What happened on 19th January?

On this day, 233 notable people were born on 19th January — spanning from 399 to 2003. From world leaders to artists and scientists, discover who shares this birthday.

19/01/2003

Felix Afena-Gyan, Ghanaian footballer

Felix Afena Ohene-Gyan is a Ghanaian professional footballer who plays as a forward for Süper Lig club Amedspor, on loan from Serie B club Cremonese. He also plays for the Ghana national team.

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19/01/1999

Jonathan Taylor, American football player

Jonathan Taylor is an American professional football running back for the Indianapolis Colts of the National Football League (NFL).

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Donyell Malen, Dutch footballer

Donyell Malen is a Dutch professional footballer who plays as a winger or striker for Serie A club Roma and the Netherlands national team.

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19/01/1998

Emre Guler, Australian rugby league player

Emre Guler is a Turkey international rugby league footballer who plays as a prop for the St George Illawarra Dragons in the National Rugby League (NRL).

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19/01/1996

Jakub Jankto, Czech footballer

Jakub Jankto is a Czech former professional footballer who played for the Czech Republic national team. A versatile player, Jankto could play as a full-back, left midfielder or left winger.

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19/01/1994

Matthias Ginter, German footballer

Matthias Lukas Ginter is a German professional footballer who plays as a centre-back for Bundesliga club SC Freiburg.

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Alfie Mawson, English footballer

Alfie Robert John Mawson is an English former professional footballer who played as a centre back.

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Marvelous Nakamba, Zimbabwean footballer

Marvelous Nakamba is a Zimbabwean professional footballer who plays as a defensive midfielder for EFL League One club Sheffield Wednesday and the Zimbabwe national team. He will become a free agent on 30 June 2026.

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19/01/1993

Erick Torres Padilla, Mexican footballer

Erick Estéfano Torres Padilla is a Mexican professional footballer who plays as a striker. He is nicknamed "El Cubo" due to his large, cubical shaped head.

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João Mário, Portuguese footballer

João Mário Naval da Costa Eduardo, known as João Mário, is a Portuguese professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Super League Greece club AEK Athens, on loan from Süper Lig club Beşiktaş.

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Ricardo Centurión, Argentine footballer

Adrián Ricardo Centurión is an Argentine professional footballer who plays as a winger for Racing de Córdoba in the Primera B Nacional of Argentina.

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Walter Benítez, Argentine footballer

Walter Daniel Benítez is an Argentine professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Premier League club Crystal Palace and the Argentina national team.

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Jack Schlossberg, American writer and political candidate

John Bouvier Kennedy Schlossberg is an American political commentator and author. He is a member of the Kennedy family and the Bouvier family.

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19/01/1992

Shawn Johnson East, American gymnast

Shawn Johnson East is an American former artistic gymnast. She is the 2008 Olympic balance beam gold medalist and team, all-around and floor exercise silver medalist. Johnson is also the 2007 all-around World Champion, and a five-time Pan American Games gold medalist, winning the team titles in 2007 and 2011, as well as titles in the all-around, uneven bars, and balance beam in 2007.

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Logan Lerman, American actor

Logan Wade Lerman is an American actor. He appeared in commercials in the mid-1990s, before starring in the series Jack & Bobby (2004–2005) and the movies The Butterfly Effect (2004) and Hoot (2006). Lerman gained further recognition for playing the title character in the Percy Jackson film series (2010–2013) and d'Artagnan in The Three Musketeers (2011), as well as for starring in the coming-of-age drama The Perks of Being a Wallflower (2012). He had major roles in the films Noah (2014), Fury (2014) and Indignation (2016), and returned to television with the thriller series Hunters (2020–2023).

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Mac Miller, American rapper (died 2018)

Malcolm James McCormick, known by the stage name Mac Miller, was an American rapper. He began his career in Pittsburgh's local hip-hop scene in 2007, at the age of 15. In 2010, he signed a record deal with independent label Rostrum Records and released his breakthrough mixtapes K.I.D.S. (2010) and Best Day Ever (2011). Miller's debut studio album, Blue Slide Park (2011), became the first independently distributed debut album to top the US Billboard 200 since 1995.

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19/01/1991

Petra Martić, Croatian tennis player

Petra Martić is a Croatian professional tennis player. She has a career-high singles ranking of world No. 14, achieved in January 2020. Martić has won two singles titles on the WTA Tour, one singles and one doubles tournament on the WTA Challenger Tour, plus four singles and five doubles titles on the ITF Circuit.

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Erin Sanders, American actress

Erin Zariah Sanders is an American actress. She is known for her roles as Quinn Pensky on Zoey 101, Camille Roberts on Big Time Rush, and for portraying Eden Baldwin on The Young and the Restless in 2008. She appeared as Chris on ABC Family's Melissa and Joey and starred in the film Guilty at 17, which premiered on Lifetime.

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19/01/1990

Tatiana Búa, Argentine tennis player

Tatiana Búa is an Argentine former professional tennis player.

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Shaunette Renée Wilson, Guyanese-American actress

Shaunette Renée Wilson is a Guyanese actress. She is best known for four seasons in the role of Dr. Mina Okafor in The Resident (2018–2021). She has also appeared in Billions (2017), Black Panther (2018), and Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny (2023).

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19/01/1988

Tyler Breeze, Canadian wrestler

Mattias Clement is a Canadian semi-retired professional wrestler. He is signed to WWE, where he performs under the ring name Tyler Breeze as a part-time wrestler, member of the UpUpDownDown channel and as a writer for the NXT brand. He is best known for his previous tenure with WWE from 2010–2021, where he was a former one-time NXT Tag Team Champion.

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JaVale McGee, American basketball player

JaVale Lindy McGee is an American professional basketball player for the Beijing Ducks of the Chinese Basketball Association (CBA). He played college basketball for the Nevada Wolf Pack and was selected 18th overall by the Washington Wizards in the 2008 NBA draft. McGee is a three-time NBA champion, having won consecutive titles with the Golden State Warriors in 2017 and 2018 before winning a third title with the Los Angeles Lakers in 2020. The son of Olympic gold medalist Pamela McGee, he won a gold medal with the 2020 U.S. Olympic team.

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19/01/1987

Edgar Manucharyan, Armenian footballer

Edgar Manucharyan is an Armenian former professional footballer who played as a forward.

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19/01/1986

Claudio Marchisio, Italian footballer

Claudio Marchisio is an Italian former professional footballer who played as a midfielder.

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Oleksandr Miroshnychenko, Ukrainian footballer

Oleksandr Oleksandrovych Miroshnychenko is a Ukrainian retired professional footballer. He played as a midfielder.

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Moussa Sow, Senegalese footballer

Moussa Sow is a former professional footballer who played as a forward. Born in France, he represented Senegal at international level, scoring 18 goals in 50 appearances.

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19/01/1985

Pascal Behrenbruch, German decathlete

Pascal Behrenbruch is a German decathlete. He is a member of the Eintracht Frankfurt athletics team and placed tenth at the 2012 Olympic Games.

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Damien Chazelle, American film director, screenwriter, and producer

Damien Sayre Chazelle is an American and French filmmaker. He directed the psychological drama Whiplash (2014), the musical romance La La Land (2016), the biographical drama First Man (2018), and the period black comedy Babylon (2022).

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Benny Feilhaber, American soccer player

Benny Feilhaber is a soccer coach and former professional player and most recently the head coach of the USL Championship team Oakland Roots. Born in Brazil, he represented the United States national team.

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Esteban Guerrieri, Argentinian racing driver

Esteban Guerrieri is an Argentine racing driver currently competing in the FIA TCR World Tour for the GOAT Racing Honda team. His early career in single-seaters saw him become Formula Renault Eurocup champion in 2003, finish third in Formula Renault 3.5 in 2010, and claim the runner-up spot in Indy Lights in 2011 and 2012. In the WTCR touring car series, he was the most successful driver in terms of race wins and was overall runner-up in 2019. He also won the Nürburgring 24 Hours in the TCR class in 2020.

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Rika Ishikawa, Japanese singer and actress

Rika Ishikawa , is a Japanese actress and model associated with Hello! Project and best known as a former member of the pop group Morning Musume. She was the leader of the Japanese pop idol trio V-u-den until June 2008. She has performed as a solo singer, as a member of the Japanese pop idol group Ongaku Gatas, in the pop duo Hangry & Angry as Angry, and as a member of Dream Morning Musume.

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Aleksandr Yevgenyevich Nikulin, Russian footballer

Aleksandr Yevgenyevich Nikulin is a former Russian professional football player.

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Elliott Ward, English footballer

Elliott Leslie Ward is an English retired professional footballer who played as a defender. He played in the Premier League for West Ham United and Norwich City. He is currently head coach of Colchester United's under-18s team.

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19/01/1984

Johnny Boychuk, Canadian ice hockey player

John Paul Boychuk is a Canadian former professional ice hockey defenceman. Drafted 61st overall in 2002 by the Colorado Avalanche, he played for the Colorado Avalanche, the Boston Bruins and New York Islanders of the National Hockey League (NHL). In 2011, he was a part of the Bruins' Stanley Cup championship team. He was traded to the Islanders prior to the 2014–15 season, where he would announce retirement after six seasons with the team.

