Born on Tuesday, 6th January – Famous Birthdays

06/01/2006

Stefanos Tzimas, Greek footballer

Stefanos Tzimas is a Greek professional footballer who plays as a striker for Premier League club Brighton & Hove Albion and the Greece under-21 national team.

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06/01/2003

MattyBRaps, American rapper, singer, and YouTuber

Matthew David Morris, better known as MattyB or MattyBRaps, is an American rapper, singer, and YouTuber. He launched his career at a young age by creating covers of popular music and posting them to YouTube.

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06/01/2000

Fiete Arp, German footballer

Jann-Fiete Arp is a German professional footballer who plays as a forward for Danish Superliga club OB.

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Mohamed Camara, Malian footballer

Mohamed Camara is a Malian professional footballer who plays as a defensive midfielder for Qatar Stars League club Al Sadd and the Mali national team.

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Kwon Eun-bin, South Korean singer and actress

Kwon Eun-bin, also known simply as Eunbin or Eunbean, is a South Korean singer, actress and model. She participated in the first season of Produce 101 (2016), before being eliminated in the penultimate episode. She debuted as a member of the South Korean girl group CLC in February 2016 with the release of the group's third EP Refresh. She made her acting debut in the television series Bad Papa (2018) and has since appeared in series including Top Management (2018), At a Distance, Spring Is Green (2021), Dear.M (2022) and Duty After School (2023).

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Jack McBain, Canadian ice hockey player

Jack McBain is a Canadian professional ice hockey player who is a centre for the Utah Mammoth of the National Hockey League (NHL). He was drafted 63rd overall by the Minnesota Wild in the 2018 NHL entry draft.

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Shuhua, Taiwanese singer

Yeh Shu-hua, known mononymously as Shuhua (Korean: 슈화), is a Taiwanese singer based in South Korea. She is a member of the South Korean girl group I-dle, which debuted as (G)I-dle under Cube Entertainment in May 2018.

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Tyler Oliveira, American YouTuber

Tyler Oliveira is an American YouTuber. He made several challenge videos before transitioning to videos centered on man-on-the-street interviews, documenting drug decriminalization in Canada and the Springfield pet-eating hoax. News organizations and civil rights advocacy groups, such as the Anti-Defamation League and The Forward, have argued that Oliveira has spread misinformation and misrepresented interviewees.

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06/01/1999

Polo G, American rapper

Taurus Tremani Bartlett, known professionally as Polo G, is an American rapper, singer, and songwriter. He rose to prominence with his singles "Finer Things" and "Pop Out". His debut album Die a Legend (2019) peaked at number six on the US Billboard 200 and was certified double platinum by the RIAA, a feat matched by his two subsequent albums.

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Mac McClung, American basketball player

Matthew Ford "Mac" McClung is an American professional basketball player for the Chicago Bulls of the National Basketball Association (NBA), on a two-way contract with the Windy City Bulls of the NBA G League. He played college basketball for the Georgetown Hoyas and the Texas Tech Red Raiders. He was a consensus three-star recruit and among the highest-ranked high school players in Virginia. He is one of two players to be a three-time NBA Slam Dunk Contest champion, alongside Nate Robinson, and the only player to win three consecutive Slam Dunk Contests.

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06/01/1997

Michel Aebischer, Swiss footballer

Michel Aebischer is a Swiss professional footballer who plays as a defensive midfielder for Serie A club Pisa, on loan from Bologna, and the Switzerland national team.

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06/01/1996

Courtney Eaton, Australian model and actress

Courtney Jane Eaton is an Australian actress. She began her career as a model before making her acting debut in the post-apocalyptic action film Mad Max: Fury Road (2015). Eaton subsequently starred in the fantasy action film Gods of Egypt (2016). Since 2021, she has appeared in the Showtime thriller drama series Yellowjackets as young Lottie Matthews. She also starred in Parachute (2023).

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06/01/1994

Catriona Gray, Filipino-Australian model, singer and beauty queen, Miss Universe 2018

Catriona Elisa Magnayon Gray is a Filipino model, singer, actress and beauty queen best known for winning Miss Universe 2018. The fourth Filipina to win Miss Universe, Gray was previously crowned Miss World Philippines 2016 and Miss Universe Philippines 2018, and reached the top five at Miss World 2016.

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Denis Suárez, Spanish footballer

Denis Suárez Fernández is a Spanish professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for La Liga club Deportivo Alavés.

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Jameis Winston, American football player

Jameis Lanaed Winston is an American professional football quarterback for the New York Giants of the National Football League (NFL). Winston played college football for the Florida State Seminoles, becoming the youngest player to win the Heisman Trophy and leading his team to victory in the 2014 BCS National Championship Game during his freshman year. He was selected first overall by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in the 2015 NFL draft.

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Jay B, South Korean singer

Lim Jae-beom, known professionally as Jay B, and formerly JB, is a South Korean singer, songwriter, and actor. Jay B is the leader of South Korean boy band Got7, a member of boy band duo JJ Project and sub-unit Jus2, as well as part of R&B soul crew Offshore as Def.. He made his small-screen debut through the drama series Dream High 2 in 2012.

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06/01/1993

Pat Connaughton, American basketball player

Patrick Bergin Connaughton is an American professional basketball player for the Charlotte Hornets of the National Basketball Association (NBA), where he primarily plays as a shooting guard. He is also a former professional baseball player.

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Jesús Manuel Corona, Mexican footballer

Jesús Manuel "Tecatito" Corona Ruíz is a Mexican professional footballer who plays as a winger for Liga MX club Monterrey.

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Jérôme Roussillon, French-Guadeloupean footballer

Jérôme Xavier Roussillon is a professional footballer who plays as a left-back for Ligue 2 club Amiens. Born in mainland France, he plays for the Guadeloupe national team.

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06/01/1992

Corey Conners, Canadian professional golfer

Corey Michael Conners is a Canadian professional golfer who currently plays on the PGA Tour. Conners has also played on the PGA Tour Canada, PGA Tour Latinoamérica and the Web.com Tour.

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06/01/1991

Duarte Alves, Portuguese politician

Duarte Le Falher de Campos Alves is a Portuguese politician and former member of the Assembly of the Republic, the national legislature of Portugal. A communist, he represented Lisbon from September 2018 to March 2022 and from November 2022 to March 2024.

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Will Barton, American basketball player

William Norman Barton III is an American former professional basketball player who currently serves as an assistant coach for the Iowa Wolves of the NBA G League. He played college basketball for Memphis Tigers, earning Conference USA Men's Basketball Player of the Year honors in 2012. He was selected 40th overall in the 2012 NBA draft by the Portland Trail Blazers and played for the Idaho Stampede of the NBA G League before being traded to the Denver Nuggets in 2015, where he eventually became their franchise leader in three-pointers made. He has also played for the Washington Wizards and the Toronto Raptors.

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Kevin Gausman, American baseball player

Kevin John Gausman is an American professional baseball pitcher for the Toronto Blue Jays of Major League Baseball (MLB). He has previously played in MLB for the Baltimore Orioles, Atlanta Braves, Cincinnati Reds, and San Francisco Giants. Gausman played college baseball for the LSU Tigers, with whom he was an All-American. He was selected by the Orioles in the first round of the 2012 MLB draft, and made his MLB debut in 2013. He was an All-Star in 2021 and 2023 and led the American League in strikeouts in 2023.

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06/01/1990

Cristian Erbes, Argentine footballer

Cristian Damián Erbes is an Argentine professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Club Atlético San Miguel.

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Sean Kilpatrick, American basketball player

Sean Redell Kilpatrick is an American former professional basketball player who last played for the Fujian Sturgeons of the Chinese Basketball Association (CBA). A 6'4" shooting guard born in Yonkers, New York, during his senior season of 2013–14 with the Cincinnati Bearcats, he was named AP first-team All-American.

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Alex Teixeira, Brazilian footballer

Alex Teixeira Santos is a Brazilian professional footballer who plays as a forward for Greek Super League club Panserraikos.

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06/01/1989

Andy Carroll, English footballer

Andrew Thomas Carroll is an English professional footballer who plays as a striker for National League South club Dagenham & Redbridge. He has played in the Premier League and English Football League for Newcastle United, Reading, Liverpool, West Ham United, and West Bromwich Albion, and in Ligue 2 for Amiens. He played nine matches for England between 2010 and 2012, scoring twice, including one goal at UEFA Euro 2012.

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Sergio León, Spanish footballer

Sergio León Limones is a Spanish professional footballer who plays as a forward for División de Honor Andaluza club Atlético Palma del Río.

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Derrick Morgan, American football player

Derrick Lee Morgan is an American former professional football player who was a linebacker in the National Football League (NFL) for nine seasons with the Tennessee Titans. He was selected 16th overall by the Titans in the 2010 NFL draft after playing college football for the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets.

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06/01/1987

Arin Hanson, American YouTuber

Arin Joseph Hanson, also known as Egoraptor, is an American YouTuber, actor, rapper, and animator. He is well known for his Flash cartoons, as well as being the co-founder and co-star of the popular YouTube Let's Play series Game Grumps.

