Born on Thursday, 26th March – Famous Birthdays

26/03/2007

Jesús Fortea, Spanish footballer

Jesús Fortea Tejedo is a Spanish footballer who plays as a right-back for Real Madrid Castilla.

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26/03/2005

Ella Anderson, American actress

Ella Aiko Anderson is an American actress and singer. She began her career as a child actress, starring in roles such as Piper Hart on the Nickelodeon television series Henry Danger, and is also known for playing the role of Rachel Rawlings in the 2016 comedy adventure film The Boss.

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26/03/2004

Awra Briguela, Filipino actor and comedian

Awra Briguela, is a Filipino actor and comedian who gained recognition after starring in FPJ's Ang Probinsyano (2016–2019), personally chosen for the role by the show's lead actor Coco Martin. Briguela's life was featured in a titular episode of Maalaala Mo Kaya in 2016. In 2017, Awra was declared champion in the first season of the Filipino version of Your Face Sounds Familiar Kids.

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26/03/2003

Bhad Bhabie, American rapper and social media personality

Danielle Peskowitz Bregoli, better known by her stage name Bhad Bhabie, is an American rapper, songwriter, and media personality. She gained viral recognition after appearing on the talk show Dr. Phil in 2016, when her one-liners and catchphrases briefly became Internet memes.

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26/03/2001

Jameson Williams, American football player

Jameson Demetri Williams, nicknamed "Jamo", is an American professional football wide receiver for the Detroit Lions of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Ohio State Buckeyes before transferring to the Alabama Crimson Tide in 2021, where he was named an All-American. Williams was selected by the Lions in the first round of the 2022 NFL draft.

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26/03/2000

Gefen Primo, Israeli judoka

Gefen Primo is an Israeli judoka. She competes in the under 52 kg weight category. She won a gold medal at the 2017 European Youth Summer Olympic Festival. She won individual bronze medals in the 2018 European Championships, 2021 World Championships and 2021 European Championships as well as a team bronze at the 2022 World Championships. Primo represented Israel at the 2024 Summer Olympics in judo in the women's 52 kg, in which she came in seventh, and in the mixed team event, in which Team Israel came in ninth.

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Andrei Svechnikov, Russian ice hockey player

Andrei Igorevich Svechnikov is a Russian professional ice hockey player who is a winger for the Carolina Hurricanes of the National Hockey League (NHL). The Hurricanes selected him second overall in the 2018 NHL entry draft.

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26/03/1998

Satoko Miyahara, Japanese figure skater

Satoko Miyahara is a retired Japanese figure skater. She is the 2015 World silver medalist, the 2018 World bronze medalist, the 2016 Four Continents champion, a two-time Four Continents silver medalist, a two-time Grand Prix Final silver medalist, a two-time Skate America champion, the 2015 NHK Trophy champion, a four-time CS U.S. Classic champion, the 2014 CS Lombardia Trophy champion, and a four-time Japanese national champion (2014–17).

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26/03/1996

Zane Musgrove, New Zealand rugby league player

Zane Musgrove is a Samoan international rugby league footballer who most recently played as a prop for the Bradford Bulls in the RFL Championship via Warrington Wolves & Oldham.

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Kathryn Bernardo, Filipino actress

Kathryn Chandria Manuel Bernardo is a Filipino actress. Known for her work in mainstream productions, she has starred in three of the highest-grossing Filipino films of all time; The Hows of Us (2018), Hello, Love, Goodbye (2019), and Hello, Love, Again (2024). Her accolades include a Seoul International Drama Award, an Asian World Film Festival Award, two FAMAS Awards, and 14 Box Office Entertainment Awards.

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26/03/1995

Ibai Llanos, Spanish internet personality

Ibai Llanos Garatea, better known mononymously as Ibai, is a Spanish internet celebrity, streamer, and esports commentator. He was a content creator for G2 Esports from 2020 to 2021. He is the co-founder of the esports organisation KOI.

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26/03/1994

Ryan Arcidiacono, American basketball player

Ryan Curran Arcidiacono is an American professional basketball player for the Osos de Manatí of the Baloncesto Superior Nacional (BSN). Nicknamed "the Arch of Dimes", he is widely considered among the greatest players in Villanova history. Arcidiacono was part of Villanova's 2016 national championship team, where he was awarded the Most Outstanding Player award and assisted on the game-winning basket to Kris Jenkins as time expired in the championship game.

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Alison Van Uytvanck, Belgian tennis player

Alison Van Uytvanck is a Belgian former professional tennis player. In August 2018, she reached her best singles ranking of world No. 37.

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Paige VanZant, American mixed martial artist and model

Paige Michelle VanZant is an American mixed martial artist, bare knuckle boxer, professional wrestler, professional boxer, slap fighter, author, model, and OnlyFans content creator. VanZant was previously signed to the Ultimate Fighting Championship, where she competed in the strawweight and flyweight divisions. Outside of mixed martial arts, VanZant has been involved in professional wrestling with All Elite Wrestling and in boxing with Bare Knuckle Fighting Championship. Additionally, VanZant has appeared on the television shows Dancing with the Stars and Chopped.

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Jed Wallace, English footballer

Jed Fernley Wallace is an English professional footballer who plays as a right winger for EFL Championship club West Bromwich Albion.

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Marcela Zacarías, Mexican tennis player

Marcela Zacarías Valle, known as Marcela Zacarías, is a former Mexican tennis player. She has a career-high singles ranking of 159, and a best doubles ranking of world No. 119, achieved on 24 October 2022.

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26/03/1992

Nina Agdal, Danish model

Nina Brohus Agdal Paul is a Danish model. She is known for her appearances in the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue. In 2014, she appeared on the magazine's 50th anniversary cover alongside Chrissy Teigen and Lily Aldridge.

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Stoffel Vandoorne, Belgian racing driver

Stoffel Jacques Luc Vandoorne is a Belgian racing driver, who competes in the FIA World Endurance Championship for Peugeot and serves as a test and reserve driver for Aston Martin in Formula One. In formula racing, Vandoorne competed in Formula One from 2016 to 2018, and won the 2021–22 Formula E World Championship with Mercedes. He competed further in Formula E with DS Penske in the 2022-23 and 2023-24 seasons and Maserati in the 2024-25 season.

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26/03/1991

Matt Davidson, American baseball player

Matthew Glen Davidson is an American professional baseball infielder for the NC Dinos of the KBO League. He has previously played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Arizona Diamondbacks, Chicago White Sox, Cincinnati Reds and Oakland Athletics, and in Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) for the Hiroshima Toyo Carp.

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Ramy Youssef, American actor and comedian

Ramy Youssef is an American stand-up comedian, actor and writer. He is known for his role as Ramy Hassan on the Hulu comedy series Ramy (2019–2022), for which he won a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Television Series Musical or Comedy and a Peabody Award in 2020. He was also nominated for two Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Directing for a Comedy Series and Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series.

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26/03/1990

Choi Woo-shik, South Korean actor

Choi Woo-shik is a Canadian actor based in South Korea. He first gained recognition for starring in the film Set Me Free (2014) and the television series Hogu's Love (2015) before coming to international prominence for his roles in the films Train to Busan (2016) and Parasite (2019) both of which were critical and commercial successes with the latter winning the Palme d'Or at Cannes and the Academy Award for Best Picture. He has since starred in the television series Our Beloved Summer (2021–2022) and A Killer Paradox (2024), as well as the films The Policeman's Lineage (2022) and Wonderland (2024).

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Matteo Guidicelli, Filipino actor, model, singer and former kart racer

Gianmatteo Vittorio Fernan Guidicelli is a Filipino actor, businessman, military officer, model, singer and former kart racer.

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Patrick Ekeng, Cameroonian footballer (died 2016)

Patrick Claude Ekeng Ekeng was a Cameroonian professional footballer who played as a defensive midfielder. He had two international caps for his country's national team, whom he represented at the 2015 Africa Cup of Nations.

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Yuya Takaki, Japanese idol, singer, dancer, model and actor

Hey! Say! JUMP is a seven-member Japanese boy band under the Japanese talent agency Starto Entertainment. The group is split into two sub-groups: Hey! Say! BEST and Hey! Say! 7. In Japan they sold more than 10 million physical copies.

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Xiumin, South Korean singer and actor

Kim Min-seok, known professionally as Xiumin, is a South Korean singer and actor. He is a member of the South Korean-Chinese boy band Exo, its sub-group Exo-M and leader of its sub-unit Exo-CBX. He debuted as a soloist on September 26, 2022, with the extended play (EP) Brand New.

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26/03/1989

Simon Kjær, Danish footballer

Simon Thorup Kjær is a Danish former professional footballer who played as a centre-back.

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Von Miller, American football player

Vonnie B'VSean Miller is an American professional football linebacker. Miller played college football for the Texas A&M Aggies, where he earned consensus All-American honors and the 2010 Butkus Award. He was selected by the Denver Broncos with the second overall pick in the 2011 NFL draft. Miller has been a seven-time All-Pro selection and eight-time Pro Bowl selection during his career.

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26/03/1987

Kim Dong-suk, South Korean footballer

Kim Dong-Suk is a South Korean football player who currently plays for Incheon United.

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Jermichael Finley, American football player

Jermichael Decorean Finley is an American former professional football player who was a tight end in the National Football League (NFL). He was selected by the Green Bay Packers in the third round of the 2008 NFL draft. With the Packers, he won Super Bowl XLV win over the Pittsburgh Steelers, not participating due to injury. He played college football for the Texas Longhorns.

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Steven Fletcher, Scottish footballer

Steven Kenneth Fletcher is a former professional footballer who played as a striker.

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26/03/1986

Maxime Biset, Belgian footballer

Maxime Biset is a Belgian football coach and a former midfielder. He works as an assistant coach with Antwerp.

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Rob Kearney, Irish rugby player

Robert Kearney is an Irish former rugby union player. He spent 15 years playing for Leinster, before having a six-month stint in Australia where he played for Perth based side Western Force. Kearney also played over a decade for the Ireland national rugby union team with whom he earned 95 caps, and went on two British & Irish Lions tours in 2009 and 2013. As a youth Kearney also played rugby union for Clongowes Wood College and Gaelic football for Louth in the All-Ireland Minor Championship.

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Emma Laine, Finnish tennis player

Emma Johanna Laine is a former tennis player from Finland.

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26/03/1985

Keira Knightley, English actress

Keira Christina Knightley, OBE is an English actress. Known for her work in independent films and blockbusters, particularly period dramas, she has received numerous accolades, including nominations for two Academy Awards, two British Academy Film Awards, four Golden Globes, and a Laurence Olivier Award. In 2018, she was appointed an OBE at Buckingham Palace for services to drama and charity.