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Fabio Catacchini, Italian footballer

Fabio Catacchini is an Italian footballer who plays for Tiferno 1919.

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Karun Chandhok, Indian racing driver

Karun Chandhok is an Indian former racing driver and broadcaster who competed in Formula One at 11 Grands Prix from 2010 to 2011.

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Elvis Dumervil, American football player

Elvis Kool Dumervil is an American former professional football defensive end and linebacker who played in the National Football League (NFL) for 12 seasons. He played college football for the Louisville Cardinals, winning the Bronko Nagurski Trophy, Ted Hendricks Award, and Bill Willis Trophy in 2005. Dumervil was selected by the Denver Broncos in the fourth round of the 2006 NFL draft.

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Jimmy Kébé, Malian footballer

Jimmy Boubou Kébé is a former professional footballer who played as a right winger. Born in France, he represented Mali at international level.

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Thomas Vanek, Austrian ice hockey player

Thomas Vanek is an Austrian former professional ice hockey winger who played fourteen seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the Buffalo Sabres, Columbus Blue Jackets, Detroit Red Wings, Florida Panthers, Minnesota Wild, Montreal Canadiens, New York Islanders, and Vancouver Canucks. Vanek was drafted by the Sabres fifth overall in the 2003 NHL entry draft, making him the highest-drafted Austrian player in NHL history along with David Reinbacher in the 2023 NHL entry draft. He was inducted into the IIHF Hall of Fame in 2026.

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19/01/1983

Hikaru Utada, American-Japanese singer-songwriter and producer

Hikaru Utada , also known mononymously as Utada, is a Japanese-American singer, songwriter, and record producer. They are considered to be one of the most influential and best-selling musical artists in Japan. They are perhaps best known by international audiences for writing and performing four theme-songs to Square Enix and Disney's Kingdom Hearts video game series: "Simple and Clean", "Sanctuary", "Don't Think Twice", and "Face My Fears".

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19/01/1982

Pete Buttigieg, American politician

Peter Paul Montgomery Buttigieg is an American politician and former naval officer who served as the 19th United States secretary of transportation from 2021 to 2025. A member of the Democratic Party, he previously served as the 32nd mayor of South Bend, Indiana, from 2012 to 2020, which earned him the nickname "Mayor Pete".

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Mike Komisarek, American ice hockey player

Michael Komisarek is an American former professional ice hockey defenseman. He was selected seventh overall by the Montreal Canadiens in the 2001 NHL entry draft. Komisarek also played for the Toronto Maple Leafs and Carolina Hurricanes.

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Jodie Sweetin, American actress and singer

Jodie Lee Ann Sweetin is an American actress and television personality. She is best known for her role as Stephanie Tanner in the ABC comedy series Full House and its Netflix sequel series Fuller House.

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Robin tom Rink, German singer-songwriter

Robin tom Rink, is a German singer-songwriter and poet from Münster.

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Shane Tronc, Australian rugby league player

Shane Tronc is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer who played for the Brisbane Broncos and the North Queensland Cowboys in the National Rugby League, and the Wakefield Trinity Wildcats in the Super League.

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Kim Yoo-suk, South Korean pole vaulter

Kim Yoo-suk is a South Korean pole vaulter.

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19/01/1981

Paolo Bugia, Filipino basketball player

Ramon Paolo Vlajar Bugia is a Filipino former professional basketball player and executive who currently serves as the team manager for the Phoenix Super LPG Fuel Masters of the Philippine Basketball Association (PBA). He was drafted seventeenth overall by the Red Bull Barako in the 2005 PBA draft.

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Asier del Horno, Spanish footballer

Asier del Horno Cosgaya is a Spanish former professional footballer who played as a left-back.

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Lucho González, Argentinian footballer

Luis Óscar "Lucho" González is an Argentine former professional footballer, currently assistant manager of Primeira Liga club Porto. A versatile midfielder who was able to play in different positions but mainly in the centre, he was well known for his fierce shot, passing and work rate, being affectionately known as El Comandante due to his leadership skills.

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Maxime Laisney, French politician

Maxime Laisney is a French politician of La France Insoumise who has been representing Seine-et-Marne's 10th constituency in the National Assembly since 2022. In the 2022 French legislative election he unseated En Marche MP Stéphanie Do.

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Elizabeth Tulloch, American actress

Elizabeth Tulloch, also known as Bitsie Tulloch, is an American actress. She is known for her roles as Juliette Silverton / Eve in the NBC television series Grimm (2011–2017), and as Lois Lane in the DC Comics superhero drama television series Superman & Lois (2021–2024), for which she has been nominated for a Saturn Award for Best Actress on Television twice.

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19/01/1980

Jenson Button, English racing driver

Jenson Alexander Lyons Button is a British former racing driver who competed in Formula One from 2000 to 2017. Button won the Formula One World Drivers' Championship in 2009 with Brawn, and won 15 Grands Prix across 18 seasons.

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Pasha Kovalev, Russian-American dancer and choreographer

Pavel "Pasha" Kovalev is a Russian professional Latin and ballroom dancer.

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Luke Macfarlane, Canadian-American actor and singer

Thomas Luke Macfarlane is a Canadian actor and former singer. He is known for playing Scotty Wandell on the ABC television drama Brothers & Sisters (2006–2011), RAC Agent D'avin Jaqobis on the Space television science fiction series Killjoys (2015–2019), the romantic lead in a number of Hallmark Channel movies, and Aaron Shepard in the gay romantic comedy film Bros (2022).

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Arvydas Macijauskas, Lithuanian basketball player

Arvydas Macijauskas is a Lithuanian former professional basketball player. Standing at 1.93 m tall, he played at the shooting guard position. Widely considered one of the greatest Lithuanian players of the 2000s, he won numerous individual awards, as well as club and national team titles.

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Michael Vandort, Sri Lankan cricketer

Michael Graydon Vandort is a Sri Lankan former cricketer. He is a left-handed batsman and a right-arm medium-pace bowler. He made his Twenty20 debut on 17 August 2004, for Colombo Cricket Club in the 2004 SLC Twenty20 Tournament. He is of Dutch Burgher ancestry and was educated at St. Joseph's College.

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19/01/1979

Svetlana Khorkina, Russian gymnast and sportscaster

Svetlana Vasilyevna Khorkina is a retired Russian artistic gymnast. She competed in three Summer Olympics: 1996 Summer Olympics, 2000 Summer Olympics, and 2004 Summer Olympics. During her career, Khorkina won seven Olympic medals and twenty World Championship medals. Over time, she medaled in every event at the World Artistic Gymnastics Championships. She was also the first gymnast to win three all-around titles at the World Championships and only the second female artistic gymnast ever, after Nadia Comăneci, to win three European All-Around titles. Khorkina is regarded as one of the most successful female gymnasts on record.

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Byung-hyun Kim, South Korean baseball player

Byung-hyun Kim, also known as BK Kim, is a South Korean former professional baseball pitcher. He had his most successful years with the Arizona Diamondbacks and the Boston Red Sox.

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Josu Sarriegi, Spanish footballer

Josu Sarriegi Zumarraga is a Spanish former professional footballer who played as a central defender.

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Wiley, English rapper and producer

Richard Kylea Cowie Jr., better known by his stage name Wiley, is a British grime MC and producer from Bow, London. Wiley is often labelled the "Godfather of Grime". In the early 2000s, he independently released a series of highly influential eskibeat instrumentals on white label vinyl, such as the first in the series "Eskimo" and is known as a grime MC both for his solo work and for material released with his crew Roll Deep.

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19/01/1977

Benjamin Ayres, Canadian actor, director, and photographer

Benjamin James Ayres is a Canadian actor best known for his role as Dr. Zach Miller of the CTV series Saving Hope. He also recurred on the Gemini Award–winning HBO Canada series Less Than Kind for which he was nominated for a Canadian Screen Award. His first series regular role was Casper Jesperson, the chain-smoking sex addict who is morbidly obsessed with death, in the critically acclaimed cult hit CBC Television series jPod, based on the Douglas Coupland novel of the same title.

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19/01/1976

Natale Gonnella, Italian footballer

Natale Gonnella is an Italian retired footballer who played as a defender.

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Tarso Marques, Brazilian racing driver

Tarso Anibal Santanna Marques is a Brazilian racing driver and vehicle customizer. He participated in 24 Formula One Grands Prix, all driving for the Minardi team, but scored no championship points in three separate seasons and never completed a full season in the sport.

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Drew Powell, American actor

Andrew "Drew" Powell is an American actor. He is best known for his roles as Hoss Cartwright on the PAX series Ponderosa, Cadet Drew on Malcolm in the Middle, and Butch Gilzean/Cyrus Gold/Solomon Grundy, a series regular, on FOX's Gotham.

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Marsha Thomason, English actress

Marsha Lisa Thomason Sykes is a British actress who is best known for playing Sara Evers in Disney's The Haunted Mansion, Nessa Holt in the first two seasons of the NBC series Las Vegas, Naomi Dorrit on the ABC series Lost, FBI agent Diana Berrigan on the USA Network series White Collar, and DS Jenn Townsend in ITV crime series The Bay.

