6th February — International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation & Sami National Day

On this day, 238 notable people were born on 5th February — spanning from 885 to 2002. From world leaders to artists and scientists, discover who shares this birthday.

06/02/2002

Ona Huczkowski, Finnish actress

Ona Serafiina Huczkowski is a Finnish actress. Her film debut was in the 2020 youth drama film Eden, but she got her first leading role in the 2023 western comedy film The Unhanged. In addition, she has acted in Yle's comedy drama series Riding the Beat, which is set in the rap world.

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06/02/2000

Conor Gallagher, English footballer

Conor John Gallagher is an English professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Premier League club Tottenham Hotspur and the England national team.

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06/02/1998

Adley Rutschman, American baseball player

Adley Stan Rutschman is an American professional baseball catcher for the Baltimore Orioles of Major League Baseball (MLB). He played college baseball for the Oregon State Beavers. He was named the Pac-12 Conference Player of the Year in 2019. The Orioles selected Rutschman with the first overall selection in the 2019 MLB draft, and he signed for $8.1 million, at the time the highest MLB draft signing bonus ever. Rutschman made his MLB debut in 2022 and is a two-time All-Star.

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06/02/1996

Kevon Looney, American basketball player

Kevon Grant Looney is an American professional basketball player for the New Orleans Pelicans of the National Basketball Association (NBA). As a freshman playing college basketball with the UCLA Bruins, he earned second-team all-conference honors in the Pac-12 in 2015. After the season, Looney decided to forgo his college eligibility and enter the 2015 NBA draft, and was selected in the first round by the Golden State Warriors with the 30th overall pick. He won three NBA championships during his 10-year tenure with the Warriors.

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06/02/1995

Nyck de Vries, Dutch racing driver

Hendrik Johannes Nicasius "Nyck" de Vries is a Dutch racing driver, who competes in the FIA World Endurance Championship for Toyota and in Formula E for Mahindra. In formula racing, De Vries competed in Formula One at 11 Grands Prix from 2022 to 2023, and won the 2020–21 Formula E World Championship with Mercedes.

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Leon Goretzka, German footballer

Leon Christoph Goretzka is a German professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Bundesliga club Bayern Munich and the Germany national team.

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Sam McQueen, English footballer

Samuel James McQueen is an English former professional footballer. Other than loan periods at Southend United in 2016 and Middlesbrough in 2018, he spent his career at hometown club Southampton, having joined the club's academy at the age of eight. He played primarily as a left-sided full-back or winger.

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06/02/1993

Teresa Scanlan, American beauty pageant titleholder, Miss America 2011

Teresa Michelle Scanlan is an American attorney and beauty pageant titleholder from Gering, Nebraska who was named Miss Nebraska 2010, subsequently winning Miss America 2011 at age 17 and becoming the youngest Miss America since Bette Cooper in 1937. She now works as a business litigation attorney at King & Spalding in Houston, Texas, and serves as a staff sergeant in the Wyoming Air National Guard, in the Force Support Squadron.

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06/02/1992

Víctor Mañón, Mexican footballer

Víctor Omar Mañón Barrón is a Mexican professional footballer who plays as a forward for Panathinaikos Chicago.

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06/02/1991

Tobias Eisenbauer, Austrian ice dancer

Tobias Eisenbauer is an Austrian ice dancer. With partner Kira Geil, he is the 2011 Austrian champion.

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Aleksandar Katai, Serbian footballer

Aleksandar Katai is a Serbian professional footballer who plays as a winger for Red Star Belgrade and the Serbia national team.

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Ida Njåtun, Norwegian speed skater

Ida Njåtun is a Norwegian speed skater specialising in the 1500 and 3000 metres distances. She represents the club Asker SK.

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Eva Wacanno, Dutch tennis player

Eva Wacanno is a Dutch former tennis player.

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Fei Yu, Chinese footballer

Fei Yu is a Chinese former professional footballer who played as a defensive midfielder.

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06/02/1990

Adam Henrique, Canadian ice hockey player

Adam Henrique is a Canadian professional ice hockey player who is a centre for the Edmonton Oilers of the National Hockey League (NHL). He was selected 82nd overall at the 2008 NHL entry draft by the New Jersey Devils. Henrique previously played for the Devils and Anaheim Ducks. He played Major Junior hockey with the Windsor Spitfires of the Ontario Hockey League (OHL) where he was a member of the team that won back-to-back Memorial Cups in 2009 and 2010.

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Jermaine Kearse, American football player

Jermaine Levan Kearse is an American former professional football player who was a wide receiver for eight seasons in the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Washington Huskies. Kearse was signed by the Seattle Seahawks as an undrafted free agent in 2012 and later won Super Bowl XLVIII with the team. After five seasons with the Seahawks, Kearse played two more seasons for the New York Jets from 2017 to 2018. In 2019, he joined the Detroit Lions, but missed the entire season due to injury.

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Aida Rybalko, Lithuanian figure skater

Aida Rybalko-Laurecke is a Lithuanian figure skater. She is a two-time Lithuanian national vice-champion.

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06/02/1989

Craig Cathcart, Northern Irish footballer

Craig George Cathcart is a Northern Irish former professional footballer who played as a centre-back.

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Jonny Flynn, American basketball player

Jonny William Flynn is an American former professional basketball player. A three-year National Basketball Association (NBA) veteran, he last played for the Orlandina Basket of the Lega Basket Serie A and played collegiate basketball for the Syracuse Orange.

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06/02/1988

Bailey Hanks, American actress, singer, and dancer

Bailey Noel Hanks Weidman is an American singer, actress, and dancer best known for winning MTV's Legally Blonde: The Musical – The Search for Elle Woods. She performed on Broadway as Elle Woods in Legally Blonde: The Musical in 2008.

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06/02/1987

Pedro Álvarez, Dominican-American baseball player

Pedro Manuel Álvarez Jr., nicknamed "El Toro", is a Dominican-American former professional baseball designated hitter and infielder. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Pittsburgh Pirates and Baltimore Orioles.

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Travis Wood, American baseball player

Travis Alan Wood is an American former professional baseball pitcher. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Cincinnati Reds, Chicago Cubs, Kansas City Royals, and San Diego Padres.

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06/02/1986

Tony Johnson, American mixed martial artist

Anthony Johnson Jr. is an American mixed martial artist currently competing in the Heavyweight division of Absolute Championship Akhmat where he is the former ACA Heavyweight Champion. A professional competitor since 2008, Johnson has formerly competed for Bellator MMA, ONE Fighting Championship, Fight Nights Global, and King of the Cage. He is the former KOTC Heavyweight Champion. He is ranked #6 in the ACA heavyweight rankings.

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Yunho, South Korean singer and actor

Jung Yunho, better known by his stage name U-Know Yunho (유노윤호) or simply U-Know, is a South Korean singer-songwriter, actor, and a member of the pop duo TVXQ. Born and raised in Gwangju, South Korea, Yunho started his musical training under the talent agency SM Entertainment in 2001 and joined TVXQ in 2003 as the band's leader. Fluent in Korean and Japanese, Yunho has released chart-topping albums throughout Asia as a member of TVXQ. He has made occasional acting appearances in television dramas.

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06/02/1985

Fallulah, Danish singer-songwriter

Fallulah is a Danish-Romanian singer-songwriter and musician. Her given name is Maria Apetri. Following a short dancing career, she entered the music industry and released her debut album in 2010 which peaked at number three in Denmark and went on to be certified platinum.

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Kris Humphries, American basketball player

Kristopher Nathan Humphries is an American former professional basketball power forward who played in the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played in the NBA for the Utah Jazz, Toronto Raptors, Dallas Mavericks, New Jersey / Brooklyn Nets, Boston Celtics, Washington Wizards, Phoenix Suns, and the Atlanta Hawks from 2004 to 2016. Humphries played college basketball for the Minnesota Golden Gophers and for the United States men's national basketball team. He was married to Kim Kardashian for 72 days before they divorced.

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06/02/1984

Darren Bent, English international footballer

Darren Ashley Bent is an English former professional footballer who played as a striker and is currently a radio presenter for talkSPORT. He played in the Premier League and Championship for nine clubs, and at senior international level for the England national team.

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Piret Järvis, Estonian singer-songwriter and guitarist

Piret Järvis-Milder is an Estonian television host and singer, guitarist, and songwriter of the popular rock band Vanilla Ninja.

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Antoine Wright, American basketball player

Antoine Domonick Wright is an American former professional basketball player. He attended preparatory school at Lawrence Academy at Groton; in 2002, he led the Spartans to an Independent School League basketball championship. After his junior year at Texas A&M University, he was selected 15th overall in the 2005 NBA draft by the Nets, the highest pick from the Big 12 Conference that year and in Texas A&M University history until Acie Law was drafted 11th in the 2007 NBA Draft. Wright played his first five seasons of professional basketball in the NBA. He has since played overseas and in the NBA D-League.

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06/02/1983

Dimas Delgado, Spanish footballer

Dimas Delgado Morgado, known simply as Dimas, is a Spanish former professional footballer who played as a midfielder.

