Born on Friday, 27th June – Famous Birthdays

27/06/2002

Kelee Ringo, American football player

Kelee Jahare-Hale Ringo is an American professional football cornerback for the Philadelphia Eagles of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Georgia Bulldogs. He was a two-time CFP national champion with the Bulldogs, winning in 2021 and 2022.

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27/06/2000

Chris Olave, American football player

Christian Josiah Olave is an American professional football wide receiver for the New Orleans Saints of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Ohio State Buckeyes, where he holds the school record of most career touchdown receptions at 35. Olave was selected by the Saints in the first round of the 2022 NFL draft.

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27/06/1999

Will Levis, American football player

William Donovan Levis is an American professional football quarterback for the Tennessee Titans of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Penn State Nittany Lions and Kentucky Wildcats before being selected by the Titans in the second round of the 2023 NFL draft.

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Chandler Riggs, American actor

Chandler Carlton Riggs is an American actor and musician. He rose to prominence for his regular role as Carl Grimes on the AMC horror-drama television series The Walking Dead from 2010 to 2018. For his work on the series, Riggs won three Saturn Awards from five nominations and a Young Artist Award from three nominations.

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27/06/1997

Yordan Alvarez, Cuban baseball player

Yordan Ruben Alvarez is a Cuban professional baseball designated hitter and left fielder for the Houston Astros of Major League Baseball (MLB). He made his MLB debut in 2019 with the Astros. Alvarez stands 6 ft 4 in (1.93 m), weighs 237 pounds (108 kg), bats left-handed and throws right-handed. He is a three-time All-Star.

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Jehyve Floyd, American basketball player

Jehyve Jamal Floyd is an American professional basketball player for Petkim Spor of the Basketbol Süper Ligi (BSL). Floyd played college basketball for the Holy Cross Crusaders, with whom he was named Patriot League Defensive Player of the Year in both 2018 and 2019; in both years he led the league in blocked shots, as well as in shooting percentage from the field. He led the Greek Basket League in blocks in 2020, and the Israeli Basketball Premier League in blocks in 2021.

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H.E.R., American singer-songwriter

Gabriella Sarmiento Wilson, known professionally as H.E.R. is an American R&B singer-songwriter. She has won an Academy Award, a Children's and Family Emmy Award, and five Grammy Awards, and been nominated for a Golden Globe Award, three American Music Awards, and four Billboard Music Awards.

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27/06/1995

Monté Morris, American basketball player

Monté Robert Morris is an American professional basketball player for Olympiacos of the Greek Basketball League (GBL) and the EuroLeague. He played college basketball for the Iowa State Cyclones.

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27/06/1994

Anita Husarić, Bosnian tennis player

Anita Wagner is a Bosnian tennis player.

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27/06/1993

Johanna Talihärm, Estonian biathlete

Johanna Talihärm is an Estonian biathlete. She competed at the Biathlon World Championships 2013, and at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi. She represented Estonia at the 2018 Winter Olympics.

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Alberto Campbell-Staines, Australian athlete

Alberto Jonathan Campbell-Staines is an Australian athlete with an intellectual disability who competes in the T20 classification. He won two bronze medals at the 9th INAS Athletics World Championships.

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27/06/1992

Ahn So-hee, South Korean singer and actress

Ahn So-hee, known mononymously as Sohee, is a South Korean actress and former singer. She is a former member of the South Korean girl group Wonder Girls. She is best known for her performance in the film Train to Busan (2016).

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Karthika Nair, Indian actress

Karthika Nair is a former Indian actress who primarily worked down South in all language films. She made her debut in the 2009 Telugu film Josh, opposite Naga Chaitanya. She rose to fame starring in her second and her first successful Tamil film Ko, opposite Jiiva and Piaa Bajpai. She found further success in the Malayalam film Proprietors: Kammath & Kammath, opposite Dileep.

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27/06/1991

Oliver Stark, British actor

Oliver Leon Jones, known professionally as Oliver Stark, is a British actor. He is best known for his roles as Evan "Buck" Buckley in 9-1-1 on Fox/ABC, and as Ryder in AMC's martial arts-based drama Into the Badlands.

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27/06/1990

Bobby Wagner, American football player

Bobby Joseph Wagner is an American professional football linebacker. He played college football for the Utah State Aggies and was selected by the Seattle Seahawks in the second round of the 2012 NFL draft. Wagner spent ten years with the Seahawks before playing for the Los Angeles Rams in 2022, later returning to Seattle for a second stint in 2023. He then spent two seasons playing for the Washington Commanders.

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27/06/1989

Hana Birnerová, Czech tennis player

Hana Birnerová is a Czech former tennis player.

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Sabino Brunello, Italian chess grandmaster

Sabino Brunello is an Italian chess player. He was awarded the title of Grandmaster by FIDE in 2010.

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Matthew Lewis, English actor

Matthew David Lewis is an English actor. He is best known for his role as Neville Longbottom in the Harry Potter film series.

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27/06/1988

Stefani Bismpikou, Greek gymnast

Stefani Bismpikou is a Greek artistic gymnast who competed at the 2004 and 2008 Olympics. She is the first Greek female gymnast ever to win a medal at the European Championships, and has also won several medals on the World Cup circuit. Her best apparatus is the balance beam.

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Matthew Spiranovic, Australian footballer

Matthew Thomas Spiranovic is an Australian former soccer player who played as a defender.

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Kate Ziegler, American swimmer

Kate Marie Ziegler is an American competition swimmer who specializes in freestyle and long-distance events. Ziegler has won a total of fifteen medals in major international competition, including eight golds, five silvers, and two bronzes spanning the World Aquatics and the Pan Pacific Championships. She was a member of the 2012 United States Olympic team, and competed in the 800-meter freestyle event at the 2012 Summer Olympics.

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27/06/1987

India de Beaufort, English actress

India de Beaufort is a British actress. She has acted in several films and television shows, including The Better Half (2015), Kimi (2022) and Night Court (2023−24).

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Ed Westwick, English actor

Ed Westwick is an English actor and musician best known for his role as Chuck Bass on The CW's Gossip Girl as well as Vincent Swan in the TV series White Gold. He made his feature film debut in Children of Men (2006) and has since appeared in the films Breaking and Entering (2006), Son of Rambow (2007), S. Darko (2009), Chalet Girl (2011), J. Edgar (2011), Romeo & Juliet (2013), Bone in the Throat (2015), Freaks of Nature (2015), Billionaire Ransom (2016) and Me You Madness (2021).

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27/06/1986

Sam Claflin, British actor

Samuel George Claflin is an English actor. After graduating from the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art in 2009, he began his acting career on television and had his first film role as Philip Swift in Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (2011).

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Drake Bell, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor

Jared Drake Bell is an American actor and musician. Born in Newport Beach, California, he began his career as a child actor in the 1990s, appearing on Home Improvement (1994) and in several commercials. He rose to prominence with Nickelodeon, playing starring roles in the sketch comedy series The Amanda Show (1999–2002), the sitcom Drake & Josh (2004–2007), and the Nickelodeon television film series The Fairly OddParents (2011–2014). He also voiced Peter Parker / Spider-Man on the Disney XD series Ultimate Spider-Man (2012–2017) and various Disney XD media. He has won ten Kids' Choice Awards, a Teen Choice Award, and a Young Artist Award, among other accolades.

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Bryan Fletcher, American skier

Bryan Fletcher is an American former Nordic combined skier who has competed between 2002 and 2018.

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LaShawn Merritt, American sprinter

LaShawn Merritt is an American retired track and field athlete who competed in sprinting events, specializing in the 400 metres. He is a former Olympic champion over the distance and his personal best of 43.65 seconds makes him the eleventh fastest of all time.

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27/06/1985

James Hook, Welsh rugby player

James William Hook is a Welsh retired rugby union player. Hook has won 81 caps for Wales and is Wales' fifth highest all-time points scorer. Most often playing as a fly-half, Hook is known as a utility player, and has also played as a centre, wing and fullback.

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Svetlana Kuznetsova, Russian tennis player

Svetlana Aleksandrovna Kuznetsova is a Russian former professional tennis player. She was ranked as high as world No. 2 in singles and No. 3 in doubles by the WTA. During her career, Kuznetsova won 18 singles and 16 doubles titles, including two singles majors at the 2004 US Open and 2009 French Open, and two doubles majors at the 2005 and 2012 Australian Opens.

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Nico Rosberg, German race car driver

Nico Erik Rosberg is a German and Finnish former racing driver, entrepreneur, and broadcaster who competed under the German flag in Formula One from 2006 to 2016. Rosberg won the Formula One World Drivers' Championship in 2016 with Mercedes, and won 23 Grands Prix across 11 seasons.

