Born on Monday, 16th March – Famous Birthdays

16/03/2001

Kyle Hamilton, American football player

Kyle Devin Hamilton is an American professional football safety for the Baltimore Ravens of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Notre Dame Fighting Irish, earning consensus All-American honors in 2021 before being selected by the Ravens in the first round of the 2022 NFL draft.

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16/03/2000

Jalen Smith, American basketball player

Jalen Rasheed Smith is an American professional basketball player for the Chicago Bulls of the National Basketball Association (NBA). Nicknamed "Stix", he played college basketball for the Maryland Terrapins.

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16/03/1999

Vladimir Guerrero Jr., Canadian baseball player

Vladimir Guerrero Ramos is a Dominican-Canadian professional baseball first baseman for the Toronto Blue Jays of Major League Baseball (MLB). He made his MLB debut in 2019 and bats and throws right-handed. Guerrero is the son of Baseball Hall of Famer Vladimir Guerrero Sr. Born in Canada, he represents the Dominican Republic national baseball team.

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16/03/1997

Dominic Calvert-Lewin, English footballer

Dominic Nathaniel Calvert-Lewin is an English professional footballer who plays as a striker for Premier League club Leeds United and the England national team.

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Florian Neuhaus, German footballer

Florian Christian Neuhaus is a German professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Bundesliga club Borussia Mönchengladbach.

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Tyrel Jackson Williams, American actor

Tyrel Jackson Williams, also known under the stage name theMetroNorth, is an American actor, rapper, singer and record producer. He starred as Leo Dooley in the Disney XD series Lab Rats. Williams also co-starred in the 2014 Disney XD television film Pants on Fire. From 2017 to 2020, he co-starred in the comedy series Brockmire.

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16/03/1996

Ajiona Alexus, American actress and singer

Ajiona Alexus Brown is an American actress and singer. She began her career starring in the TV One sitcom The Rickey Smiley Show (2012–2014), and later played Teenage Cookie Lyon in the Fox musical drama series, Empire (2016–2019). She starred in the Netflix teen drama series, 13 Reasons Why (2017–2018), the Hulu supernatural thriller, Light as a Feather (2018–2019), and the starz crime drama, BMF (2021). Alexus also starred in films Something Like Summer (2017), Acrimony (2018),Breaking In (2018), Mary J. Blige's Real Love and Strength of a Woman (2023)

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Ivan Toney, English footballer

Ivan Benjamin Elijah Toney is an English professional footballer who plays as a striker for Saudi Pro League club Al-Ahli and the England national team.

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16/03/1995

Inga Janulevičiūtė, Lithuanian figure skater

Inga Janulevičiūtė is a Lithuanian figure skater. She is the 2014 Lithuanian national champion.

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16/03/1994

Camilo, Colombian singer

Camilo Echeverri Correa, known mononymously as Camilo, is a Colombian singer, musician and songwriter. Born in Medellín, Antioquia, his accolades include six Latin Grammy Awards and three Grammy Award nominations.

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Joel Embiid, Cameroonian basketball player

Joel Hans Embiid is a Cameroonian and American professional basketball player for the Philadelphia 76ers of the National Basketball Association (NBA). After one year of college basketball with the Kansas Jayhawks, he was drafted third overall by the 76ers in the 2014 NBA draft. The 7-foot (2.13 m) Embiid is a seven-time NBA All-Star, a five-time member of the All-NBA Team, a three-time member of the All-Defensive Team, and a two-time NBA scoring champion. He was named the NBA Most Valuable Player (MVP) in 2023. Embiid also won a gold medal on the 2024 U.S. Olympic team.

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Sierra McClain, American actress

Sierra Aylina McClain is an American actress and singer. As an actress, she was first recognized for her role as Sierra in Daddy's Little Girls (2007). She had her breakthrough as Nessa Parker in Empire (2016–2018), and is also best known for starring as Tanya Clifton in the television series Mindhunter (2019), and as Grace Ryder in 9-1-1: Lone Star (2020–2023). Her film roles have included starring as Tosha in the film Honey: Rise Up and Dance (2018), and as Carina in Shrink (2009).

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16/03/1993

George Ford, English rugby union player

George Thomas Ford is an English professional rugby union player who plays as a fly-half for Premiership Rugby club Sale Sharks and the England national team.

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Marine Lorphelin, French model and beauty queen, Miss France 2013

Marine Lorphelin is a French model, beauty pageant titleholder and General practitioner who was crowned Miss France 2013 on 8 December 2012, representing the region of Burgundy and then represented France at Miss World 2013 and placed 1st runner up.

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16/03/1992

Tim Hardaway Jr., American basketball player

Timothy Duane Hardaway Jr. is an American professional basketball player for the Denver Nuggets of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played college basketball for the Michigan Wolverines and declared for the NBA draft after his junior season for the national runner-up 2012–13 team. Hardaway was selected as the 24th overall pick in the 2013 NBA draft by the New York Knicks. He has had two stints with the Knicks and has also played for the Atlanta Hawks, Dallas Mavericks, and Detroit Pistons. He is the son of Hall of Famer Tim Hardaway. He holds several Mavericks three point shooting records as well as the Pistons’ single-playoff game made three point shots record.

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Brett Davern, American actor

Brett Davern is an American actor known for his role as Jake Rosati on the MTV series Awkward.

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16/03/1991

Chris Boswell, American football player

Christopher Lynn Boswell is an American professional football placekicker for the Pittsburgh Steelers of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Rice Owls and was signed by the Houston Texans in 2014 as an undrafted free agent and has also spent time with the New York Giants. Boswell is currently the most accurate field goal kicker in NFL history on field goal attempts of 50 yards or more.

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Reggie Bullock, American basketball player

Reginald Ryedell Bullock Jr. is an American professional basketball player who last played for the Houston Rockets of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played college basketball for the North Carolina Tar Heels before being selected by the Los Angeles Clippers in the first round of the 2013 NBA draft with the 25th overall pick. Bullock has also played for the Phoenix Suns, Detroit Pistons, Los Angeles Lakers, New York Knicks, and Dallas Mavericks.

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Admir Mehmedi, Swiss footballer

Admir Mehmedi is a Swiss former professional footballer who played as a second striker or centre forward. Born in North Macedonia, Mehmedi represented the Switzerland national team. He was most recently the sporting director of FC Schaffhausen.

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Wolfgang Van Halen, American bassist

Wolfgang William Van Halen is an American musician, singer, and songwriter. The son of actress Valerie Bertinelli and guitarist Eddie Van Halen, he performed alongside his father and his uncle Alex as the bassist for Van Halen from 2007 to 2020. He also performed with the heavy metal band Tremonti from 2012 to 2016. After his father died in 2020, which led to the disbanding of Van Halen, he began to focus on his solo project Mammoth, in which he performs all instruments and vocals. His debut album Mammoth WVH was released in 2021, and his second album Mammoth II was released in 2023.

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16/03/1990

Josh Johnson, American comedian and writer

Josh Johnson is an American stand-up comedian and writer. He is best known for his work on The Daily Show, having first joined as a staff writer in 2017. Johnson became a correspondent in February 2024, and was later promoted to the weekly rotation of hosts in July 2025. His self-released frequent YouTube sets have aired over the 2020s.

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Andre Young, American basketball player

Andre Young is an American former professional basketball player. Standing at 5 ft 9 in, Young played the point guard or shooting guard position. He played four years of collegiate basketball with Clemson followed by three seasons of playing professionally in multiple countries in Europe.

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16/03/1989

Blake Griffin, American basketball player

Blake Austin Griffin is an American former professional basketball player. Griffin primarily played with the Los Angeles Clippers of the National Basketball Association (NBA) and played college basketball for the Oklahoma Sooners, where he was named the consensus national college player of the year as a sophomore. Griffin was selected first overall by the Clippers in the 2009 NBA draft, and was a six-time NBA All-Star and a five-time All-NBA selection. In January 2018, Griffin was traded to the Detroit Pistons and played for them until 2021. In March 2021, Griffin signed with the Brooklyn Nets. In September 2022, Griffin signed with the Boston Celtics, whom he stayed with until his retirement in 2023.

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Jung So-min, South Korean actress

Kim Yoon-ji, known professionally as Jung So-min (정소민), is a South Korean actress. Jung made her screen debut in 2010 with a supporting role in the television series Bad Guy. She then got her first leading role that same year in the romantic comedy television series Playful Kiss. She is known for her leading roles in the television series Because This Is My First Life (2017), Alchemy of Souls (2022), Love Next Door (2024), and Would You Marry Me? (2025), as well as the film Love Reset (2023).

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Magalie Pottier, French racing cyclist

Magalie Pottier is a French racing cyclist who represents France in BMX. She was selected to represent France at the 2012 Summer Olympics in the women's BMX event and finished in seventh place.

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Theo Walcott, English footballer

Theo James Walcott is an English former professional footballer who played as a winger and a striker. He represented England at the 2006 World Cup and Euro 2012 and won 47 caps, scoring eight goals. Walcott currently appears as a club ambassador for Arsenal and as a contributor for Sky Sports.

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16/03/1988

Jhené Aiko, American singer-songwriter and rapper

Jhené Aiko Efuru Chilombo is an American R&B singer, songwriter, musician, and record producer. Aiko embarked on her musical career in 2002, as a backing vocalist and music video performer for the R&B group B2K. She was signed by their record label, The Ultimate Group that same year and was marketed as the "cousin" of B2K member Lil' Fizz to cultivate her own following, although they are not related. Her debut album, slated for a 2003 release through the label with Epic Records, was shelved due to Aiko instead further pursuing her education.

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Jessica Gregg, Canadian speed skater

Jessica Gregg is a former Canadian short track speed skater.

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Patrick Herrmann, German footballer

Patrick Herrmann is a German professional former footballer.

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Agustín Marchesín, Argentinian footballer

Agustín Federico Marchesín is an Argentine professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Argentine Primera División club Boca Juniors.

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Jiří Tlustý, Czech ice hockey player

Jiří Tlustý is a Czech former professional ice hockey left winger. He was originally a first-round draft pick of the Toronto Maple Leafs in the 2006 NHL Entry Draft, and split time between the Maple Leafs and the Toronto Marlies of the American Hockey League (AHL) until he was traded to the Carolina Hurricanes in December 2009. Tlustý was also drafted by Atlant Moscow of the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL) on 1 June 2009, 43rd overall.

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16/03/1987

Fabien Lemoine, French football player

Fabien Lemoine is a French former professional footballer who played as a midfielder. Across his career, he played for Rennes, Saint-Étienne, Lorient, and Versailles.

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16/03/1986

Alexandra Daddario, American actress

Alexandra Anna Daddario is an American actress. She had her breakthrough portraying Annabeth Chase in Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief (2010) and its sequel (2013). She has since starred in Hall Pass (2011), Texas Chainsaw 3D (2013), San Andreas (2015), Baywatch (2017), and We Summon the Darkness (2019).

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Toney Douglas, American basketball player

Toney Bernard Douglas is an American professional basketball player for Hapoel Galil Elyon of the Israeli Basketball Premier League. He played college basketball for the Auburn Tigers, and the Florida State Seminoles. Douglas was drafted by the Los Angeles Lakers in the 2009 NBA draft with the 29th overall pick, but was immediately traded to the New York Knicks. He played for the Knicks, Houston Rockets, Sacramento Kings and the Golden State Warriors before being traded to the Miami Heat in 2014. After spending the 2014–15 season in China with the Jiangsu Dragons, he returned to the NBA in 2015, joining the New Orleans Pelicans.

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Kenny Dykstra, American wrestler

Kenneth George Doane is an American retired professional wrestler. He is signed to WWE as a producer, and as a trainer at the WWE Performance Center. During his past time in WWE, he was known as Kenny Dykstra, and Kenny as a member of The Spirit Squad. Outside of WWE, his most significant appearance in a major promotion was for Major League Wrestling (MLW) in a tag team with Squad member Mike Mondo during 2019.

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T. J. Jordan, American basketball player

Taurean Yves Jordan is a women's basketball player who played collegiately for Old Dominion University. She holds several ODU scoring records, and was regarded as one of the best players in the Colonial Athletic Association.

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Boaz Solossa, Indonesian footballer

Boaz Theofilus Erwin Solossa is an Indonesian professional footballer who plays as a forward for Liga 2 club Persipura Jayapura. He is considered to be one of the greatest Indonesian players of all time.

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Daisuke Takahashi, Japanese figure skater

Daisuke Takahashi is a Japanese figure skater, ice show producer and actor. As a singles skater, he is the 2010 Olympic bronze medalist, the 2010 World champion, the 2012–13 Grand Prix Final champion, a two-time Four Continents champion, and a five-time Japanese national champion.

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16/03/1985

Teddy Atine-Venel, French athlete

Teddy Atine-Venel is a French athlete who specialises in the 400 meters. He represented his country at the 2008 Summer Olympics as well as three outdoor and one indoor World Championships.

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Eddy Lover, Panamanian singer-songwriter

Eduardo Mosquera, better known by his stage name Eddy Lover, is a Panamanian reggaeton and Spanish reggae singer and songwriter. Lover rose to international fame with his guest appearance on La Factoría's 2006 smash hit "Perdóname".

