Thursday, 11th December 2025 in Lisbon

On this day, 217 notable people were born on 11th December — spanning from 1445 to 2000. From world leaders to artists and scientists, discover who shares this birthday.

11/12/2000

Onyeka Okongwu, American basketball player

Onyeka Okongwu is an American professional basketball player for the Atlanta Hawks of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played college basketball for the USC Trojans.

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11/12/1997

Matthew Tkachuk, American ice hockey player

Matthew Brendan Tkachuk is an American professional ice hockey player who is a winger and alternate captain for the Florida Panthers of the National Hockey League (NHL). He previously played in the NHL for the Calgary Flames. The Flames selected him in the first round, sixth overall, in the 2016 NHL entry draft.

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11/12/1996

Hailee Steinfeld, American actress, singer and songwriter

Hailee Steinfeld is an American actress and singer. She had her breakthrough with the western film True Grit (2010), which earned her various accolades, including nominations for an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, a Critics' Choice Movie Award and an Actor Award.

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11/12/1995

Abbi Grant, Scottish footballer

Abbi Grant is a Scottish footballer who plays as a forward for Durham in the Women's Super League 2. Grant has previously played for various clubs in Scotland, Belgium and Greece, and represented the Scotland national team.

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11/12/1993

Yalitza Aparicio, Mexican actress

Yalitza Aparicio Martínez is a Mexican actress. She made her film debut as Cleo in Alfonso Cuarón's 2018 drama Roma, which earned her a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress; Aparicio was the first Indigenous Mexican woman to be nominated for that award. In 2019, Time magazine named her one of the 100 most influential people in the world. She was also named the UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador for Indigenous Peoples in the same year.

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11/12/1992

Tiffany Alvord, American singer-songwriter

Tiffany Lynn Alvord is an American singer and songwriter. She has been cited as one of YouTube's first "home-grown celebrities". In December 2012, Alvord performed in Times Square on the Nivea stage with Carly Rae Jepsen, Train, PSY and Taylor Swift as part of the 2012 New Year's Eve celebration.

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Malcolm Brogdon, American basketball player

Malcolm Moses Brogdon is an American former professional basketball player who played in the National Basketball Association for nine seasons. He played college basketball for the Virginia Cavaliers under Tony Bennett.

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11/12/1990

Alexa Demie, American actress and singer

Alexa Demie is an American actress best known for portraying Maddy Perez on the HBO teen drama Euphoria (2019–2026). Her film credits include Brigsby Bear (2017), Mid90s (2018), and Waves (2019).

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11/12/1989

Kellie Harrington, Irish boxer

Kellie Anne Harrington is an Irish amateur boxer. During her career she was double Olympic gold medalist, winning at Tokyo 2020 and Paris 2024, and 2018 World champion. Harrington also won gold medals at the 2023 European Games and European Championship.

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11/12/1988

Tim Southee, New Zealand cricketer

Timothy Grant Southee is a former New Zealand international cricketer who has captained New Zealand cricket team in all formats of the game. He is a right-arm medium-fast bowler and a hard-hitting lower order batsman. The third New Zealand bowler to take 300 Test wickets, he was one of the country's youngest cricketers, debuting at the age of 19 in February 2008. On his Test debut against England he took 5 wickets and made 77 off 40 balls in the second innings. He plays for Northern Districts in the Plunket Shield, Ford Trophy and Super Smash as well as Northland in the Hawke Cup. He was named as New Zealand's captain for the first T20I against West Indies in place of Kane Williamson, who was rested for that game. The Blackcaps won that match by 47 runs. Southee was a member of the New Zealand team that won the 2019–2021 ICC World Test Championship. Southee's Test batting strike rate of 82.68 is the third highest among batsmen with a minimum of 2000 career runs. He was also a part of the New Zealand squads to finish as runners-up in two Cricket World Cup finals in 2015 and 2019.

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11/12/1987

Violetta Bock, German politician

Violetta Bock is a German politician and member of the Bundestag. A member of The Left, she has represented Hesse since 2025.

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Clifton Geathers, American football player

Clifton Geathers is an American former professional football player who was a defensive end in the National Football League (NFL) for the Miami Dolphins, Dallas Cowboys, Indianapolis Colts, Philadelphia Eagles, and Washington Redskins. He was selected by the Cleveland Browns in the sixth round of the 2010 NFL draft. He played college football for the South Carolina Gamecocks.

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Alex Russell, Australian actor

Alexander Andrew Russell is an Australian actor and director. He made his film debut in the thriller film Wasted on the Young (2011) before his breakout with a starring role in the found footage superhero film Chronicle (2012).

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Miranda Tapsell, Australian actress

Miranda Tapsell is a Larrakia Aboriginal Australian actress of both stage and screen, best known for her role as Cynthia in the Wayne Blair film The Sapphires and her 2015 performance as Martha Tennant in the Nine Network drama series Love Child. In 2016, she portrayed Fatima in the Stan series Wolf Creek. She starred in and co-wrote the 2019 film Top End Wedding, as well as the 2025 Amazon Prime Video sequel series Top End Bub.

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11/12/1986

Roy Hibbert, American basketball player

Roy Denzil Hibbert is a Jamaican-American former professional basketball player. He is a two-time NBA All-Star, and earned NBA All-Defensive Second Team honors in 2014 with the Indiana Pacers. Hibbert was the runner-up for the NBA Defensive Player of the Year Award in the 2013–14 NBA season, placing second behind Joakim Noah.

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11/12/1985

Karla Souza, Mexican actress

Karla Susana Olivares Souza is a Mexican actress known for her roles as Laurel Castillo on the ABC legal drama series How to Get Away with Murder and Marina Hayworth on the ABC sitcom Home Economics. She won the International Emmy Award for Best Actress in 2023 for her role as Mariel Saenz in the television movie La Caída.

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11/12/1984

Leighton Baines, English footballer

Leighton John Baines is an English professional football coach and former player who played as a left-back. He is the assistant manager of Premier League club Everton.

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Sandra Echeverría, Mexican actress and singer

Sandra Echeverría Gamboa is a Mexican actress.

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James Ellsworth, American wrestler

James Ellsworth Morris, is an American professional wrestler, better known by the ring name James Ellsworth. He is best known for his tenure with WWE.

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Xosha Roquemore, American actress

Xosha Roquemore is an American actress. She is best known for her roles as Jo Ann in Precious and Tamra in The Mindy Project.

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11/12/1982

Roman Harper, American football player

Roman Harper is an American former professional football player who was a safety in the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Alabama Crimson Tide, and was selected by the New Orleans Saints in the second round of the 2006 NFL draft. In 2009, Harper earned his first Pro Bowl invitation and helped lead the Saints to Super Bowl XLIV. The following year, 2010, he was again selected to the Pro Bowl. In 2015, he helped lead the Carolina Panthers to Super Bowl 50.

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Pablo Pérez Companc, Argentine race car driver

Pablo Pérez Companc is an Argentine racing driver from Buenos Aires.

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11/12/1981

Rebekkah Brunson, American basketball player and coach

Rebekkah Brunson is an American basketball coach and broadcast analyst. She is currently an assistant coach with the Minnesota Lynx of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA). Brunson is a former forward for the Lynx and is the only player to win five WNBA championships. She held the WNBA record for rebounding, which she ceded to Lynx center Sylvia Fowles in 2020.

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Jason Kennedy, American journalist

Jason Kennedy is an entertainment journalist. He was the host of E! News and Live from E! and a contributor to the NBC Today Show.

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Jeff McComsey, American author and illustrator

Jeff McComsey, is an American illustrator and author of graphic novels, animations, and video game art.

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Paul Medhurst, Australian footballer

Paul Medhurst is a former professional Australian rules football player who played for the Collingwood Football Club and the Fremantle Football Club.

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Javier Saviola, Argentine footballer

Javier Pedro Saviola Fernández, better known as El Conejo, is an Argentine former professional footballer who played as a forward. He was trained in Club Atlético River Plate's academy, the team which he would debut in 1998.

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11/12/1980

Adi Keissar, Israeli poet

Adi Keissar is an Israeli poet, and founder of the cultural group Ars Poetica.

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Kristjan Kitsing, Estonian basketball player

Kristjan Kitsing is an Estonian former professional basketball player. Kitsing has also represented the Estonia national basketball team.

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11/12/1979

Colleen Hoover, American author

Margaret Colleen Hoover is an American author who primarily writes novels in the romance and young adult fiction genres. She is best known for her 2016 novel It Ends with Us. Many of her works were self-published before they were picked up by a publishing house. As of October 2022, Hoover had sold approximately 20 million books. She was named one of the 100 most influential people in the world by Time magazine in 2023.

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Valdis Mintals, Estonian figure skater

Valdis Mintals is an Estonian pair skater.

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Rider Strong, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter

Rider King Strong is an American actor, producer, director, and screenwriter. He is best known for starring as Shawn Hunter on the ABC sitcom Boy Meets World (1993–2000), which he reprised in its sequel series Girl Meets World (2014–2017). He also headlined the cult classic Cabin Fever (2002) and co-wrote and directed the independent film Irish Twins (2008) with his brother Shiloh. He provided the voices of Brick Flagg in Kim Possible (2002–2004) and Kim Possible Movie: So the Drama (2005), and Tom Lucitor in Star vs. the Forces of Evil (2015–2019). In 2015, Strong was honored with the Young Artist Former Child Star Lifetime Achievement Award.

