Born on Saturday, 30th August – Famous Birthdays

30/08/2002

Fábio Carvalho, Portuguese footballer

Fábio Leandro Freitas Gouveia Carvalho is a Portuguese professional footballer who plays as a left winger or attacking midfielder for Premier League club Brentford. A former youth international for England, Carvalho now represents Portugal internationally at under-21 level.

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Drake Maye, American football player

Drake Lee Maye is an American professional football quarterback for the New England Patriots of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the North Carolina Tar Heels, winning the Shaun Alexander Award and ACC Football Player of the Year in 2022 after leading the NCAA in total yards.

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30/08/1996

Mikal Bridges, American basketball player

Mikal Bridges is an American professional basketball player for the New York Knicks of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played college basketball for the Villanova Wildcats, winning national championships in 2016 and 2018. As of April 2026, Bridges holds the active record for the most consecutive games played and has the eighth-longest consecutive game streak, having not missed a game in his NBA career since being drafted.

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Trevor Jackson, American actor and singer-songwriter

Trevor Howard Lawrence Jackson is an American actor and singer. He is best known for portraying Aaron Jackson on Freeform series Grown-ish, Kevin Blake on Syfy series Eureka, Kris McDuffy on Disney Channel's television film Let It Shine, Kevin LaCroix on American Crime and Dr. Wes Bryant on the ABC medical drama Grey's Anatomy.

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30/08/1994

Monika Povilaitytė, Lithuanian volleyball player

Monika Paulikienė is a Lithuanian beach volleyball player.

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Heo Young-ji, South Korean singer

Hur Young-ji, better known mononymously as Youngji, is a South Korean singer, dancer, entertainer and television personality. She is best known as a member of girl group Kara. In 2023, Hur Young-ji made her official solo debut with the release of the single "L.O.V.E."

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Kwon So-hyun, South Korean singer-songwriter and actress

Kwon So-hyun, known mononymously as Sohyun, is a South Korean actress and singer. She was known as a former member of South Korean girl group 4Minute, under Cube Entertainment, and also a former member of the South Korean girl group, Orange. Before June 15, 2016, Kwon left 4Minute and the record label along with members Nam Ji-hyun, Heo Ga-yoon, and Jeon Ji-yoon.

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30/08/1992

Jessica Henwick, British actress

Jessica Henwick is an English actress, writer and director. She began her career in 2010 and may be best known for her roles in Game of Thrones (2015–17), Iron Fist (2017–18), Love and Monsters (2020), and The Royal Hotel (2023). Her directorial debut, the short film Bus Girl (2022), was nominated for a BAFTA.

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30/08/1991

Seriki Audu, Nigerian footballer (died 2014)

Seriki "Sarki" Audu was a Nigerian footballer. He played for Gombe United and Lobi Stars in the Nigeria Premier League. He was killed in a car crash on 20 December 2014 at the age of 23.

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Jacqueline Cako, American tennis player

Jacqueline Cako is an American former tennis player of Hungarian descent.

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Liam Cooper, Scottish footballer

Liam David Ian Cooper is a professional footballer who plays as a centre-back for EFL Championship club Sheffield Wednesday. Born in England, he played for the Scotland national team.

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30/08/1989

Simone Guerra, Italian footballer

Simone Guerra is an Italian professional footballer who plays as a forward and captains Serie C Group B club Juventus Next Gen.

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Ronald Huth, Paraguayan footballer

Ronald Renato Huth Candia is a Paraguayan football defender of Italian descent, who plays for Rubio Ñu in the Paraguayan División Intermedia. Huth holds Italian citizenship.

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Bebe Rexha, American singer-songwriter

Bleta "Bebe" Rexha is an American singer and songwriter. She began her mainstream recording career as a vocalist for the pop band Black Cards in 2010, during and after which she was credited with co-writing releases for other artists—such as Eminem's Grammy Award-winning single "The Monster". She signed with Warner Records to release her debut extended play (EP), I Don't Wanna Grow Up (2015), which failed to chart domestically, but spawned the moderate international hit "I'm Gonna Show You Crazy".

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30/08/1988

Ernests Gulbis, Latvian tennis player

Ernests Gulbis is a Latvian former professional tennis player. His career-high singles ranking is world No. 10, making him the only male Latvian tennis player ever to be ranked inside the top 10, a feat achieved in June 2014. In 2008, Gulbis won his first ATP Tour doubles title at the U.S. Men's Clay Court Championships, teaming with Rainer Schüttler, and in 2010, he won his first ATP Tour singles title in the Delray Beach, defeating Ivo Karlović in the final. In total, Gulbis has six ATP titles to his name. His best performance at a Grand Slam was reaching the semifinals of the 2014 French Open. He had previously reached the quarterfinals of the 2008 French Open.

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30/08/1987

Johanna Braddy, American actress

Johanna Braddy is an American actress. She played the leading role in the 2009 horror film The Grudge 3, and has appeared in Pop Rocks (2004), Hurt (2009), Easy A (2010), Paranormal Activity 3 (2011), and The Levenger Tapes (2011). She starred as Jenny Matrix in the web series Video Game High School from 2012 to 2014. In 2015, Braddy co-starred as Anna Martin in the Lifetime dark comedy-drama series Unreal. She also starred as Shelby Wyatt in the ABC thriller series Quantico.

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Tania Foster, English singer-songwriter

Tania Foster is an English singer-songwriter. Foster has achieved one number one single, in the UK, after featuring on Roll Deep's single "Green Light". Tania is currently working with hit writer and producer Fraser T Smith, and also features on a number of songs on Tinchy Stryder's third album, Third Strike. She has also worked with Roll Deep on their fifth album Winner Stays On.

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30/08/1986

Theo Hutchcraft, English singer-songwriter

Theo David Hutchcraft is an English singer and songwriter. He is best known as the lead singer of the synthpop duo Hurts.

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Lelia Masaga, New Zealand rugby player

Lelia Tony Corona Masaga is a New Zealand international retired rugby union player. He last played professionally for Glasgow Warriors. Masaga played on Wing.

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Ryan Ross, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

George Ryan Ross III is an American musician, singer, and songwriter best known for his work as the former lead guitarist, backing and lead vocalist, and primary songwriter of the American rock band Panic! at the Disco before his departure in 2009. He alongside former Panic! bassist Jon Walker formed the Young Veins later that same year, in which Ross was the lead vocalist and guitarist.

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Zafer Yelen, Turkish footballer

Zafer Yelen is a Turkish footballer who plays for MSV Normannia 08.

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30/08/1985

Duane Brown, American football player

Duane Anthony Brown is an American former professional football offensive tackle. He played college football for the Virginia Tech Hokies and was selected by the Houston Texans in the first round of the 2008 NFL draft. Brown has also played for the Seattle Seahawks and New York Jets.

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Richard Duffy, Welsh footballer

Richard Michael Duffy is a Welsh former professional footballer who is the player-manager at Northern Premier League Division One West club Congleton Town. A versatile player who can play either on the right or at the centre of defence, he won 13 caps for Wales between 2005 and 2008. He is the younger brother of Robert Duffy.

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Joe Inoue, American singer-songwriter

Joe Inoue is a Japanese rock musician signed to Sony Music Entertainment Japan's Ki/oon Records label.

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Leisel Jones, Australian swimmer

Leisel Marie Jones, is an Australian former competition swimmer and Olympic gold medallist. A participant in the 2000 Summer Olympics – at just 15 years old – and 2004 Summer Olympics, she was part of gold-medal-winning Australian team in the women's 4×100-metre medley relay at the Athens Games in 2004 and a gold medallist for 100-metre breaststroke in the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing.

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Éva Risztov, Hungarian swimmer

Éva Risztov is a Hungarian Olympic gold medalist female swimmer.

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Steven Smith, Scottish footballer

Steven Smith is a Scottish former footballer who was most recently the interim manager of Scottish Premiership club Rangers.

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Eamon Sullivan, Australian swimmer

Eamon Wade Sullivan is an Australian former sprint swimmer, three-time Olympic medallist, and former world record-holder in two events. He was also the winner of the first season of Celebrity MasterChef Australia, and followed up his swimming career with a number of food business ventures.

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Anna Ushenina, Ukrainian chess player

Anna Yuriyivna Ushenina is a Ukrainian chess grandmaster who was Women's World Chess Champion from November 2012 to September 2013.

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Holly Weston, English actress

Holly Weston is an English actress. She is known for her role as Ash Kane in the British television soap opera Hollyoaks. Weston also played the lead roles in feature films Filth and Wisdom and Splintered.

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30/08/1984

Anthony Ireland, Zimbabwean cricketer

Anthony John Ireland is a former cricketer from Zimbabwe. A fast bowler, he performed consistently during his tenure with Zimbabwe, taking 38 wickets in 26 matches at an average of 29.34. He was one of many talented white Zimbabweans to leave the team due to the situation of the ZCU and the country, to pursue careers in English domestic cricket, where he represented Gloucestershire and Middlesex before joining Leicestershire for the 2013 season, retiring from professional cricket at the end of the 2014 season.

