Born on Saturday, 19th July – Famous Birthdays

19/07/2006

Dani Muñoz, Spanish footballer

Daniel Muñoz Navas is a Spanish footballer who plays as a left-back for Atlético Madrid C.

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19/07/2003

Tyler Downs, American Olympic diver

Tyler Downs is an American competitive Olympic diver.

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19/07/1999

Kim So-hye, South Korean actress and singer

Kim So-hye, known mononymously as Sohye, is a South Korean actress and singer under S&P Entertainment. She is a former member of the girl musical group I.O.I, finishing fifth on Mnet's survival show Produce 101. She is best known on her acting roles in Poetry Story (2017), Kang Deok-soon's Love History (2017), Best Chicken (2019), and My Lovely Boxer (2023).

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19/07/1998

Erin Cuthbert, footballer

Erin Jacqueline Cuthbert is a Scottish professional footballer who plays for Chelsea in the Women's Super League and is a member of the Scotland national team. She studied at University of the West of Scotland, combining graduation from the Open University with being a professional football player.

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Karl Jacobs, American YouTuber and streamer

Karl Thomas Jacobs, formerly known as his prior pseudonym GamerBoyKarl, is an American YouTuber, author, writer, and producer. He rose to prominence as a member of MrBeast's on-screen cast and then developed his own videos, primarily Minecraft content. Jacobs is the creator of the anthology series Tales from the SMP set in the Dream SMP, which was adapted into a series of comic books published by Dark Horse Comics. He was also a co-host of the Banter podcast with fellow YouTubers Sapnap and GeorgeNotFound.

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Ronaldo Vieira, Bissau-Guinean footballer

Ronaldo Augusto Vieira Nan is a Bissau-Guinean professional footballer who plays as a defensive midfielder for Major League Soccer club San Jose Earthquakes and the Guinea-Bissau national team.

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19/07/1996

Paul Momirovski, Australian rugby league player

Paul Momirovski is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer who last played as a centre and winger for the Lézignan Sangliers in the Super XIII.

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19/07/1994

Christian Welch, Australian rugby league player

Christian Welch is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer who last played as a prop for the Melbourne Storm in the National Rugby League (NRL).

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19/07/1992

Jake Nicholson, English footballer

Jake Charlie Nicholson is an English former footballer. He is a product of the West Ham United and Tottenham Hotspur youth academies. He has also represented England at under-19 level.

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19/07/1991

Eray İşcan, Turkish footballer

Eray İşcan is a Turkish professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper.

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19/07/1989

Patrick Corbin, American baseball player

Patrick Alan Corbin is an American professional baseball pitcher for the Toronto Blue Jays of Major League Baseball (MLB). He has previously played in MLB for the Arizona Diamondbacks, Washington Nationals, and Texas Rangers. He won the 2019 World Series with the Nationals, recording the win in Game 7.

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Sam McKendry, Australian-New Zealand rugby league player

Sam McKendry is a former New Zealand Māori and New Zealand international rugby league footballer who played as a prop for the Penrith Panthers in the NRL.

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19/07/1988

Shane Dawson, American comedian and actor

Shane Lee Yaw, known online as Shane Dawson, is an American YouTuber, actor, filmmaker, writer, and musician. Dawson was one of the first people to rise to fame on YouTube after he began making videos in 2008 at the age of 19 and garnered over 500 million views during the next two years.

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Kevin Großkreutz, German footballer

Kevin Großkreutz is a semi-retired German professional footballer who plays as a right back and winger for TuS Eichlinghofen.

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Jakub Kovář, Czech ice hockey player

Jakub Kovář is a Czech professional ice hockey goaltender who is currently playing for HC Sparta Praha in the Czech Extraliga. He was selected by the Philadelphia Flyers in the 4th round of the 2006 NHL Entry Draft. He is the older brother of Jan Kovář.

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Trent Williams, American football player

Trent Williams is an American professional football offensive tackle for the San Francisco 49ers of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Oklahoma Sooners, where he was recognized as an All-American, and was selected by the Washington Redskins fourth overall in the 2010 NFL draft. Williams is considered one of the greatest offensive tackles of all time, having made twelve Pro Bowls and five All-Pro teams.

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19/07/1987

Yan Gomes, Brazilian-American baseball player

Yan Gomes is a Brazilian former professional baseball catcher. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Toronto Blue Jays, Cleveland Indians, Washington Nationals, Oakland Athletics, and Chicago Cubs.

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Jon Jones, American mixed martial artist

Jonathan Dwight Jones is an American former professional mixed martial artist who competed from 2008 to 2025. During his career with the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC), he was the Light Heavyweight Champion from 2011 to 2015 and from 2018 to 2020, and the Heavyweight Champion from 2023 to 2025, as well as the interim Light Heavyweight Champion in 2016. He is regarded as one of the greatest mixed martial artists of all time.

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Marc Murphy, Australian footballer

Marc Murphy is a retired Australian rules footballer who played for the Carlton Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). He was recruited with the first overall selection in the 2005 AFL draft and served as the captain of Carlton from the 2013 season to 2018. He is the son of John Murphy.

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19/07/1986

Leandro Greco, Italian footballer

Leandro Greco is an Italian football coach and a former player who played as a midfielder.

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Jinder Mahal, Canadian wrestler

Yuvraj Singh Dhesi is a Canadian professional wrestler. He currently performs on the independent circuit under his real name, stylized as Raj Dhesi. He is best known for his tenures in WWE, where he performed under the ring name Jinder Mahal and is a former one-time WWE Champion, WWE United States Champion, and two-time WWE 24/7 Champion.

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19/07/1985

LaMarcus Aldridge, American basketball player

LaMarcus Nurae Aldridge is an American former professional basketball player. He played college basketball for two seasons with the Texas Longhorns. Aldridge was selected second overall in the 2006 NBA draft. After spending nine seasons with the Portland Trail Blazers, he signed with the San Antonio Spurs in 2015. In March 2021, he signed with the Brooklyn Nets after the Spurs bought out his contract. He retired after two weeks due to an irregular heartbeat, but returned to the Nets the following season after receiving medical clearance.

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Zhou Haibin, Chinese footballer

Zhou Haibin is a Chinese football coach and retired professional footballer who spent the majority of his playing career at Chinese Super League club Shandong Luneng.

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Marina Kuzina, Russian basketball player

Marina Kuzina is a Russian basketball player who competed for the Russian National Team at the 2008 Summer Olympics, winning the bronze medal. She was also part of the 2012 Summer Olympics Russian team who missed out on a bronze medal, losing the bronze medal match 74-83 to Australia.

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Hadi Norouzi, Iranian footballer (died 2015)

Hadi Norouzi was an Iranian footballer who played as a striker. He spent most of his career with Persepolis in the Persian Gulf Pro League.

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19/07/1984

Andrea Libman, Canadian voice actress

Andrea Libman is a Canadian actress. She is known for providing voice acting in various animated shows, such as voicing the characters of Pinkie Pie and Fluttershy in the Discovery Family series My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic and its spinoffs. She has also appeared in Little Women, Andre, and a guest role on The X-Files.

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Adam Morrison, American basketball player

Adam John Morrison is an American former professional basketball player. Morrison played for three years at Gonzaga University and was considered to be one of the top college basketball players in 2005–06. He was a finalist for the Naismith and the Wooden Award. He was named Co-Player of the Year with Duke's JJ Redick by the United States Basketball Writers Association and won the 2006 Chevrolet Player of the Year award. He played for the Charlotte Bobcats from 2006 to 2009, and for the L.A. Lakers from 2009 to 2010, where he won two NBA championships.

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Ryan O'Byrne, Canadian ice hockey player

Ryan David O'Byrne is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player who played in the National Hockey League (NHL) from 2007 to 2013 with the Montreal Canadiens, Colorado Avalanche and the Toronto Maple Leafs. During this time, O'Byrne founded the Ryan O'Byrne Charity Camp, a non-profit hockey camp for youth. At the conclusion of the 2012–13 season, O'Byrne went on to play in the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL), Swiss National League (NL), and Swedish Hockey League, before retiring from a ten-year professional hockey career in 2016.

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Lewis Price, Welsh footballer

Lewis Peter Price is a retired Welsh international professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper. He is currently the First-Team Goalkeeping Coach for EFL Championship club Oxford United.

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19/07/1983

Helen Skelton, English television host and actress

Helen Elizabeth Skelton is an English television presenter appearing regularly on BBC1's Morning Live.

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Fedor Tyutin, Russian ice hockey player

Fedor Anatolievich Tyutin is a Russian former professional ice hockey defenceman. Tyutin was drafted in the second round, 40th overall by the New York Rangers in the 2001 NHL entry draft.

