What happened on 11th March?

On this day, 154 notable people were born on 11th March — spanning from 1278 to 2004. From world leaders to artists and scientists, discover who shares this birthday.

11/03/2004

Margarita Kolosov, German rhythmic gymnast

Margarita Kolosov is a German rhythmic gymnast. She is a two-time German all-around champion. She is also a two-time World team silver medalist. Kolosov competed at the 2024 Paris Olympics in the individual all-around, where she came in fourth place.

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11/03/2003

Tristan Vukčević, Serbian-Swedish basketball player

Tristan Tsalikis Vukčević is a Serbian-Greek professional basketball player for the Washington Wizards of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He also represents the Serbian national team.

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11/03/1997

Travis Konecny, Canadian ice hockey player

Travis Konecny is a Canadian professional ice hockey player who is a forward and alternate captain for the Philadelphia Flyers of the National Hockey League (NHL). The Flyers selected him in the first round, 24th overall, of the 2015 NHL entry draft.

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Ray Spalding, American basketball player

Raymond Mark Spalding is an American professional basketball player for the Noblesville Boom of the NBA G League. He played college basketball for the Louisville Cardinals, and was drafted by the Philadelphia 76ers in the second round of the 2018 NBA draft.

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11/03/1996

Conor Garland, American ice hockey player

Conor Garland is an American professional ice hockey player who is a winger for the Columbus Blue Jackets of the National Hockey League (NHL). Garland was drafted in the fifth round, 123rd overall, by the Arizona Coyotes in the 2015 NHL entry draft, and has also played in the NHL for the Vancouver Canucks.

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11/03/1994

Andy Robertson, Scottish footballer

Andrew Henry Robertson is a Scottish professional footballer who plays as a left-back for Premier League club Liverpool and captains the Scotland national team. He is also the vice-captain of Liverpool.

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11/03/1993

Jodie Comer, English actress

Jodie Comer is an English actress of screen and stage. Her accolades include two British Academy Television Awards, a Primetime Emmy Award, a Tony Award, a Laurence Olivier Award, and two nominations for a Golden Globe Award.

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Anthony Davis, American basketball player

Anthony Marshon Davis Jr., nicknamed "AD" and "the Brow", is an American professional basketball player for the Washington Wizards of the National Basketball Association (NBA). Davis, a power forward and center, is a ten-time NBA All-Star and has been named to five All-NBA Teams and five NBA All-Defensive Teams. In 2021, he was named to the NBA 75th Anniversary Team. Davis is widely regarded as one of the greatest power forwards of all time.

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11/03/1992

Austin Swift, American producer and actor

Austin Kingsley Swift is an American music executive, producer, and actor who has appeared in films such as Live by Night and I.T.. The younger brother of singer-songwriter Taylor Swift, he has appeared in and produced several of her music videos, and manages elements of her music licensing for multimedia uses.

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11/03/1990

Ayumi Morita, Japanese tennis player

Ayumi Morita is a Japanese former professional tennis player. She reached a career-high ranking of No. 40 in the world in October 2011. At junior level, she reached a combined career-high ranking of No. 3.

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11/03/1989

Malcolm Delaney, American basketball player

Malcolm Hakeem Delaney is an American former professional basketball player. He is from Baltimore, Maryland, and attended Towson Catholic High School. Delaney played college basketball for the Virginia Tech Hokies men's basketball team. At the end of his college career, Delaney declared for the 2011 NBA draft. He was not drafted, and instead began his professional basketball career overseas, playing one season each for Élan Chalon, Budivelnyk Kyiv, and Bayern Munich, and later joined Lokomotiv Kuban for two seasons. In 2016, he earned an All-EuroLeague First Team selection.

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Orlando Johnson, American basketball player

Orlando Vincent Johnson is an American basketball coach, administrator, and former professional player. He played college basketball for Loyola Marymount and UC Santa Barbara.

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Anton Yelchin, Russian-American actor (died 2016)

Anton Viktorovich Yelchin was an American actor. Born in the Soviet Union to a Russian Jewish family, he immigrated to the United States with his parents at the age of six months. He began his career as a child actor, appearing as the lead of the mystery drama film Hearts in Atlantis (2001) and as a series regular on the Showtime comedy-drama Huff (2004–2006). His fame grew when he guest-starred in a 2004 episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm and when he played the title character in Charlie Bartlett (2007).

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11/03/1988

Pedro Báez, Dominican baseball player

Pedro Alberys Báez is a Dominican former professional baseball pitcher. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Los Angeles Dodgers and Houston Astros. Signed as an international free agent in 2007, Báez made his MLB debut with the Dodgers in 2014, and, in 2020, was a member of the Dodgers' World Series championship club.

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Fábio Coentrão, Portuguese footballer

Fábio Alexandre da Silva Coentrão is a Portuguese former professional footballer. Mainly a left-back, he also operated as a winger and occasionally as a defensive midfielder.

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Cecil Lolo, South African footballer (died 2015)

Cecil Sonwabile Lolo was a South African professional footballer, who played as a defender and midfielder for Ajax Cape Town.

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11/03/1987

Marc-André Gragnani, Canadian ice hockey player

Marc-André Gragnani is a former Canadian professional ice hockey defenceman. He most recently played with Djurgårdens IF then of the Swedish Hockey League (SHL). He spent four-and-a-half seasons playing for the Buffalo Sabres of the National Hockey League and their American Hockey League affiliate, the Portland Pirates. He also played half a season with Vancouver before signing with the Carolina Hurricanes as a free agent. On July 3, 2015, Gragnani signed a one-year, two-way contract with the New Jersey Devils for whom he appeared four times.

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Tanel Kangert, Estonian cyclist

Tanel Kangert is an Estonian former road bicycle racer, who competed as a professional from 2008 to 2022.

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Ngonidzashe Makusha, Zimbabwean sprinter and long jumper

Ngonidzashe Makusha is a Zimbabwean sprinter and long jumper. He is the national record holder over 100 m and long jump for Zimbabwe with 9.89 s (+1.3 m/s) and 8.40 m (0.0 m/s), respectively. Both performances were achieved during the 2011 NCAA Division I Championships in Des Moines, Iowa where he completed the 100 m - long jump double gold. Makusha was one of the only four, now five, athletes to win the 100 m - long jump double gold at the NCAA championships. The four others are DeHart Hubbard (1925), Jesse Owens, Carl Lewis (1981), and Jarrion Lawson (2016).

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11/03/1986

Dario Cologna, Swiss skier

Dario Cologna is a Swiss retired cross-country skier. He has four overall World Cup victories, four Olympic gold medals, one World Championships gold medal and four Tour de Ski victories in his career.