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S. Sreesanth, Indian cricketer

Shanthakumaran Nair Sreesanth is an Indian former cricketer and film actor who played all formats of the game for his country. He is a right-arm fast-medium-pace bowler and a right-handed tail-ender batsman. In first class cricket, he played for Kerala. In the Indian Premier League (IPL) he played for the Rajasthan Royals. He became the first Kerala Ranji player to play Twenty20 cricket for India. Sreesanth was initially banned for life after spot-fixing in the 2013 IPL, however, the ban was reduced to seven years in August 2019. In 2018, he participated in the popular reality show, Bigg Boss and became the runner up. In 2020 he was selected for the Kerala cricket team and resumed his career in national cricket. In March 2022, Sreesanth announced his retirement from domestic cricket. Sreesanth was a member of the Indian team that won both the 2007 T20 World Cup and the 2011 Cricket World Cup, where in the 2007 final, he took the winning catch.

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Jamie Whincup, Australian race car driver

Jamie David Whincup is an Australian professional racing driver competing in the Supercars Championship. He currently is team principal for Triple Eight Race Engineering. He has driven the No. 88 Holden ZB Commodore, won a record seven Supercars championship titles, four Bathurst 1000 victories, and a Bathurst 12 Hour victory. Whincup is the all-time record holder in the Supercars Championship for race wins, at 125 career wins. He is also the first driver to win the Jason Richards Memorial Trophy twice at Pukekohe Park Raceway in Auckland, New Zealand.

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06/02/1982

Elise Ray, American gymnast

Mary Elise Ray is an American gymnast who represented the United States at the 2000 Olympics in Sydney and the 1999 World Championships. She was the head gymnastics coach at the University of Washington from 2016 to 2020.

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Tank, Taiwanese singer-songwriter

Lü Jianzhong, better known by his stage name Tank, is a Taiwanese singer-songwriter. He is currently signed to HIM International Music. His debut album, Fighting was released on 23 February 2006. His latest album, The 3rd Round, was released on 31 May 2009.

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06/02/1981

Ricky Barnes, American golfer

Richard Kyle Barnes is an American professional golfer who currently plays on the PGA Tour.

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Calum Best, American-English model and actor

Calum Milan Best is a British-American television personality, entrepreneur, and former model. He is the only child of footballer George Best. He is also the chairman of the Dorking Wanderers women's team.

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Shim Eun-jin, South Korean singer and actress

Shim Eun-jin is a South Korean singer and actress. She is a member of South Korean girl group Baby V.O.X.

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Alison Haislip, American actress and producer

Alison Fesq Haislip is an American actress and former television personality for Attack of the Show! on the first incarnation of the G4 network and the NBC reality singing competition show The Voice.

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Jens Lekman, Swedish singer-songwriter and guitarist

Jens Martin Lekman is a Swedish musician. His music is guitar-based pop with heavy use of samples and strings, with lyrics that are often witty, romantic, and melancholic. His work is heavily influenced by Jonathan Richman and Belle & Sebastian, and he has been likened to Stephin Merritt, David Byrne, and Scott Walker.

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06/02/1980

Kerry Jeremy, Antiguan cricketer

Kerry Clifford Bryan Jeremy is a cricketer. He played six One Day Internationals for West Indies from 2000 to 2001.

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Konnor, American wrestler

Ryan Parmeter is an American professional wrestler, He is best known for his work in WWE, where he wrestled under the ring name Konnor. He was part of the fourth season of NXT, and earned fourth place on the show's fifth season, NXT Redemption.he also competed in Total Nonstop Action Wrestling, where he performed under the ring name Kon.

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Kim Poirier, Canadian actress, singer, and producer

Kim Poirier is a Canadian actress, singer, film producer, and television host.

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Luke Ravenstahl, American politician, 58th Mayor of Pittsburgh

Luke Robert Ravenstahl is an American politician and businessman who served as the 59th Mayor of Pittsburgh from 2006 until 2014. A Democrat, he became the youngest mayor in Pittsburgh's history in September 2006 at the age of 26. He was among the youngest mayors of a major city in American history. He currently serves as an executive of Peoples Natural Gas Company.

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06/02/1979

Dan Bălan, Moldovan singer-songwriter and producer

Dan Balan is a Moldovan musician, singer, songwriter, and record producer. He is the founder of Moldovan Eurodance band O-Zone, and wrote their international hit single "Dragostea din tei", which topped the charts in 32 countries and sold 12 million copies worldwide.

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06/02/1978

Yael Naim, French-Israeli singer-songwriter

Yael Naim is a French-born Israeli singer and actress. She rose to fame in 2008 in the US after her hit single "New Soul" was used by Apple in an advertising campaign for its MacBook Air. The song peaked at No. 7 on the Billboard Hot 100. In 2013, the French government made her a knight of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.

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06/02/1976

Tanja Frieden, Swiss snowboarder and educator

Tanja Frieden is a Swiss snowboarder. She won a gold medal in the inaugural Snowboard Cross competition at the 2006 Winter Olympics.

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Kim Zmeskal, American gymnast and coach

Kimberly Lynn Zmeskal Burdette is an American retired artistic gymnast turned gymnastics coach and the 1991 World All-Around champion. A member of the silver medal-winning U.S. team from the 1991 World Championships, she was the first American woman to win the all-around title at the World Championships, as well as the first to win a world championship medal of any color in the all-around. A three-time United States national all-around champion (1990–92), Zmeskal was also the 1992 world champion on both balance beam and floor exercise, and was a member of the bronze medal-winning U.S. team at the 1992 Summer Olympic Games in Barcelona, Spain, the first U.S. team medal won at a fully attended Olympic Games. She also posted the highest optional all-around score in the qualification round in Barcelona.

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06/02/1975

Chad Allen, American baseball player and coach

John Chad Allen is an American former professional baseball left fielder. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Minnesota Twins, Cleveland Indians, Florida Marlins and Texas Rangers.

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Orkut Büyükkökten, Turkish computer scientist and engineer, created Orkut

Orkut Büyükkökten is a Turkish software engineer who developed the social networking services Club Nexus, inCircle and Orkut. He is a former product manager at Google.

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Tomoko Kawase, Japanese singer-songwriter and producer

Tomoko Kawase is a Japanese singer, songwriter, producer, actress, and model from Kyoto. She is the lead singer of the alternative rock band The Brilliant Green. She also has a solo career under the alter-ego pseudonyms Tommy february6 and Tommy heavenly6.

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06/02/1974

Aljo Bendijo, Filipino journalist

Alexes Joseph "Aljo" Rubia Bendijo is a Filipino broadcast journalist.

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06/02/1972

Stefano Bettarini, Italian footballer

Stefano Bettarini is an Italian retired professional footballer who played as a defender, and a television personality. He played once for the Italy national team. He was a contestant on Grande Fratello VIP, 2016 and currently a host presenter in L'Isola dei Famosi.

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David Binn, American football player

David Aaron Binn is an American former professional football player who was a long snapper for 18 seasons in the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the California Golden Bears and was signed by the San Diego Chargers as an undrafted free agent in 1994. He was the last remaining active member of the Chargers' Super Bowl XXIX team, as well as their infamous 2000 season, where they went 1–15.

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06/02/1971

Brad Hogg, Australian cricketer

George Bradley Hogg is a former Australian cricketer who played all formats of the game. He was a left-arm wrist spin bowler, and a lower-order left-handed batsman.

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Carlos Rogers, American basketball player

Carlos Deon Rogers is an American former professional basketball player who played eight seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA). Rogers was an All-American college player for the Tennessee State Tigers, then was selected by the Seattle SuperSonics in the first round of the 1994 NBA draft.

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06/02/1970

Per Frandsen, Danish footballer and manager

Per Frandsen is a Danish professional football manager and former player who is currently the head coach of Odds Ballklubb in the Norwegian second tier.

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Tim Herron, American golfer

Timothy Daniel Herron is an American professional golfer. He currently plays on the PGA Tour Champions. He was previously a member of the PGA Tour, where he was a four-time winner.

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06/02/1969

David Hayter, American actor and screenwriter

David Bryan Hayter is a Canadian-American actor, screenwriter, director, and producer. He is well known as the English-language voice actor for Solid Snake and Naked Snake in the Metal Gear video game series. He wrote the superhero film X-Men (2000), for which he won the Saturn Award for Best Writing. He also co-wrote The Scorpion King (2002), X-Men's first sequel, X2 (2003), and Watchmen (2009), and was a writer and producer on the streaming television series Warrior Nun.

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Masaharu Fukuyama, Japanese singer-songwriter, producer, and actor

Masaharu Fukuyama is a Japanese singer-songwriter and actor from Nagasaki. He debuted in 1990 with the single "Tsuioku no Ame no Naka".

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Tim Sherwood, English footballer and manager

Timothy Alan Sherwood is an English former football player and manager.

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Bob Wickman, American baseball player

Robert Joe Wickman is an American former professional baseball pitcher. He played 15 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) for five teams: the New York Yankees, Milwaukee Brewers, Cleveland Indians, Atlanta Braves, and Arizona Diamondbacks. He batted and threw right-handed.

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06/02/1968

Adolfo Valencia, Colombian footballer

Adolfo José Valencia Mosquera is a Colombian retired footballer who played as a striker.

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Akira Yamaoka, Japanese composer and producer

Akira Yamaoka is a Japanese composer and sound designer. He has scored almost every installment of Konami's horror video game series Silent Hill since 1999, also producing some of the entries and composing for three film adaptations. He has been the sound director at Grasshopper Manufacture since 2010 and has served as director and sound designer at Supertrick Games since 2018.

