Born on Wednesday, 6th August – Famous Birthdays

06/08/2004

Takhmina Ikromova, Uzbekistani rhythmic gymnast

Takhmina Ikromova is an Uzbekistani rhythmic gymnast. She is the 2022 Asian Games all-around and team gold medalist, and a three-time Asian all-around champion. She competed at the 2024 Summer Olympics in the rhythmic individual all-around, where she came in 14th place at the qualifications. She is also the 2025 World University Games all-around silver medalist.

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06/08/2002

Nessa Barrett, American singer-songwriter

Janesa Jaida "Nessa" Barrett is an American singer-songwriter and social media personality. She rose to prominence on TikTok and began uploading covers as a teenager, which led her to sign a recording contract with Warner Records. She released her debut single, Pain, in 2020. In 2021, She released her debut EP, Pretty Poison, which combined elements of alternative pop and pop-rock. She then released her debut album, Young Forever, the following year. In 2023, she released another EP, Hell Is a Teenage Girl, and in 2024, she released her second studio album, Aftercare, which incorporated electropop and synthpop.

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06/08/1999

Hunter Greene, American baseball player

Christian Hunter Greene is an American professional baseball pitcher for the Cincinnati Reds of Major League Baseball (MLB). The Reds selected him second overall in the 2017 MLB draft.

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Rebeka Masarova, Spanish-Swiss tennis player

Rebeka Masarova is a Swiss professional tennis player. She has career-high WTA rankings of No. 62 in singles and No. 125 in doubles, achieved in 2023. Masarova won the juniors' 2016 French Open.

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06/08/1995

Rebecca Peterson, Swedish tennis player

Rebecca Peterson is a Swedish inactive professional tennis player. She has been ranked as high as world No. 43 in singles and No. 87 in doubles by the WTA.

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06/08/1991

Wilmer Flores, Venezuelan baseball player

Wilmer Alejandro Flores Garcia, nicknamed "Catire", is a Venezuelan professional baseball infielder for the Toros de Tijuana of the Mexican League. He has previously played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the New York Mets, Arizona Diamondbacks and San Francisco Giants. On his 16th birthday in 2007, Flores signed as an international free agent with the Mets, and he made his major league debut with them in 2013.

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Jiao Liuyang, Chinese swimmer

Jiao Liuyang is a retired Chinese swimmer who won the 200 m butterfly at the 2012 Olympics, and formerly held the world record in the 4×100 m medley relay.

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06/08/1987

Leanne Crichton, Scottish footballer

Leanne Crichton is a former Scottish professional football player who currently manages Rangers and works as a media pundit for BBC Scotland.

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06/08/1986

Raphael Pyrasch, German rugby player

Rafael Pyrasch is a German international rugby union player, playing for the Heidelberger RK in the Rugby-Bundesliga and the German national rugby union team.

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06/08/1985

Mickaël Delage, French cyclist

Mickaël Delage is a French former professional road and track cyclist, who last rode for UCI WorldTeam Groupama–FDJ.

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Bafétimbi Gomis, French footballer

Bafétimbi Gomis is a French former professional footballer who played as a striker. He's the third fastest hat-trick scorer in UEFA Champions League history, as of December 2025.

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Garrett Weber-Gale, American swimmer

Garrett Weber-Gale is an American competition swimmer, two-time Olympic gold medalist, and world record-holder in two events.

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06/08/1984

Vedad Ibišević, Bosnian footballer

Vedad Ibišević is a Bosnian professional football coach and former player who played as a forward.

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Maja Ognjenović, Serbian volleyball player

Maja Ognjenović is a Serbian professional volleyball player of the Serbia women's national volleyball team and a two-time Olympic medalist. She is a five-time Olympian at the setter position. Ognjenović won gold with the national team at the 2018 World Championship, and the 2011/2019 edition of the European Championship, silver at the 2016 Rio Olympic Games, and bronze at the 2020 Tokyo Summer Olympics.

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Jesse Ryder, New Zealand cricketer

Jesse Daniel Ryder is a former international New Zealand cricketer, who played all forms of the game. He was primarily a middle-order batsman for Tests and an opening batsman in ODIs. Ryder also bowled useful medium-pace.

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06/08/1983

Robin van Persie, Dutch footballer

Robin van Persie is a Dutch football coach and former professional footballer who is the head coach of Eredivisie club Feyenoord. He is regarded as one of the best strikers of his generation and was known for his technique, ball control, and vision.

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06/08/1981

Leslie Odom Jr., American actor and singer

Leslie Lloyd Odom Jr. is an American actor, singer and songwriter. He made his acting debut on Broadway in 1998 and first gained recognition for his portrayal of Aaron Burr in the musical Hamilton, which earned him a Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical and a Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album in the same year. His performance was captured in the Disney+ live stage recording of Hamilton which earned him a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Actor in a Leading Role in a Limited Series or Movie nomination.

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Diána Póth, Hungarian figure skater

Diána Póth is a Hungarian former competitive figure skater. She is a two-time Karl Schäfer Memorial silver medalist and a two-time Hungarian national champion. She also competed briefly for Austria.

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06/08/1979

Francesco Bellotti, Italian cyclist

Francesco Bellotti is an Italian former professional road bicycle racer, who last rode for UCI ProTour team Liquigas–Cannondale.

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Jaime Correa, Mexican footballer

Jaime Correa Córdova also known as "El Alacran" or "El Motor", is a Mexican former professional footballer who played as a midfielder. He made his debut for the Mexico national team in the 2007 Copa América against Brazil.

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Travis Reed, American basketball player

Travis Reed is an American former professional basketball player. Reed played college basketball for UCLA and Long Beach State. He played professionally in the Netherlands, Estonia, Romania, Australia and Germany.

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06/08/1977

Leandro Amaral, Brazilian footballer

Leandro Câmara do Amaral, is a Brazilian former professional footballer who played as a forward.

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Jimmy Nielsen, Danish footballer and manager

Jimmy Nielsen is a Danish retired footballer who played as a goalkeeper.

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Luciano Zavagno, Argentinian footballer

Luciano Germán Zavagno is an Argentine retired footballer.

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06/08/1976

Soleil Moon Frye, American actress

Soleil Moon Frye is an American actress. She began her career as a child actress at the age of two. When she was seven, Frye won the role of Penelope "Punky" Brewster in the NBC sitcom Punky Brewster. The series debuted in September 1984 and earned consistently low ratings, but the Punky character was a hit with young children. After NBC canceled the series, it was picked up for the syndication market where it aired for an additional two seasons before ending in 1988. Frye reprised the role in a 2021 revival of the series, which was canceled after one season.

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Melissa George, Australian-American actress

Melissa Suzanne George is an Australian and American actress. She began her career playing Angel Parrish on the Australian soap opera Home and Away between 1993–1996. After moving to the United States, George made her feature film debut with a supporting role in the 1998 tech noir Dark City. She made the transition to leading roles when she starred in the 2005 remake of The Amityville Horror, gaining further recognition with the thriller Derailed (2005), and the genre films 30 Days of Night (2007) and Triangle (2009).

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06/08/1975

Jason Crump, English-Australian motorcycle racer

Jason Philip Crump is a former international motorcycle speedway rider from Australia. He is a three-time Speedway World Champion, and a World Cup winner.

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Renate Götschl, Austrian skier

Renate Götschl is an Austrian former alpine ski racer. She is a two-time individual World Champion in the combined (1997) and downhill (1999), and has won a total of 9 World Championships medals. She also won two Olympic medals in 2002, the bronze medal in downhill and the silver medal in the combined.

