Born on Friday, 9th January – Famous Birthdays

09/01/2006

Sarah Toscano, Italian singer-songwriter

Sarah Toscano is an Italian singer-songwriter. She rose to prominence in 2024, after winning the twenty-third edition of the talent show Amici di Maria De Filippi.

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09/01/2004

Souhardya De, Indian author and columnist

Souhardya De is an Indian writer, columnist, and commentator from Midnapore, West Bengal. He is a recipient of the Pradhan Mantri Rashtriya Bal Puraskar, a civilian award for Indian citizens under the age of 18, in 2021. He is a Think Big scholar at the University of Bristol and a Don Lavoie Fellow in political economy at the Mercatus Center. De was one of the young authors commissioned by the Government of India to commemorate Lal Pratap Singh on the occasion of India’s 75th anniversary of Independence.

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09/01/2003

Sangiovanni, Italian singer-songwriter

Giovanni Pietro Damian, known professionally as Sangiovanni, is an Italian singer-songwriter.

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09/01/2001

Eric García, Spanish footballer

Eric García Martret is a Spanish professional footballer who plays for La Liga club Barcelona and the Spain national team. Primarily a centre-back, he is also capable of playing as a full-back or defensive midfielder.

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Peter Mamouzelos, Australian rugby league player

Peter Mamouzelos is a Greek professional rugby league footballer who plays as a hooker for the South Sydney Rabbitohs in the National Rugby League and Greece at international level.

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Zeke Nnaji, American basketball player

Ezekiel Tobechukwu "Zeke" Nnaji is an American professional basketball player for the Denver Nuggets of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played college basketball for the Arizona Wildcats and was drafted 22nd overall by the Nuggets in the 2020 NBA draft.

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09/01/2000

Luka Šamanić, Croatian basketball player

Luka Šamanić is a Croatian professional basketball player for Zenit Saint Petersburg of the Russian VTB United League. A power forward, he was drafted 19th overall by the San Antonio Spurs in the 2019 NBA draft.

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09/01/1998

Kerris Dorsey, American actress

Kerris Dorsey is an American actress. She is known for her roles as Paige Whedon in the television series Brothers & Sisters; Casey Beane, Billy Beane's daughter, in the 2011 film Moneyball; and as Emily Cooper in the 2014 film Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day. Dorsey also portrayed Bridget Donovan, the daughter of the title character, in the television series Ray Donovan.

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Brent Rivera, American social media personality and actor

Brent Austin Rivera is an American influencer and actor who first gained popularity on the now-defunct video hosting service Vine. He has followings on Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube.

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09/01/1996

Vítek Vaněček, Czech ice hockey player

Vítek Vaněček is a Czech professional ice hockey player who is a goaltender for the Utah Mammoth of the National Hockey League (NHL). He won the Stanley Cup with the Florida Panthers in 2025.

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09/01/1995

Braden Hamlin-Uele, New Zealand rugby league player

Braden Hamlin-Uele is a professional rugby league footballer who plays as a prop for the Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks in the NRL. He has played for both Samoa and New Zealand at international level.

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Dominik Livaković, Croatian football goalkeeper

Dominik Livaković is a Croatian professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Croatian Football League club Dinamo Zagreb, on loan from Süper Lig club Fenerbahçe, and the Croatia national team.

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Nicola Peltz, American actress

Nicola Anne Peltz Beckham is an American actress. She is known for her roles as Katara in the film The Last Airbender (2010), Bradley Martin in the A&E drama series Bates Motel (2013–2015) and Tessa Yeager in the film Transformers: Age of Extinction (2014).

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09/01/1994

Radek Faksa, Czech ice hockey player

Radek Faksa is a Czech professional ice hockey player who is a centre for the Dallas Stars of the National Hockey League (NHL). In his rookie season in the Ontario Hockey League (OHL), he was the league's leading rookie scorer when he was playing for the Kitchener Rangers. Faksa was drafted 13th overall by the Stars in the 2012 NHL entry draft.

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09/01/1993

Katarina Johnson-Thompson, English long jumper and heptathlete

Katarina Mary Johnson-Thompson is an English athlete. A multi-eventer, she is primarily known as both a heptathlete and an indoor pentathlete. In heptathlon she is a double world champion, double Commonwealth Games champion and an Olympic and European silver medallist. In indoor pentathlon, she is a world and double European champion.

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Marcus Peters, American football player

Marcus Peters is an American former professional football cornerback who played in the National Football League (NFL). He was selected by the Kansas City Chiefs in the first round of the 2015 NFL draft and was also been a member of the Los Angeles Rams, Baltimore Ravens, and Las Vegas Raiders. He played college football for the Washington Huskies.

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09/01/1992

Jack Campbell, American ice hockey player

Jack Campbell is an American professional ice hockey goaltender. Prior to his professional career, Campbell played for the Windsor Spitfires and Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds of the Ontario Hockey League. He was selected in the first round by the Dallas Stars in the 2010 NHL entry draft and made his NHL debut in 2013. After spending several years in the minors, Campbell was traded to the Los Angeles Kings, serving as the team's backup before joining the Toronto Maple Leafs in 2020, where he emerged as an effective starting netminder and was named to the NHL All-Star Game in 2022. He left Toronto after the 2021–22 season to sign with the Edmonton Oilers. Performing poorly with the Oilers, he was waived by the team in November 2023, and assigned to their American Hockey League (AHL) affiliate, the Bakersfield Condors, before being bought out at the end of the season.

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Terrence Jones, American basketball player

Terrence Alexander Jones is an American professional basketball player who last played for Piratas de Quebradillas of the Baloncesto Superior Nacional (BSN). He played college basketball for the Kentucky Wildcats.

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Joseph Parker, Samoan heavyweight boxer

Joseph Dennis Parker, OM is a New Zealand professional boxer. He held the World Boxing Organization (WBO) heavyweight title from 2016 to 2018. At regional level, he has held multiple heavyweight championships, including the WBO Oriental, Africa, and Oceania titles; as well as the PABA, OPBF, and New Zealand titles. As an amateur, he represented New Zealand at the 2010 Commonwealth Games in the super-heavyweight division, and narrowly missed qualification for the 2012 Summer Olympics.

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09/01/1991

Ruby Soho, American wrestler

Dori Elizabeth Prange is an American professional wrestler. She is signed to All Elite Wrestling (AEW), where she performs under the ring name Ruby Soho, and is a former member of The Outcasts stable. She is also known for her time in WWE, where she performed under the ring name Ruby Riott, and has also worked in World Wonder Ring Stardom as Heidi Lovelace, as well as extensively on the U.S. independent circuit for promotions such as Shimmer Women Athletes, Shine Wrestling, Ohio Valley Wrestling (OVW) and IWA Mid-South.

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Álvaro Soler, Spanish singer-songwriter

Álvaro Tauchert Soler is a Spanish-German singer. He rose to prominence across Europe and Latin America with his 2015 hit "El mismo sol", primarily achieving success in Italy, Switzerland and Mexico. A special bilingual Spanish-English version of "El mismo sol", featuring Jennifer Lopez, was also recorded for international release in the United States, in the United Kingdom, and worldwide. His follow up single "Sofia" in 2016 also achieved chart success in European countries, reaching number 1 in Poland, Italy, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Belgium and Switzerland; and it is the most-viewed video on his YouTube channel. Soler has released four studio albums, Eterno agosto in 2015, Mar de colores in 2018, Magia in 2021 and El camino in 2025. His single "La cintura" taken from his second album has become a pan-European hit for him.

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09/01/1989

Michael Beasley, American basketball player

Michael Paul Beasley Jr. is an American former professional basketball who played eleven seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA) for seven teams, most notably the Miami Heat. He played college basketball for Kansas State University for one year before declaring for the NBA draft in 2008. Beasley was the 2nd overall pick in the 2008 NBA draft and was selected by the Miami Heat. He is regarded as one of the best freshman college basketball players of the 2000s. Though he is ambidextrous, he shoots left-handed.

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Nina Dobrev, Bulgarian-Canadian actress

Nikolina Kamenova Dobreva, known professionally as Nina Dobrev, is a Canadian actress. She is known for portraying Elena Gilbert and Katherine Pierce in The CW's supernatural drama series The Vampire Diaries (2009–2015).