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19/01/1975

Natalie Cook, Australian volleyball player

Natalie Louise Cook is an Australian professional beach volleyball player and Olympic gold medallist. She became the first Australian woman to compete at five Olympic Games.

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Zdeňka Málková, Czech tennis player

Zdeňka Málková is a former Czech tennis player who was crowned 1991 ITF World Champion in girls' singles.

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19/01/1974

Dainius Adomaitis, Lithuanian basketball player and coach

Dainius Adomaitis is a Lithuanian former professional basketball player and the head coach for Alvark Tokyo of Japan's B.League.

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Frank Caliendo, American comedian, actor, and screenwriter

Frank Caliendo Jr. is an American comedian, actor, and impressionist best known for his impersonations on the Fox Network television series MADtv as well as being the in-house prognosticator for Fox NFL Sunday. In 2007 and 2008, he performed impersonations on his own show, Frank TV, which aired on TBS.

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Walter Jones, American football player

Walter Junior Jones is an American former professional football player who was an offensive tackle in the National Football League (NFL) for 12 seasons. Born in Alabama, he played college football for the Florida State Seminoles.

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Ian Laperrière, Canadian-American ice hockey player and coach

Ian Laperrière is a Canadian-American former professional ice hockey winger who played 16 seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL) and currently serves as a pro scout with the New York Islanders.

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Jaime Moreno, Bolivian footballer and manager

Jaime Moreno Morales is a Bolivian former professional footballer now serving as Youth Academy Technical Training Coach for D.C. United in Major League Soccer, and as the head coach of D.C. United's U-23 side.

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19/01/1973

Antero Manninen, Finnish cellist

Antero Manninen, also known by band members as Mr. Cool, is a session musician and former band member of Finnish Cello metal quartet Apocalyptica. He was an official member but did not write the music and left in 1999 due to prior commitments, although he has come back to help the band several years ago. His seated, calm composure playing style is at stark contrast with the headbanging antics of the others when playing live. Besides his job in Apocalyptica he used to work as a musician in a Tapiola Sinfonietta Avanti! and Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra and in the orchestra of the Finnish National Opera. He is also one of the founders of Sibelius-Academy's Cellosextet (SSS). Manninen has also been performing at funerals. Currently he is a member of the Lahti Symphony Orchestra.

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Yevgeny Sadovyi, Russian swimmer and coach

Yevgeny Viktorovich Sadovy is a retired Russian freestyle swimmer who won three gold medals at the 1992 Summer Olympics at Barcelona and was subsequently chosen by Swimming World magazine as the Male World Swimmer of the Year.

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19/01/1972

Drea de Matteo, American actress

Andrea Donna de Matteo is an American actress who is best known for her role as Adriana La Cerva on the television drama The Sopranos (1999–2006), for which she received the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series in 2004. Other notable roles include Gina Tribbiani on Joey (2004–2006), Wendy Case on Sons of Anarchy (2008–2014), Angie Bolen on Desperate Housewives (2009–2010), and Detective Tess Nazario on Shades of Blue (2016–2018).

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Yoon Hae-young, South Korean actress

Yoon Hae-young is a South Korean actress. She began acting after passing the SBS Open Auditions in 1993, and has starred in television dramas such as See and See Again (1998), This Is Love (2001), Elephant (2008), The Tale of Janghwa and Hongryeon, Special Task Force MSS (2011) and Only Because It's You (2012).

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Sergei Zjukin, Estonian chess player and coach

Sergei Zjukin is an Estonian chess player who won the Estonian Chess Championship. He received the FIDE title of International Master (IM) in 2000.

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19/01/1971

Eric Mangini, American football coach

Eric Anthony Mangini is an American former professional football coach and current television sports analyst for Fox Sports 1. He served as a head coach for the New York Jets from 2006 to 2008 and the Cleveland Browns from 2009 to 2010. After departing Cleveland, Mangini became an NFL analyst for ESPN. He returned to coaching with the San Francisco 49ers, starting in 2013 as the team's tight ends coach before being promoted to defensive coordinator in 2015, only to be fired in 2016 by new head coach Chip Kelly. Mangini then became an analyst for Fox Sports 1.

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Shawn Wayans, American actor, producer, and screenwriter

Shawn Mathis Wayans is an American actor, comedian, writer, and producer. He made his debut on the comedy television series In Living Color (1990–1993). He went on to work with his brother Marlon Wayans on The WB sitcom The Wayans Bros.(1995–1999) and the comedy films Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood (1996), Scary Movie (2000), Scary Movie 2 (2001), White Chicks (2004), Little Man (2006), and Dance Flick (2009).

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John Wozniak, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

John Keith Wozniak is an American musician best known as the lead singer, guitarist and songwriter of the band Marcy Playground.

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19/01/1970

Steffen Freund, German footballer and manager

Steffen Freund is a German former professional footballer who played as a defensive midfielder in both the German and English top flights. He was capped 21 times for his country and played a significant part in Germany's UEFA Euro 1996 winning campaign.

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Kathleen Smet, Belgian triathlete

Kathleen Smet is a Belgian former triathlete, becoming European champion in 2000 and 2002. She competed in Olympic and Long Distance Triathlons.

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Udo Suzuki, Japanese comedian and singer

Udo Suzuki , also known as Udo, is a Japanese musician and comedian. He used to be a member of the Japanese band UltraCats and is a member of the owarai group Kyaeen (キャイ～ン).

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19/01/1969

Edwidge Danticat, Haitian-American novelist and short story writer

Edwidge Danticat is a Haitian American novelist and short story writer. Her first novel, Breath, Eyes, Memory, was published in 1994 and went on to become an Oprah's Book Club selection. Danticat has since written or edited several books and has been the recipient of many awards and honors. Her work has dealt with themes of national identity, mother-daughter relationships, and diasporic politics. In 2023, she was named the Wun Tsun Tam Mellon Professor of the Humanities in the department of African American and African Diaspora Studies at Columbia University.

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Luc Longley, Australian basketball player and coach

Lucien James Longley is an Australian professional basketball coach and former player. He was the first Australian to play in the National Basketball Association (NBA), where he played for four teams over 10 seasons. He most notably played for the Chicago Bulls, with whom he won three championships from 1996 to 1998. Longley represented Australia as a player at three Olympic Games in 1988, 1992 and 2000; he has worked as an assistant coach for the Australian national basketball team.

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Trey Lorenz, American singer-songwriter and producer

Trey Lorenz is an American R&B singer-songwriter and record producer. He was born in Florence, South Carolina and is a graduate of Wilson High School. Lorenz is best known for his duet with recording artist Mariah Carey on "I'll Be There", a cover of the 1970 number-one Jackson 5 recording of the same name. The record topped the US Billboard Hot 100 and R&B singles chart a second time in 1992 and earned Lorenz and Carey both a Grammy Award nomination for Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals. They would later perform the song again at the funeral of Michael Jackson on July 7, 2009. He is also known for his 1992 hit single "Someone to Hold".

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Predrag Mijatović, Montenegrin footballer and manager

Predrag Mijatović is a Montenegrin football administrator and former player who played as a striker. He served as the Vice-President of FK Partizan.

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Junior Seau, American football player (died 2012)

Tiaina Baul "Junior" Seau Jr. was an American professional football linebacker who played in the National Football League (NFL) for 20 seasons, mostly with the San Diego Chargers. Known for his passionate play, he was a six-time first-team All-Pro, twelve-time Pro Bowl selection, and named to the NFL 1990s All-Decade Team. He was elected posthumously to the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2015.

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Steve Staunton, Irish footballer and manager

Stephen Staunton is an Irish football manager, scout and former professional footballer.

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19/01/1968

David Bartlett, Australian politician, 43rd Premier of Tasmania

David John Bartlett is an Australian former politician who served as the 43rd Premier of Tasmania from May 2008 until January 2011. He was a Labor Party member of the Tasmanian House of Assembly seat of Denison from 2004 to 2011 when he retired.

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Whitfield Crane, American singer-songwriter

William Whitfield Crane IV is an American singer and founding member and lead vocalist of the rock band Ugly Kid Joe, which was formed in 1989. He has also worked in music outside his band, from performing guest vocals on numerous songs to contributing to musical efforts with other rock bands such as Life of Agony, Another Animal, and Richards/Crane.

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19/01/1966

Sylvain Côté, Canadian ice hockey player

Sylvain Côté is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player who spent 19 seasons in the NHL, the majority of them with the Washington Capitals. He also played for the Hartford Whalers, Toronto Maple Leafs, Chicago Blackhawks and Dallas Stars.

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Stefan Edberg, Swedish tennis player and coach

Stefan Edberg is a Swedish former professional tennis player. He was ranked as the world No. 1 in both men's singles and men's doubles by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP), one of two players in the Open Era to hold both positions. Edberg won 41 career singles titles and 18 doubles titles, including nine majors: six in singles and three in men's doubles. A major practitioner of the serve-and-volley style of tennis, Edberg also won the 1989 year-end championships, led Sweden to four Davis Cup titles, and won four Masters Series titles and four Championship Series titles. After retirement, Edberg coached Roger Federer from January 2014 to December 2015.