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Víctor Zambrano, Venezuelan baseball player

Víctor Manuel Zambrano is a Venezuelan former professional baseball pitcher. He played all or parts of seven seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) from 2001 to 2007 for the Tampa Bay Devil Rays, New York Mets, Toronto Blue Jays, and Baltimore Orioles.

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06/08/1973

Vera Farmiga, American actress

Vera Ann Farmiga is an American actress and singer. She began her professional acting career on stage in the original Broadway production of Taking Sides (1996). After expanding to television and film, her breakthrough came with her starring role as a drug addict in the drama Down to the Bone (2004). She then had roles in the political thriller The Manchurian Candidate (2004), the crime drama The Departed (2006), and the historical drama The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas (2008). She was also established as a scream queen for her performances in the horror films Joshua (2007) and Orphan (2009).

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Stuart O'Grady, Australian cyclist

Stuart Peter O'Grady is a retired Australian road bicycle racer, who rode as a professional between 1995 and 2013. A former track cyclist, O'Grady and Graeme Brown won a gold medal in the Men's Madison at the 2004 Summer Olympics. O'Grady also won Paris–Roubaix in 2007. O'Grady competed in the Tour de France from 1997 and contended for the points classification in the Tour de France known as the green jersey, finishing second in the 1998, 1999, 2001 and 2005 races. He wore the yellow jersey of general classification leader in 1998 and 2001.

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06/08/1972

Geri Halliwell, English singer-songwriter, dancer, and actress

Geraldine Estelle Halliwell-Horner is an English singer, songwriter, television personality, author, and actress. She rose to fame in the late 1990s as a member of the pop group the Spice Girls, in which she was nicknamed Ginger Spice. With over 100 million records sold worldwide, the Spice Girls are the best-selling female group of all time to date. Their slogan "girl power" was most closely associated with Halliwell and her Union Jack dress from the 1997 Brit Awards also became an enduring symbol. Halliwell left the Spice Girls in 1998, citing exhaustion and creative differences, but rejoined when they reunited for a greatest hits album (2007) and two concert tours: the Return of the Spice Girls (2007–2008) and Spice World (2019).

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Jason O'Mara, Irish actor

Jason O'Mara is an Irish actor. He has starred in American television series Terra Nova (2011), Vegas (2012–13), Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (2016–17) and The Man in the High Castle (2018–19). For his performance in The Siege of Jadotville (2016), he won an Irish Film & Television Award for Best Supporting Actor.

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06/08/1970

M. Night Shyamalan, Indian-American director, producer, and screenwriter

Manoj Nelliyattu "M. Night" Shyamalan is an American filmmaker. His films often employ supernatural plots and twist endings. The cumulative gross of his films exceeds $3.3 billion globally. Shyamalan has received various accolades, including nominations for two Academy Awards, two BAFTA Awards and a Golden Globe.

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06/08/1969

Simon Doull, New Zealand cricketer and sportscaster

Simon Blair Doull is a New Zealand radio personality, commentator, and former international cricketer. He was a right-arm medium pacer who was capable of swing bowling. He was plagued by injuries as a result of which his international career was cut short. Playing for the New Zealand national cricket team, he figured in just 32 Tests and 42 ODIs, taking 98 and 36 wickets respectively. Doull's finest hour arrived when he took 7–65 against India in the Boxing Day Wellington Test in 1998. He played his last Test, against Australia, in March 2000, before turning to commentary and broadcasting.

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Elliott Smith, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2003)

Steven Paul Smith, known as Elliott Smith, was an American musician and singer-songwriter. He was born in Omaha, Nebraska, raised primarily in Texas, and lived much of his life in Portland, Oregon, where he gained popularity. Smith's primary instrument was the guitar, though he also played piano, clarinet, bass guitar, drums, and harmonica. He had a distinctive vocal style characterized by his "whispery, spiderweb-thin delivery", and he often used multi-tracking to create vocal layers, textures, and harmonies that were usually fingerpicked and recorded with tape.

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06/08/1968

Jack de Gier, Dutch footballer

Jack de Gier is a Dutch professional football manager and former player who played as a forward.

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06/08/1965

Stéphane Peterhansel, French racing driver

Stéphane Peterhansel is a rally driver from France. He holds the record for wins at the Dakar Rally, with 14 victories. He currently drives for Land Rover Defender Rally Team.

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Yuki Kajiura, Japanese pianist and composer

Yuki Kajiura is a Japanese composer, arranger and music producer. She has provided the music for several popular anime series, such as Sword Art Online, Puella Magi Madoka Magica, Fate/Zero, The Garden of Sinners, Pandora Hearts, and Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba.

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David Robinson, American basketball player and lieutenant

David Maurice Robinson is an American former professional basketball player. Nicknamed "the Admiral" for his service in the U.S. Navy, he spent his entire 14-year career with National Basketball Association (NBA) franchise San Antonio Spurs and is now a minority owner of the team. He is widely considered one of the greatest centers in both college basketball and NBA history.

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06/08/1964

Kemi Omololu-Olunloyo, Nigerian journalist, activist, social media expert, and pharmacist

Olukemi "Kemi" Omololu-Olunloyo is a Nigerian blogger, an activist against gun violence and drug abuse, and also a social media personality.

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06/08/1963

Charles Ingram, English soldier, author, and game show contestant

Charles William Ingram is a British fraudster and a former major in the British Army who gained fame for his appearance on the ITV television game show Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? Across two episodes recorded in September 2001, Ingram correctly answered 15 questions to win the show's maximum prize of £1 million, becoming the third recorded contestant ever to do so; however, he was denied the winnings due to suspicion of cheating.

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Kevin Mitnick, American computer security consultant, author, and convicted hacker (died 2023)

Kevin David Mitnick was an American computer security consultant, author, and convicted hacker. In 1995, he was arrested for various computer and communications-related crimes, and spent five years in prison after being convicted of fraud and illegally intercepting communications. Mitnick's pursuit, arrest, trial and sentence were all controversial, as were the associated media coverage, books, and films, with his supporters arguing that his punishment was excessive and that many of the charges against him were fraudulent, and not based on actual losses. After his release from prison, he ran his own security firm, Mitnick Security Consulting, LLC, and was also involved with other computer security businesses.

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06/08/1962

Michelle Yeoh, Malaysian-Hong Kong actress and producer

Michelle Yeoh Choo Kheng Todt, known professionally as Michelle Yeoh, is a Malaysian actress. In a career spanning over four decades, she has acted in film and television productions covering a wide range of genres and received various accolades, including an Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award, along with nominations for two British Academy Film Awards. Credited as Michelle Khan in her early films, she rose to fame in the 1980s and 1990s after starring in Hong Kong action and martial arts films where she performed her own stunts. These roles included Yes, Madam (1985), Magnificent Warriors (1987), Police Story 3: Super Cop (1992), The Heroic Trio and Tai Chi Master, and Wing Chun (1994).

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06/08/1961

Mary Ann Sieghart, English journalist and radio host

Mary Ann Corinna Howard Sieghart is an English author, journalist, consultant, radio presenter and former assistant editor of The Times, where she wrote columns about politics, social affairs and life in general. She has also written a weekly political column in The Independent. Her best-selling book, The Authority Gap: Why Women Are Still Taken Less Seriously Than Men, and What We Can Do About It, was published by Transworld/Doubleday in July 2021. She now runs The Authority Gap Consultancy, which helps organisations narrow and close their authority gaps.

