Born on Wednesday, 7th January – Famous Birthdays

07/01/2012

Blue Ivy Carter, American singer and actress

Blue Ivy Carter is an American singer, actress, and dancer. She is the first-born daughter of singer Beyoncé and rapper Jay-Z. Two days after her birth, Time dubbed Carter "the most famous baby in the world." That same day, her breathing, cries and coos were featured on Jay-Z's 2012 song "Glory", which earned her a Guinness World Record for being the youngest person to have an entry on a Billboard chart. She has been the subject of depictions in media, including impersonations on Saturday Night Live and RuPaul's Drag Race.

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07/01/2007

Chloe Chua, Singaporean violinist, 2018 joint 1st prize winner of the Yehudi Menuhin International Competition for Young Violinists

Chloe Chua is a Singaporean violinist. She won first prize in the Junior division of the 2018 Yehudi Menuhin International Competition for Young Violinists alongside Australian Christian Li, and also won the 24th Andrea Postacchini International Violin Competition in Category A. She was the artist-in-residence of the Singapore Symphony Orchestra for the 2022/23 and 2023/24 seasons.

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07/01/2003

Ryan Dunn, American basketball player

Ryan Christian Dunn is an American professional basketball player for the Phoenix Suns of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played college basketball for the Virginia Cavaliers.

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07/01/2000

Marcus Scribner, American actor

Marcus Scribner is an American actor. He is best known for starring as Andre "Junior" Johnson Jr. in all eight seasons of the ABC sitcom Black-ish, before starring as Junior in its spin-off Grown-ish from the fifth season onward, as well as voicing the characters Bow in the Netflix animated series She-Ra and the Princesses of Power and D’Angelo Baker in DreamWorks Dragons: The Nine Realms.

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07/01/1997

Ozzie Albies, Curaçaoan baseball player

Ozhaino Jurdy Jiandro "Ozzie" Albies is a Curaçaoan professional baseball second baseman for the Atlanta Braves of Major League Baseball (MLB). Albies signed with the Braves organization in 2013 and made his MLB debut with the team in 2017. During his first full season, Albies was named to the 2018 MLB All-Star Game. Albies was later named to the 2021 and 2023 All-Star games. He won the National League Silver Slugger Award in 2019 and 2021. In 2021, he also won the Heart & Hustle Award, and his team won the World Series.

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Lamar Jackson, American football player

Lamar Demeatrice Jackson Jr. is an American professional football quarterback for the Baltimore Ravens of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Louisville Cardinals, winning the Heisman Trophy in 2016, and was selected by the Ravens with the final pick in the first round of the 2018 NFL draft. A two-time recipient of the NFL Most Valuable Player (MVP) award and the all-time leader in quarterback rushing yards, Jackson is regarded as one of the best quarterbacks of his generation, and by some analysts as one of the greatest dual-threat quarterbacks of all time.

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07/01/1996

Alex Nedeljkovic, American ice hockey player

Alexander Nedeljkovic (Serbian Cyrillic: Александар Недељковић, romanized: Aleksandar Nedeljković is an American professional ice hockey player who is a goaltender for the San Jose Sharks of the National Hockey League. Nedeljkovic was selected by the Carolina Hurricanes in the second round of the 2014 NHL entry draft.

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07/01/1995

Jordan Bell, American basketball player

Jordan Trennie Bell is an American professional basketball player for the Noblesville Boom of the NBA G League. He played college basketball for the Oregon Ducks. As a junior in 2017, Bell earned second-team all-conference honors in the Pac-12, when he was also named the conference's Defensive Player of the Year. He was drafted in the second round of the 2017 NBA draft by the Chicago Bulls. Bell won his first championship in his rookie season when the Warriors defeated the Cleveland Cavaliers in 2018.

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Yulia Putintseva, Kazakhstani tennis player

Yulia Antonovna Putintseva is a Russian-born Kazakhstani professional tennis player. She achieved a career-high singles ranking of world No. 20 on 27 January 2025, and a best doubles ranking of No. 76 on 17 March 2025.

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07/01/1994

Jarnell Stokes, American basketball player

Jarnell D'Marcus Stokes is an American former professional basketball player. He played college basketball for the Tennessee Volunteers. He was one of the top rated high school players in the class of 2011. He was selected in with the 35th overall pick in the 2014 NBA draft by the Utah Jazz, and later traded to the Memphis Grizzlies.

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Lee Sun-bin, South Korean actress and singer

Lee Jin-kyung, known professionally as Lee Sun-bin (이선빈), is a South Korean actress and singer. She is a former member of the South Korean girl group JQT, and is known for starring in Squad 38 (2016), Work Later, Drink Now (2021–2023), and Boyhood (2023).

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MacKenzie Weegar, Canadian ice hockey player

MacKenzie Weegar is a Canadian professional ice hockey player who is a defenseman for the Utah Mammoth of the National Hockey League (NHL). Weegar was drafted by the Florida Panthers with the 206th overall pick in the 2013 NHL entry draft.

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07/01/1992

Erik Gudbranson, Canadian ice hockey player

Erik Donald Stanley Gudbranson is a Canadian professional ice hockey player who is a defenceman and alternate captain for the Columbus Blue Jackets of the National Hockey League (NHL). He was selected third overall by the Florida Panthers in the 2010 NHL entry draft. Gudbranson has previously played for the Florida Panthers, Vancouver Canucks, Pittsburgh Penguins, Anaheim Ducks, Ottawa Senators, Nashville Predators, and Calgary Flames.

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Tohu Harris, New Zealand rugby league player

Tohu Harris is a New Zealand former professional rugby league footballer who played as a lock forward and captained the New Zealand Warriors in the National Rugby League (NRL).

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07/01/1991

Tucker Barnhart, American baseball player

Tucker Jackson Barnhart is an American former professional baseball catcher. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Cincinnati Reds, Detroit Tigers, Chicago Cubs, Arizona Diamondbacks, and Texas Rangers. Barnhart made his MLB debut in 2014 and won the Gold Glove Award in 2017 and 2020.

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Eden Hazard, Belgian footballer

Eden Michael Walter Lucien Hazard is a Belgian former professional footballer who played as a winger or attacking midfielder. Over the span of his sixteen-year career, he played for Lille, Chelsea, Real Madrid, and the Belgium national team. Known for his dribbling, creativity, and vision, he is regarded as one of the best wingers of his generation and one of the greatest players in Premier League history.

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Caster Semenya, South African sprinter

Caster Semenya OIB is a South African middle-distance runner and winner of two Olympic gold medals, as well as three World Championships in the women's 800 metres. She first won gold at the World Championships in 2009 and went on to win at the 2016 Olympics and the 2017 World Championships, where she also won a bronze medal in the 1500 metres. After the doping disqualification of Mariya Savinova, she was also awarded gold medals for the 2011 World Championships and the 2012 Olympics.

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Michael Walters, Australian footballer

Michael Walters is a former Australian rules footballer who played for the Fremantle Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). Having spent most of his career playing as a small forward, Walters was a five-time Fremantle leading goalkicker. In 2019, he was rewarded with his debut selection in the All-Australian team.

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07/01/1990

Liam Aiken, American actor

Liam Pádraic Aiken is an American actor. He has starred in films such as Stepmom (1998), Road to Perdition (2002), and Good Boy! (2003), and played Klaus Baudelaire in Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events (2004), based on the series of books. He also starred in the films Nor'easter (2012), Ned Rifle (2014), The Bloodhound (2020), Bashira (2021), and V13 (2025).

