the 1940s predecessor of Marvel Comics, and was the final cartoonist on the comic strip Mickey Finn. He also worked as a writer or illustrator on numerous other strips, including Joe Palooka.

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11/08/1913

Paul Dupuis, Canadian actor (died 1976)

Paul Dupuis was a French Canadian film actor who was born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, and who performed in British films during the late 1940s. The roles he played were mainly as the romantic leading man. He died in Saint-Sauveur in Quebec.

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Bob Scheffing, American baseball player and manager (died 1985)

Robert Boden Scheffing was an American professional baseball player, coach, manager and front-office executive. Nicknamed "Grumpy", the native of Overland, Missouri, is most often identified with the Chicago Cubs, for whom he played as a catcher, coached (1954–55), and managed (1957–59). Scheffing threw and batted right-handed; he was listed as 6 feet 2 inches (1.88 m) tall and 180 pounds (82 kg).

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Angus Wilson, English author and academic (died 1991)

Sir Angus Frank Johnstone-Wilson was an English novelist and short story writer. He was one of England's first openly gay authors. He was awarded the 1958 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for The Middle Age of Mrs Eliot and later received a knighthood for his services to literature.

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11/08/1912

Eva Ahnert-Rohlfs, German astronomer and academic (died 1954)

Eva Ahnert-Rohlfs was a German astronomer. She made key observations of variable stars.

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Raphael Blau, American screenwriter and producer (died 1996)

Raphael David Blau was an American screenwriter who co-wrote the story for Bedtime for Bonzo (1951), among other film productions.

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11/08/1911

Thanom Kittikachorn, Thai field marshal and politician, 10th Prime Minister of Thailand (died 2004)

Thanom Kittikachorn was Prime Minister of Thailand from 1963 to 1973. Prior to taking office, he supported and initiated military coups and served as Thailand's defence minister. He was forced to step down after public protests which exploded into violence in 1973. His return from exile in 1976 sparked protests which led to a massacre of demonstrators, followed by a military coup.

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11/08/1909

Yūji Koseki, Japanese composer (died 1989)

Yūji Koseki was a Japanese ryūkōka, gunka, march, fight song and film score composer. His real name was also Yūji Koseki, but its kanji was 古關 勇治. For his contributions in music to baseball, he was inducted into the Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame in 2024.

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Uku Masing, Estonian philosopher and theologian (died 1985)

Uku Masing was an Estonian polymath who contributed to theology, oriental studies, philosophy, poetry, folklore and to the field of ethnology. He was a significant figure in Estonian religious philosophy. Masing also wrote poetry, mostly on religious issues. Masing authored one novel, Rapanui vabastamine ehk Kajakad jumalate kalmistul in the late 1930s, which was published posthumously in 1989. As a folklorist, he was a distinguished researcher of fairy tales, contributing to the international Encyclopedia of the Folktale. He was awarded the Righteous Among The Nations by Yad Vashem and the Israeli Supreme Court for his participation during the Holocaust in helping a Jew in Estonia escape capture from 1941 until the end of the war. His actions exposed him to great danger during this period requiring him to meet with his friend as well as lying to the Gestapo.

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11/08/1908

Don Freeman, American author and illustrator (died 1978)

Don Freeman was an American painter, printmaker, cartoonist, and an illustrator and writer of children's books. He was active from the 1930s to the 1970s and often used Times Square as the backdrop of his memorable works.

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Torgny T:son Segerstedt, Swedish sociologist and philosopher (died 1999)

Torgny T. Segerstedt was a Swedish philosopher and sociologist.

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11/08/1907

Ted a'Beckett, Australian cricketer and lawyer (died 1989)

Edward Lambert à Beckett was an Australian cricketer who played in four Test matches between 1928 and 1931. He played in 47 first-class matches for Victoria.

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11/08/1905

Erwin Chargaff, Austrian-American biochemist and academic (died 2002)

Erwin Chargaff was an Austro-Hungarian-born American biochemist, writer, and professor of biochemistry at Columbia University medical school. A Bucovinian Jew who immigrated to the United States during the Nazi regime, he penned a well-reviewed autobiography, Heraclitean Fire: Sketches from a Life Before Nature. Through careful experimentation, Chargaff discovered two rules, called Chargaff's rules, which helped lead to the discovery of the double helix structure of DNA.

