Born on Sunday, 1st June – Famous Birthdays

01/06/1999

Technoblade, American YouTuber and streamer (died 2022)

Alexander, known online as Technoblade, was an American YouTuber known for his Minecraft videos, livestreams, and involvement in the Dream SMP. Technoblade registered his main channel on YouTube in 2013. His videos consisted primarily of Minecraft gameplay, particularly on the minigame server Hypixel. After rising to popularity in 2019 for his performances in player versus player (PvP) events, Technoblade was invited to the Dream SMP Minecraft server in 2020, further increasing his following.

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Dmytro Udovychenko, Ukrainian violinist

Dmytro Udovychenko is a Ukrainian classical violinist who won the 2023 Montreal International Musical Competition and the 2024 Queen Elisabeth Competition.

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01/06/1996

Edvinas Gertmonas, Lithuanian footballer

Edvinas Gertmonas is a Lithuanian professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Liga I club Universitatea Cluj and the Lithuania national team.

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Tom Holland, English actor

Thomas Stanley Holland is an English actor. He is the recipient of numerous accolades, including a BAFTA Award and three Saturn Awards. Holland's films as a lead actor have grossed over $9.9 billion worldwide, making him one of the highest-grossing film actors of all time. He was featured on the Forbes 30 Under 30 Europe list of 2019.

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01/06/1994

Kagayaki Taishi, Japanese sumo wrestler

Kagayaki Taishi is a Japanese professional sumo wrestler. He wrestles for Takadagawa stable and made his professional debut in May 2010. Kagayaki reached the top division for the first time in 2016. His highest rank is maegashira 3.

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01/06/1991

Zazie Beetz, German-American actress

Zazie Olivia Beetz is a German-American actress. She is known for her role as Van in the FX comedy-drama series Atlanta (2016–2022), for which she received a nomination for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series. She starred in the Netflix anthology series Easy (2016–2019) and has voiced Amber Bennett in the adult animated superhero series Invincible since 2021.

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Tyrone Roberts, Australian rugby league player

Tyrone Roberts is an Australian professional rugby league footballer who plays for the Ballina Seagulls in the NRRRL as a halfback or five-eighth.

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01/06/1990

Miller Bolaños, Ecuadoran footballer

Miller Alejandro Bolaños Reasco is an Ecuadorian footballer who plays as a striker for Ecuadorian Serie B club 9 de Octubre.

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Carlota Ciganda, Spanish golfer

Carlota Ciganda Machiñena is a professional golfer from Spain who plays on the Ladies European Tour and the LPGA Tour. She won the LET's Order of Merit in her debut season in 2012, and was also named Player of the Year and Rookie of the Year.

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01/06/1989

Nataliya Goncharova, Ukrainian/Russian volleyball player

Nataliya Olegovna Goncharova, from 2012 to 2016 Obmochaeva, is a Russian volleyball player. She played for the Ukraine women's national volleyball team until 2010 when she became part of the Russia women's national volleyball team.

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Sammy Alex Mutahi, Kenyan runner

Sammy Alex Mutahi is a Kenyan long-distance runner who specializes in the 5000 metres.

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01/06/1988

Javier Hernández, Mexican footballer

Javier Hernández Balcázar, commonly known by the nickname Chicharito, is a Mexican professional footballer who plays as a striker. He is known for his clinical finishing, pace, and technical ability. He is widely considered among the greatest Mexican players of all time, and regarded as one of the best North American players of all time.

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01/06/1987

Zoltán Harsányi, Slovak footballer

Zoltán Harsányi is a Slovak footballer who plays for OFK Rapid Ohrady.

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Yarisley Silva, Cuban pole vaulter

Yarisley Silva Rodríguez is a Cuban pole vaulter. She won the silver medal at the 2012 Summer Olympics – the first Latin American athlete to win an Olympic medal in that event.

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01/06/1986

Moses Ndiema Masai, Kenyan runner

Moses Ndiema Masai is a Kenyan runner who specializes in the 10,000 metres.

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Chinedu Obasi, Nigerian footballer

Chinedu Ogbuke Obasi is a Nigerian former professional footballer who played as a forward.

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Ben Smith, New Zealand rugby player

Benjamin Robert Smith is a retired New Zealand rugby union player, currently working for Super Rugby side Highlanders' management team. He formerly played for the Highlanders in the Super Rugby competition, Otago in the ITM Cup, Pau in the Top 14 and Kobelco Steelers in the Japan Rugby League One.

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01/06/1985

Dinesh Karthik, Indian cricketer

Krishnakumar Dinesh Karthik is an Indian cricket commentator, coach and former international cricketer. Karthik played for the India national cricket team and also captained Tamil Nadu in domestic cricket. He is currently the mentor and batting coach for Royal Challengers Bengaluru in the Indian Premier League and London Spirit in The Hundred.

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Nick Young, American basketball player

Nicholas Aaron Young, nicknamed "Swaggy P", is an American former professional basketball player. He played college basketball for the USC Trojans and was a two-time first-team all-conference selection in the Pac-10. Young was selected by the Washington Wizards in the first round of the 2007 NBA draft with the 16th overall pick. He won an NBA championship with the Golden State Warriors in 2018.

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Sam Young, American basketball player

Samuel David Young is an American former professional basketball player who played four seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA), among other leagues worldwide. He played college basketball for the Pittsburgh Panthers.

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01/06/1984

Jean Beausejour, Chilean footballer

Jean André Emanuel Beausejour Coliqueo is a Chilean former professional footballer who played as a left-sided wing-back.

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Olivier Tielemans, Dutch racing driver

Olivier Tielemans is a Dutch racing driver.

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Nikki Glaser, American comedian

Nicole Rene Glaser is an American stand-up comedian and actress. She has had four television stand-up specials, hosted numerous award shows, and performed at numerous televised roasts. Previously, she hosted the television talk show Not Safe with Nikki Glaser, which premiered on Comedy Central in 2016. She starred in the 2022 reality show Welcome Home Nikki Glaser? on E! She hosted the reality TV dating shows Blind Date (2019) on Bravo and FBoy Island (2021–2023) on HBO Max and The CW and its spinoff Lovers and Liars on The CW. She also hosted the 2025 and 2026 Golden Globe Awards, which made her the first solo female host in Golden Globes history.

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01/06/1982

Justine Henin, Belgian tennis player

Justine Henin is a Belgian former professional tennis player. She was ranked as the world No. 1 in women's singles by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) for 117 weeks, including as the year-end No. 1 in 2003, 2006 and 2007. Henin won 43 WTA Tour-level singles titles, including seven majors, as well as an Olympic gold medal at the 2004 Athens Games and two Tour Finals titles. Coming from a country with little success in the sport, Henin helped establish Belgium as a leading force in women's tennis, leading the country to its first Fed Cup crown in 2001.

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01/06/1981

Brandi Carlile, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

Brandi Marie Carlile is an American singer-songwriter and producer. Her music spans multiple genres, including folk rock, alternative country, Americana, and classic rock. During her career, she has received eleven Grammy Awards and two Emmy Awards, in addition to being nominated for an Academy Award. In 2026, she was named one of Time's Women of the Year.

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Amy Schumer, American comedian and actress

Amy Beth Schumer is an American stand-up comedian, actress, writer, producer, and director. Schumer ventured into comedy in the early 2000s before appearing as a contestant on the fifth season of the NBC reality competition series Last Comic Standing in 2007. From 2013 to 2016, she was the creator, co-producer, co-writer, and star of the Comedy Central sketch comedy series Inside Amy Schumer, for which she received a Peabody Award and was nominated for five Primetime Emmy Awards, winning Outstanding Variety Sketch Series in 2015.

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Carlos Zambrano, Venezuelan baseball player

Carlos Alberto Zambrano Matos, nicknamed "Big Z" or "El Toro", is a Venezuelan former professional baseball pitcher. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) from 2001 to 2012 for the Chicago Cubs and Miami Marlins. Zambrano, who stands 6 feet 4 inches (1.93 m) and weighs 275 pounds (125 kg), was signed by the Cubs as a free agent in 1997 and made his debut in 2001.

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Aleksei Mikhailovich Uvarov, Russian footballer

Aleksei Mikhailovich Uvarov is a Russian former professional footballer.

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01/06/1979

Santana Moss, American football player

Santana Terrell Moss is an American former professional football player who was a wide receiver for 14 seasons in the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Miami Hurricanes, earning consensus All-American honors. Moss was selected by the New York Jets in the first round of the 2001 NFL draft, where he spent four seasons with the team, before playing for the Washington Redskins for 10 seasons. Moss was selected as an All-Pro in 2005.