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06/08/1960

Dale Ellis, American basketball player

Dale Ellis is an American former professional basketball player who played in the National Basketball Association (NBA). At various points in his career, Ellis held the record for the most career 3-point field goals made, until Reggie Miller surpassed him. His 1,719 career made three-pointers ranked 2nd in NBA history at the time of his retirement, and rank 34th in NBA history as of January 2025.

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06/08/1959

Rajendra Singh, Indian environmentalist

Rajendra Singh is an Indian water conservationist and environmentalist from Alwar district, Rajasthan in India. Also known as the "Waterman of India", he won the Magsaysay Award in 2001 and Stockholm Water Prize in 2015. He runs an NGO called 'Tarun Bharat Sangh' (TBS), which was founded in 1975. The NGO based in village hori-Bhikampura in Thanagazi tehsil, near Sariska Tiger Reserve, has been instrumental in fighting the slow bureaucracy, mining lobby and has helped villagers take charge of water management in their semi-arid area as it lies close to Thar Desert, through the use of johad, rainwater storage tanks, check dams and other time-tested as well as path-breaking techniques.

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Joyce Sims, American singer (died 2022)

Joyce Elizabeth Sims-Sandiford was an American singer and songwriter, whose biggest hit single, "Come into My Life", reached the top 10 in both the US Billboard R&B Chart and the UK Singles Chart in 1987.

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06/08/1958

Randy DeBarge, American singer-songwriter and bass player

William Randall DeBarge is an American R&B/soul singer and bass guitarist, best known for being one of the original members of the popular Motown singing family group DeBarge. Randy is also known for singing co-lead and penning lyrics with brother El on the group's first hit, "I Like It" (1982).

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06/08/1957

Bob Horner, American baseball player

James Robert Horner is an American former professional baseball player. He played in Major League Baseball and the Nippon Professional Baseball league as a third baseman and a first baseman from 1978 to 1988, most prominently as a member of the Atlanta Braves where he was named the 1978 National League (NL) Rookie of the Year and was a member of the 1982 National League All-Star team.

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Jim McGreevey, American lawyer and politician, 52nd Governor of New Jersey

James Edward McGreevey is an American politician who served as the 52nd governor of New Jersey from 2002 until his resignation in 2004 amidst a sex scandal. A member of the Democratic Party, he was the first openly gay person to serve as a state governor in the nation's history.

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06/08/1956

Bill Emmott, English journalist and author

William John Emmott is an English journalist, author, and consultant best known as the editor-in-chief of The Economist newspaper from 1993 to 2006. Emmott has written fourteen books and worked on two documentary feature films. He is now chairman of the International Institute for Strategic Studies, of the Japan Society of the UK in London, and of the International Trade Institute, an Irish educational body. He is also Senior Adviser, Geopolitics, for Montrose Associates, a strategic intelligence consultancy, a trustee of the Chester Beatty Library in Dublin, and an Ushioda Fellow at Tokyo College, University of Tokyo.

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06/08/1954

Mark Hughes, English-Australian rugby league player

Mark Stephen Hughes is an English-born Australian former professional rugby league footballer who played for Canterbury-Bankstown in the 1970s and 1980s. He mostly played lock, but he also spent time playing centre and five-eighth. He is the brother of Garry Hughes and Graeme Hughes, and the uncle of Corey Hughes, Glen Hughes and Steven Hughes.

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06/08/1952

Pat MacDonald, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

Patrick Lee MacDonald is an American musician and songwriter. He was the singer, guitarist, and main songwriter for Timbuk 3, nominated for a Grammy Award for Best New Artist in 1987. He formed the duo with his wife, Barbara K. MacDonald, in Madison, Wisconsin, in 1984 before moving to Austin, Texas, that same year. Their breakup in 1995 spurred a solo career that has steadily produced releases in both Europe and the US.

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David McLetchie, Scottish lawyer and politician (died 2013)

David William McLetchie CBE was a Scottish politician who served as Leader of the Scottish Conservative Party from 1998 to 2005. He was Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for the Edinburgh Pentlands constituency from 2003 to 2011 and the Lothian region from 1999 to 2003 and 2011 to 2013.

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Ton Scherpenzeel, Dutch keyboard player, songwriter, and producer

Ton Scherpenzeel is a Dutch keyboardist, composer, lyricist, and founding member of Dutch progressive rock band Kayak. Subsequent to Kayak, Scherpenzeel joined British progressive rock band Camel. He also played for several years with Dutch band Earth and Fire and released several solo albums. After his participation in rock bands, he was associated with Dutch vocal project Opus and was the accompanying keyboardist to Dutch comedian Youp van 't Hek.

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06/08/1951

Catherine Hicks, American actress

Catherine Mary Hicks is an American retired actress. She played the character Annie Camden on the long-running television series 7th Heaven. Other roles included Dr. Faith Coleridge on the soap opera Ryan's Hope (1976–1978), her Emmy Award-nominated performance as Marilyn Monroe in Marilyn: The Untold Story (1980), Dr. Gillian Taylor in Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986), Carol Heath in Peggy Sue Got Married (1986), and Karen Barclay in Child's Play (1988).

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Daryl Somers, Australian television host and singer

Daryl Paul Somers is an Australian television personality and musician, and a triple Gold Logie award winner. He rose to national fame as the host and executive producer of the long-running comedy-variety program Hey Hey It's Saturday and continued his television celebrity and status as host of the live-performance program Dancing with the Stars.

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06/08/1950

Dorian Harewood, American actor

Dorian Harewood is an American actor, best known for playing Jesse Owens in The Jesse Owens Story (1984), Det. Paul Strobber on Strike Force (1981–1982), and Rev. Morgan Hamilton in 7th Heaven (1996–2003).

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06/08/1949

Dino Bravo, Italian-Canadian wrestler (died 1993)

Adolfo Bresciano, better known by the ring name Dino Bravo, was an Italian Canadian professional wrestler and promoter and alleged organized crime figure.

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06/08/1947

Radhia Cousot, French computer scientist and academic (died 2014)

Radhia Cousot was a French computer scientist known for inventing abstract interpretation.

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06/08/1946

Allan Holdsworth, English guitarist, songwriter, and producer (died 2017)

Allan Holdsworth was a British jazz and rock guitarist, violinist and composer. He contributed to numerous bands, including Soft Machine, U.K., The Tony Williams Lifetime, Pierre Moerlen's Gong, Bruford, Level 42, and Planet X, in addition to solo work in multiple genres.

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06/08/1945

Ron Jones, English director and production manager (died 1993)

Ron Jones was a British television director.

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06/08/1944

Inday Badiday, Filipino journalist and actress (died 2003)

Maria Lourdes Jimenez Carvajal, popularly known as Inday Badiday, was a Filipino TV host and journalist who was known as Philippine television's "queen of showbiz talk shows" and "queen of intrigues".

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Michael Mingos, English chemist and academic

David Michael Patrick Mingos is a British chemist and academic. He was Principal of St Edmund Hall, Oxford from 1999 to 2009, and Professor of Inorganic Chemistry at the University of Oxford.

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Martin Wharton, English bishop

John Martin Wharton, is a British Anglican bishop, a retired Bishop of Newcastle.