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11/03/1985

Paul Bissonnette, Canadian ice hockey player

Paul Albert Bissonnette, nicknamed "Biz Nasty", is a Canadian professional ice hockey analyst and former player who played in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the Pittsburgh Penguins and Phoenix Coyotes.

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Daniel Vázquez Evuy, Equatoguinean footballer

Daniel Vázquez Evuy, known as Evuy, is a former footballer who played as a defender. Born and raised in Spain to a Spanish father and an Equatorial Guinean mother, he capped for the Equatorial Guinea national team.

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Cassandra Fairbanks, American journalist and activist

Cassandra MacDonald is an American journalist and activist. As a journalist, she has worked for the Russian state-owned international news agency Sputnik (2015–2017), far-right American conspiracy theory websites Big League Politics (2017) and The Gateway Pundit, as well as Timcast.

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Stelios Malezas, Greek footballer

Stelios Malezas is a Greek professional football manager and former player.

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Greg Olsen, American football player and commentator

Gregory Walter Olsen Jr. is an American professional football sportscaster and former tight end who played for 14 seasons in the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Miami Hurricanes and was selected by the Chicago Bears in the first round of the 2007 NFL draft. Olsen played most of his career for the Carolina Panthers, with whom he made three Pro Bowls, and became the first tight end in NFL history to record three consecutive seasons with at least 1,000 receiving yards. Olsen played his final season with the Seattle Seahawks in 2020. Following his retirement Olsen joined Fox as a sportscaster and is formerly the lead color commentator for the NFL on Fox.

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Nikolai Topor-Stanley, Australian footballer

Nikolai David Topor-Stanley is an Australian former soccer player who played as a centre-back. He played for A-League clubs Sydney FC, Perth Glory, Newcastle Jets, Western Sydney Wanderers and Western United. He has also played in international squads, the Olyroos and Socceroos, for Australia.

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11/03/1984

Rob Brown, American actor

Robert Brown is an American actor. He is known for his roles in the films Finding Forrester (2000), Coach Carter (2005), Take the Lead (2006), and The Express: The Ernie Davis Story (2008), and for starring in the HBO series Treme (2010–13) and NBC series Blindspot (2015-2020).

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11/03/1983

Lukáš Krajíček, Czech ice hockey player

Lukáš Krajíček is a Czech former professional ice hockey defenceman. He has previously played in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the Florida Panthers, Vancouver Canucks, Tampa Bay Lightning and Philadelphia Flyers, in the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL) for HC Dinamo Minsk and for HC Oceláři Třinec of the Czech Extraliga (ELH).

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11/03/1982

Brian Anderson, American baseball player

Brian Nikola Anderson is an American former professional baseball player. He played all or part of five seasons in Major League Baseball with the Chicago White Sox and Boston Red Sox as an outfielder, a position he played professionally until before the 2010 season. He also played for the Kansas City Royals and New York Yankees organizations as a pitcher. He is currently an assistant coach at Northwestern.

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Thora Birch, American actress, producer, and director

Thora Birch is an American actress. She made her film debut with a starring role in Purple People Eater (1988) and won a Young Artist Award for "Best Actress Under Nine Years of Age". Birch rose to prominence as a child star during the 1990s through a string of parts in films, such as Paradise (1991), Patriot Games (1992), Hocus Pocus (1993), Monkey Trouble (1994), Now and Then (1995), and Alaska (1996). Her breakthrough into adult-oriented roles came with her portrayal of Jane Burnham in American Beauty (1999), for which she was nominated for the BAFTA for Best Supporting Actress.

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11/03/1981

David Anders, American actor

David Anders Holt, known professionally as David Anders, is an American television and stage actor. He is best known for his roles as Julian Sark on Alias, as Adam Monroe on Heroes, as John Gilbert in the TV series The Vampire Diaries, as Victor Frankenstein / Dr. Whale on ABC's Once Upon a Time, and as Blaine "DeBeers" McDonough on iZombie. Although Anders is American, a few of his roles have required him to use a British Home counties accent.

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Lee Evans, American football player

Lee Evans III is an American former professional football player who was a wide receiver in the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Wisconsin Badgers. Evans was selected by the Buffalo Bills in the first round of the 2004 NFL draft with the 13th overall pick. He also played for the Baltimore Ravens.

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Russell Lissack, English musician

Russell Dean Lissack is an English musician. He is the lead guitarist of London-based indie rock group Bloc Party, whom he founded with Kele Okereke in 1999. He released a self-titled album with side project Pin Me Down in 2010, and was a touring member of Ash from 2010 to 2011.

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LeToya Luckett, American singer-songwriter and actress

LeToya Nicole Luckett-Coles is an American R&B singer and actress. She rose to fame in the late 1990s as a founding member of the R&B girl group Destiny's Child, one of the world's best-selling girl groups of all time. As a member of Destiny's Child, she achieved four US Top 10 hit singles, "No, No, No", "Bills, Bills, Bills", "Jumpin', Jumpin'", and "Say My Name", sold over 25 million records, and won two Grammy Awards. In the 2000s, she began her solo career after leaving the group and signing a record deal with Capitol Records.

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11/03/1980

Rich Hill, American baseball player

Richard Joseph Hill, nicknamed "Dick Mountain", is an American former professional baseball pitcher. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Chicago Cubs, Baltimore Orioles, Boston Red Sox, Cleveland Indians, Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim, New York Yankees, Oakland Athletics, Los Angeles Dodgers, Minnesota Twins, Tampa Bay Rays, New York Mets, Pittsburgh Pirates, San Diego Padres, and Kansas City Royals. He is tied with Edwin Jackson for the MLB record by playing for fourteen teams. He has played during each MLB season from 2005 through 2025, and he was the oldest active MLB player in 2024 and 2025.

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Mark Rober, American YouTuber and engineer

Mark Rober is an American YouTuber, engineer, inventor, and educator. He is known for his YouTube videos on popular science and do-it-yourself gadgets. Before he became a YouTuber, Rober was an engineer with NASA for nine years, where he spent seven years working on the Curiosity rover at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. He later worked for four years at Apple as a product designer in their Special Projects Group, where he authored patents involving virtual reality in self-driving cars.

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Dan Uggla, American baseball player

Daniel Cooley Uggla is an American former professional baseball second baseman. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Florida Marlins, Atlanta Braves, San Francisco Giants, and Washington Nationals. In 2010, Uggla won the Silver Slugger Award at second base.

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11/03/1979

Elton Brand, American basketball player

Elton Tyron Brand is an American former professional basketball player and the general manager of the Philadelphia 76ers of the National Basketball Association (NBA). After playing college basketball for Duke, he was selected with the first overall pick in the 1999 NBA draft by the Chicago Bulls, and later played for the Philadelphia 76ers, the Los Angeles Clippers, Dallas Mavericks and Atlanta Hawks. He was a two-time NBA All Star and an All-NBA Second Team selection in 2006.