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06/02/1967

Anita Cochran, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer

Anita Renee Cockerham, known professionally as Anita Cochran, is an American country music singer, songwriter, and guitarist. She has released two albums for Warner Bros. Records Nashville and one for Straybranch Records. Cochran is best known for her late 1997-early 1998 single "What If I Said", a duet with Steve Wariner that reached the number-one position on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts.

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Izumi Sakai, Japanese singer-songwriter (died 2007)

Sachiko Kamachi , known professionally as Izumi Sakai , was a Japanese pop singer and core member of the group Zard. As Sakai was the only member in the group for the majority of the 16 years which it was active, Zard and Sakai may be referred to interchangeably. She was the best-selling female recording artist of the 1990s and has sold over 38 million copies of sales, making her one of the best-selling music artists in Japan of all time.

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Michelle Thrush, Canadian actress and activist

Michelle Thrush is a Canadian actress and First Nations activist for Indigenous peoples in Canada and the other Indigenous peoples of the Americas. She is best known for her leading role as Gail Stoney in Blackstone, for which she won the Gemini Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Continuing Leading Dramatic Role in 2011, and her recurring roles as Sylvie LeBret in North of 60 and Deanna Martin in Arctic Air.

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06/02/1965

Jan Svěrák, Czech actor, director, and screenwriter

Jan Svěrák is a Czech film director and screenwriter. He is the son of screenwriter and actor Zdeněk Svěrák, with whom he collaborated on his most successful films. He is among the most recognised Czech filmmakers. His best-known films are the Oscar-winning Kolya and the Oscar-nominated The Elementary School.

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06/02/1964

Laurent Cabannes, French rugby player

Laurent Jean-Marie Cabannes is a former French rugby union footballer. He played as a flanker.

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Colin Miller, Australian cricketer and sportscaster

Colin Reid Miller is an Australian former cricketer who played 18 Tests for Australia between 1998 and 2001. In May 2002, Miller announced his retirement from cricket.

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Andrey Zvyagintsev, Russian actor and director

Andrey Petrovich Zvyagintsev is a Russian filmmaker. His films usually explore Russian society and politics in the 21st century, featuring bleak atmosphere and neo-noir style.

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06/02/1963

David Capel, English cricketer (died 2020)

David John Capel was an English cricketer who played for Northamptonshire County Cricket Club and the English cricket team. Cricket writer Colin Bateman noted that "Capel was one of those unfortunate cricketers who became tagged as being the next all-rounder to fill Ian Botham's boots". He was well known for his long stint with Northamptonshire as a player as well as coach for nearly 32 years. He died on 2 September 2020, at the age of 57, after being diagnosed with a brain tumour in 2018.

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Scott Gordon, American ice hockey player and coach

Scott M. Gordon is an American professional ice hockey coach and former professional goaltender. He is currently the head coach for the Waterloo Black Hawks of the United States Hockey League (USHL). He previously served as the head coach of the NHL's New York Islanders from 2008 to 2010 and the head coach of the National Hockey League's Philadelphia Flyers in the 2018–19 season, and, as well as the head coach of the Providence Bruins and Lehigh Valley Phantoms of the American Hockey League (AHL) between 2002 and 2021. Before coaching he played 23 games in the NHL with the Quebec Nordiques during the 1989–90 and 1990–91 seasons, and in the minor leagues from 1986 to 1994. Internationally he played for the American national team at the 1992 Winter Olympics and the 1991 World Championships. Gordon was born in Brockton, Massachusetts, but grew up in Easton, Massachusetts.

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Quentin Letts, English journalist and critic

Quentin Richard Stephen Letts is an English journalist and theatre critic. He has written for The Daily Telegraph, Daily Mail, Mail on Sunday, and The Oldie. On 26 February 2019, it was announced that Letts would return to The Times. On 1 September 2023, Letts returned to the Daily Mail.

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06/02/1962

Stavros Lambrinidis, Greek lawyer and politician, Minister of Foreign Affairs for Greece

Stavros Lambrinidis is a Greek lawyer and politician, currently serving as Ambassador of the European Union to the United Nations. He was previously Ambassador of the European Union to the United States from March 2019 until December 2023, European Union special representative for human rights from 2012 to 2019 and Minister for Foreign Affairs in Greece from June 2011 to November 2011.

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06/02/1961

Cam Cameron, American football player and coach

Malcolm "Cam" Cameron is an American football coach who was most recently the offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach of the LSU Tigers football program. Cameron attended Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana and played quarterback for the school. Cameron began his coaching career in the NCAA with the Michigan Wolverines. After that he switched to the National Football League (NFL), where he was offensive coordinator for the Baltimore Ravens and the San Diego Chargers and head coach for the Miami Dolphins, coaching them to a 1–15 record in his only season.

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Bill Lester, American race car driver

William Alexander Lester III is an American semi-retired professional racing driver. He last competed part-time in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series, driving the No. 17 Ford F-150 for David Gilliland Racing. Lester previously competed full-time in the Truck Series from 2002 to midway through 2007. Lester was the NASCAR's only full-time African-American driver during that time. After that, he moved to sports car racing, competing in the Rolex Sports Car Series from 2007 to 2012. Lester had also competed part-time in the same series from 1998 to 2001.

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Yury Onufriyenko, Ukrainian-Russian colonel, pilot, and astronaut

Col. Yuri Ivanovich Onufrienko is a retired Russian cosmonaut. He is a veteran of two extended spaceflights, aboard the space station Mir in 1996 and aboard the International Space Station in 2001–2002.

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06/02/1960

Jeremy Bowen, Welsh journalist

Jeremy Francis John Bowen is a British journalist and television presenter.

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06/02/1958

Cecily Adams, American actress and casting director (died 2004)

Cecily April Adams was an American actress.

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06/02/1957

Andres Lipstok, Estonian economist and politician, Estonian Minister of Economic Affairs

Andres Lipstok was the chairman of the Bank of Estonia from 7 June 2005 to 7 June 2012. He has been a member of the Eesti Reformierakond since 1994 and also the Vice President of the Estonian Olympic Committee from 2004 to 2008.

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06/02/1956

Jerry Marotta, American drummer

Jerome David Marotta is an American drummer who resides in Woodstock, New York. He is the younger brother of Rick Marotta, who is also a drummer and composer.

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06/02/1955

Avram Grant, Israeli football manager

Avraham "Avram" Grant is an Israeli professional football manager who has spent the majority of his career coaching and managing in Israel, winning a number of national league and cup victories with different teams, and also managing the Israel national team for four years.

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John Kuester, American basketball player and coach

John Dewitt Kuester Jr. is an American basketball coach and scout. As a player he spent three seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA) from 1977 to 1980 and then coached in the college ranks before moving on to the NBA sidelines as an assistant. Kuester was named head coach of the Detroit Pistons in July 2009 and coached the team for two seasons.

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Michael Pollan, American journalist, author, and academic

Michael Kevin Pollan is an American journalist, specializing in food, who is a professor and the first Lewis K. Chan Arts Lecturer at Harvard University. Concurrently, he is the Knight Professor of Science and Environmental Journalism and the director of the Knight Program in Science and Environmental Journalism at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism where in 2020 he co-founded the UC Berkeley Center for the Science of Psychedelics, in which he leads the public-education program.

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Bruno Stolorz, French rugby player and coach

Bruno Stolorz is a former coach of the German national rugby union team.

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06/02/1952

Ric Charlesworth, Australian cricketer, coach, and politician

Richard Ian Charlesworth AO is an Australian sports coach and former politician. He played first-class cricket for Western Australia and international field hockey for the Kookaburras, winning a silver medal at the 1976 Summer Olympics and winning the World Cup in 1986. Charlesworth served as a federal member of parliament from 1983 to 1993, representing the Labor Party. After leaving politics, he was appointed coach of the Hockeyroos, leading them to Olympic gold medals in 1996 and 2000. Charlesworth later coached the Kookaburras from 2009 to 2014, and has also worked in consulting roles with the New Zealand national cricket team, the Australian Institute of Sport, and the Fremantle Football Club.

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Viktor Giacobbo, Swiss actor, producer, and screenwriter

Viktor Giacobbo is a Swiss writer, comedian and actor.

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Ricardo La Volpe, Argentinian footballer, manager, and coach

Ricardo Antonio La Volpe Guarchoni is an Argentine former professional footballer and manager. He is a World Cup-winning goalkeeper who played for most of his career in Argentina and Mexico.

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06/02/1950

Timothy M. Dolan, American cardinal

Timothy Michael Dolan is an American Catholic prelate who served as Archbishop of New York from 2009 to 2025. Dolan served as president of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) from 2010 to 2013. Dolan was rector of the Pontifical North American College in Rome from 1994 to 2001, auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of St. Louis from 2001 to 2002, and archbishop of the Archdiocese of Milwaukee from 2002 to 2009. Dolan was made a cardinal by Pope Benedict XVI in 2012.

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Punky Meadows, American rock guitarist and songwriter

Punky Meadows is an American guitarist best known as a member of the band Angel between 1975 and 1980, and for his glam rock image.

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06/02/1949

Mike Batt, English singer-songwriter and producer

Michael Philip Batt is an English singer-songwriter, musician, arranger, record producer, director, and conductor. He served as the Deputy Chairman of the British Phonographic Industry.