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Matt Grevers, American swimmer

Matthew Grevers is a former American competition swimmer who competed in the backstroke and freestyle events, and is a six-time Olympic medalist. He has won a total of thirty-three medals in major international competition, fourteen gold, twelve silver, and seven bronze spanning the Olympics, World Championships, and the Universiade. At the 2008 Summer Olympics, Grevers won gold medals as a member of the U.S. teams in the 4×100-meter freestyle and 4×100-meter medley relays, and a silver medal in the 100-meter backstroke. Four years later, at the 2012 Summer Olympics, he won gold medals in the 100-meter backstroke and the 4×100-meter medley relay, and a silver medal in the 4×100-meter freestyle relay.

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Jonathan Groff, American actor and singer

Jonathan Drew Groff is an American actor and singer. Known for his performances on stage and screen, he has received several accolades including a Tony Award and a Grammy Award as well as a nomination for a Primetime Emmy Award.

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Prosper Utseya, Zimbabwean cricketer

Prosper Utseya is a retired Zimbabwean cricketer, who plays all formats of the game. He captained Zimbabwe from 2006 to 2010. He bowls right-arm off break and is a useful right-hand batsman. Utseya has not played any form of cricket since 2015.

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26/03/1984

Jimmy Howard, American ice hockey player

James Russell Howard III is an American former professional ice hockey goaltender and currently a Detroit Red Wings studio analyst for Bally Sports Detroit. He spent his entire National Hockey League (NHL) career with the Detroit Red Wings, by whom he was drafted in 2003.

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Drew Mitchell, Australian rugby player

Drew Alan Mitchell is a former Australian rugby union professional player. He played on the wing or as fullback. Up to the 2006 season he played for the Queensland Reds. He played for the Western Force for the 2007–09 Super 14 seasons. From 2010 to 2013 he played for the New South Wales Waratahs. Since 2013 he has played for RC Toulon. He made his debut for Australia in 2005 and is Australia's highest try scorer in World Cup history.

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Felix Neureuther, German skier

Felix Neureuther is a German retired World Cup alpine ski racer and former World champion.

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Marco Stier, German footballer

Marco Stier is a German former professional footballer who played as a midfielder. He represented Germany internationally at youth levels U17 through U20.

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Gregory Strydom, Zimbabwean cricketer

Gregory Mark Strydom is an international cricketer. He played 12 One Day Internationals (ODIs) for Zimbabwe in 2006, and a number of T20 Internationals (T20Is) for Cayman Islands in 2019.

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Sara Jean Underwood, American model, television host, and actress

Sara Jean Underwood is an American model, television host and actress who was chosen as the Playmate of the Month for the July 2006 issue of Playboy magazine and later became Playmate of the Year in 2007. She is a former host of Attack of the Show! on G4.

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26/03/1983

Andreas Hinkel, German footballer

Andreas Hinkel is a German football coach and a former player. Hinkel played as a right-back and earned 21 caps for the Germany national team. He was known for his attacking play on the flanks and defensive solidity.

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Floriana Lima, American actress

Floriana Lima is an American actress. She played Maggie Sawyer on The CW's Supergirl. She began playing recurring character Darcy Cooper in season 2 of the ABC drama A Million Little Things, and was promoted to the main cast for season 3.

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Roman Bednář, Czech footballer

Roman Bednář is a Czech football coach and former player.

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Mike Mondo, American wrestler

Michael Brendli, better known by the ring name Mike Mondo, is an American professional wrestler. He is currently performing on the independent circuit – predominantly for the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA), where he is the current NWA National Heavyweight Champion in his first reign. He is best known for his time in WWE as Mike Mondo and Mikey as a member of The Spirit Squad.

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26/03/1982

Mikel Arteta, Spanish footballer

Mikel Arteta Amatriain is a Spanish professional football manager and former player who is the manager of Premier League club Arsenal.

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Brendan Ryan, American baseball player

Brendan Wood Ryan is an American former professional baseball infielder. He played 10 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the St. Louis Cardinals, Seattle Mariners, New York Yankees and Los Angeles Angels.

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Nate Kaeding, American football player

Nathaniel James Kaeding is an American former professional football player who was a placekicker in the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Iowa Hawkeyes, earning consensus All-American honors and winning the Lou Groza Award. He was selected in the third round of the 2004 NFL draft by the San Diego Chargers, where he played for nine seasons.

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26/03/1981

Sébastien Centomo, Canadian ice hockey player

Sébastien Centomo is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player. He played one game in the National Hockey League (NHL) with the Toronto Maple Leafs during the 2001–02 season, on March 6, 2002, against the Detroit Red Wings. The rest of his career, which lasted from 2001 to 2010, was spent in the minor leagues.

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Zayar Thaw, Burmese rapper and politician (died 2022)

Phyo Zeya Thaw (Burmese: ဖြိုးဇေယျာသော်; pronounced [pʰjò zèjà θɔ̀], also referred to as Zeya Thaw was a Burmese politician and hip hop recording artist who was unfairly detained and executed due to the perceived anti-junta messages in his lyrics. Amnesty International designated him as a prisoner of conscience. He served as a member of Pyithu Hluttaw, the Lower House of the Burmese parliament. Phyo Zeya Thaw, alongside opposition leader and State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi, was elected to the lower house on 1 April 2012.

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Baruch Dego, Ethiopian-Israeli footballer

Baruch Dego is an Ethiopian-born Israeli former association footballer, who played for the Israel national team.

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Massimo Donati, Italian footballer

Massimo Donati is an Italian professional football manager, pundit and former player who played as a midfielder.

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Josh Wilson, American baseball player

Joshua Aaron Wilson is an American former professional baseball infielder. Wilson is a Mt. Lebanon, Pennsylvania native. He was part of the 1998 Pennsylvania state championship baseball team and Pennsylvania Player of the Year. Wilson played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Florida Marlins, Washington Nationals, Tampa Bay Devil Rays, Arizona Diamondbacks, San Diego Padres, Seattle Mariners, Milwaukee Brewers, Texas Rangers, and Detroit Tigers.

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26/03/1980

Margaret Brennan, American journalist

Margaret Mary Brennan is an American journalist and moderator of Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan on CBS News, the network's chief foreign affairs correspondent and a fill-in and substitute anchor for CBS Evening News. Brennan was previously a White House correspondent for CBS and has covered Washington since 2012.

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Son Ho-young, South Korean singer

Son Ho-young is a South Korean-American singer and musical actor based in South Korea. Best known as a member of g.o.d, he made his debut in the entertainment industry with the group in 1999 and pursued a solo career as a singer and musical theater actor after the group went on hiatus. He has also regularly appeared on Immortal Songs: Singing the Legend and other music variety shows.

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Richie Wellens, English footballer

Richard Paul Wellens is an English professional football manager and former player who played as a midfielder. He is currently head coach of EFL League One club Leyton Orient.

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26/03/1979

Nacho Novo, Spanish footballer

Ignacio Javier Gómez Novo is a Spanish former professional footballer who played as a forward. He is currently manager at Scottish 7th tier club Darvel.

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Ben Blair, New Zealand rugby union footballer

Ben Austin Blair is a former rugby union footballer. He played four tests for New Zealand. He scored 37 points on his All Blacks debut against Ireland A in 2001 at Ravenhill in Belfast; however, as this was not a test match he was not capped. His first test match appearance came in November that year against Scotland.

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Hiromi Uehara, Japanese pianist and composer

Hiromi Uehara , often known mononymously as Hiromi, is a Japanese jazz composer and pianist. She is known for her virtuosic technique, energetic live performances and blending of musical genres such as stride, post-bop, progressive rock, classical, nu jazz and fusion in her compositions. In 2021, she performed at the opening ceremony of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.

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Pierre Womé, Cameroonian footballer

Pierre Nlend Womé is a Cameroonian former professional footballer who played as a left-back. A journeyman, he played for 14 clubs in six countries. At international level, he made 68 FIFA-official appearances scoring 1 goal for the Cameroon national team.

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Juliana Paes, Brazilian actress

Juliana Couto Paes is a Brazilian actress and former model. She became nationally known in telenovelas and modelling. She also starred in a local version of the musical The Producers, as Ulla.

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26/03/1978

Anastasia Kostaki, Greek basketball player

Anastasia Kostaki is a former Greek professional basketball player, currently serving as an assistant coach for Panathinaikos. She is 1.72 m in height and 65 kg in weight.

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26/03/1977

Kevin Davies, English footballer

Kevin Cyril Davies is an English former professional footballer who played as a striker for Chesterfield, Southampton, Blackburn Rovers, Millwall, Bolton Wanderers and Preston North End. He managed Southport in the 2017–18 season, before his contract was terminated on 30 April 2018.

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Bianca Kajlich, American actress

Bianca Kajlich is an American actress. Kajlich has had starring and supporting roles in television and film including the leading role of Jennifer Morgan on the CBS comedy Rules of Engagement (2007–2013).

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Sylvain Grenier, Canadian wrestler

Sylvain Grenier is a Canadian retired professional wrestler. He is best known for his tenure in World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE).

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26/03/1976

Amy Smart, American actress and former model

Amy Lysle Smart is an American actress and former model. Her first role in film was in Martin Kunert's anthology horror film Campfire Tales, followed by a minor part in Starship Troopers, directed by Paul Verhoeven. In 1998, Smart played a role in Dee Snider's Strangeland. She garnered widespread recognition after appearing in the mainstream teen drama Varsity Blues (1999), as well as for a recurring role as Ruby on the television series Felicity (1999–2001). Next was a lead role in the college sex comedy Road Trip (2000); she was a co-star in Jerry Zucker's ensemble comedy Rat Race (2001). She had a lead role opposite Ashton Kutcher in the sci-fi drama The Butterfly Effect (2004).

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Alex Varas, Chilean footballer

Alex Fabián Varas Rubio is a retired Chilean Association football goalkeeper.

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Eirik Verås Larsen, Norwegian sprint kayaker

Eirik Verås Larsen is a Norwegian sprint kayaker who has competed internationally since the early 1990s. He has participated in three Summer Olympics, and has won a complete set of medals.

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26/03/1974

Irina Spîrlea, Romanian tennis player

Irina Spîrlea is a retired tennis player from Romania who turned professional in 1990. She won four singles and six doubles titles. Spîrlea reached her career-high ranking on the WTA Tour on 13 October 1997, when she became No. 7 in the world. She retired in 2000.

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Vadimas Petrenko, Lithuanian footballer

Vadimas Petrenko is a Lithuanian former professional footballer. He played the position of midfielder and is a former member of the Lithuania national football team.

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Michael Peca, Canadian ice hockey player and coach

Michael Anthony Peca is a Canadian former professional ice hockey forward who played in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the Vancouver Canucks, Buffalo Sabres, New York Islanders, Edmonton Oilers, Toronto Maple Leafs, and the Columbus Blue Jackets. After retiring as a player, he began a coaching career culminating in NHL assistant coach positions for the Washington Capitals, New York Rangers, and currently the Chicago Blackhawks.