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11/12/1978

Roy Wood, Jr., American comedian, actor, and radio host

Roy Norris Wood Jr. is an American stand-up comedian, actor, and writer who first became well known for his correspondent appearances on The Daily Show. Wood has been hosting the American adaptation of the news and entertainment panel show Have I Got News for You on CNN since September 2024.

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11/12/1977

Mark Streit, Swiss ice hockey player

Mark Thomas Streit is a Swiss former professional ice hockey defenceman. He was formerly the captain of both the New York Islanders and the Swiss national team. Streit was one of the few swingmen in the NHL who could play both as a defenceman and as a forward. He was inducted into the IIHF Hall of Fame in 2020.

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11/12/1976

Shareef Abdur-Rahim, American basketball player, coach, and manager

Julius Shareef Abdur-Rahim is an American former professional basketball player who is the president of the NBA G League. Nicknamed Reef, he previously served as the director of player personnel for the Sacramento Kings of the National Basketball Association (NBA) and the general manager of the Reno Bighorns, the Kings' minor-league affiliate.

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Yujiro Shirakawa, Japanese actor

Yujiro Shirakawa is a Japanese actor and singer who is represented by the talent agency, G.P.R.

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11/12/1975

Gerben de Knegt, Dutch cyclist

Gerben de Knegt is a former professional cyclo-cross racing cyclist and mountain biker from the Netherlands. He was born in Tilburg, North Brabant.

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11/12/1974

Maarten Lafeber, Dutch golfer

Maarten Lafeber is a Dutch professional golfer.

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Rey Mysterio, American wrestler

Óscar Gutiérrez Rubio, better known by his ring name Rey Mysterio, is an American professional wrestler. He is signed to WWE, where he performs on the Raw brand. He is also the on-screen general manager of Lucha Libre AAA Worldwide (AAA). Widely regarded as both one of the greatest luchadors and cruiserweight wrestlers of all time, Mysterio is an inductee of the AAA Hall of Fame, Wrestling Observer Newsletter Hall of Fame, and WWE Hall of Fame.

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Lisa Ortiz, American theatre and voice actress

Lisa Ortiz is an American voice actress and voice director. She is best known for her roles in English anime adaptations, such as Lina Inverse in Slayers and Amy Rose in Sonic X. She voiced the latter character in the mainline and spin-off Sonic the Hedgehog video games from 2005 to 2010.

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Ben Shephard, English journalist and television host

Benjamin Peter Sherrington Shephard is an English television presenter and journalist. Since 2024, he has co-presented ITV's This Morning alongside Cat Deeley.

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Gete Wami, Ethiopian runner

Getenesh "Gete" Wami Degife is an Ethiopian former long-distance runner who competed in cross country, track, and road events.

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11/12/1973

Mos Def, American rapper

Yasiin Bey, formerly known as Mos Def, is an American rapper, singer, and actor. A prominent figure in conscious hip-hop, he is recognized for his use of wordplay and commentary on social and political issues, such as police brutality, American exceptionalism, and the status of African Americans in the United States.

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11/12/1972

Daniel Alfredsson, Swedish ice hockey player

Daniel Alfredsson, nicknamed "Alfie", is a Swedish-Canadian former professional ice hockey player and assistant coach for the Ottawa Senators. He spent 18 seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL), primarily with the Senators. He also briefly played for the Detroit Red Wings before his retirement in 2014.

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Sami Al-Jaber, Saudi Arabian footballer and manager

Sami Abdullah Mohammed Al-Jaber is a Saudi Arabian football manager and former professional player who played as a striker. He spent the entirety of his career with Al-Hilal, apart from a five-month loan to English club Wolverhampton Wanderers.

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Murray Goodwin, Zimbabwean cricketer

Murray William Goodwin is a Zimbabwean former cricketer who played 19 Tests and 71 One Day Internationals. He was a right-handed top-order batsman, strong on the back foot, and a good cutter and puller of the ball.

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Andriy Husin, Ukrainian footballer and manager (died 2014)

Andriy Leonidovych Husin was a Ukrainian professional football player and coach. He played in the Ukraine national team, and was one of Ukraine's most capped players. He was a member of their squad at the 2006 World Cup.

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11/12/1971

Willie McGinest, American football player and sportscaster

William Lee McGinest Jr. is an American former professional football linebacker who played in the National Football League (NFL) for 15 seasons, primarily with the New England Patriots. He played college football for the USC Trojans, twice receiving first-team All-Pac-10 honors, and was selected fourth overall by the Patriots in the 1994 NFL draft. During his 12 seasons with the team, he was named to two Pro Bowls and won three Super Bowl titles. McGinest also holds the postseason record for sacks. For his accomplishments in New England, he was inducted to the Patriots Hall of Fame in 2015.

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11/12/1970

Victoria Fuller, American model and actress

Victoria Alynette Fuller is an American glamour model, artist, actress and reality TV performer.

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11/12/1969

Viswanathan Anand, Indian chess player

Viswanathan "Vishy" Anand is an Indian chess grandmaster. Anand is a five-time World Chess Champion, a two-time World Rapid Chess Champion, and a World Blitz Chess Cup Champion. He became the first grandmaster from India in 1988, and he has the eighth-highest peak FIDE rating of all time. In 2022, he was the elected Deputy President of FIDE. He has had an important role in popularizing chess in India.

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Stig Inge Bjørnebye, Norwegian footballer and manager

Stig Inge Bjørnebye is a Norwegian former professional footballer who played in Norway, England, and Denmark, most notably for Liverpool, and is currently the performance director of the Scottish football club Glasgow Rangers. His preferred position was left back, which he occupied for domestic clubs and the national team. Bjørnebye was appointed assistant manager of Norway in 2003, relinquishing the role three years later to succeed Tom Nordlie as manager of IK Start. He was the sports director of Rosenborg Ballklub from March 2015 until November 2019.

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Max Martini, American actor, director, and screenwriter

Maximilian Carlo Martini is an American actor. He is known for his roles as Wiley in Level 9, First Sergeant Sid Wojo in The Great Raid, and as Master Sergeant Mack Gerhardt in the CBS military drama television series The Unit. He also starred in the film 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi as Mark Geist. In recent years, Martini appeared in the sci-fi thriller Osiris (2025), and starred in the noir crime drama Hollywood Grit (2025), which he also produced.

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Alessandro Melli, Italian footballer and manager

Alessandro "Sandro" Melli is an Italian former footballer who played as a striker. He won five team honours in his professional career.

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11/12/1968

Emmanuelle Charpentier, French researcher in microbiology, genetics and biochemistry, and Nobel laureate

Emmanuelle Marie Charpentier is a French professor and researcher in microbiology, genetics, and biochemistry. She has served as a director at the Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology in Berlin since 2015. Three years later, she founded an independent research institute, the Max Planck Unit for the Science of Pathogens. In 2020, Charpentier and American biochemist Jennifer Doudna of the University of California, Berkeley, were awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry "for the development of a method for genome editing". This was the first science Nobel Prize ever won by two women only.

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Fabrizio Ravanelli, Italian footballer and manager

Fabrizio Ravanelli is an Italian football manager and former player.

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11/12/1967

Peter Kelamis, Australian voice actor

Peter Kelamis is an Australian actor and stand-up comedian. He is best known for voice roles including Goku in Ocean's English dub of the animated series Dragon Ball Z, Rolf from Ed, Edd n Eddy, Tail Terrier in Krypto the Superdog, Dr. Adam Brody in Stargate Universe, and Wing Saber in Transformers: Cybertron, replacing the character's previous voice actor Colin Murdock.

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Mo'Nique, American comedian, actress, and producer

Monique Angela Hicks, known mononymously as Mo'Nique, is an American comedian and Academy Award-winning actress. She debuted as a member of The Queens of Comedy and earned recognition as a stand-up comedian. In 2002, she received a nomination for the Grammy Award for Best Comedy Album. She transitioned to mainstream roles starring in the UPN series The Parkers (1999–2004) and the films Phat Girlz (2006) and Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins (2008).

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Chris Shepherd, English animator, director, producer, and screenwriter

Chris Shepherd is a double BAFTA nominated British television/film writer, graphic novelist and director. Born in Anfield, Liverpool in 1967, he is known for combining live action with animation. His work fuses comedy with commentary on the darker side of human nature.

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Katy Steding, American basketball player and coach

Kathryn Suzanne Steding is an American former collegiate and professional basketball player. She is currently an assistant coach for the Stanford Cardinal women's basketball team.

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11/12/1966

Gary Dourdan, American actor

Gary Dourdan is an American actor. He is known for portraying Warrick Brown on the television series CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, Shazza Zulu on the television series A Different World and Mickey Monroe in crime thriller Righteous Villains.