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Gentleman Jack Gallagher, English mixed martial artist and wrestler

Oliver Westfield Claffey, better known by the ring name Jack Gallagher and most recently Jack Claffey, is an English mixed martial artist and a former professional wrestler. He is best known for his time in WWE, where he performed on the NXT and 205 Live brands, mostly under the ring name Gentleman Jack Gallagher.

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Gregor Schlierenzauer, Austrian ski jumper

Gregor Schlierenzauer is an Austrian former ski jumper who competed from 2006 to 2021. He is one of the most successful ski jumpers of all time, having won 53 individual World Cup competitions, the most of any male ski jumper; the Ski Jumping World Cup overall title, the Four Hills Tournament, and Nordic Tournament twice each; the Ski Flying World Cup overall title three times; as well as four medals at the Winter Olympics, twelve at the Ski Jumping World Championships, and five at the Ski Flying World Championships.

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07/01/1988

Haley Bennett, American actress and singer

Haley Loraine Keeling, known professionally as Haley Bennett, is an American actress. She made her film debut in the romantic comedy Music and Lyrics (2007) and has since appeared in films such as The Equalizer (2014), The Magnificent Seven (2016), Hillbilly Elegy (2020), and Cyrano (2021).

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Scott Pendlebury, Australian footballer

Scott Pendlebury is a professional Australian rules footballer playing for the Collingwood Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). He served as Collingwood captain from 2014 to 2022. Pendlebury is a dual premiership player, also winning the Norm Smith Medal as best on ground in the 2010 grand final replay, and was the AFLCA champion player of the year in 2013. He is a six-time All-Australian and five-time Copeland Trophy winner, and is the Collingwood games record holder with 428 games. Pendlebury is the league record holder for disposals, handballs and tackles, and also has the most Brownlow Medal votes of any player who has not won the award.

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07/01/1987

Davide Astori, Italian footballer (died 2018)

Davide Astori was an Italian professional footballer who played as a central defender.

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Stefan Babović, Serbian footballer

Stefan Babović is a Serbian former professional footballer who played as a deep-lying playmaker. He is the current (CEO) of Fashion Company.

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Lyndsy Fonseca, American actress

Lyndsy Marie Fonseca is an American actress. She began her career by appearing as Colleen Carlton on the CBS daytime soap opera The Young and the Restless, on which she starred between 2001 and 2005. Thereafter, she had a series of other recurring roles, including Penny Mosby on the CBS sitcom How I Met Your Mother, Donna on HBO's Big Love, and Dylan Mayfair on the fourth season of the ABC television series Desperate Housewives.

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07/01/1985

Lewis Hamilton, English racing driver

Sir Lewis Carl Davidson Hamilton is a British racing driver who competes in Formula One for Ferrari. Hamilton has won a joint-record seven Formula One World Drivers' Championship titles—tied with Michael Schumacher—and holds the records for most wins (105), pole positions (104), and podium finishes (203), among others.

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Wayne Routledge, English footballer

Wayne Neville Anthony Routledge is an English former professional footballer who played as a winger. He represented England at under-16, under-19 and under-21 level.

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07/01/1984

Jon Lester, American baseball player

Jonathan Tyler Lester is an American former professional baseball pitcher. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Boston Red Sox, Oakland Athletics, Chicago Cubs, Washington Nationals, and St. Louis Cardinals. Less than two years after being diagnosed with lymphoma, Lester started and won the final game of the 2007 World Series for the Red Sox and, in May 2008, pitched a no-hitter against the Kansas City Royals. He helped lead the Red Sox to another championship in 2013, and he won the 2016 World Series with the Cubs. Lester started the opening game of a playoff series 12 times, which was a record for the most in baseball history until Justin Verlander passed him in 2023.

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07/01/1983

Brett Dalton, American actor

Brett Patrick Dalton is an American actor. He is best known for playing Grant Ward and therefore Hive in ABC's series Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., as well as Detective Mark Trent in the NBC procedural drama series Found, and Michael "Mike" Munroe in the 2015 video game Until Dawn. He also provided the voice and motion capture for Freyr in God of War: Ragnarök (2022).

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Edwin Encarnación, Dominican baseball player

Edwin Elpidio Encarnación Rivera is a Dominican former professional baseball designated hitter, third baseman and first baseman. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Cincinnati Reds, Toronto Blue Jays, Cleveland Indians, Seattle Mariners, New York Yankees, and Chicago White Sox.

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Cappie Pondexter, American basketball player

Cappie Marie Pondexter is an American former professional basketball player. She was born in Oceanside, California and raised in Chicago, Illinois. Pondexter is known for her scrappy play, quick crossovers and midrange jumpshot. In 2011, she was voted in by fans as one of the Top 15 players in Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) history. She was inducted in the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame in 2025.

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07/01/1982

Lauren Cohan, American-English actress

Lauren Cohan is a British-American actress known for her role as Maggie Rhee in the AMC post-apocalyptic horror television series The Walking Dead, a role she reprises in The Walking Dead: Dead City (2023–present). Her other notable TV roles include Bela Talbot in the dark fantasy drama Supernatural (2007–2008), Rose in the supernatural teen drama The Vampire Diaries (2010–2012), Vivian McArthur Volkoff in the action comedy Chuck (2011), Francesca "Frankie" Trowbridge in the action comedy-drama Whiskey Cavalier (2019), and War Woman in the adult animated superhero show Invincible (2021–2023). Her film appearances include the comedy Van Wilder: The Rise of Taj (2006), the psychological thriller horror The Boy (2016), the biographical drama All Eyez on Me (2017), and the action thriller Mile 22 (2018).

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Francisco Rodríguez, Venezuelan baseball player

Francisco José Rodríguez Sr., nicknamed "K-Rod", is a Venezuelan former professional baseball pitcher. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Anaheim Angels / Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim, New York Mets, Baltimore Orioles, Milwaukee Brewers and Detroit Tigers. He is the pitching coach for the Senadores de Caracas of the Venezuelan Major League.

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Hannah Stockbauer, German swimmer

Hannah Stockbauer is a World Champion, Olympic and national-record holding swimmer from Germany. In 2003, she was named the female World Swimmer of the Year by Swimming World Magazine, following her winning the 400, 800 and 1500 freestyles at the 2003 World Championships.

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07/01/1981

Alex Auld, Canadian ice hockey player

Alexander James Auld is a Canadian former professional ice hockey goaltender. Auld played in the National Hockey League (NHL) with the Vancouver Canucks, Florida Panthers, Phoenix Coyotes, Boston Bruins, Ottawa Senators, Dallas Stars, New York Rangers and the Montreal Canadiens from 2002 to 2012. He has also appeared internationally for the Canadian national team on three occasions: the 2001 World Junior Championships, the 2004 Spengler Cup, and the 2006 World Championships.

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Marquis Daniels, American basketball player

Marquis Antwane Daniels is an American former professional basketball player in the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played college basketball for the Auburn Tigers before going undrafted in the 2003 NBA draft. He played his first three years for the Dallas Mavericks before being traded to the Indiana Pacers. Daniels then signed with the Boston Celtics in 2009 and the Milwaukee Bucks in 2012.

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Travis Friend, Zimbabwean cricketer

Travis John Friend is a former Zimbabwean international cricketer and commercial pilot.

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07/01/1980

Reece Simmonds, Australian rugby league player

Reece Simmonds is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer who played in the 2000s and 2010s. He was born in Sydney, and played in the National Rugby League (NRL) for the St George Illawarra Dragons and the South Sydney Rabbitohs (2007).