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Markus Persson, Swedish game designer, founded Mojang

Markus Alexej Persson, known by the pseudonym Notch, is a Swedish video game programmer and designer. He is the creator of Minecraft, the best-selling video game in history. He founded the video game development company Mojang Studios in 2009.

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01/06/1978

Antonietta Di Martino, Italian high jumper

Antonietta Di Martino is a retired Italian high jumper. She currently holds the Italian national women's high jump record at 2.03 metres for outdoor events and 2.04 metres for indoor events. She also currently holds the women's all-time highest jump-differential, meaning she has jumped the highest more than her own height.

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01/06/1977

Arsen Gitinov, Russian and Kyrgyzstani freestyle wrestler

Arsen Gitinov is a Russian and Kyrgyzstani male freestyle wrestler from Dagestan. He participated in Men's freestyle 74 kg at 2008 Summer Olympics. After defeating Krystian Brzozowski and Ibrahim Aldatov in the preliminary rounds, he was eliminated in the quarterfinals by Kiril Terziev.

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Danielle Harris, American actress

Danielle Harris is an American actress and filmmaker. She is known as a "scream queen" for her roles in multiple horror films, including four entries in the Halloween franchise: Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers (1988) and Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers (1989) as Jamie Lloyd, and Halloween (2007) and Halloween II (2009) as Annie Brackett. Other such roles include Tosh in Urban Legend (1998), Belle in Stake Land (2010), and Marybeth Dunston in the Hatchet series (2010–17). In 2012, she was inducted into the Fangoria Hall of Fame.

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Brad Wilkerson, American baseball player and coach

Stephen Bradley Wilkerson is an American former professional baseball outfielder and first baseman who played eight seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB).

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Sarah Wayne Callies, American actress

Sarah Wayne Callies is an American actress. She is known for starring as Sara Tancredi in Fox's Prison Break, Lori Grimes in AMC's The Walking Dead, and more recently, as Birdie Nicolletti in ABC's The Company You Keep. She has also starred as Katie Bowman in USA Network's Colony and Robin Perry in NBC's Council of Dads and has had film roles in Whisper (2007), Black Gold (2011), and The Show (2017).

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01/06/1976

Marlon Devonish, English sprinter and coach

Marlon Ronald Devonish, is an English former sprinter who competed in the 100 metres and 200 metres. A prodigious relay runner with particular strength as a 'bend' runner, Devonish ran the third leg for the Great Britain quartet which won the 4 × 100 metres at the 2004 Olympic Games, and won four World Championship medals in the same event in 1999, 2005, 2007 and 2009.

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01/06/1975

Michal Grošek, Czech-Swiss ice hockey player and coach

Michal Grošek is a Czech former professional ice hockey right winger. He played in the National Hockey League for 11 seasons, from 1993 to 2004.

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Frauke Petry, German politician

Frauke Petry is a German far right politician who chaired the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party from July 2015 to September 2017. A chemist by training and with a professional background as a businesswoman, some political scientists described Petry as a representative of the national conservative wing of that party.

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01/06/1974

Alanis Morissette, Canadian-American singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer, and actress

Alanis Nadine Morissette is a Canadian and American singer-songwriter and record producer. Regarded as the "Queen of Alt-Rock Angst", she became a cultural phenomenon in the 1990s, gaining international fame for her emotive mezzo-soprano voice and confessional songwriting. She has sold more than 60 million records worldwide. Her accolades include a Brit Award, seven Grammy Awards, fourteen Juno Awards, and nominations for two Golden Globe Awards and a Tony Award.

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Michael Rasmussen, Danish cyclist

Michael Rasmussen is a Danish retired professional cyclist who competed in road racing and mountain biking. His most notable victories include four stages of the Tour de France, and one stage of the Vuelta a España. He also won the best climber classification in the 2005 and 2006 Tour de France.

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Sarah Teather, English politician

Sarah Louise Teather, Baroness Teather is a British politician and advocate who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Brent Central, previously Brent East, from 2003 to 2015, and as Minister of State for Children and Families from 2010 to 2012. A member of the Liberal Democrats, she founded the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Guantanamo Bay and was chairman of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Refugees. On stepping down as an MP, she joined the Jesuit Refugee Service as an advocacy adviser and was appointed as country director of the Service in the UK in December 2015.

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01/06/1973

Frédérik Deburghgraeve, Belgian swimmer

Frédérik Edouard Robert "Fred" Deburghgraeve is a former Belgian swimmer who won the gold medal in the 100 m breaststroke and set a world record during the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta, Georgia. After his retirement from competitive swimming he became a salesman. He was born in Roeselare, where he still lives. Deburghgraeve was trained by a Dutchman, named Ronald Gaastra.

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Adam Garcia, Australian actor

Adam Garcia is an Australian actor who is best known for lead roles in musicals such as Saturday Night Fever and Kiss Me, Kate. He is also a trained tap dancer and singer. Garcia has been nominated twice at the Laurence Olivier Awards in 1999 and 2013.

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Heidi Klum, German-American model, fashion designer, and producer

Heidi Klum is a German and American model, television host, actress, producer, and businesswoman. She appeared on the cover of the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue in 1998 and was the first German model to become a Victoria's Secret Angel.

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Derek Lowe, American baseball player

Derek Christopher Lowe is an American former professional baseball pitcher. During his career, he played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Seattle Mariners, Boston Red Sox, Los Angeles Dodgers, Atlanta Braves, Cleveland Indians, New York Yankees, and Texas Rangers.

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01/06/1971

Mario Cimarro, Cuban-American actor and singer

Mario Antonio Cimarro Paz is a Cuban actor. His television career began in the late 1990s and solidified in the early 2000s with leading roles in dramatic productions.

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01/06/1970

Alexi Lalas, American soccer player, manager, and sportscaster

Panayotis Alexander Lalas is an American former soccer player who played as a centre-back. He is best known for his participation with the United States national team in the 1994 FIFA World Cup, where his appearance made him a standout player on the team with his distinctive long beard and hair. After the World Cup, he went on to become the first American in Italy's Serie A as a member of Calcio Padova.

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Alison Hinds, British-Barbadian soca singer

Alison Amanda Hinds is a British-born Bajan soca singer based in Barbados. She is often referred to as the Bajan "Queen of Soca" as a result of her impact on the genre.

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01/06/1969

Luis García Postigo, Mexican footballer

Luis García Postigo is a Mexican former professional footballer who played as a forward.

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Teri Polo, American actress

Theresa Elizabeth Polo is an American actress. She starred as Pamela Martha Focker in the Meet the Parents franchise, Helen Santos in The West Wing, Christine Daaé in Phantom of the Opera (1990), and played the role of police officer Stef Adams Foster in the Freeform series The Fosters (2013–2018) and its spinoff Good Trouble (2019–2024).

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01/06/1968

Jason Donovan, Australian actor and singer

Jason Sean Donovan is an Australian actor and singer. He initially achieved fame in the Australian soap Neighbours, playing Scott Robinson, before beginning a career in music. In 1988 Jason was signed to PWL and has sold estimated 3 million records. His debut album Ten Good Reasons was the highest-selling album in the UK in 1989, with sales of over 1.5 million. He has had four UK No. 1 singles. He has also appeared in several stage musicals, most prominently in the lead role of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat in the early 1990s.

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Mathias Rust, German aviator

Mathias Rust is a German aviator. In 1987, as a teenage amateur pilot, he flew from Helsinki, Finland, to Moscow, without authorization. According to Russian claims, he was tracked several times by Soviet Air Defence Forces and civilian air traffic controllers, as well as Soviet Air Force interceptor aircraft. The Soviet fighters did not receive permission to shoot him down, and his aeroplane was mistaken for a friendly aircraft several times. Also, 28 May 1987 was Border Guards Day, leaving many guards distracted. He landed on Bolshoy Moskvoretsky Bridge, next to Red Square near the Kremlin in the capital of the USSR.

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01/06/1966

Greg Schiano, American football player and coach

Gregory Edward Schiano is an American football coach. He is currently the head football coach at Rutgers University, a position he held from 2001 to 2011 and resumed before the 2020 season. Schiano has the most wins in program history as head football coach of the Rutgers Scarlet Knights football team. He also served as the head coach for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers of the National Football League (NFL) from 2012 to 2013.

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01/06/1965

Larisa Lazutina, Russian skier

Larisa Yevgenyevna Lazutina is a Russian former professional cross-country skier.