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Erik Honoré, Norwegian guitarist and producer

Erik Honoré is a Norwegian writer, musician, record producer and sound engineer. As a musician, he has collaborated with Jan Bang, David Sylvian, Brian Eno/Peter Schwalm, Jon Hassell, Nils Petter Molvær, Arve Henriksen, Sidsel Endresen, Unni Wilhelmsen, Eivind Aarset, Claudia Scott, Anne Grete Preus, Savoy and produced all the albums from Velvet Belly.

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Göran Kropp, Swedish race car driver and mountaineer (died 2002)

Lars Olof Göran Kropp was a Swedish mountaineer, the first Scandinavian to climb Mount Everest without oxygen. He made a solo ascent of Mount Everest without bottled oxygen or Sherpa support on 23 May 1996, after traveling there from Sweden by bicycle and foot.

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Leon Lai, Hong Kong singer and actor

Leon Lai Ming SBS BBS MH, is a Hong Kong actor, singer, film director, and businessman. He is one of the "Four Heavenly Kings" of Hong Kong pop music.

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11/12/1965

Jay Bell, American baseball player and coach

Jay Stuart Bell is an American former shortstop and coach. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Cleveland Indians (1986–1988), Pittsburgh Pirates (1989–1996), Kansas City Royals (1997), Arizona Diamondbacks (1998–2002) and the New York Mets (2003). He previously was the bench coach for the Cincinnati Reds, and was the bench coach for the New Zealand national baseball team that competed in the qualifying tournament for the 2013 World Baseball Classic.

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Gavin Hill, New Zealand rugby player

Gavin Lyle Hill is a New Zealand former rugby union and rugby league footballer who played in the 1980s, 1990s and 2000s, and coached rugby union the 2000s. He resided in Wellington for 10-years before moving back to Auckland in 2008 to take a coaching position in the Air New Zealand Cup.

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Glenn Lazarus, Australian rugby league player and politician

Glenn Patrick Lazarus is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer, and a former Australian Senator. An Australian international and New South Wales State of Origin representative prop, Lazarus won premierships with the Canberra Raiders, Brisbane Broncos and Melbourne Storm, who he also captained. He is the only player in the history of the game to win grand finals with three separate clubs, with the grand final wins also being the first for each club. After his retirement from football he assisted several NRL clubs in a coaching capacity.

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Giannis Ragousis, Greek economist and politician, Greek Minister for National Defence

Giannis Ragousis is a Greek economist and politician of SYRIZA who had previously served in the government of Panhellenic Socialist Movement.

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11/12/1964

Justin Currie, Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist

Justin Robert Currie is a Scottish singer and songwriter best known as a founding member of the alternative rock band Del Amitri.

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Dave Schools, American singer-songwriter, bass player, and producer

David Allen Schools is a bass player and founding member of American rock band Widespread Panic. He is also a record producer, songwriter and journalist with articles published in a wide variety of music magazines. Schools lives in Sonoma County, California with his two dogs; when not on tour he likes to garden.

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Carolyn Waldo, Canadian swimmer and sportscaster

Carolyn Jane Waldo, is a Canadian former synchronized swimmer and broadcaster.

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11/12/1963

Mario Been, Dutch footballer and manager

Marinus Antonius Been is a Dutch football manager and former professional player.

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Mark Greatbatch, New Zealand cricketer

Mark John Greatbatch is a former New Zealand international cricketer. He scored more than 2,000 runs in his 41 Test matches for New Zealand. A left-handed batsman and occasional right-arm medium pace bowler in first class cricket for Auckland and Central Districts, Greatbatch scored 9,890 first class runs in total as well as being an occasional wicket keeper.

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Claudia Kohde-Kilsch, German tennis player

Claudia Kohde-Kilsch is a former German tennis player and member of the Die Linke. During her tennis career, she won two women's doubles Grand Slam titles. She also won eight singles titles and a total of 25 doubles titles.

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John Lammers, Dutch footballer and manager

Johannes Gerardus Adrianus "John" Lammers is a Dutch professional football manager and former player who is an assistant coach with Turkish Süper Lig club İstanbul Başakşehir.

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Nigel Winterburn, English footballer and coach

Nigel Winterburn is an English former professional footballer who made 687 appearances in the Football League and Premier League. He was capped twice by England, in 1989 and 1993.

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11/12/1962

Ben Browder, American actor

Robert Benedict Browder is an American actor, writer and film director. He is best known for his roles as John Crichton in Farscape and Cameron Mitchell in Stargate SG-1.

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11/12/1961

Dave King, Irish-American singer-songwriter and guitarist

Dave King is an Irish singer, musician and songwriter.

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Steve Nicol, Scottish footballer and manager

Stephen Nicol is a Scottish retired professional footballer who mainly played as a right back and occasionally played in other positions across defence and midfield. He played for the successful Liverpool teams of the 1980s. He was also a regular member of the Scotland national team and represented his country at the 1986 FIFA World Cup.

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Macky Sall, Senegalese engineer and politician, fourth President of Senegal

Macky Sall is a Senegalese politician who served as the fourth president of Senegal from 2012 to 2024. He was the eighth prime minister from 2004 to 2007, under President Abdoulaye Wade and was president of the National Assembly from 2007 to 2008.

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Marco Pierre White, English chef and mentor

Marco Pierre White is an English chef, restaurateur and television personality. In 1995, White became the first British chef and, at age 33, the youngest chef to earn three Michelin stars. He has trained chefs including Gordon Ramsay, Mario Batali, Shannon Bennett, Curtis Stone, Phil Howard and Stephen Terry. He has been dubbed "the first celebrity chef" and the enfant terrible of the British restaurant scene.

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11/12/1960

Anders Eldebrink, Swedish ice hockey player and coach

Anders Karl Daniel Eldebrink is a Swedish former ice hockey defenceman who played in the SEL in the 1970s and 1980s. He also played 165 games for the Swedish national team.

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11/12/1958

Chris Hughton, English-born Irish footballer and manager

Christopher William Gerard Hughton is a professional football manager and former player. Born in England, he represented the Republic of Ireland national team. He was most recently head coach of the Ghana national team.

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Tom Shadyac, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter

Thomas Peter Shadyac is an American film director, producer, and writer. The youngest joke-writer ever for comedian Bob Hope, Shadyac is widely known for writing and directing the comedy films Ace Ventura: Pet Detective (1994), The Nutty Professor (1996), Liar Liar (1997), Patch Adams (1998), and Bruce Almighty (2003). In 2010, Shadyac retired from the comedy genre and wrote, directed, and narrated his own documentary film I Am, that explores his abandonment of a materialistic lifestyle following his involvement in a bicycle accident three years earlier.

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Nikki Sixx, American bass player, songwriter, and producer

Nikki Sixx is an American musician, songwriter, record producer, author, photographer, and radio personality, best known as the co-founder, bassist, primary songwriter, and only constant member of the heavy metal band Mötley Crüe. Prior to forming Mötley Crüe, Sixx was a member of Sister before going on to form London with his Sister bandmate Lizzie Grey. In 2000, he formed side project group 58 with Dave Darling, Steve Gibb and Bucket Baker, issuing one album, Diet for a New America. Also in 2002, he formed the hard rock supergroup Brides of Destruction with L.A. Guns guitarist Tracii Guns. Formed in 2006, initially to record an audio accompaniment to Sixx's autobiography The Heroin Diaries: A Year in the Life of a Shattered Rock Star, his side band Sixx:A.M. featured songwriter, producer, and vocalist James Michael and guitarist DJ Ashba.

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11/12/1957

Peter Bagge, American author and illustrator

Peter Bagge is an American cartoonist whose best-known work includes the comics Neat Stuff and Hate. His stories often use black humor and exaggerated cartooning to dramatize the reduced expectations of middle-class American youth. He won two Harvey Awards in 1991, one for best cartoonist and one for his work on Hate. In recent decades Bagge has done more fact-based comics, everything from biographies to history to comics journalism. Publishers of Bagge's articles, illustrations, and comics include suck.com, MAD Magazine, toonlet, Discover, and the Weekly World News, with the comic strip Adventures of Batboy. He has expressed his libertarian views in features for Reason.

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11/12/1956

Lani Brockman, American actress and director

Lani Brockman is an American theater actress and director. She is the founder and artistic director of Studio East.

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Andrew Lansley, English politician, Secretary of State for Health

Andrew David Lansley, Baron Lansley is a British Conservative politician who previously served as Secretary of State for Health and Leader of the House of Commons. He was Member of Parliament (MP) for South Cambridgeshire from 1997 to 2015.

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11/12/1955

Gene Grossman, American economist and academic

Gene Michael Grossman is an American economist who is the Jacob Viner Professor of International Economics at Princeton University. He is known for his research on international trade, in large part focusing on the relationship between economic growth and trade and the political economy of trade policy. He is also known for his work on the environmental Kuznets curve.

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Stu Jackson, American basketball player, coach, and manager

Stuart Wayne Jackson is an American basketball executive and former basketball coach. He is currently the Commissioner of the West Coast Conference since April 24, 2023 and a member of the NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Committee since June 2024. Jackson has coached the New York Knicks from 1989 to 1990, and the Vancouver Grizzlies in 1997, and has also served as the Grizzlies' general manager. He is the former executive vice president of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He previously was the director of basketball operations for the Pau-based French professional club Élan Béarnais from 2021 to 2023.

