Born on Tuesday, 20th January – Famous Birthdays

20/01/2003

J. J. McCarthy, American football player

Jonathan James McCarthy is an American professional football quarterback for the Minnesota Vikings of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Michigan Wolverines, earning Big Ten Quarterback of the Year honors after leading the Wolverines to a 15–0 record and a national championship in 2023. In his three years at Michigan, the Wolverines won three Big Ten titles and made three College Football Playoff semifinal appearances. McCarthy finished with a 27–1 record (.964) in two seasons as a starting quarterback, the highest career winning percentage in NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) history. He was selected 10th overall by the Vikings in the 2024 NFL draft. After missing his entire rookie year due to injury, McCarthy became the starter in his second season.

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Antonia Ružić, Croatian tennis player

Antonia Ružić is a Croatian tennis player. Ružić has a career-high singles ranking of world No. 65 by the WTA, achieved on 19 January 2026. She also has a career-high WTA doubles ranking of No. 544, reached on 27 January 2025. She is the current No. 1 Croatian singles player. Ružić has won 12 singles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit.

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20/01/2002

Arnaud Kalimuendo, French footballer

Arnaud Kalimuendo-Muinga is a French professional footballer who plays as a striker for Bundesliga club Eintracht Frankfurt, on loan from Premier League club Nottingham Forest.

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20/01/2000

Tyler Herro, American basketball player

Tyler Christopher Herro is an American professional basketball player for the Miami Heat of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played college basketball for one year with the Kentucky Wildcats. After being selected by the Heat in the first round of the 2019 NBA draft with the 13th overall pick, Herro was named to the NBA All-Rookie Second Team in 2020. He reached the NBA Finals during his rookie season with the Heat. He was named the NBA Sixth Man of the Year in 2022 and was named to his first All-Star Game in 2025. Herro has played both point guard and shooting guard.

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20/01/1995

Joey Badass, American rapper and actor

Jo-Vaughn Virginie Scott, known professionally as Joey Badass, is an American rapper and actor. Born in Brooklyn, New York City, he formed the regional hip-hop group Pro Era in 2011, with whom he has released three mixtapes and formed the larger collective, Beast Coast the following year.

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Calum Chambers, English footballer

Calum Chambers is an English professional footballer who plays as a centre-back or right-back for and captains EFL League One club Cardiff City.

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José María Giménez, Uruguayan footballer

José María Giménez de Vargas is a Uruguayan professional footballer who plays as a centre-back for La Liga club Atlético Madrid and captains the Uruguay national team.

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Sergi Samper, Spanish footballer

Sergi Samper Montaña is a Spanish professional footballer who plays as a defensive midfielder for Ekstraklasa club Motor Lublin.

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Kim So-hee, South Korean singer

Kim So-hee is a South Korean singer. She is known for having been a member of girl group Nature, a contestant of the first season of Produce 101 and a member of the project girl group I.B.I. Kim debuted as a soloist on November 8, 2017, with the EP The Fillette. After a two-year hiatus, Kim left Music Works and joined n.Ch Entertainment in July 2019.

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20/01/1994

Seán Kavanagh, Irish footballer

Seán Kavanagh is an Irish football coach and former player who played as a left back for Fulham, Mansfield Town, Hartlepool United and Shamrock Rovers.

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Hampus Lindholm, Swedish ice hockey player

Hampus Lindholm is a Swedish professional ice hockey player who is a defenceman and alternate captain for the Boston Bruins of the National Hockey League (NHL). Lindholm began his ice hockey career with Jonstorps IF and previously played with Rögle BK. He then played with the Anaheim Ducks for his first eight seasons in the NHL, before being traded to Boston.

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Lucas Piazon, Brazilian footballer

Lucas Domingues Piazon is a Brazilian professional footballer who plays for I liga club Wieczysta Kraków. A versatile player, he can be deployed as a second striker, winger, or as an attacking midfielder.

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20/01/1993

Lorenzo Crisetig, Italian footballer

Lorenzo Crisetig is an Italian professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Serie B club Padova.

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Cat Janice, American singer-songwriter (died 2024)

Catherine Janice Ipsan, known professionally as Cat Janice, was an American singer-songwriter. Janice wrote and sang "Dance You Outta My Head", which went viral on TikTok.

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DeVante Parker, American football player

DeVante Parker is an American former professional football player who was a wide receiver for nine seasons in the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Louisville Cardinals and was selected by the Miami Dolphins in the first round of the 2015 NFL draft with the 14th overall pick. He played with the New England Patriots in 2022 and 2023.

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20/01/1991

Tom Cairney, Scottish footballer

Thomas Cairney is a professional footballer who plays as a midfielder and captains Premier League club Fulham. Born in England, he represented the Scotland national team.

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Ciara Hanna, American actress and model

Ciara Hanna is an American actress. She is known for playing the roles of Gia Moran in Power Rangers Megaforce and Nicole Parker in Blood Lake: Attack of the Killer Lampreys.

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Polona Hercog, Slovenian tennis player

Polona Hercog is a Slovenian professional tennis player. Her career-high WTA rankings are world No. 35 in singles and No. 56 in doubles. She has won five titles on the WTA Tour, three in singles and two in doubles. Hercog also has had success on the ITF Women's Circuit, winning 19 singles and five doubles titles.

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Jumpol Adulkittiporn, Thai actor

Jumpol Adulkittiporn, nicknamed Off, is a Thai actor, model and host. He is known for his starring roles in Theory of Love (2019), Not Me (2021–2022), and Astrophile (2022) for which he has received Asian Academy Creative: National Winner 2022 Award in the Best Supporting Actor category. He has since starred in Senior Secret Love: Puppy Honey (2016–2017).

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20/01/1989

Nick Foles, American football player

Nicholas Edward Foles is an American former professional football quarterback who played in the National Football League (NFL) for 11 seasons. A member of six teams, he achieved his greatest success with the Philadelphia Eagles, leading them to the franchise's first Super Bowl title.

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Alex Grant, Canadian ice hockey player

Alex Grant is a Canadian professional ice hockey defenceman. He is currently an unrestricted free agent. He most recently played under contract with Avangard Omsk in the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL). Grant was selected by the Pittsburgh Penguins in the 4th round of the 2007 NHL Entry Draft.

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Jared Waerea-Hargreaves, New Zealand rugby league player

Jared Waerea-Hargreaves is a former New Zealand professional rugby league footballer who last played as a prop for Hull Kingston Rovers in the Super League and New Zealand at international level.

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20/01/1988

Uwa Elderson Echiéjilé, Nigerian footballer

Elderson Uwa Echiéjilé is a Nigerian former professional footballer who played as a left-back.

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Jan Muršak, Slovenian ice hockey player

Jan Muršak is a professional Slovenian ice hockey player for Frölunda HC of the Swedish Hockey League (SHL). Muršak first played hockey in Slovenia as a member of HDK Maribor before he left to spend one season in the Czech junior league. He was then selected by the Detroit Red Wings in the 2006 NHL Entry Draft and moved to the major junior Ontario Hockey League (OHL) and played for two teams, the Saginaw Spirit and Belleville Bulls. After finishing his junior career Muršak then joined the Red Wings American Hockey League (AHL) affiliate, the Grand Rapids Griffins in 2008.

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20/01/1987

Evan Peters, American actor

Evan Thomas Peters is an American actor. He made his acting debut in the 2004 drama film Clipping Adam and starred in the ABC science fiction series Invasion from 2005 to 2006. Peters gained wide recognition for playing multiple roles over ten seasons in Ryan Murphy's FX anthology series American Horror Story, from 2011 to 2021.

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20/01/1986

Kevin Parker, Australian singer, songwriter, musician, and producer

Kevin Richard Parker is an Australian singer, songwriter, musician, record producer, and DJ, best known for his musical project Tame Impala, for which he writes, performs, records, and produces the music. Parker has released five Tame Impala albums: Innerspeaker (2010), Lonerism (2012), Currents (2015), The Slow Rush (2020) and Deadbeat (2025). He has won 13 ARIA Music Awards, two APRA Awards, and a Brit Award, and two Grammy Awards from five nominations.

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20/01/1985

Nabil Boukili, Belgian politician

Nabil Boukili is a Belgian politician and member of the Chamber of Representatives. A member of the Workers' Party of Belgium, he has represented Brussels since June 2019.

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20/01/1984

Toni Gonzaga, Filipino singer and television personality

Celestine "Toni" Cruz Gonzaga-Soriano is a Filipino media personality, host, actress, businesswoman, singer, and vlogger. Gonzaga was the former lead host of ABS-CBN's long-running reality show Pinoy Big Brother (2005–2022). Her own YouTube channel, Toni Gonzaga Studio (TGS), has over 8 million subscribers. Tatler magazine named her one of the most influential people in Asia in 2021 and 2022.

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Bonnie McKee, American singer-songwriter

Bonnie Leigh McKee is an American singer, songwriter, and actress. Her debut album Trouble was released in 2004 by Reprise Records. After the label dropped her, she took a musical hiatus and established herself as a professional songwriter. She has written 10 singles that have reached number one in either the United States or the United Kingdom, which have sold more than 30 million copies worldwide combined. In 2013, she made a return to music with the single "American Girl". In 2015, she independently released the EP Bombastic.

