Tuesday, 1st July 2025 in London

On this day, 256 notable people were born on 1st July — spanning from 1311 to 2004. From world leaders to artists and scientists, discover who shares this birthday.

01/07/2004

Daniela Avanzini, American singer and dancer

Daniela Andrea Avanzini Llorente is an American singer and dancer. She is best known as a member of the girl group Katseye, formed through the 2023 reality show Dream Academy. She was previously a contestant on the 13th season of So You Think You Can Dance in 2016.

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01/07/2003

Tate McRae, Canadian singer-songwriter and dancer

Tate Rosner McRae is a Canadian singer, songwriter, and dancer. She first gained prominence as a contestant on the American reality television series So You Think You Can Dance in 2016. She signed with RCA Records and gained early recognition for her extended plays (EPs) All the Things I Never Said (2020) and Too Young to Be Sad (2021); the latter became the most streamed female EP of 2021 on Spotify and was preceded by the single "You Broke Me First", her first US Billboard Hot 100 entry.

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Storm Reid, American actress

Storm Reid is an American actress. After early roles in the television show A Cross to Bear (2012), the drama film 12 Years a Slave (2013), and the superhero film Sleight (2016), she played the lead role of Meg Murry in the fantasy film A Wrinkle in Time (2018). She garnered further recognition with roles in the thriller film Don't Let Go (2019) and the horror film The Invisible Man (2020).

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01/07/2001

Chosen Jacobs, American actor and singer

Chosen Jacobs is an American actor, singer, songwriter, musician and rapper best known for his recurring role as Will Grover on the CBS television series Hawaii Five-0 and his role as Mike Hanlon in the 2017 film adaptation of the Stephen King novel It, and its follow-up It Chapter Two.

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01/07/2000

Lalu Muhammad Zohri, Indonesian sprinter

Lalu Muhammad Zohri is an Indonesian track and field sprinter. He is the first Indonesian male to win a medal at the IAAF World U20 Championships by winning a gold medal in the 100m. He is the current holder of the Indonesian 100m and 200m national records, and is labelled the "fastest man in Southeast Asia".

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01/07/1998

Chloe Bailey, American singer-songwriter and actress

Chloe Elizabeth Bailey, also known mononymously as Chlöe, is an American singer-songwriter, record producer, and actress. She rose to prominence alongside her sister Halle Bailey as Chloe x Halle. The duo released two studio albums, with their second, Ungodly Hour (2020), being met with widespread acclaim upon release. In 2021, Bailey released her debut solo single "Have Mercy", which was certified platinum in the U.S. Her debut album, In Pieces, was released in 2023. Her second studio album, Trouble in Paradise, was released in 2024.

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Susan Bandecchi, Swiss tennis player

Susan Bandecchi is a Swiss professional tennis player. She reached a career-high WTA singles ranking of No. 164 on 7 March 2022 and her best doubles ranking of No. 141 on 11 July 2022.

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Aleksandra Golovkina, Lithuanian figure skater

Aleksandra Golovkina-Dolinskė, is a Lithuanian figure skater. She is the gold medalist of the Tayside Trophy 2023 and a six-time Lithuanian national champion. She has competed in five European Championships and two World Championships.

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01/07/1996

Adelina Sotnikova, Russian figure skater

Adelina Dmitriyevna Sotnikova is a retired Russian figure skater. She is the 2014 Olympic gold medalist in ladies' singles, a two-time European silver medalist, a two-time Rostelecom Cup bronze medalist, and a four-time Russian national champion.

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01/07/1995

Boli Bolingoli-Mbombo, Belgian footballer

Boli Bolingoli-Mbombo is a professional footballer who plays as a left back for Belgian Pro League club Standard Liège.

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Savvy Shields, Miss America 2017

Savannah Janine Shields Wolfe is an American beauty pageant titleholder from Fayetteville, Arkansas, who was crowned Miss Arkansas 2016. On September 11, 2016, she was crowned Miss America 2017 by Miss America 2016, Betty Cantrell.

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Taeyong, South Korea rapper

Lee Tae-yong, known mononymously as Taeyong, is a South Korean rapper, singer, songwriter, and dancer. He is a member and leader of South Korean boy band NCT under SM Entertainment, having debuted in the group's first sub-unit, NCT U, in 2016 and becoming the leader of its second sub-unit, NCT 127, later that year. In 2019, he debuted as a member of the South Korean supergroup SuperM, a joint project under SM Entertainment and Capitol Records. As a songwriter, Taeyong has participated in writing over 70 songs in four languages, released mostly by NCT's various units and himself as a soloist. He made his official solo debut in June 2023 with his EP Shalala, making him the first soloist from NCT.

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01/07/1994

Chloé Paquet, French tennis player

Chloé Paquet is a French professional tennis player. She has achieved career-high WTA rankings of No. 96 in singles on 5 August 2024, and 247 in doubles on 12 June 2017.

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01/07/1992

Aaron Sanchez, American baseball player

Aaron Jacob Sanchez is an American professional baseball pitcher in the Kansas City Royals organization. He has previously played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Toronto Blue Jays, Houston Astros, San Francisco Giants, Washington Nationals, and Minnesota Twins. He was drafted by the Blue Jays in the first round of the 2010 Major League Baseball draft and made his MLB debut in 2014. He was an All-Star in 2016 and led the American League in earned run average that season. Toronto traded him Houston in 2019, and he pitched the first six innings of a combined no-hitter in his first start for Houston.

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01/07/1991

Lucas Vázquez, Spanish footballer

Lucas Vázquez Iglesias is a Spanish professional footballer who plays as a right-back or winger for Bundesliga club Bayer Leverkusen.

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Michael Wacha, American baseball player

Michael Joseph Wacha is an American professional baseball pitcher for the Kansas City Royals of Major League Baseball (MLB). He has previously played in MLB for the St. Louis Cardinals, New York Mets, Tampa Bay Rays, Boston Red Sox, and San Diego Padres. He played college baseball for the Texas A&M Aggies.

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01/07/1989

Kent Bazemore, American basketball player

Kenneth Lamont Bazemore Jr. is an American professional basketball player who last played for the Capital City Go-Go of the NBA G League. As a junior at Old Dominion University in 2010–11, Bazemore won the Lefty Driesell Award, an award given to the best defensive player in college basketball.

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Hannah Murray, English actress

Tegan Lauren-Hannah Murray is a retired English actress. She played Cassie in Skins and Gilly in the HBO fantasy series Game of Thrones (2012–2019), for which she has been nominated along with her castmates for three Screen Actors Guild Awards. Her film roles include the 2014 musical romance film Stuart Murdoch's God Help The Girl which won her a Special Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival, and 2015 drama film Jeppe Rønde's Bridgend for which she won the Tribeca Film Festival Best Actress Award.

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Daniel Ricciardo, Australian race car driver

Daniel Joseph Ricciardo is an Australian former racing driver who competed in Formula One from 2011 to 2024. Nicknamed "the Honey Badger", Ricciardo won eight Formula One Grands Prix across 14 seasons.

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01/07/1988

Dedé, Brazilian footballer

Anderson Vital da Silva, commonly known as Dedé is a Brazilian footballer who plays as a centre back.

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Aleksander Lesun, Russian modern pentathlete

Aleksander Leonidovich Lesun is a Belarusian-born naturalized Russian modern pentathlete. He is a multiple-time medalist at the World and European Championships, and was a top-ranked male modern pentathlete in the world by the Union Internationale de Pentathlon Moderne (UIPM).

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01/07/1987

Michael Schrader, German decathlete

Michael Schrader is a German decathlete. He finished tenth at the 2008 Olympic Games. His personal best score is 8670 points, winning him the silver medal at the 2013 World Championships in Moscow.

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01/07/1986

Charlie Blackmon, American baseball player

Charles Cobb Blackmon, nicknamed "Chuck Nazty", is an American former professional baseball outfielder who spent his entire 14-year Major League Baseball (MLB) career with the Colorado Rockies. He made his MLB debut in 2011. Blackmon throws and bats left-handed, stands 6 feet 3 inches (1.91 m), and weighs 220.4 pounds (100.0 kg).

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Andrew Lee, Australian footballer

Andrew Dwayne Lee is an Australian rules footballer who played with the Essendon Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). He was drafted from the Burnie Dockers, via the Tassie Mariners U18s and the Tasmanian Devils, with selection 30 in the 2004 Draft.

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Julian Prochnow, German footballer

Julian Prochnow is a German footballer who plays for SV Babelsberg 03.

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01/07/1985

Chris Perez, American baseball player

Christopher Ralph Perez is an American former professional baseball pitcher. He pitched collegiately for the University of Miami, and was selected by the St. Louis Cardinals in the first round of the 2006 Major League Baseball draft. Perez also played for the Cleveland Indians and Los Angeles Dodgers.

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Léa Seydoux, French actor

Léa Hélène Seydoux-Fornier de Clausonne is a French actress. Prolific in both French cinema and Hollywood, she has received five César Award nominations, two Lumière Awards, a Palme d'Or and a BAFTA Award nomination. In 2009, she won the Trophée Chopard Award for Female Revelation of the Year at the Cannes Film Festival. In 2016, Seydoux was honoured with appointment as a Dame of the Order of Arts and Letters. In 2022, the French government made her a Dame of the National Order of Merit.

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01/07/1984

Donald Thomas, Bahamian high jumper

Donald Thomas is a Bahamian high jumper from Freeport, Bahamas.

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01/07/1983

Leeteuk, South Korean singer and entertainer

Park Jeong-su, known professionally as Leeteuk, is a South Korean singer, songwriter, presenter, radio personality, and actor. He debuted as the leader of the boy band Super Junior in November 2005 and since then has participated in its subgroups Super Junior-T, Super Junior-Happy, and Super Junior-L.S.S. He began his career as a television presenter on the music show M! Countdown. He is best known for his role in presenting Strong Heart, Star King, The Best Cooking Secrets, I Can See Your Voice, and Idol Star Athletics Championships.

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01/07/1982

Justin Huber, Australian baseball player

Justin Patrick Huber is an Australian former professional baseball player. A first baseman and outfielder, Huber has played in Major League Baseball, Nippon Professional Baseball, and the Australian Baseball League. He has also played for the Australian national baseball team in international competitions.

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Joachim Johansson, Swedish tennis player

Joachim Johansson is a former professional male tennis player from Sweden. He reached the semifinals of the 2004 US Open, won 3 singles titles and achieved a career-high singles ranking of World No. 9 in February 2005.

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Adrian Ward, American football player

Adrian Michael Ward is an American former professional football cornerback for the Minnesota Vikings and the New York Giants in the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the University of Texas at El Paso after attending Chabot College in Hayward, California. He was selected by the Vikings in the seventh round of the 2005 NFL draft with the 219th overall pick. Waived by the Vikings in September 2005, Ward was signed a little over a week later to the Giants' practice squad, on which he competed briefly. In 2007, the Calgary Stampeders of the Canadian Football League (CFL) signed him as a free agent.

