14th June — World Blood Donor Day

On this day, 178 notable people were born on 14th June — spanning from 1444 to 2007. From world leaders to artists and scientists, discover who shares this birthday.

14/06/2007

Bryce James, American basketball player

Bryce Maximus James is an American college basketball player for the Arizona Wildcats of the Big 12 Conference. He is the second child of National Basketball Association (NBA) player LeBron James and the younger brother of NBA player Bronny James. He primarily plays the shooting guard position.

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14/06/2004

Soyoka Yoshida, Japanese entertainer

Soyoka Yoshida is a Japanese singer, dancer, model, and actress. She is best known as a member of the girl group @onefive, and is a former member of the idol group Sakura Gakuin. She is represented by the talent agency Amuse Inc. and is signed with the record label Avex Trax.

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14/06/2000

RJ Barrett, Canadian basketball player

Rowan Alexander "RJ" Barrett Jr. is a Canadian professional basketball player for the Toronto Raptors of the National Basketball Association (NBA). Nicknamed “the Maple Mamba”, he was selected third overall in the 2019 NBA draft by the New York Knicks after one year of college basketball with the Duke Blue Devils.

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Naomi Girma, American soccer player

Naomi Haile Girma is an American professional soccer player who plays as a center back for Women's Super League club Chelsea and the United States national team.

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Bobby Witt Jr., American baseball player

Robert Andrew Witt Jr. is an American professional baseball shortstop for the Kansas City Royals of Major League Baseball (MLB). The Royals selected him second overall in the 2019 MLB draft and he made his MLB debut in 2022. In 2024, Witt was named to his first All-Star Game and won his first Gold Glove Award and Silver Slugger Award. He repeated those honors in 2025 and additionally won the American League Platinum Glove Award. Internationally, Witt represents the United States.

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14/06/1999

Chou Tzuyu, Taiwanese singer

Chou Tzu-yu, known mononymously as Tzuyu, is a Taiwanese singer based in South Korea. She is a member of the South Korean girl group Twice, formed by JYP Entertainment in 2015.

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14/06/1997

David Bangala, French football defender

David Bangala is a Congolese professional footballer who last played as a defender for Scottish Championship side Ayr United.

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Fujii Kaze, Japanese singer-songwriter

Fujii Kaze is a Japanese singer-songwriter and musician. Born and raised in Satoshō, Okayama, he began uploading piano covers of pop songs to YouTube at 12. Signed to Universal Sigma's Hehn Records, Fujii released his debut single, "Nan-Nan", in 2019. His first studio album, Help Ever Hurt Never (2020), reached number one on Billboard Japan's Hot Albums chart and number two on the Oricon Albums Chart and was certified gold in Japan. The song "Shinunoga E-Wa" became viral on social media and brought Fujii to fame beyond Japan.

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14/06/1994

Moon Tae-il, South Korean singer

Moon Tae-il, known mononymously as Taeil, is a South Korean former singer. He was a member of the South Korean boy band NCT from 2016 until 2024, when Korean investigators tied him to a criminal sexual offense.

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14/06/1993

Gunna, American rapper

Sergio Giavanni Kitchens, known professionally as Gunna, is an American rapper, singer, songwriter and record producer. He signed with Young Thug's YSL Records, an imprint of 300 Entertainment in 2016, and rose to fame with his third mixtape, Drip Season 3 (2018). It moderately entered the Billboard 200, while his collaborative mixtape with fellow Georgia rapper Lil Baby, Drip Harder (2018), peaked at number four on the chart. Its lead single, "Drip Too Hard" peaked at number four on the Billboard Hot 100, received diamond certification by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), and was nominated for Best Rap/Sung Performance at the 62nd Annual Grammy Awards.

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14/06/1992

Daryl Sabara, American actor

Daryl Christopher Sabara is an American actor. He is known for portraying Juni Cortez in the Spy Kids film series, and for a variety of television and film appearances, first as a child actor and continuing into adult roles, including voice roles.

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Devante Smith-Pelly, Canadian ice hockey player

Devante Malik Smith-Pelly is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player. A winger, he was selected by the Anaheim Ducks in the second round, 42nd overall, of the 2010 NHL entry draft. Smith-Pelly played in the style of a power forward and was known for his hitting and forechecking abilities. Smith-Pelly won the Stanley Cup as a member of the Capitals in 2018.

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14/06/1991

Kostas Manolas, Greek footballer

Konstantinos "Kostas" Manolas is a Greek footballer who plays for Greek club Pannaxiakos. A defender throughout his career, Manolas also plays as a striker for Pannaxiakos since 2024.

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Jesy Nelson, English singer

Jessica Louise Nelson is an English singer. She rose to prominence as a member of the girl group Little Mix, who were formed during the eighth series of The X Factor in 2011. As part of Little Mix, Nelson achieved seventeen top-ten singles and five number-one singles on the UK Singles Chart.

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14/06/1990

Patrice Cormier, Canadian ice hockey player

Patrice Victor Cormier is a Canadian professional ice hockey forward. He is currently under contract with the Bouctouche JC’s of the Ligue de Hockey Senior Beausejour. Cormier was drafted in the second round, 54th overall, by the New Jersey Devils at the 2008 NHL entry draft.

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Karoline Bjerkeli Grøvdal, Norwegian long-distance runner

Karoline Bjerkeli Grøvdal is a Norwegian middle-, long-distance and steeplechase runner. She is a European Championships gold medallist in half marathon, silver medallist in 5000 metres and bronze medallist in 10,000 metres and 3000 metres steeplechase. Grøvdal is a four-time Olympian and represented Norway at the 2012, 2016, 2020 and 2024 Olympic Games.

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14/06/1989

Lucy Hale, American actress and singer-songwriter

Karen Lucille Hale is an American actress and singer. Her breakthrough role as Aria Montgomery in the television series Pretty Little Liars (2010–2017) won her seven Teen Choice Awards, the most for any actress in a single series. She has also won accolades at the Gracie Awards and the People's Choice Awards.

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Brad Takairangi, Australian-Cook Islands rugby league player

Brad Takairangi is a professional rugby league footballer who plays as a five-eighth or centre. He has played for the Cook Islands, New Zealand and the New Zealand Māori at international level.

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14/06/1988

Adrián Aldrete, Mexican footballer

Adrián Alexei Aldrete Rodríguez is a Mexican former professional footballer who played as a left-back.

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Kevin McHale, American actor, singer, dancer and radio personality

Kevin Michael McHale is an American actor and singer. Formerly one of the two lead vocalists of the boy band NLT, McHale is best known for his role as Artie Abrams in the Fox musical comedy-drama series Glee, for which he was nominated for a Grammy Award, three Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series and two Teen Choice Awards.

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14/06/1987

Andrew Cogliano, Canadian ice hockey player

Andrew Cogliano is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player who played for the Edmonton Oilers, Anaheim Ducks, Dallas Stars, San Jose Sharks, and Colorado Avalanche of the National Hockey League (NHL). On December 31, 2013, Cogliano became the 20th player in NHL history to play 500 consecutive games, and only the fifth to do so from the beginning of his NHL career. On November 4, 2017, Cogliano played in his 800th consecutive game, placing him in fourth place on the NHL's most consecutive games played list. The streak ended at 830 games on January 14, 2018, when Cogliano was suspended for two games. Cogliano won the Stanley Cup with the Avalanche in 2022.

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Mohamed Diamé, Senegalese footballer

Mohamed Diamé, also known as Momo Diamé, is a former professional footballer who played as a midfielder.