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Yana Maksimava, Belarusian heptathlete

Yana Maksimava is a Lithuanian-Belarusian heptathlete. She was born in Vilnius, the capital of the then Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic. She is married to fellow Belarusian athlete Andrei Krauchanka. Amid the forced repatriation and subsequent defection of Belarusian sprinter Krystsina Tsimanouskaya at the Summer Olympics in Tokyo in 2021, Maksimava announced that she and her husband would also not be returning to Belarus and would seek asylum in Germany, where the couple trains.

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Samardo Samuels, Jamaican-American basketball player

Samardo Anthony Samuels is a Jamaican professional basketball player who last played for Trotamundos de Carabobo. He is an NBA Veteran, Italian League Champion and Greek League All-Star. With a global career spanning over 15 years as a professional basketball player, he has played in over 13 countries across the world and represented Jamaica in the FIBA Americas Championship.

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Chris Sandow, Australian rugby league player

Chris Sandow is an Indigenous Australian former professional rugby league footballer who played as a goal-kicking halfback or five-eighth. He could also play as a fullback.

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Haris Sohail, Pakistani cricketer

Haris Sohail is a Pakistani cricketer who plays as a left-handed batsman and who occasionally bowls left-arm orthodox.

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09/01/1988

Lee Yeon-hee, South Korean actress

Lee Yeon-hee is a South Korean actress. She is most known for her work in the television series East of Eden (2008), Phantom (2012), Miss Korea (2013), The Package (2017); and in the films A Millionaire's First Love (2006), M (2007), and Detective K: Secret of the Lost Island (2015).

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09/01/1987

Lucas Leiva, Brazilian footballer

Lucas Pezzini Leiva, known as Lucas or Lucas Leiva, is a Brazilian former professional footballer who played as a defensive midfielder for Grêmio, Liverpool, Lazio and the Brazil national team.

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Paolo Nutini, Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist

Paolo Giovanni Nutini is a Scottish singer-songwriter from Paisley, Renfrewshire, Scotland. Nutini's debut album, These Streets (2006), peaked at number three on the UK Albums Chart. Its follow-up, Sunny Side Up (2009), debuted at number one on the UK Albums Chart. Both albums have been certified quintuple platinum by the British Phonographic Industry. Five years later, Nutini released his third studio album, Caustic Love, in April 2014, which debuted at number one on the UK Albums Chart and was certified platinum by the BPI. In July 2022, he released his fourth album, Last Night in the Bittersweet.

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Jami Puustinen, Finnish footballer

Jami Petteri Puustinen is a Finnish former football player. Born in Espoo, Puustinen began his career with FC Kasiysi at the age of eight in 1995, before signing for FC Espoo in 2000. After going on trial with Manchester United in July 2003, Puustinen attracted attention from several big European clubs, before signing a three-year contract with United on 29 September 2003. However, Puustinen never made a senior appearance for Manchester United and he was released in January 2006. He then returned to Finland to sign for newly promoted FC Honka.

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09/01/1986

Raphael Diaz, Swiss ice hockey player

Raphael Salvador Diaz is a Swiss professional ice hockey defenceman who currently plays with HC Fribourg-Gottéron in the National League (NL). He began his professional career with EV Zug in 2003 and has also played with the Montreal Canadiens, Vancouver Canucks, New York Rangers and the Calgary Flames. After returning to Switzerland with EV Zug Diaz has won the 2019 Swiss Cup and the 2020-21 NL Championship

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Jéferson Gomes, Brazilian footballer

Jéferson Gomes do Nascimento or simply Jéferson, is a Brazilian footballer who plays for Treze.

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Amanda Mynhardt, South African netball player

Amanda Mynhardt is a South African netball player. She plays in the positions of GK and GD. She is currently captain of the South Africa national netball team and has competed in the 2010 Commonwealth Games in Delhi and the 2011 World Netball Championships in Singapore. She has also participated in the 2010 World Netball Series and the 2011 World Netball Series, both held in Liverpool, UK. In October 2012, she travelled with the Proteas to participate in the 2012 Netball Quad Series, and in November 2012 she was a member of the Proteas Fast5 team in the 2012 Fast5 Netball World Series where she won a bronze medal.

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09/01/1985

Juan Francisco Torres, Spanish footballer

Juan Francisco Torres Belén, known as Juanfran, is a Spanish former professional footballer who played as a right-back.

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09/01/1982

Catherine, Princess of Wales

Catherine, Princess of Wales, is a member of the British royal family. She is married to William, Prince of Wales, heir apparent to the British throne.

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Sharrod Ford, American basketball player

Sharrod Victor Ford is an American former professional basketball player. He played briefly in the National Basketball Association (NBA), as well as in a variety of top leagues around the world.

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09/01/1981

Ebi Smolarek, Polish footballer and manager

Euzebiusz "Ebi" Smolarek is a Polish former professional footballer. He is currently the head of the Polish Union of Footballers.

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09/01/1980

Édgar Álvarez, Honduran footballer

Édgar or Edgard Anthony Álvarez Reyes is a Honduran former soccer player who last played for Platense in the Liga Nacional de Fútbol de Honduras.

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Sergio García, Spanish golfer

Sergio García Fernández is a Spanish professional golfer. He turned professional in 1999 and played on the European Tour and PGA Tour prior to joining LIV Golf in 2022. García has won 36 international tournaments as a professional, most notably the 2008 Players Championship and the 2017 Masters Tournament. García was also the Chairman of Spanish football team CF Borriol.

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Shaun Hill, American football player

Shaun Christopher Hill is an American former professional football player who was a quarterback for 15 seasons in the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Maryland Terrapins. Hill was signed by the Minnesota Vikings as an undrafted free agent in 2002. He also played for the Amsterdam Admirals, San Francisco 49ers, Detroit Lions, and St. Louis Rams.

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Luke Patten, Australian rugby league player and referee

Luke "The General" Patten is a former professional rugby league footballer and NRL match official. A Junior Kangaroo and Country New South Wales representative fullback he played for the Illawarra Steelers, St George Illawarra Dragons and the Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs in Australia and the Salford City Reds in the Super League. Patten won the 2004 NRL Premiership with the Bulldogs.

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Francisco Pavón, Spanish footballer

Francisco Pavón Barahona is a Spanish former footballer who played as a centre-back.

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09/01/1978

Mathieu Garon, Canadian ice hockey player

Mathieu Carol Garon is a Canadian former professional ice hockey goaltender. He played in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the Los Angeles Kings, Edmonton Oilers, Montreal Canadiens, Pittsburgh Penguins, Columbus Blue Jackets, and Tampa Bay Lightning between 2000 and 2013.

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Gennaro Gattuso, Italian footballer and manager

Gennaro Ivan Gattuso is an Italian professional football manager and former player who was most recently the head coach of the Italy national team.

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Chad Johnson, American football player

Chad Ochocinco Johnson, known from 2008 to 2012 as Chad Ochocinco, is an American former professional football player who was a wide receiver for 11 seasons in the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Santa Monica Corsairs and the Oregon State Beavers, and played for the Cincinnati Bengals and the New England Patriots during his tenure playing in the NFL. He was selected by the Bengals in the second round of the 2001 NFL draft, and played for them for 10 seasons. "Ochocinco", which means "eight five" in Spanish, derives from his number, eighty-five. In 2011, Johnson was traded to the Patriots, for whom he played in Super Bowl XLVI.

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AJ McLean, American singer, dancer, and actor

Alexander James McLean is an American singer. He is a founding member of the pop vocal group Backstreet Boys.

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09/01/1976

Radek Bonk, Czech ice hockey player

Radek Bonk is a Czech former professional ice hockey player. Bonk was a first-round pick of the Ottawa Senators of the National Hockey League. He also played for Montreal Canadiens and Nashville Predators. He last played for Oceláři Třinec of the Czech Extraliga before retiring.

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09/01/1975

James Beckford, Jamaican long jumper

James Beckford is a Jamaican track and field athlete competing in the long jump. He represented Jamaica at the Olympic level in 1996, 2000 and 2004. He was the silver medallist in the long jump at the 1996 Olympics and also has two silvers from the World Championships in Athletics. He was chosen as the Jamaica Sportsman of the Year for 1995, 1996 and 2003. He is the current holder of the Jamaican record for the triple jump with a mark of 17.92 m, and was also the holder of the long jump record at 8.62m until 28 September. 2019 when it was replaced with a mark of 8.69 m by Tajay Gayle at the World Championships in Athletics in Doha, Qatar.

