What happened on 13th July?

On this day, 207 notable people were born on 13th July — spanning from 1470 to 2007. From world leaders to artists and scientists, discover who shares this birthday.

13/07/2007

Lamine Yamal, Spanish footballer

Lamine Yamal Nasraoui Ebana is a Spanish professional footballer who plays as a right winger or right midfielder for La Liga club Barcelona and the Spain national team. Known for his flair, chance creation, and long-distance curling goals, he is widely regarded as one of the best players in the world.

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13/07/2004

Nihal Sarin, Indian Chess Grandmaster

Nihal Sarin is an Indian chess grandmaster and chess prodigy. In 2018, he passed the Elo rating of 2600 at 14 years old, which at the time made him the third youngest player in history to do so.

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13/07/2003

Wyatt Oleff, American actor

Wyatt Jess Oleff is an American actor, known for playing Stanley Uris in It and its 2019 sequel, as well as the role of Stanley Barber in I Am Not Okay with This (2020), and a young Peter Quill in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) superhero films Guardians of the Galaxy (2014) and Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017) by Marvel Studios.

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Mason Teague, Australian rugby league player

Mason Teague is an Australian professional rugby league footballer who plays as a lock or second-row forward for the Newcastle Knights in the National Rugby League.

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13/07/2002

Deborah Medrado, Brazilian rhythmic gymnast

Déborah Medrado Barbosa is a Brazilian former group rhythmic gymnast. She is the 2021 and 2022 Pan American group all-around champion and the 2019 Pan American Games 3 hoops + 4 clubs champion. She won three gold medals at the 2018 South American Games and at the 2019 South American Championships. Medrado represented Brazil at the 2020 Summer Olympics and at the 2024 Summer Olympics. She announced her retirement in November 2024.

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13/07/2001

Kim Sin-jin, South Korean footballer

Kim Sin-jin is a South Korean professional footballer who plays as a striker for K League 2 club Seoul E-Land FC on loan from FC Seoul. He made his debut professional appearance in the 2022 K League 1 season.

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13/07/1997

Josh Hines-Allen, American football player

Joshua Hines-Allen is an American professional football defensive end for the Jacksonville Jaguars of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Kentucky Wildcats, winning the Chuck Bednarik Award and Bronko Nagurski Trophy as a junior. Hines-Allen was selected seventh overall by the Jaguars in the 2019 NFL draft and has received two Pro Bowl selections with the team.

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Leo Howard, American actor and martial artist

Leo Richard Howard is an American actor, director, musician and martial artist. His accolades include a Young Artist Award for playing Laser Short in Shorts (2009). He is known for incorporating his karate skills into his feature film and television roles and he is known for playing young Snake-Eyes in G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra, and as Jack Brewer on the Disney XD comedy series Kickin' It and was certified as the youngest TV director ever by the Guinness World Records for his work on the episode "Fight at the Museum" in the series’ fourth season at the age of 16. In 2023, he joined the cast of Days of Our Lives as Tate Black.

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13/07/1995

Cody Bellinger, American baseball player

Cody James Bellinger is an American professional baseball outfielder and first baseman for the New York Yankees of Major League Baseball (MLB). He has previously played in MLB for the Los Angeles Dodgers and Chicago Cubs. He was selected by the Dodgers in the fourth round of the 2013 MLB draft and debuted with them in 2017.

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Dante Exum, Australian basketball player

Danté Exum is an Australian professional basketball player who last played for the Dallas Mavericks of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He chose to bypass college and was ultimately selected by the Utah Jazz with the fifth overall pick in the 2014 NBA draft.

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13/07/1993

Dan Bentley, English footballer

Daniel Ian Bentley is an English professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for EFL Championship club Wolverhampton Wanderers. He has played in the English Football League for Southend United, Brentford and Bristol City.

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Yebin, South Korean singer-songwriter and composer

Baek Ye-bin, better known mononymously as Yebin, is a South Korean singer-songwriter and composer. She is best known for being a member of the South Korean girl group DIA, and for finishing second in the survival show The Unit, making her a member of Uni.T.

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13/07/1992

Rich the Kid, American rapper

Dimitri Leslie Roger, known professionally as Rich the Kid, is an American rapper. After a number of independent mixtapes, he signed with Interscope Records in 2017 to release his debut studio album, The World Is Yours (2018). Supported by his best known singles "New Freezer" and "Plug Walk", the album peaked at number two on the Billboard 200. His second and third studio albums, The World Is Yours 2 (2019) and Boss Man (2020) peaked at numbers four and 24 on the chart, respectively. He has also released the collaborative mixtapes Nobody Safe (2020) with YoungBoy Never Broke Again, and Trust Fund Babies (2021) with Lil Wayne. Furthermore, he founded the record label Rich Forever Music in 2016, through which he has signed rappers Famous Dex and Jay Critch.

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Elise Matthysen, Belgian swimmer

Elise Matthysen is a retired Belgian swimmer who specialised in breaststroke. During the 2008 European Aquatics Championships she came 4th in the final of the 100 m breaststroke in which she broke the national record of Brigitte Becue. With this excellent performance, she managed to qualify herself for the Olympics. At the Olympics, while still only 16 years of age, she qualified for the semi-finals for both the 100 m breaststroke and 200 m breaststroke with a new Belgian record; eventually she finished respectively 13th and 16th overall.

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13/07/1991

Tyler Skaggs, American baseball player (died 2019)

Tyler Wayne Skaggs was an American professional baseball player. A starting pitcher, he played seven seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Arizona Diamondbacks and Los Angeles Angels between 2012 and 2019.

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13/07/1990

Kieran Foran, New Zealand rugby league player

Kieran Foran is a New Zealand professional rugby league coach and former player. He is the interim head coach for the Manly Warringah Sea Eagles in the National Rugby League, with whom he also won the 2011 NRL premiership. He primarily played as a five-eighth but also spent time at halfback. At international level, he represented New Zealand, with whom he won the 2014 Four Nations and 2023 Rugby League Pacific Cup, the latter while playing hooker.

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Eduardo Salvio, Argentinian footballer

Eduardo Antonio Salvio is an Argentine professional footballer who plays as a winger for Lanús.

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13/07/1989

Leon Bridges, American soul singer, songwriter and record producer

Todd Michael "Leon" Bridges is an American singer, songwriter, and record producer. He signed with Columbia Records to release his debut studio album, Coming Home (2015), which peaked at number six on the Billboard 200, received platinum certification by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and earned a nomination for Best R&B Album at the 58th Annual Grammy Awards.

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Charis Giannopoulos, Greek basketball player

Charalampos "Charis" Giannopoulos is a Greek professional basketball player and the team captain for Maroussi of the Greek Basketball League. He is a 2.01 m tall small forward.

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13/07/1988

Marcos Paulo Gelmini Gomes, Brazilian-Italian footballer

Marcos Paulo Gelmini Gomes, known as Marcos Paulo, is a Brazilian professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Liga 3 club Académica de Coimbra. He also holds Italian nationality.

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Colton Haynes, American actor, model and singer

Colton Lee Haynes is an American actor and model. He is known for his starring role as Jackson Whittemore in the MTV supernatural drama series Teen Wolf and as Roy Harper / Arsenal in the CW superhero television series Arrow.

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DJ LeMahieu, American baseball player

David John LeMahieu is an American professional baseball infielder who currently serves as the manager for the Royal Oak Leprechauns of the Northwoods League. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Chicago Cubs, Colorado Rockies, and New York Yankees from 2011 to 2025.

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Raúl Spank, German high jumper

Raúl Roland Spank is a retired German athlete who specialised in the high jump.

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Tulisa, English singer-songwriter and actress

Tula Paulinea "Tulisa" Contostavlos, known professionally as Tulisa, is an English singer, songwriter, rapper, and television personality. As a part of the R&B/hip-hop group N-Dubz with her cousin Dappy and friend Fazer, they gained four platinum-certified albums, five MOBO awards, a Brit Award nomination, thirteen top 40 singles, six silver-certified singles, three gold-certified singles, two platinum-certified singles, and three Urban Music Awards.

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13/07/1985

Trell Kimmons, American sprinter

David Pretrell "Trell" Kimmons is an American sprinter.

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Guillermo Ochoa, Mexican footballer

Francisco Guillermo Ochoa Magaña, commonly known as Memo Ochoa, is a Mexican professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for the Mexico national team.

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Charlotte Dujardin, English equestrian

Charlotte Susan Jane Dujardin is a British dressage rider, equestrian, and writer. A multiple World and Olympic champion, Dujardin has been described as the dominant dressage rider of her era. In 2014 she held the complete set of available individual elite dressage titles: the individual Olympic freestyle, World freestyle and Grand Prix Special, World Cup individual dressage and European freestyle, and Grand Prix Special titles. Dujardin was the first rider to hold this complete set of titles at the same time.

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Abdallah El Said, Egyptian footballer

Abdallah Mahmoud Said Bekhit is an Egyptian professional footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder for Egyptian Premier League club Zamalek

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13/07/1984

Ida Maria, Norwegian singer-songwriter and guitarist

Ida Maria Børli Sivertsen, better known simply as Ida Maria, is a Norwegian musician and songwriter.