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27/06/1984

Aiden Blizzard, Australian cricketer

Aiden Craig Blizzard is a former Australian cricketer who played domestic cricket for Tasmania, South Australia, and Victoria. An aggressive left-handed batsman, he hit 89 from 38 balls on his Twenty20 debut for Victoria on New Years Day 2007. His innings included 8 sixes. In 2004 he toured India and Sri Lanka with the Australian Cricket Academy. He has also played for Rajshahi Rangers in Bangladesh's NCL T20 Bangladesh.

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Khloé Kardashian, American model, businesswoman, and radio host

Khloé Alexandra Kardashian is an American media personality, socialite, and businesswoman. She rose to fame starring with her family in the reality television series Keeping Up with the Kardashians from 2007 to 2021. Its success led to the creation of spin-offs, including Kourtney and Khloé Take Miami (2009–2013) and Kourtney and Khloé Take The Hamptons (2014–2015). Following the ending of their previous show, she and her family began starring on Hulu's The Kardashians in 2022.

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D.J. King, Canadian ice hockey player

Dwayne "D. J." King Jr. is a Canadian former professional ice hockey left winger who played in the National Hockey League (NHL) with the St. Louis Blues and the Washington Capitals.

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Gökhan Inler, Swiss footballer

Gökhan Inler is a Swiss former professional footballer who played as a central midfielder. He is currently in charge as a technical director of Italian football club Udinese.

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27/06/1983

Jim Johnson, American baseball player

James Robert Johnson is an American former professional baseball relief pitcher. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Baltimore Orioles, Oakland Athletics, Detroit Tigers, Atlanta Braves, Los Angeles Dodgers, and Los Angeles Angels. Johnson was an All-Star in 2012 and won the Rolaids Relief Man Award that year while leading MLB in saves. In 2013, Johnson became the first American League (AL) pitcher ever to have recorded back-to-back seasons of 50 saves or more. Johnson and Éric Gagné are the only two MLB pitchers to accomplish this feat.

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Dale Steyn, South African cricketer

Dale Willem Steyn is a South African former professional cricketer who played for the South African cricket team. He is widely regarded as the greatest fast bowler of the Modern era and one of the greatest fast bowlers of all time. Steyn's ability to produce late swing at high pace - a rare and lethal combination amongst fast bowlers - made him stand apart from many of his contemporaries. Many cricketing legends have regarded his length deliveries unplayable when the ball swung. During the 2007–08 season, Steyn achieved a tally of 78 wickets at an average of 16.24, and was subsequently rewarded with the ICC 2008 Test Cricketer of the Year Award. He was named one of the Wisden Cricketers of the Year in 2013, and the Wisden Leading Cricketer in the World for the year 2013 in 2014's Wisden Cricketers' Almanack. In December 2015 he injured his shoulder in the Durban Test against England ; after this injury his career was a short lived one as it was followed by multiple injuries; these injuries were the reason why many cricketing greats didn't even consider post 2015 Steyn as "The Dale Steyn" which the batsmen feared to face. He was featured in Wisden Cricketers of the Decade at the end of 2019. He also was included in the ICC Test Team of the Decade at the end of 2020.

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Nikola Rakočević, Serbian actor

Nikola Rakočević is a Serbian actor proclaimed as one of Europe’s leading young screen actors. Rakočević has received numerous awards at major international film festivals.

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27/06/1981

Andrew Embley, Australian footballer

Andrew Gerard Embley is a former Australian rules footballer who played with the West Coast Eagles in the Australian Football League (AFL). He is known for winning the Norm Smith Medal as the best player in the 2006 AFL Grand Final.

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27/06/1980

Hugo Campagnaro, Argentinian footballer

Hugo Armando Campagnaro is an Argentine former professional footballer who played as a centre back.

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Jennifer Goodridge, American keyboard player

Jennifer Goodridge Cruz is an American film and television producer, writer, director, and musician. She has produced notable works for Netflix, The Disney Channel, and YouTube Red as well as many commercials and music videos. Her films have premiered at The Sundance Film Festival, L'Étrange Festival, HollyShorts Film Festival, Sidewalk Film Festival among others. She was a guest panel speaker at Slamdance Film Festival in 2018 for the polytechnic series, Life As A Truly Independent Filmmaker: Survival guide and is a member of the Producers Guild of America.

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Alexander Peya, Austrian tennis player

Alexander Peya is an Austrian tennis coach and a former professional player. His career-high doubles ranking was World No. 3, first achieved in August 2013. He also reached a career-high singles ranking of No. 92 in April 2007. Peya won the 2018 Wimbledon mixed doubles title alongside Nicole Melichar-Martinez, defeating Jamie Murray and Victoria Azarenka in the final.

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Kevin Pietersen, South African-English cricketer

Kevin Peter Pietersen is a former England international cricketer. He is regarded as one of England's greatest ever batsmen and renowned for his competitive, and often controversial nature. He was a right-handed batsman and occasional off spin bowler who played in all three formats for England between 2004 and 2014, which included a brief tenure as captain. He won the Player of the Series award for his performances in 2010 ICC World Twenty20 which helped England to win their maiden ICC trophy.

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Craig Terrill, American football player

Craig Adam Terrill is an American former professional football player who was a defensive tackle for the Seattle Seahawks of the National Football League (NFL). In 88 career games, Terrill had 103 combined tackles, with eight sacks, three fumble recoveries, and one touchdown. He played college football for the Purdue Boilermakers. He was selected by the Seahawks in the sixth round of the 2004 NFL draft. He blocked eight field goals in his career, tied for the Seahawks team record.

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27/06/1979

Martin Bourboulon, French film director and screenwriter

Martin Bourboulon is a French film director and screenwriter. He directed the films Daddy or Mommy (2015), Daddy or Mommy 2 (2016), Eiffel (2021), The Three Musketeers: D'Artagnan (2023) and The Three Musketeers: Milady (2023).

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27/06/1978

Apparat, German musician

Sascha Ring, better known by the stage name Apparat, is a German electronic musician. He was previously co-owner of Shitkatapult records. Starting out with dancefloor-oriented techno, he shifted focus towards ambient music, becoming "more interested in designing sounds than beats".

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27/06/1977

Arkadiusz Radomski, Polish footballer

Arkadiusz Radomski is a Polish professional manager and former player who played as a holding midfielder. He is currently in charge of III liga club Zagłębie Lubin II.

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27/06/1976

Johnny Estrada, American baseball player

Johnny Pulado Estrada III is an American former professional baseball catcher, who played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Philadelphia Phillies, Atlanta Braves, Arizona Diamondbacks, Milwaukee Brewers, and Washington Nationals.

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Leigh Nash, American singer-songwriter

Leigh Anne Bingham Nash is an American singer and songwriter. She is best known as the lead vocalist of the Christian alternative rock band Sixpence None the Richer, and was also a member of the musical collective Fauxliage. Her debut solo album, Blue on Blue, was released in August 2006, followed by two additional solo albums in 2011 and 2015. Nash has received two Grammy Award nominations: Best Rock Gospel Album in 1998 and Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal in 1999.

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27/06/1975

Ace Darling, American wrestler

Michael Maraldo is an American professional wrestler, best known by his ring name Ace Darling. Darling has wrestled in various independent promotions in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware, most notably for the East Coast Wrestling Association, Jersey All Pro Wrestling, World Wrestling Federation, World Championship Wrestling and Extreme Championship Wrestling.

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Bianca Del Rio, American drag queen and comedian

Roy R. Haylock, better known by the stage name Bianca Del Rio, is an American drag queen, comedian, actor, and costume designer. He is known for winning the sixth season of RuPaul's Drag Race. Since his time on Drag Race, Del Rio has written and toured several stand-up shows, including It's Jester Joke (2019), which also made him the first drag queen to headline at Wembley Arena. He has also performed as a host for various international tours, most notably Werq the World. In 2018, he published his first book, Blame It On Bianca Del Rio: The Expert On Nothing With An Opinion On Everything.

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Sarah Evanetz, Canadian swimmer

Sarah Evanetz is a former competition swimmer from Canada, who competed for her native country at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia. There she finished in 15th in the 100-metre butterfly, and in fifth place with the Canadian relay team in the 4×100-metre medley relay, alongside Julie Howard, Guylaine Cloutier and Shannon Shakespeare.

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Tobey Maguire, American actor

Tobias Vincent Maguire is an American actor and film producer. He began his career in supporting roles, before gaining international recognition and critical praise for his role as Spider-Man in Sam Raimi's 2002 film Spider-Man. Maguire reprised the role in two sequels, Spider-Man 2 (2004) and Spider-Man 3 (2007). He returned to the role in Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021).

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Daryle Ward, American baseball player

Daryle Lamar Ward is an American former professional baseball first baseman and left fielder. He played 11 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) from 1998 to 2008 for the Houston Astros, Los Angeles Dodgers, Pittsburgh Pirates, Washington Nationals, Atlanta Braves, and Chicago Cubs. He is the son of former major leaguer Gary Ward. Daryle Ward is currently the Hitting Coach for the Louisville Bats in the Cincinnati Reds organization.