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Olga Nazarova, Russian sprinter

Olga Vladimirovna Nazarova is a Russian former track and field athlete who competed mainly in the 400 metres. She represented the Soviet Union. She won two Olympic gold medals in the 4 × 400 metres relay, in 1988 and 1992. Her 1988 split time of 47.8, remains one of the fastest relay splits of all-time. She also won World Championship gold (1991) and silver (1987) in the relay, and a 1988 Olympic bronze medal in the 400 metres.

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01/06/1963

Vital Borkelmans, Belgian footballer

Vital Philomene Borkelmans is a Belgian football coach and a former left fullback who mainly played for Club Brugge, in the Belgian First Division.

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Miles J. Padgett, Scottish physicist and academic

Miles John Padgett is a Royal Society Research Professor of Optics in the School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Glasgow. He has held the Kelvin Chair of Natural Philosophy since 2011 and served as Vice Principal for research at Glasgow from 2014 to 2020.

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David Westhead, English actor and producer

David William Logan Westhead is an English actor.

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01/06/1961

Paul Coffey, Canadian ice hockey player

Paul Patrick Coffey is a Canadian former professional ice hockey defenceman who played for nine teams over 21 seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL) from 1980 to 2000. Known for his speed and scoring prowess, Coffey ranks second all-time among NHL defencemen in goals, assists, and points, behind only Ray Bourque. He won the James Norris Memorial Trophy as the NHL's best defenceman three times and was voted to eight end-of-season All-Star teams. He holds the record for the most goals by a defenceman in one season, 48 in 1985–86, and is the only defenceman to have scored 40 goals more than once, also doing it in 1983–84. He is also one of two defencemen to score 100 points in a season more than once, as he did it five times; Bobby Orr did it six times. Coffey holds or shares 33 NHL records in the regular season and playoffs.

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Mark Curry, American actor

Marcus G. Curry, known professionally as Mark Curry, is an American actor, comedian, and television host. He is best known for his role as Mark Cooper, ex–basketball player turned teacher on the ABC sitcom Hangin' with Mr. Cooper which originally aired from 1992 to 1997. Curry also served as one of the various hosts of the syndicated series It's Showtime at the Apollo during the early 1990s. Curry co-starred in all three seasons of See Dad Run, Nick at Nite's first original live-action family comedy series, from 2012 to 2015.

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Werner Günthör, Swiss shot putter and bobsledder

Werner Günthör is a former Swiss track and field athlete, who was the best shot putter in the history of Swiss track and field.

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John Huston, American golfer

Johnny Ray Huston is an American professional golfer who won seven PGA Tour events and currently plays on the PGA Tour Champions.

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Peter Machajdík, Slovak-German pianist and composer

Peter Machajdík is a Slovak composer of classical music, performer and sound artist. He was born and grew up in Bratislava, Slovakia. He has received critical acclaim for his chamber, orchestral, electronic, choral, and theatre works.

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Yevgeny Prigozhin, Russian oligarch, mercenary chief and restaurateur (died 2023)

Yevgeny Viktorovich Prigozhin was a Russian mercenary leader, rebel commander, and oligarch. He led the Wagner Group, a private military company, and was a close confidant of Russian president Vladimir Putin until he launched a one-day rebellion in June 2023. Prigozhin was sometimes referred to as "Putin's chef" because he owned restaurants and catering businesses that provided services to the Kremlin. Once a convict in the Soviet Union, Prigozhin controlled a network of influential companies whose operations, according to a 2020 investigation, were "tightly integrated with Russia's Defence Ministry and its intelligence arm, the GRU".

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01/06/1960

Simon Gallup, English musician

Simon Johnathon Gallup is an English musician who is best known as bassist for The Cure, which he first joined in 1979 and for which he has played through most of the band's history. Gallup is the second-longest-serving member of the band, after vocalist and leader Robert Smith.

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Vladimir Krutov, Russian ice hockey player and coach (died 2012)

Vladimir Yevgenyevich Krutov, nicknamed "The Tank", was a Russian professional ice hockey forward. Together with Igor Larionov and Sergei Makarov, he was part of the famed KLM Line. He is considered one of the best ice hockey wingers of the 1980s.

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Sergey Kuznetsov, Russian footballer and manager

Sergey Ivanovich Kuznetsov is a former Russian professional footballer.

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Giorgos Lillikas, Cypriot politician, 8th Cypriot Minister of Foreign Affairs

Giorgos Lillikas is a Cypriot politician. Following the election of Tassos Papadopoulos as president in 2003, Lillikas became minister of commerce and industry. He was subsequently the foreign minister from 2006 to 2007. He was an independent candidate at the 2013 Cypriot presidential election.

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Lucy McBath, American politician

Lucia Kay McBath is an American politician who has served in the United States House of Representatives from a district in the suburbs of Atlanta, Georgia, since 2019. She represented Georgia's 6th congressional district from 2019 to 2023 and since 2025, and represented the neighboring 7th district from 2023 to 2025. McBath is a member of the Democratic Party.

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Elena Mukhina, Russian gymnast (died 2006)

Elena Vyacheslavovna Mukhina was a Soviet gymnast who won the all-around title at the 1978 World Championships in Strasbourg, France. Her career was on the rise, and she was widely touted as the next great gymnastics star until 1979, when she broke a leg and missed several competitions. The rushed recovery from that injury, combined with pressure to master a dangerous and difficult tumbling move caused her to break her neck two weeks before the opening of the 1980 Summer Olympics, leaving her permanently quadriplegic.

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01/06/1959

Martin Brundle, English racing driver and sportscaster

Martin John Brundle is a British former racing driver and broadcaster who competed in Formula One from 1984 to 1996. In endurance racing, Brundle won the World Sportscar Championship in 1988 and the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 1990, both with Jaguar; he also won the 24 Hours of Daytona in 1988 with Jaguar. Since retiring from racing, Brundle has been a commentator for ITV, the BBC, and Sky.

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Alan Wilder, English singer-songwriter, keyboard player, and producer

Alan Charles Wilder is an English musician, composer, arranger, and record producer. A classically trained musician, Wilder was a member of the English electronic band Depeche Mode from 1982 to 1995. After his departure from Depeche Mode, the musical project Recoil--which began as a side project in 1986--became Wilder's primary musical enterprise. Wilder has also provided production and remixing services to the bands Nitzer Ebb and Curve. In 2020, Wilder was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Depeche Mode.

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01/06/1958

Nambaryn Enkhbayar, Mongolian lawyer and politician, 3rd President of Mongolia

Nambaryn Enkhbayar is a Mongolian politician. He served as the prime minister of Mongolia from 2000 to 2004, as chairman of the State Great Khural from 2004 to 2005, and as the president of Mongolia from 2005 to 2009. He is the first person to have held all of the top three positions in the Mongolian government. He was the chairman of the Mongolian People's Party from 1997 to 2005 and head of Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party from 2010 to 2021. His eldest son, Batshugar Enkhbayar is a member of the State Great Khural from Mongolian People's Party. Due to his corruption scandal he is regarded as the "godfather" of corruption in Mongolian politics by the public media.

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Gennadiy Valyukevich, Belarusian triple jumper (died 2019)

Gennadiy Valyukevich was a triple jumper who represented the USSR and later Belarus. He won three medals at the European Indoor Championships.

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01/06/1957

Jeff Hawkins, American neuroscientist and engineer

Jeffrey Hawkins is an American businessman, computer scientist, neuroscientist and engineer. He co-founded Palm Computing where he co-created the PalmPilot, the Palm Treo and Handspring.

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01/06/1956

Patrick Besson, French writer and journalist

Patrick Besson is a French writer and journalist.

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Petra Morsbach, German author

Petra Morsbach is a German author.

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01/06/1955

Chiyonofuji Mitsugu, Japanese sumo wrestler (died 2016)

Chiyonofuji Mitsugu , born Mitsugu Akimoto , was a Japanese professional sumo wrestler and the 58th yokozuna of the sport.

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Lorraine Moller, New Zealand runner

Lorraine Mary Moller is a former athlete from New Zealand, who competed in track athletics and later specialised in the marathon. Moller's international career lasted over 20 years and included winning a silver medal in the marathon at the 1986 Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh and a bronze medal in the marathon at the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona at the age of 37. A four-time Olympian, she also completed the marathon at the 1984, 1988 and 1996 games. Her other marathon victories included the 1984 Boston Marathon and being a three-time winner of the Osaka International Ladies Marathon.

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Tony Snow, American journalist, 26th White House Press Secretary (died 2008)

Robert Anthony Snow was an American journalist, political commentator, anchor, columnist, musician, and the 25th White House press secretary under President George W. Bush, from May 2006 until his resignation in September 2007. Snow also worked for the President George H. W. Bush as chief speechwriter and Deputy Assistant of Media Affairs, from 1991 to 1993.