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06/08/1943

Jon Postel, American computer scientist and academic (died 1998)

Jonathan Bruce Postel was an American computer scientist who made many significant contributions to the development of the Internet, particularly with respect to standards. He is known principally for being the editor of the Request for Comment (RFC) document series, for Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP), and for administering the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) until his death.

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06/08/1942

Byard Lancaster, American saxophonist and flute player (died 2012)

Byard Lancaster was an American avant-garde jazz saxophonist and flutist.

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06/08/1941

Ray Culp, American baseball player

Raymond Leonard Culp Jr. is an American former professional baseball pitcher. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Philadelphia Phillies (1963–1966), Chicago Cubs (1967), and Boston Red Sox (1968–1973).

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06/08/1940

Mukhu Aliyev, Russian philologist and politician, 2nd President of Dagestan

Mukhu Gimbatovich Aliyev is a Russian politician who served as the 2nd Head of the Republic of Dagestan, a federal subject of Russia. He was born in the village of Tanusi, Khunzakhsky District, Dagestan ASSR, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union. Ethnically, he is Avar. He was the speaker of the Republic's parliament before being accepted as the President by the Dagestan parliament on 20 February 2006, having been nominated by the Russian president Vladimir Putin to replace Dagestan's long-time leader Magomedali Magomedov.

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Egil Kapstad, Norwegian pianist and composer (died 2017)

Egil Kapstad was a Norwegian jazz pianist, composer and arranger. He wrote the music for more than 50 theatre productions, and composed for film and television drama. Kapstad composed classical works for orchestra, choir, string quartet, and smaller ensembles, and was a chief executive of the association Ny Musikk. He worked as a host in television for NRK. Egil Kapstad's Trio worked as a small orchestra in the Norwegian Melodi Grand Prix of 1965.

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Louise Sorel, American actress

Louise Jacqueline Sorel is an American actress. She is perhaps best known for her role as Vivian Alamain in Days of Our Lives from 1992-2000, 2009-2011, 2017-2018, 2020, 2023 & 2025-present, Augusta Lockridge on Santa Barbara from 1984-1991, and Emily Tanner on Beacon Hill since 2014.

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06/08/1938

Paul Bartel, American actor, director, and screenwriter (died 2000)

Paul Bartel was an American actor, writer and director. He was perhaps most known for his 1982 hit black comedy Eating Raoul, which he co-wrote, starred in and directed.

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Peter Bonerz, American actor and director

Peter Roman Bonerz is an American actor and director.

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Bert Yancey, American golfer (died 1994)

Albert Winsborough Yancey was an American professional golfer who won seven times on the PGA Tour and later played on the Senior PGA Tour.

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06/08/1937

Baden Powell de Aquino, Brazilian guitarist and composer (died 2000)

Baden Powell de Aquino, known professionally as Baden Powell, was a Brazilian virtuoso guitarist and composer. He combined classical techniques with popular harmony and swing. He performed in many styles, including bossa nova, samba, Brazilian jazz, Latin jazz and MPB. He performed on stage during most of his lifetime. Powell composed many pieces for guitar, some of them now considered guitar standards, such as Abração em Madrid, Braziliense, Canto de Ossanha, Casa Velha, Consolação, Horizon, Imagem, Lotus, Samba, Samba em Prelúdio, Samba Triste, Simplesmente, Tristeza e Solidão, and Samba da Benção. He released Os Afro-sambas, a watershed album in MPB, with Vinicius de Moraes in 1966. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest Brazilian guitar players of all time.

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Charlie Haden, American bassist and composer (died 2014)

Charles Edward Haden was an American jazz double bass player, bandleader, composer and educator whose career spanned more than fifty years. Haden helped to revolutionize the harmonic concept of bass playing in jazz, evolving a style that sometimes complemented the soloist, and other times moved independently, liberating bassists from a strictly accompanying role.

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Barbara Windsor, English actress (died 2020)

Dame Barbara Windsor was an English actress. She was known for her roles in the Carry On films and for playing Peggy Mitchell in the BBC One soap opera EastEnders. She joined the cast of EastEnders in 1994 and won the 1999 British Soap Award for Best Actress, before leaving the show in 2016.

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06/08/1935

Fortunato Baldelli, Italian cardinal (died 2012)

Fortunato Baldelli was an Italian prelate of the Catholic Church who was appointed a cardinal in 2010 after a career in the diplomatic service of the Holy See from 1966 to 2009 that included ten years as Apostolic Nuncio to France. He was also the Major Penitentiary of the Apostolic Penitentiary from 2009 to 2012.

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Octavio Getino, Spanish-Argentinian director and screenwriter (died 2012)

Octavio Getino was an Argentine film director and writer who is best known for co-founding, along with Fernando Solanas, the Grupo Cine Liberación and the school of Third Cinema.

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06/08/1934

Piers Anthony, English-American soldier and author

Piers Anthony Dillingham Jacob is an American author in the science fiction and fantasy genres, publishing under the name Piers Anthony. He is best known for his long-running novel series set in the fictional realm of Xanth.

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Chris Bonington, English mountaineer and author

Sir Christian John Storey Bonington, CVO, CBE, DL is a British mountaineer whose career has included nineteen expeditions to the Himalayas, including four to Mount Everest.

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Billy Boston, Welsh rugby player and soldier

Sir William John Boston is a Welsh former professional rugby league footballer who played as a winger or centre. Born and raised in Cardiff, Wales, Boston started his career as a rugby union player before joining Wigan in 1953. Regarded as one of the sport's greatest ever players, Boston scored 571 tries in his career, making him the second-highest try scorer in rugby league history.

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06/08/1933

A. G. Kripal Singh, Indian cricketer (died 1987)

Amritsar Govindsingh Kripal Singh was an Indian Test cricketer.

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06/08/1932

Michael Deeley, English screenwriter and producer

Michael Deeley is an Academy Award-winning British film producer known for motion pictures such as The Italian Job (1969), The Deer Hunter (1978), and Blade Runner (1982). He is also a founding member and Honorary President of British Screen Forum.

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Howard Hodgkin, English painter (died 2017)

Sir Gordon Howard Eliot Hodgkin was a British painter and printmaker. His work is most often associated with abstraction.

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Charles Wood, English playwright and screenwriter (died 2020)

Charles Gerald Wood was an English playwright and scriptwriter for radio, television, and film.

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06/08/1931

Chalmers Johnson, American scholar and author (died 2010)

Chalmers Ashby Johnson was an American political scientist specializing in comparative politics, and professor emeritus of the University of California, San Diego. He served in the Korean War, was a consultant for the CIA from 1967 to 1973 and chaired the Center for Chinese Studies at the University of California, Berkeley from 1967 to 1972. He was also president and co-founder with Steven Clemons of the Japan Policy Research Institute, an organization that promotes public education about Japan and Asia.

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06/08/1930

Abbey Lincoln, American singer-songwriter and actress (died 2010)

Anna Marie Wooldridge, known professionally as Abbey Lincoln, was an American jazz vocalist, songwriter, and actress. She was a civil rights activist beginning in the 1960s. Lincoln made a career out of delivering deeply felt presentations of standards, as well as writing and singing her own material.

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06/08/1929

Mike Elliott, Jamaican saxophonist

Mike Elliott is a Jamaican-born British saxophonist. He played on ska recordings in the early 1960s and on pop and soul music hits in the late 1960s. He is best known as a co-founding member of the British band The Foundations, and played on their hit singles "Baby, Now That I've Found You" and "Build Me Up Buttercup".