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20/01/1983

Geovany Soto, Puerto Rican baseball player

Geovany Soto is a Puerto Rican former professional baseball catcher. He played 13 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB), most prominently as a member of the Chicago Cubs, where he appeared in the MLB All-Star Game and was named the National League Rookie of the Year in 2008. He also played for the Texas Rangers, the Oakland Athletics, the Los Angeles Angels and the Chicago White Sox.

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20/01/1982

Ruchi Sanghvi, Indian computer engineer

Ruchi Sanghvi is an Indian-American computer engineer and businesswoman. She was the first female engineer hired by Facebook. In late 2010, she quit Facebook and in 2011, she started her own company Cove, with two other co-founders. The company was sold to Dropbox in 2012 and Sanghvi joined Dropbox as VP of Operations. She left Dropbox in October 2013.

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Fredrik Strømstad, Norwegian footballer

Fredrik Strømstad is a Norwegian football player.

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20/01/1981

Freddy Guzmán, Dominican baseball player

Freddy Antonio Guzmán is a Dominican former professional baseball outfielder. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) with the San Diego Padres, Texas Rangers, New York Yankees, and Tampa Bay Rays in five seasons between 2004 and 2013.

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Owen Hargreaves, English footballer

Owen Lee Hargreaves is a former professional footballer who played as a midfielder. He was known as a hard-working and "solid defensive midfielder who worked tirelessly to win the ball" and provide his teammates with possession. He played with Calgary Foothills as a youth before beginning his professional football career in Germany with Bayern Munich. After seven years with the Munich side – during which time he won four German league titles and the 2000–01 UEFA Champions League – Hargreaves signed for Manchester United in 2007, winning the Premier League and UEFA Champions League in his first season. However, his time at Manchester United was thereafter plagued with injuries and he was allowed to leave the club at the end of his contract in June 2011. Hargreaves posted YouTube videos in a bid to convince potential suitors of his fitness, and in August 2011, Manchester City offered Hargreaves a one-year contract, which he accepted, but he was released at the end of the season after just four appearances for the club.

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Jason Richardson, American basketball player

Jason Anthoney Richardson Sr. is an American former professional basketball player who played 14 seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA). Richardson was taken by the Golden State Warriors as the fifth overall pick in the 2001 NBA draft after playing college basketball for the Michigan State Spartans. Richardson has also played for the Charlotte Bobcats, Phoenix Suns, Orlando Magic, and the Philadelphia 76ers.

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20/01/1980

Karl Anderson, American wrestler

Chad Allegra, known by his ring name Karl Anderson, is an American professional wrestler. He is known for his tenures in New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW), WWE and Impact Wrestling.

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Philippe Cousteau, Jr., American-French oceanographer and journalist

Philippe-Pierre Jacques-Yves Arnault Cousteau Jr. is a French-American oceanographer and environmental activist, the son of Philippe Cousteau and the grandson of Jacques Cousteau. Cousteau has continued the work of his father and grandfather by educating the public about environmental and conservation issues. In 2017, he received an Emmy nomination for hosting the syndicated science series Awesome Planet.

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Philippe Gagnon, Canadian swimmer

Philippe Gagnon is a Canadian retired Paralympic swimmer and politician. Gagnon ran as a Conservative in the riding of Jonquière in the 2019 federal election.

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Kim Jeong-hoon, South Korean singer and actor

Kim Jeong-hoon, also known by his stage name John Hoon, is a South Korean singer and actor. He initially rose to fame as a member of South Korean duo UN debuting with the single Voice Mail in 2000. After the duo disbanded in 2005, his fame increased as an actor starring in Princess Hours, a drama based on a manhwa.

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20/01/1979

Rob Bourdon, American musician and songwriter

Robert Gregory Bourdon is an American musician, best known as a co-founding member and the former drummer of the rock band Linkin Park. He remained in the band until their hiatus in 2017; when the band members began working together out of the public eye in 2019, he declined to rejoin the band and was succeeded by Colin Brittain.

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Will Young, English singer-songwriter and actor

William Robert Young is an English singer, songwriter and actor. He came to prominence after winning the 2002 inaugural series of the ITV talent contest Pop Idol, making him the first winner of the worldwide Idol franchise. His double A-sided debut single "Anything Is Possible" / "Evergreen" was released two weeks after the show's finale and became the fastest-selling debut single in the UK. Young also came in fifth place in World Idol performing the single "Light My Fire" written by the band the Doors.

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20/01/1978

Sonja Kesselschläger, German heptathlete

Sonja Kesselschläger is a German heptathlete.

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Allan Søgaard, Danish footballer

Allan Søgaard is a Danish former football (soccer) player, spent his entire career playing for the Danish Superliga side AC Horsens. His normal position was as a defensive midfielder. He was known as a pacy player, with a major dedication to his team.

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20/01/1977

Paul Adams, South African cricketer and coach

Paul Regan Adams is a former South African cricketer. A left-arm unorthodox spin bowler with a unique bowling action, Adams played for the Test and ODI teams for national team sporadically since the 1990s. Meanwhile, his first class cricket career registered 412 wickets. He was also the coach of the Cape Cobras cricket team.

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Sid Wilson, American musician

Sidney George Wilson is an American DJ and keyboardist. He is the turntablist and keyboardist for the heavy metal band Slipknot, in which he is designated #0.

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20/01/1976

Kirsty Gallacher, Scottish television presenter

Kirsty Jane Gallacher is a British television presenter and model. She began her career at Sky Sports News in 1998 and hosted Kirsty's Home Videos, RI:SE and Simply the Best before returning to Sky Sports News from 2011–2018. From June 2021 until December 2021, Gallacher co-presented The Great British Breakfast on the news channel GB News.

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Gretha Smit, Dutch speed skater

Grietje "Greta" Smit is a Dutch former speed skater.

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20/01/1975

David Eckstein, American baseball player

David Mark Eckstein is an American former professional baseball player. He was an infielder in Major League Baseball (MLB) for ten seasons. He played college baseball for the University of Florida and played professionally for the Anaheim Angels, St. Louis Cardinals, Toronto Blue Jays, Arizona Diamondbacks, and San Diego Padres. Eckstein won the 2006 World Series Most Valuable Player Award. After retiring from professional baseball, he briefly served as a special assistant in the Pittsburgh Pirates operations department. Eckstein stood at 5' 7" during his playing career, which made him the shortest active player for the years he played.

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Norberto Fontana, Argentinian racing driver

Norberto Edgardo Fontana is an Argentine racing driver. He participated in four Formula One Grands Prix, debuting on 29 June 1997 but scoring no championship points.

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Zac Goldsmith, English journalist and politician

Frank Zacharias Robin Goldsmith, Baron Goldsmith of Richmond Park is a British politician, life peer and journalist who served as Minister of State for Overseas Territories, Commonwealth, Energy, Climate and Environment from September 2022 to June 2023. A member of the Conservative Party, he was its candidate at the 2016 London mayoral election and was Member of Parliament (MP) for Richmond Park from 2010 to 2016 and 2017 to 2019. Ideologically characterised as having liberal and libertarian views, he is known for his support for environmentalism and localism.

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Ira Newble, American basketball player

Ira Reynolds Newble II is an American former professional basketball player. He played in the National Basketball Association (NBA) for the San Antonio Spurs, Atlanta Hawks, Cleveland Cavaliers, Seattle SuperSonics, and Los Angeles Lakers.

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20/01/1973

Stephen Crabb, Scottish-Welsh politician, Secretary of State for Wales

Stephen Crabb is a British politician who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Preseli Pembrokeshire from 2005 to 2024 and Chairman of the Welsh Affairs Select Committee from 2020 to 2024. A member of the Welsh Conservatives, he served as Secretary of State for Work and Pensions from March to July 2016 under Prime Minister David Cameron. Crabb had previously been appointed a government whip, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Wales (2012–2014) and Secretary of State for Wales (2014–2016) under Cameron. He lost his seat in the 2024 general election.

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Queen Mathilde of Belgium

Mathilde Marie Christine Ghislaine d'Udekem d'Acoz is Queen of the Belgians as the wife of King Philippe.

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20/01/1972

Nikki Haley, American accountant and politician, 116th Governor of South Carolina

Nimarata Nikki Randhawa Haley is an American politician and diplomat who served as the 116th governor of South Carolina from 2011 to 2017 and as the 29th U.S. ambassador to the United Nations from January 2017 to December 2018. A Republican, Haley is the first Indian American to serve in a presidential cabinet. She came in second in the 2024 Republican Party presidential primaries after Donald Trump.

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20/01/1971

Gary Barlow, English singer-songwriter, pianist, and producer

Gary Barlow is an English singer, songwriter, record producer, pianist, and television personality. He is the lead singer of the pop group Take That.