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09/01/1974

Omari Hardwick, American actor

Omari Latif Hardwick is an American actor. He is known for his starring role as James St. Patrick / Ghost, the protagonist of Starz's Power and his role as Vanderohe in Zack Snyder's Army of the Dead (2021). He is also known for his roles in Saved and Dark Blue, in Spike Lee's Miracle at St. Anna (2008), Kick-Ass (2010), Tyler Perry's For Colored Girls (2010), and as Andre in BET Network's Being Mary Jane.

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09/01/1973

Angela Bettis, American actress, director, and producer

Angela Marie Bettis is an American actress, film producer, and director.

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Sean Paul, Jamaican rapper, singer-songwriter, musician, record producer, and actor

Sean Paul Ryan Francis Henriques is a Jamaican rapper, singer and songwriter. His first album, Stage One, was released in 2000. He gained international fame with his second album, Dutty Rock, in 2002. Its single "Get Busy" topped the US Billboard Hot 100 chart in the United States, as did "Temperature", off his third album, The Trinity (2005).

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09/01/1971

Angie Martinez, American rapper, actress, and radio host

Angela "Angie" Martinez is an American radio personality, podcaster, singer, former rapper and actress. Dubbed "The Voice of New York", Martinez is widely known for her 28-year run at New York City station Hot 97 (WQHT). She left the station in 2014 to join crosstown competitor Power 105.1 (WWPR).

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09/01/1970

Lara Fabian, Belgian-Italian singer-songwriter and actress

Lara Sophie Katy Crokaert, known professionally as Lara Fabian, is a Belgian and Canadian singer and songwriter. Having sold over 12 million records worldwide, she is one of the best-selling Belgian artists of all time.

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09/01/1968

Jimmy Adams, Jamaican cricketer and coach

James Clive Adams OD is a former Jamaican cricketer, who represented the West Indies as player and captain during his career. He was a left-handed batsman, left-arm orthodox spin bowler and fielder, especially in the gully position. He was also an occasional wicketkeeper when required. He was the head coach of Kent County Cricket Club for five seasons between 2012 and October 2016.

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Joey Lauren Adams, American actress

Joey Lauren Adams is an American actress and director. Adams starred in Chasing Amy, for which she was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy, and played smaller roles in other Kevin Smith View Askewniverse films.

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Giorgos Theofanous, Greek-Cypriot composer and producer

George Theofanous is a Greek Cypriot composer and producer. He has sold more than two million records and written more than 500 songs in the 1990s and 2000s. Recording artists for whom he has written and produced for include Nana Mouskouri, George Dalaras. His work has received a total of nine Arion Awards, which was an award show by IFPI Greece. He served as a judge for six seasons of the Greek edition of The X Factor from 2008 to 2011 and in the 2016 and 2019 seasons.

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09/01/1967

Matt Bevin, American politician, 62nd Governor of Kentucky

Matthew Griswold Bevin is an American businessman and politician. A member of the Republican Party, he served as the 62nd governor of Kentucky from 2015 to 2019, losing re-election in 2019 to Democrat Andy Beshear. He is currently the CEO of Neuronetrix Solutions, LLC.

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Claudio Caniggia, Argentinian footballer

Claudio Paul Caniggia is an Argentine former professional footballer who played as forward or winger. Caniggia played 50 times for the Argentina national team. He appeared in three World Cups, and was a member of both rival clubs River Plate and Boca Juniors.

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David Costabile, American actor

David Costabile is an American actor. He is best known for his television work, having appeared in supporting roles in several television series such as Billions, Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul, Damages, Flight of the Conchords, Suits, and The Wire, as well as the film The Dirt. He has also acted on film and in Broadway theatre.

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Steve Harwell, American rock singer (died 2023)

Steven Scott Harwell was an American musician and singer. He was the lead singer for the rock band Smash Mouth from their formation in 1994 until his retirement in October 2021.

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Dave Matthews, South African-American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor

David John Matthews is an American musician and the lead vocalist, songwriter, and guitarist for the Dave Matthews Band (DMB).

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09/01/1965

Muggsy Bogues, American basketball player

Tyrone Curtis "Muggsy" Bogues is an American former basketball player. The shortest player ever to play in the National Basketball Association (NBA), the 5 ft 3 in (1.60 m) Bogues played point guard for four teams during his 14-season career in the NBA. Although best known for his ten seasons with the Charlotte Hornets, he also played for the Washington Bullets, Golden State Warriors, and Toronto Raptors.

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Haddaway, Trinidadian-German singer and musician

Nestor Alexander Haddaway is a Trinidadian-American singer and songwriter, long based in Germany. He is best known for his 1993 hit single "What Is Love", which reached number 1 in 13 countries.

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Joely Richardson, English actress

Joely Kim Richardson is a British actress. She is notable for her roles as Julia McNamara in the FX drama series Nip/Tuck (2003–2010), Katherine Parr in the Showtime series The Tudors (2010), and Ethel Cripps in the Netflix series The Sandman (2022). Her film credits include Drowning by Numbers (1988), King Ralph (1991), 101 Dalmatians (1996), Event Horizon (1997), The Patriot (2000), Anonymous (2011), the Hollywood film adaptation of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011), Endless Love (2014), Red Sparrow (2018), The Turning (2020), and Little Bone Lodge (2023).

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09/01/1963

Eric Erlandson, American musician and songwriter

Eric Theodore Erlandson is an American musician, guitarist, and writer, primarily known as a founding member, songwriter and lead guitarist of alternative rock band Hole from 1989 to 2002. He has also had several musical side projects, including Rodney & the Tube Tops, which he formed with Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth, and RRIICCEE with Vincent Gallo.

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Irwin McLean, Northern Irish biologist and academic

William Henry Irwin McLean is an Irish geneticist who is emeritus professor of genetic medicine, at the School of Life Sciences, University of Dundee.

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09/01/1962

Ray Houghton, Scottish-born footballer

Raymond James Houghton is a former professional footballer and current sports analyst and commentator with RTÉ Sport.

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09/01/1961

Didier Camberabero, French rugby player

Didier Camberabero, is a former French international rugby union player. He played as fly half.

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09/01/1960

Lisa Walters, Canadian golfer

Lisa Walters is a Canadian professional golfer who played on the LPGA Tour. She competed under her maiden name Lisa Young until 1988.

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09/01/1959

Rigoberta Menchú, Guatemalan activist and politician, Nobel Prize laureate

Rigoberta Menchú Tum is a K'iche' Guatemalan human rights activist, feminist, and Nobel Peace Prize laureate. Menchú has dedicated her life to publicizing the rights of Guatemala's Indigenous peoples during and after the Guatemalan Civil War (1960–1996), and to promoting Indigenous rights internationally.

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09/01/1958

Rob McClanahan, American ice hockey player

Robert Bruce McClanahan is an American former professional ice hockey player who played 224 games in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the Buffalo Sabres, Hartford Whalers and New York Rangers between 1980 and 1983. McClanahan was a member of the U.S. men's Olympic hockey team that beat the Soviet Union en route to a gold medal at Lake Placid in 1980.

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Mehmet Ali Ağca, Turkish assassin

Mehmet Ali Ağca is a Turkish former hitman for Grey Wolves. On 1 February 1979, he murdered journalist Abdi İpekçi, known for his leftist views, and was imprisoned, but escaped. He travelled illegally to Vatican City on 13 May 1981, and attempted to assassinate Pope John Paul II on the same day. However, the assassination attempt failed, and he was captured and imprisoned by the Italian police.

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09/01/1957

Phil Lewis, English musician, singer and songwriter

Philip Francis Lewis is an English musician who has lived and worked in the U.S. since the 1980s. He is best known as the lead vocalist and occasional rhythm guitarist for the American glam metal band L.A. Guns.

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09/01/1956

Waltraud Meier, German soprano and actress

Waltraud Meier is a German retired dramatic soprano and mezzo-soprano singer. She is particularly known for her Wagnerian roles as Kundry, Isolde, Ortrud, Venus, Fricka, and Sieglinde, but has also had success in the French and Italian repertoire appearing as Eboli, Amneris, Carmen, and Santuzza. She resides in Munich.