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07/01/1979

Reggie Austin, American actor

Reggie Austin is an American actor. He is best known for his recurring roles on the Notes from the Underbelly as Dr. Greg Wise, The Starter Wife as Devon Marsh, Desperate Housewives as Renee Perry's ex-husband Doug Perry, Pretty Little Liars as Eddie Lamb, and Devious Maids as Reggie Miller.

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Aloe Blacc, American musician, singer, songwriter, record producer, actor, businessman and philanthropist

Egbert Nathaniel Dawkins III, known professionally as Aloe Blacc, is an American singer, songwriter, rapper, and record producer. He is known for his guest performance on Avicii's 2013 single "Wake Me Up", which topped the charts in 22 countries, including in Australia and the UK. As a lead artist, he is known for his singles "I Need a Dollar" and "The Man", the latter of which reached number one on the UK Singles Chart. Aside from his solo career, Aloe Blacc is also a member of the hip hop duo Emanon, alongside American record producer Exile.

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07/01/1978

Dean Cosker, English cricketer and umpire

Dean Andrew Cosker is an English cricket referee and former cricketer. He is a right-handed batsman and a left-arm slow bowler who played for Glamorgan. He has played in first-class, List A and Twenty20 cricket. He attended Millfield School in Somerset between 1991 and 1996.

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Israel Keyes, American serial killer (died 2012)

Israel Keyes was an American serial killer, rapist, bank robber, burglar, arsonist and kidnapper.

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07/01/1977

Dustin Diamond, American actor and comedian (died 2021)

Dustin Neil Diamond was an American actor and stand-up comedian. He is best known for portraying Samuel "Screech" Powers throughout the Saved by the Bell franchise, appearing from the first episodes of Good Morning, Miss Bliss (1988–89) through the subsequent spinoffs with The College Years (1993–94) and the last six seasons of The New Class (1994–2000); alongside Dennis Haskins, Diamond was the only person to appear in each of the first three Saved by the Bell shows. Following his run on Saved by the Bell, Diamond toured in stand-up comedy alongside appearances in film and reality television, most notably with the fifth season of Celebrity Fit Club in 2007.

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Sofi Oksanen, Finnish author and playwright

Sofi-Elina Oksanen is a Finnish writer and playwright. Oksanen has published six novels, of which "Purge" has gained the widest recognition. She has received several international and domestic awards for her literary work. Her work has been translated into more than 40 languages and sold more than two million copies. Oksanen has been called "Finnish-Estonian Charles Dickens" and her work has often been compared to Margaret Atwood's novels. Oksanen is actively involved in public debate in Finland and comments on current issues in her columns and various talk shows.

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Brent Sopel, Canadian ice hockey player

Brent Bernard Sopel is a Canadian former professional ice hockey defenceman who played the majority of his career in the National Hockey League (NHL). Sopel was originally selected 144th overall at the 1995 NHL entry draft by the Vancouver Canucks. He has also played for the New York Islanders, Los Angeles Kings, Chicago Blackhawks, Atlanta Thrashers and Montreal Canadiens, winning the Stanley Cup in 2010 with Chicago.

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07/01/1976

Vic Darchinyan, Armenian-Australian boxer

Vakhtang "Vic" Darchinyan is an Armenian former professional boxer who competed from 2000 to 2017. He held multiple world championships in two weight classes, including the International Boxing Federation (IBF) flyweight title from 2004 to 2007, and the unified super-flyweight championship between 2008 and 2010. He also held the lineal super-flyweight title from 2009 to 2011, and a record four International Boxing Organization (IBO) titles at flyweight, super-flyweight, and twice at bantamweight between 2005 and 2011. A southpaw with a highly unique fighting style and formidable punching power, Darchinyan became the first Armenian boxer to win a world title in 2004.

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Éric Gagné, Canadian baseball player

Éric Serge Gagné is a Canadian former professional baseball pitcher who played 10 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB), most notably for the Los Angeles Dodgers. After signing with the Dodgers as a free agent in 1995, Gagné began his career as a starting pitcher. After he struggled in that role, the Dodgers converted Gagné from a starter to a reliever, where for three years (2002–2004) he was statistically the most outstanding closer in the league, winning the Cy Young Award in 2003. During that period, he set a major league record by converting 84 consecutive save opportunities.

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Alfonso Soriano, Dominican baseball player

Alfonso Guilleard Soriano is a Dominican-American former professional baseball left fielder and second baseman. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the New York Yankees, Texas Rangers, Washington Nationals, and Chicago Cubs, and in Nippon Professional Baseball for the Hiroshima Toyo Carp.

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07/01/1974

Alenka Bikar, Slovenian sprinter and politician

Alenka Bikar is a retired female sprinter from Slovenia, born in Ljubljana. She specialised in the 200 metres, competing in three Olympic games from 1996 to 2004. She was also named Slovenian Sportswoman of the Year in 2001. Bikar won the gold medal in the 200 m in the Mediterranean Games in 2005.

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07/01/1972

Donald Brashear, American-Canadian ice hockey player and mixed martial artist

Donald Brashear is an American-born Canadian former professional hockey player. He played for five organizations in the National Hockey League (NHL) over a 16-year career, in which he played the role of an enforcer.

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07/01/1971

Kevin Rahm, American actor

Kevin Rahm is an American actor. He is known for his television roles as Kyle McCarty on Judging Amy, Lee McDermott on Desperate Housewives, and Ted Chaough on Mad Men.

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Jeremy Renner, American actor

Jeremy Lee Renner is an American actor. He began his career by appearing in independent films such as Dahmer (2002) and Neo Ned (2005), then supporting roles in bigger films, such as S.W.A.T. (2003) and 28 Weeks Later (2007). Renner gained Academy Award nominations for Best Actor for his performance as an Iraq War soldier in The Hurt Locker (2009) and for Best Supporting Actor for playing a hot-headed robber in The Town (2010).

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07/01/1970

Andy Burnham, English politician[page needed]

Andrew Murray Burnham is a British politician who has served as Mayor of Greater Manchester since 2017. He previously served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Leigh from 2001 to 2017, during which time he was Secretary of State for Health from 2009 to 2010, Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport from 2008 to 2009 and Chief Secretary to the Treasury from 2007 to 2008. A member of the Labour and Co-operative Party, Burnham identifies as a socialist on the soft left of the Labour Party.

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07/01/1969

Marco Simone, Italian footballer and manager

Marco Simone is an Italian professional football manager and former player. As a player, he was a striker and winger.

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07/01/1967

Nick Clegg, English academic and politician, Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

Sir Nicholas William Peter Clegg is a British retired politician and media executive who served as Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 2010 to 2015 and as Leader of the Liberal Democrats from 2007 to 2015. He was Member of Parliament (MP) for Sheffield Hallam from 2005 to 2017. An "Orange Book" liberal, he has been associated with both socially liberal and economically liberal policies.

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Ricky Stuart, Australian rugby league player, coach, and sportscaster

Ricky John "Sticky" Stuart is an Australian professional rugby league football coach who is the head coach of Canberra in the National Rugby League (NRL) and a former rugby league footballer who played as a halfback in the 1980s, 1990s and 2000s.

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07/01/1965

Five for Fighting, American singer-songwriter and pianist

Vladimir John Ondrasik III, known professionally as Five for Fighting, is an American singer-songwriter and pianist. He is best known for his piano-based soft rock, such as the top 40 hits "Superman " (2001), "100 Years" (2003), and "The Riddle" (2006). He also had a string of moderate hits on the adult contemporary charts in the late 2000s and into the 2010s, including "World" (2006) and "Chances" (2009).