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Ray Kelvin, British fashion designer

Raymond Stuart Kelvin CBE is a British businessman, the founder and former chief executive of the retail clothing company Ted Baker. He founded the Ted Baker brand in 1988 when he opened a shop specialising in men's shirts in Glasgow. He left the company in 2019.

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Christian Sackewitz, German footballer and manager

Christian Sackewitz is a former professional German footballer.

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11/12/1954

Brad Bryant, American golfer

Bradley Dub Bryant is an American professional golfer.

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Sylvester Clarke, Barbadian cricketer (died 1999)

Sylvester Theophilus Clarke was a Barbadian cricketer who played 11 Test matches and 10 One Day Internationals for the West Indian cricket team.

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Santiago Creel, Mexican lawyer and politician, Mexican Secretary of the Interior

Santiago Creel Miranda is a Mexican lawyer and politician, and a member of the National Action Party (PAN). Since 1 September 2021, he had used to be a federal deputy and the current president of the Congress of the Union and of the board of directors of the Chamber of Deputies. However, Creel resigned from his position as president of the Chamber of Deputies on August 14, 2023, to pursue the presidential nomination for the 2024 elections. As of March 2026, the current President of the Chamber of Deputies is Kenia López Rabadán, who was appointed on 2 September 2025.

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Jermaine Jackson, American singer-songwriter, bass player, and producer

Jermaine LaJuane Jacksun is an American musician. A member of the Jackson family, he was second vocalist after his brother Michael of the Jackson 5 from 1964 to 1975, and played bass guitar. In 1983, he rejoined the group, which had been renamed the Jacksons; he then consistently played in the group's performances and recordings until he left the group again in 2020.

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Guðlaugur Kristinn Óttarsson, Icelandic guitarist, mathematician, and engineer

Guðlaugur Kristinn Óttarsson is an Icelandic researcher and composer.

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11/12/1953

Bess Armstrong, American actress

Elizabeth Key "Bess" Armstrong is an American actress. She is known for her roles in the films The Four Seasons (1981), High Road to China (1983), Jaws 3-D (1983), and Nothing in Common (1986). Armstrong also starred in the ABC drama series My So-Called Life and had lead roles in a number of made-for-television films.

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11/12/1951

Mazlan Othman, Malaysian astrophysicist and astronomer

Mazlan binti Othman is a Malaysian astrophysicist whose work has pioneered Malaysia's participation in space exploration. She was her country's first astrophysicist, and helped to create a curriculum in astrophysics at the national university, as well as to build public awareness and understanding of astronomy and space issues. She was appointed director general of Angkasa, the Malaysian National Space Agency and served as the director of the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs in Vienna from 2007 to 2014.

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Ria Stalman, Dutch discus thrower and shot putter

Maria Geertruida "Ria" Stalman is a Dutch retired discus thrower and shot putter.

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11/12/1949

Christina Onassis, Greek-Argentine businesswoman, socialite, and heiress (died 1988)

Christina Onassis was a Greek-Argentine businesswoman, socialite and heiress to the Onassis fortune. She was the only daughter of Aristotle Onassis and Athina Mary "Tina" Livanos.

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11/12/1948

Stamatis Spanoudakis, Greek guitarist and composer

Stamatis Spanoudakis is a modern Greek classical composer. In his early career, he studied classical guitar. He shifted to rock music, but then continued classical studies at the Würzburg State Conservatory with Bertold Hummel and later in Athens with Konstantinos Kydoniatis. Later, he studied Byzantine music. He has worked with various Greek singers, composing the music and writing the lyrics for a large number of hit songs. With his religious works, he has provided a very different perspective of contemporary Byzantine music. He has also composed numerous soundtracks. Since 1994, he has exclusively composed instrumental music, such as music that embraces Greece's history and religion.

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Shinji Tanimura, Japanese singer-songwriter (died 2023)

Shinji Tanimura was a Japanese singer-songwriter.

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11/12/1946

Rhoma Irama, Indonesian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor

Raden Haji Oma Irama, better known as Rhoma Irama, is an Indonesian dangdut singer, songwriter, guitarist and former politician of Sundanese descent.

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Rick McCosker, Australian cricketer

Richard Bede McCosker is a former Australian cricketer. He was a part of the Australian squad which finished as runners-up at the 1975 Cricket World Cup.

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Diana Palmer, American journalist and author

Susan Kyle, known by her pen name Diana Palmer, is an American writer who has published romantic novels since 1979. She has also written romances as Diana Blayne, Katy Currie, and under her married name Susan Kyle and a science fiction novel as Susan S. Kyle.

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11/12/1944

Teri Garr, American actress and comedian (died 2024)

Terry Ann "Teri" Garr was an American actress, comedian and dancer. Known for her comedic roles in film and television in the 1970s and 1980s, she often played women struggling to cope with the life-changing experiences of their husbands, children or boyfriends. She received nominations for an Academy Award and a British Academy Film Award for her performance in Tootsie (1982), playing a struggling actress who loses the soap opera role of a female hospital administrator to her male friend and acting coach.

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Jon Garrison, American tenor and educator

Jon Garrison is a successful American operatic tenor who has been performing in locations around the world since 1965. He first appeared at the Metropolitan Opera in 1974, in a secondary role in the company premiere of Death in Venice, which featured Sir Peter Pears. At that theatre, he has since been seen in Gianni Schicchi, Don Pasquale, Fidelio, Wozzeck, Don Giovanni, Die Fledermaus, etc.

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Lynda Day George, American actress

Lynda Louise Day George is an American television and film actress whose career spanned three decades from the 1960s to the 1980s. She was a cast member on Mission: Impossible (1971–1973). She was also the wife of actor Christopher George.

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Michael Lang, American concert promoter and producer (died 2022)

Michael Scott Lang was an American concert promoter, producer, and artistic manager who was best known as a co-creator of the Woodstock Music & Art Festival in 1969. Lang was the organizer of the event, as well as the organizer for its follow-up events, Woodstock '94 and Woodstock '99. He later became a producer of records, films, and other concerts, as well as a manager for performing artists, an author, and a sculptor.

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Brenda Lee, American singer-songwriter

Brenda Mae Tarpley, known professionally as Brenda Lee, is an American singer. Primarily performing rockabilly, pop, country, and Christmas music, she achieved her first Billboard hit at age 12 in 1957, and was given the nickname "Little Miss Dynamite". Some of Lee's most successful songs include "Sweet Nothin's", "I'm Sorry", "I Want to Be Wanted", "Speak to Me Pretty", "All Alone Am I", and "Losing You". Her festive song "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree", recorded in 1958, topped the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 in 2023, making Lee the oldest artist ever to top the chart and breaking several chart records.

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11/12/1943

John Kerry, American lieutenant, lawyer, and politician, 68th United States Secretary of State

John Forbes Kerry is an American attorney, politician, diplomat, and former naval officer who served as the 68th United States secretary of state from 2013 to 2017 in the administration of President Barack Obama. A member of the Democratic Party, he previously represented Massachusetts in the United States Senate from 1985 to 2013 and later served as the first U.S. special presidential envoy for climate from 2021 to 2024. Kerry was the Democratic presidential nominee in the 2004 presidential election.

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11/12/1942

Anna Carteret, English actress

Anna Carteret is a British stage and screen actress.

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11/12/1941

Max Baucus, American lawyer, politician, and diplomat, 11th United States Ambassador to China

Maxwell Sieben Baucus is an American politician who served as a United States senator from Montana from 1978 to 2014. A member of the Democratic Party, he was a U.S. senator for over 35 years, making him the longest-serving U.S. senator in Montana history. President Barack Obama later appointed Baucus to replace Gary Locke as the 11th U.S. ambassador to the People's Republic of China, a position he held from 2014 until 2017.

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J. P. Parisé, Canadian ice hockey player, coach, and manager (died 2015)

Jean-Paul Joseph-Louis Parisé was a Canadian professional ice hockey coach and player. Parisé played in the National Hockey League (NHL), most notably for the Minnesota North Stars and the New York Islanders.

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Rogier van Otterloo, Dutch conductor and composer (died 1988)

Willem Rogier van Otterloo was a Dutch composer and conductor.

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J. Frank Wilson, American singer-songwriter (died 1991)

John Frank Wilson was an American singer, the lead vocalist of J. Frank Wilson and the Cavaliers. He was inducted into the West Texas Music Hall Of Fame.

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11/12/1940

David Gates, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer

David Ashworth Gates is a retired American singer-songwriter, musician and producer, who is best known for being the frontman and co-lead singer of the group Bread, which reached the top of the musical charts in Europe and North America on several occasions in the 1970s. The band was inducted into the Vocal Group Hall of Fame.

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Donna Mills, American actress and producer

Donna Mills is an American actress. She began her television career in 1966 with a recurring role on The Secret Storm, and in the same year appeared on Broadway in Woody Allen's comedy Don't Drink the Water. She made her film debut the next year in The Incident. She then starred for three years on the soap opera Love Is a Many Splendored Thing (1967–70), before starring as Tobie Williams, the girlfriend of Clint Eastwood's character in the 1971 thriller Play Misty for Me. Mills played the female lead in the heist film Murph the Surf (1975), and had starring roles in a number of made-for-television movies during the 1970s.