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Fedi Nuril, Indonesian actor, model, and musician

Fedi Nuril is an Indonesian actor, model, and musician. He is known for his roles as Fahri in Ayat-Ayat Cinta (2008) and Ayat-Ayat Cinta 2 (2016), and as Genta in 5 cm (2012). Nuril has been referred to as an icon of polygamy Indonesian cinema.

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Hilarie Burton, American actress

Hilarie Ros Burton, also known as Hilarie Burton Morgan, is an American actress. A former host of MTV's Total Request Live, she portrayed Peyton Sawyer on The WB/The CW drama One Tree Hill for six seasons (2003–2009). Post One Tree Hill, Burton starred in Our Very Own, Solstice, and The List. She has also had supporting or recurring roles in television series, including her role as Sara Ellis on White Collar (2010–2013), Dr. Lauren Boswell on the ABC medical drama Grey's Anatomy (2013), Molly Dawes on the ABC drama series Forever (2014), and Karen Palmer on the Fox television series Lethal Weapon (2016). Burton was a co-host on the Drama Queens podcast along with her former One Tree Hill co-stars Sophia Bush and Bethany Joy Lenz until the summer of 2024.

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01/07/1981

Carlo Del Fava, South African-Italian rugby player

Carlo Antonio Del Fava is a former rugby union player. His preferred position was Lock. After hanging his boots up he then decided to take up coaching. Born in South Africa, he played for Italy internationally.

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Tadhg Kennelly, Irish-Australian footballer

Tadhg Kennelly is an Irish-Australian former international sportsperson turned recruiter and coach. He is most known for his top-level careers in both Gaelic football and Australian rules football being the first holder of both an AFL Premiership medallion and a Senior All-Ireland Championship medal, the highest-possible team-based achievement in both sports. He has also represented Ireland in the International Rules Series.

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01/07/1980

Nelson Cruz, Dominican-American baseball player

Nelson Ramón Cruz Martínez, nicknamed "Boomstick", is a Dominican-American former professional baseball designated hitter and right fielder. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Milwaukee Brewers, Texas Rangers, Baltimore Orioles, Seattle Mariners, Minnesota Twins, Tampa Bay Rays, Washington Nationals, and San Diego Padres. Cruz is a seven-time MLB All-Star. Known for his power hitting, he won four Silver Slugger Awards and two Edgar Martínez Awards.

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01/07/1979

Forrest Griffin, American mixed martial artist and actor

Forrest Griffin is an American retired mixed martial artist. He is a former UFC Light Heavyweight Champion and was inducted into the UFC Hall of Fame in 2013. He is now the Vice President of Athlete Development at the UFC Performance Institute. A former Georgia police officer, Griffin first rose to prominence after winning the first season of The Ultimate Fighter. In the tournament finals, he defeated Stephan Bonnar in a fight which is widely credited as sparking the success of the UFC.

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01/07/1977

Tom Frager, Senegalese-French singer-songwriter and guitarist

Tom Frager is a French songwriter and performer in the group Gwayav' and is also a ten-time surfing champion in Guadeloupe. He is primarily known for his French hit "Lady Melody", number one on the French charts for four weeks.

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Keigo Hayashi, Japanese musician

Flow is a Japanese rock band formed in 1998 as a five-piece band made up of two vocalists, a guitarist, a bassist, and a drummer. They are signed to Sacra Music. As of November 2023, the band has released 40 singles and 12 studio albums. Their songs have been featured in the opening sequences of several anime and Japanese drama series.

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Jarome Iginla, Canadian ice hockey player

Jarome Arthur-Leigh Adekunle Tig Junior Elvis Iginla is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player. He played over 1,500 games as a winger in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the Calgary Flames, Pittsburgh Penguins, Boston Bruins, Colorado Avalanche, and Los Angeles Kings between 1996 and 2017. He is widely regarded as one of the best players of his generation.

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Liv Tyler, American actress

Liv Rundgren Tyler is an American actress. She began her career as a model before making her film debut in Silent Fall (1994). She went on to receive critical recognition and attention after her starring roles in various films including Heavy (1995), Empire Records (1995), Stealing Beauty (1996), That Thing You Do! (1996), Inventing the Abbotts (1997), Armageddon (1998), Cookie's Fortune (1999) and One Night at McCool's (2001). She then appeared as Arwen Undómiel in the Lord of the Rings film trilogy (2001–2003), which became one of the highest-grossing film series of all time.

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01/07/1976

Patrick Kluivert, Dutch footballer and coach

Patrick Stephan Kluivert is a Dutch football coach and former player. As a player, he played as a striker for Ajax, Barcelona and the Netherlands national team.

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Hannu Tihinen, Finnish footballer

Hannu Tihinen is a Finnish former professional footballer who played as a centre-back. Since January 2014, he worked as a technical director at the Football Association of Finland. In October 2022, Tihinen was appointed as an expert adviser of FIFA in Global Football Development Division High-Performance -unit.

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Albert Torrens, Australian rugby league player

Albert Torrens is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1990s and 2000s. He played for the Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles, Northern Eagles and St. George Illawarra Dragons in the NRL and in England for the Huddersfield Giants of Super League as a centre and on the wing.

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Ruud van Nistelrooy, Dutch footballer and manager

Rutgerus Johannes Martinus van Nistelrooij, commonly known by his anglicised name of Ruud van Nistelrooy, is a Dutch professional football manager and former player. He is currently working as an assistant coach of the Netherlands national football team. Widely regarded as one of the best strikers of his generation, Van Nistelrooy was the top scorer in three UEFA Champions League seasons and is the all-time Dutch top goalscorer in the competition's history with 56 goals. He has also been the top scorer in three European domestic leagues. In 2004, he was listed in the FIFA 100 of the world's greatest living players.

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Szymon Ziółkowski, Polish hammer thrower

Szymon Jerzy Ziółkowski is a retired Polish hammer thrower and politician.

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01/07/1975

Sean Colson, American basketball player and coach

Sean Tyree Colson is an American former professional basketball player. He was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. At a height of 6 ft 0 in (1.83 m) tall, he played at the point guard position.

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Sufjan Stevens, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

Sufjan Stevens is an American singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist. He has released ten solo studio albums and multiple collaborative albums with other artists. Stevens has received Grammy and Academy Award nominations.

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01/07/1974

Jefferson Pérez, Ecuadorian race walker

Jefferson Leonardo Pérez Quezada is an Ecuadorian retired race walker. He specialised in the 20 km event, in which he won the first two medals his country achieved in the Olympic Games.

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Jonathan Roumie, American actor

Jonathan Roumie is an American actor known for his role as Jesus in The Chosen, a crowd-funded television series about the life and ministry of Jesus of Nazareth. In 2023, he portrayed evangelist Lonnie Frisbee in the film Jesus Revolution. He is also a voice artist and a public speaker.

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01/07/1971

Missy Elliott, American rapper, producer, dancer and actress

Melissa Arnette "Missy" Elliott, also known as Misdemeanor, is an American rapper, singer, songwriter, and record producer. She began her musical career as a member of the R&B girl group Sista during the 1990s, who were part of the larger musical collective Swing Mob, led by DeVante Swing of Jodeci. Sista signed with Elektra Records to release their debut album, 4 All the Sistas Around da World (1994), which was critically praised but commercially unsuccessful. She collaborated with album's producer and Swing Mob cohort Timbaland to work in songwriting and production for other acts, yielding commercially successful releases for 702, Aaliyah, SWV, and Total.

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Julianne Nicholson, American actress

Julianne Nicholson is an American actress. She is known for her roles in the film August: Osage County (2013) and the television series Law & Order: Criminal Intent (2006–2009), Masters of Sex (2013–2014), Eyewitness (2016), Mare of Easttown (2021), Paradise and Hacks, the latter three of which earned her nominations for Primetime Emmy Awards, winning two for Mare of Easttown and Hacks.

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01/07/1969

Séamus Egan, American-Irish singer-songwriter and guitarist

Seamus Egan is an Irish-American musician.

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01/07/1967

Pamela Anderson, Canadian-American model and actress

Pamela Denise Anderson is a Canadian-American actress, model and media personality. She came to public prominence after being selected as the February 1990 Playboy Playmate of the Month following her appearance on the cover of the magazine's October 1989 issue. She went on to make regular appearances on the magazine's cover, and holds the record for appearing on the most Playboy covers of any individual.

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01/07/1966

Enrico Annoni, Italian footballer and coach

Enrico Annoni is an Italian former professional footballer who played as a defender.

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Shawn Burr, Canadian-American ice hockey player (died 2013)

Shawn Christopher Burr was a Canadian professional ice hockey left winger. Burr played in the NHL for parts of 16 seasons from 1985 to 2000.

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01/07/1965

Carl Fogarty, English motorcycle racer

Carl George Fogarty, often known as Foggy, is an English former motorcycle racer and one of the most successful World Superbike racers of all time. He also holds the fourth highest number of race wins at 59 behind Jonathan Rea, Toprak Razgatlioglu and Álvaro Bautista. He is the son of former motorcycle racer George Fogarty. He retired in 2000. In 2011, Fogarty was named a FIM Legend for his motorcycling achievements.

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Garry Schofield, English rugby player and coach

Garry Edward Schofield OBE is an English former professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1980s and 1990s, and is a member of the British Rugby League Hall of Fame.

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Harald Zwart, Norwegian director and producer

Harald Zwart is a Dutch-Norwegian director, writer and producer.

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01/07/1964

Bernard Laporte, French rugby player and coach

Bernard Laporte is a rugby player, coach and former French Secretary of State for Sport. From 1999 to 2007, Laporte was the head coach of the France national team. In 2011, he became the head coach at Toulon, after Philippe Saint-André became the new national team coach. He was previously the coach at Stade Français. He was the first fully professional head coach of France. Laporte was president of the French Rugby Federation from December 2016 to January 2023.

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01/07/1963

Roddy Bottum, American singer and keyboard player

Roswell Christopher Bottum is an American musician, best known as the keyboardist for the San Francisco alternative metal band Faith No More. He is also guitarist and co-lead vocalist for the pop group Imperial Teen. In addition to his popular musical career, Bottum also scored three Hollywood movies and composed an opera entitled Sasquatch: The Opera, which premiered in New York in April 2015.

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Nick Giannopoulos, Australian actor

Nicholas "Nick" Giannopoulos is an Australian stand-up comedian, stage, TV and film actor and film director. He is best known for his comedy stage show Wogs Out of Work alongside George Kapiniaris, the television sitcom Acropolis Now and The Wog Boy film series and has been described as "Australia's leading exponent of "wog" humour".