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Alessandro Lambruschini, Italian runner

Alessandro Lambruschini is an Italian former long-distance runner who specialized in the 3000 metres steeplechase.

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07/01/1964

Nicolas Cage, American actor

Nicolas Kim Coppola, known professionally as Nicolas Cage, is an American actor and film producer. He is the recipient of various accolades, including an Academy Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award, and a Golden Globe Award as well as nominations for two BAFTA Awards. Known for his versatility as an actor, Cage's work across diverse film genres has gained him a significant cult following. Films in which he has appeared have grossed over $6.4 billion worldwide.

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07/01/1963

Rand Paul, American politician and physician

Randal Howard Paul is an American politician serving as the junior United States senator from Kentucky since 2011. A member of the Republican Party, he is the chair of the Senate Homeland Security Committee.

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07/01/1962

Aleksandr Dugin, Russian political analyst and strategist known for his fascist views

Aleksandr Gelyevich Dugin is a Russian political philosopher who is the leading theorist of Russian neo-Eurasianism.

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Ron Rivera, American football player and coach

Ronald Eugene Rivera is an American professional football executive and former linebacker and coach who is the general manager for the University of California–Berkeley, his alma mater. He played nine seasons in the National Football League (NFL) for the Chicago Bears and was a member of their 1985 team that won Super Bowl XX. Rivera later served as the head coach of the NFL's Carolina Panthers and Washington Football Team / Commanders, earning two NFL Coach of the Year awards with the former.

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07/01/1961

John Thune, American lawyer and politician

John Randolph Thune is an American politician from South Dakota who has served in the United States Senate since 2005. A Republican, Thune previously served as U.S. representative for South Dakota's at-large congressional district. He has been the Senate majority leader and Senate Republican leader since January 2025.

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07/01/1960

Loretta Sanchez, American politician

Loretta Lorna Sanchez is an American politician who served in the United States House of Representatives from 1997 to 2017, representing parts of central Orange County, California. A member of the Democratic Party, she was first elected in 1996, when she defeated long-serving Republican U.S. Representative Bob Dornan by fewer than 1,000 votes. During her time in the House of Representatives, Sanchez was a member of the Blue Dog Coalition of moderate-to-conservative Democrats.

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07/01/1959

Angela Smith, Baroness Smith of Basildon, English accountant and politician

Angela Evans Smith, Baroness Smith of Basildon, is a British politician and life peer serving as Leader of the House of Lords and Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal since 2024. A member of the Labour and Co-operative parties, she was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Basildon from 1997 to 2010.

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Kathy Valentine, American bass player and songwriter

Kathryn Valentine is an American musician who is the bassist for the rock band the Go-Go's. She has maintained a career in music through songwriting, recording, performing and touring as well as additional academic and creative pursuits. Valentine was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in October 2021 as a member of The Go-Go's.

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07/01/1957

Nicholson Baker, American novelist and essayist

Nicholson Baker is an American novelist and essayist. His fiction generally de-emphasizes narrative in favor of careful description and characterization. His early novels such as The Mezzanine and Room Temperature were distinguished by their minute inspection of his characters' and narrators' stream of consciousness. Out of a total of ten novels, three are erotica: Vox, The Fermata and House of Holes.

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Katie Couric, American television journalist, anchor, and author

Katherine Anne Couric is an American journalist and presenter. She is founder of Katie Couric Media, a multimedia news and production company. She also publishes a daily newsletter, Wake Up Call. Since 2016, she has hosted the podcast Next Question with Katie Couric.

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07/01/1956

David Caruso, American actor

David Stephen Caruso is a retired American actor and producer, best known for his roles as Detective John Kelly on the ABC crime drama NYPD Blue (1993–1994) and Lieutenant Horatio Caine on the CBS series CSI: Miami (2002–2012). Caruso appeared in the feature films An Officer and a Gentleman (1982), First Blood, Twins (1988), King of New York (1990), Kiss of Death (1995), and Proof of Life (2000).

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07/01/1955

Mamata Shankar, Indian-Bengali actress

Mamata Shankar is an Indian actress and dancer. She is known for her work in Bengali cinema. She has acted in films by directors including Satyajit Ray, Mrinal Sen, Rituparno Ghosh, Buddhadeb Dasgupta and Gautam Ghosh. In addition to being an actress, she is a dancer and choreographer. She was the niece of musician Pandit Ravi Shankar. Her brother, Ananda Shankar, was an Indo-Western fusion musician.

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07/01/1954

Alan Butcher, English cricketer and coach

Alan Raymond Butcher is a former English cricketer who is part of a family known for its strong cricketing connections. Although only selected to play for England on one occasion, he was lauded for his skills in first-class cricket and was named a Wisden Cricketer of the Year in 1991. He became Essex coach in 1993, and coached Surrey between 2005 and 2008. Cricket writer, Colin Bateman noted Butcher was, "a popular and accomplished left-handed opener, unlucky to be consigned to membership of the 'One Cap Club'... despite consistent county performances and an ability to tackle quick bowlers, Butcher was passed over".

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07/01/1953

Robert Longo, American painter and sculptor

Robert Longo is an American artist, filmmaker, photographer and musician. Longo became first well known in the 1980s for his Men in the Cities drawing and print series, which depict sharply dressed men and women writhing in contorted emotion. He lives in New York and East Hampton.

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07/01/1952

Sammo Hung, Hong Kong actor, director, producer, and martial artist

Samuel "Sammo" Hung Kam-bo is a Hong Kong actor, martial artist, and filmmaker, known for his work in martial arts films, Hong Kong action cinema, and as a fight choreographer for other actors such as Kim Tai-chung, Jackie Chan, Yuen Biao, and Yuen Wah.

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07/01/1950

Juan Gabriel, Mexican singer-songwriter (died 2016)

Alberto Aguilera Valadez, known professionally as Juan Gabriel, was a Mexican singer-songwriter. Colloquially nicknamed Juanga and El Divo de Juárez, Juan Gabriel was known for his flamboyant style, which broke norms and standards within the Latin music industry. Widely regarded as one of the best and most prolific Mexican composers and singers of all time, he is considered a pop icon.

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07/01/1948

Kenny Loggins, American singer-songwriter

Kenneth Clark Loggins is an American singer, songwriter, and guitarist. His early songs were recorded with the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band in 1970, which led to seven albums recorded with Jim Messina as Loggins and Messina from 1972 to 1977. His early soundtrack contributions date back to A Star Is Born in 1976, and he is known as the "King of the Movie Soundtrack". As a solo artist, Loggins experienced a string of soundtrack successes, including an Academy Award nomination for "Footloose" in 1985. Finally Home was released in 2013, shortly after Loggins formed the group Blue Sky Riders with Gary Burr and Georgia Middleman. He has won two Grammy Awards and a Daytime Emmy Award; and was nominated for an Academy Award, a Tony Award, and a Golden Globe Award.

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07/01/1947

Tony Elliott, English publisher, founded Time Out (died 2020)

Anthony Michael Manton Elliott, CBE was an English publisher, and the founder and owner of Time Out Group, based in London. He was educated at Stowe School and Keele University.

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07/01/1946

Michele Elliott, author, psychologist and founder of child protection charity Kidscape

Michele Irmiter Elliott OBE is an author, psychologist, teacher and the founder and director of child protection charity Kidscape. She has chaired World Health Organization and Home Office working groups and is a Winston Churchill fellow.