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Joe Staley, American football player

Joseph Andrew Staley is an American former professional football player who spent his entire career as an offensive tackle for the San Francisco 49ers of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Central Michigan Chippewas and was selected by the 49ers in the first round of the 2007 NFL draft.

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Michael Grant Terry, American actor

Michael Grant Terry is an American actor, known for his recurring role as Wendell Bray on the Fox series Bones.

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30/08/1983

Emmanuel Culio, Argentine footballer

Juan Emmanuel Culio is an Argentine former professional footballer who played as a midfielder. He is one of the most successful foreign players who had ever played in Liga I in Romania. In this regard, he had won six championships, all with CFR Cluj.

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Gustavo Eberto, Argentine footballer (died 2007)

Gustavo Daniel Eberto was an Argentine soccer goalkeeper, for the Club Atlético Boca Juniors. He played for the Argentina Under-20 team in the 2003 FIFA World Youth Championship.

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Jun Matsumoto, Japanese singer, dancer, and actor

Jun Matsumoto is a Japanese singer, actor, radio host, and model. He is a member of the boy band Arashi, and is Arashi's concert producer as well as production advisor for other groups. He is best known to Japanese television drama audiences for his portrayal as Tsukasa Dōmyōji in the 2005 television drama series Boys Over Flowers, for which he won GQ Japan's Man of the Year Award under the singer/actor category for his work in the drama.

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Simone Pepe, Italian footballer

Simone Pepe is an Italian former footballer who played as a winger, on either side of the pitch.

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Tian Qin, Chinese canoe racer

Tian Qin is a Chinese slalom canoeist who competed in the 2000s. He finished 11th in the C2 event at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece after being eliminated in the qualifying round.

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Marco Vianello, Italian footballer

Marco Vianello is an Italian footballer who played for Seconda Divisione club Avellino.

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30/08/1982

Will Davison, Australian race car driver

William Davison is an Australian professional racing driver. He currently drives the No.17 Ford Mustang GT for Dick Johnson Racing in the Repco Supercars Championship. Davison is a two-time winner of the Bathurst 1000, in 2009 and 2016.

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Andy Roddick, American tennis player

Andrew Stephen Roddick is an American former professional tennis player. He was ranked as the world No. 1 in men's singles by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) for 13 weeks, including as the year-end No. 1 in 2003. Roddick won 32 ATP Tour-level singles titles, including a major at the 2003 US Open and five Masters events, and led the United States to the 2007 Davis Cup title. He was the runner-up at four other majors, losing to rival Roger Federer each time.

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30/08/1981

Germán Legarreta, Puerto Rican-American actor

Germán Legarreta is a Puerto Rican actor.

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Adam Wainwright, American baseball player

Adam Parrish Wainwright, nicknamed "Waino" and "Uncle Charlie", is an American former professional baseball pitcher who spent his entire 18-year Major League Baseball (MLB) career with the St. Louis Cardinals.

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30/08/1980

Roberto Hernández, Dominican baseball player

Roberto Hernández Heredia is a Dominican former professional baseball pitcher. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Cleveland Indians, Tampa Bay Rays, Philadelphia Phillies, Los Angeles Dodgers, Houston Astros, and Atlanta Braves.

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30/08/1979

Juan Ignacio Chela, Argentine tennis player

Juan Ignacio Chela, nicknamed as "El Flaco" or "Liliano," is a tennis coach and former professional player from Argentina. Chela was given a three-month ban from the professional tour in 2001 for failing a drugs test. Post-doping ban, Chela went on to reach the quarterfinals of the 2004 and 2011 French Open, and the 2007 US Open, attaining a career-high singles ranking of world No. 15 in August 2004.

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Leon Lopez, English singer-songwriter and actor

Leon Lopez is an English actor, television and film director, singer-songwriter and occasional model. He is best known for his role as Jerome Johnson in the Channel 4 soap opera Brookside (1998–2002). He also played Linford Short in the BBC soap opera EastEnders (2016). His first feature film as a director Soft Lad (2015) premiered at the East End Film Festival.

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Scott Richmond, Canadian baseball player

Scott Daniel Richmond is a Canadian former professional baseball pitcher. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Toronto Blue Jays, and in the Chinese Professional Baseball League (CPBL) for the EDA Rhinos / Fubon Guardians.

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30/08/1978

Sinead Kerr, Scottish figure skater

Sinead Houston Kerr is a Scottish former competitive ice dancer who represented Great Britain. She teamed up with her brother John Kerr in 2000. They are two-time European bronze medalists and the 2004–2010 British national champions. They placed 10th at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy, and 8th at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

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Cliff Lee, American baseball player

Clifton Phifer Lee is an American former professional baseball starting pitcher who played for 13 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB). Between 2002 and 2014 he played for the Cleveland Indians, Philadelphia Phillies, Seattle Mariners, and Texas Rangers. During his career, Lee was a member of four All-Star teams, won the Cy Young Award, and had consecutive World Series appearances in 2009 and 2010 with the Phillies and Rangers.

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30/08/1977

Shaun Alexander, American football player

Shaun Edward Alexander is an American former professional football running back who played in the National Football League (NFL) for the Seattle Seahawks and Washington Redskins. He played college football for the Alabama Crimson Tide, earning first-team All-American honors in 1999. He was selected by the Seahawks 19th overall in the 2000 NFL draft. In 2011, he was inducted into the Alabama Sports Hall of Fame.

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Marlon Byrd, American baseball player

Marlon Jerrard Byrd is an American former professional baseball outfielder, who played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Philadelphia Phillies, Washington Nationals, Texas Rangers, Chicago Cubs, Boston Red Sox, New York Mets, Pittsburgh Pirates, San Francisco Giants, Cincinnati Reds, and Cleveland Indians. He was an All-Star in 2010 with the Cubs.

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Raúl Castillo, American actor

Raúl Castillo Jr. is an American actor and playwright. He is known for his acting roles in Amexicano and Cold Weather and his role as Richie Donado Ventura in the HBO series Looking and its subsequent feature-length series finale Looking: The Movie. He received a nomination for the Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Male for his performance in the film We the Animals.

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Michael Gladis, American actor

Michael Gladis is an American actor. He played Paul Kinsey in the television series Mad Men.

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Kamil Kosowski, Polish footballer

Kamil Piotr Kosowski is a Polish football pundit, co-commentator and former player who played as a midfielder.

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Félix Sánchez, American-Dominican runner and hurdler

Félix Sánchez is a retired Dominican-American track and field athlete. Specializing in the 400 meter hurdles, He is a two-time Olympic gold medallist, winning gold in 2004 and 2012, and was also World Champion in 2001 and 2003. Just before turning 36, he set the Masters M35 World Record with a time of 48.10. Sanchez acquired many nicknames: "Super Felix", "the Invincible", "Superman", and "the Dictator".

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30/08/1976

Mike Koplove, American baseball player

Michael Paul Koplove is an American professional baseball scout and former pitcher. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Arizona Diamondbacks and Cleveland Indians.

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30/08/1975

Radhi Jaïdi, Tunisian footballer and coach

Radhi Ben Abdelmajid Jaïdi is a Tunisian football coach and former player who was the former head coach of Lebanese Premier League club Nejmeh.

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30/08/1974

Javier Otxoa, Spanish cyclist (died 2018)

Javier Otxoa Palacios was a Spanish cyclist who was a member of the Kelme cycling team. His name was sometimes spelled Javier Ochoa in media reports.

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30/08/1973

Lisa Ling, American journalist and author

Lisa Jeeway Ling is an American journalist and television personality. She most recently was a news contributor for CBS News. Previously, she was the host for This Is Life with Lisa Ling on CNN, a reporter on Channel One News, a co-host on the ABC daytime talk show The View (1999–2002), the host of National Geographic Explorer (2003–2010), and a special correspondent for The Oprah Winfrey Show. Ling later hosted Our America with Lisa Ling on the Oprah Winfrey Network from 2011 to 2014.

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30/08/1972

Cameron Diaz, American model, actress, and producer

Cameron Michelle Diaz is an American actress. Prolific in both comedy and drama, her films have grossed over $3 billion in the U.S. box-office. Her output of romantic comedies in the late 1990s and early 2000s established her as a prominent sex symbol and one of Hollywood's most bankable stars, and in 2013, Diaz was named the highest-paid actress over 40. She has received various accolades, including nominations for a British Academy Film Award and four Golden Globe Awards.

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Pavel Nedvěd, Czech footballer

Pavel Nedvěd is a Czech former professional footballer who played as a midfielder. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest Czech players of all time and he won numerous trophies with Italian clubs Lazio and Juventus. He won the last ever Cup Winners' Cup with Lazio and led Juventus to the 2003 UEFA Champions League final.