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Roch La Salle, Canadian politician, 42nd Canadian Minister of Public Works (died 2007)

Roch La Salle was a Canadian politician from the province of Quebec. He represented the riding of Joliette in the House of Commons of Canada for 20 years. He was re-elected six times during his tenure.

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06/08/1928

Herb Moford, American baseball player (died 2005)

Herbert Moford was an American right-handed pitcher in Major League Baseball for the St. Louis Cardinals (1955), Detroit Tigers (1958), Boston Red Sox (1959) and New York Mets (1962). He was born in Brooksville, Kentucky, stood 6 feet 1 inch (1.85 m) tall and weighed 175 pounds (79 kg).

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Andy Warhol, American painter, photographer and film director (died 1987)

Andrew "Andy" Warhol was an American artist and filmmaker. Widely regarded as the most important artist of the second half of the 20th century, Warhol's work spanned various media, including painting, filmmaking, photography, publishing, and performance art. A leading figure in the Pop art movement, his work explores the relationship between advertising, consumerism, mass media, and celebrity culture, transforming everyday consumer goods and familiar icons into renowned artworks. His embrace of mechanical reproduction challenged traditional boundaries between high and low culture. He is also credited with popularizing the expression "15 minutes of fame."

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06/08/1926

Elisabeth Beresford, English journalist and author (died 2010)

Elisabeth Beresford MBE, also known as Liza Beresford, was an English author of children's books. She is best known for creating The Wombles. Born into a literary family, she worked as a journalist, but struggled for success until she created the Wombles in the late 1960s. Their recycling theme was noted especially and the Wombles became popular with children across the world. While Beresford wrote many other works, the Wombles remained her best-known.

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Frank Finlay, English actor (died 2016)

Francis Finlay was an English actor. He earned an Academy Award nomination for his performance as Iago in Othello (1965). His first leading television role came in 1971 in Casanova. This led to appearances on The Morecambe and Wise Show. Finlay starred alongside famous Italian actress Stefania Sandrelli in Tinto Brass' The Key, the most successful Italian film of the 1983–1984 season. He also appeared in the drama Bouquet of Barbed Wire. A four-time BAFTA nominee, Finlay won one for his television performances in 1974.

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Clem Labine, American baseball player and manager (died 2007)

Clement Walter Labine was an American right-handed relief pitcher in Major League Baseball (MLB) best known for his years with the Brooklyn / Los Angeles Dodgers from 1950 to 1960.

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János Rózsás, Hungarian author (died 2012)

János Rózsás was a Hungarian writer.

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Norman Wexler, American screenwriter (died 1999)

Norman Wexler was an American screenwriter whose work included films such as Saturday Night Fever, Serpico and Joe. A New Bedford, Massachusetts native and 1944 Central High School graduate in Detroit, Wexler attended Harvard University before moving to New York in 1951.

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06/08/1924

Samuel Bowers, American white supremacist, co-founded the White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan (died 2006)

Samuel Holloway Bowers Jr. was an American white supremacist who co-founded the White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan and became its first Imperial Wizard. Previously, he was a Grand dragon of the Mississippi Original Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, appointed to his position by Imperial Wizard Roy Davis. Bowers was responsible for instigating and planning the 1964 murders of James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner by members of his Klan chapter near Philadelphia, Mississippi, for which he served six years in federal prison; and the 1966 murder of Vernon Dahmer in Hattiesburg, for which he was sentenced to life in prison, 32 years after the crime. He also was accused of being involved in the 1967–1968 bombings of Jewish targets in the cities of Jackson and Meridian. He died in prison at the age of 82.

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Ella Jenkins, American folk singer (died 2024)

Ella Louise Jenkins was an American singer-songwriter and centenarian. Called the "First lady of children's music", she was a leading performer of folk and children's music. Her 1995 album Multicultural Children's Songs has long been the most popular Smithsonian Folkways release. She appeared on numerous children's television programs and in 2004, she received a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. According to culture writer Mark Guarino, "across her 67-year career, Jenkins firmly established the genre of children's music as a serious endeavor – not just for artists to pursue but also for the recording industry to embrace and promote."

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06/08/1923

Jess Collins, American painter (died 2004)

Jess Collins, known today simply as Jess, was an American visual artist.

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Paul Hellyer, Canadian engineer and politician, 16th Canadian Minister of Defence (died 2021)

Paul Theodore Hellyer was a Canadian engineer, politician, writer, and commentator. He was the longest serving member of the Queen's Privy Council for Canada at the time of his death.

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06/08/1922

Freddie Laker, English businessman, founded Laker Airways (died 2006)

Sir Frederick Alfred Laker was an English airline entrepreneur, best known for founding Laker Airways in 1966, which went bankrupt in 1982. Known as Freddie Laker, he was one of the first airline owners to adopt the "low cost / no-frills" airline business model that has since proven to be successful worldwide when employed by companies such as Ryanair, Southwest Airlines, easyJet, Norwegian Air, and AirAsia.

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Dan Walker, American lawyer and politician, 36th Governor of Illinois (died 2015)

Daniel J. Walker was an American lawyer, businessman, and politician. A member of the Democratic Party, he served as the 36th governor of Illinois, from 1973 until 1977.

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06/08/1920

John Graves, American author (died 2013)

John Alexander Graves III was an American writer known for his book Goodbye to a River.

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Ella Raines, American actress (died 1988)

Ella Wallace Raines was an American film and television actress active from the early 1940s through the mid-1950s. Described as "sultry" and "mysterious", the green-eyed star appeared frequently in crime pictures and film noir, but also in drama, comedy, Westerns, thrillers, and romance.

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06/08/1919

Pauline Betz, American tennis player (died 2011)

Pauline May Betz Addie was an American professional tennis player. She won five Grand Slam singles titles and was the runner-up on three other occasions. Jack Kramer called her the second best female tennis player he ever saw, behind Helen Wills Moody.

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06/08/1918

Norman Granz, American-Swiss record producer and manager (died 2001)

Norman Granz was an American jazz record producer and concert promoter. He founded the record labels Clef, Norgran, Down Home, Verve, and Pablo and the Jazz at the Philharmonic concert series. Granz was acknowledged as "the most successful impresario in the history of jazz". He was also a champion of racial equality, insisting, for example, on integrating audiences at concerts he promoted.

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06/08/1917

Barbara Cooney, American author and illustrator (died 2000)

Barbara Cooney was an American writer and illustrator of 110 children's books, published for over sixty years. She received two Caldecott Medals for her work on Chanticleer and the Fox (1958) and Ox-Cart Man (1979), and a National Book Award for Miss Rumphius (1982). Her books have been translated into ten languages.

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Robert Mitchum, American actor (died 1997)

Robert Charles Durman Mitchum was an American actor and singer. He is known for his antihero roles and film noir appearances. He received nominations for an Academy Award and a BAFTA Award. He received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1984 and the Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award in 1992. Mitchum is rated number 23 on the American Film Institute's list of the greatest male stars of classic American cinema.

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06/08/1916

Richard Hofstadter, American historian and academic (died 1970)

Richard Hofstadter was an American historian and public intellectual. Hofstadter was the DeWitt Clinton Professor of American History at Columbia University. Rejecting his earlier historical materialist approach to history, in the 1950s he came closer to the concept of "consensus history", and was epitomized by some of his admirers as the "iconic historian of postwar liberal consensus." Others see in his work an early critique of the one-dimensional society, since he was equally critical of socialist and capitalist models of society, and bemoaned the "consensus" within the society as "bounded by the horizons of property and entrepreneurship", criticizing the "hegemonic liberal capitalist culture running throughout the course of American history".