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19/07/1982

Christopher Bear, American drummer

Christopher Robert Bear is an American multi-instrumentalist and composer. He is best known as a member of the Brooklyn-based indie-rock group Grizzly Bear, with whom he has recorded five studio albums. In 2025, Bear joined Dirty Projectors, recording a trio-based studio album with founding member Dave Longstreth and bassist Karl McComas-Reichl.

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Phil Coke, American baseball player

Phillip Douglas Coke is an American former professional baseball pitcher. Pitching primarily in relief, he played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the New York Yankees, Detroit Tigers, Chicago Cubs, Toronto Blue Jays, and Pittsburgh Pirates. Coke's MLB career spanned from 2008 to 2016. He won a World Series championship as a member of the Yankees in 2009.

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Jared Padalecki, American actor

Jared Tristan Padalecki is an American actor. He is best known for playing the role of Sam Winchester in the TV series Supernatural. He rose to fame in the early 2000s after appearing on the television series Gilmore Girls (2000–2005) as well as the films Flight of the Phoenix (2004), House of Wax (2005) and Friday the 13th (2009).

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Jess Vanstrattan, Australian footballer

Jess Kedwell Vanstrattan is a retired Australian professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper.

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19/07/1981

Nenê, Brazilian footballer

Anderson Luiz de Carvalho, known as Nenê, is a Brazilian professional footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder for Campeonato Brasileiro Série C club Botafogo-PB. As of 2025, he is the oldest player to score in a Série A match, having set this record on 21 August 2025 at 44 years and 32 days old. He is also one of a few players in football with most official appearances ever.

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David Bernard, Jamaican cricketer

David Eddison Bernard is a West Indian cricketer who has played for the West Indies in Tests and ODIs. He played his second Test for a weakened West Indies team on 9 July 2009. In the second Test he scored 17 and 69.

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Mark Gasnier, Australian rugby player and sportscaster

Mark Gasnier is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer who played in the 2000s and 2010s. A rugby league New South Wales State of Origin and international representative centre, he played eleven seasons in the National Rugby League with the St. George Illawarra Dragons, punctuated by two seasons of rugby union played with the French club Stade Français. Gasnier was a member of the Dragons' NRL premiership-winning team in 2010. He retired at the end of the 2011 season. He is the nephew of the 1960s St. George star Reg Gasnier.

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Jimmy Gobble, American baseball player

Billy James Gobble is an American former professional baseball pitcher. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Kansas City Royals and Chicago White Sox.

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Grégory Vignal, French footballer

Grégory Vignal is a French football coach and former professional player.

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19/07/1980

Xavier Malisse, Belgian tennis player

Xavier Malisse is a Belgian tennis coach and a former professional player. Born in the north-western Flemish city of Kortrijk and nicknamed X-Man, he is one of only two Belgian men to have been ranked in the top 20 of the ATP Tour, with a career-high singles ranking of world No. 19.

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Giorgio Mondini, Italian race car driver

Giorgio Mondini is an Italo-Swiss former racing driver who last competed in the 2018 European Le Mans Series. In 2004, he was champion of the Formula Renault V6 Eurocup series. He previously served as a Formula One test driver for Midland.

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Chris Sullivan, American actor

Chris Sullivan is an American actor and musician. He starred on Cinemax's The Knick as Tom Cleary, and on the NBC drama This Is Us as Toby Damon, for which he received two Primetime Emmy Award nominations.

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19/07/1979

Rick Ankiel, American baseball player

Richard Alexander Ankiel is an American former professional baseball center fielder and pitcher. He spent most of his Major League Baseball (MLB) career with the St. Louis Cardinals, but also played for the Kansas City Royals, Atlanta Braves, Washington Nationals, Houston Astros, and New York Mets.

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Josué Anunciado de Oliveira, Brazilian footballer

Josué Anunciado de Oliveira, known as simply Josué, is a Brazilian former professional footballer who played as a defensive midfielder. He played for the Brazil national team from 2007 to 2010, winning the 2007 Copa América and playing at the 2010 FIFA World Cup.

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Dilhara Fernando, Sri Lankan cricketer

Congenige Randhi Dilhara Fernando is a former professional Sri Lankan international cricketer. He played as a right-handed pace bowler and was a key member of the Sri Lankan teams which finished as runners-up in the 2007 and 2011 Cricket World Cups. Fernando won the 2002 ICC Champions Trophy with his country.

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Luke Young, English footballer

Luke Paul Young is an English former professional footballer who played as a defender.

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19/07/1977

Jean-Sébastien Aubin, Canadian ice hockey player

Jean-Sébastien Aubin is a Canadian former professional ice hockey goaltender who played in the National Hockey League (NHL) with the Pittsburgh Penguins, Toronto Maple Leafs and the Los Angeles Kings.

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Tony Mamaluke, American wrestler and manager

Charles John Spencer is a retired American professional wrestler. He is best known for his appearances with World Championship Wrestling under the ring name Tony Marinara and with Extreme Championship Wrestling and World Wrestling Entertainment under the ring name Tony Mamaluke.

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Ed Smith, English cricketer and journalist

Edward Thomas Smith is an English author and journalist, former professional cricketer, and cricket commentator. He played first-class cricket for Kent, Middlesex and England.

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19/07/1976

Benedict Cumberbatch, English actor

Benedict Timothy Carlton Cumberbatch is an English actor. He has received various accolades, including a British Academy Television Award, a Primetime Emmy Award and a Laurence Olivier Award, in addition to nominations for two Academy Awards, two British Academy Film Awards, and four Golden Globes. In 2014, Time magazine named him one of the 100 most influential people in the world, and in 2015, he was appointed a CBE for services to performing arts and charity.

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Gonzalo de los Santos, Uruguayan footballer and manager

Gonzalo de los Santos da Rosa is an Uruguayan retired footballer who played as a defensive midfielder, and is a manager.

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19/07/1975

Luca Castellazzi, Italian footballer

Luca Castellazzi is an Italian former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper. He serves as the goalkeeper coach of AC Milan young team under 17.

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19/07/1974

Rey Bucanero, Mexican wrestler

Arturo García Ortiz is a Mexican luchador or professional wrestler best known under the ring name Rey Bucanero. Ortiz, as Rey Bucanero, has worked for Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL) since 1996. His ring name is Spanish for "Buccaneer King", which was originally reflected in his mask that featured a skull face and an eye patch. Ortiz was unmasked in 1999 and has worked unmasked ever since.

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Francisco Copado, German footballer and manager

Francisco Alberto Copado Álvarez is a German retired footballer who played as a striker or midfielder.

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Josée Piché, Canadian ice dancer

Josée Piché is a Canadian former ice dancer. She was born in Montreal and competed with partner Pascal Denis for 17 years, winning a bronze medal at the 2000 Canadian Figure Skating Championships and finishing 23rd at the 2004 World Figure Skating Championships, their final competition together.

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Vince Spadea, American tennis player

Vincent Spadea is a former professional tennis player from the United States.

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Preston Wilson, American baseball player and sportscaster

Preston James Richard Wilson is an American former professional baseball center fielder and currently the manager of the Aberdeen Ironbirds of the MLB Draft League. He played all or parts of ten seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) from 1998 to 2007 for the New York Mets, Florida Marlins, Colorado Rockies, Washington Nationals, Houston Astros and St. Louis Cardinals. He is both the nephew and stepson of former New York Mets outfielder Mookie Wilson.

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19/07/1973

Martin Powell, English keyboard player and songwriter

Martin Powell is an English musician. In 1991, Powell auditioned for the position of bass player in the band My Dying Bride but was turned down as the band had just filled the position. Upon informing the band he was also a violin and keyboard player, he was hired as a session musician, before becoming the band's permanent violinist and keyboardist.

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Scott Walker, Canadian ice hockey player and coach

Scott Walker is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player who currently serves as the co-owner and team president of the Guelph Storm in the OHL. He previously held the position of player development consultant for the Vancouver Canucks.

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19/07/1972

Ebbe Sand, Danish footballer and manager

Ebbe Sand is a Danish former professional footballer who played as a striker for Brøndby IF in Denmark and FC Schalke 04 in Germany. He was the Bundesliga top scorer in 2001 and won the DFB-Pokal in 2001 and 2002 with Schalke. On the international stage, he played for the Denmark national team at the 1998 and 2002 FIFA World Cup, as well as the 2000 and 2004 European Championships. At the 1998 World Cup, he scored the fastest-ever World Cup goal by a substitute – 16 seconds after entering the match.

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19/07/1971

Rene Busch, Estonian tennis player and coach

Rene Busch is a tennis coach and former Estonian tennis player. He achieved his career high ATP ranking in 1995 on No.793.