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Fred Jones, American basketball player

Frederick Terrell Jones is an American former professional basketball player. He played college basketball for the Oregon Ducks and was the winner of the NBA Slam Dunk Contest at the 2004 NBA All-Star Game.

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Benji Madden, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

Benjamin Levi Madden is an American musician, singer, and songwriter. He is the rhythm guitarist and backing vocalist for the rock band Good Charlotte—for which he has received various awards—and the pop rock collaboration the Madden Brothers. He formed both of these acts with his identical twin brother, Joel Madden, with whom he was a coach on The Voice Australia from 2015 to 2016.

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Joel Madden, American singer-songwriter and producer

Joel Rueben Madden is an American singer and songwriter. He is best known as the lead vocalist for the rock band Good Charlotte. He is also part of the pop rock collaboration the Madden Brothers with his identical twin brother Benji Madden.

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11/03/1978

Didier Drogba, Ivorian footballer

Didier Yves Drogba Tébily (French pronunciation: [didje iv dʁɔɡba tebili]; born 11 March 1978) is an Ivorian former professional footballer who played as a striker. He is the all-time top scorer and former captain of the Ivory Coast national team. He also ranks fourth for the all-time African men's top goalscorers in international football. Best known for his career at Chelsea, he is the club’s all-time top goalscorer as a foreign player and the club's fourth-highest goalscorer of all time. Widely regarded as one of the greatest African players of all time, Drogba was named African Footballer of the Year twice in 2006 and 2009.

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Albert Luque, Spanish footballer

Albert Luque Martos is a Spanish former footballer who played as a left winger or striker.

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11/03/1977

Becky Hammon, American-Russian basketball player and coach

Rebecca Lynn Hammon is an American-Russian professional basketball coach and former player who is the head coach of the Las Vegas Aces of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA). She is considered among the most influential figures in basketball, as a pioneer for female coaches in the National Basketball Association (NBA) and one of the greatest players and coaches in WNBA history.

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Michal Handzuš, Slovak ice hockey player

Michal Handzuš is a Slovak former professional ice hockey centre. Handzuš played for hometown club, HC ’05 Banská Bystrica of the Slovak Extraliga before joining the National Hockey League (NHL) in 1998. Handzuš played for the St. Louis Blues, Phoenix Coyotes, Philadelphia Flyers, Los Angeles Kings, San Jose Sharks and the Chicago Blackhawks, with whom he won the Stanley Cup with in 2013.

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11/03/1976

Thomas Gravesen, Danish footballer

Thomas Gravesen is a Danish former professional footballer who played as a midfielder.

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11/03/1974

Bobby Abreu, Venezuelan baseball player

Bob Kelly Abreu, nicknamed "El Comedulce" and "La Leche", is a Venezuelan former professional baseball right fielder. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Houston Astros, Philadelphia Phillies, New York Yankees, Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim, Los Angeles Dodgers, and New York Mets.

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11/03/1971

Johnny Knoxville, American actor and entertainer

Philip John Clapp, known professionally as Johnny Knoxville, is an American stunt performer, actor, producer, and screenwriter. He is best known as a co-creator and star of the MTV reality stunt show Jackass (2000–2001) and its subsequent movies.

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Martin Ručinský, Czech ice hockey player

Martin Ručinský is a Czech former professional ice hockey player who played 16 seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL). Ručínský was drafted by the Edmonton Oilers in the first round as the 20th overall selection in the 1991 NHL entry draft on 22 June 1991.

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Lee Sang-hoon, South Korean baseball player

Lee Sang-hoon, nicknamed "Samson" for his long hair, is a retired professional baseball player who played in Major League Baseball, Nippon Professional Baseball, and the KBO League.

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11/03/1969

Terrence Howard, American actor and producer

Terrence Dashon Howard is an American actor performing on film and television. He has received a Screen Actors Guild Award as well as nominations for an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award, and two Independent Spirit Awards.

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Soraya, Colombian-American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (died 2006)

Soraya Raquel Lamilla Cuevas was a Colombian-American singer-songwriter, guitarist, arranger and record producer.

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Michael Rulli, American politician and businessman

Michael Anthony Rulli is an American politician and businessman serving as the U.S. representative for Ohio's 6th congressional district since 2024. A member of the Republican Party, he previously served as an Ohio State Senator for the 33rd district from 2019 to 2024.

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11/03/1968

Lisa Loeb, American singer-songwriter

Lisa Anne Loeb is an American singer-songwriter, musician, author and actress. She started her career with "Stay " (1994) from the film Reality Bites, the first number-one single on the Billboard Hot 100 for an artist without a recording contract. She achieved additional top-20 singles with "Do You Sleep?" in 1996 and "I Do" in 1998. Her albums Tails (1995) and Firecracker (1997) were certified gold.

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11/03/1967

John Barrowman, Scottish-American actor and singer

John Scot Barrowman is a Scottish-American actor, author, presenter, singer and comic book writer. He is known for his roles as Captain Jack Harkness in Doctor Who and its spin-off Torchwood (2006–2011), and as Malcolm Merlyn in the Arrowverse (2012–2019).

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Sergei Bautin, Belarusian ice hockey player and coach (died 2022)

Sergei Viktorovich Bautin was a Soviet-born ice hockey player who played in the National Hockey League for the Winnipeg Jets, Detroit Red Wings and the San Jose Sharks.

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Brad Carson, American lawyer and politician

Brad Rogers Carson is an American lawyer and politician who was the 21st president of the University of Tulsa from 2021 to 2025. A member of the Democratic Party, he served two terms in the United States House of Representatives from 2001 to 2005.

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11/03/1966

John Thompson III, American basketball player and coach

John Robert Thompson III is an American professional basketball coach and executive who has been the assistant coach for the United States men's national basketball team since 2017. He previously served as the head coach of the men's basketball team at Georgetown University.

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11/03/1965

Nigel Adkins, English footballer and manager

Nigel Howard Adkins is an English professional football manager and former footballer and physiotherapist. He was most recently the manager and technical director at Tranmere Rovers.

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Jesse Jackson, Jr., American lawyer and politician

Jesse Louis Jackson Jr. is an American former politician. A Democrat, Jackson served as the U.S. representative from Illinois's 2nd congressional district from 1995 to 2012.

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Wallace Langham, American actor

James Wallace Langham II is an American actor. He is known for his roles in television shows, playing the role of Phil the Head Writer on The Larry Sanders Show (1992–1998), Josh Blair in Veronica's Closet (1997–2000), and as David Hodges on the crime drama television series CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2000–2015), a role he would reprise in CSI: Vegas (2021). He began his career in 1985 under the stage name Wally Ward before reverting to his real name in 1989. He would have roles in films such as Weird Science, Michael, Daddy Day Care, Little Miss Sunshine, The Social Network and Ford v Ferrari, and make appearances in series such as ER, The West Wing, For All Mankind and Physical.