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Dom Mintoff, Maltese journalist and politician, 8th Prime Minister of Malta (died 2012)

Dominic Mintoff was a Maltese socialist politician, architect, and civil engineer who was leader of the Labour Party from 1949 to 1984, and was 8th Prime Minister of Malta from 1955 to 1958, when Malta was still a British colony, and again, following independence, from 1971 to 1984. His tenure as Prime Minister saw the creation of a comprehensive welfare state, nationalisation of large corporations, a substantial increase in the general standard of living and the establishment of the Maltese republic, but was later on marred by a stagnant economy, a rise in authoritarianism and outbreaks of political violence.

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06/08/1914

Gordon Freeth, Australian lawyer and politician, 24th Australian Minister for Foreign Affairs (died 2001)

Sir Gordon Freeth was an Australian politician and diplomat. He served in the House of Representatives from 1949 to 1969, including as a minister in the Coalition governments from 1958 to 1969. He later served as Ambassador to Japan from 1970 to 1973 and High Commissioner to the United Kingdom from 1977 to 1980.

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06/08/1912

Richard C. Miller, American photographer (died 2010)

Richard Crump Miller was an American photographer best known for his vintage carbro prints, photos of celebrities, and work documenting the Hollywood Freeway.

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06/08/1911

Lucille Ball, American actress, television producer and businesswoman (died 1989)

Lucille Désirée Ball was an American comedian, actress, producer, and studio executive. She was recognized by Time in 2020 as one of the most influential women of the 20th century for her work in all four of these areas. She was nominated for 13 Primetime Emmy Awards, winning five, and was the recipient of several other accolades, such as the Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award and two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. She earned many honors, including the Women in Film Crystal Award, an induction into the Television Hall of Fame, a Kennedy Center Honor, and the Governors Award from the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. Additionally, she posthumously received the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President George H. W. Bush in 1989.

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Norman Gordon, South African cricketer (died 2014)

Norman Gordon was a South African cricketer who played in five Test matches during the 1938–39 South African cricket season.

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Constance Heaven, English author and actress (died 1995)

Constance Christina Aimee Heaven was a British writer of romance novels, under her maiden name, her married name and under the pseudonym Christina Merlin. In 1973, her novel The House Of Kuragin was the Winner of the Romantic Novel of the Year.

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06/08/1910

Adoniran Barbosa, Brazilian musician, singer, composer, humorist, and actor (died 1982)

Adoniran Barbosa, artistic name of João Rubinato, was a noted Brazilian São Paulo style samba singer and composer.

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Charles Crichton, English director, producer, and screenwriter (died 1999)

Charles Ainslie Crichton was an English film director and editor.

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06/08/1909

Diana Keppel, Countess of Albemarle (died 2013)

Dame Diana Cicely Keppel, Countess of Albemarle married Walter Egerton George Lucian Keppel, son of Arnold Allen Cecil Keppel, 8th Earl of Albemarle, as his second wife on 24 February 1931 at St Columba's Church, London. She became Countess of Albemarle from 12 April 1942 when her husband became the 9th Earl of Albemarle.

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06/08/1908

Maria Ludwika Bernhard, Polish classical archaeologist and a member of WWII Polish resistance (died 1998)

Maria Ludwika Bernhard was a Polish classical archaeologist and a specialist in Greek Art. During the German Occupation of Poland in World War II, Bernhard was living in Warsaw and was active in the Polish Resistance Movement. After the war, Bernhard was a Professor of Classical Archaeology at the University of Warsaw. In 1957 she became the chair of the Department of Classical Archaeology at Jagiellonian University. She was also curator of the Ancient Art gallery at the National Museum in Warsaw from 1945 to 1962.

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Helen Jacobs, American tennis player and commander (died 1997)

Helen Hull Jacobs was an American tennis player who won nine Grand Slam titles. In 1936 she was ranked No. 1 in singles by A. Wallis Myers.

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Lajos Vajda, Hungarian painter and illustrator (died 1941)

Lajos Vajda was a Hungarian painter and graphic artist. From 1927 to 1930 he was a student of István Csók at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts.

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06/08/1906

Vic Dickenson, American trombonist (died 1984)

Victor Dickenson was an American jazz trombonist. His career began in the 1920s and continued through musical partnerships with Count Basie (1940–41), Sidney Bechet (1941), and Earl Hines.

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06/08/1904

Jean Dessès, Greek-Egyptian fashion designer (died 1970)

Jean Dessès was a fashion designer in the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s. His designs reflected the influences of his travels, specializing in creating draped evening gowns in chiffon and mousseline, based on early Greek and Egyptian robes.

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Henry Iba, American basketball player and coach (died 1993)

Henry Payne “Hank” Iba was an American basketball coach and college athletics administrator. He served as the head basketball coach at Northwest Missouri State Teacher's College, now known as Northwest Missouri State University, from 1929 to 1933; the University of Colorado Boulder from 1933 to 1934; and the Oklahoma State University–Stillwater, known as Oklahoma A&M prior to 1957, from 1934 to 1970, compiling a career college basketball coaching record of 751–340. He led Oklahoma A&M to consecutive NCAA basketball tournament titles, in 1945 and 1946.

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06/08/1903

Virginia Foster Durr, American civil rights activist (died 1999)

Virginia Foster Durr was an American civil rights activist and lobbyist. She was born in Birmingham, Alabama in 1903 to Dr. Sterling Foster, an Alabama Presbyterian minister, and Ann Patterson Foster. At 22 she married lawyer Clifford Durr, with whom she had 5 children, one of whom died in infancy. Durr was a close friend of Rosa Parks and Eleanor Roosevelt, and was sister-in-law of Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black, who sat on many crucial civil rights cases. Her circle of friends extended to Alger Hiss. She was inducted into the Alabama Women's Hall of Fame in 2006.

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06/08/1901

Dutch Schultz, American gangster (died 1935)

Arthur Simon Flegenheimer, known as Dutch Schultz, was an American mobster based in New York City in the 1920s and 1930s. He made his fortune in organized crime-related activities, including bootlegging and the numbers racket. Schultz's rackets were weakened by two tax evasion trials led by United States Attorney Thomas Dewey, and also threatened by fellow mobster Lucky Luciano.

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06/08/1900

Cecil Howard Green, English-American geophysicist and businessman, co-founded Texas Instruments (died 2003)

Cecil Howard Green was a British-born American geophysicist, electrical engineer, and electronics manufacturing executive, who trained at the University of British Columbia and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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06/08/1895

Frank Nicklin, Australian politician, 28th Premier of Queensland (died 1978)

Sir George Francis Reuben Nicklin, was an Australian politician. He was the Premier of Queensland from 1957 to 1968, the first non-Labor Party premier since 1932.

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06/08/1891

William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim, English field marshal and politician, 13th Governor-General of Australia (died 1970)

Field Marshal William Joseph Slim, 1st Viscount Slim, usually known as Bill Slim, was a British military commander and the 13th governor-general of Australia from 1953 to 1960.

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06/08/1889

George Kenney, Canadian-American general (died 1977)

George Churchill Kenney was a United States Army general during World War II. He is best known as the commander of the Allied Air Forces in the Southwest Pacific Area (SWPA), a position he held between August 1942 and 1945.