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11/12/1939

Tom Hayden, American activist and politician (died 2016)

Thomas Emmet Hayden was an American social and political activist, author, and politician. Hayden was best known for his role as an anti-war, civil rights, and intellectual activist in the 1960s, becoming an influential figure in the rise of the New Left. As a leader of the leftist organization Students for a Democratic Society, he wrote the Port Huron Statement, helped lead protests at the 1968 Democratic National Convention, and stood trial in the resulting "Chicago Seven" case.

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Thomas McGuane, American novelist, short story writer, and screenwriter

Thomas Francis McGuane III is an American writer. His work includes ten novels, short fiction and screenplays, as well as three collections of essays devoted to his life in the outdoors. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the NCHA Members Hall of Fame and the Fly Fishing Hall of Fame. McGuane's papers, manuscripts, and correspondence are located in the Montana State University Archives and Special Collections and are available for research use. In 2023, he was given the first Award for Excellence in Service to the MSU Library for the advancement of scholarship and access to unique materials.

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11/12/1938

Enrico Macias, Algerian-French singer-songwriter and guitarist

Gaston Ghrenassia , known by his stage name Enrico Macias, is a French singer, songwriter and musician.

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McCoy Tyner, American jazz musician (died 2020)

Alfred McCoy Tyner was an American jazz pianist and composer known for his work with the John Coltrane Quartet from 1960 to 1965 and his long solo career afterward. He was an NEA Jazz Master and a five-time Grammy Award winner. Tyner has been widely imitated and is one of the most recognizable and influential jazz pianists of all time.

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11/12/1937

Jim Harrison, American novelist, essayist, and poet (died 2016)

James Harrison was an American poet, novelist, and essayist. He was a prolific and versatile writer publishing over three dozen books in several genres including poetry, fiction, nonfiction, children's literature, and memoir. He wrote screenplays, book reviews, literary criticism, and published essays on food, travel, and sport. Harrison indicated that, of all his writing, his poetry meant the most to him.

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11/12/1936

Hans van den Broek, Dutch lawyer and politician, Dutch Minister of Foreign Affairs

Henri "Hans" van den Broek was a Dutch politician and diplomat of the defunct Catholic People's Party (KVP) and later the Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA) party and jurist who served as European Commissioner from 6 January 1993 until 16 September 1999.

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Taku Yamasaki, Japanese politician

Taku Yamasaki is a retired Japanese politician who served in the House of Representatives from 1972 to 2003 and from 2005 to 2009. He directed the Director General of the Japan Defense Agency for two months in 1989, and served as Minister of Construction from 1991 to 1992. He was a prominent faction leader in the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) during the late 1990s and early 2000s, and served as its Secretary-General and Vice President under Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi.

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11/12/1935

Pranab Mukherjee, Indian journalist and politician, 13th President of India (died 2020)

Pranab Kumar Mukherjee was an Indian politician who served as the president of India from 2012 until 2017. He was the first person from West Bengal to hold the post of President of India. In a political career spanning five decades, Mukherjee was a senior leader in the Indian National Congress and occupied several top ministerial portfolios in the Government of India. Prior to his election as President, Mukherjee was Finance Minister from 2009 to 2012 also in 1982 to 1984. He was awarded India's highest civilian honour, the Bharat Ratna, in 2019, by his successor as president, Ram Nath Kovind.

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Elmer Vasko, Canadian ice hockey player (died 1998)

Elmer "Moose" Vasko was a Canadian professional ice hockey defenceman who played 13 seasons in the National Hockey League for the Chicago Black Hawks and Minnesota North Stars. He was on the Blackhawks team that won the Stanley Cup in 1961.

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11/12/1934

Salim Durani, Afghan-Indian cricketer (died 2023)

Salim Durani was an Afghan-born Indian cricketer who played in 29 Test matches from 1960 to 1973. An all-rounder, Durani was a slow left-arm orthodox bowler and a left-handed batsman famous for his six-hitting prowess. He was the only Indian Test cricketer to have been born in Afghanistan. He was the first cricketer to win an Arjuna Award. In 2011, he was awarded the C. K. Nayudu Lifetime Achievement Award, the highest honour bestowed by the Indian cricket board on a former player.

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11/12/1933

Aquilino Pimentel, Jr., Filipino civil servant and politician, 23rd President of the Senate of the Philippines (died 2019)

Aquilino Quilinging Pimentel Jr., commonly known as Nene Pimentel, was a Filipino politician and human rights lawyer who was one of the leading political opposition leaders during the regime of Ferdinand Marcos from the declaration of martial law in 1972 until the People Power Revolution in 1986, which removed Marcos from power. He co-founded the Partido Demokratiko Pilipino–Lakas ng Bayan (PDP–Laban) and served as the President of the Senate of the Philippines from 2000 to 2001. He is the father of former Senator Aquilino Pimentel III. In 2018, Pimentel was identified by the Human Rights Victims' Claims Board as a Motu Proprio human rights violations victim of the Martial Law Era.

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11/12/1932

Enrique Bermúdez, Nicaraguan colonel and engineer (died 1991)

Enrique Bermúdez Varela, known as Comandante 380, was a Nicaraguan soldier and rebel who founded and commanded the Nicaraguan Contras. In this capacity, he became a central global figure in one of the most prominent conflicts of the Cold War.

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Keith Waldrop, American author and poet (died 2023)

Bernard Keith Waldrop was an American poet, translator, publisher, and academic. He won the National Book Award for Poetry for his 2009 collection Transcendental Studies: A Trilogy.

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11/12/1931

Ernie Beck, American basketball player (died 2024)

Ernest Joseph Beck was an American professional basketball player. Born in Philadelphia, Beck played seven years in the National Basketball Association for the Philadelphia Warriors, St. Louis Hawks, and Syracuse Nationals. He was a territorial pick in the 1953 NBA draft, selected by the Warriors. Beck attended University of Pennsylvania.

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Ronald Dworkin, American philosopher and scholar (died 2013)

Ronald Myles Dworkin was an American legal philosopher, jurist, and scholar of United States constitutional law. At the time of his death, he was Frank Henry Sommer Professor of Law and Philosophy at New York University and Professor of Jurisprudence at University College London. Dworkin had taught previously at Yale Law School and the University of Oxford, where he was the Professor of Jurisprudence, successor to philosopher H. L. A. Hart.

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Rita Moreno, Puerto Rican actress, singer, and dancer

Rita Moreno is a Puerto Rican actress, dancer, and singer. With a career spanning eight decades she is known for her roles on stage and screen, and is one of the last remaining stars from the Golden Age of Hollywood. Among her numerous accolades, she is one of the few actors to have been awarded an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar, and a Tony (EGOT) and the Triple Crown of Acting. She has been honored with Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2004, the National Medal of Arts in 2009, the Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award in 2013, the Kennedy Center Honor in 2015, and a Peabody Award in 2019.

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Pierre Pilote, Canadian ice hockey player (died 2017)

Joseph Albert Pierre Paul Pilote was a Canadian professional ice hockey defenceman and perennial All-Star, most notably for the Chicago Black Hawks of the National Hockey League (NHL), for which he served as team captain for seven seasons. He won the James Norris Memorial Trophy three times for best defenceman in the NHL.

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Rajneesh, Indian guru, mystic, and educator (died 1990)

Rajneesh, also known as Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, Acharya Rajneesh, and Osho, was an Indian godman, and founder of the new religious movement, the Rajneesh movement. He rejected institutional religions, insisting that spiritual experience could not be organized into any one system of religious dogma. As a guru, he advocated meditation and taught a unique form called dynamic meditation. Rejecting traditional ascetic practices, he encouraged his followers to embrace life fully while remaining unattached to worldly desires.

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11/12/1930

Chus Lampreave, Spanish actress (died 2016)

María Jesús Lampreave Pérez, known professionally as Chus Lampreave, was a Spanish character actress who starred in more than 70 films. She is known internationally for her roles in films by Pedro Almodóvar.

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Jean-Louis Trintignant, French actor, director, and screenwriter (died 2022)

Jean-Louis Xavier Trintignant was a French actor. He made his theatrical debut in 1951, and went on to be regarded as one of the best French dramatic actors of the post-war era. He starred in many classic films of European cinema, and worked with many prominent auteur directors, including Roger Vadim, Costa-Gavras, Claude Lelouch, Claude Chabrol, Bernardo Bertolucci, Éric Rohmer, François Truffaut, Krzysztof Kieślowski, and Michael Haneke.

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11/12/1929

Axel Anderson, German actor and production manager (died 2012)

Axel Anderson was a German actor who was very popular in his adopted homeland of Puerto Rico.

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Subhash Gupte, Indian cricketer (died 2002)

Subhashchandra Pandharinath "Fergie" Gupte was one of Test cricket's finest spin bowlers. Sir Garry Sobers, EAS Prasanna and Jim Laker pronounced him the best leg spinner they had seen.

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11/12/1927

John Buscema, American illustrator (died 2002)

John Buscema was an American comic book artist and one of the mainstays of Marvel Comics during its 1960s and 1970s ascendancy into an industry leader and its subsequent expansion to a major pop-culture conglomerate. His younger brother Sal Buscema was also a comic book artist.