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David Wood, American lawyer and environmentalist (died 2006)

David E. Wood was an attorney and environmental activist. Best known for his work in the field of electronics recycling, he was executive director of the GrassRoots Recycling Network (GRRN) in Madison, Wisconsin and organizing director of the nationwide Computer TakeBack Campaign (CTBC).

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01/07/1962

Andre Braugher, American actor (died 2023)

Andre Keith Braugher ( BROW-ər; was an American actor known for his roles as Detective Frank Pembleton in the NBC police drama series Homicide: Life on the Street and Captain Raymond Holt in the Fox/NBC police comedy series Brooklyn Nine-Nine. He won two Primetime Emmy Awards and was nominated for two Golden Globe Awards.

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Mokhzani Mahathir, Malaysian businessman

Mokhzani bin Mahathir is a Malaysian businessman. He worked as a petroleum engineer before founding oil-equipment fabricator Kencana Petroleum. Kencana Petroleum later merged with SapuraCrest to form SapuraKencana Petroleum. The company is now known as Sapura Energy.

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01/07/1961

Malcolm Elliott, English cyclist

Malcolm Elliott is a former English professional cyclist, whose professional career has lasted from 1984 to 1997 when he retired and from 2003 up to 2011 when he made his comeback in British domestic racing.

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Ivan Kaye, English actor

Ivan Blakeley Kaye is an English actor and producer. His international fame came with roles in historical drama shows like the Duke of Milan in all three seasons of The Borgias, and King Aelle in the first four Seasons of History channel's series Vikings. More recent projects include action thriller Gunpowder Milkshake, the series pilot for Amazon's adaptation of Stephen King's The Dark Tower, the first British original Disney+ series Wedding Season and a leading role in the Irish comedy feature film Apocalypse Clown. In the UK, he is also widely known for many TV roles, including stints on Bad Girls and Bugs, and his role as Bryan in the comedy series The Green Green Grass.

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Carl Lewis, American long jumper and runner

Frederick Carlton Lewis is an American former track and field athlete who won nine Olympic gold medals, one Olympic silver medal, and 10 World Championships medals, including eight gold. Lewis was a dominant sprinter and long jumper whose career spanned from 1979 to 1996, when he last won the Olympic long jump. He is one of six athletes to win gold in the same individual event in four consecutive Olympic Games, and is one of two people to win gold in the same individual athletics event in four Olympic Games, along with USA discus thrower Al Oerter. He is the head track and field coach for the University of Houston.

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Diana, Princess of Wales (died 1997)

Diana, Princess of Wales, was a member of the British royal family. She was the first wife of Charles III and mother of Princes William and Harry. Her activism and glamour made her an international icon and earned her enduring popularity.

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Michelle Wright, Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist

Michelle Wright is a Canadian country music artist. She won the Canadian Country Music Association's Fans' Choice Award twice. In 2011, Wright was inducted into the Canadian Country Music Hall of Fame.

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01/07/1960

Michael Beattie, Australian rugby league player and coach

Michael Beattie is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1980s and 1990s. He played at club level for the St. George Dragons (captain) and Castleford.

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Lynn Jennings, American runner

Lynn Alice Jennings is a retired American long-distance runner. She is one of the best female American runners of all time, with a range from 1500 meters to the marathon. She excelled at all three of the sport's major disciplines: track, road, and cross country. She won the bronze in the Women's 10,000 metres at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics. She set a world indoor record in the 5000 meter run in 1990.

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Evelyn "Champagne" King, American soul/disco singer

Evelyn "Champagne" King is an American singer. Her first hit was the disco single "Shame", which was released in 1977, at the height of disco's popularity. King had other hits from the early to mid-1980s, including "I'm in Love" (1981), "Love Come Down" (1982), and "Your Personal Touch" (1985).

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Kevin Swords, American rugby player

Kevin Robert Swords is an American rugby player. He won 36 caps between 1985 and 1994, and was the first American to play for the Barbarians. His brother Brian Swords also played for the Eagles as a lock. Brian, a much revered competitor and teammate introduced Kevin to Rugby while they both attended the College of the Holy Cross. Kevin Swords is the nephew of former president of the College of the Holy Cross, Rev. Raymond J. Swords, S. J., and the uncle of Carolyn Swords.

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01/07/1958

Jack Dyer Crouch II, American diplomat, United States Deputy National Security Advisor

Jack Dyer Crouch II is an American diplomat and national security adviser. Between 2014 and October 2025, he served as president and chief executive officer (CEO) of the United Service Organizations (USO).

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01/07/1957

Lisa Blount, American actress and producer (died 2010)

Lisa Suzanne Blount was an American actress and film producer. She was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year for her performance in An Officer and a Gentleman (1982), and later won an Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film for producing The Accountant (2001).

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Hannu Kamppuri, Finnish ice hockey player

Hannu Juhani Kamppuri is a former professional ice hockey goaltender. Kamppuri, who was born in Helsinki, was an accomplished SM-liiga goaltender, who played from 1975 to 1990, and was one of the first Finnish goaltenders to compete in the National Hockey League, where he played 13 games for the New Jersey Devils during the 1984–85 season. He also appeared in net for the Edmonton Oilers of the World Hockey Association for 2 games during the 1978–79 season.

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Sean O'Driscoll, English footballer and manager

Sean Michael O'Driscoll is a former professional footballer and manager. He has previously managed AFC Bournemouth, Doncaster Rovers, Crawley Town, Nottingham Forest, Bristol City and Walsall. He was known by the nickname "Noisy" in his playing days at Fulham. He represented the Republic of Ireland as a player.

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01/07/1956

Alan Ruck, American actor

Alan Douglas Ruck is an American actor. He is known for portraying Cameron Frye in John Hughes's film Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986), as well as television roles as Stuart Bondek on the ABC sitcom Spin City (1996–2002) and Connor Roy on the HBO series Succession (2018–2023), the latter earning him Primetime Emmy and Golden Globe Award nominations. His other film credits include Class (1983), Bad Boys (1983), Three Fugitives (1989), Young Guns II (1990), Speed (1994), Star Trek Generations (1994), and Twister (1996).

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01/07/1955

Nikolai Demidenko, Russian pianist and educator

Nikolai Demidenko is a Russian-born classical pianist.

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Li Keqiang, Chinese economist and politician, 7th Premier of the People's Republic of China (died 2023)

Li Keqiang was a Chinese politician and economist who served as Premier of China from 2013 to 2023 and was the second-ranking member of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)'s Politburo Standing Committee from 2012 to 2022.

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Lisa Scottoline, American lawyer and author

Lisa Scottoline is an American author of legal thrillers.

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Maʻafu Tukuiʻaulahi, Tongan politician and military officer, Deputy Prime Minister (died 2021)

'Siosaʻia Lausiʻi, Lord Maʻafu Tukuiʻaulahi, also known as Lord Maʻafu, was a Tongan politician, military officer, and member of the Tongan nobility.

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01/07/1954

Keith Whitley, American singer and guitarist (died 1989)

Jackie Keith Whitley was an American country music and bluegrass singer and songwriter. During his career, he released only two albums, but charted 12 singles on the Billboard country charts, and seven more after his death.

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Hossein Nuri, Iranian artist and director

Hossein Nuri is an Iranian painter, playwright and film director. One of Nuri's pre-eminent characteristics is that despite his physical limitations he has gained professional acclaim in three fields of painting, theater, and cinema.

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01/07/1953

Lawrence Gonzi, Maltese lawyer and politician, 12th Prime Minister of Malta

Lawrence Gonzi is a Maltese politician, retired Nationalist politician and lawyer, who served for twenty-five years in various critical roles in Maltese politics. Gonzi was Prime Minister of Malta from 2004 to 2013, and leader of the Nationalist Party. He also served as speaker of the House from 1988 to 1996, and Minister of Social Policy from 1998 to 2004, as well as deputy prime minister from 1999 to 2004. He served in practically all positions in Parliament, being also Leader of the House, an MP and Leader of the Opposition.

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Mike Haynes, American football player

Michael James Haynes is an American former professional football player who was a cornerback in the National Football League (NFL) for the New England Patriots and the Los Angeles Raiders. Regarded as one of the greatest cornerbacks of all time, he used his speed, physicality, quickness and range to become both an elite defensive back and an outstanding punt returner. Haynes was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 2000 and the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1997. He was also named to the NFL 75th Anniversary All-Time Team in 1994, as well the NFL 100th Anniversary All-Time Team in 2019 for his accomplishments during his 14-year career.

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Jadranka Kosor, Croatian journalist and politician, 9th Prime Minister of Croatia

Jadranka Kosor is a Croatian politician and former journalist who served as Prime Minister of Croatia from 2009 to 2011, having taken office following the sudden resignation of her predecessor Ivo Sanader. Kosor was the first and so far only woman to become Prime Minister of Croatia since independence.

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01/07/1952

Dan Aykroyd, Canadian actor, producer and screenwriter

Daniel Edward Aykroyd is a Canadian and American actor, comedian, screenwriter, and producer.

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David Arkenstone, American composer and performer

David Arkenstone is an American composer and performer. His music is primarily instrumental, with occasional vocalizations. Most of Arkenstone's music falls into the new age category; however, he also worked in other genres, including even a heavy metal soundtrack for Emperor: Battle for Dune video game. His music has been described as 'soundtracks for the imagination'. Throughout his career, Arkenstone released over 50 albums and composed music for video games, including World of Warcraft, and for television, including NBC's Kentucky Derby. Arkenstone has been nominated for Grammy Awards five times.

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David Lane, English oncologist and academic

Sir David Philip Lane is a British immunologist, molecular biologist and cancer researcher. He is currently working in the Department of Microbiology, Tumor and Cell Biology at the Karolinska Institute and is Chairman of Chugai Pharmabody. He is best known for the discovery of p53, one of the most important tumour suppressor genes.

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Steve Shutt, Canadian ice hockey player and sportscaster

Stephen John Shutt is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player who played 13 seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL) from 1972 to 1985, 12 seasons for the Montreal Canadiens and 1 season for the Los Angeles Kings. He is in the Hockey Hall of Fame. While playing for the Canadiens he won the Stanley Cup five times: in 1973, 1976, 1977, 1978, and 1979.

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Timothy J. Tobias, American pianist and composer (died 2006)

Timothy John Tobias was an American composer and musician. He died aged 54 of lymphoma.

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01/07/1951

Trevor Eve, English actor and producer

Trevor John Eve is an English actor. In 1979, he gained fame as the eponymous lead in the detective series Shoestring (1979–1980) and is also known for his role as Detective Superintendent Peter Boyd in the long-running BBC television drama Waking the Dead (2000–2011). He is the father of three children, including actress Alice Eve. He is the winner of two Laurence Olivier Awards in theatre.