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27/06/1974

Christian Kane, American singer-songwriter and actor

Christian Kane is an American actor and singer-songwriter. His television roles include Lindsey McDonald in Angel, Eliot Spencer in Leverage and its revival Leverage: Redemption, Jacob Stone in The Librarians and its spinoff sequel series The Librarians: The Next Chapter, and Abe "High Wolf" Wheeler in Into the West. His cinematic filmography includes Just Married, Taxi, Love Song and Secondhand Lions.

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Christopher O'Neill, English-American businessman

Christopher Paul O'Neill, is a British-American financier and husband of Princess Madeleine, Duchess of Hälsingland and Gästrikland, with whom he has three children. He declined to become a Swedish citizen and accept any titles; he could then continue as a businessman with no royal duties.

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27/06/1973

Abbath Doom Occulta, Norwegian musician

Olve Eikemo, better known by his stage name Abbath Doom Occulta or simply Abbath, is a Norwegian musician best known as a founding member of the black metal band Immortal. Before founding Immortal, Abbath performed with Old Funeral alongside future Immortal member Demonaz. Following his departure from Immortal in 2015, he announced that he would be forming a new band under the Abbath name. Although primarily a guitarist, Abbath is also a proficient bassist and drummer, having started his career as a bassist and recorded all drums for Immortal albums Pure Holocaust and Battles in the North.

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Simon Archer, English badminton player

Simon David Archer MBE is an English former badminton player. Archer once held the world record for the fastest smash at 162 mph.

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27/06/1972

Dawud Wharnsby, Canadian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer

Dawud Wharnsby is a Canadian singer-songwriter, poet, performer, educator and television personality. A multi-instrumentalist, he is best known for his work in the musical/poetic genre of English Language nasheed and spoken word.

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27/06/1971

Serginho, Brazilian footballer

Sérgio Cláudio dos Santos, better known as Serginho, is a Brazilian former professional footballer who played as a left-back, left midfielder or left winger. Known for his speed and energetic attacking runs down the wing, he won the Champions League twice, as well as the Serie A title, among other trophies with AC Milan. At international level, he also represented Brazil at the 1999 FIFA Confederations Cup and was part of the team that won the 1999 Copa América. Post retirement, he has acted as manager and agent for former teammate Dida.

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27/06/1970

Régine Cavagnoud, French skier (died 2001)

Régine Cavagnoud was a World Cup alpine ski racer from France. She was the World Cup and World Champion in Super-G in 2001. Later that year, Cavagnoud was involved in a high-speed collision while training and died two days later. She competed at three Winter Olympics and five world championships.

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John Eales, Australian rugby player and businessman

John Anthony Eales is an Australian former rugby union player and the most successful captain in the history of Australian rugby. In 1999, he became one of the first players to win multiple Rugby World Cups.

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Jim Edmonds, American baseball player and sportscaster

James Patrick Edmonds is an American former professional baseball center fielder and broadcaster for FanDuel Sports Network Midwest. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the California / Anaheim Angels, St. Louis Cardinals, San Diego Padres, Chicago Cubs, Milwaukee Brewers, and Cincinnati Reds from 1993 to 2010.

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Jo Frost, English nanny, television personality, and author

Joanne Frost, known professionally as Jo Frost, is a British television personality, nanny, and author. She is best known for the reality television programme Supernanny UK, in which she was the central figure. The show first aired in the United Kingdom in 2004 and she has branched off into several other reality shows in the United Kingdom, United States and the Netherlands. Family S.O.S. with Jo Frost addressed issues such as addiction and abuse. Frost has written six books on child care.

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27/06/1969

Viktor Petrenko, Ukrainian figure skater

Viktor Vasyliovych Petrenko is a Ukrainian former competitive figure skater who represented the Soviet Union, the Unified Team, and Ukraine during his career. He is the 1992 Olympic Champion for the Unified Team. Petrenko became the first flagbearer for Ukraine.

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27/06/1968

Kelly Ayotte, American lawyer and politician, Governor of New Hampshire

Kelly Ann Ayotte is an American attorney and politician serving since 2025 as the 83rd governor of New Hampshire. A member of the Republican Party, she served from 2011 to 2017 as a United States senator from New Hampshire and from 2004 to 2009 as the 27th attorney general of New Hampshire.

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27/06/1967

Sylvie Fréchette, Canadian swimmer and coach

Sylvie Fréchette, is a Canadian former synchronised swimmer. She is the 1992 Olympic champion in the women's solo event.

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George Hamilton, Northern Irish police officer

Sir George Ernest Craythorne Hamilton is a Northern Ireland retired police officer. From 2014 to 2019, he served as the Chief Constable of the Police Service of Northern Ireland. He was previously the Assistant Chief Constable with responsibility for rural policing.

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Vasiliy Kaptyukh, Belarusian discus thrower

Vasiliy Borisovich Kaptyukh is a Belarusian former discus thrower who won the Olympic bronze medal in 1996. He has in fact never won gold or silver medals in major competitions, and finished fourth in major contests such as the 2000 and 2004 Summer Olympics, despite setting his personal best throw at the former, with 67.59 metres.

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Phil Kearns, Australian rugby player and sportscaster

Philip Nicholas Kearns is an Australian former rugby union player. He represented the Wallabies 67 times and was captain on ten occasions. He is a rugby commentator with Fox Sports Australia.

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27/06/1966

J. J. Abrams, American director, producer, and screenwriter

Jeffrey Jacob Abrams is an American filmmaker. He is best known for his works in the genres of action, drama, and science fiction. Abrams wrote and produced films such as Regarding Henry (1991), Forever Young (1992), Armageddon (1998), Cloverfield (2008), Star Trek (2009), Super 8 (2011), and the Star Wars sequels The Force Awakens (2015) and The Rise of Skywalker (2019). Abrams's films have grossed over $4 billion worldwide, making him the tenth highest-grossing film director of all-time, not adjusted for inflation. As of 2026, Abrams is rated the 140th best movie director of all time by an IMDb aggregator of 34 rankings.

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Jörg Bergen, German footballer and manager

Jörg Bergen is a German football manager and former player.

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Jeff Conine, American baseball player and sportscaster

Jeffrey Guy Conine is an American former professional baseball left fielder / first baseman and current front office assistant for the Miami Marlins, who played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for 17 seasons, with six teams. An inaugural member of the Florida Marlins who was with the franchise for both of its World Series titles, he was nicknamed "Mr. Marlin" for his significant history with the club.

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Aigars Kalvītis, Latvian politician, businessman, and former Prime Minister of Latvia

Aigars Kalvītis is a Latvian businessman and a former politician who was the Prime Minister of Latvia from 2004 to 2007. Currently he is the president of Latvian Ice Hockey Federation and the Chairman of the Board of Latvian gas company Latvijas Gāze. He is the Chairman of the Council of Latvian telecommunications company Tet.

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27/06/1965

Simon Sebag Montefiore, English journalist, historian, and author

Simon Jonathan Sebag Montefiore is a British historian, television presenter and author of history books and novels, including Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar (2003), Jerusalem: The Biography (2011), The Romanovs 1613–1918 (2016), and The World: A Family History of Humanity (2022).

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S. Manikavasagam, Malaysian politician and social activist

Manikavasagam s/o Sundaram is a Malaysian politician and social activist who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Kapar from March 2008 to May 2013. He is a member of the Parti Rakyat Malaysia (PRM), a component party of formerly Barisan Alternatif (BA) coalition and was a member of the People's Justice Party (PKR), a component party of the Pakatan Harapan (PH) and formerly Pakatan Rakyat (PR) and BA coalitions. He has served as the vice president of PRM since March 2024.

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Óscar Vega, Spanish boxer

Spain was the host nation for the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona. The Games were quite exceptional for Spain because their athletes were competing not only in their home country, but also in the home city of IOC President Juan Antonio Samaranch. 422 competitors, 297 men and 125 women, took part in 195 events in 29 sports.

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27/06/1964

Stephan Brenninkmeijer, Dutch director, producer, and screenwriter

Stephan Brenninkmeijer is a Dutch film director, screenwriter and producer.

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Chuck Person, American basketball player and coach

Chuck Connors Person is an American former basketball player and coach. Person played 14 seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA) and was the 1987 NBA Rookie of the Year. Person played college basketball for the Auburn Tigers and was selected fourth overall in the 1986 NBA draft by the Indiana Pacers, for whom he played six seasons. He also played for the Minnesota Timberwolves, San Antonio Spurs, Charlotte Hornets and Seattle SuperSonics.

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27/06/1963

Wendy Alexander, Scottish politician, Minister for Enterprise and Lifelong Learning

Wendy Cowan Alexander, Baroness Alexander of Cleveden is a Scottish politician Life Peer and the former Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for Paisley North from 1999 until 2011. She held various Scottish Government cabinet posts and was the Leader of the UK Labour Party in Scotland from 2007 to 2008.