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Manuel Orantes, Spanish tennis player

Manuel Orantes Corral is a Spanish former professional tennis player. He won 36 career singles titles, including the 1975 US Open, defeating defending champion Jimmy Connors in the final. Orantes reached a career-high singles ranking of world No. 2.

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Jim Sheridan, Irish director, producer, and screenwriter

Jim Sheridan is an Irish filmmaker. Between 1989 and 1993, Sheridan directed three critically acclaimed films set in Ireland, My Left Foot (1989), The Field (1990), and In the Name of the Father (1993), and later directed the films The Boxer (1997), In America (2003), and Brothers (2009). Sheridan has received six Academy Award nominations for his work.

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Mike Anderson, former American football player.

Michael Howard Anderson is an American former football player.

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06/02/1947

Charlie Hickcox, American swimmer (died 2010)

Charles Buchanan Hickcox II was an American competition swimmer who swam for the University of Indiana, a three-time Olympic champion at the 1968 Mexico City Olympics, and a former world record-holder in six events.

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Bill Staines, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2021)

William Russell Staines was an American folk musician and singer-songwriter from New Hampshire who wrote and performed songs with a wide array of subjects. Called "the Woody Guthrie of my generation" by singer-songwriter Nanci Griffith, he also wrote and recorded children's songs.

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06/02/1946

Richie Hayward, American drummer and songwriter (died 2010)

Richard Hayward was an American drummer best known as a founding member and drummer in the band Little Feat. He performed with several bands and worked as a session player. Hayward also joined with friends in some small acting roles on television, which included an episode of F Troop.

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Kate McGarrigle, Canadian musician and singer-songwriter (died 2010)

Kate McGarrigle was a Canadian folk music singer-songwriter, who wrote and performed as a duo with her sister Anna McGarrigle.

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Jim Turner, American captain and politician

James William Turner is an American lawyer and politician who was the Democratic U.S. Representative for Texas's 2nd congressional district from 1997 until 2005.

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06/02/1944

Christine Boutin, French politician, French Minister of Housing and Urban Development

Christine Boutin is a French former politician leading the small French Christian Democratic Party. She served as a member of the French National Assembly representing Yvelines, from 1986 until 2007, when she was appointed Minister of Housing and Urban Development by President Nicolas Sarkozy. She was a candidate in the 2002 French presidential election, in which she scored 1.19% on the first round of balloting.

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Willie Tee, American singer-songwriter, keyboard player, and producer (died 2007)

Wilson Turbinton, professionally known as Willie Tee, was an American keyboardist, songwriter, singer, producer and notable early architect of New Orleans funk and soul, who helped shape the sound of New Orleans for more than four decades.

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06/02/1943

Gayle Hunnicutt, American actress (died 2023)

Gayle Hunnicutt, Lady Jenkins was an American film, television, and stage actress. She is known for her film roles in Marlowe (1969), Fragment of Fear (1970), Running Scared (1972), and The Legend of Hell House (1973), as well as her portrayal of Vanessa Beaumont on the soap opera Dallas (1988–1991).

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06/02/1942

Ahmad-Jabir Ahmadov, Azerbaijani philosopher and academic (died 2021)

Ahmad-Jabir Ismayil oghlu Ahmadov – was a professor of "Commodity research and examination of food" in Azerbaijan State Economic University, Doctor of Philosophy in technical sciences (1973), Professor of the department "Commodity research of Foodstuffs" (2001), Honored Teacher of Azerbaijan (2002), a member of the Union of Azerbaijani Writers and Union of Journalists of Azerbaijan, Golden Pen Media award winner (2010). Author of over 300 scientific publications, including 60 books.

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Charlie Coles, American basketball player and coach (died 2013)

Charlie Coles was an American college basketball coach and the former men's basketball head coach at Miami University and Central Michigan University.

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James Loewen, American sociologist and historian (died 2021)

James William Loewen was an American sociologist, historian, and author. He was best known for his 1995 book, Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong. A 2005 book, Sundown Towns: A Hidden Dimension of American Racism, galvanized a national effort to develop a list of sundown towns.

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Tommy Roberts, English fashion designer (died 2012)

Thomas Steven Roberts was an English designer and fashion entrepreneur who operated independent retail outlets including pop art boutique, Mr Freedom, and the 1980s decorative arts and homewares store, Practical Styling.

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06/02/1941

Stephen Albert, American pianist and composer (died 1992)

Stephen Joel Albert was an American composer. He is best known for his Pulitzer Prize winning Symphony No. 1 RiverRun (1983) and his Cello Concerto (1990), written for Yo-Yo Ma. He died suddenly in a 1992 automobile accident, having just sketched out his Second Symphony. The work was subsequently completed by Sebastian Currier, and his death sparked musical tributes from composer colleagues such as Aaron Jay Kernis and Christopher Rouse.

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Dave Berry, English pop singer

Dave Berry is an English rock singer and former teen idol during the 1960s. His best-remembered hits are "Memphis, Tennessee", "The Crying Game" (1964) and his 1965 hit "Little Things", a cover version of Bobby Goldsboro's Stateside Records top 40 success.

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Gigi Perreau, American actress and director

Ghislaine Elizabeth Marie Thérèse Perreau-Saussine, known professionally as Gigi Perreau, is an American film and television actress.

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06/02/1940

Petr Hájek, Czech mathematician and academic (died 2016)

Petr Hájek was a Czech scientist in the area of mathematical logic and a professor of mathematics. Born in Prague, he worked at the Institute of Computer Science at the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic and as a lecturer at the faculty of mathematics and physics at the Charles University in Prague and at the Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering of the Czech Technical University in Prague.

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Jimmy Tarbuck, English comedian and actor

James Joseph Tarbuck is an English comedian, singer, actor, entertainer and game show host.

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06/02/1939

Jean Beaudin, Canadian director and screenwriter (died 2019)

Jean Beaudin was a Canadian film director and screenwriter. He directed 20 films since 1969. His film J.A. Martin Photographer, was entered into the 1977 Cannes Film Festival, where Monique Mercure won the award for Best Actress. The film also won best Film, he won best Director, and Mercure won best Actress awards at the 1977 Canadian Film Awards. He was nominated for the Genie Award for Best Achievement in Direction in 1986, 1992 and 2003 for his films The Alley Cat , Being at Home with Claude and The Collector , respectively.

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Jair Rodrigues, Brazilian singer (died 2014)

Jair Rodrigues de Oliveira was a Brazilian musician and singer. He is the father of Luciana Mello and Jair Oliveira, who also followed in his footsteps and became musicians.

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06/02/1938

Fred Mifflin, Canadian admiral and politician, 19th Minister of Veterans Affairs (died 2013)

Rear-Admiral Fred J. Mifflin, was a rear admiral in the Canadian Forces and a politician.

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06/02/1936

Kent Douglas, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (died 2009)

Kent Gemmell Douglas was a Canadian professional ice hockey defenceman and coach.

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06/02/1933

Leslie Crowther, English comedian, actor, and game show host (died 1996)

Leslie Douglas Sargent Crowther was an English comedian, actor, TV presenter, and game show host.

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06/02/1932

Camilo Cienfuegos, Cuban soldier and anarchist (died 1959)

Camilo Cienfuegos Gorriarán was a Cuban revolutionary. One of the major figures of the Cuban Revolution, he was considered second only to Fidel Castro among the revolutionary leadership.

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06/02/1931

Fred Trueman, English cricketer (died 2006)

Frederick Sewards Trueman, was an English cricketer who played for Yorkshire County Cricket Club and the England cricket team. He had professional status and later became an author and broadcaster.

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Ricardo Vidal, Filipino cardinal (died 2017)

Ricardo Tito Jamin Vidal was a Filipino prelate of the Catholic Church in the Philippines. Made a cardinal in 1985, he was Archbishop of Cebu from 1982 to 2010.

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06/02/1930

Jun Kondo, Japanese physicist and academic (died 2022)

Jun Kondō was a Japanese theoretical physicist.

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06/02/1929

Colin Murdoch, New Zealand pharmacist and veterinarian, invented the tranquilliser gun (died 2008)

Colin Albert Murdoch was a New Zealand pharmacist and veterinarian who made a number of significant inventions, in particular the tranquilliser gun, the disposable hypodermic syringe and the child-proof medicine container. He had a total of 46 patents registered in his name.

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Oscar Sambrano Urdaneta, Venezuelan author and critic (died 2011)

Oscar Sambrano Urdaneta was a Venezuelan writer, essayist and literary critic, specialized in the life and work of Andrés Bello. In 1978, he won the Municipal Prize of Literature for the work Poesía contemporánea de Venezuela. He served as the president of the Venezuelan Academy of Language, is an honorary member of the Caro y Cuervo Institute, and was president of the National Council of Culture (CONAC) in the late 1990s. He also has hosted the television show Valores (Values).

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Valentin Yanin, Russian historian and author (died 2020)

Valentin Lavrentievich Yanin was a leading Russian historian who authored 700 books and articles. He had also edited a number of important journals and primary sources, including works on medieval Russian law, sphragistics and epigraphy, archaeology and history. His expertise was medieval Rus' especially Novgorod the Great, where he had headed archaeological digs beginning in 1962.

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06/02/1928

Allan H. Meltzer, American economist and academic (died 2017)

Allan H. Meltzer was an American economist and Allan H. Meltzer Professor of Political Economy at Carnegie Mellon University's Tepper School of Business and Institute for Politics and Strategy in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Meltzer specialized on studying monetary policy and the Federal Reserve System, and authored several academic papers and books on the development and applications of monetary policy, and about the history of central banking in the United States.