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Ernst Jaakson, Estonian diplomat (died 1998)

Ernst Rudolf Jaakson was an Estonian diplomat whose contribution was to maintain Estonia's legal continuity with his uninterrupted diplomatic service for 69 years.

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11/08/1902

Alfredo Binda, Italian cyclist (died 1986)

Alfredo Binda was an Italian road cyclist of the 1920s and 1930s. He was the first to win five editions of the Giro d'Italia, and a three-time world champion. In addition he won Milan–San Remo twice, and the Tour of Lombardy four times.

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Lloyd Nolan, American actor (died 1985)

Lloyd Benedict Nolan was an American stage, film and television actor who rose from a supporting player and B-movie lead early in his career to featured player status after creating the role of Captain Queeg in Herman Wouk's play The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial in the mid-1950s. Nolan won a Best Actor Emmy Award reprising the part in 1955 TV play based on Wouk's tale of military justice. Additionally, he starred in the Mike Shayne detective films, and the groundbreaking sitcom Julia starring Diahann Carroll.

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Christian de Castries, French general (died 1991)

Christian Marie Ferdinand de la Croix de Castries was a French general and the commander of forces at the Battle of Dien Bien Phu in 1954.

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11/08/1900

Charley Paddock, American sprinter (died 1943)

Charles William Paddock was an American athlete and two-time Olympic champion.

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Philip Phillips, American archaeologist and scholar (died 1994)

Philip Phillips was an influential archaeologist in the United States during the 20th century.

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11/08/1898

Peter Mohr Dam, Faroese educator and politician, 3rd Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands (died 1968)

Peter Mohr Dam was a Faroe Islands politician who was one of the founders of the Social Democratic Javnaðarflokkurin party in 1926.

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11/08/1897

Enid Blyton, English author, poet, and educator (died 1968)

Enid Mary Blyton was an English children's writer. She is widely regarded as one of the most successful and prolific writers of all time, particularly in the realm of children's literature. Blyton's books have been worldwide bestsellers since the 1930s, selling more than 600 million copies, and have been translated into ninety languages. As of June 2019, Blyton was the fourth-most translated author. She wrote on a wide range of topics, including education, natural history, fantasy, mystery, and biblical narratives. She is best remembered for her Noddy, Famous Five, Secret Seven, the Five Find-Outers, and Malory Towers books, although she also wrote many others, including St. Clare's, The Naughtiest Girl, and The Faraway Tree series.

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Louise Bogan, American poet and critic (died 1970)

Louise Bogan was an American poet. She was appointed the fourth Poet Laureate to the Library of Congress in 1945, and was the first woman to hold this title. Throughout her life she wrote poetry, fiction, and criticism, and became the regular poetry reviewer for The New Yorker.

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11/08/1892

Hugh MacDiarmid, Scottish poet and linguist (died 1978)

Christopher Murray Grieve, best known by his pen name Hugh MacDiarmid, was a Scottish poet, journalist, essayist and political figure. He is considered one of the principal forces behind the Scottish Renaissance and has had a lasting impact on Scottish culture and politics. He was a founding member of the National Party of Scotland in 1928 but left in 1933 due to his Marxist–Leninist views. He joined the Communist Party of Great Britain the following year only to be expelled in 1938 for his nationalist sympathies. He subsequently stood as a parliamentary candidate for both the Scottish National Party (1945) and Communist Party of Great Britain (1964).

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Eiji Yoshikawa, Japanese author (died 1962)

Eiji Yoshikawa was a Japanese historical novelist, best known for his revisions of classics and retelling of historical events through the lens of semi-biographical fiction books.

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11/08/1891

Stancho Belkovski, Bulgarian architect and educator (died 1962)

Stancho Belkovski, was a Bulgarian architect.

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Edgar Zilsel, Austrian historian and philosopher of science, linked to the Vienna Circle (died 1944)

Edgar Zilsel was an Austrian-American historian and philosopher of science.

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11/08/1885

Stephen Butterworth, English physicist and engineer (died 1958)

Stephen Butterworth (1885–1958) was a British physicist who invented the filter that bears his name, a class of electrical circuits that separates electrical signals of different frequencies.