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Hani Hanjour, Saudi terrorist, hijacker of American Airlines Flight 77 during the September 11 attacks (died 2001)

Hani Salih Hasan Hanjour was a Saudi terrorist and a member of al-Qaeda who was the hijacker-pilot of American Airlines Flight 77, crashing the plane into the Pentagon as part of the September 11 attacks in 2001.

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30/08/1971

Lars Frederiksen, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

Lars Erik Frederiksen is an American musician and record producer best known as a guitarist and vocalist for the punk rock band Rancid, as well as the frontman of Lars Frederiksen and the Bastards and the Old Firm Casuals. In addition, he currently plays guitar in Oxley's Midnight Runners, Stomper 98, and the Last Resort. He was also briefly a member of the UK Subs in 1991.

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Julian Smith, Scottish politician

Sir Julian Richard Smith is a British Conservative Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Skipton and Ripon since 2010. He served as Government Chief Whip from 2017 to 2019 and Secretary of State for Northern Ireland from 2019 to 2020.

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30/08/1970

Carlo Checchinato, Italian rugby player and manager

Carlo Checchinato is an Italian rugby union former international player, with 83 caps and participated in 4 consecutive Rugby World Cup. He is the sales director for the Italy national team. He was CEO of Zebre Parma between 2021 and 2022.

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Paulo Sousa, Portuguese footballer and manager

Paulo Manuel Carvalho de Sousa is a Portuguese football manager and former professional player who played as a defensive midfielder. He is the current manager of UAE Pro League club Shabab Al Ahli.

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Michael Wong, Malaysian-Chinese singer-songwriter

Michael Wong Kong Leong, also known as Guang Liang, is a Malaysian singer and songwriter. He has sung and written many love-themed ballads and love songs, many of which have high popularity. He is popularly known in the Mandopop scene as the "Prince of Love Songs" (情歌王子).

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30/08/1969

Vladimir Jugović, Serbian footballer

Vladimir Jugović is a Serbian former professional footballer. A versatile player, he was usually employed as a left or attacking midfielder, but could play anywhere in midfield. He represented Yugoslavia at the 1998 FIFA World Cup and at UEFA Euro 2000, collecting 41 international appearances between 1991 and 2002, and scoring three goals.

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Dimitris Sgouros, Greek pianist and composer

Dimitris Sgouros [a] is a Greek classical pianist. Sgouros is a former child prodigy and is considered a leading concert pianist. Arthur Rubinstein said his performance was "the best playing I have ever heard".

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30/08/1968

Diran Adebayo, English author and critic

Oludiran "Diran" Adebayo FRSL is a British novelist, cultural critic and academic best known for his 1996 novel Some Kind of Black.

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Vladimir Malakhov, Russian ice hockey player

Vladimir Igorevich Malakhov is a Russian former professional ice hockey player of the National Hockey League (NHL). He has also played in the Russian Super League. Currently, Malakhov is a Player Development coach for the New York Islanders.

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30/08/1967

Frederique van der Wal, Dutch model and actress

Frederique van der Wal is a Dutch former model, actress, television personality, and a businesswoman. She is known for having appeared in Victoria's Secret and on the covers of magazines such as Cosmopolitan and Vogue.

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Justin Vaughan, New Zealand cricketer

Justin Thomas Caldwell Vaughan is a New Zealand cricket administrator and former cricketer who played six Test matches and 18 One Day Internationals between 1992 and 1997. He is a doctor of medicine by profession.

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30/08/1966

Peter Cunnah, Northern Irish singer-songwriter and producer

Peter Cunnah is a Northern Irish musician and lead singer of the dance-pop duo D:Ream.

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Joann Fletcher, English historian and academic

Joann Fletcher is an Egyptologist and an honorary visiting professor in the department of archaeology at the University of York. She has published a number of books and academic articles, including several on Cleopatra, and made numerous television and radio appearances. In 2003, she controversially claimed to have identified the mummy of Queen Nefertiti.

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Michael Michele, American actress

Michael Michele Williams is an American actress and fashion designer. She began her career on stage before appearing opposite Wesley Snipes in the 1991 film New Jack City.

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30/08/1964

Gavin Fisher, English engineer and designer

Gavin Fisher is a British was formerly Chief Designer of the Williams Formula One team.

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Ra Luhse, Estonian architect

Ra Luhse is an Estonian architect.

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30/08/1963

Dave Brockie, Canadian-American singer-songwriter and bass player (died 2014)

David Murray Brockie was a Canadian-born American musician. He was the lead vocalist of the heavy metal band Gwar, in which he performed as Oderus Urungus, and he was a bassist and lead singer in the bands Death Piggy, X-Cops, and the Dave Brockie Experience (DBX). He additionally played the Oderus Urungus character in the comedy horror TV sitcom Holliston. Brockie died of a heroin overdose in 2014.

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Michael Chiklis, American actor, director, and producer

Michael Charles Chiklis is an American actor, television producer, and director. He is known for his roles as Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) Detective Vic Mackey on the FX police drama The Shield (2002–2008), for which he won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series in 2002 and Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Television Series Drama in 2003, and as superhero Ben Grimm / the Thing in Fantastic Four (2005) and Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer (2007).

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Sabine Oberhauser, Austrian physician and politician (died 2017)

Sabine Oberhauser was an Austrian physician and politician. At the time of her death, she was Austria's Minister for Health and Minister for Women.

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Phil Mills, Welsh race car driver

Philip Lewis Mills is a Welsh rallying co-driver. He was winner of the 2003 World Rally Championship (WRC), as co-driver to Petter Solberg.

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30/08/1962

Ricky Sanders, American football player

Ricky Wayne Sanders is an American former professional football player who was a wide receiver for 12 seasons from 1983 to 1994, two with the United States Football League (USFL)'s Houston Gamblers and 10 in the National Football League (NFL). He played running back, safety, and place kicker as a three-year letterman for Belton High School in Belton, Texas, and broke five records.

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Craig Whittaker, English businessman and politician

Craig Whittaker is a British Conservative Party politician who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Calder Valley from 2010 to 2024. He served as Government Deputy Chief Whip and Treasurer of the Household from September to October 2022. He previously served as a Lord Commissioner of the Treasury from January 2018 to April 2019 and again from July to September 2022.

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30/08/1960

Ben Bradshaw, English journalist and politician, Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport

Sir Benjamin Peter James Bradshaw is a British politician who served as Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport from 2009 to 2010. A member of the Labour Party, he served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Exeter from 1997 to 2024. Before entering politics he worked as a BBC Radio reporter.

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Gary Gordon, American sergeant, Medal of Honor recipient (died 1993)

Gary Ivan Gordon was a master sergeant in the United States Army and a recipient of the Medal of Honor. At the time of his death in the Battle of Mogadishu in 1993, he was a non-commissioned officer in the United States Army's premier special operations unit, the 1st Special Forces Operational Detachment-Delta (1SFOD-D), or "Delta Force". Together with his fellow soldier Sergeant First Class Randy Shughart, Gordon was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for his actions during the battle.

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Guy A. Lepage, Canadian comedian and producer

Guy A. Lepage is a Canadian comedian, actor, talk show host, and producer.

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30/08/1959

Mark "Jacko" Jackson, Australian footballer, actor, and singer

Mark Alexander Jackson is a former Australian rules footballer who played for the Melbourne Demons, St Kilda Saints and Geelong Cats in the Victorian Football League (VFL), and for the South Fremantle Bulldogs in the West Australian Football League (WAFL).

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30/08/1958

Karen Buck, Northern Irish politician

Dame Karen Patricia Buck is a British Labour Party politician who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Westminster North, and previously Regent's Park and Kensington North, from 1997 to 2024. She also served on Westminster City Council from 1990 to 1997. As of 2025, she chairs the Old Oak and Park Royal Development Corporation (OPDC).

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Fran Fraschilla, American basketball player, coach, and sportscaster

Francis John Fraschilla is an American basketball commentator and former college basketball coach.

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Muriel Gray, Scottish journalist and author

Muriel Janet Gray is a Scottish author, broadcaster and journalist. She came to public notice as an interviewer on Channel 4's alternative pop-show The Tube, and then appeared as a regular presenter on BBC radio. Gray has written for Time Out, the Sunday Herald and The Guardian, among other publications, as well as publishing successful horror novels. She was the first woman to be Rector of the University of Edinburgh and is the first female chair of the board of governors at Glasgow School of Art. She is as a non-executive director of the BBC.

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Anna Politkovskaya, Russian journalist and activist (died 2006)

Anna Stepanovna Politkovskaya was a Russian investigative journalist who reported on political and social events in Russia, in particular, the Second Chechen War (1999–2005). She was found murdered in the elevator of her apartment block in Moscow on 7 October 2006, Vladimir Putin's birthday.

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Peter Tunks, Australian rugby league player and sportscaster

Peter Tunks is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s, and coached in the 1990s. He played for the South Sydney Rabbitohs, Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs, Penrith Panthers, New South Wales, and the Australian national side. After that he played with a number of clubs in England.