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01/06/1954

Jill Black, Lady Black of Derwent, English lawyer and judge

Jill Margaret Black, Lady Black of Derwent, is a former Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom.

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01/06/1953

Ronnie Dunn, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

Ronald Gene Dunn is an American country music singer-songwriter and record executive. Starting in 2011, Dunn has worked as a solo artist following the temporary dissolution of Brooks & Dunn. He released his self-titled debut album for Arista Nashville on June 7, 2011, reaching the Top 10 with its lead-off single, "Bleed Red". After leaving Arista Nashville in 2012, Dunn founded Little Will-E Records. On April 8, 2014, Ronnie Dunn released his second solo album, Peace, Love, and Country Music through Little Will-E Records. On November 11, 2016, he released his third album Tattooed Heart on NASH Icon label. His fourth album Re-Dunn was released on January 10, 2020.

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Ted Field, American entrepreneur and race car driver

Frederick Woodruff "Ted" Field is an American media mogul, record executive, entrepreneur and film producer.

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David Berkowitz, American serial killer and arsonist: 73

David Richard Berkowitz, also known as the Son of Sam and the .44 Caliber Killer, is an American serial killer and former U.S. Army soldier who committed a stabbing and a series of shootings between 1975 and 1977 in New York City, killing six people and wounding eleven others. Armed with a .44 Special caliber Bulldog revolver during most of his crimes, he terrorized New Yorkers with many letters mocking the police and promising further crimes, leading to possibly the biggest manhunt in the city's history.

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01/06/1952

Şenol Güneş, Turkish footballer and manager

Şenol Güneş is a Turkish football manager and former player who is currently the director of professional football for Süper Lig club Trabzonspor. His most notable managerial achievements to date include coaching the Turkey national team to third place in the 2002 FIFA World Cup and winning two Süper Lig titles; both of them with Beşiktaş. He is also noted for stints in his boyhood club Trabzonspor. His playing career there saw the club win six of their seven Süper Lig titles.

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Mihaela Loghin, Romanian shot putter

Mihaela Loghin is a shot putter from Romania. She won a silver medal at the 1984 Olympics, one centimetre behind Claudia Losch, and a bronze medal at the 1986 European Indoor Championships.

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01/06/1950

Perrin Beatty, Canadian businessman and politician

Henry Perrin Beatty is a Canadian corporate executive and former politician, who served as a Progressive Conservative of the House of Commons from 1972 to 1993, and as a cabinet minister from 1979 to 1980 and again from 1984 to 1993.

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Charlene, American singer-songwriter

Charlene Marilynn Oliver, better known mononymously as Charlene, is an American easy-listening and R&B singer best known for the song "I've Never Been to Me", which, initially being a commercial flop upon its original release in 1977, became a worldwide hit upon a re-release in 1982 and has remained an enduring adult contemporary music staple. Charlene is also a songwriter, record producer, and author.

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Jean Lambert, English educator and politician

Jean Denise Lambert is an English politician who served as a Member of the European Parliament for the London Region between 1999 and 2019.

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Michael McDowell, American author and screenwriter (died 1999)

Michael McEachern McDowell was an American novelist and screenwriter. He was described by Stephen King as "the finest writer of paperback originals in America today." His best-known work is the screenplay for the Tim Burton film Beetlejuice.

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01/06/1948

Powers Boothe, American actor (died 2017)

Powers Allen Boothe was an American actor known for his commanding character actor roles on film and television. He received a Primetime Emmy Award and nominations for two Screen Actors Guild Awards.

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Tomáš Halík, Czech Roman Catholic priest, philosopher, theologian and scholar

Tomáš Halík is a Czech Catholic priest, philosopher, and theologian. He is a professor of sociology at the Charles University in Prague, pastor of the Academic Parish by St. Salvator Church in Prague, and president of the Czech Christian Academy.

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Michel Plasse, Canadian ice hockey player (died 2006)

Michel Pierre Plasse was a Canadian professional ice hockey goaltender. He played in the National Hockey League from 1970 to 1982. He was selected first overall in the 1968 NHL Amateur Draft by the Montreal Canadiens.

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01/06/1947

Ron Dennis, English businessman, founded the McLaren Group

Sir Ronald Dennis is a British businessman and motorsport executive. From 1981 to 2009, Dennis served as team principal, CEO and co-owner of McLaren in Formula One, winning seven World Constructors' Championship titles between 1984 and 1998; he also served as founder, chairman and owner of McLaren Group between 1985 and 2017, where he founded McLaren Automotive in 2010.

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Jonathan Pryce, Welsh actor and singer

Sir Jonathan Pryce is a Welsh actor. He is known for his performances on stage and in film and television. He has received numerous awards, including two Tony Awards and two Laurence Olivier Awards as well as nominations for an Academy Award, three BAFTA Awards, and five Emmy Awards. He was honored with a knighthood for services to drama in 2021.

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Ronnie Wood, English guitarist, songwriter, and producer

Ronald David Wood is an English rock musician, best known as a member of the Rolling Stones since 1975, and a member of Faces and the Jeff Beck Group.

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01/06/1946

Brian Cox, Scottish actor

Brian Denis Cox is a Scottish actor. A classically trained Shakespearean actor, he is known for his work on stage and screen. His numerous accolades include two Laurence Olivier Awards, a Primetime Emmy Award, and a Golden Globe Award as well as two nominations for a British Academy Television Award. In the 2003 New Year Honours, he was appointed to the Order of the British Empire at the rank of Commander.

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01/06/1945

Linda Scott, American singer

Linda Scott is an American pop singer and actress who was active from the late 1950s to the early 1970s. Her biggest hit was the 1961 million-selling single "I've Told Every Little Star"., recorded and released when Scott was just 15. An occasional songwriter, Scott self-penned her second biggest hit, "Don't Bet Money Honey", which was also a top 10 US success in 1961. She went on to place twelve songs on the charts over the next four years, the last being "Who’s Been Sleeping In My Bed," inspired by the film and written by Hal David and Burt Bacharach. In 1962, she portrayed a fictionalized version of herself in the musical film Don't Knock the Twist. She retired from performing in her early twenties, later going into teaching.

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Lydia Shum, Chinese-Hong Kong actress (died 2008)

Lydia Shum Din-ha or Lydia Sum Tin-ha was a Hong Kong comedian, emcee, actress and singer. Known for her portly figure, signature dark-rimmed glasses and bouffant hairstyle, she was affectionately known to peers and fans as Fei-fei or Fei Jie.

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Frederica von Stade, American soprano and actress

Frederica von Stade is an American former classical singer. Best known for her work in opera, she was also a recitalist and concert artist, and she recorded more than a hundred albums and videos. She is especially associated with operas by Mozart and Rossini, and also with music by French and American composers, particularly Jake Heggie. A Chevalier of France's Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, twice the winner of a Grand Prix du Disque and nominated nine times for a Grammy award, she is widely regarded as the pre-eminent lyric mezzo-soprano of her generation.

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01/06/1944

Colin Blakemore, British neurobiologist (died 2022)

Sir Colin Blakemore was a British neurobiologist, specialising in vision and the development of the brain. He was Yeung Kin Man Professor of Neuroscience and senior fellow of the Hong Kong Institute for Advanced Study at City University of Hong Kong. He was a distinguished senior fellow in the Institute of Philosophy, School of Advanced Study, University of London and Emeritus Professor of Neuroscience at the University of Oxford and a past Chief Executive of the British Medical Research Council (MRC). He was best known to the public as a communicator of science but also as the target of a long-running animal rights campaign. According to The Observer, he was both "one of the most powerful scientists in the UK" and "a hate figure for the animal rights movement".

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Robert Powell, English actor

Robert Thomas Powell is an English actor who is known for the title roles in Mahler (1974) and Jesus of Nazareth (1977), and for his portrayal of secret agent Richard Hannay in The Thirty Nine Steps (1978) and its subsequent spinoff television series. Other major screen roles have included Tobias "Toby" Wren in the BBC science-fiction programme Doomwatch (1970), David Briggs in the sitcom The Detectives (1993–1997) with Jasper Carrott, and Mark Williams in the medical drama Holby City (2005–2011).

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01/06/1943

Orietta Berti, Italian singer and actress

Orietta Galimberti, known professionally as Orietta Berti, is an Italian folk-pop singer and television personality.

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Richard Goode, American pianist

Richard Goode is an American classical pianist who is especially known for his interpretations of Mozart and Beethoven.