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Faf du Plessis, South African professional cricketer

François "Faf" du Plessis is a South African cricketer and former captain of the South Africa national cricket team. He is considered one of the greatest fielders of all time and among the best all-format batsmen of his era. One of the most successful international captains of his era with a winning percentage of 73.68 in ODIs, he is the first international captain to defeat Australia in Australia in all three formats of the game and defeat Australia in both Home and Away test series back to back, in 2016 and 2018. In 2016, he also became the first and only international captain to whitewash Australia defeating them 5–0 in a five match ODI series.

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13/07/1983

Kristof Beyens, Belgian sprinter

Kristof Beyens is a Belgian sprint athlete, who specialises in the 100 and 200 metres. His personal best time over 200 metres is 20.44 s, achieved in Osaka during the World Championships.

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Marco Pomante, Italian footballer

Marco Pomante is an Italian football trainer who trains for SSD Città di Teramo.

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Liu Xiang, Chinese hurdler

Liu Xiang is a Chinese former 110 meter hurdler. Liu is an Olympic gold medalist and world champion. His 2004 Olympic gold medal was China's first Olympic gold medal in men's athletics.

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13/07/1982

Shin-Soo Choo, South Korean baseball player

Shin-Soo Choo is a South Korean former professional baseball outfielder. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Seattle Mariners, Cleveland Indians, Cincinnati Reds, and Texas Rangers before ending his career in the KBO League with the SSG Landers. Choo left MLB as the record holder for most career home runs (218) hit by an Asian-born player in the league, which was later passed by Shohei Ohtani.

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Simon Clist, English footballer

Simon James Clist is an English footballer who plays as a midfielder. He began his career at Tottenham Hotspur and went on to play for Bristol City, Torquay United, Barnet, Hereford United, Oxford United and Forest Green Rovers.

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Dominic Isaacs, South African footballer

Dominic Isaacs is a South African association football player who played as a defender in the Premier Soccer League. He then became a manager.

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Nick Kenny, Australian rugby league player

Nick Kenny is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer who played in the 2000s and 2010s for the Brisbane Broncos club in the National Rugby League competition. He primarily played as a prop-forward.

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Yadier Molina, Puerto Rican baseball player

Yadier Benjamín Molina is a Puerto Rican professional baseball manager, adviser, and former catcher who is the manager of Navegantes del Magallanes of the Venezuelan Professional Baseball League (LVBP) and a special assistant to the president of baseball operations for the St. Louis Cardinals of Major League Baseball (MLB). He played his entire 19-year MLB career with the St. Louis Cardinals from 2004 to 2022. Widely considered one of the greatest defensive catchers of all time for his blocking ability and caught-stealing percentage, Molina won nine Rawlings Gold Gloves and six Fielding Bible Awards. A two-time World Series champion, he played for Cardinals teams that made 12 playoff appearances and won four National League pennants. Molina also played for the Puerto Rican national team in four World Baseball Classic (WBC) tournaments, winning two silver medals.

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13/07/1981

Ágnes Kovács, Hungarian swimmer

Ágnes Kovács is a Hungarian swimmer who competed at the 1996, 2000 and 2004 Olympics. In 2000, she won the 200 m breaststroke and set the Hungary records in the 100 m and 200 m breaststrokes events. As of 2014, these records still stand. She won a bronze medal in the 200 m breaststroke at the 1996 Olympics and placed fifth in 2004; in 2004 she also finished fourth in the 200 m individual medley event.

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Masyita Crystallin, Indonesian economist

Masyita Crystallin is an Indonesian economist who served as the director general of financial sector stability and development at the Ministry of Finance until 2026 when she was appointed to her current role as Head of Economic and ESG Strategic Positioning in Indonesia's largest sovereign wealth fund Danantara. Throughout her professional career, Masyita held roles both nationally and globally, including serving as special advisor to the finance minister for fiscal and macroeconomic policy and climate change.

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Mirco Lorenzetto, Italian cyclist

Mirco Lorenzetto is an Italian former racing cyclist, who competed as a professional between 2004 and 2011. During his career, Lorenzetto took victories in the 2007 Tour Méditerranéen, the 2009 Giro di Sardegna, and the 2009 Giro del Friuli. He now works as a directeur sportif for UCI Continental team Vega–Vitalcare–Dynatek.

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13/07/1979

Craig Bellamy, Welsh footballer

Craig Douglas Bellamy is a Welsh football coach and former professional footballer who played as a forward. He is the current head coach of Wales.

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Daniel Díaz, Argentinian footballer

Daniel Alberto "Cata" Díaz is an Argentine professional football manager and former player who played as a central defender.

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Libuše Průšová, Czech tennis player

Libuše Průšová is a former professional Czech tennis player.

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Lucinda Ruh, Swiss figure skater and coach

Lucinda Martha Ruh is a Swiss former competitive figure skater. She is the 1996 Swiss national champion and the 1993 junior level national champion.

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13/07/1978

Ryan Ludwick, American baseball player

Ryan Andrew Ludwick is an American former professional baseball outfielder. He has played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Texas Rangers, Cleveland Indians, St. Louis Cardinals, San Diego Padres, Pittsburgh Pirates, and Cincinnati Reds. His brother Eric also played four MLB seasons as a pitcher.

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Prodromos Nikolaidis, Greek basketball player

Prodromos "Makis" Nikolaidis is a former Greek-Cypriot professional basketball player. At a height of 2.01 m tall, and 102 kg (225 lb) in weight, he could play both the shooting guard and small forward positions. During his playing career, Nikolaidis possessed great shooting ability. In 2008, he won the 3-point shootout competition of the Greek League All-Star Game.

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13/07/1977

Chris Horn, American football player

Chris Horn is an American former professional football player who was a wide receiver for the Kansas City Chiefs of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Rocky Mountain Battlin' Bears.

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13/07/1976

Sheldon Souray, Canadian ice hockey player

Sheldon Souray is a Canadian former professional ice hockey defenceman who played 14 seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the New Jersey Devils, Montreal Canadiens, Edmonton Oilers, Dallas Stars, and Anaheim Ducks. He was best known for his heavy slapshot, once setting a previous unofficial NHL record for the hardest recorded shot at the Oilers' 2009 Skills Competition.

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13/07/1975

Diego Spotorno, Ecuadorian actor

Diego Spotorno Parra is an actor and TV host from Ecuador, known for his character Juan Carlos Martinez Cucalón in the comic series Solteros Sin Compromiso.

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Mariada Pieridi, Cypriot singer-songwriter

Mariada Pieridi is a Cypriot pop singer.

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13/07/1974

Deborah Cox, Canadian singer-songwriter and actress

Deborah Cox is a Canadian singer, songwriter, actress, and record producer. Born and raised in Toronto, she began performing on television commercials at age 12, and entered various talent shows in her teenage years before becoming a professional backing vocalist for Celine Dion. In 1994, Cox relocated to the United States and was signed to Arista Records by Clive Davis, releasing her self-titled debut album the following year. Her second studio album, One Wish (1998), was certified platinum in the United States. It was marked by the commercial success of the pop crossover single "Nobody's Supposed to Be Here", which would become her most successful entry on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, peaking at number two and remaining there for eight consecutive weeks. Cox signed with J Records for her third studio album The Morning After (2002), which saw moderate commercial success.

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Jarno Trulli, Italian race car driver

Jarno Trulli is an Italian former racing driver and motorsport executive, who competed in Formula One from 1997 to 2011. Trulli won the 2004 Monaco Grand Prix with Renault.

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13/07/1972

Sean Waltman, American professional wrestler

Sean Michael Waltman is an American retired professional wrestler. He is signed to WWE under a legends contract. He is best known for his appearances for the World Wrestling Federation under the ring names 1–2–3 Kid and X-Pac; World Championship Wrestling (WCW) as Syxx; and NWA Total Nonstop Action (NWA-TNA) as Syxx-Pac and under his real name.

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13/07/1971

MF Doom, English-American rapper (died 2020)

Daniel Dumile, also known by his stage name MF Doom or simply Doom, was a British and American rapper, songwriter, and record producer. Noted for his intricate wordplay, signature metal mask, and "supervillain" stage persona, he became a major figure of underground hip hop and alternative hip hop in the 2000s, and has been widely regarded as one of the greatest and most influential lyricists in underground rap.

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Mark Neeld, Australian footballer and coach

Mark Neeld is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Geelong and Richmond in the Australian Football League (AFL) during the 1990s. He was senior coach of the Melbourne Football Club from 2012 to 2013.

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13/07/1970

Andrei Tivontchik, German pole vaulter and trainer

Andrei Tivontchik is a former German pole vaulter. He was Olympic bronze medalist at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta.

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13/07/1969

Brad Godden, Australian rugby league player

Bradley Godden is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1990s. He played for the Newcastle Knights, Hunter Mariners, and the Leeds Rhinos as a fullback, wing or centre.