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26/03/1973

Larry Page, American computer scientist and businessman, co-founder of Google

Lawrence Edward Page is an American businessman and computer scientist who co-founded Google with Sergey Brin. Page is a centibillionaire and among the richest people in the world. According to Bloomberg Billionaires Index and Forbes, as of 2026, Page's estimated net worth stood at US$269 billion, making him the second-richest individual in the world.

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T. R. Knight, American actor

Theodore Raymond Knight is an American actor. He is best known for his role as Dr. George O'Malley on the ABC medical drama television series Grey's Anatomy, which earned him a nomination for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series in 2007.

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26/03/1972

Leslie Mann, American actress

Leslie Mann is an American actress. She has appeared in numerous films, including The Cable Guy (1996), She's the One (1996), George of the Jungle (1997), Big Daddy (1999), Orange County (2002), The 40-Year-Old Virgin (2005), Knocked Up (2007), Drillbit Taylor (2008), I Love You Phillip Morris (2009), 17 Again (2009), Funny People (2009), This Is 40 (2012), The Bling Ring (2013), The Other Woman (2014), and Blockers (2018).

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Jason Maxwell, American baseball player

Jason Ramond Maxwell is an American former professional baseball player. Primarily an infielder, Maxwell first played in 1998 for the Chicago Cubs. Maxwell played the 2000 and 2001 seasons with the Minnesota Twins. Maxwell attended Marshall County High School in Lewisburg, TN, where he played high school baseball for the Tigers. Maxwell is now the Head Baseball Coach and Athletic Director for Ensworth High School in Nashville, TN. He has also coached several U15 and U18 teams for USA Baseball. Some of his favorite players from the USA development program include Royce Lewis, Anthony Volpe and Dylan Crews. Maxwell recommended that his former club, the Twins, select Lewis with the first overall pick in the 2017 MLB draft.

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26/03/1971

Martyn Day, Scottish politician

Martyn Day is a Scottish National Party (SNP) politician, who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Linlithgow and East Falkirk from 2015 until 2024. He served as SNP Spokesperson for Health from December 2021 to September 2023.

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Erick Morillo, Colombian-American disc jockey, record label owner, and music producer (died 2020)

Erick Morillo was a Colombian-American disc jockey, music producer, and record label owner. Having produced under a number of pseudonyms, including Ministers de la Funk, the Dronez, RAW, Smooth Touch, RBM, Deep Soul, Club Ultimate, and Li'l Mo Ying Yang, Morillo was best known for his international work in house music, in particular for the label Strictly Rhythm, and the 1993 hit "I Like to Move It", which he produced under the pseudonym Reel 2 Real, and which was featured in commercials, movies, and ringtones. His label Subliminal Records produced the number-one Billboard Hot Dance Music/Club Play hit "Fun" by Da Mob, and won the Muzik magazine "Remixer of the Year" award in 1999. Subliminal also brought attention to artists like Eddie Thoneick, Carl Kennedy, and DJ DLG. He was a three-time winner of DJ Awards "Best House DJ" in 1998, 2001, and 2003 and a three-time winner of "Best International DJ" in 2002, 2006, and 2009 receiving a total of 15 nominations in all from 1998 to 2010.

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Rennae Stubbs, Australian tennis player and sportscaster

Rennae Stubbs is an Australian former professional tennis player, coach and television commentator. She was ranked number 1 in the world in doubles, and the winner of 4 major doubles titles and 2 mixed doubles titles as well as 66 WTA doubles titles. She is the host of "The Rennae Stubbs Tennis Podcast". She worked at the Seven Network between 2011 and 2018 as an analyst and is now a full time commentator for ESPN tennis. She was an Australian Institute of Sport scholarship holder. In January 2019, Stubbs received the OLY post-nominal title at the Brisbane International tournament. She is also the longest-serving member of the Australian BJK Cup team.

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Paul Williams, English footballer and manager

Paul Darren Williams is an English professional football coach and former player who was until August 2022 academy director at Birmingham City.

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26/03/1970

Paul Bosvelt, Dutch footballer

Paul Bosvelt is a Dutch football coach and former professional footballer who is technical director of Go Ahead Eagles.

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Jelle Goes, Dutch footballer and coach

Jelle Quirinus Goes is a Dutch football manager.

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Thomas Kyparissis, Greek footballer

Thomas Kyparissis is a Greek retired football player. He was a striker, who scored more than 150 goals in his entire career. He was a key player for AEL during the club's hard try to make it back to the first division from the third division from 2003 to 2005, and he continued to serve the team for two more seasons. Due to his strong mentality and passion, he was nicknamed "Psychara" from Larissa's fans. From January 2007 he returned at his very first professional club and the team of his hometown, Pierikos. He retired a year later.

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Martin McDonagh, English-born Irish playwright, screenwriter, and director

Martin Faranan McDonagh is a British-born Irish playwright and filmmaker. Known for his absurdist dark humour and controversial style, he has received numerous accolades including an Academy Award, six BAFTAs, two Golden Globes, and three Laurence Olivier Awards in addition to nominations for five Tony Awards.

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26/03/1969

Alessandro Moscardi, Italian rugby player

Alessandro Moscardi is an Italian former rugby union player who played as a hooker.

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26/03/1968

Laurent Brochard, French cyclist

Laurent Brochard is a retired professional road racing cyclist from France. In 1997 he won a stage of the Tour de France and became world road champion in San Sebastián, Spain.

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Kenny Chesney, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

Kenneth Arnold Chesney is an American country singer. With 30 million albums sold worldwide, he released his debut, In My Wildest Dreams, in 1994, and has since released 19 follow-ups. His albums spawned 27 singles that have peaked within the top 40 of the Billboard Hot 100.

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James Iha, American guitarist and songwriter

James Yoshinobu Iha is an American rock musician. He is best known as a guitarist and co-founder of the alternative rock band the Smashing Pumpkins. He was a member until the band's initial breakup in 2000 and rejoined in 2018.

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26/03/1967

Jason Chaffetz, American politician

Jason Edwin Chaffetz is an American retired politician who served as the U.S. representative for Utah's 3rd congressional district from 2009 until his resignation in 2017. He chaired the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform from 2015 until 2017.

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26/03/1966

Michael Imperioli, American actor and screenwriter

Michael Imperioli is an American actor. He is best known for his role as Christopher Moltisanti in the HBO crime drama series The Sopranos (1999–2007), which earned him the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series in 2004.

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26/03/1965

Trey Azagthoth, American guitarist, songwriter, and producer

Morbid Angel is an American death metal band based in Tampa, Florida, formed in 1983 by guitarist, primary composer and sole remaining original member Trey Azagthoth, vocalist and bassist Dallas Ward, and drummer Mike Browning. It was one of the first bands to incorporate guttural vocals, up-tempo blast beats, multiple tempo changes and a dark atmosphere. Morbid Angel was also the first death metal band to experience mainstream success in connection with being signed to Giant Records in 1992, heavy rotation of its music videos on MTV, and having the music video for the song "God of Emptiness" shown on an episode of Beavis and Butt-Head. The band's first three albums – Altars of Madness (1989), Blessed Are the Sick (1991), and Covenant (1993) – are considered classics in the death metal genre.

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Violeta Szekely, Romanian runner

Violeta Szekely, née Violeta Beclea, is a Romanian former middle distance runner who competed mainly in the 1500 metres. She competed in two Olympic Games, in 1992 and 2000.

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26/03/1964

Martin Bella, Australian rugby league player

Martin Bella, nicknamed Munster, is an Australian former rugby league footballer who played in the 1980s and 1990s. A prop, he represented Queensland and Australia, and played his club football for a number of clubs in Australian and England.

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Martin Donnelly, Irish racing driver

Hugh Peter Martin Donnelly is a British former racing driver from Northern Ireland who competed in Formula One at 15 Grands Prix from 1989 and 1990.

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Maria Miller, English businessman and politician, Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport

Dame Maria Frances Miller is a British politician who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Basingstoke from 2005 until the 2024 general election. A member of the Conservative Party, she served as Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport from 2012 to 2014 under Prime Minister David Cameron.

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Ulf Samuelsson, Swedish-American ice hockey player and coach

Ulf Bo Samuelsson is a Swedish-American former professional ice hockey defenceman who formerly served as assistant coach of the Florida Panthers of the National Hockey League. He played several seasons in the NHL with the Hartford Whalers, Pittsburgh Penguins, New York Rangers, Detroit Red Wings, and Philadelphia Flyers. He is a two-time Stanley Cup champion, winning with the Penguins in 1991 and 1992, and the first European-born player to have 2,000 career penalty minutes.

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26/03/1963

Natsuhiko Kyogoku, Japanese author

Natsuhiko Kyogoku is a Japanese mystery writer, who is a member of Ōsawa Office. He is a member of the Mystery Writers of Japan and the Honkaku Mystery Writers Club of Japan.

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26/03/1962

Richard Coles, English pianist, saxophonist, and priest

Richard Keith Robert Coles is an English writer, radio presenter and Church of England priest. After playing in the 1980s band Bronski Beat, he came to prominence as the multi-instrumentalist who partnered Jimmy Somerville in the band the Communards. They achieved three UK top-10 hits, including the No. 1 record and best-selling single of 1986, a cover version of "Don't Leave Me This Way".

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Kevin Seitzer, American baseball player and coach

Kevin Lee Seitzer is an American former professional baseball third baseman who is currently the hitting coach for the Seattle Mariners of Major League Baseball (MLB). He played in MLB for the Kansas City Royals, Milwaukee Brewers, Oakland Athletics, and Cleveland Indians. He has also served as the hitting coach for the Royals, Arizona Diamondbacks, Toronto Blue Jays, and Atlanta Braves.

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Yuri Gidzenko, Russian pilot and cosmonaut

Yuri Pavlovich Gidzenko is a Russian cosmonaut. He was a test cosmonaut of the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center (TsPK). Gidzenko has flown into space three times and has lived on board the Mir and the International Space Station. He has also conducted two career spacewalks. Although he retired on July 15, 2001, he continued his employment by a special contract until Soyuz TM-34 concluded. Since 2004 to May 2009, Gidzenko was the Director of the 3rd department within the TsPK. Since May 2009 he has served as the Deputy Chief of Cosmonaut Training Center TsPK.

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John Stockton, American basketball player and coach

John Houston Stockton is an American former professional basketball player. Regarded as one of the greatest point guards of all time, he spent his entire NBA career (1984–2003) with the Utah Jazz. The team made the playoffs in each of his 19 seasons. In 1997 and again in 1998, Stockton and his longtime teammate Karl Malone led the Jazz to the NBA Finals; each time, the team was defeated in six games by the Chicago Bulls.

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Eric Allan Kramer, American-Canadian actor

Eric Allan Kramer is an American actor. He is known to television audiences for his roles as Scott Miller on AMC's Lodge 49, Dave Rogers on The Hughleys, and Bob Duncan on the Disney Channel sitcom Good Luck Charlie. He was the first actor to play the Marvel Comics superhero Thor in live-action, in the made-for-television film The Incredible Hulk Returns (1988). He also appeared as Iron Mike Wilcox in the 2019 video game Days Gone.