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Anne Feeney, American singer-songwriter and activist (died 2021)

Anne Feeney was an American folk musician, singer-songwriter, political activist and attorney. She began her career in 1969 as a student activist playing a Phil Ochs song at a Vietnam War protest, one of many causes she embraced.

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Julia Goodfellow, English physicist and academic

Dame Julia Mary Goodfellow is a former Vice-Chancellor of the University of Kent, and Chair of the British Science Association. She was the president of Universities UK from 1 August 2015 until July 2017.

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Klaus-Peter Justus, German runner

Klaus-Peter Justus is a retired East German middle distance runner who specialized in the 1500 metres.

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Tom Kozelko, American basketball player

Thomas William Kozelko is a retired American basketball player who played briefly in the National Basketball Association (NBA).

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Terrence Mann, American actor, singer and dancer

Terrence Vaughan Mann is an American actor and baritone singer. He is best known for his appearances on the Broadway stage, which include Lyman in Barnum, The Rum Tum Tugger in Cats, Inspector Javert in Les Misérables, The Beast in Beauty and the Beast, Chauvelin in The Scarlet Pimpernel, Frank N. Furter in The Rocky Horror Show, Charlemagne in Pippin, Mal Beineke in The Addams Family, Charles Frohman / Captain James Hook in Finding Neverland, The Man in the Yellow Suit in Tuck Everlasting, and Meyer Wolfsheim in The Great Gatsby. He has received three Tony Award nominations, an Emmy Award nomination, and an Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Actor in a Musical.

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Fred Schneider, American singer-songwriter and keyboard player

Frederick William Schneider III is an American singer-songwriter and frontman of the rock band the B-52s, of which he is a founding member. Schneider is well known for his sprechgesang, which he developed from reciting poetry over guitars.

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Victor Willis, American singer-songwriter, pianist and actor

Victor Edward Willis is an American singer, songwriter and a founding member of the disco group Village People. He performed as their lead singer and was co-songwriter for all of their most successful singles. In the group, he performed costumed as a policeman or a naval officer.

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01/07/1950

David Duke, American white supremacist, politician and Ku Klux Klan Grand Wizard

David Ernest Duke is an American former politician, white supremacist, neo-Nazi, conspiracy theorist, and former grand wizard of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. From 1989 to 1992, he was a Republican member of the Louisiana House of Representatives. His politics and writings are largely devoted to promoting conspiracy theories about Jews, such as Holocaust denial and Jewish control of academia, the press, and the financial system. In 2013, the Anti-Defamation League called Duke "perhaps America's most well-known racist and anti-Semite".

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01/07/1949

Néjia Ben Mabrouk, Tunisian-Belgian director and screenwriter

Néjia Ben Mabrouk is a Tunisian screenwriter and director, known for her work on the award-winning film Sama and on the documentary The Gulf War... What Next?.

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John Farnham, English-Australian singer-songwriter

John Peter Farnham is an Australian singer. Farnham was a teen pop idol from 1967 until the mid-1970s, billed as Johnny Farnham. He has since forged a career as an adult contemporary singer. His career has mostly been as a solo artist, although he replaced Glenn Shorrock as lead singer of Little River Band from 1982 to 1985.

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David Hogan, American composer and educator (died 1996)

H. David Hogan was an American composer and musical director of CIGAP, a choir composed of openly gay men.

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Venkaiah Naidu, Indian lawyer and politician

Muppavarapu Venkaiah Naidu is an Indian politician who served as the vice president of India from 2017 to 2022. He has also served as the minister of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation, Urban Development and Information and Broadcasting in the Modi Cabinet.

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01/07/1948

John Ford, English-American singer-songwriter and guitarist

John Ford is a British musician. He has toured and recorded with Velvet Opera, The Strawbs, Hudson/Ford and The Monks.

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01/07/1947

Kazuyoshi Hoshino, Japanese race car driver

Kazuyoshi Hoshino is a Japanese former racing driver and businessman.

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Malcolm Wicks, English academic and politician (died 2012)

Malcolm Hunt Wicks was a British Labour Party politician and academic specialising in social policy. He was a member of parliament (MP) from 1992, first for Croydon North West and then for Croydon North, until his death in 2012.

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01/07/1946

Mick Aston, English archaeologist and academic (died 2013)

Michael Antony Aston was an English archaeologist who specialised in Early Medieval landscape archaeology. Over the course of his career, he lectured at both the University of Bristol and University of Oxford and published fifteen books on archaeological subjects. A keen populariser of the discipline, Aston was widely known for appearing as the resident academic on the Channel 4 television series Time Team from 1994 to 2011.

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Erkki Tuomioja, Finnish sergeant and politician, Finnish Minister for Foreign Affairs

Erkki Sakari Tuomioja is a Finnish politician and has previously been a member of the Finnish Parliament. From 2000 to 2007 and 2011 to 2015, he served as the minister for foreign affairs. He was president of the Nordic Council in 2008.

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Kojo Laing, Ghanaian novelist and poet (died 2017)

B. Kojo Laing or Bernard Kojo Laing was a Ghanaian novelist and poet, whose writing is characterised by its hybridity, whereby he uses Ghanaian Pidgin English and vernacular languages alongside standard English. His first two novels in particular – Search Sweet Country (1986) and Woman of the Aeroplanes (1988) – were praised for their linguistic originality, both books including glossaries that feature the author's neologisms as well as Ghanaian words.

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01/07/1945

Mike Burstyn, American actor and singer

Michael Burstein is an Israeli-American actor known onstage as Mike Burstyn. He was born in New York City to the late Yiddish-language actors, Pesach Burstein and Lillian Lux. His first cousin was Borsch Belt comedian, Jay Lester. Mike began performing on stage at Yiddish theaters from childhood, in musicals and melodramas produced by his father, Pesach Burstein, especially as part of the Four Bursteins. in standard Pesach Burstein productions like A Khasene in Shtetl. He headed out on his own after reaching adulthood, in a bid to reach audiences bigger than the Yiddish stage.

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Debbie Harry, American singer-songwriter and actress

Deborah Ann Harry is an American singer, songwriter and actress, best known as the lead vocalist of the band Blondie. Four of her songs with the band reached No. 1 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 between 1979 and 1981.

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01/07/1944

Nurul Haque Miah, Bangladeshi professor and writer (died 2021)

Muhammad Nurul Haque Miah was a professor at Dhaka College and the head of its Department of Chemistry. He is renowned for writing high school and degree textbooks.

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01/07/1943

Philip Brunelle, American conductor and organist

Philip Brunelle is an American choral scholar, conductor and organist. He is the founder of VocalEssence. In the course of an international career as a choral and opera conductor Brunelle has been awarded Commander of the Royal Norwegian Order of Merit and made an Honorary Member of the Order of the British Empire as well as receiving Hungary's Kodály Medal, the Ohtli medal from Mexico, and Sweden's Royal Order of the Polar Star. He has received honorary doctoral degrees from Gustavus Adolphus College, St. John's University, St. Olaf College, United Theological Seminary, and the University of Minnesota.

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Peeter Lepp, Estonian politician, 37th Mayor of Tallinn

Peeter Lepp is an Estonian politician. From 1993 to 2002, he was a member of the Estonian Coalition Party. After its dissolution, he joined the Estonian Reform Party.

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Jeff Wayne, American composer, musician and lyricist

Jeffry Wayne is an American-British composer, musician and lyricist. In 1978, he released Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of The War of the Worlds, his musical adaptation of H. G. Wells' science-fiction novel The War of the Worlds. Wayne wrote approximately 3,000 advertising jingles in the 1970s which appeared on television in the United Kingdom, including a Gordon's Gin commercial which was covered by the Human League. Wayne also composed numerous television themes, including Good Morning Britain (TV-am), ITV's The Big Match and World of Sport, and the BBC's Sixty Minutes.

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01/07/1942

Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri, Iraqi field marshal and politician (died 2020)

Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri was an Iraqi politician, military officer and field marshal. He served as Vice Chairman of the Iraqi Revolutionary Command Council until the 2003 invasion of Iraq by the United States and was regarded as the closest advisor and deputy under President Saddam Hussein. He led the Iraqi militant group Naqshbandi Army.

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Geneviève Bujold, Canadian actress

Geneviève Bujold is a Canadian actress. For her portrayal of Anne Boleyn in the period drama film Anne of the Thousand Days (1969), Bujold received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress. Her other film credits include The Trojan Women (1971), Earthquake (1974), Obsession (1976), Coma (1978), Murder by Decree (1979), Tightrope (1984), Choose Me (1984), Dead Ringers (1988), The House of Yes (1997), and Still Mine (2012).

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Andraé Crouch, American singer-songwriter, producer and pastor (died 2015)

Andraé Edward Crouch was an American gospel singer, songwriter, arranger, record producer and pastor. Referred to as "the father of modern gospel music" by contemporary Christian and gospel music professionals, Crouch was known for his compositions "The Blood Will Never Lose Its Power", "My Tribute " and "Soon and Very Soon". He collaborated on some of his recordings with famous and popular artists such as Stevie Wonder, El DeBarge, Philip Bailey, Chaka Khan, and Sheila E., as well as the vocal group Take 6, and many popular artists covered his material, including Bob Dylan, Barbara Mandrell, Paul Simon, Elvis Presley and Little Richard. In the 1980s and 1990s, he was known as the "go-to" producer for superstars who sought a gospel choir sound in their recordings; he appeared on a number of recordings, including Michael Jackson's "Man In the Mirror", Madonna's "Like a Prayer", and "The Power", a duet between Elton John and Little Richard. Crouch was noted for his talent of incorporating contemporary secular music styles into the gospel music he grew up with. His efforts in this area helped pave the way for early American contemporary Christian music during the 1960s and 1970s.

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Julia Higgins, English chemist and academic

Dame Julia Stretton Higgins is a British polymer scientist. Since 1976, she has been based at the Department of Chemical Engineering at Imperial College London, where she is emeritus professor and senior research investigator.

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01/07/1941

Rod Gilbert, Canadian-American ice hockey player (died 2021)

Rodrigue Gabriel Gilbert was a Canadian professional ice hockey forward who played his entire career for the New York Rangers of the National Hockey League (NHL). Known as "Mr. Ranger", he played right wing on the GAG line with Vic Hadfield and Jean Ratelle. He was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1982, and was the first player in Rangers history to have his number retired. After his playing career, he became president of the Rangers' alumni association.

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Alfred G. Gilman, American pharmacologist and biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2015)

Alfred Goodman Gilman was an American pharmacologist and biochemist. He and Martin Rodbell shared the 1994 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "for their discovery of G-proteins and the role of these proteins in signal transduction in cells."