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Bongani Khumalo, South African footballer

Bongani Sandile Khumalo is a South African retired footballer who played as a centre-back.

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Ndamukong Suh, American football player

Ndamukong Ngwa Suh is an American former professional football player who played defensive tackle in the National Football League (NFL) for 13 seasons. He played college football for the Nebraska Cornhuskers, earning unanimous All-American honors in 2009. Suh was selected by the Detroit Lions second overall in the 2010 NFL draft. He also played for the Miami Dolphins, Los Angeles Rams, Tampa Bay Buccaneers, and Philadelphia Eagles. Suh played in three Super Bowls during his career: Super Bowl LIII with the Rams, Super Bowl LV with the Buccaneers, and Super Bowl LVII with the Eagles.

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06/01/1986

Paul McShane, Irish footballer

Paul David McShane is an Irish professional football coach and former player. He is currently an assistant coach at Huddersfield Town.

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Petter Northug, Norwegian skier

Petter Northug Jr. is a Norwegian former cross-country skier and double Olympic champion. He won a total of 13 World Championship and two Winter Olympic gold medals with 20 medals overall, and 18 individual FIS Cross-Country World Cup wins with 13 podium places. He is also the record holder for most stage wins (13) in Tour de Ski. By winning his ninth gold medal in the Nordic World Ski Championships in 4 × 10 km relay in Val di Fiemme 2013, he leveled the achievement of Bjørn Dæhlie who had been the most successful World Champion male skier up to that point. He is considered by many as the greatest cross-country skier of all time.

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Irina Shayk, Russian fashion model

Irina Valeryevna Shaykhlislamova, also known as Irina Shayk, is a Russian fashion model and actress. She received international recognition when she appeared as the first Russian model on the cover of the 2011 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue. In 2022, the website Models.com placed her on their list of the New Supers.

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Alex Turner, English singer, songwriter, and musician

Alexander David Turner is an English singer, songwriter and guitarist, and the frontman of the rock band Arctic Monkeys. He is known for his lyricism ranging from kitchen sink realism to surrealist wordplay, which has been praised by music critics. All but one of Turner's studio albums have topped the UK Albums Chart. He has won seven Brit Awards, an Ivor Novello Award, and a Mercury Prize among other accolades.

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06/01/1984

A. J. Hawk, American football player and analyst

Aaron James Hawk is an American sports analyst and former professional football linebacker who played for 11 seasons in the National Football League (NFL). He was selected by the Green Bay Packers fifth overall in the 2006 NFL draft and he later won Super Bowl XLV with the team. He was also a member of the Cincinnati Bengals and Atlanta Falcons. He played college football for the Ohio State Buckeyes, where he earned All-American honors twice and won the Lombardi Award as a senior. He won the BCS National Championship Game with the Buckeyes as a freshman. He co-hosts The Pat McAfee Show weekdays on YouTube and ESPN.

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Kate McKinnon, American actress and comedian

Kate McKinnon Berthold is an American actress and comedian. She was a cast member on the NBC sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live from 2012 to 2022, where she became known for her character work and celebrity impressions. For her work on the series, she was nominated for ten Primetime Emmy Awards, including one for Outstanding Original Music and Lyrics and nine for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series, winning in 2016 and 2017.

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Eric Trump, American businessman

Eric Frederick Trump is an American businessman, political activist, and former reality television presenter. He is the third child and second son of U.S. president Donald Trump and his first wife, Ivana.

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06/01/1983

Adam Burish, American ice hockey player

Adam Mark Burish is an American former professional ice hockey winger who played in the National Hockey League (NHL) with the Chicago Blackhawks, Dallas Stars and San Jose Sharks. He is currently an analyst covering Blackhawks games on NBC Sports Chicago, however, the channel no longer exists.

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Chen Nan, Chinese basketball player

Chen Nan is a Chinese basketball player.

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06/01/1982

Gilbert Arenas, American basketball player

Gilbert Jay Arenas Jr. is an American former professional basketball player. Arenas attended Grant High School in the Valley Glen district of Los Angeles, and accepted a scholarship offer to the University of Arizona late in his junior year. He was drafted by the Golden State Warriors with the 31st overall pick in the 2001 NBA draft.

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Roy Asotasi, New Zealand rugby league player

Roy Asotasi is a former professional rugby league footballer who played as a prop in the 2000s and 2010s. A New Zealand international captain, he also played for Samoa. Asotasi played in the NRL for Australian clubs Canterbury-Bankstown and the South Sydney Rabbitohs from 2007 to 2013. He then played in the Super League for the Warrington Wolves.

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Tiffany Pollard, American television personality

Tiffany Pollard is an American television personality and actress. She starred on the first two seasons of the reality show Flavor of Love (2006), where she was given the nickname "New York" by rapper Flavor Flav. Pollard later starred in spin-off series, including I Love New York (2007–2008) which launched a career in television. Subsequent television roles include her hosting in Brunch with Tiffany (2017–2020) and Hot Haus (2022–2023), and her roles on House of Villains (2023–2026) and College Hill: Celebrity Edition (2023).

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Israel Damonte, Argentine footballer and manager

Israel Alejandro Damonte is an Argentine football manager and former player who played as a midfielder. He is the current manager of Aldosivi.

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Eddie Redmayne, English actor and model

Edward John David Redmayne OBE is an English actor. His accolades include an Academy Award, a Tony Award, a British Academy Film Award, a Golden Globe Award, and two Olivier Awards.

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06/01/1981

Rinko Kikuchi, Japanese actress

Rinko Kikuchi is a Japanese actress. She was the first Japanese actress to be nominated for an Academy Award in 50 years, for her work in Babel (2006). Kikuchi's other notable films include Norwegian Wood (2010), which screened in competition at the 67th Venice Film Festival and Guillermo del Toro's science fiction action film Pacific Rim (2013). For her role in the drama film Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter (2014), Kikuchi received an Independent Spirit Award nomination for Best Female Lead. She played a supporting role in the HBO Max crime drama series Tokyo Vice.

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Asante Samuel, American football player

Asante Tyrell Samuel Sr. is an American former professional football player who was a cornerback in the National Football League (NFL). He was born in Accra, Ghana and raised in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. He played college football for the UCF Knights and was selected by the New England Patriots in the fourth round of the 2003 NFL draft. Samuel also played for the Philadelphia Eagles and Atlanta Falcons. He led the NFL twice in interceptions, in 2006 and 2009. He is the father of Asante Samuel Jr., a cornerback who plays for the Pittsburgh Steelers.

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06/01/1978

Casey Fossum, American baseball player

Casey Paul Fossum is a former professional pitcher. He played for the Boston Red Sox (2001–2003), Arizona Diamondbacks (2004), Tampa Bay Devil Rays (2005–2007), Detroit Tigers (2008), and New York Mets (2009) of Major League Baseball and the Hanshin Tigers (2010) of Nippon Professional Baseball.

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Bubba Franks, American football player

Daniel Lamont "Bubba" Franks is an American former professional football player who was a tight end for nine seasons in the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Miami Hurricanes, earning first-team All-American honors in 1999. He was selected by the Green Bay Packers in the first round of the 2000 NFL draft with the 14th overall pick.

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06/01/1976

Johan Davidsson, Swedish ice hockey player

Johan Markus Davidsson is a Swedish former professional ice hockey player, who played last with HV71 in the Swedish Hockey League, SHL. He was a long-time Elitserien/SHL player and captain of HV71 for eleven seasons, with which he has won the Swedish championship four times.

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Danny Pintauro, American actor

Daniel John Pintauro is an American actor and film producer. He starred in the sitcom Who's the Boss? and the 1983 horror film Cujo.

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Richard Zedník, Slovak ice hockey player

Richard Zedník is a Slovak former professional ice hockey winger. He had a 15-year career in the National Hockey League (NHL), playing for the Washington Capitals, Montreal Canadiens, New York Islanders and Florida Panthers.

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06/01/1975

James Farrior, American football player

James Alfred Farrior is an American former professional football player who was a linebacker for 15 seasons in the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Virginia Cavaliers. He played with the New York Jets and the Pittsburgh Steelers, and earned two Super Bowl rings with the Steelers.

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06/01/1974

Marlon Anderson, American baseball player and sportscaster

Marlon Ordell Anderson is an American former professional baseball second baseman and outfielder who played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for six teams, over 12 seasons. He was widely known for his clutch hits, and writers for publications including The New York Times and Newsday had referred to him as one of the best pinch-hitters in the game. Anderson was the hitting coach for the Brooklyn Cyclones in 2018.

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Daniel Cordone, Argentinian footballer

Carlos Daniel "Lobo" Cordone is a former Argentine professional football player who played as a striker.

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Paul Grant, American basketball player and coach

Paul Edward Grant is a retired American professional basketball player. He was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

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06/01/1973

Vasso Karantasiou, Greek beach volleyball player

Vasiliki "Vasso" Karantasiou is a female beach volleyball player from Greece, who won the gold medal at the 2005 European Championships in Moscow, Russia, partnering Vassiliki Arvaniti.