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Jann Wenner, American publisher, co-founded Rolling Stone

Jann Simon Wenner is an American businessman who co-founded the popular culture magazine Rolling Stone with Ralph J. Gleason and is the former owner of Men's Journal magazine. He participated in the Free Speech Movement while attending the University of California, Berkeley. Wenner co-founded Rolling Stone in 1967.

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07/01/1945

Tony Conigliaro, American baseball player (died 1990)

Anthony Richard Conigliaro, nicknamed "Tony C" and "Conig", was an American Major League Baseball outfielder and right-handed batter who played for the Boston Red Sox and California Angels (1971). Born in Revere, Massachusetts, he was a 1962 graduate of St. Mary's High School in Lynn, Massachusetts. Conigliaro started his MLB career as a teenager, hitting a home run in his first at-bat during his home field debut in 1964, and reaching 100 career home runs faster than any player in American League history.

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Raila Odinga, Kenyan engineer and politician, 2nd Prime Minister of Kenya (died 2025)

Raila Amolo Odinga was a Kenyan politician who served as Prime Minister from 2008 to 2013. He was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Langata Constituency from 1992 to 2013. He was also the leader of Azimio la Umoja–One Kenya Coalition Party. Odinga ran for President of Kenya five times, with none of his attempts being successful. Each time, Odinga alleged electoral fraud.

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Peter Schowtka, German politician (died 2022)

Peter Georg Schowtka was a German politician who served as a member of the Landtag of Saxony from 1991 to 2014. Schowtka was an ethnic Sorb.

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07/01/1944

Mike McGear, British performing artist and rock photographer

Peter Michael McCartney, also known professionally as Mike McGear, is an English musician and photographer who was a member of the groups the Scaffold and Grimms. He is the younger brother of former Beatle Paul McCartney.

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Kotaro Suzumura, Japanese economist and academic (died 2020)

Kotaro Suzumura was a Japanese economist and professor emeritus of Hitotsubashi University and Waseda University. He graduated from Hitotsubashi University in 1966. His research interests were in social choice theory and welfare economics. He was also a Fellow of the Econometric Society. He was named a Person of Cultural Merit in 2017.

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07/01/1943

Sadako Sasaki, Japanese survivor of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, known for one thousand origami cranes (died 1955)

Sadako Sasaki was a Japanese girl who became a victim of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima by the United States. She was two years of age when the bombs were dropped and was severely irradiated. She survived for another ten years, becoming one of the most widely known hibakusha—a Japanese term meaning "bomb-affected person". She is remembered through the story of the more than one thousand origami cranes she folded before her death. She died at the age of 12 on October 25, 1955, at the Hiroshima Red Cross Hospital.

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07/01/1942

Vasily Alekseyev, Russian-German weightlifter and coach (died 2011)

Vasily Ivanovich Alekseyev was a Soviet weightlifter. He set 80 world records and 81 Soviet national records in weightlifting and won Olympic gold medals at the 1972 and 1976 games.

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07/01/1941

Iona Brown, English violinist and conductor (died 2004)

Iona Brown, OBE, was a British violinist and conductor.

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John Steiner, English actor (died 2022)

John Steiner was an English actor. Tall and gaunt, he attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and performed on-stage for the Royal Shakespeare Company, but was best known to audiences for his roles in Italian films, several of which became cult classics.

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John E. Walker, English chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate

Sir John Ernest Walker is a British chemist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1997. As of 2015 Walker is Emeritus Director and Professor at the MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit in Cambridge, and a Fellow of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge.

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07/01/1938

Bob Boland, Australian rugby league player and coach

Bob Boland nicknamed "Bolo" is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer and coach who played for the Balmain Tigers and Penrith Panthers.

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Lou Graham, American golfer

Louis Krebs Graham is an American professional golfer. Graham won six PGA Tour tournaments including the 1975 U.S. Open.

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Rory Storm, English singer-songwriter (died 1972)

Rory Storm was an English musician and vocalist. Born in Liverpool, Storm was the singer and leader of Rory Storm and the Hurricanes, a Liverpudlian band who featured drummer Ringo Starr before he joined The Beatles.

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07/01/1936

Hunter Davies, Scottish author and journalist

Edward Hunter Davies is a British author, journalist and broadcaster. His books include the only authorised biography of the Beatles.

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07/01/1935

Kenny Davern, American clarinet player and saxophonist (died 2006)

John Kenneth Davern was an American jazz clarinetist.

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Valery Kubasov, Russian engineer and astronaut (died 2014)

Valery Nikolaevich Kubasov was a Soviet and Russian cosmonaut who flew on two missions in the Soyuz programme as a flight engineer: Soyuz 6 and Soyuz 19, and commanded Soyuz 36 in the Intercosmos programme. On 21 July 1975, the Soyuz 7K-TM module used for ASTP landed in Kazakhstan at 5:51 p.m. and Kubasov was the first to exit the craft. Kubasov performed the first welding experiments in space, along with Georgy Shonin.

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Li Shengjiao, Chinese diplomat and international jurist (died 2017)

Li Shengjiao was a senior Chinese diplomat, jurist, educator, scholar, bilingual author, former Nanjing sports star and an expert on the I Ching. Being recognized as an authority on international law and U.S.-China relations, Li was known for his contribution to the International Law of the Sea and China's boundary and ocean affairs.

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07/01/1934

Jean Corbeil, Canadian lawyer and politician, 29th Canadian Minister of Labour (died 2002)

Jean Corbeil, was a Canadian politician.

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Tassos Papadopoulos, Cypriot lawyer and politician, 5th President of Cyprus (died 2008)

Efstathios "Tassos" Nikolaou Papadopoulos was a Cypriot politician and barrister, who served as President of Cyprus from 2003 to 2008.

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07/01/1933

Elliott Kastner, American-English film producer (died 2010)

Elliott Kastner was an American film producer, whose best known credits include Where Eagles Dare (1968), The Long Goodbye (1973), The Missouri Breaks (1976), and Angel Heart (1987).

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07/01/1931

Mirja Hietamies, Finnish skier (died 2013)

Mirja Kyllikki Hietamies-Eteläpää was a cross-country skier from Finland who competed at the 1952 and 1956 Winter Olympics. She won a gold medal in the 3 × 5 km relay in 1956 and a silver medal in the individual 10 km race in 1952, placing sixth in 1956. She also won two medals at the 1954 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships with a silver in the 3 × 5 km relay and a bronze in the 10 km.

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07/01/1929

Robert Juniper, Australian painter and sculptor (died 2012)

Robert Litchfield Juniper, AM was an Australian artist, art teacher, illustrator, painter, printmaker and sculptor.

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Terry Moore, American actress

Terry Moore is an American actress who began her career as a child actor. She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in Come Back, Little Sheba (1952).

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07/01/1928

William Peter Blatty, American author and screenwriter (died 2017)

William Peter Blatty was an American writer, director and producer. He is best known for his 1971 novel The Exorcist and for his screenplay for the 1973 film adaptation. Blatty won an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for The Exorcist, and was nominated for Best Picture as its producer. The film also earned Blatty a Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Drama as producer.

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07/01/1926

Kim Jong-pil, South Korean lieutenant and politician, 11th Prime Minister of South Korea (died 2018)

Kim Jong-pil, also known colloquially as JP, was a South Korean politician who was the founder and first director of the Korean Central Intelligence Agency. He served as the prime minister twice, from 1971 to 1975 during the presidency of Park Chung Hee and from 1998 to 2000 during the presidency of Kim Dae-jung. He was a nine-term National Assembly member.