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Wakanohana Masaru, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 66th Yokozuna

Masaru Hanada is a Japanese former professional sumo wrestler. As an active wrestler he was known as Wakanohana Masaru , and his rise through the ranks alongside his younger brother Takanohana Kōji saw a boom in sumo's popularity in the early 1990s. He is the elder son of the former ōzeki Takanohana Kenshi, who was also his stablemaster, and the nephew of Wakanohana Kanji I, a famous yokozuna of the 1950s. Wakanohana was a long serving ōzeki who won five tournament championships, and eventually joined his brother as the 66th yokozuna in 1998, creating the first ever sibling grand champions. After a brief and injury plagued yokozuna career he retired in 2000, becoming a television personality and restaurant owner. The death of his father in 2005 saw a very public falling out with his brother.

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Questlove, American musician, record producer, and filmmaker

Ahmir Khalib Thompson, known professionally as Questlove, is an American drummer, record producer, disc jockey, filmmaker, music journalist, and actor. He is the drummer and joint frontman for the hip-hop band the Roots. The Roots has been the in-house band for The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon since 2014, after having fulfilled the same role on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon. Questlove is also one of the producers of the 2015 cast album of the Broadway musical Hamilton. He has also co-founded the websites Okayplayer and OkayAfrica. He joined Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music at New York University as an adjunct professor in 2016, and hosted the podcast Questlove Supreme.

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20/01/1970

Skeet Ulrich, American actor

Skeet Ulrich is an American actor. He is best known for his roles in popular 1990s films, including Billy Loomis in Scream (1996), Chris Hooker in The Craft (1996), and Vincent Lopiano in As Good as It Gets (1997). From 2017 to 2021, he starred as Forsythe Pendleton "F.P." Jones II on The CW's Riverdale. He reprised his Scream role in the sequels Scream (2022) and Scream VI (2023). His other television roles include Johnston Jacob "Jake" Green Jr. in the television series Jericho, and LAPD Detective Rex Winters, a Marine veteran from the Law & Order franchise.

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20/01/1969

Reno Wilson, American actor

Roy "Reno" Wilson is an American actor. He is best known for his roles as Howard in the sitcom The Cosby Show, Officer Carl McMillan in Mike & Molly, Stan Hill in Good Girls, Wes in The Chronicle (2001–2002), and Detective Tom Selway in Blind Justice (2005). He is also known for providing character voices in the Transformers film series, and portraying Bailey in She Creature (2001) and Louis Armstrong in Bolden (2019).

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Nicky Wire, Welsh singer-songwriter and bass player

Nicholas Allen Jones, known as Nicky Wire, is a Welsh musician, best known as lyricist, bassist and secondary vocalist of the Welsh alternative rock band Manic Street Preachers.

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20/01/1968

Nick Anderson, American basketball player and sportscaster

Nelison "Nick" Anderson is an American former professional basketball player who played for the Orlando Magic, Sacramento Kings, and Memphis Grizzlies of the National Basketball Association (NBA).

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Junior Murray, Grenadian cricketer

Junior Randalph Murray MBE is a West Indian former cricketer. He was the first Grenadian to play Test cricket for the West Indies.

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20/01/1967

Stacey Dash, American actress and television journalist

Stacey Lauretta Dash is an American actress. Dash played Dionne Marie Davenport in the 1995 feature film Clueless and its television series. She has also appeared in the films Moving, Mo' Money, Renaissance Man, and View from the Top. Other television work by Dash includes appearances in the series CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, Single Ladies and the reality TV show Celebrity Circus. She has also appeared in music videos for Carl Thomas' "Emotional" and Kanye West's "All Falls Down".

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20/01/1966

Chris Morris, American basketball player

Christopher Vernard Morris is an American former professional basketball player. In his eleven-season (1988–1999) National Basketball Association (NBA) career, the 6'8" small forward played for the New Jersey Nets, Utah Jazz, and Phoenix Suns. He is a graduate of Atlanta's Douglass High School where his jersey has been retired, and played collegiately for the Auburn Tigers. He scored 8,184 total points in his NBA career.

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Rainn Wilson, American actor

Rainn Percival Dietrich Wilson is an American actor, comedian, podcaster, producer, writer, and director. He starred as Dwight Schrute on NBC's American adaptation of The Office from 2005 to 2013, and received three consecutive Emmy Award nominations for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series for the role.

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20/01/1965

Colin Calderwood, Scottish footballer and manager

Colin Calderwood is a Scottish professional football manager and former player who is currently interim manager of Northampton Town.

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Greg K., American musician and songwriter

Gregory David Kriesel known by his stagename Greg K., is a retired American musician and the founding bassist of the rock band the Offspring. He is also the co-founder of the record label Nitro Records.

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John Michael Montgomery, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

John Michael Montgomery is an American country music singer. He has had more than 30 singles on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts. This total includes seven number-one singles: "I Love the Way You Love Me", "I Swear", "Be My Baby Tonight", "If You've Got Love", "I Can Love You Like That", "Sold ", and "The Little Girl". "I Swear" and "Sold" were ranked as the number-one songs on the Billboard Year-End charts for country music in 1994 and 1995, respectively.

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Heather Small, English singer-songwriter

Heather Marguerita Small is an English soul singer and lead vocalist of the band M People. Her subsequent debut solo studio album, Proud, was released in 2000. Her second and third studio albums, Close to a Miracle and Colour My Life, were released in 2006 and 2022, respectively.

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Sophie, Duchess of Edinburgh

Sophie, Duchess of Edinburgh, is a member of the British royal family. She is married to Prince Edward, Duke of Edinburgh, the youngest sibling of King Charles III.

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Anton Weissenbacher, Romanian footballer

Anton Weissenbacher is a former Romanian football right back who was part of Steaua București's squad that won the European Cup in 1986, also playing in the Intercontinental Cup final of the same year. When he left Romania, during the early 1990s he went to play in Germany in an amateur league and there he finished his career. Afterwards he coached several amateur teams in Germany, including SV Mehring.

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20/01/1964

Ozzie Guillén, Venezuelan-American baseball player and manager

Oswaldo José Guillén Barrios is a Venezuelan former professional baseball player and current manager of the Tigres de Aragua of the Venezuelan League. He played in Major League Baseball as a shortstop from 1985 to 2000, most prominently as a member of the Chicago White Sox where he won the American League Rookie of the Year Award as well as a Gold Glove Award. A three-time All-Star player, Guillén was considered one of the best defensive shortstops of his era. He later managed the Chicago White Sox from 2004 to 2011, winning the World Series in 2005 and then moving to the Miami Marlins in 2012.

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Ron Harper, American basketball player and coach

Ronald Harper Sr. is an American former professional basketball player. He played for four teams in the National Basketball Association (NBA) between 1986 and 2001 and is a five-time NBA champion.

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Kazushige Nojima, Japanese screenwriter and songwriter

Kazushige Nojima is a Japanese video game writer. He is best known for writing several installments of Square Enix's Final Fantasy franchise—namely Final Fantasy VII and its spin-offs Advent Children and Crisis Core, Final Fantasy VIII, and Final Fantasy X and X-2—in addition to the Kingdom Hearts series, the Glory of Heracles series, and the story to the Subspace Emissary mode in Super Smash Bros. Brawl. Nojima also wrote the original lyrics of "Liberi Fatali" for Final Fantasy VIII and both "Suteki da Ne" and the "Hymn of the Fayth" for Final Fantasy X, as well as "No Promises to Keep" for Final Fantasy VII Rebirth. He is also the founder of Stellavista Ltd.

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Aquilino Pimentel III, Filipino lawyer and politician

Aquilino Martin "Koko" de la Llana Pimentel III is a Filipino politician and lawyer who served as a senator of the Philippines from 2011 to 2025. During his tenure, he served as Senate president from 2016 to 2018 and Senate minority leader from 2022 to 2025.

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Fareed Zakaria, Indian-American journalist and author

Fareed Rafiq Zakaria is an Indian-born American journalist, political commentator, and author. He is the host of CNN's Fareed Zakaria GPS and writes a weekly column for The Washington Post. He has been a columnist for Newsweek, editor of Newsweek International, and an editor at large of Time.

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20/01/1963

James Denton, American actor

James Denton is an American film and television actor. He is known for playing Mike Delfino on ABC's comedy drama series Desperate Housewives (2004–2012) and Dr. Sam Radford on Hallmark Channel's fantasy series Good Witch (2015–2021).

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Mark Ryden, American painter and illustrator

Mark Ryden is an American painter who is considered to be part of the Lowbrow art movement. He was dubbed "the god-father of pop surrealism" by Interview magazine. In 2015, Artnet named Ryden and his wife, painter Marion Peck, the king and queen of Pop Surrealism.

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20/01/1961

Janey Godley, Scottish actor, writer and comedian (died 2024)

Jane Godley Currie, known professionally as Janey Godley, was a Scottish stand-up comedian, actress, writer and political activist. She began her stand-up career in 1994, and won various awards for her comedy in the 2000s.

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Yolanda González (activist), Basque militant activist

Yolanda González Martín was a Spanish student and communist militant murdered by two members of New Force.

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20/01/1959

Tami Hoag, American author

Tami Hoag is an American novelist, best known for her work in the romance and thriller genres. More than 22 million copies of her books are in print.