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06/01/1971

Irwin Thomas, American-Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist

Irwin Thomas is an Australian-American singer-songwriter and guitarist. He performs professionally using the stage name Jack Jones from when he was the lead vocalist-guitarist in the band Southern Sons (1990–1996).

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06/01/1970

Leonardo Astrada, Argentine footballer and manager

Leonardo Rubén Astrada is a retired Argentine footballer, who went on to become a football manager. The last team he managed was Atlético de Rafaela.

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Julie Chen Moonves, American television personality, presenter, and producer

Julie Suzanne Chen Moonves is an American television personality, news anchor, and producer for CBS. She has been the host of the American version of the CBS reality-television program Big Brother since its debut in July 2000.

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Radoslav Látal, Czech footballer and manager

Radoslav Látal is a Czech football manager and former player who played as a midfielder.

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Gabrielle Reece, American volleyball player, sportscaster, and actress

Gabrielle Allyse Reece is an American former professional volleyball player, sports announcer, TV show host, and podcast host.

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06/01/1969

Norman Reedus, American actor and model

Norman Mark Reedus is an American actor. Starting his career as a model, he first rose to prominence as an actor for his role as Murphy MacManus in The Boondock Saints (1999), which he reprised in The Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day (2009). Aside from an occasional supporting role in larger budget films such as Blade II (2002) and American Gangster (2007), Reedus mostly starred in independent film productions until being cast as Daryl Dixon in the AMC horror drama series The Walking Dead (2010–2022). Regarded as one of the series' most popular characters, he currently stars as Dixon in the spin-off series The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon (2023–present).

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Aron Eisenberg, American actor and podcaster (died 2019)

Aron Eisenberg was an American actor and podcaster known for his role on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine as the Ferengi, Nog.

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06/01/1968

John Singleton, American director, producer, and screenwriter (died 2019)

John Daniel Singleton was an American director, screenwriter, and producer. He made his feature film debut writing and directing Boyz n the Hood (1991), for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director, becoming, at age 24, the first African American and youngest nominee in the category.

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06/01/1967

A. R. Rahman, Indian composer, singer-songwriter, music producer, musician, and philanthropist

Allah Rakha Rahman, also known by the initialism ARR, is an Indian music composer, record producer, singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and philanthropist known for his works in Indian cinema; predominantly in Tamil and Hindi films, with occasional forays in international cinema. He is a recipient of six National Film Awards, two Academy Awards, two Grammy Awards, a BAFTA Award, a Golden Globe Award, six Tamil Nadu State Film Awards, fifteen Filmfare Awards, and eighteen Filmfare Awards South. In 2010, the Government of India conferred him with the Padma Bhushan, the nation's third-highest civilian award.

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06/01/1966

Sharon Cuneta, Filipino singer and actress

Sharon Gamboa Cuneta-Pangilinan is a Filipino actress, singer, television personality, and businesswoman. Prolific in multiple fields of entertainment, she is known for playing dramatic and comedic leading roles in film and television. Her accolades include three FAMAS Awards, a Gawad Urian Award, nineteen Box Office Entertainment Awards, three PMPC Star Awards for Movies and two Luna Awards.

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Attilio Lombardo, Italian footballer and manager

Attilio Lombardo is an Italian professional football manager and former player, currently working with Sampdoria as a caretaker and technical collaborator.

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06/01/1965

Bjørn Lomborg, Danish author and academic

Bjørn Lomborg is a Danish political scientist and the president of the think tank Copenhagen Consensus Center. He is the former director of the Danish government's Environmental Assessment Institute (EAI) in Copenhagen. He became internationally known for his best-selling book The Skeptical Environmentalist (2001).

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06/01/1964

Charles Haley, American football player

Charles Lewis Haley is an American former professional football player in the National Football League (NFL) for the San Francisco 49ers and Dallas Cowboys (1992–1996).

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Jyrki Kasvi, Finnish journalist and politician (died 2021)

Jyrki Jouko Juhani Kasvi was a Finnish politician, and a member of the Finnish Parliament, representing the Green League.

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Jacqueline Moore, American wrestler and manager

Jacqueline DeLois Moore is an American professional wrestler and professional wrestling manager. She is currently signed to WWE under a legends contract. Moore also worked for World Championship Wrestling in 1997–98 and later Total Nonstop Action Wrestling as a wrestler, manager, and road agent.

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06/01/1963

Norm Charlton, American baseball player and coach

Norman Wood Charlton III, nicknamed "the Sheriff", is an American former professional baseball relief pitcher who played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Cincinnati Reds, Seattle Mariners, Philadelphia Phillies, Baltimore Orioles, Atlanta Braves, and Tampa Bay Devil Rays.

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Paul Kipkoech, Kenyan runner (died 1995)

Paul Kipkoech was a Kenyan long-distance runner who specialized in the 10,000 metres and cross-country running. He became world champion over 10,000 m in 1987.

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06/01/1961

Georges Jobé, Belgian motocross racer (died 2012)

Georges Jobé was a Belgian professional motocross racer. He competed in the FIM Motocross World Championships from 1979 to 1994. Jobé is notable for being a five-time FIM Motocross World Champion. He was named Belgian Sportsman of the year in 1987 and 1992.

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Nigel Melville, English rugby player

Nigel David Melville is a former England national rugby union team scrum half and captain and currently serves as Director of Professional Rugby for the Rugby Football Union.

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Peter Whittle, British politician, author, journalist, and broadcaster (died 2025)

Peter Robin Whittle was a British politician, author, journalist and broadcaster who served as a Member of the London Assembly from 2016 to 2021 and as Deputy Leader of the UK Independence Party (UKIP) to Paul Nuttall from 2016 to 2017. He was the founder and director of the New Culture Forum think tank and host of So What You're Saying Is..., a weekly cultural and political interview show on YouTube.

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06/01/1960

Paul Azinger, American golfer and sportscaster

Paul William Azinger is an American professional golfer and TV golf analyst. He won 12 times on the PGA Tour, including one major championship, the 1993 PGA Championship. He spent almost 300 weeks in the top-10 of the Official World Golf Ranking between 1988 and 1994.

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Kari Jalonen, Finnish ice hockey player and coach

Kari Jalonen is a Finnish professional ice hockey coach and former player. He was a former head coach of the Czech Republic men's national ice hockey team from 2022-2023. He is not related to Finnish ice hockey coach Jukka Jalonen.

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Nigella Lawson, English chef and author

Nigella Lucy Lawson is an English food writer and television cook.

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Howie Long, American football player and sports commentator

Howard Matthew Moses Long is an American former professional football defensive end who played in the National Football League (NFL) for 13 seasons with the Raiders franchise. He played college football for the Villanova Wildcats and was selected by the Raiders in the second round of the 1981 NFL draft, spending his first season with the team in Oakland and the remainder of his career in Los Angeles. Long received eight Pro Bowl and three first-team All-Pro selections while helping the team win Super Bowl XVIII. He was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2000.

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06/01/1959

Kapil Dev, Indian cricketer

Kapildev Ramlal Nikhanj is an Indian former cricket team captain. Regarded as one of the greatest all-rounders in the history of cricket, he was a fast-medium bowler and a hard-hitting middle-order batsman. Dev is the only player in the history of cricket to have taken more than 400 wickets and scored more than 5,000 runs in Test cricket.

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06/01/1958

Shlomo Glickstein, Israeli tennis player

Shlomo Glickstein is an Israeli former professional tennis player.

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06/01/1957

Michael Foale, British-American astrophysicist and astronaut

Colin Michael Foale is a British-American astrophysicist and a former NASA astronaut. He is a veteran of six space missions, and is the only NASA astronaut to have flown extended missions aboard both Mir and the International Space Station. He was the second Briton in space and the first to perform a space walk. Until 17 April 2008, he held the record for most time spent in space by a US citizen: 374 days, 11 hours, 19 minutes, and as of 2024 he held the cumulative-time-in-space record for a British citizen.

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Nancy Lopez, American golfer and sportscaster

Nancy Marie Lopez is an American former professional golfer. She became a member of the LPGA Tour in 1977 and won 48 LPGA Tour events, including three major championships.

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06/01/1956

Elizabeth Strout, American novelist and short story writer

Elizabeth Strout is an American novelist and author. She is widely known for her works in literary fiction and her descriptive characterization. She was born and raised in Portland, Maine, and her experiences in her youth served as inspiration for her novels—the fictional "Shirley Falls, Maine" is the setting of four of her ten novels.

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Justin Welby, English archbishop

Justin Portal Welby is a retired Anglican bishop who served as the 105th archbishop of Canterbury in the Church of England from 2013 to 2025.

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Clive Woodward, English rugby player and coach

Sir Clive Ronald Woodward is an English former rugby union player and coach. He was coach of the England team from 1997 to 2004, managing them to victory in the 2003 Rugby World Cup. He also coached the 2005 British & Irish Lions tour to New Zealand, losing the test series 3–0. He is currently a pundit for ITV Sport, working on their coverage of the Six Nations and Rugby World Cup.