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Imelda Staunton, English actress and singer

Dame Imelda Mary Philomena Bernadette Staunton is an English actress and singer. After training at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, Staunton began her career in repertory theatre in 1976 and appeared in various theatre productions in the West End and across the UK. Over her career, she has received several awards including a British Academy Film Award, and five Laurence Olivier Awards as well as nominations for an Academy Award, three British Academy Television Awards, three Golden Globe Awards, and three Emmy Awards.

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09/01/1955

Bruce Boudreau, Canadian ice hockey player and coach

Bruce Allan Boudreau is a Canadian professional ice hockey coach and former player. He previously served as head coach of the Washington Capitals, Anaheim Ducks, Minnesota Wild, and Vancouver Canucks of the National Hockey League (NHL). As a player, Boudreau played professionally for 20 seasons, and was a third round pick of the Toronto Maple Leafs at the 1975 NHL amateur draft. He played 141 games in the NHL with the Maple Leafs and Chicago Black Hawks, and 30 games in the World Hockey Association (WHA) with the Minnesota Fighting Saints. Boudreau played most of his career in the American Hockey League (AHL) for various teams where he was known for his goals and point-scoring abilities, recording 316 goals and 483 assists for 799 points in 634 games.

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J. K. Simmons, American actor

Jonathan Kimble Simmons is an American actor. Considered one of the most prolific and well-established actors of his generation, he has amassed over 200 screen and stage credits since his 1986 debut. He won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for playing an abusive jazz instructor in Damien Chazelle's Whiplash (2014), and received a second nomination for portraying William Frawley in Aaron Sorkin's Being the Ricardos (2021). His other various accolades include a British Academy Film Award, a Golden Globe Award, and a Screen Actors Guild Award.

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09/01/1954

Philippa Gregory, Kenyan-English author and academic

Philippa Gregory is an English historical novelist who has been publishing since 1987. The best known of her works is The Other Boleyn Girl (2001), which in 2002 won the Romantic Novel of the Year Award from the Romantic Novelists' Association and has been adapted into two films.

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09/01/1952

Kaushik Basu, Indian economist and academic

Kaushik Basu is an Indian economist who was Chief Economist of the World Bank from 2012 to 2016 and Chief Economic Adviser to the Government of India from 2009 to 2012. He is the C. Marks Professor of International Studies and Professor of Economics at Cornell University, and academic advisory board member of upcoming Plaksha University. He began a three-year term as President of the International Economic Association in June 2017. From 2009 to 2012, during the United Progressive Alliance's second term, Basu served as the Chief Economic Adviser to the Government of India. Basu is winner of the Humboldt Research Award 2021.

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09/01/1951

M. L. Carr, American basketball player, coach, and executive

Michael Leon Carr is an American former professional basketball player, coach, and executive. He played in the National Basketball Association (NBA) for nine seasons with the Detroit Pistons and Boston Celtics. He won two NBA championships with the Celtics in 1981 and 1984. He also played in the Eastern Basketball Association, European Professional Basketball League, and American Basketball Association. After retiring from playing, Carr returned to the Celtics as general manager during the 1994–95 season and head coach from 1995 to 1997.

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Crystal Gayle, American singer-songwriter and producer

Brenda Gail Webb, known professionally as Crystal Gayle, is an American country music singer widely known for her 1977 hit "Don't It Make My Brown Eyes Blue". Initially, Gayle's management and record label were the same as that of her oldest sister, Loretta Lynn. Not finding success with the arrangement after several years, and with Lynn's encouragement, Gayle decided to try a different approach. She signed a new record contract and began recording with Nashville producer Allen Reynolds. Gayle's new sound was sometimes referred to as middle-of-the-road (MOR) or country pop, and was part of a bigger musical trend by many country artists of the 1970s to appeal to a wider audience. Subsequently, Gayle became one of the most successful crossover artists of the 1970s and 80s. She is also known for her floor-length hair.

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09/01/1950

Alec Jeffreys, English geneticist and academic

Sir Alec John Jeffreys, is a British geneticist known for developing techniques for genetic fingerprinting and DNA profiling which are now used worldwide in forensic science to assist police detective work and to resolve paternity and immigration disputes.

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David Johansen, American singer-songwriter and actor (died 2025)

David Roger Johansen was an American singer, songwriter, and actor best known as lead singer of the seminal proto-punk band the New York Dolls. He is also known for his work under the pseudonym Buster Poindexter and for playing the Ghost of Christmas Past in Scrooged (1988).

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09/01/1948

Bill Cowsill, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2006)

William Joseph Cowsill Jr. was an American singer, musician, songwriter, and record producer. He was the lead singer and guitarist of The Cowsills, who had three top-10 singles in the late 1960s. From the mid-1970s until his death, he was a successful alt-country artist and producer in Canada.

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Jan Tomaszewski, Polish footballer, manager, and politician

Jan Tomaszewski is a Polish former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper in the 1970s. He kept goal for the Poland national teams that came third at the 1974 World Cup, where he was named Best Goalkeeper, that won the silver medal at the 1976 Summer Olympics, and that competed at the 1978 World Cup. He is regarded as one of the best goalkeepers in the history of Polish football. He was later a football commentator and politician.

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09/01/1946

Mohammad Ishaq Khan, Indian historian and academic (died 2013)

Mohammad Ishaq Khan was a Kashmiri academic and historian of Kashmir. He served as the dean of academics, dean of faculty of social sciences, professor, and head of the history department at Kashmir University.

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Mogens Lykketoft, Danish politician, 45th Danish Minister of Foreign Affairs

Mogens Lykketoft is a Danish politician who served as Leader of the Social Democrats (Socialdemokraterne) from 2002 to 2005.

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09/01/1945

John Doman, American actor

John Doman is an American actor best known for playing Bill Rawls on HBO series The Wire (2002–2008), Colonel Edward Galson on Oz (2001), Dr. Deraad in ER (1999–2003), Rodrigo Borgia in the international television series Borgia (2011–2014), Don Carmine Falcone in Fox's show Gotham (2014–2017), and Bruce Buttler in The Affair (2014–2019).

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Levon Ter-Petrosyan, Syrian-Armenian scholar and politician, 1st President of Armenia

Levon Hakobi Ter-Petrosyan, also known by his initials LTP, is an Armenian politician and historian who served as the first president of Armenia from 1991 until his resignation in 1998.

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09/01/1944

Harun Farocki, German filmmaker (died 2014)

Harun Farocki was a German filmmaker, author, and lecturer in film.

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Jimmy Page, English guitarist, songwriter, and producer

James Patrick Page is an English musician and producer who achieved international success as the guitarist and founder of the rock band Led Zeppelin.

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Mihalis Violaris, Cypriot singer-songwriter and actor

Michalis Kyriakou, known by his stage-name Michalis Violaris, is a singer and composer of modern Greek and Cypriot music.

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09/01/1943

Robert Drewe, Australian author and playwright

Robert Duncan Drewe is an Australian novelist, non-fiction and short story writer.

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Elmer MacFadyen, Canadian lawyer and politician (died 2007)

Elmer Eric MacFadyen was a Canadian politician. He represented Sherwood-Hillsborough in the Legislative Assembly of Prince Edward Island from 1996 to 2007 as a Progressive Conservative member.

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Scott Walker, American singer-songwriter, bass player, and producer (died 2019)

Noel Scott Engel, better known by his stage name Scott Walker, was an American-British singer-songwriter and record producer who resided in England. Walker was known for his emotive voice and his unorthodox stylistic path which took him from being a teen pop icon in the 1960s to an avant-garde musician from the 1990s to his death. Walker's success was largely in the United Kingdom, where he achieved fame as a member of pop trio the Walker Brothers, who scored several hit singles, including two number ones, during the mid-1960s, while his first four solo albums reached the top ten during the later part of the decade, with the second, Scott 2, reaching number one in 1968. He lived in the UK from 1965 onward and became a UK citizen in 1970.

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09/01/1941

Joan Baez, American singer-songwriter, guitarist and activist

Joan Chandos Baez is an American singer, songwriter, musician, and activist. Her contemporary folk music often includes songs of protest and social justice. Baez has performed publicly for over 60 years, releasing more than 30 albums.