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06/02/1927

Gerard K. O'Neill, American physicist and astronomer (died 1992)

Gerard Kitchen O'Neill was an American physicist and space activist. As a faculty member of Princeton University, he invented a device called the particle storage ring for high-energy physics experiments. Later, he invented a magnetic launcher called the mass driver. In the 1970s, he developed a plan to build human settlements in outer space, including a space habitat design known as the O'Neill cylinder. He founded the Space Studies Institute, an organization devoted to funding research into space manufacturing and colonization.

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06/02/1924

Billy Wright, English footballer and manager (died 1994)

William Ambrose Wright was an English footballer who played as a centre-back. He spent his entire club career at Wolverhampton Wanderers. The first footballer in the world to earn 100 international caps, Wright also held the record for longest unbroken run in competitive international football, with 70 consecutive appearances, although that was surpassed by Andoni Zubizarreta's 86 consecutive appearances for Spain (1985–94). He also made a total of 105 appearances for England, captaining them a record 90 times, including during their campaigns at the 1950, 1954 and 1958 World Cup.

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Jin Yong, Hong Kong author and publisher, founded Ming Pao (died 2018)

Louis Cha Leung-yung, better known by his pen name Jin Yong, was a Chinese wuxia novelist and co-founder of Hong Kong newspaper Ming Pao. Cha authored 15 novels between 1955 and 1972 and became one of the most popular Chinese writers of all time, with over 100 million copies sold globally—excluding widespread pirated editions. Cha's novels, which have been adapted into numerous TV dramas, films, and video games, are esteemed for their literary quality and universal appeal, resonating with both scholarly and popular audiences.

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06/02/1923

Gyula Lóránt, Hungarian footballer and manager (died 1981)

Gyula Lóránt was a Hungarian footballer and manager of Croatian descent. He played as a defender and midfielder for, among others, UTA Arad, Vasas SC, Honvéd and the Hungary national team.

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06/02/1922

Denis Norden, English actor, screenwriter, and television host (died 2018)

Denis Mostyn Norden was an English comedy writer and television presenter. After an early career working in cinemas, he began scriptwriting during the Second World War. From 1948 to 1959, he co-wrote the BBC Radio comedy programme Take It from Here with Frank Muir. Muir and Norden remained associated for more than 50 years, appearing regularly together on the radio panel programmes My Word! and My Music after they stopped collaborating on scripts. He also wrote scripts for Hollywood films. He presented television programmes on ITV for many years, including the nostalgia quiz Looks Familiar and blooper shows It'll be Alright on the Night and Laughter File.

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Haskell Wexler, American director, producer, and cinematographer (died 2015)

Haskell Wexler was an American filmmaker, cinematographer, and documentarian. He won the Academy Award for Best Cinematography twice, in 1966 for Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and 1976 for Bound for Glory, out of five total nominations. As a director, he was known for his socio-politically provocative documentary and docufiction works, emerging from the civil rights movement and counterculture of the 1960s.

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06/02/1921

Carl Neumann Degler, American historian and author (died 2014)

Carl Neumann Degler was an American historian and Pulitzer Prize-winning author. He was the Margaret Byrne Professor of American History Emeritus at Stanford University.

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Bob Scott, New Zealand rugby player (died 2012)

Robert William Henry Scott was a New Zealand rugby union player who represented the All Blacks between 1946 and 1954.

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06/02/1919

Takashi Yanase, Japanese poet and illustrator, created Anpanman (died 2013)

Takashi Yanase was a Japanese manga artist and writer, poet, illustrator and lyricist.

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06/02/1918

Lothar-Günther Buchheim, German author and painter (died 2007)

Lothar-Günther Buchheim was a German author, painter, and wartime journalist under the Nazi regime. In World War II he served as a war correspondent aboard ships and U-boats. He is best known for his 1973 antiwar novel Das Boot, based on his experiences during the war, which became an international bestseller and was adapted as the 1981 Oscar-nominated film of the same name. His artworks, collected in a gallery on the banks of the Starnberger See, range from heavily decorated cars to a variety of mannequins seated or standing as if themselves visitors to the gallery, thus challenging the division between visitor and art work.

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06/02/1917

Louis-Philippe de Grandpré, Canadian lawyer and jurist (died 2008)

Louis-Philippe de Grandpré was a Canadian lawyer and puisne justice of the Supreme Court of Canada.

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06/02/1916

John Crank, English mathematician and physicist (died 2006)

John Crank was a mathematical physicist, best known for his work on the numerical solution of partial differential equations.

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06/02/1915

Kavi Pradeep, Indian poet and songwriter (died 1998)

Kavi Pradeep, was an Indian poet and songwriter who is best known for his patriotic song "Aye Mere Watan Ke Logo" written as a tribute to the soldiers who had died defending the country during the Sino-Indian War.

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06/02/1914

Thurl Ravenscroft, American voice actor and singer (died 2005)

Thurl Arthur Ravenscroft was an American actor and bass singer best known for providing the voice of Tony the Tiger in Kellogg's Frosted Flakes commercials from the 1950s until his death and for singing "You're a Mean One, Mr. Grinch" in the 1966 Christmas television special How the Grinch Stole Christmas!.

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06/02/1913

Mary Leakey, English-Kenyan archaeologist and anthropologist (died 1996)

Mary Douglas Leakey, FBA was a British paleoanthropologist who discovered the first fossilised Proconsul skull, an extinct ape believed to be ancestral to humans. She also discovered the robust Zinjanthropus skull at Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania, eastern Africa. For much of her career she worked with her husband, Louis Leakey, at Olduvai Gorge, where they uncovered fossils of ancient hominines and the earliest hominins, as well as the stone tools produced by the latter group. Mary Leakey developed a system for classifying the stone tools found at Olduvai. She discovered the Laetoli footprints, and at the Laetoli site she discovered hominin fossils that were more than 3.75 million years old.

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06/02/1912

Eva Braun, German photographer, mistress and briefly wife of Adolf Hitler (died 1945)

Eva Anna Paula Hitler was a German photographer who was the longtime companion and briefly the wife of Adolf Hitler. Braun met Hitler in Munich in 1929 when she was an assistant and model for his personal photographer, Heinrich Hoffmann. She began seeing Hitler often about two years later.

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Christopher Hill, English historian and author (died 2003)

John Edward Christopher Hill was an English Marxist historian and academic, specialising in 17th-century English history. From 1965 to 1978 he was Master of Balliol College, Oxford.

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06/02/1911

Ronald Reagan, American actor and politician, 40th President of the United States (died 2004)

Ronald Wilson Reagan was an American politician and actor who served as the 40th president of the United States from 1981 to 1989. A member of the Republican Party, he became an important figure in the American conservative movement. The period encompassing his presidency is known as the Reagan era.

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06/02/1910

Roman Czerniawski, Polish air force officer and spy (died 1985)

Roman Garby-Czerniawski was a Polish Air Force captain and Allied double agent during World War II who used the code name Brutus.

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Irmgard Keun, German author (died 1982)

Irmgard Keun was a German novelist. Noted for her portrayals of the life of women, she is described as "often reduced to the bold sexuality of her writing, [yet] a significant author of the late Weimar period and die Neue Sachlichkeit." She was born into an affluent family and was given the autonomy to explore her passions. After her attempts at acting ended at the age of 16, Keun began working as a writer after years of working in Hamburg and Greifswald. Her books were banned by Nazi authorities but gained recognition during the final years of her life.

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Carlos Marcello, Tunisian-American gangster (died 1993)

Carlos Joseph Marcello was an Italian-American crime boss of the New Orleans crime family from 1947 to 1990.

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06/02/1908

Geo Bogza, Romanian poet and journalist (died 1993)

Geo Bogza was a Romanian avant-garde theorist, poet, and journalist, known for his left-wing and communist political convictions. As a young man in the interwar period, he was known as a rebel and was one of the most influential Romanian Surrealists. Several of his controversial poems twice led to his imprisonment on grounds of obscenity, and saw him partake in the conflict between young and old Romanian writers, as well as in the confrontation between the avant-garde and the far right. At a later stage, Bogza won acclaim for his many and accomplished reportage pieces, being one of the first to cultivate the genre in Romanian literature, and using it as a venue for social criticism.

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Amintore Fanfani, Italian journalist and politician, 32nd Prime Minister of Italy (died 1999)

Amintore Fanfani was an Italian politician and statesman who served as 32nd prime minister of Italy for five separate terms. He was one of the best-known Italian politicians after the Second World War and a historical figure of the left-wing faction of Christian Democracy. He is also considered one of the founders of the modern Italian centre-left.

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Edward Lansdale, American general and CIA agent (died 1987)

Edward Geary Lansdale was a United States Air Force officer until retiring in 1963 as a major general before continuing his work with the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). Lansdale was a pioneer in clandestine operations and psychological warfare. In the early 1950s, Lansdale played a significant role in suppressing the Hukbalahap rebellion in the Philippines. In 1954, he moved to Saigon and started the Saigon Military Mission, a covert intelligence operation that was created to sow dissension in North Vietnam. Lansdale believed the United States could win guerrilla wars by studying the enemy's psychology, an approach that notionally won the approval of the presidential administrations of both John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson but largely would not be implemented due to bureaucratic opposition.