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Jenny Packham, English fashion designer

Jenny Packham is a British fashion designer. She mostly makes ready-to-wear clothes and wedding dresses. She is the sister of naturalist and television presenter Chris Packham.

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11/03/1964

Peter Berg, American director, producer, screenwriter, and actor

Peter Berg is an American director, producer, writer, and actor. His directorial film works include the black comedy Very Bad Things (1998), the action comedy The Rundown (2003), the sports drama Friday Night Lights (2004), the action thriller The Kingdom (2007), the superhero comedy-drama Hancock (2008), the military science fiction war film Battleship (2012), the war film Lone Survivor (2013), the disaster drama Deepwater Horizon (2016), the Boston Marathon bombing drama Patriots Day (2016), the action thriller Mile 22 (2018), and the action comedy Spenser Confidential (2020), the latter five all starring Mark Wahlberg. In addition to cameo appearances in the last six of these titles, he has had prominent acting roles in films including Never on Tuesday (1989), Shocker (1989), A Midnight Clear (1992), The Last Seduction (1994), The Great White Hype (1996), Cop Land (1997), Corky Romano (2001), Collateral (2004), Smokin' Aces (2006), and Lions for Lambs (2007).

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Raimo Helminen, Finnish ice hockey player and coach

Raimo Ilmari Helminen is a Finnish former professional ice hockey player. He is often called "Raipe" or "Maestro" by his fans. He is the world record holder for most international games played by a hockey player, as well as for tied for being the hockey player in the most Olympic Games, and his 26 seasons as a professional is one of the longest careers in professional hockey history. He was inducted into the IIHF Hall of Fame in 2012.

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Vinnie Paul, American drummer, songwriter and producer (died 2018)

Vincent Paul Abbott was an American musician best known for being the drummer and co-founder of the heavy metal band Pantera. He also co-founded Damageplan in 2003 with his younger brother, "Dimebag" Darrell Abbott, and was a member of Hellyeah for 12 years from 2006 until his death in 2018. Several outlets have ranked Abbott as among the greatest metal drummers of all time.

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Shane Richie, English actor and singer

Shane Patrick Paul Roche, known as Shane Richie, is an English actor, comedian, presenter and singer. Following initial success as a stage and screen performer, he became best known for his portrayal of the character Alfie Moon in the BBC One soap opera EastEnders and then in its spin-off RTÉ Drama Redwater in 2017. In 2020, he appeared on the twentieth series of I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here and finished in fourth place.

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11/03/1963

Gary Barnett, English footballer and manager

Gary Lloyd Barnett is an English former professional footballer and football coach. He made nearly 400 appearances in the Football League playing as a midfielder for Oxford United, Wimbledon, Fulham, Huddersfield Town, Leyton Orient and Kidderminster Harriers. After leaving Leyton Orient in the summer of 1995, he was on trial with Norwegian club IL Hødd. As player-manager of League of Wales club Barry Town, he was honoured with the League of Wales Manager of the Year award in three consecutive seasons, for leading the club to a succession of domestic honours and to the first round proper of the 1996–97 UEFA Cup.

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Alex Kingston, English actress

Alexandra Elizabeth Kingston is an English actress. Active from the early 1980s, Kingston became noted for her television work in both Britain and the US in the 1990s, including her regular role as Dr. Elizabeth Corday in the NBC medical drama ER (1997–2004) and her title role in the ITV miniseries The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders (1996), which earned her a BAFTA nomination for Best Actress.

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David LaChapelle, American photographer and director

David LaChapelle is an American photographer, music video director, and film director. He is best known for his work in fashion and photography, which often references art history and sometimes conveys social messages. His photographic style has been described as "hyper-real and slyly subversive" and as "kitsch pop surrealism". Once called "the Fellini of photography", LaChapelle has worked for international publications and has had his work exhibited in commercial galleries and institutions around the world.

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11/03/1962

Matt Mead, American politician, 32nd Governor of Wyoming

Matthew Hansen Mead is an American attorney, businessman, and politician who served as the 32nd governor of Wyoming from 2011 to 2019. A member of the Republican Party, he previously was the United States Attorney for the District of Wyoming from 2001 to 2007.

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Jeffrey Nordling, American actor

Jeffrey Richard Nordling is an American actor. He is known for his roles as Jake Manning in Once and Again, Larry Moss in 24, Nick Bolen in Desperate Housewives, and Gordon Klein in Big Little Lies, as well as Coach Orion in D3: The Mighty Ducks.

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11/03/1961

Elias Koteas, Canadian actor

Elias Koteas is a Canadian actor who has performed in lead and supporting roles in numerous films and television series. He won the Canadian Screen Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in the film Ararat (2002).

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Bruce Watson, Canadian-Scottish guitarist

Bruce William Watson is a Canadian-born Scottish guitarist, best known for being a member of Big Country.

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11/03/1960

Warwick Taylor, New Zealand rugby player

Warwick Thomas Taylor is a former New Zealand rugby union player. He won 24 caps for the All Blacks between 1983 and 1988 and played in the victorious New Zealand team at the 1987 Rugby World Cup.

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11/03/1959

Nina Hartley, American pornographic actress/director, sex educator, sex-positive feminist, and author

Marie Louise Hartman, known professionally as Nina Hartley, is an American pornographic film actress and sex educator. By 2017 she had appeared in more than 1,000 adult films. She has been described by Las Vegas Weekly as an "outspoken feminist" and "advocate for sexual freedom", and by CNBC as "a legend in the adult world".

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11/03/1958

Anissa Jones, American child actress (died 1976)

Mary Anissa Jones was an American child actress known for her role as Buffy Davis on the CBS sitcom Family Affair, which ran from 1966 to 1971. She died from a drug overdose, five years after the show ended.

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11/03/1957

Qasem Soleimani, Former Iranian commander of the Quds Force (died 2020)

Qasem Soleimani was an Iranian military officer who served in the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). From 1998 until his assassination by the United States in 2020, he was the commander of the Quds Force, an IRGC division primarily responsible for extraterritorial and clandestine military operations, and played a key role in the Syrian civil war through securing Russian intervention. He was described as "the single most powerful operative in the Middle East" and a "genius of asymmetric warfare". Former Mossad director Yossi Cohen said Soleimani's strategies had "personally tightened a noose around Israel's neck".

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11/03/1956

Willie Banks, American triple jumper

William Augustus Banks III is an American athlete. Born at Travis Air Force Base, California, he grew up in San Diego County and went to Oceanside High School. Banks is an Eagle Scout.