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Nicolae Saramandu, Romanian linguist and philologist

Nicolae Saramandu is a Romanian linguist and philologist of Aromanian ethnicity. He has been professor in several universities and vice president and later president of the Atlas Linguarum Europae, also being a corresponding member of the Romanian Academy. Saramandu has undertaken extensive research on the Aromanians, and has involved himself in several activities related to their cultural development.

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Myron Scholes, Canadian-American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate

Myron Samuel Scholes is a Canadian–American financial economist. Scholes is the Frank E. Buck Professor of Finance, Emeritus, at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, Nobel Laureate in Economic Sciences, and co-originator of the Black–Scholes options pricing model. This mathematical model, developed with Fischer Black, revolutionized finance by providing a systematic way to value options through the elimination of risk via dynamic hedging.

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Twyla Tharp, American dancer and choreographer

Twyla Tharp is an American dancer, choreographer, and author who lives and works in New York City. In 1965 she formed the company Twyla Tharp Dance, which merged with American Ballet Theatre in 1988. She regrouped the company in 1991. Her work often uses classical, jazz, and contemporary pop music.

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01/07/1940

Craig Brown, Scottish footballer and manager (died 2023)

James Craig Brown was a Scottish professional football player and manager. After his playing career with Rangers, Dundee and Falkirk was curtailed by a series of knee injuries, Brown entered management with Clyde in 1977. He then coached various Scotland youth teams until he was appointed Scotland manager in 1993. He held this position until 2001, the longest tenure for a Scotland manager, and they qualified for the UEFA Euro 1996 and 1998 FIFA World Cup tournaments. He later managed Preston North End, Motherwell and Aberdeen. He retired from management in 2013 and was appointed a non-executive director of Aberdeen.

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Ela Gandhi, South African activist and politician

Ela Gandhi, is a South African peace activist and former politician. She served as a Member of Parliament in South Africa from 1994 to 2004, where she aligned with the African National Congress (ANC) party representing the Phoenix area of Inanda in the KwaZulu-Natal province. Her parliamentary committee assignments included the Welfare, and Public Enterprises committees as well as the ad hoc committee on Surrogate Motherhood. She was an alternate member of the Justice Committee and served on Theme Committee 5 on Judiciary and Legal Systems. She is the granddaughter of Mahatma Gandhi.

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Cahit Zarifoğlu, Turkish poet and author (died 1987)

Abdurrahman Cahit Zarifoğlu was a Turkish poet and writer.

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01/07/1939

Karen Black, American actress (died 2013)

Karen Blanche Black was an American actress, screenwriter, singer, and songwriter. She rose to prominence for her work in studio and independent films in the 1970s, frequently portraying eccentric and offbeat characters, and established herself as a figure of New Hollywood. Her career spanned 50 years and includes nearly 200 credits in both independent and mainstream films. Black received numerous accolades throughout her career, including two Golden Globe Awards, as well as an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress.

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Delaney Bramlett, American singer-songwriter, guitarist and producer (died 2008)

Delaine Alvin "Delaney" Bramlett was an American singer and guitarist. He was best known for his musical partnership with his wife Bonnie Bramlett in the band Delaney & Bonnie and Friends, which included a wide variety of other musicians, many of whom were successful in other contexts.

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01/07/1938

Craig Anderson, American baseball player and coach

Norman Craig Anderson is an American former professional baseball pitcher, who played Major League Baseball (MLB) for the St. Louis Cardinals and New York Mets for all or parts of four seasons (1961–1964). A native of Washington, D.C., he threw and batted right-handed and was listed as 6 feet 2 inches (1.88 m) tall and 205 pounds (93 kg).

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Hariprasad Chaurasia, Indian flute player and composer

Hariprasad Chaurasia is an Indian music director and classical flautist, who plays the bansuri, in the Hindustani classical tradition.

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01/07/1936

Wally Amos, American entrepreneur, founder of Famous Amos (died 2024)

Wallace Amos Jr. was an American writer and businessman. He was the founder of the Famous Amos chocolate chip cookie, the Cookie Kahuna, and Aunt Della's Cookies gourmet cookie brands, and was the host of the adult reading program Learn to Read.

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01/07/1935

James Cotton, American singer-songwriter and harmonica player (died 2017)

James Henry Cotton was an American blues harmonica player, singer/songwriter, who performed and recorded with many fellow blues artists, including Howlin' Wolf and Muddy Waters and with his own band, the James Cotton Blues Band.

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David Prowse, English actor (died 2020)

David Charles Prowse was an English actor, bodybuilder, strongman and weightlifter. He portrayed Darth Vader in the original Star Wars trilogy and a manservant in Stanley Kubrick's 1971 film A Clockwork Orange. In 2015, he starred in two documentaries concerning his Darth Vader role, one titled The Force's Mouth, which included Prowse voicing Darth Vader's lines with studio effects applied for the first time, and the other titled I Am Your Father, covering the subject of the fallout between Prowse and Lucasfilm.

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01/07/1934

Claude Berri, French actor, director and screenwriter (died 2009)

Claude Berri was a French film director, producer, screenwriter, distributor and actor.

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Jamie Farr, American actor

Jamie Farr is an American comedian and actor. He is best known for playing Corporal Maxwell Klinger, a soldier who tried to get discharged from the army by cross-dressing, on the CBS sitcom M*A*S*H. After M*A*S*H, Farr reprised the role of Klinger for AfterMASH and appeared both in small roles on popular shows such as The Love Boat and as a host or panelist on game shows including Battle of the Network Stars. He was inducted into the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1985.

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Jean Marsh, English actress and screenwriter (died 2025)

Jean Lyndsey Torren Marsh was an English actress and writer. She co-created and starred in the ITV series Upstairs, Downstairs (1971–1975), for which she won the 1975 Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series for her performance as Rose Buck. She reprised the role in the BBC's revival of the series (2010–2012).

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Sydney Pollack, American actor, director and producer (died 2008)

Sydney Irwin Pollack was an American film director, producer, and actor. Known for directing commercially and critically acclaimed studio films, he received numerous accolades, including two Academy Awards and two Primetime Emmy Awards, in addition to nominations for three Golden Globe Awards and six BAFTA Awards in a career spanning more than 40 years.

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01/07/1933

C. Scott Littleton, American anthropologist and academic (died 2010)

Covington Scott Littleton was an American anthropologist who was Professor and Chair of the Department of Anthropology at Occidental College. A co-founder of the Journal of Indo-European Studies, Littleton was an expert on Indo-European mythology and Shinto, on which he was the author of numerous works.

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01/07/1932

Ze'ev Schiff, French-Israeli journalist and author (died 2007)

Ze'ev Schiff was an Israeli journalist and military correspondent for Haaretz.

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01/07/1931

Leslie Caron, French actress and dancer

Leslie Claire Margaret Caron is a French and American former actress and dancer. She is the recipient of a Golden Globe Award, two BAFTA Awards and a Primetime Emmy Award, in addition to nominations for two Academy Awards.

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01/07/1930

Moustapha Akkad, Syrian-American director and producer (died 2005)

Moustapha al Akkad was a Syrian-American film producer and director, best known for producing the original series of Halloween films and directing The Message and Lion of the Desert. He was killed along with his daughter Rima Al Akkad Monla in the 2005 Amman bombings. He is also the cousin of television personality star Tareq Salahi.

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Carol Chomsky, American linguist and academic (died 2008)

Carol Doris Chomsky was an American linguist and education specialist who studied language acquisition in children.

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01/07/1929

Gerald Edelman, American biologist and immunologist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2014)

Gerald Maurice Edelman was an American biologist who shared the 1972 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for work with Rodney Robert Porter on the immune system. Edelman's Nobel Prize-winning research concerned discovery of the structure of antibody molecules. In interviews, he has said that the way the components of the immune system evolve over the life of the individual is analogous to the way the components of the brain evolve in a lifetime. There is a continuity in this way between his work on the immune system, for which he won the Nobel Prize, and his later work in neuroscience and in philosophy of mind.

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01/07/1927

Alan J. Charig, English paleontologist and author (died 1997)

Alan Jack Charig was an English palaeontologist and writer who popularised his subject on television and in books at the start of the wave of interest in dinosaurs in the 1970s.

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Winfield Dunn, American politician, 43rd Governor of Tennessee (died 2024)

Bryant Winfield Culberson Dunn was an American businessman and politician who served as the 43rd governor of Tennessee from 1971 to 1975. He was the state's first Republican governor in fifty years. Dunn was an unsuccessful candidate for a second term in 1986, losing to Democrat Ned McWherter. He remained active in the Republican Party and the medical field from the end of his term as governor until his death.

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Joseph Martin Sartoris, American bishop (died 2025)

Joseph Martin Sartoris was an American Catholic prelate who served as an auxiliary bishop for the Archdiocese of Los Angeles in California from 1994 to 2002.

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Chandra Shekhar, 8th Prime Minister of India (died 2007)

Chandra Shekhar was an Indian politician and the prime minister of India, between 10 November 1990 and 21 June 1991. He headed a minority government of a breakaway faction of the Janata Dal with outside support from the Indian National Congress. He was the second Indian Prime Minister who had never held any prior government office.

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01/07/1926

Robert Fogel, American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2013)

Robert William Fogel was an American economic historian and winner of the 1993 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. As of his death, he was the Charles R. Walgreen Distinguished Service Professor of American Institutions and director of the Center for Population Economics (CPE) at the University of Chicago's Booth School of Business. He is best known as an advocate of new economic history (cliometrics) – the use of quantitative methods in history.

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Carl Hahn, German businessman (died 2023)

Carl Horst Hahn was a German businessman and head of the Volkswagen Group from 1982 to 1993. He served as the chairman of the board of management of the parent company, Volkswagen AG. During his tenure, the group's car production increased from two million units in 1982 to 3.5 million a decade later.

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Mohamed Abshir Muse, Somali general (died 2017)

Mohamed Abshir Muse ; 1 July 1926 – 25 October 2017), also known as Mahamed Abshir Haamaan, was a prominent Somali General and the first Commander of the Somali Police Force.

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Hans Werner Henze, German composer and educator (died 2012)

Hans Werner Henze was a German composer. His large oeuvre is extremely varied in style, having been influenced by serialism, atonality, Neoclassicism, Italian music, Arabic music and jazz, as well as traditional schools of German composition. In particular, his stage works reflect "his consistent cultivation of music for the theatre throughout his life".