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07/01/1925

Gerald Durrell, Indian-English zookeeper, conservationist and author, founded Durrell Wildlife Park (died 1995)

Gerald Malcolm Durrell was a British naturalist, writer, zookeeper, conservationist, and television presenter. He was born in Jamshedpur in British India, and moved to England when his father died in 1928. In 1935 the family moved to Corfu, and stayed there for four years, before the outbreak of World War II forced them to return to the UK. In 1946 he received an inheritance from his father's will that he used to fund animal-collecting trips to the British Cameroons and British Guiana. He married Jacquie Rasen in 1951; they had very little money, and she persuaded him to write an account of his first trip to the Cameroons. The result, titled The Overloaded Ark, sold well, and he began writing accounts of his other trips. An expedition to Argentina and Paraguay followed in 1953, and three years later he published My Family and Other Animals, which became a bestseller.

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07/01/1924

Geoffrey Bayldon, English actor (died 2017)

Albert Geoffrey Bayldon was an English actor. After playing roles in many stage productions, including the works of William Shakespeare, he became known for portraying the title role of the children's series Catweazle (1969–70). Bayldon's other long-running parts include the Crowman in Worzel Gummidge (1979–81) and Magic Grandad in the BBC television series Watch (1995).

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07/01/1923

Hugh Kenner, Canadian scholar and critic (died 2003)

William Hugh Kenner was a Canadian literary scholar, critic and professor. His studies on Modernist literature often analyzed the work of James Joyce, Ezra Pound, and Samuel Beckett. His major study of the period, The Pound Era, argued for Pound as the central figure of Modernism, and is considered one of the most important works on the topic.

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Vaklush Tolev, Bulgarian theologian, educator, public figure and lecturer (died 2013)

Vaklush Tolev, also known as Vaklush, The Teacher of Wisdom, was a theologian by education, a public figure, a university lecturer, and an author of a multitude of works of religious, philosophical, cultural and historical nature.

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07/01/1922

Alvin Dark, American baseball player and manager (died 2014)

Alvin Ralph Dark, nicknamed "Blackie" and "the Swamp Fox", was an American professional baseball shortstop and manager. He played fourteen years in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Boston/Milwaukee Braves, the New York Giants (1950–1956), the St. Louis Cardinals (1956–1958), the Chicago Cubs (1958–59), and the Philadelphia Phillies (1960). Later, he managed the San Francisco Giants (1961–1964), the Kansas City/Oakland Athletics, the Cleveland Indians (1968–1971), and the San Diego Padres (1977). He was a three-time All-Star and a two-time World Series champion, once as a player (1954) and once as a manager (1974).

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Jean-Pierre Rampal, French flute player (died 2000)

Jean-Pierre Louis Rampal was a French flautist. Rampal popularised the flute in the post–World War II years, recovering flute compositions from the Baroque era, and spurring contemporary composers, such as Francis Poulenc, to create new works that have become modern standards in the flautist's repertoire.

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07/01/1921

Esmeralda Arboleda Cadavid, Colombian politician (died 1997)

María Esmeralda Arboleda Cadavid was a Colombian politician, suffragist and the first woman elected to the Senate of Colombia, serving from 1958 to 1961.

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Chester Kallman, American poet and translator (died 1975)

Chester Simon Kallman was an American poet, librettist, and translator, best known for collaborating with W. H. Auden on opera librettos for Igor Stravinsky and other composers.

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07/01/1920

Vincent Gardenia, Italian-American actor (died 1992)

Vincent Gardenia was an Italian American stage, film and television actor. He was nominated twice for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, first for Bang the Drum Slowly (1973) and again for Moonstruck (1987). He also portrayed Det. Frank Ochoa in Death Wish (1974) and its 1982 sequel, Death Wish II, and played Mr. Mushnik in the musical film adaptation Little Shop of Horrors (1986). His other notable feature films include Murder Inc. (1960), The Hustler (1961), The Front Page (1974), Greased Lightning (1977), Heaven Can Wait (1978) and The Super (1991).

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07/01/1916

W. L. Jeyasingham, Sri Lankan geographer and academic (died 1989)

William Luther "W.L." Jeyasingham was a Sri Lankan Tamil teacher, geographer, academic and dean of the Faculty of Arts, University of Jaffna.

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Babe Pratt, Canadian ice hockey player (died 1988)

Walter Peter "Babe" Pratt was a Canadian professional ice hockey defenceman/left winger who played for the New York Rangers, Toronto Maple Leafs and the Boston Bruins in the National Hockey League between 1935 and 1947. He is the father of the NHL hockey player, Tracy Pratt.

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07/01/1913

Francis de Wolff, English actor (died 1984)

Baron Francis-Marie Arist de Wolff was an English character actor. Large, bearded, and beetle-browed, he was often cast as villains and foreigners in both film and television.

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Johnny Mize, American baseball player, coach, and sportscaster (died 1993)

John Robert Mize, nicknamed "Big Jawn" and "the Big Cat", was an American professional baseball first baseman. He played 15 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the St. Louis Cardinals, New York Giants, and New York Yankees from 1936 to 1953, losing three seasons to military service during World War II. Mize was a ten-time All-Star and won five consecutive World Series with the Yankees.

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07/01/1912

Charles Addams, American cartoonist, created The Addams Family (died 1988)

Charles Samuel Addams was an American cartoonist known for his darkly humorous and macabre characters. Some of his recurring characters became known as the Addams Family, and were popularized through various adaptations.

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07/01/1910

Orval Faubus, American soldier and politician, 36th Governor of Arkansas (died 1994)

Orval Eugene Faubus was an American politician who served as the 36th governor of Arkansas from 1955 to 1967, as a member of the Democratic Party. He is best known for the 1957 Little Rock Crisis, when he refused to comply with a decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in the 1954 case Brown v. Board of Education, and ordered the Arkansas National Guard to prevent black students from attending Little Rock Central High School. He was elected to six two-year terms as governor.

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07/01/1908

Red Allen, American trumpet player (died 1967)

Henry James "Red" Allen Jr. was an American jazz trumpeter and vocalist whose playing has been described by Joachim-Ernst Berendt and others as the first to fully incorporate the innovations of Louis Armstrong.

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07/01/1904

Joseph Whitty, Irish Republican died while on hunger strike at Curragh Internment camp (died 1923)

Michael Joseph Whitty was an Irish militant and Republican activist who was the youngest of the 22 Irish republicans who died while on hunger strike in the 20th century. Whitty was one of four Irish Republicans to die during the 1923 Irish hunger strikes. Decades after his death another Volunteer also died on 2 August during the 1981 Irish hunger strike. Volunteer Whitty fought with the IRA in the Irish War of Independence, on the Anti-Treaty side in the Irish Civil War and died while under internment by the Irish Free State government.

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07/01/1903

Alan Napier, English actor (died 1988)

Alan William Napier-Clavering, better known as Alan Napier, was an English actor. After a decade in West End theatre, he had a long film career in Britain and later on in Hollywood. Napier is best remembered for portraying Alfred Pennyworth, Bruce Wayne's butler in the 1960s live-action Batman television series.

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Hooley Smith, Canadian ice hockey player (died 1963)

Reginald Joseph "Hooley" Smith was a Canadian professional ice hockey forward who played for the Ottawa Senators, Montreal Maroons, Boston Bruins and New York Americans between 1924 and 1941. He won the Stanley Cup twice, with Ottawa and Montreal. Prior to turning professional he played at the 1924 Winter Olympics, winning a gold medal with the Canada national team.

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07/01/1900

John Brownlee, Australian actor and singer (died 1969)

John Donald Mackenzie Brownlee was an Australian operatic baritone. For most of his professional career he was based in Europe and then the United States.