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26/03/1961

William Hague, English historian and politician, First Secretary of State

William Jefferson Hague, Baron Hague of Richmond is a British politician and life peer who was Leader of the Conservative Party and Leader of the Opposition from 1997 to 2001 and Deputy Leader from 2005 to 2010. He was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Richmond (Yorks) in North Yorkshire from 1989 to 2015. He was in the Cameron government as First Secretary of State from 2010 to 2015, Foreign Secretary from 2010 to 2014, and Leader of the House of Commons from 2014 to 2015. He has been Chancellor of the University of Oxford since February 2025.

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26/03/1960

Marcus Allen, American football player and sportscaster

Marcus LeMarr Allen is an American former professional football running back who played in the National Football League (NFL) for 16 seasons, primarily with the Los Angeles Raiders. Considered one of the greatest goal line and short-yard runners in NFL history, he was selected 10th overall by the Raiders in the 1982 NFL draft, following a successful college football career with the USC Trojans. He was a member of the Raiders for 11 seasons and spent his last five seasons with the Kansas City Chiefs.

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Jennifer Grey, American actress and dancer

Jennifer Grey is an American actress. She made her acting debut with the film Reckless (1984), and had her breakthrough with the teen comedy film Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986). She earned worldwide fame starring as Frances "Baby" Houseman in the romantic drama film Dirty Dancing (1987), which earned her a Golden Globe Award nomination. Her other feature films include Red Dawn (1984), The Cotton Club (1984), Bloodhounds of Broadway (1989), Bounce (2000), Redbelt (2008), The Wind Rises (2013), In Your Eyes (2014), Bittersweet Symphony (2019), and A Real Pain (2024).

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Graeme Rutjes, Australian-Dutch footballer

Graeme Wayne Rutjes is a former Australian-born Dutch footballer, who played as a defender for Excelsior Rotterdam (1980–85), Y.R. K.V. Mechelen (1985–90) and R.S.C. Anderlecht (1990–96).

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26/03/1958

Elio de Angelis, Italian racing driver (died 1986)

Elio de Angelis was an Italian racing driver, who competed in Formula One from 1979 to 1986.

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26/03/1957

Fiona Bruce, Scottish lawyer and politician

Fiona Claire Bruce is a British former Conservative Party politician who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Congleton from 2010 to 2024.

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Leeza Gibbons, American talk show host and television personality

Leeza Kim Gibbons is an American talk show host. She is best known as a correspondent and co-host for Entertainment Tonight (1984–2000) as well as for having her own syndicated daytime talk show, Leeza (1993–2000). In 2013, her book Take 2 became a New York Times bestseller and she won the Daytime Emmy for Outstanding Host in a Lifestyle or Travel program for the PBS show, My Generation. On February 16, 2015, Gibbons was named the winner of The Celebrity Apprentice; while on the show she raised $714,000 for her charity Leeza's Care Connection.

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Paul Morley, English journalist, producer, and author

Paul Robert Morley is an English music journalist. He wrote for the New Musical Express from 1977 to 1983, and has since written for a wide range of publications and written his own books. He was a co-founder of the record label ZTT Records and was a member of the synthpop group Art of Noise. He has also been a band manager, promoter, and television presenter.

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Shirin Neshat, Iranian visual artist

Shirin Neshat is an Iranian photographer and visual artist who lives in New York City, known primarily for her work in film, video and photography. Her artwork centers on the contrasts between Islam and the West, femininity and masculinity, public life and private life, antiquity and modernity, and bridging the spaces between these subjects.

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26/03/1956

Charly McClain, American country music singer

Charlotte Denise "Charly" McClain is a retired American country music singer, best known for a string of hits during the 1980s. McClain's biggest hits include "Who's Cheatin' Who", "Sleepin' with the Radio On", and "Radio Heart".

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Park Won-soon, South Korean lawyer and politician, 35th Mayor of Seoul (died 2020)

Park Won-soon was a South Korean politician, activist, and lawyer. He was the longest-serving mayor of Seoul, from 2011 until his death in July 2020. A member of the Democratic Party of Korea, he was first elected in 2011 and won re-election in 2014 and 2018. He died by suicide in July 2020 following allegations of sexual harassment.

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26/03/1954

Clive Palmer, Australian businessman and politician

Clive Frederick Palmer is an Australian billionaire businessman and politician. He has iron ore, nickel, and coal holdings, and owns various mining and resort businesses. Palmer founded the Palmer United Party in 2013, and was the member of parliament (MP) for the Queensland division of Fairfax from 2013 to 2016.

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Curtis Sliwa, American talk show host and activist, founded Guardian Angels

Curtis Anthony Sliwa is an American politician, activist and radio talk show host. He is the founder and chief executive officer of the Guardian Angels, a nonprofit crime-prevention organization headquartered in New York City. Sliwa was twice the unsuccessful Republican nominee for Mayor of New York, being defeated in 2021 by Democratic nominee Eric Adams and in 2025 by Democratic nominee Zohran Mamdani.

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Dorothy Porter, Australian poet and playwright (died 2008)

Dorothy Featherstone Porter was an Australian poet. She was a recipient of the Christopher Brennan Award for lifetime achievement in poetry.

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26/03/1953

Lincoln Chafee, American academic and politician, 74th Governor of Rhode Island

Lincoln Davenport Chafee is an American politician who served as the 74th governor of Rhode Island from 2011 to 2015 and as United States Senator from 1999 to 2007. Previously, he served as mayor of Warwick, Rhode Island from 1993 to 1999. A member of the Libertarian Party since 2019, he previously was a Republican until 2007, an independent from 2007 to 2013, and a Democrat from 2013 to 2019. He is the last non-Democrat to hold statewide or Congressional office in Rhode Island.

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Elaine Chao, Taiwanese-American banker and politician, 24th United States Secretary of Labor

Elaine Lan Chao is a Taiwanese-American businesswoman and former government official who served as United States secretary of labor in the administration of George W. Bush from 2001 to 2009 and as United States secretary of transportation in the first administration of Donald Trump from 2017 to 2021. A member of the Republican Party, Chao was the first Asian American woman to serve in a presidential cabinet. She resigned as transportation secretary after the January 6 United States Capitol attack.

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Tatyana Providokhina, Russian runner

Tatyana Petrovna Providokhina is a former Soviet athlete, who mainly competed in the 800 metres.

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26/03/1952

Didier Pironi, French racing driver (died 1987)

Didier Joseph Louis Pironi was a French racing driver and offshore powerboat racer, who competed in Formula One from 1978 to 1982. Pironi was runner-up in the Formula One World Drivers' Championship in 1982 with Ferrari, and won three Grands Prix across five seasons. In endurance racing, Pironi won the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 1978 with Renault.

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26/03/1951

Željko Pavličević, Croatian professional basketball coach and former professional player

Željko Pavličević is a Croatian professional basketball coach and former player. He currently serves as the head coach for Eastern in ASEAN Basketball League.

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Carl Wieman, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate

Carl Edwin Wieman is an American physicist and educationist at Stanford University, and currently the A. D. White Professor at Large at Cornell University. In 1995, while at the University of Colorado Boulder, he and Eric Allin Cornell produced the first true Bose–Einstein condensate (BEC) an ultracold state of matter; and, in 2001, they and Wolfgang Ketterle were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics. Wieman currently holds a joint appointment as Professor of Physics and Professor in the Stanford Graduate School of Education, as well as the DRC Professor in the Stanford University School of Engineering. In 2020, Wieman was awarded the Yidan Prize in Education Research for "his contribution in developing new techniques and tools in STEM education".

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26/03/1950

Teddy Pendergrass, American singer-songwriter (died 2010)

Theodore DeReese Pendergrass was an American soul and R&B singer and songwriter. He was born in Kingstree, South Carolina. Pendergrass lived most of his life in the Philadelphia area, and initially rose to musical fame as the lead singer of Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes. After leaving the group in 1976, Pendergrass launched a successful solo career under the Philadelphia International label, releasing five consecutive platinum albums.

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Graham Barlow, English cricketer

Graham Derek Barlow is a former cricketer and was a middle-order batsman for Middlesex and, briefly, for England.

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Martin Short, Canadian-American actor, screenwriter, and producer

Martin Hayter Short is a Canadian comedian, actor, and writer. Short is known as an energetic comedian who gained prominence for his roles in sketch comedy. He has also acted in numerous films and television shows. His awards include two Primetime Emmy Awards, two Actor Awards, and a Tony Award. Short was made an officer of the Order of Canada in 2019.

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Alan Silvestri, American composer and conductor

Alan Anthony Silvestri is an American composer, conductor, orchestrator and music producer of film scores. He has received two Grammy Awards and two Primetime Emmy Awards as well as nominations for two Academy Awards and two Golden Globe Awards.

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26/03/1949

Jon English, English-Australian singer-songwriter and actor (died 2016)

Jonathan James English was an English-born Australian singer, songwriter, musician and actor. He emigrated from England to Australia with his parents in 1961. He was an early vocalist and rhythm guitarist for Sebastian Hardie but left to take on the role of Judas Iscariot in the Australian version of the stage musical Jesus Christ Superstar from May 1972, which was broadcast on television. English was also a solo singer; his Australian top twenty hit singles include "Turn the Page", "Hollywood Seven", "Words are Not Enough", "Six Ribbons" and "Hot Town".

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Rudi Koertzen, South African cricketer and umpire (died 2022)

Rudolf Eric Koertzen was a South African international cricket umpire and former cricketer. A cricket enthusiast since his youth, he played league cricket while working as a clerk for South African Railways. He began umpiring in 1981, before becoming a full-time official eleven years later. In an international career spanning 18 years, he officiated in a record 331 matches and is only behind Aleem Dar in officiating as an umpire in most international matches.

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Vicki Lawrence, American actress, comedian, talk show host, and singer

Vicki Lawrence, sometimes credited as Vicki Lawrence Schultz, is an American actress, comedian, and singer. She is best known for her character Mama. Lawrence also originated many other characters on CBS's The Carol Burnett Show from 1967 to 1978, the variety show's entire series run.

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Fran Sheehan, American bass player

Fran Sheehan is an American rock musician best known for being the bass player in the original incarnation of the rock band Boston.

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Patrick Süskind, German author and screenwriter

Patrick Süskind is a German writer and screenwriter, known best for his novel Perfume: The Story of a Murderer, first published in 1985.

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Ernest Lee Thomas, American actor

Ernest Lee Thomas is an American actor. He is best known for his role as Roger "Rog" Thomas on the 1970s ABC sitcom What's Happening!! and its 1980s syndicated sequel, What's Happening Now!!, and for his recurring role as Mr. Omar on Everybody Hates Chris.

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26/03/1948

Kyung-wha Chung, South Korean violinist and educator

Kyung Wha Chung is a South Korean violinist.