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01/07/1925

Farley Granger, American actor (died 2011)

Farley Earle Granger Jr. was an American actor. Granger was first noticed in a small stage production in Hollywood by a Goldwyn casting director, and given a significant role in The North Star (1943), a controversial film praising the Soviet Union at the height of World War II, but later condemned for its political position. Another war film, The Purple Heart (1944), followed, before Granger's naval service in Honolulu, in a unit that arranged troop entertainment in the Pacific. Here he made useful contacts, including Bob Hope, Betty Grable and Rita Hayworth. It was also where he began exploring his bisexuality, which he said he never felt any need to conceal.

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Art McNally, American football referee (died 2023)

Arthur Ignatius McNally was an American professional football executive who was director of officiating for the National Football League (NFL) from 1968 to 1991. Before becoming director of officiating—succeeding Mark Duncan, who had held the position from 1964 to 1968—McNally served as a field judge and referee in the NFL for nine years from 1959 to 1967. During a 22-year span, he officiated over 3,000 football, baseball, and basketball games, which included one year in the National Basketball Association (NBA). In 2022, McNally became the first NFL game official to be enshrined into the Pro Football Hall of Fame.

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01/07/1924

Antoni Ramallets, Spanish footballer and manager (died 2013)

Antoni Ramallets Simón was a Spanish football goalkeeper and manager.

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Florence Stanley, American actress (died 2003)

Florence Stanley was an American actress of stage, film, and television. She is best known for her roles in Barney Miller (1975–1977) and its spinoff Fish (1977–1978), My Two Dads (1987–1990), and Nurses (1991–1994), and the voice of Wilhelmina Bertha Packard in the franchise of Atlantis: The Lost Empire.

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Georges Rivière, French actor (died 2011)

Georges Aristide Claude Félix Rivière is a French retired actor who worked in Argentine cinema in the 1950s. He appeared in nearly 50 films between 1948 and 1970. Georges Rivière was considered the "beau of Argentine cinema" in the 1950s.

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01/07/1923

Scotty Bowers, American marine, author and pimp (died 2019)

George Albert "Scotty" Bowers, active from 1945 to 1980, was best known for procuring prostitutes for Hollywood industry insiders, many closeted about bisexual or homosexual liaisons. Bowers was described as having "a savant-like quality: a result of his refusal to be embarrassed by sex."

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01/07/1922

Toshi Seeger, German-American activist, co-founder of the Clearwater Festival (died 2013)

Toshi Seeger was an American filmmaker, producer and environmental activist. A filmmaker who specialized in the subject of folk music, her credits include the 1966 film Afro-American Work Songs in a Texas Prison and the Emmy Award-winning documentary Pete Seeger: The Power of Song, released through PBS in 2007. In 1966, Seeger and her husband, folk singer Pete Seeger, co-founded the Hudson River Sloop Clearwater, which seeks to protect the Hudson River and surrounding wetlands. Additionally, they co-founded the Clearwater Festival, a major music festival held annually at Croton Point Park in Westchester County, New York.

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Mordechai Bibi, Israeli politician (died 2023)

Mordechai Bibi was an Israeli politician who served as a member of the Knesset for Ahdut HaAvoda and its successors between 1959 and 1974.

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01/07/1921

Seretse Khama, Batswana lawyer and politician, 1st President of Botswana (died 1980)

Sir Seretse Goitsebeng Maphiri Khama, GCB, KBE was a Motswana politician who served as the first President of Botswana, a post he held from 1966 to his death in 1980.

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Michalina Wisłocka, Polish gynecologist and sexologist (died 2005)

Michalina Anna Wisłocka was a Polish gynecologist, sexologist, and author of Sztuka kochania, the first guide to sexual life in a communist country. Her book became a bestseller, with a total circulation of 7 million copies, and started greater openness about matters of sex and sex life in Poland.

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Arthur Johnson, Canadian canoeist (died 2003)

Arthur Leonard Johnson was a Canadian sprint canoeist who competed in the early 1950s. He finished eighth in the C-2 1000 m event at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki.

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01/07/1920

Henri Amouroux, French historian and journalist (died 2007)

Henri Amouroux was a French historian and journalist.

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Harold Sakata, Japanese-American wrestler and actor (died 1982)

Toshiyuki Sakata , known as Harold Sakata, was an American Olympic weightlifter, professional wrestler, and film actor. He won a silver medal at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London in weightlifting, and later became a popular professional wrestler under the ring name Tosh Togo, wrestling primarily for various National Wrestling Alliance territories as a tag team with Great Togo.

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George I. Fujimoto, American-Japanese chemist (died 2023)

George Iwao Fujimoto was an American chemist of Japanese descent.

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01/07/1919

Arnold Meri, Estonian colonel (died 2009)

Arnold Meri was a Soviet World War II veteran and the first Estonian Hero of the Soviet Union. After Estonia became independent, he was later charged with genocide for his role in the deportation of some Estonians to the inhospitable regions of the USSR. He was a first cousin of the President of Estonia, Lennart Meri. At the time of his death, Meri was an honorary chairman of the Estonian Anti-Fascist Committee.

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Malik Dohan al-Hassan, Iraqi politician (died 2021)

Malik Dohan al-Hassan was an Iraqi politician and academician, who served as Minister of Culture and Information in 1967, headed the Iraqi Bar Association in 2003, and was the Minister of Justice in the Iraqi Interim Government in 2004.

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Gerald E. Miller, American vice admiral (died 2014)

Gerald Edward Miller was a vice admiral in the United States Navy. He was a commander of the United States Sixth Fleet. He graduated in 1942 from the United States Naval Academy. Miller died of cancer in 2014 at his home in Oakton, Virginia.

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01/07/1918

Ralph Young, American singer and actor (died 2008)

Ralph Young was an American singer and actor. He was best known as the singing partner of Belgian-born Tony Sandler in the duo of Sandler and Young.

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Ahmed Deedat, South African writer and public speaker (died 2005)

Ahmed Husein Deedat was a South African-Indian Islamic author, intellectual, and orator on comparative religion. He was best known as a Muslim missionary, who held numerous inter-religious public debates with evangelical Christians, as well as video lectures on Islam, Christianity, and the Bible.

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Pedro Yap, Filipino lawyer (died 2003)

Pedro López Yap was the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines in 1988. He briefly served for two and a half months from April 19, 1988, to June 30, 1988, the shortest in history until Chief Justice Teresita de Castro surpassed that record. He worked in the notable Salonga, Ordoñez, Yap & Associates Law Offices, named after Jovito Salonga and Justice Secretary Sedfrey Ordoñez.

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01/07/1917

Álvaro Domecq y Díez, Spanish aristocrat (died 2005)

Don Álvaro Domecq y Díez was born into an aristocratic Spanish sherry family in Jerez, of Cádiz, a province of Andalucia in southwestern Spain.

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01/07/1916

Olivia de Havilland, British-American actress (died 2020)

Dame Olivia Mary de Havilland was an actress. Born in Japan, she held citizenship of the United Kingdom, United States and France. She appeared in 49 feature films throughout her career, with the major works of her cinematic career spanning from 1935 to 1988. Before her death in 2020 at age 104, she was the oldest living and earliest surviving Academy Award winner and was widely considered the last surviving major star from the Golden Age of Hollywood cinema. Her younger sister, with whom she had a noted rivalry which was well documented in the media, was the Oscar-winning actress Joan Fontaine.

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Iosif Shklovsky, Ukrainian astronomer and astrophysicist (died 1985)

Iosif Samuilovich Shklovsky was a Soviet astronomer and astrophysicist. He is remembered for his work in theoretical astrophysics and other topics, as well as for his 1962 book on extraterrestrial life, the revised and expanded version of which was co-authored by American astronomer Carl Sagan in 1966 as Intelligent Life in the Universe.

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George C. Stoney, American director and producer (died 2012)

George Cashel Stoney was an American documentary filmmaker, educator, and the "father of public-access television." Among his films were Palmour Street, A Study of Family Life (1949), All My Babies (1953), How the Myth Was Made (1979) and The Uprising of '34 (1995). All My Babies was entered into the National Film Registry in 2002. Stoney's life and work were the subject of a Festschrift volume of the journal Wide Angle in 1999.

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01/07/1915

Willie Dixon, American blues singer-songwriter, bass player, guitarist and producer (died 1992)

William James Dixon was an American blues musician, vocalist, songwriter, arranger and record producer. He was proficient in playing both the upright bass and the guitar, and sang with a distinctive voice, but he is perhaps best known as one of the most prolific songwriters of his time. Next to Muddy Waters, Dixon is recognized as the most influential person in shaping the post–World War II sound of the Chicago blues.

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Philip Lever, 3rd Viscount Leverhulme, British peer (died 2000)

Philip William Bryce Lever, 3rd Viscount Leverhulme was a British peer and racehorse owner.

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Boots Poffenberger, American baseball pitcher (died 1999)

Cletus Elwood "Boots" Poffenberger was an American Major League Baseball pitcher for the Detroit Tigers (1937–1939) and Brooklyn Dodgers (1939).

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Joseph Ransohoff, American soldier and neurosurgeon (died 2001)

Dr. Joseph Ransohoff, II was a member of the Ransohoff family and a pioneer in the field of neurosurgery. In addition to training numerous neurosurgeons, his "ingenuity in adapting advanced technologies" saved many lives and even influenced the television program Ben Casey. Among other innovations, he created the first intensive care unit dedicated to neurosurgery, pioneered the use of medical imaging and catheterization in the diagnosis and treatment of brain tumors, and helped define the fields of pediatric neurosurgery and neuroradiology.

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Nguyễn Văn Linh, Vietnamese politician (died 1998)

Nguyễn Văn Linh was a Vietnamese revolutionary and politician. Nguyễn Văn Linh was the general secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam from 1986 to 1991 and a political leader of the Vietcong during the Vietnam War. During his time in office, Linh was a strong advocate of "Đổi Mới" (renovation), an economic plan whose aim was to turn Vietnam’s planned economy to a socialist-oriented market economy. As such, Linh was often touted as the "Vietnamese Gorbachev" after the Soviet leader, who introduced Perestroika.

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01/07/1914

Thomas Pearson, British Army officer (died 2019)

General Sir Thomas Cecil Hook Pearson, was a senior officer of the British Army who served as Commander-in-Chief of Allied Forces Northern Europe from 1972 to 1974. At the time of his death, he was the oldest living British full general.

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Christl Cranz, German alpine skier (died 2004)

Christl Franziska Antonia Cranz-Borchers was a German alpine ski racer. She dominated international competition in the 1930s, winning twelve world championship titles between 1934 and 1939. At the 1936 Winter Olympics in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Cranz won the combined competition.

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Bernard B. Wolfe, American politician (died 2016)

Bernard B. Wolfe was an American politician in the state of Illinois.

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01/07/1913

Frank Barrett, American baseball player (died 1998)

Francis Joseph Barrett was an American baseball player. He was a relief pitcher for the St. Louis Cardinals, Boston Red Sox, Boston Braves, and Pittsburgh Pirates.