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Aleksei Sokirskiy, Russian hammer thrower

Aleksey Nikolaevich Sokirskiy is a Ukrainian and Russian hammer thrower. His personal best is 76.96, achieved 19 June 2011 in Stockholm. He became a Russian citizen in 2015.

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16/03/1984

Aisling Bea, Irish comedienne and actress

Aisling Clíodhnadh O'Sullivan, known professionally as Aisling Bea, is an Irish comedian, actress and screenwriter. She created, wrote and starred in the comedy series This Way Up on Channel 4. As a stand-up comedian, she won the So You Think You're Funny award at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 2012, being only the second woman to win the award in its then-25-year history. She also appears regularly on light entertainment comedy panel shows such as QI and 8 Out of 10 Cats and was a contestant on comedy game show Taskmaster.

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Levi Brown, American football player

Levi James Brown III is an American former professional football player who was an offensive tackle in the National Football League (NFL). He was selected by the Arizona Cardinals fifth overall in the 2007 NFL draft. He played college football for the Penn State Nittany Lions.

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Sharon Cherop, Kenyan long-distance runner

Sharon Jemutai Cherop is a Kenyan long-distance runner who specialises in the marathon. She won a bronze medal at the age of sixteen in the 5000 metres at the World Junior Championships. She was the bronze medal winner in the marathon at the 2011 World Championships in Athletics and won the Boston Marathon in 2012.

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Hosea Gear, New Zealand rugby player

Hosea Emiliano Gear is a former New Zealand rugby union player who played as a wing. He has also played 14 international matches for New Zealand.

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Brandon Prust, Canadian ice hockey player

Brandon Raymond James Prust is a Canadian former professional ice hockey winger. He was selected in the third round, 70th overall, by the Calgary Flames of the National Hockey League (NHL) in the 2004 NHL entry draft. Prust also played for the Phoenix Coyotes, New York Rangers, Montreal Canadiens and Vancouver Canucks, most notably in the role as an enforcer.

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16/03/1983

Stephen Drew, American baseball player

Stephen Oris Drew is an American former professional baseball infielder. He played 12 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Arizona Diamondbacks, Oakland Athletics, Boston Red Sox, New York Yankees and Washington Nationals. His two brothers, outfielder J.D. and pitcher Tim, also played in MLB.

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Brandon League, American baseball player

Brandon Paul League is an American former professional baseball pitcher. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Toronto Blue Jays, Seattle Mariners, and Los Angeles Dodgers. He is a former closer and one-time All-Star.

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Nicolas Rousseau, French road bicycle racer

Nicolas Rousseau is a French professional road bicycle racer for St. Michel–Preference Home–Auber93. He won stage 3 of the 2010 La Tropicale Amissa Bongo.

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Tramon Williams, American football player

Tramon Vernell Williams Sr. is an American former professional football player who was a cornerback for 15 seasons in the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Louisiana Tech Bulldogs, and was signed by the Houston Texans as an undrafted free agent in 2006. Williams spent much of his NFL career with the Green Bay Packers, playing with them from 2006 to 2014, and again in the 2018, 2019, and 2020 seasons. He was also a member of the Cleveland Browns, Arizona Cardinals, and Baltimore Ravens.

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16/03/1982

Julia Letlow, American politician

Julia Janelle Letlow is an American politician and academic administrator serving as the U.S. representative for Louisiana's 5th congressional district since 2021. Letlow is the first Republican woman to represent Louisiana in the House.

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Miguel Comminges, Guadeloupean footballer

Miguel Gregory Comminges is a Guadeloupean former professional footballer. Having spent his career in France, England, Wales, and the United States, he played for the Guadeloupe national team. A versatile player, he played on either side of defence, as well as in midfield.

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Riley Cote, Canadian ice hockey player and coach

Riley D. Cote is a former Canadian professional ice hockey left winger and formerly an assistant coach with the Lehigh Valley Phantoms of the American Hockey League (AHL). He played four National Hockey League (NHL) seasons with the Philadelphia Flyers and was mainly known as an enforcer. He also won the 2005 Calder Cup with the Philadelphia Phantoms. He currently co-hosts the Nasty Knuckles podcast.

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Jesús Del Nero, Spanish road bicycle racer

Jesús del Nero Montes is a Spanish professional road bicycle racer who most recently rode for the UCI Professional Continental Team NetApp. Del Nero turned professional with the Basque continental team Orbea in 2005 before moving to new UCI Professional Continental team 3 Molinos Resort in 2006. When 3 Molinos folded at the end of 2006, Del Nero moved to Saunier Duval, which subsequently became Fuji-Servetto. Del Nero's best results to date are third in the 2005 Euskal Bizikleta and eleventh in the 2007 Tour of Flanders.

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Brian Wilson, American baseball player

Brian Patrick Wilson, nicknamed "the Beard" and "B-Weezy", is an American former professional baseball relief pitcher. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the San Francisco Giants and Los Angeles Dodgers. He stands 6 feet 1 inch (1.85 m) tall and weighs 205 pounds (93 kg). Wilson is known for his large black beard, which he began growing during the 2010 pennant race. Wilson's entrance at home games accompanied by the song "Jump Around" was popular with fans.

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16/03/1981

Andrew Bree, Irish swimmer

Andrew Patrick Bree is a breaststroke swimmer from Helen's Bay, County Down, Northern Ireland. He is a two-time Olympian, having swum at the 2000 and 2008 Olympics for Ireland. He also represented Northern Ireland four times at the Commonwealths and placed fifth twice in the 200m breaststroke. Andrew attended the University of Tennessee.

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Danny Brown, American rapper

Daniel Dewan Sewell, better known by his stage name Danny Brown, is an American rapper, songwriter, actor and podcaster.

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Curtis Granderson, American baseball player

Curtis Granderson Jr., nicknamed "the Grandyman", is an American former professional baseball outfielder. He played 16 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Detroit Tigers, New York Yankees, New York Mets, Los Angeles Dodgers, Toronto Blue Jays, Milwaukee Brewers, and Miami Marlins.

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Julien Mazet, French road bicycle racer

Julien Mazet is a French former professional road bicycle racer.

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Fabiana Murer, Brazilian pole vaulter

Fabiana de Almeida Murer is a retired Brazilian pole vaulter. She holds the South American record in the event with an indoor best of 4.82 m and an outdoor best of 4.87 m, making her the fourth highest vaulter ever at the time, now the eighth. She won gold medals at the 2011 World Championships, 2010 World Indoor Championships, and 2007 Pan American Games. Murer represented Brazil at the 2008, 2012 and 2016 Summer Olympics. She is a four-time South American Champion with wins in 2006, 2007, 2009 and 2011. Murer was coached by both the Ukrainian Vitaly Petrov, who managed the world record holders Sergei Bubka and Yelena Isinbayeva, and her husband, Élson Miranda de Souza, a former pole vaulter himself.

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16/03/1980

Todd Heap, American football player

Todd Benjamin Heap is an American former professional football player who was a tight end for 12 seasons in the National Football League (NFL), primarily for the Baltimore Ravens. He was selected to the Pro Bowl twice with the Ravens, earning second-team All-Pro honors in 2003.

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Felipe Reyes, Spanish basketball player

Felipe Reyes Cabanás is a Spanish former professional basketball player. He represented the senior Spain national team. Standing at a height of 2.06 m, and weighing 120 kg (260 lb), he plays at the power forward and center positions.

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16/03/1979

Tyler Arnason, American ice hockey player

Tyler Lawrence Arnason is an American former professional ice hockey center who played in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the Chicago Blackhawks, Ottawa Senators and the Colorado Avalanche.

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Hee-seop Choi, South Korean baseball player

Hee-seop Choi is a South Korean former professional baseball first baseman. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Chicago Cubs, Florida Marlins, and Los Angeles Dodgers and in the KBO League for the Kia Tigers. He was the first Korean-born position player to play in the major leagues.

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Christina Liebherr, Swiss equestrian

Christina Liebherr is a Swiss equestrian who competes in the sport of show jumping.

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Rashad Moore, American football player

Glenn Rashad Moore is an American former professional football player who was a defensive tackle in the National Football League (NFL). He was selected by the Seattle Seahawks in the sixth round of the 2003 NFL draft. He played college football for the Tennessee Volunteers.

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Sébastien Ostertag, French handball player

Sébastien Ostertag is a French team handball player. He played on the France men's national handball team which won gold medals at the 2009 World Men's Handball Championship in Croatia and at the 2010 European Championship in Austria.

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Leena Peisa, Finnish keyboard player and songwriter

Leena Maria "Awa" Peisa is a Finnish keyboard player. Her former bands include Lordi, Punaiset Messiaat and Dolchamar. Currently, she plays in Lordi's ex-drummer's Kita's band "Sampsa Astala & Qma".

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Andrei Stepanov, Estonian footballer

Andrei Stepanov is an Estonian former professional footballer. He played the position of defender.

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16/03/1978

Brooke Burns, American fashion model, television personality, and actress

Brooke Elizabeth Burns is an American actress, fashion model, game show host, and television personality. Burns began her television career in 1995, portraying the supporting character Peg in the Spanish-American teen sitcom Out of the Blue (1995–1996), appearing in all episodes. Burns joined the cast of the action drama series Baywatch in 1998 and subsequently starred in Baywatch's second rendition, Baywatch: Hawaii, until she left the show owing to her first pregnancy. She appeared in 33 episodes.

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Annett Renneberg, German actress and singer

Annett Renneberg (born 16 March 1978 in Rudolstadt) is a German actress and singer.

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16/03/1977

Mónica Cruz, Spanish actress and dancer

Mónica Cruz Sánchez is a Spanish actress and dancer. She is the younger sister of actress Penélope Cruz. She has appeared in the films The Inquiry (2006), Last Hour (2008), Jerry Cotton (2010) and Iron Cross (2011).

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Thomas Rupprath, German swimmer

Thomas Rupprath is an Olympic swimmer from Germany, who is nicknamed "The New Albatross".

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16/03/1976

Blu Cantrell, American singer-songwriter and producer

Tiffany Cobb, known professionally as Blu Cantrell, is an American R&B singer.

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Zhu Chen, Qatari chess Grandmaster

Zhu Chen is a Chinese and Qatari chess grandmaster. In 1999, she became China's second women's world chess champion after Xie Jun, and China's 13th Grandmaster. In 2006, she obtained Qatari citizenship and since then has played for Qatar.

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Kim Johnsson, Swedish ice hockey player

Kim Emil Jörgen Johnsson is a Swedish former professional ice hockey defenceman who played ten seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the New York Rangers, Philadelphia Flyers, Minnesota Wild and Chicago Blackhawks. He played six seasons for the Malmö Redhawks in the Swedish Elitserien prior to his NHL career.

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Leila Lejeune, French handballer

Leila Lejeune is a French former handballer who played for the French national team. She is a world champion from 2003. She also represented France at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. Lejeune scored six goals in the match against Hungary.

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Susanne Ljungskog, Swedish cyclist

Susanne Ljungskog is a Swedish former cyclist. As a four-time Olympian, she won the world road race championship in 2002 and 2003. The same years, she was UCI points champion. She has also won two World Cup races.

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Abraham Núñez, Dominican baseball player

Abraham Orlando Núñez Adames [NOO-nyez] is a Dominican former professional baseball third baseman. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) from 1997 to 2008 for the Pittsburgh Pirates, St. Louis Cardinals, Philadelphia Phillies, and New York Mets. Núñez primarily played third base, but was capable of playing all four infield positions.

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16/03/1975

Luciano Castro, Argentine actor

Luciano Daniel Castro is an Argentine actor. He has worked as the lead actor in several successful telenovelas, such as Valientes, Herederos de una venganza and Sos mi hombre.

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Sienna Guillory, English model and actress

Sienna Tiggy Guillory is an English actress and former model. She portrayed Jill Valentine in several entries of the Resident Evil action-horror film series. Other prominent roles include elf princess Arya Dröttningu in the fantasy-adventure film Eragon, and the title role in the TV miniseries Helen of Troy. She has appeared in TV shows including Fortitude, Stan Lee's Lucky Man, and Luther.

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Lionel Torres, French archer

Lionel Torres is a French athlete from Perpignan who competes in recurve archery. He competed at the 2000 Olympic Games, qualifying in 11th place but losing in the first knockout round, and has won two individual medals at the World Archery Championships and was the world number one archer from May 2002 to February 2003.

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16/03/1974

Georgios Anatolakis, Greek footballer and politician

Georgios Anatolakis is a Greek former professional footballer who played as a defender. He is well known in Greece for his strength, passion and persistence. A strong aerial challenger, he also advances on set pieces to find himself scoring on several occasions. He most notably scored the winning goal for Olympiacos' first match in the renovated Georgios Karaiskakis.

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Anne Charrier, French actress

Anne Charrier is a French actress, who is credited with 7 films and 22 TV productions between 2000 and 2009.

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Heath Streak, Zimbabwean cricketer (died 2023)

Heath Hilton Streak was a Zimbabwean cricketer and cricket coach who played for and captained the Zimbabwe national cricket team. He was the all time leading wicket taker for Zimbabwe in Test cricket with 216 wickets and in ODI cricket with 239 wickets.

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16/03/1973

Tim Kang, American actor

Yila Timothy Kang is an American actor. He is known for his role as Kimball Cho in the television series The Mentalist and Gordon Katsumoto in the reboot series Magnum P.I.