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20/01/1958

Lorenzo Lamas, American actor, director, and producer

Lorenzo Fernando Lamas is an American actor and producer. He is widely known for his role of Lance Cumson, the irresponsible grandson of Angela Channing—played by Jane Wyman—in the soap opera Falcon Crest (1981–1990), for which he received a Golden Globe Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor – Series, Miniseries or Television Film.

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20/01/1957

Andy Sheppard, English saxophonist and composer

Andy Sheppard is a British jazz saxophonist and composer. He has been awarded several prizes at the British Jazz Awards, and has worked with some notable figures in contemporary jazz, including Gil Evans, Carla Bley, George Russell and Steve Swallow. In 2019 he was presented the degree of Doctor of Music honoris causa by the University of Bristol.

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20/01/1956

Maria Larsson, Swedish educator and politician, Swedish Minister of Health and Social Affairs

Ingrid Maria Larsson is a Swedish politician of the Christian Democrats who served as Governor of Örebro County from May 2015 to December 2022, appointed by the cabinet of Stefan Löfven. She previously served as Minister for Children and the Elderly from 2010 to 2014 and as Minister for the Elderly and Public Health from 2006 to 2010. A member of the Christian Democrats, she was an MP of the Swedish Riksdag from 1998 to 2014.

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Bill Maher, American comedian, political commentator, media critic, television host, and producer

William Maher is an American television host, comedian, actor and political commentator. Known for his political satire, he is the host of the HBO political talk show Real Time with Bill Maher (2003–present) and podcast Club Random (2022–present). He previously hosted late-night show called Politically Incorrect (1993–2002) on ABC and Comedy Central.

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Richard Morecroft, English-Australian journalist and television host

Richard Morecroft is an English-born Australian radio announcer, TV newsreader and presenter, and conservationist. He presented the Adelaide News bulletin, before becoming the long-running host of the nightly bulletin of ABC News NSW from 1983 until 2002. Between 2010 and 2012, he hosted the quiz show Letters and Numbers.

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John Naber, American swimmer

John Phillips Naber is an American former competitive swimmer, five-time Olympic medalist and former world record-holder in multiple events.

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20/01/1955

McKeeva Bush, Caymanian politician, Premier of the Cayman Islands

William McKeeva Bush, is a Caymanian politician, former Speaker of the Parliament of the Cayman Islands and former Premier of the Cayman Islands. Bush, the former leader of the Cayman Democratic Party, served as the elected member for the constituency of West Bay West from 1984 to 2025. He was the territory's longest ever serving political figure with service spanning over 40 years, previously serving his tenth term in the Parliament of the Cayman Islands. In the 2025 general election, his continuous 40 year career was toppled after being unseated by newcomer Julie Hunter, who ran with the Cayman Islands National Party.

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20/01/1954

Mohammad Dawran, Afghan aviator and military officer

Mohammad Dawran is an Afghan former military officer as well as the former Commander of the Afghan Air Force, enlisting in 1973. He was promoted to the post in 2005 by Defense Minister Abdul Rahim Wardak and the Commander-in-Chief Bismillah Khan Mohammadi. His permanent post was in Bagram Air Base, the largest air base in Afghanistan and one of the largest air bases in the region. The new commander of the Afghan Air Force, Amanuddin Mansoor, was appointed in December 2021.

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Ken Page, American actor and cabaret singer (died 2024)

Kenneth Page was an American actor and cabaret singer who created the part of Ken in the original Broadway production of Ain't Misbehavin' and played Old Deuteronomy in the original Broadway and filmed stage adaptation of Cats. He voiced Oogie Boogie in The Nightmare Before Christmas and Kingdom Hearts franchises, and played in the original Broadway production of The Wiz as The Lion and the first Broadway revival of Guys and Dolls as Nicely-Nicely Johnson.

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20/01/1953

Jeffrey Epstein, American financier and convicted sex offender (died 2019)

Jeffrey Edward Epstein was an American financier and child sex offender. He began his career as a math teacher at the Dalton School, before entering the banking and finance sector. Over several decades, he made much of his fortune providing tax and estate services to billionaires, and cultivated an elite social circle of prominent individuals. In 2008, he was convicted of soliciting a minor for prostitution, and was indicted in 2019 for sex trafficking minors in the 2000s. He died in custody awaiting his trial; his death was ruled a suicide.

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20/01/1952

Nikos Sideris, Greek psychiatrist and poet

Nikos Sideris, is a Greek psychiatrist, translator, poet and writer.

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Paul Stanley, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer

Paul Stanley is an American musician. He was the lead vocalist, rhythm guitarist, and a founding member of the hard rock band Kiss, which was active from 1973 to 2023. He was the writer or co-writer of many of the band's most popular songs. Stanley established the Starchild character as his Kiss persona.

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John Witherow, South African-English journalist and author

John Witherow is a former editor of British newspaper The Times. A former journalist with Reuters, he joined News International in 1980 and was appointed editor of The Sunday Times in 1994 and editor of The Times in 2013.

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20/01/1951

Iván Fischer, Hungarian conductor and composer

Iván Fischer is a Hungarian conductor and composer.

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20/01/1950

William Mgimwa, Tanzanian banker and politician, 13th Tanzanian Minister of Finance (died 2014)

William Augustao Mgimwa was a Tanzanian CCM politician and Member of Parliament for Kalenga constituency from 2010 to 2014. He also served as Tanzania's Minister of Finance from 2012 to 2014.

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Mahamane Ousmane, Nigerien politician, President of Niger

Mahamane Ousmane is a Nigerien politician. Elected as the fourth President of Niger at 43 years old, he is the youngest elected president in Africa. He was also the first democratically elected president of his country, serving from 16 April 1993 until he was deposed in a military coup d'état on 27 January 1996. He has continued to run for president in each election since his ouster, and he was president of the National Assembly from December 1999 to May 2009. Since April 2020, he is the president of the Democratic and Republican Renewal, a major political party that is currently in opposition. RDR Tchanji formed an alliance with Ousmane's other political vehicle, MNRD Hankuri, on 16 December 2018.

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20/01/1949

Göran Persson, Swedish lawyer and politician, 31st Prime Minister of Sweden

Hans Göran Persson is a Swedish former politician who served as Prime Minister of Sweden from 1996 to 2006 and as Leader of the Social Democratic Party from 1996 to 2007. Persson has served as chairman of Swedbank since 2019.

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20/01/1948

Nancy Kress, American author and academic

Nancy Anne Kress is an American science fiction writer. She began writing in 1976 but has achieved her greatest notice since the publication of her Hugo- and Nebula-winning novella Beggars in Spain (1991), which became a novel in 1993. She also won the Nebula Award for Best Novella in 2013 for After the Fall, Before the Fall, During the Fall, and in 2015 for Yesterday's Kin. In addition to her novels, Kress has written numerous short stories and is a regular columnist for Writer's Digest. She is a regular at Clarion Workshops. During the winter of 2008/09, Nancy Kress was the Picador Guest Professor for Literature at the University of Leipzig's Institute for American Studies in Leipzig, Germany.

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Natan Sharansky, Ukrainian-Israeli physicist and politician, Deputy Prime Minister of Israel

Natan Sharansky is a Ukrainian-born, Israeli politician, professional chess player and author. He served as Chairman of the Executive for the Jewish Agency from June 2009 to August 2018, and currently serves as Chairman for the Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP), an American non-partisan organization. A former Soviet dissident, he spent nine years imprisoned as a refusenik during the 1970s and 1980s.

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20/01/1947

Cyrille Guimard, French cyclist and sportscaster

Cyrille Guimard is a French former professional road racing cyclist who became a directeur sportif and television commentator. Three of his riders, Bernard Hinault, Laurent Fignon, and Lucien Van Impe, won the Tour de France. Another of his protégés, Greg LeMond, described him as "the best (coach) in the world" and "the best coach I ever had". He has been described by cycling journalist William Fotheringham as the greatest directeur sportif in the history of the Tour.

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20/01/1946

David Lynch, American director, producer, and screenwriter (died 2025)

David Keith Lynch was an American filmmaker, actor, painter, and musician. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest and most influential filmmakers in the history of cinema, with his films often characterized by a distinctive surrealist sensibility that gave rise to the adjective "Lynchian". In a career spanning more than five decades, he received numerous accolades, including an Academy Honorary Award, the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement at the Venice Film Festival, a Palme d'Or and Best Director Award at the Cannes Film Festival, and a (posthumous) Laurel Award for Screenwriting Achievement, in addition to nominations for four Academy Awards, two British Academy Film Awards, four Golden Globe Awards, and nine Primetime Emmy Awards.

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Vladimír Merta, Czech singer-songwriter, guitarist, and journalist

Vladimír Merta is a Czech folk singer-songwriter. He was also journalist, writer, photographer, architect, filmmaker and author of film music. He has recorded many solo albums. In 2011 he released the album Ponorná řeka with rock band Etc…. In the summer of 1976 and 1977 he performed at the Koncert mladosti festival in Pezinok, Slovakia.