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Vitali Klitschko, Ukrainian boxer and politician, Mayor of Kyiv

Vitalii Volodymyrovych Klychko, known as Vitali Klitschko, is a Ukrainian politician and former professional boxer. He serves as mayor of Kyiv. Until the start of the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022 he also served as head of the Kyiv City State Administration.

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Michael Modest, American wrestler

Michael K. Cariglio is an American professional wrestler, better known by his stage name, Michael Modest. Modest ran the promotion Pro Wrestling Iron with tag partner Donovan Morgan and Frank Murdoch until its closure in 2005. Modest has also wrestled in Japan for Pro Wrestling Noah, winning the GHC Junior Heavyweight Championship after defeating Yoshinobu Kanemaru. He has also wrestled in Canada, Mexico and Ireland. He is perhaps best known for his appearances in the wrestling documentary Beyond the Mat, the film Ready to Rumble, and the TV special Exposed! Pro Wrestling's Greatest Secrets.

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Catriona Rowntree, Australian television host

Catriona Rowntree is an Australian television and radio presenter.

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Lesroy Weekes, Montserratian cricketer

Lesroy Charlesworth Weekes in Montserrat, Lesser Antilles, West Indies) is a former first-class cricketer.

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19/07/1970

Bill Chen, American poker player and software designer

William Chen is an American quantitative analyst, poker player, and software designer.

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Christopher Luxon, New Zealand politician, 42nd Prime Minister of New Zealand

Christopher Mark Luxon is a New Zealand politician and businessman who has served as the 42nd prime minister of New Zealand since 2023. A member of the National Party, he has been the member of Parliament (MP) for Botany since 2020 and previously served as leader of the Opposition from 2021 to 2023. Prior to entering politics, he was the chief executive officer (CEO) of Air New Zealand from 2013 to 2019.

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Nicola Sturgeon, Scottish lawyer and politician, First Minister of Scotland

Nicola Ferguson Sturgeon is a Scottish politician who served as First Minister of Scotland and Leader of the Scottish National Party (SNP) from 2014 to 2023. She served as a member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) from 1999 to 2026, firstly as an additional member for the Glasgow electoral region, and then as the member for Glasgow Southside from 2007 to 2026.

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19/07/1969

Matthew Libatique, American cinematographer

Matthew José Libatique ASC, LPS is an American cinematographer. He is best known for his collaborations with directors Darren Aronofsky, Joel Schumacher, Spike Lee, and Bradley Cooper. He has received three Academy Award nominations for Best Cinematography - for Black Swan (2010), A Star Is Born (2018), and Maestro (2023). He is also a two-time Independent Spirit Award winner, and two-time BAFTA Award nominee.

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19/07/1968

Robb Flynn, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer

Robert Conrad Flynn is an American musician best known as the lead vocalist and rhythm guitarist for heavy metal band Machine Head, being the only member to feature on every album. Flynn formed the band along with Adam Duce, Logan Mader and Tony Costanza after leaving Bay Area thrash band Vio-lence.

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Pavel Kuka, Czech footballer and manager

Pavel Kuka is a Czech former professional footballer who played as a forward. He represented his national team on 87 occasions, scoring 29 goals. At club level Kuka started in 1987 with Rudá Hvězda Cheb in the Czechoslovak First League before transferring to Slavia Prague two years later. During the 1993–94 season he moved to Germany, where he played in the Bundesliga for 1. FC Kaiserslautern, 1. FC Nürnberg and VfB Stuttgart. In 2000 he returned to Slavia, where he spent a further five years before retiring from top-level football in 2005.

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Jim Norton, American comedian, actor, and author

James Joseph Norton is an American comedian, radio personality, actor, author, and television and podcast host. Norton has been the co-host of the podcast UFC Unfiltered with Matt Serra since 2016, and the host of Jim Norton Can't Save You since January 2025. He is well-known for co-hosting morning radio shows Opie and Anthony, Opie with Jim Norton, and Jim Norton & Sam Roberts on SiriusXM Radio from October 2004 through December 2024, and The Chip Chipperson Podcast from 2017 until 2023.

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19/07/1967

Yael Abecassis, Israeli model and actress

Yael Abecassis is an Israeli actress and model.

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Jean-François Mercier, Canadian comedian, screenwriter, and television host

Jean-François Mercier is a comedian, screenwriter and television host from Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Mercier's comedy features his scruffy appearance and mixes social criticism with vulgarity, curse words and expressions of anger.

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19/07/1965

Evelyn Glennie, Scottish musician

Dame Evelyn Elizabeth Ann Glennie, is a Scottish percussionist. She was selected as one of the two laureates for the Polar Music Prize of 2015.

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Claus-Dieter Wollitz, German footballer and manager

Claus-Dieter Wollitz is a German football coach and former player, who is the current director of football and manager of 3. Liga club FC Energie Cottbus.

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19/07/1964

Teresa Edwards, American basketball player

Teresa Edwards is an American former women's basketball player and four time Olympic gold medalist.

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Masahiko Kondō, Japanese singer-songwriter and race car driver

Masahiko Kondō , or Matchy, is a Japanese singer, lyricist, actor, racing car manager and former semi-professional racing driver. He was a member of the Tanokin Trio. Kondō is also a semi-professional racing driver and a racing team owner. He founded the racing team Kondo Racing in 2000, which currently competes in both Super Formula and Super GT.

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19/07/1963

Thomas Gabriel Fischer, Swiss musician

Thomas Gabriel Fischer, also known by the stage names Tom Warrior and Satanic Slaughter, is a Swiss musician. He led the extreme metal bands Hellhammer and Celtic Frost, and is currently the frontman of the bands Triptykon and Triumph of Death.

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Garth Nix, Australian author

Garth Richard Nix is an Australian writer who specialises in children's and young adult fantasy novels, notably the Old Kingdom, Seventh Tower and Keys to the Kingdom series. He has frequently been asked if his name is a pseudonym, to which he has responded, "I guess people ask me because it sounds like the perfect name for a writer of fantasy. However, it is my real name."

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19/07/1962

Anthony Edwards, American actor and director

Anthony Charles Edwards is an American actor, director, and producer. He played Dr. Mark Greene on the first eight seasons of ER, for which he received a Golden Globe Award and six Screen Actors Guild Awards, and was nominated for four consecutive Primetime Emmy Awards. He has appeared in various films and television series, including Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Top Gun, Zodiac, Gotcha!, Miracle Mile, Revenge of the Nerds, Thunderbirds, Planes, Northern Exposure, and Designated Survivor.

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19/07/1961

Harsha Bhogle, Indian journalist and author

Harsha Bhogle is an Indian cricket commentator and journalist.

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Maria Filatova, Russian gymnast

Maria Evgenievna Filatova is a retired Russian gymnast who competed at the 1976 and 1980 Olympics.

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Lisa Lampanelli, American comedian, actress, and author

Lisa Lampanelli is an American former stand-up comedian, actress, and insult comic.

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Benoît Mariage, Belgian director and screenwriter

Benoît Mariage is a Belgian film director.

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Hideo Nakata, Japanese director, producer, and screenwriter

Hideo Nakata is a Japanese filmmaker.

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Campbell Scott, American actor, director, and producer

Campbell Scott is an American actor, film director, and producer. He is the recipient of several accolades, including a National Board of Review Award, and has been nominated for three Independent Spirit Awards, a Genie Award, a Drama Desk Award, and the Sundance Film Festival's Grand Jury Prize, among others.

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19/07/1960

Atom Egoyan, Egyptian-Canadian director, producer, and screenwriter

Atom Egoyan is an Armenian-Canadian filmmaker. One of the most preeminent directors of the Toronto New Wave, he emerged during the 1980s and made his career breakthrough with Exotica (1994), a hyperlink film set in a strip club. He followed this with his most critically acclaimed film, The Sweet Hereafter (1997), an adaptation of the Russell Banks novel of the same name, for which he received Academy Award nominations for Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay.

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Kevin Haskins, English drummer and songwriter

Kevin Michael Dompe, born and best-known as Kevin Michael Haskins, is an English drummer, best known from the British rock group Bauhaus. He was also a member of Tones on Tail and Love and Rockets.

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19/07/1959

Juan J. Campanella, Argentinian director, producer, and screenwriter

Juan José Campanella is an Argentine television and film director, writer and producer. He achieved worldwide attention with the release of The Secret in Their Eyes (2009), for which he was awarded the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.

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19/07/1958

Brad Drewett, Australian tennis player and sportscaster (died 2013)

Brad Drewett was an Australian tennis player and ATP official. He was the 1975 and 1977 Australian Open junior champion and the youngest player at age 17 to win the title since Ken Rosewall and John Newcombe. He was also the third-youngest Australian Open quarterfinalist in his first Grand Slam appearance, at 17 years 5 months in 1975, behind Boris Becker, 17 years 4 days in 1984 and Goran Ivanišević, 17 years 4 months in 1989.