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14/06/1986

Rhe-Ann Niles-Mapp, Barbadian netball player

Rhe-Ann Niles-Mapp also simply known as Rhe-Ann Niles is a Barbadian netball player who represents Barbados internationally and plays in the positions of goal keeper and goal defense. She competed at the Netball World Cup on three occasions in 2003, 2015 and 2019. She also represented Barbados at the Commonwealth Games in 2014 and in 2018.

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Matt Read, Canadian ice hockey player

Matthew Zachary Jarrett Read is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player who played eight seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL). He played for the Philadelphia Flyers, who signed him as an undrafted free agent in 2011, and the Minnesota Wild.

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14/06/1985

Oleg Medvedev. Russian luger

Oleg Medvedev is a Russian luge athlete. Along with Ivan Nevmerzhitski he placed twentieth in the two man luge doubles in the 2008–09 Luge World Cup. In 2009, at the world championships in Lake Placid, New York, the aforementioned duo placed 18th in the two man luge event.

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Andy Soucek, Spanish racing driver

Andy Christian Soucek is a Spanish-Austrian former professional racing driver.

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14/06/1984

Lorenzo Booker, American football player

Lorenzo Adarryll Booker is an American former professional football player who was a running back in the National Football League (NFL). He was selected by the Miami Dolphins in the third round of the 2007 NFL draft. He played college football for the Florida State Seminoles.

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Mark Cosgrove, Australian cricketer

Mark James Cosgrove is an Australian-English cricketer. He is a left-handed batsman and part-time medium pace bowler. He represented Australia in three One Day Internationals in 2006.

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Siobhán Donaghy, English singer-songwriter

Siobhán Emma Donaghy is a British singer and songwriter best known as a founding member of the girl group Sugababes. Donaghy left Sugababes in 2001 and released her debut solo album, Revolution in Me, in 2003. Her second studio album, Ghosts, was released in 2007 and met critical acclaim.

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Yury Prilukov, Russian swimmer

Yury Aleksandrovich Prilukov is a freestyle swimmer from Russia, who specializes in long distance swimming.

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14/06/1983

Trevor Barry, Bahamian high jumper

Trevor George Barry is a high jumper from the Bahamas whose personal best was 2.32 metres, achieved in the final of the 2011 World Championships in Athletics in Daegu, South Korea, on 1 September 2011.

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Louis Garrel, French actor, director, and screenwriter

Louis Garrel is a French actor and filmmaker. He is best known for his starring role in The Dreamers (2003), directed by Bernardo Bertolucci. He has regularly appeared in films by French director Christophe Honoré, including Ma Mère (2004), Dans Paris (2006), Love Songs (2007), The Beautiful Person (2008) and Making Plans for Lena (2009). He has also been in films directed by his father, Philippe Garrel, including Regular Lovers (2005), Frontier of the Dawn (2008), A Burning Hot Summer (2011), and Jealousy (2013).

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14/06/1982

Jamie Green, English racing driver

James Roger Green is a British professional racing driver. He last raced for Audi Sport Team Rosberg in the 2020 DTM season, where he achieved three podiums and finished eighth in the standings.

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Nicole Irving, Australian swimmer

Nicole Irving is an Australian swimmer.

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Lang Lang, Chinese pianist

Lang Lang is a Chinese classical pianist. He has performed with major orchestras around the world and appeared at many leading concert halls. Active since the 1990s, he was the first Chinese pianist to be engaged by the Berlin Philharmonic, the Vienna Philharmonic and many of the top American orchestras.

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Trine Rønning, Norwegian footballer

Trine Bjerke Rønning is a former Norwegian footballer. She has previously played for Trondheims-Ørn and Kolbotn. Since making her Norway women's national football team debut in October 1999, she has won over 150 caps. Rønning represented her country at the 2005, 2009 and 2013 editions of the UEFA Women's Championship, after being a non-playing squad member in 2001. She also played at the 2003, 2007, 2011 and 2015 FIFA Women's World Cups, as well as at the 2008 Olympic football tournament. In February 2015 she was appointed captain of the national team.

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14/06/1981

Elano, Brazilian footballer and manager

Elano Blumer, known as Elano, is a Brazilian football coach and former player who played as an attacking midfielder. He is the current youth football manager of Santos.

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14/06/1979

Shannon Hegarty, Australian rugby league player

Shannon Hegarty is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer who played in the 2000s. An Australia international and Queensland State of Origin representative three-quarter back, he played club football in the National Rugby League for the Sydney Roosters, South Sydney Rabbitohs and North Queensland Cowboys.

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14/06/1978

Steve Bégin, Canadian ice hockey player

Joseph Denis Stéphan Bégin ; born June 14, 1978) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player who was a centre in 13 National Hockey League (NHL) seasons. He was a second-round selection of the Calgary Flames, 40th overall, in the 1996 NHL entry draft, and played with the Flames, Montreal Canadiens, Dallas Stars, Boston Bruins and Nashville Predators in his NHL career. After missing a full season due to injury, Bégin made a successful comeback by rejoining the Flames in 2012–13 before another injury forced his retirement.

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Diablo Cody, American director, producer, and screenwriter

Brook Maurio, known professionally by the pen name Diablo Cody, is an American writer and producer. She gained recognition for her candid blog and subsequent memoir, Candy Girl: A Year in the Life of an Unlikely Stripper (2005). Cody received critical acclaim for her screenwriting debut film, Juno (2007), winning both the Academy Award and the BAFTA Award for Best Original Screenplay.

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Annia Hatch, Cuban-American gymnast and coach

Annia Portuondo Hatch is a Cuban-American artistic gymnast who competed for the United States at the 2004 Summer Olympics.

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Nikola Vujčić, Croatian former professional basketball player

Nikola Vujčić is a Croatian former professional basketball player, and the current team manager of the Israeli club Maccabi Tel Aviv. During his playing career, he played at both the center and power forward positions. As a player, he was a two-time EuroLeague champion, a five-time All-EuroLeague Team selection, and was voted as a member of the EuroLeague 2000–2010 All-Decade Team. He was also the 2006 Israeli Basketball Premier League Finals MVP.

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14/06/1977

Boeta Dippenaar, South African cricketer

Hendrik Human Dippenaar, known as Boeta Dippenaar, is a former South African cricketer who played all formats of the game. He is also a member of ACA African XI. He has played as a specialist batsman in most of his matches, and has played Test cricket in all batting positions from one through seven. He bats right-handed and bowls occasional off breaks.

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Chris McAlister, American football player

Christopher James McAlister is an American former professional football player who was a cornerback for 11 seasons in the National Football League (NFL). He is currently the defensive backs coach of the Louisville Kings of the United Football League (UFL). He played college football for the Arizona Wildcats, earning unanimous All-American honors. He was selected by the Baltimore Ravens in the first round of the 1999 NFL draft, and played for the Ravens for 10 seasons before playing his final season with the New Orleans Saints.

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Joe Worsley, English rugby player and coach

Joseph Paul Richard Worsley, is a retired English rugby union player who played flanker for Wasps and England.

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14/06/1976

Alan Carr, English comedian, actor, and screenwriter

Alan Graham Carr is an English comedian, broadcaster, writer, and television personality. His breakthrough was in 2001, winning the City Life Best Newcomer of the Year and the BBC New Comedy Awards. In the ensuing years, Carr's career burgeoned on the Manchester comedy circuit before he became known for co-hosting the comedy variety show The Friday Night Project (2006–2009) with Justin Lee Collins. This led to the release of a short-lived entertainment show Alan Carr's Celebrity Ding Dong (2008), and he went on to host the comedy chat show Alan Carr: Chatty Man (2009–2017).