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20/01/1945

Christopher Martin-Jenkins, English journalist and sportscaster (died 2013)

Christopher Dennis Alexander Martin-Jenkins, MBE, also known as CMJ, was a British cricket journalist and a President of MCC. He was also the longest serving commentator for Test Match Special (TMS) on BBC Radio, from 1973 until diagnosed with terminal cancer in March 2012.

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Eric Stewart, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer

Eric Michael Stewart is an English singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and record producer, best known as a founding member of the rock groups the Mindbenders with whom he played from 1963 to 1968, and likewise of 10cc from 1972 to 1995. Stewart co-owned Strawberry Studios in Stockport, England, from 1968 to the early 1980s, where he recorded albums with 10cc and artists including Neil Sedaka and Paul McCartney. Stewart collaborated with McCartney extensively in the 1980s, playing on or co-writing songs for McCartney's solo albums Tug of War (1982), Pipes of Peace (1983), Give My Regards to Broad Street (1984), and Press to Play (1986). Since 1980, Stewart has released four solo studio albums.

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20/01/1944

José Luis Garci, Spanish director and producer

José Luis García Muñoz, known professionally as José Luis Garci, is a Spanish film director, producer, critic, TV presenter, screenwriter and author. One of the most influential film personalities in the history of film in Spain, he earned worldwide acclaim and his country's first Best Foreign Language Film Academy Award for Begin the Beguine (1982). Four of his films, including also Sesión continua (1984), Asignatura aprobada (1987) and El abuelo (1998), have been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, more than any other Spanish director. His films are characterized for his classical style and the underlying sentimentality of their plots.

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Farhad Mehrad, Iranian singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2002)

Farhad Mehrad was a popular Iranian singer, songwriter, guitarist and pianist. He was a versatile musician who released the first English rock and roll album in Iran. Farhad gained fame among the Iranian rock, pop and folk musicians before the Islamic Revolution of 1979. He was prohibited from singing for several years in Iran after the revolution. Farhad's first concert after the Islamic Revolution was held in 1990. He is still recognized as one of the most influential and respected contemporary Iranian singers. Farhad was also the founding member of the popular Iranian band Black Cats.

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Pat Parker, American poet (died 1989)

Pat Parker was an African American poet and activist. Both her poetry and her activism drew from her experiences as a Black lesbian feminist. Her poetry spoke about her tough childhood growing up in poverty, dealing with sexual assault, and the murder of a sister. At eighteen, Parker was in an abusive relationship and had a miscarriage after being pushed down a flight of stairs. After two divorces, she came out as a lesbian, "embracing her sexuality" and said she was liberated and "knew no limits when it came to expressing the innermost parts of herself".

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20/01/1942

Linda Moulton Howe, American journalist and producer

Linda Moulton Howe is an American investigative journalist and Regional Emmy award-winning documentary film maker best known for her work as a ufologist and advocate of a variety of conspiracy theories, including her investigation of cattle mutilations and conclusion that they are performed by extraterrestrials. She is also noted for her speculations that the U.S. government is working with aliens.

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20/01/1940

Carol Heiss, American figure skater and actress

Carol Elizabeth Heiss Jenkins is an American former figure skater and actress. Competing in ladies' singles, she became the 1960 Olympic champion, the 1956 Olympic silver medalist, and a five-time World champion (1956–1960).

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Krishnam Raju, Indian actor and politician (died 2022)

Uppalapati Venkata Krishnam Raju was an Indian actor and politician. He was known for his works in Telugu cinema and was widely known as "Rebel Star" for his rebellious acting style. He was also the winner of the inaugural Nandi Award for Best Actor. Krishnam Raju starred in more than 183 feature films in his career. He made his film debut with the 1966 film Chilaka Gorinka produced and directed by K. Pratyagatma. Krishnam Raju had won five Filmfare Awards South and four state Nandi Awards. Krishnam Raju was also an active politician.

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Mandé Sidibé, Malian economist and politician, Prime Minister of Mali (died 2009)

Mandé Sidibé was Prime Minister of Mali from 2000 to 2002 and chairman of the Board of Directors of Ecobank from 2006 to 2009. He was also Director of the Malian branch of the Central Bank of West African States from 1992 to 1995.

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20/01/1939

Paul Coverdell, American captain and politician (died 2000)

Paul Douglas Coverdell was an American politician who served as a United States senator from Georgia from 1993 until his death in 2000. A member of the Republican Party, he previously served as the director of the Peace Corps from 1989 to 1991 under President George H. W. Bush.

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Chandra Wickramasinghe, Sri Lankan-English mathematician, astronomer, and biologist

Nalin Chandra Wickramasinghe is a Sri Lankan-born British mathematician and astronomer. His research interests include the interstellar medium, infrared astronomy, light scattering theory, applications of solid-state physics to astronomy, the early Solar System, comets, astrochemistry, the origin of life and astrobiology. A student and collaborator of Fred Hoyle, the pair worked jointly for over 40 years as the most famous proponents of a non-mainstream version of panspermia, the proposal that life was seeded on Earth through space-based processes. In 1974 they proposed that some dust in interstellar space matched the spectral characteristics of freeze-dried bacteria, which was largely ignored at its publishing while the ubiquity of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons explains the apparent match.

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20/01/1938

Derek Dougan, Irish-English footballer and journalist (died 2007)

Alexander Derek Dougan was a Northern Ireland international footballer, football manager, football chairman, pundit, and writer. He was also known by his nickname, "The Doog". He was capped by Northern Ireland at schoolboy, youth, Amateur, and 'B' team level, before he won 43 caps in a 15-year career for the senior team from 1958 to 1973, scoring eight international goals and featuring in the 1958 FIFA World Cup. He also played in the Shamrock Rovers XI v Brazil exhibition match in July 1973, which he also helped to organise.

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20/01/1937

Bailey Howell, American basketball player

Bailey E. Howell is an American former professional basketball player. After playing college basketball at Mississippi State, Howell played 12 seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA). A six-time NBA All-Star and two-time NBA champion, Howell was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 1997. Known as "Buckshot" because of his lethal ability to score in the paint area, he thrived on second-effort plays close to the basket.

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20/01/1935

Dorothy Provine, American actress, singer, and dancer (died 2010)

Dorothy Michelle Provine was an American singer, dancer and actress. Born in 1935 in Deadwood, South Dakota, she grew up in Seattle, Washington, and was hired in 1958 by Warner Bros., after which she first starred in The Bonnie Parker Story and played many roles in TV series. During the 1960s, Provine starred in series such as The Alaskans and The Roaring Twenties, and her major film roles included It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963), Good Neighbor Sam (1964), The Great Race (1965), That Darn Cat! (1965), Kiss the Girls and Make Them Die (1966), Who's Minding the Mint? (1967), and Never a Dull Moment (1968).

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20/01/1934

Hennie Aucamp, South African poet, author, and academic (died 2014)

Hennie Aucamp was a South African Afrikaans poet, short story writer, cabaretist and academic. He grew up on a farm in the Stormberg highlands and matriculated at Jamestown, Eastern Cape before continuing his higher education at the University of Stellenbosch. He died in Cape Town at age 80 on 20 March 2014 after suffering a stroke.

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Tom Baker, English actor

Thomas Stewart Baker is an English actor and writer. He is best known for playing the fourth incarnation of the Doctor in the BBC science fiction series Doctor Who from 1974 to 1981, making him the longest-serving actor in the role.

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20/01/1932

Lou Fontinato, Canadian ice hockey player (died 2016)

Louis Joseph "Leapin' Louie" Fontinato was a Canadian defenceman in the National Hockey League with the New York Rangers from 1954 to 1961 and the Montreal Canadiens from 1961 to 1963.

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20/01/1931

David Lee, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate

David Morris Lee is an American physicist who shared the 1996 Nobel Prize in Physics with Robert C. Richardson and Douglas Osheroff "for their discovery of superfluidity in helium-3." Lee is professor emeritus of physics at Cornell University and distinguished professor of physics at Texas A&M University.

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Hachidai Nakamura, Japanese pianist and composer (died 1992)

Hachidai Nakamura was a Japanese songwriter and jazz pianist.

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20/01/1930

Buzz Aldrin, American colonel, pilot, and astronaut

Buzz Aldrin is an American former astronaut, aeronautical engineer, and fighter pilot. He was the second person to walk on the Moon after mission commander Neil Armstrong. He made three spacewalks as pilot of the 1966 Gemini 12 mission, and was the Lunar Module Eagle pilot on the 1969 Apollo 11 mission. Following the deaths of Armstrong in 2012 and pilot Michael Collins in 2021, he is the last surviving Apollo 11 crew member. Following Jim Lovell's death in 2025, Aldrin became the oldest living astronaut.

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20/01/1929

Arte Johnson, American actor and comedian (died 2019)

Arthur Stanton Eric Johnson was an American actor and comedian, who was best known for his work as a regular, portraying himself, in the NBC sketch comedy series Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In (1967–1971).

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Masaharu Kawakatsu, Japanese biologist

Masaharu Kawakatsu is a Japanese zoologist known for his studies on the taxonomy and ecology of planarians.

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Fireball Roberts, American race car driver (died 1964)

Edward Glenn "Fireball" Roberts Jr. was an American stock car racer.