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Lorrie Wilmot, South African cricketer (died 2004)

Anthony Lorraine "Lorrie" Wilmot was a South African first-class cricketer from Cape Province who played from 1960–61 to 1988–89.

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01/06/1942

Parveen Kumar, Pakistani-English physician and academic

Dame Parveen June Kumar is a British- Indian doctor who is a Professor of Medicine and Education at Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry. She worked in the NHS for over 40 years as a consultant gastroenterologist and physician at Barts and the London Hospitals and the Homerton University Hospital. She was the President of the British Medical Association in 2006, of the Royal Society of Medicine from 2010 to 2012, of the Medical Women's Federation from 2016 to 2018 and of the Royal Medical Benevolent Fund from 2013 to 2020. She was also Vice President of the Royal College of Physicians from 2003 to 2005. In addition, she was a founding non-executive director of the National Institute of Clinical Excellence, chaired the Medicines Commission UK until 2005, and also chaired the BUPA Foundation Charity for Research until 2013.

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01/06/1941

Dean Chance, American baseball player and manager (died 2015)

Wilmer Dean Chance was an American professional baseball player. A right-handed pitcher, he played in 11 Major League Baseball seasons for the Los Angeles / California Angels, Minnesota Twins, Cleveland Indians, New York Mets and Detroit Tigers. With a touch of wildness and the habit of never looking at home plate once he received the sign from his catcher, Chance would turn his back fully towards the hitter in mid-windup before spinning and unleashing a good fastball, sinker or sidearm curveball.

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Toyo Ito, Japanese architect, designed the Torre Realia BCN and Hotel Porta Fira

Toyo Ito is a Japanese architect known for creating conceptual architecture, in which he seeks to simultaneously express the physical and virtual worlds. He is a leading exponent of architecture that addresses the contemporary notion of a "simulated" city, and has been called "one of the world's most innovative and influential architects."

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Alexander V. Zakharov, Russian physicist and astronomer

Alexander Valentinovich Zakharov is a Soviet and Russian chief scientist and astronomer serving at the Russian Space Research Institute (IKI).

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01/06/1940

René Auberjonois, American actor (died 2019)

René Marie Murat Auberjonois was an American actor. He was a Tony Award and Drama Desk Award winner, and a three-time Emmy Award nominee, among other accolades.

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Katerina Gogou, Greek writer and actress (died 1993)

Katerina Gogou was a Greek poet, author and actress.

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Kip Thorne, American physicist, astronomer, and academic

Kip Stephen Thorne is an American astrophysicist and author. He shared the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics with Rainer Weiss and Barry C. Barish "for decisive contributions to the LIGO detector and the observation of gravitational waves".

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01/06/1939

Cleavon Little, American actor and comedian (died 1992)

Cleavon Jake Little was an American actor. He began his career in the late 1960s on the stage. In 1970, he starred in the Broadway production of Purlie, for which he earned both a Tony Award and a Drama Desk Award. His first leading television role was that of the irreverent Dr. Jerry Noland on the ABC sitcom Temperatures Rising (1972–1974). While starring in the sitcom, Little appeared in what has become his signature performance, portraying Sheriff Bart in the 1974 Mel Brooks comedy film Blazing Saddles.

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01/06/1937

Morgan Freeman, American actor and producer

Morgan Freeman is an American actor, producer, and narrator. In a career spanning six decades, he has received numerous accolades, including an Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award, as well as a nomination for a Grammy Award and a Tony Award. He was honored with the Kennedy Center Honor in 2008, an AFI Life Achievement Award in 2011, the Cecil B. DeMille Award in 2012, and Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award in 2018. In a 2022 readers' poll by Empire, he was voted one of the 50 greatest actors of all time.

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Rosaleen Linehan, Irish actress

Rosaleen Philomena Linehan is an Irish stage, screen, and television actress.

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Colleen McCullough, Australian neuroscientist and author (died 2015)

Colleen McCullough was an Australian author. Raised in Sydney, she trained as a neurophysiologist and spent her early career working at hospitals and universities in Australia and overseas. In 1974, while working as a research assistant at the Yale School of Medicine, she published her first novel Tim. Her second novel, The Thorn Birds, was published in 1977 and became an international bestseller. It sold more than 30 million copies worldwide and was adapted into a successful television miniseries.

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01/06/1936

Anatoly Albul, Soviet and Russian wrestler (died 2013)

Anatoly Mikhaylovich Albul was a Russian wrestler. He was born in Leningrad. He was Olympic bronze medalist in Freestyle wrestling in 1960, competing for the Soviet Union. He won a silver medal at the 1963 World Wrestling Championships.

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André Bourbeau, Canadian politician (died 2018)

André Bourbeau, was a Canadian politician. A member of the Quebec Liberal Party, Bourbeau served as member of the National Assembly of Quebec for Laporte serving from 1981 until 2003.

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Bekim Fehmiu, Bosnian actor (died 2010)

Bekim Fehmiu was a Yugoslav theater and film actor. He was the first Eastern European actor to star in Hollywood during the Cold War, and one of the internationally best-known ethnic Albanian actors.

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Gerald Scarfe, English illustrator and animator

Gerald Anthony Scarfe is an English satirical cartoonist and illustrator. He has worked as editorial cartoonist for The Sunday Times and illustrator for The New Yorker.

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01/06/1935

Norman Foster, Baron Foster of Thames Bank, English architect, founded Foster and Partners

Norman Robert Foster, Baron Foster of Thames Bank, is an English architect. Closely associated with the development of high-tech architecture, Lord Foster is recognised as a key figure in British modernist architecture. His firm, Foster + Partners, first founded in 1967 as Foster Associates, is the largest in the United Kingdom, and operates internationally. He also serves as president of the Norman Foster Foundation, established to "promote interdisciplinary thinking and research to help new generations of architects, designers and urbanists anticipate the future". The foundation, which opened in June 2017, is based in Madrid and operates globally. Foster received the Pritzker Prize in 2000.

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Reverend Ike, American minister and television host (died 2009)

Frederick J. Eikerenkoetter II, better known as Reverend Ike, was an American minister and evangelist based in New York City. He was known for the slogan "You can't lose with the stuff I use!" Though his preaching is considered a form of prosperity theology, Reverend Ike diverged from traditional Christian theology and taught what he called "Science of Living".

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Jack Kralick, American baseball player (died 2012)

John Francis Kralick was an American professional baseball player who pitched in the Major Leagues from 1959 to 1967. He participated in 235 games in the course of an eight-year career that included stints with the Washington Senators / Minnesota Twins and Cleveland Indians. During that time, he earned 67 wins and 65 losses, accumulating a record of 668 strikeouts, with an ERA of 3.56 in 125 games and 1,218 innings pitched.

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John C. Reynolds, American computer scientist and academic (died 2013)

John Charles Reynolds was an American computer scientist.

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01/06/1934

Pat Boone, American singer-songwriter and actor

Patrick Charles Eugene Boone is an American singer, songwriter, actor, author, television personality, radio host, and philanthropist. One of the best-selling American recording artists of the 1950s and early 1960s, he has sold nearly 50 million records, charted 38 Top 40 hits in the United States, and appeared in numerous feature films.

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Peter Masterson, American actor, director, producer and screenwriter (died 2018)

Peter Masterson was an American actor, director, producer, and writer. He made his Broadway debut in November 1967 in The Trial of Lee Harvey Oswald, playing the title character. Although he got good notices, the play closed after nine performances.

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Doris Buchanan Smith, American author (died 2002)

Doris Buchanan Smith was an American author of award-winning Children's books, including A Taste of Blackberries.

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01/06/1933

Haruo Remeliik, Palauan politician, 1st President of Palau (died 1985)

Haruo Ignacio Remeliik was the first President of Palau from 2 March 1981 until his assassination on 30 June 1985. He is buried at Kloulklubed in his home state of Peleliu. Remeliik was of mixed Japanese and Palauan descent.

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01/06/1932

Frank Cameron, New Zealand cricketer (died 2023)

Francis James Cameron was a New Zealand cricketer who played 19 Tests for New Zealand as a fast bowler.

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Christopher Lasch, American historian and critic (died 1994)

Robert Christopher Lasch was an American historian and social critic who was a history professor at the University of Rochester. Lasch's books, including The New Radicalism in America (1965), Haven in a Heartless World (1977), The Culture of Narcissism (1979), The True and Only Heaven (1991), and The Revolt of the Elites and the Betrayal of Democracy were widely discussed and reviewed. The Culture of Narcissism became a surprise best-seller and won the National Book Award in the category Current Interest (paperback).