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06/01/1955

Rowan Atkinson, English actor, producer, and screenwriter

Rowan Sebastian Atkinson is an English actor, comedian and writer. He first gained success on the sketch comedy show Not the Nine O'Clock News (1979–1982), before going on to play the title roles in the sitcoms Blackadder (1983–1989) and Mr. Bean (1990–1995), and in the film series Johnny English (2003–present).

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Debbie Mathers, Mother of Eminem (died 2024)

Marshall Bruce Mathers III, known professionally as Eminem, is an American rapper, songwriter, record producer and record executive. Widely regarded as one of the greatest and most influential rappers of all time, he is often credited with popularizing hip-hop in Middle America and breaking down racial barriers for the acceptance of white rappers in the genre. While much of his transgressive art during the late 1990s and early 2000s made him a controversial figure, Eminem has become a representation of popular angst of lower income America and is noted for his conscious rap—which includes political criticism and social commentary—and rap flow.

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06/01/1954

Anthony Minghella, English director and screenwriter (died 2008)

Anthony Minghella was a British playwright and filmmaker. He was chairman of the board of Governors at the British Film Institute between 2003 and 2007. He directed Truly, Madly, Deeply (1990), The English Patient (1996), The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999), and Cold Mountain (2003), and produced Iris (2001).

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06/01/1953

Malcolm Young, Scottish-Australian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (died 2017)

Malcolm Mitchell Young was an Australian musician who was a founding member of the hard rock band AC/DC. Young was a rhythm guitarist, songwriter, and backing vocalist in the band. Except for a brief absence in 1988, Young was a member of AC/DC from its formation in 1973 until his retirement in 2014. As a member of AC/DC, Young was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2003. In 2023, Rolling Stone named Young and his younger brother and fellow AC/DC member Angus Young the 38th-best guitarists of all time.

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06/01/1951

Don Gullett, American baseball player and coach (died 2024)

Donald Edward Gullett was an American professional baseball player and coach. He played in Major League Baseball as a left-handed pitcher from 1970 through 1978. He was a member of the Cincinnati Reds Big Red Machine dynasty that won four National League pennants and two World Series championships between 1970 and 1976. Gullett was also a member of the New York Yankees teams that won two consecutive World Series championships in 1977 and 1978.

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Kim Wilson, American singer-songwriter and harmonica player

Kim Wilson is an American blues singer and harmonica player. He is best known as the lead vocalist and frontman for The Fabulous Thunderbirds on two hit songs of the 1980s, "Tuff Enuff" and "Wrap It Up."

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06/01/1950

Louis Freeh, American lawyer and jurist, 10th Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation

Louis Joseph Freeh is an American attorney and former judge who served as the fifth director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation from September 1993 to June 2001.

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06/01/1949

Mike Boit, Kenyan runner and academic

Michael Kipsugut Boit is a Kenyan former professional middle-distance athlete whose career spanned fifteen years. He is a professor at Kenyatta University in the Department of Exercise and Sports Science. He is an uncle to Philip Boit, who became the first Kenyan athlete to compete in the Winter Olympics.

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Carolyn D. Wright, American poet and academic (died 2016)

Carolyn D. Wright was an American poet. She was a MacArthur Fellow, a Guggenheim Fellow, and the Poet Laureate of Rhode Island.

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06/01/1948

Guy Gardner, American colonel and astronaut

Guy Spence Gardner is a United States Air Force officer and a former astronaut. He holds the rank of colonel. He flew as pilot on two Space Shuttle missions, STS-27 and STS-35. Gardner was also the 12th president of the Williamson College of the Trades.

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Dayle Hadlee, New Zealand cricketer

Dayle Robert Hadlee is a New Zealand former cricketer who played in 26 Tests and 11 ODIs from 1969 to 1978. He is the son of Walter Hadlee, the older brother of Sir Richard Hadlee and the younger brother of Barry Hadlee.

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06/01/1947

Sandy Denny, English folk-rock singer-songwriter (died 1978)

Alexandra Elene MacLean Denny was an English singer-songwriter who was lead singer of the British folk rock band Fairport Convention. She has been described as "arguably the pre-eminent British folk-rock singer/songwriter of her time".

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06/01/1946

Syd Barrett, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2006)

Roger Keith "Syd" Barrett was an English singer, guitarist and songwriter who co-founded the rock band Pink Floyd in 1965. Until his departure in 1968, he was Pink Floyd's frontman and primary songwriter, known for his whimsical style of psychedelia and stream-of-consciousness writing. As a guitarist, he was influential for his free-form playing and for employing effects such as dissonance, distortion, echo and feedback.

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06/01/1945

Barry John, Welsh rugby player (died 2024)

Barry John was a Welsh rugby union fly-half who played in the 1960s and early 1970s during the amateur era of the sport. John began his rugby career as a schoolboy playing for his local team Cefneithin RFC before switching to the first-class west Wales team Llanelli RFC in 1964. Whilst at Llanelli, John was selected for the Wales national team—as a replacement for David Watkins—to face a touring Australian team.

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Jayanthi (actress), Indian film actress (died 2021)

Kamala Kumari, known by her stage name Jayanthi, was an Indian actress known for her work in Kannada cinema and Telugu cinema. She was noted for her contributions to different genres of films from the 1960s, 1970s and early 1980s. She had appeared in over 500 films in various languages, including Kannada, Telugu, Tamil, Malayalam, Hindi and Marathi.

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06/01/1944

Bonnie Franklin, American actress and singer (died 2013)

Bonnie Gail Franklin was an American actress. She is best known for her leading role as Ann Romano in the television series One Day at a Time (1975–1984). She was nominated for Emmy, Tony, and Golden Globe Awards.

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Alan Stivell, French singer-songwriter and harp player

Alan Stivell is a French Celtic musician and singer, songwriter, recording artist, and master of the Celtic harp from Brittany.

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Rolf M. Zinkernagel, Swiss immunologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate

Rolf Martin Zinkernagel AC is a professor of experimental immunology at the University of Zurich. Along with Peter C. Doherty, he shared the 1996 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the discovery of how the immune system recognizes virus-infected cells.

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06/01/1943

Terry Venables, English footballer and manager (died 2023)

Terence Frederick Venables, often referred to as "El Tel", was an English football player and manager who played for clubs including Chelsea, Tottenham Hotspur and Queens Park Rangers and won two caps for England.

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06/01/1940

Van McCoy, American singer-songwriter and producer (died 1979)

Van Allen Clinton McCoy was an American record producer, arranger, songwriter and singer. He is known for his 1975 internationally successful hit "The Hustle". He has approximately 700 song copyrights to his credit, and produced songs by such recording artists as Brenda & the Tabulations, David Ruffin, The Stylistics, The Presidents, Faith, Hope & Charity, New Censation, Gladys Knight & the Pips, Aretha Franklin, Peaches & Herb, Lesley Gore, and Stacy Lattisaw.

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06/01/1939

Valeriy Lobanovskyi, Ukrainian footballer and manager (died 2002)

Valeriy Vasylyovych Lobanovskyi was а Soviet and Ukrainian football player and manager. He was Master of Sports of the USSR, Distinguished Coach of the USSR, and a laureate of the UEFA Order of Merit in Ruby (2002) and FIFA Order of Merit, the highest honour awarded by FIFA. In 2002 he was awarded the Hero of Ukraine award (posthumously), his nation's highest honour, for his contribution to Ukrainian football.

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Murray Rose, English-Australian swimmer and sportscaster (died 2012)

Iain Murray Rose, was an Australian swimmer, who swam for the University of Southern California, and worked as an actor, sports commentator and marketing executive. He was a six-time Olympic medalist, and at one time held the world records in the 400-metre, 800-metre, and 1500-metre freestyle. He made his Olympic debut at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne as a 17-year-old and won three Olympic medals, all gold. Four years later, as a 21-year-old, he won three Olympic medals at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome, Italy.

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06/01/1938

Adriano Celentano, Italian singer-songwriter, actor, and director

Adriano Celentano is an Italian singer-songwriter, actor, showman, and filmmaker. He is dubbed Il Molleggiato because of his energetic dancing.

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Adrienne Clarke, Australian botanist and academic

Adrienne Elizabeth Clarke is professor emeritus of Botany at the University of Melbourne, where she ran the Plant Cell Biology Research Centre from 1982 to 1999. She is a former chairman of the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, former Lieutenant Governor of Victoria (1997–2000) and former Chancellor of La Trobe University (2011–2017).

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Rajnikumar Pandya, Indian writer, journalist (died 2025)

Rajnikumar Pandya was an Indian Gujarati language writer and journalist from Gujarat. He was known for his short stories, novels, biographical essays, and columns. He had a significant contribution to Gujarati literature and journalism, particularly in the field of rural journalism. He was honored with numerous awards throughout his career, including the Kumar Suvarna Chandrak and awards from the Gujarat Sahitya Akademi and Gujarati Sahitya Parishad.

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Larisa Shepitko, Soviet film director, screenwriter, and actress (died 1979)

Larisa Yefimovna Shepitko was a Soviet film director and screenwriter of Ukrainian origin. She is considered one of the best female directors of all time, with her film The Ascent being the second film directed by a woman to win a Golden Bear and the third film directed by a woman to win a top award at a major European film festival.