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Johnny Benson Jr., American race car driver

Jonathan Frederick Benson Jr. is an American retired stock car racing driver and the son of former Michigan modified driver John Benson Sr. Benson has raced across NASCAR's three national series, and his career highlights include the 1993 American Speed Association AC-Delco Challenge series championship, the 1995 NASCAR Busch Series championship, the 1996 NASCAR Winston Cup Series Rookie of the Year Award, and the 2008 NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series championship.

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27/06/1962

Michael Ball, English actor and singer

Michael Ashley Ball is an English singer, presenter and actor. In 1985, he made his West End debut as Marius Pontmercy in the original production of Les Misérables. In 1989, he reached number two in the UK Singles Chart with "Love Changes Everything", from the musical Aspects of Love, where he played Alex Dillingham. He played the role in the West End and on Broadway. His album Coming Home To You reached number one in the UK making it his 4th number one album to date. On 24 April 2020, Ball and Captain Tom Moore entered the UK Singles Chart at number one with a cover of "You'll Never Walk Alone", with combined chart sales of 82,000 making it the fastest-selling single of 2020. In 1992, Ball represented the United Kingdom in the Eurovision Song Contest, finishing second with the song "One Step Out of Time".

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Tony Leung Chiu-wai, Hong Kong actor and singer

Tony Leung Chiu-wai is a Hong Kong actor and singer. He is one of Asia's most successful and internationally recognized actors. He has won many international acting prizes, including the Cannes Film Festival award for Best Actor. He was named by CNN as one of "Asia's 25 Greatest Actors of All Time".

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Sunanda Pushkar, India-born Canadian businesswoman (died 2014)

Sunanda Pushkar was an Indian-born Canadian businesswoman. She was a sales director in the Dubai-based TECOM Investments, and a co-owner of the India-based Rendezvous Sports World (RSW), a cricket franchise in the Indian Premier League. Pushkar was the wife of former International diplomat serving under the UN and politician Shashi Tharoor.

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27/06/1960

Craig Hodges, American basketball player and coach

Craig Anthony Hodges is an American former professional basketball player and former head coach of the Westchester Knicks of the NBA Development League. He played in the NBA for 10 seasons and led the league in 3-point shooting percentage two times - as have Joe Harris, Steve Kerr, Luke Kennard, and Jason Kapono. He won two NBA championships with the Chicago Bulls and, along with Larry Bird and Damian Lillard, is one of only three players to win three Three Point Contests at the National Basketball Association All-Star Weekend, winning the competition in 1990, 1991, and 1992. Hodges also holds the Three Point Contest records for the most consecutive shots made with 19, set in 1991, and the most points scored in a single round at 25, set in 1986. He was later a head coach at Chicago State University, an assistant coach for the Los Angeles Lakers and head coach of the Halifax Rainmen of the National Basketball League of Canada.

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Michael Mayer, American theatre director

Michael Mayer is an American director, playwright, and producer. He won the Tony Award for Best Direction of a Musical in 2007 for directing Spring Awakening.

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Robert King, English harpsichordist and conductor

Robert King is an English conductor, harpsichordist, editor and author. His career has concentrated on period performance of classical music, in particular from the baroque and early modern periods. In 2007, he was convicted of indecent assault: in 2009, he resumed his musical career.

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Jeremy Swift, English actor

Jeremy Paul Swift is an English actor. He studied drama at Guildford School of Acting from 1978 to 1981 and worked almost exclusively in theatre throughout the 1980s, working with companies such as Deborah Warner's Kick Theatre company and comedy performance-art group The People Show. During this period he also appeared in numerous television commercials. In the 1990s, he acted at the National Theatre alongside David Tennant and Richard Wilson in Phyllida Lloyd's production of What the Butler Saw.

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27/06/1959

Dan Jurgens, American author and illustrator

Dan Jurgens is an American comic book writer and artist. He is known for his work on the DC comic book storyline "The Death of Superman" and for creating characters such as Doomsday, Hank Henshaw, Jon Kent, and Booster Gold. Jurgens had a lengthy run on the Superman comic books including The Adventures of Superman, Superman vol. 2 and Action Comics. At Marvel, Jurgens worked on series such as Captain America, The Sensational Spider-Man and was the writer on Thor for seven years. He also had a brief run as writer and artist on Solar for Valiant Comics in 1995.

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Lorrie Morgan, American singer

Loretta Lynn Morgan is an American country music singer and actress. She is the daughter of George Morgan, widow of Keith Whitley, and ex-wife of Jon Randall and Sammy Kershaw, all of whom are also country music singers. Morgan has been active as a singer since the age of 13, and charted her first single in 1979. She achieved her greatest success between 1988 and 1999, recording for RCA Records and the defunct BNA Records. Her first two RCA albums and her BNA album Watch Me are all certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). The 1995 compilation Reflections: Greatest Hits is her best-selling album with a double-platinum certification; War Paint, Greater Need, and Shakin' Things Up, also on BNA, are certified gold.

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27/06/1958

Lisa Germano, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

Lisa Ruth Germano is an American singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist from Indiana.

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Jeffrey Lee Pierce, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 1996)

Jeffrey Lee Pierce was an American singer, songwriter, guitarist, and author. He was one of the founding members of the post-punk band the Gun Club, and released material as a solo artist.

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27/06/1957

Gabriella Dorio, Italian runner

Gabriella Dorio is an Italian former athlete and Olympic gold winner. She won two medals, at senior level, at the International athletics competitions.

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27/06/1956

Heiner Dopp, German field hockey player and politician

Heiner Dopp is a former field hockey player from West Germany, who competed at three Summer Olympics for his native country. He won the silver medal with his team, in 1984 and in 1988 (Seoul). Dopp made his Olympic debut in 1976 (Montreal).

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27/06/1955

Isabelle Adjani, French actress

Isabelle Yasmine Adjani is a French actress and singer, known for portraying tragic and emotionally complex characters across various genres, particularly psychological films. She has received various accolades, including five César Awards and a Lumière Award, along with nominations for two Academy Awards. Adjani was made a Chevalier of the Légion d'honneur in 2010 and a Commandeur of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in 2014.

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27/06/1954

Richard Ibbotson, English admiral

Vice Admiral Sir Richard Jeffrey Ibbotson, is a former Royal Navy officer who served as Deputy Commander-in-Chief Fleet.

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27/06/1953

Igor Gräzin, Estonian academic and politician

Igor Gräzin (birth name: Russian: Игорь Николаевич Грязин, romanized: Igor Nikolayevich Gryazin is an Estonian academic and politician currently serving as a member of the Tallinn City Council. He is a former member of Riigikogu and former Member of the European Parliament. Currently sitting as an independent city councillor, he was former affiliated with the Reform Party until 2019 and the Centre Party until 2024.

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Alice McDermott, American novelist

Alice McDermott is an American writer and university professor. She is the author of nine novels and a collection of essays. For her 1998 novel Charming Billy she won an American Book Award and the U.S. National Book Award for Fiction and was a finalist for the International Dublin Literary Award and the Orange Prize. That Night, At Weddings and Wakes, and After This were finalists for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Her most recent novel, Absolution was awarded the Mark Twain American Voice in Literature Award.

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27/06/1952

Madan Bhandari, Nepalese politician (died 1993)

Nepal Ratna Madan Kumar Bhandari, commonly known as Madan Bhandari, was a Nepali political leader. He was elected as the Secretary General of the Communist Party of Nepal, which fought for multiparty democracy and basic human rights in Nepal. His popularity soared after he defeated the incumbent Prime Minister Krishna Prasad Bhattarai in the 1991 general election. Known for his oratory and ability to connect with the people, Bhandari's most fundamental contribution was his thought, known as "People's Multiparty Democracy". He is widely credited for advancing Nepal's communist movement to a much greater height together with playing a central role in the popular movement of 1990, which restored democracy and basic human rights in the Nepal after thirty years of the King's direct rule. He died in a jeep accident in Dasdhunga, Chitwan, in 1993.

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27/06/1951

Ulf Andersson, Swedish chess player

Ulf Andersson is a leading Swedish chess player. FIDE awarded him the International Master title in 1970 and the Grandmaster title in 1972.

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Julia Duffy, American actress

Julia Margaret Duffy is an American actress.

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Gilson Lavis, English drummer and portrait artist

David Leslie Gilson Lavis was an English drummer and portrait artist. He gained fame as drummer with the band Squeeze in the 1970s and 1980s. Lavis was for more than 30 years drummer for Jools Holland and his Rhythm & Blues Orchestra, with former Squeeze bandmate Jools Holland, before retiring from drumming in 2024. Rod Stewart described him as "the best swing drummer since Charlie Watts ... the guv'nor of swing".

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Mary McAleese, Irish academic and politician, 8th President of Ireland

Mary Patricia McAleese is an Irish activist lawyer, academic, author, and former politician who served as the president of Ireland from November 1997 to November 2011. McAleese was first elected as president in 1997, having received the nomination of Fianna Fáil. She succeeded Mary Robinson, making her the second female president of Ireland and the first woman in the world to succeed another woman as president. She nominated herself for re-election in 2004 and was returned unopposed for a second term. Born in Ardoyne, north Belfast, she is the first president of Ireland to have come from Ulster.