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Richard Tandy, English pianist and keyboard player (died 2024)

Richard Tandy was an English musician. He was the full-time keyboardist in the band Electric Light Orchestra ("ELO"). His palette of keyboards was an important ingredient in the group's sound, especially on the albums A New World Record (1976), Out of the Blue (1977), Discovery (1979) and Time (1981). He collaborated musically with ELO frontman Jeff Lynne on many projects, among them songs for the Electric Dreams soundtrack, Lynne's solo album Armchair Theatre and Lynne-produced Dave Edmunds album Information.

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Steven Tyler, American singer-songwriter and actor

Steven Victor Tallarico, known professionally as Steven Tyler, is an American singer and songwriter. Tyler is best known as the lead singer of the Boston-based rock band Aerosmith, in which he also plays the keyboards, harmonica and percussion. He has been called the "Demon of Screamin'" due to his powerful high screams and his wide vocal range. He is also known for his on-stage acrobatics. During live performances, Tyler is known for dressing in colorful, sometimes androgynous outfits and makeup with his trademark scarves hanging from his microphone stand.

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26/03/1947

Subhash Kak, Indian-American professor and author

Subhash Kak is an Indian-American computer scientist and Hindutva historical revisionist. He is the Regents Professor of the School of Electrical & Computer Engineering at Oklahoma State University–Stillwater, an honorary visiting professor of engineering at Jawaharlal Nehru University, and a member of the Indian Prime Minister's Science, Technology and Innovation Advisory Council (PM-STIAC).

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John Rowles, New Zealand-Australian singer-songwriter

Sir John Edward Rowles is a New Zealand singer. He was most popular in the late 1960s, 1970s and early 1980s, and he is best known in New Zealand for his song "If I Only Had Time" and from 1970, "Cheryl Moana Marie", which he wrote about his younger sister

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26/03/1946

Johnny Crawford, American actor and singer (died 2021)

John Ernest Crawford was an American actor and singer. He first performed before a national audience as a Mouseketeer. At age 12, Crawford rose to prominence playing Mark McCain in the series The Rifleman, for which he was nominated for a Best Supporting Actor Emmy Award at age 13.

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Alain Madelin, French politician, French Minister of Finance

Alain Madelin is a French politician.

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26/03/1945

Paul Bérenger, Mauritian politician, Prime Minister of Mauritius

Paul Raymond Bérenger is a Mauritian politician who served as the fourth prime minister of Mauritius from 2003 to 2005. Bérenger previously served as deputy prime minister three times: from 1995 to 1997, 2000 to 2003 and 2024 to 2026.

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Mikhail Voronin, Russian gymnast and coach (died 2004)

Mikhail Yakovlevich Voronin was a Soviet and Russian gymnast who competed for the Soviet Union in the late 1960s and early 1970s. He won seven medals, including two gold, at the 1968 Summer Olympics, as well as two silver medals at the 1972 Summer Olympics.

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26/03/1944

Diana Ross, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actress

Diana Ross is an American singer and actress. Known as the "Queen of Motown", she was the lead singer of the vocal group, The Supremes, who became Motown's most successful act during the 1960s and one of the world's best-selling girl groups of all time. They remain the best-charting female group in history, with a total of 12 number-one pop singles on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100.

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26/03/1943

Mustafa Kalemli, Turkish physician and politician, Turkish Minister of the Interior

Mustafa Kalemli is a Turkish physician and politician, who served as government minister and Speaker of the Turkish Grand National Assembly.

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Bob Woodward, American journalist and author

Robert Upshur Woodward is an American investigative journalist. He started working for The Washington Post as a reporter in 1971 and now holds the honorific title of associate editor there, though the Post no longer employs him.

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26/03/1942

Erica Jong, American novelist and poet

Erica Jong is an American novelist, satirist, and poet known particularly for her 1973 novel Fear of Flying. The book became famously controversial for its attitudes towards female sexuality and figured prominently in the development of second-wave feminism. The Washington Post said in 2013 that it had sold more than 20 million copies worldwide, while by 2022, The New York Times reported that worldwide sales of the book had increased to over 37 million copies.

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26/03/1941

Richard Dawkins, Kenyan-English ethologist, biologist, and academic

Richard Dawkins is a British evolutionary biologist, zoologist, science communicator and author. He is an emeritus fellow of New College, Oxford. In 1995 he was named the first Simonyi Professor for the Public Understanding of Science, a position he held until 2008, and is on the advisory board of the University of Austin. Dawkins has won several academic and writing awards, among them the 2005 Shakespeare Prize and the 2006 Lewis Thomas Prize. Presenting the latter, Paul Nurse said "In eloquent, evocative prose, Richard Dawkins conveys the certainty that, rather than diminishing the myriad beauties of the universe and extinguishing wonderment at its mysteries, science reveals truths that are yet more awe-inspiring than the mysteries they solve."

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Lella Lombardi, Italian racing driver (died 1992)

Maria Grazia "Lella" Lombardi was an Italian racing driver who participated in 17 Formula One World Championship Grands Prix from 1974 to 1976. Lombardi was the second female driver to qualify for Formula One, after Maria Teresa de Filippis, and is the only female driver who finished within the points in Formula One, having scored half a point in the 1975 Spanish Grand Prix. Lombardi was also the first woman to qualify and compete in the Race of Champions at Brands Hatch, and raced in sports cars. She won the 1979 6 Hours of Pergusa, the 1979 6 Hours of Vallelunga and the 1981 6 Hours of Mugello, and finished 2nd in her class at the 1976 24 Hours of Le Mans.

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26/03/1940

James Caan, American actor and singer (died 2022)

James Edmund Caan was an American actor. He came to prominence playing Sonny Corleone in The Godfather (1972), for which he was nominated for an Academy Award and Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actor. He received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1978.

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Nancy Pelosi, American lawyer and politician, 52nd Speaker of the United States House of Representatives

Nancy Patricia Pelosi is an American politician who was the 52nd speaker of the United States House of Representatives, serving from 2007 to 2011 and again from 2019 to 2023. A member of the Democratic Party, she was the first female elected speaker and the first woman to lead a major political party in either chamber of Congress, heading the House Democrats from 2003 to 2023. Her 20 years as a House party leader are tied with Joe Martin's as the second-longest after Sam Rayburn. Pelosi is in her 20th term, having served in the House since 1987, representing California's 11th congressional district, which includes most of San Francisco. She is the dean of California's congressional delegation.

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Jörg Streli, Austrian architect (died 2019)

Jörg Streli was an Austrian architect and academic teacher at the Innsbruck University. With two colleagues, as the firm Heinz & Mathoi & Streli, he built private homes in the alpine landscape of Tyrol, schools, offices and public buildings, among others. He was also president of the architecture section of the Ingenieur- und Architektenkammer für Tirol und Vorarlberg.

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26/03/1938

Norman Ackroyd, English painter and illustrator (died 2024)

Norman Ackroyd was an English visual artist known primarily for his etchings and work with aquatint. He lived and was based in Bermondsey, London.

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Anthony James Leggett, English-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2026)

Sir Anthony James Leggett was a British–American theoretical physicist and professor at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). Leggett was widely recognised as a world leader in the theory of low-temperature physics, and his pioneering work on superfluidity was recognised by the 2003 Nobel Prize in Physics. He shaped the theoretical understanding of normal and superfluid helium liquids and strongly coupled superfluids. He set directions for research in the quantum physics of macroscopic dissipative systems and use of condensed systems to test the foundations of quantum mechanics.

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26/03/1937

Wayne Embry, American basketball player and manager

Wayne Richard Embry is an American former professional basketball player and basketball executive. Embry's 11-year playing career as a center spanned from 1958 to 1969 playing for the Cincinnati Royals, Boston Celtics and Milwaukee Bucks, all of the National Basketball Association (NBA). After his playing career, Embry transitioned to a career as a professional basketball executive, becoming the first African American general manager and team president in NBA history. In 1999, he was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame.

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Barbara Jones, American sprinter

Barbara Pearl Jones is a retired American sprinter. She was part of the 4 × 100 m relay teams that won gold medals at the 1952 and 1960 Olympics and at the 1955 and 1959 Pan American Games. At the 1952 Olympics she became the youngest woman to win an Olympic gold medal in athletics, aged 15 years 123 days. She later became a member of the U.S. Paralympic Games Committee.

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James Lee, Canadian businessman and politician, 26th Premier of Prince Edward Island (died 2023)

James Matthew Lee was a Canadian politician who was the 26th premier of Prince Edward Island from 1981 to 1986. He was the leader of the PEI Progressive Conservative Party from 1981 to 1987.

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26/03/1934

Alan Arkin, American actor (died 2023)

Alan Wolf Arkin was an American actor, filmmaker and musician. In a career spanning seven decades, he received numerous accolades, including an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, a Golden Globe Award, and a Tony Award as well as nominations for six Emmy Awards.

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Edvaldo Alves de Santa Rosa, Brazilian footballer (died 2002)

Edvaldo Alves de Santa Rosa, better known as Dida, was a Brazilian footballer who played as a forward or attacking midfielder. Following his retirement, he remained with Flamengo, working for two decades with the club's youth teams.

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26/03/1933

Tinto Brass, Italian director and screenwriter

Giovanni "Tinto" Brass is an Italian film director and screenwriter. In the 1960s and 1970s, he directed many critically acclaimed avant-garde films of various genres. Today, he is mainly known for his later work in the erotic genre, with films such as Caligula, Così fan tutte, Paprika, Monella and Trasgredire.

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26/03/1932

Leroy Griffith, American businessman

Leroy Charles Griffith is an American theater and nightclub proprietor, former Broadway and off-Broadway theater producer and director, and former burlesque and adult film producer. In a career spanning 75 years, he owned, leased, or operated more than 70 theaters, cinemas, and nightclubs across the United States, dating from the burlesque era of the 1950s to the present. Earl Wilson, among others, nicknamed him "Burlesque King."

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James Andrew Harris, American chemist and academic (died 2000)

James Andrew Harris was an American radiochemist who was involved in the discovery of elements 104 and 105. Harris was the head of the Heavy Isotopes Production Group, part of the Nuclear Chemistry Division of the University of California, Berkeley. Harris is known for being the first African American to contribute to the discovery of new elements.

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26/03/1931

Leonard Nimoy, American actor (died 2015)

Leonard Simon Nimoy was an American actor and director, famous for playing Spock in the Star Trek franchise for almost 50 years. This includes originating Spock in the original Star Trek series in 1966, then Star Trek: The Animated Series, the first six Star Trek films, Star Trek: The Next Generation, the 2009 Star Trek film, and Star Trek Into Darkness. Nimoy also directed films, including Star Trek III: The Search for Spock (1984), Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986), and Three Men and a Baby (1987), and his career included roles in music videos and video games. In addition to acting and filmmaking, Nimoy was a photographer, author, singer, and songwriter.