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11/12/1926

Big Mama Thornton, American singer-songwriter (died 1984)

Willie Mae "Big Mama" Thornton, was an American singer and songwriter of blues and R&B.

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11/12/1925

Aaron Feuerstein, American businessman and philanthropist (died 2021)

Aaron Mordechai Feuerstein was an American industrialist, philanthropist, and the third-generation owner and CEO of Malden Mills in Lawrence, Massachusetts. Some remember him as "the mensch who saved Christmas" when he publicly declared: "I am not throwing three thousand people out of work, two weeks before their holiday."

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Paul Greengard, American neuroscientist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2019)

Paul Greengard was an American neuroscientist best known for his work on the molecular and cellular function of neurons. In 2000, Greengard, Arvid Carlsson and Eric Kandel were awarded the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for their discoveries concerning signal transduction in the nervous system. He was Vincent Astor Professor at Rockefeller University, and served on the Scientific Advisory Board of the Cure Alzheimer's Fund, as well as the Scientific Council of the Brain & Behavior Research Foundation. He was married to artist Ursula von Rydingsvard.

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James Sullivan, American politician (died 2012)

James Leo Sullivan was an American city manager who served as City Manager of Cambridge, Massachusetts, from 1968 to 1970 and again 1974 to 1981. In between his stints as Cambridge City Manager, Sullivan was City Manager of Lowell, Massachusetts. He also served as President of the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce.

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11/12/1924

Doc Blanchard, American football player and colonel (died 2009)

Felix Anthony "Doc" Blanchard was an American football player and serviceman who became the first junior to win the Heisman Trophy and Maxwell Award, and was the first football player to win the James E. Sullivan Award, all in 1945. He played football for the Army Cadets, where he was known as "Mr. Inside".

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11/12/1923

Betsy Blair, American actress and dancer (died 2009)

Betsy Blair was an American actress of film and stage, long based in London.

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Lillian Cahn, Hungarian-born American businesswoman, co-founded Coach, Inc. (died 2013)

Lillian Cahn was a Hungarian-born American businessperson who co-founded Coach New York with her husband, Miles Cahn. Lillian Cahn also created Coach's first line of handbags, which remains the label's trademark consumer product. She had emigrated to the United States with her family during the Great Depression. After selling Coach in 1985, the Cahns operated a goat farm and cheese-making business in Pine Plains, New York.

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Morrie Turner, American comics creator (died 2014)

Morris Nolton Turner was an American cartoonist. He was creator of the strip Wee Pals, the first American syndicated strip with a racially integrated cast of characters.

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11/12/1922

Grigoris Bithikotsis, Greek singer-songwriter (died 2005)

Grigoris Bithikotsis was a Greek laiko singer/songwriter with a career spanning five decades. He is considered one of the most important figures in Greek popular music.

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Dilip Kumar, Indian actor, director, and screenwriter (died 2021)

Muhammad Yusuf Khan, known professionally as Dilip Kumar, was an Indian actor, writer and film producer best known for his work in Hindi cinema. Credited with pioneering method acting in cinema, he dominated Hindi cinema from the 1950s throughout the 1960s and is widely regarded as one of the greatest actors in the history of Indian Cinema.

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Maila Nurmi, Finnish-American actress, producer, and screenwriter (died 2008)

Maila Elizabeth Syrjäniemi, known professionally as Maila Nurmi, was an American actress best known for creating the camp 1950s character Vampira.

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Grace Paley, American short story writer and poet (died 2007)

Grace Paley, née Goodside, was an American short story author, poet, teacher, and political activist.

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11/12/1921

Ilmar Laaban, Estonian poet and publicist (died 2000)

Ilmar Laaban was an Estonian poet and literary critic.

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Liz Smith, English actress (died 2016)

Betty Gleadle, known by the stage name Liz Smith, was an English actress. She was known for her roles in BBC sitcoms, including as Annie Brandon in I Didn't Know You Cared (1975–1979), the sisters Bette and Belle in 2point4 Children (1991–1999), Letitia Cropley in The Vicar of Dibley (1994–1996) and Norma ("Nana") in The Royle Family (1998–2006). For the latter, Smith was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Comedy Performance in 2007. She also played Zillah in Lark Rise to Candleford (2008) and won the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for her portrayal of Mother in the film A Private Function (1984).

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11/12/1920

Mary Ivy Burks, American environmental activist (died 2007)

Mary Ivy Burks was an environmental activist who helped create and served as the first president of the Alabama Conservancy, an organization aimed at preserving Alabama's environment.

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Denis Jenkinson, English motorcycle racer and journalist (died 1996)

Denis Sargent Jenkinson, "Jenks" or "DSJ" as he was known in the pages of Motor Sport, was a British journalist deeply involved in motorsports. As Continental Correspondent of the UK-based Motor Sport magazine, he covered Formula One and other races all over Europe. He gained fame as the navigator for Stirling Moss in their record-breaking triumph in the 1955 Mille Miglia cross-country race.

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11/12/1919

Cliff Michelmore, English television host and producer (died 2016)

Arthur Clifford Michelmore was an English television presenter and producer.

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Marie Windsor, American actress (died 2000)

Marie Windsor was an American actress known for her femme fatale characters in the classic film noir features Force of Evil, The Narrow Margin and The Killing. Windsor's height created problems for her in scenes with all but the tallest actors. She was the female lead in so many B movies that she became dubbed the "Queen" of the genre.

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11/12/1918

Clinton Adams, American painter and historian (died 2002)

Clinton Adams was an American artist and art historian. He was known for his contributions to the field of lithography.

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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Russian novelist, historian, and short story writer, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2008)

Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn was a Soviet and Russian author and dissident who helped to raise global awareness of political repression in the Soviet Union, especially the Gulag prison system. He was awarded the 1970 Nobel Prize in Literature "for the ethical force with which he has pursued the indispensable traditions of Russian literature". His nonfiction work The Gulag Archipelago "amounted to a head-on challenge to the Soviet state" and sold tens of millions of copies.

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11/12/1916

Elena Garro, Mexican author and playwright (died 1998)

Elena Garro was a Mexican author, playwright, screenwriter, journalist, short story writer, and novelist. She has been described as one of the pioneers and an early leading figure of the Magical Realism movement, though she rejected this affiliation. Alongside the works of Juan Rulfo, her first three works: Un hogar sólido (1958), Los Recuerdos del Porvenir (1963), and La Semana de Colores (1964), are considered to be among the earliest examples of Magical Realism in Latin American literature. Garro's writing, despite being mostly theatre and fictional prose, borrowed heavily from poetry and its literary elements. Author and biographer Patricia Rosas Lopategui has described Garro's style as "an attempt to rescue the use of everyday language in the form of poetry". Her style has also been compared to that of French writers like Georges Schéhadé, Jean Genet, as well as Romanian-French playwright Eugène Ionesco, due to the surreal nature of her stories. A close friend of Albert Camus, her works were also heavily influenced by his style and philosophy. She was the recipient of the Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Prize in 1996.

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Pérez Prado, Cuban-Mexican singer-songwriter, pianist, and bandleader (died 1989)

Dámaso Pérez Prado was a Cuban bandleader, pianist, composer and arranger who popularized the mambo in the 1950s. His big band adaptation of the danzón-mambo proved to be a worldwide success with hits such as "Mambo No. 5", earning him the nickname "The King of the Mambo". In 1955, Pérez Prado and his orchestra topped the charts in the US and UK with a mambo cover of Louiguy's "Cherry Pink ". He frequently made brief appearances in films, primarily of the rumberas genre, and his music was featured in films such as La Dolce Vita.

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11/12/1913

Jean Marais, French actor and director (died 1998)

Jean-Alfred Villain-Marais, known professionally as Jean Marais, was a French actor, theatre director, painter, sculptor, visual artist, writer and photographer. In 1937, Marais became the lover of acclaimed poet, playwright and film director Jean Cocteau, who considered him his muse and directed him in multiple plays and films, notably Beauty and the Beast (1946). Following their relationship, Marais and Cocteau remained close friends and Marais later endeavored to keep Cocteau's legacy alive. During the post-war period, Marais was one of France's major film stars and performed in various successful swashbuckler films. In 1996, he was awarded the French Legion of Honor for his contributions to French cinema.

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11/12/1912

Carlo Ponti, Italian-Swiss film producer (died 2007)

Carlo Fortunato Pietro Ponti Sr. was an Italian film producer with more than 140 productions to his credit. Along with Dino De Laurentiis, he is credited with reinvigorating and popularizing Italian cinema post-World War II, producing some of the country's most acclaimed and financially-successful films of the 1950s and 1960s.

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11/12/1911

Val Guest, English-American director, producer, screenwriter, and composer (died 2006)

Val Guest was an English film director and screenwriter. Beginning as a writer of comedy films, he is best known for his work for Hammer, for whom he directed 14 films, and for his science fiction films. He enjoyed a long career in the film industry from the early 1930s until the early 1980s.