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Lena Philipsson, Swedish singer-songwriter

Maria Magdalena Filipsson, known by her stage name Lena Philipsson, is a Swedish singer, songwriter and media personality. She represented Sweden in the Eurovision Song Contest 2004, finishing fifth. In 2024, Philipsson was hired by Per Gessle as the female vocalist for Roxette's 2025 tour.

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19/01/1964

Janine Antoni, Bahamian sculptor and photographer

Janine Antoni is a Bahamian–born American artist, who creates contemporary work in performance art, sculpture, and photography. Antoni's work focuses on process and the transitions between the making and finished product, often portraying feminist ideals. She emphasizes the human body in her pieces, such as her mouth, hair, eyelashes, and, through technological scanning, her brain. Antoni uses her body as a tool of creation or as the subject of her pieces, exploring intimacy between the spectator and the artist. Her work blurs the distinction between performance art and sculpture.

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Ricardo Arjona, Guatemalan singer-songwriter and basketball player

Edgar Ricardo Arjona Morales, known as Ricardo Arjona, is a Guatemalan singer and songwriter. He is one of the most successful and best-selling Latin American artists of all time, with more than 20 million records sold. His music ranges from ballads to Latin pop, rock, pop rock, Cuban music, and more recently a cappella performances and a mixture of Tejano music and Norteño music, and Latin sounds. Arjona is noted for his lyrical style, and often addresses topics such as love, sexuality, violence, racism and immigration.

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19/01/1963

Michael Adams, American basketball player and coach

Michael Adams is an American former professional basketball player and coach. He played college basketball for the Boston College Eagles and was a third-round selection in the 1985 NBA draft by the Sacramento Kings. Adams played 11 seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA) with the Kings, Washington Bullets, Denver Nuggets and Charlotte Hornets. He was an NBA All-Star with the Bullets in 1992.

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Martin Bashir, English journalist

Martin Henry Bashir is a British former journalist. He was a presenter on British and American television and for the BBC's Panorama programme, for which he gained an interview with Diana, Princess of Wales under false pretences in 1995. Although the interview was much heralded at the time, it was later determined that he used forgery and deception to secure it.

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John Bercow, English politician, Speaker of the House of Commons

John Simon Bercow is a British former politician who served as Speaker of the House of Commons from 2009 to 2019, and the Member of Parliament (MP) for Buckingham between 1997 and 2019. A member of the Conservative Party prior to becoming speaker, he was the first MP since Selwyn Lloyd in 1971 to be elected speaker without having been a deputy speaker. After resigning as speaker in 2019 and opting not to seek re-election as an MP in the 2019 general election, Bercow left Parliament. In 2021, he joined the Labour Party but was suspended in 2022.

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19/01/1962

Hans Daams, Dutch cyclist

Johannes ("Hans") Wilhelmus Antonius Daams is a retired road bicycle racer from the Netherlands, who was a professional rider from 1985 to 1989. He represented his native country at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California, in the individual road race where he didn't finish the race.

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Chris Sabo, American baseball player and coach

Christopher Andrew Sabo is an American former third baseman in Major League Baseball who played for the Cincinnati Reds, Baltimore Orioles, Chicago White Sox, and St. Louis Cardinals between 1988 and 1996. He was the head baseball coach of the Akron Zips (2020–2022).

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Jeff Van Gundy, American basketball player and coach

Jeffrey William Van Gundy is an American basketball coach and former commentator who is the lead assistant coach for the Los Angeles Clippers of the National Basketball Association (NBA). Van Gundy previously served as head coach in the NBA for the New York Knicks and the Houston Rockets. During his tenure with the Knicks, he led the team to the 1999 NBA Finals, where they ultimately fell to the San Antonio Spurs in five games. Van Gundy won an NBA championship in 2024 with the Boston Celtics, where he served as a senior consultant in the front office.

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19/01/1961

Paul McCrane, American actor, director, and singer

Paul McCrane is an American actor, singer and director. He is known for his portrayal of Montgomery MacNeil in the film Fame (1980), Frank Berry in the film The Hotel New Hampshire (1984), Emil Antonowsky in RoboCop (1987), and Robert Romano on the NBC medical drama television series ER.

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Wayne Hemingway, English fashion designer, co-founded Red or Dead

Wayne Andrew Hemingway is an English designer and co-founder of Red or Dead. He is also on the Design Council Trustee Board and having been with the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment (CABE) for a decade since its inception is now on the Design Council CABE Committee. Hemingway is a professor in The Built Environment Department of Northumbria University, a Doctor of Design at Wolverhampton, Lancaster and Stafford, a Fellow of Blackburn College and a Senior Fellow of Regent's University London.

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William Ragsdale, American actor

Robert William Ragsdale is an American actor. He is known for playing Charley Brewster in the cult horror-comedy film Fright Night (1985) and its sequel Fright Night Part 2 (1988), and Herman Brooks on the television series Herman's Head (1991–94).

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19/01/1959

Danese Cooper, American computer scientist and programmer

Danese Cooper is an American programmer, computer scientist and advocate of open source software.

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Jeff Pilson, American bass player, songwriter, and actor

Jeffrey Steven Pilson is an American musician best known for being the bass player in the glam metal band Dokken and currently classic rock band Foreigner. He has also had an extended stint with Dio in the 1990s.

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19/01/1958

Thomas Kinkade, American painter (died 2012)

William Thomas Kinkade III was an American painter of popular realistic, pastoral, and idyllic subjects. He is notable for achieving success during his lifetime with the mass marketing of his work as printed reproductions and other licensed products by means of the Thomas Kinkade Company. According to Kinkade's company, at one point one in every 20 American homes owned a copy of one of his paintings.

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Altemio Sanchez, Puerto Rican serial killer and rapist (died 2023)

Altemio C. Sanchez, also known as the Bike Path Rapist, was a serial killer of Puerto Rican descent, who is known to have raped and murdered at least three women, and raped at least 9 to 15 girls and women in and around Buffalo, New York during a 31-year span from 1975, though perhaps earlier, until 2006. He was apprehended in 2007 through forensic DNA evidence and sentenced to 75 years-to-life, serving 16 years before dying from apparent suicide in 2023.

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19/01/1957

Ottis Anderson, American football player and sportscaster

Ottis Jerome Anderson is an American former professional football running back who played in the National Football League (NFL) for 14 seasons with the St. Louis Cardinals and New York Giants. He played college football for the Miami Hurricanes, setting the school record for rushing yards, and was selected eighth overall in the 1979 NFL draft by the Cardinals.

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Roger Ashton-Griffiths, English actor, screenwriter and film director

Roger Ashton-Griffiths is an English character actor, screenwriter and film director. He is best known for his role as Mace Tyrell in the HBO fantasy series Game of Thrones.

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Kenneth McClintock, Puerto Rican public servant and politician, 22nd Secretary of State of Puerto Rico

Kenneth Davison McClintock-Hernández is a politician who served as the twenty-second Secretary of State of Puerto Rico, one of the four longest serving in that post. McClintock served as co-chair of Hillary Clinton’s National Hispanic Leadership Council in 2008, he co-chaired her successful Puerto Rico primary campaign that year and served as the Thirteenth President of the Senate of Puerto Rico until December 31, 2008. He chaired Luis Fortuño’s Incoming Committee on Government Transition in 2008 and the Outgoing Committee on Government Transition in 2012, the first Puerto Rican to serve in both capacities. He was sworn into office as secretary of state on January 2, 2009, by Chief Justice Federico Hernández Denton, fulfilling the role of lieutenant governor in the islands. He was appointed by Governor Pedro Pierluisi as a member of the Civil Rights Commission on February 8, 2024, a nomination pending Senate confirmation.

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19/01/1956

Carman, American singer-songwriter, actor, and television host (died 2021)

Carman Domenic Licciardello, known professionally as Carman, was an American contemporary Christian music singer, rapper, songwriter, television host and evangelist. He was nominated for four Grammys, and sold over 10 million records.

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Susan Solomon, American atmospheric chemist

Susan Solomon is an American atmospheric chemist, working for most of her career at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). In 2011, Solomon joined the faculty at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where she serves as the Ellen Swallow Richards Professor of Atmospheric Chemistry & Climate Science. Solomon, with her colleagues, was the first to propose the chlorofluorocarbon free radical reaction mechanism that is the cause of the Antarctic ozone hole. Her most recent book, Solvable: how we healed the earth, and how we can do it again (2024) focuses on solutions to current problems, as do books by data scientist Hannah Ritchie, marine biologist, Ayana Elizabeth Johnson and climate scientist Katharine Hayhoe.

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19/01/1955

Simon Rattle, English-German orchestral conductor

Sir Simon Denis Rattle is a British conductor. He rose to international prominence during the 1980s and 1990s, while music director of the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra (1980–1998). Rattle was principal conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic from 2002 to 2018, and music director of the London Symphony Orchestra from 2017 to 2023. He has been chief conductor of Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra since September 2023. Among the world's leading conductors, in a 2015 Bachtrack poll, he was ranked by music critics as one of the world's best living conductors.