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Robert Gibson, American wrestler

Robert Gibson is an American professional wrestler. He is best known as one half of the tag team known as The Rock 'n' Roll Express, with Ricky Morton. He has competed in singles competition also, and has won various singles championships throughout his career. Gibson was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame as a member of The Rock 'n' Roll Express, on March 31, 2017.

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David Robertson, American conductor

David Eric Robertson is an American conductor. He was chief conductor of the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, and was formerly music director of the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra from 2005 until 2018. He is Director of Orchestral Studies at Juilliard.

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19/07/1956

Mark Crispin, American computer scientist, designed the IMAP (died 2012)

Mark Reed Crispin is best known as the father of the Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP), having invented it in 1985 during his time at the Stanford Knowledge Systems Laboratory. He is the author or co-author of numerous RFCs and was the principal author of UW IMAP, one of the reference implementations of the IMAP4rev1 protocol described in RFC 3501. He also designed the MIX mail storage format.

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19/07/1955

Roger Binny, Indian cricketer and sportscaster

Roger Michael Humphrey Binny is a former Indian cricketer who was the 36th president of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI). He was the president of Karnataka State Cricket Association from 2019 to 2022. Binny was part of the India Team that won the 1983 Cricket World Cup and the 1985 World Championship of Cricket, being India's highest wicket-taker in both tournaments. He was also the head coach of the Indian U-19 team that won the 2000 Under-19 Cricket World Cup and has served as a national selector. He has also worked as a developmental officer in the Asian Cricket Council (ACC). The Indian team won the T20 World Cup 2024 and Champions Trophy 2025 when Binny was the president of BCCI.

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Dalton McGuinty, Canadian lawyer and politician, 24th Premier of Ontario

Dalton James Patrick McGuinty Jr. is a Canadian former politician who served as the 24th premier of Ontario from 2003 to 2013. He was the first Liberal leader to win two majority governments since Mitchell Hepburn nearly 70 years earlier. In 2011, he became the first Liberal premier to secure a third consecutive term since Oliver Mowat after his party was re-elected in that year's provincial election.

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19/07/1954

Mark O'Donnell, American playwright (died 2012)

Mark O'Donnell was an American writer and humorist.

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Steve O'Donnell, American screenwriter and producer

Steve O'Donnell is an American television writer. His credits include Late Night with David Letterman, The Simpsons, Seinfeld, and The Chris Rock Show.

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Srđa Trifković, Serbian-American journalist and historian

Srđa Trifković is a Serbian-American publicist, politician and historian. He is currently a foreign affairs editor for the paleoconservative magazine Chronicles, and a politics professor at the University of Banja Luka in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

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19/07/1953

Howard Schultz, American businessman and author

Howard D. Schultz is an American businessman and author who was the chairman and chief executive officer of Starbucks from 1986 to 2000, from 2008 to 2017, and interim CEO from 2022 to 2023. Schultz owned the Seattle SuperSonics basketball team from 2001 to 2006.

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19/07/1952

Allen Collins, American guitarist and songwriter (died 1990)

Larkin Allen Collins Jr. was an American guitarist, and one of the founding members of the Southern rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd. He co-wrote many of the band's songs with frontman and original lead singer Ronnie Van Zant.

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Jayne Anne Phillips American novelist and short story writer

Jayne Anne Phillips is an American Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist and short story writer who was born in the small town of Buckhannon, West Virginia. She was a professor of English at Rutgers-Newark from 2005 to 2020 and helped establish the MFA program at Rutgers University-Newark.

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19/07/1951

Abel Ferrara, American director, producer, and screenwriter

Abel Ferrara is an American filmmaker and actor. He is best known for the provocative and often controversial content in his movies and his use and redefinition of neo-noir imagery. A long-time independent filmmaker, some of his best known movies include the New York-set, gritty crime thrillers The Driller Killer (1979), Ms .45 (1981), King of New York (1990), Bad Lieutenant (1992), and The Funeral (1996), chronicling violent crime in urban settings with spiritual overtones.

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19/07/1950

Per-Kristian Foss, Norwegian politician, Norwegian Minister of Finance

Per-Kristian Foss (born 19 July 1950) is a Norwegian politician for the Conservative Party and from 2014 to 2021 the Auditor General of Norway.

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Freddy Moore, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2022)

Demi Gene Moore is an American actress. After rising to prominence in the 1980s, she became the world's highest-paid actress by 1995. Her accolades include a Golden Globe, a Critics' Choice Award, and an Actor Award, and nominations for an Academy Award, a British Academy Film Award, and a Primetime Emmy Award. In 2025, she appeared on Time's 100 most influential people in the world list, and received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame that year.

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Adrian Noble, English director and screenwriter

Adrian Keith Noble is a theatre director, and was also the artistic director and chief executive of the Royal Shakespeare Company from 1990 to 2003.

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19/07/1949

Kgalema Motlanthe, South African politician, 3rd President of South Africa

Kgalema Petrus Motlanthe is a South African politician who served as the president of South Africa from 25 September 2008 to 9 May 2009, following the resignation of Thabo Mbeki. Thereafter, he was deputy president under Jacob Zuma from 9 May 2009 to 26 May 2014.

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19/07/1948

Keith Godchaux, American keyboard player and songwriter (died 1980)

Keith Richard Godchaux was an American pianist best known for his tenure in the rock group the Grateful Dead from 1971 to 1979. Following their departure from the Dead, he and his wife Donna formed the Heart of Gold Band in 1980, but Godchaux died from injuries sustained in a car accident shortly after their first concert.

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19/07/1947

André Forcier, Canadian director and screenwriter

André Forcier is a Canadian film director and screenwriter. His work has been linked to Latin American magic realism by its use of fantasy but is firmly rooted in Quebec's reality. His unromanticized, even Rabelaisian, portraits of people on the fringe of society, especially in Bar Salon, Au clair de la lune, Une Historie inventée, Le Vent du Wyoming and The Countess of Baton Rouge, blend observations of minutia of everyday life with elements of fantasy and imaginary.

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Hans-Jürgen Kreische, German footballer and manager (died 2026)

Hans-Jürgen Kreische was an East German footballer who played as a forward for Dynamo Dresden and the East Germany national team.

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Bernie Leadon, American guitarist and songwriter

Bernard Matthew Leadon III is an American singer, musician, songwriter, and founding member of the Eagles, for which he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1998. Prior to the Eagles, he was a member of four country rock bands: Hearts & Flowers, Dillard & Clark, Linda Ronstadt & the Corvettes and the Flying Burrito Brothers. He is a multi-instrumentalist coming from a bluegrass background. He introduced elements of this music to a mainstream audience during his tenure with the Eagles.

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Brian May, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer, and astrophysicist

Sir Brian Harold May is an English musician, animal welfare activist, and astrophysicist. He achieved global fame as the lead guitarist and backing vocalist of the rock band Queen, which he co-founded with singer Freddie Mercury and drummer Roger Taylor. His guitar work and songwriting contributions helped Queen become one of the most successful acts in music history.

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19/07/1946

Alan Gorrie, Scottish singer-songwriter and musician

Alan Edward Gorrie is a Scottish bassist, guitarist, keyboardist and singer. He was a founding member of the Average White Band and was one of two original members in the group's final line-up alongside Onnie McIntyre.

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Ilie Năstase, Romanian tennis player and politician

Ilie Theodoriu Năstase is a Romanian former professional tennis player. He was ranked as the inaugural world No. 1 in men's singles by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) for 40 weeks. Năstase is one of ten players to have won over 100 total ATP-level titles, with 64 in singles and 45 in doubles, among which seven majors: two in singles, three in men's doubles and two in mixed doubles. He also won four Masters Grand Prix year-end championships. He was the first professional sports figure to sign an endorsement contract with Nike, doing so in 1972. Năstase also wrote several novels in French in the 1980s, and was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 1991.

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19/07/1945

Paule Baillargeon, Canadian actress, director, and screenwriter

Paule Baillargeon is a Canadian actress and film director. She won the Genie Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in the film I've Heard the Mermaids Singing, and was a nominee for Best Director for The Sex of the Stars . Her film roles have included August 32nd on Earth , Jesus of Montreal , A Woman in Transit , Réjeanne Padovani and Days of Darkness .

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19/07/1944

Tim McIntire, American actor and singer (died 1986)

Timothy John McIntire was an American character actor, perhaps best known for his starring roles as Alan Freed in the film American Hot Wax (1978), as singer George Jones in the television movie Stand by Your Man (1981), and for his performances in The Gumball Rally (1976) and Brubaker (1980).