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Naguib Mahfouz, Egyptian author, playwright, and screenwriter, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2006)

Naguib Mahfouz Abdelaziz Ibrahim Ahmed Al-Basha was an Egyptian writer who won the 1988 Nobel Prize in Literature. In awarding the prize, the Swedish Academy described him as a writer "who, through works rich in nuance – now clear-sightedly realistic, now evocatively ambiguous – has formed an Egyptian narrative art that applies to all mankind".

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Qian Xuesen, Chinese aerodynamicist and academic (died 2009)

Qian Xuesen was a Chinese aerospace engineer and cyberneticist who made significant contributions to the field of aerodynamics and established engineering cybernetics. He achieved recognition as one of America's leading experts in rockets and high-speed flight theory prior to being deported to China in 1955. This occurred after having been accused of Communist sympathies — without evidence — during the Red Scare.

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11/12/1910

Mildred Cleghorn, Native American chairwoman and educator (died 1997)

Mildred Imoch Cleghorn was a Chiricahua Apache dollmaker, educator, and tribal leader who served as the first chairperson of the Fort Sill Apache Tribe of Oklahoma from 1976 to 1995. She dedicated her life to preserving Apache culture and promoting Native American rights.

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11/12/1909

Ronald McKie, Australian soldier, journalist, and author (died 1991)

Ronald Cecil Hamlyn McKie was an Australian novelist. He was born on 11 May 1909 in Toowoomba, Queensland. After receiving his education at the Brisbane Grammar School and the University of Queensland, he worked as a journalist on newspapers in Melbourne, Sydney, Singapore, and China. He served in the AIF during World War II from 1942–1943, following which he served as war correspondent for several Australian and UK newspapers. After the war he worked for Sydney's Daily Telegraph. McKie died from kidney disease on 8 May 1991 in Canterbury, Melbourne, Australia.

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11/12/1908

Elliott Carter, American composer and academic (died 2012)

Elliott Cook Carter Jr. was an American modernist composer who was one of the most respected composers of the second half of the 20th century. He combined elements of European modernism and American "ultra-modernism" into a distinctive style with a personal harmonic and rhythmic language, after an early neoclassical phase. His compositions are performed throughout the world, and include orchestral, chamber music, solo instrumental, and vocal works. Carter was the recipient of many awards – he was twice awarded the Pulitzer Prize for his string quartets. He also wrote the large-scale orchestral triptych Symphonia: sum fluxae pretium spei.

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Manoel de Oliveira, Portuguese actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (died 2015)

Manoel Cândido Pinto de Oliveira was a Portuguese film director and screenwriter born in Cedofeita, Porto. He first began making films in 1927, when he and some friends attempted to make a film about World War I. In 1931, he completed his first film Douro, Faina Fluvial, a documentary about his home city Porto made in the city-symphony genre. He made his feature film debut in 1942 with Aniki-Bóbó and continued to make shorts and documentaries for the next 30 years, gaining a minimal amount of recognition without being considered a major filmmaker.

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Hákun Djurhuus, Faroese educator and politician, fourth Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands (died 1987)

Hákun Djurhuus was the prime minister of the Faroe Islands from 1963 to 1967. He was born in Tórshavn.

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Amon Göth, Austrian Nazi war criminal (died 1946)

Amon Leopold Göth was an Austrian SS functionary and war criminal. He served as the commandant of the Kraków-Płaszów concentration camp in Płaszów in German-occupied Poland for most of the camp's existence during World War II.

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11/12/1905

Robert Henriques, English farmer, author, and broadcaster (died 1967)

Robert David Quixano Henriques was a British writer, broadcaster and farmer. He gained modest renown for two award-winning novels and two biographies of Jewish business tycoons, published during the middle part of the 20th century.

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Gilbert Roland, Mexican-American actor and singer (died 1994)

Luis Antonio Dámaso de Alonso, known professionally as Gilbert Roland, was a Mexican-born American film and television actor whose career spanned seven decades from the 1920s until the 1980s. He was twice nominated for the Golden Globe Award in 1952 and 1964 and inducted into the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1960.

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11/12/1904

Marge, American cartoonist (died 1993)

Marjorie Henderson Buell was an American cartoonist who worked under the pen name Marge. She was best known as the creator of Little Lulu.

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11/12/1900

Hermína Týrlová, Czech animator, screenwriter and film director (died 1993)

Hermína Týrlová was a prominent Czech animator, screen writer, and film director. She was often called the mother of Czech animation. Over the course of her career, she produced over 60 animated children's short films using puppets and the technique of stop motion animation.

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Gerd Arntz, German Modernist artist, co-creator of Isotype (died 1988)

Gerd Arntz was a German Modernist artist renowned for his black and white woodcuts. A core member of the Cologne Progressives, he was also a council communist. The Cologne Progressives participated in the revolutionary unions AAUD (KAPD) and its offshoot the AAUE in the 1920s. In 1928 Arntz contributed prints to the AAUE paper Die Proletarische Revolution, calling for workers to abandon parliament and form and participate in worker's councils. These woodcut prints feature recurring themes of class.

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11/12/1899

Julio de Caro, Argentinian violinist, composer, and conductor (died 1980)

Julio de Caro was an Argentine composer, musician, and conductor prominent in the Tango genre.

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11/12/1897

Ronald Skirth, English soldier (died 1977)

John Ronald Skirth was a British soldier who served in the Royal Garrison Artillery during the First World War.

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11/12/1893

Leo Ornstein, Russian-American pianist and composer (died 2002)

Leo Ornstein was an American experimental composer and pianist of the early twentieth century. His performances of works by avant-garde composers and his own innovative and even shocking pieces made him a cause célèbre on both sides of the Atlantic. The bulk of his experimental works were written for piano.

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11/12/1892

Arnold Majewski, Finnish military hero of Polish descent (died 1942)

Karl Arnold Woldemar Majewski was a legendary Finnish cavalry officer of Polish origin.

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11/12/1890

Carlos Gardel, French-Argentinian singer-songwriter and actor (died 1935)

Carlos Gardel was a French-born Argentine singer, composer and actor, and the most prominent figure in the history of tango. He was one of the most influential interpreters of popular music in the first half of the 20th century. Gardel is the most famous tango singer of all time and is recognized throughout the world. Described variously as a baritone or tenor because of his wide vocal range, he was known for his rich voice and dramatic phrasing. Together with lyricist and long-time collaborator Alfredo Le Pera, Gardel wrote several classic tangos.

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Mark Tobey, American-Swiss painter and educator (died 1976)

Mark George Tobey was an American painter. His densely structured compositions, inspired by Asian calligraphy, resemble Abstract expressionism, although the motives for his compositions differ philosophically from most Abstract Expressionist painters. His work was widely recognized throughout the United States and Europe. Along with Guy Anderson, Kenneth Callahan, Morris Graves, and William Cumming, Tobey was a founder of the Northwest School. Senior in age and experience, he had a strong influence on the others; friend and mentor, Tobey shared their interest in philosophy and Eastern religions. Similar to others of the Northwest School, Tobey was mostly self-taught after early studies at the Art Institute of Chicago. In 1921, Tobey founded the art department at The Cornish School in Seattle, Washington.

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11/12/1889

Walter Knott, American farmer and businessman, founded Knott's Berry Farm (died 1981)

Walter Marvin Knott was an American farmer and businessman who founded the Knott's Berry Farm amusement park in Buena Park, California, introduced and mass-marketed the boysenberry, and founded the Knott's Berry Farm food brand.

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11/12/1884

Piet Ooms, Dutch swimmer and water polo player (died 1961)

Pieter ("Piet") Lodewijk Ooms was a Dutch freestyle swimmer and water polo player who competed in the 1908 Summer Olympics.

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11/12/1882

Subramania Bharati, Indian journalist and poet (died 1921)

Subramania Bharati was an Indian writer, poet, composer, journalist, teacher, Indian independence activist, social reformer and polyglot. He was bestowed the title Bharati for his poetry and was a pioneer of modern Tamil poetry. He is popularly known by his title Bharati or Bharatiyar and also by the other title "Mahakavi Bharati". His works included patriotic songs composed during the Indian Independence movement. He fought for the emancipation of women, against child marriage, opposed the caste system, and advocated reforms of the society and religion.

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Max Born, German physicist and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1970)

Max Born was a German–British theoretical physicist who was instrumental in the development of quantum mechanics. He also made contributions to solid-state physics and optics, and supervised the work of a number of notable physicists in the 1920s and 1930s. He shared the 1954 Nobel Prize in Physics with Walther Bothe "for his fundamental research in quantum mechanics, especially for his statistical interpretation of the wavefunction."

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Fiorello H. La Guardia, American lawyer and politician, 99th Mayor of New York City (died 1947)

Fiorello Henry La Guardia was an American attorney and politician who served as the 100th mayor of New York City from 1934 to 1946. He previously represented New York in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1917 to 1919 and again from 1923 to 1933. He was known for his irascible, energetic, and charismatic personality and diminutive, rotund stature. A member of the Republican Party, La Guardia was frequently cross-endorsed by parties other than his own, especially parties on the left under New York's electoral fusion laws. A panel of 69 scholars in 1993 ranked him as the best big city mayor in American history.

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11/12/1880

Frank Tarrant, Australian cricketer and umpire (died 1951)

Francis Alfred Tarrant was an Australian cricketer whose first-class career spanned from 1899 to 1936, and included 329 matches.