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Ken Jeong, American actor, comedian, and physician

Kendrick Kang-Joh Jeong is an American stand-up comedian and actor. He rose to prominence for playing Leslie Chow in The Hangover film series (2009–2013) and Ben Chang in the NBC sitcom Community (2009–2015). He created, wrote and produced the ABC sitcom Dr. Ken (2015–2017), in which he portrays the titular character, and he has appeared in the films Knocked Up (2007), Role Models (2008), Furry Vengeance (2010), The Duff (2015), Ride Along 2 (2016), Crazy Rich Asians (2018), Scoob! (2020), Tom & Jerry (2021), and KPop Demon Hunters (2025).

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Oleg Serebrian, Moldovan political scientist and politician

Oleg Serebrian is a Moldovan politician, writer, diplomat and political scientist, President of the Latin Union between 2010 and 2012. He served as Deputy Prime Minister for Reintegration of Moldova from 2022 to 2025 and is currently the Moldovan Ambassador to Turkey.

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13/07/1967

Richard Marles, Australian lawyer and politician, 50th Australian Minister for Trade and Investment

Richard Donald Marles is an Australian politician and lawyer who has served as the 19th deputy prime minister of Australia and the minister for defence since 2022. He has been the deputy leader of the Labor Party since 2019 and the member of parliament (MP) for the Victorian division of Corio since 2007.

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Mark McGowan, Australian politician, 30th Premier of Western Australia

Mark McGowan is an Australian former politician and naval officer who served as the 30th premier of Western Australia from 2017 until his retirement in 2023. He was the leader of the Western Australian branch of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) from 2012 to 2023 and a member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) for the district of Rockingham from 1996 to 2023.

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13/07/1966

Gerald Levert, American R&B singer-songwriter, producer, and actor (died 2006)

Gerald Edward Levert was an American singer-songwriter and producer. The son of singer Eddie Levert, he formed the R&B vocal group LeVert alongside his brother, Sean Levert, and friend Marc Gordon. He was also a member of the supergroup LSG, along with Keith Sweat and Johnny Gill. Levert is often credited with the discovery of R&B groups The Rude Boys, Men at Large, and 1 of the Girls. He released nine solo albums, and posthumously won a Grammy Award. In 2013, he was apart of the inaugural National Rhythm & Blues Hall of Fame inductees.

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Natalia Luis-Bassa, Venezuelan-English conductor and educator

Natalia Luis-Bassa is a Venezuelan conductor who lives and works in the UK, where she is Professor of Conducting at the Royal College of Music and Principal Guest Conductor of Oxford University Orchestra and Jersey Symphony Orchestra

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13/07/1965

Eileen Ivers, American fiddler

Eileen Ivers is an American fiddler.

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Akina Nakamori, Japanese singer and actress

Akina Nakamori is a Japanese singer, songwriter, record producer and actress. She is one of the most popular and best-selling music artists in Japan. Akina achieved national recognition after winning the 1981 season of the talent show Star Tanjō!. Her debut single "Slow Motion" was released to moderate success, peaking at number thirty on the Oricon Weekly Singles Chart. Nakamori's popularity increased with the release of her follow-up single, "Shōjo A", which peaked at number five on the Oricon charts and sold over 390,000 copies. Her second album Variation became her first number-one on the Oricon Weekly Albums Chart, staying in that position for three weeks.

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Colin van der Voort, Australian rugby league player

Colin van der Voort is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1980s and 1990s. He played in the New South Wales Rugby League's Winfield Cup Premiership with the Penrith Panthers from 1986 to 1994 and was a member of the club's grand final-winning team in the 1991 season.

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13/07/1964

Charlie Hides, American drag queen and comedian

Charlie Hides is a British-American drag queen, impersonator, actor, and comedian. Hides is known for his YouTube channel, and his participation in the ninth season of RuPaul's Drag Race. Following live performances in London clubs, Hides started a YouTube channel in March 2011. He has produced hundreds of videos satirizing popular culture, and impersonating celebrities such as Cher, Madonna, Lady Gaga, and Lana Del Rey.

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Paul Thorn, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

Paul Thorn is an American Southern rock, country, Americana, and blues singer-songwriter, whose style is a mix of blues, country, and rock.

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13/07/1963

Parker Bohn III, American bowler

Parker Morse Bohn III is an American left-handed professional ten-pin bowler. He has been a member of the Professional Bowlers Association (PBA) since 1984, and is a member of the PBA and USBC Halls of Fame. Bohn is one of only eight players in PBA history to accumulate at least 30 career PBA Tour titles, currently ranking fifth all-time with 35. He has 11 more titles on the PBA50 Tour. He is a two-time PBA Player of the Year and has won a PBA50 Player of the Year award (2022). Bohn has also earned 1 PBA60 Tour title, 22 PBA Regional Tour titles, 17 PBA50 Regional titles, and two European Bowling Tour (EBT) titles.

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Neal Foulds, English snooker player and sportscaster

Neal Foulds is an English former professional snooker player and six-time tournament winner, including the 1986 International Open, the 1988 Dubai Masters and the 1992 Scottish Masters, as well as the invitational Pot Black in 1992. He was runner-up at the 1986 UK Championship and the 1987 British Open, and reached the semi-finals of three Masters tournaments and the 1987 World Championship. After his retirement, Foulds became a commentator for the BBC and is currently part of the presenting team for ITV and Eurosport.

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Kenny Johnson, American actor, producer, and model

Kenny Johnson is an American actor. He is known for his roles as Detective Curtis Lemansky in The Shield, Butch "Burner" Barnes in Pensacola: Wings of Gold, Detective Ham Dewey in Saving Grace, Herman Kozik in Sons of Anarchy, Matt Webb in Prime Suspect, Caleb Calhoun in Bates Motel, Dominique Luca in the CBS drama series S.W.A.T., and Tommy Welch on Chicago Fire (2014–2015).

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13/07/1962

Tom Kenny, American voice actor and screenwriter

Thomas James Kenny is an American actor and comedian. He has been voicing the titular character in SpongeBob SquarePants and associated media since its debut in 1999. His other voice roles include the Ice King in Adventure Time and its spinoff Adventure Time: Fionna and Cake, Spyro in the Spyro video game series, Heffer Wolfe in Rocko's Modern Life, the Narrator and Mayor in The Powerpuff Girls, Dog in CatDog, Carl Chryniszzswics in Johnny Bravo, Starscream in Transformers: Animated, The Penguin in various animated media based on DC Comics, and Raimundo Pedrosa in Xiaolin Showdown. Kenny's live-action work includes the sketch comedy series The Edge and Mr. Show with Bob and David. Kenny's accolades include two Daytime Emmy Awards and two Annie Awards for his voice work. He is married to Jill Talley, with whom he has two children.

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Rhonda Vincent, American singer-songwriter and mandolin player

Rhonda Lea Vincent is an American bluegrass singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist.

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13/07/1961

Tahira Asif, Pakistani politician (died 2014)

Tahira Asif was a Pakistani politician who had been a member of the National Assembly of Pakistan from June 2013 until her assassination.

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Anders Jarryd, Swedish tennis player

Anders Per Järryd is a former professional tennis player from Sweden. During his career he won eight Grand Slam doubles titles, reached the world No. 1 doubles ranking, and achieved a career-high singles ranking of world No. 5.

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Khalid Mahmood, Pakistani-English engineer and politician

Khalid Mahmood is a British Labour Party politician who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Birmingham Perry Barr from 2001 until 2024 when he lost his seat.

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Stelios Manolas, Greek footballer and manager

Stelios Manolas is a Greek former professional footballer who played as a centre-back for AEK Athens and a current manager. Widely regarded as the best Greek defender of his era, he is one of the few Greek footballers to have played his entire professional career for a single club. In 2021, the IFFHS chose him in Greece's best XI of all time.

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Tim Watson, Australian footballer, coach, and journalist

Timothy Michael Watson is a former AFL player for Essendon & West Coast, former senior coach for St Kilda and current broadcaster for more than 30 years, with the Seven Network from 1992 - 2024 & 1116 SEN radio.

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13/07/1960

Robert Abraham, American football player

Robert Eugene Abraham is an American former professional football player who was a linebacker who played college football for North Carolina State. He was selected by the Houston Oilers in the third round of the 1982 NFL draft with the 77th overall pick. He played there until 1988, mostly as a starter. His best season came in 1984 when he started 16 games and had 106 solo tackles and 92 assists. He missed most of his final season with the team due to injuries. He was waived by the Oilers in March 1988 but signed with the New York Giants shortly later. However, he was waived by the Giants in August the same year prior to the start of the season.

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Ian Hislop, Welsh-English journalist and screenwriter

Ian David Hislop is a British journalist, satirist and television personality. He is the editor of the satirical magazine Private Eye, a position he has held since 1986. He has appeared on many radio and television programmes and has been a team captain on the BBC satirical quiz show Have I Got News for You since its inception in 1990 and remains the only person to appear in all of its episodes as the other team captain Paul Merton didn't appear in 7 of the 8 episodes of series 11 (1996). Hislop has frequently been involved in legal battles, as Private Eye has often been sued for libel over the years.

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Curtis Rouse, American football player (died 2013)

Curtis Lamar Rouse was an American professional football offensive lineman who played six seasons in the National Football League (NFL) with the Minnesota Vikings and the San Diego Chargers.