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Andres Vooremaa, Estonian chess player (died 2022)

Andres Vooremaa was an Estonian chess player, who twice won the Estonian Chess Championship. He was awarded the Soviet Master title in 1969.

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19/07/1943

Han Sai Por, Singaporean sculptor and academic

Han Sai Por is a Singaporean sculptor and artist. A graduate of the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts (NAFA), East Ham College of Art, Wolverhampton College of Art, and Lincoln University, New Zealand, she worked as a teacher and later as a part-time lecturer at NAFA, the LASALLE-SIA College of the Arts, and the National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, before becoming a full-time artist in 1997.

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Carla Mazzuca Poggiolini, Italian journalist and politician

Carla Mazzuca Poggiolini is a professional journalist and Italian politician who served in both chambers of the Italian Parliament. She is the wife of Danilo Poggiolini.

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19/07/1941

Vikki Carr, American singer and actress

Florencia Vicenta de Casillas-Martinez Cardona, known by her stage name Vikki Carr, is an Mexican-American vocalist. She has a singing career that spans more than six decades.

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Neelie Kroes, Dutch politician and diplomat, European Commissioner for Digital Economy and Society

Neelie Kroes is a retired Dutch politician of the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD) and businessperson who served as European Commissioner from 22 November 2004 to 1 November 2014.

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19/07/1938

Jayant Narlikar, Indian astrophysicist and astronomer (died 2025)

Jayant Vishnu Narlikar was an Indian astrophysicist who performed research on alternative cosmology. He was also an author who wrote textbooks on cosmology, popular science books, and science fiction novels and short stories.

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Tom Raworth, English poet and academic (died 2017)

Thomas Moore Raworth was an English-Irish poet, publisher, editor, and teacher who published over 40 books of poetry and prose during his life. His work has been translated and published in many countries. Raworth was a key figure in the British Poetry Revival.

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19/07/1937

George Hamilton IV, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2014)

George Hege Hamilton IV was an American country musician. He began performing in the late 1950s as a teen idol, switching to country music in the early 1960s.

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Richard Jordan, American actor (died 1993)

Robert Anson Jordan Jr., known professionally as Richard Jordan, was an American actor. A long-time member of the New York Shakespeare Festival, he performed in many Off Broadway and Broadway plays. His films include: Logan's Run, Les Misérables, Old Boyfriends, Raise the Titanic, The Friends of Eddie Coyle, The Yakuza, Interiors, The Bunker, Dune, The Secret of My Success, Timebomb, The Hunt for Red October, Posse and Gettysburg.

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19/07/1936

David Colquhoun, English pharmacologist and academic

David Colquhoun is a British pharmacologist at University College London (UCL). He has contributed to the general theory of receptor and synaptic mechanisms, and in particular the theory and practice of single ion channel function. He held the A.J. Clark chair of Pharmacology at UCL from 1985 to 2004, and was the Hon. Director of the Wellcome Laboratory for Molecular Pharmacology. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 1985 and an honorary fellow of UCL in 2004. Colquhoun runs the website DC's Improbable Science, which is critical of pseudoscience, particularly alternative medicine, and managerialism.

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19/07/1935

Nick Koback, American baseball player and golfer (died 2015)

Nicholas Nicholie Koback was a Russian American professional baseball player whose career spanned eight seasons, three of which were spent with the Major League Baseball (MLB) Pittsburgh Pirates (1953–55). At the age of 17, Koback signed with the Pirates as a bonus baby out of Hartford Public High School. He made his MLB debut without ever playing in the minor leagues. At the time, he was the youngest Pittsburgh Pirates player ever. During his first career start, Koback caught a complete game shutout by Pirates pitcher Murry Dickson. Most of Koback's time with Pittsburgh was spent as a bullpen catcher. Over his three-year MLB career, Koback compiled a .121 batting average with one run scored, four hits, one triple and one base on balls in 16 games played. The majority of his playing career was spent in the minor leagues with the Lincoln Chiefs, Williamsport Grays (1956), Hollywood Stars (1956–57), New Orleans Pelicans (1956–57), Columbus/Gastonia Pirates (1958) and Charleston Senators (1960). He batted and threw right-handed. During his career, he weighed 187 pounds (85 kg) and stood at 6 feet (180 cm). After retiring from baseball, Koback played pro–am golf in Connecticut.

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19/07/1934

Francisco de Sá Carneiro, Portuguese lawyer and politician, 111th Prime Minister of Portugal (died 1980)

Francisco Manuel Lumbrales de Sá Carneiro was a Portuguese politician, who was one of the founders and the first leader of the Social Democratic Party. He served as Prime Minister of Portugal for eleven months during 1980, until his death in a plane crash in Camarate on 4 December 1980.

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19/07/1932

Buster Benton, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 1996)

Arley "Buster" Benton was an American blues guitarist and singer. He played guitar in Willie Dixon's Blues All-Stars and is best known for his solo rendition of Dixon's song "Spider in My Stew." Benton was tenacious, and despite the amputation of parts of both legs in the latter part of his lengthy career, he never stopped playing his own version of Chicago blues.

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Jan Lindblad, Swedish biologist and photographer (died 1987)

Jan Victor Armas Lindblad was a Swedish naturalist, writer, photographer, film maker, and whistling artist who imitated animals.

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Szilárd Keresztes, Hungarian Greek Catholic bishop (died 2025)

Szilárd Keresztes was a Hungarian Greek Catholic bishop. He was Bishop of Hajdúdorog and apostolic administrator of the Apostolic Exarchate of Miskolc from 1975 to 2008.

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19/07/1929

Gaston Glock, Austrian engineer and businessman, co-founded Glock Ges.m.b.H. (died 2023)

Gaston Glock was an Austrian engineer and businessman. He founded the company Glock in 1963. When he entered the 1980 competition for a new Austrian service pistol, he hired two engineers who had worked on the development of HK's first two polymer-frame pistols, the VP70 and P9 models. The first Glock pistol, chambered in 9x19mm and named the Glock 17 because it was Glock's 17th patent, entered Austrian military and police service in 1982. It became one of the most influential and popular handguns of the 20th century, leading to a succession of other models in a variety of sizes and chamberings as well as an industry-wide trend toward polymer-frame, striker-fired pistols.

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Orville Turnquest, Bahamian politician

Sir Orville Alton Turnquest is a Bahamian politician who was the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of External Relations of the Bahamas from 1992 to 1994, and the sixth governor-general of the Bahamas from 3 January 1995 until his retirement on 13 November 2001.

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19/07/1928

Samuel John Hazo, American author

Samuel John Hazo is a poet, playwright, fiction novelist, and the founder and director emeritus of the International Poetry Forum in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He is also McAnulty Distinguished Professor of English Emeritus at Duquesne University, where he taught for forty-three years.

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Choi Yun-chil, South Korean long-distance runner and a two-time national champion in the marathon (died 2020)

Choi Yoon-chil was a South Korean long-distance runner who was a two-time Olympian and a two-time national champion in the marathon.

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19/07/1926

Helen Gallagher, American actress, singer, and dancer (died 2024)

Helen Gallagher was an American actress, dancer, and singer. She received three Daytime Emmy Awards, two Tony Awards, a Donaldson Award, and a Drama Desk Award.

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19/07/1925

Sue Thompson, American singer (died 2021)

Sue Thompson was an American pop and country music singer. She is best known for the million selling 1961 hits "Sad Movies " and "Norman", "James " (1962), and "Paper Tiger" (1965).

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19/07/1924

Stanley K. Hathaway, American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 40th United States Secretary of the Interior (died 2005)

Stanley Knapp Hathaway was an American politician who served as the 27th governor of Wyoming from 1967 to 1975 and as the 40th United States secretary of the interior under President Gerald Ford from June to October 1975.

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Pat Hingle, American actor and producer (died 2009)

Martin Patterson Hingle was an American actor. He was best known to screen audiences for his character roles, often as tough authority figures, in over 200 productions between 1954 and 2008.

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Arthur Rankin Jr., American director, producer, and screenwriter (died 2014)

Arthur Gardner Rankin Jr. was an American director, producer and screenwriter, who mostly worked in animation. Co-creator of Rankin/Bass Productions with his friend Jules Bass, he created stop-motion and traditional animation features such as Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, Frosty the Snowman, Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town, and the 1977 cartoon special of The Hobbit. He is credited on over 1,000 television programs.

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19/07/1923

Theo Barker, English historian (died 2001)

Theodore Cardwell Barker, usually known as Theo Barker, was a British social and economic historian.

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Alex Hannum, American basketball player and coach (died 2002)

Alexander Murray Hannum was an American professional basketball player and coach. Known as Sarge because of his military background, Hannum played center for six different teams, most notably the Milwaukee Hawks in the National Basketball Association (NBA), where he spent three seasons.