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30/08/1957

Gerald Albright, American musician

Gerald Albright is an American jazz saxophonist. He earned Grammys for the albums 24/7 in 2012 and Slam Dunk in 2014 and was nominated for New Beginnings in 2008 and for Sax for Stax in 2009.

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30/08/1956

Frank Conniff, American actor, producer, and screenwriter

Frank Conniff Jr. is an American writer, actor, comedian and producer, who is best known for his portrayal of TV's Frank on Mystery Science Theater 3000 (MST3K). He is the son of journalist and editor Frank Conniff.

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30/08/1955

Jamie Moses, English-American guitarist

Jamie Moses is an English rock and pop singer and guitarist. He was formerly a member of The Brian May Band, Queen + Paul Rodgers, Mike & the Mechanics and Broken English.

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Martin Jackson, English drummer

Martin Jackson is a British drummer who has played with several bands from Manchester, although his most successful roles were with Magazine in 1978 with the release of the influential Real Life album, and Swing Out Sister in 1986, with the hit song "Breakout".

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30/08/1954

Alexander Lukashenko, Belarusian marshal and politician, 1st President of Belarus

Alexander Grigoryevich Lukashenko is a Belarusian politician and dictator who has been the first and only president of Belarus since the office's establishment in 1994, making him the current longest-tenured European president.

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Ravi Shankar Prasad, Indian lawyer and politician, Indian Minister of Communications and IT

Ravi Shankar Prasad is an Indian politician and lawyer who served as 1st Minister of Electronics and Information Technology from 2016 to 2019 and 2019 to 2021. He is the member of Bharatiya Janata Party and Member of Parliament since 2000, first in the Rajya Sabha (2000–2019) and then in the Lok Sabha, Prasad has served as Union Minister multiple times: As Minister of State, he served in the ministries of Coal (2001–2003), Law and Justice (2002–2003), and Information and Broadcasting (2003–2004) under Atal Bihari Vajpayee's premiership; as Cabinet Minister, he held the Law and Justice, Communications portfolios under Narendra Modi's premiership.

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David Paymer, American actor and director

David Emmanuel Paymer is an American actor and television director. He is known for his character actor roles on stage and screen. He has received nominations for an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Awards, a Grammy Award, and two Screen Actors Guild Awards.

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30/08/1953

Ron George, American businessman and politician

Ronald Alan George is an American politician who was a Republican member of the Maryland House of Delegates from 2007 to 2015. He first represented the 30th district in from 2007 to 2010, after which he was redrawn into the 33rd district. He sought the Republican nomination for Governor of Maryland in 2014, but finished fourth in the primary. In December 2014, George expressed interest in being appointed to the District 33 House of Delegates seat vacated by Cathy Vitale, who was appointed a judge. George unsuccessfully ran for the state Senate in District 30 in 2018; this district includes Annapolis.

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Lech Majewski, Polish director, producer, and screenwriter

Lech Majewski is a Polish-American poet, filmmaker, media artist, writer, and theater director. He is a member of the Directors Guild of America and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

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Horace Panter, English bass player

Stephen Graham "Horace" Panter, also known professionally as Sir Horace Gentleman, is the bassist for the British 2 Tone ska band The Specials.

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Robert Parish, American basketball player

Robert Lee Parish, nicknamed "the Chief", is an American former professional basketball player. A 7-foot-1-inch (2.16 m) center, he played 21 seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA) for the Golden State Warriors, Boston Celtics, Charlotte Hornets, and Chicago Bulls, helping the Celtics win three NBA championships while teaming with Hall-of-Fame forwards Larry Bird and Kevin McHale, and won a fourth championship with the Bulls prior to his retirement.

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30/08/1952

Simon Bainbridge, English composer and educator (died 2021)

Simon Bainbridge was a British composer. He was also a professor and head of composition at the Royal Academy of Music, London, and visiting professor at the University of Louisville, Kentucky, in the United States.

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Wojtek Fibak, Polish tennis player

Wojciech Fibak is a Polish former professional tennis player, entrepreneur, and art collector. Fibak is best known for his doubles success with Dutch pro Tom Okker and Australian Kim Warwick, although he also reached the Top 10 in singles.

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30/08/1951

Timothy Bottoms, American actor

Timothy James Bottoms is an American actor and film producer. He is best known for playing the lead in Johnny Got His Gun (1971); Sonny Crawford in The Last Picture Show (1971), where he and his fellow co-stars, Cybill Shepherd and Jeff Bridges, rose to fame; and as James Hart, the first-year law student who battles with Prof. Kingsfield, in the film adaptation The Paper Chase (1973). He is also known for playing the main antagonist in the disaster film Rollercoaster (1977) and for playing President George W. Bush multiple times, including on the sitcom That's My Bush!, the comedy film The Crocodile Hunter: Collision Course and the docudrama DC 9/11: Time of Crisis.

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Gediminas Kirkilas, Lithuanian politician, 11th Prime Minister of Lithuania (died 2024)

Gediminas Kirkilas was a Lithuanian politician who was Prime Minister of Lithuania from 2006 to 2008.

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Jim Paredes, Filipino singer-songwriter and actor

Jaime Ramon Misa Paredes, better known simply as Jim Paredes, is a Filipino singer, songwriter, television host, writer, actor and activist. He is known as one of the members of popular musical trio Apo Hiking Society along with Danny Javier and Boboy Garovillo. Regarded as one of the pillars and icons of Original Pilipino Music (OPM). He is the son of Ester Paredes Jimenez, a staunch martial law activist.

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30/08/1950

Antony Gormley, English sculptor and academic

Sir Antony Mark David Gormley is a British sculptor. His works include the Angel of the North, a public sculpture in Gateshead in the north of England, commissioned in 1994 and erected in February 1998; Another Place on Crosby Beach near Liverpool; and Event Horizon, a multipart site installation which premiered in London in 2007, then subsequently in Madison Square in New York City (2010), São Paulo (2012) and Hong Kong (2015–16).

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Dana Rosemary Scallon, Irish singer and activist

Dana Rosemary Scallon, known professionally as Dana, is an Irish singer, songwriter and politician. While still a schoolgirl she won the 1970 Eurovision Song Contest with "All Kinds of Everything". It became a worldwide million-seller and launched her music career.

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30/08/1949

Ted Ammon, American financier and banker (died 2001)

Robert Theodore Ammon was an American financier and investment banker. Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, he was murdered in his home in 2001 by electrician Daniel Pelosi, who was convicted in 2004. Ammon and his wife Generosa Ammon were in the midst of a divorce at the time of his death, and Pelosi was later romantically linked to Ammon's soon-to-be ex-wife. Ammon and his wife had married on February 2, 1986, and had two children, the twins Greg Ammon and Alexa Ammon, whom they adopted from the village of Medvedivtsi in the Mukachevo Region of Ukraine in October 1992.

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Don Boudria, Canadian public servant and politician, 2nd Canadian Minister for International Cooperation

Don Boudria is a former Canadian politician and current senior associate at Sandstone Group, an Ottawa-based executive advisory firm. He served in the House of Commons of Canada from 1984 to 2006 as a member of the Liberal Party of Canada, and was a cabinet minister in the government of Jean Chrétien.

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30/08/1948

Lewis Black, American comedian, actor, and author

Lewis Niles Black is an American stand-up comedian and actor. His comedy routines often escalate into angry rants about history, politics, religion and cultural trends.

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Fred Hampton, American activist and revolutionary, chairman of the Illinois chapter of the Black Panther Party (died 1969)

Fredrick Allen Hampton Sr. was an African American activist and revolutionary socialist. He came to prominence in his late teens and early 20s in Chicago as deputy chairman of the national Black Panther Party and chair of the Illinois chapter. He founded the anti-racist, anti-classist Rainbow Coalition, a prominent multicultural political organization that initially included Black Panthers, Young Patriots, and the Young Lords, and an alliance among major Chicago street gangs to help them end infighting and work for social change. Hampton was a Marxist–Leninist, and he considered fascism the greatest threat to African American communities.

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Victor Skumin, Russian psychiatrist, psychologist, and academic

Victor Andreevich Skumin is a Russian and Soviet scientist, psychiatrist, philosopher and writer.

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30/08/1947

Allan Rock, Canadian lawyer, politician, and diplomat, Canadian Ambassador to the United Nations

Allan Michael Rock is a Canadian lawyer, former politician, diplomat and university administrator. He was Canada's ambassador to the United Nations (2003-2006) and had previously served in the Cabinet of Jean Chrétien, most notably as Justice Minister (1993–1997), Health Minister (1997–2002) and Minister of Industry and Infrastructure (2002-03).

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30/08/1946

Queen Anne-Marie of Greece

Anne-Marie is a Danish princess who was Queen of Greece as the consort of King Constantine II from their marriage on 18 September 1964 until the abolition of the Greek monarchy on 1 June 1973.

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Peggy Lipton, American model and actress (died 2019)

Margaret Ann Lipton was an American model, actress, and singer. She made appearances in many of the most popular television shows of the 1960s before she landed her defining role as flower child Julie Barnes in the crime drama The Mod Squad (1968–1973), for which she was nominated for four Emmy Awards and four Golden Globe Awards, winning the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Television Series – Drama in 1970.