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13/07/1959

Richard Leman, English field hockey player

Richard Alexander Leman is a former field hockey player who was a member of the gold medal-winning Great Britain squad in the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul.

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Fuziah Salleh, Malaysian politician

Fuziah binti Salleh is a Malaysian politician who has served as the Deputy Minister of Domestic Trade and Costs of Living in the Unity Government administration under Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim and Ministers Salahuddin Ayub and Armizan Mohd Ali as well as Senator since December 2022. She served as the Deputy Minister in the Prime Minister's Department in charge of religious affairs in the PH administration under former Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad and former Minister Mujahid Yusof Rawa from July 2018 to the collapse of the PH administration in February 2020 and the Member of Parliament (MP) for Kuantan from March 2008 to November 2022. She is a member of the People's Justice Party (PKR), a component party of the PH coalition. She has also served as the Secretary-General of PKR since September 2024. She also served as the State Chairperson of PKR of Pahang from May 2024 to September 2024, Women Chief of PKR from July 2020 to July 2022 and Vice President of PKR from November 2010 to August 2014 as well as the State Chairperson of PH of Pahang from March 2019 to September 2022.

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13/07/1957

Thierry Boutsen, Belgian race car driver and businessman

Thierry Marc Alain Boutsen is a Belgian former racing driver, businessman and motorsport executive, who competed in Formula One from 1983 to 1993. Boutsen won three Formula One Grands Prix across 11 seasons.

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Cameron Crowe, American director, producer, and screenwriter

Cameron Bruce Crowe is an American filmmaker and journalist. He has received many accolades, including an Academy Award, BAFTA Award, Grammy Award, and a Tony Award nomination. Crowe started his career in 1973 as a contributing editor and writer at Rolling Stone magazine, where he covered many rock bands on tour.

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13/07/1956

Mark Mendoza, American bass player and songwriter

Mark "The Animal" Mendoza is an American bassist and a former member of the heavy metal band Twisted Sister. He joined the band in 1978 after leaving the Dictators. He briefly played in Blackfoot in 1988 and with Leslie West projects. He is also a co-founder of Area 22 Productions where he hosts his weekly podcast 22 NOW.

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Michael Spinks, American boxer

Michael Spinks is an American former professional boxer who competed from 1977 to 1988. He held world championships in two weight classes, including the undisputed light heavyweight title from 1983 to 1985, and the lineal heavyweight title from 1985 to 1988. As an amateur he won a gold medal in the middleweight division at the 1976 Summer Olympics.

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13/07/1954

Ray Bright, Australian cricketer

Raymond James Bright is a former Australian Test and One Day International cricketer from Victoria. He was a left arm spin bowler and right handed lower order batsman who captained Victoria for a number of seasons. He was also an Australian vice-captain.

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Louise Mandrell, American singer-songwriter and actress

Thelma Louise Mandrell is an American country music singer. She is the younger sister of fellow country singer Barbara Mandrell, and older sister of musician Irlene Mandrell. Louise had a successful singing career in country music from the 1970s, with a string of hits during the 1980s.

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13/07/1953

Gil Birmingham, American actor

Gilbert Birmingham is an American film and television actor. He is known for his roles as Tribal Chairman Thomas Rainwater on the Paramount Network series Yellowstone (2018–2024), George Hunter on Banshee (2014), Virgil White on Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt (2015–2017), and Billy Black in The Twilight Saga film series (2008–2012).

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David Thompson, American basketball player

David O'Neil Thompson, commonly known by the nickname "Skywalker", is an American former professional basketball player. He played with the Denver Nuggets of both the American Basketball Association (ABA) and National Basketball Association (NBA), as well as the Seattle SuperSonics of the NBA before drug problems cut short his career. He was previously a star in college for North Carolina State, leading the Wolfpack to its first NCAA championship in 1974. Thompson is one of the eleven players to score 70 or more points in an NBA game. He was inducted into the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame in 1996.

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13/07/1951

Rob Bishop, American educator and politician

Robert William Bishop is an American politician who served as the U.S. representative for Utah's 1st congressional district from 2003 to 2021. A member of the Republican Party, he became the dean of Utah's congressional delegation after the retirement of Orrin Hatch from the U.S. Senate in 2019.

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Didi Conn, American actress and singer

Edith "Didi" Conn is an American actress. She is best known for her work as Frenchy in Grease, Denise Stevens Downey in Benson and Stacy Jones in Shining Time Station.

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13/07/1950

George Nelson, American astronomer and astronaut

George Driver "Pinky" Nelson is an American physicist, astronomer, science educator, and retired NASA astronaut.

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Ma Ying-jeou, Hong Kong-Taiwanese commander and politician, 12th President of the Republic of China

Ma Ying-jeou is a Taiwanese politician, lawyer, and legal scholar who served as the sixth president of the Republic of China from 2008 to 2016. A member of the Kuomintang (KMT), he was previously the mayor of Taipei from 1998 to 2006 and the chairman of the Kuomintang for two terms.

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Jurelang Zedkaia, Marshallese politician, 5th President of the Marshall Islands (died 2015)

Iroijlaplap Jurelang Zedkaia was a Marshallese politician and Iroijlaplap. He served as the President of the Marshall Islands from 2009 to 2012. He was elected as the country's 5th head of state on October 26, 2009, following the ouster of his predecessor, Litokwa Tomeing, in the country's first successful vote of no confidence.

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13/07/1949

Bryan Murray, Irish actor

Bryan Murray is an Irish actor. He is known for his extensive television work which includes Fitz in Strumpet City, Flurry Knox in The Irish R.M., Shifty in Bread, Harry Cassidy in Perfect Scoundrels, Trevor Jordache in Brookside and Bob Charles in Fair City.

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13/07/1948

Catherine Breillat, French director and screenwriter

Catherine Breillat is a French filmmaker, novelist, and professor of cinema at the European Graduate School.

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Tony Kornheiser, American television sports talk show host and former sportswriter

Anthony Irwin Kornheiser is an American television sports talk show host, podcaster, and former sportswriter and columnist. Kornheiser is best known for his endeavors in three forms of media: as a writer for The Washington Post from 1979 to 2008, as a co-host of ESPN's Emmy Award-winning sports debate show Pardon the Interruption since 2001, and as the host of The Tony Kornheiser Show, a radio show and podcast. Longtime ESPN executive John Walsh once declared that "in the history of sports media, [Kornheiser] is the most multitalented person ever."

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13/07/1946

Bob Kauffman, American basketball player and coach (died 2015)

Robert Kauffman was an American professional basketball player and coach. Kauffman was a three-time NBA All-Star.

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Cheech Marin, American actor and comedian

Richard Anthony "Cheech" Marin is an American comedian and actor. He gained recognition as part of the comedy act Cheech & Chong during the 1970s and early 1980s with Tommy Chong, and as Don Johnson's partner, Insp. Joe Dominguez, on Nash Bridges. Marin has also voiced characters in several Disney films, including Oliver & Company, The Lion King, The Lion King 1½, the Cars franchise, Coco, and Beverly Hills Chihuahua.

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13/07/1945

Ashley Mallett, Australian cricketer and author (died 2021)

Ashley Alexander Mallett was an Australian cricketer who played in 38 Tests and 9 One Day Internationals between 1968 and 1980. Until Nathan Lyon, he was Australia's most successful off spin bowler since World War II. He extracted a lot of bounce from his high arm action, coupled with his height. He was a part of the Australian squad which finished as runners-up at the 1975 Cricket World Cup.

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13/07/1944

Eric Freeman, Australian cricketer (died 2020)

Eric Walter "Fritzy" Freeman was an Australian cricketer who played in 11 Test matches from 1968 to 1970. He was also a leading Australian rules footballer with Port Adelaide Football Club, playing 116 games between 1964 and 1972, kicking 390 goals, and playing in their 1965 premiership team.

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Cyril Knowles, English footballer and manager (died 1991)

Cyril Barry Knowles was a footballer who played left-back for Tottenham Hotspur and England. He was the son of the rugby league footballer Cyril Knowles, and the older brother of fellow professional footballer Peter Knowles.

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Ernő Rubik, Hungarian game designer, architect, and educator, invented the Rubik's Cube

Ernő Rubik is a Hungarian architect and inventor, widely known for creating the Rubik's Cube (1974), Rubik's Magic, and Rubik's Snake.

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13/07/1943

Chris Serle, English journalist and actor (died 2024)

Christopher Richard Serle was a British television presenter, reporter, and actor, best known for being a presenter on That's Life!

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13/07/1942

Harrison Ford, American actor and producer

Harrison Ford is an American actor. Regarded as a cinematic cultural icon, Ford's accolades include nominations for an Academy Award, a British Academy Film Award, an Emmy Award, five Golden Globe Awards and two Screen Actors Guild Awards. He is the recipient of the AFI Life Achievement Award, Cecil B. DeMille Award, Honorary César, Honorary Palme d'Or and SAG-AFTRA Life Achievement Award.

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Roger McGuinn, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

James Roger McGuinn is an American musician, best known for being the frontman and leader of the Byrds. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1991 as a member of the band. As a solo artist, he has released 10 albums and collaborated with, among others, Bob Dylan, Tom Petty and Chris Hillman. The Rickenbacker 12-string guitar is his signature instrument.