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Massimo Oddo, Italian footballer and manager

Massimo Oddo is an Italian professional football manager and a former player who is the current head coach of Milan Futuro, AC Milan's reserve team. As a player, he played as a right-back.

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14/06/1973

Sami Kapanen, Finnish-American ice hockey player and manager

Sami Hannu Antero Kapanen is a Finnish professional ice hockey coach and former player. He played 12 NHL seasons for the Hartford Whalers, Carolina Hurricanes and Philadelphia Flyers. He is the majority owner of KalPa in the Finnish league. Kapanen's son, Kasperi Kapanen, is a member of the Edmonton Oilers.

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14/06/1972

Rick Brunson, American basketball player and coach

Eric Daniel “Rick” Brunson is an American professional basketball coach and former player who is an assistant coach for the New York Knicks of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played nine seasons in the NBA and has also worked as an assistant coach for several teams. Brunson played college basketball for the Temple Owls.

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Matthias Ettrich, German computer scientist and engineer, founded KDE

Matthias Ettrich is a German computer scientist and founder of the KDE and LyX projects.

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Claude Henderson, South African cricketer

Claude William Henderson is a South African former cricketer who bowled left-arm spin and played in seven Test matches and four One Day Internationals in 2001 to 2002.

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Danny McFarlane, Jamaican hurdler and sprinter

Danny D. McFarlane, OD is a Jamaican hurdler, who has won numerous international medals in individual and relay contests. Having won five medals at the World Championships in Athletics and an Olympic bronze medal with the Jamaican 4 x 400 metres team, McFarlane has also won in individual competition: he took an Olympic silver medal in the 400 metres hurdles at the 2004 Athens Olympics. He competed collegiately for the University of Oklahoma. At Oklahoma, McFarlane won the 1997 4 × 400 meter relay at the NCAA Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships.

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14/06/1971

Bruce Bowen, American basketball player and sportscaster

Bruce Eric Bowen Jr. is an American former professional basketball player. Bowen played small forward and graduated from Edison High School and Cal State Fullerton. He went on to play for the National Basketball Association's Miami Heat, Boston Celtics, Philadelphia 76ers, San Antonio Spurs and the Continental Basketball Association's Rockford Lightning, and also played abroad in France.

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Will Cullen Hart, American musician (died 2024)

William Cullen Hart was an American musician, singer, songwriter and visual artist. He was a co-founder of the Elephant 6 Recording Company, as well as the rock band the Olivia Tremor Control. Following that band's breakup, Hart and several other former members regrouped to create Circulatory System. Hart's music was characterized by its blend of indie rock, Beatlesque psychedelic pop and musique concrète.

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Ramon Vega, Swiss footballer

Ramon Vega is a Swiss retired footballer, who played as a central defender.

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14/06/1970

Heather McDonald, American comedian, actress, and author

Heather Ann McDonald is an American stand-up comedian, actress and author. Born and raised in Southern California, she is known for her appearances on the E! series Chelsea Lately. She was one of the eight writers on the show and often participated in sketches and segments. McDonald also wrote and appeared in the show's spin-off, After Lately. She is the host of the pop culture podcast “Juicy Scoop with Heather McDonald.” Her first book, a 2010 memoir of her college years, made the Bestseller List of The New York Times.

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14/06/1969

Éric Desjardins, Canadian ice hockey player and coach

Jean Noël Éric Desjardins is a Canadian former professional ice hockey defenceman who played 17 seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the Montreal Canadiens and Philadelphia Flyers. He won the Stanley Cup with Montreal in 1993 and headlined the Flyers defence for over a decade.

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Steffi Graf, German tennis player

Stefanie Maria Graf, known professionally as Steffi Graf and preferring to be called Stefanie since 2001, is a German former professional tennis player. She was ranked as the world No. 1 in women's singles by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) for a record 377 weeks, and finished as the year-end No. 1 a record eight times. Graf won 107 singles titles on the WTA Tour, including 22 major women's singles titles, the second-most since the start of the Open Era in 1968 and the third-most of all time. She is the only tennis player, male or female, to have won each major singles tournament at least four times — a quadruple career Grand Slam.

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14/06/1968

Faizon Love, Cuban-American actor and screenwriter

Faizon Andre Love is an American actor and comedian. He is best known for his roles in the comedy films The Meteor Man (1993), Friday (1995), Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood (1996), B.A.P.S. (1997), The Replacements (2000), Made, Mr Bones, Blue Crush (2002), and Couples Retreat (2009), as well as the voice of Sean "Sweet" Johnson in the action-adventure game Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (2004) and his role as Wendell Wilcox on the sitcom television series The Parent 'Hood (1995–1999).

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14/06/1967

Dedrick Dodge, American football player and coach

Dedrick Allen Dodge is an American former professional football player who was a safety for eight seasons in the National Football League (NFL) from 1991 to 1998. He played college football for the Florida State Seminoles. Dodge is a two-time Super Bowl champion. He played in Super Bowl XXIX for the San Francisco 49ers and in Super Bowl XXXII for the Denver Broncos. He also played for the London Monarchs in the inaugural season of the World League of American Football (WLAF); London won the first World Bowl that year, meaning that Dodge has three pro football championship rings. After his playing career, he became a coach.

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Paul Martin, Australian rugby league player

Paul Martin is an Australian former rugby league footballer who played in the 1980s and 1990s for the Canberra Raiders and the Gold Coast.

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14/06/1963

Mark Anthony Santos, Filipino politician

Mark Anthony Gayoso Santos is a Filipino politician who is the representative for Las Piñas's at-large district, serving since 2025. Before being elected to Congress, he had served as a member of Las Piñas's city council from 2022 to 2025 and previously from 2010 to 2019.

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14/06/1961

Boy George, English singer-songwriter and producer

George Alan O'Dowd, known professionally as Boy George, is a British musician, songwriter and DJ who rose to fame as the lead singer of the pop band Culture Club. He is also a solo artist and was the lead singer of the band Jesus Loves You. Boy George's music spans several genres, including pop, new wave, soul, soft rock, disco and reggae.

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Dušan Kojić, Serbian singer-songwriter and bass player

Dušan "Koja" Kojić is a Serbian rock bassist, singer, and songwriter. He is the frontman of the Serbian Alternative rock band Disciplin A Kitschme.

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Sam Perkins, American basketball player

Samuel Bruce Perkins is an American former professional basketball player and executive. Perkins was a three-time college All-American, was a member of the 1982 national champion North Carolina Tar Heels, and won a gold medal with the 1984 United States men's Olympic basketball team. Perkins played professionally in the National Basketball Association (NBA) for 17 seasons.

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14/06/1960

Tonie Campbell, American hurdler

Anthony Eugene Campbell is an American former hurdler. He is the 1988 Olympic bronze medallist in the 110m Hurdles, the 1987 World Indoor champion in the 60m hurdles, and won the 1985 World Cup title in the 110m hurdles. A three-time winner of the 110 metres hurdles at the IAAF Grand Prix Final, he also won the 1987 Overall Grand Prix title, with fellow hurdler Greg Foster second and pole vaulter Sergey Bubka third.