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06/01/1937

Ludvík Daněk, Czech discus thrower (died 1998)

Ludvík Daněk was a Czechoslovak discus thrower, who won the gold medal at the 1972 Olympic Games with a throw of 64.40 m.

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Lou Holtz, American football player, coach, and sportscaster (died 2026)

Louis Leo Holtz was an American college football coach. He served as the head football coach at the College of William & Mary (1969–1971), North Carolina State University (1972–1975), the New York Jets (1976), the University of Arkansas (1977–1983), the University of Minnesota (1984–1985), the University of Notre Dame (1986–1996), and the University of South Carolina (1999–2004), compiling a career college head coaching record of 249–132–7.

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Doris Troy, American singer-songwriter (died 2004)

Doris Troy was an American R&B singer and songwriter, known to her fans as "Mama Soul". Her biggest hit was "Just One Look", a top 10 hit in 1963.

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06/01/1936

Darlene Hard, American tennis player (died 2021)

Darlene Ruth Hard was an American professional tennis player, known for her aggressive volleying ability and strong serves. She captured singles titles at the French Championships in 1960 and the U.S. Championships in 1960 and 1961. With eight different partners, she won a total of 13 women's doubles titles and, with another three partners, she won 5 mixed doubles titles in Grand Slam tournaments, and was the finest doubles player of her generation. Her last doubles title, at the age of 33 at the 1969 US Open, came six years after she had retired from serious competition to become a tennis instructor. She also played the US Open singles tournament in 1969, losing in the second round to Françoise Dürr.

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Julio María Sanguinetti, Uruguayan journalist, lawyer, and politician, 29th President of Uruguay

Julio María Sanguinetti Coirolo often known by his initials JMS, is a Uruguayan former lawyer, journalist and politician of the Colorado Party (PC) who served as the President of Uruguay as the 35th president from 1985 to 1990, and again as the 37th president from 1995 to 2000. He was the first democratically elected president after twelve years of military dictatorship.

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06/01/1935

Ian Meckiff, Australian cricketer

Ian Meckiff is an Australian former cricketer who represented Australia in 18 Test matches between 1957 and 1963. A left-arm fast bowler, he is best known for two matters that were unrelated to his skill as a player: he was the batsman run out by Joe Solomon in 1960, causing the first Tied Test in cricket history; and in December 1963, his career was sensationally ended when he was called for throwing in the First Test against South Africa by Australian umpire Col Egar. During the late 1950s and early 1960s, there had been a media frenzy about the perceived prevalence of illegal bowling actions in world cricket. The controversy and speculation that dogged Meckiff in the years preceding his final match caused sections of the cricket community to believe that he had been made a scapegoat by the Australian cricket authorities to prove their intent to stamp out throwing.

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Nino Tempo, American musician, singer, and actor (died 2025)

Antonino LoTempio was an American musician, singer, and actor. He was a duet partner with his older sister April Stevens as well as the frontman for a 1970s funk band, 5th Ave. Sax.

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06/01/1934

Harry M. Miller, New Zealand-Australian talent agent and publicist (died 2018)

Harry Maurice Miller was a New Zealand Australian promoter, publicist and media agent.

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Sylvia Syms, English actress (died 2023)

Sylvia May Laura Syms was an English stage and screen actress. Her best-known film roles include My Teenage Daughter (1956), Woman in a Dressing Gown (1957), for which she was nominated for a BAFTA Award, Ice Cold in Alex (1958), No Trees in the Street (1959), Victim (1961) and The Tamarind Seed (1974).

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06/01/1933

John Clive, English actor and author (died 2012)

John Clive was an English actor and author, known internationally for his historical and social fiction, such as KG200 and Barossa.

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Oleg Grigoryevich Makarov, Russian engineer and astronaut (died 2003)

Oleg Grigoryevich Makarov was a Soviet cosmonaut.

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06/01/1932

Simon Oates, English actor (died 2009)

Simon Oates was an English actor best known for his roles on television.

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Stuart A. Rice, American chemist and academic (died 2024)

Stuart Alan Rice was an American theoretical chemist and physical chemist. He was well known as a theoretical chemist who also performed experimental research, having spent much of his career working in multiple areas of physical chemistry. He was the Frank P. Hixon Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago. During his tenure at the University of Chicago, Rice trained more than 100 Ph.D. students and postdoctoral researchers. He received the National Medal of Science in 1999.

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06/01/1931

E. L. Doctorow, American novelist, playwright, and short story writer (died 2015)

Edgar Lawrence Doctorow was an American novelist, editor, and professor, best known for his works of historical fiction.

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06/01/1930

Vic Tayback, American actor (died 1990)

Victor Tayback was an American actor. He was best known for his role as diner owner Mel Sharples on the television sitcom Alice (1976–1985), as well as his multiple guest appearances on The Love Boat (1977–1987). The former earned him two consecutive Golden Globe Awards and a Primetime Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Continuing Performance by a Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series.

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06/01/1928

Capucine, French actress and model (died 1990)

Germaine Hélène Irène Lefebvre, known by her mononym stage name Capucine, was a French fashion model and actress known for her comedic roles in The Pink Panther (1963) and What's New Pussycat? (1965). She appeared in 36 films and 17 television productions between 1948 and 1990.

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06/01/1927

Jesse Leonard Steinfeld, American physician and academic, 11th Surgeon General of the United States (died 2014)

Jesse Leonard Steinfeld was an American physician and public health official. He was appointed the eleventh surgeon general of the United States from 1969 to 1973.

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06/01/1926

Ralph Branca, American baseball player (died 2016)

Ralph Theodore Joseph Branca, nicknamed "Hawk", was an American professional baseball pitcher who played 12 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB), from 1944 through 1956. Branca played for the Brooklyn Dodgers, Detroit Tigers (1953–1954), and New York Yankees (1954). He was a three-time All-Star. In a 1951 playoff, Branca surrendered a walk-off home run to Bobby Thomson of the New York Giants; the game-winning hit was known as the "Shot Heard 'Round the World".

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Pat Flaherty, American race car driver (died 2002)

George Francis "Pat" Flaherty was an American racing driver who won the Indianapolis 500 in 1956.

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Mickey Hargitay, Hungarian-American actor and bodybuilder (died 2006)

Miklós Károly "Mickey" Hargitay was a Hungarian-American actor and bodybuilder.

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06/01/1925

John DeLorean, American engineer and businessman, founded the DeLorean Motor Company (died 2005)

John Zachary DeLorean was an American engineer, inventor, and executive in the U.S. automobile industry. He is widely known as founder of the DeLorean Motor Company, as well as for his work at General Motors.

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06/01/1924

Kim Dae-jung, South Korean soldier and politician, 8th President of South Korea, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2009)

Kim Dae-jung was a South Korean politician, activist and statesman who served as the eighth president of South Korea from 1998 to 2003.

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Earl Scruggs, American banjo player (died 2012)

Earl Eugene Scruggs was an American musician noted for popularizing a three-finger banjo picking style, now called "Scruggs style", which is a defining characteristic of bluegrass music. His three-finger style of playing was radically different from the traditional way the five-string banjo had previously been played. This new style of playing became popular and elevated the banjo from its previous role as a background rhythm instrument to featured solo status. He popularized the instrument across several genres of music.

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06/01/1923

Vladimir Kazantsev, Russian runner (died 2007)

Vladimir Dmitriyevich Kazantsev was a Russian long-distance runner who won a silver medal in the 3000 m steeplechase at the 1952 Olympics. He set the world's best times in this event in 1951 and 1952 and won the Soviet title in 1950–53. In the Olympic final he had a 20 m lead with 700 m remaining but injured a tendon in a bad landing after a water jump and was overtaken by Horace Ashenfelter.

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Norman Kirk, New Zealand engineer and politician, 29th Prime Minister of New Zealand (died 1974)

Norman Eric Kirk was a New Zealand politician who served as the 29th prime minister of New Zealand and as well as the minister of Foreign Affairs from 1972 until his sudden death in 1974. He also served as the seventh leader of the Labour Party from 1965 to 1974.

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Jacobo Timerman, Argentinian journalist and author (died 1999)

Jacobo Timerman was a Soviet-born Argentine publisher, journalist, and author, who is most noted for his confronting and reporting the atrocities of the Argentine military regime's Dirty War during a period of widespread repression in which an estimated 30,000 political prisoners were disappeared. He was persecuted, tortured and imprisoned by the Argentine junta in the late 1970s and was exiled in 1979 with his wife to Israel. He was widely honored for his work as a journalist and publisher.

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06/01/1921

Marianne Grunberg-Manago, Russian-French biochemist and academic (died 2013)

Marianne Grunberg-Manago was a Soviet-born French biochemist. Her work helped make possible key discoveries about the nature of the genetic code. Grunberg-Manago was the first woman to lead the International Union of Biochemistry and the 400-year-old French Academy of Sciences.

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Cary Middlecoff, American golfer and sportscaster (died 1998)

Emmett Cary Middlecoff was an American professional golfer on the PGA Tour from 1947 to 1961. His 39 Tour wins place him tied for tenth all-time, and he won three major championships. Middlecoff graduated as a dentist, but gave up his practice at age 26 to become a full-time Tour golfer.