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20/01/1928

Antonio de Almeida, French conductor and musicologist (died 1997)

Antonio de Almeida was a French conductor and musicologist.

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20/01/1927

Qurratulain Hyder, Indian-Pakistani journalist and academic (died 2007)

Qurratulain Hyder was an Indian Urdu novelist and short story writer, academic, and journalist. One of the most outstanding and influential literary names in Urdu literature, she is best known for her magnum opus, Aag Ka Darya, a novel first published in Urdu in 1959, from Lahore, Pakistan, that stretches from the fourth century BC to post partition of India.

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20/01/1926

Patricia Neal, American actress (died 2010)

Patricia Neal was an American actress of stage and screen. She is well known for, among other roles, playing World War II widow Helen Benson in The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951), radio journalist Marcia Jeffries in A Face in the Crowd (1957), wealthy matron Emily Eustace Failenson in Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961), and the worn-out housekeeper Alma Brown in Hud (1963). She also featured as the matriarch in the television film The Homecoming: A Christmas Story (1971); her role as Olivia Walton was re-cast for the series it inspired, The Waltons. A major star of the 1950s and 1960s, she was the recipient of an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award, a Tony Award, and two British Academy Film Awards, and was nominated for three Primetime Emmy Awards.

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David Tudor, American pianist and composer (died 1996)

David Eugene Tudor was an American pianist and composer of experimental music. After playing the U.S. premiere of the Piano Sonata No. 2 by Pierre Boulez in 1950, he premiered works by American composers including Morton Feldman and especially John Cage written for him; Karlheinz Stockhausen dedicated a work to him. He turned to composing, including many projects for the Merce Cunningham Dance Company. He set up India's first electronic music studio at the National Institute of Design in Ahmedabad in 1969. After Cage's death in 1992, he succeeded him as music director of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company.

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20/01/1925

Jamiluddin Aali, Pakistani poet, playwright, and critic (died 2015)

Nawabzada Mirza Jamiluddin Ahmed Khan PP, HI, also known as Jamiluddin Aali or Aaliji, was a Pakistani poet, critic, playwright, essayist, columnist, and scholar.

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Ernesto Cardenal, Nicaraguan priest, poet, and politician (died 2020)

Ernesto Cardenal Martínez was a Nicaraguan Catholic priest, revolutionary, poet, and politician. He was a liberation theologian and the founder of the primitivist art community in the Solentiname Islands, where he lived for more than ten years (1965–1977). A former member of the Nicaraguan Sandinistas, he was Nicaragua's minister of culture from 1979 to 1987. He was prohibited from administering the sacraments in 1984 by Pope John Paul II, but rehabilitated by Pope Francis in 2019.

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20/01/1924

Yvonne Loriod, French pianist and composer (died 2010)

Yvonne Louise Georgette Loriod-Messiaen was a French pianist, teacher, and composer, and the second wife of composer Olivier Messiaen. Her sister was the Ondes Martenot player Jeanne Loriod.

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20/01/1923

Slim Whitman, American country and western singer-songwriter and musician (died 2013)

Ottis Dewey "Slim" Whitman Jr. was an American country music singer and guitarist known for his yodeling abilities and his use of falsetto. Recorded figures show 70 million sales, during a career that spanned more than seven decades. His prolific output included more than 100 albums and around 500 recorded songs; these consisted of country music, contemporary gospel, Broadway show tunes, love songs, and standards. Soon after being signed, in the 1950s Whitman toured with Elvis Presley.

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20/01/1922

Ray Anthony, American trumpeter and bandleader

Ray Anthony is an American retired bandleader, trumpeter, songwriter and actor. He is best known for his tenure as a member of the Glenn Miller Orchestra, from 1940 to 1941, and later for successfully leading his own big band.

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Don Mankiewicz, American author and screenwriter (died 2015)

Don Martin Mankiewicz was an American screenwriter and novelist best known for his novel Trial.

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20/01/1921

Telmo Zarra, Spanish footballer (died 2006)

Pedro Telmo Zarraonandía Montoya, known as Telmo Zarra, was a Spanish football forward. He spent the majority of his career at Athletic Bilbao, from 1940 to 1955, for whom he remains the top scorer in competitive matches with 335 goals.

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20/01/1920

Federico Fellini, Italian director and screenwriter (died 1993)

Federico Fellini was an Italian film director and screenwriter. He is known for his distinctive style, which blends fantasy and baroque images with earthiness. He is recognized as one of the greatest and most influential filmmakers of all time. His films have ranked highly in critical polls such as that of Cahiers du Cinéma and Sight & Sound, which lists his 1963 film 8½ as the 10th-greatest film.

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DeForest Kelley, American actor (died 1999)

Jackson DeForest Kelley was an American actor, screenwriter, poet, and singer. He was known for his roles in film and television Westerns and achieved international fame as Dr. Leonard "Bones" McCoy of the USS Enterprise in the television and film series Star Trek (1966–1991).

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Thorleif Schjelderup, Norwegian ski jumper and author (died 2006)

Thorleif Schjelderup was a Norwegian ski jumper, author and environmentalist.

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20/01/1918

Juan García Esquivel, Mexican pianist, composer, and bandleader (died 2002)

Juan García Esquivel, often known mononymously as Esquivel!, was a Mexican band leader, pianist, and composer for television and films. He is recognized today as one of the foremost exponents of a sophisticated style of largely instrumental music that combines elements of lounge music and jazz with Latin flavors. Esquivel is sometimes called "The King of Space Age Pop" and "The Busby Berkeley of Cocktail Music", and is considered one of the foremost exponents of a style of late 1950s-early 1960s quirky instrumental pop that became known as "Space Age Bachelor Pad Music".

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Nevin Scrimshaw, American scientist (died 2013)

Nevin Stewart Scrimshaw was an American food scientist and Institute Professor emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Scrimshaw was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. During the course of his long career he developed nutritional supplements for alleviating protein, iodine, and iron deficiencies in the developing world. His pioneering and extensive publications in the area of human nutrition and food science include over 20 books and monographs and hundreds of scholarly articles. Scrimshaw also founded the Department of Nutrition and Food Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the Institute of Nutrition of Central America and Panama, and the Nevin Scrimshaw International Nutrition Foundation. He was awarded the Bolton L. Corson Medal in 1976 and the World Food Prize in 1991. Scrimshaw spent the last years of his life on a farm in Thornton, New Hampshire, where he died at 95.

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20/01/1915

Ghulam Ishaq Khan, Pakistani businessman and politician, 7th President of Pakistan (died 2006)

Ghulam Ishaq Khan, commonly known by his initials GIK, was a Pakistani bureaucrat, politician and statesman who served as the seventh president of Pakistan from 1988 to 1993. He previously served as chairman of the Senate from 1985 to 1988 under president Zia-ul-Haq, and assumed the presidency in accordance with the constitutional line of succession following Zia's death.

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20/01/1910

Joy Adamson, Austria-Kenyan painter and conservationist (died 1980)

Friederike Victoria "Joy" Adamson was a naturalist, artist and author. Her book, Born Free, describes her experiences raising a lion cub named Elsa. Born Free was printed in several languages and made into an Academy Award–winning movie of the same name. In 1977, she was awarded the Austrian Cross of Honour for Science and Art.

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20/01/1909

Gōgen Yamaguchi, Japanese martial artist (died 1989)

Jitsumi Gōgen Yamaguchi, also known as Gōgen Yamaguchi, was a Japanese martial artist and student of Gōjū-ryū Karate under Chōjun Miyagi. He was one of the most well-known karate-dō masters from Japan and he founded the International Karate-dō Gōjū Kai Association.

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20/01/1907

Paula Wessely, Austrian actress and producer (died 2000)

Paula Anna Maria Wessely was an Austrian theatre and film actor. Die Wessely, as she was called by her admirers and fans, was Austria's foremost popular postwar actress.

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20/01/1906

Aristotle Onassis, Greek shipping magnate (died 1975)

Aristotle Socrates Onassis was a Greek and Argentine business magnate. He amassed the world's largest privately owned shipping fleet and was one of the world's richest and most famous men. He was married to Athina Mary Livanos, had a long-standing affair with opera singer Maria Callas, and in his final years was married to American former First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy.

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20/01/1902

Leon Ames, American actor (died 1993)

Leon Ames was an American film and television actor. He is best remembered for playing father figures in such films as Meet Me in St. Louis (1944), Little Women (1949), On Moonlight Bay (1951), and By the Light of the Silvery Moon (1953). His best-known dramatic role may have been in the crime film The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946).

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Kevin Barry, Irish Republican Army volunteer (died 1920)

Kevin Gerard Barry was an Irish Republican Army (IRA) soldier and medical student who was executed by the British Government during the Irish War of Independence. He was sentenced to death for his part in an attack upon a British Army supply lorry which resulted in the death of a British soldier.

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20/01/1900

Dorothy Annan, English painter, potter, and muralist (died 1983)

Dorothy Annan was an English painter, potter and muralist who was born in Brazil to British parents and was educated in France and Germany. Her works were frequently shown at the Leicester Galleries in London and she had her first solo show there in 1945.