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14/06/1959

Marcus Miller, American bass player, composer, and producer

William Henry Marcus Miller Jr. is an American musician, songwriter and record producer. He has worked with trumpeter Miles Davis, pianist Herbie Hancock, singer Luther Vandross, and saxophonists Wayne Shorter and David Sanborn, among others. He was the main songwriter and producer on three of Davis's albums: Tutu (1986), Music from Siesta (1987), and Amandla (1989). His collaboration with Vandross was especially close; he co-produced and served as the arranger for most of Vandross's albums, and he and Vandross co-wrote many songs, including the hits "I Really Didn't Mean It", "Any Love", "Power of Love/Love Power" and "Don't Want to Be a Fool". Miller also co-wrote the 1988 single "Da Butt" for Experience Unlimited.

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14/06/1958

James Gurney, American artist and author

James Gurney is an American artist and author known for his illustrated book series Dinotopia, which is presented in the form of a 19th-century explorer's journal from an island utopia cohabited by humans and dinosaurs.

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Nick Van Eede, English singer-songwriter

Nick Van Eede is an English musician. He is best known for singing and writing the 1986 No. 1 power ballad "(I Just) Died in Your Arms" for his band Cutting Crew, which saw international success including a top 10 placing on the UK singles chart.

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14/06/1955

Paul O'Grady, English television host, producer, and drag performer (died 2023)

Paul James O'Grady was an English drag queen, comedian, broadcaster, actor, and writer. He achieved notability in the London gay scene during the 1980s with his drag persona Lily Savage, through which he gained wider popularity in the 1990s. O'Grady subsequently dropped the character and in the 2000s became the presenter of various television and radio shows, including The Paul O'Grady Show.

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Kirron Kher, Indian theatre, film and television actress, TV talk show host and politician

Kirron Anupam Kher is an Indian politician, actress, television personality, singer, and entertainment producer known for her work in Hindi films and television. She is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party and was a Member of Parliament in the Lok Sabha, the lower house of Indian Parliament, from Chandigarh, from 2014 to 2024. Through her film career, she is the recipient of two National Film Awards and a Lux Style Award, and has received four Filmfare Award nominations.

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14/06/1954

Will Patton, American actor

William Rankin Patton is an American actor. He starred as Colonel Dan Weaver in the TNT science fiction series Falling Skies. He also appeared in the films The Client (1994), Armageddon (1998), Gone in 60 Seconds (2000), Remember the Titans (2000), The Punisher (2004), American Honey (2016), Halloween (2018), and Minari (2020). He appeared opposite Kevin Costner in four films: No Way Out (1987), The Postman (1997), and Horizon: An American Saga – Chapter 1 and Chapter 2, as well as having a guest role in seasons 3 and 4 of Costner's Paramount Network series Yellowstone (2020–2022). Patton played Deputy Marnes in season one of the 2023 TV series Silo.

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14/06/1952

Pat Summitt, American basketball player and coach (died 2016)

Patricia Susan Summitt was an American women's college basketball head coach and college basketball player. She coached 1,098 career wins, the most in college basketball history at the time of her retirement. She served as the head coach of the University of Tennessee Lady Vols basketball team from 1974 to 2012 and is considered one of the greatest basketball coaches of all time.

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14/06/1951

Paul Boateng, English lawyer and politician, British High Commissioner to South Africa

Paul Yaw Boateng, Baron Boateng, is a British Labour Party politician, a former civil rights lawyer and the Member of Parliament (MP) for Brent South from 1987 to 2005, becoming the UK's first Black Cabinet Minister in May 2002, when he was appointed as Chief Secretary to the Treasury. Following his departure from the House of Commons, he served as the British High Commissioner to South Africa from March 2005 to May 2009. He was introduced as a member of the House of Lords on 1 July 2010.

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Danny Edwards, American golfer

Richard Dan Edwards is an American professional golfer who has played on the PGA Tour, Nationwide Tour and Champions Tour.

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14/06/1950

Rowan Williams, Welsh archbishop and theologian

Rowan Douglas Williams, Baron Williams of Oystermouth, is a Welsh Anglican bishop, theologian and poet, who served as the 104th Archbishop of Canterbury from 2002 to 2012. Previously the Bishop of Monmouth and Archbishop of Wales, Williams was the first Archbishop of Canterbury in modern times not to be appointed from within the Church of England.

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14/06/1949

Jim Lea, English singer-songwriter, bass player, and producer

James Whild Lea is an English musician who played bass in Slade from their inception until 1992. As well as co-writing most of the group's songs, he occasionally played keyboards, piano, violin and guitar and sang backing vocals.

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Roger Powell, English-Australian scientist and academic

Roger Powell FRS, is a British-born Australia-based educator and academic. He is Emeritus professor in the School of Geography, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Melbourne.

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Antony Sher, South African-British actor, director, and screenwriter (died 2021)

Sir Antony Sher was a British actor, writer and theatre director of South African origin. A two-time Laurence Olivier Award winner and a five-time nominee, he joined the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1982 and toured in many roles, as well as appearing on film and television. In 2001, he starred in his cousin Ronald Harwood's play Mahler's Conversion and said that the story of a composer sacrificing his faith for his career echoed his own identity struggles.

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Harry Turtledove, American historian and author

Harry Norman Turtledove is an American historian and author who is best known for his work in the genres of alternate history, historical fiction, fantasy, science fiction, and mystery fiction. He lives in Southern California.

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Alan White, English drummer and songwriter (died 2022)

Alan White was an English drummer, best known for his almost 50-year tenure in the progressive rock band Yes. He joined Yes in 1972 as a replacement for original drummer Bill Bruford. He was the longest-serving member of the band and, alongside founder/bassist Chris Squire, the only member never to leave prior to his death.

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14/06/1948

Laurence Yep, American author and playwright

Laurence Michael Yep is an American writer. He is known for his children's books, having won the Newbery Honor twice for his Golden Mountain series. In 2005, he received the Children's Literature Legacy Award for his career contribution to American children's literature.

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14/06/1947

Roger Liddle, Baron Liddle, English politician

Roger John Liddle, Baron Liddle is a British political adviser and consultant who is principally known for being Special Adviser on European matters to the former Prime Minister Tony Blair, and President of the European Commission, José Manuel Barroso. He also worked together with Peter Mandelson on books outlining the political philosophy of the Labour Party under Blair's leadership. He is the chair of Progressive Britain, the successor organisation to the international think tank Policy Network and Progress, and was Pro-Chancellor of Lancaster University until 2020.

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Barry Melton, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

Barry "The Fish" Melton is an American guitarist and songwriter who is the co-founder and original lead guitarist of rock bands Country Joe and the Fish and Dinosaurs. He appears on all the Country Joe and the Fish recordings and he also wrote some of the songs that the band recorded. He appeared in the films made at Monterey Pop and Woodstock, and also appeared as an outlaw in the neo-Western film Zachariah and other films in which Country Joe and the Fish appear. An attorney and member of the State Bar of California, Melton has maintained a criminal defense practice since 1982.

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Paul Rudolph, Canadian singer, guitarist, and cyclist

Paul Fraser Rudolph is a Canadian guitarist, bassist, singer, and cyclist. He made his mark in the UK underground music scene, and then as a session musician, before returning to Canada to indulge his passion for cycling. He resided in Gibsons, British Columbia, where he owned and operated a bicycle business, Spin Cycle. He has since retired to Victoria, British Columbia.

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14/06/1946

Robert Louis-Dreyfus, French-Swiss businessman (died 2009)

Robert Louis-Dreyfus was a French businessman who was chief executive officer (CEO) of Adidas and Saatchi & Saatchi. He was a majority shareholder of the French football team Marseille, and during his tenure they re-emerged as a major European club.