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30/08/1944

Frances Cairncross, English economist, journalist, and academic

Dame Frances Anne Cairncross, is a British economist, journalist and academic. She is a senior fellow at the School of Public Policy, UCLA.

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Freek de Jonge, Dutch singer and comedian

Frederik "Freek" Jan Georg de Jonge is a Dutch cabaret performer and writer.

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Molly Ivins, American journalist and author (died 2007)

Mary Tyler "Molly" Ivins was an American newspaper columnist, author, and political commentator, known for her humorous and insightful writing, which often used satire and wit to critique political figures and policies.

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Tug McGraw, American baseball player (died 2004)

Frank Edwin "Tug" McGraw Jr. was an American professional baseball relief pitcher. McGraw played in 19 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB), from 1965 to 1984, for the New York Mets and Philadelphia Phillies. He is often remembered for coining the phrase "Ya Gotta Believe", which became the rallying cry for the 1973 New York Mets and has since become a popular slogan for the team and fans.

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Alex Wyllie, New Zealand rugby player and coach (died 2025)

Alexander John "Grizz" Wyllie was a New Zealand rugby union player and coach.

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30/08/1943

Tal Brody, American-Israeli basketball player and coach

Talbot "Tal" Brody, nicknamed Mr. Basketball, is an American-Israeli former professional basketball player and current goodwill ambassador of Israel. Brody was drafted #12 in the 1965 NBA draft, but chose to pass up an NBA career, to instead play basketball in Israel. He played on national basketball teams of both the United States and Israel, and served in the armies of both countries.

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Robert Crumb, American illustrator

Robert Dennis Crumb is an American artist who often signs his work R. Crumb. His work displays a nostalgia for American folk culture of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and satire of contemporary American culture.

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Colin Dann, English author

Colin Dann is an English author. He is best known for his The Animals of Farthing Wood series of books, which was subsequently made into an animated series.

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Nigel Hall, English sculptor and academic

Nigel Hall is an English sculptor and a draughtsman.

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Jean-Claude Killy, French skier

Jean-Claude Killy is a French former World Cup alpine ski racer. He dominated the sport in the late 1960s, and was a triple Olympic champion, winning the three alpine events at the 1968 Winter Olympics, becoming the most successful athlete there. He also won the first two World Cup titles, in 1967 and 1968.

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David Maslanka, American composer and academic (died 2017)

David Maslanka was an American composer of Polish descent who wrote for a variety of genres, including works for choir, wind ensemble, chamber music, and symphony orchestra.

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30/08/1942

Jonathan Aitken, Irish-British journalist and politician, Minister for Defence Procurement

Jonathan William Patrick Aitken is a British author, Church of England priest and former Conservative Party politician. Beginning his career in journalism, he was elected to Parliament in 1974, and was a member of the cabinet during John Major's premiership from 1994 to 1995. That same year, he was accused by The Guardian of misdeeds conducted under his official government capacity. He sued the newspaper for libel in response, but the case collapsed, and he was subsequently found to have committed perjury during his trial. In 1999, he was sentenced to 18 months in prison, of which he served seven months.

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John Kani, South African actor

Bonisile John Kani is a South African actor. He is known for portraying T'Chaka in the Marvel Cinematic Universe films Captain America: Civil War (2016) and Black Panther (2018), Rafiki in The Lion King (2019) and Mufasa: The Lion King as well as Colonel Ulenga in the Netflix films Murder Mystery (2019) and Murder Mystery 2 (2023). Also a playwright, Kani co-wrote with Athol Fugard and Winston Ntshona the 1975 anti-apartheid play Sizwe Banzi Is Dead, as well as performing in it.

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Pervez Sajjad, Pakistani cricketer

Pervez Sajjad Hasan is a Pakistani former cricketer who played in 19 Tests from 1964 to 1973.

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30/08/1941

Ignazio Giunti, Italian race car driver (died 1971)

Ignazio Francesco Giunti was an Italian racing driver. He competed in Formula One as well as in saloon and Sports Car Racing.

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Ben Jones, American actor and politician

Benjamin Lewis Jones is an American actor, politician, playwright, and essayist, best known for his role as Cooter Davenport in The Dukes of Hazzard. Jones also served for four years in the United States House of Representatives from January 3, 1989, to January 3, 1993.

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Sue MacGregor, English journalist and radio host

Susan Katriona MacGregor is a British broadcaster. She is best known as a former presenter of BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour and later the Today programme.

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John McNally, English singer and guitarist

John McNally is an English guitarist. He was a member of The Searchers, a band he formed in 1959, who were a big part of the Mersey sound in the early 1960s. He was the longest-serving member of the group, touring in the band from 1955 until their retirement in 2019 as well as their 2023 farewell tour and their final show at the Glastonbury Festival in June 2025.

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30/08/1940

Jack Biondolillo, American bowler (died 2021)

Jack Joseph Biondolillo was an American professional bowler and member of the Professional Bowlers Association (PBA).

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30/08/1939

Elizabeth Ashley, American actress

Elizabeth Ann Cole, known professionally as Elizabeth Ashley, is an American actress of theatre, film, and television. She has been nominated for three Tony Awards, winning once in 1962 for Take Her, She's Mine. Ashley was also nominated for the BAFTA and Golden Globe awards for her supporting performance in The Carpetbaggers (1964), and was nominated for an Emmy Award in 1991 for Evening Shade. Ashley was a guest on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson 24 times. She appeared in several episodes of In the Heat of the Night as Maybelle Chesboro. She also appeared in an episode of Mannix, "The Dark Hours", in 1974. She is a 2024 inductee into the American Theater Hall of Fame.

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John Peel, English radio host and producer (died 2004)

John Robert Parker Ravenscroft, better known as John Peel, was an English radio presenter and journalist. He was the longest-serving of the original disc jockeys on BBC Radio 1, broadcasting regularly from 1967 until his death in 2004.

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30/08/1938

Murray Gleeson, Australian lawyer and judge, 11th Chief Justice of Australia

Anthony Murray Gleeson is an Australian former judge who served as the 11th Chief Justice of Australia, in office from 1998 to 2008.

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30/08/1937

Bruce McLaren, New Zealand race car driver and engineer, founded the McLaren racing team (died 1970)

Bruce Leslie McLaren was a New Zealand racing driver, automotive designer, engineer, and motorsport executive who competed in Formula One from 1958 to 1970. He won four Grands Prix across 13 seasons and was runner-up in the 1960 Formula One World Drivers' Championship with Cooper. He won the 1966 24 Hours of Le Mans with Chris Amon in a Ford GT40 and won the Canadian-American Challenge Cup in 1967 and 1969.

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30/08/1936

Peter North, English scholar and academic

Sir Peter Machin North is a British academic lawyer who served as Principal of Jesus College, Oxford, from 1984 to 2005 and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford from 1993 to 1997.

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30/08/1935

John Phillips, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2001)

John Edmund Andrew Phillips was an American musician, singer, and songwriter. He was the leader of the vocal group the Mamas & the Papas and remains frequently referred to as Papa John Phillips. In addition to writing the majority of the group's compositions, he also wrote "San Francisco " in 1967 for former Journeymen bandmate Scott McKenzie, as well as the oft-covered "Me and My Uncle", which was a favorite in the repertoire of the Grateful Dead. Phillips was one of the chief organizers of the 1967 Monterey Pop Festival.

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Alexandra Bellow, Romanian-American mathematician (died 2025)

Alexandra Bellow was a Romanian-American mathematician who made contributions to the fields of ergodic theory, probability and analysis.

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30/08/1934

Antonio Cabangon Chua, Filipino media mogul and businessman (died 2016)

Antonio L. Cabangon-Chua was a Filipino businessman, Philippine ambassador to Laos under the administration of former president Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, and reserved colonel of the Armed Forces of the Philippines, being an honorary member of Philippine Military Academy class of 1956. He graduated from the University of the East in the same year, with a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration degree.

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30/08/1933

Don Getty, Canadian football player and politician, 11th Premier of Alberta (died 2016)

Donald Ross Getty was a Canadian athlete, businessman, and politician who served as the 11th premier of Alberta between 1985 and 1992.

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30/08/1931

Jack Swigert, American pilot and astronaut (died 1982)

John Leonard Swigert Jr. was an American NASA astronaut, test pilot, mechanical engineer, aerospace engineer, United States Air Force pilot, and politician. In April 1970, as command module pilot of Apollo 13, he became one of 24 Apollo astronauts who reached the Moon. Due to the "slingshot" route around the Moon they chose to safely return to Earth, the Apollo 13 astronauts flew farther away from Earth than any other astronauts until the Artemis II lunar flyby in 2026, though they had to abort the Moon landing.