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John Middleton Murry, English poet and author (died 1957)

John Middleton Murry was an English writer. He was a prolific author, producing more than 60 books and thousands of essays and reviews on literature, social issues, politics, and religion during his lifetime. A prominent critic, Murry is best remembered for his association with Katherine Mansfield, whom he married in 1918 as her second husband, for his friendship with D. H. Lawrence and T. S. Eliot, and for his friendship with Frieda Lawrence. Following Mansfield's death, Murry edited her work.

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06/08/1887

Dudley Benjafield, English racing driver (died 1957)

Joseph Dudley "Benjy" Benjafield, MD was a British medical doctor and racing driver.

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06/08/1886

Edward Ballantine, American composer and academic (died 1971)

Edward Ballantine, was an American composer and professor of music.

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Florence Goodenough, American child psychologist (died 1959)

Florence Laura Goodenough was an American psychologist and professor at the University of Minnesota who studied child intelligence and various problems in the field of child development. She was president of the Society for Research in Child Development from 1946 to 1947. She is best known for publishing the book Measurement Of Intelligence By Drawings, where she introduced the Goodenough Draw-A-Man test to assess intelligence in young children through nonverbal measurement. She is noted for developing the Minnesota Preschool Scale. In 1931, she published two books, titled Experimental Child Study and Anger in Young Children, which analyzed the methods used in evaluating children. She wrote the Handbook of Child Psychology in 1933, becoming the first known psychologist to critique ratio IQ.

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06/08/1883

Constance Georgina Adams, South African botanist (died 1968)

Constance Georgina Adams, also known as Constance Georgina Tardrew, was a South African housewife and collector of botanical specimens. Known by the nicknames Connie and Daisy, Adams was born in Cape Town and spent her early childhood on a farm in Tulbagh before moving to Warrenton. She subsequently lived in Kimberley before getting married, settling in Johannesburg where she became active in the Housewives League of South Africa. Inspired by her parents' interest in botany, she became a successful collector for both the Albany Museum in Grahamstown and McGregor Museum in Kimberley. She also cultivated a friendship with the Director of the latter, Maria Wilman. She collected over 240 specimens, which were presented to the Albany Museum, McGregor Museum and the National Herbarium in Pretoria.

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Scott Nearing, American economist and educator (died 1983)

Scott Nearing was an American radical economist, educator, writer, political activist, pacifist, vegetarian and advocate of simple living. In 1915, he was dismissed from a teaching position at the Wharton School on account of his left-wing politics, becoming a cause célèbre of the American Left. His opposition to American entry into World War I led to his prosecution under the Espionage Act, for which he was found not guilty. After the war, he became a leading leftist intellectual associated with the Socialist Party of America, and later with the Communist Party USA. From the Great Depression until the end of his life, Nearing and his wife Helen lived a self-sufficient homesteading lifestyle. Together, they published Living the Good Life: How to Live Simply and Sanely in a Troubled World in 1954.

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06/08/1881

Leo Carrillo, American actor (died 1961)

Leopoldo Antonio Carrillo was an American actor, vaudevillian, political cartoonist, and conservationist. He was notable for playing Pancho in the television series The Cisco Kid (1950–1956) and in several films.

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Alexander Fleming, Scottish biologist, pharmacologist, and botanist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1955)

Sir Alexander Fleming was a Scottish physician and microbiologist. He shared the 1945 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Howard Florey and Ernst Chain "for the discovery of penicillin and its curative effect in various infectious diseases". This was the first antibiotic substance discovered. His discovery in 1928 of what was later named benzylpenicillin from the mould Penicillium rubens has been described as the "single greatest victory ever achieved over disease".

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Louella Parsons, American journalist (died 1972)

Louella Rose Oettinger, known by the pen name Louella Parsons, was an American gossip columnist and screenwriter. At her peak, her columns were read by 20 million people in 700 newspapers worldwide.

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06/08/1880

Hans Moser, Austrian actor and singer (died 1964)

Hans Moser was an Austrian actor who, during his long career, from the 1920s up to his death, mainly played in comedy films. He was particularly associated with the genre of the Wiener Film. Moser appeared in over 150 films.

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06/08/1877

Wallace H. White Jr., American lawyer and politician (died 1952)

Wallace Humphrey White Jr. was an American politician and Republican leader in the United States Congress from 1917 until 1949. White was from the U.S. state of Maine and served in the U.S. House of Representatives before being elected to the U.S. Senate, where he was Senate Minority Leader and later Majority Leader before his retirement.

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06/08/1874

Charles Fort, American author (died 1932)

Charles Hoy Fort was an American writer and researcher who specialized in anomalous phenomena. The terms "Fortean" and "Forteana" are sometimes used to characterize various such phenomena. Fort's books sold well and are still in print. His work continues to inspire admirers, who refer to themselves as "Forteans", and has influenced some aspects of science fiction.

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06/08/1868

Paul Claudel, French poet and playwright (died 1955)

Paul Claudel was a French poet, dramatist and diplomat, and the younger brother of the sculptor Camille Claudel. He is most famous for his verse dramas, which often convey his devout Catholicism, and for institutionalizing his sister.

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06/08/1848

Susie Taylor, American writer and first black Army nurse (died 1912)

Susie King Taylor was an American nurse, educator, and memoirist. Born into slavery in coastal Georgia, she is known for being the first African-American nurse during the American Civil War. Beyond her aptitude in nursing the wounded of the 1st South Carolina Colored Infantry Regiment, Taylor was the first Black woman to self-publish her memoirs. She was the author of Reminiscences of My Life in Camp with the 33rd United States Colored Troops, Late 1st S.C. Volunteers (1902). She was also an educator to formerly bonded Black people in the Reconstruction-era South when she opened various Freedmen's schools for them in and near the city of Savannah, Georgia. In her later years as a resident of Boston, Taylor became a main organizer of Corps 67 of the Massachusetts Woman's Relief Corps (1886).

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06/08/1846

Anna Haining Bates, Canadian-American giant (died 1888)

Anna Haining Bates was a Canadian woman notable for her great stature of 7 feet 11 inches (2.41 m). She was one of the tallest women who ever lived. Her parents were of average height and were Scottish immigrants.

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06/08/1844

Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (died 1900)

Alfred was sovereign Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha from 22 August 1893 until his death in 1900. He was the second son and fourth child of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert. He was known as the Duke of Edinburgh from 1866 until he succeeded his paternal uncle Ernest II as the reigning Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha in the German Empire.

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James Henry Greathead, South African-English engineer (died 1896)

James Henry Greathead was an English mechanical and civil engineer renowned for his work on the London Underground railways, Winchester Cathedral, and Liverpool overhead railway, as well as being one of the earliest proponents of the English Channel, Irish Sea and Bristol Channel tunnels. His invention is also the reason that the London Underground is colloquially named the "Tube".

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06/08/1835

Hjalmar Kiærskou, Danish botanist (died 1900)

Hjalmar Frederik Christian Kiærskou, sometimes also stated as Hjalmar Kiaerskov, was a Danish botanist.

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06/08/1826

Thomas Alexander Browne, English-Australian author (died 1915)

Thomas Alexander Browne was a British-born Australian police magistrate and author. He published many of his works under the pseudonym Rolf Boldrewood. He is best known for his 1882 bushranging novel Robbery Under Arms. He served as the goldfields commissioner in New South Wales. In his capacity as police magistrate and warden of goldfields, he was entrusted with the administration of justice at Gulgong, Dubbo, Armidale, and Albury. He acted as police magistrate during the period between 1870 and 1895.