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Tõnu Sepp, Estonian instrument maker and educator

Tõnu Sepp is an Estonian music teacher and a figure in early music. He has been called the "grand old man" of early music in Estonia.

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14/06/1945

Rod Argent, English singer-songwriter and keyboard player

Rodney Terence Argent is an English musician. In a career spanning more than 60 years, Argent came to prominence in the mid-1960s as the keyboardist, founder and leader of the rock band the Zombies, and went on to form the band Argent after the first break-up of the Zombies.

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Bruce Degen, American writer (died 2024)

Bruce Degen was an American illustrator and writer, known for illustrating The Magic School Bus, a picture book series written by Joanna Cole. He collaborated with writers Nancy White Carlstrom, on the Jesse Bear books, and Jane Yolen, on the Commander Toad series. He wrote self-illustrated Jamberry, Daddy Is a Doodlebug, and I Gotta Draw.

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Carlos Reichenbach, Brazilian director and producer (died 2012)

Carlos Oscar Reichenbach Filho was a Brazilian filmmaker.

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Richard Stebbins, American sprinter and educator

Richard Vaughn Stebbins is an American former athlete, winner of gold medal in 4 × 100 m relay at the 1964 Summer Olympics.

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14/06/1944

Laurie Colwin, American novelist and short story writer (died 1992)

Laurie Colwin was an American writer who wrote five novels, three collections of short stories and two volumes of essays and recipes. She was known for her portrayals of New York society and her food columns in Gourmet magazine. In 2012, the James Beard Foundation inducted her into its Cookbook Hall of Fame.

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14/06/1943

Harold Wheeler, American composer, conductor, and producer

William Harold Wheeler Jr., is an American orchestrator, composer, conductor, arranger, record producer, and music director. He has received numerous Tony Award and Drama Desk Award nominations for orchestration, and won the 2003 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Orchestrations for Hairspray.

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14/06/1942

Andy Irvine, Irish folk musician

Andrew Kennedy Irvine is an Irish folk musician, singer-songwriter, and a founding member of Sweeney's Men, Planxty, Patrick Street, Mozaik, LAPD and Usher's Island. He also featured in duos, with Dónal Lunny, Paul Brady, Mick Hanly, Dick Gaughan, Rens van der Zalm, and Luke Plumb. Irvine plays the mandolin, mandola, bouzouki, harmonica, and hurdy-gurdy.

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Jonathan Raban, English author and academic (died 2023)

Jonathan Mark Hamilton Priaulx Raban was a British award-winning travel writer, playwright, critic and novelist.

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Roberto García-Calvo Montiel, Spanish judge (died 2008)

Roberto García-Calvo Montiel was a Spanish judge. Since 2001, he was a member of the Constitutional Court of Spain, sponsored by the conservative People's Party. In the last year of the Francoist State, García-Calvo served as a local official repressing workers strikes. During his serving in the highest court, he was considered as part of the persistence of the shadow of Francoism in the Spanish institutions. He died by natural causes on May 17, 2008 at aged 65 in Villaviciosa de Odón, Madrid.

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14/06/1939

Steny Hoyer, American lawyer and politician

Steny Hamilton Hoyer is an American politician and retired attorney who has served as the U.S. representative for Maryland's 5th congressional district since 1981. From 2003 to 2023, Hoyer was the second-ranking Democrat in the House of Representatives behind Nancy Pelosi. He served twice as House Majority Leader, from 2007 to 2011 and again from 2019 to 2023.

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Peter Mayle, English author and screenwriter (died 2018)

Peter Mayle was a British businessman turned author who moved to France in the 1980s. He wrote a series of bestselling memoirs of his life there, beginning with A Year in Provence (1989).

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Colin Thubron, English journalist and author

Colin Gerald Dryden Thubron is a British travel writer and novelist. In 2008, The Times ranked him among the 50 greatest postwar British writers. He is a contributor to The New York Review of Books, The Times, The Times Literary Supplement and The New York Times. His books have been translated into more than twenty languages. Thubron was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2007 New Year Honours. He is a Fellow and, between 2009 and 2017, was President of the Royal Society of Literature.

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14/06/1938

Julie Felix, American-English singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2020)

Julie Ann Felix was an American-British folk singer and recording artist who achieved success, particularly on British television, in the late 1960s and early 1970s. She later performed and released albums on her own record label.

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14/06/1936

Renaldo Benson, American singer-songwriter (died 2005)

Renaldo "Obie" Benson was an American soul and R&B singer and songwriter. He was best known as a founding member and the bass singer of Motown group the Four Tops, which he joined in 1953 and continued to perform with for over five decades, until April 8, 2005.

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Irmelin Sandman Lilius, Finnish author, poet, and translator

Rut Irmelin Sandman Lilius is a Swedish-speaking Finnish writer.

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14/06/1933

Jerzy Kosiński, Polish-American novelist and screenwriter (died 1991)

Jerzy Kosiński was a Polish-born American writer and two-time president of the American chapter of PEN, who wrote primarily in English.

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Vladislav Rastorotsky, Russian gymnast and coach (died 2017)

Vladislav Stepanovich Rastorotsky was a Soviet and Russian female artistic gymnastics coach, Honoured Trainer of the USSR, who worked at the Dynamo sports society. Sportswomen trained by him earned more than 50 titles at the Soviet national championships, European championships, World Championships and Olympic Games. Rastorotsky trained Soviet gymnasts for five Olympic cycles, starting in the mid-1960s. His most famous pupils were Ludmilla Tourischeva, Natalia Shaposhnikova and Natalia Yurchenko.

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14/06/1931

Marla Gibbs, American actress and comedian

Marla Gibbs is an American actress, singer, comedian, writer, and television producer whose career spans seven decades. She is known for her role as George Jefferson's maid, Florence Johnston, on the CBS sitcom The Jeffersons (1975–1985), for which she received five nominations for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series.

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Ross Higgins, Australian actor (died 2016)

Ross Higgins was an Australian vaudevillian, character actor, television host, comedian, singer and voice actor. He was best known for his role as Ted Bullpitt in the 1980s television situation comedy series Kingswood Country and brief revival Bullpitt!. He was also a commercial advertiser who provided the voice of animated character "Louie the Fly" in the television ad campaign for Mortein, over a 50-year period as well as Mr. Pound, when decimal currency was first introduced in Australia.

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Junior Walker, American saxophonist (died 1995)

Autry DeWalt Mixon Jr., known professionally as Junior Walker, was an American multi-instrumentalist and vocalist who recorded for Motown during the 1960s. He also performed as a session and live-performing saxophonist with the band Foreigner during the 1980s.

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14/06/1929

Cy Coleman, American pianist and composer (died 2004)

Cy Coleman was an American composer, songwriter, and jazz pianist.

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Alan Davidson, Australian cricketer (died 2021)

Alan Keith Davidson was an Australian cricketer of the 1950s and 1960s. He was a left-handed all rounder: a hard-hitting lower-order batsman, and an outstanding fast-medium opening bowler. Strongly built and standing six feet tall, Davidson was known for his hard hitting power, which yielded many long-hit sixes.