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Helen Rollason, English sports journalist and sportscaster (died 1999)

Helen Frances Rollason was a British sports journalist and television presenter, who in 1990 became the first female presenter of the BBC's sports programme Grandstand. She was also a regular presenter of Sport on Friday, and of the children's programme Newsround during the 1980s.

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11/03/1955

Leslie Cliff, Canadian swimmer

Leslie G. Cliff,, later known by her married name Leslie Tindle, is a Canadian former competitive swimmer who participated in the Olympics, Commonwealth Games and Pan American Games.

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Nina Hagen, German singer-songwriter

Catharina "Nina" Hagen is a German singer, songwriter, and actress. She is known for her theatrical vocals and rise to prominence during the punk and Neue Deutsche Welle movements in the late 1970s and early 1980s. She is known as "The Godmother of German Punk".

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11/03/1954

David Newman, American composer and conductor

David Louis Newman is an American composer and conductor known particularly for his film scores. In a career spanning more than thirty years, he has composed music for nearly 100 feature films, as well as the 1997 and 1998 versions of the 20th Century Fox fanfare. He received an Academy Award nomination for writing the score to the 1997 film Anastasia, contributing to the Newmans being the most nominated Academy Award extended family, with a collective 92 nominations in various music categories.

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Gale Norton, American politician, 48th United States Secretary of the Interior

Gale Ann Norton is an American politician and attorney who served as the 48th United States Secretary of the Interior under President George W. Bush from 2001 to 2006. A member of the Republican Party, she previously served as the 35th Attorney General of Colorado from 1991 to 1999. Norton was the first woman to hold each of those posts.

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11/03/1953

Derek Daly, Irish-American race car driver and sportscaster

Derek Patrick Daly is an Irish former racing driver, businessman and broadcaster, who competed in Formula One from 1978 to 1982.

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Jimmy Iovine, American record producer and businessman, co-founded Beats Electronics

James Iovine is an American entrepreneur, former record executive, and media proprietor. He co-founded Interscope Records in 1990, and served as chairman and CEO of Interscope Geffen A&M, an umbrella music unit formed by Universal Music Group, from 1999 to 2014.

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Bernie LaBarge, Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist

Bernie LaBarge is a Canadian performing and session guitarist, singer and songwriter, and producer.

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11/03/1952

Douglas Adams, English author and playwright (died 2001)

Douglas Noël Adams was an English author, humourist, and screenwriter. He was best known as the creator of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, a 1978 radio comedy series which he adapted into a "trilogy" of five books that sold over 14 million copies in his lifetime. He also adapted it into a 1981 television series, a 1984 video game and a 2005 feature film.

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11/03/1951

Dominique Sanda, French model and actress

Dominique Marie-Françoise Renée Varaigne, professionally known as Dominique Sanda, is a French actress.

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11/03/1950

Bobby McFerrin, American singer-songwriter, producer, and conductor

Robert Keith McFerrin Jr. is an American singer, songwriter, and conductor. His vocal techniques include singing fluidly but with quick and considerable jumps in pitch—for example, sustaining a melody while also rapidly alternating with arpeggios and harmonies—as well as scat singing, polyphonic overtone singing, and improvisational vocal percussion. McFerrin performs and records regularly as an unaccompanied solo vocal artist and has frequently collaborated with other artists from both the jazz and classical scenes.

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Jerry Zucker, American director, producer, and screenwriter

Jerry Gordon Zucker is an American film director, producer, and screenwriter. With his brother David and Jim Abrahams, he is part the filmmaking trio Zucker, Abrahams and Zucker.

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11/03/1948

Roy Barnes, American politician, 80th Governor of Georgia

Roy Eugene Barnes is an American attorney and politician who served as the 80th governor of Georgia from 1999 to 2003. As of 2026, he is the most recent Democrat to serve as governor of Georgia.

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Jim McMillian, American basketball player (died 2016)

James M. McMillian was an American professional basketball player. After starring at Thomas Jefferson High School in Brooklyn, McMillian played college basketball for the Columbia Lions. He led Columbia to a three-year mark of 63–14, and their last NCAA Tournament appearance in 1968, his sophomore year. The tourney ended with a third-place finish for Columbia in the East regional, and Columbia ended that 1967–68 season the sixth-ranked college team in the nation.

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11/03/1947

Tristan Murail, French composer and educator

Tristan Murail is a French composer associated with the "spectral" technique of composition. Among his compositions is the large orchestral work Gondwana.

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11/03/1946

Mark Metcalf, American actor

Mark Metcalf is an American television and film actor often playing the role of an antagonistic and aggrieved authority figure.

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11/03/1945

Dock Ellis, American baseball player and coach (died 2008)

Dock Phillip Ellis Jr. was an American professional baseball player. He played in Major League Baseball as a right-handed pitcher from 1968 through 1979, most notably as a member of the Pittsburgh Pirates teams that won five National League Eastern Division titles in six years between 1970 and 1975 and won the World Series in 1971. Ellis also played for the New York Yankees, Oakland Athletics, Texas Rangers and New York Mets. In his MLB career, Ellis accumulated a 138–119 (.537) record, a 3.46 earned run average, and 1,136 strikeouts.

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Harvey Mandel, American guitarist

Harvey "The Snake" Mandel is an American guitarist best known as a member of Canned Heat. He also played with Charlie Musselwhite and John Mayall as well as maintaining a solo career.

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11/03/1943

Arturo Merzario, Italian race car driver

Arturo Francesco "Art" Merzario is an Italian racing driver and motorsport executive, who competed in Formula One from 1972 to 1979.

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11/03/1941

Shelly Zegart, quilt historian (died 2025)

Rochelle Zegart was an American quilt collector, historian, and advocate. She was involved in the establishment of several quilting organizations and is best known for her work promoting quilting as an art form and archiving quilting history.

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11/03/1940

Alberto Cortez, Argentinian-Spanish singer-songwriter (died 2019)

Alberto Cortez was an Argentine singer and songwriter. Cortez and his wife Renée Govaerts lived in Madrid.

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11/03/1936

Antonin Scalia, American lawyer and jurist, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (died 2016)

Antonin Gregory Scalia was an American jurist who served as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1986 until his death in 2016. He was described as the intellectual anchor for the originalist and textualist position in the Court's conservative wing. For catalyzing an originalist and textualist movement in American law, he has been described as one of the most influential jurists of the twentieth century, and one of the most important justices in the history of the Supreme Court. Scalia was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2018, and the Antonin Scalia Law School at George Mason University was named in his honor.

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11/03/1934

Sam Donaldson, American journalist

Samuel Andrew Donaldson Jr. is an American retired television reporter and news anchor. He broadcast with ABC News from 1967 to 2009. He was well known as the White House Correspondent with a booming loud voice, which could get the attention of President Reagan, amazingly cutting through the noise of whirling helicopter blades. He was a panelist and co-anchor of Sunday's This Week on the American Broadcasting Company (ABC).