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Lee Guttero, American basketball player (died 2004)

Lee A. "Rubberlegs" Guttero was an American basketball player who was the University of Southern California's first two-time NCAA All-American.

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Vasantrao Naik, Indian politician, 3rd Chief Minister of Maharashtra (died 1979)

Vasantrao Phulsingh Naik was an Indian politician, social reformer and Pioneer of Green, White Revolution and Guarantee Employment Scheme. He served as the Chief Minister of Maharashtra from 1963 until 1975.

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01/07/1912

David Brower, American environmentalist, founder of the Sierra Club Foundation (died 2000)

David Ross Brower was a prominent environmentalist and the founder of many environmental organizations, including the John Muir Institute for Environmental Studies (1997), Friends of the Earth (1969), Earth Island Institute (1982), North Cascades Conservation Council, and Fate of the Earth Conferences. From 1952 to 1969, he served as the first Executive Director of the Sierra Club, and served on its board three times: from 1941–1953; 1983–1988; and 1995–2000 as a petition candidate enlisted by reform-activists known as the John Muir Sierrans. As a younger man, he was a prominent mountaineer.

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Sally Kirkland, American journalist (died 1989)

Sally Kathleen Kirkland was a manager at Lord & Taylor, a fashion editor at Vogue magazine, and served as the only fashion editor at Life magazine between 1947 and 1969.

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01/07/1911

Arnold Alas, Estonian landscape architect and artist (died 1990)

Arnold Alas was an Estonian landscape architect and artist.

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Sergey Sokolov, Russian marshal and politician, Soviet Minister of Defence (died 2012)

Sergei Leonidovich Sokolov was a Soviet military commander, Hero of the Soviet Union, and served as Minister of Defence of the Soviet Union from 22 December 1984 until 29 May 1987.

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01/07/1910

Glenn Hardin, American hurdler (died 1975)

Glenn Foster "Slats" Hardin was an American athlete, winner of 400 m hurdles at the 1936 Summer Olympics.

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01/07/1909

Emmett Toppino, American sprinter (died 1971)

Martin Emmett Toppino was an American athlete, winner of a gold medal in the 4 × 100 m relay at the 1932 Summer Olympics.

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01/07/1907

Norman Pirie, Scottish-English biochemist and virologist (died 1997)

Norman Wingate Pirie FRS, was a British biochemist and virologist who, along with Frederick Bawden, discovered that a virus can be crystallized by isolating tomato bushy stunt virus in 1936. This was an important milestone in understanding DNA and RNA.

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01/07/1906

Jean Dieudonné, French mathematician and academic (died 1992)

Jean Alexandre Eugène Dieudonné was a French mathematician, notable for research in abstract algebra, algebraic geometry, and functional analysis, for close involvement with the Nicolas Bourbaki pseudonymous group and the Éléments de géométrie algébrique project of Alexander Grothendieck, and as a historian of mathematics, particularly in the fields of functional analysis and algebraic topology. His work on the classical groups, and on formal groups, introducing what now are called Dieudonné modules, had a major effect on those fields.

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Estée Lauder, American businesswoman, co-founder of Estée Lauder Companies (died 2004)

Estée Lauder was an American businesswoman. She co-founded her eponymous cosmetics company with her husband, Joseph Lauter. Lauder was the only woman on Time magazine's 1998 list of the 20 most influential business geniuses of the 20th century.

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01/07/1903

Amy Johnson, English pilot (died 1941)

Amy Johnson was a pioneering English pilot who was the first woman to fly solo from London to Australia.

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Beatrix Lehmann, English actress (died 1979)

Beatrix Alice Lehmann was a British actress, theatre director, writer and novelist.

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01/07/1902

William Wyler, French-American film director, producer and screenwriter (died 1981)

William Wyler was a German-born American film director and producer. Known for his work in numerous genres over five decades, he received numerous accolades, including the most nominations for the Academy Award for Best Director (12). In addition to three Academy Awards, he also received two BAFTA Awards and one Golden Globe Award. For his oeuvre of work, Wyler was awarded the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award, the Directors Guild of America Lifetime Achievement Award, and the American Film Institute Life Achievement Award.

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01/07/1901

Irna Phillips, American screenwriter (died 1973)

Irna Phillips was an American scriptwriter, screenwriter, casting agent, and actress who pioneered a style of daytime soap opera in the United States geared specifically toward women. Phillips created, produced, and wrote several radio and television daytime serials throughout her career, including Guiding Light, As the World Turns, and Another World. She was also a mentor to several other pioneers of the American daytime soap opera, including Agnes Nixon, William J. Bell and Ted Corday.

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01/07/1899

Thomas A. Dorsey, American pianist and composer (died 1993)

Thomas Andrew Dorsey was an American musician, composer, and Christian evangelist influential in the development of early blues and 20th-century gospel music. He penned 3,000 songs, a third of them gospel, including "Take My Hand, Precious Lord" and "Peace in the Valley". Recordings of these sold millions of copies in both gospel and secular markets in the 20th century.

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Charles Laughton, English-American actor and director (died 1962)

Charles Laughton was an English actor and director. Over his career he received an Academy Award and a Grammy Award as well as nominations for two BAFTAs and a Golden Globe. He earned a motion picture star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1960.

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Konstantinos Tsatsos, Greek scholar and politician, President of Greece (died 1987)

Konstantinos D. Tsatsos was a Greek diplomat, professor of law, scholar and politician. He served as the second President of the Third Hellenic Republic from 1975 to 1980.

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01/07/1892

James M. Cain, American author and journalist (died 1977)

James Mallahan Cain was an American novelist, journalist and screenwriter. He is widely regarded as a progenitor of the hardboiled school of American crime fiction.

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László Lajtha, Hungarian composer and conductor (died 1963)

László Lajtha was a Hungarian composer, ethnomusicologist and conductor.

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01/07/1887

Amber Reeves, New Zealand-English author and scholar (died 1981)

Amber Blanco White was a New Zealand–born British feminist writer and scholar.

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01/07/1885

Dorothea Mackellar, Australian author and poet (died 1968)

Isobel Marion Dorothea Mackellar was an Australian poet and fiction writer. Her poem "My Country" is widely known in Australia, especially its second stanza, which begins: "I love a sunburnt country / A land of sweeping plains, / Of ragged mountain ranges, / Of droughts and flooding rains."

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01/07/1883

Arthur Borton, English colonel, Victoria Cross recipient (died 1933)

Lieutenant-Colonel Arthur Drummond Borton, was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.

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01/07/1882

Bidhan Chandra Roy, Indian physician and politician, 2nd Chief Minister of West Bengal (died 1962)

Bidhan Chandra Roy was an Indian physician and politician who served as Chief Minister of West Bengal from 1950 until his death in 1962. He played a key role in the founding of several institutions and cities like Salt Lake, Kalyani, Durgapur and Ashoknagar Kalyangarh.

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01/07/1881

Edward Battersby Bailey, English geologist (died 1965)

Sir Edward Battersby Bailey FRS FRSE MC was an English geologist.

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01/07/1879

Léon Jouhaux, French union leader, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1954)

Léon Jouhaux was a French trade union leader who received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1951.

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01/07/1878

Jacques Rosenbaum, Estonian-German architect (died 1944)

Jacques Rosenbaum was an Estonian architect of Baltic German descent. Between 1904 and 1907 he served as municipal architect of Tartu, Estonia, and is best known for his Art Nouveau buildings in Tallinn.

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01/07/1876

T. J. Ryan, Australian politician, 19th Premier of Queensland (died 1921)

Thomas Joseph Ryan was an Australian politician who served as Premier of Queensland from 1915 to 1919, as leader of the state Labor Party. He resigned to enter federal politics, sitting in the House of Representatives for the federal Labor Party from 1919 until his premature death less than two years later.

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01/07/1875

Joseph Weil, American con man (died 1976)

Joseph "Yellow Kid" Weil was one of the best known American con men of his era. Weil's biographer, W. T. Brannon, wrote of Weil's "uncanny knowledge of human nature". During the course of his career, Weil is reputed to have stolen more than $8 million.

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01/07/1873

Alice Guy-Blaché, French-American film director, producer and screenwriter (died 1968)

Alice Ida Antoinette Guy-Blaché was a French pioneer film director. She was one of the first filmmakers to make a narrative fiction film, as well as the first woman to direct a film. From 1896 to 1906, she was probably the only female filmmaker in the world. She experimented with Gaumont's Chronophone sync-sound system, and with color-tinting, interracial casting, and special effects.

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Andrass Samuelsen, Faroese politician, 1st Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands (died 1954)

Andrass Samuelsen was a Faroese politician and member of the Union Party. He was the first Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands after the autonomy of the Faroe Islands in 1948 (Heimastýrislógin).

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01/07/1872

Louis Blériot, French pilot and engineer (died 1936)

Louis Charles Joseph Blériot was a French aviator, inventor, and engineer. He developed the first practical headlamp for cars and established a profitable business manufacturing them, using much of the money he made to finance his attempts to build a successful aircraft. Blériot was the first to use the combination of hand-operated joystick and foot-operated rudder control as used to the present day to operate the aircraft control surfaces. Blériot was also the first to make a working, powered, piloted monoplane. In 1909 he became world-famous for making the first aeroplane flight across the English Channel, winning the prize of £1,000 offered by the Daily Mail newspaper. He was the founder of Blériot Aéronautique, a successful aircraft manufacturing company.

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William Duddell, English physicist and engineer (died 1917)

William Du Bois Duddell was an English physicist and electrical engineer. His inventions include the moving coil oscillograph, as well as the thermo-ammeter and thermo-galvanometer.

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01/07/1869

William Strunk Jr., American author and educator (died 1946)

William Strunk Jr. was an American professor of English at Cornell University and the author of The Elements of Style (1918). After his former student E. B. White revised and extended the book, The Elements of Style became an influential guide to writing in the English language, informally known as “Strunk & White”.

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01/07/1863

William Grant Stairs, Canadian-English captain and explorer (died 1892)

William Grant Stairs was a Canadian-British explorer, soldier, and adventurer who had a leading role in two expeditions during the Scramble for Africa.

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01/07/1859

DeLancey W. Gill, American painter (died 1940)

DeLancey Walker Gill was an American drafter, landscape painter, and photographer. Gill first became noted for his landscape illustrations and watercolors, featuring subjects such as Native American pueblos in addition to his main focus on Washington, D.C. Characterized as detailed and meticulous in his landscapes, Gill captured views of working-class and rural areas of Washington not commonly depicted in art of the period. Despite his other work, he continued to paint throughout his life, and taught art classes at the Corcoran School.