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Johnny Wilson, Canadian-American ice hockey player and coach (died 2011)

John Edward Wilson was a Canadian professional ice hockey player and head coach. He played in the National Hockey League (NHL) with the Detroit Red Wings, Chicago Black Hawks, Toronto Maple Leafs, and New York Rangers between 1950 and 1962. With Detroit, Wilson won the Stanley Cup four times. After his playing career, he coached in the NHL with the Los Angeles Kings, Detroit, the Colorado Rockies, and Pittsburgh Penguins between 1969 and 1980. He also coached the Michigan Stags/Baltimore Blades and Cleveland Crusaders of the World Hockey Association between 1974 and 1976, and the Canadian national team at the 1977 World Championship. Wilson was born in Kincardine, Ontario, but grew up in Shawinigan Falls, Quebec.

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14/06/1928

Ernesto "Che" Guevara, Argentinian-Cuban physician, author, guerrilla leader and politician (died 1967)

Ernesto "Che" Guevara de la Serna was an Argentine Marxist revolutionary, author, guerrilla leader, diplomat, politician, and military theorist. A major figure of the Cuban Revolution, his stylized visage has become a countercultural symbol of rebellion and global insignia in popular culture.

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14/06/1926

Don Newcombe, American baseball player (died 2019)

Donald Newcombe, nicknamed "Newk", was an American professional baseball pitcher who played ten non-consecutive seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB). He began his career in the Negro National League and ended it in Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB).

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14/06/1925

Pierre Salinger, American journalist and politician, 11th White House Press Secretary (died 2004)

Pierre Emil George Salinger was an American journalist, author and politician. He served as the ninth White House Press Secretary for United States presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson. Salinger served as a United States Senator in 1964 and as campaign manager for the 1968 Robert F. Kennedy presidential campaign.

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14/06/1924

James Black, Scottish pharmacologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2010)

Sir James Whyte Black was a Scottish physician and pharmacologist. Together with Gertrude B. Elion and George H. Hitchings, he shared the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1988 for pioneering strategies for rational drug-design, which, in his case, led to the development of propranolol and cimetidine. Black established a Veterinary Physiology department at the University of Glasgow, where he became interested in the effects of adrenaline on the human heart. He went to work for ICI Pharmaceuticals in 1958 and, while there, developed propranolol, a beta blocker used for the treatment of heart disease. Black was also responsible for the development of cimetidine, an H2 receptor antagonist, a drug used to treat stomach ulcers.

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14/06/1923

Judith Kerr, German-English author and illustrator (died 2019)

Anna Judith Gertrud Helene Kerr was a German-born British writer and illustrator whose books sold more than 10 million copies around the world. She created both enduring picture books such as the Mog series and The Tiger Who Came to Tea and acclaimed novels for older children such as the semi-autobiographical When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit, which gave a child's-eye view of escaping Hitler's persecution in the Second World War. Born in the Weimar Republic, she came to Britain with her family in 1935 to escape persecution during the rise of the Nazis.

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Green Wix Unthank, American soldier, lawyer, and judge (died 2013)

Green Wix Unthank was an American attorney and United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky, from 1980 to 1988, when he took senior status. A veteran of World War II, he went to college and to law school after the war. He served as a judge of Harlan County Court, had a private practice for several years, and also served as an Assistant United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Kentucky.

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14/06/1921

Martha Greenhouse, American actress (died 2013)

Martha Miriam Greenhouse was an American stage, film, and television actress, who also served as an actors' union leader.

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14/06/1919

Gene Barry, American actor (died 2009)

Gene Barry was an American stage, screen, and television actor and singer. Barry is best remembered for his leading roles in the films The Atomic City (1952) and The War of the Worlds (1953) and for his portrayal of the title characters in the TV series Bat Masterson and Burke's Law, among many roles.

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Sam Wanamaker, American actor and director (died 1993)

Samuel Wanamaker was an American actor and director, whose career on stage and in film and television spanned five decades. He began his career on Broadway, but spent most of his professional life in the United Kingdom, where he emigrated after becoming fearful of being blacklisted in Hollywood in the 1950s due to his communist views.

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14/06/1917

Lise Nørgaard, Danish journalist, author, and screenwriter (died 2023)

Lise Nørgaard was a Danish journalist and writer known for her precise and often humorous portrayals of Danish cultural life. Nørgaard wrote novels, compilations of essays and short stories. The memoir of her childhood, Kun en pige, became a bestseller in 1992 and is considered her masterpiece. The work was adapted into a feature film in 1995.

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Gilbert Prouteau, French poet and director (died 2012)

Gilbert Prouteau was a French poet and film director. He was born in Nesmy, Vendée. In 1948 he won a bronze medal in the art competitions of the Olympic Games for his "Rythme du Stade". At the beginning of the 1990s he was, with Jean-Pierre Thiollet, one of the writers contributing to the French magazine L'Amateur d'Art.

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Atle Selberg, Norwegian-American mathematician and academic (died 2007)

Atle Selberg was a Norwegian mathematician known for his work in analytic number theory and the theory of automorphic forms, and in particular for bringing them into relation with spectral theory. He was awarded the Fields Medal in 1950 and an honorary Abel Prize in 2002.

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14/06/1916

Dorothy McGuire, American actress (died 2001)

Dorothy Hackett McGuire was an American actress. She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for Gentleman's Agreement (1947) and won the National Board of Review Award for Best Actress for Friendly Persuasion (1956). She starred as the mother in the popular films Old Yeller (1957) and Swiss Family Robinson (1960).

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14/06/1913

Joe Morris, English-Canadian lieutenant and trade union leader (died 1996)

Joseph Morris was a Canadian trade unionist mostly noted as the president of the Canadian Labour Congress in the 1970s.

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14/06/1910

Rudolf Kempe, German pianist and conductor (died 1976)

Rudolf Kempe was a German conductor.

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14/06/1909

Burl Ives, American actor and singer (died 1995)

Burl Icle Ivanhoe Ives was an American singer and actor with a career that spanned more than six decades.

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14/06/1907

Nicolas Bentley, English author and illustrator (died 1978)

Nicolas Clerihew Bentley was a British writer and illustrator, best known for his humorous cartoon drawings in books and magazines in the 1930s and 1940s. The son of Edmund Clerihew Bentley, he was given the name Nicholas, but opted to change the spelling.

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René Char, French poet and author (died 1988)

René Émile Char was a French poet and member of the French Resistance in World War II.

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14/06/1905

Steve Broidy, American businessman (died 1991)

Samuel “Steve” Broidy was an American executive in the U.S. motion picture industry.

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Arthur Davis, American animator and director (died 2000)

Arthur Davis was an American animator and director known for his time at the Warner Bros. Cartoons studio. He was sometimes billed as Art Davis.

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14/06/1904

Margaret Bourke-White, American photographer and journalist (died 1971)

Margaret Bourke-White was an American documentary photographer and photojournalist. She was known as an architectural and commercial photographer for the first half of her career, representing corporate clients and highlighting the success of industrial capitalism with black and white images of steel factories and skyscrapers. In 1930, she became the first foreign photographer granted official access to document industrial sites in the Soviet Union during the first five-year plan. In 1933, she was commissioned to create the NBC photomural, a monumental photomural about radio for its rotunda at 30 Rockefeller Plaza, then considered the largest photomural in the world. The success of her corporate commissions led her to work at Fortune magazine in the 1930s. She took the photograph of the construction of Fort Peck Dam that became the cover of the first issue of Life magazine.