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13/07/1941

Grahame Corling, Australian cricketer

Grahame Edward Corling is a former Australian cricketer who played in five Test matches in 1964. He took 12 wickets, including that of Geoffrey Boycott in his debut innings.

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Robert Forster, American actor and producer (died 2019)

Robert Wallace Foster Jr., known professionally as Robert Forster, was an American actor. He made his screen debut as Private L.G. Williams in John Huston's Reflections in a Golden Eye (1967), followed by a starring role as news reporter John Cassellis in the landmark New Hollywood film Medium Cool (1969). For his portrayal of bail bondsman Max Cherry in Quentin Tarantino's Jackie Brown (1997), he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.

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Ehud Manor, Israeli songwriter and translator (died 2005)

Ehud Manor was an Israeli lyricist, translator, poet and radio and TV personality. He is widely considered to have been Israel's most prolific lyricist of all time, having written or translated over 1,000 songs. In 1998, he was awarded the Israel Prize for his exceptional contributions to Israeli music.

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Jacques Perrin, French actor, director, and producer (died 2022)

Jacques Perrin was a French actor and film producer. He was occasionally credited as Jacques Simonet.

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13/07/1940

Tom Lichtenberg, American football player and coach (died 2013)

Thomas Lichtenberg was an American football player and coach. He served as the head football coach also at Morehead State University (1979–1980), the University of Maine (1989), and Ohio University (1990–1994), compiling a career college football coaching record of 26–59–3. He was also an assistant coach at Ohio State University and the University of Notre Dame.

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Paul Prudhomme, American chef and author (died 2015)

Paul Prudhomme, also known as Gene Autry Prudhomme, was an American celebrity chef whose specialties were Creole and Cajun cuisines, which he was also credited with popularizing. He was the chef proprietor of K-Paul's Louisiana Kitchen in New Orleans, and had formerly owned and run several other restaurants. He developed several culinary products, including hot sauce and seasoning mixes, and wrote 11 cookbooks.

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Patrick Stewart, English actor, director, and producer

Sir Patrick Stewart is an English actor. With a career spanning over seven decades of stage and screen, he has received various accolades, including two Olivier Awards and a Grammy Award, as well as nominations for a Tony Award, three Golden Globe Awards, four Emmy Awards, and three Screen Actors Guild Awards. He was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II for services to drama in 2010.

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13/07/1939

Lambert Jackson Woodburne, South African admiral (died 2013)

Vice Admiral Lambert Jackson Woodburne was Chief of the South African Navy from 1 July 1990 to 31 August 1992. He is one of only two people to have been awarded the Van Riebeeck Decoration, which he received for Special Forces operations in Tanzania. He was more commonly known by his nickname "Woody".

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13/07/1937

Ghillean Prance, English botanist and ecologist

Sir Ghillean Tolmie Prance is a prominent British botanist and ecologist who has published extensively on the taxonomy of families such as Chrysobalanaceae and Lecythidaceae, but drew particular attention in documenting the pollination ecology of Victoria amazonica. Prance is a former director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.

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13/07/1936

Albert Ayler, American saxophonist and composer (died 1970)

Albert Ayler was an American avant-garde jazz saxophonist and composer.

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13/07/1935

Jack Kemp, American football player and politician, 9th United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (died 2009)

Jack French Kemp was an American politician, professional football player, and U.S. Army veteran who served as the ninth U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development under President George H. W. Bush from 1989 to 1993. A member of the Republican Party, he previously served nine terms in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1971 to 1989. He was the party's vice presidential nominee in the 1996 U.S. presidential election, running alongside with presidential nominee Bob Dole; they lost to Democratic incumbents Bill Clinton and Al Gore. Kemp had previously contended for the presidential nomination in the 1988 Republican primaries.

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Earl Lovelace, Trinidadian journalist, author, and playwright

Earl Wilbert Lovelace is a Trinidad and Tobago novelist, journalist, playwright, and short story writer. He is particularly recognized for his descriptive, dramatic fiction on Trinidadian culture: "Using Trinidadian dialect patterns and standard English, he probes the paradoxes often inherent in social change as well as the clash between rural and urban cultures." As Bernardine Evaristo notes, "Lovelace is unusual among celebrated Caribbean writers in that he has always lived in Trinidad. Most writers leave to find support for their literary endeavours elsewhere and this, arguably, shapes the literature, especially after long periods of exile. But Lovelace's fiction is deeply embedded in Trinidadian society and is written from the perspective of one whose ties to his homeland have never been broken."

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Kurt Westergaard, Danish cartoonist (died 2021)

Kurt Westergaard was a Danish cartoonist. In 2005 he drew a cartoon of the Islamic prophet Muhammad, wearing a bomb in his turban as a part of the Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons, which triggered several assassinations and murders committed by Muslim extremists around the world, diplomatic conflicts, and state-organized riots and attacks on Western embassies with several dead in Muslim countries. After the drawing of the cartoon, Westergaard received numerous death threats and was a target of assassination attempts. As a result, he was under constant police protection.

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13/07/1934

Peter Gzowski, Canadian journalist and academic (died 2002)

Peter John Gzowski, known colloquially as "Mr. Canada", or "Captain Canada", was a Canadian broadcaster, writer and reporter, most famous for his work on the CBC radio shows This Country in the Morning and Morningside. His first biographer argued that Gzowski's contribution to Canadian media must be considered in the context of efforts by a generation of Canadian nationalists to understand and express Canada's cultural identity. Gzowski wrote books, hosted television shows, and worked at a number of newspapers and at Maclean's magazine. Gzowski was known for a friendly, warm, interviewing style.

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Gordon Lee, English footballer and manager (died 2022)

Gordon Francis Lee was an English football player and manager. He played 144 league and cup matches in a 12-year career in the Football League, before going on to greater success as a manager, as he would take charge of 777 matches in a 23-year managerial career.

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Wole Soyinka, Nigerian author, poet, and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate

Akinwande Oluwole Babatunde Soyinka is a Nigerian writer, playwright, and poet. He has written three novels, ten collections of short stories, seven poetry collections, twenty-five plays and five memoirs. He has also written two translated works and many articles and short stories for newspapers and periodicals. He was awarded the 1986 Nobel Prize in Literature for his "wide cultural perspective and poetic overtones fashioning the drama of existence".

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Aleksei Yeliseyev, Russian engineer and astronaut

Aleksei Stanislavovich Yeliseyev is a retired Soviet cosmonaut who flew on three missions in the Soyuz programme as a flight engineer: Soyuz 5, Soyuz 8, and Soyuz 10. He made the world's eighth spacewalk during Soyuz 5 in 1969.

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13/07/1933

David Storey, English author, playwright, and screenwriter (died 2017)

David Malcolm Storey was an English playwright, screenwriter, award-winning novelist and a professional rugby league player. He won the Booker Prize in 1976 for his novel Saville. He also won the MacMillan Fiction Award for This Sporting Life in 1960.

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Piero Manzoni, Italian artist (died 1963)

Piero Manzoni di Chiosca e Poggiolo was an Italian artist best known for his ironic approach to avant-garde art. Often compared to the work of Yves Klein, his own work anticipated, and directly influenced, the work of a generation of younger Italian artists brought together by the critic Germano Celant in the first Arte Povera exhibition held in Genoa, 1967. Manzoni is most famous for a series of artworks that call into question the nature of the art object, directly prefiguring Conceptual Art. His work eschews normal artist's materials, instead using everything from rabbit fur to human excrement in order to "tap mythological sources and to realize authentic and universal values".

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13/07/1932

Hubert Reeves, Canadian-French astrophysicist and author (died 2023)

Hubert Reeves was a French-Canadian astrophysicist and popularizer of science.

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Per Nørgård, Danish composer and music theorist (died 2025)

Per Nørgård was a Danish composer and music theorist. Though his style varied considerably throughout his career, his music often included repeatedly evolving melodies, in the vein of Jean Sibelius, and a perspicuous focus on lyricism. He based music on "infinity series" and other mathematical models. He composed large-scale works, eight symphonies including the choral Third, concertos and operas such as Gilgamesh. His chamber music includes ten string quartets and music for guitar. Some later works were inspired by the art of Adolf Wölfli.

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13/07/1931

Frank Ramsey, American basketball player and coach (died 2018)

Frank Vernon Ramsey Jr. was an American professional basketball player and coach. A 6-3 swingman, he played his entire nine-year (1954–1964) National Basketball Association (NBA) career with the Boston Celtics and played a major role in the early part of their dynasty, winning seven championships as part of the team. Ramsey was also a head coach for the Kentucky Colonels of the American Basketball Association (ABA) during the 1970–71 season. Ramsey was inducted into the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame in 1982.

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13/07/1930

Sam Greenlee, American author and poet (died 2014)

Samuel Eldred Greenlee, Jr. was an American writer of fiction and poetry. He is best known for his novel The Spook Who Sat by the Door, first published in March 1969 in London by the recently founded small imprint Allison & Busby, having been rejected by dozens of mainstream publishers, and received much critical attention, including extracts being printed in The Observer newspaper. The novel was subsequently made into the 1973 movie of the same name, directed by Ivan Dixon and co-produced and written by Greenlee, that is now considered a cult classic.