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07/01/1899

Francis Poulenc, French pianist and composer (died 1963)

Francis Jean Marcel Poulenc was a French composer and pianist. His compositions include songs, solo piano works, chamber music, choral pieces, operas, ballets, and orchestral concert music. Among the best-known are the piano suite Trois mouvements perpétuels (1919), the ballet Les biches (1923), the Concert champêtre (1928) for harpsichord and orchestra, the Organ Concerto (1938), the opera Dialogues des Carmélites (1957), and the Gloria (1959) for soprano, choir, and orchestra.

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F. Orlin Tremaine, American magazine executive, writer, and magazine editor (Astounding Stories) (died 1956)

Frederick Orlin Tremaine was an American science fiction magazine editor, most notably of the influential Astounding Stories. He edited a number of other magazines, headed several publishing companies, and sporadically wrote fiction.

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07/01/1898

Al Bowlly, Mozambican-English singer-songwriter (disputed; (died 1941)

Albert Allick Bowlly was a British vocalist, crooner, and dance band guitarist who was Britain's most popular singer for most of the 1930s. He recorded upwards of 1,000 songs that were listened to by millions in Britain and other English speaking countries, seeing further success in the United States.

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07/01/1895

Hudson Fysh, Australian pilot and businessman, co-founded Qantas Airways Limited (died 1974)

Sir Wilmot Hudson Fysh was an Australian aviator and businessman. A founder of the Australian airline company Qantas, Fysh was born in Launceston, Tasmania. Serving in the Battle of Gallipoli and Palestine Campaign as a lieutenant of the Australian Light Horse Brigade, Fysh later became an observer and gunner to Paul McGinness in the AFC. He was awarded a Distinguished Flying Cross during the aftermath of the war for his services to aerial warfare.

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07/01/1891

Zora Neale Hurston, American novelist, short story writer, and folklorist (died 1960)

Zora Neale Hurston was an American writer, anthropologist, folklorist, and documentary filmmaker. She portrayed racial struggles in the early-20th-century American South and published research on Hoodoo and Caribbean Vodou. The most popular of her four novels is Their Eyes Were Watching God, published in 1937. She also wrote more than 50 short stories, plays, an autobiography, ethnographies, and many essays. Some of her work, namely Tell My Horse (1937), explored ethnomusicological methods of study long before there were formal boundaries for the discipline, especially not boundaries that included the respectful study of communities of color. Hurston's unique background and exceptional approach to anthropology laid key foundations for the growth of ethnography, literature, and Africana Studies.

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07/01/1890

Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson, American soldier, pulp magazine writer, and pioneer of the American comic book (died 1965)

Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson was an American pulp magazine writer, entrepreneur and military officer who pioneered the American comic book, publishing the first such periodical consisting solely of original material rather than reprints of newspaper comic strips. Historian and author David Hajdu credits Wheeler-Nicholson as "the link between the pulps and what we know of as comics today." He launched the magazine comics company National Allied Publications in 1935, which would evolve to become DC Comics, one of the United States' two largest comic book publishers along with rival Marvel Comics.

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07/01/1889

Vera de Bosset, Russian-American ballerina (died 1982)

Vera de Bosset Stravinsky was an American dancer and artist. She is better known as the second wife of composer Igor Stravinsky, whom she married in 1940 after having been in an adulterous affair with him since July 1921.

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07/01/1877

William Clarence Matthews, American baseball player, coach, and lawyer (died 1928)

William Clarence Matthews was an early 20th-century African-American pioneer in athletics, politics and law. Born in Selma, Alabama, Matthews was enrolled at the Tuskegee Institute and, with the help of Booker T. Washington, enrolled at the Phillips Academy in 1900 and Harvard University in 1901. At Harvard, he became one of the standout baseball players, leading the team in batting average for the 1903, 1904, and 1905 seasons.

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07/01/1876

William Hurlstone, English pianist and composer (died 1906)

William Yeates Hurlstone was an English composer. Showing brilliant musical talent from an early age, he died young, before his full potential could be realized. Nevertheless, he left behind an exquisite, albeit small, body of work. His teacher Sir Charles Villiers Stanford considered him the most talented of his pupils, above Ralph Vaughan Williams and Gustav Holst.

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07/01/1875

Gustav Flatow, German gymnast (died 1945)

Gustav Felix Flatow was a German gymnast. He competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens and at the 1900 Summer Olympics in Paris. Flatow was Jewish, and was born in Berent, West Prussia. In 1892, he moved to Berlin.

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07/01/1873

Charles Péguy, French poet and journalist (died 1914)

Charles Pierre Péguy was a French poet, essayist, and editor. His two main philosophies were socialism and nationalism; by 1908 at the latest, after years of uneasy agnosticism, he had become a believing Roman Catholic. From that time, Catholicism strongly influenced his works.

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Adolph Zukor, Hungarian-American film producer, co-founded Paramount Pictures (died 1976)

Adolph Zukor was a Hungarian-American film producer best known as one of the three founders of Paramount Pictures. He produced one of America's first feature-length films, The Prisoner of Zenda, in 1913.

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07/01/1871

Émile Borel, French mathematician and politician (died 1956)

Félix Édouard Justin Émile Borel was a French mathematician and politician. As a mathematician, he was known for his founding work in the areas of measure theory and probability.

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07/01/1863

Anna Murray Vail, American botanist and first librarian of the New York Botanical Garden (died 1955)

Anna Murray Vail was an American botanist and the first librarian of the New York Botanical Garden. She was a student and collaborator of botanist and geologist Nathaniel Lord Britton, with whom she helped to found the New York Botanical Garden.

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07/01/1858

Eliezer Ben-Yehuda, Belarusian lexicographer and journalist (died 1922)

Eliezer Ben‑Yehuda was a Russian–Jewish linguist, lexicographer, and journalist who immigrated to Jerusalem in 1881, when the Ottoman Empire ruled it. He is renowned as the lexicographer of the first Hebrew dictionary and also as the editor of Jerusalem-based HaZvi, one of the first Hebrew newspapers published in Mandatory Palestine. Ben-Yehuda was the primary driving force behind the revival of the Hebrew language.

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07/01/1856

Evald Relander, Finnish teacher, agronomist and banker (died 1926)

Evald Kristian Relander was a Finnish teacher and banker who received the title of agricultural councillor (maanviljelysneuvos). His son was Lauri Kristian Relander, the second President of the Republic of Finland.

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07/01/1852

Quianu Robinson, New Mexican Congressman and political ally of Conrad Hilton (died 1919)

Quianu Robinson (1852–1919) was a New Mexican politician who served as a Republican member of the New Mexico House of Representatives representing the second district of New Mexico from 1916 to 1918.

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07/01/1844

Bernadette Soubirous, French nun and saint (died 1879)

Bernadette Soubirous, SCN, also known as Bernadette of Lourdes, was a miller's daughter from Lourdes, in the department of Hautes-Pyrénées in France, and is best known for experiencing apparitions of a "young lady" who asked for a chapel to be built at the nearby cave-grotto. These apparitions occurred between 11 February and 16 July 1858, and the young lady who appeared to her identified herself as the "Immaculate Conception".

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07/01/1837

Thomas Henry Ismay, English businessman, founded the White Star Line Shipping Company (died 1899)

Thomas Henry Ismay was an owner of the White Star Line. His eldest son Joseph Bruce Ismay was managing director of the White Star Line and survived the sinking of its ocean liner RMS Titanic on her maiden voyage in 1912.