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14/06/1903

Alonzo Church, American mathematician and logician (died 1995)

Alonzo Church was an American computer scientist, mathematician, logician, and philosopher who made major contributions to mathematical logic and the foundations of theoretical computer science. He is best known for the lambda calculus, the Church–Turing thesis, proving the unsolvability of the Entscheidungsproblem, the Frege–Church ontology, and the Church–Rosser theorem. Alongside his doctoral student Alan Turing, Church is considered one of the founders of computer science.

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Rose Rand, Austrian-American logician and philosopher from the Vienna Circle (died 1980)

Rose Rand was an Austrian-American logician and philosopher. She was a member of the Vienna Circle.

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14/06/1900

Ruth Nanda Anshen, American writer, editor, and philosopher (died 2003)

Ruth Nanda Anshen was an American philosopher, author and editor. She was the author of several books including The Anatomy of Evil, Biography of An Idea, Morals Equals Manners and The Mystery of Consciousness: A Prescription for Human Survival.

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June Walker, American stage and film actress (died 1966)

June Walker was an American stage and film actress.

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14/06/1898

Theobald Wolfe Tone FitzGerald, Irish Army Officer and painter (died 1962)

Theobald Wolfe Tone FitzGerald was an Irish army officer and painter. He is recognised for his role in painting the Irish Republic flag that flew over the General Post Office during the Easter Rising 1916. The flag was kept as a trophy by the British Army until it was returned to Ireland during the 1966 commemorations. He was the brother in-law of Lieutenant Michael Malone, who was killed in action at the Battle of Mount Street Bridge during the 1916 Rising, Seán Mac Mahon, the former General Chief of Staff, and the politician Dan Breen.

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14/06/1895

Jack Adams, Canadian-American ice hockey player, coach, and manager (died 1968)

John James "Jolly Jack" Adams was a Canadian professional ice hockey player, coach, and general manager in the National Hockey League and Pacific Coast Hockey Association. He played for the Toronto Arenas, Vancouver Millionaires, Toronto St. Patricks and Ottawa Senators between 1917 and 1927. He won the Stanley Cup twice as a player, with Toronto in 1918 and Ottawa in 1927, and was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame.

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14/06/1894

Marie-Adélaïde, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg (died 1924)

Marie-Adélaïde, was Grand Duchess of Luxembourg from 1912 until her abdication in 1919. She was the first Grand Duchess regnant of Luxembourg, its first female monarch since Duchess Maria Theresa and the first Luxembourgish monarch to be born within the territory since Count John the Blind (1296–1346).

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José Carlos Mariátegui (died 1930)

José Carlos Mariátegui La Chira, sometimes referred to in Peru as El Amauta, was a Peruvian writer, sociologist, historian, journalist, politician, and Marxist philosopher. A prolific author despite his early death, Mariátegui is considered one of the greatest scholars of Latin America. His Seven Interpretive Essays on Peruvian Reality (1928), a synthesis of his thought, became a reference work for the intelligentsia of the continent.

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W. W. E. Ross, Canadian geophysicist and poet (died 1966)

William Wrighton Eustace Ross [often misspelt William Wrightson Eustace Ross] was a Canadian geophysicist and poet. He was the first published poet in Canada to write Imagist poetry, and later the first to write surrealist verse, both of which have led some to call him "the first modern Canadian poet."

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14/06/1890

May Allison, American actress (died 1989)

May Allison was an American actress whose greatest success was achieved in the early part of the 20th century in silent films, although she also appeared on stage.

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14/06/1884

John McCormack, Irish tenor and actor (died 1945)

Count John Francis McCormack, was an Irish lyric tenor celebrated for his performances of the operatic and popular song repertoires, and renowned for his diction and breath control. He was also a Papal Count. McCormack became a naturalised American citizen before returning to live in Ireland.

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Georg Zacharias, German swimmer (died 1953)

Georg Zacharias was a German backstroke and breaststroke swimmer who competed in the 1904 Summer Olympics. He was born in Gdańsk and died in Berlin. In the 1904 Olympics he won a gold medal in the 440 yard breaststroke and a bronze medal in the 100 yard backstroke.

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14/06/1879

Arthur Duffey, American sprinter and coach (died 1955)

Arthur Francis Duffey was an American track and field athlete who competed at the 1900 Summer Olympics in Paris, France.

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14/06/1878

Léon Thiébaut, French fencer (died 1943)

Henri Léon Thiébaut was a French fencer who competed in the late 19th century and early 20th century. He participated in Fencing at the 1900 Summer Olympics in Paris and won the silver medal in the sabre. He was defeated by Georges de la Falaise in the final.

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14/06/1877

Jane Bathori, French soprano (died 1970)

Jane Bathori was a French mezzo-soprano. She was famous on the operatic stage and important in the development of contemporary French music.

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Ida MacLean, British biochemist, the first woman admitted to the London Chemical Society (died 1944)

Ida Maclean was an English biochemist and the first woman admitted to the London Chemical Society.

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14/06/1872

János Szlepecz, Slovene priest and author (died 1936)

János Szlepecz was a Slovene Roman Catholic priest, dean, and writer. He wrote in the Prekmurje Slovene dialect and also in Hungarian.

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14/06/1871

Hermanus Brockmann, Dutch rower (died 1936)

Hermanus Gerardus "Herman" Brockmann was a Dutch coxswain who competed in the 1900 Summer Olympics.

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Jacob Ellehammer, Danish mechanic and engineer (died 1946)

Jacob Christian Hansen-Ellehammer was a Danish inventor and aviation pioneer. He obtained a total of 59 Danish patents and worked with many different things, including amusement machines, Tivoli boats, egg openers, cleavers for pig slaughterhouses, engines in countless shades, motorcycles, cars, alternative energy and fire-fighting equipment. He was also among the first in Europe to fly an airplane.

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14/06/1870

Sophia of Prussia (died 1932)

Sophia of Prussia was Queen of Greece from 18 March 1913 to 11 June 1917 and again from 19 December 1920 to 27 September 1922 as the wife of King Constantine I.

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14/06/1868

Karl Landsteiner, Austrian biologist and physician, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1943)

Karl Landsteiner was an Austrian-American biologist, physician, and immunologist. He emigrated with his family to New York in 1923 at the age of 55 for professional opportunities, working for the Rockefeller Institute.

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Anna B. Eckstein, German peace activist (died 1947)

Anna Bernhardine Eckstein was a German champion of world peace, who trained as a teacher and campaigned for peace across the world. She gathered six million signatures on a petition and, in 1913, was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. The outbreak of the First World War interrupted her plans but her ideas influenced the Kellogg–Briand Pact of 1928.

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14/06/1864

Alois Alzheimer, German psychiatrist and neuropathologist (died 1915)

Alois Alzheimer was a German psychiatrist, neuropathologist and colleague of Emil Kraepelin. He is credited with identifying the first published case of "presenile dementia", which Kraepelin later identified as Alzheimer's disease.

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14/06/1862

John Ulric Nef, Swiss-American chemist and academic (died 1915)

John Ulric Nef was a Swiss-born American chemist and the discoverer of the Nef reaction and Nef synthesis. He was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the National Academy of Sciences.

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14/06/1856

Andrey Markov, Russian mathematician and theorist (died 1922)

Andrey Andreyevich Markov was a Russian mathematician celebrated for his pioneering work in stochastic processes. He extended foundational results—such as the law of large numbers and the central limit theorem—to sequences of dependent random variables, laying the groundwork for what would become known as Markov chains. To illustrate his methods, he analyzed the distribution of vowels and consonants in Alexander Pushkin's Eugene Onegin, treating letters purely as abstract categories and stripping away any poetic or semantic content.