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01/07/1858

Willard Metcalf, American painter (died 1925)

Willard Leroy Metcalf was an American painter born in Lowell, Massachusetts. He studied at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and later attended Académie Julian, Paris. After early figure-painting and illustration, he became prominent as a landscape painter. He was one of the Ten American Painters who in 1897 seceded from the Society of American Artists. For some years he was an instructor in the Women's Art School, Cooper Union, New York, and in the Art Students League, New York. In 1893 he became a member of the American Watercolor Society, New York. Generally associated with American Impressionism, he is also remembered for his New England landscapes and involvement with the Old Lyme Art Colony at Old Lyme, Connecticut and his influential years at the Cornish Art Colony.

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Velma Caldwell Melville, American editor and writer of prose and poetry (died 1924)

Velma Caldwell Melville was an American editor, and writer of prose and poetry from Wisconsin. She edited the Practical Farmer and the Wisconsin Farmer. Melville was one of the most voluminous writers of her time in Central/Western U.S. publications. She wrote several serials, and her poems and sketches appeared in nearly 100 publications.

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01/07/1850

Florence Earle Coates, American poet (died 1927)

Florence Van Leer Nicholson Coates was an American poet whose prolific output was published in dozens of literary magazines, some of it set to music. She was mentored by the English poet Matthew Arnold, with whom she maintained a lasting friendship. She was famous for her many nature poems, inspired by the flora and fauna of the Adirondacks, where she and her husband Edward Hornor Coates maintained a summer camp. She was elected poet laureate by the State Federation of Women's Clubs (Pennsylvania) in 1915.

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01/07/1834

Jadwiga Łuszczewska, Polish poet and author (died 1908)

Jadwiga Łuszczewska was a Polish poet, novelist and salonniére. She was born and died in Warsaw.

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01/07/1822

Nguyễn Đình Chiểu, Vietnamese poet and activist (died 1888)

Nguyễn Đình Chiểu was a Vietnamese poet who was known for his nationalist and anti-colonial writings against the French colonization of Cochinchina, the European name for the southern part of Vietnam.

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01/07/1818

Ignaz Semmelweis, Hungarian-Austrian physician and obstetrician (died 1865)

Ignaz Philipp Semmelweis was a Hungarian physician and scientist of German descent who was an early pioneer of antiseptic procedures and was described as the "saviour of mothers". Postpartum infection, also known as puerperal fever or childbed fever, consists of any bacterial infection of the reproductive tract following birth and in the 19th century was common and often fatal. Semmelweis demonstrated that the incidence of infection could be drastically reduced by requiring healthcare workers in obstetrical clinics to disinfect their hands. In 1847, he proposed hand washing with chlorinated lime solutions at Vienna General Hospital's First Obstetrical Clinic, where doctors' wards had thrice the mortality of midwives' wards. The maternal mortality rate dropped from 18% to less than 2%, and he published a book of his findings, Etiology, Concept and Prophylaxis of Childbed Fever, in 1861.

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Karl von Vierordt, German physician, psychologist and academic (died 1884)

Karl von Vierordt was a German physiologist.

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01/07/1814

Robert Richard Torrens, Irish-Australian politician, 3rd Premier of South Australia (died 1884)

Sir Robert Richard Torrens,, also known as Robert Richard Chute Torrens, was an Irish-born parliamentarian, writer, and land reformer. After a move to London in 1836, he became prominent in the early years of the Colony of South Australia, emigrating after being appointed to a civil service position there in 1840. He was Colonial Treasurer and Registrar-General from 1852 to 1857 and then the third Premier of South Australia for a single month in September 1857.

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01/07/1808

Ygnacio del Valle, Mexican-American landowner (died 1880)

Ygnacio Ramón de Jesus del Valle was a Californio ranchero and politician. He owned much of the Santa Clarita Valley and served briefly as Mayor of Los Angeles and as a California State Assemblyman.

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01/07/1807

Thomas Green Clemson, American politician and educator, founder of Clemson University (died 1888)

Thomas Green Clemson was an American politician and statesman who served as Chargé d'Affaires to Belgium and United States Superintendent of Agriculture. He founded Clemson University in Clemson, South Carolina, served in the Confederate States army and was a prominent slave owner.

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01/07/1804

Charles Gordon Greene, American journalist and politician (died 1886)

Charles Gordon Greene was an American journalist.

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George Sand, French author and playwright (died 1876)

Amantine Lucile Aurore Dupin de Francueil, best known by her pen name George Sand, was a French novelist, memoirist and journalist. Being more renowned than either Victor Hugo or Honoré de Balzac in Britain in the 1830s and 1840s, Sand is recognised as one of the most notable writers of the European Romantic era. She has more than 50 volumes of various works to her credit, including tales, plays and political texts, alongside her 70 novels.

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01/07/1788

Jean-Victor Poncelet, French mathematician and engineer (died 1867)

Jean-Victor Poncelet was a French engineer and mathematician who served most notably as the Commanding General of the École Polytechnique. He is considered a reviver of projective geometry, and his work Traité des propriétés projectives des figures is considered the first definitive text on the subject since Gérard Desargues' work on it in the 17th century. He later wrote an introduction to it: Applications d'analyse et de géométrie.

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01/07/1771

Ferdinando Paer, Italian composer and conductor (died 1839)

Ferdinando Paer was an Italian composer known for his operas. He was of Austrian descent and used the German spelling Pär in application for printing in Venice, and later in France the spelling Paër.

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01/07/1742

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, German physicist and academic (died 1799)

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg was a German physicist, satirist, and Anglophile. He was the first person in Germany to hold a professorship explicitly dedicated to experimental physics. He is remembered for his posthumously published notebooks, which he himself called Sudelbücher, a description modelled on the English bookkeeping term "waste books" or "scrapbooks", and for his discovery of the tree-like electrical discharge patterns now called Lichtenberg figures.

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01/07/1731

Adam Duncan, 1st Viscount Duncan, Scottish-English admiral (died 1804)

Admiral Adam Duncan, 1st Viscount Duncan was a Royal Navy officer who served in the Seven Years' War, American War of Independence and French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. He is best known for defeating the Batavian Navy at the 1797 Battle of Camperdown, which was one of the most significant naval battles of the French Revolutionary Wars.

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01/07/1726

Acharya Bhikshu, Jain saint (died 1803)

Acharya Bhikshu was the founder and first spiritual head of the Śvetāmbara Terapanth sect of Jainism.

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01/07/1725

Rhoda Delaval, English painter and aristocrat (died 1757)

Rhoda Delaval Astley was an English aristocrat and artist. She was married to Edward Astley, with whom she had a daughter and three sons. Lady Astley studied painting with Arthur Pond, who painted her portrait. Seaton Delaval Hall passed from the Delaval family to the Astley family through her descendants.

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Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau, French general (died 1807)

Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau was a French Royal Army officer who played a critical role in the American victory at the siege of Yorktown in 1781 during the American Revolutionary War. He was commander-in-chief of the Expédition Particulière, the French expeditionary force sent to North America during the conflict. He worked closely and well with George Washington, commander-in-chief of the Continental Army.

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01/07/1663

Franz Xaver Murschhauser, German composer and theorist (died 1738)

Franz Xaver Anton Murschhauser was a German composer and theorist.

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01/07/1646

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, German mathematician and philosopher (died 1716)

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz was a German polymath active as a mathematician, philosopher, scientist, and diplomat who is credited, alongside Isaac Newton, with the creation of calculus in addition to many other branches of mathematics, such as binary arithmetic and statistics. Leibniz has been called the "last universal genius" due to his vast expertise across fields, which became a rarity after his lifetime with the coming of the Industrial Revolution and the spread of specialized labour. He is a prominent figure in both the history of philosophy and the history of mathematics. He wrote works on philosophy, theology, ethics, politics, law, history, philology, games, music, economics and other studies. Leibniz also made major contributions to physics and technology, and anticipated notions that surfaced much later in probability theory, biology, medicine, geology, psychology, linguistics and computer science.

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01/07/1633

Johann Heinrich Heidegger, Swiss theologian and author (died 1698)

Johann Heinrich Heidegger, Swiss theologian, was born at Bäretswil, in the Canton of Zürich.

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01/07/1586

Claudio Saracini, Italian lute player and composer (died 1630)

Claudio Saracini was an Italian composer, lutenist, and singer of the early Baroque era. He was one of the most famous and distinguished composers of monody.

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01/07/1574

Joseph Hall, English bishop and mystic (died 1656)

Joseph Hall was an English bishop, satirist and moralist. His contemporaries knew him as a devotional writer, and a high-profile controversialist of the early 1640s. In church politics, he tended in fact to a middle way.

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01/07/1553

Peter Street, English carpenter and builder (died 1609)

Peter Street was an English carpenter and builder in London. He built the Fortune Playhouse and the Globe Theatre, two significant establishments in the history of the stage in England. He had a part in building King James's Banqueting House in Whitehall Palace and he may have been responsible for the settings for the king's royal masques.

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01/07/1534

Frederick II of Denmark (died 1588)

Frederick II was King of Denmark and Norway and Duke of Schleswig and Holstein from 1559 until his death in 1588.

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01/07/1506

Louis II of Hungary (died 1526)

Louis II was King of Hungary, Croatia and Bohemia from 1516 to 1526. He died during the Battle of Mohács fighting the Ottomans, whose victory led to the Ottoman annexation of large parts of Hungary.

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01/07/1500

Federico Cesi (cardinal), Italian cardinal (died 1565)

Federico Cesi was an Italian Roman Catholic bishop and cardinal.

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01/07/1481

Christian II of Denmark (died 1559)

Christian II, a monarch under the Kalmar Union, reigned as King of Denmark and Norway from 1513 until 1523. He was briefly King of Sweden from 1520 until 1521. As king of Denmark and Norway, he was concurrently Duke of Schleswig and Holstein in joint rule with his uncle Frederick.

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01/07/1464

Clara Gonzaga, Italian noble (died 1503)

Clara Gonzaga, Countess of Montpensier, Dauphine of Auvergne, Duchess of Sessa was an Italian noblewoman of the House of Gonzaga. She was the daughter of Federico I Gonzaga, Marquess of Mantua and the wife of Gilbert, Count of Montpensier.

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01/07/1311

Liu Bowen, Chinese military strategist, statesman and poet (died 1375)

Liu Ji, courtesy name Bowen, better known as Liu Bowen, was a Chinese military strategist, philosopher, and politician who lived in the late Yuan and early Ming dynasties. He was born in Qingtian County. He served as a key advisor to Zhu Yuanzhang, the Hongwu Emperor, the founder of the Ming dynasty, in the latter's struggle to overthrow the Yuan dynasty and unify China proper under his rule. Liu is also known for his prophecies and has been described as the "Divine Chinese Nostradamus". He and Jiao Yu co-edited the military treatise known as the Huolongjing.

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