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Colin Clive, English actor (died 1937)

Colin Glenn Clive was a British theatre and film actor. Known for portraying individualistic, tumultuous characters which often mirrored his personal life, he is most famous for his role as Dr. Henry Frankenstein in the 1931 film Frankenstein and its 1935 sequel, Bride of Frankenstein. Clive’s maniacal delivery of the words, "It's alive, it's alive!" when Dr. Frankenstein confirms his creature is moving, was listed by American Film Institute (AFI) as one of the 100 greatest movie quotes of all time.

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20/01/1899

Clarice Cliff, English potter (died 1972)

Clarice Cliff was an English ceramic artist and designer. Active from 1922 to 1963, Cliff became the head of the Newport Pottery factory creative department.

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Kenjiro Takayanagi, Japanese engineer (died 1990)

Kenjiro Takayanagi was a Japanese engineer and a pioneer in the development of television and video tape recorders. Although he failed to gain much recognition in the West, he built the world's first all-electronic television receiver, and is referred to as "the father of Japanese television".

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20/01/1898

U Razak, Burmese educator and politician (died 1947)

U Razak was a Burmese politician and an educationalist. Of mixed Bamar-Indian ancestry, he was a cabinet minister in Aung San's pre-independence interim government, and was assassinated on 19 July 1947 along Sung San and six other cabinet ministers. July 19 is commemorated each year as Martyrs' Day in Myanmar. Razak was Minister of Education and National Planning, and was chairman of the Burma Muslim Congress.

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20/01/1896

George Burns, American actor, comedian, and producer (died 1996)

George Burns was an American comedian, actor, writer, and singer, and one of the few entertainers whose career successfully spanned vaudeville, radio, film, and television. His arched eyebrow and cigar-smoke punctuation became familiar trademarks. He and his wife Gracie Allen appeared on radio, television and film as the comedy duo Burns and Allen.

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20/01/1895

Gábor Szegő, Hungarian mathematician and academic (died 1985)

Gábor Szegő was a Hungarian-American mathematician. He was one of the foremost mathematical analysts of his generation and made fundamental contributions to the theory of orthogonal polynomials and Toeplitz matrices building on the work of his contemporary Otto Toeplitz.

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20/01/1894

Harold Gray, American cartoonist, created Little Orphan Annie (died 1968)

Harold Lincoln Gray was an American cartoonist, best known as the creator of the newspaper comic strip Little Orphan Annie.

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Walter Piston, American composer, theorist, and academic (died 1976)

Walter Hamor Piston, Jr., was an American composer of classical music, music theorist, and professor of music at Harvard University.

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20/01/1893

Georg Åberg, Swedish triple jumper (died 1946)

Nils Georg Åberg was a Swedish athlete who competed at the 1912 Olympics. He won a bronze medal in the long jump and placed second in the triple jump, in which Sweden collected all three medals. He won the long jump event at the Swedish Games in 1916 and at the national championships in 1912, 1913 and 1915. After retiring from competitions he directed his own firm.

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20/01/1891

Mischa Elman, Ukrainian-American violinist (died 1967)

Mischa Elman was a Russian-American violinist famed for his passionate style, beautiful tone, and impeccable artistry and musicality.

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20/01/1889

Allan Haines Loughead, American engineer and businessman, founded the Alco Hydro-Aeroplane Company (died 1969)

Allan Haines Lockheed was an American aviation engineer and businessman. He formed the Alco Hydro-Aeroplane Company along with his brother, Malcolm Loughead, which became Lockheed Corporation.

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20/01/1888

Lead Belly, American folk/blues musician and songwriter (died 1949)

Huddie William Ledbetter, better known by the stage name Lead Belly, was an American folk and blues singer notable for his strong vocals, virtuosity on the twelve-string guitar, and the folk standards he introduced, including his renditions of "In the Pines", "Pick a Bale of Cotton", "Goodnight, Irene", "Black Betty", "Midnight Special", "Cotton Fields", and "Boll Weevil".

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20/01/1883

Enoch L. Johnson, American mob boss (died 1968)

Enoch Lewis "Nucky" Johnson was an American politician from the Republican Party who served as an Atlantic City political boss, sheriff of Atlantic County, businessman, and crime boss who was the leader of the political machine that controlled Atlantic City and the Atlantic County government from the 1910s until his conviction and imprisonment in 1941. His rule encompassed the Roaring Twenties when Atlantic City was at the height of its popularity as a refuge from Prohibition. In addition to bootlegging, the criminal aspect of his organization was also involved in gambling and prostitution. The HBO series Boardwalk Empire was loosely based on Johnson, portrayed by Steve Buscemi as Nucky Thompson.

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Forrest Wilson, American journalist and author (died 1942)

Robert Forrest Wilson was an American author and journalist. He won the 1942 Pulitzer Prize for his biography, Crusader in Crinoline: The Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe.

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20/01/1882

Johnny Torrio, Italian-American mob boss (died 1957)

John Donato Torrio was an Italian-born mobster who helped build the Chicago Outfit in the 1920s later inherited by his protégé Al Capone. Torrio proposed a National Crime Syndicate in the 1930s and later became an adviser to Lucky Luciano and his Luciano crime family.

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20/01/1880

Walter W. Bacon, American accountant and politician, 60th Governor of Delaware (died 1962)

Walter Wolfkiel Bacon was an American politician and accountant from Wilmington, in New Castle County, Delaware. He was a member of the Republican Party who served three terms as Mayor of Wilmington and two terms as Governor of Delaware. He is the only mayor of a Delaware city to have been elected Governor of Delaware.

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20/01/1879

Ruth St. Denis, American dancer and educator (died 1968)

Ruth St. Denis was an American pioneer of modern dance, introducing eastern ideas into the art and paving the way for other women in dance. She was inspired by the Delsarte advocate Genevieve Stebbins. St. Denis was the co-founder in 1915 of the American Denishawn School of Dancing and Related Arts. She taught notable performers including Martha Graham and Doris Humphrey. In 1938, she founded the pioneering dance program at Adelphi University. She published several articles on spiritual dance and the mysticism of the body.

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20/01/1878

Finlay Currie, Scottish-English actor (died 1968)

William Finlay Currie was a Scottish actor of stage, screen, and television. He received great acclaim for his roles as Abel Magwitch in the British film Great Expectations (1946), as Saint Peter in Quo Vadis (1951) and as Balthazar in the American film Ben-Hur (1959).

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20/01/1876

Josef Hofmann, Polish-American pianist and composer (died 1957)

Josef Casimir Hofmann was a Polish-American pianist, composer, music teacher, and inventor.

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20/01/1874

Steve Bloomer, English footballer and coach (died 1938)

Stephen Bloomer was an England international footballer and manager who played for Derby County – becoming their record goalscorer – and Middlesbrough. The anthem "Steve Bloomer's Watchin'" is played at every Derby home game and there is a bust of him at the Pride Park Stadium. He is also listed in the Football League 100 Legends and English Football Hall of Fame.

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20/01/1873

Johannes V. Jensen, Danish author, poet, and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1950)

Johannes Vilhelm Jensen was a Danish author, known as one of the great Danish writers of the first half of 20th century. He was awarded the 1944 Nobel Prize in Literature "for the rare strength and fertility of his poetic imagination with which is combined an intellectual curiosity of wide scope and a bold, freshly creative style". One of his sisters, Thit Jensen, was also a well-known writer and a very vocal, and occasionally controversial, early feminist.

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20/01/1870

Guillaume Lekeu, Belgian pianist and composer (died 1894)

Jean Joseph Nicolas Guillaume Lekeu was a Belgian composer.

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20/01/1865

Yvette Guilbert, French singer and actress (died 1944)

Yvette Guilbert was a French cabaret singer and actress of the Belle Époque.

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Wilhelm Ramsay, Finnish geologist and professor (died 1928)

Wilhelm Ramsay was a Finnish geologist. He became a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in 1914 and in 1915 was accepted into the Royal Physiographic Society in Lund. He coined the terms Fennoscandia (1900) and Postjotnian (1909). Ramsay also coined the term ijolite.

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20/01/1856

Harriot Stanton Blatch, American suffragist and organizer (died 1940)

Harriot Eaton Blatch was an American writer and suffragist. She was the daughter of pioneering women's rights activist Elizabeth Cady Stanton.

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20/01/1855

Ernest Chausson, French composer (died 1899)

Amédée-Ernest Chausson was a French Romantic composer.

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20/01/1834

George D. Robinson, American lawyer and politician, 34th Governor of Massachusetts (died 1896)

George Dexter Robinson was an American lawyer and Republican politician from Chicopee, Massachusetts. After serving in the Massachusetts General Court and United States House of Representatives, Robinson served three one-year terms as Governor of Massachusetts, notably defeating Benjamin Franklin Butler in the 1883 election.

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20/01/1819

Göran Fredrik Göransson, Swedish merchant, ironmaster and industrialist (died 1900)

Göran Fredrik Göransson was a Swedish merchant, ironmaster and industrialist. He was the founder of the company Sandvikens Jernverks AB and was the first person to implement the Bessemer process successfully on an industrial scale and pioneered ingot steel in the Swedish iron and steel industry.