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14/06/1855

Robert M. La Follette, American lawyer and politician, 20th Governor of Wisconsin (died 1925)

Robert Marion La Follette Sr., nicknamed "Fighting Bob", was an American lawyer and the leading progressive politician in Wisconsin from the 1890s until his death in 1925. He served as U.S. senator from Wisconsin for the last 20 years of his life; prior to that he served as the 20th governor of Wisconsin (1901–1906) and served three terms in the U.S. House of Representatives (1885–1891). A Republican for most of his life, he ran for president of the United States as the nominee of his own Progressive Party in the 1924 United States presidential election. Historian John D. Buenker describes La Follette as "the most celebrated figure in Wisconsin history".

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14/06/1848

Bernard Bosanquet, English philosopher and theorist (died 1923)

Bernard Bosanquet was an English philosopher and political theorist, and an influential figure on matters of political and social policy in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. His work influenced but was later subject to criticism by many thinkers, notably Bertrand Russell, John Dewey, William James and Ludwig Wittgenstein. Bernard was the husband of Helen Bosanquet, the leader of the Charity Organisation Society, and the brother of scientist and music theorist Robert Bosanquet and Admiral Day Bosanquet.

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Max Erdmannsdörfer, German conductor and composer (died 1905)

Max Erdmannsdörfer was a German conductor, pianist and composer.

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14/06/1840

William F. Nast, American businessman (died 1893)

William Frederick Nast (1840–1893) was an American diplomat and entrepreneur. He was the third president of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway.

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14/06/1838

Yamagata Aritomo, Japanese Field Marshal and politician, 3rd and 9th Prime Minister of Japan (died 1922)

Prince Yamagata Aritomo was a Japanese statesman and general who twice served as prime minister of Japan, in 1889–1891 and 1898–1900. He was a leading member of the genrō, a group of senior courtiers and statesmen who dominated the politics of Japan during the Meiji era. As the Imperial Japanese Army's inaugural Chief of Staff, he was the chief architect of its nationalist and reactionary ideology, which has led some historians to consider him the "father" of Japanese militarism.

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14/06/1829

Bernard Petitjean, French Roman Catholic missionary to Japan (died 1884)

Bernard Thaddée Petitjean was a French Catholic prelate who served as Apostolic Vicar of Japan from 1866 to 1876.

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14/06/1820

John Bartlett, American author and publisher (died 1905)

John Bartlett was an American writer and publisher and the editor of Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, which he revised continuously and published in several editions. Since Bartlett's death in 1905, the book has continued to be published in multiple editions, most recently in 2022.

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14/06/1819

Henry Gardner, American merchant and politician, 23rd Governor of Massachusetts (died 1892)

Henry Joseph Gardner was the 23rd governor of Massachusetts, serving from 1855 to 1858. Gardner, a Know Nothing, was elected governor as part of the sweeping victory of Know Nothing candidates in the Massachusetts elections of 1854.

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14/06/1811

Harriet Beecher Stowe, American author and activist (died 1896)

Harriet Elisabeth Beecher Stowe was an American author and abolitionist. She came from the religious Beecher family and wrote a popular novel called Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852), which depicts the harsh conditions experienced by enslaved African Americans. The book reached an audience of millions as a novel and play and was influential in the United States and in Great Britain, energizing anti-slavery forces in the American North, while provoking widespread anger in the South. Stowe wrote 30 books, including novels, three travel memoirs, and collections of articles and letters. She was influential both for her writings and for her public stances and debates on social issues of the day.

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14/06/1801

Heber C. Kimball, American religious leader (died 1868)

Heber Chase Kimball was an American religious leader who was a pioneer in the early Latter Day Saint movement. He served as one of the original twelve apostles in the early Church of the Latter Day Saints, and as first counselor to Brigham Young in the First Presidency of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints for more than two decades, from 1847 until his death.

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14/06/1798

František Palacký, Czech historian and politician (died 1876)

František Palacký was a Czech historian and politician. He was the most influential person of the Czech National Revival, called "Father of the Nation".

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14/06/1796

Nikolai Brashman, Czech-Russian mathematician and academic (died 1866)

Nikolai Dmitrievich Brashman was a Russian mathematician of Jewish-Austrian origin. He was a student of Joseph Johann Littrow, and the advisor of Pafnuty Chebyshev and August Davidov.

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14/06/1780

Henry Salt, English historian and diplomat, British Consul-General in Egypt (died 1827)

Henry Salt was an English artist, traveller, collector of antiquities, diplomat, and Egyptologist.

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14/06/1763

Simon Mayr, German composer and educator (died 1845)

Johann(es) Simon Mayr, also known in Italian as Giovanni Simone Mayr or Simone Mayr, was a German composer. His music reflects the transition from the Classical to the Romantic musical era. In 1805 he founded the Bergamo Conservatory. He was an early inspiration to Rossini and Meyerbeer and taught and advocated for Donizetti.

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14/06/1736

Charles-Augustin de Coulomb, French physicist and engineer (died 1806)

Charles-Augustin de Coulomb was a French officer, engineer, and physicist. He is best known as the eponymous discoverer of what is now called Coulomb's law, the description of the electrostatic force of attraction and repulsion. He also did important work on friction, and his work on earth pressure formed the basis for the later development of much of the science of soil mechanics.

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14/06/1730

Antonio Sacchini, Italian composer and educator (died 1786)

Antonio Maria Gasparo Gioacchino Sacchini was an Italian classical era composer, best known for his operas.

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14/06/1726

Thomas Pennant, Welsh ornithologist and historian (died 1798)

Thomas Pennant was a Welsh naturalist, traveller, writer and antiquarian. He was born and lived his whole life at his family estate, Downing Hall, near Whitford, Flintshire, in Wales.

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14/06/1691

Jan Francisci, Slovak organist and composer (died 1758)

Jan Francisci was an organist and composer born in Neusohl, Kingdom of Hungary. In 1709, he succeeded his father as cantor there before going to Vienna in 1722. He visited J.S. Bach in Leipzig in 1725. He worked as a church musician in (Pressburg) until 1735, when he returned to Neusohl. He remained there until his death, except for the years 1743–1748.

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14/06/1627

Johann Abraham Ihle, German astronomer (died 1699)

Johann Abraham Ihle was a German amateur astronomer from Leipzig.

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14/06/1529

Ferdinand II, Archduke of Austria (died 1595)

Ferdinand II, Archduke of Austria was ruler of Further Austria and Imperial Count of Tyrol since 1564. The son of Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor, he first married Philippine Welser, and later Anna Caterina Gonzaga. Through his second marriage he was the father of Anna of Tyrol, the future Holy Roman Empress.

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14/06/1479

Giglio Gregorio Giraldi, Italian poet and scholar (died 1552)

Giglio Gregorio Giraldi was an Italian classical scholar and poet.

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14/06/1444

Nilakantha Somayaji, Indian astronomer and mathematician (died 1544)

Keļallur Nīlakaṇṭha Somayāji, also referred to as Keļallur Comatiri, was a mathematician and astronomer of the Kerala school of astronomy and mathematics. One of his most influential works was the comprehensive astronomical treatise Tantrasamgraha completed in 1501. He had also composed an elaborate commentary on Aryabhatiya called the Aryabhatiya Bhasya. In this Bhasya, Nilakantha had discussed infinite series expansions of trigonometric functions and problems of algebra and spherical geometry. Grahapariksakrama is a manual on making observations in astronomy based on instruments of the time.

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