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Joseph Hansen, American author and poet (died 2004)

Joseph Hansen was an American crime writer and poet, best known for a series of novels featuring private eye Dave Brandstetter.

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William A. Rusher, American lawyer and journalist (died 2011)

William Allen Rusher was an American lawyer, author, activist, and conservative columnist. He was one of the founders of the modern conservative movement and was one of its most prominent spokesmen for thirty years as publisher of National Review magazine, which was edited by William F. Buckley Jr. Historian Geoffrey Kabaservice argues that, "in many ways it was Rusher, not Buckley, who was the founding father of the conservative movement as it currently exists. We have Rusher, not Buckley, to thank for the populist, operationally sophisticated, and occasionally extremist elements that characterize the contemporary movement."

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Lon Simmons, American baseball player and sportscaster (died 2015)

Lonnie Alexander "Lon" Simmons was an American sports announcer, best known for his play-by-play broadcasts of San Francisco Giants baseball and San Francisco 49ers football.

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19/07/1922

George McGovern, American lieutenant, historian, and politician (died 2012)

George Stanley McGovern was an American politician, diplomat, and historian from South Dakota who served in both chambers of the United States Congress as a member of the United States House of Representatives for two terms representing South Dakota's 1st congressional district from 1957 to 1961, the director of Food for Peace in 1961 and 1962 under John F. Kennedy, and a member of the United States Senate for three terms from 1963 to 1981. He was the Democratic Party presidential nominee in the 1972 U.S. presidential election.

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Rachel Robinson, American professor, registered nurse, and the widow of baseball player Jackie Robinson

Rachel Annetta Robinson is an American former professor and registered nurse. She is the widow of professional baseball player Jackie Robinson. After her husband's death, she founded the Jackie Robinson Foundation.

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19/07/1921

Harold Camping, American evangelist, author, radio host (died 2013)

Harold Egbert Camping was an American Christian radio broadcaster and evangelist. Beginning in 1958, he served as president of Family Radio, a California-based radio station group that, at its peak, broadcast to more than 150 markets in the United States. In October 2011, he retired from active broadcasting following a stroke, but still maintained a role at Family Radio until his death. Camping was notorious for issuing a succession of failed predictions of dates for the End Times, which temporarily gained him a global following and millions of dollars of donations.

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André Moynet, French soldier, race car driver, and politician (died 1993)

André Moynet was a much decorated French wartime fighter pilot who moved on to become a test pilot and an entrepreneur-businessman. He was also a politician.

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Elizabeth Spencer, American novelist, short story writer, and playwright (died 2019)

Elizabeth Spencer was an American writer. Spencer's first novel, Fire in the Morning, was published in 1948. She wrote a total of nine novels, seven collections of short stories, a memoir, and a play. Her novella The Light in the Piazza (1960) was adapted for the screen in 1962 and transformed into a Broadway musical of the same name in 2005. She was a five-time recipient of the O. Henry Award for short fiction.

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Rosalyn Sussman Yalow, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2011)

Rosalyn Sussman Yalow was an American medical physicist, and a co-winner of the 1977 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for development of the radioimmunoassay technique. She was the second woman, and the first American-born woman, to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

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19/07/1920

Robert Mann, American violinist, composer, and conductor (died 2018)

Robert Nathaniel Mann was a violinist, composer, conductor, and founding member of the Juilliard String Quartet, as well as a faculty member at the Manhattan School of Music. Mann, the first violinist at Juilliard, served on the school's string quartet for over fifty years until his retirement in 1997.

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Richard Oriani, Salvadoran-American metallurgist and engineer (died 2015)

Richard A. Oriani was an El Salvador-born American chemical engineer and metallurgist who was instrumental in the study of the effects of hydrogen in metal. He also made significant contributions to the field of cold fusion.

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19/07/1919

Patricia Medina, English-American actress (died 2012)

Patricia Paz Maria Medina was a British actress. She is perhaps best known for her roles in the films Phantom of the Rue Morgue (1954) and Mr. Arkadin (1955).

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Miltos Sachtouris, Greek poet and author (died 2005)

Miltos Sachtouris was a Greek poet. He was a descendant of Georgios Sachtouris, whose origins were the Island of Ydra. When he was young he abandoned his law studies to follow his real passion, poetry, adopting the pen name Miltos Chrysanthis. Sachtouris wrote his first poetry collection, The Music of My Islands, under his pen name in 1941.

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Ron Searle, English-Canadian soldier, publisher, and politician, 4th Mayor of Mississauga (died 2015)

Ronald Alfred Searle was an English-born Canadian soldier, publisher, and politician who served as the fourth mayor of Mississauga, Ontario from 1976 to 1978.

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19/07/1917

William Scranton, American captain and politician, 13th United States Ambassador to the United Nations (died 2013)

William Warren Scranton was an American Republican Party politician and diplomat. Scranton served as the 38th governor of Pennsylvania from 1963 to 1967, and as United States Ambassador to the United Nations from 1976 to 1977.

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19/07/1916

Phil Cavarretta, American baseball player and manager (died 2010)

Philip Joseph Cavarretta was an American professional baseball first baseman, outfielder, and manager. He was known to friends and family as "Phil" and was also called "Philibuck", a nickname bestowed by Cubs manager Charlie Grimm.

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19/07/1915

Åke Hellman, Finnish painter (died 2017)

Åke Fredrik Hellman was a Swedish-speaking Finnish still life and portrait artist and art professor. He worked as art teacher at the University of Helsinki. In 1963, he received the order of the Lion of Finland.

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19/07/1914

Marius Russo, American baseball player (died 2005)

Marius Ugo Russo was an American starting pitcher in Major League Baseball who played for the New York Yankees from 1939 to 1943 and in 1946). He batted right-handed and threw left-handed.

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19/07/1913

Kay Linaker, American actress and screenwriter (died 2008)

Mary Katherine Linaker was an American actress and screenwriter who appeared in many B movies during the 1930s and 1940s, most notably Kitty Foyle (1940). Linaker used her married name, Kate Phillips, as a screenwriter, notably for the cult film The Blob (1958). She is credited with coining the name "The Blob" for the movie, which was originally titled The Molten Meteor.

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19/07/1912

Peter Leo Gerety, American prelate (died 2016)

Peter Leo Gerety was an American Catholic prelate who served as Archbishop of Newark from 1974 to 1986. He previously served as Bishop of Portland in Maine from 1969 to 1974. Gerety was the oldest living Catholic bishop in the world at the time of his death at age 104.

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19/07/1909

Balamani Amma, Indian poet and author (died 2004)

Nalapat Balamani Amma was an Indian poet who wrote in Malayalam. Amma (Mother), Muthassi (Grandmother), and Mazhuvinte Katha are some of her well-known works. She was a recipient of many awards and honours, including the Padma Bhushan, Saraswati Samman, Sahitya Akademi Award, and Ezhuthachan Award. She was the mother of writer Kamala Das, also known as Madhavikutty.

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19/07/1908

Daniel Fry, American contactee (died 1992)

Daniel William Fry was an American contactee of the 1950s who claimed he had multiple contacts with an alien and took a ride in a remotely piloted alien spacecraft. Fry was born in Verdon Township, Minnesota. He was also the founder of the UFO religion Understanding, Inc., though Fry insisted it was not a religion.

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Hans Trippel, German engineer, developed Amphicar (died 2001)

Hans Trippel was a German industrial designer, responsible for the designs of the Trippel SG6, Mercedes-Benz Gullwing's door and the Amphicar.

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19/07/1907

Isabel Jewell, American actress (died 1972)

Isabel Jewell was an American actress, who rose to prominence in the 1930s and early 1940s. Some of her more famous films were Ceiling Zero, Marked Woman, A Tale of Two Cities, Lost Horizon, and Gone with the Wind.

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19/07/1904

Robert Todd Lincoln Beckwith, American lawyer and farmer (died 1985)

Robert Todd Lincoln Beckwith was an American gentleman farmer and the great-grandson of Abraham Lincoln. In 1975, he became the last known undisputed legal descendant of Lincoln when his sister, Mary Lincoln Beckwith, died without children.

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19/07/1902

Samudrala Sr., Indian singer, director, producer, and screenwriter (died 1968)

Samudrala Raghavacharya, also known as Samudrala Sr., was an Indian screenwriter, lyricist, playback singer, director, and producer known for his works in Telugu cinema. Samudrala Senior made his screen debut in 1937, and known for his collaborations with Ghantasala.

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19/07/1899

Balai Chand Mukhopadhyay, Indian physician, author, poet, and playwright (died 1979)

Balai Chand Mukhopadhyay was an Indian Bengali-language writer, physician, and playwright, best known by his pen name Banaphul,. His oeuvre spanned novels, poetry, plays, essays and over 400 short stories, the genre for which he is best remembered. For his contribution to literature, he was awarded the Padma Bhushan in 1975, India's third-highest civilian honor.