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06/01/1920

Henry Corden, Canadian-born American actor (died 2005)

Henry Corden was a Canadian-born American actor, best known for assuming the voice of Fred Flintstone after the death of Alan Reed in 1977. His official debut as Fred Flintstone was in a 1965 Hanna-Barbera record, Fred Flintstone and Barney Rubble in Songs from Mary Poppins, and he also provided the singing voice for Reed in the 1966 theatrical film The Man Called Flintstone and the Hanna-Barbera specials Alice in Wonderland or What's a Nice Kid like You Doing in a Place like This? (1966) and Energy: A National Issue (1977). He took over the role as Fred Flintstone full time in 1977 starting with the syndicated weekday series Fred Flintstone and Friends for which he provided voice-overs on brief bumper clips shown in between segments.

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John Maynard Smith, English biologist and geneticist (died 2004)

John Maynard Smith was a British theoretical and mathematical evolutionary biologist and geneticist. Originally an aeronautical engineer during the Second World War, he took a second degree in genetics under the biologist J. B. S. Haldane. Maynard Smith was instrumental in the application of game theory to evolution with George R. Price, and theorised on other problems such as the evolution of sex and signalling theory.

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Sun Myung Moon, Korean religious leader; founder of the Unification Church (died 2012)

Sun Myung Moon was a Korean religious leader, also known for his business ventures and support for conservative political causes. A messiah claimant, he was the founder of the Unification Church, whose members consider him and his wife, Hak Ja Han, to be their "True Parents", and of its widely noted "Blessing" or mass wedding ceremonies. The author of the Unification Church's religious scripture, the Divine Principle, was an anti-communist and an advocate for Korean reunification, for which he was recognized by the governments of both North and South Korea. Businesses he promoted included News World Communications, an international news media corporation known for its American subsidiary The Washington Times, and Tongil Group, a South Korean business group (chaebol), as well as other related organizations.

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Early Wynn, American baseball player, coach, and sportscaster (died 1999)

Early Wynn Jr., nicknamed "Gus", was an American professional baseball right-handed pitcher. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Washington Senators, Cleveland Indians, and Chicago White Sox, during his 23-year MLB career. Wynn was identified as one of the most intimidating pitchers in the game, having combined his powerful fastball with a hard attitude toward batters. He was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1972.

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06/01/1917

Koo Chen-fu, Taiwanese businessman and diplomat (died 2005)

Koo Chen-fu, also known as C.F. Koo, was a Taiwanese businessman, diplomat, and film producer. He led the Koos Group of companies from 1940 until his death. As a chairman of the Straits Exchange Foundation (SEF), Koo arranged the first direct talks between Taiwan and the People’s Republic of China since 1949 and served as Taiwan's negotiator in both the 1993 and 1998 Wang-Koo summit.

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06/01/1916

Park Mok-wol, influential Korean poet and academic (died 1978)

Pak Mok-wol was an influential Korean poet and academic.

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06/01/1915

Don Edwards, American soldier, lawyer, and politician (died 2015)

William Donlon Edwards was an American politician of the Democratic Party and a member of the United States House of Representatives from California for 32 years in the late 20th century.

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John C. Lilly, American psychoanalyst, physician, and philosopher (died 2001)

John Cunningham Lilly was an American physician, neuroscientist, psychoanalyst, psychonaut, philosopher, writer, and inventor. He was a member of a group of counterculture thinkers that included Timothy Leary, Ram Dass, and Werner Erhard, all frequent visitors to the Lilly home. He often stirred controversy, especially among mainstream scientists.

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Alan Watts, English-American philosopher and author (died 1973)

Alan Wilson Watts was a British and American writer, speaker, and self-styled "philosophical entertainer", known for interpreting and popularising Buddhist, Taoist, and Hindu philosophy for a Western audience.

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06/01/1914

Godfrey Edward Arnold, Austrian-American physician and academic (died 1989)

Godfrey Edward Arnold, born as Gottfried Eduard Arnold, was an Austrian American professor of medicine and researcher. His studies centered on speech, speech disorder and clinical communicology.

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06/01/1913

Edward Gierek, Polish lawyer and politician (died 2001)

Edward Gierek was a Polish communist politician who served as the de facto leader of the Polish People's Republic between 1970 and 1980. Gierek replaced Władysław Gomułka as the First Secretary of the ruling Polish United Workers' Party (PZPR).

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Loretta Young, American actress (died 2000)

Loretta Young was an American actress. Starting as a child, she had a long and varied career in film from 1916 to 1989. She received numerous honors including an Academy Award, two Golden Globe Awards, and three Primetime Emmy Awards as well as two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for her work in film and television.

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06/01/1912

Jacques Ellul, French philosopher and critic (died 1994)

Jacques Ellul was a French born philosopher, sociologist, lay theologian, resistance fighter and professor. Noted as a Christian anarchist, Ellul was a longtime professor of History and the Sociology of Institutions on the Faculty of Law and Economic Sciences at the University of Bordeaux. A prolific writer, he authored more than 60 books and more than 600 articles over his lifetime, many of which discussed propaganda, the impact of technology on society, and the interaction between religion and politics.

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Danny Thomas, American actor, comedian, producer, and humanitarian (died 1991)

Amos Muzyad Yaqoob Kairouz, known professionally as Danny Thomas, was an American entertainer, producer, and philanthropist. After launching his career in the 1940s in radio and cinema, he created and starred in the 1953–1964 television sitcom Make Room for Daddy / The Danny Thomas Show, and went on to produce a number of successful television programs. In 1962, he leveraged his celebrity status to establish St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, a leading center in pediatrics research and treatment, with a focus on pediatric cancer. He was the father of Marlo Thomas, Terre Thomas, and Tony Thomas.

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06/01/1910

Kid Chocolate, Cuban boxer (died 1988)

Eligio Sardiñas Montalvo, better known as Kid Chocolate, was a Cuban boxer who enjoyed great success both in the boxing ring and outside it during the 1930s. Chocolate boxed professionally between 1927 and 1938. His record was 136 wins, 10 losses and 6 draws, 51 wins coming by knockout and one no-decision bout, also making Ring magazine's list of boxers with 50 or more career knockout wins. He was inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame in 1991.

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Wright Morris, American author and photographer (died 1998)

Wright Marion Morris was an American novelist, photographer, and essayist. He is known for his portrayals of the people and artifacts of the Great Plains in words and pictures, as well as for experimenting with narrative forms.

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06/01/1903

Maurice Abravanel, Greek-American pianist and conductor (died 1993)

Maurice Abravanel was an American classical music conductor. He is remembered as the conductor of the Utah Symphony for over 30 years.

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06/01/1900

Maria of Yugoslavia, Queen of Yugoslavia (died 1961)

Maria, was Queen of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes from 1922 to 1929 and Queen of Yugoslavia from 1929 to 1934 as the wife of King Alexander I. She was the mother of King Peter II. Her citizenship was revoked, and her property was confiscated by the Yugoslav communist regime in 1947, but she was posthumously rehabilitated in 2014.

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06/01/1899

Heinrich Nordhoff, German engineer (died 1968)

Heinz Heinrich Nordhoff was a German engineer who led the rebuilding of Volkswagen (VW) after World War II. He was featured on the cover of Time magazine on Feb. 15, 1954.

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06/01/1898

James Fitzmaurice, Irish soldier and pilot (died 1965)

James Michael Christopher Fitzmaurice DFC was an Irish aviation pioneer. He was a member of the crew of the Bremen, which made the first successful trans-Atlantic aircraft flight from East to West on 12–13 April 1928.

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06/01/1891

Ted McDonald, Australian cricketer (died 1937)

Edgar Arthur "Ted" McDonald was a cricketer who played for Tasmania, Victoria, Lancashire and Australia, as well as being an Australian rules footballer who played with Launceston Football Club, Essendon Football Club, and Fitzroy Football Club before totally concentrating on cricket. Despite a short international career, he was considered by many cricketers as well as commentators to be one of the best fast bowlers of his generation.

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06/01/1883

Kahlil Gibran, Lebanese-American poet, painter, and philosopher (died 1931)

Jubrān Khalīl Jubrān, usually referred to in English as Kahlil Gibran, was a Lebanese-American writer, poet and visual artist. He was also considered a philosopher, although he himself rejected the title. He is best known as the author of The Prophet, which was first published in the United States in 1923 and has since become one of the best-selling books of all time, having been translated into more than 100 languages.

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06/01/1882

Fan S. Noli, Albanian-American bishop and politician, 13th Prime Minister of Albania (died 1965)

Theofan Stilian Noli, known as Fan Noli, was an Albanian-American writer, scholar, diplomat, politician, historian, orator, bishop, and founder of the Albanian Orthodox Church and the Albanian Orthodox Archdiocese in America who served as Prime Minister and regent of Albania in 1924 during the June Revolution.