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01/06/1931

Walter Horak, Austrian footballer (died 2019)

Walter Horak was an Austrian football player.

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01/06/1930

Matt Poore, New Zealand cricketer (died 2020)

Matt Beresford Poore was a New Zealand cricketer who played 14 Test matches for New Zealand in the 1950s. He was born in Christchurch.

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Edward Woodward, English actor (died 2009)

Edward Albert Arthur Woodward was an English actor and singer. He began his career on stage, appearing in productions in both the West End of London and on Broadway in New York City. He came to wider attention from 1967 in the title role of the British television spy drama Callan, earning him the 1970 British Academy Television Award for Best Actor.

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01/06/1929

Nargis, Indian actress (died 1981)

Nargis Dutt, known mononymously as Nargis, was an Indian actress and politician who worked in Hindi cinema. Regarded as one of the greatest actresses in the history of Hindi cinema, Nargis often portrayed sophisticated and independent women in a range of genres, from screwball comedy to literary drama. She was among the highest paid actresses of the 1950s and 1960s.

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James H. Billington, American academic and Thirteenth Librarian of Congress (died 2018)

James Hadley Billington was an American academic and author who taught history at Harvard and Princeton before serving for 42 years as CEO of four federal cultural institutions. He served as the 13th Librarian of Congress after being nominated by President Ronald Reagan in 1987, and his appointment was approved unanimously by the U.S. Senate. He retired as Librarian on September 30, 2015.

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01/06/1928

Georgy Dobrovolsky, Soviet Ukrainian pilot and astronaut (died 1971)

Georgy Timofeyevich Dobrovolsky was a Soviet cosmonaut who commanded the three-man crew of the Soyuz 11 spacecraft. They became the world's first space station crew aboard Salyut 1, but died of asphyxiation because of an accidentally opened valve. They were the first and only humans to have died in space.

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Steve Dodd, Australian actor and composer (died 2014)

Steve Dodd was an Aboriginal Australian actor, notable for playing Aboriginal characters across seven decades of Australian film. After beginning his working life as a stockman and rodeo rider, Dodd was given his first film roles by prominent Australian actor Chips Rafferty. His career was interrupted by six years in the Australian Army during the Korean War, and limited by typecasting.

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Bob Monkhouse, English actor and screenwriter (died 2003)

Robert Alan Monkhouse was an English comedian, television presenter, writer and actor. He was the host of television game shows including The Golden Shot, Celebrity Squares, Family Fortunes and Wipeout.

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K. W. Lee, American journalist (died 2025)

Kyung Won Lee was an American journalist who worked for mainstream daily publications in the continental United States. Lee was also the founding president of the Korean American Journalists Association.

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01/06/1926

Johnny Berry, English footballer (died 1994)

Reginald John Berry, also listed as John James Berry, was an English footballer. Berry joined Manchester United from Birmingham City in 1951. Despite his diminutive stature, he was a natural right winger with technique and pace. One of the Busby Babes, the February 1958 Munich air disaster brought his career to an end.

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Andy Griffith, American actor, singer, producer, and screenwriter (died 2012)

Andy Samuel Griffith was an American actor, comedian, television producer, singer, and writer whose career spanned seven decades in music and television. Known for his Southern drawl, his characters with a folksy-friendly personality, as well as his gruff but friendly voice, Griffith was a Tony Award nominee for two roles. He gained prominence in the starring role in director Elia Kazan's film A Face in the Crowd (1957) and No Time for Sergeants (1958) before he became better known for his television roles, playing the lead roles of Andy Taylor in the sitcom The Andy Griffith Show (1960–1968) and Ben Matlock in the legal drama Matlock (1986–1995).

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Marilyn Monroe, American model and actress (died 1962)

Marilyn Monroe was an American actress and model. Known for playing comic "blonde bombshell" characters, she became one of the most popular sex symbols of the 1950s and early 1960s, as well as an emblem of the era's sexual revolution. She was a top-billed actress for a decade, and her films grossed $200 million by her death in 1962.

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George Robb, English international footballer and teacher (died 2011)

George Robb was a footballer who played outside left for Tottenham Hotspur and England. Robb represented Great Britain at the 1952 Olympic Games. He also had a career as a schoolteacher. He died on Christmas Day 2011 following a long-term illness.

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Richard Schweiker, American soldier and politician, 14th United States Secretary of Health and Human Services (died 2015)

Richard Schultz Schweiker was an American businessman and politician who served as the 14th United States Secretary of Health and Human Services under President Ronald Reagan from 1981 to 1983. A member of the Republican Party, he previously served as a U.S. Representative from 1961 to 1969 and a U.S. Senator from 1969 to 1981 from Pennsylvania. In 1976, Schweiker was Reagan's running mate during his unsuccessful presidential campaign.

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01/06/1925

Dilia Díaz Cisneros, Venezuelan teacher (died 2017)

Dilia Elena Díaz Cisneros was a Venezuelan teacher and poet born in El Hatillo, Miranda and married Victor Guillermo Ramos Rangel in 1947. She was the founder of the public schools "Bogotá", "Los Jardines" and "Caracciolo Parra León" in Caracas. Díaz Cisneros died of natural causes at the age of 92 in Caracas.

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01/06/1924

William Sloane Coffin, American minister and activist (died 2006)

William Sloane Coffin Jr. was an American Christian clergyman and peace activist. He was ordained in the Presbyterian Church, and later received ministerial standing in the United Church of Christ. In his younger days he was an athlete, a talented pianist, a CIA officer, and later chaplain of Yale University, where the influence of H. Richard Niebuhr's social philosophy led him to become a leader in the civil rights movement and peace movements of the 1960s and 1970s. He also was a member of the secret society Skull and Bones. He went on to serve as senior minister at Riverside Church in New York City and President of SANE/Freeze, the nation's largest peace and social justice group, and prominently opposed United States military interventions in conflicts, from the Vietnam War to the Iraq War. He was also an ardent supporter of gay rights.

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01/06/1922

Joan Caulfield, American model and actress (died 1991)

Beatrice Joan Caulfield was an American actress and model. After being discovered by Broadway producers, she began a stage career in 1943 that eventually led to signing as an actress with Paramount Pictures.

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Povel Ramel, Swedish singer-songwriter and pianist (died 2007)

Baron Povel Karl Henric Ramel was a Swedish entertainer. Ramel was a singer, pianist, vaudeville artist, author and a novelty song composer. His style was characterized by imaginative wit, both verbal and musical. He took inspiration from US and UK 'crazy' style humor and created his own personal Swedish version, unusual combinations of lyrics and music, word play, pastiche and general unexpectedness. He wrote approximately 1700 songs, skits and monologues, and he is regarded as a legend and an institution in Swedish entertainment.

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01/06/1921

Nelson Riddle, American composer and bandleader (died 1985)

Nelson Smock Riddle Jr. was an American arranger, composer, bandleader and orchestrator whose career stretched from the late 1940s to the mid-1980s. He worked with many vocalists at Capitol Records, including Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald, Nat King Cole, Judy Garland, Dean Martin, Peggy Lee, Johnny Mathis, Rosemary Clooney and Keely Smith. He scored and arranged music for many films and television shows, earning an Academy Award and three Grammy Awards. He found commercial and critical success with a new generation in the 1980s, in a trio of platinum albums with Linda Ronstadt.

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01/06/1920

Robert Clarke, American actor and producer (died 2005)

Robert Irby Clarke was an American actor best known for his cult classic science fiction films of the 1950s. In succeeding decades he appeared in more conventional television, and in The King Family Show, a variety show based on the family of which his wife Alyce King Clarke was a member.

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01/06/1917

William Standish Knowles, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2012)

William Standish Knowles was an American chemist. He was born in Taunton, Massachusetts. Knowles was one of the recipients of the 2001 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. He split half the prize with Ryōji Noyori for their work in asymmetric synthesis, specifically for his work in hydrogenation reactions. The other half was awarded to K. Barry Sharpless for his work in oxidation reactions.

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01/06/1915

John Randolph, American actor (died 2004)

Emanuel Hirsch Cohen, better known by the stage name John Randolph, was an American film, television and stage actor.

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01/06/1913

Bill Deedes, English journalist and politician (died 2007)

William Francis Deedes, Baron Deedes, was a British Conservative politician, army officer and journalist. He was the first person in Britain to have been both a member of the Cabinet and the editor of a major daily newspaper, The Daily Telegraph.

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01/06/1912

Herbert Tichy, Austrian geologist, author, and mountaineer (died 1987)

Herbert Tichy was an Austrian writer, geologist, journalist and climber.