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09/01/1940

Barbara Buczek, Polish composer (died 1993)

Barbara Buczek was a Polish composer and music teacher who taught at the Academy of Music in Kraków.

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Ruth Dreifuss, Swiss journalist and politician, 86th President of the Swiss Confederation

Ruth Dreifuss is a Swiss economist, unionist and politician who served as a member of the Federal Council from 1993 to 2002. She served as Vice President of Switzerland in 1998 and as President of Switzerland in 1999 for the Social Democratic Party.

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09/01/1939

Susannah York, English actress and activist (died 2011)

Susannah Yolande Fletcher, known professionally as Susannah York, was an English actress. Her appearances in various films of the 1960s, including Tom Jones (1963) and They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (1969), formed the basis of her international reputation. An obituary in The Telegraph characterised her as "the blue-eyed English rose with the china-white skin and cupid lips who epitomised the sensuality of the swinging sixties", who later "proved that she was a real actor of extraordinary emotional range."

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09/01/1938

Claudette Boyer, Canadian educator and politician (died 2013)

Claudette Boyer was a politician in Ontario, Canada. She was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario in 1999 as a Liberal, but was later forced to leave the party as a result of legal difficulties. She retired from politics in 2003.

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09/01/1936

K Callan, American actress and author

Katherine Elizabeth Callan is an American actress and writer, known for playing Clark Kent's mother Martha in the ABC television series Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman. She has most recently appeared as Elizabeth, the mother of John the Baptist, in the Christian historical drama The Chosen.

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Marko Veselica, Croatian academic and politician (died 2017)

Marko Veselica was a Croatian politician, economist and university professor.

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09/01/1935

Bob Denver, American actor (died 2005)

Robert Osbourne Denver was an American comedic actor who portrayed beatnik Maynard G. Krebs on the 1959–1963 series The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis and Gilligan on the 1964–1967 television series Gilligan's Island.

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Dick Enberg, American sportscaster (died 2017)

Richard Alan Enberg was an American sportscaster. Over the course of an approximately 60-year career, he provided play-by-play of various sports for several radio and television networks, including NBC (1975–1999), CBS (2000–2014), and ESPN (2004–2011), as well as for individual teams, such as UCLA Bruins basketball, Los Angeles Rams football, and California Angels and San Diego Padres baseball.

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John Graham, New Zealand rugby player and educator (died 2017)

Sir David John Graham, generally known as John Graham, was a New Zealand educator and rugby union player. He served as president of the New Zealand Rugby Football Union (NZRFU) and was an All Black loose forward; he played 22 Tests between 1958 and 1964, including three as captain. He was headmaster of Auckland Grammar School from 1973 to 1993, New Zealand cricket team manager from 1997 to 1999, the University of Auckland Chancellor from 1999 to 2004, and was elected president of the NZRFU in April 2005.

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Brian Harradine, Australian politician (died 2014)

Richard William Brian Harradine was an Australian politician who served as an independent member of the Australian Senate, from 1975 to 2005, representing the state of Tasmania. He was the longest-serving independent federal politician in Australian history, and a Father of the Senate.

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09/01/1934

Bart Starr, American football player and coach (died 2019)

Bryan Bartlett Starr was an American professional football quarterback and head coach for the Green Bay Packers of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Alabama Crimson Tide, and was selected in the 17th round of the 1956 NFL draft by the Packers, for whom he played for 16 seasons until 1971. Starr is the only quarterback in NFL history to lead a team to three consecutive league championships (1965–1967). He led his team to victories in the first two Super Bowls: I and II. As the Packers' head coach, he was less successful, compiling a 52–76–3 (.408) record from 1975 through 1983.

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09/01/1933

Roy Dwight, English footballer (died 2002)

Royston Edward Dwight was an English footballer. He scored the opening goal in the 1959 FA Cup Final for Nottingham Forest.

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Wilbur Smith, Zambian-English journalist and author (died 2021)

Wilbur Addison Smith was a Rhodesian-born British-South African novelist specializing in historical fiction about international involvement in Southern Africa across four centuries.

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09/01/1931

Algis Budrys, Lithuanian-American author and critic (died 2008)

Algirdas Jonas "Algis" Budrys was a Lithuanian-American science fiction author, editor and critic. He was also known under the pen names Frank Mason, Alger Rome in collaboration with Jerome Bixby, John A. Sentry, William Scarff and Paul Janvier. In the 1990s he was the publisher and editor of the science fiction magazine Tomorrow Speculative Fiction.

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09/01/1929

Brian Friel, Irish author, playwright, and director (died 2015)

Brian Patrick Friel was an Irish dramatist, short story writer and founder of the Field Day Theatre Company. He had been considered one of the greatest living English-language dramatists. He has been likened to an "Irish Chekhov" and described as "the universally accented voice of Ireland". His plays have been compared favourably to those of contemporaries such as Samuel Beckett, Arthur Miller, Harold Pinter and Tennessee Williams.

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Heiner Müller, German poet, playwright, and director (died 1995)

Heiner Müller was a German dramatist, poet, writer, essayist and theatre director. His "enigmatic, fragmentary pieces" are a significant contribution to postmodern drama and postdramatic theatre.

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09/01/1928

Judith Krantz, American novelist (died 2019)

Judith Krantz was an American magazine writer, fashion editor, and novelist. Her first novel Scruples (1978) was a New York Times best-seller and was translated into 50 languages. Scruples, which describes the glamorous and affluent world of high fashion in Beverly Hills, California, helped define a new sub-genre of the romance novel — the bonkbuster or "sex-and-shopping" novel. She also became a "celebrity author" through her extensive touring and promotion. Her later books included Princess Daisy (1980), Mistral's Daughter (1982) Till We Meet Again (1988), Dazzle (1990), and Spring Collection (1996). Her autobiography, Sex and Shopping: The Confessions of a Nice Jewish Girl, was published in 2000.

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Domenico Modugno, Italian singer-songwriter, actor, and politician (died 1994)

Domenico Modugno was an Italian singer, actor and, later in life, a member of the Italian Parliament. He is known for his 1958 international hit song "Nel blu dipinto di blu", for which he received the first Grammy Awards for Record of the Year and Song of the Year. He is considered the first Italian cantautore.

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09/01/1926

Jean-Pierre Côté, Canadian lawyer and politician, 23rd Lieutenant Governor of Quebec (died 2002)

Joseph Julien Jean-Pierre Côté was a Canadian parliamentarian and the 23rd Lieutenant Governor of Quebec.

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09/01/1925

Len Quested, English footballer and manager (died 2012)

Wilfred Leonard Quested was an English footballer. Quested played one match for England B as well as being selected as a travelling reserve for a Full International for England. In 1957 he moved to Australia where he played for the Sydney clubs Auburn and Hakoah. He also played in an unofficial match for Australia.

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Lee Van Cleef, American actor (died 1989)

Clarence LeRoy Van Cleef Jr. was an American actor. He appeared in over 170 film and television roles in a career spanning nearly 40 years, but is best known as a star of spaghetti Westerns, holding starring roles in the Sergio Leone-directed Dollars Trilogy films, For a Few Dollars More (1965) and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966). In 1983, he received a Golden Boot Award for his contribution to the Western film and television genre.

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09/01/1924

Sergei Parajanov, Georgian-Armenian director and screenwriter (died 1990)

Sergei Iosifovich Parajanov was a Soviet film director and screenwriter. His films are known for their poetic, non-linear, and symbolic nature. Widely considered by filmmakers, film critics, and film historians to be one of the greatest and most influential filmmakers of all time, he has been described as a "magician", a "master", and a "conjurer of cinematic worlds".

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09/01/1922

Har Gobind Khorana, Indian-American biochemist and academic, Nobel laureate (died 2011)

Har Gobind Khorana was an Indian-American biochemist. While on the faculty of the University of Wisconsin–Madison, he shared the 1968 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine with Marshall W. Nirenberg and Robert W. Holley for research that showed the order of nucleotides in nucleic acids, which carry the genetic code of the cell and control the cell's synthesis of proteins. Khorana and Nirenberg were also awarded the Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize from Columbia University in the same year.

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Ahmed Sékou Touré, Guinean politician, 1st President of Guinea (died 1984)

Ahmed Sékou Touré was a Guinean political leader and African statesman who was the first president of Guinea from 1958 until his death in 1984. Touré was among the primary Guinean nationalists involved in gaining independence of the country from France. He would later die in the United States in 1984.