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Andrey Mizurov, Kazakhstani road bicycle racer

Andrey Mizurov is a Kazakhstani former professional road bicycle racer.

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Vonda Ward, American boxer

Vonda Ward is an American former professional boxer and NCAA basketball player. As a boxer, she competed from 2000 to 2008 and held multiple heavyweight world championships, including the WBC title in 2007. She also challenged Ann Wolfe for the WIBA and IBA female light heavyweight titles in 2004, in which she suffered her only defeat, losing by knockout in the first round.

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16/03/1972

Ismaïl Sghyr, French-Moroccan long-distance runner

Ismaïl Sghyr is a French-Moroccan long-distance runner. He won a bronze medal at the over 3000 metres at the 1997 IAAF World Indoor Championships. In 5000 metres he finished fourth at the World Championships the same year, as well as winning a bronze medal at the 2002 European Championships. Over 10,000 metres he won at the 1997 Mediterranean Games.

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16/03/1971

Greg Johnson, Canadian ice hockey player (died 2019)

Gregory James Johnson was a Canadian professional ice hockey player in the National Hockey League with the Detroit Red Wings, Pittsburgh Penguins, Chicago Blackhawks, and Nashville Predators.

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Alan Tudyk, American actor

Alan Wray Tudyk is an American actor. His film work includes roles in 28 Days (2000), A Knight's Tale (2001), Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story (2004), 3:10 to Yuma (2007), and Trumbo (2015). He starred in the black comedy horror film Tucker & Dale vs. Evil (2010).

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16/03/1970

Joakim Berg, Swedish singer-songwriter and guitarist

Herbert Joakim "Jocke" Berg is a Swedish singer and songwriter, best known as the lead singer of the alternative rock band Kent.

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16/03/1969

Judah Friedlander, American comedian and actor

Judah Friedlander is an American actor and stand-up comedian. He is known for playing the role of writer Frank Rossitano on the NBC sitcom 30 Rock. Friedlander is also known for his role as Toby Radloff in the film American Splendor, a role that garnered him favorable reviews and a nomination for best supporting actor at the 2004 Independent Spirit Awards. Earlier in his career, he was recognized as "the hug guy" from the music video for the 2001 Dave Matthews Band single "Everyday".

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Ottis Gibson, Barbadian cricketer and coach

Ottis Delroy Gibson is a cricket coach and former cricketer from Barbados, who played for the West Indies. From 2010 to 2014, Gibson was the head coach for the West Indies, where he led the team to be champions of the 2012 T20 World Cup. He has been appointed as Bangladesh bowling head coach and previously twice worked as bowling coach for England, from 2007 to 2010 and again from 2015 to 2017. Gibson also coached the South African cricket team from 2017 to 2019. He was the pace bowling coach of the Bangladesh national cricket team and Multan Sultans. In January 2022 Gibson was appointed the head coach of Yorkshire County Cricket Club, he is set to join the team after the conclusion of the 2022 Pakistan Super League season.

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Alina Ivanova, Russian athlete

Alina Petrovna Ivanova is a retired Russian long-distance athlete who had been competing in race walking and road running. She is best known for winning the gold medal in the women's 10 km walk at the 1991 World Championships in Tokyo, Japan. She represented the Unified Team at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain.

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Evangelos Koronios, Greek basketball player and coach

Evangelos Koronios, most commonly known as Angelos Koronios, is a Greek former professional basketball player and coach.

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16/03/1967

Tracy Bonham, American singer and violinist

Tracy Kristin Bonham is an American alternative rock musician. Born and raised in Eugene, Oregon, she is a classically trained violinist and pianist, and a self-taught guitarist.

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John Darnielle, American musician and novelist

John Darnielle is an American musician and novelist best known as the primary, and originally sole, member of the American band The Mountain Goats, for which he is the writer, composer, guitarist, pianist, and vocalist. He has written three novels: Wolf in White Van (2014), Universal Harvester (2017), and Devil House (2022).

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Lauren Graham, American actress and producer

Lauren Graham is an American actress and author. She is best known as Lorelai Gilmore on Gilmore Girls, for which she was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Television Series Drama, and Sarah Braverman on Parenthood (2010–15). She also appeared in the films Sweet November (2001), Bad Santa (2003), The Pacifier (2005), Because I Said So (2007), Evan Almighty (2007), and Max (2015). In 2013, Graham published her debut novel with Ballantine Books, Someday, Someday, Maybe. In 2016, Graham reprised her role on a Gilmore Girls Netflix revival miniseries A Year in the Life and published a memoir, Talking as Fast as I Can.

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Ronnie McCoury, American bluegrass mandolin player, singer and songwriter

Ronald Delano McCoury, known as Ronnie McCoury, is an American mandolin player, singer, and songwriter. He is the son of bluegrass musician Del McCoury, and is best known for his work with the Del McCoury Band and the Travelin' McCourys.

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Heidi Zurbriggen, Swiss alpine skier

Heidi Andenmatten-Zurbriggen is a Swiss former alpine skier. She is the sister of Pirmin Zurbriggen, an aunt of Elia Zurbriggen and cousin of Silvan Zurbriggen. She won 3 Downhill races on the World Cup tour. She competed at the 1992, 1994 and the 1998 Winter Olympics.

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16/03/1966

H.P. Baxxter, German musician

Hans Peter Geerdes, professionally known by his stage name H. P. Baxxter, and sometimes by his nickname Dave, is a German musician best known as the lead vocalist of the German techno band Scooter. He founded Scooter with his friend Rick J. Jordan in 1993.

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Chrissy Redden, Canadian cross-country cyclist

Chrissy Redden is a Canadian cross-country cyclist.

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16/03/1965

Steve Armstrong, American wrestler

Steven James, better known by his ring name Steve Armstrong, is an American professional wrestler. He is the son of fellow wrestler "Bullet" Bob Armstrong, and has three brothers who also wrestled: Scott, Brad, and Brian.

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Sergei Bazarevich, Russian basketball player and coach

Sergei Valerianovich Bazarevich is a Russian basketball coach and former basketball player. At 191 cm and 79 kg (174 lb), he played at the point guard and shooting guard positions.

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Cindy Brown, American basketball player

Cynthia Louise "Cindy" Brown is an American former women's basketball player, at the college, Olympic and professional levels. Brown was a member of the USA Basketball team which went on to win a gold medal at the Pan American Games in Indianapolis, Indiana in 1987, and the gold medal at the 1988 Olympics in Seoul. She was also a member of the gold medal-winning team for the US at the 1985 World University Games, and the 1986 World Championship team.

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Mark Carney, Canadian economist and politician, Prime Minister of Canada

Mark Joseph Carney is a Canadian politician and economist who has served as the 24th prime minister of Canada since 2025. He has also been leader of the Liberal Party and the member of Parliament (MP) for Nepean since 2025. He previously was Governor of the Bank of Canada from 2008 to 2013 and Governor of the Bank of England from 2013 to 2020.

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Cristiana Reali, Italian-Brazilian actress

Cristiana Reali is a Brazilian actress. She has appeared in numerous theatre pieces, television series, and films.

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16/03/1964

Patty Griffin, American singer-songwriter

Patricia Jean Griffin is an American singer, songwriter, and musician. She is a vocalist and plays guitar and piano. She is known for her stripped-down songwriting style in the folk music genre. Her songs have been covered by numerous musicians, including Emmylou Harris, Ellis Paul, Kelly Clarkson, Rory Block, Dave Hause, Sugarland, Bette Midler and The Chicks.

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Jaclyn Jose, Filipino actress (died 2024)

Jaclyn Jose was a Filipino actress. Known for her penetrating eyes and antagonistic roles in film and soap operas, she was a recipient of various accolades, including five Gawad Urians, two Luna Awards, and a FAMAS Award, in addition to an Asian Film Awards nomination. She is the only Filipino to win the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress for the movie Ma' Rosa (2016). She was also described as the "Queen of Underacting" for her ability to deliver restrained and subtle performances.

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Pascal Richard, Swiss racing cyclist

Pascal Richard is a Swiss former racing cyclist. He is most notable as a former King of the Mountains winner at the Giro d'Italia and Olympic Games gold medalist. He won the Swiss National Road Race championship in 1989 and 1993.

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Gore Verbinski, American director, producer, and screenwriter

Gregor Justin "Gore" Verbinski is an American film director, screenwriter, and producer. He is best known for directing Mouse Hunt (1997), The Ring (2002), the first three Pirates of the Caribbean films, and Rango (2011).

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16/03/1963

Jerome Flynn, English actor and singer

Jerome Patrick Flynn is an English actor and singer. He is best known for his role as Bronn in the HBO fantasy series Game of Thrones (2011–19). His other roles include Paddy Garvey of the King's Fusiliers in the ITV series Soldier Soldier (1991–95), Bennet Drake in the BBC mystery series Ripper Street (2012–16), Hector in the Black Mirror episode Shut Up and Dance (2016), Banner Creighton in the Paramount+ western series 1923 (2022–25) and Boris Oliver in L2: Empuraan (2025).

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Kevin Smith, New Zealand actor and singer (died 2002)

Kevin Tod Smith was a New Zealand actor and musician, best known for starring as the Greek God of war, Ares, in the TV series Hercules: The Legendary Journeys and in its two spin-offs – Xena: Warrior Princess and Young Hercules.

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16/03/1962

Franck Fréon, French race car driver

Franck Fréon is a French race car driver.

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Liliane Gaschet, French athlete

Liliane Gaschet is a French athlete who specialises in the 100 and 200 meters. Gaschet competed in the women's 100 and 200 meters and also the 4 x 100 meter relay at the 1984 Summer Olympics.

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16/03/1961

Todd McFarlane, Canadian author, illustrator, and businessman, founded McFarlane Toys

Todd McFarlane is a Canadian comic-book creator, best known for his work as an artist on The Amazing Spider-Man and as the creator, writer, and artist on the superhero horror-fantasy series Spawn, as well as being the current President and a co-founder of Image Comics.

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16/03/1960

Jenny Eclair, English comedian, actress and screenwriter

Jenny Eclair is a Malaysian-born English comedian, novelist, and actress, best known for her roles in Grumpy Old Women between 2004 and 2007 and in Loose Women in 2011 and 2012.

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John Hemming, English businessman and politician

John Alexander Melvin Hemming is a British Liberal Democrat politician and businessman who served as the Member of Parliament for Birmingham Yardley from 2005 until 2015.

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Duane Sutter, Canadian ice hockey player and coach

Duane Calvin Sutter is a Canadian former National Hockey League player and head coach. He was a four-time Stanley Cup winner with the New York Islanders.

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16/03/1959

Michael J. Bloomfield, American astronaut

Michael John "Bloomer" Bloomfield is an American former astronaut and a veteran of three Space Shuttle missions.

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Sebastian Currier, American composer and educator

Sebastian Currier is an American composer of music for chamber groups and orchestras. He was also a professor of music at Columbia University from 1999 to 2007.

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Greg Dyer, Australian cricketer

Gregory Charles Dyer is a former New South Wales and Australian wicketkeeper. Dyer played in six Tests and 23 ODIs from 1986 to 1988, including playing in the victorious 1987 World Cup Final. He toured India in 1986 as a back-up keeper.

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Flavor Flav, American rapper and actor

William Jonathan Drayton Jr., better known by his stage name Flavor Flav., is an American rapper, hype man, and television personality. Known for his catchphrase "Yeah, boyeeeeee!" when performing, he is a founding member alongside Chuck D, of Public Enemy, a rap group that has earned six Grammy Award nominations. He has been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

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Charles Hudson, American baseball player

Charles Lynn Hudson is an American former professional baseball starting pitcher, who played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Philadelphia Phillies, New York Yankees, and Detroit Tigers, from 1983 to 1989.

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Steve Marker, American musician

Steven W. Marker is an American musician, songwriter, and record producer, best known as the co–founder and guitarist of the alternative rock band Garbage.

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Jens Stoltenberg, Norwegian economist and politician, 27th Prime Minister of Norway, 13th Secretary General of NATO

Jens Stoltenberg is a Norwegian politician who has served as the minister of finance since 2025, a position he previously held from 1996 to 1997. A member of the Labour Party, he also served as the prime minister of Norway from 2000 to 2001 and 2005 to 2013, and secretary general of NATO from 2014 to 2024.

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Scott L. Schwartz, American actor stuntman and wrestler (died 2024)

Scott Leslie Schwartz also known as The Ultimate Bad Guy, was an American film and television actor, stuntman and professional wrestler. His size and agility at 6 ft 10 in (2.08 m) and 303 pounds (137 kg) had allowed him many roles as a thug or villain for film and television.

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16/03/1958

Jorge Ramos, Mexican-American journalist and author

Jorge Gilberto Ramos Ávalos is a Mexican journalist and author.

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Phillip Wilcher, Australian pianist and composer

Phillip Leslie Wilcher is an Australian pianist and composer who was a founding member of the children's music group the Wiggles. When Wilcher published his first work, "Daybreak", at the age of 14, he was one of the youngest classical composers in Australia.