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20/01/1814

David Wilmot, American politician, sponsor of Wilmot Proviso (died 1868)

David Wilmot was an American politician and judge from Pennsylvania who served in the U.S. House of Representatives and U.S. Senate, and as a judge of the Court of Claims. He is best known for being the prime sponsor and eponym of the Wilmot Proviso, a failed legislative proposal to ban the expansion of slavery into western territories gained in the Mexican Cession. A northern Democrat when he introduced and supported the Proviso, he subsequently became a notable member of the anti-slavery Free Soil Party. Later, Wilmot was instrumental in establishing the Pennsylvania Republican Party.

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20/01/1812

William Fox, English-New Zealand politician, 2nd Prime Minister of New Zealand (died 1893)

Sir William Fox was a New Zealand politician who was the second premier of New Zealand in 1856, from 1861 to 1862, from 1869 to 1872, and in 1873. Serving while New Zealand was still a British colony, he was known for his confiscation of Māori land rights, his contributions to the education system, and his work to increase New Zealand's autonomy from Britain.

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Thomas Meik, Scottish engineer (died 1896)

Thomas Meik was a 19th-century Scottish engineer.

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20/01/1799

Anson Jones, American physician and politician, 5th President of the Republic of Texas (died 1858)

Anson Jones was an American medical doctor, businessman, member of Congress for the Republic of Texas, and the fourth and last president of the Republic of Texas.

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20/01/1783

Friedrich Dotzauer, German cellist and composer (died 1860)

Justus Johann Friedrich Dotzauer was a German cellist and composer.

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20/01/1781

Joseph Hormayr, Baron zu Hortenburg, Austrian-German historian and politician (died 1848)

Joseph Hormayr, Baron zu Hortenburg was an Austrian and German statesman and historian.

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20/01/1775

André-Marie Ampère, French physicist and mathematician (died 1836)

André-Marie Ampère was a French physicist and mathematician who was one of the founders of the science of classical electromagnetism, which he referred to as electrodynamics. He made also important contributions in chemistry and philosophy. He is also the inventor of numerous applications, such as the solenoid and the electrical telegraph. As an autodidact, Ampère was a member of the French Academy of Sciences and professor at the École polytechnique and the Collège de France.

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20/01/1762

Jérôme-Joseph de Momigny, Belgian-French composer and theorist (died 1842)

Jérôme-Joseph de Momigny was a Belgian/French composer and music-theorist.

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20/01/1755

Sir Albemarle Bertie, 1st Baronet, English admiral (died 1824)

Admiral Sir Albemarle Bertie, 1st Baronet, was a long-serving and at the time controversial officer of the Royal Navy who saw extensive service in his career, but also courted controversy with several of his actions.

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20/01/1741

Carl Linnaeus the Younger, Swedish botanist and author (died 1783)

Carl Linnaeus the Younger, Carolus Linnaeus the Younger, Carl von Linné den yngre, or Linnaeus filius was a Swedish naturalist. His names distinguish him from his father, the pioneering taxonomist Carl Linnaeus (1707–1778).

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20/01/1732

Richard Henry Lee, American lawyer and politician, President of the Continental Congress (died 1794)

Richard Henry Lee was an American statesman and Founding Father from Virginia, best known for the June 1776 Lee Resolution, the motion in the Second Continental Congress calling for the colonies' independence from Great Britain leading to the United States Declaration of Independence, which he signed. Lee also served a one-year term as the president of the Continental Congress, proposed and was a signatory to the Continental Association, signed the Articles of Confederation, and was a United States senator from Virginia from 1789 to 1792, serving part of that time as the second president pro tempore of the upper house. He was a member of the Lee family, a historically influential family in Virginia politics.

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20/01/1716

Jean-Jacques Barthélemy, French archaeologist and numismatist (died 1795)

Jean-Jacques Barthélemy was a French Catholic clergyman, archaeologist, numismatologist and scholar who became the first person to decipher an extinct language. He deciphered the Palmyrene alphabet in 1754 and the Phoenician alphabet in 1758.

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Charles III of Spain (died 1788)

Charles III was King of Spain from 1759 until his death in 1788. He was also Duke of Parma and Piacenza as Charles I (1731–1735), King of Naples as Charles VII and King of Sicily as Charles III (1735–1759). He was the fourth son of Philip V of Spain and the eldest son of Philip's second wife, Elisabeth Farnese. During his reign, Charles was a proponent of enlightened absolutism and regalism in Europe.

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20/01/1703

Joseph-Hector Fiocco, Flemish violinist and composer (died 1741)

Joseph-Hector Fiocco, born in Brussels, was a composer and harpsichordist of the late Baroque period.

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20/01/1664

Giovanni Vincenzo Gravina, Italian lawyer and jurist (died 1718)

Giovanni Vincenzo Gravina was an Italian man of letters and jurist. He was the adoptive father of the poet Metastasio. Gravina was one of the foremost Italian jurists of the late 17th century. His views exerted considerable influence outside his own country, particularly upon Montesquieu.

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20/01/1586

Johann Hermann Schein, German composer (died 1630)

Johann Hermann Schein was a German composer of the early Baroque era. He was Thomaskantor in Leipzig from 1615 to 1630. He was one of the first to import the early Italian stylistic innovations into German music, and was one of the most polished composers of the period.

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20/01/1573

Simon Marius, German astronomer and academic (died 1624)

Simon Marius was a German astronomer. He was born in Gunzenhausen, near Nuremberg, but spent most of his life in the city of Ansbach. He is best known for being among the first observers of the four largest moons of Jupiter, and his publication of his discovery led to charges of plagiarism.

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20/01/1569

Heribert Rosweyde, Jesuit hagiographer (died 1629)

Heribert Rosweyde was a Jesuit hagiographer. His work, quite unfinished, was taken up by Jean Bolland who systematized it, while broadening its perspective. This is the beginning of the association of the Bollandists.

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20/01/1554

Sebastian, King of Portugal (died 1578)

Sebastian was King of Portugal from 11 June 1557 to 4 August 1578 and the penultimate Portuguese monarch of the House of Aviz.

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20/01/1526

Rafael Bombelli, Italian mathematician (died 1572)

Rafael Bombelli was an Italian mathematician. Born in Bologna, he is the author of a treatise on algebra and is a central figure in the understanding of imaginary numbers.

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20/01/1502

Sebastian de Aparicio, Spanish-Mexican rancher and missionary (died 1600)

Sebastián de Aparicio y del Pardo was a Spanish colonist in Mexico shortly after its conquest by Spain, who after a lifetime as a rancher and road builder entered the Order of Friars Minor as a lay brother. He spent the next 26 years of his long life as a beggar for the Order and died with a great reputation for holiness. He has been beatified by the Catholic Church.

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20/01/1500

Jean Quintin, French priest, knight and writer (died 1561)

Jean Quintin or Quentin was a French priest, knight of the Order of St John and writer. His writings include Insulae Melitae Descriptio (1536), the earliest known detailed description of the Maltese Islands, which also contains the earliest known printed map of the archipelago.

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20/01/1499

Sebastian Franck, German humanist (probable; (died 1543)

Sebastian Franck was a 16th-century German freethinker, humanist, and radical reformer.

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20/01/1488

Sebastian Münster, German scholar, cartographer, and cosmographer (died 1552)

Sebastian Münster was a German cartographer and cosmographer. He also was a Christian Hebraist scholar who taught as a professor at the University of Basel. His well-known work, the highly accurate world map, Cosmographia, sold well and went through 24 editions. Its influence was widely spread by a production of woodcuts created of it by a variety of artists.

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20/01/1436

Ashikaga Yoshimasa, Japanese shōgun (died 1490)

Ashikaga Yoshimasa was a Japanese samurai, daimyo and the eighth shōgun of the Ashikaga shogunate who reigned from 1443 to 1473 during the Muromachi period of Japan. His actions led to the Ōnin War (1467–1477), which triggered the Sengoku period. His reign saw a cultural flourishing in the arts, the development of tea ceremony, Zen Buddhism and wabi-sabi aesthetics.

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20/01/1292

Elizabeth of Bohemia, queen consort of Bohemia (died 1330)

Elizabeth of Bohemia was a princess of the Bohemian Přemyslid dynasty who became Queen of Bohemia as the first wife of King John the Blind. She was the mother of Emperor Charles IV, King of Bohemia, and a daughter of Judith of Habsburg, member of the House of Habsburg.

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20/01/1029

Alp Arslan, Seljuk sultan (probable; (died 1072)

Alp Arslan was the second sultan of the Seljuk Empire and great-grandson of Seljuk, the eponymous founder of the dynasty and the empire. He reigned from 1063 until his assassination in 1072.

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20/01/0225

Gordian III, Roman emperor (died 244)

Gordian III was Roman emperor from 238 to 244. At the age of 13, he became the second-youngest sole emperor of the united Roman Empire. Gordian was the son of Maecia Faustina and her husband Junius Balbus, who died before 238. Their names are mentioned in the unreliable Historia Augusta. Maecia was the daughter of Emperor Gordian I and sister of Emperor Gordian II. Very little is known of his early life before his acclamation.

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