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27/06/1949

Vera Wang, American fashion designer

Vera Ellen Wang is an American fashion designer. Wang initially pursued a career in figure skating before transitioning to fashion. She got her start working for Vogue and Ralph Lauren before launching her own bridal gown boutique in 1990.

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27/06/1948

Camile Baudoin, American guitarist

The Radiators, also known as The New Orleans Radiators, are an American swamp rock band from New Orleans, Louisiana, United States. The band's musical style, which draws from blues, rock, rhythm and blues, funk and soul music, has attracted a dedicated fanbase who the band calls "fish heads". Described by OffBeat magazine as "New Orleans' longest-running and most successful rock band", The Radiators had only limited commercial success, with only a handful of chart appearances, but, as a party band from a party town, their enthusiastic live performances, danceable beats and relentless touring earned the band a dedicated following and the admiration of many of their peers.

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27/06/1945

Joey Covington, American drummer, songwriter, and producer (died 2013)

Joseph Edward Covington was an American drummer, best known for his involvements with Jefferson Airplane, Hot Tuna and Jefferson Starship.

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Norma Kamali, American fashion designer

Norma Kamali is an American fashion designer and entrepreneur best known for the "Sleeping Bag" Coat, sweats as everyday sportswear, and swimwear. She lives in New York City.

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27/06/1944

Will Jennings, American songwriter (died 2024)

Wilbur Herschel Jennings was an American lyricist. He wrote the lyrics for the songs "Up Where We Belong", "Higher Love", "Tears in Heaven", "My Heart Will Go On" and "Valerie". He was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame and won three Grammy Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, and two Academy Awards.

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Angela King, English environmentalist and author, co-founded Common Ground

Angela King co-founded Common Ground, a British organisation which campaigns to link nature with culture and the positive investment people can make in their own localities, with Sue Clifford in 1983. She was Friends of the Earth's first Wildlife Campaigner for England. She went on to be consultant to the Nature Conservancy Council until Common Ground was founded in 1982/3.

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Patrick Sercu, Belgian cyclist (died 2019)

Patrick Sercu was a Belgian cyclist who was active on the road and track between 1961 and 1983. On track, he won the gold medal in the 1 km time trial at the 1964 Summer Olympics, as well as three world titles in the sprint in 1963, 1967 and 1969. On the road, he earned the green jersey in the 1974 Tour de France. Sercu is the record holder for the number of six-day track race victories, having won 88 events out of 223 starts between 1961 and 1983; several of these wins were with cycling great Eddy Merckx. He also won six stages at the Tour de France and eleven stages at the Giro d'Italia.

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27/06/1943

Ravi Batra, Indian-American economist and academic

Raveendra Nath "Ravi" Batra is an Indian-American economist, author, and professor at Southern Methodist University. Batra is the author of six bestselling books, two of which appeared on The New York Times Best Seller list, with one reaching No. 1 in late 1987. His books center on his idea that financial capitalism breeds excessive inequality and political corruption, which inevitably succumbs to financial crisis and economic depression. In his works, Batra proposes an equitable distribution system known as Progressive Utilization Theory (PROUT) as a means to not only ensure material welfare but also to secure the ability of all to develop a full personality.

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27/06/1942

Bruce Johnston, American singer-songwriter and producer

Bruce Johnston is an American singer, songwriter and musician, best known as a former member of the Beach Boys. He also collaborated on many records with Terry Melcher and composed the 1975 Barry Manilow hit "I Write the Songs".

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Frank Mills, Canadian pianist and composer

Frank Mills is a Canadian pianist and recording artist, best known for his solo instrumental hit "Music Box Dancer".

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Danny Schechter, American director, producer, and screenwriter (died 2015)

Daniel Isaac Schechter was an American television producer, independent filmmaker, blogger, and media critic. He wrote and spoke about many issues including apartheid, civil rights, economics, foreign policy, journalistic control and ethics, and medicine. While attending the London School of Economics in the 1960s, Schechter became an anti-apartheid activist and made trips to South Africa on behalf of the African National Congress (ANC). Later he would help musician Steven Van Zandt assemble other performers to form Artists United Against Apartheid, who released the album Sun City in 1985. Schechter produced and directed six nonfiction films about Nelson Mandela from the time Mandela was a political prisoner to his election and service as President of South Africa.

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27/06/1941

Bill Baxley, American lawyer and politician, 24th Lieutenant Governor of Alabama

William Joseph Baxley II, is an American Democratic politician and attorney from Dothan, Alabama.

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James P. Hogan, English-Irish author (died 2010)

James Patrick Hogan was a British science fiction author. His major works include the Giants series of five novels published between 1977 and 2005.

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Krzysztof Kieślowski, Polish director and screenwriter (died 1996)

Krzysztof Kieślowski was a Polish film director and screenwriter. He is known internationally for Dekalog (1989), The Double Life of Veronique (1991), and the Three Colours trilogy (1993–1994).

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27/06/1940

Ian Lang, Baron Lang of Monkton, Scottish politician, Secretary of State for Scotland

Ian Bruce Lang, Baron Lang of Monkton, PC DL is a British Conservative Party politician and Life Peer who served as the Member of Parliament for Galloway, and then Galloway and Upper Nithsdale, from 1979 to 1997.

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27/06/1939

R. D. Burman, Indian singer-songwriter (died 1994)

Rahul Dev Burman was an Indian music director and singer, who is considered to be one of the greatest and most successful music directors of the Hindi film music industry. From the 1960s to the 1990s, Burman composed musical scores for 331 films, bringing a new level of music ensemble with his compositions. Burman did his major work with legendary singers Kishore Kumar, Lata Mangeshkar, Asha Bhosle and Mohammed Rafi. He also worked extensively with lyricists like Majrooh Sultanpuri, Anand Bakshi and Gulzar, with whom he created some of the most memorable numbers in his career. Nicknamed Pancham, he was the only son of the composer Sachin Dev Burman and his Bengali lyricist wife Meera Dev Burman.

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Neil Hawke, Australian cricketer and footballer (died 2000)

Neil James Napier Hawke was an Australian Test cricketer and leading Australian rules footballer.

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Brereton C. Jones, American politician, 58th Governor of Kentucky (died 2023)

Brereton Chandler Jones was an American politician from the Commonwealth of Kentucky. From 1991 to 1995, he was the state's 58th governor, and had served from 1987 to 1991 as the 50th lieutenant governor of Kentucky. After his governorship, he chaired the Kentucky Equine Education Project (KEEP), a lobbying organization for the Kentucky horse industry.

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27/06/1938

Bruce Babbitt, American lawyer and politician, 47th United States Secretary of the Interior

Bruce Edward Babbitt is an American attorney and politician who served as the 47th United States secretary of the interior from 1993 to 2001 under President Bill Clinton. He previously served as the 16th governor of Arizona from 1978 to 1987 and was a candidate for President of the United States in the 1988 Democratic primaries.

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David Hope, Baron Hope of Craighead, Scottish lieutenant and judge

James Arthur David Hope, Baron Hope of Craighead is a retired Scottish judge who served as the Lord President of the Court of Session and Lord Justice General, Scotland's most senior judge, and later as first Deputy President of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom from 2009 until his retirement in 2013. He had previously been the Second Senior Lord of Appeal in Ordinary. He is the Chief Justice of Abu Dhabi Global Market Courts.

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Konrad Kujau, German illustrator (died 2000)

Konrad Paul Kujau was a German illustrator and forger. He became famous in 1983 as the creator of the so-called Hitler Diaries, for which he received DM 2.5 million from a journalist, Gerd Heidemann, who in turn sold it for DM 9.3 million to the magazine Stern, resulting in a net profit of DM 6.8 million for Heidemann. The forgery resulted in a four-and-half-year prison sentence for Kujau.

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27/06/1937

Joseph P. Allen, American physicist and astronaut

Joseph Percival Allen IV is an American former NASA astronaut. He logged more than 3,000 hours flying time in jet aircraft.

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Otto Herrigel, Namibian lawyer and politician (died 2013)

Otto Herrigel was a Namibian businessman, and politician. He served as Namibia's first Minister of Finance between 1990 and 1992.

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Kirkpatrick Sale, American author and scholar

Kirkpatrick Sale is an American author who has written prolifically about political decentralism, environmentalism, luddism and technology. He has been described as having a "philosophy unified by decentralism" and as being "a leader of the neo-Luddites," an "anti-globalization leftist," and "the theoretician for a new secessionist movement."

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27/06/1936

Lucille Clifton, American author and poet (died 2010)

Lucille Clifton was an American poet, writer, and educator from Buffalo, New York. From 1979 to 1985 she was Poet Laureate of Maryland. Clifton was a finalist twice for the Pulitzer Prize for poetry.