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Kate Worley, American author (died 2004)

Kathleen Louise Worley was an American comic book writer, best known for her work on Omaha the Cat Dancer, a sexually explicit anthropomorphic animal comic book series about a female stripper. Worley was also a musician, and a writer and performer for the science fiction comedy radio program Shockwave Radio Theater. She died of lung cancer.

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16/03/1956

Ozzie Newsome, American football player and executive

Ozzie Newsome Jr. is an American professional football executive and former player who is the executive vice president of player personnel of the Baltimore Ravens of the National Football League (NFL). Newsome was a tight end for the NFL's Cleveland Browns, and was general manager of the Ravens from 1996 to 2018. Newsome has been inducted into both the College Football Hall of Fame (1994) and the Pro Football Hall of Fame (1999).

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Clifton Powell, American actor, director, and producer

Clifton Powell is an American actor who primarily plays supporting roles in films, such as in Ray (2004), for which he received an NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture nomination. He is also known for voicing Big Smoke in the action-adventure game Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (2004).

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Yoriko Shono, Japanese writer

Yoriko Shono , born 16 March 1956, is a Japanese writer who describes her writing as 'avant-pop'.

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Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf, Swiss lawyer and politician

Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf is a Swiss politician and lawyer who served as a Member of the Swiss Federal Council from 2008 to 2015. A member of the Swiss People's Party (SVP/UDC) until 2008, she was then a member of the splinter Conservative Democratic Party (BDP/PBD) until 2021, when that party merged into The Centre. Widmer-Schlumpf was the head of the Federal Department of Justice and Police from 2008 to 2010, when she became head of the Federal Department of Finance. She served as President of the Swiss Confederation in 2012.

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16/03/1955

Svetlana Alexeeva, Russian ice dancer and coach

Svetlana Lvovna Alekseeva is a Russian figure skating coach and former ice dancer.

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Rimantas Astrauskas, Lithuanian physicist

Rimantas Astrauskas is a physicist, ecologist, and signatory of the 1990 Act of the Re-Establishment of the State of Lithuania.

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Bruno Barreto, Brazilian director, producer, and screenwriter

Bruno Villela Barreto Borges is a Brazilian film director.

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Linda Lepomme, Belgian actress and singer

Linda Lepomme is a Belgian actress and singer who represented her country in the Eurovision Song Contest 1985 in which she sang "Laat me nu gaan". She earned seven points finishing in 19th (last) place overall.

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Bob Ley, American sports anchor and reporter

Robert A. Ley is a retired American sports anchor and reporter, best known for his work at ESPN. A multiple Emmy Award-winner, he was the longest-tenured on-air employee of the network, having joined ESPN just three days after the network's 1979 launch and retiring from the network effective at the end of June 2019.

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Andy Scott, Canadian politician (died 2013)

Robert Andrew Keith Scott was a Liberal Member of Parliament who represented the electoral district of Fredericton from 1993 to 2008. He was a member the Cabinet of Canada, most recently serving as the eighteenth Minister of Indian Affairs and Northern Development (2004–2006).

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Jiro Watanabe, Japanese boxer

Jiro Watanabe is a Japanese former boxer. Watanabe, who fought only in Japan and South Korea, was one of the first World super flyweight champions, as the division was relatively new when he was crowned.

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16/03/1954

David Heath, English politician

David William St John Heath is a British optometrist and Liberal Democrat politician. He was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Somerton and Frome from 1997 to 2015. He served as the Minister of State for Agriculture and Food from September 2012 to October 2013 in the Cameron–Clegg coalition government.

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Colin Ireland, English serial killer (died 2012)

Colin Ireland was a British serial killer known as the Gay Slayer, because his victims were gay men. Criminologist David Wilson believes that Ireland was a psychopath.

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Jimmy Nail, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor

James Michael Aloysius Bradford, known professionally Jimmy Nail, is an English singer-songwriter, actor, film producer, and television writer. He played the role of Leonard "Oz" Osborne in the television show Auf Wiedersehen, Pet (1983–1986), the title role in Spender (1991–1993) and Jed Shepperd in Crocodile Shoes (1994–1996). He also recorded a 1992 number one single, "Ain't No Doubt". His performance as Agustín Magaldi in the 1996 film Evita, gave him international recognition.

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Tim O'Brien, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

Timothy O'Brien is an American country and bluegrass musician. In addition to singing, he plays guitar, fiddle, mandolin, banjo, bouzouki and mandocello. He has released more than ten studio albums, in addition to charting a duet with Kathy Mattea entitled "The Battle Hymn of Love", a No. 9 hit on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks charts in 1990. In November 2013 he was inducted into the West Virginia Music Hall of Fame.

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Dav Whatmore, Sri Lankan-Australian cricketer and coach

Davenell Frederick Whatmore is a Sri Lanka born Australian cricket coach and former cricketer.

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Nancy Wilson, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer, and actress

Nancy Lamoureux Wilson is an American musician. She rose to fame alongside her older sister Ann Wilson as guitarist and second vocalist in the rock band Heart.

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16/03/1953

Claus Peter Flor, German conductor

Claus Peter Flor is a German conductor.

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Isabelle Huppert, French actress

Isabelle Anne Madeleine Huppert is a French actress. Known for her portrayals of cold, austere women devoid of morality, she is regarded as one of the greatest actresses of her generation and of all time. With 17 nominations and two wins, Huppert is the most nominated actress at the César Awards. She has also received numerous accolades, such as five Lumière Awards, a BAFTA Award, three European Film Awards, two Berlin International Film Festival, three Cannes Film Festival, and Venice Film Festival honors, a Golden Globe Award, and an Academy Award nomination. In 2020, The New York Times named her one the greatest actors of the 21st century.

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Rainer Knaak, German chess player

Rainer Fritz Albert Knaak is a German chess player who holds the FIDE title of Grandmaster (GM).

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Richard Stallman, American computer scientist and programmer

Richard Matthew Stallman, also known by his initials, rms, is an American free software movement activist and programmer. He campaigns for software to be distributed in such a manner that its users have the freedom to use, study, distribute, and modify that software. Software which ensures these freedoms is termed free software. Stallman launched the GNU Project, founded the Free Software Foundation (FSF) in October 1985, developed the GNU C Compiler and GNU Emacs, and wrote all versions of the GNU General Public License.

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16/03/1951

Ray Benson, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer

Ray Benson Seifert is an American musician, actor, and voice actor who is the frontman of the Western swing band Asleep at the Wheel.

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Abdelmajid Bourebbou, Algerian footballer

Abdelmajid Bourebbou is an Algerian former footballer who played as a forward. He played as a striker for several French clubs as well as the Algeria national football team. He represented Algeria at the 1982 FIFA World Cup in Spain.

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Oddvar Brå, Norwegian skier

Oddvar Brå is a Norwegian former cross-country skier. He was among the best skiers in Norway, the three-times winner of the World Cup and the winner of 16 national championships. His success in the major international championships was more modest.

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Joe DeLamielleure, American football player

Joseph Michael DeLamielleure is an American former professional football player who was a guard in the National Football League (NFL). He was an All-American playing college football for the Michigan State Spartans. He was selected by the Buffalo Bills in the first round of the 1973 NFL draft. He won All-Rookie Honors, after finding out a physical condition with his irregular heartbeat was not serious. In 1973 the Buffalo Bills rushing offense led the NFL in yards, yards per carry, as well as rushing touchdowns. He is also one of the first living NFL players to be tested and diagnosed with CTE.

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Alexandre Gonzalez, French long-distance runner

Alexandre Gonzalez is a French long-distance runner. He competed in the men's marathon at the 1988 Summer Olympics.

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16/03/1950

Peter Forster, English bishop

Peter Robert Forster is a British former Anglican bishop. He was Bishop of Chester in the Church of England from 1996 and a Lord Spiritual from 2001 until his retirement in 2019. He was received into the Roman Catholic Church in 2021.

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Kate Nelligan, Canadian actress

Patricia Colleen Nelligan, known professionally as Kate Nelligan, is a Canadian stage, film and television actress. She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for the 1991 film The Prince of Tides, and the same year won the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for Frankie and Johnny. She is also a four-time Tony Award nominee for her work on Broadway, receiving nominations for Plenty (1983), A Moon for the Misbegotten (1984), Serious Money (1988) and Spoils of War (1989).

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Edhem Šljivo, Bosnian footballer

Edhem "Etko" Šljivo is a Bosnian former professional footballer. He started his career with FK Sarajevo, going on to become one of the best midfielders of the Yugoslav First League. At international level, he represented the Yugoslavia national team.

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16/03/1949

Erik Estrada, American actor

Henry Enrique Estrada is an American actor. He is widely known for his co-starring lead role as California Highway Patrol officer Francis (Frank) Llewelyn "Ponch" Poncherello in the police drama television series CHiPs, which aired from 1977 to 1983. He later became known for his work in Spanish telenovelas, his appearances in reality television shows and infomercials, and as a regular voice on the series Sealab 2021, on Adult Swim.

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Victor Garber, Canadian actor and singer

Victor Garber, is a Canadian stage and film actor, and a singer. Known for his work on stage and screen, he has been nominated for three Gemini Awards, four Tony Awards and six Primetime Emmy Awards. In 2022 he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada.

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Elliott Murphy, American-French singer-songwriter and journalist

Elliott James Murphy is an American rock singer-songwriter, novelist, record producer, and journalist.

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16/03/1948

Michael Owen Bruce, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

Michael Owen Bruce is an American rock musician who was a founding member of the original Alice Cooper band.

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Richard Desjardins, Canadian singer-songwriter and director

Richard Desjardins is a Québécois folk singer and film director.

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Catherine Quéré, French politician

Catherine Quéré is a French politician and a member of the Socialist Party.

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16/03/1946

Sigmund Groven, Norwegian harmonica player and composer

Sigmund Groven is a Norwegian classical harmonica player, today considered one of the world's leading classical harmonica players. He plays with a large number of the world's leading musicians and orchestras, and he has made 23 recordings yet in his own name. His repertoire ranges from popular and folk music to his own compositions, from Bach to contemporary music.

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Mary Kaldor, English economist and academic

Mary Henrietta Kaldor is a British academic, currently Professor of Global Governance at the London School of Economics, where she is also the Director of the Civil Society and Human Security Research Unit. She also teaches at the Institut Barcelona d'Estudis Internacionals (IBEI). Kaldor has been a key figure in the development of cosmopolitan democracy. She writes on globalisation, international relations and humanitarian intervention, global civil society and global governance, as well as what she calls New Wars.

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J. Z. Knight, American New Age teacher and author

Judy "Zebra" Knight is an American spiritual teacher and author known for her purported channelling of a spiritual entity named Ramtha. Critics consider her to be a cult leader.

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Guesch Patti, French singer

Patricia Porrasse, known professionally as Guesch Patti, is a French singer.

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16/03/1945

Douglas Ahlstedt, American tenor (died 2023)

Douglas Ahlstedt was an American operatic tenor who had an international performance career with major opera houses from the 1970s through the 1990s. He was a member of the Metropolitan Opera and of the Deutsche Oper am Rhein, performing leading roles of the lyric tenore repertoire, and also many supporting roles. He was professor of voice at Carnegie Mellon University from 1998 until 2020.

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16/03/1944

Andrew S. Tanenbaum, American computer scientist and academic

Andrew Stuart Tanenbaum, sometimes referred to by the handle AST, is an American-born Dutch computer scientist and retired professor emeritus of computer science at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam in the Netherlands.

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16/03/1943

Álvaro de Soto, Peruvian diplomat

Álvaro de Soto Polar is a Peruvian diplomat. He ended a 25-year career with the United Nations in May 2007.

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Ursula Goodenough, American biologist, zoologist, and author

Ursula W. Goodenough is a retired Professor of Biology Emerita at Washington University in St. Louis, where she researched on eukaryotic algae. She authored the textbook Genetics and the best-selling book The Sacred Depths of Nature and speaks regularly about religious naturalist orientation and evolution. She contributed to the NPR blog 13.7: Cosmos & Culture from 2009 to 2011.

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Hans Heyer, German race car driver

Hans Heyer is a German retired racing driver who mainly raced touring cars. He is most commonly known for starting one Formula One World Championship race, the 1977 German Grand Prix, despite failing to qualify.

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Harry van Hoof, Dutch conductor, composer, and music arranger (died 2024)

Harry van Hoof was a Dutch conductor, composer, and music arranger.

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16/03/1942

Roger Crozier, Canadian-American ice hockey player (died 1996)

Roger Allan Crozier was a Canadian professional ice hockey player. He was a goaltender for fourteen seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the Detroit Red Wings, Buffalo Sabres and Washington Capitals. During his career, Crozier was named to the NHL First All-Star Team once, was a Calder Memorial Trophy winner, and was the first player to win the Conn Smythe Trophy while playing for the losing team in the Stanley Cup Final. He was the last goaltender in the NHL to start all of his team's games in the regular season, in 1964–65.

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Jean-Pierre Schosteck, French politician

Jean-Pierre Schosteck is a French politician. He is mayor of Châtillon and a member of The Republicans.

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James Soong, Chinese-Taiwanese politician, Governor of Taiwan Province

Soong Chu-yu, also known by his English name James Soong, is a Taiwanese political scientist and politician who is the founder and chairman of the People First Party. Soong was the first and only elected governor of Taiwan Province from 1994 and 1998, after which he became a perennial candidate in Taiwanese politics.