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01/06/1910

Gyula Kállai, Hungarian communist leader, Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the People's Republic of Hungary (died 1996)

Gyula Kállai was a Hungarian communist politician who served as Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1949 to 1951, Chairman of the Council of Ministers from 1965 to 1967 and Speaker of the National Assembly from 1967 to 1971. He was also President of the National Council of the Patriotic People's Front from 1957 to 1989.

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01/06/1909

Yechezkel Kutscher, Slovak-Israeli philologist and linguist (died 1971)

Edward Yechezkel Kutscher or Yechezkel Kutscher was an Israeli philologist and Hebrew linguist.

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01/06/1907

Jan Patočka, Czech philosopher (died 1977)

Jan Patočka was a Czech philosopher. Having studied in Prague, Paris, Berlin, and Freiburg, he was one of the last pupils of Edmund Husserl and Martin Heidegger. In Freiburg he also developed a lifelong philosophical friendship with Husserl's assistant Eugen Fink. Patočka worked in the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic for almost his entire career, but never joined the Communist Party and was affected by persecution, which ended in his death as a dissident spokesperson of Charter 77.

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Frank Whittle, English airman and engineer, developed the jet engine (died 1996)

Air Commodore Sir Frank Whittle, was an English engineer, inventor and Royal Air Force (RAF) air officer. He is credited with co-creating the turbojet engine. A patent was submitted by Maxime Guillaume in 1921 for a similar invention which was technically unfeasible at the time. Whittle's jet engines were developed some years earlier than those of Germany's Hans von Ohain, who designed the first-to-fly turbojet engine as well as Austria’s Anselm Franz.

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01/06/1905

Robert Newton, English-American actor (died 1956)

Robert Guy Newton was an English actor. Along with Errol Flynn, Newton was one of the more popular actors among the male juvenile audience of the 1940s and early 1950s, especially with British boys. Known for his hard-living life, he was cited as a role model by the actor Oliver Reed and the Who's drummer Keith Moon.

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01/06/1903

Vasyl Velychkovsky, Ukrainian-Canadian bishop and martyr (died 1973)

Vasyl Vsevolod Velychkovsky, CSsR was a Ukrainian religious priest of the Redemptorists and a prelate of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church. He is considered a martyr in the Catholic Church, due to his death in 1973 of injuries sustained while imprisoned by the Soviet Union for his faith. He was beatified by Pope John Paul II in 2001.

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Hans Vogt, Norwegian linguist and academic (died 1986)

Hans Kamstrup Vogt was a Norwegian linguist who specialized in the Caucasian languages, especially Georgian. He also did significant early work on the Kalispel language and produced an interesting dictionary of the Ubykh language.

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01/06/1901

Hap Day, Canadian ice hockey player, referee, and manager (died 1990)

Clarence Henry "Happy" Day, later known as Hap Day, was a Canadian professional hockey player who played 14 seasons in the National Hockey League for the Toronto Maple Leafs and New York Americans. Day enjoyed a 33-year career as a player, referee, coach and assistant general manager, 28 of which were spent in various capacities with the Maple Leafs. He was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1961.

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Tom Gorman, Australian rugby league player (died 1978)

John Thomas Gorman was an Australian rugby league footballer. He was a centre for the Australian national team. He played in 10 Tests between 1924 and 1930 as captain on 7 occasions.

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John Van Druten, English-American playwright and director (died 1957)

John William Van Druten was an English playwright and theatre director. He began his career in London, and later moved to America, becoming a U.S. citizen. He was known for his plays of witty and urbane observations of contemporary life and society.

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01/06/1896

Sydney Kyte, British bandleader (died 1981)

Sydney Bernard Kyte was a British dance band leader and violinist who became known in the 1930s, when he led the resident band at The Piccadilly Hotel in London's West End. Kyte made numerous recordings, and remained active into the 1950s.

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01/06/1892

Amanullah Khan, sovereign of the Kingdom of Afghanistan, (died 1960)

Ghazi Amanullah Khan Barakzai was Emir of Afghanistan from 1919 to 1926, and then King of Afghanistan from 1926 until his abdication in 1929. After the end of the Third Anglo-Afghan War in August 1919, Afghanistan was able to relinquish its protected state status to proclaim independence and pursue an independent foreign policy free from the influence of the United Kingdom.

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01/06/1890

Frank Morgan, American actor (died 1949)

Francis Phillip Wuppermann, known professionally as Frank Morgan, was an American character actor. He was best known for his appearances in films starting in the silent era in 1916, and then numerous sound films throughout the 1930s and 1940s, with a career spanning 35 years mostly as a contract player at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. He was also briefly billed early in his career as Frank Wupperman and Francis Morgan.

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01/06/1889

Charles Kay Ogden, English linguist and philosopher (died 1957)

Charles Kay Ogden was a British linguist, philosopher, and writer. Described as a polymath but also an eccentric and outsider, he took part in many ventures related to literature, politics, the arts, and philosophy, having a broad effect particularly as an editor, translator, and activist on behalf of a reformed version of the English language. He is typically defined as a linguistic psychologist, and is now mostly remembered as the inventor and propagator of Basic English.

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01/06/1887

Clive Brook, English actor (died 1974)

Clifford Hardman "Clive" Brook was an English stage and film actor.

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01/06/1879

Max Emmerich, American triathlete and gymnast (died 1956)

Max Philip Emmerich was an American track and field athlete and gymnast who competed in the 1904 Summer Olympics. He was born and died in Indianapolis, Indiana.

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01/06/1878

John Masefield, English author and poet (died 1967)

John Edward Masefield was an English poet and writer. He was Poet Laureate from 1930 until his death in 1967, during which time he lived at Burcot, Oxfordshire, near Abingdon-on-Thames. Among his best known works are the children's novels The Midnight Folk and The Box of Delights, and the poems "The Everlasting Mercy" and "Sea-Fever". Shortly after his death his house burned down and was later replaced by a Cheshire Home named after him.

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Sam Dreben, American soldier and mercenary (died 1925)

Samuel Dreben, sometimes misspelled "Drebben" or "Drebin", and known as "The Fighting Jew", was a highly decorated soldier in the US Army and a mercenary who fought in a variety of wars and revolutions.

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01/06/1874

Yury Nikolaevich Voronov, Russian botanist (died 1931)

Yury Nikolaevitch Voronov was a Russian botanist. He worked at the Botanical Garden in Leningrad.

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01/06/1873

Elena Alistar, Bessarabian politician (died 1955)

Elena Alistar-Romanescu was a Bessarabian physician and politician who was part of Sfatul Țării from Bessarabia.

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01/06/1869

Richard Wünsch, German philologist (died 1915)

Richard Wünsch was a German classical philologist.

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01/06/1843

Henry Faulds, Scottish physician and missionary, developed fingerprinting (died 1930)

Henry Faulds was a Scottish doctor, missionary and scientist who is noted for the development of fingerprinting.

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01/06/1833

John Marshall Harlan, American lawyer, associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, and politician; Attorney General of Kentucky (died 1911)

John Marshall Harlan was an American lawyer and politician who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1877 until his death in 1911. He is often called "The Great Dissenter" due to his many dissents in cases that restricted civil liberties, including the Civil Rights Cases, Plessy v. Ferguson, and Giles v. Harris. Many of Harlan's views expressed in his notable dissents would become the official view of the Supreme Court starting from the 1950s Warren Court and onward.

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01/06/1831

John Bell Hood, American general (died 1879)

John Bell Hood was a Confederate general during the American Civil War.

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01/06/1825

John Hunt Morgan, American general (died 1864)

John Hunt Morgan was a Confederate general in the American Civil War. In April 1862, he raised the 2nd Kentucky Cavalry Regiment, fought at Shiloh, and then launched a costly raid in Kentucky, which encouraged Braxton Bragg's invasion of that state. He also attacked General William Rosecrans's supply lines. In July 1863, he set out on a 1,000-mile raid into Indiana and Ohio, taking hundreds of prisoners. But after most of his men had been intercepted by U.S. Navy gunboats, including the USS Moose, Morgan surrendered at Salineville, Ohio, the northernmost point ever reached by uniformed Confederates. Morgan carried out the diversionary "Morgan's Raid" against orders, which gained no tactical advantage for the Confederacy while losing the regiment. Morgan escaped prison, but his credibility was so low that he was restricted to minor operations. He was killed at Greeneville, Tennessee, in September 1864. Morgan was the brother-in-law of Confederate general A. P. Hill. Various schools and a memorial are dedicated to him.