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Shirley Anne Field, English actress (died 2023)

Shirley Anne Field was an English actress who performed on stage, film and television from 1955 until her death. She was prominent during the British New Wave.

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27/06/1932

Eddie Kasko, American baseball player and manager (died 2020)

Edward Michael Kasko was an American infielder, manager, scout and front office executive in Major League Baseball (MLB).

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Anna Moffo, American operatic soprano (died 2006)

Anna Moffo was an American opera singer, television personality, and actress. One of the leading lyric-coloratura sopranos of her generation, she possessed a warm and radiant voice of considerable range and agility. Noted for her physical beauty, she was nicknamed "La Bellissima".

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Hugh Wood, English composer (died 2021)

Hugh Wood was a British composer.

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27/06/1931

Charles Bronfman, Canadian-American businessman and philanthropist

Charles Bronfman, is a Canadian-American businessman and philanthropist and is a member of the Canadian Jewish Bronfman family. With an estimated net worth of $2.5 billion in 2023, Bronfman was ranked by Forbes as the 1,217th wealthiest person in the world.

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Martinus J. G. Veltman, Dutch physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2021)

Martinus Justinus Godefriedus "Tini" Veltman was a Dutch theoretical physicist. He shared the 1999 Nobel Prize in Physics with his former PhD student Gerardus 't Hooft for their work on particle theory.

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27/06/1930

Ross Perot, American businessman and politician (died 2019)

Henry Ross Perot was an American businessman, politician, and philanthropist. He was the founder and chief executive officer of Electronic Data Systems and Perot Systems. He ran an independent campaign in the 1992 U.S. presidential election and a third-party campaign in the 1996 U.S. presidential election as the nominee of the Reform Party, which was formed by grassroots supporters of Perot's 1992 campaign. Although he failed to carry a single state in either election, both campaigns were among the stronger presidential showings by a third party or independent candidate in U.S. history.

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Tommy Kono, Japanese American weightlifter (died 2016)

Tamio "Tommy" Kono was an American weightlifter of Japanese descent. A two-time Olympic gold medalist, Kono set world records in four different weight classes: lightweight, middleweight, light-heavyweight and middle-heavyweight.

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27/06/1929

Dick the Bruiser, American football player and wrestler (died 1991)

William Fritz Afflis Jr. was an American professional wrestler, promoter, and National Football League player, better known by his ring name, Dick the Bruiser. During his NFL days he played four seasons with the Green Bay Packers. He was also a very successful professional wrestler: sixteen-time world champion, AWA World Heavyweight Champion once, WWA World Heavyweight Champion thirteen times, World Heavyweight Champion once, and WWA World Heavyweight Champion once. He also excelled at tag-team wrestling, with 20 tag team championships in his career. Eleven of these championships were won alongside his long-time tag-team partner Crusher Lisowski.

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Peter Maas, American journalist and author (died 2001)

Peter Maas was an American journalist and author. He was born in New York City and attended Duke University. Maas had Dutch and Irish ancestry.

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27/06/1928

Rudy Perpich, American dentist and politician, 34th Governor of Minnesota (died 1995)

Rudolph George Perpich Sr. was an American politician who served as the 34th and 36th governor of Minnesota from 1976 to 1979 and from 1983 to 1991. A member of the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party. To date, he is the only governor elected to serve non-consecutive terms in the history of Minnesota.

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27/06/1927

Bob Keeshan, American actor and producer (died 2004)

Robert James Keeshan was an American television producer and actor. He created and played the title role in the children's television program Captain Kangaroo, which ran from 1955 to 1984, the longest-running nationally broadcast children's television program of its day. He also played the original Clarabell the Clown on the Howdy Doody television program.

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27/06/1925

Leonard Lerman, American geneticist and biologist (died 2012)

Leonard Solomon Lerman was an American scientist most noted for his work on DNA.

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Doc Pomus, American singer-songwriter (died 1991)

Jerome Solon Felder, known professionally as Doc Pomus, was an American blues singer and songwriter. He is best known as the co-writer of many rock and roll hits. Pomus was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a non-performer in 1992, the Songwriters Hall of Fame (1992), and the Blues Hall of Fame (2012).

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Wayne Terwilliger, American second baseman, coach, and manager (died 2021)

Willard Wayne Terwilliger, nicknamed "Twig", was an American professional baseball second baseman. He played nine seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) between 1949 and 1960 for the Chicago Cubs, Brooklyn Dodgers, Washington Senators, New York Giants, and Kansas City Athletics.

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27/06/1924

Bob Appleyard, English cricketer and businessman (died 2015)

Robert Appleyard was a Yorkshire and England first-class cricketer. He was one of the best English bowlers of the 1950s, a decade which saw England develop its strongest bowling attack of the twentieth century. Able to bowl fast-medium swingers or seamers and off-spinners with almost exactly the same action, Appleyard's career was almost destroyed by injury and illness after his first full season in 1951. In his limited Test career, he took a wicket every fifty-one balls, and in first-class cricket his 708 wickets cost only 15.48 runs each.

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27/06/1923

Jacques Berthier, French organist and composer (died 1994)

Jacques Berthier was a French composer of liturgical music, best known for writing much of the music used at Taizé.

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Elmo Hope, American pianist and composer (died 1967)

St. Elmo Sylvester Hope was an American jazz pianist, composer, and arranger, chiefly in the bebop and hard bop genres. He grew up playing and listening to jazz and classical music with Bud Powell, and both were close friends of another influential pianist, Thelonious Monk.

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27/06/1922

George Walker, American composer (died 2018)

George Theophilus Walker was an American composer, pianist, and organist, and the first African American to win the Pulitzer Prize for Music, which he received for his work Lilacs in 1996. Walker was married to pianist and scholar Helen Walker-Hill between 1960 and 1975. Walker was the father of two sons, violinist and composer Gregory T.S. Walker and playwright Ian Walker.

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27/06/1921

Muriel Pavlow, English actress (died 2019)

Muriel Lilian Pavlow was a British actress. Her mother was French and her father Russian.

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27/06/1920

Fernando Riera, Chilean football player and manager (died 2010)

Fernando José Riera Bauzá was a Chilean professional football player and manager, patriarch of Chilean football.

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27/06/1919

M. Carl Holman, American author, educator, poet, and playwright (died 1988)

M. Carl Holman was an American author, poet, playwright, and civil rights advocate. In 1968, Ebony listed him as one of the 100 most influential Black Americans.

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Amala Shankar, Indian danseuse (died 2020)

Amala Shankar was an Indian dancer. She was the wife of dancer and choreographer Uday Shankar and mother of musician Ananda Shankar and dancer Mamata Shankar and sister-in-law of musician and composer Ravi Shankar. Amala Shankar acted in the film Kalpana written, co-produced and directed by husband Uday Shankar. She died on Friday, 24 July 2020, in West Bengal's Kolkata, India aged 101.

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27/06/1918

Adolph Kiefer, American swimmer (died 2017)

Adolph Gustav Kiefer was an American competition swimmer who swam for the University of Texas, a 100-meter gold medalist in the 1936 Summer Olympics, and a former world record-holder in numerous backstroke events. He was the first person in the world to break the one-minute mark in the 100-yard backstroke. Kiefer was also an inventor of new products related to aquatics competition and a founder of Adolph Kiefer and Associates, a swimming equipment company, in 1947.

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27/06/1916

Robert Normann, Norwegian guitarist (died 1998)

Robert Uno Normann was a Norwegian guitarist and considered a jazz guitar pioneer.

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27/06/1915

Grace Lee Boggs, American philosopher, author, and activist (died 2015)

Grace Lee Boggs was an American author, social activist, philosopher, and feminist. She is known for her years of political collaboration with C. L. R. James and Raya Dunayevskaya in the 1940s and 1950s. In the 1960s she and her husband, James Boggs, took their own political direction, turning their focus to civil rights and Black Liberation, Asian American, and other social justice movements. By 1998 she had written four books, including an autobiography. In 2011, still active at the age of 95, she wrote a fifth book, The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism for the Twenty-First Century, with Scott Kurashige, published by the University of California Press. She is regarded as a key figure in the Asian American, Black Power, and Civil Rights movements.

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John Alexander Moore, American zoologist and academic (died 2002)

John Alexander Moore was an American zoology professor.

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27/06/1914

Robert Aickman, English author and activist, co-founded the Inland Waterways Association (died 1981)

Robert Fordyce Aickman was an English writer and conservationist. As a conservationist, he co-founded the Inland Waterways Association, a group which has preserved from destruction and restored England's inland canal system. As a writer, he is best known for his supernatural fiction, which he described as "strange stories". Aickman's fiction often relied on unsettling atmosphere and indirect suggestion, along with characters who experience "dislocation in time and space", rather than explicit depiction of supernatural or gory events.