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Gijs van Lennep, Dutch race car driver

Gijsbert "Gijs" van Lennep is a Dutch racing driver who competed in eight Formula One races. However, his main achievements were in sports car racing. He is a member of the untitled Dutch nobility.

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Jerry Jeff Walker, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2020)

Jerry Jeff Walker was an American country and folk singer-songwriter. He was a leading figure in the progressive country and outlaw country music movement. He is best known for writing the 1968 song "Mr. Bojangles".

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16/03/1941

Bernardo Bertolucci, Italian director and screenwriter (died 2018)

Bernardo Bertolucci was an Italian film director and screenwriter with a career that spanned 50 years. Considered one of the greatest directors in the history of cinema, Bertolucci's work achieved international acclaim. With The Last Emperor (1987) he became the first Italian filmmaker to win the Academy Award for Best Director, and he received many other accolades including a BAFTA Award, a César Award, two Golden Globes, a Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement, and an Honorary Palme d'Or.

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Robert Guéï, Ivorian soldier and politician, 3rd President of Côte d'Ivoire (died 2002)

Robert Guéï was an Ivorian politician who served as the third president of the Ivory Coast from 24 December 1999 to 26 October 2000. He succeeded President Henri Konan Bédié after the 1999 Ivorian coup d'état and lost to Laurent Gbagbo in the ensuing 2000 Ivorian presidential election. Guéï, his wife Rose Doudou Guéï, and his children were killed on 19 September 2002 on the first day of the First Ivorian Civil War.

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Chuck Woolery, American game show host and television personality (died 2024)

Charles Herbert Woolery was an American television host, actor, and musician. He had long-running tenures hosting several game shows. Woolery was the original host of the original daytime Wheel of Fortune from 1975 until 1981, when he was replaced by Pat Sajak.

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16/03/1940

Vagif Mustafazadeh, Azerbaijani pianist and composer (died 1979)

Vagif Mustafazadeh, also known as Vaqif Mustafa-Zadeh, was a Soviet-Azerbaijani jazz pianist and composer, acclaimed for fusing jazz and the traditional Azerbaijani folk music, known as mugham. According to many world famous jazz musicians, Mustafazadeh is one of the pioneers and "the architect of jazz in Azerbaijan".

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Jan Pronk, Dutch academic and politician, Dutch Ministry of Housing, Spatial Planning and the Environment

Johannes Pieter "Jan" Pronk Jr. is a retired Dutch politician and diplomat of the Labour Party (PvdA) and activist.

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Keith Rowe, English guitarist

Keith Rowe is an English free improvisation tabletop guitarist and painter. Rowe is a founding member of both AMM in the mid-1960s and M.I.M.E.O. Having trained as a visual artist, his paintings have appeared on most of his albums. He is seen as a godfather of EAI, with many of his recordings having been released by Erstwhile.

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Kaak, Indian cartoonist (died 2025)

Harish Chandra Shukla, known by his pen name Kaak, was an Indian editorial cartoonist and caricaturist who worked in Hindi-language media. He worked with leading newspapers such as Jansatta, Navbharat Times, Dainik Jagran, Rajasthan Patrika, and a few others, in a career spanning several decades. 'Kaak' means crow in Hindi, which according to a proverb, is the bird that raises its raucous voice when someone tells a lie.

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16/03/1939

Yvon Côté, Canadian politician and teacher

Yvon Côté is a former member of the House of Commons of Canada from 1988 to 1993. His career has been in teaching.

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16/03/1938

Carlos Bilardo, Argentinian footballer and manager

Dr. Carlos Salvador Bilardo is an Argentine former physician, football player, and manager.

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16/03/1937

David Frith, English historian, journalist, and author

David Edward John Frith is an English cricket writer and historian. Cricinfo describes him as "an author, historian, and founding editor of Wisden Cricket Monthly".

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Attilio Nicora, Italian cardinal (died 2017)

Attilio Nicora was an Italian prelate of the Catholic Church who held senior positions in the administration of the Roman Curia as president of the Administration of the Patrimony of the Apostolic See from 2002 to 2011 and president of the four-person Executive Board of the Financial Information Authority (FIA) from 2011 to 2014. He was bishop of Verona from 1992 to 1997. He was given the personal title of archbishop in 2002 and was made a cardinal in 2003.

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Amos Tversky, Israeli-American psychologist and academic (died 1996)

Amos Nathan Tversky was an Israeli cognitive and mathematical psychologist and a key figure in the discovery of systematic human cognitive bias and handling of risk.

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16/03/1936

Raymond Vahan Damadian, Armenian-American inventor, invented the MRI (died 2022)

Raymond Vahan Damadian was an American physician, medical researcher, and inventor of the first nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) scanning machine.

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Fred Neil, American folk singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2001)

Fred Neil was an American folk singer-songwriter active in the 1960s and early 1970s. He is mainly known through other people's recordings of his material, particularly "Everybody's Talkin'", which became a hit for Harry Nilsson after it was used in the film Midnight Cowboy in 1969. Though highly regarded by contemporary folk singers, he was reluctant to tour and spent much of the last 30 years of his life assisting with the preservation of dolphins.

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16/03/1935

Teresa Berganza, Spanish soprano and actress (died 2022)

Teresa Berganza Vargas OAXS was a Spanish mezzo-soprano. She is most closely associated with roles such as Rossini's Rosina and La Cenerentola, and later Bizet's Carmen, admired for her technical virtuosity, musical intelligence, and beguiling stage presence.

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Pepe Cáceres, Colombian bullfighter (died 1987)

José Humberto Eslava "Pepe" Cáceres was a Colombian bullfighter.

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16/03/1934

Jean Cournoyer, Canadian politician

Jean Cournoyer is a retired Quebec politician. He was a Member of the provincial legislature in Quebec.

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Ray Hnatyshyn, Canadian lawyer and politician, 24th Governor General of Canada (died 2002)

Ramon John "Ray" Hnatyshyn was a Canadian lawyer and statesman who served as the 24th governor general of Canada from 1990 to 1995.

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Roger Norrington, English violinist and conductor (died 2025)

Sir Roger Arthur Carver Norrington was an English conductor, best known for historically informed performances of baroque, classical, and romantic music, which often entailed minimal use of vibrato and applying historically informed principles to modern orchestras.

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Howard Schnellenberger, American football player and coach (died 2021)

Howard Leslie Schnellenberger was an American football coach with long service at both the professional and college levels. He held head coaching positions with the National Football League (NFL)'s Baltimore Colts and in college for the University of Miami, University of Louisville, University of Oklahoma and Florida Atlantic University. He won a national championship with Miami in 1983.

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16/03/1933

Keith Critchlow, English architect and academic, co-founded Temenos Academy (died 2020)

Keith Barry Critchlow was a British artist, lecturer, author, sacred geometer, professor of architecture, and a co-founder of the Temenos Academy in the UK.

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Sanford I. Weill, American banker, financier, and philanthropist

Sanford I. "Sandy" Weill is an American banker, financier, and philanthropist. He is a former chief executive and chairman of Citigroup. He served in those positions from 1998 until October 1, 2003, and April 18, 2006, respectively.

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16/03/1932

Don Blasingame, American baseball player and manager (died 2005)

Donald Lee Blasingame, nicknamed "Blazer", was an American professional baseball player. He played as a second baseman in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the St. Louis Cardinals (1955–1959), San Francisco Giants (1960–1961), Cincinnati Reds (1961–1963), Washington Senators (1963–1966), and Kansas City Athletics (1966). Blasingame threw right-handed, batted left-handed and was listed as 5 feet 10 inches (1.78 m) tall and 160 pounds (73 kg).

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Walter Cunningham, American astronaut (died 2023)

Ronnie Walter Cunningham was an American astronaut, fighter pilot, physicist, entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and author of the 1977 book The All-American Boys. NASA's third civilian astronaut, he was a lunar module pilot on the Apollo 7 mission in 1968.

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Kurt Diemberger, Austrian mountaineer and author

Kurt Diemberger is an Austrian mountaineer and author of several books. He is the only living person who has made the first ascents on two mountains over 8,000 metres: of Broad Peak in 1957 and of Dhaulagiri in 1960. In 2013, he won the Piolet d'Or Lifetime Achievement Award.

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Herbert Marx, Canadian politician (died 2020)

Herbert Marx was a Canadian lawyer, university law professor, politician, and judge. He was a member of the National Assembly of Quebec from 1979 to 1989, a cabinet minister, and a Justice of the Quebec Superior Court.

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16/03/1931

Augusto Boal, Brazilian theatre director, writer and politician (died 2009)

Augusto Boal was a Brazilian theatre practitioner, drama theorist, and political activist. He was the founder of Theatre of the Oppressed and Forum Theatre, a theatrical form originally used in popular education movements. Boal served one term as a Vereador in Rio de Janeiro from 1993 to 1997, where he developed legislative theatre.

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Alan Heyman, American-South Korean musicologist and composer (died 2014)

Alan Charles Heyman, Korean name Hae Eui-man (Korean: 해의만), was a South Korean musicologist and composer. Born in the United States, he first came to South Korea in 1953 with the United States Army during the Korean War, and after completing a graduate degree in music education at Columbia University, moved to South Korea permanently in 1960 to devote himself to research and composition. He led traditional Korean music troupes on tours of North America and Europe, and made significant contributions to the preservation of Korean traditional music, for which he was recognised with awards from national and international organisations. He gave up his U.S. citizenship to become a South Korean citizen in 1995, and remained in the country until his death in 2014.

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Anthony Kenny, English philosopher and academic

Sir Anthony John Patrick Kenny is a British philosopher whose interests lie in the philosophy of mind, ancient and scholastic philosophy, the philosophy of religion, and the philosophy of Wittgenstein of whose literary estate he is an executor. With Peter Geach, he has made a significant contribution to analytical Thomism, a movement whose aim is to present the thought of St. Thomas Aquinas in the style of analytic philosophy. He is a former president of the British Academy and the Royal Institute of Philosophy.

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John Munro, Canadian lawyer and politician, 22nd Canadian Minister of Labour (died 2003)

John Carr Munro was a Canadian politician. He was first elected to the House of Commons of Canada in the 1962 election, and served continuously as a Member of Parliament (MP) for Hamilton, Ontario in the electoral riding of Hamilton East until his resignation in 1984, following his defeat for the leadership of the Liberal Party of Canada which was eventually won by John Turner.

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16/03/1930

Tommy Flanagan, American pianist and composer (died 2001)

Thomas Lee Flanagan was an American jazz pianist and composer. He grew up in Detroit, initially influenced by such pianists as Art Tatum, Teddy Wilson, and Nat King Cole, and then by bebop musicians. Within months of moving to New York in 1956, he had recorded with Miles Davis and on Sonny Rollins' album Saxophone Colossus. Recordings under various leaders, including Giant Steps of John Coltrane, continued well into 1962, when he became the full-time accompanist to Ella Fitzgerald. He worked with Fitzgerald for three years until 1965, and then in 1968 returned to be her pianist and musical director, this time for a decade.

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Minoru Miki, Japanese composer (died 2011)

Minoru Miki was a Japanese composer and Artistic director. He was known for promoting Japanese, Chinese and Korean traditional instruments as well as some of their performers.

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16/03/1929

Betty Johnson, American singer (died 2022)

Betty Johnson was an American traditional pop and cabaret singer who reached her career peak in the 1950s.

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Tihomir Novakov, Serbian-American physicist and academic (died 2015)

Tihomir Novakov, also known as Tica Novakov was a Serbian-born American physicist. As a scientist, Novakov is known for his black carbon, air quality, and climate change research. James Hansen dubbed him "the godfather of black carbon".

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Nadja Tiller, Austrian actress (died 2023)

Nadja Tiller was an Austrian actress in film, television, and on stage. She was one of the most popular German-speaking actresses in the international cinema of the 1950s and 1960s, receiving international recognition when she played the title role in the 1958 film Das Mädchen Rosemarie (Rosemary) in 1958, shown at the Venice Film Festival. It opened the way to international films. She often played alongside her husband, Walter Giller.

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16/03/1928

Wakanohana Kanji I, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 45th Yokozuna (died 2010)

Wakanohana Kanji was a Japanese professional sumo wrestler. He was the sport's 45th yokozuna. He was a popular wrestler and was nicknamed the "Devil of the Dohyō" due to his great fighting spirit and endurance.

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Christa Ludwig, German opera singer (died 2021)

Christa Ludwig was a German mezzo-soprano and sometime dramatic soprano, distinguished for her performances of opera, lieder, oratorio, and other major religious works like masses, passions, and solos in symphonic literature. Her performing career spanned almost half a century, from the late 1940s until the early 1990s.

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16/03/1927

Vladimir Komarov, Russian pilot, engineer, and cosmonaut (died 1967)

Vladimir Mikhaylovich Komarov was a Soviet test pilot, aerospace engineer, and cosmonaut. In October 1964, he commanded Voskhod 1, the first spaceflight to carry more than one crew member. He became the first Soviet cosmonaut to fly in space twice when he was selected as the solo pilot of Soyuz 1, its first crewed test flight. A parachute failure caused his Soyuz capsule to crash into the ground after re-entry on 24 April 1967, making him the first human to die in a space flight.