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30/08/1930

Warren Buffett, American businessman and philanthropist

Warren Edward Buffett is an American investor and philanthropist who is the chairman and former CEO of the conglomerate Berkshire Hathaway. As a result of his success, Buffett is one of the best-known investors in the world. According to Forbes, as of January 2026, Buffett's estimated net worth stood at US$148.9 billion, making him the ninth-richest person in the world.

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Noel Harford, New Zealand cricketer and basketball player (died 1981)

Noel Sherwin Harford was a New Zealand cricketer who played eight Test matches in the 1950s. In domestic cricket he played for Central Districts from 1953 to 1959 and for Auckland from 1963 to 1967.

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30/08/1929

Guy de Lussigny, French painter and sculptor (died 2001)

Guy de Lussigny was a French painter of the school of geometric abstraction.

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Ian McNaught-Davis, English mountaineer and television host (died 2014)

Ian McNaught-Davis was a British television presenter best known for presenting the BBC television series The Computer Programme, Making the Most of the Micro and Micro Live in the 1980s. He was also a mountaineer and alpinist. He was managing director of the British subsidiary of Comshare.

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30/08/1928

Lloyd Casner, American race car driver (died 1965)

Lloyd Perry Casner was an American race car driver and the creator of the Casner Motor Racing Division team.

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Harvey Hart, Canadian director and producer (died 1989)

Harvey Hart was a Canadian television and film director and a television producer.

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Johnny Mann, American singer-songwriter and conductor (died 2014)

John Russell Mann was an American arranger, composer, conductor, entertainer, singer, and recording artist.

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30/08/1927

Bill Daily, American actor and comedian (died 2018)

William Edward Daily was an American actor and comedian known for his sitcom work as Major Roger Healey on I Dream of Jeannie and Howard Borden on The Bob Newhart Show.

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Piet Kee, Dutch organist and composer (died 2018)

Pieter William Kee was a Dutch organist and composer.

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30/08/1926

Daryl Gates, American police officer, created the D.A.R.E. Program (died 2010)

Daryl Francis Gates was an American police officer who served as chief of the Los Angeles Police Department from 1978 to 1992. His length of tenure in this position was second only to that of William H. Parker. Gates is often credited with the creation of police SWAT teams and also co-founded the Drug Abuse Resistance Education ("D.A.R.E.") program.

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30/08/1925

Laurent de Brunhoff, French author and illustrator (died 2024)

Laurent de Brunhoff was a French author and illustrator, known primarily for continuing the Babar the Elephant series of children's books that was created by his father, Jean de Brunhoff.

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Donald Symington, American actor (died 2013)

Donald Leith Symington was an American stage, film and television actor. He appeared in such movies and television shows as Annie Hall, Spring Break, and Fantasy Island.

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30/08/1924

Kenny Dorham, American singer-songwriter and trumpet player (died 1972)

McKinley Howard "Kenny" Dorham was an American jazz trumpeter, composer, and occasional singer. Dorham's talent is frequently lauded by critics and other musicians, but he never received the kind of attention or public recognition from the jazz establishment that many of his peers did. For this reason, writer Gary Giddins said that Dorham's name has become "virtually synonymous with 'underrated'."

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Lajos Kisfaludy, Hungarian chemist and engineer (died 1988)

Lajos Kisfaludy was a Hungarian chemical engineer, a corresponding member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. He is renowned for his research in the field of peptide synthesis and medicinal chemistry.

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Geoffrey Beene, American fashion designer (died 2004)

Geoffrey Beene was an American fashion designer. Beene was one of New York's most famous fashion designers, recognized for his artistic and technical skills and for creating simple, comfortable and dressy women's wear.

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30/08/1923

Barbara Ansell, English physician and author (died 2001)

Barbara Mary Ansell was a British medical doctor and the founder of the field of paediatric rheumatology. Ansell was notable for outstanding contributions to the advancement of paediatric knowledge, specifically defining chronic joint disorders and the improvement of their management.

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Charmian Clift, Australian journalist and author (died 1969)

Charmian Clift was an Australian writer. She was the second wife and literary collaborator of George Johnston.

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Vic Seixas, American tennis player (died 2024)

Elias Victor Seixas Jr. was an American tennis player.

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30/08/1922

Lionel Murphy, Australian jurist and politician, 22nd Attorney-General of Australia (died 1986)

Lionel Keith Murphy was an Australian politician, barrister, and judge. He was a Senator for New South Wales from 1962 to 1975, serving as Attorney-General in the Whitlam government, and then sat on the High Court from 1975 until his death in 1986.

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Regina Resnik, American soprano and actress (died 2013)

Regina Resnik was an American opera singer who had an active international career that spanned five decades. She began her career as a soprano in 1942 and soon after began a lengthy and fruitful relationship with the Metropolitan Opera that spanned from 1944 until 1983. Under the advice of conductor Clemens Krauss, she began retraining her voice in the mezzo-soprano repertoire in 1953 and by 1956 had completely removed soprano literature from her performance repertoire.

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30/08/1920

Arnold Green, Estonian soldier and politician (died 2011)

Arnold Green was a Soviet and Estonian politician and president of the Estonian Olympic Committee from 1989 to 1997, leader of the Estonian Olympic team for the Games in Albertville, Barcelona, Lillehammer and Atlanta and former President of the Estonian Wrestling League and the Estonian Skiing League.

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30/08/1919

Maurice Hilleman, American microbiologist and vaccinologist (died 2005)

Maurice Ralph Hilleman was a leading American microbiologist who specialized in vaccinology and developed over 40 vaccines, an unparalleled record of productivity. According to one estimate, his vaccines save nearly eight million lives each year. He has been described as one of the most influential vaccinologists ever. He has been called the "father of modern vaccines". Robert Gallo called Hilleman "the most successful vaccinologist in history". He has been described by some researchers as having saved more lives than any other scientist in the 20th century.

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Wolfgang Wagner, German director and manager (died 2010)

Wolfgang Wagner was a German opera director. He is best known as the director (Festspielleiter) of the Bayreuth Festival, a position he initially assumed alongside his brother Wieland in 1951 until the latter's death in 1966. From then on, he assumed total control until he retired in 2008, although many of the productions which he commissioned were severely criticized in their day. He had been plagued by family conflicts and criticism for many years. He was the son of Siegfried Wagner and he was the great-grandson of Franz Liszt.

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Kitty Wells, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2012)

Ellen Muriel Deason, known professionally as Kitty Wells, was a pioneering female American country music singer. Her 1952 hit recording "It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels" made her the first female country singer to top the U.S. country charts and turned her into the first female country superstar. “It Wasn’t God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels” also was her first of several pop crossover hits. Wells is the only artist to be awarded top female vocalist awards for 14 consecutive years. Her chart-topping hits continued until the mid-1960s, paving the way for and inspiring a long list of female country singers who came to prominence in the 1960s.

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30/08/1918

Harold Atcherley, English businessman (died 2017)

Sir Harold Winter Atcherley was a businessman, public figure and arts administrator in the United Kingdom.

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Billy Johnson, American baseball player (died 2006)

William Russell Johnson was an American professional baseball player. He was a third baseman in Major League Baseball who played in 964 games for the New York Yankees in the 1940s and later with the St. Louis Cardinals.

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Ted Williams, American baseball player and manager (died 2002)

Theodore Samuel Williams was an American professional baseball player and manager. He played his entire 19-year Major League Baseball (MLB) career, primarily as a left fielder, for the Boston Red Sox from 1939 to 1960; his career was interrupted by military service during World War II and the Korean War. Nicknamed "Teddy Ballgame", "the Kid", "the Splendid Splinter", and "the Thumper", Williams is widely regarded as one of the greatest hitters in baseball history, in addition to being the last player to hit over .400 in an MLB season.

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30/08/1917

Dan Enright, American television producer (died 1992)

Daniel Enright was an American television producer, primarily of game shows. Enright worked with Jack Barry from the 1940s until Barry's death in 1984. They were partners in creating programs for radio and television. Their company was called Barry & Enright Productions.

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Denis Healey, English soldier and politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer (died 2015)

Denis Winston Healey, Baron Healey was a British Labour Party politician who served as Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1974 to 1979 and as Secretary of State for Defence from 1964 to 1970; he remains the longest-serving Defence Secretary to date. He was a Member of Parliament from 1952 to 1992, and was Deputy Leader of the Labour Party from 1980 to 1983. To the public at large, Healey became well known for his bushy eyebrows, his avuncular manner and his creative turns of phrase.

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Grand Duke Vladimir Kirillovich of Russia (died 1992)

Grand Duke Vladimir Kirillovich of Russia was the Head of the Imperial Family of Russia, a position which he claimed from 1938 to his death in 1992.

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30/08/1916

Shailendra, Pakistani-Indian songwriter (died 1968)

Shailendra was an Indian Hindi-Urdu poet, lyricist and film producer. He is regarded as one of the greatest and most celebrated lyricists of the Indian film industry. Known for his association with filmmaker Raj Kapoor, singer Mukesh, and composer duo Shankar–Jaikishan, he wrote lyrics for several successful Hindi film songs in the 1950s and 1960s. He has also written songs in the Bhojpuri language for early Bhojpuri movies as his mother tongue was Bhojpuri.