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07/01/1834

Johann Philipp Reis, German physicist and academic, invented the Reis telephone (died 1874)

Johann Philipp Reis was a self-taught German scientist and inventor. In 1861, he constructed the first make-and-break telephone, today called the Reis telephone. It was the first device to transmit a voice via electronic signals, and is regarded by some as the first telephone. Reis also coined the term telephone.

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07/01/1832

James Munro, Scottish-Australian publisher and politician, 15th Premier of Victoria (died 1908)

James Munro was a Scottish born Australian businessman and colonial politician, and the 15th Premier of Victoria. He is best known as one of the leading figures in the land boom of the 1880s and especially the subsequent crash of the early 1890s, where his Christian morals were seen to clash with his business activities.

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07/01/1831

Heinrich von Stephan, German postman, founded the Universal Postal Union (died 1897)

Ernst Heinrich Wilhelm von Stephan was a general post director for the German Empire who reorganized the German postal service. He was integral in the founding of the Universal Postal Union in 1874, and in 1877 introduced the telephone to Germany.

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07/01/1830

Albert Bierstadt, American painter (died 1902)

Albert Bierstadt was a German American painter best known for his lavish, sweeping landscapes of the American West. He joined several journeys of the westward expansion to paint the scenes. He was not the first artist to record the sites, but he was the foremost painter of them for the remainder of the 19th century.

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07/01/1827

Sandford Fleming, Scottish-Canadian engineer, created Universal Standard Time (died 1915)

Sir Sandford Fleming was a Scottish Canadian engineer and inventor. Born and raised in Scotland, he immigrated to colonial Canada at the age of 18. He promoted worldwide standard time zones, a prime meridian, and use of the 24-hour clock as key elements to communicating the accurate time, all of which influenced the creation of Coordinated Universal Time. He designed Canada's first postage stamp, produced a great deal of work in the fields of land surveying and map making, engineered much of the Intercolonial Railway and the first several hundred kilometers of the Canadian Pacific Railway, and was a founding member of the Royal Society of Canada and founder of the Canadian Institute.

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07/01/1815

Elizabeth Louisa Foster Mather, American writer (died 1882)

Elizabeth Louisa Mather was an American writer from Connecticut. A relative of Miles Standish, she converted to Universalism after her marriage. She was a prolific writer for 40 years, contributing essays, stories, and poems to various periodicals. Her writing often addressed religious subjects, capital punishment, and woman's suffrage.

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07/01/1814

Robert Nicoll, Scottish poet (died 1837)

Robert Nicoll was a Scottish poet and lyricist whose life, although short, left a lasting impact.

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07/01/1800

Millard Fillmore, American politician, 13th President of the United States (died 1874)

Millard Fillmore was the 13th president of the United States, serving from 1850 to 1853. He was the last president to be a member of the Whig Party while in the White House, and the last to be neither a Democrat nor a Republican. A former member of the U.S. House of Representatives, Fillmore was elected vice president in 1848, and succeeded to the presidency when Zachary Taylor died in 1850. Fillmore was instrumental in passing the Compromise of 1850, which led to a brief truce in the battle over the expansion of slavery.

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07/01/1797

Mariano Paredes, Mexican general and 16th president (1845–1846) (died 1849)

José Mariano Epifanio Paredes y Arrillaga was a Mexican conservative general who served as president of Mexico between December 1845 and July 1846. He assumed office through a coup against the liberal administration led by José Joaquín de Herrera. He was the grandfather of 38th Mexican President Pedro Lascuráin Paredes.

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07/01/1768

Joseph Bonaparte, Italian king (died 1844)

Joseph Bonaparte, regnal name Joseph I, was a French statesman, lawyer, diplomat and older brother of Napoleon Bonaparte. In 1806, Napoleon made him King of Naples, and then King of Spain and the Indies in 1808. After the fall of Napoleon, Joseph styled himself Comte de Survilliers and emigrated to the United States, where he lived in the Point Breeze estate at Bordentown, New Jersey.

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07/01/1746

George Elphinstone, 1st Viscount Keith, Scottish admiral and politician (died 1823)

Admiral George Keith Elphinstone, 1st Viscount Keith, was a Royal Navy officer and politician who served in the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars.

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07/01/1718

Israel Putnam, American general (died 1790)

Israel Putnam, popularly known as "Old Put", was an American military officer and landowner who served in the French and Indian War and American Revolutionary War. He was an officer in Rogers' Rangers during the French and Indian War, during which Putnam was captured by Mohawk warriors. He was saved from the ritual burning given to enemies by the intervention of French captain named Molang, with whom the Mohawks were allied. Putnam's exploits became known far beyond his home of Connecticut's borders through the circulation of folk legends in the American colonies and states celebrating his exploits.

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07/01/1713

Giovanni Battista Locatelli, Italian opera director and manager (died 1785)

Giovanni Battista Locatelli was an Italian opera director, impresario and owner of a private opera company.

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07/01/1706

Johann Heinrich Zedler, German publisher (died 1751)

Johann Heinrich Zedler was a bookseller and publisher. His most important achievement was the creation of a German encyclopedia, the Grosses Universal-Lexicon , the largest and most comprehensive German-language encyclopedia developed in the 18th century.

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07/01/1685

Jonas Alströmer, Swedish agronomist and businessman (died 1761)

Jonas Alströmer was a pioneer of agriculture and industry in Sweden.

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07/01/1647

William Louis, Duke of Württemberg (died 1677)

William Louis was Duke of Württemberg from 1674 until his death in 1677.

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07/01/1634

Adam Krieger, German organist and composer (died 1666)

Adam Krieger was a German composer. Born in Driesen, Neumark, he studied organ with Samuel Scheidt in Halle. He succeeded Johann Rosenmüller as organist at Leipzig's Nikolaikirche (1655–57) and founded the city's Collegium Musicum before settling for the rest of his career as court organist in Dresden.

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07/01/1502

Pope Gregory XIII (died 1585)

Pope Gregory XIII was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 13 May 1572 to his death in April 1585. He is best known for commissioning and being the namesake for the Gregorian calendar, which remains the internationally accepted civil calendar to this day.

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07/01/1414

Henry II, Count of Nassau-Siegen (died 1451)

Count Henry II of Nassau-Siegen, de:Heinrich II. Graf von Nassau-Siegen, official titles: Graf zu Nassau, Vianden und Diez, Herr zu Breda, was since 1442 Count of Nassau-Siegen, of Vianden and of half Diez. He descended from the Ottonian Line of the House of Nassau.

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07/01/1355

Thomas of Woodstock, Duke of Gloucester, English politician, Lord High Constable of England (died 1397)

Thomas of Woodstock, Duke of Gloucester was the fifth surviving son and youngest child of King Edward III of England and Philippa of Hainault. He led the rebellion of the Lords Appellant against his nephew, King Richard II, in 1388. In 1397, he was accused of treason and imprisoned; while awaiting trial, he was assassinated, presumably on Richard's orders.

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07/01/0889

Li Bian, emperor of Southern Tang (died 943)

Li Bian, courtesy name Zhenglun, known as Xu Gao between 937 and 939 and Xu Zhigao before 937, and possibly Li Pengnu during his childhood, also known by his temple name as the Emperor Liezu of Southern Tang, was the founder and first emperor of the Chinese Southern Tang dynasty. In traditional histories, he is also often referred to as the First Lord of Southern Tang (南唐先主). He was an adopted son and successor of the Yang Wu regent Xu Wen who usurped power from the Yang Wu emperor Yang Pu.

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