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11/03/1932

Leroy Jenkins, American violinist and composer (died 2007)

Leroy Jenkins was an American composer and violinist/violist.

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Nigel Lawson, English journalist and politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer (died 2023)

Nigel Lawson, Baron Lawson of Blaby was a British politician, journalist and climate change denier. A member of the Conservative Party, he served as Member of Parliament for Blaby in Leicestershire from 1974 to 1992, and served in Margaret Thatcher's Cabinet from 1981 to 1989. Prior to entering the Cabinet, he served as the Financial Secretary to the Treasury from May 1979 until his promotion to Secretary of State for Energy. He was appointed Chancellor of the Exchequer in June 1983 and served until his resignation in October 1989. In both Cabinet posts, Lawson was a key proponent of Thatcher's policies of privatisation of several key industries.

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11/03/1931

Rupert Murdoch, Australian-American businessman and media magnate

Keith Rupert Murdoch is an Australian-born American former business magnate, investor, and media mogul. Through his company News Corp, he is the owner of hundreds of local, national, and international publishing outlets around the world, including in the United Kingdom, in Australia, in the United States, book publisher HarperCollins, and the television broadcasting channels Sky News Australia and Fox News. He was also the owner of Sky, 21st Century Fox, and the now-defunct News of the World. With a net worth of US$21.7 billion as of 2 March 2022, Murdoch is the 31st-richest person in the United States and the 71st richest in the world according to Forbes magazine. Due to his extensive wealth and influence over media and politics, Murdoch has been described as an oligarch.

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11/03/1930

David Gentleman, English illustrator and engraver

David William Gentleman is an English artist. He studied art and painting at the Royal College of Art under Edward Bawden and John Nash. He has worked in watercolour, lithography and wood engraving, at scales ranging from platform-length murals for Charing Cross Underground Station in London to postage stamps and logos.

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Claude Jutra, Canadian actor, director and screenwriter (died 1986)

Claude Jutra was a Canadian actor, film director, and screenwriter.

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11/03/1929

Timothy Carey, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (died 1994)

Timothy Agoglia Carey was an American film and television character actor who was typically cast as manic or violent characters who are driven to extremes. He is particularly known for his collaborations with Stanley Kubrick in the films The Killing (1956) and Paths of Glory (1957), and for appearing in the two John Cassavetes directed films Minnie and Moskowitz (1971) and The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (1976). Other notable film credits include Crime Wave (1954), East of Eden (1955), One-Eyed Jacks (1961), Beach Blanket Bingo (1965), Head (1968) and The Outfit (1973).

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Jackie McGlew, South African cricketer (died 1998)

Derrick John "Jackie" McGlew was a cricketer who played for Natal and South Africa. He was educated at Merchiston Preparatory School and Maritzburg College, where he was Head Dayboy Prefect and captain of both cricket and rugby in 1948.

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11/03/1927

Vince Boryla, American basketball player, coach, and executive (died 2016)

Vincent Joseph Boryla was an American basketball player, coach and executive. His nickname was "Moose". He graduated from East Chicago Washington High School in 1944. He played basketball at the University of Notre Dame and the University of Denver, where he was named a consensus All-American in 1949. Boryla was part of the U.S. team that won the gold medal at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London.

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Freda Meissner-Blau, Austrian activist and politician (died 2015)

Freda Meissner-Blau was an Austrian politician, activist, and prominent figurehead in the Austrian environmental movement. She was a founder and the federal spokesperson of the Austrian Green Party.

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Robert Mosbacher, American businessman, and politician, United States Secretary of Commerce (died 2010)

Robert Adam Mosbacher Sr. was an American businessman, accomplished yacht racer, and a Republican politician. A longtime friend and political ally of George H. W. Bush, Mosbacher served in Bush's Cabinet as Secretary of Commerce from 1989 to 1992.

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Josep Maria Subirachs, Spanish sculptor and painter (died 2014)

Josep Maria Subirachs i Sitjar was a Spanish sculptor and painter of the late 20th century. His best known work is probably the Passion Facade of the basilica of the Sagrada Família in Barcelona. He was controversial, as he did not make any concessions to the style of the architect who designed the building, Antoni Gaudí.

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11/03/1926

Ralph Abernathy, American minister and activist (died 1990)

Ralph David Abernathy Sr. was an American civil rights activist and Baptist minister. He was ordained in the Baptist tradition in 1948. Being a leader of the civil rights movement, Abernathy was a close friend and mentor of Martin Luther King Jr. and collaborated with him and E. D. Nixon to create the Montgomery Improvement Association, which led and co-created the Montgomery bus boycott and was an executive board member of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC). Abernathy became president of the SCLC following the assassination of King in 1968 and led the Poor People's Campaign in Washington, D.C., in addition to other marches and demonstrations for disenfranchised Americans. He also served as an advisory committee member of the Congress on Racial Equality (CORE).

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11/03/1925

Margaret Oakley Dayhoff, American biochemist and academic (died 1983)

Margaret Belle (Oakley) Dayhoff was an American biophysicist and a pioneer in the field of bioinformatics. Dayhoff was a professor at Georgetown University Medical Center and a noted research biochemist at the National Biomedical Research Foundation, where she pioneered the application of mathematics and computational methods to the field of biochemistry. She dedicated her career to applying the evolving computational technologies to support advances in biology and medicine, most notably the creation of protein and nucleic acid databases and tools to interrogate the databases. She originated one of the first substitution matrices, point accepted mutations (PAM). The one-letter code used for amino acids was developed by her, reflecting an attempt to reduce the size of the data files used to describe amino acid sequences in an era of punch-card computing.

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11/03/1923

Louise Brough, American tennis player (died 2014)

Althea Louise Brough Clapp was an American tennis player. In her career between 1939 and 1959, she won six Grand Slam titles in singles as well as numerous doubles and mixed-doubles titles. At the end of the 1955 tennis season, Lance Tingay of the London Daily Telegraph ranked her world No. 1 for the year.

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11/03/1922

Cornelius Castoriadis, Greek economist and philosopher (died 1997)

Cornelius Castoriadis was a Greek-French philosopher, sociologist, social critic, economist, psychoanalyst, author of The Imaginary Institution of Society, and co-founder of the Socialisme ou Barbarie collective.

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Abdul Razak Hussein, Malaysian lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of Malaysia (died 1976)

Abdul Razak bin Hussein was a Malaysian lawyer and politician who served as the second prime minister of Malaysia from 1970 until his death in 1976. He also served as the first deputy prime minister of Malaysia from 1957 to 1970. He is referred to as the "Father of Development" of Malaysia.