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26/03/1930

Gregory Corso, American poet (died 2001)

Gregory Nunzio Corso was an American poet. Along with Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, and William S. Burroughs, he was part of the Beat Generation, as well as one of its youngest members.

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Sandra Day O'Connor, American lawyer and jurist (died 2023)

Sandra Day O'Connor was an American attorney, politician, and jurist who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1981 to 2006. Nominated by President Ronald Reagan, O'Connor was the first woman to serve as a U.S. Supreme Court justice. A moderate conservative, she was considered a swing vote. Before O'Connor's tenure on the Court, she was an Arizona state judge and earlier an elected legislator in Arizona, serving as the first female majority leader of a state senate as the Republican leader in the Arizona Senate. Upon her nomination to the Court, O'Connor was confirmed unanimously by the United States Senate.

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26/03/1929

Charles Dumont, French singer and composer (died 2024)

Charles Gaston Dumont was a French singer and composer. Dumont is best remembered for writing or co-writing more than 30 of the most well-known songs recorded by singer Édith Piaf, including "Non, je ne regrette rien".

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Edward Sorel, American illustrator and caricaturist

Edward Sorel is an American illustrator, caricaturist, cartoonist, graphic designer and author. His work is known for its storytelling, its left-liberal social commentary, and its criticism of right-wing politics and organized religion. Formerly a regular contributor to The Nation, New York Magazine and The Atlantic, his work is today seen more frequently in Vanity Fair. He has been hailed by The New York Times as "one of America's foremost political satirists". As a lifelong New Yorker, a large portion of his work interprets the life, culture and political events of New York City. There is also a large body of work which is nostalgic for the stars of 1930s and 1940s Hollywood when Sorel was a youth. Sorel is noted for his wavy pen-and-ink style, which he describes as "spontaneous direct drawing".

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Edwin Turney, American businessman, co-founded Advanced Micro Devices (died 2008)

Edwin James Turney is best known as one of the founders of Advanced Micro Devices serving as the Vice President of Sales and Administration from 1969 to 1974.

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26/03/1927

Harold Chapman, English photographer (died 2022)

Harold Stephen Chapman was a British photographer noted for chronicling the 1950s and 60s in Paris.

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26/03/1925

Maqsood Ahmed, Pakistani cricketer (died 1999)

Maqsood Ahmed was a Pakistani cricketer who played in 16 Test matches from 1952 to 1955. He was educated at Islamia College, Lahore.

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Pierre Boulez, French pianist, composer, and conductor (died 2016)

Pierre Louis Joseph Boulez was a French composer, conductor and writer, and the founder of several musical institutions. He was one of the dominant figures of post-war contemporary classical music.

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Vesta Roy, American politician, Governor of New Hampshire (died 2002)

Vesta M. Roy was an American Republican politician. She was the first woman to ever serve as the President of The New Hampshire Senate, Acting Governor, and Governor of New Hampshire. Her brief time as Governor was a complicated New Hampshire Constitutional set of events that unfolded when the sitting, post-election, outgoing governor fell ill and died just prior to the end of his term in January, 1983.

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Edward Graham, Baron Graham of Edmonton, English soldier and politician (died 2020)

Thomas Edward Graham, Baron Graham of Edmonton, was a British Labour and Co-operative politician. He was the Member of Parliament for Edmonton from 1974 to 1983, and became a life peer in 1983.

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Ben Mondor, Canadian-American businessman (died 2010)

Bernard Georges "Ben" Mondor was a Canadian-born American business executive and baseball executive, best known as the owner of the Pawtucket Red Sox from 1977 until his death.

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James Moody, American saxophonist and composer (died 2010)

James Moody was an American jazz saxophone and flute player and very occasional vocalist, playing predominantly in the bebop and hard bop styles. The annual James Moody Jazz Festival is held in Newark, New Jersey.

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26/03/1923

Gert Bastian, German general and politician (died 1992)

Gert Bastian was a German military officer and politician with the German Green Party.

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Bob Elliott, American comedian, actor, and screenwriter (died 2016)

Robert Brackett Elliott was an American comedian and actor, one-half of the comedy duo of Bob and Ray. He was the father of comedian/actor Chris Elliott and grandfather of actresses and comedians Abby Elliott and Bridey Elliott. He is most remembered for the character of radio reporter Wally Ballou.

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26/03/1922

William Milliken, American politician, 44th Governor of Michigan (died 2019)

William Grawn Milliken was an American businessman and politician who served as the 44th governor of Michigan from 1969 to 1983. A member of the Republican Party, he assumed the governorship following the resignation of George Romney and went on to win three terms in 1970, 1974, and 1978, becoming the longest-serving governor in Michigan history. During this period he dealt with dramatic changes to the state economy, due to industrial restructuring and challenges to the auto industry, resulting in loss of jobs and population from Detroit, the state's largest city. He also oversaw the PBB crisis and adopted a policy of environmental protection and conservation.

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Oscar Sala, Italian-Brazilian physicist and academic (died 2010)

Oscar Sala, Italian-Brazilian nuclear physicist and important scientific leader, Emeritus Professor of the Institute of Physics, University of São Paulo.

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Guido Stampacchia, Italian mathematician and academic (died 1978)

Guido Stampacchia was an Italian mathematician, known for his work on the theory of variational inequalities, the calculus of variation and the theory of elliptic partial differential equations.

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26/03/1920

Sergio Livingstone, Chilean footballer and journalist (died 2012)

Serjio Robert "Sergio" Livingstone Pohlhammer was a Chilean goalkeeper, who later became a well-regarded journalist. He was nicknamed "El Sapo" for his typical posture in the goal. From 1938 to 1959 he played primarily for CD Universidad Católica in Santiago. With Chile he took part in seven Copa América and one FIFA World Cup, earning 52 caps. IFFHS rated him as the 9th greatest South American keeper of the 20th century.

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26/03/1919

Strother Martin, American actor (died 1980)

Strother Douglas Martin Jr. was an American actor, who appeared in over 170 film and television productions between 1950 and 1980, mainly in character roles. He often appeared in support of John Wayne and Paul Newman, and in Westerns directed by John Ford and Sam Peckinpah. He was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for his role on the television legal drama Hawkins (1973–74).

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Roger Leger, Canadian ice hockey player (died 1965)

Joseph Ernest Roger Léger was a Canadian professional ice hockey player. He played 187 games in the National Hockey League with the Montreal Canadiens and New York Rangers from 1943 to 1950. He was born in L'Annonciation, Quebec.

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26/03/1917

Rufus Thomas, American R&B singer-songwriter (died 2001)

Rufus C. Thomas, Jr. was an American rhythm-and-blues, funk, soul and blues singer, songwriter, dancer, DJ and comic entertainer from Memphis, Tennessee. He recorded for several labels, including Chess Records and Sun Records in the 1950s, before becoming established in the 1960s and 1970s at Stax Records. His dance records, including "Walking the Dog" (1963), "Do the Funky Chicken" (1969), and "(Do the) Push and Pull" (1970), were some of his most successful songs. According to the Mississippi Blues Commission, "Rufus Thomas embodied the spirit of Memphis music perhaps more than any other artist, and from the early 1940s until his death . . . occupied many important roles in the local scene."

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26/03/1916

Christian B. Anfinsen, American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1995)

Christian Boehmer Anfinsen Jr. was an American biochemist. He shared the 1972 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Stanford Moore and William Howard Stein for work on ribonuclease, especially concerning the connection between the amino acid sequence and the biologically active conformation.

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Bill Edrich, English cricketer and footballer (died 1986)

William John Edrich was a first-class cricketer who played for Middlesex, Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC), Norfolk and England.

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Sterling Hayden, American actor and author (died 1986)

Sterling Walter Hayden was an American actor. A leading man for most of his career, he specialized in Westerns and film noir throughout the 1950s, in films such as John Huston's The Asphalt Jungle (1950), Nicholas Ray's Johnny Guitar (1954), and Stanley Kubrick's The Killing (1956). In the 1960s, he became noted for supporting roles, perhaps most memorably as General Jack D. Ripper in Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964).

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26/03/1915

Lennart Strandberg, Swedish sprinter (died 1989)

Hans Lennart Olofsson Strandberg was a Swedish sprinter. He specialized in the 100 metres event, in which he won a bronze medal at the 1938 European Championships and finished sixth at the 1936 Summer Olympics. In 1938, he also won a silver medal with the Swedish 4 × 100 m relay team.

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Hwang Sun-won, North Korean author and poet (died 2000)

Hwang Sun-wŏn was a Korean short story writer, novelist, and poet.

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26/03/1914

Toru Kumon, Japanese mathematician and academic (died 1995)

Toru Kumon was a Japanese mathematics educator. He was born in Kōchi Prefecture, Japan. He graduated from the College of Science at Osaka University with a degree in mathematics and taught high school mathematics in his home town of Osaka.

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William Westmoreland, American general, commander during the Vietnam War (died 2005)

William Childs Westmoreland was a United States Army general, most notably the commander of United States forces during the Vietnam War from 1964 to 1968.

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26/03/1913

Jacqueline de Romilly, Franco-Greek philologist, author, and scholar (died 2010)

Jacqueline Worms de Romilly was a French philologist, classical scholar and fiction writer. She was the first woman nominated to the Collège de France, and in 1988, the second woman to enter the Académie française.

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Paul Erdős, Hungarian-Polish mathematician and academic (died 1996)

Paul Erdős was a Hungarian mathematician. He was one of the most prolific mathematicians and producers of mathematical conjectures of the 20th century. Erdős pursued and proposed problems in discrete mathematics, graph theory, number theory, mathematical analysis, approximation theory, set theory, and probability theory. Much of his work centered on discrete mathematics, cracking many previously unsolved problems in the field. He championed and contributed to Ramsey theory, which studies the conditions in which order necessarily appears. Overall, his work leaned towards solving previously open problems, rather than developing or exploring new areas of mathematics.

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26/03/1911

Lennart Atterwall, Swedish javelin thrower (died 2001)

Lennart Folke Alfons Atterwall was a Swedish javelin thrower who competed at the 1936 Summer Olympics.

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J. L. Austin, English philosopher and academic (died 1960)

John Langshaw Austin was an English philosopher of language and leading proponent of ordinary language philosophy, best known for developing the theory of speech acts.

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Bernard Katz, German-English biophysicist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2003)

Sir Bernard Katz, FRS was a German-born British physician and biophysicist, noted for his work on nerve physiology; specifically, for his work on synaptic transmission at the nerve-muscle junction. He shared the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine in 1970 with Julius Axelrod and Ulf von Euler. He was made a Knight Bachelor in 1969.

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Tennessee Williams, American playwright and poet (died 1983)

Thomas Lanier Williams III, known by his pen name Tennessee Williams, was an American playwright and screenwriter. Along with contemporaries Eugene O'Neill and Arthur Miller, he is considered among the three foremost playwrights of 20th-century American drama.