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11/08/1884

Hermann Wlach, Austrian-Swiss actor (died 1962)

Hermann Wlach was an Austrian stage and film actor.

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11/08/1881

Aleksander Aberg, Estonian wrestler (died 1920)

Aleksander Richard Aberg was an Estonian professional Greco-Roman and free-style wrestling world champion of the early 20th century. He took part in the World Heavyweight Championship and was one of the three most famous Estonian professional wrestlers, along with Georg Lurich and Georg Hackenschmidt.

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11/08/1878

Oliver W. F. Lodge, English poet and author (died 1955)

Oliver William Foster Lodge, was a poet and author; he was the eldest son of Sir Oliver Lodge (1851–1940), the physicist, and his wife Mary, who had studied painting at the Slade. His five brothers all qualified as engineers, so that he was the only one of the boys with literary leanings, although their uncle Sir Richard Lodge and their aunt Eleanor Constance Lodge both became distinguished academic historians. They grew up in Liverpool, close to Sefton Park, and frequented the Rathbone family of Greenbank House.

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11/08/1877

Adolph M. Christianson, American lawyer and judge (died 1954)

Adolph M. Christianson was an attorney and a justice of the North Dakota Supreme Court.

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11/08/1874

Princess Louise Charlotte of Saxe-Altenburg (died 1953)

Princess Louise Charlotte of Saxe-Altenburg was a German noblewoman. She was a princess of Saxe-Altenburg by birth and a Princess of Anhalt by marriage.

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11/08/1870

Tom Richardson, English cricketer (died 1912)

Tom Richardson was an English cricketer. A fast bowler, Richardson relied to a great extent on the break-back, a relatively long run-up and high arm which allowed him to gain sharp lift on fast pitches even from the full, straight length he always bowled. He played 358 first-class cricket matches including 14 Tests, taking a total of 2,104 wickets. In the four consecutive seasons from 1894 to 1897 he took 1,005 wickets, a figure surpassed over such a period only by the slow bowler Tich Freeman. He took 290 wickets in 1895, again a figure only exceeded by Freeman (twice). In 1963 Neville Cardus selected him as one of his "Six Giants of the Wisden Century".

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11/08/1860

Ottó Bláthy, Hungarian engineer and chess player (died 1939)

Ottó Titusz Bláthy was a Hungarian electrical engineer. During his career he became the co-inventor of the modern electric transformer, the voltage regulator, the AC watt-hour meter, the turbo generator, the high-efficiency turbo generator and the motor capacitor for the single-phase (AC) electric motor.

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11/08/1858

Christiaan Eijkman, Dutch physician and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1930)

Christiaan Eijkman was a Dutch physician and professor of physiology whose demonstration that beriberi is caused by poor diet led to the discovery of antineuritic vitamins (thiamine). Together with Sir Frederick Hopkins, he received the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1929 for the discovery of vitamins.

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11/08/1855

John Hodges, Australian cricketer (died 1933)

John Robart Hodges was an Australian cricketer who played in the first two Test matches in 1877.

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11/08/1837

Marie François Sadi Carnot, French engineer and politician, 4th President of the French Republic (died 1894)

Marie François Sadi Carnot was a French statesman who served as President of France from 1887 until his assassination in 1894.

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11/08/1836

Warren Brown, American historian and politician (died 1919)

Warren Brown was an American politician, historian, gentleman farmer, businessman, and author from Hampton Falls, New Hampshire.

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11/08/1833

Robert G. Ingersoll, American soldier, lawyer, and politician (died 1899)

Robert Green Ingersoll, nicknamed "the Great Agnostic", was an American lawyer, writer, and orator during the Golden Age of Free Thought, who campaigned in defense of agnosticism.

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Kido Takayoshi, Japanese samurai and politician (died 1877)

Kido Takayoshi , formerly known as Katsura Kogorō , was a Japanese statesman, samurai and shishi who is considered one of the three great nobles who led the Meiji Restoration.

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11/08/1816

Frederick Innes, Scottish-Australian politician, 9th Premier of Tasmania (died 1882)

Frederick Maitland Innes was Premier of Tasmania from 4 November 1872 to 4 August 1873.