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09/01/1921

Ágnes Keleti, Hungarian Olympic gymnast (died 2025)

Ágnes Keleti was a Hungarian and Israeli artistic gymnast and coach, who won multiple Olympic medals. She was the oldest living Olympic champion and medallist, reaching her 100th birthday on 9 January 2021. While representing Hungary at the Summer Olympics, she won 10 Olympic medals including five gold medals, three silver medals, and two bronze medals, and is considered to be one of the most successful Jewish Olympic athletes of all time. Keleti earned more Olympic medals than any other individual with Israeli citizenship, and more Olympic medals than any other Jew, except Mark Spitz. She was the most successful athlete at the 1956 Summer Olympics.

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09/01/1920

Clive Dunn, English actor (died 2012)

Clive Robert Bertram Dunn was an English actor. Although he was only 48 and one of the youngest cast members, he was cast in a role many years his senior, as the elderly Lance Corporal Jones in the BBC sitcom Dad's Army, which ran for nine series and 80 episodes between 1968 and 1977.

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Hakim Said, Pakistani scholar and politician, 20th Governor of Sindh (died 1998)

Hakeem Muhammad Saeed was a Pakistani medical researcher, author, scholar, and philanthropist. He served as governor of Sindh Province from 19 July 1993 until 23 January 1994. Saeed was one of Pakistan's most prominent medical researchers in the field of Eastern medicine.

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09/01/1919

William Morris Meredith, Jr., American poet and academic (died 2007)

William Morris Meredith Jr. was an American poet and educator. He was Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 1978 to 1980, and the recipient of the 1988 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.

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09/01/1918

Alma Ziegler, American baseball player and golfer (died 2005)

Alma Ziegler was an infielder and pitcher who played from 1944 through 1954 in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League (AAGPBL). Listed at 5 ft 3 in (1.60 m), 125 lb., Ziegler batted and threw right-handed.

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09/01/1915

Fernando Lamas, Argentinian-American actor, singer, and director (died 1982)

Fernando Álvaro Lamas y de Santos was an Argentine-American actor and director of the Golden Age of Argentine cinema. He is the father of actor Lorenzo Lamas.

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Anita Louise, American actress (died 1970)

Anita Louise was an American film and television actress best known for her performances in A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935), The Story of Louis Pasteur (1935), Anthony Adverse (1936), Marie Antoinette (1938), and The Little Princess (1939). She was named as a WAMPAS Baby Star.

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09/01/1914

Kenny Clarke, American jazz drummer and bandleader (died 1985)

Kenneth Clarke Spearman, known professionally as Kenny Clarke and nicknamed Klook, was an American jazz drummer and bandleader. A major innovator of the bebop style of drumming, he pioneered the use of the ride cymbal to keep time rather than the hi-hat, along with the use of the bass drum for irregular accents.

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09/01/1913

Richard Nixon, American commander, lawyer, and politician, 37th President of the United States (died 1994)

Richard Milhous Nixon was the 37th president of the United States, serving from 1969 until his resignation in 1974. A member of the Republican Party, he represented California in both houses of the United States Congress before serving as the 36th vice president under President Dwight D. Eisenhower from 1953 to 1961. His presidency saw the reduction of U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War, détente with the Soviet Union and China, the Apollo 11 Moon landing, and the establishment of the Environmental Protection Agency and Occupational Safety and Health Administration. Nixon's second term ended early when he became the only U.S. president to resign from office, as a result of the Watergate scandal.

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09/01/1912

Basil Langton, English actor, director, photographer, and teacher (died 2003)

Basil Cedric Langton was an English actor, director and photographer, who made a career on both sides of the Atlantic. He was an authority on the plays of George Bernard Shaw and compiled an archive of more than 400,000 words of interviews with people who had known and worked with Shaw. He was also a teacher, working at colleges in New York and California.

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Ralph Tubbs, English architect, designed the Dome of Discovery (died 1996)

Ralph Sydney Tubbs OBE FRIBA was a British architect. Well known amongst the buildings he designed was the Dome of Discovery at the successful Festival of Britain on the South Bank in London in 1951.

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09/01/1909

Anthony Mamo, Maltese lawyer and politician, 1st President of Malta (died 2008)

Sir Anthony Joseph Mamo, was the first president of Malta and previously served as the last governor-general of the State of Malta before the country became a republic. He was also the first Maltese citizen to be appointed Governor-General, and before independence, briefly served as acting Governor.

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Patrick Peyton, Irish-American priest, television personality, and activist (died 1992)

Patrick Peyton, CSC, also known as "the Rosary priest", was an Irish-born Catholic priest of the Congregation of Holy Cross, and founder of the Family Rosary Crusade. He popularized the phrases "The family that prays together stays together" and "A world at prayer is a world at peace."

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09/01/1908

Simone de Beauvoir, French philosopher and author (died 1986)

Simone Lucie Ernestine Marie Bertrand de Beauvoir was a French existentialist philosopher, writer, social theorist, and feminist activist. Though she did not consider herself a philosopher, nor was she considered one at the time of her death, she had a significant influence on both feminist existentialism and feminist theory.

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09/01/1902

Rudolf Bing, American impresario and businessman (died 1997)

Sir Rudolf Bing, KBE was an Austrian-born British opera impresario who worked in Germany, the United Kingdom and the United States, including as General Manager of the Metropolitan Opera in New York City from 1950 to 1972. He was naturalized as a British subject in 1946 and was knighted in 1971, although he spent decades living in the United States, where he died.

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Josemaría Escrivá, Spanish priest and saint, founded Opus Dei (died 1975)

Josemaría Escrivá de Balaguer y Albás was a Spanish Catholic priest who founded Opus Dei, an organization of laypeople and priests dedicated to the principle of everyday holiness. He was canonized by Pope John Paul II in 2002.

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09/01/1901

Vilma Bánky, Hungarian-American actress (died 1991)

Vilma Bánky was a Hungarian-American silent film actress. Although her acting career began in Budapest, and she later worked in France, Austria, and Germany, Bánky was best known for her roles in the American films The Eagle and The Son of the Sheik with Rudolph Valentino, and for several romantic teamings with Ronald Colman.

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09/01/1900

Richard Halliburton, American journalist and author (died 1939)

Richard Halliburton was an American travel writer and adventurer who, among numerous journeys, swam the length of the Panama Canal and paid the lowest toll in its history, 36 cents, in 1928. He disappeared at sea while attempting to sail the Chinese junk Sea Dragon across the Pacific Ocean from Hong Kong to the Golden Gate International Exposition in San Francisco, California.

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09/01/1899

Harald Tammer, Estonian journalist and weightlifter (died 1942)

Harald Tammer was an Estonian journalist, athlete and weightlifter. As a heavyweight weightlifter he won a world title in 1922 and a bronze medal at the 1924 Olympics. As an athlete he competed in the shot put at the 1920 and 1924 Olympics and came sixth and twelfth, respectively. He served as the Olympic flag bearer for Estonia in 1920, and as a representative of the Estonian Olympic team in 1928 and 1936.

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09/01/1898

Gracie Fields, English actress and singer (died 1979)

Dame Gracie Fields was a British actress, singer and comedian. A star of cinema and music hall, she was one of the top ten film stars in Britain during the 1930s and was considered the highest paid film star in the world in 1937. Fields was known affectionately as Our Gracie and the Lancashire Lass and for never losing her strong, native Lancashire accent. She was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) and an Officer of the Venerable Order of St John (OStJ) in 1938, and a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) in 1979.

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09/01/1897

Karl Löwith, German philosopher, author, and academic (died 1973)

Karl Löwith was a German philosopher best known for his critiques of historicism and his analysis of secularization in modern thought. A student of Martin Heidegger and Edmund Husserl during the Weimar Republic, Löwith developed a distinctive philosophical position that questioned the progressivist assumptions underlying much of nineteenth and twentieth-century European philosophy, and is considered one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century.