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26/03/1910

K. W. Devanayagam, Sri Lankan lawyer and politician, 10th Sri Lankan Minister of Justice (died 2002)

Deshamanya Kanapathipillai William "Bill" Devanayagam was a Sri Lankan Tamil lawyer, politician, government minister and Member of Parliament.

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26/03/1909

Chips Rafferty, Australian actor (died 1971)

John William Pilbean Goffage MBE, known professionally as Chips Rafferty, was an Australian actor. Called "the living symbol of the typical Australian", Rafferty's career stretched from the late 1930s until he died in 1971, and during this time he performed regularly in major Australian feature films such as Wake in Fright, as well as appearing in British and American productions, including The Overlanders and The Sundowners. He appeared in commercials in Britain during the late 1950s, encouraging British emigration to Australia.

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Héctor José Cámpora, former President of Argentina (died 1980)

Héctor José Cámpora was an Argentine politician. A major figure of left-wing Peronism, Cámpora was briefly Argentine president from 25 May to 13 July 1973 and subsequently arranged for Juan Perón to run for president in an election that he subsequently won. The modern left-wing Peronist political youth organization La Cámpora is named after him.

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26/03/1908

Franz Stangl, Austrian-German SS officer, convicted Holocaust extermination camp commandant (died 1971)

Franz Paul Stangl was an Austrian police officer and commandant of the Nazi extermination camps Sobibor and Treblinka in World War II.

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26/03/1907

Azellus Denis, Canadian lawyer and politician, Postmaster General of Canada (died 1991)

Azellus Denis, was a Canadian politician who served in the Parliament of Canada as a Member of Parliament and Senator for the longest period of time, 55 years, 10 months and 20 days.

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Mahadevi Varma, Indian poet and activist (died 1987)

Mahadevi Varma was an Indian Hindi-language poetess, essayist, and short-story writer. Some literary scholars regard Varma as one of the four known figures of the Chhayavad movement in Hindi literature.

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26/03/1906

Rafael Méndez, Mexican trumpet player and composer (died 1981)

Rafael Méndez was a Mexican virtuoso solo trumpeter. He is known as the "Heifetz of the Trumpet."

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H. Radclyffe Roberts, American entomologist and museum administrator (died 1982)

Howard Radclyffe Roberts Jr. was an American entomologist known for his work on grasshoppers. His 1941 University of Pennsylvania Ph.D. dissertation was an early work highlighting the role phallic structures could play in grasshopper taxonomy. While serving in World War II, he and Edward Shearman Ross cowrote The Mosquito Atlas, used by the armed forces to identify malaria-transmitting mosquitos. Roberts worked for the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (ANSP), serving as its managing director from 1947 to 1972. He described dozens of grasshopper species from North and South America, and also is the eponym of several taxa named in his honor.

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26/03/1905

Monty Berman, English cinematographer and producer (died 2006)

Nestor Montague "Monty" Berman was a British cinematographer and film and television producer.

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André Cluytens, Belgian-French conductor and director (died 1967)

Augustin Zulma Alphonse "André" Cluytens was a Belgian-born French conductor who was active in the concert hall, opera house and recording studio. His repertoire extended from Viennese classics through French composers to 20th century works. Although much of his career was spent in France, he was the first French conductor at Bayreuth in 1955; he also conducted The Ring and Parsifal at La Scala.

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Viktor Frankl, Austrian neurologist and psychiatrist (died 1997)

Viktor Emil Frankl was an Austrian neurologist, psychiatrist, philosopher, and Holocaust survivor, who founded logotherapy, a school of psychotherapy that describes a search for a life's meaning as the central human motivational force. Logotherapy is part of existential and humanistic psychology theories.

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Mona Williams, American novelist, short story writer and poet (died 1991)

Mona Williams was an American novelist and poet, best known as the author of the novelette from which the 1954 feature film, Woman's World, was adapted. She also contributed articles, fiction and poetry to magazines including The Writer, McCall's, Ladies Home Journal and Cosmopolitan.

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26/03/1904

Joseph Campbell, American mythologist and author (died 1987)

Joseph John Campbell was an American writer and the husband of Jean Erdman. He was a professor of literature at Sarah Lawrence College who worked in comparative mythology and comparative religion. His work covers many aspects of the human condition. Campbell's best-known work is his book The Hero with a Thousand Faces (1949), in which he discusses his theory of the journey of the archetypal hero shared by world mythologies, termed the monomyth.

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Emilio Fernández, Mexican actor, director, and screenwriter (died 1986)

Emilio Fernández Romo, nicknamed "El Indio", was a Mexican film director, screenwriter, and actor. He was one of the most prolific and acclaimed film directors of the Golden Age of Mexican cinema in the 1940s and '50s. His film María Candelaria (1944) won the Palme d'Or at the 1946 Cannes Film Festival, the first Mexican film to receive the honor. As an actor, he worked in numerous film productions in both Mexico and in Hollywood.

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Attilio Ferraris, Italian footballer (died 1947)

Attilio Ferraris IV was an Italian footballer who played as a defensive midfielder.

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Xenophon Zolotas, Greek economist and Prime Minister of Greece (died 2004)

Xenophon Euthymiou Zolotas was a Greek economist who served as an interim non-party Prime Minister of Greece.

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26/03/1900

Angela Maria Autsch, German nun, died in Auschwitz helping Jewish prisoners (died 1941)

Angela Maria Autsch, baptized as Maria Cäcilia Autsch, religious name Angela Maria of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, was a German religious sister of the Congregation Sisters of the Most Holy Trinity. Her beatification process was opened in 1992.

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26/03/1898

Rudolf Dassler, German businessman, founded Puma SE (died 1974)

Rudolf "Rudi" Dassler was a German cobbler, inventor and businessman who founded the sportswear company Puma.

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Charles Shadwell, English conductor and bandleader (died 1979)

Charles Murray Winstanley Shadwell was a British conductor and bandleader.

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26/03/1895

Vilho Tuulos, Finnish triple jumper (died 1967)

Vilho "Ville" Immanuel Tuulos was a Finnish triple jumper and long jumper, who won a gold medal at the 1920 Summer Olympics in Antwerp.

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26/03/1894

Viorica Ursuleac, Ukrainian-Romanian soprano and actress (died 1985)

Viorica Ursuleac was a Romanian operatic dramatic soprano.

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26/03/1893

James Bryant Conant, American chemist, academic, and diplomat, 1st United States Ambassador to West Germany (died 1978)

James Bryant Conant was an American chemist, a President of Harvard University, and the first U.S. Ambassador to West Germany.

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Palmiro Togliatti, Italian journalist and politician, Italian Minister of Justice (died 1964)

Palmiro Michele Nicola Togliatti was an Italian politician and statesman, who led the Italian Communist Party for nearly forty years, from 1927 until his death. Born into a middle-class family, Togliatti received an education in law at the University of Turin, later served as an officer and was wounded in World War I, and became a tutor. Described as "severe in approach but extremely popular among the Communist base" and "a hero of his time, capable of courageous personal feats", his supporters gave him the nickname il Migliore. In 1930, Togliatti renounced Italian citizenship, and he became a citizen of the Soviet Union. Upon his death, a Soviet city was named after him. Considered one of the founding fathers of the Italian Republic, he led Italy's Communist party from a few thousand members in 1943 to two million members in 1946.

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26/03/1888

Elsa Brändström, Swedish nurse and philanthropist (died 1948)

Elsa Brändström was a Swedish nurse and philanthropist. She was known as the "Angel of Siberia".

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26/03/1886

Hugh Mulzac, Vincentian-American soldier and politician (died 1971)

Hugh Nathaniel Mulzac was an African-Caribbean member of the United States Merchant Marine. He earned a Master rating in 1918, which should have qualified him to command a ship, but racial discrimination prevented this from occurring until September 29, 1942.

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26/03/1884

Wilhelm Backhaus, German pianist and educator (died 1969)

Wilhelm Backhaus was a German pianist and pedagogue. He was particularly well known for his interpretations of Mozart, Beethoven, Schumann, Chopin and Brahms. He was also much admired as a chamber musician.

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Georges Imbert, French chemical engineer and inventor (died 1950)

Georges Christian Peter Imbert was a French chemical engineer and inventor. He became famous for the invention of the wood gas generator.

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26/03/1882

Hermann Obrecht, Swiss politician (died 1940)

Hermann Obrecht was a Swiss politician and member of the Swiss Federal Council (1935–1940).

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26/03/1881

Guccio Gucci, Italian fashion designer, founded Gucci (died 1953)

Guccio Giovanbattista Giacinto Dario Maria Gucci was an Italian businessman and fashion designer and founder of the fashion house Gucci.

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26/03/1879

Othmar Ammann, Swiss-American engineer, designed the George Washington Bridge and Verrazzano–Narrows Bridge (died 1965)

Othmar Hermann Ammann was a Swiss-American civil engineer whose bridge designs include the George Washington Bridge, Verrazzano–Narrows Bridge, and Bayonne Bridge. He also directed the planning and construction of the Lincoln Tunnel.

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Waldemar Tietgens, German rower (died 1917)

Oscar Waldemar Tietgens was a German rower who competed in the 1900 Summer Olympics. He was part of the German boat Germania Ruder Club, Hamburg, which won the gold medal in the coxed fours final B.

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26/03/1876

William of Wied, prince of Albania (died 1945)

Wilhelm, Prince of Albania was sovereign of the Principality of Albania from 7 March to 3 September 1914. His reign officially came to an end on 31 January 1925, when the country was declared an Albanian Republic.

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Kate Richards O'Hare, American Socialist Party activist and editor (died 1948)

Carrie Katherine "Kate" Richards O'Hare was an American socialist activist, editor, and orator best known for her controversial imprisonment during World War I. She was a longtime member of the Socialist Party of America.

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26/03/1875

Max Abraham, Polish-German physicist and academic (died 1922)

Max Abraham was a German physicist known for his work on electromagnetism and his opposition to the theory of relativity.

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Syngman Rhee, South Korean journalist and politician, 1st President of South Korea (died 1965)

Syngman Rhee, also known by his art name Unam, was a South Korean politician who served as the first president of South Korea from 1948 until his resignation in 1960. His administration was characterised by authoritarianism, limited economic development, and in the late 1950s growing political instability and public opposition to his rule. Rhee previously was the first president of the Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea from 1919 until his impeachment in 1925 and again as the last president from 1947 to 1948.

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26/03/1874

Robert Frost, American poet and playwright (died 1963)

Robert Lee Frost was an American poet. Known for his realistic depictions of rural life and his command of American colloquial speech, Frost frequently wrote about settings from rural life in New England in the early 20th century, using them to examine complex social and philosophical themes.

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26/03/1873

Dorothea Bleek, South African-German anthropologist and philologist (died 1948)

Dorothea Frances Bleek was a South African-born German anthropologist and philologist known for her research on the Bushmen of Southern Africa.