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30/08/1915

Princess Lilian, Duchess of Halland (died 2013)

Princess Lilian, Duchess of Halland, was a British socialite who became a princess of Sweden through her 1976 marriage to Prince Bertil, Duke of Halland (1912–1997). As such, she was an aunt of King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden and Queen Margrethe II of Denmark.

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Robert Strassburg, American composer, conductor, and educator (died 2003)

Robert Strassburg was an American conductor, composer, musicologist and music educator. Included among his compositions are numerous musical settings of the poetry of Walt Whitman, as well as several sacred Judaic choral works. As a musicologist, Strassburg was an authority on the compositions of the composer Ernest Bloch.

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30/08/1913

Richard Stone, English economist and statistician, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1991)

Sir John Richard Nicholas Stone was an eminent British economist. He was educated at Gonville and Caius College and King's College at the University of Cambridge. In 1984, he was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for developing an accounting model that could be used to track economic activities on a national and, later, an international scale.

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30/08/1912

Edward Mills Purcell, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1997)

Edward Mills Purcell was an American physicist who shared the 1952 Nobel Prize for Physics for his independent discovery of nuclear magnetic resonance in liquids and in solids. Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) has become widely used to study the molecular structure of pure materials and the composition of mixtures. Friends and colleagues knew him as Ed Purcell.

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Nancy Wake, New Zealand-English captain (died 2011)

Nancy Grace Augusta Wake,, also known as Madame Fiocca and Nancy Fiocca, was a New Zealand-born Australian nurse and journalist who joined the French Resistance and later the Special Operations Executive (SOE) during World War II, and briefly pursued a postwar career as an intelligence officer in the Air Ministry.

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30/08/1910

Roger Bushell, South African-English soldier and pilot (died 1944)

Squadron Leader Roger Joyce Bushell was a South African aviator in the British Royal Air Force. He masterminded the famous "Great Escape" from Stalag Luft III in March 1944, but was one of the 50 escapees to be recaptured and subsequently shot and murdered by the Nazi German Gestapo secret police.

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30/08/1909

Virginia Lee Burton, American author and illustrator (died 1968)

Virginia Lee Burton, also known by her married name Virginia Demetrios, was an American illustrator and children's book author. She wrote and illustrated seven children's books, including Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel (1939) and The Little House (1943), which won the Caldecott Medal. She also illustrated six books by other authors.

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30/08/1908

Fred MacMurray, American actor (died 1991)

Frederick Martin MacMurray was an American actor. He appeared in more than one hundred films and a successful television series in a career that spanned nearly a half-century. His career as a major film leading man began in 1935, but his most renowned role was in Billy Wilder's 1944 film noir Double Indemnity. From 1959 to 1973, MacMurray appeared in numerous Disney films, including The Shaggy Dog, The Absent-Minded Professor, Follow Me, Boys!, and The Happiest Millionaire. He starred as Steve Douglas in the television series My Three Sons.

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30/08/1907

Leonor Fini, Argentine painter, illustrator, and author (died 1996)

Leonor Fini was an Argentine-Italian surrealist painter, designer, illustrator, and author, known for her depictions of powerful and erotic women.

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Bertha Parker Pallan, American archaeologist (died 1978)

Bertha Pallan Thurston Cody was an American archaeologist, working as an assistant in archaeology at the Southwest Museum. She was also married to actor Iron Eyes Cody. She is thought to be the first Native American female archaeologist, of Abenaki and Seneca descent.

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John Mauchly, American physicist and co-founder of the first computer company (died 1980)

John William Mauchly was an American physicist who, along with J. Presper Eckert, designed ENIAC, the first general-purpose electronic digital computer, as well as EDVAC, BINAC and UNIVAC I, the first commercial computer made in the United States.

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30/08/1906

Joan Blondell, American actress and singer (died 1979)

Rose Joan Blondell was an American actress who performed in film and television for 50 years.

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Olga Taussky-Todd, Austrian mathematician (died 1995)

Olga Taussky-Todd was an Austrian and American mathematician. She published more than 300 research papers on algebraic number theory, integral matrices, and matrices in algebra and analysis.

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30/08/1903

Bhagwati Charan Verma, Indian author (died 1981)

Bhagwati Charan Verma was a Hindi author. He wrote many novels, his best work was Chitralekha (1934), which was made into two successful Hindi films in 1941 and 1964 respectively. He was awarded Sahitya Akademi Award for his epic five-part novel, Bhoole Bisre Chitra in 1961 and Padma Bhushan in 1971. He was also nominated to Rajya Sabha in 1978.Bhagwati Charan Verma was born in November 1903 in Lahore. His father Shiv Charan Verma was a high-ranking railway official. Bhagwati Charan Verma was taught by Adarsh Sachdeva.

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30/08/1901

John Gunther, American journalist and author (died 1970)

John Gunther was an American journalist and writer.

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Roy Wilkins, American journalist and activist (died 1981)

Roy Ottoway Wilkins was an American civil rights leader from the 1930s to the 1970s. Wilkins's most notable role was his leadership of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), in which he held the title of Executive Secretary from 1955 to 1963 and Executive Director from 1964 to 1977. Wilkins was a central figure in many notable marches of the civil rights movement and made contributions to African-American literature. He controversially advocated for African Americans to join the military.

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30/08/1898

Shirley Booth, American actress and singer (died 1992)

Shirley Booth was an American actress. One of 24 performers to achieve the Triple Crown of Acting, Booth was the recipient of an Academy Award, two Primetime Emmy Awards, and three Tony Awards.

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30/08/1896

Raymond Massey, Canadian-American actor and playwright (died 1983)

Raymond Hart Massey was a Canadian actor known for his commanding stage-trained voice. For his lead role in Abe Lincoln in Illinois (1940), Massey was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor. He reprised his role as Lincoln on television and in How the West Was Won (1962). Among his other well-known roles were Dr. Gillespie in the NBC television series Dr. Kildare (1961–1966), John Brown in Santa Fe Trail (1940) and Seven Angry Men (1955), Abraham Farlan in A Matter of Life and Death (1946), and Jonathan Brewster in Arsenic and Old Lace.

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30/08/1893

Huey Long, American lawyer and politician, 40th Governor of Louisiana (died 1935)

Huey Pierce Long Jr., nicknamed "The Kingfish", was an American politician who served as the 40th governor of Louisiana from 1928 to 1932 and as a United States senator from 1932 until his assassination in 1935. He was a left-wing populist member of the Democratic Party and rose to national prominence during the Great Depression for his vocal criticism of President Franklin D. Roosevelt and his New Deal, which Long deemed insufficiently radical. As the political leader of Louisiana, he commanded wide networks of supporters and often took forceful action. A controversial figure, Long is celebrated as a populist champion of the poor or, conversely, denounced as a fascistic demagogue.

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30/08/1890

Samuel Frederick Henry Thompson, English captain and pilot (died 1918)

Captain Samuel Frederick Henry "Siffy" Thompson was a British World War I two-seater fighter ace who, in conjunction with his observer-gunners, was credited with thirty aerial victories before being shot down and killed. Despite having an active fighter career of only five months, he reached the rank of captain and was awarded two British military decorations.

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30/08/1887

Paul Kochanski, Polish violinist and composer (died 1934)

Paul Kochanski was a Polish violinist, composer and arranger active in the United States.

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30/08/1885

Tedda Courtney, Australian rugby league player and coach (died 1957)

Ed "Tedda" Courtney was a pioneer Australian rugby league footballer and coach. He played club football for North Sydney, Western Suburbs and representative football for the New South Wales state and Australian national sides. He is considered one of the nation's finest footballers of the 20th century.

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30/08/1884

Theodor Svedberg, Swedish chemist and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1971)

Theodor Svedberg was a Swedish chemist and Nobel laureate for his research on colloids and proteins using the ultracentrifuge. Svedberg was active at Uppsala University from the mid-1900s to late 1940s. While at Uppsala, Svedberg started as a docent before becoming the university's physical chemistry head in 1912. After leaving Uppsala in 1949, Svedberg was in charge of the Gustaf Werner Institute until 1967. Apart from his 1926 Nobel Prize, Svedberg was named a Foreign Member of the Royal Society in 1944 and became part of the National Academy of Sciences in 1945.

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30/08/1883

Theo van Doesburg, Dutch artist (died 1931)

Theo van Doesburg was a Dutch painter, writer, poet, and architect. He is best known as the founder and leader of De Stijl.

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30/08/1871

Ernest Rutherford, New Zealand-English physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1937)

Ernest Rutherford, 1st Baron Rutherford of Nelson, was a New Zealand physicist and chemist who was a pioneering researcher in both atomic and nuclear physics. He has been described as "the father of nuclear physics" and "the greatest experimentalist since Michael Faraday." In 1908, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry "for his investigations into the disintegration of the elements, and the chemistry of radioactive substances."