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19/07/1898

Herbert Marcuse, German-American sociologist and philosopher (died 1979)

Herbert Marcuse was a German–American philosopher, social critic, and political theorist, associated with the Frankfurt School of critical theory. Born in Berlin, Marcuse studied at the Friedrich Wilhelm University of Berlin and then at the University of Freiburg, where he received his PhD. He was a prominent figure in the Frankfurt-based Institute for Social Research, which later became known as the Frankfurt School. In his written works, he criticized capitalism, modern technology, Soviet Communism, and popular culture, arguing that they represent new forms of social control.

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19/07/1896

Reginald Baker, English film producer (died 1985)

Reginald Poynton Baker, MC FCA FRSA was a British film producer and a major contributor to the development of the British film industry. Along with his younger brother Leslie Forsyth, he played a decisive role in establishing Ealing Studios. He was the father of Conservative MP Peter Baker. Baker died in Australia aged 89.

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A. J. Cronin, Scottish physician and novelist (died 1981)

Archibald Joseph Cronin (Cronogue) (19 July 1896 – 6 January 1981) was a Scottish physician and novelist. His best-known novel is The Citadel (1937), about a Scottish physician who serves in a Welsh mining village before achieving success in London, where he becomes disillusioned about the venality and incompetence of some doctors. Cronin knew both areas, as a medical inspector of mines and as a physician in Harley Street. The book exposed unfairness and malpractice in British medicine and helped to inspire the National Health Service.

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Bob Meusel, American baseball player and sailor (died 1977)

Robert William Meusel was an American baseball player. A left and right fielder, he played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for eleven seasons from 1920 through 1930, all but the last for the New York Yankees. He was best known as a member of the Yankees' championship teams of the 1920s, nicknamed "Murderers' Row", during which time the team won its first six American League (AL) pennants and first three World Series titles.

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19/07/1895

Xu Beihong, Chinese painter and academic (died 1953)

Xu Beihong, also known as Ju Péon, was a Chinese painter.

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19/07/1894

Aleksandr Khinchin, Russian mathematician and academic (died 1959)

Aleksandr Yakovlevich Khinchin was a Soviet mathematician and one of the most significant contributors to the Soviet school of probability theory.

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Khawaja Nazimuddin, Bangladeshi-Pakistani politician, 2nd Prime Minister of Pakistan (died 1965)

Sir Khwaja Nazimuddin was a East Pakistani politician and statesman who served as the second governor-general of Pakistan from 1948 to 1951, and then as the second prime minister of Pakistan from 1951 to 1953.

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Percy Spencer, American physicist and inventor of the microwave oven (died 1969)

Percy LaBaron Spencer was an American physicist, electrical engineer, and inventor of the microwave oven. As a boy he was twice orphaned and began work at a young age, never finishing grammar school. During the night shift, he taught himself topics such as calculus, trigonometry, physics, and chemistry, establishing a lifelong habit of self-education or "solving my own situation" as he called it.

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19/07/1893

Vladimir Mayakovsky, Russian actor, playwright, and poet (died 1930)

Vladimir Vladimirovich Mayakovsky was a Russian poet, playwright, artist, and actor. During his early, pre-Revolution period leading into 1917, Mayakovsky became renowned as a prominent figure of the Russian Futurist movement. He co-signed the Futurist manifesto, A Slap in the Face of Public Taste (1913), and wrote such poems as A Cloud in Trousers (1915) and Backbone Flute (1916). Mayakovsky produced a large and diverse body of work during the course of his career: he wrote poems, wrote and directed plays, appeared in films, edited the art journal LEF, and produced agitprop posters in support of the Communist Party during the Russian Civil War of 1917–1922.

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19/07/1892

Dick Irvin, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (died 1957)

James Dickinson "Dick" Irvin Jr. was a Canadian professional ice hockey player and coach. He played for professional teams in the Pacific Coast Hockey Association, the Western Canada Hockey League, and the National Hockey League (NHL) from 1916 to 1928, when he had to retire from repeated injuries. Irvin was one of the greatest players of his day, balancing a torrid slap shot and tough style with gentlemanly play. For his playing career, Irvin was named to the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1958. After playing, Irvin built a successful career as a coach in the NHL with the Chicago Black Hawks, Toronto Maple Leafs, and Montreal Canadiens. He coached his teams to the Stanley Cup Finals 16 times in 26 years as a full-time head coach, winning one Stanley Cup coaching Toronto and three coaching Montreal, finishing with over 600 wins as a coach. He also served in the Canadian Expeditionary Force during the First World War.

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19/07/1890

George II of Greece (died 1947)

George II was King of Greece from 27 September 1922 until 25 March 1924, and again from 25 November 1935 until his death on 1 April 1947.

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19/07/1888

Enno Lolling, German physician (died 1945)

Enno Lolling was a Nazi doctor. As a member of the SS, he served as a Lagerarzt at Dachau concentration camp. He later headed up the medical division for all the SS concentration camps. Lolling committed suicide in Flensburg as the war was ending.

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19/07/1886

Michael Fekete, Hungarian-Israeli mathematician and academic (died 1957)

Michael (Mihály) Fekete was a Hungarian-Israeli mathematician.

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19/07/1884

Charles Edward, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, British-born German nobleman and Nazi politician (died 1954)

Charles Edward was at various points in his life a British prince and royal duke, a German duke, and a Nazi politician. He was the last ruling Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, a state of the German Empire, from 30 July 1900 to 14 November 1918. He later held multiple positions in the Nazi regime, including leader of the German Red Cross, and acted as an unofficial diplomat for the German government.

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19/07/1883

Max Fleischer, Austrian-American animator and producer (died 1972)

Max Fleischer was an American animator and studio owner. Born in Kraków, in Austrian Poland, Fleischer immigrated to the United States where he became a pioneer in the development of the animated cartoon and served as the head of Fleischer Studios, which he co-founded with his younger brother Dave. He brought such comic characters as Koko the Clown, Betty Boop, Popeye, and Superman to the movie screen, and was responsible for several technological innovations, including the Rotoscope, the "Follow the Bouncing Ball" technique pioneered in the Ko-Ko Song Car-Tunes films, and the "Stereoptical Process". Film director Richard Fleischer was his son.

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19/07/1881

Friedrich Dessauer, German physicist and philosopher (died 1963)

Friedrich Dessauer was a German physicist, a philosopher, a socially engaged entrepreneur and a journalist.

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19/07/1877

Arthur Fielder, English cricketer (died 1949)

Arthur Fielder was an English cricketer who played as a fast bowler for Kent County Cricket Club and the England cricket team from 1900 to 1914. He played a major role in Kent's four County Championship wins in the years before World War I and toured Australia twice with the England team, making six Test match appearances. He was chosen as one of Wisden's Cricketers of the Year in 1907.

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19/07/1876

Joseph Fielding Smith, American religious leader, 10th President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (died 1972)

Joseph Fielding Smith Jr. was an American religious leader and writer who served as the tenth president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from 1970 until his death in 1972. He was the son of former church president Joseph F. Smith and the great-nephew of church founder Joseph Smith.

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19/07/1875

Alice Dunbar Nelson, American poet and activist (died 1935)

Alice Dunbar Nelson was an American poet, journalist, and political activist. Among the first generation of African Americans born free in the Southern United States after the end of the American Civil War, she was one of the prominent African Americans involved in the artistic flourishing of the Harlem Renaissance. She gained recognition for her poetry, short stories, and essays that explored themes of race, gender, and respectability; for her journalism and newspaper columns advocating for Black women’s rights and anti-lynching legislation; and for her editorial work on two influential anthologies that highlighted African American literature.

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19/07/1869

Xenophon Stratigos, Greek general and politician, Greek Minister of Transport (died 1927)

Xenophon Stratigos was a Greek military officer. He played a major role in the Balkan Wars of 1912–13 and the Asia Minor Campaign of the Greco-Turkish War in 1921–22, serving also as de facto Chief of the Hellenic Army General Staff in 1916–17 and in 1921. He retired from the army in September 1921 and served as Minister for Transport in 1922. Condemned to life imprisonment at the Trial of the Six, he was later pardoned and left for Switzerland, where he lived until his death.

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19/07/1868

Florence Foster Jenkins, American soprano and educator (died 1944)

Florence Foster Jenkins was an American socialite and amateur coloratura soprano who became known and mocked for her flamboyant performance costumes and notably poor singing ability. Stephen Pile, in his book The Book of Heroic Failures ranked her "the world's worst opera singer ... No one, before or since, has succeeded in liberating themselves quite so completely from the shackles of musical notation."