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06/08/1809

Alfred, Lord Tennyson, English poet (died 1892)

Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson was an English poet. He was Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom during much of Queen Victoria's reign. In 1829 he was awarded the Chancellor's Gold Medal at Cambridge for one of his first pieces, "Timbuktu". He published his first solo collection of poems, Poems, Chiefly Lyrical, in 1830. "Claribel" and "Mariana", which remain some of Tennyson's most celebrated poems, were included in this volume. Although described by some critics as overly sentimental, his poems ultimately proved popular and brought Tennyson to the attention of well-known writers of the day, including Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Tennyson's early poetry, with its medievalism and powerful visual imagery, was a major influence on the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood.

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06/08/1775

Daniel O'Connell, Irish lawyer and politician, Lord Mayor of Dublin (died 1847)

Daniel O'Connell, hailed in his time as The Liberator, was the acknowledged political leader of Ireland's Roman Catholic majority in the first half of the 19th century. His mobilisation of Catholic Ireland, down to the poorest class of tenant farmers, secured the final installment of Catholic emancipation in 1829 and allowed him to take a seat in the United Kingdom Parliament to which he had been twice elected.

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06/08/1768

Jean-Baptiste Bessières, French general and politician (died 1813)

Jean-Baptiste Bessières, duc d'Istrie was a French military leader of the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars. He was made a Marshal of the Empire by Emperor Napoleon in 1804.

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06/08/1766

William Hyde Wollaston, English chemist and physicist (died 1828)

William Hyde Wollaston was an English chemist and physicist who is famous for discovering the chemical elements palladium and rhodium. He also developed a way to process platinum ore into malleable ingots, patented the camera lucida, and made contributions in electricity and spectroscopy.

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06/08/1765

Petros Mavromichalis, Greek general and politician, 2nd Prime Minister of Greece (died 1848)

Petros Mavromichalis, also known as Petrobey, was a Greek general and politician who played a major role in the lead-up and during the Greek War of Independence. Before the war, he served as the Bey of Mani. His family had a long history of revolts against the Ottoman Empire, which ruled most of what is now Greece. His grandfather Georgios and his father Pierros were among the leaders of the Orlov Revolt.

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06/08/1715

Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues, French author (died 1747)

Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues was a French writer and moralist. He died at age 31, in broken health, having published the year prior—anonymously—a collection of essays and aphorisms with the encouragement of Voltaire, his friend. He first received public notice under his own name in 1797, and from 1857 on, his aphorisms became popular.

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06/08/1697

Charles VII, Holy Roman Emperor (died 1745)

Charles VII was elector of Bavaria from 26 February 1726 and Holy Roman Emperor from 24 January 1742 to his death. He was also King of Bohemia from 1741 to 1743. Charles was a member of the House of Wittelsbach, and his reign as Holy Roman Emperor thus marked the end of three centuries of uninterrupted Habsburg imperial rule, although he was related to the Habsburgs by both blood and marriage.

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06/08/1667

Johann Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician (died 1748)

Johann Bernoulli was a Swiss mathematician and was one of the many prominent mathematicians in the Bernoulli family. He is known for his contributions to infinitesimal calculus and educating Leonhard Euler in the pupil's youth.

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06/08/1666

Maria Sophia of Neuburg (died 1699)

Maria Sophia Elisabeth of Neuburg was Queen of Portugal as the wife of King Peter II from 1687 until her death in 1699. A popular queen, she was noted for her extraordinary generosity and for being the mother of the famously extravagant John V of Portugal.

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06/08/1656

Claude de Forbin, French general (died 1733)

Claude, comte de Forbin-Gardanne was a French Navy officer, nobleman and diplomat. From 1685 to 1688, he led a diplomatic mission to the Ayutthaya Kingdom. He became governor of Bangkok and a general in the Siamese army, and left Siam shortly before King Narai fell ill and was deposed by the 1688 coup d'état. Returning to Europe, he got involved in the Nine Years' War and the War of the Spanish Succession.

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06/08/1651

François Fénelon, French archbishop and poet (died 1715)

François de Salignac de la Mothe-Fénelon, P.S.S., more commonly known as François Fénelon, was a French Catholic archbishop, theologian, poet and writer. Today, he is remembered mostly as the author of The Adventures of Telemachus, first published in 1699. He was a member of the Sulpician Fathers.

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06/08/1644

Louise de La Vallière, French mistress of Louis XIV (died 1710)

Françoise Louise de La Baume Le Blanc, Duchess of La Vallière and Vaujours was a French noblewoman and the mistress of Louis XIV from 1661 to 1667.

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06/08/1638

Nicolas Malebranche, French priest and philosopher (died 1715)

Nicolas Malebranche was a French Oratorian Catholic priest and rationalist philosopher. In his works, he sought to synthesise the thought of St. Augustine and Descartes, in order to demonstrate the active role of God in every aspect of the world. Malebranche is best known for his doctrines of vision in God, occasionalism and ontologism.

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06/08/1622

Tjerk Hiddes de Vries, Dutch admiral (died 1666)

Tjerk Hiddes de Vries was a Dutch States Navy officer. The French, who could not pronounce his name, called him Kiërkides. His name was also given as Tsjerk, Tierck or Tjerck.

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06/08/1619

Barbara Strozzi, Italian composer and singer-songwriter (died 1677)

Barbara Strozzi was a Venetian composer and singer of the middle Baroque Period. During her lifetime, Strozzi published eight volumes of her own music, and had more secular music in print than any other composer of the era. This was achieved without support from the Church or consistent patronage from the nobility.

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06/08/1609

Richard Bennett, English-American politician, Colonial Governor of Virginia (died 1675)

Richard Bennett was an English planter and Governor of the Colony of Virginia, serving 1652–1655. He had first come to the Virginia colony in 1629 to represent his merchant uncle Edward Bennett's business, managing his plantation known as Bennett's Welcome in Warrascoyack. Two decades later, Bennett immigrated to the Maryland colony with his family, and settled on the Severn River in Anne Arundel County.

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06/08/1605

Bulstrode Whitelocke, English lawyer (died 1675)

Sir Bulstrode Whitelocke was an English lawyer, writer, parliamentarian, and one of the commissioners of the Great Seal during the Interregnum.

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06/08/1572

Fakhr-al-Din II, Druze emir (died 1635)

Fakhr al-Din Ma'n, commonly known as Fakhr al-Din II or Fakhreddine II, was the paramount Druze emir of Mount Lebanon from the Ma'n dynasty, an Ottoman governor of Sidon-Beirut and Safed, and the strongman over much of the Levant from the 1620s to 1633. For uniting modern Lebanon's constituent parts and communities, especially the Druze and the Maronites, under a single authority for the first time in history, he is generally regarded as the country's founder. Although he ruled in the name of the Ottomans, he acted with considerable autonomy and developed close ties with European powers in defiance of the Ottoman imperial government.

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06/08/1504

Matthew Parker, English archbishop (died 1575)

Matthew Parker was an English bishop. He was the Archbishop of Canterbury in the Church of England from 1559 to his death. He was also an influential theologian and arguably the co-founder of a distinctive tradition of Anglican theological thought.

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06/08/1180

Emperor Go-Toba of Japan (died 1239)

Emperor Go-Toba was the 82nd emperor of Japan, according to the traditional order of succession. His reign spanned the years from 1183 through 1198.

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