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11/08/1808

William W. Chapman, American lawyer and politician (died 1892)

William Williams Chapman was an American politician and lawyer in Oregon and Iowa. He was born and raised in Virginia. He served as a United States Attorney in Iowa when it was part of the Michigan and Wisconsin territories, and then represented the Iowa Territory in the United States House of Representatives. He later immigrated to the Oregon Country, where he served in the Oregon Territorial Legislature.

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11/08/1807

David Rice Atchison, American general, lawyer, and politician (died 1886)

David Rice Atchison was a mid-19th-century Democratic United States Senator from Missouri. He served as president pro tempore of the United States Senate for six years. Atchison served as a major general in the Missouri State Militia in 1838 during Missouri's Mormon War and as a Confederate brigadier general during the American Civil War under Major General Sterling Price in the Missouri Home Guard. Some of Atchison's associates claimed that for 24 hours—Sunday, March 4, 1849, through noon on Monday—he may have been acting president of the United States. This belief, however, is dismissed by most scholars.

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11/08/1794

James B. Longacre, American engraver (died 1869)

James Barton Longacre was an American portraitist and engraver, and the fourth chief engraver of the United States Mint from 1844 until his death. Longacre is best known for designing the Indian Head cent, which entered commerce in 1859, and for the designs of the Shield nickel, Flying Eagle cent and other coins of the mid-19th century.

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11/08/1778

Friedrich Ludwig Jahn, Prussian gymnast, educator, and politician (died 1852)

Johann Friedrich Ludwig Christoph Jahn was a German gymnastics educator and nationalist whose writing is credited with the founding of the German gymnastics (Turner) movement, first realized at Volkspark Hasenheide in Berlin, the origin of modern sports clubs, as well as influencing the German Campaign of 1813, during which a coalition of German states effectively ended the occupation by Napoleon's First French Empire. His admirers know him as "Turnvater Jahn", roughly meaning "Father of Gymnastics Jahn". Jahn invented the parallel bars, rings, high bar, the pommel horse and the vault horse.

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11/08/1748

Joseph Schuster, German composer (died 1812)

Joseph Schuster was a German composer.

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11/08/1722

Richard Brocklesby, English physician (died 1797)

Richard Brocklesby, an English physician, was born at Minehead, Somerset.

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11/08/1718

Frederick Haldimand, Swiss-English general and politician, 22nd Governor of Quebec (died 1791)

Sir Frederick Haldimand, KB was a Swiss military officer best known for his service in the British Army in North America during the Seven Years' War and the American Revolutionary War. From 1778 to 1786, he served as Governor of the Province of Quebec, during which time he oversaw military operations against the northern frontiers in the war, and engaged in ultimately fruitless negotiations to establish the independent Vermont Republic as a new British province. His administration of Quebec was at times harsh, with the detention of numerous political dissidents and agitators.

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11/08/1673

Richard Mead, English physician and astrologer (died 1754)

Richard Mead, FRS, FRCP was an English physician. His work, A Short Discourse concerning Pestilential Contagion, and the Method to be used to prevent it (1720), was of historic importance in advancing the understanding of transmissible diseases.

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11/08/1510

Margaret Paleologa, Sovereign Marchioness of Montferrat (died 1566)

Margaret Palaeologa, was the marchioness of Montferrat in her own right between 1533 and 1536. She was also Duchess of Mantua by marriage to Federico II, Duke of Mantua. Margaret acted as the regent of the duchy of Mantua twice during the minority of her sons: for her elder son Francesco III Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua in 1540–1549, and for her younger son Guglielmo Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua, between 1550 and 1556.

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11/08/1472

Nikolaus von Schönberg, Catholic cardinal (died 1537)

Nikolaus von Schönberg was a German Catholic cardinal and Archbishop of Capua.

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11/08/1384

Yolande of Aragon (died 1442)

Yolande of Aragon was Duchess of Anjou and Countess of Provence by marriage, who acted as regent of Provence during the minority of her son. She was also known as Yolanda de Aragón and Violant d'Aragó. Tradition holds that she commissioned the famous Rohan Hours.

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11/08/1086

Henry V, Holy Roman Emperor (died 1125)

Henry V was King of Germany and Holy Roman Emperor, as the fourth and last ruler of the Salian dynasty. He was made co-ruler by his father, Henry IV, in 1098.

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