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Halyna Kuzmenko, Ukrainian teacher and anarchist revolutionary (died 1978)

Agafya "Halyna" Andriivna Kuzmenko was a Ukrainian teacher and anarchist revolutionary. After moving to southern Ukraine, she became a prominent figure within the ranks of the Makhnovshchina, a mass movement to establish a libertarian communist society. Kuzmenko spearheaded the movement's educational activities, promoted Ukrainization and acted as an outspoken advocate of women's rights. Along with her husband, the anarchist military leader Nestor Makhno, in 1921 she fled into exile from the political repression in Ukraine. While imprisoned for subversive activities in Poland, she gave birth to her daughter Elena Mikhnenko, whom she brought with her to Paris. Following the death of her husband, the outbreak of World War II saw her deportation for forced labour, first by the Nazis and then by the Soviets. After her release, she spent her final days with her daughter in Kazakh SSR.

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09/01/1896

Warwick Braithwaite, New Zealand-English conductor and director (died 1971)

Henry Warwick Braithwaite was a New Zealand-born orchestral conductor. He worked mostly in Great Britain and was especially known for his work in opera.

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09/01/1893

Edwin Baker, Canadian soldier and educator, co-founded the Canadian National Institute for the Blind (died 1968)

Edwin Albert Baker, was a Canadian co-founder of the Canadian National Institute for the Blind (CNIB).

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09/01/1892

Eva Bowring, American lawyer and politician (died 1985)

Eva Bowring was a U.S. Senator from Nebraska. Bowring was born in Nevada, Missouri. In 1928, she married Arthur Bowring. They made their home at the Bowring Ranch near Merriman in Cherry County, Nebraska.

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09/01/1890

Karel Čapek, Czech author and playwright (died 1938)

Karel Čapek was a Czech writer, playwright, critic and journalist. He has become best known for his science fiction, including his novel War with the Newts (1936) and play R.U.R., which introduced the word robot. He also wrote many politically charged works dealing with the social turmoil of his time. Influenced by American pragmatic liberalism, he campaigned in favor of free expression and strongly opposed the rise of both fascism and communism in Europe.

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Kurt Tucholsky, German-Swedish journalist and author (died 1935)

Kurt Tucholsky was a German journalist, satirist, and writer. He also wrote under the pseudonyms Kaspar Hauser, Peter Panter, Theobald Tiger and Ignaz Wrobel.

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09/01/1889

Vrindavan Lal Verma, Indian author and playwright (died 1969)

Vrindavan Lal verma was a Hindi novelist and playwright. He was honoured with Padma Bhushan for his literary works; Agra University presented him with honorary D. Lit. He received Soviet Land Nehru Award and the government India also awarded him for his novel, Jhansi Ki Rani.

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09/01/1886

Lloyd Loar, American sound engineer and instrument designer (died 1943)

Lloyd Allayre Loar (1886–1943) was an American musician, instrument designer and sound engineer. He is best known for his design work with the Gibson Mandolin-Guitar Mfg. Co. Ltd. in the early 20th century, including the F-5 model mandolin and L-5 guitar. In his later years he worked on electric amplification of stringed instruments, and demonstrated them around the country. One example, played in public in 1938 was an electric viola that used electric coils beneath the bridge, with no back, able to "drown out the loudest trumpet."

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09/01/1885

Charles Bacon, American runner and hurdler (died 1968)

Charles James Bacon Jr. was an American athlete and a member of the Irish American Athletic Club and the New York City Police Department. He won the 400 metres hurdles at the 1908 Summer Olympics.

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09/01/1881

Lascelles Abercrombie, English poet and critic (died 1938)

Lascelles Abercrombie, was a British poet and literary critic, one of the "Dymock poets". After the First World War he worked as a professor of English literature in a number of English universities, writing principally on the theory of literature.

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Giovanni Papini, Italian journalist, author, and poet (died 1956)

Giovanni Papini was an Italian journalist, essayist, novelist, short story writer, poet, literary critic, and philosopher. A controversial literary figure of the early and mid-twentieth century, he was the earliest and most enthusiastic representative and promoter of Italian pragmatism. Papini was admired for his writing style and engaged in heated polemics. Involved with avant-garde movements such as futurism and post-decadentism, he moved from one political and philosophical position to another, always dissatisfied and uneasy: he converted from anti-clericalism and atheism to Catholicism, and went from convinced interventionism – before 1915 – to an aversion to war. In the 1930s, after moving from individualism to conservatism, he finally became a fascist, while maintaining an aversion to Nazism.

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09/01/1879

John B. Watson, American psychologist and academic (died 1958)

John Broadus Watson was an American psychologist who popularized the scientific theory of behaviorism, establishing it as a psychological school. Watson advanced this change in the psychological discipline through his 1913 address at Columbia University, titled Psychology as the Behaviorist Views It. Through his behaviorist approach, Watson conducted research on animal behavior, child rearing, and advertising, as well as conducting the controversial "Little Albert" experiment and the Kerplunk experiment. He was also the editor of Psychological Review from 1910 to 1915. A Review of General Psychology survey, published in 2002, ranked Watson as the 17th most cited psychologist of the 20th century.

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09/01/1875

Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, American sculptor and art collector, founded the Whitney Museum of American Art (died 1942)

Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney was an American sculptor, art patron and collector, and founder in 1931 of the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City. She was a prominent social figure and hostess, who was born into the wealthy Vanderbilt family and married into the Whitney family.

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09/01/1873

Hayim Nahman Bialik, Ukrainian-Austrian journalist, author, and poet (died 1934)

Hayim Nahman Bialik was a Russian-Jewish poet who wrote primarily in Hebrew and Yiddish. Bialik is considered a pioneer of modern Hebrew poetry, part of the vanguard of Jewish thinkers who gave voice to a new spirit of his time, and recognized today as Israel's national poet. Being a noted essayist, poet and story-teller, Bialik also translated major works from European languages into Hebrew.

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Thomas Curtis, American sprinter and hurdler (died 1944)

Thomas Pelham Curtis was an American athlete and the winner of the 110 metres hurdles at the 1896 Summer Olympics.

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John Flanagan, Irish-American hammer thrower (died 1938)

John Joseph Flanagan was an Irish-American three-time Olympic gold medalist in the hammer throw, winning in 1900, 1904, and 1908.

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09/01/1870

Joseph Strauss, American engineer, co-designed the Golden Gate Bridge (died 1938)

Joseph Baermann Strauss was an American structural engineer who revolutionized the design of bascule bridges. He was the chief engineer of the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, California.

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09/01/1868

S. P. L. Sørensen, Danish chemist and academic (died 1939)

Søren Peter Lauritz Sørensen was a Danish chemist, known for the introduction of the concept of pH, a scale for measuring acidity and alkalinity.

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09/01/1864

Vladimir Steklov, Russian mathematician and physicist (died 1926)

Vladimir Andreevich Steklov was a prominent Russian and Soviet mathematician, mechanician and physicist.

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09/01/1859

Carrie Chapman Catt, American activist, founded the League of Women Voters and International Alliance of Women (died 1947)

Carrie Chapman Catt was an American women's suffrage leader who campaigned for the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which gave U.S. women the right to vote in 1920. Catt served as president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association from 1900 to 1904 and 1915 to 1920. She founded the League of Women Voters in 1920 and the International Woman Suffrage Alliance in 1904, which was later named International Alliance of Women. She "led an army of voteless women in 1919 to pressure Congress to pass the constitutional amendment giving them the right to vote and convinced state legislatures to ratify it in 1920". She "was one of the best-known women in the United States in the first half of the twentieth century and was on all lists of famous American women."

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09/01/1856

Anton Aškerc, Slovenian priest and poet (died 1912)

Anton Aškerc was a Slovenian poet and Roman Catholic priest who worked in Austria, best known for his epic poems.

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09/01/1854

Jennie Jerome, American-born wife of Lord Randolph Churchill, mother of Sir Winston Churchill (died 1921)

Jennie Jerome Churchill, known as Lady Randolph Spencer-Churchill, was an American-born British socialite, the wife of Lord Randolph Churchill, and the mother of British prime minister Winston Churchill.

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09/01/1849

John Hartley, English tennis player (died 1935)

Rev. John Thorneycroft Hartley was a tennis player from England, and the only clergyman to win Wimbledon.

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09/01/1848

Princess Frederica of Hanover (died 1926)

Princess Frederica of Hanover was a member of the House of Hanover. After her marriage, she lived mostly in England, where she was a prominent member of society.