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11/12/1875

Yehuda Leib Maimon, Moldovan-Israeli rabbi and politician (died 1962)

Yehuda Leib Maimon was an Israeli rabbi, politician and leader of the Religious Zionist movement. He was Israel's first Minister of Religion.

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11/12/1873

Josip Plemelj, Slovenian mathematician and academic (died 1967)

Josip Plemelj was a Slovene mathematician, whose main contributions were to the theory of analytic functions and the application of integral equations to potential theory. He was the first chancellor of the University of Ljubljana.

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11/12/1872

René Bull, British illustrator and photographer (died 1942)

René Bull was an Irish illustrator and photographer. He was born in Dublin on 11 December 1872 to a French mother and an English father. He went to Paris to study engineering, but embarked on an artistic career after meeting and taking drawing lessons from the French satirist and political cartoonist Caran d'Ache. Bull returned to Ireland to contribute sketches and political cartoons to various publications, including the Weekly Freeman.

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11/12/1863

Annie Jump Cannon, American astronomer and academic (died 1941)

Annie Jump Cannon was an American astronomer whose cataloging work was instrumental in the development of contemporary stellar classification. With Edward C. Pickering, she is credited with the creation of the Harvard Classification Scheme, which was the first serious attempt to organize and classify stars based on their temperatures and spectral types. She was nearly deaf throughout her career after 1893, as a result of scarlet fever. She was a suffragist and a member of the National Women's Party.

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11/12/1861

Frederick Eveleigh-de-Moleyns, 5th Baron Ventry, British Army officer and Anglo-Irish peer (died 1923)

Lieutenant-Colonel Frederick Rossmore Wauchope Eveleigh-de-Moleyns, 5th Baron Ventry,, was a British Army officer and Anglo-Irish peer.

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11/12/1858

Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko, Russian director, producer, and playwright (died 1943)

Vladimir Ivanovich Nemirovich-Danchenko was a Soviet and Russian theatre director, writer, pedagogue, playwright, producer and theatre administrator, who founded the Moscow Art Theatre with his colleague, Konstantin Stanislavski, in 1898.

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11/12/1856

Georgi Plekhanov, Russian philosopher, theorist, and author (died 1918)

Georgi Valentinovich Plekhanov was a Russian Marxist theorist, philosopher, and revolutionary. After beginning his revolutionary career as a populist, in 1883 Plekhanov established the Emancipation of Labour group, the first Russian Marxist political organisation. He is widely regarded as the "father of Russian Marxism", and his theoretical works were instrumental in converting a generation of revolutionaries, including Vladimir Lenin, to the cause.

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11/12/1854

Charles "Old Hoss" Radbourn, American baseball pitcher (died 1897)

Charles Gardner Radbourn, nicknamed "Old Hoss", was an American professional baseball pitcher who played 12 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB). He played for Buffalo (1880), Providence (1881–1885), Boston (1886–1889), Boston (1890), and Cincinnati (1891).

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11/12/1843

Robert Koch, German microbiologist and physician, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1910)

Heinrich Hermann Robert Koch was a German physician and microbiologist. He won the 1905 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "for his investigations and discoveries in relation to tuberculosis".

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11/12/1838

John Labatt, Canadian brewer and businessman (died 1915)

John Labatt was a Canadian businessman and brewer. Labatt took charge of Labatt Brewing Company, formally known as Labatt and Company, after his father's death in 1866. Labatt helped Labatt Brewing Company eventually become the largest brewery in Canada.

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11/12/1837

Webster Paulson, English civil engineer (died 1887)

Webster Paulson was an English civil engineer who is known for his work in Malta in the late 19th century.

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11/12/1830

Kamehameha V of Hawaii (died 1872)

Kamehameha V, reigned as the fifth monarch of the Kingdom of Hawaiʻi from 1863 to 1872. His motto was "Onipaʻa": immovable, firm, steadfast, or determined; he is said to have worked diligently for his people and kingdom, being described as the last great traditional chief.

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11/12/1810

Alfred de Musset, French dramatist, poet, and novelist (died 1857)

Alfred Louis Charles de Musset-Pathay was a French dramatist, poet, and novelist. Along with his poetry, he is known for writing the autobiographical novel La Confession d'un enfant du siècle.

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11/12/1803

Hector Berlioz, French composer, conductor, and critic (died 1869)

Louis-Hector Berlioz was a French Romantic composer, conductor and critic. His output includes orchestral works such as the Symphonie fantastique and Harold in Italy, choral pieces including the Requiem and L'Enfance du Christ, his three operas Benvenuto Cellini, Les Troyens and Béatrice et Bénédict, and works of hybrid genres such as the "dramatic symphony" Roméo et Juliette and the "dramatic legend" La Damnation de Faust.

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11/12/1801

Christian Dietrich Grabbe, German poet and playwright (died 1836)

Christian Dietrich Grabbe was a German dramatist of the Vormärz era. He wrote many historical plays conceiving a disillusioned and pessimistic world view, with some shrill scenes. Heinrich Heine saw him as one of Germany's foremost dramatists, calling him "a drunken Shakespeare" and Sigmund Freud described Grabbe as "an original and rather peculiar poet."

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11/12/1781

David Brewster, Scottish physicist, mathematician, and astronomer (died 1868)

Sir David Brewster was a Scottish scientist, inventor, author, and academic administrator. In science he is principally remembered for his experimental work in physical optics, mostly concerned with the study of the polarization of light and including the discovery of Brewster's angle. He studied the birefringence of crystals under compression and discovered photoelasticity, thereby creating the field of optical mineralogy. For this work, William Whewell dubbed him the "father of modern experimental optics" and "the Johannes Kepler of optics."

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11/12/1761

Gian Domenico Romagnosi, Italian physicist, economist, and jurist (died 1835)

Gian Domenico Romagnosi was an Italian philosopher, economist and jurist.

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11/12/1758

Carl Friedrich Zelter, German composer, conductor, and educator (died 1832)

Carl Friedrich Zelter was a German composer, conductor and teacher of music. Working in his father's bricklaying business, Zelter attained mastership in that profession, and was a musical autodidact.

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11/12/1725

George Mason, American lawyer and politician (died 1792)

George Mason was an American planter, politician, Founding Father, and delegate to the U.S. Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia in 1787, one of three delegates who refused to sign the Constitution. His writings, including substantial portions of the Fairfax Resolves of 1774, the Virginia Declaration of Rights of 1776, and his Objections to this Constitution of Government (1787) opposing ratification, have exercised a significant influence on American political thought and events. The Virginia Declaration of Rights, which Mason principally authored, served as a basis for the United States Bill of Rights, of which he has been deemed a father.

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11/12/1712

Francesco Algarotti, Italian poet, philosopher, and critic (died 1764)

Count Francesco Algarotti was an Italian polymath, active as a philosopher, writer, anglophile, art critic and art collector. He was a man of broad knowledge, an expert in Newtonianism, architecture and opera. He was a friend of Frederick the Great and leading authors of his times: Voltaire, Jean-Baptiste de Boyer, Marquis d'Argens, Pierre-Louis de Maupertuis and the atheist Julien Offray de La Mettrie. Lord Chesterfield, Thomas Gray, George Lyttelton, Thomas Hollis, Metastasio, Benedict XIV and Heinrich von Brühl were among his correspondents.

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11/12/1613

Amar Singh Rathore, Rajput nobleman (died 1644)

Rao Amar Singh was the eldest son and heir-apparent of Raja Gaj Singh I of the Rathore Kingdom of Marwar in seventeenth-century Rajputana.

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11/12/1595

Hŏ Mok, Korean politician, poet and scholar (died 1682)

Hŏ Mok was a Korean calligrapher, painter, philosopher, poet, and politician during the Joseon period, who came from the Yangcheon Hŏ clan. He was most commonly known by the art name Misu.

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11/12/1566

Manuel Cardoso, Portuguese organist and composer (died 1650)

Manuel Cardoso was a Portuguese composer and organist. With Duarte Lobo and John IV of Portugal, he represented the "golden age" of Portuguese polyphony.

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11/12/1475

Pope Leo X (died 1521)

Pope Leo X was head of the Catholic Church and leader of the Papal States from 9 March 1513 to his death in December 1521.

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11/12/1465

Ashikaga Yoshihisa, Japanese shogun (died 1489)

Ashikaga Yoshihisa was the 9th shōgun of the Ashikaga shogunate who reigned from 1473 to 1489 during the Muromachi period of Japan. Yoshihisa was the son of the eighth shōgun Ashikaga Yoshimasa with his wife Hino Tomiko.

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11/12/1445

Eberhard I, Duke of Württemberg (died 1496)

Eberhard I of Württemberg also known as Eberhard im Bart was the first Duke of Württemberg. After the death of his older brother in 1459 he became the Count of Württemberg-Urach as Eberhard V. In 1482 he signed the Treaty of Münsingen with his cousin Eberhard VI of Württemberg-Stuttgart reuniting Württemberg-Urach with Württemberg-Stuttgart under his rule. In exchange his cousin was designated as his heir. He moved the capital to Stuttgart and in July 1495 he was elevated to Duke of Württemberg by Emperor Maximilian I.

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