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José Luis López Vázquez, Spanish actor, costume designer, scenic designer and assistant director (died 2009)

José Luis López Vázquez de la Torre was a Spanish actor, comedian, costume designer, scenic designer, and assistant director whose career spanned nearly seven decades. He was one of the most prolific and successful actors in Spain in the 20th century, starring in 262 films between 1946 and 2007. Internationally he was best known for his lead role in the surrealist horror telefilm La cabina (1972).

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11/03/1921

Astor Piazzolla, Argentine tango composer and bandoneon player (died 1992)

Astor Pantaleón Piazzolla was an Argentine tango composer, bandoneon player, and arranger. His works revolutionized the traditional tango into a new style termed nuevo tango, incorporating elements from jazz and classical music. A virtuoso bandoneonist, he regularly performed his own compositions with a variety of ensembles. In 1992, American music critic Stephen Holden described Piazzolla as "the world's foremost composer of Tango music".

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11/03/1920

Nicolaas Bloembergen, Dutch-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2017)

Nicolaas Bloembergen was a Dutch–American physicist recognized for his work in developing driving principles behind nonlinear optics for laser spectroscopy. During his career, he was a professor at Harvard University and later at the University of Arizona and at Leiden University in 1973.

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11/03/1916

Harold Wilson, English academic and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (died 1995)

James Harold Wilson, Baron Wilson of Rievaulx, was a British politician who twice served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, from 1964 to 1970 and from 1974 to 1976. He was Leader of the Labour Party from 1963 to 1976, Leader of the Opposition twice from 1963 to 1964 and again from 1970 to 1974, and a Member of Parliament (MP) from 1945 to 1983. Wilson is the only Labour leader to have formed governments following four general elections.

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11/03/1915

Vijay Hazare, Indian cricketer (died 2004)

Vijay Samuel Hazare was an Indian cricketer. He captained India in 14 matches between 1951 and 1953. In India's 25th Test match, nearly 20 years after India achieved Test status, he led India to its first Test cricket win in 1951–52 against England at Madras, winning by an innings and eight runs in a match that began on the day that King George VI died. He received the C. K. Nayudu Lifetime Achievement Award in 1996, the highest honour bestowed by BCCI on a former player.

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J. C. R. Licklider, American computer scientist and psychologist (died 1990)

Joseph Carl Robnett Licklider, known simply as J. C. R. or "Lick", was an American psychologist and computer scientist who is considered to be among the most prominent figures in computer science development and general computing history.

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Dude Martin, American country singer, bandleader, radio and television host (died 1991)

John Stephen McSwain, better known by his stage name Dude Martin, was an American country singer and bandleader, radio and early television personality.

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11/03/1913

Wolf-Dietrich Wilcke, German colonel and pilot (died 1944)

Wolf-Dietrich Wilcke was a German Luftwaffe pilot during World War II, a fighter ace credited with 162 enemy aircraft shot down in 732 combat missions. He claimed most of his victories over the Eastern Front, and 25 over the Western Front, including four four-engined bombers.

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11/03/1911

Sir Fitzroy Maclean, 1st Baronet, Scottish general and politician (died 1996)

Sir Fitzroy Hew Royle Maclean, 1st Baronet, was a British Army officer, writer and politician. A Unionist Member of Parliament (MP) from 1941 to 1974 Maclean was one of only two soldiers who during the Second World War enlisted in the British Army as a private and rose to the rank of brigadier, the other being future fellow Conservative MP Enoch Powell.

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11/03/1910

Robert Havemann, German chemist and academic (died 1982)

Robert Havemann was an East German chemist, physicist, and dissident.

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11/03/1908

Matti Sippala, Finnish javelin thrower (died 1997)

Matti Kalervo Sippala was a Finnish athlete. His main event was the javelin throw, in which he won the silver medal at both the 1932 Summer Olympics and the 1934 European Championships, but he was also a good pentathlete, breaking the unofficial world record in 1931.

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11/03/1907

Jessie Matthews, English actress, singer, and dancer (died 1981)

Jessie Margaret Matthews was an English actress, dancer and singer who rose to fame in the 1920s and 1930s, with her career continuing into the post-war period.

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11/03/1903

Ronald Syme, New Zealand historian and scholar (died 1989)

Sir Ronald Syme was a New Zealand-born historian and classicist. He was regarded as the greatest historian of ancient Rome since Theodor Mommsen and the most brilliant exponent of the history of the Roman Empire since Edward Gibbon. His great work was The Roman Revolution (1939), a masterly and controversial analysis of political life in the Roman Republic following the assassination of Julius Caesar, offering critical views about Octavian in particular that challenged widely accepted views in contemporary academia.

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Lawrence Welk, American accordion player and bandleader (died 1992)

Lawrence Welk was an American accordionist, bandleader, and television impresario, who hosted The Lawrence Welk Show from 1951 to 1982. The program was known for its light and family-friendly style, and the easy listening music featured became known as "champagne music" to his radio, television, and live-performance audiences.

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11/03/1899

Frederik IX of Denmark (died 1972)

Frederik IX was King of Denmark from 1947 to 1972.

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James H. Douglas, Jr., American lawyer, and politician, United States Deputy Secretary of Defense (died 1988)

James Henderson Douglas Jr. was an American lawyer and government official who was Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, serving under both President Herbert Hoover and President Franklin Roosevelt. During the Eisenhower Administration, he served in the United States Department of Defense as Secretary of the Air Force and Deputy Secretary of Defense.

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11/03/1898

Dorothy Gish, American actress (died 1968)

Dorothy Elizabeth Gish was an American stage and screen actress. Dorothy and her older sister Lillian Gish were major movie stars of the silent era. Dorothy also had great success on the stage, and was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame. Dorothy Gish was noted as a fine comedian, and many of her films were comedies.

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11/03/1897

Henry Cowell, American pianist and composer (died 1965)

Henry Dixon Cowell was an American composer, writer, pianist, publisher, and music teacher. Earning a reputation as an extremely controversial performer and eccentric composer, Cowell became a leading figure of American avant-garde music for the first half of the 20th century. His writings and music served as a great influence on composers such as Lou Harrison, George Antheil, and John Cage. He is considered one of the most important and influential composers from the United States.

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11/03/1893

Wanda Gág, American author and illustrator (died 1946)

Wanda Hazel Gág was an American artist, author, translator, and illustrator. She is best known for writing and illustrating the children's book Millions of Cats, the oldest American picture book still in print. Gág was also a noted print-maker, receiving international recognition and awards. Growing Pains, a book of excerpts from the diaries of her teen and young adult years, received widespread critical acclaim. Two of her books were awarded Newbery Honors and two received Caldecott Honors. The New York Public Library included Millions of Cats on its 2013 list of 100 Great Children's Books.