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Naomi Shemer, Israeli singer-songwriter (died 2004)

Naomi Shemer was an Israeli songwriter, composer, and performer, widely described as the "first lady of Israeli song". She became one of the most influential figures in modern Hebrew music, writing numerous songs that became cultural touchstones, most notably "Yerushalayim Shel Zahav", which gained prominence after the Six-Day War and is often regarded as a second national anthem. Over a career spanning several decades, Shemer created music for adults and children, contributed to major festivals and cultural events, and became widely recognized for shaping the Israeli songbook.

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13/07/1929

Sofia Muratova, Russian gymnast (died 2006)

Sofia Ivanovna Muratova was a Soviet gymnast. She competed in the 1956 and 1960 Olympics and won eight medals.

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Svein Ellingsen, Norwegian visual artist and hymnist (died 2020)

Svein Ørnulf Ellingsen was a Norwegian visual artist and hymnist.

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13/07/1928

Bob Crane, American actor (died 1978)

Robert Edward Crane was an American actor, drummer, radio personality and disc jockey known for starring in the CBS sitcom Hogan's Heroes.

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Sven Davidson, Swedish-American tennis player (died 2008)

Sven Viktor Davidson was a Swedish tennis player who became the first Swede to win a Grand Slam title when he won the French Championships in 1957, beating Ashley Cooper and Herbert Flam.

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Johnny Gilbert, American game show host and announcer

John Lewis Gilbert III is an American show business personality who has worked mainly on television game shows. Originally a nightclub singer and entertainer, he has hosted and announced a number of game shows from various eras, dating as far back as the 1950s. He is known primarily for his work as the announcer and audience host for the syndicated version of the quiz show Jeopardy! since its revival in 1984.

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Al Rex, American musician (died 2020)

Albert Floyd Piccirilli, also known by his stage name Al Rex, was an American bass player for Bill Haley & His Comets and its predecessor Bill Haley and the Saddlemen.

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13/07/1927

Simone Veil, French lawyer and politician, President of the European Parliament (died 2017)

Simone Veil was a French magistrate, Holocaust survivor and politician. Deported as a teenager to Auschwitz-Birkenau and later Bergen-Belsen, she became a prominent advocate for human dignity and European reconciliation. As minister of health, she championed women's rights and is best remembered for the landmark 1975 law legalising abortion, known as the Veil Act.

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Ian Reed, Australian discus thrower (died 2020)

Ian Manley Reed was a discus thrower, who represented Australia at the 1952 Summer Olympics. He won the gold medal at the 1950 Commonwealth Games in the men's discus throw event.

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13/07/1926

Robert H. Justman, American director, producer, and production manager (died 2008)

Robert Harris Justman was an American television producer, director, and production manager. He worked on many American TV series including Lassie, The Life of Riley, Adventures of Superman, The Outer Limits, Star Trek, Mission: Impossible, Search, and Then Came Bronson.

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T. Loren Christianson, American politician (died 2019)

Theodore Loren Christianson was an American politician in the state of South Dakota. He was a member of the South Dakota House of Representatives from 1977 to 1994. Christianson, a Korean War veteran, was a farmer and insurance agent. He also served on the Astoria School Board, as Deuel County Commissioner, as Chairman of the Deuel County Republican Party, as Director of Brookings-Deuel Rural Water System, Director of South Dakota Association of Rural Water Systems, and as Director of Deuel County Farm Mutual Insurance Company. He died in 2019.

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Thomas Clark, American politician (died 2020)

Thomas Joseph Clark Jr. was an American politician. He served as mayor of Long Beach, California from 1975 to 1980 and from 1982 to 1984, as elected by the Long Beach City Council.

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13/07/1925

Suzanne Zimmerman, American competition swimmer and Olympic medalist (died 2021)

Suzanne Winona Zimmerman, also known by her married name Suzanne Edwards, was an American competition swimmer for the Multnomah Athletic Club under Hall of Fame Coach Jack Cody, and a 1948 Olympic silver medalist in the 100 meter backstroke.

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Huang Zongying, Chinese actress and writer (died 2020)

Huang Zongying was a Chinese actress and writer. She starred in many black-and-white films such as Rhapsody of Happiness (1947), Crows and Sparrows (1949), Women Side by Side (1949), and The Life of Wu Xun (1950), all co-starring her third husband Zhao Dan.

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13/07/1923

Ashley Bryan, American children's book author and illustrator (died 2022)

Ashley Frederick Bryan was an American writer and illustrator of children's books. Most of his subjects are from the African-American experience. He was a U.S. nominee for the Hans Christian Andersen Award in 2006 and he won the Children's Literature Legacy Award for his contribution to American children's literature in 2009. His picture book Freedom Over Me was short-listed for the 2016 Kirkus Prize and received a Newbery Honor.

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Colonel James H. Harvey, US Army Air Force (later US Air Force) fighter pilot and Tuskegee Airman.

James Henry Harvey III is a retired African American United States Army Air Corps/United States Air Force (USAF) officer and former fighter pilot. He served with the 99th Fighter Squadron of the 332nd Fighter Group—best known as the Tuskegee Airmen, "Red Tails" or, among enemy German pilots, Schwarze Vogelmenschen. He is one of the 1,007 documented Tuskegee Airmen pilots.

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13/07/1922

Leslie Brooks, American actress (died 2011)

Leslie Brooks was an American film actress, model and dancer.

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Anker Jørgensen, Danish trade union leader and politician, 16th Prime Minister of Denmark (died 2016)

Anker Henrik Jørgensen was a Danish politician who served at various times as prime minister and foreign minister of Denmark. Between 1972 and 1982 he led five cabinets as prime minister. Jørgensen was president of the Nordic Council in 1986 and 1991.

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Helmy Afify Abd El-Bar, Egyptian military commander (died 2011)

General Dr. Helmy Afify Abd El-Bar was a highly decorated Egyptian military commander.

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Ken Mosdell, Canadian ice hockey player (died 2006)

Kenneth "Kenny" Mosdell was a Canadian professional ice hockey forward. Mosdell played in the National Hockey League (NHL) from 1941 to 1942, and 1944 to 1959, with the Brooklyn Americans, Montreal Canadiens, and Chicago Black Hawks. He was the last active NHL player to have played for the Brooklyn Americans, and also the last player until 1967 to play for an NHL team that was not part of the Original Six. Mosdell won four Stanley Cups with the Canadiens in 1946, 1953, 1956, and 1959.

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13/07/1921

Ernest Gold, Austrian-American composer and conductor (died 1999)

Ernst Sigmund Goldner, known professionally as Ernest Gold, was an Austrian-American composer of film and television scores. He won an Academy Award and two Grammy Awards for his work on the film Exodus (1960), and a Golden Globe for On the Beach (1959). He received an additional three Oscar nominations throughout his career, and was the first composer to receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

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13/07/1919

Hau Pei-tsun, 13th Premier of the Republic of China (died 2020)

Hau Pei-tsun was a Chinese general and politician who served as the premier of the Republic of China from 1990 to 1993. He was previously the chief of the General Staff of the Republic of China Armed Forces from 1981 to 1989.

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William F. Quinn, American lawyer (died 2006)

William Francis Quinn OESSH was an American lawyer and politician. He served as the 12th and last governor of the Territory of Hawaii from 1957 to 1959 and the first governor of the State of Hawaii from 1959 to 1962. Originally appointed to the office by President Dwight D. Eisenhower, Quinn was the last executive appointed by an American president, after American rule of the Hawaiian Islands began after the overthrow of the monarchy in 1893. He was also the last Republican to serve as governor until Linda Lingle in 2002. Quinn appeared as a guest on the television program What's My Line. He was the recipient of the Order of the Holy Sepulchre, a papal knighthood conferred by Pope John Paul II. He was the state's first Republican governor.

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13/07/1918

Alberto Ascari, Italian race car driver (died 1955)

Alberto Ascari was an Italian racing driver, who competed in Formula One from 1950 to 1955. Ascari won two Formula One World Drivers' Championship titles, which he won in 1952 and 1953 with Ferrari, and won 13 Grands Prix across six seasons. In endurance racing, Ascari won the Mille Miglia in 1954 with Lancia.

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Ronald Bladen, American painter and sculptor (died 1988)

Ronald Bladen was a Canadian-born American painter and sculptor. He is particularly known for his large-scale sculptures. His artistic stance, was influenced by European Constructivism, American Hard-Edge Painting, and sculptors such as Isamu Noguchi and David Smith. Bladen in turn had stimulating effect on a circle of younger artists including Carl Andre, Donald Judd, Sol LeWitt and others, who repeatedly referred to him as one of the 'father figures' of Minimal Art.