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19/01/1954

Katey Sagal, American actress and singer

Catherine Louise "Katey" Sagal is an American actress and singer. She is known for playing Peg Bundy on Married... with Children (1987–1997) for which she was thrice nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Television Series Musical or Comedy, Turanga Leela on Futurama, Cate Hennessy on 8 Simple Rules (2002–2005), Gemma Teller Morrow on the FX series Sons of Anarchy (2008–2014), for which she won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Television Series Drama in 2011 and was nominated for the TCA Award for Individual Achievement in Drama in 2010 and the Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Actress in a Drama Series in 2011 and 2012, and Louise Goldufski-Conner on The Conners (2018–2025).

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Cindy Sherman, American photographer and director

Cynthia Morris Sherman is an American artist whose work consists primarily of photographic self-portraits, depicting herself in many different contexts and as various imagined characters.

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Esther Shkalim, Israeli poet and Mizrahi feminist

Esther Shkalim is an Israeli, Mizrahi feminist poet. Shkalim is a researcher of Jewish communities, and a curator of Jewish art. In her poetry Shekalim describes the experience of the female, Jewish and Mizrahi identities, in the family and public spheres.

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19/01/1953

Desi Arnaz Jr., American actor and singer

Desiderio Alberto Arnaz IV, better known as Desi Arnaz Jr., is an American retired actor and musician. He is the son of Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz.

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Richard Legendre, Canadian tennis player and politician

Richard Legendre is a former professional tennis player and politician in Quebec, Canada.

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Wayne Schimmelbusch, Australian footballer and coach

Wayne Schimmelbusch is a former Australian rules footballer in the (then) Victorian Football League (VFL).

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19/01/1952

Dewey Bunnell, English-American singer-songwriter and guitarist

Lee Merton "Dewey" Bunnell is an American musician, singer, and songwriter, and a founding member of the band America.

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Nadiuska, German television actress

Roswithka Bertasha Smid Honczar is a former German model and actress who became a well-known celebrity in Spain during the 1970s, under the stage name Nadiuska.

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Bruce Jay Nelson, American computer scientist (died 1999)

Bruce Jay Nelson was an American computer scientist best known as the inventor of the remote procedure call concept for computer network communications.

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19/01/1951

Martha Davis, American singer

Martha Emily Davis is an American rock and new wave singer-songwriter from Berkeley, California. She is most famous for being the lead singer of the band the Motels, but has also made several solo albums, contributed many songs to motion pictures, been on television, and worked onstage with Teatro ZinZanni.

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19/01/1950

Sébastien Dhavernas, Canadian actor

Sébastien Dhavernas is a Canadian actor.

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19/01/1949

Arend Langenberg, Dutch voice actor and radio host (died 2012)

Arend Willem Langenberg was a Dutch voice-over, voice actor and radio presenter. He died at the age of 63 from colon cancer.

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Robert Palmer, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2003)

Robert Allen Palmer was an English singer and songwriter. He was known for his powerful and soulful voice, sartorial elegance, and stylistic explorations, combining soul, funk, jazz, rock, pop, reggae, and blues. His 1986 single "Addicted to Love" and its accompanying video came to "epitomise the glamour and excesses of the 1980s".

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19/01/1948

Nancy Lynch, American computer scientist and academic

Nancy Ann Lynch is a computer scientist affiliated with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She is the NEC Professor of Software Science and Engineering in the EECS department and heads the "Theory of Distributed Systems" research group at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.

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Frank McKenna, Canadian politician and diplomat, 27th Premier of New Brunswick

Francis Joseph McKenna is a Canadian businessman and former politician and diplomat. He is currently Chair of Brookfield Corporation and Deputy Chairman of the Toronto-Dominion Bank. He served as Canadian Ambassador to the United States from 2005 to 2006. He served as the 27th premier of New Brunswick from 1987 to 1997, winning every seat in the province in his first election.

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Mal Reilly, English rugby league player and coach

Malcolm John Reilly OBE is an English former rugby league player and coach. He played in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s, and coached in the 1970s, 1980s, 1990s and 2000s. He played at representative level for Great Britain, England and Yorkshire, and at club level for Castleford in England, and Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles in Australia, as a loose forward,

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19/01/1947

Frank Aarebrot, Norwegian political scientist and academic (died 2017)

Frank Henrik Aarebrot was a Norwegian political scientist, political commentator, and professor of comparative politics. Among the most quoted and popular academics in the Norwegian press, he became better known during his later years for his televised "marathon lectures" and his recurring role in coverage of national and international elections on Norwegian television.

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Paula Deen, American chef and author

Paula Ann Hiers Deen is an American chef, cookbook author, and TV personality. Deen resides in Savannah, Georgia. She has published fifteen cookbooks and owned and operated The Lady & Sons restaurant with her sons, Jamie and Bobby Deen, until its closure in 2025.

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Rod Evans, English singer-songwriter

Roderic Evans is a retired British singer known as the original vocalist of the rock bands Deep Purple and Captain Beyond.

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19/01/1946

Julian Barnes, English novelist, short story writer, essayist, and critic

Julian Patrick Barnes is an English essayist, novelist and short story writer.

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Dolly Parton, American singer-songwriter and actress

Dolly Rebecca Parton is an American singer, songwriter, actress, philanthropist, and businesswoman. After achieving success as a songwriter for other artists, Parton's debut album, Hello, I'm Dolly, was released in 1967, commencing a career spanning 60 years and 50 studio albums. Referred to as the "Queen of Country", Parton is one of the most-honored female country performers in history and has received various accolades, including eleven Grammy Awards and three Emmy Awards, as well as nominations for two Academy Awards including a humanitarian honorary Oscar win in 2025, six Golden Globe Awards, and a Tony Award.

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19/01/1945

Trevor Williams, English singer-songwriter and bass player

Trevor Williams is a bass guitarist, vocalist and lyricist known primarily for his work with Audience, British art rock band which ran from 1969 to 1972 and from 2004 -2013.

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19/01/1944

Shelley Fabares, American actress and singer

Michele Ann Marie "Shelley" Fabares is a retired American actress and singer. She is known for her television roles as Francine Webster on One Day at a Time, Mary on the sitcom The Donna Reed Show (1958–1963) and as Christine Armstrong on the sitcom Coach (1989–1997), the latter of which earned her two Primetime Emmy Awards nominations. Her film roles include playing the leading lady to Elvis Presley in Girl Happy (1965), Spinout (1966), and Clambake (1967). In 1962, her recording of "Johnny Angel" reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.

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Thom Mayne, American architect and academic, designed the San Francisco Federal Building and Phare Tower

Thom Mayne is an American architect. He is based in Los Angeles. In 1972, Mayne helped found the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc), where he is a trustee and the coordinator of the Design of Cities postgraduate program. Since then he has held teaching positions at SCI-Arc, the California State Polytechnic University, Pomona and the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). He is principal of Morphosis Architects, an architectural firm based in Culver City, California and New York City, New York. Mayne received the Pritzker Architecture Prize in March 2005.

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Dan Reeves, American football player and coach (died 2022)

Daniel Edward Reeves was an American professional football running back and coach in the National Football League (NFL). During his 38 years in the NFL, Reeves participated in nine Super Bowls, the third most for an individual. He was a head coach for 23 seasons, a position he held with the Denver Broncos from 1981 to 1992, the New York Giants from 1993 to 1996, and the Atlanta Falcons from 1997 to 2003. As a player, he spent his eight-season career with the Dallas Cowboys, who signed him as an undrafted free agent in 1965.

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19/01/1943

Larry Clark, American director, producer, and screenwriter

Lawrence Donald Clark is an American film director, photographer, writer and film producer who is best known for his controversial teen film Kids (1995) and his photography book Tulsa (1971). His work focuses primarily on youth who casually engage in illegal drug use, underage sex, and violence, and who are part of a specific subculture, such as surfing, punk rock, or skateboarding.

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Janis Joplin, American singer-songwriter (died 1970)

Janis Lyn Joplin was an American singer and songwriter. One of the most iconic and successful rock performers of her era, she was noted for her powerful mezzo-soprano vocals and her electric stage presence.

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Princess Margriet of the Netherlands

Princess Margriet of the Netherlands is the third daughter of Queen Juliana and Prince Bernhard. As an aunt of the reigning monarch, King Willem-Alexander, she is a member of the Dutch Royal House and currently eighth and last in the line of succession to the throne.

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19/01/1942

Michael Crawford, English actor and singer

Michael Patrick Smith, known professionally as Michael Crawford, is an English actor, comedian and singer.

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19/01/1941

Tony Anholt, British actor (died 2002)

Anthony Anholt was a British television actor, known for several television roles over several decades. He is known for his role as Charles Frere in the BBC drama series Howards' Way (1985–90).

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Colin Gunton, English theologian and academic (died 2003)

Colin Ewart Gunton was an English Reformed systematic theologian. He made contributions to the doctrine of creation and the doctrine of the Trinity. He was Professor of Christian Doctrine at King's College, London, from 1984 and co-founder with Christoph Schwoebel of the Research Institute for Systematic Theology in 1988. Gunton was actively involved in the United Reformed Church in the United Kingdom where he had been a minister since 1972.

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Pat Patterson, Canadian wrestler, trainer, and referee (died 2020)

Pat Patterson was a Canadian-American professional wrestler and producer, widely known for his long tenure in the professional wrestling promotion WWE, first as a wrestler, then as a creative consultant and producer, or agent. He is recognized by the company as their first Intercontinental Champion and creator of the Royal Rumble match. He was inducted into the WWF Hall of Fame as part of the class of 1996.