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Helena Benitez, Filipina academic and administrator (died 2016)

Helena Zoila Tirona Benitez was a Filipina academic and administrator of the Philippine Women's University.

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Giorgio Almirante, Italian journalist and politician (died 1988)

Giorgio Almirante was an Italian politician who founded the neo-fascist Italian Social Movement, which he led until his retirement in 1987.

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27/06/1913

Elton Britt, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 1972)

Elton Britt was an American country music singer, songwriter, and musician, who was best known for his western ballads and yodelling songs.

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Philip Guston, American painter and academic (died 1980)

Philip Guston was a Canadian and American painter, printmaker, muralist and draftsman. "Guston worked in a number of artistic modes, from Renaissance-inspired figuration to formally accomplished abstraction," and is now regarded as one of the "most important, powerful, and influential American painters of the last 100 years". He frequently depicted racism, antisemitism, fascism and American identity, as well as—especially in his later most cartoonish and mocking work—the banality of evil. In 2013, Guston's painting To Fellini set an auction record at Christie's when it sold for US$25.8 million.

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Willie Mosconi, American pool player (died 1993)

William Joseph Mosconi was an American professional pool player from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Mosconi is widely considered one of the greatest pool players of all time. Between the years of 1941 and 1957, he won the World Straight Pool Championship nineteen times. For most of the 20th century, his name was essentially synonymous with pool in North America – he was nicknamed "Mr. Pocket Billiards" – and he was among the first Billiard Congress of America Hall of Fame inductees. Mosconi pioneered and regularly employed numerous trick shots, set many records, and helped to popularize pool as a national recreation activity.

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27/06/1912

E. R. Braithwaite, Guyanese novelist, writer, teacher, and diplomat (died 2016)

Eustace Edward Ricardo Braithwaite, publishing as E. R. Braithwaite, was a Guyanese-born British-American novelist, writer, teacher and diplomat best known for his stories of social conditions and racial discrimination against black people. He was the author of the 1959 autobiographical novel To Sir, With Love, which was made into a 1967 British drama film of the same title, starring Sidney Poitier and Lulu. The narrator is an engineer, but to make ends meet, he accepts the job of teacher in a rough London school.

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27/06/1911

Marion M. Magruder, American Marine officer, commander of the VMF(N)-533 squadron (died 1997)

Marion Milton Magruder was an officer in the United States Marine Corps, and a pioneer in Radar Intercept Night Fighting. He was the first commanding officer of Marine aircraft squadron VMF(N)-533, then known as "Black Mac's Killers", and led that squadron during the Battle of the Marshall Islands and Battle of Okinawa in World War II.

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27/06/1908

João Guimarães Rosa, Brazilian physician and author (died 1967)

João Guimarães Rosa was a Brazilian novelist, short story writer, poet and diplomat.

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27/06/1907

John McIntire, American actor (died 1991)

John Herrick McIntire was an American character actor who appeared in 65 theatrical films and many television series. McIntire is well known for having replaced Ward Bond, upon Bond's sudden death in November 1960, as the star of NBC's Wagon Train. He played Christopher Hale, the leader of the wagon train from early 1961 to the end of the series in 1965. He also replaced Charles Bickford, upon Bickford's death in 1967, as ranch owner Clay Grainger on NBC's The Virginian for four seasons.

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27/06/1906

Vernon Watkins, Welsh-American poet and painter (died 1967)

Vernon Phillips Watkins was a Welsh poet and translator. He was a close friend of fellow poet Dylan Thomas, who described him as "the most profound and greatly accomplished Welshman writing poems in English".

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27/06/1905

Armand Mondou, Canadian ice hockey player (died 1976)

Joseph Armand Mondou was a Canadian ice hockey forward.

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27/06/1901

Merle Tuve, American geophysicist and academic (died 1982)

Merle Antony Tuve was an American geophysicist who was the Chairman of Office of Scientific Research and Development (OSRD) Section T, created in August 1940. He was founding director of the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, the main laboratory of Section T from 1942 on during World War II. He pioneered the use of pulsed radio waves whose discovery opened the way to the development of radar and nuclear energy.

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27/06/1900

Dixie Brown, British boxer (died 1957)

Anthony George Charles was a boxer, commonly known as Dixie Brown.

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27/06/1899

Juan Trippe, American businessman, founded Pan American World Airways (died 1981)

Juan Terry Trippe was an American commercial aviation pioneer, entrepreneur and the founder of Pan American World Airways, one of the iconic airlines of the 20th century. He was involved in the introduction of the Sikorsky S-42, which opened trans-Pacific airline travel; the Boeing 307 Stratoliner, which introduced cabin pressurization to airline operations; the Boeing 707, which started a new era in low-cost jet transportation; and the Boeing 747 jumbo jets. He also founded InterContinental Hotels & Resorts.

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27/06/1892

Paul Colin, French illustrator (died 1985)

Paul Colin born in Nancy, France, died in Nogent-sur-Marne. Colin was a prolific master illustrator of Decorative Arts posters. Alexandre-Marie Colin was a relative.

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27/06/1888

Lewis Bernstein Namier, Polish-English historian and academic (died 1960)

Sir Lewis Bernstein Namier was a British historian of Polish-Jewish background. His best-known works were The Structure of Politics at the Accession of George III (1929), England in the Age of the American Revolution (1930) and the History of Parliament series he edited later in his life with John Brooke.

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Antoinette Perry, American actress and director (died 1946)

Mary Antoinette "Tony" Perry was an American actress, producer, director and administrator known for her work in theatre. She was co-founder and secretary of the American Theatre Wing and is the namesake of the Tony Awards, presented by that organization for excellence in Broadway theatre.

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27/06/1886

Charlie Macartney, Australian cricketer and soldier (died 1958)

Charles George Macartney was an Australian cricketer who played in 35 Test matches between 1907 and 1926. He was known as "The Governor-General" in reference to his authoritative batting style and his flamboyant strokeplay, which drew comparisons with his close friend and role model Victor Trumper, regarded as one of the most elegant batsmen in cricketing history. Sir Donald Bradman—generally regarded as the greatest batsman in history—cited Macartney's dynamic batting as an inspiration in his cricket career.

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27/06/1885

Pierre Montet, French historian and academic (died 1966)

Jean Pierre Marie Montet was a French Egyptologist.

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Guilhermina Suggia, Portuguese cellist (died 1950)

Guilhermina Augusta Xavier de Medim Suggia Carteado Mena, known as Guilhermina Suggia was a Portuguese cellist. She studied in Paris with Pablo Casals, and built up an international reputation. She spent many years living in the United Kingdom, where she was particularly celebrated. She retired in 1939, but emerged from retirement to give concerts in Britain. Her last was in 1949, the year before her death.

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27/06/1884

Gaston Bachelard, French philosopher and poet (died 1962)

Gaston Louis Pierre Bachelard was a French philosopher. He made contributions in the fields of poetics and the philosophy of science. To the latter, he introduced the concepts of epistemological obstacle and epistemological break. He influenced many subsequent French philosophers, among them Michel Foucault, Louis Althusser, Dominique Lecourt and Jacques Derrida, as well as the sociologists Pierre Bourdieu and Bruno Latour.

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27/06/1882

Eduard Spranger, German philosopher and academic (died 1963)

Eduard Spranger was a German philosopher and psychologist. A student of Wilhelm Dilthey, Spranger was born in Berlin and died in Tübingen. He was considered a humanist who developed a philosophical pedagogy as an act of 'self defense' against the psychology-oriented experimental theory of the times.

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27/06/1880

Helen Keller, American author, academic, and activist (died 1968)

Helen Adams Keller was an American author, disability rights advocate, political activist and lecturer. Born in West Tuscumbia, Alabama, she lost her sight and her hearing after a bout of illness when she was 19 months old. She then communicated primarily using home signs until the age of seven, when she met her first teacher and life-long companion Anne Sullivan. Sullivan taught Keller language, including reading and writing. After an education at both specialist and mainstream schools, Keller attended Radcliffe College of Harvard University and became the first deafblind person in the United States to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree.

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27/06/1872

Heber Doust Curtis, American astronomer (died 1942)

Heber Doust Curtis was an American astronomer. He participated in 11 expeditions for the study of solar eclipses, and, as an advocate and theorist that additional galaxies existed outside of the Milky Way, was involved in the 1920 Shapley–Curtis Debate concerning the size and galactic structure of the universe.

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Paul Laurence Dunbar, American author, poet, and playwright (died 1906)

Paul Laurence Dunbar was an American poet, novelist, and short story writer of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Born in Dayton, Ohio, to parents who had been enslaved in Kentucky before the American Civil War, Dunbar began writing stories and verse when he was a child. He published his first poems at the age of 16 in a Dayton newspaper, and served as president of his high school's literary society.

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27/06/1870

Frank Rattray Lillie, American zoologist and embryologist (died 1947)

Frank Rattray Lillie was an American zoologist and an early pioneer of the study of embryology. Born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Lillie moved to the United States in 1891 to study for a summer at the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) in Woods Hole, Massachusetts. Lillie formed a lifelong association with the laboratory, eventually rising to become its director in 1908. His efforts developed the MBL into a full-time institution.