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Michael Maltese, American actor, screenwriter, and composer (died 1981)

Michael Maltese was an American screenwriter and storyboard artist for classic animated cartoon shorts. He is best known for working in the 1950s on a series of Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies cartoons with director Chuck Jones. This collaboration produced many highly acclaimed animated shorts, including 4 of the top 5 "greatest cartoons" as judged by 1000 animation professionals; What's Opera, Doc? tops this list as the best animated short of all time.

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06/02/1906

Joseph Schull, Canadian playwright and historian (died 1980)

Joseph Schull was a Canadian playwright and historian who wrote more than two dozen books and 200 plays for radio and television.

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06/02/1905

Władysław Gomułka, Polish politician (died 1982)

Władysław Gomułka was a Polish communist politician. He was the de facto leader of post-war Poland from 1947 until 1948, and again from 1956 to 1970.

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Jan Werich, Czech actor and playwright (died 1980)

Jan Werich was a Czech actor, playwright and writer.

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06/02/1903

Claudio Arrau, Chilean pianist and composer (died 1991)

Claudio Arrau León was a Chilean and American pianist known for his interpretations of a vast repertoire spanning the baroque to 20th-century composers, especially Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Chopin, Schumann, Liszt and Brahms. He is widely considered one of the greatest pianists of the twentieth century.

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06/02/1902

George Brunies, American trombonist (died 1974)

George Clarence Brunies, a.k.a. Georg Brunis, was an American jazz trombonist, who was part of the dixieland revival. He was known as "The King of the Tailgate Trombone".

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Zdenka Ziková, Czech opera singer (died 1990)

Zdenka Ziková, also known as Zdenka Zika, was a Czech soprano opera singer and music teacher.

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06/02/1901

Ben Lyon, American actor (died 1979)

Ben Lyon was an American film actor and a studio executive at 20th Century-Fox who later acted in British radio, films and TV.

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06/02/1899

Ramon Novarro, Mexican-American actor, singer, and director (died 1968)

Ramón Gil Samaniego, known professionally as Ramon Novarro, was a Mexican actor. He began his career in American silent films in 1917 and eventually became a leading man and one of the top box-office attractions of the 1920s and early '30s. Novarro was promoted by MGM as a "Latin lover" and became known as a sex symbol after the death of Rudolph Valentino. He is recognized as the first Latin American actor to succeed in Hollywood.

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06/02/1898

Harry Haywood, American soldier and politician (died 1985)

Harry Haywood was an American political activist and a leading figure in the Communist Party of the United States (CPUSA). He was principally known for his efforts "to bring the political philosophy of the Party in line with issues of race."

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06/02/1895

Robert La Follette Jr., American politician (died 1953)

Robert Marion La Follette Jr. was an American politician who served as United States senator from Wisconsin from 1925 to 1947. A member of the La Follette family, he was often referred to by the nickname "Young Bob" to distinguish him from his father, Robert M. "Fighting Bob" La Follette, who had served as a U.S. senator and governor of Wisconsin. Robert Jr., along with his brother Philip La Follette, carried on their father's legacy of progressive politics and founded the Wisconsin Progressive Party. Robert Jr. was the last major Progressive Party politician in the U.S. Senate, ending in 1946 when the party disbanded. La Follette was defeated in the 1946 Republican Senate primary by Joseph McCarthy.

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María Teresa Vera, Cuban singer, guitarist and composer (died 1965)

María Teresa Vera was a Cuban singer, guitarist and composer. She was an outstanding example of the Cuban trova movement.

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Babe Ruth, American baseball player and coach (died 1948)

George Herman "Babe" Ruth was an American professional baseball player whose career in Major League Baseball (MLB) spanned 22 seasons, from 1914 through 1935. Nicknamed "the Bambino" and "the Sultan of Swat", he began his MLB career as a star left-handed pitcher for the Boston Red Sox, but achieved his greatest fame as a slugging outfielder for the New York Yankees. Ruth is regarded as one of the greatest sports heroes in American culture and is considered by many to be the greatest baseball player of all time. In 1936, Ruth was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame as one of its "first five" members.

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06/02/1894

Eric Partridge, New Zealand-English lexicographer and academic (died 1979)

Eric Honeywood Partridge was a New Zealand–British lexicographer of the English language, particularly of its slang. His writing career was interrupted only by his service in the Army Education Corps and the RAF correspondence department during World War II.

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Kirpal Singh, Indian spiritual master (died 1974)

Kirpal Singh was a spiritual master (satguru) in the tradition of Radha Soami.

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06/02/1893

Muhammad Zafarullah Khan, Pakistani politician and diplomat, 1st Minister of Foreign Affairs for Pakistan (died 1985)

Sir Muhammad Zafrulla Khan was a Pakistani independence activist, diplomat and jurist who served as the first Minister for Foreign Affairs from 1947 to 1954. After serving as foreign minister, he continued his international career and is the only Pakistani to-date to preside over the International Court of Justice. He also served as the President of the United Nations General Assembly. He is the only person to-date to serve as the President of both UN General Assembly and the International Court of Justice.

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06/02/1892

Maximilian Fretter-Pico, German general (died 1984)

Maximilian Fretter-Pico was a German general during World War II. He was a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves of Nazi Germany.

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William P. Murphy, American physician and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1987)

William Parry Murphy Sr. was an American physician who shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1934 with George Richards Minot and George Hoyt Whipple for their combined work in devising and treating macrocytic anemia.

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06/02/1890

Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan, Pakistani activist and politician (died 1988)

Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan, also known as Bacha Khan and Badshah Khan, was an Indian independence activist from the North-West Frontier Province, and founder of the Khudai Khidmatgar resistance movement against British rule in colonial India. After the partition occurred, he became a Pakistani politician and led the Azad Party.

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James McGirr, Australian politician, 28th Premier of New South Wales (died 1957)

James McGirr was an Australian politician. He served as premier of New South Wales from 1947 to 1952, holding office as leader of the Australian Labor Party (ALP). He led the party to victory at the 1947 and 1950 New South Wales state elections. He was a pharmacist by profession and the younger brother of Patrick and Greg McGirr, who were also members of parliament; Greg also led the ALP briefly but was never premier.

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06/02/1887

Josef Frings, German cardinal (died 1978)

Josef Richard Frings, was a German clergyman and Cardinal of the Catholic Church. He served as Archbishop of Cologne from 1942 to 1969. Considered a significant figure in Catholic resistance to Nazism, he was elevated to the cardinalate in 1946 by Pope Pius XII.

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06/02/1884

Marcel Cohen, French linguist and scholar (died 1974)

Marcel Samuel Raphaël Cohen was a French linguist. He was an important scholar of Semitic languages and especially of Ethiopian languages. He studied the French language and contributed much to general linguistics.

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06/02/1880

Nishinoumi Kajirō II, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 25th Yokozuna (died 1931)

Nishinoumi Kajirō II was a Japanese professional sumo wrestler. He was the sport's 25th yokozuna.

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06/02/1879

Othon Friesz, French painter (died 1949)

Achille-Émile Othon Friesz, who later called himself Othon Friesz, a native of Le Havre, was a French artist of the Fauvist movement.

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Magnús Guðmundsson, Icelandic lawyer and politician, 3rd Prime Minister of Iceland (died 1937)

Magnús Guðmundsson was an Icelandic politician. He graduated in laws from the University of Copenhagen in 1907. Magnus was a member of Althingi for his constituency in North west Iceland from 1916 till the day of his death in 1937. He served as prime minister of Iceland for 15 days, from 23 June to 8 July 1926 following the death of Jón Magnússon. Magnus is the shortest serving prime minister in Icelandic history. Magnus was a member of the now defunct Conservative Party (Íhaldsflokkurinn). He was the Minister of Industrial Affairs in the presiding Government of Jón Magnússon from 1924 to 1927. Prior to that he had served as Minister of Finance of Iceland from 1920 to 1922. He was a founding member of the Independence Party and served as a minister of Justice in the first government that the Independence Party participated in, from 1932 to 1934.

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Edwin Samuel Montagu, English politician, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (died 1924)

Edwin Samuel Montagu PC was a British Liberal politician who served as Secretary of State for India between 1917 and 1922. Montagu was a "radical" Liberal and the third practising Jew to serve in the British cabinet.

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Carl Ramsauer, German physicist and author (died 1955)

Carl Wilhelm Ramsauer was a German physicist known for the discovery of the Ramsauer–Townsend effect. He pioneered the field of electron and proton collisions with gas molecules.

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06/02/1876

Henry Blogg, English fisherman and sailor (died 1954)

Henry George Blogg GC BEM was a lifeboatman from Cromer on the north coast of Norfolk, England, and the most decorated in Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) history.

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06/02/1875

Leonid Gobyato, Russian general (died 1915)

Leonid Nikolaevich Gobyato was a lieutenant-general in the Imperial Russian Army and designer of the modern, man-portable mortar.

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06/02/1874

Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura, Indian religious leader, founded the Gaudiya Math (died 1937)

Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati (IAST: Bhakti-siddhānta Sarasvatī Thakur ; Bengali: ভক্তিসিদ্ধান্ত সরস্বতী; Bengali: [bʱɔktisiddʱanto ʃɔrɔʃbɔti] ;, born Bimala Prasad Datt, was a Gaudīya Vaisnava guru, Ācārya, and revivalist in early twentieth-century India. Known to followers as: Srila Prabhupāda.