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30/08/1870

Grand Duchess Alexandra Georgievna of Russia (died 1891)

Princess Alexandra of Greece and Denmark, later known as Grand Duchess Alexandra Georgievna of Russia ; 30 August [O.S. 18 August] 1870 – 24 September [O.S. 12 September] 1891), was a member of the Greek royal family by birth and of the Russian imperial family by marriage.

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30/08/1860

Isaac Levitan, Russian painter and illustrator (died 1900)

Isaac Ilyich Levitan was a Russian landscape painter who advanced the genre of the "mood landscape".

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30/08/1858

Ignaz Sowinski, Galician architect (died 1917)

Ignaz Stanislaus Sowinski was a Polish architect and journalist who was active in Galicia from the middle of the 1880s and until the outbreak of World War I.

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30/08/1856

Carl David Tolmé Runge, German mathematician, physicist, and spectroscopist (died 1927)

Carl David Tolmé Runge was a German mathematician, physicist, and spectroscopist.

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30/08/1855

Evelyn De Morgan, English painter (died 1919)

Evelyn De Morgan was an English painter associated early in her career with the later phase of the Pre-Raphaelite Movement, and working in a range of styles including Aestheticism and Symbolism. Her paintings are figural, foregrounding the female body through the use of spiritual, mythological, and allegorical themes. They rely on a range of metaphors to express what several scholars have identified as spiritualist and feminist content. Her later works also dealt with the themes of war from a pacifist perspective, engaging with conflicts such as the Second Boer War and World War I.

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30/08/1852

Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff, Dutch chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1911)

Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff Jr. was a Dutch physical chemist. A highly influential theoretical chemist, in 1901 Van 't Hoff won the first Nobel Prize in Chemistry "[for his] discovery of the laws of chemical dynamics and osmotic pressure in solutions". His pioneering work helped found the modern theory of chemical affinity, chemical equilibrium, chemical kinetics, and chemical thermodynamics. In his 1874 pamphlet, Van 't Hoff formulated the theory of the tetrahedral carbon atom and laid the foundations of stereochemistry. In 1875, he predicted the correct structures of allenes and cumulenes as well as their axial chirality. He is also widely considered one of the founders of physical chemistry as the discipline is known today.

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J. Alden Weir, American painter and academic (died 1919)

Julian Alden Weir was an American impressionist painter and member of the Cos Cob Art Colony in Greenwich, Connecticut. Weir was also one of the founding members of "The Ten", a loosely allied group of American artists dissatisfied with professional art organizations, who banded together in 1898 to exhibit their works as a stylistically unified group.

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30/08/1850

Marcelo H. del Pilar, Filipino journalist and lawyer (died 1896)

Marcelo Hilario del Pilar y Gatmaitán, commonly known as Marcelo H. del Pilar and also known by his nom de plume Pláridel, was a Filipino writer, lawyer, journalist, and freemason. Del Pilar, along with José Rizal and Graciano López Jaena, became known as the leaders of the Reform Movement in Spain.

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30/08/1848

Andrew Onderdonk, American surveyor and contractor (died 1905)

Andrew Onderdonk was an American construction contractor who worked on several major projects in the West, including the San Francisco seawall in California and the Canadian Pacific Railway in British Columbia. He was born in New York City to an established ethnic Dutch family. He received his education at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

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30/08/1844

Emily Ruete/Salama bint Said, also called Sayyida Salme, a Princess of Zanzibar and Oman (died 1924)

Emily Rüte was a Princess of Zanzibar and Oman. She was the youngest of the 36 children of Said bin Sultan, Sultan of the Omani Empire. She is the author of Memoirs of an Arabian Princess from Zanzibar.

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30/08/1842

Grand Duchess Alexandra Alexandrovna of Russia (died 1849)

Grand Duchess Alexandra Alexandrovna of Russia was the eldest child and first daughter of Tsar Alexander II of Russia and his first wife Marie of Hesse and by Rhine. She died from infant meningitis at the age of six and a half.

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30/08/1839

Gulstan Ropert, French-American bishop and missionary (died 1903)

Gulstan Ropert, SS.CC., of the Congregation of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary served as the third vicar apostolic of the Apostolic Vicariate of the Hawaiian Islands - now the Roman Catholic Diocese of Honolulu, from 1892 to 1903.

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30/08/1822

Adolph Strauch, Prussian American landscape architect (died 1883)

Adolph Strauch was a Prussian American landscape architect who conceived the "landscape lawn" design. He applied his thinking to the layout of Spring Grove Cemetery in Cincinnati, Ohio, which won him international acclaim. Strauch also advised and helped design several other parks and cemeteries, and laid out Eden Park, Burnet Woods, and Lincoln Park in Cincinnati.

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30/08/1818

Alexander H. Rice, American businessman and politician, 30th Governor of Massachusetts (died 1895)

Alexander Hamilton Rice was an American politician and businessman from Massachusetts. He served as Mayor of Boston from 1856 to 1857, a U.S. Congressman during the American Civil War, and as the 30th Governor of Massachusetts from 1876 to 1879. He was part owner and president of Rice-Kendall, one of the nation's largest paper products distributors.

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30/08/1812

Agoston Haraszthy, Hungarian-American businessman, founded Buena Vista Winery (died 1869)

Agoston Haraszthy was a Hungarian American nobleman, adventurer, traveler, writer, town-builder, and pioneer winemaker in Wisconsin and California, often referred to as the "Father of California Wine", alongside Junípero Serra, as well as the "Father of California Viticulture," or the "Father of Modern Winemaking in California". One of the first men to plant vineyards in Wisconsin, he was the founder of the Buena Vista Winery in Sonoma, California, and an early writer on California wine and viticulture.

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30/08/1797

Mary Shelley, English novelist and playwright (died 1851)

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley was an English novelist who wrote the Gothic novel Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus (1818), which is considered an early example of science fiction. She also edited and promoted the works of her husband, the Romantic poet and philosopher Percy Bysshe Shelley. Her father was the political philosopher William Godwin and her mother was the philosopher and women's rights advocate Mary Wollstonecraft.

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30/08/1768

Joseph Dennie, American author and journalist (died 1812)

Joseph Dennie was an American author and journalist who was one of the foremost men of letters of the Federalist Era. A Federalist, Dennie is best remembered for his series of essays entitled The Lay Preacher and as the founding editor of The Port Folio, a journal espousing classical republican values. Port Folio was the most highly regarded and successful literary publication of its time, and the first important political and literary journal in the United States. Timothy Dwight IV once referred to Dennie as "the Addison of America" and "the father of American Belles-Lettres."

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30/08/1748

Jacques-Louis David, French painter and illustrator (died 1825)

Jacques-Louis David was a French painter in the Neoclassical style, considered to be the preeminent painter of the era. In the 1780s, his cerebral brand of history painting marked a change in taste away from Rococo frivolity toward classical austerity, severity, and heightened feeling, which harmonized with the moral climate of the final years of the Ancien Régime.

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30/08/1720

Samuel Whitbread, English brewer and politician, founded Whitbread (died 1796)

Samuel Whitbread was a British brewer and politician. In 1742, he established a brewery that in 1799 became Whitbread & Co Ltd.

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30/08/1716

Capability Brown, English landscape architect (died 1783)

Lancelot "Capability" Brown was an English gardener and landscape architect, a notable figure in the history of the English landscape garden style.

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30/08/1627

Itō Jinsai, Japanese philosopher (died 1705)

Itō Jinsai , who also went by the pen name Keisai, was a Japanese Confucian philosopher. He is considered to be one of the most influential Confucian scholars of seventeenth century Japan, and the Tokugawa period (1600–1868) generally, his teachings flourishing especially in Kyoto and the Kansai area through the final years of the Tokugawa shogunate.

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30/08/1609

Sir Alexander Carew, 2nd Baronet, English politician (died 1644)

Sir Alexander Carew was an English landowner, soldier and politician from Antony, Cornwall. Elected Member of Parliament for Cornwall in November 1640, he voted for the execution of the Earl of Strafford in May 1641, and supported the removal of bishops from the Church of England.

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Artus Quellinus the Elder, Flemish sculptor (died 1668)

Artus Quellinus the Elder, Artus Quellinus I or Artus (Arnoldus) Quellijn was a Flemish sculptor. He is regarded as the most important representative of the Baroque in sculpture in the Southern Netherlands. He worked for a long period in the Dutch Republic and operated large workshops both in Antwerp and Amsterdam. His work had a major influence on the development of sculpture in Northern Europe.

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30/08/1574

Albert Szenczi Molnár, Hungarian writer and translator (died 1634)

Albert Szenczi Molnár was a Hungarian Calvinist pastor, linguist, philosopher, poet, religious writer and translator.

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30/08/1334

Peter of Castile (died 1369)

Peter, called Peter the Cruel or the Just, was King of Castile and León from 1350 to 1369. Peter was the last ruler of the main branch of the House of Ivrea. He was excommunicated by Pope Urban V for his persecutions and cruelties committed against the clergy.

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