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Daniel Patrick Moynihan, American sociologist and politician, 12th United States Ambassador to the United Nations (died 2003)

Daniel Patrick Moynihan was an American politician, diplomat and social scientist. A member of the Democratic Party, he represented New York in the United States Senate from 1977 until 2001 after serving as an adviser to President Richard Nixon, and as the United States' ambassador to India and to the United Nations.

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Olga San Juan, American actress and dancer (died 2009)

Olga San Juan was an American actress and comedian. Born in Brooklyn, she began her brief film career with Paramount Pictures after being scouted at Copacabana. She performed in several Hollywood musicals in the 1940s and on Broadway in Paint Your Wagon (1951).

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16/03/1926

Charles Goodell, American lawyer and politician (died 1987)

Charles Ellsworth Goodell Jr. was an American politician who represented New York in the United States House of Representatives from 1959 to 1968 and the United States Senate from 1968 to 1971. In both cases, he took office following the deaths of his predecessors, first in a special election and second as a temporary appointee succeeding Robert F. Kennedy.

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Jerry Lewis, American actor and comedian (died 2017)

Jerry Lewis was an American comedian, actor, singer, filmmaker and humanitarian. Across his seven-decade career, he is regarded as one of the greatest comedians of the 20th century, by his nickname—the "King of Comedy".

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16/03/1925

Cornell Borchers, Lithuanian-German actress and singer (died 2014)

Cornell Borchers was a Lithuanian-German actress and singer, active in the late 1940s and 1950s. She is best remembered for her roles opposite Montgomery Clift in The Big Lift (1950) and Errol Flynn and Nat King Cole in Istanbul (1957). She was said to resemble Ingrid Bergman in mid-1950s reviews.

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Mary Hinkson, American dancer and choreographer (died 2014)

Mary De Haven Hinkson was an African American dancer and choreographer known for breaking racial boundaries throughout her dance career in both modern and ballet techniques. She is best known for her work as a member of the Martha Graham Dance Company.

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Ervin Kassai, Hungarian basketball player and referee (died 2012)

Ervin Kassai was a Hungarian basketball referee.

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Luis E. Miramontes, Mexican chemist and engineer (died 2004)

Luis Ernesto Miramontes Cárdenas was a Mexican chemist known as co-inventor and the first to synthesize an oral contraceptive, progestin norethisterone.

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16/03/1923

Heinz Wallberg, German conductor (died 2004)

Heinz Wallberg was a German conductor.

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16/03/1922

Harding Lemay, American screenwriter and playwright (died 2018)

Harding Lemay, also known as Pete Lemay, was an American screenwriter and playwright who was the head writer for the soap opera Another World.

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16/03/1920

John Addison, English-American soldier and composer (died 1998)

John Mervyn Addison was a British composer best known for his film scores.

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Sid Fleischman, American author and screenwriter (died 2010)

Albert Sidney Fleischman was an American author of children's books, screenplays, novels for adults, and nonfiction books about stage magic. His works for children are known for their humor, imagery, zesty plotting, and exploration of the byways of American history. He won the Newbery Medal in 1987 for The Whipping Boy and the Boston Globe–Horn Book Award in 1979 for Humbug Mountain. For his career contribution as a children's writer he was U.S. nominee for the biennial, international Hans Christian Andersen Award in 1994. In 2003, the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators inaugurated the Sid Fleischman Humor Award in his honor, and made him the first recipient. The Award annually recognizes a writer of humorous fiction for children or young adults. He told his own tale in The Abracadabra Kid: A Writer's Life (1996).

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Traudl Junge, German secretary (died 2002)

Gertraud "Traudl" Junge was a German editor who worked as Adolf Hitler's last private secretary from December 1942 to April 1945. After typing Hitler's will, she remained in the Berlin Führerbunker until his death.

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Leo McKern, Australian-English actor (died 2002)

Reginald "Leo" McKern was an Australian actor who appeared in numerous British, Australian and American television programmes and films, and in more than 200 stage roles. His notable roles include Clang in Help! (1965), Thomas Cromwell in A Man for All Seasons (1966), Tom Ryan in Ryan's Daughter (1970), Harry Bundage in Candleshoe (1977), Paddy Button in The Blue Lagoon (1980), Dr. Grogan in The French Lieutenant's Woman (1981), Father Imperius in Ladyhawke (1985), and the role that made him a household name as an actor, Horace Rumpole, whom he played in the British television series Rumpole of the Bailey. He also portrayed Carl Bugenhagen in the first and second installments of The Omen series and Number Two in the TV series The Prisoner.

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16/03/1918

Frederick Reines, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1998)

Frederick Reines was an American physicist. He was awarded the 1995 Nobel Prize in Physics for his co-detection of the neutrino with Clyde Cowan in the neutrino experiment. He may be the only scientist in history "so intimately associated with the discovery of an elementary particle and the subsequent thorough investigation of its fundamental properties."

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Aldo van Eyck, Dutch architect (died 1999)

Aldo van Eyck was a Dutch architect. He was one of the most influential protagonists of the architectural movement Structuralism.

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16/03/1917

Mehrdad Pahlbod, Iranian politician (died 2018)

Mehrdad Pahlbod was an Iranian politician who served as the first culture minister of Iran from 1964 until 1978.

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Laure Pillay, Mauritian lawyer and jurist (died 2017)

Laure Pillay was a Mauritian lawyer and jurist who was the country's first female barrister and first female magistrate.

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Louis C. Wyman, American lawyer and politician (died 2002)

Louis Crosby Wyman was an American politician and lawyer. He was a United States representative and a U.S. senator from New Hampshire. He was a member of the Republican Party.

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16/03/1916

Mercedes McCambridge, American actress (died 2004)

Carlotta Mercedes Agnes McCambridge was an American actress of radio, stage, film, and television. Orson Welles called her "the world's greatest living radio actress". She won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her screen debut in All the King's Men (1949) and was nominated in the same category for Giant (1956). She voiced the majority of dialogue for demon Pazuzu in The Exorcist (1973).

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Tsutomu Yamaguchi, Japanese engineer and businessman (died 2010)

Tsutomu Yamaguchi was a Japanese marine engineer who survived and witnessed both the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings during World War II. Although at least 160 people are known to have been affected by both bombings, he is the only person to have been officially recognized by the government of Japan as surviving both explosions.

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16/03/1915

Kunihiko Kodaira, Japanese mathematician (died 1997)

Kunihiko Kodaira was a Japanese mathematician known for distinguished work in algebraic geometry and the theory of complex manifolds, and as the founder of the Japanese school of algebraic geometers. He was awarded a Fields Medal in 1954, being the first Japanese national to receive this honour.

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16/03/1913

Rémy Raffalli, French soldier (died 1952)

Barthélémy "Rémy" Raffalli was a French Army major who fought in World War II and the First Indochina War.

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16/03/1912

Pat Nixon, American teacher, First Lady of the United States (died 1993)

Thelma Catherine "Pat" Nixon was First Lady of the United States from 1969 to 1974 as the wife of Richard Nixon, the 37th U.S. president. From 1953 to 1961, she had been the second lady of the United States when her husband was Dwight D. Eisenhower's vice president.

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16/03/1911

Pierre Harmel, Belgian lawyer and diplomat, Prime Minister of Belgium (died 2009)

Pierre Charles José Marie, Count Harmel was a Belgian lawyer, Christian Democratic politician and diplomat. Harmel served as the prime minister of Belgium from 1965 to 1966, leading a centre-left cabinet.

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Josef Mengele, German physician, SS captain and mass-murderer (died 1979)

Josef Mengele, often dubbed the "Angel of Death", was a German military officer and physician during World War II at the Soviet front and then at Auschwitz during the Holocaust. He conducted research and experiments on prisoners at the Auschwitz II-Birkenau concentration camp, where he was a member of the team of doctors who selected victims to be murdered in the gas chambers.

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Philip Pavia, American painter and sculptor (died 2005)

Philip Pavia (1911-2005) was a culturally influential American artist of Italian descent, known for his scatter sculpture and figurative abstractions, and the debate he fostered among many of the 20th century's most important art thinkers. A founder of the New York School of Abstract Expressionism, he "did much to shift the epicenter of Modernism from Paris to New York," both as founding organizer of The Club and as founder, editor and publisher of the short-lived but influential art journal It Is: A Magazine for Abstract Art. Reference to the magazine appears in the archives of more than two dozen celebrated art figures, including Picasso, Peggy Guggenheim, and art critic Clement Greenberg. The Club is credited with inspiring art critic Harold Rosenberg’s influential essay “The American Action Painters" and the historic 9th Street Show.

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16/03/1910

Aladár Gerevich, Hungarian fencer (died 1991)

Aladár Gerevich was a Hungarian fencer, regarded as "the greatest Olympic swordsman ever". He won seven gold medals in sabre at six different Olympic Games.

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Iftikhar Ali Khan Pataudi, Indian-English cricketer and politician, 8th Nawab of Pataudi (died 1952)

Nawab Mohammad Iftikhar Ali Khan Pataudi, sometimes I. A. K. Pataudi, was an Indian prince and cricket player.

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16/03/1909

Don Raye, American songwriter (died 1985)

Don Raye was an American songwriter, best known for his songs for The Andrews Sisters such as "Beat Me Daddy, Eight to the Bar", "The House of Blue Lights", "Just for a Thrill" and "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy." The latter was co-written with Hughie Prince.

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16/03/1908

René Daumal, French author and poet (died 1944)

René Daumal was a French spiritual para-surrealist writer, critic and poet, best known for his posthumously published novel Mount Analogue (1952) as well as for being an early, outspoken practitioner of pataphysics.

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Ernest Rogez, French water polo player (died 1986)

Ernest Rogez was a French water polo player who competed in the 1928 Summer Olympics.

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Robert Rossen, American director, producer, and screenwriter (died 1966)

Robert Rossen was an American screenwriter, film director, and producer whose film career spanned almost three decades.

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16/03/1906

Francisco Ayala, Spanish sociologist, author, and translator (died 2009)

Francisco Ayala García-Duarte was a Spanish writer, the last representative of the Generation of '27.

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Maurice Turnbull, Welsh-English cricketer and rugby player (died 1944)

Maurice Joseph Lawson Turnbull was a Welsh cricketer who played in nine Test matches for the England cricket team between 1930 and 1936.

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Lloyd Waner, American baseball player (died 1982)

Lloyd James Waner, nicknamed "Little Poison", was a Major League Baseball (MLB) center fielder. His small stature at 5 ft 9 in (1.75 m) and 132 lb (60 kg) made him one of the smallest players of his era. Along with his brother, Paul Waner, he anchored the Pittsburgh Pirates outfield throughout the 1920s and 1930s. After brief stints with four other teams late in his career, Waner retired as a Pirate.

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Henny Youngman, English-American violinist and comedian (died 1998)

Henry "Henny" Youngman was an American comedian and musician famous for his mastery of the "one-liner", his best known being "Take my wife... please".

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16/03/1904

Buddy Myer, American baseball player (died 1974)

Charles Solomon "Buddy" Myer was an American professional baseball player. He played in Major League Baseball as a second baseman from 1925 through 1941. A two-time All-Star, Myer was notable for being the 1935 American League batting champion and led the American League in stolen bases in 1928. An excellent hitter, he batted .300 or better nine times, and retired with a career average of .303. Myer walked more than twice as many times as he struck out. Apart from a brief period with the Boston Red Sox in 1927–28, he spent his entire career with the Washington Senators.

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16/03/1903

Mike Mansfield, American politician and diplomat, 22nd United States Ambassador to Japan (died 2001)

Michael Joseph Mansfield was an American Democratic Party politician and diplomat who represented Montana in the United States House of Representatives from 1943 to 1953 and United States Senate from 1953 to 1977. As the leader of the Senate Democratic Caucus from 1961 to 1977, Mansfield shepherded Great Society programs through the Senate; his tenure of exactly sixteen years was the longest of any party leader in Senate history, until the record was broken by Mitch McConnell in 2023.

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16/03/1901

Alexis Chantraine, Belgian footballer (died 1987)

Joseph Dieudonné Alexis Chantraine was a Belgian footballer.

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16/03/1900

Cyril Hume, American novelist and screenwriter (died 1966)

Cyril Hume was an American novelist and screenwriter. Hume was a graduate of Yale University, where he edited campus humor magazine The Yale Record. He was an editor of the collection The Yale Record Book of Verse: 1872–1922 (1922).

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Mencha Karnicheva, Macedonian revolutionary and assassin (died 1964)

Melpomena Dimitrova Karnicheva, commonly known as Mencha Karnicheva, was a revolutionary of the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization (IMRO). The wife of IMRO leader Ivan Mihaylov, she is known for assassinating IMRO left-wing activist Todor Panitsa.

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16/03/1897

Antonio Donghi, Italian painter (died 1963)

Antonio Donghi was an Italian painter of scenes of popular life, landscapes, and still life.

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Conrad Nagel, American actor (died 1970)

John Conrad Nagel was an American film, stage, television and radio actor. He was considered a famous matinée idol and leading man of the 1920s and 1930s. He was given an Honorary Academy Award in 1940, and three stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1960.

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16/03/1895

Ernest Labrousse, French historian (died 1988)

Camille-Ernest Labrousse was a French historian specializing in social and economic history who was born in Barbezieux, Charente and died in Paris.