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Marcia Brown, American author and illustrator (died 2015)

Marcia Joan Brown was an American writer and illustrator of more than 30 children's books. She won three annual Caldecott Medals from the American Library Association, six Caldecott Medal honors as an illustrator, recognizing the year's best U.S. picture book illustration, and the ALA's Children's Literature Legacy Award in 1992 for her career contribution to children's literature. This total of nine books with awards and honors is more than any other Caldecott-nominated illustrator. Many of her titles have been published in translation, including Afrikaans, German, Japanese, Spanish, and Xhosa-Bantu editions. Brown is known as one of the most honored illustrators in children's literature.

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13/07/1915

Kaoru Ishikawa, Japanese author and educator (died 1989)

Kaoru Ishikawa was a Japanese organizational theorist and a professor in the engineering faculty at the University of Tokyo who was noted for his quality management innovations. He is considered a key figure in the development of quality initiatives in Japan, particularly the quality circle. He is best known outside Japan for the Ishikawa or cause and effect diagram, often used in the analysis of industrial processes.

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13/07/1913

Dave Garroway, American journalist and television personality (died 1982)

David Cunningham Garroway was an American radio and television host on NBC. He was the host of Garroway at Large from 1949 to 1951, the founding host and anchor of Today from 1952 to 1961, and the host of The Dave Garroway Show from 1953 to 1954. His radio work included host of The Dave Garroway Show from 1947 to 1955 and Monitor from 1955 to 1961. His easygoing and relaxing style belied a lifelong battle with depression. Garroway was honored for his contributions to radio and television with a star for each on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and the St. Louis Walk of Fame, the city where he spent part of his teenaged years and early adulthood.

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Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller, Danish businessman (died 2012)

Arnold Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller was a Danish shipping magnate. He was a longtime figure at A.P. Moller–Maersk Group, which was founded by his father.

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13/07/1911

Bob Steele, American radio personality (died 2002)

Robert Lee Steele was an American radio personality. He was a longtime radio host on WTIC (AM) in Hartford, Connecticut, where he worked for more than 66 years. He was best known for hosting the morning radio program The Bob Steele Show, which became a fixture in Southern New England broadcasting.

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13/07/1910

Lien Gisolf, Dutch high jumper (died 1993)

Carolina Anna "Lien" Gisolf was a Dutch high jumper. She won a silver medal at the 1928 Summer Olympics and finished fourth in 1932.

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Loren Pope, American journalist and author (died 2008)

Loren Brooks Pope was an American writer and educational consultant, best known for his book, Colleges That Change Lives. He was also the education editor of The New York Times.

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13/07/1909

Souphanouvong, 1st President of Laos (died 1995)

Prince Souphanouvong, nicknamed the Red Prince, was along with his half-brother Prince Souvanna Phouma and Prince Boun Oum of Champasak, one of the "Three Princes" who represented respectively the communist (pro-Vietnam), neutralist and royalist political factions in Laos. He was the President of Laos from December 1975 to October 1986.

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13/07/1908

Dorothy Round, English tennis player (died 1982)

Dorothy Edith Round was a British tennis player who was active from the late 1920s until 1950. She achieved her major successes in the 1930s. She won the singles title at Wimbledon in 1934 and 1937, and the singles at the Australian Championships in 1935. She also had success as a mixed doubles player at Wimbledon, winning a total of three titles. After her wedding in 1937, she played under her married name, Mrs D.L. Little. During the Second World War, she played in North America and became a professional coach in Canada and the United States. Post-war, she played in British regional tournaments, coached, and wrote on tennis for newspapers.

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Tim Spencer, American country & western singer-songwriter and actor (died 1974)

Vernon Harold "Tim" Spencer was an American singer, songwriter, and actor. Spencer is best known for founding the popular American Cowboy singing group the Sons of the Pioneers in 1933 along with Bob Nolan and Roy Rogers.

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13/07/1907

George Weller, American author, playwright, and journalist (died 2002)

George Anthony Weller was an American novelist, playwright, and journalist for The New York Times and Chicago Daily News. He won a 1943 Pulitzer Prize as a Daily News war correspondent.

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13/07/1905

Alfredo M. Santos, Filipino general (died 1990)

Alfredo Manapat Santos was Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces of the Philippines in 1962 to 1965, making him the first four-star general of the Philippines' armed forces.

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Eugenio Pagnini, Italian modern pentathlete (died 1993)

Eugenio Pagnini was an Italian modern pentathlete. He competed at the 1928 and 1932 Summer Olympics.

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Magda Foy, American child actress (died 2000)

Magda Foy, also known and often credited as "The Solax Kid", was a child actor in the silent film era who worked for Solax Studio, the largest pre-Hollywood studio in the United States from 1910 to 1913.

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13/07/1903

Kenneth Clark, English historian and author (died 1983)

Kenneth Mackenzie Clark, Baron Clark was a British art historian, museum director and broadcaster. His expertise covered a wide range of artists and periods, but he is particularly associated with Italian Renaissance art, most of all that of Leonardo da Vinci. After running two art galleries in the 1930s and 1940s, he came to wider public notice on television, presenting a succession of programmes on the arts from the 1950s to the 1970s, the largest and best known being the Civilisation series in 1969.

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13/07/1901

Eric Portman, English actor (died 1969)

Eric Harrison Portman was an English stage and screen actor. He is probably best remembered for his roles in three films for Powell and Pressburger during the 1940s. He was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play for his performance in Separate Tables.

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13/07/1900

George Lewis, American clarinet player and songwriter (died 1969)

George Lewis was an American jazz clarinetist who achieved his highest profile in the later decades of his life.

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13/07/1898

Julius Schreck, German commander (died 1936)

Julius Schreck was a German Nazi official and close confidant of Adolf Hitler. Born in Munich, Schreck served in World War I and shortly afterwards joined right-wing paramilitary units. He joined the Nazi Party in 1920 and was a founding member of the Sturmabteilung. Later in 1925, he became the first leader of the Schutzstaffel. He then served for a time as a chauffeur for Hitler. Schreck developed meningitis in 1936 and died on 16 May of that year. Hitler gave him a state funeral.

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Ivan Triesault, Estonian-born American actor (died 1980)

Ivan Triesault was an Estonian-American character actor and dancer, who appeared in some 130 film and television productions between 1943 and 1969.

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13/07/1896

Mordecai Ardon, Israeli painter and educator (died 1992)

Mordecai Ardon was an Israeli painter.

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13/07/1895

Sidney Blackmer, American actor (died 1973)

Sidney Alderman Blackmer was an American Broadway and film actor active between 1914 and 1971, usually in major supporting roles.

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13/07/1894

Isaac Babel, Russian short story writer, journalist, and playwright (died 1940)

Isaac Emmanuilovich Babel was a Russian and Soviet writer, journalist, playwright, and literary translator. He is best known as the author of Red Cavalry and Odessa Stories, and has been acclaimed as "the greatest prose writer of Russian Jewry". Babel was arrested by the NKVD on 15 May 1939 on fabricated charges of terrorism and espionage, and executed on 27 January 1940.

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13/07/1892

Léo-Pol Morin, Canadian pianist, composer, and educator (died 1941)

Léo-Pol Morin was a Canadian pianist, music critic, composer, and music educator. He composed under the name James Callihou, with his most well known works being Suite canadienne (1945) and Three Eskimos for piano. He also composed works based on Canadian and Inuit folklore/folk music and harmonized a number of French-Canadian folksongs. Victor Brault notably transcribed his Inuit folklore inspired Chants de sacrifice for choir and 2 pianos.

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Jonni Myyrä, Finnish-American discus and javelin thrower (died 1955)

Joonas "Jonni" Myyrä was a Finnish athlete who competed at the 1912, 1920 and 1924 Olympics. In 1912, he finished eighth in the javelin throw. At the 1920 Olympics, his left arm was fractured in a warm-up accident – the spear thrown by James Lincoln struck Myyrä while he was resting on the grass. Nevertheless, Myyrä won the javelin event with an Olympic record of 65.78 meters. He also finished 12th in the discus throw but could not complete his pentathlon events. Myyrä successfully defended his javelin title at the 1924 Summer Olympics and then fled to the United States due to his financial problems in Finland. He never returned to his home country and died in San Francisco in 1955.

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13/07/1889

Emma Asson, Estonian educator and politician (died 1965)

Emma Asson was an Estonian politician. She was the first woman to be elected to the Estonian parliament. Asson participated in the creation of the first constitution of independent Estonia, particularly regarding education and gender equality. She also wrote one of the first history textbooks in Estonian in 1912.

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Stan Coveleski, American baseball player (died 1984)

Stanley Anthony Coveleski was an American right-handed pitcher in Major League Baseball who played for four American League (AL) teams between 1912 and 1928, primarily the Cleveland Indians. The star of the Indians pitching staff, he won over 20 games each year from the war-shortened 1918 season through 1921, leading the AL in shutouts twice and in strikeouts and earned run average (ERA) once each during his nine years with the club. The star of the 1920 World Series, he led the Indians to their first title with three complete-game victories, including a 3–0 shutout in the Game 7 finale. Traded to the Washington Senators after the 1924 season, he helped that club to its second AL pennant in a row with 20 victories against only 5 losses, including a 13-game winning streak, while again leading the league in ERA.