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19/01/1940

Paolo Borsellino, Italian lawyer and judge (died 1992)

Paolo Emanuele Borsellino was an Italian judge and prosecuting magistrate. From his office in the Palace of Justice in Palermo, Sicily, he spent most of his professional life trying to overthrow the power of the Sicilian Mafia. After a long and distinguished career, culminating in the Maxi Trial in 1986–1987, on 19 July 1992, Borsellino was killed by a car bomb in Via D'Amelio, near his mother's house in Palermo.

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Denise Narcisse-Mair, Canadian musician (died 2010)

Denise Lorraine Narcisse-Mair was a Canadian musicologist, music educator, choral conductor, and composer.

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19/01/1939

Phil Everly, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2014)

Phillip Everly was an American musician, who was one half of the duo The Everly Brothers alongside his older brother Don.

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19/01/1937

Princess Birgitta of Sweden (died 2024)

Princess Birgitta of Sweden was a member of the Swedish royal family. She was the second child of Prince Gustaf Adolf, Duke of Västerbotten, and Princess Sibylla of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, and an elder sister of King Carl XVI Gustaf.

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John Lions, Australian computer scientist and academic (died 1998)

John Lions was an Australian computer scientist. He is best known as the author of Lions' Commentary on UNIX 6th Edition, with Source Code, commonly known as the Lions Book.

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19/01/1936

Fred J. Lincoln, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (died 2013)

Fred J. Lincoln was an American director, producer, screenwriter, actor, editor, and cinematographer of pornographic films.

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Ziaur Rahman, Bangladeshi general and politician, seventh President of Bangladesh (died 1981)

Ziaur Rahman was a Bangladeshi military leader and politician who served as the sixth president of Bangladesh from 1977 until his assassination in 1981. One of the leading figures of the country's independence war, Zia broadcast the Bangladeshi declaration of independence in March 1971 from Chittagong. In the aftermath of the Sipahi-Janata revolution in 1975, he consolidated power to lead Bangladesh with pragmatic policies through economic liberalization and civic nationalism that significantly contributed to the economic recovery of the country. He is often referred to as the ‘‘Shaheed President’’ in Bangladesh. He also founded the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP).

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Willie "Big Eyes" Smith, American singer, harmonica player, and drummer (died 2011)

Willie Lee "Big Eyes" Smith was an American electric blues vocalist, harmonica player, and drummer. He was best known for several stints with the Muddy Waters band beginning in the early 1960s.

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19/01/1935

Johnny O'Keefe, Australian singer-songwriter (died 1978)

John Michael O'Keefe was an Australian rock and roll singer whose career began in the early 1950s. A pioneer of Rock music in Australia, his hits include "Wild One" (1958), "Shout!" and "She's My Baby". Often referred to by his initials "J.O'K." or by his nickname "The Wild One", O'Keefe was the first Australian rock n' roll performer to tour the United States, and the first Australian artist to make the local Top 40 charts. He had twenty-nine Top 40 hits in Australia between 1958 and 1973. In his twenty-year career, O'Keefe released over 50 singles, 50 EPs and 100 albums. O'Keefe was also a radio and television entertainer and presenter.

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19/01/1934

John Richardson, English actor (died 2021)

John Richardson was an English actor who appeared in films from the late 1950s until the early 1990s. He was a male lead in Italian genre films, most notably Mario Bava's Black Sunday (1960) with Barbara Steele, but he was best known for playing the love interest of Ursula Andress in She (1965) and then of Raquel Welch in One Million Years B.C. (1966).

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19/01/1933

George Coyne, American priest, astronomer, and theologian (died 2020)

George Vincent Coyne, S.J. was an American Jesuit priest and astronomer who directed the Vatican Observatory and headed its research group at the University of Arizona from 1978 to 2020.

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19/01/1932

Russ Hamilton, English singer-songwriter (died 2008)

Russ Hamilton was an English singer and songwriter. Hamilton made the Top 10 in the United Kingdom with "We Will Make Love", but in the United States, it was the B-side, "Rainbow", which made the Top 10.

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Richard Lester, American-English director, producer, and screenwriter

Richard Lester Liebman is an American retired film director. He spent the majority of his professional life in the United Kingdom and is known for the fast-paced, flamboyant directing he brought to his comedy films, most notably the Beatles' vehicles A Hard Day's Night (1964) and Help! (1965), and The Knack ...and How to Get It (1965).

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Harry Lonsdale, American chemist, businessman, and politician (died 2014)

Harold K. Lonsdale was an American scientist, businessman, and politician. A Democrat, he ran for United States Senate in the U.S. state of Oregon three times, losing twice in the primaries and once as the Democratic candidate, losing in the 1990 general election to incumbent Republican Mark Hatfield. In 2011 Lonsdale sponsored a research challenge to determine the origin of life on Earth.

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19/01/1931

Robert MacNeil, Canadian-American journalist and author (died 2024)

Robert Breckenridge Ware MacNeil, often known as Robin MacNeil, was a Canadian-American journalist, writer and television news anchor. He partnered with Jim Lehrer to create the landmark public television news program The Robert MacNeil Report in 1975. MacNeil co-anchored the program until 1995. The show eventually became the MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour and is today PBS News Hour.

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19/01/1930

Tippi Hedren, American model, actress, and animal rights-welfare activist

Nathalie Kay "Tippi" Hedren is an American retired actress. Initially a fashion model, appearing on the front covers of Life and Glamour magazines, she became an actress after being discovered by director Alfred Hitchcock while appearing on a television commercial in 1961. Hedren received worldwide recognition due to her work in two of his films, the suspense-thriller The Birds (1963) and the psychological drama Marnie (1964). She performed in over 80 films and television shows, including Charlie Chaplin's final film A Countess from Hong Kong (1967), the political satire Citizen Ruth (1996), and the existential comedy I Heart Huckabees (2004). Among other honors, her contributions to world cinema have been recognized with the Jules Verne Award and a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

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John Waite, South African cricketer (died 2011)

John Henry Bickford Waite was a South African cricketer who played in fifty Tests from 1951 to 1965.

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19/01/1926

Hans Massaquoi, German-American journalist and author (died 2013)

Hans-Jürgen Massaquoi was a German-Americo-Liberian journalist and author. He was born in Hamburg, Germany, to a German mother and a Liberian father of Vai ethnicity, the grandson of Momulu Massaquoi, the consul general of Liberia in Germany at the time.

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Fritz Weaver, American actor (died 2016)

Fritz William Weaver was an American stage, film, and television actor. He won the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play for the original Broadway production of Child's Play (1970), and was nominated for Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play for The Chalk Garden (1958).

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19/01/1925

Nina Bawden, English author (died 2012)

Nina Mary Bawden CBE, FRSL, JP was an English novelist and children's writer.

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19/01/1924

Nicholas Colasanto, American actor and director (died 1985)

Nicholas Colasanto was an American actor and television director. He is best known for his role as Ernie Pantusso in the American television sitcom Cheers (1982–1985).

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Jean-François Revel, French philosopher (died 2006)

Jean-François Revel was a French philosopher, journalist, and author. A prominent public intellectual, Revel was a socialist in his youth but later became a prominent European proponent of classical liberalism and free market economics. He was a member of the Académie française after June 1998. He is best known for his book Without Marx or Jesus: The New American Revolution Has Begun, published in French in 1970.

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19/01/1923

Dagmar Loe, Norwegian journalist (died 2024)

Dagmar Loe was a Norwegian journalist. Assigned to NRK for three decades, she was a pioneer in bringing up controversial issues such as abortion, incest, rape, dementia, imprisonment of juveniles, and trading of weapons.

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Bob McFadden, American singer, impressionist, and voice-over actor (died 2000)

Robert McFadden was an American singer, impressionist, and voice-over actor perhaps best known for his many contributions to animated cartoons.

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Jean Stapleton, American actress and singer (died 2013)

Jean Stapleton was an American character actress of stage, television and film. Stapleton is best known for her portrayal of Edith Bunker, the perpetually optimistic and devoted wife of Archie Bunker, on the 1970s sitcom All in the Family. The role earned her three Emmys and two Golden Globes for Best Actress in a comedy series.

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19/01/1922

Guy Madison, American actor (died 1996)

Guy Madison was an American film, television, and radio actor. He is best known for having played Wild Bill Hickok in the Western television series The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok from 1951 to 1958.

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Arthur Morris, Australian cricketer and journalist (died 2015)

Arthur Robert Morris was an Australian cricketer who played 46 Test matches between 1946 and 1955. An opener, Morris is regarded as one of Australia's greatest left-handed batsmen. He is best known for his key role in Don Bradman's Invincibles side, which made an undefeated tour of England in 1948. He was the leading scorer in the Tests on the tour, with three centuries. His efforts in the Fourth Test at Headingley helped Australia to reach a world record victory target of 404 on the final day. Morris was named in the Australian Cricket Board's Team of the Century in 2000 and was inducted into the Australian Cricket Hall of Fame in 2001.