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Sam Rayburn, American lawyer and politician, 48th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (died 1961)

Samuel Taliaferro Rayburn was an American politician who served as the 43rd speaker of the United States House of Representatives. He was a three-time House speaker, former House majority leader, two-time House minority leader, and a 24-term congressman, representing Texas's 4th congressional district as a Democrat from 1913 to 1961. He holds the record for the longest tenure as Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, serving for over 17 years.

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06/01/1881

Ion Minulescu, Romanian author, poet, and critic (died 1944)

Ion Minulescu was a Romanian avant-garde poet, novelist, short story writer, journalist, literary critic, and playwright. Often publishing his works under the pseudonyms I. M. Nirvan and Koh-i-Noor, he journeyed to Paris, where he was heavily influenced by the growing Symbolist movement and Parisian Bohemianism. A herald of Romania's own Symbolist movement, he had a major influence on local modernist literature, and was among the first local poets to use free verse.

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06/01/1880

Tom Mix, American cowboy and actor (died 1940)

Thomas Edwin Mix was an American film actor and the star of many early Western films between 1909 and 1935. He appeared in 291 films, all but nine of which were silent films. He was one of Hollywood's first Western stars and helped define the genre as it emerged in the early days of the cinema.

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06/01/1878

Adeline Genée, Danish-born British ballerina (died 1970)

Dame Adeline Genée DBE, born Anina Kirstina Margarete Petra Jensenα, was a Danish-British ballet dancer.

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Carl Sandburg, American poet and historian (died 1967)

Carl August Sandburg was an American poet, biographer, journalist, and editor. He won three Pulitzer Prizes: two for his poetry and one for his biography of Abraham Lincoln. During his lifetime, Sandburg was widely regarded as "a major figure in contemporary literature", especially for volumes of his collected verse, including Chicago Poems (1916), Cornhuskers (1918), and Smoke and Steel (1920). He enjoyed "unrivaled appeal as a poet in his day, perhaps because the breadth of his experiences connected him with so many strands of American life". When he died in 1967, President Lyndon B. Johnson observed that "Carl Sandburg was more than the voice of America, more than the poet of its strength and genius. He was America."

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06/01/1874

Fred Niblo, American actor, director, and producer (died 1948)

Fred Niblo was an American pioneer film actor, director and producer.

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06/01/1872

Alexander Scriabin, Russian pianist and composer (died 1915)

Alexander Nikolayevich Scriabin was a Russian composer and pianist. Before 1903, Scriabin was greatly influenced by the music of Frédéric Chopin and composed in a relatively tonal, late-Romantic idiom. Later, and independently of his influential contemporary Arnold Schoenberg, Scriabin developed a much more dissonant musical language that had transcended usual tonality but was not atonal, which accorded with his personal brand of metaphysics. Scriabin found significant appeal in the concept of Gesamtkunstwerk as well as synesthesia, and associated colours with the various harmonic tones of his scale, while his colour-coded circle of fifths was also inspired by theosophy. He is often considered the main Russian symbolist composer and a major representative of the Russian Silver Age.

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06/01/1870

Gustav Bauer, German journalist and politician, 11th Chancellor of Germany (died 1944)

Gustav Adolf Bauer was a German Social Democratic Party leader and the chancellor of Germany from June 1919 to March 1920. Prior to that, he was minister of labour in the last cabinet of the German Empire and during most of the German Revolution that preceded the formal establishment of the Weimar Republic.

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06/01/1861

Victor Horta, Belgian architect, designed Hôtel van Eetvelde (died 1947)

Victor Pierre Horta was a Belgian architect and designer, and one of the founders of the Art Nouveau movement. He was a fervent admirer of the French architectural theorist Eugène Viollet-le-Duc and his Hôtel Tassel in Brussels (1892–93), often considered the first Art Nouveau house, is based on the work of Viollet-le-Duc. The curving stylized vegetal forms that Horta used in turn influenced many others, including the French architect Hector Guimard, who used it in the first Art Nouveau apartment building he designed in Paris and in the entrances he designed for the Paris Metro. He is also considered a precursor of modern architecture for his open floor plans and his innovative use of iron, steel and glass.

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George Lloyd, English-Canadian bishop and theologian (died 1940)

George Exton Lloyd was an Anglican bishop and theologian who helped found Lloydminster, a city on the border of the provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan in Canada. He served as Bishop of Saskatchewan from 1922 to 1931.

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06/01/1860

Morton Selten, British actor (died 1939)

Morton Selten was a British stage and film actor. He was occasionally credited as Morton Selton.

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06/01/1859

Samuel Alexander, Australian-English philosopher and academic (died 1938)

Samuel Alexander was an Australian-born British philosopher. He was the first Jewish fellow of an Oxbridge college. He is now best known as an advocate of emergentism in biology.

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06/01/1857

Hugh Mahon, Irish-Australian publisher and politician, 10th Australian Minister for Foreign Affairs (died 1931)

Hugh Mahon was an Australian politician. He was a member of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) and held ministerial office in the party's earliest governments. He served terms as Postmaster-General (1904), Minister for Home Affairs (1908–1909), and Minister for External Affairs (1914–1916). However, Mahon is chiefly known as the only person to be expelled from the Parliament of Australia, for making "seditious and disloyal utterances" about the British Empire. He failed to win his seat back at the by-election.

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William Russell, American lawyer and politician, Governor of Massachusetts (died 1896)

William Eustis Russell was an American lawyer and Democratic Party politician from Massachusetts. He served four terms as mayor of Cambridge, and was the 37th governor of Massachusetts, serving from 1891 to 1894. He was the state's second youngest-ever chief executive, and was the first Democrat since the American Civil War to serve more than one term in that office.

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06/01/1856

Giuseppe Martucci, Italian pianist, composer, and conductor (died 1909)

Giuseppe Martucci was an Italian composer, conductor, pianist and teacher. Sometimes called "the Italian Brahms", Martucci was notable among Italian composers of the era in that he dedicated his entire career to absolute music, and wrote no operas. As a composer and teacher he was influential in reviving Italian interest in non-operatic music. Nevertheless, as a conductor, he did help to introduce Wagner's operas to Italy and also gave important early concerts of English music there.

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06/01/1842

Clarence King, American geologist, mountaineer, and critic (died 1901)

Clarence Rivers King was an American geologist, mountaineer, and author. He was the first director of the United States Geological Survey from 1879 to 1881. Nominated by Republican President Rutherford B. Hayes, King was noted for his exploration of the Sierra Nevada mountain range.

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06/01/1838

Max Bruch, German composer and conductor (died 1920)

Max Bruch was a German Romantic composer, violinist, teacher, and conductor who wrote more than 200 works, including three violin concertos, the first of which has become a staple of the violin repertoire.

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06/01/1832

Gustave Doré, French painter and sculptor (died 1883)

Paul Gustave Louis Christophe Doré was a French printmaker, illustrator, painter, comics artist, caricaturist, and sculptor. He is best known for his prolific output of wood-engravings illustrating classic literature, especially those for the Vulgate Bible and Dante's Divine Comedy. These achieved great international success, and he became renowned for printmaking, although his role was normally as the designer only; at the height of his career some 40 block-cutters were employed to cut his drawings onto the wooden printing blocks, usually also signing the image.

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06/01/1822

Heinrich Schliemann, German archaeologist and businessman (died 1890)

Johann Ludwig Heinrich Julius Schliemann was a German businessman and an influential archaeologist. He was an advocate of the historicity of places mentioned in the works of Homer and an archaeological excavator of Hisarlık, now presumed to be the site of Troy, along with the Mycenaean sites Mycenae and Tiryns. His work lent weight to the idea that Homer's Iliad reflects historical events. Schliemann's excavation of nine layers of archaeological remains has been criticized as destructive of significant historical artefacts, including the layer that is believed to be the Homeric Troy.

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06/01/1811

Charles Sumner, American lawyer and politician (died 1874)

Charles Sumner was an American lawyer and statesman who represented Massachusetts in the United States Senate from 1851 until his death in 1874. Before and during the American Civil War, he was a leading American advocate for the abolition of slavery, and after the war he was a key figure in the Reconstruction era, during which he and other Radical Republicans successfully fought to end slavery and ensure basic rights for Black Americans. He continued advocating for racial equality until his death, lobbying in his final days for a civil rights bill that served as a model for the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Historians credit Sumner with coining the phrase "equality before the law," which he first used as part of an early attempt to integrate Boston's public school system.

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06/01/1808

Joseph Pitty Couthouy, American conchologist and paleontologist (died 1864)

Joseph Pitty Couthouy was an American naval officer, conchologist, and invertebrate palaeontologist. Born in Boston, Massachusetts, he entered the Boston Latin School in 1820. He married Mary Greenwood Wild on 9 March 1832.

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06/01/1807

Joseph Petzval, German-Hungarian mathematician and physicist (died 1891)

Joseph Petzval was a mathematician, inventor, and physicist best known for his work in optics. He was born in the town of Szepesbéla in the Kingdom of Hungary.

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06/01/1803

Henri Herz, Austrian pianist and composer (died 1888)

Henri Herz was a virtuoso pianist, composer and piano manufacturer, Austrian by birth and French by nationality and domicile. He was a professor in the Paris Conservatoire for more than thirty years. Among his major works are eight piano concertos, a piano sonata, rondos, nocturnes, waltzes, marches, fantasias, and numerous sets of variations.