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16/03/1892

César Vallejo, Peruvian poet (died 1938)

César Abraham Vallejo Mendoza was a Peruvian poet, writer, playwright, and journalist. Although he published only two books of poetry during his lifetime, he is considered one of the great poetic innovators of the 20th century in any language. Thomas Merton called him "the greatest universal poet since Dante". The late British poet, critic and biographer Martin Seymour-Smith, a leading authority on world literature, called Vallejo "the greatest twentieth-century poet in any language." He was a member of the intellectual community called North Group formed in the Peruvian north coastal city of Trujillo.

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16/03/1889

Reggie Walker, South African athlete (died 1951)

Reginald Edgar Walker was a South African athlete and the 1908 Olympic champion in the 100 metres.

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16/03/1887

Emilio Lunghi, Italian runner (died 1925)

Emilio Lunghi was an Italian athlete. He won the silver medal in the men's 800 metres race at the 1908 Summer Olympics in London, making him the first Italian to win an Olympic medal.

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S. Stillman Berry, American marine zoologist (1984)

Samuel Stillman Berry was an American marine zoologist who specialized in cephalopods.

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16/03/1886

Herbert Lindström, Swedish tug of war player (died 1951)

Carl Herbert Lindström was a Swedish fisherman who won a gold medal in the tug of war competition at the 1912 Summer Olympics.

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16/03/1885

Giacomo Benvenuti, Italian composer and musicologist (died 1943)

Giacomo Benvenuti was an Italian composer and musicologist.

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Sydney Chaplin, English actor (died 1965)

Sydney John Chaplin was an English actor. Chaplin was the elder half-brother of actor and filmmaker Charlie Chaplin and in later life, served as his business manager.

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16/03/1884

Eric P. Kelly, American journalist and author (died 1960)

Eric Philbrook Kelly was an American journalist, academic and author of children's books. He was a professor of English at Dartmouth College and briefly a lecturer at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków. He won the 1929 Newbery Medal recognizing his first published book, The Trumpeter of Krakow, as the preceding year's most distinguished contribution to American children's literature.

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J. Alfred Tanner, Finnish singer and songwriter (died 1927)

Johan Alfred Tanner, better known as J. Alfred Tanner, was a Finnish singer and songwriter. He is considered as one of Finland's most important songwriters ever, he wrote the lyrics to over 100 songs and recorded about 70 of them.

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16/03/1883

Ethel Anderson, Australian poet, author, and painter (died 1958)

Ethel Campbell Louise Anderson was an early twentieth century Australian poet, essayist, novelist and painter. She considered herself to be mainly a poet, but is now best appreciated for her witty and ironic stories. Anderson has been described as "a high-profile author, artist, art commentator and emissary for modernism".

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16/03/1882

James Lightbody, American runner (died 1953)

James Davies Lightbody was an American middle distance runner, winner of six Olympic medals in the early 20th century.

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16/03/1881

Fannie Charles Dillon, American composer (died 1947)

Fannie Charles Dillon was an American pianist, music educator and composer.

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16/03/1878

Clemens August Graf von Galen, German cardinal (died 1946)

Clemens Augustinus Emmanuel Joseph Pius Anthonius Hubertus Marie Graf von Galen, better known as Clemens August Graf von Galen, was a German count, Bishop of Münster, and cardinal of the Catholic Church. During World War II, Galen led Catholic protests against Nazi euthanasia and denounced Gestapo lawlessness and the persecution of the Church in Nazi Germany. He was appointed a cardinal by Pope Pius XII in 1946, shortly before his death, and was beatified by Pope Benedict XVI in 2005.

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Paul Jouve, French painter (died 1973)

Pierre-Paul Jouve was a French painter, sculptor and illustrator. He was notable for his paintings and sculptures of Africa's animals. He was first recipient of the Prix Abd-el-Tif in 1907, and later of the Prix d'Indochine in 1921.

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16/03/1877

Léo-Ernest Ouimet, Canadian director and producer (died 1972)

Léo-Ernest Ouimet was a Canadian film pioneer. He was a theater operator, filmmaker, producer, and distributor.

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16/03/1874

Frédéric François-Marsal, French prime minister (died 1958)

Frédéric François-Marsal was a French politician of the Third Republic, who served briefly as Prime Minister in 1924. Due to his premiership he also served for two days as the Acting President of the French Republic between the resignation of Alexandre Millerand and the election of Gaston Doumergue.

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16/03/1871

Hans Merensky, South African geologist and philanthropist (died 1951)

Hans Merensky was a South African geologist, prospector, scientist, conservationist and philanthropist.

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Frantz Reichel, French rugby player and hurdler (died 1932)

François Étienne "Frantz" Reichel was a French sports administrator, athlete, cyclist and journalist. He competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens as a runner and at the 1900 Summer Olympics in Paris as a rugby union player. He co-founded the International Sports Press Association (AIPS), and served as its first president in 1924–1932.

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16/03/1869

Willy Burmester, German violinist (died 1933)

Carl Adolph Wilhelm “Willy” Burmester was a German violinist.

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16/03/1865

Patsy Donovan, Irish-American baseball player and manager (died 1953)

Patrick Joseph Donovan was an Irish born right fielder and manager in Major League Baseball who played for several teams from 1890 to 1907, most notably the Pittsburgh Pirates. Donovan started his career with Boston in 1890 but shuffled over to Brooklyn before the season ended, which saw him win the National League pennant. He played for Louisville and Washington of the American Association for a season each before he found himself with the Pirates in 1892, where he would play for the next seven years. In his first full season with the team, he had his first .300 season as a National League player, batting .317 with 46 stolen bases and 158 hits in 113 games. He batted .300 in each of the next five seasons with Pittsburgh before his tenure ended in 1899. He joined St. Louis in 1900 and played the next four seasons for the team, which saw him bat .300 three straight times and lead the NL in stolen bases with 45 in 1900. He played a season in Washington before sitting out 1905; he played eight combined games in 1906 and 1907 with Brooklyn to end his career.

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16/03/1859

Alexander Stepanovich Popov, Russian physicist and inventor (died 1906)

Alexander Stepanovich Popov was a Russian physicist who was one of the first people to invent a radio receiving device.

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16/03/1857

Charles Harding Firth, English historian (died 1936)

Sir Charles Harding Firth was a British historian. He was one of the founders of the Historical Association in 1906. Esmond de Beer wrote that Firth "knew the men and women of the seventeenth century much as a man knows his friends and acquaintances, not only as characters but also in the whole moral and intellectual world in which they lived."

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16/03/1856

Napoléon, Prince Imperial of France (died 1879)

Napoléon, Prince Imperial, also known as Louis-Napoléon, was the only child of Napoleon III, Emperor of the French, and Empress Eugénie. After his father was dethroned in 1870, he moved to England with his family. On his father's death in January 1873, he was proclaimed by the Bonapartist faction as Napoléon IV.

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16/03/1851

Otto Bardenhewer, German theologian (died 1935)

Bertram Otto Bardenhewer was a German Catholic patrologist. His Geschichte der altkirchlichen Literatur is a standard work, re-issued in 2008. For Bardenhewer, a patrologist was not a literary historian of the Church Fathers, but a historian of dogmatic definitions.

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Martinus Beijerinck, Dutch microbiologist and botanist (died 1931)

Martinus Willem Beijerinck was a Dutch microbiologist and botanist who was one of the founders of virology and environmental microbiology. He is credited with the co-discovery of viruses (1898), which he called "contagium vivum fluidum".

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16/03/1848

Axel Heiberg, Norwegian financier and diplomat (died 1932)

Axel Heiberg was a Norwegian diplomat and financier as well as a patron of the arts and sciences.

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16/03/1846

Gösta Mittag-Leffler, Swedish mathematician and academic (died 1927)

Magnus Gustaf "Gösta" Mittag-Leffler was a Swedish mathematician. His mathematical contributions are connected chiefly with the theory of functions that today is called complex analysis. He founded the prestigious mathematical periodical Acta Mathematica and was its editor for 40 years.

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Rebecca Cole, American physician and social reformer (died 1922)

Rebecca J. Cole was an American physician, organization founder and social reformer. In 1867, she became the second African-American woman to become a doctor in the United States, after Rebecca Lee Crumpler three years earlier. Throughout her life she faced racial and gender-based barriers to her medical education, training in all-female institutions which were run by the first generation of graduating female physicians.

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Jurgis Bielinis, Lithuanian book smuggler (died 1918)

Jurgis Bielinis was one of the main organizers of the illegal book-smuggling at the time of the Lithuanian press ban (1864–1904). Bielinis is informally referred to as the King of Book Smugglers. Since 1989, Bielinis's birthday is commemorated as the Day of Book Smugglers.

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16/03/1845

Umegatani Tōtarō I, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 15th Yokozuna (died 1928)

Umegatani Tōtarō I was a Japanese professional sumo wrestler from the town of Haki, Chikuzen Province, now Shiwa, Fukuoka Prefecture. He was the sport's 15th yokozuna. He was generally regarded as the strongest wrestler to emerge since the era of Tanikaze and Raiden.

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16/03/1840

Shibusawa Eiichi, Japanese industrialist (died 1931)

Shibusawa Eiichi, 1st Viscount Shibusawa was a Japanese business magnate widely known today as the "Father of Japanese capitalism", having introduced Western capitalism to Japan after the Meiji Restoration. He introduced many economic reforms including use of double-entry accounting, joint-stock corporations and modern note-issuing banks.

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Georg von der Gabelentz, German linguist and sinologist (died 1893)

Georg von der Gabelentz was a German general linguist and sinologist. His Chinesische Grammatik (1881), according to a critic, "remains until today recognized as probably the finest overall grammatical survey of the Classical Chinese language to date."

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16/03/1839

Sully Prudhomme, French poet and critic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1907)

René François Armand "Sully" Prudhomme was a French poet and essayist. He was the first winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, in 1901.

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John Butler Yeats, Irish painter (died 1922)

John Butler Yeats RHA was an Irish artist and the father of W. B. Yeats, Lily Yeats, Elizabeth Corbett "Lollie" Yeats and Jack Butler Yeats. The National Gallery of Ireland holds a number of his portraits in oil and works on paper, including one of his portraits of his son William, painted in 1900.

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16/03/1836

Andrew Smith Hallidie, English-American engineer and inventor (died 1900)

Andrew Smith Hallidie was an American entrepreneur who was the promoter of the Clay Street Hill Railroad in San Francisco. This was the world's first practical cable car system, and Hallidie is often therefore regarded as the inventor of the cable car and father of the present day San Francisco cable car system, although both claims are open to dispute. He also introduced the manufacture of wire rope to California, and at an early age was a prolific builder of bridges in the Californian interior.

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16/03/1834

James Hector, Scottish geologist and surgeon (died 1907)

Sir James Hector was a Scottish-New Zealand geologist, naturalist, and surgeon who accompanied the Palliser Expedition as a surgeon and geologist. He went on to have a lengthy career as a government employed man of science in New Zealand, and during this period he dominated the colony's scientific institutions in a way that no single person has since.

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16/03/1828

Émile Deshayes de Marcère, French politician (died 1918)

Émile-Louis-Gustave Deshayes de Marcère was a French politician.

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16/03/1825

Camilo Castelo Branco, Portuguese writer (died 1890)

Camilo Castelo Branco, 1st Viscount of Correia Botelho, was a prolific Portuguese writer of the 19th century, having produced over 260 books. His writing is considered original in that it combines the dramatic and sentimental spirit of Romanticism with a highly personal combination of sarcasm, bitterness and dark humour. He is also celebrated for his peculiar wit and anecdotal character, as well as for his turbulent life.

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16/03/1823

William Henry Monk, English organist and composer (died 1889)

William Henry Monk was an English organist, Anglican church musician, and music editor who composed popular hymn tunes, including "Eventide", used for the hymn "Abide with Me", and "All Things Bright and Beautiful". He also wrote music for church services and anthems.

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16/03/1822

Rosa Bonheur, French painter and sculptor (died 1899)

Rosa Bonheur was a French artist known best as a painter of animals (animalière). She also made sculptures in a realist style. Her paintings include Ploughing in the Nivernais, first exhibited at the Salon of 1849, and now in the Musée d'Orsay in Paris, and The Horse Fair, which was exhibited at the Salon of 1853 and is now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. Bonheur was widely considered to be the most famous female painter of the nineteenth century.

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John Pope, American general (died 1892)

John Pope was a career United States Army officer and Union general in the American Civil War. He had a brief successful stint in the Western Theater, but he is best known for his defeat at the Second Battle of Bull Run in the East.

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16/03/1821

Eduard Heine, German mathematician and academic (died 1881)

Heinrich Eduard Heine was a German mathematician.

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16/03/1820

Enrico Tamberlik, Italian tenor (died 1889)

Enrico Tamberlik was an Italian dramatic tenor who sang to great acclaim at Europe and America's leading opera venues. He excelled in the heroic roles of the Italian and French repertories and was renowned for his powerful declamation and clarion high notes.