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01/06/1822

Clementina Maude, Viscountess Hawarden, English portrait photographer (died 1865)

Clementina Maude, Viscountess Hawarden, commonly known as Lady Clementina Hawarden, was a Scottish amateur portrait photographer of the Victorian era. She produced over 800 photographs mostly of her adolescent daughters.

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01/06/1819

Francis V, Duke of Modena (died 1875)

Francis V, Duke of Modena, Reggio and Guastalla, Archduke of Austria-Este, Royal Prince of Hungary and Bohemia, Duke of Mirandola and of Massa, Prince of Carrara was a reigning prince. He was Duke of Modena, Reggio, and Mirandola, Duke of Guastalla from 1847 and Duke of Massa and Prince of Carrara from 1846 to 1859. His parents were Francis IV of Modena and Princess Maria Beatrice of Savoy. He was the last reigning duke of Modena before the duchy was incorporated into the Kingdom of Italy.

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01/06/1815

Otto of Greece (died 1862)

Otto was King of Greece from the establishment of the Kingdom of Greece on 7 May 1832, under the Convention of London, until he was deposed in October 1862.

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01/06/1808

Henry Parker, English-Australian politician, 3rd Premier of New South Wales (died 1881)

Sir Henry Watson Parker, was Premier of New South Wales. He fitted into colonial society and politics in the era before responsible government, but his style was not suited to the democratic politics that began to develop in 1856.

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01/06/1804

Mikhail Glinka, Russian composer (died 1857)

Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka was the first Russian composer to gain wide recognition within his own country and is often regarded as the fountainhead of Russian classical music. His compositions were an important influence on other Russian composers, notably the members of The Five, who produced a distinctive Russian style of music.

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01/06/1801

Brigham Young, American religious leader, 2nd President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (died 1877)

Brigham Young was an American religious leader and politician. He was the second president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from 1847 until his death in 1877. He also served as the first governor of the Utah Territory from 1851 until his resignation in 1858.

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01/06/1800

Edward Deas Thomson, Australian educator and politician, Chief Secretary of New South Wales (died 1879)

Sir Edward Deas Thomson was a Scotsman who became an administrator and politician in Australia, and was chancellor of the University of Sydney.

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01/06/1796

Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot, French physicist and engineer (died 1832)

Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot was a French military engineer and physicist. A graduate of the École polytechnique, Carnot served as an officer in the Engineering Arm of the French Army. He also pursued scientific studies, and in June 1824 published an essay titled Reflections on the Motive Power of Fire. In that book, which would be his only publication, Carnot developed the first successful theory of the maximum efficiency of heat engines.

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01/06/1790

Ferdinand Raimund, Austrian actor and playwright (died 1836)

Ferdinand Raimund was an Austrian actor and playwright.

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01/06/1770

Friedrich Laun, German author (died 1849)

Friedrich August Schulze was a German novelist, who wrote under the pen name Friedrich Laun. Schulze was born in Dresden. His first novel, Der Mann, auf Freiersfüssen (1801), was favorably received. He wrote many volumes, and with August Apel edited a ghost story anthology, Gespensterbuch. Thomas De Quincey, who translated several of Laun's stories into English, noted his "great popularity" and opined, "the unelaborate narratives of Laun are mines of what is called Fun".

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01/06/1765

Christiane Vulpius, mistress and wife of Johann Wolfgang Goethe (died 1816)

Johanna Christiana Sophie Vulpius von Goethe was the longtime lover and later wife of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.

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01/06/1762

Edmund Ignatius Rice, Irish priest and missionary, founded the Irish Christian Brothers (died 1844)

Edmund Ignatius Rice, F.P.M., C.F.C. was a Catholic missionary and educationalist who founded two institutes of religious brothers: the Congregation of Christian Brothers and the Presentation Brothers.

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01/06/1675

Francesco Scipione, marchese di Maffei, Italian archaeologist and playwright (died 1755)

Francesco Scipione Maffei was an Italian writer and art critic, author of many articles and plays. An antiquarian with a humanist education whose publications on Etruscan antiquities stand as incunables of Etruscology, he engaged in running skirmishes in print with his rival in the field of antiquities, Antonio Francesco Gori.

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01/06/1653

Georg Muffat, French organist and composer (died 1704)

Georg Muffat was a Baroque composer and organist. He is best known for the remarkably articulate and informative performance directions printed along with his collections of string pieces Florilegium Primum and Florilegium Secundum in 1695 and 1698.

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01/06/1637

Jacques Marquette, French missionary and explorer (died 1675)

Jacques Marquette, sometimes known as Père Marquette or James Marquette, was a French Jesuit missionary who founded Michigan's first European settlement, Sault Sainte Marie, and later founded Saint Ignace. In 1673, Marquette, along with Louis Jolliet, an explorer born near Quebec City, explored and mapped the northern portion of the Mississippi River Valley.

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01/06/1633

Geminiano Montanari, Italian astronomer and academic (died 1687)

Geminiano Montanari was an Italian astronomer, lens-maker, and proponent of the experimental approach to science. He was a member of various learned academies, notably the Accademia dei Gelati. Montanari's famous students include Domenico Guglielmini, Francesco Bianchini, Gianantonio Davia and Luigi Ferdinando Marsili.

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01/06/1612

Frans Post, Dutch painter (died 1680)

Frans Janszoon Post was a painter during the Dutch Golden Age. He was the first European artist to paint landscapes of the Americas, during and after the period of Dutch Brazil. In 1636 he traveled to Dutch Brazil in northeast of South America at the invitation of the governor Johan Maurits van Nassau-Siegen. His works were widely collected in the Netherlands, Europe, and Brazil, with the works showing an idealized vision of Dutch colonial rule.

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01/06/1563

Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury, English politician, Secretary of State for England (died 1612)

Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury, was an English statesman and alleged spymaster noted for his direction of the government during the Union of the Crowns, as Tudor England gave way to Stuart rule (1603). Lord Salisbury served as the Secretary of State of England (1596–1612) and Lord High Treasurer (1608–1612), succeeding his father as Queen Elizabeth I's Lord Privy Seal and remaining in power during the first nine years of King James I's reign until his own death.

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01/06/1522

Dirck Coornhert, Dutch writer and scholar (died 1590)

Dirck Volckertszoon Coornhert, also known as Theodore Cornhert, was a Dutch writer, philosopher, translator, politician, theologian, and artist. Coornhert is often considered the Father of Dutch Renaissance scholarship.

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01/06/1498

Maarten van Heemskerck, Dutch painter (died 1574)

Maarten van Heemskerck, also known as Marten Jacobsz Heemskerk van Veen, was a Dutch portrait and religious painter, who spent most of his career in Haarlem. He was a pupil of Jan van Scorel, and adopted his teacher's Italian-influenced style. He spent the years 1532–1536 in Italy. He produced many designs for engravers, and is especially known for his depictions of the Wonders of the World.

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01/06/1480

Tiedemann Giese, Polish bishop (died 1550)

Tiedemann Giese, was Bishop of Kulm (Chełmno) first canon, later Prince-Bishop of Warmia (Ermland) whose interest in mathematics, astronomy, and theology led him to mentor a number of important young scholars, including Copernicus. He was a prolific writer and correspondent, publishing a number of works on the reformation of the church. Tiedemann was a member of the patrician Giese family of Danzig (Gdańsk). The Giese family ancestors originated from Unna in Westphalia, near Dortmund. His father was Albrecht Giese and his younger brother, the Hanseatic League merchant Georg Giese.

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01/06/1460

Enno I, Count of East Frisia, German noble (died 1491)

Enno I of East Frisia, count of East Frisia was the eldest son of Ulrich I of East Frisia and Theda Ukena, of a chiefly East Frisian family.

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01/06/1451

Giles Daubeney, 1st Baron Daubeney (died 1508)

Giles Daubeney, 1st Baron Daubeney was an English soldier, diplomat, courtier and politician.

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01/06/1300

Thomas of Brotherton, 1st Earl of Norfolk, English politician, Lord Marshal of England (died 1338)

Thomas of Brotherton, 1st Earl of Norfolk, was the fifth son of King Edward I of England (1239–1307), and the eldest child by his second wife, Margaret of France, the daughter of King Philip III of France. He was, therefore, a younger half-brother of King Edward II and a full brother of Edmund of Woodstock, 1st Earl of Kent. He occupied the office of Earl Marshal of England.

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01/06/1134

Geoffrey, Count of Nantes (died 1158)

Geoffrey VI was Count of Nantes from 1156 to 1158. He was also known as Geoffrey of Anjou and Geoffrey FitzEmpress. He was the son of Geoffrey Plantagenet and Empress Matilda. His brothers were Henry II of England and William FitzEmpress.

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