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06/01/1799

Jedediah Smith, American hunter, explorer, and author (died 1831)

Jedediah Strong Smith was an American clerk, transcontinental pioneer, frontiersman, hunter, trapper, author, cartographer, mountain man and explorer of the Rocky Mountains, the Western United States, and the Southwest during the early 19th century. After 75 years of obscurity following his death, Smith was rediscovered as the American whose explorations led to the use of the 20-mile (32 km)-wide South Pass as the dominant route across the Continental Divide for pioneers on the Oregon Trail.

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06/01/1795

Anselme Payen, French chemist and academic (died 1871)

Anselme Payen was a French chemist known for discovering the enzyme diastase, and the carbohydrate cellulose.

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06/01/1793

James Madison Porter, American lawyer and politician, 18th United States Secretary of War (died 1862)

James Madison Porter was an American politician who served as the 18th United States Secretary of War and a founder of Lafayette College.

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06/01/1785

Andreas Moustoxydis, Greek historian and philologist (died 1860)

Andreas Moustoxydis, sometimes Latinized as Mustoxydes or in the Italian form Andrea Mustoxidi, was a Greek historian and philologist from Corfu.

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06/01/1766

José Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia, Paraguayan lawyer and politician, first dictator of Paraguay (died 1840)

José Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia y Velasco, also known as Doctor Francia or to Paraguayans of his time as Karai Guasu, was a lawyer, politician, statesman and the first dictator (1814–1840) of Paraguay following its 1811 independence from the Spanish Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata. His official title was "Supreme and Perpetual Dictator of Paraguay", but he was popularly known as El Supremo.

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06/01/1745

Jacques-Etienne Montgolfier, French co-inventor of the hot air balloon (died 1799)

The Montgolfier brothers – Joseph-Michel Montgolfier and Jacques-Étienne Montgolfier – were aviation pioneers, balloonists and paper manufacturers from the commune Annonay in Ardèche, France. They invented the Montgolfière-style hot air balloon, globe aérostatique, which launched the first confirmed piloted ascent by humans in 1783, carrying Jacques-Étienne.

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06/01/1714

Percivall Pott, English surgeon (died 1788)

Percivall Pott was an English surgeon, one of the founders of orthopaedics, and the first scientist to demonstrate that cancer may be caused by an environmental carcinogen, namely chimney sweeps' carcinoma. Many diseases are his namesake including Pott's fracture, Pott's disease of the spine, and Pott's puffy tumour. It is believed that Pott's standard of living contributed to the rise of the surgeon within social standings.

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06/01/1702

José de Nebra, Spanish composer (died 1768)

José Melchor Baltasar Gaspar Nebra Blasco was a Spanish composer and organist from the Baroque period. His work combines Spanish traditions with the Italian style of his day.

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06/01/1695

Giuseppe Sammartini, Italian oboe player and composer (died 1750)

Giuseppe Francesco Gaspare Melchiorre Baldassare Sammartini was an Italian composer and oboist during the late Baroque and early Classical era. Although he was from Milan, most of his professional life was spent in London and with Frederick, the Prince of Wales. He also had a younger brother, Giovanni Battista Sammartini, who likewise became a renowned composer.

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06/01/1673

James Brydges, 1st Duke of Chandos, English academic and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire (died 1744)

James Brydges, 1st Duke of Chandos, was a British landowner and politician who represented Hereford in the English and British House of Commons from 1698 until 1714, when he succeeded to his father's peerage as Baron Chandos and started sitting in the House of Lords. He was subsequently created Earl of Carnarvon, and then Duke of Chandos in 1719.

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06/01/1655

Eleonor Magdalene of Neuburg (died 1720)

Eleonore Magdalene of Neuburg was Holy Roman Empress, German Queen, Archduchess of Austria, Queen of Hungary and Bohemia as the third and final wife of Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor. Before her marriage and during her widowhood, she led an ascetic and monastic life, translating the Bible from Latin to German and defended the Order of the Discalced Carmelites. Reputed to be one of the most educated and virtuous women of her time, Eleonore took part in the political affairs during the reign of her husband and sons, especially regarding court revenue and foreign relationships. She served as regent for a few months in 1711, period in which she signed the Treaty of Szatmár, which recognized the rights of her descendants to the Hungarian throne.

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06/01/1632

Anne Hamilton, 3rd Duchess of Hamilton, Scottish peeress (died 1716)

Anne Hamilton, 3rd Duchess of Hamilton was a Scottish peeress.

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06/01/1617

Christoffer Gabel, Danish politician (died 1673)

Christoffer Gabel was a Danish statesman. He was the father of Vice Governor-general of Norway, Frederik Gabel.

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06/01/1595

Claude Favre de Vaugelas, French educator and courtier (died 1650)

Claude Favre de Vaugelas was a Savoyard grammarian and man of letters. Although a lifelong courtier, Claude Favre was widely known by the name of one of the landed estates he owned as seigneur of Vaugelas and baron of Peroges.

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06/01/1587

Gaspar de Guzmán, Count-Duke of Olivares (died 1645)

Gaspar de Guzmán y Pimentel, 1st Duke of Sanlúcar, 3rd Count of Olivares,, known as the Count-Duke of Olivares, was a Spanish royal favourite of Philip IV and minister. He was appointed as Grandee on 10 April 1621, a day after the ending of the Twelve Years' Truce, and was a key figure that shaped state policy in Spain until January 1643. During his rule, he over-exerted Spain in foreign affairs and unsuccessfully attempted domestic reform. His policy of committing Spain to recapture Holland led to a renewal of the Eighty Years' War while Spain was also embroiled in the Thirty Years' War (1618–1648). In addition, his attempts to centralise power and increase wartime taxation led to revolts in Catalonia and in Portugal, which brought about his downfall.

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06/01/1561

Thomas Fincke, Danish mathematician and physicist (died 1656)

Thomas Fincke was a Danish mathematician and physicist, and a professor at the University of Copenhagen for more than 60 years.

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06/01/1538

Jane Dormer, Duchess of Feria (died 1612)

Jane Dormer, Duchess of Feria was an English lady-in-waiting to Mary I who, after the Queen's death, married Gómez Suárez de Figueroa y Córdoba, 1st Duke of Feria and went to live in Spain, where she would become a magnet for exiled English Catholics. She maintained a correspondence with Queen Elizabeth, and also corresponded with contacts sympathetic to the Catholic cause in England. Within Spain she championed the cause of exiled English fallen on hard times. On her husband's death in 1571 she took over the management of his estates. She died in Spain on 13 January 1612 and was buried at the monastery of Santa Clara in Zafra.

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06/01/1525

Caspar Peucer, German physician and scholar (died 1602)

Caspar Peucer was a German reformer, physician, and scholar of Sorbian origin.

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06/01/1500

John of Ávila, Spanish mystic and saint (died 1569)

John of Ávila was a Spanish priest, preacher, scholastic author, and religious mystic, who has been declared a saint and Doctor of the Church by the Catholic Church. He is called the "Apostle of Andalusia", for his extensive ministry in that region.

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06/01/1493

Olaus Petri, Swedish clergyman (died 1552)

Olof Persson, sometimes Petersson, better known under the Latin form of his name, Olaus Petri, was a clergyman, writer, judge, and major contributor to the Protestant Reformation in Sweden. His brother, Laurentius Petri, became the first Evangelical Lutheran Archbishop of Sweden.

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06/01/1488

Helius Eobanus Hessus, German poet (died 1540)

Helius Eobanus Hessus was a German Latin poet and later a Lutheran humanist. He was born at Halgehausen in Hesse-Kassel.

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06/01/1486

Martin Agricola, German composer and theorist (died 1556)

Martin Agricola was a German composer of Renaissance music and a music theorist.

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06/01/1412

Joan of Arc, French martyr and saint (died 1431)

Joan of Arc is a patron saint of France, honored as a defender of the French nation for her role in the siege of Orléans and her insistence on the coronation of Charles VII of France during the Hundred Years' War. Stating that she acted under divine guidance, she became a military leader who gained recognition as a savior of France.

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06/01/1384

Edmund Holland, 4th Earl of Kent (died 1408)

Edmund Holland, 4th Earl of Kent, 5th Baron Holand, KG was the Earl of Kent from 1400 to 1408. He was the 106th Knight of the Order of the Garter in 1403.

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06/01/1367

Richard II of England (died 1400)

Richard II, also known as Richard of Bordeaux, was King of England from 1377 until he was deposed in 1399. He was the son of Edward the Black Prince and Joan of Kent. The Black Prince died in 1376, leaving Richard as heir apparent to his grandfather, King Edward III. Upon the King's death, the 10-year-old Richard succeeded to the throne.

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06/01/1256

Gertrude the Great, German mystic (died 1302)

Gertrude the Great or Gertrude of Helfta was a German Benedictine nun and mystic who was a member of the Monastery of Helfta. While herself a Benedictine, she had strong ties to the Cistercian Order; her monastery in Helfta is currently run by Cistercian nuns.

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