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11/03/1890

Vannevar Bush, American engineer and academic (died 1974)

Vannevar Bush was an American engineer, inventor and science administrator, who during World War II headed the U.S. Office of Scientific Research and Development (OSRD), through which almost all wartime military R&D was carried out, including important developments in radar and the initiation and early administration of the Manhattan Project. He emphasized the importance of scientific research to national security and economic well-being, and was chiefly responsible for the movement that led to the creation of the National Science Foundation.

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11/03/1887

Raoul Walsh, American actor and director (died 1980)

Raoul Walsh was an American film director, actor, founding member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), and the brother of silent cinema actor George Walsh. He portrayed John Wilkes Booth in the silent film The Birth of a Nation (1915) and directed the widescreen epic The Big Trail (1930) starring John Wayne in his first leading role, The Roaring Twenties starring James Cagney, Gladys George, Priscilla Lane and Humphrey Bogart, High Sierra (1941) starring Ida Lupino and Humphrey Bogart, and White Heat (1949) starring James Cagney, Edmond O'Brien, Virginia Mayo and Margaret Wycherly. He directed his last film in 1964. His work has been noted as influences on directors such as Rainer Werner Fassbinder and Martin Scorsese.

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11/03/1885

Malcolm Campbell, English race car driver (died 1948)

Major Sir Malcolm Campbell was a British racing motorist and motoring journalist. He gained the world speed record on land and on water at various times, using vehicles called Blue Bird, including a 1921 Grand Prix Sunbeam. His son, Donald Campbell, carried on the family tradition by holding both land speed and water speed records.

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11/03/1884

Lewi Pethrus, Swedish minister and hymn-writer (died 1974)

Lewi Pethrus was a Swedish Pentecostal minister who played a decisive role in the formation and development of the Pentecostal movement in his country. In 1964, he founded the political party the Christian Democrats.

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11/03/1880

Harry H. Laughlin, American eugenicist and sociologist (died 1943)

Harry Hamilton Laughlin was an American educator and eugenicist. He served as the superintendent of the Eugenics Record Office from its inception in 1910 to its closure in 1939, and was among the most active individuals influencing American eugenics policy, especially compulsory sterilization legislation.

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11/03/1876

Carl Ruggles, American composer and painter (died 1971)

Carl Ruggles was an American composer, painter and teacher. His pieces employed "dissonant counterpoint", a term coined by fellow composer and musicologist Charles Seeger to describe Ruggles' music. His method of atonal counterpoint was based on a non-serial technique of avoiding repeating a pitch class until a generally fixed number of eight pitch classes intervened. He is considered a founder of the ultramodernist movement of American composers that included Henry Cowell and Ruth Crawford Seeger, among others. He had no formal musical education, yet was an extreme perfectionist—writing music at a painstakingly slow rate and leaving behind a very small output.

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11/03/1870

Louis Bachelier, French mathematician and theorist (died 1946)

Louis Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Bachelier was a French mathematician at the turn of the 20th century. He is credited with being the first person to model the stochastic process now called Brownian motion, as part of his doctoral thesis The Theory of Speculation.

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11/03/1863

Andrew Stoddart, English cricketer and rugby player (died 1915)

Andrew Ernest Stoddart was an English sportsman who played international cricket for England, and rugby union for England and the British Isles. He was a Wisden Cricketer of the Year in 1893.

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11/03/1822

Joseph Louis François Bertrand, French mathematician, economist, and academic (died 1900)

Joseph Louis François Bertrand was a French mathematician and historian of science whose work emphasized number theory, differential geometry, probability theory, economics and thermodynamics.

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11/03/1819

Henry Tate, English businessman and philanthropist, founded Tate & Lyle (died 1899)

Sir Henry Tate, 1st Baronet was a British sugar merchant, sugar-baker and philanthropist, known for establishing the Tate Gallery and Henry Tate & Sons, which later became Tate & Lyle.

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11/03/1818

Marius Petipa, French-Russian dancer and choreographer (died 1910)

Marius Ivanovich Petipa was a French and Russian ballet dancer, pedagogue and choreographer. He is considered one of the most influential ballet masters and choreographers in ballet history.

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11/03/1815

Anna Bochkoltz, German operatic soprano, voice teacher and composer (died 1879)

Anna Juliane Bochkoltz was a German operatic soprano, voice teacher and composer. She performed her first concert in 1843, then studied in Brussels and Paris. After singing concerts in Paris, London and Berlin, she appeared in the 1850s on opera stages in Wiesbaden, Frankfurt, Munich and Coburg. She was known for the range of her voice, and was regarded as one of the important dramatic coloratura sopranos of her era, appearing as Mozart's Donna Anna, Beethoven's Fidelio and Bellini's Norma. She later taught singing in Vienna, Strasbourg and Paris.

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11/03/1811

Urbain Le Verrier, French mathematician and astronomer (died 1877)

Urbain Jean Joseph Le Verrier was a French astronomer and mathematician who specialized in celestial mechanics and is best known for predicting the existence and position of Neptune using only mathematics.

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11/03/1806

Louis Boulanger, French Romantic painter, lithographer and illustrator (died 1867)

Louis Candide Boulanger was a French Romantic painter, pastellist, lithographer and a poet, known for his religious and allegorical subjects, portraits, genre scenes.

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11/03/1785

John McLean, American jurist and politician (died 1861)

John McLean was an American jurist and politician who served in the United States Congress, as U.S. Postmaster General, and as a justice of the Ohio and United States Supreme Courts. He was often discussed for the Whig Party nominations for president, and is also one of the few people who served in all three branches of government.

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11/03/1738

Benjamin Tupper, American general (died 1792)

Benjamin Tupper was an American soldier in the French and Indian War, and an officer of the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War, achieving the rank of brevet brigadier general. Subsequently, he served as a Massachusetts legislator, and he assisted Gen. William Shepard in stopping Shays' Rebellion. Benjamin Tupper was a co-founder of the Ohio Company of Associates, and was a pioneer to the Ohio Country, involved in establishing Marietta as the first permanent settlement in the Northwest Territory.

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11/03/1544

Torquato Tasso, Italian poet and educator (died 1595)

Torquato Tasso was an Italian poet of the 16th century, known for his 1581 poem Gerusalemme liberata, in which he depicts a highly imaginative version of the combats between Christians and Muslims at the end of the First Crusade, during the Siege of Jerusalem of 1099.

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11/03/1278

Mary of Woodstock, daughter of Edward I of England (died c. 1332)

Mary of Woodstock was the seventh named daughter of Edward I of England and Eleanor of Castile. She was a nun at Amesbury Priory, but lived very comfortably thanks to a generous allowance from her parents. Despite a papal travel prohibition in 1303, she travelled widely around the country.

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