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06/02/1872

Robert Maillart, Swiss engineer, designed the Salginatobel Bridge and Schwandbach Bridge (died 1940)

Robert Maillart was a Swiss civil engineer who revolutionized the use of structural reinforced concrete with such designs as the three-hinged arch and the deck-stiffened arch for bridges, and the beamless floor slab and mushroom ceiling for industrial buildings. His Salginatobel (1929–1930) and Schwandbach (1933) bridges changed the aesthetics and engineering of bridge construction dramatically and influenced decades of architects and engineers after him. In 1991 the Salginatobel Bridge was declared an International Historic Civil Engineering Landmark by the American Society of Civil Engineers.

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06/02/1866

Karl Sapper, German linguist and explorer (died 1945)

Karl Theodor Sapper was a German traveler, explorer, and antiquarian who is known for his research into the natural history, and cultures of Central America.

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06/02/1864

John Henry Mackay, Scottish-German philosopher and author (died 1933)

John Henry Mackay was a Scottish-German egoist anarchist, thinker and writer. Born in Scotland and raised in Germany, Mackay was the author of Die Anarchisten and Der Freiheitsucher.

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06/02/1861

Nikolay Zelinsky, Russian chemist and academic (died 1953)

Nikolay Dmitriyevich Zelinsky was a Russian and Soviet chemist and educator. He was a professor at Moscow University from 1893 and an academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union (1929).

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06/02/1852

C. Lloyd Morgan, English zoologist and psychologist (died 1936)

Conwy Lloyd Morgan, FRS was a British ethologist and psychologist. He is remembered for his theory of emergent evolution, and for the experimental approach to animal psychology now known as Morgan's Canon, a principle that played a major role in behaviourism, insisting that higher mental faculties should only be considered as explanations if lower faculties could not explain a behaviour.

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Vasily Safonov, Russian pianist, composer, and conductor (died 1918)

Vasily Ilyich Safonov, also known as Wassily Safonoff, was a Russian pianist, teacher, conductor and composer.

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06/02/1847

Henry Janeway Hardenbergh, American architect, designed the Plaza Hotel (died 1918)

Henry Janeway Hardenbergh was an American architect, best known for his hotels and apartment buildings, and as a "master of a new building form — the skyscraper." He worked three times with Edward Clark, the wealthy owner of the Singer Sewing Machine Company and real estate developer: The Singer company's first tower in New York City, the Dakota Apartments, and its precursor, the Van Corlear. He is best known for building apartment dwellings and luxury hotels.

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06/02/1845

Isidor Straus, German-American businessman and politician (died 1912)

Isidor Straus was an American politician and businessman, who was a co-owner of Macy's department store with his brother Nathan. He served just over a year as a member of the United States House of Representatives, representing the state of New York.

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06/02/1843

Inoue Kowashi, Japanese scholar and politician (died 1895)

Viscount Inoue Kowashi was a Japanese statesman of the Meiji period.

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Frederic William Henry Myers, English poet and philologist, co-founded the Society for Psychical Research (died 1901)

Frederic William Henry Myers was a British poet, classicist, philologist, and a founder of the Society for Psychical Research. Myers' work on psychical research and his ideas about a "subliminal self" were influential in his time, but have not been accepted by the scientific community.

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06/02/1842

Alexandre Ribot, French academic and politician, Prime Minister of France (died 1923)

Alexandre-Félix-Joseph Ribot was a French politician, four times Prime Minister.

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06/02/1839

Eduard Hitzig, German neurologist and psychiatrist (died 1907)

Eduard Hitzig was a German neurologist and neuropsychiatrist of Jewish ancestry born in Berlin.

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06/02/1838

Henry Irving, English actor and manager (died 1905)

Sir Henry Irving was an English actor-manager in the Victorian and Edwardian eras. He established himself at the West End theatre the Lyceum. His long campaign to have theatre recognised as an art of equal importance with music and painting culminated when he was knighted in 1895, the first actor to be thus honoured.

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Israel Meir Kagan, Lithuanian-Polish rabbi and author (died 1933)

Yisrael Meir ha-Kohen Kagan was a Lithuanian rabbi, posek, and ethicist whose works are widely influential in Orthodox Jewish life. He was known popularly as the Chofetz Chaim, after his book with that title on lashon hara, and was also well known for the Mishnah Berurah, his book on ritual law.

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06/02/1834

Edwin Klebs, German-Swiss pathologist and academic (died 1913)

Theodor Albrecht Edwin Klebs was a German-Swiss microbiologist. He is mainly known for his work on infectious diseases. His works paved the way for the beginning of modern bacteriology, and inspired Louis Pasteur and Robert Koch. He was the first to identify a bacterium that causes diphtheria, which was called Klebs–Loeffler bacterium. He was the father of physician Arnold Klebs.

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Ema Pukšec, Croatian-German soprano (died 1889)

Ema Pukšec, also known as Ilma de Murska, as well as Ilma di Murska, was a 19th-century operatic coloratura soprano with a voice with nearly three octaves compass from Croatia.

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Wilhelm von Scherff, German general and author (died 1911)

Wilhelm von Scherff was a German general and military writer.

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06/02/1833

José María de Pereda, Spanish author and academic (died 1906)

José María de Pereda y Sánchez de Porrúa was a Spanish novelist, and a Member of the Royal Spanish Academy.

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J. E. B. Stuart, American general (died 1864)

James Ewell Brown "Jeb" Stuart was a Confederate cavalry general during the American Civil War. He was known to his friends as "Jeb", from the initials of his given names. Stuart was a cavalry commander known for his mastery of reconnaissance and the use of cavalry in support of offensive operations. While he cultivated a cavalier image, his serious work made him the trusted eyes and ears of Robert E. Lee's army and inspired Southern morale.

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06/02/1832

John Brown Gordon, American general and politician, 53rd Governor of Georgia (died 1904)

John Brown Gordon was an American politician, Confederate States Army general, attorney, slaveowner and planter. "One of Robert E. Lee's most trusted generals" by the end of the Civil War, according to historian Ed Bearss, he strongly opposed Reconstruction. A member of the Democratic Party, he was twice elected by the Georgia state legislature as a United States Senator, serving from 1873 to 1880, and again from 1891 to 1897. He served two terms as the 53rd governor of Georgia from 1886 to 1890.

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06/02/1829

Joseph Auguste Émile Vaudremer, French architect, designed the La Santé Prison and Saint-Pierre-de-Montrouge (died 1914)

Joseph Auguste Émile Vaudremer was a French architect. He won the prix de Rome and designed several public buildings in France, particularly in Paris, four of which have been designated monuments historiques.

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06/02/1820

Thomas C. Durant, American railroad tycoon (died 1885)

Thomas Clark Durant was an American physician, businessman, and financier. He was vice-president of the Union Pacific Rail Road (UP) in 1869 when it met with the Central Pacific Railroad at Promontory Summit, Utah Territory. He created the financial structure that led to the Crédit Mobilier scandal. He was interested in hotels in the Adirondacks and once owned the schooner-yacht Idler, a successful America’s Cup defender.

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06/02/1818

William M. Evarts, American lawyer and politician, 27th United States Secretary of State (died 1901)

William Maxwell Evarts was an American lawyer and statesman from New York who served as U.S. Secretary of State, U.S. Attorney General and U.S. Senator from New York. He was renowned for his skills as a litigator and was involved in three of the most important causes of American political jurisprudence in his day: the impeachment of a president, the Geneva arbitration and the contests before the electoral commission to settle the presidential election of 1876.

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06/02/1814

Auguste Chapdelaine, French missionary and saint (died 1856)

Auguste Chapdelaine, Chinese name Mǎ Lài was a French Christian missionary of the Paris Foreign Missions Society. France used his death – Chapdelaine was executed by Chinese officials – as a casus belli for its participation in the Second Opium War.

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06/02/1811

Henry Liddell, English priest, author, and academic (died 1898)

Henry George Liddell was dean (1855–1891) of Christ Church, Oxford, Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University (1870–1874), headmaster (1846–1855) of Westminster School, author of A History of Rome (1855), and co-author of the monumental work A Greek–English Lexicon, known as "Liddell and Scott", which is still widely used by students of Greek. Lewis Carroll wrote Alice's Adventures in Wonderland for Henry Liddell's daughter Alice.

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06/02/1802

Charles Wheatstone, English-French physicist and cryptographer (died 1875)

Sir Charles Wheatstone was an English physicist and inventor best known for his contributions to the development of the Wheatstone bridge, originally invented by Samuel Hunter Christie, which is used to measure an unknown electrical resistance, and as a major figure in the development of telegraphy. His other contributions include the English concertina, the stereoscope and the Playfair cipher.

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06/02/1800

Achille Devéria, French painter and lithographer (died 1857)

Achille Jacques-Jean-Marie Devéria was a French painter and lithographer known for his portraits of famous writers and artists. His younger brother was the Romantic painter Eugène Devéria, and two of his six children were Théodule Devéria and Gabriel Devéria.

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06/02/1799

Imre Frivaldszky, Hungarian botanist and entomologist (died 1870)

Emerich Frivaldszky von Frivald, known as Imre Frivaldszky, was a Hungarian botanist and entomologist.