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27/06/1869

Kate Carew, American illustrator and journalist (died 1961)

Mary Williams, who wrote pseudonymously as Kate Carew, was an American caricaturist self-styled as "The Only Woman Caricaturist". She worked at the New York World, providing illustrated celebrity interviews.

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Emma Goldman, Lithuanian-Canadian philosopher and activist (died 1940)

Emma Goldman was a Russian-born anarchist revolutionary, political activist, and writer. She played a pivotal role in the development of anarchist political philosophy in North America and Europe in the first half of the 20th century.

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Hans Spemann, German embryologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1941)

Hans Spemann was a German embryologist who was awarded a Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1935 for his student Hilde Mangold's discovery of the effect now known as embryonic induction, an influence, exercised by various parts of the embryo, that directs the development of groups of cells into particular tissues and organs, one of the first steps towards cloning. Spemann added his name as an author to Hilde Mangold's dissertation and won a Nobel Prize for her work.

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27/06/1865

John Monash, Australian engineer and general (died 1931)

General Sir John Monash, was an Australian military commander of the First World War and a civil engineer. He commanded the 13th Infantry Brigade before the war and then, shortly after its outbreak, became commander of the 4th Brigade in Egypt, with which he took part in the Gallipoli campaign.

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27/06/1862

May Irwin, Canadian-American actress and singer (died 1938)

May Irwin was an actress, singer and star of vaudeville. Originally from Canada, she and her sister Flo Irwin found theater work after their father died. She was known for her performances as a coon shouter and for her recordings.

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27/06/1850

Jørgen Pedersen Gram, Danish mathematician and academic (died 1919)

Jørgen Pedersen Gram was a Danish actuary and mathematician who was born in Nustrup, Duchy of Schleswig, Denmark and died in Copenhagen, Denmark.

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Lafcadio Hearn, Greek-Japanese historian and author (died 1904)

Yakumo Koizumi was a Greek and Irish writer, translator, and teacher whose work played a significant role in the introduction of the culture and literature of Japan to the mainstream Western world.

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27/06/1846

Charles Stewart Parnell, Irish politician (died 1891)

Charles Stewart Parnell was an Irish nationalist politician who served as a leader of the Home Rule League from 1880 to 1882, and then of the Irish Parliamentary Party from 1882 to 1891, holding the balance of power in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom during the Home Rule debates of 1885–1886. He was a Member of Parliament (MP) from 1875 to 1891. He fell from power following revelations of a long-term affair, and died at the age of 45.

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27/06/1838

Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay, Indian journalist, author, and poet (died 1894)

Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay was an Indian Bengali novelist, poet, essayist and journalist.

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Paul Mauser, German weapon designer, designed the Gewehr 98 (died 1914)

Peter Paul von Mauser was a German weapon designer, manufacturer, industrialist and politician.

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27/06/1828

Bryan O'Loghlen, Irish-Australian politician, 13th Premier of Victoria (died 1905)

Sir Bryan O'Loghlen, 3rd Baronet was an Irish-born Australian colonial politician who was the 13th Premier of Victoria.

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27/06/1817

Louise von François, German author (died 1893)

Marie Louise von François was a German writer, best known for her historical novel Die letzte Reckenburgerin (1871). She was a friend and correspondent of Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach and Conrad Ferdinand Meyer.

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27/06/1812

Anna Cabot Lowell Quincy Waterston, American writer (died 1899)

Anna Cabot Quincy Waterston was a 19th-century American writer from Massachusetts. The youngest daughter of Boston's mayor and Harvard University president Josiah Quincy III, she was a member of a prominent family with a wide circle of friends, and was intimately associated with many distinguished people of her era. Waterston published her works, including poems, novels, hymns, and articles in The Atlantic Monthly. Her diary was published posthumously. A sculptor created a carved marble bust of Waterston that is held by the Smithsonian American Art Museum.

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27/06/1806

Augustus De Morgan, English mathematician and logician (died 1871)

Augustus De Morgan was a British mathematician and logician. He is best known for De Morgan's laws, relating logical conjunction, disjunction, and negation, and for coining the term "mathematical induction", the underlying principles of which he formalized. De Morgan's contributions to logic are heavily used in many branches of mathematics, including set theory and probability theory, as well as other related fields such as computer science.

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27/06/1805

Napoléon Coste, French guitarist and composer (died 1883)

Claude Antoine Jean Georges Napoléon Coste was a French classical guitarist and composer.

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27/06/1767

Alexis Bouvard, French astronomer and academic (died 1843)

Alexis Bouvard was a French astronomer. He is particularly noted for his careful observations of the irregularities in the motion of Uranus and his hypothesis of the existence of an eighth planet in the Solar System.

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27/06/1717

Louis-Guillaume Le Monnier, French botanist and physicist (died 1799)

Louis-Guillaume Le Monnier was a French natural scientist and contributor to the Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers.

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27/06/1696

William Pepperrell, American merchant and soldier (died 1759)

Major-General Sir William Pepperrell, 1st Baronet was an American merchant, politician and military officer. He is widely remembered for organizing, financing, and leading the 1745 expedition that captured the French fortress of Louisbourg during King George's War. He owned a number of slaves and was one of the wealthiest people in the Thirteen Colonies.

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27/06/1596

Maximilian, Prince of Dietrichstein (died 1655)

Maximilian, Prince of Dietrichstein, was a German prince member of the House of Dietrichstein, Imperial Count (Reichsgraf) of Dietrichstein and owner of the Lordship of Nikolsburg in Moravia; since 1629 2nd Prince (Fürst) of Dietrichstein zu Nikolsburg, Baron (Freiherr) of Hollenburg, Finkenstein and Thalberg, was a diplomat and minister in the service of the House of Habsburg. He was a Kämmerer, Lord Chamberlain (Obersthofmeister), Conference Minister (Konferenzminister) and Privy Councillor of Emperors Ferdinand II and Ferdinand III, Knight of the Order of the Golden Fleece since and ruler over Nikolsburg, Polná, Kanitz, Leipnik, Weisskirch and Saar.

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27/06/1550

Charles IX, king of France (died 1574)

Charles IX was King of France from 1560 until his death in 1574. He ascended the French throne upon the death of his brother Francis II in 1560, and as such was the penultimate monarch of the House of Valois.

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27/06/1497

Ernest I, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (died 1546)

Ernest of Brunswick-Lüneburg, also frequently called Ernest the Confessor, was duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg and a champion of the Protestant cause during the early years of the Protestant Reformation. He was the Prince of Lüneburg and ruled the Lüneburg-Celle subdivision of the Welf family's Brunswick-Lüneburg duchy from 1520 until his death.

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27/06/1464

Ernst II of Saxony, Archbishop of Magdeburg (1476–1513) (died 1513)

Ernest II of Saxony held two episcopal titles: Archbishop of Magdeburg ; Administrator of the Diocese of Halberstadt.

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27/06/1462

Louis XII, king of France (died 1515)

Louis XII, also known as Louis of Orléans, was King of France from 1498 to 1515 and King of Naples from 1501 to 1504. The son of Charles I, Duke of Orléans, and Marie of Cleves, he succeeded his second cousin once removed and brother-in-law, Charles VIII, who died childless in 1498.

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27/06/1430

Henry Holland, 3rd Duke of Exeter, Lancastrian leader (died 1475)

Henry Holland, 3rd Duke of Exeter, 3rd Earl of Huntington was a Lancastrian leader during the English Wars of the Roses. He was the only son of John Holland, 2nd Duke of Exeter, and his first wife, Anne Stafford.

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27/06/1350

Manuel II Palaiologos, Byzantine emperor (died 1425)

Manuel II Palaiologos or Palaeologus was Byzantine emperor from 1391 to 1425. Shortly before his death he was tonsured a monk and received the name Matthaios (Ματθαίος). Manuel was a vassal of the Ottoman Empire, which sometimes threatened to capture his territory outright. Accordingly he continued his father's practice of soliciting Western European aid against the Ottomans, and personally visited several foreign courts to plead his cause. These efforts failed, although an Ottoman civil war and Byzantine victories against Latin neighbors helped Manuel's government survive and slightly expand its influence. His wife Helena Dragaš saw to it that their sons, John VIII and Constantine XI, became emperors. He is commemorated by the Greek Orthodox Church on 21 July.

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27/06/0850

Ibrahim II of Ifriqiya, Aghlabid emir (died 902)

Abu Ishaq Ibrahim II ibn Ahmad was the Emir of Ifriqiya. He ruled from 875 until his abdication in 902. After the demise of his brother, Ibrahim was endorsed as emir where he took steps to improve safety in his domain and secured the development of commercial activities. He improved public works, such as building a vast reservoir, erecting walls as well as the development of mosques and his Raqqada palace.

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