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09/01/1839

John Knowles Paine, American composer and academic (died 1906)

John Knowles Paine was the first American-born composer to achieve fame for large-scale orchestral music. The senior member of a group of composers collectively known as the Boston Six, Paine was one of those responsible for the first significant body of concert music by composers from the United States. The Boston Six's other five members were Amy Beach, Arthur Foote, Edward MacDowell, George Chadwick, and Horatio Parker.

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09/01/1832

Félix-Gabriel Marchand, Canadian journalist and politician, 11th Premier of Quebec (died 1900)

Félix-Gabriel Marchand was a journalist, author, notary and politician in Quebec, Canada. He was the 11th premier of Quebec from May 24, 1897, to September 25, 1900.

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09/01/1829

Thomas William Robertson, English director and playwright (died 1871)

Thomas William Robertson was an English dramatist and stage director known for his development of naturalism in British theatre.

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Adolf Schlagintweit, German botanist and explorer (died 1857)

Adolf von Schlagintweit was a German botanist and explorer of Central Asia. Brothers Hermann, Adolf and Robert Schlagintweit were commissioned by the British East India Company to study the Earth's magnetic field in South and Central Asia. They were the first Europeans to cross the Kunlun Mountains and the first to explore the region between Karakoram and Kunlun. After their joint exploration, Adolf Schlagintweit made a separate expedition of his own, crossing the present day disputed Aksai Chin region for the first time. Mistaken for a Chinese spy, he was executed in Kashgar.

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09/01/1823

Friedrich von Esmarch, German surgeon and academic (died 1908)

Johannes Friedrich August von Esmarch was a German surgeon. He developed the Esmarch bandage and founded the Deutscher Samariter-Verein, the predecessor of the Deutscher Samariter-Bund.

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09/01/1822

Carol Benesch, Czech-Romanian architect, designed the Peleș Castle (died 1896)

Carol Benesch was a Silesian architect of Historicism and Eclecticism orientation established in the Kingdom of Romania.

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09/01/1819

James Francis, English-Australian businessman and politician, 9th Premier of Victoria (died 1884)

James Goodall Francis, Australian colonial politician, was the 9th Premier of Victoria. Francis was born in London, and emigrated to Van Diemen's Land in 1847, where he became a businessman. He moved to Victoria in 1853 and became a leading Melbourne merchant. He was a director of the Bank of New South Wales and president of the Melbourne Chamber of Commerce. He married Mary Ogilvie and had eight sons and seven daughters.

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09/01/1818

Antoine Samuel Adam-Salomon, French sculptor and photographer (died 1881)

Antoine Samuel Adam-Salomon was a French sculptor and photographer.

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09/01/1811

Gilbert Abbott à Beckett, English journalist and author (died 1856)

Gilbert Abbott à Beckett was an English humorist.

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09/01/1778

Hammamizade İsmail Dede Efendi, Turkish Ney player and composer (died 1846)

Hammamizade İsmail Dede Efendi was a composer of Ottoman classical music.

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09/01/1773

Cassandra Austen, English painter and illustrator (died 1845)

Cassandra Elizabeth Austen was an amateur English watercolourist and the elder sister of Jane Austen. The letters between her and Jane form a substantial foundation for scholarly understanding of the life of the novelist.

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09/01/1753

Luísa Todi, Portuguese soprano and actress (died 1833)

Luísa Rosa de Aguiar Todi was a popular and successful Portuguese mezzo-soprano opera singer.

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09/01/1745

Caleb Strong, American lawyer and politician, 6th Governor of Massachusetts (died 1819)

Caleb Strong Jr. was an American lawyer, politician, and Founding Father who served as the sixth and tenth governor of Massachusetts between 1800 and 1807, and again from 1812 until 1816. He assisted in drafting the Massachusetts State Constitution in 1779 and served as a state senator and on the Massachusetts Governor's Council before being elected to the inaugural United States Senate. A leading member of the Massachusetts Federalist Party, his political success delayed the decline of the Federalists in Massachusetts.

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09/01/1735

John Jervis, 1st Earl of St Vincent, English admiral and politician (died 1823)

Admiral of the Fleet John Jervis, 1st Earl of St Vincent was a Royal Navy officer and politician. Jervis served throughout the latter half of the 18th century and into the 19th, and was an active commander during the Seven Years' War, American War of Independence and the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. He is best known for his victory at the 1797 Battle of Cape St. Vincent, from which he earned his titles, and as a patron of Horatio Nelson.

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09/01/1728

Thomas Warton, English poet, historian, and critic (died 1790)

Thomas Warton was an English literary historian, critic, and poet. He was appointed Poet Laureate in 1785, following the death of William Whitehead.

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09/01/1685

Tiberius Hemsterhuis, Dutch philologist and critic (died 1766)

Tiberius Hemsterhuis was a Dutch philologist and critic.

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09/01/1674

Reinhard Keiser, German composer (died 1739)

Reinhard Keiser was a German opera composer based in Hamburg. He wrote over a hundred operas. Johann Adolf Scheibe considered him an equal to Johann Kuhnau, George Frideric Handel and Georg Philipp Telemann, but his work was largely forgotten for many decades.

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09/01/1645

Sir William Villiers, 3rd Baronet, English noble and politician (date baptized; (died 1712)

Sir William Villiers, 3rd Baronet was an English politician from the Villiers family.

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09/01/1624

Empress Meishō of Japan (died 1696)

Okiko , posthumously honored as Empress Meishō , was the 109th monarch of Japan, according to the traditional order of succession. Her reign lasted from 1629 to 1643. Her reign officially began when she was five years old and continued for fifteen years. It is believed that Meishō's father actually ruled in her name until she abdicated in favor of her younger half-brother.

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09/01/1606

William Dugard, English printer (died 1662)

William Dugard, or Du Gard, was an English schoolmaster and printer. During the English Interregnum, he printed many important documents and propaganda, first in support of Charles I and later of Oliver Cromwell. He also proved a successful master at a number of schools, including the Merchant Taylor's School, Colchester Royal Grammar School and Stamford School, and wrote a number of non-fiction works.

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09/01/1590

Simon Vouet, French painter (died 1649)

Simon Vouet was a French painter who studied and rose to prominence in Italy before being summoned by Louis XIII to serve as Premier peintre du Roi in France. He and his studio of artists created religious and mythological paintings, portraits, frescoes, tapestries, and massive decorative schemes for the king and for wealthy patrons, including Cardinal Richelieu. During this time, "Vouet was indisputably the leading artist in Paris," and was immensely influential in introducing the Italian Baroque style of painting to France. He was also, according to Pierre Rosenberg, "without doubt one of the outstanding seventeenth-century draughtsmen, equal to Annibale Carracci and Lanfranco."

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09/01/1571

Charles Bonaventure de Longueval, Count of Bucquoy, French commander (died 1621)

Charles Bonaventure de Longueval, 2nd Count of Bucquoy was a military commander who fought for the Spanish Netherlands during the Eighty Years' War and for the Holy Roman Empire during the Thirty Years' War.

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09/01/1554

Pope Gregory XV (died 1623)

Pope Gregory XV, born Alessandro Ludovisi, was the head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 9 February 1621 until his death in 1623. He is notable for founding the Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith, an organization tasked with overseeing the spread of Catholicism and missionary work. Gregory XV was also responsible for the canonization of Saints Ignatius of Loyola, Francis Xavier, Teresa of Ávila, and Philip Neri, which solidified his commitment to the Counter-Reformation.

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09/01/1418

Juan Ramón Folch III de Cardona, Aragonese admiral (died 1485)

John Ramon III Folch de Cardona i de Prades,, was a Catalan nobleman. John Ramon's titles included Count of Prades (5th), Count of Cardona, Viscount of Vilamur, Baron of Entença, Admiral of Aragon, Captain general of Catalonia as well as Viceroy of Sicily from 1477 to 1479.

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09/01/1304

Hōjō Takatoki, Japanese shikken of the Kamakura bakufu (died 1333)[unreliable source?]

Hōjō Takatoki was the last Tokusō and ruling Shikken (regent) of Japan's Kamakura shogunate; the rulers that followed were his puppets. A member of the Hōjō clan, he was the son of Hōjō Sadatoki, and was preceded as shikken by Hōjō Mototoki.

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09/01/0727

Emperor Daizong of Tang (died 779)

Year 727 (DCCXXVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar. The denomination 727 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.

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