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Miguel Muñoz, Spanish footballer and manager (died 1990)

Miguel Muñoz Mozún was a Spanish football player and manager. A midfielder, he spent the majority of his career at Real Madrid before going on to coach the club, where he is widely considered one of the most successful and greatest managers in football history, leading the team to two European Cup victories and nine La Liga titles. Muñoz later had a six-year coaching spell with the Spain national team, and led them to the final of Euro 1984.

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19/01/1921

Patricia Highsmith, American novelist and short story writer (died 1995)

Patricia Highsmith was an American novelist and short story writer widely known for her psychological thrillers, including her series of five novels featuring the character Tom Ripley. She wrote 22 novels and numerous short stories in a career spanning nearly five decades, and her work has led to more than two dozen film adaptations. Her writing was influenced by existentialist literature and questioned notions of identity and popular morality. She was dubbed "the poet of apprehension" by novelist Graham Greene.

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19/01/1920

Bernard Dunstan, English painter and educator (died 2017)

Bernard Dunstan was a British artist, teacher, and author, best known for his studies of figures in interiors and landscapes. At the time of his death, he was the longest serving Royal Academician.

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Javier Pérez de Cuéllar, Peruvian politician and diplomat, 135th Prime Minister of Peru (died 2020)

Javier Felipe Ricardo Pérez de Cuéllar Guerra was a Peruvian diplomat and politician who served as the fifth secretary-general of the United Nations from 1982 to 1991. He later served as prime minister of Peru from 2000 to 2001.

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19/01/1918

John H. Johnson, American publisher, founded the Johnson Publishing Company (died 2005)

John Harold Johnson was an American business executive and publisher. He was the founder in 1942 of the Johnson Publishing Company, headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. Johnson's company, with its creation of Ebony (1945) and Jet (1951) magazines, was among the most influential African-American business in media in the second half of the twentieth century, peaking at 9 million subscribers.

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19/01/1913

Rex Ingamells, Australian author and poet (died 1955)

Reginald Charles (Rex) Ingamells was an Australian poet, generally credited with being the leading light of the Jindyworobak Movement.

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Rudolf Wanderone, American professional pocket billiards player (died 1996)

Rudolf Walter Wanderone, commonly known as Minnesota Fats, was an American professional pool player. Although he never won a major pool tournament as "Fats", he was at one time perhaps the most publicly recognized pool player in the United States—not only as a player, but also as an entertainer. Wanderone was inducted in 1984 into the Billiard Congress of America Hall of Fame for his decades-long public promotion of pool.

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19/01/1912

Leonid Kantorovich, Russian mathematician and economist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1986)

Leonid Vitalyevich Kantorovich was a Soviet mathematician and economist, known for his theory and development of techniques for the optimal allocation of resources. He is regarded as the founder of linear programming. He was the winner of the Stalin Prize in 1949 and the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1975.

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19/01/1911

Choor Singh, Indian-Singaporean lawyer and judge (died 2009)

Choor Singh Sidhu, known professionally as Choor Singh, was a Singaporean lawyer who served as a judge of the Supreme Court of Singapore and, particularly after his retirement from the bench, a philanthropist and writer of books about Sikhism. Born to a family of modest means in Punjab, India, he came to Singapore at four years of age. He completed his secondary education in the top class at Raffles Institution in 1929, then worked as a clerk in a law firm before becoming a civil servant in the Official Assignee's office.

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19/01/1908

Ish Kabibble, American comedian and cornet player (died 1994)

Merwyn Bogue, known professionally as Ish Kabibble, was an American comedian and cornet player.

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Aleksandr Gennadievich Kurosh, Russian mathematician and theorist (died 1971)

Aleksandr Gennadyevich Kurosh was a Soviet mathematician, known for his work in abstract algebra. He is credited with writing The Theory of Groups, the first modern and high-level text on group theory, published in 1944.

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19/01/1905

Stanley Hawes, English-Australian director and producer (died 1991)

Stanley Gilbert Hawes MBE, was a British-born documentary film producer and director who spent most of his career in Australia, though he commenced his career in England and Canada. He was born in London, England and died in Sydney, Australia. He is best known as the Producer-in-Chief (1946–1969) of the Australian Government's filmmaking body, which was named, in 1945, the Australian National Film Board, and then, in 1956, the Commonwealth Film Unit. In 1973, after he retired, it became Film Australia.

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19/01/1903

Boris Blacher, German composer and playwright (died 1975)

Boris Blacher was a German composer and librettist.

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Dyre Vaa, Norwegian sculptor and painter (died 1980)

Dyre Vaa was a Norwegian sculptor and painter.

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19/01/1901

Dunc Munro, Scottish-Canadian ice hockey player and coach (died 1958)

Duncan Brown Munro was a Canadian Olympic ice hockey player who played with and coached the Montreal Maroons. He was born in Moray, Scotland. When he was still a child his family moved to Toronto, Ontario, where he learned to play hockey. He is the first European born player to win the Stanley Cup. In his youth Munro also excelled in track events as a runner. He attended the University of Toronto Schools, where he played on the hockey team that won the first Memorial Cup.

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19/01/1893

Magda Tagliaferro, Brazilian pianist and educator (died 1986)

Magdalena Maria Yvonne Tagliaferro was a Brazilian pianist.

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19/01/1892

Ólafur Thors, Icelandic lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of Iceland (died 1964)

Ólafur Tryggvason Thors was an Icelandic politician of the Independence Party, who served six times as prime minister of Iceland.

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19/01/1889

Sophie Taeuber-Arp, Swiss painter and sculptor (died 1943)

Sophie Henriette Gertrud Taeuber-Arp was a Swiss artist, painter, sculptor, textile designer, furniture and interior designer, architect, and dancer.

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19/01/1887

Alexander Woollcott, American actor, playwright, and critic (died 1943)

Alexander Humphreys Woollcott was an American drama critic for The New York Times and The New York Herald, critic and commentator for The New Yorker magazine, a member of the Algonquin Round Table, an occasional actor and playwright, and a prominent radio personality.

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19/01/1883

Hermann Abendroth, German conductor (died 1956)

Hermann Paul Maximilian Abendroth was a German conductor.

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19/01/1882

John Cain Sr., Australian politician, 34th Premier of Victoria (died 1957)

John Cain was an Australian politician who served as the 34th Premier of Victoria. He was the first Labor Party leader to win a majority in the Victorian Legislative Assembly, and is the only premier of Victoria whose son has also served as premier.

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19/01/1879

Boris Savinkov, Russian soldier and author (died 1925)

Boris Viktorovich Savinkov was a Russian revolutionary, writer, and politician. As a leading figure in the Socialist Revolutionary Party's (SR) Combat Organization, he was a key organizer of high-profile assassinations of tsarist officials, including that of Interior Minister Vyacheslav von Plehve in 1904 and Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich in 1905. Following the February Revolution of 1917, Savinkov served as Assistant Minister of War in the Russian Provisional Government. After the October Revolution, he became a prominent leader of armed resistance against the Bolsheviks, notably founding the Union for the Defense of the Motherland and Freedom.

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19/01/1878

Herbert Chapman, English footballer and manager (died 1934)

Herbert Chapman was an English football player and manager. Though he had an undistinguished playing career, he went on to become one of the most influential and successful managers in the early 20th century, before his sudden death in 1934. He is regarded as one of the game's greatest innovators.

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19/01/1876

Wakashima Gonshirō, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 21st Yokozuna (died 1943)

Wakashima Gonshirō was a Japanese professional sumo wrestler from Ichikawa, Chiba Prefecture. He was the sport's 21st yokozuna and the first official yokozuna from the Osaka Sumo Association.

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Dragotin Kette, Slovenian poet and author (died 1899)

Dragotin Kette was a Slovene Impressionist and Neo-Romantic poet. Together with Josip Murn, Ivan Cankar, and Oton Župančič, he is considered the founder of modernism in Slovene literature.

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19/01/1874

Hitachiyama Taniemon, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 19th Yokozuna (died 1922)

Hitachiyama Taniemon was a Japanese professional sumo wrestler from Mito, Ibaraki Prefecture. He was the sport's 19th yokozuna from 1903 till 1914. His great rivalry with Umegatani Tōtarō II created the "Ume-Hitachi Era" and did much to popularise sumo. He is remembered as much for his exploits in promoting the sport as for his strength on the dohyō. In his later years as head coach of Dewanoumi stable he trained hundreds of wrestlers, including three yokozuna. Many consider him the most honorable yokozuna in sumo history, which earned him the nickname "Kakusei" (角聖), or "sumo saint".

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19/01/1871

Dame Gruev, Bulgarian educator and activist, co-founded the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization (died 1906)

Damyan Yovanov Gruev was а Macedonian Bulgarian teacher, revolutionary and leader of the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization (IMRO) in the Ottoman regions of Macedonia and Thrace. He was one of the six founders of IMRO. Gruev is seen as a national hero in Bulgaria and North Macedonia but his ethnicity is disputed between both countries.

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19/01/1866

Harry Davenport, American stage and film actor (died 1949)

Harold George Bryant Davenport was an American film and stage actor who worked in show business from the age of six until his death. After a long and prolific Broadway career, he came to Hollywood in the 1930s, where he often played grandfathers, judges, doctors, and ministers. His roles include Dr. Meade in Gone with the Wind (1939) and Grandpa in Meet Me in St. Louis (1944). Bette Davis once called Davenport "without a doubt [. . .] the greatest character actor of all time."