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13/07/1886

Father Edward J. Flanagan, founder of Boys Town (died 1948)

Edward Joseph Flanagan was an Irish-born priest of the Catholic Church in the United States who served for decades in Nebraska. After serving as a parish priest in the Diocese of Omaha, he founded the orphanage and educational complex known as Boys Town, located west of the city in what is now Boys Town, Douglas County, Nebraska. In the 21st century, the complex also serves as a center for troubled youth.

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13/07/1884

Yrjö Saarela, Finnish wrestler and coach (died 1951)

Yrjö Erik Mikael Saarela was a Finnish wrestler who won Olympic gold and a world championship.

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13/07/1877

Robert Henry Mathews, Australian linguist and missionary (died 1970)

Robert Henry Mathews (1877–1970) was an Australian missionary and Sinologist, best known for his 1931 A Chinese-English Dictionary: Compiled for the China Inland Mission by R. H. Mathews, which was subsequently revised by Harvard University Press in 1943. He served with the China Inland Mission from 1906, before retiring to Australia in 1945.

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13/07/1864

John Jacob Astor IV, American colonel and businessman (died 1912)

John Jacob Astor IV was an American business magnate, real estate developer, and investor who was a member of the Astor family and also the Livingston family. A writer, as well as a lieutenant colonel in the Spanish–American War, he was among the most prominent American passengers aboard RMS Titanic and perished along with 1,495 others when the ship sank on her maiden voyage. Astor was the richest passenger aboard the RMS Titanic and was thought to be among the richest people in the world at that time, with a net worth of roughly $87 million when he died.

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13/07/1863

Margaret Murray, British archaeologist, anthropologist, historian, and folklorist (died 1963)

Margaret Alice Murray was a British Egyptologist, archaeologist, anthropologist, historian, and folklorist. The first woman to be appointed as a lecturer in archaeology in the United Kingdom, she worked at University College London (UCL) from 1898 to 1935. She was president of the Folklore Society from 1953 to 1955, and published widely.

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13/07/1859

Sidney Webb, 1st Baron Passfield, English economist and politician, Secretary of State for the Colonies (died 1947)

Sidney James Webb, 1st Baron Passfield was a British socialist, economist and reformer, who co-founded the London School of Economics. He was an early member of the Fabian Society in 1884, joining, like George Bernard Shaw, three months after its inception. Along with his wife Beatrice Webb and with Annie Besant, Graham Wallas, Edward R. Pease, Hubert Bland and Sydney Olivier, Shaw and Webb turned the Fabian Society into the pre-eminent politico-intellectual society in Edwardian England. He wrote the original, pro-nationalisation Clause IV for the British Labour Party.

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13/07/1858

Stewart Culin, American ethnographer and author (died 1929)

Robert Stewart Culin was an American ethnographer and author interested in games, art and dress. Culin played a major role in the development of ethnography, first concentrating his efforts on studying the Asian-Americans workers in Philadelphia. His first published works were "The Practice of Medicine by the Chinese in America" and "China in America: A study in the social life of the Chinese in the eastern cities of the United States", both dated 1887. He believed that similarity in gaming demonstrated similarity and contact among cultures across the world.

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13/07/1851

Marie Andrieu, French anarchist, cartomancer and spiritualist (died 1911)

1841 (MDCCCXLI) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar, the 1841st year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 841st year of the 2nd millennium, the 41st year of the 19th century, and the 2nd year of the 1840s decade. As of the start of 1841, the Gregorian calendar was 12 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

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13/07/1841

Otto Wagner, Austrian architect, designed the Austrian Postal Savings Bank and Karlsplatz Stadtbahn Station (died 1918)

Otto Koloman Wagner was an Austrian architect, furniture designer and urban planner. He was a leading member of the Vienna Secession movement of architecture, founded in 1897, and the broader Art Nouveau movement. Many of his works are found in his native city of Vienna, and illustrate the rapid evolution of architecture during the period. His early works were inspired by classical architecture. By mid-1890s, he had already designed several buildings in what became known as the Vienna Secession style. Beginning in 1898, with his designs of Vienna Metro stations, his style became floral and Art Nouveau, with decoration by Koloman Moser. His later works, 1906 until his death in 1918, had geometric forms and minimal ornament, more clearly expressing their modern structure and materials. Although they are considered predecessors to modern architecture they remain within the larger classical tradition of the Schinkel School in Germany and Central Europe.

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13/07/1831

Arthur Böttcher, German pathologist and anatomist (died 1889)

Jakob Ernst Arthur Böttcher was a Baltic German pathologist and anatomist who was a native of Bauska, in what was then the Courland Governorate. He worked primarily within the Russian Empire.

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13/07/1821

Nathan Bedford Forrest, American general and first Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan (died 1877)

Nathan Bedford Forrest was a Confederate general during the American Civil War, noted for his aggressive cavalry tactics and rapid rise from private to general, and later served briefly as the first Grand Wizard of the Reconstruction-era Ku Klux Klan.

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13/07/1793

John Clare, English poet and author (died 1864)

John Clare was an English poet. The son of a farm labourer, he became known for his celebrations of the English countryside and his sorrows at its disruption. His work underwent major re-evaluation in the late 20th century; he is now often seen as a major 19th-century poet. His biographer Jonathan Bate called Clare "the greatest labouring-class poet that England has ever produced. No one has ever written more powerfully of nature, of a rural childhood, and of the alienated and unstable self."

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13/07/1770

Alexander Balashov, Russian general and politician, Russian Minister of Police (died 1837)

Alexander Dmitriyevich Balashov was a Russian general and statesman.

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13/07/1760

István Pauli, Hungarian-Slovene priest and poet (died 1829)

István Pauli or István Pável was a Hungarian Slovene Roman Catholic priest. Pauli was the teacher of Pertoča György Kousz, who was the author of a hymnal in Pertoča.

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13/07/1756

Thomas Rowlandson, English artist and caricaturist (died 1827)

Thomas Rowlandson was an English artist and caricaturist of the Georgian Era, noted for his political satire and social observation. A prolific artist and printmaker, Rowlandson produced both individual social and political satires, as well as a large number of illustrations for novels, humorous books, and topographical works. Like other caricaturists of his age such as James Gillray, his caricatures are often robust or bawdy. His caricatures included those of people in power such as the Duchess of Devonshire, William Pitt the Younger and Napoleon Bonaparte. Rowlandson also produced erotica for a private clientele; this was never published publicly at the time and is now only found in a small number of collections.

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13/07/1745

Robert Calder, Scottish-English admiral (died 1818)

Admiral of the White Sir Robert Calder, 1st Baronet, was a Royal Navy officer who served in the Seven Years' War, the American Revolutionary War, the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars. For much of his career he was regarded as a dependable officer, and spent several years as Captain of the Fleet under Admiral Sir John Jervis. However, he is chiefly remembered for his controversial actions following the Battle of Cape Finisterre in 1805 which resulted in his court-martial. Though he was removed from his sea command, he was retained in the Navy and later served as Commander-in-Chief of the base at Plymouth.

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13/07/1608

Ferdinand III, Holy Roman Emperor (died 1657)

Ferdinand III was Archduke of Austria, King of Hungary and Croatia from 1625, King of Bohemia from 1627 and Holy Roman Emperor from 1637 to his death.

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13/07/1607

Wenceslaus Hollar, Czech-English painter and illustrator (died 1677)

Wenceslaus Hollar was a Czech engraver, etcher and painter. He spent much of his life in England. He often created cityscapes and landscapes, including vedutas. He was born in Prague, died in London, and was buried at St Margaret's Church, Westminster.

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13/07/1606

Roland Fréart de Chambray (died 1676)

Roland Fréart, sieur de Chambray was a French writer, collector, and a theorist of architecture and the arts. Though not a practitioner himself, his two major publications, Parallèle de l'architecture antique avec la moderne (1650) and Idée de la perfection de la peinture (1662), appeared at a time when French architects were struggling to apply a new sense of discipline and order to the practice of building.

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13/07/1590

Pope Clement X (died 1676)

Pope Clement X, born Emilio Bonaventura Altieri, was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 29 April 1670 to his death on 22 July 1676.

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13/07/1579

Arthur Dee, English physician and chemist (died 1651)

Arthur Dee was a physician and alchemist. He became a physician successively to Tsar Michael I of Russia and to King Charles I of England.

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13/07/1527

John Dee, English-Welsh mathematician, astronomer, and astrologer (died 1609)

John Dee was an English mathematician, astronomer, teacher, astrologer, occultist, and alchemist. He was the court astronomer for, and advisor to, Elizabeth I, and spent much of his time on alchemy, divination, and Hermetic philosophy. As an antiquarian, he had one of the largest libraries in England at the time. As a political advisor, he advocated the foundation of English colonies in the New World to form a "British Empire", a term he is credited with coining.

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13/07/1478

Giulio d'Este, illegitimate son of Italian noble (died 1561)

Giulio d'Este was the illegitimate son of Ercole I d'Este, Duke of Ferrara. He is known for the conflicts he had with his half brother, Ippolito d'Este, which culminated in a failed conspiracy.

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13/07/1470

Francesco Armellini Pantalassi de' Medici, Catholic cardinal (died 1528)

Francesco Armellini Pantalassi de' Medici was a cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He was a member of the Roman Curia.

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