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06/02/1797

Joseph von Radowitz, Prussian general and politician, Foreign Minister of Prussia (died 1853)

Joseph Maria Ernst Christian Wilhelm von Radowitz was a conservative Prussian statesman and general famous for his proposal to unify Germany under Prussian leadership by means of a negotiated agreement among the reigning German princes.

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06/02/1796

John Stevens Henslow, English botanist and geologist (died 1861)

John Stevens Henslow was an English Anglican priest, botanist and geologist. He is best remembered as friend and mentor to Charles Darwin.

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06/02/1781

John Keane, 1st Baron Keane, Irish general and politician, Governor of Saint Lucia (died 1844)

Lieutenant-General John Keane, 1st Baron Keane, was an Irish soldier, whose military exploits in the First Anglo-Afghan War led to him being created Baron Keane of Ghuznee.

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06/02/1778

Ugo Foscolo, Italian author and poet (died 1827)

Ugo Foscolo, born Niccolò Foscolo, was an Italian writer, revolutionary and poet.

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06/02/1772

George Murray, Scottish general and politician, Secretary of State for War and the Colonies (died 1830)

Sir George Murray was a British soldier and politician from Scotland.

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06/02/1769

Ludwig von Wallmoden-Gimborn, Austrian general (died 1862)

Ludwig Georg Thedel Graf von Wallmoden was an Austrian General of the Cavalry at services in various states, best known for his training of light infantry and the refinement of the Tirailleur system. As a grandson of George II of Great Britain and first cousin of George III, he is perhaps the only individual from that generation to have been photographed, within the broader British royal family.

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06/02/1758

Julian Ursyn Niemcewicz, Belarusian-Polish poet, playwright, and politician (died 1841)

Julian Ursyn Niemcewicz was a Polish poet, playwright and statesman. He was a leading advocate for the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth's Constitution of 3 May 1791.

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06/02/1756

Aaron Burr, American colonel and politician, 3rd Vice President of the United States (died 1836)

Aaron Burr Jr. was an American politician, businessman, and lawyer who served as the third vice president of the United States from 1801 to 1805, during Thomas Jefferson's first presidential term. A member of the Democratic-Republican Party, he is primarily remembered for the killing of Alexander Hamilton in a duel, as well as his alleged conspiracy to take parts of the United States or the Spanish Empire to form an independent country.

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06/02/1753

Évariste de Parny, French poet and author (died 1814)

Évariste Desiré de Forges, vicomte de Parny was a French Rococo poet.

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06/02/1748

Adam Weishaupt, German philosopher and academic, founded the Illuminati (died 1830)

Johann Adam Weishaupt was a German philosopher, professor of civil law and later canon law, and founder of the Bavarian Illuminati.

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06/02/1744

Pierre-Joseph Desault, French anatomist and surgeon (died 1795)

Pierre-Joseph Desault was a French anatomist and surgeon.

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06/02/1736

Franz Xaver Messerschmidt, German-Austrian sculptor (died 1783)

Franz Xaver Messerschmidt was a German-Austrian sculptor most famous for his "character heads", a collection of busts with faces contorted in extreme facial expressions.

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06/02/1732

Charles Lee, English-American general (died 1782)

Charles Lee was a British-born American army officer who served as a general in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War. He also served earlier in the British Army during the Seven Years War. He sold his commission after the Seven Years War and served for a time in the Polish Crown Army.

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06/02/1726

Patrick Russell, Scottish surgeon and zoologist (died 1805)

Patrick Russell was a Scottish surgeon and naturalist who worked in India. He studied the snakes of India and is considered the "Father of Indian Ophiology". Russell's viper is named after him, as is Russell's kukri snake.

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06/02/1719

Alberto Pullicino, Maltese painter (died 1759)

Alberto Pullicino, born Philiberto Pullicino, was a Maltese painter. The son of Giuseppe Pullicino and Angela Cantone, he was born in Valletta and probably lived there for his entire life.

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06/02/1695

Nicolaus II Bernoulli, Swiss-Russian mathematician and theorist (died 1726)

Nicolaus II Bernoulli was a Swiss mathematician as were his father Johann Bernoulli and one of his brothers, Daniel Bernoulli. He was one of the many prominent mathematicians in the Bernoulli family.

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06/02/1665

Anne, Queen of Great Britain, Queen of England, Scotland and Ireland (died 1714)

Anne was Queen of England, Scotland, and Ireland from 8 March 1702, and Queen of Great Britain and Ireland following the ratification of the Acts of Union 1707 merging the kingdoms of England and Scotland, until her death in 1714.

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06/02/1664

Mustafa II, Ottoman sultan (died 1703)

Mustafa II was the sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1695 to 1703.

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06/02/1649

Augusta Marie of Holstein-Gottorp, German noblewoman (died 1728)

Augusta Marie of Holstein-Gottorp was a German noblewoman who became a Margravine of Baden-Durlach by virtue of marriage. Born into the House of Holstein-Gottorp, she was a daughter of Frederick III, Duke of Holstein-Gottorp and Duchess Marie Elisabeth of Saxony. She was known as the castle builder for her role in building Schloss Augustenburg in Grötzingen, Karlsruhe.

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06/02/1643

Johann Kasimir Kolbe von Wartenberg, Prussian politician, 1st Minister President of Prussia (died 1712)

Johann Kasimir Kolbe, Graf von Wartenberg was the first ever Minister-President of the kingdom of Prussia, and the head of the "Cabinet of Three Counts".

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06/02/1612

Antoine Arnauld, French mathematician, theologian, and philosopher (died 1694)

Antoine Arnauld was a French Catholic theologian, priest, philosopher and mathematician. He was one of the leading intellectuals of the Jansenist group of Port-Royal and had a very thorough knowledge of patristics. Contemporaries called him le Grand to distinguish him from his father.

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06/02/1611

Chongzhen Emperor of China (died 1644)

The Chongzhen Emperor, temple name Ming Sizong, personal name Zhu Youjian, courtesy name Deyue, was the 17th and last emperor of the Ming dynasty. He reigned from 1627 to 1644. "Chongzhen", the era name of his reign, means "honorable and auspicious."

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06/02/1608

António Vieira, Portuguese priest and philosopher (died 1697)

António Vieira was a Portuguese Jesuit priest, diplomat, orator, preacher, philosopher, writer, and member of the Royal Council to the King of Portugal.

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06/02/1605

Bernard of Corleone, Italian saint (died 1667)

Bernardo da Corleone was a Sicilian Capuchin friar.

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06/02/1582

Mario Bettinus, Italian mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher (died 1657)

Mario Bettinus was an Italian Jesuit philosopher, mathematician and astronomer. The lunar crater Bettinus was named after him by Giovanni Riccioli in 1651.

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06/02/1577

Beatrice Cenci, Italian murderer (died 1599)

Beatrice Cenci was an Italian noblewoman imprisoned and repeatedly raped by her own father. She killed him, and was tried for murder. Despite outpourings of public sympathy, Cenci was beheaded in 1599 after a murder trial in Rome that gave rise to an enduring legend.

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06/02/1536

Sassa Narimasa, Japanese samurai (died 1588)

Sassa Narimasa was a Japanese samurai lord of the Sengoku through Azuchi–Momoyama periods. He entered Oda Nobunaga's service at the age of 14 and remained in his service throughout Nobunaga's rise to power. He was a member of the so-called Echizen Sanninshu along with Maeda Toshiie and Fuwa Mitsuharu. He was also known as Kura-no-suke (内蔵助).

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06/02/1465

Scipione del Ferro, Italian mathematician and theorist (died 1526)

Scipione del Ferro was an Italian mathematician who first discovered a method to solve the depressed cubic equation.

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06/02/1453

Girolamo Benivieni, Florentine poet (died 1542)

Girolamo Benivieni was a Florentine poet and a musician. His father was a notary in Florence. He suffered poor health most of his life, which prevented him from taking a more stable job. He was a leading member of the Medicean Academy, a society devoted to literary study. He was a friend of Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (1463–1494), whom he met for the first time in 1479; it was Pico della Mirandola who encouraged him to study Neoplatonism. In the late 1480s, he and Pico della Mirandola became students of Dominican friar Girolamo Savonarola (1452–1498). In 1496, he translated the teachings of Savonarola from Italian to Latin. After he began following Savonarola, he rejected his earlier poetry and attempted to write more spiritually. He participated in Savonarola's Bonfire of the Vanities, and documented the destruction of art worth "several thousand ducats".

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06/02/1452

Joanna, Princess of Portugal (died 1490)

Joanna of Portugal OP was a Portuguese regent princess of the House of Aviz, daughter of King Afonso V of Portugal and his first wife, Queen Isabel of Coimbra. She served as regent during the absence of her father in 1471. In 1475 she became a cloistered nun of the Dominican Order. She is venerated in the Catholic Church with the title 'Blessed', is commemorated by a feast on May 12, and is commonly known in Portugal as Holy Princess Joan.

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06/02/1402

Louis I, Landgrave of Hesse, Landgrave of Hesse (died 1458)

Louis I, nicknamed the Peaceful, was Landgrave of Hesse from 1413 to 1458. Following Louis' death, his sons, Henry III and Louis II, divided Hesse into Upper and Lower sections.

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06/02/0885

Emperor Daigo of Japan (died 930)

Emperor Daigo was the 60th emperor of Japan, according to the traditional order of succession.

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