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26/03/1868

King Fuad I of Egypt (died 1936)

Fuad I was the Sultan and later King of Egypt and the Sudan. The ninth ruler of Egypt and Sudan from the Muhammad Ali dynasty, he became Sultan in 1917, succeeding his elder brother Hussein Kamel. He replaced the title of Sultan with King when the United Kingdom unilaterally declared Egyptian independence in 1922.

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26/03/1866

Fred Karno, English producer and manager (died 1941)

Frederick John Westcott, best known by his stage name Fred Karno, was an English theatre impresario of the British music hall. As a comedian of slapstick he is credited with popularising the custard-pie-in-the-face gag. During the 1890s, in order to circumvent stage censorship, Karno developed a form of sketch comedy without dialogue.

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26/03/1860

André Prévost, French tennis player (died 1919)

André Adrien Hippolyte Prévost was a tennis player competing for France. In 1900, he finished as the runner-up to Paul Aymé in the singles event of the Amateur French Championships. Prévost also competed in the 1900 Summer Olympics in Paris, where he and Georges de la Chapelle shared the bronze medal with Harold Mahony and Arthur Norris in the men's doubles event. His relative, Yvonne, won silver in the women's singles.

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26/03/1859

A. E. Housman, English poet and scholar (died 1936)

Alfred Edward Housman was an English classical scholar and poet. He showed early promise as a student at the University of Oxford, but he failed the final examination in literae humaniores and took employment as a patent examiner in London in 1882. In his spare time he engaged in textual criticism of classical Greek and Latin texts and his publications as an independent researcher earned him a high academic reputation and appointment as a professor of Latin at University College London in 1892. In 1911 he was appointed Kennedy Professor of Latin in the University of Cambridge. He is regarded as one of the foremost classicists of his age and one of the greatest classical scholars. His editions of Juvenal, Manilius, and Lucan are still considered authoritative.

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Adolf Hurwitz, German-Swiss mathematician and academic (died 1919)

Adolf Hurwitz was a German mathematician who worked on algebra, analysis, geometry and number theory.

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26/03/1857

Théodore Tuffier, French surgeon (died 1929)

Théodore-Marin Tuffier was a French surgeon. He was a pioneer of pulmonary and cardiovascular surgery and of spinal anaesthesia.

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26/03/1856

William Massey, Irish-New Zealand farmer and politician, 19th Prime Minister of New Zealand (died 1925)

William Ferguson Massey was a politician who served as the 19th prime minister of New Zealand from May 1912 to May 1925. He was the founding leader of the Reform Party, New Zealand's second organised political party, from 1909 until his death.

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26/03/1854

Maurice Lecoq, French target shooter (died 1925)

Maurice Marie Lecoq was a French sport shooter who competed in the late 19th century and early 20th century. He participated in Shooting at the 1900 Summer Olympics in Paris and won a silver medal with the French military pistol team and a bronze medal in the military rifle team. He also competed at the 1906 Intercalated Games and the 1908 Summer Olympics.

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26/03/1852

Élémir Bourges, French author (died 1925)

Élémir Bourges was a French novelist. A winner of the Goncourt Prize, he was also a member of the Académie Goncourt. Bourges, who accused the Naturalists of having "belittled and deformed man", was closely linked with the Decadent and Symbolist modes in literature. His works, which include the 1884 novel Le Crépuscule des dieux, were informed by both Richard Wagner and the Elizabethan dramatists.

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26/03/1850

Edward Bellamy, American author, socialist, and utopian visionary (died 1898)

Edward Bellamy was an American author, journalist, and political activist most famous for his utopian novel Looking Backward. Bellamy's vision of a harmonious future world inspired the formation of numerous "Nationalist Clubs" dedicated to the propagation of state ownership of the main pillars of the economy, achieved through nationalization.

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26/03/1842

Alexandre Saint-Yves d'Alveydre, French occultist (died 1909)

Joseph Alexandre Saint-Yves, Marquis d’Alveydre was a French occultist who adapted the works of Fabre d'Olivet (1767–1825) and, in turn, had his ideas adapted by Gérard Encausse alias Papus. His work on L'Archéomètre deeply influenced the young René Guénon.

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26/03/1830

Dewitt Clinton Senter, American politician, 18th Governor of Tennessee (died 1898)

Dewitt Clinton Senter was an American politician who served as the 18th governor of Tennessee from 1869 to 1871. He had previously served in the Tennessee House of Representatives (1855–1861), where he opposed secession on the eve of the Civil War. He was elected to the Tennessee Senate following the war, and was chosen as Speaker of the Senate in 1867. As speaker, he became governor upon the resignation of William G. Brownlow in 1869.

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26/03/1829

Théodore Aubanel, French poet (died 1886)

Théodore Aubanel was a Provençal poet. He was born in Avignon in a family of printers.

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Georg Andreas Bull, Norwegian architect (died 1917)

Georg Andreas Bull was a Norwegian architect and chief building inspector in Christiania for forty years. He was among the major architects in the country, and performed surveying studies and archeological research.

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26/03/1824

Julie-Victoire Daubié, French journalist (died 1874)

Julie-Victoire Daubié was a French journalist. She was the first woman to have graduated from a French university when she obtained a licentiate degree in Lyon in 1871.

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26/03/1804

David Humphreys Storer, American physician and academic (died 1891)

David Humphreys Storer was an American physician and naturalist. He served as dean of the Faculty of Medicine at Harvard Medical School from 1855 to 1864.

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26/03/1794

Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld, German painter (died 1872)

Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld was a German painter, chiefly of Biblical subjects. As a young man he associated with the painters of the Nazarene movement who revived the florid Renaissance style in religious art. He is remembered for his extensive Picture Bible, and his designs for stained glass windows in cathedrals.

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26/03/1773

Nathaniel Bowditch, American mathematician and navigator (died 1838)

Nathaniel Bowditch was an early American mathematician remembered for his work on ocean navigation. He is often credited as the founder of modern maritime navigation; his book The New American Practical Navigator, first published in 1802, is still carried on board every commissioned U.S. Naval vessel.

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26/03/1753

Benjamin Thompson, American-French physicist and politician, Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies (died 1814)

Colonel Sir Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford, FRS, was an American-born British military officer, scientist and inventor. Born in Woburn, Massachusetts, he supported the Loyalist cause during the American War of Independence, commanding the King's American Dragoons during the conflict. After the war ended in 1783, Thompson moved to London, where he was recognised for his administrative talents and received a knighthood from George III in 1784.

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26/03/1749

William Blount, American politician (died 1800)

William Blount was an American politician, landowner and Founding Father who was one of the signers of the Constitution of the United States. He was a member of the North Carolina delegation at the Constitutional Convention of 1787 and led the efforts for North Carolina to ratify the Constitution in 1789 at the Fayetteville Convention. He then served as the only governor of the Southwest Territory and played a leading role in helping the territory gain admission to the union as the state of Tennessee. He was selected as one of Tennessee's initial United States Senators in 1796, serving until he was expelled for treason in 1797.

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26/03/1698

Prokop Diviš, Czech priest, scientist and inventor (died 1765)

Prokop Diviš O.Praem. was a Czech canon regular, theologian, and natural scientist. In an effort to prevent thunderstorms, he inadvertently developed one of the earliest grounded lightning rods.

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26/03/1687

Sophia Dorothea of Hanover, queen consort of Prussia (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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26/03/1656

Nicolaas Hartsoeker, Dutch mathematician and physicist (died 1725)

Nicolaas Hartsoeker was a Dutch mathematician and physicist who invented the screw-barrel simple microscope c. 1694.

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26/03/1634

Domenico Freschi, Italian priest and composer (died 1710)

Giovanni Domenico Freschi was an Italian composer and Roman Catholic priest. From the age of 22 until his death he worked as a church musician and composer in Vincenza. He was also active as an opera composer from 1671 to 1685.

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26/03/1633

Mary Beale, British artist (died 1699)

Mary Beale (née Cradock) (1633‍–‍1699) was an English painter who specialised in portrait painting. She was part of a small band of female professional artists working in London. Beale became the main financial provider for her family through her professional work – a career she maintained from 1670/71 to the 1690s. Beale was also a writer, whose prose Discourse on Friendship of 1666 presents a scholarly, uniquely female take on the subject. Her 1663 manuscript Observations, on the materials and techniques employed "in her painting of Apricots", though not printed, is the earliest known instructional text in English written by a female painter.

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26/03/1584

John II, duke of Zweibrücken (died 1635)

John II the Younger was the Duke of Zweibrücken from 1604 until 1635.

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26/03/1554

Charles of Lorraine, duke of Mayenne (died 1611)

Charles de Lorraine, duc de Mayenne was a French noble, governor, military commander and rebel during the latter French Wars of Religion. Born in 1554, the second son of François de Lorraine, duke of Guise and Anne d'Este, Mayenne inherited his fathers' position of Grand Chambellan in 1563 upon his death. He fought at the siege of Poitiers for the crown in 1569, and crusaded against the Ottomans in 1572. He served under the command of the king's brother Anjou during the siege of La Rochelle in the fourth war of religion, during which he was wounded. While the siege progressed, his uncle was killed by a cannonball, and he inherited his position as governor of Bourgogne. That same year, his marquisate of Mayenne was elevated to a duché pairie. He travelled with Anjou when he was elected as king of the Commonwealth and was a member of his court there until early 1574 when he departed on crusade again. Returning to France, he served in the fifth war of religion for Anjou, now king Henri III of France, but his badly underfunded army was unable to seriously impede the Protestant mercenary force under Casimir. He aligned himself with the Catholic Ligue that rose up in opposition to the generous Peace of Monsieur and fought in the sixth war of religion that resulted, serving at the sieges of La Charité-sur-Loire and Issoire. During 1576, he married Henriette de Savoie-Villars, securing a sizable inheritance in the south west, and the title of Admiral on the death of her father in 1578. Mayenne was granted full command of a royal army during the seventh war of religion in 1580, besieging the Protestant stronghold of La Mure successfully, and clearing several holdout towns after the peace. In 1582 he was obliged to surrender his title of Admiral to Joyeuse, a favourite of Henri. The following year he was involved in an abortive plan to invade England, though it came to nothing due to lack of funds.

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26/03/1516

Conrad Gessner, Swiss botanist and zoologist (died 1565)

Conrad Gessner was a Swiss physician, naturalist, bibliographer, and philologist. Born into a poor family in Zurich, Switzerland, his father and teachers quickly realised his talents and supported him through university, where he studied classical languages, theology and medicine. He became Zurich's city physician, but was able to spend much of his time on collecting, research and writing. Gessner compiled monumental works on bibliography and zoology and was working on a major botanical text at the time of his death from plague at the age of 49. He is regarded as the father of modern scientific bibliography, zoology and botany. He was frequently the first to describe species of plants or animals in Europe, such as the tulip in 1559. A number of plants and animals have been named after him.

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