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16/03/1819

José Paranhos, Brazilian politician (died 1880)

José Maria da Silva Paranhos, Viscount of Rio Branco, was a Brazilian politician, monarchist, diplomat, teacher and journalist. Rio Branco was born in Salvador, in what was then the Captaincy of Bahia, to a wealthy family, but most of the fortune was lost after his parents' deaths early in his childhood. In 1871, Rio Branco became the president of the Council of Ministers. He would be the Council's longest-serving president, and his cabinet the second longest, in Brazilian history. His government was marked by economic prosperity and several reforms. The most important of these initiatives was the Law of Free Birth, which granted freeborn status to children born to slave women. Rio Branco led the government that enacted this law, and its passage increased his popularity. His government was plagued by a long crisis with the Catholic Church that resulted from the expulsion of Freemasons from its lay brotherhoods. After more than four years heading the Cabinet, Rio Branco resigned in 1875. Following a long vacation in Europe, his health swiftly declined and he was diagnosed with oral cancer. Rio Branco died in 1880 and was widely mourned throughout the country. He is regarded by most historians as one of Brazil's greatest statesmen.

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16/03/1813

Gaëtan de Rochebouët, French prime minister (died 1899)

Gaëtan de Grimaudet, comte de Rochebouët was a French general who served as Prime Minister for less than a month in late 1877.

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16/03/1808

Hannah T. King, British-born American writer and pioneer (died 1886)

Hannah Dorcas Tapfield King was a 19th-century British-born American writer and pioneer. After converting to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in England in 1850, her family emigrated to Utah in 1853 where she became endeared to the people of that state. She was the author of Songs of the Heart, several poems, and writings addressed to young readers. She was the last of 56 women sealed to Brigham Young.

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16/03/1806

Félix De Vigne, Belgian painter (died 1862)

Félix De Vigne was a Belgian painter. He was a history painter, engraver, art historian, and instructor at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Ghent, Belgium, the city of his birth. In 1847, he published Recherches historiques sur les costumes civils et militaires, an illustrated compendium of the flags, shields and costumes of medieval guilds and military groups.

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16/03/1805

Ernst von Lasaulx, German philologist and politician (died 1861)

Peter Ernst von Lasaulx, known as Ernst von Lasaulx was a German philologist and politician.

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16/03/1800

Emperor Ninkō of Japan (died 1846)

Emperor Ninkō was the 120th emperor of Japan according to the traditional order of succession. Ninkō's reign spanned the years from 1817 until his death in 1846, and saw further deterioration of the power of the ruling shōgun. Disasters, which included famine, combined with corruption and increasing Western interference, helped to erode public trust in the bakufu government. Emperor Ninkō revived certain court rituals and practices upon the wishes of his father. However, it is unknown what role, if any, the Emperor had in the turmoil which occurred during his reign.

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16/03/1799

Anna Atkins, English botanist and photographer (died 1871)

Anna Atkins was an English botanist and photographer. She is often considered the first person to publish a book illustrated with photographic images. Some sources say that she was the first woman to create a photograph.

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16/03/1797

Alaric Alexander Watts, English poet and journalist (died 1864)

Alaric Alexander Watts was a British poet and journalist, born in London. His life was dedicated to newspaper creation and editing, and he was seen as a conservative writer. His newspaper ventures failed and led him to bankruptcy, until he received a pension from his friend, Lord Aberdeen.

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16/03/1794

Ami Boué, Austrian geologist and ethnographer (died 1881)

Ami Boué was a geologist of French Huguenot origin. Born at Hamburg, he was trained in Edinburgh and across Europe. Based on fossil and the strata in which he observed them, he suggested that there were continuous change in the animal forms that existed over time and opposed the theories of catastrophism of the period. He travelled across Europe, studying geology, as well as ethnology, and is considered to be among the first to produce a geological map of the world.

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16/03/1789

Francis Rawdon Chesney, English general and explorer (died 1872)

Francis Rawdon Chesney was a British general and explorer.

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Georg Ohm, German physicist and mathematician (died 1854)

Georg Simon Ohm was a German mathematician and physicist. As a school teacher, Ohm began his research with the new electrochemical cell, invented by Italian scientist Alessandro Volta. Using equipment of his own creation, Ohm found that there is a direct proportionality between the potential difference (voltage) applied across a conductor and the resultant electric current; this relation is known as Ohm's law.

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16/03/1776

Johan Gijsbert Verstolk van Soelen, Dutch Minister of Foreign Affairs (died 1845)

Johan Gijsbert Verstolk van Soelen was a Dutch politician. Between 1825 and 1841 he served as Minister of Foreign Affairs.

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16/03/1774

Matthew Flinders, English navigator and cartographer (died 1814)

Captain Matthew Flinders was a Royal Navy officer, navigator and cartographer who led the first inshore circumnavigation of mainland Australia, then called New Holland. He is also credited as being the first person to utilise the name Australia to describe the entirety of that continent including Van Diemen's Land, a title he regarded as being "more agreeable to the ear" than previous names such as Terra Australis.

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16/03/1773

Juan Ramón Balcarce, Argentinian general and politician, 6th Governor of Buenos Aires Province (died 1836)

Juan Ramón González de Balcarce was an Argentine military leader and politician.

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16/03/1771

Antoine-Jean Gros, French painter (died 1835)

Antoine-Jean Gros was a French painter of historical subjects. He was granted the title of Baron Gros in 1824.

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16/03/1766

Jean-Frédéric Waldeck, French antiquarian, cartographer, artist and explorer (died 1875)

Jean-Frédéric Maximilien de Waldeck was a French antiquarian, cartographer, artist and explorer. He was a man of talent and accomplishment, but his love of self-promotion and refusal to let the truth get in the way of a good story leave some aspects of his life in mystery.

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16/03/1760

Johann Heinrich Meyer, Swiss painter and writer (died 1832)

Johann Heinrich Meyer was a Swiss painter, engraver and art critic. He served as the second Director of the Weimar Princely Free Drawing School. A close associate of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, he was often referred to as "Goethemeyer".

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16/03/1753

François Amédée Doppet, French general (died 1799)

François Amédée Doppet was a Savoyard who briefly commanded three French armies during the French Revolutionary Wars without distinction. During the 1770s he enlisted in the French cavalry. Quitting the army after three years, he became a physician after studying medicine at Turin. Later moving to Paris, he became a writer of poems, romances and medical works while also dabbling in aphrodisiacs and mesmerism.

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16/03/1751

James Madison, American academic and politician, 4th President of the United States (died 1836)

James Madison was an American statesman, diplomat, and Founding Father who served as the fourth president of the United States from 1809 to 1817. Madison was popularly acclaimed as the "Father of the Constitution" for his pivotal role in drafting and promoting the Constitution of the United States and the Bill of Rights.

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16/03/1750

Caroline Herschel, German-English astronomer (died 1848)

Caroline Lucretia Herschel was a German astronomer, whose most significant contributions to astronomy were the discoveries of several comets, including the periodic comet 35P/Herschel–Rigollet, which bears her name. She was the younger sister of astronomer William Herschel, with whom she worked for most of her career.

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16/03/1744

Nicolas-Germain Léonard, Guadeloupean poet and novelist (died 1793)

Nicolas-Germain Léonard was a poet and one of Guadeloupe's first writers.

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16/03/1741

Carlo Amoretti, Italian scientist (died 1816)

Carlo Amoretti was an ecclesiastic, scholar, writer, and scientist. He entered the Augustinian order in 1757. To further his studies, he went to Pavia and Parma where he also taught ecclesiastical law and he perfected his knowledge of ancient languages and modern ones.

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16/03/1729

Maria Louise Albertine (died 1818)

Countess Maria Louise Albertine of Leiningen-Dagsburg-Falkenburg ; also known as Princess George, was heiress to the barony of Broich and by marriage Princess of Hesse-Darmstadt. She was the grandmother and educator of Princess Louise of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, who later became Queen consort of Prussia.

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16/03/1701

Daniel Lorenz Salthenius, Swedish theologian (died 1750)

Daniel Lorenz Salthenius was a professor of theology at the University of Königsberg from 1732 until his death.

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16/03/1693

Malhar Rao Holkar, Indian nobleman (died 1766)

Malhar Rao Holkar was a noble subedar of the Maratha Empire and the first Maharaja of Indore from 1732 until his death in 1766. He was one of the early officers along with Ranoji Scindia, appointed by Peshwa Bajirao I to help spread the Maratha rule to northern states and was given the estate of Indore to rule by the King chief, during the reign of the Maratha Emperor Shahu I. He was founder of the Holkar dynasty that ruled Malwa.

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16/03/1687

Sophia Dorothea of Hanover, queen consort of Frederick William I (died 1757)

Sophia Dorothea of Hanover was Queen in Prussia and Electress of Brandenburg during the reign of her husband, King Frederick William I, from 1713 to 1740. She was the mother of Frederick the Great.

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16/03/1673

Jean Bouhier, French jurist and scholar (died 1746)

Jean Bouhier was a French magistrate, jurisconsultus, historian, translator, bibliophile and scholar. He served as the first président à mortier to the parlement de Bourgogne from 1704 to 1728, when he resigned to devote himself to his historic and literary work following his 1727 election to the Académie française.

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16/03/1670

François de Franquetot de Coigny, French general (died 1759)

François de Franquetot de Coigny was a Marshal of France, Count, and from 1747, the Duke of Coigny.

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16/03/1654

Andreas Acoluthus, German scholar (died 1704)

Andreas Acoluthus was a German scholar of orientalism and professor of theology at Breslau (Wrocław). A native of Bernstadt (Bierutów), Lower Silesia, he was the son of Johannes Acoluthus, pastor of St. Elisabeth and superintendent of the churches and schools of Breslau.

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16/03/1638

François Crépieul, Jesuit missionary (died 1702)

François Crépieul was a Jesuit missionary in Canada and vicar apostolic for the Montagnais Indians.

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16/03/1631

René Le Bossu, French literary critic (died 1680)

René Le Bossu or le Bossu was a French literary critic.

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16/03/1621

Georg Neumark, German poet and composer of hymns (died 1681)

Georg Neumark was a German poet and composer of hymns.

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16/03/1609

Michael Franck, German poet and composer of hymns (died 1667)

Michael Franck was a German poet, composer and Protestant hymnwriter. He was born in Schleusingen, and died in Coburg.

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Agostino Mitelli, Italian painter (died 1660)

Agostino Mitelli was an Italian painter of the Baroque period and best known as a fresco painter of quadratura or illusionistic perspectival architectural frameworks.

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16/03/1596

Ebba Brahe, Swedish countess (died 1674)

Ebba Magnusdotter Brahe was a Swedish countess, landowner, and courtier. She is foremost known for being the love object of King Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden, who wished to marry her prior to his own marriage, a plan which was however never realized. Their love affair, the subject of fiction, has become famous in Swedish romantic history and is documented in their preserved correspondence.

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16/03/1590

Ii Naotaka, Japanese daimyō (died 1659)

Ii Naotaka was a Japanese daimyō of the early Edo period who served under the Tokugawa shogunate. He was the son of the famous Tokugawa general Ii Naomasa. His childhood name was Bennosuke (弁之介).

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16/03/1585

Gerbrand Bredero, Dutch poet and playwright (died 1618)

Gerbrand Adriaenszoon Bredero was a Dutch poet and playwright in the period known as the Dutch Golden Age.

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16/03/1581

Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft, Dutch historian and poet (died 1647)

Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft - Knight in the Order of Saint Michael - was a Dutch historian, poet and playwright who lived during the Dutch Golden Age in literature.

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16/03/1559

Amar Singh I, successor of Maharana Pratap of Mewar (died 1620)

Maharana Amar Singh I the Sisodia-Rajput ruler of the Mewar Kingdom, was the eldest son and successor of Maharana Pratap I. He was the 14th Rana of Mewar, ruling from 19 January 1597 until his death on 26 January 1620.

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16/03/1473

Henry IV, Duke of Saxony (died 1541)

Henry IV the Pious, Duke of Saxony was a Duke of Saxony from the House of Wettin. Succeeding his brother George, Duke of Saxony, a fervent Catholic who sought to extinguish Lutheranism by any means possible, Henry established the Lutheran church as the state religion in his domains.

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16/03/1465

Kunigunde of Austria, Duchess of Bavaria (died 1520)

Kunigunde of Austria, a member of the House of Habsburg, was Duchess of Bavaria from 1487 to 1508 by her marriage to the Wittelsbach duke Albert IV.

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16/03/1445

Johann Geiler von Kaysersberg, Swiss priest and theologian (died 1510)

Johann Geiler von Kaysersberg was a priest, considered one of the greatest of the popular preachers of the 15th century. He was closely connected with the Renaissance humanists of Strasbourg, whose leader was the well-known Jakob Wimpfeling (1450–1528), called "the educator of Germany". Like Wimpfeling, Geiler was a secular priest; both fought the ecclesiastical abuses of the age, but not in the spirit of Martin Luther and his adherents. They looked, instead, for salvation and preservation only in the restoration of Christian morals in Church and State through the faithful maintenance of the doctrines of the Church. However the moral reforms of Johann Geiler laid the groundwork for the Protestant reformation in Strasbourg.

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16/03/1399

The Xuande Emperor, ruler of Ming China (died 1435)

The Xuande Emperor, personal name Zhu Zhanji, was the fifth emperor of the Ming dynasty, reigning from 1425 to 1435. He was the son and successor of the Hongxi Emperor.

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