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19/07/1865

Georges Friedel, French mineralogist and crystallographer (died 1933)

Georges Friedel was a French mineralogist and crystallographer.

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Charles Horace Mayo, American surgeon, co-founder of the Mayo Clinic (died 1939)

Charles Horace Mayo was an American medical practitioner and was one of the founders of the Mayo Clinic along with his brother William James Mayo, Augustus Stinchfield, Christopher Graham, Edward Star Judd Jr., Henry Stanley Plummer, Melvin Millet, and Donald Balfour.

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19/07/1864

Fiammetta Wilson, English astronomer (died 1920)

Fiammetta Wilson was a British astronomer elected a fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society in 1916.

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19/07/1860

Lizzie Borden, American woman, tried and acquitted for the murders of her father and step-mother in 1892 (died 1927)

Lizzie Andrew Borden was an American woman who was tried and acquitted of the August 4, 1892, axe murders of her father and stepmother in Fall River, Massachusetts. No one else was charged in the murders and, despite ostracism from other residents, Borden spent the remainder of her life in Fall River. She died of pneumonia at age 66, just nine days before the death of her older sister Emma.

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19/07/1849

Ferdinand Brunetière, French scholar and critic (died 1906)

Ferdinand Vincent-de-Paul Marie Brunetière was a French writer and critic.

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19/07/1846

Edward Charles Pickering, American astronomer and physicist (died 1919)

Edward Charles Pickering was an American astronomer and physicist and the older brother of William Henry Pickering. Along with Carl Vogel, Pickering discovered the first spectroscopic binary stars. He wrote Elements of Physical Manipulations.

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19/07/1842

Frederic T. Greenhalge, English-American lawyer and politician, 38th Governor of Massachusetts (died 1896)

Frederic Thomas Greenhalge was an American lawyer and politician in Massachusetts. He served in the United States House of Representatives and was the 38th governor of Massachusetts. He was elected three consecutive times, but died early in his third term. He was the state's first foreign-born governor.

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19/07/1835

Justo Rufino Barrios, Guatemalan president (died 1885)

Justo Rufino Barrios Auyón was a Guatemalan politician and military general who served as President of Guatemala from 1873 to his death in 1885. He was known for his liberal reforms and his attempts to reunite Central America. During his rule, Guatemala had a close relationship with the United States.

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19/07/1834

Edgar Degas, French painter, sculptor, and illustrator (died 1917)

Edgar Degas was a French Impressionist artist famous for his pastel drawings and oil paintings.

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19/07/1827

Mangal Pandey, Indian soldier (died 1857)

Mangal Pandey was an Indian soldier who played a key role in the events that led to the Indian Rebellion of 1857, which resulted in the dissolution of the East India Company and the beginning of the British Raj through the Government of India Act 1858. He was a sepoy in the 34th Regiment of the Bengal Native Infantry. In 1984, the Republic of India issued a postage stamp in his memory. His life and actions have also been portrayed in several Indian cinematic productions.

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19/07/1822

Princess Augusta of Cambridge (died 1916)

Princess Augusta of Cambridge was a member of the British royal family as the granddaughter of George III. She married into the Grand Ducal House of Mecklenburg-Strelitz and became Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg-Strelitz.

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19/07/1819

Gottfried Keller, Swiss author, poet, and playwright (died 1890)

Gottfried Keller was a Swiss poet and writer of German literature. Best known for his novel Green Henry and his cycle of novellas called Seldwyla Folks, he became one of the most popular narrators of literary realism in the late 19th century.

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19/07/1814

Samuel Colt, American businessman, founded the Colt's Manufacturing Company (died 1862)

Samuel Colt was an American inventor, industrialist, and businessman who established Colt's Patent Fire-Arms Manufacturing Company and made the mass production of revolvers commercially viable.

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19/07/1800

Juan José Flores, Venezuelan general and politician, 1st President of Ecuador (died 1864)

Juan José Flores y Aramburu was a Venezuelan-born military general who became the first, third and fourth President of the new Republic of Ecuador. He is often referred to as "The Founder of the Republic" or "Founder of Ecuador."

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19/07/1794

José Justo Corro, Mexican politician and president (died 1864)

José Justo Corro y Silva was a Mexican lawyer and statesman who was made president of Mexico on 2 March 1836, after the sudden death of President Miguel Barragán. During his administration, he oversaw the transition from the First Mexican Republic to the Centralist Republic of Mexico and the publication of the new constitution: the Siete Leyes. The nation also faced the ongoing Texas Revolution, and Mexican independence was recognized by Spain and by the Holy See.

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19/07/1789

John Martin, English painter, engraver, and illustrator (died 1854)

John Martin was an English Romanticist painter, engraver, and illustrator. He was known for his typically vast and dramatic paintings of religious subjects and fantastic compositions, populated with minute figures placed in imposing landscapes. Martin's paintings, and the prints made from them, enjoyed great success with the general public, with Thomas Lawrence referring to him as "the most popular painter of his day". He was also criticised by John Ruskin and other critics.

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19/07/1771

Thomas Talbot, Irish-Canadian colonel and politician (died 1853)

Thomas Talbot was an Irish-born Canadian soldier and colonial administrator. He founded the community of Port Talbot, Ontario, which was at one time the most prosperous town in the region due to his insistence on building quality roads, and was responsible for enticing 50,000 people to settle in the Thames River area.

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19/07/1759

Marianna Auenbrugger, Austrian pianist and composer (died 1782)

Marianna Auenbrugger was an Austrian pianist and composer.

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Seraphim of Sarov, Russian monk and saint (died 1833)

Seraphim of Sarov, born Prókhor Isídorovich Moshnín (Mashnín) [Про́хор Иси́дорович Мошни́н (Машни́н)], is one of the most renowned Russian saints and is venerated in the Eastern Orthodox Church and the Anglican Communion. He is generally considered the greatest of the 18th-century startsy (elders). Seraphim extended the monastic teachings of contemplation, theoria and self-denial to the layperson. He taught that the purpose of the Christian life was to receive the Holy Spirit. Perhaps his most popular quotation amongst his devotees is "Acquire the Spirit of Peace, and thousands around you will be saved."

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19/07/1744

Heinrich Christian Boie, German author and poet (died 1806)

Heinrich Christian Boie was a German author. In 1781, he was appointed as landfoged of North Dithmarschen.

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19/07/1688

Giuseppe Castiglione, Italian missionary and painter (died 1766)

Giuseppe Castiglione, S.J., was an Italian Jesuit brother and missionary in China, where he served as an artist at the imperial court of three Qing emperors – the Kangxi, Yongzheng and Qianlong emperors. He painted in a style that is a fusion of European and Chinese traditions.

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19/07/1670

Richard Leveridge, English singer-songwriter (died 1758)

Richard Leveridge was an English bass singer of the London stage and a composer of baroque music, including many popular songs.

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19/07/1569

Conrad Vorstius, Dutch theologian (died 1622)

Conrad Vorstius was a German-Dutch controversial Remonstrant theologian, successor to Jacobus Arminius in the theology chair at Leiden University, and—as a theologian—second to Johannes Uytenbogaert in the Remonstrant Society. His appointment, and the controversy surrounding it, became an international matter in the political and religious affairs of the United Provinces during the Twelve Years' Truce, supplying a pretext for the irregular intervention of King James I of England in those affairs. Vorstius published theological views which were taken by some to show sympathy with the Socinians, and was declared unworthy of his office by the Calvinists at the Synod of Dort in 1619.

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19/07/1420

William VIII, Marquis of Montferrat (died 1483)

William VIII Palaiologos was the Marquis of Montferrat from 1464 until his death.

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19/07/1223

Baibars, sultan of Egypt (died 1277)

Al-Malik al-Zahir Rukn al-Din Baybars al-Bunduqdari, commonly known as Baibars or Baybars (بَيْبَرْس) and nicknamed Abu al-Futuh, was the fourth Mamluk sultan of Egypt and Syria, of Turkic Kipchak origin, in the Bahri dynasty, succeeding Qutuz. He was one of the commanders of the Muslim forces that inflicted a defeat on the Seventh Crusade of King Louis IX of France. He also led the vanguard of the Mamluk army at the Battle of Ain Jalut in 1260, which marked the first substantial defeat of the Mongol army that is considered a turning point in history.

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19/07/0810

Muhammad al-Bukhari, Persian scholar (died 870)

Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Ismāʿīl ibn Ibrāhīm al-Juʿfī al-Bukhārī was a 9th-century Muslim muhaddith who is widely regarded as the most important hadith scholar in the history of Sunni Islam. Al-Bukhari's extant works include the hadith collection Sahih al-Bukhari, al-Tarikh al-Kabir, and al-Adab al-Mufrad.

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