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19/01/1863

Werner Sombart, German economist and sociologist (died 1941)

Werner Sombart was a German economist, historian and sociologist. Head of the "Youngest Historical School," he was one of the leading Continental European social scientists during the first quarter of the 20th century. The term "late capitalism" is accredited to him. The concept of "creative destruction" associated with capitalism is also of his coinage.

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19/01/1852

Thomas Price, Welsh-Australian politician, 24th Premier of South Australia (died 1909)

Thomas Price served as the South Australian United Labor Party's first Premier of South Australia. He formed a minority government at the 1905 election and was re-elected with increased representation at the 1906 election, serving in the premiership until his death in 1909. It was the world's first stable Labor government. Shortly afterwards, John Verran led Labor to form the state's first of many majority governments at the 1910 election.

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19/01/1851

Jacobus Kapteyn, Dutch astronomer and academic (died 1922)

Jacobus Cornelius Kapteyn was a Dutch astronomer. He carried out extensive studies of the Milky Way. He found that the apparent movement of stars was not randomly distributed but had two preferential directions: the two star streams. This discovery was later reinterpreted as evidence for galactic rotation. Kapteyn also suggested that these stellar velocities could be used to find the amount of non-luminous matter in the galaxy, which his student, Jan Oort, measured in 1932, referring to it as "invisible matter".

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19/01/1848

Arturo Graf, Italian poet, of German ancestry (died 1913)

Arturo Graf, was an Italian poet and literary critic.

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John Fitzwilliam Stairs, Canadian businessman and politician (died 1904)

John Fitzwilliam Stairs, also known as John Fitz William Stairs was an entrepreneur and statesman, born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, a member of the prominent Stairs family of merchants and shippers founded by William Machin Stairs (1789–1865) that included the Victorian era explorer, William Grant Stairs.

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Matthew Webb, English swimmer and diver (died 1883)

Captain Matthew Webb was an English seaman, swimmer and stuntman who became the first person to swim the English Channel without the use of artificial aids. Webb increased the popularity of swimming in England.

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19/01/1840

Dethloff Willrodt, American Civil War veteran and politician (died 1932)

Dethloff Willrodt was an American Civil War veteran, businessman, carpenter, farmer, and politician. He was a member of the Texas House of Representatives from the 42nd district from 1899 to 1901.

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19/01/1839

Paul Cézanne, French painter (died 1906)

Paul Cézanne was a French Post-Impressionist painter whose work introduced new modes of representation, influenced avant-garde artistic movements of the early 20th century and formed the bridge between late 19th-century Impressionism and early 20th-century Cubism.

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19/01/1833

Alfred Clebsch, German mathematician and academic (died 1872)

Rudolf Friedrich Alfred Clebsch was a German mathematician who made important contributions to algebraic geometry and invariant theory. He attended the University of Königsberg and was habilitated at Berlin. He subsequently taught in Berlin and Karlsruhe. His collaboration with Paul Gordan in Giessen led to the introduction of Clebsch–Gordan coefficients for spherical harmonics, which are now widely used in quantum mechanics.

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19/01/1832

Ferdinand Laub, Czech violinist and composer (died 1875)

Ferdinand Laub was a Czech violinist and composer.

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19/01/1813

Henry Bessemer, English engineer and businessman (died 1898)

Sir Henry Bessemer was an English inventor, whose steel-making process was the most important technique for making steel in the nineteenth century for almost one hundred years. He played a significant role in establishing the town of Sheffield, nicknamed ‘Steel City’, as a major industrial centre.

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19/01/1810

Talhaiarn, Welsh poet and architect (died 1869)

John Jones, known by his bardic name of Talhaiarn, was a Welsh poet and architect.

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19/01/1809

Edgar Allan Poe, American short story writer, poet, and critic (died 1849)

Edgar Allan Poe was an American writer, poet, editor, and literary critic who is best known for his poetry and short stories, particularly his tales involving mystery and the macabre. He is widely regarded as one of the central figures of Romanticism and Gothic fiction in the United States and of early American literature. Poe was one of the country's first successful practitioners of the short story, and is generally considered to be one of the pioneers of the detective fiction genre. In addition, he is credited with contributing significantly to the emergence of science fiction. He is the first well-known American writer to earn a living exclusively through writing, which resulted in a financially difficult life and career.

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19/01/1808

Lysander Spooner, American philosopher and author (died 1887)

Lysander Spooner was an American abolitionist, entrepreneur, lawyer, essayist, natural rights legal theorist, pamphleteer, political philosopher, and writer often associated with the Boston anarchist tradition.

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19/01/1807

Robert E. Lee, American Confederate general (died 1870)

Robert Edward Lee was a Confederate general whose early actions in the American Civil War led to his appointment as the overall commander of the Confederate States Army near the end of the war. He led the Army of Northern Virginia, the Confederacy's most powerful army, from 1862 until its surrender in 1865, earning a reputation as one of the war's most skilled tacticians.

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19/01/1803

Sarah Helen Whitman, American poet, essayist, and romantic interest of Edgar Allan Poe (died 1878)

Sarah Helen Power Whitman was an American poet, essayist, transcendentalist, spiritualist and a romantic interest of Edgar Allan Poe.

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19/01/1798

Auguste Comte, French economist, sociologist, and philosopher (died 1857)

Isidore Auguste Marie François Xavier Comte was a French philosopher, mathematician and writer who formulated the doctrine of positivism. He is often regarded as the first philosopher of science in the modern sense of the term. Comte's ideas were fundamental to the development of sociology, with him inventing the very term and treating the discipline as the crowning achievement of the sciences.

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19/01/1790

Per Daniel Amadeus Atterbom, Swedish poet and academic (died 1855)

Per Daniel Amadeus Atterbom was a Swedish romantic poet, and a member of the Swedish Academy.

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19/01/1788

Pavel Kiselyov, Russian general and politician (died 1874)

Count Pavel Dmitrievich Kiselyov or Kiseleff is generally regarded as the most brilliant Russian reformer during Nicholas I's generally conservative reign. Kiselyov was plenipotentiary president of the Divans in Wallachia and Moldavia from 1829 until 1834.

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19/01/1757

Countess Augusta Reuss of Ebersdorf (died 1831)

Augusta of Reuss-Ebersdorf, was by marriage the Duchess of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld. She was the grandmother and godmother of both Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom and her husband and cousin, Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha.

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19/01/1752

James Morris III, American captain (died 1820)

James Morris III was a Continental Army officer from Connecticut during the American Revolutionary War and founder of the Morris Academy, a pioneer in coeducation.

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19/01/1739

Joseph Bonomi the Elder, Italian architect, designed Longford Hall and Barrells Hall (died 1808)

Joseph Bonomi the Elder was an Italian architect and draughtsman who spent most of his career in England where he became a successful designer of country houses. Bonomi was Robert Adam’s leading draughtsman.

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19/01/1737

Giuseppe Millico, Italian soprano, composer, and educator (died 1802)

Vito Giuseppe Millico, called "Il Moscovita", was an Italian soprano castrato, composer, and music teacher of the 18th century who is best remembered for his performances in the operas of Christoph Willibald Gluck.

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19/01/1736

James Watt, Scottish chemist and engineer (died 1819)

James Watt was a Scottish inventor, engineer and chemist who improved on Thomas Newcomen's 1712 Newcomen steam engine with his Watt steam engine in 1776, which was fundamental to the changes brought by the Industrial Revolution in both his native Great Britain and the rest of the world.

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19/01/1721

Jean-Philippe Baratier, German scholar and author (died 1740)

Jean-Philippe Baratier was a German scholar. A noted child prodigy of the 18th century, he published eleven works and authored a great quantity of unpublished manuscripts.

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19/01/1676

John Weldon, English organist and composer (died 1736)

John Weldon was an English composer.

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19/01/1628

Charles Stanley, 8th Earl of Derby, English noble (died 1672)

Charles Stanley, 8th Earl of Derby, 2nd Baron Strange, was an English nobleman and politician. He was the eldest son of James Stanley, 7th Earl of Derby and Charlotte de La Trémouille.

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19/01/1617

Lucas Faydherbe, Flemish sculptor and architect (died 1697)

Lucas Faydherbe was a Flemish architect and sculptor who played a major role in the development of the High Baroque in the Southern Netherlands.

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19/01/1544

Francis II of France (died 1560)

Francis II was King of France from 1559 to 1560. He was also King of Scotland as the husband of Mary, Queen of Scots, from 1558 until his death in 1560.

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19/01/1200

Dōgen Zenji, founder of Sōtō Zen (died 1253)

Dōgen Zenji was a Japanese Zen Buddhist monk, writer, poet, philosopher, and founder of the Sōtō school of Zen in Japan. He is also known as Dōgen Kigen (道元希玄), Eihei Dōgen (永平道元), Kōso Jōyō Daishi (高祖承陽大師), and Busshō Dentō Kokushi (仏性伝東国師).

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19/01/0399

Pulcheria, Byzantine empress and saint (died 453)

Aelia Pulcheria was an Eastern Roman empress who advised her brother, the emperor Theodosius II, during his minority and then became wife to emperor Marcian from November 450 to her death in 453.

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